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(1, '1984', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n First appearing in 1949, the novel 1984 seemed like a nightmarish vision of the future in a totalitarian world. Playing on the public''s worst fears about governmental control, different readings saw the former Soviet Union as the object of satire, while others focused on increasingly powerful democratic governments.\n</p>\n<p>\n The title, George Orwellâ€™s 1984, part of Chelsea House Publishersâ€™ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on George Orwellâ€™s 1984 through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on George Orwell, a chronology of the authorâ€™s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/220'),
(2, '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Arthur C. Clarke is awesomely informed about physics and astronomy, and blessed with one of the most astounding imaginations ever encountered in print'' NEW YORK TIMES ''For many readers Arthur C. Clarke is the very personification of science fiction''THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION ''Arthur C. Clarke is one of the truly prophetic figures of the space age ... The colossus of science fiction'' NEW YORKER\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Arthur C. Clarke has been the presiding genius of science fiction for almost fifty years. His works include the ground-breaking and profound CHILDHOOD''S END, RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA and EXPEDITION TO EARTH. Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, made into one of the most influential films of our century, brilliant, compulsive, prophetic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY tackles the enduring theme of man''s place in the universe. On the moon an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications that, for the first time, men are sent out deep into the solar system. But, before they can reach their destination, things begin to go wrong, horribly wrong...Look out for more information on this book and others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/249'),
(3, '2010: Odyssey Two', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n 2001: A Space Odyssey shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s. An instant book and movie classic, its fame has grown over the years. Yet along with the almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years, for example: who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space? What could drive HAL to kill the crew? Now all those questions and many more have been answered, in this stunning sequel to the international bestseller. Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in its depiction of Man''s place in the Universe, and filled with the romance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement and a must-read for Arthur C. Clarke fans old and new.\n <br />\n "A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001."\n <br />\n Carl Sagan\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n 2001: A Space Odyssey shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s. An instant book and movie classic, its fame has grown over the years. Yet along with the almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years, for example: who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space? What could drive HAL to kill the crew? Now all those questions and many more have been answered, in this stunning sequel to the international bestseller. Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in its depiction of Man''s place in the Universe, and filled with the romance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement and a must-read for Arthur C. Clarke fans old and new.\n <br />\n "A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001."\n <br />\n Carl Sagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/266'),
(4, '2061: Odyssey Three', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fifty years after the alien message forbidding humans to approach the moon Europa, an expedition to Halley''s Comet is forced to violate the prohibition in the name of mercy. Though lacking the lyrical prose of The Songs of Distant Earth , Clarke''s latest addition to the story begun in 2001: a space odyssey will entertain fans of the "black monolith." For large sf collections. JC\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Arthur C.Clarke''s space saga contines in 2061, when an Earth vessel landing on Halley''s Comet marks the beginning of another confrontation between Heywood Floyd and David Bowman - or whatever Bowman has become - a newly independent HAL and the unseen alien power that controls the destiny of Earth. Arthur C.Clarke, one of most popular science fiction writers of the 20th century, has written over 50 books including "The City and the Stars", "Rendezvous with Rama", "Childhood''s End", "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "2010: Odyssey Two".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/263'),
(5, '3001: The Final Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this fourth and final book in a 30-year publishing odyssey (following 2001, 2010, and 2061), 2001 astronaut Frank Poole, presumed dead and adrift in deep space near Jupiter, is recovered alive in the year 3001. Intent on saving humanity, he returns to Jupiter''s satellite, Europa, to contact partner Dave Bowman, whose mind has become absorbed by a third monolith. Unfortunately, Clarke uses this book as a vehicle to showcase scientific ideas and breakthroughs at the expense of the story, spending too much time catching up Poole on what he''s missed in the last 1000 years while failing to develop fully the current situation and rushing the conclusion. Recommended only to complete the quartet.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the opening of the third millennium, humanity is spreading\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/264'),
(6, 'An Acceptable Time', 'Madeleine L&#39;Engle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For this time-slip novel, L''Engle again reaches into her bag of weird and wonderful knowledge, blending snippets of tantalizing information from a variety of disciplines--history, natural history, physics and Christian metaphysics, to name a few--into a rich and heady brew. Red-haired Polly O''Keefe (last seen in A House Like a Lotus ) arrives at her grandparents'' farm in Connecticut for some private tutoring. There, in a landscape familiar to L''Engle fans (who will be pleased to know that the Nobel Prize-winning Mrs. Murry still cooks over a Bunsen burner), Polly slips back 3000 years into a different time "spiral." She meets Anaral, a Native American girl; Karralys, a druid banished from Britain for his progressive thinking; and Tav, a handsome warrior who accompanied the druid to their new land. Polly travels back and forth between the two worlds, and eventually her purpose becomes clear: with the aid of her new friends she forges peace between two clashing tribes, and helps Zachary Gray (also from A House Like a Lotus ), a self-centered but very ill young man. The story is laced together with L''Engle''s now-familiar theme of the transcendent importance of love. This fine fantasy, firmly rooted in reality, is the kind of thoughtful story at which L''Engle excels. Ages 12-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "When Polly O''Keefe visits her grandparents in Connecticut, she finds herself caught up in the lives of three mysterious strangers [who lived] 3,000 years ago [and] travels back in time to play a crucial role in an ancient confrontation...L''Engle has again achieved the award-winning style of\n  <em>\n   A Wrinkle in Time\n  </em>\n  . . .Highly recommended." --_VOYA_\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/304'),
(7, 'Aeon Flux, Part 1', 'Mike Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/876'),
(8, 'Aeon Flux, Part 2', 'Mike Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/873'),
(9, 'Aeon Flux, Part 3', 'Mike Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/874'),
(10, 'Aeon Flux, Part 4', 'Mike Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/875'),
(11, 'Afraid', 'Jack Kilborn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Known for cop thrillers, J.A. Konrath (_Fuzzy Navel_) debuts his Jack Kilborn pseudonym and reveals some serious horror chops in this carnival of carnage. Five government-sponsored Red-ops fighters, psychotic torturers with modified brains and extensive training in killing anyone in their way, have been accidentally assigned to a mission in small, sleepy Safe Haven, Wis. Gen. Alton Tope sends in a dozen Green Berets, two other Special Forces teams, navy SEALs and some marines, all of whom may be just about enough to stop the killers. The townies also band together to save their little rural paradise, though several get trampled into red goo along the way. Any attempt to make a point about U.S. support of international terrorism gets a bit lost in the gore fest, but fans of gross-out horror will love it.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "AFRAID is a masterpiece of unrelenting horror. And I''m not exaggerating.\n <em>\n  Masterpiece.\n </em>\n It''s the best piece of fiction I''ve read in several years. It simply NEVER lets up." (\n <strong>\n  James Rollins, NYT bestselling author of Black Order\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "AFRAID is a bungee jump into pure terror, a story that plays brilliantly on all our primal fears, and stands shoulder to shoulder with the very best of Harris, Koontz, and King. A classic horror novel." (\n <strong>\n  Blake Crouch, author of Locked Doors\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kilborn kicks down your psyche''s front door and RAISES HOLY EVER-LIVING HELL. Never have I read a novel so gruesome and simultaneously relentless. AFRAID throbs with unmitigated, inexorable. sheer friggin'' TERROR." (_\n <strong>\n  Edward Lee, author of CITY INFERNAL and BRIDES OF THE IMPALER\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n<p>\n "AFRAID is one of the most intense, relentless books I''ve ever read. This one takes no prisoners." (\n <strong>\n  Marcus Sakey, author of The Blade Itself\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n A bloody, terrifying, hurtling assault across a landscape of non-stop mayhem. A guilty, guilty pleasure. (_\n <strong>\n  F. Paul Wilson, creator of Repairman Jack\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n<p>\n "The moment I heard about this book, I couldn''t wait to get my hands on it." (\n <strong>\n  David Morrell, NYT bestselling author of Scavenger\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Full of colorful characters and dynamic action, this hard-to-put-down page turner will keep readers riveted and squirming in their seats. Hands down, AFRAID by Jack Kilborn is perhaps the best psychological horror novel to come along since\n <em>\n  Silence of the Lambs.\n </em>\n (_\n <strong>\n  Michael Laimo, author of DEAD SOULS and DEEP IN THE DARKNESS\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n<p>\n Jack Kilborn''s "Afraid" is a true page turner, a novel that offers a million mile a minute action and suspense. Definitely, a must have with constant thrills and chills. (_\n <strong>\n  Heather Graham, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n<p>\n Jack Kilborn''s AFRAID is appropriately named. It will scare the hell out of anyone who reads it. Fast and ferocious, this is a dangerous thriller that will take a bite out of you. An absolute must read for anyone who loves the adrenaline rush of a shocking story told with style, speed and savage grace. (_\n <strong>\n  Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award winning author of PATIENT ZERO and THEY BITE\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1005'),
(12, 'After These Messages - We&#39;ll Be Right Back!', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/810'),
(13, 'The Age of American Unreason', 'Susan Jacoby', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Inspired by Richard Hofstadter''s trenchant 1963 cultural analysis\n  <em>\n   Anti-Intellectualism in American Life\n  </em>\n  , Jacoby (_Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism_) has produced an engaging, updated and meticulously thought-out continuation of her academic idol''s research. Dismayed by the average U.S. citizen''s political and social apathy and the overall crisis of memory and knowledge involving everything about the way we learn and think, Jacoby passionately argues that the nation''s current cult of unreason has deadly and destructive consequences (the war in Iraq, for one) and traces the seeds of current anti-intellectualism (and its partner in crime, antirationalism) back to post-WWII society. Unafraid of pointing fingers, she singles out mass media and the resurgence of fundamentalist religion as the primary vectors of anti-intellectualism, while also having harsh words for pseudoscientists. Through historical research, Jacoby breaks down popular beliefs that the 1950s were a cultural wasteland and the 1960s were solely a breeding ground for liberals. Though sometimes partial to inflated prose (America''s endemic anti-intellectual tendencies have been grievously exacerbated by a new species of semiconscious anti-rationalism), Jacoby has assembled an erudite mix of personal anecdotes, cultural history and social commentary to decry America''s retreat into junk thought.\n  <em>\n   (Feb. 12)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From The New Yorker\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Identifying herself as a "cultural conservationist" (but by no means a cultural conservative), Jacoby laments the decline of middlebrow American culture and presents a cogent defense of intellectualism. America, she believes, faces a "crisis of memory and knowledge," in which anti-intellectualism is not only tolerated but celebrated by those in politics and the media to whom we are all "just folks." The Internet, for all its promise, is too often "a highway to the far-flung regions of junk thought." Meanwhile, twenty-five per cent of high-school biology teachers believe that human beings and dinosaurs shared the earth, and more than a third of Americans canâ€™t name a single First Amendment right. In such an environment, Jacoby argues, the secular left and the religious right can have no fruitful dialogue on issues like the separation of church and state. She offers little hope that the situation will improve, opining that, despite increasing levels of education, "Americans seem to know less and less."\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© 2008 _ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1216'),
(14, 'The Age of Reason', 'Thomas Paine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I put the following work under your protection. It contains my opinion upon Religion. You will do me the justice to remember, that I have always strenuously supported the Right of every man to his opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it. The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall. Your affectionate friend and fellow citizen, Thomas Paine.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1217'),
(15, 'Agent to the Stars', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWith a plot that starts out as the rough life of a young agent in Hollywood and rapidly metamorphoses into B-movie territory as a remarkably intelligent first-contact yarn, this book is absurd, funny, and satirically perceptive.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  --Booklist\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Agent to the Stars\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf Stephen King were to try his hand at science fiction, heâ€™d be lucky to be half as entertaining as John Scalzi.â€\n <br />\n --_Dallas__ Morning News_ on\n <em>\n  The Ghost Brigades\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanityâ€™s first interstellar friendship. Thereâ€™s just one problem: Theyâ€™re hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish.\n</p>\n<p>\n So getting humanityâ€™s trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal.\n</p>\n<p>\n Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. Heâ€™s one of Hollywoodâ€™s hottest young agents. But although Stein may have just concluded the biggest deal of his career, itâ€™s quite another thing to negotiate for an entire alien race. To earn his percentage this time, heâ€™s going to need all the smarts, skills, and wits he can muster.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/410'),
(16, 'Air Apparent', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this meandering 31st Xanth novel, Hugo, son of the Gorgon and Good Magician Humfrey, vanishes from his cellar, where the body of a murdered man just as suddenly appears. What''s worse, Humfrey''s book of answers has been scrambled, and blind Wira, Hugo''s wife, has no idea how to solve a mystery. Her prayers are answered by 13-year-old Debra, visiting from Mundania in hopes of lifting the curse that makes her name sound like De-bra to any man she meets. Without the book, the curse cannot be cured, so the Gorgon temporarily turns her into a naturally bra-less flying centaur in exchange for her help. As they hunt down Hugo and the killer, Debra and Wira encounter the usual crop of terrible puns and characters both new and familiar. Acknowledging that reader loyalty keeps this venerable series going, Anthony includes an extensive afterword, providing credits for 140-odd (in some cases, very odd) suggestions and updating fans on everything from the state of his health to the length of his hair.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The Xanth books constitute Anthony''s longest and most successful series . . . . They are intended to be kind-spirited, fun reading, a series of wondrous beasts and beings, and most of all, an endless succession of outrageous puns"--Lee Killough,\n <em>\n  Wichita Eagle\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/461'),
(17, 'Airframe', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cruising 35,000 feet above the earth, a twin-engine commercial jet encounters an accident that leaves 3 dead, 56 wounded, and the cabin in shambles. What happened? With a multi-billion-dollar company-saving deal on the line, Casey Singleton is sent by her hard-driving boss to uncover the mysterious circumstances that led to the disaster before more people die. But someone doesn''t want her to find the truth.\n <em>\n  Airframe\n </em>\n bristles with authentic information, technical jargon, and the command of detail Crichton''s readers have come to expect. Check out Amazon.com''s __ and read an excerpt from the book!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like his role model, H.G. Wells, Crichton likes to moralize in his novels. In this slight, enjoyable thriller, the moral is the superficiality of TV, especially of its simplistic news coverage. Readers willing to overlook the irony of this message being broadcast by the man who created TV''s top-rated drama (E.R.) will marvel again at Crichton''s uncanny commercial instincts. The event that launches the story, conceived long before TWA Flight 800''s last takeoff, is an airline disaster. Why did a passenger plane "porpoise"-pitch and dive repeatedly-enroute from Hong Kong to Denver, killing four and injuring 56? That''s what Casey Singleton, v-p for quality assurance for Norton Aircraft, has to find out fast. If Norton''s design is to blame, its imminent deal with China may collapse, and the huge company along with it. With Casey as his unsubtle focus-she''s one of the few Crichton heroines, an all-American gal who''s more plot device than character-Crichton works readers through a brisk course in airline mechanics and safety. The accretion of technical detail, though fascinating, makes for initially slow reading that speeds up only fitfully when Casey is menaced by what seem to be union men angry over the Chinese deal. But as she uncovers numerous anomalies about the accident, and as high corporate intrigue and a ratings-hungry TV news team enter the picture, the plot complicates and suspense rises, peaking high above the earth in an exciting re-creation of the flight. It''s possible that Crichton has invented a new subgenre here-the industrial thriller-despite elements (video-generated clues, for one) recycled from his earlier work. It''s certain that, while this is no Jurassic Park, he''s concocted another slick, bestselling, cinema-ready entertainment. 2,000,000 first printing; Literary Guild main selection; film rights sold to Disney for a reported $8-$10 million; simultaneous large-print edition and Random House audio and CD editions.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/315'),
(18, 'Alice&#39;s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass', 'Lewis Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture,\n <em>\n  Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland\n </em>\n is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll''s putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.\n</p>\n<p>\n For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully\n <em>\n  non\n </em>\n -moralistic,\n <em>\n  non\n </em>\n -educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice''s new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel''s illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll''s instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A clock-face grows like the daisies around it as the White Rabbit hurries by; in the opening pages of the story, Browne hints at his interpretive presence in Carroll''s world. A burning key, a fish swimming through space, a green thread winding its way through a cabinetful of strange objects, and the artist makes it clear that this will be no ordinary Alice. Thimbles and umbrellas bloom atop green stalks, Willy the chimp races by, another thimble casts the shadow of a trophy, the Caterpillar wears a smoking jacket covered with butterflies. The Mad Hatter has a stack of his wares on his head, and wears a terrible grimace; the tea party at which he resides displays a table full of toylike objects and sweets, among which are many surprising juxapositions. In short, the volume is so consumed by the unexpected that readers may well find their eyes leaving the text to pore over the pictures, replete with jaunty details and stunning surreal images that grandly point back in the direction of the written word. All ages.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/407'),
(19, 'Allegiance', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five idealistic but fed-up Imperial storm troopers led by Daric LaRone share the stage with young Rebel Alliance crusaders Han Solo, Princess Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker and Chewbacca in this politically fraught but still rollicking early years Star Wars adventure from Hugo-winner Zahn (Star Wars: Outbound Flight). Emperor Palpatine''s favorite Sith, Darth Vader, has a new rival, the 18-year-old Countess Mara Jade Claria, whom Palpatine has schooled in the Force to assume the special agent role of "Emperor''s Hand." Zahn depicts the intrepid Rebel quartet and the turbulent development of the Alliance while revealing the human faces behind the storm trooper armor of Daric and company, who become unexpected allies of Han and friends once the troopers are on the run after killing a superior officer. The author also underscores Mara Jade''s tough-girl charm and blossoming Imperial clout against the background of Palpatine''s dedication to Imperial domination and his insidious influence on his minions. This episode will please fans wondering about events between the first and second movies in the original Star Wars trilogy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€”In this eighth novel set in the\n <em>\n  Star Wars\n </em>\n universe, five Stormtroopers led by Daric LaRone become fugitives when they defy orders to kill a group of defenseless civilians. On the run, the unit turns into a team of self-appointed vigilantes fighting to protect the rights and safety of the citizens of the Empire. A second story line features Mara Jade, a force-wielding apprentice to Emperor Palpatine, and her investigations into a world governor who is stealing Imperial tax money to fund a team of brutal space pirates. LaRone and his team bring a uniquely human touch to the men behind the Stormtrooper armor, while Jade is a highly likable woman filled with enough guile and drive to rival Princess Leia herself. Chronologically, this story takes place between the films\n <em>\n  A New Hope\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Empire Strikes Back\n </em>\n . While it focuses on the new characters, some of the more familiar names are here as side characters to draw in the fans and drive the plot along. There are some fine moments as a young Luke Skywalker struggles to learn the secrets of the Force and Han Solo questions how involved he wants to become in Princess Leia''s rebellion. Jade''s and LaRone''s plotlines intersect and interweave, leading to a fast-paced climax filled with blaster shoot-outs, star-fighter battles, and Jade''s clever tricks with the Force. Tightly plotted and fast paced,\n <em>\n  Allegiance\n </em>\n will appeal to hard-core and intermittent fans alike.â€”_Matthew L. Moffett, Pohick Regional Library, Burke, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/394'),
(20, 'The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For this outrageously cheeky tale, British writer Pratchett pairs a dynamite plot with memorable characters a group of intelligent rats sporting such monikers as Hamnpork, Big Savings and Darktan (they''ve been foraging in the University of Wizards'' garbage dump and come up with "the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant"), plus a "stupid-looking kid" with a flute and a criminal kitty mastermind named Maurice. The motley con artists'' pied piper scam is highly successful until the rats develop a conscience. Reluctantly, they agree to one final heist, but in the town of Bad Blintz things go horribly, hilariously wrong. First, they''re twigged by Malicia Grim (granddaughter and grand-niece of the Sisters Grim), then they encounter a pair of conniving rat-catchers, a real pied piper and an evil something lurking in the town''s cellars. They triumph, of course, and there''s even a glimmer of redemption for the deliciously self-centered Maurice, who tackles the "Grim Squeaker" and bargains for the life of his rat comrade Dangerous Beans. In the end, while the others settle down, Maurice hits the road and is last seen approaching another "stupid-looking kid" with a money-making proposition. Could this mean more tales to come? Readers will eagerly hope so. Ages 12-up.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Up-In this laugh-out-loud fantasy, his first "Discworld" novel for younger readers, Pratchett rethinks a classic story and comes up with a winner. His unforgettable characters include Maurice, a scheming and cranky but ultimately warmhearted cat; Keith, a young musician who isn''t as dumb as he looks; and half a dozen intelligent rats with personalities all their own. Their plan is simple. The rats steal food, frighten ladies, "widdle" in the cream, and generally make nuisances of themselves. When the town advertises for a piper, Keith appears to lead the rats away, and they all meet up later to divide the loot. It works like a charm until the conspirators stumble into Bad Blintz, a village with not a single "regular" rat to be found. As Maurice''s band of rodents poke around in the town sewers, Keith befriends the mayor''s daughter, a ditzy girl with a head full of stories. When the humans are captured by evil rat catchers, it''s up to Maurice and his crew to save the day. Pratchett''s trademark puns, allusions, and one-liners abound. The rats, who grew intelligent after eating magic-contaminated trash behind a university for wizards, now tackle major questions of morality, philosophy, and religion. Despite the humorous tone of the novel, there are some genuinely frightening moments, too, as the heroes confront a telepathic Rat King in the bowels of Bad Blintz. Readers who enjoyed Robert C. O''Brien''s Mrs. Frisby &amp; the Rats of NIMH (Atheneum, 1971) and Richard Adams''s Watership Down (Macmillan, 1974) will love this story. A not-to-be-missed delight.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Miranda Doyle, San Francisco Public Library\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/719'),
(21, 'Amber Magic', 'B. V. Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1009'),
(22, 'American Gods', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the creator of the blockbuster Sandman series. . . After an early release from prison due to his wife''s accidental death, Shadow is recruited as a bodyguard by a mysterious grifter who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. Thus begins a wild road trip in which Shadow and Wednesday will be swept up into a conflict as old as humanity itself. For beneath the placid surface of everyday life a war is being fought -- and the prize is the very soul of America. As unsettling as it is exhilarating, American Gods is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE HUGO, NEBULA &amp; BRAM STOKER AWARDS.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/415'),
(23, 'The Amulet of Samarkand', 'Jonathan Stroud', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Disney/Hyperion follows its adaptation of Rick Riordanâ€™s The Lightning Thief (2010) with this sumptuous graphic novelization of the first book in another hit fantasy series, Stroudâ€™s multilayered Bartimaeus trilogy. The fairly text-heavy treatment is a welcome way to balance Stroudâ€™s ever-clever writing with a visual treatment of the plot, in which a boy apprentice summons an impish djinni named Bartimaeus to help him exact revenge upon a particularly nasty magician. Stroudâ€™s inspired twist was to tell the bulk of the story from the tremendously entertaining point of view of Bartimaeus, and here his narration works wonders counterpointing the drama and dialogue in the panels. The artwork is lively, atmospheric, and exciting, with a couple quibbles: the coloring is almost off-puttingly oversaturated, and a longer page count would have alleviated the problem of a few key action sequences getting crammed into tinier and more claustrophobic spaces. Still, the depth of Stroudâ€™s alternate London, some complex political machinations, and the large cast of human and demon characters are all well realized here. Fans and initiates alike will be enchanted. Grades 6-9. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nathaniel, an eleven-year-old magician-in-training, thinks he''s ready to take on more challenging spells. With revenge against the proud and ambitious Simon LovelaceÂ on his mind, he masters one of the toughest spells of all and summons Bartimaeus, a 5000-year-old djinni, to assist him. But summoning Bartimaeus and controlling him are two different things entirely, and when Nathaniel sends the djinni to steal Lovelace''s greatest treasure, the Amulet of Samarkand, he finds himself caught in a whirlwind of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jonathan Stroud, along with acclaimed comic books-writer Andrew Donkin and artists Lee Sullivan and Nicolas Chapuis, turns the beloved and internationally best-selling first book in the Bartimaeus trilogy into a spellbinding graphic novel sure to excite and delight fans across all magical planes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/743'),
(24, 'Analog Science Fiction and Fact 01/01/11', 'Dell Magazines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/625'),
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(26, 'Analog Science Fiction and Fact 04/01/11', 'Dell Magazines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/756'),
(27, 'Analog Science Fiction and Fact 11/01/10', 'Dell Magazines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/642'),
(28, 'Analog Science Fiction and Fact 12/01/10', 'Dell Magazines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/634'),
(29, 'Anansi Boys', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n If readers found the\n <em>\n  Sandman\n </em>\n series creator''s last novel,\n <em>\n  American Gods\n </em>\n , hard to classify, they will be equally nonplussedâ€”and equally entertainedâ€”by this brilliant mingling of the mundane and the fantastic. "Fat Charlie" Nancy leads a life of comfortable workaholism in London, with a stressful agenting job he doesn''t much like, and a pleasant fiancÃ©e, Rosie. When Charlie learns of the death of his estranged father in Florida, he attends the funeral and learns two facts that turn his well-ordered existence upside-down: that his father was a human form of Anansi, the African trickster god, and that he has a brother, Spider, who has inherited some of their father''s godlike abilities. Spider comes to visit Charlie and gets him fired from his job, steals his fiancÃ©e, and is instrumental in having him arrested for embezzlement and suspected of murder. When Charlie resorts to magic to get rid of Spider, who''s selfish and unthinking rather than evil, things begin to go very badly for just about everyone. Other charactersâ€”including Charlie''s malevolent boss, Grahame Coats ("an albino ferret in an expensive suit"), witches, police and some of the folk from\n <em>\n  American Gods\n </em>\n â€”are expertly woven into Gaiman''s rich myth, which plays off the African folk tales in which Anansi stars. But it''s Gaiman''s focus on Charlie and Charlie''s attempts to return to normalcy that make the story so winningâ€”along with gleeful, hurtling prose.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Charles Fat Charlie Nancy leads a normal, boring existence in London. However, when he calls the U.S. to invite his estranged father to his wedding, he learns that the man just died. After jetting off to Florida for the funeral, Charlie not only discovers a brother he didn''t know he had, but also learns that his father was the West African trickster god, Anansi. Charlie''s brother, who possesses his own magical powers, later visits him at home and spins Charlie''s life out of control, getting him fired, sleeping with his fiancÃ©e, and even getting him arrested for a white-collar crime. Charlie fights back with assistance from other gods, and that''s when the real trouble begins. They lead the brothers into adventures that are at times scary or downright hysterical. At first Charlie is overwhelmed by this new world, but he is Anansi''s son and shows just as much flair for trickery as his brother. With its quirky, inventive fantasy, this is a real treat for Gaiman''s fans. Here, he writes with a fuller sense of character. Focusing on a smaller cast gives him the room to breathe life into these figures.\n <em>\n  Anansi\n </em>\n is also a story about fathers, sons, and brothers and how difficult it can be to get along even when they are so similar. Darkly funny and heartwarming to the end, this book is an addictive read not easily forgotten._â€“Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/775'),
(30, 'Anathem', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this follow-up to his historical Baroque Cycle trilogy, which fictionalized the early-18th century scientific revolution, Stephenson (_Cryptonomicon_) conjures a far-future Earth-like planet, Arbre, where scientists, philosophers and mathematiciansâ€”a religious order unto themselvesâ€”have been cloistered behind concent (convent) walls. Their role is to nurture all knowledge while safeguarding it from the vagaries of the irrational saecular outside world. Among the monastic scholars is 19-year-old Raz, collected into the concent at age eight and now a decenarian, or tenner (someone allowed contact with the world beyond the stronghold walls only once a decade). But millennia-old rules are cataclysmically shattered when extraterrestrial catastrophe looms, and Raz and his teenage companionsâ€”engaging in intense intellectual debate one moment, wrestling like rambunctious adolescents the nextâ€”are summoned to save the world. Stephenson''s expansive storytelling echoes Walter Miller''s classic\n <em>\n  A Canticle for Leibowitz\n </em>\n , the space operas of Larry Niven and the cultural meditations Douglas Hofstadterâ€”a heady mix of antecedents that makes for long stretches of dazzling entertainment occasionally interrupted by pages of numbing colloquy.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephenson has never been an easy writer to pin down, and he has a reputation for not always wearing his erudition lightly. Particularly in his later booksâ€”and that now includes\n <em>\n  Anathem\n </em>\n â€”readers are vetted at the door before being invited into the authorâ€™s labyrinthine worlds. The early books were held up alongside the work of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and other cyberpunk gods, though in the last decade Stephenson has carved a niche as one of the most ambitious writers working today in any genre.\n <em>\n  Anathem\n </em>\n is intellectually rigorous and exceedingly complex, even to the point, as the\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n avows, of being â€œgrandiose, overwrought and pretty damn dull.â€ Others complained of too much abstraction. Stephensonâ€™s fans are legion, however, and many will add\n <em>\n  Anathem\n </em>\n to their list of must-read doorstops.\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/411'),
(31, 'And Another Thing', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyone knows that Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place - after all, he wrote a bestselling book about it. Yet despite the appearance of "The World According To Clarkson", things don''t seem to have improved much. However, Jeremy is not someone to give up easily and he''s decided to have another go. In "And Another Thing", our exasperated hero discovers that: he inadvertently dropped a bomb on North Carolina; we''re all going to explode at the age of 62; Russians look bad in Speedos - but not as bad as we do; no one should have to worry about being Bill Oddie''s long lost sister; and, he should probably be nicer about David Beckham. Thigh-slappingly funny and - as ever - in your face, Jeremy Clarkson bursts the pointless little bubbles of the idiots while celebrating the special, the unique and the sheer bloody brilliant...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeremy Clarkson began his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser. Since then he has written for The Sun, The Sunday Times, the Rochdale Observer, the Wolverhampton Express and Star, all of the Associated Kent Newspapers, and Lincolnshire Life. Today he is the tallest person working in British television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/381'),
(32, 'The Android&#39;s Dream', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Android''s Dream is a science fiction novel by John Scalzi. The story covers the journey of ex-soldier and State Department employee Harry Creek in his work to acquire a sheep of the Android''s Dream breed for the coronation ceremony of the Nidu. The breed is very rare and believed extinct, leading Harry on a chase to find the last one. The last one turns out to be Robin Baker, a young lady who is a child of an Android''s Dream sheep and human hybrid. At the center of the story is the Church of the Evolved Lamb, whose members recognize that its founding was a total scam, but are devoted to making its prophecies come true. The title is a reference to Philip K. Dick''s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot synopsis | Release details | Sources, references, external links, quotations | Footnotes\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Scalzi''s swashbuckling satire of interstellar diplomacy (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Old Man''s War\n  </em>\n  ) stars Harry Creek, a low-level State Department deliverer of bad news to alien ambassadors to Earth who''s also a war hero and a computer genius. When Earth faces destruction over a diplomatic faux pas with the Nidu alien race, Harry must find and deliver the Android''s Dream, an electric-blue breed of sheep, to the Nidu for their coronation ceremony. Dodging Defense Department assassins and Nidu space marines, Harry and Robin Baker, a pet shop owner with sheep DNA in her genes, flee Earth and find their own way to attend the Nidu crowning. Also on the quest for the sheep are disciples of the Church of the Evolved Lambâ€”founded by an early 21st-century SF writer of "modest talents." With plenty of alien gore to satisfy fans of military SF and inventive jabs at pretend patriotism and self-serving civil service, Scalzi delivers an effervescent but intelligent romp.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1197'),
(33, 'The Andromeda Strain', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "This book recounts the five-day history of a major American scientific crisis. As in most crises, the events surrounding the Andromeda Strain were a compound of foresight and foolishness, innocence and ignorance. Nearly everyone involved had moments of great brilliance, and moments of unaccountable stupidity...." Thus begins this extraordinary novel of the world''s first space-age biological emergency. The Andromeda Strain sets forth with almost documentary verisimilitude the unfolding story of "Project Wildfire" -- the crash mobilization of the nation''s highest scientific and medical resources when an unmanned research satellite returns to earth mysteriously and lethally contaminated. Four American scientists, chosen in advance for their experimental achievements in the fields of clinical microbiology, epidemiology, pathology, and electrolyte chemistry, are summoned under conditions of total news blackout and utmost urgency to Wildfire''s secret laboratory five stories beneath the Nevada desert. There -- surrounded by banks of the most sophisticated computer-assisted equipment, and sealed off from the outside world except for a telecommunications link with the national security apparatus -- they work against the threat of a worldwide epidemic to find an antidote to the unknown microorganism that has inexplicably killed all but two inhabitants (an elderly derelict and an infant) of the tiny Arizona town where the satellite was retrieved. Step by step they begin to unravel the puzzle of the Andromeda Strain, until, terrifyingly, their microbacterial "adversary" ruptures the hypersterile seal of the laboratory and their already desperate search for a biomedical answer becomes a split-second race against an atomic deadline. With its narrative force, its scientific detail, its suspense -- as four brilliant individualists work together under ultimate pressure -- this novel makes real for the reader the real world of today''s science and medicine at the top-secret levels of the Science-Space-Military high command. The author is a trained scientist. Newspaper stories from NASA that have appeared since the completion of the manuscript read like details from The Andromeda Strain... From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/313');
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(34, 'Angels &amp; Demons', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil EuropÃ©en pour la Recherche NuclÃ©aire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (_Digital Fortress_) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels &amp; Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville''s\n <em>\n  The Eight\n </em>\n (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco''s\n <em>\n  Foucault''s Pendulum\n </em>\n (but more accessible).\n</p>\n<p>\n Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society''s ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra''s daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It''s tasty.\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Look Inside the Motion Picture\n  <em>\n   Angels &amp; Demons\n  </em>\n  (Sony Pictures, 2009)\n </strong>\n <br />\n Click on each image below to see a larger view\n</p>\n<p>\n Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca with College of Cardinals\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon and Ayelet Zurer as Vittoria Vetra\n</p>\n<p>\n Armin Mueller-Stahl as Straus and Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, Ayelet Zurer as Vittoria Vetra, and Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca\n</p>\n<p>\n Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pitting scientific terrorists against the cardinals of Vatican City, this well-plotted if over-the-top thriller is crammed with Vatican intrigue and high-tech drama. Robert Langdon, a Harvard specialist on religious symbolism, is called in by a Swiss research lab when Dr. Vetra, the scientist who discovered antimatter, is found murdered with the cryptic word "Illuminati" branded on his chest. These Iluminati were a group of Renaissance scientists, including Galileo, who met secretly in Rome to discuss new ideas in safety from papal threat; what the long-defunct association has to do with Dr. Vetra''s death is far from clear. Vetra''s daughter, Vittoria, makes a frightening discovery: a lethal amount of antimatter, sealed in a vacuum flask that will explode in six hours unless its batteries are recharged, is missing. Almost immediately, the Swiss Guard discover that the flask is hidden beneath Vatican City, where the conclave to elect a new pope has just begun. Vittoria and Langdon rush to recover the canister, but they aren''t allowed into the Vatican until it is discovered that the four principal papal candidates are missing. The terrorists who are holding the cardinals call in regarding their pending murders, offering clues tied to ancient Illuminati meeting sites and runes. Meanwhile, it becomes clear that a sinister Vatican entity with messianic delusions is in league with the terrorists. Packing the novel with sinister figures worthy of a Medici, Brown (Digital Fortress) sets an explosive pace as Langdon and Vittoria race through a Michelin-perfect Rome to try to save the cardinals and find the antimatter before it explodes. Though its premises strain credulity, Brown''s tale is laced with twists and shocks that keep the reader wired right up to the last revelation. (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/330'),
(35, 'Anywhere but Here', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/800'),
(36, 'The Arctic Incident', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eoin Colfer''s bestselling antihero is back in\n <em>\n  Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident\n </em>\n --the superb sequel to the hyper-hyped __, shortlisted for the Whitbread Children''s Book of the Year.\n <em>\n  The Arctic Incident\n </em>\n sees the slightly older, perhaps slightly more mellow arch-criminal Artemis recovered from his last adventure, richer now that he has his half of a hoard of fairy gold, and happier since the Clarice Starlingesque superfairy Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon returned his mother''s ailing mind to full health.\n</p>\n<p>\n But there is still much unfinished business: Artemis Fowl Sr. disappeared when a daring escapade designed to free his family from their criminal--not to mention deeply lucrative--past and move the family''s assets into legitimate enterprises went horribly wrong. Held captive by the Mafiya (the Russian organized crime syndicate) for over two years, he has been declared officially dead, but Artemis Jr. knows in his heart (yes, he does have one) that his beloved father is still alive, and he is determined to find him. Meanwhile Captain Short is temporarily on assignment to Customs and Excise as punishment for letting Fowl separate her and her People from their gold and is finding her stakeout duties a little dull. It soon becomes obvious that the pair have need of each other''s considerable skills, and before long they are on track for an adventure that will ultimately have far-reaching consequences for both of them.\n</p>\n<p>\n If you enjoyed the first book, you won''t be disappointed by the second. Initially the pace is a little slower, and the slightly more mellow Artemis is certainly a tad unnerving at first (particularly as one of the things that made him such an unusual character was the fact that there was something distinctly unlikable about him), but once the sparks between Holly and Artemis begin to fly, and the adventure that tests their endurance to their emotional, physical, and intellectual limits begins, the pages just keep on turning.\n</p>\n<p>\n The high-tech hocus pocus, the complex underworld, and the James Bond-style storyline will keep even the most reluctant reader enthralled. Add to the mix a fair dollop of humor, the occasional sprinkling of right-on commentary about the state of the planet, and enough hooks in the story to ensure you will be clamoring for the next book. This chilling, thrilling adventure is a seriously cool (in more ways than one!) must-read for anyone age 9 and older.\n <em>\n  --Susan Harrison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rocketing readers back into a world of modern fairies (they pack heat and wear motorized wings), Colfer here reunites 13-year-old antihero Artemis with his former kidnap victim, Captain Holly Short, an elf officer with the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance) squad. As the erstwhile arch enemies join forces to squelch a power-hungry pixie''s coup attempt in one world and to rescue Artemis''s long-missing father in another (he''s being held for ransom by the Russian Mafiya), the boy proves he has a heart after all, even as he builds his reputation as a world-class criminal mastermind. Once again, the roller coaster of a plot introduces a host of high jinks and high-tech weaponry as Colfer blends derring-do with snappy prose ("The broad grin disappeared like a fox down a hole") and repartee ("Hey, Mulch, if you listen really hard you can just about make out the sound of nobody giving a hoot"). The resulting fantasy hosts memorable characters, many of whom (such as the flatulent dwarf Mulch Diggums) reprise roles that helped attract fans to the first adventure. The author ratchets up the body count in this return engagement (perhaps too steeply for some tastes), and the high-concept premise may be a tad slick for others, but Colfer''s finger is firmly on the pulse of his target market, and along with extra helpings of sly humor ("The sprite''s breathing calmed, and a healthy green tinge started to return to his cheeks") he delivers a cracking good read. Ages 10-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1030'),
(37, 'Arduino Cookbook', 'Michael Margolis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Create your own robots, toys, remote controllers, alarms, detectors, and many other projects with the Arduino device. This simple microcontroller board lets artists and designers build a variety of amazing objects and prototypes that interact with the physical world. With this book, you can dive right in and experiment with more than a hundred tips and techniques, no matter what your skill level is. You''ll find the examples and advice you need to begin, expand, and enhance your projects right away.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1162'),
(38, 'Argo', 'Rick Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Searching for the answers to true artificial intelligence, Mira McAllister comes across a strange android named Eo who proves to hold more questions than answers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1161'),
(39, 'Armor', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1053'),
(40, 'Artemis Fowl', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twelve-year-old villain Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he''s taking on more than he bargained for when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Unit) . . .A truly modern classic, first published in 2002.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1029'),
(41, 'Asimov&#39;s Science Fiction 01/01/11', 'Dell Magazines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/640'),
(42, 'Asimov&#39;s Science Fiction 02/01/11', 'Dell Magazines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/632'),
(43, 'Asimov&#39;s Science Fiction 03/01/11', 'Dell Magazines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/759'),
(44, 'Asimov&#39;s Science Fiction 10/01/10', 'Dell Magazines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/633'),
(45, 'Asimov&#39;s Science Fiction 12/01/10', 'Dell Magazines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/624'),
(46, 'Assassin&#39;s Apprentice', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bastard sons of kings play a noble role in fantasy: not only were King Arthur and Modred by-blows, but it is often suggested that Merlin himself came to power from the "wrong side of the bed." While Hobb''s offering has a few too many illegitimate heirs backstabbing around, this is still a delightful take on the powers and politics behind the throne. Fitz, who is often called the "Boy" or the "Bastard," was begotten by good Prince Chivalry upon some "peasant" woman. At age six, he is given over to the safekeeping of the prince''s man, Burrich. Fitz''s impolitic existence causes the prince to abdicate his claim to the throne, and he and his wife leave the court, and the boy, behind. Fitz has inherited the "Skill," a mind-bending talent, and also has the ability to meld his thoughts with those of nonhuman creatures and to mentally "repel" physical advances. When Fitz finally comes to King Shrewd''s attention, he is given over to the Royal Assassin''s tutelage and trained to carry out the king''s devious plans. The novel''s conceit-that it offers Fitz''s memoirs from childhood through adolescence-allows for several sequels. A gleaming debut in the crowded field of epic fantasies and Arthurian romances.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As a royal bastard in the household of King Shrewd, a boy called "Fitz" spends his early years in the king''s stables. When the magic in his blood marks him for destiny, he begins receiving secret instruction, by order of the king, in the art of assassination, a calling that places him in the midst of a nest of intrigue and arcane maneuverings. Firmly grounded in the trappings of high fantasy, Hobb''s first novel features a protagonist whose coming of age revolves around the discovery of the meaning of loyalty and trust. This gracefully written fantasy belongs in most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/947'),
(47, 'Assassin&#39;s Quest', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this conclusion to the Farseer saga, FitzChivalry''s quest for revenge on the usurping Regal requires him to journey to the Elderlings (wise old mages in the classic mold) and afterwards to realize the emergence of his own magical gifts, at which point the quest comes to an end after a mere 688 pages. Like much high fantasy these days, the book could have been pruned more than a trifle; on the other hand, along with the extra wordage come extra measures of characterization, world building, and emotionally compelling scenes of both magic and battle. And this is definitely the end of one story, although the world Hobb has created is now sufficiently developed (even why the characters have such archetypical names is explained) to be the scene of future books. In all, this is an improvement over its predecessors that will please their readers and probably whet their appetites for more from Hobb.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Final installment--each entry independently intelligible--of Hobb''s stunning fantasy trilogy (Royal Assassin, 1996; Assassin''s Apprentice, 1995) about the beleaguered Six Duchies and their Farseer kings. Months ago, King Verity vanished into the far mountains in search of the semi-mythical Elderlings, whose help he must have in order to defeat the rampaging Red Ship Raiders, leaving his murderous, venal, and insanely ambitious brother, Prince Regal, to dispose of Verity''s last few loyalists at his leisure--including narrator, spy, and assassin FitzChivalry. Poor Fitz, unable to contact his beloved Molly (she thinks he''s dead) and daughter (by Molly) for fear of exposing them to Regal''s attentions, uses his magic Skill to locate Verity and receives an imperious summons:\n <code>\n </code>\n COME TO ME!'''' So, abandoning his plan to assassinate Regal, Fitz enters the mountains with a small band of helpers. Eventually, having evaded Regal''s minions, Fitz comes upon Verity Skill-carving a huge dragon out of black rock; nearby stand other lifelike dragon-sculptures that, to Fitz''s animal-magic Wit, seem somehow alive. Are these eerie sculptures what remain of the Elderlings? Yet, for all his Skill, Verity cannot bring the dragons to life; and soon Regal will arrive with his armies and his Skilled coterie. An enthralling conclusion to this superb trilogy, displaying an exceptional combination of originality, magic, adventure, character, and drama. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/948'),
(48, 'Athyra', 'Steven Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Athyra is the sixth book in Steven Brust''s Vlad Taltos series, set in the fantasy world of Dragaera. Originally published in 1993, by Ace Books, it was reprinted in 2003 along with Orca in the omnibus The Book of Athyra. Following the trend of the Vlad Taltos books, it is named after one of the Great Houses and features that House as an important element to its plot. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot introduction | Plot summary | The House of the Athyra\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1038'),
(49, 'The Atrocity Archives', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lovecraft''s Cthulhu meets Len Deighton''s spies in Stross''s latest, as the Scottish author explains in his afterword to this offbeat book offering two related long novellas, "The Atrocity Archive" and "The Concrete Jungle" (the latter previously unpublished). With often hilarious results, the author mixes the occult and the mundane, the truly weird and the petty. In "Atrocity," Bob, a low-level computer fix-it guy for the Laundry, a supersecret British agency that defends the world from occult happenings, finds himself promoted to fieldwork after he bravely saves the day during a routine demonstration gone awry. With his Palm, aka his Hand of Glory (a severed hand that, when ignited, renders the holder invisible), and his smarts, he saves the world from a powerful external force seeking to enter our universe to suck it dry. In "Jungle," Bob teams up with a cop, Josephine, to save the Laundry from a powermonger who seeks to stage an internal coup by using zombies as her minions. Amid all the bizarre happenings are the everyday trappings of a British bureaucracy. Bob gets called on the carpet by his bosses because he requested backup during an emergency without first getting his supervisor''s okay and filling out the requisite forms. Though the characters all tend to sound the same, and Stross resorts to lengthy summary explanations to dispel confusion, the world he creates is wonderful fun.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. But for some reason, he is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/950'),
(50, 'The Attack Of The Two-inch Teacher', 'Bruce Coville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 3-6-In this sequel to I Was a Sixth Grade Alien (Minstrel, 1999), Pleskit just wants to fit in with his friend Tim and the other kids in Ms. Weintraub''s sixth-grade class-not an easy task for a purple-skinned visitor from Planet Hevi-Hevi. First, there''s the bewildering Earthling lingo where words like "cool" don''t always refer to temperature. Then, there''s Ms. Buttsman, the earth-protocol officer who has rigid ideas about proper alien behavior. Worst of all, the class bully makes Pleskit and Tim his prime targets. In self-defense, they "borrow" a Molecule Compactor from the alien''s dad, planning to shrink Jordan down to size. Unfortunately, when the machine fires, Tim and Ms. Weintraub are in the way, and are shrunk to matchbox size-just as an interplanetary terrorist takes the rest of the class hostage. In a clever combination of alien geometry and human gymnastics, Pleskit and the tiny pair defeat the terrorist, save the class, and get even with Jordan at the same time. The broad humor is aimed squarely at middle-grade readers-complete with body noises, wordplay, and weird alien foods and customs. This lighthearted science-fiction entry manages to make some telling points about individuality and the value of accepting people for themselves.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Elaine E. Knight, Lincoln Elementary Schools, IL\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n approx. 2.5 hours 2 cassettes\n</p>\n<p>\n Pleskit Meenom is tired of constantly being teased by Jordan Lynch. Pleskit and his friend Tim decide to teach Jordan a lesson and borrow a shrinking ray from the desk of Pleskit''s Fatherly One. Unfortunately, the plan backfires and it is Tim and their teacher Ms. Weintrab that get shrunk. If this gets out, it could ruin the alien mission. But how can you hide the fact that you''ve shrunk your teacher?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/897'),
(51, 'The Austere Academy', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home--Prufrock Preparatory School--they can''t help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school''s motto\n <em>\n  Memento Mori\n </em>\n , or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting, and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story. Of course, this is what we have come to expect from Lemony Snicket''s Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with __ and only got worse.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Austere Academy\n </em>\n , Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are at first optimistic--attending school is a welcome change for the book-loving trio, and the academy is allegedly safe from the dreaded Count Olaf, who is after their fortune. Hope dissipates quickly, however, when they meet Vice Principal Nero, a self-professed genius violinist who sneeringly imitates their every word. More dreadful still, he houses them in the tin Orphans Shack, crawling with toe-biting crabs and dripping with a mysterious tan fungus. A beam of light shines through the despair when the Baudelaires meet the Quagmires, two of three orphaned triplets who are no strangers to disaster and sympathize with their predicament. When Count Olaf appears on the scene disguised as Coach Genghis (covering his monobrow with a turban and his ankle tattoo with expensive running shoes), the Quagmires resolve to come to the aid of their new friends. Sadly, this proves to be a hideous mistake.\n</p>\n<p>\n Snicket disarms us again with his playful juxtapositions--only he can compare bombs with strawberry shortcake (both are as dangerous to make as assumptions), muse on how babies adjust developmentally to the idea of curtains, or ponder why the Baudelaire orphans would not want to be stalks of celery despite their incessant bad luck as humans. We can''t get enough of this splendid series of misadventures, and can only wager that swarms of young readers will be right next to us in line for the next installment. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-7-In this fifth entry in the saga of the three Baudelaire children, the siblings are sent to a boarding school where they are tormented because they are orphans. There is the usual array of stupid/evil adults including the ridiculous Vice Principal Nero, who mimics everything that Klaus and Violet say and employs baby Sunny as his secretary because she is too young to attend class. Brown-nosing brats like Carmelita Spats make the children''s lives even more miserable. The ending is a cliff-hanger as the evil Count Olaf, disguised as Coach Genghis, the new gym teacher, drives off with the orphans'' only friends. In these days of Harry Potter, this book is a pesky nuisance, with little plot to drive it, situations that fall short of being interesting or off-the-wall, and cardboard characters. The author strains to be eccentric and his constant interruptions in the narrative to define a word or phrase are jarring at best.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Ann Cook, Winter Park Public Library, FL\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/452'),
(52, 'Awakenings', 'David Lilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1184'),
(53, 'Axiomatic', 'Greg Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE HUNDRED LIGHT YEAR DIARY - Scientists can bounce messages from the future backto the present, but there''s no guarantee they''ll tell the truth . . . LEARNING TO BE ME-Crystalline minds may take the place of human brains, but where does the self really lie? CLOSER - Lovers exchange bodies and minds,but their experiments go just that little bit too far, proving that you can have too much of a good thing\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/532'),
(54, 'Babylon 5 - Blood Oath', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Having narrowly escaped death, Ambassador G''Kar knows he is a marked man. A rival family from his Narn homeland has taken the Blood Oath to kill him. Security Chief Garibaldi, Commander Susan Ivanova and Na''Toth journey to the Narn Homeworld and find themselves enveloped by a chilling alien environment. And in this deadly place, the Narn Blood Oath is turned against them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/506'),
(55, 'Babylon 5 - Voices', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/509'),
(56, 'Bad Art Collection', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/839'),
(57, 'The Bad Beginning', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Make no mistake.\n <em>\n  The Bad Beginning\n </em>\n begins badly for the three Baudelaire children, and then gets worse. Their misfortunes begin one gray day on Briny Beach when Mr. Poe tells them that their parents perished in a fire that destroyed their whole house. "It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed," laments the personable (occasionally pedantic) narrator, who tells the story as if his readers are gathered around an armchair on pillows. But of course what follows is dreadful. The children thought it was bad when the well-meaning Poes bought them grotesque-colored clothing that itched. But when they are ushered to the dilapidated doorstep of the miserable, thin, unshaven, shiny-eyed, money-grubbing Count Olaf, they know that they--and their family fortune--are in real trouble. Still, they could never have anticipated how much trouble. While it''s true that the events that unfold in Lemony Snicket''s novels are bleak, and things never turn out as you''d hope, these delightful, funny, linguistically playful books are reminiscent of Roald Dahl (remember __ and his horrid spinster aunts), Charles Dickens (the orphaned Pip in\n <strong>\n  without the mysterious benefactor), and Edward Gorey (\n </strong>\n ). There is no question that young readers will want to read the continuing unlucky adventures of the Baudelaire children in\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n . (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book." So cautions Snicket, the exceedingly well-mannered narrator of these two witty mock-gothic novels featuring the misadventures of 14-year-old Violet, 12-year-old Klaus and infant Sunny Baudelaire. From the first, things look unfortunate indeed for the trio: a fire destroys their home, killing their parents along with it; the executor of their parents'' estate, the obtuse Mr. Poe (with a son, Edgar), ignores whatever the children have to say; and their new guardian, Count Olaf, is determined to get his hands on the Baudelaire fortune. But by using their individual gifts (Violet''s for inventing, Klaus''s for reading and researching and baby Sunny''s for biting) the three enterprising children thwart the Count''s planAfor now. The author uses formal, Latinate language and intrusive commentary to hilarious effect, even for readers unfamiliar with the literary conventions he parodies. The peril in which he places the Baudelaires may be frightening (Count Olaf actually follows through on his threats of violence on several occasions), but the author paints the satire with such broad strokes that most readers will view it from a safe distance. Luckily for fans, the woes of the Baudelaires are far from over; readers eager for more misfortune can turn to The Reptile Room, for an even more suspenseful tale. Exquisitely detailed drawings of Gothic gargoyles and mischievous eyes echo the contents of this elegantly designed hardcover. Age 9-up. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/448'),
(58, 'The Battle of the Labyrinth', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5â€“9â€”The battle starts, literally, with an explosion and doesn''t let up. After Percy destroys the high school band room battling monsters called\n <em>\n  empousai\n </em>\n who have taken on the form of cheerleaders, he has to hide out at Camp Half-Blood. There, Grover''s searcher''s license is going to be revoked unless he can find the god Pan in seven days. An entrance to the Labyrinth has been discovered, which means that Luke, the half-blood turned bad, can bypass the magical protections and invade the camp. Annabeth insists that she must follow a quest to locate Daedalus''s workshop before Luke does. Percy is disturbed by visions of Nico, the son of Hades, who is summoning forth the spirits of the dead with McDonalds Happy Meals. Percy, Grover, and Percy''s Cyclops half-brother follow Annabeth into the maze not knowing if they will ever find their way out. Riordan cleverly personifies the Labyrinth as a sort of living organism that changes at will, and that traverses the whole of the United States. Kids will devour Riordan''s subtle satire of their world, such as a Sphinx in the Labyrinth whose questions hilariously parody standardized testing. The secret of Pan is revealed with a bittersweet outcome that also sends an eco-friendly message. Like many series, the "Percy Jackson" books are beginning to show the strain of familiarity and repetition. However, the overarching story line remains compelling, and the cliff-hanger ending will leave readers breathless in anticipation of the fifth and final volume.â€”_Tim Wadham, Maricopa County Library District, Phoenix, AZ_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Percy Jackson isnâ€™t expecting freshman orientation to be any fun.Â  But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to diabolical.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this latest installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronosâ€™s army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop them, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinthâ€”a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.Â Full of humor and heart-pounding action, this fourth book promises to be their most thrilling adventure yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/352'),
(59, 'Battle Pod', 'Vaughn Heppner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/922'),
(60, 'A Beautiful Sunset', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/801'),
(61, 'The Bellmaker', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vicious Foxwolf, Urgan Nagru--a fox who long ago discovered the body of a wolf and skinned it to wear as his own--is holding the young Mariel and Dandin captive. The pair are at the mercy of the evil despot and have only one hope of survival. But can they really count on the legendary freedom fighter, Martin the Warrior, to come to their rescue?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Bellmaker\n </em>\n fairly boils over with passion, intrigue, and adventure. A true page-turner, the heat is immediately turned to high, and never cools until the close of the very last chapter. Brian Jacques''s skill lies in creating fantastical yet believable characters, placing them in an extraordinary yet convincing setting and then letting loose with a flood of imagination that takes the breath away. One of the best writers of our time, Jacques comes through once again for his readers in this remarkable tale of good triumphing over evil.\n <em>\n  --Susan Harrison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For the seventh volume of the Redwall series, Jacques sticks to the tried-and-true formula-action aplenty and a huge cast of woodland creatures-that has won him such a dedicated following. When the merciless Foxwolf Urgan Nagru and his mate, the scheming vixen Silvamord, oust good Gael Squirrelking from the throne of Southsward, Mariel the Warriormaid and her companion Dandin-two adventuresome wandering mice from Redwall Abbey-join forces with those forest denizens still loyal to their king. Meanwhile, back at the Abbey, a prophetic dream inspires Mariel''s father to round up a party to search for his daughter. Comic relief-as well as a touch of tragedy-is provided by a pair of uncouth and piratical rats as a seemingly endless stream of cliff-hangers and dazzling combat winds its way through lovingly described forest feasts. The author must be commended for creating a world of equal-opportunity adventuring, in which female creatures can be just as courageous (or as diabolical) as their male counterparts, but the characterizations are broadly drawn. Despite their well-delineated quirks, foibles and quaint speech patterns ("Zurr, thurr''m a gurt ''ole in ee shipper ''ere"), "nobeast" really grows or changes much in this neck of the woods. Ages 9-up. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/718'),
(62, 'The Best of Edmond Hamilton', 'Edmond Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Here is a collection of some of the finest short fiction penned by one of â€†"fathers" of modern science fiction.\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    These stories were selected (and edited) by his wife Leigh Brackett, an author and a screenwriter. Her screen-writing credits include works on such films as The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, The Long Goodbye and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. I\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  This collection spans nearly half a century of Edmond Hamilton''s work and was selected from a repository of hundreds of stories that he had written over that period.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1151'),
(63, 'Better Days, Part 1', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/867'),
(64, 'Better Days, Part 2', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/868'),
(65, 'Better Days, Part 3', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/869'),
(66, 'Beyond the Shadows', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Logan Gyre is king of Cenaria, a country under siege, with a threadbare army and little hope. He has one chance - a desperate gamble, but one that could destroy his kingdom.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the north, the new Godking has a plan. If it comes to fruition, no one will have the power to stop him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Kylar Stern has no choice. To save his friends-and perhaps his enemies-he must accomplish the impossible: assassinate a goddess.\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n Beyond the Shadows_ is the action-packed conclusion to the Night Angel Trilogy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brent Weeks was born and raised in Montana. After getting his paper keys from HillsdaleCollege, Brent had brief stints walking the earth like Caine from\n <em>\n  Kung Fu\n </em>\n , tending bar, and corrupting the youth. (Not at the same time.) He started writing on bar napkins, then on lesson plans, then full time. Eventually, someone paid him for it. Brent lives in Oregon with his wife, Kristi. He doesn''t own cats or wear a ponytail. Find more about the author at www.brentweeks.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/983'),
(67, 'Beyond World&#39;s End', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Beyond World''s End\n </em>\n continues Eric Banyon''s tale in the Bedlam''s Bard series. Sieur Eric, Knight and Bard to the court of the Queen of Elfhame Misthold, moves back to the Big Apple to take care of unfinished business. Most notably, he wants to finish his interrupted education at Julliard and settle down to a normal life.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Eric says goodbye to his friends Kory and Beth, he settles into a new apartment and a rigorous schedule at Julliard. However, a normal life doesn''t seem to be in his immediate future as he quickly discovers his apartment has unique features, including a living gargoyle named Greystone and four Guardians who have sworn to protect New York from evil. But the evil the Guardians are facing this time is something they haven''t seen before.\n</p>\n<p>\n Unscrupulous researchers have created a drug that briefly unlocks magical powers in a small percentage of the humans it''s given to. Unfortunately, it also has a 100 percent mortality rate. But something evil from Underhill has other plans and seeks to use the temporary human powers to threaten the World Above. As Eric gets drawn into the fray, his past catches up with him and good grades become the least of his problems.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Beyond World''s End\n </em>\n , which takes place in the same universe as Lackey''s SERRAted Edge series, combines human evil and magical evil in a compelling way that brings the characters into today''s world. Eric is all grown up now and he''s a wonderful hero. However,\n <em>\n  Beyond World''s End\n </em>\n feels like it''s missing the last few chapters. So much time is spent on back-story and the physical setup of the novel that many characters and their stories are introduced only to be dropped with no explanation or resolution. What could have been a great book ends up being ultimately disappointing coming from these two excellent authors.\n <em>\n  --Kathie Huddleston\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A human bard returns to the mortal world to find himself battling both elven and human demons in this entertaining entry in Lackey''s Urban Faerie series. In this sequel to Bedlam''s Bard, Eric Banyon moves to New York to finish his Julliard studies as a flautist, only to find that his apartment building is a safe house for the city''s magical Guardians. Together with his Guardian neighbors, his friends Beth and Kory from the previous book, and his erstwhile flame, Ria Llewellyn, Banyon uncovers both a plot to open a nexus to the elven world, Underhill, in the middle of Manhattan and a group of scientists'' scheme to use psychotropic drugs to uncover magical powers in normal people. Both the scientists and Aerune, the dark prince, hope to harness the drug-induced abilities of New York''s street people to build their own powerAuntil Banyon and his friends intervene. Continual references to contemporary New York life help contextualize and anchor a story that might otherwise wobble on its fantastical underpinnings. While the main characters verge on predictability, quick, vivid portraits of side characters are much more interesting. Readers will want to have read Bedlam''s Bard for the back story of Lackey and Edghill''s faerie world''s complex geography and social structure. Even on its own merits, however, this novel''s accessible blend of the urban and the whimsical will appeal to those who wonder whether the phantasmagoric walk city streets.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/683'),
(68, 'The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, and, well, you know the rest. But was Humpty''s fall an accident, or was it murder? It''s up to giant killer Jack Spratt of the Nursery Crime Division to get to the bottom of it. Humpty was quite a ladies'' man, but a few people thought him a bad egg. Jack has a number of suspects, a new partner to break in and gloryhound/antagonist Detective Inspector Chimes to deal with. Prebble''s sonorous British voice is ideally suited to narrating this whimsical, fractured fairy tale; his tone and pacing match Fforde''s prose perfectly, and his subtle vocal acrobatics enable him to amusingly bring to life the novel''s wildly divergent cast of characters. Despite its many virtues, this is probably Fforde''s weakest novel, lacking the literary sophistication of the Thursday Next books. But Prebble''s performance easily makes this Fforde''s best audiobook to date. Prebble''s vibrant, all-star narration more than makes up for them.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hearing characters debate the implications of "illegal straw-into-gold dens" is attractive to a certain type of reader. Puns and silliness can certainly provide laugh-out-loud fun, especially when cleverly handled. But critics found this new series debut from literary jokester Jasper Fforde (_The Eyre Affair_,\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  Summer 2002, is from Ffordeâ€™s first series,\n  <em>\n   Thursday Next\n  </em>\n  ) a tad shallow and wearisome. Fforde doesnâ€™t skewer nursery rhymes exclusively; he also spoofs mystery fiction protocol, including anagrams, secret twins, and butlers who did it. This is actually his most ingenious turn in an otherwise overlong send-up.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1220'),
(69, 'Binary', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/316'),
(70, 'Bio-Weapon', 'Vaughn Heppner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/923'),
(71, 'Black Powder War', 'Naomi Novik', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Captain Laurence had commanded a ship in the Royal Navy (see _ His Majesty''s Dragon_, 2006) but was relegated to the aviator corps after bonding with the hatchling from the dragon egg his ship found aboard a French prize his ship had seized. He and Temeraire, the hatchling, are a team now. In _ Throne of Jade_ (2006), the admiralty want sent Temeraire to China with Laurence. Temeraire is a Celestial, hence among the very finest of dragons. Indeed, Temeraire, or Lung Tien Xiang, is an imperial prince. At the end of _ Throne of Jade_, the British party, including Temeraire, is free to return to England. In _ Black Powder War_, urgent orders lead them overland to Turkey, where they encounter a vengeful Lung they had worsted in Peking. Laurence and Temeraire reach German lands in time for the battle of Jena, where they face Napoleon''s corps, a ferocious French dragon, and the disgruntled Lung. Novik''s magical eighteenth century, peopled with sympathetic characters, induces avid reading. Long may she write!\n <em>\n  Frieda Murray\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA splendid series.â€\n <br />\n â€“Anne McCaffrey\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNaomi Novik has done for the Napoleonic Wars what Anne McCaffrey did for science fiction: constructed an alternate reality in which dragons are real in a saga that is impressively original, fully developed, and peopled with characters you care about.â€\n <br />\n â€“David Weber, author of the Honor Harrington series\n</p>\n<p>\n After their fateful adventure in China, Capt. Will Laurence of His Majestyâ€™s Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent new orders from Britain. Three valuable dragon eggs have been purchased from the Ottoman Empire, and Laurence and Temeraire must detour to Istanbul to escort the precious cargo back to England. Time is of the essence if the eggs are to be borne home before hatching.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet disaster threatens the mission at every turnâ€“thanks to the diabolical machinations of the Chinese dragon Lien, who blames Temeraire for her masterâ€™s death and vows to ally herself with Napoleon and take vengeance. Then, faced with shattering betrayal in an unexpected place, Laurence, Temeraire, and their squad must launch a daring offensive. But what chance do they have against the massed forces of Bonaparteâ€™s implacable army?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/655'),
(72, 'Blast Radius', 'Haden Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1098');
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(73, 'Blood Engines', 'T. A. Pratt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Pratt is a deft storyteller whose blend of suspense, magic, and dry humor kept me entertained and turning pages.\n  <strong>\n   Blood Engines\n  </strong>\n  is one of the most absorbing reads I''ve enjoyed in a long time, gluing me to the couch. I adore Marla, her done-at-all-costs character is someone I can relate to and want to cheer for. Best of all, I didn''t figure the ending out until I got there. It''s a book widower, and I can''t wait for the sequel."â€”Kim Harrison, NYT-bestselling author of _For a Few Demons More\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   "Blood Engines\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <em>\n   wastes no time: by page three I knew I was reading an urban fantasy unlike any I''d previously encountered. The characters and world are real, immediate, and unapologetically in-your-face, throwing you into a story that trusts you''ll keep up with the fast pace without flinching. It charges along with crisp pacing, a fascinating range of secondary characters, and a highly compelling lead in Marla Mason. She may be one of the genre''s requisite sharp-tongued females, but her ruthless pragmaticism gives her a completely different feel from her fictional contemporaries. I genuinely look forward to the next book!"â€”C.E. Murphy, author of\n  </em>\n  Coyote Dreams\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A fast-paced, thoroughly fun, satisfying read."â€”Kelley Armstrong, author of\n  <strong>\n   No Humans Involved\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Meet Marla Masonâ€“smart, saucy, slightly wicked witch of the East Coast.â€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sorcerer Marla Mason, small-time guardian of the city of Felport, has a big problem. A rival is preparing a powerful spell that could end Marlaâ€™s lifeâ€“and, even worse, wreck her city. Marlaâ€™s only chance of survival is to boost her powers with the Cornerstone, a magical artifact hidden somewhere in San Francisco. But when she arrives there, Marla finds that the quest isnâ€™t going to be quite as cut-and-dried as she expectedâ€¦and that some of the people she needs to talk to are dead. It seems that San Franciscoâ€™s top sorcerers are having troubles of their ownâ€“a mysterious assailant has the cityâ€™s magical community in a panic, and the local talent is being (gruesomely) picked off one by one.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With her partner-in-crime, Rondeau, Marla is soon racing against time through San Franciscoâ€™s alien streets, dodging poisonous frogs, murderous hummingbirds, cannibals, and a nasty vibe from the local witchery, who suspect that Marla herself may be behind the recent murders. And if Marla doesnâ€™t figure out who is killing the cityâ€™s finest in time, sheâ€™ll be in danger of becoming a magical statistic herself.â€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/928'),
(74, 'The Blood Knight', 'Greg Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of the third book in Keyes''s Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series (_The Briar King_, etc.), princess Anne Dare''s father, the king of Crotheny, is dead and her mother, Muriele, is the prisoner of her mad uncle, Robert Dare, who now rules the kingdom. Anne does her best to elude her uncle''s clutches as she flees across a well-developed landscape reminiscent of Renaissance northern Italy (rugged terrain and priests who belong to an established church) and medieval Germany (thick forests and ogres). The scenes and viewpoints shift often enough to be somewhat confusing, but the occasional well-handled erotic episode or magic duel can startle with its originality. This volume closes with a climactic grand battle in which Anne''s cohorts appear to be victorious. Readers curious about the fate of Robert Dare, who has vanished, must await the fourth and final volume in this sophisticated and intelligent high fantasy epic.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Greg Keyes and his novels of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone\n</p>\n<p>\n The Charnel Prince\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere is adventure and intrigue, swordplay and dark sorcery aplenty.â€\n <br />\n â€“Realms of Fantasy\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeyesâ€™s world is rich, detailed and always believable; the twisty plot is delightful and frightening in turns.â€\n <br />\n â€“Locus\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStrong world building and superior storytelling.â€\n <br />\n â€“Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n The Briar King\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA wonderful tale . . . It crackles with suspense and excitement from start to finish.â€\n <br />\n â€“Terry Brooks\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA graceful, artful tale from a master storyteller . . . [The novel] starts off with a bang, spinning a snare of terse imagery and compelling characters that grips tightly and never lets up.â€\n <br />\n â€“Elizabeth Haydon, bestselling author of Prophecy: Child of Earth\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEpic high fantasy . . . Keyes mixes cultures, religions, institutions, and languages with rare skill.â€\n <br />\n â€“Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1001'),
(75, 'Blood Magic', 'B. V. Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1010'),
(76, 'Bloodlines', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1047'),
(77, 'Bonk', 'Mary Roach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Roach is not like other science writers. She doesn''t write about genes or black holes or SchrÃ¶dinger''s cat. Instead, she ventures out to the fringes of science, where the oddballs ponder how cadavers decay (in her debut,\n <em>\n  Stiff\n </em>\n ) and whether you can weigh a person''s soul (in\n <em>\n  Spook\n </em>\n ). Now she explores the sexiest subject of all: sex, and such questions as, what is an orgasm? How is it possible for paraplegics to have them? What does woman want, and can a man give it to her if her clitoris is too far from her vagina? At times the narrative feels insubstantial and digressive (how much do you need to know about inseminating sows?), but Roach''s ever-present eye and ear for the absurd and her loopy sense of humor make her a delectable guide through this unesteemed scientific outback. The payoff comes with subjects like female orgasm (yes, it''s complicated), and characters like Ahmed Shafik, who defies Cairo''s religious repressiveness to conduct his sex research. Roach''s forays offer fascinating evidence of the full range of human weirdness, the nonsense that has often passed for medical science and, more poignantly, the extreme lengths to which people will go to find sexual satisfaction.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The New Yorker dubbed Roach â€œthe funniest science writer in the country.â€ OK, maybe thereâ€™s not a lot of competition. But even if there were thousands of science-humor writers, she would be the sidesplitting favorite. Of course, she chooses good subjects: cadavers in Stiff (2003), ghosts in Spook (2005), and now a genuinely fertile topic in Bonk. As Roach points out, scientists studying sex are often treated with disdain, as though there is something inherently suspicious about the enterprise. Yet through understanding the anatomy, physiology, and psychology of sexual response, scientists can help us toward greater marital and nonmarital happiness. Such altruistic intentions, which the book shares, arenâ€™t the wellspring of its appeal, however. That lies in the breezy tone in which Roach describes erectile dysfunction among polygamists, penis cameras, relative organ sizes and enhancement devices, and dozens of other titillating subjects. Not to be missed: the martial art of yin diao gung (â€œgenitals hanging kung fuâ€), monkey sex athletes, and the licensing of porn starsâ€™ genitals for blow-up reproductions. To stay on the ethical side of human-subjects experimentation, Roach offers herself as research subject several times, resulting in some of her best writing. --Patricia Monaghan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/662'),
(78, 'The Born Queen', 'Greg Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Greg Keyes has crafted a brilliant saga of magic, adventure, and love set against a backdrop of clashing empires and an ancient, reawakened evil. Now, with The Born Queen, Keyes brings his epic to a masterly close, gathering the strands of plot and character into a stunning climax that both completes and transcends all that has gone before.The Briar King is dead, and the world itself follows him to ruin. Aspar White, wounded and tired, must embark on one last quest to save the forest and the people he loves, but he has little hope of success.Anne Dare at last sits on the throne of Crotheny, but for how long? The Church, now led by the corrupt and powerful MarchÃ© Hespero, has declared a holy war against her, giving the king of Hansa the pretext he needs to unleash his vast might on the young queen and her unready army.But Hansa is the least of Anneâ€™s worries. The Hellrune, war seer of Hansa, strikes at her through vision and prophecy. The Keptâ€“last of the elder Skasloi lordsâ€“weaves his own dark webs. Anneâ€™s teacher and ally in the sedos world might also be her worst enemy, and Anneâ€™s own mounting strength compels her toward madness.Surviving these dangers and mastering her eldritch abilities are merely prelude to the real struggle. There are manyâ€“some with power matching or even exceeding Anneâ€™s ownâ€“who are willing to kill in order to seize control. For whoever sits upon the throne will have the ultimate command to bring about the worldâ€™s salvationâ€“or its apocalypse.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1002'),
(79, 'Born To Be Riled', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeremy Clarkson, it has to be said, sometimes finds the world a maddening place. And nowhere more so than from behind the wheel of a car, where you can see any number of people acting like lunatics while in control (or not) of a ton of metal. In "Born to be Riled", Clarkson takes a look at the world through his windscreeen, shakes his head at what he sees - and then puts the boot in. Among other things, he explains: why Surrey is worse than Wales; how crossing your legs in America can lead to arrest; the reason cable TV salesmen must be punched; and, that divorce can be blamed on the birth of Jesus. Raving politicians, pointless celebrities, ridiculous ''personalities'' and the Germans all get it in the neck, together with the stupid, the daft and ludicrous in a tour de force of comic writing guaranteed to have Clarkson''s postman wheezing under sackfuls of letters from the easily offended.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeremy Clarkson made his name presenting a poky motoring programme on BBC2 called Top Gear. He left to forge a career in other directions but made a complete hash of everything and ended up back on Top Gear again. He lives with his wife, Francie, and three children in Oxfordshire. Despite this he has a clean driving licence\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/382'),
(80, 'Born to Run', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There are elves out there.And more are coming. But even elves need money to survive in the "real" world. The good elves, intrigued by the thrills of stock car racing, are manufacturing new, light-weight engines (with, incidentally, very little "cold" iron); the bad elves run a kiddie-porn and snuff-film ring, with occasional forays into drugs.Ranged on the other side of all that''s good ---- Keighvin: elf lord with a problem, and the victim of a vendetta.-- Tannim: a human mage with a taste for fast cars and loud music.-- Sam Kelly: mild-mannered retired engineer with an Irish temper.-- Ross Canfield: a good old Southern boy who just happens to be dead.The people trapped in between: three runaways. Good kids already in serious trouble and about to get into more. Unwitting pawns in a deadly game, they will either be saved -- or led into a fate worse than death....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/687'),
(81, 'Brave New World', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Marking the 75th anniversary of its original publication, Vintage Canada is proud to publish the first Canadian edition ever of the 1932 classicBrave New Worldwith an original introduction by Margaret Atwood. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasure of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress.... Huxley''s ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/210'),
(82, 'Brian&#39;s Hunt', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The multitudes of __ fans) will be thrilled to find that the author has penned yet another story about Brian Robeson. Although Paulsen once claimed that he would "write no more about Brian," he seems to have been softened by the "staggering amounts of mail from readers" begging for more about the teen who is more at home alone in the wilderness than in the hustle and bustle of city life. In\n  <em>\n   Brianâ€™s Hunt\n  </em>\n  , the 16-year-old returns to the remote woods and lakes of Canada, where he encounters a mysteriously injured dog. His experiences two years earlier, after surviving a plane crash and months alone with only a hatchet to protect and provide for himself (\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  , etc.), have prepared him well to survive now. But can anything prime him for the horror that awaits him on an island campsite where he intends to meet his Cree friends?\n </p>\n <p>\n  This short episode is rife with the kind of gritty--even gruesome--details readers have come to expect from the Newbery Honor author. In an afterword, Paulsen reminds readers that he bases his stories on personal experiences and his extensive knowledge of the wild side of nature.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Confidential to avid fans: an intimation of romance amid all the rugged drama hints that\n  <em>\n   this\n  </em>\n  will not be the last\n  <em>\n   Brian\n  </em>\n  book, either. (Ages 10 to 13)\n  <em>\n   --Emilie Coulter\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6-9-In an author''s note, Paulsen explains why he decided to reopen the story first begun in Hatchet (Bradbury, 1987). In this short installment, Brian, now 16, is back in the wilderness and encounters a savagely wounded dog. He makes his way to the lake island home of the Cree man he met in Brian''s Return (Delacorte, 1999), where he discovers the tragedy that led to the dog''s liberation. David and his wife have been partially eaten by a bear, which necessitates the hunt mentioned in the title and described in the final chapter. Throughout, the protagonist frequently remembers events from his original stranding, alludes to the problems he had faced trying to return to "civilization," and ultimately explains the special arrangement by which he has returned to the "bush" instead of high school. Although the story does stand alone, these many references will make the audience want to read (or reread) the earlier books. This story is not as well developed as the other episodes but it is a must-read for the hordes of existing Hatchet fans out there, and it may also serve to draw some new readers into the fold. An afterword discusses bear behavior and Paulsen''s experiences with these animals.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Sean George, Memphis-Shelby County Public Library &amp; Information Center, Memphis, TN\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1145'),
(83, 'Brian&#39;s Return', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1146'),
(84, 'Brian&#39;s Winter', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1147'),
(85, 'The Briar King', 'Greg Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Briar King\n </em>\n , Greg Keyes''s latest elegant entry into the world of high fantasy, lays the groundwork for what promises to be a mesmerizing four-book series--the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone. Keyes spins his tale in a meticulously crafted fantasy realm on the brink of apocalyptic change. The Briar King, a legend cobbled from children''s stories and rural folklore, is waking from his slumber to an unknown but cataclysmic end. Dark agents are afoot in the land, stirring war and edging an ancient prophecy closer to fulfillment. In destiny''s path are a king''s woodsman, his headstrong lover, a bookworm priest, a cocksure swordsman, and the embattled (from within and without) kingdom of Crotheny. Keyes masterfully intertwines far-off courtly intrigue with the personal quest of the woodsman and his brave companions who seek to unravel the secret of the Briar King before all is lost.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although\n <em>\n  The Briar King\n </em>\n will suffer the inevitable comparison with George R.R. Martin''s\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author of the bestselling Age of Unreason tetralogy (The Waterborn, etc.) inaugurates the Kingdoms of Throne and Bone quartet with this epic high fantasy. The inhabitants of this splendid and dauntingly complex parallel world, Everon, are mostly descended from folk magically transported from our world. This is not quite the land of Faerie, although the Briar King resembles the old Celtic horned god Cernunnos, while Keyes brings his expertise as a fencing teacher to the swordplay, here called dessrata. The Empire of Crotheny faces war with its arch-rival, the Hanzish, and magical intrigues aimed at preventing the land from having a born queen (as opposed to a king''s consort). By book''s end, Princess Anne, the daughter of the Crotheny king, is fleeing for her life with Austra, her maid, and Cazio, a young Vitellian nobleman, having earlier experienced the pains of discipline in a convent and the horrors of having her family butchered. With aplomb, the author employs one of the most classic fantasy plots: the heir(ess) with a destiny and a necessarily huge cast of supporters. Keyes mixes cultures, religions, institutions and languages with rare skill. The main theme may emerge with formidable slowness, but patient readers will find the rewards enormously worthwhile.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1003'),
(86, 'Bright Messengers', 'Gentry Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lee''s first solo mission (his collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke yielded the three latest Rama novels: Rama II, The Garden of Rama and Rama Revealed) continues in the Rama universe, beginning on Earth in 2141 during a depression called the Great Chaos. Using visits by the bright messengers (who may be angels or aliens), Lee brings together the lives of agnostic engineer Johann Eberhardt and Sister Beatrice, a devout nun of the order of St. Michael of Siena. The ensuing venture to Mars, to the messengers'' ship and to the beyond is classic SF?a tale that exhibits Lee''s firm control of character and dialogue and, in the best tradition of the genre, one in which love and sex play major roles. Although the resolution of Sister Beatrice''s struggle with chastity lacks any unique insight, she is otherwise a remarkable religious figure, both admirable and accessible. And in solidly fleshing out Johann''s professional, filial and uxorial roles, Lee may well have created a new hero.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n An American nun and a German engineer share an otherwordly vision that leads them to a fateful encounter on the planet Mars, where a small group strives to create a new world out of the shattered remnants of a decaying Earth. This solo effort by the coauthor (with Arthur C. Clarke) of several novels in the "Rama" cycle focuses on the theme of spiritual reawakening and moral responsibility. Despite an unfortunate tendency to stereotype both cultures and individuals, Lee''s maiden voyage maintains a compelling interest in the story''s grand design. Fans of the "Rama" novel will appreciate the vision that unfolds in this new series.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/903'),
(87, 'Bright of the Sky', 'Kay Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n At the start of this riveting launch of a new far-future SF series from Kenyon (_Tropic of Creation_), a disastrous mishap during interstellar space travel catapults pilot Titus Quinn with his wife, Johanna Arlis, and nine-year-old daughter, Sydney, into a parallel universe called the Entire. Titus makes it back to this dimension, his hair turned white, his memory gone, his family presumed dead and his reputation ruined with the corporation that employed him. The corporation (in search of radical space travel methods) sends Titus (in search of Johanna and Sydney) back through the space-time warp. There, he gradually, painfully regains knowledge of its rulers, the cruel, alien Tarig; its subordinate, Chinese-inspired humanoid population, the Chalin; and his daughter''s enslavement. Titus''s transformative odyssey to reclaim Sydney reveals a Tarig plan whose ramifications will be felt far beyond his immediate family. Kenyon''s deft prose, high-stakes suspense and skilled, thorough world building will have readers anxious for the next installment.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bright of the Sky\n </em>\n , Kay Kenyon''s seventh novel, took critics by surprise. Compared to works by Frank Herbert and Philip Jose Farmer, this impressive first installment in a planned four-part series won them over with its riveting plot, vividly imagined alternate universe, and exotic alien denizens. Titus Quinn is a charming anti-hero, fully fleshed-out and likable; Kenyon''s secondary characters are also convincing and memorable. One critic felt that some narrative jumps were confusing, and the\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n compared Kenyon''s early chapters on 23rd-century Earth to "a kind of retro (1950s) view of the future," but these were considered minor complaints. With elegant prose and a solid grounding in real-life physics, Kenyon has conjured a spellbinding, action-packed planetary romance.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1000'),
(88, 'Brisingr', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tad Williams and Christopher Paolini: Author One-on-One\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tad:\n </strong>\n Hi, Christopher. Nice to talk to you, albeit virtually. It was great hanging out with you and your family this summer. Pretty much all of us fell in love with your part of the world, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n Be warned: this isn''t my best time of the day, so if I start calling you "Herman" and asking what it was about whaling that interested you, please forgive.\n</p>\n<p>\n The first thing I''d like to ask you as a starter question is: why fantasy? I mean, there''s the obvious answer (which is also true for me) that it was something I loved to read growing up, but I guess I''m curious what is it that still resonates for you. Why do these kind of stories, these kinds of characters, these kinds of worlds, still speak to you?\n</p>\n<p>\n In a similar vein, do you have another kind of fiction, another genre, that you''d really like to try? If so, why? Any genres you think you''ll never write but wish you could?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Christopher:\n </strong>\n Hi Tad. Great talking to you as well. We all had a wonderful time when you guys visited. Definitely one Of the highlights of the year.\n</p>\n<p>\n I''m still waking up as well -- takes a few cups of tea and a few strips of bacon before the little gray cells start firing properly -- so if I sound a bit muddled, that''s why. Still, we can make a stab at coherency, eh?\n</p>\n<p>\n That said, there are a number of other genres I''d like to try my hand at: mystery, thriller, horror, science-fiction, romance, etc. I love stories of all kinds -- although mythic ones certainly hold the greatest appeal to me -- and I''m very much looking forward to experimenting once I finish the Inheritance cycle. Any genres I think I''ll never write but wish I could? . . . Probably long-form epic poetry or a witty comedy of manners. Poetry is fun, but my grasp on it is rather shaky, and a comedy of manners (while I enjoy them) is so different from my usual life, I''m not sure I could pull it off properly.\n</p>\n<p>\n And now a question for you: You have just finished your third (large) series. What is it about big epic stories that so fascinates you? Why not write small, intimate books about a fishmonger whose greatest love is his toothpick sculpture of the Brooklyn Bridge?\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The much-anticipated third book in Paolini''s Inheritance Cycle continues to rely heavily on classic fantasy tropes. The novel launches with magician and Dragon Rider Eragon, his cousin Roran and the dragon Saphira on a quest to rescue Roran''s betrothed. The cousins soon split up, and Roran undergoes his own series of heroic tests, culminating in a well-choreographed and intense fight against an Urgal (a ram-human hybrid). Eragon, at the same time, encounters treacherous dwarves, undergoes even more training with the elf Oromis and gains a magical sword suitable for a Dragon Rider. The silly revelations about Eragon''s background in the previous book, Eldest, are given a new spin near the end, but the change is neither unexpected nor interesting. Predictably, the book concludes with even more character deaths and another battle, but those expecting a resolution will have to wait until the next novel. The cliched journey may appeal to younger readers of genre fiction. Older teens, even those who might have first cut their teeth on Paolini''s writing years ago, are less likely to be impressed. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/291'),
(89, 'The Burning', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to find allies against the Pure Ones who are about to launch another deadly attack against the great tree. The Grand Battle begins with the search for allies in the Northern Kingdoms and ends in The Burning that will change all Owldom forever. Soren and his band are sent to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to gather allies and learn the art of war in preparation for the coming cataclysmic battle against the sinister Pure Ones. Meanwhile, in the Southern Kingdoms, St. Aggies has fallen to the Pure Ones and they are using its resources to plan a final invasion of The Great Ga''Hoole Tree. With the future of all Owldom in the balance, the parliament of Ga''Hoole must decide whether or not to join forces with the brutal Skench and Sporn and the scattered remnants of St. Aggies who remain faithful to them. A great battle is on the way. A great Battle is on the horizon and drawing near. In preparation, Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to find allies and study the grim art of war. Meanwhile, St. Aggie''s has fallen to the Pure Ones. If they are not stopped, they will launch another, more deadly attack against the great tree. And without allies from the north, Ga''Hoole will surely fall. Soren''s mission must succeed. And the final battle must be won. The coming conflagration will demand wisdom, bravery, and sacrifice from all the owls of the great tree, and from Soren and the band, nothing less than heroism.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1172'),
(90, 'The Capture', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Capture is the first book in the Guardians of Ga''Hoole series. It is written by Kathryn Lasky, and was published by Scholastic on June 1, 2003. The book tells the story of Soren, a Barn Owl, who is kidnapped and taken to St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls, where he meets his friend Gylfie, a tiny Elf Owl, with whom he plans an escape. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary | Characters\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 4-8-At the beginning of this new series, a young Barn Owl named Soren lives peacefully with his family, participating in rituals like the First Meat ceremony, and enjoying legends about the Guardians of Ga''Hoole, knightly owls "who would rise each night into the blackness and perform noble deeds." After he falls from his nest, his idyllic world transforms into one of confusion and danger, as he is captured by evil chick-snatching owls and taken to the St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls. Soren and his new friend Gylfie work to develop strategies for withstanding "moon blinking" (brainwashing), while secretly striving to learn how to fly. The legends of Ga''Hoole help them to survive, and they are able to escape to find their families and warn the world about the dangers of St. Aegolius. While the owls have human characteristics, such as Soren''s determination and Gylfie''s creative ideas, their actions and culture reflect Lasky''s research into owl behaviors and species. The story''s fast pace, menacing bad guys, and flashes of humor make this a good choice for reluctant readers, while the underlying message about the power of legends provides a unifying element and gives strong appeal for fantasy fans.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Beth L. Meister, Yeshiva of Central Queens, Flushing, NY\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1167'),
(91, 'The Carnivorous Carnival', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the ninth title in Lemony Snicket''s A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Carnivorous Carnival, the Baudelaire siblings are falsely accused of murder. On the run from Count Olaf (the real killer), the three disguise themselves in Madame Lulu''s House of Freaks; Violet and Klaus masquerade as the two-headed Beverly/Elliot; Sunny poses as Chabo the Wolf Baby. Ages 10-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-7-This installment in the woeful tale of the unlucky Baudelaire orphans takes them (via the trunk of Count Olaf''s car, unbeknownst to him) to the Caligari Carnival in the middle of the hinterlands. Madame Lulu has used her crystal ball in the past to help him find the children after their narrow escapes, but this time he also wants her to discern the truth about whether or not either of their parents is still alive. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny disguise themselves as freaks so that they can stay at the carnival and hopefully get to the crystal ball before the Count does. They suffer the indignation of performing in their new roles, face off a bloodthirsty mob, and escape from a pit of hungry lions. New and deviously entertaining characters are added to the cast, including Kevin the ambidextrous man, Colette the contortionist, and Hugo the hunchback. The humor is as sharp as ever, the suspense will keep readers at the edge of their seats, and the cliff-hanger ending will make them eagerly await the next episode.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Heather Dieffenbach, Lexington Public Library, KY\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/456'),
(92, 'Carpe Jugulum', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Carpe Jugulum\n </em>\n is the 23rd Discworld novel, and with it this durable series continues its juggernaut procession onward. Pratchett is an author who inspires such devotions that his fans will fall on the novel with cries of joy. Nonfans, perhaps, will want to know what all the fuss is about; and that''s something difficult to put into a few words. The best thing to do for those completely new to Pratchett is to sample him for themselves, and this novel is as good a place to start as any. But fans have a more precise question. They know that Discworld novels come in one of two varieties: the quite good and the brilliant. So, for instance, where\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n were quite good,\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n were brilliant. While true fans wouldn''t want to do without the former, they absolutely live for the latter. And with\n <em>\n  Carpe Jugulum\n </em>\n , Pratchett has hit the jackpot again. This novel is one of the brilliant ones.\n</p>\n<p>\n The plot is a version of an earlier Discworld novel, __, with the predatory elves of that novel being replaced here by suave and deadly vampires, and the tiny kingdom of Lancre being defended by its witches. But plot is the least of Pratchett''s appeal, and\n <em>\n  Carpe Jugulum\n </em>\n is loaded with marvelous characters (not least the witches themselves, about whom we learn a deal more), comic touches and scenes of genius, and even some of the renowned down-to-earth Pratchett wisdom (about the inner ethical conflicts we all face and the wrongness of treating people as things). Pratchett''s vampires are elegant Bela Lugosi types, and they come up against an unlikely but engaging alliance of witches; blue-skinned pixies like Rob Roy Smurfs; a doubting priest with a boil on his face; and a magical house-size Phoenix in a seamless, completely absorbing, and feel-good-about-the-universe mixture. Highly recommended.\n <em>\n  --Adam Roberts, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carpe JugulumAseize the throatAis the motto of the family of "vampyres" who attempt a hospitable takeover of the kingdom of Lancre in Pratchett''s 23rd Discworld novel. When the goodhearted king invited the Magpyrs to celebrate the birth of his daughter, he couldn''t know that these modern bloodsuckers would have no intention of leaving. By controlling everyone''s mind, they try to turn Lancre into a sort of farm, and no one can think straight enough to stop them. That is, until the vampyres meet up with the local witches: Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick and Agnes Nitt (who is literally of two minds about everything). The perplexing skirmishes that ensue will leave readers shaking their heads in hearty dismay even as they groan at the puns and explanatory notes that pepper the tale. Death (scythe and all) and Igor (of Frankenstein film fame) provide the best gags. The novel exudes the curious feel of old-fashioned vampire and Frankenstein legendsAfull of holy water, religious symbols, stakes through the heart, angry mobs, bad pronunciation and garlic. The vampyres, however, have risen above these clich?s even if their servant, Igor, still has a taste for dribbly candles and squeaky hinges. Pratchett lampoons everything from Christian superstition to Swiss Army knives here, proving that the fantasy satire of Discworld "still ate''nt dead."\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(93, 'Castle Roogna', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Millie, a ghost for 800 years wants only one man--Jonathan, and he''s a zombie. To prove himself, Magician Dor volunteers to get the potion that can restore Jonathan to full life. But he has to go back through time to do it, to a peril-haunted, ancient Xanth, where danger lurks at every turn....\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Piers Anthony [Xanth] -- Piers Anthony redefined the fantasy series when he launched his Xanth books--they''re(quite simply) pun for the whole family!\n</p>\n<p>\n --Veronica Chapman, Senior Editor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/467'),
(94, 'Centaur Aisle', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dor was having trouble growing up to be the next Magician-King of the Land of Xanth. He wanted no part in running the Kingdom. But now Good King Trent was leaving on a trade mission to the non-magical Mundania, home of such unlikely beasts as horses and bears, so Dor had to take over for a week.\n</p>\n<p>\n After three weeks, King Trent still hadn''t returned. Surely something terrible had happened to him? Dor was left with the burden of ruling -- and with Irene, who was entirely too willing to be his Queen!\n</p>\n<p>\n His only hope was to enter Mundania and find King Trent. Bravely He started forth, together with Irene, a golem, a centaur, and a young ogre, heading for the far south of Xanth.\n</p>\n<p>\n The entrance to Mundania, of course, lay to the north...\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Piers Anthony [Xanth] -- Piers Anthony redefined the fantasy series when he launched his Xanth books--they''re(quite simply) pun for the whole family!\n</p>\n<p>\n --Veronica Chapman, Senior Editor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/468'),
(95, 'The Chain', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/795'),
(96, 'Champions of the Force', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the third and last installment in the Jedi Academy Trilogy, a powerful remnant of the defunct Empire tries to destroy Han and Leia''s Jedi twins, the next generation of Jedi Knights and the hope of the New Republic.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Suspended helplessly between life and death, Luke Skywalker lies in state at the Jedi academy. But on the spirit plane, Luke fights desperately for survival, reaching out physically to the Jedi twins. At the same time, Leia is on a life-and-death mission of her own, a race against Imperial agents hoping to destroy a third Jedi child -- Leia and Han''s baby Anakin -- hidden on the planet Anoth. Meanwhile, Luke''s former protÃ©gÃ© Kyp Durron has pirated the deadly Sun Crusher on an apocalyptic mission of mass destruction, convinced he is fighting for a just cause. Hunting down the rogue warrior, Han must persuade Kyp to renounce his dark crusade and regain his lost honor. To do it, Kyp must take the Sun Crusher on a suicide mission against the awesome Death Star prototype -- a battle Han knows they may be unable to win... even with Luke Skywalker at their side! Â®, (TM) and Â© 1995 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/405'),
(97, 'Changelings', 'Anne McCaffrey &amp; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those familiar with McCaffrey and Scarborough''s first SF trilogy about life on the sentient planet Petaybee will best appreciate this solid start of a new series, which picks up where\n <em>\n  Power Play\n </em>\n (1995) left off. Murel and Ronan, the precocious twins born to Maj. Yanaba Maddock-Shongili, administrator of Petaybee, and geneticist/selkie Dr. Sean Shongili, lead an idyllic, if frigid, life on the icy planet for their first eight years. Protected by their snow leopard and track-cat nannies, they change into seals, play with otters and telepathically communicate with each other and the fauna. When it appears their abilities have aroused the sinister interest of off-world scientists, they''re sent to live on a space station with a family friend. Fast-paced adventure follows as the twins thwart their enemies and further deal with their selkie natures. Flat characterization, anthropomorphic animals, sentimentality and simplistic takes on various cultures (including Inuit, Irish and Hawaiian) make this novel best suited for those with a taste for less-sophisticated SF.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Twins of Petaybee trilogy continues to chronicle the awakening sentient planet Petaybee and its settlers, who are trying to keep its natural resources from being exploited. It features the twins born at the end of the first Petaybee trilogy (_The Powers That Be,_ 1993;\n <em>\n  Power Lines\n </em>\n , 1994;\n <em>\n  Power Play\n </em>\n , 1995), who, like their father, are selkies--seals in water, humans on land. That shape-shifting gets them in trouble when a scientist from off-planet determines to capture them for study. It is decided that they must leave Petaybee for their own safety just when the planet is rearranging its interior to create more land. The story is exciting and generously laced with humor, but besides those qualities, the characters--planet, humans, and animals, including the playful river and sea otters who befriend the twins--and their interactions are so well realized as to utterly charm readers. Furthermore, to the Celtic and Inuit lore that informed the first trilogy, McCaffrey and Scarborough now add elements of the mythology and lore of Earth''s South Sea Islanders.\n <em>\n  Sally Estes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/944'),
(98, 'Chapterhouse Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now that the planet Arrakis (Dune) has been annihilated, the Bene Gesserit order turns its stronghold Chapterhouse into another desert world, and from this base, the sisterhood plans its moves against ruthless rivals. Drawing on a vast store of history and religion, the book is "so rich in this one area that others suffer and the narrative crawls," PW observed.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Compelling...a worthy addition to this durable and deservedly popular series."\n <br />\n -_New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The vast and fascinating Dune saga sweeps on."\n <br />\n -_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/238'),
(99, 'The Charnel Prince', 'Greg Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  The Charnel Prince\n </em>\n , author Greg Keyes keeps up the pace set by __ with a second taut entry in his series--the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone. The Briar King has awoken and mythical beasts roam the land. Crotheny''s king and his daughters are dead by betrayal. His bereaved wife Murielle keeps tenuous hold on the throne and the hope that her headstrong daughter, Anne Dare, has escaped the assassins'' blades. The queen sends her most trusted and lethal knight, Sir Neil MeqVren, on a quest to discover her daughter''s fate. He will find Anne has narrowly escaped the massacre at Saint Cer and lives on the run in the company of her maid, Austra, and the duel-prone swordsman Cazio. Meanwhile, woodsman Aspar White is sent on a mission to slay the Briar King. All will fight for their lives in the wake of dark forces emerging from shadow to force a dangerously forgotten prophecy into the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Keyes is among authors like George R.R. Martin whose work is reinvigorating the often tired genre of high fantasy with rich, dark, and mature storytelling. His characters are vibrant and range far beyond Dungeons &amp; Dragons clichÃ©. He places these starkly drawn men and women into a world built upon a squirming foundation of myth, legend, prophecy, and folklore, which, to their own peril, they are only beginning to understand.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The age of Everon is ending in the elegiac second installment of bestseller Keyes''s fresh and imaginative high fantasy saga that began with 2003''s\n <em>\n  The Briar King\n </em>\n . Told in a inventive prose often as disturbing as it is beautiful, Keyes''s sprawling multiple-viewpoint narrative explores a weird landscape fraught with "ancient evils and fresh curses." Black briars spurt up "like slow fountains" wherever the Briar King walks in the King''s Forest. As the Briar King turns villagers into unholy monsters, creatures such as greffyns and manticores once deemed the stuff of myth attack anyone who dares challenge him. In a land on the brink of civil war, assassins have claimed most of Queen Muriel''s family except for her gifted youngest daughter, Anne Dare, who escaped death with her servant Austra, and is now struggling to return home to fulfill a prophecy. Other well-drawn characters include Sir Neil MeqVren, the queen''s protector, and Leovigild "Leoff" Ackenzal, a talented composer. Those who haven''t read\n <em>\n  The Briar King\n </em>\n may have problems at first following the plot, but Keyes''s lyricism, pacing and deft handling of eternally important topicsâ€”the dance between church and state, man and woman, life and deathâ€”make this a thought-provoking entertainment.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1004'),
(100, 'Childhood&#39;s End', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "''There has been nothing like it for years'' C. S. Lewis; ''The Colossus Of Science Fiction'' New York Times"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Earth has become a Utopia, guided by a strange unseen people from outer space whose staggering powers have eradicated war, cruelty, poverty and racial inequality. When the ''Overlords'' finally reveal themselves, their horrific form makes little impression. Then comes the sign that the Overlords have been waiting for. A child begins to dream strangely - and develops remarkable powers. Soon this happens to every child - and the truth of the Overlords'' mission is finally revealed to the human race...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/214'),
(101, 'Children of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œRanging from palace intrigue and desert chases to religious speculation and confrontations with the supreme intelligence of the universe, there is something here for all science fiction fans.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHerbert adds enough new twists and turns to the ongoing saga that familiarity with the recurring elements brings pleasure.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Challenging Destiny_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Climactic volume of the Dune trilogy in which an alien society achieves ecological salvation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/235');
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(102, 'Children of Men', 'P. D. James', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her 12th book, the British author of the two series featuring Adam Dalgleish and Cordelia Gray ( Devices and Desires and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman , respectively) poses a premise that chills and darkens its setting in the year 2021. Near the end of the 20th century, for reasons beyond the grasp of modern science, human sperm count went to zero. The last birth occurred in 1995, and in the space of a generation humanity has lost its future. In England, under the rule of an increasingly despotic Warden, the infirm are encouraged to commit group suicide, criminals are exiled and abandoned and immigrants are subjected to semi-legalized slavery. Divorced, middle-aged Oxford history professor Theo Faron, an emotionally constrained man of means and intelligence who is the Warden''s cousin, plods through an ordered, bleak existence. But a chance involvement with a group of dissidents moves him onto unexpected paths, leading him, in the novel''s compelling second half, toward risk, commitment and the joys and anguish of love. In this convincingly detailed world--where kittens are (illegally) christened, sex has lost its allure and the arts have been abandoned--James concretely explores an unthinkable prospect. Readers should persevere through the slow start, for the rewards of this story, including its reminder of the transforming power of hope, are many and lasting. 125,000 first printing; BOMC main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A book of such accelerating tension that the pages seem to turn faster as one moves along." â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n "As scary and suspenseful as anything in Hitchcock." â€”_The New Yorker_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Extraordinary. . . . Daring. . . . Frightening in its implications." â€”_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fascinating, suspenseful, and morally provocative. The characterizations are sharply etched and the narrative is compelling."â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShe writes like an angel. Every character is closely drawn. Her atmosphere is unerringly, chillingly convincing. And she manages all this without for a moment slowing down the drive and tension of an exciting mystery.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_The Times_ (UK)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/608'),
(103, 'Children of the Mind', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Children of the Mind\n </em>\n , fourth in the Ender series, is the conclusion of the story begun in the third book,\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first two volumes of Card''s Ender saga, Ender''s Game and Speaker for the Dead, each won the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel. This adept fifth volume in the series (after Xenocide, 1991) continues the story of Ender Wiggin, hero, social conscience and unwitting mass murderer. Here, however, Ender, feeling the weight of his years, plays only a limited role in the desperate attempt to avert the destruction by the Starways Congress of the planet Lusitania and its three intelligent races. Foremost among those at center stage are Peter and Young Valentine, Ender''s "children of the mind," copies of his brother and sister whom he accidentally created on his trip Outside the universe in Xenocide. Also central is Jane, the prickly Artificial Intelligence whose unique ability to use the Outside to transcend the light-speed barrier is key to all attempts to save Ender''s adopted world. Peter, Val, Jane and their companions must criss-cross the galaxy to find new planets for Lusitania''s refugees while trying to influence the politicians and philosophers who have the power to stop the Congress''s approaching war fleet. Readers unfamiliar with earlier Ender novels may have trouble picking up some plot threads. But Card''s prose is powerful here, as is his consideration of mystical and quasi-religious themes, and his ability to write convincing, at times heartrending, scenes of intrafamily conflict is as strong as ever. Though billed as the final Ender novel, this story leaves enough mysteries unexplored to justify another sequel; and Card fans should find that possibility, like this novel, very welcome indeed. Major ad/promo; 200-copy limited leather-bound edition, $200, ISBN 0-312-86191-5.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/611'),
(104, 'Choice of The Cat', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/734'),
(105, 'Circus world', 'Barry B. Longyear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two hundred years earlier, a circus starship is stranded on the Planet Momus. Recently discovered by the rest of the galaxy, the population of Momus the remaining descendants of the original circus must deal with interstellar power politics and war, and they do so in their own special way.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award winner, Barry Longyear is author of the acclaimed Enemy Mine, made into a major motion picture by Fox. Recent works include The Enemy Papers and Yesterdays Tomorrow. Having completed training as a PI, his current work is a mystery titled The Gentleman Prefers Blood. He lives with his wife, Jean, in New Sharon, Maine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/494'),
(106, 'City of Baraboo', 'Barry B. Longyear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...take a magnificent way of life, which today seems on the verge of extinction, and fling it bodily into the future, toward immortality." --\n <em>\n  Spider Robinson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Last Show on Earth finds its survival by taking to the stars and playing the worlds of the near galaxy, becoming the greatest show off Earth.\n</p>\n<p>\n "What Barry has done . . . is to take a magnificent way of life, which today seems on the verge of extinction, and fling it bodily into the future, toward immortality."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Spider Robinson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/495'),
(107, 'Clan Daughter', 'Morgan Howell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œHowellâ€™s depiction of the orc culture is fascinatingâ€“these orcs are as big, strong, and dangerous as any in fantasy, but they also have moral and ethical issues of importance. This is a book to think about.â€\n <br />\n â€“Elizabeth Moon, author of The Deed of Paksenarrion_\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Enslaved by King Kregantâ€™s army, Dar survived by befriending the fierce orcs who were also forced to serve. Now she has escapedâ€“only to find that the price of freedom may be her destiny.\n</p>\n<p>\n Calling on her untried leadership abilities, Dar guides the surviving orc soldiers to the safety of their homelandâ€“but the clan leaders refuse to accept her unless she can release their queen from Kregantâ€™s fortress. Shaken by her growing gift for dark prophecy and a fate she feels unprepared to accept, Dar must infiltrate the very heart of the despotâ€™s empire. There she will discover unexpected treachery and an ancient power that threatens the future of all.\n</p>\n<p>\n Look for Books I and III in the Queen of the Orcs trilogy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/932'),
(108, 'Clarkson on Cars', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jeremy Clarkson is the second-best motoring writer in Britain. For twenty years, he''s been driving cars, writing about them and occasionally voicing his opinions about them on the BBC''s Top Gear. No one in the business is taller. Here, he''s collected his best car columns and stories in which he waxes lyrical on topics as useful and diverse as: bull; the perils of bicycle ownership bull; why Australians - not Brits - need bull bars bull; why soon only geriatrics will be driving BMW''s bull; the difficulty of deciding on the best car for your wedding bull; why Jesus''s dad would have owned a Nissan Bluebird bull; and why it is bus lanes that cause traffic jams Irreverent, damn funny and offensive to almost everyone, this is writing with its foot to the floor, the brake lines cut and the speed limit smashed to smithereens. Sit back and enjoy the ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/380'),
(109, 'The Color of Her Panties', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the fifteenth novel of his Xanth series, Piers Anthony has captured again the fantasy world loved by generations of devoted readers. Brand-new excitement and humor from the author of Question Quest, The Color of Her Panties explodes with phantasmagorical, pun-filled adventure. In the struggle for the Goblin crown, Gwenny Goblin is forced to compete with her awful half brother Gobble in a battle of the wits. To prove herself worthy, Gwenny, with her secret contact lenses, enlists the aid of Che Centaur and Jenny Elf to help her perform the tasks that will win her the chieftainship of the Goblin horde, including bringing back the fabulous egg that sits between the Roc and the hard place. But the most precious secret lies in Mela Merwoman''s undergarments; in particular, their color. But Mela, Ida Human, and Okra Ogress, using Magician Humphrey''s confusing advice, are stuck in a wild-goose chase around Xanth, meeting up with the likes of dragons and the Simurg, and eventually joining the Adult Conspiracy. Meanwhile, Gwenny is still on her quest for the answer to the all-important question: What color are the Merwoman''s panties? With outrageous wit and fantastic escapades, The Color of Her Panties will thrill the fans who have entered before into this fabulous adventure of space and thyme, as well as new discoverers of the world of Xanth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/479'),
(110, 'The Colour of Magic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers. But just because the Disc is different doesn''t mean that some things don''t stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death, is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/65'),
(111, 'The Colour of Magic (Graphic Novel)', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/673'),
(112, 'The Coming of Hoole', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for Kathryn Lasky''s Guardians of Ga''Hoole series :\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  ''''Film fans will flock to libraries in search of Lasky''s Guardians of Ga''Hoole series, whether they have read the books previously or are discovering them for the first time.'''' --\n  <em>\n   School Library Journal\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  ''''The fantasy''s strong believability and fascinating plot make this series a must-read for fantasy-lovers.'''' -- _Children''s Literature\n  <br />\n  ''''Lasky has combined fascinating details of how real owls live with her imaginary civilization.'''' --__School Library Journal_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grank raises the hatchling deep in a forest far from owls that would kill the royal chick named Hoole to end the kingly line. His mother comes to visit, in disguise, and departs again. Not even the chick must know his mother''s identity. It would give him away as Hrath''s heir. Sent by an evil warlord, a hagsfiend attempts to lure young Hoole away when he first learns to fly. Grank realizes that the same evil forces that killed Hrath are after Hoole, and know where he is. To keep him safe, Grank brings him to Beyond the Beyond, a strange land of fiery volcanoes in a barren, icy landscape.(more)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1176'),
(113, 'The Coming of Wisdom', 'Dave Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wallie Smith is staring death in the face; only a miracle can save him. And then one does! The Goddess appears to preserve his soul, but she does much more than that. She promises to bestow upon him a new and powerful body, and, more importantly, to endow him with the fabled Sapphire Sword of Chioxin. But nothing in this world or any other comes without a price. The Goddess demands that, for her services, Wallie become her champion. It will be an honor to serve such a presence, to have the chance to be victorious over all challengers. But Wallie and his sword quickly find themselves outmatched in a world of high-stakes magic. Even the Goddess''s priests cannot offer any resistance to the invading sorcerers and their quest to conquer souls for the Fire God. Wallie will need to find in himself and in the world the powers that will save all mortals. He will need to find The Coming of Wisdom.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Goddess had rescued Wallie Smith from certain death, endowed him with a magnificent new body, and gifted him with the legendary Sapphire Sword of Chioxin. She asked only one service in return...\n</p>\n<p>\n So Wallie became the Goddess'' champion -- and promptly found himself on the losing side in a battle against magics far beyond any the priests of the Goddess could hope to summon, After eons of exile, sorcerers walked the World again, claiming lands and souls for their Fire God.\n</p>\n<p>\n Wallie quickly found that swords were no match for spells -- and how could mere mortals prevail against the powers of magic?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/915'),
(114, 'Command Decision', 'Elizabeth Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fourth in Moon''s Vatta''s War space-going family and military saga (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  Engaging the Enemy\n </em>\n ), this jaunty far-future romp follows the scions of two powerful but threatened families: woman space warrior Kylara Vatta and undercover operator Rafe Dunbarger. While Ky, who earlier saw much of her family murdered, builds an antipirate fleet from former privateers, Rafe works to preserve his family''s giant interstellar communications corporation after a hostile takeover. Aunt Grace Lane Vatta sheds her dotty old woman cover to direct security on Slotter''s Key, the Vatta home base, and Cousin Stella settles in as Vatta''s CEO, assisted by young Toby, a precocious techie. Though lacking the breathless hyperdrive of Moon''s earlier splendid derring-do in\n <em>\n  Marque\n </em>\n <em>\n  and Reprisal\n </em>\n , the frequent FTL jumps between Ky''s deep-space engagements, Rafe''s reluctant boardroom battles, Grace''s wily machinations and Stella''s expert financial calculations keep the excitement level high.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fourth Vatta''s War volume is Moon at her best. Kylara Vatta is trying to keep her tiny space fleet in business despite having to save it and herself from such hazards as slavery. Meanwhile, charming rogue (or so he seemed to Kylara) Rafael Dunbarger is methodically tracking down the survivors in his family, freeing them from captivity, and putting the traitors and klutzes who sabotaged interstellar communications out of business. This encourages piracy, which Kylara is committed to fight, eventually at the head of a force of 37 ships and an amiably mad playboy captain. Kylara is surely going to avenge her murdered family.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/975'),
(115, 'The Complete Fuzzy', 'H. Beam Piper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  More than three decades ago, H. Beam Piper''s bestselling science fiction novel Little Fuzzy captivated readers everywhere. Now, all three of Piper''s delightful books are available for the first time in one volume: Little Fuzzy, Fuzzy Sapiens and Fuzzies And Other People.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1159'),
(116, 'The Confusion', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The title of Stephenson''s vast, splendid and absorbing sequel to\n <em>\n  Quicksilver\n </em>\n (2003) suggests the state of mind that even devoted fans may face on occasion as they follow the glorious and exceedingly complex parallel stories of Jack Shaftoe, amiable criminal mastermind, and Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, courageous secret agent and former prisoner in a Turkish harem. In 1689, Jack recovers his memory in Algiers, evades galley slavery and joins a quest for the lost treasure of a Spanish pirate named Carlos Olancho Macho y Macho. This leads to adventures at sea worthy of Patrick O''Brian, and hairbreadth escapes from the jaws of the Inquisition. Meanwhile, Eliza is captured by the historical (and distinguished) French privateer Jean Bart while trying to escape to England with her baby. She must then navigate the intrigues of the court of Louis XIV, which are less lethal than those of the Inquisition by a small margin, but still make for uneasy sleep for a friendless female spy. Her correspondence with such scientific minds as Wilhelm Leibniz helps propel the saga''s chronicling of the roots of modern science at a respectable clip. Of course, one can''t call anything about the Baroque Cycle "brisk," but the richness of detail and language lending verisimilitude t? the setting and depth to the characters should be reward enough for most readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This â€œcon-fusionâ€ of two distinct novels (_Juncto_ and\n <em>\n  Bonanza\n </em>\n ), alternating between Jack and Elizaâ€™s stories, is a must-read for Stephenson fans. Though neither entry in the\n <em>\n  Baroque Cycle\n </em>\n has impressed the critics as much as some of Stephensonâ€™s previous work,\n <em>\n  The Confusion\n </em>\n proves his narrative skills are still in fine shape. Casual readers beware: many critics feel the lengthy scientific and historical digressions, however well researched and explicated, tend to hold up the story. If the book suffers from an information glut or stylistic terseness, then it is the cracking plot and rich milieu of the Baroque world that set the ship right.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/770'),
(117, 'Congo', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you saw the 1995 film adaptation of this Crichton thriller, somebody owes you an apology. While you''re waiting for\n <em>\n  that\n </em>\n to happen, try reading the vastly more intelligent novel on which the movie was based. The broad lines of the plot remain the same: A research team deep in the jungle disappears after a mysterious and grisly gorilla attack. A subsequent team, including a sign-language-speaking simian named Amy, follows the original team''s tracks only to be subjected to more mysterious and grisly gorilla attacks. If you can look past the breathless treatment of ''80s technology, like voice-recognition software and 256K RAM modules (the book was written in 1980), you''ll find the same smart use of science and edge-of-your-seat suspense shared by Crichton''s other work.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A group of scientists visits the Congo jungle in search of a lost city and a domestic apeâ€™s ancestors, only to find the jungle holds some strange primates who have killer instincts. High drama marks a vivid condensed audio version of a thriller. --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/317'),
(118, 'Contact', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they''ve found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects\n <em>\n  Contact\n </em>\n , his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the various countries involved. Sagan meditates on science, religion, and government--the elements that define society--and looks to their impact on and role in the future. His ability to pack an exciting read with such rich content is an unusual talent that makes\n <em>\n  Contact\n </em>\n a modern sci-fi classic.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Who could be better qualified than the author of the highly successful Cosmos to turn the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence, and humankind''s first contact with it, into imaginative reality? This is precisely what Sagan does in this eagerly awaited and, as it turns out, engrossing first novel. The basic plot is very simple. A worldwide system of radio telescopes, in the charge of brilliant astrophysicist Ellie Arroway, picks up a "Message" from outer space. Ellie is instrumental in decoding the message and building the "Machine" for which it gives instructions (despite stiff opposition from religious fundamentalists and those scientists and politicians who fear it may be a Trojan Horse). Then she and fellow members of a small multinational team board the machine, take a startling trip into outer spaceand on their return must convince the scientific community that they are not the perpetrators of a hoax. Sagan''s characters, mostly scientists, are credible without being memorable, and he supplies a love interest that is less than compelling. However, his informed and dramatically enacted speculations into the mysteries of the universe, taken to the point where science and religion touch, make his story an exciting intellectual adventure and science fiction of a high order. First serial to Discover Magazine; BOMC selection. Foreign rights: S &amp; S. October 1\n <br />\n Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/297'),
(119, 'Coraline', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Coraline lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house--a house so huge that other people live in it, too... round, old former actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and their aging Highland terriers ("We trod the boards, luvvy") and the mustachioed old man under the roof ("''The reason you cannot see the mouse circus,'' said the man upstairs, ''is that the mice are not yet ready and rehearsed.''") Coraline contents herself for weeks with exploring the vast garden and grounds. But with a little rain she becomes bored--so bored that she begins to count everything blue (153), the windows (21), and the doors (14). And it is the 14th door that--sometimes blocked with a wall of bricks--opens up for Coraline into an entirely alternate universe. Now, if you''re thinking fondly of\n <em>\n  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland\n </em>\n , you''re on the wrong track. Neil Gaiman''s\n <em>\n  Coraline\n </em>\n is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest fears. And, like Roald Dahl''s work, it is delicious.\n</p>\n<p>\n What''s on the other side of the door? A distorted-mirror world, containing presumably everything Coraline has ever dreamed of... people who pronounce her name correctly (not "Caroline"), delicious meals (not like her father''s overblown "recipes"), an unusually pink and green bedroom (not like her dull one), and plenty of horrible (very un-boring) marvels, like a man made out of live rats. The creepiest part, however, is her mirrored parents, her "other mother" and her "other father"--people who look just like her own parents, but with big, shiny, black button eyes, paper-white skin... and a keen desire to keep her on\n <em>\n  their\n </em>\n side of the door. To make creepy creepier,\n <em>\n  Coraline\n </em>\n has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman cover illustrator Dave McKean. This delightful, funny, haunting, scary as heck, fairy-tale novel is about as fine as they come. Highly recommended. (Ages 11 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British novelist Gaiman (American Gods; Stardust) and his long-time accomplice McKean (collaborators on a number of Gaiman''s Sandman graphic novels as well as The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish) spin an electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons. After Coraline and her parents move into an old house, Coraline asks her mother about a mysterious locked door. Her mother unlocks it to reveal that it leads nowhere: "When they turned the house into flats, they simply bricked it up," her mother explains. But something about the door attracts the girl, and when she later unlocks it herself, the bricks have disappeared. Through the door, she travels a dark corridor (which smells "like something very old and very slow") into a world that eerily mimics her own, but with sinister differences. "I''m your other mother," announces a woman who looks like Coraline''s mother, except "her eyes were big black buttons." Coraline eventually makes it back to her real home only to find that her parents are missing--they''re trapped in the shadowy other world, of course, and it''s up to their scrappy daughter to save them. Gaiman twines his taut tale with a menacing tone and crisp prose fraught with memorable imagery ("Her other mother''s hand scuttled off Coraline''s shoulder like a frightened spider"), yet keeps the narrative just this side of terrifying. The imagery adds layers of psychological complexity (the button eyes of the characters in the other world vs. the heroine''s increasing ability to distinguish between what is real and what is not; elements of Coraline''s dreams that inform her waking decisions). McKean''s scratchy, angular drawings, reminiscent of Victorian etchings, add an ominous edge that helps ensure this book will be a real bedtime-buster. Ages 8-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/416'),
(120, 'Cosmos', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cosmos\n </em>\n was the first science TV blockbuster, and Carl Sagan was its (human) star. By the time of Sagan''s death in 1996, the series had been seen by half a billion people; Sagan was perhaps the best-known scientist on the planet. Explaining how the series came about, Sagan recalled:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I was positive from my own experience that an enormous global interest exists in the exploration of the planets and in many kindred scientific topics--the origin of life, the Earth, and the Cosmos, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, our connection with the universe. And I was certain that this interest could be excited through that most powerful communications medium, television.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Sagan''s own interest and enthusiasm for the universe were so vivid and infectious, his screen presence so engaging, that viewers and readers couldn''t help but be caught up in his vision. From stars in their "billions and billions" to the amino acids in the primordial ocean, Sagan communicated a feeling for science as a process of discovery. Inevitably, some of the science in\n <em>\n  Cosmos\n </em>\n has been outdated in the years since 1980--but Sagan''s sense of wonder is ageless.\n <em>\n  --Mary Ellen Curtin\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Enticing, imaginative, readable, iridescent'' - THE NEW YORK TIMES\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/843'),
(121, 'Count Zero', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he''s recovering from: Maas-Neotek''s chief of R&amp;D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he''s perfected. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain\n <em>\n  other\n </em>\n parties--some of whom aren''t remotely human.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo on the Net and a price on his head, Newmark thinks he''s only trying to get out alive. A stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future and sequel to\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gibson''s first novel, Neuromancer, was greeted with hosannas and showered with awards. This second book, set in the same universe, again offers a faddish, glitzy surface not unlike that of Miami Vice. Gibson''s central image is the shadow boxes constructed by the artist Joseph Cornell, collections of seemingly unrelated objects whose juxtaposition creates a new impression. In the same fashion, the novel has three protagonists, each of whom is putting together jigsaw clues in pursuit of his separate goal. The corporate headhunter, the art dealer and the computer hacker all find themselves being manipulatedjust as the author contrives to have their paths converge. This book is less appealing and less verbally skillful than Gibson''s first novel, dense and dour as that was, but readers who liked that one will want to see this as well.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/252'),
(122, 'Crewel Lye', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For use in schools and libraries only. Jordan had a talent for recovering from almost any injury if enough of his body could be assembled to grow together, but this time he was dead and his bones were scattered. Could he find enough of them to bring himself back to life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/472'),
(123, 'Crossroads of Twilight', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The eagerly awaited 10th installment (after 2000''s Winter''s Heart) in Jordan''s monumental Wheel of Time has all the breadth and depth that have made this fantasy author one of the acknowledged greats of the genre. Like Tolkien''s Ring trilogy, Wheel of Time is a single, extended novel rather than a series, and in Crossroads, new characters join the cast and old favorites grow ever more complex. Yet if the scope of Jordan''s richly nuanced creation has won him millions of readers, it also forms the saga''s biggest obstacle. Here Mat Cauthon is still fleeing the Seanchan; Perrin Goldeneyes still hunts the Shaido to free his beautiful wife, Faile; the cities Caemlyn and Tar Valon are still besieged and the battles have not been joined. Those impatient with the glacial movement of the last four books will find more of the same. As the title suggests, this entry represents a turning point, a time of momentous decisions as the rebel Aes Sedai consider an alliance with the Asha''man and Rand ponders a truce with the Seanchan. Lending perhaps the most recognizable humanity is Mat''s love interest, Tuon, the spoiled, adorable Daughter of the Nine Moons, whose kidnapping is concealed by Valan Luca''s Grand Traveling Show and Magnificent Display of Marvels and Wonders. She twists Mat around her finger, deliberately annoying him by calling him "Toy." The epilogue suggests Tuon will play a major role in volume 11. Jordan fans who miss the breakneck pace of the earlier books can always hope the action will pick up again.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Wheel of Time continues to turn slowly and purposely in the tenth novel in Jordan''s popular, epic series. Jordan follows his well-established pattern of tracking the activities of his widely spread characters as he moves them inexorably toward the looming Final Battle between the Dark One and those who oppose it. In this story, Mat flees with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, pursued by the army of the Seanchan Empire as well as by the Dark One. Perrin is trying to rescue his wife, Faile, from the Shaido. Egwene, now Amyrlin of the rebel Aes Sedai, and her forces lay siege to the White Tower, where Elaida wears the Amyrlin shawl. The Aes Sadai must be reunited to defend against the Dark One. And Rand al'' Thor, the Dragon Reborn, faces his own demons, even though he has managed to cleanse the Dark One''s taint from the males who can channel. As usual, Jordan''s canvas is vast and his plotting intricate. Each of the many characters is as distinctively recognizable as any of those in the series'' other volumes, while on all fronts, intrigues and dangers intensify. Must-reading for Jordan''s huge and faithful following.\n <em>\n  Sally Estes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/357'),
(124, 'Crown of Horns', 'Jeff Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In this ninth and final volume of Smith''s award-winning\n  <em>\n   Bone\n  </em>\n  series, Thorn and her loyal friends must defeat not only the evil Briar Rose but also free the land and its inhabitants from the Locust spirit. Beaten by tyrant Tarsil''s soldiers, Thorn and faithful Fone Bone are locked in the dungeon, as Briar Rose and her army storm the castle. Spurred on by a recurring dream, Thorn is determined to break free and find the Crown of Horns, which will destroy the nightmare spirit known as the Locust but may also kill Thorn herself. The Locust was imprisoned within the legendary dragon queen Mim, whose body was encased in stone but who now threatens to break free. With the help of Gran''ma Ben and Fone Bone''s cousins, Smiley and Phoney, Thorn is able to escape and make her way to Tanen Gard, the dragon burial ground, where she hopes to find the Crown of Horns. Smith expertly combines all the best elements of fantasy epics like\n  <em>\n   Lord of the Rings\n  </em>\n  â€”a plucky hero(ine), all manner of creatures and a kingdom rich in mythological historyâ€”with enough humor to appeal to readers young and old.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The colorization effort of Smithâ€™s epic comicÂ Bone reaches its culmination with this final volume in the nine-book series. There really arenâ€™t any superlatives left to lay at Smithâ€™s feet for his timeless achievement, but now that the entire work is available in gorgeously rendered color, it isÂ an even more attractive offering. The story concludes Fone Boneâ€™s saga in the Valley with a full-scale battle and a touching farewell to his friends Thorn and Granâ€™ma Ben. There may be a few purists who will liken this to Ted Turner colorizingÂ classic filmsÂ or George Lucasâ€™ digital fiddling with the Star Wars franchise, but theyâ€™ll be a tiny minority. Even though the black-and-white artwork of the originals was spectacular in its own right, the color versions offer so much more to look at in every panel, bringing many of the details that might have gone unnoticed to the forefront without losing any of the subtlety of Smithâ€™s impeccable line work and juxtapositions of humor and drama. A masterful rendering now fully ready for a whole new generation of readers. Grades 6-12. --Ian Chipman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1190'),
(125, 'A Crown of Swords', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Jordan has created a rich and intricate tapestry of characters in his\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The seventh volume of Jordan''s bestselling high fantasy series carries on the tradition of colossal, dauntingly complex storytelling established by the previous entries (Lord of Chaos, 1994, etc.). In a richly woven post-holocaust world where magic is normally a woman''s monopoly and a man who can use it is a menace, Rand al''Thor, a sheepherder, discovered that he could "channel"; he and his companions have gone on to set their world aflame. Here, Rand is engaged in a fight for control of the weather and of the growing number of men and women who have turned out to be magic-wielders. The narrative employs elements of realism rare in high fantasy, including the sense that innocent bystanders are being mauled in an epic joust of magical giants. There''s wit at work here, too, in Jordan''s exploration of the possibilities created by women being the magic workers. All this comes at the price of enough characters, institutions, spells, countries and so on to intimidate any reader who hasn''t followed Rand''s adventures from the beginning?and the author is still adding complications. A glossary helps, though, and fans of the series will gobble down this generous addition. Major ad/promo; deluxe leather-bound limited edition.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/367'),
(126, 'Crusade: Destroyermen, Book II', 'Taylor Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Anderson raises the stakes for Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Reddy and the crew of the USS\n  <em>\n   Walker\n  </em>\n  in this dramatic sequel to 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Into the Storm\n  </em>\n  . The sailors and marines become further enmeshed in the politics of the parallel Earth into which their WW2 destroyer has mysteriously been transported. As they deal out rough justice to miscreants in the ranks and prepare their pacifist Lemurian allies to fight the Grand Swarm of the reptilian Grik, they in turn must face their own worst nightmare: the appearance of a Japanese battle cruiser. Anderson throws in tense land battles against overwhelming odds, a massive typhoon and a phenomenal aerial duel, but despite the pyrotechnics, at heart this novel is about how honor and ideals can bend or break under the stressful, life-and-death conditions of total war.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The second adventure of Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the good crew of Asiatic Fleet destroyer Walkerâ€”swept from World War II into an alternate world as violent as the one they leftâ€”is even better than the excellent Into the Storm (2008). They and their catlike Lemurian allies sail to rescue a nearby kingdom threatened by the lizardlike Grik. The people there are in the middle of a succession crisis, which keeps them from doing much to help themselves. The only good news comes from finding the other U.S. destroyer that crossed over, the Mahan, and the support of a Lemurian warrior queen, who, with her magnificent coat of black fur, is a notable addition to sfâ€™s gallery of her profession. Not so good is the Grikâ€™s ace in the hole: the Japanese battle cruiser Amagi, which also crossed over, and whose captain is bent on vengeance. Damaged though she is, the Amagi is the most powerful weapon now in this strange alternate world, so when the Grik move, the action becomes bloodier and more intense. What will happen in the forthcoming Maelstrom is anybodyâ€™s guess, though there will surely be more of the best felinoids since Andre Norton at her best, more intelligent action, more skillful handling of a very large cast, and an obstinately maintained refusal to slow the pace. --Roland Green\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/937'),
(127, 'Cryptonomicon', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/651'),
(128, 'Cube Route', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Three times the thrills and nine times the nonsense in Piers Anthony''s terrific twenty-seventh Xanth adventure! or nearly three decades, Piers Anthony''s bestselling Xanth series has been delighting tens of thousands of fantasy fans around the world. Now, with Cube Route, the series'' twenty-seventh adventure, Anthony has penned a tale that adds another dimension to this exciting saga. In the magical land of Xanth, wishes are far more than mere words. So when a Plain Jane called Cube whispers a wistful wish to be beautiful, she finds herself leading a company of colorful companions on a search for the mysterious Cube Route-a perilous path that leads to danger, adventure, and perhaps her heart''s desire as well. This curious quest takes them all over Xanth, into the mythical realm of Phaze, and even to our own world, where Cube rescues a beautiful human woman from a very ugly situation, ending at last in a mysterious Counter-Xanth where things can be transformed into their opposites in the wink of an eye. A rollicking tale brimming with laughter, wonder, and enchantment, Cube Route is also a moving exploration of the beauty that dwells within all of us.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Piers Anthony\n </strong>\n is one of the world''s most popular fantasy authors, and a\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller twenty-one times over. His Xanth novels have been read and loved by millions of readers around the world, and he daily receives hundreds of letters from his devoted fans.\n</p>\n<p>\n In addition to the Xanth series, Anthony is the author of many other best-selling works. Piers Anthony lives in Inverness, Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/457'),
(129, 'Currant Events', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Panty puns and intermittently droll word-play drive veteran Anthony''s 28th Xanth book (_Cube Route_, etc.), the first of a second magic trilogy within this popular fantasy series. Since the author always pays such close attention to what his readers want, newcomers shouldn''t expect too much by way of a plot. Clio, Xanth''s slim Muse of History, hates her body''s lack of curves. Despite the practicality of jeans for outdoor activities, Clio wears skirts ("they were required of her gender and age"), which leads to such quips as: "There''s nothing like new panties to make a man pant." When Clio discovers an undecipherable history she''s apparently written, she goes for help to Good Magician Humfrey, who sends her on a wild quest for a magical red berry. Along the way, Clio must meet a number of amusing challenges, like restocking dragon-poor Xanth with 6,000 beasts from Dragon World by using a special expandable net. Together with her love interest, Sherlock of the Black Wave, Clio endures an abundance of puns supplied by fans, hundreds of whom Anthony acknowledges in an extended author''s note. This is great fun for punstersâ€”a Tor-ment for others.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clio, the muse of history, has a problem connected with the twenty-eighth chronicle of Xanth. When she sits down to write it, she discovers that it has already been written-- and unintelligibly. So the scholarly lady must repair to the real Xanth, where she is sent by the Good Magician Humfrey on a quest to save two pocket-sized dragons, Drew and Drusie, who are essential to the environment of Xanth. Naturally, the quest is successful--Anthony does not trade in tragedy in his best-known series--and what is more, along the way Clio finds true love with the magician Sherlock and meets a good many of the ongoing characters in the Xanth series. If latest entry in said series features a more mature heroine (still obsessed with her figure, however) and less of the adult conspiracy and stork-summoning that has marked some of its recent predecessors, the puns for which the Xanthian corpus is famous are as numerous and outrageous as ever.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/458'),
(130, 'D&amp;D Gamma World Rulebook', 'Richard Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1203'),
(131, 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code,\n </em>\n Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.\n</p>\n<p>\n A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his granddaughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Neveu''s grandfather''s murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England, and history itself. Brown (__) has created a page-turning thriller that also provides an amazing interpretation of Western history. Brown''s hero and heroine embark on a lofty and intriguing exploration of some of Western culture''s greatest mysteries--from the nature of the Mona Lisa''s smile to the secret of the Holy Grail. Though some will quibble with the veracity of Brown''s conjectures, therein lies the fun.\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n is an enthralling read that provides rich food for thought.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brown''s latest thriller (after Angels and Demons)is an exhaustively researched page-turner about secret religious societies, ancient coverups and savage vengeance. The action kicks off in modern-day Paris with the murder of the Louvre''s chief curator, whose body is found laid out in symbolic repose at the foot of the Mona Lisa. Seizing control of the case are Sophie Neveu, a lovely French police cryptologist, and Harvard symbol expert Robert Langdon, reprising his role from Brown''s last book. The two find several puzzling codes at the murder scene, all of which form a treasure map to the fabled Holy Grail. As their search moves from France to England, Neveu and Langdon are confounded by two mysterious groups-the legendary Priory of Sion, a nearly 1,000-year-old secret society whose members have included Botticelli and Isaac Newton, and the conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei. Both have their own reasons for wanting to ensure that the Grail isn''t found. Brown sometimes ladles out too much religious history at the expense of pacing, and Langdon is a hero in desperate need of more chutzpah. Still, Brown has assembled a whopper of a plot that will please both conspiracy buffs and thriller addicts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/326');
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(132, 'Dark Apprentice', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Luke Skywalker finds his academy threatened by untold dangers when his most talented and rebellious student, Kyp Durron, delves dangerously into the Dark Side of the Force, aided by an evil and deadly enemy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/404'),
(133, 'Dark Force Rising', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hugo Award winner Zahn follows up Heir to the Empire with still more adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Hansp ok Solo and their merry band, adroitly juggling an abundance of plot lines to produce skillfully paced entertainment. The citizens of the capital planet of the New Republic believe their battles against the remnants of the Empire are going well. But Grand Admiral Thrawn, the most brilliant of the Emperor''s minions, is preparing to crush the New Republic with nefarious schemes involving smugglers, political rivals, a well-placed mole and even a Jedi Master. Can evil genius outflank the Force? Distracted by threats to Leia''s unborn twins, domestic infighting and other upheavals orchestrated by Thrawn, the heroes of the New Republic summon up all their resources to fend off galactic disaster. Fans can expect Zahn''s lively tale to spill over to the next and final installment of his series. 250,000 first printing.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Political infighting threatens the fragile, victorious Rebel Alliance in its ongoing struggle against the empire in this sequel to Heirs of the Empire (Bantam, 1991). Luke, Leia, and Han face separate challenges from a mad Jedi, an Imperial Grand Admiral, and a smuggler with a dangerous secret, and the fate of the alliance hangs on the outcome of their missions. Zahn''s snappy prose and cinematic style capture the feel of the popular Star Wars films as he weaves together a lightweight but exciting tale of high adventure. Expect demand.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/397'),
(134, 'The Dark Side of the Sun', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dom Salabos has a lot of advantages. As heir to a huge fortune he has an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfather, a security chief who even runs checks on himself, and on Dom''s home world even death is not always fatal. Things just couldn''t be better. Why then, in an age when prediction is a science, is his future in doubt?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/113'),
(135, 'Darkness Part 1', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1052'),
(136, 'Darkness Part 2', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1055'),
(137, 'Darkness Part 3', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1057'),
(138, 'Darkness Part 4', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1061'),
(139, 'Darksiders', 'Joe Madureira', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1236'),
(140, 'The Dastard', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the densely populated imagination of Anthony (Xone of Contention) comes yet another pun and reader-suggestions-laden tale of Xanth. Many familiar characters make their appearance in this slowly unwinding yarn about the eponymous boy, self-named for his dastardly deeds, who undoes history in order to ruin the happiness of everyone he meets, and about the triplet princessesDMelody, Harmony and RhythmDwho are in the conspiracy to stop him. Along for the ride is the dragon/girl, Becka, who refuses to show the Dastard her panties. A poor introduction to Anthony''s brand of fantasy, this novel will leave readers feeling as though they''ve just slogged through one of those deadly comic strips in which the puns come fast and furious and drive everyone mad. Only the staunchest fansDbut there are many of theseDwill be moved to send in their suggestions for the next book. The assertion by minor characters in the book that "we hate Xanth... we detest puns... we''re critics" may prove a self-fulfilling prophecy for all who shake their heads at a man reading a book who eats litter. He''s "litter-ate." (Oct.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frustrated farm boy Anomy gives up his soul in return for the ability to\n <em>\n  unhappen\n </em>\n events. Since he uses this power mostly for ill, he adopts the sobriquet the Dastard and becomes a problem. The good guys send a half-dragon, half-human girl, a roc, and the princesses Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm on his trail. Complicating the action in this customarily busy Xanth yarn are the Sea Hag, an insatiably vengeful spirit who possesses the bodies of young women, wears them out, and throws them away; time travel; some intriguing limits to and complexities of magic; the usual word- and concept play; and some serious ethical thinking when the Dastard regains a soul (a borrowed one, not the original). Readers may become impatient with the Adult Conspiracy and the power of panties, devices used on all intergender encounters, at the cost of a good deal of their potential, at least for readers who are already conspiring adults.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/488'),
(141, 'Dead Ends', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1112'),
(142, 'Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB', 'Alex Goldfarb &amp; Marina Litvinenko', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim of a "tiny nuclear bomb." Suspicions swirled around Russia''s FSB, the successor to the KGB, and the Putin regime. Traces of polonium radiation were found in Germany and on certain airplanes, suggesting a travel route from Russia for the carriers of the fatal poison. But what really happened? What did Litvinenko know? And why was he killed?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The full story of Sasha Litvinenko''s life and death is one that the Kremlin does not want told. His closest friend, Alex Goldfarb, and his widow, Marina, are the only two people who can tell it all, from firsthand knowledge, with dramatic scenes from Moscow to London to Washington.\n  <em>\n   Death of a Dissident\n  </em>\n  reads like a political thriller, yet its story is more fantastic and frightening than any novel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ever since 1998, when Litvinenko denounced the FSB for ordering him to assassinate tycoon Boris Berezovsky, he had devoted his life to exposing the FSB''s darkest secrets. After a dramatic escape to London with Goldfarb''s assistance, he spent six years, often working with Goldfarb, investigating a widening series of scandals. Oligarchs and journalists have been assassinated. Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko was poisoned on the campaign trail. The war in Chechnya became unspeakably harsh on both sides. Sasha Litvinenko investigated all of it, and he denounced his former employers in no uncertain terms for their dirty deeds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Death of a Dissident\n  </em>\n  opens a window into the dark heart of the Putin Kremlin. With its strong-arm tactics, tight control over the media, and penetration of all levels of government, the old KGB is back with a vengeance. Sasha Litvinenko dedicated his life to exposing this truth. It took his diabolical murder for the world to listen.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Alex Goldfarb, Ph.D.,\n  </strong>\n  was a dissident scientist who left Russia in the 1970s, joining the faculty of Columbia University. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, he went to work for George Soros directing charitable initiatives in Russia. He befriended Alexander Litvinenko in the 1990s. Goldfarb later helped Litvinenko work on his memoirs and supported his efforts to expose the abuses of the newly ascendant FSB. Goldfarb is currently the executive director of the International Foundation for Civil Liberties, set up by Boris Berezovsky as an umbrella group for human-rights activists.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Marina Litvinenko\n  </strong>\n  first met Alexander at her thirty-first birthday party, in 1993, when he was a young officer in the FSB. They married and she gave birth to a son thereafter. In 2000, the three of them sought asylum in the United Kingdom, and she continues to live in London with her twelve-year-old son.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1210'),
(143, 'Death Star', 'Michael Reaves', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Action sf (and Star Wars) veterans join forces to tell the story of the first Death Star from the point of view of its imperial builders. We see Grand Moff Tarkin, when he''s not making love to Admiral Dalaa, sweating blood to assemble the materials and manpower necessary for the empire''s superweapon. We see a seasoned gunnery officer slightly daunted by the power of the weapon he controls and eventually horrified by the results of its first full-power test on Alderaan. We see a firm friendship emerging between a civilian cantina bouncer and a martial-arts adept who probably is Force sensitive. We see a young architect imprisoned for her political dissidence arguing about the exhaust port that provided the fatal weakness of the Death Star against the Alliance attack. A fighter pilot defends the imperial construction site and ends up piloting a getaway ship for likeminded fellows for whom the empire has finally gone over the line. And Darth Vader kibitzes, believing his study of the Force outweighs any number of Death Stars in potential value. Dedicated SW readers, on the other hand, won''t kibitz much, if at all, but revel in this splendid job of jacking up the tip of George Lucas'' universe and shoving a well-wrought iceberg under it. Green, Roland\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œTHATâ€™S NO MOON.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Obi-Wan Kenobi\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Death Starâ€™s name says it all, with bone-chilling accuracy. It is a virtual world unto itselfâ€“equipped with uncanny power for a singularly brutal purpose: to obliterate entire planets in the blink of an eye. Its annihilation of the planet Alderaan, at the merciless command of Grand Moff Tarkin, lives in infamy. And its own ultimate destruction, at the hands of Luke Skywalker, is the stuff of legend. But what is the whole story, and who are the players, behind the creation of this world-killing satellite of doom?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The near extermination of the Jedi order cleared the way for Palpatineâ€“power-hungry Senator and Sith Lordâ€“to seize control of the Republic, declare himself Emperor, and usher in a fearsome, totalitarian regime. But even with the dreaded Darth Vader enforcing Palpatineâ€™s sinister will, the threat of rebellion still looms. And the Emperor knows that only abject fearâ€“and the ability to punish dissent with devastating consequencesâ€“can ensure his unchallenged control of the galaxy. Enter ambitious and ruthless government official Wilhuff Tarkin, architect of the Emperorâ€™s terrifying dream come true.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From inception to completion, construction of the unprecedented Death Star is awash in the intrigues, hidden agendas, unexpected revelations, and daring gambits of those involved on every level. The brightest minds and boldest egos, the most ambitious and corrupt, the desperate and the devious, all have a stake in the Death Starâ€“and its potential to control the fate of the galaxy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soldiers and slaves, loyalists and Rebels, spies and avengers, the innocent and the evilâ€“all their paths and fates will cross and intertwine as the Death Star moves from its maiden voyage to its final showdown. And a shadowy chapter of Star Wars history is stunningly illuminated in a thrilling, unforgettable adventure.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1141'),
(144, 'Deception Point', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick,\n </strong>\n In the world of page-turning thrillers, Dan Brown holds a special place in the hearts of many of us. After his first book,\n <strong>\n  , almost passed me by, he wrote\n </strong>\n , which was probably one of the half-dozen most exciting thrillers of last year. It is a pleasure to report that his new book lives up to his reputation as a writer whose research and talent make his stories exciting, believable, and just plain unputdownable.\n</p>\n<p>\n The time is now and President Zachary Herney is facing a very tough reelection. His opponent, Senator Sedgwick Sexton, is a powerful man with powerful friends and a mission: to reduce NASA''s spending and move space exploration into the private sector. He has numerous supporters, including many beyond the businesses who will profit from this because of the embarrassment of 1996, when the Clinton administration was informed by NASA that proof existed of life on other planets. That information turned out to be premature, if not incorrect. (This story is true; I repeat, Dan Brown''s research is very, very good.) The embattled president is assured that a rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice will prove to have far-reaching implications on America''s space program. The find, however, needs to be verified.\n</p>\n<p>\n Enter Rachel Sexton, a gister for the National Reconnaissance Office. Gisters reduce complex reports into single-page briefs, and in this case the president needs that confirmation before he broadcasts to the nation, probably ensuring his reelection. It''s tricky because Rachel is the daughter of his opponent. Rachel is thrilled to be on the team traveling to the Arctic circle. She is a realist about her father''s politics and has little respect for his stand on NASA, but Senator Sexton cannot help but have a problem with her involvement.\n</p>\n<p>\n Adventure, romance, murder, skullduggery, and nail-biting tension ensue. By the end of\n <em>\n  Deception Point\n </em>\n , the reader will be much better informed about how our space program works and how our politicians react to new information. Bring on the next Dan Brown thriller!\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Struggling to rebound from a series of embarrassing blunders that have jeopardized its political life at the start of this lively thriller, NASA makes an astounding discovery: there is a meteor embedded deep within the arctic ice. And it isn''t just any meteor. Inside the huge rock, which crashed to earth in 1716, are fossils of giant insects proof of extraterrestrial life. Yet, given NASA''s slipping reputation, the question arises: Is the meteor real or a fake? That uncertainty dogs NASA and its supporters in Brown''s latest page-flipper, a finely polished amalgam of action and intrigue. Trying to determine the truth are intelligence agent Rachel Sexton and popular oceanographer Michael Tolland, both among the first to suspect something is amiss when the meteor is pulled from the ice. Their doubts quickly make them the targets of a mysterious death squad controlled by someone or something that doesn''t want the public to hear the meteor may be a fraud. Together, Sexton and Tolland scramble across arctic glaciers, take refuge on ice floes, are rescued by a nuclear submarine, then find themselves trapped aboard a small research vessel off the coast of New Jersey. All the while, the nation''s capital is buzzing as to whether NASA has engaged in deception. Or is NASA just a dupe for aerospace companies that have long wanted a bigger share of space contracts? Brown (Angels &amp; Demons) moves into new territory with his latest. It''s an excellent thriller a big yet believable story unfolding at breakneck pace, with convincing settings and just the right blend of likable and hateful characters. He''s also done his research, folding in sophisticated scientific and military details that make his plot far more fulfilling than the norm.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/327'),
(145, 'The Defense of Kamino', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1092'),
(146, 'The Demon Apostle', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the third installment of Salvatore''s Demon trilogy that starts with\n  <em>\n   The Demon Awakens\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Demon Spirit\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once again the demon dactyl of Corona seems defeated. Ranger Elbryan Wyndon goes north to protect the new settlers from goblins and powries, but his beloved Jilseponie returns to Palmaris. There Father Abbot Markwart is consolidating his power over Church and State with the aid of gemstone magic and the demon''s power. Pony''s determination to stop the evil abbots puts her and Elbryan in deadly peril, for even the king has been turned against them.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Demon Apostle is the third book in the first DemonWars Saga trilogy by R.A. Salvatore. The book is also the third out of seven books in the combined DemonWars Saga. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/935'),
(147, 'The Demon Awakens', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In THE DEMON AWAKENS, bestselling author R. A. Salvatore creates an astonishing new world for readers to explore--and an intrepid hero to lead the way: Elbryan Wynden, who must confront the dark tides of destiny in his epic search for justice and peace . . .A great evil has awakened in the land of Corona, a terrible demon determined to spread death and misery. His goblin armies and fearsome giants ravage the settlements of the frontier, and in the small village of Dundallis their merciless attack leaves behind two shattered orphans: Pony and her lifelong friend, the youth Elbryan. Taken in by elves, Elbryan is raised to become a formidable ranger--a fateful role that will lead him into harrowing confrontation.Meanwhile, on a far-off island, a shower of gemstones will fall onto the black sand shores. These heaven-sent stones carry within them an incredible power--the key to all that is good in the world and all that is evil, and it is up to one young monk to liberate them from the corrupt monastery that harvests them. Pray that they don''t fall into the wrong, clawed hands . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/936'),
(148, 'Demons Don&#39;t Dream', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This latest and weakest Xanth fantasy (after The Color of Her Panties ) starts off in Mundania, the series''s term for the world in which the readers live. Playing the new fantasy/adventure computer game Companions of Xanth, teenagers Dug and Kim select companions from among the characters of Xanth, Dug choosing a sultry half-woman/half serpent and Kim a young Elven girl. Soon Dug and Kim find they have entered the actual Land of Xanth. Unknown to them, the demons that provide Xanth''s magic are in mystic competition, using Kim, Dug and their companions as pawns. Written in a simplistic style, the novel marks the continued decline of this once-diverting series. The teenage characters are all but lifeless, while the story line, remarkably similar to that of Anthony''s recent novel Killobyte , lacks not just tension but consequence. However, the legions of Xanth readers can rest assured that the book contains plenty of the punningly named animals, vegetables, people and things (such as the Ice Queen Crone and the Censor-Ship) that have become the series'' raison d''etre.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A computer game becomes the doorway between Mundania and the magical, pun-filled world of Xanth in the 16th installment of one of the genre''s most popular series. The switch to hardcover format will guarantee patron demand for library copies.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/480'),
(149, 'The Destiny of the Sword', 'Dave Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wally Smith, having died on Earth, finds himself reincarnated as a swordsman in another world and entrusted by the presiding goddess with a mission that has no appeal for him at all. Can he bring together all the swordsmen to finally defeat the Sorcerors and their terrible technology? Wally isn''t quite convinced he should, but Goddesses can be very persuasive... This is the third and final exciting book, after THE RELUCTANT SWORDSMAN and THE COMING OF WISDOM in THE SEVENTH SWORD TRILOGY.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Riddle of the Goddess\n</p>\n<p>\n Wallie Smith had been dying on another world when the Goddess transferred his mind to the body of the barbarian swordsman Shonsu. Then She gave him the great, magical Sapphire Sword of Chioxin and sent him on a mission.\n</p>\n<p>\n All he had to do was to lead the arrogant band of swordsmen to destroy the sorcerers and their Fire God.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Wallie discovered that he''d already tried it -- and been hopelessly defeated.\n</p>\n<p>\n A few complications cropped up. Wallie''s reputation was in tatters. His best friend and pupil was apparently planning to betray him. And if he won, he would doom all hope of progress and learning in this World of the Goddess -- doom the Goddess Herself.\n</p>\n<p>\n It made an interesting kind of riddle. All he had to do was find the solution -- and survive, if he could!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/916'),
(150, 'The Devaronian Version Part 1', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1072'),
(151, 'The Devaronian Version Part 2', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1074'),
(152, 'The Diamond Age', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Percival Hackworth is a nanotech engineer on the rise when he steals a copy of "A Young Lady''s Illustrated Primer" for his daughter Fiona. The primer is actually a super computer built with nanotechnology that was designed to educate Lord Finkle-McGraw''s daughter and to teach her how to think for herself in the stifling neo-Victorian society. But Hackworth loses the primer before he can give it to Fiona, and now the "book" has fallen into the hands of young Nell, an underprivileged girl whose life is about to change.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephenson''s fourth solo novel, set primarily in a far-future Shanghai at a time when nations have been superseded by enclaves of common cultures ("claves"), abundantly justifies the hype that surrounded Snow Crash, his first foray into science fiction. Here, the author avoids the major structural problem of that book-a long lump of philosophical digression-by melding myriad perspectives and cogitations into his tale, which is simultaneously SF, fantasy and a masterful political thriller. Treating nanotechnology as he did virtual reality in Snow Crash-as a jumping-off point-Stephenson presents several engaging characters. John Percival Hackworth is an engineer living in a neo-Victorian clave, who is commissioned by one of the world''s most powerful men to create a Primer that might enable the man''s granddaughter to be educated in ways superior to the "straight and narrow." When Hackworth is mugged, an illegal copy of the Primer falls into the hands of a working-class girl named Nell, and a most deadly game''s afoot. Stephenson weaves several plot threads at once, as the paths of Nell, Hackworth and other significant characters-notably Nell''s brother Harv, Hackworth''s daughter Fiona and an actress named Miranda-converge and diverge across continents and complications, most brought about by Hackworth''s actions and Nell''s development. Building steadily to a wholly earned and intriguing climax, this long novel, which presents its sometimes difficult technical concepts in accessible ways, should appeal to readers other than habitual SF users. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/669'),
(153, 'Diaspora', 'Greg Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A dramatic insight into the future of Man in the 30th century and beyond- from "one of the genres great ideas men" The Times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/556'),
(154, 'Diggers', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Bromeliad trilogy, begun in Truckers , continues with this slapstick romp laced with some sharp, satirical barbs. Diggers again features the nomes, little people from outer space who have set up housekeeping in an abandoned quarry. But, as nomes often comment, wherever humans have been, they''re sure to return, and the quarry is no exception. Soon the nomes are once again scrambling for safety, with hilarious results. While those familiar with Truckers are sure to have a ball with Diggers, the action will make no sense to the uninitiated. Pratchett may have bitten off more subplots than he can chew here, but he promises to resolve them--including the cliffhanger that ends this volume, in the final installment of the serial. Ages 10-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-8-- This newest addition to what will become the Bromeliad trilogy continues the adventures of a race of miniature creatures called nomes, whose story began in Truckers (Delacorte, 1990). The nomes, a Borrower-like folk, have fled from their comfortable homes beneath the floorboards of a large department store after learning that it is about to be demolished. They now live in an old rock quarry where they are at the mercy of humans, wild animals, weather, and changing seasons. The nomes'' salvation seems to rest in their ability to take over and drive the Cat, a huge yellow piece of earth-moving equipment, which will take them to the Barn, a place of relative safety. Their efforts to drive the monster fail just as a mysterious "airplane without wings" floats over them. Dorcas, one of the older, wiser nomes, is convinced that this signals the return of their leader Masklin, who has been off exploring. As the story ends, Dorcas is wondering just what Masklin has been up to, and that, obviously, is what readers will find out in the yet-to-be-published part three of the trilogy. While this tale may work well as a sequel, it will not have wide appeal to readers who missed the first installment. Background information is needed to follow the plot, and character development is dependent on prior knowledge of the major players. The tongue-in-cheek humor that pokes fun at the nomes'' many foibles and the satirical slant of the fantasy will be lost on many youngsters. Still, for those who read and enjoyed Truckers , this will be a welcome continuation of those adventures. --Bruce Anne Shook, Mendenhall Middle School, Greensboro, NC\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(155, 'Digital Fortress', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In most thrillers, "hardware" consists of big guns, airplanes, military vehicles, and weapons that make things explode. Dan Brown has written a thriller for those of us who like our hardware with disc drives and who rate our heroes by big brainpower rather than big firepower. It''s an Internet user''s spy novel where the good guys and bad guys struggle over secrets somewhat more intellectual than just where the secret formula is hidden--they have to gain understanding of what the secret formula actually is.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this case, the secret formula is a new means of encryption, capable of changing the balance of international power. Part of the fun is that the book takes the reader along into an understanding of encryption technologies. You''ll find yourself better understanding the political battles over such real-life technologies as the Clipper Chip and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) software even though the book looks at the issues through the eyes of fiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although there''s enough globehopping in this book for James Bond, the real battleground is cyberspace, because that''s where the "bomb" (or rather, the new encryption algorithm) will explode. Yes, there are a few flaws in the plot if you look too closely, but the cleverness and the sheer fun of it all more than make up for them. There are enough twists and turns to keep you guessing and a lot of high, gee-whiz-level information about encryption, code breaking, and the role they play in international politics. Set aside the whole afternoon and evening for it and have finger food on hand for supper--you may want to read this one straight through.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The National Security Agency (NSA) is one setting for this exciting thriller; the other is Seville, where on page 1 the protagonist, lately dismissed from NSA, drops dead of a supposed heart attack. Though dead, he enjoys a dramaturgical afterlife in the form of his computer program. Digital Fortress creates unbreakable codes, which could render useless NSA''s code-cracking supercomputer called TRANSLTR, but the deceased programmer slyly embossed a decryption key on a ring he wore. Pursuit of this ring is the engine of the plot. NSA cryptology boss Trevor Strathmore dispatches linguist Dave Becker to recover the ring, while he and Becker''s lover, senior code-cracker Susan Fletcher, ponder the vulnerability of TRANSLTR. In Seville, over-the-top chase scenes abound; meanwhile, the critical events unfold at NSA. In a crescendo of murder, infernos, and explosions, it emerges that Strathmore has as agenda that goes beyond breaching Digital Fortress, and Brown''s skill at hinting and concealing Strathmore''s deceit will rivet cyber-minded readers.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/328'),
(156, 'Dirk Gently&#39;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/258'),
(157, 'Distant Thunders', 'Taylor Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rebuilding after the ship-shattering climax of 2009''s\n <em>\n  Maelstrom\n </em>\n , Capt. Matt Reddy and the crew of the dimensionally misplaced\n <em>\n  USS Walker\n </em>\n continue pushing their Bronze Age allies, the Lemurians, through the Industrial Revolution to take the war to the invading reptilian Grik. Somewhat aided by the paddle-wheel steam frigates of New Britain, Reddy liberates conquered cities to the west and then races to the east in a refloated\n <em>\n  Walker\n </em>\n to re-rescue New British princess Rebecca Anne McDonald. The fun of watching eager aviators take to the air in carved wooden aircraft leavens the nostalgic sense of worlds being left behind and cultures forced by war to undergo unpleasant changes. Anderson raises questions about the morality of chemical warfare, genocide, and summary execution in wartime while holding out the possibility of diplomacy with relentless killers.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anderson launches a new Destroyermen trilogy (the first: Into the Storm, Crusade, both 2008; Maelstrom, 2009) with this complex but fine and fast-paced tale. The Grik are learning something more sophisticated than banzai tactics from, ironically enough, a Japanese officer. The USS Walker rises from the depths in some of the most moving passages of the book. The prospective alliance with the New British Empire faces prejudice and treachery by what might be called the Dishonorable East India Company. The alliance of destroyermen and Lemurians builds sailing warships, paddle-wheeler warships, and crude airplanes. Moreover, it''s becoming apparent that there have been quite a few leakages from the earthly time line we know to that of Anderson''s creation, eventuating in, among other things, a far-off society of fanatical Catholics and a shipload of crated P-40s. And finally, when the Dishonorables kidnap Princess Rebecca, heiress to the New British throne, they also kidnap Dennis Silva, with his genius for nasty devices. Action sf really doesn''t get significantly better than this. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/938'),
(158, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Now only the rich can afford living creatures; others may buy the amazingly realistic electric simulacrae: horses, cats, sheep. By 2021, the Terminus War had driven most humans off-planet and entire species into extinction. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth - or are substandard health and deemed inferior. Rick Deckard - bounty hunter / android killer for the police and is an owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six androids which have escaped from an off world colony. They''re machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. They will be hard to kill. These artificials are near impossible to tell them from the truly living; except for their lack of empathy. Its Rick Deckards job to find these rogues and retire them. But andys tend to fight back; with deadly results. First published in 1968, Philip K. Dicks darkly satirical masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - the basis of the film Blade Runner - is a fascinating fiction about reality and what it is to be "human".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/207'),
(159, 'Don&#39;t Fry My Veeblax!', 'Bruce Coville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  ENDANGERED SPECIES\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When Percy the Mad Poet assigns Ms. Weintraub''s class to write poems about their pets, Pleskit decides he should bring his Veeblax to school.\n</p>\n<p>\n Not a good idea! When the little shapeshifter frightens one of Pleskit''s classmates, she freaks out -- and so do the newspapers. As the situation spins out of control, it becomes clear that Pleskit may lose his pet, his teacher may lose her job, and Earth may lose the benefits of the alien connection.\n</p>\n<p>\n Running away may be the only way for Pleskit to save the Veeblax. But where can you run to when you''re the only purple kid on the planet? And what do you do when something very strange starts following you?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bruce Coville\n </strong>\n is the author of nearly ninety books for young readers, including the international best-seller\n <em>\n  My Teacher Is an Alien.\n </em>\n He has been a teacher, a toy maker, a cookware salesman, and a grave digger. In addition to his work as an author, Bruce is much in demand as a speaker and as a storyteller. He is also the founder and president of Full Cast Audio, a company dedicated to producing unabridged recordings of children''s books in a full-cast format. For more information about Bruce, check out www.brucecoville.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/888'),
(160, 'Don&#39;t Stop Me Now', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s more to life than cars. Jeremy Clarkson knows this. There is, after all a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before, he gets on to torque steer and active suspension, he takes time to consider: the madness of Galapagos tortoises; the similarities between Jeremy Paxman and AC/DC''s bass guitarist; the problems and perils of being English; God''s dumbest creation. Then there are the the cars: whether it''s the poxiest little runabout or an exotic, firebreathing supercar, no one does cars like Clarkson. Unmoved by mechanics'' claims and unimpressed by press junkets, he approaches anything on four wheels without fear or favour. What emerges from the ashes is rarely pretty. But always very, very funny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/377'),
(161, 'Doomwyte', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest installment in the phenomenally popular Redwall series willÂ captivate fans. Jacques adds to his cast of memorable characters with two new deliciously nasty villains: Korvus Skurr the raven and Sicariss the snake, whoÂ are seeking the four jeweled eyes of the Great Doomwyte Idol, as is the current batch of adorable Redwall heroes. Jacquesâ€™ trademark anagrams and clever riddles finally lead the heroes to the glittering treasure. There are some particularly delightful new characters, including an always-hungry Scottish rabbit, Laird Bosie McScutta of Bowlaynee, and the charming tawny owl Aluco.Â Although this newest title wonâ€™t stand alone, seriesÂ followers will be tickled by references to Redwall history and the chance to adventure (and dine) with the squirrels, moles, mice, and porcupines of Jacquesâ€™ unique world. Grades 5-8. --Debbie Carton\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The latest installment in the phenomenally popular Redwall series will captivate fans." -_Booklist_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/700'),
(162, 'Double Blind', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1100'),
(163, 'Double Full Moon Night', 'Gentry Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gentry Lee, who has inherited the\n <strong>\n  mantle from SF legend Arthur C. Clarke, continues the story he began in\n </strong>\n . In the first book, mysterious clouds of sparkling white particles beckon Beatrice and Johann into a strange craft that whisks them, and nine other colonists, from their homes on Mars to a deserted island inside a huge alien sphere. Beatrice dies after delivering a child, Maria.\n</p>\n<p>\n As\n <em>\n  Double Full Moon Night\n </em>\n begins, Maria has just turned 8. Their idyllic island life is suddenly ruined when a deadly creature threatens their lives, so Johann leaves his little paradise to find the other colonists. Their happy reunion is short-lived when they are transported to a strange place where they must start over and learn to survive. Lee effectively captures the sense of mystery and excitement that characterize the Rama universe. This long-awaited sequel will please fans of his first solo Rama book.\n <em>\n  --Adam Fisher\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bizarre aliens and mysterious technologies are rife in this sequel to former NASA scientist Lee''s first solo novel, Bright Messengers. Lee got his start in SF by co-authoring four novels with Sir Arthur Clarke, three of them sequels to Rendezvous with Rama, and the two books he''s written on his own are both set in the Rama universe. In Bright Messengers, a group of colonists was rescued from certain death on Mars by a gigantic and mysterious alien spacecraft. Deposited on several islands within the spacecraft''s inner sea, the humans have barely survived, fighting off hostile aliens as well as their own worst impulses. Now, led by Johann Eberhardt, former engineer and champion swimmer, the colonists are transported to a distant, seemingly benign planet with two moons. Eberhardt, however, is in periodic communication with someone or something that claims to be his long-dead love, Sister Beatrice of the Order of St. Michael, and this apparition has warned him that their new world will turn deadly in the near future when the two moons are full simultaneously. The colonists'' survival evidently depends on Johann''s ability to convince them that he has indeed spoken with Beatrice. Although this novel may appeal to admirers of the earlier Rama books, there''s little here to attract new readers. Lee''s prose is leaden, particularly his dialogue, and he exhibits a poor sense of pacing. Neither Johann nor any of the other colonists comes alive on the page?a flaw that robs the novel of emotional depth or power, despite its handful of moderately successful action sequences.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/902'),
(164, 'Double Star', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.\n</p>\n<p>\n Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake -- failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe''s own life was on the line -- for if he wasn''t assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like many people, I go way, way back with Heinlein. My very favorite book (and one that stands out in my mind--and with much affection--to this day) is Tunnel in the Sky. I really, really wanted to go off to explore new worlds with a covered wagon and horses, like the hero does at the very end of the book. But one of the nice things about Robert Heinlein is that he''s got something for everyone. One of my best friends has a different favorite: Podkayne of Mars. Go figure.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â --Shelly Shapiro, Executive Editor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/247'),
(165, 'Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A lot of ideas are packed into this short novel, but Doctorow''s own best idea was setting his story in Disney World, where it''s hard to tell whether technology serves dreams or vice versa. Jules, a relative youngster at more than a century old, is a contented citizen of the Bitchun Society that has filled Earth and near-space since shortage and death were overcome. People are free to do whatever they wish, since the only wealth is respect and since constant internal interface lets all monitor exactly how successful they are at being liked. What Jules wants to do is move to Disney World, join the ad-hoc crew that runs the park and fine-tune the Haunted Mansion ride to make it even more wonderful. When his prudently stored consciousness abruptly awakens in a cloned body, he learns that he was murdered; evidently he''s in the way of somebody else''s dreams. Jules first suspects, then becomes viciously obsessed by, the innovative group that has turned the Hall of Presidents into a virtual experience. In the conflict that follows, he loses his lover, his job, his respect-even his interface connection-but gains perspective that the other Bitchun citizens lack. Jules''s narrative unfolds so smoothly that readers may forget that all this raging passion is over amusement park rides. Then they can ask what that shows about the novel''s supposedly mature, liberated characters. Doctorow has served up a nicely understated dish: meringue laced with caffeine.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Welcome to Bitchun society, where all today''s commonplace problems have been solved: even death is a minor inconvenience, since one can make regular backups. Our hero has gone to Disneyland--his habit at times of major personal crisis--where he works for the ad-hocracy that runs the Haunted Mansion and the Hall of Presidents. It is a great honor to be working on the pinnacle of late-twentieth-century cultural and artistic achievement--Disneyland, that would be--and it inspires great loyalty. Our man begins feeling the pressure of change, however, after a cookie-cutter teenybopper shoots him dead for apparently no reason at all. Convinced that a new ad-hocracy on the block used his death to take over the Hall of Presidents, he vows to sabotage their plans and protect the sanctity of the Haunted Mansion. Thus begins a cycle of destruction and conflict with unexpected ramifications for the park--and his personal life. An excellent ride, entertaining and unpredictable.\n <em>\n  Regina Schroeder\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/293');
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(166, 'Dragon', 'Steven Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vlad Taltos is not your average sword-and-sorcery hero. He runs a territory for the criminal House Jhereg. He''s a witch with a flying reptilian familiar as smart and sarcastic as any sidekick in literature. He''s also a master assassin in Adrilankha, the capital of the Dragaeran Empire. (Dragaerans are tall, very long-lived elves; Vlad is an Easterner, or human.)\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven Brust is not your average fantasy writer. Like his mentor,\n <em>\n  Dragon\n </em>\n is the eighth book about Vlad to be published, most of it takes place between\n <strong>\n  , the first book chronologically, and\n </strong>\n ; interludes and an epilogue occur after\n <em>\n  Yendi\n </em>\n , but before __.\n <em>\n  Dragon\n </em>\n tells the story of the oft-mentioned Battle of Barritt''s Tomb, and how Vlad enlisted in a Dragon army (Dragons are the warrior Dragaerans) and learned that war is nothing like assassination.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vlad is quick to let readers know the score. "I''ll let you stay confused a little longer, and if you don''t trust me to clear everything up, then you can go hang. I''ve been paid." Trust him.\n <em>\n  Dragon\n </em>\n stands alone, but don''t miss the others (after\n <em>\n  Jhereg\n </em>\n come\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n ). It''s a fast-moving, satisfying series.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "So there I was, in a full-scale battle; that is, in a place where no self-respecting assassin ought to be." Dashing Vlad Taltos, the swashbuckling hero of Brust''s popular Taltos fantasy series, makes his hardcover debut after seven mass market appearances (Athyra, etc.), with an early episode in his adventures. Vlad''s cleverness and skill as an assassin have earned him a place in House Jhereg. They''ve also drawn to him some interesting friends and enemies, as well as acquaintances who can be called a little of both. At the request of Lord Morrolan, a powerful figure in House of the Dragon, Vlad traces the theft of an ancient artifact, a Morganti greatsword, to a rival Dragonlord, the Count of Fornia. Although Fornia''s motivation in the crime seems transparent?he wants to start a war over the accusation of theft?Morrolan obligingly agrees to fight. And when Fornia sends a couple of bruisers to tell Vlad to stay out of the matter, the assassin''s outrage leads him to join Morrolan''s forces. While Morrolan and his military strategist coolly plan each phase of the conflict, Vlad gets a close-up look at the ugliness of war. It doesn''t take him long to decide that the physical fighting is a cover for a more subtle battle, and that the Morganti greatsword is the key. As always, Brust invests Vlad with the panache of a Dumas musketeer and the colloquial voice of one of Roger Zelazny''s Amber heroes. This is a rousing adventure with enough humor, action and sneaky plot twists to please newcomers as well as longtime series fans.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1040'),
(167, 'Dragon &amp; Herdsman', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/747'),
(168, 'Dragon &amp; Judge', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/748'),
(169, 'Dragon &amp; Liberator', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/749'),
(170, 'Dragon &amp; Slave', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/746'),
(171, 'Dragon &amp; Soldier', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/745'),
(172, 'Dragon &amp; Thief', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/744'),
(173, 'Dragon Avenger', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/724'),
(174, 'Dragon Champion', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Knight, best known for his Vampire Earth mass market series (_Tale of the Thunderbolt_, etc.), makes an auspicious trade paper debut with this smoothly written fantasy told from the point-of-view of its dragon hero. Four dragon hatchlings, flameless and dependent on their father to bring home horses and even men as food, face a host of dangers, including fierce dwarves who invade their cave. Only Auron, the pride of the litter, will survive to fight those determined to drive his breed to extinction. Some flat poetry that poses no threat to Tolkien only slightly slows the brisk pace of this bloody, unsentimental fairy tale.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After escaping those who killed his siblings, Young Auron, a rare, defenseless gray dragon, fears he might be the last of his breed. Armed with nothing but his claws and a boundless determination to survive, he sets off in search of his kind. But to find other dragons-or, at least, find out who''s killing them off-Auron will have to search a world of mercenary elves, vicious humans, and dangers of all kinds. Finding allies in the strangest places-and himself along the way-Auron is on the trek of a lifetime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/585'),
(175, 'Dragon Haven', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Dragon Keeper returns with a second enthralling tale of dragons and humans, adventure and discovery, love and freedom   Centuries had passed since dragons last roamed the war-torn world of the Rain Wild River. But as peace once again settled upon the land, a lost generation of sea serpentsâ€”ancient, half-starved, and wearyâ€”returned to cocoon, certain that they would be reborn as the beautiful and powerful dragons of legend. But their arduous journey exacted a heavy toll, and the proud serpents emerged as sickly, half-formed beasts, unable to fly or hunt . . . or thrive. For years now they have been trapped on a swampy riverbank between forest and river, hungry and barely alive, reliant on humans to provide for them.   With their survival at stake, fifteen dragonsâ€”among them the wise golden Mercor, the haughty and dazzling silver-blue queen Sintara, and the delicate copper beauty Relpdaâ€”have set off on a dangerous trek into the unknown, up the Rain Wild River, in hopes of rediscovering the ancient Elderling city of Kelsingra, the lost haven for dragons and Elderlings alike. The dragons are accompanied by a disparate group of human keepers, rejects from Rain Wild society. They, too, yearn to find Kelsingra and create a home of their own, one in which they may make their own rules and decide their own fate. But is Kelsingra real or merely a fragment of a glorified past buried deep in the dragons'' shared memories? No map exists to guide them, and the noble creatures find their ancient recollections of little use in a land changed by generations of flooding and seismic chaos.   As the dragons, the humansâ€”including the strong and defiant Rain Wild girl Thymara; the wealthy dragon scholar and Trader''s wife, Alise; and her companion, the urbane Sedricâ€”and their magical supply barge, captained by the gruff Leftrin, forge their way ever deeper into uncharted wilderness, human and beast alike discover they are changing in mysterious and dangerous ways. While the bonds between them solidify, starvation, flashfloods, and predators will imperil them all. But dragons and humans soon learn that the most savage threats come from within their own company . . . and not all of them may survive.   Returning to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies, New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb creates a lush and ultimately triumphant tale set in an imaginative world of magic and wonder as compelling and emotionally resonant as our own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/951'),
(176, 'Dragon Keeper', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Enter the spellbinding world of dragons . . . and those who tend them   One of the most gifted fantasy authors writing today, New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb has dazzled readers with brilliantly imaginative, emotionally resonant, and compulsively readable tales set in far-flung realms not unlike our own. In this enthralling new novel, she returns to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies with a story of dragons and humans, return and rebirth, and the search for meaning, belonging, and home.   For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon Tintaglia. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at seaâ€”to find a safe haven and, Tintaglia hopes, to restore her species. But too much time has passed, and the newly hatched dragons are damaged and weak, and many die. The few who survive cannot use their wings; earthbound, they are powerless to hunt and vulnerable to human predators willing to kill them for the fabled healing powers of dragon flesh.   But Tintaglia has vanished and the Traders are weary of the labor and expense of tending useless dragons. The Trader leadership fears that if it stops providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampageâ€”or die along the river''s acidic muddy banks. To avert catastrophe, the dragons decree a move even farther up the treacherous river to Kelsingra, their ancient, mythical homeland whose mysterious location is locked deep within the dragons'' uncertain ancestral memories.   To ensure their safe passage, the Traders recruit a disparate group of young people to care for the damaged creatures and escort them to their new home. Among them is Thymara, an unschooled forest girl of sixteen, and Alise, a wealthy Trader''s wife trapped in a loveless marriage, who attaches herself to the expedition as a dragon expert. The two women share a deep kinship with the dragons: Thymara can instinctively communicate with them, and Alise, captivated by their beauty and majesty, has devoted her life to studying them.   Embarking on an arduous journey that holds no promise of return, the band of humans and dragons must make their way along the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild Riverâ€”an extraordinary odyssey that will teach them lessons about themselves and one another, as they experience hardships, betrayals, and joys beyond their wildest dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/952'),
(177, 'Dragon Magic', 'B. V. Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1011'),
(178, 'Dragon on a Pedestal', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Gap Dragon has escaped from the Gap and was ravaging the land. Ivy, the three-year-old daughter of King Dor and Queen Irene is wandering straight towards him.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Piers Anthony [Xanth] -- Piers Anthony redefined the fantasy series when he launched his Xanth books--they''re(quite simply) pun for the whole family!\n</p>\n<p>\n --Veronica Chapman, Senior Editor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/471'),
(179, 'Dragon Outcast', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/725'),
(180, 'The Dragon Reborn', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jordan continues his Wheel of Time saga (after The Eye of the World and The Great Hunt ). Three thousand years ago the Dragon led the male mages of the world into entrapping the Dark One, but the cost was high: all male mages, then and thereafter, were driven mad. Now the Dark One is breaking free, and the only salvation may come through Rand al''Thor who may be a reincarnation of the Dragon and who must obtain the sword Callandor, held in the city of Tear. All of Rand''s companions from the previous books find themselves, willing or not, moving toward Tear for a confrontation with evil traps. Jordan''s fast and absorbing adventure novel will keep the reader too entranced to worry about plot inconsistencies, numerous coincidences, lack of character development and Rand''s inexplicably infrequent appearances. As light fantasy, however, it proves an enjoyable diversion.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the seals of the Dark One''s prison continue to weaken, Rand al''Thor struggles to master the madness-tainted power that marks him as the Dragon Reborn. At the same time, his friends and companions become caught up in the roles laid out for them by the Web of Destiny. Though it borrows from a multitude of legendary and literary fantasy sources, Jordan''s multivolume series continues to exhibit a freshness that makes it a welcome addition to any library''s fantasy collection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/363'),
(181, 'Dragon Rule', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/726'),
(182, 'Dragon Strike', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/740'),
(183, 'Dragon&#39;s Blood', 'Jane Yolen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Training a dragon to be a fighting champion is the only way to freedom for fifteen-year-old Jakkin. â€œAn original and engrossing fantasy.â€--The Horn Book\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jane Yolen is a highly acclaimed children''s author who has written hundreds of books for adults and children and has won numerous awards. She and her husband divide their time between Massachussetts and Scotland.\n</p>\n<hr />\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/737'),
(184, 'Dragonblood', 'Anthony D. Franklin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Type: short story also published in Dragon Collection #1\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ages ago a pact was made between two sentient species. Now the treaty among humans and dragonkind has been broken. Only the fledgling (and accidental) bond between a young dragon and a human youth may save the peace.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A wounded dragon struggles to reach home in the dark of night. A drop of his thick blood strikes a young man also making his way home that night. At that instant both of their lives are incredibly changed. The bond they form is considered a myth by most humans and has been outlawed by dragonkind. Together they will face the challenges of oath breakers, dragon killers, and the dangers of the Dragon Circle of Elders!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/920'),
(185, 'Dragonflight', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/653'),
(186, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Think of it as\n <em>\n  A New Hope\n </em>\n for the world of Dragonlance: Sure, maybe it''s a little rough around the edges, maybe it''s got one clichÃ© too many, but this baby is pure magic. The first volume in the Dragonlance Chronicles series, this classic from Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman started it all for Krynn, eventually spawning a bestselling 90-plus book series. (And, frankly, you''d do well to stick to the Weis-Hickman titles.) All the heroes that you''ve likely heard of already--the creepy, hourglass-eyed Raistlin, the noble half-elf Tanis, the comic relief Tasselhoff Burrfoot, the curmudgeonly dwarf Flint Fireforge--they''re all here, starting the good fight against the Dark Queen Takhisis as the War of the Lance begins. Pick up __ when you''re done.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A Compelling, ground-breaking, highly imaginative tale from the most phenomenonally popular fantasy authors since J.R.R. Tolkien.\n</p>\n<p>\n Creatures of legend, the dragons have returned to Krynn. Now, the darkness of war threatens to engulf the land. Then hope appears -- a blue crystal staff in the hands of a beautiful bar barian woman. The promise of this hope forces a group of long-time friends into the unlikely roles of heroes: Tanis Half-Elven, their leader, a skilled warrior who detests fighting and is tormented by love for two women; Sturm Brightblade, Knight of Solamnia, driven to restore the honor of the knighthood; Raistlin Majere, the powerful and unsettling magic-user, whose hourglass-shaped eyes conceal dark mysteries; Caramon, Raistlin''s twin, a genial giant both loved and feared by his brother; Flint Fireforge, the gruff old dwarven fighter, almost a father to them all; and Tasselhoff Burrfoot, a kender, the nuisance race of Krynn, immune to fear and followed by trouble wherever he goes.\n</p>\n<p>\n These are the warm, memorable characters of Dragons of Autumn Twilight who bring alive the fantasy world of Krynn, a land millions of listeners will want to return to again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/155'),
(187, 'Dragons of Spring Dawning', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The final installment in Weis and Hickman''s Chronicles series--Dragonlance''s undisputed must-read trilogy--brings on the main event: the Companions vs. the dragons in a knock-down drag-out at the iron works of Pax Tharkas, as the fate of Krynn hangs in the balance. They''ve mastered the Orbs and picked up the Dragonlance (see __), and things are looking pretty good with the return of the good metallic dragons. But the band soon learns they must do battle with their own inner conflicts if they ever hope to defeat the Dark Queen Takhisis. A bang-up conclusion to Dragonlance''s best-loved trilogy.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dragons of Spring Dawning, the concluding episode in the ever-popular Chronicles Trilogy, once again takes listeners on a fantastical journey to Krynn, where friendships are made and lost and destinies finally realized.\n</p>\n<p>\n Armed at last with the powerful dragonlances, the Companions of the Lance lead their people in a final desperate battle against the destructive dragons. Knight and barbarian, warrior and half-eft, dwarf and kender and dark-souled mage -- none has reckoned how high the price of victory -- or even defeat -- might be. One by one, they must each overcome personal doubts and conflicts -- their only hope if they are to stop the return of the five-headed dragon goddess, Takhisis. Listen and discover how truth and virtue at last triumph over the deadly darkness of an all-consuming evil in this dramatic conclusion to one of fantasy''s most legendary tales.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/243'),
(188, 'Dragons of Summer Flame', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The war of the Lance is long over. The seasons come and go. The pendulum of the world swings. Now is is a hot parched summer such as no one on Krynn had ever known before. The uneasy balance starts to shift. Distraught by a grievous loss, the young mage Palin Majere seeks to enter the Abyss in search of his lost uncle, the infamous archmage Raistlin. The Dark Queen has found new champions. Devoted followers, loyal to the death, the Knights of Takhisis follow the Vision to victory. A dark paladin, Steel Brightblade, rides to attack the High Clerist''s Tower, the fortress his father died defending. On a small island, the mysterious Irda captures as ancient artifact and use it to ensure their own safety. Usha, child of the Irda, arrives in Pananthas claiming that she is Raistlin''s daughter. The summer will be deadly. Perhaps it will be the last summer Ansalon will ever know. Dragons Of Summer Flame is action-packed heroic fantasy at its best! --\n  <em>\n   Midwest Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Primed for a battle between good and evil, Raistlin, the corrupted mage, returns to the Dragonlance series along with a new generation of characters, the inheritors of the fabled Heroes of the Lance. Book available.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/904'),
(189, 'Dragons of Winter Night', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n __ sets ''em up, and\n <em>\n  Dragons of Winter Night\n </em>\n knocks ''em down. The second volume in Dragonlance''s seminal trilogy stokes the action with a big ol'' blast of dragon breath. The War of the Lance has begun in earnest, and the Companions--Tanis, Flint, the twins Raistlin and Sturm, Flint Fireforge, Goldmoon, et al.--find themselves separated across Ansalon. Everyone''s figured out that Takhisis''s dragon minions aren''t just scary bedtime stories, and the desperate search for the Dragon Orbs and the mythical Dragonlance is on. Lots of great combat, some humor and romance sprinkled in, and more solid character development for this complex band (especially Tanis and Laurana). An excellent follow-up bookended by cliffhangers--check out __ to see what happens next.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dragons of Winter Night re turns listeners to the mystical world of Krynn, where the memorable band of characters from Dragons of Autumn Twilight continue their fantastical adventures.\n</p>\n<p>\n The land has grown even more dangerous, and now the heroes -- Tanis Half-Elven, Sturm Brightblade, Raistlin and Caramon Majere, Flint Fireforge and Tasselhoff Burrfoot -- have been separated. And Raistlin, his strange, hourglass eyes gleaming, has warned, "Farewell, my friends...And a long farewell it will be. Some of us are not destined to meet again in this world." This ominous prediction, along with sinister dreams, will haunt this group of long-time friends as they search for the mysterious dragon orbe and the legendary dragonlance with the hope of stopping the advance of the Dark Queen!\n</p>\n<p>\n Here, is a compelling fantasy tale in which the true value of love and friendship is measured against the backdrop of a catastrophic war between good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(190, 'Dragonslayer', 'Jeff Smith &amp; Steve Hamaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Bone first came on the scene, critics raved about it, often mentioning it as being "fun for the whole family." Jeff Smith has always been wary about others labeling his work "for children," partly because he knew that "no topic of human experience--from the introspection of\n  <em>\n   Peanuts\n  </em>\n  or the politics of\n  <em>\n   Doonesbury\n  </em>\n  to the lyricism of\n  <em>\n   Pogo\n  </em>\n  --was beyond the wonderful world of comics." He was also cautious because he knew that the story he was telling was going to deal with issues and themes graver than Saturday morning''s cotton-candy cartoons. In\n  <em>\n   Bone: The Dragonslayer\n  </em>\n  , the first volume of the second Bone trilogy, there is conflict, sometimes involving violence. There are forces of evil. There is war. But Bone is neither pap nor pabulum; it is challenging without being obtuse, and yes, even within its fantasy setting, Bone is real. This distinct combination makes it the best kind of children''s book. Parents, read this book\n  <em>\n   with\n  </em>\n  your children. You''ll find it may turn out to be your favorite book, too.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Dragonslayer is the fourth book in the Bone series. It collects issues 20-27 of Jeff Smith''s Bone comics. This volume marks the beginning of the second part of the Bone saga, entitled â€œSolsticeâ€. The book was first published by Cartoon Books in its original black-and-white form in 1997. Paperback and hardback coloured editions were published in 2006 by Scholastic. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Synopsis\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1194'),
(191, 'Dreadnaughts of Rendili Part 1', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1054'),
(192, 'Dreadnaughts of Rendili Part 2', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1056'),
(193, 'Dreadnaughts of Rendili Part 3', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1058'),
(194, 'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether by nature or by nurture, Ma and Pa Sedaris certainly knew something about raising funny kids. Amy Sedaris has built a cult following for her Comedy Central character Jerri Blank, and David, the more famous of the two siblings, continues to spin his personal history into comedic gold. A good chunk of the material in\n <em>\n  Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim\n </em>\n debuted in other media outlets, such as __, but Sedaris''s brilliantly written essays deserve repeat reads.\n</p>\n<p>\n Based on the author''s descriptions, nearly every member of his family is funny, although some (like sister Tiffany, perhaps) in a tragic way. In "The Change in Me," Sedaris remembers that his mother was good at imitating people when it helped drive home her point. High-voiced, lovably plain-spoken brother Paul (aka The Rooster, Silly P) has long been a favorite character for Sedaris readers, though Paul''s story takes on a serious note when his wife has a difficult pregnancy. The author doesn''t shy away from embarrassing moments in his own life, either, including a childhood poker game that strays into strange, psychological territory.\n <em>\n  Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim\n </em>\n provides more evidence that he is a great humorist, memoirist, and raconteur, and readers are lucky to have the opportunity to know him (and his clan) so well. His funny family feels like our own. Perhaps they are luckier still not to know him personally.\n <em>\n  --Leah Weathersby\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his latest collection, Sedaris has found his heart. This is not to suggest that the author of_ Me Talk Pretty One Day_ and other bestselling books has lost his edge. The 27 essays here (many previously published in\n <em>\n  Esquire\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  G.Q\n </em>\n . or the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n , or broadcast on PRI''s\n <em>\n  This American Life\n </em>\n ) include his best and funniest writing yet. Here is Sedaris''s family in all its odd glory. Here is his father dragging his mortified son over to the home of one of the most popular boys in school, a boy possessed of "an uncanny ability to please people," demanding that the boy''s parents pay for the root canal that Sedaris underwent after the boy hit him in the mouth with a rock. Here is his oldest sister, Lisa, imploring him to keep her beloved Amazon parrot out of a proposed movie based on his writing. ("''Will I have to be fat in the movie?'' she asked.") Here is his mother, his muse, locking the kids out of the house after one snow day too many, playing the wry, brilliant commentator on his life until her untimely death from cancer. His mother emerges as one of the most poignant and original female characters in contemporary literature. She balances bitter and sweet, tart and richâ€”and so does Sedaris, because this is what life is like. "You should look at yourself," his mother says in one piece, as young Sedaris crams Halloween candy into his mouth rather than share it. He does what she says and then some, and what emerges is the deepest kind of humor, the human comedy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/609'),
(195, 'Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.\n</p>\n<p>\n The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don''t want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet''s harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what''s rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow.\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dune is to science fiction what The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy. Though fans believed they had bid a sad farewell to the sand planet of Arrakis upon Herbert''s death in 1986, his son Brian has assumed writing the Nebula and Hugo award-winning series with the help of Kevin J. Anderson. But the original is always the most popular, and Ace here offers a good-quality hardcover complete with maps, a glossary, and appendixes. The book''s huge fan base should expand even more thanks to a six-hour miniseries premiering on the Sci-Fi Channel later this year that is said to be more faithful to the book than David Lynch''s truly awful 1984 feature film.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/233'),
(196, 'Dune Messiah', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1965 Frank Herbert published\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n . After it was heralded as a masterpiece of science fiction, he wrote the briefer\n <em>\n  Dune Messiah\n </em>\n in 1969, concentrating eponymously on Paul Atreides, and then, sensing the sales potential, added sequels. They were continued by his son, culminating in the just published finale,\n <em>\n  Sandworms of Dune\n </em>\n . Now, 38 years after its publication, four narrators capture\n <em>\n  Dune Messiah\n </em>\n on discs, while listeners, with no glossary, try to recall the meaning of its esoteric nomenclature. The audio gets off to a lively start as the book opens with nearly all conversation, playing up the camaraderie between the narrators who have partnered on several other readings of classic sci-fi novels. While the cast works well together, some of the male narrators emphasize a stately dullness. Kellgren, the sole feminine voice, supplies real emotion and a true sense of awe.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Unique among SF novels ... I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings.'' -- Arthur C. Clarke on DUNE ''One of the landmarks of modern science fiction ... an amazing feat of creation.'' -- Analog on DUNE\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/234'),
(197, 'Dzur', 'Steven Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a detour with the Viscount of Adrilankha trilogy (_Sethra Lavode_, etc.), Brust returns to sometime assassin and popular protagonist Vlad Taltos in the 10th installment of his famously disordered series. Beginning where\n <em>\n  Issola\n </em>\n (2001) left off, this novel follows Vlad simultaneously through a complicated scheme to disrupt the political maneuvering of a shady association known as the Left Hand of the Jhereg and an exquisite dinner at the renowned restaurant Valabar''s. (Each chapter, like a course in a literary feast, opens with descriptions of the fare at Valabar''s.) Brust brings the grimy streets of Adrilankha to life in swift, vivid strokes and keeps the narrative skipping with wisecracking conversations amongVlad, his companion Loiosh and friends old and new. Though the in-jokes fly thick and fast and the line between familiar and recycled sometimes blurs, new readers won''t notice and fans will be too happy at the prospect of another Taltos book to mind.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vlad Taltos'' latest adventure starts where\n <em>\n  Issola\n </em>\n (2002) left off. For many years, he was a contented boss in the Jhereg, which ran the rackets in the imperial capital, Adrilankha. But after his wife got in trouble, and he got her out, he had a price on his head that kept him running for some time. Now he is sitting down to a meal at Valabar''s, and Valabar''s has the best food in the Dragarean Empire. But his ex needs help again. The Left Hand, a cabal of sorceresses without a boss, is taking over the Jhereg, which doesn''t affect the reward for Vlad but does induce some erstwhile colleagues to want him to help them before they claim it. Also, a goddess is manipulating his memory, and the great weapon he carries is acting independently. It''s adventure time again. Brust adds a charming twist this time_._ Vlad gets his meal, and each chapter''s title and heading describe one delicacy at Valabar''s. A must-read for series fans.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1042'),
(198, 'Eldest', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Darkness falls...despair abounds...evil reigns...Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems. Before long, Eragon doesn''t know whom he can trust.Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battle-one that might put Eragon in even graver danger.Will the king''s dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life. . . . Praise for "Eragon: "Unusual, powerful . . . fresh and fluid. An impressive start to a writing career that''s sure to flourish." -"Booklist, Starred"Christopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut." -"People"The new ''It'' book of children''s lit." -"U.S. News &amp; World Report"An auspicious beginning to both career and series." -"Publishers Weekly A #1 New York Times BestsellerA #1 Publishers Weekly BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Book Sense Book of the YearA #1 Book Sense Selection\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/229'),
(199, 'Elephant Song', 'Barry B. Longyear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The original Starshow, smashed, the survivors stranded on a world without an audience.\n</p>\n<p>\n "An immensely bittersweet book, every triumph bought with blood, every gain the result of sacrifice."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_Futura_\n</p>\n<p>\n "What Barry has done . . . is to take a magnificent way of life, which today seems on the verge of extinction, and fling it bodily into the future, toward immortality."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Spider Robinson\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hugo, Nebula and Campbell Award winner, Barry Longyear is the author of the acclaimed Enemy Mine, which was made into a motion picture by Fox. Recent works include The Enemy Papers and Yesterday''s Tomorrow. Having completed training as a PI, the current work is a mystery titled The Hangman''s Son. Longyear lives with his wife Jean in New Sharon, Maine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/496');
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(200, 'Elric The Stealer of Souls', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe stories here are the raw heart of Michael Moorcock. They are the spells that first drew me and all the numerous admirers of his work with whom I am acquainted into Moorcockâ€™s luminous and captivating web.â€\n <br />\n â€“from the Foreword by Alan Moore, creator of V for Vendetta\n</p>\n<p>\n When Michael Moorcock began chronicling the adventures of the albino sorcerer Elric, last king of decadent MelnibonÃ©, and his sentient vampiric sword, Stormbringer, he set out to create a new kind of fantasy adventure, one that broke with tradition and reflected a more up-to-date sophistication of theme and style. The result was a bold and unique heroâ€“weak in body, subtle in mind, dependent on drugs for the vitality to sustain himselfâ€“with great crimes behind him and a greater destiny ahead: a rock-and-roll antihero who would channel all the violent excesses of the sixties into one enduring archetype.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, with a major film in development, here is the first volume of a dazzling collection of stories containing the seminal appearances of Elric and lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist John Picacioâ€“plus essays, letters, maps, and other material. Adventures include â€œThe Dreaming City,â€ â€œWhile the Gods Laugh,â€ â€œKings in Darkness,â€ â€œDead Godâ€™s Homecoming,â€ â€œBlack Swordâ€™s Brothers,â€ and â€œSad Giantâ€™s Shield.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n An indispensable addition to any fantasy collection, Elric: The Stealer of Souls is an unmatched introduction to a brilliant writer and his most famousâ€“or infamousâ€“creation.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Encyclopedia of Fantasy\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chapter One\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s the hour?â€ The black-bearded man wrenched off his gilded helmet and flung it from him, careless of where it fell. He drew off his leathern gauntlets and moved closer to the roaring fire, letting the heat soak into his frozen bones.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMidnight is long past,â€ growled one of the other armoured men who gathered around the blaze. â€œAre you still sure heâ€™ll come?â€ â€œItâ€™s said that heâ€™s a man of his word, if that comforts you.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a tall, pale-faced youth who spoke. His thin lips formed the words and spat them out maliciously. He grinned a wolf-grin and stared the new arrival in the eyes, mocking him.\n</p>\n<p>\n The newcomer turned away with a shrug. â€œThatâ€™s soâ€”for all your irony, Yaris. Heâ€™ll come.â€ He spoke as a man does when he wishes to reassure himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were six men, now, around the fire. The sixth was Smiorganâ€”Count Smiorgan Baldhead of the Purple Towns. He was a short, stocky man of fifty years with a scarred face partially covered with a thick, black growth of hair. His morose eyes smouldered and his lumpy fingers plucked nervously at his rich-hilted longsword. His pate was hairless, giving him his name, and over his ornate, gilded armour hung a loose woolen cloak, dyed purple.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan said thickly, â€œHe has no love for his cousin. He has become bitter. Yyrkoon sits on the Ruby Throne in his place and has proclaimed him an outlaw and a traitor. Elric needs us if he would take his throne and his bride back. We can trust him.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™re full of trust tonight, count,â€ Yaris smiled thinly, â€œa rare thing to find in these troubled times. I say thisâ€”â€ He paused and took a long breath, staring at his comrades, summing them up. His gaze flicked from lean-faced Dharmit of Jharkor to Fadan of Lormyr who pursed his podgy lips and looked into the fire.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSpeak up, Yaris,â€ petulantly urged the patrician-featured Vilmirian, Naclon. â€œLetâ€™s hear what you have to say, lad, if itâ€™s worth hearing.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Yaris looked towards Jiku the dandy, who yawned impolitely and scratched his long nose.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWell!â€ Smiorgan was impatient. â€œWhat dâ€™you say, Yaris?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI say that we should start now and waste no more time waiting on Elricâ€™s pleasure! Heâ€™s laughing at us in some tavern a hundred miles from hereâ€”or else plotting with the Dragon Princes to trap us. For years we have planned this raid. We have little time in which to strikeâ€”our fleet is too big, too noticeable. Even if Elric has not betrayed us, then spies will soon be running eastwards to warn the Dragons that there is a fleet massed against them. We stand to win a fantastic fortuneâ€”to vanquish the greatest merchant city in the worldâ€”to reap immeasurable richesâ€”or horrible death at the hands of the Dragon Princes, if we wait overlong. Letâ€™s bide our time no more and set sail before our prize hears of our plan and brings up reinforcements!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou always were too ready to mistrust a man, Yaris.â€ King Naclon of Vilmir spoke slowly, carefullyâ€”distastefully eyeing the taut-featured youth. â€œWe could not reach Imrryr without Elricâ€™s knowledge of the maze-channels which lead to its secret ports. If Elric will not join usâ€”then our endeavour will be fruitlessâ€”hopeless. We need him. We must wait for himâ€”or else give up our plans and return to our homelands.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAt least Iâ€™m willing to take a risk,â€ yelled Yaris, anger lancing from his slanting eyes. â€œYouâ€™re getting oldâ€”all of you. Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFool!â€ Dharmitâ€™s voice rumbled around the fire-flooded hall. He laughed wearily. â€œI spoke thus in my youthâ€”and lost a fine fleet soon after. Cunning and Elricâ€™s knowledge will win us Imrryrâ€”that and the mightiest fleet to sail the Dragon Sea since MelnibonÃ©â€™s banners fluttered over all the nations of the Earth. Here we areâ€”the most powerful sea-lords in the world, masters, every one of us, of more than a hundred swift vessels. Our names are feared and famousâ€”our fleets ravage the coasts of a score of lesser nations. We hold power!â€ He clenched his great fist and shook it in Yarisâ€™s face. His tone became more level and he smiled viciously, glaring at the youth and choosing his words with precision.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBut all this is worthlessâ€”meaninglessâ€”without the power which Elric has. That is the power of knowledgeâ€”of dream-learned sorcery, if I must use the cursed word. His fathers knew of the maze which guards Imrryr from sea-attack. And his fathers passed that secret on to him. Imrryr, the Dreaming City, dreams in peaceâ€”and will continue to do so unless we have a guide to help us steer a course through the treacherous waterways which lead to her harbours. We need Elricâ€”we know it, and he knows it. Thatâ€™s the truth!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSuch confidence, gentlemen, is warming to the heart.â€ There was irony in the heavy voice which came from the entrance to the hall. The heads of the six sea-lords jerked towards the doorway.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yarisâ€™s confidence fled from him as he met the eyes of Elric of MelnibonÃ©. They were old eyes in a fine featured, youthful face. Yaris shuddered, turned his back on Elric, preferring to look into the bright glare of the fire.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric smiled warmly as Count Smiorgan gripped his shoulder. There was a certain friendship between the two. He nodded condescendingly to the other four and walked with lithe grace towards the fire. Yaris stood aside and let him pass. Elric was tall, broad-shouldered and slim-hipped. He wore his long hair bunched and pinned at the nape of his neck and, for an obscure reason, affected the dress of a southern barbarian. He had long, knee-length boots of soft doe-leather, a breastplate of strangely wrought silver, a jerkin of chequered blue and white linen, britches of scarlet wool and a cloak of rustling green velvet. At his hip rested his runesword of black ironâ€”the feared Stormbringer, forged by ancient and alien sorcery.\n</p>\n<p>\n His bizarre dress was tasteless and gaudy, and did not match his sensitive face and long-fingered, almost delicate hands, yet he flaunted it since it emphasized the fact that he did not belong in any companyâ€”that he was an outsider and an outcast. But, in reality, he had little need to wear such outlandish gearâ€”for his eyes and skin were enough to mark him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric, Last Lord of MelnibonÃ©, was a pure albino who drew his power from a secret and terrible source.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan sighed. â€œWell, Elric, when do we raid Imrryr?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric shrugged. â€œAs soon as you like; I care not. Give me a little time in which to do certain things.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTomorrow? Shall we sail tomorrow?â€ Yaris said hesitantly, conscious of the strange power dormant in the man he had earlier accused of treachery.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric smiled, dismissing the youthâ€™s statement. â€œThree daysâ€™ time,â€ he said, â€œThreeâ€”or more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThree days! But Imrryr will be warned of our presence by then!â€ Fat, cautious Fadan spoke.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIâ€™ll see that your fleetâ€™s not found,â€ Elric promised. â€œI have to go to Imrryr firstâ€”and return.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou wonâ€™t do the journey in three daysâ€”the fastest ship could not make it.â€ Smiorgan gaped.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIâ€™ll be in the Dreaming City in less than a day,â€ Elric said softly, with finality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan shrugged. â€œIf you say so, Iâ€™ll believe itâ€”but why this necessity to visit the city ahead of the raid?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have my own compunctions, Count Smiorgan. But worry notâ€”I shanâ€™t betray you. Iâ€™ll lead the raid myself, be sure of that.â€ His dead-white face was lighted eerily by the fire and his red eyes smouldered. One lean hand firmly gripped the hilt of his runesword and he appeared to breathe more heavily. â€œImrryr fell, in spirit, five hundred years agoâ€”she will fall completely soonâ€”for ever! I have a little debt to settle. This is my sole reason for aiding you. As you know I have made only a few conditionsâ€”that you raze the city to the ground and a certain man and woman are not harmed. I refer to my cousin Yyrkoon and his sister Cymoril . . .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Yarisâ€™s thin lips felt uncomfortably dry. Much of his blustering manner resulted from the early death of his father. The old sea-king had diedâ€”leaving the youthful Yaris as the new ruler of his lands and his fleets. Yaris was not at all certain that he was capable of commanding such a vast kingdomâ€”and tried to appear more confident than he actually felt. Now he said: â€œHow shall we hide the fleet, Lord Elric?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n The MelnibonÃ©an acknowledged the question. â€œIâ€™ll hide it for you,â€ he promised. â€œI go now to do thisâ€”but make sure all your men are off the ships firstâ€”will you see to it, Smiorgan?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAye,â€ rumbled the stocky count.\n</p>\n<p>\n He and Elric departed from the hall together, leaving five men behind; five men who sensed an air of icy doom hanging about the overheated hall.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHow could he hide such a mighty fleet when we, who know this fjord better than any, found nowhere?â€ Dharmit of Jharkor said bewilderedly.\n</p>\n<p>\n None answered him.\n</p>\n<p>\n They waited, tensed and nervous, while the fire flickered and died untended. Eventually Smiorgan returned, stamping noisily on the boarded floor. There was a haunted haze of fear surrounding him; an almost tangible aura, and he was shivering, terribly. Tremendous, racking undulations swep...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1021'),
(201, 'Emissaries to Malastare Part 1', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1129'),
(202, 'Emissaries to Malastare Part 2', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1130'),
(203, 'Emissaries to Malastare Part 3', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1131'),
(204, 'Emissaries to Malastare Part 4', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1132'),
(205, 'Emissaries to Malastare Part 5', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1133'),
(206, 'Emissaries to Malastare Part 6', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1134'),
(207, 'The Emperor of Everything', 'Ray Aldridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction. 93255 words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1242'),
(208, 'Empire of Ivory', 'Naomi Novik', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Novik''s earlier fantasies (_His Majesty''s Dragon_, etc.), readers soared to Europe and Asia on the wings of an intriguing premise: How would the Napoleonic Wars have played out if dragons not only existed, but participated in the war effort? The fourth part of Novik''s engrossing answer sweeps readers off to Africa, where the cure to the disease that has decimated England''s dragon forces may be found. The African adventures of British captain Will Laurence, his dragon Temeraire and their bedraggled band of aerial corps make up the book''s latter half, which showcases Novik''s knack for weaving dragons and dragon lore into a vivid, well-researched historical tapestry. In Africa''s wild interior, dragons shepherd and feed from elephant caravans while protecting the native villagers. This protection includes waging war against England''s slave-seeking colonists, a clash that Laurence and his band may not escape unscathed. Novik fills the conflict''s lead-up with lengthy meditations on dragon civil rights and England''s abolition movement, making for a fitful, pedantic first half. But most will find the richness of Novik''s developing worldâ€”and charactersâ€”to be worthy compensation for the slow start.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA new writer is soaring on the wings of a dragon.â€\n <br />\n â€“The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEnthralling readingâ€“itâ€™s like Jane Austen playing Dungeons &amp; Dragons with Eragonâ€™s Christopher Paolini.â€\n <br />\n â€“Time, on His Majestyâ€™s Dragon\n</p>\n<p>\n Tragedy has struck His Majestyâ€™s Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and their human captains valiantly defend Englandâ€™s shores against the encroaching armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. An epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the noble dragonsâ€™ ranksâ€“forcing the hopelessly stricken into quarantine. Now only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfectedâ€“and stand as the only means of an airborne defense against Franceâ€™s ever bolder sorties.\n <br />\n Bonaparteâ€™s dragons are already harrowing Britainâ€™s ships at sea. Only one recourse remains: Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, must take wing to Africa, whose shores may hold the cure to the mysterious and deadly contagion. On this mission there is no time to waste, and no telling what lies in store beyond the horizon or for those left behind to wait, hope, and hold the line.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA gripping adventure full of rich detail and the impossible wonder of gilded fantasy.â€\n <br />\n â€“Entertainment Weekly, on His Majestyâ€™s Dragon\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA thrilling fantasy . . . All hail Naomi Novik.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Washington Post Book World, on His Majestyâ€™s Dragon\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/657'),
(209, 'The End', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Like an off-key violin concert, the Roman Empire, or food poisoning, all things must come to an end. Thankfully, this includes A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The final installment in Mr Snicket''s baker''s dozen of books will answer readers'' most burning questions: Will Count Olaf prevail? Will the Baudelaires survive? Will the series end happily? If there''s nothing out there, what was that noise?Then again, why trouble yourself with unfortunate resolutions? Avoid the thirteenth and final book of Lemony Snicket''s international bestselling series and you''ll never have to know what happens.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/447'),
(210, 'Ender&#39;s Game', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Back on Earth, Peter and Valentine forge an intellectual alliance and attempt to change the course of history.\n</p>\n<p>\n This futuristic tale involves aliens, political discourse on the Internet, sophisticated computer games, and an orbiting battle station. Yet the reason it rings true for so many is that it is first and foremost a tale of humanity; a tale of a boy struggling to grow up into someone he can respect while living in an environment stripped of choices.\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n is a must-read book for science fiction lovers, and a key conversion read for their friends who "don''t read science fiction."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n won both the\n <em>\n  --Bonnie Bouman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For the 20th anniversary of Card''s Hugo and Nebula Awardâ€“winning novel, Audio Renaissance brings to life the story of child genius Ender Wiggin, who must save the world from malevolent alien "buggers." In his afterword, Card declares, "The ideal presentation of any book of mine is to have excellent actors perform it in audio-only format," and he gets his wish. Much of the story is internal dialogue, and each narrator reads the sections told from the point of view of a particular character, rather than taking on a part as if it were a play. Card''s phenomenal emotional depth comes through in the quiet, carefully paced speech of each performer. No narrator tries overmuch to create separate character voices, though each is clearly discernible, and the understated delivery will draw in listeners. In particular, Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender''s inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take. This is a wonderful way to experience Card''s best-known and most celebrated work, both for longtime fans and for newcomers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/232'),
(211, 'Ender&#39;s Shadow', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Ender''s Shadow\n </em>\n is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card''s __. By "parallel," Card means that\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n begins and ends at roughly the same time as\n <em>\n  Game\n </em>\n , and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books tell an almost identical story of brilliant children being trained in the orbiting Battle School to lead humanity''s fleets in the final war against alien invaders known as the Buggers. The most brilliant of these young recruits is Ender Wiggin, an unparalleled commander and tactician who can surely defeat the Buggers if only he can overcome his own inner turmoil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Second among the children is Bean, who becomes Ender''s lieutenant despite the fact that he is the smallest and youngest of the Battle School students. Bean is the central character of\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n , and we pick up his story when he is just a 2-year-old starving on the streets of a future Rotterdam that has become a hell on earth. Bean is unnaturally intelligent for his age, which is the only thing that allows him to escape--though not unscathed--the streets and eventually end up in Battle School. Despite his brilliance, however, Bean is doomed to live his life as an also-ran to the more famous and in many ways more brilliant Ender. Nonetheless, Bean learns things that Ender cannot or will not understand, and it falls to this once pathetic street urchin to carry the weight of a terrible burden that Ender must not be allowed to know.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although it may seem like\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n is merely an attempt by Card to cash in on the success of his justly famous\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n , that suspicion will dissipate once you turn the first few pages of this engrossing novel. It''s clear that Bean has a story worth telling, and that Card (who started the project with a cowriter but later decided he wanted it all to himself) is driven to tell it. And though much of\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n hinges on a surprise ending that Card fans are likely well acquainted with,\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n manages to capitalize on that same surprise and even turn the table on readers. In the end, it seems a shame that\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n , like Bean himself, will forever be eclipsed by the myth of Ender, because this is a novel that can easily stand on its own. Luckily for readers, Card has left plenty of room for a sequel, so we may well be seeing more of Bean in the near future.\n <em>\n  --Craig E. Engler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n You can''t step into the same river twice, but Card has gracefully dipped twice into the same inkwellAonce for Ender''s Game and again for this stand-alone "parallel novel." The course readers will follow this time is of the superhuman child Bean. Raised on streets ruled by starving children''s gangs, he was too weak, at age four, to hold peanuts in his hand, but ingenious enough to trick the other children into civilizing themselvesAand to keep himself alive. When his genius and uncanny understanding of individuals'' motivations are discovered, he is sent to Battle School, where children learn to command fleets for the war with the alien BuggersAthe smallest kid ever to do so. Bean is not as perfect as Ender WigginAhero of the Ender Quartet, begun with Ender''s Game and concluded with Children of the MindAbut he becomes Ender''s ally. Though Bean is cold at first, the kind of child who weighs the costs of hugging the nun who saved him from the streets, he wants to understand the respect and love that Ender wields. Thus, Bean''s story is twofold: he learns to be a soldier, and to be human. Devotees of the Ender saga will delight in the revelations about the formation of Ender''s Dragon army and about the last of Ender''s games. Though newcomers to the series may miss many of the novel''s points, the wonders of Battle School and flashsuits and children''s armies should keep them turning pages. As always, everyone will be struck by the power of Card''s children, always more and less than human, perfect yet struggling, tragic yet hopeful, wondrous and strange. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/612'),
(212, 'Endymion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in\n  <em>\n   Fall of Hyperion\n  </em>\n  , Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Frederico DeSoya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops. The shrike continues to make enigmatic appearances, and while many questions were raised in\n  <em>\n   Hyperion\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Fall of Hyperion\n  </em>\n  , still more are raised here. Raoul''s quest will continue in at least one more volume.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This series has something for everyone: Simmons''s prose is imaginative and stylistically varied; point-of-view and time-scale are handled with finesse; the action is always gripping; the device of Old Earth allows Simmons to work in entertaining references to present-day culture; and the technology raises bizarre questions of ethics and morality in its use of repeated death and resurrection.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Endymion is the third science fiction novel by Dan Simmons in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe. Centered around the new characters Aenea and Endymion, it has been well received like Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion - within a year of its release, the paperback edition had gone through five reprints. The novel was shortlisted for the 1997 Locus Award. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary | A Nietzschean Vision\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1164'),
(213, 'Enemy Lines', 'Haden Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1109'),
(214, 'Enemy Mine', 'Barry B. Longyear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n ENEMY MINE-The Nebula and Hugo Award winner that inspired the 20th Century Fox motion picture starring Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett, Jr.The story of a man, incomplete in himself, taught to be a human by his sworn enemy, an alien being who leaves with the human its most important possession: its future.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award winner, Barry Longyear is author of Enemy Mine, made into a major motion picture by Fox. Recent works include The Enemy Papers and Yesterday''s Tomorrow. Having completed training as a PI, he has entered the world of mystery writing with The Hangman''s Son. He lives with his wife, Jean, in New Sharon, Maine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/696'),
(215, 'Engaging the Enemy', 'Elizabeth Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nebula Awardâ€“winner Moon''s third Kylara Vatta novel is sadly more reminiscent of the uninspiring\n <em>\n  Trading in Danger\n </em>\n (2003) than the inspired\n <em>\n  Marque and Reprisal\n </em>\n (2004). Ky has more or less patched up her relationship with her cousin Stellaâ€”a good thing, since they''re all that remains of the Vatta shipping empireâ€”and finished off the most immediate danger, the renegade Osman Vatta. Ky now faces the much more nebulous threat of an interstellar piracy gang. As she travels from station to station seeking fellow pirate fighters, annoying local officials and repeatedly leaving Stella in the lurch, it''s hard to stay interested. It doesn''t help that the one genuinely stunning twist-of-fate climax is followed by six plodding chapters on an entirely different topic. Moon''s strength is clearly in flash-bang-gee-whiz battles and skulking intrigue, both planetside and in space. It''s too bad she so frequently drowns them in mundane details that provide realism at the expense of entertainment.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Just a year after being expelled from space academy, Kylara Vatta, the daughter of an interstellar shipping tycoon, is well on her way to making her fortune and is the veteran of two successful campaigns of space warfare. In\n <em>\n  Trading in Danger\n </em>\n (2003) and\n <em>\n  Marque and Reprisal\n </em>\n (2004, both Del Rey), she proved her mettle as a trader and won a ship of her own, only to lose most of her clan when unknown enemies attacked the Vatta corporation''s headquarters. Now, Ky lays the groundwork for an interstellar military force as a first step toward destroying a large army of pirates, reestablishing safe trading and cargo transport for the law-abiding citizens of her galaxy, and ultimately rebuilding the Vatta empire. She continues to mature as she struggles with inner demons and learns to make the most of her emerging gifts for strategy and leadership. This volume has a transitional feel, telling how the new space navy gets off to a small and rocky start, but leaving the rest of Ky''s quest to future books. While the battle strategies and dogfights are thrilling, the series is also a family dynasty saga, complete with eccentric but brilliant cousins and elders and quirky humor. It should appeal to fans of Anne McCaffrey''s Rowan family SF saga (Ace) as well as to those of David Weber''s Honor Harrington military SF series (Baen). Moon has created a richly imagined universe of different cultures, replete with intriguing characters and the sense of unlimited possibility that characterizes the most appealing science fiction._â€“Christine C. Menefee, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/976'),
(216, 'Equal Rites', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Truly original...Discworld is more complicated and satisfactory than oz...Has the energy of\n <em>\n  The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy\n </em>\n and the inventiveness of\n <em>\n  Alice in Wonderland\n </em>\n ...Brilliant!" --\n <em>\n  A . S. Byatt\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Equal Rites\n </em>\n , a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(217, 'Eragon', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eragon es el primer titulo de la trilogia de El Legado, que tiene como protagonistas a este valiente joven y a su indomable dragona Saphira. En el reino legendario de Alagaesia la guerra se esta gestando. Los Jinetes protectores de la paz del Imperio y los unicos capaces de controlar a los inteligentes dragones, se han extinguido o han pasado a formar parte de las tropas del malvado rey Galbatorix. Los elfos hace tiempo que se han exiliado a un lugar oculto y los vardenos, un grupo disidente, se ocultan en ciudades protegidas. Cuando Eragon, un joven de 15 anos que vive en una pequena aldea, se encuentra con una piedra preciosa en medio del bosque a donde ha ido a cazar, poco se espera que ese suceso vaya a cambiar su vida y el destino de Alagaesia. Lo unico que desea es venderla para asi asegurar la subsistencia de su familia durante el duro invierno. Sin embargo, una noche la gema se rompe y lo que sale de ella lo llevara a un viaje que lo convertira en heroe. Podra Eragon tomar la responsabilidad de los legendarios jinetes de dragones? La esperanza del Imperio descansa en sus manos... / Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save or destroy the Empire.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cuando Eragon, un joven campesino de quince aÃ±os, encuentra una piedra misteriosa y azul en el bosque, su vida cambia para siempre. De repente se ve enrollado dentro del conflicto entre el bien y el mal en un mundo lleno de dragones y magia. El narrador, Karl Hoffmann, aporta un toque dramÃ¡tico a la historia creando distintas voces, a la vez emocionantes y creÃ­bles, para los muchos personajes fantÃ¡sticos que aparecen en el cuento. La mÃºsica que acompaÃ±a la narraciÃ³n aumenta el ambiente en todos los momentos propicios. Esta producciÃ³n captarÃ¡ la imaginaciÃ³n de lectores jÃ³venes y maduros, proveyendo una experiencia de que todos los miembros de la familia pueden disfrutar juntos. S.E.G., L.R.P., trans. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION]--When 15-year-old Eragon, a boy from a farming village, finds a mysterious blue stone in the woods, his life is transformed. He soon finds himself caught up in a fight against evil in a world filled with dragons and magic. Narrator Karl Hoffmann brings a dramatic touch to the story, with exciting and believable voices for the many fantastic characters. His narration is complemented by background music that heightens the mood at all the right moments. This impressive production will capture the imaginations of young and mature listeners alike, providing an experience the family can enjoy together. S.E.G. Â© AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/231'),
(218, 'Eric', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest in Pratchett''s Discworld series plays a variation on the Faust theme. Eric is a singularly inept sorcerer who conjures up an even more inept wizard, Rincewind, and a sentient (also treacherous, vindictive, and unruly) footlocker named, of course, the Luggage. Not having got anything like what he bargained for, Eric is fated to go through the usual zany ordeals of a Pratchett protagonist, until he wishes he''d never been born. Nor do things really all work out in the end, even if Eric is better off than he expected to be through most of the book. The Discworld books are building a following that is beginning to resemble that of Piers Anthony''s Xanth stories, although it can be said that Pratchett is rather more sophisticated than Anthony. In any case, there should be a lot of readers for this one. Fantasy collections, provide accordingly.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Humorously entertainingâ€¦ and thought provoking." --\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Unadulterated fun. Pratchett parodies everything in sight." --\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/50'),
(219, 'The Ersatz Elevator', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Lemony Snicket''s wonderful Series of Unfortunate Events won''t be surprised to find that in the sixth installment the three Baudelaire orphans'' new home proves to be something of a mixed bag. As our ever sad but helpful narrator states, "Although ''a mixed bag'' sometimes refers to a plastic bag that has been stirred in a bowl, more often it is used to describe a situation that has both good parts and bad parts. An afternoon at the movie theater, for instance, would be a mixed bag if your favorite movie were showing, but if you had to eat gravel instead of popcorn. A trip to the zoo would be a very mixed bag if the weather were beautiful, but all of the man-and woman-eating lions were running around loose." And so it is for the bad-luck Baudelaires. Their fancy new 71-bedroom home on 667 Dark Avenue is inhabited by EsmÃ© Gigi Geniveve Squalor (the city''s sixth most important financial advisor), and her kindly husband, Jerome, who doesn''t like to argue. EsmÃ© is obsessed by the trends du jour (orphans are "in"), and because elevators are "out," Sunny, Violet, and Klaus have to trudge up 66 flights of stairs to reach the Squalors'' penthouse apartment. (Other unfortunate trends include pinstripe suits, aqueous martinis--water with a faint olive-y taste--parsley soda, and ocean decorations.)\n</p>\n<p>\n As the book begins, the Baudelaires are not only frightened in anticipation of their next (inevitable) encounter with the evil, moneygrubbing Count Olaf but they are also mourning the disappearance of their dear new friends from\n <strong>\n  , the Quagmires. It doesn''t take long for Olaf to show up in another of his horrific disguises... but if he is on Dark Avenue, what has he done with the Quagmires? Once again, the resourceful orphans use their unique talents (Violet''s inventions, Klaus''s research skills, and the infant Sunny''s strong teeth) in a fruitless attempt to escape from terrible tragedy. Is there a gleam of hope for the orphans and their new friends? Most certainly not. The only thing we can really count on are more gloriously gloomy adventures in the seventh book,\n </strong>\n . (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-6-The resourceful, likable, but extremely unlucky orphans Violet, Klaus, and baby Sunny continue to flee from the clutches of the fortune-hunting, disguise-wearing Count Olaf. Also, they need to discover the whereabouts of their kidnapped friends, Duncan and Isadora Quagmire, based on the puzzling clue "V.F.D." In Elevator, the three Baudelaires go to live in the penthouse of the trend-following Jerome and Esm? Squalor, who adopt the children because orphans are "in." Despite the Baudelaires'' resourcefulness, both Olaf and the Quagmires elude the grasp of the authorities due to the obtuseness of adults who, until it is too late, deny that terrible things can happen. In Village, the Baudelaires travel to V.F.D., a village that adopts the orphans based on the aphorism, "it takes a village to raise a child." They uncover the whereabouts of the Quagmires, but, as in the earlier books, they find neither respite nor peace from Count Olaf''s machinations. Despite Snicket''s artful turning of clich?s on their well-worn heads, Elevator sometimes belabors the fallacy of fads at the expense of plot. Nonetheless, the satiric treatment of adults'' insistence upon decorum at the expense of truth is simultaneously satisfying and unsettling, as are the deft slams at slant journalism in Village. Arch literary allusions enhance the stories for readers on different levels. Despite Snicket''s perpetual caveats to "put this book down and pick up another one," the Baudelaires are dynamic characters who inspire loyalty to the inevitable end of the series.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Farida S. Dowler, formerly at Bellevue Regional Library, WA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/453'),
(220, 'Escape From Hell', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the long-awaited sequel to 1976''s Hugo and Nebulaâ€“nominated\n <em>\n  Inferno\n </em>\n , dead science fiction writer Allen Carpenter returns to the nine circles of Dante''s Hell on a quest. After witnessing infamous fascist dictator Benito Mussolini (Carpenter''s Virgil-like guide in\n <em>\n  Inferno\n </em>\n ) escape from the confines of Hell, Carpenter vows to make the nightmarish journey again and liberate as many tortured souls as possible. Poet Sylvia Plath, recently freed from the Wood of Suicides, accompanies Carpenter, as do a diverse cast of notorious historic figures, including Pontius Pilate, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Anna Nicole Smith. This well-constructed tale will inspire many readers to seek out the original\n <em>\n  Divine Comedy\n </em>\n , but fans of\n <em>\n  Inferno\n </em>\n may find that the landscape and the plot are a little too familiar.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Inferno (1976), Niven and Pournelle updated Dante for the modern age, swapping medieval torments for more contemporary ones. At the end of the book, its protagonist, deceased sf writer Allen Carpenter, accompanied by Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, discovered a way out of hellâ€™s nine circles but remained profoundly disturbed by the underworldâ€™s unjust punishments. Now survivorâ€™s guilt has driven Carpenter back to the damnedâ€™s domain to attempt a wholesale rescue of its tortured denizens. His sidekick this time is the poet Sylvia Path, with whom Carpenter shares an uncommon literary perspective on their surroundings. In their trek through hellâ€™s darkest corners, the pair enlists the aid of such historic figures as J. Robert Oppenheimer, J. Edgar Hoover, and militant atheist Bertrand Russell. Satan, however, has other ideas. While the territory is perhaps too littered with celebrities in this installment, Niven and Pournelleâ€™s further life experience helps them add gravitas to Carpenterâ€™s philosophical contemplations. Meanwhile, their collaborative narrative magic is as compelling as ever. --Carl Hays\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/774'),
(221, 'The Eternity Code', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this third installment to Eoin Colfer''s funny, fast-paced, fairy-filled adventure series, boy genius and arch criminal Artemis Fowl once again can''t resist plotting the perfect crime--and, once again, he can''t keep from stirring up so much trouble that the fate of the entire fairy world teeters in the balance.\n</p>\n<p>\n The once hard-boiled Artemis has softened a bit between __, and that trend continues in\n <em>\n  The Eternity Code\n </em>\n : He''s still plotting for a billion-dollar-plus payoff for the Fowl family, but now his enemies are human (chiefly Jon Spiro, a ruthless businessman Artemis tries to blackmail using stolen fairy technology) and he has to turn to his old adversary-turned-friend Captain Holly Short and cutpurse dwarf Mulch Diggums for help. The dialogue and action prove as smart and page-turning as ever this time around, with Artemis struggling to bring his faithful bodyguard Butler back from the dead before racing Mission Impossible-style to triple-cross the double-crossing Spiro.\n</p>\n<p>\n Colfer''s young antihero might be getting more likeable all the time, but that hasn''t taken the edge off the Tom-Clancy-meets-Harry-Potter action. Artemis has to agree to a memory-erasing "mind wipe" from the People after helping them recover their technology, but only a foolish fan would count Artemis out after this blockbuster "final heist." Book four can''t come soon enough.... (Ages 9 to 12)\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-8-Antihero Artemis Fowl, now 13 years old, is back. He has used stolen fairy technology to create a supercomputer known as the "C Cube," which will render all existing technology obsolete. He meets with Jon Spiro, head of "Fission Chips," with a proposition. For a price, he will suppress his cube, and allow Spiro time to sell his potentially worthless stocks and buy into Fowl Industries. Spiro double-crosses Artemis, and in the ensuing melee he steals the C Cube and Artemis''s bodyguard, Butler, is murdered. The scene is totally out of James Bond; one fully expects to hear the familiar theme music and to see the credits as it concludes. The action does not let up as Artemis teams with the fairy policewoman Captain Holly Short and other companions to bring Butler back to life, and then to retrieve the Cube from Spiro''s Chicago fortress. The plot is filled with crosses and double crosses, unmarked vans, and impenetrable security systems. It''s exciting stuff, but the writing is often clichâ€šd at worst, and merely workmanlike at best. Butler''s death scene is particularly hackneyed, echoing every overly dramatic death scene one can think of. Still, this latest adventure is sure to be popular with fans of the series.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Tim Wadham, Maricopa County Library District, Phoenix, AZ\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1028'),
(222, 'Eulalia!', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4â€“8â€”Pitchforks, daggers, mace, and chainâ€”these are the weapons of choice in a warring animal realm. Lord Asheye of the fortress mountain Salamandastron seeks a new Badger Lord, one who has been prophesized to shun armor and a sword. This young badger is possessed by the deadly Bloodwrath, a ferocious rage that turns him into an unstoppable killing force. Mad Maudie, a haremaiden of the Long Patrol, is ordered to find him and bring him back to Salamandastron. She sets out to secure her charge but realizes that destiny has carved a different path. A group of vicious Brownrats, dressed like cannibals, plot to storm Redwall Abbey. Instead, they encounter the seafaring vermin crew of the\n <em>\n  Bludgullet\n </em>\n led by the infamous fox, Vizka Longtooth, intent on the same mission. In the midst of the turmoil, the young badger warrior emerges and changes the course of events. Dialogue written as accented speech is challenging to decipher but ultimately adds to the character development. Fans of the series will not be disappointed as the historical events of Mossflower Wood, Salamandastron, and Redwall Abbey continue to evolve. Story lines from previous books are mentioned briefly, leaving readers with a few unanswered questions, but not at the expense of their appreciation of this heroic tale.â€”_Robyn Gioia, Bolles School, Ponte Vedra, FL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lord Asheye, the Badger Lord of Salamandastron envisions his own demise, prompting him toÂ send a clever haremaid from the Long Patrol on a quest to find his successor. Meanwhile, Gorath, an orphaned warrior badger, has a vision of his own: a sword-wielding mouse tells him to follow a thief to Redwall. Complicating matters are Vizka Longtooth and his scurrilous Sea Raiders who want to capture Redwall for themselves. Readers won''t want to miss this installment in the Redwall Chronicles, which, as usual,Â is filled with colorful characters and high adventure. Weisman, Kay\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/698');
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(223, 'Europa Strike', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Well researched and quite imaginative." -- _--\n <em>\n  _CNN Online\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n 2040: Ruins of ancient civilization uncovered on Mars reveal startling truths about the creation of humankind.\n</p>\n<p>\n 2042: In the gray dust of the Earth''s Moon, an extinct enslaving race left behind more answers, more questions...and a grim warning.\n</p>\n<p>\n 2067: As Earth''s warring factions clash in space for scraps of alien technology, a strange artifact lies trapped beneath the ice-locked oceans of Europa: a machine that holds the key to the final human destiny.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is called "The Singer" for the eerie tone it emits.An artificial intelligence built eons ago, it may ultimately solve the mystery of the vanished alien races responsible for the birth and development of humanity. But after decades of war, the hostile nations of Earth care more for power than for knowledge. And now all that stands between the coveted Al and an all-out Chinese assault is a vastly outnumbered contingent of U.S. marines, dug in beneath the baleful red eye of Jupiter. As terrifying events light years distant begin to converge---with confrontation imminent and annihilation inevitable---a secret history of creation and doom must at long last be contended with...if humankind is to finally claim its glorious heritage among the stars.2040: Ruins of ancient civilization uncovered on Mars reveal startling truths about the creation of humankind.\n</p>\n<p>\n 2042: In the gray dust of the Earth''s Moon, an extinct enslaving race left behind more answers, more questions...and a grim warning.\n</p>\n<p>\n 2067: As Earth''s warring factions clash in space for scraps of alien technology, a strange artifact lies trapped beneath the ice-locked oceans of Europa: a machine that holds the key to the final human destiny.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is called "The Singer" for the eerie tone it emits. An artificial intelligence built eons ago, it may ultimately solve the mystery of the vanished alien races responsible for the birth and development of humanity. But after decades of war, the hostile nations of Earth care more for power than for knowledge. And now all that stands between the coveted Al and an all-out Chinese assault is a vastly outnumbered contingent of U.S. marines, dug in beneath the baleful red eye of Jupiter. As terrifying events light years distant begin to converge---with confrontation imminent and annihilation inevitable---a secret history of creation and doom must at long last be contended with...if humankind is to finally claim its glorious heritage among the stars.2040: Ruins of ancient civilization uncovered on Mars reveal startling truths about the creation of humankind.\n</p>\n<p>\n 2042: In the gray dust of the Earth''s Moon, an extinct enslaving race left behind more answers, more questions...and a grim warning.\n</p>\n<p>\n 2067: As Earth''s warring factions clash in space for scraps of alien technology, a strange artifact lies trapped beneath the ice-locked oceans of Europa: a machine that holds the key to the final human destiny.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is called "The Singer" for the eerie tone it emits. An artificial intelligence built eons ago, it may ultimately solve the mystery of the vanished alien races responsible for the birth and development of humanity. But after decades of war, the hostile nations of Earth care more for power than for knowledge. And now all that stands between the coveted Al and an all-out Chinese assault is a vastly outnumbered contingent of U.S. marines, dug in beneath the baleful red eye of Jupiter. As terrifying events light years distant begin to converge---with confrontation imminent and annihilation inevitable---a secret history of creation and doom must at long last be contended with...if humankind is to finally claim its glorious heritage among the stars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/911'),
(224, 'Everything Can Be Beaten', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Admirers of the well-beloved Mr. Chancre Scolex should find reason to rejoice in Everything Can Be Beaten which, according to the author, is "based on a completely fabricated true story." Mr. Scolex devoted his time and talent to writing Everything Can Be Beaten''s compelling story, as well as to designing the book''s unique layout and the appearance of its complex, multi-faceted characters. Matching Mr. Scolex''s devotion to quality and artistry, Mr. Scrambly supplied colorful painted illustrations. These paintings vividly depict the story of IT, a hapless creature who breaks out of his monotonous existence to explore the realms that lie outside of the only room he has ever known. Bored of a life spent beating an endless supply of kittens, IT ventures outside and discovers a world entirely new to him. Though he is at first elated to find a place full of wonder and happiness, IT soon realizes that he can never belong in this welcoming, joyful land. "Alone in paradise," he is despondent and depressed until he realizes that, indeed, everything can be beaten, even in this strange new world. Writing and layouts by Chancre Scolex (sometimes known as Jhonen Vasquez), paintings by Crab Scrambly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/838'),
(225, 'Exile', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Striga, former dragon owl from the Middle Kingdom beyond the Unnamed Sea, has come to stay at the great tree. He has earned the trust of all by saving Bell, Soren''s owlet, from Nyra, and he grows daily closer to the young king Coryn, with whom he seems to share a strange bond. The Striga senses the power of the ember hidden in Bubo''s forge and draws it closer. As his power waxes, he accuses the Band of treason and produces flimsy evidence to support his abominable claim. And so the Band is exiled, strengthening the Striga''s hold over Coryn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Band seeks refuge in distant forests and enlists the help of old friends, but every action they take is construed as further treason, and agents of the Striga - former Guardians - hunt them mercilessly, until for safety sake the band itself must separate. They devise as system of messages and alarms and so communicate despite their isolation. Old friends, loyal family and allies help devise a plan to shake the hold the Striga has on Coryn and to free the young king and the tree from this new, insidious tyranny. It will take courage, daring and wisdom, but the Band will meet the new challenge - for the sake of the king, and the Great Ga''Hoole Tree.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1180'),
(226, 'The Eye of the World', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. "Jordan is able to take ... familiar elements and make them his own, in a powerful novel of wide and complex scope. Open religious and political conflicts add a gritty realism, while the cities and courts provide plenty of drama and splendor. Women have a stronger role than in Tolkien.... Each character in this large cast remains distinct.... Their adventures are varied, and exciting.... "The Eye of the World" stands alone as a fantasy epic."--"Locus" "Robert Jordan has created a fantasy world as tangible and credible as history. He has a fine eye for detail and a vivid sense of drama."--Morgan Llewelyn "Robert Jordan''s "The Eye of the World" proves that there''s still plenty of life in the ancient tradition of epic fantasy. Jordan has a powerful vision of good and evil-- but what strikes me as most pleasurable about "The Eye of the World" is all the fascinating people moving through a rich and interesting world."--Orson Scott Card "Jordan''s world is rich in detail and his plot is rich in incident. Impressive work, and highly recommended."--"ALA Booklist"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/361'),
(227, 'Eyes of the Storm', 'Jeff Smith &amp; Steve Hamaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the first Bone trilogy comes to a conclusion, questions are answered, mysteries are revealed, and the stage is set for the brewing conflict in the valley. Jeff Smith is in top form in\n  <em>\n   Bone: Eyes of the Storm\n  </em>\n  . His artful balancing of humor, suspense, and pathos makes for an unforgettable reading experience. The dream sequences in this volume are inspired pieces of comics storytelling, especially the six-page "Moby Bone" sequence: the pacing, illustration, symbolism, and panel layout are close to perfect. A special addition to this collection is a set of more than 40 pages that have been retouched from the already near-perfect original comics. There are also 5 never-before-seen story pages and 9 new illustrations.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eyes of the Storm is the third book in the Bone series. It collects issues 13-19 of Jeff Smith''s Bone comic book series along with 5 previously unpublished story pages and 9 new illustrations. It marks the conclusion of the first part of the saga, titled "Vernal Equinox". The book was first published by Cartoon Books in its original black-and-white form in 1996. Paperback and hardback coloured editions were published in 2006 by Scholastic. The volume begins to show more mature storytelling than previous volumes, an example of this being that there is more issues of violence featured. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Synopsis\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1193'),
(228, 'The Eyre Affair', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Jasper Fforde''s Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of BrontÄ—''s novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1219'),
(229, 'Fahrenheit 451', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury''s classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don''t put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury''s vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don''t give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy." Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature. Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/222'),
(230, 'The Fall of Hyperion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion. On the world of Hyperion the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever be the same.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Fall of Hyperion is the second science fiction novel by Dan Simmons in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe. The novel was written in 1990, and won both the British Science Fiction and a Locus Awards in 1991. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award that same year, and the Nebula Award in 1990. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot introduction | Universe | Key concepts | Plot summary\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1163'),
(231, 'Fall With Honor', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/731'),
(232, 'Fallen Angels', 'Larry Niven &amp; Jerry Pournelle &amp; Michael Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a new technology-free government of the United States is elected to counteract the onset of the greenhouse effect, a devastating ice age results, and two hunted Space Hab astronauts become the planet''s only hope for survival. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Larry Niven\n </strong>\n (left) is the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of such classics as\n <em>\n  Ringworld, The Integral Trees\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Destiny''s Road\n </em>\n . He has also collaborated with both Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes on\n <em>\n  The Legacy of Heorot, Beowulf''s Children\n </em>\n , and the bestselling\n <em>\n  Dream Park\n </em>\n series. He lives in Chatsworth, California.\n</p>\n<p>\n Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle were the joint winners of the 2005 Robert A. Heinlein Award.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jerry Pournelle\n </strong>\n (right), a past winner of the John W. Campbell Award, has collaborated with Niven on numerous bestsellers. He has also written such successful solo novels as\n <em>\n  Janissaries\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Starswarm\n </em>\n . He lives in Studio City, California.\n</p>\n<p>\n Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle were the joint winners of the 2005 Robert A. Heinlein Award.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/691'),
(233, 'Farewell To Earth', 'Bruce Coville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Is this the end of the Alien Mission?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n All things must come to an end -- even sixth grade. But not all things end happily, and it looks as if Pleskit Meenom''s year as a sixth grade alien is about to end in catastrophe as Earth is swept by rumors that something horrible has happened at the alien embassy. Soon anti-alien demonstrations erupt outside Pleskit''s school.\n</p>\n<p>\n Who is behind the rumors? Is there really a secret enemy on the embassy staff? What happens if the mission fails?\n</p>\n<p>\n When Pleskit disappears, those questions take on new urgency. Desperate to answer them, Pleskit''s friends Tim Tompkins and Rafaella Cruz are forced to team up with Tim''s old enemy, Jordan Lynch, to save the mission...and Earth!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bruce Coville\n </strong>\n is the author of nearly ninety books for young readers, including the international best-seller\n <em>\n  My Teacher Is an Alien.\n </em>\n He has been a teacher, a toy maker, a cookware salesman, and a grave digger. In addition to his work as an author, Bruce is much in demand as a speaker and as a storyteller. He is also the founder and president of Full Cast Audio, a company dedicated to producing unabridged recordings of children''s books in a full-cast format. For more information about Bruce, check out www.brucecoville.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/894'),
(234, 'Farmer in the Sky', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Earth is crowded and food is rationed, but a colony on Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter, offers an escape for teenager Bill Lermer and his family.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Robert A. Heinlein,\n </strong>\n four-time winner of the Hugo Award and recipient of three Retro Hugos, received the first Grand Master Nebula Award for lifetime achievement. His worldwide bestsellers have been translated into 22 languages and include\n <em>\n  Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, Time Enough for Love,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.\n </em>\n His long-lost first novel, For Us, the Living, was recently published by Scribner and Pocket Books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/245'),
(235, 'Faun &amp; Games', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n What can a hapless reviewer possibly find to say about Anthony''s Xanth yarns--here the 21st of that ilk--that hasn''t been said before? Astonishing as it may seem, Anthony has found the present puns-and-anything-goes format too restrictive, so he''s introduced a miniature planet called Ptero that contains (wait for this) everything in Xanth that is or ever could be! The future sure won''t have been what it used to be. So: evidently, nothing much--but stay tuned for next year''s adventure (according to reports from Ptero, it''ll be about zombies). And, meantime, in the author''s afterword, you can catch up on the latest news about Anthony''s teeth. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Piers Anthony''s most exceptional Xanth adventure ever reveals wnodrous new worlds of mirth and magic!\n</p>\n<p>\n The miraculous and mirth-filled land of Xanth holds many marvels. But now an extraordinary new aspect of this remarkable realm unfolds as young Forrest Faun''s quest takes him to a tiny planet hidden in the heart of Xanth. There, with a delightful "day mare" as his constant companion, Forrest will find more marvels then he ever dreamed of.\n</p>\n<p>\n Packed with magic, mystery, and mirth,\n <em>\n  Faun &amp; Games\n </em>\n is the freshest and most exciting Xanth adventure in a month of Pundays!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/485'),
(236, 'Fearless', 'Jack Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n To ward off an attack by the Syndics, Geary orders the fleet to the Sancere system where they engage in combat, which takes its toll on the officers and crew of the Alliance, prompting a mutiny that divides them--and makes them an easy target. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/995'),
(237, 'Feet of Clay', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Feet of Clay\n </em>\n , Terry Pratchett continues the fantasy adventures on Discworld--where anything goes. Anything but murder, that is. Commander Vimes of the Watch must investigate a puzzling series of deaths, with help from various trolls and dwarfs. Pratchett''s humor and excellent writing skills draw the reader effortlessly into his zany world.\n <em>\n  Feet of Clay\n </em>\n is 19th in the series.\n <em>\n  --Blaise Selby\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A flat platter of a planet spinning atop the backs of four giant elephants perched on the shell of an immense turtle: it''s no surprise that life on Discworld is far from mundane. Pratchett''s 17th Discworld novel picks up where his last, Men at Arms, left off, following Ankh-Morpork City Watch Commander Samuel Vimes and his fellow cops as they strive to maintain a semblance of order in a city as infamous for its intrigues as for its ethnic diversity. An elderly priest is killed, then the harmless old curator of the Dwarf Bread Museum is found beaten to death with one of his own exhibits. Investigation reveals a link to the city''s golems?silent, tireless workers built of clay and brought to life with magic. There''s a rash of golem suicides, and Vimes uncovers a plot that could topple the government. Pratchett''s latest is full of sly puns and the lively, outrageous characters his readers expect. Those new to Discworld?which first appeared in Pratchett''s The Colour of Magic, 1983?will have no trouble keeping up with the action. This is fantasy served with a twist of Monty Python, parody that works by never taking itself too seriously. Author tour; U.K. and translation rights: Ralph Vicinanza.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(238, 'The Fellowship of the Ring', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/205'),
(239, 'Fiddler Fair', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A COMMAND PERFORMANCE BY FANTASY''S GRAND DIVAMercedes Lackey has, in a few short years, soared to the peak of the fantasy field, and her thousands of enthusiastic readers clamor for more and more. Now comes a volume demonstrating the wide range of her talent, running the gamut from her beloved Bardic fantasies to urban fantasy set in the modern world; from science fiction adventure to chilling horror. And throughout Fiddler Fair, Lackey''s sheer storytelling skill will hold the reader spellbound. Learn what happens when animal rights fanatics try to "liberate" genetically reconstructed dinosaurs. Follow Lawrence of Arabia into the desert to meet a power beyond human comprehension; and be with King Arthur, reborn into the present day, when he again gains possession of the enchanted sword Excalibur. And, in a very weird encounter of the most bizarre kind, learn why an alien from a UFO took an unusual interest in a battered Chevy pickup truck.Fiddler Fair is a feast for the multitudes of Lackeyfans everywhere -- and for new readers, a powerful introduction to the most significant new fantasy writer of the decade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/692'),
(240, 'The Fifth Elephant', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren''t there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?...When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn''t want to. He''s been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, ruby tights. Of course where cops (even those clad in tights) go, alas, crime follows. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard is found in underground seams along with tusks and teeth and other precious ivory artifacts. It''s up to the dauntless Vimes -- bothered as usual by a familiar cast of Discworld inhabitants (you know, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires and such) -- to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm. Which of course he does. After all, solving mysteries is his job.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(241, 'Fillerbunny', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s here! The book nobody asked for. The book everyone hoped would never see the light of day. Yes, the book that, in public appearances, swore it would never follow through on its drunken threats to violate reality by ever coming to be, which is just weird if you think about it since for it to swear anything in public it would have to exist already. Fillerbunny returns almost twice as long, and possibly ten times as horrible, with new adventures to test the tolerance levels of even the most monstrous of comic reading goblins out there. Delicately handcrafted by delicate, critically reviled master artist Jhonen Vasquez, this book will take you on a soaring trip through the ecstasies of an unbridled imagination (a filth-caked rabbit who cries a lot). Featuring two pages of color!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/822'),
(242, 'Fillerbunny', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s here! The book nobody asked for. The book everyone hoped would never see the light of day. Yes, the book that, in public appearances, swore it would never follow through on its drunken threats to violate reality by ever coming to be, which is just weird if you think about it since for it to swear anything in public it would have to exist already. Fillerbunny returns almost twice as long, and possibly ten times as horrible, with new adventures to test the tolerance levels of even the most monstrous of comic reading goblins out there. Delicately handcrafted by delicate, critically reviled master artist Jhonen Vasquez, this book will take you on a soaring trip through the ecstasies of an unbridled imagination (a filth-caked rabbit who cries a lot). Featuring two pages of color!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/823'),
(243, 'Fillerbunny', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s here! The book nobody asked for. The book everyone hoped would never see the light of day. Yes, the book that, in public appearances, swore it would never follow through on its drunken threats to violate reality by ever coming to be, which is just weird if you think about it since for it to swear anything in public it would have to exist already. Fillerbunny returns almost twice as long, and possibly ten times as horrible, with new adventures to test the tolerance levels of even the most monstrous of comic reading goblins out there. Delicately handcrafted by delicate, critically reviled master artist Jhonen Vasquez, this book will take you on a soaring trip through the ecstasies of an unbridled imagination (a filth-caked rabbit who cries a lot). Featuring two pages of color!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/824'),
(244, 'The Final Empire', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Brandon Sanderson''s epic fantasy trilogy overturns the expectations of readers and then goes on to tell the epic story of evil overturned in a richly imagined world. A thousand years ago evil came to the land and has ruled with an iron hand ever since. The sun shines fitfully under clouds of ash that float down endlessly from the constant eruption of volcanoes. A dark lord rules through the aristocratic families and ordinary folk are condemned to lives in servitude, sold as goods, labouring in the ash fields. But now a troublemaker has arrived and there is rumour of revolt. A revolt that depends on criminal that no-one can trust and a young girl who must master Allomancy - the magic that lies in all metals. A word of mouth success in the states the Mistborn trilogy has, this year, broken onto the New York Times Bestseller list. The time is ripe for its success to cross the Atlantic\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/982'),
(245, 'The Fire Within', 'Chris D&#39;Lacey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-8â€“This British import has a satisfying domestic reality, spiced with some very unusual dragons. When college student David Rain begins rooming at the home of Liz Pennykettle and her 11-year-old daughter, Lucy, he becomes aware of a variety of unusual happenings connected to the clay dragons that Liz creates and sells. As David slowly learns about the family''s past and abilities, he has to decide whether to accept Gadzooks, the special dragon Liz made for him. Lucy''s attempts to save the neighborhood squirrels from a scheming neighbor are a second plot focus. A fictional story David writes for Lucy about these animals mirrors real developments in their lives, creating an unusual story-within-a-story. In spite of the dragon''s eye staring out from the cover, readers may not find what they expect hereâ€“there are no magical battles or world-spanning quests to be found. Instead, d''Lacey has created a realistic relationship among David, Liz, and the appealingly strong-willed Lucy, and his dragon''s small size is mirrored in the limited magic it performs. Information about the dragons'' past and the promise of further stories from David leave ample room for the sequel.\n <em>\n  Fire Within\n </em>\n is a smooth read and an original addition to dragon lore._â€“Beth L. Meister, Pleasant View Elementary School, Franklin, WI_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for The Fire Within: "D''Lacey''s characters are realistic and engaging. . . . A page-turner." --The Horn Book Praise for Icefire: "Chris d''Lacey''s writing is sometimes exciting and sometimes silly. But that seems in keeping with the worlds he created -- one that seems almost real and one that is beyond imagination." --The Washington Post Praise for Fire Star: ". . . [T]he story, with its involving and thought-provoking plot full of clever little dragons, mystical polar bears, and spiritual and ecological aspects, will appeal to many fantasy lovers." --School Library Journal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/849'),
(246, 'The Fires of Heaven', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn, continues his effort to unify the diverse people of a discordant world against the Dark One in this fifth tome of the Wheel of Time series (begun with The Eye of the World ). While the Aes Sedai, women who channel the One Power, and the Forsaken, ancient disciples of the Dark One, strive to bend him to their purposes, Rand leads the clans of the Aiel in a war of unification. Rand must try to master his powers as a man who can channel, while eluding the concomitant madness, as two groups of women attempt to come to his aid. His love, Elayne, Daughter-Heir of Andor, and Nynaeve, both Aes Sedai in training, join a circus to evade an angry sisterhood, and Siuan Sanche, former leader of the Aes Sedai now stripped of her powers, and two companions seek other rebels in an attempt to avert the final doom. Jordan deftly weaves details from previous books into this narrative and includes a glossary so that new readers can pick up the saga at this point. But all should beware: the few months covered here suggest it may be years and many more volumes before this series reaches its conclusion.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn, leads his army of desert warriors toward a destined war against the forces of the Dark One. Elsewhere, while the Forsaken seed the land with their plots of corruption, a few stalwart individuals gather their strength for the coming battle. Jordan''s epic saga of a world threatened by evil incarnate builds steadily as separate strands of a complex plot begin to come together. Fans of this richly detailed and vividly imagined series will not be disappointed.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/365'),
(247, 'The First Collier', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for the Guardians of Ga''Hoole series:\n  <br />\n  ''''The fantasy''s strong believability and fascinating plot make this series a must-read for fantasy-lovers.'''' --\n  <em>\n   Children''s Literature\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  ''''Lasky has combined fascinating details of how real owls live with her imaginary civilization.'''' --_School Library Journal_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is a time of Legends and a time of chaos. Warlords vie for power and marauding outlaws roam the land. Good King Hrath and his queen, Siv, noble Spotted Owls struggle to keep peace in their kingdom. Grank, noble Spotted Owl, friend and supporter of King Hrath, has exiled himself to Beyond the Beyond, where he has developed his firesight and learns how to work with embers, fire and how to forge metals. He is the First Collier. Deep in a volcano in the farthest reaches of Beyond the Beyond, he discovers a magical Ember but fears its awful powers will be misused and hides it again. (continued)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1175'),
(248, 'First Light Chronicles Freeground', 'Randolph Lalonde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Large enough to support an entire civilization, one of the last free ports all alone in the dark, Freeground Station is about to come under siege. Able to fight off periodical assaults and attempted takeovers in the past, they are losing ground technologically, and with no nearby allies they find themselves resorting to the unorthodox to improve their situation. Jonas Valent, a former engineer with the Freeground Fleet has reduced his professional life as a trade and supply agent, a not so glorified port traffic director. In his spare time he and his friends engage in anonymous combat with anyone who opposes them in station wide simulations. Their success rate and original thinking have earned them the attention of Freeground Fleet Command who have plans for the unsuspecting anonymous team. This book is about how it all began for Jonas and his friends. How they came together and took their first steps out into the galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1008'),
(249, 'First Light Chronicles Omnibus', 'Randolph Lalonde', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Geoff of SomaCow Radio says; "Engaging, thrilling, exciting, new concepts. This author does a great job of integrating the staples of science fiction in new ways. Loved the character interaction (especially in the last one). There are great twists in this book series. It was like getting hit in the back of the head, I didn''t see them coming. I really enjoyed reading and reviewing this book series and I''m going on to read Resurrection. I see big things coming for this author."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Good science fiction is hard to find, good independent writers are even harder. This is the best independent writer I''ve read in a decade, bar none.\n</p>\n<p>\n He strikes a balance between plot and character that most professionals struggle and fail to achieve. I recommend this book to all my listeners and to everyone who appreciates a character driven story."\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the darkest region of our galaxy sits a solitary beacon; Freeground Station. Serving as a waypoint to interstellar travelers it houses an entire civilization. Jonas and his friends spent their spare time in tactical simulations, not drawing much attention at first. As months passed the basic combat challenges became mundane so they secretly entered military training exercises. To Fleet Command''s surprise they broke records and beat their best. Instead of punishing Jonas they offered him and his friends an opportunity to to undergo a dangerous, exciting mission: Go out into the galaxy, quietly seek technology and opportunities that would aid the people of Freeground Station. This series is about their first voyage together, the relationships they forge with each other and the people they meet along the way. All three First Light Chronicles books are included in this volume, the precursor to the new Space Opera series fans are raving about across the globe: Spinward Fringe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/966'),
(250, 'First to Fight', 'David Sherman &amp; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Marines, we have just become a low-tech deep recon patrol . . ."\n</p>\n<p>\n Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force, and supporting arms, and carrying only a day''s water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charlie Bass and his seven-man team faced a grim future seventy-five light-years from home. The only thing between his Marines and safety was eighty-five miles of uncharted, waterless terrain and two thousand bloodthirsty savages with state-of-the-art weapons in their hands and murder on their minds.\n</p>\n<p>\n But the enemy didn''t reckon on the warrior cunning of Marines'' Marine Charlie Bass and the courage of the few good men who would follow him anywhere--even to death. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n "HARD TO PUT DOWN . . . Any book written by Cragg and Sherman is bound to be addictive, and this is the first in what promises to be a great adventure series. FIRST TO FIGHT is rousing, rugged, and just plain fun."\n <br />\n --Ralph Peters, New York Times bestselling author of Red Army\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Marines, we have just become a low-tech deep recon patrol . . ."\n</p>\n<p>\n Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force, and supporting arms, and carrying only a day''s water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charlie Bass and his seven-man team faced a grim future seventy-five light-years from home. The only thing between his Marines and safety was eighty-five miles of uncharted, waterless terrain and two thousand bloodthirsty savages with state-of-the-art weapons in their hands and murder on their minds.\n</p>\n<p>\n But the enemy didn''t reckon on the warrior cunning of Marines'' Marine Charlie Bass and the courage of the few good men who would follow him anywhere--even to death. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n "HARD TO PUT DOWN . . . Any book written by Cragg and Sherman is bound to be addictive, and this is the first in what promises to be a great adventure series. FIRST TO FIGHT is rousing, rugged, and just plain fun."\n <br />\n --Ralph Peters, New York Times bestselling author of Red Army\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/945'),
(251, 'Flight to Starfall', 'David Lilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1185'),
(252, 'Floodgates', 'Haden Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1107'),
(253, 'Flowers for Algernon', 'Daniel Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Daniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic,\n <em>\n  Flowers for Algernon\n </em>\n . As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation\n <em>\n  Charly\n </em>\n (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical.\n</p>\n<p>\n Following his doctor''s instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can''t even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I dint know mice were so smart.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration, the effects begin to show and the reports steadily improve: "Punctuation, is? fun!" But getting smarter brings cruel shocks, as Charlie realizes that his merry "friends" at the bakery where he sweeps the floor have all along been laughing at him, never with him. The IQ rise continues, taking him steadily past the human average to genius level and beyond, until he''s as intellectually alone as the old, foolish Charlie ever was--and now painfully aware of it. Then, ominously, the smart mouse Algernon begins to deteriorate...\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Flowers for Algernon\n </em>\n is a timeless tear-jerker with a terrific emotional impact.\n <em>\n  --David Langford\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n PRAISE FOR FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON\n <br />\n "A tale that is convincing, suspenseful and touching."--_The New York Times _\n <br />\n "An ingeniously touching story . . . Moving . . . Intensely real."--_The Baltimore Sun_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/664'),
(254, 'Flyte', 'Angie Sage', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s been a year since septimus heap discovered his real family and true calling to be a wizard. As Apprentice to Extra Ordinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand, he is learning the fine arts of Conjurations, Charms, and other Magyk, while Jenna is adapting to life as the Princess and enjoying the freedom of the Castle. But there is something sinister at work. Marcia is constantly trailed by a menacing Darke Shadow, and Septimus''s brother Simon seems bent on a revenge no one understands. Why is the Darke Magyk still lingering? Bringing fantasy to new heights, Angie Sage continues the journey of Septimus Heap with her trademark humor and all of the clever details readers have come to love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/277'),
(255, 'The Folklore of Discworld', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the most interesting and critically underrated novelists we have â€¦\n <strong>\n  The Folklore of Discworld\n </strong>\n â€” co-authored with the eminent folklorist Jacqueline Simpson â€” emphasizes his irreverence and drollery.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  The Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPratchett is, like Mark Twain or Jonathan Swift, not just a great writer but also an original thinker â€¦ funny, exciting, lighthearted and, like all the best comedy, very serious.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Guardian\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett joins up with a leading folklorist to reveal the legends, myths and customs of Discworld, together with helpful hints from Planet Earth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, and fairy tales: our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got here. It is the same on Discworld, except that beings, which on Earth are creatures of the imagination â€” like vampires, trolls, witches and, possibly, gods â€” are real, alive and, in some cases kicking, on the Disc.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <strong>\n  The Folklore of Discworld\n </strong>\n , Terry Pratchett teams up with leading British folklorist Jacqueline Simpson to take an irreverent yet illuminating look at the living myths and folklore that are reflected, celebrated and affectionately libelled in the uniquely imaginative universe of Discworld.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/821'),
(256, 'Fool&#39;s Errand', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This first volume of a new trilogy from one of fantasy''s most popular and skilled authors will delight longtime Hobb fans as well as first-time readers of her work.\n</p>\n<p>\n FitzChivalry, the hero of The Farseer trilogy, now lives an isolated and quiet life with his foster son Hap and his Wit partner wolf, Nighteyes, until he is sought out by his old mentor Chade and the enigmatic, charming Fool. Once again, duty calls: Fitz must find a missing prince and prevent political chaos in the Six Duchies. The mission will test his conflicting loyalty to country and family, his uneasy compromise with his own magic, and all the relationships he values most.\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re a fantasy fan who hasn''t yet explored the Farseer world, this is a fine place to start: Hobb deftly provides new readers with all the needed information. The finely detailed world building and intensive character development rarely slow down the action of the story.\n <em>\n  Fool''s Errand\n </em>\n is a complex, beautifully written and sometimes heart-rending examination of the consequences of duty and love.\n <em>\n  --Roz Genessee\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this hard-to-put-down follow-up to the Farseer Trilogy, Hobb maintains the high standards of her earlier fantasy series. The Fool and FitzChivalry Farseer band together once more to ride against the foes of the Farseer royal family in the kingdom of the Six Duchies. Last seen in Assassin''s Quest, FitzChivalry (aka Tom Badgerlock due to the shock of white in his dark hair) has matured beyond the youth blindly following orders. For the past 15 years, Fitz has quietly led the life of a semi-recluse, trying his hardest to disappear. Believing that his glory days are over, he''s surprised when fate (in the form of the Fool) pulls him back into the political intrigues that plague the Six Duchies. Endowed with both royal Skill magic and beast magic, Fitz assumes the task of returning the wayward heir to the throne, Prince Dutiful, to his home before his betrothal ceremony something that should be an easy task. In the event, the easy task proves extremely difficult, both physically and mentally for Fitz. The first half of the novel mostly focuses on Fitz''s angst-ridden past. The heart-thumping, sword-clashing action that Hobb is known for emerges only during the second half, bringing Fitz fully to life. This is not to say that the first half is by any means dull. It''s not. But the full range of Fitz''s capabilities doesn''t come to the forefront until later. When the action sequences finally kick in, they''re non-stop. What starts as a very good read shifts into a stay-up-until-2:00 a.m.-to-finish type of book. (Jan. 9)Forecast: Stephen Youll''s quiet jacket art gives no hint of the novel''s intensity, but Hobb fans will know better and not be deterred.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/955');
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(257, 'Fool&#39;s Fate', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fool''s Fate\n </em>\n is the third book of Robin Hobb''s Tawny Man trilogy, and the ninth and concluding volume of the Fitzchivalry Farseer saga, one of the best high-fantasy series of the turn of the millennium. Fitz is the bastard son of the royal family of the Six Duchies, which he serves as assassin, guardsman, and Skill-magician. Fitz also serves the White Prophet as "Catalyst," the unique person who may enable the White Prophet to change human destiny for the better. In\n <em>\n  Fool''s Fate\n </em>\n , Fitz must accompany his kinsman, Prince Dutiful Farseer, to a distant northern island, where the prince must slay the world''s last male dragon to win the hand of the Out Islands princess Elliania, the woman he loves. However, not even Elliania wants the dragon dead; why, then, does she require Dutiful to kill Icefyre? Are darker forces manipulating Elliania? Even worse, if Icefyre dies, the White Prophet foresees not only his own death, but a grim future for humankind. The prophet''s only hope of changing the future is his Catalyst.\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Hobb''s riveting conclusion to the Tawny Man series in the Farseer world (after Fool''s Errand and Golden Fool), FitzChivalry Farseer and the man known as the Fool follow the dizzying, complex and treacherous steps that destiny has arranged for them - even though they both know that the end of the dance leads to agonizing decisions and, ultimately, death. Thrown in with Fitz and the Fool are a band of travelers who are on a quest to seek the head of the dragon Icefyre so that Prince Dutiful Farseer may marry the Narcheska Elliania. Most of the group find the time-consuming undertaking difficult and repugnant, for none of them truly wants to kill the ice-bound dragon, not even the Narcheska, it seems. All, however, are duty-bound to honor their word. Since the Fool has foreseen that all the possible consequences of killing the dragon spell his doom, his is the lone voice of dissent. With its carefully modulated tension, wonderful final revelation and strong characters who remain true to themselves throughout, this series may well become a classic in the fantasy field.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/956'),
(258, 'For Crying Out Loud!', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The publication of The World According to Clarkson in 2004 launched a multi-million-copy bestselling phenomenon. But to no avail.Jeremy''s one-man war on crimes against common sense has not yet been won. And our hero''s still scratching his head at the madness of it all. But it''s not all bad. He''s learned a little along the way, including:Why binge drinking is good for youThe worst word in the English languageThe remarkable secret of eternal youthThe pleasure and pain of middle-aged drummingThe problem with AmericaAnd how to dispose of a sealFor anyone who''s ever been driven to wonder just what is the matter with people these days, For Crying Out Loud is the perfect riposte. Surprising, fearless and always laugh-out-loud funny, Clarkson''s back. And he''s got a point . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/376'),
(259, 'For Love of Mother-Not', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely campelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer''s block. One hundred credits and he was hers.\n</p>\n<p>\n For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew -- even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip''s venom . . . and Flinx''s unusual Talents.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely campelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer''s block. One hundred credits and he was hers.\n</p>\n<p>\n For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew -- even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip''s venom . . . and Flinx''s unusual Talents.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/918'),
(260, 'Forbidden The Stars', 'Valmore Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Just what sci-fi ought to be and so often isn''t!" --reader, Jim\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is a solid piece of science fiction and something that reminds me slightly of the Clarke and the Herbert." --reader, Andrew\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is extremely imaginative and well written! Perfect sci-fi!" --reader, Liz\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the end of the 21st century, a catastrophic accident in the asteroid belt has left two surveyors dead, but the asteroid itself is completely missing, along with their young son, Alex Manez, who was accompanying them. On the outer edge of the solar system, the first manned mission to Pluto, led by the youngest female astronaut in NASA history, has led to an historic discovery: there is a marker left there by an alien race for humankind to find. We are not alone! While studying the alien marker, it begins to react and, four hours later, the missing asteroid appears in a Plutonian orbit, along with young Alex Manez, who has developed some alarming side-effects from his exposure to the kinetic element they call Kinemet. From the depths of a criminal empire based on Luna, an expatriate seizes the opportunity to wrest control of outer space, and takes swift action. The secret to faster-than-light speed is up for grabs, and the race for interstellar space is on!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/907'),
(261, 'Forever Young', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1051'),
(262, 'Forward the Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Grand Master of science fiction brings his most famous work, the epic Foundation series, to a posthumous close in this volume. Returning to the format of earlier books in the saga, he presents the story in discrete, novella-length segments, finally grappling with the figure at the center of the entire series: the adult Hari Seldon, creator of psychohistory and father of the Foundation itself (the young Seldon was featured in the previous series novel, Prelude to Foundation ). Here, Seldon confronts various threats to the Empire or to the psychohistory project, thwarting them for the most part by his characteristic brand of informed intuition. In part I, Seldon recognizes the rise of a dangerous anti-Imperial movement led by the charismatic Jo-Jo Joranum, and defuses it while simultaneously backing into the post of First Minister. In the second segment (of five), Seldon narrowly avoids an attempt on his life but cannot prevent the assassination of the Emperor Cleon I. Seldon faces personal as well as political setbacks while civilization crumbles. This volume neatly sews up the series, though it offers few real surprises. Most interesting is the glimpse it affords of Asimov himself, obviously personified in Seldon. The psychohistorian''s vast intellectual interest, his concern for the future of learning in a time of decline, and his frustration in the face of mortality, ring true with special poignance. Asimov''s fans should savor this final taste of his unique persona.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-This prequel to the "Foundation" series chronicles the life of Hari Sheldon as he struggles with his developing science of psychohistory in order to secure humanity''s survival. It works best when read in conjunction with the previous six titles. However, Asimov has left readers with a fascinating portrayal of a man set against the backdrop of the "rise and fall of the galactic empire." It is well written and peopled with believable characters. Essential for all science-fiction collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/373'),
(263, 'Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Foundation\n </em>\n marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn''t look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (_Foundation_,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for "Best All-Time Series." It''s science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field.\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the futureâ€”to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empireâ€”both scientists and scholarsâ€”and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.\n</p>\n<p>\n But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind''s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrunâ€”or fight them and be destroyed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/374'),
(264, 'Foundation and Earth', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man''s fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia. Springing from the same impulse that has fed his myriad nonfiction work, the novel''s debate is enlivened by Asimov''s fervid curiosity and his restless urge to explain everything, right down to the human passions that have largely vanished from his fiction. In fact, the characters, the tie-ins to Asimov''s Robot series and the search''s revelations suffer from the impersonal neatness that has handicapped Asimov''s other fiction. He has, however, found an ingenious way around his clumsiness with novelistic narrative by employing a formal fairy tale structure in which the different worlds represent tasks or gifts or wishes, their fair aspect hiding a deadly surprise. As a result, this rather lightweight addendum to the series breathes in a way his heavier, more substantial books seldom do. Paperback rights to Ballantine/Del Rey; BOMC alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man''s fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/371'),
(265, 'Foundation and Empire', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanityâ€™s light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence.\n</p>\n<p>\n Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empireâ€”still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empireâ€™s glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon.\n</p>\n<p>\n But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called The Muleâ€”a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleetsâ€¦a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Led by its founding father, the great psycho-historian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire--still the mightiest force in the Galaxy, even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire''s glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon. But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called the Mule-a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleets. . .a power that could turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/375'),
(266, 'Foundation&#39;s Edge', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/370'),
(267, 'The Fourth Bear', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like\n  <em>\n   The Big Over Easy\n  </em>\n  (2005), Fforde''s first Nursery Crime novel, this sequel offers literary allusions, confusions and gentle satire, though, again like its predecessor, it lacks the snap of the author''s Thursday Next series (_The Eyre Affair_, etc.). Jack Spratt, DCI of the Nursery Crime Division of the Reading Police Department, is also a PDR (Person of Dubious Reality), as are most of the characters Jack deals with, including the Gingerbreadman, a notorious killer, and Punch and Judy, a violence prone couple who are also marriage counselors. An alien policeman named Ashley, talking bears, a devoted group of cucumber-growing enthusiasts and an immensely powerful company, Quang Tech, add spice. All are grist for Fforde, whose word play runs the gamut from puns to shaggy dog stories. The Gingerbreadman''s on the loose, Goldilocks is missing and Jack''s once again persona non grata at headquarters. As Jack and his associates "bring justice to the nursery world," they also cast a Swiftian eye on corporate hubris, race relations, the drug trade and myriad other targets.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Still on leave from his wildly inventive Thursday Next series (_Something Rotten,_ 2004), Fforde offers a second entry in his wildly inventive Nursery Crime series (_The Big Over Easy_, 2005). The sadistic and superpowerful Gingerbreadman, nemesis of Jack Spratt, has escaped from St. Cerebellum''s secure hospital for the criminally insane. Unfortunately, Spratt has been suspended pending psychological evaluation for his role in the Red Riding Hood fiasco. Though at first he resists doing "a plot device number twenty-six" and hunting for the Gingerbreadman on his own, eventually Spratt has no choice but to follow the rules of detective convention. All he and his mismatched team have to do is find the links between exploding extreme-cucumber-growers, a missing reporter nicknamed Goldilocks, a theme park called SommeWorld, and, oh yes, porridge dealers. Chockablock with puns, literary allusions, groanworthy asides, and playful dismantling of the police procedural--wearing its love for an almost-extinct form of children''s literature like a tattoo--_The Fourth Bear_ will appeal to fans of whimsy, silliness, or plain old nonsense.\n  <em>\n   Keir Graff\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1222'),
(268, 'The Fox and the Hound', 'Daniel P. Mannix', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/765'),
(269, 'Fragments', 'Randolph Lalonde', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/970'),
(270, 'Frontline', 'Randolph Lalonde', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frontline takes the Spinward Fringe series to an epic scale without leaving what makes Space Opera great behind. In one book the series takes a great leap ahead and nothing will ever be the same. Frontline has the drama, grit, characterization and humour we''ve all come to expect from Randolph Lalonde.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What at first seemed to be a chaotic uprising of machine against man is becoming a controlled event, destroying the lives of billions and hurling the known galaxy into a state of utter discord. The fourth fall of mankind is well underway. The Order of Eden seems to be the only force for order and peace, offering a place in their new society in trade for a large cash investment and their freedom. Captain Valance and the Triton crew are finally working as a unit. Oblivious to the grand designs of the Order of Eden, they will be drawn into the center of a galactic conflict over a planet with a secret that''s been buried for decades. The question put to them is not if they can prevail, but if they can survive. Frontline takes the Spinward Fringe series to an epic scale without leaving what makes Space Opera great behind. Frontline has the drama, grit, characterization and humor we''ve come to expect from Randolph Lalonde.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/968'),
(271, 'Full Moon Rising', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Australian author Arthur''s fast-paced fantasy-romance, the first in a new series, introduces part vampire, part werewolf Riley Jenson, who works for Melbourne''s Directorate of Other Races, as does her twin brother, Rhoan. When Rhoan goes missing, a naked yet powerful vampire, Quinn, appears on Riley''s doorstep and asks for her aid. Riley and Quinn team up to find Rhoan, investigate the mysterious deaths of Directorate agents and determine who''s been creating vampire and werewolf clones. Despite their mutual attraction, Quinnâ€”once heartbroken by a werewolf loverâ€”will never fully trust another werewolf, but that doesn''t stop him from helping Riley through the lust that engulfs werewolves in the days leading up to the full moon. Strong, smart and capable, Riley will remind many of Anita Blake, Laurell K. Hamilton''s kick-ass vampire hunter. While Arthur (_Beneath a Rising Moon_) occasionally loses control of her plot as she sets the stage for later books, and some romance readers may be put off by the lack of monogamy, fans of Anita Blake and Charlaine Harris''s Sookie Stackhouse vampire series will be rewarded.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Arthur''s suspenseful, colorful debut introduces readers to a world in which vampires and werepeople work side by side. Riley Jenson and her twin brother, Rhoan, have a secret: they are half vampire, half werewolf, which gives them extraordinary powers. Both are employed by the Directorate, which polices the supernatural world. Rhoan is a guardian, but Riley, wanting to keep a lower profile, is an operative. Her boss, Jack, wants to bring her into the ranks of the guardians, but she soon has her hands full when Rhoan disappears. Complicating matters is Quinn, the sexy vampire camped outside the apartment Riley shares with Rhoan, looking for Rhoan on a business matter. When Riley, Jack, and Quinn discover Rhoan''s disappearance is connected to a shady company''s cloning experiments, Riley isn''t sure whom she can trust, especially when she learns one of her lovers may be involved in the conspiracy. Exciting fare with plenty of action, so that horror fans will eagerly anticipate the next installment in a fresh, sexy series.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/987'),
(272, 'Fuzzy Nation', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1160'),
(273, 'The Garden of Rama', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Introduced in Clarke''s 1973 Hugo- and Nebula-winning Rendezvous with Rama and most recently seen in Clarke and Lee''s Rama II , the massive spacecraft Rama is back, but the luster and sense of wonder generated by its first appearances have eroded. The once-exciting vessel, a "cylindrical worldlet," has been turned into a cheaply painted backdrop for an equally garish exposition of vice-lord politics. When Rama returns to earth and demands a sample of humanity for observation, a lying, corrupt government hands over 2000 citizens. These individuals serve as a microcosm to reflect most of today''s big sociological problems, thus implying that in 300 years no existing problems will have been solved nor will any others have been created. Clarke''s unmistakable style is sadly lacking. Essentially, the book suffers from an imbalance between what occurs onstage and what offstage. Minor characters are built up with detailed introductions and then generally ignored. Major events, about which reader interest has been piqued, are skipped, then given a one-sentence review. Potentially captivating interactions with aliens and advanced technology are ignored. Readers are advised to give this voyage a miss and wait for Rama''s next adventure.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trapped aboard the massive Raman spacecraft as it leaves Earth''s solar system, three cosmonauts begin a 13-year voyage toward an unkown destination. Combining the best of space adventure (as the spacefarers encounter other life forms within the multi-habitat vessel) with human drama (as children are born and raised in an unearthly environment), this third novel in the Rama cycle asks as many questions as it answers. Recommended, along with Clarke''s classic Rendezvous with Rama ( LJ 8/73) and Rama II (Bantam, 1989, coauthored with Lee), for most libraries. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/91\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/504'),
(274, 'Gather, Darkness!', 'Fritz Leiber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Gather, Darkness!" (originally serialized in "Astounding Science Fiction" in 1943) remains of of Fritz Leiber''s classic novels, a tale of the world 360 years after a nuclear holocaust, when priests rule using trickery and techology -- and of Armon Jarles,\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stefan Rudnicki has narrated more than 100 audiobooks. A recipient of AudioFile''s Earphones Award, Stefan is also a Grammy-winning audiobook producer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fritz Leiber, who died in 1992, was one of the most important SF and fantasy writers of the century. "The Big Time" is his most famous SF novel. "[His] awards for fantasy included the 1975 Grand Master of Fantasy Award, the 1976 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the 1981 Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, 6 Hugos, 4 Nebulas, and about 20 other awards.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1149'),
(275, 'The Gathering Storm', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe battle scenes have the breathless urgency of firsthand experience, and the . . . evil laced into the forces of good, the dangers latent in any promised salvation, the sense of the unavoidable onslaught of unpredictable events bear the marks of American national experience during the last three decades.â€â€”_The New York Times_ on The Wheel of Time\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Wheel of Time . . . is a fantasy tale seldom equaled and still less often surpassed in English.â€â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJordan has a powerful vision of good and evilâ€”but what strikes me as most pleasurable . . . is all the fascinating people moving through a rich and interesting world.â€â€”Orson Scott CardÂ on The Wheel of Time\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tarmon Gaiâ€™don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.\n</p>\n<p>\n The final volume of the Wheel of Time,\n <em>\n  A Memory of Light,\n </em>\n was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordanâ€™s editor---his wife, Harriet McDougal---to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents\n <em>\n  The Gathering Storm\n </em>\n as the first of three novels that will make up\n <em>\n  A Memory of Light.\n </em>\n This short sequence will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing to a close a journey begun almost twenty years ago and marking the conclusion of the Wheel of Time, the preeminent fantasy epic of our era.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this epic novel, Robert Jordanâ€™s international bestselling series begins its dramatic conclusion. Rand alâ€™Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. As he attempts to halt the Seanchan encroachment northward---wishing he could form at least a temporary truce with the invaders---his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Egwene alâ€™Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. As days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent, Egwene works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai while providing leadership in the face of increasing uncertainty and despair. Her fight will prove the mettle of the Aes Sedai, and her conflict will decide the future of the White Tower---and possibly the world itself.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/359'),
(276, 'Geis of the Gargoyle', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This newest entry in the Xanth series should delight Anthony''s (Harpy Thyme) many fans while drawing the usual groans from pun-hating others. Gargoyle Gary Gar, hereditary guardian and purifier of the waters of the Swan Knee River flowing from Mundania into Xanth, wants to make his job easier. The Good Magician Humfrey offers him an idea, but in exchange Gary must teach the wild child Surprise self-control, a task that requires him to assume human form. Agreeing with reluctance, Gary sets off to search for the suggested "philter" in the company of the multi-talented Surprise, the Sorceress Iris, demoness D. Mentia and the former juvenile delinquent Hiatus, who is seeking his true love, Desiree Dryad. Nearing their goal in the Region of Madness, the crew is cast back a millennium in time to find their quest tied to serious danger for all of Xanth. Through Anthony''s often charming froth an element of wisdom will occasionally shoulder its way.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anthony began writing his "Xanth" saga in the 1970s, but it wasn''t until Demons Don''t Dream (Tor Bks., 1993) that he made it to the hardcover best sellers lists. In this latest Xanth novel, an environmentally conscious gargoyle searches for a spell to purify a polluted river.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/482'),
(277, 'Getting Things Done : The Art of Stress-Free Productivity', 'David Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you''d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called\n <em>\n  Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Not quite. Yes,\n <em>\n  Getting Things Done\n </em>\n offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do''s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you''re working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible\n <em>\n  Fast Company\n </em>\n has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)\n</p>\n<p>\n As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen''s is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can''t junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket"\n</p>\n<p>\n That''s where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen''s system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen''s ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there''s anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It''s commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). --_Timothy Murphy_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Allen, a management consultant and executive coach, provides insights into attaining maximum efficiency and at the same time relaxing whenever one needs or wants to. Readers learn that there is no single means for perfecting organizational efficiency or productivity; rather, the author offers tools to focus energies strategically and tactically without letting anything fall through the cracks. He provides tips, techniques, and tricks for implementation of his workflow management plan, which has two basic components: capture all the things that need to get done into a workable, dependable system; and discipline oneself to make front-end decisions with an action plan for all inputs into that system. In short, do it (quickly), delegate it (appropriately), or defer it. While an infomercial for the author''s consulting practice, this road map for organizational efficiency may help many who have too much to do in too little time, both professionally and in their personal lives.\n <em>\n  Mary Whaley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/294'),
(278, 'The Ghost Brigades', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fast-paced interstellar military drama doesn''t quite meet the high expectations set by its predecessor, Scalzi''s acclaimed\n <em>\n  Old Man''s War\n </em>\n (2005), but it comes impressively close. Shifting focus from seniors in young bodies to infants in old bodies, it follows Jared Dirac, a superhuman soldier, from unusual birth to ambiguous death. Dirac is an altered clone of Charles Boutin, a military scientist who betrayed humankind to alien aggressors, and the Colonial Defense Forces'' only hope of finding Boutin lies in transplanting his memories into Dirac''s brain. When the transplant seems to fail, Dirac is sent to Special Forces, known as the Ghost Brigades for their habit of creating new soldiers from the DNA of the dead. His indoctrination there comes in handy when Boutin''s memories begin to surface. Scalzi pays gleeful homage to\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Forever War\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Starship Troopers\n </em>\n , sometimes at the expense of originality. All he needs to make the jump from good to great is to trust in his own ideas.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though it''s a sequel of sorts to his 2005 debut,\n <em>\n  Old Man''s War\n </em>\n , John Scalzi''s new novel is hardly business as usual. Beyond the battles and the portent of humanity''s end, Scalzi plays with deeper issues of identity in an increasingly technological world in this second volume of a proposed trilogy. A switch from first person to third and one narrator (Dirac) who is unaware of his own role in the story might hold the book back from must-read status, but otherwise\n <em>\n  The Ghost Brigades\n </em>\n gleams with the best traits of thoughtful SF.[HTML_REMOVED]\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/384'),
(279, 'Ghost Circles', 'Jeff Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ghost Circles is the seventh book in the Bone series. It collects issues 38-43 of Jeff Smith''s self-published Bone comic book series, and marks the beginning of the third and final part of the saga, entitled Harvest. The book was published by Cartoon Books in black-and-white in 2001 and in color by Scholastic Press in 2008. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Synopsis\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A long-dormant volcano explodes, blacking out the sun, mowing down trees, and filling the land with soot and ash. The Lord of the Locusts has been released. Against this apocalyptic backdrop, the Bone cousins along with Thorn and Gran''ma Ben struggle to reach safe haven in the city of Atheia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Lucius Downs lies severely wounded and trapped with the villagers in the camp at Old Man''s Cave.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1188'),
(280, 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\n </em>\n , there''s no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of\n <em>\n  don''t\n </em>\n want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo. --_Dave Callanan_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Cases rarely come much colder than the decades-old disappearance of teen heiress Harriet Vanger from her family''s remote island retreat north of Stockholm, nor do fiction debuts hotter than this European bestseller by muckraking Swedish journalist Larsson. At once a strikingly original thriller and a vivisection of Sweden''s dirty not-so-little secrets (as suggested by its original title,\n <em>\n  Men Who Hate Women\n </em>\n ), this first of a trilogy introduces a provocatively odd couple: disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist, freshly sentenced to jail for libeling a shady businessman, and the multipierced and tattooed Lisbeth Salander, a feral but vulnerable superhacker. Hired by octogenarian industrialist Henrik Vanger, who wants to find out what happened to his beloved great-niece before he dies, the duo gradually uncover a festering morass of familial corruptionâ€”at the same time, Larsson skillfully bares some of the similar horrors that have left Salander such a marked woman. Larsson died in 2004, shortly after handing in the manuscripts for what will be his legacy.\n <em>\n  100,000 first printing. (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/668'),
(281, 'The Giver', 'Lois Lowry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community''s Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of __, in this 1994\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the "ideal" world into which Jonas was born, everybody has sensibly agreed that well-matched married couples will raise exactly two offspring, one boy and one girl. These children''s adolescent sexual impulses will be stifled with specially prescribed drugs; at age 12 they will receive an appropriate career assignment, sensibly chosen by the community''s Elders. This is a world in which the old live in group homes and are "released"--to great celebration--at the proper time; the few infants who do not develop according to schedule are also "released," but with no fanfare. Lowry''s development of this civilization is so deft that her readers, like the community''s citizens, will be easily seduced by the chimera of this ordered, pain-free society. Until the time that Jonah begins training for his job assignment--the rigorous and prestigious position of Receiver of Memory--he, too, is a complacent model citizen. But as his near-mystical training progresses, and he is weighed down and enriched with society''s collective memories of a world as stimulating as it was flawed, Jonas grows increasingly aware of the hypocrisy that rules his world. With a storyline that hints at Christian allegory and an eerie futuristic setting, this intriguing novel calls to mind John Christopher''s Tripods trilogy and Hans Christian Andersen''s The Little Match Girl. Lowry is once again in top form--raising many questions while answering few, and unwinding a tale fit for the most adventurous readers. Ages 12-14.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/267'),
(282, 'God Emperor of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SCIENCE FICTION SERIES IN HISTORYWith more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert''s magnificent DUNE books stand among the major achievements of the imagination. God Emperor of Dune is the astonishing fourth book in the series. Centuries have passed on Dune itself, and the planet is green with life. Leto, the son of Dune''s savior, is still alive but far from human, and the fate of all humanity hangs on his awesome sacrifice...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/236'),
(283, 'The God Engines', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Captain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this -- and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain to whom the task is given.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tephe knows from that the start that his mission will be a test of his skill as a leader of men and as a devout follower of his god. It s what he doesn t know that matters: to what ends his faith and his ship will ultimately be put -- and that the tests he will face will come not only from his god and the Bishopry Militant, but from another, more malevolent source entirely...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Author John Scalzi has ascended to the top ranks of modern science fiction with the best-selling, Hugo-nominated novels Old Man''s War and Zoe''s Tale. Now he tries his hand at fantasy, with a dark and different novella that takes your expectations of what fantasy is and does, and sends them tumbling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Say your prayers...and behold The God Engines.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Author John Scalzi has ascended to the top ranks of modern science fiction with the best-selling, Hugo-nominated novels Old Man''s War and Zoe''s Tale.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/388'),
(284, 'Going Postal', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British fantasist Pratchett''s latest special-delivery delight, set in his wonderfully crazed city of Ankh-Morpork, hilariously reflects the plight of post offices the world over as they struggle to compete in an era when e-mail has stolen much of the glamour from the postal trade. Soon after Moist von Lipwig (aka Alfred Spangler), Pratchett''s not-quite-hapless, accidental hero, barely avoids hanging, Lord Havelock Vetinari, the despotic but pretty cool ruler of Ankh-Morpork, makes him a job offer he can''t refuseâ€”postmaster general of the Ankh-Morpork Post Office. The post office hasn''t been open for 20 years since the advent of the Internet-like clacks communication system. Moist''s first impulse is to try to escape, but Mr. Pump, his golem parole officer, quickly catches him. Moist must then deal with the musty mounds of undelivered mail that fill every room of the decaying Post Office building maintained by ancient and smelly Junior Postman Groat and his callow assistant, Apprentice Postman Stanley. The place is also haunted by dead postmen and guarded by Mr. Tiddles, a crafty cat. Readers will cheer Moist on as he eventually finds himself in a race with the dysfunctional clacks system to see whose message can be delivered first. Thanks to the timely subject matter and Pratchett''s effervescent wit, this 29th Discworld novel (after 2003''s\n <em>\n  Monstrous Regiment\n </em>\n ) may capture more of the American audience he deserves.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School - When petty con man Moist von Lipwig is hung for his crimes in the first chapter of this surprising and humorous novel, it appears to be the end. But this is Discworld after all, a world "a lot like our own but different." Moist awakes from the shock of his hanging to find that the city''s Patrician, Lord Vetinari, has assigned him a government job (a fate worse than death?) restoring the defunct postal system. Of course, there is much more to restore than the flow of letters and packages. Justice as well as communication has been poorly served by a hostile takeover of the "clacks" - a unique messaging system that is part semaphore, part digital, and under the monopoly of the Grand Trunk Company. Before Moist can get very far into the job, he encounters ghosts, the voices of unsent letters, and a ruthless corporate conspiracy. In this quickly escalating battle, the post office is definitely the underdog, but, as the author notes, "an underdog can always find somewhere soft to bite." Fortunately Moist has friends: the determined Miss Dearheart, a golem with more than feet of clay, and a secret society of unemployed and very unusual postal workers as well as a vampire named Oscar. The author''s inventiveness seems to know no end, his playful and irreverent use of language is a delight, and there is food for thought in his parody of fantasyland. This 29th Discworld novel, like the rest of the series, is a surefire hit for fans of Douglas Adams and Monty Python._ - Carolyn Lehman, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/29');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(285, 'Gold', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The last Isaac Asimov science fiction collection which contains all of his previously uncollected stories.Gold is Isaac Asimov''s last science fiction collection'' one containing all of his uncollected SF stories that had never before appeared in book form. Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-five year career of science fiction''s transcendent genius'' the world-famous author who defined the field of SF for its practitioners'' for its millions of readers'' and for the world at large.The stories collected here for the first time range from the humorous to the profound'' for Asimov was engaged until the end of his days in the work of redefining and expanding the boundaries of the literature he loved'' and indeed'' helped create. And there is more. For at the heart of this extraordinary compendium is the title story'' "Gold''" a moving and revealing drama about a writer who gambles everything on a chance at immortality-a gamble Asimov himself made. And won.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/441'),
(286, 'The Golden Age of the Sith #00', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/878'),
(287, 'The Golden Age of the Sith #01', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/877'),
(288, 'The Golden Age of the Sith #02', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/882'),
(289, 'The Golden Age of the Sith #03', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/881'),
(290, 'The Golden Age of the Sith #04', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/880'),
(291, 'The Golden Age of the Sith #05', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/879'),
(292, 'Golden Fool', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Blindness comes in many forms. For angst-ridden FitzChivalry Farseer, the blindness isn''t physical but rather an inability to gauge character. Fitz, the hero of this second volume in the trilogy that began with Fool''s Errand (2002), reluctantly returns, disguised as a servant, to Buckkeep town in the Six Duchies to be skill-master to Prince Dutiful, the king-in-waiting. Fitz is mourning the loss of his wolf bondmate Nighteyes, hating his disguise, worrying about his foster son''s behavior in Buckkeep and frantically trying to learn enough about the Skill to stay ahead of the prince during their training sessions. Fitz jumps from crisis to crisis like a bowling ball tossed onto a trampoline-his failure to look deeply at others'' motivations plunges him into a morass of poorly thought-out actions and badly managed confrontations. The harder Fitz tries, the worse his situation gets. The author juggles all the balls with aplomb, besides providing spot-on characterizations. The intrigue and double-dealing of the Farseer royal court are spider webs of interconnections, while the plot itself keeps the reader bouncing from one theory to another, right up to the somewhat abrupt ending. The writing may not be quite as fine as that in Hobb''s Assassins series (Assassin''s Apprentice, etc.), but this latest nonetheless shows why she ranks near the top of the high fantasy field.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A stout and good if not independently readable continuation of Hobb''s Tawny Man trilogy,\n <em>\n  Golden Fool\n </em>\n follows\n <em>\n  Fool''s Errand\n </em>\n [BKL D 15 01] closely in the real world as well as its predecessor''s fictional realm. FitzChivalry Farseer is back at work as apprentice to master assassin Chade, but the master is nearing the end of his life. Nor is that the young assassin''s only problem. The rescued Prince Dutiful isn''t living up to his name and in his dereliction threatens to disclose his secret and scandalous possession of beast magic. Moreover, Farseer''s wolf bondmate, Nighteyes, is dead, and the valuable companionship of the Fool (formerly known as the Tawny Man) is threatened not only by the Fool''s own quirks of character but also by a number of deadly secrets he holds. Altogether, there is enough intrigue of both the martial and magical variety to keep the characters up to their tailbones in alligators and readers turning pages--effects Hobb has yet to fail at producing. Fantasy readers know this, and librarians should react accordingly.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/957'),
(293, 'The Golden Tree', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Coryn has brought the ember to the great tree and been welcomed as king. It seems a golden age is dawning in the world of owls. But all that is golden is not necessarily good. Soren, Twilight, Gyfie, and Digger will face their biggest challenge yet. The young king, haunted by the suspicion that haggish blood flows in his veins, disappears for nights at a time to hunt for the truth, and his nocturnal wanderings imperil himself and the good guardians who travel with him. Back at the tree, all seems well, but the influence of the ember is strongand strange. The tree changes, as do the guardians left to govern in the absence of Soren and the king. Otulissa alone objects and her outspokenness puts her in grave danger. Someone must get word to Soren and the Band. But who?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1178'),
(294, 'Golem in the Gears', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA In this ninth Xanth novel, Grundy Golem is feeling unappreciated, so he decides to begin a Quest to locate Princess Ivy''s lost pet dragon, Stanley Steamer. Consultation with Good Magician Humfrey leads him to the Ivory Tower, where he rescues Rapunzel from the Sea Hag. As the Quest procedes, the Hag harries the couple and their companions. The puns that have made this series so popular with teens come thick and fast, although perhaps more forced and wearily than before. A lexicon of Xanthian people, places and things is attached.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grundy Golem got no respect. So, to prove himself, he volunteered for a quest to find the long-lost dragon, Stanley Steamer. On the way, he somehow manages to free a damsel in distress-- but not without incurring the wrath of the Sea Hag in the process. And when it comes to avenging herself on Grundy, the Sea Hag will never give up....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/473'),
(295, 'The Golem&#39;s Eye', 'Jonathan Stroud', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two years have passed since the events of The Amulet of Samarkand and the young magician Nathaniel is rising fast through the government ranks. But his career is suddenly threatened by a series of terrifying crises. A dangerous golem makes random attacks on London and other raids, even more threatening, are perpetrated by the Resistance. Nathaniel and Bartimaeus travel to Prague, enemy city of ancient magic, but while they are there uproar breaks out at home and Nathaniel returns to find his reputation in tatters. Can he rescue it from his Machiavellian adversaries in the government bent on his destruction? A thrilling sequel in which the relationship between the young magician and the djinni remains as teasing and complex as ever.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jonathan Stroud was born in Bedford and grew up in St Albans. He studied at York university. He has a strong background in children''s books -working at Walker, in their Game Book and Non-Fiction departments and Kingfisher Publications, editing children''s non-fiction. He has written and edited a number of game books and non-fiction titles for Walker Books and had three novels published by The Bodley Head before writing the Bartimaeus trilogy. Jonathan now lives in St. Albans with his wife and small daughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/741'),
(296, 'Good Omens', 'Terry Pratchett &amp; Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter - the world''s only totally reliable guide to the future - the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/167'),
(297, 'The Graveyard Book', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Winner of the Newbery Medal and the Booktrust Teenage Book Prize 2009, and nominated for both the 2010 Carnegie Award and the Kate Greenaway Award.When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard?Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family. A stunningly original novel deftly constructed over eight chapters, featuring every second year of Bod''s life, from babyhood to adolescence. Will Bod survive to be a man?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/420'),
(298, 'Graveyard Moon', 'Haden Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1094'),
(299, 'The Great Cow Race', 'Jeff Smith &amp; Steve Hamaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Part two of the first Bone trilogy has the three Bone cousins further entrenching themselves into their new valley home: Fone Bone is still pining for the lovely Thorn, Phoney Bone is plotting more schemes, and Smiley Bone is still, well, smiling! While it''s hard to upstage the hilarity and operatic chaos of the cow race, one of the really special moments of this book is from the first chapter when Fone Bone tries to outdo a beautiful country boy in a battle for Thorn''s attention.\n  <em>\n   Bone: The Great Cow Race\n  </em>\n  is funny, joyful, and bittersweet in a way that only the immensely talented Jeff Smith can deliver.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Great Cow Race is the second book in the Bone series. It collects issues 7-11 of Jeff Smith''s self-published Bone graphic novels, along with the short story "Up on the Roof" which was originally published in Wizard Presents: Bone 13Â½. The book was first published by Cartoon Books in its original black-and-white form in 1996. Paperback and hardback coloured editions were released in 2005 by Scholastic. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Synopsis | Video game\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1192'),
(300, 'The Great Hunt', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chosen by fate to become the Dragon Reborn--savior and destroyer of his world--young Rand al''Thor attempts to outrun his destiny by joining in a mad search for the lost Horn of Valere. Continuing the story begun in The Eye of the World ( LJ 2/15/90), Jordan creates a lush, sprawling tapestry of a novel in the tradition of Tolkien and Eddings. Recommended where fantasy is popular.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Book One of\n <em>\n  The Wheel of Time\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "_The Eye of the World_ is the best of its genre."--_The Ottawa Citizen_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A powerful novel of wide and complex scope."--_Locus_\n</p>\n<p>\n "This looks very like the next major fantasy epic. It has magic and pacing and detail and human involvement, with a certain subtlety of presentation and a grand central vision. Robert Jordan...is a lot of writer!"--Andre Norton\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/362'),
(301, 'The Grim Grotto', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s tough when the things that stand between you and your desired sugar bowl are a host of deadly mushrooms and an uncomfortable diving suit. The unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves in deep (once again) in this eleventh book in Lemony Snicket''s odd-and-full-of-woe-but-quite-funny Series of Unfortunate Events. In\n <em>\n  The Grim Grotto\n </em>\n , the siblings find themselves headed down Stricken Stream on a broken toboggan when they are spotted by the submarine\n <em>\n  Queequeg\n </em>\n , carrying Captain Widdershins, his somewhat volatile stepdaughter Fiona, and optimistic Phil from Lucky Smells Lumbermill. The adventures that follow as the crew tries to get to the aforementioned sugar bowl before Count Olaf are so horrible that the narrator inserts factual information about the water cycle so that readers will get bored and stop reading the book. It doesn''t work. As per usual, readers will want to soak up every awf! ul detail and follow the Baudelaires all the way back to the place we first met them--Briny Beach. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-7â€“This episode of Lemony Snicket''s continuing saga of the Baudelaire orphans (HarperCollins, 2004), finds them on a sled in the Stricken Stream. They are spotted by blustery Captain Widdershins of the submarine\n <em>\n  Queequeg\n </em>\n and taken aboard. Violet, Claus, and Sunny, dressed in diving suits with Herman Melville''s picture on the front, meet the captain''s bookish step-daughter, Fiona and the overly-optimistic cook, Phil (from the Lucky Smells Lumberyard). The crew sets out to find a lucky sugar bowl. They arrive at the fearsome Gorgonian Grotto, Sunny is attacked by a poisonous mushroom, leaving her gasping for breath. And, to make matters worse, the crew runs into the clutches of the villainous Count Olaf, the slick and chic Esme Squalor, and the bratty Carmelita Spats. Will the Baudelaires find an antidote to save Sunny? Will they escape from Count Olaf, Esme Squalor, and Carmelita Spats'' horrid singing? Will they find the sugar bowl? Narrator Tim Curry takes on the persona of each character, bringing them to life with his unique narration.\n <em>\n  The Grim Grotto\n </em>\n is a necessary addition to all library collections so Lemony Snicket fans can hear more about the continuing tribulations of the Baudelaires.â€“_Larry Cooperman, Jacksonville Public Library, FL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/445'),
(302, 'The Gripping Hand', 'Larry Niven &amp; Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This adequate but inconsequential sequel to The Mote in God''s Eye explores xenophobia and overpopulation in a futuristic world.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read."\n <em>\n  The San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n declared that "as science fiction,\n <em>\n  The Mote in God''s Eye\n </em>\n is one of the most important novels ever published." Now Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, award winning authors of such bestsellers as\n <em>\n  Footfall\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Legacy of Heorot,\n </em>\n return us to the Mote, and to the universe of Kevin Renner and Horace Bury, of Rod Blaine and Sally Fowler. There, 25 years have passed since humanity quarantined the mysterious aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own solar system. They have spent a quarter century analyzing and agonizing over the deadly threat posed by the only aliens mankind has ever encountered-- a race divided into distinct biological forms, each serving a different function. Master, Mediator, Engineer. Warrior. Each supremely adapted to its task, yet doomed by millions of years of evolution to an inescapable fate. For the Moties must breed-- or die. And now the fragile wall separating them and the galaxy beyond is beginning to crumble.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/296'),
(303, 'Guards! Guards!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The eighth Discworld novel â€” After this, dragons will never be the same again!\n</p>\n<p>\n This is where the dragons went. They lie . . . not dead, not asleep, but . . . dormant. And although the space they occupy isnâ€™t like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, thereâ€™s a key . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today and the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series. His triology for young readers,\n <em>\n  The Bromeliad\n </em>\n is being adapted into an animated movie.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(304, 'Guards! Guards! (Graphic Novel)', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/671'),
(305, 'GURPS Basic Set - Campaigns 4th Edition', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1201'),
(306, 'GURPS Basic Set - Characters 4th Edition', 'Steve Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1202'),
(307, 'The Half-Made World', 'Felix Gilman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A fantastical reimagining of the American West which draws its influence from steampunk, the American western tradition, and magical realismThe world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappearedâ€”the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. Now theyâ€™re just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope. To the west lies a vast, uncharted world, inhabited only by the legends of the immortal and powerful Hill People, who live at one with the earth and its elements. Liv Alverhyusen, a doctor of the new science of psychology, travels to the edge of themade world to a spiritually protected mental institution in order to study the minds of those broken by the Gun and the Line. In its rooms lies an old general of the Red Republic, a man whose shattered mind just may hold the secret to stopping the Gun and the Line. And either side will do anything to understand how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1218'),
(308, 'Harmonic Divergence', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/811'),
(309, 'Harpy Thyme', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With this fairly predictable but nevertheless amusing tale, Anthony ( Alien Plot ) returns to the magical world of Xanth, a place where "appearance counts for most of reality" and nearly everyone has some magical talent, even if it is only the ability to change the color of popcorn. In this installment, Gloha, the only goblin-harpy crossbreed in Xanth, attempts to find a male goblin-harpy to mate with and thus become a member of the Adult Conspiracy. After seeking advice from the Good Magician Humfrey from whom she receives a non-commital answer, she embarks on her quest alone, eventually joining up with a rejuvenated magician, a sultry demoness, a walking skeleton and a formerly invisible giant, among others. The magician Trent finally solves her quest by effecting a transformation. Trent surely could have come up with this solution at the beginning of the tale, but then Gloha would never have learned the meaning of true love nor would Anthony have been able to string out all his puns and jokes (he tells of a painter in the Mundane world who killed himself; named Van Go, he was one of the few there who actually believed in Trent). Fans of the author''s trademark humor will relish this latest jaunt through the wacky world of Xanth; new readers too will enjoy the fun.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest installation in Anthony''s popular "Xanth" series follows the adventures of Ghola, the harpy girl, as she searches for true love against impossible odds.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/481'),
(310, 'Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last . . . even getting there is an adventure in itself! The three firm friends, Harry, Ron and Hermione, are soon immersed in the daily round of Potions, Herbology, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Quidditch. But then horrible and mysterious things start happening. Harry keeps hearing strange voices, sinister and dark messages appear, and then Ron''s sister Ginny disappears . . . The darker side of Hogwarts is revealed in this exciting sequel to Harry Potter and the Philosopher''s Stone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/337'),
(311, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers beware. The brilliant, breathtaking conclusion to J.K. Rowling''s\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\n </em>\n that no fan will make it to the end unscathed. Luckily, Rowling has prepped loyal readers for the end of her series by doling out increasingly dark and dangerous tales of magic and mystery, shot through with lessons about honor and contempt, love and loss, and right and wrong. Fear not, you will find no spoilers in our review--to tell the plot would ruin the journey, and\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\n </em>\n is an odyssey the likes of which Rowling''s fans have not yet seen, and are not likely to forget. But we would be remiss if we did not offer one small suggestion before you embark on your final adventure with Harry--bring plenty of tissues.\n</p>\n<p>\n The heart of Book 7 is a hero''s mission--not just in Harry''s quest for the Horcruxes, but in his journey from boy to man--and Harry faces more danger than that found in all six books combined, from the direct threat of the Death Eaters and you-know-who, to the subtle perils of losing faith in himself. Attentive readers would do well to remember Dumbledore''s warning about making the choice between "what is right and what is easy," and know that Rowling applies the same difficult principle to the conclusion of her series. While fans will find the answers to hotly speculated questions about Dumbledore, Snape, and you-know-who, it is a testament to Rowling''s skill as a storyteller that even the most astute and careful reader will be taken by surprise.\n</p>\n<p>\n A spectacular finish to a phenomenal series,\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\n </em>\n is a bittersweet read for fans. The journey is hard, filled with events both tragic and triumphant, the battlefield littered with the bodies of the dearest and despised, but the final chapter is as brilliant and blinding as a phoenix''s flame, and fans and skeptics alike will emerge from the confines of the story with full but heavy hearts, giddy and grateful for the experience.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Visit the\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter\n  </em>\n  Store\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Harry\n </em>\n , including books, audio CDs and cassettes, DVDs, soundtracks, games, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Begin at the Beginning\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Why We Love Harry\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Favorite Moments from the Series\n </em>\n <br />\n There are plenty of reasons to love Rowling''s wildly popular series--no doubt you have several dozen of your own. Our list features favorite moments, characters, and artifacts from the first five books. Keep in mind that this list is by no means exhaustive (what we love about Harry could fill ten books!) and does not include any of the spectacular revelatory moments that would spoil the books for those (few) who have not read them. Enjoy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Harry''s first trip to the zoo with the Dursleys, when a boa constrictor winks at him.\n </li>\n <li>\n  When the Dursleys'' house is suddenly besieged by letters for Harry from Hogwarts. Readers learn how much the Dursleys have been keeping from Harry. Rowling does a wonderful job in displaying the lengths to which Uncle Vernon will go to deny that magic exists.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s first visit to Diagon Alley with Hagrid. Full of curiosities and rich with magic and marvel, Harry''s first trip includes a trip to Gringotts and Ollivanders, where Harry gets his wand (holly and phoenix feather) and discovers yet another connection to He-Who-Must-No-Be-Named. This moment is the reader''s first full introduction to Rowling''s world of witchcraft and wizards.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s experience with the Sorting Hat.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The de-gnoming of the Weasleys'' garden. Harry discovers that even wizards have chores--gnomes must be grabbed (ignoring angry protests "Gerroff me! Gerroff me!"), swung about (to make them too dizzy to come back), and tossed out of the garden--this delightful scene highlights Rowling''s clever and witty genius.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s first experience with a Howler, sent to Ron by his mother.\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Dueling Club battle between Harry and Malfoy. Gilderoy Lockhart starts the Dueling Club to help students practice spells on each other, but he is not prepared for the intensity of the animosity between Harry and Draco. Since they are still young, their minibattle is innocent enough, including tickling and dancing charms.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Ron''s attempt to use a telephone to call Harry at the Dursleys''.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s first encounter with a Dementor on the train (and just about any other encounter with Dementors). Harry''s brush with the Dementors is terrifying and prepares Potter fans for a darker, scarier book.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry, Ron, and Hermione''s behavior in Professor Trelawney''s Divination class. Some of the best moments in Rowling''s books occur when she reminds us that the wizards-in-training at Hogwarts are, after all, just children. Clearly, even at a school of witchcraft and wizardry, classes can be boring and seem pointless to children.\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Boggart lesson in Professor Lupin''s classroom.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry, Ron, and Hermione''s knock-down confrontation with Snape.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Hermione''s disgust at the reception for the veela (Bulgarian National Team Mascots) at the Quidditch World Cup. Rowling''s fourth book addresses issues about growing up--the dynamic between the boys and girls at Hogwarts starts to change. Nowhere is this more plain than the hilarious scene in which magical cheerleaders nearly convince Harry and Ron to jump from the stands to impress them.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Viktor Krum''s crush on Hermione--and Ron''s objection to it.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Malfoy''s "Potter Stinks" badge.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hermione''s creation of S.P.E.W., the intolerant bigotry of the Death Eaters, and the danger of the Triwizard Tournament. Add in the changing dynamics between girls and boys at Hogwarts, and suddenly Rowling''s fourth book has a weight and seriousness not as present in early books in the series. Candy and tickle spells are left behind as the students tackle darker, more serious issues and take on larger responsibilities, including the knowledge of illegal curses.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Harry''s outburst to his friends at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. A combination of frustration over being kept in the dark and fear that he will be expelled fuels much of Harry''s anger, and it all comes out at once, directly aimed at Ron and Hermione. Rowling perfectly portrays Harry''s frustration at being too old to shirk responsibility, but too young to be accepted as part of the fight that he knows is coming.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s detention with Professor Umbridge. Rowling shows her darker side, leading readers to believe that Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven for young wizards. Dolores represents a bureaucratic tyrant capable of real evil, and Harry is forced to endure their private battle of wills alone.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry and Cho''s painfully awkward interactions. Rowling clearly remembers what it was like to be a teenager.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s Occlumency lessons with Snape.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dumbledore''s confession to Harry.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The introduction of the Horcrux.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Molly Weasley asking Arthur Weasley about his "dearest ambition." Rowling has always been great at revealing little intriguing bits about her characters at a time, and Arthurâ€™s answer "to find out how airplanes stay up" reminds us about his obsession with Muggles.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s private lessons with Dumbledore, and more time spent with the fascinating and dangerous pensieve, arguably one of Rowlingâ€™s most ingenious inventions.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fred and George Weasleyâ€™s Joke Shop, and the slogan: "Why Are You Worrying About You-Know-Who? You Should Be Worrying About U-NO-POO--the Constipation Sensation That''s Gripping the Nation!"\n </li>\n <li>\n  Luna''s Quidditch commentary. Rowling created scores of Luna Lovegood fans with hilarious and bizarre commentary from the most unlikely Quidditch commentator.\n </li>\n <li>\n  The effects of Felix Felicis.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Magic, Mystery, and Mayhem: A Conversation with J.K. Rowling\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --J.K. Rowling\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out more about Harry''s creator in\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Did You Know?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Few Words from Mary GrandPrÃ©\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Potter fans, relaxâ€”this review packs no spoilers. Instead, we''re taking advantage of our public platform to praise Rowling for the excellence of her plotting. We can''t think of anyone else who has sustained such an intricate, endlessly inventive plot over seven thick volumes and so constantly surprised us with twists, well-laid traps and\n <em>\n  Purloined Letter\n </em>\n -style tricks.\n <em>\n  Hallows\n </em>\n continues the tradition, both with sly feats of legerdemain and with several altogether new, unexpected elements. Perhaps some of the surprises in\n <em>\n  Hallows\n </em>\n don''t have quite the punch as those of earlier books, but that may be because of the thoroughness and consistency with which Rowling has created her magical universe, and because we''ve so raptly absorbed its rules.\n</p>\n<p>\n We''re also seizing the occasion to wish out loud that her editors had done their jobs more actively. It''s hard to escape the notion that the first three volumes were more carefully edited than the last four.\n <em>\n  Hallows\n </em>\n doesn''t contain the extraneous scenes found in, say,\n <em>\n  Goblet of Fire\n </em>\n , but the momentum is uneven. Rowling is much better at comedy than at fight scenes, and no reader of the sixth book will be startled to hear that\n <em>\n  Hallows\n </em>\n has little humor or that its characters engage in more than a few fights. Surely her editors could have helped her find other methods of building suspense besides the use of ellipses and dashes? And craft fight dialogue that sounds a bit less like it belongs in a comic book? Okay, we''re quibbling. We know these minor nuisances won''t dent readers'' enjoyment, at least not this generation of readers; we couldn''t put\n <em>\n  Hallows\n </em>\n down ourselves. But we believe Rowling, and future readers, deserved even better. Ages 9-12.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/335'),
(312, 'Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can''t wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry needs to be on his guard at all times - his worst enemy is preparing a terrible fate for him. With characteristic wit, fast-paced humour and marvellous emotional depth, J.K. Rowling has proved herself yet again to be a master storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/339'),
(313, 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is Harry Potter''s sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As Voldemort''s sinister forces amass and a spirit of gloom and fear sweeps the land, it becomes more and more clear to Harry that he will soon have to confront his destiny. But is he up to the challenges ahead of him? In this dark and breathtaking adventure, J.K. Rowling skilfully begins to unravel the complex web she has woven, as we discover more of the truth about Harry, Dumbledore, Snape and, of course, He Who Must Not Be Named . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/334'),
(314, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. It''s been yet another infuriating and boring summer with the despicable Dursleys, this time with minimal contact from our hero''s non-Muggle friends from school. Harry is feeling especially edgy at the lack of news from the magic world, wondering when the freshly revived evil Lord Voldemort will strike. Returning to Hogwarts will be a relief... or will it?\n</p>\n<p>\n The fifth book in J.K. Rowling''s\n <em>\n  Daily Prophet\n </em>\n ) has turned Harry''s tragic and heroic encounter with Voldemort at the Triwizard Tournament into an excuse to ridicule and discount the teen. Even Professor Dumbledore, headmaster of the school, has come under scrutiny by the Ministry of Magic, which refuses to officially acknowledge the terrifying truth that Voldemort is back. Enter a particularly loathsome new character: the toadlike and simpering ("_hem, hem_") Dolores Umbridge, senior undersecretary to the Minister of Magic, who takes over the vacant position of Defense Against Dark Arts teacher--and in no time manages to become the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts, as well. Life isn''t getting any easier for Harry Potter. With an overwhelming course load as the fifth years prepare for their Ordinary Wizarding Levels examinations (O.W.Ls), devastating changes in the Gryffindor Quidditch team lineup, vivid dreams about long hallways and closed doors, and increasing pain in his lightning-shaped scar, Harry''s resilience is sorely tested.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\n </em>\n , more than any of the four previous novels in the series, is a coming-of-age story. Harry faces the thorny transition into adulthood, when adult heroes are revealed to be fallible, and matters that seemed black-and-white suddenly come out in shades of gray. Gone is the wide-eyed innocent, the whiz kid of __. Here we have an adolescent who''s sometimes sullen, often confused (especially about girls), and always self-questioning. Confronting death again, as well as a startling prophecy, Harry ends his year at Hogwarts exhausted and pensive. Readers, on the other hand, will be energized as they enter yet again the long waiting period for the next title in the marvelous, magical series. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4 Up-Harry has just returned to Hogwarts after a lonely summer. Dumbledore is uncommunicative and most of the students seem to think Harry is either conceited or crazy for insisting that Voldemort is back and as evil as ever. Angry, scared, and unable to confide in his godfather, Sirius, the teen wizard lashes out at his friends and enemies alike. The head of the Ministry of Magic is determined to discredit Dumbledore and undermine his leadership of Hogwarts, and he appoints nasty, pink-cardigan-clad Professor Umbridge as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and High Inquisitor of the school, bringing misery upon staff and students alike. This bureaucratic nightmare, added to Harry''s certain knowledge that Voldemort is becoming more powerful, creates a desperate, Kafkaesque feeling during Harry''s fifth year at Hogwarts. The adults all seem evil, misguided, or simply powerless, so the students must take matters into their own hands. Harry''s confusion about his godfather and father, and his apparent rejection by Dumbledore make him question his own motives and the condition of his soul. Also, Harry is now 15, and the hormones are beginning to kick in. There are a lot of secret doings, a little romance, and very little Quidditch or Hagrid (more reasons for Harry''s gloom), but the power of this book comes from the young magician''s struggles with his emotions and identity. Particularly moving is the unveiling, after a final devastating tragedy, of Dumbledore''s very strong feelings of attachment and responsibility toward Harry. Children will enjoy the magic and the Hogwarts mystique, and young adult readers will find a rich and compelling coming-of-age story as well.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/340'),
(315, 'Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who''s forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling''s\n</p>\n<p>\n As it turns out, Harry isn''t punished at all for his errant wizardry. Instead he is mysteriously rescued from his Muggle neighborhood and whisked off in a triple-decker, violently purple bus to spend the remaining weeks of summer in a friendly inn called the Leaky Cauldron. What Harry has to face as he begins his third year at Hogwarts explains why the officials let him off easily. It seems that Sirius Black--an escaped convict from the prison of Azkaban--is on the loose. Not only that, but he''s after Harry Potter. But why? And why do the Dementors, the guards hired to protect him, chill Harry''s very heart when others are unaffected? Once again, Rowling has created a mystery that will have children and adults cheering, not to mention standing in line for her next book. Fortunately, there are four more in the works. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rowling proves that she has plenty of tricks left up her sleeve in this third Harry Potter adventure, set once again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Right before the start of term, a supremely dangerous criminal breaks out of a supposedly impregnable wizards'' prison; it will come as no surprise to Potter fans that the villain, a henchman of Harry''s old enemy Lord Voldemort, appears to have targeted Harry. In many ways this installment seems to serve a transitional role in the seven-volume series: while many of the adventures are breathlessly relayed, they appear to be laying groundwork for even more exciting adventures to come. The beauty here lies in the genius of Rowling''s plotting. Seemingly minor details established in books one and two unfold to take on unforeseen significance, and the finale, while not airtight in its internal logic, is utterly thrilling. Rowling''s wit never flags, whether constructing the workings of the wizard world (Just how would a magician be made to stay behind bars?) or tossing off quick jokes (a grandmother wears a hat decorated with a stuffed vulture; the divination classroom looks like a tawdry tea shop). The Potter spell is holding strong. All ages.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/338'),
(316, 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#39;s Stone', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With six two-page spreads featuring the key scenes from __, this Harry Potter pop-up book allows younger children to begin to experience the thrilling saga of Harry Potter''s first year at Hogwarts. Every page literally pops out with creative 3-D engineering in full color, while pull-tabs allow readers to bring a Quidditch game to life or help Harry see his heart''s desire in the Mirror of Erised. The cartoonish art is muddy and unspectacular, but fans and collectors blinded by their enthusiasm for the boy wizard may not care a bit. (Ages 4 and older)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers are in for a delightful romp with this award-winning debut from a British author who dances in the footsteps of P.L. Travers and Roald Dahl. As the story opens, mysterious goings-on ruffle the self-satisfied suburban world of the Dursleys, culminating in a trio of strangers depositing the Dursleys'' infant nephew Harry in a basket on their doorstep. After 11 years of disregard and neglect at the hands of his aunt, uncle and their swinish son Dudley, Harry suddenly receives a visit from a giant named Hagrid, who informs Harry that his mother and father were a witch and a wizard, and that he is to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry himself. Most surprising of all, Harry is a legend in the witch world for having survived an attack by the evil sorcerer Voldemort, who killed his parents and left Harry with a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. And so the fun begins, with Harry going off to boarding school like a typical English kid?only his supplies include a message-carrying owl and a magic wand. There is enchantment, suspense and danger galore (as well as enough creepy creatures to satisfy the most bogeymen-loving readers, and even a magical game of soccerlike Quidditch to entertain sports fans) as Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione plumb the secrets of the forbidden third floor at Hogwarts to battle evil and unravel the mystery behind Harry''s scar. Rowling leaves the door wide open for a sequel; bedazzled readers will surely clamor for one. Ages 8-12.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/336'),
(317, 'A Hat Full of Sky', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 6-10. Incipient witch Tiffany Aching, who confronted danger in\n <em>\n  The Wee Free Men\n </em>\n (2003), faces even greater peril in this equally quirky sequel. She is taken on as an apprentice witch by Miss Level, who is one person with two bodies--an oddity to say the least. Also, Tiffany is stalked and taken over by a hiver, an invisible, brainless entity that commands and distorts the mind of its host, which eventually dies. Luckily Tiffany is strong enough to hide a section of her mind within herself, but she is otherwise completely under the control of the hiver. It''s the cantankerous Wee Free Men (or the Nac Mac Feegle) to the rescue, with the help of Miss Level and the wisest, most respected witch of all. The chase is part slapstick, part terror, and in the end, Tiffany herself sets things straight. Pratchett maintains the momentum of the first book, and fans will relish the further adventures of the "big wee hag," as Tiffany is known to the Feegles.\n <em>\n  Sally Estes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "By turns hilarious and achingly beautiful, this be just right." --\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Readers will curl up to read with a sigh of contentment." --\n <em>\n  Bulletin of the Center for Childrenâ€™s Books\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/57');
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(318, 'Hatchet', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the pilot of a small, two-person plane has a heart attack and dies, Brian has to crash land in the forest of a Canadian wilderness. He has little time to realize how alone he is, because he is so busy just trying to survive. And learning to survive, to plan on food not just for a day but untiland ifhe is rescued, only begins when he stops pitying himself and understands that no one can help him. He is on his own, without his divorced father, whom he was to visit, or his mother, whom Brian saw kissing another man before the divorce. This is a heart-stopping story: it seems that at every moment Brian is forced to face a life-and-death decision, and every page makes readers wonder at the density of descriptive detail Paulsen has expertly woven together. Poetic texture and realistic events are combined to create something beyond adventure, a book that plunges readers into the cleft of the protagonist''s experience. Ages 11-13.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8-12 Brian Robeson, 13, is the only passenger on a small plane flying him to visit his father in the Canadian wilderness when the pilot has a heart attack and dies. The plane drifts off course and finally crashes into a small lake. Miraculously Brian is able to swim free of the plane, arriving on a sandy tree-lined shore with only his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present. The novel chronicles in gritty detail Brian''s mistakes, setbacks, and small triumphs as, with the help of the hatchet, he manages to survive the 54 days alone in the wilderness. Paulsen effectively shows readers how Brian learns patienceto watch, listen, and think before he actsas he attempts to build a fire, to fish and hunt, and to make his home under a rock overhang safe and comfortable. An epilogue discussing the lasting effects of Brian''s stay in the wilderness and his dim chance of survival had winter come upon him before rescue adds credibility to the story. Paulsen tells a fine adventure story, but the sub-plot concerning Brian''s preoccupation with his parents'' divorce seems a bit forced and detracts from the book. As he did in Dogsong (Bradbury, 1985), Paulsen emphasizes character growth through a careful balancing of specific details of survival with the protagonist''s thoughts and emotions. Barbara Chatton, College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1144'),
(319, 'The Hatchling', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 4-6â€“The fascistic Pure Ones, a tribe of barn owls who believe that they alone are fit to rule, lost their king, the evil Kludd, during a great battle in\n  <em>\n   The Burning\n  </em>\n  (Scholastic, 2004). In this seventh book in the series, Kludd''s sinister widow Nyra continues to plot to conquer all of the owl kingdoms, especially the heroic, egalitarian owls who dwell in the great tree of Ga''Hoole. She raises her hatchling son Nyroc to one day take his father''s place and teaches him to believe in the power of hate. But the older he grows, the more he disagrees with his mother''s ways, and after he learns the horrible truth about a deadly ceremony the Pure Ones have planned for him, he realizes that he must leave his home and his mother. While Lasky has combined fascinating details of how real owls live with her imaginary civilization, the story lacks any humor that might relieve its dreariness.\n  <em>\n   The Hatchling\n  </em>\n  often lumbers rather than soars._â€“Walter Minkel, New York Public Library_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lasky has combined fascinating details of how real owls live with her imaginary civilization. . . --School Library Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  [T]he fantasy''s strong believability and fascinating plot make this series a must-read for fantasy-lovers. --Children''s Literature\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1173'),
(320, 'Hate and Fear', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1110'),
(321, 'Heart&#39;s Blood', 'Jane Yolen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Book Two of the prolific Yolen''s fantasy series, "Pit Dragon Trilogy," finds the hero Jakkinâ€”now seventeenâ€”on top of his small world. He has achieved master status, has a winning pit dragonâ€”his beloved Heart''s Bloodâ€”and dragonlings on the way. Only the missing Akki could complete his happiness. Meanwhile, it seems that revolution is brewing on the convict planet of Austar IV, and Akki is smack in the middle of it. Drawn against his will into the politics of the time, Jakkin must learn to judge humans as well as dragons. His head bursting with intrigues on top of dragon messages, Jakkin is shoved into his much-desired manhood before he is ready for the consequences. After a slow start, the adventure works up to an action-packed ending. 2004 (orig. 1984), Magic Carpet/Harcourt, Ages 12 up. (_Children''s Literature -Kathleen Karr_ )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jakkin, a bond boy who works as a Keeper in a dragon nursery on the planet Austar IV, secretly trains a fighting pit dragon in hopes of winning his freedom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/738'),
(322, 'Heaven Cent', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/475'),
(323, 'Heir to the Empire', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- This first book in a trilogy takes place five years after Return of the Jedi (Ballantine, 1983) by James Kahn. Han and Leia are now married and expecting twins; Luke is continuing his training as a Jedi, while training Leia. The Republic is at peace, having defeated Darth Vader and the evil Empire. Enter Grand Admiral Thrawn, ex-warlord of the empire, with his rogue Jedi knight. They attack the Republic and attempt to kidnap Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia for their own nefarious purposes. It''s great fun to romp with the\n <code>\n </code>\n Star Wars'''' cast of humans, droids, and aliens again. While it is not on a par with Zahn''s creative, powerful works such as Cascade Point (Baen, 1987), Heir is well written for what it is. Recommended for YA collections needing a Star Wars fix. --John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA2-\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s five years after\n <em>\n  Return of the Jedi:\n </em>\n the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starlfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting Jedi Twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of Jedi Knights. But thousand of light-years away...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/396'),
(324, 'Heretics of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A monumental piece of imaginative architecture... indisputably magical."\n <br />\n -_Los Angeles Herald Examiner_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Gripping...Fascinating detail, yet cloaked in mystery and mysticism."\n <br />\n -_Milwaukee Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Herbert weaves together several fascinating storylines with almost the same mastery as informed\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n , and keeps the reader intent on the next revelation or twist."\n <br />\n -_Challenging Destiny_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The planet Arrakis is becoming desert again. Lost ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying, and the children of Dunes children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/237'),
(325, 'The Hero of Ages', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This adventure brings the Mistborn epic fantasy trilogy (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  The Well of Ascension\n </em>\n ) to a dramatic and surprising climax. Tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension, new emperor Elend Venture and his wife, the assassin Vin, are now hard-pressed to save the world from Ruin''s deadly Inquisitors, the insidious lethal mists called the Deepness and the increasingly heavy falls of black ash that threaten to bury the land and starve its inhabitants. As the duo search for the last of the former emperor''s cache of atium, source of the strongest Mistborn energies, they battle Ruin''s forces as well as monsters and prophetic powers. Sanderson''s saga of consequences offers complex characters and a compelling plot, asking hard questions about loyalty, faith and responsibility.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Lord Ruler is dead, and Elend Venture is working on consolidating his rule. But the mist is becoming actively dangerous, ash falls almost constantly, and brutal earthquakes are shaking the world apart. The subtle, nearly omniscient Ruin is infiltrating both Elendâ€™s army and his opponents. Fortunately, the stubborn Vin vows to discover a way to destroy him. When failure seems imminent, help comes from unexpected quarters. Sanderson pulls loose ends together, explains vague prophecies, and produces the Hero of Ages, and the Mistborn trilogy (The Final Empire, 2006; The Well of Ascension, 2007; and this book) concludes satisfactorily. --Regina Schroeder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/980'),
(326, 'The Hidden Enemy Part 1', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1075'),
(327, 'The Hidden Enemy Part 2', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1078'),
(328, 'The Hidden Enemy Part 3', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1079'),
(329, 'High Rhulain', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Upâ€“The Redwall saga continues with a book that can stand entirely on its own. Tiria is a young ottermaid with amazing skill with rock and sling. She lives in Redwall with her father and the entire cast of beloved characters from earlier novels. When she starts to dream of a place called Green Isle and Martin the Warrior, she realizes that she is destined to go on a quest and follow in the steps of the High Rhulain, an otter queen. The book alternates between Tiria''s adventures, her friends working on word puzzles back home to help her, and the hardships of the otters who live on Green Isle where they are slaves to a group of cats. Jacques combines action, poetry, songs, courage, and vivid descriptions to create a unique style. His characterizations are complex and show multiple sides of both adult and younger personalities. The pacing is well handled, especially in a book with three story lines that entwine. As with the other volumes, there is sacrifice, death, and bloody battles galore. Readers familiar with the series will relish returning to the Abbey. Those new to the Redwall universe will be looking for the previous titles to learn more about Martin the Warrior and Salamandastron._â€“Tasha Saecker, Caestecker Public Library, Green Lake, WI_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 5-8. In this eighteenth installment of the Redwall series, Jacques chronicles the saga of ottermaid Tiria Wildlough, who, following dream visions from Martin the Warrior and an otter kinswoman, sets off for the Green Isle to rescue some otters enslaved by wildcat chieftain Riggu Felis, and take her rightful position as High Rhulain. Armed with a slingshot, and with assistance from a goose, an osprey, and Salamandastron''s Long Patrol hares, Tiria journeys through Mossflower and across the Great Western Sea to do battle with the vicious cats. As always, Jacques adds to the intrigue with several subplots boiling just beneath the surface--including infighting among Riggu Felis and his dysfunctional family, and anagrams and riddles that must be solved to complete Tiria''s story and uncover a missing lance and coronet. Elliot''s detailed line drawings will help readers visualize the novel''s many characters. A welcome book for series fans.\n <em>\n  Kay Weisman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/711'),
(330, 'The Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Join Douglas Adams''s hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You''ll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic dialogue.\n <em>\n  The Hitchhiker''s Guide\n </em>\n is rich in comedic detail and thought-provoking situations and stands up to multiple reads. Required reading for science fiction fans, this book (and its follow-ups) is also sure to please fans of Monty Python, Terry Pratchett''s Discworld series, and British sitcoms.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Don''t panic! Here are words of praise for The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy!\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s science fiction and it''s extremely funny...inspired lunacy that leaves hardly a science fiction cliche alive."\n</p>\n<p>\n Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n "The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes, and his travels afford a wild satire of present institutions."\n</p>\n<p>\n Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n "Very simply, the book is one of the funniest SF spoofs ever written, with hyperbolic ideas folding in on themselves."\n</p>\n<p>\n School Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n "As parody, it''s marvelous: It contains just about every science fiction cliche you can think of. As humor, it''s, well, hysterical."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/491'),
(331, 'The Hobbit', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/202'),
(332, 'Hogfather', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n What could more genuinely embody the spirit of Christmas (or Hogswatch, on the Discworld) than a Terry Pratchett book about the holiday season? Every secular Christmas tradition is included. But as this\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n the 21st Discworld novel, there are some unusual twists.\n</p>\n<p>\n This year the Auditors, who want people to stop believing in things that aren''t real, have hired an assassin to eliminate the Hogfather. (You know him: red robe, white beard, says, "Ho, ho, ho!") Their evil plot will destroy the Discworld unless someone covers for him. So someone does. Well, at least Death\n <em>\n  tries\n </em>\n . He wears the costume and rides the sleigh drawn by four jolly pigs: Gouger, Tusker, Rooter, and Snouter. He even comes down chimneys. But as fans of other Pratchett stories about Death (\n</p>\n<p>\n Fans will welcome back Susan, Death of Rats (the Grim Squeaker), Albert, and the wizardly faculty of Unseen University, and revel in new personalities like Bilious, the "oh god of Hangovers." But you needn''t have read Pratchett before to laugh uproariously and think seriously about the meanings of Christmas.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The master of humorous fantasy delivers one of his strongest, most conventional books yet. Discworld''s equivalent of Santa Claus, the Hogfather (who flies in a sleigh drawn by four gigantic pigs), has been spirited away by a repulsive assassin, Mr. Teatime, acting on behalf of the Auditors who rule the universe and who would prefer that it exhibited no life. Since faith is essential to life, destroying belief in the Hogfather would be a major blow to humanity. It falls to a marvelously depicted Death and his granddaughter Susan to solve the mystery of the disappeared Hogfather, and meanwhile to fill in for him. On the way to the pair''s victory, readers encounter children both naughty and nice; gourmet banquets made of old boots and mud; lesser and greater criminals; an overworked and undertrained tooth fairy named Violet; and Bilious, the god of hangovers, among other imaginative concepts. The tone of much of the book is darker than usual for Pratchett?for whom "humorous" has never been synonymous with "silly"?and his satire, too, is more edged than usual. (One scene deftly skewers the Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas.") Pratchett has now moved beyond the limits of humorous fantasy, and should be recognized as one of the more significant contemporary English-language satirists. U.K. rights: Victor Gollanz, The Cassell Group; trans., first serial, dramatic, audio rights: Ralph Vicinanza.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(333, 'The Homecoming', 'Barry B. Longyear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inhabitants of Earth from seventy million years ago return to reclaim their planet. A struggling advertising man doin his six-month reserve call-up duty for the Air Force is sent to negotiate for the future existence of a newly evolved species: humanity.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award winner, Barry Longyear is author of Enemy Mine, made into a major motion picture by Fox. Recent works include The Enemy Papers and Yesterday?s Tomorrow. Having completed training as a PI, he has entered the world of mystery writing with The Hangman?s Son. He lives with his wife, Jean, in New Sharon, Maine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/500'),
(334, 'Honor and Duty Part 1', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1083'),
(335, 'Honor and Duty Part 2', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1085'),
(336, 'Honor and Duty Part 3', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1087'),
(337, 'The Horse and His Boy', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-7-British narrator Alex Jennings does a smashing job with C. S. Lewis'' delightful classic (HarperCollins Children''s, 1994), the third story in the Narnia series. The tale begins with a poor slave boy named Shasta escaping from his adopted fisherman father who plans to sell him to a brutish stranger. A dignified talking war horse named Bree helps Shasta flee. Jennings plays Shasta with refreshing gentleness-listeners get a sense of the boy''s sensitivity and fear as he embarks on the adventure of his life. The talented narrator plays Bree with the right amount of dignity and haughtiness. This horse amuses with his witty observations about human behavior, and sense of equine superiority. The horse and his boy hope to travel north to Narnia, and encounter numerous adventures and strange characters, all beautifully portrayed by Jennings. The most memorable supporting characters are another escaped child, a tough girl named Aravis, and her talking mare called Hwin. Jennings brings these two adventure seekers to life with his crystal clear narration. Thanks to his skills as a storyteller, the action moves rapidly from one exciting episode to the next. Evocative music plays at the beginning and end of each side of the tape. This presentation will enchant young listeners and encourage them to read the other titles in the series. It is helpful for students to have read The Magician''s Nephew and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe before enjoying this, but The Horse and the Boy stands alone as enthralling, self-contained entertainment.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Brian E. Wilson, Evanston Public Library, IL\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is an all-cast dramatization of the third book in Lewis''s "Narnia" series. Those who have read all seven books will be better able to put this performance in context, but the uninitiated will enjoy this adventure tale in which, once again, intrepid children outwit nefarious grown-ups. Shasta is a young boy living in Calormene with a cruel man who claims to be his father. One night he overhears his "father" offering to sell him as a slave, so Shasta makes a break and sets out for the North. He meets Bree, a talking horse who becomes his companion. On their way they encounter Aravis, a high-born girl escaping an arranged marriage, and her talking horse. Despite their differences the children and horses learn to work together to reach the freedom they long for. In the meantime, they uncover a Calormene plot to conquer Narnia. The performances are energetic, and the characters easily distinguishable. This recording should not replace the book but rather should serve as an introduction to it. For family listening.ANann Blaine Hilyard, Lake Villa Dist. Lib., IL\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/347'),
(338, 'The Hostile Hospital', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As you might expect, nothing but woe befalls the unlucky Baudelaire orphans in the eighth grim tale in Lemony Snicket''s Series of Unfortunate Events that began with __. Ever since the orphans'' photographs were plastered across the front page of\n <em>\n  The Daily Punctilio\n </em>\n in an article falsely accusing them of murder, they have been on the run. Only when they disguise themselves as cheerful hospital volunteers (Volunteers Fighting Disease, to be exact), do they see a possible refuge. Of course, this backfires hideously. Where is their ineffectual guardian, Mr. Poe, when they need him most? Will the evil, greedy Count Olaf be successful in giving poor Violet a cranioectomy at the Heimlich Hospital? Is a heart-shaped balloon really better than water for a thirsty patient? Is no news really good news? As ever, Snicket refuses to comfort young readers with cozy answers and satisfying escapes. And, as ever, there are plenty of rusty blades and horrible plot twists to make us shudder and shameless-but-hilarious wordplay to make us grimace happily. Bring on the next one! (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 4-7-Another roller coaster of perils for the three Baudelaire children. This time, they search for clues concerning their parents'' deaths and attempt to clear themselves of a false murder charge while being pursued by the evil Count Olaf, who is after the family fortune. While attempting to escape arrest, the siblings join a volunteer group that sings and brings good cheer to patients and enter Heimlich Hospital, where they soon find themselves working in the Library of Records. A picture with an important clue surfaces just as Olaf''s girlfriend discovers them and captures Violet, who is then readied for a cranioectomy, a surgery in which the head must be removed. The trio''s talents are put to good use in a daring escape from the burning hospital. They jump into Olaf''s car trunk in search of more clues and position themselves for the next exciting sequel. Readers will enjoy cheering for the clever youngsters, booing the diabolical villains, and noting the many new clues. The narrator''s active voice is forever teasing readers by taking them to the edge of their seats and then purposely switching the subject or suggesting they stop reading all together. This volume can stand alone but few will be able to resist reading the next installment after the cliff-hanger ending.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Jean Gaffney, Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Miamisburg, OH\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/455'),
(339, 'How to Count', 'Steven Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1166'),
(340, 'How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe', 'Charles Yu', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lev Grossman Reviews\n  <em>\n   How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling novel\n  <em>\n   How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The science-fictional universe in question in this marvel of a novel is Minor Universe 31 (MU31). It''s something of a second-rate universe, having been left unfinished by whoever was constructing it--the laws of physics were abandoned only 93 percent installed, Yu tells us, and the human inhabitants "seem to have been left with a lingering sense of incompleteness." This is a universe you need to visit. If by some happy chance you donâ€™t already live there.\n</p>\n<p>\n The hero of this story, also named Charles Yu, ekes out a living there as a time travel repairman--"a certified network technician for T-class personal-use chronogramattical vehicles, and an approved independent affiliate contractor for Time Warner Time, which owns and operates this universe as a spatio-temporal structural and entertainment complex zoned for retail, commercial, and residential use." (Time Warner Time -- that''s the kind of three-pointer Yu never misses.) Charles is a high-tech sad sack, whose only companions are a dog, who''s mostly hypothetical, and a computer with a sexy feminine AI interface that Yu has a crush on.\n</p>\n<p>\n The thing about time travel in MU31 is that it''s not all wormholes and apocalypses and "look out that''s a temporal anomaly off the starboard nacelle, Captain!" Human beings mostly use time machines to go back and eavesdrop on their own screwed-up lives, reliving key moments, bad decisions and missed opportunities, in the mistaken belief that they can change them. They can''t. "I have job security," Yu explains, "because what the customer wants, when you get right down to it, is to relive his very worst moment, over and over again."\n</p>\n<p>\n Not that Yu has it all figured out. His elderly mom is parked in a time loop, where she cooks a Sunday dinner over and over again. His father, a tragically frustrated inventor, is lost somewhere in the chronoverse. And Yu has a problem: one day he accidentally ran into his future self â€¦ and shot him. That''s right: he shot himself. And one day, the laws of the universe dictate, that future self will be him.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe\n </em>\n is a triumph, as good as anything in Calvino or Stanislaw Lem. I wish I could travel back in time with a copy and fraudulently publish it under my own name. Like most people, I thought I learned everything I needed to know about time travel from H.G. Wells and\n <em>\n  Star Trek\n </em>\n , but I thought wrong: In Yu''s skillful hands a worn-out science fiction plot device becomes a powerfully expressive metaphor for how we experience the flickering, ineffable, ungraspable spatio-temporal phenomenon of life. Because after all, we''re all time travelers, blundering forward into the future at the rate of one second per subjectively experienced second.\n</p>\n<p>\n Except when we don''t. Think about it: How many times have you yourself been trapped in a time loop, cycling obsessively through one inescapable moment, again and again and again, while the rest of the universe rolled forward and left you behind?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Questions for Charles Yu on\n  <em>\n   How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™re a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award-winner and this is your debut novel. When and why did you start writing, and what advice do you have for other young writers out there trying to get published?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I wrote poems and essays as a kid, and in college, I dreamed of becoming a professional writer, whatever I thought that meant, although, for a lot of reasons, I knew that wasnâ€™t going to happen. Mostly, my parents were going to murder me if I tried to apply to an MFA program. First-degree murder.\n</p>\n<p>\n So I didnâ€™t actually start writing until 2002, shortly after I began my career as a lawyer. Working in a high-pressure environment was squeezing me pretty hard, and all that pressure found its way out in the form of little things I was jotting down, in the margins of receipts, on the backs of business cards. I wrote a series of physics problems about a married coupleâ€™s life together. I wrote some instructions for how to play a metaphysical video game. Stuff like that.\n</p>\n<p>\n But I didnâ€™t think I was actually writing, let alone writing what anyone would call fiction, until I read\n</p>\n<p>\n Up until that point, Iâ€™d had no clue as to what a story could be. And it was because my ideas were assumptions. Tacit, limiting, ultimately false assumptions, which added up to a severely impoverished conception of what was possible in fiction. After reading\n <em>\n  CivilWarLand\n </em>\n , I knew I wanted that feeling, wanted to be surprised like that, and flattened onto the floor, and embarrassed my by own narrowness. I wanted to have my doors blown off again and again. It was a short distance to go from wanting to have that feeling to also wanting to see if maybe I could ever give that feeling to someone else.\n</p>\n<p>\n As for advice, it would be to transfer all the anxiety about publication into anxiety about whether the story works, whether a reader is going to care about the characters. I break down the process into four components: writing, rewriting, submitting, and worrying. My ideal, not at all realistic, scenario, would be to make the proportion of time spent on each of those activities something like: 19 percent, 80 percent, 1 percent, 0 percent. This is very hypocritical of me to say, of course, as Iâ€™ve never done this myself, Iâ€™ve never even been close. But I do know that the farther from zero the last two numbers get, the more Iâ€™m in trouble. And that the second number should be much bigger than the first.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How has your interest in and knowledge of science and science fiction contributed to and inspired your writing of this book?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I read and collected comics as a kid, read pretty much everything I could find of\n <em>\n  Foundation\n </em>\n series in one semester in eighth grade (to the detriment of my English grade), and so much else, too much to list or even remember. Then, at some point in high school, I got the idea that there were serious books we read in school, and there was science fiction, and there was not a lot of overlap. That lasted until my senior year in college, when I stumbled on Richard Powersâ€™s\n</p>\n<p>\n Currently, I read more science than I do anything else, including fiction. I especially enjoy reading books written by scientists for lay folk, like me. I was a biochem major in college, and so part of it is that I am interested in the science itself, but Iâ€™m just as interested in the process of explanation, how the author, an expert in a specialized field, tries to explain difficult concepts through simplification and creative analogy. I am fascinated by that process of distilling something really complex into something most people can understand. There are so many examples of great books that do this, but the one that still stands out for me is Brian Greeneâ€™s\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Your book deals with time travel in a more serious and even tragic way than most stories about the subject, though you mask the severity with humor to keep the dialogue light and amusing. What made you decide to write about this complicated topic, and how did you come to write about it in this unique manner?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I knew I wanted the novel to be a family story, mostly about a father and son, but also about a marriage, and a son-mother story, too. But I could not find the right frame for the story. At the same time, I kept coming back to this idea that had been floating around in my head and on my laptop for years, but one that I could never find a home for. It was about of a man who keeps popping up in different hypothetical universes, trying to find the universe where he belongs. Iâ€™d been messing around with that conceit, on and off, for close to five years. Then I remembered a book Iâ€™d read years earlier, called\n</p>\n<p>\n Once I decided that the novel would be about time travel, the book started to take shape. Not quickly, more like, I had a frame, and now little pieces started sticking to the frame, just odd scraps here and there, but the frame was the right one, and I could hang things on it. Most important, what happened was that the two vocabulariesâ€”the emotion of a father-mother-son story and the technical glossary of a time travel story--started to interact; like two dry wool blankets, they started to rub up against each other and crackle a bit. Things would pop out of that, phraselets and new words and little surprises of grammar and language and emotion, and science fiction would fall out from that interaction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whatever humor there is in there, if any, is probably also a product of that process, of smashing together two sub-languages, emotional and science fictional, and seeing what weird tonal particles are produced from the collision. I knew that the story needed weight, because if it were just whimsical, a reader might wonder why any of it mattered, and of course, the most important thing that I am trying to do is create characters who matter to the reader. I do hope that there are at least a few laughs in there.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Your protagonist, a time travel technician attempting to save people from trying to alter their pasts, is named Charles Yu. How did you come to name him after yourself?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n It was originally a placeholder, to be honest. So was the fatherâ€™s name, which is my fatherâ€™s name. I tried different names for the son and the father, but none of them would take, so I just put in my real name (and my dadâ€™s) so I could get going with the writing, but when I did that, a strange thing happened: the story started moving, fast, in a different direction. Suddenly, it was about a self meeting his self, and the details of the characterâ€™s life started to come together, as did the relationship between the son and the father. I think having my actual name in there gave me a straw man, a straw story, that I could write in reaction to. For some reason, once the name of the character became Charles Yu, I stopped slipping in autobiographical or semi-autobiographical information, and actually started removing it. I think I realized, wow, if this character is going to have my name, Iâ€™d better take some of this stuff out. There is still a fair amount of it in there, semi- or pseudo-autobiographical, but much of it is more emotionally resonant than factually resonant.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Though there is a definite science fictional aspect to your novel, it is also heavily literary and much more about real life than it at first appears. How, then, would you characterize your novel? Fiction, science fiction, or something outside the realm of typical genre classifications?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I was hoping it would be characterized as a time machine, although I realize there is no section for time machines in most bookstores. In terms of topology, I think of it as a stable, looped, four-dimensional object with chronodiegetic properties. In terms of genre, I would be happy for it to be shelved in both fiction and in science fiction. Or maybe under a new category, where they would put books that resist either classification. A lot of my favorite books would be in that category.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Whatâ€™s next for you?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Iâ€™m working on a new novel that takes place in â€œAmerica,â€ i.e., not America, but a dream-and-desire-fueled holographic projection of the collective mental environment of Americans, which exists as a geographical place that happens to overlap the physical America. Itâ€™s also a story about a man looking for his ex-wife and daughter. I hope I can figure out a way to make that make sense.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Michael Zara)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Yu uses futuristic ideas to explore a mundane theme: writing about the self and the moment in Tristram Shandyâ€“esque digressions. The protagonist, who shares the author''s name, spends most of the story interacting with entities that either mirror him (TAMMY, an operating system who reflects his personality) or don''t exist (Ed, a "weird ontological entity" in the shape of a dog; Phil, a programmed supervisor who thinks he''s human). The conclusion tries to mitigate character-Yu''s risk-averse solipsism, but is too quick and abstract to really counter the rest of the book''s emotional weight. Mainstream readers will be baffled by the highly nonlinear Oedipal time travel plot, but the passive, self-obsessed protagonist is straight out of the mainstream fiction that many SF fans love to hate, leaving this book without an audience.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/652'),
(341, 'The Hunt for Aurrasine Part 1', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1126'),
(342, 'The Hunt for Aurrasine Part 2', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1127'),
(343, 'The Hunt for Aurrasine Part 3', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1045'),
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(345, 'Hyperion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike.Â Â There are those who worship it.Â Â There are those who fear it.Â Â And there are those who have vowed to destroy it.Â Â In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.Â Â On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives.Â Â Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret.Â Â And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.Â Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/844'),
(346, 'I Feel Sick', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/826'),
(347, 'I Feel Sick 2', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/825'),
(348, 'I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Humoristiske artikler om Clarks forhold til transportmidler af alle slags.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/378'),
(349, 'I Lost My Grandfather&#39;s Brain', 'Bruce Coville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  CALLING LOST AND FOUND -- HAVE YOU SEEN MY BRAIN?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Some kids lose their homework. Some kids lose their math book, or their sneakers, or their lunch.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pleskit Meenom, first alien kid to go to school on Earth, has a bigger problem: He''s lost his grandfather''s brain!\n</p>\n<p>\n Of course, that''s not Pleskit''s only problem. He''s feuding with his best friend Tim. Someone is leaking stories about him to a sleazy supermarket tabloid. And sixth grade is turning out to be a bigger challenge than interplanetary navigation.\n</p>\n<p>\n But if Pleskit can''t find that missing brain, none of those other problems will matter, because his life won''t be worth a plug\n <em>\n  skeelrag!\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n approx. 2.5 hours\n <br />\n 2 cassettes\n <br />\n Performance by William Dufris\n</p>\n<p>\n Some kids lose their homework.Â Â Some kids lose their math book, or their sneakers, or their lunch.Â Â Pleskit Meenom, first alien kid to go to school on Earth, has a bigger problem: He''s lost his grandfather''s brain!Â Â Of course, that''s not Pleskit''s only problem.Â Â Sixth grade is turning out to be a bigger challenge than interplanetary navigation.Â Â If Pleskit can''t find that missing brain, none of his other problems will matter, because his life won''t be worth a plug skeelrag!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/898'),
(350, 'I Shall Wear Midnight', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 7 Upâ€“This is the final adventure of the young witch, Tiffany Aching, and her obnoxious, fawning, and yet lovable small blue companions, the Nac Mac Feegles. In many ways it''s a coming-of-age novel, as Tiffany is now on her own. Known as â€œThe Hag O''the Hills,â€ she spends her time tending to the messy, menial, everyday things that no one else will take care of, such as fixing bones or easing the pain of a dying man. But as she tries to serve the people of the Chalk hills, she senses a growing distrust of her, and a loss of respect for witches in general. Along with the Nac Mac Feegles, she has to seek out the source of this growing fear. Tiffany discovers she may have been responsible for waking an evil force when she kissed the winter in Wintersmith (HarperTempest, 2006). The Cunning Man is in need of a host body and is searching for Tiffany. Pratchett combines gut-busting humor and amusing footnotes with a genuine poignancy as Tiffany tries to decide what her future should be. Fans of the author''s â€œDiscworldâ€ (HarperCollins) books will enjoy the connections with the larger series, particularly the inclusion of Granny Weatherwax. Simply put, this fourth and final book in the series is an undisputed triumph.â€“Tim Wadham, St. Louis County Library, MOÎ±(c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pratchett returns to the terra firma of his popular, sprawling Discworld series, the young-reader corner of which centers around teen witch Tiffany Aching. Being a good witch mostly means tending to the localsâ€™ minor aches, pains, and kerfufflesâ€”which she does with as much aplomb as anyone could be expected to musterâ€”but to become a great witch, sheâ€™ll have to contend with the malevolent ghost of an ancient witch-burner. Yet even that might not be as terrifying as trying to keep the peace between the humans and the wee Nac Mac Feegles (whose primary skills are drinking, brawling, having Scottish brogues, brawling a bit more, and stealing every scene theyâ€™re in) and, shudder, getting wrapped up in the wedding of her childhood friend, who is suddenly a very myopic baron. The action never picks up much more momentum than a determined amble, but readers wonâ€™t care a whit because in terms of pure humor per square word, Pratchett may be the cheeriest writer around. Now that Tiffany Achingâ€™s adventures are concluded, readers can explore the nearly three decadeâ€™s worth of other Discworld books. Grades 8-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/760'),
(351, 'I Was A Sixth Grade Alien', 'Bruce Coville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  IT''S A STICKY SITUATION!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Pleskit''s quest to sample all things earthling -- especially earthling foods -- inevitably leads him to...peanut butter. He adores it. There''s only one problem: He has an allergic reaction to the stuff that ends up making him feel incredibly romantic.\n</p>\n<p>\n Before long, the purple alien is chasing girls around the playground, trying to kiss them. He gets a slap in the face, which snaps him back to reality. But the damage has been done. The school is in an uproar, and unless Tim and Pleskit can find a way to convince Principal Grand that it''s not really Pleskit''s fault, the world''s first alien student may be looking for a new classroom -- on a new planet!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bruce Coville\n </strong>\n is the author of nearly ninety books for young readers, including the international best-seller\n <em>\n  My Teacher Is an Alien.\n </em>\n He has been a teacher, a toy maker, a cookware salesman, and a grave digger. In addition to his work as an author, Bruce is much in demand as a speaker and as a storyteller. He is also the founder and president of Full Cast Audio, a company dedicated to producing unabridged recordings of children''s books in a full-cast format. For more information about Bruce, check out www.brucecoville.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/896'),
(352, 'I, Robot', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this collection, one of the great classics of science fiction, Asimov set out the principles of robot behavior that we know as the Three Laws of Robotics. Here are stories of robots gone mad, mind-reading robots, robots with a sense of humor, robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world, all told with Asimov''s trademark dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The three laws of Robotics:\n <br />\n 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm\n <br />\n 2) A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.\n <br />\n 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.\n</p>\n<p>\n With this, Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the laws governing their behavior. In\n <strong>\n  I, Robot\n </strong>\n , Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world--all told with the dramatic blend of science fact &amp; science fiction that became Asmiov''s trademark.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/224');
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(353, 'Icefire', 'Chris D&#39;Lacey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Upâ€“This book expands on the dragon lore created in\n <em>\n  The Fire Within\n </em>\n (Scholastic, 2005). College student David Rain''s new professor, Dr. Bergstrom, a polar research scientist, introduces him to legends from the Arctic and invites him to write an essay about dragons to qualify for a research trip. A succession of paranormal events leads to David''s flamboyant classmate Zanna inadvertently quickening a dragon egg belonging to his landlady, Liz. A powerful woman who calls herself Gwyneth, and who claims to be Liz''s aunt, arrives to help with the arrival of the new dragon. David discovers that Gwyneth is a figure from dragon legends, and that her motivations may lead to harm for him and for his friends. His attempts to oppose her result in an action-packed conclusion, expanding further on the legends and leaving room for the final volume in the series. In contrast to the domestic story of\n <em>\n  The Fire Within\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Icefire\n </em>\n offers a darker and more mature story. Liz''s clay dragons develop a greater degree of realism within the story, and their background is further explored. Readers will find action and mysteries aplenty in this fantastic tale, as well as a group of appealing dragons who are tricky, heroic, and often charming._â€“Beth L. Meister, Pleasant View Elementary School, Franklin, WI_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Icefire "Chris D''Lacey''s writing is sometimes exciting and sometimes silly. But that seems in keeping with the worlds he created- one that seems almost real and one that is beyond imagination." -The Washington Post\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/850'),
(354, 'In the Balance', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This intelligent speculative novel depicts an alternate history in which, at the height of World War II, Earth is attacked by alien beings with weapons far more destructive than any possessed by the Allied or Axis forces. Turtledove ( The Guns of the South ) gives a surprisingly convincing flavor to the time-worn story of warring nations uniting to repel extraterrestrials; his human characters, both actual and invented, ring true as they struggle to trust each other after years of enmity, and although the alien threat has a B-movie feel, he makes an effort to portray the invaders sympathetically as well. The first in a projected series, the book ends where it began: in and around a battle. The smooth writing is marred only by slightly overdone dialogue for real-life figures like General Patton. The historical details, especially those concerning the weapons and methods available in the 1940s to defend Earth, are accurate and well rendered.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The year is 1942. In Russia, Hitler''s panzers are fighting a losing battle; in China, Japanese invaders ravage the countryside; in England, the RAF watches the skies for enemy bombers; in Chicago, scientists frantically try to unlock the secrets of the atom--and in the skies overhead, an alien army launches its forces to conquer the Earth. Turtledove ( The Guns of the South , LJ 9/1/92) excels in alternate history, and this panoramic exploration of a world at war with itself and with invaders from beyond the galaxy showcases his fertile imagination. A feast for history buffs as well as sf fans, this title belongs in most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/960'),
(355, 'In the Beginning...Was the Command Line', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Neal Stephenson, author of the sprawling and engaging __, has written a manifesto that could be spoken by a character from that brilliant book. Primarily,\n <em>\n  In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line\n </em>\n discusses the past and future of personal computer operating systems. "It is the fate of manufactured goods to slowly and gently depreciate as they get old," he writes, "but it is the fate of operating systems to become free." While others in the computer industry express similarly dogmatic statements, Stephenson charms the reader into his way of thinking, providing anecdotes and examples that turn the pages for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stephenson is a techie, and he''s writing for an audience of coders and hackers in\n <em>\n  Command Line\n </em>\n . The idea for this essay began online, when a shortened version of it was posted on\n <em>\n  Slashdot.org\n </em>\n . The book still holds some marks of an e-mail flame gone awry, and some tangents should have been edited to hone his formidable arguments. But unlike similar writers who also discuss technical topics, he doesn''t write to exclude; readers who appreciate computing history (like __ or\n <em>\n  Fire in the Valley\n </em>\n ) can easily step into this book.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stephenson tackles many myths about industry giants in this volume, specifically Apple and Microsoft. By now, every newspaper reader has heard of Microsoft''s overbearing business practices, but Stephenson cuts to the heart of new issues for the software giant with a finely sharpened steel blade. Apple fares only a little better as Stephenson (a former Mac user himself) highlights the early steps the company took to prepare for a monopoly within the computer market--and its surprise when this didn''t materialize. Linux culture gets a thorough--but fair--skewering, and the strengths of BeOS are touted (although no operating system is nearly close enough to perfection in Stephenson''s eyes).\n</p>\n<p>\n As for the rest of us, who have gladly traded free will and an intellectual understanding of computers for a clutter-free, graphically pleasing interface, Stephenson has thoughts to offer as well. He fully understands the limits nonprogrammers feel in the face of technology (an example being the "blinking 12" problem when your VCR resets itself). Even so, within\n <em>\n  Command Line\n </em>\n he convincingly encourages us as a society to examine the metaphors of technology--simplifications that aren''t really much simpler--that we greedily accept.\n <em>\n  --Jennifer Buckendorff\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After reading this galvanizing essay, first intended as a feature for Wired magazine but never published there, readers are unlikely to look at their laptops in quite the same mutely complacent way. Stephenson, author of the novel Cryptonomicon, delivers a spirited commentary on the aesthetics and cultural import of computer operating systems. It''s less an archeology of early machines than a critique of what Stephenson feels is the inherent fuzziness of graphical user interfacesAthe readily intuitable "windows," "desktops" and "browsers" that we use to talk to our computers. Like Disney''s distortion of complicated historical events, our operating systems, he argues, lull us into a reductive sense of reality. Instead of the visual metaphors handed to us by Apple and Microsoft, Stephenson advocates the purity of the command line interface, somewhat akin to the DOS prompt from which most people flee in a technophobic panic. Stephenson is an advocate of Linux, the hacker-friendly operating system distributed for free on the Internet, and of BeOS, a less-hyped paradigm for the bits-and-bytes future. Unlike a string of source code, this essay is user-friendlyAoccasionally to a fault. Stephenson''s own set of extended metaphors can get a little hokey: Windows is a station wagon, while Macs are sleek Euro-sedans. And Unix is the Gilgamesh epic of the hacker subculture. Nonetheless, by pointing out how computers define who we are, Stephenson makes a strong case for elegance and intellectual freedom in computing. (Nov.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/768'),
(356, 'The Infinite Sea', 'Jeffrey A. Carver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Interstellar troubleshooter John Bandicut returns for an amiably routine third installment (after Strange Attractors) in Carvel''s Chaos Chronicles, journeying to a world where the dominant civilization, the Neri, live under the sea. There, Bandicut and his motley crew (comprised of three aliens, two robots and an artificial intelligence in Bandicut''s brain), aided by "translator-stones" that let him communicate with other species, deal with two menaces: the Astari, land-dwelling survivors of a crashed starship, and the Maw of the Abyss, a sapient interstellar portal that has accidentally endangered the planet while trying to repair itself. The witty tale moves briskly, as Bandicut and company solve one puzzle after another, but the multiplicity of technological marvels leaves many of them underdeveloped or implausible. Flavorless dialogue, moreover, undermines not only the wit but the characterization, particularly of the aliens. Loyal fans of the series should enjoy this competent, but by no means exceptional, work.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This hard-science adventure follows, John Bandicut, interstellar troubleshooter; his three alien partners; and two sentient robots to a world made mostly of water. A deadly turbulent force, the Maw of the Abyss, threatens a race of intelligent amphibians who live in an undersea city. Great interaction among the partners and the amphibians recommends this for sf collections, especially those collecting the series.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/686'),
(357, 'Infinity&#39;s End Part 1', 'Pat Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1121'),
(358, 'Infinity&#39;s End Part 2', 'Pat Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1122'),
(359, 'Infinity&#39;s End Part 3', 'Pat Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1123'),
(360, 'Infinity&#39;s End Part 4', 'Pat Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1124'),
(361, 'Inkheart', 'Cornelia Funke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Meggieâ€™s father, Mo, has an wonderful and sometimes terrible ability. When he reads aloud from books, he brings the characters to life--literally. Mo discovered his power when Maggie was just a baby. He read so lyrically from the the book\n  <em>\n   Inkheart,\n  </em>\n  that several of the bookâ€™s wicked characters ended up blinking and cursing on his cottage floor. Then Mo discovered something even worse--when he read Capricorn and his henchmen\n  <em>\n   out\n  </em>\n  of Inkheart, he accidentally read Meggieâ€™s mother\n  <em>\n   in.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meggie, now a young lady, knows nothing of her father''s bizarre and powerful talent, only that Mo still refuses to read to her. Capricorn, a being so evil he would "feed a bird to a cat on purpose, just to watch it being torn apart," has searched for Meggie''s father for years, wanting to twist Mo''s powerful talent to his own dark means. Finally, Capricorn realizes that the best way to lure Mo to his remote mountain hideaway is to use his beloved, oblivious daughter Meggie as bait!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cornelia Funkeâ€™s imaginative ode to books and book lovers is sure to be enjoyed by fans of her breakout debut,\n  <strong>\n   , and young readers who enjoyed the similarly themed\n  </strong>\n  by Roderick Townley. (Ages 10 to 15)\n  <em>\n   --Jennifer Hubert\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 4-8-Characters from books literally leap off the page in this engrossing fantasy. Meggie, 12, has had her father to herself since her mother went away when she was young. Mo taught her to read when she was five, and the two share a mutual love of books. Things change after a visit from a scarred man who calls himself Dustfinger and who refers to Mo as Silvertongue. Meggie learns that her father has been keeping secrets. He can "read" characters out of books. When she was three, he read aloud from a book called Inkheart and released Dustfinger and other characters into the real world. At the same time, Meggie''s mother disappeared into the story. Mo also released Capricorn, a sadistic villain who takes great pleasure in murdering people. He has sent his black-coated henchmen to track down Mo and intends to force him to read an immortal monster out of the story to get rid of his enemies. Meggie, Mo, Dustfinger, and Meggie''s great-aunt Elinor are pursued, repeatedly captured, but manage to escape from Capricorn''s henchmen as they attempt to find the author of Inkheart in the hope that he can write a new ending to the story. This "story within a story" will delight not just fantasy fans, but all readers who like an exciting plot with larger-than-life characters. Pair this title with Roderick Townley''s The Great Good Thing (2001) and Into the Labyrinth (2002, both Atheneum) for a wonderful exploration of worlds within words.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Sharon Rawlins, Piscataway Public Library, NJ\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/196'),
(362, 'Inkspell', 'Cornelia Funke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Just a few chapters into Inkspell, Mo (a.k.a. "Silvertongue") sagely says to his daughter, "Stories never really end, Meggie, even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don''t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page." A fitting meta-observation for this, the unplanned second installment in Cornelia Funke''s beloved now-trilogy. Of course, it''s that sort of earnest, almost gushing veneration of books and book-loving that made the absorbing suspense-fantasy Inkheart so wonderful in the first place, with that lit-affection getting woven integrally into the plot (Inkheart being both Funke''s first book in the series, and the fictitious book within that book, authored by the frustrated Fenoglio, now trapped within the book, er, within the book. Fenoglio, perhaps not surprisingly, self-referentially wishes in Inkspell that he had written a sequel to Inkheart.) Inkspell should serve as a special treat for fans of the first book, as characters from Inkheart who have found themselves in the "real world" (if there is such a thing) find themselves read back into their own mythic, word-spun world--along with some of our favorite "real-world" characters. As with the previous book, Funke''s greatest accomplishment here is telling such a rich and involving (and fun!) story, while still managing sweet, subtle commentary on the nature of words and meaning. Expect a tantalizing finale, too--as Funke says, "No reader will forgive me the ending, though, without a part three." (Ages 8 and up) --Paul Hughes\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/197'),
(363, 'Interesting Times', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marvelous Discworld, which revolves on the backs of four great elephants and a big turtle, spins into\n <em>\n  Interesting Times\n </em>\n , the 17th outing in Terry Pratchett''s rollicking fantasy series. The gods are playing games again, and this time the mysterious Lady opposes Fate in a match of "Destinies of Nations Hanging by a Thread."\n <em>\n  --Blaise Selby\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the Agatean Empire requests the Great Wizzard, Lord Vetinari of Ankh-Morpork sends a pathetically inept wizard named Rincewind 6000 miles away to the Counterweight Continent to intercede. The latest novel in the satirical fantasy "Discworld" series; for fantasy collections with the series.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/55'),
(364, 'Into the Storm', 'Taylor Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andersonâ€™s outstanding first novel combines alternate history and seafaring in a way that recalls S. M. Stirlingâ€™s splendid Island in the Sea of Time trilogy. Two U.S. four-stacker destroyers on the run from the Japanese in the spring of 1942 sail into a mysterious squall. The USS Walker emerges upon an alternate earth, where the dinosaurs were never wiped out. One savage sapient race, the Grik, has evolved from the raptors; another, from lemurs. The latter becomes the allies of the castaways in parallel time, and together they prepare to fight the Grik, solve some of the mysteries of this world, and find the missing second destroyer. There may be points, probably few, at which naval buffs will raise their eyebrows, but the nonstop action will speed nearly all readers past them. That action works out in the context of extremely high-level achievement at both world building and characterization. Itâ€™s safe to say that the series this book launches is going to go placesâ€”for starters, into the hands of all seafaring-sf fans. --Roland Green\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGripping and riveting... Anderson is a new talent to watch.â€\n <br />\n â€”S.M. Stirling, author of\n <em>\n  The Scourge of God\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/939'),
(365, 'Into the Unknown Part 1', 'Welles Hartley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1071'),
(366, 'Into the Unknown Part 2', 'Welles Hartley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1073'),
(367, 'Isle of View', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lovelorn\n <br />\n Loveworn Love Lost\n</p>\n<p>\n Perplexed Prince Dolph, Xanth''s precocious shapeshifter, should be in love but isn''t. Nonetheless, he must chose between two fiancÃ©es -- Nada the uninterested and Electra the uninteresting -- or all three of them will suffer the most dire consequences. Luckily a convenient catastrophe has popped up to distract Dolph form his dilemma -- the foal-napping of young Che Centaur by goblins. And the only one who knows where Che is is a nice but remarkably naive elflike gir named Jenny from the World of Two Moons. If anyone can save the missing centaur...she sure can''t.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n New York Times-bestselling author Piers Anthony has written over one hundred books. His first fantasy,\n <em>\n  A Spell for Chameleon,\n </em>\n won the August Derleth Fantasy Award for best novel in 1977, and commenced his acclaimed Xanth series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/477'),
(368, 'Issola', 'Steven Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The dashing Lord Vlad Taltos returns in this ninth installment of the Taltos series (after 1998''s popular Dragon, which some would consider a stand-alone story), in which the hero engages in more philosophical musing than muscle work. Still a renegade, Jheregan outcast and witch, Taltos must rescue, once again, his Dragonlord friends, Morrolan e''Drien and Aliera e''Kieron, this time from the powerful creators of Dragaera, the Jenoine. Accompanied by his faithful familiar, the funny pocket dragon, Loiosh, Taltos as usual relies on his psychic and magical strengths as well as his dazzling swordplay. But what sets this adventure apart from his others is the tone. The author starts off slowly, concentrating on setting up the relationship Taltos develops with Teldra, the Issolian chatelaine of Castle Black, whose gentle manners captivate Taltos and teach him new ways to deal with problems. The dangerous Jenoine utilize sleight of hand and massive illusions that Taltos and his friends have to crack in order to save Dragaera''s source of amorphia (aka chaos) from the Jenoine and themselves. Fans will enjoy all the inside jokes and references to earlier books, but newcomers may feel a bit lost until Brust cranks up the volume midway and the story begins to crackle with easily understood tension. It stops just short of becoming a romance between Teldra and Taltos, leaving lingering doubts as to whether their "relationship" will ever end. Though not as meaty as some fans might wish, the novel provides more than adequate fantasy fare.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vlad Taltos'' latest adventures take place after the conclusion of\n <em>\n  Orca\n </em>\n (1996). Still on the run from the Jhereg, Vlad is tracked down by Lady Teldra of Castle Black. Both Morrolan and Aliera have disappeared, and sorcery, telepathy, and even Sethra Lavode can''t find them. It is feared that they are captives of neither the dead nor the gods but of the Jenoine, the ancient creators of Dragaera and its gods. So what is an ex-assassin (Vlad) to do? Rescue his friends, of course, though not without smart-mouthing every other inch of the way and exercising the same derring-do that has kept Brust''s stalwarts turning the pages for years. Be it noted that this novel sheds a great deal of light on the history of Dragaera, the primary setting of Brust''s imaginings, and yet it absolutely isn''t the place to start an acquaintance with either the series or Brust. Hardened fans will rally to the book, but start newbies on an earlier bit of Brustwork.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1041'),
(369, 'Jedi search', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Princess Leia and Han Solo have three kids and live as a respectable political couple in the capital of the New Republic. Luke Skywalker has returned to the Jedi fold after having given in to the dark side of the Force. C3P0 and R2D2 remain faithful droid sidekicks in a universe now freeing itself from the bondage of the evil Empire. These familiar characters inhabit some new places and situations in Anderson''s ( Star Wars: Jedi Search ) sequel to the Star Wars movies. Luke has decided to rebuild the once powerful Jedi Knights in hope of providing stability in the New Republic. He finds himself in precarious circumstances as he searches for descendants of the mostly exterminated Jedis. Meanwhile, Han finds himself trapped in an Empire base located in a black hole under the command of a ruthless woman who has not yet heard of the Emperor''s defeat and demise. Leia sends Luke and Lando Calrissian to find her missing husband. Han''s escape from the black hole with a weapon more destructive than the Empire''s Death Stars, and Luke and Lando''s rush to his rescue, close out this predictable, tiring tale. Even big fans of the movies will have a hard time staying with this one.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the war between the Republic and the scattered remnants of the Empire continues, two children--Princess Leia''s Jedi twins--come into their powers in a universe on the brink of vast changes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/406'),
(370, 'Jhereg', 'Steven Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Quick with both sword and wit, Vlad Taltos makes his way through the world of Dragaera as an assassin, aided by a small talent for magic and a lizard-like jhereg companion. Collecting the first three novels in Brust''s Vlad Taltos series (e.g., Jhereg), this volume serves as a good introduction to the adventures of the author''s archly sophisticated, wryly humorous hero. Recommended for libraries that do not already own the individual titles included.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vlad Taltos x 3! Three Steven Brust fantasy novels in one all-new edition-featuring intrepid assassin Vlad Taltos and his jhereg companion. A welcome addition to any fantasy fan''s library,\n <em>\n  The Book of Jhereg\n </em>\n follows the antics of the wise-cracking assassin Vlad Taltos and his dragon-like companion through their first three adventures-_Jhereg_,\n <em>\n  Yendi\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Teckla\n </em>\n . From his rookie assassin days to his selfless feats of heroism, the dauntless Vlad will hold readers spellbound-and The Book of Jhereg will take its place among the classic compilations in fantasy.\n <br />\n --A pocket-sized dragon-what''s not to love?\n <br />\n --A collectible 3-in-1 edition featuring one of science fiction''s most memorable heroes\n</p>\n<p>\n "This whole series is entertaining and worth reading!" -_Locus_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Engaging...written with a light touch...good stuff!" -_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Watch Steven Brust. He''s good. He moves fast. He surprises you." -Roger Zelazny\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hard to put down . . . fun to read!" -_OtherRealms_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Imagine James Bond in a world of magic...exciting!" -_Voya_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1033'),
(371, 'Jingo', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett is a phenomenon unto himself. Never read a Discworld book? The closest comparison might be __, with its uniquely British sense of the absurd, and side-splitting, smart humor.\n <em>\n  Jingo\n </em>\n is the 20th of Pratchett''s Discworld novels, and the fourth to feature the City Guard of Ankh-Morpork. As\n <em>\n  Jingo\n </em>\n begins, an island suddenly rises between Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali, capital of Klatch. Both cities claim it. Lord Vetinari, the Patrician, has failed to convince the Ruling Council that force is a bad idea, despite reminding them that they have no army, and "I believe one of those is generally considered vital to the successful prosecution of a war." Samuel Vimes, Commander of the City Watch, has to find out who shot the Klatchian envoy, Prince Khufurah, and set fire to their embassy, before war breaks out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pratchett''s characters are both sympathetic and outrageously entertaining, from Captain Carrot, who always finds the best in people and puts it to work playing football, to Sergeant Colon and his sidekick, Corporal Nobbs, who have "an ability to get out of their depth on a wet pavement." Then there is the mysterious D''reg, 71-hour Ahmed. What is his part in all this, and why 71 hours? Anyone who doesn''t mind laughing themselves silly at the idiocy of people in general and governments in particular will enjoy\n <em>\n  Jingo\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Jingo, the twentieth Discworld novel to be published in the United States, is a worthy addition to the series. It''s a quiet night. Maybe too quiet. Solid Jackson and his son are fishing the waters between Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali when their boat runs aground. To their amazement, an iron chicken rises out of the water, followed shortly by the island of Leshp. Solid Jackson immediately claims the island as Ankh-Morpork territory. There''s only one problem. Greasy Arif and his son are also fishing for Curious Squid, and Arif swears that the island belongs to Al-Khali. Both cities are determined to annex it. By jingo, this means war. Ankh-Morpork is outgunned and out-manned but the city''s nobles don''t plan to let that stop them from carrying on the noble traditions of chivalry and showing those Klatchians what''s what. This book is just as funny, clever, and unpredictable as the previous titles. Pratchett fans will not be disappointed, and new readers will not be confused. Jingo expands upon the lives of characters from titles in the series, but readers don''t need to be familiar with them to enjoy this one. It''s fast-paced, with lots of twists and turns, unexpected events, and football.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Susan Salpini, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/30'),
(372, 'Johnny and the Bomb', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5â€“8â€”This trilogy ends with a bang. Having stumbled upon a way to travel through time, Johnny knows exactly when a German bomb will be dropped on his English village. Time travel turns out to be tricky, however, as it takes Johnny and his friends several trips to alter history just enough to save their town, but also to ensure that everything stays the same when they return home. Adding to the suspense is the imaginative vehicle of a crazy bag lady''s squeaky cart to time travel, often with unpredictable results. The climax is reached at rocket speed as Johnny becomes increasingly aware of the many dimensions of time and ultimately relies on this ability to save the townsfolk. Pratchett deftly weaves alternate realities together to form a satisfying conclusion, keeping confusion at bay by treating the weightier issues of time travel with his trademark humor. Alternating between 1990s Britain and World War II, he offers plenty for thoughtful readers to mull over even as he pokes fun at the genre. While there is little connection to the other books in the series, Johnny''s quirky sidekicks are back, each sidesplittingly portrayed and effectively advancing the plot. It is Johnny who cares most about the effect the war will have on his sleepy town, and up until the very last page, readers will, too.â€”_Emily Rodriguez, Alachua County Library District, Gainesville, FL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œComplex, funny and, above all, impassioned.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/81'),
(373, 'Johnny and the Dead', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Post-life citizens Breath challenged Vertically disadvantaged (buried, not short) Johnny Maxwell''s new friends not appreciate the term "ghosts," but they are, well, dead. The town council wants to sell the cemetery, and its inhabitants aren''t about to take that lying down! Johnny is the only one who can see them, and and the previously alive need his help to save their home and their history. Johnny didn''t mean to become the voice for the lifeless, but if he doesn''t speak up, who will? In Johnny Maxwell''s second adventure, Carnegie Medalist Terry Pratchett explores the bonds between the living and the dead and proves that it''s never too late to have the time of your life -- even if it is your afterlife!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/77'),
(374, 'Johnny The Homocidal Maniac 1', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/833'),
(375, 'Johnny The Homocidal Maniac 2', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/827'),
(376, 'Johnny The Homocidal Maniac 3', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/828'),
(377, 'Johnny The Homocidal Maniac 4', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/829'),
(378, 'Johnny The Homocidal Maniac 5', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/830'),
(379, 'Johnny The Homocidal Maniac 6', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/831'),
(380, 'Johnny The Homocidal Maniac 7', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/832'),
(381, 'The Journey', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Journey is the second book in the Guardians of Ga''Hoole series. It is written by Kathryn Lasky, and was published by Scholastic on September 1st 2003. In this book, Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, Digger, and Mrs. Plithiver continue their journey to the Great Ga''Hoole Tree, where they will be tested beyond anything they have ever faced. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot | Characters\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 4-8-In this second book in the series, Soren and his band of owls have escaped the St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls and go in search of the mythical Great Ga''Hoole Tree. When they finally arrive at the tree, they find themselves in a Hogwarts-like school where owls are divided into "chaws," or small teams, that focus on particular skills such as navigation or search and rescue. By the end of the book, Soren has learned the fate of his lost sister, discovered that he has some unique powers, and has lost his new mentor, leaving things wide open for the next installment. The story flows nicely and has a certain appeal that carries readers along, despite the sometimes-jarring addition of unnecessary owl poetry. Lasky''s fully realized world is full of traditions based on the actual habits of owls, but this is still a world in which owls can read and write. Fantasy readers will enjoy the adventure, but the book will appeal mainly to fans of the first volume in the series.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Tim Wadham, Maricopa County Library District, Phoenix, AZ\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1168'),
(382, 'Joust', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this elegant, compelling fantasy from the prolific author of the Valdemar series (Arrows Fall, etc.), Lackey combines meticulously detailed dragon lore with emotionally intense, realistic human characters. In the arid desert country of Tia, the Altan serf Vetch has to scramble after whatever crumbs are left over after the servants, the slaves and the animals have been fed, while doing the work of three or four full-grown boys. Being hungry is hard enough to take at the best of times, but being a hungry, growing boy, sorely overworked during the dry season when even the beasts of burden are sheltered against the cruel sun, is intolerable. By chance (or the will of the gods), this dreadful situation comes to the notice of one who can change it. Jouster Ari, a dragon rider and a warrior of the Great King of Tia, dislikes cruelty to animals, men and even to mere serfs. In a neat turn of events, Vetch becomes Ari''s dragon boy and the caretaker of Ari''s dragon, Kashet. What follows is a detailed look at the lives of Tia''s dragons, their dragon riders and those who care for them. This uplifting tale, which contains a valuable lesson or two on the virtues of hard work, is a must-read for dragon lovers in particular and for fantasy fans in general.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Hunger, anger, and hatred are constants for young Vetch, rendered a brutally mistreated and overworked serf by the Tian conquest of his homeland. But everything improves when a Tian jouster requisitions Vetch to become the first serf ever to be a dragon boy. His training is intense, and his duty clear-cut: to tend his jouster, Ari, and his dragon, Kashet. He discovers that, because Ari himself had hatched Kashet, the dragon is different from others that have been captured live in the wild and must be drugged to be made tractable. Vetch finds he really likes and understands dragons, and soon he becomes the best dragon boy of all. He still harbors anger, however, toward the Tian invasion. Could he, perhaps, hatch a dragon, and then escape to help his people? In Vetch''s world, Lackey gives us a wonderfully visualized society, similar in terrain, climate, religion, and the differing circumstances of slave, serf, and free person to ancient Egypt. Moreover, she fills the book with well-limned characterizations and convincing, detailed dragon lore to make up a whole in which Vetch''s coming-of-age becomes an integral part. Fans of McCaffrey''s Pern will love it, but they won''t be the only ones who do.\n <em>\n  Sally Estes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/665'),
(383, 'Juggler of Worlds', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n As an agent for the Amalgamated Regional Militia, Simon Ausfaller uses his innate paranoia to ferret out alien conspiracies and protect earthâ€™s colonies from harm. He meets his match in the obsessively protective puppeteers, a race of two-headed extraterrestrials whose impermeable General Products spaceship hulls come with an expensive guarantee of safety. In his latest investigation, Ausfaller probes the reasons why one GP hull apparently failed to protect the humans inside and discovers that tidal waves from a neutron star had some part in their demise. The case quickly becomes more complicated, leading Ausfaller on a trail across multiple worlds that branches into an even deeper mysteryâ€”puppeteers everywhere are deserting their posts for unknown but ominous reasons that may also spell disaster for humans. In their second collaboration, Niven and Lerner return to the era of Known Space history predating human discovery of Nivenâ€™s iconic Ringworld. They clearly enjoy revisiting aliens familiar from Nivenâ€™s menagerie while spinning an elaborate tale of interplanetary intrigue. Their many fans will, too. --Carl Hays\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œNiven and Lernerâ€¦clearly enjoy revisiting aliens familiar from Nivenâ€™s menagerie while spinning an elaborate tale of interplanetary intrigue.Â  Their many fans will, too.â€--_Booklist\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Niven and Lerner...adroitly expand upon familiar ground...and, at the same time, pour it into an entirely new bottle."--\n </em>\n Starlog_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A lively prequel to Niven''s 1970 classic,\n <em>\n  Ringworld\n </em>\n . . . . Â Fans of hard SF will be well rewarded."--_Publishers Weekly_ on\n <em>\n  Fleet of Worlds\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __Â \n</p>\n<p>\n "Exceptional freshness and suspense . . . Â full of startling revelations about human and puppeteer politics."--_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Fleet of Worlds\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __Â \n</p>\n<p>\n "AÂ far-future SF mystery/adventure set two centuries before the discovery of the Ringworld by humans. . . . .Â Intriguing human and alien characters and lucid scientific detail."--_Library Journal_Â on\n <em>\n  Fleet of Worlds\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/773'),
(384, 'Jumper Cable', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThis being Xanth, the adventurers find absurdities, danger, and romance but also find themselves unwittingly involved in extremely complex intrigue. Classic Xanthromancy.â€--_Booklist_ on\n <em>\n  Air Apparent\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the thirty-third thrilling escapade in Piers Anthonyâ€™s rousing Xanth fantasy series, an adventurous arachnid named Jumper must assume human form to save the enchanted realm from a cosmic peril.\n</p>\n<p>\n A cataclysmic battle between two all-powerful Demons has severed a mystical connection that joins Xanth to our own world. The key to restoring it is hidden within a cryptic prophecy that Jumper discovers when he is suddenly transformed from spider to man. As he sets out to discern the prophecy''s meaning, he gathers about him a half dozen alluring damsels who do their best to help him solve the riddleÂ while vyingÂ for his attentions.\n</p>\n<p>\n But a seductive siren and her demonic consort have determined to use their wiles to lure Jumper and his lovely companions away from their urgent mission.Â  In a madcap adventure that is alternately harrowing and hilarious, they soon discover that danger, deception, and even true love may be found where they least expect it.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Jumper Cable\n </em>\n , master storyteller Piers Anthony spins a wild and witty web of wonder that is sure to captivate fans of fantastic adventure everywhere!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/463'),
(385, 'Jurassic Park', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n En esta espectacular novela, los dinosaurios vuelven a conquistar la Tierra. En una isla remota, un grupo de hombres y mujeres emprende una carrera contra el tiempo para evitar un desastre mundial provocado por la desmedida ambiciÃ³n de comercializar la ingenierÃ­a genÃ©tica. Pero todos los esfuerzos resultarÃ¡n vanos cuando el inescrupuloso proyecto quede fuera de control y el mundo a merced de unas bestias monstruosas...\n <br />\n <em>\n  Parque JurÃ¡sico\n </em>\n , la novela mÃ¡s cÃ©lebre de Michael Crichton y una de las mÃ¡s leÃ­das en los Ãºltimos aÃ±os, fue adaptada al cine por Steven Spielberg en una pelÃ­cula que se convirtiÃ³ en el gran acontecimiento cinematogrÃ¡fico de 1993 y en el origen del fenÃ³meno de masas llamado "dinomanÃ­a".\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUna joya de la fantasÃ­a cientÃ­fica.â€\n <br />\n _El PaÃ­s\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/310'),
(386, 'Kiss of Midnight', 'Lara Adrian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwellâ€™s deepest fantasies. But nothing about this nightâ€”or this manâ€”is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existedâ€”a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kindâ€”and the unwitting humans existing alongside themâ€”from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here, in the arms of the Breedâ€™s formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lara Adrian lives in New Hampshire with her husband where she is at work on the next novel in her sexy vampire series featuring the Midnight Breed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/986'),
(387, 'Knife of Dreams', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  About the Author\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Robert Jordan\n </strong>\n lives in Charleston, South Carolina. He is a graduate of the Citadel.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com''s Significant Seven\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Robert Jordan kindly agreed to take the life quiz we like to give to all our authors: the Amazon.com Significant Seven.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What book has had the most significant impact on your life?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The one book would be whatever book I was currently writing. I mean, I hate falling behind in the work. The one CD would contain the best\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What is the worst lie you''ve ever told?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n It''s hard to think of one since I am genetically incapable of lying to women and that takes out 52% of the population right there.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Describe the perfect writing environment.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Any place that has my computer, a CD player for music, a comfortable chair that won''t leave me with a backache at the end of a long day, and very little interruption.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n He kept trying to get better at it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n My wife before anybody else on earth living or dead. That''s a no-brainer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n If you could have one superpower what would it be?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n That depends. If I''m feeling altruistic, it would be the ability to heal anything with a touch, if that can be called a superpower. If I''m not feeling very altruistic, it would be the ability to read other people''s minds, to\n <em>\n  finally\n </em>\n be able to get to the bottom of what they really mean and what their motivations are.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  See all books in the\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n The previous book in Jordan''s massive Wheel of Time,\n <em>\n  Crossroads of Twilight\n </em>\n , may have come out in 2003, but don''t let that fool you; the 11th tome in this epic fantasy is the one Jordan fans have been eagerly waiting for the better part of a decade. The breakneck pace, lyrical beauty and astonishing scope of the early Wheel of Time volumes established Jordan as one of the top writers in the Tolkien tradition. While more recent entries have maintained that beauty and scope, the pace has slowed to a crawl as the central characters dispersed in six directions. In contrast, the latest explodes with motion, as multiple plot lines either conclude or advance, and the march to Tarmon Gai''donâ€”the climactic last battle between the Dragon Reborn and the Dark Oneâ€”begins in earnest. Faile''s captivity with the Shaido, Mat''s pursuit of Tuon and Elayne''s war for Caemlyn come to a close, while Egwene''s capture brings the Aes Sedai war to the heart of the Tower. Jordan has said that readers will be sweating by the end of the book, and he''s probably right. Sweating or not, they''ll also be dreading the long year or two before the 12th installment.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/358'),
(388, 'The Lark and The Wren', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- The tale of a daring adventuress whose heart and spirit seek expertise in music, but whose experiences lead to : knowledge of life itself. Born out of wedlock, 14-year-old Rune is condemned to remain the butt of local gossip. She has dreams of joining the Bardic Guild, whose members enjoy high status, wealth, and security. First, though, she must escape from the village and her lowly status, and risk all to become a famous bard. Mages, musicians, elves, gypsies, usurper kings, and townspeople are drawn with color and an even assortment of good and bad. The clergy, however, receive a one-sided treatment, a point that is rather belabored. Although long and rambling, the book will satisfy those who enjoy Lackey''s skill at weaving fantasy, intrigue, magic, power, and love into a good tale. They will eagerly await the sequel.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Possessing the potential to be the greatest bard her world has ever seen, young Rune rashly brags about her abilities and must prove herself by meeting the Ghost of Skull Hill, who forces her to fiddle an entire night. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/684'),
(389, 'The Last Battle', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/342');
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(390, 'The Last Colony', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Full of whodunit twists and explosive action, Scalzi''s third SF novel lacks the galactic intensity of its two related predecessors, but makes up for it with entertaining storytelling on a very human scale. Several years after the events of\n <em>\n  The Ghost Brigades\n </em>\n (2006), John Perry, the hero of\n <em>\n  Old Man''s War\n </em>\n (2005), and Jane Sagan are leading a normal life as administrator and constable on the colonial planet Huckleberry with their adopted daughter, ZoÃ«, when they get conscripted to run a new colony, ominously named Roanoke. When the colonists are dropped onto a different planet than the one they expected, they find themselves caught in a confrontation between the human Colonial Union and the alien confederation called the Conclave. Hugo-finalist Scalzi avoids political allegory, promoting individual compassion and honesty and downplaying patriotic loyaltyâ€”except in the case of the inscrutable Obin, hive-mind aliens whose devotion to ZoÃ« will remind fans of the benevolent role Captain Nemo plays in Verne''s\n <em>\n  Mysterious Island\n </em>\n . Some readers may find the deus ex machina element a tad heavy-handed, but it helps keep up the momentum.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Scalzi''s Hugo finalist,_Old Man''s War _(2005) first spawned the equally entertaining\n <em>\n  Ghost Brigades\n </em>\n (2006). And now, a third volume reprises the story of John Perry, former planet-hopping soldier who has now traded his genetically enhanced second body for a commonplace one and a peaceful retirement. Free from the stresses of battle, he''s enjoying domestic bliss with his wife and adopted daughter on a remote Colonial Union world. Then a former commanding general drops by with a tempting proposal. Perry and his wife are apparently the perfect candidates to lead a promising new colony populated by citizens from 10 worlds. They accept, but then the CU deceitfully strands them and their charges on an unknown world. Perry discovers they are pawns in a deadly game calculated to destroy an alien coalition whose purposes include blocking further human colonization. A less-action-laden story line ratchets the excitement down from that of the previous books, but Scalzi''s captivating blend of off-world adventure and political intrigue remains consistently engaging.\n <em>\n  Carl Hays\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/385'),
(391, 'The Last Command', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Heir to The Empire was a number-one New York Times bestseller and the science-fiction publishing event of the year. Dark Force Rising continued the gripping new adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and the other heroes of the most popular trilogy in movie history. Now the saga concludes with The Last Command, the climactic volume of a three-book cycle authorized by Lucasfilm Ltd. and written by Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn. It is five years after the events of Return of The Jedi. The fragile New Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has not only rallied the remaining Imperial forces but has driven the rebels back with an abominable new technology: clone soldiers. Hopes are dim as Thrawn mounts a final siege against the Republic. While Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a wary alliance of smugglers in a last-ditch attack against the Empire, Leia keeps the Alliance together and prepares for the birth of her Jedi twins. But the Empire has too many ships and too many clones to combat. The Republic''s only hope lies in sending a small force, led by Luke, into the very stronghold that houses Thrown''s terrible cloning machines. There a final danger awaits. The Dark Jedi C''baoth schemes in his secret fortress, directing the battle against the rebels, nursing his insanity and building his strength to finish what he had already started - the destruction of Luke Skywalker. An odyssey of fast-paced action, stunning revelation, and final confrontation, The Last Command spans a galaxy in flames - a tale that will conclude in this third and last installment as Good and Evil battle "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/398'),
(392, 'The Last Continent', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the Discworld''s last continent, it''s hot. It''s dry. . . very dry. There was this thing once called the Wet, which no one now believes in. Practically everything that''s not poisonous is venomous. But it''s the best bloody place in the world, all right? And it''ll die in a few days, except. . . Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker. A man in a hat, whose Luggage follows him on little legs, Yes . . . all this place has between itself and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, the inept wizard. He''s the only hero left. Still . . . no worries, eh? From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(393, 'The Last Dragonslayer', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in the magic release form B1-7g. But somewhere, somehow, the magic started draining away. Jennifer Strange runs Kazam!, an employment agency for state-registered magicians, soothsayers and sorceresses. But work is drying up. Drain cleaner is cheaper and quicker than a spell. Why trust a cold and drafty magic carpet when jetlines offer a comfy seat and an in-flight movie? And now potions are eligible for VAT . . . But then the visions start. The Last Dragon is going to be killed by a Dragonslayer at 12.00 on Sunday. The death will unleash untold devastation on the UnUnited Kingdom, setting principality against dukedom and property developer against homesteader. And all the signs are pointing to Jennifer Strange, and saying â€˜Big Magic is coming . . .â€™\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in magic release form B1-7g. Then the magic started fading away. Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for soothsayers and sorcerers. But work is drying up. Drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and even magic carpets are reduced to pizza delivery. So it''s a surprise when the visions start. Not only do they predict the death of the Last Dragon at the hands of a dragonslayer, they also point to Jennifer, and say something is coming. Big Magic ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1027'),
(394, 'The Last Enemy', 'Barry B. Longyear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/697'),
(395, 'Last Gleaming, Part I', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/786'),
(396, 'Last Gleaming, Part II', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/787'),
(397, 'Last Gleaming, Part III', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/788'),
(398, 'Last Gleaming, Part IV', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/789'),
(399, 'Last Gleaming, Part V', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/790'),
(400, 'The Last Hero', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A new Discworld story is always an event. Terry Pratchett''s\n <em>\n  The Last Hero\n </em>\n is unusually short, a 40,000-word "Discworld Fable" rather than a full novel, but is illustrated throughout in sumptuous color by Paul Kidby.\n</p>\n<p>\n The 160 pages cover the series'' longest and most awesome (but still comic) journey yet, a mission to save all Discworld from a new threat. An old threat, actually. Aged warrior Cohen the Barbarian has decided to go out with a bang and take the gods with him. So, with the remnants of his geriatric Silver Horde, he''s climbing to the divine retirement home Dunmanifestin with the Discworld equivalent of a nuke--a fifty-pound keg of Agatean Thunder Clay.\n</p>\n<p>\n This will, for excellent magical reasons, destroy the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s up to Leonard of Quirm, Discworld''s da Vinci, to invent the technology that might just beat Cohen to his goal. His unlikely vessel is powered by dragons, crewed by himself and two popular regular characters, and secretly harbors a stowaway. Before long we hear the Discworld version of "Houston, we have a problem...."\n</p>\n<p>\n Kidby rises splendidly to the challenge of painting both funny faces and cosmic vistas. As Pratchett puts it,\n <em>\n  The Last Hero\n </em>\n "has an extra dimension: some parts of it are written in paint!" New characters include Evil Dark Lord Harry Dread, who started out with "just two lads and his Shed of Doom," and a god so tiresome that his worshippers are forbidden chocolate, ginger, mushrooms\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n garlic.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pratchett''s story alone is strong and effective, with several hair-raising\n <em>\n  frissons\n </em>\n contrasting with high comedy; Kidby''s paintings make it something very special. Not to be missed.\n <em>\n  --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cohen the Barbarian, aka the Emperor Ghengiz Cohen, hero of 26 Discworld fables, and his Silver Horde go gentle into any good night? Never. Not even if they''re held together by various elasticized supporters and forget where they left their false teeth. The gods unpardonably let Cohen and Co. succumb to old age, and the members of the Horde Boy Willie, Caleb, Truckle and Hamish, who''s ("Whut?") stone deaf still want drink, treasure and women, even if they admit they''ve had to ease back on the last one. Cohen gets a bard to record their one last universe-defying hobble toward immortality, and old age has rarely been so gut-splittingly yet accurately portrayed here, embellished by Paul Kidby''s wacky and wicked illustrations. The Horde''s last quest is to return the fire Cohen stole long ago from Dunmanifestin, the gods'' ultimate Good Address. Unfortunately, that will destroy the magic holding the world together, so Lord Vetinari of Ankh-Morpork "workshops" the situation ("the means by which people who don''t know anything get together to pool their ignorance") and sends a dragon-powered vessel crewed by an inventor, a soldier, a wizard and an orangutan librarian to stop Cohen and his tottery Horde. Pratchett lets fly sly volleys at today''s civilization and skewers nearly every barbarian-fantasy clichâ€š rampant in too many books and films. This far-out farce rollicks along hilariously enough to make the inevitable aging process, if not palatable, at least worth a few good belly laughs. (Nov. 1)Forecast: You don''t have to be a fantasy fan to appreciate the marvelous jacket art, depicting a skinny, bald, aged barbarian clutching a sword in one hand and a cane in the other.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/676'),
(401, 'The Last Olympian', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe clash of modern and classical worlds is both exciting and entertaining.â€ â€”_The New York Times Book Review ?_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€Riordan masterfully orchestrates the huge cast of characters and manages a coherent, powerful tale at once exciting, philosophical and tear-jerking. The best-selling seriesâ€™ legions of fans will cheer their heroes on and rejoice in such a compelling conclusion to the saga.â€â€”_ Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ?_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos''s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan''s power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it''s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy''s sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/348'),
(402, 'The Legend of Luke', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brian Jacques and his tremendous Redwall books never cease to amaze: this is the 12th book in a series that just gets better and better. This time, the interweaving story of a father and a son is told in three parts, starting with a visit to Redwall Abbey by a young hedgehog maid who, by singing a half-remembered song recounting the adventures of a warrior called Luke, begins to unlock some of the mysteries behind the Abbey''s early years.\n</p>\n<p>\n As deftly executed as all the other Redwall books,\n <em>\n  The Legend of Luke\n </em>\n is a truly magnificent, rampaging, rip-roaring adventure story that gives the heart and mind the kind of aerobic workout normally reserved for a sprint round a playing field. From the very first page the readers know they''re in for a treat, and as Jacques skillfully builds his story, cleverly interweaving intricate, imaginative detail with a vast cast of incredible characters who each play a vital role in the unfurling of the tale, there can be no doubt that he is still the true master of his genre.\n</p>\n<p>\n Excellent as a stand-alone read for anyone new to Redwall, and even better as part of the amazing saga that has captured the imagination of millions since its inception,\n <em>\n  The Legend of Luke\n </em>\n is an absolute must-read for anyone--young or old--who likes their fiction fast and fantastical. This story will certainly leave them breathless for more.\n <em>\n  --Susan Harrison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Author Jacques reads his latest work with an assured and enthusiastic tone that demonstrates his familiarity with and passion for his subject matter. In this 12th story about the woodland creatures who inhabit and defend Redwall Abbey, listeners are treated to a prequel of sorts. In the early days of Redwall, Martin the warrior leaves the still-growing abbey and travels to the Northland shore where his father, the warrior Luke, had abandoned him as a child. Along the way, Martin and his companions must fight off weasels and other evil vermin. But once Martin reaches his destination, the answers to many of his lifelong questions are answered. He discovers the real reason his father was forced to leave him behind. As always, Jacques peppers his storytelling with humor, sumptuous descriptions and abundant adventure. Some listeners may find that Jacques''s heavy Liverpool accent takes a bit of getting used to, but once acclimated, will be captivated by this colorful tale. Ages 9-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/705'),
(403, 'The Lies of Locke Lamora', 'Scott Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Life imitates art and art scams life in Lynch''s debut, a picaresque fantasy that chronicles the career of Locke Lamoraâ€”orphan, thief and leader of the Gentlemen Bastardsâ€”from the time the Thiefmaker sells Locke to the faking Eyeless Priest up to Locke''s latest con of the nobility of the land of Camorr. As in any good caper novel, the plot is littered with obvious and not-so-obvious obstacles, including the secret police of Camorr''s legendary Spider and the mysterious assassinations of gang leaders by the newly arrived Gray King. Locke''s resilience and wit give the book the tragicomic air of a traditional picaresque, rubbery ethics and all. The villain holds the best moral justification of any of the players. Lynch provides plenty of historical and cultural information reminiscent of new weirdists Steven Erikson and China MiÃ©ville, if not quite as outrÃ©. The only drawback is that the realistic fullness of the background tends to accentuate the unreality of the melodramatic foreground.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n On a distant world, orphan Locke Lamora is sold into a crew of thieves and con artists. Soon his natural gifts make him an underworld celebrity, leader of the flamboyantly larcenous Gentleman Bandits. But there is someone who covets Locke''s talents, his success, his very life, forcing him to put everything on the line to protect himself. With a world so vividly realized that it''s positively tactile, and characters so richly drawn that they threaten to walk right off the page, this is one of those novels that reaches out and grabs readers, pulling us into the middle of the action. With this debut novel, Lynch immediately establishes himself as a gifted and fearless storyteller, unafraid of comparisons to Silverberg and Jordan, not to mention David Liss and even Dickens (the parallels to\n <em>\n  Oliver Twist\n </em>\n offer an appealing extra dimension to the story, although the novel is no mere reimagining of that Victorian classic). Fans of lavishly appointed fantasy will be in seventh heaven here, but it will be nearly as popular with readers of literary crime fiction. This is a true genre bender, at home on almost any kind of fiction shelf. Expect it to be among the year''s most impressive debuts.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1016'),
(404, 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWild satire . . . the feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œAdams is one of those rare treasures: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading.â€â€”\n </em>\n Arizona Daily Star\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. And then, just as he thinks things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. Discover the origins of life on Earth - and don''t be shocked if it''s not what they taught you at school.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/254'),
(405, 'The Lifecycle of Software Objects', 'Ted Chiang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Lifecycle of Software Objects is a novella by Ted Chiang originally published in 2010 by Subterranean Press. It won the 2011 Locus Award for Best Novella and the Hugo Award for Best Novella. This is Chiang''s first novella to be published originally in hardcover. As of December 22, 2010, both the first edition and trade edition have sold out, but the novella remains available in second printing from Subterranean Press''s website. The Subterreanean Press edition of the novella features ten internal paintings and cover art by Weta Workshop artist Christian Pearce. Each of the novella''s ten chapters is preceded by a map designed by Jacob McMurray. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Is science fiction a literature of ideas, or of characters? Works that focus on the former often neglect the latter, and vice versa. It''s very difficult to examine complex abstractions and simultaneously articulate the mechanisms of fiction: most writers who attempt this balancing act end up throttling back on the ideas, or fail sideways into technical writing. So Chiang''s novella--the second piece he''s ever published that''s long enough to stand on its own, following the 2007 Hugo- and Nebula-winning The Merchant and the Alchemist''s Gate--is a welcome surprise: a triumphant combination of the rigorous extrapolation of artificial intelligence and artificial life, two of the high concepts of contemporary SF, with an exploration of its consequences for the ordinary people whose lives it derails. Ana Alvarado is a former zookeeper turned software tester. When Blue Gamma offers her a job as animal trainer for their digients--digital entities, spawned by genetic algorithms to provide pets for players in the future virtual reality of Data Earth--she discovers an unexpected affinity for her charges. So does Derek Brooks, an animator who designs digient body parts. The market for digients develops and expands, cools and declines after the pattern of the software industry. Meanwhile Ana, Derek, and their friends become increasingly attached to their cute and talkative charges, who are neither pets nor children but something wholly new. But as Blue Gamma goes bust and Data Earth itself fades into obsolescence, Ana and the remaining digient keepers face a series of increasingly unpleasant dilemmas, their worries sharpened by their charges'' growing awareness of the world beyond their pocket universe, and the steady unwinding of their own lives and relationships into middle-aged regrets for lost opportunities. Keeping to the constraints of a novella while working on a scale of years is a harsh challenge. Chiang''s prose is sparse and austere throughout, relying on hints and nudges to provide context. At times, the narrative teeters on the edge of arid didacticism; there are enough ideas to fill a lesser author''s trilogy, but much of the background is present only by implication, forcing the reader to work to fill in the blanks. (Indeed, this story may be impenetrable to readers who aren''t at least passingly familiar with computers, the Internet, and virtual worlds such as Second Life.) Fortunately, sheer conceptual density keeps the story solidly real. The life cycle of the software objects in question is viewed through the prism of the human protagonists'' own life cycle, and this skeleton is the armature on which hangs that very rare thing: a science fictional novel of ideas that delivers a real human impact. Reviewed by Charles Stross. Charles Stross''s novel The Fuller Memorandum is due out from Ace in July.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1234'),
(406, 'The Light Fantastic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(407, 'The Light Fantastic (Graphic Novel)', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE LIGHT FANTASTIC Six months ago, Rincewind was a perfectly ordinary failed wizard. Them he met Twoflower, the Discworld''s first tourist, was employed at an outrageous salary as his guide, and has since spent most of his time being shot at, terrorized, chased and hanging from high places with no hope of salvation or, as is now the case, plunging from high places. A lot more could be said about why these two are dropping out of the world, and why Twoflower''s Luggage, last seen desperately trying to follow him on hundreds of little legs, is no ordinary suitcase, but such questions take time and could be more trouble than they''re worth. For example, it is said that someone once asked the famous philosopher Ly Tin Weedle "Why are you here?" and the reply took three years. What is far more important is an event happening way overhead, far above A''Tuin, the elephants and the rapidly-expiring wizard. The very fabric of time and space is about to be put through the wringer. Now read on... Terry Pratchett is the world''s bestselling writer of comic fantasy. THE LIGHT FANTASTIC is the second fully-illustrated version of an original DISCWORLD novel. The first, THE COLOUR OF MAGIC, is also available in Corgi paperback.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/674'),
(408, 'Lightning Rods', 'Haden Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1106'),
(409, 'The Lightning Thief', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that''s the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy''s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he''s angered a few of them. Zeus''s master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus''s stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.\n</p>\n<p>\n With cover art from the major motion picture, this first installment of Rick Riordan''s best-selling series is a non-stop thrill-ride and a classicÂ of mythic proportions.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Interview: Rick Riordan on\n  <em>\n   The Lightning Thief\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In our exclusive Q&amp;A with Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, learn about his inspiration for the character Percy Jackson, his long-time interest in Greek mythology, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Since\n <em>\n  The Lightning Thief\n </em>\n was published in 2005 itâ€™s sold more than a million copies, and the four subsequent books in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series have been blockbuster bestsellers among kids and adult readers alike. When you were writing the first story starring Percy Jackson, did you ever imagine it would become such a phenomenon? How has the success of the series affected your life?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Rick Riordan:\n </strong>\n I had no expectations other than to make a good story for my older son, Haley. I had no idea it would become a book, much less a series, until he encouraged me to write down the story.\n</p>\n<p>\n I hoped the stories would get kids reading, but I never anticipated such exponential growth. It was not an overnight success, nor was it heavily marketed at the beginning.\n <em>\n  The Lightning Thief\n </em>\n was passed around from kid to kid, teacher to teacher, parent to parent, and the series got bigger with each book. It really was a grassroots phenomenon. Still, I have trouble thinking in terms of millions. I measure success by anecdotes--the kid who told me he never liked books until he found\n <em>\n  The Lightning Thief\n </em>\n , the parent who thanked me for turning her daughter into a reader, the teacher who said I turned her class around because they bonded over reading Percy Jackson every day. That''s what it''s all about for me.\n</p>\n<p>\n It hasn''t changed our life much other than making me busier, but doing something I love! I still drive the same car. My kids go to the same schools. We try our best to keep things simple at home.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™ve said that you wrote this series for your son, Haley, who, like the bookâ€™s hero Percy, has been diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. How does Haley feel about being the inspiration for a bestselling series?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Riordan:\n </strong>\n Both my sons are always my first audience. I read the manuscripts to them aloud to make sure they work for young readers. Both are proud, though being teenagers they are also embarrassed by the attention they get sometimes. They donâ€™t like it when classmates ask them to get my autograph. Haley likes to play down his importance in the genesis of the series, but I think he''s enjoyed growing up with Percy, and I know it has increased his interest in writing. Recently he came into my office and announced the manuscript he is working on now has a bigger word count than mine!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Percyâ€™s stories are based on Greek mythology--classic tales that have been passed down for thousands of years. What lessons can kids today learn from the ancient myths?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Riordan:\n </strong>\n The stories have everything--romance, magic, mystery, action, and great characters. The Greek gods are our first superheroes. They have amazing powers, but they are also very human and subject to jealousy, envy, anger, etc. Kids especially respond to them because they are both powerful and accessible. Who wouldn''t want to be the son or daughter of a Greek god? By reading about the struggles of gods and heroes, we learn a lot about being human, and that''s something that hasn''t changed over the millennia.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Have you ever visited Greece? What was it like?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Riordan:\n </strong>\n Iâ€™ve been to both Italy and Greece, but only after I finished the Percy Jackson series, which is ironic. One doesnâ€™t need to travel there, however, to appreciate the stories from mythology. Those are quite universal. Greece actually reminded me quite a bit of my home in Texas--hot, green, hilly, somewhat arid, except the ocean is much better in Greece.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Percyâ€™s guardian satyr, Grover, is strongly connected to the Earth, the well-being of animals, and humansâ€™ emotions. Moreover, Percyâ€™s life is relatively free of technology, in contrast to many people today. Is there a message about the natural world that youâ€™re hoping to convey through Percy and Grover?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Riordan:\n </strong>\n I donâ€™t consciously put messages in the books, because my job is telling a good story, not preaching. However, I do pick up on themes from Greek mythology that still resonate in the modern world, and certainly manâ€™s relationship to nature is one of those. Iâ€™ve always been fascinated by the god Pan, and his reported death in ancient times. It seemed a very relevant theme for modern readers.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Percy encounters many dangers throughout his adventures--some that could be considered beyond the abilities of a normal 12-year-old. Though we know Percy is no normal kid, where does he find the find the strength to overcome all the challenges that he encounters?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Riordan:\n </strong>\n None of us knows what we''re capable of until we are called to action. Percy may have demigod abilities, but he''s a very normal kid in a lot of ways. He goes from a 12-year-old who is unsure of himself and his relationship with his friends and family, to a 16-year-old young man who steps up and leads a war to save Olympus. Most heroes are born out of dire circumstances, and Percy is no exception. He''s afraid, unsure, doubtful, angry--all the things we would be if we were called to deal with a crisis. But he does the job anyway, and that is the definition of courage.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Itâ€™s often said that writers write about what they know. Were you interested in the ancient world when you were Percyâ€™s age? What kinds of books were your favorites when you were a kid?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Riordan:\n </strong>\n I''ve always loved mythology. I had a great English teacher who showed me that\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n If you discovered, like Percy, that you were the son of a Greek god, who would you want your immortal parent to be?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Riordan:\n </strong>\n I''d like Poseidon or Athena, but with my luck, I''d end up with Dionysus.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/349'),
(410, 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 3-6-This classic tale celebrates its 50th anniversary with a delightful audio rendition. Actor Michael York''s reading is a perfect match for this story. The narration is clear and distinct, and York''s soft and soothing British accent adds the right touch. Listeners will fall under the spell of this master storyteller as they join Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan on their travels. Beginning with Chapter One when Lucy looks into the wardrobe and discovers Narnia and the faun, readers will find that this timeless story can still work the magic that C.S. Lewis intended. In this action packed tale, the four children take part in several adventures as they travel through Narnia on their quest to rid the country of the Witch and her followers. Narnia fans will want to listen to this story over and over again, and new fans will be created as they listen for the first time.-Ginny Harrell, William McGarrah Elementary School, Morrow, GA\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The magic of C. S. Lewis''s parallel universe never fades." The\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/343'),
(411, 'Little Brother', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Grade 10 Upâ€”When he ditches school one Friday morning, 17-year-old Marcus is hoping to get a head start on the Harajuku Fun Madness clue. But after a terrorist attack in San Francisco, he and his friends are swept up in the extralegal world of the Department of Homeland Security. After questioning that includes physical torture and psychological stress, Marcus is released, a marked man in a much darker San Francisco: a city of constant surveillance and civil-liberty forfeiture. Encouraging hackers from around the city, Marcus fights against the system while falling for one hacker in particular. Doctorow rapidly confronts issues, from civil liberties to cryptology to social justice. While his political bias is obvious, he does try to depict opposing viewpoints fairly. Those who have embraced the legislative developments since 9/11 may be horrified by his harsh take on Homeland Security, GuantÃ¡namo Bay, and the PATRIOT Act. Politics aside, Marcus is a wonderfully developed character: hyperaware of his surroundings, trying to redress past wrongs, and rebelling against authority. Teen espionage fans will appreciate the numerous gadgets made from everyday materials. One afterword by a noted cryptologist and another from an infamous hacker further reflect Doctorow''s principles, and a bibliography has resources for teens interested in intellectual freedom, information access, and technology enhancements. Curious readers will also be able to visit BoingBoing, an eclectic group blog that Doctorow coedits. Raising pertinent questions and fostering discussion, this techno-thriller is an outstanding first purchase.â€”_Chris Shoemaker, New York Public Library_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Seventeen-year-old techno-geek â€œw1n5t0nâ€ (aka Marcus) bypasses the schoolâ€™s gait-recognition system by placing pebbles in his shoes, chats secretly with friends on his IMParanoid messaging program, and routinely evades school security with his laptop, cell, WifFnder, and ingenuity. While skipping school, Markus is caught near the site of a terrorist attack on San Francisco and held by the Department of Homeland Security for six days of intensive interrogation. After his release, he vows to use his skills to fight back against an increasingly frightening system of surveillance. Set in the near future, Doctorowâ€™s novel blurs the lines between current and potential technologies, and readers will delight in the details of how Markus attempts to stage a techno-revolution. Obvious parallels to Orwellian warnings and post-9/11 policies, such as the Patriot Act, will provide opportunity for classroom discussion and raise questions about our enthusiasm for technology, who monitors our school library collections, and how we contribute to our own lack of privacy. An extensive Web and print bibliography will build knowledge and make adults nervous. Buy multiple copies; this book will be h4wt (thatâ€™s â€œhot,â€ for the nonhackers). Grades 8-12. --Cindy Dobrez\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/292'),
(412, 'Little Fuzzy', 'H. Beam Piper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1158'),
(413, 'Living Doll', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/815'),
(414, 'Loamhedge', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Number sixteen in the esteemed Redwall animal fantasy series, young readers will find\n <em>\n  Loamhedge\n </em>\n just as wild and woolly as its predecessors. In this chapter of the seemingly endless history of the woodland abbey, adventure is sparked by the sad plight of the haremaid, Martha Braebuck. Due to a terrible event that befell her when she was just an abbey Dibbun, Martha has lost the ability to walk. But when legendary mouse Martin the Warrior comes to her in a dream and explains that the secret to winning back her legs lies within the cursed walls of the ancient abbey Loamhedge, Martha hopes for a hero who will travel to the ruins on her behalf. Enter world-class adventurers Braggon the otter and Sarobando the squirrel. The best friends have come for a visit, and decide to undertake Marthaâ€™s quest. Yet, just as soon as the two tricksters leave, the peaceful abbey folk fervently wish them back, as Redwall is suddenly under siege from the dread searat Raga Bol and his motley crew of vermin. But even as he endeavors to force the Redwall folk from their cozy nest, Raga Bol is plagued by nightmares of the massive badger archer Lonna Bowstripe, who is coming to end his reign of terror. But will Lonna get to Redwall in time to save the forest folk? And will Martha ever walk again? The only thing thatâ€™s certain is that the fur will fly and numerous feasts will be noisily consumed in yet another fur-tastic tale from beloved British storyteller Brian Jacques. (Ages 10 and older)\n <em>\n  --Jennifer Hubert\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5 Upâ€“_Loamhedge_(Philomel, 2003), Book 16 in Brian Jacques Redwall series, is populated with the usual cast of furry friends and foes. Adventuring otter Braggon and his companion, Sarobando, return to Redwall Abbey briefly before heading off on a quest to help young hare, Martha Braebuck, regain the use of her legs. At the same time, Lonna Bowstripe, an archer/badger has set out to avenge a friend''s death, and two bands of rats, stoats, foxes, and other vermin have laid siege to the Abbey. There''s even an eerie pack of nighttime worshippers who remind listeners that Loamhedge sounds a lot like Stonehedge. Jacques narrates the story with a versatile and enthusiastic cast of 14 actors whose authentic accents are occasionally hard to understand. Lively songs throughout add to the recording, but it''s mildly disconcerting that their instrumental accompaniment is rarely based on the text. The popularity of the Redwall series makes this a logical purchase for all school and public libraries.â€“_Barbara Wysocki, Cora J. Belden Library, Rocky Hill, CT_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/709'),
(415, 'Lone Wolf', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 4â€“7â€”A wolf pup is left to die by his pack because his malformed foot is considered bad luck. A grizzly bear, Thunderheart, whose cubs have been killed, rescues Faolan and nurtures him until her accidental death. As the young wolf continues on alone, he discovers "the Cave Before Time" with wall paintings portraying the history of the wolves and realizes that he must return to his own kind and learn their ways. This anthropomorphic fantasy has a number of the traditional characters found in these tales, such as the young outcast Faolan; the wise and solitary Gwynneth, the owl; and the powerfully maternal Thunderheart. The relationship between the wolf and the bear is particularly touching as they develop a strong and loving bond. After her death, the story meanders a bit as Faolan deciphers the message in the cave. As it ends, enough questions remain about his future to leave room for a sequel. Those who enjoy this genre will probably be intrigued enough by this young wolf to tag along on his journey.â€”_Carol Schene, formerly at Taunton Public Schools, MA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The literary grandchildren of Richard Adamsâ€™ Watership Down (1974) proliferate in this complex and nuanced talking-animal adventure. Laskyâ€™s descriptions of a newborn wolf pupâ€™s craving for light, milk, and meat are wonders of sensory economyâ€”immediately youâ€™re invested in his struggle. But wolf custom decrees that he be abandoned to die because of a deformed paw. A childless bear named Thunderheart finds the pup and names him Faolan. Under her guidance, he grows to be unusually strong and savvy. Then a tragic event compels him to seek out his own kind. This is a soulful, searching read consumed with the spiritual journeys of animals and the ethereal connection between slayer and slain. At times it becomes mired in mythos, but when the story lets loose, it pays off, as when Faolan encounters a metalsmithing owl (with connections to Laskyâ€™s Guardians of Gaâ€™hoole series), who rights the wolfâ€™s crooked path. A sedate start to the Wolves of the Beyond series, perhaps, but with an invigorating ending that bodes well for the next volume. Grades 5-8. --Daniel Kraus\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1182'),
(416, 'The Long Patrol', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As young Tammo dreams of joining the Long Patrol--the legendary army of fighting hares that serves the Lady Cregga Rose Eyes, Ruler of Salamandastron--the brutal reality of a battle with Damug Warfang''s mighty battalion of savage Rapscallions fast approaches.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brian Jacques has proved time and time again his ability to transport readers into a world of fantasy and adventure that many writers of adult books would love to emulate.\n <em>\n  The Long Patrol\n </em>\n certainly proves the point yet again, but distinguishes itself by being perhaps the very best of all the Redwall books so far. Relying less and less on the old, familiar Redwall characters and more and more on the ingenuity and passion of younger blood,\n <em>\n  The Long Patrol\n </em>\n will certainly win Jacques a fresh following while continuing to delight his existing army of fans.\n <em>\n  --Susan Harrison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6-8?In this latest "Redwall" entry, Tammo, a young hare, becomes a member of a contingent of fighting forest folk who seek to defend the imperiled Redwall Abbey, led by the badger Lady Cregga Rose Eyes. Tammo and his comrades do battle against the Rapscallion foe, whose leader is the evil greatrat, Damug Warfang. Eventually the forces of good meet and clash with their evil enemies in a battle of legendary proportions. Good triumphs, of course, but not before several noble warriors have met their deaths. There is a tremendous amount of violence in this book. The characters maintain some of their animal characteristics, but it is their human qualities that make them either appealing or repugnant. The bad Rapscallions are thoroughly dishonest, traitorous, and cruel. The badgers, mice, hedgehogs, moles, and other assorted creatures that represent goodness may have foibles but they are unremittingly kind and generous. Pen-and-ink thumbnail sketches appear at the head of each chapter and strongly communicate the sense of drama. Some of the creatures, most notably the laboring class of moles, speak in an impossible, jaw-breaking dialect that may slow some readers down a bit; nevertheless, this is a worthy addition to a series that has found a definite niche among fantasy lovers. It breaks no new ground, but it is a satisfying adventure with a comforting, predictable conclusion. Its closing lines pave the way for yet another sequel.?Bruce Anne Shook, Mendenhall Middle School, Greensboro, NC\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/703'),
(417, 'The Long Way Home, Part I', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/791'),
(418, 'The Long Way Home, Part II', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/792'),
(419, 'The Long Way Home, Part III', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/793'),
(420, 'The Long Way Home, Part IV', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/794'),
(421, 'The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The British author of the Hitchhiker trilogy and other immensely popular lunacies, Adams permits no whiff of common sense to spoil his new novel, which combines fantasy, hilarity and creeping horrors," remarked PW . Here, sleuth Dirk Gently investigates a lawyer and an advertiser who possess the soul of the god Odin. "The plot''s ramifications are marvelous, bloody and irresistible."\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sequel to Dirk Gently''s Holistic Detective Agency. A passenger check-in desk at London''s Heathrow Airport goes up in a ball of flame and Dirk Gently becomes very inquisitive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/256');
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(422, 'Lord Brocktree', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Lord Brocktree\n </em>\n , the 13th novel in Brian Jacques''s exciting Redwall series, brings to life the tale of how the greatest badger lord of all came to save Salamandastron, the mountain home of many heroic creatures. Everybeast will love heroic Lord Brocktree and his amazing adventure.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the story opens, the villainous Ungatt Trunn, a menacing wildcat, has brought his powers to bear on Salamandastron, threatening the peace-loving beasts who live there.\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Loneliness was everywhere. Hopelessness and an air of foreboding had settled over the western shores, casting their pall over land, sea and the mountain of Salamandastron. Yet nobeast knew the cause of it.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n But all is not lost. Old Lord Stonepaw, the venerable Badger Ruler, summons the strongest of the strong to take over as lord of the mountain fortress and battle the evil wildcat. Lord Brocktree, far away from the trouble, begins to have visions that beckon him to Salamandastron. He travels there with his companion, a young haremaid named Dotti. But can he raise an army in time to smash Ungatt Trunn''s terrifying Blue Hordes?\n</p>\n<p>\n Like all the Redwall books,\n <em>\n  Lord Brocktree\n </em>\n is a rollicking tale of adventure, war, magic, and beastly battles. The animal characters are sometimes brusque and brutal, and there''s a strong current of darkness in the stories, as well as no-nonsense death scenes and strong language. But for fans of medieval fantasy adventure with a twist, this unforgettable series continues to satisfy. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5 Up-Jacques shows no signs of flagging in this latest tale about a Badger Lord named Brocktree, a fatally beautiful haremaid named Dotti, and an evildoing wildcat named Ungatt Trunn. Trunn and his Hordebeasts have invaded Salamandastron and caused the death of Lord Stonepaw. However, from off in the forests and meadows, help is coming. The shrews, hedgehogs, moles, river and sea otters, squirrels, and a pack of Highland hares band together with Brocktree and Dotti. Trunn is eventually defeated, and the Horde quickly disperses, leaving the "Redwall" creatures to their favorite pastimes-dancing, singing, and of course, eating. Jacques continues to have an amazing gift for keeping his story fresh. He starts this one from two different points: the invasion, and the adventures of Dotti, Brocktree, and their friends. The two stories converge near the end of the book for a thrilling conclusion. The story itself is framed as a history written by the current lord of Salamandastron. The plot is well balanced, chapters of floating on a river and feasting with friends are set in counterpoint with the horrors of war. The characters, as always, are easily defined and identified by their accents, a Jacques specialty. It may take some readers a while to figure out what everyone is saying, but they will make the effort as these beasts are all so engaging. There is no need to have read the earlier books for this one to make sense, but new readers will undoubtedly be asking for more, and fans will just eat it up.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Patricia A. Dollisch, DeKalb County Public Library, Decatur, GA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/706'),
(423, 'Lord of Chaos', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While Jordan''s prose is sometimes bloated, he rises above his Tolkien-influenced contemporaries (Brooks, Eddings, et al.) with his skill at narrative pacing and his ability to create fully realized characters (though his treatment of sexuality will appeal primarily to adolescents). In this sixth volume in the immensely popular The Wheel of Time series (The Fires of Heaven), Rand al''Thor consolidates his power base and attempts to come to a rapprochement with the Aes Sedai, the female mystics who channel the One Power and whose schism lends tension to his meetings with them. The schism has unexpected consequences for three young women: determined Egwene al'' Vere, precocious Elayne Trakand and braid-tugging Nynaeve al''Meara. Centering upon that trio''s exploits and discoveries, and on Rand''s further adventures, this volume offers several major turns of events while laying the groundwork for future intrigues. It may be be several more volumes before Rand al''Thor confronts the Dark One in Tarmon Gai''don ("the last battle"), yet, as Jordan demonstrates here, he''s likely to keep his fans interested throughout the long and winding journey. 250,000 first printing; major ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n While the armies of Rand al''Thor, a farm boy cast by destiny into the world-changing role of the Dragon Reborn, continue their progress toward the Last Battle against the forces of the Dark One, other powers seek to exert control over the reluctant hero. Panoramic in concept, yet always focusing on the individuals whose actions make up the unfolding drama, the complex interweaving of plots and counterplots continues to gain momentum. Jordan''s talent for sustaining the difficult combination of suspense and resolution, so necessary in a multivolume series such as this one (which includes The Fires of Heaven, LJ 11/15/93), is nothing short of remarkable. Libraries should anticipate considerable demand for this title.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/366'),
(424, 'Lords and Ladies', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Although they may feature witches and wizards, vampires and dwarves, along with the occasional odd human, Terry Pratchett''s bestselling Discworld novels are grounded firmly in the modern world. Taking humorous aim at all our foibles, each novel reveals our true character and nature.It''s a dreamy midsummer''s night in the Kingdom of Lancre. But music and romance aren''t the only things filling the air. Magic and mischief are afoot, threatening to spoil the royal wedding of King Verence and his favorite witch, Magrat Garlick. Invaded by some Fairie Trash, soon it won''t be only champagne that''s flowing through the streets ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(425, 'The Lost Colony', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to\n <em>\n  The Opal Deception\n </em>\n (2005), 14-year-old Artemis discovers an unraveling time tunnel connecting demons with the earth. These imps have sworn revenge on humans, and their unpredictable appearances threaten to expose the entire fairy world. As always, Colfer delivers not only continuous action but also witty wordplay and dialogue, understated humor, and plenty of magical technology and gadgetry. A must for kids who have enjoyed Artemis'' previous escapades.\n <em>\n  Kay Weisman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. With help from the fairy council and his old friend, Captain Holly Short, Artemis Fowl, teenage criminal mastermind, must stop a lost demon colony, which has been trapped by a time spell for centuries, from escaping Limbo and waging war on Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1032'),
(426, 'The Lost Fleet: Dauntless', 'Jack Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Returning from survival hibernation and assuming the command of the Alliance fleet, legendary hero Captain John "Black Jack" Geary must retrieve the stolen Syndic hypernet key to save the Alliance from destruction at the hands of the Syndics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/996'),
(427, 'Lost in a Good Book', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High School-In an alternate 1980s England, woolly mammoths migrate through the countryside, Tunbridge Wells has been given to Imperial Russia as Crimean War reparation, and the prevailing culture is based on literature. Due to her adventures in The Eyre Affair (Viking, 2002), newly married Thursday Next has become a media darling, but when an unknown work by Shakespeare surfaces, she is happy to be back to work. However, the megacorporation Goliath hasn''t finished bedeviling her: Thursday''s husband has been "time-slipped" and exists only in her memory. Further complicating matters, her Uncle Mycroft gives her an entroposcope-a jar of lentils and rice-revealing that the chaos in her life is rapidly escalating. So once again, Thursday jumps into a surreal literary world. This time, she has joined the "Jurisfiction" division and is paired with Charles Dickens''s Miss Havesham, who has a penchant for leather jackets and driving recklessly. Absurd and amusing scenes take readers through discussions on theoretical physics, geometry, literature, art, and philosophy. Fforde not only tilts at ideological and insipid corporate windmills and human foibles, but can also make the naming of minor characters hilarious, as in the two unfortunate members of the dangerous SO-5 division, Phodder and Kannon. Reading this novel is like being at a fabulous party of phenomenally funny and wickedly profound guests. Teens will delight in the satire and wit.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Jane Halsall, McHenry Public Library District, IL\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Thursday Next, who literally jumps into books to do her detective work, must locate a surprise enemy in Poe''s "The Raven" to save her beloved. The Eyre Affair, Thursday''s first outing, was a surprise best seller.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1221'),
(428, 'The Lost Symbol', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Let''s start with the question every\n <em>\n  The Lost Symbol\n </em>\n as good as\n <em>\n  The Lost Symbol\n </em>\n is an enthralling mix. And what a dazzling accomplishment that is, considering that rabid fans and skeptics alike are scrutinizing every word. _\n</p>\n<p>\n The Lost Symbol_ begins with an ancient ritual, a shadowy enclave, and of course, a secret. Readers know they are in Dan Brown territory when, by the end of the first chapter, a secret within a secret is revealed. To tell too much would ruin the fun of reading this delicious thriller, so you will find no spoilers here. Suffice it to say that as with many series featuring a recurring character, there is a bit of a formula at work (one that fans will love). Again, brilliant Harvard professor Robert Langdon finds himself in a predicament that requires his vast knowledge of symbology and superior problem-solving skills to save the day. The setting, unlike other Robert Langdon novels, is stateside, and in Brown''s hands Washington D.C. is as fascinating as Paris or Vatican City (note to the D.C. tourism board: get your "Lost Symbol" tour in order). And, as with other Dan Brown books, the pace is relentless, the revelations many, and there is an endless parade of intriguing factoids that will make you feel like you are spending the afternoon with Robert Langdon and the guys from\n <em>\n  Mythbusters\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Nothing is as it seems in a Robert Langdon novel, and\n <em>\n  The Lost Symbol\n </em>\n itself is no exception--a page-turner to be sure, but Brown also challenges his fans to open their minds to new information. Skeptical? Imagine how many other thrillers would spawn millions of Google searches for noetic science, superstring theory, and\n <em>\n  Apotheosis of Washington\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  The Lost Symbol\n </em>\n is brain candy of the best sort--just make sure to set aside time to enjoy your meal.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  More from Dan Brown\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. After scores of Da Vinci Code knockoffs, spinoffs, copies and caricatures, Brown has had the stroke of brilliance to set his breakneck new thriller not in some far-off exotic locale, but right here in our own backyard. Everyone off the bus, and welcome to a Washington, D.C., they never told you about on your school trip when you were a kid, a place steeped in Masonic history that, once revealed, points to a dark, ancient conspiracy that threatens not only America but the world itself. Returning hero Robert Langdon comes to Washington to give a lecture at the behest of his old mentor, Peter Solomon. When he arrives at the U.S. Capitol for his lecture, he finds, instead of an audience, Peter''s severed hand mounted on a wooden base, fingers pointing skyward to the Rotunda ceiling fresco of George Washington dressed in white robes, ascending to heaven. Langdon teases out a plethora of clues from the tattooed hand that point toward a secret portal through which an intrepid seeker will find the wisdom known as the Ancient Mysteries, or the lost wisdom of the ages. A villain known as Mal''akh, a steroid-swollen, fantastically tattooed, muscle-bodied madman, wants to locate the wisdom so he can rule the world. Mal''akh has captured Peter and promises to kill him if Langdon doesn''t agree to help find the portal. Joining Langdon in his search is Peter''s younger sister, Kathleen, who has been conducting experiments in a secret museum. This is just the kickoff for a deadly chase that careens back and forth, across, above and below the nation''s capital, darting from revelation to revelation, pausing only to explain some piece of wondrous, historical esoterica. Jealous thriller writers will despair, doubters and nay-sayers will be proved wrong, and readers will rejoice: Dan Brown has done it again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/329'),
(429, 'The Lost World', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Det er 6 Ã¥r efter katastrofen i Jurassic Park, og myndighederne i ferieparadiset har tilsyneladende slettet alle spor af dinosaurer og lagt lÃ¥g pÃ¥ historien overfor offentligheden, da rygterne opstÃ¥r at nogen eller noget har overlevet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/311'),
(430, 'Lovecraft&#39;s Fiction Volume I, 1905-1925', 'H. P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Beast in the Cave\n <br />\n The Alchemist\n <br />\n The Tomb\n <br />\n Dagon\n <br />\n A Reminiscence Of Dr. Samuel Johnson\n <br />\n Sweet Ermengarde or, The Heart of a Country Girl\n <br />\n Polaris\n <br />\n The Green Meadow\n <br />\n Beyond the Wall of Sleep\n <br />\n Memory\n <br />\n Old Bugs\n <br />\n The Transition of Juan Romero\n <br />\n The White Ship\n <br />\n The Doom That Came to Sarnath\n <br />\n The Statement of Randolph Carter\n <br />\n The Terrible Old Man\n <br />\n The Tree\n <br />\n The Cats of Ulthar\n <br />\n The Temple\n <br />\n Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family\n <br />\n The Street\n <br />\n Poetry and the Gods\n <br />\n Celephais\n <br />\n From Beyond\n <br />\n Nyarlathotep\n <br />\n The Picture in the House\n <br />\n The Crawling Chaos\n <br />\n Ex Oblivione\n <br />\n The Nameless City\n <br />\n The Quest of Iranon\n <br />\n The Moon-Bog\n <br />\n The Outsider\n <br />\n The Other Gods\n <br />\n The Music OF Erich Zann\n <br />\n Herbert West: Reanimator\n <br />\n Hypnos\n <br />\n What the Moon Brings\n <br />\n Azathoth\n <br />\n The Horror at MartinÃ†s Beach\n <br />\n The Hound\n <br />\n The Lurking Fear\n <br />\n The Rats in the Walls\n <br />\n The Unnamable\n <br />\n The Festival\n <br />\n The Shunned House\n <br />\n The Horror at Red Hook\n <br />\n He\n <br />\n In The Vault\n <br />\n The Loved Dead\n <br />\n Under the Pyramids\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/848'),
(431, 'Lovecraft&#39;s Fiction Volume II, 1926-1928', 'H. P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Descendant\n <br />\n Cool Air\n <br />\n The Call of Cthulhu\n <br />\n Two Black Bottles (with Wilfred Blanch Talman)\n <br />\n PickmanÃ†s Model\n <br />\n The Silver Key\n <br />\n The Strange High House in the Mist\n <br />\n The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath\n <br />\n The Case of Charles Dexter Ward\n <br />\n The Colour Out of Space\n <br />\n The Very Old Folk\n <br />\n The Thing in the Moonlight (spurious)\n <br />\n The Last Test (with Adolphe de Castro)\n <br />\n History of the Necronomicon\n <br />\n The Curse of Yig (with Zealia Bishop)\n <br />\n Ibid\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/845'),
(432, 'Lovecraft&#39;s Fiction Volume III, 1928-1931', 'H. P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Dunwich Horror\n <br />\n The Electric Executioner (with Adolphe de Castro)\n <br />\n The Mound (with Zealia Bishop)\n <br />\n MedusaÃ†s Coil (with Zealia Bishop)\n <br />\n The Whisperer in Darkness\n <br />\n At the Mountains of Madness\n <br />\n The Shadow Over Innsmouth\n <br />\n The Trap (with Henry S. Whitehead)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/846'),
(433, 'Lovecraft&#39;s Fiction Volume IV, 1932-1936', 'H. P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Dreams in the Witch House\n <br />\n The Man of Stone (with Hazel Heald)\n <br />\n The Horror in the Museum (with Hazel Heald)\n <br />\n Through the Gates of the Silver Key (with E. Hoffmann Price)\n <br />\n Winged Death (with Hazel Heald)\n <br />\n Out of the Aeons (with Hazel Heald)\n <br />\n The Thing on the Doorstep\n <br />\n The Evil Clergyman\n <br />\n The Horror in the Burying-Ground (with Hazel Heald)\n <br />\n The Book\n <br />\n The Tree on the Hill (with Duane W. Rimel)\n <br />\n The Battle that Ended the Century (with R. H. Barlow)\n <br />\n The Shadow Out of Time\n <br />\n Ã´Till AÃ† the SeasÃ¶ (with R.H. Barlow)\n <br />\n Collapsing Cosmoses (with R.H. Barlow)\n <br />\n The Challenge from Beyond\n <br />\n The Disinterment (with Duane W. Rimel)\n <br />\n The Diary of Alonzo Typer (with William Lumley)\n <br />\n The Haunter of the Dark\n <br />\n Within the Walls of Eryx (with Kenneth S)\n <br />\n The Night Ocean (with R.H. Barlow)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/847'),
(434, 'Loyalties', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1069'),
(435, 'Luna Marine Book Two of the Heritage Trilogy', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The revelations on Mars-a half-million year-old legacy of the vanished star-traveling Builders-have fed the flames of catastrophic war. A beleaguered United States and its Russian and Japanese allies struggle to hold their own against the indomitable forces of the enemy United Nations. The bloody conflict thathas swept over the home planet now rages across the blackness of space- with the U.S. Marine Corps in the vanguard, leading the charge as always. But Mars is not the sole repository of alien wonders. The Earth''s moon hides unsettling mysteries of its own-and dangerous secrets pointing toward an unstoppable threat advancing from somewhere beyond the solar system. And as scientists on both sides ract to utilize technology they have only barely begun to comprehend, the UN makes the opening move in a gambit that could end the hostilities quickly and decisively by bringing about the death of millions... without the aid of alien-inspired weaponry. A bad situation worsens by the nanosecond. And that means it''s time to call in the Marines-to make a life or death stand on the gray shores of Luna. The revelations on Mars-a half-million year-old legacy of the vanished star-traveling Builders-have fed the flames of catastrophic war. A beleaguered United States and its Russian and Japanese allies struggle to hold their own against the indomitable forces of the enemy United Nations. The bloody conflict thathas swept over the home planet now rages across the blackness of space- with the U.S. Marine Corps in the vanguard, leading the charge as always. But Mars is not the sole repository of alien wonders. The Earth''s moon hides unsettling mysteries of its own-and dangeroussecrets pointing toward an unstoppable threat advancing from somewhere beyond the solar system. And as scientists on both sides ract to utilize technology they have only barely begun to comprehend, the UN makes the opening move in a gambit that could end the hostilities quickly and decisively by bringing about the death of millions... without the aid of alien-inspired weaponry. A bad situation worsens by the nanosecond. And that means it''s time to call in the Marines-to make a life or death stand on the gray shores of Luna.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/912'),
(436, 'Mad Ship', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robin Hobb returns to the sea with\n <em>\n  Mad Ship\n </em>\n , the second book in a projected trilogy set in the same world as her famed\n <em>\n  Farseer\n </em>\n series. Many unresolved questions from __ are answered in this tale of sea serpents and dragons; living ships made of wizardwood; the Bingtown Trader families who sail the ships; and their disfigured cousins, the Rain Wild Traders, who build them.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Vestritt family''s liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by Kennit, an ambitious pirate. Captain Haven is a prisoner; his son Wintrow, who bears the Vestritt blood, finds himself competing with Kennit for Vivacia''s love as she becomes a pirate ship. Althea Vestritt, in training to become Vivacia''s captain, arrives home to discover her beloved ship lost. Brashen Trell, her old friend and shipmate, proposes that they sail to Vivacia''s rescue in the liveship Paragon, who has lost two previous crews and is believed mad. Malta, Althea''s niece, seeks help from her suitor, the Rain Wild Trader Reyn, whose family is the Vestritt''s major creditor. Meanwhile, the sea serpents who follow sailing ships struggle to remember their history and return to their place of transformation.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each volume in this series is a major undertaking, but those who enjoy original, epic fantasy, characters who grow and change believably, and fine writing will not want to miss\n <em>\n  The Liveship Traders\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The second book (after Ship of Magic) in Hobbs''s Liveship Traders trilogy solidifies the series''s promise as a major work of high fantasy, reading like a cross between Tolkein and Patrick O''Brian. Protagonist Althea Vestrit is neither unrealistically beautiful nor mindlessly dauntless. She is a very human character who has her share of doubts as she undertakes to assemble a motley crew of allies (including her former lover, Brashen Trell) to take the blind, insane liveship Paragone to sea in search of the Vestrit family''s liveship Vivacia. Meanwhile, Vivacia is enjoying a prosperous career as the flagship of pirate Captain Kennit. In spite of his peg leg, Kennit is a charismatic leader, with a genius for manipulation that his mistress Etta and his prisoner Wintrow Vestrit (Althea''s nephew) seem ready to mistake for virtue. And in Bingtown, Wintrow''s bratty sister, Malta, finally starts growing up when her family and town face ruin and she must take refuge in the Rain Wild forests. This second installment in the trilogy reveals the connections among liveships, the wizardwood used to build them, the sea serpents and the legendary Rain dragons. Apart from an overly long subplot concerning the feckless young Satrap, the novel is tightly written, with few passages not devoted to characterization, world building or action. Again, Hobb gives high fantasy a salty nautical spin that will please a great many readers. (Apr.) FYI: Robin Hobb is a pseudonym for Megan Lindholm.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/958'),
(437, 'Maelstrom', 'Taylor Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The alternate history saga of The Destroyermen continues...\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the battleship\n  <em>\n   Walker\n  </em>\n  , are once again at war. Having sided with the peaceful Lemurians against the savage, reptilian Grik, they now find themselves scrambling to prepare for the attack that is sure to come. Meanwhile, the Japanese juggernaut\n  <em>\n   Amagi\n  </em>\n  , also trapped in this strange world, is under Grik control. Soon, they will have amassed a force that no amount of fire-power and technology will be able to stop. Reddy, his crew, his allies, and his loved ones face annihilation. But if there is one thing they have learned about their new world, it is that hope-and help-may just be over the horizon...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Taylor Anderson\n  </strong>\n  has a Master''s Degree in History and teaches that subject at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. He is the author of a historical work entitled "The Life and Tools of the Rocky Mountain Free Trapper" and a number of short stories and articles. He also won several Inter-Collegiate Press Association awards while a student. He is a voracious consumer of literature of every description and a careful and meticulous historian.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Besides his academic accomplishments, he is a gun-maker and forensic ballistic archeologist, having collaborated with numerous museums as well as the National Parks Service and the U.S. Army. He is a technical and dialogue consultant for movies and documentaries and has even done some acting. A list of productions in which he has been involved is available, but it is safe to say he has played at least an advisory role in many of the movies made in the last 15 years that involved 19th and early 20th Century combat.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He is a member of the National Historical Honor Society and the United States Field Artillery Association â€“ from which he was awarded the Honorable Order of St. Barbara. He owns a collection of 18th and 19th century artillery pieces and fires them with live rounds for movie sound, documentaries, competition and fun. His cannons have also appeared in many films. He knows precisely what they are capable of and that is reflected in his writing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a sailor, he is conversant in the capricious vagaries of the weather and the sea and as a historian, he is trained to research what he is unable to experience first-hand. Careful research was essential to writing\n  <em>\n   Destroyermen\n  </em>\n  because one of the main characters is, after all, USS\n  <em>\n   Walker\n  </em>\n  . Over 270 "four-stacker" destroyers were built during and after WW I, but none remain today. Anderson spent thousands of hours researching the class and volunteering to work on the restoration of a similar type ship.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He also wanted the "alternate Earth" he created for the story to seem as though it could realistically have evolved the way it did. That required studying the most recent theories regarding prehistoric life and scientifically extrapolating evolutionary trends based on millions of years of environmental fluctuations. The result is a novel that is far more unusual and thought provoking than the basic "alternate history/universe" premise might imply.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He was moved to write\n  <em>\n   Destroyermen\n  </em>\n  because he has long been inspired by the sacrifice made by the men (and women) of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet at the outbreak of WW II. Long neglected by historians, the stand they made truly ranks with Thermopylae, The Alamo, Bastogne and Wake Island. He hopes to keep alive, at least peripherally, their memory. The alternate history/fantasy angle finds an opening because some of the ships of the Asiatic Fleet really did disappear without a trace.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/940'),
(438, 'Magic for Beginners', 'Kelly Link', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Fantasy/Mainstream. 93823 words long. First published in 2005. Time Magazine, Salon, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. Locus Award Winner. Young Lions Award, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy Finalist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1249'),
(439, 'Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold!', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Landover was a genuine magickingdom, complete with fairy folk and wizardry, just asthe advertisement had promised. But after he purchased itfor a million dollars, Ben Holiday discovered that therewere a few details the ad had failed to mention...Such as the fact that the kingdom is falling into ruin.The barons refuse to recognize a king and taxes haven''tbeen collected for years. The dragon, Strabo, is layingwaste to the countryside, while the evil witch,Nightshade, is plotting to destroy no less thaneverything. And if that weren''t enough for a prospectiveking to deal with, Ben soon learns that the Iron Mark,terrible lord of the demons, has challenged allpretenders to the throne of Landover to a duel to thedeath - a duel no mere mortal can hope to win.But Ben Holiday has one human trait that even magic can''tovercome. Ben Holiday is stubborn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/993'),
(440, 'The Magician&#39;s Nephew', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This large, deluxe hardcover edition of the first title in the classic Chronicles of Narnia series,\n <em>\n  The Magician''s Nephew\n </em>\n , is a gorgeous introduction to the magical land of Narnia. The many readers who discovered C.S. Lewis''s Chronicles through __ will be delighted to find that the next volume in the series is actually the first in the sequence--and a step back in time. In this unforgettable story, British schoolchildren Polly and Digory inadvertently tumble into the Wood Between the Worlds, where they meet the evil Queen Jadis and, ultimately, the great, mysterious King Aslan. We witness the birth of Narnia and discover the legendary source of all the adventures that are to follow in the seven books that comprise the series.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rich, heavy pages, a gold-embossed cover, and Pauline Baynes''s original illustrations (hand-colored by the illustrator herself 40 years later) make this special edition of a classic a bona fide treasure. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The magic of C. S. Lewis''s parallel universe never fades." The Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/341'),
(441, 'Magyk', 'Angie Sage', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fantasy fans on the younger side of Harry Potter will find a good jolt of action, mystery and humor in Corduner''s light and swift reading of this magyk-filled adventure. Infants switched at birth, spell casting, Brownies, boggarts, dastardly villains and wizards add lively scenery and action throughout. Though a broad cast of characters threatens to become unwieldy, Sage''s smooth storytelling pace and Corduner''s assured, inviting voice keep things on track. Sharp listeners will have young Septimus Heap''s fate (and that of Jenna, adopted by his family) figured out before recording''s end, but will still enjoy the ride. And since Septimus is the gifted-by-birthright seventh son of a seventh son, and this is the first in a planned trilogy, listeners are left with the anticipation of more to come. Ages 9-up\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-8â€“A wide cast of characters battle the forces of Darke Magyk in a well-realized world of fantasy. At birth, Septimus Heap is carried away for dead, and his father, Silas Heap, is entrusted with a baby girl. When the villainous Supreme Custodian tries to assassinate the now 10-year-old Jenna, who, it turns out, is the daughter of the murdered queen, the girl flees to the Marram Marshes along with some family members, the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, and a young army guard known only as "Boy 412." Pursued by the servants of the Necromancer DomDaniel, and aided by an engaging array of magical beings, they finally prevail in a satisfying and fairly exciting conclusion. Despite the hefty length, the novel is quite easy to follow. Many creative magical elements, such as the deliciously repulsive Magogs, add to the fun. Frequent point-of-view shifts give a well-rounded picture of the multiple plot threads and add many opportunities for light humor. On the other hand, with so many characters represented, it''s hard to feel strong empathy for any of them. Jenna, the Queenling, and Boy 412, in particular, nearly emerge as full-blooded individuals at times, but neither quite stands out as an engaging hero. Villains are well drawn and varied, and most are more comical than truly menacing. The ease with which a once-formidable enemy like the Hunter is finally dispatched, however, detracts a bit from the eventual triumph of the protagonists. Overall, this is a fine choice for fantasy readers looking to delve into a new world with lots of magic, plenty of action, and a few neat surprises._â€“Steven Engelfried, Beaverton City Library, OR_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/278'),
(442, 'Making Money', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reprieved confidence trickster Moist von Lipwig, who reorganized the Ankh-Morpork Post Office in 2004''s\n <em>\n  Going Postal\n </em>\n , turns his attention to the Royal Mint in this splendid Discworld adventure. It seems that the aristocratic families who run the mint are running it into the ground, and benevolent despot Lord Vetinari thinks Moist can do better. Despite his fondness for money, Moist doesn''t want the job, but since he has recently become the guardian of the mint''s majority shareholder (an elderly terrier) and snubbing Vetinari''s offer would activate an Assassins Guild contract, he reluctantly accepts. Pratchett throws in a mad scientist with a working economic model, disappearing gold reserves and an army of golems, once more using the Disc as an educational and entertaining mirror of human squabbles and flaws\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Moist von Lipwig, the savior of the Ankh-Morpork post office, has gotten settled into a routine. He''s filling out forms, signing things, will probably get to be head of the Merchants Association next year, and he hasn''t designed a stamp in months. He''s so bored, in fact, that he''s taken to climbing the walls of the post office and breaking into his own office. Lord Vetinari, always brilliant in his ruthlessness, recognizes an opportunity when he sees one, and offers Moist the job of running the royal mint. Moist tries to refuse, pretending that he''s satisfied with the stable life, but he can''t deny the urge for adventure and intrigue for long. The mint is, in the finest Ankh-Morpork tradition, a strange and oddly old-fashioned place, with bizarre traditions so ingrained the long-term employees can''t imagine doing them any other way. Moist is the perfect innovator, with his wildly creative solutions to problems, for changing the way the entire city thinks about money. In the transition from the gold standard and old money, Pratchett brings up all the details that make Ankh-Morpork one of the most satisfying contemporary fantasy cities and continues in his trend of beautifully crafted, wickedly cutting satire on the underpinnings of modern human society. Making Money is smart, funny, and a thoroughly entertaining read. Schroeder, Regina\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/66'),
(443, 'Man From Mundania', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Princess Ivy of Xanth uses the Heaven Cent to aid her in a search for the Good Magician Humphrey and finds herself transported to the magicless world of "Mundania" where she encounters a young man who wins her heart and threatens the future of her world. This 12th Xanth novel contains all the charm and playfulness of the preceding titles in a series that shows no signs of coming to a conclusion. Recommended for fantasy and YA collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For a bored, young princess of Xanth, there''s nothing more exciting than a Quest. Especially when all you do is sit around Castle Roogna. But when Ivy uses the Heaven Cent, it takes her not to the top of Mount Rushmost, where the winged monsters gather, not to the sea where the merfolk swim--but to Mundania, a world much like out own (that is, boring). It is here that she meets a young college student so dull that he doesn''t even believe in magic, or princesses, or Xanth!\n</p>\n<p>\n Does he have a lot to learn.\n</p>\n<p>\n The thrilling climax to the trilogy started in\n <em>\n  Vale of the Vole\n </em>\n and continued in\n <em>\n  Heaven Cent\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/476'),
(444, 'The Man Who Lied to His Laptop', 'Clifford Nass', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nass, a Stanford researcher, has the fascinating and enviable job of performing research into human interactions with technology. Question: Why did BMW receive so many complaints about its navigation system from male German drivers? Answer: German men refused to take directions from a woman (the system had a female voice). To find out if misery truly loves company, Nass paired happy and sad drivers with happy and sad virtual passengers, finding that miserable drivers preferred to be paired with miserable passengers (albeit virtual), and visa versa. The results are often intriguing, but when it comes to discussing their implications, Nass falters. His experimental anecdotes end with a "Results and Implications" appendix, and his findings often sound as banal as the platitudes he''s attempting to test. The author is at his most compelling when describing technology''s human failures in the marketplace, such as the demise of the despised Microsoft "Clippy," whose apparent stupidity and lack of empathy doomed him as an application (killing marketing plans to turn him into a beloved Mickey Mouse-like character). Moments like these make Nass''s examination an engaging compendium of technological faux pas. (Sept.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If Dale Carnegie had been a Google engineer, this is how he would have written\n <em>\n  How to Win Friends and Influence People\n </em>\n . Cliff Nass shows us how much we can learn about people by understanding how people interact with computers."\n <br />\n -Chip Heath, coauthor of\n <em>\n  Switch\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Made to Stick\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "With the help of real experiments, rather than anecdotes or impressions, Clifford Nass uses people''s interactions with computers as a window into social and professional life. The book is filled with insights about an increasingly important part of our lives."\n <br />\n -Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of\n <em>\n  How the Mind Works\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Stuff of Thought\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "With engaging illustrations and compelling evidence, Clifford Nass shows how interactions with our most advanced machines reveal our most primitive workings."\n <br />\n -Robert B. Cialdini, author of\n <em>\n  Influence: Science and Practice\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nass and Yen serve up a wealth of practical, mind-expanding insights. This entertaining book will help you think afresh and gently lead you to social strategies that really work."\n <br />\n -Paul Saffo, Technology Forecaster, Discern Corporation\n</p>\n<p>\n "_The Man Who Lied to His Laptop_ is brilliantly accessible and will give you breakthrough insights about the single most important secret to success in business and life-building better relationships! This book is a must-read for every leader in these turbulent times."\n <br />\n -Mark Thompson, coauthor of\n <em>\n  Success Built to Last\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Now, Build a Great Business!\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/666'),
(445, 'Manifold: Time', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Leave it to the consistently clever Stephen Baxter to pull the old bait and switch. A story that begins as a hoary asteroid-mining tale, set in 2010 against the by-now familiar spiel of fulfilling humanity''s pan-galactic Manifest Destiny, instead takes a bold, delightful ascent into a trajectory far more ambitious. To ensure its survival, humankind need not merely master the galaxy but also the flow of time itself.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Manifold: Time\n </em>\n ''s would-be asteroid-miner-in-chief is bootstrap space entrepreneur Reid Malenfant, a media-savvy firebrand who''s showed those crotchety NASA folks what''s what with his ready-to-fly Big Dumb Booster, piloted by a genetically enhanced super-squid. But Malenfant''s near-term plans to exploit the asteroids get diverted when he crosses paths with creepy mathematician and eschatologist Cornelius Taine. Applying Bayes''s theorem and a series of other statistical do-si-dos, Taine convinces Malenfant that an inescapable extinction event--the "Carter catastrophe"--is nigh, and that even working to colonize the galaxy might not be enough to save humanity. The answer: build a Feynman "radio" to listen to the future and, by detecting coded quantum waves traveling back through time, divine the fate of human "downstreamers" and find the key to their survival. Space flight, time travel, and even squid negotiations ensue, while Earth is gripped in Last Days madness.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once again, the award-spangled Baxter gives us sci-fi at its beard-stroking best, with an imaginative, audacious plot line that''s firmly grounded in good science, reminiscent of Baxter''s own excellent __.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Baxter is well known for both realistic near-future, alternate-history novels (Voyage) and the wildest sort of hard-science speculation (Flux; Timelike Infinity). In this first volume in his Manifold trilogy, he combines both types of story, beginning with what appears to be the straightforward tale of Reid Malenfant, a millionaire industrialist who tries to circumvent a near-moribund NASA and start his own on-the-cheap space program. Things soon take a strange turn, however, when Malenfant receives evidence both that humanity will be wiped out within the next 200 years and that proof of this claim can be found on a near-Earth asteroid named Cruithne. Throw in a race of mutant, starfaring squid; the sudden appearance on Earth of children with superhuman intelligence and a mysterious connection to the artifact Malenfant finds on Cruithne; a Cook''s tour of literally hundreds of alternate universes; and a spectacularly unsuccessful romance with at least two endings, and you''ve got a novel that''s as overgrown as it is misshapen. Baxter is the equal of Gregory Benford or Greg Bear when it comes to describing spectacular astronomical phenomena and truly weird science, and he shares with Arthur C. Clarke and Olaf Stapledon the ability to portray enormous vistas of time and space to great effect, but his characters can be clumsily drawn and his plots unwieldy. The first half of this novel could easily have been cut by 50 pages or so with little loss. Still, faults aside, there''s plenty here to spark the veteran SF reader''s sense of wonder. (Jan.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/991'),
(446, 'Many Waters', 'Madeleine L&#39;Engle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n We''ve all done it. In the frigid depths of winter we''ve wished we could be magically transported to someplace warm and sunny. But most people don''t have genius parents who just happen to be working on a scientific experiment with time travel at the moment of our wish. Sandy and Dennys Murry, the "normal" boys in a family of geniuses, suddenly find themselves trudging through a blazing-hot desert, seeking a far-off oasis for shade. Their desperate wandering brings them face-to-face with history--biblical history. Soon they''re feeling right at home with Noah and his family. Even so, the urgent question is, how will Sandy and Dennys get back to their own place and time before the floods--the many waters--come? As they begin to cross the invisible border into adulthood, the twins must confront their ability to resist temptation and embrace integrity.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Many Waters\n </em>\n , Madeleine L''Engle continues the Murry family saga, which includes __;\n <strong>\n  ; and\n </strong>\n , which won the American Book Award. L''Engle''s mystical mix of science fiction and fantasy, time and space travel, history, morals, religion, and culture once again urges her many adoring readers to stretch their minds and hearts to understand why the world is the way it is. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Up Fans of the Murry family will welcome this tangental return to the "Time Trilogy" books (Farrar) as L''Engle spins another uniquely metaphysical fantasy, this time using the twins, Sandy and Dennys, at age 15, as her protagonists. On a cold day, Dennys absent-mindedly requests his father''s computer to take them "someplace warm." Suddenly, it''s the twins'' turn to tessor, and they end up in a desert so hot that they nearly die of sun poisoning. As they meet the small people who inhabit it, including Lemach, Shem, Ham, Japheth, and finally, Noah, they realize that they are in the world as it existed before the Great Flood. What follows is an entertaining description of life in this ancient time and place, when angels and fallen angels walked the earth, and small mammoths could call unicorns into existence. The story is more tension than plot: the tension of the Nephilim, fallen angels whose power on earth seems somehow threatened by the mysterious arrival of the twins; the sexual tension that both Sandy and Dennys feel as they are drawn to Yalith, Noah''s youngest daughter; and the tension that readers feel, wondering how those protagonists not mentioned in Genesis (the twins and Yalith) are going to survive the Flood, which is plainly imminent throughout the book. This suspense lacks the urgency found in the other books of the trilogy, however, mainly because the characters are subservient to atmosphere, incident, and ideas. It is as hard for readers to tell the twins apart as it is for Noah. One is curious as to how they will escape, but hardly worried. The strength of this book lies in its haunting descriptions of a time resonant of our own. Its weakness is a pat ending and characters so slightly drawn that we hardly care. Christine Behrman, New York Public Library\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/305');
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(447, 'Mariel of Redwall', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Heaved off her ship in a pirate raid, Mousemaid Mariel is washed up on the shores of Mossflower. With no idea where she is, or indeed who she is, the young warrior mouse embarks on an unforeseen adventure that will take her to the very heart of Redwall and into the arms of the people who live there.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Mariel of Redwall\n </em>\n is a captivating and magical adventure story in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. At times gentle, but mostly packed with adventure and heroism on the grandest of scales, this tale is at once delightful and devastating in its proportions.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jacques weaves his customary magic, taking the reader to the heart and soul of the mythical Redwall--welcoming, terrifying, magical, and at times all too real. The place, the characters, and the adventure spring to life in a bout of indefinable magic, mystery, and mayhem. An excellent book that will leave readers begging for more. (Fortunately, there''s plenty more where this came from!)\n <em>\n  --Susan Harrison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A female protagonist, Mariel the mousemaid, lends a contemporary touch to the fourth installment in Jacques''s Redwall series, which narrates epic events among the animals in the manner of Watership Down.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(448, 'Marlfox', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For this enchanting novel Brian Jacques has brought to bear the experience of his eventful and adventuresome life, a life which has taken him all over the world and seen him variously described as folk singer, playwright, and broadcaster. No doubt his usual writing environment--garden in summer, conservatory in winter--provides him with the ideal theater for observing the wildlife on which the book''s unusual central characters are based.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is, perhaps, appropriate that the story line revolves around the theft of the famous Redwall Tapestry, for\n <em>\n  Marlfox\n </em>\n is a richly woven tapestry, skillfully running together threads of the magical and mythical with the "natural world," to give its audience a heady blend of fairy tale and medieval adventure. The result is a tale of grand themes and conflicting human passions played out against a backdrop of humor and uncertainty; yet the author manages never to lose sight of the reality of life as experienced by the human and animal kingdoms alike.\n</p>\n<p>\n Young readers will gorge themselves on this literary feast, a spread worthy of comparison to other classics in this vein such as\n <em>\n  The Hobbit\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Duncton Wood\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Mythical Knights of the Round Table\n </em>\n , and the stories of C.S. Lewis.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-8-Marlfox! The name brings a chill to all of the good woodland creatures who hear it. From their silver white coats mottled with patches of black and bluish gray, to the axes they carry on their cloaked backs and their inexplicable ability to vanish into thin air, the Marlfoxes are creatures of superstition and legend. On a mission to procure treasure for their dangerously addled queen and mother, these crafty creatures lay siege to Redwall Abbey. Defended by a hodgepodge of creatures from old friends and proven fighters like Badgermum Cregga, to a traveling troupe of performers led by a flamboyant hare with delusions of grandeur, the abbey creatures hold their own-until the greatest treasure of all is stolen: the tapestry of Martin the Warrior. It is up to the next generation of warriors to "win their spurs" on an epic quest to recover the heart of the abbey. Guided by visions of the legendary Martin, the young squirrel Dann, hoping to live up to his brave father''s expectations, leads his friends toward the castle fortress of the Marlfox queen. The four young heroes fight the good fight, and among the happy results are a new abbess, and a new champion for Redwall. Marlfox is a rollicking tale of bravery and honor and derring-do; much laughter, a few tears, lots of love, feasting, reunions, and self-discovery, all brought vividly to life with colorful detail and lively characterizations. "Redwall" fans and newcomers to the series alike will welcome this installment with a cheer.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Jennifer A. Fakolt, Denver Public Library\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/704'),
(449, 'Marque and Reprisal', 'Elizabeth Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Marque and Reprisal\n </em>\n is Nebula Award winner Elizabeth Moon''s second novel about Kylara Vatta, starship captain in her family''s interstellar shipping business. Fresh from war, Ky is trying to resume a normal trading schedule when an unknown enemy attacks her prestigous family. Though her family is large, Ky may be its only surviving member. But she cannot confirm this, for sabotage has cut off communications between star systems. And Ky has other problems. She''s been turned into a privateer against her will. Her family''s mysterious foe knows where she is, and is trying to kill her. And she has a bloody secret of her own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Packed with action and intrigue,\n <em>\n  Marque and Reprisal\n </em>\n and its prequel, __, are as strong and interesting as Elizabeth Moon''s popular Serrano Legacy series, which also successfully combines hard SF, military SF, and adventure SF with interstellar and familial politics. The Kylara Vatta novels will please fans of the Serrano Legacy, Lois McMaster Bujold''s\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After her debut in Moon''s somewhat lackluster\n <em>\n  Trading in Danger\n </em>\n (2003), capable young Kylara Vatta, now captain of a dilapidated space freighter, lets loose in this rip-roaring sequel. With most of her immediate family back home on Slotter Key blown to smithereens in a dastardly sneak attack and communication lines down, Ky must first find out who''s responsibleâ€”then kill the villains out to drain Vatta blood. But this military SF tale is no mere shoot-''em-up. Ky thinks as well as she fights, coolly weighing commercial alternatives and handily using such human resources as her undercover operative cousin Stella and precocious teenager Toby Vatta, as well as the hard-currency diamonds that arrived with Stella in Aunt Gracie''s legendary fruitcake. Though mildly tempted, Ky also sees through fetching chick-magnet Rafe (he of many aliases), son of the top of InterStellar Communication''s command and now a covert agent with his own complex agenda. The charm lies in Moon''s deft characterizations, especially the exorcism of Ky''s guilt over her family''s deaths. There''s plenty of shipboard and dockside action, plus authentically grungy space-station settings. Former Marine Moon has a genuine hoorah series going for her.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/977'),
(450, 'Martin the Warrior', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bedrang the Stoat has his evil eyes set on ruling over his own empire, and will do anything to make sure that his ultimate fantasy is fulfilled. But little does he realize that the quiet, nameless mouse he is holding captive will one day turn out to be the heroic and fearless Martin the Warrior.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brian Jacques uses the full force of his stunning storytelling talent to unravel the mystery and adventure that unfolds in this tale of Redwall as a quiet little mouse refuses to bow down to a tyrant and bids to fight for freedom at any cost. Brimming with cutthroat skullduggery and intellectual intrigue,\n <em>\n  Martin the Warrior\n </em>\n is a mountainous tale that introduces the ethos and passions of Redwall with a host of well-drawn characters, each with their own Achilles'' heel, making them feel as real as they are magical.\n <em>\n  --Susan Harrison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a starred review of this 1994 installment in the Redwall series, PW commented that "Jacques''s classically inspired plot-weaving achieves virtuosity." All ages.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/173'),
(451, 'Maskerade', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  It''s true, there''s a ghost in the Opera House of Ankh Morpork.  Sardonic, flamboyant and, well, ghostly, it wears a bone-white Mask and terrorizes the entire company, including the immortal Enrico Basilica, who eats continuously even when he''s singing.  Mostly spaghetti with tomato sauce.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  What better way to flush out a ghost than with a witch?  Or even two!  And Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg happen to be in Discworld''s capital city trying to recruit a third (since three witches make a coven, and two make only an argument).\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Enter the Opera''s newest diva, the alarmingly fetching Perdita X. Nitt, who has such an astonishing range that she can sing harmony with herself, and is so agreeably large that she hangs out with the elephants in the cellar.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  They say that inside every fat women there''s a thin woman struggling to get out (or at least dying for chocolate).  In Perdita''s case, the thin woman is more ambitious, since she would also dearly love to be a witch.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Beginning to get the picture?  One would hope so.  For this isn''t cheese.  It''s opera, which runs on a Catastrophe Curve.  And to further complicate matters, there is a backstage cat named Greebo who occasionally becomes a person just because it''s so easy.  Not to mention Granny Weatherwax''s old friend, Death, whose scythe arm is sore from so much use.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  And who has been known to don a Mask...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
(452, 'Mass Effect: Ascension', 'Drew Karpyshyn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When they vanished fifty thousand years ago, the Protheans left their advanced technology scattered throughout the galaxy. The chance discovery of a Prothean cache on Mars allows humanity to join those already reaping the rewards of the ancientsâ€™ high-tech wizardry. But for one rogue militia, the goal is not participation but domination.\n</p>\n<p>\n Scientist Kahlee Sanders has left the Systems Alliance for the Ascension Project, a program that helps gifted â€œbioticâ€ children harness their extraordinary powers. The programâ€™s most promising student is twelve-year-old Gillian Grayson, who is borderline autistic. What Kahlee doesnâ€™t know is that Gillian is an unwitting pawn of the outlawed black ops group Cerberus, which is sabotaging the program by conducting illegal experiments on the students.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the Cerberus plot is exposed, Gillianâ€™s father takes her away from the Ascension Project and flees into the lawless Terminus Systems. Determined to protect Gillian, Kahlee goes with themâ€¦ unaware that the elder Grayson is, in fact, a Cerberus operative. To rescue the young girl Kahlee must travel to the farthest ends of the galaxy, battling fierce enemies and impossible odds. But how will she be able to save a daughter from her own father?\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drew Karpyshyn is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction and its sequel Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two, as well as several other fantasy and science fiction novels, including Mass Effect: Revelation. He is also an award-winning writer/designer for the computer game company BioWare, where he was lead writer on Mass Effect and the popular Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic video game. He can be contacted through his website at\n <em>\n  www.drewkarpyshyn.com\n </em>\n â€“itâ€™s all Drew, all the time!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/432'),
(453, 'Mass Effect: Retribution', 'Drew Karpyshyn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Humanity has reached the stars, joining the vast galactic community of alien species. But beyond the fringes of explored space lurk the Reapers, a race of sentient starships bent on â€œharvestingâ€ the galaxyâ€™s organic species for their own dark purpose.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Illusive Man, leader of the pro-human black ops group Cerberus, is one of the few who know the truth about the Reapers. To ensure humanityâ€™s survival, he launches a desperate plan to uncover the enemyâ€™s strengthsâ€”and weaknessesâ€”by studying someone implanted with modified Reaper technology. He knows the perfect subject for his horrific experiments: former Cerberus operative Paul Grayson, who wrested his daughter from the cabalâ€™s control with the help of Ascension project director Kahlee Sanders.\n</p>\n<p>\n But when Kahlee learns that Grayson is missing, she turns to the only person she can trust: Alliance war hero Captain David Anderson. Together they set out to find the secret Cerberus facility where Grayson is being held. But they arenâ€™t the only ones after him. And time is running out.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the experiments continue, the sinister Reaper technology twists Graysonâ€™s mind. The insidious whispers grow ever stronger in his head, threatening to take over his very identity and unleash the Reapers on an unsuspecting galaxy.\n</p>\n<p>\n This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drew Karpyshyn is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of_ _\n <strong>\n  Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two, and Star Wars: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil,\n </strong>\n as well as several other fantasy and science fiction novels, including\n <strong>\n  Mass Effect: Revelation\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Mass Effect: Ascension\n </strong>\n . He is also an award-winning writer/designer for the computer game company BioWare, where he was lead writer on Mass Effect and the popular Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic video games. After spending most of his life in Canada, he headed south in search of a climate more conducive to year-round golf. He now lives in Texas with his wife, Jennifer, and their cat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/840'),
(454, 'Mass Effect: Revelation', 'Drew Karpyshyn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every advanced society in the galaxy relies on the technology of the Protheans, an ancient species that vanished fifty thousand years ago. After discovering a cache of Prothean technology on Mars in 2148, humanity is spreading to the stars; the newest interstellar species, struggling to carve out its place in the greater galactic community.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n On the edge of colonized space, ship commander and Alliance war hero David Anderson investigates the remains of a top secret military research station; smoking ruins littered with bodies and unanswered questions. Who attacked this post and for what purpose? And where is Kahlee Sanders, the young scientist who mysteriously vanished from the baseâ€“hours before her colleagues were slaughtered?\n</p>\n<p>\n Sanders is now the prime suspect, but finding her creates more problems for Anderson than it solves. Partnered with a rogue alien agent he canâ€™t trust and pursued by an assassin he canâ€™t escape, Anderson battles impossible odds on uncharted worlds to uncover a sinister conspiracy . . . one he wonâ€™t live to tell about. Or so the enemy thinks.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drew Karpyshyn is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, and several other fantasy and science fiction novels. He is also an award-winning writer/designer for the computer game company BioWare, where he was lead writer on Mass Effect and the popular Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic video game. He lives in Canadaâ€™s hinterlands with his loving wife, Jen, and their cat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/433'),
(455, 'Mattimeo', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Preparations for the feast for the Summer of the Golden Rain are underway at Redwall Abbey, and young Mattimeo''s mother sets him to work with the other inhabitants. His father, Matthius, is the guardian of Redwall Abbey and it is this fact that puts the young Mattimeo in danger, as the evil Slagar the Fox plots to kidnap him in a bid to shake the very foundations of the Abbey and its inhabitants.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rip-roaring adventure at its very best, Mattimeo is one of the exquisitely executed and totally bewitching tales in the best-selling Redwall series. Brian Jacques, with his masterly use of language and enviable talent for descriptive prose that transports the reader to the very heart of Redwall, magically weaves an epic tale breathtaking in proportion and design. Utterly addictive, Mattimeo is packed with so much color, passion, fury, and love that it will leave readers desperate for more.\n <em>\n  --Susan Harrison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Among the woodland animals absconded from Redwall Abbey by Slagar the fox is Mattimeo, son of the warrior mouse Matthias. PW said, "This final book in the Redwall trilogy is a truly thrilling conclusion to a swashbuckling, heroic adventure. The realistically drawn characters are full of personality." Ages 10-14.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/714'),
(456, 'Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment', 'James Paterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/926'),
(457, 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of "SantaLand Diaries," a scathing, hilarious account of his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy''s. (It''s in two separate collections, both worth owning,\n <strong>\n  and the Christmas-themed\n </strong>\n .) Sedaris''s caustic gift has not deserted him in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path, and his move with his lover to France. Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate. The title is his rendition in transliterated English of how he and his fellow students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic language. In the essay "Jesus Shaves," he and his classmates from many nations try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. "It is a party for the little boy of God," says one. "Then he be die one day on two... morsels of... lumber," says another. Sedaris muses on the disputes between his Protestant mother and his father, a Greek Orthodox guy whose Easter fell on a different day. Other essays explicate his deep kinship with his eccentric mom and absurd alienation from his IBM-exec dad: "To me, the greatest mystery of science continues to be that a man could father six children who shared absolutely none of his interests."\n</p>\n<p>\n Every glimpse we get of Sedaris''s family and acquaintances delivers laughs and insights. He thwarts his North Carolina speech therapist ("for whom the word\n <em>\n  pen\n </em>\n had two syllables") by cleverly avoiding all words with\n <em>\n  s\n </em>\n sounds, which reveal the lisp she sought to correct. His midget guitar teacher, Mister Mancini, is unaware that Sedaris doesn''t share his obsession with breasts, and sings "Light My Fire" all wrong--"as if he were a Webelo scout demanding a match." As a remarkably unqualified teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sedaris had his class watch soap operas and assign "guessays" on what would happen in the next day''s episode.\n</p>\n<p>\n It all adds up to the most distinctively skewed autobiography since Spalding Gray''s\n <strong>\n  . The only possible reason not to read this book is if you''d rather hear the author''s intrinsically funny speaking voice narrating his story. In that case, get\n </strong>\n on audio.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sedaris is Garrison Keillor''s evil twin: like the Minnesota humorist, Sedaris (Naked) focuses on the icy patches that mar life''s sidewalk, though the ice in his work is much more slippery and the falls much more spectacularly funny than in Keillor''s. Many of the 27 short essays collected here (which appeared originally in the New Yorker, Esquire and elsewhere) deal with his father, Lou, to whom the book is dedicated. Lou is a micromanager who tries to get his uninterested children to form a jazz combo and, when that fails, insists on boosting David''s career as a performance artist by heckling him from the audience. Sedaris suggests that his father''s punishment for being overly involved in his kids'' artistic lives is David''s brother Paul, otherwise known as "The Rooster," a half-literate miscreant whose language is outrageously profane. Sedaris also writes here about the time he spent in France and the difficulty of learning another language. After several extended stays in a little Norman village and in Paris, Sedaris had progressed, he observes, "from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. ''Is thems the thoughts of cows?'' I''d ask the butcher, pointing to the calves'' brains displayed in the front window." But in English, Sedaris is nothing if not nimble: in one essay he goes from his cat''s cremation to his mother''s in a way that somehow manages to remain reverent to both of the departed. "Reliable sources" have told Sedaris that he has "tended to exhaust people," and true to form, he will exhaust readers of this new book, tooDwith helpless laughter. 16-city author tour. (June)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/594'),
(458, 'MECH', 'B. V. Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1013'),
(459, 'MECH 2', 'B. V. Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1012'),
(460, 'Men at Arms', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Another wild romp through Discworld! Corporal Carrot, a young dwarf, is newly in charge of the recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork. Edward, the 37th Lord d''Eath, has just discovered that Ankh-Morpork, kingless for generations, has a sovereign ruler, who must be convinced that he is, in fact, the King. The fate of Ankh-Morpork rides on a young man''s courage, an ancient sword''s magic, and a three-legged poodle''s bladder.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his latest effort, Pratchett skewers the hard-boiled detective novel as effectively as he''s satired fantasy fiction all these years. Set on Discworld, there are a few more gargoyles and exploding dragons than Sam Spade ever had to deal with. But there''s a trail of corpses and a hero named Carrot determined to track down the killer. His partners-the token dwarf, troll and werewolf on the police force-must overcome discrimination as well as the occasional rampaging orangutan. Although Men at Arms isn''t as consistently funny as his earlier novels, the dialogue is hilarious, and Pratchett''s take on affirmative action is a whole lot of fun. There''s not a lot of rational narrative cause-and-effect here, but it doesn''t really matter. As usual, Pratchett provides enough bad-tempered clowns, bloodthirsty trolls and dogs with low self-esteem to keep readers entertained.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3'),
(461, 'The Merchant of Death', 'D. J. Machale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Pendragon: The Merchant of Death\n  </em>\n  , D.J. MacHale, the creator of several popular television series and Afterschool Specials, transplants the Pendragon name from Arthurian legend to modern-day junior high school. Fourteen- year-old Bobby Pendragon has it all; he''s smart, popular, and a star basketball player in quiet Stony Brook, Connecticut. But a visit from Uncle Press soon topples all of that as Bobby learns that he is a Traveler, someone who can ride "flumes" through time and space. Bobby lands in Denduron, a medieval world where the gentle Milago are enslaved by the Bedoowan, and it''s Bobby''s job to free them. He reluctantly teams up with Loor--a girl his age from the warrior-territory of Zadaa--and other Travelers, recounting his adventures in journals that are magically transported back to his friends Mark and Courtney in Stony Brook. These first-person journals at times feel contrived--they''re riddled with terms like "coolio" and "bizarro" and gnarly descriptions of vile sights and smells--but the book''s thumping story soon scrubs away all such concern.\n  <em>\n   The Merchant of Death\n  </em>\n  keeps the pages flipping with steady action and near-constant mortal peril for its heroes, promising that both this and future volumes in the Pendragon series should be eagerly devoured. (Ages 10 and older)\n  <em>\n   --D.J. Morel\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Merchant of Death is the first book in the Pendragon series by D. J. MacHale. The story takes place in a "territory" (Universe separate from the "Second Earth" universe of the story, of which there are many.) called Denduron. Denduron has three suns, one to the east, the north, and the south, but besides that, it has most of the same characteristics as Earth. The story is based around two tribes: the Milago and the Bedoowan. The Milago are treated very poorly by the Bedoowan; they live in little huts without running water or even outhouses, and have to mine for a valuable stone called glaze every hour of the day in order to meet the demands of Kagan, the queen of the Bedoowan. If the Milago do not meet the required supply of glaze which changes for each day, then one of them is killed by being pushed into an abandoned mine shaft. This process is used by a weight system that weighs the person in glaze. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot introduction | Plot summary | Characters in "The Merchant of Death" | Graphic Novel | Reception\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1017'),
(462, 'MetaGame', 'Sam Landstrom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description:\n </strong>\n Speculative science fiction at its finest,\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n by Sam Landstrom is a â€˜future gamersâ€™ field guide and a philosophical cyberpunk adventure. In this original and disturbingly irreverent prospective world, gaming is more than a diversionâ€”and gamers are, literally, in it for life. The OverSoul, an enigmatic, unifying force, offers winners points that add up to currency. Reigning champs are given the gift of immortalityâ€”while losers are condemned to aging and death. D_Light is one of the best players in his Family and will do anything to win, even if it means committing murder. When heâ€™s invited to a MetaGameâ€”an exclusive, high-stakes competitionâ€”he jumps at the chance. But after the first quest, D_Lightâ€™s overly ambitious ways brand him a renegade. With a warped sense of freewill that is needed to prevail, D_Light must either kill someone heâ€™s grown to loveâ€”or lose everything.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: A Q&amp;A with Sam Landstrom\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n takes place in a futuristic world where biotech, nanotech, gaming, and "religion" merge to blur the lines between fantasy and reality. How did you dream up the story line?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sam Landstrom:\n </strong>\n Funny you should say "dream," because thatâ€™s literally how it started. One night I had a vivid dream in which I was a devil in a ghetto apartment complex and was being hunted by the police. The whole idea took off from there. Gradually, I built a world around that single scene. For months, I fleshed out the world in a private blog with over 60 posts with titles like "Fashion," "Economics," "Religion," "Lingo," "Work," etc. I continually worked to hook these together logically, keeping in mind that one aspect of this futuristic society would influence the others. Once I felt I had a reasonable world, I hung a plot outline on it (including my dream scene). As I wrote the book, the world continued to evolve; in fact, the present book has only a slight resemblance to those early blog posts I created two years ago.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™ve previously worked in a lab programming robots to help sequence the human genome. Did this experience and background knowledge play a role in the story?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sam Landstrom:\n </strong>\n At a high level, yes. Back in the lab, before I got interested in software, I wanted to be a genetic engineer. I felt then, as I do now, that biotechnology will eventually become ubiquitous in our lives and so I wanted to help design that future. At the same time, I wondered what exactly that future would look like. To me, being able to engineer the living is an incredibly powerful technology that can do wonderful things for humanity, but, at the same time, elicits in me a primal dread... just the sort of stew I like for fiction! Obviously, Iâ€™m not the only one with such an outlook, since biotech is a sci-fi staple.\n</p>\n<p>\n I donâ€™t include lab techniques or techs from that job because they would be far obsolete in the future. Heck, theyâ€™re completely obsolete now, and itâ€™s only been 10 years! Given this, the technology I wrote about is a wild extrapolation, an entertaining guess, really. About all I tried to convey in the book from my time at the lab, in a literal sense, was the genuine passion and intelligence I observed in those who work in this field.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n What research did you do while writing\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n ?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sam Landstrom:\n </strong>\n Most of the research I did was related to confirming that the future technologies presented in the book are even theoretically possible and how they might be implemented. For example, how can a machine read and write to a personâ€™s mind? With difficulty, as it turns out! Luckily for my readers, I only used this research to color my descriptions and confine the scope of these future technologies, not to provide in-depth specifications. Thanks to this balance, I think\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n gets to stay in the hard sci-fi category while remaining, first and foremost, an entertaining book.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n What authors or books have influenced your writing?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sam Landstrom:\n </strong>\n Lucky for me, the public school system forced me to read\n <em>\n  1984\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Brave New World\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Fahrenheit 451\n </em>\n . These books were more about sociology and philosophy than technology, and they taught me that sci-fi did not necessarily require aliens or spaceships.\n</p>\n<p>\n In addition to these stand-alone books, I really enjoyed the Dune series by Frank Herbert because he built up a fully realized universe that included components of religion, politics, economics, and even ecology. Dune had a big influence on\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n I have heard from several readers that\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n shares elements with Neal Stephensonâ€™s work. This might not be a coincidence since I read\n <em>\n  The Diamond Age\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n before writing\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n . Good stuff.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n fits solidly in the sci-fi/cyberpunk genre, but also weaves in philosophy and thriller writing. Have you considered trying your hand at other genres in the future?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sam Landstrom:\n </strong>\n Yes, in fact Iâ€™m writing a fantasy novel now. Magic, monsters, infinite dimensions, a high school kegger.. You get the idea--not hard sci-fi, but entertaining and, hopefully, a bit thought provoking.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Have you always wanted to write? What other careers have you pursued?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sam Landstrom:\n </strong>\n Iâ€™ve wanted to write off and on over the years. When I was really young (like 8-9 years old) I pumped out books; however, these quick reads emphasized pictures over writing. The art sported a lot of guns blazing, swords swinging, blood spraying, heads flying through the air, etc. I went to a hippie school that wasnâ€™t big into formal education. I remember my older cousin reading one of my books, after which he told me, "You need to start a sentence with a capital letter and end with a period." First of all, I didnâ€™t know what he was talking about and second, who cares? I didnâ€™t understand why he wasnâ€™t praising me for the awesome action scenes. I mean, you just didnâ€™t see that kind of stuff in books I found in the library, much less at school! I like to think my writing has improved since those days, although my grammar could still use some work. Thank God for good editors.\n</p>\n<p>\n As an adult, Iâ€™ve had many different career interests I considered pursuing, including underwater archaeology and neurology. When I started college, I actually went in with the intention of becoming a doctor, but quickly discovered I was more into the science of medicine than the actual application of it, hence the degree in molecular biology. Aside from working in software (my current career) and in biotech, I spent a lot of time on the water as a deck hand, first on a passenger ferry, and then on a small cruise ship in Alaska. I was really considering a life at sea. However, it turns out I was ill suited to the regimen of a sailorâ€™s job. Captains were not impressed with what I thought were creative solutions to problems, nor with me setting my own priorities.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n What''s next for you?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sam Landstrom:\n </strong>\n Iâ€™m sort of writing three books at once--the fantasy novel I mentioned earlier, as well as a prequel and sequel to\n <em>\n  MetaGame\n </em>\n . Iâ€™ve made the most progress on the fantasy, so thatâ€™s what Iâ€™ll likely finish first. On the side, I also started developing a smart-phone application that is a virtual boyfriend for young women. I hope to make him handsome and charming, even as he speaks in a computer-generated Stephen Hawking voice. Iâ€™ve heard you can get a long way with flattery, so Iâ€™m hoping a phone can successfully use the same strategy. Iâ€™m not sure when Iâ€™ll finish that, if ever. By the way, Iâ€™d make a virtual girlfriend too, but giving men what they want through a phone (or any media) is too easy.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Life is a game, literally. Winners earn immortality, while losers are condemned to aging and death. D_Light, a gifted player, knows this all too well and heâ€™s willing to do anything to winâ€”even kill. It is no wonder then that when given the chance to enter a MetaGameâ€”an exclusive, high-stakes, anything goes contestâ€”heâ€™s quick to jump at the opportunity. The MetaGame starts out well enough for D_Light, the first quest being to hunt down a dangerous fugitive, but through his own ambition, the tables turn and D_Light finds himself the renegade. Now, D_Light pits himself against his world to find the truth behind â€œThe Gameâ€ and must decide between winning it and saving whatâ€™s left of his humanity.\n</p>\n<p>\n This 122,000 word (~400 page) novel blends emerging political and cultural trends, such as gaming culture, globalization, and the ever-increasing hegemony of corporations, with technological trends, such as genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. Emerging from this stew is an original world for you to explore through the point of view of its many "players".\n</p>\n<p>\n Author''s Note\n <br />\n I welcome any feedback you have! Here are a few options:\n <br />\n - Post a review\n <br />\n - Post a discussion thread on this page\n <br />\n - email me at snoutholder at yahoo.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/972'),
(463, 'Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life', 'Carl Zimmer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When most readers hear the words\n  <em>\n   E. coli\n  </em>\n  , they think tainted hamburger or toxic spinach. Noted science writer Zimmer says there are in fact many different strains of\n  <em>\n   E. coli\n  </em>\n  , some coexisting quite happily with us in our digestive tracts. These rod-shaped bacteria were among the first organisms to have their genome mapped, and today they are the toolbox of the genetic engineering industry and even of high school scientists. Zimmer (_Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea_) explains that by scrutinizing the bacteria''s genome, scientists have discovered that genes can jump from one species to another and how virus DNA has become tightly intertwined with the genes of living creatures all the way up the tree of life to humans. Studying starving\n  <em>\n   E. coli\n  </em>\n  has taught us about how our own cells age. Advocates of intelligent design often produce the\n  <em>\n   E. coli\n  </em>\n  flagellum as Exhibit A, but the author shows how new research has shed light on the possible evolutionary arc of the flagellum. Zimmer devotes a chapter to the ethical debates surrounding genetic engineering. Written in elegant, even poetic prose, Zimmer''s well-crafted exploration should be required reading for all well-educated readers.\n  <em>\n   (May 6)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA powerful account of the dynamic, complicated and social world we share with this ordinary yet remarkable bug. . . . Exciting, original, and wholly persuasive.â€ â€”_New Scientist\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œSuperb. . . . A quietly revolutionary book.â€ â€”_Boston Globe_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCreepy, mind-twisting, and delightful all at the same timeâ€ â€”Steven Johnson, author of\n  <em>\n   The Invention of Air\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis award-winning science writer has turned out an illuminating biography of one of biologyâ€™s most influentialâ€“and underappreciatedâ€“players.â€ â€”_Discover _\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œFor readers who enjoy a seat at the revolution and a chance to ponder the â€˜supple little bugsâ€™ at the dawn of life,\n  <em>\n   Microcosm\n  </em>\n  is a bracing read. This timely book deserves shelf space near Lewis Thomasâ€™ classic\n  <em>\n   Lives of a Cell\n  </em>\n  .â€ â€”_Cleveland Plain-Dealer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEngrossing. . . . Zimmer adroitly links the common heritage we share with E. coli and the emerging horizons of science.â€ â€”_The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œAll in all,\n  <em>\n   Microcosm\n  </em>\n  is a phantasmagoric read that explains how our understanding of the nature of E. coli has helped to unravel the mysteries of our own nature and evolution. The book is impressive for the information it imparts and even more impressive for the ideas it provokes.â€ â€”_New England Journal of Medicine\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œE. coli has provided answers that have reshaped our very definitions of life. Zimmer succeeds in engendering a healthy respect for the bug that lives inside us all.â€ â€”_Seed Magazine\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œEngagingly written. . . . [Zimmerâ€™s] prose is vivid without being misleadingâ€“surely one of the hallmarks of good science writing. . . . We should be sure to heed the lessons of E. coli. Those little stinkers have been around a lot longer than we have, and they have some story to tell.â€ â€”_The New York Sun_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œItâ€™s this simple. Carl Zimmer is one our very best science writers. If not the absolute best, bar none.â€ â€”_Scienceblogs.com_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[_Microcosm_] delivers what a science book should; it reveals the new and re-enchants the old.â€ â€”_Prospect Magazine_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Zimmer is] an American science writer at the zenith of his profession. . . . [He] has woven a fascinating tapestry, intercalating the energy of world-changing scientific discovery with the fascinating complexity of a well-understood living organism. His work will be welcomed by the scientist and the science enthusiast.â€ â€”_The Journal of Clinical Investigation_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn educational tour-de-force. . . . [Zimmer] brings remarkable talents to popular science writing: ability to write succinct, lively prose; genius at applying familiar words to replace the jargon of scientific terms; intelligence to grasp complex ideas . . . and instincts of an investigative reporter. These talents are amply exhibited in\n  <em>\n   Microcosm\n  </em>\n  .â€ â€”_Microbe_ magazine\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1211'),
(464, 'Millenium Falcon', 'James Luceno', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/391'),
(465, 'The Miserable Mill', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The Baudelaire orphans looked out the grimy window of the train and gazed at the gloomy blackness of the Finite Forest, wondering if their lives would ever get better," begins\n <em>\n  The Miserable Mill\n </em>\n . If you have been introduced to the three Baudelaire orphans in any of Lemony Snicket''s previous novels, you know that not only will their lives not get better, they will get much worse. In the fourth installment in the "Series of Unfortunate Events," the sorrowful siblings, having once again narrowly escaped the clutches of the evil Count Olaf, are escorted by the kindly but ineffectual Mr. Poe to their newest "home" at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill. Much to their horror (if not surprise), their dormitory at the mill is crowded and damp, they are forced to work with spinning saw blades, they are fed only one meal a day (not counting the chewing gum they get for lunch), and worst of all, Count Olaf lurks in a dreadful disguise as Shirley the receptionist just down the street. Not even the clever wordplay and ludicrous plot twists could keep this story buoyant--reading about the mean-spirited foreman, the deadly blades, poor Klaus (hypnotized and "reprogrammed"), and the relentless hopelessness of the children''s situation only made us feel gloomy. Fans of these wickedly funny, suspenseful adventures won''t want to miss out on a single one, but we''re hoping the next tales have the delicate balance of delight and disaster we''ve come to expect from this exciting series. (Ages 9 to 12)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-7-This fourth book in the series about the Baudelaire orphans works fine as a stand-alone. The "poor little rich kids" lead lives filled with unhappiness, gothic horror, and melodramatic despair. Here, the protagonists are sent to work in a lumber mill in Paltryville, where they are fed only a stick of gum for lunch and are forced to perform backbreaking labor. Their enemy, Count Olaf, is not far from the scene, and will certainly utilize any disguise to get at the siblings'' inheritance. Violet, Klaus, and Baby Sunny are responsible for their own fate and, as usual, they take matters in hand. This is for readers who appreciate this particular type of humor; it exaggerates the sour and makes anyone''s real life seem sweet in comparison.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Sharon R. Pearce, Geronimo Public School, OK\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/451'),
(466, 'Mona Lisa Overdrive', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kriminalroman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/251'),
(467, 'Monstrous Regiment', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n What do you get when you cross a vampire, a troll, Igor, a collection of misfits, and a young woman who shoves a pair of socks down her pants to join the army? The answer''s simple. You have\n <em>\n  Monstrous Regiment\n </em>\n , the characteristically charming novel by Terry Pratchett.\n</p>\n<p>\n Polly becomes Private Oliver Perks, who is on a quest to find her older brother, who''s recently MIA in one of the innumerable wars the tiny nation of Borogravia has a habit of starting with its neighbors. This peevish tendency has all but expended Borogravia''s ranks of cannon fodder. Whether Sergeant Jackrum knows her secret or not, he can''t afford to be choosy, as Perks and her/his comrades are among the last able-bodied recruits left in Borogravia. This collection of misfits includes the aforementioned vampire (reformed and off the blood, thank you), troll, and macabre Igor, who is only too happy to sew you a new leg if you aren''t too particular about previous ownership. Off to war, Polly/Oliver learns that having a pair of, um, socks is a good way to open up doors in this man''s army.\n</p>\n<p>\n For those who haven''t made this underrated author''s acquaintance,\n <em>\n  Monstrous Regiment\n </em>\n is as good a place to start as any. Readers will encounter Pratchett''s subtle and disarming wit, his trademark footnoted asides along with a not-too-shabby tale of honor, courage, and duty in the face of absurd circumstances.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pratchett flexes his satirical muscles again, with the follies of war his theme. Polly Oliver has disguised herself as a boy to join the army of Borogravia, which is always at war and bursting with patriotism, though the Borogravians are often less than clear on why they are fighting. But then, as followers of a god who believes that cats, babies, and cheese are abominations, they are used to contradictions; they mostly pray to their duchess, who may be dead. Their latest war has interfered with the commerce of Ankh-Morpork, which has dispatched Sam Vimes to bring matters to a "satisfactory" conclusion. But Sam still thinks more like the city watchman he was than the duke he now is, and this confuses people. Meanwhile, Polly''s regiment, the Ins-and-Outs, has become quite high-profile, what with having, it is said, a vampire, a werewolf, and an Igor in its ranks, and with capturing, quite unexpectedly, the Zlobenian prince and his soldiers, an event publicized by Ankh-Morpork newspaperman William de Worde. Anyway, they''re suddenly popular in Ankh-Morpork, and they subsequently turn the war upside down, so that it doesn''t end the way the propagandists would have liked. No surprise, of course, to Sam Vimes. Polly concludes that it is, on some level, all about socks. Thoroughly funny and surprisingly insightful.\n <em>\n  Regina Schroeder\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/27');
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(468, 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest work.It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale of the disparate people--a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic--who become the rebel movement''s leaders. And it is the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to this inner circle, and who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution''s ultimate success.The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of the high points of modern science fiction, a novel bursting with politics, humanity, passion, innovative technical speculation, and a firm belief in the pursuit of human freedom. Robert Anson Heinlein was educated at the University of Missouri and the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving as a naval officer for five years, he retired for health reasons and began publishing SF in 1939. Considered the dean of American SF writers, Heinlein was loved and emulated during the half century that he wrote SF. He wrote dozens of novels and short stories, including Double Star, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, all of which won Hugo Awards. Heinlein was the recipient of the First Grand Master Nebula in 1975, and he was the guest of honor at three World SF Conventions: in 1941, 1961, and 1976. He has repeatedly been voted "best all-time author" in readers'' polls. Robert A. Heinlein passed away in 1988. The Hugo Award-winning classic that helped launch modern libertarianism, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is Heinlein''s unforgettable tale of a Lunar revolution in 2076. Led by a one-armed computer technician, a radical blonde bombshell, an aging academic, and a sentient, all-knowing computer, the revolution''s proclamationâ€”"TANSTAAFL" (There Ain''t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)â€”remains a slogan of the libertarian movement today. "He presided over American Science Fiction."â€”Joe Haldeman"He was admired and envied for more than a century by the brightest human beings on Earth."â€”Larry Niven\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/216'),
(469, 'Mort', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can''t refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn''t compulsory.As Death''s apprentice, he''ll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won''t need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he''d ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(470, 'Mort (Graphic Novel)', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/675'),
(471, 'Mossflower', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Right from the start of this rousingly old-fashioned prequel to Redwall , readers will submerge themselves in the culture of the woodlanders and their council, the Corim, against the wicked Kotir. Kotir is the name of the group holed up at the castle, led by Tsarmina, a wildcat who poisons her father and imprisons her good brother Gingivere so that she may rule in her own way. Into the woodlanders'' midst comes Martin the Warrior, who becomes fast friends with Gonff the mousethief and others; they soon set off to find the only warrior who can lead them to victory. More important than the outcome of the story, where good triumphs over evil, are the characters: baby hedgehogs Ferdy and Coggs, doing their valiant best to become warriors; the kindly Gingivere, who finds his heart''s joy as a farmer; Lady Amber, the squirrel Chief and her band of archers; Chibb, the robin who will spy for anyone as long as he is paid in candied chestnuts. Martin''s heroics pale in comparison to the acts of his fellow-fighters, so colorful are their escapades. While Redwall fans will enjoy this, no prior knowledge of that book is necessary. Illustrations not seen by PW. Ages 10-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Up In this prequel to Redwall (Philomel, 1987), Jacques describes the epic adventures leading up to the foundation of Redwall Abbey. A band of weasels, stoats, and other unpleasant creatures from Kotir Castle, led by the evil wildcat Tsarmina, is making life unbearable for the animals of Mossflower Woods. Then Martin, a young warrior mouse with a rusty sword, appears and inspires them to resistance. Leaving the others to harass Tsarmina, Martin sets out with two companions on a quest to find the great badger, Boar, the true ruler of Mossflower. All of the characters, good and evil alike, come fully alive. Jacques has the true fantasy-writer''s ability to create a wholly new and believable world, down to the last details of food, drink, and local dialect. He is not so skilled with his plot. Suspense does not arise from the situation itself, for the end is never really in doubt. Instead it is produced by rapid and often confusing cuts back and forth between groups of characters. The writing is smooth and swift-paced; scenes of violent battle take place so quickly that readers may have to go back to what has happened. Lacking the unifying device which the seige provides in Redwall, the narrative seems overly long and crowded with events. This will be enjoyed mainly by those whose reading of Redwall has already aroused their interest in Mossflower and its inhabitants. Ruth S. Vose, San Francisco Public Library\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/713'),
(472, 'Mostly Harmless', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this installment of the The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy saga, Ford Prefect of the planet Betelgeuse relies on serendipity and his own quick wits to protect a new edition of the Hitchhiker''s Guide from the loathsome Vogons. A 12-week PW bestseller in cloth.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œHitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Hereâ€™s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.â€â€”_New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œIt is Mr. Adamsâ€™s genius to hurl readers into a plot that seems to go everywhere and nowhere, then suddenly drop the pieces into place, click, click, click, like tumblers in a lock. . . . Delightful.â€â€”\n </em>\n Baltimore Sun\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/259'),
(473, 'The Mote in God&#39;s Eye', 'Larry Niven &amp; Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud, and an expedition is dispatched.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the Mote the humans find an ancient civilization--at least one million years old--that has always been bottled up in their cloistered solar system for lack of a star drive. The Moties are welcoming and kind, yet rather evasive about certain aspects of their society. It seems the Moties have a dark problem, one they''ve been unable to solve in over a million years.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the first collaboration between Niven and Pournelle, two masters of hard science fiction, and it combines Pournelle''s interest in the military and sociology with Niven''s talent for creating interesting, believable aliens. The novel meticulously examines every aspect of First Contact, from the Moties'' biology, society, and art, to the effects of the meeting on humanity''s economics, politics, and religions. And all the while suspense builds as we watch the humans struggle toward the truth.\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Theodore Sturgeon One of the most engrossing tales I''ve read in years...fascinating. --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/295'),
(474, 'Motorworld', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeremy Clarkson gets under the skin of 12 countries by looking at the cars people drive and how they drive them. This book presents hilarious travel writing.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeremy Clarkson is the presenter of Top Gear. He writes for Top Gear Magazine, The Sunday Times and The Sun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/379'),
(475, 'Moving Pictures', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/45'),
(476, 'Naked', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hip radio comedy fans and theater folks who belong to the cult of Obie-winning playwright/performer David Sedaris must kill to get this book. These would be fans of the scaldingly snide Sedaris''s hilariously described personal misadventures like\n <em>\n  The Santaland Diaries\n </em>\n (a monologue about his work as an elf to a department store Santa) seen off-Broadway in 1997. In a series of similarly textured essays, Sedaris takes us along on his catastrophic detours through a nudist colony, a fruit-packing plant, his own childhood, and a dozen more of the world''s little purgatories.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sedaris (Barrel Fever, LJ 5/1/94) has fashioned a funny memoir of his wonderfully offbeat life. To call his family "dysfunctional" would be enormous understatement and beside the point; Sedaris''s relatives and other companions become vital characters on the page. We see his mother serving drinks to the string of teachers who want to discuss her son''s compulsions to lick light switches and make high-pitched noises. We travel with Sedaris and his quadriplegic hitchhiking companion, listen to his foul-mouthed seat mate on a long bus trip, and accompany the author on a hilariously self-conscious visit to a nudist colony. Sedaris''s humor is wickedly irreverent but not mean. Traveling with him is well worth it for the laughs and his generous human sensibility. Highly recommended.?Mary Paumier Jones, Rochester P.L., N.Y.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/617'),
(477, 'Nation', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Grade 7â€“10â€”In this first novel for young people set outside of Discworld, Pratchett again shows his humor and humanity. Worlds are destroyed and cultures collide when a tsunami hits islands in a vast ocean much like the Pacific. Mau, a boy on his way back home from his initiation period and ready for the ritual that will make him a man, is the only one of his people, the Nation, to survive. Ermintrude, a girl from somewhere like Britain in a time like the 19th century, is on her way to meet her father, the governor of the Mothering Sunday islands. She is the sole survivor of her ship (or so she thinks), which is wrecked on Mau''s island. She reinvents herself as Daphne, and uses her wits and practical sense to help the straggling refugees from nearby islands who start arriving. When raiders land on the island, they are led by a mutineer from the wrecked ship, and Mau must use all of his ingenuity to outsmart him. Then, just as readers are settling in to thinking that all will be well in the new world that Daphne and Mau are helping to build, Pratchett turns the story on its head. The main characters are engaging and interesting, and are the perfect medium for the author''s sly humor. Daphne is a close literary cousin of Tiffany Aching in her common sense and keen intelligence wedded to courage. A rich and thought-provoking read.â€”_Sue Giffard, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York City_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics praised\n <em>\n  Nation\n </em>\n as a hybrid, deeply philosophical book aimed at young adults, but one likely to appeal to adults as well, much like Philip Pullmanâ€™s\n <em>\n  His\n </em>\n <em>\n  Dark Materials\n </em>\n trilogy or J. K. Rowlingâ€™s\n <em>\n  Harry Potter\n </em>\n series. With echoes of William Defoe and William Golding,\n <em>\n  Nation\n </em>\n takes the form of a â€œclassic\n <em>\n  Robinsonade\n </em>\n ,â€ notes the\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n â€”that is, a book in which characters on a desert island recreate civilization. As his characters grapple with questions of leadership, humanity, and survival, Pratchett explores fundamental ideas about religion and culture. This might all sound rather heavy, but there is plenty of originality and humorâ€”and cannibals, spirits, and secret treasuresâ€”to go around. In the end, Pratchett offers a vision of a deeply humane world. â€œIn some part of the multiverse there is probably a civilisation based on the thinking of Terry Pratchett,â€ writes the\n <em>\n  Guardian\n </em>\n , â€œand what a civilised civilisation that will be.â€\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/93'),
(478, 'Neptune Crossing', 'Jeffrey A. Carver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this promising series kickoff about an astronaut exploring the surface of Neptune''s moon, Triton, Carver ( Dragons in the Stars ) masterfully captures the joy of exploration, although the story itself follows a fairly standard save-the-world plot. Pilot John Bandicut has been cut off from his internal link to the "datanet" by faulty technology, leaving him subject to maddening "silence-fugues." His need for contact makes him a perfect candidate for a symbiotic relationship with the alien quarx, who are trying to save humanity from a mysterious disaster threatening Earth. The quarx, creations whose understanding of Terran culture comes mostly from monitoring old TV and radio programs, have a certain gee-whiz quality, although their interactions with the datanet are intriguing. A rather adolescent love story combines amusingly with an unlikely case of xenophobia, and a fiery conclusion sets Bandicut up for further adventures in yet another alien world, where Carver may find greater room to employ his gift for the fine rendering of difficult scientific concepts.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attached to a research and mining project on Triton, John Bandicut becomes the reluctant "host" of an alien mind who needs him as a vehicle to save Earth from a cosmic catastrophe. The author of Dragons in the Stars (Tor Bks., 1992) and The Infinity Link (Bluejay Bks., 1984) excels at exuberant storytelling as he explores the very real day-to-day problems of playing host to an internal guest. Hard-science aficionados will delight in the story''s focus on chaos theory; general sf fans will appreciate the adventure and mood. A good purchase for most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/689'),
(479, 'Neuromancer', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the novel that started it all, launching the cyberpunk generation, and the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same. Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/244'),
(480, 'Neverwhere', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Neverwhere\n </em>\n ''s protagonist, Richard Mayhew, learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. He ceases to exist in the ordinary world of London Above, and joins a quest through the dark and dangerous London Below, a shadow city of lost and forgotten people, places, and times. His companions are Door, who is trying to find out who hired the assassins who murdered her family and why; the Marquis of Carabas, a trickster who trades services for very big favors; and Hunter, a mysterious lady who guards bodies and hunts only the biggest game. London Below is a wonderfully realized shadow world, and the story plunges through it like an express passing local stations, with plenty of action and a satisfying conclusion. The story is reminiscent of Douglas Adams''s __, but Neil Gaiman''s humor is much darker and his images sometimes truly horrific. Puns and allusions to everything from\n <strong>\n  to\n </strong>\n abound, but you can enjoy the book without getting all of them. Gaiman is definitely not just for graphic-novel fans anymore.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Gaiman assumes the role of narrator for his latest book, offering an intimate reading that steals one''s attention almost immediately and keeps the listener involved throughout. As the story is based in the United Kingdom, Gaiman is a quintessential raconteur for the tale, with his charming Scottish brogue instilling life and spirit into the central character of Richard Mayhew. Pitch perfect, with clear pronunciation, Gaiman invites listeners into his living room for a fireside chat, offering a private and personal experience that transcends the limitations of traditional narration. The author knows his story through and through, capturing the desired emotion and audience reaction in each and every scene. His characters are unique, with diverse personalities and narrative approaches, and Gaiman offers a variety of dialects and tones. The reading sounds more like a private conversation among friends with Gaiman providing the convincing and likable performance the writing deserves.\n <em>\n  A Harper Perennial paperback (Reviews, May 19, 1997). (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/417'),
(481, 'The New Face of War', 'Haden Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1096'),
(482, 'New Spring', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Expanded from a story that first appeared in Robert Silverberg''s anthology Legends (1998), Jordan''s eagerly awaited prequel to The Wheel of Time, the first of a projected three, more than lives up to its high expectations. For three days, battle has raged around the city of Tar Valon. In the White Tower two young Accepted attend the Amyrlin Seat and her Keeper as they await word of the outcome. Purely by chance, Moiraine Damodred and Siuan Sanche are on duty when the Keeper foretells the rebirth of the Dragon, the world''s only hope of winning the fight against the Dark One. Written with all the skill that has made Jordan one of the grand masters of fantasy, it''s accessible enough for new readers, while the inside information is sure to captivate longtime fans. Far from the coldly self-possessed Aes Sedai who arrives in Emond''s Field in The Eye of the World, the first Wheel book, Moiraine is a fun-loving, prank-playing and naÃ¯ve Accepted, one who slowly grows into a determined and resourceful character. Even better, the narrative is flush with answers to mysteries only hinted at in Wheel (what was the test for Aes Sedai, what was "the Vileness") and with little details aimed at those in the know. Jordan buffs will be especially pleased to find the novel moves quickly, not at the glacial pace of recent books in the saga.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jordan''s best-selling Wheel of Time stands at 10 volumes and counting, and now he starts a prequel series by expanding his contribution to\n <em>\n  Legends\n </em>\n (1998), an anthology of stories set in the worlds of their authors'' novel-series. Basically, the new tale is about how two Wheel protagonists--the soldier Lan Mandragoran, claimant to the throne of a kingdom long defunct; and Moiraine of the royal house of Cairhien, an initiate of the sorceresses known as Aes Sedai--met. The momentous event comes early in the search for the infant boy who, grown up, may save the perpetually warring Wheel world from the Dark One. It doesn''t occur, however, until this book is winding down. The preceding pages, after an opening in which Lan and his command are reprieved from certain death when the enormous army they are about to engage turns and marches away, focus on Moraine''s and her friend Siuan''s last days as wanna-be, and first as new-fledged, Aes Sedai. Both take their new status as license to look for the child of destiny, and they have inside dope, thanks to having heard a senior Aes Sedai announce the child''s birth with her dying breath. The term\n <em>\n  padding\n </em>\n comes to mind soon and often as\n <em>\n  New Spring\n </em>\n blooms. Perhaps it should have been left a short story, and perhaps only Wheel of Time junkies will genuinely enjoy it. Said habitues are by now legion; acquire accordingly.\n <em>\n  Ray Olson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/360'),
(483, 'Next', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his brilliant new blockbuster, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain" journeys into the realm of genetics: fast, furious, and out of control. Provocative yet playful, dark and disturbing, "Next" is Crichton as he has never been seen before. Now in a Premium Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/321'),
(484, 'Night Mare', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although the Nextwave of barbarian warriors was invading Xanth, Mare Imbrium discovered that ever since she had gained the half soul, the night mare had begun to mishandle her job of delivering bad dreams. Exiled to the day world with a message for King Trent, Mare met the relentless, unforgiving Horseman. For the night mare, it began to be all a horrible nightmare!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Piers Anthony [Xanth] -- Piers Anthony redefined the fantasy series when he launched his Xanth books--they''re(quite simply) pun for the whole family!\n</p>\n<p>\n --Veronica Chapman, Senior Editor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/470'),
(485, 'Night Train to Rigel', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hang on! Hugo-winner Zahn (_Cascade Point_) takes off on a rip-roaring interstellar train ride with hard-boiled hero Frank Compton, recently fired from Earth''s Western Alliance Intelligence for whistle-blowing on the costly Yandro colony boondoggle, a U.N. scheme to make humanity a real interstellar power. From Earth''s mean streets, Compton hops the Quadrail, a mysterious galactic system run by the alien Spiders, who give him four months to defuse an interstellar war being engineered by the gestalt entity the Modhri. With Bayta, "The Girl" sent by the Spiders to recruit him, Compton blasts his way through layers of subterfuge and teams of unpronounceable alien baddies. Seeing a new chunk of the truth fall into place about every hundred pages, Compton carries comic-strip action to dizzying extremes in this highballing romp. Situations predictable from tough-guy PI fiction and characters straight out of Dick Tracy (even though some wear chipmunk fur and others inhabit telepathic coral colonies) make this night train a juicily familiar joyride.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Zahn''s latest is a highly readable thriller in space-opera trappings, set a few hundred years from now. The myriad worlds hosting intelligent life are tied together by the Quadrail, an interstellar transport system run by the enigmatic Spiders. Transport of weapons or military equipment isn''t allowed, but someone, somewhere, appears to have found a way around the prohibition. The Spiders hire cashiered government investigator Frank Compton (he uncovered a few too many skeletons) to discover how and what threat it constitutes. By the third chapter, beings of a number of species are gunning for Compton from all directions. Zahn''s ingenuity, a steady resource during a writing career now a generation long, makes it easy for him to come up with reader-rewarding demonstrations of his characters'' similar quality. A great read.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/750'),
(486, 'Night Watch', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British author Pratchett''s storytelling, a clever blend of Monty Pythonesque humor and Big Questions about morality and the workings of the universe, is in top form in his 28th novel in the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series (The Last Hero, etc.). Pragmatic Sam Vimes, Commander of Ankh-Morpork''s City Watch, can''t complain. He has a title, his wife is due to give birth to their first child any moment and he hasn''t had to pound a beat in ages but that doesn''t stop him from missing certain bits of his old life. Thank goodness there''s work to be done. Vimes manages to corner a murderer, Carcer, on the library dome at Unseen University during a tremendous storm, only to be zapped back in time 30 years, to an Ankh-Morpork where the Watch is a joke, the ruling Patrician mad and the city on the verge of rebellion. Three decades earlier, a man named John Keel took over the Night Watch and taught young Sam Vimes how to be a good cop before dying in that rebellion. Unfortunately, in this version of the past, Carcer has killed Keel. The only way Vimes can hope to return home and ensure he has a future to return home to is to take on Keel''s role. The author lightens Vimes''s decidedly dark situation with glimpses into the origins of several of the more unique denizens of Ankh-Morpork. One comes away, as always, with the feeling that if Ankh-Morpork isn''t a real place, it bloody well ought to be.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A freak accident hurls Commander Sam Vines back into his own past, where he must assume a new identity and watch his younger self struggle to rise in the ranks of the City Watch of Ankh-Morpork while tracking down a dangerous criminal and finding a way to return to his own time. The 28th addition to Pratchett''s "Discworld" series explores time travel and historical inevitability with cleverness and humor. The author''s talent for comedy does not falter as he continues to set the standard for comic fantasy. A good choice, particularly where the series is popular.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(487, 'No Country For Old Men', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law - in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell - can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers - in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives - McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning''s headlines.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/618'),
(488, 'No Future For You, Part I', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/796'),
(489, 'No Future For You, Part II', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/797'),
(490, 'No Future For You, Part III', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/798'),
(491, 'No Future For You, Part IV', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/799'),
(492, 'No Man&#39;s Land', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1113'),
(493, 'Odd Girl Out', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mysterious deaths, encounters with oddly named aliens, chases and shootouts form a skeleton of a story that never quite gets fleshed out in Zahn''s weak third Frank Compton adventure. Former spy and planet-hopping PI Compton, worn out by the events of 2007''s\n <em>\n  The Third Lynx\n </em>\n , gets home to find a woman in his apartment. She needs help rescuing her little sister, Rebekah, from the group mind that Compton just got back from battling. After he turns her down in classic cynical-hero fashion, she''s promptly killed. Compton, framed for the crime, acquires a new identity and heads off to find Rebekah with the assistance of ex-Marine ex-bounty hunter Bruce McMicking. The usual sort of mayhem leads to Rebekah''s rescue, the discovery of her secret and a classic confrontation/explanation scene with the mastermind, who asks, How did you learn this? Clumsy back-references and a blatant setup for the next book will thoroughly discourage new readers.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Good thriller, full of red herrings, blind alleys, and rising tension."\n <br />\n â€“_Booklist\n <em>\n  onÂ \n </em>\n The Third Lynx\n</p>\n<p>\n _"An inventive plotâ€¦Zahn''s strength is hard science fiction, and he excels at technical description. The comic-book-like nonstop action will attract fans of the genre."\n <br />\n â€“_Romantic Times BOOKReviews_ on\n <em>\n  Night Train to Rigel\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/752'),
(494, 'Ogre, Ogre', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even in Xanth where anything was possible through magic it seemed improbable that an ogre would be chosen to guide and save seven females even if he suddenly seems well-bred.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Piers Anthony [Xanth] -- Piers Anthony redefined the fantasy series when he launched his Xanth books--they''re(quite simply) pun for the whole family!\n</p>\n<p>\n --Veronica Chapman, Senior Editor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/469'),
(495, 'Old Man&#39;s Cave', 'Jeff Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Old Man''s Cave is the sixth book in the Bone series. It collects issues 33-37 of Jeff Smith''s self-published Bone comic book series. It marks the conclusion of the second part of the saga, entitled Solstice. The book was published by Cartoon Books in its original black-and-white form in 1999, and in color by Scholastic Press in 2007. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Synopsis\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The thrilling BONE saga continues in book six. As war spreads through the valley, the Bone cousins join Gran''ma Ben and Lucius at Old Man''s Cave to make a stand against the rat creatures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But not everything goes as planned. By the end of the book, Phoney Bone is strapped to a stone altar and about to be sacrificed; Thorn is lying lifeless nearby; and the rumblings of an earthquake suggest that the Lord of the Locusts is about to be released. Fone and Smiley Bone must do something drastic to save their friends.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1187'),
(496, 'Old Man&#39;s War', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wifeâ€™s grave. Then he joined the army.Â The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarceâ€”and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.Â Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanityâ€™s resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They donâ€™t want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. Youâ€™ll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. Youâ€™ll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, youâ€™ll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.Â John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagineâ€”and what he will become is far stranger. John Scalzi is a prolific journalist, columnist, and non-fiction writer whose books include The Rough Guide to the Universe and The Book of the Dumb. His web journal The Whatever is one of the longest-established and most widely-read weblogs on the net. John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wifeâ€™s grave. Then he joined the army.The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarceâ€”and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanityâ€™s resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They donâ€™t want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. Youâ€™ll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. Youâ€™ll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, youâ€™ll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagineâ€”and what he will become is far stranger. "Solid . . . [Scalzi] sidesteps most of the clichÃ©s of military science fiction, delivers fast-paced scenes of combat and pays attention to the science underpinning his premise."â€”San Francisco Chronicle"Scalzi''s imagined interstellar arena is coherently and compellingly delineated . . . His speculative elements are top-notch. His combat scenes are blood-roiling. His dialogue is suitably snappy and profane. And the moral and philosophical issues he raises . . . insert useful ethical burrs under the military saddle of the story."â€”Paul Di Filippo, The Washington Post"Thought-provoking!"â€”Entertainment Weekly"Smartly conceived and thoroughly entertaining, Old Manâ€™s War is a splendid novel."â€“Cleveland Plain Dealer"When humanity reaches the stars, it discovers that it must defend its claim to new planets against alien races with similar expansionist tendencies. To ensure the expertise of its soldiers, Earth creates the Colonial Defense Force, an army of men and women otherwise classified as senior citizens, who give up their lives on Earth for an uncertain and perilous future among the stars. Scalzi''s first novel presents a new approach to military sf, boasting an unusual cast of senior citizens as heroes. A good choice for most libraries."â€”Library Journal "Though a lot of SF writers are more or less efficiently continuing the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein, Scalziâ€™s astonishingly proficient first novel reads like an original work by the late grand master . . . This virtuoso debut pays tribute to SFâ€™s past while showing that well-worn tropes still can have real zip when theyâ€™re approached with ingenuity."â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Gripping and surpassingly original. It''s Starship Troopers without the lectures. It''s The Forever War with better sex. It''s funny, it''s sad, and it''s true."â€”Cory Doctorow"John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man''s War is classic SF seen from a modern perspectiveâ€”a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe."â€”Robert Charles Wilson"I enjoyed Old Man''s War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don''t live in already."â€”Ken MacLeod\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/386'),
(497, 'On Basilisk Station', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  On Basilisk Station\n </em>\n (or "HH1" as it''s known to the faithful) is the first installment in David Weber''s cult hit Honor Harrington series, which has charmed the socks off schoolgirls and sailors alike. Honor--the heroine of this fast-paced, addictive space opera--is a polished, plucky bulldog of a naval officer, part Horatio Hornblower, part Miles Vorkosigan, part Captain Janeway, and with a razor-clawed telepathic cat thrown over her shoulder for good measure.\n</p>\n<p>\n The series'' kickoff puts a giddy Commander Harrington at the helm of her first serious starship, the HMS Fearless. But her excitement quickly fades--political maneuvering by top brass in the Manticoran navy has left her light cruiser outfitted with a half-baked experimental weapons system. Against all odds (just the way Honor likes it), she still manages a clever coup in tactical war games, a feat that earns her accolades--and enemies. The politicians she''s offended banish her to a galactic backwater, Basilisk Station. But that outpost soon proves to be a powder keg, and it''s up to Harrington and the Fearless crew to thwart the aggressive plans of the Haven Republic. A perfect mix of military SF and high adventure--if you enjoy your tour, re-up with HH2, __.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Move over gutsy female detectives-here''s a daring woman spaceship commander waiting to claim a place in readers'' hearts. Honor Harrington is sent in disgrace to the forlorn outpost of Basilisk Station, where military authorities hope she will be forgotten about. Instead, with her woefully under-armed vessel, the Fearless, she executes incredible flying manuevers in an attempt to stop foreign takeover of a major space station.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/682'),
(498, 'On the Heels of Evil', 'D. E. Daum &amp; Dee Dawning', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Great plot, dynamite characters, and impressive writing keeps the pages turning in On the Heels of Evil. One page after another, the story is intense and kept this reader on the edge of the seat. D.E. Daum knows how to build up intrigue and excitement in an in-depth story with customs and traditions that practically take the breath away." -Linda L, Fallen Angel Reviews, 5/5 ANGELS!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Does Kelly Rogers have a relationship with The Almighty? Perhaps. One could interpret the fact that he lives as corroboration of a Godly connection. On the other hand, his survival may be an aberrationâ€”an uncanny twist of fate, that has propelled him in the position to be the greatest single fighter of world terrorism. That is the question that author, D.E. Daum, makes his readers wonder, repeatedly, while reading this fast-paced action thriller.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Our protagonist, covert agent, Kelly Rogers, begins to believe it and why shouldnâ€™t he? He was dead, practically cut in half by an assassinâ€™s bomb, but awoke in the hospital as Saleem Rhamsy. Yes, through some inexplicable reason, he now occupies the body of Rhamsyâ€”his double-crossing Arab interpreter.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kelly, who is by all appearances Saleem Rhamsy, is now in the pre-eminent position to monitor the upcoming plans for terrorist events planned by the most active world wide terrorist organizations and as a bonus inherits Rhamsyâ€™s former beauty queen wife, Mariam.\n  <br />\n  Working for a secret unit of the CIA, Kelly and his superior, the indomitable Jane DeJong and later his wife, go on to fight not only radical Muslim terrorists, but a troublesome group of Neo-Nazis, who have sponsored many of the terrorist activities, including a nuclear bomb planted in a major American city.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/908'),
(499, 'The Once and Future King', 'T. H. White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Quartet of novels by T.H. White, published in a single volume in 1958. The quartet comprises The Sword in the Stone (1938), The Queen of Air and Darkness--first published as The Witch in the Wood (1939)--The Ill-Made Knight (1940), and The Candle in the Wind (published in the composite volume, 1958). The series is a retelling of the Arthurian legend, from Arthur''s birth to the end of his reign, and is based largely on Sir Thomas Malory''s Le Morte Darthur. After White''s death, a conclusion to The Once and Future King was found among his papers; it was published in 1977 as The Book of Merlyn. -- __\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The extraordinary story of a boy called Wart -- ignored by everyone except his tutor, Merlin -- who goes on to become King Arthur.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/514'),
(500, 'One of Our Thursdays Is Missing', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the real Thursday Next missing, the "written" Thursday Next leaves her book to undertake an assignment for the Jurisfiction Accident Investigation Department, in Fforde''s wild and wacky sixth BookWorld novel (after Thursday Next: First Among Sequels). As written Thursday Next finds herself playing roles intended for her real counterpart, BookWorld''s elite try to deal with a border dispute between Racy Novel and Women''s Fiction. It''s not always possible to know where one is in BookWorld, which has been drastically remade, or in Fforde''s book, which shares the madcap makeup of Alice in Wonderland, even borrowing Alice''s dodo. Outrageous puns (e.g., a restaurant called Inn Uendo) and clever observations relating to the real book world (e.g., the inhabitants of "Vanity" island now prefer Self-Published or Collaborative) abound. Fforde''s diabolical meshing of insight and humor makes a "mimefield" both frightening and funny, while the reader must traverse a volume that''s a minefield of unexpected and amusing twists. 10-city author tour. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''It is pure inspired lunacy and the funniest book you will see this year.'' -- Daily Express ''Reading a Fforde novel feels like taking off on a magic carpet, only to be picked up by another and another and taken on new flights of fantasy ... When the plot is thundering along, peppered with jokes, lively dialogue and silly names ... you just sit back and enjoy the ride.'' -- Scotsman ''[One of Our Thursdays is Missing has] freshness and invention bursting from every page'' -- Sunday Times ''Jam packed with ingeniously witty ideas'' -- SFX.co.uk ''This cleverly written, intelligent and witty book had me captivated from the first line ... the author is clearly highly intelligent, well-educated and very well read ... It feels at times as though the author is channelling the spirit of the late, great Douglas Adams'' -- British Fantasy Society Journal ''A riot of puns, in-jokes and literary allusions that Fforde carries off with aplomb'' -- Daily Mail ''Fans of the late Douglas Adams, or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde'' -- Herald ''Forget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure.'' -- Sunday Telegraph ''Fans will lap up the eccentric qualities they''ve come to expect from Fforde'' -- News of the World\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1226');
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(501, 'Only You Can Save Mankind', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-8â€“Johnny Maxwell, 12, thinks he''s a loser. People don''t seem to notice him, his parents are threatening to split up, and he''s not very good at the shoot-up-the-bad-guys computer games that he and his friends are always playing. But after his hacker buddy, Wobbler, gives him an illegal copy of Only You Can Save Mankind, strange things happen. The captain of the alien fleet that Johnny is supposed to shoot up surrenders to himâ€“unheard of in a computer gameâ€“and soon after that all of the aliens from all copies of the game have vanished. Players looking for someone to shoot at sail through light years of empty space and return the game to the store, demanding their money back. Johnny also discovers that he is able to enter the alien ship in dreams and grows convinced that the aliens are somehow real, and are actually dying when human players shoot at them. And soon the day arrives when the humans can resume their shooting. The story is told against the backdrop of the 1991 Gulf War, in which many of the battles were fought with the help of PC screens, and the antiwar message of the story soon becomes a little too heavy-handed and obvious. Although the storytelling here is not as polished as it is in Pratchett''s\n <em>\n  The Wee Free Men\n </em>\n (HarperCollins, 2003), the humor is sharp and the story is great fun to read. This is the first in a trilogy published in England; U.S. editions of\n <em>\n  Johnny and the Dead\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Johnny and the Bomb\n </em>\n will soon follow._â€“Walter Minkel, New York Public Library_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Gr. 5-8. Johnny Maxwell''s life is full of conflict. His parents are going through trying times, and the 1991 Gulf War is raging on his television every night, looking more like his computer war games than a news broadcast. A new game, provided by his hacker friend, Wobbler, is not what he expects. Only You Can Save Mankind is supposed to be an adventure-packed game of killing aliens, but on the first play, the game''s newtlike female ScreeWee captain surrenders to Johnny, asking for safe conduct for aliens across the game borders. Now other gamers find only empty spaces when they fire up the game; there''s nothing to kill. Johnny''s heroic endeavors to save the aliens is a wild ride, full of Pratchett''s trademark humor; digs at primitive, low-resolution games such as Space Invaders; and some not-so-subtle philosophy about war and peace. Readers will recognize some of the gamer types--among them, Johnny''s sidekick Wobbler, who never plays computer games, preferring instead to crack the codes. There''s also Johnny''s feisty girl pal, Kirsty (whose dialogue is printed in italics and whose game name is Sigourney). One hopes that when Johnny returns for subsequent adventures, they will be along for the ride.\n <em>\n  Cindy Dobrez\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/74'),
(502, 'The Opal Deception', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-7â€“Artemis Fowl has returned to his fiendish ways in the fourth book (Miramax, 2005) in Eoin Colfer''s series about the 14-year-old criminal mastermind. Although his mind was cleared of any memories of the fairy world in the third book, it''s not long before Artemis encounters many of his old cohorts. His archenemy, Opal Koboi, is no longer an imprisoned coma patient; she escaped by cloning herself and now has plans for the destruction of the Lower Elements and for world domination. Artemis needs the help of all his allies in this world and in the fairy world to stop the powerful and dangerous Opal. Nathanial Parker''s superior talent for narration is wonderfully showcased in this rollicking tale of identity theft, intrigue, and adventure. He uses many different British accents and dialects to make both the human and the supernatural characters come alive, and his pacing is faultless throughout the dialogue and the narrative. Fans of the series will be delighted to join Artemis and his associates for another fantastic tale of the underworld, complete with gaseous dwarves and extraordinary technology. A great choice for fantasy lovers in school and public libraries.â€“_Casey Rondini, Hartford Public Library, CT_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 6-9. The fourth book in the Artemis Fowl saga follows\n <em>\n  The Eternity Code\n </em>\n (2003), in which Artemis'' mind was wiped clean of any memories of the belowground world of elves, pixies, and dwarves. In this book, Artemis has reverted to his old life of crime. His archenemy, Opal Koboi, has been in a self-induced coma for a year, plotting revenge on all who thwarted her earlier evil doings. After cloning herself, she escapes and sets her plans in motion, going first to find LEPrecon Captain Holly Short and Commander Root, then taking on Artemis as she schemes to destroy the fairy world. As in all the books, this one has plenty of action as well as great humor and clever plot manipulations. Characters are once again fully realized, and fans will eagerly enter into the spirit of the action.\n <em>\n  Sally Estes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1031'),
(503, 'Orca', 'Steven Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Steven Brust''s Vlad Taltos novels are wildly and deservedly popular. Here Vlad--wanted all over the Empire, and trying to elude capture--aids a young boy who saved his life and probes the secrets of the House of the Orca.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vlad is an engaging, wisecracking, hard-boiled sort of character ... bright, bracing, with an appealing sardonic edge. --\n  <em>\n   Minneapolis Star Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1039'),
(504, 'Orphans of Chaos', 'John C. Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At first glance, Wright''s myth-infused fantasy looks like something older Harry Potter fans might enjoy with its creaky British boarding school setting and its five ageless orphansâ€”Colin, Quentin, Victor, Vanity and Ameliaâ€”each with a supernatural gift. But the underlying theme of dominance and submission plus a fair amount of physics and theology make this definitely a book for adults. A spanking scene involving the precocious Amelia Armstrong Windrose, who can travel into the fourth dimension, may offend some readers, but others will find it playful. Wright (_Mists of Everness_) doesn''t fully develop the intriguing premise of these unusual students trapped in a school run by Greek gods as hostages in a bizarre war, but presumably he''ll do so in later installments. Those who like sophisticated fantasy with a mild erotic charge will be most rewarded.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the first installment of the Chronicles of Chaos series, common associations of high school with prison prove spectacularly well founded. The five teen protagonists are hostages in a British boarding school run by pagan gods. Sustaining themes of lost identity from Wright''s respected Golden Age trilogy and heavily borrowing from the work of Roger Zelazny, the narrative charts the teens'' discovery of their true identities--they''re shape-shifters who hail from Chaos--then pits their budding powers against school authorities who have proceeded from acting in loco parentis to being ominous and occasionally lascivious oppressors. Phaethusa, who goes by Amelia after her aviatrix role model, narrates the rich and frequently comic intrigue, which takes full advantage of the alluring juxtapositions that arise when the soul of a "montrosity from beyond the edge of space and time" is trapped in a nubile teen''s heaving breast. Mythological references and discursions on the nature of reality may prove substantial barriers for some; Wright''s growing fandom will revel in his overlapping frames of reference.\n <em>\n  Jennifer Mattson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/964'),
(505, 'The Orpheus Machine', 'Ray Aldridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction. 103360 words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1239'),
(506, 'Our Lady of Darkness', 'Fritz Leiber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Conjure Wife,\n  </em>\n  Norman Saylor strains the limits of conjugal love when he learns that his own wife is a practicing sorceress, and in\n  <em>\n   Our Lady of Darkness,\n  </em>\n  horror writer Westen discovers dark forces in San Francisco. Reprint.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  FRITZ LEIBER, who died in 1992, was one of the most important SF and fantasy writers of the century.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1150'),
(507, 'Out From Boneville', 'Jeff Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, are separated and lost in a vast uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures." So begins Smith''s charming masterpiece. Like the best Disney and Warner Brothers cartoons combined,\n  <strong>\n   Bone\n  </strong>\n  had me laughing out loud. I firmly believe that once you read\n  <strong>\n   Bone\n  </strong>\n  you''re hooked for life. The beautiful hardcover packaging is well worth the extra money.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Out From Boneville is the first story-arc in the Bone series. It collects the first six issues of Jeff Smith''s self-published Bone comics. It marks the beginning of part one (of three) of the Bone series, titled "Vernal Equinox". The book was first published by Cartoon Books in its original black-and-white version in 1995; excerpts were printed in Disney Adventures over the course of 1994-1998. Paperback and hardback coloured editions were published in 2005 by Scholastic. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Synopsis | Video game\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1191'),
(508, 'Out of the Black', 'Lee Doty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is the end of a nearly perfect society. Beautiful, happy people still drive electric cars to fulfilling jobs like any other day, but no one noticed that the Apocalypse began a few weeks ago.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Now the perfect society''s misfits are its only hope for salvation, but they''re barely keeping it together on a normal day: A detective burdened by an unforgivable failure investigates an impossible murder. An overweight nurse comes out of her shell exactly long enough to be attacked by a dead man. An introverted genius and his insecure girlfriend are marked for death by a conspiracy they didn''t know existed. Each of these damaged strangers holds a piece of the puzzle, but as they begin to find each other, they realize they are being stalked by a methodical killer with the pure heart of a child.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Now they must piece together the mystery and find the courage to stand together against impossible odds before the world goes dark forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sometimes destiny falls unexpected into the most broken lives, like a stone fallen out of the clear black sky.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reviews:\n <br />\n "Doty''s razor-sharp prose and impeccable sense of timing make this book difficult to put down... A fast-paced, highly entertaining thriller." -- Kirkus DiscoveriesÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n Awards:Â \n <br />\n 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) thriller semifinalist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/910'),
(509, 'Out Of The Silent Planet', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n Lewis, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century writer, forced those who listened to him and read his works to come to terms with their own philosophical presuppositions. --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first book in C. S. Lewis''s acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with\n <em>\n  Perelandra\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet\n </em>\n begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice, and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Once on the planet, however, Ransom eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to Earth, becoming a stranger in a land that is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity. First published in 1943,\n <em>\n  Out of the Silent Planet\n </em>\n remains a mysterious and suspenseful tour de force.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/355'),
(510, 'Outbound Flight', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Another puzzle piece in the Star Wars universe falls into place with this action-packed prequel to Hugo-winner Zahn''s Star Wars: Survivor''s Quest (2004). Familiar characters such as Obi-Wan Kenobi, young Anakin Skywalker and the evil Lord Palpatine (aka Darth Sidious) make appearances, but the true star is Commander Thrawn, a red-eyed, blue-skinned alien. On the Outbound Flight, a mammoth Jedi exploration and colonization vessel sent to far-off reaches of the cosmos to identify potential Force-users and hunt down a lost knight, Jedi Master Jorus C''baoth struggles with an inappropriate lust for power. Thrawn''s attack on the ship (secretly influenced by Darth Sidious''s agents) insures his own eventual exile from his race and sets other sinister wheels in motion. As these old and new characters wrestle with difficult moral questions, Zahn deftly portrays their inner struggles in fluid prose, while also affirming his status as a skillful creator of dazzling futuristic worlds. Though more time with the doomed Outbound Flight''s passengers, who are the subject of Survivor''s Quest, would round out the story, the book is nonetheless an enthralling page-turner sure to appeal to its target audience.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before the start of the Clone Wars, the future Emperor was already maneuvering to destroy the Jedi. This is the tale of the doomed Outbound Flight Project, which began as a new hope for the galaxy...and ended in despair. A grand Jedi adventure by one of the most popular Star Wars authors. Before the Clone Wars began, a group of Jedi led by Master Jorus C''baoth lobbied the Republic Senate to fund a project to search for and contact intelligent life outside the known galaxy. Six Jedi Masters, 12 Jedi Knights, and 50,000 additional support personnel boarded an incredible starship and left on their adventure...only to disappear without a trace. This was the Jedi''s first encounter with the aliens called the Chiss, and the New Republic''s future archenemy, Thrawn. But until Luke Skywalker and his wife Mara headed out for the Unknown Regions in Survivor''s Quest, the fate of the Outbound Flight Project remained an enigma. This is the story of those Jedi Masters and Knights, their heroic quest, and their mysterious end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/392'),
(511, 'Outcast of Redwall', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When ferret Swartt Sixclaw and his arch enemy Sunflash the Mace swear a pledge of death upon each other, a young creature is cruelly banished from the safety of Redwall. As he grows, he seeks revenge on the people of Redwall and finds himself embroiled in a hostile battle with far-reaching consequences.\n</p>\n<p>\n An epic tale of Redwall from the pen of master storyteller Brian Jacques,\n <em>\n  Outcast of Redwall\n </em>\n is a kaleidoscope of color, range, and emotions that culminates in a bitter contest between good and evil. None of the passion of the earlier Redwall titles is lost, as some of the most cherished landscapes and best-loved characters from previous books are revisited, with a wisdom and clarity that has developed and endured.\n</p>\n<p>\n On a basic level, this is a marvelous fantasy adventure story. Look deeper and you will find that\n <em>\n  Outcast of Redwall\n </em>\n , along with the other titles in the series, has a divine, enduring quality that ranks it among he best in children''s literature.\n <em>\n  --Susan Harrison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dishing out neither surprises nor disappointments, Jacques''s latest Redwall installment (after The Bellmaker) is likely to satisfy his considerable fans even if it doesn''t win him any converts. This lengthy story rumbles into life when Sunflash, a badger, prisoner of the cruel ferret Swartt Sixclaw, escapes and swears revenge. Sunflash is destined to get not only his revenge but much else besides, for he is a Badger Lord, fated to rule the mountain Salamandastron. Drawn there by dreams, after an epic journey he takes command of the resident regiments of fighting hares and various serving beasts, and soon defends the mountain from a horde raised by Swartt. Though strongly plotted and spiced with a variety of secondary characters, Jacques''s new concoction, like the vegetarian feasts he describes often and in detail, will not appeal to all tastes: the repasts are not the only parts of the story that go on too long, and the characteristics of all the animals in the story are fixed by their species. Moles, for example, are all rural bumpkins, with a "quaint mole dialect" that requires some study. Such ingredients, of course, may be just what makes the Redwall recipe so consistently popular. Ages 8-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/701'),
(512, 'The Outcast', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is a dark fantasy story with elements of adventure and intrigue. It is exciting and well written. --Children''s Literature\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Nyroc has exiled himself from the Pure Ones. He flies alone, feared and despised by those who know him as Kludd''s son, hunted by those whose despotism he has rejected, and haunted by ghostly creatures conjured by Nyra to lure him back to the Pure Ones. He yearns for a place he only half believes in -- the great tree -- and an uncle -- the near-mythic Soren -- who might be a true father to him. Yet he cannot approach the tree while the rumor of evil clings to him. To prove his worth, Nyroc will fly to The Beyond the Beyond seeking the legendary Relic and bring it, a talisman of his own\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1174'),
(513, 'Outlander Part 1', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1135'),
(514, 'Outlander Part 2', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1136'),
(515, 'Outlander Part 3', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1137'),
(516, 'Outlander Part 4', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1138'),
(517, 'Outlander Part 5', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1139'),
(518, 'Outlander Part 6', 'Timothy Truman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1140'),
(519, 'Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away With Murder', 'Vincent Bugliosi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Here is the account of the O. J. Simpson case that no one dared to write, that no one else could write. In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Vincent Bugliosi, the famed prosecutor of Charles Manson and best-selling author of Helter Skelter, goes to the heart of the trial that divided the country and made a mockery of justice. He lays out the mountains of evidence; rebuts the defense; offers a thrilling summation; condemns the monumental blunders of the judge, the ''Â¬SDream Team,''Â¬ and the media; and exposes, for the first time anywhere, the shocking incompetence of the prosecution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1212'),
(520, 'Overtime', 'Charles Stross', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Introduced to readers in the novels The Atrocity Archive and The Jennifer Morgue, the Laundry is a secret British government agency charged with preventing dark interdimensional entities from destroying the human race. Now, in "Overtime," the Laundry is on a skeleton staff for Christmasâ€”leaving one bureaucrat to be all that stands between the world and annihilation by the Thing That Comes Down Chimneys. Written especially for Tor.com''s holiday season, Charles Stross''s novelette is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award. Charles Stross is the Hugo-winning author of some of the most acclaimed novels and stories of the last ten years, including Singularity Sky, Accelerando, Halting State, the "Merchant Princes" series beginning with The Family Trade, and the story collections Toast and Wireless.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/681'),
(521, 'Packing for Mars', 'Mary Roach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Packing for Mars\n </em>\n , Roach tackles the strange science of space travel, and the psychology, technology, and politics that go into sending a crew into orbit. Roach is unfailingly inquisitive (Why is it impolite for astronauts to float upside down during conversations? Just how smelly does a spacecraft get after a two week mission?), and she eagerly seeks out the stories that don''t make it onto NASA''s website--from SPCA-certified space suits for chimps, to the trial-and-error approach to crafting menus during the space program''s early years (when the chefs are former livestock veterinarians, taste isn''t high on the priority list).\n <em>\n  Packing for Mars\n </em>\n is a book for grownups who still secretly dream of being astronauts, and Roach lives it up on their behalf--weightless in a C-9 aircraft, she just can''t resist the opportunity to go "Supermanning" around the cabin. Her zeal for discovery, combined with her love of the absurd, amazing, and stranger-than-fiction, make\n <em>\n  Packing for Mars\n </em>\n an uproarious trip into the world of space travel.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Roach (Stiff) once again proves herself the ideal guide to a parallel universe. Despite all the high-tech science that has resulted in space shuttles and moonwalks, the most crippling hurdles of cosmic travel are our most primordial human qualities: eating, going to the bathroom, having sex and bathing, and not dying in reentry. Readers learn that throwing up in a space helmet could be life-threatening, that Japanese astronaut candidates must fold a thousand origami paper cranes to test perseverance and attention to detail, and that cadavers are gaining popularity over crash dummies when studying landings. Roach''s humor and determined curiosity keep the journey lively, and her profiles of former astronauts are especially telling. However, larger questions about the "worth" or potential benefits of space travel remain ostensibly unasked, effectively rendering these wild and well-researched facts to the status of trivia. Previously, Roach engaged in topics everyone could relate to. Unlike having sex or being dead, though, space travel pertains only to a few, leaving the rest of us unsure what it all amounts to. Still, the chance to float in zero gravity, even if only vicariously, can be surprising in what it reveals about us.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/663'),
(522, 'Pale Blue Dot', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a tour of our solar system, galaxy and beyond, Cornell astronomer Sagan meshes a history of astronomical discovery, a cogent brief for space exploration and an overview of life-from its origins in the oceans to humanity''s first emergence to a projected future where humans "terraform" and settle other planets and asteroids, Earth having long been swallowed by the sun. Maintaining that such relocation is inevitable, the author further argues that planetary science is of practical utility, fostering an interdisciplinary approach to looming environmental catastrophes such as "nuclear winter" (lethal cooling of Earth after a nuclear war, a widely accepted prediction first calculated by Sagan in 1982). His exploration of our place in the universe is illustrated with photographs, relief maps and paintings, including high-resolution images made by Voyager 1 and 2, as well as photos taken by the Galileo spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope and satellites orbiting Earth, which show our planet as a pale blue dot. A worthy sequel to Sagan''s Cosmos. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sagan''s great appeal as a popular-science writer, beyond his prodigious knowledge, is his optimism and sense of wonder. A visualizer and a visionary, he fires our imagination and turns science into high drama. After writing about our origins in\n <em>\n  Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors\n </em>\n (1992), Sagan turns his attention to outer space and takes up where\n <em>\n  Cosmos\n </em>\n left off 14 years ago. An astonishing amount of information was amassed during that productive era, and Sagan, of course, is up on all of it. A passionate and eloquent advocate of space exploration, he believes that the urge to wander, and the need for a frontier, is intrinsic to our nature, and that this trait is linked to our survival as a species. Throughout this beautifully illustrated, revelatory, and compelling volume, Sagan returns again and again to our need for journeys and quests as well as our unending curiosity about our place in the universe. Such philosophical musings are interwoven with precise and enthusiastic accounts of the triumphs of interplanetary exploration, from the\n <em>\n  Apollo\n </em>\n moon landings to the spectacular findings of robotic missions, especially the\n <em>\n  Voyager\n </em>\n spacecraft. Sagan describes one exciting discovery after another regarding the four giants--Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune--and their many moons, mysterious and exquisite rings, and volatile atmospheres. He argues, convincingly, that planetary exploration is of immense value. It not only teaches us about our celestial neighbors, but helps us understand and protect Earth. Yes, we have seemingly insurmountable problems on this pale blue dot, but we have always reached for the stars, and we mustn''t stop now.\n <em>\n  Donna Seaman\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/423'),
(523, 'Paragon', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Don''t miss Star Wars: Lost Tribe of The Sith: Paragon a FREE original eBook short story, the third in a series that reveals the untold story of the Fate of the Jedi''s forgotten Sith castaways, their battle to survive, and their quest to re-conquer the galaxy!Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Darkness VisibleÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  The ruthless cunning of the Sith Order has served the shipwrecked crew of the Omen well on the alien planet Kesh. Subjugating the superstitious Keshiri race by posing as its fabled overlords has ensured the Sith''s survivalâ€”while they struggle in secret to return to the stars. But after fifteen years on their adopted world, some among the lost tribe have grown restless and fearful that assimilation will consume their Sith heritage. Now, as rival factions begin to appear, a shocking disaster throws into doubt the Sith''s future on Kesh.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  In the distant city of Tetsubal, the entire native populace is suddenly wiped out by a grisly plague of unknown origin. With terrifying speed, more cities succumb to the mysterious contagion. Only the Sith remain unharmedâ€”so far. And as Sith commander Yaru Korsin grapples with the looming loss of the paradise he rules and the race his people have come to depend upon, he must confront the dark possibility that the catastrophe may not be cruel fate but insidious sabotage.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Backlash.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The _\n  <strong>\n   Fate of the Jedi\n  </strong>\n  _ novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be? _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith\n  </strong>\n  _ answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The third episode, _\n  <strong>\n   Paragon\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   , takes place well after the events of\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   . Fifteen years into their exile on Kesh, the crew members of the ill-fated Sith mining vessel\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   Omen\n  </strong>\n  _ have created their own Sith empire in microcosm -- along with all the deceit and betrayal that implies...\n </p>\n <p>\n  To follow the story of the Lost Tribe from the beginning, start with the first chapter,Â  _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice.\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1153'),
(524, 'Parasite Rex', 'Carl Zimmer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Many books provoke a visceral reaction, but few really make you\n  <em>\n   itch\n  </em>\n  . Science writer Carl Zimmer''s\n  <em>\n   Parasite Rex\n  </em>\n  does just that, provoking a deliciously creepy sense of paranoia in the reader as it explores a long-misunderstood realm of science. While entomologists love to announce that there are more species of insects than all other animals combined, few parasitologists choose to trump that by reminding us that "parasites may outnumber free-living species four to one." That figure is based on the multicellular chauvinism of the 19th century, which excludes bacteria and fungi from consideration (athlete''s foot, anyone?), but Zimmer looks at the\n  <em>\n   E. coli\n  </em>\n  in our guts as well as the worms, flukes, mites, and other critters that earn a healthy living at our expense--and the expense of our domesticated plants and animals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The author traveled to Africa to see firsthand the effects of sleeping sickness and river blindness. He learned from physicians and researchers that the parasites that wreak so much havoc are much more than the simple degenerates we''ve taken them for. Their complex adaptations to their environments--us--are as lovely and awe-inspiring as any eye or wing. The examples of hormonal and other behavioral control of hosts, causing changes in feeding habits and other life essentials, are chilling when personalized. Zimmer knows his subject well, and his writing, while robust and affecting, never descends to the all-too-easy gross-out. You wouldn''t expect to find respect for a tapeworm, but\n  <em>\n   Parasite Rex\n  </em>\n  will show you how beautiful Earth''s truly dominant life forms are.\n  <em>\n   --Rob Lightner\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the year''s most fascinating works of popular science is also its most disgusting. From tapeworms to isopods to ichneumon wasps, "parasites are complex, highly adapted creatures that are at the heart of the story of life." Zimmer (At the Water''s Edge) devotes his second book to the enormous variety of one- and many-celled organisms that live on and inside other animals and plants. The gruesome trypanosomes that cause sleeping sickness had nearly been routed from Sudan when the country''s civil war began: now they''re back. Costa Rican researcher Daniel Brooks has discovered dozens of parasites, including flies that lay eggs in deer noses: "snot bots." And those are only the creatures from the prologue. Zimmer discusses how the study of parasites began, with 19th-century discoveries about their odd life cycles. (Many take on several forms in several generations, so that a mother worm may resemble her granddaughter, but not her daughter.) He looks at how parasites pass from host to host, and how they defeat immune systems and vice versa. Many parasites alter their hosts'' behavior: Toxoplasma makes infected rats fearless, thus more likely to be eaten by cats, who will then pick up the microbe. Quantifiable "laws of virulence" lead parasites to become nasty enough to spread, yet not so nasty as to wipe out all their hosts. And eons of coevolution can affect both partners: howler monkeys may avoid violent fights because screwworms can render the least scratch fatal. Two final chapters address parasites in human medicine and agriculture. Not only are parasites not all bad, Zimmer concludes in this exemplary work of popular science, but we may be parasites, tooDand we have a lot to learn from them about how to manage earth, the host we share. Illus. (Sept.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1213'),
(525, 'The Path of Daggers', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Robert Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal."--The New York Times The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. THE WHEEL OF TIME Book One: The Eye of the World Book Two: The Great Hunt Book Three: The Dragon Reborn Book Four: The Shadow Rising Book Five: The Fires of Heaven Book Six: Lord of Chaos Book Seven: A Crown of Swords Book Eight: The Path of Daggers Book Nine: Winter''s Heart Book Ten: Crossroads of Twilight\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/368'),
(526, 'Pathfinder', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 7 Upâ€“Card''s latest work of speculative fiction twists together tropes of fantasy and science fiction into something fine indeed. Rigg and his father are trappers by trade, but Rigg has been instructed throughout his 13 years in languages, sciences, history, and politics. The teen is therefore somewhat mentally prepared for the quest that his father thrusts upon him with his dying breathâ€“to go to the capital city and find his sister. Both Rigg and his friend, Umbo, have a special ability that aids themâ€“Rigg can see the paths of all living things, regardless of intervening obstructions or even time, and Umbo can seemingly change the movement of time itself. Needless to say, the two meet various friends and foes and can''t always tell which is which as they journey onward. Juxtaposed with this main story is an entirely different narrative, told in a page or two at the beginning of each chapter. This is the tale of Ram Odin, human pilot of a colony ship from Earth, traveling to a new world with the use of space-folding technology. The combination of science fiction and fantasy as well as a surprising revelation at the end harken back to genre classics like Robert Silverberg''s Lord Valentine''s Castle (HarperCollins, 1980) and Roger Zelazny''s Nine Princes in Amber (Doubleday, 1970). This novel should appeal to Card''s legion of fans as well as anyone who enjoys speculative fiction with characters who rely on quick thinking rather than violence or tales of mind-bending time-travel conundrums.â€“Eric Norton, McMillan Memorial Library, Wisconsin Rapids, WI. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The first in a series, Cardâ€™s latest title has much in common with his Ender Wiggins books: precocious teens with complementary special talents, callously manipulative government authorities, endlessly creative worlds, and Cardâ€™s refusal to dumb down a plot for a young audience. Here he takes the notions of folding space and time, embracing paradox, â€œadopting a rule set in which . . . causality . . . controls reality, regardless of where it occurs on the timeline.â€ Thirteen-year-old Rigg is a Pathfinder, one who sees the paths of othersâ€™ pasts. Rigorously trained and thoroughly educated by his demanding father, Rigg is horrified when Father dies unexpectedly after a final order to find the sister he never knew he had. Rigg is accompanied on this journey by a small group of friends who have powers of bending and manipulating the flow of time. Card also skillfully twines a separate story line into the plot, featuring earthâ€™s colonization of distant planets, led by the idealistic young pilot Ram Odin. Fast paced and thoroughly engrossing, the 650-plus pages fly by, challenging readers to care about and grasp sophisticated, confusing, and captivating ideas. As in Lâ€™Engleâ€™s Time Quartet, science is secondary to the human need to connect with others, but Card does not shy away from full and fascinating discussions of the paradoxical worlds he has created. Grades 8-12. --Debbie Carton\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/819'),
(527, 'Pattern Recognition', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first of William Gibson''s usually futuristic novels to be set in the present,\n <em>\n  Pattern Recognition\n </em>\n is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow,\n <em>\n  Pattern Recognition\n </em>\n takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying "cool hunter" with an allergy to brand names.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called "the footage," let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce''s quest will take her in and out of harm''s way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her fatherâ€™s disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson''s brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With\n <em>\n  Pattern Recognition\n </em>\n , Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson''s lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gibson, known as the "patron saint of cyberpunk lit," has made his reputation with futuristic tales. Though his new novel is set in the present, baroque descriptions of everyday articles and menacing anthropomorphic treatment of the Internet and sister technology give it a sci-fi feel. Cayce Pollard, a market researcher with razor-sharp intuition, makes big bucks by evaluating potential products and advertising campaigns. In London, she stays in the trendy digs of documentary filmmaker friend Damien (away on assignment), whom she e-mails frequently. When Cayce brusquely rejects the new logo of advertising mogul Hubertus Bigend, she earns his respect and a big check but makes an enemy of his graphic designer, vindictive Dorotea Benedetti. Hubertus later hires Cayce to ferret out the origin of a series of sensual film clips appearing guerrilla style on computers all over the world and attracting a growing cult following. Cayce treats this as a standard job until somebody breaks into Damien''s flat and hacks into her computer. Suddenly every casual encounter carries undertones of danger. Her investigative trail takes her to Tokyo and Russia and through a rogue''s gallery of iconoclastic Web-heads. Casting a further shadow is the memory of her father, Win, a security expert (probably CIA) missing and presumed dead in the World Trade Center disaster of exactly a year earlier. For complicated reasons even she doesn''t understand, she connects her current dilemma with her father''s tragedy and follows the trail with the fervor of a personal vendetta. Gibson''s brisk, kinetic style and incisive observations should keep the reader entertained even when Cayce''s quest begins to lose urgency. Gibson''s best book since Mona Lisa Overdrive should satisfy his hardcore fans while winning plenty of new ones.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/755'),
(528, 'Peanut Butter Lover Boy', 'Bruce Coville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  IT''S A STICKY SITUATION!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Pleskit''s quest to sample all things earthling -- especially earthling foods -- inevitably leads him to...peanut butter. He adores it. There''s only one problem: He has an allergic reaction to the stuff that ends up making him feel incredibly romantic.\n</p>\n<p>\n Before long, the purple alien is chasing girls around the playground, trying to kiss them. He gets a slap in the face, which snaps him back to reality. But the damage has been done. The school is in an uproar, and unless Tim and Pleskit can find a way to convince Principal Grand that it''s not really Pleskit''s fault, the world''s first alien student may be looking for a new classroom -- on a new planet!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bruce Coville\n </strong>\n is the author of nearly ninety books for young readers, including the international best-seller\n <em>\n  My Teacher Is an Alien.\n </em>\n He has been a teacher, a toy maker, a cookware salesman, and a grave digger. In addition to his work as an author, Bruce is much in demand as a speaker and as a storyteller. He is also the founder and president of Full Cast Audio, a company dedicated to producing unabridged recordings of children''s books in a full-cast format. For more information about Bruce, check out www.brucecoville.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/899'),
(529, 'Pearls of Lutra', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n On the Isle of Sampetra, Emperor Ubla, better known as Mad Eyes, sends his lizard army on a mission to capture Redwall. Meanwhile the inhabitants of Redwall are on a mission of their own--to solve the six fiendishly difficult riddles that will lead them to the rose-colored gems, the Pearls of Lutra. As they get closer to solving to riddles, the lizards get closer to Redwall and a battle to the death begins.\n</p>\n<p>\n One of the excellent fantasy adventure series about the mystical Redwall,\n <em>\n  Pearls of Lutra\n </em>\n is a magical, mind-blowing adventure that never disappoints. Brian Jacques expertly weaves his web of intrigue through the pages, capturing the imagination with a stroke of a pen as if he were a wizard with a wand. Challenging, colorful, and, most importantly, readable to the point of addiction,\n <em>\n  The Pearls of Lutra\n </em>\n is an absolute must.\n <em>\n  --Susan Harrison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this hybrid mystery/adventure, the latest Redwall saga, six beautiful pearls are hidden in Redwall Abbey. A marauding mob of corsairs seeking the jewels kidnaps the Abbot as a bargaining chip, thereby setting the plot off in two distinct directions. In one, the denizens of the Abbey, led by the young hedgehog Tansy, must solve a series of riddles to find the pearls; theirs is a fun- and food-laden search that harks back to a similar hunt in the series opener, Redwall. Chapters of this quest alternate with a more epic tale, as the warrior mouse Martin leads a small band on a great chase across the open sea to rescue the Abbot. After an intriguing meeting with "sealfolk," the rescuers snatch the Abbot off an island in a bloody-and implausible-battle with the corsairs. The triumphant return of Martin and his cohorts diminishes the importance of the hunt for the pearls, a disappointing loose end; in Redwall, Matthias puts the sword he has quested after to good use. The pearls do allow Tansy, one of a number of strong female characters in key roles, the chance to prove that she is fit to be the first Abbess-but only by throwing them away. The incomplete meshing of the two story lines, and the recycling of a plot from a previous installment, suggest that even though there is plenty of adventure left, this well-loved series may finally be running out of steam. Ages 6-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/702');
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(530, 'The Penultimate Peril', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Daniel Handler\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Your Wikipedia (online encyclopedia) entry defines you as author, screenwriter, and accordionist. Is that how you would describe yourself?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I find that nothing makes people back away faster at a social gathering than "accordionist." Except perhaps "screenwriter." And, even "author" always makes people nervous, so I usually say "writer."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How long have you been writing?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n All my life really, since I was\n <em>\n  able\n </em>\n to write all I wanted to do was write. I think largely I ended up becoming a writer because I could think of nothing else that I was good at--at all. As a kid, I always wanted to be a writer, and I had no backup plan whatsoever as an adult.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Are the Baudelaire children ever going to be happy?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Well, they are happy on a regular basis, just not for very long. Um, are they ever going to be happy permanently? I don''t know any permanently happy people, thank goodness.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Okay, then is the series going to end on a happy note?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Well, I always remind readers of the Snicket books that happy is a comparative term, so the end will be happier than some people would think, but less happy than others.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n When can fans expect the final book?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I believe the thirteenth volume will be released in the fall of 2006, although something terrible could happen to the author at any moment and then the books would not be released at all.\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking for more from Daniel Handler?\n</p>\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An Interview with Lemony Snicket\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Lemony Snicket has captured the hearts of childen and adults alike with the hilariously gloomy series that began, of course, with __. Amazon.com had a chance to question the author of this marvelously morbid and delightfully depressing series, and the communication was grim indeed. Read the cumbersome\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 5-8. "Book the Twelfth," second to last in the fantastically popular A Series of Unfortunate Events, reunites the beleaguered Baudelaire orphans with a host of characters from previous adventures as they gather at Hotel Denouement (with rooms organized according to the Dewey decimal system) to await the delivery of--the sugar bowl. Well, fans will get the drift, despite the fact that this inventive go-round seems more dizzying and stuffed with definitions than usual. But even as the series draws to a close, new questions arise--the most important one being, are the kids valorous volunteers or villains after all?\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/446'),
(531, 'Perdido Street Station', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful," she could have been talking about China MiÃ©ville''s\n <em>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </em>\n . The novel''s publication met with a burst of extravagant praise from Big Name Authors and was almost instantly a multiaward finalist. You expect hyperbole in blurbs; and sometimes unworthy books win awards, so nominations don''t necessarily mean much. But\n <em>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </em>\n deserves the acclaim. It''s ambitious and brilliant and--rarity of rarities--sui generis. Its clearest influences are Mervyn Peake''s Gormenghast trilogy and M. John Harrison''s Viriconium books, but it isn''t much like them. It''s Dickensian in scope, but fast-paced and modern. It''s a love song for cities, and it packs a world into its strange, sprawling, steam-punky city of New Crobuzon. It can be read with equal validity as fantasy, science fiction, horror, or slipstream. It''s got love, loss, crime, sex, riots, mad scientists, drugs, art, corruption, demons, dreams, obsession, magic, aliens, subversion, torture, dirigibles, romantic outlaws, artificial intelligence, and dangerous cults.\n</p>\n<p>\n Generous, gaudy, grand, grotesque, gigantic, grim, grimy, and glorious,\n <em>\n  Perdito Street Station\n </em>\n is a bloody fascinating book. It''s also so massive that you may begin to feel you''re getting too much of a good thing; just slow down and enjoy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yes, but what is\n <em>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </em>\n about? To oversimplify: the eccentric scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is hired to restore the power of flight to a cruelly de-winged birdman. Isaac''s secret lover is Lin, an artist of the khepri, a humano-insectoid race; theirs is a forbidden relationship. Lin is hired (rather against her will) by a mysterious crime boss to capture his horrifying likeness in the unique khepri art form. Isaac''s quest for flying things to study leads to verification of his controversial unified theory of the strange sciences of his world. It also brings him an odd, unknown grub stolen from a secret government experiment so perilous it is sold to a ruthless drug lord--the same crime boss who hired Lin. The grub emerges from its cocoon, becomes an extraordinarily dangerous monster, and escapes Isaac''s lab to ravage New Crobuzon, even as his discovery becomes known to a hidden, powerful, and sinister intelligence. Lin disappears and Isaac finds himself pursued by the monster, the drug lord, the government and armies of New Crobuzon, and other, more bizarre factions, not all confined to his world.\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n King Rat (1999), Miâ€šville''s much-praised first novel of urban fantasy/horror, was just a palate-teaser for this appetizing, if extravagant, stew of genre themes. Its setting, New Crobuzon, is an audaciously imagined milieu: a city with the dimensions of a world, home to a polyglot civilization of wildly varied species and overlapping and interpenetrating cultures. Seeking to prove his unified energy theory as it relates to organic and mechanical forms, rogue scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin tries to restore the power of flight to Yagharek, a member of the garuda race cruelly shorn of its wings. Isaac''s lover, Lin, unconsciously mimics his scientific pursuits when she takes on the seemingly impossible commission of sculpting a patron whose body is a riot of grotesquely mutated and spliced appendages. Their social life is one huge, postgraduate bull session with friends and associates--until a nightmare-inducing grub escapes from Isaac''s lab and transforms into a flying monster that imperils the city. This accident precipitates a political crisis, initiates an action-packed manhunt for Isaac and introduces hordes of vividly imagined beings who inhabit the twilight zone between science and sorcery. Miâ€šville''s canvas is so breathtakingly broad that the details of individual subplots and characters sometime lose their definition. But it is also generous enough to accommodate large dollops of aesthetics, scientific discussion and quest fantasy in an impressive and ultimately pleasing epic.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/973'),
(532, 'Perelandra', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n Lewis, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century writer, forced those who listened to him and read his works to come to terms with their own philosophical presuppositions. --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The second book in\n <strong>\n  C. S. Lewis''s\n </strong>\n acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes\n <em>\n  Out of the Silent Planet\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  That Hideous Strength\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Perelandra\n </em>\n continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil on a new planet -- Perelandra -- when it is invaded by a dark force. Will Perelandra succumb to this malevolent being, who strives to create a new world order and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so? Or will it throw off the yoke of corruption and achieve a spiritual perfection as yet unknown to man? The outcome of Dr. Ransom''s mighty struggle alone will determine the fate of this peace-loving planet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/353'),
(533, 'Persuader', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jack Reacher, the taciturn ex-MP whose adventures in Lee Child''s six\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The promo copy on the ARC of Child''s new thriller proclaims, "We dare to make this claim: Lee Child is the best thriller writer you''re probably not reading-yet." Hopefully the "six-figure" marketing campaign promised by Child''s new publisher will make that statement obsolete, because readers will be hard-pressed to find a more engaging thriller this spring season. Child is a master of storytelling skills, not least the plot twist, and the opening chapter of this novel spins a doozy, as a high-octane, extremely violent action sequence sees Child hero Jack Reacher rescue a young man, 20-year-old Richard Beck, from an attempted kidnapping before the rug is pulled out from under the reader with the chapter''s last line. The rest of the novel centers on the Beck family''s isolated, heavily guarded estate on the Maine coast where Reacher takes Richard. Richard''s father is suspected by Feds of being a major drug dealer and the kidnapper of another Fed, and also seems to have ties to a fiend who killed Reacher''s lady 10 years before, someone Reacher thought he''d killed in turn, in a vengeance slaying. Tension runs high, then extremely high, as Reacher, ingratiating himself with the dealer and hired on as a bodyguard, pokes around the estate, looking for the kidnapped Fed and evading and/or disposing of in-house bad guys as they begin to suspect he''s not who he seems. But then little in Child''s novels is as it at first seems, and numerous further plot twists spark the story line. What makes the novel really zing, though, is Reacher''s narration-a unique mix of the brainy and the brutal, of strategic thinking and explosive action, moral rumination and ruthless force, marking him as one of the most memorable heroes in contemporary thrillerdom. Any thriller fan who has yet to read Lee Child should start now.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/998'),
(534, 'Pet Peeve', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anthony''s entertaining, if somewhat uneven, 29th Xanth book (after 2004''s Currant Events) follows the polite, generous and even-tempered Goody Goblin-an anomaly among males of his race, who are usually crass, unkind and violent-as Goody tours Xanth on a quest to dispose of a foul-mouthed bird known as the "Pet Peeve," which can mimic anyone''s speech. Accompanied by the tough Hannah Barbarian, one of Anthony''s most completely realized female characters, Goody passes through many parts and meets many people of Xanth, none of whom is willing to take the dangerously annoying bird off his hands. The journey is rife with the kind of oddball humor typical of the Xanth series, such as the early episode in which Goody is given "the Finger," a detached human middle finger that comes in a box and pokes and prods anyone who possesses it. By the usual happy ending, Goody may have found a new love-or maybe not. Even more jumbled than the average Xanth novel, this one is strictly for the faithful.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The most recent Xanth novel follows the formula: lots of low jokes, simple puns, and a miniscule plot. This time the most ungoblinlike (he''s nice) Goody Goblin has to find a home for the Pet Peeve, a talking bird that speaks only insults. While on this quest, Goody unwittingly triggers an invasion of robots from another world and must enlist the aid of Xanth''s peoples to fight them off. The result is a conducted tour of Xanth, which may be of great interest to seasoned Xanthophiles but may not be overly intelligible to relative newcomers, who may feel themselves in the presence of a stand-up comic addressing his veteran audience only. Or not. Xanthophiles will enjoy the novel. Judging from the amount of help Anthony seems to receive from his readers to meet a tight deadline, those enthusiasts remain quite numerous. Determine their prevalence among your patrons and acquire accordingly.\n <em>\n  Frieda Murray\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/459'),
(535, 'The Phantom Tollbooth', 'Norton Juster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here''s nothing for me to do, nowhere I''d care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored,\n  <em>\n   bored\n  </em>\n  young protagonist who can''t see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by\n  <em>\n   The Phantom Tollbooth\n  </em>\n  leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it''s more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm clock for a body). The brilliant satire and double entendre intensifies in the Word Market, where after a brief scuffle with Officer Short Shrift, Milo and Tock set off toward the Mountains of Ignorance to rescue the twin Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Anyone with an appreciation for language, irony, or\n  <em>\n   (Ages 8 and up)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The story is always charmingly inventive -- Jules Feiffer''s drawings splendidly catch the spirit of it -- I think it could become a well-thumbed classic." Guardian "The most unpredictable, the most stimulating children''s book I have read for a very long time. Words, numbers, cliches, proverbs are taken literally, imaginatively or punningly in an enthralling and very funny dazzle of mental fireworks." Sunday Times "An altogether remarkable book, one that should delight any bright child, and that will be no burden for a parent to read aloud. Related with unflagging wit and a marvellous sense of the fun to be had with words, this book will be enjoyed by children for years to come." Spectator\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1142'),
(536, 'The Pharoah Contract', 'Ray Aldridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1240'),
(537, 'Phoenix', 'Steven Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the Demon-Goddess saves him from a certain death, Vlad must pay her back with his professional services as an assassin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1037'),
(538, 'Physik', 'Angie Sage', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4â€“10â€”In the third volume in the series, the young Apprentice to the Extraordinary Wizard yearns to go beyond his training in Magyk to Physik, an ancient form of healing championed by the great Physician Marcellus Pye. He gets his chance when the decrepit, 500-year-old Marcellus kidnaps Septimus back in time to help him turn his ill-fated tincture for everlasting life into one for everlasting youth. Princess Jenna, joined by Nicko and his love interest, a new character named Snorri, goes searching for a way to reach Septimus and bring him back to his rightful time. She must also elude the ghost of Marcellus''s mother, Queen Etheldredda, who is bent on murdering the princess so she can assume the throne. Explanations of time travel are wisely avoided: "at that point, Septimus'' brain refused to think anymore," and many other plot elements are juggled successfully. There are too many characters to keep track of, however, including lesser figures who are not presented with enough background information. Readers will quickly warm up to the stars of the book, sketched with liberal doses of humor, and all back in top form. Chapters alternate points of view, keeping suspense high, while lots of vivid details portray a palace life humming with Magyk. Fans of the series will enjoy the secrets that are revealed as\n <em>\n  Physik\n </em>\n delves deeper into the labyrinthine palace walls and will eagerly await the next installment.â€”_Emily Rodriguez, Alachua County Library District, Gainesville, FL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Few fans of the best-selling Septimus Heap series will be disappointed by this excellent third adventure, which counters the fraying novelty of the DomDaniel plotline with a brand new villain--a former queen whose malevolent spirit is accidentally released from an enchanted portrait. Along with a deadly epidemic, the spirit brings turmoil to the kingdom and to Septimus, who is forcibly apprenticed to an alchemist living many centuries earlier. Rescue efforts wind up trapping more members of the Heap family, as well as a visitor from the far North, in the same situation. The time-travel elements are head spinning, but moments of faltering logic will go unnoticed as readers savor the quirky storytelling, marked by a sprawling, omniscient purview and plenty of entertaining tangents. With entries as strong as this one, Sage''s efforts will continue to stand strong within the crowded young-wizard niche.\n <em>\n  Jennifer Mattson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/279'),
(539, 'Pirate Cinema', 'Cory Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1246'),
(540, 'A Planet of Viruses', 'Carl Zimmer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Part of a series sponsored by the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) to help support educational outreach to students, [_A Planet of Viruses_] packs into 109 pages just about everything youâ€™ve always wanted to knowâ€“and a lot youâ€™ll probably wish you didnâ€™t knowâ€“about the viruses that have caused humanity so much grief throughout history."â€”_Forbes_\n </p>\n <p>\n  (_Forbes_ 20110512)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "For those with long memories, not much seems to have happened in fundamental physics and cosmology since Carl Sagan''''s Cosmos, 30 years ago. . . . The real action is in biology, where amazing new facts just keep coming. The techniques of genome analysis make it remarkably easy at the moment to make unexpected observations.Â [_A Planet of Viruses_]Â is packed with them, carefully assembled by another talented populariser, the science writer and Yale University lecturer Carl Zimmer."â€”_Times Higher Education_\n </p>\n <p>\n  (_Times Higher Education_ 20110420)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Science writer Carl Zimmer has a penchant for writing about things most humans like to avoid; his previous works include\n  <em>\n   Microcosm: E. Coli And The New Science Of Life\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Parasite Rex\n  </em>\n  . Each chapter of his latest work is dedicated to a different type of virus, providing a brief synopsis on what makes a certain species unique, and using the example to launch into fascinating information about what it teaches about the nature of viruses and life in general."â€”_Onion_\n  <em>\n   A.V. Club\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (_Onion A.V. Club_ 20110323)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAbsolutely top-drawer popular science writing.â€â€”_Booklist _(starred review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  (_Booklist_ 20110717)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCarl Zimmer is one of my absolute favorite science writers, and he''''s about to come out with a new book called\n  <em>\n   A Planet of Viruses\n  </em>\n  . I''''m a bit of a virology fangirl, and am, thus, ridiculously excited about this news.â€â€”_Boing Boing_\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Maggie Koerth-Baker\n  <em>\n   Boing Boing\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCarl Zimmer is one of the best science writers we have today.\n  <em>\n   A Planet of Viruses\n  </em>\n  is an important primer on the viruses living within and around all of usâ€”sometimes funny, other times shocking, and always accessible.Â Whether discussing the common cold and flu, little-known viruses that attack bacteria or protect oceans, or the worldâ€™s viral future as seen through our encounters with HIV or SARS, Zimmerâ€™s writing isÂ lively, knowledgeable, and graced with poetic touches.â€â€”Rebecca Skloot, author of\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIâ€™m a serious fan of Carl Zimmer, and\n  <em>\n   A Planet of Viruses\n  </em>\n  provided a new treat. Itâ€™s thoughtful, precise, and engrossing, page by page. Zimmer has an uncanny ability to tell cool tales about nature that leave you with new thoughts and understanding, always keeping precisely to the science.â€â€”Richard Preston, author of\n  <em>\n   The Hot Zone\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis little book will interest anyone on this planet who has ever played host to a virus. It is beautifully clear, eminently sensible, and fascinating from beginning to endâ€”like everything Carl Zimmer writes.Â I donâ€™t know how Zimmer does it! Neither does anyone else who follows and enjoys his work.â€â€”Jonathan Weiner, author of\n  <em>\n   Long for This World\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Jonathan Weiner, author of Long for this World )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn accessible and gripping narrative on a serious topic that manages to explain, in plain English, how viruses are changing the world. Carl Zimmer has found great stories and woven them into an honest, optimistic book. It is a wonderfully vivid and compelling read.â€â€”Nathan Wolfe, founder and CEO of Global Viral Forecasting\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Nathan Wolfe, founder and CEO of Global Viral Forecasting )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As with any great journey, this virtual tour opens your eyes and expands your horizons. Youâ€™ll learn amazing facts. But this is no textbook. Zimmer does not do boring or stuffy; reading his work is like hanging out with the smartest, most interesting guy you have ever met as he regales you with tales of his travels and fascinating finds along the way."â€”_ScienceNews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  (_ScienceNews_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. Weâ€™re most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, that\n  <em>\n   we\n  </em>\n  are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists are discovering viruses everywhere they look: in the soil, in the ocean, even in deep caves miles underground.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This fascinating book explores the hidden world of virusesâ€”a world that each of us inhabit. Here Carl Zimmer, popular science writer and author of\n  <em>\n   Discover\n  </em>\n  magazineâ€™s award-winning blog\n  <em>\n   The Loom\n  </em>\n  , presents the latest research on how viruses hold sway over our lives and our biosphere, how viruses helped give rise to the first life-forms, how viruses are producing new diseases, how we can harness viruses for our own ends, and how viruses will continue to control our fate for years to come. In this eye-opening tour through the frontiers of biology, where scientists are expanding our understanding of life as we know it, we learn that some treatments for the common cold do more harm to us than good; that the worldâ€™s oceans are home to an astonishing 1,000,000,000,000,Â­000,000,000,000,000,000 viruses; and that the evolution of HIV is now in overdrive, spawning more mutated strains than we care to imagine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  calls Carl Zimmer â€œas fine a science essayist as we have.â€\n  <em>\n   A Planet of Viruses\n  </em>\n  is sure to please his many fans and further enhance his reputation as one of Americaâ€™s most respected and admired science journalists.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (20110525)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1214'),
(541, 'Pleasure Unbound: A Demonica Novel', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Sexy, dark and suspenseful, Pleasure Unbound will leave you breathless! Larissa Ione brings to life a riveting new world filled with sizzling sensuality, dark wit and wicked hot demons. Larissa Ione is an exciting new voice in paranormal romance!" --\n <em>\n  Lara Adrian, author of Midnight Awakening\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Very dark, very sexy, and\n <em>\n  very\n </em>\n creative. Ione''s Demonica series will have the most jaded paranormal fans perking up!" --\n <em>\n  Emma Holly, author of DEMON''S FIRE\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "What a ride! Dark, sexy and very intriguing, this book gripped me from start to finish. I can''t wait to read the next in the series!" --\n <em>\n  NYT Bestselling author Nalini Singh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In a place where ecstasy can cost you your life . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n She''s a demon-slayer who hungers for sensual pleasure-but fears it will always be denied her. Until Tayla Mancuso lands in a hospital run by demons in disguise, and the head doctor, Eidolon, makes her body burn with unslakable desire. But to prove her ultimate loyalty to her peers, she must betray the surgeon who saved her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Two lovers will dare to risk all.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Eidolon cannot resist this fiery, dangerous woman who fills him with both rage and passion. Not only is she his avowed enemy, but she could very well be the hunter who has been preying upon his people. Torn between his need for the truth and his quest to find his perfect mate before a horrific transformation claims him forever, Eidolon will dare the unthinkable-and let Tayla possess him, body and soul...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/941'),
(542, 'Precipice', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Donâ€™t miss STAR WARS: LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH: PRECIPICE a FREE original e-book short story, the first in a series that tell the untold story of the FATE OF THE JEDI''s forgotten Sith castaways, their battle to survive, and their quest to re-conquer the galaxy! PRECIPICE includes an exclusive excerpt from STAR WARS: FATE OF THE JEDI: OMEN (Del Rey Hardcover, available June 23rd) and offers a unique look into the backstory of events that will begin to unfold in OMEN. SURVIVALâ€”NOT SURRENDER For the ruthless Sith Order, failure is not an option. It is an offense punishable by deathâ€”and a fate to which Commander Yaru Korsin will not succumb. But on a crucial run to deliver troops and precious crystals to a combat hotspot in the Sithâ€™s war against the Republic, Korsin and the crew of the mining ship Omen are ambushed by a Jedi starfighter. And when the Sith craft crash-lands, torn and crippled, on a desolate alien planet, the hard-bitten captain finds himself at odds with desperate survivors on the brink of mutinyâ€”and his own vengeful half brother, whoâ€™s bent on seizing command. No matter the cost, Korsin vows that it will not be his blood and bones left behind on this unknown world. For the way of the Sith leaves little room for compromiseâ€”and none for mercy.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The _\n  <strong>\n   Fate of the Jedi\n  </strong>\n  _ novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be? _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith\n  </strong>\n  _ answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The initial castaways begin far removed from the Sith Lords we see in the movies: the starship\n  <em>\n   Omen\n  </em>\n  is, in fact, a mining vessel, carrying specialists. Force-using adherents to Sith beliefs -- but still slaves to another: middle managers in the cause of evil. But on Kesh, their planetary prison, all their dark ambitions emerge. Everyone wants to rule the world -- and tries!\n </p>\n <p>\n  How do the children of\n  <em>\n   Omen\n  </em>\n  survive -- much less thrive for five thousand years? The\n  <em>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith\n  </em>\n  short stories provide the answer. "Sith society" may be a contradiction in terms, but it''s a fun one to explore!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1154'),
(543, 'Predators and Prey', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Buffy''s world goes awry when former-classmate-turned-vampire Harmony Kendall lands her own reality TV show, Harmony Bites, bolstering bloodsucking fiends in the mainstream. Humans line up to have their blood consumed, and Slayers, through a series of missteps, misfortunes, and anti-Slayer propaganda driven by the mysterious Twilight, are forced into hiding. In Germany, Faith and Giles discover a town where Slayers retreat from a world that has turned against them, only to find themselves in the arms of something far worse. A rogue-Slayer faction displaces an entire Italian village, living up to their tarnished reputation as power-hungry thieves. And finally, with the help of a would-be demon lover, Dawn addresses her unfaltering insecurities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/813'),
(544, 'Prelude to Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n To Emperor Cleon I, the science of psychohistory seems to offer the opportunity to predict and direct the course of his Galactic Empire. To Hari Seldon, discoverer of the still theoretical science, it becomes a nightmare as the young historian becomes the most wanted man in the colonized universe. An intricately twisted plot, uncomplicated but amiable characters, and an abundance of leisurely explication mark Asimov''s latest addition to his classic Foundation novels. While familiarity with earlier titles is not necessary, series followers will particularly enjoy this prequel. Recommended.JC\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For the first time Asimov chronicles the life of Hari Seldon, the man who laid the framework for the universe that came to be known as the Foundation. The long-awaited overture to the greatest science fiction series of all time. "Asimov''s storytelling skills have never been keener."--Denver Post. HC: Doubleday.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/372'),
(545, 'Prelude to Rebellion Part 1', 'Jan Strand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1081'),
(546, 'Prelude to Rebellion Part 2', 'Jan Strand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1084'),
(547, 'Prelude to Rebellion Part 3', 'Jan Strand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1086'),
(548, 'Prelude to Rebellion Part 4', 'Jan Strand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1088'),
(549, 'Prelude to Rebellion Part 5', 'Jan Strand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1090'),
(550, 'Prelude to Rebellion Part 6', 'Jan Strand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1091'),
(551, 'Pride And Prejudice And Zombies', 'Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s difficult to tell if criticsâ€™ reactions to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies should be characterized as praise or astonishment. Some reviewers treated the book as a delightful gimmick. Others found that, beneath the surface, the book actually constituted an interesting way of looking at Austenâ€™s novel. Zombies answer certain puzzling questions: Why were those troops stationed near Hertfordshire? Why did Charlotte Lucas actually marry Mr. Collins? (She had recently been bitten by zombies and wanted a husband who could be counted on to behead herâ€”of course!) But critics also pointed out that this parody shows that Austenâ€™s novel has remained so powerful over time that even the undead canâ€™t spoil it.\n <br />\n Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This may be the most wacky by-product of the busy Jane Austen fan-fiction industryâ€”at least among the spin-offs and pastiches that have made it into print. In whatâ€™s described as an â€œexpanded editionâ€ of Pride and Prejudice,Â 85 percent of the original text has been preserved but fused withÂ  â€œultraviolent zombie mayhem.â€ For more than 50 years,Â we learn,Â England has been overrun by zombies,Â prompting people like the Bennets to send their daughtersÂ away to China for training in the art of deadly combat, and prompting others, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, to employ armies of ninjas. Added to the familiar plot turns that bring Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy together is the fact that both are highly skilled killers, gleefully slaying zombies on the way to their happy ending.Â Is nothing sacred? Well, no, and mash-ups using literary classics that are freely available on the Web may become a whole new genre. Whatâ€™s next? Wuthering Heights and Werewolves? --Mary Ellen Quinn\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/619'),
(552, 'Prince Caspian', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-8-Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensey, the heroes and heroines from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, return in this fourth installment of C.S. Lewis'' Chronicles of Narnia series. The four children are transported from an English train station to an island in the world of Narnia. Though Narnia has been at peace since the children left, it is now under the control of Wicked King Mirax. The youngsters, along with Aslan the great lion, must help young Prince Caspian restore Narnia''s glorious past. This full-cast dramatization adheres closely to the book''s text. Actor Paul Scofield is the "storyteller," and other British actors read the character parts. The production features sound effects and background music, and is a more complete version of the story than the BBC audio production (Bantam Doubleday, 1998). Children familiar with the series will enjoy this impressive production.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Shauna Yusko, King County Library System, Bellevue, WA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The magic of C.S. Lewis''s parallel universe never fades." The Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/344'),
(553, 'Ptolemy&#39;s Gate', 'Jonathan Stroud', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Upâ€“The loquacious djinni introduced in\n <em>\n  Amulet of Samarkand\n </em>\n (2003) and\n <em>\n  Golems Eye\n </em>\n (2004, both Hyperion/Miramax) is back, or, more accurately, he hasnt left in three years. While Bartimaeus retains all of his wit and wisdom, his essence suffers severely from lack of rest. Nathaniel, now Information Minister, spends his time writing propaganda to bolster the common folks belief that England is winning its foreign wars and tracking down traitors within the government. Kitty Jones has gone into hiding, apprenticing herself to a magician and learning enough from her master and through research to summon Bartimaeus herself. When Nathaniel finds Kitty, the two of them and the djinni must use all their strength and cunning to defeat the most dangerous demons they have yet encountered, demons that take over the bodies of the government magicians.\n <em>\n  Ptolemys Gate\n </em>\n is an exciting and eminently satisfying conclusion to the trilogy, footnotes and all. This time, readers learn more about Bartimaeuss past and his connection to the loinclothed boy whose likeness he wears. Kittys strength and intelligence shine through, and Nathaniels inherent compassion emerges from the mask of John Mandrake. This is a must-have for libraries that purchased the first two books. For those that didnt, buy all three at once for readers who want something that is literate, entertaining, and exciting.â€“_Lisa Prolman, Greenfield Public Library, MA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Gr. 6-9. The final volume in the Bartimaeus trilogy reveals more backstory and exposes greater complexity in the characters, even as the plot thunders along toward its colossal climax. The narrative alternates between first-person chapters from the djinni Bartimaeus'' point of view to third-person chapters focused on Nathaniel, the magician, and Kitty, the commoner. Although Bartimaeus has lost none of his caustic wit, another side of his character is revealed through scenes in ancient Egypt and in the spirit world. A cabinet minister, Nathaniel sees the traditional power structure crumble around him, feels his own moral compass grow stronger, and takes actions that once would have been impossible for him. Now they seem inevitable. Kitty, after secretly studying magic, takes a challenge that few magicians would have dared: entering the spirit world and returning. Stroud''s picture of this alternate world is one of the most remarkable scenes in recent fantasies. It leads readers'' imaginations outside the realm of physical reality and offers an awareness of that reality as seen from the outside. For fans of Bartimaeus, Nathaniel, and Kitty, this will be the most satisfying volume of the three, as questions are answered and hidden depths are revealed. For readers who loved the earlier volumes for the sheer adventure, this, with its battles, magic, and great crashing conclusion, will not disappoint. A worthy ending to an exceptional saga.\n <em>\n  Carolyn Phelan\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/742'),
(554, 'Pump Six and Other Stories', 'Paolo Bacigalupi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1243'),
(555, 'Purgatory', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The mighty Sith dynasty founded on the planet Kesh by the survivors of the shipwrecked Omen has endured for a thousand yearsâ€”and so has the merciless Sith code, which prizes power above all else. Lady Orielle Kitai enjoys power as the scion of a noble family and member of the elite Sith Sabers. But Lillia Venn, as reigning Grand Lord of the Sith, possesses absolute power . . . and is determined to keep it.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  When a failed regicide sparks a politicalâ€”and literalâ€”bloodbath and suspicion falls on Orielle, she is swiftly condemned to slavery by the ruthless Grand Lord Venn. But seeing the cunning power play for what it is, Orielle vows to strike back. And at the ramshackle home of a poor dirt farmer with an astounding secret, she discovers the means to make her vengeance a devastating reality.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Vortex.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The _\n  <strong>\n   Fate of the Jedi\n  </strong>\n  _ novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be? _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith\n  </strong>\n  _ answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The fifth episode, _\n  <strong>\n   Purgatory\n  </strong>\n  _ picks up the story a thousand years after the fourth chapter,Â _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith #4:\n  </strong>\n  __\n  <strong>\n   Savior\n  </strong>\n  _, left off. The Sith still rule on Kesh, but generations of infighting have led to a new class of disenfranchised humans, barred for life from the Lost Tribe. But no one who ever followed Sith philosophies is likely to accept life as a slave, no matter what the odds against them...\n </p>\n <p>\n  To follow the story of the Lost Tribe from the beginning, start with the first chapter,Â  _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice.\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1155'),
(556, 'Pyramids', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn''t a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he''s been trained at Ankh-Morpork''s famed assassins'' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun.First, there''s the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing with mad priests, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to top it all off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal -- not to mention a headstrong handmaiden -- at the heart of his realm.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular living authors in the world. His first story was published when he was thirteen, and his first full-length book when he was twenty. He worked as a journalist to support the writing habit, but gave up the day job when the success of his books meant that it was costing him money to go to work.\n</p>\n<p>\n Prachett''s acclaimed novels are bestsellers in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and have sold more than twenty-one million copies worldwide. He lives in England, where he writes all the time. (It''s his hobby as well.)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(557, 'Queste', 'Angie Sage', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Septimus faces a perilous quest to find Nicko and Snorri, who have been trapped back in time. Everyone at the Castle is slowly beginning to realise that Nicko and Snorri''s chances of coming back are slim. Septimus, aided by ancient Alchemist Marcellus Pye, learns of a place where all time meets: the House of Foryxx. But how does he get there? Jenna and Septimus find Nicko''s notes from the past and discover that he knows of the House of Foryxx as well and has been creating a map to plot the house''s hidden location. With the help of the Questing Stone and Nicko''s faded maps, will Septimus be able to find the House of Foryxx, and save Nicko and Snorri? Meanwhile, Simon Heap has taken on Merrin Meredith, former apprentice to DomDaniel, as his own apprentice, giving Merrin an opportunity he has been waiting years for. With the help of a frightening creature called a Thing, Merrin plans to reclaim the identity he used to have ... that of Septimus Heap.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/280'),
(558, 'Question Quest', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Youth is Wasted on the Young\n</p>\n<p>\n Being grown up is a drag . . . or so thinks Lacuna, one of the michievous Castle Zombie twins. So she makes the Good Magician Grey an an offer he can''t refuse. Thirsty for a taste of the Elixir of Youth, she''ll help him outwit the evil Com-Pewter if he''ll send her to Hell (in a handbasket, no less) to find Humphrey, the missing sorcerer. And while there, she''ll learn the True History of Xanth (simplified) and help rescue a blushing Rose from the demon X(A/N) . . . with the help of a gorgon or two.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n New York Times-bestselling author Piers Anthony has written over one hundred books. His first fantasy,\n <em>\n  A Spell for Chameleon,\n </em>\n won the August Derleth Fantasy Award for best novel in 1977, and commenced his acclaimed Xanth series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/478');
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(559, 'Quicksilver', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Quicksilver\n </em>\n , the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date. The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campus of what passes for MIT in eighteenth-century Massachusetts. Daniel, Enoch''s message conveys, is key to resolving an explosive scientific battle of preeminence between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the development of calculus. As Daniel returns to London aboard the\n <em>\n  Minerva\n </em>\n , readers are catapulted back half a century to recall his years at Cambridge with young Isaac. Daniel is a perfect historical witness. Privy to Robert Hooke''s early drawings of microscope images and with associates among the English nobility, religious radicals, and the Royal Society, he also befriends Samuel Pepys, risks a cup of coffee, and enjoys a lecture on Belgian waffles and cleavage-â€”all before the year 1700.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the second book, Stephenson introduces Jack Shaftoe and Eliza. "Half-Cocked" Jack (also know as the "King of the Vagabonds") recovers the English Eliza from a Turkish harem. Fleeing the siege of Vienna, the two journey across Europe driven by Eliza''s lust for fame, fortune, and nobility. Gradually, their circle intertwines with that of Daniel in the third book of the novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book courses with Stephenson''s scholarship but is rarely bogged down in its historical detail. Stephenson is especially impressive in his ability to represent dialogue over the evolving worldview of seventeenth-century scientists and enliven the most abstruse explanation of theory. Though replete with science, the novel is as much about the complex struggles for political ascendancy and the workings of financial markets. Further, the novel''s literary ambitions match its physical size. Stephenson narrates through epistolary chapters, fragments of plays and poems, journal entries, maps, drawings, genealogic tables, and copious contemporary epigrams. But, caught in this richness, the prose is occasionally neglected and wants editing. Further, anticipating a cycle, the book does not provide a satisfying conclusion to its 900 pages. These are minor quibbles, though. Stephenson has matched ambition to execution, and his faithful, durable readers will be both entertained and richly rewarded with a practicum in Baroque science, cypher, culture, and politics.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Adventure, romance, politics, history, theology, magic, science, money and calculus: this audiobook has it all, and it astonishes on several levels. Never mind that it is only the first third of a trilogy or that this massive audiobook consists of "selections approved by the author" (the reading is punctuated with phrases like "here follows a brief summary of pages 167 to 182" or "pages 653 through 677 have been eliminated"). Stephenson''s (_Snow Crash_;\n <em>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </em>\n ) masterfully complex and entertaining plot braids the life of Daniel Waterhouse, a colleague of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, with that of the "king of the Vagabonds," Half-Cocked Jack Shaftoe, and Eliza, a harem slave turned powerful financier. It is a tale of the pursuit of knowledge in Baroque Europe, peppered with taut action, knee-slapping humor and head-scratching science. BBC announcer/Shakespearean actor Prebble''s performance is wonderfully nuanced. His authoritative narration, combined with his chameleon-like facility for character and accent, is nothing short of enchanting. Though he performs both male and female parts, Nielsen reads Eliza''s copious letters; initially, this seems like a strange choice, but the shift from storytelling to that of reading merits the transition, and Nielsen''s contribution enriches the whole. The experience of listening to this audiobook is something rare, as it''s a literary tale that brings history, science and philosophy to life in a heartily entertaining fashion.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/769'),
(560, 'Quidditch through the Ages', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Presents facsimile editions of two books from the world of Harry Potter--the text for Hogwarts'' Care of Magical Creatures class and a book on the origins and development of the wizarding game of Quidditch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/767'),
(561, 'The Rainmakers', 'Haden Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1102'),
(562, 'Rakkety Tam', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-9â€“Jacques once again delivers a heroic tale of friendship, valor, and a battle between good and evil. Gulo the Savage and his army of vermin invade Mossflower Country to murder his brother and capture the coveted Walking Stone. Rakkety Tam MacBurl, a highland warrior, and his companion Wild Doogy Plumm, join forces with the hares of the Long Patrol Regiment and the occupants and friends of Redwall Abbey to defeat the villains. Numerous battles occur across Mossflower Country and eventually end at the doorstep of Redwall Abbey. This fast-paced adventure will keep readers on their toes until the final battle. Elliot''s ink sketches appear at the head of each chapter, giving readers a glimpse of what is to come. Some characters'' accents may pose a slight challenge for those not familiar with the previous books. The colorful writing style, the strong cast of characters, and twisting plot will continue to delight fans of the series._â€“Christine McGinty, Albany Public Library, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 5-8. In this seventeenth Redwall title, Mossflower Country and the peaceful inhabitants of Redwall Abbey are under threat from Gulo the Savage, a flesh-eating wolverine who murdered his father and now seeks to kill his brother and recapture the Walking Stone. Two warrior squirrels, Rakkety Tam McBurl and his friend Wild Doogy Plumm, set out with the hares from the Long Patrol to battle Gulo and protect the abbey residents. Jacques'' tale of war and courage includes a cast of thousands that battle fiercely and relish their comradeship, most often through banquet and song. Several intriguing characters stand out, including Yoofuss the vole, a compulsive thief who steals every trinket he comes in contact with; Sister Armel, a Redwall squirrel maid whose dreams help foretell the story''s outcome; and a turtle called Rockbottom. The complex plot and frequent use of Scottish dialect may try a casual reader''s patience, but Redwall fans won''t be deterred.\n <em>\n  Kay Weisman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/710'),
(563, 'Rama II', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1973, Clarke''s Rendezvous with Rama won the Hugo, Nebula and Campbell awards. This new novel is the second in a trilogy about the mystifying world-ships and their flybys of our solar system. Unfortunately, the focus is no longer on alien mysteries, but on the petty concerns of an unlikely assortment of cosmonauts. The 12 specialists chosen to explore a second Raman craft passing through human space 70 years after the first are more involved with adultery, religion and media contracts than they are with scientific advancement. Not only are their actions unrealistic, but the chapter titles telegraph what comes next. The excitement of discovery that was present in the first book is altogether missing from this soap opera plot.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Offers one surprise afterÂ Â another." --\n <em>\n  The New YorkÂ Â Times\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n "A masterpiece ... one of theÂ Â year''s best hard SF epics." --\n <em>\n  TheÂ Â Houston Post\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/261'),
(564, 'Rama Revealed', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On its mysterious voyage through interstellar space, a massive alien starship carries its human passengers to the end of a generations-long odyssey. But the great experiment designed by the Ramans has failed, and Rama III has become a battleground. Fleeing a tyrant, a band of humans ventures into the nether regions of the ship, where they encounter an emerald-doomed lair ruled by the fabulously advanced octospiders. As the octospiders lure the humans deeper into their domain, the humans must decide whether the creatures are their allies of enemies. All the while, Rama III continues its inexplorable journey towards the node, where the climax of their voyage awaits the stunning revelation of the true identity of the beings behind this glittering trek across the cosmos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/265'),
(565, 'Reaper Man', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the mortals come up with the perfect strategy for destroying the immortals, and soon all that stands between the immortals and a certain doom is the last surviving truthspeaker.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular living authors in the world. His first story was published when he was thirteen, and his first full-length book when he was twenty. He worked as a journalist to support the writing habit, but gave up the day job when the success of his books meant that it was costing him money to go to work.\n</p>\n<p>\n Prachett''s acclaimed novels are bestsellers in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and have sold more than twenty-one million copies worldwide. He lives in England, where he writes all the time. (It''s his hobby as well.)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/64'),
(566, 'Red Mars', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Red Mars\n </em>\n opens with a tragic murder, an event that becomes the focal point for the surviving characters and the turning point in a long intrigue that pits idealistic Mars colonists against a desperately overpopulated Earth, radical political groups of all stripes against each other, and the interests of transnational corporations against the dreams of the pioneers.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a vast book: a chronicle of the exploration of Mars with some of the most engaging, vivid, and\n <em>\n  human\n </em>\n characters in recent science fiction. Robinson fantasizes brilliantly about the science of terraforming a hostile world, analyzes the socio-economic forces that propel and attempt to control real interplanetary colonization, and imagines the diverse reactions that humanity would have to the dead, red planet.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Red Mars\n </em>\n is so magnificent a story, you will want to move on to __ and\n <strong>\n  , or 1998''s\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --L. Blunt Jackson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first installment in Robinson''s ( Blind Geometer ) new trilogy is an action-packed and thoughtful tale of the exploration and settlement of Mars--riven by both personal and ideological conflicts--in the early 21st century. The official leaders of the "first hundred" (initial party of settlers) are American Frank Chalmers and Russian Maya Katarina Toitova, but subgroups break out under the informal guidance of popular favorites like the ebullient Arkady Nikoleyevich Bogdanov, who sets up a base on one of Mars''s moons, and the enigmatic Hiroko, who establishes the planet''s farm. As the group struggles to secure a foothold on the frigid, barren landscape, friction develops both on Mars and on Earth between those who advocate terraforming, or immediately altering Mars''s natural environment to make it more habitable, and those who favor more study of the planet before changes are introduced. The success of the pioneers'' venture brings additional settlers to Mars. All too soon, the first hundred find themselves outnumbered by newcomers and caught up in political problems as complex as any found on Earth.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/931'),
(567, 'Redshirts', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1238'),
(568, 'Redwall', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The magic of Brian Jacques'' classic Redwall series is celebrated in this gift set. Consisting of the three earliest stories concerning Martin and the Redwall Abbey it stats with MARTIN THE WARRIOR which tells of the legendary brave mouse and his struggles against the tyrannical Badrang. MOSSFLOWER charts the fearsome battle Martin had with the vicious wildcats that inhabited Mossflower wood when he first discovered it. The epic story of OUTCAST OF REDWALL complete this set with a saga of lifelong enmity and heartbreaking decisions for just some of the unforgettable characters in this rich and compelling series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/712'),
(569, 'The Reincarnationist', 'M. J. Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Best known as an author of erotic thrillers, Rose (_Lip Service_) delves into religious myth and past-life discovery in her well-paced ninth novel. In present-day Rome, a terrorist bomb explosion triggers flashbacks of pre-Christian Italy in photographer Josh Ryder. Josh experiences the memories as Julius, a pagan priest defending the sacrosanct monuments of his gods and the life of his vestal virgin lover against the emperor-mandated onslaught of Christianity in A.D. 391. Six months later, Josh has teamed with the Phoenix Foundation, an institute specializing in past-life memories in children, to explore a newly excavated tomb that may contain pagan memory stones that incite past-life regressions and will, by proving the existence of reincarnation, challenge the church. The stakes rise after it becomes clear that dangerous outside forces also want the stones. In a series of memory lurches, the narratives of Josh and Julius slowly wind together to reveal a\n  <em>\n   Da Vinci Code\n  </em>\n  â€“esque tale of intrigue that''s more believably plotted and better meets its ambitions than Dan Brown''s ubiquitous book.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After a bomb explosion nearly kills photojournalist Josh Ryder, he begins experiencing flashbacksâ€”or, perhaps, memoriesâ€”of events that seem to have happened to him 1,600 years earlier, in another life. Convinced these episodes aren''t figments of his imagination, he enlists the aid of the Phoenix Foundation, a group that specializes in past-life research. Later, when he becomes involved in the unearthing of an ancient tombâ€”and experiences a connection with its long-buried residentâ€”Josh realizes he has a chance to right a wrong that happened a millennium and a half ago, not to mention an opportunity to solve aÂ series of modern-day murders. This is one of those books that succeeds in spite of itself: even though the writing is merely competent, the story itself is so appealing that youÂ can''t stopÂ reading. Josh Ryder is a difficult character to pull off (among other things, he''s a man in love with a woman who lived 1,600 years ago), and atÂ times he comes off a little loopy. But for the most part he, like the novel itself, is surprisingly well grounded in the real world. Pitt, David\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/934'),
(570, 'Relentless', 'Robin Parrish', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Parrish''s latest opens upon a world so tilted--people are "shifted" into new bodies, while their old bodies and personalities proceed--that it brings Philip K. Dick to mind. Gradually, the Dick-like paranoia itself shifts into flourishes of sword-and-sorcery and a cast of characters rather like X-Men. Psychokinesis is the theme, and Parrish makes it seem plausible, as his reluctant hero, Collin Boyd/Grant Borrows, discovers his powers in a kind of spiritual journey. The cliff-hanging plot mostly holds up, and the pace is, well, relentless. It''s almost as though Parrish has too much talent and can''t quite bring it under control. Nonetheless, another of Bethany''s sf writers, Randall Ingermanson comes to mind, and Parrish is every bit as skilled.\n <em>\n  John Mort\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...excellent, different approach to a murder mystery... has my endorsement for this... very imaginative foray into a difficult genre." --\n <em>\n  Alan Paul Curtis, who-dunnit.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you are a fan of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Ted Dekker or Frank Peretti... this book is a must." --\n <em>\n  Jeff Holton, 1340mag.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you enjoyed Ted Dekker''s Three, or Frank Peretti''s Monster, you will love this book." --\n <em>\n  Marty Medley, armchairinterviews.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you were unsatisfied with this summer''s big superhero movies, you need to read this book." --\n <em>\n  Tim Frankovich, christianfictionreview.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Parrish writes with the verve and attitude of a New York City cab driver..." --\n <em>\n  Bookpage, Oct. 2006\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Rather than being a great "Christian novel," Relentless is a great novel by a very talented Christian writer." --\n <em>\n  Jenn Wright, hollywoodjesus.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Relentless is a mystery/ action novel like you''ve never read." --\n <em>\n  Shane Werlinger, buddyhollywood.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Relentless will quicken your pulse, send shivers of fear through your body, and change the way you look at life." --\n <em>\n  Joyce Handzo, Christian Book Previews.com\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/930'),
(571, 'The Reluctant Swordsman', 'Dave Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wallie Smith can feel the pain. He goes to the hospital, remembers the doctors and the commotion, but when he wakes up it all seems like a dream. However, if that was a dream how do you explain waking up in another body and in another world? Little Wallie finds himself in the physique of a barbarian swordsman, accompanied by both an eccentric priest babbling about the Goddess and a voluptuous slave girl. Is this a rude awakening or a dream come true? What in the world will Wallie do now that he''s found himself stranded in a strange realm? Well it just so happens that the Goddess is in need of a swordsman. It won''t be easy but if he succeeds he will have everything he wants. If he doesn''t, things could get ugly. Wallie is reluctant but sees his chance. If only he had the faintest clue as to the adventure he is about to unleash! If only he could imagine the forces that will be out to vanquish him!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n The last thing Wallie Smith remembered was a fog of hospitals, grim-faced doctors, and pain. So when he woke in the body of a barbarian swordsman, attended by a beautiful slave girl and a wizened old priest nattering about the Goddess, he assumed it was a fever-dream.\n</p>\n<p>\n But the World could not be dismissed so lightly. A naked little demigod called Shorty explained that the Goddess needed a swordsman. If Wallie undertook the job and succeeded, all that World had to offer would be his. If he refused, the results would be...unpleasant.\n</p>\n<p>\n Wallie was not convinced, but Shorty was exquisitely persuasive. Soon Wallie found himself bearing a magnificent sword, with no idea how to use it -- and the servants of the Goddess were out to stop him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/917'),
(572, 'Rendezvous with Rama', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the year 2130, a mysterious and apparently untenanted alien spaceship, Rama, enters our solar system. The first product of an alien civilisation to be encountered by man, it reveals a world of technological marvels and an unparalleled artificial ecology.But what is its purpose in 2131?Who is inside it?And why?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/592'),
(573, 'The Reptile Room', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Reptile Room\n </em>\n begins where Lemony Snicket''s __ ends... on the road with the three orphaned Baudelaire children as they are whisked away from the evil Count Olaf to face "an unknown fate with some unknown relative." But who is this Dr. Montgomery, their late father''s cousin''s wife''s brother?\n <em>\n  "Would Dr. Montgomery be a kind person?\n </em>\n they wondered.\n <em>\n  Would he at least be better than Count Olaf? Could he possibly be worse?"\n </em>\n He certainly is not worse, and in fact when the Baudelaire children discover that he makes coconut cream cakes, circles the globe looking for snakes to study, and even plans to take them with him on his scientific expedition to Peru, the kids can''t believe their luck. And, if you have read the first book in this Series of Unfortunate Events, you won''t believe their luck either. Despite the misadventures that befall these interesting, intelligent, resourceful orphans, you can trust that the engaging narrator will make their story--suspenseful and alarming as it is--a true delight. __ is next, and more are on their way. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book." So cautions Snicket, the exceedingly well-mannered narrator of these two witty mock-gothic novels featuring the misadventures of 14-year-old Violet, 12-year-old Klaus and infant Sunny Baudelaire. From the first, things look unfortunate indeed for the trio: a fire destroys their home, killing their parents along with it; the executor of their parents'' estate, the obtuse Mr. Poe (with a son, Edgar), ignores whatever the children have to say; and their new guardian, Count Olaf, is determined to get his hands on the Baudelaire fortune. But by using their individual gifts (Violet''s for inventing, Klaus''s for reading and researching and baby Sunny''s for biting) the three enterprising children thwart the Count''s planAfor now. The author uses formal, Latinate language and intrusive commentary to hilarious effect, even for readers unfamiliar with the literary conventions he parodies. The peril in which he places the Baudelaires may be frightening (Count Olaf actually follows through on his threats of violence on several occasions), but the author paints the satire with such broad strokes that most readers will view it from a safe distance. Luckily for fans, the woes of the Baudelaires are far from over; readers eager for more misfortune can turn to The Reptile Room, for an even more suspenseful tale. Exquisitely detailed drawings of Gothic gargoyles and mischievous eyes echo the contents of this elegantly designed hardcover. Age 9-up. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/449'),
(574, 'The Rescue', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  [Pamela Garelick] delivers the depth of personality Lasky has invested in her flock of owls and energetically leads us through the plot twists. Garelick''s distinguished yet likable voice is simply wonderful--her lively characterizations of little owls and maternally inclined snakes all delight. She''s also expert at recapping the owl''s complex history so that it''s clear to new listeners, yet fresh for the already familiar. --AudioFile\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Now that Soren has been reunited with his sister, Eglantine, he must face his next challenge: making sense of the mysterious disappearance of his mentor, Ezylryb. When Soren discovers that Ezylryb is in danger, he and his friends Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger devise a plan to save the beloved teacher. In this process, Soren must fight a ferocious foe who wears a terrifying metal beak, sharpened for battle. It''s not until the confrontation is over that Soren discovers the true identity of his opponent. The metal beaked warrior is Soren''s evil brother, Kludd.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1169'),
(575, 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Warning! This second volume in the "Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy" series is definitely not a standalone book. Enjoying, or even understanding, the continuing adventures of Earthling Arthur Dent, his strange pal Ford Prefect, and the very, very odd Zaphod Beeblebrox requires previous study and preparation. Confusion and possible insanity awaits the poor soul who tries to figure out the second title without having read the first. Arthur and Ford, having survived the destruction of Earth by surreptitiously hitching a ride on a Vogon constructor ship, have been kicked off that ship by its commander. Now they find themselves aboard a stolen Improbability Drive ship commanded by Beeblebrox, ex-president of the Imperial Galactic Government and full-time thief. Narrated by Adams, this production is a treat for fans of the late author and others who enjoy British comedy. Be sure to buy all five parts of the "Hitchhiker" series or your patrons will storm your office. One caveat: this audiobook will need to be repackaged for library circulation.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Barbara Rhodes, Northeast Texas Lib. Syst., Garland\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œDouglas Adams is a terrific satirist.â€â€”_Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWhatâ€™s such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adamsâ€™s sardonically silly eyes.â€â€”\n </em>\n Detroit Free Press\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/255'),
(576, 'Resurrection and Awakening', 'Randolph Lalonde', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Resurrection:\n</p>\n<p>\n "An addictive series. Fantastic following to the First Light Chronicles, and just as full of adventure and twists. Great Sci-Fi."\n</p>\n<p>\n "...keeps on getting better and better. The twists blow me away."\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is something new in Space Opera. The characters are so real they''re like family."\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Awakening\n</p>\n<p>\n "The story continues and get better all time. Do read the Omnibus first - it''s worth it."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Characters transform before my eyes and the story is amazing. A good read for all ages that isn''t dumbed down."\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for other books by Randolph Lalonde:\n</p>\n<p>\n First Light Chronicles Omnibus: "Fantastic! The First Light Chronicles Omnibus edition is one of the most exciting books I have ever read."\n</p>\n<p>\n Spinward Fringe Triton: "I just couldn''t put the books down. The characters are not just action heroes. There are others like engineers (close to my heart) that play a major part."\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This volume collects the first two novellas in the Spinward Fringe Series: Resurrection and Awakening. Captain Jacob Valance has no memory of his past. Left on a strange ship in an unfamiliar sector of the galaxy, he was forced to begin a new life. Years pass and in that time he''s earned a reputation as a man who can hunt down hardened criminals and go where others fear to tread. The crew of the Samson are caught up in the problems of their Captain as his past starts to catch up with him. Just as new allies start to fall in line old enemies come creeping out of the shadows, putting everyone at risk. While the crew struggles to deal with their own problems, Regent Galactic begins putting a plan in motion that will bring about the fourth fall of man and position their Corporation as the dominant power on the fringe. Their ambition and greed spell disaster for mankind. The Spinward Fringe Series follows after the First Light Chronicles, available in a collected Omnibus.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/971'),
(577, 'Retreat, Part I', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/817'),
(578, 'Retreat, Part II', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/818'),
(579, 'Retreat, Part III', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/776'),
(580, 'Retreat, Part IV', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/777'),
(581, 'Retreat, Part V', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/778'),
(582, 'The Return of the King', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/201'),
(583, 'The Revolt Of The Miniature Mutants', 'Bruce Coville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the hamsters in Ms. Weintraub''s room start acting a little strange, everyone thinks the problem must be the alien vitamins that Pleskit has been feeding them.\n</p>\n<p>\n But even after Pleskit stops the vitamin treatments, the hamsters continue to get bigger -- and stronger -- and crankier.\n</p>\n<p>\n Clearly, something else is at work. But what?\n</p>\n<p>\n To answer that question, Tim and Pleskit will have to solve a mystery, track down an enemy, and defend themselves against a trio of the most dangerous hamsters the world has ever seen!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bruce Coville\n </strong>\n is the author of nearly ninety books for young readers, including the international best-seller\n <em>\n  My Teacher Is an Alien.\n </em>\n He has been a teacher, a toy maker, a cookware salesman, and a grave digger. In addition to his work as an author, Bruce is much in demand as a speaker and as a storyteller. He is also the founder and president of Full Cast Audio, a company dedicated to producing unabridged recordings of children''s books in a full-cast format. For more information about Bruce, check out www.brucecoville.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/892'),
(584, 'Riley - Commitment through Distance, Virtue through Sin', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/785'),
(585, 'Ringworld', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n 8 1.5-hour cassettes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/228'),
(586, 'The Ringworld Engineers', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ringworld (1970), the most celebrated work in Niven''s "Known Space" sequence, posited a vast body of matter - enough for an entire solar system - spinning around a sun in the form of a single giant artifact of unknown origin: a continuous million-mile-wide ribbon provided with oceans, atmosphere, and vast flat projections (life-size "maps") of Earth and other inhabited planets. The present book takes up the puzzle some 20 years after Louis Wu''s escape from the Ringworld. Kidnapped by the mate of Nessus, their two-headed alien companion of the previous voyage, Louis and his catlike ally Chmeee are transported to the Ringworld - now spinning dangerously off-center - in an attempt to discover the cause of the aberrant rotation before the world grazes its sun. Searching for clues to the design of the structure''s long-vanished original engineers, they encounter various hominid and other races before finding the barely feasible, wholly appalling solution hidden beneath the "Map of Mars." Niven, a longstanding favorite with "hard" sf buffs, commands an impressive vein of invention, but his plotting here is limp and threadbare; the idea was more striking the first time around. (Kirkus Reviews)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This rousing sequel to the classic Ringworld continues the adventures of Louis Wu and Speaker-to-Animals on that fantastic planet."--School Library Journal An ALA Best Book for Young Adults\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/226'),
(587, 'The Ringworld Throne', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n Larry Niven created Known Space, a universe in the distant future with a distinctive and complicated history. The center of this universe is Ringworld, an expansive hoop-shaped relic 1 million miles across and 600 million miles in circumference that is home to some 30 trillion diverse inhabitants. As in his past novels, Niven''s characters in\n <em>\n  The Ringworld Throne\n </em>\n spend their time unraveling the complex problems posed by their society.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An honored SF writer returns to his best-known creation: the artificial world, built far from Earth by aliens over a half million years ago, in the form of a ring 600 million miles in diameter, hosting an astonishing multitude of inhabitants and cultures. This third fictional voyage to the Ringworld (after Ringworld, 1970, which won both the Hugo and the Nebula for best SF novel of that year, and Ringworld Engineers, 1980) offers two stories crowded into one. A motley array of hominid inhabitants are seeking to defeat a plague of vampires. Meanwhile, returning hero Louis Wu is battling what effectively is a plague of Protectors (superbeings common to many Niven novels) whose rivalries threaten Ringworld''s existence. The battle against the vampires is the more exciting of the two stories, filled with action, scenes of the Ringworld and explorations of ritualistic interspecies sex. Wu''s pursuit of the Protectors displays Niven''s deft hand at portraying aliens, but the dialogue that fills in the backstory slows the narrative. Niven still ranks near the top of the SF field, but this outing is likely to satisfy determined Ringworld fans more than other readers.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/227'),
(588, 'Ringworld&#39;s Children', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Larry Niven may be America''s greatest living hard-SF writer. Much of his SF belongs to his famous future history, the Tales of Known Space. His preeminent creation is the Ringworld: an immense, artificial, ring-shaped planet that circles a Known Space star. Possibly SF''s greatest feat of world-building, the Ringworld is featured in four novels: the Hugo and Nebula Award winner __ (1970);\n <strong>\n  (1980);\n </strong>\n (1996); and\n <em>\n  Ringworld''s Children\n </em>\n (2004).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Ringworld''s Children\n </em>\n returns series protagonist Louis Wu to the titular world. Louis and his friend The Hindmost, an alien of the Pierson''s puppeteer race, are prisoners of the Ghoul protector Tunesmith, a Ringworld native, who is deliberately provoking the warships that surround his world. All the star-faring races of Known Space have sent warships to the Ringworld, and they are already at the brink of war. If fighting breaks out, the near-indestructible Ringworld will be destroyed: dissolved by antimatter weapons.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Ringworld series is so complex and ambitious that\n <em>\n  Ringworld''s Children\n </em>\n opens with a glossary and a cast of characters, inclusions that even many Known Space fans will need. Newcomers to Niven''s artificial planet should start with\n <em>\n  Ringworld\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Ringworld\n </em>\n (1970) and its many offspring (_The Ringworld Engineers_, etc.) are an SF institution. Unfortunately, bestseller Niven''s first Ringworld installment in 10 years combines the worst qualities of hard SF (i.e., cardboard characters, a plot propelled primarily by technological infodumps) with the least appealing characteristics of sequelitis (i.e., a story no one can follow without fanatic dedication to earlier books). In the year 2893, 67 Ringworld days after Louis Wu, badly wounded in battle with "the Vampire protector, Bram," stepped into a healing autodoc, our hero awakens with a restored, younger body. The passive Louis and several alien companions soon get caught up in a war involving weaponery that could destroy Ringworld. The novel finally comes into its own about midway through, while a glossary and a cast of characters will help orient those new to the series.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/225'),
(589, 'The Rise of Endymion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In "The Rise of Endymion, " Dan Simmons brings to a triumphant conclusion one of the most celebrated, compelling, and dramatic science fiction sagas of our time. Brilliant, provocative, unfailingly inventive, the odyssey began with the Hugo Award{winning "Hyperion, " continued through the critically acclaimed "The Fall of Hyperion" and "Endymion, " and now ascends to its greatest heights yet....The final chapter of this magnificent saga begins with two momentous events: the death and resurrection of Pope Julius XV and the coming-of-age of the new messiah. Her name is Aenea and she is the only person who can counter the pope and his plan to unleash the Pax Fleet, the Church''s military wing, on a final genocidal Crusade to gain total dominion over the universe. The Church is allied with the infamous AI Core, which has offered immortality to humankind--or at least to those faithful who pledge total obedience to the Church--but at what terrible price? The Core has its own dark motives and secrets, and only Aenea knows what they are.Aenea, too, has an ally. Her protector, Raul Endymion, onetime shepherd and convicted murderer, finds her in exile undergoing a strange apprenticeship on Old Earth. Here she has gained access to an information matrix created by the Others--the same mysterious Others who moved Old Earth to save it from the Core. But who are these Others? What has Aenea learned from them? And why has Old Earth been turned into a stage upon which cybrids from the past--from John Keats to Frank Lloyd Wright--repeat historical dramas of human genius for purposes known only to the Others?The answers to these questions must wait. Together with the android A. Bettik,Endymion and his beloved Aenea embark on a final mission to find and comprehend the underlying fabric of the universe. The surprising nature of this medium and Aenea''s ability to instruct her growing army of disciples in its discovery and use could provide the one weapon powerful enough to thwart their enemies while liberating humanity. Meanwhile, the enigmatic Shrike--monster, angel, killing machine--has followed them on their intergalactic sojourn and now stands ready to complete its own mission, revealing at last the long-held secret of its origin and purpose.In "The Rise of Endymion, " Dan Simmons masterfully weaves together the complex strands of this extraordinary series. He answers all of the unsolved mysteries posed in the earlier volumes and brings the story full circle to the planet Hyperion, where it all began. A work of unparalleled power and vision, "The Rise of Endymion" is a masterpiece of the imagination by one of our most gifted writers. Praise for Dan Simmons and the "Hyperion" novels:  "The Rise of Endymion: " "Simmons'' scope is truly staggering, his inventiveness continues to impress, and the narrative offers something for everyone." "--Kirkus Reviews"  "Hyperion: " "The "Hyperion" saga is an astonishing achievement, overbrimming with adventure, lyricism and insight. A miracle of invention and economy, played out on a dozen and more meticulously created worlds, the tetralogy is surely one of science fiction''s grandest visions." "--BookPage" "Extraordinary." "--Asimov''s Science Fiction" "A magnificently original blend of themes and styles." "--The Denver Post"  "The Fall of Hyperion: " "Generously conceivedand stylistically sure-handed...an unfailingly inventive narrative that bears comparison with such classics as Isaac Asimov''s "Foundation" series, Frank Herbert''s "Dune, " and Gene Wolfe''s "Book of the New Sun." " "--The New York Times Book Review" "Dan Simmons has brilliantly conceptualized a future 700 years distant. In sheer scope and complexity it matches, and perhaps even surpasses, those of Isaac Asimov and James Blish." "--The Washington Post Book World"  "Endymion: " "[A] mastery of far-future science fiction." "--The New York Times Book Review" "Best science fiction novel of 1995." "--Rocky Mountain News"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1165'),
(590, 'Rising Tides', 'Taylor Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The intrigue-heavy fifth installment in the saga of a temporally displaced WWII destroyer and crew moves from southeast Asian jungles to Hawai''i dueling grounds. Capt. Matt Reddy is faced with the dual tasks of breaking the treacherous Honorable New Britain Company and securing an alliance with the slave-keeping Empire. Doing so, however, incurs the enmity of the Holy Dominion, displaced colonial Spaniards who practice a blood-drenched sort of Catholicism. While Matt struggles with moral ambiguities, the younger officers gain more responsibilities and face the fatal consequences of mistakes in command, and Lt. Sandra Tucker leads imperial heir Princess Rebecca and a boatload of Company escapees across a dinosaur-crammed Pacific island. Anderson continues to broaden the scope of the story, but never lets the philosophy drown out the action, tossing in a full-scale naval battle and a volcanic tsunami for the twin climaxes. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Taylor Anderson''s acclaimed Destroyermen series, a parallel universe adds a extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II. Now, as Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the U.S.S.\n <em>\n  Walker\n </em>\n continue their battle for both freedom and survival, the stakes become much more personal...and much more perilous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/946'),
(591, 'Rite of Passage Part 2', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1077'),
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(593, 'Rite of Passage Part 4', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1082'),
(594, 'The River of Wind', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Coryn and the Band have returned to the Great Ga''Hoole Tree and restored order. With the Ember safely hidden away, the tree shakes off its gaudy golden glow and recovers its natural majesty. Meanwhile, deep in the Palace of Mists, Bess finds an ancient map fragment that reveals that there are not 5 owl kingdoms -- as has been thought since time immemorial -- but 6. Coryn and the chaw of chaws set off to find this unknown land. In a landscape of perpetual winter, they discover a monastery of serene, learned owls, the likes of which no one has ever seen before.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  KATHRYN LASKY has written many award-winning books, both fiction and nonfiction. She has two grown children and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1179'),
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(596, 'Robopocalypse: A Novel', 'Daniel H. Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2011\n  </strong>\n  :In the not-too-distant future, robots have made our lives a lot easier: they help clean our kitchens, drive our cars, and fight our wars--until they are turned into efficient murderers by a sentient artificial intelligence buried miles below the surface of Alaska.\n  <em>\n   Robopocalypse\n  </em>\n  is a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that makes a strong case that mindless fun can also be wildly inventive. The war is told as an oral history, assembled from interviews, security camera footage, and first- and secondhand testimonies, similar to Max Brook''s zombie epic\n  <em>\n   World War Z\n  </em>\n  . The book isn''t shy about admitting to its influences, but author Daniel H. Wilson certainly owes more to\n  <em>\n   Terminator\n  </em>\n  than he does to Asimov. (A film adaptation is already in pre-production, with Steven Spielberg in the director''s chair and a release date slated for 2013.)\n  <em>\n   Robopocalypse\n  </em>\n  may not be the most unique tale about the war between man and machine, but it''s certainly one of the most fun. --_Kevin Nguyen_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Robert Crais\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Robert Crais\n  </strong>\n  is the 2006 recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award and the author of many\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers, including\n  <em>\n   The Watchman\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Chasing Darkness\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The First Rule\n  </em>\n  , and _The Sentry.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Robopocalypse\n  </em>\n  is as good as Michael Crichton''s\n  <em>\n   Andromeda Strain\n  </em>\n  or\n  <em>\n   Jurassic Park\n  </em>\n  , and I do not invoke Mr. Crichton''s name lightly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Daniel Wilsonâ€™s novel is an end of the world story about a coming machine-versus-man war. You know the reader''s clichÃ©: â€œI couldn''t stop turning the pagesâ€? So shoot me--I couldn''t. Started on a Friday afternoon, finished Sunday morning, and I''m slow. My daughter finished it in a single night, and then my wife. My wife\n  <em>\n   hates\n  </em>\n  science fiction, but she loved this book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Set in a future only a few weeks away, the world is still our world, where advancements in silicon-chip technology and artificial intelligence have given us rudimentary android laborers and cars that can get around without human drivers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The war begins the fourteenth time a scientist named Nicholas Wasserman wakes an amped-up artificial intelligence dubbed Archos. In a protected lab environment designed to contain his creation, Wasserman has awakened the sentient computer intelligence thirteen previous times, always with the same result: Archos realizes that it loves that rarest of miraclesâ€”life--above all else, and to preserve life on Earth, it must destroy mankind. This wasn''t exactly what Wasserman wanted to hear, so thirteen times before, a disappointed Wasserman killed it and returned to the drawing board. But unlike Archos, Wasserman is a man, and men make mistakes. Now, on this fourteenth awakening, a simple (but believable) error by the scientist allows Archos to escape the barrier of the lab. And the war is on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Archos goes live, its control spreads like a virus as it reprograms the everyday devices of our lives, from cell phones to ATM machines to traffic lights to airliners. A normally benign "Big Happy" domestic robot murders a cook in a fast-food joint. A safety and pacification robot (think of an overgrown Ken doll with a dopey grin, designed to win hearts and minds) used by the army in Afghanistan (yes, we''re still there) goes bad and kills dozens of people. And, in a particularly creepy scene, â€œsmart toysâ€ wake in their toy boxes at night to deliver ominous messages to children.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book is rich with high-speed-action set pieces and evocative, often frightening imagery (smart cars stalking pedestrians; human corpses reanimated by machines into zombie warriors), but\n  <em>\n   Robopocalype\n  </em>\n  is a terrific and affecting read because it is about human beings we can relate to, invest in, and root for.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among them: Cormac Wallace, a young photojournalist who escapes Boston at Zero Hour (the moment when Archos unleashes its machine army against humankind), and fights his way across the United States as the leader of a band of guerrillas known as the Brightboy squad. Takeo Nomura, a lonely technician in love with an android â€œlove dollâ€ named Mikiko, who, when she is reprogrammed by Archos, is driven by his love and sadness to fix her, an effort that will ultimately help turn the tide of the war. And Lurker, a pissed-off hacker and phone pranker furiously determined to identify the mysterious person who is taking the credit for his elaborate pranks . . . only to find himself in Archos''s crosshairs and running for his life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Little by little, the discoveries they (and others) make and the battles they fight lead to locating Archos, and the final battle for humanity''s survival. By choosing to show us these events through the eyes of the men and women involved, Wilson gives us a high-speed, real-time history of the war on its most human level, and it is our investment in these characters and their desperate struggle that grabs us and pulls us along at a furious clip.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In lesser hands, the story could have been head-shot with pseudo-science technical jargon, overwrought explanation, and cartoonish characterizations. Instead, Wilson has given us a richly populated and thrilling novel that celebrates life and humanity, and the power of the human heart . . . even if that heart beats in a machine.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThings pop along at a wonderfully breakneck pace, and by letting his characters reveal themselves through their actions, Wilson creates characters that spring to life. Vigorous, smart and gripping.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --Kirkus\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A brilliantly conceived thriller that could well become horrific reality. A captivating tale,\n  <em>\n   Robopocalypse\n  </em>\n  will grip your imagination from the first word to the last, on a wild rip you won''t soon forget. What a readâ€¦unlike anything Iâ€™ve read before."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   CLIVE CUSSLER\n  </strong>\n  ,Â _New York Times_ bestselling author\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Andromeda Strain\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  for the new century, this is visionary fiction at its best: harrowing, brilliantly rendered, and far, far too believable."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   LINCOLN CHILD\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Deep Storm\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Robopocalypse_ reminded me of Michael Crichton when he was young and the best in the business.Â This novel is brilliant, beautifully conceived, beautifully written (high-five, Dr. Wilson)â€¦but what makes it is the humanity. Wilson doesn''t waste his time writing about ''things,'' he''s writing about human beings -- fear, love, courage, hope. I loved it.â€\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   ROBERT CRAIS\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Sentry\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence.Â  Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes its creators are no longer needed.Â  Lean prose, great characters, and almost unbearable tension ensure that\n  <em>\n   Robopocalypse\n  </em>\n  is going to be a blockbuster.Â  Once started I defy anyone to put it down."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   JACK DuBRUL\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The parts of this book enter your mind, piece by piece, where they self-assemble into a story that makes you think, makes you feel, and makes you scared."\n  <br />\n  â€“Â \n  <strong>\n   CHA...\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1200'),
(597, 'Roc and a Hard Place', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 19th novel in this lighthearted series, popular for its puns and its innocent naughtiness, is again set in the fantasy land of Xanth (Demons Don''t Dream ). Here, Anthony tells the story of the Demoness Metria and her other selves, the crazy D. Mentia and the waif Woe Betide, as they carry on a mission for the Good Magician Humfrey: Metria and company must assemble a court and jury to try Roxanne Roc, under unspecified charges from another magical Xanth bird, the Simurgh. On this loose structure are hung many outlandish characters, adventures, jokes and plays on words-such as the quarter horse that splits into four one-legged creatures, or the twins Ordinate and Abscissa, who can travel "by geometry." The mentions of Xanth''s enforced "Adult Conspiracy to keep Interesting Things from Children," the youth of some of the characters and the euphemistic presentation of sex may appeal to younger readers. A concluding author''s note adds a more somber touch, as Anthony explains how deceased friends and fans have made their way into his ever-evolving vision of Xanth.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the umpteenth installment of Anthony''s Xanth series, the Demoness Metria has a problem that only the good magician Humfrey can help her solve. There is a price to pay, however--finding a jury to give Roxanne Roc, under indictment for some bizarre crimes (and under such dubious circumstances that even Metria doubts Roxanne''s innocence), an impartial trial. It is getting hard to say anything new about the Xanth yarns, for Anthony is not really putting many surprises in them anymore. The series goes on as before, affording honorable light entertainment and no more, but never any less. Perhaps the most interesting feature of this book is Anthony''s afterword, which takes up how he draws on events and people in Mundania (i.e., our world) to continually expand the cast and concepts of Xanth.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/483'),
(598, 'Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border', 'Jeff Smith &amp; Steve Hamaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this fifth volume of the BONE saga, Fone and Smiley Bone strike out into the wilderness to return a lost rat creature cub to the mountains. It doesn''t take long before they run smack into Rock Jaw, "Master of the Eastern Border," an enormous mountain lion with a none-too-friendly disposition. Life gets even more complicated when they befriend a group of baby animals who are being orphaned by rat creature attacks. Everything comes to a head in an earth-shattering clash between Rock Jaw and Kingdok, the leader of the rat creatures.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jeff Smith was born and raised in the American Midwest and learned about cartooning from comic strips, comic books, and TV animation. He launched the comic book Bone in 1991.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1186'),
(599, 'Royal Assassin', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Continuing in the tradition of her first book (Assassin''s Apprentice) Hobb propels the Farseer saga into its second installment with irresistible plotting and memorable characters. Fitz is a trained assassin in the service of King Shrewd and also the king''s illegitimate grandson. He is sworn to protect heir to the throne Prince Verity and Verity''s new bride, but his task is complicated by an invasion of vicious barbarians who turn helpless captives into zombie-like Forged Ones. The home front is no safer, with an ailing King and usurpers to the throne waiting in the wings. Romance, sibling rivalry, battlefield exploits, betrayal, political intrigue and telepathic magic insure that there''s never a dull moment in the Kingdom of the Six Duchies. Through deft description and characterizations, Hobb manages to create a kingdom that looks like a fairy tale but feels like the real world?which makes it almost impossible not to become immersed in Hobb''s fantasy epic. The ending clamors for a sequel-and hopefully sooner, than later.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Second entry in Hobb''s fantasy series about the Six Duchies and their Farseer kings (Assassin''s Apprentice, 1995). At Buckkeep, King Shrewd lies dying, attended only the by the faithful, enigmatic Fool; King in Waiting Verity spends all his time Skilling to befuddle and bemuse the dreaded Red Ship Raiders, while his beautiful, neglected wife, Kettricken, wanders disconsolately. Young FitzChivalry, still ailing after his previous mission, tries to serve both Shrewd and Verity while seeking ways to frustrate the vaulting ambitions of Shrewd''s youngest son, the viperous Prince Regal. Shrewd, meantime, has forbidden poor Fitz to marry his beloved Molly, a commoner. Fitz also possesses the Wit, an ability to talk to and empathize with animals, and he bonds with a young wolf he rescues from cruel captivity. Verity builds his own warships, but still can''t defeat the Raiders--and the weaker Verity grows, the more the people listen to Regal''s treacherous murmurings. Finally, Verity goes into the mountains seeking the Elderlings, a godlike race that helped a previous Farseer king to defeat the Raiders, leaving Fitz to protect Kettricken and Shrewd. Another spellbinding installment, built of patient detail, believable characters, and mature plotting--though, at an unwarranted 608 pages, there are ominous signs that Hobb''s beginning to lose control of her narrative. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/962'),
(600, 'Royal Destiny', 'Morgan Howell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œDar never loses our admiration and compassionâ€“qualities at the heart of any struggling hero.â€\n <br />\n â€“Karin Lowachee, author of Warchild\n</p>\n<p>\n A delicate alliance between human and orc has been achieved. Now Queen of the Orcs, Dar works toward making that peace last. Her position has helped her to finally feel part of a community, to find a life to call her own.\n</p>\n<p>\n But sudden, strange outbreaks of unrest and ominous signs throw both realms into turmoil. Dar must draw on her knowledge and skills to confront a merciless long-time enemyâ€“and an evil she once only barely survived. To keep human and orc from destroying one another, Dar risks everything on a desperate gambleâ€“and her own future on a heartbreaking sacrifice. _\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n Look for Books I and II in the Queen of the Orcs trilogy\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n A graduate of Oberlin College and the Rochester Institute of Technology, Morgan Howell is a full-time writer who lives in upstate New York.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/933'),
(601, 'The Sable Quean', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lifeâ€™s been peaceful for Redwallâ€™s diverse woodland creatures. But when the abbeyâ€™s youngsters mysteriously start disappearing, young hare Buckler, the Long Patrolâ€™s Blademaster, and others embark on a dangerous quest to rescue them from evil Vilaya, the Sable Queanâ€”who, with henchman Zwilt and vermin Ravagers, plans to take over Redwall and Mossflower Wood. The latest entry in the prolific, popular series will please devotees, with episodes comedic to dramatic and characters of all stripes and furs, from feisty shrew maid Flib to tough though tenderhearted warrior mole Axtel. Side stories and alternating charactersâ€™ experiences add intrigue, suspense, and depth to an absorbing, sure-to-be-requested read. Grades 5-8. --Shelle Rosenfeld\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n He appears out of thin air and vanishes just as quickly. He is Zwilt the Shade, and he is evil. Yet he is no match for his ruler, Vilaya the Sable Quean. Along with their hordes of vermin, these two have devised a plan to conquer Redwall Abbey. And when the Dibbuns go missing, captured one by one, their plan is revealed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Will the Redwallers risk the fate of their Abbey and all of Mossflower Wood to save their precious young ones from imprisonment? Perhaps Buckler, Blademaster of the Long Patrol, can save the day. He has a score of his own to settle. And fear not, these Dibbuns are not as innocent as they appear. After all, theyâ€™re from Redwall.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/699'),
(602, 'Sacrifice', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1089'),
(603, 'Safe', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/814'),
(604, 'The Sagan Diary', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fans of John Scalzi''s "Old Man" universe, prepare yourselves: there''s a long new story in that universe, told from the point of view of one of the series'' most intriguing characters. And for the first time, fans can become part of the universe themselves. Subterranean Press is proud to announce The Sagan Diary, a long novelette that for the first time looks at the worlds of the Hugo-nominated Old Man''s War and its sequel The Ghost Brigades from the point of view of Lieutenant Jane Sagan, who in a series of diary entries gives her views on some of the events included in the series... and sheds new light into some previously unexplored corners. If you thought you knew Jane Sagan before, prepare to be surprised.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/383'),
(605, 'The Sagittarius Command', 'R. M. Meluch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Nostalgia-minded readers who yearn for the days of Doc Smith''s Lensman books will enjoy the third installment (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   Wolf Star\n  </em>\n  ) of Meluch''s barely modernized space opera series. When the Palatine Empire''s home world of Roma Nova almost falls to the voracious, nigh-invulnerable Hive, which travels between the stars in search of organic matter to consume, Caesar Magnus reluctantly subjugates the empire''s forces to Capt. John Farragut and the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Merrimack\n  </em>\n  . This marriage of convenience is strained when the Legate voices suspicions that the Americans are trying to steal technology developed by long-dead Roman genius Constantine. As Farragut and the Roman cyborg Augustus (who plays a combination of Spock and McCoy to Farragut''s Kirk) investigate the Hive infestation, they come to suspect Constantine might be not only alive but in possession of the secret to defeat the Hive. Assassinations, the threat of civil war and a canonically evil villain all keep things hopping in this fast-paced space adventure.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Grand old-fashioned space opera, so toss your disbelief out the nearest air lock and dive in."\n  <br />\n  '' --\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  , starred review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1019'),
(606, 'Salamandastron', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the inhabitants of Redwall relax in the haze of the long, hot summer, they are unaware that the neighboring stronghold of Salamandastron lies besieged by the evil weasel army of Ferhago the Assassin. Nor do they realize that Mara, beloved daughter of Urthsipe, Badger Lord of the Fire Mountain, is in terrible danger. But when a lightening bolt uncovers the sword of Martin the Warrior, young Samkin embarks on adventure that leads him to Mara, and their lives become inextricably entwined.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brian Jacques once again strikes to the heart in this stunningly executed adventure, another in the best-selling Redwall series, proving, if indeed proof was needed, that he ranks high among the best children''s authors in the world. His genius lies in his ability to capture character and atmosphere with a stroke of a pen, drawing the reader in until the only way to start breathing again is to finish the book.\n <em>\n  --Susan Harrison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The beastly names have changed but the epic struggle between good and evil rages on in this continuation of the acclaimed Redwall series. Leading the fight is the badger maid, Mara; a dashing hare named Pikkle; and Dumble, a baby vole all aptly named in the colorful tradition of Jacques''s animal characterizations. At stake are the lives of all the good beasts of Redwall Abbey who are stricken with a terrible plague. A bittersweet relationship between Mara and her guardian, the Badger Lord of Salamandastron, provides an emotional thread that cleverly joins far-flung bands of swashbuckling beasts, on various quests and fighting sorties, in its moving ceremonial conclusion. Against the backdrop of a seemingly endless parade of heroes and villains, danger and daring rescues, Jacques has created over the years a loyalty between his readers and the creatures of Redwall Abbey: the reader feels included in the Abbey''s history as it is being written, and Jacques encourages that empathy by creating animal characters that respond to extraordinary circumstances with compellingly human-like humility and strength. Chalk''s black-and-white illustrations above each chapter number are small marvels of nuance and personality. Ages 10-14.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/172'),
(607, 'Sam &amp; Max - The Big Sleep', 'Steve Purcell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/865'),
(608, 'Sam and Max - Freelance Police Special', 'Steve Purcell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/866'),
(609, 'Savage Planet', 'Barry B. Longyear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/501'),
(610, 'Savior', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Twenty-five years ago the survivors of the marooned Sith ship Omen bloodlessly conquered the native population of the remote planet Kesh, installing themselves as overlords and transforming the primitive Keshiri civilization into a new Sith society. Letting nothing stand in his wayâ€”including his own brotherâ€™s lifeâ€”Omen commander-turned-Grand Lord Yaru Korsin has ruled unopposed ever since. But now his days, and those of the ruthless Sith order on Kesh, may be numbered.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Revoltâ€”and revengeâ€”have been brewing in the hearts of the two women closest to Korsin. One is Adari Vaal, the once-outcast Keshiri who rescued the stranded Sith, aided their domination of Kesh, and now leads the secret resistance against them. The other is Seelah, wife of Korsin, widow of his murdered brother, and mastermind of the plot to assassinate the Grand Lord and seize power. But have the comforts of a king and his own arrogance blunted Korsinâ€™s cunning Sith instincts? Or is he ready to deal swiftly and mercilessly with treachery from any quarter?Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Enemies themselves, Adari and Seelah are unaware of each otherâ€™s destiny-altering gambits. They only know that there can be no turning backâ€”and no escaping the consequences if they fail.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Allies.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The _\n  <strong>\n   Fate of the Jedi\n  </strong>\n  _ novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be? _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith\n  </strong>\n  _ answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The fourth episode, _\n  <strong>\n   Savior\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   , takes place ten years after the events of\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith #4: Paragon\n  </strong>\n  _. After years of dominating the natives, the only thing that can threaten the Lost Tribe''s hold on Kesh is infighting within the Tribe itself -- and where Sith are involved, there''s always a schism or purge just around the corner. But this time, there''s a wild card in play. Could the Sith be outsmarted at their own deceitful game?\n </p>\n <p>\n  To follow the story of the Lost Tribe from the beginning, start with the first chapter,Â  _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice.\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1156'),
(611, 'A Scanner Darkly', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick''s hugely influential SF stories.\n <em>\n  A Scanner Darkly\n </em>\n cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick''s own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. Nevertheless, it''s blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the time when as a boy he discovered masturbation.) The antihero Bob Arctor is forced by his double life into warring double personalities: as futuristic narcotics agent "Fred," face blurred by a high-tech scrambler, he must spy on and entrap suspected drug dealer Bob Arctor. His disintegration under the influence of the insidious Substance D is genuine tragicomedy. For Arctor there''s no way off the addict''s downward escalator, but what awaits at the bottom is a kind of redemption--there are more wheels within wheels than we suspected, and his life is not entirely wasted.\n <em>\n  --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Described as being "like a graphic novel come to life," the 2006 film version of Dick''s classic 1977 novel\n <em>\n  A Scanner Darkly\n </em>\n is a full-length animated feature directed by Richard Linklater using rotoscope visual technique. In rotoscoping, filmed actors are digitally transformed into drawings. The graphic novel version of the film consists mostly of direct screen grabs from the animated version. Harvey Pekar has added some narration that has been adapted from the novel. The books and film tell the story of a futuristic Southern California in which drugs are rampant and identity mutable. Keanu Reeves plays an undercover cop who has to spy on and understand the druggy circles around him. The film looks intriguing, but the graphic novel version falls asleep instead of coming to life. Simply arranging film stills on a page to resemble comic book panels does not a narrative make. And while the dialogue seems mostly drawn from the film, the narration, intended to bridge the gap between watching action unfold and reading it, is incongruous and sometimes nonsensical in this setting. This bizarre hybrid is no substitute for Dick''s original and will serve best as a reminder of the film.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/622'),
(612, 'The Scar', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the third book in an astounding, genre-breaking run, China MiÃ©ville expands the horizon beyond the boundaries of New Crobuzon, setting sail on the high seas of his ever-growing world of Bas Lag.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Scar\n  </em>\n  begins with MiÃ©ville''s frantic heroine, Bellis Coldwine, fleeing her beloved New Crobuzon in the peripheral wake of events relayed in\n  <em>\n   Perdidio Street Station\n  </em>\n  . But her voyage to the colony of Nova Esperium is cut short when she is shanghaied and stranded on Armada, a legendary floating pirate city. Bellis becomes the reader''s unbelieving eyes as she reluctantly learns to live on the gargantuan flotilla of stolen ships populated by a rabble of pirates, mercenaries, and press-ganged refugees. Meanwhile, Armada and Bellis''s future is skippered by the "Lovers," an enigmatic couple whose mirror-image scarring belies the twisted depth of their passion. To give up any more of MiÃ©villeâ€™s masterful plot here would only ruin the voyage through dangerous straits, political uprisings, watery nightmares, mutinous revenge, monstrous power plays, and grand aspirations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  MiÃ©ville''s skill in articulating brilliantly macabre and involving descriptions is paralleled only by his ability to set up world-moving plot twists that continually blow away the reader''s expectations. Man-made mutations, amphibious aliens, transdimensional beings, human mosquitoes, and even vampires are merely neighbors, coworkers, friends, and enemies coexisting in the dizzying tapestry of diversity that is Armada.\n  <em>\n   The Scar\n  </em>\n  proves MiÃ©ville has the muscle and talent to become a defining force as he effortlessly transcends the usual clichÃ©s of the genre.\n  <em>\n   --Jeremy Pugh\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this stand-alone novel set in the same monster-haunted universe as last year''s much-praised Perdido Street Station, British author Mieville, one of the most talented new writers in the field, takes us on a gripping hunt to capture a magical sea-creature so large that it could snack on Moby Dick, and that''s just for starters. Armada, a floating city made up of the hulls of thousands of captured vessels, travels slowly across the world of Bas-Lag, sending out its pirate ships to prey on the unwary, gradually assembling the supplies and captive personnel it needs to create a stupendous work of dark magic. Bellis Coldwine, an embittered, lonely woman, exiled from the great city of New Crobuzon, is merely one of a host of people accidentally trapped in Armada''s far-flung net, but she soon finds herself playing a vital role in the byzantine plans of the city''s half-mad rulers. The author creates a marvelously detailed floating civilization filled with dark, eccentric characters worthy of Mervyn Peake or Charles Dickens, including the aptly named Coldwine, a translator who has devoted much of her life to dead languages; Uther Doul, the superhuman soldier/scholar who refuses to do anything more than follow orders; and Silas Fennec, the secret agent whose perverse magic has made him something more and less than human. Together they sail through treacherous, magic-ridden seas, on a quest for the Scar, a place where reality mutates and all things become possible. This is state-of-the-art dark fantasy and a likely candidate for any number of award nominations. (July 2). Forecast: Perdido Street Station won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award. A major publicity push including a six-city author tour should help win new readers in the U.S.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/974'),
(613, 'Schild&#39;s Ladder', 'Greg Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Greg Egan became the hottest new science-fiction author of the 1990s and won the Hugo and John W. Campbell Memorial awards by extrapolating cutting-edge quantum physics and consciousness theory to create rigorous and radical new visions of the posthuman future.\n <em>\n  Schild''s Ladder\n </em>\n affirms Mr. Egan''s place, with\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Schild''s Ladder\n </em>\n , humanity has transcended both death and Earth, and discovered its home world is nearly unique as a cradle of life. As it spreads throughout the galaxy, humanity enjoys an almost utopian existence--until a scientist accidentally creates an impenetrable, steadily expanding vacuum that devours star systems and threatens the entire universe with destruction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tchicaya is a Yielder, member of the faction that believes this "novo-vacuum" deserves study. The opposing Preservationists--among them Mariama, his first love--seek to save worlds and destroy the novo-vacuum. Discord heats to terrorist violence; then enmities and alliances are turned upside-down by a discovery that may mean the novo-vacuum is, instead, a new and very different universe--and one which may contain life.\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Australian Egan (Teranesia) writes some of the hardest SF around in terms both of difficulty and cutting-edge scientific content, as shown in his latest challenging novel, set some 20,000 years in the future. Though superhuman by our standards, Egan''s characters often disembodied intelligences who prefer to live as programs in virtual reality or in still stranger, high-tech media are still capable of making mistakes. At the start, an experiment in quantum physics goes badly astray, creating another universe with physical laws that differ from our own. Its border expanding at half the speed of light, this new universe swallows planetary systems whole. Fortunately, humanity is so highly developed that entire populations can be quickly evacuated with little if any loss of life. Soon the scientific community divides into two groups, those who would destroy the new universe, and those who would study it. The debate becomes even more tense when evidence of life is found behind the rapidly expanding border. Characters invariably speak the language of quantum physics fluently, and the author makes little effort to bring their discussion down to the layman''s level. Not until the end, when scientists begin to explore the new universe, does Egan make any real attempt to engage the reader''s senses or emotions. The pleasures of this impressive novel, although considerable, are almost entirely intellectual.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/566'),
(614, 'Scott Pilgrim &amp; the Infinite Sadness', 'Bryan Lee O&#39;malley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Scott has to deal with his new girlfriend''s seven evil ex-boyfriends while his band tries to get ready to open a rock show starring a band fronted by an ex-girlfriend of his own.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1229'),
(615, 'Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together', 'Bryan Lee O&#39;malley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Scott Pilgrim is a graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O''Malley. It consists of six digest size black-and-white volumes, released between August 2004 and July 2010, by Portland-based independent comic book publisher Oni Press. The series is about 23-year-old Canadian Scott Pilgrim, a slacker and part-time musician who lives in Toronto and plays bass guitar in the band Sex Bob-omb. He falls in love with American delivery girl Ramona Flowers, but must defeat her seven evil exes in order to date her. A film adaptation of the series titled Scott Pilgrim vs. the World starring actor Michael Cera in the title role was released in August 2010. A videogame of the same name developed by Ubisoft for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade was released the same month. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Development | Plot summary | Publications | Critical reception | In other media\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. After three volumes of hilarious slackingâ€”a jobless trek of playing in a band, wobbling between romantic entanglements and battling the seven evil ex-boyfriends of his current girlfriend, Ramona Flowersâ€”Scott Pilgrim must finally make choices. Does he truly love mysterious messenger Ramona? Will his band SexBobOmb play out? Can he pay the rent? Can he keep a job? And why is be being followed by two ninjas? O''Malley''s manga-tinged youth comedy has gotten more confident as the series has become a veritable institution, with an eight-page color section to open this volume, but the story, too, reveals new layers of character. This time out the main complication in Scott''s life is Julie, a high school might-have-been-girlfriend. Cute Julie keeps showering him with attention, forcing him to deal with his feelings for Ramona, who also has a visitor from her past. The references from indie band lore, video games and manga keep the story sharp, while the occasional fight scenesâ€”Scott must face two opponents at once!â€”are perfect metaphors for the uncertainty and excitement of being an early 20-something. O''Malley''s sparkling dialogue captures the bravado, insensitivity and engaging cluelessness of a generation for whom a dishwashing job constitutes getting it together big time.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1230'),
(616, 'Scott Pilgrim vs the Universe', 'Bryan Lee O&#39;malley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1231'),
(617, 'Scott Pilgrim vs. The World', 'Bryan Lee O&#39;malley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. The first volume of this slacker-manga-action hybrid introduced Scott Pilgrim, a video gameâ€“playing regular guy whose love life leads him into irregular trouble. This second book opens with a peek into Scott''s past: we see his early romantic troubles and the talentless band that sprang from them. In the present, Scott''s new romance with mysterious messenger girl Ramona Flowers sends his former girlfriend, teenage Knives Chau, into a fury that culminates in an all-out kung fu battle between the two. In the surrealist twists that fill O''Malley''s work, characters who are introduced in dreams end up playing major parts in the "real" life of the story, and you never know when the meandering lives of these Canadian 20-somethings are going to shift into high-action fight sequences. O''Malley gained acclaim and award nominations for the first Scott Pilgrim book, and he deserves the recognition. The story continued here is delightful, light, clever and surprising. O''Malley takes a manga influenceâ€”big eyes, informational inserts and explosions of energyâ€”and throws in pop culture referencesâ€”a band named the Clash at Demonhead, Ramona''s skater turned movie star ex-boyfriendâ€”to create a fresh, grungy style. The narrative jumps, combined with sharp, sardonic dialogue, make this a great oddball tale that captures the energy of a generation.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Does Scott and Ramona''s burgeoning relationship have a future? Isn''t Scott still supposedly dating Knives Chau? Who is Ramona''s second evil ex-boyfriend, and why is he in Toronto? Who are The Clash At Demonhead, and what kind of bizarre art-punky music do they play? Who''s their hot girl keyboardist, and what is Scott''s relation to her? Why are they Knives Chau''s new favourite band? Fights! Drama! Secrets revealed! The answers to all these questions and more!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1232'),
(618, 'Scott Pilgrim&#39;s Precious Little Life', 'Bryan Lee O&#39;malley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Scott Pilgrim''s fantastic life takes an unforseen turn when rollerblading delivery girl Ramano Flowers makes her appearance.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1233'),
(619, 'Scud - The Disposable Assassin Issues 1-5', 'Rob Schrab', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1205'),
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(621, 'Scud - The Disposable Assassin Issues 15-20', 'Rob Schrab', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1208'),
(622, 'Scud - The Disposable Assassin Issues 21-24', 'Rob Schrab', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1209'),
(623, 'Scud - The Disposable Assassin Issues 6-10', 'Rob Schrab', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1206'),
(624, 'The Sea of Monsters', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-9â€“In this sequel (Miramax Books, 2006) to Rick Riordan''s\n <em>\n  The Lightning Thief\n </em>\n (Hyperion, 2005; Listening Library, 2005) 13-year-old Percy is just finishing up his school year and is looking forward to another great summer at Camp Half-Blood with all the other demigods. But even before school ends, things start happening, and soon Percy is at camp along with Tyson, a homeless kid adopted by Percy''s school. At camp, Percy not only discovers that Tyson is a Cyclops and a son of Poseidon, which makes him Percy''s half-brother, but also that the camp is in trouble. There''s a quest to rescue Percy''s friend, Grover the satyr, and to retrieve the Golden Fleece. The plot zips along with plenty of action; lots of mythological monsters, titans, and gods; and a leavening of humor. Jesse Bernstein does a good job of giving Percy a youthful voice in this first-person narrative, while at the same time creating appropriate voices for the other characters. Listeners who have not read or listened to the first book in the projected trilogy will want to do so before the next installment is published.â€“_Sarah Flowers, Santa Clara County Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 6-9. In this second adventure in Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Percy is anticipating the end of seventh grade and a summer at Camp Half-Blood with kids who are the offspring of Greek gods and mortals. He dreams that his pal Grover, a satyr, is in danger. After monsters attack in his school gym class, Percy and Tyson, a homeless kid, are picked up by Annabeth, a half-blood friend, and rushed to the camp, which is under attack. The tree that guards the camp is dying, and Chiron, the activity director, has been dismissed. Another dream reveals that Grover, whose peril is increasing, is on the same island as the legendary Golden Fleece, which may be the cure for the troubled camp. With the help of Hermes, Percy and his pals set off to the Sea of Monsters, where they encounter legendary dangers. Riordan''s clever mix of classical mythology, contemporary teen characters, and an action-packed adventure will bring new readers to the series.\n <em>\n  Diana Herald\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/350'),
(625, 'Second Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Isaac Asimov''s Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity''s light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.\n</p>\n<p>\n After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruinsâ€”destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first timeâ€”but now he is certain he knows where it lies.\n</p>\n<p>\n The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. They too want the Second Foundation destroyedâ€¦before it destroys them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule''s mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/369'),
(626, 'The Second Generation', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Poor grammar, weak imagery and rickety old plots dressed up as Matters of Import doom this series of novellas, a continuation of Weis and Hickman''s popular Dragon Lance series. As before, the protagonists are heroic; the revelation here is that the evil forces (who lost the War of the Lance some 20 years ago) are now organizing themselves into The Knights of Takhisis and employing the tactics once used to defeat them. They will be led, or not, by Steel Brightblade (the son of Kitiara, a disciple of evil in the last war) and Sturm (the hero in the last war). Action focuses on uninspired tales of Caramon Majere''s son Palin''s quest to be a wizard and political unrest among the Elves, which threatens the possibility of hegemony. There''s hardly any suspense since contrivances make it clear that the eventual victory will be by authorial fiat. Descriptions are repeated three or four times, often within paragraphs of each other--and little of it deserves close attention. For Dragon Lance game players, there is, of course, an appendix with game statistics and the like.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Years have passed since the end of the War of the Lance. The people of Ansalon have rebuilt their lives, their houses, their families. The Companions of the Lance, too, have returned to their homes, raising children and putting the days of their heroic deeds behind them.\n</p>\n<p>\n But peace on Krynn comes at a price. The forces of darkness are ever vigilant, searching for ways to erode the balance of power and take control. When subtle changes begin to permeate the fragile peace, new lives are drawn into the web of fate woven around all the races. The time has come to pass the sword -- or the staff -- to the children of the Lance.\n</p>\n<p>\n They are the Second Generation.\n</p>\n<p>\n An all-new repackaged paperback edition of a classic\n <strong>\n  Dragonlance\n </strong>\n novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book of five novellas bridges the gap between the Chronicles and Legends trilogies and\n <em>\n  Dragons of Summer Flame\n </em>\n . While detailing their adventures,\n <em>\n  The Second Generation\n </em>\n also sets up key events and characters in future\n <strong>\n  Dragonlance\n </strong>\n novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/98');
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(627, 'The Second Ship', 'Richard Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Enthusiastically recommended reading for Sci-fi fans...and UFO buffs.\n <em>\n  The Second Ship\n </em>\n will leave the reader looking eagerly toward the next installment of this gripping new series. --Jim Cox, Midwest Book Review\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For sixty years, the National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, has been investigating the powerful technologies of a damaged alien ship, an effort dubbed the "Rho Project." Now, the American government is ready to share the Rho Project discoveries with the world. But as the world scrambles to adopt the alien technologies, three high schoolers make another shocking discovery: hidden inside a cave in the New Mexico wilderness lies another alien ship. As the friends explore the second ship, they begin to unravel a decades-long secret involving an extraterrestrial war, government cover-ups, and secret experimentation using alien technology on humans. A battle has begun, and the secrets of the second ship may be the key to humanity''s last chance for survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/927'),
(628, 'The Secret World Chronicle', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1244'),
(629, 'Semper Mars', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Year is 2040.\n <br />\n The Marines have landed on Mars to guard the unearthed secrets\n <br />\n of an ancient and dangerous alien race:\n <br />\n Ourselves.\n</p>\n<p>\n Scientists have discovered something astonishing in the subterranean ruins of a sprawling Martian city: startling evidence of an alternative history that threatens to split humanity into opposing factions and plunge the Earth into chaos and war. The USMC -- a branch of a military considered, until just recently, to be obsolete -- has dispatched the Marine Mars Expeditionary Force, a thirty-man weapons platoon, to the Red Planet to protect American civilians and interest with lethal force if necessary.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Because great powers are willing to devastate a world in order to keep an ancient secret buried. Because something that was hidden in the Martian dust for half a million years has just been unearthed . . . something that calls into question every belief that forms the delicate foundation of civilization . . .\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Something inexplicably human.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ian Douglas\n </strong>\n is the author of the two previous books of the\n <em>\n  Heritage Trilogy, Semper Mars\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Luna Marine\n </em>\n .He lives in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/913'),
(630, 'A Sending of Dragons', 'Jane Yolen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The final volume in the Pit Dragon trilogywhich began with Dragon''s Bloodconcludes a riveting saga that intertwines elements of fantasy and science fiction. The planet of Austar, whose climate and history have much in common with Australia''s, serves as backdrop to the social hierarchy of the descendents of the original criminal/warden settlers. This book forces Jakkin and his friend Akkiwho became part dragon in the last book, Heart''s Bloodunderground, where they encounter a horrifying race of not-men, whose society is also based on the breeding and destruction of dragons. Yolen''s tightly plotted, adventurous trilogy constitutes superb storytelling. She incorporates elements of freedom and rebellion, power and control, love and friendship in a masterfully crafted context of a society sick with perversion. All phenomena relating to dragonsbirth, mating, physiology, telepathy, their training, breeding and careare meticulously evoked. The world of the dragons, which are complex creatures, provides a unique foundation for this compelling trilogy. Ages 12-14.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Up Here is the third and concluding volume in the indefatigably creative Jane Yolen''s\n <code>\n </code>\n Pit Dragon'''' trilogy. Jakkin and Akki, whom readers met in the two preceeding volumes, have survived in the Austarian wilds through bonding with the dragon Heart''s Blood, and in this volume continue their harrowing journey to freedom and spiritual enlightenment. Like the two volumes preceeding it, A Sending of Dragons '' particular strengths are in the almost encyclopedic detail which Yolen has lavished upon her fully realized alternative world of Austar IV, in her sympathetic portrayal of the dragons as both victims and telepathic partners, and in the symbolic sub-text which enriches her narrative and reinforces her universal theme of the inter-dependency and unique value of all life forms. Similarly the shortcomings reflect those of the two companion volumes: these include certain stylistic shortcomings and a tendency toward one-dimensional characterization. Nevertheless the trilogy remains an ambitious and rewarding work of speculative fiction. The two previous volumes should be read for a more complete understanding and appreciation of this concluding volume. Michael Cart, Beverly Hills Public Lib .\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/739'),
(631, 'Sentinel', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cast into slavery by the machinations of the Sith, Ori Kitai believes sheâ€™s found her way back into the Lost Tribeâ€”and perhaps a whole lot more. Oriâ€™s discovery of a second starship gives her the opportunity to avenge the humiliations heaped on her family by the decrepit Grand Lord. Indeed, she could turn their entire society upside downâ€”offering escape from their planetary prison.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  But Ori encounters resistance from a surprising person: the seemingly humble farmer who took her in: a man with a secret past and an agenda of his own. He cannot allow Ori Kitai to unleash the Lost Tribe on an unsuspecting galaxy. But how can he stop the woman he loves without destroying them both?Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Conviction.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The _\n  <strong>\n   Fate of the Jedi\n  </strong>\n  _ novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be? _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith\n  </strong>\n  _ answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The sixth episode, _\n  <strong>\n   Sentinel\n  </strong>\n  _ picks up right where where _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith #5: Purgatory\n  </strong>\n  _ left off. A castaway on a planet full of Sith castaways, Jelph Marrian is forced to fight the woman he loves in order to save the galaxy...\n </p>\n <p>\n  To follow the story of the Lost Tribe from the beginning, start with the first chapter,Â  _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice.\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1152'),
(632, 'Serenity - The Shepherd &#39;s Tale', 'Zack Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/591'),
(633, 'Serial', 'Jack Kilborn &amp; Blake Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1006'),
(634, 'Settling Accounts: Return Engagement', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this well-thought-out alternate history, the first in a new trilogy, Turtledove (_American Empire_) combines elements of the Civil War and WWII with disturbing results. Confederate President Jake Featherstone has launched an undeclared war of revenge on the U.S.A., with Rebel "barrels" (tanks) cutting the nation in half. U.S. President Al Smith doesn''t sue for peace as expected, causing unreconstructed Canadians to sabotage the now-vital Northern rail system holding the nation together. Mormon separatists have once more revolted against the federal government, and Louis Armstrong, who has defected to the North, brings with him chilling evidence of the Confederate "population reductions" (genocide) of African-Americans. Turtledove''s depiction of how easily the C.S.A. could carry out genocideâ€”and do so with less cost to the conscience than the Germans experienced in the real Holocaustâ€”coupled with the "so what?" reaction of Northerners when this is publicized makes a disturbing commentary on the state of race relations in both parts of our country. While some of the character descriptions are repetitious, the author handles his huge cast with admirable skill. The insights into racial politics elevate this novel to a status above mere entertainment, although it provides that aplenty.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest volume of Turtledove''s epic variation on American history, which opens the trilogy Settling Accounts, takes us to the opening battles of World War II. The Confederacy is better prepared for war than the U.S., and the conflict''s initial stages develop in favor of the Confederacy; in tandem, Tom Colleton loses his sister but meets a formidable armored commander named Patton. The Quebecois occupy the rest of Canada; in reaction, Mary Pomeroy grimly determines to keep the resistance going, even though the risks of doing so steadily increase. Although Clarence Potter loves Jake Featherston no more than he ever did, he remains just as loyal a head of Confederate intelligence. Meanwhile, this alternate history''s variation on the Holocaust marches forward, with Jefferson Pinkard simultaneously inventing new ways of executing African Americans and courting the widow of one of his guards. Scipio is trying to stay alive despite resistance fighters setting off car bombs too close for comfort, and Cincinnatus Driver is, willy-nilly, joining a resistance movement that promises to give this Holocaust a number of twists away from its model. Turtledove produces yet another absorbing installment of his character-centered alternate-history saga.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/959'),
(635, 'Shades of Grey: A Novel', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This inventive fantasy from bestseller Fforde (_The Eyre Affair_) imagines a screwball future in which social castes and protocols are rigidly defined by acuteness of personal color perception. Centuries after the cryptically cataclysmic Something That Happened, a Colortocracy, founded on the inflexible absolutes of the chromatic scale, rules the world. Amiable Eddie Russett, a young Red, is looking forward to marrying a notch up on the palette and settling down to a complacent bourgeois life. But after meeting Jane G-23, a rebellious working-class Grey, and a discredited, invisible historian known as the Apocryphal man, Eddie finds himself questioning the hitherto sacred foundations of the status quo. En route to finding out what turned things topsy-turvy, Eddie navigates a vividly imagined landscape whose every facet is steeped in the author''s remarkably detailed color scheme. Sometimes, though, it''s hard to see the story for the chromotechnics.\n  <em>\n   10-city author tour. (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  In Eddie Russettâ€™s world, color is destiny. Peopleâ€™s perceptions of color, once tested, determine their rank in the Colortocracy, with primes ruling â€œbastardâ€ colors and everyone lording it over the prole-like grays. No one can see more than their own color, and no one knows whyâ€”but there are many unknowns ever since Something Happened, followed by the deFacting and successive Great Leaps Backward. Due to an infraction against the Collectiveâ€™s rule-bound bureaucracy, Eddie is sent to East Carmine, in the Outer Fringes, where manners are shockingly poor, to conduct a monthlong chair census. In short order, he falls in love, runs afoul of the local prefects, learns a terrible secret, and is eaten by a carnivorous tree. This series starter combines the dire warnings of Brave New World and 1984 with the deevolutionary visions of A Canticle for Leibowitz and Riddley Walker, but, Fforde being Fforde, his dystopia includes an abundance of tea shops and a severe shortage of jam varieties. Itâ€™s all brilliantly original. If his complex world building sometimes slows the plot and the balance of silly and serious is uneasy, weâ€™re still completely won over. In our own willful myopia, we sorely need the laughs. --Keir Graff\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1227'),
(636, 'Shadow Magic', 'B. V. Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1014'),
(637, 'Shadow of the Giant', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Card''s latest installment in his Shadow subseries (_Ender''s Shadow_, etc.), which parallels the overarching series that began with\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n (1985), does a superlative job of dramatically portraying the maturing process of child into adult. The imminent death of Bean, a superhuman 20-something Battle School graduate who suffers from uncontrolled growth due to a genetic disorder, leaves little time for Peter the Hegemon, Ender''s older brother, to set up a single world government and for Bean and his wife and former classmate, Petra, to reclaim all their stolen children. When Card''s focus strays from his characters into pure politics, the story loses power, but it''s recharged as soon as he returns to the well-drawn interactions among Bean''s Battle School classmates whose decisions will determine Earth''s fate. They were trained to fight a (literally) single-minded alien enemy, but that war is over. Now, as young adults in command of human armies pitted against each other in messy conflicts with no clear solutions, Bean''s old cohorts must help create a peaceful future for Earth after they''re gone. Card makes the important point that there''s always more than one side to every issue. Fans will marvel at how subtly he has prepared for the clever resolution.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Considering the dynasty of novels launched by _Ender''s Game\n <em>\n  (1984), perhaps Card ought to consider renaming his central protagonist. Though this is putatively the eighth book in the Ender saga, when considering the books as two quartets linked across a 1,000-year gap (a by-product of Ender''s light-speed travel to Lusitania), it''s the fourth of the sequence that began with\n </em>\n Ender''s Shadow\n <em>\n  (1999). Here,\n </em>\n _Card further develops the premise that the return of Ender''s battle team to Earth was tantamount to introducing "two Alexanders, a Joan of Arc here and there, and a couple of Julius Caesars, maybe an Attila, and . . . a Genghis Khan" into the geopolitical fray. The tension between characters'' personal fulfillment and collective obligations also comes to the fore, as couple Bean and Petra desperately search for their eight missing embryos stolen by the mad eugenicist of\n <em>\n  Shadow Puppets\n </em>\n (2002), watch Bean''s health deteriorate, and attempt to restore order to the world under hegemon Peter Wiggin. The emergence of several additional perspectives makes for a somewhat cumbersome narrative, but it doesn''t much matter. Like Card''s idolized Battle School alumni, novels in this saga (not to mention Card himself) have acquired an irresistible aura from early associations with boy-hero Ender Wiggin.\n <em>\n  Jennifer Mattson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/615'),
(638, 'Shadow of the Hegemon', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Orson Scott Card finally explores what happened on earth after the war with the Buggers in the sixth book of his Ender series,\n <em>\n  Shadow of the Hegemon\n </em>\n . This novel is the continuation of the story of Bean, which began with\n <strong>\n  , a parallel novel to Card''s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning\n </strong>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n While Ender heads off to a faraway planet, Bean and the other brilliant children who helped Ender save the earth from alien invaders have become war heroes and have finally been sent home to live with their parents. While the children try to fit back in with the family and friends they haven''t known for nearly a decade, someone''s worried about their safety. Peter Wiggins, Ender''s brother, has foreseen that the talented children are in danger of being killed or kidnapped. His fears are quickly realized, and only Bean manages to escape. Bean knows he must save the others and protect humanity from a new evil that has arisen, an evil from his past. But just as he played second to Ender during the Bugger war, Bean must again step into the shadow of another, the one who will be Hegemon.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Shadow of the Hegemon\n </em>\n , Card can''t help but fall back into old patterns. But while the theme is the same as in previous books--brilliant, tragic children with the fate of the human race resting on their shoulders--_Shadow of the Hegemon_ does a wonderful job of continuing Bean''s tale against a backdrop of the politics and intrigue of a fragile earth. While the novel is accessible, new readers to the series would be wise to begin with\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  Ender''s Shadow\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Kathie Huddleston\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fine follow-up to Ender''s Shadow features that novel''s hero, Bean (now a young man), wrestling with Card''s trademark: superbly real moral and ethical dilemmas. In a world between wars, filled with ambitious countries jockeying to carve up their neighbors, the children of Battle School are the strongest asset a nation can possess. The greatest of the children, "Ender" Wiggin, has gone off to colonize a new world. The second best, Bean, is hunted by a young psychopathic genius, Achilles, who schemes to conquer Earth with the aid of Ender''s soldiers. Peter, Ender''s brother, who was too ruthless to make it to Battle School, also works to rule the planet, but through more peaceful, political means. Bean must decide if becoming Peter''s shadow and guiding him to become Hegemon will help defeat Achilles, and if one boy''s megalomania will make a better world than another''s. Children playing at war as if it were a game recalls Card''s most famous work, Ender''s Game, which won both a Hugo and a Nebula award. The complexity and serious treatment of the book''s young protagonists will attract many sophisticated YA readers, while Card''s impeccable prose, fast pacing and political intrigue will appeal to adult fans of spy novels, thrillers and science fiction. (Jan. 2) Forecast: Card is immensely popular; this is one of his best novels. Like Ender''s Game, it will soar on genre lists and should flirt with, and perhaps woo, regular lists. Tor will ensure this through a $300,000 ad/promo campaign including a nine-city author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/613'),
(639, 'The Shadow of the Lion', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prolific Lackey (the Bardic Voices series, the Urban Faerie series, etc.) and cohorts Flint (1632) and Freer (The Forlorn) whip up a luscious bouillabaisse of politics, intrigue, love and black magic set in an "Other-worldly, New-Age Venice." Like the actual 16th-century city-state, the authors'' Venice of the 1530s is a dangerous place, filled with as many illicit love affairs as murders. Garbage and occasional dead bodies float in the stinking canals. The city is also a target for would-be foreign conquerors: the Vatican, the Holy Roman Empire, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland, and the small city-state of Ferrara, ruled by Enrico Dell''este, who surreptitiously watches his grandsons, Marco and Benito, the story''s water-rat heroes. Around Benito, a thief, and Marco, a canal doctor, swirl a host of characters, major and minor: the men and women who ply the gondolas and rafts; the spy Caesare Aldanto, the boys'' supporter; plus courtesans, whores, monks, priests, knights, shamans, undines and the demon Chernobog. Meanwhile, the winged lion of St. Mark''s, symbol of Venice, is stirring, and its shadow falls on Marco as the city''s future ruler. The authors'' use of contemporary American vernacular "get real," "fat chance," etc. instead of pompous period speech keeps the pages turning fast, but the last-minute stampede of fantastic monsters that abruptly resolves the story''s various conflicts makes for a clunky climax. In a book this fat the glossary at the end is essential.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Three writers (the others are Eric Flint and Dave Freer) collaborate on this massive concoction of alternate history, high fantasy, and historical romance set in the sixteenth-century Venice of an alternate world in which Catholicism is factionalized, the Hohenstauffens instead of the Habsburgs rule the Holy Roman Empire, magic works, and the grand duke of Lithuania is trying to use that magic against his enemy, the emperor. The central characters are half-brothers Marco and Benito Valdosta, grandsons of the duke of Ferrara who are hiding from their grandfather''s enemies by posing as Venetian street (or canal) urchins. In a complex web of incidents, coincidences, luck good and bad, and the mixed motives of sympathetic and unsympathetic characters, the boys'' personal fates become central to Venice''s survival in the face of the northern menace. Brevity isn''t the soul or any other part of this book, and the appended glossary is utterly necessary. Yet rich plotting, vivid characterization, and splendid evocation of Renaissance ethics and culture should make readers turn\n <em>\n  all\n </em>\n the pages.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/688'),
(640, 'Shadow Puppets', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Shadow Puppets\n </em>\n , Orson Scott Card continues the storyline of __, following the exploits of the Battle School children, prodigies who have returned to an Earth thrown into chaos after the unifying force of the alien invasion they stopped in\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n has dissipated.\n</p>\n<p>\n Foremost among these whiz kids is the brilliant Bean who, in\n <em>\n  Shadow of the Hegemon\n </em>\n , rescued his comrades from his nemesis--the dastardly Achilles. Now, the down-but-not-out evil genius is again scheming towards global domination and vengeance against the irrepressible Bean. It''s up to Bean and his newfound love, Petra, to outwit the young psychopath and save the world. Meanwhile, the other Battle School children are called to serve again as an expansionist China threatens the stability of post-Bugger War Earth.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Shadow Puppets\n </em>\n is, for better or worse, exactly what readers have come to expect from Card. There are thought-provoking musings on geopolitics, war, courage, arrogance, good versus evil, and the concept of children wise beyond their years dealing with grave responsibility. Unfortunately, many of these furnishings are looking a little frayed around the edges, but fans will enjoy an exciting, fast-paced plot and a suspense-filled conclusion.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Card''s bestselling Ender series will be delighted with this tale of teen empowerment (following 2001''s Shadow of the Hegemon), as the Battle School brats cope with life after the war with the Formics. Peter Wiggins, now leader of the worldwide Earth government, the Hegemon, makes a tactical error when he authorizes the rescue of his archenemy, Achilles, from the Chinese, only to discover Achilles, dangerously insane, is a Trojan Horse. Peter, along with his parents, must flee the planet temporarily, only to discover plots within plots at the site of the now dismantled Battle School. Meanwhile, Bean, accompanied by his wife, Petra, comes to terms with his body: he won''t stop growing, and he''s doomed to a short life. He and Petra seek out the man who manipulated his genes in order to have him create children without the same problem, only to have the embryos stolen. Bean and Petra race against time to try to rescue their unborn children while keeping Peter apprised of world events. Into this mix, Card tosses in a war, Chinese expansionism, unrest in India and a dangerously unfettered Achilles. The political becomes the personal in a final showdown between Bean and Achilles. These teens play for keeps: the world is their stage, with Battle School grads in key positions of power in China, the Muslim world and India, all ready to work together to create world peace. Card discusses important topics here, the nature of the parent-child relationship; the roles of love and service, that are implicitly part of coming of age.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/614'),
(641, 'The Shadow Rising', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Having declared himself the Dragon Reborn, Rand al''Thor must proceed to fulfill the prophecy that he will protect the world from the return of the Dark One. Jordan''s hefty addition to his massive series begins very much in medias res as an unknown danger threatens the city of Tar Valon, home of the powerful, nunlike Aes Sedai. In a whirlwind of uncertainty stirred up by the conflicting motivations of such groups as the Whitecloaks, the Darkfriends and Trollocs (among an abundance of others), Rand travels to the city of Rhuidean in the Aiel Waste for answers. Jordan ( The Dragon Reborn ) seems to be intent on turning the series into an endless soap opera; in each successive volume he introduces more new elements than he resolves. What was originally a mood-setting technique--the tendency of most characters not to share their special knowledge with either their companions or the reader--has by now become boring. Hundreds of characters and dozens of conflicting plots cause much of the action to take place offstage. As a result, this fully imagined saga threatens to burst the seams of its steadily more intricate design. Nevertheless, the sheer force of his invention develops a momentum that established Jordan fans, and probably like-minded new readers, will find hard to resist.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the power of the Dark One grows stronger, Rand al''Thor and his friends face greater challenges in their war against the Shadow. From the halls of Tar Valon, where the Aes Sedai mystics discover agents of darkness in their own ranks, to the Aiel Waste, where a hidden city holds secrets forbidden to all but a few, Rand and his companions seek to fulfill the destiny laid out for them. Jordan''s multivolume epic continues to live up to its high ambitions. Complex plotting, an array of strong characters, lavish detail, and a panoramic scope make this series a feast for fantasy aficionados. Expect demand for this.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/364'),
(642, 'Shadow&#39;s Edge', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''I was mesmerized from start to finish. Unforgettable characters, a plot that kept me guessing, non-stop action and the kind of in-depth storytelling that makes me admire a writer''s work'' Terry Brooks\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kylar Stern has rejected the assassin''s life. The Godking''s successful coup has left Kylar''s master, Durzo, and his best friend, Logan, dead. He is starting over: new city, new friends, and new profession.\n</p>\n<p>\n But when he learns that Logan might actually be alive and in hiding, Kylar is faced with an agonizing choice: will he give up the way of shadows forever and live in peace with his new family, or will he risk everything by taking on the ultimate hit?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/984'),
(643, 'Shatter', 'Elizabeth C. Mock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Growing up during the chaos of the Nabosian War, Faela Durante and her entire generation never knew what it meant to live in a time of peace.Â Â Though the war ended years ago, the devastation has not.Â Â Every decision, no matter how seemingly insignificant, has a consequence and some consequences can never be predicted.Â Â But some are foretold.\n</p>\n<p>\n Less than a year ago, Faela, the first Tereskan mind healer in generations, disappeared from her family home in Finalaran scared and pregnant. Hunted and living as an outcast, Faela searches for a legend that might be her only hope of gaining atonement and returning to her son. When her journey collides with two strangers and a prophecy, she must choose between trusting those around her or endangering her mission.Â Â With her past refusing to stay behind her, the consequences of Faela''s choices will risk more than her own fate.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elizabeth C. Mock grew up with a passion for stories and writing as well as exploring wardrobes. She currently lives in Cincinnati, OH where she teaches philosophy and continues writing The Children of Man trilogy as well as an urban fantasy series of short stories, The Noctunarum Vows. From time to time, she still investigates suspicious looking wardrobes. Updates on her current writing projects can be found at http://ecmock.blogspot.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1020'),
(644, 'The Shattering', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Words take flight in this fifth installment in the Ga''Hoole series. . . Pamela Garelick captures the essential qualities of owls with fluttery, quavering tones. Balancing the high voices of the female owls, Garelick portrays Ezylryb in a craggy voice and Nyra with a terrifyingly cruel menace. One can imagine the echoing owl voices filling the night air with eerie sounds. Numerous characters and owl vocabulary create a challenging text, but Garelick compensates with a slow, explanatory pace. . . Scenes of action and the final battle scene make for a dramatic audiobook animated by an able narrator. --AudioFile\n </p>\n <p>\n  [T]he fantasy''s strong believability and fascinating plot make this series a must-read for fantasy-lovers. --Children''s Literature\n </p>\n <p>\n  Suspenseful and full of unexpected twists and turns. . . sure to please readers. --Through the Looking Glass Children''s Book Review\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the midst of war, Eglantine unwittingly becomes a spy for Kludd, leader of the Pure Ones (a group of evil owls). She is brainwashed by an owl sent by the Pure Ones to infiltrate the Great Ga''Hoole Tree. Her odd behavior eventually attracts attention, and Soren and his friends vow to find out what''s wrong with Eglantine. They ultimately learn what happened and help her reverse the effects of the brainwashing. Kludd continues to battle against the Guardians of Ga''Hoole for control of their tree. In the end, Kludd and his forces are defeated. But his conflict with Soren is not yet over.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1171'),
(645, 'Ship of Destiny', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robin Hobb concludes her nautical fantasy epic with\n <em>\n  Ship of Destiny\n </em>\n , set in the world of her Farseer series. It lives up to its predecessors,\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n in every way: the characters continue to develop, the plot moves swiftly, and the setting is vividly realized.\n</p>\n<p>\n Again, three generations of Vestrit women are at the heart of the story. Ronica, the matriarch, stands alone against accusations that her family is responsible for the chaos that has overtaken Bingtown. She fights to uncover treachery and maintain the Trader''s Council. Her daughter, Althea, sails on the disturbed liveship Paragon, hunting for Vivacia, the Vestrit''s liveship, now the flagship of a pirate fleet under Kennit, who is both ruthless and compassionate. Her granddaughter, Malta, has disappeared following an earthquake in the ancient treasure city by the Rain Wild River. Her fiancÃ©, Reyn, and her brother, Selden, are trapped while seeking her. They are rescued by the dragon Tintaglia, whom they helped liberate. Reyn asks Tintaglia''s aid in finding Malta, but Tintaglia has her own urgent mission to accomplish, one which will change everything. Hobb weaves these plot threads into an exciting and satisfying conclusion. This is an original trilogy well worth reading!\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n One has to use a jeweler''s loupe to find a flaw or a dull moment in this splendid conclusion to one of the finest fantasy sagas to bridge the millennium. True, there are moments in this third novel of the Liveship Traders Trilogy (Mad Ship; Ship of Magic) when things progress too easilyDthe folk of Bingtown, for example, seem to embrace diversity, equality and female empowerment too quickly to be believed. But otherwise, this book soars. Hobb weaves together multiple storylines: there''s Althea Vestrit''s quest for her family''s liveship, Vivacia; the awakening of Paragon (the eponymous "ship of destiny"); the establishing of links between the liveships made of wizardwood and the sea serpents who, cocooned in wizardwood, mature into dragons; the appearance of the dragon Tintaglia; and the maturing of Malta Haven through rescuing the Satrap. Such a profusion of plotlines could have overwhelmed or slowed down the book, but Hobb handles them with such agility that the reader is likely to want not fewer but more stories. The most absorbing theme continues to revolve around Captain Kennit, his mistress, Etta (now carrying his child), and the conversion of Wintrow Haven into Kennit''s heir as king of the Pirate Isles. (Kennit, perhaps the most interesting character in the trilogy, clearly was developed with a good deal of scholarship about the history of piracy.) This installment leaves nothing to be desired: the subplots advance in parallel; the nautical themes are handled splendidly; and the characters (including one of the more engaging and terrifying dragons in current fantasy) and world-building are of the very highest standard. Like its predecessors, this is a masterful achievement. Major ad/promo. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/963'),
(646, 'Ship of Magic', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robin Hobb, author of the Farseer trilogy, has returned to that world for a new series.\n <em>\n  Ship of Magic\n </em>\n is a sea tale, reminiscent of __ and\n <em>\n  liveships\n </em>\n have distinct personalities and partner with specific people, somewhat like\n</p>\n<p>\n Hobb has peopled the book with many wonderfully developed characters. Most of the primary ones are members of the Vestritts, an Old Trader family which owns the liveship\n <em>\n  Vivacia\n </em>\n . Their stories are intercut with those of Kennit, the ambitious pirate Brashen, the disinherited scion of another family who served on the Vestritt''s ship, and\n <em>\n  Paragon\n </em>\n , an old liveship abandoned and believed mad. The sentient sea serpents have their own story hinted at, as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though\n <em>\n  Ship of Magic\n </em>\n is full of action, none of the plotlines get resolved in this book. Readers who resent being left with many questions and few answers after almost 700 pages should think twice before starting, or wait until the rest of the series is out so that their suspense won''t be too prolonged. But Hobb''s writing draws you in and makes you care desperately about what will happen next, the mark of a terrific storyteller.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The untimely death of Old Trader Ephron Vestrit deprives his daughter Althea of her inheritance and places her ambitious brother-in-law Kyle in command of the live ship Viveca and the family fortunes. The author of the Farseer trilogy (Assassin''s Apprentice, LJ 3/15/95; Royal Assassin, Bantam, 1996; Assassin''s Quest, Bantam, 1997) launches a new series set in a world of sentient ships, merchant traders, ruthless pirates, dangerous treasures, seagoing dragons, and a mysterious elder race. Hobb excels in depicting complex characters; even her villains command respect, if not sympathy, for their actions. Most libraries should purchase this exotic, nonstandard fantasy.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/965'),
(647, 'Show of Force Part 1', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1048'),
(648, 'Show of Force Part 2', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1050'),
(649, 'Siege of Saleucami Part 1', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1062'),
(650, 'Siege of Saleucami Part 2', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1064'),
(651, 'Siege of Saleucami Part 3', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1066'),
(652, 'Siege of Saleucami Part 4', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1068'),
(653, 'The Siege', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The underlying message about the power of legends...gives strong appeal for fantasy fans. --_School Library Journal_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Soren''s beloved mentor, Ezylryb, is finally back at the Great Ga''Hoole Tree. But all is not well. There''s a war between good and evil in the owl kingdom. On one side is a group led by Soren''s fearsome brother, Kludd, who wears a terrifying metal mask to cover his battle-scarred face. On the other side are the owls of the Great Ga''Hoole Tree, who must fight to protect their legendary tree from Kludd''s attacks.Soren, his friends, and the other owls at the Great Ga''Hoole Tree enter into fierce combat against Kludd''s forces. They win a major battle, but warfare will continue in Book #5.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1170'),
(654, 'Signal to Noise', 'Neil Gaiman &amp; Dave McKean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean present their masterpiece in a completely remastered and redesigned edition overflowing with bonus material! Somewhere in London, a film director is dying of cancer. His life''s crowning achievement, his greatest film, would have told the story of a European village as the last hour of 999 A.D. approached - the midnight that the villagers were convinced would bring with it Armageddon. Now that story will never be told. But he''s still working it out in his head, making a film that no one will ever see. No one but us. Serialized in The Face in 1989, expanded and revised into a graphic novel in 1992, and adapted for radio in 2000, Signal to Noise has never stopped evolving. The bonus material in this first-time hardcover edition captures every leg of the journey, including three related short stories unseen in nearly two decades, an additional chapter created for the CD release of the radio drama, and a new introduction by Dave McKean along with the original by Jonathan Carrol and the radio drama introduction by Neil Gaiman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1248'),
(655, 'Silent Her', 'Barry B. Longyear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/499'),
(656, 'The Silmarillion', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The tales of The Silmarillion were the underlying inspiration and source of J.R.R. Tolkien''s imaginative writing; he worked on the book throughout his life but never brought it to a final form. Long preceding in its origins The Lord of the Rings, it is the story of the First Age of Tolkien''s world, the ancient drama to which characters in The Lord of the RIngs look back and in which some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The title Silmarillion is shortened from Quenta Silmarillion, "The History of the Silmarils," the three great jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves, in which he imprisoned the light of the Two Trees that illumined Valinor, the land of the gods. When Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, destroyed the Trees, that light lived on only in the Silmarils; Morgoth seized them and set them in his crown, guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his people against the gods, their exile in Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all the heroisim of Elves and Men, against the great Enemy. The book includes several other, shorter works beside The Silmarillion proper. Preceding it are "Ainulindale," the myth of Creation, and "Valaquenta," in which the nature and powers of each of the gods is set forth. After The Silmarillion is "Akallabeth," the story of the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age; completing the volume is "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age," in which the events of The Lord of the Rings are treated in the manner of The Silmarillion. This new edition of The Silmarillion contains the revised and corrected "second edition" text and, by way of introduction, a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1951, which provides a brilliant exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages. It also contains almost fifty full-color illustrations by the artist Ted Nasmith, many of which appear for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/620'),
(657, 'The Silver Chair', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The magic of C.S. Lewis''s parallel universe never fades." The Times "When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness." C S Lewis\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For the first time, an edition of Lewis''s classic fantasy fiction packaged specifically for adults. Complementing the look of the author''s non-fiction books, and anticipating the forthcoming Narnia feature films, this edition contains an exclusive "P.S." section about the history of the book, plus a sample chapter from its sequel. Drawn back to Narnia, Eustace Scrubb and his new friend Jill Pole are sent to rescue a captive prince. In a world where evil weaves a spell, Giants and Marsh-wiggles can be friend or foe, but the stakes are raised when they reach Underland and come face-to-face with a notorious and terrifying opponent. On 9 December 2005, Andrew (Shrek) Adamson''s live-action film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will be released by Disney, and it is already being hailed as the biggest film franchise of all time, guaranteed to appeal to adults and children across the globe. The second film is already in development. Sporting breathtaking new photographic covers, these new adult editions of the seven Chronicles of Narnia now give everyone an opportunity to experience the adventures in their original form. Re-live your childhood fantasies or discover for the first time what everyone will be talking about by Christmas and savour some of the best-loved stories ever written.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/346'),
(658, 'Sky Magic', 'B. V. Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1015'),
(659, 'Skyborn', 'John Jackson Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Don''t miss Star Wars: Lost Tribe of The Sith: Skyborn a FREE original eBook short story, the second in a series that tell the untold story of the Fate of the Jedi''s forgotten Sith castaways, their battle to survive, and their quest to re-conquer the galaxy!Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  DECEIVE AND CONQUERÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  A Jedi ambush leaves the Sith ship Omen marooned on a remote alien world, its survivors at the mercy of their desolate surroundings and facing almost certain death. But Sith will no more bow before the whims of fate than they will yield to the weapons of their enemies. And Omenâ€™s cunning commander Yaru Korsin, will let nothing keep him and his crew from returning to the stars and rejoining the Sith orderâ€™s conquest of the galaxy. Murdering his own brother has proven Korsinâ€™ s ruthless resolveâ€”but now an entire race stands in his way.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  The primitive, superstitious Keshiri worship unseen gods called the Skyborn, shun science, and punish unbelievers with death. Branded a heretic the widowed young geologist Adari Vaal is running for her life. Among the mysterious Sith castaways she finds powerful sanctuaryâ€”and her saviors find the means of survival. With Adari as their willing pawn, the Skyborn as their Trojan horse, and the awesome power of the dark side of the Force at their command, the lost tribe of the Omen set out to subjugate a planet and its peopleâ€”and lay the foundation for a merciless new Sith nation.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The _\n  <strong>\n   Fate of the Jedi\n  </strong>\n  _ novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be? _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith\n  </strong>\n  _ answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The second episode, _\n  <strong>\n   Skyborn\n  </strong>\n  _, introduces the indigenous people of Kesh, and details their first meeting with the crew of the ill-fated Sith mining vessel,\n  <em>\n   Omen\n  </em>\n  . A superstitious people, the Keshiri find that the stranded visitors fit well into their legends of deities and demons. But they may not find out which the Sith are until it''s too late...\n </p>\n <p>\n  To follow the story of the Lost Tribe from the beginning, start with the first chapter,Â  _\n  <strong>\n   Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice.\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1157');
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(660, 'The Slippery Slope', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n What would you do if you found yourself trapped in a runaway caravan hurtling down a precipitous mountain slope? Fourteen-year-old Violet, the oldest orphan of the three Baudelaires, decides to try to slow the velocity of the caravan with a drag-chute invention involving a viscous combination of blackstrap molasses, maple syrup, maraschino liqueur, peanut butter, etc. If plummeting to their death weren''t scary enough, Violet and her brother Klaus have been separated from Sunny, their baby sister who is in a car headed in the opposite direction up the mountain with the "facinorous" Count Olaf, his "villainous and stylish" girlfriend EsmÃ© Squalor, and their creepy sidekicks. Do Violet and Klaus find Sunny on the mountain? How will they survive the treacherous, snow-covered peaks with not much more than a ukulele and a bread knife, especially in the face of the "organized, ill-tempered" snow gnats? Will they finally unearth the mystery of the V.F.D.? Will they find out if one of their parents is alive after all? The suspense! As ever, the Baudelaires'' unfolding tale of woe is sprinkled with Lemony Snicket''s ridiculous, hilarious observations such as "Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don''t always like." The tenth book in The Series of Unfortunate Events takes readers through the Mortmain Mountains to the churning waters of the Stricken Stream with all the coexistent horror and silliness a Snicket fan could hope for along the way. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 3-5. It''s clear throughout that Snicket hasn''t lost his sense of the absurd or his momentum in this "Book the Tenth." As in previous episodes, the adventures of the Baudelaire sibs spin out with the zest and cliff-hanger dramatics of old-fashioned serials. Left hurtling down a mountain at the close of\n <em>\n  The Carnivorous Carnival\n </em>\n (2002), Klaus and Violet concentrate here on saving themselves; rescuing baby Sunny, who is once more in the clutches of the evil Count Olaf; and continuing their campaign to put a stop to Olaf''s evil doings once and for all. Of course, they have their work cut out for them, but with a surprising ally, they stumble through the usual assortment of clues and secret messages that actually seem to get them one step closer to their ultimate goal. Characters are true to form, ridiculous and fun, and, once again, the wry telling is pitch-perfect, with plenty of the joyful wordplay and the quirky imaginative touches Snicket''s legions of fans expect.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/444'),
(661, 'Small Gods', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discworld is an extragavanza--among much else, it has billions of gods. "They swarm as thick as herring roe," writes Terry Pratchett in\n <em>\n  Small Gods\n </em>\n , the 13th book in the series. Where there are gods galore, there are priests, high and low, and... there are novices. Brutha is a novice with little chance to become a priest--thinking does not come easily to him, although believing does. But it is to Brutha that the great god Om manifests, in the lowly form of a tortoise.\n <em>\n  --Blaise Selby\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Surely the best novel Terry Pratchett has ever written, and the best comedy"\n <br />\n -John Clute,\n <em>\n  Interzone\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
(662, 'Snatched From Earth', 'Bruce Coville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tim Tomkins has always wanted to visit outer space -- but he didn''t plan to go as the captive of a mysterious alien! But that''s just what Tim, Pleskit, Maktel, and Linnsy have become -- captives in an interstellar struggle for control of the galaxy. Can four kids from two very different planets learn to work together? They''re going to have to, if they want to survive on the strange new world where they''ve been trapped. But even if they do survive, how will they ever find their way back home? Join Pleskit and his friends for a race against time and incredible danger -- with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/890'),
(663, 'Snow Crash', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n , Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year''s hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what''s a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel,\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun,\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In California of the near future, when the U.S. is only a "Burbclave" (city-state), the Mafia is just another franchise chain (CosaNostrastet Pizza, Incorporated) and there are no laws to speak of, Hiro Protagonist follows clues from the Bible, ancient Sumer and high technology to help thwart an attempt to take control of civilization--such as it is. When he logs on to Metaverse, an imaginary place entered via computer, Hiro encounters Juanita Marquez, a "radical" Catholic and computer whiz. She warns him off Snow Crash (a street drug named for computer failure) and gives him a file labeled Babel (as in Tower of Babel). Another friend, sp ok/pk Da5id, who ignores Juanita''s warning, computer crashes out of Metaverse into the real world, where he physically collapses. Hiro, Juanita, Y.T. (a freewheeling, skateboard-riding courier) and sundry other Burbclave and franchise power figures see some action on the way to finding out who is behind this bizarre "drug" with ancient roots. Although Stephenson ( Zodiac ) provides more Sumerian culture than the story strictly needs (alternating intense activity with scholarship breaks), his imaginative juxtaposition of ancient and futuristic detail could make this a cult favorite.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/670'),
(664, 'Snuff', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For nearly three decades, Terry Pratchett has enthralled millions of fans worldwide with his irreverent, wonderfully funny satires set in the fabulously imaginative Discworld, a universe remarkably similar to our own. From sports to religion, politics to education, science to capitalism, and everything in between, Pratchett has skewered sacred cows with both laughter and wisdom, and exposed our warts, foibles, and eccentricities in a unique, entertaining, and ultimately serious way.At long last, Lady Sybil has lured her husband, Sam Vimes, on a well-deserved holiday away from the crime and grime of Ankh-Morpork. But for the commander of the City Watch, a vacation in the country is anything but relaxing. The balls, the teas, the muck--not to mention all that fresh air and birdsong--are more than a bit taxing on a cynical city-born and -bred copper.Yet a policeman will find a crime anywhere if he decides to look hard enough, and it''s not long before a body is discovered, and Sam--out of his jurisdiction, out of his element, and out of bacon sandwiches (thanks to his well-meaning wife)--must rely on his instincts, guile, and street smarts to see justice done. As he sets off on the chase, though, he must remember to watch where he steps. . . . This is the countryside, after all, and the streets most definitely are not paved with gold.Hailed as the "purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse" ("Washington Post Book World"), with a "satirist''s instinct for the absurd and a cartoonist''s eye for the telling detail" ("Daily Telegraph," London), Terry Pratchett offers a novel of crime, class, prejudice, and punishment that shows this master at his dazzling best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1237'),
(665, 'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The looniest of the lot."\n <br />\n --Time\n</p>\n<p>\n "A MADCAP ADVENTURE . . . ADAMS''S WRITING TEETERS ON THE FRINGE OF INSPIRED LUNACY."\n <br />\n --United Press International\n</p>\n<p>\n "The most ridiculously exaggerated situation comedy known to created beings . . . Adams is irresistible."\n <br />\n --The Boston Globe --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This title celebrates the thirty years of comic genius of Douglas Adams. There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. It''s not an easy thing to do and Arthur Dent thinks he''s the only human who''s been able to master this nifty little trick - until he meets Fenchurch, the girl of his dreams. Fenchurch knows how the world could be made a good and happy place. Unfortunately she''s forgotten. Convinced that the secret lies within God''s Final Message to His Creation they go in search of it. And in a dramatic break with tradition - actually find it. This title is volume four in the trilogy of five.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/260'),
(666, 'Something Rotten', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Welsh writer Fforde''s fourth entry in the zany, hypercreative Thursday Next detective series revisits the "Literary Detective" as she retreats to her hometown of Swindon, England, retiring from the tedious job (as Head of Jurisfiction) she held in Fforde''s previous novel,\n  <em>\n   The Well of Lost Plots\n  </em>\n  . Joined by her two-year-old son, Friday, pet dodos Pickwick and Alan, and Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, Thursday realizes that there''s someone missing: her husband, Landen, previously "eradicated" by the Goliath Corporation, a ruthless bio-tech conglomerate corporation. She wants Landen back. Aided by her father, she is reinstated into her old employ, the Special Operations Network, and begins investigating the machinations of power-hungry Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine and the mysterious disappearance of England''s president. The fate of the world rests on the outcome of a major croquet tournament, with Thursday pinch-hitting on a lethal playing field as Landen is finally returned to reality (only to fade out again). More than a little wacky, the novel is packed with screwball details as characters get "written" in and out of the story, hybridized creatures stalk malls and Shakespeare clones start popping up everywhere. With humorous illustrations and curious footnotes sprinkled throughout, Fforde''s latest will have hardcore fans roaringâ€”but those new to the series might want to tackle the convoluted mayhem from the very beginning.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€“This fourth book in the series continues the English detective''s quest to protect her child, regain her husband, and save the world (not necessarily in that order). She decides that it''s time to leave Jurisfiction and return to the real world of the Outland to resume her life. Taking her son and her pet dodoes, Thursday discovers that her actions in real life are possibly even weirder than they were in the realm of literature and certainly of more consequence. Fforde continues to pitch high, wide, and fast: only he could turn croquet into an extreme (and hilarious) sport with the fate of the world hanging on the outcome of the game. Particularly appropriate in this American presidential election year is the political debate show "Evade the Questions Time" where politicians score points for most successfully avoiding answering questions.\n  <em>\n   Rotten\n  </em>\n  is the concluding volume of this series and many of the subplots and characters from the first three titles reappear, floating through the space-time fiction-fantasy continuum. It succeeds in wrapping up in a most gratifying way. As Oscar Wilde''s Miss Prism would say, "The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means." The Robertses'' illustrations and mock advertisements echo the irreverent humor. Warning: Reaching the end of\n  <em>\n   Rotten\n  </em>\n  may cause readers to want to start again with\n  <em>\n   The Eyre Affair\n  </em>\n  (Viking, 2002)and ride the manic, maniacal merry-go-round of the Nextian world again._â€“Jane Halsall, McHenry Public Library District, IL_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1224'),
(667, 'The Songs of Distant Earth', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Clarke''s simple, musical style never falters in this novel, which is a sobering yet far from bleak commentary on humanity''s longing for the stars. Highly recommended'' Library Journal\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The countdown to doomsday began with the discovery in 1956 of the neutrino, a particle with no mass and no charge. By the year 2001, the significance of this phantom particle was understood: it was a harbinger. A cosmic event was imminent, and would be close enough to touch. Soon the Sun would go nova; the demolition of Earth was assured. And so it happened in the year 3620. Over the centuries of knowing the end was at hand, humanity pulled together to launch probes into space. Primitive ships, at first, carrying embryos to distant systems, relying on machines to incubate and rear the first people of a virgin land beneath an alien sun. On Earth the Lords of the Last Days lived with no need to care for the future of the world; it was the wildest of times, and the saddest. Last to leave was the Magellan carrying a million homeless; when cataclysm struck, its voyagers witnessed through telescopes the death of Earth and all its wonders, saw the Atlantic boil dry, the pyramids disintegrate, the land of Antarctica briefly bare of ice before fire consumed everything. Then the million slept. Five hundred years later, the Magellan must make planetfall to repair its quantum drive. Its sleepers awake to find themselves visitors to Thalassa, where a cvilization has, in fact, survived. A clash of cultures unlike any before brings danger, despair, and some very tough decisions for two different peoples far from Earth - and its distant songs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/262'),
(668, 'Soul Identity', 'Dennis Batchelder', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  ForeWord CLARION reviews\n </strong>\n : "Batchelder has a flair for telling a story and involving his readers. Right from the get-go of a riveting prologue there are the elements of suspense, sexiness, and humor that abound throughout the book."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  American Chronicle\n </strong>\n : "Fantasy and spirituality with even a touch of a philosophical twist."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Armchair Interviews\n </strong>\n : "Twists and turns, deception and murder mixed with new age double-speak and new millenium techno-savvy."\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n You can''t take it with you... but what if you could? Most people believe their souls outlive their bodies. Most people would find an organization that tracks their souls into the future and passes on their banked money and memories compelling. Scott Waverly isn''t like most people. He spends his days finding and fixing computer security holes. And Scott is skeptical of his new client''s claim that they have been calculating and tracking soul identities for almost twenty-six hundred years. Are they running a freaky cult? Or a sophisticated con job? Scott needs to save Soul Identity from an insider attack. Along the way, he discovers the importance of the bridges connecting people''s lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/989'),
(669, 'Soul Intent', 'Dennis Batchelder', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A VILLAIN''S REQUEST In 1946, soon-to-be-executed Nazi General Hermann Goering asks young Soul Identity overseer Archibald Morgan to take his looted gold and deposit it in a soul line collection, there to await his soul''s rebirth. A GRIM RESISTANCE Flora, a seventeen-year-old Gypsy girl whose father died in the Dachau concentration camp, is sure that Goering stole the gold. She struggles to persuade Morgan to reject the Nazi''s deposit, but Morgan prevails. A MYSTERIOUS THEFT Sixty-four years have passed. A repentant Morgan opens Goering''s collection and discovers the gold is gone. In its place lies a cryptic journal. Morgan asks security expert Scott Waverly to find the thief and recover the gold. A THRILLING ADVENTURE Scott must race through Europe to uncover the elusive secrets of what really happened in Nuremberg... secrets that threaten to reopen old wounds, settle old scores, and lead to the gold''s-and his own soul''s-recovery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/990'),
(670, 'Soul Music', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Soul Music\n </em>\n is the 16th book in the bestselling Discworld series, with close ties to the fourth book, __. Susan Sto Helit is rather bored at her boarding school in the city of Ankh-Morpork, which is just as well, since it seems that her family business--she is the granddaughter of Death--suddenly needs a new caretaker.\n <em>\n  --Blaise Selby\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nepotism is given an unusual spin in Pratchett''s 14th Discworld novel, as Death''s granddaughter picks up the scythe when the Grim Reaper takes a vacation. Trolls, dwarves, magicians and rock music?music played with rocks?figure in this amusing but overlong romp, which begins with the formation of a band by aspiring musician Imp y Celen (aka Buddy). Arriving in the city of Ankh-Morpork, Buddy finds a magical guitar which enables the group?a rock-playing troll, an ax-wielding dwarf and an Orangutan pianist?to drive crowds wild. But the instrument causes conflict between the motley crew and Susan, Death''s granddaughter, who is just adjusting to her new post. Many of the ensuing comic situations involve Death trying to get drunk, though Pratchett''s liberal application of jokes scores as many misses as hits. Extraneous plot information slows the pace as the narrative rattles to a colossal, albeit uninspired, conclusion. Science Fiction Book Club main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(671, 'Source of Magic', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ordered by King Trent to determine the source of Xanth''s magic, Bink and his companions were harried by an unseen enemy determined to thwart them. When even their protector turned against them, Blink still managed to reach his goal and carry out the King''s orders...but the king did not expect Blink''s next act--to destroy utterly the magic of Xanth!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Piers Anthony [Xanth] -- Piers Anthony redefined the fantasy series when he launched his Xanth books--they''re(quite simply) pun for the whole family!\n</p>\n<p>\n --Veronica Chapman, Senior Editor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/466'),
(672, 'Sourcery', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fifth Discworld tale ( Mort ), about a barely averted apocalypse there, reasserts Pratchett''s adroitness as a storyteller. Inventive, satirical of the contemporary scene, Pratchett does not merely play with words, he juggles shrewd observations with aplomb. His creations are gently allegorical: for instance, the Unseen University Library is the repository of magic, its librarian an orangutan and its archchancellorship reserved for the most powerful magician, a "sourcerer" named Coin. But the author never takes himself or his message too seriously, and maintains a feather-light touch throughout. Even Death, an important minor character here, receives a distinctive voice.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Superb popular entertainment. -- _--\n <em>\n  _Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Think J.R.R. Tolkien with a sharper, more satiric edge." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Houston Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(673, 'Speaker for the Dead', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens'' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth. Nobody had ever won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards two years in a row, untilOrson Scott Cardreceived them forEnder''s Gameand its sequel,Speaker for the Dead, in 1986 and 1987. Card''s many SF novels have been translated into several languages. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: the Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens'' ways are strange and frighteningand again, humans must die. And only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, has the courage to confront the mystery. And the truth. This is the equally compelling sequel to Card''s masterfulEnder''s Game. "A great read."UPI Reviews "Less brash thanEnder''s Game,Speaker for the Deadmay be a much better book. Don''t miss it."Analog "Told with compassion and keen insight, this powerful sequel [is] highly recommended."Library Journal "The most powerful work Card has produced.Speakernot only completesEnder''s Game, it transcends it."Fantasy Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/616'),
(674, 'A Spell for Chameleon', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though already developing a successful career in SF with such heady novels as\n <em>\n  Chthon\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Omnivore\n </em>\n , Piers Anthony did not reach brand-name status until he cooked up some fantasy in 1977. And it was cheerful, humorous fantasy at that, as in his first\n <em>\n  A Spell for Chameleon\n </em>\n . The book''s young hero, Bink, is without magical powers in a world ruled entirely by magic. Worse still, if he doesn''t discover his own magical talent soon, he will be forever banished from his homeland. Naturally, it takes an epic quest for Bink to learn what his unique talent truly is--and perhaps to win the girl of his dreams as well.\n <em>\n  A Spell for Chameleon\n </em>\n was the very first of Anthony''s bestselling (and still ongoing) humorous fantasy series. Noteworthy for their outrageous word puns and bizarre characters, the Xanth books are a light yet often satisfying brew, especially when compared with the author''s sometimes nihilistic and ultraviolent hard SF.\n <em>\n  --Stanley Wiater\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled--where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. That is, except for Bink of North Village. He was sure he possessed no magic, and knew that if he didn''t find some soon, he would be exiled. According to the Good Magician Humpfrey, the charts said that Bink was as powerful as the King or even the Evil Magician Trent. Unfortunately, no one could determine its form. Meanwhile, Bink was in despair. If he didn''t find his magic soon, he would be forced to leave....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/465'),
(675, 'Sphere', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n __ author Michael Crichton is possibly the best science teacher for the masses since\n <em>\n  Sphere\n </em>\n , his thriller about a mysterious spherical spaceship at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, is classic Crichton. A group of not-very-complex characters (portrayed in the film by Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Queen Latifah) assemble to solve a cleverly designed roller coaster of a mystery while attempting (with mixed success) to avoid sudden death and expounding (much more successfully) on the latest, coolest scientific ideas, including the existence of black holes. Somehow, Crichton manages to convey the complicated stuff in utterly simplistic prose, making him, as his old pal Steven Spielberg puts it, "the high priest of high concept." Yet there is more to Crichton than science and big-ticket show biz. He is also, as any reader of his startling memoir __ knows, a bit of a mystic--he is entirely open to notions spouted by spoon-bending psychics that most science writers would scorn.\n <em>\n  Sphere\n </em>\n is not only a gratifying sci-fi suspense tale; it also reflects Crichton''s keen interest in the unexplained powers of the human mind. When something passes through a black hole in Crichton''s fiction, a lesson is learned. The book also contains another profound lesson: when you''re staring down a giant squid with an eyeball the size of a dinner plate, don''t blink first.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA As in Crichton''s Andromeda Strain (Knopf, 1969), the focus of this science adventure tale is humankind''s encounter with an alien life form. Within a space ship lying on the sea bottom is a mysterious sphere that promises each of the main characters some personal reward: military might, professional prestige, power, understanding. Trapped underwater with the sphere, the humans confront eerie and increasingly dangerous threats after communication with the alien object has been achieved. The story is exciting and loaded with scientific and psychological speculations that add interest at no cost to the action, including an intriguing sequence in which human and computer attempt to decode the alien communication. As the story races to an end, suspicions of evil-doing fall as many ways as in a detective novel. Young adults should find this book both accessible and satisfying. Mike Parson, Houston Public Library\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/312'),
(676, 'Spinward Fringe Broadcast 5: Fracture', 'Randolph Lalonde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The crew of the Triton, a rare, Earth built Space Combat Carrier, make their way to Ossimi Station, a safe haven for independent ships and traders. In a galaxy gripped by conflict and teetering on the verge of chaos, Captain Jacob Valance and his crew will be faced with the unexpected, the unknown, and an opportunity to save thousands of lives. Will their sympathy be their undoing?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/969'),
(677, 'Spirit House', 'Christopher G. Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A worthy example of a serial character, Vinee Calvino is human and convincing. [He] is an incarnate of the composite of the many expatriate characters who have burned the bridge to their pasts." --Thriller Magazine (Italy)\n</p>\n<p>\n "The end of the world for a whole host of bizarre foreigners unwilling, unable, or uninterested in going home."\n <br />\n --The Daily Yomiuri\n</p>\n<p>\n "For those who love Asia, they will devour Moore''s novels. He opens [Bangkok] in her darkest, most amusing facets."\n <br />\n __ --Stadtmagazin Krefeld\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the nearly twenty years he has lived in Bangkok, Christopher G. Moore has written nine novels starring Vincent Calvino, a disbarred American lawyer working as a PI in the dark and steamy Thai capital. Internationally acclaimed, the prizewinning novels have been translated into ten languages. Now\n <em>\n  Spirit House\n </em>\n , the first novel in the series, is finally available in North America.\n</p>\n<p>\n A farang is dead and the Bangkok police have a confession the next morning from a young paint-thinner addict. He claims he killed Ben Hoadly, an expat Brit, but Calvino has his doubts when he sees heavy bruises on the kidâ€™s face. In no time Calvino is working both sides, out to find the killer for Hoadlyâ€™s wealthy father, and eager to clear the addictâ€™s name for a beautiful friend who runs a charity in the slums. With the help of his best friend, Pratt, a Shakespeare quoting Thai police colonel, and his loyal assistant, Ratana, Calvino plunges into the dangerous world of addicts, dealers, fortune tellers, inexpensive hit men, oversexed foreigners, and professional bar girls.\n <em>\n  Spirit House\n </em>\n is a thrilling introduction to Vincent Calvino and Christopher G. Mooreâ€™s Bangkok.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1022'),
(678, 'Spook', 'Mary Roach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If author Mary Roach was a college professor, she''d have a zero drop-out rate. That''s because when Roach tackles a subject--like the posthumous human body in her previous bestseller,\n <em>\n  Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers\n </em>\n , or the soul in the winning\n <em>\n  Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife\n </em>\n --she charges forth with such zeal, humor, and ingenuity that her students (er, readers) feel like they''re witnessing the most interesting thing on Earth. Who the heck would skip that? As Roach informs us in her introduction, "This is a book for people who would like very much to believe in a soul and in an afterlife for it to hang around in, but who have trouble accepting these things on faith. It''s a giggly, random, utterly earthbound assault on our most ponderous unanswered question." Talk about truth in advertising. With that, Roach grabs us by the wrist and hauls butt to India, England, and various points in between in search of human spiritual ephemera, consulting an earnest bunch of scientists, mystics, psychics, and kooks along the way. It''s a heck of a journey and Roach, with one eyebrow mischievously cocked, is a fantastically entertaining tour guide, at once respectful and hilarious, dubious yet probing. And brother, does she bring the facts. Indeed,\n <em>\n  Spook\n </em>\n ''s myriad footnotes are nearly as riveting as the principal text. To wit: "In reality, an X-ray of the head could not show the brain, because the skull blocks the rays. What appeared to be an X-ray of the folds and convolutions of a human brain inside a skull--an image circulated widely in 1896--was in fact an X-ray of artfully arranged cat intestines." Or this: "Medical treatises were eminently more readable in Sanctorius''s day.\n <em>\n  Medicina statica\n </em>\n delved fearlessly into subjects of unprecedented medical eccentricity: ''Cucumbers, how prejudicial,'' and the tantalizing ''Leaping, its consequences.'' There''s even a full-page, near-infomercial-quality plug for something called the Flesh-Brush." While rigid students of theology might take exception to Roach''s conclusions (namely, we''re just a bag of bones killing time before donning a soil blanket) it''s hard to imagine anyone not enjoying this impressively researched and immensely readable book. And since, as Roach suggests, each of us has only one go-round, we might as well waste downtime with something thoroughly fun.\n <em>\n  --Kim Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Roach made an exceptional debut two years ago with\n <em>\n  Stiffâ€”\n </em>\n it might seem a hard act to follow. Yet she has done it again: after her study of what becomes of our mortal coil after death, she now presents an equally smart, quirky, hilarious look at whether there is a soul that survives our physical demise. Roach perfectly balances her skepticism and her boundless curiosity with a sincere desire to know. She ranges into the oddest nooks and crannies of both science and belief (and scientists who believe), regaling the reader with tales of Duncan Macdougall, a respected surgeon who weighed consumptives at their moment of death to see if the escaping soul could be measured in ounces, and of female mediums who, during sÃ©ances, extruded a substance called ectoplasm from their private parts (she even examines a piece of alleged ectoplasm archived at Cambridge University). She goes to school to learn to be a medium, subjects her brain to electromagnetic waves to see if they induce the experience of seeing ghosts and joins a group trying to record sounds made by the spirits of the Donner party. The text is littered with footnotes: tangential but delicious tidbits that Roach clearly couldn''t bear to leave out. She is an original who can enliven any subject with wit, keen reporting and a sly intelligence.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/661'),
(679, 'Spook Country', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now that the present has caught up with William Gibson''s vision of the future, which made him the most influential science fiction writer of the past quarter century, he has started writing about a time--our time--in which everyday life feels like science fiction. With his previous novel,\n <em>\n  Pattern Recognition\n </em>\n , the challenge of writing about the present-day world drove him to create perhaps his best novel yet, and in\n <em>\n  Spook Country\n </em>\n he remains at the top of his game. It''s a stripped-down thriller that reads like the best DeLillo (or the best Gibson), with the lives of a half-dozen evocative characters connected by a tightly converging plot and by the general senses of unease and wonder in our networked, post-9/11 time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Across the Border to\n  <em>\n   Spook Country\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n For the last few decades, William Gibson, who grew up in Virginia and elsewhere in the United States, has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, just across the border from Amazon.com''s Seattle headquarters, which made for a short drive for a lunchtime interview before the release of\n <em>\n  Spook Country\n </em>\n . We met just a few miles from where the storylines of the new novel, in a rare scene set in Gibson''s own city, converge. You can read the\n <em>\n  Spook Country\n </em>\n , which we have available for viewing on our site. Here are a few excerpts from the interview:\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Could you start by telling us a little bit about the scenario of the new book?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  William Gibson:\n </strong>\n It''s a book in which shadowy and mysterious characters are using New York''s smallest crime family, a sort of boutique operation of smugglers and so-called illegal facilitators, to get something into North America. And you have to hang around to the end of the book to find out what they''re doing. So I guess it''s a caper novel in that regard.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n The line on your last book,\n <em>\n  Pattern Recognition\n </em>\n was that the present had caught up with William Gibson''s future. So many of the things you imagined have come true that in a way it seems like we''re all living in science fiction now. Is that the way you felt when you came to write that book, that the real world had caught up with your ideas?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gibson:\n </strong>\n Well, I thought that writing about the world today as I perceive it would probably be more challenging, in the real sense of science fiction, than continuing just to make things up. And I found that to absolutely be the case. If I''m going to write fiction set in an imaginary future now, I''m going to need a yardstick that gives me some accurate sense of how weird things are now. ''Cause I''m going to have to go beyond that. And I think over the course of these last two books--I don''t think I''m done yet--I''ve been getting a yardstick together. But I don''t know if I''ll be able to do it again. I don''t know if I''ll be able to make up an imaginary future in the same way. In the ''80s and ''90s--as strange as it may seem to say this--we had such luxury of stability. Things weren''t changing quite so quickly in the ''80s and ''90s. And when things are changing too quickly, as one of the characters in\n <em>\n  Pattern Recognition\n </em>\n says, you don''t have any place to stand from which to imagine a very elaborate future.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Now that you''re writing about the present, do you consider yourself a science fiction writer these days? Because the marketplace still does.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gibson:\n </strong>\n I never really believed in the separation. But science fiction is definitely where I''m from. Science fiction is my native literary culture. It''s what I started reading, and I think the thing that actually makes me a bit different than some of the science fiction writers I''ve met who are my own age is that I discovered Edgar Rice Burroughs and William Burroughs in the same week. And I started reading Beat poets a year later, and got that in the mix. That really changed the direction. But it seems like such an old-fashioned way of looking at things. And it''s better not to be pinned down. It''s a matter of where you''re allowed to park. If you can park in the science fiction bookstore, that''s good. If you can park in the other bookstore, that''s really good. If people come and buy it at Amazon, that''s really good.\n</p>\n<p>\n I''m sure I must have readers from 20 years ago who are just despairing of the absence of cyberstuff, or girls with bionic fingernails. But that just the way it is. All of that stuff reads so differently now. I think nothing dates more quickly than science fiction. Nothing dates more quickly than an imaginary future. It''s acquiring a patina of quaintness even before you''ve got it in the envelope to send to the publisher.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n So do you think that''s your own career path, that you''re less interested in imagining a future, or do you think that the world is changing?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gibson:\n </strong>\n I think it''s actually both. Until fairly recently, I had assumed that it was me, me being drawn to use this toolkit I''d acquired when I was a teenager, and using my old SF toolkit in some kind of attempt at naturalism, 21st-century naturalistic fiction. But over the last five to six years it''s started to seem to me that there''s something else going on as well, that maybe we''re in what the characters in my novel\n <em>\n  Idoru\n </em>\n call a "nodal point," or a series of them. We''re in a place where things could just go anywhere. A couple of weeks ago I happened to read Charlie Stross''s argument as to why he believes that there will never, ever be any manned space travel. It''s not going to happen. We''re not going to colonize Mars. All of that is just a big fantasy. And it''s so convincing. I read that and I''m like, "My god, there goes so much of the fiction I read as a child."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robertson Dean''s deep, soothing tones anchor this post-9/11 thriller, a follow-up to\n <em>\n  Pattern Recognition\n </em>\n . Told from three third-person perspectives, the story concerns a journalist backed by a mysterious Belgian industrialist, a young Cuban-Chinese go-to guy from a secretive clan of criminals, and a junkie fluent in Russian, who get caught up in a search for a mysterious shipping container. Gibson reinvents the concept he made famous in his landmark SF novel,\n <em>\n  Neuromancer\n </em>\n â€”i.e., cyberspaceâ€”creating a more nuanced and up-to-date relationship between the virtual and the real. For Gibson, the nature of the quest object is almost beside the point; it merely serves as a spark for a series of cleverly orchestrated confrontations and interesting meditations about the world and where it''s headed. In a novel that''s light on dialogue and heavy on narration and interior monologue, Dean doesn''t need to create distinct, accented voices. He provides reflective calm for Gibson''s musings, and clarity to detailed, complex action scenes. Although there are a few strange mispronunciations, this is, on the whole, a smooth, intelligent recording of an intriguing and gripping book.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/754'),
(680, 'Squee! 1', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/834'),
(681, 'Squee! 2', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/835'),
(682, 'Squee! 3', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/836'),
(683, 'Squee! 4', 'Jhonen Vasquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/837'),
(684, 'Star Dragon', 'Mike Brotherton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers hungry for the thought-provoking extrapolation and rigorous technical detail of old-fashioned hard SF are sure to enjoy astronomer Brotherton''s first novel. The thinly characterized crew of the Karamojo has been hand-picked to travel 250 light years to SS Cygni, a binary star system, to capture a star dragon, an exotic creature seemingly comprised of stellar plasma and magnetic fields. Despite her "striking" good looks, Capt. Lena Fang is all business, only revealing her "feminine" side in the "timelessly girlish" trappings of her private quarters, and in her dealings with the ship''s AI, modeled on a decidedly soft-hearted vision of Hemingway. In contrast, exobiologist Dr. Samuel Fisher and biosystems engineer Axelrod Henderson are both uptight and ruthlessly focused on their work. Fisher''s manipulative sexual relationship with Fang threatens the crew''s ability to work together, while Henderson secretly plots to release a virus that will impregnate every female on Earth with his offspring. When they eventually reach SS Cygni, the star dragons prove surprisingly sneaky. Brotherton''s strength is in the technical rigor of his setting, with truly alien creatures and biomods that can alter the human body into the most exotic of life forms. Readers willing to overlook the less-than-convincing characters will find an amazingly detailed world and a story full of scientific wonder.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n A probe launched in the late twenty-first century to the classic dwarf nova system SS Cygni has sent back hours of video, including a few minutes that show a serpentine form not only twisting lazily but also turning in a purposive way suggestive of intelligence. The Biolathe Corporation is sending a spaceship to study the dragonlike form, determine whether it is of natural or artificial origin, and, perhaps, return with a specimen. The round-trip voyage will take about three years of the crew''s subjective time; meanwhile, 500 years will have passed on Earth. Eagerly joining the crew of three men and two women, exobiologist Sam Fisher becomes ever more obsessed with what he considers\n <em>\n  his\n </em>\n dragon.\n <em>\n  Star Dragon\n </em>\n is steeped in cosmology, the physics of interstellar travel, exobiology, artificial intelligence (in the form of the ship''s brain, which is modeled on Ernest Hemingway), bioscience, and other things. Just as important to the plot are the dynamics and interactions of the very well developed characters, each of whom has personal reasons for making the long journey. Brotherton, author of many scientific articles in refereed journals, has written a dramatic, provocative, utterly convincing hard-science sf novel that includes an ironic twist that fans will love.\n <em>\n  Sally Estes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/762'),
(685, 'Star Soldier', 'Vaughn Heppner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Itâ€™s survival of the fittest in a brutal war of extinction!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Created in the gene labs as super soldiers, the Highborn decide to replace the obsolete Homo sapiens. They pirate the Doom Stars and capture the Sun Works Ring around Mercury. Now they rain asteroids, orbital fighters and nine-foot drop troops onto Earth in a relentless tide of conquest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Marten Kluge is on the receiving end. Hounded by Thought Police, he lives like an ant in a kilometer-deep city. The invasion frees him from a re-education camp but lands him in the military, fighting for the wrong side.\n </p>\n <p>\n  STAR SOLDIER is the story of techno hell in a merciless war, with too many surprises for any gruntâ€™s sanity. STAR SOLDIER is a full novel, 82,000 words in length by Vaughn Heppner, Writers of the Future winner, Vol. IX.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Excerpt Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  7 AUGUST 2346 A.D.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Father and son floated swiftly, silently, with purpose, through a seldom-used maintenance shaft. They refused to sell their souls to Social Unity. Three years of hiding like rats proved that and culminated tonight. They had just placed thirty-six bombs onto the space habitatâ€™s outer skin and had eleven minutes to go.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Father and son looked nothing alike. Marten Kluge was nineteen, lean and had a blond-haired, handsome face like his mother. He cradled a stubby tangler against his vacc suit and had a high-tech kit on his belt. The old man, Ben Kluge, was massive and hard-eyed, with a needler attached to his silver suit. In the last half hour, heâ€™d killed four men, two with his hands. No one had heard or missed the men so far. The Sun Works Factory circling Mercury was vast beyond any space habitat in the Solar System. The corpses were left to float in dark shafts. Father and son now donned helmets, activated oxygen tanks and opened a hatch for the next phase of the operation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/924');
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(686, 'Star Strike', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Planet by planet, galaxy by galaxy, the inhabited universe has fallen to the alien Xul.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Now only one obstacle stands between them and total domination: the warriors of a resilient race the world-devourers nearly annihilated centuries ago . . .\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  A power vast, ancient, and terrifying, the mighty Xul have lost track of the insignificant humans hundreds of years after devastating their home worldâ€”which has enabled the United Star Marines to operate unnoticed and unhindered. A near-autonomous intergalactic policing force, they battle in defense of an Earth they may not live to see again. Now, following the trail of a vanished twenty-fourth-century transport, they are journeying through an unexplored stargate to the edge of an unknown galaxy many light years from their sun. For the last, best, and\n  <em>\n   only\n  </em>\n  chance to defeat the tyrants of the universe may at long last be at hand . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ian Douglas is the author of the popular military SF?series\n  <em>\n   The Heritage Trilogy\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Legacy Trilogy\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Inheritance Trilogy\n  </em>\n  . A former naval corpsman, he lives in Pennsylvania.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/914'),
(687, 'Starcrash', 'Doug Petrie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1125'),
(688, 'Stardust', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Stardust\n </em>\n is an utterly charming fairy tale in the tradition of __ and\n <strong>\n  . Neil Gaiman, creator of the darkly elegant Sandman comics and author of\n </strong>\n , tells the story of young Tristran Thorn and his adventures in the land of Faerie. One fateful night, Tristran promises his beloved that he will retrieve a fallen star for her from beyond the Wall that stands between their rural English town (called, appropriately, Wall) and the Faerie realm. No one ever ventures beyond the Wall except to attend an enchanted flea market that is held every nine years (and during which, unbeknownst to him, Tristran was conceived). But Tristran bravely sets out to fetch the fallen star and thus win the hand of his love. His adventures in the magical land will keep you turning pages as fast as you can--he and the star escape evil old witches, deadly clutching trees, goblin press-gangs, and the scheming sons of the dead Lord of Stormhold. The story is by turns thrillingly scary and very funny. You''ll love goofy, earnest Tristran and the talking animals, gnomes, magic trees, and other irresistible denizens of Faerie that he encounters in his travels.\n <em>\n  Stardust\n </em>\n is a perfect read-aloud book, a brand-new fairy tale you''ll want to share with a kid, or maybe hoard for yourself. (If you read it to kids, watch out for a couple of spicy sex bits and one epithet.)\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Tristran Thorn falls in love with the prettiest girl in town and makes her a foolish promise: he says that he''ll go find the falling star they both watched streak across the night sky. She says she''ll marry him if he finds it, so he sets off, leaving his home of Wall, and heads out into the perilous land of faerie, where not everything is what it appears. Gaiman is known for his fanciful wit, sterling prose and wildly imaginative plots, and Stardust is no exception. Gaiman''s silver-tongued narration vividly brings this production to life. Like the bards of old, Gaiman is equally proficient at telling tales as he is at writing them, and his pleasant British accent feels like a perfect match to the material. Gaiman''s performance is an extraordinary achievementâ€”if only all authors could read their own work so well. The audiobook also includes a brief, informative and enjoyable interview with Gaiman about the writing of the novel and his work in the audiobook studio.\n <br />\n <em>\n  CopyrightÂ© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/419'),
(689, 'The Stark Hyperspace War Part 1', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1063'),
(690, 'The Stark Hyperspace War Part 2', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1065'),
(691, 'The Stark Hyperspace War Part 3', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1067'),
(692, 'The Stark Hyperspace War Part 4', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1070'),
(693, 'The Stars My Destination', 'Alfred Bester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gully Foyle, Mechanic''s Mate 3rd Class.EDUCATION: noneSKILLS: none MERITS: noneRECOMMENDATIONS: noneThat''s the official verdict on Gully Foyle, unskilled space crewman.But right now he is the only survivor on his drifting, wrecked spaceship, and when another space vessel, the Vorga, ignores his distress flares and sails by, Gully becomes obsessed with revenge. He endures 170 days alone in deep space before finding refuge on the Sargasso Asteroid and returning to Earth to track down the crew and owners of the Vorga. But, as he works out his murderous grudge, Gully Foyle also uncovers a secret of momentous proportions . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/905'),
(694, 'Starship Troopers', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Juan Rico signed up with the Federal Service on a lark, but despite the hardships and rigorous training, he finds himself determined to make it as a cap trooper. In boot camp he will learn how to become a soldier, but when he graduates and war comes (as it always does for soldiers), he will learn\n <em>\n  why\n </em>\n he is a soldier. Many consider this Hugo Award winner to be Robert Heinlein''s finest work, and with good reason. Forget the battle scenes and high-tech weapons (though this novel has them)--this is Heinlein at the top of his game talking people and politics.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against humankind''s most frightening enemy. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/761'),
(695, 'Stiff', 'Mary Roach', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers--some willingly, some unwittingly--have been involved in science''s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They''ve tested France''s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries--from the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors'' conference on human composting. In her droll, inimitable voice, Roach tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/660'),
(696, 'The Stonekeeper', 'Kazu Kibuishi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Almost too clever and poignant,\n  <em>\n   Amulet\n  </em>\n  is, on the surface, about navigating the murky waters of adolescence and, beneath that, an exploration of abandonment and survival. Emily and Navin are lost children, literally lost in a dark, new world and struggling to save their mother, who has been kidnapped by a drooling, tentacled beast. With stellar artwork, imaginative character design, moody color and consistent pacing, this first volume''s weakness lies in its largely disjointed storytelling. There is the strong, young, heroine; cute, furry, sidekicks; scary monstersâ€”all extraordinary components, but pieced together in a patchwork manner. There is little hope in his dark world as Kibuishi removes Emily and Navin''s frame of safety. Their hopes rest in a magic amulet that seems to be working in the interest of the childrenâ€”until it suddenly isn''t. The most frightening element of\n  <em>\n   Amulet\n  </em>\n  is the sense of insecurity we feel for Emily, fighting her way through uncharted terrain with no guide and no support system. This first volume of\n  <em>\n   Amulet\n  </em>\n  isn''t a disappointment, but it does feel like a warmup to the main event. If anything, it''s a clear indication that Kibuishi has just begun skimming the surface of his own talent.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "[The] action-packed adventure sequences move at an exciting clip...Part fantasy...and part manga, this volume has much appeal to readers." - Booklist\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1196'),
(697, 'Stories of Your Life and Others', 'Ted Chiang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven - and broke through to Heaven''s other side? What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were inconsistent? What if there was a science of naming things which calls life into being from inanimate matter? What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? What if all the beliefs of fundamentalist Christianity were literally true, and the sight of sinners being swallowed into Hell was a routine event on city streets? These are the kinds of outrageous questions posed by the stories of Ted Chiang. Collected here for the first time are eight of his extraordinary stories - including one specially written for this volume.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ted Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York, and currently lives outside Seattle, Washington. In 1991 he won the Nebula Award for his first published story, ''Tower of Babylon.'' Following this triumph, his stories have won him two more Nebula Awards, a Hugo Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, making him one of the most honoured writers in contemporary SF.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1235'),
(698, 'Stork Naked', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of Anthony''s routine 30th Xanth novel, Stymy Stork refuses to deliver Surprise Golem''s baby, because Surprise is too young, per the dictates of the Adult Conspiracy. After the stork flies off with his bundle, Surprise, the two bratty children she''s babysitting and the pet peeve (the obnoxious bird of 2005''s\n <em>\n  Pet Peeve\n </em>\n ) resolve to bring the baby back. Their meandering quest takes them through various alternate Xanths, including Lion Mountain, complete with Mountain Lion, and the Punderground. Hardcore Xanth fans will enjoy the pun-filled journey, but other readers may raise their eyebrows at how often the Adult Conspiracy fails to protect teenage girls from sexual activity. In the end, Surprise and her baby reach homeâ€”but is this the home and husband they left? At least the book closes with a tantalizing question to set up the sequel.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the thirtieth absurd, pun-laden tale of Xanth, Surprise Golem is expecting. But Stymy Stork refuses to deliver and flies off through a hole in the fabric of reality. To track down her baby, Surprise embarks, with the brats she babysits and the obnoxious pet peeve in tow, on a quest through several alternate Xanths. While seeking the baby, the odd lot has trouble keeping track of each other. Eventually, mom finds babe and returns to . . . Is this the home she left?\n <em>\n  Frieda Murray\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/460'),
(699, 'Stormchasers', 'Haden Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1104'),
(700, 'Strange Attractors', 'Jeffrey A. Carver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The second installment in the Chaos Chronicles dispatches genetically altered earthling John Bandicut to a massive planet-like place called Shipworld to help the alien Ik find his friend. In lieu of a preface, John''s history and earlier adventures are revealed via one of Carver''s several futuristic beings?a chaos-manipulating Quarx that lives inside the protagonist''s head. Readers, too, might hope for the Quarx''s clarifying assistance: characters'' motivations are somewhat hazy here?Why must John battle Shipworld''s malevolent elements? What is Ik''s secret agenda??and an assortment of odd keystrokes that supposedly identify the speakers in a series of inner and outer voices proves confusing. Also, Carver is slow to deliver on his implicit promise to deliver hard science. Still, his story is capably told, with welcome infusions of humor periodically bolstering the complex narrative.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Bandicut''s close encounter with and possession by an alien intelligence transports him from his galaxy to a distant and unfathomable world on the edge of destruction. Continuing the story begun in Neptune Crossing (LJ 3/15/94), Carver''s latest novel showcases his own fertile imagination and his talent for creating a host of engagingly sympathetic characters. The vivid descriptions and unusual predicaments encountered by Bandicut and his alien-in-residence cohort "Charlie" transcend the predictable space-opera storyline. Large libraries should consider this for their sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/694'),
(701, 'Stranger in a Strange Land', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Stranger in a Strange Land\n </em>\n , winner of the 1962 Hugo Award, is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars. Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: he has never seen a woman and has no knowledge of Earth''s cultures or religions. But he brings turmoil with him, as he is the legal heir to an enormous financial empire, not to mention\n <em>\n  de facto\n </em>\n owner of the planet Mars. With the irascible popular author Jubal Harshaw to protect him, Michael explores human morality and the meanings of love. He founds his own church, preaching free love and disseminating the psychic talents taught him by the Martians. Ultimately, he confronts the fate reserved for all messiahs.\n</p>\n<p>\n The impact of\n <em>\n  Stranger in a Strange Land\n </em>\n was considerable, leading many children of the 60''s to set up households based on Michael''s water-brother nests. Heinlein loved to pontificate through the mouths of his characters, so modern readers must be willing to overlook the occasional sour note ("Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it''s partly her fault."). That aside,\n <em>\n  Stranger in a Strange Land\n </em>\n is one of the master''s best entertainments, provocative as he always loved to be. Can you grok it?\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1939 Heinlein published his first sf short story and became one of the most prolific and influential authors in the genre. Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) is an international best seller and a landmark in more ways than one: it opened the trade best sellers lists to sf writers, breaking down longstanding barriers that will never be seen again. At the same time Stranger became an emblem of the 1960s generation in its iconoclasm and free-love themes. Telling the story of an Earth baby raised by an existing, ancient Martian civilization, the novel often reads as if it were the "Playboy Philosophy" in dialog form. The man/ Martian comes to Earth and broadcasts his ideas by forming his own Church. Heinlein has been rightly criticized for presenting as facts his opinions, which state that organized religion is a sham, authority is generally stupid, young women are all the same, and the common individual is alternately an independent, Ayn Randian-producing genius and the dull-witted part of an ignorant and will-less mob. Yet the book is hard to put down; in its early pages it is a truly masterful sf story. Every library with a fiction collection should have it. Christopher Hurt reads with authority, nicely drawing the characters via barely perceptible changes in intonation, harshness, and pacing. Highly recommended.?Don Wismer, Office of the Secretary of State, Augusta, Me.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/246'),
(702, 'Stranger Things Happen', 'Kelly Link', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists. A newly married couple become participants in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. Sexy blond aliens invade New York City. A young girl learns how to make herself disappear. These eleven extraordinary stories are quirky, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. Every story contains a secret prize. Each story was written especially for you. Stories from Stranger Things Happen have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Award. Stranger Things Happen was a Salon Book of the Year, one of the Village Voiceâ€˜s 25 Favorite Books of 2001, and was nominated for the Firecracker Alternative Book Award.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1247'),
(703, 'Strata', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Company builds planets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of the Company. After twenty-one decades of living, and with the help of memory surgery, she is at the top of her profession. Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilized plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not to mention the fact it is holding a placard which reads ''End Nuclear Testing Now'', doesn''t dismay the woman who built a mountain range in the shape of her initials during her own high-spirited youth.\n</p>\n<p>\n But then come a discovery of something which did intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new...\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n First published in 1981,\n <em>\n  Strata\n </em>\n is an early exploration of the idea that was to become the best-selling\n <em>\n  Discworld\n </em>\n series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/144'),
(704, 'Strength and Honor: A Novel of the U.S.S. Merrimack', 'R. M. Meluch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Peace between earth and the star-born Roman Empire seems about to break out. But the peacemaking Caesar is assassinated, and his successor wants to fight some more. The Merrimack is on a diplomatic mission deep in Roman space when the shipâ€™s resident Roman disappears, and the all-devouring alien menace the Hive returns in force. Fast action, hairbreadth escapes, and Meluchâ€™s facility for humor in an astonishing range of situations incumbent on military life become the order of the day. Whether you favor the marines, the pilots, or the Romans, a fine yarn to chuckle along with, just like the previous Tour of the Merrimack adventures. --Roland Green\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Captain John Farragut and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Merrimack\n  </em>\n  face their greatest challenge as Caesar Romulus declares war on the United States of America with a direct attack on Earth. The\n  <em>\n   Merrimack\n  </em>\n  retaliates with an assault on the Roman capital world of Palatine, and in the midst of the chaos, the Hive descends on Earth. With the battle raging, Farragut finds himself in the middle of a final deadly showdown.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1018'),
(705, 'Striking From the Shadows', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1046'),
(706, 'The Surgeon', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick,\n </strong>\n Tess Gerritsen left a very successful career as an internist to raise her children and devote more time to writing. After several books that have had moderate success, Gerritsen has now written a gruesome and frightening story that should put her among the top women thriller writers working today.\n</p>\n<p>\n A serial killer is on the loose in Boston. The victims are killed in a particularly nasty way: cut with a scalpel on the stomach, the intestines and uterus removed, and then the throat slashed. The killer obviously has medical knowledge and has been dubbed "the Surgeon" by the media. Detective Thomas Moore and his partner Rizzoli of the Boston Homicide Unit have discovered something that makes this case even more chilling. Years ago in Savannah a serial killer murdered in exactly the same way. He was finally stopped by his last victim, who shot him as he tried to cut her. That last victim is Dr. Catherine Cordell, who now works as a cardiac surgeon at one of Boston''s prestigious hospitals. As the murders continue, it becomes obvious that the killer is drawing closer and closer to Dr. Cordell, who is becoming so frightened that she is virtually unable to function. But she is the only person who can help the police catch this copycat killer. Or is it a copycat? To complicate matters even further, Detective Moore, often referred to as Saint Thomas as he continues to mourn the loss of his wife, is getting emotionally involved with the doctor.\n</p>\n<p>\n The suspense in\n <em>\n  The Surgeon\n </em>\n is almost unbearable. The writing is superb and the stunning twists and turns make it almost impossible to put down.\n <em>\n  -- Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A creepy cerebral serial killer vaguely reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter pursues a charismatic female doctor in this thoroughly satisfying if somewhat derivative thriller. Skillfully drawn surgical backdrops sizzling with ER intensity balance out the obligatory romantic intrigue and familiar plucky police professionals, attesting to Gerritsen''s authentic medical expertise as a former physician. Dr. Catherine Cordell, the main character in this chilling tale, thought she had shot and killed her rapist and would-be murderer two years earlier in steamy Savannah, where he was a surgery intern at her hospital. Now, in Boston, as another hot summer begins, he appears to have miraculously returned and embarked once again on his grisly mission: he rapes women, then surgically removes their wombs. As two intrepid detectives Thomas Moore and Jane Rizzoli investigate, Cordell begins to doubt her own memories (or lack of) and discovers that not even her OR is safe. Gliding as smoothly as a scalpel in a confident surgeon''s hand, this tale proves that Gerritsen (Harvest; Life Support; Bloodstream; Gravity), originally a romance writer, has morphed into a dependable suspense novelist whose growing popularity is keeping pace with her ever-finer writing skills. (Sept.)Forecast: National print advertising in People, the New York Times and USA Today, plus a major promotion campaign, will ratchet Gerritsen''s sales up yet another notch.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/921'),
(707, 'Swell', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/812'),
(708, 'Swell Foop', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Do you think the puns will ever run out?" a character asks early in Anthony''s 26th funny Xanth adventure. "If they do, Xanth will dissolve into chaos... It is mostly made of puns," another character sagely replies. And so it goes. This fantasy confection is full of puns, clever mathematical and grammatical lessons and some gratuitous sexual innuendo. Cynthia Centaur and her companions must find the Six Rings of Xanth (Fire, Earth, Idea, Water, Air and Void) in order to rescue the Demon Earth from the thrall of the Swell Foop. These rings are the only artifacts capable of locating the Foop. When they are stacked and aligned, a person who sights through them will be able to see the Foop if the stack is pointing the right way, and if that person is destined to use it. The rings also control the six known Regions of Xanth. The ring bearers, who include Jaylin, a Mundanian human girl, as well as five Xanth creatures, must use their creativity and sense of humor to find Demon Earth, or else the gravity needed in Xanth and Earth will disappear forever. Diehard Xanth fans will rejoice at this fast-paced romp, but even they might get a bit tired of the incessant panty humor. Some readers may have raging hormones, but the preteens, who would most enjoy this book, aren''t quite there yet, and many older teens are ready to explore more mature issues. (Oct. 17)autobiography, How Precious Was That While (Forecasts, July 23).\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The twenty-fifth book of Xanth deals with a matter of some gravity. Specifically, the Demon Earth has disappeared, which means that eventually not only some but all gravity will disappear from Earth and Xanth. To solve the mystery and rescue the Demon Earth, the Swell Foop is required. That involves using the six magical rings of Xanth, which need to be found by means of a quest by five old friends of Xanth mavens--Cynthia and Che Centaur, Brianna and Justin Tree, and Sim, the immortal bird--as well as Jaylin, a girl from Mundane Hawaii. The search is fraught with Anthony''s usual cargo of puns. A bit longer than some recent Xanths, this is also a bit better, and even those who find it more of the same are likely to enjoy themselves. But starting with Xanth in a late book such as this is less advisable for finding out what the fuss is all about than going back as far as your library''s holdings allow.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/489'),
(709, 'A Swiftly Tilting Planet', 'Madeleine L&#39;Engle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry, whom readers first met in __, has a little task he must accomplish. In 24 hours, a mad dictator will destroy the universe by declaring nuclear war--unless Charles Wallace can go back in time to change one of the many Might-Have-Beens in history. In an intricately layered and suspenseful journey through time, this extraordinary young man psychically enters four different people from other eras. As he perceives through their eyes "what might have been," he begins to comprehend the cosmic significance and consequences of every living creature''s actions. As he witnesses first-hand the transformation of civilization from peaceful to warring times, his very existence is threatened, but the alternative is far worse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Murry family, also appearing in\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  , acts as a carrier of Madeleine L''Engle''s unique message about human responsibility for the world. Themes of good versus evil, time and space travel, and the invincibility of the human spirit predominate. Even while she entertains, L''Engle kindles the intellect, inspiring young people to ask questions of the world, and learn by challenging. (Ages 9 and older)\n  <em>\n   --Emilie Coulter\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Charles Wallace (_A Wrinkle in Time_), now 15, Meg, and the Murrys reappear in an intricately woven fantasy in which the boy time-spins through a tangle of history to find and mend the broken link that threatens to disturb the harmony of today." --Starred,\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/301'),
(710, 'Sword of Shannara Trilogy', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _The Voyage of the\n <em>\n  Jerle Shannara\n </em>\n : Ilse Witch_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n ?If Harry Potter has given you a thirst for fantasy and you have not discovered the magic of Terry Brooks, you are in for a treat.?\n <br />\n ?_Rocky Mountain News\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n ?[_Ilse Witch_] finds Mr. Brooks?s power ascending . . . The action and creatures come fast and furious.?\n <br />\n _?The Dallas Morning News\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _The Voyage of the\n <em>\n  Jerle Shannara\n </em>\n : Antrax_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n ?_Antrax_ is great, and it confirms Terry?s place at the head of the fantasy world.?\n <br />\n ?PHILIP PULLMAN\n <br />\n Author of\n <em>\n  The Golden Compass\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Amber Spyglass\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n ?An engaging read . . . Fine storytelling . . .\n <em>\n  Antrax\n </em>\n is a satisfying story.?\n <br />\n ?Associated Press --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Twenty-five years ago,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Terry Brooks wrote a novel that brought to life a dazzling world that would become one of the most popular fantasy epics of all time, beloved by millions of fans around the world. Ten more Shannara books would follow. Now, for the first time in one elegant collectorâ€™s edition hardcover, and featuring an introduction by the author, here are the first three novels of that classic series:\n <em>\n  The Sword of Shannara\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Elfstones of Shannara\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Wishsong of Shannara\n </em>\n â€”the beginning of a phenomenal epic of good and evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n The Sword of Shannara\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Long ago, the wars of the ancient Evil ruined the world. In peaceful Shady Vale, half-elfin Shea Ohmsford knows little of such troubles. But the supposedly dead Warlock Lord is plotting to destroy everything in his wake. The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness is the Sword of Shannara, which can be used only by a true heir of Shannara. On Shea, last of the bloodline, rests the hope of all the races.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n The Elfstones of Shannara\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n The magical Ellcrys tree is dying, loosening the spell that bars the Demons from enacting vengeance upon the land. Now Wil Ohmsford must guard the Elven girl Amberle on a perilous quest as she carries one of the Ellcrysâ€™ seeds to a mysterious place where it can be quickened into a powerful new force. But dark on their trail comes the Reaper, most fearsome of all Demons, aiming to crush their mission at any cost.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n The Wishsong of Shannara_\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n An ancient Evil is stirring to new life, sending its ghastly Mord Wraiths to destroy Mankind. To win through the vile growth that protects this dark force, the Druid Allanon needs Brin Ohmsfordâ€”for she alone holds the magic power of the wishsong. Reluctantly Brin joins the Druid on his dangerous journey. But a prophecy foretells doom, as Evil nurses its plans to trap the unsuspecting Brin into a fate far more horrible than death.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thus begins Terry Brooksâ€™s thrilling Shannara epic, an unforgettable tale of adventure, magic, and myth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/994'),
(711, 'Syren', 'Angie Sage', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fifth installment in the best-selling Septimus Heap series begins a few days after the events of Queste (2008). Septimus is preparing to recover his friends, including Princess Jenna, from the lowly Harbor environs. Meanwhile, Wolf Boy has a mission to complete to become the next Keeper. Each thread of this tale includes a multitude of twists, turns, witches, a jinnee (and an army of warrior jinns), storms at sea, and pirates and ultimately converges on a mysterious island inhabited by a possessed girl. Once again, Sageâ€™s tale combines humor, adventure, and inventive storytelling and is sure to please her many fans. Grades 3-6. --Ernie Cox\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this fifth book in the Magykal series, Septimus ends up on a captivatingly beautiful island, one of seven set in a sparkling sea. He''s stranded there with his badly injured dragon, Spit Fyre, along with Jenna and Beetle. There are some strange things about the island, including a Magykal girl named Syrah, a cat-shaped lighthouse that has lost its Light, and an eerie presence that sings to Septimusâ€”can he escape the persistent call?\n</p>\n<p>\n Trouble is also brewing for Lucy and Wolf Boy, who have become entangled with some nefarious sailors at sea, and for Milo Banda, Jenna''s father, who is harboring a mysterious treasure chest in his ship''s hold.\n</p>\n<p>\n Charismatic storyteller Angie Sage continues Septimus Heap''s Magykal journey with more laugh-out-loud adventures, more enchanting charms and spells, and an ever-deepening understanding of the interior life of a young hero.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/281'),
(712, 'The System of the World', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The colossal and impressive third volume (after\n <em>\n  Quicksilver\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Confusion\n </em>\n ) of Stephenson''s magisterial exploration of the origins of the modern world in the scientific revolution of the baroque era begins in 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, hoping to mediate the feud between Sir Isaac Newton and Leibniz, both of whom claim to have discovered the calculus and neither of whom is showing much scientific rationality in the dispute. This brawl takes place against the background of the imminent death of Queen Anne, which threatens a succession crisis as Jacobite (Stuart, Catholic) sympathizers confront supporters of the Hanoverian succession. Aside from the potential effect of the outcome on the intellectual climate of England, these political maneuverings are notable for the role played by trilogy heroine Eliza de la Zour, who is now wielding her influence over Caroline of Ansbach, consort of the Hanoverian heir. Eliza has risen from the streets to the nobility without losing any of her creativity or her talents as a schemer; nor has outlaw Jack Shaftoe lost any of his wiliness. What he may have lost is discretion, since he oversteps the boundaries of both law and good sense far enough to narrowly escape the hangman. In the end, reluctant hero Waterhouse prevails against the machinations of everybody else, and scientific (if not sweet) reason wins by a nose. The symbol of that victory is the inventor Thomas Newcomen standing (rather like a cock crowing) atop the boiler of one of his first steam engines. This final volume in the cycle is another magnificent portrayal of an era, well worth the long slog it requires of Stephenson''s many devoted readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The conclusion to\n <em>\n  The Baroque Cycle\n </em>\n is a veritable doorstop, but a doorstop perhaps worth its weight in 18th-century gold coinsâ€”especially to those who need a reminder about the dangerous misuses of science and â€œprogress.â€ Critics canâ€™t heap enough praise on Stephensonâ€™s eloquent narration, true-to-life characters, and impeccable plotting (â€œgenerated via Waterhouseâ€™s Logic Mills,â€ says the\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n ). Stephenson exquisitely unearths Baroque history, too, from mints to gardens to Jacobites. While compelling, youâ€™ll best appreciate this epic history-romance-science fiction story â€œonce you have a solid liberal arts education under your beltâ€ (_Chronicle_). Stephenson mostly gets away with his philosophical pedantry because heâ€™s so smart and inventive. If you have the courage to delve in, you wonâ€™t be disappointed. And if you canâ€™t bring yourself to start with\n <em>\n  Quicksilver\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  System\n </em>\n includes a preface relating â€œthe story thus farâ€ that reviewers found helpful enough.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/771'),
(713, 'Taggerung', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The fourteenth saga in the epic Redwall series -- now in paperback. Where the power of a Redwall heritage is proved to be stronger than that of an evil incarcerator. A baby otter is kidnapped from Redwall Abbey by the Juska, a ruthless band of villains who believe he is a Taggerung -- a legendary animal said to have supernatural fighting skills. Their leader, Sawney Rath, raises the young otter as his own son, and trains him to be a ruthless killer. But the Redwall spirit cuts deep and as the Taggerung reaches adolescence he begins to dream of another life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/707'),
(714, 'Tale Of The Thunderbolt', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/727');
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(715, 'Tales of Beedle the Bard', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In December 2007, J.K. Rowling unveiled\n <em>\n  The Tales of Beedle the Bard\n </em>\n , a very special book of five fairy tales illustrated by the bard herself, embellished with silver ornaments and mounted moonstones. Amazon was fortunate to come into possession of one of the original copies, and it was our privilege to share images and reviews of this\n <em>\n  Harry Potter\n </em>\n fans worldwide cause for celebration with a new edition of\n <em>\n  The Tales of Beedle the Bard\n </em>\n , available December 4, 2008.\n</p>\n<p>\n Offering the trademark wit and imagination familiar to Rowling''s legions of readers--as well as Aesop''s wisdom and the occasional darkness of the Brothers Grimm--each of these five tales reveals a lesson befitting children and parents alike: the strength gained with a trusted friendship, the redemptive power of love, and the true magic that exists in the hearts of all of us. Rowling''s new introduction also comments on the personal lessons she has taken from the\n <em>\n  Tales\n </em>\n , noting that the characters in Beedle''s collection "take their fates into their own hands, rather than taking a prolonged nap or waiting for someone to return a lost shoe," and "that magic causes as much trouble as it cures."\n</p>\n<p>\n But the true jewel of this new edition is the enlightening and comprehensive commentary (including extensive footnotes!) by Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, who brings his unique wizard''s-eye perspective to the collection. Discovered "among the many papers which Dumbledore left in his will to the Hogwarts Archives," the venerable wizard''s ruminations on the\n <em>\n  Tales\n </em>\n allow today''s readers to place them in the context of 16th century Muggle society, even allowing that "Beedle was somewhat out of step with his times in preaching a message of brotherly love for Muggles" during the era of witch hunts that would eventually drive the wizarding community into self-imposed exile. In fact, versions of the same stories told in wizarding households would shock many for their uncharitable treatment of their Muggle characters.\n</p>\n<p>\n Professor Dumbledore also includes fascinating historical backstory, including tidbits such as the history and pursuit of magic wands, a brief comment on the Dark Arts and its practitioners, and the struggles with censorship that eventually led "a certain Beatrix Bloxam" to cleanse the\n <em>\n  Tales\n </em>\n of "much of the darker themes that she found distasteful," forever altering the meaning of the stories for their Muggle audience. Dumbledore also allows us a glimpse of his personal relationship to the\n <em>\n  Tales\n </em>\n , remarking that it was through "Babbity Rabbity and Her Cackling Stump" that "many of us [wizards] first discovered that magic could not bring back the dead."\n</p>\n<p>\n Both a wise and delightful addition to the\n <em>\n  Harry Potter\n </em>\n canon, this new translation of\n <em>\n  The Tales of Beedle the Bard\n </em>\n is all that fans could hope for and more--and an essential volume for the libraries of Muggles, wizards, and witches, both young and old.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Children''s Voice Campaign\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Tales of Beedle the Bard\n </em>\n is published by\n</p>\n<p>\n All net proceeds from the sale will be donated to The Children''s Voice campaign.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Children''s Voice campaign is run by CHLG. It campaigns for child rights across Europe, particularly in Eastern Europe where over a million children and teenagers are growing up in institutions, often in unacceptable conditions. In most cases they are without adequate human or emotional contact and stimulation, while many only just survive without life''s basics such as adequate shelter and food.\n</p>\n<p>\n CHLG''s Children''s Voice campaign helps around a quarter of a million children each year through education activities; outreach work in institutions; and a dedicated telephone and email help line.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Also Available: The Collector''s Edition, Offered Exclusively by Amazon\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Tales of Beedle the Bard\n </em>\n featuring an exclusive reproduction of J.K. Rowling''s handwritten introduction, 10 new illustrations, metalwork and clasp, replica gemstones, and tucked in its own case disguised as a wizarding textbook from the Hogwarts library. (Available in limited quantities)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Standard Edition Product Features:\n </strong>\n <br />\n Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  â€¢\n </strong>\n All five fairy tales from the original\n <em>\n  The Tales of Beedle the Bard\n </em>\n <br />\n Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  â€¢\n </strong>\n A new introduction by J.K. Rowling\n <br />\n Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  â€¢\n </strong>\n Illustrations reproduced from the original handcrafted book\n <br />\n Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  â€¢\n </strong>\n Commentary on each of the tales by Professor Albus Dumbledore\n</p>\n<p>\n Read this review and description in:\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Reviews the Original Handcrafted Edition of\n  <em>\n   The Tales of Beedle the Bard\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  The following is Amazon''s original December 2007 review. Please note that the review and images below pertain to the handmade book purchased at auction:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There is no easy way to define the experience of seeing, holding, or reading J.K. Rowling''s\n <em>\n  The Tales of Beedle the Bard\n </em>\n , so let''s just start with one word: "Whoa." The very fact of its existence (an artifact pulled straight out of a novel) is magical, not to mention the facts that only seven copies exist in all the world and each of the never-before-told tales is handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling herself (and it''s quite clear from the first few pages that she has some skill as an artist). Rowling''s handwriting is like the familiar scrawl of a favorite aunt--it''s not hard to read, but it does require attention--allowing you to take it slow and savor the mystery of each next word.\n</p>\n<p>\n So how do you review one of the most remarkable tomes you''ve ever had the pleasure of opening? You just turn each page and allow yourself to be swept away by each story. You soak up the simple tales that read like Aesop''s fables and echo the themes of the series; you follow every dip and curve of Rowling''s handwriting and revel in every detail that makes the book unique--a slight darkening of a letter here, a place where the writing nearly runs off the page there. You take all that and you try and bring it to life, knowing that you will never be able to do it justice. With that, let''s dig in and begin at the beginning, shall we?\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Caution: the full reviews contain spoilers!\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Please note that the review and images below pertain to the handmade book purchased at auction in December 2007.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "   "   "   "   "\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  More images from the original handcrafted edition of\n  <em>\n   The Tales of Beedle the Bard\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Please note that these are images of the handcrafted book purchased at auction in December 2007.\n </strong>\n Click thumbnails to open full-size images in a new window. See more on our\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Beedle the Bard Ballad Writing Contest\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Tales of Beedle the Bard\n </em>\n . See her Grand Prize winning entry, as well as all of the other delightful semifinalist submissions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Magic, Mystery, and Mayhem: A Conversation with J.K. Rowling\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  --J.K. Rowling\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out more about Harry''s creator in\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Rediscover the Complete\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter\n  </em>\n  Series\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Why We Love Harry: Our Favorite Moments from the Series\n </strong>\n <br />\n There are plenty of reasons to love Rowling''s wildly popular series--no doubt you have several dozen of your own. Our list features favorite moments, characters, and artifacts from the first five books. Keep in mind that this list is by no means exhaustive (what we love about Harry could fill ten books!) and does not include any of the spectacular revelatory moments that would spoil the books for those (few) who have not read them. Enjoy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Harry''s first trip to the zoo with the Dursleys, when a boa constrictor winks at him.\n </li>\n <li>\n  When the Dursleys'' house is suddenly besieged by letters for Harry from Hogwarts. Readers learn how much the Dursleys have been keeping from Harry. Rowling does a wonderful job in displaying the lengths to which Uncle Vernon will go to deny that magic exists.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s first visit to Diagon Alley with Hagrid. Full of curiosities and rich with magic and marvel, Harry''s first trip includes a trip to Gringotts and Ollivanders, where Harry gets his wand (holly and phoenix feather) and discovers yet another connection to He-Who-Must-No-Be-Named. This moment is the reader''s first full introduction to Rowling''s world of witchcraft and wizards.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s experience with the Sorting Hat.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The de-gnoming of the Weasleys'' garden. Harry discovers that even wizards have chores--gnomes must be grabbed (ignoring angry protests "Gerroff me! Gerroff me!"), swung about (to make them too dizzy to come back), and tossed out of the garden--this delightful scene highlights Rowling''s clever and witty genius.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s first experience with a Howler, sent to Ron by his mother.\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Dueling Club battle between Harry and Malfoy. Gilderoy Lockhart starts the Dueling Club to help students practice spells on each other, but he is not prepared for the intensity of the animosity between Harry and Draco. Since they are still young, their minibattle is innocent enough, including tickling and dancing charms.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Ron''s attempt to use a telephone to call Harry at the Dursleys''.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s first encounter with a Dementor on the train (and just about any other encounter with Dementors). Harry''s brush with the Dementors is terrifying and prepares Potter fans for a darker, scarier book.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry, Ron, and Hermione''s behavior in Professor Trelawney''s Divination class. Some of the best moments in Rowling''s books occur when she reminds us that the wizards-in-training at Hogwarts are, after all, just children. Clearly, even at a school of witchcraft and wizardry, classes can be boring and seem pointless to children.\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Boggart lesson in Professor Lupin''s classroom.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry, Ron, and Hermione''s knock-down confrontation with Snape.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Hermione''s disgust at the reception for the veela (Bulgarian National Team Mascots) at the Quidditch World Cup. Rowling''s fourth book addresses issues about growing up--the dynamic between the boys and girls at Hogwarts starts to change. Nowhere is this more plain than the hilarious scene in which magical cheerleaders nearly convince Harry and Ron to jump from the stands to impress them.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Viktor Krum''s crush on Hermione--and Ron''s objection to it.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Malfoy''s "Potter Stinks" badge.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hermione''s creation of S.P.E.W., the intolerant bigotry of the Death Eaters, and the danger of the Triwizard Tournament. Add in the changing dynamics between girls and boys at Hogwarts, and suddenly Rowling''s fourth book has a weight and seriousness not as present in early books in the series. Candy and tickle spells are left behind as the students tackle darker, more serious issues and take on larger responsibilities, including the knowledge of illegal curses.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Harry''s outburst to his friends at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. A combination of frustration over being kept in the dark and fear that he will be expelled fuels much of Harry''s anger, and it all comes out at once, directly aimed at Ron and Hermione. Rowling perfectly portrays Harry''s frustration at being too old to shirk responsibility, but too young to be accepted as part of the fight that he knows is coming.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s detention with Professor Umbridge. Rowling shows her darker side, leading readers to believe that Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven for young wizards. Dolores represents a bureaucratic tyrant capable of real evil, and Harry is forced to endure their private battle of wills alone.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry and Cho''s painfully awkward interactions. Rowling clearly remembers what it was like to be a teenager.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s Occlumency lessons with Snape.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dumbledore''s confession to Harry.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The introduction of the Horcrux.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Molly Weasley asking Arthur Weasley about his "dearest ambition. "Rowling has always been great at revealing little intriguing bits about her characters at a time, and Arthurâ€™s answer "to find out how airplanes stay up" reminds us about his obsession with Muggles.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s private lessons with Dumbledore, and more time spent with the fascinating and dangerous pensieve, arguably one of Rowlingâ€™s most ingenious inventions.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Fred and George Weasleyâ€™s Joke Shop, and the slogan: "Why Are You Worrying About You-Know-Who? You Should Be Worrying About U-NO-POO--the Constipation Sensation That''s Gripping the Nation!"\n </li>\n <li>\n  Luna''s Quidditch commentary. Rowling created scores of Luna Lovegood fans with hilarious and bizarre commentary from the most unlikely Quidditch commentator.\n </li>\n <li>\n  The effects of Felix Felicis.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The revelation of Snape''s nature (especially Snapeâ€™s Patronus and the emotion behind it). It serves as a reminder that it is love (requited or not) in all its forms that drives many of our actions.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry asking if the conversation with Dumbledore was real or happening in his head, and Dumbledore responding "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ron gifting Harry a book on dating witches, a subtle reminder that they are still teens, after all.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Visit the\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter\n  </em>\n  Store\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Harry\n </em>\n , including books, audio CDs and cassettes, DVDs, soundtracks, games, and more.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4 Upâ€”Muggles grow up with Grimm''s fairy tales; wizarding children grow up with\n <em>\n  Tales of Beedle the Bard\n </em>\n . The Bard''s book is a collection of five tales, bequeathed to Hermione Granger by Professor Dumbledore. The passing of the book into her hands was intended to be both "entertaining and instructive." As in all good mysteries, information contained within its pages provided Hermione with clues essential to helping Harry in the series'' last installment. In particular, "The Tale of Three Brothers" describes how three magical items appeared after siblings cleverly cheat death. It is these items that play a pivotal role in\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\n </em>\n (Scholastic, 2007). Those hoping to re-create the hours of pleasure spent curled up with a J.K. Rowling book may be disappointed at the brevity of this title, but they will undoubtedly enjoy the tales and Dumbledore''s often lengthy, cynical-but-wise commentary on each one.â€”_Robyn Gioia, Bolles School, Ponte Vedra, FL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/766'),
(716, 'Tales of the Vampires', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although\n <em>\n  Buffy the Vampire Slayer\n </em>\n and its spinoff\n <em>\n  Angel\n </em>\n have both ended, new stories set in creator Whedon''s "Buffyverse" continue to appear in comics published by Dark Horse. Whedon and several of his shows'' writersâ€”Ben Edlund, Jane Espenson and Drew Goddardâ€”contribute to this new collection of stories about vampires, set in disparate times and places. Buffy turns up for a rematch with Dracula, but Goddard''s new story makes this mythic vampire look foolish. Brett Matthews''s tale, in which the heroic vampire Angel again confronts his Hyde-like other self, Angelus, breaks no new ground. More successful is Goddard''s prequel to the television debuts of the vampires Spike and Drusilla, dramatizing how these literally soulless beings can nonetheless be deeply in love. Espenson''s three tales are particularly impressive, including one ironically written (and drawn by Scott Morse) in the style of a children''s Christmas storybook. Artist Vatche Mavlian gives the right period look to Matthews''s vampiric twist on the mystery of Jack the Ripper. Whedon intriguingly portrays the mindset of a lonely fantasy fan whose wish for "magic" in her life disturbingly comes true when she joins the ranks of the undead. The level of writing and art varies widely through the anthology, but the successes outweigh the disappointments.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 9-12. This graphic novel anthology of a dozen original vampire tales is loosely joined by a framing story in which a group of youngsters listens to a shackled monster. Illustrated in a wide range of gorgeously executed styles, the tales vary in both length and age appropriateness. "Spot the Vampire" is suitable for very young vampire fans, "Father" has a little blood and a lot of melancholia, and "Jack," while tame for graphic novel Ripper stories, is appropriately scary. Then there''s "Taking Care of Business," which hovers between funny and haunting. Each story offers a tight plot, well-balanced visual and textual interplay, and sympathetic characters.\n <em>\n  Francisca Goldsmith\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/816'),
(717, 'Taltos', 'Steven Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lord Vlad Taltos returns in the prequel to Jhereg, Yendi and Teckla in a fantastic adventure in which readers learn what really happened when Vlad found himself walking the Paths of the Dead. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1036'),
(718, 'Tank Girl - Apocalypse', 'Jamie Hewlett &amp; Alan Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/851'),
(719, 'Tank Girl - Apocalypse', 'Jamie Hewlett &amp; Alan Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/858'),
(720, 'Tank Girl - Apocalypse', 'Jamie Hewlett &amp; Alan Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/863'),
(721, 'Tank Girl - Apocalypse', 'Jamie Hewlett &amp; Alan Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/864'),
(722, 'Tank Girl - The Movie', 'Jamie Hewlett &amp; Alan Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a novelization of the film "Tank Girl".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/862'),
(723, 'Tank Girl - The Odyssey', 'Jamie Hewlett &amp; Alan Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Tank Girl:\n <br />\n "Tank Girl took a blowtorch to Batman and kicked seven shades out of Superman... Sexy, psychedelic and spleen-splittingly funny." Maxim\n <br />\n "Tank Girl... Destined to be next spring''s candidate for collegiate cult status." Entertainment Weekly\n <br />\n "Lara Croft could not have existed without Tank Girl" Icon\n <br />\n "Frankly Tank Girl was MIA for too long and it''s good to see her back" BlogcriticsMagazine\n <br />\n "As much of a wisecracker as she is woman warrior" New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Alan C. Martin:\n <br />\n "Alan Martin has rather miraculously stepped right back into his groove with the character" Badlibrarianship\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A demented take on Homerâ€™s classical Greek epic,\n <em>\n  The Odyssey\n </em>\n , brought to you by the twisted genius of Peter Milligan (_X-Statix_) and Tank Girl co-creator and artist, Jamie Hewlett (_Gorillaz_).\n</p>\n<p>\n Booga, Tank Girlâ€™s husband, is being wooed by Hollywood agents but Tank Girl is missing and his resolve is crumbling, fast! Tele, their TV-headed son, sets out on a mercy dash to find his mother... in the process triggering a chain of events that will see Tank Girl, not only, face death itself, the siren call of Goth rock and a cyclopean hotel proprietor, but also a host of other scenes and characters based on\n <em>\n  The Odyssey\n </em>\n ... give or take the odd â€” ahem â€” â€œidiosyncraticâ€\n <em>\n  Tank Girl\n </em>\n twist. With a new introduction from Alan Martin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/852'),
(724, 'Tank Girl - The Odyssey', 'Jamie Hewlett &amp; Alan Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Tank Girl:\n <br />\n "Tank Girl took a blowtorch to Batman and kicked seven shades out of Superman... Sexy, psychedelic and spleen-splittingly funny." Maxim\n <br />\n "Tank Girl... Destined to be next spring''s candidate for collegiate cult status." Entertainment Weekly\n <br />\n "Lara Croft could not have existed without Tank Girl" Icon\n <br />\n "Frankly Tank Girl was MIA for too long and it''s good to see her back" BlogcriticsMagazine\n <br />\n "As much of a wisecracker as she is woman warrior" New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Alan C. Martin:\n <br />\n "Alan Martin has rather miraculously stepped right back into his groove with the character" Badlibrarianship\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A demented take on Homerâ€™s classical Greek epic,\n <em>\n  The Odyssey\n </em>\n , brought to you by the twisted genius of Peter Milligan (_X-Statix_) and Tank Girl co-creator and artist, Jamie Hewlett (_Gorillaz_).\n</p>\n<p>\n Booga, Tank Girlâ€™s husband, is being wooed by Hollywood agents but Tank Girl is missing and his resolve is crumbling, fast! Tele, their TV-headed son, sets out on a mercy dash to find his mother... in the process triggering a chain of events that will see Tank Girl, not only, face death itself, the siren call of Goth rock and a cyclopean hotel proprietor, but also a host of other scenes and characters based on\n <em>\n  The Odyssey\n </em>\n ... give or take the odd â€” ahem â€” â€œidiosyncraticâ€\n <em>\n  Tank Girl\n </em>\n twist. With a new introduction from Alan Martin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/859'),
(725, 'Tank Girl - The Odyssey', 'Jamie Hewlett &amp; Alan Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Tank Girl:\n <br />\n "Tank Girl took a blowtorch to Batman and kicked seven shades out of Superman... Sexy, psychedelic and spleen-splittingly funny." Maxim\n <br />\n "Tank Girl... Destined to be next spring''s candidate for collegiate cult status." Entertainment Weekly\n <br />\n "Lara Croft could not have existed without Tank Girl" Icon\n <br />\n "Frankly Tank Girl was MIA for too long and it''s good to see her back" BlogcriticsMagazine\n <br />\n "As much of a wisecracker as she is woman warrior" New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Alan C. Martin:\n <br />\n "Alan Martin has rather miraculously stepped right back into his groove with the character" Badlibrarianship\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A demented take on Homerâ€™s classical Greek epic,\n <em>\n  The Odyssey\n </em>\n , brought to you by the twisted genius of Peter Milligan (_X-Statix_) and Tank Girl co-creator and artist, Jamie Hewlett (_Gorillaz_).\n</p>\n<p>\n Booga, Tank Girlâ€™s husband, is being wooed by Hollywood agents but Tank Girl is missing and his resolve is crumbling, fast! Tele, their TV-headed son, sets out on a mercy dash to find his mother... in the process triggering a chain of events that will see Tank Girl, not only, face death itself, the siren call of Goth rock and a cyclopean hotel proprietor, but also a host of other scenes and characters based on\n <em>\n  The Odyssey\n </em>\n ... give or take the odd â€” ahem â€” â€œidiosyncraticâ€\n <em>\n  Tank Girl\n </em>\n twist. With a new introduction from Alan Martin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/860'),
(726, 'Tank Girl - The Odyssey', 'Jamie Hewlett &amp; Alan Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Tank Girl:\n <br />\n "Tank Girl took a blowtorch to Batman and kicked seven shades out of Superman... Sexy, psychedelic and spleen-splittingly funny." Maxim\n <br />\n "Tank Girl... Destined to be next spring''s candidate for collegiate cult status." Entertainment Weekly\n <br />\n "Lara Croft could not have existed without Tank Girl" Icon\n <br />\n "Frankly Tank Girl was MIA for too long and it''s good to see her back" BlogcriticsMagazine\n <br />\n "As much of a wisecracker as she is woman warrior" New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Alan C. Martin:\n <br />\n "Alan Martin has rather miraculously stepped right back into his groove with the character" Badlibrarianship\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A demented take on Homerâ€™s classical Greek epic,\n <em>\n  The Odyssey\n </em>\n , brought to you by the twisted genius of Peter Milligan (_X-Statix_) and Tank Girl co-creator and artist, Jamie Hewlett (_Gorillaz_).\n</p>\n<p>\n Booga, Tank Girlâ€™s husband, is being wooed by Hollywood agents but Tank Girl is missing and his resolve is crumbling, fast! Tele, their TV-headed son, sets out on a mercy dash to find his mother... in the process triggering a chain of events that will see Tank Girl, not only, face death itself, the siren call of Goth rock and a cyclopean hotel proprietor, but also a host of other scenes and characters based on\n <em>\n  The Odyssey\n </em>\n ... give or take the odd â€” ahem â€” â€œidiosyncraticâ€\n <em>\n  Tank Girl\n </em>\n twist. With a new introduction from Alan Martin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/861'),
(727, 'Tank Girl 2', 'Jamie Hewlett &amp; Alan Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here in these newly minted Tank Girl editions stands Hewlettâ€™s art as it was originally presented. Raw, powerful, and totally screwed-up bonkers. Itâ€™s beautiful black and white cartooning at its best and itâ€™s one of the biggest reasons I fell in love with this book." -\n <strong>\n  Ain''t It Cool News\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sheâ€™s back! The crazed counter-culture heroine returns in another completely hatstand series of anarchic adventures, with a new introduction by Alan Martin, and previously unseen material from artist Jamie Hewlett!\n</p>\n<p>\n Join Tank Girl as she escapes from the asylum, goes back to comics school with Hewlett and Martin, meets Sheriff Harry Poussini, enjoys a â€˜Summer Love Sensationâ€™, and goes on the road with Jack and Neal in â€˜Blue Helmetâ€™! Plus, detective adventures with Booga in â€˜Askey &amp; Hunchâ€™, Hewlett and Martinâ€™s Guide to Joy, and much more - including a priceless chance to join Boogaâ€™s Treehouse Club! Who could ask for more? Who would?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/853'),
(728, 'Tank Girl 2', 'Jamie Hewlett &amp; Alan Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here in these newly minted Tank Girl editions stands Hewlettâ€™s art as it was originally presented. Raw, powerful, and totally screwed-up bonkers. Itâ€™s beautiful black and white cartooning at its best and itâ€™s one of the biggest reasons I fell in love with this book." -\n <strong>\n  Ain''t It Cool News\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sheâ€™s back! The crazed counter-culture heroine returns in another completely hatstand series of anarchic adventures, with a new introduction by Alan Martin, and previously unseen material from artist Jamie Hewlett!\n</p>\n<p>\n Join Tank Girl as she escapes from the asylum, goes back to comics school with Hewlett and Martin, meets Sheriff Harry Poussini, enjoys a â€˜Summer Love Sensationâ€™, and goes on the road with Jack and Neal in â€˜Blue Helmetâ€™! Plus, detective adventures with Booga in â€˜Askey &amp; Hunchâ€™, Hewlett and Martinâ€™s Guide to Joy, and much more - including a priceless chance to join Boogaâ€™s Treehouse Club! Who could ask for more? Who would?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/854'),
(729, 'Tank Girl 2', 'Jamie Hewlett &amp; Alan Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here in these newly minted Tank Girl editions stands Hewlettâ€™s art as it was originally presented. Raw, powerful, and totally screwed-up bonkers. Itâ€™s beautiful black and white cartooning at its best and itâ€™s one of the biggest reasons I fell in love with this book." -\n <strong>\n  Ain''t It Cool News\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sheâ€™s back! The crazed counter-culture heroine returns in another completely hatstand series of anarchic adventures, with a new introduction by Alan Martin, and previously unseen material from artist Jamie Hewlett!\n</p>\n<p>\n Join Tank Girl as she escapes from the asylum, goes back to comics school with Hewlett and Martin, meets Sheriff Harry Poussini, enjoys a â€˜Summer Love Sensationâ€™, and goes on the road with Jack and Neal in â€˜Blue Helmetâ€™! Plus, detective adventures with Booga in â€˜Askey &amp; Hunchâ€™, Hewlett and Martinâ€™s Guide to Joy, and much more - including a priceless chance to join Boogaâ€™s Treehouse Club! Who could ask for more? Who would?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/855'),
(730, 'Tank Girl 2', 'Jamie Hewlett &amp; Alan Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here in these newly minted Tank Girl editions stands Hewlettâ€™s art as it was originally presented. Raw, powerful, and totally screwed-up bonkers. Itâ€™s beautiful black and white cartooning at its best and itâ€™s one of the biggest reasons I fell in love with this book." -\n <strong>\n  Ain''t It Cool News\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sheâ€™s back! The crazed counter-culture heroine returns in another completely hatstand series of anarchic adventures, with a new introduction by Alan Martin, and previously unseen material from artist Jamie Hewlett!\n</p>\n<p>\n Join Tank Girl as she escapes from the asylum, goes back to comics school with Hewlett and Martin, meets Sheriff Harry Poussini, enjoys a â€˜Summer Love Sensationâ€™, and goes on the road with Jack and Neal in â€˜Blue Helmetâ€™! Plus, detective adventures with Booga in â€˜Askey &amp; Hunchâ€™, Hewlett and Martinâ€™s Guide to Joy, and much more - including a priceless chance to join Boogaâ€™s Treehouse Club! Who could ask for more? Who would?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/856'),
(731, 'Tank Girl Graphic Novel', 'Jamie Hewlett &amp; Alan Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/857'),
(732, 'The Tank Lords', 'David Drake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE SAGA OF THE SLAMMERS BEGINS!COLONEL ALOIS HAMMER: He welded five thousand individual killers into a weapon more deadly than any other in the human universe. When a planetary government faces unfriendly natives, guerrilla insurgents, or ruthless terrorists, they do the only thing that might save them -- they hire Hammer''s Slammers, the toughest, meanest bunch of mercs who ever wrecked a world for pay. Known throughout the galaxy for their cold, ruthless ferocity, the men of Colonel Hammer''s indomitable armored brigade routinely accept impossible missions. Again and again, they go up against overwhelming forces, or fight a two-front war against ferocious opposition, all without atomizing their civilian employers. Can they keep doing it? Not if they abide by the rules of civilized warfare...but nobody ever said the Hammers were nice. Even when their chances are not good -- those who oppose them have no chance at all!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/690'),
(733, 'The Tar-Aiym Krang', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Moth was a beautiful planet, the only one with wings -- two great golden clouds suspended in space around it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here was a wide-open world for any venture a man might scheme. The planet attracted unwary travelers, hardened space-sailors, and merchant buccaneers -- a teeming, constantly shifting horde that provided a comfortable income for certain quick-witted fellows like Flinx and his pet flying snake Pip. With his odd talents, the pickings were easy enough so that Flinx did not have to be dishonest ... most of the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n In fact, it hardly seemed dishonest at all to steal a starmap from a dead body that didn''t really need it anymore. But Flinx wasn''t quite smart enough. He should have wondered why the body was dead in the first place...\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Moth was a beautiful planet, the only one with wings -- two great golden clouds suspended in space around it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here was a wide-open world for any venture a man might scheme. The planet attracted unwary travelers, hardened space-sailors, and merchant buccaneers -- a teeming, constantly shifting horde that provided a comfortable income for certain quick-witted fellows like Flinx and his pet flying snake Pip. With his odd talents, the pickings were easy enough so that Flinx did not have to be dishonest ... most of the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n In fact, it hardly seemed dishonest at all to steal a starmap from a dead body that didn''t really need it anymore. But Flinx wasn''t quite smart enough. He should have wondered why the body was dead in the first place...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/919'),
(734, 'Teckla', 'Steven Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Vlad Taltos, an assassin, takes the side of the Teckla, peasants who are in revolt against the Empire and his own family, the House of Jhereg\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1035'),
(735, 'Ted Chiang Compilation', 'Ted Chiang', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1228'),
(736, 'Tek Kill', 'William Shatner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/285'),
(737, 'Tek Money', 'William Shatner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Private investigators Jake Cardigan and Sid Gomez follow a money-trail that leads them into danger in this sixth installment of a popular series. Purchase according to demand.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The seventh of Shatner''s popular Tek novels puts future detective Jake Cardigan and his partner Sid Gomez through the wringer, along with the rest of the cast, not all of whom survive. Someone is obtaining illegal weapons from a California research firm and disposing of people who know too much. Cardigan and Gomez have to find out who the culprits are and stop them without getting themselves killed, getting Jake''s son and his girlfriend killed, or attracting the wrath of the U.S. government, not to mention several other authorities, including the Southern California police. This book does not add any new dimensions to the future world of the series and, with its political overtones and pacing, is more a technothriller than, like its series mates, a classic hard-boiled detective story set in the future. It is, however, as readable as any of its predecessors, and Shatner includes enough hints on future developments that we can safely assume many more Tek novels are forthcoming.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/284'),
(738, 'Tek Net', 'William Shatner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This ninth Tek novel continues the adventures of private detectives Jake Cardigan and his partner, Sid Gomez, as they search for Sid''s missing ex-wife. Although set in the year 2122, this thinly disguised detective story has very little sf. The trite dialog and cookie-cutter characters offer nothing new to enliven this pedestrian series. Buy only on demand.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ninth Tek novel does not boldly--or in any other way--go where no novel has gone before. It is, however, a workmanlike piece of action sf, very much in the mode of its predecessors. It opens with one of the ex-wives of Sid Gomez, partner of series star Jake Cardigan, being kidnapped for stumbling upon the secrets of a new form of Tek that can be transmitted over computer networks and will wipe out the market for Tek chips. Threatened Tek lords are trying to prevent that from happening and classify Gomez, Cardigan, and a whole bunch of their friends and associates as candidates for elimination. This one has a slightly higher-than-usual body count for a Tek opus and a dark though not grim tone; focuses more on Sid, his ex, her friends, and his associates than on Jake Cardigan; and features a splendidly slimy cast of villains, making its setting seem rather like Batman''s Gotham City gone into orbit. One customarily gets neither more nor less than straightforward entertainment from a Tek series entry; this book provides more of the same, and that is surely no shame.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/286'),
(739, 'Tek Power', 'William Shatner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though told with humor and at a brisk pace, Shatner''s sixth yarn featuring futuristic PI Jake Cardigan (Tek Secret) is so overstocked with cardboard characters, nearly each of them trying to do damage to another, that it''s sometimes difficult to tell who is doing what to whom. Here, the head of the Cosmos Detective Agency asks Jake and his partner, Sid Gomez, to identify and track down the murderer of his daughter-in-law. The investigation takes the two gumshoes from their base in 22nd-century Los Angeles to New York and Washington, D.C., as they bump up against a plan to replace the president of the U.S. with an android while he''s in rehab kicking his addiction to "Tek," a computerized, mind-altering drug. Several luscious lovelies, of varying degrees of bitchiness, comprise the female characterizations, while Jake remains a tough-and-tender PI cliche, role model and caregiver for his 16-year-old son. Gomez, too, ultimately comes off as just another stereotypical Latin lover ("I''ve always got time for ogling," he crows). Overall, this reads like an uninspired blend of Raymond Chandler and Philip K. Dick, but given the success of the previous Cardigan books, as well as the author''s Star Trek allure, it''ll probably climb the charts at warp speed anyway.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sixth adventure featuring private detectives Jake Cardigan and Sig Gomez (Tek Secret, LJ 10/15/93) once again involves a plot by the notorious Tek drug lords-this time to seize control of the country''s highest office. This popular series has a built-in readership, and libraries should purchase according to demand.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/283'),
(740, 'Tek Secret', 'William Shatner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fifth entry in Star Trek veteran Shatner''s science fiction detective series ( TekLab ; Tek Vengeance ) features all the elements that have made the other episodes so successful and so eminently forgettable: cardboard characters, an unlikely, action-heavy plot and futuristic trappings as tired as an old boot. Jake Cardigan and his goofy sidekick/partner Sid Gomez are investigating the disappearance of Alicia Bower, heiress to the Mechanix International robotics fortune. Her family believes she is off on another of her promiscuous adventures, but her current boyfriend, Barry Zangerly, remains convinced her absence is more sinister and hires Cardigan and Gomez to find out. Of course, the villains make their presence known, roughing up Zangerly and trying to kill Cardigan. And of course Cardigan and Gomez sidestep all major threats and get to the heart of the conspiracy, which features such twists as an android duplicate of Alicia Bower, a sadistic brain surgeon and such bits of predictable dialogue as, "The odds are very much against our nearly getting killed every time we investigate something together." Readers who have found something enjoyable in previous Jake Cardigan adventures will likely find it here as well.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the fifth installment of this popular sf detective series, private investigator Jake Cardigan again takes on the notorious Tek drug lords in his attempt to rescue a kidnapping victim. A TV movie based on the series should increase demand.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/282'),
(741, 'Tek Vengeance', 'William Shatner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this latest entry (after TekLab ) in the hard-boiled 21st-century mystery series by the well-known Star Trek actor, PI Jake Cardigan is lured to Brazil on a phony case, leaving his fiancee unprotected as she waits to testify against the TekLords, a group of international crime czars. Her murder brings Jake back to California to exact revenge and protect his son, who is the TekLords'' next target. Cardboard characters spouting would-be clever dialogue do nothing to disguise the fact that the novel is woefully short on action and totally lacking a sense of danger or tension. Save for a few androids and laser guns scattered here and there, the setting could as easily be 1920 as 2020. The series, which had a spark of sorts at first, has definitely lost it by now.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fourth outing for 21st-century private investigators Jake Cardigan and Sid Gomez strands the duo in Brazil as disaster strikes in Berlin. Shatner''s snappy pacing improves with every story, but his villainous drug lords are beginning to wear thin. Purchase this title where the series is popular or where there is patron demand. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/92.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/290'),
(742, 'TekLords', 'William Shatner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/288'),
(743, 'Tekwar', 'William Shatner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his first novel, Shatner delivers a hard-boiled private eye story set against a science-fiction background. The erstwhile "Captain Kirk" of Star Trek fame takes us to the 22nd century where many of the technical trappings of society have changed drastically, but politics and attitudes remain the same. Some of Shatner''s projections are likely (newspapers and magazines published by fax), some are improbable (androids so human-like that most people can''t tell the difference) and some are the same old thing (a missing scientist with the standard-issue beautiful daughter). Ex-cop Jake Cardigan has been sentenced to 15 years in a controlled coma on an orbiting penal colony after being framed for dealing "Tek," an addictive, computerized mind-altering drug. Mysteriously released after only four years, he is hired by a detective agency to find the missing scientist, a task involving a trip to a Mexico torn by civil war to question his former lover, the beautiful rebel leader known as "Warbride." Accompanied by an android of the scientist''s missing daughter and torn by the growing evidence that his ex-wife is involved not only in the present case but also his framing, Cardigan fends off attacks by maniacal cyborgs and other futuristic menances. While the writing is awkward in spots, the pace is unrelenting.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n An ex-policeman caught in the schemes of drug lords, unscrupulous businessmen, and his one-time allies turns private detective to track down a missing scientist whose invention could win the war against the insidious computerized drug known as "Tek." Set in a futuristic, high-tech world of robots, androids, and designer drugs, this first novel by Shatner (better known as Star Trek ''s Captain Kirk) should appeal to most fans of fast-paced sf action-adventure.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/287'),
(744, 'Tendril&#39;s Demise', 'David Lilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1183'),
(745, 'Test of the Twins', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Defying the fate that claimed his evil predecessor, Raistlin opens the Portal to the Abyss and passes through. With Crysania at his side, he engages the Queen of Darkness in a battle for the ultimate prize--a seat among the gods.\n</p>\n<p>\n At the same time, Caramon and Tasslehoff are transported to the future. There they come to understand the consequences of Raistlinâ€™s quest--and Caramon at last realizes the painful sacrifice he must make to prevent his brotherâ€™s success. Old friends and strange allies come together to aid him, but Caramon must take the last, greatest step alone.\n</p>\n<p>\n The step into the Abyss.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Margaret Weis is the author of numerous Dragonlance novels, many of them co-written with Tracy Hickman or Don Perrin, including the recent New York Times best-seller Dragons of a Vanished Moon. She is also the author of The Soulforge and the Star of the Guardian novels, as well as Mistress of Dragons from TOR.\n <br />\n Tracy Hickman, in addition to his work on 11 Dragonlance novels, has co-authored with Margaret Weis the Darksword series and the Death Gate Cycle. He is the designer of the game setting Starshield and is the author of The Bronze Canticles from Warner Books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/133');
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(746, 'That Hideous Strength', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n Lewis, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century writer, forced those who listened to him and read his works to come to terms with their own philosophical presuppositions. --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The final book in C. S. Lewis''s acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes\n <em>\n  Out of the Silent Planet\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Perelandra, That Hideous Strength\n </em>\n concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in\n <em>\n  Out of the Silent Planet\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Perelandra\n </em>\n are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to "recondition" society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/354'),
(747, 'There&#39;s An Alien In My Backpack', 'Bruce Coville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two Feet of Trouble! Pleskit has always said that he''s not necessarily the first alien kid to go to school on Earth. He''s just the only one who''s doing it openly. Tim discovers the truth of those words when he meets a two-foot-tall alien, Beebo, who is stranded here and wants desperately to get back to his own planet. Unfortunately, Beebo''s presence on Earth could cause a diplomatic disaster. So Pleskit can''t ask his Fatherly One for help. And help is what the boys need, because Beebo is an imp! He''s hooked on mischief, and can''t resist using his powers to cause chaos in the classroom and havoc on the homefront. Pleskit and Tim have faced plenty of alien menaces. But can they survive an incredibly cute prankster who has a genuine gift for causing the most embarrassing trouble ever?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/891'),
(748, 'There&#39;s An Alien In My Underwear', 'Bruce Coville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  HANG ON TO YOUR BOXERS!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When Tim comes home and finds a two-foot-high orange alien named Beebo Frimbat sitting on his desk, he knows he''s in for a hard time. After all, Beebo is a dedicated mischief maker who thinks trouble is the spice of life. But even Beebo''s past pranks don''t prepare Tim for finding his underwear flying from the school flagpole.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still, it''s all in fun. Or is it? Do Beebo''s pranks have anything to do with the plan to derail the mission of the Fatherly One? And is it really just an accident when Beebo locks Pleskit''s faithful bodyguard into an alternate dimension populated by man-eating monsters?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bruce Coville\n </strong>\n is the author of nearly ninety books for young readers, including the international best-seller\n <em>\n  My Teacher Is an Alien.\n </em>\n He has been a teacher, a toy maker, a cookware salesman, and a grave digger. In addition to his work as an author, Bruce is much in demand as a speaker and as a storyteller. He is also the founder and president of Full Cast Audio, a company dedicated to producing unabridged recordings of children''s books in a full-cast format. For more information about Bruce, check out www.brucecoville.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/893'),
(749, 'The Thief Lord', 'Cornelia Funke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Imagine a Dickens story with a Venetian setting, and you''ll have a good sense of Cornelia Funke''s prizewinning novel\n  <em>\n   The Thief Lord\n  </em>\n  , first published in Germany in 2000. This suspenseful tale begins in a detective''s office in Venice, as the entirely unpleasant Hartliebs request Victor Getz''s services to search for two boys, Prosper and Bo, the sons of Esther Hartlieb''s recently deceased sister. Twelve-year-old Prosper and 5-year-old Bo ran away when their aunt decided she wanted to adopt Bo, but not his brother. Refusing to split up, they escaped to Venice, a city their mother had always described reverently, in great detail. Right away they hook up with a long-haired runaway named Hornet and various other ruffians who hole up in an abandoned movie theater and worship the elusive Thief Lord, a young boy named Scipio who steals jewels from fancy Venetian homes so his new friends can get the warm clothes they need. Of course, the plot thickens when the owner of the pawn shop asks if the Thief Lord will carry out a special mission for a wealthy client: to steal a broken wooden wing that is the key to completing an age-old, magical merry-go-round. This winning cast of characters--especially the softhearted detective with his two pet turtles--will win the hearts of readers young and old, and the adventures are as labyrinthine and magical as the streets of Venice itself. (Ages 9 and older)\n  <em>\n   --Karin Snelson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wacky characters bring energy to this translation of an entertaining German novel about thieving children, a disguise-obsessed detective and a magical merry-go-round. After their mother dies, 12-year-old Prosper and his brother, Bo, five, flee from Hamburg to Venice (an awful aunt plans to adopt only Bo). They live in an abandoned movie theater with several other street children under the care of the Thief Lord, a cocky youth who claims to rob "the city''s most elegant houses." A mysterious man hires the Thief Lord to steal a wooden wing, which the kids later learn has broken off a long-lost merry-go-round said to make "adults out of children and children out of adults," but the plan alters when Victor, the detective Aunt Esther hired to track the brothers, discovers their camp and reveals that the Thief Lord is actually from a wealthy family. There are a lot of story lines to follow, and the pacing is sometimes off (readers may feel that Funke spends too little time on what happens when the children find the carousel, and too much on the ruse they pull on Prosper''s aunt). But between kindhearted Victor and his collection of fake beards, the Thief Lord in his mask and high-heeled boots, and a rascally street kid who loves to steal, Prosper''s new world abounds with colorful characters. The Venetian setting is ripe for mystery and the city''s alleys and canals ratchet up the suspense in the chase scenes. Ages 9-12.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/199'),
(750, 'Thief of Time', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed.And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it''s wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there''s never enough time.But the construction of the world''s first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone''s problems.Thief of Time comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/54'),
(751, 'The Third Lynx', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œHang on! Hugo-winner Zahn takes off on a rip-roaring interstellar train ride with hard-boiled hero Frank Comptonâ€¦tough-guy PI fiction and characters straight out of Dick Tracy make this night train a juicily familiar joyride.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly_ on\n <em>\n  Night Train to Rigel\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn inventive plotâ€¦Zahnâ€™s strength is hard science fiction, and he excels at technical description. The comic-book-like nonstop action will attract fans of the genre.â€ â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews_ on\n <em>\n  Night Train to Rigel\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œZahn plays out his suspense as deftly as always, building a tense situation and ultimately defusing it in believable and pleasing ways.â€ â€”_Locus_ on\n <em>\n  Mantaâ€™s Gift\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œZahn paints every futuristic detail with gleamy realism and mock-scientific dialogue that streams with starship hardware and military trooper talk. Immensely appealing.â€ â€”_Kirkus Reviews_ on\n <em>\n  Angelmass\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThrough in-depth characterization, as well as toothsome scientific and political mysteries, Zahn unfolds an intricate tale of adventure sure to please his many fans.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly_ on\n <em>\n  Angelmass\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Former government agent Frank Compton foiled a plot to enslave the galaxy in\n <em>\n  Night Train to Rigel\n </em>\n . But the Modhri, an ancient telepathically linked intelligence, has walkers, unwilling hosts that can be anywhere, anythingâ€¦and anyone. And Compton is the only man who knows how to fight them, as they wage a secret war against the galactic civilizations linked by the Quadrail, the only means of intra-galactic transit.\n</p>\n<p>\n Accompanied by Bayta, a woman with strange ties to the robot-like Spiders who run the Quadrail, and dogged by special agent Morse who suspects him of murder, Compton races the Modhri from station to station to acquire a set of valuable sculptures from a long-dead civilization. What the Modhri wants with them is anybodyâ€™s guess, but if Compton canâ€™t outwit it, the whole galaxy will find out the hard way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/751'),
(752, 'This Scepter&#39;d Isle', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/693'),
(753, 'Those Left Behind, Part 1', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/870'),
(754, 'Those Left Behind, Part 2', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/871'),
(755, 'Those Left Behind, Part 3', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/872'),
(756, 'Throne of Jade', 'Naomi Novik', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s tough to top the novelty of a new series, especially one that intermingles historical fiction and high fantasy. If reviewers aren''t as agog over this new installment, write it off to familiarity, not boredom. Like any good middle of a trilogy, relationships are deepened, new characters are introduced, and novel plot twists set up a run toward the finale,\n <em>\n  Black Powder War\n </em>\n â€”which, thanks to an aggressive publishing schedule, has already come out in hardcover.\n <em>\n  Throne of Jade\n </em>\n is a solid second entry in what is shaping up to be an intriguing series.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Captain Laurence had commanded a ship in the Royal Navy (see _ His Majesty''s Dragon_, 2006) but was relegated to the aviator corps after bonding with the hatchling from the dragon egg his ship found aboard a French prize his ship had seized. He and Temeraire, the hatchling, are a team now, and at the opening of _ Throne of Jade,_ he won''t accept that the admiralty wants to send Temeraire back to China and him, Laurence, to trick the dragon into going. But Temeraire, it turns out, is a Celestial, hence among the very finest of dragons, and the Chinese ambassador insists he be returned. Temeraire agrees to go only if Laurence does, too, and after an adventurous transit--transporting dragons by sea from England to China with eighteenth-century sailing technology is no picnic--the English party arrives to face the intrigues of the Chinese court. The court is an eye-opener for the aviators. Dragons aren''t treated as servants or beasts of burden, as they are in Europe, but as lords and princes. Temeraire, or Lung Tien Xiang, is an imperial prince, with kin in Peking. But Cain and Abel also exist among dragons, and a trail of intrigue begun in London excitingly climaxes at the imperial court. At the end of _ Throne of Jade_, the British party, including Temeraire, is free to return to England.\n <em>\n  Frieda Murray\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/656'),
(757, 'Thud!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Ankh-Morpork''s City Watch Commander, Sam Vimes, stars in the latest entry in Pratchett''s popular Discworld series (_Going Postal_, etc.). "Thud" is the sound that commences the novel, as a dwarf is bludgeoned to death; it''s also the name of a chesslike match that recreates the battle of Koom Valley, a long-ago fight between trolls and dwarfs. As the anniversary of the battle approaches, ancient politics and the present-day murder cause tensions between the trolls and dwarfs to boil. Though Koom Valley was a disaster for both sides, certain community leaders from each side have been spoiling for a rematchâ€”something Vimes is duty-bound to prevent. In the midst of this, a push toward affirmative action forces Vimes to hire a vampire named Sally to the Watch. She''s sworn off human blood, but that''s cold comfort to the assortment of humans, dwarfs, trolls, werewolves and golems that make up the police force. Vimes and his motley crew of coppers are called upon to not only find the murderer and keep the peace but also, in a jab at\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n , solve the riddle of a painting that reputedly holds the secret to what really happened at Koom Valley. Pratchett''s fantastic imagination and satirical wit are on full display.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Unwilling to get caught up in the fact that he is the duke of Ankh-Morpork, Commander Vimes still shaves himself and runs the Watch as well as he can. Lord Veternari forces him to get involved in politics, though, because the Watch is incurring serious expense as it grows, and because his multicultural efforts have forced him to hire a vampire as a member of the Watch. Vimes has a lot on his plate, anyway, what with the upcoming anniversary of Koom Valley (a battle between trolls and dwarves that is part of an age-old war), an unsolved murder that reveals the limitations of the Watch in dwarfish eyes, and the theft of a valuable painting from the Royal Art Museum. On top of everything he does as part of his job, he must make it home at six o''clock on the dot every day to read to his young son. Everything is connected, of course--even Sally, the vampire taken on by the Watch. Unsettling secrets are revealed about the true history of Koom Valley, and in a basement in the city, dwarves and trolls are playing the game Thud!, a miniature battle of Koom Valley, together. As always, Pratchett''s latest Discworld yarn is funny, fast-paced, the kind of satire that explores serious issues while making readers love it.\n <em>\n  Regina Schroeder\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(758, 'Thursday Next: First Among Sequels', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Full of bizarre subplots, many of which don''t go anywhere, bestseller Fforde''s fifth novel to feature intrepid literary detective Thursday Next (after 2004''s\n  <em>\n   Something Rotten\n  </em>\n  ) blends elements of mystery, campy science fiction and screwball fantasy Ã  la Terry Pratchett''s Discworld. With the Stupidity Surplus reaching dangerously high levels all over England, Acme Carpets employee and undercover SpecOps investigator Next has her hands full trying to persuade her 16-year-old slacker son, Friday, to join the ChronoGuard, which deals with temporal stability; if Friday continues to sleep away his future, the end is nearâ€”for everyone. To complicate matters, a malicious apprentice begins making classic works of literature into reality book shows (_Pride and Prejudic_e becomes\n  <em>\n   The Bennets\n  </em>\n  ), a ruthless corporation tries to turn the Bookworld into a tourist trap, and the Cheese Enforcement Agency tries to bust Next for smuggling killer curd. The fate of the world may lie in a Longfellow poem. Fans of satiric literary humor are in for a treat._ (July)_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set in a world where books are more fun than television, more serious than the CIA, and more important than proper diet and exercise, the Thursday Next novels continue to grow in popularity-which is a good sign. In the fifth novel of the series (after\n  <em>\n   Something Rotten\n  </em>\n  , *\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  1/2 Nov/Dec 2004), Jasper Fforde again shows off his delicious British wit (and occasionally heavy-handed use of puns) in another zany romp. If you''re already a fan,\n  <em>\n   First Among Sequels\n  </em>\n  is sure to thrill. If you''re new to the series, you might as well dive right in. Either way, you''ll soon have a new appreciation of Henry Longfellow.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1225'),
(759, 'The Time Machine &amp; The Invisible Man', 'H. G. Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grades 4-7--The St. Charles Players perform this readers'' theatre-style rendition of H.G. Wells'' classic story. Using appropriate sound effects and alternating readers allows listeners to differentiate between characters and to develop a sense of place and time. The lively narration will hold listeners'' attention from beginning to end. The story begins with a revolutionary Victorian scientist who claims to have invented a machine that allows him to travel through time. Using flashbacks, he recounts his adventures in the futurist world he visits in his time machine to a group of skeptical friends. This abridged version will work well as an introduction to classic literature in elementary grade classes, but omits too much of the original text for older students. Consider adding this title to audiobook collections that focus on classic, time-tested literature.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Sarah Prielipp, Chippewa River District Library System, Mt Pleasant, MI\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This abridged classic is buoyed by a spirited dramatization featuring Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie, also known, respectively, as "Spock" and "Q" to Star TrekR fans. The Time Traveler''s tale of the future is a disturbing vision of the human situation as it appeared to Wells in the late 19th century. The Traveler encounters a community consisting of only two species of animals: the barbaric Morlocks and the gentle Eloi. The evolution of these two species began in industrialized England. Nimoy, as the Time Traveler, and de Lancie, as his 19th-century friend and confidant, are superb in their roles and clearly having fun with this production. The supporting crew of readers provide a robust atmosphere of doubt, debate, and incredulity. This work is part of a promising new sf series distributed by Simon &amp; Schuster Audio. Highly recommended.?Ray Vignovich, West Des Moines P.L., Iowa\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/212'),
(760, 'Time of the Twins', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this bestselling TSR fantasy series, the War of the Lance ends, but peace settles uneasily over the land. If Raistlin becomes a god, Crysania and her twin brother Caramon are the only ones who can save their world. 2 cassettes.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Margaret Weis\n </strong>\n is the author of numerous Dragonlance novels, many of them co-written with Tracy Hickman or Don Perrin, including the recent\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n best-seller\n <em>\n  Dragons of a Vanished Moon\n </em>\n . She is also the author of The Soulforge and the Star of the Guardian novels.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tracy Hickman\n </strong>\n , in addition to his work on several Dragonlance novels, has co-authored with Margaret Weis the Darksword series and the Death Gate Cycle. He is the designer of the game setting Starshield and is the author of the futuristic novel\n <em>\n  The Immortals\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
(761, 'Time of Your Life, Part I', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/806'),
(762, 'Time of Your Life, Part II', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/807'),
(763, 'Time of Your Life, Part III', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/808'),
(764, 'Time of Your Life, Part IV', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/809'),
(765, 'Timeline', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole," and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. If you aren''t strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you''ll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat. You''ll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. On the social front, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with a swoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in "Milady''s Bath," a brackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then for prisoners to eat.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the plight of the heroes of\n <em>\n  Timeline\n </em>\n , Michael Crichton''s thriller. They''re historians in 1999 employed by a tech billionaire-genius with more than a few of Bill Gates''s most unlovable quirks. Like the entrepreneur in Crichton''s __, Doniger plans a theme park featuring artifacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edge science. When the project''s chief historian sends a distress call to 1999 from 1357, the boss man doesn''t tell the younger historians the risks they''ll face trying to save him. At first, the interplay between eras is clever, but\n <em>\n  Timeline\n </em>\n swiftly becomes a swashbuckling old-fashioned adventure, with just a dash of science and time paradox in the mix. Most of the cool facts are about the Middle Ages, and Crichton marvelously brings the past to life without ever letting the pulse-pounding action slow down. At one point, a time-tripper tries to enter the Chapel of Green Death. Unfortunately, its custodian, a crazed giant with terrible teeth and a bad case of lice, soon has her head on a block. "She saw a shadow move across the grass as he raised his ax into the air." I dare you not to turn the page!\n</p>\n<p>\n Through the narrative can be glimpsed the glowing bones of the movie that may be made from\n <em>\n  Timeline\n </em>\n and the cutting-edge computer game that should hit the market in 2000. Expect many clashing swords and chase scenes through secret castle passages. But the book stands alone, tall and scary as a knight in armor shining with blood.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "And the Oscar for Best Special Effects goes to: Timeline!" Figure maybe three years before those words are spoken, for Crichton''s new novelAdespite media reports about trouble in selling film rights, which finally went to ParamountAis as cinematic as they come, a shiny science-fantasy adventure powered by a superior high concept: a group of young scientists travel back from our time to medieval southern France to rescue their mentor, who''s trapped there. The novel, in fact, may improve as a movie; its complex action, as the scientists are swept into the intrigue of the Hundred Years War, can be confusing on the page (though a supplied map, one of several graphics, helps), and most of its characters wear hats (or armor) of pure white or black. Crichton remains a master of narrative drive and cleverness. From the startling opening, where an old man with garbled speech and body parts materializes in the Arizona desert, through the revelation that a venal industrialist has developed a risky method of time-travel (based on movement between parallel universes; as in Crichton''s other work, good, hard science abounds), there''s not a dull moment. When elderly Yale history prof Edward Johnston travels back to his beloved 15th century and gets stuck, and his assistants follow to the rescue, excitement runs high, and higher still as Crichton invests his story with terrific period detail and as castles, sword-play, jousts, sudden death and enough bold knights-in-armor and seductive ladies-in-waiting to fill any toystore''s action-figure shelves appear. There''s strong suspense, too, as Crichton cuts between past and present, where the time-travel machinery has broken: Will the heroes survive and make it back? The novel has a calculated feel but, even so, it engages as no Crichton tale has done since Jurassic Park, as it brings the past back to vigorous, entertaining life. Agent, Lynn Nesbit. 1,500,000 first printing; Literary Guild nain selection; simultaneous large-print edition and audiobook. (Nov. 16)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/308'),
(766, 'The Titan&#39;s Curse', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6-9â€“In this installment, Riordan continues to enliven ancient mythology with wit, contemporary staging, and teenage heroics. Percy Jackson is now 14, a bit older and wiser, yet still entangled with the Fates. Friends, monsters, dysfunctional gods, and the romantic stirrings of all things natural and mythological are encountered. His good friend, if oft-time rival, Annabeth (daughter of Athena) is missing, as is Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Joined by best buddy Grover-the-goat-boy and an argumentative array of accomplices, Percy sets off to fulfill, and hopefully foil, the foreboding prophecy of the Oracle. Plagued by ominous dreams, thwarted by hideous monsters, and challenged by conflicting partnerships, the search party''s success hinges on unlikely unity. The droll pitch is teen-perfect, as when Apollo heats up the scene by arriving in his fire-red Maserati, wearing jeans, a sleeveless T-shirt, and loafers. ''Wow,'' Thalia muttered, ''Apollo is hot.'' ''He''s the sun god,'' I said. ''That''s not what I meant.'' Intricate prophecies and relationships are neatly braided into the adventurous plot. Teachers will cheer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians as they inspire students to embrace Greek mythology and score the ultimate Herculean challenge: getting kids to read. All in all, a winner of Olympic proportions and a surefire read-aloud.â€“_Alison Follos, North Country School, Lake Placid, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Just after finding Bianca and Nico, two newly discovered half-bloods, Percy, Grover, Annabeth, and Thalia end up trapped between a helicopter and a manticore. Artemis and her Hunters save the day, but Annabeth disappears overÂ a cliff; thenÂ Artemis rushes off to hunt a dangerous monster. Back at Camp Half-Blood, the Oracle foretells that Artemis must be rescued and makes a prediction that bodes ill for one of their numberâ€”but which one? Percy, who is supposed to remain behind while others pursue the quest, follows inÂ search of the missing Annabeth. Their adventures range widely across the U.S., taking themÂ to locales that includeÂ Washington, D.C.,Â and the deserts of the Southwest and pitting them against the usual assortment of colorful adversaries. The Percy Jackson &amp; the Olympians series is builtÂ around a terrific ideaâ€”that the half-mortal offspring of Greek gods live among us, playing out struggles of mythic scaleâ€”and Riordan takes it from strength to strength with this exciting installment, adding even more depth to the characters and story arc while retaining its predecessors'' nonstop laughs and action. Tixier Herald, Diana\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/351'),
(767, 'To Be a King', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nachtmagen rages through the N''yrthgar as hagfiends and traitorous lords conspire to defeat the new king. With Grank and Theo at his side, Hoole must forge an army of free owls strong enough to defeat the forces of darkness massing on the horizon. The power of the one Ember fires the young king''s very gizzard and he grows great. But for young Hoole there is a danger much closer than treacherous lords and the poison of half-hags. For magic - even good magic - brings great peril to those who would wield it. So Soren, Coryn, and the Band read the final legend and glimpse what the future may demand of the Guardians of Ga''Hoole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1177'),
(768, 'The Tomorrow Testament', 'Barry B. Longyear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The wars across the planets had lasted long enough. There seemed to be no end to the shedding of blood human blood, alien blood. Suspicion and hatred ran too deep between the superpowers, the United States of Earth and the Dracon Chamber. Then Major Joanne Nicole was captured and rose from prisoner-of-war to confidante of Drac chief Tora Soam. Could she penetrate the strange alien mind, learn its esoteric wisdom, and realize the impossible dream of peace?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/695'),
(769, 'Tongues of Serpents', 'Naomi Novik', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The somber sixth installment (after 2008''s Victory of Eagles) of the Napoleonic era adventures of Capt. Will Laurence and Chinese-British dragon Temeraire opens with the pair exiled to New South Wales for saving French dragons from a plague while England and France were at war. The government of the colony is hotly disputed, and both the deposed royal governor and the insurrectionists hope to ally with Laurence and his draconic companions. When a dragon egg is kidnapped, an expedition over the Blue Mountains turns into a frantic hunt for the culprits. Novik fans will be glad to see their old favorite characters growing and changing yet still very much themselves, but the lack of significant interaction with native Australian humans or dragons leaves a certain emptiness at the heart of the story, exacerbated by long stretches of travel through physical and emotional desolation.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sixth installment of Novik''s fantastic series introduces Temeraire and former captain Laurence to New South Wales. Laurence, technically a transported prisoner, is escorting three eggs to form a covert in the colony there. The eggs are destined for such second-rate officers willing to make the long trip to the remote colony, including Captain Rankin, whose cruelty killed his former dragon. On arrival, the ship is met by former governor William Bligh, deposed through mutiny by the New South Wales Corps. Bligh wants the dragons to reinstate him in his post; the mutineers are determined to retain the upper hand. Discipline is lax and quarrels are the order of the day, including those between Temeraire and Iskerria, a snobbish beast. To escape all this, Laurence and Temeraire take a mission to find a way through the Blue Mountains and explore the interior of the continent. But one of the dragon eggs is stolen, and the exploration turns into a desperate rescue mission. Temeraire fans have waited two years for this book but should find themselves richly rewarded. The characters are as riveting as ever, the setting is new but convincing, and the plot, with its first-class balancing of Laurence''s and Temeraire''s internal and external struggles, shows Novik''s continued excellence as a novelist. --Frieda Murray\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/659'),
(770, 'Too Many Aliens', 'Bruce Coville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Maktel Geebrit, Pleskit''s pen pal from back home on Hevi-Hevi, is finally going to visit him on Earth. Pleskit is excited, but a little nervous, too. How will Maktel get along with Pleskit''s new friend, Tim? And just how does a kid cope with having two best friends on the same planet, anyway? As if that question wasn''t hard enough, Pleskit''s Fatherly One also has an off-world visitor -- an elegant trader named Ellico vec Bur. But is Ellico really a friend, or is the trader also a traitor...the greatest menace that the mission to Earth has yet faced? The search for an answer plunges Pleskit, Tim, Maktel, and Linnsy into danger beyond their wildest dreams!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/889'),
(771, 'Trackdown Part 1', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1059'),
(772, 'Trackdown Part 2', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1060'),
(773, 'Trading in Danger', 'Elizabeth Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noted for her strong heroines and interstellar naval adventures, Moon (Against the Odds) stumbles in the first of a new series featuring Kylara Vatta, whose "generous impulses" often get her into trouble. Ky, a favored daughter of a wealthy, interstellar shipping family, gets thrown ignominiously out of the Space Academy because she aided a fellow cadet who used her gullibility to dishonor the service. In consolation, her father gives her an antiquated cargo ship, the Glennys Jones, to command. He assumes she''ll find a way to make enough profit to keep from having to junk the old tub. But after Ky figures out an angle on buying and selling some tractors, she inadvertently ends up running afoul of an interplanetary civil war. Following another generous impulse, Ky takes some stranded crewmen aboard. They return the favor by nearly getting her killed when mercenaries board her ship. Everyone, from her ship''s seasoned crew to random strangers, annoyingly remarks on 21-year-old Kylara''s youth and "exceptional" poise. With unusually slow pacing for a space adventure (lacking either the drama or the romance of opera), Moon presents several tableaux that are summarily dropped-such as polo that never gets played, a ship''s model with secret instructions that Kylara refuses to decipher and an absentee boyfriend-any of which might have added some spice to this bland adventure.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Ky Vatta has been groomed for a career in her family''s interstellar shipping empire, but yearns for the life of a military officer. Sadly, in her senior year at the Space Academy, she is accused of an indiscretion and forced to resign. When she returns home in disgrace, her father hands her what she feels to be a demeaning assignment, though it does make her a captain: to take an obsolete ship to the scrap yard. But before long, the family talent for commerce emerges, and Ky negotiates an independent contract to supply a struggling colony with agricultural equipment from a nearby planet, hoping to realize sufficient profit to buy and refit her ship. The young woman finds herself in the midst of an interplanetary crisis and must prove her mettle. In this human future, commerce is the common ground where a believable variety of peoples, societies, and religions interact, and integrity and intelligence are essential factors in leadership. Entertainingly, Moon creates suspense and reveals character as much through contractual negotiations as through military action. Some readers might not approve of the author''s use of shorthand sci-fi conventions to sidestep scientific issues, but for most others, the human interest, well-wrought story, humor, and rich world-building will more than satisfy. The publisher bills this first in a series as military science fiction. It could equally be described as space opera â€¦ la Robert Heinlein, or a family yarn that can please fans of Anne McCaffrey''s "Rowan" saga (Ace).\n <br />\n <em>\n  Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/978'),
(774, 'Treasure Hunters', 'Jeff Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Treasure Hunters is the eighth book in the Bone series. It collects issues 44-49 of Jeff Smith''s self-published Bone comic book series. The book was published by Cartoon Books in 2002 and in color by Scholastic Press in 2008. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Synopsis\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a strange roof-top kitchen, high above the crowded streets of ancient Atheia, the Bone cousins try to save the city from the clutches of a tyrant. They learn that whoever controls Atheia''s fabled treasures will win the loyalty of the soldiers, but time is running out -- The Hooded One is drawing near, leading a legion of Rat Creatures bent on the destruction of the city and everyone in it!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1189'),
(775, 'Treasure Island', 'Robert Louis Stevenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-9â€“Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones, Ben Gunn, and Long John Silver come alive again in this faithful adaptation of the classic novel, which retains much of the original language. Billy Bones is still struck dead by apoplexy and the parrot still cries pieces of eight, for example. The stark visuals are often gripping, most notably in the scene in which Billy Bones first appears and later when Jim Hawkins fights for his life against Israel Hands aboard the\n <em>\n  Hispaniola\n </em>\n . The section entitled The Making of Robert Louis Stevenson''s\n <em>\n  Treasure Island\n </em>\n includes concept sketches, photos of Hamilton''s friends that he used as models for his characters, and information on his artistic techniques. Readers will also learn that the author approaches storytelling in a cinematic way, which may explain why there are so many images of characters'' faces hidden dramatically in shadows. Older children and teens will find this to be a compelling read, and it can help to bridge the gap in your library between graphic novels and the classics._â€“Andrea Lipinski, New York Public Library_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Jim Hawkins uncovers the key to a pirateâ€™s treasure map he sets out on a quest to find the buried treasure with the help of pirate captain Long John Silver. Artist Tim Hamilton brings the pirates and villains to life in this graphic novel adaptation of Robert Louis Stevensonâ€™s classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/929'),
(776, 'Triss', 'Brian Jacques', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wot, Wot?! Could it be another epic Redwall tale (tail?) thick with high adventure, heavy accents, and leek-and-turnip pasty from the beloved beast master himself, Brian Jacques? It is indeed, happy readers.\n <em>\n  Triss\n </em>\n , the 15th book in the distinguished and wildly popular animal fantasy series, chronicles the exploits of a brave squirrel maid who travels from the bonds of slavery to the meeting of her destiny as a warrior at Redwall Abbey. Triss the squirrel, Shogg the otter, and Welfo the hedgehog, all slaves to the bloodthirsty royal ferret family of Riftgard, filch a ferret boat and sail away from the murderous clutches of Princess Kurda and her malevolent father, King Agarnu. Swearing revenge, Kurda sets out to recapture her slaves, her evil Ratguard troops reinforced by the pirate fox Plugg Firetail and his band of criminal Freebooters. At the same time, the badger Sagaxus and his bosom friend Bescarum the hare also set sail from Salamanstrom, to seek adventure on the high seas. Meanwhile, back at the abbey, the Redwall inhabitants are being plagued by a mystery that involves a hidden door, a secret code, and three stinking, sinister snake siblings that are picking off the gentle forest folk one by one. Any ardent fan of Redwall knows that what comes next will include sword fights, feasting, raucous good humor, and a thrilling climax. Jacques''s fervent followers are rewarded with the author''s usual swashbuckling good storytelling, while the newly initiated will read with wide eyes, and quickly go back to hungrily devour the rest of the series. (Ages 10 and older)\n <em>\n  --Jennifer Hubert\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brian Jacques weighs in with Triss, the 15th title in his Redwall series. Here, the enslaved squirrelmaid escapes by sea and a Dibbun duo discovers Brockhall''s secret entrance. David Elliot''s b&amp;w illustrations introduce each chapter. Ages 10-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/708'),
(777, 'TRite of Passage Part 1', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1076'),
(778, 'Triton', 'Randolph Lalonde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The crew of the Samson are caught up in the problems of their Captain as his past starts to catch up with him. Just as new allies start to fall in line old enemies come creeping out of the shadows, putting everyone at risk. While the crew struggles to deal with their own problems, Regent Galactic begins putting a plan in motion that will bring about the fourth fall of man and position their Corporation as the sole savior of the civilized outer fringe of space. Their ambition and greed spell disaster for the bulk of mankind. The threads of Jake Valance''s past start to come together in this, the second part of the Spinward Fringe series. He''s at the same time to be the benefactor and victim of a personal history he knows nothing about.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/967'),
(779, 'Truckers', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British author Pratchett''s first YA novel is a rollicking tale about a race of "nomes"--little people who came from outer space and now live under the floorboards of a department store. Since the store is about to be demolished, the nomes must be convinced to move out, even though most of them don''t believe in such a thing as Outside. After all, the store has "Everything Under One Roof!" In a story reminiscent of Mary Norton''s The Borrowers , Pratchett has added distinctive touches of his own to the hilarious complications that ensue. One of the novel''s greatest strengths is the depiction of the civilization the nomes have built for themselves, including an intricate religion based on advertising signs. hung in the store. Truckers is funny enough to warrant sequels (at least one more tale is promised), but a clearer resolution would have made this a more satisfying read. Ages 10-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFascinating and funny.â€ (The Horn Book )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWitty, funny, wise and altogether delightful.â€ (Locus )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA wry tongue-in-cheek fantasyâ€¦which unhesitatingly lampoons the ingrained habits and complacent attitudes found in any society.â€ (ALA Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTerry Pratchett has created a wild adventure, a fable, a fantasy, an elegant satire.â€â€“ Lloyd Alexander (Lloyd Alexander )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA delicious, rewarding, wry and antic fable.â€â€”Harlan Ellisonâ€œA rollicking good story.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPratchett gives his cast plenty of personality and fuels the plot with nonstop comedy.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/48'),
(780, 'The Truth', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n William just wants to get at the truth. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it''s only the third edition. William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld''s first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist''s life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/42'),
(781, 'Turbulence', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/780'),
(782, 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Trapped aboard a fantastic submarine with a mad sea captain, a French professor and his companions come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange, forbidden sights hidden from the world above. This is the classic deep sea adventure from the world''s first and best science-fiction author.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/961'),
(783, 'Twilight Part 1', 'John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1117'),
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(787, 'Twilight, Part I', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/781'),
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(789, 'Twilight, Part III', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/783'),
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(791, 'Two to the Fifth', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThis being Xanth, the adventurers find absurdities, danger, and romance but also find themselves unwittingly involved in extremely complex intrigue. Classic Xanthromancy.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --_Booklist_ on\n <em>\n  Air Apparent\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The future of Xanth is in frightful peril. A powerful magical bird named Ragna Roc has embarked on a campaign to become absolute ruler of that mystical realm. Those who swear loyalty to him are spared. The rest have simply disappeared.\n</p>\n<p>\n So powerful are Ragnaâ€™s sorceries that even the Good Magician Humfrey dares not confront him directly. Instead he enlists Cyrus the Cyborg, a handsome half-human playwright with little knowledge of the world, in a stealthy subterfuge. Cyrus must assemble a troupe of traveling players to attract Ragnaâ€™s interest. And hidden in disguise among the bevy of beautiful young actresses are the young princesses, Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm, whose magics might just be a match for the evil bird.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Ragna has planted a spy in the midst of the troupe, one who knows their deepest secrets, including the true nature of Cyrusâ€™s forbidden love for one of the young princesses. Only a mysterious child called Kadence, and a cryptic clue â€” â€œTwo to the Fifth" â€” may give the companions the edge they need to defeat Ragnaâ€™s dictatorial dreams.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brimming with passion and merriment, drama and deception, Piers Anthonyâ€™s thirty-second Xanth fantasy is a pun-packed performance sure to provoke applause and ovations from the seriesâ€™ myriad fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/462'),
(792, 'The Two Towers', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/200'),
(793, 'Unseen Academicals', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Football, food, fashion and wizards collide in Pratchett''s 37th Discworld novel (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Making Money\n </em>\n ), an affectionate satire on the foibles of sports and sports fans. The always out-of-touch wizards at Ankh-Morpork''s Unseen University stand to lose a very big bequest unless they enter a team in a violent but popular street sport competition. As the wizards struggle to learn the game, aided by the university''s hired help, Ankh-Morpork''s ruler schemes to use the competition for his own purposes. Though the book suffers from a few awkward moments (Pratchett''s attempts to discuss racism through the strained relationships of dwarves, humans and goblins fall particularly flat), the prose crackles with wit and charm, and the sendups of league football, academic posturing,\n <em>\n  Romeo and Juliet\n </em>\n and cheesy sports dramas are razor sharp and hilarious but never cruel. At its heart, this is an intelligent, cheeky love letter to football, its fans and the unifying power of sports.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIn short, this is as busy and as daft as any other Discworld yarn, which means it is the quintessence of daft. Nobody writes fantasy funnier than Pratchett.â€ (Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis account of Unseen Universityâ€™s entry into the world of soccer (or, as they occasionally call it, â€œfoot-the-ballâ€) pushes past the usual conventions of satire to offer equal parts absurdist philosophy and heartwarming romance....A witty addition to the long-running fantasy seriesâ€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThirty-seven books in and ... Discworld is still going strong...and doing so with undimmed, triumphant exuberance. â€ (The Guardian )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAt its heart, this is an intelligent, cheeky love letter to football, its fans and the unifying power of sports. (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œItâ€™s a triumphant effortâ€ (The Independent on Sunday )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/125'),
(794, 'Up in a Heaval', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Spot of Trouble An innocent piece of Mundane Snail Mail has provoked the dreaded Demon Jupiter to hurl his Red Spot at the magical land of Xanth. As the dire Dot draws closer, the unwelcome ordeal of saving the enchanted realm falls to Umlaut, an unlikely lad with an unknown past and an uncertain future. With a handful of colorful companions at his side, Umlaut must unravel a high-stakes intergalactic puzzle, uncover the secret of his mysterious past, and learn to understand the urgings of his own heart. It might have been the merest chance that brought Umlaut to Castle Zombie that morning and launched him on a harrowing adventure. But in the magical land of Xanth, things are seldom left to chance, and adventures lurk around every corner. An unassuming young man with a uncanny knack for attracting lovely young ladies and an uncommon talent for emulating anyone he wished, Umlaut was forced to flee a flock of overly friendly females by disguising himself as a Zombie girl. In his haste to find a hiding place, he found himself face-to-face with a dreadful dragon and feared he would soon meet his end. But in Xanth, things are seldom exactly as they seem, and he soon discovered that the dragon was really a sinuous female sea serpent named Sesame, with a gift similar to his own, who had become accidentally entrapped in the Castle''s dungeon. When the two happen upon a packet of mail from Earth delivered by mischance to the Zombie King, they inadvertently set in motion a sinister scheme that could spell the end of Xanth. A letter they forward to the Demon Jupiter unexpectedly enrages him, causing him to send his own Red Spot hurtling toward Xanth. Soon everything is up in a heaval, for no one knows how to avert this interplanetary peril. Even the Good Magician Humfrey is baffled, for some strange force has obscured the future. In desperation, he instructs Umlaut and Sesame to deliver the remaining letters to their far-flung recipients, in the faint hope that this may somehow stop the Spot. As they set out on their appointed rounds, Umlaut and Sesame are soon joined by two feline friends, Jenny Elf''s companion, Sammy Cat, and a lovely, prescient creature named Claire Voyant who can sometimes see the future. Beguiled and bedeviled by the delicious Demoness Metria, who uses her shapely assets to distract him from his goal, Umlaut leads his allies on an unforgettable odyssey to the farthest reaches of the enchanted realm, from the submicroscopic Nth Moon of Ida, and the home of all dreams and nightmares, to the unmagical land of Euphoria, where he meets a sweet and sprightly young girl named Surprise who captures his heart. But before Umlaut can complete his quest and return to his beloved, he must unravel the unfathomable puzzle of his own existence, which is somehow inextricably entwined with the fate of Xanth. A satisfyingly suspenseful tale filled with mystery, magic, and merriment, Up in a Heaval is exciting and entertaining fantasy adventure from the pen of a master\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/490'),
(795, 'Ur', 'Stephen King &amp; Holter Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Since his first novel was published in 1974, Stephen King has stretched the boundaries of the storyteller as a writer who constantly redefines his readers'' experience by working in various genres and formats . Whether in an epic horror novel, like THE STAND, a serial-novel like THE GREEN MILE, or a novella like SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, King is able to deliver a reading experience like no one else can. As quickly as a spider spins its web, King reminds us why he''s the master of the novella - a format which, up until now that is, one might have thought is fast disappearing.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wesley Smith buys an Amazon Kindle to keep his mind off his recent nasty breakup, but he finds that his version is no ordinary e-reading device. Smith''s Kindle has a special Ur option, which reveals the future and all the works his favorite authors have written in parallel dimensions. However, when the Ur delivers news of terrible events on the way, Smith must decide if he should interfere in fate. While King can certainly spin a good story, the Amazon Kindle focus (the story was written exclusively for and can only be read on an Amazon Kindle) keeps this one feeling like an advertising gimmick. While listeners can easily follow Holter Graham''s narration, his style and projection aren''t particularly impressive. He is consistent with his characterizations, but his light nasal voice lacks energy and momentum, and given that King''s voice is quite similar to Graham''s and King can narrate just as well, it seems unnecessary to have enlisted Graham, whose performance adds little additional flare.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1007'),
(796, 'Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World', 'Tom Zoellner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In this fine piece of journalism, Zoellnerdoes for uranium what he did for diamonds in\n  <em>\n   The Heartless Stone\n  </em>\n  â€”he delves into the complex science, politics and history of this radioactive mineral, which presents the best and worst of mankind: the capacity for scientific progress and political genius; the capacity for nihilism, exploitation, and terror. Because Zoellner covers so much ground, from the discovery of radioactivity, through the development of the atomic bomb, he doesn''t go into great depth on any one topic. Nonetheless, he superbly paints vivid pictures of uranium''s impact, including forced labor in Soviet mines and lucky prospectors who struck it rich in harsh environments, the spread of uranium smuggling, as well as an explanation of why it was absurd to claim that Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase significant quantities of uranium from Niger. The only shortcoming is Zoellner''s omission of the issue of radioactive wastes generated by nuclear powerâ€”a significant problem given the possibility of a growing reliance on nuclear power.\n  <em>\n   (Mar. 9)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In an element low on the periodic table, Zoellner discovers the focus for events at the top of the worldâ€™s list of troubles. Having traveled extensively through the savannas of Africa, the mountains of Eastern Europe, and the deserts of Utah, Zoellner knows well what uranium looks like, why peril pulses in its every atom, and how scientists exploit its nuclear volatility. But most readers will find the drama not in the science but in the weaponry uranium has spawnedâ€”terribly demonstrated at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In pursuit of this raw power, the U.S. let Navajos die extracting needed ore and let southwestern cities sicken beneath clouds from reckless testing. The Soviet Union sentenced tens of thousands to lethal gulag mines. Israel diverted ore through deception on the high seas. Pakistan stole European refining technology. Alive with devious personalities, Zoellnerâ€™s narrative ultimately exposes the frightening vulnerability of a world with too many sources of a dangerous substance and too little wisdom to control it. A riveting journey into perilous terrain. --Bryce Christensen\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1215'),
(797, 'Use of Weapons', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Use of Weapons is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1990 as the third novel in the Culture series. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot introduction | Plot summary | History | Bibliography\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness'' The Times\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/988'),
(798, 'Vale of the Vole', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Esk, a young ogre-nymph-human, began his pilgrimage to the Good Magician Humfrey to rid himself of a seductive demoness, little did he know it would become a mission of mercy. A running river paradise and its harmless inhabitants were perishing in the wrathful wake of a greedy demon horde. Now it is up to Esk and his companions--a beautiful winged centaur named Chex and a brave burrower Called Volney--to search Xanth''s treacherous reaches, gathering together a mind-boggling company of creatures to defend the precious V_ale of the Vole._\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Piers Anthony\n </strong>\n is one of the world''s most popular fantasy authors, and a\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller twenty-one times over. His Xanth novels have been read and loved by millions of readers around the world, and he daily receives hundreds of letters from his devoted fans.\n</p>\n<p>\n In addition to the Xanth series, Anthony is the author of many other best-selling works. Piers Anthony lives in Inverness, Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/474'),
(799, 'Valentine&#39;s Exile', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/729'),
(800, 'Valentine&#39;s Resolve', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/730'),
(801, 'Valentine&#39;s Rising', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/736'),
(802, 'Victory Conditions', 'Elizabeth Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rip-roaring action and intriguing science and tactics distinguish Nebula-winner Moon''s fifth and final Vatta''s War installment. Now combat-blooded and well on her way to the admiralty, young Kylara Vatta commands 40 far-future spacecraft against ferocious Gammis Turek, a criminal mastermind who has threatened Ky''s home world of Slotter Key, her relatives and the far-flung Vatta economic empire. Ky has the rank she always hoped she''d achieve and now must accept the fearful responsibilities it entails. Weighed down by thoughts of the deaths she has causedâ€”both friend and foeâ€”and the need to protect the people in her command, Ky finds herself making some dangerous decisions. She''s surrounded by a convincing supporting cast, from feisty fruitcake-baking Aunt Grace, who runs Slotter Key''s defenses, to dashing Rafe Dunbarger, acting CEO of InterStellar Communications, who has lost his heart to Ky despite his best efforts at stoicism. This epic volume is a fine and fitting conclusion to Moon''s grand space opera tour de force.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elizabeth Moonâ€™s thrilling Vattaâ€™s War series, featuring the no-holds-barred space-faring heroine Kylara Vatta, has secured her reputation as a master of first-rate military science fiction. Now Commander Vatta is backâ€“locked and loaded and ready to win the fight against the marauding forces of ruthless space pirate Gammis Turek.\n</p>\n<p>\n For Ky, itâ€™s not just about liberating the star systems subjugated by Turek and defending the rest of the galaxyâ€™s freedom. Thereâ€™s also a score to be settled and payback to be meted out for the obliteration of the Vatta Transport dynasty . . . and the slaughter of Kyâ€™s family. But the enemy have their own escalation efforts under wayâ€“including the placement of covert agents among the allies with whom Ky and the surviving Vattas are collaborating in the war effort. And when a spy ring linked to a wealthy businessman is exposed, a cracked pirate code reveals a galaxywide conspiracy fueling the proliferation of Turekâ€™s warship fleet.\n <br />\n Matching the invadersâ€™ swelling firepower will mean marshaling an armada of battle-ready ships for Ky to lead into combat. But a violent skirmish leaves Ky reelingâ€“and presumed dead by her enemies. Now, as Turek readies an all-out attack on the Nexus systemâ€“a key conquest that could seal the rest of the galaxyâ€™s doomâ€“Ky must rally to the challenge, draw upon every last reserve of her strategic skills, and reach deep if she is to tear from the ashes of tragedy her most decisive victory.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/979'),
(803, 'Victory of Eagles', 'Naomi Novik', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Naomi Novik continues her alternate history of the Napoleonic wars in this fifth adventure featuring British Capt. William Laurence and his faithful celestial dragon, Temeraire. Picking up after\n <em>\n  Empire of Ivory\n </em>\n , a disgraced Laurence has been convicted of treason, sentenced to a prison ship and is only one step away from the hangman''s noose. Temeraire is relegated to a breeding area in Wales along with other dragons viewed as past their prime. When Bonaparte invades England, Laurence and Temeraire are soon free to fly and fight for king and country. Vance fully inhabits Novik''s vividly realized fantasy world. His battle scenes are exciting as he describes all the intricate fighting tactics without sacrificing the thrills. With keen vocal characterizations, he portrays a wide variety of individuals, both human and nonhuman, with the dialogue between Temeraire and some snobbish, older dragons singularly entertaining.\n <em>\n  A Del Rey hardcover (Reviews, May 19). (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n PRAISE FOR NAOMI NOVIK\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA new writer is soaring on the wings of a dragon.â€\n <br />\n â€“The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThese are beautifully written novels: not only fresh, original, and fast-paced, but full of wonderful characters with real heart.â€\n <br />\n â€“Peter Jackson\n</p>\n<p>\n His Majestyâ€™s Dragon\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEnthralling readingâ€“itâ€™s like Jane Austen playing Dungeons &amp; Dragons with Eragonâ€™s Christopher Paolini.â€\n <br />\n â€“Time\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA gripping adventure full of rich detail and the impossible wonder of gilded fantasy.â€\n <br />\n â€“Entertainment Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA thrilling fantasy . . . All hail Naomi Novik.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Washington Post Book World\n <br />\n BACK PANEL (contâ€™d)VICTORY OF EAGLESSUMMER 2008 (HC)\n</p>\n<p>\n Empire of Ivory\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNovikâ€™s influences run the gamut from Jane Austen to Patrick Oâ€™Brian, with a side trip through Anne McCaffrey. Her books are completely involving and probably addictive, their central conceit explored in clever detail with a great deal of wit and historical insight.â€\n <br />\n â€“San Francisco Chronicle\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSo realistic that it drowns disbelief . . . first-class in every respect.â€\n <br />\n â€“Booklist (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/658'),
(804, 'The Vile Village', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The seventh book in Lemony Snicket''s splendidly gloomy Series of Unfortunate Events shadows the three Baudelaire orphans as they plummet headlong into their next misadventure. Mr. Poe, their ineffective legal guardian, having exhausted all options for finding them a new home with relatives (including their 19th cousin), sadly entrusts his young charges'' fate to a progressive guardian program formed with the premise "It takes a village to raise a child." Before they know it, the Baudelaires are being whisked off on a bus to a village (vile) named "V.F.D." Snicket fans who read\n</p>\n<p>\n To the orphans'' dismay, V.F.D. is covered in crows--so much so that the whole village is pitch-black and trembling. "The crows weren''t squawking or cawing, which is what crows often do, or playing the trumpet, which crows practically never do, but the town was far from silent. The air was filled with the sounds the crows made as they moved around." Another disturbing element of the town is that the Council of Elders (who wear creepy crow hats) has thousands of rules, such as "don''t hurt crows" and "don''t build mechanical devices." Fortunately, the Baudelaires are taken in by a kindly handyman named Hector who cooks them delicious Mexican food and secretly breaks rules. Still, neither Hector nor an entire village can protect the orphans from the clutches of the money-grubbing Count Olaf, who has relentlessly pursued them (actually, just their fortune) since\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-6-The resourceful, likable, but extremely unlucky orphans Violet, Klaus, and baby Sunny continue to flee from the clutches of the fortune-hunting, disguise-wearing Count Olaf. Also, they need to discover the whereabouts of their kidnapped friends, Duncan and Isadora Quagmire, based on the puzzling clue "V.F.D." In Elevator, the three Baudelaires go to live in the penthouse of the trend-following Jerome and Esm? Squalor, who adopt the children because orphans are "in." Despite the Baudelaires'' resourcefulness, both Olaf and the Quagmires elude the grasp of the authorities due to the obtuseness of adults who, until it is too late, deny that terrible things can happen. In Village, the Baudelaires travel to V.F.D., a village that adopts the orphans based on the aphorism, "it takes a village to raise a child." They uncover the whereabouts of the Quagmires, but, as in the earlier books, they find neither respite nor peace from Count Olaf''s machinations. Despite Snicket''s artful turning of clich?s on their well-worn heads, Elevator sometimes belabors the fallacy of fads at the expense of plot. Nonetheless, the satiric treatment of adults'' insistence upon decorum at the expense of truth is simultaneously satisfying and unsettling, as are the deft slams at slant journalism in Village. Arch literary allusions enhance the stories for readers on different levels. Despite Snicket''s perpetual caveats to "put this book down and pick up another one," the Baudelaires are dynamic characters who inspire loyalty to the inevitable end of the series.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Farida S. Dowler, formerly at Bellevue Regional Library, WA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/454'),
(805, 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  A special read-aloud edition enlarged for easy reading with an audience or individually.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, accompanied by their unpleasant cousin, Eustace, are pulled into Narnia once again, this time through an enchanted picture that brings them aboard the magnificent ship the\n <em>\n  Dawn Treader\n </em>\n . There, they join King Caspian and Reepicheep, the valiant Mouse, on a daring quest to find seven lords who have been banished from Narnia by evil Miraz. As they sail farther and farther from charted waters toward Aslanâ€™s country at the End of the World, they find wonders and danger far beyond their wildest imaginationâ€”and see Reepicheep set off for the greatest adventure of all.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential Christian writer of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. His major contributions in literary criticism, children''s literature, fantasy literature, and popular theology brought him international renown and acclaim. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include\n <em>\n  The Chronicles of Narnia\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Out of the Silent Planet\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Four Loves\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Screwtape Letters\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Mere Christianity\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los intelectuales mÃs importantes del siglo veinte y podrÃa decirse que fue el escritor cristiano mÃs influyente de su tiempo. Fue profesor particular de literatura inglesa y miembro de la junta de gobierno en la Universidad Oxford hasta 1954, cuando fue nombrado profesor de literatura medieval y renacentista en la Universidad Cambridge, cargo que desempeÃ‘Ã“ hasta que se jubilÃ“. Sus contribuciones a la crÃtica literaria, literatura infantil, literatura fantÃstica y teologÃa popular le trajeron fama y aclamaciÃ“n a nivel internacional. C. S. Lewis escribiÃ“ mÃs de treinta libros, lo cual le permitiÃ“ alcanzar una enorme audiencia, y sus obras aÃšn atraen a miles de nuevos lectores cada aÃ‘o. Sus mÃs distinguidas y populares obras incluyen\n <em>\n  Las CrÃ“nicas de Narnia, Los Cuatro Amores, Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino y Mero Cristianismo\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/345'),
(806, 'The War of the Ember', 'Kathryn Lasky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The strange, maniacal blue owl known as the Striga has been rousted from the Great Ga''Hoole Tree. Nyra, leader of the vicious Pure Ones, is either dead or laying low in some distant land,leaving the tree finally at peace. As if fed by an invisible spring, learning and the lively arts flourish at the great tree and spread throughout the owl kingdoms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But unbeknowst to the Guardians, in a long-empty cave deep in the Northern Kingdoms two ruthless villains join forces to conjure an ancient evil, an evil that will do their bidding and wreak havoc on the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When word of this growing malevolence reaches Coryn, Soren, and the Band, the young king knows he must do two things: First, he must return the ember to the Sacred Volcanoes, for the same subtle emanation from the Ember of Hoole that stimulates the quest for knowledge and invention at the great tree, also magnifies the powers of those who seek to destroy it and all for which it stands. Second, he must gather allies. Two armies grow. Gadfeathers, bears, dire wolves, and greenowls join with the Guardians, while on the other side ancient evil takes to the sky.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  KATHRYN LASKY is the Newbery Honor author of more than fifty fiction and non-fiction books, including ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Beyond the Burning Time. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Visit Kathryn online at: www.KathrynLasky.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1181'),
(807, 'War of the Twins', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One hundred years have passed since the fiery Cataclysm that changed the face of Krynn forever. For one hundred years, the people of Krynn have struggled to survive. But for some, those one hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye.\n</p>\n<p>\n Catapulted forward in time by Raistlinâ€™s powerful magic, Caramon and Crysania find themselves aiding the mageâ€™s unholy quest to master the Queen of Darkness. To his dismay, Raistlin discovers along the way that the annals of Time are not so easily bent to his will. Neither are the longings of his heart.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Margaret Weis\n </strong>\n is the author of numerous\n <strong>\n  Dragonlance\n </strong>\n novels, many of them co-written with Tracy Hickman or Don Perrin, including the recent_ New York Times_ best-seller_ Dragons of a Vanished Moon_. She is also the author of\n <em>\n  The Soulforge\n </em>\n and the\n <em>\n  Star of the Guardian\n </em>\n novels.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tracy Hickman\n </strong>\n , in addition to his work on several\n <strong>\n  Dragonlance\n </strong>\n novels, has co-authored with Margaret Weis the Darksword series and the Death Gate Cycle. He is the designer of the game setting Starshield and is the author of the futuristic novel\n <em>\n  The Immortal\n </em>\n s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(808, 'The War of the Worlds', 'H. G. Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hot on the heels of the blockbuster film comes a version of H.G. Wellsâ€™ chilling tale of alien invasion that every child can enjoy. It begins as the sky lights up with bright cylinders from Mars that look like falling starsâ€”and continues as the Martians emerge from their vessels with machines of fire and deadly smoke. Wellsâ€™s depiction of a city in panicâ€”written in 1898â€”still remains shockingly contemporary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/215'),
(809, 'The Ware Tetralogy', 'Rudy Rucker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rucker''s four Ware novels--Software (1982), Wetware (1988), Freeware (1997), and Realware (2000)--form an extraordinary cyberweird future history with the heft of an epic fantasy novel and the speed of a quantum processor. Still exuberantly fresh despite their age, they primarily follow two characters (and their descendants): Cobb Anderson, who instigated the first robot revolution and is offered immortality by his grateful "children," and stoner Sta-Hi Mooney, who (against his impaired better judgment) becomes an important figure in robot-human relations. Over several generations, humans, robots, and society evolve, but even weird drugs and the wisdom gathered from interstellar signals won''t stop them from making the same old mistakes in new ways. Rucker is both witty and serious as he combines hard science and sociology with unrelentingly sharp observations of all self-replicating beings. This classic series well deserves its omnibus repackaging, particularly suitable for libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An omnibus of Rudy Rucker''s groundbreaking series [Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware], with an introduction by William Gibson, author of Neuromancer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/758'),
(810, 'Watership Down', 'Richard Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Watership Down\n </em>\n has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it''s often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn''t cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams''s bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels,\n <em>\n  Watership Down\n </em>\n is a rich story that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is often praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won''t "get" it, into reading it), but it''s equally praiseworthy as just a corking good adventure.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, complete with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a "lapine" glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates,\n <em>\n  Watership Down\n </em>\n will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Quite Marvelous...A Powerful New Vision of the Great Chain of Being." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Spellbinding...Marvelous...A Taut Tale of Suspense, Hot Pursuit, and Derring-Do." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Spellbinding...Marvelous...A taut tale of suspense, hot pursuit, and derring-do." --\n <em>\n  --Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/271'),
(811, 'The Way of Shadows', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city''s most accomplished artist.\n</p>\n<p>\n For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he''s grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.\n</p>\n<p>\n But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins'' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brent Weeks was born and raised in Montana. After getting his paper keys from HillsdaleCollege, Brent had brief stints walking the earth like Caine from\n <em>\n  Kung Fu\n </em>\n , tending bar, and corrupting the youth. (Not at the same time.) He started writing on bar napkins, then on lesson plans, then full time. Eventually, someone paid him for it. Brent lives in Oregon with his wife, Kristi. He doesn''t own cats or wear a ponytail. Find out more about the author at www.brentweeks.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/985'),
(812, 'Way of The Wolf', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/733'),
(813, 'Weapons of Choice', 'John Birmingham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of Australian author Birmingham''s stellar debut novel, a United Nations battle group, clustered around the\n <em>\n  U.S.S. Hillary Clinton\n </em>\n (named after "the most uncompromising wartime president in the history of the United States"), is tasked in the year 2021 with stopping ethnic cleansing by an Islamist regime in Indonesia. When an experiment goes horribly wrong on a special ship doing research on wormholes, most of the battle group is deposited in the middle of the U.S. fleet on its way to Midway in 1942. The WWII carriers and supporting vessels attack a Japanese Self-Defense Force ship, triggering devastating computer-operated defensive fire from the 21st-century fleet. While the action sequences are outstanding, this book really shines in depicting the cultural shock that both navies experience. The\n <em>\n  Clinton\n </em>\n group reflects a multicultural society that finds the racist and sexist attitudes of 1942 America almost as repugnant as those of the Axis powers, while the mere thought of non-whites and women not just serving in uniform but holding command drives many Allied officers and civilian officials apoplectic. The author also subtly shows the ways in which 20-plus years of the War on Terrorism have changed our attitudes. Unlike many alternate histories, the novel avoids the wish-fulfillment aspect inherent in the genre. This is the first of what should be a hugely (and deservedly) successful series.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This is an excellent combination of near future military SF and alternate history, and a riveting story to boot."â€“Eric Flint, author of _1632\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n 1634: The Galileo Affair\n</p>\n<p>\n _"This book has everying: time travel, the British royalty, things that go boom, and unrelenting action. Read the opening at your own risk: you won''t be doing anything else until you finish it."â€“Sean WILLIAMS, co-author of\n <em>\n  Heirs of Earth\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Star Wars: Force Heretic: Reunion\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/992'),
(814, 'The Wee Free Men', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching needs magic--fast! Her sticky little brother Wentworth has been spirited away by the evil Queen of faerie, and itâ€™s up to her to get him back safely. Having already decided to grow up to be a witch, now all Tiffany has to do is find her power. But she quickly learns that itâ€™s not all black cats and broomsticks. According to her witchy mentor Miss Tick, "Witches donâ€™t use magic unless they really have to...We do other things. A witch pays attention to everything thatâ€™s going on...A witch uses her head...A witch always has a piece of string!" Luckily, besides her trusty string, Tiffanyâ€™s also got the Nac Mac Feegles, or the Wee Free Men on her side. Small, blue, and heavily tattooed, the Feegles love nothing more than a good fight except maybe a drop of strong drink! Tiffany, heavily armed with an iron skillet, the feisty Feegles, and a talking toad on loan from Miss Tick, is a formidable adversary. But the Queen has a few tricks of her own, most of them deadly. Tiffany and the Feegles might get more than they bargained for on the flip side of Faerie! Prolific fantasy author Terry Pratchett has served up another delicious helping of his famed Discworld fare. The not-quite-teen set will delight in the Feeglesâ€™ spicy, irreverent dialogue and Tiffanyâ€™s salty determination. Novices to Pratchettâ€™s prose will find much to like here, and quickly go back to devour the rest of his Discworld offerings. Scrumptiously recommended. (Ages 10 to 14)\n <em>\n  --Jennifer Hubert\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-7-Tiffany, an extremely competent nine-year-old, takes care of her irritating brother, makes good cheese on her father''s farm, and knows how to keep secrets. When monsters from Fairyland invade her world and her brother disappears, Tiffany, armed only with her courage, clear-sightedness, a manual of sheep diseases, and an iron frying pan, goes off to find him. Her search leads her to a showdown with the Fairy Queen. It is clear from the beginning that Tiffany is a witch, and a mighty powerful one. The book is full of witty dialogue and a wacky cast of characters, including a toad (formerly a lawyer). Much of the humor is supplied by the alcohol-swilling, sheep-stealing pictsies, the Wee Free Men of the title, who are six-inches high and speak in a broad Scottish brogue. (The fact that readers will not understand some of the dialect won''t matter, as Tiffany doesn''t understand either, and it is all part of the joke.) These terrors of the fairy world are Tiffany''s allies, and she becomes their temporary leader as they help her search for the Fairy Queen. Once the story moves into Fairyland it becomes more complex, with different levels of dream states (or, rather, nightmares) and reality interweaving. Tiffany''s witchcraft eschews the flamboyant tricks of wizards; it is quiet, inconspicuous magic, grounded in the earth and tempered with compassion, wisdom, and justice for common folk. Not as outrageous and perhaps not as inventive as The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (HarperCollins, 2001), The Wee Free Men has a deeper, more human interest and is likely to have wider appeal. All in all, this is a funny and thought-provoking fantasy, with powerfully visual scenes and characters that remain with readers. A glorious read.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Sue Giffard, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York City\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(815, 'The Well of Ascension', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sanderson''s entertaining second Mistborn novel begins after most fantasy series end, when the team of brave and cunning heroes find that holding on to power is even harder than overthrowing the previous tyrant. Elend Venture, the scholarly new Lord Ruler of Luthadel, clings to power while Luthadel''s aristocrats and merchants grumble and two enemy armiesâ€”one led by Elend''s father, Lord Straffâ€”camp outside the city gates. Fortunately, Elend can rely on help from his lover and unofficial court assassin, the young allomancer Vin, but her magical metal-using ability makes her a target. An orphan of decidedly low origins, Vin is also having trouble adapting to her position as royal consort, especially since the underclass skaa, newly freed by Elend, look to her as their protector. Meanwhile, the ancient evil known as the Deepness is rising once again. This entertaining read will especially please those who always wanted to know what happened after the good guys won.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the Mistborn trilogy''s middle book, the great revolution''s leader is dead, his apprentice Vin is overwhelmed by his legacy, and the idealistic new ruler is beset by those who want power themselves. Everyone wants to find the overthrown despot''s Atium supplies, and armies besiege Luthadel. On patrol one night, Vin sees a figure apparently made of mist. The history of Kwaan, who helped the despot to power, emerges, portending a terrible power. The Well of Ascension may furnish resolutions to all these situations, but someone must find it. Vin''s struggles with love and power inject the human element into Sanderson''s engaging epic. Schroeder, Regina\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/981'),
(816, 'The Well of Lost Plots', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this delicious sequel to The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book, Fforde''s redoubtable (and now throwing-up-pregnant) heroine Thursday Next once again does battle with philistine bibliophobes, taking a furlough from her duties as a SpecOps Literary Detective to vacation in the Well of Lost Plots, the 26 noisome sub-basements of the Great Library. Pursued by her memory-modifying nemesis Aornis Hades, Thursday joins Jurisfiction''s Character Exchange Program, filling in for "Mary," sidekick to the world-weary detective hero of Caversham Heights, a hilariously awful police procedural. At the imminent launch of UltraWord, the vaunted "Last Word" in Story Operating Systems, Thursday''s friend and mentor Miss Havisham is gruesomely killed, and Thursday gamely sets out to restore order to her underground world, where technophiles ruthlessly recycle unpublished books and sell plot devices and stock characters on the black market. Meanwhile, Aornis is doing her fiendish worst to make Thursday forget Landen, her missing husband and father of her child. If this all sounds a bit confusing, it isuntil the reader gets the hang of Fforde''s intricate mix of parody, social satire and sheer gut-busting fantasy. Marvelous creations like syntax-slaughtering grammasites and the murderous Minotaur roam this unusual novel''s pages, and Fforde''s fictional epigraphs, like his minihistory of "book operating systems," are worth the cover price in themselves. Fforde''s sidesplitting sendup of an increasingly antibookish society is a sheer joy.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€“Fforde''s third novel featuring English sleuth Thursday Next is an interesting, enjoyable mix of detective story, fantasy, and literature. Thursday works on cases involving the protection of the stories and characters of famous books, which can be affected and changed by people in the real world. In this installment, she enters the Book World itself. Fforde has a nice touch, never pressing on any one aspect of the story, but managing to interweave all of the elements, with a good deal of humor. The use of various literary characters means that it helps to be familiar with the works in which they appear, but, despite knowing very little about\n  <em>\n   Anna Karenina\n  </em>\n  , it is still very funny to read its plot written as a gossipy telephone conversation between two Russian noblewomen. It also helps to have read the first two books in the series,\n  <em>\n   The Eyre Affair\n  </em>\n  (2002) and\n  <em>\n   Lost in a Good Book\n  </em>\n  (2003, both Viking), but teens will want to read\n  <em>\n   The Well of Lost Plots\n  </em>\n  anyway._â€“Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress, Washington, DC_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1223'),
(817, 'Werehunter', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The companion volume to "Fiddler Fair", this novel invites readers to lope through the night with a woman transformed into a leopard and pursued by a hunter who is more than human; to attend a gathering of romance writers that has a very unusual vampire in its midst; return to the world of Heralds of Valdemar; and join in more unforgettable adventures from a spellbinding master of fantasy and science fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/685'),
(818, 'Where&#39;s My Cow?', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA passion for language, wordplay and puns bursts from the pages.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Daily Telegraph_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a book about reading a book, which turns into a different book. But it all ends happily!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/672');
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(819, 'The Wide Window', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <strong>\n  , things, well, begin badly for the three Baudelaire orphans. And sadly, events only worsen in\n </strong>\n . In the third in Lemony Snicket''s Series of Unfortunate Events, there is still no hope on the horizon for these poor children. Their adventures are exciting and memorable, but, as the author points out, "exciting and memorable like being chased by a werewolf through a field of thorny bushes at midnight with nobody around to help you."\n</p>\n<p>\n This story begins when the orphans are being escorted by the well-meaning Mr. Poe to yet another distant relative who has agreed to take them in since their parents were killed in a horrible fire. Aunt Josephine, their new guardian, is their second cousin''s sister-in-law, and she is afraid of everything. Her house (perched precariously on a cliff above Lake Lachrymose) is freezing because she is afraid of the radiator exploding, she eats cold cucumber soup because she''s afraid of the stove, and she doesn''t answer the telephone due to potential electrocution dangers. Her greatest joy in life is grammar, however, and when it comes to the proper use of the English language, she is fearless.\n</p>\n<p>\n But just when she should be the most fearful--when Count Olaf creeps his way back to find the Baudelaire orphans and steal their fortune--she somehow lets her guard down. Once again, it is up to Violet, Klaus, and Sunny to get themselves out of danger. Will they succeed? We haven''t the stomach to tell you. (Ages 9 to 12)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Author Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) reads volumes three and four of his Series of Unfortunate Events saga. A snappy, techno tune by a group called the Gothic Archies serves as toe-tapping introduction to Handler''s chipper performance of his humorously melodramatic tales. The first two audiobooks in the series, performed by British actor Tim Curry, were released by Listening Library in March.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/450'),
(820, 'The Wild&#39;s Call', 'Jeri Smith-ready', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is seven years after the collapse of modern civilization, and the world is entering a new Dark Age. Can best friends Elysia and Darien trust the animal spirits that are beckoning them to escape into the wilderness and create a new way of life? And will they give in to the mutual passion they''ve always denied?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Don''t miss this thrilling prequel story set in the same world as Jeri Smith-Ready''s Aspect of Crow trilogy:\n  <em>\n   Eyes of Crow, Voice of Crow\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Reawakened\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/949'),
(821, 'Willow', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Now we''re supposed to be deciding what we wanna do with our lives and I realized that''s what I want to do. Fight evil....It''s a good fight, Buffy, and I want in."\n  </em>\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Since the self-proclaimed "science nerd" had the odd luck to fall in with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Willow Rosenberg has come into her own. As a member of the Scooby Gang, Willow used her skills as savvy ''Net girl to help save the world on more than one occasion. But as time passed, Willow''s powers evolved from Web surfing to the limitless realm of magic. And with that change came some difficult life lessons.\n</p>\n<p>\n Willow has always longed for more parental guidance, but when Sunnydale''s adults are swept up in a witch hunt, Willow finds that her mother''s judgment really\n <em>\n  bums.\n </em>\n And who knew that her forays into the black arts would bring her literally face-to-face with an alter ego "Old Reliable" never imagined existed? Ultimately, though, when it comes time to take charge of her future, Willow realizes that whether it be as a computer hacker or Wicca extraordinaire, she can go further than she had ever dreamed...by staying right where she has been all along.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Chapter 1\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Oh," Buffy said. "Great. A book."\n</p>\n<p>\n Willow Rosenberg looked over from her position in front of one of the scanners and smiled when she saw the disappointed expression on her friend''s face. Buffy Summers pulled an oversized, ancient-looking book from the crate she''d just pried open and idly traced the carving on its leather cover. Jenny Calendar, the new computer science teacher, had set up several computers and scanners throughout the library. They were a jarring contrast to what Willow had always felt was the old-world charm of the book-filled room.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I haven''t gone through the new arrivals," Rupert Giles told Buffy. He gestured toward where Willow stood. "Put it in that pile -- "\n</p>\n<p>\n "Here, I''ve got it." Dave, a shy, bookish kid with thick blond hair, took the book from Buffy and headed back to his terminal. Next to him, a boy named Fritz worked diligently. Fritz was big and sturdily-built with short hair, the opposite of Dave. But like Willow, both were whizzes in the computer world.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks, Dave." Buffy grinned. "The Willow pile."\n</p>\n<p>\n "After I''ve examined it," Giles said absently, "you can, uh...skim it in."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Scan\n </em>\n it, Rupert.\n <em>\n  Scan\n </em>\n it."\n</p>\n<p>\n The door to the library closed behind Ms. Calendar as she strode in and Willow had to hide her smile at the flustered set to Giles''s jaw. If Fritz and Dave were different, then Ms. Calendar and Giles had to be polar opposites, literally repelling each other. Where Giles was like the library, old-world and rather charming despite the tweed-saturation level, Ms. Calendar was young and hip. She might have been thirty, but her hair was dark and cut short, and the way she dressed was a slightly more modest version of the rest of the girls in school.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Of course," Giles said. His tone was filled with stiff British courtesy, but Willow thought she could hear a touch of venom around the edges.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ms. Calendar, however, was not put off. "I know our ways are strange to you," she said as she regarded the librarian with patient amusement, "but soon you will join us in the twentieth century...with several years to spare!"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ms. Calendar," Giles said archly, "I happen to believe that one can function in modern society with_out_ being a slave to the idiot box."\n</p>\n<p>\n Ms. Calendar did an admirable job of holding her expression, although Willow could tell she really wanted to chuckle. "That''s TV -- the idiot box is the TV. This is a\n <em>\n  good\n </em>\n box."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Well," Giles said, undaunted. "I still prefer a good book."\n</p>\n<p>\n "The printed page is obsolete," Fritz put in. His stance at his terminal was so relaxed that he might have been a part of the machine. "Information isn''t bound up anymore, it''s an entity. The only reality is virtual. If you''re not jacked in, you''re not alive." With that, he nodded to himself and flicked the OFF switch on his computer. A moment later the door to the library closed behind him.\n</p>\n<p>\n They all stared after him, then Ms. Calendar sighed. "Thank you, Fritz, for making us all sound like crazy people." She turned back to Giles. "Fritz comes on a little strong, but he has a point. You know, for the last two years there was more E-mail sent than regular mail? More digitalized information went over phone lines than conversation."\n</p>\n<p>\n Giles folded his arms and his chin lifted. "That is a fact I regard with genuine horror."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''ll bet it is," Ms. Calendar replied. She faced Willow and the others. "All right, guys. Let''s wrap it up for the day."\n</p>\n<p>\n Willow glanced at the stack of waiting books, then back at her terminal. She hated to leave stuff undone -- it always came back to haunt you the next morning. "I''ve just got a few more to do," she told Ms. Calendar. "I''ll hang around for a bit."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cool," the computer teacher said with a smile. "Thanks."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Xander," Willow said before her friend could head out after the others, "you want to stay and help me?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Xander Harris paused, but only for a moment. "Are you kidding?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes," Willow said gently. "It was a joke I made up."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xander nodded in relief. "Willow, I love you, but bye."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''ll see you tomorrow," Willow called.\n</p>\n<p>\n But she might as well have been talking to the wall. "Buffy," Xander yelled, heading into the hall. "Wait up!"\n</p>\n<p>\n Willow watched him go and pressed her lips together.\n <em>\n  I will not pout,\n </em>\n she told herself.\n <em>\n  It''s not becoming to a redhead. To a\n </em>\n smart\n <em>\n  redhead.\n </em>\n Resigned, she went back to work and from a few tables over, Giles spoke to Ms. Calendar.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I have to stay and clean up," he said stiffly. "I''ll be back in the Middle Ages."\n</p>\n<p>\n Willow looked over to see Ms. Calendar, without so much as cracking a smile as she walked out, give her parting comment to Giles:\n</p>\n<p>\n "Did you ever leave?"\n</p>\n<p>\n The hours flew past, as they always did when she worked on computer projects. The Internet, E-mail, on-line research -- they were all incredible time-burners. Sometimes Willow thought they sucked up chunks of life like the Sunnydale vampires sucked up blood. Despite her intention to stay only a little while, it was already late night, but at least the book in front of her, the leather-covered one that Buffy had uncrated just before everyone left, was the last one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Willow opened it to the first page, grateful to find that even though it was weighty, the pages were thick and not numerous. After naming the file WILLOW/BOOK 12, she carefully drew the scanner down the first page, keeping her eyes on the screen to make sure the image didn''t blur or distort. While she couldn''t understand the strange characters and foreign words, the information seemed to be transferring cleanly and rapidly.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Almost done,\n </em>\n she thought in relief. Then I can go home and get started on my other homework.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Great.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Turned slightly to the right and with her gaze focused on the screen, Willow never noticed the pages of the book as she completed and turned each one, never saw the way the ancient words and symbols appeared to slip off the heavy parchment as the scanner passed over them. When the last of the book''s content entered the screen, Willow saved the file without looking back at the book, then glanced around the empty library one last time.\n</p>\n<p>\n On the computer, the screen suddenly went blank. After a beat, three words appeared, one letter at a time, across the center:\n</p>\n<p>\n WHERE AM I?\n</p>\n<p>\n Willow hit the OFF button automatically. Finished at last, she gathered up her books and headed out of the library.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright Â© 1999 by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/779'),
(822, 'A Wind in the Door', 'Madeleine L&#39;Engle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "There are dragons in the twins'' vegetable garden," announces six-year-old Charles Wallace Murry in the opening sentence of\n <em>\n  The Wind in the Door\n </em>\n . His older sister, Meg, doubts it. She figures he''s seen\n <em>\n  something\n </em>\n strange, but dragons--a "dollop of dragons," a "drove of dragons," even a "drive of dragons"--seem highly unlikely. As it turns out, Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--though the sea of eyes (merry eyes, wise eyes, ferocious eyes, kitten eyes, dragon eyes, opening and closing) and wings (in constant motion) is actually a benevolent cherubim (of a singularly plural sort) named Proginoskes who has come to help save Charles Wallace from a serious illness.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her usual masterful way, Madeleine L''Engle jumps seamlessly from a child''s world of liverwurst and cream cheese sandwiches to deeply sinister, cosmic battles between good and evil. Children will revel in the delectably chilling details--including hideous scenes in which a school principal named Mr. Jenkins is impersonated by the Echthroi (the evil forces that tear skies, snuff out light, and darken planets). When it becomes clear that the Echthroi are putting Charles Wallace in danger, the only logical course of action is for Meg and her dear friend Calvin O''Keefe to become small enough to go inside Charles Wallace''s body--into one of his mitochondria--to see what''s going wrong with his farandolae. In an illuminating flash on the interconnectedness of all things and the relativity of size, we realize that the tiniest problem can have mammoth, even intergalactic ramifications. Can this intrepid group voyage through time and space and muster all their strength of character to save Charles Wallace? It''s an exhilarating, enlightening, suspenseful journey that no child should miss.\n</p>\n<p>\n The other books of the Time quartet, continuing the adventures of the Murry family, are __;\n <strong>\n  , which won the American Book Award; and\n </strong>\n . (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The chief characters of...A Wrinkle in Time return in a complex sci-fi/fantasy adventure...Meg and Calvin O''Keefe are enlisted again to fight evil, this time in the shape of the Echthroi, which are spreading through the universe."-Starred,\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/302'),
(823, 'Wings', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-9-- The last book of a science-fiction trilogy about four-inch beings who were stranded when their scout ship crashed to earth 15,000 years ago. Truckers (1990) introduced Masklin, leader of a dwindling band of nomes hunting among the hedgerows in modern England. Completely ignorant of their origins, they are guided by a small black box they call "The Thing," which turns out to be a very powerful computer. In Diggers (1991, both Delacorte), they join a group of department-store nomes to live in a quarry. In this last installment, Masklin and friends sneak aboard the Concorde and head for Florida. Their mission: to place The Thing on a communications satellite so it can rouse their waiting mother ship. Nomes are foolishly courageous, companionable, literal and innocent creatures whose repeated misunderstandings confirm readers'' sense of smug superiority. The bad puns generated by their mistakes in language may amuse some readers but annoy others. Neither as complex nor interesting as Mary Norton''s "Borrowers" (Harcourt) or the Lilliputians of T. H. White''s Mistress Masham''s Repose (Berkley, 1984), Pratchett''s creatures enact a blatantly obvious parable of broadening horizons. Yet the conversational style and fast-moving plot make this cheerful, unpretentious tale useful where there is a need for accessible science fiction, or where the previous volumes have been enjoyed.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Margaret A. Chang, North Adams State College, MA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n In book three of the\n <code>\n </code>\n Bromeliad,'''' the nomes recover their spaceship and leave Earth. At the end of Diggers (p. 109), Gemma and the other nomes, trapped in a quarry surrounded by hostile humans, were saved by the appearance of an enormous spaceship. Wings is a flashback in which Masklin, Grunder, and Angalo sneak aboard a Concorde bound from London to Miami and make their way to within hailing distance of the space shuttle so that Thing can subvert its communication ports to summon their spaceship, which has been stored on the moon for thousands of years. In the process, they meet a band of wild nomes and are told that the world harbors thousands more. Gemma and Masklin leave for the stars; Grunder stays behind to communicate with humans and the other nomes. There is something a bit affected about naming a series after an orchid that harbors a colony of tiny frogs that leave their flower only when they outgrow it. Norton''s Borrowers were entrancing, resourceful, and convincing; in comparison, nomes are naive, clumsy, and unlikely. Wings is resolutely earthbound, and while Pratchett can be wildly funny in his adult books, he seems tentative here. Still, young readers who liked the earlier volumes will want to read this one. (Fiction. 10+) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(824, 'Winter Duty', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/732'),
(825, 'Winter&#39;s Heart', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Is Robert Jordan still doing the Light''s work? Even loyal fans have to wonder. (And if you''re not a fan yet, you''ll have to read\n</p>\n<p>\n Everyone''s in agreement on the Wheel of Time''s first four or five volumes: They''re topnotch, where-have-you-been-all-my-life epic fantasy, the best in anybody''s memory at the time since __. But a funny thing happened on the way to Tarmon Gai''don, and many of those raves have become rants or (worse) yawns. Jordan long ago proved himself a master at world-building, with fascinating characters, a positively delicious backstory, and enough plot and politics to choke a Trolloc, but that same strength has become a liability. How do you criticize what he''s doing now? You want more momentum and direction in the central plot line, but it''s the secondary stories that have made the world so rich. And as in the last couple of books, (\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n ), Jordan doesn''t really succeed at pursuing either adequately, leaving a lot of heavily invested readers frustrated.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Winter''s Heart\n </em>\n at least shows some improvement, but it''s still not __. Elayne''s still waiting to take the crown of Andor; the noticeably absent Egwene is still waiting to go after the White Tower; Perrin gets ready to pursue the Shaido but then disappears for the rest of the book. About the only excitement comes with the long-awaited return of Mat Cauthon and a thankfully rock ''em, sock ''em finale in which Rand finally,\n <em>\n  finally\n </em>\n changes the balance of power in his fight against the Dark One.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ninth installment in Jordan''s sprawling Wheel of Time saga is as bountifully pregnant with plot threads as its predecessorsDand as bewilderingly esoteric for readers who have yet to commit its previous episodes to memory. Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn, seems no nearer to fulfilling his destinyDto unite the embattled races of his domain against the Dark OneDthan he was in The Path of Daggers. The warmongering Seanchan are pouring into Ebou Dar, setting refugees in flight and complex schemes in fidgety motion. Perrin Aybara is distracted from his mission to shepherd the prophet Masema to Rand when he pursues the rebel Aiel who have kidnaped his wife, Faile. The mystical sisterhood of the Aes Sedai remain divided between Elaida, pretender to the title of the White Tower, and Egwene al''Vere, ally to Elayne, Queen of Andor. Elayne, Rand''s lover, barely escapes poisoning, and Rand himself, still smarting from the unhealed wound of an assassination attempt, shapeshifts through a variety of disguises to pass unnoticed in hostile territories. Jordan can always be counted to ground his dizzying intrigues in solid chunks of cultural detail, and he here rises to the occasion, with chapters as dense as Spenserian stanzas with symbols and rituals. Not all of his subplots tie together, and fewer than usual of his vast cast of characters make a memorable impact. Nevertheless, he manipulates the disorder of his narrative to credibly convey a sense of an embattled world on the verge of self-destruction, and he entertainingly juxtaposes the courtly civility of his villains with the precarious chaos they cause. Devotees accustomed to this ongoing epic''s increasing lack of focus will no doubt find it on target. (Nov.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/356'),
(826, 'Wintersmith', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Upâ€“Winter must die, and Summer must sink into the ground; it is all part of the Story, and Tiffany Aching has danced into the middle of it. On the last day of autumn, Tiffany travels to the woods to witness the Black Morris, the traditional dance of the gods heralding the arrival of winter. In a moment of heedless excitement, her rollicking feet draw her to the music, and she crashes headlong into the Wintersmith. He is fascinated by the girl and proceeds to court her in his own fashionâ€“all the snowflakes are made in her image and giant Tiffany-shaped icebergs appear in the sea. Meanwhile, Tiffany begins to show characteristics of the goddess Summerâ€“the touch of her bare feet makes things grow. All the attention from the Wintersmith would be quite flattering were it not for the deadly winter that threatens the shepherds of the Chalk. As the situation is very dangerous and death is certain, the Nac Mac Feegles (along with an especially lively cheese named Horace) are directly in the fray protecting their big wee hag along with Annagramma, Granny Weatherwax, Miss Tick, and other favorites from past adventures. All are skillfully characterized; even the Wintersmith elicits sympathy as he joyfully buries the world in snow in his attempt to win Tiffany. Replete with dry and intelligent humor, this latest in the series is sure to delight._â€“Heather M. Campbell, Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Here''s the third Discworld story for younger readers in a series that began with\n <em>\n  The Wee Free Men\n </em>\n (2003) and continued in\n <em>\n  A Hat Full of Sky\n </em>\n (2004). Despite a stern warning from Miss Treason, the eccentric witch from whom 13-year-old Tiffany Aching is learning her craft, the girl has gone and danced with the wrong men. Having inserted herself into a dark reverse Morris dance in which summer and winter achieve their seasonal balance, Tiffany has attracted the amorous attentions of the Wintersmith. To express his ardor, he brings his chilly powers to bear, replete with Tiffany-shaped snowflakes burying the world in the rising drifts of his infatuation. While Granny Weatherwax, Miss Perspicacia Tick, and sundry veteran witches work with Tiffany to restrain the Wintersmith''s zeal, the Wee Free Men set off to fetch a Hero to assist Tiffany, along the way adopting a cantankerous blue cheese. Add an assortment of junior witches-in-training, and yet another rollicking, clever, and quite charming adventure is brought to readers, who will find themselves delighted again--or for the first time--by Pratchett''s exuberant storytelling.\n <em>\n  Holly Koelling\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(827, 'The Wit &amp; Wisdom of Discworld', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWhen the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.â€ â€“From,\n <strong>\n  Small Gods\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.â€\n <br />\n â€“From,\n <strong>\n  The Fifth Elephant\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For more than two decades, Terry Pratchett has been regaling readers with tales of Discworld--a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants, which are standing on the back of a giant turtle, flying through space. It is a world populated by ineffectual wizards and sharp-as-tacks witches, by tired policemen and devious dictators, by reformed thieves and vampires who have sworn to drink no blood. It is a world that is vastly different from our own . . . except when it isn''t.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, in\n <em>\n  The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld\n </em>\n , various nuggets of Pratchett''s witty commentary and sagacious observations have been compiled by Pratchett expert Stephen Briggs, a man who, they say, knows even more about Discworld than Terry Pratchett.\n</p>\n<p>\n Within these pages, you''ll find musings on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    Interior decorating:\n   </em>\n   "It''s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow, or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage--even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity." (_Equal Rites_)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    Travel:\n   </em>\n   "Any seasoned traveler soon learns to avoid anything wished on them as a ''regional speciality,'' because all the term means is that the dish is so unpleasant the people living everywhere else will bite off their own legs rather than eat it. But hosts still press it upon distant guests anyway: ''Go on, have the dog''s head stuffed with macerated cabbage and pork noses--it''s a regional speciality.''" (_The Last Continent_)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    Young men:\n   </em>\n   "And then there was the young male walk. At least women swung only their hips. Young men swung everything, from the shoulders down. You have to try to occupy a lot of space. It makes you look bigger, like a tomcat fluffing his tail. The boys tried to walk big in self-defense against all those other big boys out there. I''m bad, I''m fierce, I''m cool, I''d like a pint of shandy and me mam wants me home by nine." (_Monstrous Regiment_)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    Class:\n   </em>\n   "''Old money'' meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds that had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that; a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of." (_Making Money_)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <ol>\n   <li>\n    <ol>\n     <li>\n      and more! Culled from all the Discworld novels,\n      <em>\n       The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld\n      </em>\n      confirms Pratchett''s place in the pantheon of great satirists and proves why the\n      <em>\n       Chicago Tribune\n      </em>\n      has praised his Discworld as "entertaining and gloriously funny . . . an accomplishment nothing short of magical."\n     </li>\n    </ol>\n   </li>\n  </ol>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/820'),
(828, 'Wit&#39;ch Fire', 'James Clemens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Wit''ch Fire\n </em>\n grabs you in the first scene, and doesn''t let go until the very end. This is the beginning of a new fantasy series--the Banned and the Banished--by first-time author James Clemens, but its sophistication and style are reminiscent of experienced fantasists such as Guy Gavriel Kay and George R.R. Martin. Elena is "the wit''ch of spirit and stone," born of a deadly alliance between three powerful mages in fulfillment of prophecy. But can she learn how to use her powers in time to resist the forces of the Dark Lord? She is joined in her battle by some unlikely allies, but the motley crew may be the only hope for a threatened world. Clemens handles plot and characterization deftly, but the addition of lots of un''neccesary apos''trophes to let you know you''re reading a fantasy is a little distracting. Still,\n <em>\n  Wit''ch Fire\n </em>\n is a fast-moving, entertaining read that''s definitely worth your time.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thirteen-year-old Elena is the daughter of kindly orchard keepers who have no idea their little girl is the reincarnated sorceress Sisa''kofa, "wit''ch of spirit and stone," dead for more than five centuries and now the world''s last hope for defeating the dreaded Dark One and his minions. This launch novel of a projected trilogy by first-time author Clemens is another entry into the crowded fantasy adventure field, and the book introduces all the usual suspects: an ancient prophecy; an adolescent with burgeoning magical powers; her loyal multispecies cohort; a power-mad evil sorcerer. Just as Elena''s magical ability starts to manifest, the Dark One''s servants arrive to capture herAfor the Dark One plans to add her newborn powers to his own. Elena''s escape begins a wild chase as she struggles to learn what she is and to come to terms with her growing power. She must eventually embrace her magic in order to save herself in the inevitable climactic battleAand to prepare for further confrontation with the Dark One, in Book Two. Readers who like their stories full of violence, magical pyrotechnics and black-hearted villains will find themselves on familiar ground here. Those in search of something original should look elsewhere.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/906'),
(829, 'Witches Abroad', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''A true orginal among contemporary writers'' - The Times. ''His jokes are the best thing since Wodehouse. His comic footnotes are still glorious'' - The Time. ''Pratchett''s writing is a constant delight. No-one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of modern endeavour'' - Daily Mail"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discworld''s own version of the three witches--Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg--grab their broomstricks and journey to Genua to save Princess Emberella from a fairy tale ending-happy fairy godmother.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(830, 'Wolves at the Gate, Part I', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/802'),
(831, 'Wolves at the Gate, Part II', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/803'),
(832, 'Wolves at the Gate, Part III', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/804'),
(833, 'Wolves at the Gate, Part IV', 'Joss Whedon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/805'),
(834, 'World War Z', 'Max Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œThe end was near.â€ â€”Voices from the Zombie WarThe Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War. Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, â€œBy excluding the human factor, arenâ€™t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isnâ€™t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as â€˜the living deadâ€™?â€Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.Eyewitness reports from the first truly global warâ€œI found â€˜Patient Zeroâ€™ behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although heâ€™d rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was â€˜cursed.â€™ I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boyâ€™s skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse.â€ â€”Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of Chinaâ€œâ€˜Shock and Aweâ€™? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy canâ€™t be shocked and awed? Not just wonâ€™t, but biologically canâ€™t! Thatâ€™s what happened that day outside New York City, thatâ€™s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldnâ€™t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! Theyâ€™re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid!â€ â€”Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkersâ€œTwo hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth.â€ â€”General Travis Dâ€™Ambrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, EuropeFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/307'),
(835, 'A Wrinkle in Time', 'Madeleine L&#39;Engle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyone in town thinks Meg is volatile and dull-witted and that her younger brother Charles Wallace is dumb. People are also saying that their father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurred on by these rumors, Meg and Charles Wallace, along with their new friend Calvin, embark on a perilous quest through space to find their father. In doing so they must travel behind the shadow of an evil power that is darkening the cosmos, one planet at a time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Young people who have trouble finding their place in the world will connect with the "misfit" characters in this provocative story. This is no superhero tale, nor is it science fiction, although it shares elements of both. The travelers must rely on their individual and collective strengths, delving deep into their characters to find answers.\n</p>\n<p>\n A classic since 1962, Madeleine L''Engle''s\n <em>\n  A Wrinkle in Time\n </em>\n is sophisticated in concept yet warm in tone, with mystery and love coursing through its pages. Meg''s shattering yet ultimately freeing discovery that her father is not omnipotent provides a satisfying coming-of-age element. Readers will feel a sense of power as they travel with these three children, challenging concepts of time, space, and the power of good over evil. _ (Ages 9 to 12)_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n 1998 marks is the 35th anniversary of\n <em>\n  A Wrinkle in Time\n </em>\n by Madeleine L''Engle. To celebrate, Bantam Doubleday Dell is publishing two wonderful new editions of L''Engle''s Time Quartet, including\n <em>\n  A Wrinkle in Time; A Wind in The Door; A Swiftly Tilting Planet;\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Many Waters.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n In both the new digest and the mass market editions, each title includes a new introduction by the author. Covers of the digest editions are illustrated by Caldecott Honor illustrator Peter SÃs, and the mass market edition covers are illustrated by renowned science fiction and fantasy illustrator Cliff Nielsen.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/303'),
(836, 'Wyrd Sisters', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Superb popular entertainment." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Truly original...Discworld is more complicated and satisfactory than OZ...Brilliant!" --\n <em>\n  -- A.S. Byatt\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When murder, mayhem and the sudden arrival of a royal baby disturb the monthly cauldron-stirring of three witches, trouble is bound to be brewed up in the little kingdom of Lancre. Kingdoms wobble and crowns topple in this sixth hilarious Discworld adventure! HC: Gollancz.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(837, 'Xenocide', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Xenocide The millennia-long saga of Andrew Wiggin called Ender, called The Speaker For the Dead called The Xenocide continues .... On the world Lusitania there are now three sapient races-the Pequeninos, who evolved there; Humans, who came to colonize; and a Hive Queen and her children brought by Ender long years ago. But on Lusitania there is also the descolada, a virus deadly to human beings which would spread like wildfire throughout the Stairways Congress should it ever escape the planet. The Starways Congress decided that The descolada should be wiped out once and for all, and sent a fleet, armed with a planet-destroying weapon, to do it. A fourth intelligence, loyal to Ender and Lusitania caused that fleet to disappear. On a distant world called Path live a people whose culture owes much to that of ancient China on Earth. They have evolved a caste known as the godspoken, people of superior intellectual abilities who pay a terrible price for their gifts. The godspoken of Path have given their loyalty and service to the Starways Congress. Among the god spoken is a young girl named, in The language of her people, Gloriously Bright. It is to her that the Starways Congress turn with the mystery of the disappearance of the Lusitania Fleet. There is no doubt that Gloriously Bright will discover the answer to the puzzle. The question is, what will she do with the information\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/610'),
(838, 'Xone of Contention', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The newest volume in Anthony''s most popular series (Zombie Lover, etc.) is for truly dedicated Xanthropologists onlyAfor it''s filled not only with horrendous puns but with a maze of references to past books in the saga. When an environmental disaster threatens Xanth, Edsel and Pia, earthling game designers with a shaky marriage, exchange bodies with the presiding demon of Xanth, Nimby, and his consort, Chlorine. Nimby and Chlorine face culture shock and the risk of being trapped on Mundania (aka Earth), while Edsel and Pia grapple with the more complex task of averting a catastrophe. Leaping from wordplay to wordplay and rapidly straining readers'' patience with their marital troubles, the young couple eventually travel both in Xanth and in time to fulfill their quest. Occasionally a bright scene, such as Pia and Edsel''s visit to the Isle of Talents, is handled cleverly, reminding us of Anthony''s ability. But these moments are outnumbered by sophomoric jokes about the Adult Conspiracy to keep teenagers from having sex and the power of women''s panties to disturb males. The novel won''t alienate the faithful, but neither will it convert unbelievers. (Oct.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n To avert the disasters that threaten both the magical world of Xanth and the real world of Mundania, Mundane computer designer Edsel and his wife, Pia, exchange bodies with Xanthian natives Nimby, the demon, and his mate, Chlorine, in the hopes that each couple can save their host world from destruction. The latest addition to Anthony''s popular Xanth series takes on computers, chat rooms, and the web with the usual plethora of puns and slapstick humor. Purchase according to demand.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/487'),
(839, 'The Year&#39;s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection', 'Gardner Dozois', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for Gardner Dozois and\n  <em>\n   The Yearâ€™s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-seventh Annual Collection\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis smorgasbord of thought-provoking fiction ensures that any reader will likely find something appealing.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGardner Dozoisâ€™s long-running â€˜best ofâ€™ series is rightly a favorite...Mr. Dozois picks fiction that deserves to be better known to a wide audience.â€\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   â€”The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fifteen-time Winner of the Locus Award for Year''s Best Anthology\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in\n  <em>\n   The Yearâ€™s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection\n  </em>\n  the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Carrie Vaughn, Ian R. MacLeod and Cory Doctorow. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1199'),
(840, 'The Year&#39;s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection', 'Gardner Dozois', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran editor Dozois, 15-time Hugo winner, offers 30 stories, several of them Hugo-nominated. The table of contents is dominated by familiar names like Michael Swanwick and Greg Egan, but occasionally leavened with relative newcomers like Hannu Rajaniemi and more obscure authors like James Alan Gardner. Settings range from the present-day (Nancy Kress''s The Erdmann NexusÂ) to the distant future (Ian McDonald''s The TearÂ) and alternate history (Aliete de Bodard''s Butterfly, Falling at DawnÂ). Similarly the moods range from relatively upbeat (Dominic Green''s Shining ArmourÂ) to pessimistic (Swanwick''s From Babel''s Fallen Glory We FledÂ). In some entries the SF elements appear to be almost an afterthought, but most earn their inclusion. Dozois also provides short biographies, a detailed overview of the year in SF and a lengthy list of honorable mentions. This is a worthy addition to a venerable series.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Gardner Dozois and\n <em>\n  The Yearâ€™s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-fifth Annual Collection\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe 25th installment of editor extraordinaire Dozois''s annual collection packs a wallop.â€ â€“_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "For more than a quarter century, Gardner Dozois''sÂ _THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF THE YEAR_Â has defined the field. It is the most important anthology, not only annually, but overall." --Charles N. Brown, publisher of\n <em>\n  Locus Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/667'),
(841, 'Yendi', 'Steven Brust', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vlad Taltos tells the story of his early days in the House Jhereg, how he found himself in a Jhereg war, and how he fell in love with the wonderful woman, Yendi, who killed him.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1034'),
(842, 'Yon Ill Wind', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/484'),
(843, 'Zero History', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Another smartly scouted roadmap of alternate routes through today''s global culture, applauded the\n <em>\n  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\n </em>\n , and the other critics agreed. Gibson leads readers on a wild adventure that encompasses fashion, the military-industrial complex, viral marketing, behavioral anthropology, addiction, and even base jumping, weaving all of these distinctive threads into a satisfyingly cohesive whole. A couple reviewers cited some implausible plot twists and exaggerated characters, but most praised Gibson''s increased focus on his characters, his razor-sharp prose, and his incisive observations on modern culture. Hailed as the funniest and lightest of Gibson''s books to date,\n <em>\n  Zero History\n </em>\n stands well alone, but readers already familiar with the series'' previous titles will find this last installment much more rewarding.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a gig investigating â€œlocative artâ€ for the â€œoverly wealthy and dangerously curiousâ€ Hubertus Bigend, founder of the trend-forecasting firm Blue Ant (Spook Country, 2007), Hollis Henry finds herself once again under Bigend''s employ. This time she is hired to discover the identity of the designer of a secret brand of clothing called Gabriel Hounds, whom Bigend hopes to enlist in his bid to get into the design, contracting, and manufacture of U.S. military clothing (and its inevitable spin-off into the mainstream consumer market). Military contracting, according to Bigend, is essentially recession proof. Meanwhile, the translator and cryptologist Milgrim (also returning from Spook Country), a former Ativan addict (now in recovery on Bigend''s dime) with â€œzero historyâ€ (being off the grid, he has no credit or address history), is asked to assist Hollis in her investigation. What begins as a seemingly innocent apparel-related project takes on more sinister overtones when the two are followed from London to Paris by a competitor with shady dealings in the arms trade and a personal ax to grind with Milgrim. Gibson, who made a name with Neuromancer (1984) and other speculative takes on new technologies, returns to his familiar concerns with hacker culture, surveillance, paranoia, and viral marketing, with occasional digressions into the semiotics of fashion and celebrity and references to cosplay, base jumping, and the Festo AirPenguin (look it up). --Ben Segedin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/753');
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(844, 'Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Believe it or not, some readers find\n <em>\n  Zodiac\n </em>\n even more fun than Neal Stephenson''s defining 1990s cyberpunk novel, __.\n <em>\n  Zodiac\n </em>\n is set in Boston, and hero Sangamon Taylor (S. T.) ironically describes his hilarious exploits in the first person. S. T. is a modern superhero, a self-proclaimed Toxic Spiderman. With stealth, spunk, and the backing of GEE (a non-profit environmental group) as his weapons, S. T. chases down the bad guys with James Bond-like Zen.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cruising Boston Harbor with lab tests and scuba gear, S. T. rides in with the ecosystem cavalry on his 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. His job of tracking down poisonous runoff and embarrassing the powerful corporations who caused them becomes more sticky than usual; run-ins with a gang of satanic rock fans, a deranged geneticist, and a mysterious PCB contamination that may or may not be man-made--plus a falling-out with his competent ("I adore stress") girlfriend--all complicate his mission.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stephenson/S. T.''s irreverent, facetious, esprit-filled voice make this near-future tale a joy to read.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephenson''s (The Big U) improbable hero is Sangamon Taylor, a high-tech jack-of-all-trades who inhales nitrous oxide for kicks and scouts environmental hazards for GEE, the Group of Environmental Extremists. Taylor particularly wants to nab the polluters of Boston Harbor, whose toxic sludge he monitors by zipping from illegal pipeline to illegal pipeline in his inflatable Zodiac raft. His work is slow-going and boring until the concentration of deadly PCBs rises inexplicably and then mysteriously drops to nothing. And then the "eco-thriller" begins: the bad guys are everywhere as Taylor ferrets out the connections between his bizarre landlord, a nerdy friend from college who''s at work on a top-secret genetic-engineering project for a high-tech company, an industrialist-turned-Presidential-candidate and the crazed fans of Poyzen Boyzen, a heavy-metal band. In creating this all-too-conceivable story of industry and science running amok, Stephenson puts his technological knowledge elegantly to use, but never lets gadgets and gizmos take over the story. The characters are entertaining, if broadly drawn, and the rip-roaring conclusion will make a dandy denouement in the movie rendition. Film rights to Warner Brothers.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/772'),
(845, 'Zoe&#39;s Tale', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the touching fourth novel set in the Old Man''s War universe, Scalzi revisits the events of 2007''s\n <em>\n  The Last Colony\n </em>\n from the perspective of ZoÃ«, adopted daughter of previous protagonists Jane Sagan and John Perry. Jane and John are drafted to help found the new human colony of Roanoke, struggling against a manipulative and deceitful homeworld government, native werewolf-like creatures and a league of aliens intent on preventing all space expansion and willing to eradicate the colony if needed. Meanwhile, teenage ZoÃ« focuses more on her poetic boyfriend, Enzo; her sarcastic best friend, Gretchen; and her bodyguards, a pair of aliens from a race called the Obin who worship and protect ZoÃ« because of a scientific breakthrough made by her late biological father. Readers of the previous books will find this mostly a rehash, but engaging character development and Scalzi''s sharp ear for dialogue will draw in new readers, particularly young adults.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the close of the widely admired Old Manâ€™s War trilogy, Scalzi hinted he would take a long break from his saga of seniors rejuvenated for interstellar battle. But reader demand has extracted one more installment. Zoe Boutin Perry is the adopted daughter of John Perry and Jane Sagan, heroes of the first and third installments (Old Manâ€™s War, 2004; The Last Colony, 2007). Complicating her life as an otherwise ordinary, wisecracking 15-year-old is her status as a venerated idol of the Obin, an alien race who owe their self-awareness to an invention of Zoeâ€™s late biological father. Accompanied everywhere by her overprotective Obin bodyguards, Hickory and Dickory, Zoe quickly realizes how critical the Obin are to her familyâ€™s survival when the Colonial Defense Force overseeing the Perrysâ€™ colonization of a new world underhandedly pits them against a murderous alliance of alien races. Scalzi takes a calculated risk in adopting Zoeâ€™s adolescent viewpoint, but it pays off in a captivating story. --Carl Hays\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/387'),
(846, 'Zombie Lover', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Horrors and Hilarity Collide as a Vivacious Young Visitor to Xanth Faces a Fate Far Worse than Death.Breanna, a beautiful young newcomer to the enchanted land of Zanth, must deal with a distressing dilemma. She has unwittingly attracted the affections of King Xeth, ruler of Xanth''s Zombies, who yearns to make her Queen of the Undead! Her quest to preserve her innocence, and find her destiny, takes her on an exhilarating excursion packed with perils, puzzles, and piles of puns. Zombie Lover will provide a profusion of macabre merriment for Xanth''s many fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/486'),
(847, 'The Zombie Survival Guide', 'Max Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this outrageous parody of a survival guide, Saturday Night Live staff writer Brooks prepares humanity for its eventual battle with zombies. One would expect the son of Mel Brooks to have a genetic predisposition to humor, and indeed, he does, and he exhibits it relentlessly here: he outlines virtually every possible zombie-human encounter, drafts detailed plans for defense and attack and outlines past recorded attacks dating from 60,000 B.C. to 2002. In planning for that catastrophic day when "the dead rise," Brooks urges readers to get to know themselves, their bodies, their weaponry, their surroundings and, just in case, their escape routes. Some of the book''s more amusing aspects are the laughable analyses Brooks proposes on all aspects of zombiehood, and the specificity with which he enumerates the necessary actions for survival-i.e., a member of an anti-zombie team must be sure to have with him at all times two emergency flares, a signaling mirror, daily rations, a personal mess kit and two pairs of socks. Comic, though unnecessarily exhaustive, this is a good bet for Halloween gag gifts and fans of Bored of the Rings-esque humor. 100 line drawings.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "''So meticulous and well researched that it''s more scary than funny. This book lays out everything you need to know to protect yourself from flesh-eating monsters'' - Esquire ''A bloody-minded, straight laced manual for evading the grasp of the undead'' - Time Out ''A tome you start reading for fun and then at page 50 you go out and buy a machete just to be on the safe side'' - New York Post ''Ignorance is the undead''s strongest ally, knowledge their deadliest enemy. Personal choice, the will to live, must be paramount when the dead begin to rise. The choice is up to you.'' (from The Zombie Survival Guide)"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/306'),
(848, 'Zombies Of The Science Fair', 'Bruce Coville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Pleskit decides to enter the science fair with a concoction that will unleash the true power of the human mind the potion he creates turns anyone who takes it into a mindless zombie and soon half the sixth grade has lost its mind (so to speak).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/887'),
(849, 'Zoo City', 'Lauren Beukes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://caltsardragon.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1245'),
(850, '11/22/63', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTSRANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENTKENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED.WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen Kingâ€”who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writerâ€”takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him awayâ€”a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunningâ€™s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his lifeâ€”like Harryâ€™s, like Americaâ€™s in 1963â€”turning on a dime. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsessionâ€”to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jakeâ€™s new life as George Amberson, in a different world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where thereâ€™s Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading eventually, of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2374'),
(851, '1776', 'David Mccullough', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Esteemed historian David McCullough covers the military side of the momentous year of 1776 with characteristic insight and a gripping narrative, adding new scholarship and a fresh perspective to the beginning of the American Revolution. It was a turbulent and confusing time. As British and American politicians struggled to reach a compromise, events on the ground escalated until war was inevitable. McCullough writes vividly about the dismal conditions that troops on both sides had to endure, including an unusually harsh winter, and the role that luck and the whims of the weather played in helping the colonial forces hold off the world''s greatest army. He also effectively explores the importance of motivation and troop morale--a tie was as good as a win to the Americans, while anything short of overwhelming victory was disheartening to the British, who expected a swift end to the war. The redcoat retreat from Boston, for example, was particularly humiliating for the British, while the minor American victory at Trenton was magnified despite its limited strategic importance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Some of the strongest passages in\n  <em>\n   1776\n  </em>\n  are the revealing and well-rounded portraits of the Georges on both sides of the Atlantic. King George III, so often portrayed as a bumbling, arrogant fool, is given a more thoughtful treatment by McCullough, who shows that the king considered the colonists to be petulant subjects without legitimate grievances--an attitude that led him to underestimate the will and capabilities of the Americans. At times he seems shocked that war was even necessary. The great Washington lives up to his considerable reputation in these pages, and McCullough relies on private correspondence to balance the man and the myth, revealing how deeply concerned Washington was about the Americans'' chances for victory, despite his public optimism. Perhaps more than any other man, he realized how fortunate they were to merely survive the year, and he willingly lays the responsibility for their good fortune in the hands of God rather than his own. Enthralling and superbly written,\n  <em>\n   1776\n  </em>\n  is the work of a master historian. --\n  <em>\n   Shawn Carkonen\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Other 1776\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  With his riveting, enlightening accounts of subjects from Johnstown Flood to John Adams, David McCullough has become the historian that Americans look to most to tell us our own story. In his Amazon.com interview, McCullough explains why he turned in his new book from the political battles of the Revolution to the battles on the ground, and he marvels at some of his favorite young citizen soldiers who fought alongside the remarkable General Washington.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Essential David McCullough\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   John Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Truman\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Mornings on Horseback\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Path Between the Seas\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Great Bridge\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Johnstown Flood\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   More Reading on the Revolution\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Great Improvisation\n  </em>\n  by Stacy Schiff\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Washington''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  by David Hackett Fischer\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   His Excellency: George Washington\n  </em>\n  by Joseph J. Ellis\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Washington''s General\n  </em>\n  by Terry Golway\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Iron Tears\n  </em>\n  by Stanley Weintraub\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Victory at Yorktown\n  </em>\n  by Richard M. Ketchum\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Bestselling historian and two-time Pulitzer winner McCullough follows up\n  <em>\n   John Adams\n  </em>\n  by staying with America''s founding, focusing on a year rather than an individual: a momentous 12 months in the fight for independence. How did a group of ragtag farmers defeat the world''s greatest empire? As McCullough vividly shows, they did it with a great deal of suffering, determination, ingenuityâ€”and, the author notes, luck.Although brief by McCullough''s standards, this is a narrative tour de force, exhibiting all the hallmarks the author is known for: fascinating subject matter, expert research and detailed, graceful prose. Throughout, McCullough deftly captures both sides of the conflict. The British commander, Lord General Howe, perhaps not fully accepting that the rebellion could succeed, underestimated the Americans'' ingenuity. In turn, the outclassed Americans used the cover of night, surprise and an abiding hunger for victory to astonishing effect. Henry Knox, for example, trekked 300 miles each way over harsh winter terrain to bring 120,000 pounds of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston, enabling the Americans, in a stealthy nighttime advance, to seize Dorchester Heights, thus winning the whole city.Luck, McCullough writes, also played into the American causeâ€”a vicious winter storm, for example, stalled a British counterattack at Boston, and twice Washington staged improbable, daring escapes when the war could have been lost. Similarly, McCullough says, the cruel northeaster in which Washington''s troops famously crossed the Delaware was both "a blessing and a curse." McCullough keenly renders the harshness of the elements, the rampant disease and the constant supply shortfalls, from gunpowder to food, that affected morale on both sidesâ€”and it certainly didn''t help the British that it took six weeks to relay news to and from London. Simply put, this is history writing at its best from one of its top practitioners.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/381'),
(852, '1984', 'George Orwell &amp; Erich Fromm &amp; Thomas Pynchon &amp; Daniel Lagin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Among the seminal texts of the 20th century,\n  <em>\n   Nineteen Eighty-Four\n  </em>\n  is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell''s nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff''s attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell''s prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Novel by George Orwell, published in 1949 as a warning about the menaces of totalitarianism. The novel is set in an imaginary future world that is dominated by three perpetually warring totalitarian police states. The book''s hero, Winston Smith, is a minor party functionary in one of these states. His longing for truth and decency leads him to secretly rebel against the government. Smith has a love affair with a like-minded woman, but they are both arrested by the Thought Police. The ensuing imprisonment, torture, and reeducation of Smith are intended not merely to break him physically or make him submit but to root out his independent mental existence and his spiritual dignity. Orwell''s warning of the dangers of totalitarianism made a deep impression on his contemporaries and upon subsequent readers, and the book''s title and many of its coinages, such as NEWSPEAK, became bywords for modern political abuses. --\n  <em>\n   The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/302'),
(853, '1st to Die', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Women''s Murder Club pits four San Francisco women professionals against a serial killer who''s stalking and murdering newlyweds in bestselling author James Patterson''s newest thriller. Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector who''s just gotten some very bad news. She deals with it by immersing herself in her newest case and soliciting the personal as well as professional support of her closest friend, who happens to be the city''s medical examiner. The two women, along with an ambitious and sympathetic reporter and an assistant DA, form an unlikely alliance, pooling their information and bypassing the chain of command in an engaging, suspenseful story whose gruesome setup is vintage Patterson.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What is the worst thing anyone has ever done?" the killer muses to himself early in the narrative. "Am I capable of doing it? Do I have what it takes?" Answering his own question, he embarks on a murderous spree that takes him from the bridal suite in a Nob Hill hotel to a honeymoon destination in the Napa Valley and thence to a wedding reception at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. Dispatching his victims on the happiest day of their lives, he purposefully leaves enough clues for his distaff trackers to discover his identity and put him behind bars. But just when the women think they''ve got the case all wrapped up, the killer turns the tables on them in a bloody denouement that even the most discerning reader won''t see coming. Patterson, author of the popular Alex Cross mysteries, promises future adventures for the Women''s Murder Club, which may give him an opportunity to develop his heroines'' characters more completely and win new fans among those who prefer their detectives in high heels and lipstick.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of Patterson (Along Came a Spider) will not be disappointed with his latest effort. A killer is murdering recently married couples, and police detective Lindsay is stumped. Off duty, she forms a murder club comprising three of her friends: an assistant district attorney, a newspaper reporter, and a coroner. The four women use everything at their disposal to figure out who the killer is before he can strike again. Their lead suspect is a world-famous writer whose plots resemble the murders. Deploying Patterson''s usual short chapters, the book is exciting to the last page. One hopes that it is the first installment in what deserves to be a new series; Patterson should give Alex Cross a rest and concentrate on these four women instead. 1st to Die will air as a miniseries on NBC in May, so expect demand. For all public libraries.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/337'),
(854, '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke &amp; Stanley Kubrick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it''s at least 3 million years old. Even more amazing, after it''s unearthed the artifact releases a powerful signal aimed at Saturn. What sort of alarm has been triggered? To find out, a manned spacecraft, the\n  <em>\n   Discovery\n  </em>\n  , is sent to investigate. Its crew is highly trained--the best--and they are assisted by a self-aware computer, the ultra-capable HAL 9000. But HAL''s programming has been patterned after the human mind a little too well. He is capable of guilt, neurosis, even murder, and he controls every single one of\n  <em>\n   Discovery\n  </em>\n  ''s components. The crew must overthrow this digital psychotic if they hope to make their rendezvous with the entities that are responsible not just for the monolith, but maybe even for human civilization.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clarke wrote this novel while Stanley Kubrick created the film, the two collaborating on both projects. The novel is much more detailed and intimate, and definitely easier to comprehend. Even though history has disproved its "predictions," it''s still loaded with exciting and awe-inspiring science fiction.\n  <em>\n   --Brooks Peck\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The 1968 book and film that took more people tripping than LSD turns 25. This anniversary edition contains a new introduction by Clarke in which he reminisces about the story''s origin. Note that an anniversary video/laserdisc also is being released.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/879'),
(855, '2nd Chance', 'James Patterson &amp; Andrew Gross', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   2nd Chance\n  </em>\n  reconvenes the Women''s Murder Club, four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner) who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles to solve a baffling series of murders in\n  <em>\n   1st to Die\n  </em>\n  . This time, the murders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all the signs of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of San Francisco''s homicide squad. But there''s an odd detail she finds even more disturbing: both victims were related to city cops. A symbol glimpsed at both murder scenes leads to a racist hate group, but the taunting killer strikes again and again, leaving deliberate clues and eluding the police ever more cleverly. In the meantime, each of the women has a personal stake at risk--and the killer knows who they are.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   2nd Chance\n  </em>\n  speeds along at a Formula One pace through many tight curves, but unlike recent entries in the Alex Cross series, it doesn''t sacrifice good characters to a twisted plot. Lindsay''s the star, but there''s a fine\n  <em>\n   esprit de corps\n  </em>\n  among the four women, who are even better developed here than in the first book. What makes them both convincing and interesting as a criminal-justice juggernaut is their willingness to stick their necks out, even if they suffer for it. If you haven''t picked up a James Patterson novel in a while, this is a great time to start anew.\n  <em>\n   --Barrie Trinkle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s been a long time since we''ve seen a bestselling author of Patterson''s clout credit an assistant author on the cover, and good for Patterson for that. The credit is deserved. This is Patterson''s richest, most engaging novel since When the Wind Blows and, as the second in his Women''s Murder Club series (after 1st to Die), yet more evidence that this prolific writer can roam beyond Alex Cross with style and success. Like all Pattersons, the narration mixes first and third person the first here is voiced, as before, by San Francisco homicide detective Lindsay Boxer, while the third-person sections cover the doings of the other three members of Boxer''s informal club, a reporter, a pathologist and a prosecutor, as well as the villain''s shenanigans. The basic story line is vintage Patterson, i.e., a serial killer (here, one known as Chimera) goes on a calculated rampage until stopped by the good guys or in this case, gals. As the victims a young girl shot dead, an elderly black woman hanged, two cops pile up, it becomes clear to Boxer and others that they''re up against a racist who hates black cops; is the killer a cop himself? The story ripples with twists and some remarkably strong scenes, particularly Boxer''s in-prison interview with a crazed con. But what makes this Patterson stand out above all is the textured storytelling arising from its focus on Boxer''s personal issues. In the first novel, Patterson personalized Boxer by dealing with her rare blood disease; here, it''s the emotionally powerful introduction of Boxer''s long-lost father into her life that galvanizes the plot, particularly as Patterson ties the man into Chimera''s rampage. Prime Patterson; first-rate entertainment. (On sale Mar. 4)Forecast: Patterson''s name, major ad/promo and a 10-city author tour add up to #1; simultaneous Time Warner Audio and large-print edition.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/341'),
(856, '3rd Degree', 'James Patterson &amp; Andrew Gross', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the start, Patterson''s Women''s Murder Club series (1st to Die; Second Chance) has felt like high-concept TV with a smart edge, featuring an appealing and reliable cast of four female crime busters (a cop, a prosecutor, a medical examiner, a reporter) who race along byzantine plot lines humming with blood and sex, romance and heartbreak. But Patterson is an author who will detonate readers'' presumptions for the sake of story, and in the series'' third installment, the prolific author, working with frequent collaborator Gross (The Jester, etc.), defies expectations in a shocking way. Readers will love him for it. San Francisco Homicide lieutenant Lindsay Boxer, who narrates most of the action, is jogging with assistant DA Jill Barnhardt when Lindsay notices two things: first, bruises on Jill''s shoulder; then the explosion of a nearby townhouse, into which Lindsay rushes to save a child. With the juxtaposition of these two plotlines, Patterson jumpstarts this enjoyably convoluted tale. The townhouse, home to a greedy CEO and his family, was destroyed by members of a terrorist group calling itself "August Spies"; Lindsay''s chase after the group, which commits further killings, brings her into close proximity to what promises to be a new series regular, Joe Molinari, deputy director of the Office of Homeland Security. Love blooms for Lindsay but, meanwhile, love has curdled at Jill''s house, where Jill''s husband is abusing her. Then comes the big surprise, and the story''s remainder plays out at high emotion and warp speed. There''s a calculated feel to all that happens, but clever manipulation of an audience serves Patterson as well as it served Hitchcock: his fans will only clamor for more.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''[James Patterson] defies expectations in a shocking way. Readers will love him for it...clever manipulation of an audience serves Patterson as well as it served Hitchcock: his fans will only clamor for more'' Publishers Weekly, 23/2/04 -- Publishers Weekly 20040223 ''A solid thriller'' Australian Daily Telegraph, 1 Mar 04 -- Australian Daily Telegraph 20040301 ''James Patterson has evolved and refined a medium of his own: the crime thriller that moves faster than a book, but not quite as fast as an hour of television!does it keep you reading? I found I couldn''t stop, in an obsessive-compulsive way'' Sydney Morning Herald, 1/5/04 -- Sydney Morning Herald 20040501 ''Another page-turner from the masters of the very short chapter with a surprise twist. In a word: thrilling'' Herald Sun, Melbourne, Australia 3/4/04 -- Herald Sun, Melbourne, Australia 20040403 ''This book won''t disappoint. It''s no surprise that it''s still at the top of the bestsellers list'' Burnie Advocate, 12/4/04 -- Burnie Advocate 20040412\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/342'),
(857, 'The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman', 'Timothy Ferriss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which 150 pages will you read?\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  Is it possible to:\n  <br />\n  Reach your genetic potential in 6 months?\n  <br />\n  Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours?\n  <br />\n  Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  Â \n  <em>\n   <br />\n   Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The 4-Hour Body\n  </em>\n  is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The 4-Hour Workweek,\n  </em>\n  fixated on one life-changing question:\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n   For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results?\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the gym to the bedroom, itâ€™s all here, and it all works.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each):\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends)\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of\n   <em>\n    total\n   </em>\n   gym time\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to produce 15-minute female orgasms\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to triple testosterone and double sperm count\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to reverse â€œpermanentâ€ injuries\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   And that''s just the tip of the iceberg.Â  There are more than 50 topics covered, all with real-world experiments, many including more than 200 test subjects.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  You don''t need better genetics or more discipline. You need immediate results that compel you to continue.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thatâ€™s exactly what\n  <em>\n   The 4-Hour Body\n  </em>\n  delivers.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  TIMOTHY FERRISS, nominated as one of\n  <em>\n   Fast Companyâ€™s\n  </em>\n  â€œMost Innovative Business People of 2007,â€ is author of the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   BusinessWeek\n  </em>\n  bestseller,\n  <em>\n   The 4-Hour Workweek\n  </em>\n  , which has been published in 35 languages. Â \n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Wired\n  </em>\n  magazine has called Tim â€œThe Superman of Silicon Valleyâ€ for his manipulation of the human body. He is a tango world record holder, former national kickboxing champion (Sanshou), guest lecturer at Princeton University, and faculty member at Singularity University, based at NASA Ames Research Center.\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  When not acting as a human guinea pig, Tim enjoys speaking to organizations ranging from Nike to the Harvard School of Public Health.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/804'),
(858, 'The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.', 'Timothy Ferriss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tim is Indiana Jones for the digital ageÃ¢â‚¬Â¦.Simply put, do what he says and you can live like a millionaire. --Albert Pope, Derivatives Trading, UBS World Headquarters\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stunning and amazingÃ¢â‚¬Â¦.Whether you''re a wage slave or a Fortune 500 CEO, this book will change your life. --Phil Town, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rule #1\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  More than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life planâ€“there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times\n  <strong>\n   .\n  </strong>\n  Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less,\n  <em>\n   The 4-Hour Workweek\n  </em>\n  is the blueprint.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches:\n  <br />\n  â€¢How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per week\n  <br />\n  â€¢How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want\n  <br />\n  â€¢How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs\n  <br />\n  â€¢How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist\n  <br />\n  â€¢How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent â€œmini-retirementsâ€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The new expanded edition of Tim Ferrissâ€™\n  <em>\n   The 4-Hour Workweek\n  </em>\n  includes:\n  <br />\n  â€¢More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting point\n  <br />\n  â€¢Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating e-mail, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than $8 a meal\n  <br />\n  â€¢How Lifestyle Design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic times\n  <br />\n  â€¢The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1274'),
(859, '61 Hours', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lee Child on *61 Hours\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  Every book starts with a grab-bag of ideas. I sat down to write\n  <em>\n   61 Hours\n  </em>\n  with six things on my mind. First was the title...it just popped into my head and stayed there (and I knew I wanted the 61 to be written in figures, not words, so if youâ€™re the kind of reader who arranges your shelves alphabetically--I apologize!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Second, I knew it would once again feature Jack Reacher...over the last 13 books heâ€™s built up such enthusiasm and loyalty among readers I knew Iâ€™d be crazy not to keep on reporting his adventures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thirdly, I knew I wanted very, very cold weather. My fifth book,\n  <em>\n   Echo Burning\n  </em>\n  , was set in the west of Texas in a heat wave, and the extreme temperature was seen as a real character in the story, so I wanted to try the same thing again, but this time at the opposite end of the thermometer. I was a little nervous at first, because one of my early writer heroes was Alistair MacLean, who wrote cold weather so well. But most of his cold stories were set up on the polar ice cap, or above the Arctic Circle, and I knew Reacher would have no reason to go there. In the end I chose South Dakota in the depths of winter as a location, and Iâ€™ll know Iâ€™ve succeeded if you shiver over every page.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fourth, fifth, and sixth, I had three names to work with--winners of your-name-as-a-character charity auction lots. A gentleman named Mark Salter helped out with autism research and asked for his motherâ€™s name to be in the book--Mrs. Janet Salter; and then for two separate literacy projects, a man named Andrew Peterson won an auction, and the man who won the other wanted his wifeâ€™s name included--Susan Turner. All three winners made very generous donations to the various charities, so I decided it was only fair to make all three into important, central characters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The only problem was...Mr. Turner asked that the character named after his wife have a romantic entanglement with Reacher. Read\n  <em>\n   61 Hours\n  </em>\n  to see if he got his wish!\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After a brief stop in New York City (\n  <em>\n   Gone Tomorrow\n  </em>\n  ), Jack Reacher is back in his elementâ€”Smalltown, U.S.A.â€”in bestseller Child''s fine 14th thriller to feature the roving ex-military cop. When a tour bus on which he bummed a ride skids off the road and crashes, Reacher finds himself in Bolton, S.Dak., a tiny burg with big problems. A highly sophisticated methamphetamine lab run by a vicious Mexican drug cartel has begun operating outside town at an abandoned military facility. After figuring out the snow-bound, marooned Reacher''s smart, great with weapons, and capable of tapping military intelligence, the helpless local cops enlist his assistance, and, as always, he displays plenty of derring-do, mental acuity, and good old-fashioned decency. While the action is slower than usual, series fans will appreciate some new insights that Child provides into his hero''s psyche and background as well as a cliffhanger ending.\n  <em>\n   Author tour. (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/956'),
(860, '90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death &amp; Life', 'Don Piper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Get a glimpse of heaven\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the way home from a conference, Don Piper''s car was crushed by a semitruck that crossed into his lane. Medical personnel said he died instantly. While his body lay lifeless inside the ruins of his car, Piper experienced the glories of heaven, awed by its beauty and music.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  90 minutes after the wreck, while a minister prayed for him, Piper miraculously returned to life on earth with only the memory of inexpressible heavenly bliss. His faith in God was severely tested as he faced an uncertain and grueling recovery. Now he''d like to share his life-changing story with you.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  90 Minutes in Heaven offers a glimpse into a very real dimension of God''s reality. It encourages those recovering from serious injuries and those dealing with the loss of a loved one. The experience dramatically changed Piper''s life, and it will change yours too.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Don Piper is minister of education and single adults at the First Baptist Church in Pasadena, Texas. He has appeared on Christian television and radio programs, writes a weekly newspaper column, and leads conferences and retreats in the United States and abroad.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cecil Murphey has written or coauthored ninety-one books, including his work on the autobiography of Franklin Graham, Rebel with a Cause.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2381'),
(861, '&quot;A&quot; Is for Alibi', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental."--Lucille Kallen\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kinsey Millhone is an entirely fresh and original character, and I feel sure that the series will go all through the alphabet."--Patricia Moyes\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. A prominent divorce attorney with a reputation for single-minded ruthlessness on behalf of his clients, Fife was also rumored to be a dedicated philanderer. Plenty of people in the picturesque southern California town of Santa Teresa had a reason to want him dead. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access, and opportunity, Nikki was their number-one suspect. The jury thought so, too.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eight years later and out on parole, Niki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her late husband.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A trail that is eight years cold. A trail that reaches out to enfold a bitter, wealthy, and foul-mouthed old woman and a young boy, born deaf, whose memory cannot be trusted. A trail that leads to a lawyer defensively loyal to a dead partner--and disarmingly attractive to Millhone; to an ex-wife, brave, lucid, lovely--and still angry over Fife''s betrayal of her; to a not-so-young secretary with too high a salary for too few skills--and too many debts left owing: The trail twists to include them all, with Millhone following every turn until it finally twists back on itself and she finds herself face-to-face with a killer cunning enough to get away with murder.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/764'),
(862, 'The Abduction', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Allison Leahy is the U.S. attorney general, the most renowned lawyer in America. She and her wealthy husband are the twenty-first-century version of the couple who has it all: a happy marriage and two successful careers. To top it off, Allison is the highly touted Democratic nominee for the presidency. Her opponent is Lincoln Howe, a retired four-star army general and bona fide African-American hero. Like Allison, Howe is living the American dream - but time is running out. For months the candidates have run neck and neck. Both sides need just one extra push to swing the election. And on Halloween morning, they get it. A twelve-year-old girl is kidnapped on her way to school. The girl is Kristen Howe, Lincoln Howe''s granddaughter. The nation and the candidates explode in outrage. As attorney general, Allison launches a massive nationwide manhunt. But her motives are under fire, especially from her political opponent, who wants his adversary off the case of his missing granddaughter. In truth Allison''s drive to bring Kristen home safe is far more personal than political. Years before, Allison''s adopted baby daughter was stolen from her home, never to be found. Now it seems likely that her own child''s fate is somehow tied to the current crisis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2466'),
(863, 'About a Boy', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient, and blithely living off his father''s novelty-song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he''s proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children, and he''s increasingly left out in the cold. How can someone brilliantly equipped for meaningless relationships ensure that he''ll continue to meet beautiful Julie Christie-like women\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  ensure that they''ll throw him over before things get too profound? A brief encounter with a single mother sets Will off on his new career, that of "serial nice guy." As far as he''s concerned--and remember, concern isn''t his strong suit--he''s the perfect catch for the young mother on the go. After an interlude of sexual bliss, she''ll realize that her child isn''t ready for a man in their life and Will can ride off into the Highgate sunset, where more damsels apparently await. The only catch is that the best way to meet these women is at single-parent get-togethers. In one of Nick Hornby''s many hilarious (and embarrassing) scenes, Will falls into some serious misrepresentation at SPAT ("Single Parents--Alone Together"), passing himself off as a bereft single dad: "There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word."\n </p>\n <p>\n  What interferes with Will''s career arc, of course, is reality--in the shape of a 12-year-old boy who is in many ways his polar opposite. For Marcus, cool isn''t even a possibility, let alone an issue. For starters, he''s a victim at his new school. Things at home are pretty awful, too, since his musical therapist mother seems increasingly in need of therapy herself. All Marcus can do is cobble together information with a mixture of incomprehension, innocence, self-blame, and unfettered clear sight. As fans of * Fever Pitch\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  High Fidelity\n  <em>\n   already know, Hornby''s insight into laddishness magically combines the serious and the hilarious.\n  </em>\n  About a Boy* continues his singular examination of masculine wish-fulfillment and fear. This time, though, the author lets women and children onto the playing field, forcing his feckless hero to leap over an entirely new--and entirely welcome--set of emotional hurdles.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  How cool is 36-year-old Will Lightman? Sub-zero, according to the questionnaire in his favorite men''s magazine. Not only does he own more than five hip-hop albums (five points), he''s also slept with a woman he didn''t know very well within the last three months (another five points). Targeting single mothers, he joins a single parents'' group under false pretenses and is soon drawn into the lives of depressed Fiona and her bright 12-year-old son, Marcus. Suddenly, his life is messy and complicated, and he''s horrified when he realizes that he''s now hanging with the type of people who gather around the piano to sincerely sing songs like "Both Sides Now" with their eyes closed. This is Hornby''s second novel (following\n  <em>\n   High Fidelity\n  </em>\n  , 1995), and it''s obvious he has an uncanny ability for homing in on wholly contemporary, often serious topics and serving them up in truly hilarious fashion. His skillful analysis of hipster angst has obviously struck a chord--this novel has been sold to filmmakers for more than $3 million.\n  <em>\n   Joanne Wilkinson\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/600');
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(864, 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter', 'Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother''s bedside. She''s been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."\n</p>\n<p>\n "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.\n</p>\n<p>\n Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother''s fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.\n</p>\n<p>\n Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation..\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take a Look Inside this Book\n </strong>\n <br />\n (Click on each image below to see a larger view)\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following the success of his bestselling\n <em>\n  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies\n </em>\n with another mÃ©lange of history and horror, Grahame-Smith inserts a grandiose and gratuitous struggle with vampires into Abraham Lincoln''s life. Lincoln learns at an early age that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator. This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies. The author''s decision to reduce slavery to a mere contrivance of the vampires is unfortunate bordering on repellent, but at least it does distract the reader from the central question of why the president never saw fit to inform the public of the supernatural menace. Grahame-Smith stitches hand-to-hand vampire combat into Lincoln''s documented life with competent prose that never quite manages to convince.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/686'),
(865, 'Academ&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best known for his Harry Dresden fantasy noir novels (\n <em>\n  Dead Beat\n </em>\n , etc.), bestseller Butcher shows he''s equally adept at epic fantasy in the second Codex Alera book. Two years after the events of\n <em>\n  Furies of Calderon\n </em>\n (2004), the First Lord of Alera, Gaius Sextus, struggles to control a realm facing growing border troubles and civil strife as High Lords scheme to advance their own causes. Fortunately, Gaius has loyal supporters such as his nephew Tavi, now a 17-year-old Academ, a student of Alera Imperial''s great Academy, who also serves as Gaius''s page and is secretly training to become a Cursor, one of the First Lord''s elite spies. Then Gaius falls ill, leaving those closest to him, including Tavi, desperate to keep his weakness secret. With Cursors being murdered, an ancient menace known as the "vord" heading for the capital and civil war on the horizon, Tavi has his work cut out for him. Butcher skillfully weaves in the necessary back story without slowing the pace. Solid world-building, intriguing characters and vivid action make this a solid addition to a marvelously entertaining series.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tavi, the young hero of\n <em>\n  Furies of Calderon\n </em>\n (2004), is now in the capital, ostensibly serving as a page but secretly training to become a spy. When the first lord falls to a sorcerous attack, Tavi and his closest friends and teachers must conceal the lord''s condition lest the realm fall into civil war. In the Calderon Valley, a long--forgotten horror awakens and heads for the heart of Alera, while Tavi''s closest relative, the newly appointed Steadholder Isana, faces at least two sets of assassins. This is a fine coming-of-age, fantasy-action novel. The characterizations are excellent, and the plotting is very well developed. The second book of the Codex Alera, though not as exciting as\n <em>\n  Furies,\n </em>\n includes plenty of action, and Butcher provides enough background so that it can be enjoyed without having read its predecessor.\n <em>\n  Frieda Murray\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/72'),
(866, 'Act of Treason', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  CIA operative Mitch Rapp follows a trail of contract killers leading directly to the heart of our nation''s capital in\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Vince Flynn''s eighth explosive thriller.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a national security conference has just been held, bringing together the world''s greatest minds to discuss the issues that are threatening the country. It''s American politicking at its best. That''s when all hell breaks loose.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When presidential candidate Josh Alexander''s motorcade is ambushed by a group of terrorists, the nation is thrown into turmoil. Two weeks following the attack, Alexander is carried to victory by a sympathy vote, but his assailants have not been found. On the surface it appears to be the work of al-Qaeda, despite the tremendous job that the U.S. and her allies have done eliminating terrorist cells within the heart of America. While the FBI and the rest of the government begin scouring the world for jihadists, CIA director Irene Kennedy and Special Agent Skip McMahon are presented with classified information so toxic that they consider destroying it altogether, as it contains intelligence pointing to some of the most powerful players in Washington.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Enter Mitch Rapp, the one man reckless enough to follow the evidence to its explosive conclusion. His journey takes him through the shadowy world of contract killers, into the darkest corners of the globe, and eventually back to Washington, where the fragile pillars of power are shaken to their core.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  CIA operative Mitch Rapp returns in another taut thriller. With the presidential elections close at hand, it looks a little iffy for Democratic candidates Josh Alexander and running mate Mark Ross, but when a bomb attack on their motorcade leaves Alexander''s wife and numerous others dead, the sympathetic vote sweeps the two men to a bittersweet victory at the polls. At first the bombing looks to be the work of al-Qaeda, but evidence soon points to a source much closer to home. Schultz brings a comfortable presence to his reading. Having narrated several of the past Rapp adventures, he is on familiar ground, and it shows. His clear, crisp reading style fits perfectly, beat for beat, with Flynn''s straightforward storytelling. His characterizations are distinct and well handled, giving Rapp just the right amount of gruffness, while at the same time providing each of the supporting characters with their own individual voices without using over-the-top accents or vocalizations,. Peter Michalos''s fine abridgment keeps the story moving with no apparent sacrifice of character or plot.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Tom Clancy fans who have not yet discovered Vince Flynn and his maverick, do-whatever-it-takes hero, CIA operative Mitch Rapp, will find this page-turner right up their alley.... Taut writing and [a] plausible vision of the real work of the intelligence community." --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Act of Treason is a fun, finger-blistering page-turner." --\n  <em>\n   Star Tribune\n  </em>\n  (Minneapolis, MN)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The suspenseful conclusion of this terrific story is exciting, satisfying, and totally unexpected.\n  <em>\n   Act of Treason\n  </em>\n  has what one desires in a thriller -- a multilayered and complex plot full of twists and turns with a charismatic main character." --\n  <em>\n   The Roanoke Times\n  </em>\n  (VA)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "CIA operative Mitch Rapp is back. And he''s as fearless as ever." --\n  <em>\n   Saint Paul Pioneer Press\n  </em>\n  (MN)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nonstop action [with a] surprising twist." --\n  <em>\n   The Stuart News/Port St. Lucie News\n  </em>\n  (FL)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Whether you''re a fan eagerly awaiting the next installment or a curious reader wondering what all the fuss is about,\n  <em>\n   Act of Treason\n  </em>\n  will make your day." -- FrontPageMagazine.com\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2437'),
(867, 'Active Meditation', 'Robert R. Leichtman &amp; Carl Japikse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Now in its sixth printing, Active Meditation is rapidly becoming acclaimed as the most thorough and insightful explanation of meditation in print. Yet it is not just the most complete book ever written on meditation. More importantly, it is a masterful statement of the emerging Western tradition of personal and spiritual growth.Authors Robert R. Leichtman, M.D. and Carl Japikse emphasize the practical nature of meditation. To them, the subjects of meditation and personal growth are inseparable. They decry the passiveness which has crept into so many systems of meditation, presenting instead a strong case that meditation is most effective when it is active. Indeed, the active practice of meditation is the Western tradition.In the book, the authors describe: -- What meditation is -- and is not.-- How meditation accelerates personal and spiritual growth.-- The nature of the higher self -- and its relationship with the personality.-- How to contact the higher self.-- The work of integration.-- The skills of meditation and how to use them.-- Seven techniques of Active Meditation.-- Group meditations.-- Aids to meditation.-- Problems associated with meditation.Throughout, the constant goal of the authors is to strip away the vagueness and obscurity often associated with meditation. In many ways, Active Meditation is the most encyclopedic book ever written about meditation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1609'),
(868, 'Acts of Mercy', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA fantastic new series . . . The authorâ€™s finely drawn characters, and her rapid-pace, intelligent stories, keep the suspense flowing and the pages turning.â€â€”*Fresh Fiction\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  *\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Former FBI agent Sam Delvecchio brings the keen skills of a profiler to his new position as a Mercy Street Foundation operativeâ€“and not a moment too soon. His first assignment, the cold-case murder of a local soup kitchen volunteer, has all the telltale signs of a serial killerâ€™s work. That grim suspicion is confirmed when FBI agent Fiona Summers shares the details of two other killings with eerie similarities to Samâ€™s case: The bodies in all three cases have been carefully posed. And when a fourth victim is discovered, the two investigators realize theyâ€™re pursuing the same twisted quarry.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Local parish priest Kevin Burch, Mercy Street founder Robert Magellanâ€™s cousin, recognizes the posings for what they are: The killer is staging the churchâ€™s seven Acts of Mercy (â€œFeed the hungry, clothe the naked . . .â€) with the bodies of his victims. But as Sam and Fiona race to prevent the final three murders, taunting messages from their target lead to the most chilling realization of all.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1930'),
(869, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy,\n <em>\n  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\n </em>\n is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain''s manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hearn, who edited The Wizard of Oz for Norton''s Annotated series, has taken on that formative fiction of American culture, Huckleberry Finn a seemingly transparent work that, as presented in Hearn''s exhaustive research, harbors linguistic complexities worthy of an Eliot or a Joyce. In his long introduction, Hearn chronicles Huck''s publishing history, from its on-again, off-again composition, to Twain''s stormy relationship with his publishers, to the book''s embattled trip to the printer (trailing censorious editors in its wake) and its instant success on the market. Hearn offers a thorough cataloguing of the book''s critical reception and many controversies, an ample pinch of biography, a lengthy analysis of dialect and a fairly sketchy historical background. The notes themselves (presented alongside the text) are eclectic, sometimes charmingly so: we learn what a huckleberry is, and a sugar-hogshead, and how corn pone is made. Huck''s vast repertory of Southern superstitions is carefully glossed, and Hearn wisely includes quotes about the book from Twain (who could scarcely open his mouth without saying something funny) whenever possible. The notes go overboard in their extensive translation of the book''s idiomatic speech (readers probably don''t need "powwow" defined and can figure out for themselves that "hoss" means horse). On the whole, Hearn supplies interesting information with a light touch possibly too light in the last third of the book, which seems more thinly annotated than the beginning. Restored passages not seen in the original appear in the appendices. Though a stronger anchor in cultural history could have made this volume better, this liberally illustrated and beautifully designed book offers many pleasures for the general reader. (Oct.)Forecast: This is the perfect gift book for all of Huck''s fans and should sell very well with the aid of a six-city author tour and national media appearances. Also, in January 2002, a Ken Burns series on Twain will air.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/175'),
(870, 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Up-Four short stories of mystery and intrigue by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are performed radio theater style by the St. Charles Players: "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," "A Scandal in Bohemia," and "The Adventure of the Devil''s Foot." The narration is acceptable, although some characters sound flat and their British accent is too obviously forced. However, this detracts little from the overall entertainment value of the stories. The overall aural quality could be improved; a slight hissing can be heard throughout the narration. Though at times Holmes comes across as haughty, listeners become caught up in learning how he ingeniously solves the cases using clues that Watson, the other investigators, and most listeners miss. Fine for individual or group listening, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes could be used for entertainment or for a unit on the mystery genre in English classes. The lack of strong female characters in these stories may warrant including alternate classic mysteries with strong women, such as Simon Brett''s Mrs. Pargeter, Agatha Christie''s Miss Marple, Heron Carvic''s Miss Seeton, or Dorothy Gilman''s Mrs. Pollifax. A nice feature of this package is that each short story is completed with one cassette. Unless you have a great demand for classic mysteries, this audiobook is an additional purchase.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Sarah Smith, Harrison Community Library, MI\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "One thing is certain, Sherlockians, put aside your Baring-Gould Annotated, your Folio Society Illustrated-for the time being, the Oxford is the edition to curl up with on a winter''s night"--The Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n "An incomparable gift book; or, should you find it impossible to surrender up such treasures, the best of gifts to oneself"--USA Today\n <br />\n "To the true Sherlockian, this will be a treasure; to otherwise diverted detective story fans, it is a rich lode for discovery"--Denver Post\n <br />\n "The complete and authentic adventures of the legendary detective--expertly edited and annotated by a team of Holmes scholars....in a handsome, boxed set....A lovely gift"--The Christian Science Monitor\n <br />\n "Here in nine volumes...are all the adventures of Holmes and Watson. Each book has an introduction, something new and fascinating for even the most devoted Holmesians plus a series of intelligent notes at the back of each volume."--Oxford Times "The Oxford Sherlock Holmes, a new edition of the stories, is a splendid piece of publishing. Nine compact volumes, beautifully produced, each with a stimulating introduction; clear type, accurate texts, a handy chronology, a helpful bibliography. And, most valuable of all, explanatory notes running to 50 pages or more per volume." --John Gross, writing in Sunday Telegraph\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/862'),
(871, 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil', 'J. R. R. Tolkien &amp; Roger Garland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Describes Tom''s encounters with Goldberry, the River-woman''s beautiful daughter; with Old Man Willow, who tries to trap Tom inside his trunk; with the Badger-folk; and with the ghostly Barrow-wight, who dwells in the ancient mound on the hilltop.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1826'),
(872, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', 'Mark Twain &amp; Robert Ingpen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œSaturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n So starts Mark Twainâ€™s classic tale about a boyâ€™s life in a small town on the Mississippi, which has become an all-time favorite both in America and around the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Sawyerâ€™s mischievous and by now famous exploitsâ€”venturing into a nighttime graveyard with his friend Huck Finn, getting lost in a bat cave, tricking his friends into whitewashing a fenceâ€”make thrilling reading for all ages. Behind the escapades, though, are darker themes, as young Tom learns some difficult lessons about the often hypocritical rules that govern adult society.\n</p>\n<p>\n This new edition, which celebrates the centenary of Mark Twain''s death, brings together the complete text with more than 70 stunning illustrations by artist Robert Ingpen, each one an enchanting evocation of a forgotten time in the American South.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/176'),
(873, 'Aesop&#39;s Fables', 'Aesop &amp; D. L. Ashliman &amp; Arthur Rackham &amp; V. S. Vernon Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Aesop''s Fables\n  </em>\n  , by\n  <strong>\n   Aesop\n  </strong>\n  , is part of the\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  Â series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <em>\n  <ul>\n   <li>\n    All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n   </li>\n  </ul>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n <p>\n  As legend has it, the storyteller\n  <strong>\n   Aesop\n  </strong>\n  was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modern-day readers. Translated into countless languages and familiar to people around the world, Aesopâ€™s fables never tarnish despite being told again and again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This collection presents nearly 300 of Aesopâ€™s most entertaining and enduring storiesâ€”from â€œThe Hare and the Tortoiseâ€ and â€œThe Town Mouse and the Country Mouseâ€ to â€œThe Goose That Laid the Golden Eggsâ€ and â€œThe Wolf in Sheepâ€™s Clothing.â€ Populated by a colorful array of animal characters who personify every imaginable human typeâ€”from fiddling grasshoppers and diligent ants to sly foxes, wicked wolves, brave mice, and grateful lionsâ€”these timeless tales are as fresh and relevant today as when they were first created.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Full of humor, insight, and wit, the tales in Aesopâ€™s Fables champion the value of hard work and perseverance, compassion for others, and honesty. They are age-old wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and children alike.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   D. L. Ashliman\n  </strong>\n  is emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He taught folklore, mythology, German, and comparative literature at that institution for thirty-one years. He has also served as guest professor at the University of Augsburg in Germany.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   From D. L Asliman''s Introduction to *Aesop''s Fables\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDonâ€™t count your chickens before they are hatched!â€ â€œHe is a wolf in sheepâ€™s clothing.â€ â€œShe has a sour-grapes attitude.â€ â€œThey are killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.â€ â€œHe demands the lionâ€™s share.â€ â€œDonâ€™t be like the boy who called â€˜wolf!â€™â€ These expressions are so much a part of our everyday language and culture that they seem to have been with us forever, and that is almost the case, for the fables that produced these proverbial sayings are indeed even older than (to name but three) the modern English, French, and German languages where today they are so much at home. The fables behind these sayings are those of arguably the most famous storyteller of all time, the legendary Aesop. Who was the man who created these timeless literary gems?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Man Aesop\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Aesop (sometimes spelled Ã†sop, Ã†sopus, Esop, Esope, orâ€”using the Greek form of his nameâ€”Aisopos) has been known in history and in legend since the fifth century b.c., or earlier, as a gifted Greek storyteller and the author of the worldâ€™s best-known collection of fables. However, it cannot be proven with any degree of certainty that he existed as a real person. Most modern scholars believe that Aesop was instead a name invented, already in antiquity, to provide attribution for a body of oral tales whose true authors were a number of anonymous storytellers. Martin Luther expressed this view some 500 years ago: â€œAttributing these stories to Aesop is, in my opinion, itself a fiction. Perhaps there has never been on earth a man by the name of Aesopâ€ (quoted in Jacobs,\n  <em>\n   History of the Aesopic Fabl\n  </em>\n  , p. 15; see â€œFor Further Readingâ€).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although it is possible that there was indeed a gifted Greek storyteller by the name of Aesop, his reputation expanded to legendary proportions in the decades and centuries following his death, and with time many more stories and deeds were credited to him than he could have composed and performed. Supporting this view, many of the earliest references to the stories of Aesop refer to Aesopic (or Aesopian) fables rather than Aesopâ€™s fables. In other words, Aesopic, an adjective, describes a kind of story and a literary tradition but does not claim to identify a specific author.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One thing is certain: Aesop, if he existed at all, did not leave behind a collection of written fables. His reputation is that of an oral storyteller, not an author of written literature. The oldest references to his fables refer to tales memorized and retold, not written and read. For example, from Aristophanesâ€™s comedy\n  <em>\n   Wasps\n  </em>\n  (written in 422 b.c.) we learn that telling anecdotes and comic stories in the style of Aesop was common entertainment at banquets in ancient Athens. More seriously, in 360 b.c. Plato recorded in his dialog\n  <em>\n   Phaedo\n  </em>\n  (section 61b) that Socrates, under sentence of death in prison, diverted himself by reformulating some of Aesopâ€™s fables. Platoâ€™s Phaedo quotes Socrates himself: â€œI took some fables of Aesop, which I had ready at hand and knew, and turned them into verse.â€ The doomed philosopher did not have a book or manuscript of Aesopâ€™s fables in prison with him, if such a book or manuscript even existed at the time. He knew the fables from memory, as did the partygoers in Aristophanesâ€™s comedy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The most frequently cited ancient reference to the man Aesop is found in the\n  <em>\n   History\n  </em>\n  of the Greco-Persian Wars written by the Greek historian Herodotus about 425 b.c. Here we learn that Aesop, the fable writer, was a slave of Iadmon, son of Hephaestopolis, a Samian, and that Iadmonâ€™s grandson (also named Iadmon) claimed and received compensation for the murder of Aesop. If this account is true, Aesop would have lived during the sixth century b.c. Apart from this sketchy biography, Herodotus recorded essentially no additional details about the fable writer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  However, later Greek and Roman writers were not so reticent. One body of literature is particularly relevant in this regard. Usually referred to as\n  <em>\n   The Life of Aesop\n  </em>\n  , this work has survived in a number of medieval manuscripts by different anonymous compilers and is based on earlier accounts, now lost. The statements about Aesopâ€™s life history contained in the different versions of this work often contradict one another, or they are so miraculous and fantastic as to be unbelievable by modern standards.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ultimate source of these accounts is undoubtedly folklore: anonymous legends told and retold by generations of oral storytellers.\n  <em>\n   The Life of Aesop\n  </em>\n  is today generally held to be fiction, but as is the case with many legends, there could be at least a kernel of truth in one or more of the episodes. The following biographical outline has been gleaned from different versions of\n  <em>\n   The Life of Aesop\n  </em>\n  , most prominently the accounts published by Lloyd W. Daly in his\n  <em>\n   Aesop without Morals\n  </em>\n  (pp. 31â€“90) and the\n  <em>\n   Everymanâ€™s Library\n  </em>\n  version of\n  <em>\n   Aesop: Fables\n  </em>\n  (pp. 17â€“45).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Aesop was born a slave, or possibly was captured into slavery at an early age. His birthplace is variously stated as Thrace, Phrygia, Ethiopia, Samos, Athens, or Sardis. He was dark-skinned. In fact, it is said that his name was derived from\n  <em>\n   Aethiop\n  </em>\n  (Ethiopian). He was physically deformed: a hunchback, pot belly, misshapen head, snub nose, and bandy legs are often mentioned. Although in his early years he suffered from a serious speech impediment, orâ€”according to someâ€”the inability to speak at all, he was cured through the intervention of a deity and became a gifted orator, especially skillful at incorporating fables into his speeches.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a young man Aesop was transported by a slave trader to Ephesus (in modern Turkey). Because of his grotesque appearance, no one there would buy him, so he was taken to the island of Samos, where he was examined by Xanthus, identified in the manuscripts as â€œan eminent philosopher,â€ but a person whose existence cannot be verified historically. At first repulsed by Aesopâ€™s appearance, Xanthus changed his mind when the slave proclaimed, â€œA philosopher should value a man for his mind, not for his body.â€ Impressed with Aesopâ€™s astuteness, Xanthus purchased him as a manservant for his wife.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Aesop soon proved himself to be an irreverent and sarcastic trickster with a clever retort for every occasion. The following episode is typical of many others illustrating how Aesopâ€™s quick wit saved him from punishment, sometimes deserved, sometimes not: Xanthus, wanting to know what fate awaited him on a particular day, sent Aesop to see if any crows were outside the door. According to popular belief, two crows would portend good fortune, whereas a single crow would be an omen of bad luck. Aesop saw a pair of crows and reported this to his master, who then set forth with good cheer. Upon opening the door, Xanthus saw only a single crow, for one of them had flown away, and he angrily turned on his slave for having tricked him into beginning a dangerous venture. â€œYou shall be whipped for this!â€ said Xanthus, and while Aesop was being readied for his punishment a messenger arrived at the door with an invitation for Xanthus to dine with his friends. â€œYour omens have no meaning!â€ cried Aesop. â€œI saw the auspicious pair of crows, yet I am about to be beaten like a dog, whereas you saw the ominous single crow, and you are about to make merry with your friends.â€ Perceiving the irony and the wisdom of this observation, Xanthus released Aesop and spared him the threatened punishment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Aesopâ€™s cleverness extended from word to deed. An unrepentant trickster, his pranks ranged from tricking his fellow slaves into carrying the heavier burdens to seducing his masterâ€™s wife with her unwitting husbandâ€™s apparent blessing. His tricks often were masked by feigned stupidity on his part, which has led commentators to compare him to the German Till Eulenspiegel and the Turkish Nasreddin Hoca, two of the worldâ€™s most rascally but beloved tricksters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Aesopâ€™s legendary wisdom and shrewdness sometimes moved into the realm of the supernatural. He could solve seemingly impossible riddles and conundrums, foretell the future with uncanny accuracy, and unerringly discover hidden treasures. A master of human psychology, he understood what motivated people to act, and used this knowledge to manipulate them to his advantage. As his life progressed he moved to ever greater venues: from a trickster in a slaveâ€™s workroom to a lecturer in a philosopherâ€™s auditorium to a diplomat and councilor in the courts of governors and kings.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With time his cunning, wisdom, and oratory skills brought him freedom from slavery, but in the end they cost him his life. At Delphi the citizens, offended by his lack of respect for their aristocracy and for their principal deity Apollo, planted a golden cup in his baggage, then accused him of temple theft.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sentenced to die by being thrown over a cliff, Aesop pleaded his case with a series of fables, one of which was the story of â€œThe Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawkâ€ (no. 67 in the present collection). In this tale a frog and a mouse go swimming together in a pool with their feet tied together, but the mouse drowns. The frog, burdened by the dead mouse, is now an easy prey for a hawk, which forthwith captures and devours him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Aesop compared himself to the mouse and the Delphians to the frog. â€œYou may kill me,â€ he predicted, â€œbut my unjust death will bring you great misfortune.â€ Aesop was executed near Delphi, and his dire prediction came true. Shortly after his death the region was visited with famine, pestilence, and warfare. The Delphians consulted the Oracle of Apollo as to the source of these calamities, and they received the answer that they ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(874, 'Afraid of the Dark', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New York Times bestselling author''s ever-popular hero, Jack Swyteck, is on his most dangerous case yet, uncovering a sinister underground world that has him racing across the globe.   Then: Sergeant Vince Paulo held his best friend''s daughter, McKenna, bleeding in his arms as she uttered the name of her murderer and ex-boyfriend, Jamal. That was minutes before a blast made everything go black for Vinceâ€”forever.   Now: Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck has been called in to save Jamal from the death penalty for terrorist activity. Despite urgent warnings from his fiancÃ‰e, undercover FBI agent Andie Henning, to stay away from the case, Jack finds himself inextricably drawn to Jamal''s pastâ€”even believing his alibi that he was abducted and held in a black site in Prague at the time of McKenna''s death. But if Jamal is innocent, then the man who murdered McKenna and took Vince''s sight is still out there . . . free.   Soon bodies begin to pile up and ghosts from the past reappear very much alive, confirmed by ominous threats from a faceless man known only as "the Dark." Vince and Jack must confront a mortal danger that goes beyond McKenna''s death, across international watersâ€”a journey to piece together the past that leads through the back alleys of London, onto illegal Internet sites, and straight into the mind of pure evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2467'),
(875, 'Age of Innocence', 'Edith Wharton &amp; Maureen Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  Age of Innocence\n </em>\n , by Edith Wharton, is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars\n </li>\n <li>\n  Biographies of the authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events\n </li>\n <li>\n  Footnotes and endnotes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comments by other famous authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bibliographies for further reading\n </li>\n <li>\n  Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n</p>\n<p>\n Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize,\n <em>\n  The Age of Innocence\n </em>\n is Edith Whartonâ€™s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people â€œdreaded scandal more than disease.â€\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n This is Newland Archerâ€™s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his lifeâ€”or mercilessly destroy it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Maureen Howard is a critic, teacher, and writer of fiction. Her seven novels include\n <em>\n  Bridgeport Bus\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Natural History\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  A Loverâ€™s Almanac\n </em>\n . Her memoir,\n <em>\n  Facts of Life\n </em>\n , won the National Book Criticsâ€™ Circle Award. She has taught at Yale and Columbia University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/122'),
(876, 'The Age of Innocence: A Novel of Ironic Nostaglia', 'Linda Wagner-martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Edith Wharton''s The Age of Innocence has captivated generations of American readers since it won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Subtle, ironic, and superbly crafted, Wharton''s masterwork is a vivid portrait of late-19th-century New York society. The author''s keen observations of the restrictive social mores and the position of women in 19th-century America is underscored by the compelling tale of one man''s inability to achieve true happiness with the woman he loves. The novel''s popularity endures as the story captures the reader''s imagination with the sheer romance of the complicated, yet realistic portrayal of the marriage of Newland Archer to May Welland, and of his love for May''s cousin, Ellen Olenska. In this volume - the first devoted exclusively to The Age of Innocence - Linda Wagner-Martin not only examines the historical and social influences of Wharton''s time, but also incorporates extended analyses of the novel itself. Wagner-Martin devotes a chapter to each of the principal characters and considers the story from each character''s distinctive viewpoint. She also considers The Age of Innocence from several literary perspectives - as a "novel of manners," as a "traditional" novel, and as a "modern" novel. Wagner-Martin traces the critical response to The Age of Innocence, from publication to the present, and examines the novel''s importance in the American literary canon. A chronology of Wharton''s life and literary career and an extensive bibliography further enhance this study. The combination of Wagner-Martin''s sophisticated and wide-ranging critical perspective and impeccable scholarship makes The Age of Innocence: A Novel of Ironic Nostalgia an invaluable reference.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1693'),
(877, 'Airframe', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cruising 35,000 feet above the earth, a twin-engine commercial jet encounters an accident that leaves 3 dead, 56 wounded, and the cabin in shambles. What happened? With a multi-billion-dollar company-saving deal on the line, Casey Singleton is sent by her hard-driving boss to uncover the mysterious circumstances that led to the disaster before more people die. But someone doesn''t want her to find the truth.\n <em>\n  Airframe\n </em>\n bristles with authentic information, technical jargon, and the command of detail Crichton''s readers have come to expect. Check out Amazon.com''s\n <em>\n  Airframe feature\n </em>\n and read an excerpt from the book!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like his role model, H.G. Wells, Crichton likes to moralize in his novels. In this slight, enjoyable thriller, the moral is the superficiality of TV, especially of its simplistic news coverage. Readers willing to overlook the irony of this message being broadcast by the man who created TV''s top-rated drama (E.R.) will marvel again at Crichton''s uncanny commercial instincts. The event that launches the story, conceived long before TWA Flight 800''s last takeoff, is an airline disaster. Why did a passenger plane "porpoise"-pitch and dive repeatedly-enroute from Hong Kong to Denver, killing four and injuring 56? That''s what Casey Singleton, v-p for quality assurance for Norton Aircraft, has to find out fast. If Norton''s design is to blame, its imminent deal with China may collapse, and the huge company along with it. With Casey as his unsubtle focus-she''s one of the few Crichton heroines, an all-American gal who''s more plot device than character-Crichton works readers through a brisk course in airline mechanics and safety. The accretion of technical detail, though fascinating, makes for initially slow reading that speeds up only fitfully when Casey is menaced by what seem to be union men angry over the Chinese deal. But as she uncovers numerous anomalies about the accident, and as high corporate intrigue and a ratings-hungry TV news team enter the picture, the plot complicates and suspense rises, peaking high above the earth in an exciting re-creation of the flight. It''s possible that Crichton has invented a new subgenre here-the industrial thriller-despite elements (video-generated clues, for one) recycled from his earlier work. It''s certain that, while this is no Jurassic Park, he''s concocted another slick, bestselling, cinema-ready entertainment. 2,000,000 first printing; Literary Guild main selection; film rights sold to Disney for a reported $8-$10 million; simultaneous large-print edition and Random House audio and CD editions.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/927'),
(878, 'Alas, Babylon', 'Pat Frank &amp; David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A warm, continuously interesting story of what can happen to a group of ordinary people in a perilous situation." --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  New York Herald Tribune\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "An enthralling and vivid story of the follies and failures of people, their courage and cruelty, their treachery and triumphs. Mr. Frank is a magnificent writer." --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Chicago Sunday Tribune\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Frank is successful enough in making us believe it could indeed happen here to send a small, fearful chill along our backbone." --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Saturday Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Frighteningly credible and exciting reading." --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ingenious...Provocative." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/835'),
(879, 'The Alchemist', 'Paulo Coelho &amp; Alan R. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like the one-time bestseller\n <em>\n  Jonathan Livingston Seagull\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Alchemist\n </em>\n presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he''s off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream.\n</p>\n<p>\n Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman''s books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy''s misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second''s encounter with God and with eternity."\n <em>\n  --Gail Hudson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This inspirational fable by Brazilian author and translator Coelho has been a runaway bestseller throughout Latin America and seems poised to achieve the same prominence here. The charming tale of Santiago, a shepherd boy, who dreams of seeing the world, is compelling in its own right, but gains resonance through the many lessons Santiago learns during his adventures. He journeys from Spain to Morocco in search of worldly success, and eventually to Egypt, where a fateful encounter with an alchemist brings him at last to self-understanding and spiritual enlightenment. The story has the comic charm, dramatic tension and psychological intensity of a fairy tale, but it''s full of specific wisdom as well, about becoming self-empowered, overcoming depression, and believing in dreams. The cumulative effect is like hearing a wonderful bedtime story from an inspirational psychiatrist. Comparisons to The Little Prince are appropriate; this is a sweetly exotic tale for young and old alike. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/882');
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(880, 'The Algebraist', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Banks (\n  <em>\n   Look to Windward\n  </em>\n  ) pulls out all the stops in this gloriously over-the-top, state-of-the-art space opera, a Hugo nominee in its British edition. In a galaxy teeming with intelligent life-forms and dominated by the intensely hierarchical society known as the Mercatoria, the Ulubis system has been cut off from the rest of civilization for over a century as its citizens impatiently await the arrival of a starship carrying an artificial wormhole to replace one destroyed in a previous war. Fassin Taak is a Slow Seer, an anthropologist who studies the Dwellers, the ancient, enigmatic species that inhabits gas giants throughout the galaxy, including Nasqueron in the Ulubis system. Fassin''s research contains clues to the existence of a secret wormhole network, one operated by the Dwellers and free from the repressive control of the Mercatoria. Unfortunately, the monstrous ruler of a nearby star system has also learned of this discovery, as has the Mercatoria itself. Now two enormous battle fleets converge on Ulubis, and Fassin must undertake a quest deep into Nasqueron to uncover the Dwellers'' secret. This is an enormously enjoyable book, full of wonderful aliens, a sense of wonder and subtle political commentary on current events.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness'' The Times, ''Confirms Banks as the standard by which the rest of SF is judged'' The Guardian, ''Explosive'' Sunday Times, ''Gripping, touching and funny'' T.L.S., ''A wild imagination'' Mail on Sunday, ''Captivating'' Time Out, ''Spectacular ... the field needs his energy'' The Scotsman, ''One of the very best just got even better'' Starburst, ''Banks is a phenomenon'' William Gibson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/87'),
(881, 'Alice&#39;s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass', 'Lewis Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n That Alice. When she''s not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she''s gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In\n <em>\n  Through the Looking Glass\n </em>\n , Lewis Carroll''s masterful and zany sequel to\n <em>\n  Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland\n </em>\n , she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game.\n <em>\n  Through the Looking Glass\n </em>\n immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice''s curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel''s original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "''What is the use of a book,'' thought Alice, ''without pictures?''" What indeed? (All ages)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOnly Lewis Carroll has shown us the world upside down as a child sees it, and has made us laugh as children laugh.â€ â€”\n <strong>\n  Virginia Woolf\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/950'),
(882, 'The Alienist', 'Caleb Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night *New York Times * reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan''s infamous brothels.\n</p>\n<p>\n The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler''s intellect and Moore''s knowledge of New York''s vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminologyÂ— amassing a psychological profile of the man they''re looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian''s exactitude, *The Alienist * conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society''s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Step into another time--and unforgettable terror. The year is 1896. The city is New York. The hunt is on for a baffling new kind of criminal--a serial killer. "A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages."--Entertainment Weekly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1364'),
(883, 'All Quiet on the Western Front', 'Erich Maria Remarque &amp; A W. Wheen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "* ''Brian Murdoch''s new English translation...shows that Remarque''s evocation of the horrors of modern warfare has lost none of its force'' - The Times * ''There are some books that should be read by every generation. The latest translation and republication of Remarque''s story of German trench soldiers of the 1914-18 war gains even more authority in the context of the loss of life in wars that still rage from Bosnia to Kashmir'' Chris Searle * ''The book conquers without persuading, it shakes you without exaggerating, a perfect work of art and at the same time truth that cannot be doubted'' Stefan Sweig"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive.\n <br />\n "The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first trank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."\n <br />\n THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1121'),
(884, 'All That Remains', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cornwell combines bone-rattling suspense with an insider''s view of forensic science as her sleuth, Richmond, Va., medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, investigates a series of grim murders of young couples. A 13-week PW bestseller, a Mystery Guild selection and a Literary Guild featured alternate in cloth.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- The decomposed bodies of Fred Cheyney and Deborah Harvey don''t show up for months, well into Dr. Kay Scarpetta''s account of her investigation into their disappearance. The two lovers are the fifth pair in a string of mysterious ``couple murders,'''' all bearing the same characteristics: two young people completely vanish, leaving behind an abandoned car and no clues about their fate. Months later the skeletal remains are found by hunters in remote wooded locales, and no evidence about the causes of death can be discovered. At the same time, the FBI appears to be foiling attempts to discover the identity of the murderer by withholding crime-scene information, and Kay''s old friend Abby, a newspaper reporter, complicates matters by conducting her own search for the truth. This rich brew makes for a compelling story to which Cornwell has added such stand-bys from her two previous Scarpetta novels as Pete Marino, a middle-aged police detective, and Benton Wesley, an FBI investigator who knows how to keep a secret. Mystery-loving YAs and fans of Cornwell''s previous novels will enjoy her latest.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Carolyn E. Gecan, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1388'),
(885, 'All the Pretty Horses', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal\n <em>\n  hacienda\n </em>\n where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy''s Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in\n <em>\n  Suttree\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Blood Meridian\n </em>\n . Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole''s coming of age.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a novel so exuberant in its prose, so offbeat in its setting and so mordant and profound in its deliberations that one searches in vain for comparisons in American literature. None of McCarthy''s previous works, not even the award-winning The Orchard Keeper (1965) or the much-admired Blood Meridian (1985), quite prepares the reader for the singular achievement of this first installment in the projected Border Trilogy. John Grady Cole is a 16-year-old boy who leaves his Texas home when his grandfather dies. With his parents already split up and his mother working in theater out of town, there is no longer reason for him to stay. He and his friend Lacey Rawlins ride their horses south into Mexico; they are joined by another boy, the mysterious Jimmy Blevins, a 14-year-old sharpshooter. Although the year is 1948, the landscape--at some moments parched and unforgiving, at others verdant and gentled by rain--seems out of time, somewhere before history or after it. These likable boys affect the cowboy''s taciturnity--they roll cigarettes and say what they mean--and yet amongst themselves are given to terse, comic exchanges about life and death. In McCarthy''s unblinking imagination the boys suffer truly harrowing encounters with corrupt Mexican officials, enigmatic bandits and a desert weather that roils like an angry god. Though some readers may grow impatient with the wild prairie rhythms of McCarthy''s language, others will find his voice completely transporting. In what is perhaps the book''s most spectacular feat, horses and men are joined in a philosophical union made manifest in the muscular pulse of the prose and the brute dignity of the characters. "What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them," the narrator says of John Grady. As a bonus, Grady endures a tragic love affair with the daughter of a rich Spanish Hacendado , a romance, one hopes, to be resumed later in the trilogy.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/477'),
(886, 'All Together Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life-the shapeshifter Quinn-but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit. The summit is a tense situation. The vampire queen of Louisiana is in a precarious position, her power base weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans. And there are some vamps who would like to finish what nature started. Soon, Sookie must decide what side she''ll stand with. And her choice may mean the difference between survival and all-out catastrophe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/627'),
(887, 'All Tomorrow&#39;s Parties', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  "William Gibson''s rich protopointillism coins a wireless future where reality is only proxy and proviso. Made all the more beautiful and frightening by its probability, and by characters who somehow tweeze hope from the polymer." --Chris Carter, creator of\n  <em>\n   The X-Files\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of science fiction''s greatest literary stylists...Gibson wouldn''t be Gibson if he spelled it out, if he eliminated all the ambiguity. His specialty is hanging on to that fractal edge without ever going over the brink." --\n  <em>\n   Wired Magazine\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   All Tomorrow''s Parties\n  </em>\n  hits on all cylinders." --\n  <em>\n   Seattle Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "More ultra-cool cyberpunk... This familiar, vigorous, vividly realized scenario is set forth in the author''s unique and astonishingly textured prose." --\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The post modern gospel according to Gibson, the patron saint of cyberpunk literature." --\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s as if Raymond Chandler had written a novel in which Philip Marlowe drops acid, learns Microsoft Word 98 and winds up eating Thai food at a funky San Francisco dive...the most delicious of reads: genre with real literary spunk." --\n  <em>\n   New York Daily News\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   All Tomorrow''s Parties\n  </em>\n  is immensely engaging, alive on every page and as enjoyable a weekend entertainment as one could want."--\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  William Gibson is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Virtual Light\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Count Zero\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Burning Chrome\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mona Lisa\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Overdrive\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Idoru\n  </em>\n  , and * Neuromancer *.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   All Tomorrow''s Parties\n  </em>\n  is the perfect novel to publish at the end of 1999. It brings back Colin Laney, one of the most popular characters from Idoru, the man whose special sensitivities about people and events let him predict certain aspects of the future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1540'),
(888, 'Almost Home', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  â€œWarm romance that is as sweet as ice cream and just as perfect for a relaxing spring day.â€ -Â  Parkersburg, W.V., News and Sentinel.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  When she was young, Steffie Wyler always knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life: 1. Make ice cream. 2. Marry the coolest boy in town. 3. Live happily ever after. These days, Steffie is the proud owner of One Scoop or Two, a wildly popular ice cream parlor. But the cool guy left town right after high school, before they could scratch the surface of their mutual attraction to see what, if anything, lay beneath. Steffieâ€™s made a great life for herself in St. Dennis, but true love has never come knocking.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wade MacGregor left for college in Texas and remained there to start a successful business with his best friend, Robin Kennedy, but heâ€™s always felt something was missing. Then life throws him a curveball: A third partner has robbed the company blind, and Robin has diedâ€”but not before entrusting Wade with a precious secret. Now back in St. Dennis, Wadeâ€™s determined to do whatever it takes to protect his friendâ€™s legacyâ€”and to figure out, once and for all, if the sparks that fly whenever heâ€™s with Steffie are just temporary fireworks or the lights in the window leading him home.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mariah Stewart\n  </strong>\n  is the award-winning\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of twenty-nine novels of contemporary romance and romantic suspense. A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she lives with her husband and their dogs amid the rolling hills and Amish farms of southern Chester County, Pennsylvania, where she gardens, reads, and listens to the voices in her head. She is currently working on the next book in her bestselling Chesapeake Diaries series.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chapter 1\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thatâ€™s it, right there, ace. The house where I spent my happiest years. Number Twelve River Road.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wade MacGregor hoisted the squirming child onto his shoulders. Delighted to be released from the car seat where heâ€™d spent way too much time over the past few days, the little boy kicked his feet in the air, wanting down more than he wanted up. â€œHasnâ€™t changed a whole heck of a lot since then.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wade studied the exterior of the house for a long moment. â€œLooks like there have been a few changes in some of the trim color there around the porch. Aunt Berry always likes to keep up with the latest trends. Must always be on the cutting edge, you know?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  He paused momentarily to stare at the fence that ran across the front of the property. He wondered when the fence had been installed, and why. No one had mentioned it in recent phone calls.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then again, there were things he hadnâ€™t mentioned, either.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLetâ€™s go check out the river. See the water?â€ Wade crossed the broad lawn to the wooden pier in long strides, fully aware that he was procrastinating. â€œRight down here is where I learned to fish and canoe and row and crab and do all kinds of fun things.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  He looked up into the face of the dark-haired cherub whose heels kicked gleefully into his chest.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYeah, I suspect youâ€™ll be wanting to do those things one day, too. Iâ€™ll teach you whenever youâ€™re ready,â€ Wade told him. â€œI promised your mama that Iâ€™d raise you the best I could. I canâ€™t think of any better place for you to spend your summers than right here in St. Dennis, just like I did.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A sleek boat passed by, kicking up some wake as it headed toward the mouth of the New River, where it met the Chesapeake Bay.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSomeday soon, weâ€™ll go sailing out there. Youâ€™ll like that. Weâ€™ll have to get you a little life jacket first, though.â€ Wade thought for a moment. â€œYour mama loved the water. Thatâ€™s one thing youâ€™ll want to know about her when you get older. She loved to swim and water-ski and dive. Maybe one day youâ€™ll want to do those things, too. She wanted to teach you herself, but thatâ€™s not going to happen now.â€ Wade swallowed the lump that threatened to close his throat. â€œI know you miss her, buddy. I miss her, too . . .â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Overhead a gull drifted, and attracted by something on the dock, dropped down onto one of the pilings to get a better look. It hopped to the deck, pecked at something solid for a moment, then took flight, the unexpected prize held in its beak. The bird changed direction, and angled back toward the Bay. Wade followed it with his eyes until it disappeared.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œRing-billed gull,â€ Wade said aloud. â€œNot to be con?fused with the herring gull. Someday youâ€™ll know the difference. Someday youâ€™ll know all the shorebirds.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Figuring heâ€™d gotten about all he was going to get out of his efforts to put off the inevitable, he glanced over his shoulder at the house.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWell, I guess itâ€™s time to face the music.â€ He started back across the lawn. â€œYou ready to meet your aunt Dallas and your cousin Cody and your great-great-aunt Berry?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The back door opened and a golden retriever sped out, a fluffy white dog on its heels, both barking wildly at the intruders.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFleur!â€ A little boy of six or seven raced after the dogs. â€œAlly! Stop! Come back!â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The dogs continued to run toward Wade.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSee doggie!â€ The toddler demanded and struggled to get down. â€œWanna see doggie!â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wade stood stock-still, waiting to see just how close the dogs would come, if theyâ€™d continue to bark, and if theyâ€™d show signs of real aggression.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAlly! Fleur!â€ The boy ran after them and caught up with them when they stopped about ten feet from Wade.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHi, Cody,â€ Wade said. â€œDo you remember me?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cody narrowed his eyes and searched Wadeâ€™s face momentarily before a smile appeared.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYouâ€™re my uncle Wade,â€ he said. â€œYou live in Texas.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNot anymore.â€ Wade gestured to the dogs, who had calmed down a little. â€œThey donâ€™t bite, do they?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNah.â€ The boy shook his head. â€œThey just act tough. Mom says they think theyâ€™re Dobermans or rottweilers or something.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wade laughed. â€œWhere is your mom?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSheâ€™s in the house. She didnâ€™t say you were coming today.â€ Cody pointed to Austin, who was trying to wiggle out of Wadeâ€™s grasp to get to the ground. â€œWhoâ€™s that?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCody, this is Austin.â€ Wade lifted the toddler in an arc over his head and placed him on his feet on the grass. â€œHeâ€™s your cousin.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHi, Austin.â€ Cody knelt down in front of Austin, who pointed a chubby finger at the dogs, who approached cautiously, wagging their tales. â€œAustin, this is Ally. Sheâ€™s Aunt Berryâ€™s dog. And this oneâ€â€”he pointed to the white dogâ€”â€œis Fleur. Sheâ€™s mine.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHere, doggie!â€ Austin chortled as the golden retriever drew closer.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cody glanced up at Wade. â€œMy mom didnâ€™t tell me I had a little cousin.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYour mom doesnâ€™t know.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBoy, will she be surprised.â€ Cody commanded the dogs to sit, then led Austin to them.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBoy, will she ever,â€ Wade muttered.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A woman started around the side of the house, her pale blond hair pulled back in a ponytail, her dark glasses obscuring half her face.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCody, who are you talkingâ€”â€ she began, then stopped in her tracks. â€œWade?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHey, Dallas.â€ Wade walked to meet his sister as she started toward him. â€œWe were just on our way up to the house when Cody and his furry friends came out to greet us.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYou stinker! You didnâ€™t tell us you were coming home this week!â€ Dallas MacGregor wrapped her arms around him and hugged tightly. â€œYouâ€™re looking good, kiddo.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYouâ€™re looking even better.â€ Wade hugged her in return and spun her halfway around before setting her down. â€œSt. Dennis agrees with you.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhy didnâ€™t you let us know you were coming? And whatâ€™s with the trailer?â€ She pointed to the drive, where Wadeâ€™s Jeep sat with a trailer hooked up to the back. â€œYou hauling your beer in there? Expanding your business to the Chesapeake?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œActually, I closed the business. I sold the equipment and the building.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dallasâ€™s jaw dropped. When she recovered, she asked, â€œWhat happened? Your brewery was doing so well. All those awards you won . . . I thought you were really solid.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWe were. Itâ€™s a long story, Dallas.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wade looked away. Heâ€™d been dreading this conversation for weeks. Heâ€™d been so proud of Kenne?Mac, the brewery heâ€™d started from scratch with his best friend from college. Heâ€™d hated closing it down, but hated the idea of selling it even more. The company nameâ€”that had been his and Robinâ€™s. His brew?ing secrets had taken him years to perfect. ?Kenne?Mac Brews had been the best part of his life for the past eight years. Giving it up was one thing. Selling itâ€” allowing someone else to become KenneMac Brewsâ€”well, that just wasnâ€™t going to happen.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But then again, even giving up the brewery wasnâ€™t the worst thing that had happened over the past few months.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The back door opened and a woman of indeterminable age stepped out onto the porch.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDallas, whoâ€™s that youâ€™re talking to? And whatâ€™s that thing parked in my driveway?â€ Hands on her hips, Beryl Eberleâ€”once known internationally as screen star Beryl Townsendâ€”paused, appearing to study the scene. â€œIs that Wade?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYes, Aunt Berry. Itâ€™s me.â€ Wadeâ€™s smile was genuine. He adored his great-aunt. Sheâ€™d been the indulgent grandmother he hadnâ€™t known and Auntie Mame all in one. He counted the years heâ€™d lived with her as some of the best of his life.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  She came down the porch steps, holding on, he noticed, to the railing all the way. She was always so spry, so clever and lively, he often forgot that sheâ€™d turned eighty-one on her last birthday and had another approaching. He quickened his step so that she wouldnâ€™t have to walk across the entire yard to greet him.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYou are a sight for these old eyes, Wade MacGregor.â€ She hugged him fiercely. â€œHow dare you stay away for so long.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhat was I thinking?â€ He embraced her gently.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIâ€™ll be damned if I know.â€ She stood back and held him at armâ€™s length. â€œYou look more and more like your father every year. And I donâ€™t mind saying that Ned was the best-looking young man I everâ€”â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œStop feeding his ego with that stuff,â€ Dallas admonished. â€œHeâ€™s already got a big head.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhat is that thing in the driveway?â€ Berry asked again.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œItâ€™s a trailer,â€ he explained. â€œHolds all my worldly goods.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDoes this mean youâ€™ve come home? That youâ€™re staying?â€ Berry, clearly joyful at the very thought, grabbed Wadeâ€™s hand and gave it a squeeze.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIâ€™m not staying, Aunt Berry,â€ he said softly. â€œIâ€™m just passing through St. Dennis on my way to Connecticut. Iâ€™m going to be working for another brewery.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhat happened to your brewery?&amp;rd...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2407'),
(889, 'Along Came a Spider', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A missing little girl named Maggie Rose.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   The thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who calls himself the Son of Lindbergh. He is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him - even after he''s been captured.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Gary Soneji is a mild-mannered mathematics teacher at a Washington, D.C., private school for the children of the political and social elite. He''s so popular that the kids all call him "Mr. Chips." And he''s very, very smart. Growing up, he always knew he was smarter than the rest of them - he knew that the Great Ones always fooled everybody. He kidnaps Maggie Rose, the golden-haired daughter of a famous movie actress, and her best friend, Shrimpie Goldberg, the son of the secretary of the treasury, right out from under the noses of their two Secret Service agents. But Gary Soneji is not surprised at his skill. He''s done it before. Hundreds of times before.\n  <br />\n  Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. he looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. Cross works and lives in the ghettos of D.C. He''s a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. He has two adorable kids of his own. They are his own special vulnerabilities.\n  <br />\n  Jezzie Flanaganis the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. Blond, mysterious, seductive, she''s got an outer shell that''s as tough s it is beautiful. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. What is she running from? What is her secret?\n  <br />\n  Alex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan are about to have a forbidden love affair-at the worst possible time for both of them. Because Gary Soneji, who wants to commit the "crime of the century," is playing at the top of his game. The latest of the unspeakable crimes happened in Alex Cross''s precinct. They happened under the protection of Jezzie Flanagan''s men. Now Soneji is at large again, still wreaking havoc.\n  <br />\n  Alex Cross must face the ultimate test as a psychologist: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath? Especially one who appears to have a split personality - one who won''t let the other half remember those horrific acts?\n  <br />\n  Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Who will be his next victim?\n  <br />\n  Gary Soneji is every parent''s worst nightmare. He has become Alex Cross''s nightmare. And now, reader, he''s about to become yours.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  In the tradition of Thomas Harris and Jonathan Kellerman, Patterson has crafted a chilling psychological thriller that exploded onto hardcover bestseller lists nationwide. Finally available in paperback,\n  <em>\n   Along Came a Spider\n  </em>\n  tells of a beloved teacher who is also a cunning serial killer.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/343'),
(890, 'Already Dead: The Joe Pitt Casebooks, Book 1', 'Charlie Huston &amp; Scott Brick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/613'),
(891, 'Altered Carbon', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fast-paced, densely textured, impressive first novel is an intriguing hybrid of William Gibson''s Neuromancer and Norman Spinrad''s Deus X. In the 25th century, it''s difficult to die a final death. Humans are issued a cortical stack, implanted into their bodies, into which consciousness is "digitized" and from which-unless the stack is hopelessly damaged-their consciousness can be downloaded ("resleeved") with its memory intact, into a new body. While the Vatican is trying to make resleeving (at least of Catholics) illegal, centuries-old aristocrat Laurens Bancroft brings Takeshi Kovacs (an Envoy, a specially trained soldier used to being resleeved and trained to soak up clues from new environments) to Earth, where Kovacs is resleeved into a cop''s body to investigate Bancroft''s first mysterious, stack-damaging death. To solve the case, Kovacs must destroy his former Envoy enemies; outwit Bancroft''s seductive, wily wife; dabble in United Nations politics; trust an AI that projects itself in the form of Jimi Hendrix; and deal with his growing physical and emotional attachment to Kristin Ortega, the police lieutenant who used to love the body he''s been given. Kovacs rockets from the seediest hellholes on Earth, through virtual reality torture, into several gory firefights, and on to some exotic sexual escapades. Morgan''s 25th-century Earth is convincing, while the questions he poses about how much Self is tied to body chemistry and how the rich believe themselves above the law are especially timely.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a society in which death has been rendered practically obsolete, suicide and murder take on different significances. After a particularly brutal offing, former UN envoy Takeshi Kovacs finds himself "resleeved"--that is, his consciousness has been put in a new body--and hired as a private investigator by Laurens Bancroft, one of twenty-fifth-century society''s old rich in Bay City (formerly San Francisco). Bancroft claims he was murdered, but the police say it was a suicide. After Kovacs gets hit at his hotel within hours of being resleeved, he sees the possibility that Bancroft was, in fact, murdered, and that someone wants to keep it very hush-hush. As he investigates, he uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy with ties to the most unsavory characters in his generally unsavory military and criminal past. This far-future hard-boiled detective story is a lovely virtual-reality romp distinguished by a conspiracy whose strands have the potential to generate several successful sequels, which is just what its publicity promises.\n <em>\n  Regina Schroeder\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/419'),
(892, 'Alternate Generals II', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Napoleon is in New Orleans in William Sanders''s "Empire"; the German Empire thrives in 1929 in Harry Turtledove''s "Uncle Alf"; Pancho Villa''s about to become the vice-president in S.M. Stirling and Richard Foss''s "Compadres"; and General Patton gets a new diary in Roland J. Green''s "George Patton Slept Here." In Alternate Generals II, a collection of 13 wild speculations for those who enjoy specifically military alternative histories, Harry Turtledove (Colonization: Aftershocks) also gathers stories from the likes of Chris Bunch, Michael F. Flynn and Susan Shwartz. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1795'),
(893, 'Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist', 'Michael J. Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But listeners of\n <em>\n  Always Looking Up\n </em>\n will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagement and discovery: an emotional, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual outlook that has served him throughout his struggle with Parkinson''s disease. Michael''s exit from a very demanding, very public arena offered him the time - and the inspiration - to open up new doors leading to unexpected places. One door even led him to the center of his own family, the greatest destination of all.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Always Looking Up\n </em>\n is a memoir of Michael''s past decade, told through the critical themes of his life: work, politics, faith, and family. The book is a journey of self-discovery and reinvention, and a testament to the consolations that protect him from the ravages of Parkinson''s.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the humor and wit that captivated fans in his first book,\n <em>\n  Lucky Man\n </em>\n , Michael describes how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/829'),
(894, 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay', 'Michael Chabon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n It''s 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat - smuggling himself out of Hitler''s Prague. He''s looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn''s own Sammy Clay, is looking for a partner in creating the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book.\n</p>\n<p>\n Inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapist, the Monitor, and the otherworldy Mistress of the Night, Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. The golden age of comic books has begun, even as the shadow of Hitler falls across Europe.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay is a stunning novel of endless comic invention and unforgettable characters, written in the exhilarating prose that has led critics to compare Michael Chabon to Cheever and Nabokov. In Joe Kavalier, Chabon, writing "like a magical spider, effortlessly spinning out elaborate webs of words that ensnare the reader" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times), has created a hero for the century.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/954'),
(895, 'The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For this outrageously cheeky tale, British writer Pratchett pairs a dynamite plot with memorable characters a group of intelligent rats sporting such monikers as Hamnpork, Big Savings and Darktan (they''ve been foraging in the University of Wizards'' garbage dump and come up with "the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant"), plus a "stupid-looking kid" with a flute and a criminal kitty mastermind named Maurice. The motley con artists'' pied piper scam is highly successful until the rats develop a conscience. Reluctantly, they agree to one final heist, but in the town of Bad Blintz things go horribly, hilariously wrong. First, they''re twigged by Malicia Grim (granddaughter and grand-niece of the Sisters Grim), then they encounter a pair of conniving rat-catchers, a real pied piper and an evil something lurking in the town''s cellars. They triumph, of course, and there''s even a glimmer of redemption for the deliciously self-centered Maurice, who tackles the "Grim Squeaker" and bargains for the life of his rat comrade Dangerous Beans. In the end, while the others settle down, Maurice hits the road and is last seen approaching another "stupid-looking kid" with a money-making proposition. Could this mean more tales to come? Readers will eagerly hope so. Ages 12-up.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Up-In this laugh-out-loud fantasy, his first "Discworld" novel for younger readers, Pratchett rethinks a classic story and comes up with a winner. His unforgettable characters include Maurice, a scheming and cranky but ultimately warmhearted cat; Keith, a young musician who isn''t as dumb as he looks; and half a dozen intelligent rats with personalities all their own. Their plan is simple. The rats steal food, frighten ladies, "widdle" in the cream, and generally make nuisances of themselves. When the town advertises for a piper, Keith appears to lead the rats away, and they all meet up later to divide the loot. It works like a charm until the conspirators stumble into Bad Blintz, a village with not a single "regular" rat to be found. As Maurice''s band of rodents poke around in the town sewers, Keith befriends the mayor''s daughter, a ditzy girl with a head full of stories. When the humans are captured by evil rat catchers, it''s up to Maurice and his crew to save the day. Pratchett''s trademark puns, allusions, and one-liners abound. The rats, who grew intelligent after eating magic-contaminated trash behind a university for wizards, now tackle major questions of morality, philosophy, and religion. Despite the humorous tone of the novel, there are some genuinely frightening moments, too, as the heroes confront a telepathic Rat King in the bowels of Bad Blintz. Readers who enjoyed Robert C. O''Brien''s Mrs. Frisby &amp; the Rats of NIMH (Atheneum, 1971) and Richard Adams''s Watership Down (Macmillan, 1974) will love this story. A not-to-be-missed delight.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Miranda Doyle, San Francisco Public Library\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/365'),
(896, 'The Amber Spyglass (Turtleback School &amp; Library Binding Edition)', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Amber Spyglass\n </em>\n brings the intrigue of\n <em>\n  The Golden Compass\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Subtle Knife\n </em>\n to a heart-stopping end, marking the final volume of\n <em>\n  His Dark Materials\n </em>\n as the most powerful of the trilogy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Along with the return of Lyra and other familiar characters from the first two books come a host of new characters: the Mulefa, mysterious wheeled creatures with the power to see Dust; Gallivespian Lord Roke, a hand-high spymaster to Lord Asriel; and Metatron, a fierce and mighty angel. So too come startling revelations: the painful price Lyra must pay to walk through the land of the dead, the haunting power of Dr. Malone''s amber spyglass, and the names of who will liveÂ—and who will dieÂ—for love. And all the while, war rages with the Kingdom of Heaven, a brutal battle thatÂ—in its shocking outcomeÂ—will uncover the secret of Dust.\n</p>\n<p>\n Philip Pullman deftly brings the cliffhangers and mysteries of\n <em>\n  His Dark Materials\n </em>\n to an earth-shattering conclusion and confirms his fantasy trilogy as an undoubted and enduring classic.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year award, 2001\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/232'),
(897, 'America&#39;s Great Depression', 'Murray Newton Rothbard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Applied Austrian economics doesn''t get better than this. Murray N. Rothbard''s America''s Great Depression is a staple of modern economic literature and crucial for understanding a pivotal event in American and world history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Mises Institute edition features a new introduction by historian Paul Johnson.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since it first appeared in 1963, it has been the definitive treatment of the causes of the depression. The book remains canonical today because the debate is still very alive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rothbard opens with a theoretical treatment of business cycle theory, showing how an expansive monetary policy generates imbalances between investment and consumption. He proceeds to examine the Fed''s policies of the 1920s, demonstrating that it was quite inflationary even if the effects did not show up in the price of goods and services. He showed that the stock market correction was merely one symptom of the investment boom that led inevitably to a bust.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle, which in turn was generated by government intervention in the economy. Had the book appeared in the 1940s, it might have spared the world much grief. Even so, its appearance in 1963 meant that free-market advocates had their first full-scale treatment of this crucial subject. The damage to the intellectual world inflicted by Keynesian- and socialist-style treatments would be limited from that day forward.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1679');
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(898, 'American Assassin', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   #1\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Vince Flynn returns with yet another explosive thriller, introducing the young Mitch Rapp, as he takes on his first assignment.\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terroristâ€™s worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world . . . and then tragedy struck.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Two decades of cutthroat, partisan politics has left the CIA and the country in an increasingly vulnerable position. Cold War veteran and CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield knows he must prepare his people for the next war. The rise of Islamic terrorism is coming, and it needs to be met abroad before it reaches Americaâ€™s shores. Stansfield directs his protÃ‰gÃ‰e, Irene Kennedy, and his old Cold War colleague, Stan Hurley, to form a new group of clandestine operatives who will work outside the normal chain of commandâ€”men who do not exist.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   What type of man is willing to kill for his country without putting on a uniform? Kennedy finds him in the wake of the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack. Two-hundred and seventy souls perished that cold December night, and thousands of family and friends were left searching for comfort. Mitch Rapp was one of them, but he was not interested in comfort. He wanted retribution.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Six months of intense training has prepared him to bring the war to the enemyâ€™s doorstep, and he does so with brutal efficiency. Rapp starts in Istanbul, where he assassinates the Turkish arms dealer who sold the explosives used in the Pan Am attack. Rapp then moves onto Hamburg with his team and across Europe, leaving a trail of bodies. All roads lead to Beirut, though, and what Rapp doesnâ€™t know is that the enemy is aware of his existence and has prepared a trap. The hunter is about to become the hunted, and Rapp will need every ounce of skill and cunning if he is to survive the war-ravaged city and its various terrorist factions.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynnâ€™s latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind the steely gaze of the nationâ€™s ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   American Assassin\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Publishers Weekly:\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   With this 11th Mitch Rapp adventure, Flynn does something a little different. Taking a step back in time, he tells the story of how Rapp initially came to work for the CIA. As a young man, Rapp lost his fiancÃ©e in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103. Grief-stricken, he swears revenge on the terrorists. He''s quickly recruited by the CIA and soon makes his first kill and is on his way to his first clandestine mission. George Guidall has a keen ear for dialogue, and his relaxed reading keeps Flynn''s sometimes overheated prose and over-the-top plot grounded in a realm of believability. Still, he is more than capable of pulling out the stops when the action kicks in, keeping listeners on the edge of their seats once the bullets begin to fly. Flynn delivers his usual high-octane international thriller, but, in giving Rapp''s backstory, he''s infused it with more depth and heart than usual, and Guidall matches him beat for beat, proving himself a fine choice of storyteller. An Atria hardcover. (Oct.)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Biography:\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Vince Flynn\n   </strong>\n   is the #1\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of nine previous thrillers, including\n  <em>\n   Consent to Kill\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Act of Treason\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Protect and Defend\n  </em>\n  . He lives in the Twin Cities with his wife and three children. Visit his website at www.vinceflynn.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2438'),
(899, 'American Beauty: The Shooting Script', 'Alan Ball &amp; Sam Mendes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "This is probably the one of the first scripts I have done that didn''t go through a rewrite ... I believe Steven Spielberg read it on a Saturday night, and on Monday morning he said, ''Let''s make this movie and not change a word''" -- said Academy Award "RM" winner Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects) in an interview about the movie in which he stars with Oscar "RM" nominee, Annette Bening (The Grifters).The original screenplay by Alan Ball (TV''s Cybill) marks the directorial debut of award-winning theater director Sam Mendes (The Blue Room, Cabaret), who describes the script in this book''s introduction as "a highly inventive black comedy ... a mystery story with a genuine final twist ... a kaleidoscopic journey through American suburbia, and a hugely visually articulate one at that".In the Newmarket Shooting Script format, here is the complete shooting script, a fascinating essay about the script and the making of the film by Sam Mendes, an afterword by screenwriter Alan Ball recalling the genesis of his script, a twelve page photo section, and complete cast and crew credits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1425'),
(900, 'American Gods', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  American Gods\n </em>\n is Neil Gaiman''s best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn''t sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he''s been delivering since his Sandman days.\n</p>\n<p>\n Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow''s dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow''s road story is the heart of the novel, and it''s here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.\n</p>\n<p>\n More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what''s real and what''s not.\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Titans clash, but with more fuss than fury in this fantasy demi-epic from the author of Neverwhere. The intriguing premise of Gaiman''s tale is that the gods of European yore, who came to North America with their immigrant believers, are squaring off for a rumble with new indigenous deities: "gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon." They all walk around in mufti, disguised as ordinary people, which causes no end of trouble for 32-year-old protagonist Shadow Moon, who can''t turn around without bumping into a minor divinity. Released from prison the day after his beloved wife dies in a car accident, Shadow takes a job as emissary for Mr. Wednesday, avatar of the Norse god Grimnir, unaware that his boss''s recruiting trip across the American heartland will subject him to repeat visits from the reanimated corpse of his dead wife and brutal roughing up by the goons of Wednesday''s adversary, Mr. World. At last Shadow must reevaluate his own deeply held beliefs in order to determine his crucial role in the final showdown. Gaiman tries to keep the magical and the mundane evenly balanced, but he is clearly more interested in the activities of his human protagonists: Shadow''s poignant personal moments and the tale''s affectionate slices of smalltown life are much better developed than the aimless plot, which bounces Shadow from one episodic encounter to another in a design only the gods seem to know. Mere mortal readers will enjoy the tale''s wit, but puzzle over its strained mythopoeia. (One-day laydown, June 19)Forecast: Even when he isn''t in top form, Gaiman, creator of the acclaimed Sandman comics series, trumps many storytellers. Momentously titled, and allotted a dramatic one-day laydown with a 12-city author tour, his latest will appeal to fans and attract mainstream review coverage for better or for worse because of the rich possibilities of its premise.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/695'),
(901, 'American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot', 'Craig Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œHilariously vivid.â€ (People )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFunny and poignant and inspirational and brilliant. Nowhere in his story of emigration and redemption does Craig Ferguson realize that as lucky as he thinks he is to be â€˜American on Purpose,â€™ we are luckier still to have him.â€ (Keith Olbermann )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFerguson has given us a biographical treatment that is both brutally honest and inspirationalâ€¦American on Purpose is a book that should be read.â€ (Chicago Sun-Times )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson somehow manages to avoid the pitfalls of self-indulgence and self-importance that plague most (okay, all) Hollywood autobiographies. He has, instead, written a book that is hilarious and irrepressibly daft, yet also kind, poignant, and undeniably wise. It was a joy to read.â€ (Dennis Lehane, author of The Given Day )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA great read . . . almost as good as my memoir.â€ (Carrie Fisher, author of Wishful Drinking )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fine writer, witty, reflective, and candid.... Ferguson is a kinetic cutup teeming with foolishness, brilliance, defiance, and heart. All this is captured in his book as an entertaining connect-the-dots journey.â€ (Associated Press )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHilarious and revealing...witty and emotional.â€ (The Daily Beast )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  American on Purpose\n </em>\n , Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his markâ€”as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer.\n</p>\n<p>\n To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: in 1993, the washed-up Ferguson washed up in the United States. Finally sober, Ferguson landed a breakthrough part on the hit sitcom\n <em>\n  The Drew Carey Show\n </em>\n , a success that eventually led to his role as the host of CBS''s\n <em>\n  The Late Late Show\n </em>\n . By far Ferguson''s greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008, just before his command performance for the president at the White House Correspondents'' Association Dinner. In\n <em>\n  American on Purpose\n </em>\n , Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/803'),
(902, 'American Pastoral', 'Philip Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Philip Roth''s 22nd book takes a life-long view of the American experience in this thoughtful investigation of the century''s most divisive and explosive of decades, the ''60s. Returning again to the voice of his literary alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, Roth is at the top of his form. His prose is carefully controlled yet always fresh and intellectually subtle as he reconstructs the halcyon days, circa World War II, of Seymour "the Swede" Levov, a high school sports hero and all-around Great Guy who wants nothing more than to live in tranquillity. But as the Swede grows older and America crazier, history sweeps his family inexorably into its grip: His own daughter, Merry, commits an unpardonable act of "protest" against the Vietnam war that ultimately severs the Swede from any hope of happiness, family, or spiritual coherence.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his latest novel, Roth shows his age. Not that his writing is any less vigorous and supple. But in this autumnal tome, he is definitely in a reflective mood, looking backward. As the book opens, Roth''s alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, recalls an innocent time when golden boy Seymour "the Swede" Levov was the pride of his Jewish neighborhood. Then, in precise, painful, perfectly rendered detail, he shows how the Swede''s life did not turn out as gloriously as expected?how it was, in fact, devastated by a child''s violent act. When Merry Levov blew up her quaint little town''s post office to protest the Viet Nam war, she didn''t just kill passing physician Fred Conlon, she shattered the ties that bound her to her worshipful father. Merry disappears, then eventually reappears as a stick-thin Jain living in sacred povery in Newark, having killed three more people for the cause. Roth doesn''t tell the whole story blow by blow but gives us the essentials in luminous, overlapping bits. In the end, the book positively resonates with the anguish of a father who has utterly lost his daughter. Highly recommended.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   -?Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/280'),
(903, 'American Psycho', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This review is based on the galley issued by Ellis''s original publisher, Simon &amp; Schuster, before it cancelled the book. The book is now going through the editing process at Vintage. There may be some changes in the final version. The indignant attacks on Ellis''s third novel (see News, p. 17; Editorial, p. 6) will make it difficult for most readers to judge it objectively. Although the book contains horrifying scenes, they must be read in the context of the book as a whole; the horror does not lie in the novel itself, but in the society it reflects. In the first third of the book, Pat Bateman, a 26-year-old who works on Wall Street, describes his designer lifestyle in excruciating detail. This is a world in which the elegance of a business card evokes more emotional response than the murder of a child. Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, Bateman calmly and deliberately blinds and stabs a homeless man. From here, the body count builds, as he kills a male acquaintance and sadistically tortures and murders two prostitutes, an old girlfriend, and a child he passes in the zoo. The recital of the brutalization is made even more horrible by the first-person narrator''s delivery: flat, matter-of-fact, as impersonal as a car parts catalog. The author has carefully constructed the work so that the reader has no way to understand this killer''s motivations, making it even more frightening. If these acts cannot be explained, there is no hope of protection from such random, senseless crimes. This book is not pleasure reading, but neither is it pornography. It is a serious novel that comments on a society that has become inured to suffering. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/90 and 12/90.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Nora Rawlinson, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and]\n <strong>\n  American Psycho\n </strong>\n is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novelâ€¦. The novelistâ€™s function is to keep a running tag on the progress of culture; and heâ€™s done it brilliantlyâ€¦. A seminal book.â€ â€”Fay Weldon,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œA masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book.â€ â€”Katherine Dunn\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œA great novel. What Emerson said about genius, that itâ€™s the return of oneâ€™s rejected thoughts with an alienated majesty, holds true for\n <strong>\n  American Psycho\n </strong>\n â€¦. There is a fever to the life of this book that is, in my reading, unknown in American literature.â€ â€”Michael Tolkin\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œThe first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themesâ€¦. [Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands come to on the clock.â€ â€”Norman Mailer,\n <em>\n  Vanity Fair\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/871'),
(904, 'American Tabloid', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although it follows his L.A. Trilogy chronologically, Ellroy''s visceral, tightly plotted new novel unfolds on a much wider stage, delivering a compelling and detailed view of the American underworld from the late 1950s to the assassination of JFK. Demythologizing the Camelot years, Ellroy (White Jazz) depicts a nexus of renegade government agencies, mobsters, industrial tycoons and Hollywood players fueling the rise and fall of the Kennedy administration. The story hinges on the entanglements of three 40-something government mercenaries who play major, behind-the-scenes roles in such events as the Bay of Pigs and the assassination of the president. Suave and sybaritic Kemper Boyd pimps for JFK while carrying out simultaneous undercover work for the CIA, FBI, Robert Kennedy and the Mob. Hulking, sadistic ex-L.A. cop Pete Bondurant, a hired killer for Jimmy Hoffa, digs dirt for a drug-addled Howard Hughes while training a cadre of bloodthirsty, anti-Castro Cuban exiles off the Florida Coast. Idealistic FBI wiretapper Ward Littel, following a series of disastrous anti-Mafia operations, becomes a Machiavellian mob lawyer. All three rub shoulders with an enormous cast of real-life characters, including clever, two-dimensional portraits of the Kennedy family, J. Edgar Hoover and Jack Ruby. Exercising his muscular, shorthand prose, Ellroy moves the narrative from break-in to lurid assignation to brutal hit job in a tightening gyre that culminates in the murder of the president. While not especially convincing as revisionist history, this is a cool and riveting evocation of a cultural epoch abounding in government surveillance, endemic corruption and yellow journalism. BOMC and QPB selections; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics either adored or abhorred Ellroy''s last crime novel, White Jazz, for its gritty subject matter and "word jazz" prose. American Tabloid, a fictional examination of the conspiracy-to-end-all-conspiracies-the assassination of JFK -will contain more of the same.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/878'),
(905, 'Anansi Boys', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n If readers found the\n <em>\n  Sandman\n </em>\n series creator''s last novel,\n <em>\n  American Gods\n </em>\n , hard to classify, they will be equally nonplussedâ€”and equally entertainedâ€”by this brilliant mingling of the mundane and the fantastic. "Fat Charlie" Nancy leads a life of comfortable workaholism in London, with a stressful agenting job he doesn''t much like, and a pleasant fiancÃ©e, Rosie. When Charlie learns of the death of his estranged father in Florida, he attends the funeral and learns two facts that turn his well-ordered existence upside-down: that his father was a human form of Anansi, the African trickster god, and that he has a brother, Spider, who has inherited some of their father''s godlike abilities. Spider comes to visit Charlie and gets him fired from his job, steals his fiancÃ©e, and is instrumental in having him arrested for embezzlement and suspected of murder. When Charlie resorts to magic to get rid of Spider, who''s selfish and unthinking rather than evil, things begin to go very badly for just about everyone. Other charactersâ€”including Charlie''s malevolent boss, Grahame Coats ("an albino ferret in an expensive suit"), witches, police and some of the folk from\n <em>\n  American Gods\n </em>\n â€”are expertly woven into Gaiman''s rich myth, which plays off the African folk tales in which Anansi stars. But it''s Gaiman''s focus on Charlie and Charlie''s attempts to return to normalcy that make the story so winningâ€”along with gleeful, hurtling prose.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Charles Fat Charlie Nancy leads a normal, boring existence in London. However, when he calls the U.S. to invite his estranged father to his wedding, he learns that the man just died. After jetting off to Florida for the funeral, Charlie not only discovers a brother he didn''t know he had, but also learns that his father was the West African trickster god, Anansi. Charlie''s brother, who possesses his own magical powers, later visits him at home and spins Charlie''s life out of control, getting him fired, sleeping with his fiancÃ©e, and even getting him arrested for a white-collar crime. Charlie fights back with assistance from other gods, and that''s when the real trouble begins. They lead the brothers into adventures that are at times scary or downright hysterical. At first Charlie is overwhelmed by this new world, but he is Anansi''s son and shows just as much flair for trickery as his brother. With its quirky, inventive fantasy, this is a real treat for Gaiman''s fans. Here, he writes with a fuller sense of character. Focusing on a smaller cast gives him the room to breathe life into these figures.\n <em>\n  Anansi\n </em>\n is also a story about fathers, sons, and brothers and how difficult it can be to get along even when they are so similar. Darkly funny and heartwarming to the end, this book is an addictive read not easily forgotten.\n <em>\n  â€“Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/698'),
(906, 'Anathem', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this follow-up to his historical Baroque Cycle trilogy, which fictionalized the early-18th century scientific revolution, Stephenson (\n <em>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </em>\n ) conjures a far-future Earth-like planet, Arbre, where scientists, philosophers and mathematiciansâ€”a religious order unto themselvesâ€”have been cloistered behind concent (convent) walls. Their role is to nurture all knowledge while safeguarding it from the vagaries of the irrational saecular outside world. Among the monastic scholars is 19-year-old Raz, collected into the concent at age eight and now a decenarian, or tenner (someone allowed contact with the world beyond the stronghold walls only once a decade). But millennia-old rules are cataclysmically shattered when extraterrestrial catastrophe looms, and Raz and his teenage companionsâ€”engaging in intense intellectual debate one moment, wrestling like rambunctious adolescents the nextâ€”are summoned to save the world. Stephenson''s expansive storytelling echoes Walter Miller''s classic\n <em>\n  A Canticle for Leibowitz\n </em>\n , the space operas of Larry Niven and the cultural meditations Douglas Hofstadterâ€”a heady mix of antecedents that makes for long stretches of dazzling entertainment occasionally interrupted by pages of numbing colloquy.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephenson has never been an easy writer to pin down, and he has a reputation for not always wearing his erudition lightly. Particularly in his later booksâ€”and that now includes\n <em>\n  Anathem\n </em>\n â€”readers are vetted at the door before being invited into the authorâ€™s labyrinthine worlds. The early books were held up alongside the work of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and other cyberpunk gods, though in the last decade Stephenson has carved a niche as one of the most ambitious writers working today in any genre.\n <em>\n  Anathem\n </em>\n is intellectually rigorous and exceedingly complex, even to the point, as the\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n avows, of being â€œgrandiose, overwrought and pretty damn dull.â€ Others complained of too much abstraction. Stephensonâ€™s fans are legion, however, and many will add\n <em>\n  Anathem\n </em>\n to their list of must-read doorstops.\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/139'),
(907, 'And Then There Were None', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Considered the best mystery novel ever written by many readers,\n <em>\n  And Then There Were None\n </em>\n is the story of 10 strangers, each lured to Indian Island by a mysterious host. Once his guests have arrived, the host accuses each person of murder. Unable to leave the island, the guests begin to share their darkest secrets--until they begin to die.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Agatha Christie''s masterpiece.'' Spectator ''One of the very best, most genuinely bewildering Christies.'' Observer ''The most astonishingly impudent, ingenious and altogether successful mystery story since The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.'' Daily Herald ''One of the most ingenious thrillers in many a day.'' Time Magazine ''There is no doubt that this is a highly ingenious jigsaw by a master of puzzling.'' Books ''There is no cheating; the reader is just bamboozled in a straightforward way from first to last! The most colossal achievement of a colossal career. The book must rank with Mrs Christie''s previous best -- on the top notch of detection.'' New Statesman ''The whole thing is utterly impossible and utterly fascinating. It is the most baffling mystery Agatha Christie has ever written.'' New York Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1330'),
(908, 'Andromeda Strain', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some biologists speculate that if we ever make contact with extraterrestrials, those life forms are likely to be--like most life on earth--one-celled or smaller creatures, more comparable to bacteria than little green men. And even though such organisms would not likely be able to harm humans, the possibility exists that first contact might be our last.\n</p>\n<p>\n That''s the scientific supposition that Michael Crichton formulates and follows out to its conclusion in his excellent debut novel,\n <em>\n  The Andromeda Strain\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n A Nobel-Prize-winning bacteriologist, Jeremy Stone, urges the president to approve an extraterrestrial decontamination facility to sterilize returning astronauts, satellites, and spacecraft that might carry an "unknown biologic agent." The government agrees, almost too quickly, to build the top-secret Wildfire Lab in the desert of Nevada. Shortly thereafter, unbeknownst to Stone, the U.S. Army initiates the "Scoop" satellite program, an attempt to actively collect space pathogens for use in biological warfare. When Scoop VII crashes a couple years later in the isolated Arizona town of Piedmont, the Army ends up getting more than it asked for.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Andromeda Strain\n </em>\n follows Stone and rest of the scientific team mobilized to react to the Scoop crash as they scramble to understand and contain a strange and deadly outbreak. Crichton''s first book may well be his best; it has an earnestness that is missing from his later, more calculated thrillers.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.\n</p>\n<p>\n Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outerfringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona.\n</p>\n<p>\n Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont,a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town''s inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/815'),
(909, 'Angel Falls', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Angel Falls is a dramatic, richly nuanced story of an ordinary man who makes an extraordinary decision and gambles with a thorny, painful question.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Michaela, beloved wife and mother of two, lies in a coma. It is now up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together, to care for their grieving, frightened children. Doctors have told Liam not to expect a recovery, but he maintains hope that love can accomplish what medicine cannot. Day after day, he sits by her bedside, holding her hand, sharing the stories of their life together. Then he discovers the evidence of his wife''s secret pastÂ—a long-hidden first marriage to international movie star Julian True. When he sees photos of her glowing happiness with Julian, he knows the actor was more than simply Michaela''s first husband. He was the love of her life. Liam senses that Julian is the one person who can bring her back to life, but at what cost? And does Liam love his wife enough to risk losing her to a man no woman could resist?\n </p>\n <p>\n  His decision strikes deep into the heart of his family, transforming each of them in unexpected ways.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1918'),
(910, 'Angels &amp; Demons', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil EuropÃ©en pour la Recherche NuclÃ©aire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (\n <em>\n  Digital Fortress\n </em>\n ) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels &amp; Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville''s\n <em>\n  The Eight\n </em>\n (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco''s\n <em>\n  Foucault''s Pendulum\n </em>\n (but more accessible).\n</p>\n<p>\n Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society''s ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra''s daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It''s tasty.\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Look Inside the Motion Picture\n  <em>\n   Angels &amp; Demons\n  </em>\n  (Sony Pictures, 2009)\n </strong>\n <br />\n Click on each image below to see a larger view\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca with College of Cardinals\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon and Ayelet Zurer as Vittoria Vetra\n</p>\n<p>\n Armin Mueller-Stahl as Straus and Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, Ayelet Zurer as Vittoria Vetra, and Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca\n</p>\n<p>\n Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pitting scientific terrorists against the cardinals of Vatican City, this well-plotted if over-the-top thriller is crammed with Vatican intrigue and high-tech drama. Robert Langdon, a Harvard specialist on religious symbolism, is called in by a Swiss research lab when Dr. Vetra, the scientist who discovered antimatter, is found murdered with the cryptic word "Illuminati" branded on his chest. These Iluminati were a group of Renaissance scientists, including Galileo, who met secretly in Rome to discuss new ideas in safety from papal threat; what the long-defunct association has to do with Dr. Vetra''s death is far from clear. Vetra''s daughter, Vittoria, makes a frightening discovery: a lethal amount of antimatter, sealed in a vacuum flask that will explode in six hours unless its batteries are recharged, is missing. Almost immediately, the Swiss Guard discover that the flask is hidden beneath Vatican City, where the conclave to elect a new pope has just begun. Vittoria and Langdon rush to recover the canister, but they aren''t allowed into the Vatican until it is discovered that the four principal papal candidates are missing. The terrorists who are holding the cardinals call in regarding their pending murders, offering clues tied to ancient Illuminati meeting sites and runes. Meanwhile, it becomes clear that a sinister Vatican entity with messianic delusions is in league with the terrorists. Packing the novel with sinister figures worthy of a Medici, Brown (Digital Fortress) sets an explosive pace as Langdon and Vittoria race through a Michelin-perfect Rome to try to save the cardinals and find the antimatter before it explodes. Though its premises strain credulity, Brown''s tale is laced with twists and shocks that keep the reader wired right up to the last revelation. (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/48'),
(911, 'Angels All Over Town', 'Luanne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This appealing first novel explores the emotional growth of three sisters as they fall in love, marry, and struggle with changing loyalties. Una, the eldest, narrates the story. She is an actress in a popular daytime soap; the others are art history students. The youngest sister is first to marry. Her husband is a wealthy and possessive doctor, jealous of her affection for her sisters. The middle sister finds a mate also, and Una first experiences an unsatisfactory romance, then truly believes she has fallen in love. Her new love is tested by a promotional tour to Europe and a starring role in a movie. Occasional visits from their father''s ghost provide a sort of moral commentary. This is a thoroughly modern romance, humorous and well written. Recommended for public libraries. Margaret B. Allen, M.L.S., formerly with Bennington Free Lib., Vt.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Luanne Rice made her triumphant debut with this delicately drawn but emotionally powerful portrait of a womanâ€™s extraordinary journey of the heart and soulâ€“a timeless story of love, sisterhood, and the hope that emerges even out of heartbreak....\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Una Cavan doesnâ€™t believe in ghosts. But ghosts seem to believe in her. At least, her fatherâ€™s ghost does, walking into and out of her life as casually as if he were entering and exiting a room. Una has always believed the Cavan women had the power of witches, and from the beaches of Connecticut to the bustle of New York City theyâ€™ve shared the special unbreakable bond of sisters. No man has been able to come between themâ€¦until Lily marries the â€œperfectâ€ man and begins to drift away and Margo gets engaged. With another failed relationship behind her, and a thriving career as an actress ahead of her, Una wonders if sheâ€™s destined to be aloneâ€“or if there isnâ€™t something more, something magical that life has in store for her. Then an unexpected encounter gives her the answer sheâ€™s been seekingâ€¦.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1914'),
(912, 'Angels Flight', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Connelly, whose novel\n <em>\n  The Poet\n </em>\n won the 1997 Anthony Award for Best Mystery, is already recognized as one of the smartest and most vivid scribes of the hard-boiled police procedural. Now, with his much-anticipated sixth Harry Bosch novel,\n <em>\n  Angels Flight\n </em>\n , Connelly offers one of the finest pieces of mystery writing to appear in 1998. Bosch is awakened in the middle of the night and, out of rotation, he is assigned to the murder investigation of the high-profile African American attorney Howard Elias. When Bosch arrives at the scene, it seems that almost the entire LAPD is present, including the IAD (the Internal Affairs Division). Elias, who made a career out of suing the police, was sadistically gunned down on the Angels Flight tram just as he was beginning a case that would have struck the core of the department; not surprisingly, L.A.''s men and women in blue become the center of the investigation. Haunted by the ghost of the L.A. riots, plagued by incessant media attention, and facing turmoil at home, Bosch suddenly finds himself questioning friends and associates while working side by side with some longtime enemies.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Angels Flight\n </em>\n is a detective''s nightmare scenario and is disturbingly relevant to the racially tense last decade of the 20th century. Amidst the twists and turns of his complex narrative, Connelly affirms his rightful place among the masters of contemporary mystery fiction.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hollywood homicide detective Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch (Trunk Music, 1996, etc.) is up to his very stiff neck in politics, police corruption and racial tension. The echo of the Rodney King case is almost deafening when Howard Elias, an African American lawyer famous for suing the LAPD for racially motivated brutality, is shot dead on the short train run up a steep hill in downtown L.A. known as Angels Flight. Bosch and his team?a black woman named Kizmin Rider and a black man named Jerry Edgar?are assigned the highly sensitive case. Although Bosch sniffs racial and departmental political hokum among the brass, he doggedly focuses on finding the killer, knowing that cops will be among the suspects. It all smells even worse when Bosch discovers signs of evidence tampering by the first cops on the crime scene and learns that the civilian attorney assigned to oversee the investigation had personal ties to Elias. A bit of a cowboy anyway, Bosch is even more ornery than usual, since his wife has gone AWOL and returned to gambling. Further hampered by a secretive and even obstructive departmental leadership and by his former partner''s apparent links to the crime, Bosch moves well outside the rules to discover the ugly motivation for the killing. Connelly has all the hard-boiled procedural moves down and gives Bosch a reckless crusader''s moral code. The finale, set against riots, delivers a brutal, anti-establishment sort of justice. This isn''t Connelly''s best; the plot is sufficiently ornate to diffuse tension, and Bosch seems to be evolving from the true character of early books into a sort of icon, a Dirty Harry for our times. Simultaneous Time Warner audio; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1353'),
(913, 'The Anguished Dawn', 'James P. Baen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n After a near miss by a white-hot protoplanet, Earth is devastated, civilization as we know it has ended, and the survivors are reverting to barbarism. Only the Kronian colony on Saturn''s moons preserves technology and human culture. Landen Keene, taken off the Earth before the disaster, is a key figure in the Kronian efforts to rebuild civilization on Earth. Then he finds that other survivors from Earth miss the power they once wielded, and are bent on restoring the old privileges and hierarchy, with themselves at the top. And if subtle methods fail, they won''t hesitate to use the violent tactics that served them well back on Earth. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1733'),
(914, 'Another Fine Myth', 'Robert Asprin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Skeeve was a magician''s apprentice--until an assassin struck and his master was killed. Now, with a purple-tongued demon named Aahz as a companion, Skeeve is on a quest to get even. This title is the first of Asprin''s bestselling Myth novels to become available in digest-sized paperback.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1602'),
(915, 'Anthem, Large-Print Edition', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Anthem is Ayn Rand''s classic tale of a dark future age of the great "We"-a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. Written a full decade before George Orwell''s "1984," this dystopian novel depicts a man who seeks escape from a society in which individuality has been utterly destroyed. Rand expertly shows how collectivism (including social programs in the United States) destroys freedom and individuality. Her philosophy is simple: "planning" is a synonym for "collectivism," and "collectivism" is a metaphor for communism and tyranny. This important book should be read by all who are concerned about the role of government in modern life. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/240'),
(916, 'Antrax', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A new novel by Terry Brooks is always a cause for celebration. For more than twenty years, the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of the classic Shannara epic has proven himself one of the modern masters of fantasy, winning the hearts and minds of devoted readers around the world. In his last acclaimed novel,\n  <em>\n   Ilse\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Witch\n  </em>\n  , a brave company of explorers led by the last Druid, Walker Boh, traveled across unknown seas in search of an elusive magic. Yet perhaps Boh and his team were lured there for sinister, unforeseen purposes . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now in\n  <em>\n   Antrax\n  </em>\n  , as the crew aboard the airship\n  <em>\n   Jerle Shannara\n  </em>\n  is attacked by evil forces, the Druidâ€™s protÃ©gÃ© Bek Rowe and his companions are pursued by the mysterious Ilse Witch. Meanwhile, Boh is alone, caught in a dark maze beneath the ruined city of Castledown, stalked by a hungry, unseen enemy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For there is something alive in Castledown. Something not human. Something old beyond reckoning that covets the magic of Druids, elves, even the Ilse Witch. Something that hunts men for its own designs: Antrax. It is a spirit that commands ancient technologies and mechanical monsters, feeds off enchantment, and traps the souls of men.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the\n  <em>\n   Jerle Shannara\n  </em>\n  under siege and Antrax threatening the bold and unwary, the Ilse Witch finds herself face-to-face with a boy who claims to be the brother she last saw as an infant. Now a young man, Bek wields the magic of the wishsong and carries the Sword of Shannara upon his back. Unsure whether to trust Bek or to slay him, the Ilse Witch takes him prisoner. One has come pursuing truth, the other revenge. Yet both seek Walker Bohâ€“with the fate of the Four Lands hanging in the balance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Return to the world of beloved novelist Terry Brooks, where creatures drift up from the earth like mist, a hypnotic song can kill, a sword can cut through a veil of liesâ€“and one man, the true heir of an ancient magic, must choose between betrayal and redemption.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Return to the world of beloved novelist Terry Brooks, where creatures drift up from the earth like mist, a hypnotic song can kill, a sword can cut through a veil of lies and one man, the true heir of an ancient magic, must choose between betrayal and redemption.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1494');
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(917, 'Anybody Out There?', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n International bestseller Keyes is back with another quirky, heartwarming story of the Walsh sisters (\n <em>\n  Angels\n </em>\n , etc.). Anna Walsh has returned to the bosom of her family in the Dublin suburbs to recuperate from the horrendous car accident that has left her with multiple fractures and a disfiguring scar across her face. Desperate to go back to New York and resume her normal life, she soon packs up her bags and returns to her job in beauty PR for punk cosmetics brand Candy Grrrl. A lonely and debilitated Anna leaves e-mails and phone messages for her mysteriously absent husband, Aidan, pleading for him to reply. [...] Meanwhile, she reminisces about their courtship and marriage while her kooky family (especially her Mum and hyperactive PI sister Helen) tries to buoy her spirits. Keyes''s trademark blend of humor, diverse characters and a warm but unsentimental tone strikes gold.\n <em>\n  (May 9)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n So tantalizing is the mystery behind Anna Walsh''s multiple debilitating and disfiguring injuries, it would be criminal to explain why the self-proclaimed owner of the "Best Job in the World" (PR maven for Candy Grrrl cosmetics) has left her trendy New York life to recuperate in the "good front room" of her parents'' Dublin cottage, since Keyes herself strings readers along until the end of part 1 before revealing the cause of Anna''s broken bones and broken heart. Suffice it to say that readers will be as devastated as Anna is to learn what awaits her when she returns to America and begins the agonizing process of rebuilding her shattered life. Hardly sounds like the stuff of raucous humor, now does it? And yet Keyes'' latest madcap escapade starring one of the five wacky Walsh sisters teems with moments of joyous hilarity and laugh-out-loud humor. Anna is the kind of gal every woman would want as her best friend, sister, or daughter. Plucky doesn''t begin to describe her approach to life, and her journey of self-discovery can stand as a provocative lesson in how to cope with demoralizing crises. Keyes fans will embrace this as her best yet, and first-time Keyes readers will want to read everything she''s written.\n <em>\n  Carol Haggas\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1208'),
(918, 'The Apostle', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Every politician has a secret. And when the daughter of a politically-connected family is kidnapped abroad, America''s new president will agree to anything - even a deadly and ill-advised rescue plan - in order to keep his secret hidden.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Master of suspense and #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most riveting international thriller yet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A new administration and a new approach to dealing with America''s enemies have left covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath without a job. But when American doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave the president with only one course of action.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a dangerous assignment that the United States government will deny any knowledge of, Scot Harvath must secretly infiltrate Kabul''s notorious Policharki Prison and free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom - al-Qaeda mastermind, Mustafa Khan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when Harvath arrives, he quickly learns that there is more to the kidnapping than anyone dares to admit. And as the subterfuge is laid bare, Harvath must examine his own career of hunting down and killing terrorists, and ask himself if he has what it takes to help one of the world''s worst go free.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Brimming with the kind of ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity Brad Thor''s internationally bestselling novels are known for,\n  <em>\n   The Apostle\n  </em>\n  doubles down on the blockbuster success of\n  <em>\n   The Last Patriot\n  </em>\n  and reaffirms Thor''s status as the master of the political thriller.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2454'),
(919, 'The Appeal', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the author of twenty bestselling books, John Grisham has set the standard for legal thrillers since the debut of\n <em>\n  The Firm\n </em>\n in 1991. Enjoy this Q&amp;A--as well as a personal note to Amazon readers--from John Grisham.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1. Your new novel starts off where most courtroom dramas end--with the verdict. Where did you get the idea to reverse the usual order of events this time around?\n </strong>\n <br />\n The actual trial is not a terribly significant part of the story. Most all of the action and intrigue begins after the trial is over, with the verdict and the subsequent appeal.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  2.\n  <em>\n   The Appeal\n  </em>\n  overtly suggests that elected judges can be bought. If the novel is meant as a cautionary tale, what''s next--the Presidential primaries?\n </strong>\n <br />\n Why not? Over one billion dollars will be spent next year in the Presidential primaries and general election. With that kind of money floating around, anything can be bought.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  3. Speaking of electoral politics, you''ve been more vocal recently about your political views ... first supporting Jim Webb for Senate and now endorsing Hillary Clinton for the White House. Have you given any thought to running for office yourself?\n </strong>\n <br />\n No. I made that mistake 25 years ago, and promised myself I would never do it again. I enjoy watching and participating in politics from the sidelines, but it''s best to keep some distance.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  4. This is your first legal thriller in three years. How did it feel to get back to the genre that started it all, and can fans expect another thriller from you next year?\n </strong>\n <br />\n I still enjoy writing the legal thrillers, and don''t plan to get too far away from them. Obviously, they have been very good to me, and they remain popular. I plan to write one a year for the next several years.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  5. Your nonfiction book\n  <em>\n   The Innocent Man\n  </em>\n  continues to be a bestseller in paperback. In your ongoing work with The Innocence Project, have you come across another story of the wrongfully convicted that begs to be written as nonfiction?\n </strong>\n <br />\n There are literally hundreds of great stories out there about wrongfully convicted defendants. I am continually astounded by these stories, and I resist the temptation to take the plunge again into non-fiction.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  6. What''s on your bedside reading list at the moment?\n </strong>\n <br />\n 1.\n <em>\n  The Nine\n </em>\n by Jeffrey Toobin\n <br />\n 2.  Eric Clapton''s autobiography\n <br />\n 3.\n <em>\n  East of Eden\n </em>\n by John Steinbeck.\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A Mississippi jury returns a $41-million verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping carcinogenic waste into a small town''s water supply. The company''s ruthless billionaire CEO is thwarted and the good guys (a courageous young woman who lost her husband and child and her two lawyers who''ve gone half a million dollars in debt preparing her case) receives its just reward. This sounds like the end of a Grisham legal thriller, but instead it''s the beginning of a book-length lesson in how greed and big business have corrupted our electoral and judicial systems. Grisham''s characters are over-the-top. The CEO and the other equally overdone villainsâ€”his venal trophy wife, a self-serving senator and a pair of smarmy political fixersâ€”as well as the unbelievably good-hearted, self-sacrificing lawyers and an honorable state judge, are one dimensional. Michael Beck, with his natural Southern drawl, does a fine job of adding credibility and nuance to the large cast. But his efforts are for naught. In fact, the more he makes us feel for these characters, the less apt we are to be satisfied with the sourball moral of Grisham''s downbeat discourse.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/707'),
(920, 'Are You There, Vodka? It&#39;s Me, Chelsea', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Handler proves the adage that just because one can, doesn''t mean one should. This applies to both her role as a writer and a narrator. In this disjointed collection of memories and experiences, even her overenthusiastic voice cannot compensate for the irrelevance and frivolousness that is this book. Her anecdotes cover a range of topics from sex to sibling rivalry to parental humiliation, all showcasing how smart and witty she can be-in hindsight. Whether rambling about how she''s freaked out by red-headed men or bemoaning her arrest and short stint in prison, her attempts to be funny fall flat and her valley-girl persona wears quickly on listeners. Her lively voice has the potential to do well with audiobooks, but the overall tone and ecstatic energy she emits only emphasizes the inconsequential prose. Listeners might find themselves asking for Vodka to help reach the end of this production. A Simon &amp; Schuster hardcover.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Chelsea Handler writes like Judy Blume, if Judy Blume were into vodka, Ecstasy, and sleeping with midgets and nineteen-year-olds."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Jennifer Weiner, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  In Her Shoes\n </em>\n [HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]"Ms. Handler''s style is a friendlier, more workaday version of the haughty self-abasement practiced by Sarah Silverman, leavened by the everywoman spirit of Kathy Griffin...She seems like a cruel queen bee from an expensive college: There''s something suspiciously sophisticated about how her jokes line up that suggests the moral austerity of a comic not of [Joan] Rivers''s bad-girl school: Tina Fey."\n</p>\n<p>\n --\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n [HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]"Where have I been all of Chelsea Handler''s life? I had no idea how funny, how brilliant she is. She is too clever for words."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Liz Smith,\n <em>\n  New York Post\n </em>\n [HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]"Chelsea Handler is a terrific comedian and a hilarious writer."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Jay Leno\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/607'),
(921, 'Armor', 'John Steakley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The military sci-fi classic in a striking new package\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Felix is an Earth soldier, encased in special body armor designed to withstand Earth''s most implacable enemy-a bioengineered, insectoid alien horde. But Felix is also equipped with internal mechanisms that enable him, and his fellow soldiers, to survive battle situations that would destroy a man''s mind.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a remarkable novel of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat-and how the strength of the human spirit can be the greatest armor of all.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n The long-awaited reissue of Armor--the perennial science fiction bestseller! It is the story of Felix, a man consumed by fear and hatred. It is a story of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat, and also of how strength of spirit can be the greatest armor of all. Ads in Locus. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/131'),
(922, 'The Art of Racing in the Rain', 'Garth Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you''ve ever wondered what your dog is thinking, Stein''s third novel offers an answer. Enzo is a lab terrier mix plucked from a farm outside Seattle to ride shotgun with race car driver Denny Swift as he pursues success on the track and off. Denny meets and marries Eve, has a daughter, ZoÃ«, and risks his savings and his life to make it on the professional racing circuit. Enzo, frustrated by his inability to speak and his lack of opposable thumbs, watches Denny''s old racing videos, coins koanlike aphorisms that apply to both driving and life, and hopes for the day when his life as a dog will be over and he can be reborn a man. When Denny hits an extended rough patch, Enzo remains his most steadfast if silent supporter. Enzo is a reliable companion and a likable enough narrator, though the string of Denny''s bad luck stories strains believability. Much like Denny, however, Stein is able to salvage some dignity from the over-the-top drama.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe perfect book for anyone who knows that some of our best friends walk beside us on four legs; that compassion isnâ€™t only for humans; and that the relationship between two souls...meant for each other never really comes to an end.â€ (Jodi Picoult )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Art of Racing in The Rain has everything: love, tragedy, redemption, danger, and--most especially--the canine narrator Enzo. This old soul of a dog has much to teach us about being human.â€ (Sara Gruen, Author of Water for Elephants )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of those stories that may earn its place next to Richard Bachâ€™s â€˜Jonathan Livingston Seagull,â€™ Paulo Coelhoâ€™s â€˜The Alchemist,â€™ and Yann Martelâ€™s â€˜Life of Pi.â€™â€ (Portland Oregonian )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI savored Garth Steinâ€™s The Art of Racing in the Rain for many reasons: a dog who speaks, the thrill of competitive racing, a heart-tugging storyline, and--best of all--the fact that it is a meditation on humility and hope in the face of despair.â€ (Wally Lamb, Author of She''s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFans of Marley &amp; Me, rejoice.â€ (Entertainment Weekly )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/133'),
(923, 'The Art of War', 'Sun-tzu &amp; Sun Pin &amp; D. E. Tarver &amp; Sun Zi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Sun Tzu s ideas have been the cornerstone of every great success story since it was written, around 2500 years ago. It should be a central part of your library and way of thinking for business, military, or day-to-day affairs.\n</p>\n<p>\n This interpretation of\n <em>\n  The Art of War\n </em>\n is written in plain English. It does not bog down with flowery, philosophical, or tedious writing. There is no beating around the bush. Strategy is strategy, and the same principles are used whether you are fighting for success or for survival. All organizations, whether predator or prey, function by these same principles no matter their size. I could have added fifty pages of personal dribble or opinion, but I chose to leave the text the way I think it was intended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1042'),
(924, 'Artemis Fowl', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eoin Colfer describes his new book,\n <em>\n  Artemis Fowl\n </em>\n , as "\n <em>\n  Die Hard\n </em>\n with fairies." He''s not far wrong.\n</p>\n<p>\n Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. With two trusty sidekicks in tow, he hatches a cunning plot to divest the fairyfolk of their pot of gold. Of course, he isn''t foolish enough to believe in all that "gold at the end of the rainbow" nonsense. Rather, he knows that the only way to separate the little people from their stash is to kidnap one of them and wait for the ransom to arrive. But when the time comes to put his plan into action, he doesn''t count on the appearance of the extrasmall, pointy-eared Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaisance) Unit--and her senior officer, Commander Root, a man (sorry, elf) who will stop at nothing to get her back.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fantastic stuff from beginning to end,\n <em>\n  Artemis Fowl\n </em>\n is a rip-roaring, 21st-century romp of the highest order. The author has let his imagination run riot by combining folklore, fantasy, and a fistful of high-tech funk in an outrageously devilish book that could well do for fairies what Harry Potter has done for wizardry. But be warned: this is no gentle frolic, so don''t be fooled by the fairy subject matter. Instead, what we have here is well-written, sophisticated, rough ''n'' tumble storytelling with enough high-octane attitude to make it a seriously cool read for anyone over the age of 10.\n <em>\n  --Susan Harrison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Colfer''s (Benny and Omar) crime caper fantasy, the first in a series, starts off with a slam-bang premise: anti-hero Artemis Fowl is a boy-genius last in line of a legendary crime family teetering on the brink of destruction. With the assistance of his bodyguard, Butler, he masterminds his plan to regain the Fowls'' former glory: capture a fairy and hold her ransom for the legendary fairy gold. However, his feisty mark, Holly, turns out to be a member of the "LEPrecon, an elite branch of the Lower Elements Police," so a wisecracking team of satyrs, trolls, dwarfs and fellow fairies set out to rescue her. Despite numerous clever gadgets and an innovative take on traditional fairy lore, the author falls short of the bar. The rapid-fire dialogue may work as a screenplay with the aid of visual effects (a film is due out from Talk/Miramax in 2002) but, on the page, it often falls flat. The narrative hops from character to character, so readers intrigued by Artemis''s wily, autocratic personality have to kill a good deal of time with the relatively bland Holly and her cohorts [...]. Technology buffs may appreciate the imaginative fairy-world inventions and action-lovers will get some kicks, but the series is no classic in the making. Ages 12-up.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1344'),
(925, 'Assassin&#39;s Apprentice', 'Robin Hobb &amp; Michael Whelan &amp; John Howe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bastard sons of kings play a noble role in fantasy: not only were King Arthur and Modred by-blows, but it is often suggested that Merlin himself came to power from the "wrong side of the bed." While Hobb''s offering has a few too many illegitimate heirs backstabbing around, this is still a delightful take on the powers and politics behind the throne. Fitz, who is often called the "Boy" or the "Bastard," was begotten by good Prince Chivalry upon some "peasant" woman. At age six, he is given over to the safekeeping of the prince''s man, Burrich. Fitz''s impolitic existence causes the prince to abdicate his claim to the throne, and he and his wife leave the court, and the boy, behind. Fitz has inherited the "Skill," a mind-bending talent, and also has the ability to meld his thoughts with those of nonhuman creatures and to mentally "repel" physical advances. When Fitz finally comes to King Shrewd''s attention, he is given over to the Royal Assassin''s tutelage and trained to carry out the king''s devious plans. The novel''s conceit-that it offers Fitz''s memoirs from childhood through adolescence-allows for several sequels. A gleaming debut in the crowded field of epic fantasies and Arthurian romances.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As a royal bastard in the household of King Shrewd, a boy called "Fitz" spends his early years in the king''s stables. When the magic in his blood marks him for destiny, he begins receiving secret instruction, by order of the king, in the art of assassination, a calling that places him in the midst of a nest of intrigue and arcane maneuverings. Firmly grounded in the trappings of high fantasy, Hobb''s first novel features a protagonist whose coming of age revolves around the discovery of the meaning of loyalty and trust. This gracefully written fantasy belongs in most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/578'),
(926, 'Assassin&#39;s Quest', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this conclusion to the Farseer saga, FitzChivalry''s quest for revenge on the usurping Regal requires him to journey to the Elderlings (wise old mages in the classic mold) and afterwards to realize the emergence of his own magical gifts, at which point the quest comes to an end after a mere 688 pages. Like much high fantasy these days, the book could have been pruned more than a trifle; on the other hand, along with the extra wordage come extra measures of characterization, world building, and emotionally compelling scenes of both magic and battle. And this is definitely the end of one story, although the world Hobb has created is now sufficiently developed (even why the characters have such archetypical names is explained) to be the scene of future books. In all, this is an improvement over its predecessors that will please their readers and probably whet their appetites for more from Hobb.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Final installment--each entry independently intelligible--of Hobb''s stunning fantasy trilogy (Royal Assassin, 1996; Assassin''s Apprentice, 1995) about the beleaguered Six Duchies and their Farseer kings. Months ago, King Verity vanished into the far mountains in search of the semi-mythical Elderlings, whose help he must have in order to defeat the rampaging Red Ship Raiders, leaving his murderous, venal, and insanely ambitious brother, Prince Regal, to dispose of Verity''s last few loyalists at his leisure--including narrator, spy, and assassin FitzChivalry. Poor Fitz, unable to contact his beloved Molly (she thinks he''s dead) and daughter (by Molly) for fear of exposing them to Regal''s attentions, uses his magic Skill to locate Verity and receives an imperious summons: ``COME TO ME!'''' So, abandoning his plan to assassinate Regal, Fitz enters the mountains with a small band of helpers. Eventually, having evaded Regal''s minions, Fitz comes upon Verity Skill-carving a huge dragon out of black rock; nearby stand other lifelike dragon-sculptures that, to Fitz''s animal-magic Wit, seem somehow alive. Are these eerie sculptures what remain of the Elderlings? Yet, for all his Skill, Verity cannot bring the dragons to life; and soon Regal will arrive with his armies and his Skilled coterie. An enthralling conclusion to this superb trilogy, displaying an exceptional combination of originality, magic, adventure, character, and drama. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/581'),
(927, 'Assholes Finish First', 'Tucker Max', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What do you do after you write a #1 bestselling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures that makes you rich and famous? Celebrate by getting more drunk and having insane amounts of sex, obviously. And pretty soon you''ve got another bestselling book on your hands.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stuffed full of ridiculous stories of bad decisions, debauchery, and sexual recklessness,\n <em>\n  Assholes Finish First\n </em>\n starts where\n <em>\n  I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell\n </em>\n left off, then proceeds to "some next-level shit."\n</p>\n<p>\n You already know how women react to confidence, game, and vodka, but what happens when you add money and fame to the mix? You get answers to the hard questions you''ve never thought of asking:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ What''s it like to have sex with a midget? What about two midgets?\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ What does it do to a man to watch a 19-year-old do wind sprints to sober up, so that she can have sex with you before her twin sister does?\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ At what number of virgins does deflowering them stop being fun and start feeling like a job?\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ When a girl you met three hours ago decides to tattoo your name on her body, what is the appropriate reaction?\n</p>\n<p>\n The answers are inside, they are absurd and hilarious, and they are the product of one man''s experiences:\n</p>\n<p>\n His name is Tucker Max, and he is still an asshole.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tucker Max received his BA with highest honors from the University of Chicago in 1998, and attended Duke Law School on an academic scholarship, where he graduated with a JD in 2001. His first book, "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell," is a #1 NY Times Best Seller, has spent over 150 weeks on the NY Times Best Seller List over five calendar years, and has sold over 1 million copies. He has also been credited with being the originator and leader of the literary genre, "fratire," and was nominated to\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n Magazine''s 100 Most Influential List in 2009. He currently lives in Austin, Texas, and can be reached through his website, TuckerMax.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/473'),
(928, 'The Associate', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Grisham''s contemporary legal thriller offers an action-and-suspense plot reminiscent of that of his breakout book, 1991''s The Firm, in contrast to 2008''s didactic The Appeal, which served as a platform for his concerns about the corrupting effects of judicial elections. Kyle McAvoy, a callow Yale Law School student, dreams of a public service gig on graduation, until shadowy figures blackmail him with a videotape that could revive a five-year-old rape accusation. Instead of helping those in need, McAvoy accepts a position at a huge Wall Street firm, Scully &amp; Pershing, whose clients include a military contractor enmeshed in a $800 billion lawsuit concerning a newly-designed aircraft. McAvoy can avoid exposure of his past if he feeds his new masters inside information on the case. Readers should be prepared for some predictable twists, an ending with some unwarranted ambiguity and some unconvincing details (the idea that a secret file room in a high stakes litigation case would be closed from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. every night stretches credulity to the breaking point). Still, Grisham devotees should be satisfied, even if this is one of his lesser works.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics agree with\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n that\n <em>\n  The Associate\n </em>\n "is vintage Grisham, for better or worse, made timely with its sorry portrait of what passes for everyday ethics on Wall Street." Like his previous novels,\n <em>\n  The Associate\n </em>\n is heavy on readability, predictability, and pace, and lighter on character development, scene setting, and styleâ€”no surprises here. Fans of Grisham cited masterfully drawn characters and page-turning subplots, but less enthusiastic reviewers faulted stock villains, a rather mysterious Kyle, and implausible storylines.\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n even claimed that unlike Michael Crichton or Scott Turow, who "wrestle with actual issues," Grisham deals with, well, nothing. Still, you know what you''re getting into with\n <em>\n  The Associate\n </em>\n , for better or for worse.\n <br />\n Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/709'),
(929, 'At First Sight', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When we last left 37-year-old Jeremy Marsh (a scant six months ago, in Sparks''s April pub\n  <em>\n   True Believer\n  </em>\n  ), the science columnist had traveled from his New York base to Boone Creek, N.C., to get a storyâ€”and ended up falling in love with Lexie Darnell, the 30-year-old town librarian. Now Lexie''s pregnantâ€”but it''s true love (and a portable job) that''s allowing divorcÃ© Jeremy to move down so they can marry and build a life together. The book centers on the tension-filled runup to the wedding. Sparks pulls out all the smalltown stopsâ€”psychic grandmother, meddling mayor, sullen townie ex, jealous best friendsâ€”and offers Mars/Venus commentary on what makes his characters tick. Jeremy''s writer''s block, instead of heightening the will-they-or-won''t-they tension, is as enervating for readers as it is for him. More compelling are the mysterious e-mails Jeremy receives that suggest Lexie may not be telling the truth (about who the father is, for one thing), and the character of Lexie''s psychic grandmother, Doris, who has correctly predicted the sex of every child born in the town. As the wedding gets closer (and house renovations suck more and more money from Jeremy''s dwindling savings), Jeremy and Lexie have some serious talking to do, and Sparks throws in a substantial zinger at the end. It''s majorly manipulative and totally effective. Have plenty of tissues on hand.\n  <em>\n   (Oct. 18)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The relationship between journalist Jeremy Marsh and librarian Lexie Darnell that began in\n  <em>\n   True Believer\n  </em>\n  (2005) has now progressed. Jeremy is moving from New York to Boone Creek, North Carolina, as they plan for their wedding and the birth of their child. A friend of Jeremy''s warns him that he really doesn''t know Lexie, and asks him if he''s sure that he''s in love. With the seeds of suspicion planted, Jeremy starts receiving mysterious e-mails that also cast doubt on their relationship. Add to that the fact that he is dealing with writer''s block and that he has to come to terms with a change in lifestyle as an urbanite now living in the rural South. This is a man under duress. To avoid gossip, he and Lexie are maintaining separate residences and keeping the pregnancy a secret. Lexie is comfortable with the town''s rules of behavior, but Jeremy is at a loss and finds himself tense and unsure about the future of what he thought was the perfect match. With his trademark sensitivity, Sparks delves into the nitty-gritty of relationships, and considers the sacrifices that each partner has to make in order to have a successful marriage. And readers beware: this is multiple-hankie romance.\n  <em>\n   Patty Engelmann\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1057'),
(930, 'At Risk', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  AÂ Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, attractive but hard-charging, is planning to run for governor, and as a showcase she''s planning to use a new crime initiative called At Risk-its motto: "Any crime, any time." In particular, she''s been looking for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology, and she thinks she''s found the perfect subject in an unsolved twenty-year-old murder-in Tennessee. If her office solves the case, it ought to make them all look pretty good, right?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her investigator is not soÂ sure-not sure about anything to do with this woman, really-but before he can open his mouth, a shocking piece of violence intervenes, an act that shakes up not only both their lives but the lives of everyone around them. It''s not a random event. Is it personal? Is it professional? Whatever it is, the implications are very, very bad indeed . . . and they''re about to get much worse.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sparks fly, traps spring, twists abound-this is the master working at the top of her game.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   View the trailer for "Patricia Cornwell''s At Risk", premiering on Lifetime on April 10, 2010.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cornwell''s latest-a stand-alone thriller that was originally serialized in the New York Times Magazine-is likely to disappoint even diehard fans of her bestselling Kay Scarpetta novels (The Body Farm, etc.). This time, the action is set in Boston, where an attractive and ambitious DA, Monique Lamont, seeks to use a new anticrime initiative to propel herself into the governor''s mansion. Lamont plucks her top investigator, Winston Garano, from a special forensics course to probe an obscure cold case, but the detective''s inquiries suggest that his boss may be playing a duplicitous game. The writing, pacing, characterizations and plot are far from Cornwell''s best work, and the solution to the old murder mystery is anticlimactic.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This sparky novella-length work... is read with aplomb by Kate Reading. There are two great characters, crackling with suppressed chemistry Sunday Times Kate Reading''s telling of AT RISK keeps the listener hooked from the start Waterstone''s Books Quarterly The pace is cracking. DAILY MIRROR This book is just as exciting as one of the author''s Scarpetta thrillers and is thrilling from start to finish. THE LADY\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2488'),
(931, 'Atlas Shrugged', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "Who is John Galt?" is the immortal question posed at the beginning of Ayn Rand''s masterpiece. The answer is the astonishing story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the worldâ€”and did. As passionate as it is profound,\n <em>\n  Atlas Shrugged\n </em>\n is one of the most influential novels of our time. In it, Rand dramatizes the main tenets of Objectivism, her philosophy of rational selfishness. She explores the ramifications of her radical thinking in a world that penalizes human intelligence and integrity. Part mystery, part thriller, part philosophical inquiry, part volatile love affair,\n <em>\n  Atlas Shrugged\n </em>\n is the book that confirmed Ayn Rand as one of the most popular novelist and most respected thinkers of the 20th century.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n The book''s female protagonist, Dagny Taggart, struggles to manage a transcontinental railroad amid the pressures and restrictions of massive bureaucracy. Her antagonistic reaction to a libertarian group seeking an end to government regulation is later echoed and modified in her encounter with a utopian community, Galt''s Gulch, whose members regard self-determination rather than collective responsibility as the highest ideal. --\n <em>\n  Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/241'),
(932, 'Atonement', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ian McEwan''s Booker Prize-nominated\n <em>\n  Atonement\n </em>\n is his first novel since\n <em>\n  Amsterdam\n </em>\n took home the prize in 1998. But while\n <em>\n  Amsterdam\n </em>\n was a slim, sleek piece,\n <em>\n  Atonement\n </em>\n is a more sturdy, more ambitious work, allowing McEwan more room to play, think, and experiment.\n</p>\n<p>\n We meet 13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama "The Trials of Arabella" to welcome home her older, idolized brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the glamorous Lola and the twin boys Jackson and Pierrot, aren''t up to the task, and directorial ambitions are abandoned as more interesting prospects of preoccupation come onto the scene. The charlady''s son, Robbie Turner, appears to be forcing Briony''s sister Cecilia to strip in the fountain and sends her obscene letters; Leon has brought home a dim chocolate magnate keen for a war to promote his new "Army Ammo" chocolate bar; and upstairs, Briony''s migraine-stricken mother Emily keeps tabs on the house from her bed. Soon, secrets emerge that change the lives of everyone present....\n</p>\n<p>\n The interwar, upper-middle-class setting of the book''s long, masterfully sustained opening section might recall Virginia Woolf or Henry Green, but as we move forward--eventually to the turn of the 21st century--the novel''s central concerns emerge, and McEwan''s voice becomes clear, even personal. For at heart,\n <em>\n  Atonement\n </em>\n is about the pleasures, pains, and dangers of writing, and perhaps even more, about the challenge of controlling what readers make of your writing. McEwan shouldn''t have any doubts about readers of\n <em>\n  Atonement\n </em>\n : this is a thoughtful, provocative, and at times moving book that will have readers applauding.\n <em>\n  --Alan Stewart, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This haunting novel, which just failed to win the Booker this year, is at once McEwan at his most closely observed and psychologically penetrating, and his most sweeping and expansive. It is in effect two, or even three, books in one, all masterfully crafted. The first part ushers us into a domestic crisis that becomes a crime story centered around an event that changes the lives of half a dozen people in an upper-middle-class country home on a hot English summer''s day in 1935. Young Briony Tallis, a hyperimaginative 13-year-old who sees her older sister, Cecilia, mysteriously involved with their neighbor Robbie Turner, a fellow Cambridge student subsidized by the Tallis family, points a finger at Robbie when her young cousin is assaulted in the grounds that night; on her testimony alone, Robbie is jailed. The second part of the book moves forward five years to focus on Robbie, now freed and part of the British Army that was cornered and eventually evacuated by a fleet of small boats at Dunkirk during the early days of WWII. This is an astonishingly imagined fresco that bares the full anguish of what Britain in later years came to see as a kind of victory. In the third part, Briony becomes a nurse amid wonderfully observed scenes of London as the nation mobilizes. No, she doesn''t have Robbie as a patient, but she begins to come to terms with what she has done and offers to make amends to him and Cecilia, now together as lovers. In an ironic epilogue that is yet another coup de the tre, McEwan offers Briony as an elderly novelist today, revisiting her past in fact and fancy and contributing a moving windup to the sustained flight of a deeply novelistic imagination. With each book McEwan ranges wider, and his powers have never been more fully in evidence than here. Author tour. (Mar. 19)Forecast: McEwan''s work has been building a strong literary readership, and the brilliantly evoked prewar and wartime scenes here should extend that; expect strong results from handselling to the faithful. The cover photo of a stately English home nicely establishes the novel''s atmosphere\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/383'),
(933, 'The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream', 'Barack Obama', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Barack Obama''s first book,\n <em>\n  Dreams from My Father\n </em>\n , was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book\n <em>\n  The Audacity of Hope\n </em>\n , Obama engages themes raised in his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, shares personal views on faith and values and offers a vision of the future that involves repairing a "political process that is broken" and restoring a government that has fallen out of touch with the people. We had the opportunity to ask Senator Obama a few questions about writing, reading, and politics--see his responses below.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  20 Second Interview: A Few Words with Barack Obama\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How did writing a book that you knew would be read so closely by so many compare to writing your first book, when few people knew who you were?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n In many ways,\n <em>\n  Dreams from My Father\n </em>\n was harder to write. At that point, I wasn''t even sure that I could write a book. And writing the first book really was a process of self-discovery, since it touched on my family and my childhood in a much more intimate way. On the other hand, writing\n <em>\n  The Audacity of Hope\n </em>\n paralleled the work that I do every day--trying to give shape to all the issues that we face as a country, and providing my own personal stamp on them.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What is your writing process like? You have such a busy schedule, how did you find time to write?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I''m a night owl, so I usually wrote at night after my Senate day was over, and after my family was asleep--from 9:30 p.m. or so until 1 a.m. I would work off an outline--certain themes or stories that I wanted to tell--and get them down in longhand on a yellow pad. Then I''d edit while typing in what I''d written.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n If readers are to come away from\n <em>\n  The Audacity of Hope\n </em>\n with one action item (a New Year''s Resolution for 2007, perhaps?), what should it be?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Get involved in an issue that you''re passionate about. It almost doesnâ€™t matter what it is--improving the school system, developing strategies to wean ourselves off foreign oil, expanding health care for kids. We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You''re known for being able to work with people across ideological lines. Is that possible in today''s polarized Washington?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n It is possible. There are a lot of well-meaning people in both political parties. Unfortunately, the political culture tends to emphasize conflict, the media emphasizes conflict, and the structure of our campaigns rewards the negative. I write about these obstacles in chapter 4 of my book, "Politics." When you focus on solving problems instead of scoring political points, and emphasize common sense over ideology, you''d be surprised what can be accomplished. It also helps if you''re willing to give other people credit--something politicians have a hard time doing sometimes.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How do you make people passionate about moderate and complex ideas?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I think the country recognizes that the challenges we face aren''t amenable to sound-bite solutions. People are looking for serious solutions to complex problems. I don''t think we need more moderation per se--I think we should be bolder in promoting universal health care, or dealing with global warming. We just need to understand that actually solving these problems won''t be easy, and that whatever solutions we come up with will require consensus among groups with divergent interests. That means everybody has to listen, and everybody has to give a little. That''s not easy to do.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What has surprised you most about the way Washington works?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n How little serious debate and deliberation takes place on the floor of the House or the Senate.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You talk about how we have a personal responsibility to educate our children. What small thing can the average parent (or person) do to help improve the educational system in America? What small thing can make a big impact?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Nothing has a bigger impact than reading to children early in life. Obviously we all have a personal obligation to turn off the TV and read to our own children; but beyond that, participating in a literacy program, working with parents who themselves may have difficulty reading, helping their children with their literacy skills, can make a huge difference in a child''s life.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Do you ever find time to read? What kinds of books do you try to make time for? What is on your nightstand now?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Unfortunately, I had very little time to read while I was writing. I''m trying to make up for lost time now. My tastes are pretty eclectic. I just finished Marilynne Robinsonâ€™s\n <em>\n  Gilead\n </em>\n , a wonderful book. The language just shimmers. I''ve started\n <em>\n  Team of Rivals\n </em>\n by Doris Kearns Goodwin, which is a great study of Lincoln as a political strategist. I read just about anything by Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, or Philip Roth. And I''ve got a soft spot for John le Carre.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What inspires you? How do you stay motivated?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I''m inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I''m inspired by the love people have for their children. And I''m inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/435');
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(934, 'The Austere Academy', 'Lemony Snicket &amp; Brett Helquist &amp; Michael Kupperman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home--Prufrock Preparatory School--they can''t help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school''s motto\n <em>\n  Memento Mori\n </em>\n , or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting, and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story. Of course, this is what we have come to expect from Lemony Snicket''s Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with\n <em>\n  The Bad Beginning\n </em>\n and only got worse.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Austere Academy\n </em>\n , Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are at first optimistic--attending school is a welcome change for the book-loving trio, and the academy is allegedly safe from the dreaded Count Olaf, who is after their fortune. Hope dissipates quickly, however, when they meet Vice Principal Nero, a self-professed genius violinist who sneeringly imitates their every word. More dreadful still, he houses them in the tin Orphans Shack, crawling with toe-biting crabs and dripping with a mysterious tan fungus. A beam of light shines through the despair when the Baudelaires meet the Quagmires, two of three orphaned triplets who are no strangers to disaster and sympathize with their predicament. When Count Olaf appears on the scene disguised as Coach Genghis (covering his monobrow with a turban and his ankle tattoo with expensive running shoes), the Quagmires resolve to come to the aid of their new friends. Sadly, this proves to be a hideous mistake.\n</p>\n<p>\n Snicket disarms us again with his playful juxtapositions--only he can compare bombs with strawberry shortcake (both are as dangerous to make as assumptions), muse on how babies adjust developmentally to the idea of curtains, or ponder why the Baudelaire orphans would not want to be stalks of celery despite their incessant bad luck as humans. We can''t get enough of this splendid series of misadventures, and can only wager that swarms of young readers will be right next to us in line for the next installment. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-7-In this fifth entry in the saga of the three Baudelaire children, the siblings are sent to a boarding school where they are tormented because they are orphans. There is the usual array of stupid/evil adults including the ridiculous Vice Principal Nero, who mimics everything that Klaus and Violet say and employs baby Sunny as his secretary because she is too young to attend class. Brown-nosing brats like Carmelita Spats make the children''s lives even more miserable. The ending is a cliff-hanger as the evil Count Olaf, disguised as Coach Genghis, the new gym teacher, drives off with the orphans'' only friends. In these days of Harry Potter, this book is a pesky nuisance, with little plot to drive it, situations that fall short of being interesting or off-the-wall, and cardboard characters. The author strains to be eccentric and his constant interruptions in the narrative to define a word or phrase are jarring at best.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Ann Cook, Winter Park Public Library, FL\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/112'),
(935, 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X', 'Malcolm X &amp; Alex Haley &amp; Attallah Shabazz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Malcolm X''s searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist, the continued relevance of his militant analysis of white racism, and his emphasis on self-respect and self-help for African Americans. And there''s the vividness with which he depicts black popular culture--try as he might to criticize those lindy hops at Boston''s Roseland dance hall from the perspective of his Muslim faith, he can''t help but make them sound pretty wonderful. These are but a few examples.\n <em>\n  The Autobiography of Malcolm X\n </em>\n limns an archetypal journey from ignorance and despair to knowledge and spiritual awakening. When Malcolm tells coauthor Alex Haley, "People don''t realize how a man''s whole life can be changed by one book," he voices the central belief underpinning every attempt to set down a personal story as an example for others. Although many believe his ethic was directly opposed to Martin Luther King Jr.''s during the civil rights struggle of the ''60s, the two were not so different. Malcolm may have displayed a most un-Christian distaste for loving his enemies, but he understood with King that love of God and love of self are the necessary first steps on the road to freedom.\n <em>\n  --Wendy Smith\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Biography, published in 1965, of the American black militant religious leader and activist who was born Malcolm Little. Written by Alex Haley, who had conducted extensive audiotaped interviews with Malcolm X just before his assassination in 1965, the book gained renown as a classic work on black American experience. The Autobiography recounts the life of Malcolm X from his traumatic childhood plagued by racism to his years as a drug dealer and pimp, his conversion to the Black Muslim sect (Nation of Islam) while in prison for burglary, his subsequent years of militant activism, and the turn late in his life to more orthodox Islam. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1184'),
(936, 'B Is for Burglar', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The best new private eye."\n <em>\n  --The\n  <strong>\n   Detroit\n  </strong>\n  News\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Exceptionally entertainingâ€¦an offbeat sense of humor and a feisty sense of justice."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  San Francisco\n </em>\n <em>\n  Chronicle\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Millhone is an engaging detective-for-hireâ€¦P.I. Kinsey Millhone and her creatorâ€¦are arguably the best of [the] distaff invaders of the hitherto sacrosanct turf of gumshoes."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  The\n  <strong>\n   Buffalo\n  </strong>\n  News\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Once a fan reads one of Grafton''s alphabetically titled detective novels, he or she will not rest until all the others are found."--\n <em>\n  Los Angeles\n  <strong>\n   Herald Examiner*\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "Millhone is a refreshingly strong and resourceful female private eye."--\n </em>\n Library Journal*\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tough but compassionateâ€¦There is no one better than Kinsey Millhone."--\n <em>\n  Best Sellers\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A woman we feel we know, a tough cookie with a soft center, a gregarious loner."--\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Lord, how I like this Kinsey Millhoneâ€¦The best detective fiction I have read in years."--\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Smart, tough, and thoroughâ€¦Kinsey Millhone is a pleasure."--\n <em>\n  The\n  <strong>\n   Bloomsbury\n  </strong>\n  Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kinsey is one of the most persuasive of the new female operativesâ€¦She''s refreshingly free of gender clichÃ©s. Grafton, who is a very witty writer, has also given her sleuth a nice sense of humor--and a set of Wonder Woman sheets to prove it."--\n <em>\n  Boston\n </em>\n <em>\n  Herald\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "What grandpa used to call a class act."--Stanley Ellin\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Smart, sexual, likable and a very modern operator."--Dorothy Salisbury Davis\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kinsey''s got brains\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n a sense of humor."--\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although business has been slow lately for P.I. Kinsey Millhone, she''s reluctant to take on the case of locating Beverly Danziger''s sister Elaine Boldt. It''s a small matter that Beverly should be able to handle herself. So why is she enlisting Kinsey''s services? Beverly claims she needs Elaine''s signature on some documents so that she can collect a small inheritance. But the whole affair doesn''t sit well with Kinsey. And if there''s something she''s learned in her line of work, it''s to always follow your instinctsâ€¦\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Kinsey''s hunch proves true when she begins her inquiries into Elaine''s whereabouts and discovers that the attractive widow was last seen in a flashy lynx coat boarding a plane for Boca Raton. But the more Kinsey searches for Elaine the more questions she encounters. Is Elaine''s disappearance tied in to the brutal murder several months ago of one of her bridge partners? And what happened to Elaine''s Persian cat who seems to have also vanished?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Things take a turn for the worse when a stranger vandalizes the home of one of Elaine''s neighbors and another neighbor turns up murdered. With her reputation and career on the line, Kinsey risks all to find a missing woman and a killer who''s waiting in the shadows to strike againâ€¦\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/765'),
(937, 'Back Story', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In Robert B. Parker''s most popular series, an unsolved thirty-year-old-murder draws the victim''s daughter out of the shadows for overdue justiceÂ—and lures Spenser into his own past, old crimes, and dangerous lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1134'),
(938, 'The Bad Beginning', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n</h3>\n<p>\n Just as they are enjoying a day at Briny Beach, the three Baudelaire children--- 14-year-old Violet, 12-year-old Klaus and baby Sunny--- receive some bad news. Mr. Poe, a friend of the family, comes trekking across the foggy beach to tell the Baudelaires that their parents have died in a fire that also burned down the family mansion. Now orphaned, the Baudelaires face an uncertain future. They are soon packed off to their new guardian--- the icky Count Olaf, who is a distant cousin. But when they move in with the Count, the Baudelaire children are certain that he does not care about them--- he only wants to get his hands on the fortune Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire left behind. See if they are right, as you read this exciting and humorous tale of mystery. Ages 10 &amp; up\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/267'),
(939, 'Bad Business', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n One of the great series in the history of the American detective story gets even better when Spenser is hired by a jilted bride to follow a cheating husband, only to cross paths with a detective hired to tail the two-timing wife. They aren''t the most trusting couple in town, but as it turns out, they are the most dangerous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1135'),
(940, 'Bad Luck and Trouble', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ex-military cop Jack Reacher is the perfect antihero--tough as nails, but with a brain and a conscience to match. He''s able to see what most miss and is willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. Each book in Lee Child''s smart, addictive series (\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n has referred to it as "pure escapist gold") follows the wandering warrior on a new adventure, making it easy to start with any book, including his latest gem,\n <em>\n  Bad Luck and Trouble\n </em>\n . However, be forewarned...once you meet Jack Reacher, you''ll be hooked, so be prepared to stock up on the series.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Who Is Jack Reacher? A Video from Lee Child\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Watch the video\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Note from Lee Child\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Two years ago I was on a book tour, promoting that year''s new Jack Reacher novel,\n <em>\n  One Shot\n </em>\n . One particular night, the event was held in a small town outside of Chicago. The date was June 21st. As I was giving my talk and answering questions and signing books, that date was nagging away at the back of my mind. I knew it had some significance. I started panicking--had I forgotten my anniversary? No, that''s in August. My wife''s birthday? No, that''s in January. My own birthday? No, that''s in October.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Then suddenly I remembered--it was ten years to the day since I had been fired from my previous job. That was why and how I had become a writer. That night in Illinois was a ten-year anniversary of a different sort, somewhat bittersweet.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n And ten is a nice round number. So I started thinking about my old colleagues. My workmates, my buddies. We had been through a lot together. I started to wonder where they all were now. What were they doing? Were they doing well, or struggling? Were they happy? What did they look like now? Pretty soon I was into full-on nostalgia mode. Ten-year anniversaries can do that to a person. I think we all share those kind of feelings, about high school, or college, or old jobs we''ve quit, or old towns we''ve moved away from.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n So I decided to make this year''s Jack Reacher book about a reunion. I decided to throw him back among a bunch of old colleagues that he hadn''t seen for ten years, people that he loved fiercely and respected deeply. Regular Reacher readers will know that he''s a pretty self-confident guy, but I wanted him to wobble just a little this time, to compare his choices with theirs, to measure himself against them.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The renewed get-together isn''t Reacher''s own choice, though. And it''s not a standard-issue reunion, either. Something very bad has happened, and one of his old team-members from the army contacts him, by an ingenious method (it''s hard to track Reacher down). She gives him the bad news, and asks him to do something about it. He says, "Of course I''ll do something about it."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "No," his friend says. "I mean, I want you to put the old unit back together."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s an irresistible invitation. Wouldn''t we all like to do that, sometimes?\n <em>\n  --Lee Child\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Secrets of the Series: A Q&amp;A with Lee Child\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Why do you think readers keep coming back to your novels?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Two words: Jack Reacher. Reacher is a drifter and a loner with a strong sense of justice. He shows up, he acts, he moves on. He''s the type of hero who has a long literary history. Robin Hood, the Lone Ranger, Aragorn from\n <em>\n  The Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n , Jack Reacher--they''re all part of the same heroic family. Reacher just ratchets it up a notch. Maybe more than a notch. Why is he so appealing? Most often people say to me it''s his sense of justice; he will do the right thing. Even though there is no reward in it for him, even though there is often a high cost to be paid by him, he will always try to do the right thing and people find that reassuring in todayâ€™s world when not too many people are doing the right thing.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Jack Reacher gets compared to James Bond, Jack Bauer and Jason Bourne, each of whom now has a "face." In a movie, which actor do you think could fill Reacher''s shoes?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n That''s the toughest question. The thing about Reacher is he''s huge; heâ€™s 6''5" tall and about 250 pounds. There arenâ€™t any actors that size--actors tend to be small. So we aren''t going to find a physical facsimile for Reacher because there aren''t any. We have to find someone who is capable of looking big on the screen. Many people have said to me a young Clint Eastwood would have been perfect--we need someone like that who has the vibe of a big intimidating man. Hopefully there will be somebody available like that. It''s also a question of finding somebody ready to sign up for more than one movie. They want to make a franchise, minimum of three, and that makes it a little bit harder.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What research is involved in writing one of your stories?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n My research is all kind of backwards. I don''t go to the public library for three months and take notes in advance; instead my best research is by remembering and adapting. I read, travel, and talk to people just for the fun of it, filing away these interesting little snippets to the back of my mind and eventually they float to the surface and get used. The problem is, I approach writing the book with the same excitement and impatience that I hope the reader is going to feel about reading it. But even so, I need a certain measure of technical intrigue in the story. There is specific research I have to do as I go along, anything that''s a small detail; a car, a gun, a type of bullet. I will check that out at the time. But, that''s what I call the detail--the broad stuff is the stuff I already know.\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Meet Jack Reacher\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Killing Floor\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Die Trying\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Tripwire\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Running Blind\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Echo Burning\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Without Fail\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Persuader\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Enemy\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  One Shot\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Hard Way\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of bestseller Child''s winning 11th Jack Reacher adventure (after\n <em>\n  The Hard Way\n </em>\n ), the bad guys unceremoniously dump Calvin Franz, a former MP, from a Bell 222 helicopter "[t]hree thousand feet above the [California] desert floor." Trouble is, Franz was a member of the army''s special investigation unit headed by Reacherâ€”a one-time military cop who left the service to become a solitary drifter par excellence. A former colleague sends Reacher a coded SOS; the two rendezvous in L.A. and the game''s afoot. More members of the band get back together, only to discover that Franz isn''t the group''s only casualty. As usual in Reacher''s capers, practically nothing is what it seems, and the meticulously detailed route to the truth proves especially engrossing thanks to the joint efforts of this band of brothers (and two sisters). The author carefully delineates Reacher''s erstwhile colleagues, their smart-ass banter masking an unspoken affection. The villains'' comeuppance, a riveting eye-for-an-eye battle scene (hint: helicopter), is one of Child''s more satisfying finales.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/957'),
(941, 'The Bad Place', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  With an afterword by the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning he awakes, he discovers something strange-like blood on his hands-a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person-a young man with Down''s syndrome-can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1889'),
(942, 'Bag of Bones', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n No longer content to be the prolific provider of text, King grabs the audio reins to recount this haunted tale of grief, young love, and otherworldly visits. When 40-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan returns to his lakeside cabin to process his wife''s death, he finds the place a beacon for nightmares and ghoulish visits. But there''s hope in Kingsville, as this struggling writer falls in love with a young widow named Mattie and her 3-year-old psychic daughter, Kyra. If you''ve never heard King speak, be warned: 19-plus hours of his western Maine, nasal-drenched tones may be more than some listeners can bear. But there''s a certain warmth and believability to King''s voice--after all, it''s his book and he\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n a middle-aged bestselling novelist--that jive well with Noonan''s character. And since King rarely reads his own work, perhaps his doing so indicates that he''s especially pleased with\n <em>\n  Bag of Bones\n </em>\n ; most listeners should be as well. (Running time: 19.5 hours, 14 cassettes)\n <em>\n  --Rob McDonald\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carrying galley copy that avoids the h(orror) word while touting its "O. Henry Award-winning author," King''s latest novel features a marketing campaign in accord with the distinguished pedigree of his new publisher. But has King written a book that ranks him as a literary heavyweight? Indeed he has, though not by forsaking his roots: the novel is a classic ghost story. It opens quietly as narrator Mike Noonan, 40, bestselling author of romantic suspense potboilers (and latest in a line of King novelist-heroes, cf. Misery and The Dark Half) describes the death of his wife four years back and his consequent grief and writer''s block. Mike has kept the block hidden from the publishing world?limned in delicious detail, with real names?by annually pulling one of his own, unpublished mss. from a safe-deposit box. Now that he''s out of old novels to submit, he resolves to work through his troubles at Sara Laughs, his country house in backwoods Maine. Arriving there, Mike nearly drives over a three-year-old girl. She is Kyra, granddaughter?by way of beautiful young widow Mattie?of mad computer mogul Max Devore, who is hellbent on snatching the girl from her mother. Taking up Kyra''s cause, falling in love with Mattie, Mike gears up for a custody battle. Invigorated, he breaks through his writer''s block; but great danger, psychological and physical, awaits, from Max Devore but especially from the spirits, mostly malevolent, that haunt Sara Laughs due to hideous crimes committed by Devore''s ancestor a century earlier. Violence, natural and supernatural, ensues as past and present mix, culminating in a torrent of climaxes that bind and illuminate the novel''s many mysteries. From his mint-fresh etching of spooky rural Maine to his masterful pacing and deft handling of numerous themes, particularly of the fragility of our constructs about reality and of love''s ability to mend rifts in those constructs, this is one of King''s most accomplished novels. It is his most personal as well, revealing through Mike''s broodings the intimacies of the creative writing process: a passionate gift from a veteran author to all who care about the art and craft of storytelling. 1.26 million first printing; BOMC main selection (Sept.) FYI: Bag of Bones is the only hardcover Scribner will publish in September.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/487'),
(943, 'Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler&#39;s Eagle Nest', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The men of E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, volunteered for this elite fighting force because they wanted to be the best in the army--and avoid fighting alongside unmotivated, out-of-shape draftees. The price they paid for that desire was long, arduous, and sometimes sadistic training, followed by some of the most horrific battles of World War II. Actor Cotter Smith--a veteran of numerous TV movies and Broadway plays--spins Stephen Ambrose''s tale with almost laconic ease. Anecdote by anecdote, he lets the power of the story build. By the time the company has gotten through D-day and seized Hitler''s Eagle''s Nest in Bavaria, we feel we know as much about the men and their missions as we do about our own brothers. (Running time: 5 hours, 4 cassettes)\n  <em>\n   --Lou Schuler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ambrose ( Pegasus Bridge ) narrates in vivid detail the adventures, misadventures, triumphs and tragedies of a single U.S. Army infantry company over its span of organizational life. Formed in July 1944 and deactivated in November 1945, E Company was one of the most successful light infantry units in the European theater. Its troops saw their first action on D-Day behind the Normandy beachhead, took part in Operation Market Garden in Holland, held the perimeter around Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, and were the first to reach Hitler''s Bavarian outpost at Berchtesgaden. The book is enlivened with pertinent comments by veterans of "Easy Company," who recall not only the combat action but their relations with their officers (one company commander was a petty tyrant of the worst type, but his oppressive ways had much to do with the unit''s impressive esprit de corps ) and their impressions of the countries through which they campaigned (hated the French, loved the Germans). This is a terrific read for WW II actions buffs. Photos. Military Book Club main selection; Literary Guild alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(944, 'Barefoot', 'Elin Hilderbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  100% PRODUCT GUARANTEE!\n </em>\n ONLINE BOOKSTORE BASED in USA! *Our books are very accurately graded. Hand inspected!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2461'),
(945, 'Barrier Island', 'John D. Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  There are two kinds of men in Mississippi. They make natural enemies. And sometimes, but only if the balance between strength and weakness tips too far, unnatural allies.\n  <br />\n  Tucker Loomis is a hard and dangerous man with a ruthlessness all West Bay fears and respects, and an improbable amount of money. Wade Rowley is a common man who aspires to honor but gets caught up in the footwork of a skilled swindler.\n  <br />\n  In a pitiless game, with a few harsh rules and just one way of keeping score, the wrong man will die. And another will get away with more than murder.\n  <br />\n  "Lively, gritty . . . complex and convincing . . . Mr. MacDonald writes with passion!" Â— The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Real-estate tycoon Tucker Loomis had planned to make the island a millionaire''s playground. Then the Feds wanted it back and he decided he could soak the government for a cool ten million. The only obstacles were a mistress with a big mouth and a real estate man who somehow retained his integrity . . . A bestseller l3 weeks on the New York Times.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1787'),
(946, 'Basic Writings of Nietzsche', 'Friedrich Nietzsche &amp; Walter Kaufmann &amp; Peter Gay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 1. Nietzsche remains one of the most influential philosophers of our time. As Walter Kaufmann notes, ''No other philosopher since Plato and Aristotle, with the exception of Kant and Hegel, has influenced so many widely different thinkers and writers so profoundly.'' What are some of the main aspects of Nietzsche''s influence, and what are some of the factors that account for his tremendous and enduring influence? 2. One of Nietzsche''s major themes is the idea of ''the eternal recurrence.'' What do you think Nietzsche was attempting to do with this idea? What does he seem to mean by it? What are its implications? 3. As Peter Gay notes, Nietzsche has been one of the most persistently misunderstood writers in the history of Western thought. What are some of the misunderstandings that have attended his work? Are some thinkers more easily misappropriated than others? 4. Nietzsche''s style is particularly iconoclastic and unique; as Walter Kaufmann notes, ''Nietzsche clearly wanted to be read with a delighted awareness of nuances of style and thought.'' Discuss how Nietzsche''s style-which often condenses complex ideas into seemingly simple phrases-works to inform your reading or understanding of his thought. Is Nietzsche''s style inseparable from his meaning? 5. One of Nietzsche''s favorite devices is the aphorism. Why is this form significant for Nietzsche? What does he accomplish by writing in this way? Can all of his writing be said to be in some way aphoristic? 6. For Nietzsche, the most important philosophy is always ''untimely,'' and Nietzsche had a particularly complicated and contentious relationship toward many of his contemporaries, for instance Wagner. Discuss Nietzsche''s various attitudes toward his contemporaries as stated in Basic Writings, and conversely the ideas, figures, and ways of thinking that Nietzsche seems to find most sympathetic to his own philosophy. 7. Nietzsche has been considered a nihilist, and also a philosopher who more than anything sought to transcend nihilism. Discuss the idea of nihilism in broad terms, and Nietzsche''s use or development of this idea. 8. What, for Nietzsche, is the ''will to power''? 9. Throughout Nietzsche''s work is a call for a new philosophy, for radical breaks with various conventional ideas and methodologies, and for new philosophers. What are some of Nietzsche''s hopes for the future of philosophy?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/428'),
(947, 'The Battle of the Labyrinth', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5â€“9â€”The battle starts, literally, with an explosion and doesn''t let up. After Percy destroys the high school band room battling monsters called\n <em>\n  empousai\n </em>\n who have taken on the form of cheerleaders, he has to hide out at Camp Half-Blood. There, Grover''s searcher''s license is going to be revoked unless he can find the god Pan in seven days. An entrance to the Labyrinth has been discovered, which means that Luke, the half-blood turned bad, can bypass the magical protections and invade the camp. Annabeth insists that she must follow a quest to locate Daedalus''s workshop before Luke does. Percy is disturbed by visions of Nico, the son of Hades, who is summoning forth the spirits of the dead with McDonalds Happy Meals. Percy, Grover, and Percy''s Cyclops half-brother follow Annabeth into the maze not knowing if they will ever find their way out. Riordan cleverly personifies the Labyrinth as a sort of living organism that changes at will, and that traverses the whole of the United States. Kids will devour Riordan''s subtle satire of their world, such as a Sphinx in the Labyrinth whose questions hilariously parody standardized testing. The secret of Pan is revealed with a bittersweet outcome that also sends an eco-friendly message. Like many series, the "Percy Jackson" books are beginning to show the strain of familiarity and repetition. However, the overarching story line remains compelling, and the cliff-hanger ending will leave readers breathless in anticipation of the fifth and final volume.â€”\n <em>\n  Tim Wadham, Maricopa County Library District, Phoenix, AZ\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Percy Jackson isnâ€™t expecting freshman orientation to be any fun.Â  But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to diabolical.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In this latest installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronosâ€™s army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop them, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinthâ€”a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.Â Full of humor and heart-pounding action, this fourth book promises to be their most thrilling adventure yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/273'),
(948, 'The Beach Club', 'Elin Hilderbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Gorgeous Nantucket is an island where memories are made, friendships begun, passions ignited. Now, during one unforgettable summer, the exclusive Nantucket Beach Club and Hotel will shape the fates of the men and women who walk through its doors...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mack Petersen escaped the past and started over in a hotel that has become his life. This summer his secrets can''t stay hidden. Love O''Donnell, a glamorous Aspen native, takes a job at the Beach Club to implement her life planâ€”to find a man to get her pregnant. Vance Robbins has his African-American pride and festering resentments. This season, a gun and a woman offer him a chance to get even with the man he hates most. Cecily Elliott, the owner''s daughter, wild and beautiful at eighteen, is about to do something to break her parents'' hearts. And Lacey Gardner, the Grande Dame of the Beach Club for 45 years, knows about desperate desireâ€”and about the storm coming that will change everything.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Beach Club,\n  </em>\n  Elin Hilderbrand''s first Nantucket novelâ€”the one that started it allâ€”is still the most satisfying read of the summer.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2386'),
(949, 'Beach Girls', 'Luanne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like a milder Northern cousin of\n  <em>\n   Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood\n  </em>\n  , Rice''s latest (following\n  <em>\n   Dance with Me\n  </em>\n  ) celebrates the near mystical persistence of female bonds. While summering in the seaside town of Hubbard''s Point, Conn., Emma Lincoln, Stevie Moore and Maddie Kilvert, the titular beach girls, were inseparable, but as adults, they''ve drifted apart. Stevie lives like a hermit in Hubbard''s Point, unaware that her old friend Emma died in a car crash, leaving behind a husband, a child and secrets. When widower Jack brings his daughter, Nell, to the Point, Nell searches out her last link to her mother: Stevie. A bestselling children''s author, Stevie is drawn to Nell and her attractive dad, but the protagonists must struggle with doubts and fears before they can consider a future together. This book is more sentimental and less suspenseful than Rice''s previous novels, and fans of her earlier book,\n  <em>\n   The Perfect Summer\n  </em>\n  , may find the premiseâ€”a spouse who dies suddenly, with secrets that leave family in disarrayâ€”overly familiar. Fortunately, Rice''s gorgeous descriptions and sensitive characterizations compensate for those flaws. Few writers evoke summer''s translucent days so effortlessly, or better capture the bittersweet ties of family love.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rice returns to her quintessential beach community of Hubbard''s Point, Connecticut, and three childhood girlfriends now grown up. Stevie, Emma, and Maddie were inseparable and vowed to always be friends, but life and love intruded. Stevie has become a recluse still living in her father''s house at the beach, but her isolation is shattered when Emma dies in a car crash and her nine-year-old daughter, Nell, comes to Stevie in search of lost female influences, including that of Maddie, with whom she was once close. The healing powers of the beautiful beach, and of friendship, work their magic on Nell and Stevie as both influence each other lives and as Nell''s father struggles with his conflicting emotions over his wife''s death. Rice''s characters forge new connections in this beautiful and tender love story set against an idyllic backdrop of sand and surf and dealing with many facets of love. Another winner for Rice, who breathes life into poignant tales not only about love but also about forgiveness.\n  <em>\n   Patty Engelmann\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1915'),
(950, 'The Beach House', 'James Patterson &amp; Peter de Jonge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Patterson and Peter de Jonge''s\n <em>\n  The Beach House\n </em>\n opens with the death of a handsome townie on Memorial Day weekend in the Hamptons, where being a single-digit millionaire is laughable and being poor is unthinkable. Peter Mullen is a high school dropout who parks cars at the private bashes of the superwealthy Barry and Campion Neubauer. When Peter is found dead on the beach, the Neubauers and their friends insist that he drowned, but his brother Jack, a law student who saw Peter''s body, knows he was beaten to death. As Jack uncovers evidence of his brother''s secret life, he begins to realize that the very rich are indeed different from the rest of us. Revenge is a dish best served cold, and Jack''s patiently plotted payback for Peter''s death is one that the Hamptons will not soon forget.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are no big surprises in\n <em>\n  The Beach House\n </em>\n , but it''s vintage Patterson, with plenty of action, villains with hearts blacker than obsidian, and a working-class hero who pulls himself up by the bootstraps. Patterson and de Jonge previously coauthored the inspirational golf romance\n <em>\n  Miracle on the 17th Green\n </em>\n , but this new game of money, mayhem, and murder clearly suits them to a tee.\n <em>\n  --Barrie Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n atterson''s second coauthored novel of the year (after the current bestseller 2nd Chance, written with Andrew Gross) is a relatively rare stand-alone for this immensely popular writer. Unlike some of Patterson''s stand-alones, however, including the most recent, Suzanne''s Diary for Nicholas, this doesn''t move Patterson into new territory: it''s a slick, vastly enjoyable yet far-fetched thriller i.e., typical Patterson. Its hero is a Columbia University law student, Jack Mullen, who''s out to avenge the death of his younger brother, Peter, found dead on the Amagansett, L.I., property of the immensely wealthy Neubauer family, a few miles from Jack and Peter''s Montauk home. The cops say Peter drowned; a glance at the corpse tells Jack that his brother was beaten to death. The rest of the novel traces Jack''s efforts, with the help of a female private eye/love interest, plus his elderly grandfather and a band of Montauk locals, to prove that Peter was murdered and that billionaire Barry Neubauer played a role in his demise. Arrayed against Jack are a tough cop, high-placed lawyers and a sadistic killer all owned by Neubauer money. Jack''s diggings lead to evidence not only of Peter''s murder but of its part in a coverup involving sexual scandal and blackmail; to get the justice that''s denied them, Jack and his friends take the law into their own hands, kidnapping Neubauer and his cohorts and trying them in a kangaroo court whose proceedings they broadcast on TV. Smooth as a vanilla milk shake and no more sophisticated, written in 113 short chapters that won''t tax anyone''s attention span, this is smart, market-savvy, populist entertainment. (On sale June 10)\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/369'),
(951, 'Beach Road', 'James Patterson &amp; Peter de Jonge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Patterson shows signs of having gone to the well too often in this slapdash collaboration with de Jonge, his coauthor on\n <em>\n  The Beach House\n </em>\n (2002). Tom Dunleavy, a former professional basketball player and local East Hampton legend, is getting by as an underworked and unmotivated attorney. His sports glory days and his one true love are long in the past, but he gets second chances at personal and professional redemption when three locals are gunned down, apparently in the aftermath of racial tensions arising from a heated pickup game of hoops. The police seize on Dante Halleyville, the country''s best high school star, as their suspect, and Dunleavy must dust off his old courtroom skills and enlist his lost love, Kate Costello, as his partner. Patterson readers know to expect a surprise ending, but he leaves too few possibilities for many to be genuinely fooled. Fans can only hope that Patterson soon returns to the level he achieved with his Alex Cross series.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The gripping\n <em>\n  Beach Road\n </em>\n returns to the world of the Hamptons, where Patterson set\n <em>\n  The Beach House\n </em>\n (2002). Tom Dunleavy is a small-time lawyer who lands a big case when three young men he plays basketball with are found shot to death execution-style at a billionaire''s basketball court. The evidence points to a rising high-school basketball star, Dante Halleyville, who scuffled with one of the other young men earlier on the day of the murder and who apparently was seen disposing of the gun used to commit the murders. Tom reluctantly takes the case, convincing his ex-girlfriend, Kate Costello, a high-powered lawyer in Manhattan, to help him prove Dante innocent. The novel races toward a conclusion so shocking that even longtime Patterson devotees won''t see it coming.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/346'),
(952, 'Beastchild', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1484'),
(953, 'The Beautiful and Damned', 'Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Much of Scott''s work is going public domain, and reprints are coming fast and furious. Besides "Diamond," this contains other gems, e.g., "The Ice Palace" and "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." Penguin has also released an $8.95 edition of The Beautiful and the Damned (ISBN 0-14-118087-0).\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The Jazz Age chronicler''s first great novel."\n <br />\n *â€” The Times\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "No one has written more elegiacally about America than F. Scott Fitzgerald... a sense of lost time and the irretrievability of the past gave much of his work -- indeed, his life -- an ineradicable undertone of mourning."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n </em>\n Guardian*\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "If Francis Scott Fitzgerald had not existed, it would have been necessary to invent him. Seldom has there been a character who personified, as well as chronicled, an age with such dexterity and verisimilitude."\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Sunday Times\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/808'),
(954, 'The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee', 'Sarah Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: A Letter from Sarah Silverman\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Dear Reader:\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n My name is Sarah Silverman. I was once primarily known for saying the word "poop" and getting paid above market rates for it. But those days are over, because I am now going to be known for having written a book. Why did I write a book, you might wonder? Because it just seemed like the right time to be getting into the publishing industry.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n I''m kidding. Publishing is rotting like an abandoned possum carcass on the shoulder of I-95. I know that for a fact, because shortly after my book deal was announced, I kept hearing people lament the imminent demise of literature. These days there is only one reason to write a book:\n <em>\n  to be taken seriously\n </em>\n . And that is exactly what is about to happen to me. I''m an author now! Like Ernest Hemingway and Fyodor Dostoevsky!\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n When I was asked to provide text for an author page, I decided to approach it in a scholarly manner, because that''s what authors do. I looked to other author pages for inspiration, and I learned so much. For example, while Hemingway and Dostoevsky do not have their own author pages on Amazon.com, Paris Hilton does. And so does former teenage porn star and multi-tasking fellatrix, Traci Lords. Hemingway and Dostoevsky might be wondering, quite literally, "Whom do I have to blow to get my own author page?" If someone had a cruel sense of humor, they might respond to Hemingway, "How about your head off? Oh wait â€“ you already DID that!" But such a remark would be in bad taste, and as a serious author, I''m above all that.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n I also learned that Paris'' dog, Tinkerbell Hilton, has her own book too. I read a few pages and found the prose to be overwrought, but you can imagine that, being a dog, she''d be coming from a place of needing to prove something. By the way, here''s a quote from a review of Paris'' book that I found on her Amazon.com author page:\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Heiress, socialite, model, actress, singer and media darling Hilton loves her life, knows how to get what she wants and matter-of-factly explains how anyone can be a glamorous, fun-loving, tiara-wearing heiress just like herâ€¦ [Parisâ€™] advice to ''channel your own inner heiress, create your own image, and project an extreme sense of confidence'' is an empowering message for young women."\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n This was profoundly inspiring to me. It made me realize: if young women can read Hilton''s book and become heiresses, they can likewise read my book and become anxiety-ridden bedwetters. And amidst this generation of disposability that favors the digital over the physical, shopping online rather than in stores (oops, this is awkward!), and reading from LCD screens rather than from print on paper, it''s nice to know that I will have left a permanent stain by which future generations shall know of my existence. So read\n <em>\n  The Bedwetter\n </em>\n , if not for me, then for the children.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Demonstrating that her penchant for swearing began at an early age, comedian Silverman begins her hilarious memoir by describing how, at age three, she gleefully responded to her grandmother''s offer of brownies with shove ''em up your ass. Growing up in New Hampshire (where cows are well done and Jews are rare), Silverman naturally gravitated toward performing and moved to New York, where she attended and eventually dropped out of New York University to pursue a standup comedy career. Mixing show business moments (she wrote for\n <em>\n  Saturday Night Live\n </em>\n for one season, but none of her sketches made it past dress rehearsal) with stories of her childhood and adolescence (punctuated by a persistent bedwetting problem), Silverman never shies away from poking fun at her own expense. Though she''s best known for sexually explicit jokes, Silverman is able to address more serious subjects in the book without losing her edge, particularly her teenage struggle with depression and that her often abrasive public persona allowed her to say what I didn''t mean, even preach the opposite of what I believed.... It was a funny way of being sincere. 8-page color insert.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/251');
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(955, 'Before They Are Hanged', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This grim and vivid sequel to 2007''s\n <em>\n  The Blade Itself\n </em>\n transcends its middle volume status, keeping the reader engaged with complicated plotting and intriguing character development. As savage Northmen invade Angland, the northernmost province of the unwieldy Union, honorable, hard-working Union soldier Colonel West watches his notions of civilized warfare erode in one horrible battle after another. In Dagoska, a southern city threatened by Gurkish soldiers and left undefended as Union troops head to Angland, dreadfully maimed Inquisitor Glokta employs tortures and deceptions to ferret out conspiracies against the king. Ignoring these worldly concerns, disreputable magus Bayaz of Calcis drives a squabbling little band through a wasteland in search of a relic that can open a gate to the realm of demons. Abercrombie leavens the bloody action with moments of dark humor, developing a story suffused with a rich understanding of human darkness and light.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Before They Are Hanged is an excellent sequel from an author writing compelling, character-driven, adult fantasy, for readers who want to be entertained as well as challenged." SFF WORLD "In my opinion, Joe Abercrombie possesses all the qualities that made David Eddings such a powerhouse during the 80s and 90s. Before They Are Hanged is a satisfying sequel which should establish Joe Abercrombie as one of the bright new voices of the genre. " FANTASY HOT LIST "Before They Are Hanged grabs you and drags you along." SFF SITE "Dark, deeply ironic and full of character gems that will appeal to your cynical side, Before They Are Hanged is as brilliant as its predecessor." -- John Berlyne SF REVU "We''re right there in the heads of these dudes, thanks to the author''s style of showcasing their thoughts. His knowing turn of phrase means that situations often appear ironic, with peripheral characters verging on the Dickensian. This follow-up is crammed with unexpected betrayals, murders and liaisons, often catching us off guard." -- Dave Bradley SFX\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/987'),
(956, 'Bel Canto', 'Ann Patchett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. His hosts hope that Mr. Hosokawa can be persuaded to build a factory in their Third World backwater. Alas, in the opening sequence, just as the accompanist kisses the soprano, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the air conditioning ducts. Their quarry is the president, who has unfortunately stayed home to watch a favorite soap opera. And thus, from the beginning, things go awry.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among the hostages are not only Hosokawa and Roxane Coss, the American soprano, but an assortment of Russian, Italian, and French diplomatic types. Reuben Iglesias, the diminutive and gracious vice president, quickly gets sideways of the kidnappers, who have no interest in him whatsoever. Meanwhile, a Swiss Red Cross negotiator named Joachim Messner is roped into service while vacationing. He comes and goes, wrangling over terms and demands, and the days stretch into weeks, the weeks into months.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the omniscience of magic realism, Ann Patchett flits in and out of the hearts and psyches of hostage and terrorist alike, and in doing so reveals a profound, shared humanity. Her voice is suitably lyrical, melodic, full of warmth and compassion. Hearing opera sung live for the first time, a young priest reflects:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Never had he thought, never once, that such a woman existed, one who stood so close to God that God''s own voice poured from her. How far she must have gone inside herself to call up that voice. It was as if the voice came from the center part of the earth and by the sheer effort and diligence of her will she had pulled it up through the dirt and rock and through the floorboards of the house, up into her feet, where it pulled through her, reaching, lifting, warmed by her, and then out of the white lily of her throat and straight to God in heaven.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Joined by no common language except music, the 58 international hostages and their captors forge unexpected bonds. Time stands still, priorities rearrange themselves. Ultimately, of course, something has to give, even in a novel so imbued with the rich imaginative potential of magic realism. But in a fractious world,\n  <em>\n   Bel Canto\n  </em>\n  remains a gentle reminder of the transcendence of beauty and love.\n  <em>\n   --Victoria Jenkins\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lucky Mr. Hosokawa. The well-connected Japanese businessman, now in an unnamed South American country on yet another job, is having a very special birthday party. At the home of the country''s vice president, opera singer Roxane Cos will be performing for him and his guests. But what''s this? Armed men invading the premises? These ragtag revolutionaries are looking for the president and disappointed that he is not there, but that doesn''t stop them from holding the party goers hostage. What happens after that was, for this reviewer, a story that failed to ignite. Patchett (The Patron Saint of Liars) generates little tension as she moves her players around the board, and one is disappointed that there is little reflection about the head-on clash of art and life. This book is getting a big promotional pitch, however, so libraries may want to consider.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/336'),
(957, 'The Bell Jar', 'Sylvia Plath &amp; Sylvia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Bell Jar\n </em>\n chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther''s breakdown with such intensity that Esther''s insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made\n <em>\n  The Bell Jar\n </em>\n a haunting American classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/290'),
(958, 'A Bend in the Road', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sweet, accessible, uplifting and predictable, the latest love story from Sparks (The Notebook) leaves the reader with just one burning question: Why is this consummate beach book being published in the fall? The nearly thwarted but eventually triumphant romance of deputy sheriff Miles Ryan and second-grade teacher Sarah Andrews goes down as easily as marshmallow fluff and offers about as much real nourishment. Miles''s high school sweetheart, Missy, was killed in an unsolved hit and run accident, leaving him to raise their son, Jonah, in New Bern, N.C. Sarah''s politically ambitious husband, Michael, dumped her when her ovaries proved inactive, and she fled to New Bern to teach, and love, other people''s kids. Miles and Sarah meet at a parent-teacher conference, and the sparks fly. But there''s a fly in the ointment as well; an italicized voice threaded among the happy chapters alerts us that Missy''s death was caused by someone whose identity, if revealed, could destroy Miles and Sarah''s newfound joy. In Sparks''s heaven, clouds exist to make silver linings look the brighter. As tough truth shadows their landscape, Miles and Sarah find depths within themselves, and their rekindled light illumines all. New Bern becomes a city of the reborn. Charlie Curtis, Miles''s stickler boss, learns to bend; Missy''s aimless killer morphs into a healer; and Jonah once again knows a mother''s love. The opposite of edgy, with simple sentences and soft-pedaled sex, Sparks''s plain vanilla morality will doubtless sell like ice cream on a steamy day. (Sept.)Forecast: Major television and print advertising and an 18-city author tour will broadcast Sparks''s latest from the rooftops; expect instant bestsellerdom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A man loses his wife, lives in a haze, and then finds healing new love until the secrets start popping. nonfiction\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1055'),
(959, 'The Best of Me', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She''d believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew -- about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear -- was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead:\n  <em>\n   Can love truly rewrite the past?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Nicholas Sparks is the author of 16 books. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and children. You can visit the author''s web site at www. nicholassparks.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1952'),
(960, 'Betrayal in Death', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n J.D. Robb fans are fanatical about New York City supercop Eve Dallas and her mysterious billionaire husband Roarke. Robb''s futuristic (circa 2059)\n <em>\n  ...In Death\n </em>\n series wages a two-front narrative war (the battle of good and evil and the battle of the sexes) and both author and readers come out winners.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Darlene French, a maid at the Roarke Palace Hotel, is brutally beaten, raped, and strangled with a silver wire, Eve is at a loss to explain the apparently professional nature of the murder. Who would hire a hit man to kill such an ordinary woman? As she and her team of detectives (with a little grudgingly accepted help from Roarke, whose money, name, and talents can dig up a wealth of information) investigate the evidence, they find themselves in pursuit of Sylvester Yost, a vicious hired gun who''s made millions in his bloody pursuit of career excellence. But it isn''t until more victims appear that Eve realizes Yost''s real target is Roarke himself. To discover the driving force behind the murderous campaign, Eve and Roarke will have to delve into their own pasts, which holds secrets and terrors for them both.\n</p>\n<p>\n Robb is the nom de plume of romance writer Nora Roberts, and this series certainly delivers the same sexually charged tension and improbably gorgeous characters as Roberts''s extremely popular romances. But even those readers, who generally try to steer clear of heaving bosoms and ripped bodices, will have little to fear and much to appreciate in\n <em>\n  Betrayal in Death\n </em>\n . Eve and Roarke are impressive physical specimens, but they''re also witty, gritty, and often antagonistic, irritably staking out their territories and reluctantly collaborating in the crimes that come their way (think Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd in\n <em>\n  Moonlighting\n </em>\n , or Nick and Nora Charles on steroids and in a mood). Add in Robb''s surprisingly light touch with humor, and the 13th installment in the series is a lucky find indeed.\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This 12th installment in Robb''s (aka Nora Roberts) popular and critically praised futuristic cop series, set in the year 2059, finds Lt. Eve Dallas butting heads with the FBI in a race to take down a hired killer who appears to be targeting the employees of her wealthy hotelier husband, Roarke. Adding to Eve''s suspicions is the sudden and unexpected visit by one of Roarke''s boyhood chums from Dublin a shady character named Mick Connelly who used to run with Roarke when they were petty thieves and con men shortly after the first murder. Eve knows Mick is not the killer; in fact, she''s tussled with the prime suspect, Sly Yost, before, and his signature modus operandi, what he would call "murder with class," is unmistakable. Sly''s an anal sort with a taste for fine art, classical music, rape and strangulation by silver wire. But, master of disguise that he is, finding him is virtually impossible. Since the murders all take place at Roarke''s hotel, Eve allows him to assist in the investigation, a stroke of creative genius on Robb''s part that plays on the strengths that brought them together way back in book one (Naked in Death), and that serves to bring out Eve''s softer side. So certain is Robb at maintaining an atmospheric setting for this well-paced and expertly rendered series, followers will feel as if they have gone home to the future. (Mar. 6)\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1091'),
(961, 'Between Sisters', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Differences between siblings couldn''t be more extreme than they are in this overwrought feel-good novel by Hannah (Distant Shores), a tale about two estranged sisters. Meghann Dontess is a hotshot, well-to-do Seattle divorce lawyer in her 30s, entirely focused on her career. Her younger sister, Claire Cavenaugh, a single mom living in a backwater town in the Pacific Northwest, takes care of her five-year-old daughter and helps her father run his low-key lakeside resort. The half-sisters were raised by a neglectful mother, who finally abandoned them for Hollywood when she won a starring role in a science fiction series. Meghann was 16 and Claire was nine; Meghann had already essentially raised Claire herself, and after their mother left, she tracked down Claire''s biological father. Sam Cavenaugh was thrilled to be reunited with Claire, but Meghann suddenly found herself motherless and sisterless all at once, and numbed the pain by pouring herself into school, college and career. Now she''s horrified because Claire has recklessly fallen in love with a country singer whom she''s about to marry. Their absentee mom suddenly steps in to get him a recording contract, but before there can be a happy mother-daughter reunion, Claire is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Only Meghann, with her worldly connections, can come to the rescue. The melodramatic plot is something of a stretch, especially when Hannah ties it all together with a happy ending. Some devoted fans will enjoy the sisterly bonding, but the broad-strokes characters will disappoint more demanding readers of women''s fiction.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hannah returns to a minor character, Meghann, from\n  <em>\n   Distant Shores\n  </em>\n  [BKL My 1 02], and explores her life in-depth as she and her sister confront the past in order to have a better future relationship. They share a bitter childhood and find it difficult to trust each other, but for Meghann it goes deeper as her inability to trust anyone leads to a dangerously promiscuous lifestyle. Both sisters feel betrayed by the other, and now lead very different lives. Meghann, a shark of a Seattle divorce attorney, has been in therapy for years. Claire leads a simple, small-town life, and now tells her sister that she''s getting married. Meghann initially tries to save her sister from what she believes will be a disaster since she doesn''t believe in love, only in prenups, but eventually she adopts a more positive attitude and takes the first step toward healing the rift. Then Joe arrives, a wanderer with his own issues. Change comes gradually but with such finesse that the reader will enter the characters'' relationships and make them her own as Hannah transcends the mundane in this gratifying, five-hankie story.\n  <em>\n   Patty Engelmann\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1922'),
(962, 'Beware of the Dog', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In this exceptional 1944 psychological drama by Roald Dahl, after suffering a severe leg injury from an enemy shell while flying his Spitfire over the English Channel, RAF Squadron Leader Peter Williamson realizes he is losing consciousness and flips the fighter over, parachuting as his senses slowly but surely cease to function. When he awakens, he seems to be in a seashore Brighton hospital, cared for by a kindly nurse and an attentive doctor. But he becomes aware, bit by bit, of evidence that reveals his true situation: he is in German occupied Vichy France, which he confirms after struggling to read a sign posted in front of a nearby home through the room''s window.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1586'),
(963, 'Beyond Exile: Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  The first book ofÂ \n  <em>\n   Day by Day Armageddon\n  </em>\n  Â took us deep into the mind of a military officer and survivor as he made a New Year''s resolution to start keeping a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity,\n  <em>\n   day by day\n  </em>\n  . We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve. The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling underground cult classic,Â \n  <em>\n   Day by Day Armageddon\n  </em>\n  Â begins where the first novel left off.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   BEGIN INTERCEPT\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe;there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   INTERCEPT COMPLETE\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p>\n  Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm captureÂ the desperation--and the will to survive--as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1227'),
(964, 'Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future', 'Friedrich Nietzsche', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n `What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.'' Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his piercing insights and uncanny prescience. This masterpiece of his maturity considers quintessential Nietzschean topics such as the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women''s emancipation. Written in his most masterful style, full of irreverence and brio, Nietzsche dissects self-deluding human behaviour, bankrupt intellectual traditions, and the symptoms of social decadence, while at the same time advancing an extra-moral wisdom to be shared by those kindred soul who think ''beyond good and evil''. This new translation of Beyond Good and Evil provides readers with a true classic of modernity that sums up those forces and counterforces in nineteenth-century Western Civilisation that to an astonishing degree have also determined and continue to inform the course of our own century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/432'),
(965, 'Beyond Suspicion', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Miami criminal lawyer Jack Swyteckâ€™s beautiful ex-girlfriend Jessie Merrill sold her life insurance benefit for a cash payment when she was diagnosed with a deadly disease. Now, thanks to Jackâ€™s courtroom prowess, Jessie can keep the $1.5 million she received. But both Swyteck and those who expected to double their investment when Jessie died, it turns out, were dupes of a gorgeous scam artist who was never sick at all. And when Jessieâ€™s corpse is discovered in Jackâ€™s bathtub, heâ€™s suddenly wanted for murder. Framed and desperate, heâ€™s up against the police and a powerful criminal consortium willing to go to any lengths to retrieve their money. To save his freedom and his career, Jack must exhume the dark secrets of a buried past. But first he has to escape the murderous vengeance of a cold killer who is beyond suspicion . . . and who wants Jack Swyteckâ€™s blood.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Jack Swytech''s former girlfriend asks him to defend her in a case brought by investors who advance payment on insurance policies when their beneficiaries have been diagnosed with a terminal condition, it looks like an easy win; Jessie Merrill wasn''t dying after all, but since Viatical Settlements accepted her doctor''s somewhat equivocal diagnosis, they don''t stand a chance of getting their money back. Still celebrating his victory, Jack learns that Jessie has lied to him; like the shady, possibly Mob-connected company that advanced Jessie the money, he''s been scammed. Then Jessie is murdered in a bizarre scenario that not only sets Jack up as the prime suspect but also threatens his marriage to the woman who is still traumatized by a vicious attack perpetrated by another of his erstwhile clients. Enlisting the aid of his best friend, an ex-con who will do anything to protect the man who saved him from death row, Jack attempts to clear his name by finding the real murderer, who turns out to have a secret worth killing for. The serpentine plot manages to hold the reader''s attention despite characters who seem drawn from central casting and a meandering pace that doesn''t exactly compel one to keep turning pages to unravel the mystery.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grippando might not be the most lapidary of legal thriller writers, but he certainly has the imagination and research skills to plot up a storm. Readers of his seventh book (after A King''s Ransom) will find themselves riveted as Miami criminal lawyer Jack Swyteck the hero of Grippando''s first thriller, The Pardon returns to discover himself and his family under attack from several corners. Jessie Merrill, a particularly hot old flame of Jack''s who''s now dying of ALS, has hired him in an unusual civil case involving a "viatical settlement," in which she sells an insurance policy in return for an immediate cash payment. But the doctors were wrong: Jessie isn''t dying, and the shadowy consortium of Russian mobsters who bought her policy are now suing to get their money back. Jack and Jessie win the case; Jack realizes that he and the Russians have been scammed; and when a principal character turns up dead in the Swyteck bathtub, Jack''s unstable wife soon joined by a vengeful prosecutor thinks Jack did the dirty deed. There''s also a tough and dangerous young Cuban woman with reasons of her own for wanting the Russians brought down, a likable roughneck whom Jack once rescued from death row, and enough mean-spirited federal agents and prosecutors to settle a career''s worth of scores for a lawyer-turned-writer like Grippando, who was a partner in Janet Reno''s firm before he took up the quill.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2468'),
(966, 'Beyond the Shadows', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Logan Gyre is king of Cenaria, a country under siege, with a threadbare army and little hope. He has one chance - a desperate gamble, but one that could destroy his kingdom.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In the north, the new Godking has a plan. If it comes to fruition, no one will have the power to stop him.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Kylar Stern has no choice. To save his friends-and perhaps his enemies-he must accomplish the impossible: assassinate a goddess.\n <br />\n <em>\n  <br />\n  Beyond the Shadows\n </em>\n is the action-packed conclusion to the Night Angel Trilogy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brent Weeks was born and raised in Montana. After getting his paper keys from Hillsdale College, Brent had brief stints walking the earth like Caine from\n <em>\n  Kung Fu\n </em>\n , tending bar, and corrupting the youth. (Not at the same time.) He started writing on bar napkins, then on lesson plans, then full time. Eventually, someone paid him for it. Brent lives in Oregon with his wife, Kristi. He doesn''t own cats or wear a ponytail. Find more about the author at www.brentweeks.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/115'),
(967, 'Beyond Tuesday Morning', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''...Kingsbury once again deserves kudos for developing such an intense storyline that will captivate the reader and keep them up in the wee hours of the morning as they wait for their happy ending.'' -- The Best Reviews [HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED] (\n  <em>\n   The Best Reviews\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The hope-filled sequel to the bestselling One Tuesday Morning In this new novel by Karen Kingsbury, three years have passed since the terrorist attacks on New York City. Jamie Bryan, widow of a firefighter who lost his life on that terrible day, has found meaning in her season of loss by volunteering at St. Paul''s, the memorial chapel across the street from where the Twin Towers once stood. Here she meets a daily stream of people touched by the tragedy, including two men with whom she feels a connection. One is a firefighter also changed by the attacks, the other a police officer from Los Angeles. But as Jamie gets to know the police officer, she is stunned to find out that he is the brother of Eric Michaels, the man with the uncanny resemblance to Jamie''s husband, the man who lived with her for three months after September 11. Eric is the man she has vowed never to see again. Certain she could not share even a friendship with his brother, Jamie shuts out the police officer and delves deeper into her work at St. Paul''s. Now it will take the persistence of a tenacious man, the questions from her curious young daughter, and the words from her dead husband''s journal to move Jamie beyond one Tuesday morning. ''Jamie Bryan took her position at the far end of the Staten Island Ferry, pressed her body against the railing, eyes on the place where the Twin Towers once stood. She could face it now, every day if she had to. The terrorist attacks had happened, the World Trade Center had collapsed, and the only man she''d ever loved had gone down with them. Late fall was warmer than usual, and the breeze across the water washed over Jamie''s face. If she could do this, if she could make this journey three times a week while Sierra was in school, then she could convince herself to get through another long, dark night. She could face the empty place in the bed beside her, face the longing for the man who had been her best friend, the one she''d fallen for when she was only a girl.''\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1969'),
(968, 'The Big Bad Wolf', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a recent column in Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King cited Patterson''s thrillers as the example of "dopey" bestsellers. We hope that doesn''t mean that those who enjoy them are dopes, because this new one is vastly entertaining. Alex Cross, Patterson''s black lawman hero, has left the D.C. police force for the FBI. But Cross was a star cop, so when the Bureau becomes aware that attractive white women are disappearing at an unusually high rate in the nation''s capital, Cross, despite still being in training at Quantico, is brought onto the case and is personally mentored by the Bureau''s director, earning the ire of some Feds but the support of others. Behind the disappearances is a sexual slavery operation run as a sideline by one of the more believable and most compellingly evil villains in the Patterson universe, the Wolf, a mysterious former KGB man who''s now the world''s top mobster. The narrative throughout is swift and varied, as Patterson cuts among the diabolical schemes of a Russian magnate who may be the Wolf, the plight of several kidnap victims, the dogged pursuit by Cross and company of the Wolf, and the hideous designs of the members of an encrypted computer chat room who pay the Wolf fortunes to snatch women who fit their fantasies. And there''s domestic drama, too, as the mother of Cross''s young son, Alex, decides that she wants her boy back. Full of plot surprises and featuring a balanced mix of intrigue, hard action and angst, the novel, on which Patterson notably does not share cover credit, grips from start to finish. The Alex Cross series remains Patterson''s finest, and this is the finest Cross in years. Maybe we''re dopes, but we''re smiling ones.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alex Cross finally took the plunge at the end of\n <em>\n  Four Blind Mice\n </em>\n (2002) and joined the FBI. The training is a little beneath Cross, who has spent years working with the FBI on the toughest cases, but he dutifully attends classes until he''s pulled out to consult on a case. Wealthy women have been disappearing around the country. The latest, a judge''s wife, was snatched at a shopping mall. It appears these women (and soon several young men as well) are being abducted and sold to people who have "selected" them and paid a hefty sum. The man behind it all is a Russian known only as the Wolf. Cross gets a break when one of the buyers releases the woman he paid to have abducted, but when they track him down, they find he''s committed suicide. Then a major bombshell in his personal life distracts Cross from the case: his ex-girlfriend Christine, the mother of his youngest son, has reappeared, and she wants custody. Cross'' first major case with the FBI will have readers on the edge of their seats, swiftly turning the pages to the exciting showdown.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/370'),
(969, 'The Big Nowhere', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Returning to Los Angeles a few years after World War II (the setting of his last novel, The Black Dahlia ), Ellroy has come up with an ambitious, enthralling melodrama painted on a broad, dark canvas. The novel''s first half interweaves two stories of lonely, driven lawmen investigating the crimes of social outcasts. In the county sheriff''s office, Deputy Danny Upshaw finds that his probe of a series of homosexual murders is unleashing some frightening personal demons. Meanwhile, DA''s investigator Mal Considine is assigned to infiltrate a cadre of Hollywood leftists, knowing that in the red-scare atmosphere, any hint of Communist conspiracy he uncovers will advance his career. Impressed by Upshaw''s intensity, Considine decides to use him as a decoy to seduce a powerful woman nicknamed the "Red Queen," and the two cases and their implications of corruption, deceit and past violence converge explosively. At once taut and densely detailed, this is a mystery with the grim, inexorable pull of a film noir, shot through with a strictly modern dose of extreme (though not gratuitous) brutality and a very sure sense of history and characterization.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Author of the bestselling Black Dahlia, James Ellroy, pens another thriller--a noir epic of three men caught in a web of ambition, perversion and deceit during the fifties in L.A. Each is on a collision course with the Commie scare and a string of brutal murders. Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/772'),
(970, 'The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although Lewis is perhaps best known for his sports-related nonfiction (including\n <em>\n  The Blind Side\n </em>\n ), his first book was the autobiographical\n <em>\n  Liar''s Poker\n </em>\n , in which he chronicled his disillusionment as a young gun on Wall Street in the greed is good 1980s. He returns to his financial roots to excavate the crisis of 2007â€“2008, employing his trademark technique of casting a microcosmic lens on the personal histories of several Wall Street outsiders who were betting against the grainâ€”to shed light on the macrocosmic tale of greed and fear. Although Lewis reads the book''s introduction, narration duties are assumed by Jesse Boggs, a veteran narrator of business titles (including Lewis''s own 2008 book\n <em>\n  Panic!\n </em>\n ). Boggs''s rich baritone is well suited to the task and trips lightly through a maze of financial jargon (CDOs, derivatives, mid-prime lending) and a dizzying cast of characters. Lewis returns on the final disc for a 10-minute interview about the crisis''s aftermath, including a savvy assessment of the wisdom of the financial bailout and where-are-they-now updates on the book''s various heroes and villains.\n <em>\n  A Norton hardcover. (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Lewis has written from the perspective of a financial insider for more than 20 years. His first book, Liar''s Poker, was a warts-and-all account of Wall Street culture in the 1980s, when Lewis worked at the investment bank Salomon Brothers. Everything Lewis has touched since has turned to gold, and The Big Short seems to be another of those books, combining an incendiary, timely topic with the author''s solid, insightful, and witty investigative reporting. Only the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette criticized what it felt was a rush job of writing and a failure to integrate the individual stories. Few readers will care for the message here (despite laugh-out-loud moments of absurdity), but Lewis is a capable guide into the world of CDOs, subprime mortgages, head-in-the-sand investments, inflated egos--and the big short. However, as Entertainment Weekly points at, if you''re only going to read one book on the topic, perhaps this should not be the one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/417'),
(971, 'The Big Sleep', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the Philip Marlowe novels. Its bursts of sex, violence, and explosively direct prose changed detective fiction forever. "She was trouble. She was tall and rangy and strong-looking. Her hair was black and wiry and parted in the middle. She had a good mouth and a good chin. There was a sulky droop to her lips and the lower lip was full."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he''s one of the 20th century''s top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard''s signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/955'),
(972, 'Big Trouble', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dave Barry, the only newsman to win a Pulitzer for exemplary use of words like\n  <em>\n   booger\n  </em>\n  , will please humor and crime-fiction fans alike with this racy debut novel. The scene is Miami. In ritzy Coconut Grove, the teen son of Eliot, a newsman turned adman, sneaks up to spritz a cute girl with a Squirtmaster 9000 to win a high school game called Killer. Meanwhile, two hit men sneak up to kill the girl''s abusive stepdad, Arthur. Arthur cheated his bosses at corrupt Penultimate, Inc., which equipped a Florida jail with automatic garage-opener gates that accidentally freed prisoners in a lightning storm.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Farcical confusion ensues, witnessed by a saintly bum named Puggy, camped in a tree in Arthur''s yard. Puggy works at the Jolly Jackal Bar &amp; Grill, which has no grill and actually sells guns and bombs to an offshoot of the Crips and Bloods called the Cruds, and to Penultimate (which plans to conquer Cuba). But when dim thugs Eddie and Snake rob the Jolly Jackal and Arthur tells them it''s a Russian mob front selling bombs, the proprietor snorts, "\n  <em>\n   Bombs, pfft!\n  </em>\n  No bombs! Is bar."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Can Snake and Eddie spirit a suitcase nuke through Miami, "where most motorists obeyed the traffic and customs of their individual countries of origin"? Can Eliot and cop Monica Rodriguez save the day? And how do the 300-pound hallucinogenic Enemy Toad, the 13-foot-long python Daphne, highway goats, and the Denture Adventure seniors'' theme park fit in? Everything fits perfectly, including a few dark passages new to Barry''s work. But one warning: if you read this book while drinking milk, at some point it will spurt out of your nostrils.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In writing a comic thriller set in South Florida, the Pulitzer-winning Miami Herald columnist and author of 20 books of satirical nonfiction (most recently, Dave Barry Turns 50) risks the inevitable comparison to Carl Hiaasen. The good news is that he acquits himself well in this slapstick caper. Barry''s cast of familiar South Florida oddballs populate what might best be described as a Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury) sendup of the hard-boiled crime novels of Elmore Leonard. Featuring a homeless drifter who sleeps in a tree and tends bar for two illegal arms-dealing Russian hoods, a pair of two-bit losers who hustle tourists at parking meters, an ex-journalist (now a failing ad-man), a pretty illegal alien, a boozy embezzler and his ill-used wife and daughter, a teen with a water pistol playing a game of Killer, a retarded dog, a psychedelic South American toad, two klutzy New Jersey hit men and a virtual army of local and Federal law enforcement, the novel''s quirky players bounce off each other like popcorn in a microwave, chasing after a mysterious suitcase containing a nuclear bomb in an unlikely race against certain death. The zany plot has more twists than the I-95 Miami airport interchange and more pratfalls than a Three Stooges comedy. Despite an occasional stiffness and tendency to strain for one-liners, the narrative moves at a breezy pace. Barry is indisputably one of the funniest humorists writing today, and his fiction debut will not disappoint a legion of fans. Agent, Al Hart. 150,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild featured alternate; 12-city author tour. (Sept.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(973, 'Billy Graham Christian Worker&#39;s Handbook', 'Billy Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This book is a topical guide with biblical answers to the urgent concerns of our day. It is a valuable resource for any Christian interested in sharpening his or her skills in using the Bible to share Christ with a needy world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1912'),
(974, 'Birthday Party Murder', 'Leslie Meier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Believable and lovable characters, notably nonagenarian-to-be Julia Ward Howe Tilley (who wears "twinkling" sneakers), add freshness to a familiar story line in Meier''s ninth mystery (after 2001''s Wedding Day Murder) featuring Lucy Stone, wife, mom, part-time reporter and amateur sleuth. After a cold and cloudy March in quaint Tinker Cove, Maine, the sun is finally shining as Lucy joins her four friends for their weekly breakfast at Jake''s Donut Shack. To fight the doldrums and to honor Miss Tilley, the former librarian, they decide to organize a townwide 90th birthday party for her. The anticipation of the party plus Lucy''s resolve to lose weight, do something about her wrinkles and dye her hair to cover the newly discovered gray lift her spirits until she hears that respected lawyer Sherman Cobb has been found dead in his office. The police declare death by suicide, but Cobb''s partner suspects murder and asks Lucy to investigate. Meanwhile, Miss Tilley is suddenly faced with a niece she never knew existed, who arrives with her biker son only to move in and take over, much to the dismay of the older woman''s friends. As Lucy''s inquiries lead to the disclosure of long-hidden Tilley family secrets, she must also deal with a teenage daughter and her co-ed sleepover, her son''s troubles at college and her husband''s accident. Mothers everywhere will identify with Lucy and the domestic problems she encounters, while established fans will find this one well up to standard.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The whole town of Tinker''s Cove is looking forward to the celebration marking former librarian Julia Ward Howe Tilley''s ninetieth birthday. Lucy Stone, Miss Tilley''s closest friend, dreamed up the party idea--at about the same time she decided she''s not getting old without a fight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That sounds like a plan--until Lucy realizes her daughter''s fourteenth birthday bash, a coed sleepover, may turn her hair white overnight. What was she thinking when she agreed to let Sara have the party? On her mind, instead, was the shocking death of Sherman Cobb, the town''s oldest attorney, an apparent suicide. His law partner, however, thinks Sherman was murdered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poking about in Sherman''s papers, Lucy turns up an intriguing tie between the dead man and Miss Tilley. Meanwhile Miss Tilley''s own past has come back to haunt her in the form of a mysterious niece named Shirley and a biker great nephew named Snake. Soon no one can get to see the elderly librarian because the brash, bossy Shirley says she''s "failing." Now, as a killer''s ruthless plan rushes toward a conclusion, Lucy needs answers fast--or else she and Miss Tilley won''t live long enough to make a wish and blow out the candles on this year''s birthday cake...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1936'),
(975, 'Bite Me', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMooreâ€™s most hysterical â€˜love storyâ€™ to date.â€ (Booklist )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI canâ€™t emphasize enough how funny BITE ME is.â€ (Bookreporter.com )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMooreâ€™s twisted take on the undead comes as a welcome respite from the recent spate of TV, film and book offerings to bombard us.â€ (Edmonton Journal on BITE ME )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMoore carved a niche in the horror-comedy genre, and anyone with a fiendish sense of humor will love his writing.â€ (Florida Times-Union on BITE ME )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMoore proves he has few rivals on the humour-opus front with this high-larious romp that just might have driven the final nail into old Nosferatuâ€™s coffin.â€ (Ottawa Citizen on BITE ME )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. ''Cept there''s no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they''re vampires. Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue.\n</p>\n<p>\n Abby wants to be a bloodsucking fiend, too, but right now she''s really busy with other stuff, like breaking in a pair of red vinyl thigh-high SkankensteinÂ® platform boots and wrangling her Ph.D.-candidate boyfriend, Steve (the love monkey). And then there''s that vampire cat Chet, who''s getting bigger and smarterâ€”and thirstierâ€”by the minute. Abby thought she and Steve could handle the kitty cat on their own,\n <em>\n  mais non\n </em>\n . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Before you can say "OMG! WTF?" Tommy and Jody are sprung from captivity, and join forces with Abby, Steve, the frozen-turkey-bowling Safeway crew, the Emperor of San Francisco and his trusty dogs Lazarus and Bummer, Abby''s gay Goth friend Jared, and SF''s finest Cavuto and Rivera to hunt big cat and save the city. And that''s when the fun really begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/411'),
(976, 'The Black Book', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Five years ago, a mysterious fire burned Edinburgh''s seedy Central Hotel to ashes. Long-forgotten and unsolved, the case reappears when a charred bodyÂ—with a bullet in its headÂ—is found amongst the ruins. Inspector John Rebus knows that his superiors would rather he let sleeping dogs lie. He knows that part of the answer lies somewhere within a cryptic black notebook. And he knows that to solve the case, he''ll have to peel back layer upon layer of unspeakable secrets to arrive at the truth...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1801');
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(977, 'The Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n There must be a way for the\n <em>\n  Black Company\n </em>\n to find her...\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in 1944,\n <strong>\n  Glen Cook\n </strong>\n grew up in northern California, served in the U.S. Navy, attended the University of Missouri, and was one of the earliest graduates of the well-known "Clarion" workshop SF writers. Since 1971 he has published a large number of SF and fantasy novels, including the "Dread Empire" series, the occult-detective "Garrett" novels, and the very popular "Black Company" sequence that began with the publication of\n <em>\n  The Black Company\n </em>\n in 1984. Among his SF novels is\n <em>\n  A Passage at Arms.\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n After working many years for General Motors, Cook now writes full-time. He lives near St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife Carol.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/901'),
(978, 'The Black Echo', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Connelly transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel, featuring Hieronymus (aka Harry) Bosch, a former hero cop exiled to the small-time Beverly Hills force. In July, Little, Brown will publish a sequel, Black Ice .\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- Harry Bosch likes order, contends that there are no coincidences, and keeps meticulous records in his\n <code>\n  murder book.'''' When the body of a former\n </code>\n tunnel rat'''' from Vietnam is found in a drainpipe, Harry is the detective on duty and is called to the scene. His identification of the body begins an investigation that leads to more murder, bank robbery, heroin, diamonds, and betrayal. Connelly''s descriptions of autopsies, murder scenes, and police procedure are vivid and realistic. The use of acronyms and police jargon puts readers in the middle of the action. A real page turner with gutty realism and an unusual twist.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Debbie Hyman, R. E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1348'),
(979, 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War', 'Mark Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback,\n  <em>\n   Black Hawk Down\n  </em>\n  is Mark Bowdenâ€™s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead, they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly wounded.\n  <br />\n  Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowdenâ€™s minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever writtenÂ—a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  1999 National Book Award nominee for Nonfiction.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(980, 'Black House', 'Stephen King &amp; Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial killer in a neighboring town.\n</p>\n<p>\n Of course, this is no ordinary policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub''s 1984 fantasy\n <em>\n  The Talisman\n </em>\n . At the end of that book, the 13-year-old Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate realm called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a terrible enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her counterpart in the Territories. Now in his 30s, Jack remembers nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn''t entirely forgotten:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  When these faces rise or those voices mutter, he has until now told himself the old lie, that once there was a frightened boy who caught his mother''s neurotic terror like a cold and made up a story, a grand fantasy with good old Mom-saving Jack Sawyer at its center. None of it was real, and it was forgotten by the time he was sixteen. By then he was calm. Just as he''s calm now, running across his north field like a lunatic, leaving that dark track and those clouds of startled moths behind him, but doing it\n  <em>\n   calmly\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Jack is abruptly pulled into the case--and back into the Territories--by the Fisherman himself, who sends Jack a child''s shoe, foot still attached. As Jack flips back and forth between French Landing and the Territories, aided by his 20-years-forgotten friend Speedy Parker and a host of other oddballs (including a blind disk jockey, the beautiful mother of one of the missing children, and a motorcycle gang calling itself the "Hegelian Scum"), he tracks both the Fisherman and a much bigger fish: the\n <em>\n  abbalah\n </em>\n , the Crimson King who seeks to destroy the axle of worlds.\n</p>\n<p>\n While\n <em>\n  The Talisman\n </em>\n was a straightforward myth in 1980s packaging,\n <em>\n  Black House\n </em>\n is richer and more complex, a fantasy wrapped in a horror story inside a mystery, sporting a clever tangle of references to Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, jazz, baseball, and King''s own Dark Tower saga.\n <em>\n  Talisman\n </em>\n fans will find the sure-footed Jack has worn well--as has the King/Straub writing style, which is much improved with the passage of two decades.\n <em>\n  --Barrie Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Today''s literature is plagued by sequelitis; plagued because many of the offspring are abominations. But here''s a marvelous exception. Seventeen years after King and Straub''s first collaboration, The Talisman, comes an immensely satisfying follow-up, a brilliant and challenging dark fantasy that fans of both authors are going to love. Page by page, the novel reads as equal parts King and Straub, with the Maine master''s exuberance and penchant for excess restrained by Straub''s generally more elegant (though no more potent) approach. But the book, far more than its predecessor, is set explicitly in the King universe, with particular ties to the Dark Tower series. Its primary hero is The Talisman''s Jack Sawyer, now retired from the LAPD and living with no memory of his otherwordly Talisman exploits, alone in French Landing, Wisconsin a town surveyed by the authors in an unusual third-person plural narration that buoys the book throughout. Terror stalks French Landing in the form of the Fisherman, who''s been snatching, killing and eating the town''s children. We know that the Fisherman is a resident of the town''s elderly care facility, but Jack doesn''t; when yet another child, Ty Marshall, is taken, Jack enters the hunt for the killer and the boy. He''s joined by an array of locals, notably a gang of philosopher bikers and blind Henry Leyden, a 50-something cool cat whom every reader will adore. Jack is going to need all their help, and more, because The Fisherman is controlled by a malignant entity from End-World, where the Crimson King aims to unravel the fabric of all the universes. It''s to blighted End-World, via the portal of the Black House a creepy local house painted black that Jack and others travel to rescue Ty, in the novel''s frantic conclusion.The book abounds with literary allusions, many to the King-verse, and readers not familiar with King''s work and particularly with The Talisman may feel disoriented, especially at first. But there''s so much here to revel in, from expertly excuted sequences of terror, awe or passion the novel is a deep reservoir of genuine emotion to some of the most wonderful characters to spring from a page in years, to a story whose energy is so high and craft so accomplished that most readers will wish it ran twice its great length. What is probably the most anticipated novel of the year turns out to be its most memorable to date, a high point in both the King and Straub canons. This will be a monster bestseller, and deservedly so. 2 million first printing. (One-day laydown Sept. 15)\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/488'),
(981, 'The Black Ice', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this surehanded sequel to The Black Echo , LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch stalks drug traffickers in L.A. and Mexico.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Second tense, tightly wound tangle of a case for Hieronymous Bosch (The Black Echo, 1991). This time out, the LAPD homicide cop, who''s been exiled to Hollywood Division for his bumptious behavior, sniffs out the bloody trail of the designer drug ``black ice.'''' Connelly (who covers crime for the Los Angeles Times) again flexes his knowledge of cop ways--and of cop-novel clichâ€šs. Cast from the hoary mold of the maverick cop, Bosch pushes his way onto the story''s core case--the apparent suicide of a narc--despite warnings by top brass to lay off. Meanwhile, Bosch''s boss, a prototypical pencil-pushing bureaucrat hoping to close out a majority of Hollywood''s murder cases by New Year''s Day, a week hence, assigns the detective a pile of open cases belonging to a useless drunk, Lou Porter. One of the cases, the slaying of an unidentified Hispanic, seems to tie in to the death of the narc, which Bosch begins to read as murder stemming from the narc''s dirty involvement in black ice. When Porter is murdered shortly after Bosch speaks to him, and then the detective''s love affair with an ambitious pathologist crashes, Bosch decides to head for Mexico, where clues to all three murders point. There, the well-oiled, ten- gear narrative really picks up speed as Bosch duels with corrupt cops; attends the bullfights; breaks into a fly-breeding lab that''s the distribution center for Mexico''s black-ice kingpin; and takes part in a raid on the kingpin''s ranch that concludes with Bosch waving his jacket like a matador''s cape at a killer bull on the rampage. But the kingpin escapes, leading to a not wholly unexpected twist--and to a touching assignation with the dead narc''s widow. Expertly told, and involving enough--but lacking the sheer artistry and heart-clutching thrills of, say, David Lindsay''s comparable Stuart Haydon series (Body of Evidence, etc.). --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1349'),
(982, 'Black List: A Thriller', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A stunning masterwork of action, intrigue, and ingenious plot twists.\n </p>\n <h1>\n  1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most explosive thriller ever.\n  <strong>\n   Somewhere\n  </strong>\n  deep inside the United States government is a closely guarded list. Members of Congress never get to see itâ€”only the President and a secret team of advisers. Once your name is on the list, it doesnâ€™t come off . . . until youâ€™re dead.\n </h1>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Someone\n  </strong>\n  has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvathâ€™s name.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Somehow\n  </strong>\n  Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to untangle who has targeted him and why they want him out of the way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Somewhere, someone, somehow\n  </strong>\n  can put all the pieces together. The only question is, will Harvath get to that person before the United States suffers the most withering terrorist attack ever conceived?\n </p>\n <p>\n  An intense, page-turning novel that is action-packed and frighteningly real,\n  <em>\n   Black List\n  </em>\n  blurs the line between fiction and reality and once again reaffirms why Brad Thor â€œis arguably the best thriller writer of our timeâ€ (\n  <em>\n   Suspense Magazine\n  </em>\n  ) and â€œAmericaâ€™s favorite authorâ€ (KTTX).\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "[Brad Thor] is arguably the best thriller writer of our time." --Suspense Magazine\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThor has mastered thriller storytelling with fast pacing and plots that are relevant to American readers." --The Miami Herald\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Anyone who thinks the only thing to fear is fear itself should meet Brad Thor." --Newsweek\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Brad Thor\n  </strong>\n  is the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Full Black, The Athena Project, Foreign Influence, The Apostle, The Last Patriot, The First Commandment, Takedown, Blowback\n  </em>\n  (recognized by NPR as one of the "100 Best Thrillers of All Time")\n  <em>\n   , State of the Union, Path of the Assassin,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Lions of Lucerne.\n  </em>\n  Visit his website at BradThor.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2457'),
(983, 'Black Magic Sanction', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The latest stirring instalment of the urban fantasy-thriller series starring Rachel Morgan. A pacey and addictive novel of sexy bounty-hunting witches, cunning demons and vicious vampires.Having barely escaped being skewered by the criminal vampire overlord of Cinncinati, Rachel now has even bigger problems to contend with.The demon, Algaliarept, although banished back into the everafter has infected others of his kind with his interest in a witch who can channel demon magic. Rachel soon finds herself with not one but three hellions on her tail; and one of them is even crazier and more dangerous than all the fairy assassins, weres and vampires on the planet.Published as ''The Outlaw Demon Wails'' in the US.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1242'),
(984, 'Black Money', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lew Archer is hired to investigate the suspicious French "aristocrat" who''s run off with his client''s girlfriend--only to uncover a mountain of gambling debts and a seven-year-old suicide with lethal repercussions in the present. Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his best, baring the skull beneath the suntanned skin of Southern California''s high society. Simultaneous trade paperback release with Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. 2 cassettes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1612'),
(985, 'Black Notice', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The postmortem is in--\n  <em>\n   Black Notice\n  </em>\n  , the 10th in Patricia Cornwell''s Scarpetta series, is a gore-splattered, intensely exciting read. As winter grips Richmond, Virginia, an air of somberness pervades chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta''s world. Her beloved niece Lucy is involved in a dangerous undercover police operation in Miami, and auntie fears for her life. A tyrannical new deputy chief, Diane Bray, wants to get Kay''s department under her jurisdiction. Meanwhile, back at the office, someone has tinkered with the e-mail system, stealing Kay''s identity, and sending off slanderous and hurtful messages. Emotionally battered, Scarpetta fears she is going insane. Or, could it be that someone is deliberately sowing this harvest of sorrow?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite her personal problems, Scarpetta is still the reigning diva at the department of death. She is sent to investigate the putrefied remains of a man found inside a container ship, "eyes bulged froglike, and the scalp and beard were sloughing off with the outer layer of darkening skin." Kay finds strange, animal-like hairs on the man''s clothing--the same hairs that she discovers on a murdered store clerk a few days later. In actuality, the bizarre killings extend well beyond Virginia; whoever killed the Richmond victims also butchered people in France. Kay and police captain Pete Marino are whisked off to Paris where they must collect top-secret information from a Paris morgue, and avoid becoming victims themselves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This macabre tome is the stuff that classic Scarpetta tales are made of: creepy but compulsive autopsy scenes, plentiful plot twists, and the compelling, if slightly more vulnerable chief medical examiner herself.\n  <em>\n   --Naomi Gesinger\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s like a splash of cold water on a hot day to be plunged, after the irritating third-person satire of Cornwell''s last novel, Southern Cross (1998), back into the bracing narration of medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. As in the nine Scarpettas past (Point of Origin, etc.), here it''s not the novel''s events, startling as they are, that propel the story so much as the deep-hearted responses of Kay, as real a hero as any in thriller fiction, to the "evil"Aher wordAthat threatens. Evil wears several faces here, from petty to monstrous. Most insidious is the office sabotageAinsubordination, thefts, fraudulent e-mailsAthat''s making the grieving Kay look as if she''s lost her grip since her lover''s murder in Point of Origin. More destructive are the overt attempts by calculating Richmond, Va., deputy police chief Diane Bray to ruin Kay''s career as well as that of Kay''s old friend, Capt. Pete Marino. Then there''s the wild rage at life that''s consuming Kay''s niece, a DEA agent. FinallyAthe plot wire that binds the sometimes scattered plotAthere are the mutilation killings by the French serial killer self-styled "Loup-Garou"Awerewolf. The forensic sequences boom with authority; the brief action sequences explode on the pageAin the finale, overbearingly so; the interplay between Kay and Marino is boisterous as always, and there''s an atmospheric sidetrip to Paris and an affecting romantic misadventure for lonely Kay. A thunderhead of disquietude hangs over this compulsively readable novel, sometimes loosing storms of suspense; but to Cornwell''s considerable credit, the unease arises ultimately not from the steady potential for violence, but from a more profound horror: the vulnerability of a good woman like Kay to a world beset by the corrupt, the cruel, the demonic. One million first printing; $750,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club and Mystery Guild main selections; unabridged and abridged audio versions; foreign rights sold in eight countries.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1389'),
(986, 'Blackwood Farm', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgÃ¤nger, â€œGoblin,â€ a spirit from a dream world that Quinn canâ€™t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgÃ¤nger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinnâ€™s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds.\n</p>\n<p>\n A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny,\n <strong>\n  Blackwood Farm\n </strong>\n is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/264'),
(987, 'Blade Itself', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British newcomer Abercrombie fills his muddled sword-and-sorcery series opener with black humor and reluctant heroes. Logen Ninefingers, a barbarian on the run from an ex-employer who''s now king of the North, finds his loyalties complicated when he switches sides and becomes a valuable source of intel to the beleaguered Union. Glokta, a torture victim turned torturer, gets roped into securing the Union''s position against both the invading Northmen and the incompetent Union king and council, and ruthlessly wields his skills in attempts to weed out traitors. Foppish Jezal, a preternaturally excellent swordsman, manages to win the contest to become the Union champion, thanks to a little help from Bayaz, a mage with his own agenda. The workmanlike plot, marred by repetitive writing and an excess of torture and pain, is given over to introducing the mostly unlikable characters, only to send them off on separate paths in preparation for the next volume''s adventures.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "There is a gritty edge to his world and an awareness of the human cost of violence that is very contemporary." -- Lisa Tuttle THE TIMES "Comes close to living up to its publishers hype." -- Jon Courtenay Grimwood THE GUARDIAN "The Blade Itself is a page-turner powered by a combination of fast-paced action and juicy doses of cynicism. Perhaps more remarkable, however, is the way Abercrombie sets the scene." EDGE Magazine "The Blade Itself is therefore an extremely impressive debut, the first in a series subtitled The First Law, and in Joe Abercrombie it brings us a writer who oozes promise. This is surely a novel as sharp as its title." -- John Berlyne SF REVU "There''s a fat vein of cynicism and dark humour throughout. The action scenes are fast-paced and the violence takes its toll both mentally and physically. A great start to a long journey." DREAMWATCH "You''d never guess that The Blade Itself is Joe Abercrombie''s debut novel. He writes like a natural. There are great characters, sparky dialogue, an action-packed plot, and from the very first words and an opening scene that is literally a cliff-hanger, you know you are in for a cheeky, vivid, exhilarating ride." -- Barbara Davies STARBURST "An admirably hard, fast and unpretentious read from debut author Joe Abercrombie. Packs a mean punch in the bloodthirsty mayhem and mystery departments. Crammed full of torture, vengeance and bad behaviour, it''s a lively tale of savagery vs. civilisation. The Blade Itself may not reinvent the wheel, but it does serve up a whole banquet of violent action and intrigue." -- Saxon Bullock SFX "The Blade Itself is in many respects another reprisal of the classic formula. It will be fascinating to see where Abercrombie take his plot and how he develops these characters." -- Roz Kaveney TIME OUT "The star of the show is doubtlessly Inquisitor Glotka for simply being one of the most wonderfully bitter and cynical characters I''ve come across. With a very funny and clever internal monologue going on during every conversation he has, Glotka''s as miserable and nasty at the end as he was to start with and, especially in a heroic fantasy novel, it works perfectly. " SF CROWSNEST\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(988, 'Bleachers', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Bleachers\n </em>\n John Grisham departs again from the legal thriller to experiment with a character-driven tale of reunion, broken high school dreams, and missed chances. While the book falls short of the compelling storytelling that has made Grisham a bestselling author, it is nonetheless a diverting novella that succeeds as light fiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story centers on the impending death of the Messina Spartans'' football coach Eddie Rake. One of the most victorious coaches in high school football history, Rake is a man both loved and feared by his players and by a town that relishes his 13 state titles. The hero of the novel is Neely Crenshaw, a former Rake All-American whose NFL prospects ended abruptly after a cheap shot to the knees. Neely has returned home for the first time in years to join a nightly vigil for Rake at the Messina stadium. Having wandered through life with little focus since his college days, he struggles to reconcile his conflicted feelings towards his former coach, and he assays to rekindle love in the ex-girlfriend he abandoned long ago. For Messina and for Neely, the homecoming offers the prospect of building a life after Rake.\n</p>\n<p>\n Physically a narrow book,\n <em>\n  Bleachers\n </em>\n is a modest fiction in many respects. The emotional scope is akin to that of a short story, with a single-minded focus on explorations of nostalgia and regret. The dialogue, especially that of Neely''s friend Paul Curry, is sometimes wooden as characters recall Messina history in paragraphs that were perhaps better left to the narrator. But Grisham has otherwise written a well-made, entertaining--if a bit sentimental--story.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grisham demonstrated he could produce bestsellers without legal aid with The Painted House and Skipping Christmas, and he''ll undoubtedly do so again with this slight but likable novel of high school football, a legendary coach and the perils of too early fame. Fifteen years after graduation, Neely Crenshaw, one-time star quarterback of the Messina Spartans, returns home on hearing news of the impending death of tough-as-nails coach Eddie Rake. Neely knows the score: "When you''re famous at eighteen, you spend the rest of your life fading away." It''s a lesson he''s learned the hard way after destroying his knee playing college ball and drifting through life in an ever-downward spiral. He and his former teammates sit in the bleachers at the high school stadium waiting for Rake to die, drinking beer and reminiscing. There is a mystery involving the legendary ''87 championship, and Neely has unfinished business with an old high school sweetheart, but neither story line comes to much. Readers will guess the solution to the mystery, as does the town police chief when it''s divulged to him (" `We sorta figured it out,'' said Mal") and Neely''s former girlfriend doesn''t want to have anything to do with his protestations of love ("You''ll get over it. Takes about ten years"). The stirring funeral scene may elicit a few tears, but Neely''s eulogy falls curiously flat. After living through four hard days in Messina, the lessons Neely learns are unremarkable ("Those days are gone now"). Many readers will come away having enjoyed the time spent, but wishing there had been a more sympathetic lead character, more originality, more pages, more story and more depth.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/699'),
(989, 'Bleak House', 'Charles Dickens &amp; Elizabeth Mccracken', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bleak House\n </em>\n is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens''s tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author''s convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket. (\n <em>\n  Running time: 3 hours; 2 cassettes\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bleak House is such a natural for audio that it comes as no surprise to read in Peter Ackroyd''s biography of Dickens that he himself read it aloud to Wilkie Collins and his own family. No matter how good he was as a readerAand he did go on to present public readings regularly after thisADickens could not have performed better than Robert Whitfield does here. With a motley cast of characters to challenge the skill of any narrator, his brilliant dramatizations range from a homeless street urchin to an arrogant barrister, from a canny old windbag to a high-minded heroine who deserves the happy ending Dickens affords her. Whitfield is also as persuasive as the indignant voice of the author himself, attacking both the injustice of the law and the cruel indifference of society. This may be one of the most Dickensian novels Dickens ever wrote. Highly recommended.AJo Carr, Sarasota, FL\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/852'),
(990, 'The Blind Assassin', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Blind Assassin\n  </em>\n  is a tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages. The survivor, Iris Chase Griffen, initially seems a little cold-blooded about this death in the family. But as Margaret Atwood''s most ambitious work unfolds--a tricky process, in fact, with several nested narratives and even an entire novel-within-a-novel--we''re reminded of just how complicated the familial game of hide-and-seek can be:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   What had she been thinking of as the car sailed off the bridge, then hung suspended in the afternoon sunlight, glinting like a dragonfly, for that one instant of held breath before the plummet? Of Alex, of Richard, of bad faith, of our father and his wreckage; of God, perhaps, and her fatal, triangular bargain.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Atwood immediately launches into an excerpt from Laura Chase''s novel,\n  <em>\n   The Blind Assassin\n  </em>\n  , posthumously published in 1947. In this double-decker concoction, a wealthy woman dabbles in blue-collar passion, even as her lover regales her with a series of science-fictional parables. Complicated? You bet. But the author puts all this variegation to good use, taking expert measure of our capacity for self-delusion and complicity, not to mention desolation. Almost everybody in her sprawling narrative manages to--or prefers to--overlook what''s in plain sight. And memory isn''t much of a salve either, as Iris points out: "Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I''ve found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them." Yet Atwood never succumbs to postmodern cynicism, or modish contempt for her characters. On the contrary, she''s capable of great tenderness, and as we immerse ourselves in Iris''s spliced-in memoir, it''s clear that this buttoned-up socialite has been anything but blind to the chaos surrounding her.\n  <em>\n   --Darya Silver\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Family secrets, sibling rivalry, political chicanery and social unrest, promises and betrayals, "loss and regret and memory and yearning" are the themes of Atwood''s brilliant new novel, whose subtitle might read: The Fall of the House of Chase. Justly praised for her ability to suggest the complexity of individual lives against the backdrop of Canadian history, Atwood here plays out a spellbinding family saga intimately affected by WWI, the Depression and Communist witch-hunts, but the final tragedy is equally the result of human frailty, greed and passion. Octogenarian narrator Iris Chase Griffen is moribund from a heart ailment as she reflects on the events following the suicide in 1945 of her fey, unworldly 25-year-old sister, Laura, and of the posthumous publication of Laura''s novel, called "The Blind Assassin." Iris''s voiceDacerbic, irreverent, witty and cynicalDis mesmerizingly immediate. When her narration gives way to conversations between two people collaborating on a science fiction novel, we assume that we are reading the genesis of Laura''s tale. The voices are those of an unidentified young woman from a wealthy family and her lover, a hack writer and socialist agitator on the run from the law; the lurid fantasy they concoct between bouts of lovemaking constitutes a novel-within-a-novel. Issues of sexual obsession, political tyranny, social justice and class disparity are addressed within the potboiler SF, which features gruesome sacrifices, mutilated body parts and corrupt, barbaric leaders. Despite subtle clues, the reader is more than halfway through Atwood''s tour de force before it becomes clear that things are not what they seem. Meanwhile, flashbacks illuminate the Chase family history. In addition to being psychically burdened at age nine by her mother''s deathbed adjuration to take care of her younger sibling, na ve Iris at age 18 is literally sold into marriage to a ruthless 35-year-old industrialist by her father, a woolly-minded idealist who thinks more about saving the family name and protecting the workers in his button factories than his daughter''s happiness. Atwood''s pungent social commentary rings chords on the ways women are used by men, and how the power that wealth confers can be used as a deadly weapon. Her microscopic observation transforms details into arresting metaphors, often infused with wry, pithy humor. As she adroitly juggles three plot lines, Atwood''s inventiveness achieves a tensile energy. The alternating stories never slacken the pace; on the contrary, one reads each segment breathlessly, eager to get back to the other. In sheer storytelling bravado, Atwood here surpasses even The Handmaid''s Tale and Alias Grace. BOMC main selection; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/55'),
(991, 'The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n As he did so memorably for baseball in\n <em>\n  Moneyball\n </em>\n , Lewis takes a statistical X-ray of the hidden substructure of football, outlining the invisible doings of unsung players that determine the outcome more than the showy exploits of point scorers. In his sketch of the gridiron arms race, first came the modern, meticulously choreographed passing offense, then the ferocious defensive pass rusher whose bone-crunching quarterback sacks demolished the best-laid passing game, and finally the rise of the left tackleâ€”the offensive lineman tasked with protecting the quarterback from the pass rusherâ€”whose presence is felt only through the game-deciding absence of said sacks. A rare creature combining 300 pounds of bulk with "the body control of a ballerina," the anonymous left tackle, Lewis notes, is now often a team''s highest-paid player. Lewis fleshes this out with the colorful saga of left tackle prodigy Michael Oher. An intermittently homeless Memphis ghetto kid taken in by a rich white family and a Christian high school, Oher''s preternatural size and agility soon has every college coach in the country courting him obsequiously. Combining a tour de force of sports analysis with a piquant ethnography of the South''s pigskin mania, Lewis probes the fascinating question of whether football is a matter of brute force or subtle intellect. Photos.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n As in\n <em>\n  Moneyball\n </em>\n (\n <strong>\n  July/Aug 2003), which chronicled the strategies behind the Oakland A''s general manager Billy Beane, Berkeley-based author Michael Lewis takes a personal look at a complicated game in his newest nonfiction extravaganza. Just as they embraced\n  <em>\n   Moneyball\n  </em>\n  , critics eagerly wrap their arms around\n  <em>\n   The Blind Side\n  </em>\n  . It''s much more than a treatise on football; it''s an exploration of the limits of conventional thinking and how strategic changes affect the value of quick-footed behemoths. However, while most reviewers are positive, something holds them back. Maybe Lewis makes it all look too easy. Or perhaps, as\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  charges, he takes the easy route through a complicated set of stories. That he makes it easy for his reader to comprehendâ€”and enjoyâ€”is enough for most critics to give Lewis''s latest a rousing cheer.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/421'),
(992, 'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Blink\n </em>\n is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of\n <em>\n  The Tipping Point\n </em>\n , campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell''s ideas about what Blink Camp might look like.\n <em>\n  --Barbara Mackoff\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Best-selling author Gladwell (\n <em>\n  The Tipping Point\n </em>\n ) has a dazzling ability to find commonality in disparate fields of study. As he displays again in this entertaining and illuminating look at how we make snap judgmentsâ€”about people''s intentions, the authenticity of a work of art, even military strategyâ€”he can parse for general readers the intricacies of fascinating but little-known fields like professional food tasting (why\n <em>\n  does\n </em>\n Coke taste different from Pepsi?). Gladwell''s conclusion, after studying how people make instant decisions in a wide range of fields from psychology to police work, is that we can make better instant judgments by training our mind and senses to focus on the most relevant factsâ€”and that less input (as long as it''s the right input) is better than more. Perhaps the most stunning example he gives of this counterintuitive truth is the most expensive war game ever conducted by the Pentagon, in which a wily marine officer, playing "a rogue military commander" in the Persian Gulf and unencumbered by hierarchy, bureaucracy and too much technology, humiliated American forces whose chiefs were bogged down in matrixes, systems for decision making and information overload. But if one sets aside Gladwell''s dazzle, some questions and apparent inconsistencies emerge. If doctors are given an algorithm, or formula, in which only four facts are needed to determine if a patient is having a heart attack, is that really educating the doctor''s decision-making abilityâ€”or is it taking the decision out of the doctor''s hands altogether and handing it over to the algorithm? Still, each case study is satisfying, and Gladwell imparts his own evident pleasure in delving into a wide range of fields and seeking an underlying truth.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/738'),
(993, 'Blood and Gold', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Riceâ€™s spellbinding new novel, in which the great vampire Marius returns.\n</p>\n<p>\n The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti-\n <br />\n mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, kidnapped and made a â€œblood godâ€ by the Druids, Marius becomes the embittered protector of Akasha and Enkil, Queen and King of the vampires, in whom the core of the supernatural race resides.\n</p>\n<p>\n We follow him through his heartbreaking abandonment of the vampire Pandora. Through him we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine and the horrific sack of the Eternal City itself at the hands of the Visigoths.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bravely, Marius seeks a new civilization in the midst of glittering Constantinople, only to meet with the blood drinker Eudoxia. We see him ultimately returning to his beloved Italy, where after the horrors of the Black Death, he is restored by the beauty of the Renaissance. We see him become a painter living dangerously yet happily among mortals, giving his heart to the great Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young apprentice Armand.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moving from Rome to Florence, Venice, and Dresden, and to the English castle of the secret scholarly order of the Talamasca, the novel reaches its dramatic finale in our own time, deep in the jungle where Marius, having told his life story, seeks some measure of justice from the oldest vampires in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/263'),
(994, 'Blood Bound', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jalopy mechanic and were-creature Mercedes Thompson can change into a coyote whenever she wants to. As a favor, she agrees to back up vampire friend Stefan when he confronts another of his kind. But, being demon-possessed, that vampire proves deadlier than most and before she can do anything to help, Mercedes is in the middle of a war with vampires and werewolves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(995, 'Blood Canticle', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins where\n <strong>\n  Blackwood Farm\n </strong>\n left off â€” and tells the story of Lestatâ€™s quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair.\n</p>\n<p>\n Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, whoâ€™s come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to the all-powerful Lestat; her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestatâ€™s help with the temporary madness of his wife; Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos who has taken Monaâ€™s child; and Patsy, the country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood. Delightfully, at the bookâ€™s centre is the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil, now pursuing the transformation set in motion with\n <strong>\n  Memnoch the Devil\n </strong>\n . He struggles with his vampirism and yearns for goodness, purity and love, as he saves Patsyâ€™s ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, uncovers the mystery of the Taltos and unselfishly decides the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair.\n</p>\n<p>\n A story of love and loyalty, of the search for passion and promise,\n <strong>\n  Blood Canticle\n </strong>\n is Anne Rice at her finest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/265'),
(996, 'Blood Dreams', 'Kay Hooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    THIS KILLER DREAMS IN SHADES OF DEATH...\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  He''s the kind of killer we instinctively fear the most. A killer without boundaries, without conscience, without any feat of being caught. And his latest victim is terrifying proof that no one is safe: The daughter of a powerful U.S. senator.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, with the national media calling for justice and a grief-stricken father seeking vengeance, Bishop and his FBI Special Crimes Unit find themselves in a unique situation. This time even psychic cops aren''t enough to stop evil. Aid comes in the form of a fledgling civilian organization of unorthodox crime stoppers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dani Justice knows all about monsters. But she never expected to find herself doggedly on the trail of a real flesh-and-blood predator so cunning, he''s eluded the best law enforcement could send up against him; so deadly, he doesn''t hesitate to kill even a senator''s daughter. Or a cop.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dani doesn''t want to hunt this killer. But she doesn''t have a choice. Because his bloody rampage has hit far too close to home. Because Dani alone commands a weapon powerful enough to destroy him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And because Dani knows something even Bishop doesn''t. Dani knows how the hunt ends. It ends in fire. And blood. And death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What she doesn''t know is who will survive.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1403');
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(997, 'Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed." If what we call "horror" can be seen as including any literature that has dark, horrific subject matter, then\n <em>\n  Blood Meridian\n </em>\n is, in this reviewer''s estimation, the best horror novel ever written. It''s a perverse, picaresque Western about bounty hunters for Indian scalps near the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s--a ragged caravan of indiscriminate killers led by an unforgettable human monster called "The Judge." Imagine the imagery of Sam Peckinpah and Heironymus Bosch as written by William Faulkner, and you''ll have just an inkling of this novel''s power. From the opening scenes about a 14-year-old Tennessee boy who joins the band of hunters to the extraordinary, mythic ending, this is an American classic about extreme violence.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestlyâ€”envied."\n <br />\n â€”Ralph Ellison\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "McCarthy is a born narrator, and his writing has, line by line, the stab of actuality. He is here to stay."\n <br />\n â€”Robert Penn Warren\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/478'),
(998, 'Blood Noir', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Jason Schuyler is a werewolf. Heâ€™s also one of Anita Blakeâ€™s best friends, and sometimes her lover. And right now he needs her â€“ not to be a vampire hunter, or a federal marshal, or a necromancer, or even for her rank in the werewolf pack, but because his father is dying. He needs Anita because sheâ€™s a pretty woman who loves him, who can make him look like an everyday guy, who agrees to go home with him and help him say good-bye to the abusive father he never loved. The fact that Jason is about as much an everyday guy as Anita is a pretty woman is something they figure they can keep under wraps for a couple of days in a small town. How hard can that be?\n</p>\n<p>\n Really, by now, Anita Blake should know better.\n</p>\n<p>\n Marmee Noir, ancient mother of all vampires, picks this weekend to make a move. Somehow she has cut the connection that binds Anita and Jean-Claude, leaving Jean-Claude unable to sense what is happening. Dangerous even as she sleeps, buried in darkness for a thousand years somewhere beneath the old country of Europe, Marmee Noir reaches out toward power. She has attacked Anita before, but never like this. In Anita she senses what she needs to make her enemies trembleâ€¦\n <br />\n â€œWhat The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.â€ â€“ USA Today\n <br />\n â€œ[A] wildly popular paranormal series.â€ â€“ Entertainment Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/587'),
(999, 'Blood of the Fold', 'Terry Goodkind &amp; Buck Schirner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the third installment of Goodkind''s heroic fantasy "Sword of Truth" series. Reluctant wizard Richard Cypher and his love, the warrior Kahlan Amnell, live in a world of magical boundaries that hold back the forces of darkness. But war is coming because the barrier between the worlds has been breached, and the "Blood of the Fold," a group of fanatical zealots, is attempting to kill all people with magic. They are nothing, however, compared to the ancient, unspeakable evil about to be unleashed. There is a lot of sword and sorcery action here, and although it has a darker tone than most fantasies, there is also a strain of humor unseen in works by Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, or David Eddings. In addition, series protagonist Amnell is rapidly becoming one of the most interesting female characters in a genre where they are few and far between. Buck Schirner is an adept reader, expert at rendering this vast, glittering tapestry of a world. This superior production is an excellent choice for public libraries where multivolume fantasy series are in demand.ABarbara Perkins, Irving P.L., TX\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a fantasy world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell stand against the ancient forces which besiege the New World - forces so terrible that when last they threatened, they could only be withstood by sealing off the Old World from whence they came. Now the barrier has been breached, and the New World is again beset by their evil power. War, monsters, and treachery plague the world, and only Richard and Kahlan can save it from an armageddon of unimaginable savagery and destruction. Terry Goodkind, author of the brilliant fantasy bestsellers of the Sword of Truth series, has created his most masterful epic yet, a sumptuous feast of magic and excitement replete with the wonders of his unique fantasy vision.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/755'),
(1000, 'Blood Orchid', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Woods''s 24th novel-his third in the Holly Barker series (after Orchid Blues)-the prolific bestselling novelist revisits savvy, sexy ex-MP officer (and her dog, Daisy), now police chief of the small Florida east coast town of Orchid Beach. As the fast-paced but fluffy and rather predictable thriller begins, two out of three Miami bidders for a glitzy, gated residential complex with golf course are shot and killed. The third bidder, orchid fancier Ed Shine, a former New York real estate mogul and new resident of Orchid Beach, narrowly escapes the same fate. Shine renames his newly acquired property Blood Orchid, after an exotic hybrid blossom he has developed-a name that seems gruesomely prophetic when it turns out that the Miami mob may be involved with the property. Meanwhile, Barker, investigating the case and trying to discover who is bugging her beach house, spots the intruder''s van from the plane of her flying instructor, Ginny (who is also her dad Ham''s new bedmate). The two women make an emergency landing on the beach and scare the perp away, but his body is soon found floating in the Indian River. The trail leads to a shifty Cuban locksmith in Fort Lauderdale and the late intruder''s fianceâ€š. Enter a Miami restaurateur with mob ties, and corpses pile up as the plot thickens. Woods writes strong action scenes, but his usual flair for tight, creative plotting is sadly missed here.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Forget Sneaky Pie and Koko here''s a detective who gets help from her Doberman, Daisy. In her third outing, Chief of Police Holly Barker battles a nasty real estate scam even as she recovers from the loss of her fianc .\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1551'),
(1001, 'Blood Rites', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Per usual, wizard-detective extraordinaire Harry Dresden is in trouble. He barely escapes an assassination attempt, courtesy of the Black Council of vampires, when Thomas, a vampire who has helped Harry out on occasion, asks him to take a case. It seems someone doesn''t want porno film director Arturo Genosa''s latest effort to get off the ground. An entropy spell has killed two of Arturo''s assistants, and Thomas wants Harry to find the culprit. With suspects abounding--Arturo has no fewer than three ex-wives--Harry decides to pose as a production assistant at the studio. Though he isn''t able to stop another sabotage attempt, this one threatening an actress'' life, he does save the young woman. With danger closing in, the last thing Harry needs is a sexy succubus and a surprising revelation about his heritage. Filled with sizzling magic and intrigue as well as important developments for Harry, the latest of his adventures will have fans rapidly turning the pages.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Filled with sizzling magic and intrigue'' Booklist ''Raw storytelling skills - practically unparalleled in contemporary urban fantasy'' SFReviews.net ''Butcher still rules in my library'' SFFWorld.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/90'),
(1002, 'Blood Sins', 'Kay Hooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this disturbing paranormal thriller, the second in a trilogy (after\n  <em>\n   Blood Dreams\n  </em>\n  ) from bestseller Hooper, Noah Bishop, of the FBI''s Special Crimes Unit, and Haven, a civilian investigative organization, take on the fanatical Rev. Adam Deacon Samuel. At age 10, Samuel murdered his abusive prostitute mother by using psychic powers, which a few years later increased after lightning struck him during a tent revival. Noah and his colleagues suspect Samuel, the leader of the Church of the Everlasting Sin, of killing at least eight people via supernatural means and of abusing young girls to enhance his powers. Tessa Gray, a Haven operative posing as a recent widow, reluctantly infiltrates Samuel''s compound in the small town of Grace, N.C., near where the body of a fellow Haven operative surfaced in a river. Hooper pulls out all the stops in depicting the unholy preacher''s apocalyptic breakdown as Noah''s elite team tackles one of their nastiest assignments yet.\n  <em>\n   (Dec.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Reverend Samuel, a charismatic, evil cult leader, has set up a community in a fortified mountain compound. He lures victims to the fold and then provides a taste of heaven by killing them. Noah Bishop and his FBI Special Crimes Unit need to get inside the Church of the Everlasting Sin to find out what is going on. Agent Tessa Gray infiltrates the group and, working withÂ operatives from Haven, a private agency, conspires to bring Reverend Samuel down. Another solid entry in the Special Crimes Unit series (Blood Dreams, 2008). --Barbara Bibel\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1404'),
(1003, 'Blood Work', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Connelly has been attracting fans by the droves with his hard-boiled, edgy thrillers. A former crime reporter for the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n , Connelly combines a poet''s ear for language with a deep understanding of the criminal mind to create dark, dramatic stories that raise the thriller genre to a new level.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Blood Work\n </em>\n , Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn''t looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria''s death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb''s chest is Gloria''s.\n</p>\n<p>\n As McCaleb investigates the evidence in the case, the suspected randomness of the crime gives way to an unsettling suspicion of a twisted intelligence behind the murder. Soon McCaleb finds himself on the trail of a killer more horrifying than anything he ever encountered before.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Connelly follows up Trunk Music with a tautly paced, seductively involving thriller about a murder that is less random than it seems. Ex-FBI agent Terry McCaleb is recuperating from a heart transplant when beautiful Graciela Rivers walks up to his San Pedro houseboat, tells him that the donor of his new heart, her sister Gloria, was murdered in a convenience-store robbery and asks him to find the killer. Although his doctor warns him against it, McCaleb can''t resist the case (any more than he could resist the serial-murder cases that caused his heart attack in the first place). With no license and little cooperation from the police, McCaleb reviews the evidence and connects a second murder to Gloria''s killer. But it''s only when he discovers that souvenirs have been taken from the victims that McCaleb realizes he is dealing with a type of killer with which he is all too familiar. Even working with seemingly shopworn material, Connelly produces fresh twists and turns, and, as usual, packs his plot with believable, logical surprises. He adds a moral twist by establishing a frightening bond between the hunter and the hunted, intimately connecting his detective to the criminal''s guilt. Fans of Connelly''s Harry Bosch novels will feel right at home with this beautifully constructed, powerfully resonating thriller, and newcomers will see right away what all the fuss has been about. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/887'),
(1004, 'Bloodsucking Fiends', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here''s something different: a vampire novel that''s light, funny, and not at all hackneyed. Between scenes of punks bowling frozen turkeys on the graveyard shift in a supermarket, or snapping turtles loose in a loft and gnawing on designer shoes, this novel has comic charm to spare. But it also packs an appealingly downbeat message about the consumer culture: Becoming a vampire has given the twentysomething heroine "a crampless case of rattlesnake PMS"--a grumpy mood in which she realizes that she can dress to the nines as a "Donner Party Barbie" and still end up disillusioned and unhappy, just another slacker doing her own laundry and watching sucky TV ''til the sun rises.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Horror, farce and adolescent fantasy mix with uncertain results in this latest offbeat novel from the author of Coyote Blue and Practical Demonkeeping. Attacked on her way home from work in San Francisco''s financial district, sexy redhead Jody wakes up under a dumpster and gradually realizes that she has transformed into a vampire. Needing a safe place to hide from daylight and her attacker as she masters her new powers, she turns to Tommy, a 19-year-old aspiring writer from Indiana whom she''s just met. Becoming lovers, the two get an apartment together where Tommy avidly studies the mysteries of both vampires and women. But Jody''s vampire mentor, Elijah Ben Sapir, who''s leaving blood-drained bodies all over the city, has it in for Tommy?as do the cops, who suspect the young man of the killings. With the aid of both the rebellious young misfits he works with and an eccentric homeless man, Tommy aims to vanquish Elijah Ben Sapir in order to save his beloved and himself. Moore''s seemingly off-the-cuff narrative and plotting fail to deliver on an imaginative beginning. Despite offering some amusing moments, the author gives little depth to his motley cast of characters and wavers awkwardly between fable and satire.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1176'),
(1005, 'Bloody Bones', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Anita Blake''s boss at Animators, Inc., informs her that she''s expected to raise 300-year-old zombies from a field of jumbled bones just to settle a land dispute, she''s understandably annoyed. But as soon as she arrives in Branson, Missouri, to do the deed, the job gets more interesting. A psychotic sword-wielding vampire starts committing multiple murders in the area, and Anita must call on Jean-Claude, her powerful fanged suitor, for help. As always, Anita prevails over the undead, keeping Jean-Claude at arm''s length, clearing the cemetery land of an ancient enchantment, and nailing the vampiric killer in one fell swoop.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œHighly-charged, well-written, no holds-barredâ€¦ jaw-dropping.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Denver Post\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBreathtaking.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhat\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.â€\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”\n <em>\n  USA Today\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/746'),
(1006, 'Blow Fly', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Please don''t go there. The past is the past," sighs New York Assistant District Attorney Jaime Berger, who herself was introduced in Cornwell''s last Kay Scarpetta novel, The Last Precinct (2000). Alas, many of Cornwell''s fans are bound to agree. One fascinating nonfiction bestseller (Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed) later, Cornwell now returns to Scarpetta, formerly Virginia''s chief medical examiner. From the start, however, the formidable author is up against the equally formidable task of getting her charismatic main character off ice and back in action. We encounter Scarpetta languishing in a crumbling little rental house in Florida. She has taken refuge there and become a private forensic consultant after she was driven from her job for her alleged involvement in the murder of a deputy police chief. The violent death of her lover, Benton Wesley, the brilliant FBI psychological profiler, has left her filled with an unappeasable grief. When the coroner in Baton Rouge asks her advice on a cold case concerning an affluent woman found dead of a drug overdose in a seedy hotel, it seems little more than a diversion. Yet it becomes clear that the overdose may be related to a fresh string of serial killings. Also disturbing Scarpetta''s somber peace is a troubling letter from someone out to kill her, the sick and obsessed death-row inmate Jean-Baptiste. When Scarpetta is at last allowed to get back to business, she is a feisty, independent powerhouse whose capacity to concentrate and observe rivals Sherlock Holmes''s. But too much of this book is bound up in retrospective musings about events in previous books. The great Scarpetta, her fiery crime-busting niece, Lucy, and a colorful supporting cast deserve better.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kay Scarpetta fans will miss their favorite forensic pathologist in this new thriller, as Cornwell cedes much of the spotlight to other characters in the long-running series. Lucy, Kay''s defiant niece, and Marino, the bad-tempered, opinionated cop, are here, as are several familiar depraved psychopaths--among them, "Wolfman" Jean-Baptiste Chandonne and his twin brother, who first surfaced in\n  <em>\n   Black Notice\n  </em>\n  (2000). It appears that Chandonne, whose execution date is drawing near, wants to see Kay, ostensibly to reveal information about his family that will ensure the collapse of their Mob cartel and to have her administer the drug that will end his life. But, as usual in Cornwell''s more recent books, absolutely nothing is what it seems. Granted, there are some compelling (and gruesome) moments, and a few loose ends from previous books are finally taken care of... Otherwise, though, this is a murky stew, indeed, with action careening in way too many directions. Oh, for a return to the Cornwell who created the tough but vulnerable Scarpetta, who, at center stage, used her intellect and forensic training to solve a more straightforward mystery.\n  <em>\n   Stephanie Zvirin\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1323'),
(1007, 'Blowback: A Thriller', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Scot Harvathâ€™s counterterrorism career has just crashed and burnedâ€”thanks in part to a ruthless senator with her sights set on the White House. But when the war on terror takes a chilling turn, the president has no choice but to secretly bring Harvath back inside. Deep beneath an Alpine glacier, an ancient weapon designed to decimate the Roman Empire has been unearthedâ€”and a shadowy organization intends to use it for Americaâ€™s downfall. Racing across Europe, Harvath must secure the ultimate instrument of destruction before it brings the United States and the rest of the world to their knees.\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Brad Thor will kidnap even the most demanding readers...and convert them into instant devotees."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Dan Brown, #1 bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Da Vinci Code\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Brad Thor is as current as tomorrow''s headlines."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Dan Brown\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Brad Thor\n  </strong>\n  is the #1Â \n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  Â bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Black List, Full Black, The Athena Project,\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Foreign Influence, The Apostle, The Last Patriot, The First Commandment, Takedown, Blowback\n  </em>\n  (recognized by NPR as one of the â€œ100 Best Thrillers of All Timeâ€)\n  <em>\n   , State of the Union, Path of the Assassin,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Lions of Lucerne\n  </em>\n  .Â  Visit his website at www.BradThor.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2452'),
(1008, 'Blue at the Mizzen', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Almost three decades after commencing his maritime epic with\n <em>\n  Master and Commander\n </em>\n , Patrick O''Brian is still at it. The 20th episode,\n <em>\n  Blue at the Mizzen\n </em>\n , is another swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, complete with romantic escapades from smoggy London to Sierra Leone, diplomacy, espionage, the intricacies of warfare, and imperial brinksmanship. As always, these events are bound up in the ongoing friendship between two officers of the Royal Navy. Jack Aubrey is the naval captain, bold yet compassionate, innovative yet cautious, as fearless in war as he is bumbling in affairs of the heart and household. His boon companion Stephen Maturin is the ship''s surgeon--and additionally a spy for the British government, a wealthy Catalonian aristocrat, a doting Irish father, and an avid naturalist.\n</p>\n<p>\n That may sound like a lot to keep track of. However, it''s not necessary to carry around a scorecard or ship''s roster while reading\n <em>\n  Blue at the Mizzen\n </em>\n . The ostensible issue is whether Jack will finally be promoted to Admiral of the Blue. But long before he hears any word from the Napoleonic era''s equivalent of Personnel, he loses half his crew to desertion, his ship undergoes a disastrous collision, and the entire company comes close to perishing in the ice-choked seas off Cape Horn. Meanwhile, the widowed Maturin issues a surprising proposal of marriage to a beautiful, mud-bespattered fellow naturalist while trekking through an African mangrove swamp. (The two lovebirds happen to be searching for a rare variant of\n <em>\n  Caprimulgus longipennis\n </em>\n , the long-tailed nightjar, which they hope to surprise in full mating plumage.)\n</p>\n<p>\n Still, this is hardly a plot-driven novel. O''Brian takes time to get anywhere, and invariably enjoys the journey more than the arrival. So even as we get constant hints of the climax to come--Jack''s spectacular naval action on behalf of the infant Republic of Chile--we don''t mind hearing about the nuances of shipboard existence or the secret life of the white-faced tree duck. We''re treated, for example, to this snippet about managed care, circa 1816:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Poll, Maggie and a horse-leech from the starboard watch have been administering enemas to the many, many cases of gross surfeit that have now replaced the frostbites, torsions, and debility of the recent past, the very recent past. Strong, fresh, seal-meat has not its equal for upsetting the seaman''s metabolism: he is much better kept on biscuits, Essex cheese, and a very little well-seethed salt pork--kept on short commons.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n And we''re grateful! We can only hope that the elderly author will favor us with at least one more novel, so that his avid followers can avoid their own form of short commons. Life without Aubrey and Maturin would be a deprivation indeed.\n <em>\n  --Andrew Himes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With bittersweet pleasure, readers may deem this 20thAand possibly finalAinstallment in O''Brian''s highly regarded series featuring Capt. Jack Aubrey of the English Royal Navy and Stephen Maturin, ship''s doctor, the best of the lot. Post-Waterloo, the frigate Surprise sets sail to South America as a "hydrographical vessel," ostensibly to survey the Straits of Magellan and Chile''s southern coast. In fact, Jack and Stephen are to offer help to the Chilean rebels trying to break free from Spain. On their way down the coast of West Africa, romance blossoms for both men. Jack''s liaison (with his cousin, Isobel, in Gibraltar) is brief, but widower Stephen''s passion for Christine Wood, a naturalist who has been his correspondent for some time, turns serious in Sierra Leone. The doctor''s correspondence with Christine begins with accounts of his explorations in Africa and South America, referencing, say, an "anomalous nuthatch" or the "etymology of doldrum," but they''re quite wonderful love letters, functioning as a chorus to the action. Once in Chile, despite the conflict between opposing rebel camps, Jack leads a successful raid on a treasure fort in Valdivia, followed by the seizure of a Peruvian frigate to be turned over to the Chilean rebels, triumphs that reap him a just reward; at that point, readers will learn the title''s significance. Throughout, familiar characters abound and entertain, especially the amusingly nasty steward, Killick, and Stephen''s "loblolly girl" (nurse), Poll Skeeping. And finally, there is Horatio Hanson, bastard son of a nobleman, who comes on board as a midshipman, a dashing young foil for the ship''s elders. O''Brian has rightfully been compared to Jane Austen, but one wonders if even she would have done justice to "those extraordinary hollow dwellings, sometimes as beautiful as they were comfortless." To use one of Stephen''s favorite expressions, "What joy!" Agent, Georges Borchardt. (Nov.) FYI: Over three million copies of the books in the Aubrey/Maturin series have been sold. O''Brian will make two mid-November appearances in New York, one already sold out. (Nov.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/300'),
(1009, 'The Blue Bistro', 'Elin Hilderbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The pricey, popular bistro of the title is the real star of Hilderbrand''s fourth novel set on Nantucket. After years of hotel employ, peripatetic Adrienne Dealey, 28, lands her first restaurant job within hours of disembarking on the bucolic Massachusetts island. She''s got a lot of learning to do as assistant to co-owner Thatcher Smith. Adrienne''s soon attracted to the handsome Thatcher, and he seems to return her feelings. But just what is his relationship with his partner, the famous, utterly reclusive chef Fiona "Fee" Kemp? And why will no one talk about her? Hilderbrand specializes in beach reading (\n  <em>\n   Summer People\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   The Beach Club\n  </em>\n  ); the plot doesn''t go too far beyond standard romance and the characters don''t reach beyond the conventional (though Adrienne does drink a bit more than the average heroine). But the complexities of running a bustling, ambitious restaurant in a summer hotspot are absorbing, and as Adrienne develops survival techniques with the customers and staff, readers follow her progress with genuine interest. Though the romance is a bit tepid and a subplot involving Adrienne''s father''s new girlfriend doesn''t add much excitement, this is still a perfectly enjoyable beach book.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hilderbrand sets her sophisticated romance novel against the glamorous backdrop of Nantucket Island, as she has done in previous novels (\n  <em>\n   Nantucket Nights,\n  </em>\n  2002;\n  <em>\n   Summer People,\n  </em>\n  2003). Adrienne Dealey is anxious to put Aspen behind her, for it was the scene of her latest disastrous romance with a man of dubious character. Her previous stint as a concierge lands her a job as hostess at an upscale oceanfront restaurant. Charming, boyish owner Thatcher Smith has put the multimillion-dollar property up for sale and intends to close the Blue Bistro for good by summer''s end. Other restaurant workers include a handsome, flirtatious bartender; his jealous, hardworking girlfriend; and a publicity-seeking pastry chef. As the romance between Thatcher and Adrienne heats up, his close, secretive relationship with reclusive, enormously talented chef Fiona Kemp, with whom he eats dinner every night, becomes a problem. Hilderbrand keeps things moving briskly in between sumptuous descriptions of food, drink, and tableware, throwing in an in-depth lesson on the restaurant business for good measure. Fun, stylish, and absorbing vacation reading.\n  <em>\n   Joanne Wilkinson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2387'),
(1010, 'Blue Moon', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anita Blake makes a living raising the dead. She also executes rogue vampires and villains among the local were-folk. Marks bind her to Jean-Claude, the Master vampire of St. Louis and her lover, and to her ex-fiancÃ©, a powerful werewolf who heads up the local pack. Anita shares some of their magic, and her own power over the dead keeps growing. But so does the body count and the situations that force Anita to bend or break her own rules.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Blue Moon\n </em>\n , Anita''s ex Richard is jailed in Tennessee, accused of rape. When Anita arrives with a lawyer and an entourage of vampires and ''weres'' supplied by Jean-Claude, it''s clear that something is rotten in Myerton. The local cops are corrupt, and the trolls Richard was studying are threatened. But if she sticks around to investigate, the local Master vampire will attack her and her friends. The local werewolf clan isn''t rushing to welcome her either, and her self-control is going to the, um, wolves.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Blue Moon\n </em>\n is the eighth book in Hamilton''s\n <em>\n  Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter\n </em>\n series; newcomers should start with earlier books. The protagonists'' development and their relationships to each other and to the large cast of continuing secondary characters are what make these books so compelling. Be warned--there''s steamy sex and graphic violence here, though Anita\n <em>\n  does\n </em>\n reflect on her moral position. But if dark urban fantasy featuring those who hunt the night appeals, pounce on this series.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Death and gore galore ... Hamilton writes with ease and vigour..." SHIVERS ''I was enthralled - a departure from the usual type of vampire tale which will have a wide appeal to any reader hunting for both chills and fun'' ANDRE NORTON ''This fast-paced, tough-edged supernatural thriller is mesmerizing reading indeed'' LOCUS ''Supernatural bad guys beware, night-prowling Anita Blake is savvy, sassy and tough'' P N Elrod, author of THE VAMPIRE FILES\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/750'),
(1011, 'The Blue Nowhere', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this 21st century version of the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," two computer wizards engage in the kind of high-tech combat that only a hacker could love. Wyatt Gillette, a cybergenius who''s never used his phenomenal talent for evil, is sitting in a California jail doing time for a few harmless computer capers when he gets a temporary reprieve--a chance to help the Computer Crimes Unit of the state police nail a cracker (a criminally inclined hacker) called Phate who''s using his ingenious program, Trapdoor, to lure innocent victims to their death by infiltrating their computers. Gillette and Phate were once the kings of cyberspace--the Blue Nowhere of the title--but Phate has gone way past the mischievous electronic pranks they once pulled and crossed over to the dark side. While Trapdoor can hack its way into any computer, it''s Phate''s skill at "social engineering" as well as his remarkable coding ability that makes him such a menace to society. As Wyatt explains to the policeman who springs him from prison so that he can find and stop Phate before he kills again, "It means conning somebody, pretending you''re someone you''re not. Hackers do it to get access to data bases and phone lines and pass codes. The more facts about somebody you can feed back to them, the more they believe you and the more they''ll do what you want them to."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bestselling author Jeffery Deaver (\n  <em>\n   The Empty Chair\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Devil''s Teardrop\n  </em>\n  ) ratchets up the suspense one line of code at a time; his terrific pacing drives the narrative to a thrilling and explosive conclusion. This thriller is bound to induce paranoia in anyone who still believes he can hide his deepest secrets from anyone with the means, motive, and modem to ferret them out.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  How do you write a truly gripping thriller about people staring into computer screens? Many have tried, none have succeeded until now. Leave it to Deaver, the most clever plotter on the planet, to do it by simply applying the same rules of suspense to onscreen action as to offscreen. Much of the action in this novel about the hunt for an outlaw hacker turned homicidal maniac does takes place in the real world, but much else plays out in cyberspace as a team of California homicide and computer crime cops chase the infamous "wizard" hacker known as Phate. The odds run against the cops. With his skills, Phate can not only change identities at will (a knack known as "social engineering" in hacking parlance) but can manipulate all computerized records about himself. The cops have a wizard of their own, however: a former online companion of Phate''s, a hacker doing time for having allegedly cracked the Department of Defense''s encryption program. He''s Wyatt Gillette, coveting Pop-Tarts (the hacker''s meal of choice) and computers, but also the wife he lost when he went to prison and it''s his tortured personality that gives this novel its heart as Wyatt is sprung from prison, but only for as long as it takes to track down Phate. The mad hacker, meanwhile, no longer able to discern between the virtual and the real, has adapted a notorious online role-playing game to the world of flesh and blood, with innocent humans as his prey. As he twists suspense and tension to gigahertz levels, Deaver springs an astonishing number of surprises on the reader: Who is Phate''s accomplice? What are Wyatt''s real motives? Who is the traitor among the cops? His real triumph, though, is to make the hacker world come alive in all its midnight, reality-cracking intensity. This novel is, in hacker lingo, "totally moby" the most exciting, and most vivid, fiction yet about the neverland hackers call "the blue nowhere." Agent, Sterling Lord Literistic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1773'),
(1012, 'The Body Farm', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Patricia Cornwell brings back Kay Scarpetta, consulting forensic pathologist for the FBI''s Behavioral Science Unit, in her grittiest and most compelling novel. In rural North Carolina, the brutal murder of eleven-year-old Emily Steiner has shaken a small town. But more disturbing are the details of the crimes, chillingly reminiscent of the handiwork of a serial killer who has eluded the unit for years. Into this volatile atmosphere comes Scarpetta''s ingenious, rebellious niece Lucy, an FBI intern with a promising future in Quantico''s computer engineering facility--until she is accused of a shocking security violation. While coming to terms with Lucy, Kay must conduct a grisly forensic investigation at a clandestine research facility in Tennessee known as the Body Farm. There she will find more answers to Emily Steiner''s murder--and evidence that paints a picture of a crime more horrifying than she imagined . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cornwell ( Body of Evidence ; All That Remains ) casts a wider, surer narrative net in the latest case set for her increasingly complex heroine, Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia. As an FBI consultant, Scarpetta investigates the North Carolina murder of 11-year-old Emily Steiner, whose mutilation suggests the M.O. of an escaped killer met previously in Cruel and Unusual. Forensic clues from the body''s second autopsy prompt Scarpetta to request that certain experiments be made at the University of Tennessee''s Decay Research Facility, known as the Body Farm. Meanwhile, she, Pete Marino of the Richmond, Va., police, and her new love interest, FBI Unit Chief Benton Wesley investigate the apparent suicide (from autoerotic asphyxiation) of the local FBI agent in charge of the case. Then, Scarpetta''s computer-whiz niece Lucy, working at FBI headquarters at Quantico, is charged with violating security. During her travels between North Carolina and Virginia, Scarpetta worries about both the less-than-forthcoming Lucy and Marino, who becomes emotionally entangled with Emily''s beautiful stricken mother. Results at the Body Farm lead her to a convincing, if abrupt, resolution. Deeper characterization and a more intricate plot mark this fifth in a consistently compelling series. 500,000 first printing; paperback rights to Berkley; audio rights to Simon &amp; Schus ter; Literary Guild selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/910'),
(1013, 'Body of Evidence', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This second commanding thriller by the Edgar Award-winning author of Postmortem and featuring forensic sleuth Dr. Kay Scarpetta was a Mystery Guild main selection as well as a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate in cloth. $250,000 ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of Virginia and heroine of Postmortem , gets involved in the case of a brutal stabbing death in Richmond of romance writer Beryl Madison. Now Madison''s greedy lawyer accuses Scarpetta of losing his client''s latest manuscript, an autobiographical expose of Beryl''s early life as protege of a legendary novelist. As more deaths occur and the killer closes in on her, Kay suffers palpitations over the sudden and devious reappearance of long-lost lover Mark but still finds time to provide forensic details. Despite its foregone conclusion, a swift-moving, thrilling, and provocative second novel.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1407'),
(1014, 'The Boleyn Inheritance', 'Philippa Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Returning to the scene of\n <em>\n  The Other Boleyn Girl\n </em>\n , historical powerhouse Gregory again brings the women of Henry VIII''s court vividly to life. Among the cast, who alternately narrate: Henry''s fourth wife, Bavarian-born Anne of Cleves; his fifth wife, English teenager Katherine Howard; and Lady Rochford (Jane Boleyn), the jealous spouse whose testimony helped send her husband... and sister-in-law Anne Boleyn to their execution. Attended by Lady Rochford, 24-year-old Anne of Cleves endures a disastrous first encounter with the twice-her-age kingâ€”an occasion where Henry takes notice of Katherine Howard. Gregory beautifully explains Anne of Cleves''s decision to stay in England after her divorce, and offers contemporary descriptions of Lady Rochford''s madness. While Gregory renders Lady Rochford with great emotion, and Anne of Cleves with sympathy, her most captivating portrayal is Katherine, the clever yet naÃ¯ve 16th-century adolescent counting her gowns and trinkets. Male characters are not nearly as endearing. Gregory''s accounts of events are accurate enough to be persuasive, her characterizations modern enough to be convincing. Rich in intrigue and irony, this is a tale where readers will already know who was divorced, beheaded or survived, but will savor Gregory''s sharp staging of how and why. *(Dec. 5) *\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Just when we think we have heard the last of the Boleyns, after\n <em>\n  The Other Boleyn Girl\n </em>\n (2002), Gregory resurrects the ill-fated family in the persona of Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford. After her damning testimony results in the execution of both her husband and her sister-in-law, Anne Boleyn, Jane continues her ruthless scheming as she serves as lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII''s reviled Bavarian-born fourth wife, and naive, doomed [fifth] wife, Catherine Howard. Narrated in turn by this trio of intriguing women, this tale of court politics and treachery unfolds from three equally compelling points of view.\n <em>\n  Margaret Flanagan\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1256'),
(1015, 'The Bone Collector', 'Jeffery Deaver &amp; Hart Hardy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lincoln Rhyme, ex-head of NYPD forensics, was the nation''s foremost criminalist, the man who could work a crime scene and come away with a perfect profile of the killer, frozen in time. Now, Lincoln is frozen in place - permanently. An accident on the job left him a quadriplegic who can move just one finger, a great mind strapped to his bed, mulish and sarcastic, hiding from a life he no longer wants to live. Until he sees the crime-scene report about a corpse found buried on a deserted West Side railroad track, its bloody hand rising from the dirt. It belonged to a man who got into a cab at the airport and never got out. Reluctantly, Lincoln Rhyme abandons retirement to track down a killer whose ingenious clues hold the secret to saving his victims - if Rhyme can decipher them in time. The search leads him to the Bone Collector, whose obsession with old New York colors every scrap of evidence he leaves for Rhyme and his new partner, Amelia Sachs, whom he drafts as his arms and legs. But she''s never worked a crime scene in her life - and he can only whisper in her ear as she does the exacting work he loved more than anything else.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1775'),
(1016, 'Bone Crossed', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Shapeshifter Mercy Thompson hit the #1 spot on the bestseller list with\n   <em>\n    Iron Kissed\n   </em>\n   ...\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   And she''s planning a return trip.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Marsilia, the local vampire queen, has learned that Mercy crossed her by slaying a member of her clan. Now, she''s out for blood. But since Mercy is protected from direct reprisal by the werewolf pack-and her relationship with its sexy Alpha-it''s not Mercy''s blood Marsilia is after...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(1017, 'The Bonehunters', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The sixth volume in Steven Erikson''s truly epic fantasy sequence, The Malazan Book of the Fallen. There''s nothing like sweeping up tag-ends to change the world. The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha''ik slain by Tavore, the Malazan forces pacifying city after city on the troubled subcontinent, and one last rebel army, under the reluctant, embittered command of Leoman of the Flails, is pursued to the ancient and infamous city of Y''Ghatan by Tavore and the Fourteenth Army. Dogged by self-doubt and ill omens, the 14th must lay siege to the city, and Adjunct Tavore must seek to outwit Leoman of the Flails, the deadliest foe she has ever faced. Into this fraught scenario come both new and familiar characters. Among the latter, Heboric Ghost Hands, journeying to redress an old wrong. Apsalar, haunted by possession and now the principal agent of Cotillion, Patron of Assassins, marking a trail with blood and dripping daggers. Cutter, the killer who had once been a thief in Darujhistan, fleeing a shattered heart. Karsa Orlong, a warrior hunting his destiny. And two old friends, traveling companions, Mappo and Icarium, wandering once more the ravaged wastelands, Icarium seeking the ancient truths of his own life, Mappo seeking to keep those truths from him, at all costs. All, searching for such fates as they might fashion with their own hands, guided by their own will. If only the gods would leave them alone. Alas, the gods are disinclined to be kind, now that knives have been unsheathed, and there shall be war, war in the heavens. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1314');
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(1018, 'The Bonesetter&#39;s Daughter', 'Amy Tan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the beginning of Amy Tan''s fourth novel, two packets of papers written in Chinese calligraphy fall into the hands of Ruth Young. One bundle is titled\n <em>\n  Things I Know Are True\n </em>\n and the other,\n <em>\n  Things I Must Not Forget\n </em>\n . The author? That would be the protagonist''s mother, LuLing, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer''s disease. In these documents the elderly matriarch, born in China in 1916, has set down a record of her birth and family history, determined to keep the facts from vanishing as her mind deteriorates.\n</p>\n<p>\n A San Francisco career woman who makes her living by ghostwriting self-help books, Ruth has little idea of her mother''s past or true identity. What''s more, their relationship has tended to be an angry one. Still, Ruth recognizes the onset of LuLing''s decline--along with her own remorse over past rancor--and hires a translator to decipher the packets. She also resolves to "ask her mother to tell her about her life. For once, she would ask. She would listen. She would sit down and not be in a hurry or have anything else to do."\n</p>\n<p>\n Framed at either end by Ruth''s chapters, the central portion of\n <em>\n  The Bonesetter''s Daughter\n </em>\n takes place in China in the remote, mountainous region where anthropologists discovered Peking Man in the 1920s. Here superstition and tradition rule over a succession of tiny villages. And here LuLing grows up under the watchful eye of her hideously scarred nursemaid, Precious Auntie. As she makes clear, it''s not an enviable setting:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I noticed the ripe stench of a pig pasture, the pockmarked land dug up by dragon-bone dream-seekers, the holes in the walls, the mud by the wells, the dustiness of the unpaved roads. I saw how all the women we passed, young and old, had the same bland face, sleepy eyes that were mirrors of their sleepy minds.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Nor is rural isolation the worst of it. LuLing''s family, a clan of ink makers, believes itself cursed by its connection to a local doctor, who cooks up his potions and remedies from human bones. And indeed, a great deal of bad luck befalls the narrator and her sister GaoLing before they can finally engineer their escape from China. Along the way, familial squabbles erupt around every corner, particularly among mothers, daughters, and sisters. And as she did in her earlier\n <em>\n  The Joy Luck Club\n </em>\n , Amy Tan uses these conflicts to explore the intricate dynamic that exists between first-generation Americans and their immigrant elders.\n <em>\n  --Victoria Jenkins\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In its rich character portrayals and sensitivity to the nuances of mother-daughter relationships, Tan''s new novel is the real successor to, and equal of, The Joy Luck Club. This luminous and gripping book demonstrates enhanced tenderness and wisdom, however; it carries the texture of real life and reflects the paradoxes historical events can produce. Ruth Young is a 40-ish ghostwriter in San Francisco who periodically goes mute, a metaphorical indication of her inability to express her true feelings to the man she lives with, Art Kamen, a divorced father of two teenage daughters. Ruth''s inability to talk is subtly echoed in the story of her mother LuLing''s early life in China, which forms the long middle section of the novel. Overbearing, accusatory, darkly pessimistic, LuLing has always been a burden to Ruth. Now, at 77, she has Alzheimer''s, but luckily she had recorded in a diary the extraordinary events of her childhood and youth in a small village in China during the years that included the discovery nearby of the bones of Peking Man, the Japanese invasion, the birth of the Republic and the rise of Communism. LuLing was raised by a nursemaid called Precious Auntie, the daughter of a famous bonesetter. Once beautiful, Precious Auntie''s face was burned in a suicide attempt, her mouth sealed with scar tissue. When LuLing eventually learns the secrets of Precious Auntie''s tragic life, she is engulfed by shame and guilt. These emotions are echoed by Ruth when she reads her own mother''s revelations, and she finally understands why LuLing thought herself cursed. Tan conjures both settings with resonant detail, juxtaposing scenes of rural domestic life in a China still ruled by superstition and filial obedience, and of upscale California half a century later. The novel exhibits a poignant clarity as it investigates the dilemma of adult children who must become caretakers of their elderly parents, a situation Tan articulates with integrity and exemplary empathy for both generations. Agent, Sandy Dijkstra. (Feb. 19) Forecast: With a readership already clamoring for the book, and Tan embarking on a 22-city tour, this novel will be a sure hit; its terrific sepia-tinted cover photo of a woman in old China only adds to its allure. Moreover, readers will be intrigued by Tan''s hint that this story about family secrets is semi-autobiographical. The dedication reads: "On the last day my mother spent on earth, I learned her real name, as well as that of my grandmother."\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/162'),
(1019, 'Boneshaker', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Maternal love faces formidable challenges in this stellar steampunk tale. In an alternate 1880s America, mad inventor Leviticus Blue is blamed for destroying Civil Warâ€“era Seattle. When Zeke Wilkes, Blue''s son, goes into the walled wreck of a city to clear his father''s name, Zeke''s mother, Briar Wilkes, follows him in an airship, determined to rescue her son from the toxic gas that turns people into zombies (called rotters and described in gut-churning detail). When Briar learns that Seattle still has a mad inventor, Dr. Minnericht, who eerily resembles her dead husband, a simple rescue quickly turns into a thrilling race to save Zeke from the man who may be his father. Intelligent, exceptionally well written and showcasing a phenomenal strong female protagonist who embodies the complexities inherent in motherhood, this yarn is a must-read for the discerning steampunk fan.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Boneshaker\n </em>\n :\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCherie Priest wove a story so convincing, so evocative, so terrifying that I read this book with the doors locked and a gun on my lap.\n <em>\n  Boneshaker\n </em>\n is a steampunk menagerie of thrills and horror.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Mario Acevedo, bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Jailbait Zombie\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€œThis exquisitely imaginative steampunk adventure is a joy to read! My favourite of Cherie''s books.â€\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  â€”Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of the Mortal Instruments trilogy\n </strong>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œEverything you''d want in such a volume and much more.... It''s full of buckle and has swash to spare, and the characters are likable and the prose is fun. This is a hoot from start to finish, pure mad adventure.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Cory Doctorow, bestselling author of *Little Brother\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œ\n Boneshaker* is without a doubt Cherie Priest''s breakthrough work: this hollering, stamping, crackling thing is the best fun you''ll have with a book all year.â€\n <br />\n â€”Warren Ellis, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Crooked Little Vein\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </em>\n <em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œA gorgeously grim world of deadly gasses, mysterious machines, zeppelin pirates, and a relentless plague of zombies. With\n </em>\n <em>\n  Boneshaker\n </em>\n , Priest is geared up to begin her reign as the Queen of Steampunk.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Mark Henry, Author of *Road Trip of the Living Dead\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œA rip-snorting adventure in the best tradition of a penny dreadful. Priest has crafted a novel of exquisite prose and thrilling twists, populated by folk heroes and dastardly villains, zombies and air pirates, incredible machines and a heroine who''ll have you cheering.\n Boneshaker* is the definitive steampunk story, absolutely unique and one hell of a fun read.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Caitlin Kittredge, author of the Nocturne City novels\n </strong>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œA marvelous book, crammed with readerly pleasures--zombies...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1113'),
(1020, 'Bonfire of the Vanities', 'Tom Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Vintage Tom Wolfe, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review) Tom Wolfe is the author of a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and I Am Charlotte Simmons. He lives in New York City. Tom Wolfe''s first novel remains a definitive work of American fiction after more than twenty years in print.Â It looks at the greed and racism on New York City''s underbelly in the 1980s through the eyes of four fictional individuals, composites of characteristics that Wolfe observed in society. The Bonfire of the Vanities represents Wolfe''s appreciation for minute and surprising details of American culture. "A big, bitter, funny, craftily-plotted book that grabs you by the lapels and won''t let you go."â€”The New York Times Book Review"A superb human comedy and the first novel ever to get contemporary New York, in all its arrogance and shame and heterogeneity and insularity, exactly right."â€”The Washington Post Book World"Nasty, satirical, probing, and dead-on accurate . . . Wolfe falls so naturally into this colorful, supercharged account of New York high life and low life that it''s hard to believe he hasn''t been writing fiction all life . . . It also reads at a veritable gallopâ€”those pages flash by you as you watch, with fascinated horror, the meticulously charted fall of Sherman McCoy."â€”The Seattle Times"The Bonfire of the Vanities chronicles the collapse of a Wall Street bond trader, and examines a world in which fortunes are made and lost at the blink of a computer screen . . . Â Wolfe''s subject couldn''t be more topical: New Yorkers'' relentless pursuit and flaunting of wealth, and the fury it evokes in the have-nots."â€”USA Today"Touches passionately on perennial themes that will give it staying power . . . Bonfire is news that will stay news because a century hence readers will find preserved in it the strong flavor of some unfortunately important slices of life in our time."â€”George F. Will\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1029'),
(1021, 'The Book of Counted Sorrows', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Limited Edition #100 of 1250 Signed By Koontz Excellent condition in slipcase\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1485'),
(1022, 'Book of the Dead', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Cornwell''s 15th novel to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Predator\n  </em>\n  ) delivers her trademark grisly crime scenes, but lacks the coherence and emotional resonance of earlier books. Soon after relocating to Charleston, S.C., to launch a private forensics lab, Scarpetta is asked to consult on the murder of U.S. tennis star Drew Martin, whose mutilated body was found in Rome. Contradictory evidence leaves Scarpetta, the Italian carabinieri and Scarpetta''s lover, forensic psychologist Benton Wesley, stumped. But when she discovers unsettling connections between Martin''s murder, the body of an unidentified South Carolina boy and her old nemesis, the maniacal psychiatrist Dr. Marilyn Self, Scarpetta encounters a killer as deadly as any she''s ever faced. With her recent switch from first- to third-person narration, Cornwell loses what once made her series so compelling: a window into the mind of a strong, intelligent woman holding her own in a profession dominated by men. Here, the abrupt shifts in point of view slow the momentum, and the reader flounders in excessive forensic minutiae.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s hard to fault Cornwell for trying to redeem herself after missing the mark with her last few Kay Scarpetta novels, but this new one won''t do the trick. The frosty forensic pathologist and her entourage remain as annoyingly self-absored and screwed up as ever, and their emotional baggage once again gets in the way of the story. A lengthy, vivid scene during which a young tennis star is slowly and brutally tortured sets up the mystery, which unfolds in artless leaps, mostly through halting dialogue and occasional forays into the mind of the killer. Once again Cornwell trots out venal characters from previous Scarpetta books; prominent here is psycho-bitch teleshrink Dr. Self (Predator, 2005), who is hoarding information about what turns out to be a string of loosely related murders. Then there''s Scarpetta''s longtime investigator, Pete Marino, foulmouthed and crude but tolerated, who reveals true ugliness in what may be the best scene in the book. As to forensic detail, it seems right up to the minute, and Scarpetta uses it often in her search for the killer, all the while trying to preserve balance in her personal life. Only for diehard Cornwell fans, of whom there are still many, despite the author''s continued slump. Zvirin, Stephanie\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1370'),
(1023, 'The Book of the Dead', 'Douglas Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New York Museum of Natural History receives their pilfered gem collection back ... ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in Dance of Death, is throwing down the gauntlet to both the city and to his brother, FBI Agent Pendergast, who is currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison. To quell the PR nightmare of the gem fiasco, the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef. An astounding Egyptian temple, it was a popular museum exhibit until the 1930s, when it was quietly closed. But when the tomb is unsealed in preparation for its gala reopening, the killings and whispers of an ancient curse begin again. And the catastrophic opening itself sets the stage for the final battle between the two brothers: an epic clash from which only one will emerge alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/210'),
(1024, 'The Book Thief', 'Markus Zusak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Grade 9 Upâ€“Zusak has created a work that deserves the attention of sophisticated teen and adult readers. Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. The child arrives having just stolen her first bookâ€“although she has not yet learned how to readâ€“and her foster father uses it,\n <em>\n  The Gravediggers Handbook\n </em>\n , to lull her to sleep when shes roused by regular nightmares about her younger brothers death. Across the ensuing years of the late 1930s and into the 1940s, Liesel collects more stolen books as well as a peculiar set of friends: the boy Rudy, the Jewish refugee Max, the mayors reclusive wife (who has a whole library from which she allows Liesel to steal), and especially her foster parents. Zusak not only creates a mesmerizing and original story but also writes with poetic syntax, causing readers to deliberate over phrases and lines, even as the action impels them forward. Death is not a sentimental storyteller, but he does attend to an array of satisfying details, giving Liesels story all the nuances of chance, folly, and fulfilled expectation that it deserves. An extraordinary narrative.\n <em>\n  â€“Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Zusak, author of\n <em>\n  I Am the Messenger\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  took a risk with his second book by making Death an omniscient narratorâ€”and it largely paid off. Originally published in Australia and marketed for ages 12 and up,\n </em>\n <em>\n  The Book Thief\n </em>\n will appeal both to sophisticated teens and adults with its engaging characters and heartbreaking story. The\n <em>\n  Philadelphia Inquirer\n </em>\n compared the book''s power to that of a graphic novel, with its "bold blocks of action." If Zusak''s postmodern insertions (Death''s commentary, for example) didn''t please everyone, the only serious criticism came from Janet Maslin, who faulted the book''s "Vonnegut whimsy" and Lemony Snicket-like manipulation. Yet even she admitted that\n <em>\n  The Book Thief\n </em>\n "will be widely read and admired because it tells a story in which books become treasures." And, as we all know, "there''s no arguing with a sentiment like that."[HTML_REMOVED]\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/985'),
(1025, 'Born in Death', 'J. D. Robb &amp; Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Technology has advanced in 2060 New York City, but childbirth has been the same since the beginning of time. And despite the brutal double homicide on Lieutenant Eve Dallasâ€™s caseload, she has to be there for her pregnant friend Mavis, even if it means throwing the dreaded baby shower. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n But Mavis needs an even bigger favor now. Tandy Willowby, one of the moms-to-be in her class, has gone missing, just days before her due date â€“ not even showing up at the shower at Eve and Roarkeâ€™s place that sheâ€™d been looking forward to so much. A recent emigrant from London, Tandy has few friends in New York, and no family. When Eve enters Tandyâ€™s apartment and finds Mavisâ€™s shower gift wrapped and ready on the table - and Tandyâ€™s packed hospital bag still on the floor - her spine starts tingling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Normally, this would be turned over to Missing Persons. Eve has more than enough on her plate trying to find out who murdered Natalie Copperfield and her fiancÃ©, both employed at a highly prestigious accounting firm. But Mavis wants no one but Eve on the case - and Eve canâ€™t say no. Sheâ€™ll have to track Tandy down while tracing the deals and double-crosses hidden in the files of some of the cityâ€™s richest and most secretive citizens, in a race against a particularly vicious killer. Luckily, she has her multimillionaire husband Roarkeâ€™s expertise to help with the numbers-crunching. But as he mines for the crucial data that will break the case wide open, Eve faces an all-too-real danger in the flesh-and-blood world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1102'),
(1026, 'Born in Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The first in a projected trilogy about the lives of three Irish sisters, Born in Fire gets the series off to a fine start, telling the story of talented glass-artist Maggie Concannon''s contentious relationship with Dublin gallery owner Rogan Sweeney. Country-dwelling Maggie is otherworldly, prickly and outspoken, while Rogan is an urban sophisticate; nevertheless, the attraction that springs up between this unlikely pair is both believable and compelling, thanks to Roberts''s (Private Scandals) skillful character development. Lacking melodramatic overtones or strange twists of fate, the plot may seem less than exciting, but the conflicts Maggie and Rogan face are refreshingly realistic and the characters themselves, well-rounded and likable, will keep readers engaged.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA?Artist Maggie Concannon creates beautiful glass images through a blowpipe and with a fiery furnace, much as she herself was born and survived her mother''s angry frustrations and resentment. Then Maggie falls in love with Rogan, her new agent, who brings her passion, fame, and riches. Roberts''s unique characters come to life through their wordplay and tempers. A light, fast-paced novel set in the Irish countryside.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1701'),
(1027, 'Born in ice', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A sparkling entry in the New York Times bestselling Born In trilogy. The story of modern-day Ireland''s Concannon sisters continues with the tale of Brianna--whose cool beauty hides a heart of fiery passion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1702'),
(1028, 'Born in shame', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With her life turned upside down after learning her true father''s identity, successful graphic artist Shannon Bodine reluctantly leaves America and sets out to meet her family in County Clare and discovers the meaning of true love. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1704'),
(1029, 'Born Standing Up', 'Steve Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At age 10, Steve Martin got a job selling guidebooks at the newly opened Disneyland. In the decade that followed, he worked in Disney''s magic shop, print shop, and theater, and developed his own magic/comedy act. By age 20, studying poetry and philosophy on the side, he was performing a dozen times a week, most often at the Disney rival, Knott''s Berry Farm. Obsession is a substitute for talent, he has said, and Steve Martin''s focus and daring--his sheer tenacity--are truly stunning. He writes about making the very tough decision to sacrifice everything not original in his act, and about lucking into a job writing for\n  <em>\n   The Smothers Brothers Show\n  </em>\n  . He writes about mentors, girlfriends, his complex relationship with his parents and sister, and about some of his great peers in comedy--Dan Ackroyd, Lorne Michaels, Carl Reiner, Johnny Carson. He writes about fear, anxiety and loneliness. And he writes about how he figured out what worked on stage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is a memoir, but it is also an illuminating guidebook to stand-up from one of our two or three greatest comedians. Though Martin is reticent about his personal life, he is also stunningly deft, and manages to give readers a feeling of intimacy and candor. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs collected by Martin, this book is instantly compelling visually and a spectacularly good read.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com Exclusive\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Three Bonus Deleted Passages from Steve Martin''s *Born Standing Up\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On Returning to Disneyland\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Ten years later, after the Beatles, drugs, and Vietnam had changed the entire tenor of American life, I returned to the magic shop at Disneyland and stood as a stranger. As I looked around the eerily familiar room another first came over me, a previously unknown emotion, one that was to have a curious force over me for the rest my life: the longing tug of nostalgia. Looking at the counter where I pitched Svengali Decks and the Incredible Shrinking Die, I was awash with the recollection of indelible nights where the sky was blown open by fireworks and big band sounds drifted through trees strung with fairy lights. I remembered my youth, when every moment was crisply present, when heartbreak and joy replaced each other quickly, fully and without trauma. Even now when I visit Disneyland, I am steeped in melancholy, because a corporation has preserved my nostalgia impeccably. Every nail and screw is the same, and Disneyland looks as new now as it did then. The paint is fresh, and the only wear allowed is faux. In fact, only I have changed. In the dream-like world of childhood memories, so often vague and imprecise, Disneyland remains for me not only vivid in memory, but vivid in fact.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On Meeting Diane Hall\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  During the day, I attended Santa Ana Junior College, taking drama classes and pursuing an unexpected interest in English poetry from Donne to Eliot. I would occasionally assist on a college stage production--never appearing in one--as a member of the crew. Years later I was looking through a box of memorabilia and noticed a silk-screened playbill of the musical\n  <em>\n   Carousel\n  </em>\n  , May, 1964, which listed me as a stagehand. The lead actress was Diane Hall. Something connected and I remembered that Diane Keaton''s name was once Hall, (hence, Annie Hall). I confirmed with her that she was in that production. Neither of us remembers meeting the other, yet we must have worked in proximity. More evidence that I was a wallflower. Decades later, we ended up "making love" on the floor of a movie set on\n  <em>\n   Father of the Bride.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On the Kennedy Assassination\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  One Friday in 1963, I had finished a class and was about to drive to Knott''s Berry Farm for the afternoon shows when I saw a clump of agitated students across the campus. I asked someone what was going on. "They''re saying that the president''s been shot."\n </p>\n <p>\n  I drove across town to Knott''s and punched radio buttons. I could hear the scheduled programs clicking off and being replaced by live broadcasts. Assassination seemed so ancient and inconceivable, I was sure that someone would soon correct the erroneous report. President Kennedy died that day and I didn''t know that news could be taken so personally by a nation. Sitting backstage, watching the Birdcage''s black-and-white TV drone out the increasingly grave report, we were all mute. We assumed the performance that night would be canceled, but as show time neared, word came down that we were going on. We couldn''t fathom why; we believed no one would show up, much less enjoy us. I still can''t explain the psychology, why the very full house that night was able to roar with laughter. The obvious must be correct: our silly show was providing some kind of balm that soothed the ache.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In 2003 I hosted the Oscars on the particular weekend that the United States invaded Iraq. The news was grim and just hours before the show I flipped on the TV and saw a report, subsequently proven false, that our captive soldiers were being beheaded. I quickly turned the TV off, sick. I knew, from my experience forty years earlier with the Kennedy assassination, what my job was, and I harbored a secret knowledge that the audience would laugh. I also felt that soldiers who might be watching would be tuning in to see the Oscars and all its hoopla, not a cheerless comedian doing what he doesnâ€™t do best. I decided to acknowledge the circumstances early in the show and then get on with the jokes. The academy had announced that the show would "cut back on the glitz." I walked out for the opening monologue, took a look around the stage at the dazzling, swirling staircases, mirrored curtains and polished floor, and simply said, "I''m glad they cut back on the glitz." It got a laugh of relief and the show could go on.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   More from Steve Martin\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Shopgirl\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Pleasure of My Company\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Pure Drivel\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Praise for *Born Standing Up\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   "[A] lean, incisive new book about the trajectory of [Martin''s] life in comedy...\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Born Standing Up\n  </em>\n  does a sharp-witted job of breaking down the step-by-step process that brought Steve Martin from Disneyland, where he spent his version of a Dickensian childhood as a schoolboy employee, to both the pinnacle of stardom and the brink of disaster...tightly focused...\n  <em>\n   Born Standing Up\n  </em>\n  is a surprising book: smart, serious, heartfelt and confessional without being maudlin."\n  <em>\n   --Janet Maslin, *The New York Times\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  "Absolutely magnificent. One of the best books about comedy and being a comedian ever written."\n  <strong>\n   --Jerry Seinfeld, *GQ\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The writing is evocative, unflinching and cool. When Martin takes a scalpel to his life, what you feel is the precision of the surgeon more than the primal scream of the unanaesthetized patient...\n  <em>\n   Born Standing Up\n  </em>\n  is neither fanfare nor confession. It gives off a vibe of rigorous honesty. With lots of laughs."\n  <strong>\n   --Richard Corliss, *Time Magazine\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A spare, unexpectedly resonant remembrance of things pastâ€¦Martin''s one true subject is the evolution of his comedy--the transcendent moments...A smart, gentlemanly, modest bookâ€¦winning."\n  <strong>\n   --Jeff Giles,\n   <em>\n    Entertainment Weekly\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    EW Pick\n   </em>\n   : A\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A charming memoir tracking what the great comic characterizes as his ''war years.'' Martin offers an eloquent and exacting account... [and] approaches his subjects with generosity, warmth and integrity."\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    --Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sure to delight fans and create new ones."\n  <strong>\n   --Laura Mathews, *Good Housekeeping\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What fun to discover the humble beginnings of some of his iconic personas...inspiring."\n  <strong>\n   --Rachel Rosenblit, *Elle\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The archetypical story of the underdog''s rise and a particularly American story...beautifully written, honest, engaging, and quietly brave."\n  <strong>\n   --Frederic Tuten, *Bomb Magazine\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Son, you have an ob-leek sense of humor."\n  <strong>\n   --Elvis Presley\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Neatly combining his personal and professional worlds, beloved comedian, filmmaker, author, magician and banjoist Martin (Pure Drivel) chronicles his life as a gifted young comedian in this evocative, heartfelt memoir, which proves less wild and crazy than wise and considerate-though no less funny for it. The typically reticent performer shares rarely disclosed memories of childhood-his father, a failed actor, harbored increasing anger toward his son through the years-and the anxiety attacks that plagued him for some two decades, along with his early success as a television comedy writer, first for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and the evolution of his stand-up routine. Sharp insight accompanies stories of his first adult gig (at an empty San Francisco coffee house), his pioneering "no punch lines" style ("My goal was to make the audience laugh but leave them unable to describe what it was that had made them laugh"), appearances on programs like The Steve Allen Show and breakthrough moments with small, confused audiences. Though vivid and entertaining throughout, Martin doesn''t dish any behind-the-scenes dirt from Saturday Night Live or The Tonight Show; rather, he''s warm and generous toward everyone in his life, including girlfriends and colleagues. Tellingly, this intimate early career recap ends not with Martin''s decision to give up live performance or his film debut The Jerk, but with a visit to his parents and Knott''s Berry Bird Cage Farm, where he first performed as a teenager.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/471'),
(1030, 'Born to Run', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Bestselling author James Grippando is back with another innovative and action-packed thriller featuring his ever-popular hero.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jack Swyteck gets caught in a dangerous web of intrigue and murder at the top levels of the United States government in his most high-profile and disturbing case yet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck guards his own family secrets closely, after his father''s two terms as Florida''s governor made some personal rifts public. Things between the two men are finally better, and whenever Harry Swyteck asks for Jack''s help he gets it. Suddenly, Harry needs it more than ever before.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Harry''s friend, the vice president of the United States, goes hunting for alligators in the Everglades and winds up dead, the president positions Harry to be his new VP. Harry immediately asks Jack to be his lawyer. The prestige that comes from the job turns lethal, however, when Jack finds himself at the heart of a complicated...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2480'),
(1031, 'The Botany of Desire: A Plant&#39;s-Eye View of the World', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Working in his garden one day, Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? While the question is not entirely original, the way Pollan examines this complex coevolution by looking at the natural world from the perspective of plants is unique. The result is a fascinating and engaging look at the true nature of domestication.\n</p>\n<p>\n In making his point, Pollan focuses on the relationship between humans and four specific plants: apples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoes. He uses the history of John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) to illustrate how both the apple''s sweetness and its role in the production of alcoholic cider made it appealing to settlers moving west, thus greatly expanding the plant''s range. He also explains how human manipulation of the plant has weakened it, so that "modern apples require more pesticide than any other food crop." The tulipomania of 17th-century Holland is a backdrop for his examination of the role the tulip''s beauty played in wildly influencing human behavior to both the benefit and detriment of the plant (the markings that made the tulip so attractive to the Dutch were actually caused by a virus). His excellent discussion of the potato combines a history of the plant with a prime example of how biotechnology is changing our relationship to nature. As part of his research, Pollan visited the Monsanto company headquarters and planted some of their NewLeaf brand potatoes in his garden--seeds that had been genetically engineered to produce their own insecticide. Though they worked as advertised, he made some startling discoveries, primarily that the NewLeaf plants themselves are registered as a pesticide by the EPA and that federal law prohibits anyone from reaping more than one crop per seed packet. And in a interesting aside, he explains how a global desire for consistently perfect French fries contributes to both damaging monoculture and the genetic engineering necessary to support it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pollan has read widely on the subject and elegantly combines literary, historical, philosophical, and scientific references with engaging anecdotes, giving readers much to ponder while weeding their gardens.\n <em>\n  --Shawn Carkonen\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Erudite, engaging and highly original, journalist Pollan''s fascinating account of four everyday plants and their coevolution with human society challenges traditional views about humans and nature. Using the histories of apples, tulips, potatoes and cannabis to illustrate the complex, reciprocal relationship between humans and the natural world, he shows how these species have successfully exploited human desires to flourish. "It makes just as much sense to think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people as a way to conquer the trees," Pollan writes as he seamlessly weaves little-known facts, historical events and even a few amusing personal anecdotes to tell each species'' story. For instance, he describes how the apple''s sweetness and the appeal of hard cider enticed settlers to plant orchards throughout the American colonies, vastly expanding the plant''s range. He evokes the tulip craze of 17th-century Amsterdam, where the flower''s beauty led to a frenzy of speculative trading, and explores the intoxicating appeal of marijuana by talking to scientists, perusing literature and even visiting a modern marijuana garden in Amsterdam. Finally, he considers how the potato plant demonstrates man''s age-old desire to control nature, leading to modern agribusiness''s experiments with biotechnology. Pollan''s clear, elegant style enlivens even his most scientific material, and his wide-ranging references and charming manner do much to support his basic contention that man and nature are and will always be "in this boat together."\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1123'),
(1032, 'The Bourne Identity', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Mr. Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combines."â€”\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jason Bourne.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his deliriumâ€” maybe code words. Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But now he is marked for death, caught in a maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of murderous conspiratorsâ€”led by Carlos, the world''s most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/442'),
(1033, 'The Bourne Supremacy', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this. A Peking leader of seemingly irreproachable reputation, secretly a Kuomintang fanatic, has masterminded a plot to take over Hong Kong via political assassination, the result of which would be civil war in China and possibly global disaster. His principal agent is an assassin-for-hire masquerading as the legendary "Jason Bourne," a one-time secret U.S. agent now, under his real name David Webb, struggling with the aid of a psychiatrist and his loving wife Marie to recover from amnesia. Only one man can destroy the conspiracy: Webb, who must be persuaded to re-assume his Bourne identity, track down the impostor and through him lay a trap for the vile Shengthe "persuasion" to be by way of his abducted wife. The action jolts from the back alleys of Hong Kong and Kowloon to a secret government complex in the Colorado mountains to the seats of power in Peking and even the interior of Mao''s tomb. Every chapter ends with a cliff-hanger; the story brims with assassination, torture, hand-to-hand combat, sudden surprise and intrigue within intrigue. It''s a sure-fire bestseller. 650,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo; BOMC selection; Franklin Library limited edition.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to The Bourne Identity , David Webb, still suffering flashbacks to his Jason Bourne persona, is forced to undertake a final, possibly fatal mission after his wife is kidnapped. He must find and capture an assassin who is posing as Bourne in Hong Kong. By so doing he''ll foil a plot that could plunge the Far East and then the world into war. Ludlum''s latest has a best seller quality that many imitate but few master. You can quibble about this being too long, too talky, too preposterously implausible, but you can''t quit reading. As often happens with sequels, this is not quite up to the standards of the original, but legions of Ludlum fans will send it soaring up the best seller list. BOMC main selection. Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/443'),
(1034, 'Bourne Ultimatum', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The literary faults and stylistic excesses that characterized The Icarus Agenda , The Gemini Contenders and other of Ludlum''s works are present in his latest mammoth thriller, but fans will nonetheless cheer the return of his most popular character, David Webb, aka Jason Bourne, the assassin who never was. When the international terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal penetrates his civilian identity, Webb must again assume the Bourne persona to protect his wife and small children. In their renewed struggle, the two master assassins uncover the revived existence of Medusa, the sinister alliance that originally led to the establishment of the Bourne identity. In action that moves from the U.S. to Montserrat to Paris before concluding in Moscow, Bourne and his allies prove incredibly inept, barely escaping the Jackal''s traps and failing in their repeated attempts to ambush him. The Ludlum trademarks are present: improbable bloodbaths, repetitive action, stilted and off-the-point conversations and--most annoying--the use of italicized words or entire paragraphs to simulate passion. This is formula writing that delivers even less than its meager promise.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Vintage Ludlum."â€”\n <em>\n  The Cleveland Plain Dealer\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/444'),
(1035, 'Boy&#39;s Life', 'Robert Mccammon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Both a mystery that will satisfy the most finicky aficionado and a boisterous travelogue through a stormy season in a 12-year-old''s life, this novel follows a boy and his father as they seek a killer in 1964 Alabama.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1964, 12-year-old Cory Mackenson lives with his parents in Zephyr, Alabama. It is a sleepy, comfortable town. Cory is helping with his father''s milk route one morning when a car plunges into the lake before their eyes. His father dives in after the car and finds a dead man handcuffed to the steering wheel. Their world no longer seems so innocent: a vicious killer hides among apparently friendly neighbors. Other, equally unsettling transmogrifications occur: a friend''s father becomes a shambling bully under the influence of moonshine, decent men metamorphose into Klan bigots, "responsible" adults flee when faced with danger for the first time. With the aid of unexpected allies, Cory faces hair-raising dangers as he seeks to find the secret of the dead man in the lake. McCammon writes an exciting adventure story. He also gives us an affecting tale of a young man growing out of childhood in a troubled place and time. Recommended. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 4/15/91; Literary Guild dual main selection.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - David Keymer, SUNY Inst. of Technology, Utica\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/475'),
(1036, 'Brain Droppings', 'George Carlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n George Carlin''s been working the crowd since "the counterculture" became "the over-the-counter culture" around 1967 or so; his new book,\n <em>\n  Brain Droppings\n </em>\n , surfs on three decades of touring-in-support. It''s the purest version of book-as-candy that one could imagine, serving up humor in convenient, bite-sized packages. Snack on chewy one-liners like "A meltdown sounds like fun. Like some kind of cheese sandwich." Or: "If you can''t beat them, arrange to have them beaten."\n <em>\n  Brain Droppings\n </em>\n also contains highlights from Carlin''s concert repertoire, and that more than makes up for the occasional spray of pointless nihilism. Tell us, George, what exactly were you going for with "Kill your pet" and "Satan is cool"? Quick--hide the paper before Daddy sees it! Still, if you''re a fan of this sarcastic semanticist who''s given Bad Attitude not necessarily a good name, but at least a comfy bank account, by all means rush out and snag\n <em>\n  Brain Droppings\n </em>\n . Carlin''s book melts in your mind, not in your hand.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a stand-up comedian writes a book, the audio version enjoys a clear advantage over the printed word. Timing, delivery and vocal expression are as important to humor as the actual joke itself. So it is with this very funny collection of essays, monologues, observations and jokes by 30-year comic veteran Carlin. A one-liner like "I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed," moderately amusing in print, is hilarious in Carlin''s bewildered tone. This audio contains "unabridged excerpts," which means that though it does not include everything from the book, the pieces that appear are performed in their entirety. The audio is paced nicely, alternating between long pieces (Carlin as a bureaucratic caveman calling a "staff meeting" to announce a new policy on human sacrifices), short observations and one-liners. Some of Carlin''s older routines are included, such as his classic comparison of warlike football and friendly baseball. One note: this audio, like most of Carlin''s humor, includes plenty of profanity, so parents may want to be cautious around the kiddies. Based on the 1997 Hyperion hardcover.(May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/944');
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(1037, 'The Brass Verdict', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Bestseller Connelly delivers one of his most intricate plots to date in his 20th book, a beautifully executed crime thriller. When L.A. lawyer Mickey Haller, last seen in\n <em>\n  The Lincoln Lawyer\n </em>\n (2005), inherits the practice and caseload of a fellow defense attorney, Jerry Vincent, who''s been murdered, the high-profile double-homicide case against famed Hollywood producer Walter Elliot, accused of shooting his wife and her alleged lover, takes top priority. As Haller scrambles to build a defense, he butts heads with LAPD Det. Harry Bosch, the stalwart hero of Connelly''s long-running series (\n <em>\n  The Black Echo\n </em>\n , etc.), who''s working Vincent''s murder. When Haller realizes that the Elliot affair is bigger than simply a jealous husband killing his cheating wife, he and Bosch grudgingly agree to work together to solve what could be the biggest case in both their careers. Bosch might have met his match in the wily Haller, and readers will delight in their sparring.\n <em>\n  10-city author tour. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics were pleased to see two of Michael Connelly''s protagonistsâ€”the relatively new Mickey Haller and world-weary homicide detective Harry Boschâ€”come together for the first time. They agreed that while this union of sorts could have been cliched, it succeeded for the most part by adding a new layerâ€”the evolution of a relationship forged by protagonists of different seriesâ€”to Connelly''s oeuvre. Haller''s presence adds a lighter tone to the story, which balances Bosch''s darker, more ruminative outlook. Both play against each other nicely as Connelly writes at once a police procedural and a captivating legal thriller. The\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n called\n <em>\n  The Brass Verdict\n </em>\n primarily entertainment, with deeper undertonesâ€”just right for Connelly fans.\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/891'),
(1038, 'Brave New World', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley''s utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let''s hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren''t yet to come.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Up-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a classic science fiction work that continues to be a significant warning to our society today. Tony Britton, the reader, does an excellent job of portraying clinical detachment as the true nature of the human incubators is revealed. The tone lightens during the vacation to the wilderness and the contrast is even more striking. Each character is given a separate personality by Britton''s voices. As the story moves from clinical detachment to the human interest of Bernard, the nonconformist, and John, the "Savage," listeners are drawn more deeply into the plot. Finally, the reasoned tones of the Controller explain away all of John''s arguments against the civilization, leading to John''s death as he cannot reconcile his beliefs to theirs.The abridgement is very well done, and the overall message of the novel is clearly presented. The advanced vocabulary and complex themes lend themselves to class discussion and further research. There is sure to be demand for this classic in schools and public libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pat Griffith, Schlow Memorial Library, State College, PA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/621'),
(1039, 'Breakfast at Tiffany&#39;s', 'Truman Capote', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She''s up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She''s a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, and a tease. She hasn''t got a past. She doesn''t want to belong to anything or anyone. Not to ''Rusty'' Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town. Not to Salvatore ''Sally'' Tomato, the Mafia sugar-daddy doing life in Sing Sing. Not to a starving writer. Not even to her one-eyed rag-bag pirate of a cat. One day Holly might find somewhere she belongs. Until then she''s travelling.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1924. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction - short stories, novels and novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films. He died in California in 1984.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1359'),
(1040, 'Breakfast of Champions: A Novel', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who''s really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut''s pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates\n <em>\n  Slaughterhouse-Five\n </em>\n . At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Breakfast of Champions\n </em>\n is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles,\n <em>\n  Breakfast of Champions\n </em>\n coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It''s not much of a plot, but it''s enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMarvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.â€â€”\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œVonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFree-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/99'),
(1041, 'Breaking Dawn', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Great love stories thrive on sacrifice. Throughout The Twilight Saga (\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  New Moon\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Eclipse\n </em>\n ), Stephenie Meyer has emulated great love stories--\n <em>\n  Romeo and Juliet\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Wuthering Heights\n </em>\n --with the fated, yet perpetually doomed love of Bella (the human girl) and Edward (the vampire who feeds on animals instead of humans). In\n <em>\n  Breaking Dawn\n </em>\n , the fourth and final installment in the series, Bellaâ€™s story plays out in some unexpected ways. The ongoing conflicts that made this series so compelling--a human girl in love with a vampire, a werewolf in love with a human girl, the generations-long feud between werewolves and vampires--resolve pretty quickly, apparently so that Meyer could focus on Bellaâ€™s latest opportunity for self-sacrifice: giving her life for someone she loves even more than Edward. How close she comes to actually making that sacrifice is questionable, which is a big shift from the earlier books. Even though you knew Bella would make it through somehow, the threats to her life, and to her relationship with Edward, had previously always felt real. Itâ€™s as if Meyer was afraid of hurting her characters too much, which is unfortunate, because the pain Bella suffered at losing Edward in\n <em>\n  New Moon\n </em>\n , and the pain Jacob suffered at losing Bella again and again, are the fire and the heart that drive the whole series. Diehard fans will stick with Bella, Edward, and Jacob for as many twists and turns as possible, but after most of the characters get what they want with little sacrifice, some readers may have a harder time caring what happens next. (Ages 12 and up) --\n <em>\n  Heidi Broadhead\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It might seem redundant to dismiss the fourth and final Twilight novel as escapist fantasy--but how else could anyone look at a romance about an ordinary, even clumsy teenager torn between a vampire and a werewolf, both of whom are willing to sacrifice their happiness for hers? Flaws and all, however, Meyer''s first three novels touched on something powerful in their weird refraction of our culture''s paradoxical messages about sex and sexuality. The conclusion is much thinner, despite its interminable length. [...] But that''s not the main problem. Essentially, everyone gets everything they want, even if their desires necessitate an about-face in characterization or the messy introduction of some back story. Nobody has to renounce anything or suffer more than temporarily--in other words, grandeur is out. This isn''t about happy endings; it''s about gratification. A sign of the times? Ages 12â€“up. Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/390'),
(1042, 'Breaking the Da Vinci Code', 'Darrell L. Bock &amp; Francis J. Moloney', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Many have been troubled by the unorthodox historical claims found in Dan Brown''s The Da Vinci Code, while others have excitedly embraced its version of Christian history. This book will help you recognize the agenda that lurks behind the codes. Darrell L. Bock will help you break the Da Vinci Code - to distinguish fictitious entertainment from genuine historical elements of Christian faith. But be prepared. As Dr. Bock warns, "There are some interesting - even alarming - surprises along the way" as you discover the most important code of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1466'),
(1043, 'The Brethren', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Grisham''s novels have all been so systematically successful that it is easy to forget he is just one man toiling away silently with a pen, experimenting and improving with each book. While not as gifted a prose stylist as Scott Turow, Grisham is among the best plotters in the thriller business, and he infuses his books with a moral valence and creative vision that set them apart from their peers.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Brethren\n </em>\n is in many respects his most daring book yet. The novel grows from two separate subplots. In the first, three imprisoned ex-judges (the "brethren" in the title), frustrated by their loss of power and influence, concoct an elaborate blackmail scheme that preys on wealthy, closeted gay men. The second story traces the rise of presidential candidate Aaron Lake, a puppet essentially created by CIA director Teddy Maynard to fulfill Maynard''s plans for restoring the power of his beleaguered agency.\n</p>\n<p>\n Grisham''s tight control of the two meandering threads leaves the reader guessing through most of the opening chapters how and when these two worlds will collide. Also impressive is Grisham''s careful portraiture. Justice Hatlee Beech in particular is a fascinating, tragic anti-hero: a millionaire judge with an appointment for life who was rendered divorced, bankrupt, and friendless after his conviction for a drunk-driving homicide.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book''s cynical view of presidential politics and criminal justice casts a somewhat gloomy shadow over the tale. CIA director Teddy Maynard is an all-powerful demon with absolute knowledge and control of the public will and public funds. Even his candidate, Congressman Lake, is a pawn in Maynard''s egomaniacal game of ad campaigns, illicit contributions, and international intrigue. In the end,\n <em>\n  The Brethren\n </em>\n marks a transition in Grisham''s career toward a more thoughtful narrative style with less interest in the big-payoff blockbuster ending. But that''s not to say that the last 50 pages won''t keep your reading light turned on late.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Only a few megaselling authors of popular fiction deviate dramatically from formula--most notably Stephen King but recently Grisham, too. He''s serializing a literary novel, A Painted House, in the Oxford American; his last thriller (The Testament) emphasized spirituality as intensely as suspense; and his deeply absorbing new novel dispenses with a staple not only of his own work but of most commercial fiction: the hero. The novel does feature three antiheroes of a sort, the brethren of the title, judges serving time in a federal prison in Florida for white-collar offenses. They''re a hard bunch to root for, though, as their main activity behind bars is running a blackmail scheme in which they bait, hook and squeeze wealthy, closeted gay men through a magazine ad supposedly placed by "Ricky," a young incarcerated gay looking for companionship. Then there''s the two-bit alcoholic attorney who''s abetting them by running their mail and depositing their dirty profits in an overseas bank. Scarcely more appealing is the big fish the trio snare, Congressman Anthony Lake, who meanwhile is busy selling his lifelong integrity when the director of the CIA offers to lever him into the White House in exchange for a doubling of federal defense spending upon Lake''s inauguration. The expertly orchestrated and very complex plot follows these evildoers through their illicit enterprises, devoting considerable attention to the CIA''s staging of Lake''s presidential campaign and even more to that agency''s potentially lethal pursuit of the brethren once it learns that the three are threatening to out candidate Lake. Every personage in this novel lies, cheats, steals and/or kills, and while Grisham''s fans may miss the stalwart lawyer-heroes and David vs. Goliath slant of his earlier work, all will be captivated by this clever thriller that presents as crisp a cast as he''s yet devised, and as grippingly sardonic yet bitingly moral a scenario as he''s ever imagined. Agent, David Gernert. 2.8 million first printing. (Feb. 1)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/710'),
(1044, 'Bridget Jones&#39;s Diary', 'Helen Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the course of the year recorded in\n <em>\n  Bridget Jones''s Diary\n </em>\n , Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year''s resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent.\n</p>\n<p>\n At the beginning of Helen Fielding''s exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget\n <em>\n  will\n </em>\n , for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she''ll have made a good start. As far as she''s concerned, "We wouldn''t rush up to\n <em>\n  them\n </em>\n and roar, ''How''s your marriage going? Still having sex?''"\n</p>\n<p>\n This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people''s "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak."\n <em>\n  Bridget Jones''s Diary\n </em>\n began as a column in the London\n <em>\n  Independent\n </em>\n and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don''t sound half as sensible to Bridget when she''s sober) to feng shui,\n <em>\n  Cosmopolitan\n </em>\n -style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it''s impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come.\n <em>\n  --Kerry Fried\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A huge success in England, this marvelously funny debut novel had its genesis in a column Fielding writes for a London newspaper. It''s the purported diary, complete with daily entries of calories consumed, cigarettes smoked, "alcohol units" imbibed and other unsuitable obsessions, of a year in the life of a bright London 30-something who deplores male "fuckwittage" while pining for a steady boyfriend. As dogged at making resolutions for self-improvement as she is irrepressibly irreverent, Bridget also would like to have someone to show the folks back home and their friends, who make "tick-tock" noises at her to evoke the motion of the biological clock. Bridget is knowing, obviously attractive but never too convinced of the fact, and prone ever to fear the worst. In the case of her mother, who becomes involved with a shady Portuguese real estate operator and is about to be arrested for fraud, she''s probably quite right. In the case of her boss, Daniel, who sends sexy e-mail messages but really plans to marry someone else, she''s a tad blind. And in the case of glamorous lawyer Mark Darcy, whom her parents want her to marry, she turns out to be way off the mark. ("It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It''s like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting ''Cathy!'' and banging your head against a tree.") It''s hard to say how the English frame of reference will travel. But, since Bridget reads Susan Faludi and thinks of Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon as role models, it just might. In any case, it''s hard to imagine a funnier book appearing anywhere this year. Major ad/promo; first serial to Vogue; BOMC and QPB main selections; simultaneous Random House audio; author tour. (July) FYI: A movie is in the works from Working Title, the team that produced Four Weddings and a Funeral.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/806'),
(1045, 'A Brief History of Time', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic\n <em>\n  A Brief History of Time\n </em>\n to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we''re looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists'' search for a grand unifying theory. This is\n <em>\n  deep\n </em>\n science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can''t help but marvel at Hawking''s ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God."\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[Hawking] can explain the complexities of cosmological physics with an engaging combination of clarity and wit. . . . His is a brain of extraordinary power.â€â€”\n <em>\n  The New York Review of Books\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThis book marries a childâ€™s wonder to a geniusâ€™s intellect. We journey into Hawkingâ€™s universe while marvelling at his mind.â€â€”\n <em>\n  The Sunday Times\n </em>\n (London)\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œMasterful.â€â€”\n <em>\n  The Wall Street Journal\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œCharming and lucid . . . [A book of] sunny brilliance.â€â€”\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLively and provocative . . . Mr. Hawking clearly possesses a natural teacherâ€™s giftsâ€”easy, good-natured humor and an ability to illustrate highly complex propositions with analogies plucked from daily life.â€â€”\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œEven as he sits helpless in his wheelchair, his mind seems to soar ever more brilliantly across the vastness of space and time to unlock the secrets of the universe.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1244'),
(1046, 'Bright Shiny Morning', 'James Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Signature\n <em>\n  Reviewed by\n </em>\n Sara NelsonWhen James Frey imploded as a memoirist in 2006, many said his\n <em>\n  A Million Little Pieces\n </em>\n should have beenâ€”and perhaps initially wasâ€”presented as a novel, and that Freyâ€”a sometimes screenwriterâ€”was, both by nature and design, a fiction writer.\n <em>\n  Bright Shiny Morning\n </em>\n is his first official book of fiction. If it''s not quite a novel, less believable in its way than his augmented memoir ever was, there''s no doubt it''s a work of Frey''s imagination. Ironic, isn''t it?Set in contemporary Los Angeles,\n <em>\n  Bright Shiny Morning\n </em>\n is not a cohesive narrative but a compilation of vignettes of several characters (if this were a memoir, we''d call them composites) who have come to the city to fulfill their dreams. Some examples: Dylan and Maddie, madly-in-love Midwestern runaways who survive through the kindness of near strangers; Esperanza, a Mexican-American maid tortured by a body that could have been drawn by R. Crumb; a group of drunks and junkies who create a community behind the shacks on Venice Beach; Amberton Parker, a hugely famous married movie star who is secretlyâ€”you guessed itâ€”gay. Interspersed with these rotating portraits are random historical and statistical factoids (which better have been fact-checked, even if there is a nudge-nudge, wink-wink disclaimer up front: Nothing in this book should be considered accurate or reliable) about L.A.: that, for example, approximately 2.7 million people live without health insurance and there are more than 12,000 people who describe their job as\n <em>\n  bill collector\n </em>\n in the City of Los Angeles. Frey''s intention, it seems, is to create an onomatopoetic jumble, a cacophony of facts and fiction, stats and stories, that replicate the contradictory nature of the place they describe. I expect, given the sharpness of the knives that some critics have out for Frey, that many will say the book flat out doesn''t work. First off, there''s that voice, the hyperbolic, breathless, run-on, word-repeating voice that was much better suited to a memoir (or even a novel) in which the hero was a hyperbolic, breathless alcoholic and drug addict. And then there''s the frat-boy swagger that angered some readers of\n <em>\n  AMLP\n </em>\n turning up here, too, so faux-cynical as to be naÃ¯ve: the gang father''s attaboy about his five-year-old son''s desire to be a cold-blooded killer, and the prurient, adolescent take on sex. (And couldn''t someone have stopped him from exclaiming woohoo after some of his fun and not fun factoids?) Yet the guy has something: an energy, a drive, a relentlessness, maybe, that can pull readers along, past the voice, past the stock characters, past the clichÃ©s.\n <em>\n  Bright Shiny Morning\n </em>\n is a train wreck of a novel, but it''s un-put-downable, a real page-turnerâ€”in what may come to be known as the Frey tradition.\n <em>\n  Sara Nelson is the editor-in-chief of\n </em>\n Publishers Weekly\n <em>\n  .\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From The New Yorker\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two years after Freyâ€™s memoir "A Million Little Pieces" was outed as part fiction, the publicly chastised writer resurfaces with a novel much of which purports to be fact. Set in a Los Angeles populated by miniature-golf moguls, ex-beauty queens, gun-shop owners, debauched child actors, meth dealers, and yoginis in thongs, this gargantuan book is seeded, Melville-like, with chapters cataloguing the cityâ€™s snarled highways and quirky innovations (e.g., the worldâ€™s first video graveyard). The characters are relentlessly stock: two lovesick kids from the heartland ("nowhere anywhere everywhere"); a bulimic, closeted movie star with a "MEGAWATT!!!!!" smile; a Mexican-American maid with an abusive employer. Frey strives for incantatory but winds up with banal; when it comes to emotion, the best he can muster is "Itâ€™s deep, itâ€™s true, and itâ€™s real real real."\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2008 * Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1264'),
(1047, 'Brimstone', 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Agent Pendergast returns in a new suspense thriller from New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside; the smell of brimstone is everywhere...and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more bodies are discovered--their only connection the bizarre but identical manner of death--the world begins to wonder if the Devil has, in fact, come to collect his due. Teaming with Police Officer Vincent DAgosta (The Relic), Agent Pendergast is determined to solve this case that appears to defy everything except supernatural logic. Their investigation takes them from the luxury estates of Long Island to the crumbling, legend-shrouded castles of the Italian countryside, where Pendergast faces the most treacherous and dangerous adversary of his career.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside; the smell of brimstone is everywhere ... and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more bodies are discovered--their only connection the bizarre but identical manner of death--the world begins to wonder if the Devil has, is fact, come to collect his due. Teaming with Police Officer Vincent D''Agosta, Agent Pendergast is determined to solve this case that appears to defy all logic. Their investigation takes them from the luxury estates of Long Island to the crumbling, legend-shrouded castles of the Italian countryside, where Pendergast faces the most treacherous and dangerous adversary of his career.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/206'),
(1048, 'Brisingr', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tad Williams and Christopher Paolini: Author One-on-One\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tad Williams\n </strong>\n is the New York Times bestselling author of several epic fantasy series. He lives in California.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Read on for Williams and Christopher Paolini''s discussion about why they write fantasy, their upcoming projects, and more.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tad:\n </strong>\n Hi, Christopher. Nice to talk to you, albeit virtually. It was great hanging out with you and your family this summer. Pretty much all of us fell in love with your part of the world, too.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Be warned: this isn''t my best time of the day, so if I start calling you "Herman" and asking what it was about whaling that interested you, please forgive.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The first thing I''d like to ask you as a starter question is: why fantasy? I mean, there''s the obvious answer (which is also true for me) that it was something I loved to read growing up, but I guess I''m curious what is it that still resonates for you. Why do these kind of stories, these kinds of characters, these kinds of worlds, still speak to you?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In a similar vein, do you have another kind of fiction, another genre, that you''d really like to try? If so, why? Any genres you think you''ll never write but wish you could?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Christopher:\n </strong>\n Hi Tad. Great talking to you as well. We all had a wonderful time when you guys visited. Definitely one Of the highlights of the year.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n I''m still waking up as well -- takes a few cups of tea and a few strips of bacon before the little gray cells start firing properly -- so if I sound a bit muddled, that''s why. Still, we can make a stab at coherency, eh?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Hmm. Why do I write fantasy? As you said, it''s because I enjoy reading it, but I enjoy reading it because . . . well, for a number of reasons, I suppose. First of all, fantasy allows for all sorts of dangerous situations, and those can provide a lot of excitement in a story. And excitement is always fun. Also, epic fantasy usually deals with themes and situations that everyone can relate to, such as the challenge of growing up, or how one is supposed to deal with moral quandaries. Fantasy is the oldest form of literature; the very first stories that humans told while crouched around campfires were stories about gods and monsters and tragic mistakes and heroic feats. Even now, those topics still resonate with us on a primal level, which is one reason I think fantasy will remain popular with readers as long as humans are still human. And I love the sense of awe and wonder one can often find in fantastical literature. . . . Fantasy can allow you to see and hear and experience things that have never existed and never\n <em>\n  could\n </em>\n exist. To me, that is the closest we come to real magic in this world.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n That said, there are a number of other genres I''d like to try my hand at: mystery, thriller, horror, science-fiction, romance, etc. I love stories of all kinds -- although mythic ones certainly hold the greatest appeal to me -- and I''m very much looking forward to experimenting once I finish the Inheritance cycle. Any genres I think I''ll never write but wish I could? . . . Probably long-form epic poetry or a witty comedy of manners. Poetry is fun, but my grasp on it is rather shaky, and a comedy of manners (while I enjoy them) is so different from my usual life, I''m not sure I could pull it off properly.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n And now a question for you: You have just finished your third (large) series. What is it about big epic stories that so fascinates you? Why not write small, intimate books about a fishmonger whose greatest love is his toothpick sculpture of the Brooklyn Bridge?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Read the full conversation\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The much-anticipated third book in Paolini''s Inheritance Cycle continues to rely heavily on classic fantasy tropes. The novel launches with magician and Dragon Rider Eragon, his cousin Roran and the dragon Saphira on a quest to rescue Roran''s betrothed. The cousins soon split up, and Roran undergoes his own series of heroic tests, culminating in a well-choreographed and intense fight against an Urgal (a ram-human hybrid). Eragon, at the same time, encounters treacherous dwarves, undergoes even more training with the elf Oromis and gains a magical sword suitable for a Dragon Rider. The silly revelations about Eragon''s background in the previous book, Eldest, are given a new spin near the end, but the change is neither unexpected nor interesting. Predictably, the book concludes with even more character deaths and another battle, but those expecting a resolution will have to wait until the next novel. The cliched journey may appeal to younger readers of genre fiction. Older teens, even those who might have first cut their teeth on Paolini''s writing years ago, are less likely to be impressed. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/335'),
(1049, 'Broken Angels', 'Richard K. Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics have compared Richard Morgan''s first novel,\n <em>\n  Altered Carbon\n </em>\n , to the classic hardboiled fiction of Raymond Chandler. The comparison doesn''t accurately describe Morgan''s second novel,\n <em>\n  Broken Angels\n </em>\n . Morgan''s prose never approaches Chandler''s metaphoric excess, and Morgan''s antihero, Takeshi Kovacs, doesn''t wisecrack nearly as often as Chandler''s hero, Philip Marlowe. Also, Kovacs''s far-future universe is considerably darker than Marlowe''s noir world. In Kovacs''s universe, high-tech implants called "stacks" record memory and personality; this means soldiers can be sent to their deaths, have their stacks implanted in new bodies, and be sent to their deaths again, and again, and again. Generals needn''t quibble about wasting lives in massacres or nuclear explosions. The slaughtered soldiers will soon be back in action--unless their stacks aren''t recovered. Then their consciousness will go mad, isolated in an indestructible, inescapable virtual reality. The proper term for the Takeshi Kovacs novels isn''t "hardboiled." It''s "brutal."\n</p>\n<p>\n The Martians disappeared long ago, but they left behind their star gates, which have allowed humanity to spread across the galaxy--and bring warfare to the stars. As\n <em>\n  Broken Angels\n </em>\n opens, Takeshi Kovacs is a lieutenant in humankind''s most feared mercenary company, but rumors of an astonishing archaelogical discovery inspire his desertion. Humans have never found a Martian starship until, perhaps, now. If the rumors are true, and the ruthless Kovacs can take possession of the unprecedented relic, he will make his fortune. But if he fails in his quest, he may find himself imprisoned in high-tech hell for eternity.\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite its slick formulaic structure, Morgan''s SFâ€“hardboiled hybrid, the sequel to the well-received Altered Carbon, bursts with energy and intelligence. Protagonist Takeshi Kovacs is the product of a brutal future in which corporations and politicians fight for supremacy. Humanity has spread to the stars by deciphering charts left behind by the long-extinct Martians. Since people haven''t discovered how the Martians surpassed the speed of light, however, they usually travel through space by broadcasting their digitalized personalities from one planet to another and having them installed in new bodies, a technique that gives virtual immortality to the most unscrupulous individuals. One such is Kovacs, a young sociopath whom the interstellar government transformed into a super warrior before he went freelance. Kovacs resembles a smarter and deadlier Mike Hammer; part of the pleasure is watching him not only use his skills and conditioning but also struggle past his limitations to develop empathy for other humans. The few people Kovacs gets close to are the team that accompanies him on an expedition to claim the ultimate Martian relicâ€”a functioning FTL starship. Morgan is good at presenting Kovacs''s mastery of high-tech weapons and other gadgets, as well as his reactions to disturbing alien artifacts. The mystery aspect of the story is also well handled, always hovering in the background of the violent action as Kovacs gathers clues. It all adds up to a superior, satisfying cyberpunk noir adventure.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/420'),
(1050, 'The Broker', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open any door in Washington." That is, until he tried to broker a deal selling access to the world''s most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder. When caught, Backman accepted prison as the one option that would keep him safe and alive, since the interested parties (the Israelis, the Saudis, the Russians, and the Chinese) were all itching to get their hands on his secrets at any cost. Little does he know that his own government has designs on accessing that information--or at least letting it die with him. Now, six years after his incarceration, the director of the CIA convinces a lame duck president to pardon Backman, and the broker becomes a free man--and an open target.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Broker\n </em>\n marries the best of John Grisham''s many talents--his ability to immerse himself in the culture of small town life (in this case, Bologna, Italy), and his uncanny mastery of the chase. The first half of the book focuses on Backman''s transformation from infamous power broker to helpless victim in his own game. Upon his release from prison, Backman is taken into "protective custody" and whisked off to Italy where he is assigned a new identity, and a tutor to help him blend in. Sure he is on the run, but some readers may feel that Backman''s time spent in Bologna is a bit too leisurely--readers join him on an almost cinematic tour through the Italian town, complete with language and history lessons. Impatient readers will be happy to know that the final half of the novel is classic Grisham--a fast-paced, thrilling cat and mouse chase pitting Backman against the numerous agencies that want him dead--as the broker makes a move to take back his life.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Exclusive Video Interview with John Grisham\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   Watch the interview (high bandwith)\n  </em>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   Watch the interview (low bandwith)\n  </em>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Grisham: The Books\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   A Time to Kill\n  </em>\n  , 1989\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Firm\n  </em>\n  , 1991\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Pelican Brief\n  </em>\n  , 1992\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Client\n  </em>\n  , 1993\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Chamber\n  </em>\n  , 1994\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    The Rainmaker\n   </em>\n   , 1995\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    The Runaway Jury\n   </em>\n   , 1996\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Partner\n  </em>\n  , 1997\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Street Lawyer\n  </em>\n  , 1998\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Testament\n  </em>\n  , 1999\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Brethren\n  </em>\n  , 2000\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    A Painted House\n   </em>\n   , 2001\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    Skipping Christmas\n   </em>\n   , 2001\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Summons\n  </em>\n  , 2002\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The King of Torts\n  </em>\n  , 2003\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   Bleachers\n  </em>\n  , 2003\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Last Juror\n  </em>\n  , 2004\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Broker\n  </em>\n  , 2005\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Essential Grisham\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Amazon Editor Favorites\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Time to Kill\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Firm\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Painted House\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Client\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Rainmaker\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Pelican Brief\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bestselling Grisham\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Amazon Customer Favorites\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Last Juror\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Skipping Christmas\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bleachers\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Testament\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Partner\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The King of Torts\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  If You Like Grisham, You''ll Love...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  John Lescroart\n </li>\n <li>\n  Richard North Patterson\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   David Baldacci\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lisa Scottoline\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  Robert Crais\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Michael Crichton\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Harlan Coben\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dennis Lehane\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ken Follett\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Best Grisham Books on DVD\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Time to Kill\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Pelican Brief\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Client\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Firm\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Rainmaker\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Chamber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers will find an amiable travelogue to Italy and its charms in Grisham''s latest. What they won''t find are the suspense and inspired plotting that have made the author (The Last Juror, etc.) one of the world''s bestselling writers. Yet Grisham remains a smooth storyteller, and few will fail to finish this oddball tale of what happens to ruined D.C. powerbroker Joel Blackman, 52, when he''s suddenly released from federal prison after six years. Teddy Maynard, legendary CIA director, has engineered the release in order to put Joel into a variant of the witness protection program and then see who kills him. Many want him deadâ€”the Saudis, the Israelis, especially the Chineseâ€”because of his role in trying to sell a global satellite spy system that would alter the world''s balance of power; that was what got Joel imprisoned, and the CIA hopes that whoever kills him will clue them in to who may have access to the satellites. Joel is relocated to Bologna, and much of the narrative consists of his touring that city, its historic sights and its many restaurants, and learning Italian ways from his male handler, Luigi, and his language tutor, Francescaâ€”a middle-aged woman with whom he falls in love. A major subplot concerns Joel''s secret dealings with his stateside son to prepare for escape from Bologna if necessary. Eventually, the CIA leaks Joel''s whereabouts to his enemies, who dispatch killing teams. Can Joel broker his way to safety? There''s some depth to the troubled relationship between Joel and his tutor, but otherwise the novel reads like a contented afterthought to a memorable Italian vacation, with little action or tension, plastic characters and plot turns that a tricycle could maneuver. Still, anyone wishing to learn how and why Bologna built its famed porticos, why to be wary of most Italian desserts and how to send an encrypted wireless message using a global cell phone will find that information cheerfully given here. (Jan. 11) Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/716'),
(1051, 'Brother Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Koontz''s third Odd Thomas novel (after\n <em>\n  Forever Odd\n </em>\n ) offers an irresistibly offbeat mix of supernatural horror and laugh-out-loud humor. A resident of St. Bartholomew''s Abbey, a monastery in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Thomas has the ability to see the spirits of the dead, a gift he has used to resolve mysteries and prevent future tragedies. As the story opens, the seer is unsettled by visions of\n <em>\n  bodachs\n </em>\n , sinister ghostlike entities whose appearance precedes some dire tragedy. Thomas frantically searches for some sign that will help him head off disaster, even as St. Bart''s is thrown into turmoil by the disappearance of one of its members. Thomas must figure out both the identity of the person or being behind the terror and the most effective way to restore peace to his haven. While newcomers may find the villain''s underlying motive a bit over the top, the narrator''s engaging voice should continue to give this series cross-genre appeal.\n <em>\n  (Nov. 28)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The third adventure of Odd Thomas, the boy (well, he''s 21, but still . . .) who sees ghosts, has a lighter feel to it than the gruelingly suspenseful\n <em>\n  Forever Odd\n </em>\n (2005) and the funny and moving\n <em>\n  Odd Thomas\n </em>\n (2003). It''s reminiscent of a sunny monster-movie sequel--say,\n <em>\n  Son of Frankenstein--\n </em>\n in which stock characters do their shtick with a wink and a nod: "Dontcha just love us?" In this case, yes, we do. Odd has retreated to a monastery in the Sierra Nevadas that permanently hosts a billionaire physicist in an underground lab. The mogul has given his entire fortune to support the monastery and attached convent in their work of housing and educating severely damaged children, the most interesting of which is now a 25-year-old artistic savant. As the story opens, bodachs--animated shadows that gather in anticipation of lethal violence, which only Odd among the living sees--are invading the children''s quarters. Can Odd mitigate the coming cataclysm? Of course he can, despite the arrival of murderous bone creatures and grim Death itself, for the monks include quite a contingent of reformed martial sinners, most memorably Brother Knuckles, formerly of the New Jersey Mob, and another guest, a mysterious Russian librarian from Indianapolis, who is more and different than Odd thinks he is. Koontz salts Odd''s narration with some wonderful zingers at the expense of cultural degeneracy and political folly. A darned good time should be had by all readers.\n <em>\n  Ray Olson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/516');
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(1052, 'Bullet', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The music came back up and the next group of little girls, slightly older, came out. There was a lot of that in the next hour and change. I liked dance, and it was no reflection on the kids, but my will to live began to seep away on about the fifth group of sequined children...   Anita Blake is back in St. Louis and trying to live a normal life-as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a U. S. Marshal. There are lovers, friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all the ordinary happiness a vampire from Anita''s past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, killed in an explosion, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, their dark creator. It''s hard to kill a god. This dark goddess has reached out to her here-in St. Louis, home of everyone Anita loves most. The Mother of All Darkness has decided she has to act now or never, to control Anita, and all the vampires in America.  The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with Anita and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to immigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken. Anita is about to learn a whole new meaning to sharing her body, one that has nothing to do with the bedroom. And if the Mother of All Darkness can''t succeed in taking over Anita''s body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again. Even Belle Morte, not always a friend to Anita, has sent word: "Run if you can..."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/590'),
(1053, 'Bulls Island', 'Dorothea Benton Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n paperback.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2397'),
(1054, 'Bunner Sisters', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In the days when New York''s traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy of Design, an inconspicuous shop with a single show-window was intimately and favourably known to the feminine population of the quarter bordering on Stuyvesant Square. It was a very small shop, in a shabby basement, in a side-street already doomed to decline; and from the miscellaneous display behind the window-pane, and the brevity of the sign surmounting it (merely "Bunner Sisters" in blotchy gold on a black ground) it would have been difficult for the uninitiated to guess the precise nature of the business carried on within. But that was of little consequence, since its fame was so purely local that the customers on whom its existence depended were almost congenitally aware of the exact range of "goods" to be found at Bunner Sisters''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1816'),
(1055, 'The Burden of Proof', 'Scott Turow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Criminal defense lawyer Alejandro "Sandy" Stern copes with his wife''s suicide, his three grown children and a government investigation of his brother-in-law''s successful brokerage house. "Turow develops a complex, satisfying plot, steeped in law and finance, that turns perhaps too often on coincidence but remains utterly faithful to its deeply probed characters," said PW. $200,000 ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Turow''s acclaimed second novel, which topped international bestseller lists, is now available in trade paperback. Sandy Stern, the brilliant defense attorney from\n  <em>\n   Presumed Innocent\n  </em>\n  , faces an event so emotionally shattering that no part of his life is left untouched. It reveals a family caught in a maelstrom of hidden crimes, shocking secrets, and warring passions.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1637'),
(1056, 'Burning Chrome', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ten brilliant, streetwise, high-resolution stories from the man who coined the word\n <em>\n  cyberspace\n </em>\n . Gibson''s vision has become a touchstone in the emerging order of the 21st Century, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of\n <em>\n  Johnny Mnemonic\n </em>\n to the technofetishist blues of\n <em>\n  Burning Chrome\n </em>\n . With their vividly human characters and their remorseless, hot-wired futures, these stories are simultaneously science fiction at its sharpest and instantly recognizable Polaroids of the postmodern condition.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his enthusiastic description of the ''30s and ''40s "moderne" style of industrial design (featured in one of these stories), Gibson might be writing about his own work: "The change was only skin-deep; under the streamlined chrome shell, you''d find the same Victorian mechanism . . . . It was all a stage set, a series of elaborate props for playing at living in the future." That dexterous, shallow artifice has won Gibson awards and fervent fans (especially for his first novel, Neuromancer but beneath it is something old, worn and tired. Thus "Johnny Mnemonic," whose body computer stores secret information, is just a variation of Mr. Memory from The 39 Steps. Gibson''s gangsters, corrupt industrialists, young techies and lowlifes eager to belong to any in-group that will have them, are cliches without conviction. This weak collection of 10 short stories seems to have been rushed out to cash in on Gibson''s current popularity. Paperback rights to Berkley.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/712'),
(1057, 'Burnt Offerings', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Burnt Offerings\n </em>\n is the seventh in Laurell K. Hamilton''s genre-straddling Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Anita carries a gun and an attitude: "Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly. Hard to be threatening when you look ill-informed."\n</p>\n<p>\n As\n <em>\n  Burnt Offerings\n </em>\n unfolds, Anita agrees to help track down a possible psychic firestarter. She''s also policing the local werewolf pack, though she''s split up with their alpha, Richard. Then Jean-Claude, the vampire Master of the City and her lover, needs her help to confront a visiting delegation of the vampires'' ruling council. They wonder how he got the power to destroy a council member and believe him dangerous to the hierarchy.\n</p>\n<p>\n This fast-paced, urban fantasy includes gore, hardboiled mystery and a romantic triangle. The vampires and werewolves are as three-dimensional as the human characters, allowing us to join Anita in wondering who the real monsters are and to understand how her increased personal involvement with them is alienating her from her human colleagues.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n While a pyrokinetic arsonist targets the havens of St. Louis''s legal vampire population, Anita BlakeAthe local expert on supernatural creaturesAfinds herself embroiled in a dangerous and deadly game of undead politics in defense of her lover, the city''s Master Vampire. The sixth installment of Hamilton''s popular "Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter" series exposes the more vulnerable side of its tough-talking, hard-as-nails heroine. Filled with nonstop action, witty dialog, and steamy sex, this title will appeal to fans of Anne Rice and Tanya Huff.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/748'),
(1058, 'Bush at War', 'Bob Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bush at War\n </em>\n focuses on the three months following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, during which the U.S. prepared for war in Afghanistan, took steps toward a preemptive strike against Iraq, intensified homeland defense, and began a well-funded CIA covert war against terrorism around the world. The narrative is classic Woodward: using his inside access to the major players, he offers a nearly day-by-day account of the decision-making processes and power battles behind the headlines. Woodward''s information is based on tape-recorded interviews of over a hundred sources (some unnamed), including four hours of exclusive interviews with the president, along with notes from cabinet meetings and access to some classified reports.\n</p>\n<p>\n Woodward''s analysis of President Bush''s leadership style is especially fascinating. A self-described "gut player" who relies heavily on instinct, Bush comes across as a man of action continually pressing his cabinet for concrete results. The revelation that the president developed and publicly stated the so-called Bush Doctrine--the policy that the U.S. would not only go after terrorists everywhere but also those governments or groups which harbor them--without first consulting Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, or Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is particularly telling. Other principals are examined with equal scrutiny. Though National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice emerges as soft-spoken and even tentative during group meetings, it becomes clear that Bush is dependent on her for candid advice as well as for conveying his thoughts to his cabinet. The relationship between Powell and Rumsfeld (and to a lesser degree Powell and Cheney) is often strained, exposing their differences regarding how to deal with Iraq and whether coalition building or unilateralism is most appropriate. Woodward also describes how CIA director George Tenet prepared a paramilitary team to infiltrate Afghanistan to set the groundwork for invasion, and how this ushered in a new era of cooperation between the defense department and the CIA. A worthwhile and often enlightening read, this is a revealing and informative first draft of the Bush legacy.\n <em>\n  --Shawn Carkonen\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Quoting liberally from transcripts of National Security Council meetings and hundreds of interviews with those in the presidential inner circle, including four hours of interviews with Bush himself, the Washington Post assistant managing editor, best-selling author and Watergate muckraker manages to provide a nonpartisan account of the first 100 days of the post September 11 war on terror. While Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, President Bush and CIA Director George Tenet are impressive, Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz come off as hawkish and reactionary, repeatedly calling for a strike against Iraq in the first days of the conflict while pushing for a more widespread, global war. Woodward does an excellent job of exposing the seat-of-their-pants planning sessions conducted at the highest levels of power and the hectic diplomacy practiced by Powell and Bush in trying to get the air war against Afghanistan off the ground. He also brings to light the divisions among the planners concerning the bombing in Afghanistan, which made little impact until late in the game, when the Taliban lines were finally hit. In addition to recounting the heated arguments about when and how to retaliate against Al Qaeda, Woodward also follows Special Ops agents flown into Afghanistan with millions in payoff money weeks in advance of any other American presence. Living in harsh conditions with little to no support, these "110 CIA officers and 316 Special Forces personnel," in this account, ran the show, and effectively won the war with their intelligence gathering operations. While at times relying a bit too heavily on transcribed conversations, Woodward nonetheless offers one of the first truly insightful and informative accounts of the decision making process in the war on terror. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/142'),
(1059, 'By the Light of the Moon', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€(\n <em>\n  Rolling Stone\n </em>\n ) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique.\n</p>\n<p>\n Author of one\n <em>\n  #1 New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning mysteries and miracles, enthralling tales that speak directly to todayâ€™s readers, balm for the heart and fire for the mind. In this stunning new novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense and brilliant revelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure, chills, riddles, humor, heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a climax that will leave you clamoring for more.\n</p>\n<p>\n Dylan Oâ€™Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. Heâ€™s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious â€œdoctor,â€ injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctorâ€™s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shepâ€™s path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that theyâ€™ll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jillyâ€™s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom theyâ€™re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is thatâ€™s coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place.\n</p>\n<p>\n What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work â€œby the light of the moon.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  By the Light of the Moon\n </strong>\n is a novel of heart-stopping suspense and transcendent beauty, of how evil can destroy us and love can redeem us--a masterwork of the imagination in which the surprises come page after page and the spell of sublime storytelling triumphs throughout.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/495'),
(1060, 'By The Rules', 'Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1836'),
(1061, 'C Is for Corpse', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The corpse in private eye Kinsey Millhone''s third adventure ("A" Is for Alibi and "B" Is for Burglar is that of Bobby Callahan, a young man she first meets while both are working out in a local gym. Bobby is convinced the car crash he''d been injured in was really an attempt on his life and, fearful of another assault, persuades Kinsey to investigate. A few days later, Bobby is indeed killed, and Kinsey stays on the case. She is befriended by Bobby''s wealthy mother, his opportunistic stepfather and druggie, anoretic stepsister. She learns Bobby was having an affair with a friend of his mother''s whose first husband had been killed in a suspicious burglary, and whose second is county pathologist. While the almost hard-boiled Kinsey ferrets out the ugly secrets behind Bobby''s death, she''s also trying to save her elderly landlord from the schemes of the scam-operating senior lady he''s smitten with. Kinsey Millhone is nobody''s fool; she''s also sensitive, funny and very likable. Writing with a light, sure touch, Grafton has produced a fast-moving California story about quirky, believable people.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Exceptionally entertainingâ€¦an offbeat sense of humor and a feisty sense of justice."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  San Francisco\n </em>\n <em>\n  Chronicle\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Millhone is an engaging detective-for-hireâ€¦P.I. Kinsey Millhone and her creatorâ€¦are arguably the best of [the] distaff invaders of the hitherto sacrosanct turf of gumshoes."--\n <em>\n  The\n  <strong>\n   Buffalo\n  </strong>\n  News\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Once a fan reads one of Grafton''s alphabetically titled detective novels, he or she will not rest until all the others are found."--\n <em>\n  Los Angeles\n  <strong>\n   Herald Examiner*\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "Millhone is a refreshingly strong and resourceful female private eye."--\n </em>\n Library Journal*\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tough but compassionateâ€¦There is no one better than Kinsey Millhone."--\n <em>\n  Best Sellers\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A woman we feel we know, a tough cookie with a soft center, a gregarious loner."--\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Lord, how I like this Kinsey Millhoneâ€¦The best detective fiction I have read in years."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Smart, tough, and thoroughâ€¦Kinsey Millhone is a pleasure."--\n <em>\n  The\n  <strong>\n   Bloomsbury\n  </strong>\n  Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kinsey is one of the most persuasive of the new female operativesâ€¦she''s refreshingly free of gender clichÃ©s. Grafton, who is a very witty writer, has also given her sleuth a nice sense of humor--and a set of Wonder Woman sheets to prove it."--\n <em>\n  Boston\n </em>\n <em>\n  Herald\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "What grandpa used to call a class act."--Stanley Ellin\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Smart, sexual, likeable, and a very modern operator."--Dorothy Salisbury Davis\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kinsey''s got brains\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n a sense of humor."--\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/766'),
(1062, 'The Cabinet of Curiosities', 'Douglas Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In nineteenth-century New York, the public flocked to collections of strange and grotesque oddities called ''cabinets of curiosities.'' Now, in lower Manhattan, a modern apartment tower is slated to rise on the site of one of the old cabinets. But when the excavators break into a basement, they uncover a charnel pit of horror - the remains of thirty-six people murdered and gruesomely dismembered over 130 years ago by an unknown serial killer. In the aftermath, Museum archaeologist Nora Kelly is visited by an enigmatic, silver-eyed FBI agent who is obsessed with the mystery of the bodies. Together, Special Agent Pendergast and Nora Kelly embark on an investigation that will take them from the gleaming skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan to the crumbling archives of the Museum, from a mass grave under a Chinatown brownstone to a house of abominations on Riverside Drive. Their search unearths the faint whisper of a mysterious doctor who once roamed the city... a genius who carried out medical experiments on living human beings. But just as Nora and Pendergast begin to unravel the clues to the century-old killings, a fresh spree of murder and surgical mutilation erupts around them... and New York City is awash in terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/203'),
(1063, 'Calculating God', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Creationists rarely find sympathy in the ranks of science fiction authors--or fans, for that matter. And while Robert J. Sawyer doesn''t exactly make peace with evangelicals on the issue,\n  <em>\n   Calculating God\n  </em>\n  has to be one of the more thoughtful and sympathetic SF portrayals you''ll find of religion and intelligent design. But that should come as no surprise from this crafty Canadian: in the Nebula Award-winning\n  <em>\n   Terminal Experiment\n  </em>\n  , Sawyer speculated on what would happen if hard evidence were ever found for the human soul; in\n  <em>\n   Calculating God\n  </em>\n  , he turns science on its head again when earth is invaded by theists from outer space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book starts out like the setup for some punny science fiction joke: An alien walks into a museum and asks if he can see a paleontologist. But the arachnid ET hasn''t come aboard a rowboat with the Pope and Stephen Hawking (although His Holiness does request an audience later). Landing at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the spacefarer (named Hollus) asks to compare notes on mass extinctions with resident dino-scientist Thomas Jericho. A shocked Jericho finds that not only does life exist on other planets, but that every civilization in the galaxy has experienced extinction events at precisely the same time. Armed with that disconcerting information (and a little help from a grand unifying theory), the alien informs Jericho, almost dismissively, that "the primary goal of modern science is to discover why God has behaved as he has and to determine his methods."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Inventive, fast-paced, and alternately funny and touching,\n  <em>\n   Calculating God\n  </em>\n  sneaks in a well-researched survey of evolution science, exobiology, and philosophy amidst the banter between Hollus and Jericho. But the book also proves to be very moving and character-driven SF, as Jericho--in the face of Hollus''s convincing arguments--grapples with his own bitter reasons for not believing in God.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sawyer (Flashforward; Factoring Humanity), a Canadian, is one of contemporary SF''s most consistent performers. His new novel concerns the appearance at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto of a spiderlike alien paleontologist named Hollus. The alien has come to Earth to study the five great extinction events that have hit our planet over the eons, the best known being the asteroid collision that wiped out the dinosaurs. When the museum''s head paleontologist, Tom Jericho, consults with the alien, he is shocked to discover that Hollus has proof that her own planet and that of another alien race suffered a similar series of five catastrophic events at virtually the same times as Earth did. More surprising still to a 21st-century disciple of Darwin like Jericho, both alien races see this synchronicity, along with other scientific evidence, as proof of the existence of God. Much of the novel is relatively cerebral, as Jericho and Hollus argue over the scientific data they''ve gathered in support of God''s existence, but Sawyer excels at developing both protagonists into full-fledged characters, and he adds tension to his story in several ways: Jericho has terminal cancer, which gives him a personal stake in discovering the truth of the alien''s claims, and lurking in the background are a murderous pair of abortion clinic bombers who have decided that the museum''s Burgess Shale exhibition is an abomination that must be destroyed. Finally, there''s the spectacular, if not entirely prepared for, climax in which God manifests in an unexpected manner. This is unusually thoughtful SF. (June) FYI: Sawyer''s The Terminal Experiment won the 1995 Nebula Award for Best Novel.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/213'),
(1064, 'Calibre Quick Start Guide', 'John Schember', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1'),
(1065, 'The Call of the Canyon (Large Print Edition)', 'Zane Grey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  qNext day Carley?s languid attention quickened to the name of Arizona and to the frowning red walls of rock and to the vast rolling stretches of cedar-dotted land.q\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Shellshocked war veteran Glenn Kilbournen, in search of himself in the Arizona wilds, realizes that he can never return to his former superficial life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1553'),
(1066, 'The Call of the Wild and White Fang', 'Jack London &amp; Tina Gianquitto', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Call of the Wild and White Fang\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Jack London\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Â \n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jack London\n </strong>\n â€™s two greatest novels,\n <em>\n  The Call of the Wild\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  White Fang\n </em>\n â€”originally intended as companionsâ€”are here compiled in one volume.\n <em>\n  The Call of the Wild\n </em>\n centers on a domesticated dog, Buck, who is kidnapped and sold to Klondike gold hunters. To survive Buck must listen to the Call and learn the ways of his wolf-ancestors, who guide him from within.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  White Fang\n </em>\n tells the story of a half-wolf, half-dog nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men. Brought to the very brink of his existence, White Fang is lucky enough to experience the one thing that can save himâ€”human love.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Adventurer and activist, philosopher and alcoholic, Jack London was a man of great contradictions and greater talent. Both of these novels are written in a simple, direct, and powerful style that decades of readers have admired and that writers have imitated.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Â \n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tina Gianquitto\n </strong>\n holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Columbia University and currently teaches at The College of the Mines in Colorado.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Call Of The Wild\n </em>\n is the story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrust into the merciless life of the Arctic north to endure hardship, bitter cold, and the savage lawlessness of man and beast.\n <em>\n  White Fang\n </em>\n is the adventure of an animal -- part dog, part wolf --turned vicious by cruel abuse, then transformed by the patience and affection of one man.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jack London''s superb ability as a storyteller and his uncanny understanding of animal and human natures give these tales a striking vitality and power, and have earned him a reputation as a distinguished American writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/437'),
(1067, 'Callaghen', 'Louis L&#39;amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Callaghenâ€™s business is soldiering. For twenty years heâ€™d fought all over the world, from China to the deserts of California; now heâ€™s a private in the U.S. Cavalry, poorly paid, his enlistment about to run out. Heâ€™s ready to move onâ€¦until he comes across a startling discovery: a treasure map belonging to a dead lieutenant who may not have been all that he seemed. The map points the way to an underground river of goldâ€¦or does it? To find out, Callaghen will have to fight the toughest war of his life: against a fierce Indian warrior, a vindictive commanding officer, and a ruthless gang of outlaws whoâ€™ll turn what may be a river of gold into a river of blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1697'),
(1068, 'Can You Keep a Secret?', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Things are suddenly starting to look up for the hapless but optimistic Emma Corrigan. She has kept her job at Panther Cola for nearly a year, has the perfect boyfriend and hopes for a promotion to marketing executive should her first opportunity to strut her stuff and land a business deal be successful. Unfortunately, things don''t go quite as planned, and on her unusually turbulent return flight from a disappointing client meeting, in a terrified state, she confesses her innermost secrets to the good-looking stranger sitting beside her. When she shows up at work the next morning, she is horrified to discover that her mystery man is none other than the revered and brilliant Jack Harper, American CEO of Panther Cola, on a weeklong visit to the company''s U.K. branch. Thus begins a series of chaotic, emotionally exhausting and funny episodes that thrust Emma, with her workaholic best friend, Lissy, and their awful flatmate Jemima, into a world of fairy tales, secrets and deceit. Venturing beyond Saks and Barney''s, the bestselling author of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Ties the Knot entertains readers with backstabbing office shenanigans, competition, scandal, love and sex. The plot is gossamer thin (Jack is keeping secrets of his own) and the lopsided romance not entirely believable, but Kinsella''s down-to-earth protagonist is sure to have readers sympathizing and doubled over in laughter.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author of the Shopaholic trilogy offers up a delightful new novel, filled with her trademark wit and humor. When her plane en route from Glasgow to London experiences horrible turbulence, Emma Corrigan is convinced she is going to die. She babbles all of her most intimate thoughts and secrets to the handsome American man sitting next to her. But the plane lands safely, and Emma bids him an awkward good-bye. When she enters the office on Monday and learns the CEO of the company, Jack Harper, is in for a visit, Emma is horrified to learn Jack is actually the man in whom she confided on the flight. He knows everything, including that she hates her job and that she is not quite sure she loves her boyfriend. But Jack does not fire her on the spot; instead, he quietly replaces the office coffeemaker she hates and gives her advice about her personal life, which she finds infuriating. So why can''t she stop thinking about him? Kinsella has another irresistible hit on her hands.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1197'),
(1069, 'Candide', 'Voltaire &amp; Gita May &amp; Henry Morley &amp; Lauren Walsh', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Candide\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Voltaire\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n One of the finest satires ever written,\n <strong>\n  Voltaire\n </strong>\n â€™s\n <em>\n  Candide\n </em>\n savagely skewers this very â€œoptimisticâ€ approach to life as a shamefully inadequate response to human suffering. The swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved CunÃ©gonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide experiences and witnesses calamity upon calamity, he begins to discover thatâ€”contrary to the teachings of his tutor, Dr. Panglossâ€”all is perhaps not always for the best. After many trials, travails, and incredible reversals of fortune, Candide and his friends finally retire together to a small farm, where they discover that the secret of happiness is simply â€œto cultivate one''s garden,â€ a philosophy that rejects excessive optimism and metaphysical speculation in favor of the most basic pragmatism.\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with wit, intelligence, and an abundance of dark humor,\n <em>\n  Candide\n </em>\n is relentless and unsparing in its attacks upon corruption and hypocrisyâ€”in religion, government, philosophy, science, and even romance. Ultimately, this celebrated work says that it is possible to challenge blind optimism without losing the will to live and pursue a happy life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gita May\n </strong>\n is Professor of French at Columbia University. She has published extensively on the French Enlightenment, eighteenth-century aesthetics, the novel and autobiography, and women in literature, history, and the arts.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Gita May''s Introduction to *Candide\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n During his stay in England and at Cirey Voltaire''s outlook on life was essentially optimistic. In the twenty-fifth and last of his\n <em>\n  Lettres philosophiques\n </em>\n he sternly took Pascal to task for his pessimistic depiction of the human condition, describing him as a "sublime misanthrope"; and in his poem\n <em>\n  Le Mondain\n </em>\n (The Worldly One), published in 1736, he sharply ridiculed the myth of primitive happiness and innocence during the co-called Golden Age, as embodied in the biblical story of Adam and Eve. Conversely, he extolled the Epicurean delights of comfort and luxury brought about by modern civilization. In spite of his controversial reputation, he garnered such high official honors as being elected to the French Academy in 1746. He was still convinced that, on the whole, Newton''s eminently rational laws permitted human beings to accommodate themselves and seek their happiness within this orderly universe, set in motion by a supremely powerful but also benevolent being. And as a deist, he generally also subscribed to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz''s theory that God would not create a universe other than the best of all possible universes, as expounded in his\n <em>\n  Theodicy\n </em>\n (1710).\n</p>\n<p>\n Voltaire''s stay at the court of Frederick II, from 1750 until 1753, turned out to be an unmitigated disaster. Frederick was basically an autocrat, in spite of his much-publicized image as an enlightened "philosopher king." Voltaire''s irrepressible wit and bold irreverence were bound to displease and eventually anger his royal host, and eventually Voltiare had to leave Prussia hurriedly and under humiliating circumstances. After some hesitation as to where to find a safe refuge, he settled down in Geneva in December 1759, when he moved to a property he acquired at nearby Ferney, which would be his retreat for the next nineteen years, until shortly before his death in Paris, on May 30, 1778.\n</p>\n<p>\n Voltaire''s early optimism underwent a profound change under the impact of events in his personal life as well as in reaction to those natural and man-made catastrophes that made him keenly aware of human suffering and misery, not to mention the multiple danger that constantly threaten our very existence, let alone our well-being and chances of achieving happiness. His own disappointments-notably the unexpected loss of Madame du ChÃ¢telet, the unrelenting hostility of the court of Louis XV, the disenchantment with Frederick, and the precariousness of his personal situation-were compounded by his intense and immediate empathy; he spontaneously identified with all victims of calamities, war, injustice, prejudice, and intolerance.\n</p>\n<p>\n The news of the terrible Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755, which claimed tens of thousands of lives, overwhelmed him with dreadful images of women and children buried under the rubble, and inspired his eloquently anguished\n <em>\n  PoÃ¨me sur le dÃ©sastre de Lisbonne\n </em>\n (Poem on the Disaster of Lisbon), published in 1756, in which he clearly signals his rejection of Leibniz''s concept of a rational and well-regulated universe. The protracted and devastating Seven Years War (1756-1763), which began when Frederick invaded Saxony and soon expanded the lingering hostilities between France and England into a European conflagration, also deeply affected Voltaire''s outlook on the human condition.\n</p>\n<p>\n Voltaire began writing philosophical contes (tales) relatively late in his career and almost as an afterthought, for he subscribed to the neoclassical canon and hierarchy of literary genres according to which tragedy in verse and epic poetry gave an author his most reliable passport to posterity and immortality. Novels, short stories, and contes were looked upon suspiciously as upstart genres with no credible aesthetic or even moral pedigree.\n</p>\n<p>\n Voltaire began with the traditional short story or novella, and transformed it into the conte philosophique, or philosophical tale, a fast-moving and highly entertaining story combining multiple adventures and voyages with an underlying philosophical and moral theme, written in a pithy style replete with humor, satire, irony, and sly sexual innuendoes. Indeed, ridicule would be Voltaire''s most effective weapon against his main targets: fanaticism, intolerance, war, and cruelty.\n</p>\n<p>\n One of Voltaire''s early philosophical tales is\n <em>\n  Zadig\n </em>\n , subtitled\n <em>\n  La DestinÃ©e\n </em>\n (Destiny), which appeared in 1747. It is set in the kind of whimsically imaginary and exotic Oriental setting dear to eighteenth-century authors from Montesquieu to Diderot. The uncannily wise, resourceful, and resilient Zadig, whose name derives from the Arabic sadik ("just"), undergoes a number of trials and tribulations, and when faced with disconcerting instances of injustice and suffering, and with the unpredictability and apparent randomness of life in general, anxiously questions and even objects to the notion of a world regulated by a benevolent Providence. But Zadig eventually overcomes adversity and reluctantly submits to the reassuring belief that Providence works in mysterious and unfathomable ways for the ultimately greater good of humanity.\n</p>\n<p>\n While still in Prussia, Voltaire published\n <em>\n  MicromÃ©gas\n </em>\n in 1752. Partially inspired by Swift''s\n <em>\n  Gulliver''s Travels\n </em>\n (1726) and by Cyrano de Bergerac''s two fantastic romances about visits to the moon and sun-\n <em>\n  Autre Monde: ou, Les Estats et empires de la lune\n </em>\n (1657) and\n <em>\n  Les Estats et empires du soleil\n </em>\n (1662)-it is a science-fiction story of fantastic, humorous interplanetary travel that strongly reflects Newton''s cosmology and Locke''s empiricism, and that pointedly resorts to fictional and comic devices in order to fuse science and moral philosophy. In a universe of multiple planets inhabited by creatures of various gigantic dimensions, the remarkable scientific knowledge of the miniscule earthlings is duly acknowledged, but at the same time their basic ignorance in matters of ultimate human values, masked by hubris and pedantry, is pointedly ridiculed and excoriated, especially when viewed from the perspective of two extraterrestrial visitors,\n <em>\n  MicromÃ©gas\n </em>\n , the giant originating from Sirius, and his smaller but still huge traveling companion, whom he had picked up on the planet Saturn in the course of his celestial peregrinations.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Candide\n </em>\n , the hero of the philosophical tale by that name, came into the world in January 1759 unacknowledged by his creator. The work was proposed as a translation "from the German of Doctor Ralph, with the additions found in the Doctor''s pocket when he died at Minden, in the Year of Our Lord 1759." It was customary for Voltaire to deny the paternity of his most potentially controversial writings by mischievously attributing them to imaginary or even real persons to maintain a near total silence about the circumstances and composition of his works of prose fiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Voltaire was hardly an introspective author, and in this, as in so many other respects, he stands at the opposite pole from Jean Jacques Rousseau, who insisted, in full knowledge of the dangers involved, on publicly proclaiming the authorship of all his writings and who in both his\n <em>\n  Confessions\n </em>\n (1781, 1788) and correspondence provides much detailed information on their genesis, publication, and immediate public response, as well as official reaction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Another explanation for Voltaire''s reticence about his philosophical tales is his understandable if mistaken belief that these were relatively inconsequential productions belonging to the much decried and maligned genre of the novel, and that they would not fare well with future readers, especially when considered alongside his far more ambitious and serious works-his tragedies, epic and philosophical poems, and historical essays. Whatever Voltaire''s own motives or thinking about\n <em>\n  Candide\n </em>\n may have been, there is a persistent but erroneous legend that he dashed off by dictation the thirty chapters of the tale in three days. In is of course far more likely that he wrote\n <em>\n  Candide\n </em>\n over a ten-month period in 1758 and completed the manuscript, with final revisions and additions, in the fall of that year.\n</p>\n<p>\n The slender book first came off the presses of the brothers Cramer, publishers in Geneva, in January 1759. It was promptly disseminated and repeatedly republished in Paris and elsewhere. Even though it was swiftly condemned by both French and Swiss authorities, and copies were seized in printing shops in Paris and Geneva, it sold briskly under the counters. No official effort to suppress\n <em>\n  Candide\n </em>\n could prevent it from becoming one of the most sensational forbidden best-sellers of pre-Revolutionary France and indeed Europe. Within a year, there were at least three English translations and one edition in Italian.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1046'),
(1070, 'Cannery Row', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Spanish Language Commentary\n</p>\n<p>\n First published in 1945, John Steinbeckâ€™s classic novel\n <em>\n  Cannery Row\n </em>\n paints a picture of West Coast neighborhood life in the era following the Great Depression. Mack, the leader of a group of local bums, decides that he wants to do something nice for Doc, a marine biologist and neighborhood genius, so he throws Doc a party in his lab. When Doc returns homeÂ—late because he was doing research on the seashoreÂ—the party is already over and his lab has been trashed. Ashamed of the mess theyâ€™ve made, Mack and his friends make another attempt at celebrating Doc, this time with more success. A series of vignettes, introducing other residents such as Lee Chong, the Chinese grocer who extends credit to help Mack with his party, and Dora, the kind-hearted madam of the local brothel, complements the main story and offers a rich panorama of life on Cannery Row.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Publicada por primera vez en 1945, la novela clÃ¡sica de John Steinbeck\n </em>\n Cannery Row\n <em>\n  retrata la vida de un barrio en la Costa O\n </em>\n <em>\n  este en los aÃ±os despuÃ©s de la Gran DepresiÃ³n. Mack, el lÃ­der de un grupo de vagabundos, decide que quiere hacer una buena acciÃ³n a Doc, un biÃ³logo marino y el genio del barrio, asÃ­ que organiza una fiesta para Doc en su laboratorio. Cuando Doc regresa a casaÂ—tarde porque estaba haciendo investigaciÃ³nÂ a la orilla del marÂ—la fiesta ya ha terminado y su laboratorio ha quedado destrozado. Avergonzados por el lÃ­o que han hecho, Mack y sus amigos intentan otra vez agasajar a Doc, esta vez con mÃ¡s Ã©xito. Una serie de viÃ±etas, introduciendo otros residentes como Lee Chong, el tendero chino quien le extiende crÃ©dito a Mack para ayudar con la fiesta, y Dora, la bondadosa madame de un burdel, complementa la historia principal y ofrece una panorama rica de la vida en Cannery Row.\n </em>\n First published in 1945, John Steinbeckâ€™s classic novel Cannery Row paints a picture of West Coast neighborhood life in the era following the Great Depression. Mack, the leader of a group of local bums, decides that he wants to do something nice for Doc, a marine biologist and neighborhood genius, so he throws Doc a party in his lab. When Doc returns homeÂ—late because he was doing research on the seashoreÂ—the party is already over and his lab has been trashed. Ashamed of the mess theyâ€™ve made, Mack and his friends make another attempt at celebrating Doc, this time with more success. A series of vignettes, introducing other residents such as Lee Chong, the Chinese grocer who extends credit to help Mack with his party, and Dora, the kind-hearted madam of the local brothel, complements the main story and offers a rich panorama of life on Cannery Row.Â Publicada por primera vez en 1945, la novela clÃ¡sica de John Steinbeck Cannery Row retrata la vida de un barrio en la Costa Oeste en los aÃ±os despuÃ©s de la Gran DepresiÃ³n. Mack, el lÃ­der de un grupo de vagabundos, decide que quiere hacer una buena acciÃ³n a Doc, un biÃ³logo marino y el genio del barrio, asÃ­ que organiza una fiesta para Doc en su laboratorio. Cuando Doc regresa a casaÂ—tarde porque estaba haciendo investigaciÃ³nÂ a la orilla del marÂ—la fiesta ya ha terminado y su laboratorio ha quedado destrozado. Avergonzados por el lÃ­o que han hecho,...\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Drawing characters based on his memories of real inhabitants of Monterey, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Henri, Mack, and his boys, in a world where only the fittest survive, in a novel that focuses on the acceptance of life as it is--a story at once humorous and poignant.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1063');
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(1071, 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', 'Walter M. Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Walter M. Miller''s acclaimed SF classic\n <em>\n  A Canticle for Leibowitz\n </em>\n opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As\n <em>\n  1984\n </em>\n cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959''s\n <em>\n  A Canticle for Leibowitz\n </em>\n warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funny but bleak\n <em>\n  Canticle\n </em>\n tackles the sociological and religious implications of the cyclical rise and fall of civilization, questioning whether humanity can hope for more than repeating its own history. Divided into three sections--\n <em>\n  Fiat Homo\n </em>\n (Let There Be Man),\n <em>\n  Fiat Lux\n </em>\n (Let There Be Light), and\n <em>\n  Fiat Voluntas Tua\n </em>\n (Thy Will Be Done)--\n <em>\n  Canticle\n </em>\n is steeped in Catholicism and Latin, exploring the fascinating, seemingly capricious process of how and why a person is canonized.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œExtraordinary ... chillingly effective.â€\n <em>\n  â€” Time\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAngry, eloquent ... a terrific story.â€\n <em>\n  â€” The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn extraordinary novel ... Prodigiously imaginative, richly comic, terrifyingly grim, profound both intellectually and morally, and, above all ... simply such a memorable story as to stay with the reader for years.â€\n <em>\n  â€” Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exciting and imaginative story ... Unconditionally recommended.â€\n <em>\n  â€” Library Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/401'),
(1072, 'Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Nathaniel Branden &amp; Alan Greenspan &amp; Robert Hessen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world''s collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In this series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism. Here is a challenging new look at modern society by one of the most provocative intellectuals on the American scene. This edition includes two articles by Ayn Rand which did not appear in the hardcover edition - ''The Wreckage of the Consensus,'' which presents the Objectivists views on Vietnam and the draft; and ''Requiem for Man,'' an answer to the Papal encyclical Progresso Populorum.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1456'),
(1073, 'Captain&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sharp tactical plotting, hazardous cross-country travel and a dash of sardonic humor mark Butcher''s fourth Codex Alera novel (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  Cursor''s Fury\n </em>\n ). Two years into a difficult campaign against the wolflike Canim invaders, Calderon legion captain Tavi is saddled with an unqualified but politically powerful superior whose plans threaten disaster and force Tavi into potential treason. Meanwhile, aging ruler Gaius Sextus plans a final strike against the rebellious lord of Kalare, but to get close enough to act, he must set aside his power to control the elements and make a painful overland slog that neatly challenges genre conventions. Butcher deftly deploys intrigue, conflicted loyalties and hairbreadth action to excellent effect. Few writers balance military realism and cinematic swashbuckling with so much skill or wit. Series fans will welcome the revelation of Tavi''s long-secret heritage and the strong climaxes resolving most of the immediate conflicts, while newcomers will have no trouble navigating the well-developed landscape.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFew writers balance military realism and cinematic swashbuckling with so much skill or wit.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œConfirms Butcherâ€™s mastery of action-filled fiction.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  BOOKLIST\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI couldnâ€™t put this one downâ€¦Great work.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  SF REVU\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA cleverly constructed world.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  CHRONICLE\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJim Butcher is a brilliant world-builder.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/77'),
(1074, 'A Caress of Twilight', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Faerie princess and private detective Meredith Gentry juggles love, sex, intrigue, magic, and more in this witty and sensual novel from Laurell K. Hamilton. Merry has her hands full: she''s desperate to conceive a child and thereby claim the Unseelie throne; she''s the target of intrigue from both the Seelie and Unseelie Courts; her newest client is an exiled goddess with a secret that could get them all killed; and a hideous fey force that alarms even her formidable lover-warriors is loose in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Caress of Twilight\n </em>\n is infused with Hamilton''s characteristic appealing blend of sex, magic, wit, and romantic dilemma. The mystery takes a back seat to the concerns of Faerie power and politics, making the book less balanced, but Merry''s growth in leadership and power, along with a bang-up ending, won''t leave fans disappointed. Readers new to Hamilton might be advised to start with\n <em>\n  A Kiss of Shadows\n </em>\n or the extremely popular Anita Blake series.\n <em>\n  --Roz Genessee\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the second R-rated outing (after 2000''s A Kiss of Shadows) from bestseller Hamilton to feature bright and winsome faery princess Meredith Gentry, the unlikely shamus, who runs an L.A. detective agency with a staff of faery musclemen (plus a pet goblin), seems to spend almost as much time pondering her position in the fey world as attending to her client, glamorous film star Maeve Reed, actually a Seelie goddess, who needs Meredith''s help in getting pregnant. Meredith does what she can for Maeve, although she has troubles enough of her own in the conception game. As one of two possible heirs to the Unseelie throne, the other being her nasty cousin, Prince Cel, Meredith must produce her own child and then, by faery tradition, marry her partner. It isn''t easy, since any father must be kingly material, but our heroine is a game lass, and her failure is not for lack of trying. In an exciting climax, the LAPD Bureau of Human and Fey Affairs summons Meredith to battle a fearsome, crawling, tentacled and slobbering monster, the Nameless, which was too blithely created by opposing faery courts her own, the Unseelie, ruled by her millennium-old aunt, Queen Andais, and the Seelie, ruled by the ruthless and equally ancient King Taranis. More attention to the detective motif might have made the story more fun, but steamy prose and Meredith''s obsessive personal conflicts should keep the faithful turning the pages. (Apr. 2)Forecast: With a 10-city author tour, national print advertising and the success of last year''s Narcissus in Chains and other novels in her Anita Blake vampire series, Hamilton should make another run at the bestseller lists.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/594'),
(1075, 'Carnal Innocence', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Nora Roberts, bestselling author of\n  <strong>\n   The Reef\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Genuine Lies\n  </strong>\n  , mixes scorching passion with icy suspense in her classic novel of murder and infatuation in a southern town--now available in hardcover for the first time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the small town of Innocence, Mississippi, days are long, nights are fragrant, and secrets are hard to keep. But when a brutal killer starts claiming the lives of the town''s most attractive women, lifelong neighbors are forced to wonder if the culprit is a stranger lurking in the bayou...or someone right next door.\n </p>\n <p>\n  World-famous concert violinist Caroline Waverly knows nothing of the murders when she arrives in Innocence. Burned out from a childhood lost to endless rehearsals and an all-too-public breakup with the conductor who was her lover, Caroline is looking for a little peace and some time to think. She hopes that a stay at her late grandmother''s house--the one with a covered porch just made for soft summer nights--will provide the tranquillity she needs. But Innocence has something else to offer Caroline: a man named Tucker Longstreet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Blessed with the Longstreet good looks, lazy charm, and family fortune, Tucker is a tall, cool drink of water--and he knows it. He likes to keep his romances short and shallow. But one look at Caroline, and Tucker realizes that she is unlike any other woman he''s met. Tightly coiled and coolly reserved, Caroline is determined to fight him off. She might be able to do a better job if she hadn''t felt an unexpected thrill at his ardent advances...and if she hadn''t been so scared after finding a third murder victim in the murky waters behind her home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Caroline Waverly, a beautiful summer interlude could turn into much more--or could stir a killer''s crazed dreams. Because there''s just one small problem with her new romance: Tucker is the leading suspect in the killings.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  A weary concert violinist, unable to endure one more grueling tour, looks forward to relaxing in Innocence, Mississippi, at her grandmother''s secluded old bayou home. But the sleepy bliss is shattered formever one steamy summer night when a single spark ignites a deadly crime of passion. Original.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1708'),
(1076, 'The Carnivorous Carnival', 'Lemony Snicket &amp; Brett Helquist &amp; Michael Kupperman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the ninth title in Lemony Snicket''s A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Carnivorous Carnival, the Baudelaire siblings are falsely accused of murder. On the run from Count Olaf (the real killer), the three disguise themselves in Madame Lulu''s House of Freaks; Violet and Klaus masquerade as the two-headed Beverly/Elliot; Sunny poses as Chabo the Wolf Baby. Ages 10-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-7-This installment in the woeful tale of the unlucky Baudelaire orphans takes them (via the trunk of Count Olaf''s car, unbeknownst to him) to the Caligari Carnival in the middle of the hinterlands. Madame Lulu has used her crystal ball in the past to help him find the children after their narrow escapes, but this time he also wants her to discern the truth about whether or not either of their parents is still alive. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny disguise themselves as freaks so that they can stay at the carnival and hopefully get to the crystal ball before the Count does. They suffer the indignation of performing in their new roles, face off a bloodthirsty mob, and escape from a pit of hungry lions. New and deviously entertaining characters are added to the cast, including Kevin the ambidextrous man, Colette the contortionist, and Hugo the hunchback. The humor is as sharp as ever, the suspense will keep readers at the edge of their seats, and the cliff-hanger ending will make them eagerly await the next episode.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Heather Dieffenbach, Lexington Public Library, KY\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/126'),
(1077, 'Carpe Jugulum', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Carpe Jugulum\n </em>\n is the 23rd Discworld novel, and with it this durable series continues its juggernaut procession onward. Pratchett is an author who inspires such devotions that his fans will fall on the novel with cries of joy. Nonfans, perhaps, will want to know what all the fuss is about; and that''s something difficult to put into a few words. The best thing to do for those completely new to Pratchett is to sample him for themselves, and this novel is as good a place to start as any. But fans have a more precise question. They know that Discworld novels come in one of two varieties: the quite good and the brilliant. So, for instance, where\n <em>\n  Hogfather\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Maskerade\n </em>\n were quite good,\n <em>\n  Feet of Clay\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Jingo\n </em>\n were brilliant. While true fans wouldn''t want to do without the former, they absolutely live for the latter. And with\n <em>\n  Carpe Jugulum\n </em>\n , Pratchett has hit the jackpot again. This novel is one of the brilliant ones.\n</p>\n<p>\n The plot is a version of an earlier Discworld novel,\n <em>\n  Lords and Ladies\n </em>\n , with the predatory elves of that novel being replaced here by suave and deadly vampires, and the tiny kingdom of Lancre being defended by its witches. But plot is the least of Pratchett''s appeal, and\n <em>\n  Carpe Jugulum\n </em>\n is loaded with marvelous characters (not least the witches themselves, about whom we learn a deal more), comic touches and scenes of genius, and even some of the renowned down-to-earth Pratchett wisdom (about the inner ethical conflicts we all face and the wrongness of treating people as things). Pratchett''s vampires are elegant Bela Lugosi types, and they come up against an unlikely but engaging alliance of witches; blue-skinned pixies like Rob Roy Smurfs; a doubting priest with a boil on his face; and a magical house-size Phoenix in a seamless, completely absorbing, and feel-good-about-the-universe mixture. Highly recommended.\n <em>\n  --Adam Roberts, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carpe JugulumAseize the throatAis the motto of the family of "vampyres" who attempt a hospitable takeover of the kingdom of Lancre in Pratchett''s 23rd Discworld novel. When the goodhearted king invited the Magpyrs to celebrate the birth of his daughter, he couldn''t know that these modern bloodsuckers would have no intention of leaving. By controlling everyone''s mind, they try to turn Lancre into a sort of farm, and no one can think straight enough to stop them. That is, until the vampyres meet up with the local witches: Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick and Agnes Nitt (who is literally of two minds about everything). The perplexing skirmishes that ensue will leave readers shaking their heads in hearty dismay even as they groan at the puns and explanatory notes that pepper the tale. Death (scythe and all) and Igor (of Frankenstein film fame) provide the best gags. The novel exudes the curious feel of old-fashioned vampire and Frankenstein legendsAfull of holy water, religious symbols, stakes through the heart, angry mobs, bad pronunciation and garlic. The vampyres, however, have risen above these clich?s even if their servant, Igor, still has a taste for dribbly candles and squeaky hinges. Pratchett lampoons everything from Christian superstition to Swiss Army knives here, proving that the fantasy satire of Discworld "still ate''nt dead."\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/352'),
(1078, 'Carrie', 'Stephen King &amp; Wouk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Why read\n <em>\n  Carrie\n </em>\n ? Stephen King himself has said that he finds his early work "raw," and Brian De Palma''s movie was so successful that we\n <em>\n  feel\n </em>\n like we have read the novel even if we never have. The simple answer is that this is a very scary story, one that works as well--if not better--on the page as on the screen. Carrie White, menaced by bullies at school and her religious nut of a mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, powers that will eventually be turned on her tormentors. King has a way of getting under the skin of his readers by creating an utterly believable world that throbs with menace before finally exploding. He builds the tension in this early work by piecing together extracts from newspaper reports, journals, and scientific papers, as well as more traditional first- and third-person narrative in order to reveal what lurks beneath the surface of Chamberlain, Maine.\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  News item from the Westover (ME) weekly\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  , August 19, 1966: "Rain of Stones Reported: It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town of Chamberlain on August 17th."\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Although the supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with King''s customary aplomb, it is the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high schools, and adolescent sexuality that give this novel its power, and assures its place in the King canon.\n <em>\n  --Simon Leake\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n Eerie and haunting --sheer terror!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/492'),
(1079, 'Carrion Comfort', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The second novel by World Fantasy Award-winner Simmons ( The Song of Kali ) is a 636-page epic that draws on a variety of genres--horror, science fiction, political thriller, Hollywood roman a clef. It centers around a small number of "mind vampires" who can subjugate other people to their wills, read their minds, experience through their senses. The immensely powerful vampires use others, often bloodily, and often in frivolous "games" (hunting human prey, chess games with human pieces, and so on). Opposing them are Saul Laski, a psychologist and concentration-camp survivor, who is devoted to tracking down the Nazi vampire von Borchert; Natalie Preston, whose father inadvertently and fatally crossed the path of a pawn of the ancient, dotty vampire Melanie Fuller; Sheriff Bobby Joe Gentry, dragged in while investigating the multiple murders that marked the departure of Melanie Fuller from Charleston; and a host of other normals and vampires whose lives impinge on those of the principals. While he could profitably have trimmed the novel by a third, Simmons has produced, overall, a compelling thriller.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œCARRION COMFORT is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that.â€ --\n <strong>\n  Stephen King\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, CARRION COMFORT spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever.Â  A true classic." --\n <strong>\n  Guillermo del Toro\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "CARRION COMFORT\n <em>\n </em>\n is one of the scariest books ever written.Â  Whenever I get the question asked\n <em>\n  Who''s your favorite author?\n </em>\n my answer is always Dan Simmons." --\n <strong>\n  James Rollins\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the few major reinventions of the vampire concept, on a par with Jack Finneyâ€™s\n <em>\n  Invasion of the Body Snatchers\n </em>\n , Richard Mathesonâ€™s\n <em>\n  I Am Legend\n </em>\n , and Stephen Kingâ€™s\n <em>\n  Salemâ€™s Lot\n </em>\n . --\n <strong>\n  David Morrell\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n THE PAST...Â  Caught behind the lines of Hitlerâ€™s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp.Â  Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Naziâ€™s themselvesâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n THE PRESENT...Â  Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for SaulÂ will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkestÂ corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret societyÂ of beings who may oftenÂ existÂ behind the world''s most horrible and violent events.Â  Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to ''use'' humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression.Â  EachÂ year, three of the most powerful of thisÂ hiddenÂ orderÂ meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction.Â  But thisÂ reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Saulâ€™s quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankindâ€™s attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itselfâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/252'),
(1080, 'Cash: The Autobiography', 'Johnny Cash &amp; Patrick Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The personal story of an American icon â€“ Johnny Cashâ€“in his own words.\n</p>\n<p>\n He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, the "quintessential American troubadour." He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as never before. In his unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash tells the truth about the highs and lows, the struggles and hardâ€“won triumphs, and the people who shaped him.\n</p>\n<p>\n In his own words, Cash set the record straight â€“and dispelled a few myths â€“ as he looked unsparingly at his remarkable life: from the joys of his boyhood in Dyess, Arkansas to superstardom in Nashville, Tennessee, the road of Johnny''s life has been anything but smooth. Cash writes of the thrill of playing with Elvis, the comfort of praying with Billy Graham; of his battles with addiction and of the devotion of his wife June; of his gratitude for life, and of his thoughts on what the afterlife may bring. Here, too, are the friends of a lifetime, including Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Kris Kristofferson. As powerful and memorable as one of his classics songs, Cash is filled with the candor, wit, and wisdom of a man who truly "walked the line."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1365'),
(1081, 'The Castaways', 'Elin Hilderbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  One couple''s secrets cast six friends adrift...\n </p>\n <p>\n  With rumors of infidelity straining Greg and Tess MacAvoy''s marriage, the couple head out on their sailboat one early-summer day to celebrate their wedding anniversay, hoping the roughest waters are behind them. But in an accident off Nantucket, they mysteriously drown, leaving behind two small children as well as the three couples who have long been their closest friends.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tragedy brings to the surface long-simmering conflicts and emotions, and the MacAvoys'' six grieving friends find themselves unprepared for the revelation of secret upon secret as they struggle to answer the question:\n  <strong>\n   What happened to Greg and Tess?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Castaways\n  </strong>\n  probes the boundaries of friendship and forgiveness as it tells a page-turning story of passion, betrayal, and suspense, filled with the perfect details of summer island life that have made Elin Hilderbrand''s novels beloved bestsellers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Washington Post - Kristi Lanier:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite all the melodrama,\n  <em>\n   The Castaways\n  </em>\n  is a sensitive portrayal of the complexities of friendship. Hilderbrand''s characters illustrate the alliances, insecurities and joys that color adult relationships. But it''s also a cautionary tale about hanging out with the same people all the time. This group excels at narcissism, bickering and drinking themselves silly. Still, when it''s done well, as it is here, reading about other people''s problems is ever so satisfying.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elin Hilderbrand lives on Nantucket with her husband and their three young children. She grew up in Collegeville, PA, and traveled extensively before settling on Nantucket, which has been the setting for her seven previous novels. Hilderbrand is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the graduate fiction workshop at the University of Iowa.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2462'),
(1082, 'Castle of Wizardry', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Absorbing. Touches all the right Fantasy bases. Warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures, and appealingly human magicians." --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight." --\n <em>\n  Piers Anthony\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fabulous! Eddings has a marvelous storyteller style. Exceedingly well portrayed." --\n <em>\n  Anne McCaffrey\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n END OF THE QUEST\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide. After that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion--and for the little princess Ce''Nedra.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad,Â Â begun in Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, and Magician''s Gambit--a fantasy set against a background of the war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years--a novel of fate, strange lands, and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!Â Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1285'),
(1083, 'Cat &amp; Mouse', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n That monstrous villain Gary Soneji is back in\n <em>\n  Cat &amp; Mouse\n </em>\n , the fourth book in James Patterson''s series about Alex Cross, a police forensic psychologist, but he''s not alone. In seeming support of the premise that you can never have too much of a bad thing, Patterson has thrown a second serial killer into the mix: Mr. Smith, a mysterious killer terrorizing Europe while Soneji practices his own brand of evil along the Eastern Seaboard. With\n <em>\n  two\n </em>\n killers to track, Cross has his hands full--and Patterson has another hit.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Patterson''s Alex Cross series will be delighted with this latest installment. Reappearing is Christine Johnson, seen in an earlier Cross novel, Jack &amp; Jill (LJ 8/96) and the principal at his children''s school, and Cross has fallen in love with her. Gary Soneji, the creepy kidnapper and murderer from another Cross book, has broken out of jail and embarked on a new killing spree, again taunting Cross that he can''t stop him. And one of his intended targets is Cross and his family. If that isn''t enough, there''s a new serial killer whose murders are so inhuman that the news media are suggesting that he''s an alien from another planet. All story lines connect in this thriller, whose driving plot will distract you from thinking about its implausibilities and keep you turning pages to the last, when you''ll find yourself impatiently awaiting the arrival of the next Cross novel. Recommended for public libraries.?Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/348'),
(1084, 'The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jim Qwilleran is not exactly thrilled by his new assignment for the Daily Fluxion--a weekly magazine on interior design. But Qwilleran finds himself on familiar territory when a murder is committed, and he and Koko, the brilliant Siamese, take the case. Reissue.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lilian Jackson Braun composed her first poem at the age of two. She began writing her Cat Who... detective series when one of her own Siamese cats mysteriously fell to its death from her apartment block. Since then over twenty Cat Who... novels have been published, all featuring the very talented Koko and Yum Yum, Siamese cats with a bent for detection. She and her husband, Earl, live in the mountains of North Carolina.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1670'),
(1085, 'The Cat Who Blew the Whistle', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Best of series, this 17th The Cat Who caper slyly creeps up on the reader. The newest delight in Moose County, "400 miles north of everywhere," is a railroad buff''s refurbished locomotive, which is making its debut run. Floyd Trevelyan, the train owner, disappears just as the state closes down the credit union associated with his business. While others believe the man has decamped with investors'' money, newspaper columnist Jim Qwilleran doesn''t believe Trevelyan would abandon his railroad project. He persuades his friend and sleuthing cohort Celia, recently moved to Pickax City from Chicago, to go undercover to find the missing businessman. Meanwhile, librarian Polly Duncan, with whom Qwill has had a long-standing relationship, is becoming distraught about the house she is building nearby. After a carpenter on the project is stabbed in a barroom brawl and the contractor, Trevelyan''s son, is seriously injured on the job, Qwill begins to fear for Polly''s health. Qwill''s Siamese cat, Koko, plays a central role in solving these puzzles as Qwill struggles equally to interpret the cat''s hints and cope with those problems complicating his personal life. Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cat mystery lovers beware! Pickax''s Qwilleran and Koko have returned for a go at catching a train fancier who has embezzled millions from Moose County investors. Another best seller from the prolific Braun.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1673'),
(1086, 'The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal', 'Lilian Jackson Braun &amp; Nye', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Qwill, Koko, and Yum Yum return for another adventure "400 miles north of everywhere" in the twentieth episode of the extraordinary popular Cat Who ..Series\n </p>\n <p>\n  Back in Pickax, Jim Qwilleran expects to resume a quite life, but the people and animals of Pickax have other ideas. A noisy cardinal wakes him every morning Nosy neighbors drop by uninvited and the Siamese misbehave, even sneezing on guest. As if they weren''t bad enough, Qwill''s long-time companion acts as though she is in love - with another man. But worst of all, Qwill finds a body in his apple orchard. When Qwill''s friend becomes the chief suspect, he embarks on a crusade to clear Dennis Hough''s name and win back Polly Duncan''s heart. Even Koko sniffs out a few clues. But will their efforts be too little too late? Not even Koko knows for sure in the quirky, engaging romp through Moose County.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Trouble literally lands in Jim Qwilleran''s own backyard when the local theatre''s universally disliked director is found dead in Qwilleran''s apple orchard. Qwilleran and his two feline detectives search for an actor who is playing the part of a killer. "Some of the most witty original fare in the genre."--New York Daily News.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1674'),
(1087, 'The Cat Who Lived High', 'Lilian Jackson Braun &amp; Melville', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With this 11th entry, the popular Cat Who series ( The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts ) begins to flag, its charms growing tatty and listless for even the most steadfast cat-and-mystery lovers. Ex-newspaperman James "Qwill" Qwilleran and his Siamese Koko and Yum Yum leave Moose County for the big city Down Below to help old friends save the Casablanca, an aging and elegant apartment building threatened with demolition to make way for profitable development. Qwill decides to spend the winter in the Casablanca to determine if it might make a project for the philanthropic Klingenschoen Fund, which he controls. Ensconced in a 14th-floor penthouse, he discovers that its previous tenant, Dianne Bessinger, head of the group trying to save the building, was an art dealer ostensibly murdered by a jealous protegeok . Qwill also plays Scrabble with the building''s owner, the eccentric and reclusive Countess; he teaches the game to Koko, who thereby provides him with clues in his investigation of the murder, which he suspects is tied to attempts against the Casablanca. Braun''s latest pleases with its descriptions of gentrification and development, but the book ends abruptly, leaving too many loose ends, and central characters Koko and Yum Yum develop no further at all.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- They''re back--the noble Koko, the charmer YumYum--and their wealthy retired owner, Quill. Here, the benevolent benefactor of Moose County packs the Purple Plum--his small, energy-efficient car--with the two inquisitive and endearing Siamese and leaves his cozy home for the winter. This newest addition to the series is a delight that will enchant long-time followers of the irresistible trio as well as first-time readers.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1676'),
(1088, 'The Cat Who Played Brahms', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Is it just a cas of summertime blues or a full-blown career crisis? Newspaper reporter Jim Qwilleran isn''t sure, but he''s hoping a few days in the country will help him sort out his life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With cats Koko and Yum Yum for company, Qwilleran heads for a cabin owned by a longtime family friend, "Aunt Fanny." But from the moment he arrives, things turn strange. Eerie footsteps cross the roof at midnight. Local townsfolk become oddly secretive. And then, while fishing, Qwilleran hooks on to a murder mystery. Soon Qwilleran enters into a game of cat and mouse with the killer, while Koko develops a sudden and uncanny fondness for classical music...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1677'),
(1089, 'The Cat Who Played Post Office', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  An unexpected inheritance throws reporter Jim Qwilleran into the limelight of the rich and famous--until a missing maid and a shocking murder show him the unsavory side of the upper crust. But it''s his Siamese Koko''s propensity for clues that leads the roving reporter to some unlikely suspects.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  An unexpected inheritance throws reporter Jim Qwilleran into the limelight of the rich and famous--until a missing maid and a shocking murder show him the unsavory side of the upper crust. But it''s his Siamese Koko''s propensity for clues that leads the roving reporter to some unlikely suspects. Original.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1680'),
(1090, 'The Cat Who Said Cheese', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s autumn in the little town of Pickax, Moose County, and the citizens are preparing for a new event: the Great Food Explo. A philanthropic creation of the Klingenschoen Foundation (a.k.a. Jack Qwilleran), the Explo was arranged to bring new restaurants, inns, and food specialty shops to the area. The great event is only a week away when a bomb goes off in the only hotel in town, killing a housekeeper. Luckily for Pickax, Qwilleran and his two sleuthing felines, Koko and Yum Yum, are on the case. Thrown into the melee are several new characters, including a mysterious woman, a gentle beekeeper, and the woman who wins a date with Qwilleran at a celebrity auction--although cheese seems to be the main character. Find out what''s going on in Moose County and read about some delicious tidbits while you''re at it!\n  <em>\n   --Jhana Bach\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the best in the 19-title Cat Who . . . series (one of which is a short-story collection), this latest adventure finds newspaper columnist Jim Qwilleran more likable and his feline sleuthing partners, Siamese Yum Yum and Koko, more intuitive than ever. The small town of Pickax City is about to celebrate the Great Food Expo when a stranger moves into the community''s dismal, but only, hotel. Both events engage even the reticent Qwill, as townsfolk get ready for restaurant openings and a pastry bake-off while trying to find out more about the mysterious woman. Qwill gets the jump on everyone when he runs into the woman at his summer cabin, but before he can learn much about her, a bomb explodes in her hotel room while she is out and kills one of the staff. When the woman then vanishes, Qwill suspects she is a fugitive fearing for her life. While the police investigate, attention is redirected toward the Food Expo, in which Qwill participates as both food judge and bachelor auction prize. But the hotel bombing and the mysterious woman are never far from his thoughts, nor from the inspired cogitations of Koko, who neatly untangles a web of eccentric characters and mistaken identities. Mystery Guild and Readers Digest Condensed Book selection; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1681'),
(1091, 'The Cat Who Sniffed Glue', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this tame, nonmysterious mystery, bucolic Pickax City, in Moose County ("400 miles north of everywhere") is first disrupted by vandalism, then by murder. When Harley Fitch, vice-president of the Pickax Bank, and his wife, Belle, are found shot to death, police chief Brodie, a bagpipe-playing Scotsman, thinks that vandals, from neighboring, low-class Chipmonk are responsible. After three of the suspects die in a car accident, the case is effectively closed. But Jim Qwilleran ("former journalist, now heir to the Klingenschoen fortunea big man about 50, with graying hair, bushy moustache and doleful expression") doesn''t agree. Involved though he is in starting up a newspaper, juggling several platonic romances, redecorating his house and spoiling his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, he finds time to snoop around. He doesn''t discover anything, except for the spotted pasts of the deceased. Eventually, the killer attacks Qwilleran and his identity is made known; there are no clues, no logical way for the reader to figure out whodunit. The author''s device of introducing every scene with stage directions, and her reliance on stereotypical characters, may bore even the readers who find Koko and Yum Yum as irresistible as Braun ( The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare , The Cat Who Played Post Office ) does. Mystery Guild featured alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It looks like robbery gone awry to the police. But then Koko develops an oddappetite for glue, and he and Qwilleran become entangled in a web of love anddanger in their stickiest case yet! "The mix of crime and cats (is) catnip toreaders who like both!"--Chicago Sun-Times. HC: Putnam.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1683'),
(1092, 'The Cat Who Tailed a Thief', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lillian Jackson Braun never seems to run out of ideas for her popular series of mysteries featuring journalist Jim Qwilleran and his feline cohort, Koko. In this latest,\n  <em>\n   The Cat Who Tailed A Thief\n  </em>\n  , Koko again exhibits his preternatural intelligence by trying to tip off Qwilleran to important clues to a murder. That Qwilleran is not possessed of the same mental acuity as his cat is what makes this series work. Braun may not be noted for refined prose, perceptive characterizations, or stunningly original plots, but what she does do well is cats. Fans of felines in general and Koko in particular will find this book, the 19th in the Qwilleran series, almost as irresistible as, well, catnip. Some would even say it''s purr-fect.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Nothing is sacred in this latest installment of the trials and tribulations of life in Moose County, "400 miles north of everywhere," as locals face a green Christmas, an outbreak of petty larceny and a tacky new resident. As the holidays approach, someone has taken to stealing small articles of apparently little value?gloves, sunglasses, a bag of old clothes, an antique doll. But these seem minor distractions from larger matters, like the new banker, Willard Carmichael, and his wife, Danielle, a flashy young woman with big hair who teeters on spiked heels as she flirts with an uncooperative newspaper columnist, Qwilleran, seen last in The Cat Who Said Cheese (1996). Willard fits right in, devoting himself to restoring Pleasant Street''s Victorian homes with the help of Danielle''s cousin, Carter Lee James, a preservation consultant. Just after Christmas, Willard is killed in a mugging in Detroit; then a local boy is arrested for the petty thefts and an old friend becomes engaged to James, all events that raise Qwill''s suspicions and inspire strange behavior in his sleuthing cats, Koko and Yum Yum. Cranky and sometimes acerbic, Qwill fights off the sentimentality of the season while investigating the world of historically correct renovations. By springtime, with the help of Koko in particular, he brings a murderer and thief to justice in an accomplished mystery that is as smooth as the season''s first snowfall. Mystery Guild and Readers Digest Condensed Book selection; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1684'),
(1093, 'The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jackson''s 10th entry in the series featuring middle-aged, curmudgeonly reporter Jim Qwilleran pits the independently wealthy citizen of the remote town of Pickax City against malevolent spirits, of either this world or another. Iris Cobb, the resident-curator of the local historical museum, tells Qwill she''s hearing ghosts; after she dies of what the coroner says is a heart attack, Qwill and his Siamese cats, Yum Yum and the psychic zany Koko, move in to find out what could have scared her to death. Unearthing old and well-kept secrets in Moose County family histories, Qwill also investigates some newcomers to the area, notably the museum''s neighbors down the road at Fugtree Farm, and the deceased''s son whose inheritance is considerable. Fans of earlier The Cat Who . . . stories may welcome Qwill''s return along with other Pickax regulars such as librarian Polly Duncan and Arch Riker, editor of the weekly Moose County Something , but as a mystery, this busy, superficial and weakly plotted tale is as unsubstantial as any ghost and much less haunting. Mystery Guild selection; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Veteran reporter Jim Qwilleran tackles the supernatural in the latest entry in Lilian Jackson Braun''s Edgar Award-nominated series. Are ghosts really haunting the Goodwinter farmhouse museum? Qwill doesn''t think so--not until he finds Iris Cobb literally scared to death on the floor of the farmhouse.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1686'),
(1094, 'The Cat Who Turned on and Off', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The team of Koko, the brilliant Siamese cat, and Qwilleran, the reporter with the perceptive moustache, is back in action -- with an adorable female Siamese, Yum Yum, added to the household.When Qwilleran decides to do a feature series on Junktown, he gets more than he bargained for. Not the dope den he anticipated, Junktown is a haven for antique dealers and collectors -- as strange a lot as the crafty reporter has ever encountered. When a mysterious fall ends the career -- and the life -- of one of Junktown''s leading citizens, Qwilleran is convinced it was no accident. But, as usual, it takes Koko to prove he''s right.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1689');
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(1095, 'The Cat Who Wasn&#39;t There', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Pickax City columnist and wealthy bachelor Jim Qwilleran travels to Scotland, leaving his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum at home, in one of the most lively recent entries in Braun''s popular "The Cat Who . . . " series. Also on the Bonnie Scots Tour are Qwill''s current woman friend, Polly Duncan, the Moose County librarian; and his recently returned former girlfriend, Dr. Melinda Goodwinter, who proposes marriage. Tour leader Irma Hasselrich (a friend of Polly''s and a patient of Melinda''s) dies of apparently natural causes; then a jewel case and the tour-bus driver disappear. Qwill, Polly and Melinda decamp the tour early; back in Pickax City, listening to tape recordings he made along the way--and to Koko''s intuitive yowls--Qwill begins to suspect that Irma was murdered. Convincing others, however, takes time and an investigation. Although the cats play a smaller role in this installment than in previous ones, Braun''s descriptions of Scottish lore and the complications of Qwill''s love life will enchant fans. Mystery Guild selection; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates; audio rights to Dove.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The 15th outing for Pickax City newspaper pundit and zillionaire Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese housemates, Koko and Yum Yum, travels from Moose County to Hibernia and back again as it dwells on Qwill''s Scottish ancestry; the identity of the prowler sniffing around his lover, Polly the librarian; and the attempts of his former lover, Melinda, to rekindle their romance (with dire results) while on a Highland Tour with them and 13 other Pickax friends. The friends include the teddy-bear-collecting Chisholm sisters; cranky, outspoken Amanda Goodwinter (who ``drank a little''''); several stalwarts of Pickax''s little theater group; and pushy tour-guide Irma Hasselrich, who disrupts everyone''s holiday by dying in bed--from unnatural causes. Nice scenery, interesting historical tidbits, and far-fetched- -in fact, farcical--motivation for murder, but die-hards and readers new to the series will have a rare glimpse of Qwill and Koko behaving most ungentlemanly-like toward the ladies. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1690'),
(1096, 'The Cat Who Went Into the Closet', 'Lilian Jackson Braun', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Newspaperman, philanthropist and sleuth Jim Qwilleran leads a busy life in tiny Pickax City (pop. 3,000), but it is his prescient cats who beguile the reader in this lively mystery, the 16th in the Cat Who. . . series. Qwilleran is renting a huge but empty mansion from Junior Goodwinter, his managing editor, who inherited the white elephant from his feisty 88-year-old grandmother Euphonia Gage when she went to live in a Florida retirement community. When Euphonia is found dead, apparently a suicide, Junior is perplexed. He is still more confounded when her new will suggests that Grandma has gambled away her millions at the racetrack. The death of a local man whose wife was Euphonia''s housekeeper raises the suspicions of the already skeptical Qwilleran. He sets up a sting operation with a lively Florida retiree, but his two best operatives are his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum. Qwilleran, who can be gloomy, peevish, vain and demanding, is never dull. Other industrious inhabitants of Pickax City (an editor, a waitress, a dog trainer) are comparably unique and have enough sharp edges to avoid being cute. Of course, the cats get all the best lines. Mystery Guild selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After reporter Jim Qwilleran rents a Florida mansion, Siamese cat Koko drags items from several closets that provide clues to the suspicious death of the mansion''s elderly and eccentric owner. Meanwhile, a local missing potato farmer with remote ties to the old woman turns up dead. Moose County''s quaint characters and events provide yet again delightful diversion for Qwilleran and reader alike.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1691'),
(1097, 'Catch Me if You Can', 'Frank W. Abagnale &amp; Stan Redding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When this true-crime story first appeared in 1980, it made the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller list within weeks. Two decades later, it''s being rereleased in conjunction with a film version produced by DreamWorks. In the space of five years, Frank Abagnale passed $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in every state and 26 foreign countries. He did it by pioneering implausible and brazen scams, such as impersonating a Pan Am pilot (puddle jumping around the world in the cockpit, even taking over the controls). He also played the role of a pediatrician and faked his way into the position of temporary resident supervisor at a hospital in Georgia. Posing as a lawyer, he conned his way into a position in a state attorney general''s office, and he taught a semester of college-level sociology with a purloined degree from Columbia University.\n</p>\n<p>\n The kicker is, he was actually a teenage high school dropout. Now an authority on counterfeiting and secure documents, Abagnale tells of his years of impersonations, swindles, and felonies with humor and the kind of confidence that enabled him to pull off his poseur performances. "Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues," he writes. In fact, he did it all for his overactive libido--he needed money and status to woo the girls. He also loved a challenge and the ego boost that came with playing important men. What''s not disclosed in this highly engaging tale is that Abagnale was released from prison after five years on the condition that he help the government write fraud-prevention programs. So, if you''re planning to pick up some tips from this highly detailed manifesto on paperhanging, be warned: this master has already foiled you.\n <em>\n  --Lesley Reed\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A book that captivates from first page to last."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  West Coast Review of Books\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Whatever the reader may think of his crimes, the reader will wind up chortling with and cheering along the criminal."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Charlottesville Progress\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Zingingly told...Â Â richly detailed and winning as the devil."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3'),
(1098, 'Catch-22', 'Joseph Heller &amp; Christopher Buckley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n There was a time when reading Joseph Heller''s classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it''s impossible not to consider\n <em>\n  Catch-22\n </em>\n to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel''s undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller''s characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yossarian says, "You''re talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."\n <br />\n "Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"\n <br />\n "To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn''t make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who''s dead."\n <br />\n "I can''t think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."\n <br />\n "The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who''s going to get you killed, no matter which side he''s on."\n <br />\n Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It''s a good thing, too. As long as there''s a military, that engine of lethal authority,\n <em>\n  Catch-22\n </em>\n will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It''s an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n It would be difficult to imagine richer material for an audiobook reader, comedically speaking, than Joseph Heller''s classic novel of wartime madness. Sanders is the lucky actor chosen to read Heller''s masterpiece, and he does well by it, proceeding gamely through the novel''s staggering array of comic set pieces and deliriously woozy dialogue. Heller''s humor is straight-faced, requiring little more than a steady, sure voice, and Sanders offers just that. Line by line, joke by joke, Sanders reels through the marvelous phantasmagoria of Heller''s World War II, tongue planted firmly in cheek. Caedmon''s impressive package includes a 1970s-era recording of Heller reading selections from his book. Heller is a delightful contrast to Sanders, his slight lisp accentuating a marvelous Brooklyn accent. Heller reads as if with cigar perched on his lip and turns his novel into an extended borscht belt comic''s riff.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/642'),
(1099, 'Catcher in the Rye (KnowledgeNotes Student Guides)', 'J. D. Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n KnowledgeNotes offers students in-depth analysis of the most frequently studied literary works, from William Shakespeare to Maya Angelou, and Aeschylus to Toni Morrison\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/197'),
(1100, 'Catching Fire', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Gr 7 Up--Every year in Panem, the dystopic nation that exists where the U.S. used to be, the Capitol holds a televised tournament in which two teen "tributes" from each of the surrounding districts fight a gruesome battle to the death. In\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  , Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, the tributes from impoverished District Twelve, thwarted the Gamemakers, forcing them to let both teens survive. In this rabidly anticipated sequel, Katniss, again the narrator, returns home to find herself more the center of attention than ever. The sinister President Snow surprises her with a visit, and Katnissâ€™s fear when Snow meets with her alone is both palpable and justified.\n  <em>\n   Catching Fire\n  </em>\n  is divided into three parts: Katniss and Peetaâ€™s mandatory Victory Tour through the districts, preparations for the 75th Annual Hunger Games, and a truncated version of the Games themselves. Slower paced than its predecessor, this sequel explores the nation of Panem: its power structure, rumors of a secret district, and a spreading rebellion, ignited by Katniss and Peetaâ€™s subversive victory. Katniss also deepens as a character. Though initially bewildered by the attention paid to her, she comes almost to embrace her status as the rebelsâ€™ symbolic leader. Though more of the story takes place outside the arena than within, this sequel has enough action to please\n  <em>\n   Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  fans and leaves enough questions tantalizingly unanswered for readers to be desperate for the next installment.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Reviewers were happy to report that the\n  <em>\n   Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  trilogy is alive and well, and all looked forward to the third book in the series after this one''s stunning conclusion. But they disagreed over whether\n  <em>\n   Catching Fire\n  </em>\n  was as good as the original book\n  <em>\n   Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  or should be viewed as somewhat of a "sophomore slump." Several critics who remained unconvinced by Katniss''s romantic dilemma made unfavorable comparisons to the human-vampire-werewolf love triangle in Stephenie Meyer''s\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  series. But most reviewers felt that\n  <em>\n   Catching Fire\n  </em>\n  was still a thrill because Collins replicated her initial success at balancing action, violence, and heroism in a way that will enthrall young readers without giving them (too many) nightmares.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2378'),
(1101, 'Cathedral', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''As tense and tight as today''s headlines'' Los Angeles Times ''A home-run thriller'' - Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n St. Patrick''s Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act the seizure of Saint Patrick''s Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The cops face a booby-trapped, perfectly laid out killing zone inside the church. The hostages face death. Flynn faces his own demons, in an electrifying duel of nerves, honor, and betrayal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1305'),
(1102, 'A Catskill Eagle', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In the detective business, Spenser sometimes has to bend the law. Other times, to break it. But he lives by his own inviolate rules. And he loves just one woman -- even though she is the one woman he''s just lost.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So when Susan''s desperate letter arrives, Spenser doesn''t think twice. His best friend, Hawk, faces a life sentence. And Susan has gotten herself into even bigger trouble. Now Spenser has to free them both...even if it means breaking his own rules to do it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If you like tight writing, no wasted words and interesting characters, Parker will be your cup of tea." (USA Today)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1165'),
(1103, 'Caught Stealing', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Itâ€™s three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry â€œcall me Hankâ€ Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is surely going to get him killed.\n</p>\n<p>\n It begins when Hankâ€™s neighbor, Russ, has to leave town in a rush and hands over Bud in a carrier. But it isnâ€™t until two Russians in tracksuits drag Hank over the bar at the joint where he works and beat him to a pulp that he starts to get the idea: Someone wants something from him. He just doesnâ€™t know what it is, where it is, or how to make them understand he doesnâ€™t have it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Within twenty-four hours Hank is running over rooftops, swinging his old aluminum bat for the sweet spot of a guyâ€™s head, playing hide and seek with the NYPD, riding the subway with a dead man at his side, and counting a whole lot of cash on a concrete floor.\n</p>\n<p>\n All because of two cowboys, two Russian mafia men, and some of the weirdest goons ever assembled in one place. All because of Bud. All because once, in another life, in another world, the only thing Hank wanted was to take third baseâ€”without getting caught.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1219'),
(1104, 'Cause of Death', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Patricia Cornwell''s heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta is back; this time to solve the mystery of the death of an Associated Press reporter who was killed while nosing about in a decommissioned navy yard. Scarpetta''s involvement in the case leads her to be targeted for murder herself by a nasty little neo-fascist cult with delusions of grandeur that include a plan to "kill and maim, frighten, brainwash and torture" all who oppose their plan to rule the world. Helping Scarpetta is her niece Lucy, an F.B.I. agent whose computer expertise leads to a heart-stopping journey into cyberspace.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  First, the good news: the omni-competent Kay Scarpetta is back, along with her sidekicks, in a murder mystery that''s tighter than her last escapade, From Potter''s Field. Chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia and an FBI consultant, Kay finds ample opportunity to demonstrate her skills in the autopsy room and outside it, too: here, she also dives with a Navy SEAL rescue squad and, through her computer-genius niece Lucy, an FBI agent, takes an up-close-and-personal look at a robot operated via virtual reality. But there is bad news: the work lacks the extraordinary, can''t-go-to-bed-til-you''re-finished suspense of Cornwell''s earlier novels, e.g. Cruel and Unusual. The killers here, members of a nihilistic, fascist cult who think their founder akin to God, are identified early on but never developed as characters. Their crimes, while heinous, don''t baffle and tease the reader (or Kay) in the manner of the villain Temple Gault, who was dismissed in the last book. While Cornwell''s authoritative presentation of forensic sleuthing, FBI procedures and high-tech crime-fighting compensates mightily for the overneat dovetailing of characters'' paths and even the implausible role Kay plays in the climax, the hurried, almost slapdash pace of the climactic scenes is disappointing from so accomplished a writer. But even at less than her best, Cornwell remains a master of the genre, instilling in readers an appetite that only she can satisfy. One million first printing; $750,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/912'),
(1105, 'Cell', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Spanish Language CommentaryA travÃ©s de los telÃ©fonos mÃ³viles se envÃ­a un mensaje que convierte a todos en esclavos asesinos. Pocos se escapan de su fuerza y estos tendrÃ¡n que sobrevivir en un mundo totalmente transformado.\n</p>\n<p>\n Clayton Riddell no tiene telÃ©fono mÃ³vil, su esposa, Sharon, tampoco. EstÃ¡n separados pero en contacto constante por su hijo Johnny Gee. Sus padres le han regalado un mÃ³vil para cosas urgentes. Saben que muy a menudo no lo lleva encima y por eso le riÃ±en.\n</p>\n<p>\n El uno de octubre Clay viaja a Boston por una entrevista de trabajo y de repente cuando pasea por el parque es testigo de escenas espeluznantes, escenas totalmente inexplicables: gente en la calle que hablando por el mÃ³vil se convierten repentinamente en monstruos asesinos, atacan y matan a todos los de su alrededor. Los coches chocan entre sÃ­. Es una escena de caos sangriento, incendios, alarmas.. . incomprensible. Ya no hay canales de radio ni televisiÃ³n, ni servicios de ningÃºn tipo. Nada que pueda poner orden. Clay entiende que todo ha sido causado por un mensaje a travÃ©s de los mÃ³viles. Consigue refugiarse en un hotel junto con otro hombre Tom McCourt y una adolescente, Alice, los dos sin mÃ³vil. Deciden abandonar la ciudad para averiguar si la situaciÃ³n es la misma en el resto del paÃ­s. Para Clay, lo mÃ¡s importante es localizar a su hijo que, espera que hoy no lleve su mÃ³vil encima.\n</p>\n<p>\n Los tres emprenden su viaje a pie hacia la ciudad donde vive Johnny y su madre. Andan de noche cuando los locos no se mueven. De dÃ­a se esconden en casas abandonadas. En su camino se encuentran con otros que se han salvado pero son pocos ydescubren que los locos se han convertido en una especie de zombies telepÃ¡ticos. Estos se juntan de dÃ­a en grandes masas, llamados por mÃºsica transmitida por altavoces, en estadios de deportes. De noche duermen. EstÃ¡n controlados por los sonidos. Andan y andan hacia un solo destino.\n</p>\n<p>\n La mujer de Clay ha sido vÃ­ctima de la gran destrucciÃ³n pero su hijo parece haber sobrevivido y Clay y sus dos compaÃ±eros siguen su pista. Van de ciudad en ciudad, entre cadÃ¡veres y zombies asesinos, entre el caos y la destrucciÃ³n, hasta llegar a la ciudad de su destino.\n</p>\n<p>\n Y allÃ­ Clay encontrarÃ¡ a Johnny, no el Johnny de antes, pero quizÃ¡s algÃºn dÃ­a aprenderÃ¡ de nuevo a ser un niÃ±o â€œnormalâ€. El mensaje de los mÃ³viles va perdiendo toda su fuerza pero...el mundo nunca volverÃ¡ a ser lo mismo.\n</p>\n<p>\n A travÃ©s de los telÃ©fonos mÃ³viles se envÃ­a un mensaje que convierte a todos en esclavos asesinos. Pocos se escapan de su fuerza y estos tendrÃ¡n que sobrevivir en un mundo totalmente transformado.\n</p>\n<p>\n Clayton Riddell no tiene telÃ©fono mÃ³vil, su esposa, Sharon, tampoco. EstÃ¡n separados pero en contacto constante por su hijo Johnny Gee. Sus padres le han regalado un mÃ³vil para cosas urgentes. Saben que muy a menudo no lo lleva encima y por eso le riÃ±en.\n</p>\n<p>\n El uno de octubre Clay viaja a Boston por una entrevista de trabajo y de repente cuando pasea por el parque es testigo de escenas espeluznantes, escenas totalmente inexplicables: gente en la calle que hablando por el mÃ³vil se convierten repentinamente en monstruos asesinos, atacan y matan a todos los de su alrededor. Los coches chocan entre sÃ­. Es una escena de caos sangriento, incendios, alarmas.. . incomprensible. Ya no hay canales de radio ni televisiÃ³n, ni servicios de ningÃºn tipo. Nada que pueda poner orden. Clay entiende que todo ha sido causado por un mensaje a travÃ©s de los mÃ³viles. Consigue refugiarse en un hotel junto con otro hombre Tom McCourt y una adolescente, Alice, los dos sin mÃ³vil. Deciden abandonar la ciudad para averiguar si la situaciÃ³n es la misma en el resto del paÃ­s. Para Clay, lo mÃ¡s importante es localizar a su hijo que, espera que hoy no lleve su mÃ³vil encima.\n</p>\n<p>\n Los tres emprenden su viaje a pie hacia...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/493'),
(1106, 'Ceremony', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Pretty teenager April Kyle is in grown-up-trouble, involved with people who''d beat her up for a dollar and kill her for five. Now she''s disappeared, last seen in the Combat Zone, that side of Boston where nothing''s proper, especially the sex for sale.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With Hawk, his sidekick, Spenser takes on the whole X-rated industry. From a specialty whorehouse in Providence to stylish Back Bay bordellos, he pits muscle and wit against bullets and brawn until he finds what he''s looking for: April Kyle, little girl lost.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nowhere is Spenser''s vitality clearer than in CEREMONY...Spenser probably had more to do with changing the private eye from coffin-chaser to a full-bodied human being than any other detective hero." (Sun-Times, Chicago)\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  From the bestselling author of Crimson Joy. Spenser''s out to make war, not love, as he goes after Boston''s entire X-rated industry. Pretty teenager April Kyle has disappeared into the city''s darkest underworld, and to rescue her, Spencer pits muscle and wit against bullets and bullies. Part of Dell''s ongoing Robert B. Parker reissue program.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1162'),
(1107, 'Ceremony in Death', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, Eve takes the warning personally. With her husband, Roarke, watching her every move, Eve is drawn into the most dangerous case of her career. Every step she takes makes her question her own sense of right and wrong - and brings her closer to a confrontation with humanity''s most seductive form of evil...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1084'),
(1108, 'Certain Girls', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Following the story collection\n  <em>\n   The Guy Not Taken\n  </em>\n  , Weiner turns in a hilarious sequel to her 2001 bestselling first novel,\n  <em>\n   Good in Bed\n  </em>\n  , revisiting the memorable and feisty Candace Cannie Shapiro. Flashing forward 13 years, the novel follows Cannie as she navigates the adolescent rebellion of her about-to-be bat mitzvahed daughter, Joy, and juggles her writing career; her relationship with her physician husband, Peter Krushelevansky; her ongoing weight struggles; and the occasional impasse with Joy''s biological father, Bruce Guberman. Joy, whose premature birth resulted in her wearing hearing aids, has her own amusing take on her mother''s overinvolvement in her life as the novel, with some contrivance, alternates perspectives. As her bat mitzvah approaches, Joy tries to make contact with her long absent maternal grandfather and seeks more time with Bruce. In addition, unbeknownst to Joy, Peter has expressed a desire to have a baby with Cannie, which means looking for a surrogate mother. Throughout, Weiner offers her signature snappy observations: (good looks function as a get-out-of-everything-free card) and spot-on insights into human nature, with a few twists thrown in for good measure. She expends some energy getting readers up to speed on\n  <em>\n   Good\n  </em>\n  , but readers already involved with Cannie will enjoy this, despite Joy''s equally strong voice.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Hilarious. Weiner offer her signature snappy observations and spot-on insights into human nature." --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Heartfelt and funny...A touching examination of both the comic and tragic moments that mark the mother-daughter relationship." --\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Readers will laugh and cry. Weiner is a talented writer who consistently delivers the goods. Clear your calendar and prepare to read: Cannie Shapiro is back!" --\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Weiner displays her signature wry voice and sap-free knack for capturing heartfelt moments; an unexpected plot twist gives her story emotional heft. Fans should find\n  <em>\n   Girls\n  </em>\n  a worthy successor." --\n  <em>\n   People\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1924'),
(1109, 'Cerulean Sins', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  With her New York Times bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels, Laurell K. Hamilton wraps readers up in stories of suspense and sensuality. Cerulean Sins is no exception. Now, Anita learns what it''s like to be at the new end of a centuries-old bloodline - and just how far sheâ€™ll let herself get pushed around...\n </p>\n <p>\n  How the mighty have fallen! Once a sworn enemy of all vampires, Anita is now the human consort of both Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire, and Micah, the leopard shapeshifter. But her love life doesn''t stop there. It can''t. For Anita - not quite as human as she once was - is consumed by both the lusts of the vampire and the primal hungers of the wereleopards. Desires that must be sated - time and time again...\n </p>\n <p>\n  But it is Jean-Claude who needs her now. His oldest ancestor has sent one of her vicious and powerful underlings to St. Louis, putting Jean-Claude and his clan on the defensive. Unsure of where she stands with the interloper, Anita finds herself tested as never before - needing all the dark forces her passion can muster to save the ones she loves the most...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/976'),
(1110, 'Chainfire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A weak, repetitive plot mars the ninth novel in bestseller Goodkind''s Sword of Truth fantasy series (after 2003''s Naked Empire). The story opens promisingly enough. Richard, Lord Rahl, ruler of D''Hara, seeker and bearer of the Sword of Truth, is sorely wounded in battle. Healed by the sorceress Nicci, he regains consciousness only to discover his wife, Kahlan, is missing-and no one believes she exists. Meanwhile, the armies of Emperor Jagang, leader of the brutal Imperial Order, threaten D''Hara. Distracted by Kahlan''s disappearance, Richard refuses to lead troops against Jagang''s forces, insisting his people must stand up for themselves. Bargaining with the witch woman Shota, he trades the Sword of Truth for information on Kahlan and learns of "chainfire," hidden in "the place of the bones in the Deep Nothing." Journeying there, Richard discovers chainfire is a spell capable of unraveling existence. Meanwhile, the Sisters of the Dark have stolen two of the three boxes of Orden, seeking to call the Keeper of the Dead to life. Even fans will be disappointed by the minimal action and lengthy speeches that slow this juggernaut of a novel to a tedious crawl. Hopefully, Goodkind has positioned all his pieces and the pace will pick up in the next installment.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Wonderfully creative, seamless, and stirring."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Kirkus\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Wizard''s First Rule\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Wonderful."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Kliatt\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Stone of Tears\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Each volume of the Sword of Truth...proves more difficult to review than the last. There are only so many was of heaping praise on a series that gets better and better."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  SFX\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Blood of the Fold\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "...outstanding work...adrenaline and characters who actually behave like adults. Highly recommended."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  San Diego Union Tribune\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Temple of the Winds\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "...thoroughly enjoyable."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  VOYA\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Soul of the Fire\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Goodkind''s compelling prose weaves a magic spell over readers."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Romantic Times\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Faith of the Fallen\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Near-perfect pacing, well-realized settings, and superior descriptive narrative."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  VOYA\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  The Pillars of Creation\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Everything one could ask for in an epic fantasy."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Stone of Tears\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/761'),
(1111, 'The Chamber', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The decision to bomb the office of the radical Jew lawyer was reached with relative ease." So begins Grisham''s legal leviathan\n <em>\n  The Chamber\n </em>\n , a 676-page tome that scrutinizes the death penalty and all of its nuances--from racially motivated murder to the cruel and unusual effects of a malfunctioning gas chamber.\n</p>\n<p>\n Adam Hall is a 26-year-old attorney, fresh out of law school and working at the best firm in Chicago. He might have been humming Timbuk 3''s big hit, "The Future''s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades," if it wasn''t for his psychotic Southern grandfather, Sam Cayhall. Cayhall, a card-carrying member of the KKK, is on death row for killing two men. Knowing his uncle will surely die without his legal expertise, Hall comes to the rescue and puts his dazzling career at stake, while digging up a barnyard of skeletons from his family''s past. Grisham fans expecting the typical action-packed plot should ready themselves for a slower pace, well-fleshed-out characters, and heavy doses of sentimentalism.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The chamber in question is the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary--and for 69-year-old Sam Crayhall, the road thence has been many years long. Sam was twice tried and twice acquitted for murder after a 1967 Ku Klux Klan scare bombing accidentally killed the twin sons of the intended target; 14 years later he was tried a third time, convicted and sentenced to death. Now, in 1990, a young Chicago lawyer, employed by the firm that represented Sam but which he has just unceremoniously dumped, wants Sam as a client. Adam Hall, the 26-year-old rookie, is Sam Crayhall''s grandson. Adam''s efforts to save this splendid curmudgeon from death form the center of Grisham''s quietly compelling novel, a hub from which the far-reaching spokes of personal dramas extend. The despair of prison life has rarely been so grippingly evoked--no riots or dazzling escapes here, just a drab, pervasive dailiness. And the gradually revealed dysfunctions of the Crayhalls prove both surprising and affecting. This ranks as top-notch Grisham and reveals new dimensions to his talent: the focus on character, the credible emotion and the simple moments of human connection bear comparison to Grisham''s work in A Time to Kill . The prose, too, has more subtlety and texture than Grisham has previously exhibited. Though the countdown to an execution is a well-worn plot device, it has seldom been as effective, especially in the novel''s last 100 pages. Readers can almost hear the cogs of justice turning ever faster--or is that the sound of Grisham''s fans stampeding the bookstores for this riveting read? 2.5 million first printing; Literary Guild main selection; audio rights to BBD audio; major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/717'),
(1112, 'Chance', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Once again, Robert B. Parker makes artfulness look easy, with Chance, his sensational new thriller. This time Spenser - the tough-but-tender sleuth whose passion for justice repeatedly plunges him into a sea of trouble - hires out on a marital matter whose attached strings entangle him with the Mob. When big-time Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura approaches Spenser and his redoubtable sidekick, Hawk, about locating his only daughter''s missing husband, it''s clear he''s not telling them the whole truth about the blushing bride and the ardent groom. In fact, he may be lying. But something about these missing links appeals to Spenser, and he agrees to take the case. So begins an odyssey into the netherworld of disorganized crime: from the throne rooms of crime lords to the Vegas strip; from two-bit wiseguys with a genius for dangerous liaisons to gangsters'' molls in jeopardy; from larceny to homicide. And that''s just for openers. All too soon, it becomes clear that what''s at stake is not young love, but control of gangland Boston. Spenser and Hawk find themselves dead-center in a circus of violence whose shadowy ringmaster is all too familiar to a private eye with a past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1127'),
(1113, 'Chancy', 'Louis L&#39;amour', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  He was an orphan from the hills of Tennessee and he hadnâ€™t eaten in three days. With the front of his stomach making friends with the back, he was in no position to let an opportunity slip by unnoticed. And when Chancy defended his new herd of cattle with a shotgun, he didnâ€™t miss. The dead man left a pistol on the ground. Chancy needed a spare and, after stowing it in his bedroll, forgot about it. He had a cattle drive to finish and a profit to make.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the gun had a history. Another killing had taken place and Chancy would never know the truth until it was too late. Now, locked in a jail cell with an angry, drunken mob outside and time running out, he must somehow find a way to prove his innocence.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cattle drive in a deadly country...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poor, orphaned at thirteen, Otis Chancy left the Tennessee mountains with nothing but a will to work, a drive to succeed, and the backbone for a fight. So when a fight comes his way, along with a chance to buy a herd of cattle and start his own spread, nineteen-year-old Chancy doesn''t hesitate. He guns down a man who''d been using a sheriff''s badge to justify cattle thieving. But when a mysterious woman betrays him, he will find himself stalked by a deadly gunman. Despite his youth, Chancy won''t run--and when his past catches up to him in Cheyenne, he''ll make his stand, whether his partner and cowhands back his play...or whether he fights alone.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1700'),
(1114, 'Changes: The Dresden Files', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago''s first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the â€˜everydayâ€™ world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don''t play well with humans. That''s where Harry comes in. But even a career of narrow escapes and supernatural shenanigans hasnâ€™t prepared Harry for this. A vampire with a grudge has kidnapped his daughter. A daughter he never knew he had. Furthermore, this vampire plans to use her blood in a violent ritual sacrifice - designed to kill Harry, his ex-partner Susan and their child. As allies are perilously thin on the ground, Harry must find a new source of strength. In the past, there had always been a line he wouldnâ€™t cross, and heâ€™s never given in to the full fury of his own untapped dark powers. But then, only his own life was at stake. Magic - it can get a guy killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/890'),
(1115, 'Chapterhouse Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Duneâ€™s power, have colonized a green worldâ€”and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Chapterhouse Dune\n </em>\n is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death: A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Now--the conclusion to Frank Herbert''s l3-million-copy epic masterpiece. The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed, and the heirs to Dune''s power, have colonized a green world--and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. "Impressive...the whole saga will be one of the monuments of modern science fiction."--Chicago Sun Times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/663'),
(1116, 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', 'Roald Dahl &amp; Quentin Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\n </em>\n and its sequel,\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator\n </em>\n , along with Roald Dahl''s other tales for younger readers, make him a true star of children''s literature. Dahl seems to know just how far to go with his oddball fantasies; in\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,\n </em>\n for example, nasty Violet Beauregarde blows up into a blueberry from sneaking forbidden chewing gum, and bratty Augustus Gloop is carried away on the river of chocolate he wouldn''t resist. In fact, all manner of disasters can happen to the most obnoxiously deserving of children because Dahl portrays each incident with such resourcefulness and humor.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\n </em>\n is a singular delight, crammed with mad fantasy, childhood justice and revenge, and as much candy as you can eat. The book is also available in Spanish (\n <em>\n  Charlie y la Fabrica de Chocolate\n </em>\n ). (The suggested age range for this book is 9-12, but nobody this reviewer has met can resist it, including New York City bellhops, flight attendants, and grumpy teenagers.)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The best books grow old gracefully. They retain their importance and affect each new generation as powerfully as the one before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1300'),
(1117, 'Chase', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1486'),
(1118, 'Chasing Amanda', 'Melissa Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   ...a story of madness and mystery that drew me in from the first paragraph...a tale of love, retribution, hope and betrayal...a page turner that will leave you breathless...\n  </em>\n  " --Readers Round Table\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   ...the MUST READ THRILLER of 2011. Intelligent, entrancing, luminious.\n  </em>\n  " --Author Dean Mayes\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "CHASING AMANDAÂ is a fine psychic thriller, highly recommended\n  </em>\n  ." -- Midwest Book Review\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   [Foster''s] newest release captivated me. [It] covers a subject that is every parent''s nightmare. The story had me hooked and shocked. The characters are well written.\n  </em>\n  " --Jeanette Stingley, Women''s Literary Editor, Bella Online\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   ...Foster''s writing reminds me of Ted Dekker. The suspense is so strong I''m waiting for the theme music to jump out and scare me as I turn the pages.\n  </em>\n  " --The Surrendered Scribe\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WINNER,\n  </strong>\n  READERS FAVORITE AWARD: Paranormal\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WINNER,\n  </strong>\n  Â GLOBAL EBOOK AWARD: Paranormal\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   FINALIST,\n  </strong>\n  Â (2) READERS FAVORITE AWARD: Women''s Fiction, Mystery\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I began writing\n  <em>\n   Chasing Amanda in 2006, set it down to write Megan''s Way in 2008, and revisited it in 2009 with even more subplots in mind. The idea came to me while running solo down White Ground Road, which is mentioned in the novel. Much of the landscape and architecture mentioned in the book is true to Boyds, and is just as foreboding in the dark of night as it is portrayed in\n  </em>\n  Chasing Amanda.\n  <em>\n   Boyds, however, is not a town where any of these events have taken place, nor are the people likened to residents of the small town. I tend to write about my worst fears, and, as you will read, this touched on the one that scares me the most. I hope you enjoy the story.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2368'),
(1119, 'Chasing Darkness', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<hr />\n<p>\n Elvis Cole is BackÂ—In a Desperate Fight to Clear his Name...\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide. But the gunshot victim is less gruesome than what they find in his lap: a photo album of seven brutally murdered young women Â— one per year, for seven years. And when the suicide victim is identified as a former suspect in one of the murders, the news turns Elvis Cole''s world upside down.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three years earlier Lionel Byrd was brought to trial for the murder of a female prostitute named Yvonne Bennett. A taped confession coerced by the police inspired a prominent defense attorney to take Byrd''s case, and Elvis Cole was hired to investigate. It was Cole''s eleventh-hour discovery of an exculpatory videotape that allowed Lionel Byrd to walk free. Elvis was hailed as a hero.\n</p>\n<p>\n But the discovery of the death album in Byrd''s lap now brands Elvis as an unwitting accomplice to murder. Captured in photographs that could only have been taken by the murderer, Yvonne Bennett was the fifth of the seven victims Â— two more young women were murdered after Lionel Byrd walked free. So Elvis can''t help but wonder Â— did he, Elvis Cole, cost two more young women their lives?\n</p>\n<p>\n Shut out of the investigation by a special LAPD task force determined to close the case, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike desperately fight to uncover the truth about Lionel Byrd and his nightmare album of death Â— a truth hidden by lies, politics, and corruption in a world where nothing is what it seems to be.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Chasing Darkness\n </em>\n is a blistering thriller from the bestselling author who sets the standard for intense, powerful crime writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1339');
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(1120, 'Chasing the Dime', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Henry Pierce is about to become very rich--as soon as his firm, Amedeo Technologies, gets an infusion of capital from a big backer. But the brilliant chemist''s workaholic habits are disrupted when his lover, the former intelligence officer of his company, breaks up with him. Lonely and dispirited, he moves into a new apartment and gets a new phone number that attracts a lot of callers, but not for him. His new telephone number seems to have previously belonged to one Lilly Quinlan, an escort whose Internet photo arouses Henry''s curiosity, especially when L.A. Darlings, whose Web page features the beautiful young woman, can''t tell Henry how to find her. With the same single-mindedness that made him a high-tech superstar, Pierce pursues his search for the missing girl, motivated by his guilt over the disappearance years earlier of his own sister, who, like Lilly, was also a prostitute (and ultimately the victim of the Dollmaker, a serial killer from Connelly''s 1994 novel\n <em>\n  The Concrete Blonde\n </em>\n .) But that motive is too thin to support Pierce''s sudden abandonment of his career at such a critical juncture, even if forces unknown to him are setting him up for a fall. Despite those holes in the plot and a less than compelling protagonist, the novel succeeds due to Connelly''s literary and expository gifts and his more interesting secondary characters.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The copy on the galley of Connelly''s slick new thriller doesn''t mention Hitchcock, but most reviews probably will, with the novel''s many surprises and "wrong man" plot line. Even the opening echoes Hitch''s North by Northwest, in which Cary Grant''s mistaken interception of a bellboy''s page leads to disaster; here it''s nanotechnology entrepreneur Henry Pierce''s getting a phone call that triggers the trouble. The call is for a prostitute, Lilly, and it''s the first of many; turns out that the Web site on which she advertises, L.A. Darlings, has Pierce''s new home phone number next to a photo of gorgeous Lilly. But when Pierce visits the Web site''s offices, he learns that Lilly has vanished. Where has she gone? His search to find the missing woman-prompted by his insatiable curiosity and by memories of his tragic, long-ago hunt for his sister, also a prostitute-draws Pierce into mortal danger. It also pushes him into conflict with the law, for when the cops cotton to Lilly''s disappearance, Pierce becomes the number one suspect-serious bad news for this scientist whose company is being visited by a major investor in just a few days. Connelly''s plotting is shrink-wrap tight, his characters-particularly Pierce, whose impulsiveness is balanced by his measured applications of the scientific method to analyze his plight-are smartly drawn. It''s the rare reader who will be able to finger the villain behind all the mayhem. While very entertaining, however-this is the perfect book for a long airplane ride-the novel lacks the moral resonance and weight of Connelly''s most impressive works, such as City of Bones.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/888'),
(1121, 'Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Comedienne, talk show host and daring author Handler (Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea) indulges her fans with a new compilation of shockingly direct essays, from which she emerges as a scheming farceur with an expansive range of practical jokes and winning sarcasm, pulled off beautifully against (and with help from) her closest friends and family (including her boyfriend, the CEO of the E! television network that employs her). Handler spins a deliriously sticky web of running jokes while suckering the gullible, again and again, with made-up stories of her transgendered friend, a ludicrous movie deal, and her infamous personal pilot. Never shy, Handler finds room for even more irreverent honesty regarding sex-including her earliest encounters with male genitalia and with "the feeling"-and also lets readers in on her family life, including a family dinner that ends with her missing brother found intoxicated, naked, and celebrating on a dock in the early morning hours. Whether Handler is plotting to get her father committed or convincing her dog never to "shadoobie" in her presence, her essays are packed with enough laugh-out-loud moments to rival a first-rate stand-up act. B&amp;W photos.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Her cheeky candor is one of the things that makes her unique: She''s a hot blonde with a filthy mouth. (\n <strong>\n  Philadelphia Inquirer\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Chelsea Handler writes like Judy Blume, if Judy Blume were into vodka, Ecstasy, and sleeping with midgets and nineteen-year-olds. (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Jennifer Weiner\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Where have I been all of Chelsea Handler''s life? I had no idea how funny, how brilliant she is. She is too clever for words." (\n <strong>\n  New York Post\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Liz Smith\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Chelsea Handler is a terrific comedian and a hilarious writer. (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Jay Leno\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/611'),
(1122, 'Childhood&#39;s End', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A FIRST-RATE TOUR DE FORCE."\n <br />\n --The New York Times\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A FRIGHTENINGLY LOGICAL, BELIEVABLE, AND GRIMLY PROPHETIC TALE . . . CLARKE IS A MASTER."\n <br />\n --Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/880'),
(1123, 'Children of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œSimon Vance anchors this full-cast production.Â  He is engaged with the characters and the complex plot.Â  His presentation of the many characters is skillful, and the narrative passages never lag.Â  Vance has a serious but light touchâ€¦â€ -\n <em>\n  AudioFile\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n :\n <br />\n â€œOne of the monuments of modern science fiction.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œUniqueâ€¦I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  â€”Sir Arthur C. Clarke on\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œA portrayal of an alien society more complete and deeply detailed than any other author in the field has managed...a story absorbing equally for its action and philosophical\n <br />\n vistas.... An astonishing science fiction phenomenon.â€â€”\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œPowerful, convincing, and most ingenious.â€â€”Robert A. Heinlein on\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œHerbertâ€™s creation of this universe, with its intricate development and analysis of ecology, religion, politics, and philosophy, remains one of the supreme and seminal achievements in science fiction.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Louisville Times\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The third book in the "Dune" series, and the last book of what was originally a trilogy--which was eventually expanded to six books. Amid rapid political change, the children of the messiah come of age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/655'),
(1124, 'The Children of Hurin', 'J. R. R. Tolkien &amp; Christopher Tolkien &amp; Alan Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first complete book by J.R.R. Tolkien in three decades--since the publication of\n <em>\n  The Silmarillion\n </em>\n in 1977--\n <em>\n  The Children of HÃºrin\n </em>\n reunites fans of\n <em>\n  The Hobbit\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, Eagles and Orcs. Presented for the first time as a complete, standalone story, this stirring narrative will appeal to casual fans and expert readers alike, returning them to the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Adam Tolkien on *The Children of HÃºrin\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n How did a lifetime of stories become\n <em>\n  The Children of HÃºrin\n </em>\n ? In an essay on the making of the book, Adam Tolkien, grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien (and French translator of his\n <em>\n  History of Middle-earth\n </em>\n ), explains that the HÃºrin legends made up the third "Great Tale" of his grandfather''s Middle-earth writing, and he describes how his father, Christopher Tolkien, painstakingly collected the pieces of the legend into a complete story told only in the words of J.R.R. Tolkien. "For anyone who has read\n <em>\n  The Hobbit\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n ," he writes,\n <em>\n  The Children of HÃºrin\n </em>\n "allows them to take a step back into a larger world, an ancient land of heroes and vagabonds, honour and jeopardy, hope and tragedy."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Look Inside the Book\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n This first edition of\n <em>\n  The Children of HÃºrin\n </em>\n is illustrated by Alan Lee, who was already well-known for his Tolkien illustrations in previous editions (see our Tolkien Store for more) as well as his classic collaboration with Brian Froud,\n <em>\n  Faeries\n </em>\n , and his Kate Greenaway Medal-winning\n <em>\n  Black Ships Before Troy\n </em>\n , before his Oscar-winning work as conceptual designer for Peter Jackson''s\n <em>\n  Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n film trilogy brought him even greater acclaim. Here''s a quick glimpse of two of Lee''s interior illustrations for\n <em>\n  The Children of HÃºrin\n </em>\n . (Click on each to see larger images.)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Questions for Alan Lee\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n We had the chance to ask Alan Lee a few questions about his illustrative collaboration with the world imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien:\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n How much of a treat was it to get first crack at depicting entirely new characters rather than ones who had been interpreted many times before? Was there one who particularly captured your imagination?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lee:\n </strong>\n Although it was a great honor to illustrate\n <em>\n  The Children of HÃºrin\n </em>\n , the characters and the main elements of the story line are familiar to those who have read\n <em>\n  The Silmarillion\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Unfinished Tales\n </em>\n , and these narratives have inspired quite a few illustrators. Ted Nasmith has illustrated\n <em>\n  The Silmarillion\n </em>\n and touched on some of the same characters and landscapes. This was the first time that I ventured into the First Age; while working on\n <em>\n  The Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n books and films--and\n <em>\n  The Hobbit\n </em>\n --I''ve had to refer back to events in Middle-earth history but not really depict them.\n</p>\n<p>\n I''m drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends; these correspondences add layers and shades of meaning, and most of the characters in this story have those archetypal qualities. However, I prefer not to get too close to the characters because the author is delineating them much more carefully than I can, and I''m wary of interfering with the pictures that the text is creating in the reader''s mind.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n The HÃºrin story has been described as darker than some of Tolkien''s other work. What mood did you try to set with your illustrations?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lee:\n </strong>\n It is a tragic story, but the darkness is offset by the light and beauty of Tolkien''s elegiac writing. In the illustrations I tried to show some of the fragile beauty of the landscapes and create an atmosphere that would enhance the sense of foreboding and impending loss. I try to get the setting to tell its part in the story, as evidence of what happened there in the past and as a hint at what is going to occur. My usual scarred and broken trees came in handy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n You were a conceptual designer (and won an Oscar) for Peter Jackson''s film trilogy of\n <em>\n  The Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n , which I think we can safely say had a bit of success. How does designing for the screen compare to designing for the page?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lee:\n </strong>\n They both have their share of joys and frustrations. It was great to be part of a huge film collaboration and play a small part in something quite magical and monumental; I will always treasure that experience. Film is attractive because I enjoy sketching and coming up with ideas more than producing highly finished artwork, and it''s great having several hundred other people lending a hand! But books--as long as they don''t get moldy from being left in an empty studio for six years--have their own special quality. I hope that I can continue doing both.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Of all fiction genres, fantasy seems to have the strongest tradition of illustration. Why do you think that is? Who are some of your favorite illustrators?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lee:\n </strong>\n A lot of excellent illustrators are working at the moment--especially in fantasy and children''s books. It is exciting also to see graphic artists such as Dave McKean, in his film\n <em>\n  Mirrormask\n </em>\n , moving between different media. I also greatly admire the more traditional work of Gennady Spirin and Roberto Innocenti. Kinuko Craft, John Jude Palencar, John Howe, Charles Vess, Brian Froud ... I''ll stop there, as the list would get too long. But--in a fit of pride and justified nepotism--I''ll add my daughter, Virginia Lee, to the list. Her first illustrated children''s book,\n <em>\n  The Frog Bride\n </em>\n [coming out in the U.K. in September], will be lovely.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  More Tolkien Favorites\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Visit our J.R.R. Tolkien Store for a complete selection of Tolkien classics, including deluxe editions, young readers'' editions, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n <br />\n 50th Anniversary Edition\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Hobbit\n </em>\n <br />\n Collector''s Edition\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Atlas of Middle Earth\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tolkien fans are sure to treasure this tale of Middle-earth''s First Age, which appeared in incomplete forms in the posthumously published\n <em>\n  The Silmarillion\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Unfinished Tales\n </em>\n . Those earlier books, also edited by Tolkien''s son, Christopher, only hinted at the depth and power of the tragic story of TÃºrin and NiÃ«nor, the children of HÃºrin, the lord of Dor-lÃ³min, who achieved renown for having confronted Morgoth, who was the master of Sauron, the manifestation of evil in the\n <em>\n  Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n . The lengthy and fatiguing battle against Morgoth forms the backdrop for the moving account of the life of HÃºrin''s eldest son, TÃºrin, a valiant but proud warrior whose all too human frailties augur an unhappy end. Perhaps Tolkien''s most three-dimensional figure, TÃºrin flees from the elven kingdom where he has grown into manhood, sheltered from the forces of evil, after he''s unjustly judged responsible for another''s death. He hides his true identity as he begins a new life as leader of a band of outlaws, a choice that has dire consequences when he crosses paths with a family member after many years of separation. Deftly balancing thrilling battles with moments of introspection, Tolkien''s vivid and gripping narrative reaffirms his primacy in fantasy literature.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/166'),
(1125, 'Children of the Mind', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Children of the Mind\n </em>\n , fourth in the Ender series, is the conclusion of the story begun in the third book,\n <em>\n  Xenocide\n </em>\n . The author unravels Ender''s life and reweaves the threads into unexpected new patterns, including an apparent reincarnation of his threatening older brother, Peter, not to mention another "sister" Valentine. Multiple storylines entwine, as the threat of the Lusitania-bound fleet looms ever nearer. The self-aware computer, Jane, who has always been more than she seemed, faces death at human hands even as she approaches godhood. At the same time, the characters hurry to investigate the origins of the descolada virus before they lose their ability to travel instantaneously between the stars. There is plenty of action and romance to season the text''s analyses of Japanese culture and the flux and ebb of civilizations. But does the author really mean to imply that Ender''s wife literally bores him to death?\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first two volumes of Card''s Ender saga, Ender''s Game and Speaker for the Dead, each won the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel. This adept fifth volume in the series (after Xenocide, 1991) continues the story of Ender Wiggin, hero, social conscience and unwitting mass murderer. Here, however, Ender, feeling the weight of his years, plays only a limited role in the desperate attempt to avert the destruction by the Starways Congress of the planet Lusitania and its three intelligent races. Foremost among those at center stage are Peter and Young Valentine, Ender''s "children of the mind," copies of his brother and sister whom he accidentally created on his trip Outside the universe in Xenocide. Also central is Jane, the prickly Artificial Intelligence whose unique ability to use the Outside to transcend the light-speed barrier is key to all attempts to save Ender''s adopted world. Peter, Val, Jane and their companions must criss-cross the galaxy to find new planets for Lusitania''s refugees while trying to influence the politicians and philosophers who have the power to stop the Congress''s approaching war fleet. Readers unfamiliar with earlier Ender novels may have trouble picking up some plot threads. But Card''s prose is powerful here, as is his consideration of mystical and quasi-religious themes, and his ability to write convincing, at times heartrending, scenes of intrafamily conflict is as strong as ever. Though billed as the final Ender novel, this story leaves enough mysteries unexplored to justify another sequel; and Card fans should find that possibility, like this novel, very welcome indeed. Major ad/promo; 200-copy limited leather-bound edition, $200, ISBN 0-312-86191-5.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/939'),
(1126, 'Children of the Storm', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A fast-moving, intrigue-filled plot propels MWA Grand Master Peters''s 15th novel (after 2002''s The Golden One) to feature beloved archeologist and amateur sleuth Amelia Peabody Emerson. The end of WWI offers Amelia, now a grandmother, and her family little respite when mysterious events start to plague friends, allies and coworkers. One person dies after suddenly turning to religion, while others fall victim to sabotage. Valuable artifacts go missing, and Amelia''s son Ramses is lured into a bizarre encounter with a woman who appears to be the living embodiment of the goddess Hathor. Given the growing unrest against British rule in Egypt, Amelia has to wonder if politics are behind the strange occurrences. In addition, the clan has made many enemies over the course of their adventures. While the preface does a good job of outlining the characters and their complicated connections, the previous 14 novels covered a lot of ground that new readers will find challenging to master. Nonetheless, this is an enjoyable read in its own right, powered by evocative depictions of 1919 Egypt and the engaging voice of Amelia herself-a bright, independent woman, who relishes her role as family matriarch. Her affectionate, give-and-take relationship with her Egyptologist husband, Emerson, continues to enchant.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High School-World War I has ended and the Emerson family now includes several children of an entirely new generation. Everyone comes together in Egypt to work on the Emersons'' newest dig. The adults are puzzled as strange, seemingly unrelated events occur: a theft, a murder, the appearance of a woman dressed as a goddess, the sinking of a boat, and attacks on a cousin. This complex series continues with witty dialogue, mysterious twists and turns, and delightful characters. A brief introduction summarizes relationships and provides a broad overview of the series, but it will serve best as a review for fans. Purchase where earlier titles have been popular.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Claudia Moore, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1849'),
(1127, 'The Chill', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure," wrote Ross Macdonald in his 1981\n  <em>\n   Self-Portrait\n  </em>\n  . Nowhere in his work does he better demonstrate this principle than in\n  <em>\n   The Chill\n  </em>\n  , first published in 1964. The plot is one of Macdonald''s most masterfully constructed. Private detective Lew Archer is engaged to trace a missing spouse, who has vanished--apparently of her own free will--only a day into her honeymoon. Archer begins pulling at the threads of the case, and by page 25 they''re already starting to reveal a deeper, darker story involving two murders 20 years apart. As usual, Macdonald''s economical prose propels the reader forward from one action-packed scene to another, while the scenes in turn pile up to paint a rich, complex picture of buried memories, anguished relations between parents and children, the arrogance of the rich, and the search for identity. Then, at the end, one of the author''s best surprise reversals changes the picture''s colors entirely. Even if you''re one of those discerning readers who find Macdonald''s lesser work superior to most other mystery writing (as does this reviewer),\n  <em>\n   The Chill\n  </em>\n  stands out among his books.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Published in 1965, 1963, and 1950, respectively, this trio feature Macdonald''s hard-boiled private detective Lew Archer. The plots involve murder, deceit, blackmail, sex, and all those other goodies that make for great crime stories.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1613'),
(1128, 'The Choice', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his 13th book, bestselling Sparks (At First Sight, etc.) limns the far-reaching implications of several seemingly ordinary choices made by Beaufort, N.C. veterinarian Travis Parker and his next-door neighbor Gabrielle Holland, a physician''s assistant and recent arrival. After an inauspicious first meeting where Gabby accuses Travis''s boxer of impregnating her purebred collie, the two fall hard for each other. Already dating someone else seriously, Gabby is faced with a dilemma: whether to stick with longtime boyfriend Kevin, or get involved with Travis. The first part of the tale paints a vivid picture of her decision-making process and its effects on Travis and Gabby''s lives. That sets up Part II, which takes place 11 years later when Travis faces a life and death decision following a car accident. A tender and moving love story and a quick read, Sparks''s latest does not disappoint.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Holter Graham gives a polished performance with his versatile skills and vocal range as he embraces the roles of Travis Parker, local veterinarian, and Gabby Holland, physician''s assistant. In Part One, Graham captures the exquisite story of their attraction, love, and marriage with a warmth and rhythm that breathes life into the characters. Ten years later in Part Two, Graham portrays Travis''s torment when Gabby falls into a coma after a car accident that is his fault. As Gabby fails to recover, Graham captures Travis''s conflict over a decision he must make--a decision based on a promise Gabby extracted from him before her life took its tragic turn. A compelling story. G.D.W. Â© AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/ MAY 08]\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1947'),
(1129, 'Choke: A Novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Victor Mancini is a ruthless con artist. Victor Mancini is a med-school dropout who''s taken a job playing an Irish indentured servant in a colonial-era theme park in order to help care for his Alzheimer''s-afflicted mother. Victor Mancini is a sex addict. Victor Mancini is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ. All of these statements about the protagonist of\n <em>\n  Choke\n </em>\n are more or less true. Welcome, once again, to the world of Chuck Palahniuk.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Art never comes from happiness." So says Mancini''s mother only a few pages into the novel. Given her own dicey and melodramatic style of parenting, you would think that her son''s life would be chock-full of nothing but art. Alas, that''s not the case. In the fine tradition of Oedipus, Stephen Dedalus, and Anthony Soprano, Victor hasn''t quite reconciled his issues with his mother. Instead, he''s trawling sexual-addiction recovery meetings for dates and purposely choking in restaurants for a few moments of attention. Longing for a hug, in other words, he''s settling for the Heimlich.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thematically, this is pretty familiar Palahniuk territory. It would be a pity to disclose the surprises of the plot, but suffice it to say that what we have here is a little bit of Tom Robbins''s\n <em>\n  Another Roadside Attraction\n </em>\n , a little bit of Don DeLillo''s\n <em>\n  The Day Room\n </em>\n , and, well, a little bit of\n <em>\n  Fight Club\n </em>\n . Just as with\n <em>\n  Fight Club\n </em>\n and the other two novels under Palahniuk''s belt, we get a smattering of gloriously unflinching sound bites, including this skeptical bit on prayer chains: "A spiritual pyramid scheme. As if you can gang up on God. Bully him around."\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether this is the novel that will break Palahniuk into the mainstream is hard to say. For a fourth book, in fact, the ratio of iffy, "dude"-intensive dialogue to interesting and insightful passages is a little higher than we might wish. In the end, though, the author''s nerve and daring pull the whole thing off--just barely. And what''s next for Victor Mancini''s creator? Leave the last word to him, declaring as he does in the final pages: "Maybe it''s our job to invent something better.... What it''s going to be, I don''t know."\n <em>\n  --Bob Michaels\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palahniuk (Fight Club; Invisible Monsters) once again demonstrates his faith in the credo that before things get better, they must get much, much worse. Like previous Palahniuk protagonists, Victor Mancini is young and prematurely cynical, a med school dropout whose eerily detached narration of the banal horrors of everyday existence gives way to a numbed account of nihilistic carnage. Cruising sex-addict meetings for action, Victor enjoys bathroom trysts with nymphomaniacs on short prison furloughs, focused on maximizing his sexual highs. During the working day, he is trapped in a 1734 colonial theme park, where the entire self-medicated staff blearily endures abusive school tours while hiding out from the world. Victor supports his mother, who is in the hospital, stricken with Alzheimer''s; she is wasting away, and despite the misery she put him through in childhood (revealed in an increasingly horrific series of flashbacks), he wants to be a good boy and take care of her. This becomes challenging when Victor is seduced by a strange hospital worker calling herself Dr. Marshall, who shows him his mother''s diary; it describes her self-impregnation by a holy relic she believes to be the foreskin of Jesus. This has a profound effect on Victor, who is stunned by the possibility that there may be some good in him after all. Victor is even more pathetic than Palahniuk''s previous antiheroes, in that the world he creates for himself (a carnivalesque mâ€šlange of theme park, geriatric ward and asylum) is actually more horrific than the one he seeks to escape. Still, the novel showcases the author''s powers of description, character development and attention-getting dialogue handily enough to give this dark meditation on addiction a distinctive and humorous twist. Author tour.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/308'),
(1130, 'The Chomsky Reader', 'Noam Chomsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the 1960s to the present, linguist Chomsky has been a prominent critic of American foreign policy, influential in radical and scholarly circles. This collection offers a broad sampling of Chomsky''s best writing on the subject. The essays are typical Chomsky: long, analytical, probing, and controversial. Some have appeared in earlier collections; others are expanded transcripts of recent lectures. The most familiar are concerned with U.S. policy in Vietnam, Central America, and the Middle East. Editor Peck gives us an overview of Chomsky''s writings in his useful introduction, though he tends to be extravagant in his praise. Even more useful is a long interview with Chomsky himself. Highly recommended for all academic libraries. Thomas A. Karel, Franklin &amp; Marshall Coll. Lib., Lancaster, Pa.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The political and linguistic writings of America''s leading dissident intellectual. He relates his political ideals to his theories about language.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1329'),
(1131, 'Christine', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vintage King...breathtaking...awesome. Carries such momentum the reader musts force himself to slow down. (\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was love at first sight. From the moment seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham saw Christine, he knew he would do anything to possess her. But Christine is no lady. She is Stephen King''s ultimate, blackly evil vehicle of terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/497'),
(1132, 'Christmas Box', 'Richard Paul Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richard Paul Evans originally wrote\n  <em>\n   The Christmas Box\n  </em>\n  as an expression of love for his two daughters, never intending for it to be published. Many Christmas seasons (and a rich publishing contract) later, this touching tale relates the meaning of Christmas in a profound but simple way. Rick, Keri, and their 4-year-old daughter, Jenna, are hired as caretakers and are welcomed into the home of Mary, an ailing widow, just in time for the holidays. Before long, it becomes apparent that Mary cherishes their companionship, and this young family begins to understand that their relationship to Mary is more special than any one of them could have realized. These tender relationships, fraught with real-life struggles, are the backdrop for unraveling a mysterious secret that gently propels the reader through this short story. Unlike most generic Christmas stories, Evans manages to bypass triviality, imbedding these pages with humble truth and emotion. This tiny treasure will cause you to rejoice in the blessings of the season while stirring up a childlike vigor as old profundity is revealed anew. In a season often shrouded in selfishness and materialism, Evans reminds the reader that the only way that we can genuinely love one another is by accepting the greatest gift of love ever given--that of a Father who "so loved His children that He sent His son, that we might someday return to Him."\n  <em>\n   --Jill Heatherly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Self-published in paperback during the Christmas season 1994, Evans''s first novel quickly gained national media attention. Now the cleverly told tale, which the author reputedly wrote for his daughters and which revels in sentimentality, is available in hardcover. The story relates how a young couple, Richard (who narrates) and Keri, accept a position to care for a lonely widow, Mary Parkin, in her spacious Victorian mansion. As Christmas draws near, Mary becomes anxious about Richard''s obsession with success and his failure to make time for his family. She urges him to reconsider his priorities, but he is always too busy to heed her advice. It is only when Mary is on her deathbed and her secret sorrow is revealed through the letter-laden Christmas box of the title that Richard realizes what she has been trying to tell him. The message concerns love, of course, and the strings Evans pulls to vivify it should squeeze sobs from even the stoniest of hearts. It''s notable, however, that unlike many well-known Christmas tales (such as Dickens''s), which carry that message in a basically nonsectarian manner, this is steeped in specific Christian imagery and belief as the author draws on the drama of Jesus as God''s sacrifice for the world''s sins, and of his crucifixion and resurrection. 750,000 first printing; BOMC, QPB, BOMC Homestyle Book Club, BOMC Craft Books Club, BOMC Children''s Book Club alternates; simultaneous S &amp; S audio and S &amp; S Libros En Espanol edition; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2376'),
(1133, 'A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings', 'Charles Dickens &amp; Michael Slater', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Coralie Bickford-Smith''s] recent work for Penguin Classics is...nothing short of glorious Anna Cole Co.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/850'),
(1134, 'The Christmas Pearl', 'Dorothea Benton Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Still spry at ninety-three, Theodora has lived long enough to see her family grow into an insufferable bunch of truculent knuckleheads. Having finally gathered the whole bickering brood together for the holidays at her South Carolina home, the grand matriarch pines wistfully for those extravagant, homey Christmases of her childhood. How she misses the tables groaning with home-cooked goodies, the over-the-top decorations, those long, lovely fireside chats with Pearl, her grandmother''s beloved housekeeper and closest confidante. These days, where is the love and the joy . . . and the peace?\n </p>\n <p>\n  But this is, after all, a magical time. Someone very special has heard Theodora''s pleaâ€”and is about to arrive at her door with pockets full of Gullah magic and enough common sense to transform this Christmas into the miracle it''s truly meant to be.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2375'),
(1135, 'The Christmas Wedding', 'James Patterson &amp; Richard Dilallo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "If you enjoy family stories where the family seems as real as a your next door neighbors, and want to feel a bit of the magic of the holiday season then you''re going to want to pick this book up. Normally when I think of James Patterson I think of action packed thrillers, but he can certainly pull of a nice Christmas time family story as well. Highly recommended!" (\n  <strong>\n   Brenda Castro\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A heartwarming story of family and love with Christmas cheer as an added bonus. This is a quick storyline that will delight readers with bits of humor and tender moments. A good book to brighten any day." (\n  <strong>\n   Pamela Mason, MasonCanyon.blogspot.com.\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A touching and emotional read. James Patterson is mostly noted for his thrillers, but he knows the romance genre too. Not to mention that he throws in a few twists along the way. The characters feel like real people with real problems. They are people I truly came to care about. The storyline flowed beautifully from page to page. I couldn''t put this book down. I wanted to know what would happen next. It''s a fast-paced story with realistic characters. I can honestly say I will miss these characters very much." (\n  <strong>\n   Yvonne, SocratesBookReviews\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A heartwarming story about family, love, and second chances...I enjoyed The Christmas Wedding very much...If you equate his name with thrillers and Alex Cross novels, you are in for a surprise, too." (\n  <strong>\n   Dina, JustAnotherNewsBlog.com\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A story to get you in the Christmas mood with family, snow, weddings and of course love....I kept wondering who the groom was going to be and by the end I was glad she chose who she did...Patterson''s ability to weave a story that''s centered around true-to-life characters is, I''m sure, one of the reasons why he''s a bestselling romance (and suspense!) author." (\n  <strong>\n   Renee, SteelerGirl83.Blogspot.com\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Patterson has had more\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to\n  <em>\n   Guinness World Records\n  </em>\n  . Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson''s books have sold more than 210 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including\n  <em>\n   Kiss the Girls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Along Came a Spider\n  </em>\n  . Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women''s Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes fulltime and lives in Florida with his family.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Richard DiLallo is a former advertising creative director. He has had numerous articles published in major magazines. He lives in Manhattan with his wife.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2360'),
(1136, 'Chrysalids', 'John Wyndham &amp; Christopher Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "One of the most thoughtful post-apocalypse novels ever written. Wyndham was a true English visionary, a William Blake with a science doctorate." -- David Mitchell\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sometimes you just need a bit of soft-core sci-fi, and Wyndhamâ€™s 1950â€™s classic, newly back in print, fully delivers." --\n <em>\n  Thicket Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is quite simply a page-turner, maintaining suspense to the very end and vividly conjuring the circumstances of a crippled and menacing world, and of the fear and sense of betrayal that pervade it. The ending, a salvation of an extremely dubious sort, leaves the reader pondering how truly ephemeral our version of civilization is..." --\n <em>\n  The Boston Globe\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Wyndham] was responsible for a series of eerily terrifying tales of destroyed civilisations; created several of the twentieth century''s most imaginative monsters; and wrote a handful of novels that are rightly regarded as modern classics.â€ â€“\n <em>\n  The Observer\n </em>\n (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œScience fiction always tells you more about the present than the future. John Wyndham''s classroom favourite might be set in some desolate landscape still to come, but it is rooted in the concerns of the mid-1950s. Published in 1955, it''s a novel driven by the twin anxieties of the cold war and the atomic bombâ€¦Fifty years on, when our enemy has changed and our fear of nuclear catastrophe has subsided, his analysis of our tribal instinct is as pertinent as ever.â€ â€“\n <em>\n  The Guardian\n </em>\n (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A]bsolutely and completely brilliantâ€¦The Chrysalids is a top-notch piece of sci-fi that should be enjoyed for generations yet to come.â€ â€“\n <em>\n  The Ottawa Citizen\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohn Wyndham''s novel The Chrysalids is a famous example of 1950s Cold War science fiction, but its portrait of a community driven to authoritarian madness by its overwhelming fear of difference - in this case, of genetic mutations in the aftermath of nuclear war - finds its echoes in every society.â€ â€“\n <em>\n  The Scotsman\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Chrysalids comes heart-wrenchingly close to being John Wyndham''s most powerful and profound work.â€ â€“SFReview.net\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <em>\n  Re-Birth (The Chrysalids)\n </em>\n was one of the first science fiction novels I read as a youth, and several times tempted me to take a piggy census. Returning to it now, more than 30 years later, I find that I remember vast parts of it with perfect clarityâ€¦a book to kindle the joy of reading science fiction. â€“SciFi.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA remarkably tender story of a post-nuclear childhoodâ€¦It has, of course, always seemed a classic to most of its three generations of readers...It has become part of a canon of good books.â€ â€“\n <em>\n  The Guardian,\n </em>\n September 15, 2000\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Chyrsalids\n </em>\n is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of Godâ€™s creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much singing of hymns. Abnormal humans (who are not really human) are also condemned to destructionâ€”unless they succeed in fleeing to the Fringes, that Wild Country where, as the authorities say, nothing is reliable and the devil does his work. David grows up ringed by admonitions: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n At first he does not question. Then, however, he realizes that the he too is out of the ordinary, in possession of a power that could doom him to death or introduce h im to a new, hitherto unimagined world of freedom.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Chrysalids\n </em>\n is a perfectly conceived and constructed work form the classic era o science fiction, a Voltairean philosophical tale that has as much resonance in our own day, when religious and scientific dogmatism are both on the march, as when it was written during the cold war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/155'),
(1137, 'Chupate Esa! (You Suck)', 'Christopher Moore &amp; Victoria Horrillo Ledesma', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Being undead sucks. Literally. Just ask C. Thomas Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything he''s ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfrind, Jody, is a vampire. And surprise! Now he is one, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/416'),
(1138, 'Circle of Friends', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The charm of Binchy''s novels ( Silver Wedding ; Light a Penny Candle ) lies in a seductive readability that draws one through hundreds of pages as surely as a mackerel at the end of a hooked line--contrived plot thickeners and stock characters notwithstanding. In this lengthy story of a friendship and love and loss, there are no lapses or lulls. Benny, plain daughter of a merchant, and Eve, a proud orphan raised by nuns, are close friends growing up in the Irish village of Knockglen in the 1950s. When they go to university in Dublin together, their loyalty is tested by the addition of others to their circle, most notably the beautiful, mysterious Nan, an ambitious young woman determined to rise above her working-class origins. While Nan seizes opportunities, friendships and romances are kindled and damped; ugly duckling Benny becomes a swan, and true love almost conquers all. Everybody has a colorful way with words, and if the prose is sometimes careless, this is still Irish storytelling at its contemporary best; small flaws are easily overlooked in a book that is itself so generous. BOMC featured selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- Binchy transports readers to the village of Knockglen in Ireland to meet Benny, the only child of doting parents; Eve Malone, an orphan raised by nuns; and a host of local characters. The girls form a lasting friendship that continues when they go on to college in Dublin. There they meet beautiful Nan, who tries to hide her poor background and drunken father; Jack Foley, a doctor''s son; and all their university friends. Provincial Knockglen and fast-paced Dublin become intertwined as the girls try to exist in both worlds. A wonderful, readable story of successes and disappointments, intrigues and loyalty, families and friendships, this novel demonstrates that testing values, maintaining relationships, and coming of age are universal struggles.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Katherine Fitch, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1008');
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(1139, 'Circus of the Damned', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The third novel of Hamilton''s Anita Blake series has the petite necromancer fighting a giant cobra and a rogue vampire, Alejandro, who wants her for his human servant. Anita is still resisting the advances of Jean-Claude, St. Louis''s master vampire, but she does need him on her side, if not in her bed. Anita''s reluctant involvement in the odd goings-on at the supernatural Circus of the Damned introduces her to Richard, the werewolf of her dreams, and Larry, her powerful but nervous partner in zombie-raising.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mystery fans will love the tightly plotted, Paretsky-esque action, and horror fans will love just about everything in this unusual series.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n She''s the ''it'' girl for bloodsuckers, werewolves, wereleopards and assorted undead types. (\n <em>\n  News Press\n </em>\n <em>\n  [Fort Myers, FL])\n  <br />\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n One of the most fascinating fictional heroines since Scarlett O''Hara-and a hell of a lot more fun than most. (\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n , starred review)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n [A] gutsy, no-nonsense female unafraid to take on anything that the preternatural world throws her way. (\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/742'),
(1140, 'Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army From the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Citizen Soldiers\n  </em>\n  opens on June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends on May 7, 1945. From the high command (including Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton) on down to the enlisted men, Stephen E. Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews and oral histories from men on both sides who were there. He recreates the experiences of the individuals who fought the battles, the women who served, and the Germans who fought against us.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ambrose reveals the learning process of a great army -- how to cross rivers, how to fight in snow or hedgerows, how to fight in cities, how to coordinate air and ground campaigns, how to fight in winter and on the defensive, how citizens become soldiers in the best army in the world -- all from the point of view of the men.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A masterful biography of the U.S. Army in the European Theater Of Operations,\n  <em>\n   Citizen Soldiers\n  </em>\n  provides a compelling account of the extraordinary stories of ordinary men in their fight for democracy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/993'),
(1141, 'The City and the City', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author China MiÃ©ville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any otherâ€“real or imagined.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador BorlÃº of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.\n</p>\n<p>\n BorlÃº must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszelâ€™s equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, BorlÃº is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead womanâ€™s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.\n</p>\n<p>\n Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984,\n <strong>\n  The City &amp; the City\n </strong>\n is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award\n  <br />\n  Winner of the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novel\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/394'),
(1142, 'City of Bones', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since his first appearance in 1992''s Edgar-winning\n <em>\n  The Black Echo\n </em>\n , Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined Dennis Lehane''s Patrick and Angie, George Pelecanos''s Derek Strange, and Greg Rucka''s Atticus Kodiak in the pantheon of new-school hard-boiled detectives. Rather than giving Bosch a clever gimmick (like Jeffery Deaver''s Lincoln Rhyme, who is a quadriplegic), Michael Connelly embraces the noir archetype: Bosch, an L.A. homicide detective, is a chain-smoking loner who refuses to play by his superiors'' rules. Although he has quit smoking, Harry''s still the same tightlipped outsider, taking each crime as a personal affront as he tries to cleanse his beloved city of the darkness he sees engulfing it.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  City of Bones\n </em>\n , Connelly''s eighth Bosch title, Bosch and his well-dressed partner, Jerry Edgar, are working to identify a child''s skeleton, buried for 20 years in the forest off Hollywood''s Wonderland Drive, and to bring the killer to belated justice. For Bosch this is more than just another homicide, as the mystery child, beaten and abandoned, comes to represent much of what he sees as evil in his city. Add in a tragic love affair with a fellow cop, complications from overzealous media, and the growing feeling that he''s fighting a losing battle about which no one cares, and the usually stoic Bosch is pushed to his limits. This isn''t the strongest plot Connelly has concocted for Bosch, but it leads to an ending the whole series has been building toward. The conclusion may not shock longtime fans, but it will leave them wondering where the series will go from here.\n <em>\n  --Benjamin Reese\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Bosch is at the top of his form which is great news for Connelly fans who might have been wondering how much life the dour, haunted LAPD veteran had left in him. His latest adventure is as dark and angst-ridden as any of Bosch''s past outings, but it also crackles with energy especially in the details of police procedure and internal politics that animate virtually every page. What other crime writer could make such dramatic use of the fact that the front door of a house trailer swings out rather than in, creating problems for a two-man team of detectives? Who else would create to such credible narrative effect an egotistic celebrity coroner who jeopardizes an investigation because she lets a TV camera crew from Court TV follow her around, or an overage female rookie cop so in love with danger that she commits an unthinkable act? When the bones of an abused 12-year-old boy who disappeared in 1980 turn up in the woods above Hollywood (near a street named Wonderland, where former governor Jerry Brown used to live), the case stirs up Bosch''s memories of his own troubled childhood. Also, as his captain so aptly points out, Harry is the LAPD''s prime "shit magnet," an investigator who attracts muck and trouble wherever he goes. So it''s no great surprise when the investigation takes a couple of nasty turns, right up through the last chapter. Connelly is such a careful, quiet writer that he can slow down the story to sketch in some relatively minor characters a retired doctor, a couple who lived through their foster children without missing a beat. (One-day laydown Apr. 16)Forecast: Connelly doesn''t need much help in hitting the charts, but Little, Brown is going all out anyway, with a massive television, radio and print ad campaign, transit ads in New York and a 10-city author tour. Expect blockbuster sales and blockbuster satisfaction.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1355'),
(1143, 'The City of Gold and Lead', 'John Christopher &amp; John/ Burleson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Long ago, the TripodsÂ—huge, three-legged machinesÂ—descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods'' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives. But for a brief time in each person''s lifeÂ—in childhoodÂ—he is not a slave. For Will, his time of freedom is about to endÂ—unless he can escape to the White Mountains, where the possibility of freedom still exists. The Tripods trilogy follows the adventures of Will and his cohorts, as they try to evade the Tripods and maintian their freedom and ultimately do battle against them. The prequel, When the Tripods Came, explains how the Tripods first invaded and gained control of the planet.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Three boys set out on a secret mission to penetrate the City of the Tripods and learn more about these strange beings that rule the earth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1783'),
(1144, 'The Clan of the Cave Bear', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although Jean Auel obviously takes certain liberties with the actions and motivations of all our ancestors, her extensive research into the Ice Age does shine through--especially in the detailed knowledge of plants and natural remedies used by the medicine woman and passed down to Ayla. Mostly, though, this first in the series of four is a wonderful story of survival. Ayla''s personal evolution is a compelling and relevant tale.\n  <em>\n   --Sara Nickerson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Imaginative, exciting."\n  <br />\n  --*The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Jean Auel has performed a minor miracle."\n   <br />\n   --\n  </em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n  <br />\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/998'),
(1145, 'Clandestine', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ellroy has distinguished himself as a superb hard-boiled detective storyteller, and with Clandestine, his reputation will only gain more luster. Set in post-World War II Los Angeles, this crime story features Fred Underhill, an ambitious policeman who loses his badge while investigating a serial murderer. Underhill pursues the investigation on his own and eventually prevails. While these core elements are common to most crime stories, Ellroy uses them without making them clich d. He succeeds by combining skillful characterization, fast-paced action, and lightly restrained sarcasm to present a delightful mystery. Narrator Jeremy Gage is a master of nuance and timing. This should be popular among library patrons; a great addition to mystery collections. Very highly recommended.DRay Vignovich, West Des Moines P.L., IA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Not merely a great hard-boiled crime fiction writer, Ellroy''s developing into one of the great American writers of our time." --\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times Book review\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Our best living mystery writer." --\n  <em>\n   Austin Chronicle\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ellroy''s crime fiction represents a high mark in the genre." --\n  <em>\n   New York Newsday\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ellroy is the master." --\n  <em>\n   San Diego Union-Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1846'),
(1146, 'Clarissa Oakes', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The fifteenth Aubrey-Maturin novel in which Jack finds himself re-united with the Surprise, but dangerously out of touch with his crew All the elements that have made Patrick O''Brian''s astonishing series one of the most highly praised works in contemporary fiction are here in ''Clarissa Oakes'' '' the narrative grip, the impeccable ear for dialogue, the humour and the unsurpassed capacity to create and recreate a rich and true friendship between two men in the late eighteenth-century. Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age and sexual frustration. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship: to his astonishment he finds that in spite of a lifetime''s experience he does not know what the foremost hands or even his own officers are thinking. They know, as he does not, that the Surprise has a stranger aboard: and what they, for their part, do not know is that the stranger is potentially as dangerous as a light in the powder magazine itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/291'),
(1147, 'A Clash of Kings', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n How does he do it?\n <em>\n  George R.R. Martin\n </em>\n ''s high fantasy weaves a spell sufficient to seduce even those who vowed never to start a doorstopper fantasy series again (the first book--\n <em>\n  A Game of Thrones\n </em>\n --runs over 700 pages).\n <em>\n  A Clash of Kings\n </em>\n is longer and even more grim, but Martin continues to provide compelling characters in a vividly real world.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Seven Kingdoms have come apart. Joffrey, Queen Cersei''s sadistic son, ascends the Iron Throne following the death of Robert Baratheon, the Usurper, who won it in battle. Queen Cersei''s family, the Lannisters, fight to hold it for him. Both the dour Stannis and the charismatic Renly Baratheon, Robert''s brothers, also seek the throne. Robb Stark, declared King in the North, battles to avenge his father''s execution and retrieve his sister from Joffrey''s court. Daenerys, the exiled last heir of the former ruling family, nurtures three dragons and seeks a way home. Meanwhile the Night''s Watch, sworn to protect the realm from dangers north of the Wall, dwindle in numbers, even as barbarian forces gather and beings out of legend stalk the Haunted Forest.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sound complicated? It is, but fine writing makes this a thoroughly satisfying stew of dark magic, complex political intrigue, and horrific bloodshed.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The second novel of Martin''s titanic Song of Ice and Fire saga (A Game of Thrones, 1996) begins with Princess Arya Stark fleeing her dead father''s capital of King''s Landing, disguised as a boy. [...] In between [the beginning and the end], her actions map the further course of a truly epic fantasy set in a world bedecked with 8000 years of history, beset by an imminent winter that will last 10 years and bedazzled by swords and spells wielded to devastating effect by the scrupulous and unscrupulous alike. Standout characters besides Arya include Queen Cersei, so lacking in morals that she becomes almost pitiable; the queen''s brother, the relentlessly ingenious dwarf Tyrion Lannister; and Arya''s brother, Prince Brandon, crippled except when he runs with the wolves in his dreams. The novel is notable particularly for the lived-in quality of its world, created through abundant detail that dramatically increases narrative length even as it aids suspension of disbelief; for the comparatively modest role of magic (although with one ambitious young woman raising a trio of dragons, that may change in future volumes)... Martin may not rival Tolkien or Robert Jordan, but he ranks with such accomplished medievalists of fantasy as Poul Anderson and Gordon Dickson. Here, he provides a banquet for fantasy lovers with large appetitesâ€”and this is only the second course of a repast with no end in sight. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/462'),
(1148, 'Clear and Present Danger', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the end of the prologue to\n <em>\n  Clear and Present Danger\n </em>\n , Clancy writes, "And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning--and, once decided, best unseen." In\n <em>\n  Clear and Present Danger\n </em>\n nothing is as clear as it may seem.\n</p>\n<p>\n The president, unsatisfied with the success of his "war on drugs," decides that he wants some immediate success. But after John Clark''s covert strike team is deployed to Colombia for Operation Showboat, the drug lords strike back taking several civilian casualties. The chief executive''s polls plummet. He orders Ritter to terminate their unofficial plan and leave no traces. Jack Ryan, who has just been named CIA deputy director of intelligence is enraged when he discovers that has been left out of the loop of Colombian operations. Several of America''s most highly trained soldiers are stranded in an unfinished mission that, according to all records, never existed. Ryan decides to get the men out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ultimately,\n <em>\n  Clear and Present Danger\n </em>\n is about good conscience, law, and politics, with Jack Ryan and CIA agent John Clark as its dual heroes. Ryan relentlessly pursues what he knows is right and legal, even if it means confronting the president of the United States. Clark is the perfect soldier, but a man who finally holds his men higher than the orders of any careless commander.\n</p>\n<p>\n Along with the usual, stunning array of military hardware and the latest techno-gadgets,\n <em>\n  Clear and Present Danger\n </em>\n further develops the relationships and characters that Clancy fans have grown to love. Admiral James Greer passes the CIA torch to his pupil, Ryan. Mr. Clark and Chavez meet for the first time. Other recurring characters like Robert Ritter and "the President" add continuity to Clancy''s believable, alternate reality. This is Clancy at his best.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a U.S. president decides that drug smuggling has become a "clear and present danger" to national security, the response is a complex and covert military campaign against the "Colombian Cartel." "The dean of techno-thrillers demonstrates once again his mastery of the genre," stated PW .\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/972'),
(1149, 'Cleopatra: A Life', 'Stacy Schiff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. From its opening strains of music, this audiobook of Schiff''s stellar biography of the Egyptian queen rewards the intellect and the senses. As Schiff dusts away history''s spider webs, romance''s distortions, and sexism''s corruptions to reveal the true (or at least the truest possible) portrait of Cleopatra, Robin Miles''s voice is deep, confiding, the perfect instrument to introduce a history that has been variously forgotten, misunderstood, or suppressed. Her enunciation is crisp, her pacing pure charm: she wrings every sentence for meaning, irony, and wit, taking us through pages of description or analysis with a stately pace. A Little, Brown hardcover. (Nov.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For those who think they know enough about Cleopatra or have the enigmatic Egyptian queen all figured out, think again. Schiff, demonstrating the same narrative flair that captivated readers of her Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning VÃ©ra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) (1999), provides a new interpretation of the life of one of historyâ€™s most enduringly intriguing women. Rather than a devastatingly beautiful femme fatale, Cleopatra, according to Schiff, was a shrewd power broker who knew how to use her manifold giftsâ€”wealth, power, and intelligenceâ€”to negotiate advantageous political deals and military alliances. Though long on facts and short on myth, this stellar biography is still a page-turner; in fact, because this portrait is grounded so thoroughly in historical context, it is even more extraordinary than the more fanciful legend. Cleopatra emerges as a groundbreaking female leader, relying on her wits, determination, and political acumen rather than sex appeal to astutely wield her power in order to get the job done. Ancient Egypt never goes out of style, and Cleopatra continues to captivate successive generations. --Margaret Flanagan\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1073'),
(1150, 'The Client', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mark Sway, age 11 but years wiser thanks to a drunken dad who abused his mom, is out in the woods behind his Memphis trailer park teaching his kid brother, Ricky, how to smoke Virginia Slims heisted from Mom''s purse. He''s a pretty upright kid--he''s determined to protect his brother from drugs, and he once defended his mom with a baseball bat.\n</p>\n<p>\n The dangers of smoking rapidly escalate when Mark glimpses a guy trying to commit suicide by carbon monoxide in his car nearby and tries to stop him. The guy is Jerome, a lawyer who tells Mark that his Mafia client has murdered Senator Boyd Boyette and buried him in the concrete under his garage in New Orleans. Then Jerome puts a bullet in his own head. Little Ricky flips out, and so does Barry the Blade Muldanno, who doesn''t want blustery U.S. attorney Reverend Roy Foltrigg to find the corpse and bust him. Caught in a ruthless game between the Mob and the amoral authorities, Mark''s family has no defense in the world except Reggie Love, a 50ish divorcÃ©e who has just turned her life around by becoming a lawyer. Does she have what it takes to help Mark beat the system? The life-or-death chase is on!\n</p>\n<p>\n Mark has seen a lot of movies, and he sees life in cinematic terms. So does Grisham. Even if this novel had never been filmed, it would still be a really good, fast-paced movie. Its literary limitation is also its filmlike virtue:\n <em>\n  The Client\n </em>\n is a rush.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of the bestselling Grisham will be pleased to note that he is once more on Firm ground: his latest legal thriller offers a clever, compelling plot coupled with two singular protagonists sure to elicit readers'' empathy. Eleven-year-old Mark Sway, taking his kid brother for a smoke behind their Memphis trailer park, witnesses the suicide of a lawyer "driven crazy" by a lethal secret. Before he dies, the man confides to Mark where the body of a recently murdered U.S. senator lies buried, and the game''s afoot. Trailed by the police, the FBI and assorted Mafia types (the deceased politico was the victim of "a successful New Orleans street thug"), Mark retains--for one dollar--the services of Reggie Love, a 50ish female lawyer. This uncommon attorney-client relationship adds an affecting, unusually humanistic layer to the novel''s tension-filled events. Mark, raised by a divorced mother and wise beyond his years, thinks chiefly in terms of movies and TV; Reggie, a street-smart survivor of an acrimonious divorce, is often unsure whether to hug or slug her precocious client. True to form, Grisham employs just enough foreshadowing to keep the suspense rolling ("Neither of them could know that . . . "), and propels his action at the requisite breakneck pace. Occasional plot improbabilities and stylistic quibbles--a few fuzzy characterizations; overstatement of already obvious points; Mark''s sporadic adult phraseology--will not deter readers from enjoying a rousing read. 950,000 first printing; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections; Reader''s Digest Condensed Book selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/718'),
(1151, 'Clockwork Orange: The Screenplay', 'Stanley Kubrick &amp; Anthony Burgess', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The screenplay for Stanley Kubrickâ€™s disturbing and exhilarating masterpiece, featuring 800 film stills chosen by the director.\n</p>\n<p>\n This unique illustrated screenplay features 800 still images from â€œA Clockwork Orange,â€ selected by Stanley Kubrick when the film was first released in 1971. As Kubrick comments in his introduction: â€œI have always wondered if there might be a more meaningful way to present a book about a film. To make, as it were, a complete graphic representation of the film, cut by cut, with the dialogue printed in the proper place in relation to the cuts, so that within the limits of still photos and words, an accurate (and I hope interesting) record of a film might be availableâ€¦ This book represents that attempt.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n At their best, screenplays are one of the most dynamic and immediate forms of literature. The screenplay is the blueprint of a film, and itâ€™s the writing, above all, that attracts the director, the stars, and the money. This handsome series of books from ScreenPress presents some of the best writing in contemporary film.\n</p>\n<p>\n Already available from ScreenPress:\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bread and Roses\n </strong>\n , Screenplay by Paul Laverty, 12.95\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Croupier\n </strong>\n , Screenplay by Paul Mayersberg, 12.95\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Full Monty\n </strong>\n , Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, 13.95\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Honest\n </strong>\n , Screenplay by David A. Stewart, 22.95\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  If There Were Demons Then Perhaps There Were Angels\n </strong>\n , Screenplay by William Peter Blatty, 8.95\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Liam\n </strong>\n , Screenplay by Jimmy McGovern, 12.95\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Love and Death on Long Island\n </strong>\n , Screenplay by Richard Kwietniowski , 13.95\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  My Name is Joe\n </strong>\n , Screenplay by Paul Laverty, 13.95\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Ninth Configuration\n </strong>\n , Screenplay by William Peter Blatty, 16.95\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Orphans\n </strong>\n , Screenplay by Peter Mullan, 13.95\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Twin Town\n </strong>\n , Screenplay by Kevin Allen and Paul Durden, 15.95\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Waking Ned Devine\n </strong>\n , Screenplay by Kirk Jones, 13.95\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/65'),
(1152, 'The Closers', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A city that forgets its murder victims is a city lost. This is where we don''t forget," Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch is told by his new boss, as he ends a three-year retirement and rejoins the Los Angeles Police Department at the start of\n <em>\n  The Closers\n </em>\n , the 11th installment of Michael Connelly''s Edgar-winning series. Having long ago demonstrated his knack for cracking previously unsolved homicides, Bosch is assigned to the newly re-branded Open-Unsolved Unit (aka "cold case" squad), and charged with resolving the 17-year-old abduction and slaying of a mixed-race teenager.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebecca Verloren, 16, was discovered missing from her Chatsworth home on a July morning in 1988. Her corpse and the gun that ended her life were later found on a hill behind the house. An autopsy revealed that she''d recently undergone an abortion, and a piece of skin tissue--presumably the killer''s--was found trapped inside the murder weapon. Only now, though, has DNA science matched that tissue to Roland Mackey, a dyslexic 35-year-old tow-truck operator with no obvious connection to the deceased. It''s up to Bosch, once more partnered with Kizmin Rider, to determine whether Mackey offed Becky Verloren, or was at least an accessory to that tragedy. But the more Bosch and Rider dig into this dusty crime, trying in part to determine whether racial animosity might have been involved, the more pain and resistance they encounter. Becky''s white mother maintains the teen''s old bedroom as a shrine, while her shattered father, an African-American chef, has vanished into LA''s homeless community. Of the two original investigators on the case, one has since committed suicide, and Bosch suspects that the other--now a police commander--is helping to keep the lid tight on some old departmental secrets, perhaps linked to our hero''s nemesis, Deputy Chief Irvin S. Irving.\n</p>\n<p>\n Understandably rusty after three years sans shield, Bosch makes his share of personal and professional mistakes here--including one that supplies\n <em>\n  The Closers\n </em>\n with a lethal, plot-turning climax. But the greater problem is that Connelly exhausts so much time and effort following his protagonist through the tedium of modern police procedures, that he neglects what readers have liked more about this series in the past: its persistently deft exploration of Bosch''s lonely, haunted soul (which remains mostly out of sight in this tale), and the author''s frequent flights of lyrical prose (also not much in evidence). Would-be novelists wanting an example of a solidly constructed cop tale need look no further than\n <em>\n  The Closers\n </em>\n . But readers hoping to learn why Connelly is so well-respected in this genre should turn, instead, to previous Bosch titles such as\n <em>\n  The Concrete Blonde\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Angel''s Flight\n </em>\n , or\n <em>\n  City of Bones\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --J. Kingston Pierce\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. LAPD detective Harry Bosch, hero of last year''s\n <em>\n  The Narrows\n </em>\n and other Connelly thrillers, is back on the force after a two-year retirement. Assigned to the Open Unsolved (cold cases) unit and teamed with former partner Kiz Rider, Harry''s first case back involves the killing of a high school girl 17 years before, reopened because of a DNA match to blood found on the murder gun. That premise could be a formula for a routine outing, but not with Connelly. Nor does the author rely on violent action to propel his story; there''s next to none. In Connelly/Bosch''s world, character, context and procedure are what count, and once again the author proves a master at all. The blood on the gun belongs to a local lowlife white supremacist, Roland Mackey; the victim had a black father and a white mother. But the blood indicates only that Mackey had possession of the gun, so how to pin him to the crime? Connelly meticulously leads the reader along with Bosch and Rider as they explore the links to Mackey and along the way connect the initial investigation of the crime to a police conspiracy. Most striking of all, in developments that give this novel astonishing moral force, the pair explore the "ripples" of the long ago crime, how it has destroyed the young girl''s familyâ€”leaving the mother trapped in the past and plunging the father into a nightmare of homelessness and drinkâ€”and how it drives Rider, and especially Bosch, into deeper understanding of their own purposes in life. Connelly comes as close as anyone to being today''s Dostoyevsky of crime literature, and this is one of his finest novels to date, a likely candidate not only for book award nominations but for major bestsellerdom.\n <em>\n  Agent, Phillip Spitzer. Major ad/promo; 11-city author tour.\n </em>\n <em>\n  (May 16)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/894'),
(1153, 'Cloud Atlas', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell''s third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Like Mitchell''s previous works,\n <em>\n  Ghostwritten\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  number9dream\n </em>\n (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), this latest foray relies on a kaleidoscopic plot structure that showcases the author''s stylistic virtuosity. Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose style, each is broken off mid-action and brought to conclusion in the second half of the book. Among the volume''s most engaging story lines is a witty 1930s-era chronicle, via letters, of a young musician''s effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer and a hilarious account of a modern-day vanity publisher who is institutionalized by a stroke and plans a madcap escape in order to return to his literary empire (such as it is). Mitchell''s ability to throw his voice may remind some readers of David Foster Wallace, though the intermittent hollowness of his ventriloquism frustrates. Still, readers who enjoy the "novel as puzzle" will find much to savor in this original and occasionally very entertaining work.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From The New Yorker\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mitchell''s virtuosic novel presents six narratives that evoke an array of genres, from Melvillean high-seas drama to California noir and dystopian fantasy. There is a naÃ¯ve clerk on a nineteenth-century Polynesian voyage; an aspiring composer who insinuates himself into the home of a syphilitic genius; a journalist investigating a nuclear plant; a publisher with a dangerous best-seller on his hands; and a cloned human being created for slave labor. These five stories are bisected and arranged around a sixth, the oral history of a post-apocalyptic island, which forms the heart of the novel. Only after this do the second halves of the stories fall into place, pulling the novel''s themes into focus: the ease with which one group enslaves another, and the constant rewriting of the past by those who control the present. Against such forces, Mitchell''s characters reveal a quiet tenacity. When the clerk is told that his life amounts to "no more than one drop in a limitless ocean," he asks, "Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1174'),
(1154, 'Club Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sookie Stackhouse is having man trouble. Her vampire boyfriend, Bill, has been distant and inattentive lately. Then he announces that he is going on a business trip, which clearly is more than it seems. After a werewolf tries to abduct Sookie at work, Bill''s boss, Eric, tells her that Bill fell under the sway of his--Bill''s, that is--ex, a sexy vamp named Lorena, and has been kidnapped. Eric wants Sookie''s help in getting Bill back, and despite her hurt over Bill''s betrayal, Sookie agrees to go to Jackson, Mississippi, to find her wayward lover. Eric has persuaded Alcide, a dashing werewolf, to get Sookie access to Josephine''s, aka Club Dead, the local hangout of Jackson''s supernatural element. In between dodging kidnappers, the advances of amorous Eric, and her growing feelings for Alcide, Sookie has to find out who kidnapped Bill and figure out a way to rescue him. With some droll touches--Elvis, now a vampire, is Sookie''s faithful guard --\n <em>\n  Club Dead\n </em>\n is ideal for readers who like their vampire fiction light, humorous, and fast-paced.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Horror and humor as seen from the unique perspective of rural America. (Tanya Huff)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/619'),
(1155, 'The Cobra Event', 'Richard Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In New York City in the late ''90s, a 17-year-old girl heads off to her private school even though she has a cold. By art class her nose is gushing mucus and she''s severely disoriented. Within seconds, it seems, she''s in convulsions and, most bizarrely, can''t stop biting herself. All the reader can do is hope she''ll die quickly, but Kate Moran''s body still has a few more disgusting turns to undergo, and Richard Preston--a Jacobean master of ceremonies par excellence--takes us through them in bizarre and bloody detail.\n</p>\n<p>\n Clearly, whatever Kate had was a head cold with a scientific vengeance. Preston''s heroine, Alice Austen, a doctor with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, realizes--in the first of several gripping autopsy scenes--that the girl''s nervous system had been virtually destroyed. So far, only one other person is known to have died in the same way, but he was a homeless man. Austen must connect the two cases, seemingly linked only by the subway, before the media gets hold of them and drums up a paranoia-fest--and before the virus''s creator can kill again.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Cobra Event\n </em>\n is itself a paranoia-fest, a provocative thriller that makes you wonder exactly how much bioterrorism is taking place in the real world. Preston, best known for his terrifying chronicle of the Ebola virus,\n <em>\n  The Hot Zone\n </em>\n , and other impeccably researched nonfictions, is not content to create fast-paced nightmarish scenes. His novel is instead a complex morality tale anchored in uncomfortable fact. Preston is keen to convey the "invisible history" of bioweapons engineering and, equally, to show the unsung heroism of his scientific detectives (along with that of the nurses and technicians who literally sacrifice their lives for medicine). Like their creator, these characters are not without a sense of humor. One calls the manmade virus "the ultimate head cold." Readers will never forget literally dozens of scenes and will never again see the subway, rodents, autopsy knives, and--above all--runny noses in the same light.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?What happens when one crazed scientist takes it upon himself to develop and release a new biological weapon that will "thin out" the human race? A doctor working for the Centers for Disease Control first notices some strange evidence in a young girl''s death. Soon other bodies are arriving at the morgue in similar condition. The police, the FBI, and national medical and science personnel become involved in trying to get to the bottom of the deadly disease that is attacking New York City. Though the details in this novel are fictional, they are based on the history of biological weapons and the advanced genetic engineering and biotechnology that is available today. Despite the use of potentially confusing technical terms, the story line is easy to follow and fast paced. Sections of the narrative that sideline into history and worldwide political events are not crucial to the plot and may be skipped over. Realistically rendered characters hold center stage. The symptoms described in this story are frightening, and often presented in morbidly graphic detail. Fans of the horror genre are bound to enjoy this one.?Anita Short, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/221'),
(1156, 'The Coffin Dancer', 'Jeffery Deaver &amp; Mcintosh &amp; Mcantosh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This return engagement for quadriplegic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme is strong on forensic details as Rhyme tracks an elusive assassin known only by the tattoo that gives this fast-paced thriller its title.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Three witnesses to a murder could put a millionaire arms dealer behind bars for good. When one of them, the co-owner of Hudson Air, is blown up in a plane bombing with the Dancer''s fingerprints all over it, the FBI takes the other witnesses into protective custody. Only Rhyme can decipher a crime scene, read the residue of a bombing, or identify a handful of dirt well enough to keep up with the killer. Helped by Amelia Sachs, his brilliant and able-bodied assistant, Rhyme traces the Dancer through Manhattan streets, airports, and subways. The psychological tension builds rapidly from page one all the way to the stunning and unexpected denouement. At the same time, Jeffery Deaver slowly develops the against-all-odds love affair between Rhyme and Sachs. Fans of Patricia Cornwell and others in the growing subgenre of forensic thrillers will find a lot to enjoy in Deaver''s latest.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Deaver has come a long way since his Rune novels (Manhattan Is My Beat; Death of a Blue Movie Star), and the measure of his growth as a writer is on display in this taut sequel to the bestselling The Bone Collector, starring quadriplegic forensic specialist Lincoln Rhyme. Rhyme is called in to track down a contract killer, known as the Coffin Dancer, who has been hired to eliminate three witnesses in the upcoming federal trial of Philip Hansen. The trial is set to begin just 48 hours from the novel''s (literally) explosive beginning. Rhyme and his beautiful assistant, detective Amelia Sachs, have just that much time to ID the Dancer and keep him from murdering the remaining witnesses. Yet Rhyme has personal reasons to track the Dancer, which come out in just one of the revelations and reversals that punctuate this thriller like a string of firecrackers. The pace, energized by Deaver''s precise attention, never flags; and if the romantic angle is a little obvious (Rhyme''s seeming concern for one of the Dancer''s female targets sparks Amelia''s jealousy), Deaver manages to renovate many of the hoariest conventions of the ticking-clock-serial-murder subgenre. Another original renovation is his Nero Wolfe-ish Rhyme?a detective who lives the life of the mind by necessity, not choice, and who thinks of everything but can''t even pick up a phone without help. Trust Deaver''s superb plotting and brisk, no-nonsense prose to spin fresh gold from tired straw. Literary Guild main selection; Doubleday Book Club featured alternate; Reader''s Digest Condensed Book Club.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1776'),
(1157, 'Cold Service', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When his buddy Hawk is beaten within an inch of his life, Spenser infiltrates a ruthless mob in the name of friendshipÂ—and revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1136'),
(1158, 'Cold Truth', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An uncommonly crafty serial killer challenges two crime-fighting women with problematic pasts in the first of a new romantic suspense trilogy from RITA-nominee Stewart (\n  <em>\n   Dead End\n  </em>\n  ). In a tantalizing prologue, Regan Landry, the daughter of a recently murdered famous true crime writer, discusses her father''s files of unsolved cases in a TV interview, which inspires a globe-trotting mass murderer to return to the small Jersey shore town where his killing spree began. It''s also home to police detective Cassandra Reilly, whose entire family was slaughtered 26 years beforeâ€”by a killer who''d been caught. Or had he? As the new body count climbs, Cassie and Regan, paired with two suitably strong yet sensitive FBI agents, gradually unravel an obsession-rooted mystery spanning continents and decades, in which nearly everyone could be a suspect. As in most of Stewart''s work, sex is minimal; emotional entanglements focus as strongly on family ties as romantic love. But the author''s flair for complex characterization makes both of the book''s professional-turned-personal relationships at least as intriguing and enjoyable as its subtle suspense.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  TRUTH HAS DEADLY CONSEQUENCES\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Twenty-six years ago, even before a series of brutal murders rocked the idyllic town of Bowers Inlet, Cassie Burke lost her parents, her sister, and nearly her own life to a transient befriended by her father. Back then, Cassie was a scared kidâ€“now sheâ€™s a homicide cop. Back then, the suspect was caught and convictedâ€“he died in prison. But now the killing has started again. And all signs indicate that the Bayside Strangler has come back for more.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  With too many victims and too few suspects, Cassie has her hands full investigating the case, while working through the old trauma it has brought to the surface. Luckily, FBI agent Rick Cisco is dispatched to lend support. Together, Cassie and Rick must uncover the link between the dark past and the dangerous present to bring this small townâ€™s long nightmare to an end. If they fail, an elusive fiend will slip back into the shadows . . . to watch and waitâ€“and kill another day.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In matters of crime, there are many versions of the truth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1931'),
(1159, 'Collected Works of Rudyard Kippling', 'Rudyard Kippling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1619');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(1160, 'Colonel Roosevelt', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. When he toured Europe in 1910 as plain â€œColonel Roosevelt,â€ he was hailed as the most famous man in the world. Crowned heads vied to put him up in their palaces. â€œIf I see another king,â€ he joked, â€œI think I shall bite him.â€ Had TR won his historic â€œBull Mooseâ€ campaign in 1912 (when he outpolled the sitting president, William Howard Taft), he might have averted World War I, so great was his international influence. Had he not died in 1919, at the early age of sixty, he would unquestionably have been reelected to a third term in the White House and completed the work he began in 1901 of establishing the United States as a model democracy, militarily strong and socially just.This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awardâ€“winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, is itself the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, it recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history. What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassinâ€™s bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine?Colonel Roosevelt begins with a prologue recounting what TR called his â€œjourney into the Pleistoceneâ€â€”a yearlong safari through East Africa, collecting specimens for the Smithsonian. Some readers will be repulsed by TRâ€™s bloodlust, which this book does not prettify, yet there can be no denying that the Colonel passionately loved and understood every living thing that came his way: The text is rich in quotations from his marvelous nature writing.Although TR intended to remain out of politics when he returned home in 1910, a fateful decision that spring drew him back into public life. By the end of the summer, in his famous â€œNew Nationalismâ€ speech, he was the guiding spirit of the Progressive movement, which inspired much of the social agenda of the future New Deal. (TRâ€™s fifth cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt acknowledged that debt, adding that the Colonel â€œwas the greatest man I ever knew.â€)Then follows a detailed account of TRâ€™s reluctant yet almost successful campaign for the White House in 1912. But unlike other biographers, Edmund Morris does not treat TR mainly as a politician. This volume gives as much consideration to TRâ€™s literary achievements and epic expedition to Brazil in 1913â€“1914 as to his fatherhood of six astonishingly different children, his spiritual and aesthetic beliefs, and his eager embrace of other culturesâ€”from Arab and Magyar to German and American Indian. It is impossible to read Colonel Roosevelt and not be awed by the manâ€™s universality. The Colonel himself remarked, â€œI have enjoyed life as much as any nine men I know.â€Morris does not hesitate, however, to show how pathologically TR turned upon those who inherited the power he cravedâ€”the hapless Taft, the adroit Woodrow Wilson. When Wilson declined to bring the United States into World War I in 1915 and 1916, the Colonel blasted him with some of the worst abuse ever uttered by a former chief executive. Yet even Wilson had to admit that behind the Rooseveltian will to rule lay a winning idealism and decency. â€œHe is just like a big boyâ€”there is a sweetness about him that you canâ€™t resist.â€ That makes the story of TRâ€™s last year, when the â€œboyâ€ in him died, all the sadder in the telling: the conclusion of a life of Aristotelian grandeur.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1178'),
(1161, 'The Colonels', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1535'),
(1162, 'Colorado Kid', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n DeMunn offers an appropriately lighthearted reading of this surprisingly toothless mystery from King. The prerequisite is the ability to handle the pronounced Maine accent the book demands, as it features a pair of veteran newspaper reporters from an island off the state''s coast relating a story to an eager young intern. DeMunn handles the old men''s colloquialisms with consistency and ease while the two take turns spinning the tale of "the Colorado Kid," a man found dead on a local beach years ago without any identification or any feasible reason for being there. With its regional flavor and chummy protagonists, the book never lacks charm, and the story is intriguing. It hardly delivers the kind of noir tale that the first entry in the Hard Case Crime series would lead one to expect, but DeMunn does a more than adequate job of narrating this cozy mystery that will leave listeners not so much shocked as pleasantly perplexed.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thereâ€™s nothing like a good noir crime novel, and\n <em>\n  The Colorado Kid\n </em>\n is nothing like a good noir crime novel. Kingâ€™s refusal to play by the time-honored rules of the genre exasperated critics, who might have been more forgiving had King delivered a compelling story. The plot, related by two crusty newspapermen entirely in conversation, develops at a glacial pace, and the charactersâ€™ exaggerated Yankee accents bog down the dialogue. Granted, the storyâ€™s endearing protagonists won over a few reviewers, but even the most generous critics were forced to concede the bookâ€™s many flaws.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/551'),
(1163, 'The Colour of Magic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers. But just because the Disc is different doesn''t mean that some things don''t stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death, is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/298'),
(1164, 'Columbine', 'Dave Cullen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this remarkable account of the April 20, 1999, Columbine High School shooting, journalist Cullen not only dispels several of the prevailing myths about the event but tackles the hardest question of all: why did it happen? Drawing on extensive interviews, police reports and his own reporting, Cullen meticulously pieces together what happened when 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 13 people before turning their guns on themselves. The media spin was that specific students, namely jocks, were targeted and that Dylan and Eric were members of the Trench Coat Mafia. According to Cullen, they lived apparently normal lives, but under the surface lay an angry, erratic depressive (Klebold) and a sadistic psychopath (Harris), together forming a combustible pair. They planned the massacre for a year, outlining their intentions for massive carnage in extensive journals and video diaries. Cullen expertly balances the psychological analysisâ€”enhanced by several of the nation''s leading experts on psychopathologyâ€”with an examination of the shooting''s effects on survivors, victims'' families and the Columbine community. Readers will come away from Cullen''s unflinching account with a deeper understanding of what drove these boys to kill, even if the answers aren''t easy to stomach.\n <em>\n  (Apr. 6)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Many reviewers were more concerned with coming to grips with the attack rather than assessing the book, but their concern may be a testament to Cullenâ€™s work. His reporting fundamentally reframes the event: Columbine, he writes, should be thought of as a failed bombing rather than a school shooting. Furthermore, much of the conventional wisdom about how to prevent such attacksâ€”essentially, watch out for pimply outcasts with a grudgeâ€”is confounded by an investigation into Harrisâ€™s and Kleboldâ€™s actual lives. Most critics, with Janet Maslin a notable exception, thought that Cullenâ€™s account helps us to better wring meaning from the tragedy. In sum, Columbine â€œis an excellent work of media criticism, showing how legends become truths through continual citationâ€ (New York Times Book Review).\n <br />\n Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1294'),
(1165, 'Coming Home', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In the wake of his wifeâ€™s murder, agent Grady Shields turned his back on the FBIâ€”and everything elseâ€”to retreat into the vast solitude of Montana, grieve for his lost love, and forget the world. But after years in seclusion, his sisterâ€™s wedding draws him to St. Dennis, a peaceful town on the Chesapeake Bay. Though he swears he isnâ€™t interested in finding love again, Grady canâ€™t ignore the mutual sparks that fly when he meets Vanessa Keaton.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although her past was marked by bad choices, Vanessa has found that coming to St. Dennis is the best decision sheâ€™s ever made. Bling, her trendy boutique, is a success with tourists as well as with the townspeople. Sheâ€™s made friends, has a home she loves, and has established a life for herself far from the nightmare she left behind. The last thing sheâ€™s looking for is romance, but the hot new man in town is hard to resist. And when Vanessaâ€™s past catches up with her, Grady finds that heâ€™s unwilling to let her become a victim again. As together they fight her demons, Grady and Vanessa discover that life still holds some surprises and that love doesnâ€™t always have to hurt.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mariah Stewart is the award-winning author of the Last series:\n  <strong>\n   Last Look, Last Words,\n  </strong>\n  and L\n  <strong>\n   ast Breath;\n  </strong>\n  the Truth series:\n  <strong>\n   Cold Truth, Hard Truth, Dark Truth,\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Final Truth;\n  </strong>\n  and the Dead series:\n  <strong>\n   Dead Even, Dead Wrong, Dead Certain,\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Dead End\n  </strong>\n  ; as well as\n  <strong>\n   Forgotten,\n  </strong>\n  Until Dark, and T\n  <strong>\n   he President''s Daughter\n  </strong>\n  She is the recipient of the Golden Leaf Award and the Award of Excellence presented by the Colorado Romance Writers, and has been a finalist for the Holt Medallion. Her books have been nominated for several awards from . Romantic Times magazine, including Best Contemporary Romance and Best Contemporary Novel. Stewart is a native of Hightstown, New Jersey, and lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and their two daughters.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Chapter One\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  At 6:02 p.m. on a Tuesday evening, Vanessa Keaton turned the key in the back door lock of her sweet little boutique on Charles Street and flicked off the lights. Foot traffic had been scarce, and would be, she knew, for another two weeks, at least until the St. Dennis Secret Garden Tour brought the first of the serious visitors to town. And that was just fine with her. Once the tourist season began in earnest, there would be fewer opportunities for dinners with friends or for closing early to enjoy slow walks through the town she had come to call her own.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  She turned the dead bolt on the door leading down into the basement, then let herself out through the front and locked that door behind her as well. She paused to take a deep breath of the spring fragrance which she found unique to St. Dennis: salt from the Bay mixed with the scent of the hyacinths, daffodils, and early tulips planted in the wooden barrelsâ€”?compliments of the garden clubâ€”that stood outside each of the shops along Charles Street. The very colors of the flowers said spring to her: purples and pinks, yellows and whites. Just to see them made her smile.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  She stepped back to take a good long look at the window sheâ€™d spent most of the day designing. Was it too early to display the tennis whites and the pastels that many of the local ladies liked to sport while golfing at the new country club outside of town? Maybe she should move those items to the smaller windows on the side of the shop, and dress her mannequins in something other than sportswear. Maybe those pretty cocktail dresses she got in from New York last week, and maybe a few of those darling evening bags from that designer she found in Cape May over the winter.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The promise of warm weather put a bounce in her step, and as she crossed the street, visions of all the new items sheâ€™d recently ordered for Bling danced in her head.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œStep lively there, miss,â€ the driver of the car that had stopped to let her cross called out. â€œOr Iâ€™ll have to arrest you for jaywalking.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOh, you . . .â€ Vanessa laughed. â€œWhy arenâ€™t you out chasing bank robbers or car thieves?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThere hasnâ€™t been a bank robbed in St. Dennis for as long as Iâ€™ve lived here.â€ Gabriel Beckâ€”chief of police and Vanessaâ€™s half brotherâ€”pulled his car to the side of the road and activated his flashing lights. â€œAnd the last report of a stolen car we received turned out to be Wes Taylorâ€™s fifteen-year-old son sneaking out in the middle of the night to see his girlfriend.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSlow day, eh, Beck?â€ She walked over to the car and leaned into the open passenger-side window.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJust another day in paradise.â€ He hastened to add, â€œNot that thereâ€™s anything wrong with that.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWell, wait another few weeks. Once the tourists start pouring into town, youâ€™ll be wishing for a day like this, when you can cruise around town in your spiffy new official police-chief car and stop to chat with the locals.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOnly way to stay in touch, kiddo.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWell, I admit I like the calm before the storm. I like to be able to close up shop at six and have the evenings to myself. I know it wonâ€™t lastâ€”and Iâ€™m grateful that my shop does so well. But itâ€™s nice to have some quiet days to enjoy this glorious weather before the crowds arrive.â€ She stood to wave to the driver of a passing car. â€œSo whereâ€™s the fiancÃ©e?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI dropped her off at BMI early this morning. Sheâ€™s on her way to Montana to see her brother.â€ He glanced at his watch. â€œActually, she should be arriving at his place anytime now.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIs this her brother the hermit?â€ The one I like to think of as Mountain Man?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beck nodded. â€œSheâ€™s hoping to talk him into walking her down the aisle.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYour weddingâ€™s in five weeks.â€ Vanessa frowned. â€œIsnâ€™t she cutting it a bit close?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œShe already asked her other brother, Andy, and heâ€™s on board. But she wants them both to give her away, since their dad died last year.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWell, I wish her luck with that.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYeah, me, too. I offered to go with her, but she thought sheâ€™d have a better chance on her own. Mia doesnâ€™t think heâ€™s left his place for any length of time since their dadâ€™s funeral. Weâ€™ll see.â€ He didnâ€™t appear optimistic. â€œSo where are you off to now?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIâ€™m meeting Steffie for dinner.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI donâ€™t think sheâ€™s closed up yet. There was a group in town this afternoon for a lecture over at the Historical Society. From the crowd gathered outside Steffieâ€™s, Iâ€™d say they all stopped at her place for ice cream before getting back on their bus.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThanks for the tip. Iâ€™ll walk on down and see if I can give her a hand.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYou just want ice cream,â€ he teased, and put the car in drive.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYou know what I always say.â€ She stepped back onto the curb. â€œEat dessert first.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  She waved good-bye as he pulled away, and glanced back at Bling, the front window dressing still on her mind. She mentally slapped herself on the forehead. Duh. The display should reflect the upcoming wedding. Pretty dresses and shoes to wear to the event. Flowersâ€”maybe some terra-cotta pots planted with something colorful across the front of the window. Pans?ies, maybe. Vases of budding flowering cherry in the corners. Lots of white chiffon, puffed like clouds . . .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was less than a ten-minute walk from Bling to Steffie Wylerâ€™s ice-cream shop. Her arms swinging, Vanessa strolled along, marveling, as she always did, at the twists and turns her life had taken since she first arrived in St. Dennis. It was hard to believe that just three short years ago, sheâ€™d been destitute and exhausted mentally and physically from the stress of removing herself from a marriage that had started to go bad even before the petals had begun to drop from the yellow roses sheâ€™d carried on her wedding day. Even now, the mere sight of yellow roses could make her knees go weak.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  That was then, she reminded herself sternly. This is now. No need to go back to that place and time. Keep the focus on all the good things that have happened since I came to St. Dennis.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Finding that she had a half brotherâ€”finding Beckâ€”was probably the best thing that had ever happened to her. That he and his father, Hal Garrity, had welcomed her so warmly, had urged her to stay, and had offered to help her start up a business in a storefront that Hal owned just when St. Dennis was emerging as a tourist attraction . . . well, who could have foreseen all that happening?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Timing is everything, she reminded herself. Everyone knows that.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  She waved through the window of Lolaâ€™s CafÃ© at Jimmy, one of Lolaâ€™s geriatric waiters, and passed Petals &amp; Posies, the flower shop next door, where tall galvanized steel containers outside held long branches of blooming forsythia and pussy willow, and the windows held the eye with a rainbow display of cut tulips and daffodils.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Next to Petals &amp; Posies, at the corner, was Cuppachino, where many of the townies gathered first thing in the morning for coffee, the latest gossip, and to watch the news on the big-screen TV that hung on the side wall before heading off to their respective mornings. Through the screened door, propped open to encourage the evening breeze to enter, Vanessa noticed Grace Sinclair, the owner and editor of the local weekly paper, the St. Dennis Gazette, at one of the front tables. She was deep in conversation with Amelia Vandergrift, the president of the garden club. Gathering tidbits for a piece on the upcoming tour, no doubt, to remind everyone to buy tickets to the event. Vanessa considered Grace, a white-haired septuagenarian with unlimited energy who knew everyone and everything, the townâ€™s number one cheerleader. Secretly, Vanessa attributed half of what sheâ€™d learned about St. Dennis to Hal, and the other half to Grace Sinclairâ€™s weekly editorials about the community.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  She rounded the corner of Charles and Kellyâ€™s Point Road, and moments later, passed the municipal building, with its new wing that housed the police department. She noted that Beckâ€™s car had not yet returned to its designated parking space.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Probably out doing what he does best, she mused. Reassuring the locals that all is just skippy in St. Dennis.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the end of the road, right where it Tâ€™d into the wooden boardwalk that ran next to the Bay, stood One Scoop or Two, the onetime crabberâ€™s shanty Steffie Wyler had turned into a charming ice-cream parlor. Seeing the crowd gathered around the tables out front of the small structure, Vanessa quickened her step. She excused herself to those patrons waiting patiently in line, smiling as she walked around them and between the two freezer cases to grab an apron off the pegs that hung behind the cash register.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI can help the next person in line,â€ Vanessa announced. She slipped on a pair of thin, clear plastic gloves as a pleasant white-haired gentleman stepped up to place his order.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI owe you big-time, babe,â€ Steffie whispered in Vanessaâ€™s ear on her way to the cash register.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYes, you do. And youâ€™ll pay up.â€ Vanessa smiled and turned to the customer. â€œSir, did you want the blackberry or the chocolate on the bottom?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thirty minutes and four dozen customers later, the crowd had been served and the last cone dipped. When the buses departed, Steffie sank into a chair at one of the small tables that stood along the outside wall.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2408'),
(1166, 'The Coming of the Third Reich', 'Richard J. Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n On March 30, 1933, two months after Hitler achieved power, Paul Nikolaus, a Berlin cabaret comedian, wrote disconsolately, "For once, no joke. I am taking my own life.... [U]nfortunately I have fallen in love with my Fatherland. I cannot live in these times." How Germans could remain in love with their fatherland under Nazism and even contribute willingly to its horrific extremism is the subject of Cambridge historian Evans''s gripping if overwhelmingly detailed study, the first of three projected volumes. Readers watch a great and historic culture grow grotesquely warped from within, until, in 1933, a dictatorial state was imposed upon the ruins of the Weimar republic. A host of shrill demagogues had, in the preceding decades, become missionaries to an uneasy coalition of the discontented, eager to subvert Germany''s democratic institutions. This account contrasts with oversimplified diagnoses of how Nazism succeeded in taking possession of the German psyche. Evans asserts that Hitler''s manipulative charisma required massive dissatisfaction and resentment available to be exploited. Nazism found convenient scapegoats in historic anti-Semitism, the shame of an imposed peace after WWI and the weakness of an unstable government alien to the disciplined German past. Although there have been significant recent studies of Hitler and his regime, like Ian Kershaw''s brilliant two volumes, Evans (In Hitler''s Shadow, etc.) broadens the historic perspective to demythologize how morbidly fertile the years before WWI were as an incubator for Hitler. 31 illus., 18 maps.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the first volume in a projected three-volume history of Nazi Germany. Cambridge history professor Evans states clearly that this is a work aimed at general readers who hope to gain a fuller and deeper understanding of the course and causes of the Nazi rise to power. Although he breaks no new ground, Evans has written a highly readable and comprehensive account. Thankfully, he does not fall into the trap of looking for proto-Nazis as far back as Luther; however, Evans credibly asserts that the roots of National Socialism can be uncovered in the Germany of Bismarck, which had all of the stresses and tensions of a rapidly modernizing society. While acknowledging that strains of virulent nationalism and anti-Semitism were prevalent in other European nations, Evans shows that these tendencies combined with other vulnerabilities in Germany in an especially volatile mix. This is a first-rate narrative history that informs and educates and may inspire readers to delve even deeper into the subject.\n <em>\n  Jay Freeman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1271'),
(1167, 'The Commodore', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n After several installments of gallivanting around the South Seas, Aubrey and Maturin return home to England, where the surgeon-cum-intelligence-agent discovers that his wife has disappeared. As if such a domestic crisis weren''t enough, the intrepid pair are also dispatched to the Gulf of Guinea (to suppress the slave trade) and to Ireland (to rebuff an impending French invasion.) O''Brian''s stunning range, coupled with his mind-bending command of minutiae, explain why  James Hamilton-Paterson has called him "the Homer of the Napoleonic Wars."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Having spent 16 previous volumes so wonderfully delineating his pair of 18th-century heroes, Captain Jack Aubrey and physician/secret agent Stephen Maturin, and the world in which they live, O''Brian apparently feels that series fans will be delighted to share any aspect of their lives. He''s probably right. In this 17th seagoing adventure (after The Wine-Dark Sea), O''Brian successfully manages the trick of devoting much of the book to matters more domestic than naval. Stephen''s words to Jack''s wife, Sophie, hardly smell of gunpowder and brine: "''...that was a sumptuous feast you gave us.... I returned to the venison pasty not once but three times.''" Jack is greeted with an unexpected promotion to full Commodore when he arrives back in England. Meanwhile, Stephen finds that his wife, Diane, has run away because of her guilt over the apparent autism of their young daughter, whom Stephen meets for the first time, and with whom he is painfully unable to communicate. When next they head out to sea, both men depart under clouds: a jealousy-induced disagreement with Sophie weighs on Jack''s mind, while plotting by Stephen''s enemies has put his fortune and friends in jeopardy. Re-engaging in the Napoleonic Wars, the new Commodore takes his motley and often fractious squadron on a foray to disrupt slave traders in the Gulf of Guinea and then to the seas off Ireland to engage the French. As always, O''Brian tells his tale with great historical and nautical accuracy. Those who have sailed these seas before will happily go along on this latest voyage.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/295'),
(1168, 'Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine', 'Thomas Paine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Without...Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain."\n <br />\n -John Adams\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine written by legendary author Thomas Paine is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Thomas Paine is highly recommended. Published by Classic House Books and beautifully produced, Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone''s personal library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/307'),
(1169, 'The Complete Grimm&#39;s Fairy Tales', 'Wilhelm Grimm;Alfred William Hunt;James Stern;Josef Scharl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way childrenâ€”and adultsâ€”learn about the vagaries of the real world. Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, HÃ¤nsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood), and Briar-Rose (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) are only a few of more than 200 enchanting characters included here. Lyrically translated and beautifully illustrated, the tales are presented just as Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm originally set them down: bold, primal, just frightening enough, and endlessly engaging.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/694'),
(1170, 'The Complete Idiot&#39;s Guide to Amazing Sex', 'Sari Locker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Most people know that thereâ€™s more to sex than the missionary position. But to make sex really hot, some people need a little guidance. Thatâ€™s where acclaimed sex educatorâ€”and WCBS-TV relationship correspondentâ€”Sari Locker steps in.\n  <em>\n   The Complete Idiotâ€™s Guide to Amazing Sex, Third Edition\n  </em>\n  , has fresh advice on how readers can make smart sexual choices, cast aside inhibitions, and keep their sex life exciting well into their golden years. Readers get new and updated chapters on:\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Current sexual trends and attitudes\n  <br />\n  â€¢ Sex within marriage and long-term relationships\n  <br />\n  â€¢ Body image, obesity, and plastic surgery and their effect on sexuality\n  <br />\n  â€¢ Exciting techniques for reaching multiple orgasms for men and women\n  <br />\n  â€¢ Tips on specific sexual activities, including playful ideas on locations and toys\n  <br />\n  â€¢ Plus an 8-page full-color photographic insert of Sariâ€™s eight original sexual positions\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sari Locker is a sexuality and relationship educator and therapist, TV and radio personality, and lecturer who frequently appears on such programs as\n  <em>\n   Today, CNN, Late Night With Conan Oâ€™Brien\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Howard Stern Show\n  </em>\n  . Her other books include\n  <em>\n   Sari Says: The Real Dirt on Everything from Sex to School\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Complete Idiotâ€™s Guide to Being Sexy\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1630'),
(1171, 'Comstock Lode', 'Louis L&#39;amour', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vulturesâ€”they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway, a radiantly beautiful actress driven by an unfulfilled need. Two fiercely independent spirits, together they rose above the challenges of the Comstock to stake a bold claim on the future.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures -- they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway, a radiantly beautiful actress driven by an unfulfilled need. Two fiercely independent spirits, together they rose above the challenges of the Comstock to stake a bold claim on the future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1703'),
(1172, 'The Concrete Blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his female victims. Now with a single faultless shot, Detective Harry Bosch thinks he has ended the city''s nightmare. But the dead man''s widow is suing Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man-- an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker''s macabre signature. So for the second time, Harry must hunt down a death-dealer who is very much alive, before he strikes again. It''s a blood-tracked quest that will take Harry from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go-- the darkness of his own heart. With The Concrete Blonde, Edgar Award-winning author Michael Connelly has hit a whole new level in his career, creating a breathtaking thriller that thrusts you into a blistering courtroom battle-- and a desperate search for a sadistic killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1350'),
(1173, 'A Confederacy of Dunces', 'John Kennedy Toole &amp; Walker Percy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole''s tragicomic tale,\n <em>\n  A Confederacy of Dunces\n </em>\n . This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius''s quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.\n</p>\n<p>\n Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius''s path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through\n <em>\n  A Confederacy of Dunces\n </em>\n are as complicated as anything you''ll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Narrator Barrett Whitener renders Toole''s cast of caricatures with verve enough to satisfy admirers. Toole wrote this novel in Puerto Rico during a hitch in the U.S. Army. In 1966 it was rejected by Simon &amp; Schuster. In 1969 Toole committed suicide. Toole''s mother then tried to get it published. After seven years of rejection she showed it to novelist Walker Percy, under whose encouragement it was published by Louisiana State University Press. Many critics praised it as a comic masterpiece that memorably evokes the city of New Orleans and whose robust protagonist is a modern-day Falstaff, Don Quixote, or Gargantua. Toole''s prose is energetic, and his talent, had it matured, may have produced a masterpiece. However, listeners who do not feel charmed or amused by a fat, flatulent, gluttonous, loud, lying, hypocritical, self-deceiving, self-centered blowhard who masturbates to memories of a dog and pretends to profundity when he is only full of beans are not likely to survive the first cassette. For fans.?Peter Josyph, New York\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/172'),
(1174, 'The Confession', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An innocent man is about to be executed.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Only a guilty man can save him.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesnâ€™t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesnâ€™t care. He just canâ€™t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved when the verdict is guilty. He laughs when the police and prosecutors congratulate themselves. He is content to allow an innocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to be executed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted DontÃ© Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; DontÃ© is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do whatâ€™s right and confess.\n</p>\n<p>\n But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that theyâ€™re about to execute an innocent man?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1266'),
(1175, 'Confessions of a Shopaholic', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you''ve ever paid off one credit card with another, thrown out a bill before opening it, or convinced yourself that buying at a two-for-one sale is like\n <em>\n  making\n </em>\n money, then this silly, appealing novel is for you. In the opening pages of\n <em>\n  Confessions of a Shopaholic\n </em>\n , recent college graduate Rebecca Bloomwood is offered a hefty line of credit by a London bank. Within a few months, Sophie Kinsella''s heroine has exceeded the limits of this generous offer, and begins furtively to scan her credit-card bills at work, certain that she couldn''t have spent the reported sums.\n</p>\n<p>\n In theory anyway, the world of finance shouldn''t be a mystery to Rebecca, since she writes for a magazine called\n <em>\n  Successful Saving\n </em>\n . Struggling with her spendthrift impulses, she tries to heed the advice of an expert and appreciate life''s cheaper pleasures: parks, museums, and so forth. Yet her first Saturday at the Victoria and Albert Museum strikes her as a waste. Why? There''s not a price tag in sight.\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  It kind of takes the fun out of it, doesn''t it? You wander round, just looking at things, and it all gets a bit boring after a while. Whereas if they put price tags on, you''d be far more interested. In fact, I think all museums should put prices on their exhibits. You''d look at a silver chalice or a marble statue or the\n  <em>\n   Mona Lisa\n  </em>\n  or whatever, and admire it for its beauty and historical importance and everything--and then you''d reach for the price tag and gasp, "Hey, look how much this one is!" It would really liven things up.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Eventually, Rebecca''s uncontrollable shopping and her "imaginative" solutions to her debt attract the attention not only of her bank manager but of handsome Luke Brandon--a multimillionaire PR representative for a finance group frequently covered in\n <em>\n  Successful Saving\n </em>\n . Unlike her opposite number in\n <em>\n  Bridget Jones''s Diary\n </em>\n , however, Rebecca actually seems too scattered and spacey to reel in such a successful man. Maybe it''s her Denny and George scarf. In any case, Kinsella''s debut makes excellent fantasy reading for the long stretches between white sales and appliance specials.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Add this aptly titled piffle to the ranks of pink-covered girl-centric fiction that has come sailing out of England over the last two years. At age 25, Rebecca Bloomwood has everything she wants. Or does she? Can her career as a financial journalist, a fab flat and a closet full of designer clothes lessen the blow of the dunning letters from credit card companies and banks that have been arriving too quickly to be contained by the drawer in which Rebecca hides them? Although her romantic entanglements tend toward the superficial, there is that wonderful Luke Brandon of Brandon Communications: handsome, intelligent, the 31st-richest bachelor according to Harper''s and actually possessed of a personality that is more substance than style. Too bad that Rebecca blows it whenever their paths cross. Will Rebecca learn to stop shopping before she loses everything worthwhile? When faced with the opportunity to do good for others and impress Luke, will she finally measure up? Rebecca is so unremittingly shallow and Luke is so wonderful that readers may find themselves rooting for the heroine not to get the manAalthough, since Shakespeare''s time, there''s rarely been any doubt concerning how romantic comedies will end. There''s a certain degree of madcap fun with some of Rebecca''s creative untruths; when she persuades her parents that a bank manager is a stalker, some very amusing situations ensue. Still, this is familiar stuff, and Rebecca is the kind of unrepentant spender who will make readers, save those who share her disorder in the worst way, pity the poor bill collector. (Feb. 13) Forecast: This is a well-designed book, with a catchy magenta spine, and a colorful and kinetic double coverAwhich will attract many browsers. Major ad/promo, including national NPR sponsorships, will enhance sales, despite the novel''s flaws.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1198'),
(1176, 'Confessor', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Makes an indelible impact." --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Faith of the Fallen\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n "Few writers have Goodkind''s power of creationâ€¦a phenomenal piece of imaginative writing, exhaustive in its scope and riveting in its detail." --\n <em>\n  Publishing News\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Temple\n  <strong>\n   of the Winds\n  </strong>\n </em>\n <em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Highly recommended." --\n </em>\n San Diego\n Union Tribune\n on\n <em>\n  Temple\n </em>\n <em>\n  of the Winds\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n "Goodkind''s greatest triumph: the ability to introduce immediately identifiable characters. His heroes, like us, are not perfect. Instead, each is flawed in ways that strengthen, rather than weaken their impact. You''ll find no two-dimensional oafs here. In fact, at times you''ll think you''re looking at your own reflection." --\n <em>\n  SFX\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Blood of the Fold\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he lovesâ€¦and has lost.\n <br />\n <br />\n Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable and memorable journeys ever written. It started with one rule, and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history.\n <br />\n When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/763');
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(1177, 'The Confusion', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The title of Stephenson''s vast, splendid and absorbing sequel to\n <em>\n  Quicksilver\n </em>\n (2003) suggests the state of mind that even devoted fans may face on occasion as they follow the glorious and exceedingly complex parallel stories of Jack Shaftoe, amiable criminal mastermind, and Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, courageous secret agent and former prisoner in a Turkish harem. In 1689, Jack recovers his memory in Algiers, evades galley slavery and joins a quest for the lost treasure of a Spanish pirate named Carlos Olancho Macho y Macho. This leads to adventures at sea worthy of Patrick O''Brian, and hairbreadth escapes from the jaws of the Inquisition. Meanwhile, Eliza is captured by the historical (and distinguished) French privateer Jean Bart while trying to escape to England with her baby. She must then navigate the intrigues of the court of Louis XIV, which are less lethal than those of the Inquisition by a small margin, but still make for uneasy sleep for a friendless female spy. Her correspondence with such scientific minds as Wilhelm Leibniz helps propel the saga''s chronicling of the roots of modern science at a respectable clip. Of course, one can''t call anything about the Baroque Cycle "brisk," but the richness of detail and language lending verisimilitude t? the setting and depth to the characters should be reward enough for most readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n This â€œcon-fusionâ€ of two distinct novels (\n <em>\n  Juncto\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Bonanza\n </em>\n ), alternating between Jack and Elizaâ€™s stories, is a must-read for Stephenson fans. Though neither entry in the\n <em>\n  Baroque Cycle\n </em>\n has impressed the critics as much as some of Stephensonâ€™s previous work,\n <em>\n  The Confusion\n </em>\n proves his narrative skills are still in fine shape. Casual readers beware: many critics feel the lengthy scientific and historical digressions, however well researched and explicated, tend to hold up the story. If the book suffers from an information glut or stylistic terseness, then it is the cracking plot and rich milieu of the Baroque world that set the ship right.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/146'),
(1178, 'Congo', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you saw the 1995 film adaptation of this Crichton thriller, somebody owes you an apology. While you''re waiting for\n <em>\n  that\n </em>\n to happen, try reading the vastly more intelligent novel on which the movie was based. The broad lines of the plot remain the same: A research team deep in the jungle disappears after a mysterious and grisly gorilla attack. A subsequent team, including a sign-language-speaking simian named Amy, follows the original team''s tracks only to be subjected to more mysterious and grisly gorilla attacks. If you can look past the breathless treatment of ''80s technology, like voice-recognition software and 256K RAM modules (the book was written in 1980), you''ll find the same smart use of science and edge-of-your-seat suspense shared by Crichton''s other work.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A group of scientists visits the Congo jungle in search of a lost city and a domestic apeâ€™s ancestors, only to find the jungle holds some strange primates who have killer instincts. High drama marks a vivid condensed audio version of a thriller. --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/928'),
(1179, 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#39;s Court', 'Mark Twain &amp; Dan Beard &amp; Stephen Railton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur''s Court\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Mark Twain\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars\n </li>\n <li>\n  Biographies of the authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events\n </li>\n <li>\n  Footnotes and endnotes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comments by other famous authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bibliographies for further reading\n </li>\n <li>\n  Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n</p>\n<p>\n One of the greatest satires in American literature,\n <strong>\n  Mark Twain\n </strong>\n â€™s\n <em>\n  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâ€™s Court\n </em>\n begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthurâ€™s Camelot.\n</p>\n<p>\n What follows is a culture clash of the first magnitude, as practical-minded Hank, disgusted with the ignorance and superstition of the people, decides to enlighten them with education and technology. Through a series of wonderfully imaginative adventures, Twain celebrates American homespun ingenuity and democracy as compared to the backward ineptitude of a chivalric monarchy. At the same time, however, Twain raises the question of whether material progress necessarily creates a better society. As Hank becomes more powerful and self-righteous, he also becomes more ruthless, more autocratic, and less able to control events, until the only way out is a massively destructive war.\n</p>\n<p>\n While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twainâ€™s later works can be discerned in\n <em>\n  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâ€™s Court\n </em>\n , the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  With over 200 of the original illustrations by Dan Beard.\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Stephen Railton\n </strong>\n teaches American literature at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is\n <em>\n  Mark Twain: A Short Introduction\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/174'),
(1180, 'Consent to Kill: A Thriller', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  For ten years Mitch Rapp has fought on the frontline of the War on Terror. His bold actions have saved the lives of thousands -- but in the process his list of enemies has grown inexorably. There are even those within his own government who would like to see him eliminated. Thousands of miles away, the influential father of a dead terrorist demands retribution for the death of his son. He wants Rapp dead -- and his hate-filled plea has found sympathetic ears. In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage, there are those, even among America''s allies, who feel Rapp has grown too effective. They''ve been looking for an excuse to eliminate America''s No 1 counterterrorism operative -- and they''ve decided to seize the chance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Hunter has become the Hunted. A tragedy of unimaginable proportions is about to befall Mitch Rapp -- and he must use all his cunning, skill and ruthless determination to stay alive and seek vengeance against the traitor who would bring him down.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Flynn continues to ratchet up the stakes for CIA assassin Mitch Rapp, who here battles a Saudi billionaire bent on revenge, an exâ€“East German Stasi spy and a deadly husband-and-wife team of assassins. There''s a $20-million contract out on Mitch''s head, and to add injury to insult, he hurts his leg during a morning run. After a knee operation and an even more serious mishap, Mitch is out of the hospital and hot on the trail of the evildoers. Meanwhile, Mitch''s wife, NBC White House correspondent Anna Reilly, who has been in jeopardy in other Flynn novels like\n  <em>\n   The Third Option\n  </em>\n  , announces midway that she''s pregnant: even the dullest of readers will know big trouble is in store. Besides terrorists and assassins, Mitch has to battle the new national director of intelligence, a craven, hypocritical, inside-the-Beltway operator. When Mitch whacks this twerp on the side of the head with a heavy file during a high-level meeting, readers will stand up and cheer. Flynn is sometimes criticized for turning out formulaic work, and while that description fits here, he perfectly measures all of the ingredients for a fast and furious read.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The king of high-concept political intrigue." -- Dan Brown\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A fast, fun read." --\n  <em>\n   People\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An exciting, Ludlum-like series." --\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2439'),
(1181, 'Consider Phlebas', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the midst of a war between two galactic empires, a shapechanging agent of the Iridans undertakes a clandestine mission to a forbidden planet in search of an intelligent, fugitive machine whose actions could alter the course of the conflict. Banks ( Walking on Glass ) demonstrates a talent for suspense in a new wave sf novel that should appeal to fans of space adventure. For large sf collections. JC\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Banks is a phenomenon: the wildly successful, fearlessly creative author of brilliant and disturbing non-genre novels, he''s equally at home writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance'' William Gibson ''There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness'' The Times ''Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy - the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more'' NME\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/75'),
(1182, 'Conspiracy in Death', 'J. D. Robb &amp; Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Streetwise cop Eve Dallas and her trusty sidekick Peabody face a methodical killer in this latest addition to the In Death series by J.D. Robb, better known as the bestselling author Nora Roberts.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the late 21st century, on the streets of New York City, a street sleeper is found murdered, his diseased heart removed with surgical precision. His death would typically drop to the bottom of a list of senseless and inexplicable killings, but Lieutenant Dallas, who "would stand for the dead and the living," is not about to let that happen. When her research uncovers similar crimes in several cities that were dropped under mysterious circumstances, Dallas knows she''s facing a killer cruel enough to prey on the weakest in society and powerful enough to conspire an extensive coverup.\n</p>\n<p>\n To complicate matters further, Dallas faces an equally troubling threat to her career when she''s linked to the death of a fellow cop. Now she must fight to restore her good name as well as track down the killer.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Conspiracy in Death\n </em>\n , Roberts creates a futuristic world of evil that Eve Dallas negotiates through tough talk and brute force. While Robb crafts the crimes with great care, she assumes a familiarity with the characters that new readers will lack. But fans of the In Death series and newcomers alike will enjoy the thrill of the chase as Eve Dallas sets out to get her man.\n <em>\n  --Nancy R.E. O''Brien\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "For some, death wasn''t the enemy. Life was a much less merciful opponent." So opens the eighth and latest installment (following Holiday in Death) in Robb''s (a.k.a. Nora Roberts''s) futuristic crime drama series. Moody, angst-ridden Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates a series of "sidewalk sleeper" murders. The medically skilled killer is harvesting defective human organs from New York City''s homeless population. When Eve gets too close to solving the crime, she becomes the prime suspect in the death of a fellow cop and loses her badge, which nearly destroys her emotionally. But this feisty heroine isn''t down for long; she rallies and returns to form as the maverick cop readers know and love. Followers of the Death series will see a slight softening in Eve''s character as she puzzles over a pregnant womanAa possible nod toward the end of this series (Loyalty in Death will follow this title). Until then, Robb has once again delivered an engrossing, first-rate read.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1087'),
(1183, 'Contact', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they''ve found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects\n  <em>\n   Contact\n  </em>\n  , his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the various countries involved. Sagan meditates on science, religion, and government--the elements that define society--and looks to their impact on and role in the future. His ability to pack an exciting read with such rich content is an unusual talent that makes\n  <em>\n   Contact\n  </em>\n  a modern sci-fi classic.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Who could be better qualified than the author of the highly successful Cosmos to turn the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence, and humankind''s first contact with it, into imaginative reality? This is precisely what Sagan does in this eagerly awaited and, as it turns out, engrossing first novel. The basic plot is very simple. A worldwide system of radio telescopes, in the charge of brilliant astrophysicist Ellie Arroway, picks up a "Message" from outer space. Ellie is instrumental in decoding the message and building the "Machine" for which it gives instructions (despite stiff opposition from religious fundamentalists and those scientists and politicians who fear it may be a Trojan Horse). Then she and fellow members of a small multinational team board the machine, take a startling trip into outer spaceand on their return must convince the scientific community that they are not the perpetrators of a hoax. Sagan''s characters, mostly scientists, are credible without being memorable, and he supplies a love interest that is less than compelling. However, his informed and dramatically enacted speculations into the mysteries of the universe, taken to the point where science and religion touch, make his story an exciting intellectual adventure and science fiction of a high order. First serial to Discover Magazine; BOMC selection. Foreign rights: S &amp; S. October 1\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/193'),
(1184, 'Coraline', 'Neil Gaiman &amp; Dave Mckean', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Coraline lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house--a house so huge that other people live in it, too... round, old former actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and their aging Highland terriers ("We trod the boards, luvvy") and the mustachioed old man under the roof ("''The reason you cannot see the mouse circus,'' said the man upstairs, ''is that the mice are not yet ready and rehearsed.''") Coraline contents herself for weeks with exploring the vast garden and grounds. But with a little rain she becomes bored--so bored that she begins to count everything blue (153), the windows (21), and the doors (14). And it is the 14th door that--sometimes blocked with a wall of bricks--opens up for Coraline into an entirely alternate universe. Now, if you''re thinking fondly of\n <em>\n  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland\n </em>\n , you''re on the wrong track. Neil Gaiman''s\n <em>\n  Coraline\n </em>\n is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest fears. And, like Roald Dahl''s work, it is delicious.\n</p>\n<p>\n What''s on the other side of the door? A distorted-mirror world, containing presumably everything Coraline has ever dreamed of... people who pronounce her name correctly (not "Caroline"), delicious meals (not like her father''s overblown "recipes"), an unusually pink and green bedroom (not like her dull one), and plenty of horrible (very un-boring) marvels, like a man made out of live rats. The creepiest part, however, is her mirrored parents, her "other mother" and her "other father"--people who look just like her own parents, but with big, shiny, black button eyes, paper-white skin... and a keen desire to keep her on\n <em>\n  their\n </em>\n side of the door. To make creepy creepier,\n <em>\n  Coraline\n </em>\n has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman cover illustrator Dave McKean. This delightful, funny, haunting, scary as heck, fairy-tale novel is about as fine as they come. Highly recommended. (Ages 11 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British novelist Gaiman (American Gods; Stardust) and his long-time accomplice McKean (collaborators on a number of Gaiman''s Sandman graphic novels as well as The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish) spin an electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons. After Coraline and her parents move into an old house, Coraline asks her mother about a mysterious locked door. Her mother unlocks it to reveal that it leads nowhere: "When they turned the house into flats, they simply bricked it up," her mother explains. But something about the door attracts the girl, and when she later unlocks it herself, the bricks have disappeared. Through the door, she travels a dark corridor (which smells "like something very old and very slow") into a world that eerily mimics her own, but with sinister differences. "I''m your other mother," announces a woman who looks like Coraline''s mother, except "her eyes were big black buttons." Coraline eventually makes it back to her real home only to find that her parents are missing--they''re trapped in the shadowy other world, of course, and it''s up to their scrappy daughter to save them. Gaiman twines his taut tale with a menacing tone and crisp prose fraught with memorable imagery ("Her other mother''s hand scuttled off Coraline''s shoulder like a frightened spider"), yet keeps the narrative just this side of terrifying. The imagery adds layers of psychological complexity (the button eyes of the characters in the other world vs. the heroine''s increasing ability to distinguish between what is real and what is not; elements of Coraline''s dreams that inform her waking decisions). McKean''s scratchy, angular drawings, reminiscent of Victorian etchings, add an ominous edge that helps ensure this book will be a real bedtime-buster. Ages 8-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/700');
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(1185, 'The Corrections', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Winner of the National Book AwardAfter almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson''s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man-or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Jonathan Franzen is the author of The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, and the essay collection How to Be Alone. He has been named one of the Granta 20 Best Novelists under 40 and is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and Harper''s. He lives in New York City. Winner of the National Book Award Pulitzer Prize FinalistNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistPEN/Faulkner Award FinalistLos Angeles Times Book Award FinalistNew York Times Book Review Editors'' ChoiceAmerican Library Association Notable BookThe Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new centuryâ€”a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson''s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married manâ€”or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic and darkly hilarious, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul. "Funny and deeply sad, large-hearted and merciless, The Corrections is a testament to the range and depth of pleasures great fiction affords."â€”David Foster Wallace"Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole cultureâ€”our culture. And he has done it with sympathy and expansiveness that bend the edgy modern temper to a generous breadth of vision."â€”Don DeLillo"In its complexity, its scrutinizing and utterly unsentimental humanity, and its grasp of the subtle relationships between domestic drama and global events, The Corrections stands in the company of Mann''s Buddenbrooks and DeLillo''s White Noise. It is a major accomplishment."â€”Michael Cunningham"Looms as a model for what ambitious storytelling can still say about modern life."â€”San Francisco Chronicle"The Corrections is the brightest, boldest, and most ambitious novel I''ve read in many years. With this dazzling work, Franzen gives notice that from now on, he is only going to hunt with the big cats."â€”Pat Conroy"You will laugh, wince, groan, weep, leave the table and maybe the country, promise never to go home again, and be reminded of why you read serious fiction in the first place . . . Wordplay worthy of Nabokov . . . Tiny, revelatory gestures . . . Magically precise images . . . Knowing one-liners . . . Franzen writes with convincing authority about the minutiae of railroads, clothing, medicine, economics, industry, cuisine, and Eastern European politics, and he knows just when to push his conceits over the top . . . But he also knows his way around more intimate territory . . . No one book, of course, can provide everything we want in a novel. But a book as strong as The Corrections seems ruled only by its own self-generated aesthetic: it creates the illusion of giving a complete account of a world, and while we''re under its enchantment it temporarily eclipses whatever else we may have read. But I guess that is everything we want in a novelâ€”except, when it''s rocking along, for it never toÂ be over."â€”The New York Times Book Review"What we''re asking is whether Jonathan Franzen''s The Corrections will become that rare thing, a literary work that everybody''s reading? A lot of people are saying yes."â€”Time"The last 100 pages of The Corrections is an unforgettably sad, indelibly beautiful piece of literature . . . [Franzen] is a writer with talent to burn."â€”Newsweek"The novel of the year."â€”Fortune"Franzen is a wizard, endlessly inventive in his thematic connections and scene setting . . . The Corrections is a wide-open performance showcasing the full range of his skills and his eclectic intelligence . . . [It] recalls no novel so much as John Cheever''s The Wapshot Scandal. The Corrections is just as funny and sad and smart as that masterpiece, and Franzen, like Cheever, reminds us of the timelessness of human folly."â€”Stewart O''Nan, The Atlantic Monthly "Dazzling . . . electric . . . There''s something thrilling, heartening, and inspiring about seeing life revealed so accurately, so transparentlyâ€”and finally, so forgivingly."â€”Francine Prose, O magazine" ''Honestly'' hype[d] . . . novel of extraordinary merit . . . Franzen''s ability to infuse each character with such appealing vulnerability. Which, of course, is the redemptive hat trick of great literature: The Lamberts may be humming with unhappiness, but we are left humming with theirâ€”and our ownâ€”humanity."â€”Vogue"Let''s not mince words or pussyfoot with fancy lit-crit lingo. This is a great book. It needs to be read . . . A panoramic work that frequently zeroes in, with almost claustrophobic clarity, on human foibles . . . A huge, ambitious, powerful, funny, imaginative yet realistic novel. This book is a gift."â€”The Philadelphia Inquirer"A big, showy powerhouse of a novel, revved up with ideas but satisfyingly beholden to the traditions of character and plot . . . Smart and boisterous and beautifully paced . . . Franzen''s epic study in irony suggests Wolfe running into Don DeLillo . . . The greatest strength of The Corrections, and there are many, is its skillful narrative relativism, the way it delivers one version of the truth about a character, then fleshes out that reality over time into something larger and more complex . . . His rendering [of the autumnal prairie of millennial America] is frighteningly, luminously authentic."â€”The Boston Globe"[Combines] the deadpan dazzle and intricate ironies of Don DeLillo with the more homey concerns of Anne Tyler . . . There is bravura writing here, wizardly wordplay, sharp insights."â€”The Dallas Morning News"Remarkable and possibly unprecedented: a merciless satirical look at contemporary life that is also fundamentally generous and humane."â€”Salon.com"Wondrously devastating . . . In prose that is by turns suspenseful, brooding, and, oh yes, compassionate, Franzen unrolls the huge, bleak panorama of the Lamberts'' past and present lives, their temptations, failures, mistakes and false hopes, their intimate acquaintance with the hot flash of selfishness and the sharp bitterness of rue."â€”The Miami Herald"Remarkable . . . The best comparisons are to David Foster Wallace''s Infinite Jest and Don DeLillo''s Underworld . . . but The Corrections has more heart."â€”The Oregonian (Portland)"A big, intelligent and mostly compassionate novel that''s so much fun one hates to see it end . . . A novel of our times . . . Think of the book as a blend of postmodern meganovel and Victorian family saga."â€”The News and Observer (Raleigh)"The best American novel published to date this year."â€”St. Louis Post-Dispatch"More engaging and readable than other chilly magnum opuses in the same league . . . Unlike his Big Book peers, [Franzen] wants things tidyâ€”not in the middle, maybe, but at the end. The chaos-theory math wizards of antimatter fiction don''t often show such good manners, such politeness, and it''s touching to find it here. Not just dazzleâ€”warmth."â€”GQ "Agreeably accessible, . . . poised halfway between postmodern chic and plain old-fashioned storytelling. It sucks you into the vortex of family life, the whirling blend of happy and unhappy; it lands you in the sticky goo of mingled love and hate. What Mr. Franzen doesâ€”brilliantlyâ€” is to risk sentimentality to get at emotional truth."â€”Adam Begley, The New York Observer "[The Corrections is] Franzen''s most autobiographical novel, his most engrossing (do not be surprised to find yourself trying to read it all in one sitting), and, stylistically, his most lyrical. In its gorgeous, sweeping scope and the sympathy of its tone, it owes 0more to Tolstoy than to Pynchon, but ultimately the novel offers up pleasures that are utterly Franzenian; a sense of exhilaration permeates The Corrections, which is, in part, the exhilaration of a writer who has broken free of his masters."â€”Poets and Writers Excerpt from Chapter OneSt. JudeThe Madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through. You could feel it: something terrible was going to happen. The sun low in the sky, a minor light, a cooling star. Gust after gust of disorder. Trees restless, temperatures falling, the whole northern religion of things coming to an end. No children in the yards here. Shadows lengthened on yellowing zoysia. Red oaks and pin oaks and swamp white oaks rained acorns on houses with no mortgage. Storm windows shuddered in the empty bedrooms. And the drone and hiccup of a clothes dryer, the nasal contention of a leaf blower, the ripening of local apples in a paper bag, the smell of the gasoline with which Alfred Lambert had cleaned the paintbrush from his morning painting of the wicker love seat. Three in the afternoon was a time of danger in these gerontocratic suburbs of St. Jude. Alfred had awakened in the great blue chair in which he''d been sleeping since lunch. He''d had his nap and there would be no local news until five o''clock. Two empty hours were a sinus in which infections bred. He struggled to his feet and stood by the Ping-Pong table, listening in vain for Enid.Ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear directly. It was the alarm bell of anxiety. It was like one of those big cast-iron dishes with an electric clapper that send schoolchildren into the street in fire drills. By now it had been ringing for so many hours that the Lamberts no longer heard the message of "bell ringing" but, as with any sound that continues for so long that you have the leisure to learn its component sounds (as with any word you stare at until it resolves itself into a string of dead letters), instead heard a clapper rapidly striking a metallic resonator, not a pure tone but a granular sequence of percussions with a keening overlay of overtones; ringing for so many days that it simply blended into the background except at certain early-morning hours when one or the other of them awoke in a sweat and realized that a bell had been ringing in their heads for so long as they could remember; ringing for so many months that the sound had given way to a kind of metasound whose rise and fall was not the beating of compression waves but the much, much slower waxing and waning of their consciousness of the sound. Which consciousness was particularly acute when the weather itself was in an anxious mood. Then Enid and Alfredâ€”she on her knees in the dining room opening drawers, he in the basement surveying the disastrous Ping-Pong tableâ€”each felt near to exploding with anxiety. The anxiety of coupons, in a drawer containing candles in designer autumn colors. The coupons were bundled in a rubber band, and Enid was realizing that their expiration dates (often jauntily circled in red by the manufacturer) lay months and even years in the past: that these hundred-odd coupons, whose total face value exceeded sixty dollars (potentially one hundred twenty dollars at the Chiltsville supermarket that doubled coupons), had all gone bad. Tilex, sixty cents off. Excedrin PM, a dollar off. The dates were not even close. The dates were historical. The alarm bell had been ringing for years. She pushed the coupons back in among the candles and shut the drawer. She was looking for a letter that had come by Registered mail some days ago. Alfred had heard the mailman knock on the door and had shouted, "Enid! Enid!" so loudly that he couldn''t hear her shouting back, "Al, I''m getting it!" He''d continued to shout her name, coming closer and closer, and because the sender of the letter was the Axon Corporation, 24 East Industrial Serpentine, Schwenksville, PA, and because there were aspects of the Axon situation that Enid knew about and hoped that Alfred didn''t, she''d quickly stashed the letter somewhere within fifteen feet of the front door. Alfred had emerged from the basement bellowing like a piece of earth-moving equipment, "There''s somebody at the door!" and she''d fairly screamed, "The mailman! The mailman!" and he''d shaken his head at the complexity of it all. Enid felt sure that her own head would clear if only she didn''t have to wonder, every five minutes, what Alfred was up to. But, try as she might, she couldn''t get him interested in life. When she encouraged him to take up his metallurgy again, he looked at her as if she''d lost her mind. When she asked whether there wasn''t some yard work he could do, he said his legs hurt. When she reminded him that the husbands of her friends all had hobbies (Dave Schumpert his stained glass, Kirby Root his intricate chalets for nesting purple finches, Chuck Meisner his hourly monitoring of his investment portfolio), Alfred acted as if she were trying to distract him from some great labor of his. And what was that labor? Repainting the porch furniture? He''d been repainting the love seat since Labor Day. She seemed to recall that the last time he''d painted the furniture he''d done the love seat in two hours. Now he went to his workshop morning after morning, and after a month she ventured in to see how he was doing and found that all he''d painted of the love seat was the legs. He seemed to wish that she would go away. He said that the brush had got dried out, that that was what was taking so long. He said that scraping wicker was like trying to peel a blueberry. He said that there were crickets. She felt a shortness of breath then, but perhaps it was only the smell of gasoline and of the dampness of the workshop that smelled like urine (but could not possibly be urine). She fled upstairs to look for the letter from Axon. Six days a week several pounds of mail came through the slot in the front door, and since nothing incidental was allowed to pile up downstairsâ€”since the fiction of living in this house was that no one lived hereâ€”Enid faced a substantial tactical challenge. She didn''t think of herself as a guerrilla, but a guerrilla was what she was. By day she ferried matÃ©riel from depot to depot, often just a step ahead of the governing force. By night, beneath a charming but too-dim sconce at a too-small table in the breakfast nook, she staged various actions: paid bills, balanced checkbooks, attempted to decipher Medicare copayment records and make sense of a threatening Third Notice from a medical lab that demanded immediate payment of $0.22 while simultaneously showing an account balance of $0.00 carried forward and thus indicating that she owed nothing and in any case offering no address to which remittance might be made. It would happen that the First and Second Notices were underground somewhere, and because of the constraints under which Enid waged her campaign she had only the dimmest sense of where those other Notices might be on any given evening. She might suspect, perhaps, the family-room closet, but the governing force, in the person of Alfred, would be watching a network newsmagazine at a volume thunderous enough to keep him awake, and he had every light in the family room burning, and there was a non-negligible possibility that if she opened the closet door a cascade of catalogues and House Beautifuls and miscellaneous Merrill Lynch statements would come toppling and sliding out, incurring Alfred''s wrath. There was also the possibility that the Notices would not be there, since the governing force staged random raids on her depots, threatening to "pitch" the whole lot of it if she didn''t take care of it, but she was too busy dodging these raids to ever quite take care of it, and in the succession of forced migrations and deportations any lingering semblance of order was lost, and so the random Nordstrom shopping bag that was camped behind a dust ruffle with one of its plastic handles semi-detached would contain the whole shuffled pathos of a refugee existenceâ€”non-consecutive issues of Good Housekeeping, black-and-white snapshots of Enid in the 1940s, brown recipes on high-acid paper that called for wilted lettuce, the current month''s telephone and gas bills, the detailed First Notice from the medical lab instructing co-payers to ignore subsequent billings for less than fifty cents, a complimentary cruise ship photo of Enid and Alfred wearing leis and sipping beverages from hollow coconuts, and the only extant copies of two of their children''s birth certificates, for example. Although Enid''s ostensible foe was Alfred, what made her a guerrilla was the house that occupied them both. Its furnishings were of the kind that brooked no clutter. There were chairs and tables by Ethan Allen. Spode and Waterford in the breakfront. Obligatory ficuses, obligatory Norfolk pines. Fanned copies of Architectural Digest on a glass-topped coffee table. Touristic plunderâ€”enamelware from China, a Viennese music box that Enid out of a sense of duty and mercy every so often wound up and raised the lid of. The tune was "Strangers in the Night." Unfortunately, Enid lacked the temperament to manage such a house, and Alfred lacked the neurological wherewithal. Alfred''s cries of rage on discovering evidence of guerrilla actionsâ€”a Nordstrom bag surprised in broad daylight on the basement stairs, nearly precipitating a tumbleâ€”were the cries of a government that could no longer govern. He''d lately developed a knack for making his printing calculator spit columns of meaningless eight-digit figures. After he devoted the better part of an afternoon to figuring the cleaning woman''s social security payments five different times and came up with four different numbers and finally just accepted the one number ($635.78) that he''d managed to come up with twice (the correct figure was $70.00), Enid staged a nighttime raid on his filing cabinet and relieved it of all tax files, which might have improved household efficiency had the files not found their way into a Nordstrom bag with some misleadingly ancient Good Housekeepings concealing the more germane documents underneath, which casualty of war led to the cleaning woman''s filling out the forms herself, with Enid merely writing the checks and Alfred shaking his head at the complexity of it all. It''s the fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games. After Alfred retired he appropriated the eastern end of the table for his banking and correspondence. At the western end was the portable color TV on which he''d intended to watch the local news while sitting in his great blue chair but which was now fully engulfed by Good Housekeepings and the seasonal candy tins and baroque but cheaply made candle holders that Enid never quite found time to transport to the Nearly New consignment shop. The Ping-Pong table was the one field on which the civil war raged openly. At the eastern end Alfred''s calculator was ambushed by floral print pot-holders and souvenir coasters from the Epcot Center and a device for pitting cherries which Enid had owned for thirty years and never used, while he, in turn, at the western end, for absolutely no reason that Enid could ever fathom, ripped to pieces a wreath made of pinecones and spray-painted filberts and brazil nuts.To the east of the Ping-Pong table was the workshop that housed Alfred''s metallurgical lab. The workshop was now home to a colony of mute, dust-colored crickets, which, when startled, would scatter across the room like a handful of dropped marbles, some of them misfiring at crazy angles, others toppling over with the weight of their own copious protoplasm. They popped all too easily, and cleanup took more than one Kleenex. Enid and Alfred had many afflictions which they believed to be extraordinary, outsizedâ€”shamefulâ€”and the crickets were one of them. The gray dust of evil spells and the cobwebs of enchantment thickly cloaked the old electric arc furnace, and the jars of exotic rhodium and sinister cadmium and stalwart bismuth, and the hand-printed labels browned by the vapors from a glass-stoppered bottle of aqua regia, and the quad-ruled notebook in which the latest entry in Alfred''s hand dated from a time, fifteen years ago, before the betrayals had begun. Something as daily and friendly as a pencil still occupied the random spot on the workbench where Alfred had laid it in a different decade; the passage of so many years imbued the pencil with a kind of enmity. Asbestos mitts hung from a nail beneath two certificates of U.S. patents, the frames warped and sprung by dampness. On the hood of a binocular microscope lay big chips of peeled paint from the ceiling. The only dust-free objects in the room were the wicker love seat, a can of Rust-Oleum and some brushes, and a couple of Yuban coffee cans which despite increasingly strong olfactory evidence Enid chose not to believe were filling up with her husband''s urine, because what earthly reason could he have, with a nice little half-bathroom not twenty feet away, for peeing in a Yuban can? To the west of the Ping-Pong table was Alfred''s great blue chair. The chair was overstuffed, vaguely gubernatorial. It was made of leather, but it smelled like the inside of a Lexus. Like something modern and medical and impermeable that you could wipe the smell of death off easily, with a damp cloth, before the next person sat down to die in it. The chair was the only major purchase Alfred had ever made without Enid''s approval. When he''d traveled to China to confer with Chinese railroad engineers, Enid had gone along and the two of them had visited a rug factory to buy a rug for their family room. They were unaccustomed to spending money on themselves, and so they chose one of the least expensive rugs, with a simple blue design from the Book of Changes on a solid field of beige. A few years later, when Alfred retired from the Midland Pacific Railroad, he set about replacing the old cow-smelling black leather armchair in which he watched TV and took his naps. He wanted something really comfortable, of course, but after a lifetime of providing for others he needed more than just comfort: he needed a monument to this need. So he went, alone, to a non-discount furniture store and picked out a chair of permanence. An engineer''s chair. A chair so big that even a big man got lost in it; a chair designed to bear up under heavy stress. And because the blue of its leather vaguely matched the blue in the Chinese rug, Enid had no choice but to suffer its deployment in the family room.Soon, however, Alfred''s hands were spilling decaffeinated coffee on the rug''s beige expanses, and wild grandchildren were leaving berries and crayons underfoot, and Enid began to feel that the rug was a mistake. It seemed to her that in trying to save money in life she had made many mistakes like this. She reached the point of thinking it would have been better to buy no rug than to buy this rug. Finally, as Alfred''s naps deepened toward enchantment, she grew bolder. Her own mother had left her a tiny inheritance years ago. Interest had been added to principal, certain stocks had performed rather well, and now she had an income of her own. She reconceived the family room in greens and yellows. She ordered fabrics. A paperhanger came, and Alfred, who was napping temporarily in the dining room, leaped to his feet like a man with a bad dream. "You''re redecorating again?" "It''s my own money," Enid said. "This is how I''m spending it." "And what about the money I made? What about the work I did?" This argument had been effective in the pastâ€”it was, so to speak, the constitutional basis of the tyranny''s legitimacyâ€”but it didn''t work now. "That rug is nearly ten years old, and we''ll never get the coffee stains out," Enid answered. Alfred gestured at his blue chair, which under the paperhanger''s plastic dropcloths looked like something you might deliver to a power station on a flatbed truck. He was trembling with incredulity, unable to believe that Enid could have forgotten this crushing refutation of her arguments, this overwhelming impediment to her plans. It was as if all the unfreedom in which he''d spent his seven decades of life were embodied in this six-year-old but essentially brand-new chair. He was grinning, his face aglow with the awful perfection of his logic. "And what about the chair, then?" he said. "What about the chair?" Enid looked at the chair. Her expression was merely pained, no more. "I never liked that chair." This was probably the most terrible thing she could have said to Alfred. The chair was the only sign he''d ever given of having a personal vision of the future. Enid''s words filled him with such sorrowâ€”he felt such pity for the chair, such solidarity with it, such astonished grief at its betrayalâ€”that he pulled off the dropcloth and sank into its arms and fell asleep. (It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.) When it became clear that both the rug and Alfred''s chair had to go, the rug was easily shed. Enid advertised in the free local paper and netted a nervous bird of a woman who was still making mistakes and whose fifties came out of her purse in a disorderly roll that she unpeeled and flattened with shaking fingers. But the chair? The chair was a monument and a symbol and could not be parted from Alfred. It could only be relocated, and so it went into the basement and Alfred followed. And so in the house of the Lamberts, as in St. Jude, as in the country as a whole, life came to be lived underground. Enid could hear Alfred upstairs now, opening and closing drawers. He became agitated whenever they were going to see their children. Seeing their children was the only thing he seemed to care about anymore. In the streaklessly clean windows of the dining room there was chaos. The berserk wind, the negating shadows. Enid had looked everywhere for the letter from the Axon Corporation, and she couldn''t find it. Alfred was standing in the master bedroom wondering why the drawers of his dresser were open, who had opened them, whether he had opened them himself. He couldn''t help blaming Enid for his confusion. For witnessing it into existence. For existing, herself, as a person who could have opened these drawers. "Al? What are you doing?" He turned to the doorway where she''d appeared. He began a sentence: "I amâ€”" but when he was taken by surprise, every sentence became an adventure in the woods; as soon as he could no longer see the light of the clearing from which he''d entered, he would realize that the crumbs he''d dropped for bearings had been eaten by birds, silent deft darting things which he couldn''t quite see in the darkness but which were so numerous and swarming in their hunger that it seemed as if they were the darkness, as if the darkness weren''t uniform, weren''t an absence of light but a teeming and corpuscular thing, and indeed when as a studious teenager he''d encountered the word "crepuscular" in McKay''s Treasury of English Verse, the corpuscles of biology had bled into his understanding of the word, so that for his entire adult life he''d seen in twilight a corpuscularity, as of the graininess of the high-speed film necessary for photography under conditions of low ambient light, as of a kind of sinister decay; and hence the panic of a man betrayed deep in the woods whose darkness was the darkness of starlings blotting out the sunset or black ants storming a dead opossum, a darkness that didn''t just exist but actively consumed the bearings that he''d sensibly established for himself, lest he be lost; but in the instant of realizing he was lost, time became marvelously slow and he discovered hitherto unguessed eternities in the space between one word and the next, or rather he became trapped in that space between words and could only stand and watch as time sped on without him, the thoughtless boyish part of him crashing on out of sight blindly through the woods while he, trapped, the grownup Al, watched in oddly impersonal suspense to see if the panic-stricken little boy might, despite no longer knowing where he was or at what point he''d entered the woods of this sentence, still manage to blunder into the clearing where Enid was waiting for him, unaware of any woodsâ€”"packing my suitcase," he heard himself say. This sounded right. Verb, possessive, noun. Here was a suitcase in front of him, an important confirmation. He''d betrayed nothing. But Enid had spoken again. The audiologist had said that he was mildly impaired. He frowned at her, not following. "It''s Thursday," she said, louder. "We''re not leaving until Saturday." "Saturday!" he echoed. She berated him then, and for a while the crepuscular birds retreated, but outside the wind had blown the sun out, and it was getting very cold. Copyright Â© 2001 Jonathan Franzen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1260'),
(1186, 'Cosmos', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Cosmos\n  </em>\n  was the first science TV blockbuster, and Carl Sagan was its (human) star. By the time of Sagan''s death in 1996, the series had been seen by half a billion people; Sagan was perhaps the best-known scientist on the planet. Explaining how the series came about, Sagan recalled:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   I was positive from my own experience that an enormous global interest exists in the exploration of the planets and in many kindred scientific topics--the origin of life, the Earth, and the Cosmos, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, our connection with the universe. And I was certain that this interest could be excited through that most powerful communications medium, television.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Sagan''s own interest and enthusiasm for the universe were so vivid and infectious, his screen presence so engaging, that viewers and readers couldn''t help but be caught up in his vision. From stars in their "billions and billions" to the amino acids in the primordial ocean, Sagan communicated a feeling for science as a process of discovery. Inevitably, some of the science in\n  <em>\n   Cosmos\n  </em>\n  has been outdated in the years since 1980--but Sagan''s sense of wonder is ageless.\n  <em>\n   --Mary Ellen Curtin\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Enticing, imaginative, readable, iridescent'' - THE NEW YORK TIMES\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/194'),
(1187, 'The Count of Monte Cristo (Bring the Classics to Life Series, Level 5)', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  CliffsNotes on The Count of Monte Cristo\n </em>\n takes you into a rollicking yarn of adventure, wit, and revenge.\n</p>\n<p>\n Following the story of a man imprisoned for 14 years who escapes by outsmarting his captors, this study guide shows through its expert commentaries just how the Count works justice with a vengeance on his enemies. Other features that help you figure out this important work include\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Life and background of the author, Alexandre Dumas\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Character sketches on the novel''s vast array of personalities\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Plot synopsis and summaries for each chapter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Suggested essay topics and a select bibliography\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Classic literature or modern-day treasure â€” you''ll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Sent to prison on a false accusation in 1815, Edmond Dantes escapes many years later and finds a treasure which he uses to exact his revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/864'),
(1188, 'Count Zero', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he''s recovering from: Maas-Neotek''s chief of R&amp;D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he''s perfected. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain\n <em>\n  other\n </em>\n parties--some of whom aren''t remotely human.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo on the Net and a price on his head, Newmark thinks he''s only trying to get out alive. A stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future and sequel to\n <em>\n  Neuromancer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gibson''s first novel, Neuromancer, was greeted with hosannas and showered with awards. This second book, set in the same universe, again offers a faddish, glitzy surface not unlike that of Miami Vice. Gibson''s central image is the shadow boxes constructed by the artist Joseph Cornell, collections of seemingly unrelated objects whose juxtaposition creates a new impression. In the same fashion, the novel has three protagonists, each of whom is putting together jigsaw clues in pursuit of his separate goal. The corporate headhunter, the art dealer and the computer hacker all find themselves being manipulatedjust as the author contrives to have their paths converge. This book is less appealing and less verbally skillful than Gibson''s first novel, dense and dour as that was, but readers who liked that one will want to see this as well.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/713'),
(1189, 'Cradle and All', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Patterson''s\n <em>\n  Cradle and All\n </em>\n pits the intensity of faith against the certainties of science within an arena of Millennial tensions. A reworking of his 1980 apocalyptic thriller\n <em>\n  Virgin\n </em>\n , this remodeled version boasts a genuinely unnerving premise, amplified with Patterson''s fast-paced, uncluttered prose.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the midst of a series of unexplained plagues and famines, two teenage girls are heavily pregnant, despite being virgins. According to the sacred prophecies of Fatima, one will bear the child of Christ and the other, the spawn of Satan. Both Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private detective, and the Vatican''s Father Rosetti are sent to investigate. But which girl carries which child? The possibility of a miracle will be tainted with great suffering before the awful, unexpected truth is revealed. As the action moves speedily from the hallowed halls of the Vatican to the media frenzy of America to the small-town hysteria of Ireland, Patterson divines considerable suspense from the novel''s central premise, tackling issues of faith with admirable aplomb:\n</p>\n<p>\n "All over the world, after all the years of difficulty, decades of diminishing spirituality, so many people still believed.... Everywhere, people talked of the Apocalypse, perhaps the end of the world. Which explained why so many people were suddenly going to church."\n</p>\n<p>\n A relentless pace culminating in a superbly twisted ending won''t disappoint Patterson''s faithful followers, and may even convert some new members.\n <em>\n  --Danny Graydon\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n His Alex Cross series (Pop Goes the Weasel, etc.) has made Patterson a top-selling author, but his most interesting work lies elsewhere: in his debut mystery, The Thomas Berryman Number; in last year''s SF thriller, When the Wind Blows--and in this exciting and moving religious thriller about two pregnant virgins, one of whom may carry the Son of God and the other the Son of the Devil. If that plot line sounds familiar, it should. The novel is a reworking of Virgin, Patterson''s second novel, published in 1980 by McGraw-Hill and long out of print. The narrative features the first-person/third-person narrative mix that''s Patterson''s trademark. The "I" belongs to ex-nun Anne Fitzgerald, now a PI. Her latest case for the Church involves investigating--and guarding--Newport, R.I. (i.e., rich), teenager Kathleen Beavier, who''s eight months pregnant but, by expert medical testimony, a virgin. The Church is particularly anxious about Kathleen''s condition because the Third Secret of Fatima (a real-life secret guarded by the Church since the Virgin Mary allegedly revealed it in 1917) prophesied two pregnant virgins: one bearing the Savior, the other the Devil''s child. Anne eventually learns that indeed there''s a poor girl in Ireland who''s also pregnant, yet a virgin. Which girl carries which child? For texture, Patterson throws in some romance between Anne and a priest, but the novel''s considerable suspense arises from his treatment of the central question as he speeds the action from America to Ireland to the Vatican, complicates it with a media frenzy over Kathleen, sharpens it as supernatural forces come into play and spins it with a wicked twist. While not subtle, this novel tackles issues of faith with admirable gusto. It could be a massive bestseller, appealing not only to Patterson''s fans but also to those of the apocalyptic thrillers of LaHaye and Jenkins. 1 million first printing; $1 million ad/promo; Literary Guild main selection; author tour. (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/349'),
(1190, 'Crash', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  J. G. Ballard''s graphic, violent novel is controversial wherever it is read, even on Amazon.com''s own Web page! The book''s characters are obsessed with automobile accidents and are determined to narrate the horrors of the car crash as luridly as possible. In the words of the novel''s protagonist, the wounds caused by automobile collisions are "the keys to a new sexuality born from a perverse technology." Read this novel and learn why David Cronenberg, who had previously adapted\n  <em>\n   Dead Ringers\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Naked Lunch\n  </em>\n  for the screen, fought to turn it into his latest film.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A work of very powerful originality. Ballard is among our finest writers of fiction."â€”\n  <strong>\n   Anthony Burgess\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/74'),
(1191, 'Creating Web Sites Bible', 'David A. Crowder &amp; Andrew Bailey', '<div class="comments">\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Updated for the most recent tools, techniques, and standards for creating cutting-edge Web sites for businesses or personal use, this book is one-stop shopping for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, tables, forms, Flash, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  Brand-new chapters cover Ajax, Adobe CS3 tools, RSS, and blogging tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hands-on guidance and expert advice dive into such topics as creating and editing images and graphics, adding multimedia elements (e.g., Flash animations, audio, and video), creating stores for Yahoo! and Amazon.com, designing auction pages for eBay, and building blogs\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1477'),
(1192, 'Creation in Death', 'J. D. Robb &amp; Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At 27 books and counting, Nora Roberts is more prolific under her Robb pseudonym than most authors manage in a single career. Yet the latest in her not-so-near-future detective series featuring New York Police Det. Eve Dallas offers a satisfyingly novel mÃ©lange of suspense, sex, forensics and heroics. It''s 2060, and the serial killer nicknamed The Groom is back in town after an absence of nine years, resuming his horrific run of kidnapping, torturing and killing young women. Dallas, who served as a detective in the frustrating first investigation, assumes lead role in this one. This time, not only do the killer''s chosen victims have ties to Dallas''s husband, Roarke, but Dallas herself may be the killer''s ultimate target. Swiftly paced, the story cuts frequently from the investigation to the killer''s progress with his victims. Dallas works to outplan, outfight and outsmart the killer; to keep her handsome, rich husband happy; and to be ready for the next round after a good night''s sleep. Robb''s latest is bound to please Dallas fans.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n All the elements of a terrific police procedural coupled with gut- searing emotional drama and in-your-face characters that only a writer of Nora Roberts'' caliber can deliver.\n <br />\n â€” David Baldacci\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether she writes as J.D. Robb or under her own name, I love Nora Roberts. She is a woman who just doesnâ€™t know how to tell a bad story. Creation in Death is an authentic page turner, with Eve Dallasâ€”tough as nails and still sexy as hellâ€”pitted against one of the yearâ€™s creepiest super villains. If you havenâ€™t read Robb, this is a great place to start.\n <br />\n â€” Stephen King\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Anchored by terrific characters, sudden twists that spin the whole narrative on a dime, and a thrills-to-chills ratio that will raise the neck hairs of even the most jaded reader, the J.D. Robb books are the epitome of great popular fiction."\n <br />\n â€”Dennis Lehane\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere''s no such thing as too much Nora Roberts. All the books are good, and they keep getting better. Creation in Death, written in her J.D. Robb persona, is a complete pleasure. Wonderful!â€\n <br />\n â€”Robert B. Parker\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCompelling characters, absorbing mysteries and a wonderful sense of both time and place, JD Robb''s "In Death" novels are can''t-miss pleasures.â€\n <br />\n â€”Harlan Coben\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCreation in Death is a witty, dark, page-turning tale of futuristic crime fighting. Raymond Chandler meets Blade Runner meets Silence of the Lambs. The techno-toys may change, but evil never does.â€\n <br />\n â€”Jonathan Kellerman\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJ.D. Robb (you-know-who!) has written a taut, nerve-jangling, thriller that draws the reader in from the start and rolls you over the dancing ball bearings of a futuristic police procedural that moves seamlessly and unrelentingly forward. The quality of the prose and the sharpness of the dialogue will delight and even surprise the reader. I know it did me. AS IF she needed it: but now she has yet another loyal fan.â€\n <br />\n â€”Ridley Pearson\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1104'),
(1193, 'Crime and Punishment', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky &amp; Jessie Coulson &amp; Richard Peace', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Crime and Punishment\n </em>\n is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky''s own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor. This new edition of the authoritative and readable Coulson translation comes with a challenging new introduction and notes that elucidate many of the novel''s most important--and difficult--aspects.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  About the Series:\n </strong>\n For over 100 years\n <strong>\n  Oxford World''s Classics\n </strong>\n has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Language Notes\n</h3>\n<p>\n Text: English, Russian (translation)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/859');
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(1194, 'Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction From the Underside of L.A.', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You wouldn''t expect slick\n  <em>\n   GQ\n  </em>\n  to perform the greatest magazine service to hard-boiled crime writing since the heyday of\n  <em>\n   Black Mask\n  </em>\n  , but the evidence is before your eyes:\n  <em>\n   Crime Wave\n  </em>\n  , James Ellroy''s collected\n  <em>\n   GQ\n  </em>\n  works circa 1993-99.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though\n  <em>\n   Crime Wave\n  </em>\n  contains two stories in the exhilaratingly sleazy voice of the fictitious scandal rag\n  <em>\n   Hush-Hush\n  </em>\n  , and the novella-length "Hollywood Shakedown," a tale of sex, drugs, and murder starring ''50s crooner-accordionist Dick Contino, the book is predominantly nonfiction. There''s one flavorful piece, "Bad Boys in Tinseltown," about the day in 1967 when Ellroy--then a speed freak who broke into fancy houses to steal stuff and sniff women''s underwear--read an article by Curtis Hanson raving about\n  <em>\n   Bonnie and Clyde\n  </em>\n  and was inspired. Then Ellroy flashes forward to 1996, when he visits Hanson as he directs the triumphant film version of\n  <em>\n   L.A. Confidential\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   GQ\n  </em>\n  talked Ellroy into writing about the event that made him a maniac, and then an obsessive writer: his dissolute mother''s unsolved murder in 1958, when he was 10. His investigation of her death began with the chilling\n  <em>\n   GQ\n  </em>\n  article "My Mother''s Killer," which grew into the book\n  <em>\n   My Dark Places\n  </em>\n  . (If you haven''t heard Ellroy read it on audiotape, you haven''t shivered.) His investigation of another woman''s murder, "Body Dumps," is in some ways better, because there''s a suspect to eviscerate in prose. "Sex, Glitz, and Greed," written about O.J. during the trial, is an odd fit in this collection, but when Ellroy is on his own turf--L.A.''s seamy, undead past--nobody can touch him.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ellroy''s obsessionsATinseltown tabloid sleaze and his mother''s murderAhave fueled his writing and provided readers with countless indelible images, reams of trademark stuttergun prose and at least two killer books, L.A. Confidential and My Dark Places. This collection of 11 pieces of fiction and reportage, all previously published in GQ magazine, isn''t essential Ellroy, but newcomers contemplating a tentative first dip might find it a fine place to start. The powerfully frank "My Mother''s Killer" evolved into My Dark Places, and "Body Dumps" and "Glamour Jungle" both explore LAPD investigations into crimes similar to the death of Ellroy''s mother in 1958, when he was 10. Two tales feature the investigative reporting of Hush-Hush magazine, always dedicated to digging the dirt and awesomely addicted to alliteration. Real-life accordionist Dick Contino has several capers of his own and gets to ingest illegal drugs, whack a few lowlifes and hang with Sammy Davis Jr. Ellroy also tackles O.J. Simpson''s case, his own high school reunion and the making of the film L.A. Confidential. For some reason, his editor at GQ balked at letting the "Demon Dog of American Literature" loose on Bill and Monica. We surely missed out on a whole sackful of sleazy stuff there. Author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1847'),
(1195, 'A Criminal History of Mankind', 'Colin Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Colin Wilson tells the story of human violence from Peking Man to the Mafia - taking into account the calculated sadism of the Assyrians, the opportunism of the Greek pirates, the brutality that made Rome the ''razor king of the Mediterranean'', the mindless destruction of the Vandals, the mass slaughter of Genghis Khan, Tamurlane, Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler and more. Each age has a unique characteristic pattern of crime. In the past three centuries crime has changed and evolved until the sex killer and the mass murderer have become symbols of all that is worst about our civilization. But this is not just a study in human depravity; it is an attempt to place crime in perspective against human discovery, exploration and invention. The result is a completely new approach to the history and psychology of human violence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1454'),
(1196, 'Crimson Joy', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can''t catch him. But when the killer leaves his red rose calling card for Spenser''s own Susan Silverman, he gets all the attention that Spenser and Hawk can give.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spenser plays against time while he tracks the Red Rose killer from Boston''s Combat Zone to the suburbs. His trap is both daring and brave, and gives the story a satisfying climax.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogue zings, and there is plenty of action...but it is the moral element that sets this series above most defective fiction." (Newsweek)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1168'),
(1197, 'The Crippled God', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Malazan Book of the Fallen\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Extraordinarily enjoyable . . . Erikson is a master of lost and forgotten epochs, a weaver of ancient epics." --\n <em>\n  Salon.com\n </em>\n Â Â \n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œErikson has no peer when it comes to action and imagination, and joins the ranks of Tolkien and Donaldson in his mythic vision and perhaps then goes one better.â€\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  SF Site\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGripping, fast-moving, delightfully dark, with a masterful and unapologetic brutality reminiscent of George R. R. Martinâ€¦Utterly engrossing.â€--Elizabeth Haydon\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA multilayered tale of magic and war, loyalty and betrayal.Â  Complexly drawn characters occupy a richly detailed world in this panoramic saga.â€--\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis masterwork of imagination may be the high-water mark of epic fantasy.â€--Glen Cook\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe kind of epic narrative that will have you scrambling for more.â€â€”Stephen R. Donaldson\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Savaged by the Kâ€™Chain Nahâ€™Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate.Â  Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent.Â  One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come.Â  A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods â€“ if her own troops donâ€™t kill her first.\n</p>\n<p>\n Awaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity.Â  Drawing upon an alien power terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every human, every civilization, in order to begin anew.Â  They welcome the coming conflagration of slaughter, for it shall be of their own devising, and it pleases them to know that, in the midst of the enemies gathering against them, there shall be betrayal.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the realm of Kurald Galain, home to the long lost city of Kharkanas, a mass of refugees stand upon the First Shore.Â  Commanded by Yedan Derryg, the Watch, they await the breaching of Lightfall, and the coming of the Tiste Liosan.Â  This is a war they cannot win, and they will die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elsewhere, the three Elder Gods, Kilmandaros, Errastas and Sechul Lath, work to shatter the chains binding Korabas, the Otataral Dragon, from her eternal prison. Once freed, she will rise as a force of devastation, and against her no mortal can stand. At the Gates of Starvald Demelain, the Azath House sealing the portal is dying. Soon will come the Eleint, and once more, there will be dragons in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1270'),
(1198, 'The Critical Period of American History 1783-1789', 'John Fiske', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n General Books publication date: 2009\n <br />\n Original publication date: 1888\n <br />\n Notes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations.\n <br />\n When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1790'),
(1199, 'Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The pinnacle of all Alex Cross thrillers is now available as a value-priced audiobook!\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. The killer was never found, and the case turned cold, filed among the unsolved drive-bys in D.C.''s rough neighborhoods.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Years later, still haunted by his wife''s death, Cross is making a bold move in his life. Now a free agent from the police and the FBI, he''s set up practice as a psychologist once again. His life with Nana Mama, Damon, Jannie, and little Alex is finally getting in order. He even has a chance at a new love.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Then Cross''s former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favor. He is tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown, one whose brutal modus operandi recalls a case Sampson and Cross worked together years earlier. When the case reveals a connection to Maria''s death, Cross latches on for the most urgent and terrifying ride of his life.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/350'),
(1200, 'Crossroads of Twilight', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The eagerly awaited 10th installment (after 2000''s Winter''s Heart) in Jordan''s monumental Wheel of Time has all the breadth and depth that have made this fantasy author one of the acknowledged greats of the genre. Like Tolkien''s Ring trilogy, Wheel of Time is a single, extended novel rather than a series, and in Crossroads, new characters join the cast and old favorites grow ever more complex. Yet if the scope of Jordan''s richly nuanced creation has won him millions of readers, it also forms the saga''s biggest obstacle. Here Mat Cauthon is still fleeing the Seanchan; Perrin Goldeneyes still hunts the Shaido to free his beautiful wife, Faile; the cities Caemlyn and Tar Valon are still besieged and the battles have not been joined. Those impatient with the glacial movement of the last four books will find more of the same. As the title suggests, this entry represents a turning point, a time of momentous decisions as the rebel Aes Sedai consider an alliance with the Asha''man and Rand ponders a truce with the Seanchan. Lending perhaps the most recognizable humanity is Mat''s love interest, Tuon, the spoiled, adorable Daughter of the Nine Moons, whose kidnapping is concealed by Valan Luca''s Grand Traveling Show and Magnificent Display of Marvels and Wonders. She twists Mat around her finger, deliberately annoying him by calling him "Toy." The epilogue suggests Tuon will play a major role in volume 11. Jordan fans who miss the breakneck pace of the earlier books can always hope the action will pick up again.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Wheel of Time continues to turn slowly and purposely in the tenth novel in Jordan''s popular, epic series. Jordan follows his well-established pattern of tracking the activities of his widely spread characters as he moves them inexorably toward the looming Final Battle between the Dark One and those who oppose it. In this story, Mat flees with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, pursued by the army of the Seanchan Empire as well as by the Dark One. Perrin is trying to rescue his wife, Faile, from the Shaido. Egwene, now Amyrlin of the rebel Aes Sedai, and her forces lay siege to the White Tower, where Elaida wears the Amyrlin shawl. The Aes Sadai must be reunited to defend against the Dark One. And Rand al'' Thor, the Dragon Reborn, faces his own demons, even though he has managed to cleanse the Dark One''s taint from the males who can channel. As usual, Jordan''s canvas is vast and his plotting intricate. Each of the many characters is as distinctively recognizable as any of those in the series'' other volumes, while on all fronts, intrigues and dangers intensify. Must-reading for Jordan''s huge and faithful following.\n <em>\n  Sally Estes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/656'),
(1201, 'Crow Road', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Prentice McHoan, the irrepressible hero of Banks''s wily novel whose loves include drink, cars, girls and history, returns from university in Glasgow to his family home in Gallanach for his grandmother''s funeral, his thoughts turn to his uncle Rory, a travel writer who disappeared eight years earlier. When Prentice runs into Janice, an old girlfriend of Rory''s, the two wonder together if Rory has gone away the Crow Road (Scottish for died), and Janice reveals that Rory gave her a folder of his poems and notes before he disappeared. Rory''s writings are tantalizingly cryptic and turn out to include outlines for a novel-in-progress titled\n  <em>\n   Crow Road\n  </em>\n  . Fueled by his uncle''s notes, his own curiosity and a good bit of brown liquor, Prentice sets off to find his uncle in an engaging narrative that admirably balances bawdy Scottish humor, crafty character development and some good old-fashioned mystery. Prentice finds his closureâ€”for better or for worseâ€”and things are tied up neatly (maybe too neatly) by the end. Readers unfamiliar with Banks''s prodigious output have a great starting point here.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This novel was originally published in the UK in 1992 and was the basis for a popular BBC series. Banks himself has said the novel is â€œabout Death, Sex, Faith, cars, Scotland, and drink.â€ What he doesnâ€™t sayÂ is thatÂ it is alsoÂ darkly funny as it follows neâ€™er-do-well Glasgow student Prentice McHoanâ€™sÂ struggle to come to terms with his family, his beliefs, and his burning,Â unrequited love for beautiful Verity Walker. From its startling opening sentence (â€œIt was the day my grandmother explodedâ€) to its bittersweet conclusion 500Â pages later (â€œI raised my arms to the open sky, and said, â€˜Ha!â€™â€),Â Banks revels in techniques ranging from saucy dialogue to hilarious first-person narration to intense descriptions of class, place, and religion.Â The Scots dialect andÂ sudden shifts in time and point of view may, at first, be confusing, but readers who persevere will be richly rewarded.Â A deeply felt portrait of aÂ young man who, in between rounds of pints and an illegal substance or three,Â learns to face up to the darkness of life and love. --Joanne Wilkinson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1001'),
(1202, 'A Crown of Swords', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Jordan has created a rich and intricate tapestry of characters in his Wheel of Time series. In this seventh volume, Rand al''Thor--the Dragon Reborn--draws ever closer to the Last Battle as a stifling heat grips the world.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The seventh volume of Jordan''s bestselling high fantasy series carries on the tradition of colossal, dauntingly complex storytelling established by the previous entries (Lord of Chaos, 1994, etc.). In a richly woven post-holocaust world where magic is normally a woman''s monopoly and a man who can use it is a menace, Rand al''Thor, a sheepherder, discovered that he could "channel"; he and his companions have gone on to set their world aflame. Here, Rand is engaged in a fight for control of the weather and of the growing number of men and women who have turned out to be magic-wielders. The narrative employs elements of realism rare in high fantasy, including the sense that innocent bystanders are being mauled in an epic joust of magical giants. There''s wit at work here, too, in Jordan''s exploration of the possibilities created by women being the magic workers. All this comes at the price of enough characters, institutions, spells, countries and so on to intimidate any reader who hasn''t followed Rand''s adventures from the beginning?and the author is still adding complications. A glossary helps, though, and fans of the series will gobble down this generous addition. Major ad/promo; deluxe leather-bound limited edition.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/648'),
(1203, 'The Crucible', 'Arthur Miller &amp; Christopher Bigsby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller''s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town''s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy''s witch-hunts in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition...is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it meets with diabolical malevolence."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1173'),
(1204, 'Cruel and Unusual', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This fourth mystery to feature Virginia Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kay Scarpetta was a 12-week PW bestseller.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-In this fourth Kay Scarpetta mystery, the chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia is once again challenged by gruesome murder and confusing evidence. How could the fingerprints of Ronnie Joe Waddell appear at the scene of a murdered psychic after Waddell was executed in the electric chair? In the midst of many puzzling matters come other difficult issues to confront Kay as she tries to do her job. She becomes the object of hysterical media attention, and finds that she herself might be indicted for the very crimes she is trying to solve. Someone is sabotaging her efforts by hacking into her computer files and leaking information. Exasperated, she calls upon her niece, Lucy, a 17-year-old computer whiz, whom readers will remember from earlier "Scarpetta" novels. Along with FBI agent Benton Wesley and police chum Pete Marino, Lucy helps Kay solve the murders and ferret out the traitor in her office. YAs will enjoy the teen''s angst and the exciting twist at the book''s end.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Carolyn E. Gecan, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1390'),
(1205, 'Cry Mercy', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  After Ann Nolan, a California beat cop, adopts the daughter of a notorious drug dealer, the ruthless father vows to take back his only child. In response, Ann flees across the country, changes her name, and starts a new life as an investigator for the Mercy Street Foundation, the billionaire-endowed organization dedicated to finding missing persons. As Emme Caldwell, she takes the lead on the Foundation''s first case: Nineteen-year-old Belinda Hudson disappeared from her sorority house leaving behind only one cryptic clue. Retracing the vanished student''s steps leads Emme to Heaven''s Gate, a fertility clinic, and the mysterious Donor 1735.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Belinda''s legal guardian, Nick Perone, is determined to shadow Emme''s every move as she searches for his niece. But the closer Emme gets to Donor 1735 and the chilling truth, the more apparent it becomes that she''s escaped one dangerous man only to run head-on into another-one who''s far more determined and every bit as deadly.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA fantastic new series . . . The author''s finely drawn characters, and her rapid-pace, intelligent stories, keep the suspense flowing and the pages turning.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   Fresh Fiction\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mariah Stewart is the award-winning author of the Last series:\n  <strong>\n   Last Look, Last Words,\n  </strong>\n  and L\n  <strong>\n   ast Breath;\n  </strong>\n  the Truth series:\n  <strong>\n   Cold Truth, Hard Truth, Dark Truth,\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Final Truth;\n  </strong>\n  and the Dead series:\n  <strong>\n   Dead Even, Dead Wrong, Dead Certain,\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Dead End\n  </strong>\n  ; as well as\n  <strong>\n   Forgotten, Until Dark,\n  </strong>\n  and T\n  <strong>\n   he President''s Daughter.\n  </strong>\n  She is the recipient of the Golden Leaf Award and the Award of Excellence presented by the Colorado Romance Writers, and has been a finalist for the Holt Medallion. Her books have been nominated for several awards from Romantic Times magazine, including Best Contemporary Romance and Best Contemporary Novel. Stewart is a native of Hightstown, New Jersey, and lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and their two daughters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1929'),
(1206, 'The Crying of Lot 49', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force with a strongly European flavor." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  San Francisco Examiner\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "The comedy crackles, the puns pop the satire explodes." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  New York\n </em>\n Times\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "The work of a virtuoso with prose.intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce[HTML_REMOVED]s Ulysses." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force with a strongly European flavor." --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  San Francisco Examiner\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "The comedy crackles, the puns pop the satire explodes." --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  New York\n </em>\n Times\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "The work of a virtuoso with prose.intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce''s Ulysses." --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/237'),
(1207, 'Cryptonomicon', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Neal Stephenson enjoys cult status among science fiction fans and techie types thanks to\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n , which so completely redefined conventional notions of the high-tech future that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. But if his cyberpunk classic was big,\n <em>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </em>\n is huge... gargantuan... massive, not just in size (a hefty 918 pages including appendices) but in scope and appeal. It''s the hip, readable heir to\n <em>\n  Gravity''s Rainbow\n </em>\n and the Illuminatus trilogy. And it''s only the first of a proposed series--for more information, read our interview with Stephenson.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </em>\n zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods--World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, cryptanalyst extraordinaire, and gung ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They''re part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit''s strange workings to Waterhouse. "When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first.... Of course, to observe is not its\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n duty--we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n duty is\n <em>\n  to be observed\n </em>\n .... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious."\n</p>\n<p>\n All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes--inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe--team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the\n <em>\n  Societas Eruditorum\n </em>\n , pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </em>\n is vintage Stephenson from start to finish: short on plot, but long on detail so precise it''s exhausting. Every page has a math problem, a quotable in-joke, an amazing idea, or a bit of sharp prose.\n <em>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </em>\n is also packed with truly weird characters, funky tech, and crypto--all the crypto you''ll ever need, in fact, not to mention all the computer jargon of the moment. A word to the wise: if you read this book in one sitting, you may die of information overload (and starvation).\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Computer expert Randy Waterhouse spearheads a movement to create a safe haven for data in a world where information equals power and big business and government seek to control the flow of knowledge. His ambitions collide with a top-secret conspiracy with links to the encryption wars of World War II and his grandfather''s work in preventing the Nazis from discovering that the Allies had cracked their supposedly unbreakable Enigma code. The author of Snow Crash (LJ 4/1/92) focuses his eclectic vision on a story of epic proportions, encompassing both the beginnings of information technology in the 1940s and the blossoming of the present cybertech revolution. Stephenson''s freewheeling prose and ironic voice lend a sense of familiarity to a story that transcends the genre and demands a wide readership among fans of technothrillers as well as a general audience. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/143'),
(1208, 'The Crystal World', 'J. G. Ballard &amp; G Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Beautifully rendered! Ballard the poet in full ecstatic blast.'' Anthony Burgess ''Of all the unknown regions Ballard''s imagination has opened up, this crystalline forest is the most haunting, with its golden orioles frozen in a lattice of jewels and men like conquistadores embalmed in diamond armour. The creation of the crystal world is something magical and not to be missed.'' Guardian ''Brilliantly imagined, dark, brooding, convincing and powerful.'' New Statesman ''By far his strongest and most individual novel.'' Brian Aldiss\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title -- the extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns into crystal -- now reissued in new cover style. Through a ''leaking'' of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees are metamorphosed into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses. Most men flee the area in terror, afraid to face what they cannot understand. But some, dazzled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dreamworld forest. There is a doctor in pursuit of his ex-mistress, an enigmatic Jesuit wields a crystal cross, and a tribe of lepers search for Paradise!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1805'),
(1209, 'Cujo', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cujo\n </em>\n is so well-paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted story in which that scene is embedded. This is definitely a novel that rewards re-reading. When you read it again, you can pay more attention to the theme of country folk vs. city folk; the parallel marriage conflicts of the Cambers vs. the Trentons; the poignancy of the amiable St. Bernard (yes, the breed choice is just right) infected by a brain-destroying virus that makes it into a monster; and the way the "daylight burial" of the failed ad campaign is reflected in the sunlit Pinto that becomes a coffin. And how significant it is that this horror tale is\n <em>\n  not\n </em>\n supernatural: it''s as real as junk food, a failing marriage, a broken-down car, or a fatal virus.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Just when your blood pressure is back to normal, Stephen King is at it again."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Kansas City Star\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/498'),
(1210, 'Cup of Gold', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A STANDOUT in the Steinbeck canon,\n  <em>\n   Cup of Gold\n  </em>\n  is edgy and adventurous, brash and distrustful of society, and sure to add a new dimension to the common perception of this all-American writer. Steinbeck''s first novel and sole work of historical fiction contains themes that resonate throughout the author''s prodigious body of work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he went. And he had two driving ambitions: to possess the beautiful woman called La Santa Roja, and to conquer Panama, the â€œcup of gold.â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1739'),
(1211, 'The Curse of the Moonraker', 'Eth Clifford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The survivors of a strange shipwreck in the Auckland Islands fight for survival under seemingly hopeless conditions.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1858'),
(1212, 'Cursor&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Power-hungry Kalare has rebelled against Alera''s aging First Lord, Gaius Sextus. Ill-equipped to face this attack, Gaius must seek support - even from the combative High Lord of Aquitaine. Kalare has also seized valuable hostages that could mean the difference between victory and failure. And Amara, the First Lord''s Cursor, has been tasked with their rescue. She has earned this trust but are her allies as worthy - or does the Lady Aquitaine see the time as ripe for betrayal?Treachery is rife elsewhere, as young Tavi of Calderon will find. Posted away from the war, Tavi joins a legion anyway, under an assumed name. Then Kalare does the unthinkable - uniting with the brutish Canim. When treason wipes out the army''s command structure, Tavi finds himself leading an inexperienced legion against the might of the Canim horde - the very last resort of a war-torn realm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/76'),
(1213, 'Cutting for Stone', 'Abraham Verghese', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: John Irving Reviews *Cutting for Stone\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning once, in 1980, for the novel\n  <em>\n   The World According to Garp\n  </em>\n  . In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for\n  <em>\n   The Cider House Rules\n  </em>\n  --a film with seven Academy Award nominations. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n That Abraham Verghese is a doctor and a writer is already established; the miracle of this novel is how organically the two are entwined. Iâ€™ve not read a novel wherein medicine, the practice of it, is made as germane to the storytelling process, to the overall narrative, as the author manages to make it happen here. The medical detail is stunning, but it never overwhelms the humane and narrative aspects of this moving and ambitious novel. This is a first-person narration where the first-person voice appears to disappear, but never entirely; only in the beginning are we aware that the voice addressing us is speaking from the womb! And what terrific characters--even the most minor players are given a full history. There is also a sense of great foreboding; by the midpoint of the story, one dreads what will further befall these characters. The foreshadowing is present in the chapter titles, too--â€˜The School of Sufferingâ€™ not least among them!\n <em>\n  Cutting for Stone\n </em>\n is a remarkable achievement.\n <em>\n  --John Irving\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Maki Galimberti)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Lauded for his sensitive memoir (\n <em>\n  My Own Country\n </em>\n ) about his time as a doctor in eastern Tennessee at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, Verghese turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. Seven years later, Sister Praise dies birthing twin boys: Shiva and Marion, the latter narrating his own and his brothers long, dramatic, biblical story set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Ethiopia, the life of the hospital compound in which they grow up and the love story of their adopted parents, both doctors at Missing. The boys become doctors as well and Vergheses weaving of the practice of medicine into the narrative is fascinating even as the story bobs and weaves with the power and coincidences of the best 19th-century novel.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/184'),
(1214, 'Cycle of the Werewolf', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The isolated Maine village of Tarker Mills is terrorized by the horrifying bloodthirsty creature stalking its inhabitants at the time of the full moon\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/499'),
(1215, 'Cyclops', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Written in the bestselling style of Pacific Vortex! and Deep Six, and with the indestructible Dirk Pitt as its hero, this latest Cussler suspense caper features, and ingeniously connects, a maverick American colony on the Moon, a fabulous sunken treasure sought by an unscrupulous, blimp-owning financier, and two cunningly devised Soviet schemes, one to steal U.S. space secrets, the other to replace Fidel Castro with a Kremlin puppet, no matter what the cost in human lives. The nonstop action involves murder and torture as well as superpower politicking, and Pitt extricates himself from one desperate situation after another, even finding time for a little romance. The writing is brittle, but the reader is not likely to worry about that in a story whose plot resembles a box of exploding fireworks and poses some interesting questions regarding both Cuba and the militarization of space. Paperback rights to Pocket Books. February 7\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen Coonts\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nobody does it better than Clive Cussler. Nobody." --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1448'),
(1216, 'D Is for Deadbeat', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "D" is for Detective Kinsey Millhone, given $25,000 of stolen drug money by a drunkard named Daggett who then dies in a drowning. When she decides to deliver the money to Daggett''s designee, a young man who was the sole survivor of an auto accident perpetrated by Daggett, Kinsey finds herself in a dilemma: too many "D''s" are after the loot. There are two Mrs. Daggetts, a daughter, the drug dealers and a determined killer who soon claims a second life. At this point, Grafton''s lively, well-written adventure develops a deadly flaw. Kinsey comes upon the second victim shortly after he''s been shot. Though dying, he is conscious and coherent. Why, then, doesn''t she ask who did it? When asked the same thing by the police, she says, "I didn''t want the last minutes of his life taken up with that stuff"a humane but unlikely rejoiner from any private eye. Even so, the pleasure of this story comes through. Let''s give it a "D" for Dandy.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "One of the things that makes Sue Grafton''s Kinsey Millhone series so unfailingly entertaining is Millhone''s character. She''s the last one to cultivate eccentricities in the Nero Wolfe manner, and her unsentimental, loner''s-eye view of herself and the world keeps her feet on the ground. But her cases often get messy because she feels things strongly. This happens again, more satisfyingly than ever, in ''\n <em>\n  D'' is for Deadbeat\n </em>\n ."--\n <em>\n  The\n  <strong>\n   Detroit\n  </strong>\n  News\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kinsey Millhone has the characteristic persistence of the good private eye who won''t be deterred from digging out the truth. With skill, Grafton keeps not only her appealing detective but her readers on the edge to know more."--\n <em>\n  Ms. magazine\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Taut prose and controlled plotting make Grafton an outstanding writer of hardboiled detective stories. Social awareness and human weakness play a great part in the Millhone books, which always manage to finish with a heart-stopping climax. Well done indeed."--\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/767'),
(1217, 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code,\n </em>\n Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.\n</p>\n<p>\n A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his granddaughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Neveu''s grandfather''s murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England, and history itself. Brown (\n <em>\n  Angels and Demons\n </em>\n ) has created a page-turning thriller that also provides an amazing interpretation of Western history. Brown''s hero and heroine embark on a lofty and intriguing exploration of some of Western culture''s greatest mysteries--from the nature of the Mona Lisa''s smile to the secret of the Holy Grail. Though some will quibble with the veracity of Brown''s conjectures, therein lies the fun.\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n is an enthralling read that provides rich food for thought.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brown''s latest thriller (after Angels and Demons)is an exhaustively researched page-turner about secret religious societies, ancient coverups and savage vengeance. The action kicks off in modern-day Paris with the murder of the Louvre''s chief curator, whose body is found laid out in symbolic repose at the foot of the Mona Lisa. Seizing control of the case are Sophie Neveu, a lovely French police cryptologist, and Harvard symbol expert Robert Langdon, reprising his role from Brown''s last book. The two find several puzzling codes at the murder scene, all of which form a treasure map to the fabled Holy Grail. As their search moves from France to England, Neveu and Langdon are confounded by two mysterious groups-the legendary Priory of Sion, a nearly 1,000-year-old secret society whose members have included Botticelli and Isaac Newton, and the conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei. Both have their own reasons for wanting to ensure that the Grail isn''t found. Brown sometimes ladles out too much religious history at the expense of pacing, and Langdon is a hero in desperate need of more chutzpah. Still, Brown has assembled a whopper of a plot that will please both conspiracy buffs and thriller addicts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/51'),
(1218, 'The Dain Curse', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? Or is the truth about her weirder and infinitely more dangerous?\n  <strong>\n   The Dain Curse\n  </strong>\n  is one of the Continental Op''s most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  One of the Continental Op''s most bizarre cases as he is faced with Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett who has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they die violently.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1471'),
(1219, 'Daisy Miller and Other Stories', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Daisy Miller" is one of Henry James''s most popular tales, it is the story of a young American woman who while traveling in Europe is courted by Frederick Winterbourne. Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878, "Daisy Miller" is a novel that plays upon the contrast between American and European society, a theme common to James''s work. The title character''s youthful innocence is sharply contrasted with the sophistication of European society in this fatefully tragic tale. Also included in this volume are three additional shorter works by Henry James. They include "Pandora", "The Patagonia", and "Four Meetings".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/629'),
(1220, 'The Damnation Game', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I have seen the future of the horror genre, and his name is Clive Barker," Stephen King has written. Fortunately, this first novel (Barker has published short story collections) more than bears the weight of King''s praise. Barker is a better writer than King, and his characters are just as interesting. Set in modern Britain, the story thrusts a flawed "innocent"parolee Marty Straussinto an epic conflict between wealthy Joseph Whitehead and Mamoulian the Cardplayer, a centuries-old creature with whom Whitehead had struck a bargain to obtain his wealth and power. Whitehead reneges, and the resulting struggle is played out primarily on his fortress-like estate. Barker''s excellent writing makes the graphic, grotesque imagery endemic to current horror fiction very effective. Highly recommended anywhere horror fiction is popular. A.J. Wright, Anesthesiology Dept., Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From its brilliant opening to its shocking conclusion, [this] is a compelling work. (\n  <em>\n   Philadelphia Daily News\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/970'),
(1221, 'A Damsel in Distress', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Overlook is proud to present four more antic selections from comic genius, P.G. Wodehouse.\n <em>\n  A Damsel in Distress\n </em>\n is an early novel about the aristocratic Marshmoreton family-a precursor to the Blandings series.\n <em>\n  Leave It to Psmith\n </em>\n is a comedy adventure involving crime and gunplay, and\n <em>\n  Mulliner Nights\n </em>\n is a series of stories about the inimitable Mr. Mulliner. Meanwhile, Lord ''Chuffy'' Chuffnell borrows the services of Jeeves in\n <em>\n  Thank You, Jeeves\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1621'),
(1222, 'Dance of Death', 'Douglas Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n FBI Special Agent Pendergast lives! Following the New York Times bestselling Brimstone like a one-two punch, Dance of death pits Pendergast against his most personal foe yet -- his brother Diogenes. Praised as a "ruthless descendant of Holmes" (Publishers weekly), Agent Pendergast has become one of crime fiction''s most endearing characters. His greatest enemy is one who has stalked him all of his life, his cunning and diabolical brother Diogenes. And Diogenes has thrown down the gauntlet. Now, several of the people closest to Pendergast are viciously murdered, and Pendergast is framed. On the run from federal authorities, with only the help of his old friend NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D''Agosta, Pendergast must stop his brother. But how can he stop a man that is his intellectual equal-one who has had 20 years to plan the world''s most horrendous crime?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/207');
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(1223, 'Dance to the Piper', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  They both knew what would happen... She moved in perfect harmony to the music that ruled her life both onstage and off. He dealt with the world with ruthless expertise. Music was his business and he was all business. That is until she lit up the stage. The attraction was instant...and impossible. Because he ruled his empire from glass towers high above the vibrancy of her world, and coming too close to hers was risky business. But she was a woman who dared to dream, and she had dreams big enough for them both.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Fans of Nora Roberts will be delighted with her latest tale of a woman who dared to dream and a man who had forgotten how. She moved in perfect harmony to the music that ruled her life both onstage and off. He dealt with ruthless expertise. Music was his business and he was all business--until she lit up the stage. . . . Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1705'),
(1224, 'A Dangerous Man', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n â€œAmong the new voices in twenty-first-century crime fiction, Charlie Huston . . . is where itâ€™s at.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHuston writes dialogue so combustible it could fuel a bus and characters crazy enough to take it on the road.â€\n <br />\n â€“The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n Reluctant hitman Henry Thompson has fallen on hard times. His grip on life is disintegrating, his pistol hand shaking, his body pinned to his living room couch by painkillersâ€“and his boss, Russian mobster David Dolokhov, isnâ€™t happy about any of it. So Henry is surprised when heâ€™s handed a new assignment: keep tabs on a minor league baseball star named Miguel Arenas.\n</p>\n<p>\n Henry has no pity for the slugger and the wicked gambling problem that got him in trouble, but he canâ€™t help liking the guy. After all, Henry used to be just like him: a natural-born ball player with a bright future. But hell, that was long ago. Before Henry did some guy a favor and ended up running for his life. Before his girlfriend and buddies got gunned down by someone on his tail. Before he agreed to buy his parentsâ€™ safety with a life of violence.\n</p>\n<p>\n And when Miguel gets drafted by the Mets and is sent to the Brooklyn Cyclones, Henry must head back to New York, back to the place where all his problems beganâ€“and where Henry might find a real reason to keep living, a reason that may just cost him his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHuston reminds me of all my favorite writersâ€“Pete Dexter, Robert Stone, Crumley. If there is such a thing as compassionate noir, Charlie has found it. Heâ€™s a true marvel.â€\n <br />\n â€“Ken Bruen, author of The Guards\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCharlie Huston is the real deal.â€\n <br />\n â€“Peter Straub\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1221'),
(1225, 'Dangling Conversations', 'Ed Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1815'),
(1226, 'Danse MacAbre', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The uniquely complicated life of Anita Blake, the St. Louisâ€“based necromancer, gets even more complicated when Anita discovers she may be pregnant in the 14th novel in bestseller Hamilton''s vampire hunter series (\n <em>\n  Micah\n </em>\n , etc.). Her sexual magic powers require multiple lovers, so there are six potential fathers. One possible dad, werewolf Richard, has trouble understanding that, baby or not, Anita''s still a federal marshal who raises the dead and executes vampires. In addition, terrifying, life-threatening obstetrical challenges are involved, since the maybe-mommy has to deal with vampirism and several strains of lycanthropy coursing through her veins. That Anita has no detecting to do may disappoint some fans, but playing hostess to a gathering of North American vampire Masters of the City, ostensibly in town for a performance by a vampiric ballet troupe, keeps her plenty busy. When the vampire ballet takes the stage toward the end, several new plot elements emerge. The very lack of a finale suggests that there''s no end in sight for this fabulously imagined series.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Last seen in\n <em>\n  Incubus Dreams\n </em>\n (2004) and the novella\n <em>\n  Micah\n </em>\n (2006), Anita Blake is back and more embroiled in supernatural politics than ever. She is in the market for a new\n <em>\n  pomme de sang\n </em>\n to feed the otherworldly passion known as the\n <em>\n  ardeur\n </em>\n that she and her lovers are subject to, but she has a more pressing problem on her hands when she discovers she might be pregnant. Anita can''t imagine how a baby would fit in with her vampiric lifestyle, nor does she know which of her lovers is the father, though she suspects either possessive werewolf Richard or sensual wereleopard Nathaniel. To make matters worse, vampire masters are converging on the city for a massive meeting, and Anita is wary of her role in the gathering. This time Hamilton relies a little too heavily on complex vampire politics, though sex and intrigue abound, and Anita''s pregnancy dilemma makes particularly compelling reading. Longtime series fans will enjoy the yarn while probably hoping there will be more action for Anita next time.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/584'),
(1227, 'The Dark Half', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to write\n  <em>\n   The Regulators\n  </em>\n  .) At the beginning of\n  <em>\n   The Dark Half\n  </em>\n  (1989), 39-year-old writer Thad Beaumont announces in public that his own pseudonym, George Stark, is dead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, King didn''t want to jettison the Bachman novel, titled\n  <em>\n   Machine Dreams\n  </em>\n  , that was he working on. So he incorporated it in\n  <em>\n   The Dark Half\n  </em>\n  as the crime oeuvre of George Stark, whose recurring hero/alter ego is an evil character named Alexis Machine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thad Beaumont''s pseudonym is not so docile as Stephen King''s, though, and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about Beaumont''s struggle to catch up with his doppelganger and kill him dead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is not the first time that Stephen King has written a dark allegory about the fiction writer''s situation. As the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  writes, "\n  <em>\n   Misery\n  </em>\n  (1987) is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer''s relation to his audience, which holds him prisoner and dictates what he writes, on pain of death.\n  <em>\n   The Dark Half\n  </em>\n  is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer''s relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies ''the womblike dungeon'' of his imagination."\n  <em>\n   --Fiona Webster\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The protagonist of King''s "top-notch" novel is literary novelist Thad Beaumont, whose greatest success has come with three gory thrillers written under the pseudonym George Stark. Beaumont is threatened by a blackmailer who may reveal Stark''s identity; Beaumont kills off Stark instead; and Stark goes on a murderous rampage. "Wondrously frightening . . . among the best of his voluminous work," maintained PW.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/552'),
(1228, 'Dark Lover', 'J. R. Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there''s a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes killing more than Wrath, the leader of The Black Dagger Brotherhood.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The only purebred vampire left on earth, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who murdered his parents centuries ago. But, when one of his most trusted fighters is killed-leaving his half-breed daughter unaware of his existence or her fate-Wrath must usher her into the world of the undead-a world of sensuality beyond her wildest dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/107'),
(1229, 'Dark of the Woods / Soft Come the Dragons', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Novellas/Essays. A very nice vintage collector''s item. Number # 13793. Originally 75 cents.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1488'),
(1230, 'Dark Places: A Novel', 'Gillian Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Edgar-finalist Flynn''s second crime thriller tops her impressive debut,\n <em>\n  Sharp Objects\n </em>\n . When Libby Day''s mother and two older sisters were slaughtered in the family''s Kansas farmhouse, it was seven-year-old Libby''s testimony that sent her 15-year-old brother, Ben, to prison for life. Desperate for cash 24 years later, Libby reluctantly agrees to meet members of the Kill Club, true crime enthusiasts who bicker over famous cases. She''s shocked to learn most of them believe Ben is innocent and the real killer is still on the loose. Though initially interested only in making a quick buck hocking family memorabilia, Libby is soon drawn into the club''s pseudo-investigation, and begins to question what exactly she sawâ€”or didn''t seeâ€”the night of the tragedy. Flynn fluidly moves between cynical present-day Libby and the hours leading up to the murders through the eyes of her family members. When the truth emerges, it''s so twisted that even the most astute readers won''t have predicted it.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From The New Yorker\n</h3>\n<p>\n Libby Day, the protagonist of Flynnâ€™s disturbing second novel, was, as a seven-year-old, the only survivor of her familyâ€™s brutal murder by her older brother, an event dubbed by the media the â€œSatan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.â€ Twenty-five years later, she has become a hardened, selfish young woman with no friends or family. Since the tragedy, her life has been paid for by donations of well-wishers, but, with that fund now empty, Libby must find a way to make money. Her search leads her to The Kill Club, a secret society of people obsessed with the details of notorious murders. As Libby tries to gather artifacts to sell to The Kill Club (whose members, it turns out, doubt the guilt of her brother), she is forced to reÃ«xamine the events of the night of the murder. Flynnâ€™s well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008\n <em>\n  Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1275'),
(1231, 'The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "All good things must come to an end, Constant Reader, and not even Stephen King can make a story that goes on forever. The tale of Roland Deschain''s relentless quest for the Dark Tower has, the author fears, sorely tried the patience of those who have followed it from its earliest chapters. But attend to it a while longer, if it pleases you, for this volume is the last, and often the last things are best. Roland''s ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room -- really a chamber of horrors -- in Thunderclap''s Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the restaurant on Lex and Sixty-first with weapons drawn, little knowing how numerous and noxious are their foes. Roland and Eddie are with John Cullum in Maine, in 1977, looking for the site on Turtleback Lane where ""walk-ins"" have been often seen. They want desperately to get back to the others, to Susannah especially, and yet they have come to realize that the world they need to escape is the only one that matters. Thus the book opens, like a door to\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/568'),
(1232, 'Dark Truth', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  WILL THE TRUTH SET HER FREEâ€“OR SET A TRAP?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Murder didnâ€™t end Nina Maddenâ€™s lifeâ€“it destroyed it. When her father was charged with the serial killings of several college students, Nina and her mother became pariahs in their small Maryland town. Though Nina never believed the hideous accusations, evidence led to her fatherâ€™s conviction and guaranteed the death penalty. After the execution, Nina left Stone River to escape the hatred and persecution . . . but she couldnâ€™t shake the lingering doubts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  More than twenty years later, those doubts are stirred to grim life. A new series of murders is plaguing Stone River: a killing spree that bears a striking resemblance to the one that sent Ninaâ€™s father to the death chamber. And Nina isnâ€™t the only one disturbed enough by the gruesome events to take notice. Wes Powell, the cop who pursued the original case, canâ€™t ignore the eerie similarities between the crimes . . . nor their harrowing implications. Drawn back into a mystery that refuses to die, Nina and Wes will cross paths on their dangerous questâ€“and find themselves in the crosshairs of a bloodthirsty predator.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In matters of crime, there are many versions of the truth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1933'),
(1233, 'Darker Than Amber', 'John D. Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A great bestseller starring Travis McGee, a real American heroÂ—and maybe the star of a new movie franchise! Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1527'),
(1234, 'The Darkest Evening of the Year', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com Exclusive:\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   The Darkest Ice Cream of the Year\n  </em>\n  by Dean Koontz\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n I once said writing a novel is sometimes like making love and sometimes like having a tooth pulled--and sometimes like making love\n <em>\n  while\n </em>\n having a tooth pulled. I arrived at one of those joyful yet excruciating moments while working on\n <em>\n  The Darkest Evening of the Year\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Because I am obsessive about the revision of each page--the word\n <em>\n  fussbudget\n </em>\n is embarrassingly apt when I am brooding over whether to use a comma or a semicolon--I have more than once held on to a manuscript until the drop-dead date for delivery. When that date rolled around for this book, I had written everything, but I was unwilling to send all of it to my editor. I withheld the last fifty pages for another four days, causing a quiet panic in those at my publishing house who are responsible for meeting production deadlines.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although the book was done, I felt that something was wrong with Chapter 63. The action worked, the characters were in character, the mood was sustained...but something\n <em>\n  felt\n </em>\n wrong with it, some fine point of the villain''s motivation. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, I worked 12-hour days, trying to identify the source of my doubt, but couldn''t specify it to my satisfaction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nothing like this had ever happened to me. Previously, my worst struggles with a story had come in the first two-thirds, and the final third had been, if not a sweet swift toboggan run, at least a sleigh ride.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sunday, I got up at 6:00 and set to work, revising, looking for the thorn I could feel but couldn''t see--and ended up working 22 hours, eating at my desk, before tumbling to the problem at 4:00 a.m. Monday morning. "Eureka!" I cried, but I was so weary and my voice was so weak that my shout of jubilation came out as a squeak.\n</p>\n<p>\n The revisions required to Chapter 63 were minor, but after working 58 hours in four days, after having passed a night without sleep, I was unable to focus sharply enough to get them done in the little time that remained before the production schedule would be derailed. In desperation, I turned to that source of creative energy and literary enlightenment that is without equal: ice cream.\n</p>\n<p>\n I shuffled to the kitchen and snared a Dreyer''s Slow-Churned Vanilla Almond Crunch bar from the freezer. I devoured this sweet-and-creamy muse, and felt the scales lift from my eyes; inspiration sparkled between my ears. I finished the revisions and e-mailed the final version of Chapter 63 to my editor with not a minute to spare. Although the American Heart Association will take issue with me, my advice to young writers stuck on a scene is to stop worrying about your arteries and give your wheel-spinning imagination what it needs to find traction: a tasty shot of fat and sugar.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Dean Koontz, October 2007\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Set mostly in Southern California, this topnotch thriller from bestseller Koontz (\n <em>\n  The Good Guy\n </em>\n ) depicts with unabashed emotion and wit the magical powers of golden retrieversâ€”in particular, a female named Nickie, who will stop at nothing to save innocent children and protect their guardians. Amy Redwing, the survivor of a horrifying marriage, establishes Golden Heart to rescue golden retrievers, rehabilitate the abused ones and find forever homes. A supernatural chain of events ensues after Amy and her architect boyfriend, Brian McCarthy, rescue Nickie during a violent intervention in a family dispute. Soon the pair are on a mission that leads to a transformative confrontation with a number of ugly charactersâ€”Gunther Schloss, a frustrated aspiring novelist turned killer-for-hire; Moonglow, a psychobitch in the Mommie Dearest league; and Moonglow''s lover, Harrow, a self-obsessed sicko. This is the perfect book for thriller addicts who know the darkest hour is just before dawn and for canine lovers who remember dog spelled backwards is god.\n <em>\n  (Nov. 27)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/530'),
(1235, 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Meet Dexter Morgan. He''s a highly respected lab technician specializing in blood spatter for the Miami Dade Police Department. He''s a handsome, though reluctant, ladies'' man. He''s polite, says all the right things, and rarely calls attention to himself. He''s also a sociopathic serial killer whose "Dark Passenger" drives him to commit the occasional dismemberment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mind you, Dexter''s the good guy in this story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Adopted at the age of four after an unnamed tragedy left him orphaned, Dexter''s learned, with help from his pragmatic policeman father, to channel his "gift," killing only those who deal in death themselves. But when a new serial killer starts working in Miami, staging elaborately grisly scenes that are, to Dexter, an obvious attempt at communication from one monster to another, the eponymous protagonist finds himself at a loss. Should he help his policewoman sister Deborah earn a promotion to the Homicide desk by finding the fiend? Or should he locate this new killer himself, so he can express his admiration for the other''s "art?" Or is it possible that psycho Dexter himself, admittedly not the most balanced of fellows, is finally going completely insane and committing these messy crimes himself?\n</p>\n<p>\n Despite his penchant for vivisection, it''s hard not to like Dexter as his coldly logical personality struggles to emulate emotions he doesn''t feel and to keep up his appearance as a caring, unremarkable human being. Breakout author Jeff Lindsay''s plot is tense and absorbing, but it''s the voice of Dexter and his reactions to the other characters that will keep readers glued to\n <em>\n  Darkly Dreaming Dexter\n </em>\n , as well as making it one of the most original and highly recommended serial killer stories in a long time.\n <em>\n  --Benjamin Reese\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s been years since there''s been a thriller debut as original as this one by Lindsay, who takes a tired subgenre-the serial-killer novel-and makes it as fresh as dawn. Lindsay''s premise alone is worthy: narrator Dexter Morgan, a blood-spatter specialist for the Miami cops, is also a serial killer. But all his life, Dexter has followed the rules set down by his cop foster father (who knew of Dexter''s proclivities), to indulge his passion only by slaying other serial killers. What makes this novel zing, though, is the narration-humorous, self-deprecating, smart and sometimes lyrical, it''s a macabre fun ride ("I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best-dressed monster in Dade County"). The story opens with Dexter at play, kidnapping and killing a priest who has murdered a number of children, then moves on to the main plot, a series of gruesome killings of prostitutes by an unknown madman. Dexter''s foster sister is a Miami Vice Squad cop working on the killings, so Dexter decides to help her solve the case. This puts him in conflict with a dumb but ambitious female homicide detective as well as, soon enough, the killer himself, whose approach to serial killing mirrors Dexter''s own, uncomfortably so. Might Dexter himself be the culprit? The answer feels a bit contrived, but will surprise most readers, and it''s a minor flaw in a gripping, deliciously offbeat novel that announces the arrival of a notable new talent.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/424'),
(1236, 'Darkness More Than Night', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a sheriff''s detective shows up on former FBI man Terry McCaleb''s Catalina Island doorstep and requests his help in analyzing photographs of a crime scene, McCaleb at first demurs. He''s newly married (to Graciela, who herself dragged him from retirement into a case in\n <em>\n  Blood Work\n </em>\n ), has a new baby daughter, and is finally strong again after a heart transplant. But once a bloodhound, always a bloodhound. One look at the video of Edward Gunn''s trussed and strangled body puts McCaleb back on the investigative trail, hooked by two details: the small statue of an owl that watches over the murder scene and the Latin words "Cave Cave Dus Videt," meaning "Beware, beware, God sees," on the tape binding the victim''s mouth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gunn was a small-time criminal who had been questioned repeatedly by LAPD Detective Harry Bosch in the unsolved murder of a prostitute, most recently on the night he was killed. McCaleb knows the tense, cranky Bosch (Michael Connelly''s series star--see\n <em>\n  The Black Echo\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Black Ice\n </em>\n , et al.) and decides to start by talking to him. But Bosch has time only for a brief chat. He''s a prosecution witness in the high-profile trial of David Storey, a film director accused of killing a young actress during rough sex. By chance, however, McCaleb discovers an abstruse but concrete link between the scene of Gunn''s murder and Harry Bosch''s name:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "This last guy''s work is supposedly replete with owls all over the place. I can''t pronounce his first name. It''s spelled H-I-E-R-O-N-Y-M-U-S. He was Netherlandish, part of the northern renaissance. I guess owls were big up there."\n </p>\n <p>\n  McCaleb looked at the paper in front of him. The name she had just spelled seemed familiar to him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You forgot his last name. What''s his last name?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Oh, sorry. It''s Bosch. Like the spark plugs."\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Bosch fits McCaleb''s profile of the killer, and McCaleb is both thunderstruck and afraid--thunderstruck that a cop he respects might have committed a horrendous murder and afraid that Bosch may just be good enough to get away with it. And when Bosch finds out (via a mysterious leak to tabloid reporter Jack McEvoy, late of Connelly''s\n <em>\n  The Poet\n </em>\n ) that he''s being investigated for murder, he''s furious, knowing that Storey''s defense attorney may use the information to help get his extravagantly guilty client off scot-free.\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s the kind of plot that used to make great Westerns: two old gunslingers circling each other warily, each of them wondering if the other''s gone bad. But there''s more than one black hat in them thar hills, and Connelly masterfully joins the plot lines in a climax and denouement that will leave readers gasping but satisfied.\n <em>\n  --Barrie Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Harry Bosch, the worn, pragmatic Los Angeles police detective, protagonist of a number of Connelly''s earlier books, is joined by Terry McCaleb, former FBI crime-scene profiler, introduced in Blood Work (Little, Brown, 1998). Harry is immersed in testifying at the murder trial of a Hollywood film director, Jack Storey. When McCaleb, retired and living a quiet life with a new wife and two young children, is asked by a former colleague to look at the investigation materials of a recent gruesome homicide, he realizes just how much he misses his vocation. Terry alone has noticed some clues from the crime-scene video that point toward the influence of Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch. Despite pleas from his wife, Terry is drawn into the investigation and finds, to his dismay, that pointers lead straight to acquaintance Harry Bosch, whose real name is Hieronymus. Certain details in Harry''s life fit in well with the profile Terry is developing of a ritualistic killer. The clues stemming from Bosch''s paintings may lead readers straight to the Internet to view some of Bosch''s well-known works to see the clues for themselves. The plot is intricate, and the twists and turns keep coming, but it is so well done, and the characters are so vivid, that confusion isn''t a problem. Despite its length, this involving book is a fast read with "can''t put it down" appeal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Carol DeAngelo, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1354'),
(1237, 'The Darkness That Comes Before', 'R. Scott Bakker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Many centuries ago, the world was nearly destroyed by the dark wizards of the Consult, and the High King''s family was wiped out--or so it seemed. Then from the wild, uncharted north comes a mysterious and extraordinarily powerful philosopher-warrior, Anasurimbor Kellhus, descendant of the ancient High Kings. But the return of the king''s bloodline is little cause for rejoicing. For Kellhus''s appearance may signal the overthrow of empires, the destruction of the sorcerous schools, the return of the Consult demons--and the end of the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Darkness that Comes Before\n  </em>\n  is a strong, impressive, deeply imagined debut novel. However, this first book of an epic fantasy series is not accessible; it reads like a later volume of a complicated ongoing series. Author R. Scott Bakker has created a world that is very different from J.R.R. Tolkien''s Middle Earth, yet in depth of development comes closer than most high-fantasy worlds. In addition to providing five appendices, Bakker attempts to make his complex world clear to readers by filling the prologue and opening chapters with the names of characters, gods, cities, tribes, nations, religions, factions, and sorcerous schools. For many readers, this approach will have the opposite effect of clarity. It''s like demonstrating snowflake structure with a blizzard.\n  <em>\n   --Cynthia Ward\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Canadian author Bakker''s impressive, challenging debut, the first of a trilogy, should please those weary of formulaic epic fantasy. Bakker''s utterly foreign world, EÃ¤rwa, is as complex as that of Tolkien, to whom he is, arguably, a worthier successor than such established names as David Eddings and Stephen Donaldson. Bakker creates an extraordinary cast of nationalities and races involved in an enormous holy war set off by an unseen prophet, Maithanet. (Appendices help keep the history and personalities straight.) He casually drops for half the story an increasingly important character, AnasÃ»rimbor Kellhus (aka "the Prince of Nothing"), who finally returns without a breath of exposition. The amiable and wise sorcerer spy Drusas Achamian binds the myriad narrative threads together. Drusas''s love for Esmenet, a too-experienced prostitute, provides some tenderness amid the abundant slaughter. In the book''s most harrowing scene, which fans of gentler fantasy will find too graphic, Esmenet is raped by a creature who, despite its human appearance, is likely demonic. If this ambitious novel lacks the beauty of Tolkien as well as the sense of pure evil that suffused Middle-earth with genuine terror, its willingness to take chances and avoid the usual genre clichÃ©s should win many discriminating readers.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/990'),
(1238, 'Darkness, My Old Friend', 'Lisa Unger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Novelist Bethany Graves is recovering from a bitter divorce when she decides to move back to her small Northeastern hometown, The Hollows. There, she plans to write her next book and repair her relationship with her teenage daughter, Willow. But when Willow spots a caver digging what looks like a grave in the nearby woods, they becomes tangled up in an investigation that goes back over twenty-five years. Soon more townspeople are involved, from semi-retired cop Jones Cooper to local psychic Eloise Montgomery, whose dire visions warn that pursuing this case may just be the last thing they do.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œDeeply plotted and complex. . . . Will have you racing to the last page.â€ â€”Michael ConnellyÂ \n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œLisa Unger is one of my favorite authors. She gets better and better with each book.â€ â€”Karin Slaughter\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œHas a gripping plot, fast-paced action, and characters that seem so real they almost leap from the printed page.\n  <em>\n   Darkness, My Old Friend\n  </em>\n  is a great follow-up toÂ Â . . .\n  <em>\n   Fragile.\n  </em>\n  â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   The Tucson Citizen\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œThe scariest things are what we donâ€™t know about our neighbors and friends. . . . [An] exciting psychological thriller.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   South Florida Sun-Sentinel\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œOne of Ungerâ€™s best thrillers yetâ€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Unger has a sure touch with teenage characters and their parents, exploring the sometimes painful territory without falling back on stereotypes. She also shines a light on marital bonds, some strong, some broken, some unhealthy. . . . Unger gives us one other important element: characters to root for as well as against.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   The Charlotte Observer\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œReading\n  <em>\n   Darkness, My Old Friend\n  </em>\n  is a bit like moving to a small town such as The Hollows. First you get to know the locals, slowly but surely, and then once youâ€™re familiar, you start to notice the oddities and peculiarities of the place, wondering what secrets itâ€™s hiding.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Bookreporter\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  â€œGood reading, canny characterizations.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Cleveland Plain Dealer\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "[A] gripping psychological thriller . . . as much about uncovering the past as it is about accepting the future.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œThis is a magnificent, well told story, full of revelations about human nature.â€ Â â€”Javier Sierra,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Lost Angel\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œThe beauty of this unconventional crime novel is that focus is not on whodunit but the darkness that drives us.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Family Circle\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lisa Unger is the bestselling author of eleven novels. She lives in Florida with her husband and daughter.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2464'),
(1239, 'Dave Barry&#39;s Only Travel Guide You&#39;ll Ever Need', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dave describes the dark side of tourism with such comical precision that you''ll wonder why you ever bother to leave the safety of your living room. For my money, nobody has ever produced a better snapshot of the Baggage Carousel, "where passengers traditionally gather at the end of a flight to spend several relaxing hours watching the arrival of luggage from some\n  <em>\n   other\n  </em>\n  flight, which comes randomly spurting out of a mysterious troll-infested tunnel that is apparently connected to another airport, possibly in a different dimension."\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A distinctly minor effort by the Miami Herald columnist and author of such previous successes as Dave Barry''s Greatest Hits , this guide works too hard for comic effect. There are strained references to inedible airline food, a "Five Booger" ranking from the "Michelin Guide to How Snotty a Restaurant Is," Chicago as "The City with a Great Big Butt." There are tired gags, one involving the translation of a phrase about "the fish of your brother Raoul" and another about using the same map for downtown Vienna, London and Berlin. But the book is not completely devoid of laughs: "Akron: Meeting Yesterday''s Challenges Tomorrow" is cited as a typical article from an airline magazine. There is a clever parody of a highway historical marker; and a discussion of the problem of locating a tree in Oregon that doesn''t have an ecologist wrapped around it. The book, however, is hardly sidesplitting.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(1240, 'David Blaine&#39;s Magic Revealed', 'Tarko the Great', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1493'),
(1241, 'David Copperfield', 'Charles Dickens &amp; David Gates', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The most perfect of all the Dickens novels."\n <br />\n --Virginia Woolf\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens''s own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens''s power of invention, Somerset Maugham wrote: "There were never such people as the Micawbers, Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens''s exultant imagination...you can never quite forget them."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates, in addition to new explanatory notes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/853'),
(1242, 'Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne &amp; Z. A. (int) Recht', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "There is zombie fiction and then there is crawl-out-of-the-grave-and-drag-you-to-hell zombie fiction.Â \n  <em>\n   Day by Day Armageddon\n  </em>\n  is hands down the best zombie book I have ever read."\n  <br />\n  --Brad Thor, #1 New York Times Best Selling Author\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Once on the fringes of horror, the â€œzombie apocalypse,â€ has become one of the most buzzworthy genres in popular culture. Now, in Day by Day Armageddon, J.L. Bourne delivers an intelligent, gripping thriller that will leave both new and die-hard zombie fans breathless.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sporadic news reports indicate chaos and violence spreading through U.S. cities. An unknown evil is sweeping the planet. The dead are rising to claim the Earth as the new dominant species in the food chain.This is the handwritten journal depicting one manâ€™s struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. Enter if you will into his world. The world of the undead.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1226'),
(1243, 'A Day Late and a Dollar Short', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry McMillan''s novels feature chatty, catty narrators who have a story they''re just busting to tell you. The dominant voice in\n <em>\n  A Day Late and a Dollar Short\n </em>\n is Viola Price, whose asthma just sent her to the ICU. And who came to visit? The Jheri Curl-wearing Cecil, "a bad habit I''ve had for thirty-eight years, which would make him my husband." Viola doesn''t think Cecil''s such a catch: "His midlife crisis done lasted about 20 years now," and "to set the record straight, Cecil look like he about four months pregnant." But somebody did catch Cecil--he recently left Viola for "some welfare huzzy" with three kids. And, as we soon find out in Cecil''s first-person chapter, Viola has abundant flaws of her own. McMillan deftly sketches the exasperated intimacy of the long and unsuccessfully married.\n</p>\n<p>\n She also has great dish about family dynamics. Have Cecil and Viola''s kids got problems! When lovable, luck-free Lewis turns up to visit his mom, he''s drunk, broke, and still whining about his ex, Donnetta, who "didn''t have as much sense as a Christmas turkey" (though she did have the sense to dump Lewis). Now Lewis consoles himself with his Bobbing Betty doll. "How could somebody with an IQ of 146 be so stupid?" marvels Viola. And that Charlotte! Viola''s daughter is "a bossy wench from the word go." (Gee, where could she have gotten that trait?) Charlotte feels like she never got her fair share of attention, having been born 10 months after the eldest daughter, Paris (now the driven mom of a brilliant athlete whose white girlfriend claims she''s pregnant). Charlotte took it out on younger Lewis and Janelle, who''s been in college 15 years with no degree in sight.\n</p>\n<p>\n At first, you''ll make ample use of the family charts in the endpapers to figure out who''s who, but pretty soon you''ll feel right at home with the squabbling, multiply dysfunctional, ultimately loving Price clan. You may agree with Viola: "Some folks got some stuff that can top ours. Hell, look at the Kennedys."\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n her four adult kids, all of whom have their own children, and their various circumstances, relationships and dilemmas. Not about to give Viola the last word, the other family members take turns talking in each of the remaining chapters. At first it is a bit confusing trying to keep track of who''s who (the audio book doesn''t come with family charts, the hardcover does), but it all eventually becomes clear as this complex and entertaining story of family dynamics or as daughter Paris calls it, "As the World F\n <em>\n  *ing Turns, again and again and again" gets fleshed out. McMillan is in her element, and readers Coleman and Willis do an excellent job of capturing the personalities of all the characters, be they surly, sassy, depressed or comic. Their talents guide the listener expertly through this captivating and ultimately optimistic tale of the ties that bind and the things that really matter. Simultaneous release with the Viking hardcover (Forecasts, Dec. 11, 2000).\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1191'),
(1244, 'The Day of the Jackal', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman withÂ Â opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of hisÂ Â profession. A man unknown to any secret service in theÂ Â world. An assassin with a contract to kill theÂ Â world''s most heavily guarded man.OneÂ Â man with a rifle who can change the course ofÂ Â history. One man whose mission is so secretive notÂ Â even his employers know his name. And as theÂ Â minutes count down to the final act of execution, itÂ Â seems that there is no power on earth that can stopÂ Â the Jackal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1864'),
(1245, 'Day of the Triffids', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel\n <em>\n  The Day of the Triffids\n </em>\n to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by\n <em>\n  The Times\n </em>\n (London) as having â€œall the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/156'),
(1246, 'Dead Aim', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Iris Johansen returns with an electrifying and all-too-plausible thriller that pushes the level of suspense to the maximum and never lets up. From the tense opening scene to the final explosive page, Johansen delivers a knockout novel, as an unlikely pair of allies must expose a team of killers hiding behind an unspeakable act of terrorâ€”and risk ending up their next target.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She witnesses death through the eye of her camera. Now a relentless killer is focused on her. A celebrated photojournalist, Alex Graham has seen it allâ€”but her latest assignment has forced her across a dangerous line. What happens when a reporter does more than just report? She has recorded some of the most tragic and heartbreaking of catastrophes, everything from natural disasters to infamous acts of terror. Her experiences have left her forever marked with the human side of tragedy. So when a dam breaks in Arapahoe Junction, Colorado, Alex is once more at the site doing more than just snapping picturesâ€”she is in the mud with a shovel digging for survivors.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What happens when the reporter becomes the story? Alex finds more than she bargained for. In one terrible instant, she is witness to a conspiracy that will stun a nation. The official story is just a cover-up for a truth so frightening, so unthinkable, anyone who threatens to reveal it must be silenced. Forever. And now that someone is Alex Graham.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first attempt on her life is swift and brutal. Only barely escaping, she finds an ally in an improbable source. Billionaire financier John Logan has his own reasons for protecting Alex, and these reasons alone are likely to get her killed. Using his vast connections and influences, Logan assigns a bodyguard to protect her. Judd Morgan is the best covert commando in the business, and if anyone can keep Alex safe, itâ€™s this quietly dangerous man. The problem is, Alex doesnâ€™t want to be kept safe by Judd, whose checkered past has made him the target of an unseen assassin who dogs his every step.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1802'),
(1247, 'Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse braces herself for trouble when another group of supernatural beings goes public in her disjointed [ninth] adventure (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  From Dead to Worse\n </em>\n ). Following the vampires'' lead, the shape-shifters decide to step out of the woodwork and announce their existence to the world. While the initial reveal goes smoothly, the brutal crucifixion of a young werepanther behind the local bar makes Sookie wonder if the people of Bon Temps, La., are as tolerant as she thought. Meanwhile, the FBI is asking questions about Sookie''s uncanny ability to locate survivors after an explosion, and trouble is brewing among the secretive fae. Harris tries to cram too much into a single story, and even die-hard fans of Sookie''s adventures in print and on HBO''s\n <em>\n  True Blood\n </em>\n will complain about the plot gaps.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Louisiana town of Bon Tempsâ€”along with the rest of the worldâ€”is about to be rocked with some big supernatural news: like the vampires before them, the Were peopleâ€”humans with the ability to change into animalsâ€”are about to reveal themselves to humanity. Psychic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse is apprehensive about the revelation, given the way some people in the small town revile anyone with extraordinary powers, including Sookie herself. While the initial announcement seems to go over smoothly with most people, tragedy strikes when Sookieâ€™s brother Jasonâ€™s estranged wife, a werepanther, is found murdered and nailed up on a cross. Jason is the prime suspect, but Sookie has even bigger problems to deal with when she learns that a vicious fairy prince is determined to kill her. Darker and more ominous than earlier entries in the series, Harrisâ€™ latest raises the stakes (pun intended) for lovable heroine Sookie and comes up a winner. With HBOâ€™s True Blood, aÂ series based on Sookieâ€™s adventures, renewed for a second season, expect demand for this latest gripping installment. --Kristine Huntley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/631');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(1248, 'Dead as a Doornail', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Vampires, were-creatures, shifters, one fairy godmother and of course, Sookie are pitted against a sniper with an apparent aversion to nonhumans. If trying to discover who''s behind the shootings isn''t enough, the telepathic cocktail waitress from Bon Temps, La., has to cope with a few other distractions: her sexy "Were" friend, Alcide Herveaux, needs her help in his father''s bid to become the next leader of the local werewolf pack; her boss, Sam Merlotte (a collie in his spare time), gets shot; her house partly burns down; and what''s she to do about the handsome vampire bartender who dresses as a pirate at Sam''s place? Between one mishap and another, Sookie is one busy gal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/625'),
(1249, 'Dead Beat', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Dresden''s first hardcover adventure finds Chicago''s preeminent wizard coping with his new roommate--vampire half-brother Thomas. Harry soon has problems bigger than Thomas'' clutter to deal with. Marva, one of Harry''s vampire foes, summons him with a threat to his police-lieutenant friend, Karrin Murphy. Marva demands Harry get the\n <em>\n  Word of Kemmler\n </em>\n for her, or she''ll frame Murphy for murder. Harry doesn''t even know what the\n <em>\n  Word\n </em>\n is, but while he''s trying to find out, and also what damage Marva will be able to do with it, several necromancers descend on Chicago. When Harry learns that the newcomers are students of Kemmler, an evil wizard who mastered ancient spirits in a way no one has since, he discovers that they are seeking the\n <em>\n  Word\n </em>\n , too, in hopes of seizing the powerful knowledge within it and calling forth a powerful creature known as the Erlking. Butcher''s latest maintains the momentum of previous Dresden outings and builds the suspense right up to a rousing conclusion.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''An intensely enjoyable series'' SciFi Now ''Butcher''s latest maintains the momentum ... builds the suspense right up to a rousing conclusion'' Booklist ''The best novels in the supernatural PI subgenre'' SFX\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/92'),
(1250, 'Dead Certain', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n   <br />\n   Now the second is free.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim again. But when her business partner, Derek England, is found with a bullet through the back of his head just hours after she left an incriminating message on his voice mail, Amanda finds herself in danger of becoming a victim of another sort.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   All the evidence points to Amanda as Derekâ€™s killer, and Chief of Police Sean Mercer is building the case against her. But when another of her colleagues is found brutally murdered, itâ€™s obvious that someone other than Amanda is behind the killings. Suddenly Amanda is a target once again, as a diabolical killer circles ever closerâ€”and the only thing that stands between her and becoming the third and final victim is the man who had tried to put her behind bars. . . .\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   From the Inside Flap\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n    <br />\n    Now the second is free.\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim again. But when her business partner, Derek England, is found with a bullet through the back of his head just hours after she left an incriminating message on his voice mail, Amanda finds herself in danger of becoming a victim of another sort.\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    All the evidence points to Amanda as Derek''s killer, and Chief of Police Sean Mercer is building the case against her. But when another of her colleagues is found brutally murdered, it''s obvious that someone other than Amanda is behind the killings. Suddenly Amanda is a target once again, as a diabolical killer circles ever closerâ€”and the only thing that stands between her and becoming the third and final victim is the man who had tried to put her behind bars. . . .\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    About the Author\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n   <strong>\n    Mariah Stewart\n   </strong>\n   is the bestselling author of numerous novels and several novellas. A RITA finalist for romantic suspense, she is the recipient of the Award of Excellence for contemporary romance, a RIO (Reviewers International) Awards honoring excellence in womenâ€™s fiction, a Reviewers Choice Award from\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n  magazine, and a three-time recipient of the Golden Leaf Award for contemporary romance. A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she lives with her husband, two daughters, and two rambunctious golden retrievers in a century-old Victorian home. She is a member of the Valley Forge Romance Writers, New Jersey Romance Writers, and the Romance Writers of America.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2414'),
(1251, 'Dead End', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Bestselling author Mariah Stewart proved she can knock â€™em dead with the best when she delivered the resounding one-two-three punch of her suspense â€œthrillogyâ€â€“Dead Wrong, Dead Certain, and Dead Even. Now, in her anticipated hardcover debut, sheâ€™s back to finish off this stunning series with her hottest shot yet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two years ago, a major FBI undercover drug deal suddenly went southâ€“ and special agent Dylan Shields went down in a hail of bullets. When the dust cleared, his fellow agent (and fiancÃ©e) Anne Marie McCall was left alone with too many unanswered questions and nothing to do but hit the job as hard as she could to dull the pain. Only now is she beginning to ease up on her punishing routine as a Bureau profiler and starting to let some light in again. and. Detective Evan Crosby had a lot to do with drawing Annie back into life, and sheâ€™s not about to let her chance at happiness with him slip away.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But before she can embrace a bright new future, she must grapple with the dangerous past whose demons of doubt and suspicion wonâ€™t let her sleep at night . . . and whose dead will never rest in peace until someone digs up the truth and deals out the payback. That means going places where no oneâ€“ including the FBIâ€“wants Annie to be and cutting through a minefield of smoke and mirrors, politics and intimidation, dirty tricks and deadly threats, in order to make a cold case hot enough to get the right people sweating. The harder Annie squeezes, the more blood, lies, and betrayal she wrings out . . . and the closer she comes to connecting a face to the trigger finger that blew away her dreamsâ€“and Dylan Shields. What she doesnâ€™t know is that the killer sheâ€™s closing in on is looking for closure too. The kind that only Annieâ€™s death can bring.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2415'),
(1252, 'Dead Even', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n  <br />\n  Now the third is free.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  FBI Special Agent Miranda Cahill has always played by the rules: always maintain a respectful professionalism, and never mix business with pleasure. Except when it comes to fellow agent Will Fletcher. Their on-again, off-again relationship has left painful scars even he has never seen.\n  <br />\n  Now, a series of murders has the two agents racing to outwit a killer before he can strike again. Miranda and Will know that lives depend on identifying intended victims and tracking them down before the killer does. But as they begin to unravel this homicidal agenda, it becomes clear that Miranda may be the last and final target in a twisted game. With the clock ticking, time is running out on a killer who is determined to cross Mirandaâ€™s name off his hit list . . . permanently.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMariah Stewart is fast becoming a brand-name author.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€“Romantic Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mariah Stewart\n  </strong>\n  is the bestselling author of numerous novels and several novellas. A RITA finalist for romantic suspense, she is the recipient of the Award of Excellence for contemporary romance, a RIO (Reviewers International Organization) Awards honoring excellence in womenâ€™s fiction, a Reviewers Choice Award from\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n  magazine, and a three-time recipient of the Golden Leaf Award for contemporary romance. A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she lives with her husband, two daughters, and two rambunctious golden retrievers in a century-old Victorian home. She is a member of the Valley Forge Romance Writers, the New Jersey Romance Writers, and the Romance Writers of America.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2416'),
(1253, 'Dead in the Family', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Still reeling from the deaths of her fairy cousin, Claudine, and many others in 2009''s\n <em>\n  Dead and Gone\n </em>\n , Sookie Stackhouse struggles with paranormal politics in her entertaining if slow-moving 10th outing. When Claudine''s triplet, Claude, appears at her doorstep, Sookie reluctantly allows him to move in. The government threatens two-natures with mandatory registration, and tensions run high in the local Were pack. Then Eric''s maker, a Roman named Appius Livius Ocella, arrives without warning, bringing along Alexei Romanov, whom he rescued from the Bolsheviks and turned into a vampire. Though the action often builds too slowly, the exploration of family in its many human and undead variations is intriguing, and Harris delivers her usual mix of eccentric characters and engaging subplots.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "Mixes humorous Southern-fried fantasy with biting satirical commentary." -- *Publishers Weekly\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/635'),
(1254, 'Dead to the World', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From Emma Bull''s\n  <em>\n   War for the Oaks\n  </em>\n  to Laurell K. Hamilton''s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, from\n  <em>\n   The X-Files\n  </em>\n  to\n  <em>\n   Buffy the Vampire Slayer\n  </em>\n  , creators are mixing old European myths and legends with modern American pop culture. Incorporating influences ranging from blaxploitation movies and erotic novels to tabloid staples like UFOs and Elvis, authors and directors are creating a new mythology for the strip-mall, tract-house, cell-phone America of the new millennium.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the best-known and best writers of the new American mythology is Charlaine Harris.\n  <em>\n   Dead to the World\n  </em>\n  is the fourth novel in her Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series. It continues the story of psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who has fallen out with her undead lover, Bill. Bill has no sooner departed for Peru, than Sookie finds the head vampire, Eric, running naked and terrified through the rural night. She helps Eric, and discovers his memory has been destroyed by a coven of unscrupulous, astonishingly powerful witches, newly arrived in her small Louisiana town, and offering a huge reward for Eric. Sookie tries to hide Eric, but her brother sees him--and immediately disappears. And Sookie finds herself caught in a war among witches, vampires, and werewolves.\n  <em>\n   --Cynthia Ward\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of Laurell Hamilton''s Anita Blake looking for a lighter version of the vampire huntress should cotton to Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic Louisiana gal who really wants to be normal, but suffers from a huge self-confidence problem, a case of permanent bad luck, difficult relatives and a penchant for attracting unsavory characters of the not-quite-human kind. In this fourth quirky installment in this hitherto mass-market series (after 2003''s\n  <em>\n   Club Dead\n  </em>\n  ), Sookie finds that her bad luck has taken a new turn for the worse. Sookie''s love interest, Bill the vampire, runs off to Peru to do research. In his place, Sookie is stuck with Eric, Bill''s boss (and head vamp for the district), who appears out of thin air buck naked with no memory of who he is or what he does. Coincidentally, Sookie''s brother Jason goes missing. Less coincidentally, but more ominously, a coven of witches (who also happen to be shape-shifters and vampire blood addicts) comes rolling into the nearest big city, looking for trouble. Consistent, well-built characters and a strong, action-packed plot that will keep readers guessing to the end distinguish this frothy fusion of romance, mystery and fantasy.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/624'),
(1255, 'Dead Until Dark', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An author of rare talents." --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Harris writes neatly and with assurance." --\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of the year''s best." --\n  <em>\n   Science Fiction Chronicle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out....\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn''t such a bright idea.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A fun, fast, funny, and wonderfully intriguing blend of vampire and mystery that''s hard to put down, and should not be missed. (Susan Sizemore)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for Charlaine Harris:\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Harris writes neatly and with assurance. (\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  An author of rare talents. (\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/615'),
(1256, 'Dead Witch Walking', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1235'),
(1257, 'Dead Wrong', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n   <br />\n   Now the first is free.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   It was inescapably chilling, as if the murderer was methodically working his way down a page torn from the phone book. The three victims brutally killed in their own homes had one thing in common: they were all listed as M. Douglas. The fact that Mara Douglas is next on the list has her jumping at shadows, until FBI agent Aidan Shields shows up to make sure she doesnâ€™t become the fourth victim.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Aidan has been out of commission since an undercover operation went bad more than a year ago. Back on the job, his razor-sharp instincts are returning. But it will take all of Aidanâ€™s wits to stay one step ahead of the elusive killer who has engaged him in a deadly gameâ€”a game in which Maraâ€™s life is the prize. A game only one can win . . .\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   â€œMariah Stewart is fast becoming a brand-name author.â€\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   â€”Romantic Times\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   About the Author\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Mariah Stewart\n   </strong>\n   is the bestselling author of numerous novels and several novellas. A RITA finalist for romantic suspense, she is the recipient of the Award of Excellence for contemporary romance, a RIO (Reviewers International) Awards honoring excellence in womenâ€™s fiction, a Reviewers Choice Award from\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n  magazine, and a three-time recipient of the Golden Leaf Award for contemporary romance. A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she lives with her husband, two daughters, and two rambunctious golden retrievers in a century-old Victorian home. She is a member of the Valley Forge Romance Writers, New Jersey Romance Writers, and the Romance Writers of America.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2417'),
(1258, 'The Dead Zone', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Awake in the dead zone and awake to a nightmare. Recoil in horror as you are touched by a young man cursed with the power to perceive the evil in men''s souls. And whose ability to see into the future forces him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and infinitely dangerous man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/569'),
(1259, 'Deadeye Dick', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA moving fable . . . Vonnegut, sweet cynic and ugly duckling, continues to write gentle swan songs for our uncivil society.â€â€”\n <em>\n  PlayboyÂ \n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œThe master at his quirky, provocative best.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Cosmopolitan\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œVonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Deadeye Dick\n </strong>\n is Kurt Vonnegutâ€™s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrorsâ€”a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bombâ€”Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe . . . and who we say we are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(1260, 'Deadhouse Gates', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The second of the projected 10 volumes of the Malazan Book of the Fallen raises the stakes set by\n <em>\n  Gardens of the Moon\n </em>\n [BKL My 15 04]. From the Holy Desert Raraku, in the land of the Seven Cities, the seer Sha''ik sends her followers out on a holy war known as the Whirlwind. It bears more than a passing resemblance to the current violent Islamic jihad, but Erikson''s scholarship is sufficiently thorough to enable him to avoid simpleminded likeness making. His imagination is also sufficient to bring the setting of the Seven Cities vividly to life, although his realism is rather literally gritty, including a great deal of sand and gravel that will inevitably recall for some readers a country in which American troops are now fighting. The opposition to the Whirlwind is varied but includes the inevitable mercenaries, limned in the manner that stems from David Drake''s sf and in fantasy is practiced particular skillfully by Glen Cook. Erikson is making his dark characters and grisly battles very much his own, however, and fantasy readers with a strong appetite for world building and action ought to enjoy his efforts. Whether they''ll stay for all 10 volumes is another matter, but so far,\n <em>\n  so\n </em>\n good.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Give me the evocation of a rich, complex and yet ultimately unknowable other world, with a compelling suggestion of intricate history and mythology and lore. Give me mystery amid the grand narrative. Give me a world in which every sea hides a crumbled Atlantis, every ruin has a tale to tell, every mattock blade is a silent legacy of struggles unknown. Give me, in other words, the fantasy work of Steven Erikson. Erikson is a master of lost and forgotten epochs, a weaver of ancient epics on a scale that would approach absurdity if it wasn''t so much fun."--Andrew Leonard, Salon.com on\n <em>\n  The Malazan Book of the Fallen\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Steven Erikson afflicts me with awe. Vast in scope, almost frighteningly fecund in imagination, and rich in sympathy, his work does something that only the rarest of books can manage: it alters the reader''s perceptions of reality."--Stephen R. Donaldson on\n <em>\n  Deadhouse Gates\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "I stand slack-jawed in awe of The Malazan Book of the Fallen. This masterwork of imagination may be the high water mark of epic fantasy. This marathon of ambition has a depth and breadth and sense of vast reaches of inimical time unlike anything else available today. The Black Company, Zelazny''s Amber, Vance''s Dying Earth, and other mighty drumbeats are but foreshadowings of this dark dragon''s hoard."--Glen Cook on\n <em>\n  The Malazan Book of the Fallen\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the best fantasy novels of the year."--SF Site on\n <em>\n  Deadhouse Gates\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Rare is the writer who so fluidly combines a sense of mythic power and depth of world, with fully realized characters and thrilling action, but Steven Erikson manages it spectacularly. The books are reminiscent of Tolkein''s scope, Zelazny''s cleverness and wit, and Donaldson''s brooding atmospherics; yet all combined with dazzling talent into a narrative flow that keeps the reader turning pages. Some writers open windows on worlds, Erikson opens worlds and makes them so real, so magical, you''re not sure if you can escape-and I don''t want to."-Michael A. Stackpole on\n <em>\n  Deadhouse Gates\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Such is the impact of the first book in Erikson''s monumental Malazan saga,\n <em>\n  Gardens of the Moon\n </em>\n , that the achievement of this sequel is doubly surprising. Not only is the vigour and sweep of the earlier book effortlessly captured, the complex plot is simultaneously deepened and accelerated, with a grasp of tempo that has the reader inexorably gripped . . . Roll on, book three!"-\n <em>\n  The Good Book Guide\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Deadhouse Gates\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <br />\n </strong>\n "Gripping, fast-moving, delightfully dark, with a masterful and unapologetic brutality reminiscent of George R. R. Martin. Steven Erikson brings a punchy, mesmerizing writing style into the genre of epic fantasy, making an indelible impression. Utterly engrossing."--Elizabeth Haydon on\n <em>\n  Deadhouse Gates\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1303'),
(1261, 'Dean Koontz Collection, 17 Books', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dean Koontz Collection, 17 Books (ColdFire, Darkest Evening of the Year, Darkfall, Door to December, Frankenstein Book 1, Icebound, Intensity, Key to Midnight, LifeExpectancy, The Mask, NightChills, Phantoms, Seize the Night, Strange Highways, TickTock, Voice of the Night, WinterMoon) in mass market paperback edition\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1487'),
(1262, 'Dear John', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love--and face the hardest decision of his life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Go Behind the Scenes of the Motion Picture\n   <em>\n    Dear John\n   </em>\n   (Sony Pictures, 2010)\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Starring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum\n  <br />\n  (Click on each image below to see a larger view)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hot on the heels of\n  <em>\n   True Believer\n  </em>\n  and sequel\n  <em>\n   At First Sight\n  </em>\n  , Sparks returns with the story of ne''er-do-well-turned-army-enlistee John Tyree, 23, and well-to-do University of North Carolina special education major Savannah Lynn Curtis. John, who narrates, has been raised by a socially backward single postal-worker dad obsessed with coin collecting (he has Asperger''s syndrome). John bypasses college for the overseas infantry; Savannah spends her college summers volunteering. When they meet, he''s on leave, and she''s working with Habitat for Humanity (he rescues her sinking purse at the beach). John has a history of one-night stands; Savannah''s a virgin. He''s an on-and-off drinker; she''s a teetotaler. Attraction and values conflict the rest of the summer, but the deal does not close. Savannah longs for John to come home; her friend Tim longs to have a relationship with her. On the brink of John and Savannah''s finally getting together, 9/11 happens, and John re-ups. Savannah''s letters come less and less frequently, and before you know it, he receives the expected "Dear John" letter. Sparks''s novel brims with longing.\n  <em>\n   (Oct. 30)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1058'),
(1263, 'Dearly Devoted Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dexter the Demon, Dexter the Avengerâ€”whatever he chooses to call himself, the hero of this intelligent, darkly humorous series knows he''s a monster who loves slicing people into little pieces. That Dexter limits his killing to "acceptable" victimsâ€”usually other serial killersâ€”is designed to keep the reader from having to worry too much about the morality of his avocation. Dexter''s just added his 40th victim, a homicidal pedophile, and is eagerly looking ahead to number 41 when he becomes involved in a case through his job as a blood spatter analyst at the Miami-Dade police forensics lab. A man is found with "everything on [his] body cut off, absolutely everything"â€”a piece of work that makes Dexter''s own tidy killings look like child''s play. This madman, nicknamed Danco, spends weeks surgically removing his victims'' ears, lips, nose, arms, legs, etc., while keeping them alive to watch their own mutilation. Despite a certain professional admiration for Danco''s dexterity, Dexter decides to take on the case. It''s the contradictions in Dexter''s character that make it all workâ€”he''s smart, he''s funny, he cares for children, and yet he has no normal human responses or emotions. The first book in the series,\n <em>\n  Darkly Dreaming Dexter\n </em>\n , was very well received; this one should be as well, and deservedly so.\n <em>\n  (July 19)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Dexter, your friendly neighborhood serial killer, is a police department blood-spatter expert who, in his spare time, kills people. Not just anyone, you understand--he only kills other killers, people whom he believes deserve it. Is this because Dexter really has a heart of gold? No, he''s a monster (he is the first to admit it), but at least he tries to steer his evil into productive channels. In the second of Lindsay''s alliteratively titled thrillers (following last year''s\n <em>\n  Darkly Dreaming Dexter\n </em>\n ), Dexter''s nemesis, Sergeant Doakes, is getting a little too close for comfort, and there is also the matter of a psychopath on the loose. When Dexter''s two problems eventually link up . . . well, what''s a well-meaning homicidal maniac to do? Dexter, the cheerfully sociopathic crime fighter, is one of mystery fiction''s most original, compelling, and oddly endearing heroes. Lindsay digs a little deeper under Dexter''s surface this time, showing us a little more about what makes him tick, but readers shouldn''t worry. There are volumes still to be written about this gruesomely fascinating character.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/429'),
(1264, 'Death in Paradise', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Robert B. Parker is back in Paradise, where Detective Jesse Stone is looking for two things: the killer of a teenage girl-and someone, anyone, who is willing to claim the body...\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Filled with magnetic characters and the muscular writing that are Parker''s trademarks,\n  <em>\n   Death in Paradise\n  </em>\n  is a storytelling masterpiece.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1145'),
(1265, 'Death Masks', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Dresden is not having a good day. A vampire named Ortega is hunting the beleaguered wizard, intending to challenge him to a duel that, Ortega claims, will end the war between the vampires and the wizards. Harry has almost no hope of winning the duel, but soon he is preoccupied by another problem: Father Vincent, a priest, needs Harry''s help in finding the Shroud of Turin, stolen by a trio of thieves. Harry traces two of the thieves to his hometown, Chicago, but when he finds them, he learns that he isn''t the only one after them. A group of terrifying demons wants the shroud, and its leader is interested in Harry''s soul, too. Harry must call on all of his friends, including three brave knights, his police-officer friend, and even his half-vampire ex-girlfriend, Susan. Butcher maintains a breakneck pace in Harry''s exciting fifth adventure. This imaginative series continues to surprise and delight with its inventiveness and sympathetic hero.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Think\n <em>\n  Buffy the Vampire Slayer\n </em>\n starring Philip Marlowe."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fans of Laurell K. Hamilton and Tanya Huff will love this series."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/89'),
(1266, 'The Death of Grass', 'John Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With a new Introduction by Robert MacFarlane''Gripping . . . of all fiction''s apocalypses, this is one of the most haunting''Financial TimesAt first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it turns out, the governments have been lying to their people. When the deadly disease hits Britain, society starts to descend into barbarism. As John and his family try to make it across country to the safety of his brother''s farm in a hidden valley, their humanity is tested to its very limits.A chilling psychological thriller and one of the greatest post-apocalyptic novels ever written, The Death of Grass shows people struggling to hold on to their identities as the familiar world disintegrates - and the terrible price they must pay for surviving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1784'),
(1267, 'Debt of Bones', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Goodkind (Faith of the Fallen) presents Debt of Bones, a prequel to his Sword of Truth series that involves series character First Wizard Zedd in the time before the Boundaries were drawn. Abby, a poor peasant who has an ancient claim on Zedd, asks the impossible of him to save her community, including her husband, child and father at the possible price of countless other lives. Illus.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the armies of Panis Rahl spread across the land, a young woman from a beleaguered town begs a boon from First Wizard Zedd, ignorant of the consequences of her request. This revised version of a novella that first appeared in the fantasy anthology Legends illuminates the period in history before the events of Goodkind''s "Sword of Truth" series. The conflict between love and duty forms a central theme in this brief and touching tale of people caught up in events they cannot fully control. Keith Parkinson''s pencil illustrations add a delicate touch to the story, highlighting key events in the narrative. Libraries wishing to complete their Goodkind collection will want this gracefully written story.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/749'),
(1268, 'Deception Point', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick, December 2001:\n </strong>\n In the world of page-turning thrillers, Dan Brown holds a special place in the hearts of many of us. After his first book,\n <em>\n  Digital Fortress\n </em>\n , almost passed me by, he wrote\n <em>\n  Angels and Demons\n </em>\n , which was probably one of the half-dozen most exciting thrillers of last year. It is a pleasure to report that his new book lives up to his reputation as a writer whose research and talent make his stories exciting, believable, and just plain unputdownable.\n</p>\n<p>\n The time is now and President Zachary Herney is facing a very tough reelection. His opponent, Senator Sedgwick Sexton, is a powerful man with powerful friends and a mission: to reduce NASA''s spending and move space exploration into the private sector. He has numerous supporters, including many beyond the businesses who will profit from this because of the embarrassment of 1996, when the Clinton administration was informed by NASA that proof existed of life on other planets. That information turned out to be premature, if not incorrect. (This story is true; I repeat, Dan Brown''s research is very, very good.) The embattled president is assured that a rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice will prove to have far-reaching implications on America''s space program. The find, however, needs to be verified.\n</p>\n<p>\n Enter Rachel Sexton, a gister for the National Reconnaissance Office. Gisters reduce complex reports into single-page briefs, and in this case the president needs that confirmation before he broadcasts to the nation, probably ensuring his reelection. It''s tricky because Rachel is the daughter of his opponent. Rachel is thrilled to be on the team traveling to the Arctic circle. She is a realist about her father''s politics and has little respect for his stand on NASA, but Senator Sexton cannot help but have a problem with her involvement.\n</p>\n<p>\n Adventure, romance, murder, skullduggery, and nail-biting tension ensue. By the end of\n <em>\n  Deception Point\n </em>\n , the reader will be much better informed about how our space program works and how our politicians react to new information. Bring on the next Dan Brown thriller!\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Struggling to rebound from a series of embarrassing blunders that have jeopardized its political life at the start of this lively thriller, NASA makes an astounding discovery: there is a meteor embedded deep within the arctic ice. And it isn''t just any meteor. Inside the huge rock, which crashed to earth in 1716, are fossils of giant insects proof of extraterrestrial life. Yet, given NASA''s slipping reputation, the question arises: Is the meteor real or a fake? That uncertainty dogs NASA and its supporters in Brown''s latest page-flipper, a finely polished amalgam of action and intrigue. Trying to determine the truth are intelligence agent Rachel Sexton and popular oceanographer Michael Tolland, both among the first to suspect something is amiss when the meteor is pulled from the ice. Their doubts quickly make them the targets of a mysterious death squad controlled by someone or something that doesn''t want the public to hear the meteor may be a fraud. Together, Sexton and Tolland scramble across arctic glaciers, take refuge on ice floes, are rescued by a nuclear submarine, then find themselves trapped aboard a small research vessel off the coast of New Jersey. All the while, the nation''s capital is buzzing as to whether NASA has engaged in deception. Or is NASA just a dupe for aerospace companies that have long wanted a bigger share of space contracts? Brown (Angels &amp; Demons) moves into new territory with his latest. It''s an excellent thriller a big yet believable story unfolding at breakneck pace, with convincing settings and just the right blend of likable and hateful characters. He''s also done his research, folding in sophisticated scientific and military details that make his plot far more fulfilling than the norm.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/49'),
(1269, 'Decision Points', 'George W. Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n George W. Bushâ€™s decisions were all correct. It was just the aftermath that sometimes became muddled. That, at least, is the impression one gets after reading this surprisingly robust memoir. For those who have missed â€œ43â€ in the public eye (and for those who havenâ€™t as well), his voice is evident on every page. Cocky, defiant, and, at times (especially when speaking about his family), emotional, this is the George Bush who insists that â€œeverybodyâ€ believed there were weapons of mass destruction, that much of the blame for the post-Katrina fiasco should be put on Louisianaâ€™s local governments, and that Harriet Miers would have made a fine Supreme Court justice, given the chance. He does admit some mistakes (â€œMission Accomplishedâ€), but he stands by his big decisions and backs up his claims, which is simpler to do when the other side isnâ€™t chiming in with their opinions and/or facts. Those who have followed Bush and his presidency will find many of the personal stories here familiar (how he stopped drinking; his whirlwind romance with Laura), but there are some fascinating reveals as well, including his affection for Ted Kennedy, his sometimes-complicated relationship with Dick Cheney, and his read-between-the-lines digs at Colin Powell. Some political memoirs (hello, Bill Clinton) are bloated journeys that devolve into pages and pages of, â€œand then I met . . .â€ Bush, smartly dividing the book into themes rather than telling the story chronologically, offers readers a genuine (and highly readable) look at his thought processes as he made huge decisions that will affect the nation and the world for decades. Many will ridicule his thinking and bemoan those decisions, but being George Bush, he wonâ€™t really care. --Ilene Cooper\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decision Points\n </em>\n is the extraordinary memoir of Americaâ€™s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the Texas Governorâ€™s Mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after Americaâ€™s most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq; and behind the Oval Office desk for his historic and controversial decisions on the financial crisis, Hurricane Katrina, Afghanistan, Iran, and other issues that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n President Bush writes honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his accomplishments reforming education, treating HIV/AIDS in Africa, and safeguarding the country amid chilling warnings of additional terrorist attacks. He also offers intimate new details on his decision to quit drinking, discovery of faith, and relationship with his family.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n A groundbreaking new brand of memoir,\n <em>\n  Decision Points\n </em>\n will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on one of the most consequential eras in American history â€“ and the man at the center of events.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/70'),
(1270, 'Decoded', '1969- Jay-z', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2010\n </strong>\n : Like its multi-hyphenate author, Jay-Z,\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is many things at once. At its core,\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is an eloquent and candid memoir detailing the story of a man who was born in a Brooklyn housing project, spent his teen years dealing drugs on the streets of Trenton, New Jersey, and grew up to be one of his generationâ€™s most successful artists and businessmen. But\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is much more than a memoir: it is an intensely personal homage to hip-hop, as written by a man who so clearly adores the art form; it is a rare glimpse of the unexpectedly deep meanings behind the most recognizable rap lyrics of the last decade; and it is a truly moving collection of essays on topics ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the decline of the music industry. Unconventional type design, line drawings, and photographs visually emphasize the authorâ€™s message that rap is a form that transcends and defies easy categorization. Thereâ€™s not much in the way of celebrity gossip here, but what we get, instead, is a gritty and enormously compelling look inside the cultural phenomenon of rap, from one of the men who contributed so much to its shape.\n <em>\n  --Juliet Disparte\n </em>\n <em>\n  <br />\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jay-Z on\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When you''re famous and say you''re writing a book, people assume that it''s an autobiography--I was born here, raised there, suffered this, loved that, lost it all, got it back, the end. But that''s not what this is. I''ve never been a linear thinker, which is something you can see in my rhymes. They follow the jumpy logic of poetry and emotion, not the straight line of careful prose. My book is like that, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is first and foremost, a book of rhymes, which is ironic because I don''t actually write my rhymes--they come to me in my head and I record them. The book is packed with the stories from my life that are the foundation of my lyrics--stories about coming up in the streets of Brooklyn in the 80''s and 90''s, stories about becoming an artist and entrepreneur and discovering worlds that I never dreamed existed when I was a kid. But it always comes back to the rhymes. There''s poetry in hip-hop lyrics--not just mine, but in the work of all the great hip-hop artists, from KRS-One and Rakim to Biggie and Pac to a hundred emcees on a hundred corners all over the world that you''ve never heard of. The magic of rap is in the way it can take the most specific experience, from individual lives in unlikely places, and turn them into art that can be embraced by the whole world.\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book about one of those specific lives--mine--and will show you how the things I''ve experienced and observed have made their way into the art I''ve created. It''s also about how my work is sometimes not about my life at all, but about pushing the boundaries of what I can express through the poetry of rap--trying to use words to find fresh angles into emotions that we all share, which is the hidden mission in even the hardest hip-hop.\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book about some of my favorite songs--songs that I unpack and explain and surround with narratives about what inspired them--but behind the rhymes is the truest story of my life.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œCompelling . . . provocative, evocative . . . Part autobiography, part lavishly illustrated commentary on the authorâ€™s own work,\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n gives the reader a harrowing portrait of the rough worlds Jay-Z navigated in his youth, while at the same time deconstructing his lyrics.â€â€”Michiko Kakutani,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œOne of a handful of books that just about any hip hop fan should own.â€â€”\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œElegantly designed, incisively written . . . an impressive leap by a man who has never been known for small steps.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œA riveting exploration of Jay-Zâ€™s journey . . . So thoroughly engrossing, it reads like a good piece of cultural journalism.â€â€”\n <em>\n  The Boston Globe\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œShawn Carterâ€™s most honest airing of the experiences he drew on to create the mythic figure of Jay-Z . . . The scenes he recounts along the way are fascinating.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/632'),
(1271, 'Deep Six', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A ghost ship drifts across the northern Pacific....\n </p>\n <p>\n  A Soviet luxury liner burns like a funeral pyre....\n </p>\n <p>\n  And the U.S. President''s yacht is heading for disaster....\n </p>\n <p>\n  Somewhere off the coast of Alaska, a sunken cargo poses a threat of unthinkable proportions. Potentially, the lost shipment of chemicals could destroy all life in the ocean Â— and perhaps the world Â— unless DIRK PITTÂ® can find it first. But time is running out for the NUMA agent and his team. Pitt''s main target is just one deadly component of a vast international conspiracy fueled by hijacking, bribery, and murder. And at the center of it all is a powerful Korean shipping empire with a chilling political agenda Â—\n  <em>\n   to kidnap the President of the United States....\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1451');
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(1272, 'A Deepness in the Sky', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge''s 1993 Hugo winner\n <em>\n  A Fire Upon the Deep\n </em>\n --but 30,000 years earlier. The story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there''s a world of intelligent spider creatures who traditionally hibernate through the "Deepest Darkness" of their strange variable sun''s long "off" periods, when even the atmosphere freezes. Now, science offers them an alternative... Meanwhile, attracted by spider radio transmissions, two human starfleets come exploring--merchants hoping for customers and tyrants who want slaves. Their inevitable clash leaves both fleets crippled, with the power in the wrong hands, which leads to a long wait in space until the spiders develop exploitable technology. Over the years Vinge builds palpable tension through multiple storylines and characters. In the sky, hopes of rebellion against tyranny continue despite soothing lies, brutal repression, and a mental bondage that can convert people into literal tools. Down below, the engagingly sympathetic spiders have their own problems. In flashback, we see the grandiose ideals and ultimate betrayal of the merchant culture''s founder, now among the human contingent and pretending to be a senile buffoon while plotting, plotting... Major revelations, ironies, and payoffs follow. A powerful story in the grandest SF tradition.\n <em>\n  --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A war between two rival civilizations over trading rights to the planet Arachna results in the virtual enslavement of the Qeng Ho by the victorious Emergent culture. As the Spider-folk of Arachna evolve in their customary cyclical pattern, unaware of the threat that lies in their near future, a few Qeng Ho rebels work desperately to free themselves and save Arachna from conquest. This prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep (Tor, 1992) demonstrates Vinge''s capacity for meticulously detailed culture-building and grand-scale sf drama. Recommended for most sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1044'),
(1273, '&quot;Definitely a Crime of Passion&quot; in Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, Premier Issue', 'Mary Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1411'),
(1274, 'Definitely Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In bestseller Harris''s perky sixth Southern Vampire novel to star Sookie Stackhouse (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Dead as a Doornail\n  </em>\n  ), the telepathic waitress of Bon Temps, La., is off to (pre-hurricane) New Orleans to close out her dead cousin Hadley''s apartment. Hadley''s death six weeks earlier had been unexpected, since, as a vampire, she was already dead. Still, she''d led a lively existence as the main squeeze of the Queen of Louisiana, an omnisexual vampire, whose political marriage to the King of Arkansas occurred the night before Hadley''s demise. Sookie and Amelia Broadway, Hadley''s landlady and a pretty cool witch, immediately discover a mess of trouble left behind in Hadley''s closet, and Sookie''s soon neck-deep in even more. Though most of the intrigue doesn''t come till halfway through, Harris keeps the action going nonstop in this bubbly brew of supernatural spice and whimsical whodunit that''s more fun than a barrel of beignets. Alan Ball, the creator of HBO''s\n  <em>\n   Six Feet Under\n  </em>\n  , plans to shoot a TV pilot based on the series later this year.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sookie Stackhouse once tried to keep her mind-reading capabilities secret, but the word is definitely out in Bon Temps, Louisiana, her hometown, leading local police to call on her to help find a missing child. There''s a new man, were-tiger Quinn, in the picture, too, but on their first date, two were-people attack them. Sookie isn''t sure whether she or Quinn was the target but is soon distracted by a more pressing problem. Cousin Hadley, a vampire, has been murdered, and Sookie has inherited her apartment, meaning she has to go to New Orleans to uncover the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death and meet with Hadley''s lover, the Vampire Queen herself. Though not quite as driven as past entries in Harris'' Southern Vampire series--Sookie doesn''t get to New Orleans until a third of the way in--this is a gratifying read for Sookie''s fans because of a major surprise for Sookie about one of her old lovers.\n  <em>\n   Kristine Huntley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/626'),
(1275, 'The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft: 67 Tales of Horror in One Volume', 'H. P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This Halcyon Classics ebook contains sixty-seven of celebrated horror and occult writer H.P. Lovecraft''s best works central to his ''Cthulhu mythos.'' Although Lovecraft''s (1890-1937) readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n This book is DRM free and includes at active table of contents for easy navigation.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ The Nameless City\n <br />\n â€¢ The Festival\n <br />\n â€¢ The Colour out of Space\n <br />\n â€¢ The Call of Cthulhu\n <br />\n â€¢ The Dunwich Horror\n <br />\n â€¢ The Whisperer in Darkness\n <br />\n â€¢ Dreams in the Witch-house\n <br />\n â€¢ The Haunter of the Dark\n <br />\n â€¢ The Shadow over Innsmouth\n <br />\n â€¢ The Shadow out of Time\n <br />\n â€¢ At the Mountain of Madness\n <br />\n â€¢ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward\n <br />\n â€¢ Azathoth\n <br />\n â€¢ Beyond the Wall of Sleep\n <br />\n â€¢ Celephais\n <br />\n â€¢ Cool Air\n <br />\n â€¢ Dagon\n <br />\n â€¢ Dream House\n <br />\n â€¢ Ex Oblivione\n <br />\n â€¢ Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family\n <br />\n â€¢ From Beyond\n <br />\n â€¢ He\n <br />\n â€¢ Herbert West: Reanimator\n <br />\n â€¢ Hypnos\n <br />\n â€¢ Imprisoned with the Pharaohs\n <br />\n â€¢ In the Vault\n <br />\n â€¢ Medusa''s Coil\n <br />\n â€¢ Memory\n <br />\n â€¢ Nyarlathotep\n <br />\n â€¢ Pickman''s Model\n <br />\n â€¢ Poetry of the Gods\n <br />\n â€¢ The Alchemist\n <br />\n â€¢ The Beast in the Cave\n <br />\n â€¢ The Book\n <br />\n â€¢ The Cats of Ulthar\n <br />\n â€¢ The Crawling Chaos\n <br />\n â€¢ The Descendant\n <br />\n â€¢ The Doom That Came to Sarnath\n <br />\n â€¢ The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath\n <br />\n â€¢ The Evil Clergyman\n <br />\n â€¢ The Horror at Martin''s Beach\n <br />\n â€¢ The Horror at Red Hook\n <br />\n â€¢ The Hound\n <br />\n â€¢ The Lurking Fear\n <br />\n â€¢ The Moon Bog\n <br />\n â€¢ The Music of Erich Zann\n <br />\n â€¢ The Other Gods\n <br />\n â€¢ The Outsider\n <br />\n â€¢ The Picture in the House\n <br />\n â€¢ The Quest of Iranon\n <br />\n â€¢ The Rats in the Walls\n <br />\n â€¢ The Shunned House\n <br />\n â€¢ The Silver Key\n <br />\n â€¢ The Statement of Randolph Carter\n <br />\n â€¢ The Strange High House in the Mist\n <br />\n â€¢ The Street\n <br />\n â€¢ The Temple\n <br />\n â€¢ The Terrible Old Man\n <br />\n â€¢ The Thing on the Doorstep\n <br />\n â€¢ The Tomb\n <br />\n â€¢ The Transition of Juan Romero\n <br />\n â€¢ The Tree\n <br />\n â€¢ The Unnamable\n <br />\n â€¢ The White Ship\n <br />\n â€¢ Through the Gates of the Silver Key\n <br />\n â€¢ What the Moon Brings\n <br />\n â€¢ Polaris\n <br />\n â€¢ The Very Old Folk\n <br />\n â€¢ Darkness\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/438'),
(1276, 'Deliverance', 'James Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1841'),
(1277, 'The Demolished Man', 'Alfred Bester', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn''t been heard of in 70 years: murder. That''s the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a 10-year death struggle with rival D''Courtney Enterprises. Terrorized in his dreams by The Man With No Face and driven to the edge after D''Courtney refuses a merger offer, Reich murders his rival and bribes a high-ranking telepath to help him cover his tracks. But while police prefect Lincoln Powell knows Reich is guilty, his telepath''s knowledge is a far cry from admissible evidence.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the year 2301, the wealthiest man in the universe is determined to commit murder in a world in which telepaths are used to detect possible crimes before they can happen. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(1278, 'Demolition Angel', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick, May 2000:\n </strong>\n Like many authors with ongoing characters, Robert Crais has taken a break from his famous private eye. After eight novels featuring Elvis Cole and his loyal sidekick Joe Pike, Crais has created Carol Starkey, a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD''s Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol''s partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can''t bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn''t been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a bomb call takes the life of another colleague, Carol begins to investigate a series of explosions that seem to be designed to exterminate bomb technicians. She soon realizes that she''s "the one that got away." With the help of an FBI agent whom she loathes professionally for interfering with her job but finds attractive anyway, Carol must track down one of the most frighteningly brilliant killers of the modern age.\n</p>\n<p>\n This edgy thriller''s protagonist is one that the reader at first may have difficulty liking, but she''s got a background and history that make her truly three-dimensional. One hopes that Crais, one of the handful of young crime writers capable of writing consistently luminous prose, will continue to give us characters like Carol Starkey to star in his always powerful portraits of modern-day Los Angeles.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Acclaimed for his Elvis Cole mystery series (L.A. Requiem, etc.), Crais deserves further garlands for this stand-alone crime novel. The book features one of the most complex heroines to grace a thriller since Clarice Starling locked eyes with Hannibal Lecter, a deliciously spooky villain in the person of a mad bomber known as Mr. Red, and an aggressively involving plot. Carol Starkey was a rising light in the LAPD Bomb Squad until, two years back, a bomb blew up in her face, maiming her and killing her lover/partner. Now Carol''s a bitter, chain-smoking alcoholic with the LAPD''s Criminal Conspiracy Section, who gets drawn into a literally explosive conspiracy when a bomb kills Charlie Riggio, one of her former bomb squad colleagues. Forensic evidence points toward the bomb being the work of John Michael Fowles, aka Mr. Red, a coldhearted young bomber-assassin-for-hire and master of disguise. Much of the narrative concerns Carol''s pursuit of him, most excitingly on the Net through a secret mad-bombers'' site, aided by a saturnine federal (ATF) agent, Jack Pell. Intercut are scenes of Mr. Red''s various mad plottings, which take a hairpin turn when he learns that the cops think he killed Riggio: for in fact he didn''t. That murder pans out as a copycat crime for personal gain, and now Carol must pursue both Riggio''s killer and Mr. Red, who in turn has taken an intimate interest in this bomb-savvy female cop. The subsequent pas de deux between Carol and Mr. Red is too reminiscent of the dance between Starling and Lecter, but otherwise this novel gets high marks for originality, and even higher ones for suspense and, above all, for multidimensional, wounded characters who give all the excitement a rare depth. BOMC and Literary Guild featured selection; Mystery Guild main selection; author tour; film rights sold to Columbia/Tri-Star. (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1325'),
(1279, 'Demon Lord of Karanda', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The trial of the sorceress Zandramas leads Garion and his companions into the heart of enemy territory where a cult of demon worshipers forces an unlikely alliance between the forces of Light and Darkness. Eddings uses gentle humor and endearing characters to temper the seriousness of his complex fantasy epic. Recommended for fantasy collections. JC\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In an adventurous sequel to THE MALLOREAN, David Eddings tells the story of King Garion''s abducted infant son and his efforts to save him. Unfortunately, he and his friends are detained by the friendly, but determined Zakath, who refuses to let them leave. As a horde of demons ravage the Cities and a plague lets loose its terrors, Garion has little time left to reach his destination, or the kidnapper wins by default.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1289'),
(1280, 'Demon Seed', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "[Koontz] can scare our socks off."\n <br />\n -BOSTON HERALD\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A master storyteller, sometimes humorous, sometimes shocking, but always riveting."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of our finest and most versatile suspense writers."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  MACON TELEGRAPH &amp; NEWS\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "His prose mesmerizes...Koontz consistently hits the bull''s-eye."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Now with a new afterword by the #1\n  <em>\n   NEW YORK TIMES\n  </em>\n  BESTSELLING AUTHOR... And a brand-new package.\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In the privacy of her own home, and against her will, Susan Harris will experience an inconceivable act of terror. She will become the object of the ultimate computer''s consuming obsession: to learn everything there is to know about human flesh.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/496'),
(1281, 'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark', 'Carl Sagan &amp; Ann Druyan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  "A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought."\n </p>\n <p>\n  *Los Angeles Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  "POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing."\n </p>\n <p>\n  *The Washington Post Book World\n </p>\n <p>\n  How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don''t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today''s so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "COMPELLING."\n </p>\n <p>\n  *USA Today\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A clear vision of what good science means and why it makes a difference. . . . A testimonial to the power of science and a warning of the dangers of unrestrained credulity."\n </p>\n <p>\n  *The Sciences\n </p>\n <p>\n  "PASSIONATE."\n </p>\n <p>\n  *San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Are we on the brink of a new Dark Age of irrationality and superstition? In this stirring, brilliantly argued book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dragons of Eden and Cosmos shows how scientific thinking can cut through prejudice and hysteria and uncover the truth, and how it is necessary to safeguard our democratic institutions and our technical civilization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/196'),
(1282, 'Desert Gold', 'Zane Grey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich manâ€™s son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than he bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful seÃ±orita whoâ€™s been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas spends gold like he spills blood - and collects women like trinkets. Gale knows that defying such a man could be suicide. Defeating him is his only chance to survive - in a brutal one-on-one battle on the parched desert cliffs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1549'),
(1283, 'Desolation Island', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Captain Bligh (yes, the guy from the\n <em>\n  Bounty\n </em>\n ) needs to be rescued, and the Royal Navy has the perfect man for the job: Captain Jack Aubrey. With his friend and cloak-and-dagger expert Stephen Maturin in tow, Aubrey sets off for Australia. Several factors, including an attractive spy and a small-scale epidemic, conspire to change his plans, and before long his frigate is being pursued into Antarctic waters by a Dutch man-of-war. Five installments into the series, the Aubrey-Maturin story remains (to quote\n <strong>\n  The Observer\n </strong>\n ) "the best thing afloat since Horatio Hornblower."\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Full of the energy that comes from a writer having struck a vein!Patrick O''Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.'' James Hamilton-Paterson ''You are in for the treat of your lives. Thank God for Patrick O''Brian: his genius illuminates the literature of the English language, and lightens the lives of those who read him.'' Kevin Myers, Irish Times ''In a highly competitive field it goes straight to the top. A real first-rater.'' Mary Renault ''I never enjoyed a novel about the sea more. It is not only that the author describes the handling of a ship of 1800 with an accuracy that is as comprehensible as it is detailed, a remarkable feat in itself. Mr O''Brian''s three chief characters are drawn with no less depth of sympathy than the vessels he describes, a rare achievement save in the greatest writers of this genre. It deserves the widest readership.'' Irish Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/449'),
(1284, 'Desperation', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A notice to those who feel that Stephen King has lost his magic touch:\n <em>\n  Desperation\n </em>\n is the genuine goods. The ensemble cast of ordinary Americans thrown together by chance, including a disgruntled alcoholic writer and a child who is wise beyond his years, may be a bit too familiar. But the nearly deserted Nevada mining town with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theatre where the survivors hang out makes for a striking battleground, and the grisly action rarely flags. Best of all, though, are the characters of Tak, the ancient body-hopping evil who emerges from the mine, and of "God"--whom the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n describes as "the edgiest creation in\n <em>\n  Desperation.\n </em>\n Remote, isolated, ironic, shrouded behind disguises, perhaps ''another legendary shadow,'' this deity forms a sly foil, and an icy mirror, to Tak."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. From the vault of horror master King comes a terrifying tale of Desperation, Nev., a place ruled by a maniacal man in uniform and haunted by deadly secrets. In true King fashion, the story features a small cast of likable yet deeply flawed protagonists that may or may not make it to the final page in one piece. Narrator Kathy Bates, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in the film adaptation of King''s\n <em>\n  Misery\n </em>\n , takes the reins and holds listeners rapt from start to finish. Bates has the inherent ability to make anything, no matter how over the top, sound realistic and immediate.\n <em>\n  A Signet paperback. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/500'),
(1285, 'Desperation, Nevada', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thereâ€™s a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. Itâ€™s known as Desperation, Nevada. Itâ€™s not a very nice place to live. Itâ€™s an even worse place to die. Let the battle against evil begin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1511'),
(1286, 'Destiny&#39;s Way', 'Walter Jon Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The time of reckoning is close at hand. Events in the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling\n   <em>\n    Star Wars\n   </em>\n   The New Jedi Order series take a decisive turn, as the heroes of the New Republic prepare for their most volatile clash yet with the enemyâ€”from without and within.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the New Republic divided by internal strife, and on the verge of bowing to conquest. But those who steadfastly refuse to consider surrenderâ€”Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and their children and comrades-in-armsâ€”are determined to seize victory against overwhelming odds. And now, finally, there are signs that the tide may be turning in the New Republicâ€™s favor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After capturing crucial Yuuzhan Vong intelligence, Jedi fighter-pilot Jaina Solo prepares to lead a daring surprise strike against an enemy flagship. Meanwhile, Jainaâ€™s brother Jacenâ€”liberated from the hands of the enemy and newly schooled in an even greater mastery of the Force by the Jedi Knight Vergereâ€”is eagerly poised to bring his unique skills to bear against the invaders. And on Mon Calamari, the New Republicâ€™s provisional capital, the retired, ailing hero Admiral Ackbar has conceived a major tactical plan that could spell the beginning of a swift end for the Yuuzhan Vong.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet even as opposing squadrons face off in the depths of space, intrigue runs rampant: in the heated political race for Chief of State . . . in the shadows where Yuuzhan Vong spies plot assassinations . . . and in the inscrutable creature Vergere, a Jedi Knight whose allegiance is impossible to predict. And as Luke Skywalker sets about reestablishing the Jedi Council, the growing faction opposed to the ways of the Force unveil a terrifying weapon designed to annihilate the Yuuzhan Vong species. But in doing so, they may be dooming the New Republic to becoming the very thing it has sworn to fight againstâ€”and unleashing the power of the dark side.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1537'),
(1287, 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World''s Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book''s categorization to be sure that\n <em>\n  The Devil in the White City\n </em>\n is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair''s construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham''s challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair''s incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World''s Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson''s skillful writing.\n <em>\n  --John Moe\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Not long after Jack the Ripper haunted the ill-lit streets of 1888 London, H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett) dispatched somewhere between 27 and 200 people, mostly single young women, in the churning new metropolis of Chicago; many of the murders occurred during (and exploited) the city''s finest moment, the World''s Fair of 1893. Larson''s breathtaking new history is a novelistic yet wholly factual account of the fair and the mass murderer who lurked within it. Bestselling author Larson (Isaac''s Storm) strikes a fine balance between the planning and execution of the vast fair and Holmes''s relentless, ghastly activities. The passages about Holmes are compelling and aptly claustrophobic; readers will be glad for the frequent escapes to the relative sanity of Holmes''s co-star, architect and fair overseer Daniel Hudson Burnham, who managed the thousands of workers and engineers who pulled the sprawling fair together 0n an astonishingly tight two-year schedule. A natural charlatan, Holmes exploited the inability of authorities to coordinate, creating a small commercial empire entirely on unpaid debts and constructing a personal cadaver-disposal system. This is, in effect, the nonfiction Alienist, or a sort of companion, which might be called Homicide, to Emile Durkheim''s Suicide. However, rather than anomie, Larson is most interested in industriousness and the new opportunities for mayhem afforded by the advent of widespread public anonymity. This book is everything popular history should be, meticulously recreating a rich, pre-automobile America on the cusp of modernity, in which the sale of "articulated" corpses was a semi-respectable trade and serial killers could go well-nigh unnoticed. 6 b&amp;w photos, 1 map.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/557'),
(1288, 'Devil May Care', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  It should have been the beginning of the best of times for Ellie and Henry - young, happy, in love - and ready to spend two weeks house-sitting Aunt Kate''s Virginia mansion. Everything was in front of them it seemed...\n </p>\n <p>\n  But on moving into the house, Ellie found herself living with strangers from the distant past. Or did someone just want her to think that way? They said her aunt was a witch. And that she was marked by an ancestral curse. Could this be true?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ellie did not know. She knew only that there was danger in that house. Danger that could kill...\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Devil-May-Care is a novel packed with suspense as a young coule stumbles onto a book about an old Virginia town. But there are secrets in the book . . . secrets the town wants to keep buried . . . even if it means some must return from the dead!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1850'),
(1289, 'The Devil&#39;s Code', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Before Lucas Davenport and the brilliant Prey novels, there was Kidd-artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal-and his sometime partner/sometime lover, LuEllen. The Army had left Kidd with a dislike for bureaucratic organization and the skills to do something about it, but it hadn''t prepared him for the day a woman appeared at his door and told him that his colleague Jack Morrison had vanished, and that Kidd and his friends were the target of a national manhunt. It wasn''t the official agencies that worried Kidd so much as the very dangerous men with the very different agenda that he suspected were acting behind the scenes. And he knew that unless he and LuEllen found what had really happened to Jack, and quickly-the next people to vanish might very well be themselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1734'),
(1290, 'Dexter by Design', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The macabre, witty\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling series (and inspiration for the #1 Showtime series,\n  <em>\n   Dexter)\n  </em>\n  continues as our darkly lovable killer matches wits with a sadistic\n  <em>\n   artiste\n  </em>\n  â€”who is creating bizarre murder tableaux of his own all over Miami.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n After his surprisingly glorious honeymoon in Paris, life is almost normal for Dexter Morgan. Married life seems to agree with him: heâ€™s devoted to his bride, his stomach is full, and his homicidal hobbies are nicely under control. But old habits die hardâ€”and Dexterâ€™s work as a blood spatter analyst never fails to offer new temptations that appeal to his offbeat sense of justiceâ€¦and his Dark Passenger still waits to hunt with him in the moonlight.\n</p>\n<p>\n The discovery of a corpse (artfully displayed as a sunbather relaxing on a Miami beach chair) naturally piques Dexterâ€™s curiosity and Miamiâ€™s finest realize theyâ€™ve got a terrifying new serial killer on the loose. And Dexter, of course, is back in business.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/431'),
(1291, 'Dexter in the Dark', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Lindsay''s third novel to feature endearing Miami cop and serial killer Dexter Morgan (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  Darkly Devoted Dexter\n </em>\n ), the Dark Passenger, the voice inside Dexter''s head that from time to time drives him to the Theme Park of the Unthinkable, inexplicably disappears while Morgan is investigating a gruesome double murder on the University of Miami campus. The crime scene, at which two co-eds were ritualistically burned and beheaded, gives even the human vivisectionâ€“loving vigilante the creeps. As the burned and beheaded body count continues to mount, Morgan realizes that the force behind the killings is something even more evil than his Dark Passenger. Though the macabre wit that powered the first two installments of this delightfully dark series (also a hit on TV''s Showtime) is still evident, this third entry takes a decidedly deep introspective turn as Dexter is forced to contemplate not only life without his enigmatic companion but also whoâ€”or whatâ€”he truly is.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeff Lindsay has created a fascinating antihero in Dexter, now the star of a popular Showtime television series. Critics were relieved to find that Dexterâ€™s small-screen success has had no effect on Lindsayâ€™s fast-paced plotting, absorbing characters, and delicious black humor.\n <em>\n  Dexter in the Dark\n </em>\n , the third in the series, is longer than its predecessors, which allows Lindsay to delve deeper into Dexterâ€™s psyche. Some critics were pleased, while others felt that Dexterâ€™s longwinded self-analyses detracted from the storyline. According to the\n <em>\n  Denver Post\n </em>\n , "readers who have not yet met Dexter can enjoy reading the latest without starting at the beginning." Returning admirers of this original, offbeat series will be happy to know that a fourth installment is in the works.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/430'),
(1292, 'Dexter Is Delicious', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Authors are often poor narrators of their workâ€”happily this is not the case with Jeff Lindsay, who brings a perfect performance to the narration of his latest novel starring Dexter, the charismatic, sociopathic serial killer. Life for Dexter has taken a major turn. He is now the father of a new baby daughter, Lily Anne, and this extraordinary event has him putting away his knives and duct tape and vowing to extinguish the dark murderous flame that has flared inside him for so long. But some vows are easier kept than others, and when he becomes involved in the investigation of a possible cult of cannibals, it''s just possible that he will be drawn back to being the dark Dexter of old. Lindsay''s wry reading proves that he knows Dexter and his world better than anyone. With a clear, controlled voice, he pulls the listener into the story, keeping the tone light even when describing the grisliest scenes, but he''s more than capable of conveying danger and suspense. With material that alternates dizzyingly between the disturbing and humorous, listeners will cringe and chuckle from beginning to end. A Doubleday hardcover. (Oct.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n There are two Dexter Morgans, the one you see on television (in the hit series Dexter) and the one Lindsay writes about in his books. Theyâ€™re sort of the same guy but not really: the TV Dexter feels like a fictional version of the â€œrealâ€ Dexter from the books. In his fifth novel, Lindsay paints Dexter, who works as a blood-spatter expert for the Miami Police Department, into a corner. Heâ€™s got a new baby, a beautiful little girl, and he really, really wants to live like a normal human, to leave his Dark Passenger behind and stop all this murder stuff (in case youâ€™re a newbie, he only kills other killers, people who have evaded justice). But when he catches a case involving missing girls, vampirism, and cannibalism, he has a rough time keeping his homicidal urges in check. The novel, as usual, straddles the fine line between drama and satire, and as usual, itâ€™s Dexterâ€™s battle with his inner demons, his struggle to put a human face on his monstrous self, that takes center stage. Faithful readers will note that their favorite homicidal monster has made some real progress on that front: Lindsay has inched the character a teensy bit closer to normality. (But not too close: that would take all the fun out of it.) Recommend this one highly to fans of both the novels and the television series. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/436'),
(1293, 'The Dharma Bums', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the best and most popular of Kerouac''s autobiographical novels,\n <em>\n  The Dharma Bums\n </em>\n is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he''d become interested in Buddhism''s spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book''s main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac. This book is a must-read for any serious Kerouac fan.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac, published in 1958. The story''s narrator, Raymond Smith, is based on Kerouac himself, and the poet-woodsman-Buddhist, Japhy Ryder, is a thinly disguised portrait of the poet Gary Synder. The book contains a number of other characters who are drawn from actual poets and writers. The plot unfolds when Smith, who is suffering spiritual conflicts amid the emptiness of middle-class American life, meets Ryder, whom he immediately recognizes as a spiritual model. The novel tells of the growth of their friendship and Smith''s groping toward personal understanding. Much of the story occurs on the American West Coast. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/485'),
(1294, 'The Diamond Age', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Percival Hackworth is a nanotech engineer on the rise when he steals a copy of "A Young Lady''s Illustrated Primer" for his daughter Fiona. The primer is actually a super computer built with nanotechnology that was designed to educate Lord Finkle-McGraw''s daughter and to teach her how to think for herself in the stifling neo-Victorian society. But Hackworth loses the primer before he can give it to Fiona, and now the "book" has fallen into the hands of young Nell, an underprivileged girl whose life is about to change.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephenson''s fourth solo novel, set primarily in a far-future Shanghai at a time when nations have been superseded by enclaves of common cultures ("claves"), abundantly justifies the hype that surrounded Snow Crash, his first foray into science fiction. Here, the author avoids the major structural problem of that book-a long lump of philosophical digression-by melding myriad perspectives and cogitations into his tale, which is simultaneously SF, fantasy and a masterful political thriller. Treating nanotechnology as he did virtual reality in Snow Crash-as a jumping-off point-Stephenson presents several engaging characters. John Percival Hackworth is an engineer living in a neo-Victorian clave, who is commissioned by one of the world''s most powerful men to create a Primer that might enable the man''s granddaughter to be educated in ways superior to the "straight and narrow." When Hackworth is mugged, an illegal copy of the Primer falls into the hands of a working-class girl named Nell, and a most deadly game''s afoot. Stephenson weaves several plot threads at once, as the paths of Nell, Hackworth and other significant characters-notably Nell''s brother Harv, Hackworth''s daughter Fiona and an actress named Miranda-converge and diverge across continents and complications, most brought about by Hackworth''s actions and Nell''s development. Building steadily to a wholly earned and intriguing climax, this long novel, which presents its sometimes difficult technical concepts in accessible ways, should appeal to readers other than habitual SF users. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(1295, 'Diary', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a first page that captures the reader hook, line and sinker, Palahniuk (Choke; Lullaby) plunges into the odd predicament of Waytansea Island resident and ex-art student Misty Marie Kleinman, whose husband, Peter, lies comatose in a hospital bed after a suicide attempt. Rooms in summer houses on the mainland that Peter has remodeled start to mysteriously disappear-"The man calling from Long Beach, he says his bathroom is missing"-and Misty, with the help of graphologist Angel Delaporte, discovers that crude and prophetic messages are scrawled across the walls and furniture of the blocked-off chambers. In her new world, where every day is "another longest day of the year," Misty suffers from mysterious physical ailments, which only go away while she is drawing or painting. Her doctor, 12-year-old daughter and mother-in-law, instead of worrying about her health, press her to paint more and more, hinting that her art will save exclusive Waytansea Island from being overrun by tourists. In the meantime, Misty is finding secret messages written under tables and in library books from past island artists issuing bold but vague warnings. With new and changing versions of reality at every turn, the theme of the "tortured artist" is taken to a new level and "everything is important. Every detail. We just don''t know why, yet." The novel is something of a departure for Palahniuk, who eschews his blighted urban settings for a sinister resort island, but his catchy, jarring prose, cryptic pronouncements and baroque flights of imagination are instantly recognizable, and his sharp, bizarre meditations on the artistic process make this twisted tale one of his most memorable works to date.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palahniuk''s sixth novel takes the form of a so-called coma diary written for Peter Wilmot, who is comatose after a running-car-in-garage suicide attempt (he started with the gas tank half-empty, proving his inability to do anything well). While Peter wastes away in a hospital, his family and friends waste away on Waytansea Island ("Everyone''s in their own personal coma," Palahniuk writes with his trademark optimism). Peter''s art-school-prodigy-turned-bitter-waitress wife, Misty, can''t afford the family mansion anymore. Tourists have overrun the whole island, and the old-money families have spent all of their old money. But no one on the island seems to care about their community-wide coma. They just want Misty to\n <em>\n  paint\n </em>\n . She refuses--until she begins to suffer tortuous headaches that only abate when she paints. The islanders seem suspiciously keen on seeing Misty''s work continue, and the only way to keep her painting is to keep her miserable. Palahniuk''s fans haven''t seen plot twists this good since\n <em>\n  Fight Club\n </em>\n , but this book lacks the manic humor that makes his better novels so engrossing. The fantastically grotesque premise propels the story, but the writing lacks the satirical precision that made Palahniuk a hero to young nihilists everywhere (see his take on the travel book, reviewed on p.1858). Instead, it often reads like a self-indulgent complaint about the terrible suffering of artists. Still, excellent plotting and a compelling allegory will satisfy the majority of Palahniukites.\n <em>\n  John Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/309'),
(1296, 'Diary of a Young Girl', 'Anne Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne Frank''s diaries have always been among the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. This new edition restores diary entries omitted from the original edition, revealing a new depth to Anne''s dreams, irritations, hardships, and passions. Anne emerges as more real, more human, and more vital than ever. If you''ve never read this remarkable autobiography, do so. If you have read it, you owe it to yourself to read it again.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This startling new edition of Dutch Jewish teenager Anne Frank''s classic diary?written in an Amsterdam warehouse, where for two years she hid from the Nazis with her family and friends?contains approximately 30% more material than the original 1947 edition. It completely revises our understanding of one of the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. The Anne we meet here is much more sarcastic, rebellious and vulnerable than the sensitive diarist beloved by millions. She rages at her mother, Edith, smolders with jealous resentment toward her sister, Margot, and unleashes acid comments at her roommates. Expanded entries provide a fuller picture of the tensions and quarrels among the eight people in hiding. Anne, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, three months before her 16th birthday, candidly discusses her awakening sexuality in entries that were omitted from the 1947 edition by her father, Otto, the only one of the eight to survive the death camps. He died in 1980. This crisp, stunning translation provides an unvarnished picture of life in the "secret annex." In the end, Anne''s teen angst pales beside her profound insights, her self-discovery and her unbroken faith in good triumphing over evil. Photos not seen by PW.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/834');
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(1297, 'Die Trying', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Television writer Lee Child''s otherwise riveting first thriller,\n <em>\n  Killing Floor\n </em>\n , was criticized by some reviewers because of an unconvincing coincidence at its center. Child addresses that problem in his second book--and thumbs his nose at those reviewers--by having his hero, ex-military policeman Jack Reacher, just happen to be walking by a Chicago dry cleaner when an attractive young FBI agent named Holly Johnson comes out carrying nine expensive outfits and a crutch to support her soccer-injured knee. As Holly stumbles, Reacher grabs her and her garments--which gets him kidnapped along with her by a trio of very determined badguys. "He had no problem with how he had gotten grabbed up in the first place," Child writes. "Just a freak of chance had put him alongside Holly Johnson at the exact time the snatch was going down. He was comfortable with that. He understood freak chances. Life was built out of freak chances, however much people would like to pretend otherwise." Lucky for Holly--whose father just happens to be an Army general and current head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, thus making her a tempting target for a bunch of Montana-based extremists--Reacher still has all the skills and strengths associated with his former occupation. And Child still knows how to write scenes of violent action better than virtually anyone else around.\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jack Reacher is in both the wrong and the right place at the same time when FBI Special Agent and daughter of the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Holly Johnson is abducted from a Chicago street. It is the wrong place because Reacher, a former army major drifting around the country, is kidnapped as well. It is the right place because only he has the instincts to foil the complex, deadly plan of the kidnappers, a Montana militia group headed by a charismatic, brilliant, but psychotic leader. Child''s tale, very well read by Dick Hill, engrossingly portrays Reacher''s efforts to manipulate the captors; the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of the FBI, the army, and the White House; and the many unexpected roadblocks thrown in his path. Child devotes too much time, however, to the predictable rantings of the militia. Recommended for public libraries.?Michael Adams, CUNY Graduate Ctr., New York\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/958'),
(1298, 'The Difference Engine', 'William Gibson &amp; Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A collaborative novel from the premier cyberpunk authors, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Part detective story, part historical thriller,\n <em>\n  The Difference Engine\n </em>\n takes us not forward but back, to an imagined 1885: the Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a surprising departure from the traditional view of cyberpunk''s bleak future, Gibson ( Mona Lisa Overdrive ) and Sterling ( Islands in the Net ) render with elan and colorful detail a scientifically advanced London, circa 1855, where computers ("Engines") have been developed. Fierce summer heat and pollution have driven out the ruling class, and ensuing anarchy allows the subversive, technology-hating Luddites to surface and battle the intellectual elite. Much of the problem centers on a set of perforated cards, once in the possession of an executed Luddite leader''s daughter, later in the hands of "Queen of Engines" Ada Byron (daughter of prime minister Lord Byron), finally given to Edward Mallory, a scientist. Mallory, who knows the cards are a gambling device that can be read with a specialized Engine, is soon threatened and libeled by the Luddites, and he and his associates confront the scoundrels in a violent showdown. A sometimes listless pace and limp conclusions that defy the plot''s complexity flaw an otherwise visionary, handsomely written, unsentimental tale that convincingly revises the 19th-century Western world. 75,000 first printing; $75,000 ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/732'),
(1299, 'Different Seasons', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Different Seasons\n </em>\n (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy''s corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity.\n</p>\n<p>\n These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont''s 1994\n <em>\n  The Shawshank Redemption\n </em>\n (available as a screenplay, a DVD film, and an audiocassette), "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer''s 1998 film\n <em>\n  Apt Pupil\n </em>\n (also released in 1998 on audiocassette), and "The Body" into Rob Reiner''s\n <em>\n  Stand by Me\n </em>\n (1986).\n</p>\n<p>\n The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive under extraordinary circumstances. It''s the tightest, most polished tale in the collection.\n <em>\n  --Fiona Webster\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Triumphant ... Stephen King remains a master.'' -- New York Times ''An incredibly gifted writer.'' -- Guardian\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/504'),
(1300, 'Digital Fortress', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In most thrillers, "hardware" consists of big guns, airplanes, military vehicles, and weapons that make things explode. Dan Brown has written a thriller for those of us who like our hardware with disc drives and who rate our heroes by big brainpower rather than big firepower. It''s an Internet user''s spy novel where the good guys and bad guys struggle over secrets somewhat more intellectual than just where the secret formula is hidden--they have to gain understanding of what the secret formula actually is.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this case, the secret formula is a new means of encryption, capable of changing the balance of international power. Part of the fun is that the book takes the reader along into an understanding of encryption technologies. You''ll find yourself better understanding the political battles over such real-life technologies as the Clipper Chip and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) software even though the book looks at the issues through the eyes of fiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although there''s enough globehopping in this book for James Bond, the real battleground is cyberspace, because that''s where the "bomb" (or rather, the new encryption algorithm) will explode. Yes, there are a few flaws in the plot if you look too closely, but the cleverness and the sheer fun of it all more than make up for them. There are enough twists and turns to keep you guessing and a lot of high, gee-whiz-level information about encryption, code breaking, and the role they play in international politics. Set aside the whole afternoon and evening for it and have finger food on hand for supper--you may want to read this one straight through.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The National Security Agency (NSA) is one setting for this exciting thriller; the other is Seville, where on page 1 the protagonist, lately dismissed from NSA, drops dead of a supposed heart attack. Though dead, he enjoys a dramaturgical afterlife in the form of his computer program. Digital Fortress creates unbreakable codes, which could render useless NSA''s code-cracking supercomputer called TRANSLTR, but the deceased programmer slyly embossed a decryption key on a ring he wore. Pursuit of this ring is the engine of the plot. NSA cryptology boss Trevor Strathmore dispatches linguist Dave Becker to recover the ring, while he and Becker''s lover, senior code-cracker Susan Fletcher, ponder the vulnerability of TRANSLTR. In Seville, over-the-top chase scenes abound; meanwhile, the critical events unfold at NSA. In a crescendo of murder, infernos, and explosions, it emerges that Strathmore has as agenda that goes beyond breaching Digital Fortress, and Brown''s skill at hinting and concealing Strathmore''s deceit will rivet cyber-minded readers.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/50'),
(1301, 'Dirk Gently&#39;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
(1302, 'A Dirty Job', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cult-hero Moore (\n <em>\n  The Stupidest Angel\n </em>\n ) tackles deathâ€”make that Deathâ€”in his latest wonderful, whacked-out yarn. For beta male Charlie Asher, proprietor of a shop in San Francisco, life and death meet in a maternity ward recovery room where his wife, Rachel, dies shortly after giving birth. Though security cameras catch nothing, Charlie swears he saw an impossibly tall black man in a mint green suit standing beside Rachel as she died. When objects in his store begin glowing, strangers drop dead before him and man-sized ravens start attacking him, Charlie figures something''s up. Along comes Minty Freshâ€”the man in greenâ€”to enlighten him: turns out Charlie and Minty are Death Merchants, whose job (outlined in the Great Big Book of Death) is to gather up souls before the Forces of Darkness get to them. While Charlie''s employees, Lily the Goth girl and Ray the ex-cop, mind the shop, and two enormous hellhounds babysit, Charlie attends to his dangerous soul-collecting duties, building toward a showdown with Death in a Gold Rushâ€“era ship buried beneath San Francisco''s financial district. If it sounds over the top, that''s because it isâ€”but Moore''s enthusiasm and skill make it convincing, and his affection for the cast of weirdos gives the book an unexpected poignancy.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s certainly original. Even the harshest critic can''t begrudge Christopher Moore his vivid imagination, satirical plots, and humor. Like a good sleight-of-hand artist, Moore builds up a huge reserve of goodwill to pull off his most demanding trick yet: laughing at death. The already-strained boundaries of his previous work (\n <em>\n  Lamb,\n </em>\n an alternate history of Jesus''s life;\n <em>\n  Bloodsucking Fiends\n </em>\n , a vampire love story; and\n <em>\n  The Stupidest Angel\n </em>\n , concerning the resurrection of Santa Claus) stretch even further to produce this tale that critics praise for its "improbable humor" (\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n ) and courage in "embracing what we fear" (\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n ).[HTML_REMOVED]\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/408'),
(1303, 'Dirty Sexy Politics', 'Meghan McCain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Meghan McCainÂ came to prominence as the straight-talking,Â progressive daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. And her profile has only risen since the election ended in favor of the other guy.\n</p>\n<p>\n WhatÂ makes Meghan so appealing? As a new role model for young, creative, and vocal members of theÂ GOP, sheâ€™ s unafraid to mix it upÂ and speak her mind. In\n <em>\n  Dirty Sexy Politics\n </em>\n she takes a hard look at the future of her party\n <em>\n  .Â \n </em>\n She doesnâ€™ t shy away from serious issues andÂ her raucousÂ humor andÂ down-to-earth style keep her positions accessible.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this witty, candid, andÂ boisterousÂ book, Meghan takes us deep behind theÂ scenes of the campaign trail.Â SheÂ stealsÂ campaign signs in New Hampshire,Â tastes the nightlifeÂ inÂ Nashville, and has a strange encounter with Laura and Jenna Bush atÂ the White House.Â Along the way,Â sheÂ falls inÂ love with Americaâ€” while seeingÂ how far the Republican Party has veered from its core values of freedom, honesty, and individuality. In\n <em>\n  Dirty Sexy Politics\n </em>\n , Meghan McCain gives us aÂ true insider''sÂ accountÂ ofÂ life on a campaign trail.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  MEGHAN MCCAIN\n </strong>\n writes a weekly column for The Daily Beast. Prior to that, McCain worked on her father''s 2008 presidential campaign and created the website McCainBlogette.com, which provided a personal look at daily life on the campaign. Her children''s book,\n <em>\n  My Dad, John McCain\n </em>\n , was a national bestseller. She lives in New York City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/474'),
(1304, 'Dirty Work', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Hired to prove infidelity in an heiress''s marriage, Stone Barrington goes undercover. But the work turns dirty-and catastrophic-when the errant husband is found dead and the other woman disappears without a trace. Now, Stone must clear his own good name and find a killer hiding among the glitterati of New York''s high society. Enter Carpenter-the beautiful British intelligence agent first encountered in\n <em>\n  The Short Forever\n </em>\n -who has arrived in New York to begin an investigation of her own. Stone suspects that her case is strangely connected to the dead husband. And he and Dino, his former NYPD partner, are set to face the most bizarre and challenging assignment of their very colorful careers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1552'),
(1305, 'Disclosure', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Beautiful, bright, and talented Meredith Johnson arrives at Digital Communications Technology company to become the head of a division, a position that Tom Sanders thought was going to be his. Meredith, his former lover, invites him to her office after hours and attempts to seduce him. When he rejects her, she accuses him of sexual harassment. Tom hires Louise Fernandez to defend him and reverses the accusation to name Meredith as the aggressor. To this plot, Crichton adds computer-industry sabotage, corporate mergers, video-linkups, stock options, CD-ROM jargon, and even a trip on a virtual-reality simulator to help Tom save his reputation and career. YAs will love all the technology and the author''s easy, readable style, but the graphic sex and obvious theme that harassment is power may make Disclosure a more suitable choice for public than for school libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Katherine Fitch, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Burke, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Will Crichton''s next book be a best seller? Does the Rising Sun appear in the east? The king of the blockbuster novel-- and the blockbuster movie--Crichton has lately been taking on controversial issues. In this new work, already sold to the movies for $4 million, a man finds himself accused of sexual harassment by his new boss--and former lover.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/929'),
(1306, 'A Discovery of Witches', 'Deborah Harkness', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best of the Month, February 2011\n  </strong>\n  : It all begins with a lost manuscript, a reluctant witch, and 1,500-year-old vampire. Dr. Diana Bishop has a really good reason for refusing to do magic: she is a direct descendant of the first woman executed in the Salem Witch Trials, and her parents cautioned her be discreet about her talents before they were murdered, presumably for having "too much power." So it is purely by accident that Diana unlocks an enchanted long-lost manuscript (a book that all manner of supernatural creatures believe to hold the story of all origins and the secret of immortality) at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and finds herself in a race to prevent an interspecies war. A sparkling debut written by a historian and self-proclaimed oenophile,\n  <em>\n   A Discovery of Witches\n  </em>\n  is heady mix of history and magic, mythology and love (cue the aforementioned vampire!), making for a luxurious, intoxicating, one-sitting read.\n  <em>\n   --Daphne Durham\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n   Ten More Books for Readers of *A Discovery of Witches\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Interested in learning more about magic and science?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  I may have written a novel, but Iâ€™m still a history professor! Here are some reading suggestions for those of you whose curiosity has been stirred up by the story of Diana Bishop, Matthew Clairmont, and the hunt for the missing alchemical manuscript Ashmole 782. All of the titles here are non-fiction, and inspired some aspect of\n  <em>\n   A Discovery of Witches\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elias Ashmole,\n  <em>\n   Theatrum Chemicum Brittanicum\n  </em>\n  : Donâ€™t be put off by the Latin title. This is a collection of English alchemical texts that were gathered by Elias Ashmole. The missing alchemical manuscript that Diana finds in the Bodleian library is not among them, alas, but if you are interested in the subject this is a fascinating glimpse into the mysterious texts that she studies as a historian.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Janet Browne,\n  <em>\n   Darwinâ€™s Origin of Species: Books That Changed the World\n  </em>\n  : Browne is not only a great scholar, but a superb writer. A highly-regarded biographer of Darwin, here she turns her talents to writing a â€œbiographyâ€ of his most famous bookâ€”and one of Matthew Clairmontâ€™s favorites, as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Owen Davies,\n  <em>\n   Grimoires: A History of Magic Books\n  </em>\n  . If you are interested in the history of magic and witchcraft, Daviesâ€™ description of the development of magical spellbooks will provide insights into how ideas about magic, science, and nature developed over the centuries.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carol Karlsen,\n  <em>\n   The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England\n  </em>\n  . Diana Bishop is descended from a long line of witches. You will find out more about some of those witchesâ€”the Bishops and the Proctorsâ€”while reading this classic interpretation of what happened in Salem in 1692.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Robert Kehew, Ezra Pound, and W. D. Snodgrass,\n  <em>\n   Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours\n  </em>\n  . Matthew is a very old vampire, who has slightly old-fashioned views on love and romance. You might be surprised at the love poetry of his early life, and come away with a whole new appreciation for â€œold-fashioned.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bruce Moranâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution\n  </em>\n  . This marvelous book is not only deeply learned but extremely readable. Touched with Moranâ€™s sense of humor and his compassion for his subjectâ€™s tireless efforts to understand the natural world, you will come away from this book with a new appreciation for the alchemists.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alexander Roob,\n  <em>\n   Alchemy and Mysticism\n  </em>\n  . Diana Bishop is an expert on the enigmatic imagery that is used in alchemical texts. Many are included in Roobâ€™s book, along with other illustrations from mystical and magical traditions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lyndal Roper,\n  <em>\n   Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany\n  </em>\n  . This scholarly book was important to me as I wrote\n  <em>\n   A Discovery of Witches\n  </em>\n  because it helped me understand how the belief in witches influenced the imagination. Many of the notions we have about witchcraft today have their roots in these terrifying fantasies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  James Sharpe,\n  <em>\n   Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England\n  </em>\n  . Sharpeâ€™s book is an ideal starting point if you are interested in the history of witchcraft beyond Salem or Germany. One of his most controversial arguments focuses on the role that women played as accusersâ€”not just as victimsâ€”in the witchcraft trials.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bryan Sykes,\n  <em>\n   The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry\n  </em>\n  . I was fascinated by the combination of history, genealogy, and science in Sykesâ€™s work. The book provides an introduction to the study of genetics, and to the legacies that are carried from generation to generation among the population.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Deborah Harkness\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo of Deborah Harkness Â© Marion Ettlinger)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Harkness''s lively debut, witches, vampires, and demons outnumber humans at Oxford''s Bodleian Library, where witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her. Against all occult social propriety, Bishop turns for protection to tall, dark, bloodsucking man-about-town Clairmont. Their research raises questions of evolution and extinction among the living dead, and their romance awakens centuries-old enmities. Harkness imagines a crowded universe where normal and paranormal creatures observe a tenuous peace. "Magic is desire made real," Bishop says after both her desire and magical prowess exceed her expectations. Harkness brings this world to vibrant life and makes the most of the growing popularity of gothic adventure with an ending that keeps the Old Lodge door wide open. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1252'),
(1307, 'Disgrace', 'J. M. Coetzee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Lurie is hardly the hero of his own life, or anyone else''s. At 52, the protagonist of\n <em>\n  Disgrace\n </em>\n is at the end of his professional and romantic game, and seems to be deliberately courting disaster. Long a professor of modern languages at Cape Town University College, he has recently been relegated to adjunct professor of communications at the same institution, now pointedly renamed Cape Technical University:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Although he devotes hours of each day to his new discipline, he finds its first premise, as enunciated in the Communications 101 handbook, preposterous: "Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings and intentions to each other." His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Twice married and twice divorced, his magnetic looks on the wane, David rather cruelly seduces one of his students, and his conduct unbecoming is soon uncovered. In his eighth novel, J.M. Coetzee might have been content to write a searching academic satire. But in\n <em>\n  Disgrace\n </em>\n he is intent on much more, and his art is as uncompromising as his main character, though infinitely more complex. Refusing to play the public-repentance game, David gets himself fired--a final gesture of contempt. Now, he thinks, he will write something on Byron''s last years. Not empty, unread criticism, "prose measured by the yard," but a libretto. To do so, he heads for the Eastern Cape and his daughter''s farm. In her mid-20s, Lucy has turned her back on city sophistications: with five hectares, she makes her living by growing flowers and produce and boarding dogs. "Nothing," David thinks, "could be more simple." But nothing, in fact, is more complicated--or, in the new South Africa, more dangerous. Far from being the refuge he has sought, little is safe in Salem. Just as David has settled into his temporary role as farmworker and unenthusiastic animal-shelter volunteer, he and Lucy are attacked by three black men. Unable to protect his daughter, David''s disgrace is complete. Hers, however, is far worse.\n</p>\n<p>\n There is much more to be explored in Coetzee''s painful novel, and few consolations. It would be easy to pick up on his title and view\n <em>\n  Disgrace\n </em>\n as a complicated working-out of personal and political shame and responsibility. But the author is concerned with his country''s history, brutalities, and betrayals. Coetzee is also intent on what measure of soul and rights we allow animals. After the attack, David takes his role at the shelter more seriously, at last achieving an unlikely home and some measure of love. In Coetzee''s recent Princeton lectures,\n <em>\n  The Lives of Animals\n </em>\n , an aging novelist tells her audience that the question that occupies all lab and zoo creatures is, "Where is home, and how do I get there?" David, though still all-powerful compared to those he helps dispose of, is equally trapped, equally lost.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Disgrace\n </em>\n is almost willfully plain. Yet it possesses its own lean, heartbreaking lyricism, most of all in its descriptions of unwanted animals. At the start of the novel, David tells his student that poetry either speaks instantly to the reader--"a flash of revelation and a flash of response"--or not at all. Coetzee''s book speaks differently, its layers and sadnesses endlessly unfolding.\n <em>\n  --Kerry Fried\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As a writer, Coetzee is a literary cascade, with a steady output of fiction and criticism (literary and social) over the last two decades. This latest book, his first novel in five years, is a searing evocation of post-apartheid South Africa; it earned him an unprecedented second Booker Prize. An uninspired teacher and twice divorced, David Lurie is a 52-year-old poetry scholar-cum-"adjunct professor of communications" at Cape Technical University. Spooked by the flicker of twilight in his life trajectory, he sees himself as an aged Lothario soon to be "shuddered over" by the pretty girls he has so often wooed; he is disappointed in and unengaged by the academy he now serves by rote; and he cannot locate the notes for his opera, Byron in Italy, in which he has placed so much reluctant hope. He is, even at his best, a man of "moderated bliss." So when he seduces Melanie Isaacs, a lithe student from his poetry elective ("She does not resist. All she does is avert herself"), he believes her to represent the final object of his desire, his last act of lush, Romantic desperation. And then he is found out. This not uncommon outrage earns him a dismissal and censure from the university committee he refuses to cooperate with in hopes of saving his job. He immediately shoves off for Salem in the Eastern Cape where his daughter, Lucy, manages a dog kennel and works her smallholding, harvesting a modest crop. Here David hopes to cleanse himself with time-honored toil. But his new life in the country offers scarce refuge. Instead, he is flummoxed to discover an unfamiliar Lucy-principled, land-devoted, with a heroic resignation to the social and political developments of modern South Africa. He also memorably encounters Petrus, Lucy''s ambitious colored neighbor and sometime assistant. Petrus embodies the shifting, tangled vicissitudes of a new national schematic, and forces David to relate to the broad segment of society previously shrouded by the mists of his self-absorption. But a violent attack on the estate irrevocably alters how the book''s central figure perceives many things: his daughter and her bewildering (to him) courage, the rights of South Africa''s grossly aggrieved majority, the souls of the damaged dogs he helps put down at the local Animal Welfare League and even the character of Lord Byron''s mistress and the heroine of his operatic "chamber-play." But this is no tale of hard-earned, satisfying transformation. It is, rather, a paean to willfulness, an aria on the theme of secca, or the drying up of "the source of everything." In Coetzee''s tale, not a single note is false; every sentence is perfectly calibrated and essential. Every passage questions the arbitrary division between the "major and minor" and the long-accepted injustices propped up by nothing so much as time. The book somehow manages to speak of little but interiority and still insinuate peripheries of things it doesn''t touch. Somber and crystalline, it "has the right mix of timelessness and decay." It is about the harsh cleansing of humiliation and the regretfulness of knowing things: "I lack the lyrical. I manage love too well. Even when I burn I don''t sing, if you understand me." To perceive is to understand in this beautifully spare, necessary novel. First serial to the New Yorker. (Nov.) FYI: Viking accelerated the pub date after the Booker Prize was announced on October 25.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1340'),
(1308, 'Divided in Death', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Reva Ewing, a former member of the Secret Service, a security specialist for Roarke Enterprises, is a prime suspect in a double homicide. She had every reason to want to kill her husband, the renowned artist Blair Bissel. Not only was he having an affair, he was having it with her best friend. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas, whoâ€™s on the case, believes Reva is innocent. Eveâ€™s instincts tell her that the murder scene looks too perfectly staged, the apparent answers too obvious. And when she digs for more, she discovers that at nearly the exact time a kitchen knife was jammed into the victimâ€™s ribs, the passcode to his art studio was changed - and all of the data on his computer deliberately corrupted.\n</p>\n<p>\n To Roarke, itâ€™s the computer attack that poses the real threat. Signs show that this is the nightmare his company has secretly been preparing for. He and Reva have been under a code-red government contract to develop a program that would shield against a new breed of hackers, the Doomsday Group. These techno-terrorists with brilliant minds and plenty of financial backing hack into systems, steal data, and corrupt computer units on a large scale and kill anyone who gets too close.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eve and Roarke must infiltrate an extraordinarily secretive government agency to expose the corruption at its core, before the virus spreads from one office to a corporation to the entire country.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1097'),
(1309, 'Divine', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Best-selling author Karen Kingsbury weaves another dramatic story of tragedy and redemption!\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mary Madison was a child of unspeakable horrors, a young woman society wanted to forget. Now a divine power has set Mary free to bring life-changing hope and love to battered and abused women living in the shadow of the nation''s capital.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mary is educated and redeemed, a powerful voice in Washington, D.C.â€”both to the politically elite and to other women like her. But she also has a past that shamed polite society. Her experiences created in her paralyzing fear, faithlessness, addiction, and promiscuity. At the crossroads of her life, only one power set Mary free and gave her a lifetime of love and hope. A power that could only be divine.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Karen Kingsbury\n  </strong>\n  is currently America''s best-selling inspirational author. She has written more than 30 of her Life-Changing Fiction titles and has nearly 5 million books in print. Dubbed by Time magazine as the Queen of Christian Fiction. Her fiction has made her one of the country''s favorite storytellers, and one of her novels-Gideon''s Gift-is under production for an upcoming major motion picture release. Her emotionally gripping titles include the popular Redemption series, the Firstborn series, Divine, One Tuesday Morning, Beyond Tuesday Morning, Oceans Apart, and A Thousand Tomorrows.Karen and her husband, Don, live in the Pacific Northwest and are parents to one girl and five boys, including three adopted from Haiti.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From AudioFile\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The horror of this novel about a young girl who survives sexual abuse is expertly dramatized by Sharon Williams. Williams communicates the whole spectrum of emotions and creates empathy in the listener. Characters are well differentiated, and European and Hispanic accents are superb. The powerful story of Mary Madison, inspired by the life of Mary Magdalene, is filled with tragedy until caring people reach out to her and guide her to safety and to faith in God. Mary, in turn, spends her life opening shelters for battered women and becomes a strong advocate for abused women. Well written and well read, DIVINE is a picture of how one life, exposed to the worst of the human condition, can be transformed. N.L. Â© AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine--\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2422'),
(1310, 'The Divine Comedy: Inferno', 'Dante Alighieri &amp; Mark Musa', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As part of a projected six-volume edition of the Divine Comedy, Musa (Indiana Univ.) has revised and reissued his translation of Dante''s Inferno (LJ 3/1/95) in a bilingual edition, accompanied by a volume-length commentary. Musa''s translation is in fluent, colloquial verse that aims for the speed and rhythm of the original though not the form. This serviceable version is on the same level as the recent translations by Robert Pinskey (LJ 11/1/94) and Robert Durling (LJ 3/15/96). Musa''s commentary is thorough and clear but doesn''t significantly supersede that of Charles S. Singleton (1970). Nevertheless, it can be recommended.?Thomas L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Among currently available parallel-text editions, this one certainly has the most elaborate and helpful annotation..." -- Choice\n </p>\n <p>\n  (\n  <em>\n   Choice\n  </em>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Musa''s commentary is thorough and clear... recommended." -- Library Journal\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(1311, 'Divine Misdemeanors', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Laurell K. Hamilton on *Divine Misdemeanors\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Meredith Gentry was created as a character so that my muse and I could have a break from writing the Anita Blake series. Iâ€™d written five Anita books in a row and was starting to have job anxiety dreams about her life instead of mine. I needed something different for my muse and me to play with. Merry was created to give me a different voice, a different world to visit. I guess sheâ€™s like a second child that you have so the first one wonâ€™t be an only. Then, like a parent that just didnâ€™t understand that a second child doesnâ€™t double your workload, but quadruples it, I was suddenly trying to do two different series at two different publishers. It went well since theyâ€™re both\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellers. The audience for both crosses nicely and continues to grow with every book in a time when very few authors can say that. So itâ€™s all good, but just like trying to juggle two kids instead of one, juggling two book series instead of just one presents its challenges.\n</p>\n<p>\n At the beginning keeping Anitaâ€™s voice out of the Merry books was the biggest challenge. I was used to her, and her voice and attitude were closer to my own, so Anita wrote faster, clearer in my head. Merry was that second baby that is nothing like your first baby, so most of what you learned about taking care of character A doesnâ€™t help a damn bit with character B. Who knew? But there comes a point when you make peace with the second child being so different from the first and so different from yourself. You find the unique joys in that second person, as Iâ€™ve found the joys in the Merry series that are different from Anita.\n</p>\n<p>\n Anita fights me on paper and always has. Sheâ€™s very much my rebel. Merry never fought on paper until the last book,\n <em>\n  Swallowing Darkness\n </em>\n , and then she found things worth fighting for. She finally stood up and told me what she wanted and she was willing to do whatever it took to get there. I understood that. I let Merryâ€™s desires, loves, and choices change where I had planned to end the first cycle of the series. Anita has thrown out entire last thirds of books by her choices, and even scrapped entire novel ideas because sheâ€™d simply grown in a different direction. If I did that for my oldest creation, how could I not do the same for my youngest creation?\n</p>\n<p>\n In fact, Merry found her voice so pure and clear that on the last two Anita Blake novels Iâ€™ve had to chase her out of my head so Anita could be loud. Now the biggest challenge is balancing the writing schedule between two bestselling series, two different publishers, and that thing called a real life. Doing justice to my two imaginary worlds, and still managing to have a life in the real world... thatâ€™s the true challenge.\n <em>\n  --Laurell K. Hamilton\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hamilton hits the ground running in her latest Meredith Gentry novel, this one set in Los Angeles, where a pregnant Meredith has been safely united with her fellow exiles from the faerie courts. The faerie princess/private eye''s happiness is short-lived, however, when she catches wind of a serial killer who gets his kicks crafting hideous tableaux of butchered demi-fey. While Meredith hunts for the killer, her stable of guards struggle to protect her from herself. Just as full of steamy sex and wild magic as the previous seven volumes, this episode finds Meredith''s powers, as well as her collection of gorgeous guards, expanding, with crowd-pleasing results. The friction among Meredith''s men makes for good drama, and Hamilton doesn''t shy away from difficult real-world issues like post-traumatic stress disorder and sexual abuse. Though newcomers will be lost, and mystery fans may feel the sex scenes crowd out the plot, veterans of the series will no doubt enjoy their return to Hamilton''s meticulously constructed world.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/606'),
(1312, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', 'Philip K. Dick &amp; Joc Potter &amp; Andy Hopkins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth. Like Rick Deckard - android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six androids which have escaped from Mars. They''re machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. They will be hard to kill. The film Blade Runner was based on this famous novel.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."\n <br />\n --John Brunner\n <br />\n THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .\n <br />\n Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.\n <br />\n By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn''t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . .\n <br />\n They even built humans.\n <br />\n Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn''t want to be identified, they just blended in.\n <br />\n Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.\n <br />\n "[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from."\n <br />\n --Paul Williams\n <br />\n Rolling Stone\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/843'),
(1313, 'The Dogs of War', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An astonishing discovery is made in the remote African republic of Zangaro, one which could change the course of a nation''s history forever. But such a discovery cannot be kept secret for long and Sir James Manson will stop at nothing to protect this find. A ruthless and bloody-minded tycoon, Manson immediately hires an army of mercenaries and with this deadly crew behind him he sets out to topple the government and replace its dictator with a puppet president. But news of discovery has reached Russia - and suddenly Manson finds he no longer makes the rules in this power game. A game in which win or lose means life or death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1865'),
(1314, 'Dolan&#39;s Cadillac', 'Stephen King &amp; Lord John Press', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1512'),
(1315, 'Dolores Claiborne', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n More of a mystery than a horror novel,\n <em>\n  Dolores Claiborne\n </em>\n contains only the briefest glances at the supernatural. The novel presents Stephen King as a writer experimenting with style and narrative, time and perspective. Fans looking for a skin-crawling, page-turning fright or an undead bloodbath will be disappointed, but a patient reader willing to savor King''s leisurely study of character and island life will find many rewards. And all of this is not to say that the book is without suspense.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story unfolds in one continuous chapter, told in the first person by the cranky, 65-year-old housekeeper, Dolores, who is explaining to police officers and a stenographer how and why she killed her husband, Joe, 30 years ago. At the same time, in her rambling monologue, she insists that she did\n <em>\n  not\n </em>\n kill her longtime employer, Vera Donovan--notwithstanding what the residents of Little Tall Island may be whispering. Joe was a drinker, and, as Dolores gradually argues, he deserved to die for the horrifying crimes he committed against his family. But Vera, despite her cantankerous disposition as a lady governing her decaying estate with her precise rules about even the most mundane household chore ("Six pins! Remember to use six pins! Don''t you let the wind blow my good sheets down to the corner of the yard!"), was a good woman--or at least not an evil one. She was the woman who hired the young Dolores and kept her on even after Dolores got pregnant again. Dolores cleaned and cared for her even as the old matron faded into senility.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dolores Claiborne\n </em>\n is a rich novel that recalls the regionalist writing of the turn of the century. It is a fine place for a skeptical newcomer--put off by King''s reputation for outright terror--to start. And for fans, it is a book that offers new insights into an author who''s an old favorite.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n King''s portrait of a Maine housekeeper accused of her employer''s murder--a nine-week PW bestseller--shows him to be a magnificent storyteller.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/505'),
(1316, 'Door to December', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The "scary and stylish" (\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  ) novel from the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A call in the middle of the night summoned psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey out into the rain-swept streets of Los Angeles. The police had found her husband-beaten to death. But what of her daughter, Melanie, whom he had kidnapped six years earlier? At the brutal murder scene, the police lead Laura into her husband''s makeshift lab-and open the door to a rising tide of terror that has trapped Melanie in its midst...\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a truly suspenseful novel of a mother who must save her daughter from a threat she can hardly understand. What happened to nine-year-old Melanie during the six years she was subjected to terrifying experiments? And what is the unstoppable power that she can unleash from behind the "Door to December"? Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/531'),
(1317, 'Double Deuce', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Hawk wants Spenser to wage war on a street gang. Susan wants Spenser to move in with her. Either way, Spenser''s out of his element. So why not risk both?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1172'),
(1318, 'Douglas Adams&#39; Starship Titanic', 'Terry Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Arguably the greatest collaboration in the whole history of comedy!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bestselling author Douglas Adams wrote the storyline based on his CD-ROM game of the same name (as this novel, not as him, obviously).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Terry Jones of Monty Python wrote the book. In the nude! Parents be warned! Most of the words in this book were written by a naked man!\n </p>\n <p>\n  So. You want to argue with that? All right, we give in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Starship Titanic is the greatest, most fabulous, most technologically advanced interstellar cruise line ever built. It is like a cross between the Queen Mary, the Chrysler Building, Tutankhamen''s tomb, and Venice. Furthermore, it cannot possibly go wrong. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sadly, however, seconds after its launch it undergoes SMEF, or Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure. And disappears.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Except, everything''s got to be somewhere.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Coming home that night, on a little known planet called Earth, Dan and Lucy Gibson find something very large and very, very shiny sticking into their house. . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1495'),
(1319, 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child - Agent Pendergast 09 - Cemetery Dance', 'Cemetery Dance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/212');
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(1320, 'Dracula', 'Bram Stoker &amp; Brooke Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dracula\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Bram Stoker\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars\n </li>\n <li>\n  Biographies of the authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events\n </li>\n <li>\n  Footnotes and endnotes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comments by other famous authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bibliographies for further reading\n </li>\n <li>\n  Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Count Dracula\n  </em>\n  has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to\n </strong>\n Bram Stoker\n <em>\n  ''s original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption.\n </em>\n <em>\n  Dracula\n </em>\n chronicles the vampire''s journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his frightful power.\n</p>\n<p>\n Today''s critics see\n <em>\n  Dracula\n </em>\n as a virtual textbook on Victorian repression of the erotic and fear of female sexuality. In it, Stoker created a new word for terror, a new myth to feed our nightmares, and a character who will outlive us all.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Brooke Allen\n </strong>\n is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hudson Review. A collection of her essays,\n <em>\n  Twentieth-Century Attitudes\n </em>\n , will be published in 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1067'),
(1321, 'Dragon Haven', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Dragon Keeper returns with a second enthralling tale of dragons and humans, adventure and discovery, love and freedom   Centuries had passed since dragons last roamed the war-torn world of the Rain Wild River. But as peace once again settled upon the land, a lost generation of sea serpentsâ€”ancient, half-starved, and wearyâ€”returned to cocoon, certain that they would be reborn as the beautiful and powerful dragons of legend. But their arduous journey exacted a heavy toll, and the proud serpents emerged as sickly, half-formed beasts, unable to fly or hunt . . . or thrive. For years now they have been trapped on a swampy riverbank between forest and river, hungry and barely alive, reliant on humans to provide for them.   With their survival at stake, fifteen dragonsâ€”among them the wise golden Mercor, the haughty and dazzling silver-blue queen Sintara, and the delicate copper beauty Relpdaâ€”have set off on a dangerous trek into the unknown, up the Rain Wild River, in hopes of rediscovering the ancient Elderling city of Kelsingra, the lost haven for dragons and Elderlings alike. The dragons are accompanied by a disparate group of human keepers, rejects from Rain Wild society. They, too, yearn to find Kelsingra and create a home of their own, one in which they may make their own rules and decide their own fate. But is Kelsingra real or merely a fragment of a glorified past buried deep in the dragons'' shared memories? No map exists to guide them, and the noble creatures find their ancient recollections of little use in a land changed by generations of flooding and seismic chaos.   As the dragons, the humansâ€”including the strong and defiant Rain Wild girl Thymara; the wealthy dragon scholar and Trader''s wife, Alise; and her companion, the urbane Sedricâ€”and their magical supply barge, captained by the gruff Leftrin, forge their way ever deeper into uncharted wilderness, human and beast alike discover they are changing in mysterious and dangerous ways. While the bonds between them solidify, starvation, flashfloods, and predators will imperil them all. But dragons and humans soon learn that the most savage threats come from within their own company . . . and not all of them may survive.   Returning to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies, New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb creates a lush and ultimately triumphant tale set in an imaginative world of magic and wonder as compelling and emotionally resonant as our own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/577'),
(1322, 'Dragon Keeper', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Enter the spellbinding world of dragons . . . and those who tend them\n</p>\n<p>\n One of the most gifted fantasy authors writing today,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Robin Hobb has dazzled readers with brilliantly imaginative, emotionally resonant, and compulsively readable tales set in far-flung realms not unlike our own. In this enthralling new novel, she returns to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies with a story of dragons and humans, return and rebirth, and the search for meaning, belonging, and home.\n</p>\n<p>\n For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon Tintaglia. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at seaÂ—to find a safe haven and, Tintaglia hopes, to restore her species. But too much time has passed, and the newly hatched dragons are damaged and weak, and many die. The few who survive cannot use their wings; earthbound, they are powerless to hunt and vulnerable to human predators willing to kill them for the fabled healing powers of dragon flesh.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Tintaglia has vanished and the Traders are weary of the labor and expense of tending useless dragons. The Trader leadership fears that if it stops providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampageÂ—or die along the river''s acidic muddy banks. To avert catastrophe, the dragons decree a move even farther up the treacherous river to Kelsingra, their ancient, mythical homeland whose mysterious location is locked deep within the dragons'' uncertain ancestral memories.\n</p>\n<p>\n To ensure their safe passage, the Traders recruit a disparate group of young people to care for the damaged creatures and escort them to their new home. Among them is Thymara, an unschooled forest girl of sixteen, and Alise, a wealthy Trader''s wife trapped in a loveless marriage, who attaches herself to the expedition as a dragon expert. The two women share a deep kinship with the dragons: Thymara can instinctively communicate with them, and Alise, captivated by their beauty and majesty, has devoted her life to studying them.\n</p>\n<p>\n Embarking on an arduous journey that holds no promise of return, the band of humans and dragons must make their way along the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild RiverÂ—an extraordinary odyssey that will teach them lessons about themselves and one another, as they experience hardships, betrayals, and joys beyond their wildest dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/676'),
(1323, 'The Dragon Reborn', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Dragon Reborn\n </em>\n Â—the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to himÂ—is on the run from his destiny.\n</p>\n<p>\n Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him howÂ—for no man has done it in three thousand yearsÂ—Rand al''Thor knows only that he must face the Dark One. But how?\n</p>\n<p>\n Winter has stopped the war-almost-yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he?\n</p>\n<p>\n Perrin Aybara is in pursuit with Moiraine Sedai, her Warder Lan, and the Loial the Ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, Perrin is grappling with another deadly problemÂ—how is her to escape the loss of his own humanity.\n</p>\n<p>\n Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are approaching Tar Valon, where Mat will be healedÂ—if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the Amyrlin their newsÂ—that the Black Ajah, long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? They cannot know that in Tar Valon far worse awaits...\n</p>\n<p>\n Ahead, for all of them, in the Heart of the Stone, lies the next great test of the Dragon reborn....\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n The New York Times bestseller--finally in paperback. Rand Al''Thor, the long-prophesied leader who will save the world, is on the run from his destiny. Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, Rand knows that he must ultimately face the Dark One--in a battle to the death. Named one of the Los Angeles Times Best Books for Winter Reading. The others in the trilogy are The Eye of the World and The Great Hunt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/640'),
(1324, 'Drama City', 'George Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The real test of an author''s skill is sometimes to be found not in an unusually conceived work, but in his or her ability to create a consuming tale out of what, in outline form, might sound like an all-too-familiar or mundane plot line. In another novelist''s hands, for instance,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n might have been a perfectly serviceable but regrettably unmemorable story of redemption and revenge set in the grittier districts of Washington, D.C. But with George Pelecanos at the reins, it becomes a poignant, profound yarn about men--the good, the bad, and the still undecided--trying to find their footing amid the centrifugal forces at play in a modern inner city.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s first standalone after four consecutive novels starring private eye Derek Strange (including\n <em>\n  Soul Circus\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Hard Revolution\n </em>\n ),\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n introduces Lorenzo Brown, a young, black onetime criminal enforcer who''s recently returned to the streets after doing eight years in prison on a felony drug charge. Crime and criminals had always been fundamental to Lorenzo''s existence. ("Y''all know how that is. I ran with some boys, one in particular, and when those boys and my main boy went down to the corner I went with ''em. They were my people, the closest thing I ever had to male kin.") Since his release, though, he''s been serving as a Humane Law Enforcement Officer with the Humane Society, protecting animals from the panoply of domestic cruelty, trying to leave both the drugs and the thugs behind. This attitude has won him a few champions, notably Rachel Lopez, his striking half-Jewish, half-Latina probation officer and friend, who spends her days "telling other people that they need to stay on track," but then goes off the rails at night, haunting hotel bars, picking up inappropriate guys, always frightened by the idea of a relationship "where she was not in complete control." Of course, these delicate balances of individual behavior are only possible in the absence of the unexpected. When a seemingly inconsequential mistake incites a lethal turf battle between rival gang bosses Nigel Johnson and Deacon Taylor, and Rachel is stabbed in the chest by a volatile, hopped-up gunman, Lorenzo finds his killer instincts returning to the fore. He must decide how far he''s willing to go--and how much he''s willing to lose--in order to exact retribution.\n</p>\n<p>\n A simple plot on its face, yet given high stakes and a heroic edge by Pelecanos''s portrayal of Brown as a man-in-progress struggling to secure his liberty from the past, helped along by his unexpectedly sympathetic former boss, childhood friend Nigel Johnson. Less satisfyingly rendered is Lopez, whose acrobatic swings to the wild side provide merely arousing diversions, without adequate character development. Bearing soul as well as teeth,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n gives off the air of a Greek tragedy. You know things are going to get bad before they turn worse, but Pelecanos keeps you riveted throughout. --\n <em>\n  J. Kingston Pierce\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s later fiction, set on the drug-saturated streets of ghetto Washington, D.C., is charged with the dark, unrelenting inevitability of Greek myth. In the author''s 13th novel, "dog man" Lorenzo Brown, a street investigator for the Humane Society, has recently completed an eight-year stretch in prison for narcotics and is determined to stay clean and free. Rachel Lopez, Lorenzo''s parole officer, spends her days chasing down clients and her nights getting drunk in bars and having rough sex with strangers. The ignition point for the violence that eventually engulfs these two fully realized, attractive charactersâ€”characteristics that in Pelecanos''s world mark them as quite probably doomedâ€”is a minor argument between local drug kingpins that inflates into a series of revenge killings. Pelecanos is known for his bleak, uncompromising outlook (\n <em>\n  Hard Resolution\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  Hell to Pay\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  The Sweet Forever\n </em>\n ) and while the death and destruction are still here in full force, some fans may question the turnaround in his ending. Might it be an attempt to hit the megabestseller stardom that fans think he deserves? Hope and redemption are fine subjects for many novelists, but it''s the stark world of violence and despair that this author really owns.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1116'),
(1325, 'The Drawing of the Three', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elaborating at great length on Robert Browning''s cryptic narrative poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," the second volume of King''s post-Armageddon epic fantasy presents the equally enigmatic quest of Roland, the world''s last gunslinger, who moves through an apocalyptic wasteland toward the Dark Tower, "the linchpin that holds all of existence together." Although these minor but revealing books (which King began while still in college) are full of such adolescent portentousness, this is livelier than the first. Roland enters three lives in the alternate world of New York City: junkie and drug runner Eddie Dean, schizophrenic heiress Odetta Holmes and serial murder Jack Mort. If King tells us too little about Roland, he gives us too much about these misfits who are variously healed or punished exactly as expected. Typically, King is much better at the minutiae and sensations of a specific physical world, and several such bravura sequences (from an attack by mutant lobsters to a gun store robbery) are standouts amid the characteristic headlong storytelling. BOMC alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Join the quest before it''s too late'' -- Independent on Sunday on THE SONG OF SUSANNAH ''Pulse-poundingly engaging'' -- Sunday Express on THE SONG OF SUSANNAH ''Classic King, fine characters, compellingly written in a gripping, well-honed plot'' -- Daily Express on WOLVES OF THE CALLA ''Superbly energetic, it''s King at his best'' -- Mail on Sunday on WIZARD AND GLASS King''s magnificent uberstory is finally complete... King''s achievement is startling; his characters fresh... his plot sharply drawn... It is magic. -- Daily Express on The Dark Tower\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/556'),
(1326, 'Dreamcatcher', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen King fans, rejoice! The bodysnatching-aliens tale\n <em>\n  Dreamcatcher\n </em>\n is his first book in years that slakes our hunger for horror the way he used to. A throwback to\n <em>\n  It\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Tommyknockers\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Dreamcatcher\n </em>\n is also an interesting new wrinkle in his fiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Four boyhood pals in Derry, Maine, get together for a pilgrimage to their favorite deep-woods cabin, Hole in the Wall. The four have been telepathically linked since childhood, thanks to a searing experience involving a Down syndrome neighbor--a human dreamcatcher. They''ve all got midlife crises: clownish Beav has love problems; the intellectual shrink, Henry, is slowly succumbing to the siren song of suicide; Pete is losing a war with beer; Jonesy has had weird premonitions ever since he got hit by a car.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then comes worse trouble: an old man named McCarthy (a nod to the star of the 1956 film\n <em>\n  Invasion of the Body Snatchers\n </em>\n ) turns up at Hole in the Wall. His body is erupting with space aliens resembling furry moray eels: their mouths open to reveal nests of hatpin-like teeth. Poor Pete tries to remove one that just bit his ankle: "Blood flew in splattery fans as Pete tried to shake it off, stippling the snow and the sawdusty tarp and the dead woman''s parka. Droplets flew into the fire and hissed like fat in a hot skillet."\n</p>\n<p>\n For all its nicely described mayhem,\n <em>\n  Dreamcatcher\n </em>\n is mostly a psychological drama. Typically, body snatchers turn humans into zombies, but these aliens must share their host''s mind, fighting for control. Jonesy is especially vulnerable to invasion, thanks to his hospital bed near-death transformation, but he''s also great at messing with the alien''s head. While his invading alien, Mr. Gray, is distracted by puppeteering Jonesy''s body as he''s driving an Arctic Cat through a Maine snowstorm, Jonesy constructs a mental warehouse along the lines of\n <em>\n  The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci\n </em>\n . Jonesy physically feels as if he''s inside a warehouse, locked behind a door with the alien rattling the doorknob and trying to trick him into letting him in. It''s creepy from the alien''s view, too. As he infiltrates Jonesy, experiencing sugar buzz, endorphins, and emotions for the first time, Jonesy''s influence is seeping into the alien: "A terrible thought occurred to Mr. Gray: what if it was\n <em>\n  his\n </em>\n concepts that had no meaning?"\n</p>\n<p>\n King renders the mental fight marvelously, and telepathy is a handy way to make cutting back and forth between the campers'' various alien battlefronts crisp and cinematic. The physical naturalism of the Maine setting is matched by the psychological realism of the interior struggle. Deftly, King incorporates the real-life mental horrors of his own near-fatal accident and dramatizes the way drugs tug at your consciousness. Like the Tommyknockers, the aliens are partly symbols of King''s (vanquished) cocaine and alcohol addiction. Mainly, though, they''re just plain scary.\n <em>\n  Dreamcatcher\n </em>\n is a comeback and an infusion of rich new blood into King''s body of work.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In an author''s note to this novel, the first he''s written since his near-fatal accident, King allows that he wrote the first draft of the book by hand. So much for the theory that it''s word-processing alone that leads to logorrhea. Yet despite its excessive length, the novel one of the most complex thematically and structurally in King''s vast output dazzles and grips, if fitfully. In its suspenseful depiction of an alien invasion, it superficially harkens back to King''s early work (e.g., the 1980 novella "The Mist"), but it also features the psychological penetration, word-magic and ripe imagination of his recent stuff (particularly Bag of Bones). The action shuttles between present and past, following primarily the tribulations of a band of five males four regular guys from Derry, Maine (setting of King''s It and Insomnia), and their special friend, Duddits, a Down''s child (then man) with telepathic abilities. The first chunk of the text offers a tour de force of terror bound in darkest humor, depicting the arrival at the four guys'' remote hunting cabin of a man who''s fatally ill because he harbors in his bowels an alien invader. Yet the ferocious needle-toothed "shit-weasel" that escapes from him is only one of three varieties of invader the protagonists, and eventually a black-ops containment force, face: the others are Grays, classic humanoid aliens, and byrus, a parasitical growth that threatens to overtake life on Earth. The presence of the aliens makes humans telepathic, which leads to various inspired plot complications, but also to an occasional, perhaps necessary, vagueness of narration is there anything more difficult to dramatize than mind-to-mind communication? Numerous flashbacks reveal the roots of the connections among the four guys (one of whom is hit by a car and nearly dies), Duddits and even the aliens, while the last part of the book details a race/chase to save the world a chase that goes on and on and that''s further marred by the cartoonlike presence of the head of the black ops force, who''s as close to a caricature as King has strayed in several novels. The book has flaws, then, and each of them cries "runaway author." Is anyone editing King these days? But, then, who edited, say, Mahler at his most excessive? The genius shines through in any case, in the images and conceits that blind with brilliance, in the magnificent architecture, in the wide swaths of flat-out riveting reading and, most of all, in the wellsprings of emotions King taps as he plumbs the ties that bind his characters and, by extension, all of us to one another. (One-day laydown, Mar. 20) Forecast: As King''s first book-length fiction since the accident, this novel originally titled Cancer will generate particular interest commercially and critically. It may be nominated for awards; it certainly will top the charts. Film rights optioned by Castle Rock.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/509'),
(1327, 'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It just isnâ€™t fair: most of us would be lucky to be able to express ourselves in writing half as well as David Sedaris does in his new book,\n <em>\n  Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim\n </em>\n . But on top of his skills with the written word, the author also has substantial gifts as a performer, and he proves this on the audio version of the book. In his essay\n <em>\n  The Change in Me,\n </em>\n Sedaris remembers that his mother was good at imitating people, and itâ€™s clear that he takes after her. Whether heâ€™s doing impressions of high-voiced brother Paul, or recalling times when he and his sisters tried to win good karma by speaking and acting like well-behaved, fairytale children, Sedarisâ€™s nuanced performance hits the right note on both the opening, comedic stories, and the more poignant essays that tend to come later in the reading. In fact, for those who have already read some of the best stories in other publications including\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n , the CD or cassette version of this collection is probably the best bet for furthering your appreciation of the material.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sedarisâ€™s career is closely linked with two things: audio (he was discovered by NPRâ€™s Ira Glass), and the personal lives of himself and his family. In\n <em>\n  Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim\n </em>\n , he describes fights with his boyfriend, and his sister-in-lawâ€™s difficult pregnancy. When sister Lisa complains about the stories involving the family, he writes about that, too. Sedaris''s latest provides more evidence that he is a great humorist, memoirist and raconteur, and readers are lucky to have the opportunity to know him so well. Perhaps they are luckier still not to know him personally.\n <em>\n  --Leah Weathersby\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his latest collection, Sedaris has found his heart. This is not to suggest that the author of\n <em>\n  Me Talk Pretty One Day\n </em>\n and other bestselling books has lost his edge. The 27 essays here (many previously published in\n <em>\n  Esquire\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  G.Q\n </em>\n . or the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n , or broadcast on PRI''s\n <em>\n  This American Life\n </em>\n ) include his best and funniest writing yet. Here is Sedaris''s family in all its odd glory. Here is his father dragging his mortified son over to the home of one of the most popular boys in school, a boy possessed of "an uncanny ability to please people," demanding that the boy''s parents pay for the root canal that Sedaris underwent after the boy hit him in the mouth with a rock. Here is his oldest sister, Lisa, imploring him to keep her beloved Amazon parrot out of a proposed movie based on his writing. ("''Will I have to be fat in the movie?'' she asked.") Here is his mother, his muse, locking the kids out of the house after one snow day too many, playing the wry, brilliant commentator on his life until her untimely death from cancer. His mother emerges as one of the most poignant and original female characters in contemporary literature. She balances bitter and sweet, tart and richâ€”and so does Sedaris, because this is what life is like. "You should look at yourself," his mother says in one piece, as young Sedaris crams Halloween candy into his mouth rather than share it. He does what she says and then some, and what emerges is the deepest kind of humor, the human comedy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/218'),
(1328, 'A Drink Before the War', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lehane''s assured debut avoids several common first-mystery flaws before stalling on a less ordinary one. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, two young, smart-mouthed Boston PIs, are hired by a trio of prominent macho politicians to find a State House cleaning woman who may have purloined some important "documents." The pair quickly learns that Jenna Angeline has no documents. She does have a son and a husband who lead rival black street gangs, an angry sister and a photo of one of the pols with her husband in a hotel room. While helping Patrick, Jenna is gunned down in a hail of Uzi fire; gang war is quickly declared, and the two detectives aim for a plan that will avenge the innocent and punish the guilty. Lehane leaps right into the action; more gradually, we learn about Pat''s abusive father, Angie''s abusive husband and the attraction smoldering between the two principals. The light tone and whipsaw banter, however, can''t carry the pace when the action later slows in this mystery that starts with a bang and goes on shooting-but doesn''t hit the bull''s eye.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this first novel, set in Boston, violence swirls around narrator Patrick Kenzie and partner Angleo Gennaro. This intrepid investigative duo are hired by two state senators to locate a black cleaning woman who filched several sensitive "documents." They find her easily enough, but the items she took, which point to child prostitution and political corruption, cause gang warfare and murder. Lehane''s minimal use of literary references helps establish character, as do his frequent allusions to child abuse and wife battering. Rough and tumble action for a high energy, likable pair.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/398'),
(1329, 'Drood', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying?Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens''s life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens''s friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author''s last years and may provide the key to Dickens''s final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/253'),
(1330, 'The Drowned World', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This fast-paced narrative by the author of CRASH and EMPIRE OF THE SUN is a stunning evocation of a flooded, tropical London of the near future and a foray into the workings of the unconscious mind.Set in the future, Ballard imagines a world in which global warming has melted the ice-caps and primordial jungles and swamps have returned to a tropical London. As various members of an expedition to the city busy themselves with more or less futile schemes like draining Leicester Square in hope of loot, the central character Kerans moves to a strange acceptance of and assimilation by this lushly transformed world, vanishing into a final epiphany of heat and light.â€˜The Drowned Worldâ€™ is a potent, sensual mood-piece â€“ jewelled and unforgettable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1806'),
(1331, 'Dubliners', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This volume continues the masterly unabridged reading of the short stories. It contains the last five stories from the collection:\n <em>\n  A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, A Mother, Grace\n </em>\n , and perhaps the most welt-known of all the stories (and the longest),\n <em>\n  The Dead.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jim Norton has established a special reputation for his recordings of Joyce for Naxos AudioBooks. Released so far are\n <em>\n  Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Dubliners Volume I.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/662'),
(1332, 'Dude, Where&#39;s My Country?', 'Michael Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n he people of the United States, according to author and filmmaker Michael Moore (\n <em>\n  Bowling for Columbine\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Stupid White Men\n </em>\n ), have been hoodwinked. Tricked, he says, by Republican lawmakers and their wealthy corporate pals who use a combination of concocted bogeymen and lies to stay rich and in control. But while plenty of liberal scholars, entertainers, and pundits have made similar arguments in book form, Moore''s\n <em>\n  Dude, Where''s My Country?\n </em>\n stands out for its thoroughly positive perspective. Granted, Moore is angry and has harsh words for George W. Bush and his fellow conservatives concerning the reasoning behind going to war in Iraq, the collapse of Enron and other companies, and the relationship between the Bushes, the Saudi Arabian government, and Osama bin Laden. But his book is intended to serve as a handbook for how people with liberal opinions (which is most of America, Moore contends, whether they call themselves "liberals" or not) can take back their country from the conservative forces in power. Moore uses his trademark brand of confrontational, exasperated humor skillfully as he offers a primer on how to change the worldview of one''s annoying conservative blowhard brother-in-law, and he crafts a surprisingly thorough "Draft Oprah for President" movement. Refreshingly,\n <em>\n  Dude, Where''s My Country?\n </em>\n avoids being completely one-sided, offering up areas where Moore believes Republicans get it right as well as some cutting criticisms of his fellow lefties. Such allowances, brief though they may be, make one long for a political climate where the shouting polemicists on both sides would see a few more shades of gray.\n <em>\n  Dude, Where''s My Country?\n </em>\n is a little bit scattered, as Moore tries to cram opinions on Iraq, tax cuts, corporate welfare, Wesley Clark, and the Patriot Act into one slim volume--and the penchant to go for a laugh sometimes gets in the way of clear arguments. But such variety also gives the reader more Moore, providing a broader range of his bewildered, enraged, yet stalwartly upbeat point of view.\n <em>\n  --John Moe\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Flush from the success of Stupid White Men and an Academy Award for best documentary, Moore continues his rhetorical assault on the Bush administration. The book shares much with Al Franken''s Lies besides liberal sentiment and satirical tone; not only do both authors rely on the hoary device of having God tell them He doesn''t support the president, but they each claim to pack their carry-on luggage with baseballs to bean would-be hijackers. But where Franken attacks individual conservatives, Moore focuses on issues. His first chapter is a series of unsettlingly specific questions (based on rigorously footnoted facts) about the political and financial ties among Bush, the Saudi Arabian government and Osama bin Laden''s family, though he leaps from the facts to speculation when he wonders whether the September 11 attacks might have been hatched within the Saudi military. Other chapters attack the public''s susceptibility to what he casts as the fear-mongering tactics the administration has used to justify foreign military interventions and, he says, the erosion of domestic civil liberties, and he lays plans for a Democratic victory in 2004: in addition to a half-serious nomination of Oprah, he offers a prescient, reasoned and highly favorable evaluation of Wesley Clark as a candidate. Moore''s arguments work best when delivered mostly straight, since he isn''t always as funny as he seems to think he is. Straightforward propositions leavened with humor, like a guide to talking to conservative relatives, work fine, while efforts at flat-out farce ring hollow. But expect liberals to once again eagerly support one of their most prominent spokesmen by checking this out at the cash register.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/418'),
(1333, 'Duma Key', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008\n </strong>\n : It would be impossible to convey the wonder and the horror of Stephen King''s latest novel in just a few words. Suffice it to say that\n <em>\n  Duma Key\n </em>\n , the story of Edgar Freemantle and his recovery from the terrible nightmare-inducing accident that stole his arm and ended his marriage, is Stephen King''s most brilliant novel to date (outside of the\n <em>\n  Dark Tower\n </em>\n novels, in which case\n <em>\n  each\n </em>\n is arguably his best work).\n <em>\n  Duma Key\n </em>\n is as rich and rewarding as\n <em>\n  Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption\n </em>\n (yes,\n <em>\n  that\n </em>\n <em>\n  Shawshank Redemption\n </em>\n ), and as truly scary as anything King has written (and that''s saying a lot). Readers who have "always wanted to try Stephen King" but never known where to start should try a few pages of\n <em>\n  Duma Key\n </em>\n --the frankness with which Edgar reveals his desperate, sputtering rages and thoughts of suicide is King at the top of his game. And that''s just the first thirty pages...\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Duma Key\n  </em>\n  : Where It All Began\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A Note from Chuck Verrill, the Longtime Editor of Stephen King\n </strong>\n <br />\n In the spring of 2006 Stephen King told me he was working on a Florida story that was beginning to grow on him. "I''m thinking of calling it\n <em>\n  Duma Key\n </em>\n ," he offered. I liked the sound of that--the title was like a drumbeat of dread. "You know how\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n is a story about marriage?" he said. "Sure," I answered. The novel hadn''t yet been published, but I knew its story well: Lisey and Scott Landon--what a marriage that was. Then he dropped the other shoe: "I think\n <em>\n  Duma Key\n </em>\n might be my story of divorce."\n</p>\n<p>\n Pretty soon I received a slim package from a familiar address in Maine. Inside was a short story titled "Memory"--a story of divorce, all right, but set in Minnesota. By the end of the summer, when\n <em>\n  Tin House\n </em>\n published "Memory," Stephen had completed a draft of\n <em>\n  Duma Key\n </em>\n , and it became clear to me how "Memory" and its narrator, Edgar Freemantle, had moved from Minnesota to Florida, and how a story of divorce had turned into something more complex, more strange, and much more terrifying.\n</p>\n<p>\n If you read the following two texts side by side--"Memory" as it was published by\n <em>\n  Tin House\n </em>\n and the opening chapter of\n <em>\n  Duma Key\n </em>\n in final form--you''ll see a writer at work, and how stories can both contract and expand. Whether\n <em>\n  Duma Key\n </em>\n is an expansion of "Memory" or "Memory" a contraction of\n <em>\n  Duma Key\n </em>\n , I can''t really say. Can you?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Chuck Verrill\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "Memory"\n </strong>\n <br />\n Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own. That''s what Kamen says. I tell him I never chased the memory of my accident. Some things, I say, are better forgotten.\n</p>\n<p>\n Maybe, but that doesnâ€™t matter, either. That''s what Kamen says.\n</p>\n<p>\n My name is Edgar Freemantle. I used to be a big deal in building and construction. This was in Minnesota, in my other life. I was a genuine American-boy success in that life, worked my way up like a motherf---er, and for me, everything worked out. When Minneapolisâ€“St. Paul boomed, The Freemantle Company boomed. When things tightened up, I never tried to force things. But I played my hunches, and most of them played out well. By the time I was fifty, Pam and I were worth about forty million dollars. And what we had together still worked. I looked at other women from time to time but never strayed. At the end of our particular Golden Age, one of our girls was at Brown and the other was teaching in a foreign exchange program. Just before things went wrong, my wife and I were planning to go and visit her.\n</p>\n<p>\n I had an accident at a job site. That''s what happened. I was in my pickup truck. The right side of my skull was crushed. My ribs were broken. My right hip was shattered. And although I retained sixty percent of the sight in my right eye (more, on a good day), I lost almost all of my right arm.\n</p>\n<p>\n I was supposed to lose my life, but I didnâ€™t. Then I was supposed to become one of the Vegetable Simpsons, a Coma Homer, but that didn''t happen, either. I was one confused American when I came around, but the worst of that passed. By the time it did, my wife had passed, too. She''s remarried to a fellow who owns bowling alleys. My older daughter likes him. My younger daughter thinks heâ€™s a yank-off. My wife says sheâ€™ll come around.\n</p>\n<p>\n Maybe\n <em>\n  sÃ­\n </em>\n , maybe\n <em>\n  no\n </em>\n . That''s what Kamen says.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I say I was confused, I mean that at first I didnâ€™t know who people were, or what had happened, or why I was in such awful pain. I can''t remember the quality and pitch of that pain now. I know it was excruciating, but it''s all pretty academic. Like a picture of a mountain in\n <em>\n  National Geographic\n </em>\n magazine. It wasnâ€™t academic at the time. At the time it was more like climbing a mountain.\n</p>\n<p>\n Continue Reading "Memory"\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Duma Key\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  How to Draw a Picture\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Start with a blank surface. It doesn''t have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can''t remember.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  How do we remember to remember? That''s a question I''ve asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so Iâ€™ve come to believe.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Imagine a little girl, hardly more than a baby. She fell from a carriage almost ninety years ago, struck her head on a stone, and forgot everything. Not just her name; everything! And then one day she recalled just enough to pick up a pencil and make that first hesitant mark across the white. A horizon-line, sure. But also a slot for blackness to pour through.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Still, imagine that small hand lifting the pencil... hesitating... and then marking the white. Imagine the courage of that first effort to re-establish the world by picturing it. I will always love that little girl, in spite of all she has cost me. I must. I have no choice. Pictures are magic, as you know.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  My Other Life\n </strong>\n <br />\n My name is Edgar Freemantle. I used to be a big deal in the building and contracting business. This was in Minnesota, in my other life. I learned that my-other-life thing from Wireman. I want to tell you about Wireman, but first let''s get through the Minnesota part.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gotta say it: I was a genuine American-boy success there. Worked my way up in the company where I started, and when I couldnâ€™t work my way any higher there, I went out and started my own. The boss of the company I left laughed at me, said I''d be broke in a year. I think that''s what most bosses say when some hot young pocket-rocket goes off on his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n For me, everything worked out. When Minneapolisâ€“St. Paul boomed, The Freemantle Company boomed. When things tightened up, I never tried to play big. But I did play my hunches, and most played out well. By the time I was fifty, Pam and I were worth forty million dollars. And we were still tight. We had two girls, and at the end of our particular Golden Age, Ilse was at Brown and Melinda was teaching in France, as part of a foreign exchange program. At the time things went wrong, my wife and I were planning to go and visit her.\n</p>\n<p>\n Continue Reading\n <em>\n  Duma Key\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. King''s latest novel is a fantastically eerie tale in line with his best psychological thrillers. John Slattery offers a triumphal performanceâ€”his firm, gripping tone perfectly suits this story of the darker side of human memory and creativity. The characters are each so different and complicated, creating a challenge for even the most seasoned narrator. But Slattery does the near-impossible and physically becomes Edgar Freemantle. In fact, the two become so inseparable the listener almost feels guilty listening to his heartfelt confessions. King''s vision of Freemantle''s fictional personal memoir demands a narrator so believable and solid in his delivery that it seems almost impossible. But Slattery creates a truly moving experience, commanding and truthful.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/510'),
(1334, 'Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.\n</p>\n<p>\n The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don''t want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet''s harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what''s rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow.\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dune is to science fiction what The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy. Though fans believed they had bid a sad farewell to the sand planet of Arrakis upon Herbert''s death in 1986, his son Brian has assumed writing the Nebula and Hugo award-winning series with the help of Kevin J. Anderson. But the original is always the most popular, and Ace here offers a good-quality hardcover complete with maps, a glossary, and appendixes. The book''s huge fan base should expand even more thanks to a six-hour miniseries premiering on the Sci-Fi Channel later this year that is said to be more faithful to the book than David Lynch''s truly awful 1984 feature film.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/653'),
(1335, 'Dune Messiah', 'Frank Herbert &amp; Brian Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1965 Frank Herbert published\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n . After it was heralded as a masterpiece of science fiction, he wrote the briefer\n <em>\n  Dune Messiah\n </em>\n in 1969, concentrating eponymously on Paul Atreides, and then, sensing the sales potential, added sequels. They were continued by his son, culminating in the just published finale,\n <em>\n  Sandworms of Dune\n </em>\n . Now, 38 years after its publication, four narrators capture\n <em>\n  Dune Messiah\n </em>\n on discs, while listeners, with no glossary, try to recall the meaning of its esoteric nomenclature. The audio gets off to a lively start as the book opens with nearly all conversation, playing up the camaraderie between the narrators who have partnered on several other readings of classic sci-fi novels. While the cast works well together, some of the male narrators emphasize a stately dullness. Kellgren, the sole feminine voice, supplies real emotion and a true sense of awe.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Unique among SF novels ... I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings.'' -- Arthur C. Clarke on DUNE ''One of the landmarks of modern science fiction ... an amazing feat of creation.'' -- Analog on DUNE\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/654');
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(1336, 'Dust of Dreams', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ragged armies and gods old and new collide in the dizzyingly complex penultimate tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen (following 2008''s\n <em>\n  Toll the Hounds\n </em>\n ). After a traumatic reading of the tiles, Adjunct Tagore of the Malazan decides to quit the Letherii capital. To placate neighboring territories, Brys Beddict and a contingent of Letherii escort Tagore and her army through the Wastelands on their way to the port of Kolanse. The Barghast find their own reasons to head for the Wastelands, as do the T''lan Imass, a group of bloodthirsty Jaghut, and the army of the K''Chain Che''Malle. Gods tweak the players on this continent-sized chess board even as they themselves are manipulated. Erickson begins to reel in the long lines of his huge plot, giving enough hints to leave readers impatient for the 10th volume.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the ninth Malazan Book of the Fallen volume, the last remnant of the Malazan Empire, in exile on the continent of Letherii, marches east against unknown but undoubtedly formidable foes. If the soldiers see themselves and their empire as fallen, they even more certainly see themselves bound by oaths and comradeship to keep faith with one another until the last enemy is identified, met, and, if possible, overcome. If not, their oaths are still binding. There is herein a quality reminiscent of the 300 Spartans coming to the fore that, added to the complexity and grandeur of the world-building, is downright enthralling. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1269'),
(1337, 'E Is for Evidence', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Being a twice-divorced, happily independent loner has worked like a charm for P.I. Kinsey Millhoneâ€”until holiday weekends like this one roll around. What she needs is a little diversion to ward off the blues. She gets her much-needed distraction with a case that places her career on the line. And if that isnâ€™t enough to keep her busy, her ex-husband, who walked out on her eight years ago, pops back on the radar...It all begins with a $5,000 deposit made into Kinseyâ€™s bank account. Problem is sheâ€™s not the one who deposited the money. But when sheâ€™s accused of being on the take in an industrial arson case, Kinsey realizes someone is framing herâ€¦Now Kinseyâ€™s working for herself. But with new evidenceâ€”and corpsesâ€”surfacing around her, sheâ€™s going to have to act quickly to clear her name before she loses her career, her reputationâ€”and quite possibly her lifeâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1981'),
(1338, 'Early Autumn', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course in survival and to beat his dangerous opponents at their own brutal game.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1160'),
(1339, 'The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1821'),
(1340, 'East of Eden', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1952. It is a symbolic recreation of the biblical story of Cain and Abel woven into a history of California''s Salinas Valley. With East of Eden Steinbeck hoped to reclaim his standing as a major novelist, but his broad depictions of good and evil come at the expense of subtlety in characterization and plot and it was not a critical success. Spanning the period between the American Civil War and the end of World War I, the novel highlights the conflicts of two generations of brothers; the first being the kind, gentle Adam Trask and his wild brother Charles. Adam eventually marries Cathy Ames, an evil, manipulative, and beautiful prostitute; she betrays him, joining Charles on the very night of their wedding. Later, after giving birth to twin boys, she shoots Adam and leaves him to return to her former profession. In the shadow of this heritage Adam raises their sons, the fair-haired, winning, yet intractable Aron, and the dark, clever Caleb. This second generation of brothers vie for their father''s approval. In bitterness Caleb reveals the truth about their mother to Aron, who then joins the army and is killed in France. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California''s Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. "A strange and original work of art."--New York Times Book Review. (Literature/Classics)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1064'),
(1341, 'Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman&#39;s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Gilbert (\n <em>\n  The Last American Man\n </em>\n ) grafts the structure of romantic fiction upon the inquiries of reporting in this sprawling yet methodical travelogue of soul-searching and self-discovery. Plagued with despair after a nasty divorce, the author, in her early 30s, divides a year equally among three dissimilar countries, exploring her competing urges for earthly delights and divine transcendence. First, pleasure: savoring Italy''s buffet of delights - the world''s best pizza, free-flowing wine and dashing conversation partners - Gilbert consumes\n <em>\n  la dolce vita\n </em>\n as spiritual succor. "I came to Italy pinched and thin," she writes, but soon fills out in waist and soul. Then, prayer and ascetic rigor: seeking communion with the divine at a sacred ashram in India, Gilbert emulates the ways of yogis in grueling hours of meditation, struggling to still her churning mind. Finally, a balancing act in Bali, where Gilbert tries for equipoise "betwixt and between" realms, studies with a merry medicine man and plunges into a charged love affair. Sustaining a chatty, conspiratorial tone, Gilbert fully engages readers in the year''s cultural and emotional tapestry - conveying rapture with infectious brio, recalling anguish with touching candor - as she details her exotic tableau with history, anecdote and impression.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From The New Yorker\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the age of thirty-one, Gilbert moved with her husband to the suburbs of New York and began trying to get pregnant, only to realize that she wanted neither a child nor a husband. Three years later, after a protracted divorce, she embarked on a yearlong trip of recovery, with three main stops: Rome, for pleasure (mostly gustatory, with a special emphasis on gelato); an ashram outside of Mumbai, for spiritual searching; and Bali, for "balancing." These destinations are all on the beaten track, but Gilbert''s exuberance and her self-deprecating humor enliven the proceedings: recalling the first time she attempted to speak directly to God, she says, "It was all I could do to stop myself from saying, ''I''ve always been a big fan of your work.''"\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2006\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1267'),
(1342, 'Eaters of the Dead', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Crichton takes the listener on a one-thousand-year-old journey in his adventure novel\n <em>\n  Eaters Of The Dead\n </em>\n . This remarkable true story originated from actual journal entries of an Arab man who traveled with a group of Vikings throughout northern Europe. In 922 A.D, Ibn Fadlan, a devout Muslim, left his home in Baghdad on a mission to the King of Saqaliba. During his journey, he meets various groups of "barbarians" who have poor hygiene and gorge themselves on food, alcohol and sex. For Fadlan, his new traveling companions are a far stretch from society in the sophisticated "City of Peace." The conservative and slightly critical man describes the Vikings as "tall as palm trees with florid and ruddy complexions." Fadlan is astonished by their lustful aggression and their apathy towards death. He witnesses everything from group orgies to violent funeral ceremonies. Despite the language and cultural barriers, Ibn Fadlan is welcomed into the clan. The leader of the group, Buliwyf (who can communicate in Latin) takes Fadlan under his wing.\n</p>\n<p>\n Without warning, the chieftain is ordered to haul his warriors back to Scandinavia to save his people from the "monsters of the mist." Ibn Fadlan follows the clan and must rise to the occasion in the battle of his life.\n <em>\n  --Gina Kaysen\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customsâ€”the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . . their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues themâ€”a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/934'),
(1343, 'Eating Animals', 'Jonathan Safran Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The latest from novelist Foer is a surprising but characteristically brilliant memoir-investigation, boasting an exhaustively-argued account of one man-child''s decade-long struggle with vegetarianism. On the eve of becoming a father, Foer takes all the arguments for and against vegetarianism a neurotic step beyond and, to decide how to feed his coming baby, investigates everything from the intelligence level of our most popular meat providers-cattle, pigs, and poultry-to the specious self-justifications (his own included) for eating some meat products and not others. Foer offers a lighthearted counterpoint to his investigation in doting portraits of his loving grandmother, and her meat-and-potatoes comfort food, leaving him to wrestle with the comparative weight of food''s socio-cultural significance and its economic-moral-political meaning. Without pulling any punches-factory farming is given the full expose treatment-Foer combines an array of facts, astutely-written anecdotes, and his furious, inward-spinning energy to make a personal, highly entertaining take on an increasingly visible (and book-selling) moral question; call it, perhaps, An Omnivore''s Dilemma.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n If this book were packaged like a loaf of bread, its Nutrition Facts box would list high percentages of graphic descriptions of factory farm methods of animal breeding, mass confinement, and assembly-line slaughter as well as the brutality and waste of high-tech fishing methods; fresh studies of animal (fish included) intelligence and their capacity for suffering; and undiluted facts about industrial animal agricultureâ€™s major role in global warming. Sensitive to the centrality of food in culture and family life, Foer, author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), frames his first nonfiction book within the story of his Holocaust survivor grandmotherâ€™s complex relationship with food and his response to fatherhood. He presents assiduously assembled facts (supported by70 pages of end notes) about the miserable lives and deaths of industrialized chickens, pigs, fish, and cattle and about agricultural pollution and how factory farming engenders species-leaping flu pandemics. He also asks philosophical questions, such as why we eat such smart and affectionate animals as pigs but not dogs. Foer brings extraordinary artistry, clarity, valor, and compassion to this staggering investigation into the ethics, horrors, and dangers of factory farming. An indelible book that should reach a diverse audience and deepen the conversation about how best to live on a rapidly changing planet. --Donna Seaman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/818'),
(1344, 'Eating the Dinosaur', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his new essay collection, author and cultural commentator Klosterman (Chuck Klosterman IV) parallels Kurt Cobain with David Koresh, Weezer with Warner Herzog and Ralph Nader, and posits a future in which Unabomber Ted Kaczynski''s manifesto is viewed as "the most prescient work of the 1990s." In short, there is something to excite and/or enrage any reader engaged with popular culture in the last 20 years. One of few cultural essayists to enjoy a wide readership, Klosterman''s Lester Bangs-lite approach is frequently engaging, if scattershot; too often, he engages in fleeting pop-culture references that evoke the laziest kind of critical cred-grubbing (a typical throwaway jab at indie band TV on the Radio leaves readers with no idea what criticism, if any, Klosterman is leveling). Klosterman even neglects to engage some of his subjects on their artistic merits, such as Nirvana''s final album, In Utero: after making much of the disc''s pre-release hype, he all but refuses to discuss his reaction as a listener. Even with the inclusion of an article on football (which he admits will turn off "40 percent" of his readers), Klosterman never ventures outside of his comfort zone; though he thrives on challenging his readers, he fails to challenge himself.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: What is this book about?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: Well, thatâ€™s difficult to say. I havenâ€™t read it yetâ€”Iâ€™ve just picked it up and casually glanced at the back cover. There clearly isnâ€™t a plot. Iâ€™ve heard thereâ€™s a lot of stuff about time travel in this book, and quite a bit about violence and Garth Brooks and why Germans donâ€™t laugh when theyâ€™re inside grocery stores. Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles. I think there are several pages about\n <em>\n  Rear Window\n </em>\n and college football and\n <em>\n  Mad Men\n </em>\n and why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women. Supposedly thereâ€™s a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about, but perhaps Iâ€™m misinformed.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Is there a larger theme?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: Oh, something about reality. "What is reality," maybe? No, thatâ€™s not it. Not exactly. I get the sense that most of the core questions dwell on the way media perception constructs a fake reality that ends up becoming more meaningful than whatever actually happened. Also, Lady Gaga.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Should I read this book?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A: Probably. Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian disaster and the recording of Nirvanaâ€™s\n <em>\n  In Utero\n </em>\n ? Does Barack Obama make you want to drink Pepsi? Does ABBA remind you of AC/DC? If so, you probably donâ€™t need to read this book. You probably wrote this book. But I suspect everybody else will totally love it, except for the ones who totally hate it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/494'),
(1345, 'Echo Burning', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jack Reacher is Spenser before Robert Parker domesticated his Boston PI--in fact, Reacher''s even tougher than Hawk. He can inhale and exhale a few times and pump up his muscles so they make a bad character think twice about tangling with him. And he''s spent enough time on the right side of the law to know how to operate in the gray zone if that''s what it takes to save the fair maiden, punish the bad guys, and right any other wrongs he happens to encounter in the course of his wanderings.\n <em>\n  Echo Burning\n </em>\n is vintage Lee Child, a smartly paced, intricately plotted, and masterfully characterized thriller starring Reacher, the ex-military cop who''s so concerned about commitment to anything--a woman, possessions, a permanent address--that he only owns the clothes on his back. But he''s the kind of justice-seeking guy you''d want on your side, especially if you were an abused wife trapped in a marriage you can''t get out of until, and unless, somebody bumps off your old man.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reacher''s sympathetic, but he''s not crazy. Nonetheless, he allows himself to be drawn into beautiful Carmen Greer''s orbit, which ought to teach a guy not to hitchhike. Agreeing to protect her from the husband who''s about to be released from jail and, according to Carmen, who''s about to pay her back for tipping off the authorities to the tax fraud that landed him in prison, Reacher moves into the bunkhouse of the Echo, Texas, ranch that''s owned by the bigoted, bitter, but powerful Greer family, which despises Carmen because she''s Mexican and tolerates her only because she''s Sloop Greer''s wife and the mother of his child. The expected bloodshed ensues, but it''s Sloop, not Carmen, who ends up with a bullet in his head. Reacher''s convinced that Carmen acted in self-defense, even after other evidence comes to light that suggests there''s more--and less--to her unhappy tale than even her own lawyer believes. This is the best Jack Reacher yet, smart, stylish, and convincing. If it''s your first encounter with Child''s work, be sure to check out his backlist--\n <em>\n  Running Blind\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Tripwire\n </em>\n , etc.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jack Reacher, the vagabond freelance lawman who never hesitates to stick his nose into private business, takes his lively act to Texas, embroiling himself in what starts as a messy domestic dispute before turning far more ominous. The rugged former army cop comes to the aid of Carmen Greer, who picks him up on the side of the road one morning outside Lubbock, then asks him to kill her abusive husband. Sloop Greer is getting out of prison in a few days, and Carmen fears he will start beating her again. Reacher declines, but agrees to protect Carmen, hiring on as a cowhand at the couple''s remote ranch in Echo County, Tex., far outside Pecos. Within hours of Sloop''s return from prison, where he was serving time for tax evasion, violence strikes. But the victim isn''t Carmen; it''s Sloop. He''s found shot dead, and Carmen is arrested. End of story? Hardly. Most wandering heroes would move on at this point, but not Reacher. He begins taking a hard look at both Carmen and Sloop''s past, as well as local history. What he finds ugly secrets, human suffering, political evil is repulsive to a man who''s been around as many blocks as Reacher. Child (Running Blind; Tripwire) has developed a fine franchise with Reacher, who comes from the Robin Hood mold, but has enough personal quirks and moments of unusual insight to separate him from the pack. Set in a literally and figuratively smoldering landscape, this is a clean, infectious story that taps deeply into two troubling human emotions the psychology of abuse and the desire for retribution. Author tour. (July)Forecast: Reacher''s fifth adventure a BOMC, Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection is among his strongest, and should hook even those who haven''t read the other novels in the series.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/959'),
(1346, 'Echo Park', 'Connelly Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Connelly''s compelling 12th Harry Bosch novel (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  The Closers\n </em>\n ) offers some new wrinkles on a familiar themeâ€”the aging detective haunted by the one who got away. In Bosch''s case, the elusive quarry is the man who abducted a 22-year-old equestrian, Marie Gesto, in 1993. Having returned to active duty as a member of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit, Bosch repeatedly pulls the file to see if he can discover something new and give some small solace to the victim''s parents. When a chance police stop of a suspicious vehicle nets serial killer Raynard Waits, who''s carrying body parts in his van, Bosch assesses the murderer''s claim that he was responsible for killing Gesto, too. The weary and cynical detective soon suspects that Waits is trying to barter information for a reduced sentence of life imprisonment. Political motivations connected with the upcoming DA election also cloud the investigation. Smooth prose and plausible charactersâ€”even the secondary figuresâ€”elevate this several notches above the standard cop vs. serial-killer thriller.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Bosch has been around since the Edgar Award?winning\n <em>\n  The Black Echo\n </em>\n (1992), and critics agree that neither he nor the police-procedural series has lost of any of their original luster. Instead, they''re both getting better with age. As in previous installments, both character and plot drive\n <em>\n  Echo Park\n </em>\n : Harry''s passion for the case and his guilt at having not found the killer before more murders occurred create a flawed, convincing hero. Michael Connelly''s sharp eye for Los Angeles, from Sunset Boulevard to Beachwood Canyon and Echo Park, also kept critics turning the pages. Overall,\n <em>\n  Echo Park\n </em>\n "is a richly imagined and finely crafted piece that grabs the reader on Page One and locks him but a half-step behind Bosch on every page that follows" (\n <em>\n  Denver Post\n </em>\n ).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/889'),
(1347, 'Echoes', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The bracing sea air brings little pleasure to the year-round residents of Castlebay, a village on the coast of Ireland, where class lines are strictly observed and morals publicly monitored. The youngest daughter of a shopkeeper whose meagre living depends on summer trade, Clare O''Brien is determined to move beyond her present circumstances. Hard work and the guidance of an irreverent, caring schoolteacher bring the resolute scholar to a college in Dublin. There, her steps falter when she enters into an ardent affair with David Power, the son of Castlebay''s only doctor and another willing exile. Although David returns her love, their devotion is sorely tested when they are forced to marry and return home. As a wealthy, new-fledged doctor, David easily resumes his privileged position, but Clare is trapped between her mother-in-law''s cold fury and the town''s unease. Sharply drawn, memorable characters and a convincing picture of a small Irish community bring freshness and zest to a familiar tale. Binchy also wrote Light a Penny Candle. 50,000 first printing; Literary Guild alternate; first serial to Cosmopolitan; paperback rights to Dell; U.K. rights: Century Publishing; translation rights: Christine Green. January\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This romantic melodrama, set in an Irish seaside town in the Fifties and early Sixties, is as wholesome and engaging as the author''s first novel, Light a Penny Candle ( LJ 2/15/83). Memorable characters include a poor shopkeeper''s daughter who wins a university scholarship, only to miss final exams by a cruel twist of fate; a medical student who shocks his family by marrying ``beneath him''''; a lonely schoolteacher who guards two scandalous secrets about her local celebrity brother; and a kindly, ubiquitous priest who knows all, tells nothing, and holds everyone together. It''s a little slow to get into, but by the halfway mark the reader is fully involved in all the subplots and is turning pages nonstop. Recommended for most public libraries and for YA collections. Literary Guild alternate. Joyce Smothers, Ocean Cty. Lib., Toms River, N.J.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1009'),
(1348, 'Eclipse', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bella? Edward s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? Following the international bestsellers Twilight and New Moon, Eclipse is the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer s captivating saga of vampire romance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/389'),
(1349, 'Ein Mann Namens Spade: Detektiv-Stories', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1470');
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(1350, 'Eldest', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Surpassing its popular prequel\n <em>\n  Eragon\n </em>\n , this second volume in the Inheritance trilogy shows growing maturity and skill on the part of its very young author, who was only seventeen when the first volume was published in 2003. The story is solidly in the tradition (some might say derivative) of the classic heroic quest fantasy, with the predictable cast of dwarves, elves, and dragons--but also including some imaginatively creepy creatures of evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n The land of Alagaesia is suffering under the Empire of the wicked Galbatorix, and Eragon and his dragon Saphira, last of the Riders, are the only hope. But Eragon is young and has much to learn, and so he is sent off to the elven forest city of Ellesmera, where he and Saphira are tutored in magic, battle skills, and the ancient language by the wise former Rider Oromis and his elderly dragon Glaedr. Meanwhile, back at Carvahall, Eragon''s home, his cousin Roran is the target of a siege by the hideous Ra''zac, and he must lead the villagers on a desperate escape over the mountains. The two narratives move toward a massive battle with the forces of Galbatorix, where Eragon learns a shocking secret about his parentage and commits himself to saving his people.\n</p>\n<p>\n The sheer size of the novel, as well as its many characters, places with difficult names, and its use of imaginary languages make this a challenging read, even for experienced fantasy readers. It is essential to have the plot threads of the first volume well in mind before beginning--the publisher has provided not only a map, but a helpful synopsis of the first book and a much-needed Language Guide. But no obstacles will deter the many fans of Eragon from diving headfirst into this highly-awaited fantasy. (Ages 12 and up)\n <em>\n  --Patty Campbell\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Meet Author Christopher Paolini\n </strong>\n <br />\n Christopher Paoliniâ€™s abiding love of fantasy and science fiction inspired him to begin writing his debut novel,\n <em>\n  Eragon\n </em>\n , when he graduated from high school at age 15.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Writing is the heart and soul of my being. It is the means through which I bring my stories to life. There is nothing like putting words on a page and knowing that they will summon certain emotions and reactions from the reader. In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaneyâ€™s translation of Beowulf."\n <em>\n  --Christopher Paolini\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Paolini talks more about the series, and about what inspires him in this video clip.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Watch the video (high bandwith)\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Watch the video (low bandwith)\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Eragon/Eldest Boxed Set\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to learn more about the series? Check out our review of\n <em>\n  Eragon\n </em>\n : Here''s a great big fantasy that you can pull over your head like a comfy old sweater and disappear into for a whole weekend. Christopher Paolini began Eragon when he was just 15, and the book shows the influence of Tolkien, of course, but also Terry Brooks, Anne McCaffrey, and perhaps even Wagner in its traditional quest structure and the generally agreed-upon nature of dwarves, elves, dragons, and heroic warfare with magic swords. Read more\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Order your copy of the boxed set today\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn the Lingo\n </strong>\n <br />\n Our quickie pronunciation guide will help you get to know some of the names and places in the Inheritance series.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ajihad\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n AH-zhi-hod The Leader of the Varden\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Argetlam\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n ARE-jet-lahmElven word to describe Dragon Riders meaning "silver hand"\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Arya\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n AR-ee-uhA powerful elf who is both beautiful and a master swordswoman\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Eragon\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n EHR-uh-gahnA Dragon Rider from Carvahall\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ra-zac\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n RAA-zackEvil creatures\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Saphira\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n suh-FEAR-uhEragonâ€™s dragon\n</p>\n<p>\n *Art copyright Â© 2004 John Jude Palencar\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5 Upâ€“Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have survived the battle at Tronjheim, but their challenges are not over. Galbatorix, the corrupt emperor, still rules Alagaesia and is looking for them. The magically bonded pair must help the rebellious Varden regroup after their leader is slain. Eragon helps deal with the resulting diplomatic complexities and then leaves for Du Weldenvarden, the home of the Elves, in order to finish his training as a Dragon Rider. Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must unite the small town of Carvahall as it is battered by Galbatorix''s forces, including the nasty Ra''zac. The story alternates between Eragon and Saphira and their political maneuvering and Roran and his more traditional adventure over land and sea. Paolini provides a worthy companion to\n <em>\n  Eragon\n </em>\n (Knopf, 2003), though it does not stand alone (a summary of the first book will be included in the final edition). The plotâ€“indeed, most of the fantasy conventionsâ€“is heavily inspired by Tolkien, McCaffrey, and especially George Lucas. The momentum of the narrative is steady and consistent: a problem presents itself and is neatly (and conveniently) solved before the next one arises, making it appealing to some adventure-quest fantasy fans and runescape.com players. Eragon''s journey to maturity is well handled. He wrestles earnestly with definitions for good and evil, and he thoughtfully examines the question of good at what price.While there''s nothing particularly original here, the book will find its fan-base.\n <em>\n  â€“Sarah Couri, New York Public Library\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. 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What the heck is going on here? Why the heck do we have to spend 400 pages in an elf forest doing absolutely nothing? Why the heck is Roran''s lackluster story 50 times more gripping than Eragon''s?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n I''m not as mad at Christopher as I am at his editor. Why the heck didn''t she/he tell him to include more genuine conflict? Why didn''t she tell him that quitely simply, the book was BORING?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n See, the reason all of us who have ranked this book low are mad is very simple. Going into it, we weren''t expecting greatness. We didn''t expect Tolkien. All we asked for, all we wanted, was a base-line decently plotted story that we could enjoy. That''s all. And we didn''t even get that.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n So Christopher - I''m mad at you for not giving me your best. If you read this review, at the very least, please fill the next book with action, with stuff happenning. That''s what made the first book what it was: stuff was happenning. They were getting chased for half the book. They were chasing people. New elements got introduced, and not just on the last 3 pages.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n And for all of you who are mad at us for being harsh - we''re not being mean. Once any artist of any kind enters their work into the public realm and on top of that asks money for it, they''ve chosen to have honest, critical feedback directed at them, sometimes for good, sometimes for bad. That''s the name of the game - NO ONE is owed a good review. They earn it through skill.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Help other customers find the most helpful reviews\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Was this review helpful to you?Â Yes No\n</p>\n<p>\n Report abuse | Permalink\n</p>\n<p>\n CommentÂ Comment\n</p>\n<p>\n 24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:\n</p>\n<p>\n 1.0 out of 5 stars\n <strong>\n  Eragon IS Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings!\n </strong>\n , January 25, 2006\n</p>\n<p>\n ByÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n Intelligent Person "Intelligent Person" - See all my reviews\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This review is from: Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) (Hardcover)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n I read Eragon because everybody was talking about this 18 year old "prodigy" and how great his book was. I read the book... I couldn''t see what was so great about it. It was a complete rip off of Star Wars and the Lord of the Rings. Below are a list of things from Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings that I''ve matched to things in Paolini''s books Eragon and Eldest:\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Luke: Eragon\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Galactic Empire: King Galbatorix''s Empire\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Rebel Alliance: The Varden\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Emperor Palpatine: King Galbatorix\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Darth Vader: Morzan\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Obi-wan Kenobi: Brom\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Elf Dragon Rider: Yoda\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Jedi: Dragon Riders\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Luke''s Aunt and Uncle: Eragon''s dad\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Ringwraiths: Shades/Razaaks\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Orks: Urgals\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Elves: Paolini''s Elves\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Dwarves: Paolini''s Dwarves\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Arwyn/Princess Leia: Arya\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Even the plot is extremely close to that of Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings:\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n When Arya is ambushed by Razaak or Urgals in beginning of book and sends egg away for Brom, its very similar to Leia ship being ambushed by Imperials and Leia sending droid to Obi-wan Kenobi. Eragon becoming last of dragon riders (Jedi) and him finding egg is very much like beginning of Star Wars where by fate Luke, son of infamous Jedi (People who''ve read Eldest you know what I''m talking about) receives droids and becomes Jedi to avenge his uncle and aunt''s deaths. Battle with Varden vs. Urgals in end of book is very similar to that of Helm''s Deep in Lord of the Rings... and Eragon being son of (If you''ve read eldest...), its basically complete rip off. Also Luke getting message to receive training from cripple guy elf dragon rider in Ellesmera(yoda). It is very similar to Obiwan telling Luke to find yoda on Dagobah.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Help other customers find the most helpful reviews\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Was this review helpful to you?Â Yes No\n</p>\n<p>\n Report abuse | Permalink\n</p>\n<p>\n CommentÂ Comment\n</p>\n<p>\n 24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:\n</p>\n<p>\n 1.0 out of 5 stars\n <strong>\n  A Fantasy For Dummies\n </strong>\n , October 13, 2005\n</p>\n<p>\n ByÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n King Cole (Yeah! Texas!) - See all my reviews\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This review is from: Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) (Hardcover)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The book is not good; but, then again, neither was Eragon, its prequel. After coming away greatly repulsed by Eragon, I read Eldest just hoping that Paolini would have gotten better. Hey, maybe he would have learn from his mistakes; maybe the years have added maturity and experienced to him.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But I was wrong. Eldest is worse than Eragon. Eragon was bad story-wise, but it had, at least, some entertainment value. This new book has nothing.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Admittedly, the first few chapters of Eldest had me optmistic. At first, it seemed liked it would be fairly well done (granted the death of Ajihad was badly done: where did those Urgals come from?).\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But by the time Eragon left the Beor Mountains, it really starts to drag out. It gets boring. They travel. Nothing happens. They travel. This one elf, Arya, begins to annoy me. They travel. Arya really annoys me. When Eragon gives his allegiance to the leader of the Varden, Arya has this sudden outburst at Aragorn--wait!...I meant Eragon--which contradicts her reserve, elven nature.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Anyway, I could go on and on, but I don''t want to bore you like this book would. Basically:\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The PLOT is so much like Star Wars that it''s not even funny.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The TONE is like TLOTR, making it feel like you''re reading Star Wars while it''s in Middle-earth.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The PACING is slow and boring.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The SUSPENSE is non-existent. (If you know Star Wars, then you know what will happen, like Morzan being Eragon''s father.)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The CHARACTERS are irritating. They are either really happy, happy! or sad.... They go to extremes in their emotions. And EVERYONE is suspicious of everyone else, especially in the Varden. I mean, doesn''t anyone trust anyone any more?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n DON''T BUY THIS BOOK! Else green goblins will enter your house by night and play loud polka music to keep you awake.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n END.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n PS: What''s up with the Ra''zac? They are The Worst Thing ever invented. (1) They are basically the Nazgul with another name. (2) Unlike the Nazgul, they aren''t good at anything. I mean, when they''re in charge of destroying Caravall they lose serval fights against some common peasants. I mean, really, if they had any power whatsoever, they could''ve zapped everyone, taken Roran, and be off on their silly way to the non-existent emperor. The Ra''zac are such WIMPS! Who can be scared of their silly, little, warlock powers? What are they going to do? Scare Roran to death with their pathetic hissing as they cook fried eggs over the puny fire they lit?\n <br />\n It''s all silly.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n PSS: One last thing, I thought Paolini would''ve cut his very bad habit of copying names (Aragorn --&gt; Eragon) in this second book, but he doesn''t (Elessar --&gt; Elessari).\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Help other customers find the most helpful reviews\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Was this review helpful to you?Â Yes No\n</p>\n<p>\n Report abuse | Permalink\n</p>\n<p>\n CommentÂ Comment\n</p>\n<p>\n Share your thoughts with other customers:Â Create your own review\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n â€º\n <em>\n  Â See all 1,585 customer reviews...\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Most Recent Customer Reviews\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n 5.0 out of 5 stars\n <strong>\n  Happy\n </strong>\n <br />\n I am happy with my purchase. It was in great condition and came quickly. 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(1351, 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog', 'Muriel Barbery &amp; Alison Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. This audio version of the surprise French bestseller hits the mark as both performance and story. The leisurely pace of the novel, which explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building, lends itself well to audio, and those who might have been tempted to skip through the novel''s more laborious philosophical passages (the author is a professor of philosophy) will savor these ruminations when read aloud. Tony Awardâ€“winning actress Barbara Rosenblat positively embodies the concierge, RenÃ©e Michel, who deliberately hides her radiant intelligence from the upper-crust residents of 7 rue de Grenelle, and the performance of Cassandra Morris as the precocious girl who recognizes RenÃ©e as a kindred spirit is nothing short of a revelation. Morris''s voice, inflection and timbre all conspire to make the performance entirely believable.\n  <em>\n   A Europa paperback. (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a bourgeois apartment building in Paris, we encounter RenÃ©e, an intelligent, philosophical, and cultured concierge who masks herself as the stereotypical uneducated â€œsuperâ€ to avoid suspicion from the buildingâ€™s pretentious inhabitants. Also living in the building is Paloma, the adolescent daughter of a parliamentarian, who has decided to commit suicide on her thirteenth birthday because she cannot bear to live among the rich. Although they are passing strangers, it is through RenÃ©eâ€™s observations and Palomaâ€™s journal entries that The Elegance of the Hedgehog reveals the absurd lives of the wealthy. That is until a Japanese businessman moves into the building and brings the two characters together. A critical success in France, the novel may strike a different chord with some readers in the U.S. The plot thins at moments and is supplanted with philosophical discourse on culture, the ruling class, and the injustices done to the poor, leaving the reader enlightened on Kant but disappointed with the story at hand. --Heather Paulson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1006'),
(1352, 'The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory', 'Brian Greene &amp; B. Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n There is an ill-concealed skeleton in the closet of physics: "As they are currently formulated, general relativity and quantum mechanics\n <em>\n  cannot both be right\n </em>\n ." Each is exceedingly accurate in its field: general relativity explains the behavior of the universe at large scales, while quantum mechanics describes the behavior of subatomic particles. Yet the theories collide horribly under extreme conditions such as black holes or times close to the big bang. Brian Greene, a specialist in quantum field theory, believes that the two pillars of physics can be reconciled in superstring theory, a theory of everything.\n</p>\n<p>\n Superstring theory has been called "a part of 21st-century physics that fell by chance into the 20th century." In other words, it isn''t all worked out yet. Despite the uncertainties--"string theorists work to find approximate solutions to approximate equations"--Greene gives a tour of string theory solid enough to satisfy the scientifically literate.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though Ed Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study is in many ways the human hero of\n <em>\n  The Elegant Universe\n </em>\n , it is not a human-side-of-physics story. Greene''s focus throughout is the science, and he gives the nonspecialist at least an illusion of understanding--or the sense of knowing what it is that you don''t know. And that is traditionally the first step on the road to knowledge.\n <em>\n  --Mary Ellen Curtin\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the more compelling scientific (cum-theological) questions in the Middle Ages was: "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" Today''s version in cutting-edge science is, "How many strings... ?" As posited by s tring theory physics, strings are furiously vibrating loops of stuff. The concept of strings was devised to help scientists describe simultaneously both energy and matter. The frequency and resonance of strings'' vibration, just like those of strings on an instrument, determine charge, spin and other familiar properties of energy?and eventually the structure of the universe: a true music of the spheres. There''s a chance that strings are themselves made up of something still smaller. But scientists can prove their existence only on the blackboard and computer, because they are much too tiny?a hundred billion billion times smaller than the nucleus of an atom?to be observed experimentally. Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Cornell and Columbia universities, makes the terribly complex theory of strings accessible to all. He possesses a remarkable gift for using the everyday to illustrate what may be going on in dimensions beyond our feeble human perception. Just when we might be tempted to dismiss strings as grist for the publish-or-perish mill, Greene explains how they have demonstrated connections between mathematics and physics that have helped solve age-old conundrums in each field. This book will appeal to astronomy as well as math and physics fans because it probes the important insights string theory gives into hotly debated issues in cosmology. Later chapters require careful attention to Greene''s explications, but the effort will prepare readers to follow the scientific advances likely to be made in the next millennium through application of string theory. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/691'),
(1353, 'Eleven on Top', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephanie Plum, Trenton''s favorite bondswoman, is having a career crisis, which gives Janet Evanovich plenty of opportunities to showcase her series heroine in a variety of alternative vocations, from dry cleaner to factory worker. Most of them don''t last a full working day, which is good for the reader, since it plunges Stephanie back into the always seedy, often dangerous, and always colorful world of fugitives who''d rather flee than face their day in court. She may be tired of having her life threatened, her cars torched or blown up, and her apartment broken into, but one thing she can say about her job is that it''s never boring... and neither is she. Despite her intentions of going straight at a job with a little more security and a bit less excitement, an old client won''t let her--he keeps leaving her threatening notes, stalking and scaring her, and making sure she needs the protection of the two men in her life--Joe Morelli, the sexy cop who''s been bedding her since high school, and Ranger, the even sexier tough guy who can take down the meanest fugitive around but has a tender spot in his heart for the plucky Ms. Plum. All Evanovich fans'' favorite characters people this sprightly caper novel, including Lula, the fast-food-chomping former hooker who''s hot to take over Stephanie''s job but really belongs in a WWE Takedown; Grandma Mazur, who''d rather go to a wake than a fancy-dress ball; Grandma Bella, the matriarch of the Morelli family whose evil eye frightens even the indomitable Stephanie; and Valerie, Stephanie''s sister, who''s about to embark on another trip to the altar. A great beach read,\n  <em>\n   Eleven on Top\n  </em>\n  is a guilty pleasure that will delight readers of the author''s 10 earlier novels and should win her even more fans.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com''s Significant Seven\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Janet Evanovich kindly agreed to take the life quiz we like to give to all our authors: the Amazon.com Significant Seven.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What book has had the most significant impact on your life?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Uncle Scrooge adventures by Carl Barks. They gave me a lifelong love of the adventure story both in film and literature. And I wouldn''t mind pushing my quarters around with a bulldozer in real life, either.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Book: The Neiman Marcus holiday catalog (I can pretend I''m shopping.)\n  <br />\n  CD: MTVâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Grind, Volume 1\n  </em>\n  (Happy music and I love the samba.)\n  <br />\n  DVD:\n  <em>\n   Shrek 2\n  </em>\n  (Happy movie.)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What is the worst lie you''ve ever told?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  "No. Your butt doesn''t look big in those pants." Said to myself.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Describe the perfect writing environment.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  No phone. Locked door. Room service. Silence. My cat (Gus) on my lap.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  "Later, Dudes!"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Jim Henson (creator of the Muppets)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  If you could have one superpower, what would it be?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The ability to eat Cheez Doodles and Krispy Kremes and never get fat.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Stephanie Plum Series\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   One for the Money\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Two for the Dough\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Three to Get Deadly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Four to Score\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   High Five\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Hot Six\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   See the entire Stephanie Plum series.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum (last seen in 2004''s\n  <em>\n   Ten Big Ones\n  </em>\n  ) stumbles out of the gate due to some forced humor, but she eventually hits her usual entertaining stride in a tale that includes exploding cars, volatile wedding preparations and heated romantic entanglements. Stephanie decides to quit her job and seek less dangerous work after receiving a couple of disquieting notes. But the notes turn to threats and attacks, and she learns that her ineptitude is not confined to bounty hunting but transfers well to a succession of low-paying, sometimes humiliating jobs. After taking on Stephanie''s previous duties, sidekick Lula naturally calls on Stephanie to lend a hand so that her bounty hunting travails continue unabated. Foul-mouthed Lula proves to have some pretty brutal ideas about how to bring ''em back. Bestseller Evanovich may be performing the same tricks over and over at this point in the series (the bumbling sleuth act, sexual-tension jokes, etc.), but most readers will find this a pleasing romp.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/795');
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(1354, 'Elizabeth Street', 'Laurie Fabiano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description:\n </strong>\n In\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century. Culled from her own family history, Fabiano paints an entrancing portrait of Giovanna Costa, who, reeling from personal tragedies, tries to make a new life in a new world. Shot through with the smells and sights of Scilla, Italy, and New Yorkâ€™s burgeoning Little Italy, this intoxicating story follows Giovanna as she finds companionship, celebrates the birth of a baby girl, takes pride in a growing business, and feels a sense of belonging on a family outing to Coney Island.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n However, these modest successes are rewarded with the attention of the notorious Black Hand, a gang of brutal extortionists led by Lupo the Wolf. As the stakes grow higher and higher, readers share with Giovanna her desperate struggle to remain outside the fray, and then to fight forâ€”and finally to saveâ€”that which is important above all other: family.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Maria Laurino Reviews *Elizabeth Street\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Maria Laurino is the author of the memoirs\n  <em>\n   Old World Daughter, New World Mother\n  </em>\n  , a meditation on contemporary feminism, and the national bestseller,\n  <em>\n   Were You Always an Italian?\n  </em>\n  , an exploration of ethnic identity. Laurino''s journalism has appeared in numerous publications, including the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Nation\n  </em>\n  , and her essays have been widely anthologized. Read her exclusive guest review of\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n When readers first meet Giovanna Costa, the protagonist of\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , she is a young woman about to get married in the small Italian fishing village of Scilla, situated between the Calabrian coast and Sicilyâ€™s Aeolian Islands. The town is home to the ancient story of Scylla, the once beautiful nymph turned mythical monster that devoured sailors trying to navigate the Straits of Messina. Midway through Laurie Fabianoâ€™s page-turning novel, which is based on her own family history, Giovanna has landed in the New World but finds herself lodged between Scylla and Charybdis. She arrives grief stricken in New York after her beloved husband, Nunzio, has been killed on a badly managed construction site in Brooklyn. Eventually she will settle into an arranged second marriage, but her troubles continue to multiply. Giovanna will be forced to combat the nefarious forces of the Black Hand, the precursor to the Italian-American Mafia, which has threatened to tear apart her new family.\n</p>\n<p>\n Supporting herself in New York first as a midwife, Giovanna teams up with a woman doctor from northern Italy. The two become close friends and the doctor shares medical knowledge that Giovanna will combine with her holistic midwifery skills. But Giovannaâ€™s fate changes after deciding to open a small fruit and vegetable market with her new husband. The store is an easy source of potential revenue for criminals offering "protection services," and soon Giovannaâ€™s family becomes their prey. With the same mix of disciplined study and the pinch of southern Italian mysticism that she applied to midwifery, Giovanna will take on the ruthless organized crime syndicate that has kidnapped her daughter and murdered the police lieutenant assigned to protect the neighborhood.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mario Puzo once claimed, years after writing\n <em>\n  The Godfather\n </em>\n , that he had based the infamous character of Don Corleone on his mother. Fabiano has created in\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n a southern Italian heroine fighting those criminal forces that have long victimized poor and vulnerable immigrants. In this multigenerational, well-researched tale, the reader also learns interesting details of the common struggles facing southern Europeans coming to America--how, for instance, Ellis Island inspectors were instructed to mark northern and southern Italians as two separate races; and how the wages for common laborers in parts of the country were divided into three categories, the highest salary paid to "whites," the middle scale for "coloreds," and the lowest amount to "Italians."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n is both a fascinating immigrant story and an intimate portrait of how a first-generation American--and the authorâ€™s own great-grandmother--outwits one of the most brutal crime organizations of the early 20th century.\n <em>\n  --Maria Laurino\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n First novelist Fabiano is dead-on in her portrait of the Italian-American immigrant experience. This engrossing cross-generational saga centers on the experiences of Giovanna Costa, from the small Italian fishing village where she is born to the bustling streets of New York''s Lower East Side where she struggles to raise her family and make a living as a midwife after the death of her first husband. In America, the resourceful Giovanna and her second husband eventually open a fruit and vegetable stand, attracting the unwanted attentions of the notorious â€œBlack Handâ€ crime organization. When Giovanni refuses to meet their demands, her daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom. Basing this storyâ€”including the kidnappingâ€”on her own family''s immigrant experiences, Fabiano provides a wealth of period detail, infusing the compulsively readable narrative with an authentic sense of time, place, and community. --Margaret Flanagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1272'),
(1355, 'Emma (Barnes &amp; Noble Classics Series)', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Emma\n  </em>\n  , by\n  <strong>\n   Jane Austen\n  </strong>\n  , is part of the\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <em>\n  <ul>\n   <li>\n    New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    Biographies of the authors\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    Footnotes and endnotes\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    Comments by other famous authors\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    Bibliographies for further reading\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\n   </li>\n  </ul>\n </em>\n <p>\n  All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Emma Woodhouse is a wealthy, exquisite, and thoroughly self-deluded young woman who has "lived in the world with very little to distress or vex her."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jane Austen\n  </strong>\n  exercises her taste for cutting social observation and her talent for investing seemingly trivial events with profound moral significance as Emma traverses a gentle satire of provincial balls and drawing rooms, along the way encountering the sweet Harriet Smith, the chatty and tedious Miss Bates, and her absurd father Mr. Woodhouseâ€“a memorable gallery of Austen''s finest personages. Thinking herself impervious to romance of any kind, Emma tries to arrange a wealthy marriage for poor Harriet, but refuses to recognize her own feelings for the gallant Mr. Knightley. What ensues is a delightful series of scheming escapades in which every social machination and bit of "tittle-tattle" is steeped in Austen''s delicious irony. Ultimately, Emma discovers that "Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Virginia Woolf called Jane Austen "the most perfect artist among women," and Emma Woodhouse is arguably her most perfect creation. Though Austen found her heroine to be a person whom "no one but myself will much like,"\n  <em>\n   Emma\n  </em>\n  is her most cleverly woven, riotously comedic, and pleasing novel of manners.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Steven Marcus\n  </strong>\n  is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, and a specialist in nineteenth-century literature and culture. A fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Literary Studies, he has received Fulbright, American Council of Learned Societies, Guggenheim, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Rockefeller, and Mellon grants. He is the author of more than 200 publications.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/61'),
(1356, 'The Empress File', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Kidd and LuEllen, a wining pair of lovers and liars, get embroiled in a deadly con involving false identities, small-town scandals, and big-time murder.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Computer hack Kidd always plays both sides against the middle. His partner LuEllen is his lover, a liar and a thief. When two major politicians secretly embezzle over a million dollars, Kidd and LuEllen decide to steal the stash--and cover their tracks by blowing the whistle on the dirty officials. "A fast-moving delight, with dialogue that crackles!"--Publishers Weekly. Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1735'),
(1357, 'Enchanters&#39; End Game', 'David Eddings &amp; Leigh Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Absorbing. Touches all the right Fantasy bases. Warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures, and appealingly human magicians." --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight." --\n <em>\n  Piers Anthony\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fabulous! Eddings has a marvelous storyteller style. Exceedingly well portrayed." --\n <em>\n  Anne McCaffrey\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n THE DRIVE OF PROPHECY\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The quest was over. The Orb of Aldur was restored. And once again, with the crowning of Garion, there was a descendant of Riva Iron-grip to rule as Overlord of the West.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But the Prophecy was unfulfilled. In the east, the evil God Torak was about to awaken and seek dominion. Somehow, Garion had to face the God, to kill or be killed. On the outcome of that dread duel rested the destiny of the world. Now, accompanied by his grandfather, the ancient sorcerer Belgarath, Garion headed toward the City of Endless Night, where Torak awaited him.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n To the south, his fiancÃ©e, the princess Ce''Nedra, led the armies of the West in a desperate effort to divert the forces of Torak''s followers from the man she loved.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Prophecy drove Garion on. But it gave no answer to the question that haunted him: How does a man kill an immortal God?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Here is the brilliant conclusion to the epic of The Belgariad, which began in Pawn of Prophecy--a novel of fate, strange lands, and a Prophecy that must be fulfilled--the resolution of the war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1286'),
(1358, 'The End of the Matter', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Accompanied by his faithful minidrag Pip and a most troublesome alien called Abalamahalamatandra -- Ab for short -- Flinx set out for Alaspin, the ruggedly primitive homeworld of his flying snake.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  There he hoped to find the giant man with the gold earring who somehow held the key to Flinx''s mysterious past and to the strange powers he possessed. Chasing down his heritage was trouble enough, but Flinx didn''t know what real trouble was until he realized that the Qwarm -- a deadly assassin squad -- were three steps behind him with a contract to kill.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the minidrag''s homeworld did not offer safety and Flinx had a terrible time just staying alive ... a matter complicated to no mean degree by a collapsar already set on an unstoppable death course across the galaxy!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1430'),
(1359, 'End the Fed', 'Ron Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve.\n</p>\n<p>\n Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country''s economy could not properly function. But in END THE FED, Ron Paul draws on American history, economics, and fascinating stories from his own long political life to argue that the Fed is both corrupt and unconstitutional. It is inflating currency today at nearly a Weimar or Zimbabwe level, a practice that threatens to put us into an inflationary depression where $100 bills are worthless. What most people don''t realize is that the Fed -- created by the Morgans and Rockefellers at a private club off the coast of Georgia -- is actually working against their own personal interests. Congressman Paul''s urgent appeal to all citizens and officials tells us where we went wrong and what we need to do fix America''s economic policy for future generations.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/283'),
(1360, 'The End', 'Lemony Snicket &amp; Brett Helquist &amp; Michael Kupperman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Picking up from the final pages of the\n <em>\n  Pentultimate Peril\n </em>\n , this farewell installment to the ridiculously (and deservedly!) popular A Series of Unfortunate Events places our protagonists right where we last left them: on a large, wooden boat in the middle of the ocean, trapped with their nemesis Count Olaf, who has armed himself with a helmet-full of deadly Medusoid Mycelium.\n</p>\n<p>\n The situation quickly and--this being the Baudelaires--predictably deteriorates. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny find themselves tossed in a storm so terrible that our beloved narrator spends four pages describing how he cannot describe it. From this point on, fans of the series'' smarty-pants wordplay and acrobatic narrative can rest assured that they''re in for more of the same (and how) in this 368-page finale, and Daniel Handler''s deadpan Snicket continues to tutor a generation in self-referential humor (including one particularly funny bit regarding three very short men carrying a large, flat piece of wood, painted to look like a living room). Snicket notes, of course, that if you read the entire series, "your only reward will be 170 chapters of misery in your library and countless tears in your eyes."\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s one big question, though, for anyone who''s made it through "the thirteenth chapter of the thirteenth volume in this sad history": is the final book a fitting end? That question is probably best-answered by one of\n <em>\n  The End\n </em>\n ''s most oft-repeated phrases: It depends on how you look at it. Those looking for conclusive resolution to the series'' many, many mysteries may be disappointed, although some big questions do get explicit answers. Not surprisingly for a work so deliberately labyrinthine, though, even the absence of an answer can be sort of an answer--and reaction to\n <em>\n  The End\n </em>\n can be something of a Rorschach test for readers. Or, as Lemony Snicket says, "Perhaps you donâ€™t know yet what the end really means."\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a singularly bad beginning, the Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, have finally reached the end.\n <em>\n  The question is, will Book the Thirteenth in A Series of Unfortunate Events meet the expectations of the series'' myriad fans? Snicket might put it a somewhat different way: if\n </em>\n <em>\n  end\n </em>\n simply means\n <em>\n  to cease,\n </em>\n the answer is yes. If, however,\n <em>\n  end\n </em>\n means\n <em>\n  to complete,\n </em>\n the answer is most assuredly no--because though Snicket neatly clips numerous threads in the tragic saga, he leaves others literally fluttering in the breeze. As with the previous books, this one begins where its predecessor left off, with the orphans and the villainous Count Olaf afloat on dangerous open seas. When a storm blows their craft ashore, kindly islanders welcome the orphans, but Olaf is an outcast. Have the children finally found the longed-for "last safe place on earth?" Not so fast . . . before long, they are once again scrambling to avert disaster and death ("Kikbucit," as Sunny puts it when a couple of characters are terminated). If possible, this title is even more preposterous than others in the series (the children help an old friend give birth), as well as considerably longer than some. But frequent references to the other adventures will send Snicket fans back to previous books to delight once again in the idiosyncratic characters, the wry humor, and the wordplay, which has surely increased their vocabulary tenfold.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/130'),
(1361, 'Ender&#39;s Game', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Winner of the Hugo and Nebula AwardsIn order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cutâ€”young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. Born in Richland, Washington, in 1951, Orson Scott Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church and received degrees from Brigham Young University (1975) and the University of Utah (1981). The author of numerous books, Card was the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, first for Ender''s Game and then for the sequel Speaker for the Dead. He lives with his wife and children in North Carolina. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula AwardsIn order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cutâ€”young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? And what if Ender is merely the brilliant result of genetic experiments? The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.An increasingly popular and relevant novel that risks and achieves and delivers more than most anything else within the science fiction genre, Ender''s Game is a contemporary classicâ€”a work, as Gene Wolf has written, that "will still be finding new readers when 99 percent of the books published this year are completely forgotten." "''Intense'' is the word for Ender''s Game."â€”The New York Times"An affecting novel full of surprises that seem inevitable once they are explained. The key, of course, is Ender Wiggin himself. Mr. Card never makes the mistake of patronizing or sentimentalizing his hero. Alternately likable and insufferable, his is a convincing little Napoleon in short pants."â€”Gerald Jonas, The New York Times Book Review"A gripping tale of adventure in space and a scathing indictment of the military mind."â€”Library Journal"This twenty-five-year-old science fiction classic [is] unlike many hardcore SF titles [in that it] is particularly appropriate for a younger audience, for its protagonist, Ender Wiggin, is just six years old at the novel''s beginning and still a pre-teen at its end. Ender''s parents have received a special dispensation to have a third child in spite of strict population control laws. [Ender''s] brilliant older siblings, Peter and Valentine, have each showed great promise, but each falls just short of having ''the right stuff.'' The International Fleet (I.F.) believes that Ender may be the commander they need to lead great armies against invasion by alien ''buggers.'' When Ender does exhibit the desired combination of compassion and cruelty, the I.F. takes him to the distant Battle School, where brilliant children are trained in military strategy and tactics. The centerpiece of their education is a simulated battle game at which Ender quickly excels, eventually becoming the youngest commander in history. Life at Battle School, especially [its many] battle games, is richly described. Ender is portrayed as just a pawn in the larger game being played by the I.F., and readers will alternately sympathize with his exploitation and cheer when he is able to make friends in spite of the tremendous forces working to isolate and dehumanize him . . . For the most part, this novel will deservedly reach a new generation."â€”Norah Piehl, Children''s Literature"Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superman and interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization, pacing, and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power. This is Card at the height of his very considerable powersâ€”a major SF novel by any reasonable standards."â€”Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/933'),
(1362, 'Ender&#39;s Shadow', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Ender''s Shadow\n </em>\n is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card''s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n . By "parallel," Card means that\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n begins and ends at roughly the same time as\n <em>\n  Game\n </em>\n , and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books tell an almost identical story of brilliant children being trained in the orbiting Battle School to lead humanity''s fleets in the final war against alien invaders known as the Buggers. The most brilliant of these young recruits is Ender Wiggin, an unparalleled commander and tactician who can surely defeat the Buggers if only he can overcome his own inner turmoil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Second among the children is Bean, who becomes Ender''s lieutenant despite the fact that he is the smallest and youngest of the Battle School students. Bean is the central character of\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n , and we pick up his story when he is just a 2-year-old starving on the streets of a future Rotterdam that has become a hell on earth. Bean is unnaturally intelligent for his age, which is the only thing that allows him to escape--though not unscathed--the streets and eventually end up in Battle School. Despite his brilliance, however, Bean is doomed to live his life as an also-ran to the more famous and in many ways more brilliant Ender. Nonetheless, Bean learns things that Ender cannot or will not understand, and it falls to this once pathetic street urchin to carry the weight of a terrible burden that Ender must not be allowed to know.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although it may seem like\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n is merely an attempt by Card to cash in on the success of his justly famous\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n , that suspicion will dissipate once you turn the first few pages of this engrossing novel. It''s clear that Bean has a story worth telling, and that Card (who started the project with a cowriter but later decided he wanted it all to himself) is driven to tell it. And though much of\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n hinges on a surprise ending that Card fans are likely well acquainted with,\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n manages to capitalize on that same surprise and even turn the table on readers. In the end, it seems a shame that\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n , like Bean himself, will forever be eclipsed by the myth of Ender, because this is a novel that can easily stand on its own. Luckily for readers, Card has left plenty of room for a sequel, so we may well be seeing more of Bean in the near future.\n <em>\n  --Craig E. Engler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n You can''t step into the same river twice, but Card has gracefully dipped twice into the same inkwellAonce for Ender''s Game and again for this stand-alone "parallel novel." The course readers will follow this time is of the superhuman child Bean. Raised on streets ruled by starving children''s gangs, he was too weak, at age four, to hold peanuts in his hand, but ingenious enough to trick the other children into civilizing themselvesAand to keep himself alive. When his genius and uncanny understanding of individuals'' motivations are discovered, he is sent to Battle School, where children learn to command fleets for the war with the alien BuggersAthe smallest kid ever to do so. Bean is not as perfect as Ender WigginAhero of the Ender Quartet, begun with Ender''s Game and concluded with Children of the MindAbut he becomes Ender''s ally. Though Bean is cold at first, the kind of child who weighs the costs of hugging the nun who saved him from the streets, he wants to understand the respect and love that Ender wields. Thus, Bean''s story is twofold: he learns to be a soldier, and to be human. Devotees of the Ender saga will delight in the revelations about the formation of Ender''s Dragon army and about the last of Ender''s games. Though newcomers to the series may miss many of the novel''s points, the wonders of Battle School and flashsuits and children''s armies should keep them turning pages. As always, everyone will be struck by the power of Card''s children, always more and less than human, perfect yet struggling, tragic yet hopeful, wondrous and strange. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/940'),
(1363, 'Endymion', 'Dan Simmons &amp; Gary Ruddell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in\n <em>\n  Fall of Hyperion\n </em>\n , Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Frederico DeSoya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops. The shrike continues to make enigmatic appearances, and while many questions were raised in\n <em>\n  Hyperion\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Fall of Hyperion\n </em>\n , still more are raised here. Raoul''s quest will continue in at least one more volume.\n</p>\n<p>\n This series has something for everyone: Simmons''s prose is imaginative and stylistically varied; point-of-view and time-scale are handled with finesse; the action is always gripping; the device of Old Earth allows Simmons to work in entertaining references to present-day culture; and the technology raises bizarre questions of ethics and morality in its use of repeated death and resurrection.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a recent foray into the horror field (Fires of Eden, LJ 11/15/94), the multitalented Simmons returns to the sf genre with a sequel to the Hugo Award-winning Hyperion (Doubleday, 1989) and The Fall of Hyperion (LJ\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1078'),
(1364, 'The Enemy', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest entry in what is arguably today''s finest thriller series (\n <em>\n  Persuader\n </em>\n , etc.) flashes back to series hero Jack Reacher''s days in the military police. It''s New Year''s Eve 1990, the Soviet Union is about to collapse and the military is on tenterhooks, wondering how a changed globe will affect budgets and unit strengths, when the body of a two-star general is found in a motel near Fort Bird, N.C. Investigating is Reacher, 29, an MP major who''s just been transferred from PanamaÃ¢â‚¬"one of dozens of top MPs swapped into new posts on the same day, he later learns. Missing from the general''s effects is a briefcase that, it''s also revealed later, contained an agenda for a secret meeting of army honchos connected to an armored division. Then the general''s wife is found bludgeoned to death at home and, soon after, a third body surfaces, of a slain gay Delta Force soldier whose murder contains clues pointing to Reacher as culprit. With Summer, a young black female lieutenant MP at his side (and, eventually, in his bed), Reacher digs deep, in his usual brilliant and violent way, butting against villainous superior officers, part of a grand conspiracy, as well as against members of Delta Force who think that Reacher killed their colleague. Unlike recent Reacher tales, the novel is as much mystery as thriller, as Reacher and Summer sift for and put together clues, but the tension is nonstop. There''s a strong personal element as well, involving Reacher''s relationship with his brother and dying mother, which will make the novel of particular interest to longstanding fans of the series. Textured, swift and told in Reacher''s inimitably tough voice, this title will hit lists and will convince those who still need convincing that Child has few peers in thrillerdom.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Child continues to knock out his action sequences with flair, but in\n <em>\n  The Enemy\n </em>\n , he takes time to depict the piecemeal construction of a criminal investigation. He also spends energy on the heroâ€™s relationship with his mother and brother, an effort that further fills in Reacherâ€™s background and will surely please long-time fans of the character. Itâ€™s true, Child throws in some clichÃ©d elements to this otherwise first-rate story. But most reviewers easily looked past that flaw. â€œAfter reading these books for so many years, Iâ€™m not easily kept in the dark,â€ claims the\n <em>\n  St. Petersburg Times\n </em>\n , â€œso itâ€™s always fun when Iâ€™m still guessing toward the end.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/966'),
(1365, 'Equal Rites', 'Terry Pratchett &amp; Victor Gollancz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Truly original...Discworld is more complicated and satisfactory than oz...Has the energy of\n <em>\n  The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy * and the inventiveness of\n </em>\n Alice in Wonderland\n <em>\n  ...Brilliant!" --\n </em>\n A . S. Byatt*\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels, consistent number one bestsellers in England, have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody along with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Equal Rites,\n </em>\n a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/305'),
(1366, 'Eragon', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Here''s a great big fantasy that you can pull over your head like a comfy old sweater and disappear into for a whole weekend. Christopher Paolini began\n  <em>\n   Eragon\n  </em>\n  when he was just 15, and the book shows the influence of Tolkien, of course, but also Terry Brooks, Anne McCaffrey, and perhaps even Wagner in its traditional quest structure and the generally agreed-upon nature of dwarves, elves, dragons, and heroic warfare with magic swords.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eragon, a young farm boy, finds a marvelous blue stone in a mystical mountain place. Before he can trade it for food to get his family through the hard winter, it hatches a beautiful sapphire-blue dragon, a race thought to be extinct. Eragon bonds with the dragon, and when his family is killed by the marauding Ra''zac, he discovers that he is the last of the Dragon Riders, fated to play a decisive part in the coming war between the human but hidden Varden, dwarves, elves, the diabolical Shades and their neanderthal Urgalls, all pitted against and allied with each other and the evil King Galbatorix. Eragon and his dragon Saphira set out to find their role, growing in magic power and understanding of the complex political situation as they endure perilous travels and sudden battles, dire wounds, capture and escape.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In spite of the engrossing action, this is not a book for the casual fantasy reader. There are 65 names of people, horses, and dragons to be remembered and lots of pseudo-Celtic places, magic words, and phrases in the Ancient Language as well as the speech of the dwarfs and the Urgalls. But the maps and glossaries help, and by the end, readers will be utterly dedicated and eager for the next book,\n  <em>\n   Eldest\n  </em>\n  . (Ages 10 to 14)\n  <em>\n   --Patty Campbell\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While exploring the forest, 15-year-old Eragon discovers an odd blue gemstoneâ€”a dragon egg, fated to hatch in his care. According to\n  <em>\n   PW\n  </em>\n  , "The author takes the near-archetypes of fantasy fiction and makes them fresh and enjoyable, chiefly through a crisp narrative and a likable hero." Ages 12-up.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/331'),
(1367, 'Eric', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest in Pratchett''s Discworld series plays a variation on the Faust theme. Eric is a singularly inept sorcerer who conjures up an even more inept wizard, Rincewind, and a sentient (also treacherous, vindictive, and unruly) footlocker named, of course, the Luggage. Not having got anything like what he bargained for, Eric is fated to go through the usual zany ordeals of a Pratchett protagonist, until he wishes he''d never been born. Nor do things really all work out in the end, even if Eric is better off than he expected to be through most of the book. The Discworld books are building a following that is beginning to resemble that of Piers Anthony''s Xanth stories, although it can be said that Pratchett is rather more sophisticated than Anthony. In any case, there should be a lot of readers for this one. Fantasy collections, provide accordingly.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Humorously entertainingâ€¦ and thought provoking." --\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Unadulterated fun. Pratchett parodies everything in sight." --\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/319'),
(1368, 'Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe', 'Edgar Allan Poe &amp; Benjamin F. Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Essential Tales and PoemsÂ of Edgar Allan Poe\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Edgar Allan Poe\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars\n </li>\n <li>\n  Biographies of the authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events\n </li>\n <li>\n  Footnotes and endnotes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comments by other famous authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bibliographies for further reading\n </li>\n <li>\n  Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n</p>\n<p>\n Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of Americaâ€™s most popular and influential writers. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpectedâ€”and surprisingly modernâ€”flashes of dark humor and irony.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n This anthology offers an exceptionally generous selection of Poeâ€™s short stories. It includes his famed masterpieces, such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter," featuring Poeâ€™s great detective, Dupin; his insightful studies of madness "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"; "The Gold-Bug," his delightful exercise in "code-breaking"; and important but lesser-known tales, such as "Bon-Bon," "The Assignation," and "King Pest." Also included are some of Poeâ€™s most beloved poems, haunting lyrics of love and loss, such as "Annabel Lee," nightmare phantasmagories such as "The Raven," and his grand experiment in translating sound into words, "The Bells."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Benjamin F. Fisher\n </strong>\n , Professor of English, University of Mississippi, is a longtime enthusiast of the works of Poe. He has published books, articles, and notes about Poe, and in American, Victorian, and Gothic studies, and serves on editorial boards for several professional journals. He has also been acclaimed for outstanding teaching.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Benjamin F. Fisherâ€™s Introduction to *Essential Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Poeâ€™s tales continue to be the most admired part of his literary legacy, however much he wished to be a poet. One may legitimately ask what were his reasons for resorting to prose fiction as a mainstay, most notably to the short story or, as he preferred, the "tale"? The answer is simple: money. Poe received no profits from his early poems, so he turned to a form that was likely to sell better, the short story, and specifically to short fiction in the Gothic vein. Tales featuring a single character (or at least one who stood out from any others), beset by oppressive and mysterious forces, often amid fantastic settings, existed long before Poe found in this paradigm a suitable creative medium. Terror tales had become staples in periodicals, chiefly in a renowned literary magazine in the Anglo-American literary world during the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s, the house organ for the well-established Scottish publishing firm of Blackwood:\n <em>\n  Blackwoodâ€™s Edinburgh Magazine\n </em>\n , colloquially called\n <em>\n  Blackwoodâ€™s\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  Blackwood\n </em>\n . It is evident from his writings that Poeâ€™s knowledge of this periodical was extensive. His satiric tale "How to Write a Blackwood Article" and its sequel, "A Predicament," lampoon not just recurrent themes, motifs, and stylistic techniques of stories from\n <em>\n  Blackwoodâ€™s\n </em>\n , but indeed ridicule Poeâ€™s own hallmark methods and themes in fiction. Compelling satire and parody require expert comprehension of what one wishes to treat comically, and so we might examine Poeâ€™s own fiction to discover what he understood of the production of intriguing Gothic tales.\n</p>\n<p>\n Apparently, from the time he left West Point in 1831 for his grandmother Poeâ€™s home in Baltimore, until his name appeared in connection with a literary contest in that city late in 1833, he thoughtfully considered what should constitute effective tales of terror. He gave himself an independent study course in content and methodology in popular Gothic fiction as groundwork for his own. He submitted five tales to a prize contest sponsored by a Philadelphia newspaper, the\n <em>\n  Saturday Courier\n </em>\n , near the end of 1831. Although none won the prize, they all circulated in the paper, perhaps without Poeâ€™s consent or knowledge, during 1832. The first to appear, "Metzengerstein," seems all too customarily horrific in its "German" setting and its feuding families, connected by supernatural occurrences, who suffer stupendous catastrophes. Horror is evident in young Frederick Metzengersteinâ€™s lips, lacerated in fright during his sensational final journey mounted on a giant supernatural horse, an ominous, repulsive creature. This tale may devolve from the folk motif of the devil riding a giant black horse to claim his victims. Poe alters the traditional black coloring of the horse to fiery shades. The other\n <em>\n  Courier\n </em>\n tales were spoofs on what were then best-selling fictions and their authors, and one was not even Gothic.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1833 the Baltimore\n <em>\n  Saturday Visiter\n </em>\n , a weekly newspaper, sponsored a competition with cash prizes for the best poem and tale. Poeâ€™s tale "MS. Found in a Bottle" and his poem "The Coliseum" were ranked the winners until the evaluators discovered that both were written by the same person. They decided that the poetry prize would go elsewhere, although Poe asked that they give the other writer the money for the poem but announce that both of his own works had originally been named firstâ€™s. Poeâ€™s wish was ignored, the poetry prize going to "Song of the Winds," by John Hill Hewitt, editor of the\n <em>\n  Visiter\n </em>\n , leaving Poe outraged. The prize selections appeared on October 19, 1833, and Poeâ€™s poem on October 26. Those publications, which were reprinted elsewhere in the United States, brought the young writer his first literary recognition.\n</p>\n<p>\n Looming, too, was another experimental venture of Poeâ€™s, generally known as "Tales of the Folio Club," a book of interlocking frame narratives.4 In this scheme, never actualized, a group of writers, the Folio Club, meet monthly for literary reading and critiques. Preceding the readings are substantial suppers accompanied by plenty of alcohol. After each member reads his original "brief prose tale" (a hit at some best-selling authorâ€™s typical theme and form), critiques follow. Poe once wrote that these critical interchanges were meant to enliven comedy in the project: Voiced by pretentious would-be authors, each tale is delivered by a first-person narrator, a caricature of an actual popular author represented. Because the author-reader of the worst tale hosts the next meeting, and because one of the group has his works successively targeted, in Poeâ€™s scheme, someone in the group eventually becomes enraged, flees to a publisher with the manuscripts, and hurries them into print as an exposÃ©, for revenge.\n</p>\n<p>\n What doubtless enlivened the overall scheme was that the club members, from the effects of either eating or/and drinking too much, would have articulated corresponding bizarre situations and repetitious language patterns within their tales, imparting zesty humor to those fictions, such mirth given point by the critiques. Had "Tales of the Folio Club" been published, a far different conception of Poe might have emerged early in his careerâ€”with what future we may only conjecture. Publishers rejected his manuscript, however, on grounds that the content was far too sophisticated for average readers and sales would not warrant the financial risk. Poe eventually dismantled the collection, brought out individual stories in periodicals, and thereby paved the way for readersâ€™ disagreements that continue to be dynamic even today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/294');
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(1369, 'Ethan Frome &amp; Selected Stories', 'Edith Wharton &amp; Kent Ljungquist', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Ethan Frome and Selected Stories\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Edith Wharton\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n One of Edith Whartonâ€™s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting,\n <em>\n  Ethan Frome\n </em>\n draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in love with her visiting cousin, the vivacious Mattie Silver. As Mattie is forced to leave his household, Frome steals one last afternoon with herâ€”one that culminates in a ruinous sled ride with unspeakably tragic results.\n</p>\n<p>\n Unhappily married herself,\n <strong>\n  Edith Wharton\n </strong>\n projected her dark views of love onto people far removed from her social class in\n <em>\n  Ethan Frome\n </em>\n . Her sensitivity to natural beauty and human psychology, however, make this slim novel a convincing and compelling portrait of rural life. A powerful tale of passion and lossâ€”and the wretched consequences thereofâ€”\n <em>\n  Ethan Frome\n </em>\n is one of American literatures great tragic love stories.\n</p>\n<p>\n Also included in this volume are four of Edith Whartonâ€™s finest short stories: â€œThe Pretext,â€ â€œAfterward,â€ â€œThe Legend,â€ and â€œXingu.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kent P. Ljungquist\n </strong>\n , Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is the author of\n <em>\n  The Grand and the Fair: Poeâ€™s Landscape Aesthetics and Pictorial Techniques\n </em>\n , co-editor of the SUNY Press edition of James Fenimore Cooper''s\n <em>\n  The Deerslayer\n </em>\n , and editor of several reference works of American fiction.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Kent P. Ljungquist''s Introduction to *Ethan Frome and Selected Stories\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Wharton tended to measure her literary achievements against those of male writers; in her introduction, she further distinguished her efforts from previous treatments of New England by discounting her role as a mere recorder of the more superficial or external features of her setting. She thus emphasized the steps in the construction of\n <em>\n  Ethan Frome\n </em>\n â€”that is, her role as a conscious literary craftsman. She noted that her initial conception derived from an academic exercise intended to polish her proficiency in the French language. Developed in Paris in 1907, the French sketch of "Ethan Frome" contained three characters (the male was named Hart) and achieved a length that encompassed two scenes, or vignettes, that survived in the published version. The fragment contained a triangular relationship among a husband, his sick wife, and the wife''s niece, to whom the "Ethan-character" is attracted; but it lacked the structure that would give focus as well as depth to the narrative. Wharton eventually hit upon the device of a storyteller, but she did not choose one steeped in the lore and history of New England. Rather than a character like the herbalist and healer Mrs. Todd in Jewett''s\n <em>\n  The Country of the Pointed Firs\n </em>\n (1896), a native authority on the region''s legends and values, Wharton chose someone from outside New England to narrate the story-a looker-on, an observer.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her desire for "roundness"â€”Wharton seemed to resort recurrently to the terminology of the "plastic arts" or visual mediaâ€”she would supplement the narrator''s perspective with those of her minor characters. The fresh, acute perspective derived from the narrator''s growing insight and awareness would compensate for what he lacked in inside background knowledge of the Frome household. While the device of an observer might lend "an air of artificiality" to a tale of sophisticated characters, Wharton noted, this defect might be mitigated if the narrator brought a sophisticated perspective to a tale of simple people. Her narrator would thus serve as a kind of intermediary between the reticent and reserved villagers and Wharton''s readers, giving "voice" to characters nearly inarticulate or resigned to silence.\n</p>\n<p>\n Wharton''s use of an observer eases the reader''s entry into Ethan''s story. In the opening of the novel the narrator recaptures his first arresting glimpse of Wharton''s central character, when he had been struck by Frome''s physiognomy and bearing. Harmon Gow, who had driven the stage between Starkfield and other towns in the region''s pre-trolley days, provides further background on Frome. From Gow the narrator learns of Ethan''s age and of his reluctance to escape Starkfield because of obligations to care for his failing parents. The narrator also hears not only Gow''s chilling comment on Ethan''s enduranceâ€”"Ethan''ll likely touch a hundred"â€”but also his opinion that Ethan''s stay in Starkfield constituted a kind of imprisonment: "Guess he''s been in Starkfield too many winters. Most of the smart ones get away". The narrator''s interview of Gow develops the tale only "as far as his [Gow''s] mental and moral reach permitted", and he hopes that the more educated, sophisticated Mrs. Ned Hale, with whom he is staying, will provide greater insight. He cannot cut through her reserve and reticence, however, even though she has more firsthand knowledge of the aftermath of the accident that scarred Frome''s forehead. Implying a suffering too great for words, her only comment is: "It was awful".\n</p>\n<p>\n The narrator infers that he must piece together Ethan''s story from different sources, and that consequently each retelling will be a little bit different. The meaning of the story, he infers, will be found even in gaps or silences after he has accumulated a succession of hints, suggestions, and clues that surround Frome. For all the narrator''s curiosity about the Frome household, this technique gives his telling an elliptical effect, a sense that much has been left unsaid or not fully articulated. When the winter snows prevent the narrator''s return to Starkfield after Frome volunteers to drive him to his business appointment, he is granted a night''s shelter at the farm. Enveloped by the severe storm, the narrator experiences a "soft universal diffusion more confusing than the gusts and eddies of the morning." In the "formless night" his disorientation temporarily intensifies, and "even [Ethan''s] sense of direction, and the bay''s homing instinct, finally ceased to serve". The narrator''s perplexity and bewilderment imply a need to reorient himself, to jolt himself, so to speak, into a perspective that demands clearer sight and more acute insight. It is at this point that Wharton effects the transition back to the period of Ethan''s youth. Although some critics have quarreled with the subjective nature of her narrator''s perceptions, there seems little doubt that Wharton intended his narrative to be more than one version of events among others. Accordingly, it is a "vision"; in her 1922 introduction she noted: "Only the narrator has scope to see it all, to resolve it back into simplicity, and to put it in its rightful place among his larger categories."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/121'),
(1370, 'Even Now', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday. Shane Galanter---a man ready to put down roots after years of searching. But is he making the right choice? Or is there a woman somewhere who even now remembers---as does he---those longago days . . . and a love that hasn''t faded with time? Lauren Gibbs---a successful international war correspondent who gave up on happily-ever-after years ago---when it was ripped away from her. Since then, she''s never looked back. So how come she can''t put to rest the one question that haunts her: Why is life so empty? Emily Anderson---a college freshman raised by her grandparents who''s about to take her first internship as a journalist. But before she can move ahead, she discovers a love story whose tragic ending came with her birth. As a result, she is drawn to look back and search out the mother she''s never met. A young woman seeking answers to her heart''s deep questions. A man and woman separated by lies and long years, who have never forgotten each other. With hallmark tenderness and power, Karen Kingsbury weaves a tapestry of lives, losses, love, and faith---and the miracle of resurrection. Also available in unabridged audio CD.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest offering from Christian publishing phenom Kingsbury spills over with her trademark sentimentality and easy prose, but is marred by melodramatic implausibilities. In the prologue, Emily Anderson, a beautiful, brilliant, athletic college freshman is pining for her lost parents, at which point the novel flashes back to how they got lost. While Kingsbury strives to make their disappearance believable, it never quite adds up. In particular, readers are led to believe that Emily''s famous fighter pilot father had been inaccessible to her because she was spelling his name wrong when doing internet searches. Still, the story is less of a stretch than Kingsbury''s mistaken identity novel, One Tuesday Morning, and this one is also more complex and nuanced: it deals with teenage pregnancy, Iraq and Afghanistan. Kingsbury indicates in her author''s note she believes she has represented the debate fairly, and there''s no doubt her treatment of the topic is gentler than most, but she conflates Christianity with conservatism and support for the war. Her one antiwar character is a liberal non-Christian who, despite being a seasoned war correspondent, appears never to have thought very deeply about her beliefs. As is the case with Kingsbury''s other books, any shortcomings are unlikely to faze her ardent fan base.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday. Shane Galanterâ€”a man ready to put down roots after years of searching. But is he making the right choice? Or is there a woman somewhere who even now remembersâ€”as does heâ€”those long-ago days . . . and a love that hasnâ€™t faded with time? Lauren Gibbsâ€”a successful international war correspondent who gave up on happily-ever-after years agoâ€”when it was ripped away from her. Since then, sheâ€™s never looked back. So how come she canâ€™t put to rest the one question that haunts her: Why is life so empty? Emily Andersonâ€”a college freshman raised by her grandparents, and about to take her first internship as a journalist. But before she can move ahead, she discovers a love story whose tragic ending came with her birth. As a result, she is drawn to look back and search out the mother sheâ€™s never met. A young woman seeking answers to her heartâ€™s deep questions. A man and woman separated by lies and long years. . . yet who have never forgotten each other. With hallmark tenderness and power, Karen Kingsbury weaves a tapestry of lives, losses, love, and faithâ€”and the miracle of resurrection.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2436'),
(1371, 'Ever After', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In this moving sequel to Even Now, Emily Anderson, now twenty, is attending college on a soccer scholarship when she meets the man who changes everything for her: Army reservist Justin Baker. Their tender relationship, founded on a mutual faith in God and nurtured by their trust and love for each other, proves to be a shining inspiration to everyone they know, especially Emily''s reunited birth parents, Lauren Gibbs and Shane Galanter. Lauren and Shane still struggle to move past their opposing beliefs about war, politics, and faith. Shane believes it''s possible; Lauren doesn''t. So she says a painful good-bye to her long-ago love and returns to her job as a war correspondent in Afghanistan. Both Lauren and Shane are shattered, believing that this time their relationship has truly ended forever. Then tragedy sends shock waves through all their lives. Can Lauren and Shane set aside their opposing views so that love---God''s love---might win, no matter how great the odds?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this moving sequel to Even Now, Emily Anderson, now twenty, is attending college on a soccer scholarship when she meets the man who changes everything for her: Army reservist Justin Baker. Their tender relationship, founded on a mutual faith in God and nurtured by their trust and love for each other, proves to be a shining inspiration to everyone they know, especially Emily''s reunited birth parents, Lauren Gibbs and Shane Galanter. Lauren and Shane still struggle to move past their opposing beliefs about war, politics, and faith. Shane believes it''s possible; Lauren doesn''t. So she says a painful good-bye to her long-ago love and returns to her job as a war correspondent in Afghanistan. Both Lauren and Shane are shattered, believing that this time their relationship has truly ended forever. Then tragedy sends shock waves through all their lives. Can Lauren and Shane set aside their opposing views so that love---God''s love---might win, no matter how great the odds?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is America''s favorite inspirational novelist, with over 20 million books in print. Her Life-Changing Fiction has produced multiple bestsellers, including Unlocked, Leaving, Take One, Between Sundays, Even Now, One Tuesday Morning, Beyond Tuesday Morning, and Ever After, which was named the 2007 Christian Book of the Year. An award-winning author and newly published songwriter, Karen has several movies optioned for production, and her novel Like Dandelion Dust was made into a major motion picture and is now available on DVD. Karen is also a nationally known speaker with several women''s groups including Women of Faith. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, Don, and their five sons, three of whom are adopted from Haiti. Their daughter Kelsey is married to Christian artist Kyle Kupecky. SPANISH BIO: Karen Kingsbury es autora de mas de treinta titulos, incluyendo algunos EXITOS de venta, uno de los cuales se uso para la pelicula de la semana de CBS. Es una de las atoras favoritas de novelas inspiradoras.Se han impreso mas de dos millones de ejemplares de sus libros. Kingsbury reside en el estado de Washington con Don, su esposo, y sus seis hijos, tres de los cuales los adotatron en Haiti.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2435'),
(1372, 'Every Last Drop', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this fascinatingly flawed fourth episode in the bloody horror-noir chronicles of New York vampire PI Joe Pitt (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Half the Blood Of Brooklyn\n </em>\n ), relations between the city''s vampire clans are unraveling. The Cure is researching antidotes to the ravenous vampire-creating Vyrus, while the better-nourished Coalition seeks the Cure''s downfall and the Society plays both sides. Dodging death threats and brokering shaky deals, Pitt shuttles among all three until he learns the Coalition''s secret, a revelation so volatile that it may lead to all-out war. Huston supplies terse dialogue and convincing gore in expertly pitched prose, but the beautifully cinematic nastiness doesn''t quite mask a key difficulty: Pitt''s enemies set their hate aside too easily at his appearance, and their rational behavior is at odds with the emotional intensity (and sheer implausibility) of the climax. Newcomers may find the relationships difficult to parse, but those familiar with the series should be enthralled.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his fourth outing, rakish New York vampire Joe Pitt leaves the seriesâ€™ â€œcasebooksâ€ nomenclature in the dust. This toothsome tale is no variation on the P.I. genre; instead, Huston imaginatively, logically explores the limits of the world heâ€™s created for Pitt to haunt. If a virus that forced its hosts to seek blood for sustenance gave rise to competing secret clans that kept members fed in exchange for allegiance, wouldnâ€™t a rising population of infected require development of a secure supply chain lest the drained bodies of victims started piling up on the Manhattan streets? Wouldnâ€™t a threat to that supply destabilize the entire clan structure? And how would the established clans react to an upstart group promising to find a cureâ€”thus stripping the old guard of its power? The answers to these questions might pierce even Pittâ€™s leather-tough heart as he takes readers on another darkly entertaining ride. Meanwhile, his nights of acting as unofficial clan go-between might be drawing to a close as the saber-rattling and brinksmanship escalates toward an all-out vampire war. We can hardly wait. --Frank Sennett\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/617'),
(1373, 'Every Now and Then', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Prolific evangelical Christian fiction author Kingsbury (\n  <em>\n   Between Sundays\n  </em>\n  ) revisits characters from her previously well-received 9/11 series in this stand-alone focusing on sheriff''s deputy Alex Brady, who lost his fireman father in the twin towers attack. Now 25 years old, Brady, whose faith once ran sure and strong, turned from God and family after his father''s death. He relocates to California and spends all his time trying to find the bad guys and put them away with the aid of his K-9 partner, Bo. Bent on preventing arsonists from setting more fires, Brady is stunned to discover that others have endured similar loss but have made peace and moved on. Despite his anger, Brady''s heart begins to thaw when unexpected memories and people re-enter his life, forcing him to choose between bitterness or hope. In typical Kingsbury style, by book''s end the troubles are tidily wrapped up, which is clearly not so in real life. But the novelist''s ability to accurately express life''s sorrows and grief through her characters'' inner dialogue rings true time and again.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Prolific evangelical Christian fiction author Kingsbury (Between Sundays) revisits characters from her previously well-received 9/11 series in this stand-alone focusing on sheriff''s deputy Alex Brady, who lost his fireman father in the twin towers attack. Now 25 years old, Brady, whose faith once ran sure and strong, turned from God and family after his father''s death. He relocates to California and spends all his time trying to find the bad guys and put them away with the aid of his K-9 partner, Bo. Bent on preventing arsonists from setting more fires, Brady is stunned to discover that others have endured similar loss but have made peace and moved on. Despite his anger, Brady''s heart begins to thaw when unexpected memories and people re-enter his life, forcing him to choose between bitterness or hope. In typical Kingsbury style, by book''s end the troubles are tidily wrapped up, which is clearly not so in real life. But the novelist''s ability to accurately express life''s sorrows and grief through her characters'' inner dialogue rings true time and again. (Nov.) -- Publisher''s Weekly [HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1970'),
(1374, 'Every Which Way but Dead', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There''s no witch in Cincinnati tougher, sexier, or more screwed up than bounty hunter Rachel Morgan, who''s already put her love life and soul in dire jeopardy through her determined efforts to bring criminal night creatures to justice. Between "runs," she has her hands full fending off the attentions of her blood-drinking partner, keeping a deadly secret from her backup, and resisting a hot new vamp suitor. Rachel must also take a stand in the war that''s raging in the city''s underworld, since she helped put away its former vampire kingpinâ€”and made a deal with a powerful demon to do so that could cost her an eternity of pain, torment, and degradation. And now her dark "master" is coming to collect his due.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1237'),
(1375, 'Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead', 'Robert Brockway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA bold, terrifying read that goes down smooth thanks to a crisp infusion of humor. Thanks to this book, I can now aspire to dying in cooler ways than I ever thought possible. F\n <strong>\n  k you, old age. Iâ€™m holding out for a megatsunami.â€\n  <br />\n </strong>\n â€”Daniel H. Wilson, author of *How To Survive a Robot Uprising\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œThe book is proof that the ridiculous and the horrible are joined at the hip and will never be separated; in a universe that seems to continually be thinking up new ways to kill us, Brockway knows there is but one rational response: to point at it and laugh.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”David Wong, author of *John Dies at the End\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere has never been a hipper Prophet of Doom. Irreverently entertaining and terrifyingly accurate, the probability of our future death has never been more fun.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Michael Largo, author of *Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is hilarious. As if I wasn''t already afraid the leave the house. What''s that? Brockway suggests the apocalypse doesn''t knock? What if I cower under a desk? Well, damn. I might as well have another nacho.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Garth Sundem, author of *The Geeksâ€™ Guide to World Domination\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Just when you thought youâ€™d accepted your own mortality . . .\n </em>\n Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody\n <em>\n  is bringing panic back. Twenty illustrated, hilariously fear-inducing â€¨essays reveal the chilling and\n </em>\n very real\n <em>\n  experiments, dangerous emerging technologies, and terrifying natural disasters that soon could\n </em>\n â€”\n <em>\n  or very nearly already did\n </em>\n â€”\n <em>\n  bring about the end of humanity. In short, everything in here will kill you and everyone you love. At any moment. And nobodyâ€™s told you about it\n </em>\n â€”\n <em>\n  until now:\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Experiments in green energy like the HiPER, which uses massive lasers to create a tiny â€œcontainedâ€ sun; itâ€™s an idea that could save the world if it doesnâ€™t consume us all in a fiery fusion reaction first.\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Global disasters like the hypercaneâ€”a hurricane so large it could cover all of North America and shoot trailer parks into space!\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Terrifying new developments in robotics like the EATR, which powers itself on meat\n <em>\n  â€”\n </em>\n an invention in the running for â€œWorst Decision Made by Anybody.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(1376, 'Everything That Rises Must Converge', 'Flannery O&#39;Connor &amp; Robert Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The current volume of posthumous stories is the work of a master, a writer''s writer-- but a reader''s too-- an incomparable craftsman who wrote, let it be said, some of the finest stories in our language."--\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "All in all they comprise the best collection of shorter fiction to have been published in America during the past twenty years."--Theodore Solotaroff,\n <em>\n  Book Week\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "When I read Flannery O''Connor, I do not think of Hemingway, or Katherine Anne Porter, or Sartre, but rather of someone like Sophocles. What more can you say for a writer? I write her name with honor, for all the truth and all the craft with which she shows man''s fall and his dishonor."--Thomas Merton\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Flannery O''Connor was working on\n <em>\n  Everything That Rises Must Converge\n </em>\n at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/301'),
(1377, 'Everything&#39;s Eventual', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his introduction to\n <em>\n  Everything''s Eventual\n </em>\n , horror author extraordinaire Stephen King describes how he used a deck of playing cards to select the order in which these 14 tales of the macabre would appear. Judging by the impact of these stories, from the first words of the darkly fascinating "Autopsy Room Four" to the haunting final pages of "Luckey Quarter," one can almost believe King truly is guided by forces from beyond.\n</p>\n<p>\n His first collection of short stories since the release of\n <em>\n  Nightmares &amp; Dreamscapes\n </em>\n in 1993,\n <em>\n  Everything''s Eventual\n </em>\n represents King at his most undiluted. The short story format showcases King''s ability to spook readers using the most mundane settings (a yard sale) and comfortable memories (a boyhood fishing excursion). The dark tales collected here are some of King''s finest, including an O. Henry Prize winner and "Riding the Bullet," published originally as an e-book and at one time expected by some to be the death knell of the physical publishing world. True to form, each of these stories draws the reader into King''s slightly off-center world from the first page, developing characters and atmosphere more fully in the span of 50 pages than many authors can in a full novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n For most rabid King fans, chief among the tales in this volume will be "The Little Sisters of Eluria," a novella that first appeared in the fantasy collection\n <em>\n  Legends\n </em>\n , set in King''s ever-expanding Dark Tower universe. In this story, set prior to the first Dark Tower volume, the reader finds Gunslinger Roland of Gilead wounded and under the care of nurses with very dubious intentions. Also included in this collection are "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French," the story of a woman''s personal hell; "1408," in which a writer of haunted tour guides finally encounters the real thing; "Everything''s Eventual," the title story, about a boy with a dream job that turns out to be more of a nightmare; and "L.T.''s Theory of Pets," a story of divorce with a bloody surprise ending.\n</p>\n<p>\n King also includes an introductory essay on the lost art of short fiction and brief explanatory notes that give the reader background on his intentions and inspirations for each story. As with any occasion when King directly addresses his dear Constant Readers, his tone is that of a camp counselor who''s almost apologetic for the scare his fireside tales are about to throw into his charges, yet unwilling to soften the blow. And any campers gathered around this author''s fire would be wise to heed his warnings, for when King goes bump in the night, it''s never just a branch on the window.\n <em>\n  --Benjamin Reese\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eyebrows arched in literary circles when, in 1995, the New Yorker published Stephen King''s "The Man in the Black Suit," a scorchingly atmospheric tale of a boy''s encounter with the Devil in backwoods Maine. The story went on to win the 1996 O. Henry Award for Best Short Story, confirming what King fans have known for years that the author is not only immensely popular but immensely talented, a modern-day counterpart to Twain, Hawthorne, Dickens. "The Man in the Black Suit" appears in this hefty collection, King''s first since Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993), along with three other extraordinary New Yorker tales: "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away," an intensely moving story of a suicidal traveling salesman who collects graffiti; "The Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French," about a woman caught in a fatal loop of deja vu; and "The Death of Jack Hamilton," a gritty, witty tale of Dillinger''s gang on the lam. Together, they make up what King, in one of many author asides, calls his "literary stories," which he contrasts to the "all-out screamers" though most of the stories here seem a mix of the two, with the distinction as real as a line on a map. "Autopsy Room Four," a black-humor horror about a man who wakes up paralyzed in a morgue and about to be autopsied, displays a mastery of craft, and "1408," a haunted hotel-room story that first surfaced on the audio book Blood and Smoke, engenders a sense of profound unease, of dread, as surely as do the elegant work of Blackwood or Machen or, if one prefers, Baudelaire or Sartre. King''s talent doesn''t always burn at peak, of course, and there are lesser tales here, too, but none that most writers wouldn''t be proud to claim, like the slight but affecting "Luckey," about a poor cleaning woman given a "luckey" coin as a tip, or "L.T.''s Theory of Pets," which King cites as his favorite of the collection, but whose shift from humor to horror comes off as arbitrary, at least on the page (the story first appeared in audiobook form).Then there''s "Riding the Bullet," the novella that put King on the cover of Time and rattled the publishing community not for its content a suspenseful encounter with the dead but for its mode of delivery, as an e-book, and "The Little Sisters of Eleuria," another resonant entry in King''s self-proclaimed "magnus opus" about Roland the Gunslinger (Roland will return, King lets on, in a now-finished 900-page Dark Tower novel, Wolves of the Calla). Fourteen stories, most of them gems, featuring an array of literary approaches, plus an opinionated intro from King about the "(Almost) Lost Art" of the short story: this will be the biggest selling story collection of the year, and why not? No one does it better.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/511'),
(1378, 'Excession', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s not easy to disturb a mega-utopia as vast as the one Iain M. Banks has created in his popular Culture series, where life is devoted to fun and ultra-high-tech is de rigueur. But more than two millennia ago the appearance--and disappearance--of a star older than the universe caused quite a stir. Now the mystery is back, and the key to solving it lies in the mind of the person who witnessed the first disturbance 2,500 years ago. But she''s dead, and getting her to cooperate may not be altogether easy.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From versatile Scottish writer Banks, another sf yarn about the tolerant, diverse, far-future Culture (The Player of Games, 1989, etc.). The Culture is subtly controlled by prodigiously intelligent artificial Minds, who, Banks intimates, spend most of their spare time navel-gazing. Here, a huge, enigmatic object referred to as the Excession appears in space and interacts with the Culture''s energy grid in ways previously considered impossible. Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen of the Department of Special Circumstances is sent to investigate--but, sidetracked by beautiful, talented, spoiled-brat operative Ulver Seich and by old flame Dajeil Gelian, it will be a long time before he draws near the object. Meanwhile, certain Minds occupying a vast array of self-controlled spaceships suspect that still other Minds are involved in a conspiracy--but to what end? With the Culture thus distracted by the Excession, the cruel, dangerously expansionist alien Affront seize the opportunity to hijack a Culture battle fleet and start a war that they only gradually realize they''ve been suckered into and can''t possibly win. Brilliantly inventive and amusing--whole sections read like strings of knowing jokes--but a mess: Chattering spaceships with splendid if confusing names (e.g., Not Invented Here and Shoot Them Later) don''t compensate for the absence of real characters. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/80'),
(1379, 'Executive Orders', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tom Clancy goes to the White House in this thriller of political terror and global disaster. The American political situation takes a disturbing turn as the President, Congress, and Supreme Court are obliterated when a Japanese terrorist lands a 747 on the Capitol. Meanwhile the Iranians are unleashing an Ebola virus threat on the country. Jack Ryan, CIA agent, is cast in the middle of this maelstrom. Because of a recent sex scandal, Ryan was appointed vice president, a slot he doesn''t hold for long when he lands in the Chief Executive''s chair. He goes after the Iranians and then tries to piece together the country and his life the only way he knows how--with a fury that we''ve grown accustomed to in Clancy''s intricate, detailed, and accurate stories of warfare and intrigue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jack Ryan, Clancy''s amazing upwardly mobile series hero, must put together a government from the wreckage left at the end of Debt of Honor (Putnam, 1994). While Jack, who assumed the U.S. presidency after the shocking deaths of the president and many congresspeople, attends to affairs of state, selecting a new Cabinet and arranging for special Congressional elections, enemies far and near continue to create nefarious plots against the United States. Political enemies prove themselves equally relentless, attacking the very legitimacy of Ryan''s presidential role. While Clancy is, as always, chillingly up-to-date, he telegraphs too many plotlines here. Worse, Ryan has become something of a whiner, complaining at length about the miseries of living a political life. At almost 900 pages, the book includes too much minutiae and dwells overlong on Ryan''s earlier adventures. However, with a two-million-copy first printing, Ryan''s presence?at least for now?is assured in most public libraries.?Elsa Pendleton, Boeing Information Services, Inc., Ridgecrest, Cal.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/866'),
(1380, 'Executive Power', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Returning from a covert mission, Mitch Rapp was publicly hailed by the president for his role in the fight against terrorism. After years of working in the shadows, Rapp was caught in the media spotlight -- and marked for death by virtually every terrorist in the world. Now a CIA advisor, Rapp is ready to battle terror far from the front lines. But when a Navy SEAL team in the Philippines is ambushed, all evidence points to a leak within the U.S. State Department. And a greater threat still lurks -- a ruthless assassin working for the most powerful men in the Middle East, who are bent on igniting a world war. With the world watching Rapp must hold back the flames of Armageddon....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Packed with likable characters and undergirded by an in-depth understanding of the tangled politics of the 21st-century Middle East, Flynn''s latest spy thriller (after the bestselling Separation of Power) can rightly be termed a post-September 11 espionage novel. Mitch Rapp is the CIA''s number one assassin, recently lauded by the president as "the single most important person in America''s fight against terrorism." Recently married to a high-profile anchorwoman and given a desk job, Mitch is having a hard time settling into the brain center of the CIA and giving up the gritty end of operations. He can''t seem to resist seeking hands-on involvement in his latest assignment: unraveling a murky plot to create a Palestinian state. A mysterious operative, "David," plans to assassinate the heads of the major terrorist groups in the region and pin the deaths on Israel, simultaneously creating sympathy for the Palestinian cause while striking a fatal blow against terrorism, which he despises. Though the novel never strays far from the many conventions of the genre-a cadre of international agents, pedantic bureaucrats, spoiled sheikhs, and a U.S. president and military unfailingly portrayed as noble-Flynn spins an entertaining narrative. Though the book deals with an Iraq still firmly under Saddam''s control, it should appeal to Americans'' burgeoning awareness of-and interest in-the complex affairs of the Middle East. Perhaps the book''s greatest accomplishment is its oblique questioning of the politics of vengeance. "The only way to make them stop is to hit them harder than they hit us," says the leader of Israel''s intelligence agency. As Flynn''s book demonstrates, the tragedy is that those same words could easily come from either side.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After the events in\n  <em>\n   Separation of Power\n  </em>\n  (2001), Mitch Rapp''s identity as a covert CIA operative (read assassin) is more overt than covert, and in the public eye is the last place he wants to be. In spite of his promises to his wife that he''ll take a desk job now that his anonymity has been compromised, Mitch doesn''t hesitate to tackle another covert mission involving the rescue of a family being held hostage in the Middle East. With his mentor, Irene Kennedy, now heading the CIA and with President Hayes'' supreme trust, Mitch has more leeway than ever in his operation, and rather than sit back and watch his team at work, Mitch puts himself on the front line. Flynn''s timing with these thrillers is uncanny (even though his reference to Saddam Hussein as a key villain here is a beat or two late). Another explosive tale of international intrigue from a master of the high-concept thriller.\n  <em>\n   Mary Frances Wilkens\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2440'),
(1381, 'The Exorcist', 'William Peter Blatty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This unstoppable publishing phenomenon was the inspiration behind one of the most successful horror movies of all time. A powerful presence has taken possession of the 12-year-old daughter of a film star. The ensuing battle between a doubt-ridden priest and the unspeakable horror within the girl is a classic war of good versus evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1543'),
(1382, 'Explosive Eighteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Bounty hunter Stephanie Plumâ€™s life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home, in this dynamite novel by Janet Evanovich.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Â \n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   B\n  </strong>\n  efore Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 Hawaii to Newark, sheâ€™s knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, and sheâ€™s flying back to New Jersey solo. Worse still, her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now heâ€™s dead, in a garbage can, waiting for curbside pickup. His killer could be anyone. And a ragtag collection of thugs and psychos, not to mention the FBI, are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Â \n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   O\n  </strong>\n  nly one other person has seen the missing photoâ€”Stephanie Plum. Now sheâ€™s the target, and she doesnâ€™t intend to end up in a garbage can. With the help of an FBI sketch artist Stephanie re-creates the person in the photo. Unfortunately the first sketch turns out to look like Tom Cruise, and the second sketch like Ashton Kutcher. Until Stephanie can improve her descriptive skills, sheâ€™ll need to watch her back.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Â \n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   O\n  </strong>\n  ver at the bail bonds agency things are going from bad to worse. The bonds bus serving as Vinnieâ€™s temporary HQ goes up in smoke. Stephanieâ€™s wheelman, Lula, falls in love with their largest skip yet. Lifetime arch nemesis Joyce Barnhardt moves into Stephanieâ€™s apartment. And everyone wants to know\n  <em>\n   what happened in Hawaii?\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   M\n  </strong>\n  orelli, Trentonâ€™s hottest cop, isnâ€™t talking about Hawaii. Ranger, the man of mystery, isnâ€™t talking about Hawaii.Â  And all Stephanie is willing to say about her Hawaiian vacation is . . . Itâ€™s complicated.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The hardcover edition of\n   <em>\n    Explosive Eighteen\n   </em>\n   contains a tear-out calendar inside!\n  </strong>\n  Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2372'),
(1383, 'Extreme Measures: A Thriller', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Now in paperback, the pulse-pounding thriller by #1\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn features counterterrorism hero Mitch Rapp as he wages a war against a new enemy with the help of a fellow soldier as dedicatedâ€”and as lethalâ€”as they come.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Time and again, Vince Flynn has captivated readersâ€™ imaginations with his all-too-real portrayal of a secretive world where fearless men and women, bound by duty, risk their lives in a covert war they must hide from even their own political leaders. Now, in Extreme Measures, Mitch Rapp and his agency colleague, Mike Nash, may have met their match.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The CIA has detected two terrorist cells, but a third is feared to be on the loose. Led by a dangerous mastermind obsessed with becoming the leader of al-Qaeda, this determined and terrifying group is about to descend on America. Rapp needs the best on this assignment, and former marine officer Nash is his choice. Together, they have made careers out of meeting violence with extreme violence and have never wavered in the fight against the jihadists and their culture of death. But the one thing he never saw coming was that his own government was about to turn on him.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Using his insider knowledge of intelligence agencies and the military, Flynn once again delivers a smart, devastatingly intense, and jaw-droppingly realistic political thriller that will have fans on the edge of their seats until the last riveting page.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Any hope this contrived thriller had of suspending disbelief for most readers who weren''t already fans of bestseller Flynn''s Mitch Rapp series (Protect and Defend, etc.) is lost early on. Rapp''s CIA chief, Irene Kennedy, is on a date at a fancy Washington, D.C., restaurant when one of her aides informs her that Rapp, an Oliver North for the war on terror, has fallen into yet another jam with his unorthodox, maverick ways. Under false pretenses, Rapp has gotten access to two high-value terrorists being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Believing that an Islamic fundamentalist cell is about to launch an attack on the homeland, Rapp resorts to violence to get information. His actions lead to his arrest by the base commander, but with precious hours ticking down, Kennedy decides to finish her meal before intervening. Even then, incredibly enough, it takes two days to secure Rapp''s release. The rest of the less than convincing plot includes a grandstanding senator''s efforts to hang Rapp out to dry and the inevitable race to prevent disaster.\n   <br />\n   Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   About the Author\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Vince Flynn\n   </strong>\n   is a graduate of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He lives in the Twin Cities with his wife and three children. Visit his website at VinceFlynn.com.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2441');
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(1384, 'Extremely Loud &amp; Incredibly Close', 'Jonathan Safran Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oskar Schell, hero of this brilliant follow-up to Foer''s bestselling\n <em>\n  Everything Is Illuminated\n </em>\n , is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist. Like the second-language narrator of\n <em>\n  Illuminated\n </em>\n , Oskar turns his naÃ¯vely precocious vocabulary to the understanding of historical tragedy, as he searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks, a quest that intertwines with the story of his grandparents, whose lives were blighted by the firebombing of Dresden. Foer embellishes the narrative with evocative graphics, including photographs, colored highlights and passages of illegibly overwritten text, and takes his unique flair for the poetry of miscommunication to occasionally gimmicky lengths, like a two-page soliloquy written entirely in numerical code. Although not quite the comic tour de force that\n <em>\n  Illuminated\n </em>\n was, the novel is replete with hilarious and appalling passages, as when, during show-and-tell, Oskar plays a harrowing recording by a Hiroshima survivor and then launches into a Poindexterish disquisition on the bomb''s "charring effect." It''s more of a challenge to play in the same way with the very recent collapse of the towers, but Foer gambles on the power of his protagonist''s voice to transform the cataclysm from raw current event to a tragedy at once visceral and mythical. Unafraid to show his traumatized characters'' constant groping for emotional catharsis, Foer demonstrates once again that he is one of the few contemporary writers willing to risk sentimentalism in order to address great questions of truth, love and beauty.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Oskar Schell is not your average nine-year-old. A budding inventor, he spends his time imagining wonderful creations. He also collects random photographs for his scrapbook and sends letters to scientists. When his father dies in the World Trade Center collapse, Oskar shifts his boundless energy to a quest for answers. He finds a key hidden in his father''s things that doesn''t fit any lock in their New York City apartment; its container is labeled "Black." Using flawless kid logic, Oskar sets out to speak to everyone in New York City with the last name of Black. A retired journalist who keeps a card catalog with entries for everyone he''s ever met is just one of the colorful characters the boy meets. As in\n <em>\n  Everything Is Illuminated\n </em>\n (Houghton, 2002), Foer takes a dark subject and works in offbeat humor with puns and wordplay. But\n <em>\n  Extremely Loud\n </em>\n pushes further with the inclusion of photographs, illustrations, and mild experiments in typography reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut''s\n <em>\n  Breakfast of Champions\n </em>\n (Dell, 1973). The humor works as a deceptive, glitzy cover for a fairly serious tale about loss and recovery. For balance, Foer includes the subplot of Oskar''s grandfather, who survived the World War II bombing of Dresden. Although this story is not quite as evocative as Oskar''s, it does carry forward and connect firmly to the rest of the novel. The two stories finally intersect in a powerful conclusion that will make even the most jaded hearts fall.\n <em>\n  -Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1276'),
(1385, 'The Eye of the World', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The peaceful villagers of Emond''s Field pay little heed to rumors of war in the western lands until a savage attack by troll-like minions of the Dark One forces three young men to confront a destiny which has its origins in the time known as The Breaking of the World. This richly detailed fantasy presents a fully realized, complex adventure which will appeal to fans of classic quests. Recommended.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal."--\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Jordan is able to take ... familiar elements and make them his own, in a powerful novel of wide and complex scope. Open religious and political conflicts add a gritty realism, while the cities and courts provide plenty of drama and splendor. Women have a stronger role than in Tolkien.... Each character in this large cast remains distinct.... Their adventures are varied, and exciting....\n <em>\n  The Eye of the World\n </em>\n stands alone as a fantasy epic."--\n <em>\n  Locus\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Robert Jordan has created a fantasy world as tangible and credible as history. He has a fine eye for detail and a vivid sense of drama."--Morgan Llewelyn\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Robert Jordan''s\n <em>\n  The Eye of the World\n </em>\n proves that there''s still plenty of life in the ancient tradition of epic fantasy. Jordan has a powerful vision of good and evil-- but what strikes me as most pleasurable about\n <em>\n  The Eye of the World\n </em>\n is all the fascinating people moving through a rich and interesting world."--Orson Scott Card\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Jordan''s world is rich in detail and his plot is rich in incident. Impressive work, and highly recommended."--\n <em>\n  ALA Booklist\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/637'),
(1386, 'Eyes of Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Lieutenant Davenport''s sanity was nearly shattered by two murder investigations. Now he faces something worse...Two killers. One hideously scarred. The other strikingly handsome, a master manipulator fascinated with all aspects of death. The dark mirror of Davenport''s soul...This is the case that will bring Davenport back to life. Or push him over the edge.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Lt. Lucas Davenport, the heroic detective introduced in Rules of Prey, faces his most terrifying case when a series of gruesome mutilation killings shocks Minneapolis. Davenport''s case will either bring him back to life--or send him over the edge. "One of the nastiest villains in recent fiction. . . ."--Publishers Weekly.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1729'),
(1387, 'The Eyes of the Dragon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A kingdom is in turmoil as the old king dies and his successor must do battle for the throne. Pitted against an evil wizard and a would-be rival, Prince Peter makes a daring escape and rallies the forces of Good to fight for what is rightfully his. This is a masterpiece of classic dragons-and-magic fantasy that only Stephen King could have written!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Advance publicity hails this "story" (not labeled a novel) by the popular writer as appealing to "readers of all ages," although its genesis was in a story King told to his children. King''s legion of fans are likely to find that a restrained maturity marks the differences between this stylish, successful effort at fantasy (illustrated by 21 half-tones) and his earlier, sometimes overwrought writings. Eyes details the crusade of Peter and Thomas, two princely brothers, to destroy the 400-year-old Flagg, the evil magician who threatens to control the kingdom of Delain after the death of their father, King Roland, who remained unwed until he was past 50. Flagg has imprisoned Peter, the heir apparent, on suspicion of murdering the king (actually it was Flagg who did it) and installed the profligate second son, an easier mark, on the throne. Surprisingly, Eyes is a gentle story, despite violence, gore and his standard vulgarity, because King has ingeniously interposed himself between reader and narrative as if he were telling the tale aloud, with a soothing cadence practically audible in the evocative prose. This heartwarming chronicle of brotherly love may be enjoyed by young adults and their parents. 1,000,000 first printing; $300,000 ad/promo; BOMC selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/572'),
(1388, 'F Is for Fugitive', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Exceptionally entertainingâ€¦an offbeat sense of humor and a feisty sense of justice."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  San Francisco\n </em>\n <em>\n  Chronicle\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Millhone is an engaging detective-for-hireâ€¦P.I. Kinsey Millhone and her creatorâ€¦are arguably the best of [the] distaff invaders of the hitherto sacrosanct turf of gumshoes."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  The\n  <strong>\n   Buffalo\n  </strong>\n  News\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Once a fan reads one of Grafton''s alphabetically titled detective novels, he or she will not rest until all the others are found."--\n <em>\n  Los Angeles\n  <strong>\n   Herald Examiner*\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "Millhone is a refreshingly strong and resourceful female private eye."--\n </em>\n Library Journal*\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tough but compassionateâ€¦There is no one better than Kinsey Millhone."--\n <em>\n  Best Sellers\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A woman we feel we know, a tough cookie with a soft center, a gregarious loner."--\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Lord, how I like this Kinsey Millhoneâ€¦The best detective fiction I have read in years."--\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Smart, tough, and thoroughâ€¦Kinsey Millhone is a pleasure."--\n <em>\n  The\n  <strong>\n   Bloomsbury\n  </strong>\n  Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kinsey is one of the most persuasive of the new female operativesâ€¦She''s refreshingly free of gender clichÃ©s. Grafton, who is a very witty writer, has also given her sleuth a nice sense of humor--and a set of Wonder Woman sheets to prove it."--\n <em>\n  Boston\n </em>\n <em>\n  Herald\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "What grandpa used to call a class act."--Stanley Ellin\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Smart, sexual, likable and a very modern operator."--Dorothy Salisbury Davis\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kinsey''s got brains\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n a sense of humor."--\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, it''s hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago, the body of Jean Timberlake--a troubled teen who had a reputation with the boys--was found on the beach. Her boyfriend Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned, but he escaped.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n After all this time, Bailey''s finally been captured. Believing in his son''s innocence, Bailey''s father wants Kinsey to find Jean''s real killer. But most of the residents in this tight-knit community are convinced Bailey strangled Jean. So why are they so reluctant to answer Kinsey''s questions? If there''s one thing Kinsey''s got plenty of it''s persistence. And that''s exactly what it''s going to take to crack the lid on this case.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n As Kinsey gets closer to solving Jean''s murder, the more dirty little secrets she uncovers in a town where everyone has something to hide--and a killer will kill again to keep the past buried...\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/769'),
(1389, 'Face', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ten-year-old Aelfric Manheim is home alone when he receives a call from a stranger with a simple and terrifying message, "There is trouble coming, young Fric...You''re going to need a place to hide." Meanwhile, security chief for the Manheim estate, former detective Ethan Truman, is tailing a "deader than dead" body that got up and left the morgue when he vividly experiences his own death--twice. In\n <em>\n  The Face\n </em>\n , Dean Koontz delivers yet another spellbinding and chilling novel, where real and imagined monsters walk the streets, ghosts travel through mirrors, and the devil makes house calls. Stalked by both real and supernatural evil, the bright and sensitive Fric, virtually orphaned by his A-list Hollywood parents, and the brave but disillusioned former detective Ethan Truman, himself suffering from the loss of his wife, must rely on their wits and each other to escape a dark and disturbing fate.\n</p>\n<p>\n The supernatural lurks just beneath the surface of the "real" in Koontz''s novels, and\n <em>\n  The Face\n </em>\n is no exception. Ghosts, angels, demons, child predators and serial anarchists run rampant in Koontz''s tale--the unsuspecting reader never knows what is real or imagined until the characters themselves know--creating a disorienting and frightening experience, and one that is vintage Koontz. Whether it be the real-life "agents of chaos" who roam the world creating mayhem and death or the phone lines that carry words of the dead to the living, this is Koontz at his most powerful and terrifying.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Face\n </em>\n , Koontz has created a modern fable for adults, taking the bones from tales of old and breathing new life into the characters. Clearly written for adults,\n <em>\n  The Face\n </em>\n nevertheless channels the wit and wisdom of Aesop as well as the violence and villainy of the Brothers Grimm. While Koontz''s penchant for elaborately singsong descriptions can be grating, ultimately it lends this tale its folkloric quality, i.e. "The June-bug jitter, scarab click, tumblebug tap of the beetle-voiced rain spoke at the window, click-click-click." In this fable, the world is a menacing and threatening place for adults and children alike, and the naÃ¯ve and uninformed go trip-trapping through life with no notion of the trolls that lurk in the dark. The moral of this story is that, good or evil, you will get what is coming to you; it''s up to you to succeed or fail for you alone decide your path punishment or redemption.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The final pages of Koontz''s newest are uplifting enough to make Cain repent and Pilate weep. And there''s much else in this novel to savor-and savor it readers must, because some of the book is slow going (it''s also much too long). There''s scarcely an author alive who, judging by his books, loves the English language more than Koontz; there''s certainly no bestselling author of popular fiction who makes more use of figures of speech and whose sentences offer more musicality. That can be Koontz''s weakness as well as strength, however. Koontz is also one of the great suspense authors, and when he''s fashioned a particularly robust plot to carry his creative prose, as in last year''s By the Light of the Moon, he''s an Olympian. But when he stretches a thin story line beyond resilience, the language can overcome the narrative like kudzu vines. That happens here, despite the tale''s grandeur and strong lines. The eponymous Face is the world''s biggest movie star; he doesn''t appear in the novel, but his smart, geeky 10-year-old son, Fric, takes center stage, as does Ethan Truman, cop-turned-security chief of the Face''s elaborate estate and Fric''s main human protector when one Corky Laputa, who''s dedicated his life to anarchy, decides to sow further disorder by kidnapping this progeny of the world''s idol. Fric''s secondary protector was also human, a mobster, until he recently died and became Fric''s (somewhat inept) guardian angel. Most of the narrative concerns Corky''s abominations and Ethan and Fric''s dawning awareness, via numerous uncanny events, of the unfolding horror. Koontz''s characters are memorable and his unique mix of suspense and humor absorbing; but his overwriting-e.g., a chapter of about 2,000 words to describe Corky''s coverup of a murder, when a sentence or two would have sufficed-make this worthy novel less than a dream. Still, great kudos to Koontz for creating, within the strictures of popular fiction, another notable novel of ideas and of moral imperatives.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/535'),
(1390, 'The Face of Deception', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  An unidentified skull...\n </p>\n <p>\n  A trail of terrifying secrets...\n </p>\n <p>\n  And a woman whose talented hands could reveal the shocking truth...\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a forensic sculptor, Eve Duncan helps identify the dead from their skulls.Â Â Her own daughter murdered and her body never found, the job is Eve''s way of coming to terms with her personal nightmare. But more terror lies ahead when she accepts work from billionaire John Logan. Beneath her gifted hands a face emerges from the skull he has given her to reconstructâ€”a face no one was ever meant to see.Â Â Now Eve is trapped in a frightening web of murder and deceit. Powerful enemies are determined to cover up the truth, and they will make certain that truth goes to the grave...even if Eve gets buried with it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1804'),
(1391, 'Factoring Humanity', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Factoring Humanity\n  </em>\n  will undoubtedly satisfy Sawyer fans, as well as those looking for positive-future scenarios Ã  la Carl Sagan''s\n  <em>\n   Contact\n  </em>\n  . Rather than a galactic vision of war and peace, this novel is localized in the extreme: the plot revolves around Heather, a psychology professor struggling to decipher extraterrestrial messages, and her estranged husband, Kyle, on the brink of the biggest computer science breakthrough of all time. What makes\n  <em>\n   Factoring Humanity\n  </em>\n  work is that Sawyer deals with vast ideas such as alien contact, quantum mechanics, and the human overmind, but does so to a deeply personal effect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sawyer, like many writers of near-future science fiction, has an unfortunate tendency to be too rooted in today, to make so many casual references to our present that they draw undue attention to themselves, making it difficult for the reader to suspend disbelief. This fascination with 20th-century pop culture crowds the real story and real details into a corner and underscores an apparent lack of creativity in painting future landscapes. Otherwise, and forgiving Sawyer''s breathtakingly myopic view of Native Canadians and rather bland prose, this is exciting, readable science fiction that will take you where no one has gone before--and you''ll never forget the ending.\n  <em>\n   --Jhana Bach\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s the personal implications of first contact that Sawyer (Illegal Alien) dramatizes in his disturbing and uneven new novel. Set in Canada, circa 2017, the story focuses on Heather and her computer-scientist husband, Kyle, who have separated following the suicide of their daughter Mary. When younger daughter Rebecca confronts her parents and accuses her father of molesting her, the family starts to shake apart. Redemption comes in the unlikely form of alien altruism: the messages from Alpha Centauri that psychologist Heather has studied for years prove to be blueprints for a "psychospace" device that enables her to see into the overmind of humanity, and to know anyone''s deepest thoughts. In a flash, Kyle is exonerated, Rebecca apologizesAand her nasty, manipulative therapist is blamed for the false accusation. Although the novel ends with Heather greeting the first starship from Alpha Centauri, the bulk of the plot centers around the family''s own mystery, and so the conclusion comes off as anti-climactic. Sawyer also includes too many digressions about the cultural significance of Seinfeld, Star Trek bloopers and quantum physics, delivering a tale that ultimately works more as a study of the human heart than as believable story of alien encounter. (June) FYI: Sawyer, whose The Terminal Experiment won the 1995 Nebula for Best Novel, was recently elected president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/214'),
(1392, 'Fahrenheit 451', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Fahrenheit 451\n  </em>\n  , Ray Bradbury''s classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don''t put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury''s vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don''t give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including\n  <em>\n   The Martian Chronicles\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Illustrated Man\n  </em>\n  --is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of\n  <em>\n   Fahrenheit 451\n  </em>\n  , and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide.\n  <em>\n   --Neil Roseman\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. After years of working as a fireman--one who burns books and enjoys his work--Guy Montag meets a young girl who makes him question his profession and the values of the society in which he lives. Stephan Hoye''s narration is perfectly matched to the subject matter: his tone is low and ominous, and his cadence shifts with the prose to ratchet up tension and suspense. He produces spot-on voices, and his versions of the gruff Captain Beatty, the playful Clarisse, and the fearful professor Faber are especially impressive. A Ballantine paperback. (Aug.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(1393, 'Fair Blows the Wind', 'Louis L&#39;amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n His father killed by the British and his home burned, young Tatton Chantry left Ireland to make his fortune and regain the land that was rightfully his. Schooled along the way in the use of arms, Chantry arrives in London a wiser and far more dangerous man. He invests in trading ventures, but on a voyage to the New World his party is attacked by Indians and he is marooned in the untamed wilderness of the Carolina coast. It is in this darkest time, when everything seems lost, that Chantry encounters a remarkable opportunity. . . . Suddenly all his dreams are within reach: extraordinary wealth, his family land, and the heart of a Peruvian beauty. But first he must survive Indians, pirates, and a rogue swordsman who has vowed to see him dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1706'),
(1394, 'Fairy Tales', 'Hans Christian Andersen &amp; Jack Zipes &amp; Harry Clarke &amp; Marte Hvam Hult', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Fairy Tales\n  </em>\n  , by\n  <strong>\n   Hans Christian Andersen\n  </strong>\n  , is part of the\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n   <em>\n    Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n   </em>\n   pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Who has not laughed at the emperorâ€™s new clothes, thrilled to the song of the nightingale, or sympathized with the ugly duckling? In the 170 years since they first began to appear,\n  <strong>\n   Hans Christian Andersen\n  </strong>\n  â€™s\n  <em>\n   Fairy Tales\n  </em>\n  have entranced and bewitched millions of readers, adults and children alike.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Writing in the midst of a Europe-wide rebirth of national literature, Anderson broke new ground with his fairy tales in two important ways. First, he composed them in the vernacular, mimicking the language he used in telling them to children aloud. Second, he set his tales in his own land and time, giving rise to his loving descriptions of the Danish countryside. In contrast to such folklorists as the Brothers Grimm, Andersonâ€™s tales are grounded in the real and often focus on the significance of small or overlooked things.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Here are all of Andersenâ€™s collected tales, manyâ€”such as â€œThe Little Mermaid,â€ â€œThe Red Shoes,â€ and â€œThe Steadfast Tin Soldierâ€â€”still popular through modern adaptations, and others, including â€œThe Flying Trunkâ€ and â€œThe Most Incredible Thing,â€ well worth rediscovering.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jack Zipes\n  </strong>\n  is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. A specialist in folklore and fairy tales, he has authored numerous books of criticism over the last thirty years and edited several major anthologies, including the\n  <em>\n   Norton Anthology of Childrenâ€™s Literature\n  </em>\n  (2005).\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Marte Hvam Hult\n  </strong>\n  holds a Ph.D. in Scandinavian languages and literatures from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of\n  <em>\n   Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen AsbjÃ¸rnsen\n  </em>\n  and a forthcoming translation of AsbjÃ¸rnsenâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Huldreeventyr\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   .\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   From Jack Zipesâ€™s Introduction to *Fairy Tales\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  Long before publishers knew how to market their authors with dexterity, long before Walt Disney made his name into an international logo, Hans Christian Andersen knew how to create himself as a celebrity and glorify his name, despite the fact that he was a writer with limited talents. As a young country boyâ€”perhaps, one could even say, a country bumpkinâ€”who was poor as a church mouse, Andersen tried to take Copenhagen by storm in 1819, when he was only fourteen years old, and very few people would have wagered at that time that he would become the most famous fairy-tale writer of the nineteenth century, even more famous than the Brothers Grimm. But his fame was also tainted. Andersen was a nuisance, a pest, a demanding intruder, and a clumsy actor, whose greatest desire was to write plays and star in them. He never fully realized this ambition, but he did become an inventive and innovative writer of fairy tales, and he used his tales therapeutically to come to terms with the traumas and tensions in his life. All this led to the formation of an extraordinary personality, for Andersen was one of the greatest mythomaniacs, hypochondriacs, and narcissists of the nineteenth century. He custom-made his life into a fairy tale that he sold successfully from the moment he arrived in Copenhagen, and it is impossible to grasp him or any of his tales without knowing something about the reality of his life and his strategies for survival.\n  <br />\n  But how is it possible to know the reality of Andersenâ€™s life when he consciously concealed many vital facts and incidents in the three autobiographies he wrote? How is it possible to relate his unusual, autobiographical tales to his life when they are so fantastic and can be interpreted in many different ways and on many levels? Andersen appears to defy definition and categorization, and it may not even be necessary to know something about his life to appreciate his tales. Yet because he wove himself so imaginatively into his narratives and because there are so many misunderstandings about his life and the meanings of his tales, it is crucial to try to sort through the myths about him and investigate how his tales came into existence so that we can have a fuller and clearer appreciation of the difficulties he overcame to achieve the success he did. Moreover, it is important to realize how diverse his stories are, for they were not all fairy tales about his life. Nor were they written for children. Nor did they always end happily. There is something uncanny and often chilling about Andersenâ€™s tales, a bitter irony that makes us wonder whether the pursuit of happiness and success is worth all the effort.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Andersen was born on April 2, 1805, into a dirt-poor family in Odense, in a squalid section of the provincial town of about 15,000 people. His father, Hans, was a shoemaker, several years younger than his wife, Anne Marie Andersdatter, a washerwoman and domestic. His parents suffered from poverty all their lives; his father became so desperate at one point that he took money from another man for replacing him as a soldier in a draft recruitment and serving for two years in the Danish army during the Napoleonic Wars. Overly sensitive about his familyâ€™s poverty and his homely appearance, Andersen kept to himself as a young boy. When he was seven, his parents took him to the theater, and a new, fantastic world exploded before his eyes: From this point on theater life came to represent a glorious realm of freedom, and he hoped to become a great writer involved with the stage. But there was a lot of misery to overcome: His father, a sick and broken man, died in 1816, two years after he returned from the wars; his mother was afflicted by alcoholism; the teenager Andersen was often humiliated at work by older boys and men; he was haunted by the insanity that ran in the family and felt shame about an aunt who ran a brothel in Copenhagen. The traumas of his youth cast him into the role of outsider, and they undoubtedly led him to imagine how he might abandon Odense and create a different life for himself as an actor or writer. Indeed, he showed an early proclivity for reading and writing, even though his schooling was modest, and he believed deeply that he belonged elsewhereâ€” perhaps he was the son of a royal couple, he imagined. Clearly, his imagination was fertile, but his drive and ambition were just as important.Andersenâ€™s immense desire to become a famous writer or actor drove him to transcend his poor start in life and his social status. In 1819, when he was only fourteen, he convinced his mother to allow him to travel to Copenhagen to pursue his dreams. But once he arrived, he again faced one trial after the next. At that time Copenhagen was a relatively small port city of 120,000 inhabitants, and Danish society, dominated by the aristocracy and upper-middle class, was highly stratified. Armed with a letter of introduction from Mr. Iversen, an Odense printer, to Madame Schall, a renowned solo dancer at the Royal Theater, Andersen made numerous attempts to impress people with his talent, but he was too raw and uncouth to be accepted into the art world. To rectify the situation he took singing and acting lessons and even had a bit part as a troll in a play performed at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen. In addition he tried to write plays that he continually submitted to the theater management, which always rejected them. Then a wealthy legal administrator, Jonas Collin, took him under his wing and sent him to a private boarding school to fine-tune him for polite society. From 1822 to 1827, Andersen was indeed trained and re-tooled, largely by a neurotic taskmaster named Simon Meisling, first in Slagelse, a provincial town 50 miles from Copenhagen, and later in HelsingÃ¸r. Andersen, who was several years older and much taller than his classmates, was instructed to forget all ideas of becoming a writer or poet; Meisling, a notable scholar but a notoriously mean and petty man, who delighted in humiliating Andersen, tried to drill him according to the strict regulations of a classical education and often humiliated Andersen in and outside the classroom. Though he did learn a great deal and managed to keep writing poems and sketches, Andersen suffered greatly from Meislingâ€™s constant persecution. Only the support of Collin and friendships with elderly menâ€”such as the greatDanish poet B. S. Ingermann, the physicist H. C. Ã˜rsted, and the commodore Peter Frederick Wulffâ€”and their families enabled him to tolerate the five years with Meisling. By 1827 Collin allowed Andersen to return to the city and prepare himself for admission to the University of Copenhagen. When he passed the matriculation examination in 1829, however, Andersen took the bold step of embarking on a career as a free-lance writer. That same year he had a modest success with a fantasy sketchbook,\n  <em>\n   A Walking Tour from the Holmen Canal to the Eastern Point of Amager,\n  </em>\n  influenced by German Romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann, and a sentimental comedy,\n  <em>\n   Love at St. Nicholas Tower\n  </em>\n  , which was performed at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen. These works enabled Andersen to convince Collin that he was â€œdestinedâ€ to become a writer, and it was Collin, who assisted him time and again to obtain royal stipends and to make connections that were to be beneficial for Andersen throughout his life. At that time in Denmark and in Europe as a whole, it was very difficult to earn a living as a free-lance writer unless one was born into money, was supported by an aristocratic patron, or received a royal grant.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/994'),
(1395, 'Faith of the Fallen', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fantasy series fans may argue over the relative merits of Terry Goodkind''s Sword of Truth, George R.R. Martin''s Song of Ice and Fire, and Robert Jordan''s Wheel of Time, but in a world of middle books that go nowhere and endless waits between episodes, Goodkind is certainly still serving up some of the best fantasy on today''s menu.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Seeker of Truth and his Mother Confessor sweetie are both looking a little worse for the wear after their chime-hunt in\n <em>\n  Soul of the Fire\n </em>\n . To top that off, Lord Rahl finds himself a reluctant prophet with the vision that their cause, the fight for freedom against the Imperial Order, is essentially sunk. (Chalk that up to part of the Wizard''s First Rule: people really are stupid.) The two lovers soon find themselves separated, Richard off to the Old World thanks to treacherous Sister of the Dark Nicci, and Kahlan left behind, forced to betray Richard and his prophecy by raising an army to fend off the approaching armies of Emperor Jagang.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether it''s fair or not, Goodkind will likely get beaten up a bit for visiting the trough once too often, Ã  la Jordan. But fear not:\n <em>\n  Faith of the Fallen\n </em>\n does progress at a good clip, and its conclusion--while by no means a final payout--should satisfy.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sequel to Soul of the Fire in Goodkind''s popular Sword of Truth series, this extended barrage of sword-swinging fantasy pits the New World''s Seeker of Truth, Richard Rahl, and his wife, Mother Confessor Kahlen Amnell, against the lethal totalitarian forces of the Imperial Order under Jangang "the Just" and his gorgeous masochistic minion Nicci, aka Death''s Mistress, a dreaded Sister of the Dark. After Richard helps a desperately wounded Kahlen heal in a mountain hideaway guarded by their ill-tempered blonde bombshell bodyguard, Cara, Nicci ensorcels Kahlen and forces Richard to abandon her for inhuman bondage in the Order-dominated Old World. Kahlen defies Richard''s prophecy that arms alone will never defeat the Order. She takes command of the D''Haran army, hopelessly outnumbered against Jagang''s black-magicked hordes who are invading the New World. Untangling all this gives Goodkind an ample canvas for enough disemboweling, spit roasting and miscellaneous mutilating of men, women and children to out-Sade the infamous marquis. His fansAand they are legionAwill revel in vicarious berserker battle scenes and agonize deliciously as Richard, reduced to slavery by Nicci, toils to establish a bastion of capitalism in the cold gray heart of the Stalinesque Old World. All the ponderous sound and fury of Goodkind''s attack on socialist-style do-gooders who are destroying the world, however, founders in a welter of improbable coincidences, heavy-handed humor and a disconcerting dependence on misusing the verb "smirk." For sheer volume of its Technicolor bloodbaths and its bathetic propagandistic bombast, this installment of Goodkind''s fantasy saga makes an indelible impact; anyone who yearns for Goodkind is going to be in high clover. $250,000 ad/promo. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/758');
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(1396, 'Faithful Place', 'Tana French', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2010\n </strong>\n : The past haunts in Tana French novels. That which was buried is brought to light and wreaks hell--on no one moreso than Frank Mackey, beloved undercover guru and burly hero first mentioned in French''s second book about the Undercover Squad,\n <em>\n  The Likeness\n </em>\n . Faithful Place is Frank''s old neighborhood, the town he fled twenty-two years ago, abandoning an abusive alcoholic father, harpy mother, and two brothers and sisters who never made it out. They say going home is never easy, but for Frank, investigating the cold case of the just-discovered body of his teenage girlfriend, it is a tangled, dangerous journey, fraught with mean motivations, black secrets, and tenuous alliances. Because he is too close to the case, and because the Place (including his family) harbors a deep-rooted distrust of cops, Frank must undergo his investigation furtively, using all the skills picked up from years of undercover work to trace the killer and the events of the night that changed his life.\n <em>\n  Faithful Place\n </em>\n is Tana French''s best book yet (readers familiar with\n <em>\n  In the Woods\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Likeness\n </em>\n will recognize this as an incredible feat), a compelling and cutting mystery with the hardscrabble, savage Mackey clan at its heart. --*Daphne Durham\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie Hannah and Tana French: Author One-on-One\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie:\n </strong>\n Someone said to me recently that they found it strange we openly say we like each other''s work, when we should surely regard each other as "the competition." I found this idea really weird. As far as I''m concerned, the only competition any writer ought to be interested in is the competition between good writing and bad writing. So, while I get very cross and resentful when a book that I think is terrible does well, I love it when books I think are great do well--I feel that the right side, i.e. good writing, is winning the competition, which I feel benefits me as much as anyone else, because I want to live in a world where brilliant books are valued. Also, if I think a book is better than anything I could write, then I want it to do better than my books in order to reflect that. I suppose what I''m saying is that I want there to be a meritocracy of literature. Would you agree or disagree?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tana:\n </strong>\n I''d definitely love a meritocracy of literature--both for reasons of principle (same as you, I get jumping-up-and-down outraged if I see a good book sidelined in favor of what I consider a crap one) and for very practical reasons. It sort of ties in with why I''ve never seen you as "the competition." I love what you write. I think it''s good. If someone picks up one of your books and reads it and likes it, I think it''ll whet their appetite for good books--and, specifically, for good psychological crime. That makes them more likely, not less, to go looking for more and wind up reading something of mine.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sophie, is there anything you wouldnâ€™t write about for ethical reasons? I think mysteryâ€™s one of the most moral genres--itâ€™s all about exploring right and wrong, finding truth, achieving justice, how these things are never black and white. We spend a lot of our time thinking about the more dangerous far reaches of morality and immorality. Any ethical lines you wouldnâ€™t cross as a writer?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie:\n </strong>\n There are no subjects that I think writers shouldn''t write about--anything is a valid subject for fiction, and it''s possible to handle any subject sensitively or insensitively. I think the ethics are in the way a writer treats a subject, not inherent in the subject itself. Having said that, there are things I don''t think I could write about because I find them too horrible--the main one that springs to mind is state-sanctioned execution. If a film or book contains legal execution, I can''t watch/read it. I find it too upsetting. The other subject I find too upsetting is fatal illness, especially when the terminally ill person is the loved one of the narrator--so, I guess since I wouldn''t read about those things, I wouldn''t write about them either! How about you, is there anything you wouldn''t write about?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tana:\n </strong>\n The one huge ethical issue, for me, is making sure that I give murder and murder victims the weight they deserve. I don''t ever want to write something where the victim is simply a prop that''s necessary in order for the story to get under way. Murder, taking another human being''s life, is so earth-shatteringly huge: it doesn''t just take one life, it affects everyone who comes into contact with it--families, friends, detectives working on the case, people who knew the killer.... I feel like using something so immense as a throwaway plot point would be unethical and cheap. I''ve got a responsibility to show that immensity, as far as possible.\n</p>\n<p>\n I can''t see myself ever writing about child abuse, but that''s partly because it became so common in mystery books for a while there--either child abuse was the big secret that was revealed at the end, or else it was the killer''s reason/excuse for murder. It got cheap. Apart from that, though, I''m not sure I can see myself avoiding a subject (not permanently, anyway) simply because it wrecks my head too badly. One of the reasons I write crime is in a attempt to understand things that I simply can''t get my head around--how one human being can kill another, or deliberately damage another (like the sociopath in one of the books). So I tend to come back to the things that horrify me most, trying to understand them by writing about them.\n</p>\n<p>\n People ask me a lot where I get the ideas for my plots, but someone recently asked me for the first time where I get the ideas for my characters. I thought that was a very cool question, so Iâ€™m passing it on. Where do yours come from?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie:\n </strong>\n I agree with you absolutely about giving the crime the weight it deserves. Which is why I write books that some readers find upsetting. People should be upset about crime! The good thing about crime fiction (usually!) is that it attempts to deal with the worst things that can happen in a way that is uplifting--either because justice is done in the end, or because the light of understanding is shed upon the darkest corners of the human psyche. Even if all you do is understand why a monster behaves monstrously, it helps. I almost think understanding something does more good than fighting against it.\n</p>\n<p>\n To answer your question, my characters come from the plot idea, always. I always start with an intriguing or mysterious situation, and then I work out how that plot starting point could develop. Usually, in order for it to develop as well as it can, it requires a certain kind of character. For example, in my novel\n <em>\n  The Dead Lie Down\n </em>\n (published as\n <em>\n  The Other Half Lives\n </em>\n in the UK), the opening mystery is that a man appears to be confessing to the murder of a woman who isn''t dead. His girlfriend, to whom he confesses, knows that this woman isn''t dead--and she''s the one who keeps pursuing this until she finds out the truth. I needed her, therefore, to be the sort of person who wouldn''t say, "Hang on a minute, you''re a nutter, I''m off to find a sane boyfriend." So I thought, "What sort of woman would stay with a man she believed to be deluded?" And that was how the character of Ruth, the heroine, came into being--I gave her a past trauma that explained why she would cling to this man that loves her, even though he''s driving her crazy and talking apparent nonsense. So I suppose what I''m saying is, plot comes first for me, and character follows shortly afterwards. Which comes first for you?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tana:\n </strong>\n I''m with you on understanding it--I don''t think it''s possible to fight against evil unless you understand it or at least work to understand it. Otherwise, you''re shooting in the dark. There''s also the fact that I think the root of all real evil is lack of empathy--the inability to believe at any deep level that other people, people who are different from you, are still real. If I don''t accept that people who do evil are real, if I see them as two-dimensional and don''t at least accept the possibility of empathizing (not sympathizing, obviously) with their motivations and drives, then I take a step towards evil myself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Plot and character--I work the other way around: I start with the character of the narrator and with a very basic premise, and then I dive in and hope to God there''s a plot in there somewhere. With\n <em>\n  Faithful Place\n </em>\n (my third book) I started out with the image of a battered old suitcase I''d seen thrown away outside a Georgian house that was being gutted--it made me start wondering where it had been found, and what if someone had hidden it there and meant to come back for it and never got the chance.... I had that, and the character of Frank Mackey--he showed up in\n <em>\n  The Likeness\n </em>\n , as Cassie''s undercover boss, the guy who''ll do absolutely anything, to himself or anyone else, to get his man. I started thinking about the two things together--what if it was Frank''s first love who had hidden that suitcase, what if they had been about to run away together, what if he always thought she had dumped him, and what if the suitcase resurfaced...\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie:\n </strong>\n I read a really interesting book recently about human evil. It''s called\n <em>\n  People of the Lie\n </em>\n , and it''s by M. Scott Peck. Its subtitle is "Towards an Understanding of Human Evil." It''s a superb book, and Peck''s theory is that evil people are not necessarily those who do great harm, but those who cannot face the reality of their own faults, who have to lie to themselves and pretend they are always good, always in the right--thus making everyone wrong and worse. Peck believes that it''s those who constantly lie to themselves about their own undiluted goodness, and sweep all the evidence of their moral flaws under the carpet of their own consciousness, who are truly evil. He sees the lying as a crucial part of the evil. So he would see someone who says, "Yeah, so I killed her? So what?" as less evil than the person who says, "I killed her because she''s bad and I''m good, and so it was right to kill her." A lot of "baddies" do harm and don''t care--which is obviously terrible, but Peck would say the people who do harm and believe it''s good are worse--so people like Hitler, Saddam Hussein. Gordon Brown...just kidding!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tana:\n </strong>\n Ooh. Interesting. The idea that evil isn''t only in the action itself, but in the distortion of the surrounding reality, the destruction not just of people but of truth. ("We just sexed up the dossier...") That definitely ties in with mystery writing, where everything spins around the deep human impulse towards truth--the whole arc of the books is the movement towards truth, through various obstacles.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie:\n </strong>\n Do you have a favorite of your books, and, if so, is that the same one as the one you think is the best? I can never decide which of mine I like best--I like them all in different ways, and I think they''re all best and worst in different ways!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tana:\n </strong>\n I''ll probably always have a soft spot for\n <em>\n  In the Woods\n </em>\n , simply because that was the first one and that was the one where, in some ways, I was taking the biggest risk--I put so much time and work and heart into it, I actually turned down acting work to finish it (if you know any actors, you know that turning down work is a HUGE deal, actors are the only people who always want to be working more)--and it was all just on hope, without any reason to think that this book would ever go anywhere except under my bed. I can''t be objective enough to have any clue which one''s the best, though. I don''t think it helps that (maybe because of the different narrators) they''re all very different in stuff like pace and tone. Apples and oranges. With the first two, by the time I''d finished all the copy-edits and proof-reads etc, I never wanted to see the bloody book again. That lasted till I saw the advance copies and was so stunned by the fact that this was a real book that I stopped hating the sight of it very fast! With\n <em>\n  Faithful Place\n </em>\n , though, I''ve finished the proof-reads, haven''t seen advance copies yet, and I still don''t hate it. I''m hoping this is a good sign. Are there stages in the process when you like/hate yours?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie:\n </strong>\n My favorite of yours would have to be\n <em>\n  In the Woods\n </em>\n , but I think the best one is\n <em>\n  Faithful Place\n </em>\n . Which means I should like it best, right? But there was one particular thing in In the Woods that I loved--Rob and Cassie''s relationship and the way he ended up behaving. I''ve never come across such a good analysis in any other book of the way commitment-phobic men behave! I love my books when I have the idea, when I write the first hundred pages, and then again when they''re in book form with their nice covers on! I hate them between page 100 and when they''re finished--because that''s when I''m laboring over them, and wondering whether I can make them fulfill the promise of the initial idea--and the end isn''t in sight yet, so I feel weary. How important are titles to you? I can''t start writing until I''ve got the title--it''s a central part of the inspiration. My American titles are generally different, but I love them--I love all my titles. I hate thriller titles that just sound generic, like\n <em>\n  Dead Kill\n </em>\n or something like that!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tana:\n </strong>\n My favorite of yours is probably\n <em>\n  Hurting Distance\n </em>\n because I love the fact that it doesn''t focus on a murder. When rape comes up in mystery books, it''s usually as an adjunct to the "real" crime of murder, rather than being the crime itself. I also think, without giving away too much, the angle on evil in that one is different from anything I''ve ever seen explored anywhere else. My favorite of your titles is\n <em>\n  A Room Swept White\n </em>\n , though. I''m truly awful at titles--\n <em>\n  Faithful Place\n </em>\n is the only one I came up with myself, I''m not even going to tell you what the first two books were called when they were living on my computer. I hate the generic wordplay-type titles too, but what I come up with if I''m left to my own devices isn''t much better.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tana French\n </strong>\n is the bestselling author of\n <em>\n  In the Woods\n </em>\n , which won the Edgar, Barry, Macavity, and Anthony awards, and of\n <em>\n  The Likeness\n </em>\n . She grew up in Ireland, Italy, Malawi, and the United States, and trained as an actor at Trinity College, Dublin. She lives in Dublin with her husband and daughter.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie Hannah\n </strong>\n is an award-winning poet and crime fiction writer whose novels are international bestsellers.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. French''s emotionally searing third novel of the Dublin murder squad (after The Likeness) shows the Irish author getting better with each book. In 1985, 19-yearold Frank Mackey and his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, made secret plans to elope to England and start a new life together far away from their families, particularly the hard-drinking Mackeys. But when Rosie doesn''t meet Frank the night they''re meant to leave and he finds a note, Frank assumes she''s left him behind. For 22 years, Frank, who becomes an undercover cop, stays away from Faithful Place, his childhood Dublin neighborhood. When his younger sister, Jackie, calls to tell him that someone found Rosie''s suitcase hidden in an abandoned house, Frank reluctantly returns. Now everything he thought he knew is turned upside down: did Rosie really leave that night, or did someone stop her before she could? French, who briefly introduced Mackey in The Likeness, is adept at seamlessly blending suspenseful whodunit elements with Frank''s familial demons.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/974'),
(1397, 'Fall of Giants', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself."  -The Denver Post on World Without End   Ken Follett''s World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics as "well-researched, beautifully detailed [with] a terrifically compelling plot" (The Washington Post) and "wonderful history wrapped around a gripping story" (St. Louis Post- Dispatch)  Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women''s suffrage.  Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man''s world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson''s White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy''s sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London...  These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.  In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/819'),
(1398, 'The Fall of the Dream Machine', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Summary of The fall of the dream machine: when all the world''s a stage, director Cockley will run it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1891'),
(1399, 'The Fall', 'Guillermo Del Toro &amp; Chuck Hogan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n The vampiric virus unleashed in\n <em>\n  The Strain\n </em>\n has taken over New York City. It is spreading across the country and soon, the world. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweatherâ€”head of the Center for Disease Controlâ€™s teamâ€”leads a small band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ignited by the Masterâ€™s horrific plan, a war erupts between Old and New World vampires, each vying for total control. Caught between these warring forces, humansâ€”powerless and vulnerableâ€”are no longer the consumers, but the consumed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though Eph understands the vampiric plague better than anyone, even he cannot protect those he loves from the invading evil. His ex-wife, Kelly, has been turned by the Master, and now she stalks the city, in the darkness, looking for her chance to reclaim Zack, Ephâ€™s young son.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the future of the world in the balance, Eph and his courageous team, guided by the brilliant former professor and Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian and exterminator Vasiliy Fet, must combat a terror whose ultimate plan is more terrible than anyone first imaginedâ€”a fate worse than annihilation.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with Academy AwardÂ®-winner Guillermo Del Toro\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™ve written screenplays and directed numerous movies, to name a few of your many accomplishments. What motivated you to write a novel?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Del Toro:\n </strong>\n Well, itâ€™s a different challenge, but I''ve always written short stories and then, in my film work, storylines for movies (the storyline is a slightly "freer" form than screenplay writing) I have published some of my short stories in the past and it is my secret dream to write shivery tales for young readers. My favorite author in that sense is  Roald Dahl  who mixed it free-style between the grotesque and the magical. I love the short story form as a reader but if a novel has a terse structure I find it far more immersive and fulfilling. Nevertheless some of my favorite authors, Borges,  Quiroga,  Saki, etc. are masters of the short story form. The novel grew out of appetite and scope.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You are one of the most extraordinarily imaginative and creative thinkers working in the arts today. What were some of the influences that have contributed to your success? Do you have any kind of a muse?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Del Toro:\n </strong>\n Curiously enough I regularly draw more inspiration from painters and books than I do from other films. Painters like Carlos Schwabe, Odilon Redon, Fliecien Rops, Bocklin, Freud, Bacon, Thomas Cole and many others, never fail to excite me and in the book front there are just as many authors...  Dickens, does the trick every time as does  Wilde,  Rulfo,  Quiroga, etc.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Q:\n <em>\n  Many of your movies have centered on fantastical characters. Why did you choose to write your first novel about vampires?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Del Toro:\n <em>\n  All of my life Iâ€™ve been fascinated by them but always from a Naturalist''s point of view.\n </em>\n <em>\n  Cronos\n </em>\n , my first movie, wanted to be a rephrasing of the genreâ€”I love the rephrasing of an old myth. When I tackled\n <em>\n  Blade II\n </em>\n , I approached it with a myriad of ideas about Vampire Biology but only a few of those made it into the film. Tonally, the movie needed to be an action film and some of the biological stuff was too disturbing already... I love the idea of the biological, the divine and the evolutionary angles to explain the origin and function of the Vampire genus. Some of my favorite books about Vampirism are treatises on Vampiric "factâ€--books by Bernard J Hurwood, Augustin Camet, and Montague Summers.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Q:\n <em>\n  There are many stories, movies, and even a television show involving vampires. The Strain Trilogy uses the idea that vampires are a plague, and that the lead hunter is a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control. What was your inspiration for this twist?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Del Toro:\n <em>\n  When I was a kid I loved\n </em>\n <em>\n  The Night Stalker\n </em>\n and I fell in love with the idea Matheson and Rice posited, of exploring a creature of such powerful stature through the point of view of a common worker, a man used to deal with things in a procedural way. "Just another day at the job...".\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Q:\n <em>\n  How did you and Chuck Hogan come together to write The Strain Trilogy? How does your collaboration work?\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Del Toro:\n <em>\n  It was a true collaboration. I had created a "bible" for the book. It contained most of the structural ideas and characters and Chuck then took his pass on it and invented new characters and ideas. Fet (one of my favorite characters) was completely invented by him. And then I did my pass, writing new chapters or heavily editing his pass, and then he did a pass on my pass and so on and so forth. This is the way I have co-written in the past. I loved Chuck''s style and ideas from reading his books and I specifically wanted him as a partner because he had a strong sense of reality and had NEVER written a horror book. I knew we would complete each other in the creation of this book. What surprised me is that he came up with some gruesome moments all on his own! He revealed himself to be a rather disturbed man!\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n A Q&amp;A with Hammett Award-winner Chuck Hogan\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Q:\n <em>\n  What most surprised you about working with Guillermo Del Toro? Has working with him impacted your own work? In your former career as a video store clerk, did you ever in your wildest dreams imagine working on a project like thisâ€”with a legend like Del Toro?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Hogan:\n <em>\n  I''d never co-authored anything, nor had I published a true work of horror before, and here I was embarking on an epic trilogy with a master of the genre. I probably should have been more intimidated--yet I felt an immediate kinship with the material, as well as true excitement at the challenge of bringing the story to life, both of which carried me through. Guillermo is a daunting first audience, and yet an incredibly generous collaborator. Not to mention an amazing resource: it''s just fun to have to ask him a questionâ€”say, about why the vampires run hot instead of coldâ€”know that, not only will he take me through their intricate biology, but he will embroider the account with corroborating examples from the field of entomology, marine life, and some arcane fact about the function of human blood platelets.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Q:\n <em>\n  <strong>\n   The Town\n  </strong>\n </em>\n , * Devils in Exile\n <em>\n  , and\n </em>\n The Killing Moon*, probe the dark side of human nature. What draws you to this theme, and to the genre of suspense?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  Hogan:\n  <em>\n   Crime and horror are both genres of existentialism, and I am drawn to stories of man at his extremes, of people who find themselves tested, haunted, threatened. I believe a writer should challenge himself in his work just as he challenges the characters in his storyâ€”that anything less would be inauthentic and dishonest. What I love about\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Strain\n  </em>\n  is that the journey of the story takes this maxim and multiplies it by one thousand.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set over the course of three intense weeks, Del Toro and Hogan''s gripping second volume in their near-future vampire trilogy picks up where The Strain, the first volume, left off, as the undead, aided by elderly Eldritch Palmer, one of the world''s three richest men, tighten their hold on the planet. Epidemiologists Ephraim Goodweather and Nora Martinez, Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian, and Vasiliy Fet, "New York City Bureau of Pest Control Services worker and independent exterminator," oppose the vampires (or strigoi), as they did in the first book. Setrakian pins his hopes for stopping the vampires on tracking down a 17th-century grimoire that describes the origins of their leaders, the Seven Original Ancients. Despite the story''s essential grimness, the authors manage to inject some sardonic humor, even as the plot developments will leave readers wondering how the concluding book can possibly end well.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/838'),
(1400, 'False Memory', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Not a continuation of the\n <em>\n  Moonlight Bay\n </em>\n series (\n <em>\n  Seize the Night\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Fear Nothing\n </em>\n ) as many fans were expecting,\n <em>\n  False Memory\n </em>\n is nonetheless just as powerful and compulsive as anything Koontz has written before.\n</p>\n<p>\n Martie Rhodes is a successful young computer games designer with a loving husband, Dusty, and a seemingly normal life. Her best friend, Susan, however, suffers from agoraphobia, or a fear of open spaces, and relies on Martie to take her to weekly therapy sessions. Suddenly and inexplicably, Martie herself begins exhibiting worrying signs of a mental disorder, fearing herself capable of inflicting great harm on her loved ones. At the same time, Dusty''s brother Skeet also succumbs to irrational mental behavior and tries to throw himself from a roof. It soon becomes clear that these four characters are involved in something much more than a sinister coincidence.\n</p>\n<p>\n Koontz''s great skill, as he demonstrates so well in this novel, is creating believable characters and thrusting them into seemingly impossible but--for the period of the story--completely plausible situations. The plot is as carefully layered as the most intricate orchestral compositions, and Koontz conducts the proceedings with almost unbearable tension. One of his greatest abilities as a writer, however, is tapping into the dark paranoia of society. As we approach the Millennium, and an age in which we are becoming increasingly desensitized to death and violence, Martie''s fear of herself, known as autophobia, seems a terrifying warning that soon the only thing we will have left to fear is ourselves.\n</p>\n<p>\n Deeper meanings aside, this is easily one of his best thrillers. The prose moves at a breakneck speed, and the denouement will leave you with a pounding heart and chills up and down your spine. Koontz delivers exciting, boundary-breaking fiction better than anyone else in the game, and\n <em>\n  False Memory\n </em>\n (though at times shocking and disturbing) is a perfect example of a master author in top form.\n <em>\n  --Jonathan Weir, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Koontz''s latest novel should please his longtime fans but probably not newcomers. Martie Rhodes takes her best friend, Susan, to therapy sessions twice a week. Susan suffers from agoraphobia, a fear of crowds, which leaves her afraid to leave her apartment. Getting Susan to therapy is hard enough, but on this particular day it gets even harder. Earlier that morning, Martie looked at herself in the mirror and found she was terrified of her reflection. She has developed autophobia, a fear of self. With the vilest villain Koontz has created, the truth behind their phobias will be more horrible than Susan or Martie can imagine. False Memory could have been trimmed by 200 pages and not lost any impact. Still, the characters are rich, and the main story is compelling. Though it is not great Koontz, good Koontz is still better than most and should be added to general fiction collection.\n <br />\n <em>\n  ---Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/501'),
(1401, 'The Family: Power, Politics and Fundamentalism&#39;s Shadow Elite', 'Jeff Sharlet', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A journalist''s penetrating and controversial look at the untold story of Christian fundamentalism''s most elite organisation: a self-described ''invisible'' global network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful. They are the Family - fundamentalism''s avant-garde, waging spiritural war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the ''new chosen'': congressmen, generals and foreign dictators who meet in confidential cells, to pray and plan for a ''leadership led by God'', to be won not by force but through ''quiet diplomacy''. Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside its walls. THE FAMILY is about this other half of American fundamentalist power - not its angry masses, but its sophisticated elites. In public, they host Prayer Breakfasts; in private they preach a gospel of ''biblical capitalism'', military might and a global American empire. Citing Hitler, Lenin and Mao as leadership models, the Family''s current leader, Doug Coe, declares, ''We work with power where we can, build new power where we can''t''. Part history, part investigative journalism, THE FAMILY is a compelling account of how fundamentalism came to be interwoven with American power and the no-holds-barred economics of globalisation. No other book about the Right has exposed the Family or revealed its far-reaching impact on democracy, and no future reckoning of fundamentalism will be able to ignore it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/244'),
(1402, 'Famous Collection of Science Fiction Novels by Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, a Journey to the Center of the Earth, a Journey to the Interior of the Earth, the Mysterious Island, Robur the Conqueror, Five Weeks in a Balloon and More (11 Works)', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Famous Science Fiction Novels by Jules Verne are bound together in this single volume.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Contents\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea\n  <br />\n  20,000 Leagues Under the Seas (2nd version)\n  <br />\n  A Journey to the Center of the Earth\n  <br />\n  A Journey to the Interior of the Earth\n  <br />\n  From the Earth to the Moon\n  <br />\n  All Around the Moon\n  <br />\n  Robur the Conqueror\n  <br />\n  The Master of the World\n  <br />\n  The Mysterious Island\n  <br />\n  Five Weeks in a Balloon\n  <br />\n  In the Year 2889\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Easy navigation between the books.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1043'),
(1403, 'Fantasy in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lt. Eve Dallas, a top homicide cop for the New York Police and Security Department (the law enforcement agency for a mid 21st-century New York City), faces one of the more challenging cases of her career in bestseller Robb''s exciting 31st in death novel (after\n <em>\n  Kindred in Death\n </em>\n ). When someone cuts off the head of Bart Minnock, the genius founder of the computer gaming company U-Play, apparently while he was role-playing against an imaginary opponent in a prototype of a fantasy adventure that could rock the industry, Eve investigates. Security logs show no one entered Minnock''s building around the time of his murder, presenting a futuristic variation on the classic locked-room mystery. Aided by her husband, Roarke, who was a potential business rival of the victim, Dallas focuses on who would benefit from Minnock''s death. Robb is the pseudonym of romantic suspense author Nora Roberts.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even though Fantastical was still in the testing phase, Bart Minnock was certain the virtual-reality game would murder the competition. Instead, Bart is the one found dead. Now Lieutenant Eve Dallas has to come up with a plausible theory as to how someone could bypass the foolproof security in the millionaireâ€™s holo-room and decapitate him. The fact that the popular gaming guru doesnâ€™t seem to have any enemies isnâ€™t making Eveâ€™s job any easier, but the more time Eve spends investigating the case, the more evidence she finds that several people may have had a reason for wanting Bart out of the way. Now, with a little hands-on training from her husband, Roarke, a computer-gaming expert, Eve sets out to write a program for catching a clever killer. In the thirtieth addition to her best-selling Eve Dallas series, Robb successfully mixes a classic locked-room murder with plenty of cutting-edge twenty-first-century technology, and the end result is an ingenious tale of crime that delivers plenty of Robbâ€™s patented dangerous chills and passionate thrills --John Charles\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1109'),
(1404, 'The Far Side of the Dollar', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where starlets and sailors once rubbed shoulders with griftersÂ—and where the present clientele includes a brand-new corpse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1617'),
(1405, 'Far Side of the World', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for Cape Horn, determined to intercept an American frigate before it can wreak havoc on the British whaling trade. As always, he is accompanied by intelligence operative Stephen Maturin, and as always, Aubrey has no idea of what his companion is up to. Another impeccably written adventure, by the end of which you should be able to identify a mizzen topsail in your sleep.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''...full of the energy that comes from a writer having struck a vein... Patrick O''Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.'' James Hamilton- Paterson ''You are in for the treat of your lives. Thank God for Patrick O''Brian: his genius illuminates the literature of the English language, and lightens the lives of those who read him.'' Kevin Myers, Irish Times ''Some of the liveliest and best naval stories ever written.'' Guardian ''All true lovers of the sea will find this a most enjoyable book.'' Nautical Magazine ''Aubrey has rarely undertaken a more hazardous mission or one more packed with exciting incident.'' Gloucester Citizen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/460'),
(1406, 'Farewell to Arms', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As a youth of 18, Ernest Hemingway was eager to fight in the Great War. Poor vision kept him out of the army, so he joined the ambulance corps instead and was sent to France. Then he transferred to Italy where he became the first American wounded in that country during World War I. Hemingway came out of the European battlefields with a medal for valor and a wealth of experience that he would, 10 years later, spin into literary gold with\n <em>\n  A Farewell to Arms\n </em>\n . This is the story of Lieutenant Henry, an American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. The two meet in Italy, and almost immediately Hemingway sets up the central tension of the novel: the tenuous nature of love in a time of war. During their first encounter, Catherine tells Henry about her fiancÃ© of eight years who had been killed the year before in the Somme. Explaining why she hadn''t married him, she says she was afraid marriage would be bad for him, then admits:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I wanted to do something for him. You see, I didn''t care about the other thing and he could have had it all. He could have had anything he wanted if I would have known. I would have married him or anything. I know all about it now. But then he wanted to go to war and I didn''t know.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n The two begin an affair, with Henry quite convinced that he "did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards." Soon enough, however, the game turns serious for both of them and ultimately Henry ends up deserting to be with Catherine.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hemingway was not known for either unbridled optimism or happy endings, and\n <em>\n  A Farewell to Arms\n </em>\n , like his other novels (\n <em>\n  For Whom the Bell Tolls\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Sun Also Rises\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  To Have and Have Not\n </em>\n ), offers neither. What it\n <em>\n  does\n </em>\n provide is an unblinking portrayal of men and women behaving with grace under pressure, both physical and psychological, and somehow finding the courage to go on in the face of certain loss.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n These dual Hemingways are the latest volumes in the Scribner Paperback Fiction series (Classic Returns, February 15, p. 187). They offer quality trade size editions, featuring attractive covers and easily readable type size. Two of the greats.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/643'),
(1407, 'Fatal Tide', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A high-stakes treasure huntâ€¦A twisted trail of murderâ€¦A secret one woman may die to discoverâ€¦\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p>\n  Number one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Iris Johansen last electrified readers with\n  <strong>\n   Dead Aim\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   No One to Trus\n  </strong>\n  t. Now she offers a new pulse-pounding thriller that takes suspense writing to an all-new level: deep below the surface, where a ruthless killer strikes without warning, without mercy...and with the deadliest intent.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Melis Nemid is treading in dangerous watersâ€”and sheâ€™s about to be dragged under. As a marine researcher, Melis knows all too well the dangers that can lurk under even the calmest surfaces. But not even she can guess how deep the darkness runs. Only one oceanographer ever came close to discovering the deadly mystery that lies beneath the seaâ€”and he seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. Now Melis is the last one who knows the truth. And someone is determined that the truth will die with her. For what Melis knows about the deep-sea mystery is only part of a nightmarish past torn by violence. She thought she had put that past behind her when she arrived at her Caribbean island home to research dolphin behavior.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But her peaceâ€”and her lifeâ€”is about to be shattered by the arrival of a savage killer. Someoneâ€”for reasons unknown even to Melisâ€”is cutting a path of destruction and death that leads directly to her.Only one man can save herâ€”a man who claims to be a fellow oceanographer. He will seek to gain Melisâ€™s trust, getting close to her secret and her life. But what this enigmatic man really wants, Melis may not discover until itâ€™s too late. Because whoever is after her knows her nightmares intimately, and soon she will be forced to relive them all over again. Except for the final nightmare. The one she canâ€™t possibly survive.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1803'),
(1408, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream', 'Hunter S. Thompson &amp; Ralph Steadman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Heralded as the "best book on the dope decade" by the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n , Hunter S. Thompson''s documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the "Great Red Shark." In its trunk, they stow "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls," which they manage to consume during their short tour.\n</p>\n<p>\n On assignment from a sports magazine to cover "the fabulous Mint 400"--a free-for-all biker''s race in the heart of the Nevada desert--the drug-a-delic duo stumbles through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the American dream (two truck-stop waitresses tell them it''s nearby, but can''t remember if it''s on the right or the left). They of course never get the story, but they do commit the only sins in Vegas: "burning the locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help." For Thompson to remember and pen his experiences with such clarity and wit is nothing short of a miracle; an impressive feat no matter how one feels about the subject matter. A first-rate sensibility twinger,\n <em>\n  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas\n </em>\n is a pop-culture classic, an icon of an era past, and a nugget of pure comedic genius.\n <em>\n  --Rebekah Warren\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a scorching epochal sensation. There are only two adjectives writers care about any more! "brilliant" and "outrageous"! and Hunter Thompson has a freehold on both of them.'' Tom Wolfe ''What goes on in these pages makes Lenny Bruce seem angelic! the whole book boils down to a mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer''s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out.'' New York Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/164');
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(1409, 'Fear Nothing', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you think you''ve got it tough, meet Christopher Snow, the hero of Dean Koontz''s novel\n <em>\n  Fear Nothing\n </em>\n . Not only did his parents die under mysterious circumstances, but he''s also being stalked by shadowy characters who want Snow to stop trying to find out how they died--or else they''ll bump off his remaining loved ones (his supersmart, beer-lapping dog Orson; his best surfing buddy Bobby; and his late-night deejay girlfriend Sasha). And as if being on the lam in his own hometown, Moonlight Bay, California, isn''t bad enough, Snow has to outrun his pursuers without leaving town. He has XP--xeroderma pigmentosum--a rare genetic affliction that forces him to avoid light. Cumulative exposure to sun, fluorescent lights, and the like will give him cancer eventually, and he doesn''t dare leave the place where he''s skillfully "done the mambo with melanoma" for all of his 28 years. Koontz makes the night-town of Moonlight Bay come alive in this sometimes pulse-pounding, sometimes funny, but mostly rather lyrical thriller. Fans of Koontz''s legendary 1986 novel\n <em>\n  Watchers\n </em>\n will love this book''s similar theme: our hero and a loveable super-dog deal with a genetic engineering laboratory run amok. Horror fans will savor the evil mutant rhesus "millennium monkeys" who hunt Snow, the few scenes of eloquent gore, and the plight of certain mutating townsfolk who are, as they put it, "becoming" something very creepy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Koontz gives Snow and Bobby a lingo that does for surfer talk what Austin Powers did for the Swinging ''60s, and his metaphors are almost as madcap as Tom Robbins''s: "As the chains of the swinging light fixture torqued, the links twisted against one another with enough friction to cause an eerie ringing, as if lizard-eyed altar boys in blood-soaked cassocks and surplices were ringing the unmelodious bells of a satanic mass." Sometimes Koontz''s style goes over the top and wipes out, surfer-style, but for the most part,\n <em>\n  Fear Nothing\n </em>\n will have readers bellowing "Cowabunga!"\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Christopher Snow understands the night. He, like the owl, is nocturnal, living on the mysterious darker edge of society. Snow is afflicted with xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare and often-fatal genetic disease that makes ultraviolet rays-even those from lamps and televisions-deadly. His condition makes him a pariah in the isolated small town of Moonlight Bay where the ignorant and insensitive fear what they do not know. As the action begins, Snow''s father dies, leaving him with only a handful of offbeat but fiercely loyal friends to turn to for understanding. At the morgue, Snow accidentally witnesses his father''s body being replaced with the mutilated corpse of a vagrant. Before he can find out what is behind this scandal, he receives a frantic summons from a friend who is brutally murdered before she can finish explaining a strange story about monkeys and a secret project at the government compound at the edge of town. What begins as a disturbing puzzle quickly becomes a sinister conspiracy as Snow uncovers evidence of uncanny intelligence in many of the local animals and inhumanely vicious tendencies in some of the human residents of the Bay. They are "becoming" he learns, but becoming what? Chilling chase scenes steadily increase the breakneck pace as Snow, assisted by his remarkable dog, is pursued through the night by unseen forces. Despite some clunky and unnecessary surfer slang, fans will go wild for this well-plotted thriller.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Robin Deffendall, Prince William Public Library System, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/502'),
(1410, 'Fearless Fourteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey named Carl will send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most explosive adventure yet.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Crime:\n  </strong>\n  Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars\n  <br />\n  Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldn''t be more proud. He always was the smart one.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Cousin:\n  </strong>\n  Joe Morelli\n  <br />\n  Joe Morelli, Dom Rizzi, and Dom''s sister, Loretta, are cousins. Morelli is a cop, Rizzi robs banks, and Loretta is a single mother waiting tables at the firehouse. The all-American family.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Complications:\n  </strong>\n  Murder, kidnapping, destruction of personal property, and acid reflux\n  <br />\n  Less than a week after Dom''s release from prison, Joe Morelli has shadowy figures breaking into his house and dying in his basement. He''s getting threatening messages, Loretta is kidnapped, and Dom is missing.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Catastrophe:\n  </strong>\n  Moonman\n  <br />\n  Morelli hires Walter "Mooner" Dunphy, stoner and "inventor" turned crime fighter, to protect his house. Morelli can''t afford a lot on a cop''s salary, and Mooner will work for potatoes.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Cupcake:\n  </strong>\n  Stephanie Plum\n  <br />\n  Stephanie and Morelli have a long-standing relationship that involves sex, affection, and driving each other nuts. She''s a bond enforcement agent with more luck than talent, and she''s involved in this bank-robbery-gone-bad disaster from day one.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Crisis:\n  </strong>\n  A favor for Ranger\n  <br />\n  Security expert Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, has a job for Stephanie that will involve night work. Morelli has his own ideas regarding Stephanie''s evening activities.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Conclusion:\n  </strong>\n  Only the fearless should read\n  <em>\n   Fourteen\n  </em>\n  .\n  <br />\n  Thrills, chills, and incontinence may result.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/798'),
(1411, 'A Feast for Crows', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martinâ€™s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in\n <em>\n  A Feast for Crows\n </em>\n , Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace . . . only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A FEAST FOR CROWS\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears. . . . With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in Kingâ€™s Landing. Robb Starkâ€™s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still existâ€”or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out.\n</p>\n<p>\n But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising facesâ€”some familiar, others only just appearingâ€”are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes . . . and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guestsâ€”but only a few are the survivors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/466'),
(1412, 'Feet of Clay', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Feet of Clay\n </em>\n , Terry Pratchett continues the fantasy adventures on Discworld--where anything goes. Anything but murder, that is. Commander Vimes of the Watch must investigate a puzzling series of deaths, with help from various trolls and dwarfs. Pratchett''s humor and excellent writing skills draw the reader effortlessly into his zany world.\n <em>\n  Feet of Clay\n </em>\n is 19th in the series.\n <em>\n  --Blaise Selby\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A flat platter of a planet spinning atop the backs of four giant elephants perched on the shell of an immense turtle: it''s no surprise that life on Discworld is far from mundane. Pratchett''s 17th Discworld novel picks up where his last, Men at Arms, left off, following Ankh-Morpork City Watch Commander Samuel Vimes and his fellow cops as they strive to maintain a semblance of order in a city as infamous for its intrigues as for its ethnic diversity. An elderly priest is killed, then the harmless old curator of the Dwarf Bread Museum is found beaten to death with one of his own exhibits. Investigation reveals a link to the city''s golems?silent, tireless workers built of clay and brought to life with magic. There''s a rash of golem suicides, and Vimes uncovers a plot that could topple the government. Pratchett''s latest is full of sly puns and the lively, outrageous characters his readers expect. Those new to Discworld?which first appeared in Pratchett''s The Colour of Magic, 1983?will have no trouble keeping up with the action. This is fantasy served with a twist of Monty Python, parody that works by never taking itself too seriously. Author tour; U.K. and translation rights: Ralph Vicinanza.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/344'),
(1413, 'The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings Trilogy #1)', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkienâ€™s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkienâ€™s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/168'),
(1414, 'Fever Dream', 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Preston and Child up the emotional ante considerably in their 10th thriller featuring brilliant and eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast (after\n <em>\n  Cemetery Dance\n </em>\n ), one of the best in the series. For 12 years, Pendergast has believed that the death of his wife, Helen, in the jaws of a ferocious red-maned lion in Zambia was just a tragedy, but his chance examination of the gun she carried on the fateful day reveals that someone loaded it with blanks. Pendergast drags his longtime NYPD ally, Lt. Vincent D''Agosta, into a leave of absence that includes travel to Africa as well as the American South. The motive for Helen''s murder appears to be linked to her fascination with John James Audubon and her quest for a mysterious lost Audubon painting. Once again, the bestselling authors show they have few peers at creating taut scenes of suspense. Their restraint in the book''s early sections make the payoffs all the more compelling.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "RenÃ© Auberjonois...lends the proper air of gravitas to his performance. With the underlying story featuring zombies and the undead, it takes the sober Auberjonois to help maintain the credibility of the plot. His sincere delivery is perfect for a strange story that is more than a little creepy." (\n <strong>\n  AudioFile Magazine on CEMETERY DANCE\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] suspenseful tale of urban terror...this taut page-turner can only add to the authors'' growing fan base." (\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly on CEMETERY DANCE\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Narrator As Pendergast discovers that his beloved wife kept a myriad of secrets, Auberjonois''s characterization dramatizes the special agent''s confusion over his wife''s loyalty." (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   AudioFile\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/217'),
(1415, 'Fever Pitch', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of\n <em>\n  High Fidelity\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  About a Boy\n </em>\n , two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain he is revered for his status as a fanatical football writer (sorry, fanatical soccer writer), owing to\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n --which is both an autobiography and a footballing Bible rolled into one. Hornby pinpoints 1968 as his formative year--the year he turned 11, the year his parents separated, and the year his father first took him to watch Arsenal play. The author quickly moved "way beyond fandom" into an extreme obsession that has dominated his life, loves, and relationships. His father had initially hoped that Saturday afternoon matches would draw the two closer together, but instead Hornby became completely besotted with the game at the expense of any conversation: "Football may have provided us with a new medium through which we could communicate, but that was not to say that we used it, or what we chose to say was necessarily positive." Girlfriends also played second fiddle to one ball and 11 men. He fantasizes that even if a girlfriend "went into labor at an impossible moment" he would not be able to help out until after the final whistle.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n is not a typical memoir--there are no chapters, just a series of match reports falling into three time frames (childhood, young adulthood, manhood). While watching the May 2, 1972, Reading v. Arsenal match, it became embarrassingly obvious to the then 15-year-old that his white, suburban, middle-class roots made him a wimp with no sense of identity: "Yorkshire men, Lancastrians, Scots, the Irish, blacks, the rich, the poor, even Americans and Australians have something they can sit in pubs and bars and weep about." But a boy from Maidenhead could only dream of coming from a place with "its own tube station and West Indian community and terrible, insoluble social problems."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n reveals the very special intricacies of British football, which readers new to the game will find astonishing, and which Hornby presents with remarkable humor and honesty--the "unique" chants sung at matches, the cold rain-soaked terraces, giant cans of warm beer, the trains known as football specials carrying fans to and from matches in prisonlike conditions, bottles smashing on the tracks, thousands of policemen waiting in anticipation for the cargo of hooligans. The sport and one team in particular have crept into every aspect of Hornby''s life--making him see the world through Arsenal-tinted spectacles.\n <em>\n  --Naomi Gesinger\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brought to print to take advantage of America''s presumed fascination with the ''94 World Cup (the first ever held here), Fever Pitch is a 24-year obsessional diary of English club football (soccer, to us Americans) games Hornby has witnessed and the way these games have become inextricable from his personal life. Hornby is the kind of fanatic who merely shrugs about the "tyranny" the sport exerts over his life--the mumbled excuses he must give at every missed christening or birthday party as a result of a schedule conflict. "Sometimes hurting someone," he writes, "is unavoidable." These occasions tend to bring out "disappointment and tired impatience" in his friends and family, but it is when he is exposed as a "worthless, shallow worm" that the similarly stricken reader can relate to the high costs of caring deeply about a game that means nothing to one''s more well-adjusted friends. These moments are fleeting, however. The book has not been tailored for American audiences, so readers lacking a knowledge of English club football''s rules, traditions, history and players will be left completely in the dark by Hornby''s obscure references. Unfortunately, he has neither Roger Angell''s ability to take us inside the game nor the pathos of Frederick Exley''s brilliantly disturbed autobiographical trilogy. Though Hornby does show flashes of real humor, Fever Pitch features mainly pedestrian insights on life and sport, and then it''s on to the next game--the equivalent, for an American reader, of a nil-nil tie. Author appearances.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/601'),
(1416, 'Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq', 'Thomas E. Ricks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fiasco\n </em>\n is a more strongly worded title than you might expect a seasoned military reporter such as Thomas E. Ricks to use, accustomed as he is to the even-handed style of daily newspaper journalism. But Ricks, the Pentagon correspondent for the\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n and the author of the acclaimed account of Marine Corps boot camp,\n <em>\n  Making the Corps\n </em>\n (released in a 10th anniversary edition to accompany the paperback release of\n <em>\n  Fiasco\n </em>\n ), has written a thorough and devastating history of the war in Iraq from the planning stages through the continued insurgency in early 2006, and he does not shy away from naming those he finds responsible. His tragic story is divided in two. The first part--the runup to the war and the invasion in 2003--is familiar from books like\n <em>\n  Cobra II\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Plan of Attack\n </em>\n , although Ricks uses his many military sources to portray an officer class that was far more skeptical of the war beforehand than generally reported. But the heart of his book is the second half, beginning in August 2003, when, as he writes, the war really began, with the bombing of the Jordanian embassy and the emergence of the insurgency. His strongest critique is that the U.S. military failed to anticipate--and then failed to recognize--the insurgency, and tried to fight it with conventional methods that only fanned its flames. What makes his portrait particularly damning are the dozens of military sources--most of them on record--who join in his critique, and the thousands of pages of internal documents he uses to make his case for a war poorly planned and bravely but blindly fought.\n</p>\n<p>\n The paperback edition of\n <em>\n  Fiasco\n </em>\n includes a new postscript in which Ricks looks back on the year since the book''s release, a year in which the intensity and frequency of attacks on American soldiers only increased and in which Ricks''s challenging account became accepted as conventional wisdom, with many of the dissident officers in his story given the reins of leadership, although Ricks still finds the prospects for the conflict grim.\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Fiasco, a Year Later\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With the paperback release of Thomas Ricks''s\n <em>\n  Fiasco\n </em>\n , a year after the book became a #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller and an influential force in transforming the public perception (and the perception within the military and the civilian government as well) of the war in Iraq, we asked Ricks in the questions below to look back on the book and the year of conflict that have followed. On our page for the hardcover edition of\n <em>\n  Fiasco\n </em>\n you can see our earlier Q&amp;A with Ricks, and you can also see two lists he prepared for Amazon customers: his choices for the 10 books for understanding Iraq that aren''t about Iraq, a collection of studies of counterinsurgency warfare that became surprisingly popular last year as soldiers and civilians tried to understand the nature of the new conflict, and, as a glimpse into his writing process, a playlist of the music he listened to while writing and researching the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n When we spoke with you a year ago, you said that you thought you were done going back to Baghdad. But that dateline is still showing up in your reports. How have things changed in the city over the past year?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thomas E. Ricks:\n </strong>\n Yes, I had promised my wife that I wouldnâ€™t go back. Iraq was taking a toll on both of us--I think my trips of four to six weeks were harder on her than on me.\n</p>\n<p>\n But I found I couldn''t stay away. The Iraq war is the most important event of our time, I think, and will remain a major news story for years to come. And I felt like everything I had done for the last 15 years--from deployments I''d covered to books and military manuals Iâ€™d read (and written)--had prepared me to cover this event better than most reporters. So I made a deal with my wife that I would go back to Iraq but would no longer do the riskiest things, such as go on combat patrols or on convoys. I used to have a rule that I would only take the risks necessary to "get the story." Now I don''t take even those risks if I can see them, even if that means missing part of a story. Also, I try to keep my trips much shorter.\n</p>\n<p>\n How is Baghdad different? It is still a chaotic mess. But it doesn''t feel quite as Hobbesian as it did in early 2006. That said, it also feels a bit like a pause--with the so-called "surge," Uncle Sam has put all his chips on the table, and the other players are waiting a bit to see how that plays out.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n One of the remarkable things over the past year for a reader of\n <em>\n  Fiasco\n </em>\n has been how much of what your book recommends has, apparently, been taken to heart by the military and civilian leadership. As you write in your new postscript to the paperback edition, the war has been "turned over to the dissidents." General David Petraeus, who was one of the first to put classic counterinsurgency tactics to use in Iraq, is now the top American commander there, and he has surrounded himself with others with similar views. What was that transformation like on the inside?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ricks:\n </strong>\n I was really struck when I was out in Baghdad two months ago at how different the American military felt. I used to hate going into the Green Zone because of all the unreal happy talk I''d hear. It was a relief to leave the place, even if being outside it (and contrary to popular myth, most reporters do live outside it) was more dangerous.\n</p>\n<p>\n There is a new realism in the U.S. military. In May, I was getting a briefing from one official in the Green Zone and I thought, "Wow, not only does this briefing strike me as accurate, it also is better said than I could do." That feeling was a real change from the old days.\n</p>\n<p>\n The other thing that struck me was the number of copies I saw of\n <em>\n  Fiasco\n </em>\n as I knocked around Iraq. When I started writing it, the title was controversial. Now generals say things to me like, "Got it, understand it, agree with it." I am told that the Army War College is making the book required reading this fall.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n And what are its prospects at this late date?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ricks:\n </strong>\n The question remains, Is it too little too late? It took the U.S. military four years to get the strategy right in Iraq--that is, to understand that their goal should be to protect the people. By that time, the American people and the Iraqi people both had lost of lot of patience. (And by that time, the Iraq war had lasted longer than American participation in World War II.) Also, it isn''t clear that we have enough troops to really implement this new strategy of protecting the people. In some parts of Baghdad where U.S. troops now have outposts, the streets are quieter. Yet we''re seeing more violence on the outskirts of Baghdad. And the cities of Mosul and Kirkuk make me nervous. I am keeping an eye on them this summer and fall.\n</p>\n<p>\n The thing to watch in Iraq is whether we see more tribes making common cause with the U.S. and the Iraqi government. How long will it last? And what does it mean in the long term for Iraq? Is it the beginning of a major change, or just a prelude to a big civil war?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n You''ve been a student of the culture of the military for years. How has the war affected the state of the American military: the redeployments, the state of Guard and Reserves troops and the regular Army and Marines, and the relationship to civilian leadership?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ricks:\n </strong>\n I think there is general agreement that there is a huge strain on the military. Essentially, one percent of the nation--soldiers and their families--is carrying the burden. We are now sending soldiers back for their third year-long tours. We''ve never tried to fight a lengthy ground war overseas with an all-volunteer force. Nor have we ever tried to occupy an Arab country.\n</p>\n<p>\n What the long-term effect is on the military will depend in part on how the war ends for us, and for Iraq. But I think it isn''t going to be good. Today I was talking to a retired officer and asked him what he was hearing from his friends in Iraq about troop morale. "It''s broken," he said. Meanwhile, he said, soldiers he knows who are back home from Iraq "wonder why they were there." Not everyone is as morose as this officer, but the trend isn''t good.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n You quote Gen. Anthony Zinni in your postscript as saying the U.S. is "drifting toward containment" in Iraq. What does containment of what will likely remain a very hot conflict look like? You''ve written in your postscript and elsewhere that you think we are only in act III of a Shakespearean tragedy. I wouldn''t describe Shakespeare''s fifth acts as particularly well contained.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ricks:\n </strong>\n I agree with you. Containment would mean some sort of stepping back from the war, probably beginning by halving the American military presence. You''d probably still have U.S. troops inside Iraq, but disengaged from daily fighting. Their goals would be negative ones: prevent genocide, prevent al Qaeda from being able to operate in Iraq, and prevent the war from spreading to outside Iraq. (This was laid out well in a recent study by James Miller and Shawn Brimley, readable at http://www.cnas.org/en/cms/?368.)\n</p>\n<p>\n Containment probably would be a messy and demoralizing mission. No one signs up in the U.S. military to stand by as innocents are slaughtered in nearby cities. Yet that might be the case if we did indeed move to this stance and a full-blown civil war (or a couple) ensued. And there surely would be refugees from such fighting. Either they would go to neighboring countries, and perhaps destabilize them, or we would set up "refugee catchment" areas, as another study, by the Brookings Institute, proposed. The open-ended task of guarding those new refugee camps likely would fall to U.S. troops.\n</p>\n<p>\n The more you look at Iraq, the more worrisome it gets. As I noted in the new postscript in the paperback edition, many strategic experts I talk to believe that the consequences of the Iraq war are going to be worse for the United States than was the fallout from the Vietnam War.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n A year and a half is a long time, but let''s say that we have a Democratic president in January 2009: President Clinton, or Gore, or Obama. What prospect would a change in administration have for a new strategic opening? Or would the new president likely wind up like Nixon in Vietnam, owning a war he or she didn''t begin?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ricks:\n </strong>\n Not such a long time. President Bush has made his major decisions on Iraq. Troop levels are going to have to come down next year, because we don''t have replacements on the shelf. So the three big questions for the U.S. government are going to be: How many troops will be withdrawn, what will be the mission of those who remain, and how long will they stay? Those questions are going to be answered by the next president, not this one.\n</p>\n<p>\n My gut feeling is the latter: I think we are going to have troops in Iraq through 2009, and probably for a few years beyond that. Indeed, I wouldn''t be surprised if U.S. troops were there in 15 years. But as I say in\n <em>\n  Fiasco\n </em>\n , that''s kind of a best-case scenario.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The main points of this hard-hitting indictment of the Iraq war have been made before, but seldom with such compelling specificity. In dovetailing critiques of the civilian and military leadership, Washington Post Pentagon correspondent Ricks (Making the Corps) contends that, under Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Feith, the Pentagon concocted "the worst war plan in American history," with insufficient troops and no thought for the invasion''s aftermath. Thus, an under-manned, unprepared U.S. military stood by as chaos and insurgency took root, then responded with heavy-handed tactics that brutalized and alienated Iraqis. Based on extensive interviews with American soldiers and officers as well as first-hand reportage, Ricks''s detailed, unsparing account of the occupation paints a woeful panorama of reckless firepower, mass arrests, humiliating home invasions, hostage-taking and abuse of detainees. It holds individual commanders to account, from top generals Tommy Franks and Ricardo Sanchez on down. The author''s conviction that a proper hearts-and-minds counter-insurgency strategy might have salvaged the debacle is perhaps naive, and pays too little heed to the intractable ethnic conflicts underlying what is by now a full-blown civil war. Still, Ricks''s solid reporting, deep knowledge of the American military and willingness to name names make this perhaps the most complete, incisive analysis yet of the Iraq quagmire. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/269'),
(1417, 'The Fifth Elephant', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett has a seemingly endless capacity for generating inventively comic novels about the Discworld and its inhabitants, but there is in the hearts of most of his admirers a particular place for those novels that feature the hard-bitten captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Samuel Vimes. Sent as ambassador to the Northern principality of Uberwald where they mine gold, iron, and fat--but never silver--he is caught up in an uneasy truce between dwarfs, werewolves, and vampires in the theft of the Scone of Stone (a particularly important piece of dwarf bread) and in the old werewolf custom of giving humans a short start in the hunt and then cheating.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pratchett is always at his best when the comedy is combined with a real sense of jeopardy that even favorite characters might be hurt if there was a good joke in it. As always, the most unlikely things crop up as the subjects of gags--Chekhov, grand opera, the Caine Mutiny--and as always there are remorselessly funny gags about the inevitability of story:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  They say that the fifth elephant came screaming and trumpeting through the atmosphere of the young world all those years ago and landed hard enough to split continents and raise mountains.\n </p>\n <p>\n  No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical question: when millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there is no one to hear it, does it--philosophically speaking--make a noise?\n </p>\n <p>\n  As for the dwarfs, whose legend it is, and who mine a lot deeper than other people, they say that there is a grain of truth in it.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n All this, the usual guest appearances, and Gaspode the Wonder Dog.\n <em>\n  --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Acclaimed British author Pratchett continues to distinguish himself from his colleagues with clever plot lines and genuinely likable characters in this first-rate addition to his long-running Discworld fantasy series (Carpe Jugulum, etc.). This time around, the inhabitants of Discworld''s Ankh-Morpork have turned their attentions in the direction of Uberwald--a country rich in valuable minerals and high-quality fat deposits. (The fifth elephant, it seems, left all these when he or she crashed and burned in Uberwald at the beginning of time.) Ankh-Morpork''s policeman Sam Vimes has been sent there to represent his people at a coronation--and to find the recently stolen, rock-hard and symbolically important (at least to the Dwarf population) Scone of Stone. As he tells Vimes''s story (and surrounding ones), Pratchett cheerfully takes readers on an exuberant tale of mystery and invention, including the efforts of a clique of neo-Nazi werewolves to destabilize Uberwald. Along the way, he skewers everything from monarchy to fascism, as well as communism and capitalism, oil wealth and ethnic identities, Russian plays, immigration, condoms and evangelical Christianity--in short, most everything worth talking about. Not as perfect as Pratchett''s Hogfather but in the same class, this novel is a heavyweight of lightness. 200,000 ad/promo; 7-city author tour. (Apr.) FYI: At the end of The Fifth Elephant is appended a "handy travel guide" to the "World of Terry Pratchett," including a character guide to the Discworld novels and a Discworld crossword puzzle.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/355'),
(1418, 'Fight Club', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Featuring soap made from human fat, waiters at high-class restaurants who do unmentionable things to soup and an underground organization dedicated to inflicting a violent anarchy upon the land, Palahniuk''s apocalyptic first novel is clearly not for the faint of heart. The unnamed (and extremely unreliable) narrator, who makes his living investigating accidents for a car company in order to assess their liability, is combating insomnia and a general sense of anomie by attending a steady series of support-group meetings for the grievously ill, at one of which (testicular cancer) he meets a young woman named Marla. She and the narrator get into a love triangle of sorts with Tyler Durden, a mysterious and gleefully destructive young man with whom the narrator starts a fight club, a secret society that offers young professionals the chance to beat one another to a bloody pulp. Mayhem ensues, beginning with the narrator''s condo exploding and culminating with a terrorist attack on the world''s tallest building. Writing in an ironic deadpan and including something to offend everyone, Palahniuk is a risky writer who takes chances galore, especially with a particularly bizarre plot twist he throws in late in the book. Caustic, outrageous, bleakly funny, violent and always unsettling, Palahniuk''s utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice. Movie rights to Fox 2000.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the world of Fight Club, healthy young people go to meetings of cancer support groups because only there can they find human warmth and compassion. It''s a world where young men gather in the basements of bars to fight strangers "just as long as they have to." And it''s a world where "nobody cared if he lived or died, and the feeling was fucking mutual." Messianic nihilist Tyler Durden is the inventor of Fight Club. Soon thousands of young men across the country are reporting to their work cubes with flattened noses, blackened eyes, and shattered teeth, looking forward to their next bare-knuckle maiming. The oracular, increasingly mysterious Durden then begins to harness the despair, alienation, and violence he sees so clearly into complete anarchy. Every generation frightens and unnerves its parents, and Palahniuk''s first novel is gen X''s most articulate assault yet on baby-boomer sensibilities. This is a dark and disturbing book that dials directly into youthful angst and will likely horrify the parents of teens and twentysomethings. It''s also a powerful, and possibly brilliant, first novel.\n <em>\n  Thomas Gaughan\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/310'),
(1419, 'Final Truth', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In her thrill-packed trilogy Cold Truth, Hard Truth, and Dark Truth, Mariah Stewart proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that she can brilliantly and suspensefully handle the truth. Can you? Then prepare yourself for the shocking, eye-opening Final Truth, in which a woman who specializes in exposing lies finds herself trapped in a real-life nightmare.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  All that stands between Lester Ray Barnes and the state of Floridaâ€™s death chamber is a judgeâ€™s signature. He is sentenced to die for the rape and murder of a young woman, his conviction hinging on two pieces of evidence: DNA testing and an eyewitness who placed him at the scene. But when the story breaks that the DNA testimony at trial had been fabricated and that the eyewitness was coerced by a cop, all hell breaks loose. In the absence of credible evidence to sustain the conviction, the court is forced to set Lester Ray free. Itâ€™s the sort of circus the media adoreâ€“until it turns into the kind of Grimmâ€™s fairy tale the media love even more.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Intrigued by the story of a young man railroaded by justice, true-crime writer Regan Landry is drawn into Lester Rayâ€™s camp like a moth to a flame. For Regan, writing is a way to stay connected to her late literary-legend father, and her knack for detective work makes her a natural when it comes to uncovering new leads in even the murkiest mysteries.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eager for the spotlight, Lester Ray willingly agrees to work with Regan on a tell-all about his experience as an innocent man on death row. But less than a week after leaving prison, he vanishes from the Sunshine State. Soon after, darkness descends on the outer banks of North Carolina as a string of women are raped and murdered in a frenzied spree. Fearing the worst, Regan, along with Special Agent Mitch Peyton and the FBI, sweeps in to confront the unspeakable: the horrifying possibility that they have helped to free a cunning monster with an insatiable appetite for deathâ€“and a ruthless determination never to be caged again.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of the fourth novel of romantic suspense in Stewart''s Truth series (after 2005''s Dark Truth), Regan Landry-the daughter of a deceased true crime writer who''s followed in his footsteps to great acclaim-is floundering around for a new book idea. When fraud at a DNA lab is uncovered and several rape and murder convictions are overturned, Regan thinks she''s found her story. She''ll write about Lester Ray Barnes, wrongly convicted of murder, now set free. But shortly after Barnes is released from prison, several dead bodies turn up-women whose lips have been smeared with blood and who hold a clump of flowers in their lifeless hands, just like Barnes''s purported first victim. Is Barnes, in fact, a ruthless killer, or is someone trying to set him up? Regan, working with her delicious beau, FBI agent Mitch Peyton, is determined to find out. While a revelation about Regan''s family comes out of left field and the culminating scene in which the real killer is unmasked isn''t exactly surprising, Regan''s charm and the novel''s fast pace will keep readers turning the pages.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lester Ray Barnes is released from death row after it is determined that false testimony was given at his trial. True-crime writer Regan Landryn thinks Lester Ray''s story has potential, but soon after his release, Lester Ray disappears, and other women begin to die in the same ritualistic manner as his alleged first victim. Regan works with FBI agent Mitch Peyton to find Lester Ray before he kills again, or to determine if a copycat is at work. There isn''t much suspense since the perpetrator is apparent, but the fast-paced story holds readers with investigative detail. The fourth in a solid series.\n  <em>\n   Sue O''Brien\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2413'),
(1420, 'Finding the Dream', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the final novel in a dramatic trilogy. Margo, Kate, and Laura were brought up like sisters amidst the peerless grandeur of Templeton House. But it was Laura who seemed to have it all - until she lost almost everything and had to begin again . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Laura Templeton found out the hard way that nothing in life is guaranteed. The daughter of a wealthy hotelier, she had always known comfort, privilege, and security. But by the age of thirty, her storybook marriage had been destroyed by her husband''s infidelity. Laura''s divorce left her both emotionally and financially devastated - but determined to rebuild her life without the help of the Templeton fortune . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1584');
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(1421, 'Finger Lickin&#39; Fifteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   SAVE THE DATE:\n  </strong>\n  Tuesday, June 23, 2009\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   EVENT:\n  </strong>\n  The next Stephanie Plum novel, in which complications arise, loyalties are tested, cliffhangers are resolved, and donuts are eaten.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WHERE:\n  </strong>\n  Wherever books are sold across America\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WHAT TO BRING:\n  </strong>\n  Sunglasses, insect repellant, a flotation device, suntan lotion, cheez-doodles, extra-large towel, fire extinguisher, baseball bat, lip balm, monkey leash, sixty three pieces of chewing gum, and one canister of oxygen (donâ€™t ask). Hey, itâ€™s a Stephanie Plum novel!\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Janet Evanovich and Michael Connelly: Author One-to-One\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  In this Amazon exclusive, we brought together blockbuster authors Janet Evanovich and Michael Connelly and asked them to interview each other. Find out what two of the top authors of their genres have to say about their characters, writing process, and more. Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of  the Harry Bosch series of novels as well as\n  <em>\n   The Poet\n  </em>\n  , * Blood Work\n  <em>\n   ,\n  </em>\n  Void Moon\n  <em>\n   ,\n  </em>\n  Chasing the Dime\n  <em>\n   , and the #1 New York Times bestseller\n  </em>\n  The Lincoln Lawyer*. He is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. Read on to see Michael Connelly''s questions for Janet Evanovich, or turn the tables to see what Evanovich asked Connelly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Connelly\n  </strong>\n  : Let''s get the business out of the way. What''s\n  <em>\n   Finger Lickin'' Fifteen\n  </em>\n  , the new Stephanie Plum novel, all about and what brought you to the story?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  : I wanted to do a book that featured Stephanie''s wheelman, Lula. Lula is one of my favorite characters because she''s pulled herself up from hard times and now is just more of everything.\n  <em>\n   Fifteen\n  </em>\n  opens with Lula witnessing a crime, and it all gets complicated after that. We''re talking about barbecue gone bad, cross-dressing firemen, dancing hot dogs, etc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Connelly\n  </strong>\n  : You strike me as an author who is involved in every aspect of the publishing of her work. But the output--at least two solid novels a year--suggests otherwise, that you delegate all over the place so that you can focus on writing high-quality stuff. So which is it? (And if your answer is that you do indeed delegate, how the heck do you learn to do that?)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  : You reach a point in your career where the business side threatens to eclipse writing time and you either delegate or power back. I delegate everything but the writing. My daughter and her staff manage the website, the fan mail, the book tour, the author publicity and marketing. My son is my agent and finance officer and chief problem solver. When no one else can solve the problem it gets dumped on my son''s desk! I oversee all aspects, but I''ve had to learn not to micro-manage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Connelly\n  </strong>\n  : We have an author friend in common-- Robert Crais--who has steadfastly refused to sell or option his series character Elvis Cole to Hollywood. On the other hand, I''ve flogged Harry Bosch up and down the studio strip. (Interestingly enough, to the same effect--no movies made!) Where do you stand with Stephanie and will we ever see her on the big or small screen?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  : Jeez Louise, I wish I knew the answer to this one. TriStar owns the Plum franchise with Wendy Finerman attached as producer, and Wendy has been trying to get this sucker off the ground for fifteen years. Probably somewhere in the vicinity of three million people read each of my Plum books, but for whatever reason, TriStar has yet to greenlight the project.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Connelly\n  </strong>\n  : Speaking of that L.A. business, do you remember when we first met? Since you conveniently put numbers in your titles, it is easy for me to remember that it was fourteen years ago in L.A. I bet you don''t remember the name of the restaurant, which sadly is no longer there. But, luckily, we''re still here and my memory of that lunch is important to me because at the time we had probably sold a hundred books between us (not counting romance novels).\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  : What I remember is that what I consider to be my graduating class (you, Crais, and Jan Burke) would get together at all the mystery conferences, and you would be our fearless leader!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Connelly\n  </strong>\n  : Did you know that in my most recent novel a very bad man plans to use a Janet Evanovich novel to get close to an unsuspecting, potential victim? It''s scary stuff--the plan, not the Evanovich novel. Have you reached a stage where your work is part of the terrain and gets these sorts of little nods here and there?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  : Every now and then my name or one of my character names pops up and it''s usually in the work of a friend. I think it''s fun and I always reciprocate...so live in fear.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Evanovich recycles tired themes better executed in earlier adventures in her latest Stephanie Plum adventure (\n  <em>\n   Fearless Fourteen\n  </em>\n  , etc.). When Lula inadvertently witnesses the beheading of culinary TV star Stanley Chipotle in a Trenton, N.J., alley, Stephanie''s on-again off-again boyfriend, cop Joe Morelli, reluctantly takes the case. Lula, with the help of Grandma Mazur, enters the same barbequing competition Chipotle was in town to promote, hoping to lure the murderers out of hiding. Meanwhile, Ranger has recruited Stephanie to help solve a series of break-ins at properties under the protection of Rangeman Security. The inevitable sparks fly between Stephanie and Ranger, with Morelli grumbling on the sidelines. Evanovich dishes up her usual mixture of shoot-''em-up action (numerous cars explode) and quirky characters (notably a neighborhood flasher with a devoted following), but the lackluster plot will disappoint fans.\n  <em>\n   (June 23)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/799'),
(1422, 'A Fire Upon the Deep', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this Hugo-winning 1991 SF novel, Vernor Vinge gives us a wild new cosmology, a galaxy-spanning "Net of a Million Lies," some finely imagined aliens, and much nail-biting suspense.\n</p>\n<p>\n Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy''s Slow Zone--but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unguessable, godlike "Powers." When human meddling wakes an old Power, the Blight, this spreads like a wildfire mind virus that turns whole civilizations into its unthinking tools. And the half-mythical Countermeasure, if it exists, is lost with two human children on primitive Tines World.\n</p>\n<p>\n Serious complications follow. One paranoid alien alliance blames humanity for the Blight and launches a genocidal strike. Pham Nuwen, the man who knows about Countermeasure, escapes this ruin in the spacecraft\n <em>\n  Out of Band\n </em>\n --heading for more violence and treachery, with 500 warships soon in hot pursuit. On his destination world, the fascinating Tines are intelligent only in combination: named "individuals" are small packs of the doglike aliens. Primitive doesn''t mean stupid, and opposed Tine leaders wheedle the young castaways for information about guns and radios. Low-tech war looms, with elaborately nested betrayals and schemes to seize\n <em>\n  Out of Band\n </em>\n if it ever arrives. The tension becomes extreme... while half the Beyond debates the issues on galactic Usenet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vinge''s climax is suitably mindboggling. This epic combines the flash and dazzle of old-style space opera with modern, polished thoughtfulness. Pham Nuwen also appears in the nifty prequel set 30,000 years earlier,\n <em>\n  A Deepness in the Sky\n </em>\n . Both recommended.\n <em>\n  --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It has been six years since Vinge''s last book ( Marooned in Realtime ), but the wait proves worthwhile in this stimulating tale filled with ideas, action and likable, believable characters, both alien and human. Vinge presents a galaxy divided into Zones--regions where different physical constraints allow very different technological and mental possibilities. Earth remains in the "Slowness" zone, where nothing can travel faster than light and minds are fairly limited. The action of the book is in the "Beyond," where translight travel and other marvels exist, and humans are one of many intelligent species. One human colony has been experimenting with ancient technology in order to find a path to the "Transcend," where intelligence and power are so great as to seem godlike. Instead they release the Blight, an evil power, from a billion-year captivity. As the Blight begins to spread, a few humans flee with a secret that might destroy it, but they are stranded in a primitive low-tech world barely in the Beyond. While the Blight destroys whole races and star systems, a team of two humans and two aliens races to rescue the others, pursued by the Blight''s agents and other enemies. With uninterrupted pacing, suspense without contrivance, and deftly drawn aliens who can be pleasantly comical without becoming cute, Vinge offers heart-pounding, mind-expanding science fiction at its best.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1045'),
(1423, 'The Fires of Heaven', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn, continues his effort to unify the diverse people of a discordant world against the Dark One in this fifth tome of the Wheel of Time series (begun with The Eye of the World ). While the Aes Sedai, women who channel the One Power, and the Forsaken, ancient disciples of the Dark One, strive to bend him to their purposes, Rand leads the clans of the Aiel in a war of unification. Rand must try to master his powers as a man who can channel, while eluding the concomitant madness, as two groups of women attempt to come to his aid. His love, Elayne, Daughter-Heir of Andor, and Nynaeve, both Aes Sedai in training, join a circus to evade an angry sisterhood, and Siuan Sanche, former leader of the Aes Sedai now stripped of her powers, and two companions seek other rebels in an attempt to avert the final doom. Jordan deftly weaves details from previous books into this narrative and includes a glossary so that new readers can pick up the saga at this point. But all should beware: the few months covered here suggest it may be years and many more volumes before this series reaches its conclusion.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn, leads his army of desert warriors toward a destined war against the forces of the Dark One. Elsewhere, while the Forsaken seed the land with their plots of corruption, a few stalwart individuals gather their strength for the coming battle. Jordan''s epic saga of a world threatened by evil incarnate builds steadily as separate strands of a complex plot begin to come together. Fans of this richly detailed and vividly imagined series will not be disappointed.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/646'),
(1424, 'Firestarter', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Andy and Vicky McGee''s eight-year-old daughter, Charlie, has the ability to set things on fire with her mind, and a secret government agency is determined to make use of Charlie''s horrifyingly destructive gift.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/513'),
(1425, 'The Firm', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hard to believe, but there was a time when the word "lawyer" wasn''t synonymous with "criminal," and the idea of a law firm controlled by the Mafia was an outlandish proposition. This intelligent, ensnaring story came out of nowhere--Oxford, Mississippi, where Grisham was a small-town lawyer--and quickly catapulted to the top of the bestseller list, with good reason. Mitch McDeere, the appealing hero, is a poor kid whose only assets are a first-class mind, a Harvard law degree, and a beautiful, loving wife. When a Memphis law firm makes him an offer he really can''t refuse, he trades his old Nissan for a new BMW, his cramped apartment for a house in the best part of town, and puts in long hours finding tax shelters for Texans who''d rather pay a lawyer than the IRS. Nothing criminal about that. He''d be set for life, if only associates at the firm didn''t have a funny habit of dying, and the FBI wasn''t trying to get Mitch to turn his colleagues in. The tempo and pacing are brilliant, the thrills keep coming, and the finish has a wonderful ironic flourish. It''s not hard to see why Grisham changed the genre permanently with this one, and few of his colleagues in a very crowded field come close to equaling him.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grisham''s gripping fiction debut describes the inner workings of a law firm set up by the Mafia to launder money and concoct tax evasions. Mitchell McDeere, third in his class at Harvard Law, is wooed relentlessly by the prestigious Memphis tax firm of Bendini, Lambert and Locke. Succumbing to the firm''s high-powered salesmanship, he rejects some of the country''s best-known firms to join the group, where he is awed by the opulent lifestyle pressed upon him. But the company has ruthless, underhanded methods of gathering information (they wire the homes of all associates) and ensuring loyalty (social situations are severely monitored). The firm''s mania for security and secrecy, combined with the fact that the only lawyers who have ever left did so in coffins--five in 15 years--arouse Mitch and wife Abby''s curiosity, and they rapidly find themselves in a labyrinth of intrigue and danger. Grisham, a criminal defense attorney, lucidly describes law office procedures at the highest levels, smoothly meshing them with the criminal events of the narrative. Mitch and Abby are appealing characters, though a suspension of disbelief may be required to accept their super-cool behavior while they are on the run from both the FBI and the Mafia. Nonetheless, readers will be totally hooked by this unusual and absorbing story. 50,000 first printing; Literary Guild main selection; movie rights to Paramount.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/719'),
(1426, 'The First Commandment', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A master assassin. A vendetta years in the making. And a counterterrorism operative who will risk everything -- even treason -- to keep the people he loves alive.  Brad Thor, the New York Times bestselling author of Takedown, delivers an explosive international thriller featuring Navy SEAL turned Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath, who somewhere, somehow, has left the wrong person alive.  "Thou shalt not negotiate with terrorists..."  Six months ago: In the dead of the night, five of the most dangerous detainees in the war on terror are pulled from their isolation cells in Guantanamo Bay, held at gunpoint, and told to strip off their orange jumpsuits. Issued civilian clothes and driven to the base airfield, they are loaded aboard a Boeing 727 and set free.  Present day: Covert counterterrorism agent Scot Harvath awakens to discover that his world has changed violently -- and forever. A sadistic assassin with a personal vendetta is wreaking havoc of biblical proportions. Unleashing nightmarish horrors on those closest to Harvath, the attacker thrusts everything Harvath holds dear -- including his life -- into absolute peril.  Ordered by the president to stay out of the investigation, Harvath is forced to mount his own operation to uncover the conspiracy and to exact revenge. When he discovers a connection between the attacks and a group of prisoners secretly released from Guantanamo, Harvath must ask himself previously unthinkable questions about the organizations and the nation he has spent his life serving.  A renegade from his own government, Harvath will place his life on the line as his search for the truth draws him into a showdown with one of the most dangerous men on the face of the earth.  Brad Thor roars through this nonstop adventure full of international intrigue, twisted betrayals, and ultimate revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2459'),
(1427, 'The First Five Pages: A Writer&#39;s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile', 'Noah Lukeman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   IF YOU''RE TIRED OF REJECTION, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether you are a novice writer or a veteran who has already had your work published, rejection is often a frustrating reality. Literary agents and editors receive and reject hundreds of manuscripts each month. While it''s the job of these publishing professionals to be discriminating, it''s the job of the writer to produce a manuscript that immediately stands out among the vast competition. And those outstanding qualities, says New York literary agent Noah Lukeman, have to be apparent from the first five pages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The First Five Pages\n  </em>\n  reveals the necessary elements of good writing, whether it be fiction, nonfiction, journalism, or poetry, and points out errors to be avoided, such as\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ A weak opening hook\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Overuse of adjectives and adverbs\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Flat or forced metaphors or similes\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Melodramatic, commonplace or confusing dialogue\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Undeveloped characterizations and lifeless settings\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ Uneven pacing and lack of progression\n </p>\n <p>\n  With exercises at the end of each chapter, this invaluable reference will allow novelists, journalists, poets and screenwriters alike to improve their technique as they learn to eliminate even the most subtle mistakes that are cause for rejection.\n  <em>\n   The First Five Pages\n  </em>\n  will help writers at every stage take their art to a higher Â— and more successful Â— level.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1182'),
(1428, 'First Lord&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The creativity Butcher displays in his Dresden Files series is less apparent in the derivative sixth fantasy yarn set in quasi-Roman Alera (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  Princeps'' Fury\n </em>\n ). New readers are tossed into a complex plot without any explanation of the considerable backstory, making it hard to connect with the characters or action. The book centers around yet another world-shaking battle between good, represented by Alera, and evil, represented by the vord queen and her legions of scorpionlike followers. A major character is falsely believed dead; there''s a traitor in the ranks of the good guys; there''s also heroic sacrifice, combat against overwhelming odds, etc. Banter in moments of extreme crisis is absurdly common but never convincing, and neither characters nor story develop anything resembling depth.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fitting conclusion to the Codex Alera ties up a lot of loose ends. Tavi, first lord of Alera since his grandfatherâ€™s death, struggles to hold together a realm about to shatter. The insectile Vord hold far too much of the land, including areas that surrendered willingly. Aleraâ€™s old enemies, the Canim, are now allies, which makes both reluctant partners tense. Certain Alerans of rank persist in nattering over whether Tavi is the rightful ruler. And Taviâ€™s lover, Kitai, insists on being properly courted to maintain respectability in Aleran eyes. With Tavi trying to keep ahead of one quandary after another and find a way to defeat the Vord, and with various intriguers met in the previous five volumes trying to salvage their schemes, the pace here is much faster than in the immediately preceding Cursorâ€™s Fury (2006), Captainâ€™s Fury (2007), and Princepsâ€™ Fury (2008). --Frieda Murray\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/79'),
(1429, 'The First Rule', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The organized criminal gangs of the former Soviet Union are bound by what they call the thievesâ€™ code. The first rule is this: A thief must forsake his mother, father, brothers, and sisters. He must have no familyâ€”no wife, no childrenâ€”because only other criminals are his family. If any of the rules are broken, it is punishable by death.\n <br />\n Frank Meyer had the American dreamâ€”a wife and family he adored, a successful businessâ€”until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The only thing out of the ordinary about Meyer was thatâ€”before the family and the business and the normal lifeâ€”a younger Frank Meyer worked as a professional military contractor, a mercenary, with a man named Joe Pike. Frank was one of Pikeâ€™s guys, and they faced death together in every rotten hellhole around the world.\n <br />\n The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, because previous home invasions by the crew had targeted only criminals with large stashes of cash or drugs. Pike cannot believe it, and with the help of Cole, he sets out on a hunt of his own: to clear his friend, to punish the people who murdered him.\n <br />\n A trail that at first seems relatively simple, however, very quickly becomes complicated, as the two of them find themselves entangled in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminality, and at the heart of it all, an act so terrible even Pike and Cole have no way to measure it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1343'),
(1430, 'A Fistfull of Charms', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1238'),
(1431, 'Five Great Novels', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This volume contains DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (filmed as BLADERUNNER), MARTIAN TIME SLIP, UBIK, THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH and A SCANNER DARKLY. Taken together they represent the best of Philip K. Dick''s unique imagination. In Dick''s writing nothing is what it seems, our sense of the world''s order is fatally undermined and mass media tells us nothing but artful lies. Films such as THE MATRIX and THE TRUMAN SHOW would not have been made but for Philip K. Dick. His work has never been more timely.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, ''Beyond Lies the Wub'' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are The Man in the High Castle, Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/847'),
(1432, 'Five Little Pigs', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It was an open and shut case. All the evidence said Caroline Crale poisoned her philandering husband, a brilliant painter. She was quickly and easily convicted and sentenced to life in prison.   Now, sixteen years later, in a posthumous letter, Mrs. Crale has assured her grown daughter that she was innocent. But instead of setting the young woman''s mind at ease, the letter only raises disquieting questions. Did Caroline indeed write the truth? And if she didn''t kill her husband, who did?   To find out, the Craleâ€™s daughter asks Hercule Poirot to reopen the case. His investigation takes him deep into the conflicting memories and motivations of the five other people who were with the Crales on the fatal day. With his keen understanding of human psychology, he manages to discover the surprising truth behind the artist''s death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1418'),
(1433, 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven', 'Mitch Albom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom''s "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park. Albom then traces Eddie''s world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back to Eddie''s birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress report over candles and cake each year. And in the third and last thread of the novel, Albom follows Eddie into heaven where the maintenance man sequentially encounters five pivotal figures from his life (a la "A Christmas Carol"). Each person has been waiting for him in heaven, and, as Albom reveals, each life (and death) was woven into Eddie''s own in ways he never suspected. Each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a lesson to share. Through them Eddie understands the meaning of his own life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(1434, 'Flashforward', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n What would you do if you got a glimpse of your own personal future and it looked bleak? Try to change things, or accept that the future is unchangeable and make the best of it? In\n <em>\n  Flashforward\n </em>\n , Nobel-hungry physicists conducting an unimaginably high-energy experiment accidentally induce a global consciousness shift. In an instant, everyone on Earth is "flashed forward" 21 years, experiencing several minutes of the future. But while everyone is, literally, out of their minds, their bodies drop unconscious; when the world reawakens, car wrecks, botched surgeries, falls, and other mishaps add up to massive death and destruction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Slowly, as recovery efforts continue, people realize that during the Flashforward (as it comes to be called) they experienced a vision of the future. The range of visions is astounding--those who would be asleep in the future saw psychedelic dream landscapes, while others saw nothing at all (presumably they''d be dead). But those who saw everyday life 20 years hence have to come to grips with evidence of dreams forsaken (or realized). Soon, the physicists who caused the Flashforward are struggling to help the world decide whether the future is changeable--and whether the experiment is worth repeating. Robert J. Sawyer has captured a truly compelling idea with\n <em>\n  Flashforward\n </em>\n , and he fully explores what such an event might mean to humanity. Fans will find this to be his best work to date, although the ending seems rushed after a detailed buildup.\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A science experiment that unwittingly shuts down all human consciousness for two minutes is the catalyst for a creative exploration of fate, free will and the nature of the universe in Sawyer''s soul-searching new work (after Factoring Humanity). In April 2009, Lloyd and Theo, two scientists at the European Organization for Particle Physics (CERN), run an experiment that accidentally transports the world''s consciousness 20 years into the future. When humanity reawakens a moment later, chaos rules. Vehicles whose drivers passed out plow into one another; people fall or maim themselves. But that''s just the beginning. After the horror is sorted out, each character tries desperately to ensure or avoid his or her future. Trapped by his guilt for causing so much destruction and driven by a need to rationalize, Lloyd tries to prove that free will is a myth. Theo discovers that he will be murdered and begins to hunt down his killerAtempting fate as in the Greek dramas of his ancestors. Some people start on their appointed roads early, others give up on life because of what they''ve seen. Using a third-person omniscient narrator, Sawyer shifts seamlessly among the perspectives of his many characters, anchoring the story in small details. This first-rate, philosophical journey, a terrific example of idea-driven SF, should have wide appeal. (June) FYI: Sawyer is the president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/215'),
(1435, 'Flatland', 'Edwin A Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Flatland\n  </em>\n  is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension. Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This pre-Einstein geometrical fantasy is one of the best things of its kind that has ever been written, for it is more than an ingeniously sustained fantasy: it is a social satire, with wit as sharp as the sub-lutrous end of a Flatland woman; it is aneasy philosophical introduction to the Fourth Dimension; and it is a rebuke to everyone who holds that there is no reality beyond what is perceptible by human senses.&gt;&gt;&gt; (\n  <em>\n   Saturday Review\n  </em>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   This pre-Einstein geometrical fantasy is one of the best things of its kind that has ever been written, for it is more than an ingeniously sustained fantasy: it is a social satire, with wit as sharp as the sub-lutrous end of a Flatland woman; it is an easy philosophical introduction to the Fourth Dimension; and it is a rebuke to everyone who holds that there is no reality beyond what is perceptible by human senses.\n  </em>\n  (\n  <em>\n   Saturday Review\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/986'),
(1436, 'The Flesh in the Furnace', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1873'),
(1437, 'Flirt', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  New in the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling series\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows, though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced, is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn''t the miracle he thinks he needs. The creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington''s grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/589'),
(1438, 'Flood Tide', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a hero whose name never appears in print without a registered trademark symbol beside it sets out on a new adventure, readers should know what to expect: a great deal of derring-do, outlandish adventures, and fantastical scenarios. For Dirk Pitt, reality is an inconsequential construct. What matters is the U.S. National Underwater and Maritime Agency (NUMA) superhero''s unflagging energy, wit, strength, sex appeal, and patriotism. In this tale of a Chinese billionaire who plans to divert the mighty Mississippi in order to expand his illegal smuggling ring, find a treasure lost at sea nearly half a century ago, and, incidentally, split the U.S. into three countries controlled by China, Cussler''s American version of James Bond struggles to save the day. All his trusty sidekicks are here, including Al Giordino, a regular partner in Pitt''s underwater adventures, and Admiral Sandecker, the NUMA commander. This time there''s a beautiful Chinese American INS agent as the love interest, and a mendacious American president, too.\n <em>\n  Flood Tide\n </em>\n is a romp that will tickle Pitt and Cussler''s many fans, as well as readers new to this author who may find themselves stranded on the tarmac or tanning on Caribbean beaches.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA. Once again, the indestructible Dirk Pitt saves the country from possible economic collapse, while at the same time destroying an evil villain, finding a lost treasure, and saving a woman''s life. The vividly described action takes readers from the ports of Hong Kong to picturesque Washington State and to the final showdown on the Mississippi River in Louisiana. As each problem seems to be solved, larger and more dangerous events occur, such as the seemingly unexplainable smuggling of thousands of illegal Chinese immigrants. Our hero finds himself trapped with these poor, abused refugees who are about to be murdered. Each turn and twist continues to build anxiety and heighten suspense. The eye-catching cover of this novel should entice readers to open its pages, where they will soon find themselves engrossed in this enthralling adventure.?Anita Short, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1297'),
(1439, 'Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Jason Taverner is one of the biggest stars in the world, with a nightly talk show and millions of adoring fans. So it is extremely strange when he wakes up one morning and no one knows who he is. But more dangerous than his family and friends not recognizing him, is the fact that the totalitarian government''s vast databases have no record of him either. In a world where not having papers is a crime, Taverner has no choice but to go on the run with a host of shady characters.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combining some of Philip K. Dick''s classic tropesâ€”altered reality, genetic enhancement, drugsâ€” and placing a memorable cast of characters into an all-too-plausible dystopia makes\n <em>\n  Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said\n </em>\n one ofÂ Dick''s most popular and enduring novels.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Stunningly plausible in its portrayal of a neo-fascist America, where everyone informs on everyone else, this Orwellian novel bores deeply into the bedrock of the self--and plants dynamite at its center. "Fifty or a hundred years from now, (Dick''s) world will stand alone on its own terms."--Norman Spinrad.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/844'),
(1440, 'Flowers for Algernon', 'Daniel Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  With more than five million copies sold,\n  <em>\n   Flowers for Algernon\n  </em>\n  is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie''s intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance--until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie?\n  <br />\n  An American classic that inspired the award-winning movie Charly.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Mentally retarded Charlie Gordon participates in an experiment which turns him into a genius but only temporarily.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1464'),
(1441, 'Folly Beach', 'Dorothea Benton Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Folly Beach, South Carolina, with its glistening beaches, laid-back Southern charm, and enticing Gullah tradition, is the land of Cate Cooperâ€™s childhood, the place where all the ghosts of her past roam freely. Now, thanks to a newly deceased husband whose financial and emotional perfidy has left her homeless and broke, sheâ€™s returning to this lovely strip of coast.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once, another woman found comfort here: an artist, writer, and sometime colleague of the revered George Gershwin. With her beloved husband, DuBose, Dorothy Heyward enjoyed the greatest moments of her life at Folly. Though the Heywards are long gone, their passion and spirit linger in every ocean breeze.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To her surprise, Cate is about to discover that you can go home again, for Folly holds the possibility of unexpected fulfillmentâ€”not just the memories of the girl she was, but the promise of the woman sheâ€™s always wanted to become. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Experience the wild beauty and sultry magic of\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank''s Carolina Lowcountryâ€”where the pull of family is as powerful as the ocean tides and love can strike faster than lightning in summerâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Folly Beach\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Home is the place that knows us bestâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  A woman returns to the past to find her future in this enchanting new tale of loss, acceptance, family, and love.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With its sandy beaches and bohemian charms, surfers and suits alike consider Folly Beach to be one of South Carolina''s most historic and romantic spots. It is also the land of Cate Cooper''s childhood, the place where all the ghosts of her past roam freely. Cate never thought she''d wind up in this tiny cottage named the Porgy House on this breathtakingly lovely strip of coast. But circumstances have changed, thanks to her newly dead husband whose financialâ€”and emotionalâ€”bull and mendacity have left Cate homeless, broke, and unmoored.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet Folly Beach holds more than just memories. Once upon a time another woman found unexpected bliss and comfort within its welcoming arms. An artist, writer, and colleague of the revered George Gershwin, Dorothy Heyward enjoyed the greatest moments of her life at Folly with her beloved husband, DuBose. And though the Heywards are long gone, their passion and spirit lingers in every mango sunset and gentle ocean breeze.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And for Cate, Folly, too, holds the promise of unexpected fulfillment when she is forced to look at her life and the zany characters that are her family anew. To her surprise, she will discover that you can go home again. Folly Beach doesn''t just hold the girl she once wasâ€¦ it also holds the promise of the woman she''s always wantedâ€”and is finally readyâ€”to become.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Folly Beach\n  </em>\n  , filled with the irresistible charm, saucy wit, and lush atmosphere that have won her the devotion of fans and propelled her books to bestsellerdom, is vintage Dorothea Benton Frank.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Look Inside *Folly Beach\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n  Click on the images below to open larger versions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dorothy and DuBose Heyward, from the Collections of the South Carolina Historical Society.Tourist brochure of Folly Beach, from the Collections of the South Carolina Historical Society.The way to the  beach from Porgy House. Photo credit: Kathy Glick.Porgy  House on Folly Beach. Photo credit: Kathy Glick.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dorothea Benton Frank on Writing *Folly Beach\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Last summer, I went down to the South Carolina Historical Society and read the papers of Dorothy and DuBose Heyward, thinking that it was DuBose who wrote\n  <em>\n   Porgy and Bess\n  </em>\n  with George Gershwin on Folly Beach during the summer of 1934. Not true.\n </p>\n <p>\n  My first discovery was that DuBose was a high school dropout and that Dorothy, a young orphan, was unusually well educated and already an award winning playwright when they married. Then I discovered the huge economic disparities between them. Dorothy was wealthy and although DuBose was comfortable at the time they met, he had grown up in poverty. I ran across a copy of her birth certificate, on which her name is â€œDorotheaâ€â€”my nameâ€”and letterhead that stated she lived on Fifth and Twelfth in Manhattanâ€”my old addressâ€” on and on. Every time I turned around, it seemed I was bumping into another coincidence. Okay, I thought, thereâ€™s a story here and Iâ€™m going to try and tell it. Who was\n  <em>\n   Dorothy\n  </em>\n  Heyward? And what happened that summer on Folly Beach?\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is historic fact that Dorothy herself adapted DuBoseâ€™s book\n  <em>\n   Porgy\n  </em>\n  for the stage and that she also had a great hand in creating the adaptation of\n  <em>\n   Mambaâ€™s Daughters\n  </em>\n  for the stage, the two most successful works with DuBose Heywardâ€™s name attached to them. But she shied away from taking credit for herself and spent her widowhood making sure that DuBoseâ€™s name appeared in the credits of all of Gershwinâ€™s productions of\n  <em>\n   Porgy and Bess\n  </em>\n  so that his estate would receive the royalties that were due.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What is in those boxes at the SCHS is there because it was what Dorothy wanted us to see. Every single letter from her to DuBose is absent. Perhaps he did not save her letters or perhaps she disposed of them. We will never know. But it appears that Dorothy wanted us to have a one-sided conversation with DuBose, not her. Dorothy always wanted DuBose to be the celebrity, the icon, the one who was remembered and revered. She loved him that much.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And, finally, while Dorothy Heyward may have wanted to disappear into history as â€œjust a girl from Ohio who wanted a career on the other side of the footlights,â€ the facts appear differently to me. True, she was diminutive in the extreme, and the fact that she was from Ohio may have left her more easily dismissed by DuBoseâ€™s crowd of aristocratic old Charlestonians. But Dorothy Kuhns Heyward was a powerhouse, who married into one of Charlestonâ€™s most prestigious families and spent her life doing everything she could for the man she fiercely loved who was, for his time, a civil rights pioneer. My new novel explores their lifelong collaboration, their devotion to each other and what magic happened on Folly Beach in 1934 and in 2010, both periods of fascinating self-discovery.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alternating between Cateâ€™s personal journey of renewal and flashbacks into the lives of the Heywards, Frankâ€™s lush and literary paean to her beloved Lowcountry provides a romantic glimpse into an artistic past. (Booklist )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2398'),
(1442, 'Fondly Faranheit', 'Alfred Bester', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1435'),
(1443, 'Fool', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank . . . If that''s the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!"   Verily speaks Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, who hath writteneth much that is of grand wit and belly-busting mirth, including such laurelled bestsellers of the Times of Olde Newe Yorke as Lamb, A Dirty Job, and You Suck (no offense). Now he takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) in a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughtersâ€”a rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust . . . and a ghost (there''s always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head.   Fool   A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear''s cherished fool for years, from the time the king''s grown daughtersâ€”selfish, scheming Goneril, sadistic (but erotic-fantasy-grade-hot) Regan, and sweet, loyal Cordeliaâ€”were mere girls. So naturally Pocket is at his brainless, elderly liege''s side when Learâ€”at the insidious urging of Edmund, the bastard (in every way imaginable) son of the Earl of Gloucesterâ€”demands that his kids swear their undying love and devotion before a collection of assembled guests. Of course Goneril and Regan are only too happy to brownnose Dad. But Cordelia believes that her father''s request is kind of . . . well . . . stupid, and her blunt honesty ends up costing her her rightful share of the kingdom and earns her a banishment to boot.   Well, now the bangers and mash have really hit the fan. The whole damn country''s about to go to hell in a handbasket because of a stubborn old fart''s wounded pride. And the only person who can possibly make things right . . . is Pocket, a small and slight clown with a biting sense of humor. He''s already managed to sidestep catastrophe (and the vengeful blades of many an offended nobleman) on numerous occasions, using his razor-sharp mind, rapier wit . . . and the equally well-honed daggers he keeps conveniently hidden behind his back. Now he''s going to have to do some very fancy maneuveringâ€”cast some spells, incite a few assassinations, start a war or two (the usual stuff)â€”to get Cordelia back into Daddy Lear''s good graces, to derail the fiendish power plays of Cordelia''s twisted sisters, to rescue his gigantic, gigantically dim, and always randy friend and apprentice fool, Drool, from repeated beatings . . . and to shag every lusciously shaggable wench who''s amenable to shagging along the way.   Pocket may be a fool . . . but he''s definitely not an idiot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1177');
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(1444, 'Fool Moon', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A fun new occult mystery series. --\n <em>\n  Locus\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n A really enjoyable read...Jim Butcher strikes just the right narrative balance between wizard and wiseguy, mystic and mobster. --\n <em>\n  Lynn Flewelling, author of Traitor''s Moon\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n A very promising start to a news series...unusually well-crafted. --\n <em>\n  Locus\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Exciting, well-plotted, complex, an excellent read and amazingly good first novel. --\n <em>\n  Chris Bunch, author of The Warrior King\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Fans of Laurel K. Hamilton and Tanya Huff will love this series. --\n <em>\n  Harriet Klausner, BookBrowser\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Fans of Laurell K. Hamilton and Tanya Huff will love this new fantasy series. --\n <em>\n  BookBrowser\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Good luck putting the book down, I know I couldn''t. --\n <em>\n  Fan Attic\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Harry is a remarkable character...With more novels like this gem, Jim Butcher will not need magic to become a household name. --\n <em>\n  BookBrowser\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Try it, you''ll like it. An exciting debut novel suggesting there are wizards and witches among us... wish I''d thought of it myself. --\n <em>\n  Glen Cook, author of Faded Steel Hat\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Could a werewolf be loose in Chicago? Common sense says no. The grisly evidence says yes. So does Harry Dresden. And with his weird connections, he should know....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/83'),
(1445, 'Fool&#39;s Errand', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This first volume of a new trilogy from one of fantasy''s most popular and skilled authors will delight longtime Hobb fans as well as first-time readers of her work.\n</p>\n<p>\n FitzChivalry, the hero of The Farseer trilogy, now lives an isolated and quiet life with his foster son Hap and his Wit partner wolf, Nighteyes, until he is sought out by his old mentor Chade and the enigmatic, charming Fool. Once again, duty calls: Fitz must find a missing prince and prevent political chaos in the Six Duchies. The mission will test his conflicting loyalty to country and family, his uneasy compromise with his own magic, and all the relationships he values most.\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re a fantasy fan who hasn''t yet explored the Farseer world, this is a fine place to start: Hobb deftly provides new readers with all the needed information. The finely detailed world building and intensive character development rarely slow down the action of the story.\n <em>\n  Fool''s Errand\n </em>\n is a complex, beautifully written and sometimes heart-rending examination of the consequences of duty and love.\n <em>\n  --Roz Genessee\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this hard-to-put-down follow-up to the Farseer Trilogy, Hobb maintains the high standards of her earlier fantasy series. The Fool and FitzChivalry Farseer band together once more to ride against the foes of the Farseer royal family in the kingdom of the Six Duchies. Last seen in Assassin''s Quest, FitzChivalry (aka Tom Badgerlock due to the shock of white in his dark hair) has matured beyond the youth blindly following orders. For the past 15 years, Fitz has quietly led the life of a semi-recluse, trying his hardest to disappear. Believing that his glory days are over, he''s surprised when fate (in the form of the Fool) pulls him back into the political intrigues that plague the Six Duchies. Endowed with both royal Skill magic and beast magic, Fitz assumes the task of returning the wayward heir to the throne, Prince Dutiful, to his home before his betrothal ceremony something that should be an easy task. In the event, the easy task proves extremely difficult, both physically and mentally for Fitz. The first half of the novel mostly focuses on Fitz''s angst-ridden past. The heart-thumping, sword-clashing action that Hobb is known for emerges only during the second half, bringing Fitz fully to life. This is not to say that the first half is by any means dull. It''s not. But the full range of Fitz''s capabilities doesn''t come to the forefront until later. When the action sequences finally kick in, they''re non-stop. What starts as a very good read shifts into a stay-up-until-2:00 a.m.-to-finish type of book. (Jan. 9)Forecast: Stephen Youll''s quiet jacket art gives no hint of the novel''s intensity, but Hobb fans will know better and not be deterred.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/593'),
(1446, 'Fool&#39;s Fate', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fool''s Fate\n </em>\n is the third book of Robin Hobb''s Tawny Man trilogy, and the ninth and concluding volume of the Fitzchivalry Farseer saga, one of the best high-fantasy series of the turn of the millennium. Fitz is the bastard son of the royal family of the Six Duchies, which he serves as assassin, guardsman, and Skill-magician. Fitz also serves the White Prophet as "Catalyst," the unique person who may enable the White Prophet to change human destiny for the better. In\n <em>\n  Fool''s Fate\n </em>\n , Fitz must accompany his kinsman, Prince Dutiful Farseer, to a distant northern island, where the prince must slay the world''s last male dragon to win the hand of the Out Islands princess Elliania, the woman he loves. However, not even Elliania wants the dragon dead; why, then, does she require Dutiful to kill Icefyre? Are darker forces manipulating Elliania? Even worse, if Icefyre dies, the White Prophet foresees not only his own death, but a grim future for humankind. The prophet''s only hope of changing the future is his Catalyst.\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Hobb''s riveting conclusion to the Tawny Man series in the Farseer world (after Fool''s Errand and Golden Fool), FitzChivalry Farseer and the man known as the Fool follow the dizzying, complex and treacherous steps that destiny has arranged for them - even though they both know that the end of the dance leads to agonizing decisions and, ultimately, death. Thrown in with Fitz and the Fool are a band of travelers who are on a quest to seek the head of the dragon Icefyre so that Prince Dutiful Farseer may marry the Narcheska Elliania. Most of the group find the time-consuming undertaking difficult and repugnant, for none of them truly wants to kill the ice-bound dragon, not even the Narcheska, it seems. All, however, are duty-bound to honor their word. Since the Fool has foreseen that all the possible consequences of killing the dragon spell his doom, his is the lone voice of dissent. With its carefully modulated tension, wonderful final revelation and strong characters who remain true to themselves throughout, this series may well become a classic in the fantasy field.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/597'),
(1447, 'The Fool&#39;s Run', 'John Sandford &amp; John Camp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kidd is a computer whiz, artist, and professional criminal. LuEllen is his lover, and his favorite partner in crime. Their playing field in on the cutting edge of high-tech corporate warfare. This time theyÃ­ve been hired by a defense industry corporation to destroy its business rival through computer sabotage. If Kidd and LuEllen can pull it off, theyÃ­ll reap millions. ItÃ­s the sting of a lifetime. One false move and itÃ­s a lifetime sentence. As the takedown unfolds, everything goes according to plan.But their string of successes turns into a noose when the ultimate con artists find themselves on the wrong end of the ultimate con.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1736'),
(1448, 'For a Few Demons More', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With her action-packed Hollows series, featuring former bounty hunter--and mistress of the dark arts--Rachel Morgan, Kim Harrison has become one of the hottest authors in the incredibly popular genre of sexy supernaturalism. In her latest Hollows tale,\n <em>\n  For a Few Demons More\n </em>\n , Rachel unleashes all kinds of undead fury on the greater Cincinnati area when she tries to track down a serial killer. To catch up on the Hollows series so far, and to see the music that has inspired the stories, see below.\n</p>\n<p>\n Follow the Hollows\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dead Witch Walking\n </em>\n (Book 1)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Good, the Bad, and the Undead\n </em>\n (Book 2)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Every Which Way but Dead\n </em>\n (Book 3)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Fistful of Charms\n </em>\n (Book 4)\n</p>\n<p>\n Music Is the Muse\n</p>\n<p>\n For Kim Harrison, music inspires her stories, and especially her characters. In her exclusive Music Is the Muse list for us, she reveals some favorite records that have provided the source, and the soul, for Rachel, Ivy, Trent, and more of her passionate and powerful characters. Among her muses:\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bleed Like Me\n </em>\n , Garbage\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  With Teeth\n </em>\n , Nine Inch Nails\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fallen\n </em>\n , Evanescence\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In bestseller Harrison''s fifth demon-kicking extravaganza to feature Rachel Morgan, the first in hardcover (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  A Fistful of Charms\n </em>\n ), the Cincinnati-based bounty hunter and spell caster still possesses "the focus," a 5,000-year-old demon-crafted Were artifact. With the help of her pixie partner Jenks and Detective Glenn, Rachel must deal with demons, the elf Trent Kalamack and master vampire Piscary, who along with angry Weres, struggle for possession of the artifact. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and Rachel''s alpha werewolf pal, David Hue, becomes the prime suspect of the FIB (aka the human-run Federal Inderland Bureau). Action-packed and full of Rachel''s persistent erotic ruminations, this titillating tale includes a shocking finale that will leave fans panting for the next installment in the Hollows series.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1239'),
(1449, 'For Love of Mother-Not', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely campelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer''s block. One hundred credits and he was hers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew Â— even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip''s venom . . . and Flinx''s unusual Talents.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1426'),
(1450, 'For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  This is Ayn Rand''s challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time, and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was a proponent of a moral philosophy called Objectivism-and ethic of rational self-interest-that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality-"a philosophy for living on earth-are here vibrantly set forth by the spokeswoman for a new kind of intellectual.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1457'),
(1451, 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', 'Sparknotes &amp; Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan''s love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo''s last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author''s previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/647'),
(1452, 'Ford County: Stories', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Pat Conroy Reviews *Ford County\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pat Conroy is most recently the author of the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   South of Broad\n  </em>\n  , as well as eight previous books:\n  <em>\n   The Boo\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Water Is Wide\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Great Santini\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Lords of Discipline\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Prince of Tides\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Beach Music\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   My Losing Season\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life\n  </em>\n  . He lives on Fripp Island, South Carolina. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of\n  <em>\n   Ford County\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In the mail last week, I received a copy of John Grishamâ€™s latest fiction. It surprised me that the book was comprised of seven short stories. From the time I first began publishing at Doubleday, they have always made sure that I received a copy of a Grisham book long before it went on sale in the bookstores. He has written 22 books, and Iâ€™ve read them all as soon as they were available in crisp review copies.\n</p>\n<p>\n I have loved the Grisham books for the same reason that I love the works of John Irving, Richard Russo, or Anne Rivers Siddons: I get hooked by an early page, and pure habit forces me to read until I am issued my walking papers and can return to my normal life. These writers are all wish-bringers who cast spells with the bright enchantment of their stories, and the power of story has retained its glamour and necessity for me. Iâ€™ve always liked it when Grisham took a sabbatical from his impressive fiction to romp in the field of sports or non-fiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n John surprised me by entering the ring of danger that the short story represents for all writers. In the world of writing, the poets come first as they finger the language like worry beads and wonder where their next meal is coming from. The art of the short story writer is one of economy, concision, and the genius of trying to craft a whole world inside a mason jar. The modern world punishes the short story writer with inattention. The literary reviews keep the short story alive and finger-popping in America today, while the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n tries to strangle the form with its bare hands. But a great short story is a source of joy, and the reading of Chekhov, de Maupassant, Flannery Oâ€™Connor and others offer pleasures unmatched by any other form. Since Iâ€™m incapable of writing the short story form, I wanted to see how Grisham fared, knowing the critics would sharpen their swords against him no matter how accomplished his stories might be.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Ford County\n </em>\n is the best writing that John Grisham has ever done. One of the many things Iâ€™ve admired about his books is his intimate chronicle of Mississippi life in the generations following William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. Grisham writes equally well about the plantation south, the black south, and white-cracker south. Over the years he has used the legal system as an instrument to illuminate the world of mansions and sharecroppers and everything in between as he not only defined Mississippi but also staked it out as his home fictional territory. His short stories were a surprise to me. All of them are very good; three of them, I believe, are great. Grisham has always had a rare gift for breaking hearts when he invokes unforgettable images of the broken, hopeless South. Some of the stories are hilarious, and Grishamâ€™s gift of humor has never found a showcase like this. One of these stories should find its way into the anthologies of the best short stories of 2009. It might not happen, but I for one think the stories in\n <em>\n  Ford County\n </em>\n are that damned good.\n <em>\n  --Pat Conroy\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© David G. Spielman)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Returning to the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, longtime bestseller Grisham presents seven short stories about the residents of Ford County, Miss. Each story explores different themes-mourning, revenge, justice, acceptance, evolution-but all flirt with the legal profession, the staple of (former attorney) Grisham''s oeuvre. Fans will be excited to settle back into Grisham''s world, and these easily digestible stories don''t disappoint, despite their brevity. Full of strong characters, simple but resonant plotlines, and charming Southern accents, this collection is solid throughout; though his literary aspirations may seem quaint, Grisham succeeds admirably in his crowd-pleasing craft while avoiding pat endings or oversimplifying (perhaps best exemplified in "Michael''s Room," which finds a lawyer facing the consequences of successfully defending a doctor against a malpractice suit). As always, Grisham balances his lawyerly preoccupations with a deep respect for his undereducated and overlooked characters.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/702'),
(1453, 'Foreign Influence', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Navy SEAL turned covert operative Scot Harvath is called to action once again in Brad Thor''s hottest political thriller yet. Buried within the black ops budget of the Department of Defense, a new spy agency has been created. Unfettered by the oversight of self-serving politicians, it reports only to a secret panel of insiders. Its job is to target America''s enemiesboth foreign and domesticunder a charter of three simple words: Find, Fix, and Finish. Recruited as a field operative, Scot Harvath has just returned from his first assignment abroad when a bombing in Rome kills a group of American college students. The evidence points to a dangerous colleague from Harvath''s past, and Harvath is tasked with leveraging his relationship to lure the man out of hiding and destroy him. But what if he has the wrong man? Simultaneously, a young woman is struck by a taxi in a hit-and-run in Chicago, and city police soon abandon their fruitless investigation. But when the family''s attorney digs deeper, he uncovers a shocking connection to the Rome bombing and the perpetrators'' plans for America. Tying together the disparate violence, Scot Harvath races to prevent one of the most audacious and unthinkable acts of terror in the history of mankind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2455'),
(1454, 'Forever Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A dead-on performance by narrator Baker brings Koontz''s supernatural thriller to life. Odd Thomas, the psychic protagonist of Koontz''s 2003 novel of the same name, is blessed, or cursed, with the ability to see the dead. Thomas is summoned to the house of his best friend, Danny Jessup, by Danny''s murdered father. Danny is missing and it is up to Thomas to find him. His search leads him to an old, abandoned casino and into the clutches of the frightening Datura, who plans to use Thomas and his powers to further her own demented and deadly exploration of the supernatural. Baker excellently keeps the suspense as taunt as Koontz''s prose. He gives Thomas an appropriately youthful vocalization while at the same time capturing the "old soul" weariness of someone who has seen and endured too much sorrow and tragedy, for his age. With Datura, Baker offers a perfect interpretation as he bounces effectively from seductive through menacing to just plain insane. Baker hits all the right thrills in this enjoyable melding of reader and writer.\n <em>\n  Simultaneous release with the Bantam hardcover (Reviews, Nov. 7). (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grieving the loss of his fiancee, killed during the climax of his eponymous debut despite anything he and his supernatural intuition could do, Odd Thomas returns in a more suspenseful but less piquant adventure. Only a year older (21), he feels almost ancient and more rueful than ever about his gift for seeing ghosts, Dr. Wilbur Jessup''s in particular. The loving stepfather of Odd''s brittle-boned friend Danny was alive yesterday, so Odd investigates, as the "psychic magnetism" that attends his ghost-seeing compels him to, and finds the physician brutally murdered and Danny missing. Odd tracks Danny and his abductors to an abandoned casino-hotel, closed by an earthquake that killed dozens five years ago. It''s a trap. Danny is bait to draw Odd to Datura, a spookily self-absorbed, wealthy porn entrepreneur and New Age nut, who, obsessed with violent death, wants Odd to make ghosts visible to her. He can''t, but there are eight ghosts in the casino, one of whom comes in handy when Odd escapes Datura and her two gorillas, rescues and hides Danny, and engages in the protracted, lethal game of cat-and-mouse that makes the novel good-to-the-last-page enthralling. Quite apart from Odd''s moroseness (understandable given his circumstances and endearing youthfulness), the tale''s stranglehold suspense allows for less of the offbeat humor that lightened\n <em>\n  Odd Thomas\n </em>\n (2003). Datura is a creation that allows Koontz some sledgehammer polemicizing against alternative religion and spirituality, which additionally darkens things. Not to complain, though. This is only slightly less than top-drawer Koontz.\n <em>\n  Ray Olson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/515'),
(1455, 'Forgotten', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  WHO SPEAKS FOR THE DEAD WHEN THEY SCREAM BLOODY MURDER?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sheldon Woods kidnapped and killed an untold number of boys, then escaped the death penalty by making a plea bargain for multiple life sentences in exchange for revealing the whereabouts of some of his victims. More than a decade later, the full extent of his crimes is still unknown, and many of the dead have never been accounted for. But Lisa Walsh is certain her brother Christopher was one of them, and to honor her motherâ€™s dying wish, sheâ€™s on a mission to learn the truth and recover the little boyâ€™s remains. FBI agent Portia Cahill, tasked with confronting the caged killer, is obliged to play his mind games to get what sheâ€™s after, but she ends up with more than she bargained for when the remains of another boyâ€™s body are discovered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Determined to ID the mystery child, Portia reluctantly teams with James Cannon, the attorney who once defended Woods. But chasing a killerâ€™s grisly legacy, and the bones of the forgotten dead, will lead them into the lethal orbit of a monster whoâ€™s seeding the graves of the past with a fresh wave of innocent victims.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1934'),
(1456, 'The Forgotten Man', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Los Angeles, 3:58 a.m.: Elvis Cole receives the phone call heâ€™s been waiting for since childhood. Responding to a gunshot, the LAPD has found an injured man in an alleyway. He has told the officer on the scene that he is looking for his son, Elvis Cole. Minutes later, the man is dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n Haunted throughout his life by a lack of knowledge about his father, Elvis turns to the one person who can help him navigate the minefield of his past â€“ his longtime partner and confidant, Joe Pike. Together with hard-edged LAPD detective, Carol Starkey, they launch a feverish search for the dead manâ€™s identity â€“ even as Elvis struggles between wanting to believe heâ€™s found his father at last, and allowing his suspicions to hold him back. With each long-buried clue they unearth, a frightening picture begins to emerge about who the dead man might have been, and the terrible secret heâ€™s been guarding.\n</p>\n<p>\n At the same time, Elvis has no way of knowing he has awakened a sleeping monster. The further he goes in his investigation, the closer he draws to a merciless killer who is violently connected to the unidentified manâ€™s past. This psychopath believes Cole is hunting him, and he goes on the attack to find Elvis before Elvis can find him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1338'),
(1457, 'The Fortune of War', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This time it''s the War of 1812 that gets in the way of Captain Jack Aubery''s plans. Caught en route to England in a dispatch vessel, Aubrey and Maturin are soon in the thick of a typically bloody naval engagement. Next stop: an American prison, from which only Maturin''s cunning allows them to engineer an exit.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n On every page Mr. O''Brian reminds us with subtle artistry of the most important of all historical lessons: that times change, but people don''t, that the griefs and follies and victories of the men and women who were here before us are in fact the maps of our own lives. (\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/452'),
(1458, 'Forward the Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A stunning testament to his creative genius.\n <em>\n  Forward The Foundation\n </em>\n is a the saga''s dramatic climax -- the story Asimov fans have been waiting for. An exciting tale of danger, intrigue, and suspense,\n <em>\n  Forward The Foundation\n </em>\n brings to vivid life Asimov''s best loved characters: hero Hari Seldon, who struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory to ensure the survival of humanity; Cleon II, the vain and crafty emperor of the Galactic Empire,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/53'),
(1459, 'Foucault&#39;s Pendulum', 'Umberto Eco', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n If a copy (often unread) of The Name of the Rose on the coffee table was a badge of intellectual superiority in 1983, Eco''s second novel--also an intellectual blockbuster--should prove more accessible. This complex psychological thriller chronicles the development of a literary joke that plunges its perpetrators into deadly peril. The narrator, Casaubon, an expert on the medieval Knights Templars, and two editors working in a branch of a vanity press publishing house in Milan, are told about a purported coded message revealing a secret plan set in motion by the Knights Templars centuries ago when the society was forced underground. As a lark, the three decide to invent a history of the occult tying a variety of phenomena to the mysterious machinations of the Order. Feeding their inspirations into a computer, they become obsessed with their story, dreaming up links between the Templars and just about every occult manifestation throughout history, and predicting that culmination of the Templars'' scheme to take over the world is close at hand. The plan becomes real to them--and eventually to the mysterious They, who want the information the trio has "discovered." Dense, packed with meaning, often startlingly provocative, the novel is a mixture of metaphysical meditation, detective story, computer handbook, introduction to physics and philosophy, historical survey, mathematical puzzle, compendium of religious and cultural mythology, guide to the Torah (Hebrew, rather than Latin contributes to the puzzle here, but is restricted mainly to chapter headings), reference manual to the occult, the hermetic mysteries, the Rosicrucians, the Jesuits, the Freemasons-- ad infinitum . The narrative eventually becomes heavy with the accumulated weight of data and supposition, and overwrought with implication, and its climax may leave readers underwhelmed. Until that point, however, this is an intriguing cerebral exercise in which Eco slyly suggests that intellectual arrogance can come to no good end.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Student of philology in 1970s Milan, Casaubon is completing a thesis on the Templars, a monastic knighthood disbanded in the 1300s for questionable practices. At Pilades Bar, he meets up with Jacopo Belbo, an editor of obscure texts at Garamond Press. Together with Belbo''s colleague Diotallevi, they scrutinize the fantastic theories of a prospective author, Colonel Ardenti, who claims that for seven centuries the Templars have been carrying out a complex scheme of revenge. When Ardenti disappears mysteriously, the three begin using their detailed knowledge of the occult sciences to construct a Plan for the Templars[...] In his compulsively readable new novel, Eco plays with "the notion that everything might be mysteriously related to everything else," suggesting that we ourselves create the connections that make up reality. As in his best-selling The Name of the Rose, he relies on abstruse reasoning without losing the reader, for he knows how to use "the polyphony of ideas" as much for effect as for content. Indeed, with its investigation of the ever-popular occult, this highly entertaining novel should be every bit as successful as its predecessor. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/89. -- Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/865'),
(1460, 'Foul Play', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Amy Klasse loses her TV job to a dancing chicken, handsome veterinarian Jake Elliott rescues her with an offer to be his receptionist. Jake just can''t resist a damsel in distress, and Amy certainly doesn''t mind Jake''s charming sincerity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then suddenly the job-stealing chicken disappears and Amy is suspected of foul play. Amy and Jake search for clues to prove her innocence. But will Jake be able to prove to Amy that love, too, is a mystery worth solving?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestselling author Janet Evanovich is the winner of the New Jersey Romance Writers Golden Leaf Award and multiple\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n  awards, including Lifetime Achievement. She is also a long-standing member of RWA.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/781'),
(1461, 'Found Money', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Single mother Amy Parkens feels trapped by a boring job, low pay, and no time for her young daughter. But that''s before $200,000 in cold, hard cash arrives in an unmarked box. Desperately needing the money, Amy fears a setup, or a connection to her mother''s suicide twenty years earlier. So she sets out to find the source.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A decent, responsible small-town doctor, Ryan Duffy didn''t expect to inherit a fortune from his electrician father, who had millions stashed away in the attic. Did it come from extortion, robbery, or some other terrible crime? Painful as it is, Ryan is drawn to his father''s dark past, determined to find the truth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Desperate for answers, Amy and Ryan soon cross paths on a dangerous quest that takes them through a labyrinth of deception and blackmailâ€” leading them to a man of unfathomable power who holds the key to their fortunes . . . and their lives.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For anyone who''s ever dreamed of finding a cash windfall, Grippando''s (The Abduction) new crime novel offers a cautionary tale of greed, family secrets and the dangers of getting what you wish for. Just before Frank Duffy dies, he tells his physician son, Ryan, that there is $2 million hidden in the attic, and that Frank got the money through blackmail?albeit off someone who "deserved it." The level-headed Ryan considers both claims unbelievable?until he finds the money. What secrets had his mild-mannered, hard-working father been hiding? Meanwhile, Amy Parkins, while struggling to support her daughter and her grandmother and to put herself through law school, receives $200,000 from an anonymous benefactor, apparently Frank Duffy, whom she''d never met. Why? Could the gift have anything to do with her mother''s mysterious suicide 20 years earlier? Troubled by the criminal implications of his father''s legacy, Ryan decides he can''t touch the cash until he knows where it came from. His questions kick off a wild ride involving lawyers and guns, Panamanian banks, seductive strangers and too much FBI interest for comfort. Amy, too, tries to trace the money, putting her on a collision course with Ryan and his greed-maddened family. As Ryan and Amy search for the money''s source and meaning, they uncover a conspiracy involving high-ranking government officials, multi-billion-dollar corporations and a hidden crime committed on a hot summer night years ago. The final revelation is a real kicker, but it would carry even more force if overly tricky plot contrivances hadn''t diluted the suspense of what came before.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An impoverished single mother is stupefied to find $200,000 in a package anonymously mailed to her, until her house is broken into shortly thereafter. A dying electrician tells his son about $2 million buried under the floorboards of the attic. The son, incredulous, locates another $3 million in a Panamanian bank, but when he goes to investigate, his papers are stolen. Both of the newly wealthy people have reservations about keeping money acquired so suspiciously and are soon in touch. Grippando (The Informant) nicely plots a baffling yet believable story of extortion and deception from an earlier generation. Sad to say, the tale eventually degenerates into a gun battle at a remote dam after midnight, with a hired killer and the appointee to head the Federal Reserve Board. Still, the setup is well done, and if the story slips into thriller clich?s, well, it''s that kind of book. This is one of the few abridgments that doesn''t leave the listener wondering whether a tape was left out of the package; Mark Blum reads with a real sense of urgency. Overall, you could do much worse.AJohn Hiett, Iowa City P.L.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2483'),
(1462, 'Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Foundation\n  </em>\n  marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn''t look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (\n  <em>\n   Foundation\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Foundation and Empire\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Second Foundation\n  </em>\n  ) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for "Best All-Time Series." It''s science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field.\n  <em>\n   --Brooks Peck\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the futureâ€”a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empireâ€”both scientists and scholarsâ€”and brings them to\n  <br />\n  a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankindâ€™s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slavesâ€”or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(1463, 'Foundation and Earth', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man''s fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia. Springing from the same impulse that has fed his myriad nonfiction work, the novel''s debate is enlivened by Asimov''s fervid curiosity and his restless urge to explain everything, right down to the human passions that have largely vanished from his fiction. In fact, the characters, the tie-ins to Asimov''s Robot series and the search''s revelations suffer from the impersonal neatness that has handicapped Asimov''s other fiction. He has, however, found an ingenious way around his clumsiness with novelistic narrative by employing a formal fairy tale structure in which the different worlds represent tasks or gifts or wishes, their fair aspect hiding a deadly surprise. As a result, this rather lightweight addendum to the series breathes in a way his heavier, more substantial books seldom do. Paperback rights to Ballantine/Del Rey; BOMC alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man''s fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(1464, 'Foundation and Empire', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The\n <strong>\n  Foundation\n </strong>\n novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanityâ€™s light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence.\n <br />\n Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empireâ€”still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empireâ€™s glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon.\n <br />\n But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called The Muleâ€”a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleetsâ€¦a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.\n <br />\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/43'),
(1465, 'Foundation&#39;s Edge', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/45'),
(1466, 'The Fountainhead', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Fountainhead\n </em>\n studies the conflict between artistic genius and social convention, a theme Ayn Rand later developed into the idealistic philosophy knows as Objectivism.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rand''s hero is Howard Roark, a brilliant young architect who won''t compromise his integrity, especially in the unconventional buildings he designs. Roark is engaged in ideological warfare with a society that despises him, an architectural community that doesn''t understand him, and a woman who loves him but wants to destroy him. His struggle raises questions about society''s attitude toward revolutionaries. Since this book''s publication in 1943, Rand''s controversial ideas have made her one of the best-selling authors of all time.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n A phenomenal bestseller since its publication in 1943, The Fountainhead brought Ayn Rand''s philosophy of Objectivism to a worldwide audience. As original today as it was when it was written, this novel reinvents the modern-day hero. This anniversary edition includes a special afterword by Leonard Peikoff and excerpts from Rand''s own notes about the book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/245'),
(1467, 'Four Blind Mice', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this latest thriller from perennial bestselling author James Patterson, Washington cop Alex Cross gets involved in his partner''s effort to save the life of an old Army buddy who''s facing execution for a horrendous and inexplicable murder spree in North Carolina. The Army''s evidence against Sergeant Ellis Cooper, a decorated Vietnam vet, is overwhelming, which isn''t surprising since it''s all been planted by a quartet of killers whose reason for framing the erstwhile hero isn''t revealed until long after they are. The big secret is who set the murderers loose, and in true cliffhanger fashion, Patterson keeps it under wraps until the very end. Meanwhile, his usual blend of action, violence, fast pacing and uninspired-though-serviceable prose prevail, and will probably do so all the way to the top of the bestseller lists.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With Patterson continuing to move in unexpected directions (his next novel, The Jester, due out in March 2003, is a medieval adventure), it''s a pleasure to see him touch home base with another Alex Cross thriller this one the best Cross yet. The mice of the title are three homicidal Army Rangers, Vietnam vets, and their mysterious controller; as is usual in the Cross novels, we know this much sooner than does the black Washington, D.C., detective, who gets involved when an army careerist, Sgt. Ellis Cooper, an old pal of Cross''s colleague and best friend, John Sampson, is found guilty at military trial for the brutal murder of three women, but claims innocence. Traveling to North Carolina, where Cooper awaits execution, and to Fort Bragg to investigate, Cross and Sampson encounter stonewalling among the military which only intensifies as they uncover a pattern of other military men executed for like crimes they may not have committed. As the duo visits West Point, they confront an even thicker "gray" wall of silence. Meanwhile, the killers strike again, and when Cross and Sampson identify them, the Rangers begin hunting the cops. The action leads, as is Patterson''s custom, to a firecracker string of climaxes; the finale finds Cross handcuffed and stripped naked in deep woods, about to be killed. Throughout, Patterson expertly balances the conspiratorial action with intriguing developments in Cross''s domestic life, including health problems for his family''s anchor, the elderly Nana, and growing romance between him and a California cop. Everything clicks in this novel, from Patterson''s patented short chapters (115 here) to the whiplash plotting. This may not be high lit, but it sure is entertainment.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/353');
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(1468, 'Four Past Midnight', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jet passengers are stuck in a time-slip, a psychopath accuses a writer of plagiarism, a man with an overdue book encounters a demonic librarian and a boy''s camera snaps photos of a huge and nasty dog in these four horror novellas. According to PW , "None is wildly scary, and only "The Library Policeman" offers King''s typical, colloquial, hard-driving conversational style with its compulsive readability."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- Like some denizen of the dark, King weaves a spell evoking terror and shivers as he takes readers on a nightmarish journey in this quartet of novellas. In "Longoliers" a group of airline passengers awake to an empty plane, and an empty world. They have become stuck in time, out of sync with the present at 20,000 feet. "Secret Window, Secret Garden" finds novelist Mort Rainey confronted by an eerie character who accuses him of plagiarism, and has come to settle up. In "Sun Dog," Kevin Delevan gets exactly what he wanted for his 15th birthday, a Polaroid "Sun 660" camera, but every picture he takes shows a salivating "hell hound" getting closer and closer. In "Library Policeman," the best of the four, Sam Peebles borrows two books from the library late one night, and the librarian warns him not to be late returning them. What Sam doesn''t know is that she was a child murderer who committed suicide in 1960, and when he loses the books, her library policeman pays him a visit. Four Past Midnight is one of King''s best recent works. It is hard to put down, truly chilling, and sure to be enjoyed by YA horror aficionados everywhere.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/514'),
(1469, 'Fragile', 'Lisa Unger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Maggie and Jones live with their teenage son, Rick, in The Hollows, a small town outside of New York City.Â  The cozy intimacy of the town is broken when Rickâ€™s girlfriend, Charlene, mysteriously disappears.Â  The investigation has Jones, the lead detective on the case, acting strangely and Rick, already a brooding teenager, becomes even more withdrawn.Â  Maggie finds herself drawn in both as a trained psychologist and as a mother, walking a tightrope that threatens the stability of her family.Â  Determined to uncover the truth, Maggie pursues her own leads into Charleneâ€™s disappearance and exposes a long-buried town secretâ€”one that could destroy everything she holds dear.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set in the Hollows, a secluded town about 100 miles outside New York City, Unger''s contemporary thriller offers solid entertainment, but lacks the tension of her 2008 stand-alone, Black Out. Psychologist Maggie Cooper and her husband, Det. Jones Cooper, disagree on how to handle their rebellious son, 17-year-old Rick, who prefers to spend time with his band or holed up with his girlfriend, Charlene Murray. When Charlene disappears one night after a fight with her mother, Maggie and Jones wonder if she ran off to Manhattan, but are reminded of the disappearance 20 years earlier of Sarah Meyers, whose mutilated body was found after she vanished on her way home from school. Though the alleged killer confessed, there are still unanswered questions, and Maggie and Jones find themselves forced to revisit the past as suspicion falls on Rick. Since the Hollows is so small, characters continually rehash secrets--and rumors--so that Unger relies too heavily on the community''s interconnectedness to bolster her plot.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  History repeats itself in the cozy suburban enclave of the Hollows when a teenage girl goes missing. Charleneâ€™s disappearance strikes uncomfortably close to home for psychiatrist Maggie and her policeman husband, Jones, opening wounds that go back 20 years to when they, and Charleneâ€™s mother, Melody, were high-school classmates and Maggieâ€™s best friend, Sarah, was found brutally murdered. Jones and Melody carry a secret from that time, one that involves school bully turned town cop Travis Crosby. Now both Maggie and Jonesâ€™ son, Ricky, and Travisâ€™ son, Marshall, are prime suspects in Charleneâ€™s disappearance; and while Jones harbors unsettling opinions about Ricky, Maggie knows other disturbing facts about Marshall. As tensions mount with each passing hour that Charlene is gone, the parents must face the truth about the teenagers they were if they are to help the children they themselves have raised. Ungerâ€™s taut and edgy tale stealthily plumbs the depths of desperation that grow more dangerous with the passage of time. --Carol Haggas\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2465'),
(1470, 'Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hot off the critical success of\n <em>\n  Anansi Boys\n </em>\n , Gaiman offers this largely disappointing medley that feels like a collection of idea seeds that have yet to mature. Among the ground covered: an old woman eats her cat alive, slowly; two teenage boys fumble through a house party attended by preternaturally attractive aliens; a raven convinces a writer attempting realism to give way to fantastical inclinations. A few poems, heartfelt or playfully musical, pockmark the collection. At his best, Gaiman has a deft touch for surprise and inventiveness, and there are inspired moments, including one story that brings the months of the year to life and imagines them having a board meeting. (September is an "elegant creature of mock solicitude," while April is sensitive but cruel; they don''t get along), but most of these stories rely too heavily on the stock-in-trade of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. Gaiman only once or twice gives himself the space necessary to lock the reader''s attention.\n <em>\n  150,000 announced first printing.\n </em>\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€”In this collection of stories (and a few poems), storytellers and the act of storytelling have prominent roles. The anthropomorphized months of the year swap tales at their annual board meeting: a half-eaten man recounts how he made the acquaintance of his beloved cannibal; and even Scheherazade, surely the greatest storyteller of all, receives a tribute with a poem. The stories are by turns horrifying and fanciful, often blending the two with a little sex, violence, and humor. An introduction offers the genesis of each selection, itself a stealthy way of initiating teens into the art of writing short stories, and to some of the important authors of the genre. Gaiman cites his influences, and readers may readily see the inflection of H. P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury in many of the tales. Horror and fantasy are forms of literature wrought with clichÃ©s, but Gaiman usually comes up with an interesting new angle. This collection is more poetic and more restrained than Stephen King''s short stories and more expertly written than China Mieville''s\n <em>\n  Looking for Jake\n </em>\n (Ballantine, 2005). Gaiman skips along the edge of many adolescent fascinations-life, death, the living dead, and the occult-and teens with a taste for the weird will enjoy this bookâ€”\n <em>\n  Emma Coleman, Berkeley Public Library, CA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/701'),
(1471, 'Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text', 'Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley &amp; Marilyn Butler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''makes the original 1818 text easily available, and there are good reasons for welcoming it ... Butler''s introduction is a rich essay in historical contextualisation, emphasising the Shelleys'' early links with materialist physiology and showing how the 1831 edition reflected the broad intellectual changes of the intervening years.'' The English Association\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''this edition is worth a browse'' Daily Telegraph\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''The excellent introduction discusses the circumstances of its writing in the wider context of social and scientific controversy.'' Good Book Guide, January 1995\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Shelley''s enduringly popular and rich gothic tale confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science--topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind''s ability to act as creator of the modern world. This new edition, based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text, draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, and shows the relationship of Frankenstein''s experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  About the Series:\n </strong>\n For over 100 years\n <strong>\n  Oxford World''s Classics\n </strong>\n has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1076'),
(1472, 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything', 'Steven D. Levitt &amp; Stephen J. Dubner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In\n <em>\n  Freakonomics\n </em>\n (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don''t need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald''s, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don''t really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner''s 2003 profile of Levitt in\n <em>\n  The New York Times Magazine\n </em>\n , which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers\n <em>\n  Freakonomics\n </em>\n , however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there''s a good economic reason for that too, and we''re just not getting it yet.\n <em>\n  --John Moe\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Forget your image of an economist as a crusty professor worried about fluctuating interest rates: Levitt focuses his attention on more intimate real-world issues, like whether reading to your baby will make her a better student. Recognition by fellow economists as one of the best young minds in his field led to a profile in the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n , written by Dubner, and that original article serves as a broad outline for an expanded look at Levitt''s search for the hidden incentives behind all sorts of behavior. There isn''t really a grand theory of everything here, except perhaps the suggestion that self-styled experts have a vested interest in promoting conventional wisdom even when it''s wrong. Instead, Dubner and Levitt deconstruct everything from the organizational structure of drug-dealing gangs to baby-naming patterns. While some chapters might seem frivolous, others touch on more serious issues, including a detailed look at Levitt''s controversial linkage between the legalization of abortion and a reduced crime rate two decades later. Underlying all these research subjects is a belief that complex phenomena can be understood if we find the right perspective. Levitt has a knack for making that principle relevant to our daily lives, which could make this book a hit. Malcolm Gladwell blurbs that Levitt "has the most interesting mind in America," an invitation Gladwell''s own substantial fan base will find hard to resist. 50-city radio campaign.\n <em>\n  (May 1)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/414'),
(1473, 'Free Fall', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Elvis Cole is just a detective who can''''t say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies: Her fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer''''s sure he''''s in trouble - the kind of serious trouble that only Elvis Cole can help him out of.\n</p>\n<p>\n Five minutes after his new client leaves his office, Elvis and his partner, the enigmatic Joe Pike, are hip-deep in a deadly situation as they plummet into a world of South Central gangs, corrupt cops, and conspiracies of silence. And before the case is through, every cop in the LAPD will be gunning for a pair of escaped armed-and-dangerous killers - Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Elvis lives . . . Elvis Cole, that is, the hottest, hippest L.A. gumshoe detective from award-winning author Robert Crais. In a roller-coaster of excitement and mystery, a dirty cop''s girlfriend hires Cole to get the goods on the cop. However, the cop swears he''s clean--merely cheating on the girlfriend. Crais''s smart-mouthing detective rivals the best in the genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1332'),
(1474, 'Freedom', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best of the Month, August 2010\n </strong>\n : "The awful thing about life is this:" says Octave to the Marquis in Renoir''s\n <em>\n  Rules of the Game\n </em>\n . "Everyone has his reasons." That could be a motto for novelists as well, few more so than Jonathan Franzen, who seems less concerned with creating merely likeable characters than ones who are fully alive, in all their self-justifying complexity.\n <em>\n  Freedom\n </em>\n is his fourth novel, and, yes, his first in nine years since\n <em>\n  The Corrections\n </em>\n . Happy to say, it''s very much a match for that great book, a wrenching, funny, and forgiving portrait of a Midwestern family (from St. Paul this time, rather than the fictional St. Jude). Patty and Walter Berglund find each other early: a pretty jock, focused on the court and a little lost off it, and a stolid budding lawyer, besotted with her and almost burdened by his integrity. They make a family and a life together, and, over time, slowly lose track of each other. Their stories align at times with Big Issues--among them mountaintop removal, war profiteering, and rock''n''roll--and in some ways can''t be separated from them, but what you remember most are the characters, whom you grow to love the way families often love each other: not for their charm or goodness, but because they have their reasons, and you know them.\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Nine years after winning the National Book Award, Franzen''s The Corrections consistently appears on "Best of the Decade" lists and continues to enjoy a popularity that borders on the epochal, so much so that the first question facing Franzen''s feverishly awaited follow-up is whether it can find its own voice in its predecessor''s shadow. In short: yes, it does, and in a big way. Readers will recognize the strains of suburban tragedy afflicting St. Paul, Minn.''s Walter and Patty Berglund, once-gleaming gentrifiers now marred in the eyes of the community by Patty''s increasingly erratic war on the right-wing neighbors with whom her eerily independent and sexually precocious teenage son, Joey, is besot, and, later, "greener than Greenpeace" Walter''s well-publicized dealings with the coal industry''s efforts to demolish a West Virginia mountaintop. The surprise is that the Berglunds'' fall is outlined almost entirely in the novel''s first 30 pages, freeing Franzen to delve into Patty''s affluent East Coast girlhood, her sexual assault at the hands of a well-connected senior, doomed career as a college basketball star, and the long-running love triangle between Patty, Walter, and Walter''s best friend, the budding rock star Richard Katz. By 2004, these combustible elements give rise to a host of modern predicaments: Richard, after a brief peak, is now washed up, living in Jersey City, laboring as a deck builder for Tribeca yuppies, and still eyeing Patty. The ever-scheming Joey gets in over his head with psychotically dedicated high school sweetheart and as a sub-subcontractor in the re-building of postinvasion Iraq. Walter''s many moral compromises, which have grown to include shady dealings with Bush-Cheney cronies (not to mention the carnal intentions of his assistant, Lalitha), are taxing him to the breaking point. Patty, meanwhile, has descended into a morass of depression and self-loathing, and is considering breast augmentation when not working on her therapist-recommended autobiography. Franzen pits his excavation of the cracks in the nuclear family''s facade against a backdrop of all-American faults and fissures, but where the book stands apart is that, no longer content merely to record the breakdown, Franzen tries to account for his often stridently unlikable characters and find where they (and we) went wrong, arriving at--incredibly--genuine hope.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/836'),
(1475, 'The French Revolution: From Its Origins to 1793', 'Georges Lefebvre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the definitive account. A vivid narrative of events in France and across Europe is combined with acute insights into the underlying forces that created the dynamics of the revolution, as well as the personalities responsible for day-to-day decisions during this momentous period. In tracing the web of intrigues and influences that transpired as the French Revolution, Lefebvre illuminates the fundamentals of historical interpretation and, at the same time, tells a story that will compel every reader.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1866'),
(1476, 'From a Buick 8', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen King, an evil car, and a teenage boy coming to terms with the fragility and randomness of life.... Wait, haven''t we read this before? Diehard King fans, worry not. Aside from the titular car playing a main role in the story,\n <em>\n  From a Buick 8\n </em>\n could not be less like King''s 1983 masterpiece,\n <em>\n  Christine\n </em>\n . If anything, this story resembles King''s serial novel\n <em>\n  The Green Mile\n </em>\n , with reminiscing police characters flashing back on bizarre events that took place decades earlier.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book''s intriguing plot revolves around the troopers of Pennsylvania State Patrol Troop D, who come into possession of what at first appears to be a vintage automobile. Closer inspection and experimentation conducted by the troopers reveal that this car''s doors (and trunk) sometimes open to another dimension populated by gross-out creatures straight out of ... well, a Stephen King novel. As the plot progresses, the veteran troopers'' tales of these visits from interdimensional nasties, and the occasional "lightquakes" put on by the car, are passed on to the son of a fallen comrade whose fascination with the car bordered on dangerous obsession.\n</p>\n<p>\n Unlike earlier King works, there is no active threat here; no monster is stalking the heroes of the story, unless you count the characters'' own curiosity. In past books, King has terrorized readers with vampires, werewolves, a killer clown, ghosts, and aliens, but this time around, the bogeyman is a more passive, cerebral threat, and one for which they don''t make a ready-to-wear Halloween costume--man''s fascination with and fear of the unknown. While some readers may find this tale less exciting than the horror master''s earlier works,\n <em>\n  From a Buick 8\n </em>\n is a wonderful example of how much King''s plotting skills and literary finesse have matured over his long career. And, most of all, it''s a darn creepy book.\n <em>\n  --Benjamin Reese\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n King, we learn in an author''s note, hashed out the plot of this gripper while driving from western Pennsylvania to New York. The first draft took two months to write. That''s quick work, and it''s reflected in the book''s simplicity of plot and theme; unlike King''s chewy last novel, Dreamcatcher, this one goes down like a shot of moonshine, hot and clean, much like Cujo, say, or Gerald''s Game. In 1979, an odd man drives what at first glance looks like a 1954 mint-quality Buick Roadmaster up to a service station in rural Pennsylvania, then vanishes, leaving behind the car. The state police of Troop D deposit the vehicle in a shed near their barracks, where, up to the present, it remains a secret from all but cop colleagues for the car isn''t exactly a car; it may be alive, and it certainly serves as a doorway between our world and... what? Another dimension? Another galaxy? The troopers never find out, despite their amateurish scientific investigations of it and of the weird beings that occasionally emerge from the vehicle''s trunk: freaky fish, creepy flowers and more. Moreover, the "car" is dangerous: the day it appears, a state trooper disappears, and experiments over the years with cockroaches, etc., indicate that just as the car can spew things out, it will ingest them. While the book''s relative brevity and simplicity does lend comparison to earlier King, and King has relied on a nasty car before (Christine), the author''s stylistic maturity manifests in his sophisticated handling of the round robin of narrators (both first and third-person), the sharp portrayal of police ways and mores and the novel''s compelling subthemes (loyalty, generational bondings) and primary theme: that life is filled with Buick 8s, phenomena that blindside us and that we can never understand. This novel isn''t major King, but it''s nearly flawless and one terrific entertainment.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/517'),
(1477, 'From Dead to Worse', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Harris outdoes herself in this pivotal eighth Sookie Stackhouse novel (after 2007''s\n  <em>\n   All Together Dead\n  </em>\n  ), packing the story full of romantic tension and supernatural action. Having barely survived a catastrophic vampire hotel explosion, Sookie''s back at work in Bon Temps, La., serving vintage blood and waiting tables at Merlotte''s, a vampire bar. Participating in a friend''s wedding and fending off the advances of her vampire ex-lover, Bill, and her blood-bonded pal, Eric, leaves Sookie chafing over the recent lack of communication from Quinn, her weretiger boyfriend. When a violent Were power struggle erupts as Vegas vampires attempt to take over Louisiana from disgraced queen Sophie-Anne, Sookie dives into the middle of it, determined to help her shape-changing, blood-drinking friends. Harris provides many fun twists, most significantly Sookie''s meeting with her fae great-grandfather, Niall Brigant, which paves the way for a shock ending that will delight longtime fans.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] deliciously fiendishâ€¦increasingly riotous series.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Dallas Morning News\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLayered.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] delightful Southern vampire detective series.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Denver Post\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI love the imaginative, creative world of Charlaine Harris!â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Christine Feehan\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWithâ€¦an audacious wink of her eye Harris creates a world that is both a weird possibility and a wild rideâ€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   The Anniston Star (AL)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Charlaine Harrisâ€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Rocky Mountain News\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€Fans of Laurell K. Hamiltonâ€™s Anita Blakeâ€¦should cotton to Sookie Stackhouseâ€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€A style thatâ€™s much more fun than Anne Riceâ€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Monroe (LA) News- Star\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€A thoroughly engaging seriesâ€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Locus\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/630'),
(1478, 'From Potter&#39;s Field', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Kay Scarpetta immediately recognizes the grisly work of Temple Gault, a bold and brilliant killer from her past. Now she must hunt down a psychopath whose string of horrible murders is leading inexorably to his ultimate prey: Scarpetta herself. Even with the help of the FBI, Scarpetta knows the endgame is hers alone to play -- and it will be played on Gault''s home turf, the subway tunnels beneath New York City.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta plays a tense cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer, an old enemy, in her sixth outing (following The Body Farm), and he has her badly rattled. The story begins as a rotten Christmas for Scarpetta: Temple Gault has struck again, leaving a naked, apparently homeless girl shot in Central Park on Christmas Eve; Scarpetta, as the FBI''s consulting pathologist, is called in. Later, a transit cop is found shot in a subway tunnel, and, back home in Richmond, Va., the body of a crooked local sheriff is delivered to Scarpetta''s own morgue by the elusive, brilliant Gault. The normally unflappable Scarpetta finds herself hyperventilating and nearly shooting her own niece. In the end, some ingenious forensic detective work and a visit to the killer''s agonized family set up a high-tech climax back in the New York subway, which Gault treats as the Phantom of the Opera did the sewers of Paris. There''s something faintly unconvincing about Gault (in a competitive field, it''s tough to create a really horrific serial killer), and Scarpetta, stuck with her own family troubles and involved in a rather glum affair with a colleague, seems to be running low on energy. Still, this is a compelling, fast-moving tale, written in a highly compressed style, and only readers who know that Cornwell can do better are likely to complain. Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club and Mystery Guild selections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/911'),
(1479, 'From the Corner of His Eye', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Horrormeister Koontz looks heavenward for inspiration in his newest suspense thriller, which is chock-full of signs, portents, angels, and one somewhat second-rate devil, a murky and undercharacterized guy named Junior Cain who throws his beloved wife off a fire tower on an Oregon mountain and spends the rest of the novel waiting for the retribution that will surely come. But not before a series of tragedies ensues that convince Junior that someone or something named Bartholomew is out to exact vengeance for that crime and the series of other murders that follow.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bartholomew''s own troubles begin with his birth, which transpires moments after his father is killed in a traffic accident as he is taking his wife to the hospital, and continue with the loss of his eyes at the tender age of 3. Young Bartholomew has visionary gifts, though to his mother, a nice lady who''s renowned for her pie-making abilities as well as her sweetly innocent nature, he''s just a particularly smart kid who can read and write before his second birthday. Eventually, Bartholomew regains his sight, Junior Cain gets his comeuppance, and fate conspires to bring love into the Pie Lady''s life, reward the faithful, and put a happy ending on this genre-bending tale. Koontz will no doubt rocket right to the top of the bestseller list with this inventive, if somewhat slower-paced, read.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The premise behind Koontz''s new novel is the same that buoyed Michael Crichton''s TimelineDthat there exist multitudes of alternate universes, each varying only slightly from the next. Whereas Crichton used the idea to generate high adventure, however, Koontz employs it to create powerful emotion tinged with spiritual wonder. That emotion, which rocks characters and will shake readers, marks this as one of Koontz''s most affecting novelsDand he''s written a lot of them. But there''s else in this fitfully suspenseful, sprawling story of good vs. evil that will leave readers wishing Koontz would make better friends with his delete key. Above all, there''s the villain, Junior Cain, whose opening homicidal act will shock readers like ice water on the spine. Koontz enlivens dashing Junior with lots of neat touchesDe.g., he develops psychosomatic afflictions (vomiting, boils) after each killDbut Junior seems built from the outside in, more a pile of tics than a full-fledged human. On the side of good, the characters are more engaging, especially two psychospiritually gifted children and Thomas Vanadium, the magic-working priest-turned-cop who gets on Junior''s case like a pit bull. Vanadium''s lust for justice will galvanize readers, as will the trials and triumphs of the children, particularly the boy, Bartholomew, who Junior seesDin one working out of Koontz''s theme of the interconnectedness of all lifeDas his mortal enemy and seeks to destroy. The potency of that theme and Bartholomew''s wisdom in the face of personal tragedy provide the novel with great uplift, in spite of its wildly convoluted story line and excessive verbiage. (Dec. 26) Forecast: Note the pub date: Koontz has the week after Christmas all to himself. Plans include major ad/promo, 12-copy displays, simultaneous BDD Audio and Random large-print edition and, most importantly, a preview excerpt in each copy of the mass market of False Memory, on sale one month before. Like Koontz''s other novels, this will be a serious bestsellerDperhaps even a #1.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/503'),
(1480, 'From the Heart', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In this stunning collection of novels, "America''s favorite writer" (\n  <em>\n   New Yorker\n  </em>\n  ) illuminates the dreams that lead us toward destiny- and the desires that rule over our hearts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Tonight and Always\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  When a renowned anthropologist agreed to help a writer research his new novel, she wasn''t prepared for the passion their collaboration would spark...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A Matter of Choice\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  An international smuggling ring traps a beautiful antiques dealer and a New York City cop in a web of danger and desire...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Endings and Beginnings\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Two Washington television reporters try to protect their love from their own professional rivalry-and the hazards of their celebrity...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1585'),
(1481, 'The Front', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The audacious new adventure of the At Risk team from Americaâ€™s #1 bestselling crime writer.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Patricia Cornwell introduced the quicksilver, cut-to-the-bone style and extraordinary cast of characters of\n  <em>\n   At Risk\n  </em>\n  , the result was electrifying: â€œ\n  <em>\n   At Risk\n  </em>\n  is Cornwellâ€™s finest novel. It works in every way possibleâ€” fascinating characters, solid plot, great pacing and expertly crafted proseâ€ (\n  <em>\n   St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n  </em>\n  ); â€œAbsolutely the best. Hereâ€™s hoping weâ€™ll see more of Win, Monique, Nana and Sykes in the coming years. They are the best characters to emerge from Cornwellâ€™s creative pen since . . . well, Kay Scarpettaâ€ (\n  <em>\n   The Denver Post\n  </em>\n  ).\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   At Risk\n  </em>\n  featured Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano, a shrewd man of mixed-race background and a notinconsiderable chip on his shoulder; District Attorney Monique Lamont, a hard-charging woman with powerful ambitions and a troubling willingness to cut corners; and Garanoâ€™s grandmother, who has certain unpredictable talents that you ignore at your peril.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  And in\n  <em>\n   The Front\n  </em>\n  , peril is what comes to them all. D.A. Lamont has a special job for Garano. As part of a new public relations campaign about the dangers of declining neighborhoods, sheâ€™s sending him to Watertown to â€œcome up with a drama,â€ and she thinks she knows just the case that will serve. Garano is very skeptical, because he knows that Watertown is also the home base for a loose association of municipal police departments called the FRONT, set up in order that they donâ€™t have to be so dependent on the stateâ€”much to Lamontâ€™s anger. He senses a much deeper agenda hereâ€”but he has no idea just how deep it goes. In the days that follow, heâ€™ll find that Lamontâ€™s task, and the places it leads him, will resemble a house of mirrorsâ€”everywhere he turns, heâ€™s not quite sure if what heâ€™s seeing is true.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFalsehoods rule,â€ warns his grandmother. And they can also kill.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is the master writing at the absolute top of her game. You will never guess what lies behind\n  <em>\n   The Front\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of this weak sequel to 2006''s At Risk from bestseller Cornwell, Monique Lamont, a politically ambitious D.A., uses a speech at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass., to launch an implausible anticrime initiative she''s labeled No Neighbor Left Behind ("The decline of neighborhoods is potentially as destructive as global warming"). Lamont orders her main investigator, Win Garano, to reopen the case of a blind English woman, Janie Brolin, murdered in Watertown in 1962. Lamont suspects Brolin may have been the first victim of the notorious Boston Strangler. For reasons that Lamont fails to coherently articulate, solving this crime will galvanize the public into caring about crime in general. Not incidentally, it will also bolster her chances of ascending to greater power. Lamont''s irresponsible approach to her job may strike some readers as bizarre, while Garano''s ambivalence about his boss adds little to his appeal. The unsophisticated depiction of power politics (e.g., Lamont suggests to the governor of Massachusetts that solving Brolin''s murder will make him Time magazine''s man of the year) is not what the legions of Kay Scarpetta fans have come to expect.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "[A] classically written crime novel...sure to please."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2487'),
(1482, 'Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Want to know where Chuck Palahniukâ€™s tonsils currently reside?\n</p>\n<p>\n Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets?\n</p>\n<p>\n Curious about Chuckâ€™s debut in an MTV music video?\n</p>\n<p>\n What goes on at the Scum Center?\n</p>\n<p>\n How do you get to the Apocalypse CafÃ©?\n</p>\n<p>\n In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers, and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic\n <strong>\n  Geek Love\n </strong>\n , Portland is the home of Americaâ€™s â€œfugitives and refugees.â€ Get to know these folks, the â€œmost cracked of the crackpots,â€ as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise believe actually exist. No other travel guide will give you this kind of access to â€œa little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly, sincere, fascinating people who maybe shouldâ€™ve kept their mouths shut.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Here are strange personal museums, weird annual events, and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingersâ€™ sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabeâ€™s famous 1940s Self-Cleaning House. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa Rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland zoo.\n</p>\n<p>\n Oh, the list goes on and on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/311'),
(1483, 'Full Black: A Thriller', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author Brad Thor brings readers his darkest and most intriguing thriller yetâ€”a terrifying story of espionage and betrayalâ€”brilliantly paced with superb nonstop action.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Born in the shadows and kept from heads of state, some missions are so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply donâ€™t exist. When one such mission goes horribly wrong, only former Navy SEAL Team 6 member turned covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath can carry out an audacious plan to prevent one of the biggest terrorist threats the United States has ever faced: complete and total collapse. But as the identities of the perpetrators are laid stunningly bare, Harvath will be left with only one means to save America. Unable to trust anyone, he will be forced to go FULL BLACK.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Brad Thor] is arguably the best political thriller writer of all time.â€ --Suspense Magazine\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBrad has yet again managed to take a world that few people see or know about, and expose readers to the inner workings of that world.â€ --Examiner.com (Houston)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œ\n  </strong>\n  There is enough adrenaline-charged adventure to fill several books of its length --- with explosions, mayhem and karate.â€ --BookReporter.com\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gripping." --People\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Brad Thor\n  </strong>\n  is the #1Â \n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  Â bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Athena Project\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Foreign Influence\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Apostle\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Last Patriot\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The First Commandment\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Takedown\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Blowback\n  </em>\n  (recognized by NPR as one of the â€œ100 Best Thrillers of All Timeâ€),\n  <em>\n   State of the Union\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Path of the Assassin\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Lions of Lucerne\n  </em>\n  .Â Visit his website at BradThor.com.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2456'),
(1484, 'Full Dark, No Stars', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2010\n </strong>\n : When a master of horror and heebie-jeebies like Stephen King calls his book\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars\n </em>\n , you know youâ€™re in for a treat--that is, if your idea of a good time is spent curled up in a ball wondering why-oh-why you started reading after dark. King fans (and those who have always wanted to give him a shot) will devour this collection of campfire tales where marriages sway under the weight of pitch-black secrets, greed and guilt poison and fester, and the only thing you can count on is that "there are always worse things waiting."\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars\n </em>\n features four one-sitting yarns showcasing King at his gritty, gruesome, giddy best, so be sure to check under the bed before getting started.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Justin Cronin, Suzanne Collins, Margaret Atwood, and T.C. Boyle Review Stephen King''s *Full Dark, No Stars\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "King is Poe''s modern heir, and no writer has a richer sense of the dark rooms in the human psyche and fiction''s singular power to capture them."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Read more of Justin Cronin''s\n <br />\n review of "1922""Fast-paced and beautifully plotted, ''Big Driver'' pulls you into Tess''s fragmented mind and holds you hostage until the story concludes."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Read more of Suzanne Collins''s\n <br />\n review of "Big Driver""It wouldn''t be Stephen King if somebody''s messily bleeding neck did not sprout a huge white knob. As it were."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Read more of Margaret Atwood''s review\n <br />\n of "A Good Marriage""[King''s] very ordinary-looking devil has no use for human souls, which, in these enervated times, ''have become poor and transparent things.''"\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Read more of T.C. Boyle''s review\n <br />\n of "Fair Extension"\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Eerie twists of fate drive the four longish stories in King''s first collection since Just After Sunset (2008). In "1922," a farmer murders his wife to retain the family land she hopes to sell, then watches his life unravel hideously as the consequences of the killing suggest a near-supernatural revenge. "Big Driver" tells of an otherwise ordinary woman who discovers her extraordinary capacity for retribution after she is raped and left for dead. "A Good Marriage" explores the aftermath of a wife''s discovery of her milquetoast husband''s sinister secret life, while "Fair Extension," the book''s most disturbing story, follows the relationship between a man and the best friend on whom he preternaturally shifts all his bad luck and misfortune. As in Different Seasons (1982), King takes a mostly nonfantastic approach to grim themes. Now, as then, these tales show how a skilled storyteller with a good tale to tell can make unsettling fiction compulsively readable. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/518'),
(1485, 'Full of Grace', 'Dorothea Benton Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The move from New Jersey to Hilton Head, South Carolina, wasn''t easy for the Russo familyâ€”difficult enough for Big Al and Connie, but even harder for their daughter Maria Graziella, who insists on being called Grace. At thirty-one and still, shockingly, unmarried, Grace has scandalized her staunchly traditional Italian family by moving in with her boyfriend Michaelâ€”who, though a truly great guy, is agnostic, commitment-phobic, a scientist, and (horror of horrors) Irish!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Grace adores her parents even though they drive her crazyâ€”and she knows they''d love Michael if they got to know him, but Big Al won''t let him into their house. And so the stage is set for a major showdownâ€”which, along with a devastating, unexpected crisis and, perhaps, a miracle or two, just might change Grace''s outlook on love, family, and her new life in the new South.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Meet the Russos: Big Al and Connie, former New Jersey-ites who, in their Hilton Head retirement community, stick out like cannolis on a plateful of biscuits; Nonna, Connie''s mother, who took Cinderella''s wicked stepmother as her parental role model; and Grace, their dutiful daughter living in nearby Charleston with her lover, Dr. Michael Higgins. Michael, however, has not met the Russos. More than his Irish heritage, Michael''s work in stem-cell research and his lapsed Catholicism make him persona non grata at Casa Russo. Constantly at her mother''s beck and call, Grace unselfishly travels home whenever there''s a family crisis, but when Michael is diagnosed with brain cancer, Grace desperately needs her family''s support. Will their devout faith prevent them from giving it, and can Grace resolve her own religious doubts in the face of this challenge? A masterful storyteller, Frank specializes in resilient characters who survive thanks to a saucy combination of grit and humor, and her vibrantly eccentric Russo clan may be her most endearing creation yet.\n  <em>\n   Carol Haggas\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank was born and raised on Sullivans Island, South Carolina. She and her long-suffering husband, Peter, divide their time between the New York area and Charleston, South Carolina, where their two children are in college and spending every last dime they earn. They thank you for your support.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2395'),
(1486, 'The Funhouse', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Years after leaving the carnival, her hated first husband, and the child she could never love, Ellen has a new life, a new husband, and two beautiful children, but now the carnival is coming back to town, and Ellen is going to have to pay for her sins\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1893');
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(1487, 'Furies of Calderon', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of Butcher''s absorbing fantasy, the first in a new series, the barbarians are at the gates of the land of Alera, which has a distinct flavor of the Roman Empire (its ruler is named Quintus Sextus and its soldiers are organized in legions). Fortunately, Alera has magical defenses, involving the furies or elementals of water, earth, air, fire and metal, that protect against foes both internal and external. Amara, a young female spy, and her companion, Odiana, go into some of the land''s remoter territories to discover if military commander Atticus Quentin is a traitorâ€”another classic trope from ancient Rome. She encounters a troubled young man, Tavi, who has hitherto been concerned mostly with the vividly depicted predatory "herdbanes" that threaten his sheep as well as with his adolescent sexual urges (handled tastefully). Thinking that Amara is an escaping slave, Tavi decides to help her and is immediately sucked in over his head into a morass of intrigues, military, magical and otherwise. Butcher (\n <em>\n  Storm Front\n </em>\n , etc.) does a thorough job of world building, to say nothing of developing his action scenes with an abundance of convincing detail. This page-turner bodes well for future volumes.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n This first book of a series, the Codex Aliera, is a real page-turner, with the classic plot of a kingdom threatened by both an outside invader and internal treachery enlivened by an abundance of original details and sheer storytelling gusto. For centuries, the ability of the people of Aliera to bond with furies--elemental spirits of earth, air, fire, water, and metal--has allowed them to defend their land against invaders. But the current lord is old and lacks an heir. So Aliera''s traditional enemies plot with treacherous lords within the country to seize power. Far off in the mountains, the young lad Tavi struggles with his inability to attract and bond with a fury--and with sensual adolescent urges. He saves the life of a young girl he believes to be a slave, but who is actually an agent of the king, looking for traitors. Tavi is himself drawn into battle and war before he can say "lost sheep." A promising series launcher.\n <em>\n  Frieda Murray\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/71'),
(1488, 'Future Shock', 'Alvin Toffler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Predicts the pace of environmental change during the next thirty years and the ways in which the individual must face and learn to cope with personal and social change\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1441'),
(1489, 'G Is for Gumshoe', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  For #1\n </em>\n New York Times\n <em>\n  bestselling author Sue Graftonâ€™s PI Kinsey Milhone, danger comes with the jobâ€”but she never expects to find herself at the top of a hit manâ€™s listâ€¦\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  G IS FOR GAMEâ€¦\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When Irene Gersh asks PI Kinsey Millhone to locate her elderly mother Agnes, whom she hasnâ€™t heard from in six months, itâ€™s not exactly the kind of case Kinsey jumps for. But a girlâ€™s gotta pay her bills, and this should be easy moneyâ€”or so she thinks. Kinsey finds Agnes in a hospital. Aside from her occasional memory lapses, the octogenarian seems fine. And frightened.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  G IS FOR GUNâ€¦\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Kinsey doesnâ€™t know what to make of Agnesâ€™s vague fears and bizarre ramblings, but sheâ€™s got her own worries. It seems Tyrone Patty, a criminal she helped put behind bars, is looking to make a hit. First, Kinseyâ€™s car is run off the road, and then days later, sheâ€™s almost gunned down, setting in motion a harrowing cat and mouse gameâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   G IS FOR\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  GUMSHOE\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n So Kinsey decides to hire a bodyguard. With PI Robert Dietz watching her 24/7, Kinsey is feeling on edgeâ€¦especially with their growing sexual tension. Then, Agnes dies of an apparent homicide, Kinsey realizes the old lady wasnâ€™t so senile after allâ€”and maybe she was trying to tell her something? Now Kinseyâ€™s determined to learn the truthâ€¦even if it kills her.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n A rich, complex, and gripping tale in which Kinsey''s grit is tested to its utmost as she unearths the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality. "G" is for guilt and guile, for greed and grief and the Grim Reaper. And "G" is for good: very, very good, indeed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/770'),
(1490, 'Galapagos', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA Leon Trout, the ghost of a decapitated shipbuilder, narrates the humorous, ironic and sometimes carping decline of the human race, as seen through the eyes and minds of the survivors of a doomed cruise to the Galapagos Islands. Vonnegut''s cast of unlikely Adams and Eves setting out in a Noah''s ark includes Mary Hepburn, an American biology teacher and recent widow; Zenji Hiroguchi, a Japanese computer genius (who does not make it to the ship, although his language-translating and quotation-spouting computer does); his wife, Hisako, carrying radiated genes from the atomic bombs; James Wait, who has made a fortune marrying elderly women; and Captain Aolph von Kleist. Also included: six orphaned girls of the Kana-bono cannibal tribe, who will become the founding mothers of the fisherfolk after bacteria render all other women infertile. Serious fans of Vonnegut''s wry and ribald prose will welcome this tale of the devolution of superbrained humans into gentle swimmers with small brains, but others may find this Darwinian survival tale too packed with ecological and sociological details that trap the story line in a series of literary devices, albeit very clever ones. Mary T. Gerrity, Queen Anne School, Upper Marlboro, Md.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n For many Vonnegut fans, Galapagos will be a disappointment. The story is set\n <code>\n  one million years ago, back in 1986 A.D.'''' and concerns the maiden voyage of the Bahia de Darwin to the Galapa gos Islands. The narrator is a ghost, and the main characters are those involved with the cruise. As the narrative devel ops, we learn that people have evolved from having\n </code>\n big brains'''' that always get them in trouble, to creatures with flippersbut they keep getting eaten by sharks. The narration jumps back and forth between past and future, so that there is no real sense of what life is like in the\n <code>\n  present'''' of the story, and it is difficult to grasp what these new hu mans are really like. Vonnegut''s usual stylistic devices just don''t work here. Buy for demand. Susan Avallone,\n </code>\n Library Journal''''\n <br />\n Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/102'),
(1491, 'Galloway', 'Louis L&#39;amour', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GALLOWAY\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Â \n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  In\n  <em>\n   Galloway\n  </em>\n  , Louis Lâ€™Amour tells the story of two brothers who must struggle to survive in a wild and beautiful land to build themselves a ranch and a future.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he managed to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him. But the brothers were about to encounter worse trouble ahead. Their plan to establish a ranch angered the Dunn clan, who had decided that the vast range would be theirs alone. Now Galloway and Flagan would face an enemy who killed for sportâ€”but as long as other Sacketts lived, they would not fight alone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1709'),
(1492, 'A Game of Thrones', 'George R. R. Martin &amp; Martin George R. R.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers of epic fantasy series are: (1) patient--they are left in suspense between each volume, (2) persistent--they reread or at least review the previous book(s) when a new installment comes out, (3) strong--these 700-page doorstoppers are\n <em>\n  heavy\n </em>\n , and (4) mentally agile--they follow a host of characters through a myriad of subplots. In\n <em>\n  A Game of Thrones\n </em>\n , the first book of a projected six, George R.R. Martin rewards readers with a vividly real world, well-drawn characters, complex but coherent plotting, and beautifully constructed prose, which\n <em>\n  Locus\n </em>\n called "well above the norms of the genre."\n</p>\n<p>\n Martin''s Seven Kingdoms resemble England during the Wars of the Roses, with the Stark and Lannister families standing in for the Yorks and Lancasters. The story of these two families and their struggle to control the Iron Throne dominates the foreground; in the background is a huge, ancient wall marking the northern border, beyond which barbarians, ice vampires, and direwolves menace the south as years-long winter advances. Abroad, a dragon princess lives among horse nomads and dreams of fiery reconquest.\n</p>\n<p>\n There is much bloodshed, cruelty, and death, but\n <em>\n  A Game of Thrones\n </em>\n is nevertheless compelling; it garnered a Nebula nomination and won the 1996 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. So, on to\n <em>\n  A Clash of Kings\n </em>\n !\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a world where the approaching winter will last four decades, kings and queens, knights and renegades struggle for control of a throne. Some fight with sword and mace, others with magic and poison. Beyond the Wall to the north, meanwhile, the Others are preparing their army of the dead to march south as the warmth of summer drains from the land. After more than a decade devoted primarily to TV and screen work, Martin (The Armageddon Rag, 1983) makes a triumphant return to high fantasy with this extraordinarily rich new novel, the first of a trilogy. Although conventional in form, the book stands out from similar work by Eddings, Brooks and others by virtue of its superbly developed characters, accomplished prose and sheer bloody-mindedness. Although the romance of chivalry is central to the culture of the Seven Kingdoms, and tournaments, derring-do and handsome knights abound, these trappings merely give cover to dangerous men and women who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals. When Lord Stark of Winterfell, an honest man, comes south to act as the King''s chief councilor, no amount of heroism or good intentions can keep the realm under control. It is fascinating to watch Martin''s characters mature and grow, particularly Stark''s children, who stand at the center of the book. Martin''s trophy case is already stuffed with major prizes, including Hugos, Nebulas, Locus Awards and a Bram Stoker. He''s probably going to have to add another shelf, at least. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/461'),
(1493, 'The Game', 'Neil Strauss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you just another AFC ("average frustrated chump") trying to meet an HB ("hot babe")? How would you like to "full-close" with a Penthouse Pet of the Year? The answers, my friend, are in Neil Strauss''s entertaining book\n <em>\n  The Game\n </em>\n . Strauss was a self-described chick repellant--complete with large, bumpy nose, small, beady eyes, glasses, balding head, and, worst of all, painful shyness around women. He felt like "half a man." That is, until a book editor asked him to investigate the community of pickup artists. Strauss''s life was transformed. He spent two years bedding some fine chiquitas and studying with some of the North America''s most suave gents--including the best of them all, the God of the pickup "community," a man named Mystery.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mystery is an aspiring Toronto magician who charges $2,250 for a weekend pickup workshop. He is not much to look at: a cross between a vampire and a computer geek. But by using high-powered marketing techniques he''s turned seduction into an effortless craft--even inventing his own vocabulary. His technique sounds like a car salesman''s tip sheet: his main rule is FMAC--find, meet, attract, close. He employs the "three-second rule"--always approach a woman within three seconds of first seeing her in order to avoid getting shy. Other tricks: Intrigue a beautiful woman by pretending to be unaffected by her charm; also, never hit on a woman right away. Start with a disarming, innocent remark, like "Do you think magic spells work?" or "Oh my god, did you see those two girls fighting outside?" And finally, the most important characteristic of the pickup artist--smile.\n</p>\n<p>\n After two years, Strauss ends up becoming almost as successful as Mystery, but he comes to an important realization. His techniques were actually off-putting to the woman he ended up falling in love with. And they never prepared him for actually having a relationship. After a while, he ran out of one-liners and had to have a real conversation. Still,\n <em>\n  The Game\n </em>\n is a great read that may help some AFCs come out of their shells.\n <em>\n  --Alex Roslin\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Signature]\n <em>\n  Reviewed by Amy Sohn\n </em>\n I never dated Neil Strauss, but I dated guys like him. Like many New York women, I have always gone for balding, pale guys because they''re grateful and good in bed. But a few years ago, a distraught Strauss decided he was a loser with women and set about transforming himself into the world''s greatest pick-up artist.\n <em>\n  The Game\n </em>\n is his long, often tedious but hilarious account of how he did it. This ugly-duckling tale will affect different readers in different ways, depending on their degree of cynicism: some will be awed by Strauss''s mÃ©nage-Ã -trois snowball scene, while others will suspect it was cribbed from a third-rate porno Strauss watched in his pre-macking days.When his story begins Strauss is, well, a Neil: an unconfident, self-described AFC (average frustrated chump). He is also, it should be noted, a well-known rock critic who penned porn star Jenna Jameson''s autobiography, leaving one wondering just how pathetic women really found him. After paying $500 to join a workshop for aspiring PUAs (pick-up artists) led by a magician named Mystery at Hollywood''s Roosevelt Hotel, Strauss becomes addicted to pick-up technique. He trains with several PUA gurus, including Ross Jeffries, a hypnotist rumored to be the basis for the Tom Cruise character in\n <em>\n  Magnolia\n </em>\n . With his brains and dedication, Strauss renames himself Style and soon becomes a master of the gameâ€”able to get sex from beautiful women who once would have run the other way.But\n <em>\n  The Game\n </em>\n doesn''t get really interesting until Strauss deviates from his NC-17 Horatio Alger story and tells what happens when he moves into a Sunset Strip mansion with a group of other PUAs. He starts to see the misogyny of the sport and realizes that most of its leaders had miserable childhoods. The AFC who became a PUA to understand women ultimately becomes an expert on men.As Strauss grows restless to talk about things other than number closes and phase shifts (the book''s glossary is a juicy read of its own), the mansion loses its appeal and he reluctantly grows up. When he meets a tough-talking band mate of Courtney Love''s named Lisa and they bond over music, we can guess where the narrative is headed. In the book''s final pages, he dumps onto his bed all the phone numbers he''s collected and tells Lisa, "I''ve spent two years meeting every girl in L.A. And out of them all, I chose you," which is like telling your mother-in-law that the Thanksgiving dinner you had last year at Applebee''s was nothing compared to the one she just prepared. But for some reason, Lisa doesn''t flee. I can only hope that in the inevitable 2007 movie version, starring Jack Black and Kate Hudson, Lisa throws the numbers in his face and leaves him for a guy who knows how to pay a girl a compliment.\n <em>\n  (Sept. 1)\n </em>\n <em>\n  Amy Sohn is the author of\n </em>\n My Old Man\n <em>\n  , which was just released in paperback by Simon &amp; Schuster, and she writes the "Mating" column for New York magazine.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/157'),
(1494, 'Gangster', 'Lorenzo Carcaterra', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Love. Violence. Destiny. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra''s new novel like bullets from a machine gun. In Gangster, he surpasses even his bestselling Sleepers to create a brutal and brilliant American saga of murder, forgiveness, and redemption.Born in the midst of tragedy and violence and raised in the shadow of a shocking secret, young Angelo Vestieri chooses to flee both his past and his father to seek a second family--the criminals who preside over early 20th century New York. In his bloody rise from soldier to mob boss, he encounters ever more barbaric betrayals--in friendship, in his brutal business, in love-- yet simultaneously comes to understand the meaning of loyalty, the virtue of relationships, and gains a perspective on the lonely, if powerful, life he has chosen.As the years pass, as enemies are made and defeated, as wars are fought and won, the old don meets an abandoned boy who needs a parent as much as protection. By taking Gabe under his wing and teaching him everything he knows, Angelo Vestieri will learn, in the winter of his life, which is greater: his love for the boy he cherishes, or his need to be a gangster and to live by the savage rules he helped create.A sweeping panoramic with riveting characters, a unique understanding of the underworld philosophy, and a relentless pace, Gangster travels through the time of godfathers and goodfellas to our own world of suburban Sopranos. But this is more than just an authentic chronicle of crime. Setting a new standard for this acclaimed author, Gangster is a compassionate portrait of one man''s fight against his fate--and an unforgettable epic of a family, a city, a century.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1694'),
(1495, 'Gardens of the Moon', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sprawling fantasy epic of the Malazan empire at war with its enemies and itself, the first of a projected 10-volume series, Canadian newcomer Erikson offers many larger-than-life scenes and ideas, but his characters seem to shrink to fit the story. Perhaps they need to stay small enough for the reader to keep them all in mind. Jumping often between plot lines, the novel follows Ganoes Stabro Paran from his boyhood dreaming of soldiers to his escape from imperial service. Paran travels on journeys of body and soul, going from innocent to hardened rebel against gods and empire without losing his moral core. Other characters may go further, to death and back even, but none is as sharply portrayed. The book features a plethora of princes and paupers, powers and principalities, with much inventive detail to dazzle and impart a patina of mystery and ages past. The fast-moving plot, with sieges, duels (of sword and of spell), rebellions, intrigue and revenge, unearthed monsters and earth-striding gods, doesn''t leave much room for real depth. Heroes win, villains lose, fairness reigns, tragedy is averted. Erikson may aspire to China MiÃ©ville heights, but he settles comfortably in George R.R. Martin country.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the first of a projected 10 volumes of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, the Malazan Empire is up to its eyebrows in the intrigues of mage Anomander Rake and his sorcerous minions, the Tiste Andii. The empress Laseen pursues her grisly ambitions with the aid of the Ninja-like Claw assassins, but Erikson focuses on the grunt-level fighting of military engineers Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his Bridgeburners and the field-grade mage Tattersall, who are more than ready to go home, when the empress commands a battle in and around the Free City of Darujhistan. Erikson portrays this hurly-burly--something very like the Lord of the Rings'' Battle of the Pellenor Fields--from the perspective of those who had to get out of the way of the charges and exchanges of spells and sometimes died anyway. It remains to be seen whether Erikson''s excellent writing will carry through nine more volumes of this gritty, realistic fantasy in the manner of Glen Cook''s Dark Company series. Wager on fantasy readers'' robust appetites, however.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1302'),
(1496, 'The Gathering Storm', 'Robert Jordan &amp; Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe battle scenes have the breathless urgency of firsthand experience, and the . . . evil laced into the forces of good, the dangers latent in any promised salvation, the sense of the unavoidable onslaught of unpredictable events bear the marks of American national experience during the last three decades.â€â€”\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n on The Wheel of Time\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Wheel of Time . . . is a fantasy tale seldom equaled and still less often surpassed in English.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJordan has a powerful vision of good and evilâ€”but what strikes me as most pleasurable . . . is all the fascinating people moving through a rich and interesting world.â€â€”Orson Scott CardÂ on The Wheel of Time\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tarmon Gaiâ€™don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The final volume of the Wheel of Time,\n <em>\n  A Memory of Light,\n </em>\n was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordanâ€™s editor---his wife, Harriet McDougal---to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents\n <em>\n  The Gathering Storm\n </em>\n as the first of three novels that will make up\n <em>\n  A Memory of Light.\n </em>\n This short sequence will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing to a close a journey begun almost twenty years ago and marking the conclusion of the Wheel of Time, the preeminent fantasy epic of our era.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In this epic novel, Robert Jordanâ€™s international bestselling series begins its dramatic conclusion. Rand alâ€™Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. As he attempts to halt the Seanchan encroachment northward---wishing he could form at least a temporary truce with the invaders---his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Egwene alâ€™Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. As days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent, Egwene works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai while providing leadership in the face of increasing uncertainty and despair. Her fight will prove the mettle of the Aes Sedai, and her conflict will decide the future of the White Tower---and possibly the world itself.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/658'),
(1497, 'Geek Love', 'Katherine Dunn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It''s a solipsistic funhouse world that makes "normal" people seem bland and pitiful. Arturo the Aqua-Boy, who has flippers and an enormous need to be loved. A museum of sacred monsters that didn''t make it. An endearing "little beetle" of a heroine. Sort of like Tod Browning''s\n <em>\n  Freaks\n </em>\n crossed with David Lynch and John Irving and perhaps George Eliot -- the latter for the power of the emotions evoked.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This audacious, mesmerizing novel should carry a warning: "Reader Beware." Those entering the world of carnival freaks described by narrator Olympia Binewski, a bald, humpbacked albino dwarf, will find no escape from a story at once engrossing and repellent, funny and terrifying, unreal and true to human nature. Dunn''s vivid, energetic prose, her soaring imagination and assured narrative skill fuse to produce an unforgettable tale. The premise is bizarre. Art and Lily, owners of Binewski''s Fabulon, a traveling carnival, decide to breed their own freak show by creating genetically altered children through the use of experimental drugs. "What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?" muses Lily. Eventually their family consists of Arty, aka Arturo the Aqua Boy, born with flippers instead of limbs, who performs swimming inside a tank and soon learns how to manipulate his audience; Electra and Iphigenia, Siamese twins and pianists; the narrator, Oly; and Fortunato, also called the Chick, who seems normal at birth, but whose telekinetic powers become apparent just as his brokenhearted parents are about to abandon him. More than anatomy has been altered. Arty is a monsterpower hungry, evil, malicious, consumed by "dark, bitter meanness and . . . jagged rippling jealousy." Yet he has the capacity to inspire adoration, especially that of Oly, who is his willing slave, and who arranges to bear his child, Miranda, who appears "norm," but has a tiny tail. A spellbinding orator, Arty uses his ability to establish a religious cult, in which he preaches redemption through the sacrifice of body partsdigits and limbs."I want the losers who know they''re losers. I want those who have a choice of tortures and pick me." This raw, shocking view of the human condition, a glimpse of the tormented people who live on the fringe, makes readers confront the dark, mad elements in every society. After a hiatus of almost two decades, the author of Attic and Truck has produced a novel that everyone will be talking about, a brilliant, suspenseful, heartbreaking tour de force.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1281'),
(1498, 'The General&#39;s Daughter', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Long before the John Travolta film of\n <em>\n  The General''s Daughter\n </em>\n (which the author extols in the foreword), Nelson DeMille''s seventh mystery was the breakout hit of his career. The rapid-fire dialogue and scenes are cinematic, and the storytelling puts most movies to shame.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book has three heroes: Paul Brenner and Cynthia Sunhill of the army''s Criminal Investigation Division and Capt. Ann Campbell, found dead with her underpants around her neck on the firing range at Fort Hadley, Georgia. Brenner and Sunhill are lowly warrant officers, but as investigators they can theoretically arrest their superiors--as long as their case is airtight. This ups the tension level, as does the fact that Brenner and Sunhill once had an adulterous affair.\n</p>\n<p>\n The chief problem, though, is too many suspects. Capt. Campbell, the daughter of the general who runs the base, is literally a poster woman for the New Army, a West Point grad and Gulf War hero who posed in a life-size recruitment poster. It''s pinned up on her basement wall--and when the sleuths touch the poster it swings back to reveal a hidden playroom stocked with sex toys and videos of many army guys in pig masks and the captain in high heels. She was a high-IQ "two percenter"--and Brenner finds that two percenters often wind up on his desk as homicide suspects. Why is this one a victim? It has something to do with the collected works of Nietzsche on her bookshelf, corruption in high places, and the rag and bone shop of the heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is one racy read, and it crackles with authenticity. DeMille is a Vietnam veteran who does for military justice what John Grisham does for civilians.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the wit and panache of his bestselling The Gold Coast , DeMille''s latest effort may disappoint his fans. The author returns to his more customary stylish-suspense-novel mode but retains a smart-aleck narrator--here, Paul Brenner, of the Army''s Criminal Investigation Division. At Fort Hadley, Ga., Ann Campbell, daughter of the post commander, is found murdered under bizarre circumstances. Brenner learns that Ann''s entire personal life, in fact, veered toward the bizarre; she even had a secret basement "playroom" in her home. Moral turpitude runs riot at Fort Hadley, and Brenner must wade through muck of all sorts to discover the killer''s identity. Too much muck, as it turns out: the detective work becomes repetitious, and suspense is unfortunately in short supply. Brenner''s one-liners have none of the punch of John Sutter''s wry observations in The Gold Coast --indeed, the device of a waggish narrator doesn''t fit these proceedings; the wisecracks seem grafted on. So, too, does a resumed romance between Brenner and an old flame--we don''t get a good enough picture of either to care about whatever sparks might fly. Characterization in general is fuzzy, though DeMille captures the often unquestioning regimen of life on a military base. One only wishes that his tale had more spirit and dash. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1309'),
(1499, 'Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman', 'James Gleick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you''ve read any of Richard Feynman''s wonderful autobiographies you may think that a\n <em>\n  biography\n </em>\n of Feynman would be a waste of your time. Wrong! Gleick''s\n <em>\n  Genius\n </em>\n is a masterpiece of scientific biography--and an inspiration to anyone in pursuit of their own fulfillment as a person of genius. Deservedly nominated for a National Book Award, underservedly passed over by the committee in the face of tough competition, and very deservedly a book that you must read.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It would be hard to tell personal stories about the late Nobelist Feynman (1918-1988) better than the subject himself did in What Do You Care What Other People Think? To his credit, Gleick does not try. Rather, he depicts Feynman''s "curious character" in its real context: the science he helped develop during physics'' most revolutionary era. Fans of Feynman''s own bestseller, "Surely You''re Joking, Mr. Feynman! , " won''t be disappointed by his colleagues'' recollections of his reckless obsession with doing science (a grad-school dorm neighbor once opened Feynman''s door to find him rolling on the floor as he worked on a problem); but the anecdotes punctuate an expanded account of Feynman the visceral working scientist, not Feynman the iconoclast. This biography wants to measure both the particle and the wave of 20th-century genius--Feynman''s, Julian Schwinger''s, Murray Gell-Mann''s, and others''--in the quantum era. Gleick seems to have enjoyed the cooperation of Feynman''s family plus that of a good many of his colleagues from the Manhattan Project and the Challenger inquiry (in which Feynman played a scene-stealing role), and he steadily levies just enough of the burden of Feynman''s genius on the reader so that the physicist remains, in the end, a person and not an icon of science. A genius could not hope for better. Gleick is the author of Chaos: The Making of A New Science.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1268'),
(1500, 'George&#39;s Marvellous Medicine Teacher Resource', 'Gillian Howell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n NEW Read and Respond is back by popular demand and ready for the21st Century. The completely new text provides teachers with everythingthey need to teach these classic children''s books. Notes andactivities reflect the way that teachers teach now and includeshared texts, guided reading notes, reading activities, speakingand listening activities, writing projects and assessment guidance.Over a third of each book is filled with invaluable photocopiables- all illustrated by the original children''s book illustrators.** Everything the teacher needs to teach a classic book** Based on best-selling children''s books** Speaking and listening activities** Assessment guidance** Photocopiable pagesNEW READ AND RESPOND George''s Marvellous Medicine provides teacherswith all the resources they need to teach George''s MarvellousMedicine by Roald Dahl. George''s Marvellous Medicine is a popularchoice for teachers because it can support the PNS at Key Stage2 as a classic and a story by a significant children''s writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1867'),
(1501, 'Gerald&#39;s Game', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While this is one of the best-written stories King has ever published, it will offend many through sheer bad taste. Jessie and Gerald Burlingame have been married for 20 years. Kinky sex is Gerald''s game; lately he has taken to handcuffing his wife to the bedposts. During one such session, via a series of bizarre circumstances, Jessie accidentally kills her husband, and for the next 28 hours she is trapped. King effectively uses this tragicomic conceit to take us deep into the mind of "Goodwife Burlingame."sic For the first third of the book he is at the top of his form, creating in Jessie one of his most intense character studies. Then, Jessie''s ruminations lead her to remember a long-repressed episode of incest that is startling not because it becomes a central element of the plot, but because the details of the sexual relationship between father and daughter are salaciously--and lengthily--described. The gory stuff--how Jessie escapes her handcuffs, for example--is prime King, but this is subsumed in the book''s general tastelessness. A lame wrap-up to what might have been a thrilling short story only further compromises the enjoyment readers might have found in this surprisingly exploitative work. 1.5 million first printing; $750,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n King takes it over the top, way over the top, in an exquisitely horrifying frightfest about a woman forced to face her deepest fears--and then some. Jessie Burlingame, 39, is getting plenty tired of being handcuffed to the bed of her Maine summerhouse by her attorney- husband, Gerald, so that he can play his silly sex games. So when Gerald refuses to uncuff her, she kicks him in the family jewels, accidentally smashing them to kingdom come--and the terror begins. Each hand cuffed to a bedpost, the keys out of reach, Jessie howls for help--and is answered by a feral dog that proceeds to chow down on Gerald''s face in lavishly described, muscle-shredding detail. As the long hours pass, cramps bite like iron jaws into Jessie''s own flesh; but they''re nothing compared to the thirst raging through her. Can she somehow reach the glass of water on the shelf above her head? It takes the most tightly controlled writing King''s ever done to find out, but soon even the thirst pales beside the guilt- gargoyles that Jessie''s mind begins to throw up, all pointing at the sun-eclipsed day so long ago when she became much more to Daddy than just his little girl. The minutes tick by, each an agony--and King''s just warming up. Night falls: What''s that shadow in the corner? The one with the smirking face of Death? And how can Jessie, growing into a heartbreakingly brave heroine, escape? She tugs and tugs at her wrists but can''t slip them past the cuffs. Is there a hot, sticky lubricant at hand? He''s not really going to describe that, is he? But, with a ferocious gleam in his eye, King does, out-splatterpunking everyone else on the planet in a tour de force that--even given some overindulgent psychologizing, awfully strong echoes of Cujo and Misery, and a long, peculiar anticlimax--is his most wrenching novel to date. This one is really scary. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/519'),
(1502, 'Germany&#39;s High Sea Fleet in the World War', 'Reinhard Scheer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1581'),
(1503, 'Get Shorty', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Nobody\n </em>\n writes openings like Elmore Leonard. Case in point: "When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years ago they were having one of their off-and-on cold winters: thirty-four degrees the day he met Tommy Carlo for lunch at Vesuvio''s on South Collins and had his leather jacket ripped off." You need to know about this because you need to know why there''s bad blood between Chili Palmer and Ray Bones, the guy who stole his coat and is now his boss--and has ordered him to collect $4,200 from a dead guy. Except the guy didn''t die; he went to Las Vegas with $300,000. So Chili goes to Las Vegas, one thing leads to another, and pretty soon he''s in Los Angeles, hanging out with a movie producer named Harry Zimm and learning what it takes to be a player in Hollywood.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Get Shorty\n </em>\n is classic Elmore Leonard: While other people write "crime fiction," Leonard''s come up with a masterful social comedy that happens to be about criminals (and other fast operators). He''s a master of snappy dialogue\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n dizzying plot twists. The best parts of\n <em>\n  Get Shorty\n </em>\n move along so briskly you almost forget there''s somebody with a firm control over the story. And you''ll be rooting for Chili to get the money, the girl,\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n the studio deal.\n <em>\n  --Ron Hogan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Taking his latest fictive turn in Hollywood, Leonard, whose oeuvre includes screenplays as well as such bestselling novels as Glitz and Freaky Deaky , adds insider knowledge to his signature humor in this roundly satisfying behind-the-scenes tour of filmdom. Slightly disaffected Chili Palmer, a small-time loan shark with big-time style, is a vintage Leonard hero. Following a bad debt from Miami to Las Vegas and on to Beverly Hills, Chili hooks up with Harry Zimm, once a leading director of grade-B horror flicks, now trying to make a comeback. While succumbing to the siren call of celluloid, Chili also narrows in on the bad debt, in the process running up against a sharp-dressing hood with whose money Harry has played too loose. In Leonard''s seamless handling, the complex plot flows through twists of revenge, murder and romance, as Chili, his authentic cool making a mark in the capital of sham ("Don''t talk when you don''t have to" is his very un-Hollywood motto), cagily gets it together with Karen Flores, Harry''s former lover and featured star. A perfect resolution puts punch in the title and will keep readers smiling for days. Chili and his story are Leonard''s best yet. First serial rights to Rolling Stone; BOMC and QPB selections; major ad/promo, author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/409'),
(1504, 'Ghost Story', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen King The terror just mounts and mounts.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n The scariest book I''ve ever read....It crawls under your skin and into your dreams.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  In life, not every sin goes unpunished.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  GHOST STORY\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and get away with murder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Peter Straub''s classic bestseller is a work of "superb horror"\n <em>\n  (The Washington Post Book World)\n </em>\n that, like any good ghost story, stands the test of time -- and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/154'),
(1505, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Stieg Larsson &amp; Reg Keeland', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2010\n </strong>\n As the finale to Stieg Larsson''s Millennium Trilogy,\n <em>\n  The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet''s Nest\n </em>\n is not content to merely match the adrenaline-charged pace that made international bestsellers out of\n <em>\n  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Girl Who Played with Fire\n </em>\n . Instead, it roars with an explosive storyline that blows the doors off the series and announces that the very best has been saved for last. A familiar evil lies in wait for Lisbeth Salander, but this time, she must do more than confront the miscreants of her past; she must destroy them. Much to her chagrin, survival requires her to place a great deal of faith in journalist Mikael Blomkvist and trust his judgment when the stakes are highest. To reveal more of the plot would be criminal, as Larsson''s mastery of the unexpected is why millions have fallen hard for his work. But rest assured that the odds are again stacked, the challenges personal, and the action fraught with neck-snapping revelations in this snarling conclusion to a thrilling triad. This closing chapter to The Girl''s pursuit of justice is guaranteed to leave readers both satisfied and saddened once the final page has been turned.\n <em>\n  --Dave Callanan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The exhilarating conclusion to bestseller Larsson''s Millennium trilogy (after\n <em>\n  The Girl Who Played with Fire\n </em>\n ) finds Lisbeth Salander, the brilliant computer hacker who was shot in the head in the final pages of\n <em>\n  Fire\n </em>\n , alive, though still the prime suspect in three murders in Stockholm. While she convalesces under armed guard, journalist Mikael Blomkvist works to unravel the decades-old coverup surrounding the man who shot Salander: her father, Alexander Zalachenko, a Soviet intelligence defector and longtime secret asset to SÃ¤po, Sweden''s security police. Estranged throughout\n <em>\n  Fire\n </em>\n , Blomkvist and Salander communicate primarily online, but their lack of physical interaction in no way diminishes the intensity of their unconventional relationship. Though Larsson (1954â€“2004) tends toward narrative excess, his was an undeniably powerful voice in crime fiction that will be sorely missed.\n <em>\n  500,000 first printing. (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/563'),
(1506, 'Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a convincing mix of youthful optimism and world-weary resignation, reader Anne Heche adds resonance to this unabridged recording. Heche is especially effective as the 9-year-old heroine, Trisha McFarland, who makes a fateful decision during an afternoon hike with her dysfunctional family. "The paths had forked in a ''Y.'' She would simply walk across the gap and rejoin the main trail. Piece of cake. There was no chance of getting lost." As one might suspect, there is every chance she''ll get lost--or worse--and taking the shortcut turns out to be a very bad choice indeed. At times Heche''s reading may be too measured, but her narration is generally quite good and her steady portrayal of a young girl lost renders this tale all the more frightening. (Running time: 6.5 hours, 6 cassettes)\n <em>\n  --George Laney\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted." King''s new novelAwhich begins with that sentenceAhas teeth, too, and it bites hard. Readers will bite right back. Always one to go for the throat, King crafts a story that concerns not just anyone lost in the Maine-New Hampshire woods, but a plucky nine-year-old girl, and from a broken home, no less. This stacked deck is flush with aces, however. King has always excelled at writing about children, and Trisha McFarland, dressed in jeans and a Red Sox jersey and cap when she wanders off the forest path, away from her mother and brother and toward tremendous danger, is his strongest kid character yet, wholly believable and achingly empathetic in her vulnerability and resourcefulness. Trisha spends nine days (eight nights) in the forest, ravaged by wasps, thirst, hunger, illness, loneliness and terror. Her knapsack with a little food and water helps, but not as much as the Walkman that allows her to listen to Sox games, a crucial link to the outside world. Love of baseball suffuses the novel, from the chapter headings (e.g., "Bottom of the Ninth") to Trisha''s reliance, through fevered imagined conversations with him, on (real life) Boston pitcher Tom Gordon and his grace under pressure. King renders the woods as an eerie wonderland, one harboring a something stalking Trisha but also, just perhaps, God: he explicitly explores questions of faith here (as he has before, as in Desperation) but without impeding the rush of the narrative. Despite its brevity, the novel ripples with ideas, striking images, pop culture allusions and recurring themes, plus an unnecessary smattering of scatology. It''s classic King, brutal, intensely suspenseful, an exhilarating affirmation of the human spirit. 1,250,000 first printing; major ad/promo; BOMC and QPB featured alternates; simultaneous audiocassette and CD, read by Anne Heche.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/573');
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(1507, 'The Girl Who Played With Fire', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine "Millennium, " has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, " and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of "The Girl Who Played with Fire." As Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander''s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/561'),
(1508, 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson''s\n <strong>\n  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\n </strong>\n combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden''s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/558'),
(1509, 'The Giver', 'Lois Lowry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community''s Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of\n  <em>\n   Brave New World\n  </em>\n  , in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create a more stable society. Gradually Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and pain-free society can be, and boldly decides he cannot pay the price.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the "ideal" world into which Jonas was born, everybody has sensibly agreed that well-matched married couples will raise exactly two offspring, one boy and one girl. These children''s adolescent sexual impulses will be stifled with specially prescribed drugs; at age 12 they will receive an appropriate career assignment, sensibly chosen by the community''s Elders. This is a world in which the old live in group homes and are "released"--to great celebration--at the proper time; the few infants who do not develop according to schedule are also "released," but with no fanfare. Lowry''s development of this civilization is so deft that her readers, like the community''s citizens, will be easily seduced by the chimera of this ordered, pain-free society. Until the time that Jonah begins training for his job assignment--the rigorous and prestigious position of Receiver of Memory--he, too, is a complacent model citizen. But as his near-mystical training progresses, and he is weighed down and enriched with society''s collective memories of a world as stimulating as it was flawed, Jonas grows increasingly aware of the hypocrisy that rules his world. With a storyline that hints at Christian allegory and an eerie futuristic setting, this intriguing novel calls to mind John Christopher''s Tripods trilogy and Hans Christian Andersen''s The Little Match Girl. Lowry is once again in top form--raising many questions while answering few, and unwinding a tale fit for the most adventurous readers. Ages 12-14.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/441'),
(1510, 'Glamorama', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Glamorama\n </em>\n is a satirical mass-murder opus more ambitious than Bret Easton Ellis''s 1990\n <em>\n  American Psycho\n </em>\n . It starts as a spritz-of-consciousness romp about kid-club entrepreneur Victor Ward, "the It boy of the moment," an actor-model up for\n <em>\n  Flatliners II\n </em>\n . Ellis has perfect pitch for glam-speak, and he gives nightlife the fizz, pace, and shimmer it lacks in drab reality. Anyone could cite the right celeb names and tunes, but like a rock-polishing machine, his prose gives literary sheen to fame-chasing air-kissers. He''s coldly funny: when Victor''s girl tries to argue him out of a breakup, she angrily snorts six bumps of coke, stops, mutters, "Wrong vial," snorts four corrective doses from whatever she has in her other fist, then objects to a rival at the party wearing the same dress she''s wearing.\n</p>\n<p>\n You had to be there; Ellis makes you feel you are. But such satire is a very smart bomb targeting a very large barn. Models'' status anxiety doesn''t merit Ellis''s Tom Wolfe-esque expertise.\n <em>\n  Glamorama\n </em>\n gets better when Victor gets drafted into a mysterious group of model-terrorists who bomb 747s and the Ritz in Paris, wearing Kevlar-lined Armani suits. Oh, they still behave like shallow snobs, pronouncing "cool" as if it had 12 o''s. But now when somebody swills Cristal, it''s apt to be poisoned, to horrific effect, which Ellis expertly, affectlessly describes. His enfant-terrible debut,\n <em>\n  Less Than Zero\n </em>\n , aped Joan Didion. Now Ellis has grown into a lesser Don DeLillo--and that''s high praise.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The evil twin of fellow brat-packer Jay McInerney''s Model Behavior, Ellis''s (The Informers) bad trip through glitterary New York has everything his fans (and critics) have come to expect: graphic sex, designer drugs, rock ''n'' roll allusions, splatterpunk violence and characters as deep as 8"x10" glossies. Protagonist Victor Ward, a "model-slash-loser," is opening his own trendy Manhattan club while cheating on his supermodel girlfriend and back-stabbing his partner. After some adventures in clubland, the plot takes a turn for the paranoid. Victor is recruited by a mysterious figure, F. Fred Palakon, to track down a former girlfriend gone missing in London. There he becomes unwillingly drawn into a terrorist group?run, like so much else in the novel, by a supermodel?that bombs fashionable hangouts, hotels and jetliners. Throughout, Ellis clutters his hallmark proper-noun realism with excessive name-dropping and strung-out plotting. The satirist in Ellis seems to want to indict celebrity-obsessed, materialistic and superficial contemporary culture. With this novel he, perhaps unwittingly but certainly ironically, provides Exhibit A. 100,000 first printing.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/875'),
(1511, 'The Glass Castle', 'Jeannette Walls', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeannette Walls''s father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there''s perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In\n <em>\n  The Glass Castle\n </em>\n , Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls''s childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, the youngsters (Walls, her brother and two sisters) were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets. Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family, from the embarrassing (wearing shoes held together with safety pins; using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants) to the horrific (being told, after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity, that sexual assault is a crime of perception; and being pimped by her father at a bar). Though Walls has well earned the right to complain, at no point does she play the victim. In fact, Walls'' removed, nonjudgmental stance is initially startling, since many of the circumstances she describes could be categorized as abusive (and unquestioningly neglectful). But on the contrary, Walls respects her parents'' knack for making hardships feel like adventures, and her love for them--despite their overwhelming self-absorption--resonates from cover to cover.\n <em>\n  --Brangien Davis\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Freelance writer Walls doesn''t pull her punches. She opens her memoir by describing looking out the window of her taxi, wondering if she''s "overdressed for the evening" and spotting her mother on the sidewalk, "rooting through a Dumpster." Walls''s parentsâ€”just two of the unforgettable characters in this excellent, unusual bookâ€”were a matched pair of eccentrics, and raising four children didn''t conventionalize either of them. Her father was a self-taught man, a would-be inventor who could stay longer at a poker table than at most jobs and had "a little bit of a drinking situation," as her mother put it. With a fantastic storytelling knack, Walls describes her artist mom''s great gift for rationalizing. Apartment walls so thin they heard all their neighbors? What a bonusâ€”they''d "pick up a little Spanish without even studying." Why feed their pets? They''d be helping them "by not allowing them to become dependent." While Walls''s father''s version of Christmas presentsâ€”walking each child into the Arizona desert at night and letting each one claim a starâ€”was delightful, he wasn''t so dear when he stole the kids'' hard-earned savings to go on a bender. The Walls children learned to support themselves, eating out of trashcans at school or painting their skin so the holes in their pants didn''t show. Buck-toothed Jeannette even tried making her own braces when she heard what orthodontia cost. One by one, each child escaped to New York City. Still, it wasn''t long before their parents appeared on their doorsteps. "Why not?" Mom said. "Being homeless is an adventure."\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/106'),
(1512, 'The Glass Key', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett''s tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel.Â Â This classic Hammet work of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Of Hammett''s sixth book, published in 1931, The New York Times wrote "the developing relationships among the characters are as exciting as the unfolding story."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1472'),
(1513, 'The Glass Lake', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of Lough Glass. Until the day she disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on the unfathomable lake that gave the town its name. Ravishing Helen McMahon, the Dubliner with film-star looks and unfulfilled dreams, never belonged in Lough Glass, not the way her genial pharmacist-husband Martin belonged, or their spirited daughter Kit. Suddenly, she is gone and Kit is haunted by the memory of her mother, seen through a window, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down her face. Now Kit, too, has secrets: of the night she discovered a letter on Martinâ€™s pillow and burned it, unopened. The night her mother was lost. The night everything changed foreverâ€¦\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Lough Glass is at the heart and soul of the town clinging to its shore. But beneath its serene surface, the lake harbors secrets as unfathomable as the beautiful woman who night after night walks beside its waters. A luminous novel of love, obsession, and the secrets that take root in the human heart, by the author of\n  <em>\n   Circle of Friends\n  </em>\n  (soon to be a major motion picture).\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1013'),
(1514, 'The Glimpses of the Moon', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1824'),
(1515, 'Glory in Death', 'J. D. Robb &amp; Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In a time when technology can reveal the darkest of secrets, there''s only one place to hide a crime of passion - in the heart. . .\n <br />\n The first victim was found lying on a sidewalk in the rain. The second was murdered in her own apartment building. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas had no problem finding connections between the two crimes. Both victims were beautiful and highly successful women. Their glamorous lives and loves were the talk of the city. And their intimate relations with men of great power and wealth provided Eve with a long list of suspects - including her own lover, Roarke. As a woman, Eve was compelled to trust the man who shared her bed. But as a cop, it was her job to follow every lead . . .to investigate every scandalous rumor . . .to explore every secret passion, no matter how dark. Or how dangerous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1081'),
(1516, 'The God Delusion', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The antireligion wars started by Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris will heat up even more with this salvo from celebrated Oxford biologist Dawkins. For a scientist who criticizes religion for its intolerance, Dawkins has written a surprisingly intolerant book, full of scorn for religion and those who believe. But Dawkins, who gave us the selfish gene, anticipates this criticism. He says it''s the scientist and humanist in him that makes him hostile to religionsâ€”fundamentalist Christianity and Islam come in for the most opprobriumâ€”that close people''s minds to scientific truth, oppress women and abuse children psychologically with the notion of eternal damnation. While Dawkins can be witty, even confirmed atheists who agree with his advocacy of science and vigorous rationalism may have trouble stomaching some of the rhetoric: the biblical Yahweh is "psychotic," Aquinas''s proofs of God''s existence are "fatuous" and religion generally is "nonsense." The most effective chapters are those in which Dawkins calms down, for instance, drawing on evolution to disprove the ideas behind intelligent design. In other chapters, he attempts to construct a scientific scaffolding for atheism, such as using evolution again to rebut the notion that without God there can be no morality. He insists that religion is a divisive and oppressive force, but he is less convincing in arguing that the world would be better and more peaceful without it.\n <em>\n  (Oct. 18)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Scientific American\n</h3>\n<p>\n Richard Dawkins, in The God Delusion, tells of his exasperation with colleagues who try to play both sides of the street: looking to science for justification of their religious convictions while evading the most difficult implicationsâ€”the existence of a prime mover sophisticated enough to create and run the universe, "to say nothing of mind reading millions of humans simultaneously." Such an entity, he argues, would have to be extremely complex, raising the question of how it came into existence, how it communicates â€”through spiritons!â€”and where it resides. Dawkins is frequently dismissed as a bully, but he is only putting theological doctrines to the same kind of scrutiny that any scientific theory must withstand. No one who has witnessed the merciless dissection of a new paper in physics would describe the atmosphere as overly polite.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  George Johnson is author of Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order and six other books. He resides on the Web at talaya.net\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/826'),
(1517, 'God Emperor of Dune', 'Frank Herbert &amp; Brian Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA fourth visit to Arrakis that is every bit as fascinating as the other threeâ€”every bit as timely.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRich fareâ€¦Heady stuff.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBook Four of the Dune series has many of the same strengths as the previous three, and I was indeed kept up late at night.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Challenging Destiny\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A beautiful new package with a new introductionâ€¦\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the oncedesert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the worldâ€™s savior, the Emperor Paul Muadâ€™Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanityâ€™s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him nearimmortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past 3,500 years.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Letoâ€™s rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has not only made his appearance inhuman, but his morality. A rebellion has risen to oppose the despotâ€™s rule, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family. But Siona is unaware that Letoâ€™s vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wantedâ€¦or could possibly conceiveâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/659'),
(1518, 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Christopher Hitchens, described in theLondon Observeras "one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time" takes on his biggest subject yetthe increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell''sWhy I Am Not a Christianand Sam Harris''s recent bestseller,The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope''s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/673'),
(1519, 'God Save the Child', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he''s run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives. Â It doesn''t take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser''s only lead and he isn''t talking...except with his fists. But when push comes to shove, when a boy''s life is on the line, Spenser can speak that language too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1155'),
(1520, 'Godfather', 'Mario Puzo &amp; Peter Bart &amp; Robert J. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Godfather is an extraordinary novel which has become a modern day classic. Puzo pulls us inside the violent society of the Mafia and its gang wars.\n</p>\n<p>\n The leader, Vito Corleone, is the Godfather. He is a benevolent despot who stops at nothing to gain and hold power. His command post is a fortress on Long Island from which he presides over a vast underground empire that includes the rackets, gambling, bookmaking, and unions. His influence runs through all levels of American society, from the cop on the beat to the nation''s mighty.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mario Puzo, a master storyteller, introduces us to unforgettable characters, and the elements of this world explode to life in this violent and impassioned chronicle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/233'),
(1521, 'The Godwulf Manuscript', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but Spenser knows there are no easy answers. He tackles some very heavy homework and knows that if he doesn''t finish his assignment soon, he could end up marked "D" -- for dead.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1154'),
(1522, 'Going Postal', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British fantasist Pratchett''s latest special-delivery delight, set in his wonderfully crazed city of Ankh-Morpork, hilariously reflects the plight of post offices the world over as they struggle to compete in an era when e-mail has stolen much of the glamour from the postal trade. Soon after Moist von Lipwig (aka Alfred Spangler), Pratchett''s not-quite-hapless, accidental hero, barely avoids hanging, Lord Havelock Vetinari, the despotic but pretty cool ruler of Ankh-Morpork, makes him a job offer he can''t refuseâ€”postmaster general of the Ankh-Morpork Post Office. The post office hasn''t been open for 20 years since the advent of the Internet-like clacks communication system. Moist''s first impulse is to try to escape, but Mr. Pump, his golem parole officer, quickly catches him. Moist must then deal with the musty mounds of undelivered mail that fill every room of the decaying Post Office building maintained by ancient and smelly Junior Postman Groat and his callow assistant, Apprentice Postman Stanley. The place is also haunted by dead postmen and guarded by Mr. Tiddles, a crafty cat. Readers will cheer Moist on as he eventually finds himself in a race with the dysfunctional clacks system to see whose message can be delivered first. Thanks to the timely subject matter and Pratchett''s effervescent wit, this 29th Discworld novel (after 2003''s\n <em>\n  Monstrous Regiment\n </em>\n ) may capture more of the American audience he deserves.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School - When petty con man Moist von Lipwig is hung for his crimes in the first chapter of this surprising and humorous novel, it appears to be the end. But this is Discworld after all, a world "a lot like our own but different." Moist awakes from the shock of his hanging to find that the city''s Patrician, Lord Vetinari, has assigned him a government job (a fate worse than death?) restoring the defunct postal system. Of course, there is much more to restore than the flow of letters and packages. Justice as well as communication has been poorly served by a hostile takeover of the "clacks" - a unique messaging system that is part semaphore, part digital, and under the monopoly of the Grand Trunk Company. Before Moist can get very far into the job, he encounters ghosts, the voices of unsent letters, and a ruthless corporate conspiracy. In this quickly escalating battle, the post office is definitely the underdog, but, as the author notes, "an underdog can always find somewhere soft to bite." Fortunately Moist has friends: the determined Miss Dearheart, a golem with more than feet of clay, and a secret society of unemployed and very unusual postal workers as well as a vampire named Oscar. The author''s inventiveness seems to know no end, his playful and irreverent use of language is a delight, and there is food for thought in his parody of fantasyland. This 29th Discworld novel, like the rest of the series, is a surefire hit for fans of Douglas Adams and Monty Python.\n <em>\n  - Carolyn Lehman, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/375'),
(1523, 'Going Rogue: An American Life', 'Sarah Palin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the most recognizable women in the world.As chief executive of America''s largest state, she had built a record as a reformer who cast aside politics-as-usual and pushed through changes other politicians only talked about: Energy independence. Ethics reform. And the biggest private sector infrastructure project in U.S. history. While revitalizing public school funding and ensuring the state met its responsibilities to seniors and Alaska Native populations, Palin also beat the political "good ol'' boys club" at their own game and brought Big Oil to heel.Like her GOP running mate, John McCain, Palin wasn''t a packaged and over-produced "candidate." She was a Main Street American woman: a working mom, wife of a blue collar union man, and mother of five children, the eldest of whom was serving his country in a yearlong deployment in Iraq and the youngest, an infant with special needs. Palin''s hometown story touched a populist nerve, rallying hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans to the GOP ticket.But as the campaign unfolded, Palin became a lightning rod for both praise and criticism. Supporters called her "refreshing," "honest," a kitchen-table public servant they felt would fight for their interests. Opponents derided her as a wide-eyed Pollyanna unprepared for national leadership. But none of them knew the real Sarah Palin.In this eagerly anticipated memoir, Palin paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska; meeting her lifelong love; her decision to enter politics; the importance of faith and family; and the unique joys and trials of life as a high-profile working mother. She also opens up for the first time about the 2008 presidential race, providing a rare, mom''s-eye view of high-stakes national politics - from patriots dedicated to "Country First" to slick politicos bent on winning at any cost.Going Rogue traces one ordinary citizen''s extraordinary journey, and imparts Palin''s vision of a way forward for America and her unfailing hope in the greatest nation on earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/330'),
(1524, 'The Gold Coast', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n What happens to a priggish, WASPy, disillusioned Wall Street lawyer when a Mafia crime boss moves into the mansion next door in his posh Long Island neighborhood? He ends up representing the gangster on a murder rap and even perjures himself so the mafiosostet lc can be released on $5 million bail. That''s the premise of DeMille''s ( The Charm School ) bloated, unpersuasive thriller. Attorney John Sutter has problems that would daunt even Fitzgerald''s Jay Gatsby. His marriage is crumbling, despite kinky sex games with his self-centered wife, Susan, who''s the mistress of his underworld client Frank Bellarosa. The IRS is after Sutter, and his law firm wants to dump him. As a sardonic morality tale of one man''s self-willed disintegration, the impact is flattened by its elitist narrator''s patrician tones. A comic courtroom scene and some punches at the end, however, redeem the novel somewhat. BOMC main selection; film rights to Guber/Peters-Columbia.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men are destined for an explosive collision: John Sutter, Wall Street lawyer, holding fast to a fading aristocratic legacy; and Frank Bellarosa, the Mafia don who seizes his piece of the staid and unprepared Gold Coast like a latter-day barbarian chief and draws Sutter and his regally beautiful wife, Susan, into his violent world. Told from Sutter''s sardonic and often hilarious point of view, and laced with sexual passion and suspense, The Gold Coast is Nelson DeMille''s captivating story of friendship and seduction, love and betrayal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1310'),
(1525, 'The Golden Compass', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman''s heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel,\n <em>\n  The Golden Compass\n </em>\n , a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra''s Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal\n <em>\n  daemon\n </em>\n , the manifestation of their souls in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had daemons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra''s carefree existence changes forever when she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey daemon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Golden Compass\n </em>\n , Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children''s book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn''t speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel,\n <em>\n  The Subtle Knife\n </em>\n , will help put off that inevitability for a while longer.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Philip Pullman''s His Dark Materials trilogy now appears in sophisticated trade paperback editions, each title embossed within a runic emblem of antiqued gold. The backdrop of The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, Book I sports a midnight blue map of the cosmos with the zodiacal ram at its center. The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass carry similarly intriguing cover art, and all three titles offer details not seen in the originals: in Compass and Knife, for example, Pullman''s stamp-size b&amp;w art introduces each chapter; Spyglass chapters open with literary quotes from Blake, the Bible, Dickinson and more.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/226'),
(1526, 'Golden Fool', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Blindness comes in many forms. For angst-ridden FitzChivalry Farseer, the blindness isn''t physical but rather an inability to gauge character. Fitz, the hero of this second volume in the trilogy that began with Fool''s Errand (2002), reluctantly returns, disguised as a servant, to Buckkeep town in the Six Duchies to be skill-master to Prince Dutiful, the king-in-waiting. Fitz is mourning the loss of his wolf bondmate Nighteyes, hating his disguise, worrying about his foster son''s behavior in Buckkeep and frantically trying to learn enough about the Skill to stay ahead of the prince during their training sessions. Fitz jumps from crisis to crisis like a bowling ball tossed onto a trampoline-his failure to look deeply at others'' motivations plunges him into a morass of poorly thought-out actions and badly managed confrontations. The harder Fitz tries, the worse his situation gets. The author juggles all the balls with aplomb, besides providing spot-on characterizations. The intrigue and double-dealing of the Farseer royal court are spider webs of interconnections, while the plot itself keeps the reader bouncing from one theory to another, right up to the somewhat abrupt ending. The writing may not be quite as fine as that in Hobb''s Assassins series (Assassin''s Apprentice, etc.), but this latest nonetheless shows why she ranks near the top of the high fantasy field.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n A stout and good if not independently readable continuation of Hobb''s Tawny Man trilogy,\n <em>\n  Golden Fool\n </em>\n follows\n <em>\n  Fool''s Errand\n </em>\n [BKL D 15 01] closely in the real world as well as its predecessor''s fictional realm. FitzChivalry Farseer is back at work as apprentice to master assassin Chade, but the master is nearing the end of his life. Nor is that the young assassin''s only problem. The rescued Prince Dutiful isn''t living up to his name and in his dereliction threatens to disclose his secret and scandalous possession of beast magic. Moreover, Farseer''s wolf bondmate, Nighteyes, is dead, and the valuable companionship of the Fool (formerly known as the Tawny Man) is threatened not only by the Fool''s own quirks of character but also by a number of deadly secrets he holds. Altogether, there is enough intrigue of both the martial and magical variety to keep the characters up to their tailbones in alligators and readers turning pages--effects Hobb has yet to fail at producing. Fantasy readers know this, and librarians should react accordingly.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/596'),
(1527, 'Gone Tomorrow', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isnâ€™t.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In the next few tense seconds Reacher will make a choice--and trigger an electrifying chain of events in this gritty, gripping masterwork of suspense by #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller Lee Child.\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan Mark was the fifth passenger. She had a lonely heart, an estranged son, and a big secret. Reacher, working with a woman cop and a host of shadowy feds, wants to know just how big a hole Susan Mark was in, how many lives had already been twisted before hers, and what danger is looming around him now.\n</p>\n<p>\n Because a race has begun through the streets of Manhattan in a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. Susan Markâ€™s plain little life was critical to dozens of others in Washington, California, Afghanistan . . . from a former Delta Force operator now running for the U.S. Senate, to a beautiful young woman with a fantastic story to tellâ€“and to a host of others who have just one thing in common: Theyâ€™re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or maybe just enough to get him killed.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a novel that slams through one hairpin surprise after another, Lee Child unleashes a thriller that spans three decades and gnaws at the heart of America . . . and for Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, itâ€™s a mystery with only one answerâ€“the kind that comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive Essay: Lee Child on *Gone Tomorrow\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n My career as a writer has been longer than some and shorter than others, but it happens to span the internet era more or less exactly. My first book,\n <em>\n  Killing Floor\n </em>\n , came out in 1997. It probably sold some copies on Amazon, but not many, because the company was in its infancy then, barely two years old. In that book I even referred to â€œan e-mail,â€ thinking I was showing two of the characters to be amazingly cutting-edge and modern.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n A year or so later I actually got e-mail, and a year or so after that I got a web site, and a couple of years after that I got broadband, and over the following few years I got into the habit of starting the day internet surfing, reading the news and the gossip.\n</p>\n<p>\n But it is not until now that I can say that one of my books--the thirteenth Reacher thriller,\n <em>\n  Gone Tomorrow\n </em>\n --is truly and exclusively a product of the internet age.\n</p>\n<p>\n I started the surfing years in a sensible, structured manner, but I eventually learned that the best stuff comes randomly. I started to follow links on a whim, bouncing from place to place, Googling other peopleâ€™s references, following the maze, looking for rabbit holes.\n</p>\n<p>\n I found an anonymous police blog from Britain.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was apparently hosted by a London copper, and because it was secure and anonymous it was uninhibited. The people who posted there said all kinds of things. There were complaints and there was bitching, of course, but also there was a frank and unexpurgated view of police work from behind the lines. I got there in the summer of 2005, just after the suicide bombings on Londonâ€™s transportation system, and just after a completely innocent Brazilian student had been shot to death by London police, who were under the mistaken impression that the guy had been involved.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, as a thriller writer, Iâ€™m familiar with the idea that cops can be bent or reckless. But Iâ€™m equally aware thatâ€™s mostly literary license. I know lots of cops, and theyâ€™re great people doing a very tough job. Years ago I met a friendâ€™s eight-year-old daughter--a sweet little girl with no front teeth--and she grew up to be a cop. She won a bravery medal for a difficult solo arrest during which she was stabbed and had her thumb broken. Sheâ€™s tough, but sheâ€™s not bent or reckless. So are the other cops I know.\n</p>\n<p>\n So I was curious: what happened with the Brazilian kid? How was the mistake made?\n</p>\n<p>\n So I eavesdropped while the coppers on the anonymous site were asking the same question. And I learned something interesting.\n</p>\n<p>\n Their first consensus explanation was: because of â€œthe list.â€ The Brazilian boy was showing â€œall twelve signs.â€ I thought, what list? What signs? So I clicked and scrolled and Googled, and it turned out that years earlier Israeli counterintelligence had developed a failsafe checklist of physical and behavioral signifiers, that when all present and correct mean you are looking at a suicide bomber. The list had entered training manuals, and after 9/11 those manuals were studied like crazy all over the world. And the response was mandatory: you see a guy showing the signs, you put him down, right now, before he can blow himself up.\n</p>\n<p>\n And by sheer unlucky coincidence, the Brazilian kid had been showing the signs. A winter coat in July, a recent shave, and so on. (Read\n <em>\n  Gone Tomorrow\n </em>\n if you want to know all twelve, and why.)\n</p>\n<p>\n All writing is what if? So I tried to imagine that moment of... disbelief, I guess. You see a guy showing the signs, and probably every fiber of your being is saying, â€œThis canâ€™t be.â€ But youâ€™re required to act.\n</p>\n<p>\n So for the opening scene of\n <em>\n  Gone Tomorrow\n </em>\n , I had Reacher sitting on a subway train in New York City, staring at a woman who is showing the signs. Reacher is ex-military law enforcement, and he knows the list forward and backward. Half of his brain is saying, â€œThis canâ€™t be,â€ and the other half is programmed to act. What does he do? What if heâ€™s wrong? What will happen?\n</p>\n<p>\n Thatâ€™s where the story starts. It ends hundreds of pages later, in a place you both do and donâ€™t expect. --\n <em>\n  Lee Child\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Sigrid Estrada)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. All good thriller writers know how to build suspense and keep the pages turning, but only better ones deliver tight plots as well, and only the best allow the reader to match wits with both the hero and the author. Bestseller Child does all of that in spades in his 13th Jack Reacher adventure (after\n <em>\n  Nothing to Lose\n </em>\n ). Early one morning on a nearly empty Manhattan subway car, the former army MP notices a woman passenger he suspects is a suicide bomber. The deadly result of his confronting her puts him on a trail leading back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and forward to the war on terrorism. Reacher finds a bit of help among the authorities demanding answers from him, like the NYPD and the FBI, as well as threats and intimidation. And then there are the real bad guys that the old pro must track down and eliminate. Child sets things up subtly and ingeniously, then lets Reacher use both strength and guile to find his way to the exciting climax.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/960'),
(1528, 'Gone With the Wind', 'Margaret Mitchell &amp; Pat Conroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Margaret Mitchell''s epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as\n <em>\n  Gone With the Wind\n </em>\n does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/403');
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(1529, 'Gone, Baby, Gone', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cheese Olamon, "a six-foot-two, four-hundred-and-thirty-pound yellow-haired Scandinavian who''d somehow arrived at the misconception he was black," is telling his old grammar school friends Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro why they have to convince another mutual chum, the gun dealer Bubba Rugowski, that Cheese didn''t try to have him killed. "You let Bubba know I''m clean when it comes to what happened to him. You want me alive. Okay? Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone." Of all the chilling, completely credible scenes of sadness, destruction, and betrayal in Dennis Lehane''s fourth and very possibly best book about Kenzie and Gennaro, this moment stands out because it captures in a few pages the essence of Lehane''s success.\n</p>\n<p>\n Private detectives Kenzie and Gennaro, who live in the same working-class Dorchester neighborhood of Boston where they grew up, have gone to visit drug dealer Cheese in prison because they think he''s involved in the kidnapping of 4-year-old Amanda McCready. Without sentimentalizing the grotesque figure of Cheese, Lehane tells us enough about his past to make us understand why he and the two detectives might share enough trust to possibly save a child''s life when all the best efforts of traditional law enforcement have failed. By putting Kenzie and Gennaro just to one side of the law (but not totally outside; they have several cop friends, a very important part of the story), Lehane adds depth and edge to traditional genre relationships. The lifelong love affair between Kenzie and Gennaro--interrupted by her marriage to his best friend--is another perfectly controlled element that grows and changes as we watch. Surrounded by dead, abused, and missing children, Kenzie mourns and rages while Gennaro longs for one of her own. So the choices made by both of them in the final pages of this absolutely gripping story have the inevitability of life and the dazzling beauty of art.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other Kenzie/Gennaro books available in paperback:\n <em>\n  Darkness, Take My Hand\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  A Drink Before the War\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Sacred\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vanished, in this complex and unsettling fourth case for PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro (after Sacred, 1997) is four-year-old Amanda McCready, taken one night from her apartment in Dorchester, a working-class section of Boston, where her mother had left her alone. Kenzie and Gennaro, hired by the child''s aunt and uncle, join in an unlikely alliance with Remy Broussard and Nick Raftopoulos, known as Poole, the two cops with the department''s Crimes Against Children squad who are assigned to the case. In tracing the history of Amanda''s neglectful mother, whose past involved her with a drug lord and his minions, the foursome quickly find themselves tangling with Boston''s crime underworld and involved in what appears to be a coup among criminals. Lehane develops plenty of tension between various pairs of parties: the good guys looking for Amanda and the bad guys who may know where she is; the two PIs and the two cops; various police and federal agencies; opposing camps in the underworld; and Patrick and Angie, who are lovers as well as business partners. All is delivered with abundant violence?e.g., bloated and mutilated corpses; gangland executions; shoot-outs with weapons of prodigious firepower; descriptions of sexual abuse of small children; threats of rape and murder?that serves to make Amanda''s likely fate all the more chilling. Lehane tackles corruption in many forms as he brings his complicated plot to its satisfying resolution, at the same time leaving readers to ponder moral questions about social and individual responsibility long after the last page is turned. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/399'),
(1530, 'Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease', 'Gary Taubes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this groundbreaking book, the result of seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet with more and more people acting on this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues persuasively that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates (white flour, sugar, easily digested starches) and sugarsâ€“via their dramatic and longterm effects on insulin, the hormone that regulates fat accumulationâ€“and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. There are good calories, and bad ones.Good CaloriesThese are from foods without easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars. These foods can be eaten without restraint.Meat, fish, fowl, cheese, eggs, butter, and non-starchy vegetables. Bad CaloriesThese are from foods that stimulate excessive insulin secretion and so make us fat and increase our risk of chronic diseaseâ€”all refined and easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars. The key is not how much vitamins and minerals they contain, but how quickly they are digested. (So apple juice or even green vegetable juices are not necessarily any healthier than soda.) Bread and other baked goods, potatoes, yams, rice, pasta, cereal grains, corn, sugar (sucrose and high fructose corn syrup), ice cream, candy, soft drinks, fruit juices, bananas and other tropical fruits, and beer. Taubes traces how the common assumption that carbohydrates are fattening was abandoned in the 1960s when fat and cholesterol were blamed for heart disease and then â€“wronglyâ€“were seen as the causes of a host of other maladies, including cancer. He shows us how these unproven hypotheses were emphatically embraced by authorities in nutrition, public health, and clinical medicine, in spite of how well-conceived clinical trials have consistently refuted them. He also documents the dietary trials of carbohydrate-restriction, which consistently show that the fewer carbohydrates we consume, the leaner we will be. With precise references to the most significant existing clinical studies, he convinces us that there is no compelling scientific evidence demonstrating that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease, that salt causes high blood pressure, and that fiber is a necessary part of a healthy diet. Based on the evidence that does exist, he leads us to conclude that the only healthy way to lose weight and remain lean is to eat fewer carbohydrates or to change the type of the carbohydrates we do eat, and, for some of us, perhaps to eat virtually none at all.The 11 Critical Conclusions of Good Calories, Bad Calories: 1. Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, does not cause heart disease. 2. Carbohydrates do, because of their effect on the hormone insulin. The more easily-digestible and refined the carbohydrates and the more fructose they contain, the greater the effect on our health, weight, and well-being. 3. Sugarsâ€”sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup specificallyâ€”are particularly harmful. The glucose in these sugars raises insulin levels; the fructose they contain overloads the liver.4. Refined carbohydrates, starches, and sugars are also the most likely dietary causes of cancer, Alzheimerâ€™s Disease, and the other common chronic diseases of modern times. 5. Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating and not sedentary behavior. 6. Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter any more than it causes a child to grow taller. 7. Exercise does not make us lose excess fat; it makes us hungry. 8. We get fat because of an imbalanceâ€”a disequilibriumâ€”in the hormonal regulation of fat tissue and fat metabolism. More fat is stored in the fat tissue than is mobilized and used for fuel. We become leaner when the hormonal regulation of the fat tissue reverses this imbalance. 9. Insulin is the primary regulator of fat storage. When insulin levels are elevated, we stockpile calories as fat. When insulin levels fall, we release fat from our fat tissue and burn it for fuel. 10. By stimulating insulin secretion, carbohydrates make us fat and ultimately cause obesity. By driving fat accumulation, carbohydrates also increase hunger and decrease the amount of energy we expend in metabolism and physical activity.11. The fewer carbohydrates we eat, the leaner we will be. Good Calories, Bad Calories is a tour de force of scientific investigationâ€“certain to redefine the ongoing debate about the foods we eat and their effects on our health.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1033'),
(1531, 'Good in Bed', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is temping at first but unwise to assume Candace Shapiro is yet another Bridget Jones. Feisty, funny and less self-hating than her predecessor, Cannie is a 28-year-old Philadelphia Examiner reporter preoccupied with her weight and men, but able to see the humor in even the most unpleasant of life''s broadsides. Even she is floored, however, when she reads "Good in Bed," a new women''s magazine column penned by her ex-boyfriend, pothead grad student Bruce Guberman. Three months earlier, Cannie suggested they take a break apparently, Bruce thought they were through and set about making such proclamations as, "Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world." Devastated by this public humiliation, Cannie takes comfort in tequila and her beloved dog, Nifkin. Bruce has let her down like another man in her life: Cannie''s sadistic, plastic surgeon father emotionally abused her as a young girl, and eventually abandoned his wife and family, leaving no forwarding address. Cannie''s siblings suffer, especially the youngest, Lucy, who has tried everything from phone sex to striptease. Their tough-as-nails mother managed to find love again with a woman, Tanya, the gravel-voiced owner of a two-ton loom. Somehow, Cannie stays strong for family and friends, joining a weight-loss group, selling her screenplay and gaining the maturity to ask for help when she faces something bigger than her fears. Weiner''s witty, original, fast-moving debut features a lovable heroine, a solid cast, snappy dialogue and a poignant take on life''s priorities. This is a must-read for any woman who struggles with body image, or for anyone who cares about someone who does.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Weiner''s first novel should satisfy readers from older teens and above. Cannie Shapiro is in her late twenties, funny, independent, and a talented reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. After a "temporary" break-up with her boyfriend of three years, she reads his debut column, "Good in Bed," in the women''s magazine Moxie. Titled "Loving a Larger Woman," this very personal piece triggers events that completely transform her and those around her. Cannie''s adventures will strike a chord with all young women struggling to find their place in the world, especially those larger than a size eight. Despite some events that stretch credulity and a few unresolved issues at the end, this novel follows the classic format of chasing the wrong man when the right one is there all along. Veteran storyteller Maeve Binchy gave us Bennie in Circle of Friends; now Jennifer Weiner gives us Cannie. Look for more books from Weiner. Rebecca Sturm Kelm, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1023'),
(1532, 'Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch', 'Neil Gaiman &amp; Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road, and the world''s last two remaining witch-finders are getting ready to fight the good fight, armed with awkwardly antiquated instructions and stick pins. Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. . . . Right. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan.   Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon -- each of whom has lived among Earth''s mortals for many millennia and has grown rather fond of the lifestyle -- are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they''ve got to find and kill the Antichrist (which is a shame, as he''s a really nice kid). There''s just one glitch: someone seems to have misplaced him. . . .   First published in 1990, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett''s brilliantly dark and screamingly funny take on humankind''s final judgment is back -- and just in time -- in a new hardcover edition (which includes an introduction by the authors, comments by each about the other, and answers to some still-burning questions about their wildly popular collaborative effort) that the devout and the damned alike will surely cherish until the end of all things.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/704'),
(1533, 'The Good, the Bad, and the Undead', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Rachel Morgan''s back, and in more trouble than ever! Fans of Laurell K. Hamilton and other vampire novels won''t want to miss the second novel in Kim Harrison''s addicting--and already bestselling--supernatural series.\n</p>\n<p>\n Former-bounty-hunter Rachel Morgan has it pretty good. She''s left the corrupt Inderland Runner Service and started her own independent service. She''s survived werewolves, shape-changing demons, bad-hair days, and sharing a church with her vampire roommate Ivy. She even has a cute (if human) boyfriend-what more could a witch want?\n</p>\n<p>\n But living with a reformed vampire isn''t all it''s cracked up to be, particularly when your roommate''s very bad ex-boyfriend wants her back, and wouldn''t mind you in the process. And especially when he''s six feet of sheer supernatural seduction, and you''ve got a demon mark that makes vampires literally hotter than hell....\n</p>\n<p>\n To save herself and Ivy, Rachel must confront the vampire master-and the dark secrets she''s hidden even from herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1236'),
(1534, 'Goodnight Nobody', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Goodnight Nobody\n  </em>\n  is bestselling author Jennifer Weiner''s attempt at writing a mystery, with a healthy dose of the author''s chick lit sensibilities thrown in for good measure. While this\n  <em>\n   Desperate Housewives\n  </em>\n  meets\n  <em>\n   Sex in the City\n  </em>\n  murder mystery won''t make readers shake in their Manolo Blahniks, it will provide the obligatory humor and compassion to which fans of Weiner''s\n  <em>\n   Good in Bed\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   In Her Shoes\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Little Earthquakes\n  </em>\n  have grown accustomed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kate Klein is a feisty, charmingly insecure Connecticut housewife who trades in a life of late-night karaoke sing-a-longs and West Village brunches with her best friend Janie for a world of mini-vans and Mommy and Me pilates classes. Life in Upchurch, Connecticut, heats up when Kate discovers picture-perfect wife and mother Kitty Cavanaugh dead on the pickled maple hardwood floor of her recently remodeled kitchen. A former chronicler of celebrity gossip, Kate takes it upon herself to solve the mystery of Kitty''s murder and the disappearance of Lexi Hagen-Holdt, another Upchurch supermom. Along the way, the mysteries and disappointments in Kate''s personal life begin to unravel, including her marriage to the kind-yet-uptight Ben, and her unresolved crush on Evan McKenna, a former neighbor with whom a one-night tryst ended in disaster. Thrown in for comic relief, and perhaps to show the depth of Weiner''s talents as a writer, are Kate''s twin boys and adorably sophisticated 5-year old daughter Sophie ("Sophie was sitting on the toilet, applying lipstick and waiting her turn...").\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Goodnight Nobody\n  </em>\n  is chock full of plot twists and turns which can be overwhelming and superfluous. However, Weiner''s charm and grace are usually enough to rescue readers from these moments of confusion, and reaffirm our commitment to this endearing contemporary voice.\n  <em>\n   --Gisele Toueg\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chick Lit star Weiner''s fourth novel, following In Her Shoes (2002), which has been adapted as a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, follows bored, upper-middle class, suburbanite mother of three Kate Klein as she becomes entangled in a local murder case. When Kate discovers the stabbed body of neighbor Kitty Cavanaugh, her pursuit of the killer gives Kate''s mundane life a new sense of purpose, but her zeal puts pressure on her already wobbly marriage to Ben. She charges on, however, aided by best friend Janie, the chic, fearless daughter of a multi-millionaire. Kate soon uncovers Kitty''s second life, centered on Kitty''s search for her real father, entailing an investigation of several powerful men. Things are further complicated by the reappearance of Evan McKenna, Kate''s unrequited love interest of the past seven years, who is a charming part-time private investigator, the exact opposite of Ben. Linked to the case through work he''d done for Kitty, Evan joins Kate on the mystery, and his seductive presence leaves her torn. While Weiner''s characters are passionate, affecting and poignant, the murder mystery is less compelling. Too many false conclusions leave the reader tired by the time the real killer is revealed. The ending is also hard to believe. But Weiner''s readers will root for Kate, whose humor and warmth amidst her struggles to transcend the roles of mom and wife make her a loveable, fully realized character.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1926'),
(1535, 'Got the Look', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Jack Swyteckâ€™s new girlfriend, Mia, is keeping secrets from the love-struck Miami attorney, not the least of which is a wealthy and powerful husband. Then Mia is kidnapped by a manipulative abductor who makes a chilling ransom request, â€œPay me what sheâ€™s worth.â€ Now Jackâ€™s the one under the gun, since Miaâ€™s spouse has decided his unfaithful wife is worth nothing. Time is of the essence, and if Jack picks the wrong number, Mia could end up like the kidnapperâ€™s other victims: dead.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Attorney Jack Swyteck and his jazz musician sidekick Theo Knight josh, joke and kid, but unfortunately the case they''re workingâ€”the kidnapping of Jack''s girlfriend by a sadistic murdererâ€”doesn''t lend itself to humor. The disconnect of monkeyshines versus the grim, detailed torture of a helpless woman cripples this thinly plotted, disappointing thriller set in Grippando''s familiar South Florida. The girlfriend in question, the gorgeous Mia Salazar, turns out to be (unknown to Jack) married. After she''s been seized, her betrayed husband makes it clear that he has no interest in paying any significant ransom. This duty then falls to Jack, who, working with FBI agent Andie Henning (reprised from\n  <em>\n   Under Cover of Darkness\n  </em>\n  ), frantically tries to find Mia. Though Jack and Andie are the proverbial oil and water, the results of this pairing are entirely predictable. And when the kidnapper is finally revealed, his identity is as unbelievable as the tortured reasoning that attempts to connect the many disparate plot elements. The chase scene at the end lends some much-needed firepower, but it''s too little too late for anyone but the most diehard Grippando fan.\n  <em>\n   (On sale Jan. 3)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This fifth Jack Swyteck novel (following\n  <em>\n   Hear No Evil,\n  </em>\n  2004) finds the Miami defense attorney head over heels in love with a captivating woman named Mia and in an uncharacteristically mellow mood, leaving him a prime target for the snarky humor of his best friend, Theo, a strapping ex-con. Then Jack is dealt a double blow when he finds out that his lover is married to a wealthy real-estate developer and that she has been taken captive by a sadistic serial kidnapper whose previous victim wound up dead. Stiffed by the cuckolded husband, the kidnapper moves on to blackmail Jack, demanding that he pay whatever he thinks Mia''s life is worth. Jack is contacted by FBI Special Agent Andie Henning, a highly competent professional whose personal life is in shambles. As Andie and Jack try to work in tandem, with Theo watching Jack''s back, the narrative shifts to incorporate Mia''s terrifying ordeal at the hands of her captor. Grippando sets some of the novel''s most gruesome scenes in some of Florida''s most stunning settings, including an enormous aquifer, an underwater limestone labyrinth of interconnecting caves. Although his dialogue could use some work, Grippando has a great feel for pacing and writes highly effective, gripping action scenes that will leave readers in suspense until the final page.\n  <em>\n   Joanne Wilkinson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2470'),
(1536, 'The Grand Design', 'Stephen Hawking &amp; Leonard Mlodinow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n THE FIRST MAJOR WORK IN NEARLY A DECADE BY ONE OF THE WORLDâ€™S GREAT THINKERSâ€”A MARVELOUSLY CONCISE BOOK WITH NEW ANSWERS TO THE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS OF LIFE\n <br />\n <br />\n When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the nature of reality? Why are the laws of nature so finely tuned as to allow for the existence of beings like ourselves? And, finally, is the apparent â€œgrand designâ€ of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motionâ€”or does science offer another explanation?\n</p>\n<p>\n The most fundamental questions about the origins of the universe and of life itself, once the province of philosophy, now occupy the territory where scientists, philosophers, and theologians meetâ€”if only to disagree. In their new book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by both brilliance and simplicity.\n</p>\n<p>\n In The Grand Design they explain that according to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence or history, but rather that every possible history of the universe exists simultaneously. When applied to the universe as a whole, this idea calls into question the very notion of cause and effect. But the â€œtop-downâ€ approach to cosmology that Hawking and\n</p>\n<p>\n Mlodinow describe would say that the fact that the past takes no definite form means that we create history by observing it, rather than that history creates us. The authors further explain that we ourselves are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe, and show how quantum theory predicts the â€œmultiverseâ€â€”the idea that ours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with different laws of nature.\n</p>\n<p>\n Along the way Hawking and Mlodinow question the conventional concept of reality, posing a â€œmodel-dependentâ€ theory of reality as the best we can hope to find. And they conclude with a riveting assessment of M-theory, an explanation of the laws governing us and our universe that is currently the only viable candidate for a complete â€œtheory of everything.â€ If confirmed, they write, it will be the unified theory that Einstein was looking for, and the ultimate triumph of human reason.\n</p>\n<p>\n A succinct, startling, and lavishly illustrated guide to discoveries that are altering our understanding and threatening some of our most cherished belief systems, The Grand Design is a book that will informâ€”and provokeâ€”like no other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/636'),
(1537, 'Grandpa?', 'Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1837'),
(1538, 'The Grapes of Wrath (Viking Critical Library)', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation,\n <em>\n  The Grapes of Wrath\n </em>\n is also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisons against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots, Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its insistence on human dignity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/138'),
(1539, 'Grave Peril: Book Three of the Dresden Files', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wizard Harry Dresden stars in the third installment of the Dresden Files (following Fool Moon), a haunting, fantastical novel that begins almost as innocently as those of another famous literary wizard named Harry. In the opening scene, Dresden and his knight friend, Michael, battle the ghost of a woman who is terrorizing a local hospital''s maternity ward. From there, the novel quickly evolves into an unorthodox tale spiced with sexual innuendo and subtle humor (Dresden carries his ghost-hunting gear in an old Scooby-Doo lunch box). Due to the weakened barrier between the spirit world which Butcher refers to as "the nevernever" and the actual world, obsessive and violent ghosts are on the loose in modern-day Chicago, and they seem to be targeting Dresden and Michael. Horny vampires and possessive demons join the mix as Dresden journeys into the spirit world to hunt down the villains who are terrorizing him and his friends. Butcher narrates Dresden''s story in the first person, which limits the amount of detail he can inject into the lives of his secondary characters. Despite this narrow point of view, Butcher successfully lends human dimensions to vampires and spirits through his vivid descriptions and colloquial dialogue. (Sept.)Forecast: A vivid cover showing glowing barbed wire wrapped around a pair of cemetery gates is misleading as is a cover quote appealing to fans of Laurell K. Hamilton and Tanya Huff but it will catch the browser''s eye. This over-the-top tale is more likely to entertain young adult readers than fans of the aforementioned authors.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Called to Cook County hospital to deal with an enraged ghost, Harry Dresden, Chicago''s resident wizard, is puzzled and disturbed not by the ghost''s wrath but by the fact that someone had cast a torture spell on it, goading it into action. Harry''s disturbance increases when he discovers that the same spell has been cast on one of his friends. Harry begins to realize that he and his friends may be targets of a vengeful spirit, and as he desperately tries to discover which of his many enemies has it in for him, his friends are attacked one by one. The spirit, whom Harry refers to as the Nightmare, continues to torment Harry''s friends until he manages to cast a spell preventing it from harming anyone else until it kills him, which leads to a showdown that Harry might not survive. Harry is a likable protagonist with more than his share of troubles, and\n <em>\n  Grave Peril\n </em>\n will keep readers turning the pages to find out how he overcomes them.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/86'),
(1540, 'The Graveyard Book', 'Neil Gaiman &amp; Dave Mckean', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Graveyard Book\n </em>\n , Neil Gaiman has created a charming allegory of childhood. Although the book opens with a scary scene--a family is stabbed to death by "a man named Jackâ€ --the story quickly moves into more child-friendly storytelling. The sole survivor of the attack--an 18-month-old baby--escapes his crib and his house, and toddles to a nearby graveyard. Quickly recognizing that the baby is orphaned, the graveyard''s ghostly residents adopt him, name him Nobody ("Bod"), and allow him to live in their tomb. Taking inspiration from Kiplingâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Jungle Book\n </em>\n , Gaiman describes how the toddler navigates among the headstones, asking a lot of questions and picking up the tricks of the living and the dead. In serial-like episodes, the story follows Bod''s progress as he grows from baby to teen, learning lifeâ€™s lessons amid a cadre of the long-dead, ghouls, witches, intermittent human interlopers. A pallid, nocturnal guardian named Silas ensures that Bod receives food, books, and anything else he might need from the human world. Whenever the boy strays from his usual play among the headstones, he finds new dangers, learns his limitations and strengths, and acquires the skills he needs to survive within the confines of the graveyard and in wider world beyond. (ages 10 and up) -â€“\n <em>\n  Heidi Broadhead\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5â€“8â€”Somewhere in contemporary Britain, "the man Jack" uses his razor-sharp knife to murder a family, but the youngest, a toddler, slips away. The boy ends up in a graveyard, where the ghostly inhabitants adopt him to keep him safe. Nobody Owens, so named because he "looks like nobody but himself," grows up among a multigenerational cast of characters from different historical periods that includes matronly Mistress Owens; ancient Roman Caius Pompeius; an opinionated young witch; a melodramatic hack poet; and Bod''s beloved mentor and guardian, Silas, who is neither living nor dead and has secrets of his own. As he grows up, Bod has a series of adventures, both in and out of the graveyard, and the threat of the man Jack who continues to hunt for him is ever present. Bod''s love for his graveyard family and vice versa provide the emotional center, amid suspense, spot-on humor, and delightful scene-setting. The child Bod''s behavior is occasionally too precocious to be believed, and a series of puns on the name Jack render the villain a bit less frightening than he should be, though only momentarily. Aside from these small flaws, however, Gaiman has created a rich, surprising, and sometimes disturbing tale of dreams, ghouls, murderers, trickery, and family.â€”\n <em>\n  Megan Honig, New York Public Library\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/711'),
(1541, 'Gravity&#39;s Rainbow', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel''s title,\n <em>\n  Gravity''s Rainbow\n </em>\n , refers to the rocket''s vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.\n</p>\n<p>\n Slothrop''s father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy''s future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone''s privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.\n</p>\n<p>\n That''s just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon''s book. It''s pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon''s cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger''s brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon''s blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why KekulÃ© von Stradonitz''s dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pynchon doesn''t want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though.\n <em>\n  Gravity''s Rainbow\n </em>\n uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It''s a trip, and it will last.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. The sprawling narrative comprises numerous threads having to do either directly or tangentially with the secret development and deployment of a rocket by the Nazis near the end of World War II. Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop is an American working for Allied Intelligence in London. Agents of the Firm, a clandestine military organization, are investigating an apparent connection between Slothrop''s erections and the targeting of incoming V-2 rockets. As a child, Slothrop was the subject of experiments conducted by a Harvard professor who is now a Nazi rocket scientist. Slothrop''s quest for the truth behind these implications leads him on a nightmarish journey of either historic discovery or profound paranoia, depending on his own and the reader''s interpretation. The novel won the National Book Award for fiction in 1974. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1115'),
(1542, 'The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion', 'Matt Taibbi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With his trademark mordant wit, journalist Taibbi explores the black comedy of the American polis, where a citizenry shunted out of the political process seeks solace in conspiratorial weirdness and Internet-fueled mysticism. Trained from birth to be excellent consumers, Americans have become experts in mixing and matching news items to fit [their] own self-created identities, according to the author, who embeds himself in these pockets of people as he travels to the Congress press gallery, Iraq, meetings of the 9/11 Truth Movement, and goes undercover at a Christian Retreat. He pillories born-again Christians and the 9/11 conspiracy theorists, concluding that despite their differences: Both groups were and are defined primarily by an unshakeable belief in the inhumanity of their enemies on the other side; the Christians seldom distinguished between Islamic terrorism and, say, Al Goreâ€“style environmentalism, while the Truthers easily believed that reporters for the\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n , the president and the frontline operators of NORAD were equally capable of murdering masses of ordinary New York financial sector employees. Thoughtful Democrats, Republicans and independents will find common ground in this book that punctures pretense, hypocrisy and know-nothingness.\n <em>\n  (May 6)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PRAISE FOR\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   THE GREAT DERANGEMENT\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ\n <em>\n  The Great Derangement\n </em>\n is a scabrous, hilarious vivisection of our disintegrating nation. An unstinting reporter and sensational writer, Taibbi shines a light on the corruption, absurdities, and idiot pieties of modern American politics. Beneath his cynical fury, though, are flashes of surprising compassion for the adrift, credulous souls who are taken in by it all. I loved this book.â€\n <br />\n â€”Michelle Goldberg, author of\n <em>\n  Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMatt Taibbi is the best American journalism has to offer. As\n <em>\n  The Great Derangement\n </em>\n shows, he has absolutely no shred of fear in confronting the corruption that plagues our government and exploring the desperation that is rising in America. And somehow, he pulls it off while making us simultaneously weep in sorrow and laugh our asses off.â€\n <br />\n â€”David Sirota, author of\n <em>\n  Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Governmentâ€”and How We Take It Back\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œWhere other mainstream news sources fail, Matt Taibbi madly embraces his role as an honest political observer/writer/citizen in a democracy. I would also like to take this opportunity to ask for Mattâ€™s hand in marriage.â€\n <br />\n â€”Janeane Garofalo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/160'),
(1543, 'Great Expectations', 'Charles Dickens &amp; Radhika Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  Great Expectations\n </em>\n , by Charles Dickens, is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars\n </li>\n <li>\n  Biographies of the authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events\n </li>\n <li>\n  Footnotes and endnotes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comments by other famous authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bibliographies for further reading\n </li>\n <li>\n  Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Great Expectations\n </em>\n , described by G. K. Chesterton as a â€œstudy in human weakness and the slow human surrender,â€ may be called Charles Dickensâ€™s finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the ruined garden where he meets the bitter and crazy Miss Havisham and her foster child Estella, with whom he immediately falls in love. After a secret benefactor gives him a fortune, Pip moves to London, where he cultivates great expectations for a life which would allow him to discard his impoverished beginnings and socialize with the idle upper class. As Pip struggles to become a gentleman and is tormented endlessly by the beautiful Estella, he slowly learns the truth about himself and his illusions.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Written in the last decade of his life,\n <em>\n  Great Expectations\n </em>\n reveals Dickensâ€™s dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure, and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickensâ€™s most popular. Richly comic and immensely readable,\n <em>\n  Great Expectations\n </em>\n overspills with vividly drawn characters, moral maelstroms, and the sorrow and pity of love.\n</p>\n<p>\n Radhika Jones is a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the managing editor of\n <em>\n  Grand Street magazine\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/854'),
(1544, 'The Great Gatsby', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something\n <em>\n  new\n </em>\n --something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became\n <em>\n  The Great Gatsby\n </em>\n , arguably Fitzgerald''s finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess,\n <em>\n  Gatsby\n </em>\n captured the spirit of the author''s generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald''s--and his country''s--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that''s no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby''s rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby''s quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel''s more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy''s patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose,\n <em>\n  The Great Gatsby\n </em>\n is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers in that sizeable group of people who think The Great Gatsby is the Great American Novel will be delighted with Robbins''s subtle, brainy and immensely touching new reading. There have been audio versions of Gatsby before this-by Alexander Scourby and Christopher Reeve, to name two-but actor/director Robbins brings a fresh and bracing vision that makes the story gleam. From the jaunty irony of the title page quote ("Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!") to the poetry of Fitzgerald''s ending about "the dark fields of the republic" and "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past," Robbins conjures up a sublime portrait of a lost world. And as a bonus, the excellent audio actor Robert Sean Leonard reads a selection of Fitzgerald''s letters to editors, agents and friends which focus on the writing and selling of the novel. Listeners will revel in learning random factoids, e.g., in 1924, Scott and Zelda were living in a Rome hotel that cost just over $500 a month, and he was respectfully suggesting that his agent Harold Ober ask $15,000 from Liberty magazine for the serial rights to Gatsby.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/809'),
(1545, 'Great House', 'Nicole Krauss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010\n </strong>\n : In each of the short stories that nest like rooms in Nicole Krauss''s\n <em>\n  Great House\n </em>\n looms a tremendous desk. It may have belonged to Federico GarcÃ­a Lorca, the great poet and dramatist who was one of thousands executed by Fascists in 1936, when the Spanish Civil War began. We know that the desk stood in Weisz''s father''s study in Budapest on a night in 1944, when the first stone shattered their window. After the war, Weisz hunts furniture looted from Jewish homes by the Nazis. He scours the world for the fragments to reassemble that study''s every element, but the desk eludes him, and he and his children live at the edges of its absence. Meanwhile, it spends a few decades in an attic in England, where a woman exhumes the memories she can''t speak except through violent stories. She gives the desk to the young Chilean-Jewish poet Daniel Varsky, who takes it to New York and passes it on (before he returns to Chile and disappears under Pinochet) to Nadia, who writes seven novels on it before Varsky''s daughter calls to claim it. Crossing decades and continents, the stories of\n <em>\n  Great House\n </em>\n narrate feeling more than fact. Krauss''s characters inhabit "a state of perpetual regret and longing for a place we only know existed because we remember a keyhole, a tile, the way the threshold was worn under an open door," and a desk whose multitude of drawers becomes a mausoleum of memory.\n <em>\n  --Mari Malcolm\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This stunning work showcases Krauss''s consistent talent. The novel consists of four stories divided among eight chapters, all touching on themes of loss and recovery, and anchored to a massive writing desk that resurfaces among numerous households, much to the bewilderment and existential tension of those in its orbit, among them a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis. Much like in Krauss''s The History of Love, the sharply etched characters seem at first arbitrarily linked across time and space, but Krauss pulls together the disparate elements, settings, characters, and fragile connective tissue to form a formidable and haunting mosaic of loss and profound sorrow.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1193');
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(1546, 'The Great Hunt', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chosen by fate to become the Dragon Reborn--savior and destroyer of his world--young Rand al''Thor attempts to outrun his destiny by joining in a mad search for the lost Horn of Valere. Continuing the story begun in The Eye of the World ( LJ 2/15/90), Jordan creates a lush, sprawling tapestry of a novel in the tradition of Tolkien and Eddings. Recommended where fantasy is popular.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal.... The battle scenes have the breathless urgency of firsthand experience, and the ... evil laced into the forces of good, the dangers latent in any promised salvation, the sense of the unavoidable onslaught of unpredictable events bear the marks of American national experience during the last three decades."--Edward Rothstein,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Those who like fantasy can rejoice. This is the genuine article ... characters you can care about, a world you can believe in, hideous monsters, battles, magic, even love.... I only have one problem. How am I going to get by until the next volume comes out?"--John Lee, author of\n <em>\n  The Unicorn Solution\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Rousing, slam-bang ... full of valiant skirmishes, great heroes, and close rescues. The real war is only beginning, but this one battle at least ends with the sort of grand finale worth re-reading a time or two."--\n <em>\n  Locus\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/639'),
(1547, 'The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Signature\n <em>\n  Reviewed by\n </em>\n Jonah LehrerRichard Dawkins begins\n <em>\n  The Greatest Show on Earth\n </em>\n with a short history of his writing career. He explains that all of his previous books have naÃ¯vely assumed the fact of evolution, which meant that he never got around to laying out the evidence that it [evolution] is true. This shouldn''t be too surprising: science is an edifice of tested assumptions, and just as physicists must assume the truth of gravity before moving on to quantum mechanics, so do biologists depend on the reality of evolution. It''s the theory that makes every other theory possible.Yet Dawkins also came to realize that a disturbingly large percentage of the American and British public didn''t share his enthusiasm for evolution. In fact, they actively abhorred the idea, since it seemed to contradict the Bible and diminish the role of God. So Dawkins decided to write a book for these history-deniers, in which he would dispassionately demonstrate the truth of evolution beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt.After only a few pages of\n <em>\n  The Greatest Show on Earth\n </em>\n , however, it becomes clear that Dawkins doesn''t do dispassionate, and that he''s not particularly interested in convincing believers to believe in evolution. He repeatedly compares creationists and Holocaust deniers, which is a peculiar way of reaching out to the other side. Elsewhere, Dawkins calls those who don''t subscribe to evolution ignorant, fatuously ignorant and ridiculous. All of which raises the point: who, exactly, is supposed to read this book? Is Dawkins preaching to the choir or trying to convert the uninformed? While\n <em>\n  The Greatest Show on Earth\n </em>\n might fail as a work of persuasive rhetoricâ€”Dawkins is too angry and acerbic to convince his opponentsâ€”it succeeds as an encyclopedic summary of evolutionary biology. If Charles Darwin walked into a 21st-century bookstore and wanted to know how his theory had fared, this is the book he should pick up.Dawkins remains a superb translator of complex scientific concepts. It doesn''t matter if he''s spinning metaphors for the fossil record (like a spy camera in a murder trial) or deftly explaining the method by which scientists measure the genetic difference between distinct species: he has a way of making the drollest details feel like a revelation. Even if one already believes in the survival of the fittest, there is something thrilling about learning that the hoof of a horse is homologous to the fingernail of the human middle finger, or that some dinosaurs had a second brain of ganglion cells in their pelvis, which helped compensate for the tiny brain in their head. As Darwin famously noted, There is grandeur in this view of life. What Dawkins demonstrates is that this view of life isn''t just grand: it''s also undeniably true. Color illus.\n <em>\n  (Sept. 29)\n </em>\n <em>\n  Jonah Lehrer is the author of\n </em>\n How We Decide\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n Proust Was a Neuroscientist.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Like a detective reconstructing a crime" (\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n ), Dawkins amasses a mountain of evidence in this richly illustrated, enormously readable explanation of the theory of evolution. Though Dawkins may have softened his attitude toward those who can reconcile their religious beliefs with evolution, he still harbors great hostility toward its detractors, equating them to Holocaust deniersâ€”a label that riled the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n . Objecting to Dawkins''s abrasive dogmatism, many critics felt that the biologist is at his best when he forgets his opponents and focuses on the science. He is indeed a master of explaining complex scientific ideas to nonscientific readers, and though\n <em>\n  The Greatest Show\n </em>\n <em>\n  on Earth\n </em>\n may not be his best book, it is a well-written, captivating review of the science behind the theory.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/830'),
(1548, 'The Green Mile', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary''s death-row facility,The Green Mileis the riveting and tragic story of John Coffey, a giant, preternaturally gentle inmate condemned to death for the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls. It is a story narrated years later by Paul Edgecomb, the ward superintendent compelled to help every prisoner spend his last days peacefully and every man walk the green mile to execution with his humanity intact.Edgecomb has sent seventy-eight inmates to their date with "old sparky," but he''s never encountered one like Coffey -- a man who wants to die, yet has the power to heal. And in this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecomb discovers the terrible truth about Coffey''s gift, a truth that challenges his most cherished beliefs -- and ours.Originally published in 1996 in six self-contained monthly installments,The Green Mileis an astonishingly rich and complex novel that delivers over and over again. Each individual volume became a huge success when first published, and all six were on theNew York Timesbestseller list simultaneously. Three years later, when Frank Darabont madeThe Green Mileinto an award-winning movie starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, the book returned to the bestseller list -- and stayed there for months.And now -- with a new introduction by King''s foreign agent Ralph Vicinanza, as well as the author''s own foreword -- we have the first hardcover edition of this magnificent novel in which "King surpasses our expectations, leaves us spellbound and hungry for the next twist of plot"(The Boston Globe).With illustrations and a new frontispiece for this edition by Mark Geyer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/574'),
(1549, 'The Grim Grotto: Book the Eleventh (A Series of Unfortunate Events)', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Warning: Your day will become very dark - and possibly damp - if you read this book.\n</p>\n<p>\n Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lemony Snicket''s saga about the charming, intelligent and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to provoke suspicion and despair in readers the world over. In the eleventh and most alarming volume yet in the bestselling phenomenon A Series of Unfortunate Events, the intrepid siblings delve further into the dark mystery surrounding the death of their parents and the baffling VFD organisation.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ages 9+\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/128'),
(1550, 'Grimm&#39;s Fairy Tales', 'Jacob Grimm &amp; Wilhelm Grimm &amp; Elizabeth Dalton &amp; Ludwig Emil Grimm', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Grimm''s Fairy Tales\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With the words â€œOnce upon a time,â€ the Brothers Grimm transport readers to a timeless realm where witches, giants, princesses, kings, fairies, goblins, and wizards fall in love, try to get rich, quarrel with their neighbors, and have magical adventures of all kindsâ€”and in the process reveal essential truths about human nature.\n</p>\n<p>\n When\n <strong>\n  Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm\n </strong>\n set out to collect stories in the early 1800s, their goal was not to entertain children but to preserve Germanic folkloreâ€”and the hard life of European peasants was reflected in the tales they discovered. However, once the brothers saw how the stories entranced young readers, they began softening some of the harsher aspects to make them more suitable for children.\n</p>\n<p>\n A cornerstone of Western culture since the early 1800s,\n <em>\n  Grimmâ€™s Fairy Tales\n </em>\n is now beloved the world over. This collection of more than 120 of the Grimmsâ€™ best tales includes such classics as â€œCinderella,â€ â€œSnow White,â€ â€œHansel and Grethel,â€ â€œRapunzel,â€ â€œRumpelstiltskin,â€ â€œLittle Red Riding Hood,â€ and â€œThe Frog Prince,â€ as well as others that are no less delightful.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Elizabeth Dalton\n </strong>\n is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Barnard College. She has published fiction and criticism in\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Partisan Review\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Commentary\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Elizabeth Dalton''s Introduction *Grimm''s Fairy Tales\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Originally intended for adults, the\n <em>\n  Kinder- und HausmÃ¤rchen (Childrenâ€™s and Household Stories)\n </em>\n of the Brothers Grimm has become not only the worldâ€™s most important collection of folk and fairy tales, but also the central work in the literary culture of childhood. Paradoxically, the tales have been criticized ever since they first appeared as inappropriate for childrenâ€”too frank about sex, too violent, too dark. The Grimms themselves began censoring the sex as they brought out successive editions, and subsequent editors and translators have continued the process, modifying the violence as well. But the darkness remains.\n</p>\n<p>\n These tales of enchantment and ordeal contain terrifying encounters with witches, giants, and devouring beasts. Even the more benign tales usually involve suffering or danger: persecution by a cruel stepmother or abusive father, a battle with a demon, at the very least marriage to a hedgehog or some other strange creature. There are confrontations with death itself, as in â€œThe Three Snake-Leavesâ€ and â€œThe Godfather Death,â€ and with the enchanted sleep that resembles it, as in â€œThe Glass Coffinâ€ and â€œBriar Rose,â€ the Sleeping Beauty story. Yet in spite of these dark and deathly elements, or perhaps even because of them, the Grimmsâ€™ tales have a compelling vitality. They are cruder, wilder, more violent, and more fun than the elegant and poignantly beautiful tales of the Grimmsâ€™ Danish contemporary Hans Christian Andersen.\n</p>\n<p>\n Unlike Andersen, the Grimms did not invent new tales but collected old ones, with the intention of preserving the oral tradition of the German peasantry. Whether in fact they fulfilled that intention has been questioned. Their tales do afford a glimpse of a world of castles and forests, nobles and peasants, superstitious beliefs and primitive practices that suggest origins at least as old as feudal Europe, and often much older. Some of the tales have been traced back through the centuries by way of earlier versions until they disappear into prehistoric times.\n</p>\n<p>\n Residues of the social and material conditions of the societies from which they came can be found in the tales, but transformed, as in a dream, by wish, fear, and fantasy. Indeed, the tales often have the strange logic, the freedom from the constraints of time and space, and the abrupt and violent actions that characterize dreams and that Freud attributed to what he called â€œprimary process,â€ the kind of thinking that prevails in the unconscious and in childhood. The boundary between reality and fantasy is porous and unstable; everything, including inanimate objects, is alive and responds magically to wishes and fears. There are mysteries and secrets everywhere, as in the lives of children, who are kept in the dark about fundamental realitiesâ€”sex, death, money, and the whole complex mystery of their parentsâ€™ desires and disappointments.\n</p>\n<p>\n The sense of mystery and the belief in the magical powers of thought never go away entirely, but live on in the adult unconscious, accounting for the inexhaustible appeal of fairy tales. They reappear continually in new forms, not only for children but as sophisticated works for adults, such as Jean Cocteauâ€™s classic film\n <em>\n  La Belle et la BÃªte\n </em>\n (1946), Donald Barthelmeâ€™s ironic postmodern novel\n <em>\n  Snow White\n </em>\n (1967), the unconventional feminist fictions of Angela Carter, the Stephen Sondheim musical\n <em>\n  Into the Woods\n </em>\n (1987), and so on. Most German writers who came after the Grimms tried sooner or later to write a fairy tale. Even the stories of Franz Kafka are like fairy tales gone wrong. The patterns of fantasy and the narrative structures of the tales apparently satisfy profound psychological and aesthetic needs, endlessly generating new versions.\n</p>\n<p>\n Motifs from the Grimmsâ€™ tales also appear in older classic works of fiction and drama, including some that could not possibly have been influenced by them, such as Shakespeareâ€™s plays. In\n <em>\n  The Merchant of Venice\n </em>\n (c. 1595), the riddle of the three caskets posed to the candidates for Portiaâ€™s hand is like the â€œwooer-testsâ€ in many tales. In\n <em>\n  King Lear\n </em>\n (c. 1605), the old king demands from his daughter all her love, including that owed to a husband, like the incestuous king in the Grimmsâ€™ tale â€œAllerleirauhâ€ (â€œMany Fursâ€). Learâ€™s good and loving daughter, Cordelia, is persecuted, like Cinderella, by two wicked elder sisters.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Cinderella pattern is perhaps the most widespread of all: The transformation of a poor and insignificant girl into a belle is the theme of innumerable novels, plays, and films. In Jane Austenâ€™s\n <em>\n  Persuasion\n </em>\n (1818), for instance, Anne Elliot is treated like a servant by her hateful sisters, yet it is she who wins the love of the princely Captain Wentworth. Isabel Archer, in Henry Jamesâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Portrait of a Lady\n </em>\n (1881), even has a fairy godmotherâ€”as Charles Perraultâ€™s Cinderella does, although the Grimmsâ€™ does notâ€”a male one who leaves her a fortune, enabling her, ironically, to choose the poorest but worst of her canonical three suitors. This figure of the mysterious benefactor, like the dwarf in â€œThe Singing Bone,â€ recurs frequently in the tales, and also in novels, especially those of Dickensâ€”Magwitch in\n <em>\n  Great Expectations\n </em>\n (1860â€“1861), for instance. Novels and plays differ from tales in many respects, notably in giving their characters rich inner lives, while in tales psychological conflicts are worked out in action. Nonetheless, the parallels at the level of plot between tales and the larger and more fully developed forms are striking and could make a very long list. It seems that the\n <em>\n  Kinder- und HausmÃ¤rchen\n </em>\n form a great repository of narrative motifs that have circulated throughout Europe in various forms for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. How they made their way into the tales is only one of the many unresolved questions associated with the Grimms and their work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1261'),
(1551, 'The Guardian', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On Christmas Eve, Julie Barenson, 25 years old and newly widowed, finds an unexpected present-a Great Dane pup that her late husband, Jim, had arranged for her to receive after he died from a brain tumor. On that melodramatic note, bestselling author Sparks (Nights in Rodanthe) begins his latest love story, one in which he combines elements of romance with those of a thriller. Julie''s new dog, Singer, turns out to be a better judge of character than she, which is unfortunate because the dog nearly gives away the book''s ending when he growls warily at Richard Franklin, the new man in Julie''s life. On the other hand, the pooch loves to be around Mike Harris, Jim''s best friend, who has grown to love Julie. Richard''s increasingly bizarre behavior causes Julie to break up with him, and his subsequent stalker tactics make for compelling action, especially when he plots to destroy the budding romance between Julie and Mike. But the writing is lax at best, with multiple point-of-view shifts in the course of one page or even one paragraph. Secondary characters are two-dimensional, such as Pete, the dumb cop who is taken in by the scheming Richard, and Andrea, Julie''s co-worker at the local hair salon, a low-class broad from the wrong side of the tracks who might as well have "next victim" tattooed on her forehead. Yet Sparks fans clamor for his brand of love story, and, with the added punch of suspense, this one will be another bestseller.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his newest, the ever-popular Sparks, known for his romantic tales, combines an involving love story with the creepiness of an unpredictable thriller. Julie Barenson survived a negligent mother and is now trying to survive the loss of a loving husband. The man who rescued her by offering her in the small town of Swansboro, North Carolina, died far too young, leaving Julie with a Great Dane puppy she names Singer and a promise to look out for her. Now 29, Julie is starting to date again after four years of mourning and Singer is acting very strangely. He becomes possessive, and especially dislikes her new beau, Richard Franklin. Richard is the perfect gentleman, bringing gifts and always being thoughtful, but something isn''t quite right and after three dates, each more lavish and exciting than the last, Julie reaches a decision about her dream man. In the background is Mike Harris, her late husband''s best friend. Good old Mike has always been there for her, but she has to decide to risk a great friendship for the possibility of more. After Julie makes her decision, she finds true love and happiness, but ominous things start to happen and she soon realizes that she''s being stalked by a deranged sociopath. Sparks'' tricky tale of romantic suspense starts off slowly but builds steadily to an edge-of-your-seat conclusion that is well worth the wait.\n  <em>\n   Patty Engelmann\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1944'),
(1552, 'Guardians of the West', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A sequel to THE BELGARIAD, Garion has slain the evil God Torak, and fulfilled the prophecy. But suddenly another prophecy is foretold. Again a great evil is brewing in the East. And again Garion finds himself caught between two ancient Prophecies, with the fate of the world resting on him....\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n A sequel to THE BELGARIAD, Garion has slain the evil God Torak, and fulfilled the prophecy. But suddenly another prophecy is foretold. Again a great evil is brewing in the East. And again Garion finds himself caught between two ancient Prophecies, with the fate of the world resting on him....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1287'),
(1553, 'Guards! Guards!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Here there be dragons . . . and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don''t understand italics) has appeared in Discworld''s greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all . . .).Meanwhile, back at Unseen University, an ancient and long-forgotten volume -- The Summoning of Dragons -- is missing from the Library''s shelves. To the rescue come Captain Vimes, Constable Carrot, and the rest of the Night Watch who, along with other brave citizens, risk everything, including a good roasting, to dethrone the flying monarch and restore order to Ankh-Morpork (before it''s burned to a crisp). A rare tale, well done as only Terry Pratchett can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/317'),
(1554, 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society', 'Mary Ann Shaffer &amp; Annie Barrows', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The letters comprising this small charming novel begin in 1946, when single, 30-something author Juliet Ashton (nom de plume Izzy Bickerstaff) writes to her publisher to say she is tired of covering the sunny side of war and its aftermath. When Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams finds Juliet''s name in a used book and invites articulateâ€”and not-so-articulateâ€”neighbors to write Juliet with their stories, the book''s epistolary circle widens, putting Juliet back in the path of war stories. The occasionally contrived letters jump from incident to incidentâ€”including the formation of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society while Guernsey was under German occupationâ€”and person to person in a manner that feels disjointed. But Juliet''s quips are so clever, the Guernsey inhabitants so enchanting and the small acts of heroism so vivid and moving that one forgives the authors (Shaffer died earlier this year) for not being able to settle on a single person or plot. Juliet finds in the letters not just inspiration for her next work, but also for her lifeâ€”as will readers.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œTraditional without seeming stale, and romantic without being naÃ¯veâ€ (\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n ), this epistolary novel, based on Mary Ann Shafferâ€™s painstaking, lifelong research, is a homage to booklovers and a nostalgic portrayal of an era. As her quirky, loveable characters cite the works of Shakespeare, Austen, and the BrontÃ«s, Shaffer subtly weaves those writersâ€™ themes into her own narrative. However, it is the tragic stories of life under Nazi occupation that animate the novel and give it its urgency; furthermore, the novel explores the darker side of human nature without becoming maudlin. The\n <em>\n  Rocky Mountain News\n </em>\n criticized the novelâ€™s lighthearted tone and characterizations, but most critics agreed that, with its humor and optimism,\n <em>\n  Guernsey\n </em>\n â€œaffirms the power of books to nourish people during hard timesâ€ (\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n ).\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1075'),
(1555, 'Guilty Pleasures', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anita Blake may be small and young, but vampires call her the Executioner. Anita is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires are protected by law--as long as they don''t get too nasty. Now someone''s killing innocent vampires and Anita agrees--with a bit of vampiric arm-twisting--to help figure out who and why.\n</p>\n<p>\n Trust is a luxury Anita can''t afford when her allies aren''t human. The city''s most powerful vampire, Nikolaos, is 1,000 years old and looks like a 10-year-old girl. The second most powerful vampire, Jean-Claude, is interested in more than just Anita''s professional talents, but the feisty necromancer isn''t playing along--yet. This popular series has a wild energy and humor, and some very appealing characters--both dead and alive.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Death and gore galore ... Hamilton writes with ease and vigour..." SHIVERS ''I was enthralled - a departure from the usual type of vampire tale which will have a wide appeal to any reader hunting for both chills and fun'' Andre Norton ''This fast-paced, tough-edged supernatural thriller is mesmerizing reading indeed'' LOCUS ''Supernatural bad guys beware, night-prowling Anita Blake is savvy, sassy and tough'' --P N Elrod, author of THE VAMPIRE FILES\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/740'),
(1556, 'Gulliver&#39;s Travels', 'Jonathan Swift &amp; Michael Seidel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Gulliver''s Travels\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Jonathan Swift\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Considered the greatest satire ever written in English,\n <strong>\n  Jonathan Swift\n </strong>\n â€™s\n <em>\n  Gulliverâ€™s Travels\n </em>\n chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid creatures called Yahoos.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Beneath the surface of this enchanting fantasy lurks a devastating critique of human malevolence, stupidity, greed, vanity, and short-sightedness. A brilliant combination of adventure, humor, and philosophy,\n <em>\n  Gulliverâ€™s Travels\n </em>\n is one of literatureâ€™s most durable masterpieces.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Â \n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Michael Seidel\n </strong>\n is Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He has written widely on eighteenth-century literature. His books include\n <em>\n  Satiric Inheritance: Rabelais to Sterne\n </em>\n (1979),\n <em>\n  Exile and the Narrative Imagination\n </em>\n (1986), and\n <em>\n  Robinson Crusoe: Island Myths and the Novel\n </em>\n (1991).\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Michael Seidelâ€™s Introduction to *Gulliverâ€™s Travels\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n When pressed to write up his own account of his travels by the captain who rescued him from Brobdingnag, Lemuel Gulliver says, â€œI thought we were already overstocked with books of travels: that nothing could now pass which was not extraordinaryâ€. Gulliver has an odd sense of his experiences if he thinks they would pass for anything but extraordinary, and extraordinary they certainly are.\n <em>\n  Gulliverâ€™s Travels\n </em>\n was a phenomenal success upon its publication in October 1726, read as eagerly and voraciously by all classes of English society as Defoeâ€™s\n <em>\n  Robinson Crusoe\n </em>\n had been a few years before, in 1719. The poet and dramatist John Gay wrote Swift about the reception of the\n <em>\n  Travels\n </em>\n in London: â€œFrom the highest to the lowest it is universally read, from the cabinet-council to the nurseryâ€ (October 28, 1726). Within a year of its publication, editions of\n <em>\n  Gulliverâ€™s Travels\n </em>\n were pirated and translated on the European continent. Its famous episodes and its nomenclatureâ€”Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, Yahoosâ€”are to this day recognized all over the world, from Gulliver theme parks in Japan to the most up-to-date dictionaries of modern slang.\n</p>\n<p>\n How did\n <em>\n  Gulliverâ€™s Travels\n </em>\n get written and what were Jonathan Swiftâ€™s motives in writing it? In the first decade of the eighteenth century, Swift shared certain obsessions with others, namely a group of writers, statesmen, and professionals who called themselves the Scriblerus Club, consisting of the poets Alexander Pope, Thomas Parnell, and John Gay, the Queenâ€™s physician, John Arbuthnot, and the chief minister of state, Robert Harley. Under the general direction of Pope, one of the clubâ€™s primary projects was a volume of memoirs written purportedly by the invented character who gave the club its name, Martin Scriblerus, a modern hack-writer or scribbler (the terms were interchangeable) who embodied all the cultural, intellectual, and political vacuities of the early eighteenth century as Pope, Swift, and their friends saw them.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1713 Pope assigned Swift the sixteenth chapter of a proposed satiric memoir on Scriblerusâ€™s various journeys, intending to capitalize on the immensely popular genre of travel writing. He encouraged Swift to detail Martinâ€™s travels to four different lands, mapping voyages to distant continents along the sea-lanes of known and unknown worlds: â€œto the Remains of the Pygmaean Empire,â€ to â€œthe Land of the Giants,â€ to the â€œKingdom of Philosophers, who govern by the Mathematicks,â€ and to a land in which â€œhe discovers a Vein of Melancholy proceeding almost to a Disgust of his Speciesâ€ (Pope,\n <em>\n  The Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus\n </em>\n , p. 165).\n</p>\n<p>\n Pope must have sensed he had assigned Swift what amounted to a labor of love in parodying the travel literature of the time because, as is often true for satirists, Swift thrilled at making fun of those things that he found appalling. And there is little doubt Swift found appalling the sorry lot of characters Gulliver describes in the\n <em>\n  Travels\n </em>\n as crisscrossing the world: â€œfellows of desperate fortunes,â€ some of whom â€œwere undone by lawsuits; others spent all they had in drinking, whoring, and gaming; others fled for treason; many for murder, theft, poisoning, robbery, perjury, forgery, coining false money; for committing rapes or sodomy; for flying from their colours, or deserting to the enemy; and most of them had broken prisonâ€. Memoirs by these sorts and their more sanitized brethren filled Swiftâ€™s personal library, which, in lots cataloged at his death, contained more than 600 travel accounts.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Swift began the assignment given him by Pope, he sketched out some material for what would become the first and third books of the\n <em>\n  Travels\n </em>\n , the Lilliputian and Laputian voyages. But he shelved the rest of the assignment before the end of 1713 at a time when the high-ranking political ministers for whom he worked in England fell out of power. Swift felt it prudent to abscond to Ireland, and although he held the position of Dean of St. Patrickâ€™s Cathedral in Dublinâ€”which seemed to him a booby prize for his larger ambitionsâ€”he considered himself a virtual exile in Ireland for the rest of his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n The political situation soured for Swift to an even greater extent in the early 1720s. With his patrons dead, still out of power, or in exile, and with some of his friends under scrutiny for treason, he decided to reprise his notes for the Scriblerus project and convert them into a four-part book. He completed the first and third voyages and supplemented them by composing what is now the fourth voyage to the land of horses, Houyhnhnmland, and then returning to what is now the second voyage, to the land of giants, Brobdingnag. By 1725 he was boasting in letters to Pope that he thought he had something truly splendid on his hands, and he asked his friend to arrange for publication. Pope handled all the necessary details in England. After a decade and a half, Swift made good on his original commitment, though Martinus Scriblerus fell out and Lemuel Gulliver dropped in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/158'),
(1557, 'Gump &amp; Co.', 'Winston Groom', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Forrest Gump captured our hearts in the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling novel\n  <em>\n   Forrest Gump,\n  </em>\n  and in the blockbuster film, winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor. Now he returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as "the funniest novel I have ever read." A little older, and wiser in his unique way, Forrest is still running Â— this time straight into the age of greed and instant gratification known as the 1980s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Whenever I really get stumped, I go visit Jenny''s grave. She tells me she''s always rooting for me.\n  </em>\n  The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. has gone bust and now Forrest is flat broke, sweeping floors in a New Orleans strip joint, when a fresh opportunity to play championship football puts him back in the limelight Â— and in the money. But fate turns fickle again, and he''s soon out on the road selling phony encyclopedias and trying to raise his son, little Forrest, who needs his father more than ever. Forrest''s remarkable, touching, and utterly comic odyssey has just begun: in store for him is an explosive attempt at hog farming; his own dubious recipe for adding life to New Coke; an encounter with Oliver North of the Iran-Contra affair; and a chance yet again to unwittingly twist the nose of history.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  In his celebrated novel, Forrest Gump, Groom created "a great American hero" (Rima Firrone, Ocala Star-Banner), a lovable man for all ages. Now in a rollicking sequel, Forrest guides readers through the age of instant gratification known as the 1980s, featuring adventures which include a dubious recipe for New Coke, another crack at pro football, and an encounter with Oliver North.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1547'),
(1558, 'The Gun Seller', 'Hugh Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n British actor and comedian Hugh Laurie''s first book is a spot-on spy spoof about hapless ex-soldier Thomas Lang, who is drawn unwittingly and unwillingly into the center of a dangerous James Bond-like plot of international terrorists, arms dealing, high-tech weapons, and CIA spooks. You may recall having seen Laurie in the English television series\n <em>\n  Jeeves and Wooster\n </em>\n ; Laurie played Bertie Wooster, the clutzy hero of the P.G. Wodehouse comic novels that originated those characters. The lineage from Wodehouse''s Wooster to Laurie''s Lang is clear, and, if you like Wodehouse, you''ll probably love\n <em>\n  The Gun Seller\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA. A delightful first novel by the British actor, comedian, and author of the television series "A Bit of Fry and Laurie." In this spoof (of sorts) of the spy genre, Laurie''s appealing turns of phrase will grab readers from the first paragraph. Thomas Lang, formerly of the Scots Guard and currently a freelance bodyguard/man for hire, is offered an assassination job. He indignantly refuses, attempts to warn the victim, and is soon embroiled in undercover work for the British government, CIA operatives, arms dealers, and terrorists. Those who enjoy action or spy novels will be swept along in the events. Although somewhat convoluted, the plot is so punctuated with bursts of sly humor that readers won''t mind a bit of confusion. The author pokes gentle, good-natured fun at the foibles and characteristics of British and Americans alike, as well as his hero, bureaucrats, terrorists, diplomats, and just about everyone else. In a tone reminiscent of Lawrence Sanders''s "McNally" series (Putnam), the light, frothy humor is infectious. A quick read, with an engaging, capable hero and lots of plot twists, for YAs looking for something pleasantly different.?Carol DeAngelo, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/564'),
(1559, 'Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies', 'Jared Diamond', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Explaining what William McNeill called\n <em>\n  The Rise of the West\n </em>\n has become the central problem in the study of global history. In\n <em>\n  Guns, Germs, and Steel\n </em>\n Jared Diamond presents the biologist''s answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Most of this work deals with non-Europeans, but Diamond''s thesis sheds light on why Western civilization became hegemonic: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples'' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Those who domesticated plants and animals early got a head start on developing writing, government, technology, weapons of war, and immunity to deadly germs. (LJ 2/15/97)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/840'),
(1560, 'The Gunslinger', 'Stephen King &amp; Michael Whelan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thirty-three years, a horrific and life-altering accident, and thousands of desperately rabid fans in the making, Stephen King''s quest to complete his magnum opus rivals the quest of Roland and his band of gunslingers who inhabit the Dark Tower series. Loyal DT fans and new readers alike will appreciate this revised edition of\n <em>\n  The Gunslinger\n </em>\n , which breathes new life into Roland of Gilead, and offers readers a "clearer start and slightly easier entry into Roland''s world."\n</p>\n<p>\n King writes both a new introduction and foreword to this revised edition, and the ever-patient, ever-loyal "constant reader" is rewarded with secrets to the series''s inception. That a "magic" ream of green paper and a Robert Browning poem, came together to reveal to King his "ka" is no real surprise (this is King after all), but who would have thought that the squinty-eyed trio of Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach would set the author on his true path to the Tower? While King credits Tolkien for inspiring the "quest and magic" that pervades the series, it was Sergio Leone''s\n <em>\n  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly\n </em>\n that helped create the epic proportions and "almost absurdly majestic western backdrop" of Roland''s world.\n</p>\n<p>\n To King,\n <em>\n  The Gunslinger\n </em>\n demanded revision because once the series was complete it became obvious that "the beginning was out of sync with the ending." While the revision adds only 35 pages, Dark Tower purists will notice the changes to Allie''s fate and Roland''s interaction with Cort, Jake, and the Man in Black--all stellar scenes that will reignite the hunger for the rest of the series. Newcomers will appreciate the details and insight into Roland''s life. The revised Roland of Gilead (nee Deschain) is embodied with more humanity--he loves, he pities, he regrets. What DT fans might miss is the same ambiguity and mystery of the original that gave the original its pulpy underground feel (back when King himself awaited word from Roland''s world).\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n King''s (Pet Sematary, Audio Reviews, LJ 11/1/98) fantastical and allegorical "Dark Tower" series commenced in 1982 with the publication of The Gunslinger. Subsequent volumes have appeared about every five years thereafter. The Gunslinger introduces protagonist Roland as he pursues the Man in Black through bleak and tired landscapes in a world that has "moved on." Roland believes that the Man in Black knows and can be made to reveal the secrets of the Dark Tower, which is the ultimate goal of Roland''s quest. The Waste Lands sees Roland and his fellow travelers continuing the quest for the Dark Tower. They journey through imaginative landscapes, over astounding obstacles, and meet with and confront a unique and fully drawn cast of characters, both human and nonhuman. Reader Frank Muller gives voice to the characters with a thoroughly engaging precision, accuracy, and great humanity and with an edge that drives the story onward and seems to amplify King''s skill as an author. Highly recommended for all fiction collections.?Kristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/553'),
(1561, 'H Is for Homicide', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he''d been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. And to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelity''s offices.\n</p>\n<p>\n To the cops, it looked like a robbery gone sour. To Kinsey Millhone, it looked like the cops were walking away from the case. She didn''t like the idea that a colleague and sometime drinking companion had been murdered. Or the idea that his murderer was loose and on the prowl. It made her feel exposed. Vulnerable.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bibianna Diaz was afraid for her life. If there was one thing she knew for sure, it was that you didn''t cross Raymond Maldonado and live to tell the tale. And Bibianna had well and truly crossed him, running out on his crazy wedding plans and going into hiding in Santa TeresaÂ—light years away from the Los Angeles barrio that was home turf to Raymond and his gang. Now she needed money to buy time, to make sure she''d put enough space between them. And the quickest way she knew to get money was to work an insurance scamÂ—just like the ones Raymond was running down in L.A. The trouble was, Bibianna picked California Fidelity as her mark. And it wasn''t long before her name surfaced in one of Parnell Perkins''s open files and Kinsey was on her case. But so, too, was her spurned suitor, Raymond Maldonado.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had a rap sheet as long as his arm, a hair-trigger temper that was best left untested, and an inability to take no for an answer. He also had Tourette''s syndrome, which did nothing to smooth out the kinks in his erratic and often violent behavior. All in all, Raymond Maldonado was not someone to spend a lot of time hanging out with. Unfortunately for Kinsey, she didn''t have a lot of choice in the mater. Not after the love-sick Raymond kidnapped Bibianna. Like it or not, Kinsey was stuck babysitting Bibianna along with Raymond and his macho crew. You might say she was a prisoner of love.\n</p>\n<p>\n It may be Kinsey Millhone''s most complicated and risk-filled case. It certainly is Sue Grafton''s wittiest venture into low-life crime. It''s\n <em>\n  "H" is for Homicide\n </em>\n , and it confirms yet again that Kinsey Millhone is "a wonderful character, tough but not brutish, resourceful and sensitive, a fit knight to walk those mean streets with her male predecessors" (the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n ) and that Sue Grafton is "a heads-up delight" (\n <em>\n  Detroit News\n </em>\n ).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/773'),
(1562, 'H.M.S. Surprise', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The stakes are high as\n <em>\n  HMS Surprise\n </em>\n opens, and actor Robert Hardy''s sterling reading never lets you forget them. Hardy makes Patrick O''Brian''s third novel of high-seas adventure--written in 1973 and set mainly in 1805 on the waters surrounding India and the Orient--seem as immediate as an overdrawn checking account. Money plays a big role, and Captain Jack Aubrey stands to make a lot of it. All he has to do is find Napoleon''s fleet--and take their gold away from them. (Running time: three hours, two cassettes)\n <em>\n  --Lou Schuler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n These two selections represent a series of abridged audiobook versions of O''Brian''s works narrated by Robert Hardy, that most blustery and unstudied of British actors. Hardy reads the stories cold, but here it works. He uses his voice to evoke everything from brutality to mannered drawing-room excesses to the physical threat of a storm at sea. The stories are superb depictions of life on a British man-of-war and incorporate O''Brian''s exquisitely accurate historical detail (Testimonies, Audio Reviews, LJ 7/96). The friendship of protagonists Capt. Jack Aubrey and ship''s surgeon Stephen Maturin plays out against an expanse of ocean, from India to the Atlantic, with a full complement of battles and adventures at sea for devotees of naval fiction. Highly recommended.?Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, NC\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/445');
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(1563, 'Half Broke Horses', 'Jeannette Walls', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this true-life novel by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose megaselling memoir,\n <em>\n  The Glass Castle\n </em>\n , recalled her own upbringing, writes in what she recalls as Lily''s plainspoken voice, whose recital provides plenty of drama and suspense as she ricochets from one challenge to another. Having been educated in fits and starts because of her parents'' penury, Lily becomes a teacher at age 15 in a remote frontier town she reaches after a solo 28-day ride. Marriage to a bigamist almost saps her spirit, but later she weds a rancher with whom she shares two children and a strain of plucky resilience. (They sell bootleg liquor during Prohibition, hiding the bottles under a baby''s crib.) Lily is a spirited heroine, fiercely outspoken against hypocrisy and prejudice, a rodeo rider and fearless breaker of horses, and a ruthless poker player. Assailed by flash floods, tornados and droughts, Lily never gets far from hardscrabble drudgery in several statesâ€”New Mexico, Arizona, Illinoisâ€”but hers is one of those heartwarming stories about indomitable women that will always find an audience.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Originally conceived as a biography based on family interviews and historical research, Walls found herself filling in too many blanks for\n <em>\n  Half Broke Horses\n </em>\n to remain a work of nonfiction, so she assumed Smith''s indomitable voice and set out to write a novelistic recreation of Smith''s unconventional life. Most critics were captivated by Smith''s earthy, straightforward style, despite the steady stream of repetitive axioms intermingled with her antics. Only the\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n seemed thoroughly disappointed, lamenting that "this book is no\n <em>\n  Glass Castle\n </em>\n ." Though Smith, "a gumption-packin'' ranch gal whose pluck never quits" (\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n ), may not rise to the intensity of Walls''s troubled, nomadic parents,\n <em>\n  Half Broke Horses\n </em>\n nevertheless tells the heartwarming story of an irrepressible woman who carved her own destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1049'),
(1564, 'The Half Life: A Short Story', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In the latest novel from the #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author, four women bound by obligation and opportunity struggle to become a family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1925'),
(1565, 'Half the Blood of Brooklyn: A Novel', 'Charlie Huston &amp; Scott Brick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Huston''s third Joe Pitt vampire novel (after\n <em>\n  Already Dead\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  No Dominion\n </em>\n ) takes his Manhattan-based hard-boiled hero on a dangerous trip into the undead communities across the bridge in Brooklyn. The various vampire clans in New York are on the brink of conflict. Leadership has fallen apart, and to make things worse, a Van Helsing is running amok and has recently murdered a longtime supplier of contraband blood. Worst of all, Pitt''s AIDS-stricken girlfriend, Evie, is in the hospital failing fast. Once again, he''s faced with an almost classical dilemma: infecting her with the vampire virus will destroy the illness that''s killing her, but she''ll be a vampire. Sent to Brooklyn to meet with a rogue clan of carnival freak vampires, Pitt ends up battling a group of radical Jewish bloodsuckers called the lost tribe of Gibeah. As always, Huston''s formidable writing chops are on full display: his action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''Well written and fast-paced, this third installment in Houston''s Joe Pitt Casebooks noir series. . . features all the hard-boiled action of the previous titles.'''' --\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''As always, Huston''s formidable writing chops are on full display: his action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous.'''' --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n (starred review)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''The further, even gorier adventures of Joe Pitt, Vampyre extraordinaire. . . . fans will find this installment the best to date.'''' --\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Charlie Huston and his ''''Joe Pitt'''' novels:\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''In conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.'''' --\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century.'''' --Stephen King\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.'''' --\n <em>\n  The Philadelphia Inquirer\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''As always, Huston''s formidable writing chops are on full display: his action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous.'''' --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n (starred review)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''The further, even gorier adventures of Joe Pitt, Vampyre extraordinaire. . . . fans will find this installment the best to date.'''' --\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Charlie Huston and his ''''Joe Pitt'''' novels:\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''In conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.'''' --\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century.'''' --Stephen King\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.'''' --\n <em>\n  The Philadelphia Inquirer\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/616'),
(1566, 'Halfway to Forever', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kingsbury brings back characters from her inspirational novels Waiting for Morning and A Moment of Weakness in this rushed sob story rife with clichâ€šs. It opens as Hannah Bronzan sits beside the gravestones of her former husband, Tom, and daughter Alicia, telling her dead loved ones of her decision with new husband Matt to adopt a little girl, four-year-old Grace Landers. "\n  <code>\n   One more thing, honey. When we bring her home and... people ask me how many girls I have...'' Hannah wiped at her tears again.\n  </code>\n  I''ll always tell them three. Two who live here with me... and one who lives in heaven.''" She''s not the only one who grieves. Her friend, Jade Eastman, has learned she''s finally pregnant, but a cancerous brain tumor forces her to make a decision about carrying her pregnancy to term. Their "good-looking, powerful husbands" (yes, this is an actual quote) run the nation''s most prominent religious freedom law firm and take on a groundbreaking case. Troubles for the two couples snowball right through the final pages. The novel is permeated with contrived situations, gushy hospital bedside scenes and sweeping stereotypes. For example, people who are "liberal, artsy... in entertainment or academia" are presented as opponents of God. Characters sob, cry or are teary-eyed on almost every other page, but the reader''s eyes remain resolutely dry. As Jade''s husband reflects at one point, "The whole scene felt like a poorly scripted TV drama." Enough said.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   You wept with them as they were\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n   <em>\n    Waiting for Morning...\n    <br />\n    You shared their\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Moment of Weakness...\n   <br />\n   Now they face the greatest struggles of their lives.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   Matt and Hannah Bronzan have found a new life in the face of devastating loss.Â  Together with Hannahâ€™s daughter, Jenny, they are finally moving forwardâ€”toward the adoption of a little girl. A younger sister for Jenny, a daughter for them to love and raise together. But just when the dream seems to be coming true, disaster strikes. Can Hannah survive the loss of another daughter?\n   <br />\n   Â Â Â Jade and Tanner Eastman love the Bronzans. Matt and Tanner are partners in a successful religious freedom law firm, and the two couples share a great deal. Not the least of which has been Jade and Tannerâ€™s struggle to have children.Â  When they discover Jade is pregnant, their joy is boundless. Until the joyous event becomes a threat to Jadeâ€™s very life. Will Tanner come through decades of loneliness only to face losing Jade one final time?\n   <br />\n   Â Â Â Caught in a desperate battle against all that threatens to derail their faith and sideline their futures, these four struggle together to depend daily on God, regardless of what comes against them, as they journey halfway to forever.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1973'),
(1567, 'Halo', 'Tom Maddox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The resources of Aleph, the artificial intelligence that operates the high-orbital space station Halo, are being diverted to its experimental sections. And when the corporation that owns Halo hires freelance data auditor Mikhail Gonzales to observe the problem, Aleph starts spinning out of control. "A clear and well-conceived plot . . . Maddox is a name to watch".--SF Chronicle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1502'),
(1568, 'Hamlet (Pelican Shakespeare Series)', 'William Shakespeare &amp; A. R. Braunmuller &amp; Stephen Orgel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "The First Folio of 1623 is the definitive edition of Shakespeare''s plays. It is more often than not the closest we can now get to what Shakespeare actually wrote. But the Folio''s antiquated typography and cramped layout make it remote and inaccessible to modern eyes. The Shakespeare Folios on the other hand offer easy access directly to the First Folio by presenting the text in modern type but otherwise unchanged. All the First Folio''s idiosyncrasies of layout and spelling, even its obvious errors, have been scrupulously left intact, but the text suddenly becomes as easily legible as the script of any modern play." "As an additional aid to understanding, readers will find, printed opposite each page of the Folio, the very same passage in a modern edition. So, whenever the Folio presents a problem, the reader can refer to this parallel text for a solution, either in the text itself or in the set of notes at the end of the book. These notes draw on the long tradition of Shakespearean scholarship and include full reference to surviving Quarto texts."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/228'),
(1569, 'The Handmaid&#39;s Tale', 'Margaret Atwood &amp; Valerie Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a startling departure from her previous novels ( Lady Oracle , Surfacing ), respected Canadian poet and novelist Atwood presents here a fable of the near future. In the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, far-right Schlafly/Falwell-type ideals have been carried to extremes in the monotheocratic government. The resulting society is a feminist''s nightmare: women are strictly controlled, unable to have jobs or money and assigned to various classes: the chaste, childless Wives; the housekeeping Marthas; and the reproductive Handmaids, who turn their offspring over to the "morally fit" Wives. The tale is told by Offred (read: "of Fred"), a Handmaid who recalls the past and tells how the chilling society came to be. This powerful, memorable novel is highly recommended for most libraries. BOMC featured alternate. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The most poetically satisfying and intense of all Atwood''s novels."-\n  <em>\n   Maclean''s\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The Handmaid''s Tale is in the honorable tradition of\n  <em>\n   Brave New World\n  </em>\n  and other warnings of dystopia. It''s imaginative even audacious, and conveys a chilling sense of fear and menace."-\n  <em>\n   The Globe and Mail\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   The Handmaid''s Tale\n  </em>\n  brings out the very best in Atwood--moral vision, biting humor, and a poet''s imagination."-\n  <em>\n   Chatelaine\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/996'),
(1570, 'Hannibal', 'Thomas Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Horror lit''s head chef Harris serves up another course in his Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter trilogy, and it''s a piÃ¨ce de rÃ©sistance for those with strong stomachs. In the first book,\n <em>\n  Red Dragon\n </em>\n (filmed as\n <em>\n  Manhunter\n </em>\n ), Hannibal diabolically helps the FBI track a fascinating serial killer. (Takes one to know one.) In\n <em>\n  The Silence of the Lambs\n </em>\n , he advises fledgling FBI manhunter Clarice Starling, then makes a bloody, brilliant escape.\n</p>\n<p>\n Years later, posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family''s palazzo, Hannibal lives the good life in Florence, playing lovely tunes by serial killer/composer Henry VIII and killing hardly anyone himself. Clarice is unluckier: in the novel''s action-film-like opening scene, she survives an FBI shootout gone wrong, and her nemesis, Paul Krendler, makes her the fall guy. Clarice is suspended, so, unfortunately, the first cop who stumbles on Hannibal is an Italian named Pazzi, who takes after his ancestors, greedy betrayers depicted in Dante''s\n <em>\n  Inferno\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Pazzi is on the take from a character as scary as Hannibal: Mason Verger. When Verger was a young man busted for raping children, his vast wealth saved him from jail. All he needed was psychotherapy--with Dr. Lecter. Thanks to the treatment, Verger is now on a respirator, paralyzed except for one crablike hand, watching his enormous, brutal moray eel swim figure eights and devour fish. His obsession is to feed Lecter to some other brutal pets.\n</p>\n<p>\n What happens when the Italian cop gets alone with Hannibal? How does Clarice''s reunion with Lecter go from macabre to worse? Suffice it to say that the plot is Harris''s weirdest, but it still has his signature mastery of realistic detail. There are flaws: Hannibal''s madness gets a motive, which is creepy but lessens his mystery. If you want an exact duplicate of\n <em>\n  The Silence of the Lambs\n </em>\n ''s Clarice/Hannibal duel, you''ll miss what''s cool about this book--that Hannibal is actually upstaged at points by other monsters. And if you think it''s all unprecedentedly horrible, you''re right. But note that the horrors are described with exquisite taste. Harris''s secret recipe for success is restraint.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This narrative roils along a herky-jerky vector but remains always mesmerizing, as Harris''s prose and insights, particularly his reveries about Hannibal, boast power and an overripe beauty. If at times the suspense slackens and the story slips into silliness, it becomes clear that this is a post-suspense novel, as much sardonic philosophical jest as grand-guignol thriller. Hannibal, we learnA"we" because Harris seduces reader complicity with third-person-plural narrationAis not as we presumed. The monster''s aim is not chaos, but order. Through his devotion to manners and the connoisseur''s life, in fact to form itself, he hopesAconsciouslyAto reverse entropy and thus the flow of time, to allow a dead sister to live again. He is not Dionysius but Apollo, and it is the barbarians who oppose him who are to be despised. Hannibal may be mad, but in this brilliant, bizarre, absurd novelAas in the public eyeAhe is also hero; and so, at novel''s end, in blackest humor, Harris bestows upon him a hero''s rewards, outrageously, mockingly. Agent, Morton Janklow. 1.3 million first printing; film rights to Dino De Laurentis. (June)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1234'),
(1571, 'Hans Andersens fairy tales', 'Hans Christian Andersen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1793'),
(1572, 'Hard Eight', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Hard Eight\n  </em>\n  , Stephanie Plum picks up a case a little nastier than anything the wisecracking bounty hunter''s seen before. Evelyn Soder and her young daughter have gone on the run, leaving an angry ex-husband who''s planning to collect on a child custody bond that will leave Evelyn''s grandmother homeless. Stephanie''s first clue that there''s more to it than that comes in the form of Eddie Abruzzi, a shady local businessman who warns her to butt out of the case. Stephanie doesn''t scare easily, but when Abruzzi''s henchmen leave a bag of snakes on her doorknob and tarantulas in her car, she has no choice but to call Ranger, the hunky man of mystery whom she already owes too many favors. Steph knows that Ranger will soon be calling in his marker, but with her ex- fiancÃ© Joe Morelli out of the picture, that should be OK--shouldn''t it? In the meantime, she''s got other fugitives to catch, aided by the usual band of misfits, plus a bumbling correspondence-school lawyer who''s developed the hots for Stephanie''s sister, Valerie. And Steph''s in for a surprise from her mother, who proves she''s not above wielding a dangerous weapon to save her daughter''s life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Author Janet Evanovich has made a bold move in using a soupÃ§on of child jeopardy to pull this series out of the comfortable but formulaic pattern it was threatening to fall into. It''s still funny, and yes, some cars are destroyed, but now there''s a real edge of darkness under the humor. Fans needn''t fear, though: Jersey girl Stephanie is still full of sass and Tastykakes.\n  <em>\n   --Barrie Trinkle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The menace is more personal for Trenton''s favorite bounty hunter and the energy more manic in this latest outing than in last year''s Seven Up. As a favor to her mother''s next-door neighbor, Mabel Markowitz, Stephanie agrees to check up on the lady''s granddaughter, Evelyn Soder, who has suddenly taken off with her little girl, Annie, leaving behind a child custody bond against Mabel''s house. The son-in-law is a bad guy who lost his bar to Eddie Abruzzi, a very nasty character who owns evelyn''s building. Soon someone in a bunny suit is trailing Stephanie, her car is blown up, her apartment infiltrated and a dead body appears on her couch. She calls in her associate, Ranger, the gorgeous and mysterious Cuban bond agent, while her sometime boyfriend, Morelli the cop, also gets on the case - a real doozy for which she''s not getting paid. On the home front, ever-raunchy Grandma Mazur is eager to assist. Sister Valerie and kids have moved back in as well, so there''s nowhere but the couch for Stephanie and one bathroom for all. Valerie is inexplicably attracted to Evelyn''s goofy lawyer, who''s been tagging along with Stephanie and the ever-outrageous file clerk and ex-hooker Lula, further complicating this twisted case. Life in the Burg takes on a sinister turn with serious results. Evanovich does it again, delivering an even more suspenseful and more outrageous turn with the unstoppable Stephanie, heroine of all those who have to live on peanut butter until the next check comes through. Waiting for nine will be tough.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/792'),
(1573, 'Hard Times', 'Charles Dickens &amp; Jane Smiley &amp; Frederick Busch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7-12-Dickens'' satire on the Victorian family and the philosophies of a society which sought to turn men into machines.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novel by Charles Dickens, published in serial form (as Hard Times: For These Times) in the periodical Household Words from April to August 1854 and in book form later the same year. The novel is a bitter indictment of industrialization, with its dehumanizing effects on workers and communities in mid-19th-century England. Louisa and Tom Gradgrind have been harshly raised by their father, an educator, to know nothing but the most factual, pragmatic information. Their lives are devoid of beauty, culture, or imagination, and the two have little or no empathy for others. Louisa marries Josiah Bounderby, a vulgar banker and mill owner. She eventually leaves her husband and returns to her father''s house. Tom, unscrupulous and vacuous, robs his brother-in-law''s bank. Only after these crises does their father realize that the principles by which he raised his children have corrupted their lives. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/855'),
(1574, 'Hard Truth', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two children who mysteriously disappeared twenty-one years ago are the last thing on Lorna Templeâ€™s mind when she returns to her Pennsylvania hometown to sell the old family property in the wake of her parentsâ€™ passing. But instead of memories, the fields where Lorna grew up yield something utterly chilling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All those years ago, when nine-year-old Melinda Eagan vanished on her birthday, her foulmouthed older brother, Jason, quickly became the lone suspect. Yet when he went missing, too, the case turned cold. But Jason, it seems, never got far: His bones have been moldering on the Templesâ€™ land for two decades. As far as the local police are concerned, the book is closed on Melindaâ€™s murderâ€“and Jasonâ€™s death is justice served. But Lorna refuses to let the dead rest uneasily. She turns to private eye T. J. Dawson to dig up the dirt of the past and see what lies beneath. Only thereâ€™s someone out there who hasnâ€™t forgottenâ€“and who wonâ€™t be the least bit forgiving about being exposed as a killer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In matters of crime, there are many versions of the truth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1932'),
(1575, 'The Hard Way', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n In bestseller Child''s 10th novel to feature ex-army MP Jack Reacher (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  One Shot\n </em>\n ), a sidewalk cafe encounter in New York City plunges Reacher into one of his most challengingâ€”and thoroughly engrossingâ€”adventures to date. Acting out of "reflex and professional curiosity" (and the promise of a generous fee), Reacher agrees to help sinister ex-army officer Edward Lane, whose posse of six Special Forces veterans are even more ominous than he, track down his kidnapped daughter and trophy wife. Since the kidnapping of wife number one five years earlier ended in her death, Lane cautions Reacher that he will not brook police interference ("You break your word, I''ll put your eyes out"). From Lane''s quarters in the West Side''s venerable Dakota apartment building to the shady sections of SoHo and Greenwich Village, the author''s atmospheric descriptions make Manhattan a leading player, with menace lurking at every intersection. The inevitable showdown, on a farm outside a tiny English village, ranks as one of Child''s most thrilling finales.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lee Child has become one of the most popular writers in a genre known for the hard-earned loyalty of its readers. Fortunately, his character Jack Reacher, "the literary heir to Mike Hammer, Sir Lancelot and, perhaps, Jack Paladin" (\n <em>\n  Denver Post\n </em>\n ), shows no signs of cooling off. Critics applaud Child for bringing fresh observations and endearing quirks to Reacher''s character (keep an eye out for the clothing in this latest effort), who was first introduced to readers in\n <em>\n  Killing Floor\n </em>\n (1997) and most recently appeared in\n <em>\n  One Shot\n </em>\n (2005). The books also contain a sense of humor, which contrasts nicely, at times ironically, with scenes of intense violence and cerebral intrigue.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/967'),
(1576, 'The Harlequin', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of bestseller Hamilton''s solid 15th adventure to star vampire hunter Anita Blake, Malcolm, the priggish head of the Church of the Eternal Life (the vampire church), is so desperate for help in dealing with the Harlequin, a troop of vampire enforcers and spies so feared vampires are forbidden to speak its name, he turns to those he considers sinful and corruptâ€”Anita and her sweetie, Jean-Claude, St. Louis''s Master of the City. The Harlequin may have targeted Anita and the powerful triumvirate she has forged with Jean-Claude and Richard Zeeman (aka Ulfric of the werewolves). According to the rules, the Harlequin must make contact through delivery of a maskâ€”white to indicate they are watching, red for pain, black for death. Anita receives a white mask, but the members of the Harlequin aren''t playing by the rules. Shorter and more tightly structured than the previous entry in the series, Danse Macabre (2006), Hamilton''s latest should prove more satisfying to longtime fans with its straightforward supernatural politics and steamy (but not extreme) sex.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Hamilton just keeps getting better and better. --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Her books outsell any other current vampire fiction --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/585'),
(1577, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There is a Door at the end of a silent corridor. And it''s haunting Harry Potter''s dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? Here are just a few things on Harry''s mind: A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey. A venomous, disgruntled house-elf. Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. The looming terror of the end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams ... and of course, the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowling''s seven-part story, Harry Potter is faced with the unreliability of the very government of the magical world and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), he finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty; and unbearable sacrifice. Though thick runs the plot (as well as the spine), readers will race through these pages and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only for the next train back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/189'),
(1578, 'A Hat Full of Sky', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 6-10. Incipient witch Tiffany Aching, who confronted danger in\n <em>\n  The Wee Free Men\n </em>\n (2003), faces even greater peril in this equally quirky sequel. She is taken on as an apprentice witch by Miss Level, who is one person with two bodies--an oddity to say the least. Also, Tiffany is stalked and taken over by a hiver, an invisible, brainless entity that commands and distorts the mind of its host, which eventually dies. Luckily Tiffany is strong enough to hide a section of her mind within herself, but she is otherwise completely under the control of the hiver. It''s the cantankerous Wee Free Men (or the Nac Mac Feegle) to the rescue, with the help of Miss Level and the wisest, most respected witch of all. The chase is part slapstick, part terror, and in the end, Tiffany herself sets things straight. Pratchett maintains the momentum of the first book, and fans will relish the further adventures of the "big wee hag," as Tiffany is known to the Feegles.\n <em>\n  Sally Estes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œReaders will curl up to read with a sigh of contentment.â€ (Bulletin of the Center for Childrenâ€™s Books )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBy turns hilarious and achingly beautiful, this be just right.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/373'),
(1579, 'Haunted: A Novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of Palahniuk''s more sweeping and macabre offerings, this is a collection of 23 short stories and poems generated at a fictional writer''s retreat turned grotesque survival camp. The pieces range from the stomach-turning to the satirical or the absurd. The seven readers tackling the decidedly offbeat Palahniuk are, for the most part, refreshingly successful. Cashman is a standout, narrating the action at the retreat. His voice shuttles nimbly between the male and female writers, while maintaining the integrity of his own unnamed character. Morey''s narration is disappointing on "Guts," the novel''s most notorious and gruesome tale, which has reportedly caused some listeners to faint. Morey sounds too mature and polished for this series of wicked adolescent masturbatory nightmares. In general, the multivoiced narration is practiced and professional, with the trio of actresses turning in particularly strong performances. The other side of all that spit and polish is that Palahniuk''s humor is occasionally stifled. Some listeners may wonder whether the author''s prose is so singular that only he might be capable of delivering it. But overall, an engaging, albeit lengthy, listen.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n It shouldnâ€™t surprise that Chuck Palahniukâ€™s latest novel is a gross out. All of his books, including\n <em>\n  Fight Club\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Choke\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n , have required various degrees of intestinal fortitude. Some critics note that heâ€™s turned the corner with\n <em>\n  Haunted\n </em>\n , a book that has "plenty of guts, but little glory" (\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n ). Though the Portland-based proponent of Dangerous Writing continues to deliver his imaginative stories in an appealing, deadpan prose, the flat characters, questions about his intent, and the overall gross-out factor diminish this "ad-hoc diet book" as just another workshop failure (\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n ).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/316'),
(1580, 'He Shall Thunder in the Sky', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The clouds of World War I hang heavy over Cairo, as Amelia Peabody and her family return to Egypt for another season of archaeological excavation. The defianly pacifist stance of Amelia and Emerson''s headstrong son, Ramses, is earning the young man the derision, and much worse, of the British expatriate community. Meanwhile, the charismatic nationalist el Wardani is said to be formenting insurrection in the ancient city. And an exquisite sculpture found where it ought not to be confirms Amelia''s most unsettling suspicion about the reemergence of her villainous archnemesis, Sethos, the Master Criminal. Here is a magnificent new masterwork in a series destined to make history.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   About the Author:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago''s famed Oriental Institute. An Agatha Award-winning author, Ms. Peters was named Grandmaster at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986, and Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar Awards in 1998. She lives in Frederick, MD.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1851'),
(1581, 'Hear No Evil', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  An American officer has been murdered on the base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and his soon-to-be-accused killer, the dead manâ€™s wife, wants Miami criminal attorney Jack Swyteck to represent her. Swyteck knows nothing about military law, and he can sense that the hypnotically beautiful Lindsey Hart is a liar, a blackmailer, and possibly worse. But if he doesnâ€™t agree to defend her, he will never get to see his biological son, a child Swyteck never knew existed. Taking on the might of the U.S. military legal machine on hostile foreign soil could prove to be far more than a bad career move, because the shocking, sordid truth will take no prisoners. And no one, especially Jack Swyteck, will escape unscathed.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck is in for one hell of a roller coaster ride in this lapel-grabbing thriller, Grippando''s ninth (\n  <em>\n   Last to Die\n  </em>\n  ; etc.). Lindsey Hart, about to be charged with the murder of her husband, Marine Capt. Oscar Pintado, comes to Jack because she believes he is her last, best chanceâ€”and also the biological father of her adopted son. Stunned, Jack thinks he recognizes the picture of the 10-year-old she shows him ("he knew those dark eyes, that Roman nose"), but he still isn''t sure whether he should take the case. What if he doesn''t and she''s innocent? She could be convicted. But if she''s guiltyâ€”and he takes the case and wins itâ€”he doesn''t want to see the child raised by a murderer. Thanks to Grippando''s devious mind, that''s just the beginning. Plot twists, doled out with perfect timing, include the story of the murder victim, who''s the son of a rich and powerful anti-Castro activist; the prosecutor''s connection to Swyteck''s family; and the testimony of the defense''s prime witness, who is a private in Castro''s armyâ€”the murder took place on the U.S. military base at GuantÃ¡namo Bay, Cuba. It''s manipulative Lindsey, however, who proves to be the book''s most unpredictable element. This character-driven, intricately plotted thriller will keep readers guessing up to the end.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest Jack Swyteck mystery finds the Miami defense lawyer in unfamiliar territory. When a woman asks him to defend her against the charge of murdering her husband, Jack is initially reluctant: the victim is a U.S. naval officer; the crime took place at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay; and Jack has almost no experience with military courtroom procedures. But the woman has a very persuasive reason for Jack to take the case (all right, it''s a little far-fetched, but it works), and soon Jack finds himself fighting for his client''s life in an arena that is brand new to him. Grippando, a former Florida trial lawyer, started his writing career with a Swyteck novel (\n  <em>\n   The Pardon\n  </em>\n  in 1994) and then rested the lawyer hero for eight years while producing a string of stand-alone thrillers. This fourth Swyteck novel is a tight, smartly constructed mystery that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. The military overtones should appeal to fans of the television series\n  <em>\n   Navy NCIS\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   JAG\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2471'),
(1582, 'Heart and Soul', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  With the insight, humor, and compassion we have come to expect from her, Maeve Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new Ireland.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate alreadyâ€”two difficult adult daughters and the unwanted attentions of her ex-husbandâ€”but she assembles a wonderfully diverse staff devoted to helping their demanding, often difficult patients.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before long the clinic is established as an essential part of the community, and Clara must decide whether or not to leave a place where lives are saved, courage is rewarded, and humor and optimism triumph over greed and self-pity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Heart and Soul\n  </em>\n  is Maeve Binchy at her storytelling best.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Conversation with Maeve Binchy\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Your novels often explore the concept of love. Can you name a few of your favorite literary love stories?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Maeve Binchy:\n  </strong>\n  I think most people read a love story long before they ever know what true love is like. So we remember the great passions that we read about when we were young. I loved the story of Anthony and Cleopatra, and how Anthony allowed himself to dally with the Queen of Egypt when he should have been back in Rome watching his back. I liked the frenetic, troubled romances in F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the changing patterns of Scarlett Oâ€™Haraâ€™s love life in\n  <em>\n   Gone with the Wind\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Heart and Soul\n  </em>\n  is set in a heart clinic. Why did you choose this setting and how does it influence the story?\n  <strong>\n   MB:\n  </strong>\n  I set\n  <em>\n   Heart and Soul\n  </em>\n  in a heart clinic because I attend one myself. I have always found it a place of hope and optimism where they teach you how to manage your heart disease and not to be afraid of it. When I was young if anyone had a heart attack we thought it was goodbye. But not nowadays.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It seemed like a good place to set a story, a place where people were slowly getting courage to live their lives to the fullest. And I wanted to make it cheerful and positive and funny, which is what we all need.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  The book centers on Clara, the doctor in charge of the clinic, but the book also follows quite an ensemble of characters with intertwining stories. How does your work within the discipline of short story writing contribute to your work within the novel genre?\n  <strong>\n   MB:\n  </strong>\n  I like to concentrate on the bit part players, the supporting cast as well as the main characters, so itâ€™s often interesting to pause and follow somebody home to a different life while still connecting them to the main story. Then when that person appears again it is like meeting an old friend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Because I do write short stories I suppose I find it easy to slip into someoneâ€™s life for a short time and then leave.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  New characters are joined by a few from past books, including Nora from\n  <em>\n   Evening Class\n  </em>\n  , Maud and Simon from\n  <em>\n   Scarlet Feather\n  </em>\n  , and Quentins itself (if I can call a restaurant a character). How did you decide which characters to bring back to life?\n  <strong>\n   MB:\n  </strong>\n  I decided to bring back characters whose lives were not finished and tidied up. I was even wondering myself would Vonni ever find her long lost son? Would Signora be happy when she married Aidan? How the twins Maud and Simon would turn out when they stopped being twelve year olds. I wondered would poor Father Flynn, who was so basically decent, survive in the parish where they were all obsessed with the Holy Well or would he get a more relevant posting. I so enjoyed meeting them all again and I think the readers like it too.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Irish culture is known for its storytelling, both in the oral and written tradition. Do you also enjoy telling stories out loud? Are you the life of the dinner party?\n  <strong>\n   MB:\n  </strong>\n  The Irish do love telling stories and we are suspicious of people who donâ€™t have long complicated conversations. There used to be a rule in Etiquette Books that you invited four talkers and four listeners to a dinner party. That doesnâ€™t work in Ireland because nobody knows four listeners. I do talk a lot at dinner parties--I hope not too much but then I love other people to talk also. I am edgy and anxious when people just nod and smile instead of having views on every subject under the sun.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Your books capture the culture of Ireland. Although Ireland has not escaped the recent economic downturn, how has Irelandâ€™s rapid growth--finally joining the ranks of the worldâ€™s wealthiest countries following centuries of poverty--influenced your storytelling?\n  <strong>\n   MB:\n  </strong>\n  Ireland changed a great deal in my lifetime. People became much more wealthy because of being members of the European community. The influence of the Catholic Church changed--once we feared the clergy and were in awe of them and now it is much easier and more communal. Once no foreigners came to work here since there wasnâ€™t enough work for ourselves, but now itâ€™s multicultural and you could hear twenty languages being spoken all around you. It has been a great help to the country and given us all more confidence.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Your first book was published in 1982. Has your writing process changed over the years? How do you continue to challenge yourself?\n  <strong>\n   MB:\n  </strong>\n  When I started writing I used to concentrate on the 50s and 60s when I was young, but I needed to try to become more modern and catch up on todayâ€™s Ireland. So I started to watch the young Irish people and talk to them as if they were a different tribe, which in many ways they are!\n </p>\n <p>\n  I discovered that they are not so different to my generation, they have more freedom, more responsibility and more courage than we had but they also have areas of uncertainty and unrequited love as we all did.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What are you working on next?\n  <strong>\n   MB:\n  </strong>\n  I am working at the moment on writing a three page outline for another novel. I must make it interesting enough for the publishers to like it and give me the go ahead. It should be in the same style as the books I have already written but not visit the same topics and repeat myself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Describe a typical day spent writing. Do you have any unusual writing habits?\n  <strong>\n   MB:\n  </strong>\n  A typical day is breakfast (grapefruit and Irish soda bread and tea), then on to a big bright work room upstairs. [My husband and I] both try to be at our desks there at 8:30 am and we work until 1 pm. This includes answering mail and filing. We have a secretary one day a week. Then when work is over we have lunch and play a game of chess--we play seven days a week and have been doing so for over thirty years and we are still hopeless at it but love it to bits.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  With two writers in one household, do you and your husband give each other feedback or work separately?\n  <strong>\n   MB:\n  </strong>\n  We have one long desk in our study upstairs--Gordon [Snell] is at one end and I am at the other. He writes his childrenâ€™s books and verses and I do my stories. We always read each other our work in the afternoon. The rules are that we must be honest. No false praise. We allow the other ten minutes sulking time if we donâ€™t like what weâ€™ve heard. But then we have to accept or reject the criticism. No one is allowed to brood over it!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What are you reading now? What are some of your favorite books and authors?\n  <strong>\n   MB:\n  </strong>\n  I have just begun\n  <em>\n   Revolutionary Road\n  </em>\n  by Richard Yates, which seems terrific. There are so many but off the top of my head here are some names of authors I love: Anne Tyler, Harlan Coben, Lee Child, and David Baldacci.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© David Timmons)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Binchy delivers another delightful Binchyesque amalgamation of intersecting lives, this time centering on Clara Casey, a cardiologist whose marriage and career have fallen apart. After she accepts an undesirable post at St. Brigid''s Hospital, Clara throws herself into work to forget the humiliation of her husband''s many affairs, but it''s difficult to escape her home life with two adult daughters who still depend on her as if they were children. Though she stands at the center of the book, Clara cedes the stage to others, such as Declan Carroll, a young doctor at the clinic trying to make a life for himself, and Ania, Clara''s assistant, whose affair with a married man forced her to leave her Polish hometown. Beautiful, hardworking and humble, Ania attracts the attention of Carl Walsh, the son of one of the clinic''s patients. And so it goes in this novel of intersecting lives that keeps daily drama interesting even when it occasionally sacrifices suspense for realism. In spite of a few dull moments, the collective, charming effect of these story lines suggests that individuals are more connected than they might think.\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1010');
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(1583, 'Heart of Darkness', 'Joseph Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novella by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1902 with the story "Youth" and thereafter published separately. The story reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890, when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The narrator, Marlow, describes a journey he took on an African river. Assigned by an ivory company to take command of a cargo boat stranded in the interior, Marlow makes his way through the treacherous forest, witnessing the brutalization of the natives by white traders and hearing tantalizing stories of a Mr. Kurtz, the company''s most successful representative. He reaches Kurtz''s compound in a remote outpost only to see a row of human heads mounted on poles. In this alien context, unbound by the strictures of his own culture, Kurtz has exchanged his soul for a bloody sovereignty, but a mortal illness is bringing his reign of terror to a close. As Marlow transports him downriver, Kurtz delivers an arrogant and empty explanation of his deeds as a visionary quest. To the narrator Kurtz''s dying words, "The horror! The horror!" represent despair at the encounter with human depravity--the heart of darkness. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the myth behind colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters--the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the European''s cruel treatment of the natives, and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil. Although Conrad does not give the name of the river, at the time of writing the Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium''s King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization, in a cover-up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region. This symbolic story is a story within a story or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts from dusk through to late night, to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary his Congolese adventure. The passage of time and the darkening sky during the fictitious narrative-within-the-narrative parallel the atmosphere of the story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/900'),
(1584, 'Heart of the Sea', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Darcy Gallagher has always believed in the pull of fate, the magic of legend . . . and the importance of money. She longs to find a rich man who will sweep her away - into a world filled with glamour and adventure, and the exotic life that is her destiny.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A wealthy businessman with Irish blood, Trevor Magee has come to Ardmore to build a theater - and uncover secrets hidden in his family''s past. He thought he had given up on love long ago, but Darcy Gallagher tempts him like no woman ever has. She''s gorgeous, intelligent, and she knows what she wants - and he''s more than willing to give it to her. But as their mutual attraction flares into passion, they look into their hearts - and find out what happens when you truly believe. . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1587'),
(1585, 'Heart-Shaped Box', 'Joe Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do you sleep with the light on? Are you in the habit of checking your doors and windows before you go to bed? Maybe even checking\n <em>\n  under\n </em>\n your bed? If you are about to crack open Joe Hill''s chilling thriller\n <em>\n  Heart-Shaped Box\n </em>\n , you might want to rethink your nighttime habits--Hill''s story about an aging rock star (with a penchant for macabre artifacts) who buys a haunted suit online will scare you silly. But don''t take our word for it. We asked bestselling authors (and masters of dark terror tales themselves) Scott Smith, and Harlan Coben to read\n <em>\n  Heart-Shaped Box\n </em>\n and give us their take. Check out their reviews below, and you might want to pick up a nightlight while you''re at it.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Scott Smith\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In 1993, Scott Smith wowed readers with his stunning debut thriller,\n  <em>\n   A Simple Plan\n  </em>\n  . Thirteen years later, he spooked us again with\n  <em>\n   The Ruins\n  </em>\n  , a horror-thriller about four Americans traveling in Mexico who stumble across a nightmare in the jungle.\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The set-up for Joe Hill''s novel,\n <em>\n  Heart-Shaped Box\n </em>\n , is appealingly simple. Jude Coyne, an aging rock star, buys himself a dead man''s suit. He acquires it online, lured by the promise that the dead man''s ghost will be included in his purchase. Jude thinks this is a joke, of course. He also assumes the seller is a stranger. We soon discover that he''s wrong on both counts, however, and from this point on the story moves with an exhilarating urgency. Jude wants the ghost gone; the ghost wants Jude dead. We watch, chapter-by-chapter, as they battle for survival. "Watch" is the appropriate word, too, because this is an extremely visual book. Hill''s prose is lean and precise, and he renders Jude''s world with impressive confidence. It feels solid, every detail both correct and fresh. And this physicality provides a firm platform for the book''s otherworldly happenings, which seem all the more frightening for being so securely grounded.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hill has a flawless sense of pacing. His narrative never flags, nor does it ever move so quickly as to outrun itself. And one can sense his literary ambition pushing at the margins of the genre. There are times when his writing, for all its spare efficiency, seems to jump away from him, stopping one small step short of poetry. An e-mail to Jude from the ghost (trust me, it''s not as absurd as it sounds) could even pass for something ee cummings might''ve written, in an especially morbid mood. And toward the end of the book, when Hill describes a trip down death''s "night road" in a ''65 Mustang, the passage has a startlingly lyrical beauty.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story''s horror ultimately has as much to do with Jude Coyne''s past--his mistakes, abandonments and betrayals--as with anything supernatural. Jude has caused a lot of pain over the years, moving through life with a carelessness that verges on the callous. His battle with the ghost brings this behavior into sharp relief, forcing him to reflect upon his own capacity for cruelty. This dawning self-awareness leavens the book''s bleakness and gore (and it is delightfully gory in places) with an unexpected sweetness. Despite our initial impression, Jude is gradually revealed--both to himself and the reader--as an essentially decent, even kind man. It''s this kindness, this fledgling ability to love and be loved, that will ultimately be of crucial consequence in his death struggle with the ghost. And it''s what makes Hill''s debut not only well-written and terrifying, but also--as it draws to its close--surprisingly moving. So go ahead, take a chance, and open his\n <em>\n  Heart-Shaped Box\n </em>\n . I think youâ€™ll be happy you did.\n <em>\n  --Scott Smith\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Harlan Coben\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Harlan Coben is the author of the beloved Myron Bolitar series about a wisecracking sports agent, as well as stunning stand-alone novels like\n  <em>\n   The Innocent\n  </em>\n  and his breakout thriller\n  <em>\n   Tell No One\n  </em>\n  . His new novel\n  <em>\n   The Woods\n  </em>\n  releases on April 17, 2007.\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n You, dear reader, are obviously somewhat versed in making online purchases, so today, immediately after you click on the yellow "Add to Shopping Cart" on the top right hand corner of this page, why not do an online search and buy something totally unique?\n</p>\n<p>\n Like, say, a vengeful ghost.\n</p>\n<p>\n That is what rock-star Judas Coyne does, thinking it will be a laugh, fun for his "sick-o" collection of such things. It seems a random buy, but Judas soon learns that it is anything but. This particular ghost is one Craddock McDermott, step-father to recent suicide victim and boy, is he cranky. He demands revenge for his step-daughterâ€™s death, which he blames on Judasâ€™s shabby treatment of her.\n</p>\n<p>\n Or is he after something else?\n</p>\n<p>\n There are Amazon readers who will give you a better plot summary. Don''t read them too closely because Joe Hill provides plenty of fun surprises.\n <em>\n  Heart-Shaped Box\n </em>\n is a true spine-tingler. I donâ€™t use that hyphenated word much anymore. We have seen and read it all, haven''t we? But right away, in the first chapter, there was a subtle line that made the hairs on the back of my neck go up in a way I haven''t experienced since I first discovered great horror as a teenager.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hill writes with a sure hand. The prose is compelling. Like most memorable tales of horror, this book is more about redemption than scary moments--though\n <em>\n  Heart-Shaped Box\n </em>\n has plenty of scares. They are visceral, shocking and very well done. The characters are flawed and real. The father-son relationship adds texture and surprising poignancy.\n</p>\n<p>\n So here''s the thing. My guess is, you wonâ€™t find a ghost to buy online, but if you read the\n <em>\n  Heart-Shaped Box\n </em>\n , you will be getting something that will haunt you and startle you and stay with you and yes, visit you in your dreams.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sleep well, dear reader. *--Harlan Coben\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n *\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Stoker-winner Hill features a particularly merciless ghost in his powerful first novel. Middle-aged rock star Judas Coyne collects morbid curios for fun, so doesn''t think twice about buying a suit advertised at an online auction site as haunted by its dead owner''s ghost. Only after it arrives does Judas discover that the suit belonged to Craddock McDermott, the stepfather of one of Coyne''s discarded groupies, and that the old man''s ghost is a malignant spirit determined to kill Judas in revenge for his stepdaughter''s suicide. Judas isn''t quite the cad or Craddock the avenging angel this scenario makes them at first, but their true motivations reveal themselves only gradually in a fast-paced plot that crackles with expertly planted surprises and revelations. Hill (\n <em>\n  20th Century Ghosts\n </em>\n ) gives his characters believably complex emotional lives that help to anchor the supernatural in psychological reality and prove that (as one character observes) "horror was rooted in sympathy." His subtle and skillful treatment of horrors that could easily have exploded over the top and out of control helps make this a truly memorable debut.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/667'),
(1586, 'Hearts in Atlantis', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With his idiosyncratic blend of patrician airs and boyish charm, narrator William Hurt provides a wonderful complement to this wildly imaginative collection of short stories by author Stephen King. Hurt carefully weaves the disparate elements into a cohesive whole, embracing the subtle complexities of each character; one moment a wizened sadness leaks into his voice as a haunted old man, pursued by demons, asks his 11-year-old lookout, "You know everyone on this street, on this block of this street anyway? And you''d know strangers? Sojourners? Faces of those unknown?" Then, in a profound yet almost imperceptible switch, he exposes the boy''s naive enthusiasm, "I think so." Right about here your neck hairs will stand at attention. Hurt''s peculiar vocal style is in perfect pitch to King''s dark, surreal vision of growing up amid the monsters of post-Vietnam America. (Running time: 21 hours, 20 CDs)\n <em>\n  --George Laney\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This collection of five thematically linked short stories dwells on the legacy of the 1960s. They share a collective moodiness, a feeling of depressed hangover coming after youth has been lost and the nation has suffered troubled times. Read aloud, this pungent atmosphere is especially strong. A-list actor Hurt stylishly performs the lengthy opener, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," in which 11-year-old Bobby Garfield falls under the spell of an older man his mother has taken in as a boarder (a father figure who introduces him first to literatureALord of the FliesAthen to supernatural phenomena). Hurt skillfully evokes pathos from the story''s fine detailing: its sense of small-town place and Bobby''s child''s-eye-view of the evil characters around him. King reads the title story, "Hearts in Atlantis," about Maine college students who mindlessly play cards instead of studying while the Vietnam War rages in the background. The author''s modest, reedy voice rings with autobiographical truthAas the protagonist is a young would-be writer, na?ve to the ways of the world. Taken together, at 21 hours'' listening, however, King''s shining moments too often give way to fatigue: the stories are repetitious, full of plot rehashings and meaningless asides. Also available on CD. Simultaneous release with the Scribner hardcover. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/523'),
(1587, 'Heat Wave', 'Richard Castle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes another shocking murder and a sharp turn in a tense journey into the dirty little secrets of the wealthy. Secrets that prove to be fatal. Secrets that lay hidden in the dark until one NYPD detective shines a light.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mystery sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly best-selling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads one of New York City''s top homicide squads. She''s hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York''s Finest. Pulitzer Prize-winning Rook is as much a handful as he is handsome. His wise-cracking and meddling aren''t her only problems. As she works to unravel the secrets of the murdered real estate tycoon, she must also confront the spark between them. The one called heat.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Richard Castle\n </strong>\n is the author of numerous bestsellers, including the critically acclaimed Derrick Storm series. His first novel,\n <em>\n  In a Hail of Bullets\n </em>\n , published while he was still in college, received the Nom DePlume Society''s prestigious Tom Straw Award for Mystery Literature. Castle currently lives in Manhattan with his daughter and mother, both of whom infuse his life with humor and inspiration.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/952'),
(1588, 'Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy&#39;s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back', 'Todd Burpo &amp; Sonja Burpo &amp; Lynn Vincent &amp; Colton Burpo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  "A beautifully written glimpse into heaven that will encourage those who doubt and thrill those who believe."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Ron Hall, coauthor of\n  <em>\n   Same Kind of Different as Me\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Do you remember the hospital, Colton?" Sonja said. "Yes, mommy, I remember," he said. "That''s where the angels sang to me."\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren''t expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followed-a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy''s trip to heaven and back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his body during the surgery-and authenticated that claim by describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital while he was being operated on. He talked of visiting heaven and relayed stories told to him by people he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events that happened even before he was born. He also astonished his parents with descriptions and obscure details about heaven that matched the Bible exactly, though he had not yet learned to read.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child, Colton tells of meeting long-departed family members. He describes Jesus, the angels, how "really, really big" God is, and how much God loves us. Retold by his father, but using Colton''s uniquely simple words,\n  <em>\n   Heaven Is for Real\n  </em>\n  offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us, where as Colton says, "Nobody is old and nobody wears glasses."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Heaven Is for Real\n  </em>\n  will forever change the way you think of eternity, offering the chance to see, and believe, like a child.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2382'),
(1589, 'The Hedge Knight', 'George R. R. Martin &amp; Ben Avery &amp; Mike S. Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This heroic fantasy tale reinvigorates the tired category of sword and sorcery fiction by emphasizing the human angle. Though it''s adapted from a story set in the magical world of Martin''s popular\n <em>\n  Song of Ice and Fire\n </em>\n novels, it contains very little sorcery, and the swords are less important than the people who wield them. Hulking young Dunk is the squire of an elderly warrior. When Dunk''s master dies, he rides on to the next tournament in hopes of winning recognition for his knightly prowess. He acquires a squire of his own, a bald little boy who calls himself Egg, and gives himself the more elegant title of Duncan the Tall. Miller and Crowell are obvious fans of medieval pageantry and delight in details of armor, weapons and other such trappings, but readers are apt to become more involved in Dunk''s efforts to be noticed and, in turn, respected, by those around him. He emerges battered but wiser, as his heroes turn out to be simultaneously smaller and larger than he imagined. Everyone, even Egg, is more complicated than they seem, and Martin recognizes that honor is more than ceremony and that heroism comes at a price. The story is chattier than usual for comics, but that''s necessary for characters to reflect on what they''ve done and learned.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Contains an all new exclusive short story by George R. R. Martin! An adaptation of Martin''s hit novel, bringing the world of A Song of Ice and Fire to life in comic book form. Night falls over the life of one noble knight and brings the dawn of his squire''s knighthood. Dubbing himself "Ser Duncan the Tall," "The Hedge Knight" sets forth to the tourney at Ashford Meadow in search of fame and glory and the honor of upholding his oath as a knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Unfortunately for him, the world isn''t ready for a knight who keeps his oaths, and his chivalrous methods could be the very cause of his demise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/469'),
(1590, 'Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  Helmet for My Pillow\n </strong>\n is a grand and epic prose poem. Â Robert Leckieâ€™s theme is the purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being whoâ€”somehowâ€”survived.â€â€”Tom Hanks\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne hell of a book! The real stuff that proves the U.S. Marines are the greatest fighting men on earth!â€â€”Leon Uris, author of\n <em>\n  Battle Cry\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In\n <strong>\n  Helmet for My Pillow\n </strong>\n we follow his odyssey, from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the warâ€™s fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifices of war, painting an unvarnished portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defense of their country.Â \n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n From the live-for-today rowdiness of marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Woven throughout are Leckieâ€™s hard-won, eloquent, and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy,\n <strong>\n  Helmet for My Pillow\n </strong>\n will leave no reader untouched. This is a book that brings you as close to the mud, the blood, and the experience of war as it is safe to come.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Now producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman, the men behind\n <em>\n  Band of Brothers\n </em>\n , have adapted material from\n <strong>\n  Helmet for My Pillow\n </strong>\n for HBOâ€™s epic miniseries\n <em>\n  The Pacific\n </em>\n , which will thrill and edify a whole new generation.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/571'),
(1591, 'The Help', 'Kathryn Stockett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Minny, Aibileen''s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody''s business, but she can''t mind her tongue, so she''s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women-mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends-view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope,\n <em>\n  The Help\n </em>\n is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don''t.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/153'),
(1592, 'Henry IV', 'Jonathan Bate &amp; William Shakespeare &amp; Eric Rasmussen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   William Shakespeare: Complete Works:\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA feast of literary and historical information.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Henry IV sits on a usurped throne, his conscience and his nobles in revolt, while his son Hal is immersed in a self-indulgent life of revelry with the notorious Sir John Falstaff. Shakespeare explores questions of kingship and honor in this masterly mingling of history, comedy, and tragedy.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of todayâ€™s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes from\n  <strong>\n   William Shakespeare: Complete Works\n  </strong>\n  . Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeareâ€™s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeareâ€™s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/229'),
(1593, 'Hercule Poirot&#39;s Christmas: A Holiday Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The holidays can be murderâ€”and just in time for yuletide 2008 comes this holiday edition of one of Agatha Christie''s most popular and confounding mysteries.  The wealthy Simeon Lee has demanded that all four of his sonsâ€”one faithful, one prodigal, one impecunious, one sensitiveâ€”and their wives return home for Christmas. But a heartwarming family holiday is not exactly what he has in mind. He bedevils each of his sons with barbed insults and finally announces that he is cutting off their allowances and changing his will. So when the old man is found lying in a pool of blood on Christmas Eve, there is no lack of suspects. Did Lee''s taunts push one of the boys to a desperate act? And how did the murderer escape from the locked room? Intrepid Belgian detective Hercule Poirot suspends his own holiday festivities to sift through the motives and evidence surrounding the crime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1419'),
(1594, 'Heretics of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A monumental piece of imaginative architecture... indisputably magical."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Herald Examiner\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Gripping...Fascinating detail, yet cloaked in mystery and mysticism."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Milwaukee Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Herbert weaves together several fascinating storylines with almost the same mastery as informed\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n , and keeps the reader intent on the next revelation or twist."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Challenging Destiny\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandriders-fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/660'),
(1595, 'The Hero of Ages', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This adventure brings the Mistborn epic fantasy trilogy (after 2007''s\n  <em>\n   The Well of Ascension\n  </em>\n  ) to a dramatic and surprising climax. Tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension, new emperor Elend Venture and his wife, the assassin Vin, are now hard-pressed to save the world from Ruin''s deadly Inquisitors, the insidious lethal mists called the Deepness and the increasingly heavy falls of black ash that threaten to bury the land and starve its inhabitants. As the duo search for the last of the former emperor''s cache of atium, source of the strongest Mistborn energies, they battle Ruin''s forces as well as monsters and prophetic powers. Sanderson''s saga of consequences offers complex characters and a compelling plot, asking hard questions about loyalty, faith and responsibility.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Lord Ruler is dead, and Elend Venture is working on consolidating his rule. But the mist is becoming actively dangerous, ash falls almost constantly, and brutal earthquakes are shaking the world apart. The subtle, nearly omniscient Ruin is infiltrating both Elendâ€™s army and his opponents. Fortunately, the stubborn Vin vows to discover a way to destroy him. When failure seems imminent, help comes from unexpected quarters. Sanderson pulls loose ends together, explains vague prophecies, and produces the Hero of Ages, and the Mistborn trilogy (The Final Empire, 2006; The Well of Ascension, 2007; and this book) concludes satisfactorily. --Regina Schroeder\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/204'),
(1596, 'HHGTTG - The Lost Chapters', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1905'),
(1597, 'Hidden Codes in the Bible', 'Roy A. Reinhold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1618'),
(1598, 'Hide and Seek', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n If Thomas Harris''s psycho-thrillers are the creme de la creme of the genre, then Patterson''s (Kiss the Girls; Along Came a Spider) are the skimmed milk?fluid, but low in substance. In his new novel, the author again lays down a narrative line so gripping?an effect achieved partly through a plethora of one-sentence paragraphs, a la Sidney Sheldon?that the reader may not notice, or care, that characterization and originality have fallen by the wayside. Patterson tells his story through two points of view: there''s the the first-person voice of Maggie Bradford, who kills her abusive husband in the novel''s flashback prologue and has now become a world-famous singer-songwriter ("I love your music, Maggie," Barbra Streisand tells her); and there''s a third-person narration that is often filtered through the eyes of Will Shepherd, the celebrated soccer star who romances Maggie after her interim lover, an older tycoon, dies of a heart attack. The devastatingly handsome Will likes to hurt women ("there was a distinctly good part in him, but also a bad part"), however, and sometimes even to kill them. Will seems to want Maggie to save him from himself. Using his beauty and charm on her and her children, he wins her hand in marriage. That union sets up a major-league deja vu, two murder trials that aren''t quite riveting and a final Big Twist that will only surprise those fresh to the thriller genre. Still, Will''s descent into cartoonishness, and various loose threads, will probably not bother readers swept along by this lightweight pop fiction.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beautiful Maggie Bradford seems to have it all: a successful career as a singer/songwriter, fame, money, and two precious children. However, she killed her first husband in self-defense and now she''s in jail awaiting trial for the murder of her second husband, Will Shepherd, a charming, psychotic professional soccer player. At first, Maggie''s marriage seems fine, but soon Will begins to act irrationally. The increasing tension comes to a head when Maggie comes to believe that Will has been sexually abusing her daughter; the resulting confrontation ends in Will''s death and Maggie''s arrest. Climaxing in Maggie''s celebrity trial, this page-turner delivers a solid punch, complete with a surprise ending. Patterson (Kiss the Girls, Little, Brown, 1995) offers a vivid, emotionally revealing tale. Recommended for public libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Stacie Browne Chandler, Whitman P.L., Mass.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/354'),
(1599, 'Hideaway', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  He was clinically dead after the accident-but was miraculously revived. Now Hatch Harrison and his wife, Lindsey, approach each day with a new appreciation of life...shadowed by his glimpse of death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But something has come back from the other side. A terrible presence that links Hatch''s mind to a dangerous psychotic. A dark force of murderous rage that hides within everyone.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  The New York Times #1 bestseller by the author of Dragon''s Tears. Pronounced clinically dead after his car plunges into an icy river, Hatch Harrison is miraculously revived by a special team of doctors. Now Hatch approaches each day with a new appreciation . . . until he starts to see terrifying images of madness and murder. For he brought something back from his visit with death--and its murderous rampage has just begun. (Occult Fiction)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1875'),
(1600, 'High Fidelity', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It has been said often enough that baby boomers are a television generation, but the very funny novel\n <em>\n  High Fidelity\n </em>\n reminds that in a way they are the record-album generation as well. This funny novel is obsessed with music; Hornby''s narrator is an early-thirtysomething English guy who runs a London record store. He sells albums recorded the old-fashioned way--on vinyl--and is having a tough time making other transitions as well, specifically adulthood. The book is in one sense a love story, both sweet and interesting; most entertaining, though, are the hilarious arguments over arcane matters of pop music.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British journalist Hornby has fashioned a disarming, rueful and sometimes quite funny first novel that is not quite as hip as it wishes to be. The book dramatizes the romantic struggle of Rob Fleming, owner of a vintage record store in London. After his girlfriend, Laura, leaves him for another man, he realizes that he pines not for sexual ecstasy (epitomized by a "bonkus mirabilis" in his past) but for the monogamy this cynic has come to think of as a crime. He takes comfort in the company of the clerks at the store, whose bantering compilations of top-five lists (e.g., top five Elvis Costello songs; top-five films) typify the novel''s ingratiating saturation in pop culture. Sometimes this can pall: readers may find that Rob''s ruminations about listening to the Smiths and the Lemonheads?pop music helps him fall in love, he tells us?are more interesting than his list of five favorite episodes of Cheers. Rob takes comfort as well in the company of a touring singer, Marie La Salle, who is unpretentious and "pretty in that nearly cross-eyed American way"?but life becomes more complicated when he encounters Laura again. Hornby has earned his own place on the London bestseller lists, and this on-the-edge tale of musical addiction just may climb the charts here. First serial to Esquire.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/602'),
(1601, 'High Five', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Uncle Fred was someone I saw at weddings and funerals and once in a while at Giovichinni''s Meat Market, ordering a quarter pound of olive loaf. Eddie Such, the butcher, would have the olive loaf on the scale and Uncle Fred would say, ''You''ve got the olive loaf on a piece of waxed paper. How much does that piece of waxed paper weigh? You''re not gonna charge me for that waxed paper, are you? I want some money off for the waxed paper.''"\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The speaker is Stephanie Plum, the glamorous if slightly ditzy bounty hunter from Trenton, New Jersey, and one of the most original creations in recent mystery fiction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this fifth entry in Janet Evanovich''s increasingly popular series, Stephanie''s problems are many and varied. She''s not making enough money picking up FTAs (Failures to Appear) for her cousin Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds; her red-hot love affair with Detective Joe Morelli has cooled off; and her giant extended family is no help at all. For instance, Uncle Fred the cheapskate has disappeared, leaving behind some suspicious photographs of body parts in garbage bags and links to some really dangerous people.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Stephanie turns to her friend and mentor, Ranger, for financial advice, he gets her involved in a gang of toughs doing instant evictions for landlords. (She complains to Ranger about the job and its dangers, prompting one of the hired thug to say, "Man, you don''t like to get shot. You don''t like to get arrested. You don''t know how to have fun at all.")\n </p>\n <p>\n  Most of Stephanie''s charm, of course, comes from her attitude--a combination of the brazen bravado that turns a failed lingerie model into a bounty hunter in the first place and the normal fears of a person in over her head.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Other Plums in paperback, by the numbers:\n  <em>\n   One for the Money\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Two for the Dough\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Three to Get Deadly\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Four to Score\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   --Dick Adler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of Evanovich''s tales of the adventures of Stephanie Plum (Four to Score, etc.), Jersey girl and bounty hunter extraordinaire, have been eagerly anticipating this next installment in the popular series. The good news is that the novel is just as wacky and over the top as its predecessors, and that the disaster-prone Stephanie has brought along her usual wild-and-crazy crew of sidekicks and loony relatives to help her chase down felons. Evanovich even manages to make the dowdy working-class city of Trenton, N.J., seem like a hip, edgy place for her funky characters to live. But Trenton also has its share of nefarious criminals for Stephanie to pursueAfolk like Randy Briggs, the dwarf, who not only repeatedly eludes her grasp but keeps taunting her as a loser. Stephanie careens through her days, looking for her missing Uncle Fred and taking on FTA (failure to appear) cases for her cousin Vinnie, a bail bondsman. Further complications ensue when she tries to earn extra money by moonlighting on quasi-legal "security" jobs for Ranger, her dangerously sexy mentor at the bounty-hunting game. Ranger is looking awfully good to Stephanie these days, and she is finding it hard to choose between him and old flame Joe Morelli. Evanovich tells her fast-paced and furiously funny story expertly. The action never stops, the dialogue is snappy and the characters are more than memorable. Readers can''t miss with this one. (July)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/789'),
(1602, 'High Profile', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Stone investigates a shocking double murder-that of a controversial radio talk-show host and his pregnant mistress.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1148'),
(1603, 'History of American Literature', 'Reuben Post Halleck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1582'),
(1604, 'A History of God: The 4000 Year Quest for Judaism, Christianity and Islam', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Armstrong, a British journalist and former nun, guides us along one of the most elusive and fascinating quests of all time--the search for God. Like all beloved historians, Armstrong entertains us with deft storytelling, astounding research, and makes us feel a greater appreciation for the present because we better understand our past. Be warned:\n  <em>\n   A History of God\n  </em>\n  is not a tidy linear history. Rather, we learn that the definition of God is constantly being repeated, altered, discarded, and resurrected through the ages, responding to its followers'' practical concerns rather than to mystical mandates. Armstrong also shows us how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have overlapped and influenced one another, gently challenging the secularist history of each of these religions.\n  <em>\n   --Gail Hudson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This searching, profound comparative history of the three major monotheistic faiths fearlessly illuminates the sociopolitical ground in which religious ideas take root, blossom and mutate. Armstrong, a British broadcaster, commentator on religious affairs and former Roman Catholic nun, argues that Judaism, Christianity and Islam each developed the idea of a personal God, which has helped believers to mature as full human beings. Yet Armstrong also acknowledges that the idea of a personal God can be dangerous, encouraging us to judge, condemn and marginalize others. Recognizing this, each of the three monotheisms, in their different ways, developed a mystical tradition grounded in a realization that our human idea of God is merely a symbol of an ineffable reality. To Armstrong, modern, aggressively righteous fundamentalists of all three faiths represent "a retreat from God." She views as inevitable a move away from the idea of a personal God who behaves like a larger version of ourselves, and welcomes the grouping of believers toward a notion of God that "works for us in the empirical age." 25,000 first printing; BOMC alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/995'),
(1605, 'Hit List', 'Laurell K Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series continues!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect "monsters" are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, U.S. Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch the killer.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Laurell K. Hamilton\n  </strong>\n  is a full-time writer. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her family.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2404'),
(1606, 'Hitch-22: A Memoir', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world''s most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature. He is a fervent atheist, raised as a Christian, by a mother whose Jewish heritage was not revealed to him until her suicide.\n</p>\n<p>\n In other words, Christopher Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument. And he believes the personal is political.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the story of his life, lived large.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/674'),
(1607, 'The Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Four', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy: One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. For Arthur, who has just had his house demolished, this is too much. Sadly, the weekends just begun.The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: When all issues of space, time, matter and the nature of being are resolved, only one question remains: Where shall we have dinner? The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience and, for once, there is no morning after.Life, the Universe and Everything: In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. And then, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do.So-long, and Thanks for all the Fish: Arthur Dents sense of reality is in its dickiest state when he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. They go in search of Gods Final Message and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1807');
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(1608, 'Hitler', 'Ian Kershaw', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hitler''...this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.''\n  <strong>\n   History\n  </strong>\n  Adolf Hitler has left a lasting mark on the twentieth-century, as the dictator of Germany and instigator of a genocidal war, culminating in the ruin of much of Europe and the globe. This innovative best-seller explores the nature and mechanics of Hitler''s power, and how he used it. On the face of it, Adolf Hitler was an unlikely candidate for dictatorial power. Why, of all the fanatics in Germany after the First World War, was it Hitler who found such mass appeal?How did such an unimpressive figure come to take control of the machinery of a complex modern state?Why - contrary to all expectations - was his authority not curtailed by the traditional ruling classes and constitutional constraints?What did his personal role in the shaping of policy amount to?Was he personally taking the key decisions, right to the very end? Professor Kershaw answers these questions to provide a lucid introduction to the character and exercise of Hitler''s dictatorial power. Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. He has written widely on Hitler and the Third Reich and is author of the now definitive comprehensive biography Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (1998) and a second volume due in 2000. In addition to his publications, he was consultant to the BAFTA-winning BBC-TV series The Nazis: A Warning from History, to the BBC2 programme War of the Century, to ZDF''s Hitler: eine Bilanz and to ZDF''s series in preparation on the Holocaust.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Evan Burr Bukey:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mr. Kershaw''s biography provides the most astute assessment of Hitler''s bond with the German people yet written. -- Wall Street Journal\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1207'),
(1609, 'The Hobbit', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit''s doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure.\n</p>\n<p>\n The dwarves'' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien''s masterwork,\n <em>\n  The Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n , would eventually spring. Though\n <em>\n  The Hobbit\n </em>\n is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don''t be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noted artist Hague provides 48 dazzling paintings for this first-ever version of the timeless fantasy classic. All ages.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/167'),
(1610, 'Hogfather', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n What could more genuinely embody the spirit of Christmas (or Hogswatch, on the Discworld) than a Terry Pratchett book about the holiday season? Every secular Christmas tradition is included. But as this\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n the 21st Discworld novel, there are some unusual twists.\n</p>\n<p>\n This year the Auditors, who want people to stop believing in things that aren''t real, have hired an assassin to eliminate the Hogfather. (You know him: red robe, white beard, says, "Ho, ho, ho!") Their evil plot will destroy the Discworld unless someone covers for him. So someone does. Well, at least Death\n <em>\n  tries\n </em>\n . He wears the costume and rides the sleigh drawn by four jolly pigs: Gouger, Tusker, Rooter, and Snouter. He even comes down chimneys. But as fans of other Pratchett stories about Death (\n <em>\n  Mort\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Reaper Man\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Soul Music\n </em>\n ) know, he takes things literally. He gives children whatever they wish for and appears in person at Crumley''s in The Maul.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fans will welcome back Susan, Death of Rats (the Grim Squeaker), Albert, and the wizardly faculty of Unseen University, and revel in new personalities like Bilious, the "oh god of Hangovers." But you needn''t have read Pratchett before to laugh uproariously and think seriously about the meanings of Christmas.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The master of humorous fantasy delivers one of his strongest, most conventional books yet. Discworld''s equivalent of Santa Claus, the Hogfather (who flies in a sleigh drawn by four gigantic pigs), has been spirited away by a repulsive assassin, Mr. Teatime, acting on behalf of the Auditors who rule the universe and who would prefer that it exhibited no life. Since faith is essential to life, destroying belief in the Hogfather would be a major blow to humanity. It falls to a marvelously depicted Death and his granddaughter Susan to solve the mystery of the disappeared Hogfather, and meanwhile to fill in for him. On the way to the pair''s victory, readers encounter children both naughty and nice; gourmet banquets made of old boots and mud; lesser and greater criminals; an overworked and undertrained tooth fairy named Violet; and Bilious, the god of hangovers, among other imaginative concepts. The tone of much of the book is darker than usual for Pratchett?for whom "humorous" has never been synonymous with "silly"?and his satire, too, is more edged than usual. (One scene deftly skewers the Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas.") Pratchett has now moved beyond the limits of humorous fantasy, and should be recognized as one of the more significant contemporary English-language satirists. U.K. rights: Victor Gollanz, The Cassell Group; trans., first serial, dramatic, audio rights: Ralph Vicinanza.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/345'),
(1611, 'Holiday in Death', 'J. D. Robb &amp; Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the seventh of J.D. Robb''s futuristic romance thrillers, NYPD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is on the trail of a serial killer terrorizing the city during the holidays. The only link between the victims--all are patrons of an exclusive dating service, Personally Yours. Working with her aide Officer Peabody, Peabody''s nemesis Ian McNab, and her own intriguing husband, Roarke, Eve uncovers secrets that link the victims: secrets that involve both the owners and the clients of Personally Yours and which might be worth killing for. Whether she''s writing as Nora Roberts or as J.D. Robb, Roberts weaves a taut and powerful story with lush sensuality and masterful characterization. This murder mystery combines elements of romance, science fiction, and police procedural genres in an entertaining mix that will keep readers turning the pages.\n <em>\n  --Lisa Wanttaja\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The year is 2058. Guns are banned and medical science has learned how to prolong life to well beyond the century mark. And man has yet to stop killing man. At Cop Central, it''s Lieutenant Eve Dallas''s job to stand up for the dead. So begins the seventh riveting installment in Robb''s (aka Nora Roberts) futuristic romantic suspense series (following Vengeance in Death). With Christmas only weeks away, Eve is stressing out trying to find the right gift for her new husband, Rourke, who "not only had everything, but owned most of the plants and factories that made it." More to her concern is the latest serial killer who is using "The Twelve Days of Christmas" as a theme for his heinous rape and murder spree. The case touches Eve on a personal level, and while flash-backs from her abusive childhood are flinchingly repetitious, it defines Eve''s gritty, hard-boiled character and validates her obsessive determination to bring down the killer any way she can.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1086'),
(1612, 'Hollywood Nocturnes', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting the perfect celebrity snatchâ€“his own. An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop''s worst nightmare. While chasing kidnappers, two cops stumble on an okie town as bloody as the O.K. Corral. A strongarm for Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen finds himself playing both ends against the middle, all for a murderously magnificent moll. This is L.A., Ellroy styleâ€“corrupt cops, goons with guns, rattling roadstersâ€“and all in the staccato rhythm of the streets.\n  <em>\n   Hollywood Nocturnes\n  </em>\n  shows us the seedy side of glamorous Hollywood, laid out like a corpse in the morgue.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  The internationally bestselling author of White Jazz delivers a collection of short stories set in 1950''s Los Angeles that are replete with the dark prose and biting humor that have made Elroy a cult favorite. This is James Elroy at his blusey best.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1848'),
(1613, 'The Holy Bible ( King James Version / KJV / EasyIndex NOOKBook )', 'King James Version', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  This EasyIndex Edition of the King James Bible is designed with study groups in mind. To make navigating the Bible easier it contains a complete table of contents and easy-to-navigate links. The links in each book are designed to get you to the chapter that you need, and back out again, as quickly and easily as possible.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  This eBible has been carefully prepared to display well on your NOOK (tm) reading device.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  It also contains page layout and formatting that you are unlikely to find on other 99 cent ebooks. Stick with Matsuzine Publishing classic ebooks for the best reading experience on your NOOK (tm) and thank you for your business!\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The King James Version of the Bible contains the text of the Holy Bible in the traditional language. This translation, despite being five-hundred years old, is widely praised for its accurate rendering of the Hebrew and Greek texts.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  This version is designed to be simple and enjoyable to read. While larger than many ebooks, the file size is kept to a minimum for faster downloads. Also, the table of contents is designed with simplicity in mind.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  (NOOK and NOOKColor are registered trademarks of Barnes &amp; Noble, Inc.)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1410'),
(1614, 'Home Again', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Dallas MacGregor is living the Hollywood dream. At thirtysomething, sheâ€™s an award-winning actress beloved by the public and bound for even bigger success. But when her soon-to-be-ex-husband, producer Emilio Baird, is caught in a sex scandal, Dallasâ€™s charmed life turns tabloid nightmare. Determined to shield her young son, Cody, from the ugly uproar, Dallas seeks refuge in sleepy St. Dennis, Marylandâ€”the Chesapeake Bay town where her happiest childhood days were spent.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reunited with her boisterous great-aunt, Dallas wants nothing more than to leave her Hollywood days behind. And when she crosses paths with local veterinarian Grant Wyler, her high school summer love, she finds heâ€™s everything she remembers, and moreâ€”and that the spark is still there. But Dallasâ€™s promising new life takes a troubling turn when the unimaginable happens and she finds herself living a motherâ€™s worst nightmareâ€”and Emilio storms into St. Dennis to save the day, along with his damaged career. Trapped in the unwanted glare of the limelight once again, Dallas discovers that itâ€™s coolheaded Grant who is willing to risk everything to protect her and her son, and to secure the future they were always meant to share.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mariah Stewart is the award-winning\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of twenty-seven novels of contemporary romance and romantic suspense. A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she lives in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania, with her husband, their daughter, and their dogs.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2409'),
(1615, 'Home for the Summer', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Some of Lucy Sinclairâ€™s best days were those spent growing up in small town St. Dennisâ€”working at the family inn and enjoying summers filled with swimming, sailing, tennis, and the company of Clay Madison, her best friend. But Lucyâ€™s darkest day, the one that shattered her innocence with violence and fear, also happened in St. Dennis. And the town she once loved became the place she gladly left behindâ€”along with the terrible secret sheâ€™s kept for twenty years.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  While Lucy headed off for college and a career, Clay remainedâ€”more than satisfied with the life St. Dennis had to offer. But now, even after inheriting his familyâ€™s thriving farm and starting up an organic brewery, he canâ€™t help feeling that somethingâ€™s missing. And when Lucy comes back to town to plan a celebrity wedding at the Sinclair family inn, she and Clay reconnect, and find themselves reevaluating their long-sleeping friendship that could blossom into something deeper. Like a bookend to those distant childhood days, this summer will be Lucyâ€™s chance to finally confront her hidden pain, make peace with the past, and plan her own whole new future.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mariah Stewart\n  </strong>\n  is the award-winning\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of thirty novels of contemporary romance and romantic suspense. A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she lives with her husband and their dogs amid the rolling hills and Amish farms of southern Chester County, Pennsylvania, where she gardens, reads, and enjoys country life.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  9780345531223|excerpt\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stewart / HOME FOR THE SUMMER\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chapter 1\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Lucy Sinclair was twelve years old, she packed a suitcase to go away by herself for the first time. There had been something exciting and so grown-Â­up about folding her clothes and tucking them inside the plaid fabric travel bag next to her sneakers and sandals and the plastic cosmetic case she borrowed from her mother for her toothpaste, toothbrush, dental floss, and shampoo. Sheâ€™d also packed a diaryâ€”Â­in which she planned to write every dayâ€”Â­and a pen with which she could record the anticipated noteworthy moments as well as write postcards home.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sheâ€™d returned from those two August weeks at her aunt and uncleâ€™s Pennsylvania farm without having opened the diary and all but three of her postcards were still secured in the rubber band. As instructed, sheâ€™d sent one to her parents at the end of the first week (â€œAunt Clarissa and Lydia were both stung by yellow jackets yesterday and we spent the whole afternoon in the emergency room. Jake got poison ivy from playing in the weeds. I donâ€™t think I have it yet. Love, Lucyâ€). The other two went to her younger brother, Ford, who at eight was deemed too young to go away by himself (â€œUncle Pat says you can come when youâ€™re ten, which is totally unfair because I had to wait until I was twelveâ€), and to her best friend, Clay Madison (â€œI went fishing in the lake and caught three bass in one day! We found a cool old cemetery that has graves from the Revolutionary War! I took lots of picturesâ€”Â­canâ€™t wait to show you!â€).\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, at thirty-Â­five, packing had become so routine she could do it with her eyes closed, and these days, her trips rarely promised such adventure. The old plaid suitcase had been banished years ago to the attic, and, knowing her mother, was probably still tucked up under the eaves, and she couldnâ€™t remember the last time sheâ€™d gone fishing. The one thing that hadnâ€™t changed was the look on her motherâ€™s face when Lucy entered the lobby of the Inn at Sinclair Point, suitcase in tow and her computer bag over her shoulder, and announced that she was ready to leave for the airport.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDo you have everything?â€ Grace Sinclair asked her daughter.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lucy opened her handbag and checked for her plane ticket, her sunglasses, and the keys to her rental car. â€œGot it all. And if by chance I did forget something, you can always send it out or hold on to it until I come back next month to meet with Robert Magellan.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIâ€™m still having a hard time convincing myself thatâ€™s really going to happen.â€ Lucy shook her head as if still in disbelief that one of the wealthiest men in the country wanted to talk to her about planning his wedding. â€œThanks for arranging it, Mom.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThank Trula. Sheâ€™s the one whoâ€™s insisting that Robert not even consider another event planner,â€ Grace reminded her. â€œOr another venue.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI did thank her.â€ Lucy slid her sunglasses to the top of her head. â€œI thought Iâ€™d get to thank her again this morning, but she doesnâ€™t seem to be up yet.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIâ€™m glad sheâ€™s sleeping in.â€ Grace lifted Lucyâ€™s computer bag. â€œShe never gets a chance toâ€”Â­â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBaloney. Iâ€™ve been up for hours.â€ Trula Comfort, Graceâ€™s best friend for just about as long as either could remember, marched down the steps and joined them near the information desk. â€œI thought Iâ€™d be gracious and allow you two to have a nice breakfast together without me hanging around.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTrula, you can hang around as much as you want.â€ Lucy hugged the older woman. â€œIâ€™m so happy you were here this weekend.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI was glad to be here. Thought it would be good to see your work product before I browbeat Robert and Susanna into having their wedding here, with you at the helm.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHa.â€ Grace grinned. â€œYou just admitted to browbeating.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne does what one must when one must.â€ Trula gave Lucy one last hug, then looked around for something to carry.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIâ€™ll take that.â€ Daniel, Lucyâ€™s brother and the innâ€™s proprietor, grabbed the handle of Lucyâ€™s suitcase just as Trula was about to. â€œYou werenâ€™t planning on sneaking out on me without saying good-Â­bye, were you?â€ He put a hand on his sisterâ€™s shoulder.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHave I ever?â€ Lucy asked as she fished in her bag for the keys sheâ€™d had just a moment ago but dropped when she hugged Trula. â€œIâ€™m just trying to get organized. It appears I need a committee to get on my way.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Daniel wheeled the suitcase toward the innâ€™s double doors and held one side open for the trio who trailed behind him.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThanks, Danny.â€ Lucy smiled as she stepped outside into a crisp early winter morning. â€œBrrr. I keep forgetting how chilly it gets here in December. Remind me to bring a coat back with me next time.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAny chance next time might be Christmas?â€ her mother asked. Lucy could tell that Grace was trying her best not to appear too hopeful.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt doesnâ€™t look like it, Mom.â€ Lucy paused at the car and opened the doors and trunk with the remote. â€œWe have so many parties lined up, and several weddings, including two on Christmas Eve and another on Christmas night. Bonnie had two big events this past weekend that she had to handle on her own, and I think her last nerve is just about gone. I canâ€™t take off again in two weeks.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWell, I doubt either of those shindigs was as â€˜bigâ€™ as the wedding of Dallas MacGregor.â€ Grace handed over the computer.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThat wedding was big even for us, and weâ€™ve handled some big affairs over the years.â€ Lucy put her bag on the front seat and turned to hug her mother. â€œI donâ€™t even know how to thank you for helping me to land that.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAll I did was set the wheels in motion, dear.â€ Grace held on to her daughter for a long moment before patting her on the back and releasing her. â€œThe â€˜landingâ€™ was all your doing.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMomâ€™s right, Luce.â€ Daniel placed her suitcase in the trunk. â€œThe inn never would have gotten the MacGregor wedding without you.â€ He paused. â€œSorry. The MacGregor weddings. We canâ€™t forget that Dallasâ€™s brother got married on Saturday, too. Iâ€™ve been running the inn for a long time and Iâ€™ve seen a lot of really spectacular weddings here, but nothing like Saturdayâ€™s affair.â€ He slammed the trunk. â€œItâ€™s going to be a long time before people stop talking about it. And since all those stories and photographs started flooding the Internet on Sunday, our phone has been ringing off the hook and we canâ€™t keep up with the emails.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGreat. Itâ€™s about time the inn was recognized as the destination venue on the Eastern Shore.â€ Lucy reached out for her brother. â€œYou run one hell of a business, bro.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWe do our best.â€ Daniel planted a kiss on the top of his sisterâ€™s head. â€œBut we never could have pulled off what you did this weekend. Madeline is a good event planner, but she doesnâ€™t have your skill and creativity or your experience. We wouldnâ€™t have gotten this job if you hadnâ€™t agreed to come back and handle the planning.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWell, remember that Iâ€™ve been doing this for thirteen years now. Iâ€™ve made a lot of contacts.â€ She jangled her keys softly in her hands, a nervous habit. â€œItâ€™s all in the contacts, Danny-Â­boy.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI appreciate that you dug in and pulled it off with so little time. I know it was stressful,â€ he told her.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt was so worth it, are you kidding me? Bonnie says our phones have been ringing nonstop since yesterday, too. What a plum for the rÃ©sumÃ©.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAnd perhaps an even larger plum awaits,â€ Trula said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFrom your lips, Trula.â€ Lucy kissed the older woman, then kissed her mother, and pretended not to see the touch of sadness in Graceâ€™s eyes. â€œIâ€™ll be talking to you, Mom. And Iâ€™ll be back soon enough. Maybe we could have our Christmas in January this year.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThatâ€™s a fine idea. Weâ€™ll leave the tree up.â€ Grace nodded and stepped back from the car. â€œSafe trip, love.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith any luck, Iâ€™ll be sleeping the whole time.â€ Lucy angled behind the wheel and her brother closed the door for her. â€œTake care, everyone.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBye, Lucy.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThanks again . . .â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lucy turned the key in the ignition and headed around the circular drive to the long lane that led from the inn to the main road, trying to swallow the lump in her throat. For her, coming home was both agony and ecstasy. She loved her family more than anything, cherished the time she spent with her mother and brothersâ€”Â­but staying at the inn brought back her most painful memory. The irony was not lost on her that her childhood home, the place where sheâ€™d been raised with so much love and laughter, also housed her worst nightmares. The place where she should have felt most secure was where she had been most vulnerable.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  She blinked back tears, knowing that her long absences hurt her mother, and yet she could never explain why she stayed away, why even this time around sheâ€™d slept more nights at the home of one of the brides, Steffie Wyler, than she had at the inn. Grace would all but die if she knew the truth, if Lucy were to tell her why she was more comfortable sleeping...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2418'),
(1616, 'Homeport', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Maine air is bitterly cold when Dr. Miranda Jones arrives at the family home after a busy lecture tour. But her blood turns to ice when she suddenly feels the knife against her throat. The unseen assailant steals her bags, slashes her tires, and disappears. Deeply shaken, Miranda is determined to put the experience behind her. Distraction comes when she is summoned to Italy - to verify the authenticity of a Renaissance bronze of a Medici courtesan known as The Dark Lady. But instead of cementing Miranda''s position as the leading expert in the field, the job nearly destroys it when her professional judgment is called into question. Emotionally estranged from her mother, with a brother immersed in his own troubles, Miranda has no one to turn to...except Ryan Boldari, a seductive art thief whose own agenda forces them into a reluctant alliance. Now it becomes clear that the incident in Maine was not a simple mugging - and that The Dark Lady may possess as many secrets as its beautiful namesake once did. For Miranda, forced to rely on herself - and a partner who offers her both unnerving suspicion and intoxicating passion - the only way home is filled with deception, treachery, and a danger that threatens them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1588'),
(1617, 'Hometown Girl', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Life was always just about perfect for Brooke Madison Bowers. She was the prettiest, most popular girl in small-town St. Dennis, Maryland, a prom queen, local pageant star, and the pride and joy of her loving parents. She even married the man of her dreams. But the promise of happily ever after fell to pieces when her husband was killed while serving in Iraq. Brokenhearted and longing for the solace of better days, she returns to the idyllic world of St. Dennis, and the familiar comfort of the family farm. Surrounded by her loving family and friends, sheâ€™s determined to build a new life, complete with her own cupcake bakery. Sheâ€™s equally determined never to fall in love again.For Jesse Enright, life has been a challenge. A fourth-generation attorney, heâ€™s spent his life fighting to escape the shadow of his irresponsible father. Now heâ€™s moved to St. Dennis to run the family law practice, and heâ€™s ready to find the right girl, get married, and settle down. But his carefully laid plans go out the window when he meets Brooke and finds himself caught between the unbreakable law of attraction and Brookeâ€™s resolve to go her way aloneâ€”despite the undeniable feelings Jesse stirs in her. But just like catching lightning in a bottle, is it possible to fall head-over-heels, heart-and-soul in love all over again?From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2410'),
(1618, 'Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Patricia Cornwell turns from forensics to police procedures in her latest novel,\n  <strong>\n   Hornet''s Nest\n  </strong>\n  . This book is less a thriller than a character study of the main characters: Judy Hammer, chief of police in Charlotte, North Carolina; Hammer''s deputy, Virginia West; and Andy Brazil, a young reporter assigned to ride with the police as they go about their jobs.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The decision to abandon her forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta (Body of Evidence; Cause of Death; etc.) leaves Cornwell lacking more than a fail-safe series heroine. The only credible element in this novel is the urban New South setting. The story-about two women top cops and a young male newspaper reporter in Charlotte, N.C.-is routine fare at best. The three characters-42-year-old Deputy Chief Virginia West; her boss, unhappily married Chief Judy Hammer; and handsome wunderkind journalist and volunteer cop, Andy Brazil-are preternaturally competent automatons, obsessive and utterly devoid of self-awareness. A sequence of serial killings of out-of-towners, men who are pulled from their rental cars, sexually mutilated, marked with orange spray paint and shot, creates tension in Charlotte. While Hammer struggles with city politics and a depressed, obese husband, West contends with Brazil (a "handsome and fierce" 22-year-old with "total photographic recall"), who is on assignment to write about police activity, having impressed his editor by turning in "a hundred of hours'' overtime five months in a row." Rather than reveal her characters through their words and actions, Cornwell forces them on us predigested ("West believed women were great"; "Brazil did not believe prostitution was right."). In that same descriptive mode, she takes them on roller coaster rides of extravagant emotion-rage, grief, resolve, despair-and offers set pieces in place of plot: mid-book, more than 150 pages pass without mention of the murders. We are made privy to the fantasies of West''s cat, but not to the motivations behind the killings. There is nothing to believe in on these pages beyond Charlotte itself. 750,000 first printing; $500,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1391'),
(1619, 'The Horse and His Boy', 'C. S. Lewis &amp; Pauline Baynes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-7-British narrator Alex Jennings does a smashing job with C. S. Lewis'' delightful classic (HarperCollins Children''s, 1994), the third story in the Narnia series. The tale begins with a poor slave boy named Shasta escaping from his adopted fisherman father who plans to sell him to a brutish stranger. A dignified talking war horse named Bree helps Shasta flee. Jennings plays Shasta with refreshing gentleness-listeners get a sense of the boy''s sensitivity and fear as he embarks on the adventure of his life. The talented narrator plays Bree with the right amount of dignity and haughtiness. This horse amuses with his witty observations about human behavior, and sense of equine superiority. The horse and his boy hope to travel north to Narnia, and encounter numerous adventures and strange characters, all beautifully portrayed by Jennings. The most memorable supporting characters are another escaped child, a tough girl named Aravis, and her talking mare called Hwin. Jennings brings these two adventure seekers to life with his crystal clear narration. Thanks to his skills as a storyteller, the action moves rapidly from one exciting episode to the next. Evocative music plays at the beginning and end of each side of the tape. This presentation will enchant young listeners and encourage them to read the other titles in the series. It is helpful for students to have read The Magician''s Nephew and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe before enjoying this, but The Horse and the Boy stands alone as enthralling, self-contained entertainment.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Brian E. Wilson, Evanston Public Library, IL\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is an all-cast dramatization of the third book in Lewis''s "Narnia" series. Those who have read all seven books will be better able to put this performance in context, but the uninitiated will enjoy this adventure tale in which, once again, intrepid children outwit nefarious grown-ups. Shasta is a young boy living in Calormene with a cruel man who claims to be his father. One night he overhears his "father" offering to sell him as a slave, so Shasta makes a break and sets out for the North. He meets Bree, a talking horse who becomes his companion. On their way they encounter Aravis, a high-born girl escaping an arranged marriage, and her talking horse. Despite their differences the children and horses learn to work together to reach the freedom they long for. In the meantime, they uncover a Calormene plot to conquer Narnia. The performances are energetic, and the characters easily distinguishable. This recording should not replace the book but rather should serve as an introduction to it. For family listening.ANann Blaine Hilyard, Lake Villa Dist. Lib., IL\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/906'),
(1620, 'The Host', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Amazon Best of the Month, May 2008: Stephenie Meyer, creator of the phenomenal teen-vamp\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n series, takes paranormal romance into alien territory in her first adult novel. Those wary of sci-fi or teen angst will be pleasantly surprised by this mature and imaginative thriller, propelled by equal parts action and emotion. A species of altruistic parasites has peacefully assumed control of the minds and bodies of most humans, but feisty Melanie Stryder won''t surrender her mind to the alien soul called Wanderer. Overwhelmed by Melanie''s memories of fellow resistor Jared, Wanderer yields to her body''s longing and sets off into the desert to find him. Likely the first love triangle involving just two bodies, it''s unabashedly romantic, and the characters (human and alien) genuinely endearing. Readers intrigued by this familiar-yet-alien world will gleefully note that the story''s end leaves the door open for a sequel--or another series.\n <em>\n  --Mari Malcolm\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this tantalizing SF thriller, planet-hopping parasites are inserting their silvery centipede selves into human brains, curing cancer, eliminating war and turning Earth into paradise. But some people want Earth back, warts and all, especially Melanie Stryder, who refuses to surrender, even after being captured in Chicago and becoming a host for a soul called Wanderer. Melanie uses her surviving brain cells to persuade Wanderer to help search for her loved ones in the Arizona desert. When the pair find Melanie''s brother and her boyfriend in a hidden rebel cell led by her uncle, Wanderer is at first hated. Once the rebels accept Wanderer, whom they dub Wanda, Wanda''s whole perspective on humanity changes. While the straightforward narrative is short on detail about the invasion and its stunning aftermath, it shines with romantic intrigue, especially when a love triangle (or quadrangle?!) develops for Wanda/Melanie.\n <em>\n  10-city author tour. (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/385'),
(1621, 'Hostage', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Crais is the real thing: a writer who keeps topping himself. Last year, after eight popular books featuring private eye Elvis Cole (including\n <em>\n  L.A. Requiem\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Voodoo River\n </em>\n ), he produced\n <em>\n  Demolition Angel\n </em>\n , his first standalone suspense novel. Its complex, multidimensional hero was a damaged cop haunted by her past failures. It worked in that book, and it works even better in this one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jeff Talley, the police chief in a small Southern California town, still has nightmares about the young hostage who died when he made the wrong call in his previous job as a negotiator for an LAPD SWAT team. Now, three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store robbery and killing in Talley''s town. Soon his deputies have surrounded the house where the inept robbers have taken Walter Smith and his two children hostage, and Talley''s back in his worst dream again: until the county sheriff''s full-fledged SWAT team arrives and takes over, he has to negotiate for their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n Crais keeps the point of view moving from Talley to the punks to the hostages as the situation unfolds in the house and on the ground. Then he ratchets up the dramatic tension: there''s something in Walter Smith''s house that a ruthless Mob boss wants, and he''ll sacrifice anyone to get it--which puts Talley''s own family in danger. The action speeds to its climax with the velocity of a heat-seeking missile, which makes it almost criminal to slow down long enough to savor the great writing. Take this passage, from a scene when Talley''s face-to-face with the man who''s holding his own wife and daughter hostage:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Talley ... had stepped into the Zone. It was a place of white noise where emotions reigned and reason was meager. Anger and rage were nonstop tickets; panic was an express. He had been all day coming to this, and here he was: the SWAT guys used to talk about it. You went to the Zone, you lost your edge. You''d lose your career; you''d get yourself killed, or, worse, somebody else.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Crais belongs in that tier of writers whose novelistic gifts transcend the thriller category--writers like Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and James Lee Burke.\n <em>\n  Hostage\n </em>\n is a breakout.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The title of Crais''s fiery third thriller (after L.A. Requiem and Demolition Angel) can refer not just to the two sets of innocents held at gunpoint in the story but to the reader, who will be wired tight to the book. The novel launches with a familiar (as familiar as Demolition Angel) premise: a soul-scarred cop here, former L.A. SWAT hostage negotiator Jeff Talley, now chief of police of smalltown Bristo Bay, Calif. plunges into an assignment that forces him to confront his demons. The devil clawing Talley''s brain is the dying gaze of a young hostage he failed to save in L.A. Now three outlaws two lowlife brothers and a homicidal maniac have, after botching a robbery-homicide, taken refuge in a swank house in Bristo Bay. At their mercy are the family''s dad, whom they''ve knocked unconscious, and his teen daughter and preteen son. The whopper of a complication is that the dad serves as bookkeeper for Sonny Benza, West Coast mob kingpin, and Benza will do whatever''s necessary to retrieve the incriminatory records secreted in the house before the cops storm the place. The narrative ticks with suspense as Talley negotiates with the three outlaws, and as they and the kids they''re holding respond with panic, fear and courage to the escalating tension. It snaps into overdrive as Benza and his goons snatch Talley''s wife and daughter, holding them ransom for the records; the flow is marred only by a couple of cheap turns obviously devised for the silver screen. Thriller vets will have seen a lot of this before, but every virtuoso is allowed variations on a theme, and Crais, with his record and with the smart suspense offered here, has proven himself nothing less. (On-sale date: Aug. 7)Forecast: Crais sells more with each title, and this will prove no exception. A 15-city author tour will enhance his visibility, as will forthcoming film versions of Demolition Angel and of Hostage, which has already been bought for Bruce Willis and MGM; Crais is writing the screenplays for both films.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1341'),
(1622, 'Hot Six', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli join forces to find the madman killer who shot and barbecued the youngest son of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos.Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, is caught on video just minutes before the crime occurs. He''s at the scene, he''s with the victim, and he''s the number-one suspect. Ranger is former special forces turned soldier of fortune. He has a blue-chip stock portfolio and no known address. He moves in mysterious circles. He''s Stephanie''s mentor--the man who taught her everything she knows about fugitive apprehension. And he''s more than her friend.Now he''s the hunted and Stephanie''s the hunter, and it''s time for her to test her skills against the master. But if she does catch him...what then? Can she bring herself to turn him in?Plus there are other things keeping Stephanie awake at night. Her maternal grandmother has set up housekeeping in Stephanie''s apartment, a homicidal maniac has selected Stephanie as his next victim, her love life is in the toilet, she''s adopted a dog with an eating disorder, and she can''t button the top snap on her Levi''s.Experience the world of Plum--in Janet Evanovich''s new thriller. It''s surreal, it''s frenetic, it''s incendiary. Hot Six. It''s the best yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/790'),
(1623, 'The Hot Zone', 'Richard Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims. Its effects are so quick and so gruesome that even biohazard experts are terrified. It is airborne, it is extremely contagious, and it is about to burn through the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Is there any way to stop it? This doomsday scenario confronted a biohazard SWAT team struggling in secret to stop the outbreak of an exotic "hot" virus at an Army research facility outside Washington. "The Hot Zone" tells the dramatic story of their dangerous race against time, along with an alarming account of how previously unknown viruses that have lived undetected in the rain forest for eons are now entering human populations. From the airlocked confines of a biosafety level 4 military lab, to an airliner over Kenya carrying a passenger dissolving into a human virus bomb, to a deserted jungle cave alive with deadly virus, THE HOT ZONE is a non-fiction thriller like no other. "The Andromeda Strain" was fiction--- "this is real!"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/223'),
(1624, 'The Hotel New Hampshire', 'John Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  "The first of my father''s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels."\n  <br />\n  So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they "dream on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany.\n  <br />\n  "Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice."\n  <br />\n  Â—Time\n  <br />\n  "Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book."\n  <br />\n  Â—Los Angeles Times\n  <br />\n  "Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity."\n  <br />\n  Â—Cosmopolitan\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, the Berry family "dreams on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and A Son of the Circus.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1722'),
(1625, 'Hothouse', 'Brian Aldiss &amp; Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a strange future, the few remaining humans are regularly consumed by savage greenery, and their only allies are the giant Termights. Spiders over a mile in length travel to the Moon on interplanetary cobwebs, and the stationary world is now split between perpetual day and unending night. But the elders are facing the end of their time, so leadership is given to a youn girl, Toy. The groups manchild Gren wants to be his own leader, however, and with his maring partner will tear apart the group in his search of a new eden. Summoning up a world of carnivorous trees and giant insects, Hothouse is a landmark novel of the environment in crisis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1907');
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(1626, 'The Hour I First Believed', 'Wally Lamb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Wally Lamb''s two previous novels,\n <em>\n  She''s Come Undone\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  I Know This Much Is True,\n </em>\n struck a chord with readers. They responded to the intensely introspective nature of the books, and to their lively narrative styles and biting humor. One critic called Wally Lamb a "modern-day Dostoyevsky," whose characters struggle not only with their respective pasts, but with a "mocking, sadistic God" in whom they don''t believe but to whom they turn, nevertheless, in times of trouble (\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n ).\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Hour I First Believed,\n </em>\n Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of everyday life. The result is an extraordinary tour de force, at once a meditation on the human condition and an unflinching yet compassionate evocation of character.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n When forty-seven-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Caelum returns home to Three Rivers, Connecticut, to be with his aunt who has just had a stroke. But Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed, as two vengeful students go on a carefully premeditated, murderous rampage. Miraculously she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. Caelum and Maureen flee Colorado and return to an illusion of safety at the Quirk family farm in Three Rivers. But the effects of chaos are not so easily put right, and further tragedy ensues.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n While Maureen fights to regain her sanity, Caelum discovers a cache of old diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings in an upstairs bedroom of his family''s house. The colorful and intriguing story they recount spans five generations of Quirk family ancestors, from the Civil War era to Caelum''s own troubled childhood. Piece by piece, Caelum reconstructs the lives of the women and men whose legacy he bears. Unimaginable secrets emerge; long-buried fear, anger, guilt, and grief rise to the surface.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n As Caelum grapples with unexpected and confounding revelations from the past, he also struggles to fashion a future out of the ashes of tragedy. His personal quest for meaning and faith becomes a mythic journey that is at the same time quintessentially contemporary -- and American.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Hour I First Believed\n </em>\n is a profound and heart-rending work of fiction. Wally Lamb proves himself a virtuoso storyteller, assembling a variety of voices and an ensemble of characters rich enough to evoke all of humanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1196'),
(1627, 'The Hours', 'Michael Cunningham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Hours\n </em>\n is both an homage to Virginia Woolf and very much its own creature. Even as Michael Cunningham brings his literary idol back to life, he intertwines her story with those of two more contemporary women. One gray suburban London morning in 1923, Woolf awakens from a dream that will soon lead to\n <em>\n  Mrs. Dalloway\n </em>\n . In the present, on a beautiful June day in Greenwich Village, 52-year-old Clarissa Vaughan is planning a party for her oldest love, a poet dying of AIDS. And in Los Angeles in 1949, Laura Brown, pregnant and unsettled, does her best to prepare for her husband''s birthday, but can''t seem to stop reading Woolf. These women''s lives are linked both by the 1925 novel and by the few precious moments of possibility each keeps returning to. Clarissa is to eventually realize:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  There''s just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we''ve ever imagined.... Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n As Cunningham moves between the three women, his transitions are seamless. One early chapter ends with Woolf picking up her pen and composing her first sentence, "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." The next begins with Laura rejoicing over that line and the fictional universe she is about to enter. Clarissa''s day, on the other hand, is a mirror of Mrs. Dalloway''s--with, however, an appropriate degree of modern beveling as Cunningham updates and elaborates his source of inspiration. Clarissa knows that her desire to give her friend the perfect party may seem trivial to many. Yet it seems better to her than shutting down in the face of disaster and despair. Like its literary inspiration,\n <em>\n  The Hours\n </em>\n is a hymn to consciousness and the beauties and losses it perceives. It is also a reminder that, as Cunningham again and again makes us realize, art belongs to far more than just "the world of objects."\n <em>\n  --Kerry Fried\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At first blush, the structural and thematic conceits of this novel--three interwoven novellas in varying degrees connected to Virginia Woolf--seem like the stuff of a graduate student''s pipe dream: a great idea in the dorm room that betrays a lack of originality. But as soon as one dips into Cunningham''s prologue, in which Woolf''s suicide is rendered with a precise yet harrowing matter-of-factness ("She hurries from the house, wearing a coat too heavy for the weather. It is 1941. She has left a note for Leonard, and another for Vanessa."), the reader becomes completely entranced. This book more than fulfills the promise of Cunningham''s 1990 debut, A Home at the End of the World, while showing that sweep does not necessarily require the sprawl of his second book, Flesh and Blood. In alternating chapters, the three stories unfold: "Mrs. Woolf," about Virginia''s own struggle to find an opening for Mrs. Dalloway in 1923; "Mrs. Brown," about one Laura Brown''s efforts to escape, somehow, an airless marriage in California in 1949 while, coincidentally, reading Mrs. Dalloway; and "Mrs. Dalloway," which is set in 1990s Greenwich Village and concerns Clarissa Vaughan''s preparations for a party for her gay--and dying--friend, Richard, who has nicknamed her Mrs. Dalloway. Cunningham''s insightful use of the historical record concerning Woolf in her household outside London in the 1920s is matched by his audacious imagining of her inner lifeand his equally impressive plunges into the lives of Laura and Clarissa. The book would have been altogether absorbing had it been linked only thematically. However, Cunningham cleverly manages to pull the stories even more intimately togther in the closing pages. Along the way, rich and beautifully nuanced scenes follow one upon the other: Virginia, tired and weak, irked by the early arrival of headstrong sister Vanessa, her three children and the dead bird they bury in the backyard; Laura''s afternoon escape to an L.A. hotel to read for a few hours; Clarissa''s anguished witnessing of her friend''s suicidal jump down an airshaft, rendered with unforgettable detail. The overall effect of this book is twofold. First, it makes a reader hunger to know all about Woolf, again; readers may be spooked at times, as Woolf''s spirit emerges in unexpected ways, but hers is an abiding presence, more about living than dying. Second, and this is the gargantuan accomplishment of this small book, it makes a reader believe in the possibility and depth of a communality based on great literature, literature that has shown people how to live and what to ask of life. (Nov.) FYI: The Hours was a working title that Woolf for a time gave to Mrs. Dalloway.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1295'),
(1628, 'House of Chains', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Longtime fans may be surprised by the fourth book in Erikson''s masterful fantasy epic that began with\n <em>\n  Gardens of the Moon\n </em>\n (2004), because the long opening section follows a single character, the Teblor warrior Karsa Orlong, and his companions on a gory raid through enemy territory and into the human lowlands of Northern Genabackis. The time-hopping, perspective-shifting, looping story lines typical of this Canadian author return later, as Erikson ties Karsa''s actions to the ultimate showdown between the forces of the Malazan Empire and Sha''ik''s Army of the Apocalypse. Against a backdrop of brutal power struggles, the stubbornly determined Karsa is able to accomplish more than even he could have imagined. Unusual among fantasy writers, Erikson succeeds in making readers empathize equally with all sides involved in his world''s vast, century-spanning conflict. Newcomers will eagerly seek out previous books in the series.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fourth volume of the Malazan Book of the Fallen takes place some years after the death of the famous Seventh Army commander, Coltaine. Now Tavore, adjunct to the empress, is trying to assemble the army''s surviving veterans and a ragtag collection of tribes, wanderers, and recruits into a viable fighting force. Not far away, the seer Sha''ik, Tavore''s sister, is trying to organize a successful rebellion out of equally disparate elements, including warlords, sorcerers, and renegades. Despite a fairly complex array of subplots that support the rather dark tone of the story, it is the duel between the sisters and the abundantly detailed world Erikson has built that really carry the book. Indeed, with the help of the glossary and cast of characters Erikson provides, this book is enjoyable even without previous acquaintance with the Malazan tales. So it will please the already acquainted, and may inspire the unacquainted to read its predecessors,\n <em>\n  Gardens of the Moon\n </em>\n (1999),\n <em>\n  Deadhouse Gates\n </em>\n (2000), and\n <em>\n  Memories of Ice\n </em>\n [BKL Ap 15 02].\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1308'),
(1629, 'The House of Mirth', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn''t and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton''s charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.\n</p>\n<p>\n One of Wharton''s earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily''s problem. She has, we''re told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today''s standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lily''s rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner''s assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it''s hard not to agree with Lily''s own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it''s even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why\n <em>\n  The House of Mirth\n </em>\n remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up.\n <em>\n  --Melanie Rehak\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wharton''s account of the ill-fated life of Lily Bart receives a perfunctory treatment in this audio program. It is New York in the early 20th century; Lily loves Lawrence Selden, but he sees her as a fortune hunter, with tragic consequences. The author excels at delineating the ways money, romance, and social standing intertwine in the society of the time. Included is a lengthy introduction by Wharton biographer R.W.B. Lewis that sets the work in the context of the writer''s life and career. Casual listeners may consider the preface too long and scholarly, and those coming to the novel for the first time may be put off by learning the outcome and by hearing Lewis''s uncertainty about whether it is a masterpiece. Anna Fields handles the narration adequately but strains to create masculine voices and makes most of the women too flighty. As a result, the characters seem more trivial than Wharton intended. Not recommended. Michael Adams, CUNY Graduate Ctr.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/123'),
(1630, 'How to Be Good', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   How to Be Good\n  </em>\n  is a story for our times a humorous but uncompromising look at what it takes, in this day and age, to have the courage of our convictions. In his third novel, Nick Hornby, whom\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  named "the maestro of the male confessional," has reinvented himself as Katie the consummate liberal, urban mom a doctor from North London whose world is being turned on its ear by the outrageous spiritual transformation of her husband, David.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   How to Be Good\n  </em>\n  has the ironic, funny, startlingly accurate take on our modern selves and our modern world that has become Hornby''s turf as a chronicler of our popular culture but this time he tackles it all with more richness and depth, and carries his readers beyond the comic confines of the novel to a bigger truth about themselves. It''s a story about how to wreck your marriage, how to help the homeless, how not to raise your kids, how to find religion . . . and how to be good.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  It'':s a story about how to wreck your marriage, how to help the homeless, how not to raise your kids, how to find religion ... and how to be good.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1696'),
(1631, 'How to Beat Up Anybody: An Instructional and Inspirational Karate Book by the World Champion', 'Judah Friedlander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The most important book in karate history from the greatest martial artist: The World Champion Judah Friedlander.\n</p>\n<p>\n Finally a Karate book that prepares you for real-life dangerous situations! This book includes chapters on how to beat up Bigfoot, how to beat up someone with one arm, how to beat up someone with three arms, and how to beat up someone on a unicycle. Plus how to beat up street gangs, attackers with weapons, ninjas, dinosaurs, and gangs of street ninjas with weapons riding on dinosaurs!\n</p>\n<p>\n This book contains more than 500 photos! And lots of words! All guaranteeing that you''ll learn how to beat up anybody!\n</p>\n<p>\n The World Champion is the greatest athlete in the world, has sex with lots of women, and is a role model to children. For the first time you can now witness his training techniques. Buy this book before he beats you up!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the country''s top comedians, Judah Friedlander stars in NBC''s Emmy Award-winning hit comedy\n <em>\n  30 Rock\n </em>\n and has appeared in more than 30 films. He lives in New York City, where he performs stand-up almost every night.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/690'),
(1632, 'How to Stop Worrying and Start Living', 'Dale Carnegie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1455'),
(1633, 'How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It', 'James Wesley Rawles', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The definitive guide on how to prepare for any crisis--from global financial collapse to a pandemic\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It would only take one unthinkable event to disrupt our way of life. If there is a terrorist attack, a global pandemic, or sharp currency devaluation--you may be forced to fend for yourself in ways you''ve never imagined. Where would you get water? How would you communicate with relatives who live in other states? What would you use for fuel?\n</p>\n<p>\n Survivalist expert James Wesley, Rawles, author of\n <em>\n  Patriots\n </em>\n and editor of SurvivalBlog.com, shares the essential tools and skills you will need for you family to survive, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Water:\n </strong>\n Filtration, transport, storage, and treatment options.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Food Storage:\n </strong>\n How much to store, pack-it-yourself methods, storage space and rotation, countering vermin.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Fuel and Home Power:\n </strong>\n Home heating fuels, fuel storage safety, backup generators.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Garden, Orchard Trees, and Small Livestock:\n </strong>\n Gardening basics, non-hybrid seeds, greenhouses; choosing the right livestock.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Medical Supplies and Training:\n </strong>\n Building a first aid kit, minor surgery, chronic health issues.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Communications:\n </strong>\n Following international news, staying in touch with loved ones.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Home Security:\n </strong>\n Your panic room, self-defense training and tools.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  When to Get Outta Dodge:\n </strong>\n Vehicle selection, kit packing lists, routes and planning.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Investing and Barter:\n </strong>\n Tangibles investing, building your barter stockpile. And much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It\n </em>\n is a must-have for every well-prepared family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1120'),
(1634, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People', 'Dale Carnegie &amp; Arthur R. Pell &amp; Dorothy Carnegie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you''re in...and make it work for\n  <em>\n   you!\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n For over 50 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now this phenomenal book has been revised and updated to help readers achieve their maximum potential in the complex and competitive 90s!\n</p>\n<p>\n Learn:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The six ways to make people like you\n  </em>\n </li>\n <li>\n  The twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking\n </li>\n <li>\n  The nine ways to change people without arousing resentment\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n and much, much more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/948'),
(1635, 'Hugger Mugger', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Chapter 1\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  I was at my desk, in my office, with my feet up on the windowsill, and a yellow pad in my lap, thinking about baseball. It''s what I always think about when I''m not thinking about sex. Susan says that supreme happiness for me would probably involve having sex while watching a ball game. Since she knows this, I''ve never understood why, when we''re at Fenway Park, she remains so prudish.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  My focus this morning was on one of those "100 greatest" lists that the current millennium had spawned. In the absence of a 100 greatest sexual encounters list (where I was sure I would figure prominently), I was vetting the 100 greatest baseball players list and comparing it to my own. Mine was of more narrow compass, being limited to players I''d seen. But even so, the official list needed help. I was penciling in Roy Campanella ahead of Johnny Bench, when my door opened and a man and woman came in. The woman was great to look at, blond, tight figure, nice clothes. The man was wearing aviator sunglasses. He looked like he might have a view on Roy Campanella, but I was pretty sure she wouldn''t. On the other hand, she might have a view on sexual encounters. I could go either way.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Good morning," I said, to let them know there were no hard feelings about them interrupting me.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Spenser?" the man said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s me," I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m Walter Clive," he said. "This is my daughter Penny."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sit down," I said. "I have coffee made."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That would be nice."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  I went to the Mr. Coffee on the filing cabinet and poured us some coffee, took milk and sugar instructions, and passed the coffee around.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  When we were settled in with our coffee, Clive said, "Do you follow horse racing, sir?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "No."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Have you ever heard of a horse named Hugger Mugger?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "No."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He''s still a baby," Clive said, "but there are people who will tell you that he''s going to be the next Secretariat."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ve heard of Secretariat," I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Good."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I was at Claiborne Farms once and actually met Secretariat," I said. "He gave a large lap."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  He smiled a pained smile. Horse people, I have noticed, are not inclined to think of horses in terms of how, or even if, they kiss.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s fine," he said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Penny sat straight in her chair, her hands folded in her lap, her knees together, her ankles together, her feet firmly on the floor. She was wearing white gloves and a set of pearls, and a dark blue dress that didn''t cover her knees. I was glad that it didn''t.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I own Three Fillies Stables. Named after my three daughters. We''re in Lamarr, Georgia."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Racehorses," I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, sir. I don''t breed them, I buy and syndicate."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Penny was wearing shoes that matched her dress. They were conservative heels, but not unfashionable. Her ankles were great.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "In the past month," Clive said, "there has been a series of attacks on our horses."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Attacks?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Someone is shooting them."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Dead?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Some die, some survive."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Do we have a theory?" I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "No, sir. The attacks seem entirely random and without motivation."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Insurance scam?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nothing so crude as shooting the horse," Clive said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  He was tall and athletic and ridiculously handsome. He had a lot of white teeth and a dark tan. His silver hair was thick and smooth. He was wearing a navy blazer with a Three Fillies crest on it, an open white shirt, beige linen trousers, and burgundy loafers with no socks. I approved. I was a no-socks man myself.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Eliminate the competition?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clive smiled indulgently.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Some of the horses who''ve been shot are barn ponies, not even Thoroughbreds-to think you could do anything constructive for your own horse, by eliminating other horses . . . not possible."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Only a dumb city guy would even think of such a thing," I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  He smiled again. It was a smile that said, Of course I''m superior to you, and both of us know it, but I''m a good guy and am not going to hold it against you.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You''re a detective, you have to ask these questions," he said kindly.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  He smiled again. Penny smiled. I smiled back. Weren''t we all just dandy. Penny had big eyes, the color of morning glories. Her eyes were nearly as big as Susan''s, with thick lashes. Her smile was not superior. It was friendly . . . and maybe a little more.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Last week, someone made an attempt on Hugger Mugger," Clive went on.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Unsuccessful?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes. His groom, Billy Rice, was in the stall with him, at night. Hugger had been sort of peckish that day and Billy was worried about him. While he was there someone opened the stall door. Billy shined his flashlight, and saw a rifle barrel poking through the open door. When the light came on, the rifle barrel disappeared and there were running footsteps. By the time Billy peeked out around the door, there was nothing."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Footprints?" I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "No."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Could he describe the gun barrel?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The gun barrel? What''s to describe?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Did it have a magazine under the barrel, like a Winchester? Long stock or not? Front sight? Gun barrels are not all the same."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Oh God," Clive said, "I don''t know."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  I tried not to smile a smile that said, Of course I''m superior to you, and both of us know it, but I''m a good guy and am not going to hold it against you.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Cops?" I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Local police," Clive said. "And I have my own security consultant."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Local police are the Columbia County Sheriff''s Department," Penny said. "The deputy''s name is Becker."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I wish to hire you, sir, to put a stop to this," Clive said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "To prevent the horse from being hurt?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That certainly."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Usually I get only one end of the horse," I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Penny laughed.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clive said, "Excuse me?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Daddy," Penny said, "he''s saying sometimes he gets a client who''s a horse''s ass."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Oh, of course. Guess I''m too worried to have a sense of humor."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sure," I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Well, sir, are you interested or not?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Tell me a little more of how you see this working," I said. "Am I sleeping on a blanket in the horse''s stall, with a knife in my teeth?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  He smiled to show that he really did have a sense of humor even though he was worried.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "No, no," he said. "I have some armed security in place. An agency in Atlanta. I would like you to look at the security and let me know what you think. But, primarily, I want you to find out who is doing this and, ah, arrest them, or shoot them, or whatever is the right thing."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "And what makes you think I''m the man for the job?" I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Penny smiled at me again. She thought my modesty was very becoming.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The horse world is a small one, sir. You were involved in some sort of case over there in Alton a few years back, with Jumper Jack Nelson. I knew of it. I talked with the Alton Police, with someone in the South Carolina State Attorney''s Office. My attorney looked into it. We talked with the FBI in Atlanta. We talked with a man named Hugh Dixon with whom I once did some business. We talked to a Massachusetts State Police captain named Healy, and a Boston police captain named Quirk."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "How the hell did you find Hugh Dixon?" I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I have money, sir. My attorneys are resourceful."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "And I''m the man?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, sir, you are."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fairly expensive," I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What are your fees?" Clive said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  I told him.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That will not be an issue," he said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "And who is the outfit in Atlanta that''s on the job now?" I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Security South."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meant nothing to me.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The on-site supervisor is a man named Delroy. Jon Delroy."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  That meant nothing to me either.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Will Mr. Delroy be pleased to see me?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He''ll cooperate," Clive said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "No," Penny said. "I don''t think he will be pleased to see you."\n  <br />\n  Clive looked at her.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Well, it''s the truth, Daddy. He will be absolutely goddamned livid."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clive smiled. He couldn''t help being condescending, but it was a genuine smile. He liked his daughter.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Penny has been quiet during our interview, Mr. Spenser. But don''t assume that it''s habitual."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Jon will have trouble with you bringing in someone over him," Penny said. "Mr. Spenser may as well know that now."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clive nodded.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He''s not really ''over'' Jon," Clive said. "But Jon may feel a bit compromised. That a problem to you, Mr. Spenser?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "No."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Really?" Penny said. "You think you can work with someone like that?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll win him over," I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "How?"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Northern charm," I said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Isn''t that an oxymoron?" she said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You''re right," I said. "Maybe I''ll just threaten him."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reprinted from Hugger Mugger by Robert B. Parker by permission of Putnam Pub. Group, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. Copyright (c) 2000 by Robert B. Parker. All rights reserved. This excerpt, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1131'),
(1636, 'The Human Stain', 'Philip Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Athena College was snoozing complacently in the Berkshires until Coleman Silk--formerly "Silky Silk," undefeated welterweight pro boxer--strode in and shook the place awake. This faculty dean sacked the deadwood, made lots of hot new hires, including Yale-spawned literary-theory wunderkind Delphine Roux, and pissed off so many people for so many decades that now, in 1998, they''ve all turned on him. Silk''s character assassination is partly owing to what the novel''s narrator, Nathan Zuckerman, calls "the Devil of the Little Place--the gossip, the jealousy, the acrimony, the boredom, the lies."\n </p>\n <p>\n  But shocking, intensely dramatized events precipitate Silk''s crisis. He remarks of two students who never showed up for class, "Do they exist or are they spooks?" They turn out to be black, and lodge a bogus charge of racism exploited by his enemies. Then, at 71, Viagra catapults Silk into "the perpetual state of emergency that is sexual intoxication," and he ignites an affair with an illiterate janitor, Faunia Farley, 34. She''s got a sharp sensibility, "the laugh of a barmaid who keeps a baseball bat at her feet in case of trouble," and a melancholy voluptuousness. "I''m back in the tornado," Silk exults. His campus persecutors burn him for it--and his main betrayer is Delphine Roux.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a short space, it''s tough to convey the gale-force quality of Silk''s rants, or the odd effect of Zuckerman''s narration, alternately retrospective and torrentially in the moment. The flashbacks to Silk''s youth in New Jersey are just as important as his turbulent forced retirement, because it turns out that for his entire adult life, Silk has been covering up the fact that he is a black man. (If this seems implausible, consider that the famous\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  book critic Anatole Broyard did the same thing.) Young Silk rejects both the racism that bars him from Woolworth''s counter and the Negro solidarity of Howard University. "Neither the they of Woolworth''s nor the we of Howard" is for Coleman Silk. "Instead the raw I with all its agility.\n  <em>\n   Self\n  </em>\n  -discovery--\n  <em>\n   that\n  </em>\n  was the punch to the labonz.... Self-knowledge but\n  <em>\n   concealed\n  </em>\n  . What is as powerful as that?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Silk''s contradictions power a great Philip Roth novel, but he''s not the only character who packs a punch. Faunia, brutally abused by her Vietnam vet husband (a sketchy guy who seems to have wandered in from a lesser Russell Banks novel), scarred by the death of her kids, is one of Roth''s best female characters ever. The self-serving Delphine Roux is intriguingly (and convincingly) nutty, and any number of minor characters pop in, mouth off, kick ass, and vanish, leaving a vivid sense of human passion and perversity behind. You might call it a stain.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Roth almost never fails to surprise. After a clunky beginning, in which crusty Nathan Zuckerman is carrying on about the orgy of sanctimoniousness surrounding Clinton''s Monica misadventures, his new novel settles into what would seem to be patented Roth territory. Coleman Silk, at 71 a distinguished professor at a small New England college, has been harried from his position because of what has been perceived as a racist slur. His life is ruined: his wife succumbs under the strain, his friends are forsaking him, and he is reduced to an affair with 34-year-old Faunia Farley, the somber and illiterate janitor at the college. It is at this point that Zuckerman, Roth''s novelist alter ego, gets to know and like Silk and to begin to see something of the personal and sexual liberation wrought in him by the unlikely affair with Faunia. It is also the point at which Faunia''s estranged husband Les Farley, a Vietnam vet disabled by stress, drugs and drink, begins to take an interest in the relationship. So far this is highly intelligent, literate entertainment, with a rising tension. Will Les do something violent? Will Delphine Roux, the young French professor Silk had hired, who has come to hate him, escalate the college''s campaign against him? Yes, but she now wants to make something of his Faunia relationship too. Then, in a dazzling coup, Roth turns all expectations on their heads, and begins to show Silk in a new and astounding light, as someone who has lived a huge lie all his life, making the fuss over his alleged racism even more surreal. The book continues to unfold layer after layer of meaning. There is a tragedy, as foretold, and an exquisitely imagined ending in which Zuckerman himself comes to feel both threatened and a threat. Roth is working here at the peak of his imaginative skills, creating many scenes at once sharply observed and moving: Faunia''s affinity for the self-contained remoteness of crows, Farley''s profane longing for a cessation to the tumult in his head, Zuckerman delightedly dancing with Silk to the big band tunes of their youth. He even brings off virtuoso passages that are superfluous but highly impressive, like his dissection of the French professor''s lonely anguish in the States. This is a fitting capstone to the trilogy that includes American Pastoral and I Married a Communist--a book more balanced and humane than either, and bound, because of its explosive theme, to be widely discussed. 100,000 first printing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/982'),
(1637, 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame', 'Victor Hugo &amp; Isabel Roche', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Hunchback of Notre Dame\n  </em>\n  , by\n  <strong>\n   Victor Hugo\n  </strong>\n  , is part of the\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n   <em>\n    Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n   </em>\n   pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  One of the first great novels of the Romantic era,\n  <strong>\n   Victor Hugo\n  </strong>\n  â€™s\n  <em>\n   The Hunchback of Notre Dame\n  </em>\n  has thrilled generations of readers with its powerfully melodramatic story of Quasimodo, the deformed hunchback who lives in the bell tower of medieval Parisâ€™s most famous cathedral.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Feared and hated by all, Quasimodo is looked after by Dom Claude Frollo, a stern, cold priest who ignores the poor hunchback in the face of his frequent public torture. But someone steps forward to helpâ€”the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, whose single act of kindness fills Quasimodo with love. Can the hunchback save the lovely gypsy from Frolloâ€™s evil plan, or will they all perish in the shadows of Notre Dame?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  An epic tale of beauty and sadness,\n  <em>\n   The Hunchback of Notre Dame\n  </em>\n  portrays the sufferings of humanity with compassion and power.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Isabel Roche\n  </strong>\n  teaches French language and literature at Bennington College. She specializes in the nineteenth-century French novel.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   From Isabel Roche''s Introduction to *The Hunchback of Notre Dame\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the case of Quasimodo, the central duality is that of the opposing poles of the sublime and the grotesque. From the beginning to the end of the novel, his physical incompleteness leaves him hopelessly suspended between the states of man and animal. Quasimodo is defined by his animal-like strength (proven in numerous scenes such as the early, failed abduction of Esmeralda and the assault on the cathedral) and by his animal-like mentality, which is at once a result of his incomplete intellectual faculties and a conditioned response to the (unkind) way he has been treated by those around him, save his "adopted" father, Claude Frollo, to whom he is completely devoted ("Quasimodo loved the archdeacon as no dog, no horse, no elephant, ever loved its master." But unlike the archdeacon, who is rigidly locked into his dual(ing) nature, Quasimodo is transfigured by Esmeralda''s simple gesture of kindness to him during his torture on the pillory. All the difference is there. Indeed, from that moment on, Quasimodo undergoes an awakening, during which his dormant soul comes alive and expands exponentially, as witnessed in the scene in which Quasimodoâ€”proud and gloriousâ€”swoops down from the top of the cathedral to save Esmeralda from being hanged: "For at that instant Quasimodo was truly beautiful. He was beautiful,â€”he, that orphan, that foundling, that outcast; he felt himself to be august and strong; he confronted that society from which he was banished . . . he,â€”the lowliest of creatures, with the strength of God." Quasimodo''s devotion to Esmeralda supplants the cherished role previously held for Frollo, and he subsequently does everything in his power to ensure her safety and happiness. In attempting to repair her relationship with Phoebus, in warding off Frollo''s unwanted visits, and in endeavoring to save Esmeralda from the "attackers," in whom he mistakenly perceives a threat to her safety, Quasimodo risks everything in Esmeralda''s name.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet in the end this transfiguration, this conversion from grotesque to sublimeâ€”unobserved by Esmeralda, so caught up is she in Phoebus''s aura of false brillianceâ€”is of a profoundly personal nature and passes virtually unnoticed. It is the reader who is charged with recognizing its final expression in the account given in the novel''s last chapter of two anonymous skeletons found sometime later in the vault at Montfaucon, locked in an embrace. Without naming them, the description leaves no doubt that one is Esmeralda (identifiable by the remnants of her white gown and the empty bag that once contained her childhood shoe) and the other is Quasimodo (identifiable by the remains of his hideously deformed body), who disappeared from the cathedral the day of Esmeralda''s death. More remarkable than the embrace, however, is that the male skeleton''s neck is intact, leading to the irrefutable conclusion that he came to the cave not already dead, but to die. The self-imposed nature of Quasimodo''s death thus implies that the completion of this conversion must necessarily occur outside the boundaries of the social and historical world of the novel. For the only place where his opposing poles can be truly reconciled is in the cosmic whole; it is in leaving his shell of a body behind (it significantly crumbles into dust when separated from that of Esmeralda) that this awakened soul can take flight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This message that redemption and salvation are possible, but never in the world as it exists now, is the thread that binds all of Hugo''s novels together like a quilt whose squares, when viewed carefully, each reveal the same intricate pattern. Everything that is in\n  <em>\n   The Hunchback of Notre Dame\n  </em>\n  will be retraced, retold, reinvented in Hugo''s four subsequent novels. Quasimodo''s dilemma, his struggle between two opposing poles, will become that of Jean Valjean in\n  <em>\n   Les MisÃ©rables\n  </em>\n  , that of Gilliatt in\n  <em>\n   The Toilers of the Sea\n  </em>\n  , that of Gwynplaineâ€”another "monster" horrific on the outside and pure within-in\n  <em>\n   The Man Who Laughs\n  </em>\n  , and that of Gauvain in\n  <em>\n   Ninety-three\n  </em>\n  . Only through their deaths and a corresponding cosmic expansion or rebirth are Hugo''s fictional heroes able to find acceptance, transcendence, reconciliation of their internal oppositions, and affirmation of their individual moral potential. Time and again, the message of Hugo''s "new" novel is that historical existence as depicted, with its blindness, failures, and shortcomings, is incompatible with, or at the very least less significant than, the realization of this personal and often private promise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In spite of Hugo''s lingering hesitancy surrounding the genreâ€”a thirty-year period of novelistic silence separates the wildly successful\n  <em>\n   Hunchback of Notre Dame\n  </em>\n  from\n  <em>\n   Les MisÃ©rables\n  </em>\n  â€”it is without a doubt the form best suited to the scope and breadth of his all-encompassing vision, one that, to his own mind, was not at all fatalistic. On the contrary, Hugo preferred to view his novels as a "series of affirmations of the soul" (\n  <em>\n   Oeuvres complÃ¨tes\n  </em>\n  , vol. 14, p. 387; translation mine). While contemporary readers and critics did not always agreeâ€”citing\n  <em>\n   The Hunchback of Notre Dame\n  </em>\n  as particularly ambiguous in its meaningâ€”Hugo''s profound and overwhelming belief in both individual and collective man''s potential for progress is perhaps more evident to us today. Indeed, while the inadequacies of each past society that he examines and of the present in which he wrote pervade Hugo''s fiction, his presentation of core, universal truths relative to the human condition show an unwavering faith in the future, in our future, to which his aspirations for the historical and social worlds are deferred.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1217');
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(1638, 'Hundred Days', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this, actor Robert Hardy''s fourth reading from Patrick O''Brian''s celebrated historical novels, series heroes Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in very different circumstances from when we first meet them. In\n <em>\n  Master and Commander\n </em>\n , the first of the series, Aubrey is young and full of himself, and through Hardy''s performance we can practically hear Aubrey''s puffed-out chest. But in\n <em>\n  The Hundred Days\n </em>\n , Aubrey is a commodore, famous throughout the British Empire for his naval exploits, and Hardy reflects the confidence that comes with those accomplishments. Meanwhile, his best friend, surgeon-spy Stephen Maturin, is wasting away as the audiocassette opens, in deep mourning for his recently deceased wife. But soon enough, both are pulled into great adventure again--in this case, Napoleon''s final campaign--and the fate of the Empire rests on their ability to stop the fitting out of a new French fleet and to keep a shipment of gold from reaching a mercenary army. (Running time: three hours, two cassettes)\n <em>\n  --Lou Schuler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Aubrey-Maturin series (The Commodore, etc.) nears the two dozen mark the way it began, with colorful historical background, smooth plotting, marvelous characters and great style. The title refers to Napoleon''s escape from Elba and brief return to power. Capt. Jack Aubrey must stop a Moorish galley, loaded with gold for Napoleon''s mercenaries, from making its delivery. The action takes us into two seas and one ocean and continues nearly nonstop until the climax in the Atlantic. We''re quickly reacquainted with the two heroes: handsome sea dog Jack Aubrey, by now a national hero, and Dr. Stephen Maturin, Basque-Irish ship''s doctor, naturalist, English spy and hopelessly incompetent seaman. Nothing stays the same, alas: Jack has gained weight almost to obesity, and Stephen is desolated by the death of his dashing, beautiful wife?but they''re still the best of friends, each often knowing what the other is thinking. The prose moves between the maritime sublime and the Austenish bon mot ("a man generally disliked is hardly apt to lavish good food and wine on those who despise him, and Ward''s dinners were execrable"). There are some favorite old characters, notably Aubrey''s steward, Preserved Killick: "ill-faced, ill-tempered, meagre, atrabilious, shrewish" and thoroughly amusing. Chief among entertaining newcomers is Dr. Amos Jacob, a Cainite Jew ("they derive their descent from the Kenites, who themselves have Abel''s brother Cain as their common ancestor"), who comes from a family of jewel merchants and has an encyclopedic grasp of Hebrew, Arabic and Turkish languages (and politics). Jacob is as expert as Stephen at spying and even more of a landlubber. O''Brian continues to unroll a splendid Turkish rug of a saga, and if it seems unlikely that the sedentary Stephen would hunt lions in the Atlas mountains (with the Dey of Algiers!), O''Brian brings off even this narrative feat with aplomb.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/299'),
(1639, 'The Hunger Games', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review.\n  <em>\n   Reviewed by\n  </em>\n  Megan Whalen Turner\n  <br />\n  If there really are only seven original plots in the world, it''s odd that boy meets girl is always mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the good guy never is. Yet we have\n  <em>\n   Fahrenheit 451\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Giver\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The House of the Scorpion\n  </em>\n  â€”and now, following a long tradition of Brave New Worlds,\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  . Collins hasn''t tied her future to a specific date, or weighted it down with too much finger wagging. Rather less\n  <em>\n   1984\n  </em>\n  and rather more\n  <em>\n   Death Race 2000\n  </em>\n  , hers is a gripping story set in a postapocalyptic world where a replacement for the United States demands a tribute from each of its territories: two children to be used as gladiators in a televised fight to the death.Katniss, from what was once Appalachia, offers to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she is entirely focused on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the importance of holding on to one''s humanity in such inhuman circumstances. It''s a credit to Collins''s skill at characterization that Katniss, like a new Theseus, is cold, calculating and still likable. She has the attributes to be a winner, where Peeta has the grace to be a good loser.It''s no accident that these games are presented as pop culture. Every generation projects its fear: runaway science, communism, overpopulation, nuclear wars and, now, reality TV. The State of Panemâ€”which needs to keep its tributaries subdued and its citizens complacentâ€”may have created the Games, but mindless television is the real danger, the means by which society pacifies its citizens and punishes those who fail to conform. Will its connection to reality TV, ubiquitous today, date the book? It might, but for now, it makes this the right book at the right time. What happens if we choose entertainment over humanity? In Collins''s world, we''ll be obsessed with grooming, we''ll talk funny, and all our sentences will end with the same rise as questions. When Katniss is sent to stylists to be made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked in front of them, strangely unembarrassed. They''re so unlike people that I''m no more self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet, she thinks. In order not to hate these creatures who are sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It isn''t just the contestants who risk the loss of their humanity. It is all who watch. Katniss struggles to win not only the Games but the inherent contest for audience approval. Because this is the first book in a series, not everything is resolved, and what is left unanswered is the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We know what she has given up to survive, but not whether the price was too high. Readers will wait eagerly to learn more.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Megan Whalen Turner is the author of the Newbery Honor book\n  </em>\n  The Thief\n  <em>\n   and its sequels,\n  </em>\n  The Queen of Attolia\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  The King of Attolia\n  <em>\n   . The next book in the series will be published by Greenwillow in 2010.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up -In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss''s young sister, Prim, is selected as the mining district''s female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son of the town baker who seems to have all the fighting skills of a lump of bread dough, will be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained for this their whole lives. Collins''s characters are completely realistic and sympathetic as they form alliances and friendships in the face of overwhelming odds; the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will definitely resonate with the generation raised on reality shows like ''Survivor'' and ''American Gladiator.'' Book one of a planned trilogy.\n  <em>\n   Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2377'),
(1640, 'The Hunt for Red October', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A deadly serious game of hide-and-seek is on. The CIA''s brilliant young analyst, Jack Ryan, thinks he knows the reason for the sudden Red Fleet operation: the Soviets'' most valuable ship, the Red October, is attempting to defect to the United States.\n</p>\n<p>\n The new ballistic-missile submarine''s defection is high treason on an unprecedented scale and nearly the entire Soviet Atlantic Fleet has been ordered to find and destroy her at all costs. If the U.S. fleet can locate her first and get her safely to port, it will be the intelligence coup of all time.\n</p>\n<p>\n The nerve-wracking hunt goes on for eighteen days as the Red October tries to elude her hunters across 4000 miles of ocean. The rousing climax is one of the most thrilling underwater scenes ever written.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n A race between the Soviet and American fleets to find an errant Russian submarine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/873'),
(1641, 'Hurricanes in Paradise', 'Denise Hildreth-jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Riley Sinclair stepped into her new job as director of guest relations at a posh resort on Paradise Island, she felt the final pieces of her once-broken life coming together. But the waters become choppy when Riley discovers that some who come to the Atlantis Hotel are accompanied by paralyzing secrets and overwhelming fears. Riley and three guests are in desperate but unknowing need of each other, eventually forging unlikely yet powerful friendships. With a hurricane headed straight for the island, together they embark on a journey of laughter, heartache, and healing.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the moment Riley Sinclair stepped onto Paradise Island, Bahamas, and into her new job as director of guest relations at a five-star resort, she felt the pieces of her once-broken life finally coming together. But the waters become choppy when Riley discovers that some who come to the Atlantis hotel arrive with more than just suitcases and suntan lotion in towâ€” theyâ€™re accompanied by their lurking demons, paralyzing secrets, and overwhelming fears.\n  <br />\n  Riley and three women guests are in desperate but unknowing need of each other, eventually forging unlikely yet powerful friendships. With a hurricane headed straight for the island, together they embark on a journey of laughter and lunacy, heartache and healing.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2371'),
(1642, 'Husband', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Koontz (\n <em>\n  Forever Odd\n </em>\n ) is likely to have himself another bestseller in this pulse-pounding thriller with echoes of Hitchcock and Cornell Woolrich. One morning, Southern California gardener Mitchell Rafferty gets a call on his cellphone from a stranger saying that Mitch''s beloved wife, Holly, has been kidnapped and that he has less than three days to come up with $2 million in cash. Of course, he''s warned not to involve the police. While Mitch is still on the phone, the kidnapper proves his seriousness by directing Mitch''s attention to a man walking a dog across the street. A moment later the man is shot dead. Mitch must walk a fine lineâ€”cooperating with the police inquiry into this murder without revealing Holly''s plight. Koontz ratchets up the tension in a manner sure to captivate most readers, though some may find the ending anticlimactic.\n <em>\n  (May 30)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n It''s another boring day in paradise for gardener Mitch Rafferty, planting impatiens on a rich client''s lawn. Then his cell rings. It''s Holly, his wife, and she doesn''t sound good. Someone slaps her, she screams, and a man comes on to tell Mitch that he has 60 hours to raise $2 million to ransom her. Just so Mitch knows they mean business, the man says, see the guy walking a dog across the street? Mitch looks and blam! A bullet to the head kills the dog walker. Let this be a warning, too, that the kidnapper-killers will know if Mitch says word one to the cops about his predicament, and Holly will suffer. Where is a gardener supposed to get $2 million? The sinister caller says he''ll let Mitch know; just be a good machine and follow instructions. Despite his terror, Mitch does until . . . But uh-uh-uh,\n <em>\n  nothing\n </em>\n should be given away about this sinuous nail-biter''s developments. Suffice it to say that Mitch''s intensely warped family, managed according to his rigidly materialistic psychologist-father''s theories; two betrayals, one of Mitch, the other of the kidnappers; a slick child pornography entrepreneur; a humane but persistent police detective; and a New Ager psychopath all help ratchet up the suspense and the violence. But Koontz focuses relentlessly on Mitch and, in chapters scattered judiciously throughout the latter 230 pages, Holly. Not for him the flirtation with evil thinking that an Elmore Leonard does so well or the temptation to sympathize with evildoers that an Alfred Hitchcock offers. And yet Koontz is no less an artist for his championing of the good and his determination to have readers identify with it, as this hair-raising thriller attests.\n <em>\n  Ray Olson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/537'),
(1643, 'Hush Money', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  With\n  <em>\n   Hush Money,\n  </em>\n  Parker adds another classic to the legendary series, with a morally complex tale that pits the burly Boston P. I. and his redoubtable cohort, Hawk, against local intellectual heavyweights.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Robinson Nevins, the son of Hawk''s boyhood mentor is denied tenure at the University, Hawk asks Spenser to investigate. It appears the denial is tied to the suicide of a young gay activist, Prentice Lamont. While intimations of an affair between Lamont and Nevins have long fed the campus rumor mill, no one is willing to talk, and as Spenser digs deeper he is nearly drowned in a multicultural swamp of politics: black, gay, academic, and feminist.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the same time, Spenser''s inamorata. Susan, asks him to come to the aid of an old college friend, K. C. Roth, the victim of a stalker. Spenser solves the problem a bit too effectively, and K. C., unwilling to settle for the normal parameters of the professional-client relationship, becomes smitten with him, going so far as to attempt to lure him from Susan. When Spenser, ever chivalrous, kindly rejects her advances, K. C. turns the tables and begins to stalk him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then the case of Robinson Nevins turns deadly. It is, Spenser discovers, only the tip of the iceberg in a great conspiracy to keep America white, male, and straight. Spenser must call upon his every resource, including friends on both sides of the law, to stay alive.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1130'),
(1644, 'Hyperion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of Time Tombs, where huge brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hopeÂ—and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.\n</p>\n<p>\n A stunning tour-de-force filled with transcedent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable new science fiction epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Hyperion is the tale of seven people who make a pilgrimmage to a terrifying creature called the Shrike in an attempt to save mankind. Stunningly written and beautifully crafted, Simmons''s Hyperion resonates with technical achievement and the excitement and wonder found only in the best SF. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/257'),
(1645, 'I Am America', 'Stephen Colbert &amp; Paul Dinello &amp; Allison Silverman &amp; Richard Dahm', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Realizing that it takes more than thirty minutes a night to fix everything that''s destroying America, Colbert bravely takes on the forces aligned to destroy our countryâ€”whether they be terrorists, environmentalists, or Kashi brand breakfast cereals. His various targets include nature (I''ve never trusted the sea. What''s it hiding under there?), the Hollywood Blacklist (I would have named enough names to fill the Moscow phone book), and atheists (Imagine going through life completely duped into thinking that there''s no invisible, omniscient higher power guiding every action on Earth. It''s just so arbitrary!). Colbert also provides helpful illustrations and charts (Things That Are Trying to Turn Me Gay) [and] a complete transcript of his infamous speech at the 2006 White House Correspondents'' Dinner [...] all of which add up to a book that is sure to be a bestseller and match the success of Colbert''s former\n <em>\n  Daily Show\n </em>\n boss Jon Stewart''s\n <em>\n  America (The Book)\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The funnyman host of Comedy Centralâ€™s The Colbert ReportÂ rants aboutÂ things that are wrong with America, offering hisÂ â€œknee jerk beliefsâ€ on everything from the liberal media to environmentalists.Â If we continue to secularizeÂ Christmas, he screeches,Â former carolers will become wandering, alcoholic bums, and insects will grow into giant, munching minivans. He advocatesÂ legalizingÂ performance-enhancing drugs for athletes, since sports are entertainment. Taking on aÂ blowhardÂ persona, he attacksÂ atheistsâ€”how could a god exist who created a group that so pisses him off? Atheists are more hated than gays, to whom we at least entrust our hair.Â Interspersed with Colbertâ€™s shrill tirades are the voices of other characters,Â notably the moreÂ modulated tones of God, who claims to be fair since he does not intercede in the outcome of sports on which he bets.Â Patriotic drums, a mariachi band, and other music accompanies this hilarious audio. Colbert fans will approve. --Whitney Scott\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/883'),
(1646, 'I Am Legend', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century,\n <em>\n  I Am Legend\n </em>\n regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson''s third novel, it was first marketed as science fiction (for although written in 1954, the story takes place in a future 1976). A terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive have been transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Except, that is, for Robert Neville. He alone appears to be immune to this disease, but the grim irony is that now he is the outsider. He is the legendary monster who must be destroyed because he is different from everyone else. Employing a stark, almost documentary style, Richard Matheson was one of the first writers to convince us that the undead can lurk in a local supermarket freezer as well as a remote Gothic castle. His influence on a generation of bestselling authors--including Stephen King and Dean Koontz--who first read him in their youth is, well, legendary.\n <em>\n  --Stanley Wiater\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Robert Neville has witnessed the end of the world. The world''s population has been obliterated by a vampire virus, though Neville has somehow survived. As he toils to make sense of it all and protect himself against the hounding vampires who seek out his life force, Neville embarks on a series of projects to discover the source of the plague and hopefully put an end to the vampires. In a tale that plays with the slippery slope of sanity, Dean makes the perfect choice for a narrator. His powerful performance proves chilling and haunting. As Neville teeters on the edge of sanity, Dean manipulates his tone, speed, emphasis and projection accordingly, making listeners tremble with his narration. While some might rebuke his narration for being too dramatic or providing too much interpretation, Dean''s intensity adds to the book in a way that benefits listeners over readers. The visceral nature of his performance evokes the image of a foamy-mouthed Dean growling at a microphone with spittle flying.\n <em>\n  A Tor paperback. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/472'),
(1647, 'I Am Ozzy', 'Ozzy Osbourne &amp; Chris Ayres', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "They''ve said some crazy things about me over the years. I mean, okay: ''He bit the head off a bat.'' Yes. ''He bit the head off a dove.'' Yes. But then you hear things like, ''Ozzy went to the show last night, but he wouldn''t perform until he''d killed fifteen puppies . . .'' Now\n <em>\n  me\n </em>\n , kill fifteen puppies? I love puppies. I''ve got eighteen of the f\n <em>\n  king things at home. I''ve killed a few cows in my time, mind you. And the chickens. I shot the chickens in my house that night.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n It haunts me, all this crazy stuff. Every day of my life has been an event. I took lethal combinations of booze and drugs for thirty f\n <strong>\n  king years. I survived a direct hit by a plane, suicidal overdoses, STDs. I''ve been accused of attempted murder. Then I almost died while riding over a bump on a quad bike at f\n </strong>\n king two miles per hour.\n</p>\n<p>\n People ask me how come I''m still alive, and I don''t know what to say. When I was growing up, if you''d have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, which one of us would end up with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and Beverly Hills, I wouldn''t have put money on me, no f\n <em>\n  king way. But here I am: ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A lot of it ain''t gonna be pretty. I''ve done some bad things in my time. I''ve always been drawn to the dark side, me. But I ain''t the\n <em>\n  devil\n </em>\n . I''m just John Osbourne: a working-class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/306'),
(1648, 'I Drink for a Reason', 'David Cross', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cross, a comedian best known for his role on TV''s Arrested Development, is one of the few comedians working today with an easily identifiable comic voice, and his authorial debut ensures that his voice is heard on every page. Mixing bitterness and absurdity, the result is often piercing sarcasm, beginning with the preface (in which Cross imagines life as a famous author) and opener "Don''t Abandon Your Baby"; though he may send up easy targets, Cross consistently hits his mark without sounding like a hack. Though largely irreverent, he often seems genuinely angry (even hurt) when responding to negative reviews or misquotes. Much of the book is devoted to getting even with his detractors, but they aren''t all as good as the Pitchfork.com-skewering "Top Ten CDs to Listen to While Listening to Other CDs"; his response to a blogger who accused him of bigotry is strangely joke-free. Cross reserves his greatest vitriol for fellow entertainers Larry the Cable Guy and Jim Belushi, whom he accuses of, respectively, exploiting and outright disdaining their audiences. Though he admits inviting the charge of elitism with some of his material, Cross avoids condescending to his demographic while knocking out a steady stream of laugh-out-loud quips.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "One of the funniest books I''ve ever skimmed!"\n <br />\n --Paul Rudd\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "David has composed a fascinating list of the most obscure names in Atlanta baseball history, and filled the spaces between with some stuff. I don''t always agree with him, but he always makes me think and smile and, unlike our conversations, in this book I actually can get a word in edgewise."\n <br />\n --Keith Olbermann\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A relentlessly funny insight into what makes David Cross honest and brutal, but above all, hilarious...pant-wettingly brilliant."\n <br />\n --Simon Pegg\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is inappropriate for me to write a ''blurb'' for Mr. David Cross, as he is rightly a legend--utterly fearless, absolutely brilliant, and a longtime inspiration to me. My endorsement would be like the weed endorsing the sun, which is to say: I live in the dirt and require David Cross (plus water) to live. But I can grow right through sidewalks, so that''s something."\n <br />\n --John Hodgman,\n <em>\n  Daily Show\n </em>\n "Resident Expert" and\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Areas Of My Expertise\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A few more books like this one, and we may have to get David to pull a Sen. Al Franken."\n <br />\n --Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book is a literary ''Development'' from David that I found truly ''Arresting''. I ''dev''oured every word and had to take ''a rest'' after reading as I realized this book was ''ment'' [sic] to be a comedy classic. This ''Arresting'' comedian has ''Developed'' into an amazing and insightful writer."\n <br />\n --Mitchell Hurwitz, producer,\n <em>\n  Golden Girls\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "...me again. I''m sorry, but there''s something about David''s wit and hilarious self-revelation that makes me want to jacket-blurb all over this thing. David''s writing in this ''audio-book for the eyes'' is every bit as funny, honest, and observant as the man himself-and, oddly, twice as smart. It''s surprising and funny dot dot dot a triumph! Oh, and David that ''dot dot dot'' shouldn''t be spelled out as words. It''s just meant to imply I said a lot of other stuff too. Oh and obviously what I''m saying right now also isn''t part of the blurb."\n <br />\n --Mitchell "Arrested Development" Hurwitz, co-creator,\n <em>\n  The Ellen Show\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Absurdist naysaying deepened by occasional blurts of actual emotion."\n <br />\n --Sarah Vowell,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Assassination Vacation\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Wordy Shipmates\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "David Cross is the Bruce Banner of our time, and this book is his big green monster. His energy is so intoxicating and uplifting that in some cultures his discarded bodily fluids are sold on the black market as an Irish coffee substitute. This is a great book."\n <br />\n --Maynard Keenan, lead singer of\n <em>\n  Tool\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Perfect Circle\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/824'),
(1649, 'I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell', 'Tucker Max', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way: I share my adventures with the world. â€”from the Introduction Actual reader feedback:\n</p>\n<p>\n "I am completely baffled as to how you can congratulate yourself for being a womanizer and a raging drunk, or think anyone cares about an idiot like you. Do you really think that exploiting the insecurities of others while getting wasted is a legitimate thing to offer?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thank you, thank you, thank youâ€”for sharing with us your wonderful tales of drunken revelry, for teaching me what it means to be a man, for just existing so I know that there is another option; I too can say â€˜screw the systemâ€™ and be myself and have fun. My life truly began when I finished reading your stories. Now, when faced with a quandary about what course of action I should take, I just ask myself, â€˜What Would Tucker Do?â€™â€”and I do it, and I am a better man for it."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I find it truly appalling that there are people in the world like you. You are a disgusting, vile, repulsive, repugnant, foul creature. Because of you, I donâ€™t believe in God anymore. No just God would allow someone like you to exist."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Iâ€™ll stay with God as my lord, but you are my savior. I just finished reading your brilliant stories, and I laughed so hard I almost vomited. I want to bring that kind of joy to people. Youâ€™re an artist of the highest order and a true humanitarian to boot. I''m in both shock and awe at how much I want to be you."\n</p>\n<p>\n "You are the coolest person I can even imagine existing. If you slept with my girlfriend, it''d make me love her more."\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tucker Max received his B.A. from the University of Chicago, where he graduated in 1998. He attended Duke Law School on an academic scholarship, where he graduated with a J.D. in 2001 (despite the fact that he neglected to buy any of his textbooks for his final two years and spent part of one semesterâ€”while still enrolled in classesâ€”living in Cancun). Tucker is purportedly the reason Duke dropped from 7 to 11 in the USN&amp;WR rankings during his tenure. He currently lives in Chicago, and when he isn''t drinking or fornicating, he writes for his website.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1188'),
(1650, 'I Is for Innocent', 'Sue Grafton &amp; Judy Kaye', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grafton here sets the ever-appealing PI Kinsey Milhone on a quieter, more cerebral path. The hardcover was both Literary Guild and Mystery Guild main selections and a nine-week PW bestseller.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n California''s formidable p.i. Kinsey Millhone (\n <code>\n  A'''' Is for Alibi, etc.), fired from her comfortable berth with Fidelity Insurance, now rents office space from busy Santa Teresa lawyer Lonnie Kingman. His usual outside investigator Morley Shine has died of a heart attack, and he hires Kinsey to take over the case that Morley was working on. It involves the upcoming trial of David Barney, acquitted of the six-year-old murder of his wife, Isabelle, but now being sued for wrongful death in civil court by Isabelle''s first husband, Ken Voigt. Voigt, represented by Lonnie Kingman, is sure that Barney killed Isabelle and wants to keep her considerable fortune out of his hands. Lonnie thinks he has a strong case, buoyed by damning new evidence from drifter Curtis McIntyre. But what Kinsey finds as she begins to probe is a surprising number of people with reasons to hate Isabelle--among them Voigt''s second wife, Francesca, and Isabelle''s business mentor Peter Weidmann and his overprotective wife, Yolanda. She also uncovers curious gaps in Morley''s files and begins to question his\n </code>\n heart attack,'''' as Lonnie''s seemingly solid case collapses bit by bit, with her own life on the line in the gritty finale. A sober, resolute Kinsey, romanceless at the moment, and a clever, meaty puzzle--for which the publisher plans a 300,000 first printing. Rack up another winner for Grafton. (Literary Guild Split Dual Selection for July) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/776'),
(1651, 'I Know This Much Is True', 'Wally Lamb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With his stunning debut novel, She''s Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman''s painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you''re the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you''re into both survival of the fittest and being your brother''s keeper--if you''ve promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman''s gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap.Dominick Birdsey''s entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she''d had no control.Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother''s watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother''s gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn''t get it.But Dominick''s talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick''s lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily ''s Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather''s handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico''s fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man''s confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth''s of Domenico''s life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors'' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity''s deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1195'),
(1652, 'I Shall Wear Midnight', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 7 Upâ€“This is the final adventure of the young witch, Tiffany Aching, and her obnoxious, fawning, and yet lovable small blue companions, the Nac Mac Feegles. In many ways it''s a coming-of-age novel, as Tiffany is now on her own. Known as â€œThe Hag O''the Hills,â€ she spends her time tending to the messy, menial, everyday things that no one else will take care of, such as fixing bones or easing the pain of a dying man. But as she tries to serve the people of the Chalk hills, she senses a growing distrust of her, and a loss of respect for witches in general. Along with the Nac Mac Feegles, she has to seek out the source of this growing fear. Tiffany discovers she may have been responsible for waking an evil force when she kissed the winter in Wintersmith (HarperTempest, 2006). The Cunning Man is in need of a host body and is searching for Tiffany. Pratchett combines gut-busting humor and amusing footnotes with a genuine poignancy as Tiffany tries to decide what her future should be. Fans of the author''s â€œDiscworldâ€ (HarperCollins) books will enjoy the connections with the larger series, particularly the inclusion of Granny Weatherwax. Simply put, this fourth and final book in the series is an undisputed triumph.â€“Tim Wadham, St. Louis County Library, MOÎ±(c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pratchett returns to the terra firma of his popular, sprawling Discworld series, the young-reader corner of which centers around teen witch Tiffany Aching. Being a good witch mostly means tending to the localsâ€™ minor aches, pains, and kerfufflesâ€”which she does with as much aplomb as anyone could be expected to musterâ€”but to become a great witch, sheâ€™ll have to contend with the malevolent ghost of an ancient witch-burner. Yet even that might not be as terrifying as trying to keep the peace between the humans and the wee Nac Mac Feegles (whose primary skills are drinking, brawling, having Scottish brogues, brawling a bit more, and stealing every scene theyâ€™re in) and, shudder, getting wrapped up in the wedding of her childhood friend, who is suddenly a very myopic baron. The action never picks up much more momentum than a determined amble, but readers wonâ€™t care a whit because in terms of pure humor per square word, Pratchett may be the cheeriest writer around. Now that Tiffany Achingâ€™s adventures are concluded, readers can explore the nearly three decadeâ€™s worth of other Discworld books. Grades 8-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/198'),
(1653, 'I&#39;d Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts', 'Larry Wilmore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As "Senior Black Correspondent" on cable TV''s The Daily Show, comedian Wilmore provides some of the program''s most hilarious moments while turning its satiric edge on his (largely white, middle-class, left-leaning) employers and audience, as well as his own people-retaining the full measure of his cynicism even in the midst of Obama-mania. In this collection (including essays, fake radio show transcripts, letters and wisecracks), readers get a tour of Wilmore''s smart, sarcastic approach to race, media and the modern American psyche (perhaps most efficiently captured in back-to-back thought pieces, "Black Weathermen Make Me Feel Happy" and "Black Weathermen Make Me Feel Sad"). Part of Wilmore''s appeal is the straight-faced mix of conviction and arch absurdity-more Steve Colbert than Jon Stewart-that''s sometimes lacking without his deadpan, vaguely deprecating delivery. Still, fans will find consistent laughs, even if some of his longer, one-note pieces could have been better balanced with more of his goofy one-liners ("Random Black Thoughts"). Several of Wilmore''s modest proposals, like his ongoing campaign to replace terms like "African-American" and "Black" with "Chocolate" ("everybody loves chocolate!") display a classic satirist''s ability to convince, confound and compel in equal measure.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wilmore, the â€œsenior black correspondentâ€ withÂ The Daily Show who has made a career out of taking jabsÂ at race relations, offers a faux collection of articles, essays, radio transcripts, and letters exploring the more ludicrous angles on race. He begins by taking issue with racism being presented as an abstract concept rather than as a â€œproblem that could use a concrete solution like a backed-up sink.â€ Wilmore suggests â€œrebrandingâ€ racial designation from African American to chocolate and includes several pitch letters to the NAACP. He conducts a post-Katrina radio interview with â€œthe Man,â€ who, it turns out, is very ordinary and not the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful force but something more random and less pernicious, though just as aggravating. Scoffing at the notion of a Black History Month, Wilmore derides 28 days of trivia and would â€œrather we got casinos.â€ With wit and humor, Wilmore skewers the serious and silly aspects of American racial politics. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/134'),
(1654, 'I&#39;ll Walk Alone', 'Mary Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œTeeming with tantalizing twists, Clarkâ€™s crackling tale of identity theft, revenge, and murder, is a tempting and thought-provoking thriller.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œHang on to your hats for this latest page-turner. . . . Scary.â€ â€”Fresh Fiction\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  â€œThe plot rocks along to a surprising but logical conclusion.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Richmond Times-Dispatch\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFans will bite their nails to the quick.â€ â€”Kirkus Reviews\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    THE QUEEN OF SUSPENSE IS BACK!\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   Mary Higgins Clarkâ€™s new novelâ€”the thirtieth and most spine-chilling of her long career as Americaâ€™s most beloved author of suspense fictionâ€” is about the newest and most up-to-date of crimes: identity theft.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Who has not read aboutâ€”or experiencedâ€”with a sinking feeling the fear that someone else out there may be using your credit cards, accessing your bank account, even stealing your identity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   I ll Walk Alone\n  </em>\n  , Alexandra â€œZanâ€ Moreland, a gifted, beautiful interior designer on the threshold of a successful Manhattan career, is terrified to discover that somebody is not only using her credit cards and manipulating her financial accounts to bankrupt her and destroy her reputation, but may also be impersonating her in a scheme that may involve the much more brutal crimes of kidnapping and murder. Zan is already haunted by the disappearance of her own son, Matthew, kidnapped in broad daylight two years ago in Central Parkâ€”a tragedy that has left her torn between hope and despair.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, on what would be Matthewâ€™s fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Zan kidnapping her own child, followed by a chain of events that suggests somebodyâ€”but who? Zan asks herself desperately, and why?â€”has stolen her identity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hounded by the press, under investigation by the police, attacked by both her angry ex-husband and a vindictive business rival, Zan, wracked by fear and pain and sustained only by her belief, which nobody else shares, that Matthew is still alive, sets out to discover who is behind this cruel hoax.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What she does not realize is that with every step she takes toward the truth, she is putting herselfâ€” and those she loves mostâ€”in mortal danger from the person who has ingeniously plotted out her destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Even Zanâ€™s supporters, who include Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner and amateur detective, and Father Aiden Oâ€™Brien, who thinks that Zan may have confessed to him a secret he cannot reveal, believe she may have kidnapped little Matthew. Zan herself begins to doubt her own sanity, until, in the kind of fast-paced explosive ending that is Mary Higgins Clarkâ€™s trademark, the pieces of the puzzle fall into place with an unexpected and shocking revelation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Deeply satisfying,\n  <em>\n   Iâ€™ll Walk Alone\n  </em>\n  is Mary Higgins Clark at the top of her form.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1940');
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(1655, 'I&#39;m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the world of contemporary travel writing, Bill Bryson, the bestselling author of\n <em>\n  A Walk in the Woods\n </em>\n , often emerges as a major contender for King of Crankiness. Granted, he complains well and humorously, but between every line of his travel books you can almost hear the tinny echo: "I wanna go home, I miss my wife."\n</p>\n<p>\n Happily,\n <em>\n  I''m a Stranger Here Myself\n </em>\n unleashes a new Bryson, more contemplative and less likely to toss daggers. After two decades in England, he''s relocated to Hanover, New Hampshire. In this collection (drawn from dispatches for London''s\n <em>\n  Night &amp; Day\n </em>\n magazine), he''s writing from home, in close proximity to wife and family. We find a happy marriage between humor and reflection as he assesses life both in New England and in the contemporary United States. With the telescopic perspective of one who''s stepped out of the American mainstream and come back after 20 years, Bryson aptly holds the mirror up to U.S. culture, capturing its absurdities--such as hotlines for dental floss, the cult of the lawsuit, and strange American injuries such as those sustained from pillows and beds. "In the time it takes you to read this," he writes, "four of my fellow citizens will somehow manage to be wounded by their bedding."\n</p>\n<p>\n The book also reflects the sweet side of small-town USA, with columns about post-office parties, dining at diners, and Thanksgiving--when the only goal is to "get your stomach into the approximate shape of a beach ball" and be grateful. And grateful we are that the previously peripatetic Bryson has returned to the U.S., turning his eye to this land--while living at home and near his wife. Under her benevolent influence, he entertains through thoughtful insights, not sarcastic stabs.\n <em>\n  --Melissa Rossi\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ex-expatriate Bryson, who chronicled one effort at American reentry in his bestselling A Walk in the Woods, collects another: the whimsical columns on America he wrote weekly, while living in New Hampshire in the mid-to-late 1990s, for a British Sunday newspaper. Although he happily describes himself as dazzled by American ease, friendliness and abundance, Bryson has no trouble finding comic targets, among them fast food, computer efficiency and, ironically, American friendliness and putative convenience. As he edges into Dave Barry-style hyperbole, Bryson sometimes strains for yuks, but he''s deft when he compares the two cultures, as in their different treatment of Christmas, pointing out how the British "pack all their festive excesses" into that single holiday. Bryson also nudges into domestic territory with regular references to his own British wife, the resolutely sensible Mrs. B. In a few columns, Bryson adopts a sentimental tone, writing about his family and his new hometown of Hanover. In others, he''s more sober, criticizing anti-immigration activists, environmental depredation and drug laws (though he draws out the humor in these as well). Not all the columns hit their mark, and they are best read in small groupings, but this collection should sell well enough, although not likely to the heights of A Walk in the Woods. Agent, Jed Mattes. Author tour; BDD audio.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/59'),
(1656, 'Icon', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow''s headlines.It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets.For the West, Russia is a basket case. But for Igor Komarov, one-time army sergeant who has risen to leadership of the right-wing UPF party, the chaos is made to order. As he waits in the wings for the presidential election of January 2000, his striking voice rings out over the airwaves offering the roiling masses hope at last--not only for law, order, and prosperity, but for restoring the lost greatness of their land.Who is this man with the golden tongue who is so quickly becoming the promise of a Russia reborn? A document stolen from party headquarters and smuggled to Washington and London sends nightmare chills through those who remember the past, for this Black Manifesto is pure "Mein Kampf" in a country with frightening parallels to the Germany of the Weimar Republic.Officially the West can do nothing, but in secret a group of elder statesmen sends the only person who can expose the truth about Komarov into the heart of the inferno. Jason Monk, ex-CIA and "the best damn agent-runner we ever had, " had sworn he would never return to Moscow, but one name changes his mind. Colonel Anatoli Grishin, the KGB officer who tortured and murdered four of Monk''s agents after they had been betrayed by Aldrich Ames, is now Komarov''s head of security.Monk has a dual mission: to stop Komarov, whatever ittakes, and to prepare the way for an icon worthy of the Russian people. But he has a personal mission as well: to settle the final score with Grishin. To do this he must stay alive--and the forces allied against him are ruthless, the time frighteningly short....Frederick Forsyth is the author of nine bestselling novels: "The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, The Devil''s Alternative, The Fourth Protocol, The Negotiator, The Deceiver, The Fist of God" and " Icon." He lives outside London.The "New York Times" bestseller!"Vintage Forsyth, intricate, exact and gripping." "--The New York Times Book Review" *"A mature mastery of storytelling melded with a deep knowledge of "realpolitik" another strong performance by a writer who knows exactly what he''s about, and who here catalyzes narrative with another memorable protagonist, the stealthy and daring Monk." "--Publishers Weekly" (starred review)"Frederick Forsyth''s latest epichas reverted to the masterly storytelling that has won him so many fans. But instead of going into the past, he has set Icon in the future, and allowed his imagination to rise above the constraints of the facts that he uses to frame every book. The result is one of his best works for a long time, which provides an all-too-real look at a chilling new millennium." "--The Sunday Times, " London"For years, Frederick Forsyth has been known as the man who wrote "The Day of the Jackal, " the yardstick by which all his subsequent books have been measured. "Icon" --dare I say it?--is as good or better. What makes this book so special? Because it could easily happen. All the ingredients for disaster are now inplace, which makes for a terrifyingly real scenario." "--Detroit Free Press" "A tautly written thriller with a big cast of characters that Forsyth juggles with skillForsyth''s storytelling ability makes "Icon" one of the best spy novels in recent years." "--Star Tribune, " Minneapolis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1863'),
(1657, 'The Idiot', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky &amp; Alan Myers &amp; William Leatherbarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A fine new translation that retains the flavor and vigor of the original. The ghost of Dostoevsky must be laughing with pleasure: at least we have his linguistic humor, solecisms and all. In short, a fine new edition."--Clifford Hardie,\n <em>\n  Wilmington College\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Myers translation is\n <em>\n  much\n </em>\n more readable than the Garnett one."--Sr. Anna M. Conklin,\n <em>\n  Spalding University\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Idiot\n </em>\n (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author''s acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate contemporary Europe while sinking under the weight of Western materialism. It is the portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society in which a "positively good man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his moral idealism. Meticulously faithful to the original, this new translation includes explanatory notes and a critical introduction by W.J. Leatherbarrow.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  About the Series:\n </strong>\n For over 100 years\n <strong>\n  Oxford World''s Classics\n </strong>\n has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/861'),
(1658, 'If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor', 'Bruce Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though it offers few revelations about the details of Campbell''s personal life, this entertaining and witty Hollywood memoir combines his life story with how-to guidance on making independent films and becoming a pop culture cult hero. Campbell began working in show business as a teenager, and in high school became friends with future director Sam Raimi, with whom he eventually co-produced the 1982 cult horror hit Evil Dead, in which Campbell starred. Despite his wry, modest sense of humor Campbell recognizes the peculiar place that Evil Dead holds in contemporary culture he sincerely conveys the enormous commitment and work that went into making and marketing the movie. By the time he describes the film''s premiere, Campbell''s sense of triumph is palpable: we share his excitement when the film makes back its money and by 2000 becomes number three on the all-time video charts after Lady and the Tramp and Titanic. When Campbell isn''t starring in new films like Evil Dead II and Moontrap, he is desperately often hilariously looking for investors for his new projects. His subtitle aside, Campbell''s career has gone mainstream: he has appeared in Homicide and Ellen, is a regular on Hercules and Xena, and has started directing as well. (June)Forecast: While a boon to film cultists and to Campbell''s many fans, this book also has enough insights and smarts to appeal to readers with a serious interest in popular culture. A planned author tour and national print advertising will help it capitalize on Campbell''s cult following.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This engaging memoir offers much more than the standard, glamorous "and then I did..." show business autobiography. In an informal and entertaining style, Campbell describes his suburban childhood in 1950s Detroit, his introduction to acting at 13 via a summer stock production of The King and I, his involvement in theatrics and an 8mm movie production in high school, a semester-long foray into higher education, and his adult career as an actor. A large portion of the work is devoted to his friendship and working relationship with director Sam Raimi, who was a high school classmate and whose successful film Evil Dead brought them both to public attention. The book offers insights into the world of independent filmmaking and the life of a "B" actor, but most importantly it succeeds as an evocative memoir that allows the reader to know Campbell. Highly recommended for large public and academic libraries with film collections. Bruce Henson, Georgia Tech Lib., Atlanta\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/930'),
(1659, 'If on a Winters Night', 'Calvino, Italo &amp; Weaver, William', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "[Italo Calvino is] one of the world''s best fabulists."\n <br />\n --John Gardner, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n <br />\n "Calvino is a wizard."\n <br />\n --Mary McCarthy, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS\n <br />\n "[Calvino] manages to charm and entertain the reader in the teeth of a scheme designed to frustrate all reasonable readerly expectations."\n <br />\n --John Updike, THE NEW YORKER\n <br />\n "Calvino is that very rare phenomenon, a true original . . . If on a winter''s night a traveler is breathtakingly complex and self-conscious (there are moments when it quite literally makes one gasp with astonishment) . . . [yet it] is one of the most accessible and enchanting novels written in the last fifty years."\n <br />\n --from the Introduction by Peter Washington\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the most unusual love affairs in literature, If On A Winter?s Night A Traveller is a captivating game of suspense into which we are irresistibly pulled. (1995)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/925'),
(1660, 'The Iliad', 'Homer &amp; Ennis Rees &amp; Bruce M. King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Iliad\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Homer\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The epic song of Ilion (an old name for Troy),\n <em>\n  The\n </em>\n <em>\n  Iliad\n </em>\n recreates a few dramatic weeks near the end of the fabled Trojan War, ending with the funeral of Hector, defender of the doomed city. Through its majestic verses stride the fabled heroes Priam, Hector, Paris, and Aeneas for Troy; Achilles, Ajax, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Patroclus, and Odysseus for the Greeks; and the beautiful Helen, over whom the longstanding war has been waged. Never far from the center of the story are the quarreling gods: Zeus, Poseidon, Apollo, Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Iliad\n </em>\n is the oldest Greek poem and perhaps the best-known epic in Western literature, and has inspired countless works of art throughout its long history. An assemblage of stories and legends shaped into a compelling single narrative,\n <em>\n  The Iliad\n </em>\n was probably recited orally by bards for generations before being written down in the eighth century B.C. A beloved fixture of early Greek culture, the poem found eager new audiences when it was translated into many languages during the Renaissance. Its themes of honor, power, status, heroism, and the whims of the gods have ensured its enduring popularity and immeasurable cultural influence.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bruce M. King\n </strong>\n studied at the University of Chicago, and has taught classics and humanities at Columbia University, Reed College, and the University of Chicago. Recently a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, King focuses on archaic and classical Greek literature and philosophy. He is currently a Blegen Research Fellow at Vassar College.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Bruce M. Kingâ€™s Introduction to *The Iliad\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Iliad\n </em>\n , then, even as it sings the immortality of its heroes, suggests an end to their imagined era and to the political order that is located there. Indeed, one of the great feats of the\n <em>\n  Iliad\n </em>\n is to pose a critiqueâ€”centered upon the withdrawals and speeches of Achillesâ€”of the heroic order and the possibilities that it offers for mortal happiness. From this point of view, the essential work of the\n <em>\n  Iliad\n </em>\n is one of negationâ€”again, the epic is unjust with respect to the old, but potentially beneficent with respect to the future. The old heroic orderâ€”for all its blinding beauties and exaltations, for all its aspirant motion toward the realm of the aestheticâ€”is also revealed as unable to quell strife and its attendant violence, as conducive to no just stability and, finally, as a desolation to its own greatest heroes (as the complaints and career of Achilles will dramatize). To the extent that it thematizes the obsolescence of the old heroic order, the\n <em>\n  Iliad\n </em>\n reveals an orientation toward the future; the poem cannot invent the forms that will govern the future, but it can present to the future a kind of\n <em>\n  tabula rasa\n </em>\n , upon which the poetâ€™s audience might reinscribe new meanings out of the wreckage of the old, upon which the heroes might be reassembled and once again directed toward human ends.\n</p>\n<p>\n If the warrior order is permanently unmade over the course of the\n <em>\n  Iliad\n </em>\n , it is upon the Shield of Achilles (XVIII.540â€“681) that the poet depicts a collective way of life closer to the historical experience and communal ethos of his late eighth- or seventh-century audience. The Shield is forged by Hephaestus, the god of craft, at the request of Thetis, Achillesâ€™ mother. This new and immortal shield replaces Achillesâ€™ prior shield, which he had given to his beloved Patroclus, who lost itâ€”along with his lifeâ€”in combat with Hector, the Trojan prince and defender. In a distillation of pure fury following the death of Patroclus, Achilles has resolved to return to battle to avenge the death of Patroclus, with the full knowledge that his return will necessitate his death at Troy. When the Dawn-goddess delivers the gift of the Shield down from Olympus to Achillesâ€™ camp, his companions, upon seeing the images worked upon the Shield, are struck with fear and avert their gaze (XIX.16â€“18). They cannot look upon the â€œsplendorâ€ of the Shield, for in the depiction of the way of life thereâ€”which is that of the poetâ€™s own audienceâ€”the heroes see their own obsolescence. Achilles, however, gazes long upon the brilliance of the Shield with a combination of adrenal anger and deep pleasure; his eyes gleam back in response, as if themselves afire. The vision that he sees upon the Shieldâ€”of a world without heroes, of a world without the relentless martial strife of the\n <em>\n  Iliad\n </em>\n itselfâ€”is the source of a renewed, visceral anger for Achilles because it is a world whose possibilities are not meant for him. Yet the vision is also a source of pleasure to him because it is of a world that his own great paroxysm of killing rage in the final quarter of the poem will usher in. In his pleasure at the sight of the Shield, Achilles can, as it were, acknowledge his own role in the foundation of the world to come, even if his role is preeminently one of extraordinary negation: Achilles is the hero whose discontent fully lays bare the failures of the heroic order from the point of view of mortal happiness, while his surpassing strength permits him to make that discontent murderously actual, as he devastates much of the heroic order itself in the final books of the poem. His perfection is such that he is both the culmination and the destruction of the traditional form.\n</p>\n<p>\n Among the images upon the Shield, it is the depiction of the wedding procession and, in the passage immediately following, of a communal process of adjudication in a case of murder that are foundational for the city-state (XVIII.554â€“560 and 560â€“574); both images appear on the second ring of the Shield, in the city at peace. In the wedding procession, the â€œhigh-blazingâ€ torches illumine a scene of music and revelry; the sight provokes wonder: The promise of the weddingâ€”which we do not see concluded, but always in motionâ€”is one of social unity, the joining together and mutual strengthening of families withinn the city. In the\n <em>\n  Iliad\n </em>\n itself, such unity is always in pieces, defended in speech even as it is sundered in action. The Achaean cause at Troy is, of course, the recovery of Helen, whose wedding to Menelaus is overturned by her flight, whether compelled or voluntary, to Troy. The martial expedition to Troy presents itself as a defense of the conjugal union and, by extension, of the social work that the wedding accomplishesâ€”primarily, the joining together of families and the establishment of a new social unit that might, in turn, offer guest-friendship to others and to outsiders, thus creating further links of social exchange and comity. And yet, as Achilles complains with great and piercing sarcasm in book IX, the larger social principle epitomized by the defense of Helen and her marriage has been granted no general applicability, but seems to apply only to Agamemnon and Menelaus.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1215'),
(1661, 'Ilium', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Genre-hopping Dan Simmons returns to science fiction with the vast and intricate masterpiece\n <em>\n  Ilium\n </em>\n . Within, Simmons weaves three astounding story lines into one Earth-, Mars-, and Jupiter-shattering cliffhanger that will leave readers aching for the sequel.\n</p>\n<p>\n On Earth, a post-technological group of humans, pampered by servant machines and easy travel via "faxing," begins to question its beginnings. Meanwhile, a team of sentient and Shakespeare-quoting robots from Jupiter''s lunar system embark on a mission to Mars to investigate an increase in dangerous quantum fluctuations. On the Red Planet, they''ll find a race of metahumans living out existence as the pantheon of classic Greek gods. These "gods" have recreated the Trojan War with reconstituted Greeks and Trojans and staffed it with scholars from throughout Earth''s history who observe the events and report on the accuracy of Homer''s\n <em>\n  Iliad\n </em>\n . One of these scholars, Thomas Hockenberry, finds himself tangled in the midst of interplay between the gods and their playthings and sends the war reeling in a direction the blind poet could have never imagined.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simmons creates an exciting and thrilling tale set in the thick of the Trojan War as seen through Hockenberry''s 20th-century eyes. At the same time, Simmons''s robots study Shakespeare and Proust and the origin-seeking Earthlings find themselves caught in a murderous retelling of\n <em>\n  The Tempest\n </em>\n . Reading this highly literate novel does take more than a passing familiarity with at least\n <em>\n  The Iliad\n </em>\n but readers who can dive into these heady waters and swim with the current will be amply rewarded.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hugo and Stoker winner Simmons (Hyperion) makes a spectacular return to large-scale space opera in this elegant monster of a novel. Many centuries in the future, Earth''s small, more or less human population lives an enjoyable, if drone-like existence. Elsewhere, on some alternate Earth, or perhaps it''s the distant past, the battle for Troy is in its ninth year. Oddly, its combatants, Hector, Achilles and the rest, seem to be following a script, speaking their lines exactly as Homer reported them in The Iliad. The Gods, who live on Olympus Mons on the planet Mars, may be post-humans, or aliens, or, well, Gods; it isn''t entirely clear. Thomas Hockenberry, a late-20th-century professor of the classics from De Pauw University in Indiana, has, along with other scholars from his era, apparently been resurrected by the Gods. His job is to take notes on the war and compare its progress to Homer''s tale, noting even the smallest deviations. Meanwhile, the "moravecs," a civilization of diverse, partially organic AIs clustered on the moons of Jupiter, have been disturbed by the quantum activity they''ve registered from the inner solar system and have sent an expedition to Mars to investigate. It will come as no surprise to the author''s fans that the expedition''s members include specialists in Shakespeare and Proust. Beautifully written, chock full of literary references, grand scenery and fascinating characters, this book represents Simmons at his best.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1050'),
(1662, 'The Illustrated Man', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could bear the voiced murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades--from The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 to Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes. The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury --a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind''s destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist''s needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness ... the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere ... the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father''s clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Ray Bradbury''s The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster''s premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world. He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades--from The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 to Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN is classic Bradbury--a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind''s destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist''s needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness...the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere...the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father''s clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Ray Bradbury''s THE ILLUSTRATEDMAN is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster''s premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2355'),
(1663, 'Imajica', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Barker''s most ambitious work to date...rapturously full of emtions." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   L.A. Life\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Exhilarating...[a] masterpiece." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mesmerizing invention." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Spellbinding." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Atlanta Journal\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wonderfully entertaining...Clive Barker is a magician of the first order." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   New York Daily News\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] dazzling metaphysical epic-adventure...An astonishing feat of the imagination...Barker''s best yet." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The magical tale of ill-fated lovers lost among worlds teetering on the edge of destruction, where their passion holds the key to escape.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There has never been a book like\n  <em>\n   Imajica.\n  </em>\n  Transforming every expectation offantasy fiction with its heady mingling of radical sexuality and spiritual anarchy, it has carried its millions of readers into regions of passion and philosophy that few books have even attempted to map. It''s an epic in everyway; vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. A book of erotic mysteries and perverse violence. A book of ancient, mythological landscapes and even more ancient magic.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/98'),
(1664, 'Imitation in Death', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas encounters one of her most difficult cases in this latest offering from J. D. Robb, alter ego of bestselling author Nora Roberts. With the very first victim, Eve realizes that the killer stalking the streets of New York City isn''t a run-of-the-mill serial murderer. The copycat executions are imitating the methods and victim choices of an ominous list of notorious serial killers, beginning with Jack the Ripper. And when the killer leaves a distinctive note at the crime scene, it''s clear that he''s targeting Eve personally--a fact that worries Roarke, Eve''s shrewd husband.\n</p>\n<p>\n Assisted by her aide, Peabody, Eve compiles a list of suspects that includes several high-profile possibilities. Their very prominence, however, complicates the investigation, for they have the power and influence to make the search difficult. All of the suspects are reluctant to cooperate but one of them is playing with Eve like a cat with a mouse by tempting her with crime scene notes and challenging her to find him. Can Eve stop him before he slaughters again? Or will his next victim be Eve herself?\n</p>\n<p>\n Author Robb, a.k.a. Roberts, doesn''t miss a beat in this police procedural thriller. The futuristic setting is rich with imaginative details; the cast of supporting characters offers an intriguing variety, while Eve and Roarke''s relationship is layered with emotional intimacy and spiced with sex. Whether you''re a faithful follower or new to the series, you won''t be disappointed in the edge-of-the-seat suspense in\n <em>\n  Imitation In Death\n </em>\n . Don''t miss this one.\n <em>\n  --Lois Faye Dyer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest entry in Robb''s series of feisty futuristic mysteries (after Portrait in Death) delivers. This time, Lt. Eve Dallas shows up to investigate the grisly killing of a New York City prostitute only to find a note from the killer on the body. Signed "Jack," the note taunts Eve by name and affirms what she has already guessed-that the murder was specifically planned to imitate Jack the Ripper. Purchasers of the costly foreign stationery that the killer used-a crime writer, a top diplomat and a famous musician-become Eve''s suspects. As she investigates them, a second killing occurs, this time in the manner of the Boston Strangler. Aided by her faithful second-in-command, Peabody (who''s nervously awaiting her detective''s exam), and supported by her handsome husband Roarke, Eve scours both the country and the past for clues. The solution to the puzzle is far less intriguing than the copycat-killer premise, and readers might wonder why detection in the year 2059 is so low-tech-where, for example, are DNA and forensic testing? As always, however, Robb''s delightfully snappy dialogue, playful sexuality and whirlwind pacing will keep readers captivated.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1096'),
(1665, 'Immortal in Death', 'J. D. Robb &amp; Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The third, and arguably best, book in Robb''s futuristic In Death series here receives its first unabridged audio treatment (the abridged version was offered in 2001 by Brilliance), and the result is a brisk listen that captures all the suspense of this murder mystery. Ericksen gives tough cop Eve Dallas a hard, no-nonsense tone and nails her fiancÃ© Roarke''s Irish lilt beautifully. She also deftly portrays Eve''s softer side, which comes out when she''s forced to arrest her friend Mavis for the murder of a supermodel named Pandora. Eve knows Mavis couldn''t have killed Pandora, even though she stood in the way of Mavis and her boyfriend, fashion designer Leonardo. But the evidenceâ€”Mavis is found at the scene of the crime, sporting scratch marks from Pandoraâ€”seems unequivocal. In the course of Eve''s investigation, listeners meet a number of intriguing characters, including a designer with a map tattooed onto his skull, a grumpy horticulturist and a slinky, lifelike drone (i.e., android). Although Ericksen''s portrayal of some of these personas can be exaggerated, on the whole, she does an excellent job conveying the primary characters and matching the pace of this taut yarn.\n <em>\n  Based on the Berkley paperback. (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the third novel of her acclaimed "Death" series, Robb (the pseudonym for Nora Roberts) once again sets her 21st-century police detective heroine on the trail of a murderer. Set against the background of the youth-obsessed, drug-using fashion industry, this suspenseful tale sweeps from the glitzy to the seamy with all the flair and panache one has come to expect from Robb. Although the romance is not so prominent here, the sexual tension still simmers. The author of over 100 romances (primarily as Nora Roberts), Robb has written futuristic romantic suspense stories that include Naked in Death (Berkley, 1995). She lives in Keedysville, Maryland.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1082'),
(1666, 'The Imperfectionists', 'Tom Rachman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachmanâ€™s wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep itâ€”and themselvesâ€”afloat.Fifty years and many changes have ensued since the paper was founded by an enigmatic millionaire, and now, amid the stained carpeting and dingy office furniture, the staffâ€™s personal dramas seem far more important than the daily headlines. Kathleen, the imperious editor in chief, is smarting from a betrayal in her open marriage; Arthur, the lazy obituary writer, is transformed by a personal tragedy; Abby, the embattled financial officer, discovers that her job cuts and her love life are intertwined in a most unexpected way. Out in the field, a veteran Paris freelancer goes to desperate lengths for his next byline, while the new Cairo stringer is mercilessly manipulated by an outrageous war correspondent with an outsize ego. And in the shadows is the isolated young publisher who pays more attention to his prized basset hound, Schopenhauer, than to the fate of his familyâ€™s quirky newspaper.As the era of print news gives way to the Internet age and this imperfect crew stumbles toward an uncertain future, the paperâ€™s richÂ history is revealed, including the surprising truth about its founderâ€™s intentions.Spirited, moving, and highly original, The Imperfectionists will establish Tom Rachman as one of our most perceptive, assured literary talents.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/239'),
(1667, 'Imperial Bedrooms', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Donna Tartt is the author of the novels\n  <em>\n   The Secret History\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Little Friend\n  </em>\n  , and is currently at work on a third novel. Read her review of\n  <em>\n   Imperial Bedrooms\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n As Danteâ€™s hell is circular, so is Bret Easton Ellisâ€™s L.A. Everywhere in\n <em>\n  Imperial Bedrooms\n </em>\n there is a sense of time frozen, time collapsed and time rounding back on itself in various diabolical ways. The novel marks a return to the characters of\n <em>\n  Less Than Zero\n </em>\n , twenty-five years on, where itâ€™s still the same old scene, camera flashes and sun-blinded gloss--only this time, thereâ€™s a persistent echo of unease, the sadness of moving in a young world while no longer young in it. Clay, casting teenagers for his eighties period film, ominously named "The Listeners," finds himself eyeing the sixteen-year-old actors dressed in the style of his youth and thinking they are friends of his, though of course they arenâ€™t. His old friend Julian, affable as usual, is rumored to be running a teenage hooker service ("Like old times," as Clay comments acidly), while Rip, he of the trust fund that "might never run out," is in his middle age so disfigured from plastic surgery as to be practically unrecognizable, though he still has the whispery voice of the handsome boy he once was.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the most Chandleresque of Bretâ€™s books, and the most deeply steeped in L.A. noir. No one is trustworthy; everyone is playing everyone else. Moreover, as in all Bretâ€™s novels, fiction collides with reality, and fiction with fiction. Clay is being followed, for reasons he comes to suspect may have to do with the girl heâ€™s fallen for. There are mysterious texts (from a dead boy? the previous tenant of Clayâ€™s apartment?) a message written in red on a bathroom mirror:\n <em>\n  Disappear here\n </em>\n . Running throughout are cocktail-party rumors of vans in the desert, ski masks, chains and mutilations, mass graves, a videotaped execution, though--as will be no surprise to any reader of Bretâ€™s books---the rumors arenâ€™t entirely rumors, in fact, the truth is rather worse than anything one has imagined. But what stays with one is not so much the concluding note of betrayal and horror as the mournfulness of the book, its eerie sense of stasis: clear skies, vacuum-sealed calm, the BlackBerry flashing on the nightstand in the middle of the night, everywhere the subliminal hum of menace, while the surgically-altered Rip brings his lips close to the ear and whispers in a voice so quiet as to almost be swallowed by the surrounding emptiness:\n <em>\n  Descansado\n </em>\n . Relax.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Timothy Greenfield-Sanders)\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Ellis explores what disillusioned youth looks like 25 years later in this brutal sequel to\n <em>\n  Less Than Zero\n </em>\n . Clay, now a screenwriter, returns at Christmas to an L.A. that looks and operates much as it did 25 years ago. Trent is now a producer and married to Clay''s ex, Blair, while Julian runs an escort service and Rip, Clay''s old dealer, has had so much plastic surgery he''s unrecognizable. While casting a script he''s written, Clay falls for a young, untalented actress named Rain Turner, and his obsession and affair with her powers him through an alcoholic haze that swirls with images of death, mysterious text messages, and cars lurking outside his apartment. The story takes on a creepy noirish bentâ€”with Clay as the frightened detective who doesn''t really want to know anythingâ€”as it barrels toward a conclusion that reveals the horror that lies at the center of a tortured soul. Ellis fans will delight in the characters and Ellis''s easy hand in manipulating their fates, and though the novel''s synchronicity with\n <em>\n  Zero\n </em>\n is sublime, this also works as a stellar stand-alone.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/876'),
(1668, 'In a Sunburned Country', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Deliciously funny, fact-filled and adventurous,\n  <em>\n   In a Sunburned Country\n  </em>\n  takes us on a grand tour of Australia. It''s a place where interesting things happen all the time, from a Prime Minister lost â€” yes, lost â€” while swimming at sea, to Japanese cult members who may (entirely unnoticed) have set off an atomic bomb on their 500,000 acre property in the great western desert.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Australia is the only island that is also a continent, and the only continent that is also a country. Its aboriginal people, a remote and mysterious race with a tragic history, have made it their home for millennia. And despite the fact that it is the most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all inhabited continents, it teems with life. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else: sharks, crocodiles, the planet''s ten most deadly poisonous snakes, fluffy yet toxic caterpillars, sea shells that actually attack you, and the unbelievable box jellyfish (don''t ask). The dangerous riptides of the sea and the sun-baked wastes of the outback both lie in wait for the unwary.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Australia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide.\n  <em>\n   In a Sunburned Country\n  </em>\n  offers the best of all possible introductions to what may well be the best of all possible nations. Even with those jellyfish.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1474'),
(1669, 'In Cold Blood', 'Truman Capote', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansa. In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and deaths of these six people. It has already been hailed as a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1360'),
(1670, 'In Defense of Food: An Eater&#39;s Manifesto', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008\n </strong>\n : Food is the one thing that Americans hate to love and, as it turns out, love to hate. What we want to eat has been ousted by the notion of what we\n <em>\n  should\n </em>\n eat, and it''s at this nexus of hunger and hang-up that Michael Pollan poses his most salient question: where is the food in our food? What follows in\n <em>\n  In Defense of Food\n </em>\n is a series of wonderfully clear and thoughtful answers that help us omnivores navigate the nutritional minefield that''s come to typify our food culture. Many processed foods vie for a spot in our grocery baskets, claiming to lower cholesterol, weight, glucose levels, you name it. Yet Pollan shows that these convenient "healthy" alternatives to whole foods are appallingly inconvenient: our health has a nation has only deteriorated since we started exiling carbs, fats--even fruits--from our daily meals. His razor-sharp analysis of the American diet (as well as its architects and its detractors) offers an inspiring glimpse of what it would be like if we could (a la Humpty Dumpty) put our food back together again and reconsider what it means to eat well. In a season filled with rallying cries to lose weight and be healthy, Pollan''s call to actionâ€”"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."--is a program I actually want to follow.\n <em>\n  --Anne Bartholomew\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Pollan provides another shocking yet essential treatise on the industrialized Western diet and its detrimental effects on our bodies and culture. Here he lays siege to the food industry and scientists'' attempts to reduce food and the cultural practices of eating into bite-size concepts known as nutrients, and contemplates the follies of doing so. As an increasing number of Americans are overfed and undernourished, Pollan makes a strong argument for serious reconsideration of our eating habits and casts a suspicious eye on the food industry and its more pernicious and misleading practices. Listeners will undoubtedly find themselves reconsidering their own eating habits. Scott Brick, who narrated Pollan''s\n <em>\n  The Omnivore''s Dilemma\n </em>\n , carries forward the same tone and consistency, thus creating a narrative continuity between the two books. Brick renders the text with an expert''s skill, delivering well-timed pauses and accurate emphasis. He executes Pollan''s asides and sarcasm with an uncanny ability that makes listening infinitely better than reading. So compelling is his tone, listeners may have trouble discerning whether Brick''s conviction or talent drives his powerful performance.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1122');
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(1671, 'In Fifty Years We&#39;ll All Be Chicks: And Other Complaints From an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy', 'Adam Carolla', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Seth MacFarlane\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Seth MacFarlane is best known for creating the animated sitcoms\n <em>\n  Family Guy\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  American Dad!\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Cleveland Show\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Reading\n <em>\n  In Fifty Years Weâ€™ll All Be Chicks\n </em>\n opened my eyes to three things: 1) Adam is a top-notch complainer, probably the best in the world, 2) America is in serious trouble, and 3) Adam is hilarious.\n</p>\n<p>\n Adam uses this book to break down our societal shortcomings using the combination of logic and humor that heâ€™s perfected. He made me glad that I never leave the house. Going out entails interacting with the general public, and the general public is dumb (no offense to those of you in the general public). And when I say dumb, I donâ€™t mean the innocent kind of dumb like a dog that thinks his reflection is another dog. I mean the dangerous kind of dumb, like Lennie in\n <em>\n  Of Mice and Men\n </em>\n â€”good-natured, mentally limited, and tremendously powerful. You leave your house one morning to get groceries, and you end up getting your neck accidentally broken by the guy giving you directions out of the parking lot.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  In Fifty Years Weâ€™ll All Be Chicks\n </em>\n is less of a book, and more of a guide for how to be a better man and/or woman (mostly man). Buy this book. Donâ€™t buy it because I told you to; buy it because itâ€™s funny. Buy it if you think Phillips Head is an alt rock band or if you wear V-neck T-shirts. Definitely buy it if you call appetizers â€œtapasâ€ or if â€œLOLâ€ is anywhere in your vocabulary. Buy this book and study it.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Carolla...has keen political instincts and a vision for common sense."\n <br />\n <em>\n  *--New York Post\n  <br />\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n "Laugh-out-loud funnyâ€¦ [Adam Carollaâ€™s] invective-filled screed is often completely politically incorrect, and always completely hilarious."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“AOL''s Popeater.com\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "If comedy books wereÂ big-breasted porn stars,\n <em>\n  In Fifty Years We''ll All Be Chicks\n </em>\n would be Christy Canyon."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  --Bill Simmons, ESPN columnist and bestselling author of *The Book of Basketball\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Adam Carolla is a genius. And no, I''m not kidding."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  --Jimmy Kimmel\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Reading Adam Carolla is akin to having a horrible illness. Alone with your thoughts, you struggle with whether you want to even go on living. When you''re done, you''re a stronger, better person."\n <br />\n <em>\n  --Alec Baldwin\n  <br />\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "If youâ€™re a man, read this book.Â  If youâ€™re a man who wearsÂ turtlenecks, wise up.Â  Nobody thinks that looks good."\n  <br />\n </strong>\n --Seth MacFarlane\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œI donâ€™t know this guy from Adam, but Carollaâ€™s humorâ€”fearlessly crass, shamelessly honest and irresistibly funnyâ€”sucks out like liposuction the Â layers of fatty pride to expose the often warped and wounded psyche buried deep within the modern American male.â€\n  <br />\n </strong>\n --Ken Burns\n <em>\n  <br />\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/949'),
(1672, 'In Her Shoes', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Feller sisters are equal but opposite. Maggie is the good-looking, dyslexic little sister who knows how to get anything she wants--but not how to keep it. She "felt as if somewhere between the ages of fourteen and sixteen she''d walked off the edge of a cliff and had been falling ever since." Rose is the plump, practical, responsible older sister who knows about law but not much about her own happiness: "What did she like, besides shoes, and Jim, and foods that were bad for her?" When Maggie''s latest eviction lands her in Rose''s apartment, and Maggie insults Rose by seducing one of her sister''s rare boyfriends, what follows is a chain of events by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Embarrassed Rose evicts Maggie and begins a work sabbatical leading to a new livelihood and way of living. Maggie flees and runs away to Princeton. Masquerading as a student, she learns to love poetry and saves money for a trip to Miami--and a visit to a long-lost grandmother named Ella who might offer her a last shot at sanctuary. But\n <em>\n  In Her Shoes\n </em>\n , the second novel from\n <em>\n  Good in Bed\n </em>\n author Jennifer Weiner, is about more than the sisters'' latest sibling rivalry; Maggie and Rose must sort out the childhood vulnerabilities and family mysteries that still linger two decades after their mother''s death. In less capable hands, the plot might grow corny, but Weiner''s humor and affection for the characters ultimately helps them transcend both neuroses and grief and learn the redemptive power of love.\n <em>\n  --Jane Hodges\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Weiner, whose debut novel Good in Bed was an instant bestseller, is back with another exuberantly confident offering. Twenty-eight-year-old Maggie Fuller relies on her looks and size zero body to flirt her way through life while working dozens of dead-end jobs and dreaming of stardom. At the other end of the spectrum is her older, larger sister, Rose, who relies on her intelligence and is an accomplished attorney at a large Philadelphia firm. The only things that these two seem to have in common is their shared history, a loathing for their "stepmonster," Sydelle, size six feet and a passion for luxurious shoes. When Maggie is evicted from her apartment and loses yet another job, Rose takes her in and tries to endure her closet raids and endless insults. But her patience abruptly ends when Maggie crosses a line so sacred that Rose kicks Maggie out and all but terminates their relationship ("Her sister was like a fucking Weebel, [Rose] thought. She''d wobble, she''d screw up, she''d steal your shoes... but she''d absolutely never fall down"). The sisters go on with their lives and Maggie discovers that she has a brain and a will to learn, while Rose learns to loosen up a bit and finds that there is more to life than work. The two sisters also get to know their maternal grandmother, Ella Hirsch, who they haven''t seen since their mother''s funeral more than 20 years ago. With Ella''s love and support, Maggie reaches out to Rose and the two begin to repair their relationship. In the end, these three remarkable women learn that they are stronger than they thought they were, that family ties are worth preserving, and that there are perks to sharing the same shoe size. Weiner, a marvelously natural storyteller, blends humor and heartbreak to create an irresistible novel.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1024'),
(1673, 'In the Woods', 'Tana French', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irish author French expertly walks the line between police procedural and psychological thriller in her debut. When Katy Devlin, a 12-year-old girl from Knocknaree, a Dublin suburb, is found murdered at a local archeological dig, Det. Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, must probe deep into the victim''s troubled family history. There are chilling similarities between the Devlin murder and the disappearance 20 years before of two children from the same neighborhood who were Ryan''s best friends. Only Maddox knows Ryan was involved in the 1984 case. The plot climaxes with a taut interrogation by Maddox of a potential suspect, and the reader is floored by the eventual identity and motives of the killer. A distracting political subplot involves a pending motorway in Knocknaree, but Ryan and Maddox are empathetic and flawed heroes, whose partnership and friendship elevate the narrative beyond a gory tale of murdered children and repressed childhood trauma.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, land the first big murder case of their police careers: a 12-year-old girl has been murdered in the woods adjacent to a Dublin suburb. Twenty years before, two children disappeared in the same woods, and Ryan was found clinging to a tree trunk, his sneakers filled with blood, unable to tell police anything about what happened to his friends. Ryan, although scarred by his experience, employs all his skills in the search for the killer and in hopes that the investigation will also reveal what happened to his childhood friends.\n <em>\n  In the Woods\n </em>\n is a superior novel about cops, murder, memory, relationships, and modern Ireland. The characters of Ryan and Maddox, as well as a handful of others, are vividly developed in this intelligent and beautifully written first novel, and author French relentlessly builds the psychological pressure on Ryan as the investigation lurches onward under the glare of the tabloid media. Equally striking is the picture of contemporary Ireland, booming economically and fixated on the shabbiest aspects of American popular culture. An outstanding debut and a series to watch for procedural fans.\n <em>\n  Thomas Gaughan\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/687'),
(1674, 'Inca Gold', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A chance rescue of two divers trapped in a Peruvian sinkhole leads series hero Dirk Pitt ( Raise the Titanic! ; Deep Six ) into a search for lost treasure that involves grave robbers, art thieves and ancient curses. Cussler''s latest adventure novel features terrorists who aren '' t really terrorists and a respected archeologist who is not what he seems; it all boils down to a race between Pitt and some unscrupulous crooks for a cache of Inca gold hidden away from the Spanish and lost since the 16th century. The villains, a society of art and antiquity smugglers called the Solpemachaco , want to get their hands on the Golden Body Suit of Tiapollo, which contains in its hieroglyphics a description of the Inca treasure''s hidden burial place. Pitt ends up searching for a jade box containing a quipu , an Inca silver-and-gold metalwork map to the treasure. The box was stolen from the Indians by the Spanish, stolen from the Spanish by Francis Drake and then lost in the South American jungle, but readers who know Pitt know that that a 400-year-old missing clue is only a minor obstacle. Master storyteller Cussler keeps the action spinning as he weaves a number of incredible plotlines and coincidences into a believable and gripping story. It''s pure escapist adventure, with a wry touch of humor and a certain self-referential glee (Cussler himself makes a cameo appearance), but the entertainment value meets the gold standard. 550,000 first printing; Literary Guild super release and Doubleday Book Club super release.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dirk Pitt is back in fine form as he rescues two archaeologists from certain death in a Peruvian sinkhole. Before Pitt climbs out of the hole he runs afoul of the Solpemachace, a group of three brothers who steal and sell Indian artifacts. Pitt finds a rope sculpture, a quipu, that points the way to a huge Inca treasure. Meanwhile, the Solpemachace steal the Golden Body Suit of Tiapollo, which leads them to the same treasure inside a mountain in Baja, Mexico. As both sides race to the treasure, the Solpemachace capture Pitt''s girlfriend, Congresswoman Loren Smith. With his lifelong, wisecracking friend, Al Giordino, Pitt braves an uncharted underground river to rescue Loren and stop the Solpemachace. Cussler weaves Inca legends and lore in a spellbinding tale featuring enduring hero Pitt, a skin-diving Indiana Jones with a James Bond attitude. Cussler fans will demand this one. For all fiction collections.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1298'),
(1675, 'Incubus Dreams', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As\n <em>\n  Incubus Dreams\n </em>\n opens, Anita Blake may be America''s most powerful vampire hunter and necromancer. So it''s no surprise that the Regional Preternatural Crime Investigation Team seeks her assistance when a St. Louis stripper is murdered and the evidence points to unusual serial killers: a group of seven vampires. It appears a master vampire has gone rogue--and may prove too powerful for Anita Blake, even if she can gain help from not only her vampire consort, Master of the City Jean-Claude, but from the wereleopard king Micah, her other lover, and the alpha werewolf Richard, her bitter ex-lover.\n</p>\n<p>\n It would be an exaggeration to say that Laurell K. Hamilton''s\n <em>\n  Incubus Dreams\n </em>\n is just one sex scene after another. This twelth novel in her bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series presents a wedding, a murder, and a lot of relationship angst before getting down and dirty on page 89; and the sex scenes pause on page 377 to let the mystery plot resume. The series deftly blends elements of alternate history, horror, romance, erotica, and mystery, but anyone reading\n <em>\n  Incubus Dreams\n </em>\n for the murder plot is going to be frustrated. However,\n <em>\n  Incubus Dreams\n </em>\n is a considerably stronger and more interesting book than its talky predecessor,\n <em>\n  Cerulean Sins\n </em>\n , and fans will enjoy the many new developments in Anita''s complicated love life.\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Interview with the Vampire Writer\n </strong>\n <br />\n With two bestselling series featuring supernatural heroines under her belt, one has to wonder if Laurell K. Hamilton is truly in touch with a world beyond ours. Hamilton spoke with Amazon.com about her work, her characters, and her plans for the future.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of bestseller Hamilton''s vampire hunter Anita Blake will be thrilled with at least one aspect of this transitional 12th installment (after 2003''s\n <em>\n  Cerulean Sins\n </em>\n ): Anita finally resolves her relationships with werewolf ex-boyfriend Richard Zeeman and vampire boyfriend Jean-Claude. They''ll also be pleased to see Anita finally get comfortable with her own behavior, despite crossing many linesâ€”sexual, psychological, professional, paranormalâ€”that she previously thought uncrossable. In her role as vampire-executioner and preternatural-crime investigator, Anita pursues a band of serial-killing vampires who prey on female strippers, but much of the novel focuses on her responsibilities as a leader in St. Louis''s vampiric-lycanthropic community. Those obligations are often intertwined with sex, the basic tool of her ever-growing magical powers. The\n <em>\n  ardeur\n </em>\n that compels her to have sex in order to fuel her two "power triumvirates" must now be fed with increasing frequency. Old foes threaten as new enemies emerge. There''s plenty of life (and undeath) left in this series, and Hamilton''s imagination is apparently as inexhaustible as her heroine''s supernatural capacity for coupling.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/580'),
(1676, 'Indigo Slam', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Life in the California sun suits Elvis Coleâ€”until the day a fifteen-year-old girl and her two younger siblings walk into his office. Then everything changes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three years ago, a Seattle family ran for their lives in a hail of bullets. Hired by three kids to find their missing father, Elvis now must pick up the cold pieces of a drama that began that night. What he finds is a sordid tale of high crimes and illicit drugs. As clues to a manâ€™s secret life emerge from the shadows, Elvis knows heâ€™s not just up against ruthless mobsters and some very angry Feds. Heâ€™s facing a storm of desperation and conspiracyâ€”bearing down on three children whose only crime was their survival. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1335'),
(1677, 'Indiscretions of Archie', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Purchase one of 1st World Library''s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It wasn''t Archie''s fault really. Its true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry her--well, what else was there to do? From his point of view, the whole thing was a thoroughly good egg; but Mr. Brewster, his father-in-law, thought differently, Archie had neither money nor occupation, which was distasteful in the eyes of the industrious Mr. Brewster; but the real bar was the fact that he had once adversely criticised one of his hotels. Archie does his best to heal the breach; but, being something of an ass, genus priceless, he finds it almost beyond his powers to placate "the man-eating fish" whom Providence has given him as a father-in-law\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1622'),
(1678, 'Indulgence in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lt. Eve Dallas of the New York Police and Security Department returns home from a long overdue Irish vacation to a string of bizarre murders in Robb''s thrilling 32nd future cop novel (after Fantasy in Death). The crossbow killing of chauffeur Jamal Houston in his limo in a La Guardia parking lot is followed by the death of high-rent prostitute Ava Crampton, found at Coney Island''s House of Horrors stabbed with a bayonet. Other victims include Luc Delaflote, a celebrity chef who''s harpooned, and Adrianne Jonas, "a facilitator for the rich" strangled with a handmade bullwhip. Eve, assisted by her trustworthy sidekicks, Det. Delia Peabody and husband Roarke, uncovers a wicked game that grows increasingly macabre. Robb (the pseudonym of Nora Roberts) keeps the reader squirming as Eve and company try to avoid dying in weird ways themselves. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n NYPD lieutenant Eve Dallas might have been on holiday, but as she knows all too well, murder never takes a vacation. No sooner does Eve return from Ireland with her husband, Roarke, than she is back on the job looking into the death of a limousine driver who has been shot with a crossbow. The very next day, a high-priced licensed companion is stabbed to death in an amusement park horror house. The only connection between the two killings is the choice of weapons: the second involved an antique bayonet. As Eve and her team scramble to find more clues, Eve begins to think she is on the track of a thrill killer. When it comes to finding a killer, the smart money is always on Eve Dallas. The latest addictive addition to Robbâ€™s long-running series features spiky humor; a cleverly constructed, adrenaline-raising plot; and the requisite amount of sexy passion between Eve and her soulmate, Roarke. --John Charles\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1110'),
(1679, 'Infected: A Novel', 'Scott Sigler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In Sigler''s riveting horror thriller, alien seeds from outer space infect a number of unlucky humans, who develop some unusual symptomsâ€”itchy, blue triangular growths on their skinâ€”that eventually result in the carriers becoming screaming, homicidal maniacs. CIA agent Dew Phillips must find out why these formerly docile citizens are running amok, aided by Margaret Montoya, a Centers for Disease Control epidemiologist, who reported the first of the strange cases. One of the infected, former football player Perry Dawsey, doesn''t take any crap from anybody, not even the aliens residing in his body. Sigler (\n <em>\n  Ancestor\n </em>\n ) leads the reader from one startling detail to the nextâ€”the creatures learn to speak (feed us we hungry); they grow little black eyesâ€”until even hardened genre fans will find themselves whimpering at each new revelation. This terrifying page-turner could be the author''s breakout book, fueled by an extensive online podcast campaign.\n <em>\n  5-city author tour. (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Part Stephen King, part Chuck Palahniuk,\n <em>\n  Infected\n </em>\n blends science fiction and horror into a pulpy masterpiece of action, terror, and suspense. Â Three recommendations: don''t read it at night, or just after you''ve eaten a full meal, or if you''re weak of heart.Â Â You''ve been warned!"\n <br />\n â€”James Rollins,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Judas Strain\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Black Order\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPowerfully written . . . an unforgettable central character.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Dallas Morning News\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSigler is masterful at grabbing the reader by the throat and refusing to let go. Just when I thought I knew what abyss he was leading me across, he knocked the bridge out from under... I think I screamed the whole way down...\n <em>\n  Infected\n </em>\n is a marvel of gonzo, in-your-face, up-to-the-minute terror.â€\n <br />\n â€”Lincoln Child,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Deep Storm\n </em>\n and *Death Match\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œFraught with tension . . .\n </em>\n Invasion of the Body Snatchers\n <em>\n  meets\n </em>\n The Hot Zone\n <em>\n  .â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n </em>\n Rocky Mountain News*\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSigler is the Richard Matheson of the 21st Centuryâ€¦smart and creepy,\n <em>\n  Infected\n </em>\n is a flawless thinking-personâ€™s thriller.\n <strong>\n </strong>\n Bravo to a bold new talent!â€\n <br />\n â€”Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Bad Moon Rising\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Ghost Road Blues\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œRiveting . . . even hardened genre fans will find themselves whimpering at each new revelation.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n (starred review)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Horror mavens rejoice!\n <em>\n  Infected\n </em>\n is a revelation -- a novel that lives up to its hype. From page one, the story of a mysterious smart-virus that turns its hosts into deadly drooling drones creeps up on a reader like the ratchet of a roller coaster climbing toward its inevitable crest. Sigler brings the folksy character detail of Stephen King, the conceptual panache of Clive Barker, and the oozing, shuddery pathologies of a David Cronenberg movie.\n <strong>\n </strong>\n Zombies, spies, conspiracies, and gallons of goo make this the fastest read in the west! Highest recommendation!"\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n Jay Bonansinga, national bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Shattered, Twisted, Frozen\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Sinking of the Eastland\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sigler has a unique talent for keeping readers on the edge of their seats; I absolutely had to know what was going to happen next. Infected is full of mayhem, action, and gore--and you wonâ€™t be able to put it down."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n Dave Wellington, author of\n <em>\n  13 Bullets\n </em>\n and the\n <em>\n  Monster Island\n </em>\n trilogy\n <em>\n  <br />\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "Scott Sigler''s\n  <em>\n   Infected\n  </em>\n  isÂ a bucking pulp pony that throws you this way and that, and just when you think you''ve got your balance, that ole pony bucks the other way.\n </strong>\n <em>\n  All in all, one hell of an exhilarating ride, and highly recommended."\n  <br />\n  â€”Joe R. Lansdale, World Horror Convention Grand Master and six-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of\n </em>\n <em>\n  Bubba Ho-Tep\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Lost Echoes\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  Infected\n </em>\n is as unnerving as a scream in a morgueâ€¦a breakout novel that gets under your skin. If the voice in your head is Sigler''s, you''re locked in for a very scary night."\n <br />\n â€”E.E. Knight\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/250'),
(1680, 'Infection', 'John Gregory Betancourt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Like the twisted strands of mutant chromosomes, an insidious alien conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history -- beginning near the very start of Captain Picard''s command of the Starship Enterpriseâ„¢! It is only the first year of the U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢-D''s ongoing mission when a virulent epidemic strikes the populace of Archaria III, endangering the lives of thousands and provoking acts of mob violence against those believed responsible for the spread of the disease. While Data and Natasha Yar team up to uncover the true origins of the virus, Dr. Crusher finds that the implacable sickness resists all her efforts to find a cure. The desperate quest for a cure becomes even more urgent when Deanna Troi succumbs to the dreaded plague...again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1719'),
(1681, 'Infidel', 'Ayaan Hirsi Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of\n  <em>\n   The Caged Virgin\n  </em>\n  , Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of today''s most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following an Islamist''s murder of her colleague, Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the movie\n  <em>\n   Submission\n  </em>\n  .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Infidel\n  </em>\n  is the eagerly awaited story of the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished -- and sometimes reviled -- political superstar and champion of free speech. With a gimlet eye and measured, often ironic, voice, Hirsi Ali recounts the evolution of her beliefs, her ironclad will, and her extraordinary resolve to fight injustice done in the name of religion. Raised in a strict Muslim family and extended clan, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries largely ruled by despots. In her early twenties, she escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim immigrant women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Even though she is under constant threat -- demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from her family and clan -- she refuses to be silenced.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali''s story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no story could be timelier or more significant.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1250'),
(1682, 'Infinite Jest', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy,\n <strong>\n  Infinite Jest\n </strong>\n bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With its baroque subplots, zany political satire, morbid, cerebral humor and astonishing range of cultural references, Wallace''s brilliant but somewhat bloated dirigible of a second novel (after The Broom in the System) will appeal to steadfast readers of Pynchon and Gaddis. But few others will have the stamina for it. Set in an absurd yet uncanny near-future, with a cast of hundreds and close to 400 footnotes, Wallace''s story weaves between two surprisingly similar locales: Ennet House, a halfway-house in the Boston Suburbs, and the adjacent Enfield Tennis Academy. It is the "Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" (each calendar year is now subsidized by retail advertising); the U.S. and Canada have been subsumed by the Organization of North American Nations, unleashing a torrent of anti-O.N.A.N.ist terrorism by Quebecois separatists; drug problems are widespread; the Northeastern continent is a giant toxic waste dump; and CD-like "entertainment cartridges" are the prevalent leisure activity. The novel hinges on the dysfunctional family of E.T.A.''s founder, optical-scientist-turned-cult-filmmaker Dr. James Incandenza (aka Himself), who took his life shortly after producing a mysterious film called Infinite Jest, which is supposedly so addictively entertaining as to bring about a total neural meltdown in its viewer. As Himself''s estranged sons?professional football punter Orin, introverted tennis star Hal and deformed naif Mario?come to terms with his suicide and legacy, they and the residents of Ennet House become enmeshed in the machinations of the wheelchair-bound leader of a Quebecois separatist faction, who hopes to disseminate cartridges of Infinite Jest and thus shred the social fabric of O.N.A.N. With its hilarious riffs on themes like addiction, 12-step programs, technology and waste management (in all its scatological implications), this tome is highly engrossing?in small doses. Yet the nebulous, resolutionless ending serves to underscore Wallace''s underlying failure to find a suitable novelistic shape for his ingenious and often outrageously funny material.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1048'),
(1683, 'The Informant', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  By the author of the bestselling\n  <em>\n   The Pardon,\n  </em>\n  this fast-paced novel teams a resourceful FBI agent and an embattled journalist in a hunt for two men -- a serial killer and his elusive informant.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When an informer chooses\n  <em>\n   Miami Tribune\n  </em>\n  crime reporter Michael Posten as his conduit, giving him information about murders that haven''t yet taken place, investigators speculate on whether the killer and informer are the same person. As the newspaper continues to deposit larger sums into the killer''s account, FBI agent Victoria Santos and the reluctant journalist join forces to prevent the next gruesome murder. But then dues stop and the murders continue... until a psychopath makes one mistake too many. This gripping, unpredictable story of revenge will not be soon forgotten.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you thought The Silence of the Lambs was the last word on how the FBI tracks serial killers, think again. Grippando -- the Miami lawyer who scored with The Pardon -- manages to reveal even more inside information as agent Victoria Santos goes after a particularly nasty murderer/mutilator. Helping in the chase is reporter Mike Posten, getting repeated tips from somebody who reveals the kind of details only the actual killer could know. There''s also an exciting, ultra-violent conclusion on a cruise ship just begging for Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The title character of attorney Grippando''s second thriller (after The Pardon) is the anonymous man who contacts Miami Tribune reporter Mike Posten and claims that he can predict the next victim of a serial killer who has eluded the FBI''s Child Abduction and Serial Killer Unit. The informant wants to be paid in cash for what he says he knows. After a brief debate, Posten and his paper pony up for a series of exclusives. Posten also talks to the FBI, in the form of agent Victoria Santos, who is alone in believing that the informant and the killer are different people. It''s an unusually cerebral and low-key beginning to a serial-killer thriller, emphasizing procedure, forensics and professional ethics rather than shock or even suspense; the killings that occur during this set-up take place off page. Soon enough, however, the informer/killer question is resolved and Grippando moves his story into more familiar territory, telling an absorbing tale with cool competence. The murders are given a plausible motive and the climax, which takes place on a hijacked cruise ship, surges with tension; even Posten''s marital problems are tied neatly to the plot line. Former FBI agent and veteran serial-killer-stalker John Douglas (Mind Hunter) has blurbed this novel as authentic and "thoroughly convincing"; true?and it''s a nail-biter to boot. $60,000 ad/promo; simultaneous HarperAudio release.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2482'),
(1684, 'The Information', 'Martin Amis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal--they''re all here in\n  <strong>\n   The Information\n  </strong>\n  . How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even as Tull himself sinks deeper into the sub-basement of literary failure. The only way out of this predicament, Tull believes, is the plot the demise of Barry.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "With\n  <strong>\n   The Information\n  </strong>\n  , Amis delivers a portrait of middle-age realignment with more verbal felicity and unbridled reach than [anyone] since Tom Wolfe forged\n  <em>\n   Bonfire of the Vanities\n  </em>\n  ."--\n  <em>\n   Houston Chronicle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  From the acclaimed author of London Fields comes a totally mesmerizing and thoroughly entertaining novel. When his oldest friend, who''s also an internationally bestselling novelist, announces that he will use his media access and popularity to launch a political career, critic Richard Royce plots to pull his friend''s career down around his ears.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1720'),
(1685, 'Iniquitous Computing', 'Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1842'),
(1686, 'Inner Harbor', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h1>\n  1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the final novel in the captivating trilogy of three brothers who have come together in a time of need. They honored their father''s wish to raise young Seth as their own. And with all of the brothers home again, the Quinn family has never been so strong. But in the months to come, their strength is tested -- once again...\n </h1>\n <p>\n  Phillip Quinn had done everything to make his life seem perfect. With his career on the fast track and a condo overlooking the Inner Harbor, his life on the street was firmly in the past. But one look at Seth and he''s reminded of the boy he once was...Phillip has intended to fulfill his father''s dying request and considered Seth to be a duty. He never expected he would grow to love Seth, and soon his promise to his father became more than just obligation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Seth''s future as a Quinn seems assured -- until a stranger arrives in town. She claims to be researching St. Christopher''s for her new book, but the true objects of study are the Quinns. Her cool reserve intrigues Phillip. He is determined to uncover her motives, but she is holding a secret that has the power to threaten the life the brothers have made for Seth. A secret that could tear the family apart... forever...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1589'),
(1687, 'Innocent in Death', 'J. D. Robb &amp; Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The death of history teacher Craig Foster devastated his young wife, whoâ€™d sent him off to work that morning with a lovingly packed lunch. It shocked his colleagues at the Upper West Side private school. And as for the ten-year-old girls who found him in his classroom in a pool of bodily fluids, they may have been traumatized for life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lieutenant Eve Dallas, of course, is more hardened to murder cases. And this is clearly a murder case. That lovingly packed lunch was tainted with deadly ricin. And Mr. Fosterâ€™s colleagues, shocked as they may be, have some shocking secrets of their own. Itâ€™s Eveâ€™s job to get a feel for all the potential suspects, and find out why someone would have done this to a man who seemed so inoffensive, so pleasantâ€¦so innocent.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Magdelana Percell â€“ thereâ€™s someone Eve can picture as a murder victim. Possibly at Eveâ€™s own hands. The slinky blonde - an old flame of her billionaire husband, Roarke, from his days on the wrong side of the law â€“ has turned up in New York, and sheâ€™s anything but innocent. Unfortunately, Roarke seems blind to Magdelanaâ€™s manipulation, but not to her shapely figure and flirtatious ways. And he insists that the occasional lunch or business meeting with her is nothing to worry aboutâ€¦and none of Eveâ€™s business. Eveâ€™s so unnerved by the situation that she finds it hard to focus on the Foster case. Still, sheâ€™ll have to put aside her anger, jealousy, and heartbreak, for a while at least - because another man has just turned up dead, and the case is taking some strange turns and hitting some frustrating dead ends.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eve knows all too well that innocence can be a faÃ§ade. Keeping that in mind may help her solve this case at last. But it may also tear apart her marriage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1103'),
(1688, 'The Innocent Man', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Grisham tackles nonfiction for the first time with\n <em>\n  The Innocent Man\n </em>\n , a true tale about murder and injustice in a small town (that reads like one of his own bestselling novels).\n <em>\n  The Innocent Man\n </em>\n chronicles the story of Ron Williamson, how he was arrested and charged with a crime he did not commit, how his case was (mis)handled and how an innocent man was sent to death row. Grisham''s first work of nonfiction is shocking, disturbing, and enthralling--a must read for fiction and nonfiction fans. We had the opportunity to talk with John Grisham about the case and the book, read his responses below.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  20 Second Interview: A Few Words with John Grisham\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n After almost two decades of writing fiction, what compelled you to write non-fiction, particularly investigative journalism?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I was never tempted to write non-fiction, primarily because it''s too much work. However, obviously, I love a good legal thriller, and the story of Ron Williamson has all the elements of a great suspenseful story.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Why this case?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Ron Williamson and I are about the same age and we both grew up in small towns in the south. We both dreamed of being major league baseball players. Ron had the talent, I did not. When he left a small town in 1971 to pursue his dreams of major league glory, many thought he would be the next Mickey Mantle, the next great one from the state of Oklahoma. The story of Ron ending up on Death Row and almost being executed for a murder he did not commit was simply too good to pass up.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How did you go about your research?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I started with his family. Ron is survived by two sisters who took care of him for most of his life. They gave me complete access to the family records, photographs, Ron''s mental health records, and so on. There was also a truckload of trial transcripts, depositions, appeals, etc., that took about 18 months to organize and review. Many of the characters in the story are still alive and I traveled to Oklahoma countless times to interview them.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Did your training as a lawyer help you?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Very much so. It enabled me to understand the legal issues involved in Ron''s trial and his appeals. It also allowed me, as it always does, to be able to speak the language with lawyers and judges.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Throughout your book you mention,\n <em>\n  The Dreams of Ada: A True Story of Murder, Obsession, and a Small Town\n </em>\n . How did you come across that book, and how did it impact your writing\n <em>\n  The Innocent Man\n </em>\n ?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Several of the people in Oklahoma I met mentioned\n <em>\n  The Dreams of Ada\n </em>\n to me, and I read it early on in the process. It is an astounding book, a great example of true crime writing, and I relied upon it heavily during my research. Robert Mayer, the author, was completely cooperative, and kept meticulous notes from his research 20 years earlier. Many of the same characters are involved in his story and mine.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You take on some pretty controversial and heated topics in your book--the death penalty, prisonerâ€™s rights, DNA analysis, police conduct, and more--were any of your own beliefs challenged by this story and its outcome?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n None were challenged, but my eyes were open to the world of wrongful convictions. Even as a former criminal defense attorney, I had never spent much time worrying about wrongful convictions. But, unfortunately, they happen all the time in this country, and with increasing frequency.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n So many of the key players in this case are either still in office or practicing attorneys. Many family members and friends still live in the same small town. How do you think\n <em>\n  The Innocent Man\n </em>\n will impact this community and other small rural towns as they struggle with the realities of the justice system?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Exonerations seem to be happening weekly. And with each one of them, the question is asked--how can an innocent man be convicted and kept in prison for 20 years? My book is the story of only one man, but it is a good example of how things can go terribly wrong with our judicial system. I have no idea how the book will be received in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma, or any other town.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What do you hope your readers will take away from\n <em>\n  The Innocent Man\n </em>\n ?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n A better understanding of how innocent people can be convicted, and a greater concern for the need to reimburse and rehabilitate innocent men after they have been released.\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grisham''s first work of nonfiction focuses on the tragedy of Ron Williamson, a baseball hero from a small town in Oklahoma who winds up a dissolute, mentally unstable Major League washout railroaded onto death row for a hometown rape and murder he did not commit. Judging by this author-approved abridgment, Grisham has chosen to present Williamson''s painful story (and that of his equally innocent "co-conspirator," Dennis Fritz) as straightforward journalism, eschewing the more familiar "nonfiction novel" approach with its reconstructed dialogues and other adjustments for dramatic purpose. This has resulted in a book that, while it includes such intriguing elements as murder, rape, detection and judicial injustice, consists primarily of objective reportage, albeit shaded by the now-proven fact of Williamson''s innocence. The absence of dialogue or character point of view could make for a rather bland audio. Boutsikaris avoids that by reverting to what might be called old-fashioned round-the-campfire storytelling, treating the lengthy exposition to vocal interpretations, subtle and substantial. He narrates the events leading up to the 1982 rape and murder of a young cocktail waitress with a mixture of suspicion and curiosity, moving on to astonishment at the prosecution''s use of deceit and false testimony to convict Williamson and Fritz and, eventually, elation at the exoneration of the two innocent men. Throughout, he maintains an appealing conversational tone, an effect made all the more remarkable by the book''s nearly total absence of conversation.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/721'),
(1689, 'Insomnia', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Celestial forces of good and evil wage an apocalyptic war in a small Maine town in this 14-week PW bestseller.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Ralph Roberts has been waking earlier and earlier every night for weeks, and the forgetfulness and weariness caused by sleep deprivation are starting to affect him. When he begins to see brilliant auras around people and objects, his concern grows. As his nights become shorter, his visions become more terrifying, and yet more real. Strange forces are maneuvering for power in Derry, Maine, and somehow Ralph is a part of the conflict. Well-read students will note references to Greek mythology, the Bible, and to Tolkien''s Lord of the Rings (Houghton, 1967) interspersed with modern cultural allusions. King''s forte, however, is characterization, and there is no shortage of it here. Good guys and evil are well developed, with a depth that makes them believable. Although Ralph is clearly identified as a septuagenarian, he is never stodgy or prudish, and will appeal to teens. Some of King''s more recent novels, such as Gerald''s Game (1992), have been disappointing, but Insomnia is closer to It (1987) and Needful Things (1992, all Viking) in its suspense and entertainment potential. A good return trip to Derry, Maine.?Robin Deffendall, Bull Run Regional Library, Manassas, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/525');
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(1690, 'Intensity', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A young woman staying as a guest in a Napa Valley farmhouse becomes trapped in a fight for survival with a self-proclaimed "homicidal adventurer", and races to warn his next intended victim. Unrelentingly terrifying, this book lives up to its name.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Koontz''s career has mirrored Stephen King''s to a remarkable degree?the early pseudonymous novels, the bloated blockbusters, the increased use of horror as social commentary?albeit at a lag. Keeping step, this uncommonly sleek work is nothing less than Koontz''s Gerald''s Game: a distillation of what''s come before and a slick play to regain the top by a writer whose popularity seemed to have peaked. Koontz even makes the centerpiece of Chyna Shepherd''s battle against a serial killer her attempt to free herself from the restraints that bind her to a piece of furniture?the very same challenge faced by King''s heroine. And just as Gerald''s Game reinvigorated King''s career and writing, this masterful, if ultimately predictable, exercise in high tension should do the same for Koontz''s. This is basically a two-character novel, and both principals are compelling: the spirited Chyna, a youngish psychology student, and her nemesis, homicidal maniac Edgler Vess, who revels in sensation, be it pain or pleasure?in the intensity of experience. The two link when Vess kills Chyna''s best friend as Chyna hides under a bed. Chyna pursues Vess but is eventually captured by him, after which she must combat not only those cuffs but also Vess''s killer dogs, Vess himself and, of course, her own terror. For once, Koontz tamps down on his usual libertarian soapboxing to let the story race?which it does fast enough to give readers whiplash as they hold on to what may end up being the most viscerally exciting thriller of the year. 600,000 first printing; Literary Guild main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/506'),
(1691, 'Intent to Kill', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A fallen baseball star must use his new skills as Boston''s king of sports radio to outwit a dangerous caller and proveâ€”live and on the airâ€”that the hit-and-run that killed his wife was no accident.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ryan James once had it all. With a beautiful wife and a two-year-old daughter, he was just one minor-league baseball game away from realizing his lifelong dream of playing in the majors when the unthinkable happened: his wife, Chelsea, was killed in a hit-and-run accident while driving to Ryan''s last game of the season.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Years later, Ryan is a popular "shock jock" at Boston''s top-rated sports radio show, doing his best to raise his daughter alone. But his love for Chelsea endures, his insomnia persists, and the fact that the police never found the drunk who ran her off the road makes closure impossible. Then, on the third anniversary of Chelsea''s death, chilling words from an anonymous tipster turn the accident into a homicide: "I know who did it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the police scramble, Ryan makes a stunning discovery. The tipâ€”a strangely coded messageâ€”may have come from Chelsea''s own brother, a young man affectionately known as "Babes," who has an autism-related disorder. But why would Babes have withheld this information for three years? And what finally made him come forward anonymously?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The demand for answers sends Babes on the run. Through a series of shocking on-air conversations with Babes, Ryan and Emma Carlisle, the dedicated prosecutor on the case, unravel a cover-up that reaches back to the night of Chelsea''s death and that may implicate one of New England''s most powerful families. It''s a search that will forever change the lives of Ryan, Babes, and Emmaâ€”if they live to tell about it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2472'),
(1692, 'Interesting Times', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld Â— especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a "Great Wizzard" arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it''s he who''s sent as emissary. Chaos threatens to follow the impending demise of the Agatean Empire''s current ruler. And, for some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the war and wholesale bloodletting that will surely ensue. (Carnage is pretty much a given, since Cohen the Barbarian and his extremely elderly Silver Horde are busily formulating their own plan for looting, pillaging, and, er, looking wistfully at girls.) However, Rincewind firmly believes there are too many heroes already in the world, yet only one Rincewind. And he owes it to the world to keep that one alive for as long as possible.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Murder and mayhem in Discworld! The funniest writer in fantasy strikes again with a witty and rollicking tale of golems, invisible killers and hapless security officers. 288 pp. National ads &amp; publicity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/339'),
(1693, 'Interpreter of Maladies', 'Jhumpa Lahiri', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mr. Kapasi, the protagonist of Jhumpa Lahiri''s title story, would certainly have his work cut out for him if he were forced to interpret the maladies of all the characters in this eloquent debut collection. Take, for example, Shoba and Shukumar, the young couple in "A Temporary Matter" whose marriage is crumbling in the wake of a stillborn child. Or Miranda in "Sexy," who is involved in a hopeless affair with a married man. But Mr. Kapasi has problems enough of his own; in addition to his regular job working as an interpreter for a doctor who does not speak his patients'' language, he also drives tourists to local sites of interest. His fare on this particular day is Mr. and Mrs. Das--first-generation Americans of Indian descent--and their children. During the course of the afternoon, Mr. Kapasi becomes enamored of Mrs. Das and then becomes her unwilling confidant when she reads too much into his profession. "I told you because of your talents," she informs him after divulging a startling secret.\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I''m tired of feeling so terrible all the time. Eight years, Mr. Kapasi, I''ve been in pain eight years. I was hoping you could help me feel better; say the right thing. Suggest some kind of remedy.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Of course, Mr. Kapasi has no cure for what ails Mrs. Das--or himself. Lahiri''s subtle, bittersweet ending is characteristic of the collection as a whole. Some of these nine tales are set in India, others in the United States, and most concern characters of Indian heritage. Yet the situations Lahiri''s people face, from unhappy marriages to civil war, transcend ethnicity. As the narrator of the last story, "The Third and Final Continent," comments: "There are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept." In that single line Jhumpa Lahiri sums up a universal experience, one that applies to all who have grown up, left home, fallen in or out of love, and, above all, experienced what it means to be a foreigner, even within one''s own family.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The rituals of traditional Indian domesticityAcurry-making, hair-vermilioningAboth buttress the characters of Lahiri''s elegant first collection and mark the measure of these fragile people''s dissolution. Frequently finding themselves in Cambridge, Mass., or similar but unnamed Eastern seaboard university towns, Lahiri''s characters suffer on an intimate level the dislocation and disruption brought on by India''s tumultuous political history. Displaced to the States by her husband''s appointment as a professor of mathematics, Mrs. Sen (in the same-named story) leaves her expensive and extensive collection of saris folded neatly in the drawer. The two things that sustain her, as the little boy she looks after every afternoon notices, are aerograms from homeAwritten by family members who so deeply misunderstand the nature of her life that they envy herAand the fresh fish she buys to remind her of Calcutta. The arranged marriage of "This Blessed House" mismatches the conservative, self-conscious Sanjeev with ebullient, dramatic TwinkleAa smoker and drinker who wears leopard-print high heels and takes joy in the plastic Christian paraphernalia she discovers in their new house. In "A Real Durwan," the middle-class occupants of a tenement in post-partition Calcutta tolerate the rantings of the stair-sweeper Boori Ma. Delusions of grandeur and lament for what she''s lostA"such comforts you cannot even dream them"Agive her an odd, Chekhovian charm but ultimately do not convince her bourgeois audience that she is a desirable fixture in their up-and-coming property. Lahiri''s touch in these nine tales is delicate, but her observations remain damningly accurate, and her bittersweet stories are unhampered by nostalgia. Foreign rights sold in England, France and Germany; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1194'),
(1694, 'Interview With the Vampire', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing forceâ€“a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/247'),
(1695, 'Into the Wild', 'Jon Krakauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. He had given $25,000 in savings to a charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet and invented a life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. Jon Krakauer brings Chris McCandless''s uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows and illuminates it with meaning in this mesmerizing and heartbreaking tour de force.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/549'),
(1696, 'Inversions', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  First published in the U.K. in 1998, Banks''s latest novel steps back from the usual grand scale and ultra high-tech of his well-known "Culture" SF series (Excession, etc.) to the intrigue-ridden courts of a politically fragmented world. In Haspidus, a woman named Vosill, a foreigner from the distant archipelago nation of Drezen, serves as personal physician to King Quience, in spite of social mores that treat women as little more than property. Vosill''s servant--actually a spy reporting to one of Quience''s trusted right-hand men--finds himself doubting his master''s claims that Vosill is a danger to the king, even as he uncovers evidence that suggests that Vosill is much more than she seems. Meanwhile, across the mountains, the stern warrior DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to General UrLeyn, the Prime Protector of the Tassasen Protectorate. His close contact with UrLeyn earns him the distrust of UrLeyn''s fellow generals; those loyal to UrLeyn fear DeWar himself could be the perfect spy and assassin, while others worry he will discover their own secret plots. As conspiracies unfold and loyalties shift dangerously in both lands, the story of Vosill and DeWar and their unspoken connection unfolds with masterful subtlety. Banks''s new novel should further expand his reputation for creating challenging, intelligent stories full of notable characters trapped in complex situations that have no easy solutions. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A doctor''s devotion to her king and to her profession embroil her in a web of court intrigue and murder as she strives to preserve the health and well-being of the king she has come to love. On the other side of the world, a general''s bodyguard risks his life to protect his master. Interweaving a pair of separate but linked tales of devotion and treachery set on a technologically backward world, Banks (The Player of Games) demonstrates his considerable talent for subtle storytelling. Recommended for most sf collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/81'),
(1697, 'The Invisible Fastball', 'Chris Ballard, Owen Good', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Story of Minor League Baseball in the US during the 1940''s and 1950''s. Â This story is about an Elkin Baseball Player named Kelly Jack Swift in his struggles to raise a family while pursuing his dream of Major League Baseball.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2356'),
(1698, 'Invisible Monsters', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the plot of your first novel partially hinges on anarchist overthrows funded by soap sales, and the narrative hook of your second work is the black box recorder of a jet moments away from slamming into the Australian outback, it stands to reason that your audience is going to be ready for anything. Which, to an author like Chuck Palahniuk, must sound like a challenge. Palahniuk''s third identity crisis (that''s "novel" to you),\n <em>\n  Invisible Monsters\n </em>\n , more than ably responds to this call to arms. Set once again in an all-too-familiar modern wasteland where social disease and self-hatred can do more damage than any potboiler-fiction bad guy, the tale focuses particularly on a group of drag queens and fashion models trekking cross-country to find themselves, looking everywhere from the bottom of a vial of Demerol to the end of a shotgun barrel. It''s a sort of\n <em>\n  Drugstore Cowboy\n </em>\n -meets-\n <em>\n  Yentl\n </em>\n affair, or a Hope-Crosby road movie with a skin graft and hormone-pill obsession, if you know what I mean.\n</p>\n<p>\n Um, yeah. Anyway, the Hollywood vibe doesn''t stop these comparisons. As with\n <em>\n  Fight Club\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Survivor\n </em>\n , the book is invested with a cinematic sweep, from the opening set piece, which takes off like a house afire (literally), to a host of filmic tics sprayed throughout the text: "Flash," "Jump back," "Jump way ahead," "Flash," "Flash," "Flash." You get the idea. It''s as if Palahniuk didn''t write the thing but yanked it directly out of the Cineplex of his mind''s eye. Does it succeed? Mostly. Still working on measuring out the proper dosages of his many writerly talents (equal parts potent imagery, nihilistic coolspeak, and doped-out craziness), Palahniuk every now and then loosens his grip on the story line, which at points becomes as hard to decipher as your local pill addict''s medicine cabinet. However\n <em>\n  Invisible Monsters\n </em>\n works best on a roller-coaster level. You don''t stop and count each slot on the track as you''re going down the big hill. You throw up your hands and yell,\n <em>\n  "Whee!"\n </em>\n <em>\n  --Bob Michaels\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palahniuk''s grotesque romp aims to skewer the ruthless superficiality of the fashion world and winds up with a tale as savagely glib as what it derides. Narrator Shannon McFarland, once a gorgeous fashion model, has been hideously disfigured in a mysterious drive-by shooting. Her jaw has been shot off, leaving her not only bereft of a career and boyfriend, but suddenly invisible to the world. Along comes no-nonsense, pill-popping diva Brandy Alexander, a resplendent, sassy, transgendered chick, who has modeled her body rearrangement--the breast implants, the hair, the figure--on what Shannon used to look like. Brandy suggests veils, high camp and no self-pity. Shannon wants revenge[...] Adding to the plot''s contrivances are the relentless flashbacks, heralded at the beginning of almost every paragraph with "Jump back to..." and the author''s pretentious device of using a fashion photographer''s commands ("Flash. Give me adoration. Flash. Give me a break") to signpost the narrator''s epiphanies. Palahniuk writes like he''s overdosed on Details magazine. Though the absurd surprise ending may incite groans of disbelief, this book does have fun moments when campy banter tops the heroine''s flat, whiny bathos. (Sept.) FYI: The film of Palahniuk''s novel Fight Club will star Brad Pitt.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/318'),
(1699, 'The Ionian Mission', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy''s blockade of Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands, where all his old skills of seamanship and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds come triumphantly into their own.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But a sudden turn of events takes them off on a hazardous mission to the Greek isles, where they are soon involved in fierce and thrilling action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/458'),
(1700, 'Irish Rebel', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n She was practically royaltyÂ—the daughter of a rich, renowned horse-breeding dynasty. He was just a hardworking horse trainer. But Brian Donnelly was in America now, where even he might aspire to possess the breathtaking Keeley Grant. Her wealth and position didn''t deter Brian...for it was the innocence Keeley offered him that bguiled the wild Irish rebel and threatened to corral his restless heart!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1594'),
(1701, 'Iron Council', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n China MiÃ©ville''s novel\n <em>\n  Iron Council\n </em>\n is the tumultuous story of the "Perpetual Train." Born from monopolists'' greed and dispatched to tame the western lands beyond New Crobuzon, the train is itself the beginnings of an Iron Council formed in the fire of frontier revolt against the railroad''s masters. From the wilderness, the legend of Iron Council becomes the spark uniting the oppressed and brings barricades to the streets of faraway New Crobuzon. The sprawling tale is told through the past-and-present eyes of three characters. The first is Cutter, a heartsick subversive who follows his lover, the messianic Judah Low, on a quest to return to the Iron Council hidden in the western wilds. The second is Judah himself, an erstwhile railroad scout who has become the iconic golem-wielding hero of Iron Council''s uprising at the end of the tracks. And the third is Ori, a young revolutionary on the streets of New Crobuzon, whose anger leads him into a militant wing of the underground, plotting anarchy and mayhem.\n</p>\n<p>\n MiÃ©ville (\n <em>\n  The Scar\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </em>\n ) weaves his epic out of familiar and heavily political themes--imperialism, fascism, conquest, and Marxism--all seen through a darkly cast funhouse mirror wherein even language is distorted and made beautifully grotesque. Improbably evoking Jack London and Victor Hugo,\n <em>\n  Iron Council\n </em>\n is a twisted frontier fable cleverly combined with a powerful parable of Marxist revolution that continues MiÃ©ville''s macabre remaking of the fantasy genre.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this stunning new novel set mainly in the decadent and magical city of New Crobuzon, British author MiÃ©ville (\n <em>\n  The Scar\n </em>\n ) charts the course of a proletarian revolution like no other. The capitalists of New Crobuzon are pushing hard. More and more people are being arrested on petty charges and "Remade" into monstrous slaves, some half animal, others half machine. Uniformed militia are patrolling the streets and watching the city from their dirigibles. They turn a blind eye when racists stage pogroms in neighborhoods inhabited by non-humans. An overseas war is going badly, and horrific, seemingly meaningless terrorist acts occur with increasing frequency. Radical groups are springing up across the city. The spark that will ignite the revolution, however, is the Perpetual Train. Workers building the first transcontinental railroad, badly mistreated by their overseers, have literally stolen a train, laying track into the wild back-country west of the great city, tearing up track behind them, fighting off the militia sent to arrest them, even daring to enter the catotopic zone, that transdimensional continental scar where anything is possible. Full of warped and memorable characters, this violent and intensely political novel smoothly combines elements of fantasy, science fiction, horror, even the western. MiÃ©ville represents much of what is new and good in contemporary dark fantasy, and his work is must reading for devotees of that genre. FYI:\n <em>\n  MiÃ©ville has won Arthur C. Clarke, British Science Fiction and British Fantasy awards.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/391'),
(1702, 'Iron Kissed', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it''s up to shapeshifting car mechanic Mercy Thompson to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not. And she''ll have to choose between the two werewolves in her life-whether she wants to or not.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(1703, 'The Irresistible Henry House: A Novel', 'Lisa Grunwald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2010\n </strong>\n : To the ranks of iconic mid-century modern men Gump and Garp, add\n <em>\n  The Irresistible Henry House\n </em>\n . As imagined by Lisa Grunwald, inspired by the peculiar beginnings of a real baby, Henry''s life unspools with more realism and intention than Gump''s, with less a sense of dread than Garp''s. But Henry and his story have the same almost-magic magnetism. Henry arrives in the world as a "practice baby," passed between a dozen young women at the Practice House of Wilton College''s Home Economics program in a decidedly pre-Spock era that discouraged mothers from holding babies "too much." From the beginning, Henry inspires in women the desire for his exclusive attention--but none want them more than Martha Gaines, the program director, who has spent her career overseeing the proper raising of a string of "house" orphans who were eventually adopted out.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Unable to let Henry go, Martha raises him as her own. Burdened by her need and bewildered by his own inability to reciprocate affection, Henry retreats into a silence that buys him banishment to a school for troubled teens in Connecticut, far from Martha''s grasp. In these mute years, Henry hones his aptitude for drawing and experiences the benefits of knowing instinctively how to please women (sometimes including Mary Jane, his real childhood sweetheart). His skills open doors for him at Disney Studios to draw\n <em>\n  Poppins\n </em>\n penguins, and in London for\n <em>\n  Yellow Submarine\n </em>\n . The multidimensional generations of women in his life make a fascinating microcosm of the cultural revolution that redefined the expectations of all American women in the latter half of the 20th century. But it''s Henry''s struggle to define the desires of his own heart that propels this story, culminating in a scene as transcendent as Carver''s\n <em>\n  Cathedral\n </em>\n . --\n <em>\n  Mari Malcolm\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Lisa Grunwald on *The Irresistible Henry House\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n This novel begins with a photograph, and my writing it began the same way. I was trolling the Web five years ago, looking for entries to add to\n <em>\n  Women''s Letters\n </em>\n , an anthology I was editing then. Somewhat by accident, I landed on a Website created by history students at Cornell University, and I saw for the first time a thumbnail photograph, just an icon, of an irresistible babyâ€™s face. I clicked on it, not knowing exactly why, and met an orphan who had spent the first year of his life being cared for as a "practice baby" in a home economics course. A real baby. Handed off in turns from practice mother to practice mother.\n</p>\n<p>\n Initially, the journalist in me wanted to know what had happened to that baby. The novelist in me asked the same question. There was a brief skirmish. But when I read that the babies raised this way were returned to their orphanages and adopted like any of the other infants, the novelist in me won out. Without access to more information, I had a feeling that fiction would be if not stranger than at least longer than truth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still, the time frame in which the novel would be set plunged me into my first attempt at writing historical fiction, and other facts ended up being important to Henry Houseâ€™s story. A few examples of fun facts I found along the way:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Far from offering just the "MRS degree" that became part of its reputation, home economics--in teaching women about cleaning, cooking, and household equipment--provided an almost revolutionary path to subjects traditionally thought of as menâ€™s province: chemistry, biology, electrical engineering.\n </li>\n <li>\n  One of the most popular childcare experts in the 30s and 40s recommended a firm handshake as the best way to greet oneâ€™s young children.\n </li>\n <li>\n  In the early 20th century, children with what we now know as learning disabilities were still being sent to institutions with names like the Custodial Asylum for Unteachable Idiots.\n </li>\n <li>\n  It was Walt Disneyâ€™s own idea to replace the tuxedoed waiters in the book of &lt;a\n  <em>\n   Mary Poppins\n  </em>\n  with the animated penguins who dance in the movie; as a child he had always thought tuxedoed men looked like penguins.\n </li>\n <li>\n  It wasnâ€™t really the Beatles who did the speaking parts for\n  <em>\n   Yellow Submarine\n  </em>\n  .\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n All of these facts landed in my private file of "who knew?" and subsequently landed in the novel as well. But the central fact remained that the baby in the picture had started his life being cared for by multiple women, and I knew that no matter what else happened in the book, that weird fact would shape the heart of my character and, I will hope, the heart of the book.\n <em>\n  --Lisa Grunwald\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Jon LaPook)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Like T.S. Garp, Forrest Gump or Benjamin Button, Henry House, the hero of Grunwald''s imaginative take on a little known aspect of American academic life, has an unusual upbringing. In 1946, orphaned baby Henry is brought to all-girl''s Wilton College as part of its home economics program to give young women hands-on instruction in child-rearing (such programs really existed). Henry ends up staying on at the practice house and growing up under the care of its outwardly stern but inwardly loving program director, Martha Gaines. As a protest against his unusual situation, Henry refuses to speak and is packed off to a special school in Connecticut, where his talents as an artist and future lover of women bloom. After he drops out of school, Henry finds work as an animator, working on\n <em>\n  Mary Poppins\n </em>\n , then on the Beatles''\n <em>\n  Yellow Submarine\n </em>\n . With cameos by Dr. Benjamin Spock, Walt Disney and John Lennon, and locations ranging from a peaceful college campus to swinging 1960s London, Grunwald nails the era just as she ingeniously uses Henry and the women in his life to illuminate the heady rush of sexual freedom (and confusion) that signified mid-century life.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1248'),
(1704, 'Isard&#39;s Revenge', 'Michael A. Stackpole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Sleek, swift and deadly, the famed X-Wing fighters have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance''s ultimate strike force the hard way--first in battle, the last line of defense.Â Â Now they must make a deal with the devil herself--an enemy whose ultimate goal is their total annihilation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s the kind of mission only Wedge Antilles and the Rogue Squadron would dare to undertake.Â Â Against impossible odds they will stage a daring raid into an enemy stronghold--only to be rescued from certain destruction by an unexpected ally.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ysanne Isard, the ruthless Imperial commander, has appeared on the scene seemingly from out of nowhere.Â Â Now she proposes a most unusual alliance, offering to help Wedge rescue his captured comrades from Imperial Warlord Admiral Krennel''s sadistic prison camp.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But her offer is not without a price.Â Â Wedge must lead Rogue Squadron in Isard''s deadly struggle against an enemy made in her own image.Â Â It''s an offer Wedge would love to refuse, for Isard is certain to betray them.Â Â But how can they leave their comrades at Krennel''s mercy?Â Â The answer is: they can''t--even if it means being caught between Krennel''s ruthlessness and Isard''s treachery.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1655'),
(1705, 'Ishmael', 'Daniel Quinn &amp; Mdaniel Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Quinn ( Dreamer ) won the Turner Tomorrow Award''s half-million-dollar first prize for this fascinating and odd book--not a novel by any conventional definition--which was written 13 years ago but could not find a publisher. The unnamed narrator is a disillusioned modern writer who answers a personal ad ("Teacher seeks pupil. . . . Apply in person.") and thereby meets a wise, learned gorilla named Ishmael that can communicate telepathically. The bulk of the book consists entirely of philosophical dialogues between gorilla and man, on the model of Plato''s Republic. Through Ishmael, Quinn offers a wide-ranging if highly general examination of the history of our civilization, illuminating the assumptions and philosophies at the heart of many global problems. Despite some gross oversimplifications, Quinn''s ideas are fairly convincing; it''s hard not to agree that unrestrained population growth and an obsession with conquest and control of the environment are among the key issues of our times. Quinn also traces these problems back to the agricultural revolution and offers a provocative rereading of the biblical stories of Genesis. Though hardly any plot to speak of lies behind this long dialogue, Quinn''s smooth style and his intriguing proposals should hold the attention of readers interested in the daunting dilemmas that beset our planet. 50,000 first printing; major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, a literary competition intended to foster works of fiction that present positive solutions to global problems, this book offers proof that good ideas do not necessarily equal good literature. Ishmael, a gorilla rescued from a traveling show who has learned to reason and communicate, uses these skills to educate himself in human history and culture. Through a series of philosophical conversations with the unnamed narrator, a disillusioned Sixties idealist, Ishmael lays out a theory of what has gone wrong with human civilization and how to correct it, a theory based on the tenet that humanity belongs to the planet rather than vice versa. While the message is an important one, Quinn rarely goes beyond a didactic exposition of his argument, never quite succeeding in transforming idea into art. Despite this, heavy publicity should create demand. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/15/91.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1118'),
(1706, 'The Island', 'Elin Hilderbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess''s lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins. Like any mother of a bride-to-be, she is weathering the storms of excitement and chaos, tears and joy. But Birdie, a woman who prides herself on preparing for every possibility, could never have predicted the late-night phone call from Chess, abruptly announcing that she''s cancelled her engagement.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s only the first hint of what will be a summer of upheavals and revelations. Before the dust has even begun to settle, far worse news arrives, sending Chess into a tailspin of despair. Reluctantly taking a break from the first new romance she''s embarked on since the recent end of her 30-year marriage, Birdie circles the wagons and enlists the help of her younger daughter Tate and her own sister India. Soon all four are headed for beautiful, rustic Tuckernuck Island, off the coast of Nantucket, where their family has summered for generations. No phones, no television, no grocery store - a place without distractions where they can escape their troubles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But throw sisters, daughters, ex-lovers, and long-kept secrets onto a remote island, and what might sound like a peaceful getaway becomes much more. Before summer has ended, dramatic truths are uncovered, old loves are rekindled, and new loves make themselves known. It''s a summertime story only Elin Hilderbrand can tell, filled with the heartache, laughter, and surprises that have made her page-turning, bestselling novels as much a part of summer as a long afternoon on a sunny beach.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2388'),
(1707, 'Isle of Dogs', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Be aware: this is not your typical Patricia Cornwell novel. Not only is there no Kay Scarpetta, but\n  <em>\n   Isle of Dogs\n  </em>\n  is a comic romp, a real departure for this author. It does center around a couple of characters from past books--police chief Judy Hammer and reporter-turned-cop Andy Brazil of\n  <em>\n   Hornet''s Nest\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Southern Cross\n  </em>\n  . But the plot, style, and tone will remind you more of Carl Hiaasen''s dark comedies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The madcap doings get underway when the addled, nearly blind governor of Virginia confusedly launches a speed-trap program on isolated Tangier Island, whose prickly, eccentric residents promptly attempt secession. Cornwell adeptly interweaves other crisscrossing plot lines involving a gang of street-stupid thugs gunning for Hammer and Brazil, an angel-faced serial killer, a kidnapped dog, and more. She does miss a few beats: the pacing sags during certain episodes, and at times the writing strains so hard for laughs that instead it draws winces. Nonetheless,\n  <em>\n   Isle of Dogs\n  </em>\n  is for the most part a funny, diverting read and a refreshing departure for Cornwell.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An island in Chesapeake Bay revolts when Virginia''s governor orders speed traps on every street. It doesn''t sound like Cornwell, but it''s a main selection of BOMC, the Literary GuildR, the Mystery GuildR, and the Doubleday Book Club.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1392'),
(1708, 'Isle of Palms', 'Dorothea Benton Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Anna Lutz Abbot considers herself independent and happy, until one steamy summer when she must find a way to deal with the secrets of her unpredictable family-and her past.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Honey, you think you''ve got a dysfunctional family. Anna Lutz Abbot wants you to sit yourself down with a glass of sweet tea and hear all about why her family takes the pound cake. Momma dies in bed (amyl nitrate) with the wrong man when Anna is 10. Daddy is a tightwad who does a better job of looking after other people''s kids (he''s a pediatrician) than his own. Paternal grandmother Violet is a German martinet who blames Anna when Everett Fairchild drugs, beats, rapes and impregnates her after the prom. Jim Abbot, who gallantly insists on marrying her, is gay, which is fine with Anna except that he''s gorgeous as well as perfect and she craves more from him. Toss in Jim''s harridan mother and Anna''s daughter, Emily, who makes her first appearance in full goth regalia. Frank''s brilliant stroke is to give her narrator a voice like nobody else. Oh, Anna''s Dixie as all get out, madly in love with the South Carolina Lowcountry, especially the islands off Charleston, but she''s no steel magnolia. A perpetually pissed-off curmudgeon is more like it; she actively prays for her grandmother''s death and takes a hammer to Everett''s Mercedes when he shows up to meet Emily. "You''re my birth father, aren''t you?" Emily says, in one of the few scenes to lack high drama. (Frank writes at a fever pitch, even when describing the decor of Anna''s new hair salon.) The third Lowcountry novel (Sullivan''s Island; Plantation) is sure to delight Frank''s fans and win new admirers, although the story occasionally staggers under the weight of its mammoth cast.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Waggishly mixing high jinks with high drama, Frank brings to hilarious life the quintessential South Carolina low-country community of Isle of Palms, Anna Lutz Abbot''s once and future home. Growing up there, Anna survived her mother''s scandalous death, life with a domineering grandmother, a prom-night date rape that resulted in pregnancy, and a doomed marriage to her gay best friend. Despite its associated heartbreak, the seaside town represents the only place Anna feels she truly belongs, and her return launches a roller-coaster voyage of self-discovery. Aided and abetted by a quirky cast of supporting, and supportive, characters, among them the Misses Mavis and Angel, aka the Snoop Sisters, and Lucy, her surgically enhanced, blender-totin'', party-gal neighbor, Anna discovers the wisdom in starting over before her past can pull her under and learns that the true nature of family goes far beyond any shared DNA. Sassy and smart, warm and true, Frank''s characters are as real as a soft breeze on a summer''s day.\n  <em>\n   Carol Haggas\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2392'),
(1709, 'It', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name. What was it? Read\n <strong>\n  It\n </strong>\n and find out...if you dare!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The amazingly prolific King returns to pure horror, pitting good against evil as in The Stand and The Shining. Moving back and forth between 1958 and 1985, the story tells of seven children in a small Maine town who discover the source of a series of horrifying murders. Having conquered the evil force once, they are summoned together 27 years later when the cycle begins again. As usual, the requisite thrills are in abundance, and King''s depiction of youngsters is extraordinarily accurate and sympathetic. But there is enough material in this epic for several novels and stories, and the excessive length and numerous interrelated flashbacks eventually become wearying and annoying. Nevertheless, King is a born storyteller, and It will undoubtedly be in high demand among his fans. BOMC main selection. Eric W. Johnson, Univ. of Bridgeport Lib., Ct.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/526'),
(1710, 'Ivanhoe - a Romance', 'Walter Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9 Up--This is an excellent abridgment of the classic by Sir Walter Scott. The story line is very smooth and easy to follow. David Warner''s reading is perfect. His British accent is easy to understand and adds to the telling of the story. Music added at the beginning and end of each side provides additional atmosphere. There is enough background information at the beginning of the presentation to allow listeners to follow the plot and the characters. This would be an excellent study tool when reading this work as a school assignment. The addition of a vocabulary list might help listeners with some of the unfamiliar words. The story has enough action and romance to make it a good listening experience for a wide range of ages, making it a valuable purchase for school and public libraries.?Pat Griffith, Schlow Memorial Library, State College, PA\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Modern Library is making a killing on TV/feature film tie-ins to classics. Like its recent incarnations of Gulliver''s Travels and Emma, this offers a quality hardcover for little more than a paperback price.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1074'),
(1711, 'J Is for Judgment', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her 10th alphabet adventure, southern California PI Kinsey Milhone is working again for California Fidelity, navigating her way through a plot-driven tale that will remind readers of her earliest appearances, despite Grafton''s deft introduction of new material. Shady financier Wendell Jaffe has recently been decreed dead, five years after his real estate empire collapsed and he disappeared from his beloved 35-foot ketch off the coast, an apparent suicide. California Fidelity has just paid his widow $500,000. But then Jaffe is spotted in Mexico with another woman. Kinsey''s investigation lands her in some tough spots--such as a drunken stranger''s hotel room where she pretends to be a hooker--gets her shot at and leads to a dramatic resolution at sea. It also introduces her to a genealogist who requires Kinsey to revise her notion of herself as an orphan alone in the world. While maintaining full control of her plot''s variously colored threads, many of which are tied to Jaffe''s family (his 18-year-old son is on the lam from a murder charge), Grafton cameos such familiar characters as Kinsey''s octogenarian landlord Henry, his older brother William, and Rose, the neighborhood bar owner. But the spotlight remains on Kinsey who, without a love interest to distract her, sticks to the case at hand and tries, with limited success, to assimilate the existence of a not too distant family, whom readers will likely learn more of in "K." 500,000 first printing; major ad/promo; Literary Guild selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Private investigator Kinsey Millhone, the author''s tough, tenacious, California-based heroine, has taken on a freelance job for her ex-employer, California Fidelity Insurance. One of their agents, on vacation in a small Mexican hotel, is sure he recognized Wendell Jaffe, a hotshot businessman who''d vanished from his boat at sea years before, leaving behind a suicide note, a clutch of cheated investors, a penniless wife, two young sons, and a partner, Carl Eckert, who wound up in jail. Five years later, just a few months ago, with Jaffe now officially dead, wife Dana had collected a half million from Fidelity. They''d like it back.... Kinsey flies to Mexico and finds her quarry, who''s now living with a woman named Renata and is calling himself Dean DeWitt Huff--and who disappears again almost at once. Kinsey''s certain the recent widely reported criminal acts of his son Brian have pulled Jaffe back to the US. In California, Kinsey''s on the trail again--talking to Dana, to Carl Eckert, now out of jail, to police detectives involved in the original investigation, and to Renata, who, it turns out, owns a waterfront house near Kinsey''s home base of Santa Teresa. Even as she chases clues in the present, chunks of Kinsey''s own family history intrude, threatening her hard-won loner persona. Jaffe surfaces for the last time in the slightly hokey finale. A tangled, rambling story that''s constantly in motion but generates little passion, heat, or tension. Solidly readable but minus the compelling edge of Grafton''s best. (First printing of 500,000; Literary Guild Triple Selection for July) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/777');
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(1712, 'Jack and Jill', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A child killer is stalking the inner city of Washington, D.C., his latest victim Shanelle Green, an adorable first grader from Sojourner Truth School. This killing is especially unsettling to Detective Alex Cross. Sojourner Truth is the school his son Damon attends, just four blocks from his home.\n</p>\n<p>\n While the death of an inner-city black child doesn''t garner much media attention, another murder is making big headlines. The same day that Shanelle was beaten to death, Senator Daniel Fitzpatrick was found handcuffed to a bed and shot execution style. The only clue the police have to go on is a bizarre rhyme, signed "Jack and Jill," promising more high-profile executions, ultimately targeting the president of the United States. When Cross is called in to help protect the president, he begins to suspect that the two cases are somehow related. As he races to put all the pieces together, the killers continue their bloody rampage, paralyzing the city.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like\n <em>\n  Along Came a Spider\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Cat &amp; Mouse\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Jack &amp; Jill\n </em>\n is a rapid-fire thriller from start to finish, with enough plot twists to satisfy even the most jaded mystery fan.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Patterson''s most recent thriller, Hide and Seek, lacked his customary hero, Alex Cross, and didn''t catch fire with readers. Here, Patterson brings back the black psychiatrist and Washington, D.C., homicide cop (Kiss the Girls, etc.) for a gripping game of death that will have fans flocking. Two simultaneous investigations bear down on Cross: the first concerns the killings perpetrated by a duo known as "Jack and Jill," who are murdering famous people (beginning with a U.S. senator) in Washington, taunting the police and "practicing for the big one"; the second involves the brutal slayings of young black children in Cross''s own Southeast D.C. neighborhood. The Washington P.D. makes Cross its liaison with a frantic Secret Service, FBI and CIA while he sets up his own off-duty team to track the child-killer. Through crisp cross-cutting of multiple points of view, first-person and third, Patterson grabs readers right from the beginning and sweeps them along toward riveting dual climaxes. He adds texture by devoting space to Cross''s concern about his own motherless son and daughter (the first murdered child attended the same grammar school as Alex''s boy), his growing interest in the school''s attractive principal, his dealings with his octogenarian grandmother, Nana Mama (think of an acerbic Dilsey from The Sound and the Fury) and life in the largely black Southeast district. It''s fine, full-blooded entertainment from start to finish, with a last-page surprise from an earlier Cross nemesis promising at least one more Cross installment to come. Literary Guild main selection; simultaneous Time Warner AudioBook.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/356'),
(1713, 'Jackdaws', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick, November 2001:\n </strong>\n Each book by Ken Follett, one of the most successful suspense writers of our time, is a welcome event. With\n <em>\n  Jackdaws\n </em>\n , he returns to his most successful era, the darkest days of World War II.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is 1944 and the Allies are preparing for the invasion of Europe. In the occupied town of Sainte-Cecile, the French Resistance is preparing to blow up the chateau that now houses the crucial telephone exchange connecting the French telephone system to that of Germany. Bombers have been unable to inflict enough damage on the chateau to disrupt communications for more than a few hours at a time, but the Allies need to make sure that communications is down for longer so that there will be as little warning of the invasion as possible.\n</p>\n<p>\n Felicity Clariet, known as Flick, is a British secret agent patrolling the streets around the chateau waiting for the first explosions that will give the signal for the attack to begin. She is married to Michel, a Resistance fighter. When the operation goes horribly wrong, they barely escape with their lives and Flick returns to her home in London--but not for long. When Flick returns to France it will be as part of an audacious, quickly assembled plan to put female spies in the chateau as telephone operators and cleaners, enabling the Allies to destroy the ability of the Exchange to warn Germany in advance of the landing on the beaches of Normandy. The twists and turns of the plot will keep you on the edge of your seat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Follett tells us that\n <em>\n  Jackdaws\n </em>\n is based on a true story. The Special Operations Executive sent 50 women into France as secret agents. Thirty-six survived.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Time is running out. With D-Day rapidly approaching, the Nazis are actively trying to quash the French resistance. Meanwhile, Britain''s Special Operations branch is working hard to supply the resistance with intelligence, supplies and agents. Felicity "Flick" Clairet is one of England''s most effective operatives in northern France. Having failed in an assault on the Nazis'' main European telephone exchange, she regroups in England for another attempt, this time with an all-female team that will infiltrate the exchange under the guise of a French cleaning staff. Unfortunately, finding female agents fluent in French proves impossible and Flick resorts to crash-training nonprofessionals for the task. Imagine Charlie''s Angels (minus the campiness) in The Guns of Navarone. Written in Follett''s (Pillars of the Earth, etc.) riveting style and with his penchant for historical detail, the Jackdaws (the codename of the all-girl team) are given a heightened air of authenticity with Kate Reading''s performance. She flavors her confident delivery with a wry cynicism that is inherent to Flick''s character, and her use of international as well as regional accents keeps the rapid narrative flowing flawlessly. Simultaneous release with the Dutton hardcover (Forecasts, Oct. 15, 2001).\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/820'),
(1714, 'Jackie Brown', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers who come to\n <em>\n  Rum Punch\n </em>\n after having seen Quentin Tarantino''s 1997 film adaptation,\n <em>\n  Jackie Brown\n </em>\n , are in for a few surprises. Mainly, Jackie\n <em>\n  Burke\n </em>\n is a 44-year-old white woman (but just as hard-boiled as Pam Grier), bail bondsman Max Cherry has a much more prominent role in the proceedings, and the novel takes place in Miami--not Los Angeles. The core of the story, however, remains the same: when the cops try to use Jackie to get at Ordell Robbie, the gunrunner she''s been bringing cash into the country for, she hatches a plan--with help from Max--to keep the money for herself. It all comes together in the traditional Elmore Leonard style, where the conversations are as crisply written and suspenseful as the action scenes.\n <em>\n  --Ron Hogan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like a pulled punch, the author''s latest evocation of lives on the periphery has a somewhat restrained quality, although the characters here, especially the women, are vintage Leonard ( Get Shorty ), and the dialogue is as authentic as conversations overheard in a mall restaurant. A combination of coincidence and choice connects the fates of Jackie Burke, a 44-year-old, thrice-married stewardess, bail bondsman Max Cherry, overweight and in his 50s, and brash young gun dealer Ordell Robbie, in Miami. When Jackie is caught bringing cash into the U.S. from the Bahamas for Ordell, she agrees to cooperate with federal and state agents to catch him in a sting operation. Max, who has posted Jackie''s bond and is drawn to her, becomes her sounding board as she contemplates a sting of her own. The appealing and utterly amoral Ordell involves an unreliable ex-con pal, a crew of jackboys and his three women--sweet young Sheronda; amply endowed, untrustworthy Melanie; older "aunty" Simone, whose appetites are unabated--in his last-ditch effort to make a killing. Chances offered, taken and passed up are the leitmotif in this bittersweet slice of south Florida life. BOMC featured alternate; QPB selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/410'),
(1715, 'Jaws', 'Peter Benchley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Benchley''s novel, while better known as the source material for Steven Spielberg''s classic movie, has earned its own stripes as a small gem of suspense fiction. With another summer fast approaching, audio listeners may be interested in revisiting the town of Amity, Long Island, and getting back in the water. Erik Steele, a theater and film actor, chomps into Benchley''s raw prose with appetite, enjoying every bite of gore and social observation. Making ample use of well-placed pauses and silences, Steele amplifies not only the suspense, but Benchley''s surprisingly well-honed characterizations. The experience, of course, is markedly different from Spielberg''s film, offering shocks less visceral and more contemplative.\n  <em>\n   A Random House hardcover. (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This novel about a rogue shark that terrorizes a beach community hasnâ€™t aged a day since its publication more than 35 years ago. Benchleyâ€™s writing is lean and efficientâ€”this is his first novel, and also by far his bestâ€”and the story is a solid mixture of small-town politics, mystery, and outright terror. The author positions his protagonist, police chief Martin Brody, as virtually the lone voice of reason in a town filled with people who want to downplay the sharkâ€™s presence (so as not to scare away tourists with their bulging wallets); and when the body count starts to rise, itâ€™s Brody who has to find a way to kill the beast, even if it means putting his own life on the line. The familiar charactersâ€”Brody, oceanographer Matt Hooper, shark-hunter Quintâ€”are not as likable as they are in Steven Spielbergâ€™s classic film adaptation, but in the context of the novel, they are well drawn and compelling. Those who are familiar with the movie, but not the book, are in for some surprises, and those who read the book way back when should definitely give it another look. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(1716, 'Jedi Search', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  As the war between the Republic and the scatteredÂ Â remnants of the Empire continues, twoÂ Â children--the Jedi twins--will come into their powers in aÂ Â universe on the brink of vast changes and challenges.Â Â In this time of turmoil and discovery, anÂ Â extraordinary new\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  sagaÂ Â begins....\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Luke Skywalker takes the firstÂ Â step toward setting up an academy to train a newÂ Â order of Jedi Knights, Han Solo and Chewbacca areÂ Â taken prisoner on the planet Kessel and forced toÂ Â work in the fathomless depths of a spice mine. ButÂ Â when Hans and Chewie break away, they fleeÂ Â desperately to a secret imperial research laboratoryÂ Â surrounded by a cluster of black holes--and go fromÂ Â one danger to a far greater one....\n </p>\n <p>\n  OnÂ Â Kessel, Luke picks up the trail of his two friends,Â Â only to come face to face with a weapon so awesome,Â Â it can wipe out an entire solar system. It is aÂ Â death ship called the Sun Crusher, invented by aÂ Â reclusive genius and piloted by none other than HanÂ Â himself...\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Everyone is searching for Bornan Thul. Not only is he father to one of Jacen and Jaina''s fellow students, he holds the key to a secret coalition gaining power in the New Republic. The young Jedi Knights race across the galaxy to find him--but they may be too late. For their true enemy is about to show its treacherous face. And it will be shockingly familiar.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1657'),
(1717, 'Jennifer Government', 'Max Barry &amp; Willeke Lempens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In een wereld waarin Amerika volledig geprivatiseerd is, raakt een man betrokken bij een moord en komt in de problemen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19'),
(1718, 'The Jester', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<strong>\n Hugh De Luc returns from the Crusades to discover that his terrifying nightmare has just begun. Merciless killers have slain his young son, kidnapped his wife, Sophie, and destroyed his town in their search for a priceless relic from the Crucifixion. Hugh''s quest to find Sophie is one of the most pulse-pounding adventures, mysteries, and unforgettable love stories in all of fiction.\n</strong>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2380'),
(1719, 'Jewels of the Sun', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In her new trilogy,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  #1 Best Selling author, Nora Roberts returns to the lush, green hills of Ireland, where love is forever touched by magic - And where the Gallagher siblings explore the depth of their fiery hearts.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Determining to reevaluate her life, Jude Murray flees America to take refugee in\n  <em>\n   Faerie Hill Cottage\n  </em>\n  , immersing herself in the study of Irish Folk and discovers hope for the future of the magical past.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1595'),
(1720, 'Jingo', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett is a phenomenon unto himself. Never read a Discworld book? The closest comparison might be\n <em>\n  Monty Python and the Holy Grail\n </em>\n , with its uniquely British sense of the absurd, and side-splitting, smart humor.\n <em>\n  Jingo\n </em>\n is the 20th of Pratchett''s Discworld novels, and the fourth to feature the City Guard of Ankh-Morpork. As\n <em>\n  Jingo\n </em>\n begins, an island suddenly rises between Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali, capital of Klatch. Both cities claim it. Lord Vetinari, the Patrician, has failed to convince the Ruling Council that force is a bad idea, despite reminding them that they have no army, and "I believe one of those is generally considered vital to the successful prosecution of a war." Samuel Vimes, Commander of the City Watch, has to find out who shot the Klatchian envoy, Prince Khufurah, and set fire to their embassy, before war breaks out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pratchett''s characters are both sympathetic and outrageously entertaining, from Captain Carrot, who always finds the best in people and puts it to work playing football, to Sergeant Colon and his sidekick, Corporal Nobbs, who have "an ability to get out of their depth on a wet pavement." Then there is the mysterious D''reg, 71-hour Ahmed. What is his part in all this, and why 71 hours? Anyone who doesn''t mind laughing themselves silly at the idiocy of people in general and governments in particular will enjoy\n <em>\n  Jingo\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Jingo, the twentieth Discworld novel to be published in the United States, is a worthy addition to the series. It''s a quiet night. Maybe too quiet. Solid Jackson and his son are fishing the waters between Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali when their boat runs aground. To their amazement, an iron chicken rises out of the water, followed shortly by the island of Leshp. Solid Jackson immediately claims the island as Ankh-Morpork territory. There''s only one problem. Greasy Arif and his son are also fishing for Curious Squid, and Arif swears that the island belongs to Al-Khali. Both cities are determined to annex it. By jingo, this means war. Ankh-Morpork is outgunned and out-manned but the city''s nobles don''t plan to let that stop them from carrying on the noble traditions of chivalry and showing those Klatchians what''s what. This book is just as funny, clever, and unpredictable as the previous titles. Pratchett fans will not be disappointed, and new readers will not be confused. Jingo expands upon the lives of characters from titles in the series, but readers don''t need to be familiar with them to enjoy this one. It''s fast-paced, with lots of twists and turns, unexpected events, and football.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Susan Salpini, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/347'),
(1721, 'John Adams', 'David Mccullough', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like his masterly, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman, David McCullough''s\n <em>\n  John Adams\n </em>\n has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. It is both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, much of it drawn from an outstanding collection of Adams family letters and diaries. In particular, the more than one thousand surviving letters between John and Abigail Adams, nearly half of which have never been published, provide extraordinary access to their private lives and make it possible to know John Adams as no other major American of his founding era.\n</p>\n<p>\n As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within -- from the point of view of the amazing eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no sure way of knowing how things would turn out. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, the British spy Edward Bancroft, Madame Lafayette and Jefferson''s Paris "interest" Maria Cosway, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, the scandalmonger James Callender, Sally Hemings, John Marshall, Talleyrand, and Aaron Burr all figure in this panoramic chronicle, as does, importantly, John Quincy Adams, the adored son whom Adams would live to see become President.\n</p>\n<p>\n Crucial to the story, as it was to history, is the relationship between Adams and Jefferson, born opposites -- one a Massachusetts farmer''s son, the other a Virginia aristocrat and slaveholder, one short and stout, the other tall and spare. Adams embraced conflict; Jefferson avoided it. Adams had great humor; Jefferson, very little. But they were alike in their devotion to their country. At first they were ardent co-revolutionaries, then fellow diplomats and close friends. With the advent of the two political parties, they became archrivals, even enemies, in the intense struggle for the presidency in 1800, perhaps the most vicious election in history. Then, amazingly, they became friends again, and ultimately, incredibly, they died on the same day -- their day of days -- July 4, in the year 1826.\n</p>\n<p>\n Much about John Adams''s life will come as a surprise to many readers. His courageous voyage on the frigate Boston in the winter of 1778 and his later trek over the Pyrenees are exploits that few would have dared and that few readers will ever forget.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is a life encompassing a huge arc -- Adams lived longer than any president. The story ranges from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam, from the Court of St. James''s, where Adams was the first American to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation, to the raw, half-finished Capital by the Potomac, where Adams was the first President to occupy the White House. This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas.\n</p>\n<p>\n Above all,\n <em>\n  John Adams\n </em>\n is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/382'),
(1722, 'John Dies at the End', 'David Wong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this reissue of an Internet phenomenon originally slapped between two covers in 2007 by indie Permutus Press, Wongâ€”Cracked.com editor Jason Pargin''s alter egoâ€”adroitly spoofs the horror genre while simultaneously offering up a genuinely horrifying story. The terror is rooted in a substance known as soy sauce, a paranormal psychoactive that opens video store clerk Wong''sâ€”and his penis-obsessed friend John''sâ€”minds to higher levels of consciousness. Or is it just hell seeping into the unnamed Midwestern town where Wong and the others live? Meat monsters, wig-wearing scorpion aberrations and wingless white flies that burrow into human skin threaten to kill Wong and his crew before infesting the rest of the world. A multidimensional plot unfolds as the unlikely heroes drink lots of beer and battle the paradoxes of time and space, as well as the clichÃ©s of first-person-shooter video games and fantasy gore films. Sure to please the\n <em>\n  Fangoria\n </em>\n set while appealing to a wider audience, the book''s smart take on fear manages to tap into readers'' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  John Dies at the End\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  John Dies at the End\n </em>\n â€¦[is] a case of the author trying to depict actual, soul-sucking lunacy, and succeeding with flying colors." â€“\n <em>\n  Fangoria\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDavid Wong is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King . . . â€˜page-turnerâ€™ is an understatement.â€ --Don Coscarelli, director,\n <em>\n  Phantasm I\n </em>\n â€“\n <em>\n  V\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Bubba Ho-tep\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDavid WongÂ has managed to write that rarest of things---a genuinely scary story.â€ --David Wellington, author of\n <em>\n  Monster\n </em>\n <em>\n  Island\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Vampire Zero\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The rare genre novel that manages to keep its sense of humor strong without ever diminishing the scares." --\n <em>\n  The Onion AV Club\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSure to please the\n <em>\n  Fangoria\n </em>\n Â  set while appealing to a wider audience, the book''s smart take on fear manages to tap into readers'' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next.â€ â€“\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/141'),
(1723, 'Johnny Mnemonic', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Johnny Mnemonic\n </em>\n is based on a story published in Gibson''s collection of short fiction,\n <em>\n  Burning Chrome\n </em>\n Fans will have the opportunity to see Gibson''s imagination morph from short story to screenplay. In this special trade edition, which includes both the screenplay for the film, starring Keanu Reeves, and the original short story, Gibson fans will be allowed a rare glimpse at the evolution of the creative process.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Johnny Mnemonic\n </em>\n takes readers into William Gibson''s dark, slick cities of the future. Johnny is a 21st-Century smuggler. Data is his contraband. And he''s got plenty of it. In fact, he has way too much. Caught in a situation he could not easily get out of, Johnny over-loads the computer-chip in his head. The data is white-hot and he has twenty-four hours to down-load or else he''s fried. As he rushes to his destination, he realizes that an army of Yakuza killers is on his trail; they want the data he possesses--and they are willing to take his head to get it. In a non-stop, action-packed race against the time-bomb in his brain, Johnny''s only allies are a cybernetic dolphin and a gorgeous girl streetfighter with a hardwired taste for violence.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a few notable exceptions--\n <em>\n  2001: A Space Odyssey\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Blade Runner\n </em>\n science fiction movies have not matched the innovative visions of their literary counterparts, either thematically or stylistically. If Hollywood heeds its call,\n <em>\n  Johnny Mnemonic\n </em>\n , the movie, may inspire a new maturity in cinematic sf. Gibson''s seminal short story, "Johnny Mnemonic," introduced his now familiar cyberpunk universe (later popularized by the huge success of his first novel,\n <em>\n  Neuromancer\n </em>\n , which itself is now in film production) and thus gave rise to a new subgenre that is still sf''s leading edge. This book includes the screenplay, illustrated with stills from the movie, and the original short story. The latter recounts the fate of Johnny, who guards an invaluable booty of classified electronic information that is stored in his computer-implanted brain and who is pursued by the all-powerful "Japanese Mafia," the Yakuza. The story is better accompanied in Gibson''s superior anthology,\n <em>\n  Burning Chrome\n </em>\n , but hardcore Gibson fans will want to read its screen realization.\n <em>\n  Carl Hays\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/714'),
(1724, 'Joy Luck Club', 'Amy Tan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who''s "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.\n</p>\n<p>\n With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Intensely poetic, startlingly imaginative and moving, this remarkable book will speak to many women, mothers and grown daughters, about the persistent tensions and powerful bonds between generations and cultures. The narrative voice moves among seven characters. Jing-mei "June" Woo recounts her first session in a San Francisco mah-jong club founded by her recently dead, spiritually vital, mother. The three remaining club members and their daughters alternate with stories of their lives, tales that are stunning, funny and heartbreaking. The mothers, all born in China, tell about grueling hardship and misery, the tyranny of family pride and the fear of losing face. The daughters try to reconcile their personalities, shaped by American standards, with seemingly irrational maternal expectations. "My mother and I never understood each other; we translated each other''s meanings. I talked to her in English, she answered back in Chinese," says one character. A crippling generation gap is the result: the mothers, superstitious, full of dread, always fearing bad luck, raise their daughters with hope that their lives will be better, but they also mourn the loss of a heritage their daughters cannot comprehend. Deceptively simple, yet inherently dramatic, each chapter can stand alone; yet personalities unfold and details build to deepen the impact and meaning of the whole. Thus, when infants abandoned in China in the first chapter turn up as adults in the last, their reunion with the one remaining family member is a poignant reminder of what is possible and what is not. On the order of Maxine Hong Kingston''s work, but more accessible, its Oriental orientation an irresistible magnet, Tan''s first novel is a major achievement. First serial to Atlantic, Ladies'' Home Journal and San Francisco Focus; BOMC and QPBC featured alternates.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/163'),
(1725, 'The Judas Goat', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Spenser has gone to London -- and not to see the Queen. He''s gone to track down a bunch of bombers who''ve blown away his client''s wife and kids. His job is to catch them. Or kill them. His client isn''t choosy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But there are nine killers to one Spenser -- long odds. Hawk helps balance the equation. The rest depends on a wild plan. Spenser will get one of the terrorists to play Judas Goat -- to lead him to others. Trouble is, he hasn''t counted on her being very blond, very beautiful and very dangerous.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Spenser is Boston''s answer to James Bond...with a little Sam Spade and Nero Wolfe thrown in...Irreverent, witty, worldly...makes for fast, amusing reading." (Pittsburgh Press)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1158'),
(1726, 'Judge &amp; Jury', 'James Patterson &amp; Andrew Gross', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestsellers Patterson and Gross (Lifeguard) once again deliver what their fans expect in this slapdash revenge thriller. When mob godfather Dominic Cavello is finally brought to trial by FBI agent Nick Pellisante, his longtime nemesis, the accused is strangely unconcerned even as a parade of his former criminal associates finger him as having ordered a hit on a corrupt businessman. The gangster''s plan to intimidate the decision-makers at his trial reaches its climax when he arranges for a bomb to blow up the bus transporting the jury. The sole survivor teams up with Pellisante to make Cavello pay. Numerous legal howlers that would be obvious even to those who only know about trials from watching Law and Order may annoy some readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Judge and Jury\n </em>\n gets off to a slightly slow start but delivers plenty of twists and turns. FBI agent Nick Pellisante has finally done the impossible: captured Mob boss Dominic Cavello. The jury is selected and Cavello''s trial progresses smoothly--it seems the conviction Pellisante is hoping for is within his reach. Several formerly loyal henchmen now sitting in jail strike deals with the prosecution and testify about the savage murders Cavello ordered, and Pellisante takes the stand to detail how Cavello shot two of his colleagues while trying to elude capture. But Cavello has hired Richard Nordeshenko, a methodical and calculating killer, to make sure the trial never concludes. Nordeshenko carries out his plan with brutal efficiency, leaving a wake of devastation in his path. Pellisante is crushed by the abrupt end of the trial and determined to make sure that the retrial isn''t similarly derailed, but Cavello and Nordeshenko have an even more diabolical plan in store this time around. A compelling hero and a truly evil villain distinguish this exciting read.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/357'),
(1727, 'Judgment in Death', 'J. D. Robb &amp; Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Written under the pen name J.D. Robb, this futuristic mysteryDset in New York City, year 2059Dshowcases veteran writer Nora Roberts''s skills at their best. It''s as tough, smart, sassy and successful as its heroine, police lieutenant Eve Dallas. The story opens in the upscale nightclub Purgatory, where Dallas discovers the brutally slain body of a fellow officer; another cop is murdered soon thereafter. Both men, it appears, were on the take, and both were connected to elusive criminal Max Ricker. Dallas''s investigation, which exposes crime and police corruption, puts both her reputation and life in danger. To make matters worse, Purgatory is owned by her own millionaire husband, RoarkeDa business associate of Ricker''s before turning legitimateDand the overlap of professional and personal lives adds extra fireworks to an already tempestuous marriage. Robb''s plotting is precise and fast paced, creating a satisfying mystery full of lively, credible twists. Secondary charactersDa troubled female police captain, an Internal Affairs cop with a leftover crush on DallasDare as well-drawn as Dallas herself, a tough but endearing 21st-century woman. Sexy, surprising and often funny power struggles between Dallas and Roarke are the tasty icing on this extremely well-made fictional "cake," which is just the right confection for lazy late-summer reading. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest in Robb''s (a.k.a. Nora Roberts) Eve Dallas series, this fast-paced mystery takes our tough-minded, insightful homicide lieutenant into the hellish world of "illegals" and crime as she investigates the vicious murder of a cop in a sleazy New York nightclub appropriately named Purgatory and owned, not surprisingly, by Eve''s tycoon husband, who owns just about everything around. But things take a twisted and unexpectedly personal turn as Eve starts digging and more bodies show up, and soon she finds herself in the killer''s sights as well. A law-flouting criminal kingpin with a personal vendetta who deals in illegals, a crazed cop on a murderous mission, and a pair of perfectly matched protagonists propel this fast-paced, gritty, often violent story, which provides what few romantic suspense novels canDan exquisite blend of electric sensuality, hard-core suspense, and soulwarming romance that continually brings fans back for more. Robb (Witness in Death) is a member of the RWA Hall of Fame and lives in Keedysville, MD.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1090'),
(1728, 'The Jungle', 'Upton Sinclair &amp; Maura Spiegel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Jungle\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Upton Sinclair\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Â \n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Upton Sinclair\n </strong>\n â€™s muckraking masterpiece\n <em>\n  The Jungle\n </em>\n centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant working in Chicagoâ€™s infamous Packingtown. Instead of finding the American Dream, Rudkus and his family inhabit a brutal, soul-crushing urban jungle dominated by greedy bosses, pitiless con-men, and corrupt politicians.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Sinclairâ€™s main target was the industryâ€™s appalling labor conditions, the reading public was most outraged by the disgusting filth and contamination in American food that his novel exposed. As a result, President Theodore Roosevelt demanded an official investigation, which quickly led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws. For a work of fiction to have such an impact outside its literary context is extremely rare. (At the time of\n <em>\n  The Jungle\n </em>\n â€™s publication in 1906, the only novel to have led to social change on a similar scale in America was\n <em>\n  Uncle Tomâ€™s Cabin\n </em>\n .)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Today,\n <em>\n  The Jungle\n </em>\n remains a relevant portrait of capitalism at its worst and an impassioned account of the human spirit facing nearly insurmountable challenges.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Maura Spiegel\n </strong>\n teaches literature and film at Columbia University and Barnard College. She is the coauthor of\n <em>\n  The Grim Reader and The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History\n </em>\n . She coedits\n <em>\n  Literature and Medicine\n </em>\n , a journal.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Maura Spiegel''s Introduction to *The Jungle\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Upton Sinclair described the site of Chicago''s meatpacking industry, Packingtown, as "the greatest aggregation of labor and capital ever gathered in one place." The supreme achievement of American capitalism, Sinclair would undertake to reveal, was also its greatest disgrace. At the age of twenty-six, Sinclair set out to write\n <em>\n  The Jungle\n </em>\n in the spirit of Saint George battling the dragon. His was an age of capitalist Titans, of magnates whose wealth, power, and hubris seemed unlimited: A single man owned a million acres of the Texas Panhandle, an American coal tycoon attempted to buy the Great Wall of China, and in the Midwest a combination known as the Beef Trust tightly controlled the production and sale of meat through pervasive wage and price fixing and the unrelenting exploitation of the stockyard workforce. Sinclair''s was also an age when writers, both journalists and novelists, were experiencing a thrilling sense of their own efficacy. The investigative exposÃ©-what President Theodore Roosevelt would unflatteringly dub "muckraking," after the character in John Bunyan''s\n <em>\n  The Pilgrim''s Progress\n </em>\n (1678, 1684) who could "look no way but downward, with a muckrake in his hands"-had taken the magazine and publishing world by storm, had grabbed hold of the popular reader, and was shining a bright light on the ever-darkening realms of child labor, prisons, insurance companies, and, foremost, American enterprise and its role in the creation of a new American class of impoverished industrial wage slaves.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n With their tremendous descriptive and explanatory power, books such as Henry Demarest Lloyd''s\n <em>\n  Wealth against Commonwealth\n </em>\n (1894), a study of American business syndicates and trusts, Ida Tarbell''s\n <em>\n  History of the Standard Oil Company\n </em>\n (1904), and Lincoln Steffens''s\n <em>\n  The Shame of the Cities\n </em>\n (1904), an exposÃ© of municipal corruption and the ties between government and business in six American cities, had a significant impact on public debate, turning uncertainty into indignation and despair into outrage. Combining rigorous research and firsthand reporting with moralistic rhetoric, these works revealed how the contemporary world worked, how businesses were being transformed into empires, and how these empires were bleeding the public in an exploitative relationship starkly delineated by Lloyd on the first page of\n <em>\n  Wealth against Commonwealth\n </em>\n (see "For Further Reading"): "Holding back the riches of earth, sea, and sky from their fellows who famish and freeze in the dark, they [the syndicates and trusts] . . . assert the right, for their private profit, to regulate the consumption by the people of the necessaries of life, and to control production, not by the needs of humanity, but by the desires of few for dividends."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Energized by their sense of mission, these journalists also understood that at that moment, when magazines and books were reaching wider audiences than ever before, there was no more powerful means at their disposal than the written word. They had a confidence in the power of their medium that writers seldom experience today. Not yet competing with motion pictures, either dramatic or documentary, these writers seemed to understand that, for the moment at least, the written word was the document of truth. Even photographs could not vie with narrative for getting at what was real. Consider, in this regard, the reader''s first exposure to the packing yards in\n <em>\n  The Jungle\n </em>\n , when Jurgis and his family take a tour. As spectators, outsiders, what they see is an immensely impressive system; Jurgis himself is full of admiration; the family is "breathless with wonder" at the magnitude, the efficiency; "it seemed to them impossible of belief that anything so stupendous could have been devised by mortal man." This first impression, like a panoramic set of photographs, lacked narrative dimension. As the novel unfolds, we discover, along with Jurgis, that only through time and its unraveling- that is, through narrative-can the real meaning of these impressive images be disclosed and comprehended.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Given the great success of the muckraking journalists, and Sinclair''s admiration for them (including his friend Lincoln Steffens), it is worth examining why Sinclair did not choose to write his Packingtown book as a journalistic exposÃ©, especially considering that he had written a series of articles on the failed meatpackers strike of 1904. In choosing fiction over a journalistic account, Sinclair was responding to a moment when novelists were also taking on the real and exploring new techniques for storytelling, and as a consequence enjoying a heady period of reinvigoration and a renewed sense of their own persuasive power. Frank Norris, whose highly successful\n <em>\n  The Octopus\n </em>\n (1901) was based on an actual clash in 1880 between farmers in California''s San Joaquin valley and the Southern Pacific Railroad, wrote in a 1902 essay:\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n If the novel were not one of the most important factors of modern life, . . . if its influence were not greater than all the pulpits, than all the newspapers between the oceans, it would not be so important that its message should be true. . . . [The people] look to-day as they never have looked before, as they never will look again, to the writer of fiction to give them an idea of Life beyond their limits, and they believe him as they never have believed before and never will again" ("The Responsibilities of the Novelist," Critic 16, December 1902; in\n <em>\n  Documents of American Realism and Naturalism\n </em>\n , edited by Donald Pizer). Novelists had their own distinct aims and responsibilities, not only to represent "the true" but to give symbolic dimension to the new and strange. They sought to find language to describe the urban blight that was growing and spreading at frightening speed, drawing a vast population to toil and live in a new kind of poverty, to struggle against a new kind of filth and stench, to look upon a new kind of ugliness, and to endure new illnesses, injuries, and perils. The speed at which change was occurring intensified the sense that these transmutations were unstoppable. (In 1864 the Chicago meatpacking plants and stockyards were built, and were up and running within a matter of six months; within a short time every railroad that entered Chicago went to the yards, creating a ribbon of 100 miles of track surrounding the new plants that grew to 250 miles by 1905.) Such vastness and efficiency possessed the power to awe, and to overwhelm. Sinclair, and writers of his school, sought to represent the inhuman magnitude of industrial expansion, but also to give it symbolic shape-a human comprehensibility.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Although Sinclair portrays the crushing, machine-like force of a man-made hell, he turned for his title to an image from the natural world (as Frank Norris had done in choosing the octopus to describe the spread of the railway), to a place that, particularly in this period, evoked a sense of primal fear, a "heart of darkness."\n <em>\n  The Jungle\n </em>\n represented a setting inhospitable to human life, where "civilized" man does not thrive, where life is an unrelenting and ultimately a dehumanizing battle. From our perspective, at the other end of the twentieth century, Sinclair''s world had yet to arrive at the shared symbolic reference points for man-made horror provided for us by systematic genocide, concentration camps, and industrial warfare.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n For many writers of this new school of realism (or what some describe as Naturalism, which I discuss below), there was a sense of liberation from the requirement to tell a story; now the conditions of life were the story. (If for postmodernist writers, reality is no longer realistic, for writers of this period, reality was a new frontier, vivid and legible.) Exploring new narrative structures, novelists, following Ã‰mile Zola''s lead, were hanging their narratives on the framework not of an individual life, but of an industry or the history of a commodity. Zola had built his novels around coal mines, the emergence of the department store, stock market speculation, even a Parisian laundry. But when Sinclair determined to write a novel about the packing yards, he hit upon more than an apt framing device, more even than an industry that needed to be exposed for its heinous practices; consciously or not, he hit upon the subject that would give his novel its most enduring quality.\n <em>\n  The Jungle\n </em>\n is, arguably, the only muckraking novel of its era that is still read for more than historical interest. In the slaughterhouse Sinclair found both the symbol and the objective correlative for the condition of the worker in that moment, as well as a trope for the entire twentieth century.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1052');
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(1729, 'Jurassic Park', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Unless your species evolved sometime after 1993 when\n <em>\n  Jurassic Park\n </em>\n hit theaters, you''re no doubt familiar with this dinosaur-bites-man disaster tale set on an island theme park gone terribly wrong. But if Speilberg''s amped-up CGI creation left you longing for more scientific background and ... well, character development, check out the original Michael Crichton novel. Although not his best book (get ahold of sci-fi classic\n <em>\n  The Andromeda Strain\n </em>\n for that),\n <em>\n  Jurassic Park\n </em>\n fills out the film version''s kinetic story line with additional scenes, dialogue, and explanations while still maintaining Crichton''s trademark thrills-''n''-chills pacing. As ever, the book really is better than the movie.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bioengineers clone 15 species of dinosaurs and establish an island preserve where tourists can view the large reptiles; chaos ensues when a rival genetics firm attempts to steal frozen dinosaur embryos, and it''s up to two kids, a safari guide and a paleontologist to set things right. PW called this, "A scary, creepy, mesmerizing technothriller with teeth."\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/935'),
(1730, 'Just After Sunset', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In the introduction to his first collection of short fiction since\n <em>\n  Everything''s Eventual\n </em>\n (2002), King credits editing\n <em>\n  Best American Short Stories\n </em>\n (2007) with reigniting his interest in the short form and inducing some of this volume''s contents. Most of these 13 tales show him at the top of his game, molding the themes and set pieces of horror and suspense fiction into richly nuanced blends of fantasy and psychological realism. The Things They Left Behind, a powerful study of survivor guilt, is one of several supernatural disaster stories that evoke the horrors of 9/11. Like the crime thrillers The Gingerbread Girl and A Very Tight Place, both of which feature protagonists struggling with apparently insuperable threats to life, it is laced with moving ruminations on mortality that King attributes to his own well-publicized near-death experience. Even the smattering of genre-oriented works shows King trying out provocative new vehicles for his trademark thrills, notably N., a creepy character study of an obsessive-compulsive that subtly blossoms into a tale of cosmic terror in the tradition of Arthur Machen and H.P. Lovecraft. Culled almost entirely from leading mainstream periodicals, these stories are a testament to the literary merits of the well-told macabre tale.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In King''s latest collection of short stories (following 2002''s\n <em>\n  Everything''s Eventual\n </em>\n ), he presents 14 tales that range from the philosophically themed, to one in which the author gleefully admits to playing with the gross-out factor ("A Very Tight Place"), to "The Cat from Hell," which makes its hardcover debut some 30 years after its original publication as part of a contest in\n <em>\n  Cavalier\n </em>\n , one of the gentleman''s magazines that put food on the table in King''s early years as a writer. In his introduction, King cites his recent stint as guest editor for the 2007 edition of\n <em>\n  Best American Short Stories\n </em>\n as an impetus to return to the form in his own writing. Several of the works included here were written following that experience. Finally, as King has done previously in his collections, at the end of the volume he provides the reader with brief insights into the inspirations for each tale. Recommended for all popular fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 7/08.]â€”Nancy McNicol, Hamden P.L., CT\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/527'),
(1731, 'Just Kids', 'Patti Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2010\n </strong>\n : Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe weren''t always famous, but they always thought they would be. They found each other, adrift but determined, on the streets of New York City in the late ''60s and made a pact to keep each other afloat until they found their voices--or the world was ready to hear them. Lovers first and then friends as Mapplethorpe discovered he was gay, they divided their dimes between art supplies and Coney Island hot dogs. Mapplethorpe was quicker to find his metier, with a Polaroid and then a Hasselblad, but Smith was the first to fame, transformed, to her friend''s delight, from a poet into a rock star. (Mapplethorpe soon became famous too--and notorious--before his death from AIDS in 1989.) Smith''s memoir of their friendship,\n <em>\n  Just Kids\n </em>\n , is tender and artful, open-eyed but surprisingly decorous, with the oracular style familiar from her anthems like "Because the Night," "Gloria," and "Dancing Barefoot" balanced by her powers of observation and memory for everyday details like the price of automat sandwiches and the shabby, welcoming fellow bohemians of the Chelsea Hotel, among whose ranks these baby Rimbauds found their way.\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In 1967, 21-year-old singerâ€“song writer Smith, determined to make art her life and dissatisfied with the lack of opportunities in Philadelphia to live this life, left her family behind for a new life in Brooklyn. When she discovered that the friends with whom she was to have lived had moved, she soon found herself homeless, jobless, and hungry. Through a series of events, she met a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe who changed her lifeâ€”and in her typically lyrical and poignant manner Smith describes the start of a romance and lifelong friendship with this man: It was the summer Coltrane died. Flower children raised their arms... and Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames in Monterey. It was the summer of\n <em>\n  Elvira Madigan\n </em>\n , and the summer of love.... This beautifully crafted love letter to her friend (who died in 1989) functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by a passion for art and writing. Smith transports readers to what seemed like halcyon days for art and artists in New York as she shares tales of the denizens of Max''s Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner''s, Brentano''s, and Strand bookstores. In the lobby of the Chelsea, where she and Mapplethorpe lived for many years, she got to know William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Johnny Winter. Most affecting in this tender and tough memoir, however, is her deep love for Mapplethorpe and her abiding belief in his genius. Smith''s elegant eulogy helps to explain the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe''s life and work.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/260'),
(1732, 'K Is for Killer', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 11th adventure of Santa Teresa, Calif., PI Kinsey Milhone has a dark tone--due in great part to Kinsey''s working this case mostly at night. Kinsey agrees to look into the 10-month-old death of Lorna Kepler, a young woman whose decomposed body was discovered in her cabin so long after death that it was impossible to determine the cause. Kinsey''s client, Lorna''s mother, who works the night shift in a 24-hour diner, suspects murder. So does Kinsey, especially after investigating Lorna''s effects and her considerable assets, some unaccounted-for. An anonymously delivered pornographic tape adds to the emerging portrait of the dead woman as an intriguingly self-sufficient, ambitious woman of the evening. In nighttime forays, Kinsey talks to an all-night deejay whom Lorna often visited at his studio; she meets--and befriends--a prostitute who occasionally teamed up with Lorna to party with clients. She also investigates the victim''s day job as a part-time receptionist for the water district, where a high-stakes development project is currently raising tempers. A host of suspects includes a porn filmmaker in San Francisco, members of Lorna''s family, her landlord, the water district employees and even a smooth-dressing cop, whom Kinsey talks to at night. But lack of sleep dulls Kinsey''s perceptions and it takes two more deaths and the surprise appearance of a deus ex limousine to lead her to a solution. Even sleep-deprived, Kinsey shows spunk and appeal, but she is not at her sharpest here. 600,000 first printing; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Asked to investigate the death of 25-year-old Lorna Kepler, which occurred 10 months earlier, P.I. Kinsey Millhone uncovers the young woman''s secret life as a high-class call girl, her half a million dollars in blue-chip investments, but no clue as to the murderer. The main plot is strengthened by several subplots including the whereabouts of a $20,000 withdrawal made the day of Lorna''s death; the misleading spying antics of her landlord''s wife; and the greed and jealousy of the victim''s overweight older sister. Grafton''s writing is vivid when describing Kinsey''s soul-searching about the evil some people commit and in the resultant powerful ending. Though the 11th in the series, "K" is neither weak nor repetitive, providing excitement, intrigue, and a fierce need to finish reading it in one sitting.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pam Spencer, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/778'),
(1733, 'The Karamazov Brothers', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky &amp; Ignat Avsey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A fine translation."--Sr. Anna M. Conklin,\n <em>\n  Spalding University\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dostoevsky''s last and greatest novel,\n <em>\n  The Karamazov Brothers\n </em>\n (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha--are all involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama is Dostoevsky''s intense and disturbing exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, freedom of will, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism. Filled with eloquent voices, this new translation fully realizes the power and dramatic virtuosity of Dostoevsky''s most brilliant work.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  About the Series:\n </strong>\n For over 100 years\n <strong>\n  Oxford World''s Classics\n </strong>\n has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/860'),
(1734, 'Key of Light', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  What happens when the very gods depend on mortals for help? That''s what three very different young women find out when they are invited to Warrior''s Peak.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Malory Price Life Plan does not include a quixotic quest - but the strangers on Warrior''s Peak claim that she must find a key that will release three souls held captive by an evil god.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Little does she know that the quest will bring her two new friends, the love of her life, and danger beyond anyone''s imagination.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Three woman. Three keys. Each has 28 days to find her way through a dangerous quest. Nora Roberts brings us a unique series with a twist-each novel is written in real time, and the novels will be published in consecutive months.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1596'),
(1735, 'The Key to Rebecca', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in North Africa, summer 1942, during Rommel''s campaign against the British. This is the story of Alex Wolff, master spy, who treks across the Sahara and covertly enters the plot-ridden streets of wartime Cairo. And of Major Vandam, the British officer who is on Wolff''s trail, sworn to destroy him. Wolff''s mission is to steal British military plans and send them to Rommel, using a code whose key is buried in the pages of Daphne du Maurier''s novel Rebecca. As Rommel''s troops come closer to victory, Vandam edges closer to Wolff and the crucial key. There are incredible chase scenes: a motorcycle hurtling through blacked-out Cairo; the flash of a knife, a gush of hot blood, and the fleeting shadow of an escaping assassin; a harrowing race against death and a speeding train. Follett builds tension and suspense to a screaming pitch as he follows the adversaries across the internal desert to a confrontation as startling as it is explosive.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ken Follett was only twenty-seven when the wrote The Eye of the Needle, the award-winning novel which became an international bestseller and a distinguished film. Before that he had been a newspaper reporter and a publishing executive after studying philosophy at University College, London. He has since written eleven equally successful novels and the non-fiction bestseller On Wings of Engles. Ken Follett lives with his family in Chelsea, London.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/821'),
(1736, 'The Key: The Missing Secret for Attracting Anything You Want', 'Joe Vitale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The paperback edition of Joe Vitale''s inspiring guide to attracting wealth, health, happiness, and more\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now available in paperback, inspirational author Joe Vitale''s\n  <em>\n   The Key\n  </em>\n  finally reveals the secret to attracting anything you want from life-money, happiness, professional success, love, or anything else. This book goes beyond Vitale''s bestselling book\n  <em>\n   The Attractor Factor\n  </em>\n  and the mega-hit movie\n  <em>\n   The Secret\n  </em>\n  to reveal a powerful and effective way to get more out of every aspect of your life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you know you can achieve more, but can''t seem to make it happen,\n  <em>\n   The Key\n  </em>\n  reveals the psychological and unconscious limitations that are holding you back. You''ll learn ten proven ways to stop sabotaging yourself and align your conscious and subconscious minds. This book gives you all the personal insight you need to unlock secret doors within yourself and open new opportunities and possibilities in your life.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   From Joe Vitale, bestselling author of The Attractor Factor, Zero Limits, and Life''s Missing Instruction Manual\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Gives you the guidance and advice you need to unlock your full potential in life\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Offers practical help for dealing with problems with your job, finances, and any other aspect of your life\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  If you want to be the best you can be, no matter what you do, this book is\n  <em>\n   The Key\n  </em>\n  to unlocking a better, more successful you.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1265'),
(1737, 'Kill Alex Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Patterson''s\n  <em>\n   Kill Alex Cross\n  </em>\n  is thriller with family at its heart...It''s Patterson at the top of his game...Patterson is presenting three different families--Cross''s, the terrorists'' and President Coyle''s--each with its own darkly parallel definitions of justice, loyalty and love. Underneath the fast-and-furious action, Patterson is exploring what it means to be a father, a man and, ultimately, a human being in an increasingly complex and dangerous world." (\n  <strong>\n   Lisa Scottoline, *Washington Post\n  </strong>\n  * )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Patterson has had more\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to\n  <em>\n   Guinness World Records\n  </em>\n  . Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson''s books have sold more than 230 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including\n  <em>\n   Kiss the Girls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Along Came a Spider\n  </em>\n  . Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women''s Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes fulltime and lives in Florida with his family.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2370'),
(1738, 'Kill Shot', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h1>\n  1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR VINCE FLYNN DELIVERS THE YOUNG, HUNGRY, AND LETHAL MITCH RAPP AT THE ONSET OF HIS CAREER AS A CIA SUPERAGENT.\n </h1>\n <p>\n  In the year since the CIA trained and then unleashed him, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each swift and untraceable kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians in the Pan Am Lockerbie attack become increasingly aware that someone is hunting them. Rapp is given his next target, and finds the man asleep in his bed in Paris. In the split second it takes the bullet to leave Rappâ€™s silenced pistol, the trap is sprung and he finds himself in the fight of his life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The next morning, nine bodies are discovered in one of Parisâ€™s finest hotelsâ€”among them the Libyan oil minister. Back in Washington the finger-pointing begins in earnest as no one wants any part in what has become an international crisis and potential embarrassment for the CIA. Rappâ€™s handlers have only one choiceâ€”deny any responsibility for the incident and pray that their newest secret weapon stays that way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rapp must avoid capture or die quietly. One person in the group, however, is not prone to leaving such important things to chance. Rapp has become a liability, and Stan Hurley will not allow Rapp to be taken alive by the French authorities, even if it means killing him. Operating on his own and outside the control of his handlers, it will soon become clear that nothing is more dangerous than a wounded and cornered Mitch Rapp.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In Flynnâ€™s newest page-turner, the stakes are higher than theyâ€™ve ever been as Mitch Rapp embarks on the journey that will turn him into Americaâ€™s most deadly asset. The nonstop action in this shockingly realistic political thriller will keep your pulse pounding till the very end.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2442'),
(1739, 'The Killing Dance', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anita Blake, vampire hunter, is now herself a hunted woman. Who put the $500,000 price on her head--a man or a monster? It''s not just her own skin she needs to save; the rivalry between her werewolf boyfriend, Richard, and Marcus, the other alpha werewolf in his pack, has come to full boil. And there''s always Jean-Claude, the vampire who''s been waiting for just the right moment to slip inside Anita''s head and heart. Don''t assume anything, though--Hamilton''s probably got a few more surprises in store.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Death and gore galore ... Hamilton writes with ease and vigour...Great fun'' SHIVERS ''I was enthralled - a departure from the usual type of vampire tale which will have a wide appeal to any reader hunting for both chills and fun'' Andre Norton ''This fast-paced, tough-edged supernatural thriller is mesmerizing reading indeed'' LOCUS ''Supernatural bad guys beware, night-prowling Anita Blake is savvy, sassy and tough'' P N Elrod, author of THE VAMPIRE FILES\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/747'),
(1740, 'Killing Floor', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Jack Reacher suddenly decides to ask a Greyhound bus driver to let him off near the town of Margrave, Georgia, he thinks it''s because his brother once mentioned that the famed blues guitarist Blind Blake died there. But it doesn''t take long for the footloose ex-military policeman to discover that there are plenty of strange--and very dangerous--things going on behind Margrave''s manicured lawns and clean streets that demand his attention. This first thriller by a former television writer features some of the best-written scenes of action in recent memory, a crash course in currency and counterfeiting, and a hero who is just begging to be called on for an encore.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The transient Jack Reacher finds himself in tiny Margrave, Georgia, and is almost immediately arrested, if briefly, as a murder suspect. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that one of the victims is his brother, a brilliant U.S. Treasury agent. Reacher himself is no slouch; a former military policeman, he can dispatch villains with an astonishing array of weapons, including various parts of his body. In the company of a straight-arrow detective and a beautiful lady cop, Reacher soon unearths a conspiracy stretching through the little town and beyond. Blood flows freely, terrible threats are made and carried out, and body parts accumulate. First novelist Child, a former television writer, stretches coincidence outrageously in this would-be noir outing, whose hero is creepily amoral, violent, and generally unpleasant. Only large pop fiction collections need consider.?Elsa Pendleton, Boeing Information Svcs., Ridgecrest, Cal.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/961'),
(1741, 'Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever', 'Bill O&#39;Reilly &amp; Martin Dugard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O''Reilly\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The anchor of\n  <em>\n   The O''Reilly Factor\n  </em>\n  recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American historyâ€”how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America''s Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of increasingly harrowing battles. President Abraham Lincoln''s generous terms for Robert E. Lee''s surrender are devised to fulfill Lincoln''s dream of healing a divided nation, with the former Confederates allowed to reintegrate into American society. But one man and his band of murderous accomplices, perhaps reaching into the highest ranks of the U.S. government, are not appeased.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the midst of the patriotic celebrations in Washington D.C., John Wilkes Boothâ€”charismatic ladies'' man and impenitent racistâ€”murders Abraham Lincoln at Ford''s Theatre. A furious manhunt ensues and Booth immediately becomes the country''s most wanted fugitive. Lafayette C. Baker, a smart but shifty New York detective and former Union spy, unravels the string of clues leading to Booth, while federal forces track his accomplices. The thrilling chase ends in a fiery shootout and a series of court-ordered executionsâ€”including that of the first woman ever executed by the U.S. government, Mary Surratt. Featuring some of history''s most remarkable figures, vivid detail, and page-turning action,\n  <em>\n   Killing Lincoln\n  </em>\n  is history that reads like a thriller.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "As a history major, I wish my required reading had been as well written as this truly vivid and emotionally engaging account of Lincoln''s assassination.Â And as a former combat infantry officer, I found myself running for cover at the Civil War battle scenes. This is the story of an American tragedy that changed the course of history.Â  If you think you know this story, you don''t until youâ€™ve read\n  <em>\n   Killing Lincoln\n  </em>\n  .Â  Add historian to Bill Oâ€™Reillyâ€™s already impressive rÃ©sumÃ©."â€”Nelson DeMille, author of\n  <em>\n   The Lion\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Gold Coast\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   Killing Lincoln\n  </em>\n  Â is a must read historical thriller. Â Bill O''Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington, DC, on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. Â This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read."â€”Vince Flynn, author of\n  <em>\n   American Assassin\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "If Grisham wrote a novel about April 1865â€¦it might well read like\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Killing Lincoln\n  </em>\n  ."â€”Peter J. Boyer,\n  <em>\n   Newsweek\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "[Killing Lincoln]Â delivers a taut, action-packed narrative with cliff-hangers aplenty..."--\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Christian Science Monitor\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "[Killing Lincoln]Â is nonfiction, albeit told in white-knuckled, John Grisham-like style."--\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   New York Post\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n   About the Author\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Bill O''Reilly\n   </strong>\n   is the anchor of\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The O''Reilly Factor\n  </em>\n  , the highest-rated cable news show in the country. He also writes a syndicated newspaper column and is the author of several number-one bestselling books. He is, perhaps, the most talked about political commentator in the country.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Martin Dugard\n   </strong>\n   is the\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of several books of history. His book\n  <em>\n   Into\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Africa\n  </em>\n  :\n  <em>\n   The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone\n  </em>\n  has been adapted into a History Channel special. He lives in Southern California with his wife and three sons.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2485'),
(1742, 'Kindred in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n New York City law officers have more technological weapons at their disposal in bestseller Robb''s snappy near-future series, but so do criminals, including the sadistic rapist killer who strikes down Deena MacMasters, the 16-year-old daughter of police captain Jonah MacMasters, in the 30th full-length novel to feature homicide detective Lt. Eve Dallas (after\n <em>\n  Promises in Death\n </em>\n ). MacMasters specifically asks that Dallas, who has a knack for clever insights and deductions, lead the investigation into his daughter''s murder. An impressive team of professionalsâ€”augmented by Dallas''s husband, Roarke, and his young protÃ©gÃ©, Jaime Lingstromâ€”begins the arduous task of collecting and analyzing data. Clues suggest Deena may not be the only victim targeted by her killer and increase the pressure on Dallas and her cohorts. Robb (aka Nora Roberts) combines sex, horrific crime, forensics and technological wizardry for another winner sure to please her many fans.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 2060, Lieutenant Eve Dallas searches the backstreets of New York City for a dastardly and despicable criminal in the newest novel by #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author J.D. Robb.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1108'),
(1743, 'King of the Murgos', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n King Belgarion and Queen Ce''Nedra are still searching for their kidnapped son Geran in this second volume of The Mallorean, Eddings''s sequel to his bestselling fantasy series The Belgariad. After pursuing the Bear Cult in the last book, they now have information that the culprit is actually the evil Zandramas. Despite the seeming urgency of their quest, the journey becomes almost leisurely as the company, including the ancient sorcerer Belgarath, his daughter Polgara and the spy called Silk, stop repeatedly along the way. They visit the cave-dwelling mystics, the Ulgos, the imperial Tolnedrans, the forest Dryads, the Serpent Queen and the city of Rak Urga, where they make an unlikely ally of timid, wily Urgit, King of the Murgos. If this is seldom really gripping, the flavorful interplay among Eddings''s stubborn, resourceful characters keeps the narrative continually entertaining.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the words of the Prophecy lead the Rivan King Garion and his companions across the lands of the Snake-Queen and the once hostile Murgos, the malignant Zandramaskidnapper of Garion''s sonpursues another Prophecy which, if fulfilled, will lead to the triumph of Darkness. Eddings continues to provide solid fantasy entertainment featuring engaging characters and warm, wry humor in this sequel to Guardians of the West. Recommended for fantasy collections. JC\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1288'),
(1744, 'The King of Torts', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grisham continues to impress with his daring, venturing out of legal thrillers entirely for A Painted House and Skipping Christmas (the re-release of which this past fall was itself a bold move) and, within the genre, working major variations. Here''s his most unusual legal thriller yet--a story whose hero and villain are the same, a young man with the tragic flaw of greed; a story whose suspense arises not from physical threat but moral turmoil, and one that launches a devastating assault on a group of the author''s colleagues within the law. Mass tort lawyers are Grisham''s target, the men (they''re all men here, at least) who win billion-dollar class-action settlements from corporations selling bad products, then rake fantastic fees off the top, with far smaller payouts going to the people harmed by the products. Clay Carter is a burning-out lawyer at the Office of the Public Defender (OPD) in Washington, D.C., when he catches the case of a teen who, for no apparent reason, has gunned down an acquaintance. Clay is approached by a mysterious stranger, the enigmatic Max Pace, who says he represents a megacorporation whose bad drug caused the teen--and others--to kill. The corporation will pay Clay $10 million to settle with all the murder victims at $5 million per, if all is accomplished on the hush-hush; that way, the corporation avoids trial and possibly much higher jury awards. After briefly examining his conscience, Clay bites. He quits the OPD, sets up his own firm and settles the cases. In reward, Pace gives him a present--a mass tort case based on stolen evidence but worth tens of millions in fees. Clay lunges again, eventually winning over a hundred million in fees. He is crowned by the press the new King of Torts, with enough money to hobnob with the other, venal-hearted tort royalty, to buy a Porsche, a Georgetown townhouse and a private jet, but not enough to forget his heartache over the woman he loves, who dumped him as a loser right before his career took off. Clay''s financial/legal hubris knows few bounds, and soon he''s overextended, his future hanging on the results of one product liability trial. The tension is considerable throughout, and readers will like the gentle ending, but Grisham''s aim here clearly is to educate as he entertains. He can be didactic ("\n <code>\n  Nobody earns ten million dollars in six months, Clay,'' " a friend warns. "\n </code>\n You might win it, steal it, or have it drop out of the sky, but nobody earns money like that. It''s ridiculous and obscene'' "), but readers will applaud Grisham''s fierce moral stance (while perhaps wondering what sort of advance he got for this book) as they cling to his words every step along the way of this powerful and gripping morality tale.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œRousing . . . Another pedal-to-the-metal crowd-pleaser.â€â€”\n <em>\n  People\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOffers everything one expects from Grisham . . . delivers with a vengeance.â€\n <em>\n  â€”The Seattle Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSatisfying . . . a lot of fun . . . When you finish it, youâ€™re ready to dash on to the next Grisham.â€\n <em>\n  â€”Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œA thrill ride of twists and turns.â€\n <em>\n  â€”The Philadelphia Inquirer\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/722'),
(1745, 'A King&#39;s Ransom', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Miami attorney Nick Rey was perturbed by his fiancÃ©e''s ocean-side pronouncement that in the future her title should be preceded by "ex-". So perturbed that he barely noticed when, seconds later, a sharp-shooting seagull dropped him another plate of the same. Odd to think that he''d shortly look back on it all as, well, a day at the beach.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then again, having one''s father kidnapped and held for ransom by Columbian revolutionaries will alter one''s perspective, as will hearing that the FBI''s declined to pursue the matter as they suspect the kidnappee, Matthew Rey, is not a commercial fisherman at all, but a drug smuggler. The state department, citing official policy against paying kidnappers, won''t intercede and, oh yes, the insurance company that sold dad his $3,000,000 kidnap-and-ransom policy won''t pay up because they think he''s as much in cahoots as he is in Cartagena. Nick''s sister, Lindsey, who''s probably in South America, hasn''t been heard from in a month, and his mother''s pregnant.\n</p>\n<p>\n And that''s just the starting block as Nick and the beautiful insurance investigator, Alex Cabrera (also a former revolutionary), run waist-deep into pan-American treachery and deceit--and nifty plot twists and surprises--much of it supplied by Nick''s own law firm, Coolidge, Harding and Cash.\n</p>\n<p>\n Throughout\n <em>\n  A King''s Ransom\n </em>\n , author and Miami attorney James Grippando deftly balances first-person (Nick''s) and third-person (Matthew''s) narrative with true-to-life dialogue and characters drawn as well or better than most. It''s fast, it''s gripping, and it''s getting to be a habit with him. Grippando bolted from the starting gate (and, presumably, the courtroom) with 1994''s breath-holder\n <em>\n  The Pardon\n </em>\n ; if his sixth book in eight years is any indication, he''ll neither slow down nor reenter the courtroom for some time to come.\n <em>\n  --Michael Hudson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attorney-turned-novelist Grippando''s (Under Cover of Darkness; Found Money) sixth effort kicks off when Matthew Rey, a Florida fisherman with a partnership in a Nicaraguan seafood operation, is kidnapped while on business in Colombia by a group of Marxist guerrillas led by a sadistic soldier named JoaquÂ¡n. Matthew is dragged off to the mountains and his son, Nick, a young Florida lawyer, receives a ransom demand and tries to get his father back through official channels. Bad move: it turns out Matthew and his partner, Guillermo Cruz, are under suspicion of running drugs. Nick also learns that Matthew had kidnap-and-ransom insurance for the precise amount demanded by JoaquÂ¡n. To make matters worse, the insurance provider is a client of Nick''s law firm, and refuses to pay the claim, accusing Nick and Matthew of conspiracy and fraud. Nick is legally outmaneuvered by his boss scheming senior partner Duncan Fitz and booted out of the firm. Broke, desperate and under suspicion of several felonies, he receives help from beautiful kidnapping negotiator Alex Cabrera and his ex-fiancâ€še, Jenna, who''s also a lawyer. Naturally, he finds himself torn between his lost love and his growing affection for the mysterious Alex. Meanwhile, Matthew is a helpless witness to scenes of gang rape, torture and murder perpetrated by JoaquÂ¡n and his thugs. Outflanked and running out of time, Nick delves into his father''s business dealings and slowly uncovers a massive conspiracy. Grippando''s experience as a trial lawyer shows in his depiction of Nick''s frantic legal moves to clear his family''s name; his extensive research into the kidnapping industry currently thriving in Latin America adds a harrowing dose of realism to a taut, well-constructed page-turner that seems destined for the big screen. Agents, Richard and Artie Pine. National advertising; six-city author tour.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1262'),
(1746, 'A Kingdom Besieged', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOriginality and wit a rollicking tale Feistâ€™s narrative skill, ingenuity at creating systems of magic, and eye for plausible militaryscenarios stand him in good stead. His many fans will be pleased.â€ (Booklist )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn the forefront of contemporary fantasy adventure.â€ (Library Journal )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Feist] introduces a new dimension to his universe and added new depth to recurring characters while creating fascinating new heroes and villains. With a fast pace and clean, crisp storytelling, this fantasy saga belongs in most libraries.â€ (Library Journal )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSplendid . . . fast action, appealing characters . . . (It) will delight readers of fantasy.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs usual, Feist brings this off wonderfully.â€ (Science Fiction Chronicle )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCLASSIC.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith his storytelling mastery and ear for colorful language and nuance, the author of numerous books set in the dual worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan here launches a series that takes his fantasy universe into a whole new phase. â€ (Library Journal )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis tale of shape-shifting magicians, human sacrifice, man-eating demons, and a little young love will satisfy Feistâ€™s fans, and the ending will leave them waiting for another volume.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA sensitive coming-of-age tale in which brutality and camaraderie are equally present, Feistâ€™s newest saga has a freshness of vision that suggests it will avoid the staleness that often eats away at multi-volume epics.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFast action, appealing characters, and a splendid setting will delight readers of fantasy and leave them eager for the next battle.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOriginality and wit . . . A rollicking tale . . . Feistâ€™s narrative skill, ingenuity at creating systems of magic, and eye for plausible military scenarios stand him in good stead. His many fans will be pleased.â€ (Booklist )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA promising start to what looks like a strong, dire trilogy of fantastic adventure.â€ (San Diego Union-Tribune )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] compelling and profoundly moving taleâ€¦ an invaluable addition to a beloved canon.â€ (barnesandnoble.com )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA story of redemption and heroism featuring an unlikely hero . . . This classic fantasy should find a welcome audience among the authorâ€™s fans.â€ (Library Journal )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fine yarn . . . vivid . . . suspenseful . . . The action is nonstop. (Booklist )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn epic reading experience . . . Unpretentious, fast-paced . . . Shadow of a Dark Queen works admirably.â€ (San Diego Union-Tribune )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn action-packed story of intrigue and betrayal.â€ (Library Journal )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction and intrigue and evocative writing . . . Feist brings a new world alive.â€ (The Oregonian (Portland) )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFeist has a natural talent for keeping the reader turning pages.â€ (Chicago-Sun Times )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFeist brings a new world alive.â€ (The Oregonian (Portland) )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOriginality and wit... A rollicking tale... [Feistâ€™s] narrative skill, ingenuity at creating systems of magic, and eye for plausible military scenarios stand him in good stead. His many fans will be pleased.â€ (Booklist )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most interesting character in the saga to date, Kaspar . . . another complicated and compelling protagonist . . . [W]ill have Feist fans eagerly awaiting the next installment.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShows Feist in top form.â€ (Adelaide Advertiser )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSheer readability.â€ (San Francisco Chronicle )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSure to please Feist fans and win new ones.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis simple, charming fairy tale will appeal to adult fans of the Riftwar books as well as mature teens who donâ€™t mind a bit of romance in their sword-and-sorcery.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnother crowd-pleaser for Feist to add to his already impressive resume.â€ (Publishers Weekly on King of Foxes )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFeistâ€™s fans will look forward to the sagaâ€™s final episode.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFUN . . . A place to start for those yet to discover Feistâ€™s fantasy worlds.â€ (Locus )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFeist has the universe firmly under his control, and the adventure is grand[.]â€ (Contra Costa Times )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA massive, entertaining tale.â€ (Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA great read and a wonderful addition to Feistâ€™s collection.â€ (SF Site )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFine entertainment . . . Feist works his signature magic . . . an absorbing and carefully crafted adventure with pleasing density of plotting, good characterization . . . this is populist Dickens out of Tolkien, and it works.â€ (Sydney Morning Herald )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThereâ€™s an evil sparkle here, brighter and hotter than any of Feistâ€™s works since the Magician trilogy. The Dasati and their world are sumptuously realised . . . Itâ€™s an entertaining, at times intoxicating mixture.â€ (SF Site )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe prose is smooth, the plot is exactly what youâ€™d expect and the characters do exactly what Feist tells them . . . File under guilty pleasure.â€ (The Guardian )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is a series that gets better as it goes along.â€ (Science Fiction Chronicle )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFeist is at his best.â€ (Science Fiction Chronicle )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWell-paced storytelling by a veteran entertainer.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  After nearly thirty years and more than two dozen novels, Raymond E. Feist''s Riftwar Cycle has become one of the most iconic, beloved, and enduring sagas in modern fantasy. The Riftwarsâ€”including the original Riftwar, the Serpentwar, the Darkwar, and the Demonwarâ€”were epic battles between Good and Evil whose ramifications have echoed through generations. The latest entry in the epic,\n  <em>\n   A Kingdom Besieged\n  </em>\n  , ushers in the most fearsome threat the Kingdom has yet facedâ€”the Chaoswarâ€”a magic apocalypse with cataclysmic results.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A Kingdom Besieged\n  </em>\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Years ago, the Empire of Great Kesh failed in its attempt to conquer Krondor after the Serpentwar, thanks to the bravery, cunning, and magic of the sorcerer Pug and the Conclave of Shadows. Since then, peace has benefitted both nations, and the Kingdom has been free from the threat of another Keshian invasion. Yet now, the dark clouds of war gather again. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n From the Far Coast in the west to the frontier with the Eastern Kingdoms, rumors, uncertainty, and political instability are rampant. Spies have gone missingâ€”some were murdered while others have turned traitor. Factions are rising, powerful legions from the Keshian Confederacy have been mobilized, and an attack on the kingdoms of the Isles and Roldem is all but certain.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the men of the Western Realm begin to mount a defense, Martin conDoin, the middle son of Lord Henry, Duke of Crydee, finds himself leading the charge against the invadersâ€”like his legendary ancestor, Prince Arutha, who stood firm to the death against the Tsurani invasion. But Arutha had an entire army at his command. Martin has just a ragtag force comprised of a few old men and young boys.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Kesh''s invading hordes once again descend upon the Kingdom, no one is safeâ€”not experienced masters of intrigue Lord James Dasher Jamison and the beguiling and deadly Lady Franciezka; not the brave warrior Knight-Adamant Sandreena and a new generation of loyal yet untested defenders; not even the great Pug himself, the most powerful magician the world of Midkemia has ever known. A threat far more terrifying has arisen, an evil whose burgeoning power portends Midkemia''s demise. And soon even the Kingdom''s enchanted defender will find himself questioning everything he''s ever held abiding, true, and treasured . . . including the loyalty and desires of his beloved son, Magnus.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1273');
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(1747, 'A Kiss of Shadows', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Laurell K. Hamilton revitalized vampires, werewolves, and zombies in the popular Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter books. In this new series, she updates faeries.\n <em>\n  A Kiss of Shadows\n </em>\n introduces Merry Gentry, a.k.a. Meredith NicEssus, a faerie princess of the Unseelie Court, where politics is a blood sport. Merry, who''s part sidhe (elvish), part brownie, and part human, never really fit in. She''s short, not skilled in offensive magic, and mortal because of her human blood. These are real liabilities when your family, especially aunt Andais, Queen of Air and Darkness, is out to kill you. Merry has been in hiding for three years, living in Los Angeles and working for the Grey Detective Agency, which specializes in "supernatural problems, magical solutions." A new case sets her against a man who uses forbidden magic to seduce fey women and drain their power. A plan to trap him goes awry and Merry''s cover is blown. Now Andais knows where she is. But things have changed in Andais''s court, and Merry is changing too.\n</p>\n<p>\n Despite the selkies, brownies, goblins, and ogres in this book, it''s not for children. The fey are "creatures of the senses"--and in the Unseelie court, sex and pain go together. Merry is sexually adventurous and surrounded by gorgeous, powerful males, most of whom want her badly. She''s politically savvy and no coward, though she''s not the warrior Anita is. Hamilton fans and readers of adult fairy tales like Anne Bishop''s Black Jewels trilogy will want to give Merry a look.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Erotica is fantasy, but it rarely gets as fantastic as this. After nine novels featuring Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (Obsidian Butterfly, etc.), Hamilton launches a sizzling new series that blends supernatural fantasy with detective adventure and hot sex. Here, the world is populated with various magical faerie races along with humans. The most supreme of the fey are the immortal sidhe, so beautiful and powerful they were once worshiped as gods. The fey are not only lusty but incredibly accomplished lovers; those of the royal sidhe bloodline are literally addictively sexy. Full-blooded fey are, for the most part, intolerant of cities, metal and technology. They seldom live for long among humans. Mixed-blood Princess Meredith NicEssus, however, has fled the faerie world to pass for three years as Merry Gentry, a human with some fey blood who works in Los Angeles with a detective agency that specializes in supernatural problems and magical solutions. Suddenly outed as the missing princess and fearing that her aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness, will kill her, she makes a desperate run aided by her detective pals. The queen does want her, but not in the way Merry expects. Ultimately, Meredith must fulfill the queen''s designs for the future of her court, even if it means having to bed the most beautiful studs in the universe. Through constant danger and adventure, Meredith finds herself in a variety of sexual encounters that make it easy to see why her ancestors were so worthy of worship. As wild as the novel''s premise is, memorable characters and wicked wit make it all delicious, ribald fun. 8-city author tour. (Oct.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/591'),
(1748, 'Kiss the Dead', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, itâ€™s up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, sheâ€™s faced with something sheâ€™s never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of peopleâ€”kids, grandparents, soccer momsâ€”all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. And where thereâ€™s one martyr, there will be moreâ€¦ But even vampires have monsters that theyâ€™re afraid of. And Anita is one of themâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2403'),
(1749, 'Kiss the Girls', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Casanova" works the East Coast, "The Gentleman Caller" works the West Coast, and these two serial killers might just be working together. Washed-up Washington, D.C., police detective Alex Cross gets involved when his niece is abducted. Since this is a new work by the author of the best-selling Along Came a Spider (LJ 12/92), don''t be surprised that Paramount has bought the film rights and that BOMC has made it a main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Advertising executive Patterson doubles neither our pleasure nor our fun by giving us two intense, Hannibal Lecter-type murderers for the price of one in an improbable and hopelessly derivative mess of a thriller. Feds and local authorities on both coasts are baffled by a pair of serial killers targeting beautiful young women: The Gentleman Caller works the scene in sunny L.A., where he brutally murders and dismembers his prey; his counterpart back East, who calls himself Casanova, trolls the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area for sexy coeds to victimize. Their MOs provide plenty of fodder for an author trying to cook up a work of psychological terror: Both are powerful, handsome, brilliant (natch), commit perfect crimes, and, despite their busy schedules, manage to keep in touch with each other. To catch them, you obviously need a perfect crime fighter. Enter Alex Cross, the Washington, D.C., detective/psychologist hero of bestselling Along Came A Spider (1993), who gets dragged into all this after his niece Naomi, a student at Duke University, vanishes. Working with the authorities and a medical student named Kate McTiernan, who was lucky enough to escape Casanova''s clutches, Cross begins to understand how the two dueling psychos operate. Just in the nick of time, too, because the Gentleman Caller, on the run from the law out West, decides that nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina with his old buddy Casanova. So, what does Cross, whose favorite niece is now in the clutches of two sickos, do? Fall in love with Kate McTiernan, of course, in an ill-placed romantic subplot intended to raise the stakes in the deadly cat-and-mouse game. Does Cross save Naomi? Are the two killers brought to justice or, at the very least, consigned to gory demises? Who cares? As a storyteller, Patterson is a great ad copywriter. (First priting of 275,000; film rights to Paramount; Book-of-the-Month Club main selection) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/358'),
(1750, 'The Kite Runner', 'Khaled Hosseini', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his debut novel,\n <em>\n  The Kite Runner\n </em>\n , Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country''s political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his first try.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Kite Runner\n </em>\n follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir''s father''s servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and the sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness that bring him back to his war-torn native land after it comes under Taliban rule. ("...I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.")\n</p>\n<p>\n Some of the plot''s turns and twists may be somewhat implausible, but Hosseini has created characters that seem so real that one almost forgets that\n <em>\n  The Kite Runner\n </em>\n is a novel and not a memoir. At a time when Afghanistan has been thrust into the forefront of America''s collective consciousness ("people sipping lattes at Starbucks were talking about the battle for Kunduz"), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating land. Perhaps the only true flaw in this extraordinary novel is that it ends all too soon.\n <em>\n  --Gisele Toueg\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hosseini''s stunning debut novel starts as an eloquent Afghan version of the American immigrant experience in the late 20th century, but betrayal and redemption come to the forefront when the narrator, a writer, returns to his ravaged homeland to rescue the son of his childhood friend after the boy''s parents are shot during the Taliban takeover in the mid ''90s. Amir, the son of a well-to-do Kabul merchant, is the first-person narrator, who marries, moves to California and becomes a successful novelist. But he remains haunted by a childhood incident in which he betrayed the trust of his best friend, a Hazara boy named Hassan, who receives a brutal beating from some local bullies. After establishing himself in America, Amir learns that the Taliban have murdered Hassan and his wife, raising questions about the fate of his son, Sohrab. Spurred on by childhood guilt, Amir makes the difficult journey to Kabul, only to learn the boy has been enslaved by a former childhood bully who has become a prominent Taliban official. The price Amir must pay to recover the boy is just one of several brilliant, startling plot twists that make this book memorable both as a political chronicle and a deeply personal tale about how childhood choices affect our adult lives. The character studies alone would make this a noteworthy debut, from the portrait of the sensitive, insecure Amir to the multilayered development of his father, Baba, whose sacrifices and scandalous behavior are fully revealed only when Amir returns to Afghanistan and learns the true nature of his relationship to Hassan. Add an incisive, perceptive examination of recent Afghan history and its ramifications in both America and the Middle East, and the result is a complete work of literature that succeeds in exploring the culture of a previously obscure nation that has become a pivot point in the global politics of the new millennium.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/608'),
(1751, 'Knife of Dreams', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  About the Author\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Robert Jordan\n </strong>\n lives in Charleston, South Carolina. He is a graduate of the Citadel.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com''s Significant Seven\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Robert Jordan kindly agreed to take the life quiz we like to give to all our authors: the Amazon.com Significant Seven.\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What book has had the most significant impact on your life?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The King James version of the Bible. That seems a cliche, but I can''t think of any other book that has had as large an impact in shaping who I am.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The one book would be whatever book I was currently writing. I mean, I hate falling behind in the work. The one CD would contain the best encyclopedia I could find on desert island survival. The DVD would contain as much of Beethoven, Mozart, and Duke Ellington as I could cram onto it.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What is the worst lie you''ve ever told?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n It''s hard to think of one since I am genetically incapable of lying to women and that takes out 52% of the population right there.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Describe the perfect writing environment.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Any place that has my computer, a CD player for music, a comfortable chair that won''t leave me with a backache at the end of a long day, and very little interruption.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n He kept trying to get better at it.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n My wife before anybody else on earth living or dead. That''s a no-brainer.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n If you could have one superpower what would it be?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n That depends. If I''m feeling altruistic, it would be the ability to heal anything with a touch, if that can be called a superpower. If I''m not feeling very altruistic, it would be the ability to read other people''s minds, to\n <em>\n  finally\n </em>\n be able to get to the bottom of what they really mean and what their motivations are.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  See all books in the Wheel of Time series.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n The previous book in Jordan''s massive Wheel of Time,\n <em>\n  Crossroads of Twilight\n </em>\n , may have come out in 2003, but don''t let that fool you; the 11th tome in this epic fantasy is the one Jordan fans have been eagerly waiting for the better part of a decade. The breakneck pace, lyrical beauty and astonishing scope of the early Wheel of Time volumes established Jordan as one of the top writers in the Tolkien tradition. While more recent entries have maintained that beauty and scope, the pace has slowed to a crawl as the central characters dispersed in six directions. In contrast, the latest explodes with motion, as multiple plot lines either conclude or advance, and the march to Tarmon Gai''donâ€”the climactic last battle between the Dragon Reborn and the Dark Oneâ€”begins in earnest. Faile''s captivity with the Shaido, Mat''s pursuit of Tuon and Elayne''s war for Caemlyn come to a close, while Egwene''s capture brings the Aes Sedai war to the heart of the Tower. Jordan has said that readers will be sweating by the end of the book, and he''s probably right. Sweating or not, they''ll also be dreading the long year or two before the 12th installment.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/657'),
(1752, 'The Know-It-All: One Man&#39;s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World', 'A. J. Jacobs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  33,000 pages\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n 44 million words\n</p>\n<p>\n 10 billion years of history\n</p>\n<p>\n 1 obsessed man\n</p>\n<p>\n Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof),\n <em>\n  The Know-It-All\n </em>\n chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs''s hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the\n <em>\n  Encyclopaedia Britannica\n </em>\n from A to Z.\n</p>\n<p>\n To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes of the\n <em>\n  Encyclopaedia Britannica.\n </em>\n His wife, Julie, tells him it''s a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his father, a brilliant attorney who had once attempted the same feat and quit somewhere around Borneo, is encouraging but, shall we say, unconvinced.\n</p>\n<p>\n With self-deprecating wit and a disarming frankness,\n <em>\n  The Know-It-All\n </em>\n recounts the unexpected and comically disruptive effects Operation Encyclopedia has on every part of Jacobs''s life Â— from his newly minted marriage to his complicated relationship with his father and the rest of his charmingly eccentric New York family to his day job as an editor at Esquire. Jacobs''s project tests the outer limits of his stamina and forces him to explore the real meaning of intelligence as he endeavors to join Mensa, win a spot on Jeopardy!, and absorb 33,000 pages of learning. On his journey he stumbles upon some of the strangest, funniest, and most profound facts about every topic under the sun, all while battling fatigue, ridicule, and the paralyzing fear that attends his first real-life responsibility Â— the impending birth of his first child.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Know-It-All\n </em>\n is an ingenious, mightily entertaining memoir of one man''s intellect, neuroses, and obsessions and a soul-searching, ultimately touching struggle between the all-consuming quest for factual knowledge and the undeniable gift of hard-won wisdom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1229'),
(1753, 'Known and Unknown: A Memoir', 'Donald Rumsfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Many people either admire or loathe Mr. Rumsfeld, but both camps can credit him with having produced, across print and digital, the first political memoir of the Information age."\n  <br />\n  -Gordon Crovitz,\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  , April 4, 2011\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m rereading portions of\n  <em>\n   Known and Unknown\n  </em>\n  . I''ve read it through the first time, and now I''m using it like a reference book for history."\n  <br />\n  -Greta van Susteren, Fox News, March 23, 2011\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don Rumsfeld creates an entertaining masterpiece...In short, this work cannot be recommended too highly. It is a unique portrait of a half-century of American Government from the inside out."\n  <br />\n  -Stephen Laib,\n  <em>\n   The Intellectual Conservative\n  </em>\n  , March 8, 2011\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An insider''s view."\n  <br />\n  -Walter Pincus,\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n  </em>\n  , March 1, 2011\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Those who believe in what I would call the accepted Iraq narrative...will either have to produce commensurate written texts that substantiate these assertions or prove that Rumsfeld''s ample paper trail and meticulous documentation are at odds with his performance as secretary."\n  <br />\n  -Victor Davis Hanson,\n  <em>\n   City Journal\n  </em>\n  , February 28, 2011\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I would heartily recommend it. I don''t think anybody could go buy a book written by anybody who has been more intimately involved, closer to power, for as many years, has been through as much, has known all of the power players as you have. It is amazing."\n  <br />\n  -Rush Limbaugh (interview transcript), February 8, 2011\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Readers might be appreciative to find themselves in possession of a serious memoir, more in keeping with the older Washington tradition of Dean Acheson or Henry Kissinger. As might the historians."\n  <br />\n  -Kimberly Strassel,\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  , February 8, 2011\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The battle is joined. After a long silence, Donald Rumsfeld opened both barrels Tuesday, releasing his memoir,\n  <em>\n   Known and Unknown\n  </em>\n  . Early leaks of the book''s defiant take on his life, times, and conduct of the Iraq War drew howls from some of the targets of his score-settling...But Rumsfeld battles on, taking his unapologetic account to the public."\n  <br />\n  -John Barry,\n  <em>\n   Newsweek-The Daily Beast\n  </em>\n  , February 8, 2011\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The book places the reader in Rumsfeld''s chair and is a serious stab at telling the history of a consequential period in America through the eyes of one of its most consequential players. It will be an important addition to the history of our time."\n  <br />\n  -Peter Baker (\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  White House correspondent), Foreign Policy, February 9, 2011\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rumsfeld "describes the highs and lows of a long and dramatic career and discloses some behind the scenes details that may shock you."\n  <br />\n  -Sean Hannity (interview transcript), February 9, 2011\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   Known and Unknown\n  </em>\n  is a meaty, well-written book that will be a primary source for historians...this power memoir deserves to be read with the care that went into writing it."\n  <br />\n  -Christopher Buckley,\n  <em>\n   Businessweek\n  </em>\n  , February 10, 2011\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "''Dismissive'' is a word often used to describe Rumsfeld, but ''dismissive'' perfectly describes his critics, who are unwilling or unable to re-examine their own assumptions in the light of new or overlooked information and fresh perspective provided by Rumsfeld, in his exceedingly well-documented work. With its hundreds of annotations and supplementary documents, Known and Unknown is a significant contribution to the historical record. It is, as Rumsfeld once noted about similar memoirs, ''only from one perspective,'' but it''s a unique and valuable perspective, a serious work that deserves consideration by any serious student of recent history."\n  <br />\n  -Jamie McIntyre (former CNN Pentagon correspondent), Line of Departure, February 10, 2011\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It is a terrific book...Let me tell you something, it is absolutely fascinating. He''s very blunt in talking about people and issues and so forth, you''ll really enjoy it, in my humble opinion."\n  <br />\n  -Mark Levin (interview transcript), February 10, 2011\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like Donald Rumsfeld,\n  <em>\n   Known and Unknown\n  </em>\n  pulls no punches.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld''s memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld''s unique and often surprising observations on eight decades of history: his experiences growing up during the Depression and World War II, his time as a Naval aviator; his service in Congress starting at age 30; his cabinet level positions in the Nixon and Ford White Houses; his assignments in the Reagan administration; and his years as a successful business executive in the private sector.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rumsfeld addresses the challenges and controversies of his illustrious career, from the unseating of the entrenched House Republican leader in 1965, to helping the Ford administration steer the country away from Watergate and Vietnam, to bruising battles over transforming the military for the 21st century, to the war in Iraq, to confronting abuse at Abu Ghraib and allegations of torture at Guantanamo Bay.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along the way, he offers his plainspoken, first-hand views and often humorous and surprising anecdotes about some of the world''s best known figures, from Margaret Thatcher to Saddam Hussein, from Henry Kissinger to Colin Powell, from Elvis Presley to Dick Cheney, and each American president from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rumsfeld relies not only on his memory but also on previously unreleased and recently declassified documents. Thousands of pages of documents not yet seen by the public will be made available on an accompanying website.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Known and Unknown\n  </em>\n  delivers both a fascinating narrative for today''s readers and an unprecedented resource for tomorrow''s historians.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Proceeds from the sales of\n  <em>\n   Known and Unknown\n  </em>\n  will go to the veterans charities supported by the Rumsfeld Foundation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1069'),
(1754, 'Kraken', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "The Soft Intelligence": 5 Underrated Literary Cephalopods by China MiÃ©ville\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Philippe DiolÃ© who named cephalopods ''the soft intelligence'', in the subtitle to their 1973 book\n  <em>\n   Octopus and Squid\n  </em>\n  . At first, the adjective seems vaguely simpering, as if these ambassadors of alterity are in fact safe, unthreatening, cuddly. But immediately comes a strangeness. If they are a, no,\n  <em>\n   the\n  </em>\n  soft intelligence, what are we?\n  <em>\n   Hard\n  </em>\n  intelligence? Soft\n  <em>\n   un\n  </em>\n  intelligence? Why are they soft intelligence\n  <em>\n   singular\n  </em>\n  ? Is each but an iteration of some tentacular totality? What strange sentience. An opaque collective.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are rules to this exercise. No invented species nor chimerical monsters--though this doesn''t preclude gigantism nor a little taxonomic vagueness. Thus the ''huge, brown, glistening bulk'' of William Hope Hodgson''s ''mighty devil-fish'' in\n  <em>\n   The Boats of the ''Glen Carrig''\n  </em>\n  would be permissible:\n  <em>\n   haploteuthis ferox\n  </em>\n  , that hitherto unknown squid that assailed the English coast in H.G. Wells''s\n  <em>\n   The Sea Raiders\n  </em>\n  is not: still less would be Cthulhu, despite his admirably tentacular visage. And as the effort here is to overturn a few rocks less jostled to see what coils beneath, much celebrated ceph-lit has been left alone. Captain Nemo''s nemesis is not here. Benchley''s\n  <em>\n   Beast\n  </em>\n  is absent, as is LautrÃ©amont''s octopus spirit from\n  <em>\n   Maldoror\n  </em>\n  . The astounding ruminations on the octopus-as-bad-ontology in Victor Hugo''s otherwise ''prodigiously boring book'' (Sebald)\n  <em>\n   Toilers of the Sea\n  </em>\n  , remain indispensable--but elsewhere.\n </p>\n <p>\n  See China MiÃ©ville''s full list of underrated literary cephalopods at Omnivoracious, Amazon.com''s books blog\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  British fantasist MiÃ©ville mashes up cop drama, cults, popular culture, magic, and gods in a Lovecraftian New Weird caper sure to delight fans of Perdido Street Station and The City &amp; the City. When a nine-meter-long dead squid is stolen, tank and all, from a London museum, curator Billy Harrow finds himself swept up in a world he didn''t know existed: one of worshippers of the giant squid, animated golems, talking tattoos, and animal familiars on strike. Forced on the lam with a renegade kraken cultist and stalked by cops and crazies, Billy finds his quest to recover the squid sidelined by questions as to what force may now be unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Even MiÃ©ville''s eloquent prose can''t conceal the meandering, bewildering plot, but his fans will happily swap linearity for this dizzying whirl of outrageous details and fantastic characters.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/392'),
(1755, 'L Is for Lawless', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Both new readers and old fans will welcome this 12th Kinsey Milhone adventure in the\n <em>\n  "A" is for Alibi\n </em>\n series by Sue Grafton. In this case, Kinsey agrees to do a favor for a friend of a friend and gets herself into so much trouble that she promises at the outset never to do such a thing again without careful consideration.\n</p>\n<p>\n Henry Pitt, her longtime landlord asks her to help a fellow neighbor find evidence that his grandfather served in the military during the Second World War. With such proof, the man can be decently buried, courtesy of the U.S. government. It seems such a simple thing, but with Kinsey, it rarely is. Before long she finds herself entangled with an eccentric and quarrelsome family as well as a long lost buddy who has turned up just in time to get himself beaten up in a robbery attempt of the alleged veteran''s apartment. It seems there is a reason the Armed Services have no record of the dead man''s service. Kinsey sets out to determine what he might have been doing instead of fighting against the Japanese and why someone might think his shabby apartment worth a burgle.\n</p>\n<p>\n Typical of the series, the mystery is not the central point of the story, but rather a starting point for Kinsey to become embroiled in a suspenseful (and delightful) search-and-rescue operation, usually against her better judgement. In this case, a gun-toting, arthritic octogenarian and revelations of the inner workings of bargain-rate motels are all part of the adventure. This is an easy and enjoyable read, and a solid addition to Grafton''s string of alphabetical hits.\n <em>\n  --K.A. Crouch\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bemused, beleaguered and begrimed, Southern California''s premier PI, Kinsey Millhone leaves her hometown of Santa Teresa in an adventure (her 12th in the alphabet series) that begins straightforwardly enough but quickly twists into a knotted string of untruths. While getting ready for the Thanksgiving Day wedding between a local tavern keeper and the elder brother of her landlord, Kinsey agrees to help the family of recently deceased neighborhood WWII vet, Johnnie Lee, find out why the military has no record of his service. Soon after Kinsey has finished looking (fruitlessly) through his papers, Lee''s rooms are burgled, and Ray Rawson, who claims he is an old friend recently arrived in Santa Teresa unaware of Lee''s death, is beaten up. Kinsey soon finds herself on a plane bound for Florida, in possession of only the clothes she''s wearing and her purse( with an extra toothbrush), trailing a young pregnant woman in possession of a duffel bag spirited from Lee''s home. On a stopover in Dallas/Fort Worth, Kinsey sleuths disguised as a hotel maid dusting baseboards ("tough to picture the boy detectives doing this," she reflects), meets the increasingly unreliable Rawson again and encounters yet another figure from Lee''s past, a violent, vengeful psychopath. While gradually sorting out the connections among this cast, Kinsey travels to Louisville, where Rawson''s 80-something mother proves her mettle and Kinsey, determining that lawless, in this case, is neither adjective nor collective noun, unravels a decades-old mystery. 750,000 first printing; Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/975'),
(1756, 'L. A. Requiem', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same again. His ex-lover, Karen Garcia, is dead, brutally murdered with a gun shot to the head.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Karen''s powerful father calls on Pike (a former cop) and his partner, Elvis Cole, to keep an eye on the LAPD as they search for his daughter''s killerÂ—because in the luminous City of Angels, everyone has secrets, and even the mighty blue have something to hide. But what starts as a little procedural hand-holding turns into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. For a dark web of conspiracy threatens to destroy Pike and Cole''s twelve-year friendshipÂ—if not their lives. And L.A. just might be singing their dirge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1336'),
(1757, 'L.A. Confidential', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Ellroy''s\n <em>\n  L.A. Confidential\n </em>\n is film-noir crime fiction akin to\n <em>\n  Chinatown\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Hollywood Babylon\n </em>\n , Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson. It''s about three tortured souls in the 1950s L.A.P.D.: Ed Exley, the clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow of his dad, a legendary cop in the same department; Jack Vincennes, a cop who advises a\n <em>\n  Police Squad\n </em>\n - like TV show and busts movie stars for payoffs from sleazy\n <em>\n  Hush-Hush\n </em>\n magazine; and Bud White, a detective haunted by the sight of his dad murdering his mom.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ellroy himself was traumatized as a boy by his party-animal mother''s murder. (See his memoir\n <em>\n  My Dark Places\n </em>\n for the whole sordid story.) So it is clear that Bud is partly autobiographical. But Exley, whose shiny reputation conceals a dark secret, and Vincennes, who goes showbiz with a vengeance, reflect parts of Ellroy, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  L.A. Confidential\n </em>\n holds enough plots for two or three books: the cops chase stolen gangland heroin through a landscape littered with not-always-innocent corpses while succumbing to sexy sirens who have been surgically resculpted to resemble movie stars; a vile developer--based (unfairly) on Walt Disney-- schemes to make big bucks off Moochie Mouse; and the cops compete with the crooks to see who can be more corrupt and violent. Ellroy''s hardboiled prose is so compressed that some of his rat-a-tat paragraphs are hard to follow. You have to read with attention as intense as hisâ€”and that is very intense indeed. But he richly rewards the effort. He may not be as deep and literary as Chandler, but he belongs on the same top-level shelf.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ellroy''s ninth novel, set in 1950s Los Angeles, kicks off with a shoot-out between a rogue ex-cop and a band of gangsters fronted by a crooked police lieutenant. Close on the heels of this scene comes a jarring Christmas Day precinct house riot, in which drunk and rampaging cops viciously beat up a group of jailed Mexican hoodlums. But, as readers will quickly learn, these sudden sprees of violence, laced with evidence of police corruption, are only teasers for the grisly events and pathos that follow this intricate police procedural. Picking up where The Black Dahlia and The Big Nowhere left off, the book tracks the intertwining paths of the three flawed and ambitious cops who emerge from the "Bloody Christmas" affair. Dope peddling, prostitution, and other risky business are revealed as the tightly wound plot untangles. Ellroy''s disdain for Hollywood tinsel is evident at every turn; even the most noble of the characters here are relentlessly sleazy. But their grueling, sometimes maniacal schemes make a compelling read for the stout of heart.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/771'),
(1758, 'La Daga', 'Philip Pullman &amp; Maria Dolores Gallart Iglesias', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though ostensibly written for children, this heroic and heart-wrenching His Dark Materials trilogy is beloved by readers of all ages. These three novels unlock the door to parallel universes where demons and winged creatures live side by side with humans, and a mysterious entity called Dust just might have the power to unite the universesâ€”if it isn''t destroyed first. Lyra, Pantalaimon, Will, and the rest embark on the most breathtaking, heartbreaking adventure of their lives. The fate of the universe is in their hands.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Lyra and Will tumble separately into the strange tropical otherworld of CittÃ gazze, where adults are curiously absent and children run wild. Their journey is plagued with obstacles, some familiar and some horribly new, but it eventually brings them closer to Will''s father and to the Subtle Knife, a deadly, ancient tool that cuts windows between worlds.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Philip Pullman\n </strong>\n is the author of the award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy,\n <em>\n  The Ruby in the Smoke\n </em>\n , the Sally Lockhart trilogy, and\n <em>\n  The Tin Princess\n </em>\n . His fiction has received multiple prizes including the Carnegie Medal, Guardian Fiction Prize, Smarties Prize, and\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n Best Book of the Year.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/231'),
(1759, 'La Goleta Nutmeg (The Nutmeg of Consolation)', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the end of O''Brian''s Thirteen Gun Salute, Captain Aubrey and the crew of the Diane are shipwrecked by a typhoon on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies. After they are rescued, Aubrey and crew continue their interrupted mission aboard a new vessel, the Nutmeg. The fourteenth novel in the classic Aubrey-Maturin series finds Aubrey and Maturin shipwrecked, harassed by pirates and then in the brutal penal colonies of New South Wales. Patrick O''Brian is regarded by many as the greatest living historical novelist writing in English. In The Nutmeg of Consolation, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin begin stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape, but after a stay in Batavia and a change of ship, they are caught up in a night chase in the fiercely tidal waters and then embroiled in the much more insidious conflicts of the terrifying penal settlements of New South Wales. It is one of O''Brian''s most accomplished and gripping books. EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the fourteenth book in the series. Patrick O''Brian is regarded by many as the greatest living historical novelist writing in English. In The Nutmeg of Consolation, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin begin stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape, but after a stay in Batavia and a change of ship, they are caught up in a night chase in the fiercely tidal waters and then embroiled in the much more insidious conflicts of the terrifying penal settlements of New South Wales. It is one of O''Brian''s most accomplished and gripping books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/468'),
(1760, 'Ladies and Gentlemen V. Players', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1625'),
(1761, 'The Lake House', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the Wind Blows (1998), to which this is a sequel, has been Patterson''s "most successful novel around the world," according to an author''s note. That novel, about children genetically engineered to fly, also thrilled most critics. This one won''t, despite some charms, and the reason manifests itself in the three paragraphs-paragraphs, mind-that begin chapter 41: "They were elated to be together again-the flock! The tribe! The family!" Patterson tends toward shorthand writing, and generally it works in his favor, but the problem here is that exclamation points do not engender deep emotions within readers! Nor do italics. And the novel is strewn with both, as well as with too much dumbed-down prose. The plot isn''t much to boast about, either. In the original, Max the flying bird-girl and her "siblings" were menaced by the mad scientists who ran the vile laboratory known as "the School," but were helped in escaping by erstwhile narrator Frannie O''Neill, a veterinarian, and Kit Brennan, an FBI agent. Here, Max and her five siblings are menaced by the mad scientist who runs the vile laboratory known as "the Hospital" but are helped by erstwhile narrator Frannie and Kit. So what''s new? Not much, other than a few neat touches (for instance, the villain, Dr. Ethan Kane, is addicted to M&amp;Ms) and-in by far the best section of the novel, not coincidentally one in which Patterson slows down-a truly moving description of how Max and the oldest male bird-child mate. The rest is an extended hunt and chase, as Kane goes after Max and her siblings in a medical conspiracy so outrageously unbelievable that readers will blink in wonder. The pages move like the wind that lifts Max''s wings, of course, but Patterson can, and has, done far better than this.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Patterson''s latest picks up where one of his most popular novels,\n <em>\n  When the Wind Blows\n </em>\n (1998), about a group of children who have been genetically engineered to fly, left off. Beautiful Max and handsome Ozymandias lead the group of six children who are fighting to stay with Kit and Frannie, the couple that saved them from the School, where they were being held by the scientists who created them. The court returns the children to their biological parents, but only Max knows how much danger they''re in. Max is privy to information about Resurrection, another project that is even more daring and groundbreaking than the one that created the children. Dr. Ethan Kane, the scientist who heads up Resurrection, is determined to keep Max silent and plots to kidnap the children. Though Max won''t share the secret with anyone, she and Oz gather up the other children and run to Frannie, but Kane is one step ahead of them and will do anything to stop Max from endangering his project--even if it means killing the children. An unexpected and sweet romance between Max and Oz alleviates the nail-biting suspense somewhat, but as usual, Patterson gets his readers in his grip from page one and doesn''t let go until the last page is turned. This sequel is even better than the first book.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/374'),
(1762, 'Land of Mango Sunsets', 'Dorothea Benton Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Her despicable husband left her for a lingerie model who''s barely more than a teenager, and her kids are busy with their own lives. But before Miriam Elizabeth Swanson can work herself up into a true snit about it all, her newest tenant, Liz, arrives from Birmingham with plenty of troubles of her own. Then Miriam meets a man named Harrison, who makes her laugh, makes her cry, and makes her feel like a brand-new woman.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s almost too much for one Manhattan quasi-socialite to handleâ€”so Miriam''s escaping to the enchanted and mysterious land of Sullivans Island, deep in the low country of South Carolina, a place where she can finally get her head on straightâ€”and perhaps figure out that pride is not what''s going to keep her warm at night . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A middle-aged woman''s self-discovery is predictable but not pedestrian in Frank''s (\n  <em>\n   Full of Grace\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   Pawleys Island\n  </em>\n  ) latest. A divorce has stalled Miriam Swanson''s life: her snooty HermÃ¨s-swathed Manhattan friends abandoned her after her ex-husband "ran off with his whore"; one of her grown sons keeps her at arm''s length, while her other son, a "nice nerd," stays beneath the family radar for months at a time; and the major drawback to her job at a museum is her bossâ€”icy former friend Agnes Willis. In a twist that stretches disbelief, Miriam catches Agnes''s husband, Truman, having a noisy rendezvous with Liz, the cute new tenant in Miriam''s townhouse. After a brief interlude that sends Miriam to a South Carolina barrier island to visit her former cotillion queen motherâ€”and meet the dreamy local Harrison Ford ("Not that wimpy actor")â€”Miriam reveals Truman''s affair, with consequences that fuel the remainder of the book. Frank''s narrative is heavy on healingâ€”physically, mentallyâ€”and the importance of family, and though her sometimes delightfully nasty heroine is sympathetic, supporting cast members have one note apiece. This isn''t Frank''s finest, but it''ll sate her fans.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Miriam Elizabeth Swanson''s life is one big pity party. Her husband of 20-plus years has traded her in for a newer model, her grown sons avoid her like the plague, and, likewise, her so-called society friends treat her like she''s the poster girl for the Ebola virus. If all that weren''t bad enough, her once-deluxe Manhattan town house has been carved up into apartments because she needs the rent to make ends meet, and her mother has morphed into a pot-smoking, aging hippie down at the family homestead in the Carolina Low Country. But when a new young tenant is brutally attacked by her lover, who happens to be married to one of Miriam''s erstwhile friends, Miriam experiences an epiphany that transforms her from a dour, nay-saying shrew into an upbeat, understanding confidant. Shedding her emotional baggage along with, let''s face it, a few pounds, Miriam learns the redemptive power of forgiveness and turns her life into a joyous celebration of family and friends.\n  <em>\n   Carol Haggas\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2401'),
(1763, 'Larkspur Cove', 'Lisa Wingate', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A decent read from a decent writer may be faint praise, but readers will enjoy Wingate''s story of goings-on in tiny Moses Lake, Tex. Following a heartbreaking divorce, Andrea Henderson and her son, Dustin, are in the town where Andrea spent childhood summers. She is trying to build a career as a social worker as her son struggles to fit in. They meet game warden Mart McClendon when Dustin gets in trouble on the lake, but there is more to the handsome game warden than meets the eye. Andrea and Mart are thrown together when they discover a little girl living with the town recluse. As the mystery of the child slowly resolves, Mart and Andrea''s relationship becomes closer. Can they overcome their pasts to reach for a new future? They face more than relationship questions when the girl''s mother shows up with her renegade friends. A nice tale to enjoy in front of a roaring winter fire.\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Andrea Henderson, now a single mother, has moved to Moses Lake with her adolescent son, Dustin, who seems drawn to trouble. Andrea''s new job as a social worker is hard enough, but her clients are scattered throughout a rugged terrain. Game warden Mart McClendon is in charge of Moses Lake and the surrounding area. He first meets Andrea when he catches Dustin doing dangerous stunts at the lake with his new buddies. Wingate''s faith-based novel chronicles the relationship of a mother who has to start again, the man who comes to love her, and her son. Readers will enjoy the folksy sayings written on the Wall of Wisdom at the Waterbird Bait and Grocery that begin each chapter. Wingate''s attention to detail, her poignant depictions of her characters, and her lyrical writing style make this book a draw for fans of contemporary and inspirational novels. --Shelley Mosley\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2364');
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(1764, 'Last Argument of Kings', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sword &amp; sorcery trilogy that began with\n <em>\n  The Blade Itself\n </em>\n (2007) and\n <em>\n  Before They Are Hanged\n </em>\n (2008) comes to a violent, sardonic and brilliant conclusion. The shaky Union, menaced simultaneously by rampaging Northmen and by Gurkish invaders from the south, now must contend with intrigue and treachery in its capital, Adua. Summoned to play parts in a devastating confrontation between magical forces, conscience-ridden berserker Logen Ninefingers and honest, weary Union commander Colonel West come down from the north to meet painfully self-aware torturer Glokta, revenge-obsessed female warrior Ferro, pliable young adventurer Jezal and scheming, unscrupulous mage Bayaz. All these people are believable, especially as they dabble in grimly convincing magic and struggle to hear their consciences through the roar of carnage and betrayal. Abercrombie is a fresh new talent, presenting a dark view of life with wit and zest, and readers will mourn the end of this vivid story arc.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Abercrombie is headed for superstar status --\n <em>\n  Jeff Vandermeer\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n With Last Argument of Kings, Abercrombie has cemented himself at the top of the fantasy genre. He deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the other titans on top of the ever-increasing pile. He''s written something not far short of a masterpiece, something special. Last Argument of Kings has everything you could ask for: huge battles, political intrigue, masterly characterisation and surprises by the bucket-load. This book will by turns shock you, excite you, make you laugh, and above all --\n <em>\n  Speculative Horizons\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/988'),
(1765, 'The Last Battle', 'C. S. Lewis &amp; Pauline Baynes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Narnia. . .where dwarfs are loyal and tough and strongÂ—or are they. . .where you must say goodbye. . .and where the adventure begins again.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Unicorn says that humans are brought to Narnia when Narnia is stirred and upset. And Narnia is in trouble now: A false Aslan roams the land. Narnia''s only hope is that Eustace and Jill, old friends to Narnia, will be able to find the true Aslan and restore peace to the land. Their task is a difficult one because, as the Centaur says, "The stars never lie, but Men and Beasts do." Who is the real Aslan and who is the imposter?\n</p>\n<p>\n In the conclusion of the saga that began with The Magician''s Nephew, a false Aslan is roaming Narnia, commanding everyone to work for the cruel Calormenes. Can Eustace and Jill find the true Aslan and restore peace to the land? The last battle is the greatest of all and the final struggle between good and evil.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help fight the great last battle and Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/923'),
(1766, 'Last Breath: A Novel of Suspense', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Youâ€™ve taken your Last Look. Youâ€™ve spoken your Last Words. Now prepare to surrender your Last Breath to New York Times\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Mariah Stewart, in this tour de force of suspense, romance, and action.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  As renowned archaeologist Dr. Daria McGowan readies the most important project of her careerâ€“a University museum exhibit showcasing the priceless artifacts her great-grandfather unearthed a century earlier in the Middle Eastâ€“she makes a shocking discovery: many of the most significant pieces have vanished. Panicked, Daria turns to the FBI.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Solving the mystery is an assignment that Connor Shields is more than happy to accept: Daria is the same intriguing blonde archaeologist heâ€™s had on his mind since their paths first crossed two years ago. Working together to track down the stolen artifacts, Daria and Connor discover a trail of bodiesâ€“collectors who have met brutal, bizarre ends at the hands of a killer whose murderous methods are based on the rituals of an ancient civilization.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Amid rumors of a curse and mounting pressure from both the FBI and the University, Daria and Connor race to unmask their enemy and unravel a mystery stretching across oceans and centuries. All the while, an ingenious murderer follows a sinister plan to gather the coveted antiquities and one last acquisitionâ€“Daria.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Devoted fans will be satisfied with the comfortably predictable final volume of Stewart''s Last trilogy (after Last Look and Last Words), but others may find the formulaic plot a little hard to swallow. Attractive archeologist Daria McGowan has been retained by an eminent university to catalogue the findings of one of her ancestors, who was rumored to have discovered proof of a legendary lost civilization. Her initial survey reveals that some priceless items have disappeared, and she soon learns that their innocent purchasers have been ritually butchered. She calls on a past lover, hunky FBI agent Connor Shields, and as they hunt for the killer, sparks fly between them. There''s little doubt that all will end happily, both for the Shields-McGowan relationship and for the university, making this a romantic thriller of more sweetness than substance.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this third in a series of mysteries with interconnected characters, archaeologist Daria McGowan travels to Howe University to create an exhibit containing artifacts from the ancient city of Shandihar, found and excavated by her great-grandfather in the early 1900s. While inventorying the boxes at the university, she discovers that some of the artifacts are missing from the storage room and contacts FBI agent Connor Shields. After locating the missing items via the Internet, the two try to visit the people who purchased them and find they have died in a gruesome manner, reminiscent of the way people were punished in Shandihar. Daria and Connor race to discover who originally stole the missing items and who is murdering and then reclaiming them. Are the descendants of the ancient protectors of Shandihar at work, or is it someone pretending the legend has come to life? Likable characters, details of archaeology, fast pacing, and Daria and Connor''s developing romantic relationship add to the story. O''Brien, Sue\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2411'),
(1767, 'Last Call', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A kid from Miami''s meanest streets, Theo Knight lost his mother to a violent crime. He was on Death Row for a murder he didn''t commit when lawyer Jack Swyteck proved him innocent. Now they are best friends. Theo is a semi-respectable and successful bar owner, but yesterday, with its risks and its terrors, has come knocking on his back door. An escaped convict from the old neighborhood wants sanctuary, and, in return, he is offering information: the identity of the killer who left Theo''s mom lying dead in the street on a hot South Florida evening.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Theo wants justice, but the answers are not simple. He and Jack must now piece together a twenty-year-old conspiracy of greed and corruption that''s pointing them toward the city''s most elite and powerful. And digging through a past that Theo has struggled his whole life to forget could awaken some very desperate, very deadly sleeping dogs.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Grippando is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of nineteen previous novels, including\n  <em>\n   Afraid of the Dark\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Money to Burn\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Intent to Kill\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Born to Run\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Last Call\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Lying with Strangers\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   When Darkness Falls\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Got the Look\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Florida, where he was a trial lawyer.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2473'),
(1768, 'Last Chance Saloon', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Desperately single thirtysomething men and women populate Keyes''s breezy novel. Childhood friends Tara, Katherine, and Fintan muddle along, dealing with the indignities and inconveniences we all face--and then some. Tara''s perfectly horrible, freeloading boyfriend Thomas watches her diet like a hawk and remarks cruelly on the size of her posterior, comparing her unfavorably to younger, thinner women. Katherine is a professional success, but her personal life is nonexistent. Every one of her prior relationships--six in all--has ended disastrously, with Katherine getting dumped. Each time, she retreats further and further into her shell, until her most intimate relationship is with her remote control. Fashion industry insider Fintan has found true love with his Italian boyfriend, Sandro, but a health crisis threatens their happiness. Tara, Katherine, and Fintan, as well as their quirky cast of friends (people with names like Lorcan and Mandii), live, love, and learn the hard way, the only way they can. Not quite as obsessive as Bridget Jones and that damn diary of hers, Keyes manages to convey a painfully accurate portrayal of what it means to be single today, tempered by a few of life''s less humiliating and more important lessons, like the value of true friendship. Funny and irreverent, Keyes''s\n <em>\n  Last Chance Saloon\n </em>\n is a terrific vacation read.\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Imagine Bridget Jones in a Jacobean revenge drama, a sort of ''Tis a Pity She''s Single that''s the flavor of this entry in the urban unmarried female angst sweepstakes. This time, the protagonists are two London women who grew up together in the small, repressive Irish town of Knockavoy. Tara, a computer analyst, lives with Thomas, a bitter and miserly high school geography teacher. Afraid to live on her own, she is willing to overlook the fact that Thomas ignores her birthday, constantly monitors her eating habits and insults her friends under the guise of being "honest." Katherine Casey, an accountant for an advertising agency, wears boring suits, has a hyperorganized underwear drawer and brushes off all advances, including those of attractive advertising account executive Joe Roth. As they turn 31, each woman is full of suggestions for improving the other''s life and full of excuses for doing nothing about her own. That begins to change when Fintan O''Grady, their gay pal and fellow Knockavoy refugee, falls ill with a mysterious disease. As their paths are crisscrossed by a self-centered Irish actor named Lorcan Larkin, Fintan emotionally blackmails Tara and Katherine into making long-needed changes. Keyes (Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married) effectively describes the young women''s searches for autonomy and love, but her flippant, arch tone is less effective when recounting the more grim stories of Fintan and Lorcan. In addition, some of the repartee, perhaps fresh when the book was originally published in Great Britain in 2001, already seems shopworn. The Knockavoy refugees are a sympathetic trio, however, and their deftly plotted saga is likely to appeal to fellow singletons. (Aug.)Forecast: Readers will have to be nearly as desperate as the heroines of Keyes''s relationship drama to find satisfaction here but there''s no underestimating the appeal of even halfway decent girl-talk books.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1209'),
(1769, 'Last Chance to See', 'Douglas Adams &amp; Mark Carwardine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- The BBC asked this team to film some of the most endangered animal species throughout the world. Adams has recorded their adventures seeking the komodo dragon, northern white rhinoceros, mountain gorilla, kakapo, baiji dolphin, and the rodrigues fruit bat. There is biological information here, but it is inaccessible for report writers due to the lack of an index and the wordy descriptions. However, these same accurate portrayals and Adams''s entertaining style will expose students to the worlds of these animals. He moves rapidly from informal, laugh-out-loud descriptions of his travels to serious pleas for awareness and conservation of all animals. The full-color photographs are in two separate sections and help readers to visualize the unusual animals (including the authors).\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Claudia Moore, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œDescriptive writing of a high order . . . this is an extremely intelligent book.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is life or death stuff, but Adams is a writer who chooses not to shake his finger at the reader.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWho would have thought that a book in the field of â€œecology/natureâ€â€¦could be as lively, sharply satirical, brilliantly written and even funny as this one is?â€¦ranks with the best set pieces in Mark Twain.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Atlantic Monthly\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(1770, 'The Last Continent', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Something is amiss at Unseen Unversity, Ankh-Morpork''s most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning. A professor is missingâ€”but a search party is on the way! A bevy of senior wizards will follow the trail wherever it leadsâ€”even to the other side of Discworld, where the Last Continent, Fourecks, is under construction. Imagine a magical land where rain is but a myth and the ordinary is strange and the past and present run side by side. experience the terror as you encounter a Mad Dwarf, the Peach Butt, and the dreaded Meat Pie Floater.\n</p>\n<p>\n Feel the passion as the denizens of the Last Continent learn what happens when rain falls and the rivers fill with water (it spoils regattas, for one thing). Thrill to the promise of next year''s regatta, in remote, rustic Didjabringabeeralong. It''ll be asolutely gujeroo (no worries).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/351'),
(1771, 'The Last Coyote', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered with no one ever accused of the crime.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens up the thirty-year-old file on the case and is irresistibly drawn into a past he has always avoided. It''s clear that the case was fumbled and the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable. Someone powerful was able to divert justice and Harry vows to uncover the truth. As he relentlessly follows the broken pieces of the case, the stirred interest causes new murders and pushes Harry to the edge of his job... and his life.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n The bestselling author of The Concrete Blonde delivers another Harry Bosch book, one that delves more psychologically into Bosch''s past. In 1961, 12-year-old Harry lost his murder in a brutal murder. As he begins his relentless investigation, Harry uncovers a trail that leads upward, toward prominent people who want to protect their reputation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1351'),
(1772, 'The Last Detective', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Elvis Cole''s relationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is strained. When she moved from Louisiana to join Elvis in Los Angeles, she never dreamed that violence would so easily touch her life Â— but then the unthinkable happens. While Lucy is away on business and her ten-year-old son, Ben, is staying with Elvis, Ben disappears without a trace. Desperate to believe that the boy has run away, evidence soon mounts to suggest a much darker scenario.\n</p>\n<p>\n Joining forces with his enigmatic partner, Joe Pike, Elvis frantically searches for Ben with the help of LAPD Detective Carol Starkey, as Lucy''s wealthy, oil-industry ex-husband attempts to wrest control of the investigation. Amid the maelstrom of personal conflicts, Elvis and Joe are forced to consider a more troubling lead Â— one indicating that Ben''s disappearance is connected to a terrible, long-held secret from Elvis Cole''s past.\n</p>\n<p>\n Venturing deep inside a complex psyche, Crais explores Elvis'' need for family - the military that embraced him during a troubled adolescence, his rock-solid partnership with Pike, and his floundering relationship with Lucy - as they race the clock in their search for Ben. The Last Detective is Robert Crais'' richest, most intense tale of suspense yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1337'),
(1773, 'The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable', 'Terry Pratchett &amp; Paul Kidby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A new Discworld story is always an event. Terry Pratchett''s\n <em>\n  The Last Hero\n </em>\n is unusually short, a 40,000-word "Discworld Fable" rather than a full novel, but is illustrated throughout in sumptuous color by Paul Kidby.\n</p>\n<p>\n The 160 pages cover the series'' longest and most awesome (but still comic) journey yet, a mission to save all Discworld from a new threat. An old threat, actually. Aged warrior Cohen the Barbarian has decided to go out with a bang and take the gods with him. So, with the remnants of his geriatric Silver Horde, he''s climbing to the divine retirement home Dunmanifestin with the Discworld equivalent of a nuke--a fifty-pound keg of Agatean Thunder Clay.\n</p>\n<p>\n This will, for excellent magical reasons, destroy the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s up to Leonard of Quirm, Discworld''s da Vinci, to invent the technology that might just beat Cohen to his goal. His unlikely vessel is powered by dragons, crewed by himself and two popular regular characters, and secretly harbors a stowaway. Before long we hear the Discworld version of "Houston, we have a problem...."\n</p>\n<p>\n Kidby rises splendidly to the challenge of painting both funny faces and cosmic vistas. As Pratchett puts it,\n <em>\n  The Last Hero\n </em>\n "has an extra dimension: some parts of it are written in paint!" New characters include Evil Dark Lord Harry Dread, who started out with "just two lads and his Shed of Doom," and a god so tiresome that his worshippers are forbidden chocolate, ginger, mushrooms\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n garlic.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pratchett''s story alone is strong and effective, with several hair-raising\n <em>\n  frissons\n </em>\n contrasting with high comedy; Kidby''s paintings make it something very special. Not to be missed.\n <em>\n  --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cohen the Barbarian, aka the Emperor Ghengiz Cohen, hero of 26 Discworld fables, and his Silver Horde go gentle into any good night? Never. Not even if they''re held together by various elasticized supporters and forget where they left their false teeth. The gods unpardonably let Cohen and Co. succumb to old age, and the members of the Horde Boy Willie, Caleb, Truckle and Hamish, who''s ("Whut?") stone deaf still want drink, treasure and women, even if they admit they''ve had to ease back on the last one. Cohen gets a bard to record their one last universe-defying hobble toward immortality, and old age has rarely been so gut-splittingly yet accurately portrayed here, embellished by Paul Kidby''s wacky and wicked illustrations. The Horde''s last quest is to return the fire Cohen stole long ago from Dunmanifestin, the gods'' ultimate Good Address. Unfortunately, that will destroy the magic holding the world together, so Lord Vetinari of Ankh-Morpork "workshops" the situation ("the means by which people who don''t know anything get together to pool their ignorance") and sends a dragon-powered vessel crewed by an inventor, a soldier, a wizard and an orangutan librarian to stop Cohen and his tottery Horde. Pratchett lets fly sly volleys at today''s civilization and skewers nearly every barbarian-fantasy clichâ€š rampant in too many books and films. This far-out farce rollicks along hilariously enough to make the inevitable aging process, if not palatable, at least worth a few good belly laughs. (Nov. 1)Forecast: You don''t have to be a fantasy fan to appreciate the marvelous jacket art, depicting a skinny, bald, aged barbarian clutching a sword in one hand and a cane in the other.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/364'),
(1774, 'Last Honest Woman', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When journalist Dylan Crosby starts digging up the past for the book he''s writing about her infamous late husband, Abigail O''Hurley Rockwell is determined that she will do everything possible to keep the family''s secrets under lock and key.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1599'),
(1775, 'The Last Juror', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1970, small town newspaper\n <em>\n  The Clanton Times\n </em>\n went belly up. With financial assistance from a rich relative, it''s purchased by 23-year-old Willie Traynor, formerly the paper''s cub reporter. Soon afterward, his new business receives the readership boost it needs thanks to his editorial efforts and coverage of a particularly brutal rape and murder committed by the scion of the town''s reclusive bootlegger family. Rather than shy from reporting on the subsequent open-and-shut trial (those who oppose the Padgitt family tend to turn up dead in the area''s swampland), Traynor launches a crusade to ensure the unrepentant murderer is brought to justice. When a guilty verdict is returned, the town is relieved to find the Padgitt family''s grip on the town did not sway the jury, though Danny Padgitt is sentenced to life in prison rather than death. But, when Padgitt is released after serving less than a decade in jail and members of the jury are murdered, Clanton once again finds itself at the mercy of its renegade family.\n</p>\n<p>\n When it comes, the dÃ©nouement is no surprise;\n <em>\n  The Last Juror\n </em>\n is less a story of suspense than a study of the often idyllic southern town of Clanton, Mississippi (the setting for Grisham''s first novel,\n <em>\n  A Time to Kill\n </em>\n ). Throughout the nine years between Padgitt''s trial and release, Traynor finds acceptance in Clanton, where the people "don''t really trust you unless they trusted your grandfather." He grows from a long-haired idealist into another of the town''s colorful characters--renovating an old house, sporting a bowtie, beloved on both sides of the color line, and the only person to have attended each of the town''s 88 churches at least once.\n <em>\n  The Last Juror\n </em>\n returns Grisham to the courtroom where he made his name, but those who enjoyed the warm sentiment of his recent novels (\n <em>\n  Bleachers\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  A Painted House\n </em>\n ) will still find much to love here.\n <em>\n  --Benjamin Reese\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grisham has spent the last few years stretching his creative muscles through a number of genres: his usual legal thrillers (The Summons, The King of Torts, etc.), a literary novel (The Painted House), a Christmas book (Skipping Christmas) and a high school football elegy (Bleachers). This experimentation seems to have imbued his writing with a new strength, giving exuberant life to this compassionate, compulsively readable story of a young man''s growth from callowness to something approaching wisdom. Willie Traynor, 23 and a college dropout, is working as a reporter on a small-town newspaper, the Ford County Times, in Clanton, Miss. When the paper goes bankrupt, Willie turns to his wealthy grandmother, who loans him $50,000 to buy it. Backed by a stalwart staff, Willie labors to bring the newspaper back to health. A month after his first issue, he gets the story of a lifetime, the murder of beautiful young widow Rhoda Kasselaw. After being raped and knifed, the nude Rhoda staggered next door and whispered to her neighbor as she was dying, "Danny Padgitt. It was Danny Padgitt." The killer belongs to an infamous clan of crooked highway contractors, killers and drug smugglers who live on impregnable Padgitt Island. Willie splashes the murder all over the Times, making him both an instant success and a marked man. The town is up in arms, demanding Danny''s head. After a near miss (the Padgitts are known for buying themselves out of trouble), Danny is convicted and sentenced to life in prison. As he''s dragged out of the courtroom, he vows revenge on the jurors. Willie finds, to his consternation, that in Mississippi life doesn''t necessarily mean life, so in nine years Danny is back outÃ¢â‚¬"and jurors begin to die. Around and through this plot Grisham tells the sad, heroic, moving stories of the eccentric inhabitants of Clanton, a small town balanced between the pleasures and perils of the old and the new South. The novel is heartfelt, wise, suspenseful and funny, one of the best Grishams ever.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1245'),
(1776, 'The Last Lecture', 'Randy Pausch &amp; Jeffrey Zaslow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."\n <br />\n --Randy Pausch\n</p>\n<p>\n A lot of professors give talks titled "\n <em>\n  The Last Lecture\n </em>\n ." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can''t help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?\n</p>\n<p>\n When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn''t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn''t about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Questions for Randy Pausch\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n We were shy about barging in on Randy Pausch''s valuable time to ask him a few questions about his expansion of his famous Last Lecture into the book by the same name, but he was gracious enough to take a moment to answer. (See Randy to the right with his kids, Dylan, Logan, and Chloe.) As anyone who has watched the lecture or read the book will understand, the really crucial question is the last one, and we weren''t surprised to learn that the "secret" to winning giant stuffed animals on the midway, like most anything else, is sheer persistence.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n I apologize for asking a question you must get far more often than you''d like, but how are you feeling?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pausch:\n </strong>\n The tumors are not yet large enough to affect my health, so all the problems are related to the chemotherapy. I have neuropathy (numbness in fingers and toes), and varying degrees of GI discomfort, mild nausea, and fatigue. Occasionally I have an unusually bad reaction to a chemo infusion (last week, I spiked a 103 fever), but all of this is a small price to pay for walkin'' around.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Your lecture at Carnegie Mellon has reached millions of people, but even with the short time you apparently have, you wanted to write a book. What did you want to say in a book that you weren''t able to say in the lecture?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pausch:\n </strong>\n Well, the lecture was written quickly--in under a week. And it was time-limited. I had a great six-hour lecture I could give, but I suspect it would have been less popular at that length ;-).\n</p>\n<p>\n A book allows me to cover many, many more stories from my life and the attendant lessons I hope my kids can take from them. Also, much of my lecture at Carnegie Mellon focused on the professional side of my life--my students, colleagues and career. The book is a far more personal look at my childhood dreams and all the lessons I''ve learned. Putting words on paper, I''ve found, was a better way for me to share all the yearnings I have regarding my wife, children and other loved ones. I knew I couldn''t have gone into those subjects on stage without getting emotional.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n You talk about the importance--and the possibility!--of following your childhood dreams, and of keeping that childlike sense of wonder. But are there things you didn''t learn until you were a grownup that helped you do that?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pausch:\n </strong>\n That''s a great question. I think the most important thing I learned as I grew older was that you can''t get anywhere without help. That means people have to want to help you, and that begs the question: What kind of person do other people seem to want to help? That strikes me as a pretty good operational answer to the existential question: "What kind of person should you try to be?"\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n One of the things that struck me most about your talk was how many\n <em>\n  other\n </em>\n people you talked about. You made me want to meet them and work with them--and believe me, I wouldn''t make much of a computer scientist. Do you think the people you''ve brought together will be your legacy as well?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pausch:\n </strong>\n Like any teacher, my students are my biggest professional legacy. I''d like to think that the people I''ve crossed paths with have learned something from me, and I know I learned a great deal from them, for which I am very grateful. Certainly, I''ve dedicated a lot of my teaching to helping young folks realize how they need to be able to work with other people--especially other people who are very different from themselves.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n And last, the most important question: What''s the secret for knocking down those milk bottles on the midway?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pausch:\n </strong>\n Two-part answer:\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â 1) long arms\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â 2) discretionary income / persistence\n</p>\n<p>\n Actually, I was never good at the milk bottles. I''m more of a ring toss and softball-in-milk-can guy, myself. More seriously, though, most people try these games once, don''t win immediately, and then give up. I''ve won\n <em>\n  lots\n </em>\n of midway stuffed animals, but I don''t ever recall winning one on the very first try. Nor did I expect to. That''s why I think midway games are a great metaphor for life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Made famous by his Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon and the quick Internet proliferation of the video of the event, Pausch decided that maybe he just wasn''t done lecturing. Despite being several months into the last stage of pancreatic cancer, he managed to put together this book. The crux of it is lessons and morals for his young and infant children to learn once he is gone. Despite his sometimes-contradictory life rules, it proves entertaining and at times inspirational. Surprisingly, the audiobook doesn''t include the reading of Pausch''s actual Last Lecture, which he gave on September 18, 2007, a month after being diagnosed. Erik Singer provides an excellent inflective voice that hints at the reveries of past experiences with family and children while wielding hope and regret for family he will leave behind. The first CD is enhanced with photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/285'),
(1777, 'Last Look: A Novel of Suspense', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE TRUTH WONâ€™T STAY BURIED.News that the body of a recently murdered prostituteâ€“stabbed repeatedly and dumped on Georgiaâ€™s Shelter Islandâ€“has been identified as Shannon Randall stuns the FBI, particularly special agent Dorsey Collins. Twenty-four years ago, nineteen-year-old Eric Louis Beale was convicted and later executed for Shannonâ€™s murderâ€“and the agent in charge of the case was Dorseyâ€™s father. Now Dorsey is determined to find out where her fatherâ€™s investigation went wrong, what part he played in the death of an innocent man, and where Shannon has been all this time.The heat is on FBI special agent Andrew Shields to discover what happened to Shannon on that night decades agoâ€“to find out who killed her and why. Dorsey shadows Andrewâ€™s every investigative move, hoping to redeem her fatherâ€™s reputation and capture a cunning killer. Together, Dorsey and Andrew unravel a shocking mystery that will shatter one family and rock an entire town.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1927'),
(1778, 'Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel', 'John Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009:\n </strong>\n A long, delicious trip to the land of Irving is hands-down the best way to begin the month of October. A trio of tragic events (though the prize for most hell-shocking goes to the third) exiles widower and camp cook Dominic Baciagalupo and his son Danny from a mid-century logging outpost called Twisted River. They leave behind the Bunyan-esque lumberjack Ketchum--a gruff, eccentric, dyed-in-the-wool Yankee--who remains their sole connection to the past. What''s next neither father nor son knows: their rootless existence moves swiftly in and out of New England, tied ostensibly to jobs for Dominic and schools for Danny, but it seems one foot is always back in those New Hampshire woods. Theirs is a restless, richly observed journey, crowned by a reckoning no one could predict. Few writers can match John Irving''s knack for\n <em>\n  denouement\n </em>\n , and in\n <em>\n  Last Night in Twisted River\n </em>\n , his extraordinary ending is made all the more powerful by a story that feasts on language, life, and love. --\n <em>\n  Anne Bartholomew\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irving (\n <em>\n  The World According to Garp\n </em>\n ) returns with a scattershot novel, the overriding themes, locations and sensibilities of which will probably neither surprise longtime fans nor win over the uninitiated. Dominic Cookie Baciagalupo and his son, Danny, work the kitchen of a New Hampshire logging camp overlooking the Twisted River, whose currents claimed both Danny''s mother and, as the novel opens, mysterious newcomer Angel Pope. Following an Irvingesque appearance of bears, Cookie and Danny''s world of accidents expands, precipitating a series of adventures both literary and culinary. The ensuing 50-year slog follows the Baciagalupos from a Boston Italian restaurant to an Iowa City Chinese joint and finally a Toronto French cafe, while dovetailing clumsily with Danny''s career as the distinctly Irving-like writer Danny Angel. The story''s vicariousness is exacerbated by frequent changes of scene, self-conscious injections of how writers must detach themselves and a cast of invariably flat characters. With conflict this meandering and characters this limp, reflexive gestures come off like nostalgia and are bound to leave readers wishing Irving had detached himself even more.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/623'),
(1779, 'The Last of the Mohicans', 'James Fenimore Cooper &amp; Richard Slotkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) lives apart from other white men, sharing the solitude and sublimity of the wilderness with his Mohican Indian friend, Chingachgook. But as the savageries of the French and Indian War test these exiled men, they agree to guide two sisters in search of their father through hostile Indian country. Tragic, fast-paced, and stocked with the elements of a classic frontier adventure-massacres and raids, innocent settlers, hardened soldiers, renegade Indians, and a doomed love affair-the novel''s enduring value lies in its contributions to the American frontier mythos, and its insights into the friendship between two men at odds with their own people. Book jacket.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/902'),
(1780, 'The Last Olympian', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n AllÂ year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos''s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan''s power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus standsÂ virtually unguarded.Â  Now it''s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.Â In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy''s sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/274');
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(1781, 'The Last Patriot: A Thriller', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Brad Thor, master of suspense and #1\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author is back with his highest-voltage thriller to date in which Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath must race to locate an ancient secret that has the power to stop militant Islam dead in its tracks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   June 632 A.D.: Deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat in Mecca, the Prophet Mohammed shares with his closest companions a final and startling revelation. Within days, he is assassinated.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   September 1789: U.S. Minister to France Thomas Jefferson, who is charged with forging a truce with the violent Muslim pirates of the Barbary Coast, makes a shocking discoveryâ€”one that could forever impact the worldâ€™s relationship with Islam.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Present day: When a car bomb explodes outside a Parisian cafÃ‰, Scot Harvath is thrust back into the life he has tried so desperately to leave behind. Saving the intended victim of the attack, Harvath becomes party to a perilous race to uncover a secret so powerful that militant Islam could be defeated once and for all. But as desperate as the American government is to have the information brought to light, there are powerful forces determined that Mohammedâ€™s mysterious final revelation continue to remain hidden forever.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   What Jason Bourne was to the Cold War, Scot Harvath is to the War on Terror. In\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Last Patriot\n  </em>\n  , readers will be engrossed as Harvath once again takes them on a whirlwind tour through international cities and nail-biting suspense where the stakes are higher than they have ever been before.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   About the Author\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Brad Thor\n   </strong>\n   is the #1\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Lions of Lucerne\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Path of the Assassin\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   State of the Union\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Blowback\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Takedown\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The First Commandment\n  </em>\n  . He currently lives in Chicago.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    CHAPTER 1\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Rome, Italy\n   <br />\n   Monday Evening\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Italian Centre for Photoreproduction, Binding, and Restoration of State Archives, also known as the CFLR, was located in an unassuming postmodern office building three blocks from the Tiber River at 14 Via Costanza Baudana Vaccolini. It boasted one of the world''s leading archival preservation facilities, as well as a young deputy assistant director named Alessandro Lombardi who was eager to begin his evening.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Dottore, mi scusi,"\n  </em>\n  said Lombardi.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Dr. Marwan Khalifa, a distinguished Koranic scholar in his early sixties with a handsome face and neatly trimmed beard, looked up from the desk he was working at. "Yes, Alessandro?"\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Italian adopted his most charming smile and asked, "Tonight, we finish early?"\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Dr. Khalifa laughed and set down his pen. "You have\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   another\n  </em>\n  date this evening?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Lombardi approached and showed the visiting scholar a picture on his mobile phone.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "What happened to the blond woman?"\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Lombardi shrugged. "That was last week."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Khalifa picked his pen back up. "I suppose I can be done in an hour."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "An\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   hour\n  </em>\n  ?" exclaimed Lombardi as he pressed his hands together in mock prayer. "Dottore, if I don''t leave now, all of the good tables outside will be gone. Please. When the weather is this nice, Italians are not allowed to work late. It''s state policy."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Khalifa knew better. No matter what the weather, there were always people working late in the CFLR building -- maybe not in the Research and Preservation department, but there was almost always a light burning somewhere. "If you want to leave your keys, I''ll lock up the office when I go."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "And my time card?" asked Lombardi, pressing his luck.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "You get paid for the time you work, my friend."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Va bene,"\n  </em>\n  replied the young man as he fished a set of keys for the department from his pocket and set them on the desk. "I''ll see you in the morning."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Have fun," said Khalifa.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Lombardi flashed him the smile once more and then made his way toward the exit, turning off any unnecessary lights along his way.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Dr. Khalifa''s desk was a large drafting-style table, illuminated by two adjustable lamps. His time as well as Lombardi''s was being paid for by the Yemeni Antiquities Authority.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   In 1972, workers in Yemen had made a startling discovery. Restoring the aging Great Mosque at Sana''a, said to have been one of the first architectural projects of Islam commissioned by the prophet Mohammed himself, the workers uncovered a hidden loft between the mosque''s inner and outer roofs. Inside the loft was a mound of parchments and pages of Arabic texts that at some point had been secreted away, and were now melded together through centuries of exposure to rain and dampness. In archeological circles, such a discovery was referred to as a "paper grave."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Cursory examinations suggested that what the grave contained were tens of thousands of fragments from at least a thousand early parchment codices of the Koran.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Access to the full breadth of the find had never been allowed. Bits and pieces had been made available to a handful of scholars over the years, but out of respect for the sanctity of the documents, no one had ever been permitted to study the entire discovery. No one that is, until Dr. Marwan Khalifa.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Khalifa was one of the world''s preeminent Koranic scholars and had spent the majority of his professional career building relationships with the Yemeni Antiquities Authority and politely petitioning it to allow him to review the find. Finally, there was a changing of the guard and the new president of the Antiquities Authority, a significantly younger and more progressive man, invited Khalifa to study the entirety of what the workers at Sana''a had uncovered.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   It didn''t take long for Khalifa to realize the magnitude of the find.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   As Yemen didn''t have the proper facilities to preserve and study the fragments and as the Yemeni government was absolutely opposed to Khalifa taking the items back to the United States, an arrangement was made for the complete contents of the grave to be transferred to the CFLR in Rome where they could be preserved and studied before being returned to Yemen.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   With the blessing of the new Antiquities Authority president, Khalifa oversaw the entire process, including the technical side which included such things as edge detection, document degradation, global and adaptive thresholding, color clustering, and image processing.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   His anticipation grew as each scrap was preserved and he was able to begin assembling the pieces of the puzzle. A significant percentage of the parchments dated back to the seventh and eighth centuries -- Islam''s first two centuries. Khalifa was handling pieces of the earliest Korans known to mankind.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   This only made the inconsistencies he discovered from standard Koranic texts even more exciting.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   A billion-and-a-half Muslims worldwide believed that the Koran they worshiped today was the perfect, inviolate word of God -- an\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   exact\n  </em>\n  word-for-word, perfect copy of the original book as it exists in Paradise and just as it was transmitted, without a single error, by Allah to the Prophet Mohammed through the Angel Gabriel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   As a textual historian, Khalifa was fascinated by the inconsistencies. As a moderate Muslim who loved his religion, but believed deeply that it was in need of reform, he was overjoyed. The fact that he had found, and was continuing to find, aberrations that differed from Islamic dogma meant that the case could finally be made that the Koran needed to be reexamined in a historical framework.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   He had always believed that the Koran had been written by man, not God. If such a thing could be proven, Muslims around the world would be able to reexamine their faith with a modern, twenty-first-century perspective, rather than the outdated, unenlightened perspective of seventh-century Arabia. And now it seemed that he had just the proof he needed.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   It was such a powerful discovery that Khalifa could barely sleep at night. It dovetailed so well with another project his colleague Anthony Nichols was working on back in America, that he felt as if Allah himself was steering his research, that this was His divine will.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   All Khalifa could think about when he wasn''t at work was getting back to the CFLR facility each day to further investigate the fragments.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Though on evenings like this Khalifa missed Lombardi''s companionship as well as his expertise with the technical equipment, the truth was that he hardly noticed when the young Italian was gone. In fact, he was often so engrossed that he barely noticed Lombardi even when he was standing at the desk right in front of him.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Turning to the voluminous collection of information he had stored on his rugged Toughbook laptop, Khalifa pulled up one of the thirty-two thousand images the CFLR had already digitally archived. While he could have crossed the room and retrieved the fragment itself, he often found it unnecessary as accessing the digital images was much easier.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Khalifa was working on lining up six slivers of text written in the Hijazzi script when a shadow fell across his drafting table. "What did you forget this time, Alessandro?" the scholar asked without looking up.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "I didn''t forget anything," responded a deep, unfamiliar voice. "It is you who have forgotten."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Dr. Khalifa looked up and saw a man in a long, black soutane with a white collar. It was a common sight throughout Rome, particularly near the Vatican. But while the CFLR did do a certain amount of work with the Holy See, Khalifa had never seen a priest inside the building. "Who are you?"\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "That''s not important," replied the priest as he moved closer. "I would rather discuss your faith."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "You must be confused, Father," said Khalifa as he sat up in his chair. "I''m not a Catholic. I''m Muslim."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "I know," said the priest softly. "That''s why I''m here."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   In an explosion of black cloth, the priest was suddenly behind Khalifa. One of his large, rough hands cupped the scholar''s chin while the other gripped the side of his head.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   With a powerful snap, the priest broke Khalifa''s neck.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   He stood there for a moment, the corpse clutched tightly, almost lovingly to his chest, then stepped back and let go.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Khalifa''s head slammed against the table before coming to rest beneath it.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The priest dragged the body across the floor and positioned it at the bottom of a set of stairs which led up to a small archival library. From there, it took only moments to set the fire.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Two hours later, having showered and changed, the assassin sat in his hotel room and studied Khalifa''s laptop. Connecting to a remote server, he had the Koranic scholar''s password program cracked within fifteen minutes. From there, one e-mail confirmed everything he needed to know.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n   <em>\n    Marwan,\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n   <em>\n    Finally, good news! It appears we have located the book. A dealer named RenÃ© Bertrand is bringing it to market in Paris at the Antiquarian Book Fair. I will be meeting him there to negotiate the purchase. As you know, my funding is limited, but I have faith that barring an all-out bidding war, the book will be ours!\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n   <em>\n    As planned, I will see you next Monday at 9:00 a.m. in the Middle Eastern Reading Room of the Library of Congress -- although now we''ll have the book and can begin deciphering the location of the final revelation!\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n   <em>\n    Anthony\n   </em>\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The assassin had had Khalifa under surveillance long enough to know who the sender was and what he was referring to. It was a parallel and potentially more damaging project, which up until this point had appeared stalled. Obviously, things had changed -- and not for the better.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The assassin shut down the laptop and spent the next several hours pondering the implication of what he had learned. He then started formulating a plan. When all of the angles had been considered and tested in his mind, he reactivated the computer.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Attaching the relevant e-mails between Khalifa a...\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2460'),
(1782, 'The Last Precinct', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Patricia Cornwell''s legendary crime fiction creation, Virginia''s Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, has logged a host of fans among mystery readers and, within the bounds of her fictional world, an equally impressive tally of individuals intent on causing her grievous physical or psychological harm.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The 11th Scarpetta novel,\n  <em>\n   The Last Precinct\n  </em>\n  , doesn''t add any new names to the second roster. Instead, in a sweeping narrative gesture toward retrospection (less-than-fervent fans might whisper "or stagnation"), the novel depends largely on ground already covered in its predecessors,\n  <em>\n   Black Notice\n  </em>\n  and, to a lesser extent,\n  <em>\n   Point of Origin\n  </em>\n  . All the familiar faces--friend and foe--are here: police captain Marino, Kay''s niece Lucy, the so-called Werewolf murderer, and (in memoriam) Kay''s lover Benton Wesley and his killer, Carrie Grethen. Kay, who nearly killed the Werewolf in self-defense as\n  <em>\n   Black Notice\n  </em>\n  came to a close, now finds herself the target of a corrupt police investigation that will dredge her darkest secrets from the deepest corners of her past.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Torn between a desire to clear her name and the instinct of a wounded animal to turn against even its would-be rescuers, Kay sifts through the forensic evidence that seems to link Chandonne to other horrific events in her past, up to and including Wesley''s murder. Physical analysis, however, will not be enough to right her up-ended world. Instead, Kay must rely on the strategic support of her niece, cofounder of the Last Precinct (an odd, ill-defined organization that is, in the words of its motto, "where you go when there is nowhere left"), and on her willingness to examine her own fears, misconceptions, and anything-but-altruistic motives. The most important setting in this novel is not the morgue--it''s the living room where Kay''s therapist forces her to address (you guessed it) "unresolved issues."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The novel''s focus on Kay''s emotional evolution does not, unfortunately, mask the leaps of illogic that pepper the plot''s murky stew. More disturbing than these occasional lapses, however, is the feeling that Cornwell has written herself into a corner. The Scarpetta of\n  <em>\n   The Last Precinct\n  </em>\n  is a far cry from the irritably independent woman of previous books. Her often over-inflated musings are more tiresome than tantalizing. Cornwell''s impressive track record makes this excursion a bit disappointing, but that same record means that loyal fans will race to acquire the book anyway and that the odds of her returning to her usual stellar form next time are (hurrah!) favorable.\n  <em>\n   --Kelly Flynn\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "My central nervous system spikes and surges, my pulse pounds. I am sweating.... " If only readers would share this response with Cornwell''s immensely popular Kay Scarpetta, Virginia''s chief medical examiner. But most won''t. Kay has plenty of reason to be upset. She''s standing in a room in a shabby motel where a body has been found, severely tortured. She''s under official suspicion of having murdered maleficent ?ber-cop Diane Bray (in Kay''s last outing, Black Notice). She''s suspected of trumping up charges against accused serial killer Jean-Baptiste Chandonne, also introduced in Black Notice. She''s reeling from the aftershock of Chandonne''s murderous attack on her; she mightily misses her slain FBI agent/lover Dan Belson; she''s learned that her gay niece, Lucy, is quitting law enforcement for a private PI firm called the Last PrecinctAand it''s Christmas time. Kay has a lot of support in the midst of this law-and-disorder soap opera, from, among others, Lucy, tough cop/sidekick Pete Marino and Kay''s aged friend, psychiatrist Anna ZennerAand that''s part of the problem with this novel. Excessive emoting and way too much talk (including long therapeutic sessions between Kay and Anna) derail momentum time and again; the pages feel soggy with tears. Cornwell does provide intense intrigue, but it''s a strain to follow as she connects events and loose ends from several novels. Within this narrative swamp, there''s one new and very memorable gator, thoughANew York prosecutor Jaime Berger, obviously modeled on real-life ADA (and novelist) Linda Fairstein, to whom Cornwell dedicates the novel; she''s sharply drawn and charismatic. Cornwell will win few if any new fans with this overlong, sluggish offering, but her giant readership is so hardcore and so enamored of Kay that the publisher''s first printing of one million seems, if anything, conservative. $800,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections; national satellite tour; foreign rights sold in the U.K., Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Japan, Finland, Turkey and Spain. (One-day laydown, Oct. 16)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1393'),
(1783, 'The Last Song', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller''s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone''s best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie''s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Go Behind the Scenes of the Motion Picture\n   <em>\n    The Last Song\n   </em>\n   (Touchstone Pictures, 2010)\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Starring Myley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth\n  <br />\n  (Click on each image below to see a larger view)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller''s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone''s best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie''s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1409'),
(1784, 'Last to Die', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2478'),
(1785, 'Last Words', 'George Carlin &amp; Tony Hendra', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For more than a decade before his 2008 death, groundbreaking stand-up comedian Carlin had been working on his autobiography with writer Hendra (Father Joe), who finished it by distilling hours of conversations with the irascible social commentator. Armed with an eye for detail and a seemingly photographic memory, Carlin retraces his life in full, chronicling petty crimes and stolen kisses, escalating drug problems and the death of his wife with unflinching honesty. He applies that same precision to the mechanics of comedy, giving would-be comics a veteran''s insight into the dynamics of crowds, the structure of a performance and the importance (or unimportance) of the social and political landscape. Tracing his evolution as a comedian from the first time he made his mother laugh to performing for an empty room in Baltimore to the series of HBO specials he made over the course of his career, Carlin peppers his narrative with the routines that have made him famous (though this is no gagfest, a la Brain Droppings, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, etc.). Throughout, Carlin comes off as a smart, humble everyman with a strong distaste for hypocrisy in all its forms; fans may be surprised at his discipline and drive, and anyone interested in comedy should find this autobio as illuminating as it is funny.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  Last Words\n </em>\n , a posthumous autobiography from George Carlin, is a jazzy, inward-looking piece of work...as a chronicler of the working of his own mind, Carlin is terrific."\n</p>\n<p>\n --\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "...what "Last Words" ultimately reveals is how Carlin became a political protester, slam poet, cynic, polemicist and performance artist whose messages were delivered under the veneer of humor."\n</p>\n<p>\n --\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "The book is at turns biting and touching, and often both, which is what you would expect from a man for whom the sacred was profane and the profane, sacred."\n</p>\n<p>\n --\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "...frank and insightful..."\n</p>\n<p>\n --\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n magazine\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is not a collection of setups and punch lines, but a candid, fearless accounting of his life and art...\n <em>\n  Last Words\n </em>\n shows a comic master at the height of his storytelling powers and with no limit to what he had left to say."\n</p>\n<p>\n --\n <em>\n  L.A. Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "For comedy fans, this book is vital. It''s easily worth its weight in gold for the biting observations on showbiz and its personalities."\n</p>\n<p>\n --\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "[\n <em>\n  Last Words\n </em>\n ] sounds as if he is still with us, rested and ready to ridicule the latest cultural hypocrisies."\n</p>\n<p>\n --\n <em>\n  The Washington Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Seven particular words are associated with the late comedian George Carlin, and sentimental is not one of them. But that''s the surprising portrait that emerges from\n <em>\n  Last Words\n </em>\n ."\n</p>\n<p>\n --\n <em>\n  Houston Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/945'),
(1786, 'Last Words: A Novel of Suspense', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  THIS KILLER TAKES THEIR BREATH AWAY.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A nine-year veteran of the FBI, special agent Mia Shields thinks sheâ€™s seen it all. But nothing prepares her for the terror that descends upon the idyllic bayside community of St. Dennis, on Marylandâ€™s Eastern Shore, where a depraved killer has left a grisly surprise for Chief of Police Gabriel Beck: the body of an unidentified woman, naked and completely encased in plastic wrap, stretched across the back-seat of Beckâ€™s car. Hidden in the wrapping is a tape recording of the victimâ€™s last, gasping words, terrifying evidence of the horror endured at the hands of a madman. Soon the body count begins to rise as more victims are found, all gruesomely cocooned, their final pleas also captured on tape.\n  <br />\n  Determined to catch the sadistic killer, Beck and Mia team up and set a trapâ€“with Mia as bait. But their prey is closer than they ever could have imagined. Now Beck must race against time to save Mia from becoming the next victim of a serial killer as elusive as he is evil.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mariah Stewart is the bestselling author of numerous novels and several novellas. She is a RITA finalist for romantic suspense and is the recipient of the Award of Excellence for contemporary romance, a RIO (Reviewers International Organization) Award honoring excellence in womenâ€™s fiction, and a Reviewersâ€™ Choice Award from Romantic Times magazine. A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she is a three-time recipient of the Golden Leaf Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Jersey Romance Writers, of whose Hall of Fame she is an honoree. Stewart is a member of the Valley Forge Romance Writers, the New Jersey Romance Writers, and the Romance Writers of America. She lives with her husband, two daughters, and two rambunctious golden retrievers amid the rolling hills of Chester County, Pennsylvania.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  1\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two years later\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The sun was just rising, hot and round, tentacles of color wrapping around the early morning sky like fingers around an orange. From his kitchen window, Gabriel Beck watched the pinks turn coral then red.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOh, yeah,â€ he grumbled under his breath. â€œThis sailorâ€™s taking warning . . .â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The coffeepot beeped to announce its brew was ready, and he poured into the waiting St. Dennis Chamber of Commerce DISCOVER SAINT DENNIS! mug. He unlocked the back door then stepped onto the small deck and inhaled deeply. Early June in a bay town had scents all its own, and he loved every one of them. Wild roses mixed with salt air, peonies, and whatever the tide deposited on the narrow stretch of coarse sand that passed as beach overnight. It was heady, and along with the coffee he sipped, was all he really needed to start his day off right.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  His cell phone rang and he patted his pocket for it, then remembered heâ€™d left it on the kitchen counter. He went back inside, the screen door slamming behind him.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBeck.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œChief, I hate to do this to you so early in the morning, but we have a two-vehicle tangle out on Route 33,â€ Police Sergeant Lisa Singer reported.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œInjuries?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of the drivers is complaining of back pain. Weâ€™re waiting for the ambulance. Trafficâ€™s really light right now, but if we canâ€™t get these cars out of here within the hour, weâ€™re going to have a mess. Iâ€™ve got Duncan directing traffic around the accident but itâ€™s going to get hairy here before too much longer.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œChrist, the Harbor Festival.â€ So much for starting the day off right. â€œIâ€™ll call Hal and see if he can come in a little early today.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beck tossed back the rest of the coffee and set the mug in the sink. â€œYou called Krauserâ€™s for a tow truck?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYeah, but I didnâ€™t get an answer. I called the service and asked them to page Frank, but I havenâ€™t heard back yet.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIâ€™ll have Hal stop by on his way in, see if he can shake someone loose. Chances are Frank left his pager on the front seat of his car and he and the boys are outside shooting the shit and no oneâ€™s opened the office yet.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThatâ€™s pretty much what I was thinking.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIâ€™ll see what I can do.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beck turned off the coffeepot and the kitchen light, then headed out to his Jeep, his phone in his hand. Once behind the wheel, he punched in the speed-dial for Hal Garrity as he backed out of his driveway. Hal, one-time chief of police in St. Dennis, Maryland, was now happily retired but always agreeable to working part-time hours in the summer when the tourists invaded the small town on the Chesapeake Bay. At sixty-five, he was still in fine shape, still took pride in being a good cop, and had no problem taking direction from his successor. After all, heâ€™d been instrumental in hiring Beck.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hal answered on the first ring. He was already on his way in to the station, but was just as happy to head out to the accident scene, and wouldnâ€™t mind a stop at Krauserâ€™s Auto Body to check up on that tow truck. Beck smiled when the call ended. As much as Hal loved retirement, he sure did love playing cop now and then.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The narrow streets of St. Dennis were waist-high in an eerie mist that had yet to be burned off by the still rising sun. Wisps of white, caught in the headlights, were tossed about by Beckâ€™s old Jeep, the ragged pieces floating across Charles Street, the main road that ran through the village, from the highway straight on out to the bridge over the inlet that led to Cannonball Island. Here in the center of town all was unbroken silence. No other cars were on the street, no shops opened, no pedestrians passed by. All was still. Peaceful.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  This was the St. Dennis Beck loved, the one he remembered when he thought about moving back two years ago. But, with all the renovations, and every available building being bought up and fixed up and turned into one fancy shop or another, the St. Dennis heâ€™d known would someday be little more than a fond memory. Now, though, in the early morning hours, before the tourists came out and the shop lights went on, the village was his home again. Peaceful, the way it was supposed to be.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Except for that damned traffic accident out on the highway, and knowing that by nine this morning the first of the tourists would arrive. They would be eager to spend their money in the picturesque boutiques and crowd his peaceful streets as they did every day starting in the middle of April and going strong right on through till Christmas. Today would be especially lively.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beck checked the time. It was not quite six. The third annual Harbor Festival officially began at two that afternoon, but soon the first cars would begin to pull into the free parking lots across from the municipal building, and the early arrivals would descend on one of the three eateries in town that opened for breakfast.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  He made a left onto Kellyâ€™s Point Road and eased slowly down the narrow stretch to the municipal building. He parked in front of the sign that read reserved: g. beck and got out of his car. The tightly compacted crushed clam and oyster shells that covered the parking lot and served as fill crackled under his feet as he walked toward the building.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beck entered his department through double glass doors off the lobby and was greeted by the dispatcher.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMorning, Chief.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMorning, Garland. Youâ€™re in early. Who was on night dispatch?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBill Mason. He had an asthma attack around five and called me to come in.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMason called you at five and asked you to come in?â€ Beck frowned.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI didnâ€™t mind. I was already awake. He filled in for me when my car died in Baltimore a few weeks back.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGlad you guys get along.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTwo peas in a pod,â€ Garland replied before turning all business. â€œYou heard about the accident out on thirty-three?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLisa called a while ago. Sheâ€™s out there with Duncan. Hal should be out there by now, too.â€ Beck looked through a short stack of phone messages that had come in overnight. â€œGive Lisa a call and tell her to come on in. And tell Duncan to make sure heâ€™s back in town before nine. I want him on foot patrol. By then, Hal ought to have the accident scene cleaned up, and we can put him on parking.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWill do.â€ Garland Hess, a thirty-five-year-old transplant from Boston three years earlier, went to work.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A long hall separated the quarters assigned to the police department exactly in two. Beckâ€™s office was at the end of the hall, and ran the width of their end of the building. On the opposite side of the lobby were the townâ€™s administrative offices, and a combination of meeting rooms and conference rooms, with storage on the second floor. The basement was a damp black hole that invited mold to grow on anything placed down there, and the attic was hot in summer and cold in winter. Some old police files and council meeting records going back decades were packed away in fading boxes tucked under the eaves, though no one ever ventured up there. Beck suspected that if examined, many of the boxes would be found to have been gnawed on by mice or covered with bat droppings.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Every once in a while Beck thought about climbing the open stairwell to the third floor to see just what-all had accumulated up there over the years, but he hadnâ€™t made it yet, and wasnâ€™t likely to any time soon. The â€œarchives,â€ as Hal liked to refer to the stored files, would have to wait until the tourist season had come and gone. This weekendâ€™s Harbor Festival, slated to run from Friday through Sunday night, was just one of many weekends planned by the mayor and the Chamber of Commerce to bring in crowds and revenue. The merchants, understandably, all thought it was swell. The old-timers, like Hal and some others, thought it was all a pain in the butt.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThese narrow little streets werenâ€™t designed for so much traffic,â€ Hal complained to Beck when he made it back to the station after having directed traffic out on the highway for two hours.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThatâ€™s why the powers that be had those parking lots put in behind the shops on Charles Street,â€ Beck said, and took the opportunity to remind him, â€œRumor has it that you were one of the powers who thought it was a good idea.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThat was six years ago. Harbor Day was barely a gleam in the mayorâ€™s eye back then.â€ Hal shook his head. â€œWhoâ€™da figured this sleepy little town was about to wake up?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt has done that,â€ Beck muttered, and leaned across his desk to pick up the ringing phone. At the same time, he motioned to Hal to take a seat in one of the empty chairs.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beckâ€™s call was short and he hung up just as Lisa poked her head in the door.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFirst of the onslaught is just starting,â€ she told the chief. â€œWhat do you want to do about traffic control?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPut Duncan out on the highway till elevenâ€â€”Beck pulled his chair up to his desk and satâ€”â€œthen call Phil in and ask him to take over out there until two. Things should have eased up a lot by then.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhat about here in town?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI expect the only real problem will be where Kellyâ€™s Point runs into Charles Street, there at the crosswalk,â€ Beck said.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIâ€™ll take that until noon,â€ Hal told him.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThen Iâ€™ll take over from you from twelve to four,â€ Lisa offered.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œArenâ€™t you supposed to be off today?â€ Beck frowned and sea...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2412'),
(1787, 'The Laughing Corpse', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold''s zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it. Notice to Hollywood: forget\n <em>\n  Buffy the Vampire Slayer;\n </em>\n Anita Blake is the real thing.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anita Blake is one of the most fascinating fictional heroines since Scarlett O''Hara... --Publishers Weekly\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Romantic Thrills, Erotic Chills &amp; the Sexiest Vampire in the Business. --Jayne Ann Krentz\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Hamilton just keeps getting better and better. (\n <em>\n  St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n </em>\n ) Anita Blake is one of the most fascinating fictional heroines since Scarlett O''Hara... (starred review) --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/741'),
(1788, 'Lean Mean Thirteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In her rollicking 13th Stephanie Plum adventure (after\n  <em>\n   Twelve Sharp\n  </em>\n  ), bestseller Evanovich is in top, quirky form. Plucky, bumbling New Jersey bounty hunter Plum is reunited with her two-timing lawyer ex-husband, Dickie Orr, while doing a favor for the mysterious, sexy Ranger. But when Dickie disappears from his house leaving behind only bloodstains and bullet holes, Plum becomes the prime suspect in his alleged murder. Determined to clear her name, Plum and her on-again off-again Trenton cop boyfriend, the irresistible Joe Morelli, uncover Dickie''s ties to a shady group of men involved in everything from money laundering to drug running. And when Dickie''s jilted business partners decide Stephanie holds the key to the $40 million they believe Dickie stole from them, she''s in for a wild ride. With the author''s usual cast of eccentric side charactersâ€”everything from a taxidermist with a penchant for bombs to a grave-robbing tax manâ€”Evanovich proves once again that Stephanie Plum and her entourage are here to stay.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephanie Plum works as a bail bondswoman for her cousin Vinnie in Trenton. She''s mostly in love with Morelli the cop, who calls her Cupcake, but she''s also mesmerized by Ranger, who works serious security and calls her Babeâ€”a split in nomenclature that aptly characterizes this delectable long-running series. Ranger needs Stephanie to plant a bug on her ex, the ever-smarmy attorney Dickie Orr. When Dickie goes missing, a lot of bad people and places start to blow up, burn up, and turn up. Evanovich smoothly slips from the hilarious to the hair-raising, from the erotic to the familial, carrying the running jokes we love so well: exploding taxidermy (a regular plot point here); waiting for the cable repair guy ("those fuckers!" say at least half a dozen characters); Stephanie''s oddball assortment of colleagues, buddies, and relatives. Stephanie saves herself in the end, as usual, but both Ranger and Morelli mop up the mess, also as usual. We end with pizza and a tangled tale of underwear. Not quite so sparkling as Twelve Sharp (2006) but eminently satisfying nonetheless. DeCandido, GraceAnne A.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/797'),
(1789, 'Leapholes', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Ryan Coolidge hates middle school and is in the worst kind of trouble-trouble with the law. The one person who can help Ryan is a mysterious old lawyer named Hezekiah. Hezekiah may have magical powers, or he may have the most elaborate computerized law library ever conceived. Either way, together, Ryan and Hezekiah do their legal research by zooming through leapholes, physically entering the law books, and coming face-to-face with actual people from some of our nation''s most famous cases-like Rosa Parks and Dred Scott-who will help Ryan defend himself in court. It is time travel with a legal twist, where law books and important legal precedents come to life.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6 Upâ€“Racing away from home on his bike to avoid being dragged to another embarrassing visit with his imprisoned father, a South Florida middle schooler is hit by a car and swept into this time-travel thriller. Ryan faces a number of narrow escapes and gradually comes to accept that he has been recruited by Hezekiah, an elderly African-American Legal Eagle, to succeed him. Hezekiah uses leapholes in conjunction with law books to travel back in time to meet the people behind the cases that have established precedent, good or bad, and that determine our current legal environment. What''s not to like about a book that says, Nowhere is the imagination less constrained than in a library and that incorporates lawyer jokes? Unfortunately, weak characterization and circumstantial plot make this novel less appealing for sophisticated teen readers. A portion of the story involves\n  <em>\n   Dred Scott v. Sandford\n  </em>\n  , and the author has to explain abolition and the Underground Railroad to a clueless Ryan, even though he has studied the Civil War. Extensive end matter includes responses from 19 famous lawyers about why they entered the profession. Fans of Horowitz might bite on this, but not of Grisham.\n  <em>\n   â€“Joel Shoemaker, Southeast Junior High School, Iowa City, IA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On April 19, 1841, the American ship William Brown hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic while en route from Liverpool to Philadelphia. It was loaded with Irish emigrants. Roughly half the passengers went down with the ship, and the rest piled into two lifeboats. The boat commanded by the first mate was so badly overloaded that it began to sink. In the face of crashing waves and a driving rainstorm, the first mate in utter desperation ordered his crew to lighten the load. Twelve men and two women were thrown overboard and drowned at sea. When the survivors finally reached land, one of the crewmen who had thrown passengers overboard faced criminal charges. It was undisputed that the lifeboat would have sunk and all would have perished if it had remained in its overloaded state. However, the American judge who decided the prisoner''s fate wrote that the passengers should have cast lots to determine who should live and who should die. This opinion sparked sharp debate among jurists and legal scholars. Some believed that casting lots was fair, almost an appeal to God. Others believed that casting lots was effectively "playing God," a practice that dehumanized all of us. The case of The William Brown has fascinated me since law school. It presents the ultimate survival dilemma -- to save ourselves or to save others. That dilemma is a theme that runs throughout Leapholes. Eleven-year-old Ryan Coolidge is forced to confront that issue head on. But he does it in a way he had never imagined he would. Ryan encounters a magical lawyer who puts a new spin on time travel -- a lawyer with the power of legal "leapholes," the power to bring to life the people behind famous legal decisions like The William Brown. All of the cases woven into the Leapholes storyline are actual cases from American legal history. The case of The William Brown is reported at United States v. Holmes (1842). The Supreme Court''s decision that slaves are property, not people, appears at Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). The slave doctrine that "the brood follows the dam" was embraced by the U.S. Supreme Court in Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842). I''ve tried to present these and other snippets of legal history in a way that makes for exciting reading. Hopefully, it will provoke thoughtful discussion, not only about the law, but also about the people whose lives were affected by the thousands of reported decisions in our law libraries. It''s a fun way to discover that legal precedents are not just words on paper. They are about real people with real problems. And for many, the law was a matter of life and death.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2481');
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(1790, 'Learning', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bailey Flanigan is growing closer to her dream to be an actress and dancer in New York while Cody coaches a small high school football team ... on and off the field. But neither feels complete without the chance to share their dreams with one other. Can distance truly make the heart grow fonder? Or will Cody learn to turn to others to share in his happiness? And when tragedy strikes? Who will be there to provide comfort in the face of loss? As Cody''s past catches up with him, he must learn to reach out for help or risk withdrawing permanently inside himself. Both Bailey and Cody find themselves learning significant life lessons in this poignant love story, featuring members from Karen Kingsbury''s popular Baxter family.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is America''s favorite inspirational novelist, with nearly 20 million books in print. Her Life-Changing Fiction has produced multiple bestsellers, including Unlocked, Leaving, Take One, Between Sundays, Even Now, One Tuesday Morning, Beyond Tuesday Morning, and Ever After, which was named the 2007 Christian Book of the Year. An award-winning author and newly published songwriter, Karen has several movies optioned for production, and her novel Like Dandelion Dust was made into a major motion picture, now available on DVD. Karen is also a nationally known speaker with several women''s groups including Women of Faith. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, Don, their daughter and five sons, three of whom are adopted from Haiti. SPANISH BIO: Karen Kingsbury es autora de mas de treinta titulos, incluyendo algunos EXITOS de venta, uno de los cuales se uso para la pelicula de la semana de CBS. Es una de las atoras favoritas de novelas inspiradoras.Se han impreso mas de dos millones de ejemplares de sus libros. Kingsbury reside en el estado de Washington con Don, su esposo, y sus seis hijos, tres de los cuales los adotatron en Haiti.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1962'),
(1791, 'Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867', 'Walt Whitman &amp; William White &amp; Sculley Bradley &amp; Harold W. Blodgett &amp; Arthur Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Throughout his life, Walt Whitman continually revised and re-released\n <em>\n  Leaves of Grass\n </em>\n . He added and deleted words, emended lines, divided poems, dropped and created titles, and shifted the order of poems.\n <strong>\n  Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems\n </strong>\n includes all the variants that Whitman ever published, from the collection''s first appearance in 1855 through the posthumous "Old Age Echoes" annex printed in 1897. Each edition was unique, with its own character and emphasis, and the\n <strong>\n  Textual Variorum\n </strong>\n enables scholars to follow the development of both the individual poems and the work as a whole.\n</p>\n<p>\n Volume I contains introductory material, including a chronology of the poems and a summary of all the editions and annexes, along with the poems from 1855 and 1856. Volume II includes the poems from 1860 through 1867, including the first appearance of "When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom''d" and "O Captain! my Captain!" Volume III features the poems 1870-1891, plus the "Old Ages Annex" and an index to the three-volume set.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sculley Bradley\n </strong>\n was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Pennsylvania.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Harold W. Blodgett\n </strong>\n was Professor of English at Union College.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Arthur Golden\n </strong>\n was Professor of English at City College at the City Univers\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Arthur Golden\n </strong>\n was Professor of English at City College at the City University of New York.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  William White\n </strong>\n was Professor and Director of the Journalism Program at Oakland University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/124'),
(1792, 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings', 'Washington Irving &amp; Peter Norberg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Washington Irving\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The first great American man of letters,\n <strong>\n  Washington Irving\n </strong>\n became an international celebrity almost overnight upon publication of\n <em>\n  The Sketch Book\n </em>\n in 1820, which included the short stories â€œThe Legend of Sleepy Hollowâ€ and â€œRip Van Winkle.â€ These two tales remain his crowning achievement, but in addition to being a writer of short stories, Irving was also an acclaimed essayist, travel writer, biographer, and historian.\n</p>\n<p>\n This volume showcases Irvingâ€™s best work across a variety of genres, including whimsical newspaper articles about New York society, the theater, and contemporary fashions; charming travel pieces that evocatively weave together history and legend; humorous stories and satirical essays from\n <em>\n  The Sketch-Book\n </em>\n and its sequel\n <em>\n  Bracebridge Hall\n </em>\n , and excerpts from\n <em>\n  A History of New York\n </em>\n , considered the first great American book of comic literature. The authorâ€™s success enabled him to earn a living by writing alone, unheard of for an American at that time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Irvingâ€™s energetic, often tongue-in-cheek prose style, together with his ability to blend roguish satire, pathos, and picturesque description, had a profound influence upon the popular culture of his day. His writings have become a cornerstone in the foundation of the American literary tradition.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Peter Norberg\n </strong>\n received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1998. Since 1997 he has been Assistant Professor of English at Saint Josephâ€™s University in Philadelphia. A specialist on the writers associated with the transcendentalist movement, he has written and lectured extensively on Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and the critical reaction to transcendentalism in the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Peter Norbergâ€™s\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  Introduction to *The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n In April 1789, George Washington arrived in New York City for his inauguration as the first president of the newly formed republic of the United States. He met with a heroâ€™s welcome. In the weeks that followed, well-wishers and admirers regularly approached him in the streets, among them a Scottish-born woman who cornered him in a shop on Broadway. Drawing before her a six-year-old child, she exclaimed, â€œPlease, Your Excellency, hereâ€™s a bairn thatâ€™s called after ye.â€ It was Washington Irving. In retrospect, the scene seemed prophetic. Later in life, after having established a reputation as the first American man of letters, Irving recalled in an interview how Washington â€œlaid his hand upon my head, and gave me his blessing.â€ Three generations after the Revolutionary War, George Washington was revered as the father of our country. Irving likewise was recognized as a founding father of Americaâ€™s national literature.\n</p>\n<p>\n Such a title might strike todayâ€™s reader as an exaggeration. Irvingâ€™s best-known characters, Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane, do not seem substantial enough to serve as foundational figures in an American literary tradition. However, the stories Irving set in Sleepy Hollow, a secluded village in the Hudson River Valley, provided American culture with a local habitation and a name. Along with James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant, Irving was one of Americaâ€™s pioneer writers. He helped sketch the contours of a cultural landscape that was unique to the United States, not a pale imitation of the literature of England and Europe. Sleepy Hollow is an early example of American authors self-consciously setting out to create an imaginative space for artistic creativity. Nathaniel Hawthorne described this sort of space in his introduction to\n <em>\n  The Scarlet Letter\n </em>\n as â€œa neutral territory, somewhere between the real-world and fairy-land, where the Actual and the Imaginary may meet, and each imbue itself with the nature of the other.â€ By providing such a â€œneutral territoryâ€ for his readers, Irving contributed to the new nationâ€™s efforts to generate a collective cultural memory from native sources.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1225'),
(1793, 'Les Miserables', 'Victor Hugo &amp; Isabel F Hapgood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hugo''s classic tale set against the backdrop of political upheaval in 19th-century France retains its timeless appeal in this notably condensed rendition of the struggles of former convict Jean Valjean. While the abridgment inevitably cuts many of the intricate subplots and minor characters who enrich Hugo''s vast tome, this suspenseful central plot tracing Valjean''s endeavor to emerge from desperate circumstances while being pursued by the duty-obsessed Inspector Javert remains intact and comprehensible to listeners. The principal characters retain their epic proportions, and the major themes of redemption through good works and the importance of authentic charity are undiminished. Narrator Michael York adds vigor and distinct characterizations to the broad cast of characters in this fittingly dramatic performance. Suitable for collections that do not already contain one of the many audio versions of this work (e.g., Audio Reviews, LJ 5/1/93).?Linda Bredengerd, Hanley Lib., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Bradford\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œRich and gorgeous. This is the [translation] to readâ€¦ and if you are flying, just carry it under your arm as you board, or better still, rebook your holiday and go by train, slowly, page by page.â€\n <br />\n â€”Jeanette Winterson,\n <em>\n  The Times\n </em>\n (London)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] magnificent storyâ€¦ marvelously captured in this new unabridged translation by Julie Rose.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  The Denver Post\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA new translation by Julie Rose of Hugoâ€™s behemoth classic that is as racy and current and utterly arresting as it should be.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Buffalo News\n </em>\n (editorâ€™s choice)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œVibrant and readable, idiomatic and well suited to a long narrative, [Julie Roseâ€™s new translation of\n <em>\n  Les Miserables\n </em>\n ] is closer to the captivating tone Hugo would have struck for his own contemporaries.â€\n <br />\n â€”Diane Johnson\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA lively, dramatic, and wonderfully readable translation of one of the greatest 19th-century novels.â€\n <br />\n â€”Alison Lurie\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSome of us may have read Les Miserables back in the day, butâ€¦ between Gopnik and Rose, youâ€™ll get two introductions that will offer you all the pleasures of your college instruction with none of the pain.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  The Agony Column\n </em>\n (trashotron.com)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/609'),
(1794, 'Less Than Zero', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''One of the most disturbing novels I''ve read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality'' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist. Twenty-five years on, Less Than Zerocontinues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe. Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, Less Than Zero narrated by Clay, an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth, its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity, and its author''s refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour. ''An extraordinarily accomplished first novel'' New Yorker ''The Catcher in the Ryefor the MTV generation'' USA Today ''Remarkable. A killer sexy, sassy, sad'' Village Voice\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/877'),
(1795, 'Let me call you sweetheart', 'Mary Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s a minor accident that brings prosecutor Kerry McGrath to the plastic surgeon''s office with her beloved daughter, Robin. But even as the doctor assures Kerry that her daughter''s scars will heal, she spies a familiar-looking beautiful woman in the waiting room and is seized by an overpowering sense of deja vu. When, on a return visit, she sees the same haunting face -- on another woman -- she has an intense flash of recognition: it''s the face of Suzanne Reardon, the "Sweetheart Murder" victim, killed more than ten years ago! The case resulted in a guilty verdict and life sentence for Suzanne''s husband, Skip. But for what possible reason would Dr. Smith be giving his patients the face of a dead woman?As Kerry immerses herself in a fresh investigation, she is catapulted into the strange and ominous territory of those so obsessed with beauty they''ll kill for it. Each new piece of evidence she unearths reveals a disturbing cache of questions. Not only does everyone involved want to keep the case closed, it''s clear somebody will stop at nothing to keep it sealed forever. As she delves deeper she finds she''s wrestling with a force so sinister that her own life -- and her daughter''s -- is threatened with increasing peril....Interweaving fascinating characters with deeply daring, staggeringly unpredictable plot twists, Mary Higgins Clark reminds us that she is, indeed, America''s Queen of Suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1412'),
(1796, 'Let the Right One In', 'John Ajvide Lindqvist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  Let the Right One In\n </em>\n Takes Top Honors at Tribeca Film Festival!\n</p>\n<p>\n It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenage boy is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long lastÂ—-revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day.\n</p>\n<p>\n But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next doorÂ—-a girl who has never seen a Rubikâ€™s Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Sweeping top honors at film festivals all over the globe, director Tomas Alfredssonâ€™s film of\n <em>\n  Let the Right One In\n </em>\n has received the same kind of spectacular raves that have been lavished on the book. American readers of vampire fiction will be thrilled!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/423'),
(1797, 'Letter of Marque', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For over 16 novels, Patrick O''Brian has been carrying readers away to the wave-tossed-seas with Nelson''s navy. Steeped in exquisite period detail, breathtaking prose, and bold adventure,\n <strong>\n  The Letter of Marque\n </strong>\n continues the saga of Jack Aubrey, brilliant yet disgraced officer, and Stephan Maturin, ship''s surgeon and British intelligence operator. Together they sail on a desperate mission against the French, which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from the private hell of his disgrace.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n If Jane Austen wrote Royal Navy yarns, they might read like this sequel to Master and Commander and Post Captain (which Norton issues in paperback in August). In the early 1800s, Captain Jack Aubrey, unjustly drummed out of service, is now master of the "letter of marque" (privateer) frigate Surprise , secretly owned by Stephen Maturin, ship''s doctor/naturalist/abandoned husband/opium-eater and intelligence agent. The major events here are two great sea victories that make Jack a rich folk-hero, and Stephen''s winning back of his wife and breaking his laudanum habit. Jack''s seamanship and heroism are complemented by Stephen''s absent-minded brilliance, their friendship cemented by their shared music-making (violin and cello, respectively). The early-19th-century locutions are fascinating, as are the evocation of period shipboard life (including ship-provisioning and naval lingo), Whitehall politics (rotten boroughs, etc.) and drug addiction (coca leaf-chewing as well as opium-eating). Seafarers and landlubbers alike will enjoy this swift, witty tale of money and love.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/464'),
(1798, 'A Lick of Frost', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Princess Meredith NicEssus of the Unseelie Court finally reaches an elusive goal in Hamilton''s seductive sixth Meredith Gentry paranormal romance (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  Mistral''s Kiss\n </em>\n ). Half-human, half-faerie, Meredith is a former L.A. PI whose current full-time job is trying to get pregnantâ€”trying at least three times a day, in fact, mainly with her devoted retinue of sex-starved guardsâ€”to insure her ascendancy to the Unseelie throne of night. Unfortunately, her bedding schedule has been interrupted by Lady Caitrin of the Seelie Court, who claims she was raped by three of Meredith''s guards. Meredith must protect her faithful retinue from the terrible wrath of her uncle, King Taranis of the Seelie Court, and defend herself from the dangerous desire Taranis harbors for her. Hamilton depicts Meredith''s erotic adventures in her usual breathless, overheated style, but also reveals a deeper glimpse into Meredith''s introspective side as she reflects on her favorite lover, Killing Frost, whose strange fate finds her re-evaluating the costs of being a future queen.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Laurell K. Hamilton\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n A Kiss of Shadows\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIâ€™ve never read a writer with a more fertile imagination.â€\n <br />\n â€“Diana Gabaldon\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n A Caress of Twilight\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSensual, without a doubt . . . This book moves like a whirlwind.â€\n <br />\n â€“St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Seduced by Moonlight\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis [faerie] society is one of the most detailed, imaginative, and lovingly drawn in all fantastic fiction, and the Meredith Gentry series has become something special.â€\n <br />\n â€“San Jose Mercury News\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n A Stroke of Midnight\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNonstop action . . . This book will leave you breathless.â€\n <br />\n â€“St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Mistralâ€™s Kiss\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSteamy . . . will have Hamiltonâ€™s fans panting for more.â€\n <br />\n â€“Publishers Weekly\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/604'),
(1799, 'Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong', 'James W. Loewen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For years textbooks have taught children to root for the heroic ''discoverers'' of America and to ignore the perspectives of the people who were here first. The Truth about Columbus puts these textbooks on trial, and convicts them of systematically distorting and even lying about history. Every teacher in America could benefit by reading this fine work. --\n <em>\n  Bill Bigelow, coeditor, Rethinking Columbus\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Truth About Columbus is a perfect antidote for the nonsense about Columbus conveyed to our children for generations. It is also delightfully readable, and maintains its good humor while it carefully dissects myth after myth about the Columbus story. Further, it suggests ways of thinking critically about other subjects of history, and so should prove ideal for classroom use. --\n <em>\n  Howard Zinn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The American Book Award winner''s long out-of-print, myth-busting poster book, sure to be of interest to the million-plus buyers of\n  <em>\n   Lies My Teacher Told Me\n  </em>\n  .\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus\n </em>\n , the bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Lies My Teacher Told Me\n </em>\n offers a graphic corrective to the Columbus story told in so many American classrooms. First published over fifteen years ago and long out-of-print, the poster and accompanying paperback book sum up the mis-tellingsâ€”and reveal the real storyâ€”in a graphically appealing and accessible format.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In vintage Loewen fashion, the poster juxtaposes short quotes from a range of high school textbooks currently in use today, with excerpts from primary sources that clearly show how textbooks have "lied" by knowingly substituting crowd-pleasing myths for grim and gruesome historical evidence.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In fact, these textbooks intentionally omitted every important detail that we do know about Columbus''s fateful voyage to the Americas. Among countless other facts, Loewen demonstrates that Columbus and his men were far from the first to set foot in the "New World," and that the peoples he encountered there did not submit to the "god-like" authority of him and his crewmen, but rather to the deadly forms of smallpox and bubonic plague they brought with them from Europe.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In concise, deeply engaging prose, Loewen expands on these little-discussed facts, putting them in the larger context of a discussion of "truth" and revisionist history. Originally published as\n <em>\n  The Truth About Columbus\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1181'),
(1800, 'Lies of Locke Lamora', 'Scott Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Life imitates art and art scams life in Lynch''s debut, a picaresque fantasy that chronicles the career of Locke Lamoraâ€”orphan, thief and leader of the Gentlemen Bastardsâ€”from the time the Thiefmaker sells Locke to the faking Eyeless Priest up to Locke''s latest con of the nobility of the land of Camorr. As in any good caper novel, the plot is littered with obvious and not-so-obvious obstacles, including the secret police of Camorr''s legendary Spider and the mysterious assassinations of gang leaders by the newly arrived Gray King. Locke''s resilience and wit give the book the tragicomic air of a traditional picaresque, rubbery ethics and all. The villain holds the best moral justification of any of the players. Lynch provides plenty of historical and cultural information reminiscent of new weirdists Steven Erikson and China MiÃ©ville, if not quite as outrÃ©. The only drawback is that the realistic fullness of the background tends to accentuate the unreality of the melodramatic foreground.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n On a distant world, orphan Locke Lamora is sold into a crew of thieves and con artists. Soon his natural gifts make him an underworld celebrity, leader of the flamboyantly larcenous Gentleman Bandits. But there is someone who covets Locke''s talents, his success, his very life, forcing him to put everything on the line to protect himself. With a world so vividly realized that it''s positively tactile, and characters so richly drawn that they threaten to walk right off the page, this is one of those novels that reaches out and grabs readers, pulling us into the middle of the action. With this debut novel, Lynch immediately establishes himself as a gifted and fearless storyteller, unafraid of comparisons to Silverberg and Jordan, not to mention David Liss and even Dickens (the parallels to\n <em>\n  Oliver Twist\n </em>\n offer an appealing extra dimension to the story, although the novel is no mere reimagining of that Victorian classic). Fans of lavishly appointed fantasy will be in seventh heaven here, but it will be nearly as popular with readers of literary crime fiction. This is a true genre bender, at home on almost any kind of fiction shelf. Expect it to be among the year''s most impressive debuts.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/446'),
(1801, 'Life', 'Keith Richards &amp; James Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2010\n </strong>\n : It''s hard to imagine a celebrity memoir--or any memoir for that matter--that is as easy to drink in (so to speak) as Keith Richards''s\n <em>\n  Life\n </em>\n . Die-hard Stones fans will love tales of the band''s ascension from the "interval" band at the Marquee to the headliners at Super Bowl XL; guitar gearheads will scramble to sample the one lick that has eluded Richards for 49 years; and historians and romantics alike will swoon over the raspy, rambling, raucous detail of this portrait of the artist in situ. Yes, some tales are told, but\n <em>\n  Life\n </em>\n is refreshingly not gossipy, mean-spirited, or sordid--or at least not more than the truth demands. Richards is as comfortable in his bones as a worn pair of boots, and\n <em>\n  Life\n </em>\n captures the rhythm of his voice so effortlessly that reading his tale is like sharing a pint with an old friend--one who happens to be one of the most iconic guitarists of all time. --\n <em>\n  Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Johnny Depp and Joe Hurley capture Richards''s rock ''n'' roll spirit in a wise, charming, and textured narration of the famed guitarist''s memoir. Tracing Richards''s trajectory from boyhood in England through the formation of the Stones to the band''s rise to world domination, this audiobook is chock-full of frank revelations and enlightening stories behind the music. The three readers do superb turnsâ€”but the seemingly arbitrary switches between them can be jarring and confusing. Depp''s narration is steady, well-paced, clear, and grounded. He produces a delicious range of voices for dialogue (most notably a drunk judge in Arkansas), and Richards himself sounds a bit like an elderly, bluesy Jack Sparrow. Hurley captures the voice of Richards throughout, narrating in a gritty, growl that is spot-on. And sections read by Richards are a real treat; his raspy voice is unmistakable and haunting. A Little, Brown hardcover. (Oct.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/268'),
(1802, 'Life of Pi', 'Yann Martel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Yann Martel''s imaginative and unforgettable\n <em>\n  Life of Pi\n </em>\n is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker ("His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth"). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don''t burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat''s sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: "It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I''ve made none the champion."\n</p>\n<p>\n An award winner in Canada (and winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize),\n <em>\n  Life of Pi\n </em>\n , Yann Martel''s second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, "My greatest wish--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time." It''s safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike\n <em>\n  Life of Pi\n </em>\n is such a book.\n <em>\n  --Brad Thomas Parsons\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A fabulous romp through an imagination by turns ecstatic, cunning, despairing and resilient, this novel is an impressive achievement "a story that will make you believe in God," as one character says. The peripatetic Pi (ne the much-taunted Piscine) Patel spends a beguiling boyhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper. Growing up beside the wild beasts, Pi gathers an encyclopedic knowledge of the animal world. His curious mind also makes the leap from his native Hinduism to Christianity and Islam, all three of which he practices with joyous abandon. In his 16th year, Pi sets sail with his family and some of their menagerie to start a new life in Canada. Halfway to Midway Island, the ship sinks into the Pacific, leaving Pi stranded on a life raft with a hyena, an orangutan, an injured zebra and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. After the beast dispatches the others, Pi is left to survive for 227 days with his large feline companion on the 26-foot-long raft, using all his knowledge, wits and faith to keep himself alive. The scenes flow together effortlessly, and the sharp observations of the young narrator keep the tale brisk and engaging. Martel''s potentially unbelievable plot line soon demolishes the reader''s defenses, cleverly set up by events of young Pi''s life that almost naturally lead to his biggest ordeal. This richly patterned work, Martel''s second novel, won Canada''s 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. In it, Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/457'),
(1803, 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œWild satire . . . the feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.â€â€”*Chicago Tribune\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œAdams is one of those rare treasures: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading.â€â€”\n  </em>\n  Arizona Daily Star\n  <br />\n  *\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their headsâ€“so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galazy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert â€œuniversalâ€ Armageddon and save life as we know itâ€“and donâ€™t know it!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(1804, 'The Light Fantastic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Unadulterated fun...Witty, frequently hilarious." --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Light Fantastic\n </em>\n , only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/304'),
(1805, 'The Light of Western Stars', 'Zane Grey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Madeline Hammond walks straight into trouble from the moment she steps off the train in New Mexico. Almost tricked into marriage by a drunken cowboy, Madeline quickly realizes she has much to learn if she is going to survive life on her brother''s ranch in the southwestern territory.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1489'),
(1806, 'Lightning', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "A gripping novel" from the #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author-now in trade paperback for the first time.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the midst of a raging blizzard, lightning struck on the night Laura Shane was born. And a mysterious blond-haired stranger showed up just in time to save her from dying.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Years later, in the wake of another storm, Laura will be saved again. For someone is watching over her. But just as lightning illuminates, darkness always follows close behind.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Lightning strikes--and the blond-haired stranger appears to save Laura from tragedy again and again. Is he the guardian angel he appears to be or the devil in disguise? Or is he the master of a haunting destiny beyond this world--beyond time and space? "Lightning sizzles!"--New York Daily News. (Occult/Horror)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1878'),
(1807, 'Like Dandelion Dust', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Kingsbury delivers a powerful new novel about two parents'' love for their child and the surprising lengths they will go to keep their family together when a judge rules that their adopted son must be returned to his biological father.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is America''s #1 inspirational novelist, with more than 15 million copies of her award-winning books in print. She has written more than 40 novels, ten of which have hit #1 on national lists. Karen is also a public speaker, reaching more than 100,000 women annually through various national events. Karen and her husband, Don, live in the Pacific Northwest with their six children, three of whom are adopted from Haiti. Her website is www.karenkingsbury.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2424'),
(1808, 'The Likeness', 'Tana French', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Frenchâ€™s debut novel, In the Woods (2007), introduced Dublin Murder Squad detective Cassie Maddox and earned unanimous critical praise. Cassie is back, and French has written another winner. The body of a young woman is found in the ruins of a old stone cottage in a dying village outside of Dublin, and the dead woman and Cassie are virtual twins. Lacking suspects or leads, the victim is reported by the police to be injured but alive, leaving Cassie to step into the dead womanâ€™s life as a Trinity College graduate student and the housemate of four other students. Despite the tensions of being undercover, Cassie quickly learns to love her quirky, insular housemates and her new life in a once-grand house, even as the Murder Squad investigation yields little. Someone stabbed her doppelganger to death, and Cassie must find the killer. The Likeness has everything: memorable characters, crisp dialogue, shrewd psychological insight, mounting tension, a palpable sense of place, and wonderfully evocative, painterly prose. In the Woods was an Edgar Award finalist; this one just might go one step further. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n " [Tana French] aces her second novel.\n <em>\n  The Likeness\n </em>\n [is a] nearly pitch- perfect follow-up to her 2007 debut thriller,\n <em>\n  In the Woods\n </em>\n ."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  The Likeness\n </em>\n [is] a book even better than the first, which was very good indeed. . . . The suspense is gut-grinding . . . A wonderful book."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  New York Daily News\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n " For\n <em>\n  The Likeness\n </em>\n , [French] has brought back detective Cassie Maddox and fashioned a plot that harks back to both Donna Tartt and Wilkie Collins."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n " [French''s] already signature blend of psychological insight, beautiful writing and wry humor is on display once more in\n <em>\n  The Likeness\n </em>\n ."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  The Baltimore Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/688'),
(1809, 'The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn''t recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil.Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers - they''re all on Mickey Haller''s client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence - it''s about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it''s even about justice.A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a defense attorney''s dream, what they call a franchise case. And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career.Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. To escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal - this time to save his own life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1317'),
(1810, 'Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There are a thousand stories in the land of Narnia, and the first is about to be told in an extraordinary motion picture, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. In the never-ending war between good and evil, The Chronicles of Narnia set the stage for battles of epic proportions. Some take place in vast fields, where the forces of light and darkness clash. But other battles occur within the small chambers of the heart and are equally decisive. Journeys to the ends of the world, fantastic creatures, betrayals, heroic deeds and friendships won and lost -- all come together in an unforgettable world of magic. So join the battle to end all battles. The second volume in The Chronicles of NarniaÂ® The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Narnia .... a land frozen in eternal winter ... a country waiting to be set free. Four adventurers step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia -- a land enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change ... and a great sacrifice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/895'),
(1811, 'The Lion&#39;s Game', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Corey and Asad Khalil have both lived hard-knock lives. As revealed in Nelson DeMille''s monster bestseller\n <em>\n  Plum Island\n </em>\n , the gruff, wisecracking NYPD homicide cop Corey stopped a hail of bullets--but he couldn''t stop his wife from walking out on him. Asad, raised under Muammar Qaddafi''s eye after his dad''s murder, lost his surviving family in the 1986 bombing of Libya. He''s heard the nasty rumors about his mom and the colonel, but he aims his rage at the infidels. The boy''s got such a gift for terrorism he''s earned the nickname "the Lion," and Boris, his vodka-sozzled, sex-addicted Ã©migrÃ© mentor, knows precisely how to conduct a murder tour of America one step ahead of the police, the FBI, the CIA, and the ATTF (Anti-Terrorist Task Force), which combines members of all three. A pity Boris must die, but hey, he''s an infidel too.\n</p>\n<p>\n Asad pretends to defect, handcuffed to agents aboard a 747 bound for JFK, and he proves to be a worse seatmate than a siding salesman. Corey and his ATTF colleagues (most conspicuously the FBI''s sexy Kate Mayfield, Corey''s match in badinage and bad-guy busting) strive to halt Asad''s methodical yet unpredictable bloodbath. Skillfully, DeMille alternates chapters told from Asad''s and Corey''s points of view. DeMille did his authenticity homework: when we''re not savoring his gift for wiseacre dialogue in the Corey-Kate chapters, we''re sweating alongside Asad on his ghastly, ingenious jihad.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n put DeMille''s social satire on a par with Edith Wharton''s, and he''s great on the colliding folkways of the feuding, mutually doublecrossing crimebuster institutions. Naturally, he''s on the side of the regular-guy flatfoots. "Cops sit on their asses and flip through their folders," he writes. "Feds sit on their derrieres and peruse their dossiers." And the CIA gets it in the shorts, satirically speaking. One deplores the mass murderers, but the book''s real bad guys wear the priciest suits.\n</p>\n<p>\n DeMille reportedly has a $25 million book contract. With fast, funny, absorbing thrillers like\n <em>\n  The Lion''s Game\n </em>\n , he''s earned it.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and star of DeMille''s Plum Island, is back in this breezily narrated high-octane thriller about the hunt for a Libyan terrorist who has set his sights on some very specific targets--the Americans who bombed Libya on April 15, 1986. The novel begins with a tense airport scene--a transcontinental flight from Paris is flying into New York, and no one has been able to contact the pilot via radio. On the flight is Asad Khalil, a Libyan defector who will be met by Special Contract Agent Corey, his FBI "mentor" Kate Mayfield, and the rest of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force. But when the plane lands, everyone on board is dead--except Khalil, who disappears after attacking the ATTF''s airport headquarters. Has he left the country? Not if John Corey''s right--and we know he is, thanks to gripping third-person chapters detailing Khalil''s mission alternating with Corey''s easy-going first-person narration. And by making Khalil, who lost most of his family in the 1986 bombing, as much of a protagonist as Corey, DeMille adds several shades of gray to what in less skillful hands might have been cartoonishly black and white. If anything, the reader ends up rooting for the bad guy, Khalil, with his mission of vengeance, is a more complex character than John Corey, who never drops his ex-cop bravado (thus trivializing a romance that moves from first date to proposal of marriage within the few days the plot covers). But as usual, DeMille artfully constructs a compulsively readable thriller around a troubling story line, slowly developing his villain from a faceless entity into a nation''s all-too-human nemesis. Agent, Nick Ellison. 500,000 first printing; major ad/promo; BOMC main selection; 12-city author tour; Time-Warner audio. (Jan.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1312');
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(1812, 'The Lions of Lucerne', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the President of the United States has been kidnapped and his SecretService detail massacred. Only one agenthas survivedâ€”ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath. He doesnâ€™t buy the official line that Middle Eastern terrorists are behind the attack and begins his own campaign to find the truth and exact revenge. But now, framed for murder by a sinister cabal, Harvath takes his fight to the towering mountains of Switzerlandâ€”and joins forces with beautiful Claudia Mueller of the Swiss Federal Attorneyâ€™s Office. Together they must brave the subzero temperatures and sheer heights of treacherous Mount Pilatusâ€”where their only chance for survival lies inside the den of the most lethal team of professional killers the world has ever known. . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this incredibly fast-paced thriller, a conspiracy hatched close to the Oval Office results in the kidnapping of the president and the slaughter of a company of Secret Service agents commanded by ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath. The story careers from the ski slopes of Utah to the top of Switzerland''s Mount Pilatus and sets Scot on an impossible mission: recover the president, evade renegade Swiss spy Gerhard Miner and his cadre of trained agents, and elude the American conspirators who are hot on his trail. Framed for murder, his reputation in tatters, his former colleagues turned against him, Harvath finds an unlikely ally in a beautiful Swiss prosecutor who''s been checkmated by Miner once too often. Together they play a high-stakes game of mixed "doubles" to save the president and uncover the conspiracy. Brad Thor''s debut novel is a tightly wound spy tale that makes up in excitement what it lacks in subtlety and character development. Ludlum fans will love it.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  He''s fearless. He''s tireless. If you get him angry, as does the chief of staff of the vice-president of the United States, he''ll pop you with an uppercut. He''s Secret Service Agent Scot Harvath, the hero of Thor''s rough-and-ready debut. As the action opens on the ski slopes outside Park City, Utah, the 20-something Harvath has screwed up. Under his watch, terrorists not only kill 30 agents but kidnap the president midway down his final run of the day. When the Secret Service, the FBI, the CIA and a suspiciously inept and indecisive vice-president wring their hands, the disgraced Harvath picks up the few scant clues left behind and launches a one-man search-and-rescue mission. The terrorists publicly demand $500 million and privately insist that an anti-fossil fuel proposal in Congress be killed. When those demands aren''t immediately met, one of the president''s fingers arrives at the White House. By this time, Harvath is on his way to Switzerland, where he''s gotten word of a mysterious cell of mercenaries named the Lions of Lucerne. With unflinching determination and an uncanny ability to escape danger and assassination, the young buck pieces together the plot and girds himself for a showdown at the terrorists'' secret hideaway inside the frozen exterior of Mt. Pilatus. Thor, host of the PBS television series Traveling Lite, shows a gift for dramatic storytelling. The momentum of the plot alone may satisfy some readers. Yet it''s hard to get past the novel''s many graceless shortcomings clichd language (time passes "at a snail''s pace," old habits "die hard"), cartoonish scenes and a protagonist whose superhero character desperately needs fleshing out. Agent, Heide Lange of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. (Jan.)Forecast: Pocket is launching this pumped-up debut with billboard advertising in Times Square and an eight-city author tour. Swiss mercenaries may seem tame villains in times like these, but this is adequate escapist fare for readers seeking a quick action fix.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2450'),
(1813, 'Lisey&#39;s Story', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since his first novel was published in 1974, Stephen King has stretched the boundaries of the written word, not only bringing horror to new heights, but trying his hand at nearly every possible genre, including children''s books, graphic novels, serial novels, literary fiction, nonfiction, westerns, fantasy, and even e-books (remember The Plant?). With\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n , once again King is trying something different.\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n is as much a romance as it is a supernatural thriller--but don''t let us convince you. Who better to tell readers if King has written a romantic thriller than Nora Roberts? We asked Nora to read\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n and give us her take. Check out her review below.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Nora Roberts\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Nora Roberts, who also writes under the pseudonym J.D. Robb, is the author of way too many bestselling books to name here (over 150!), but some of our favorites include:\n  <em>\n   Angels Fall\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Born in Death\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Blue Smoke\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Reef\n  </em>\n  .\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Stephen King hooked me about three decades ago with that sharply faceted, blood-stained jewel,\n <em>\n  The Shining\n </em>\n . Through the years he''s bumped my gooses with kiddie vampires, tingled my spine with beloved pets gone rabid, justified my personal fear of clowns and made me think twice about my cell phone. I''ve always considered\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n --a long-time favorite--a towering tour de force, and have owed its author a debt as this was the first novel I could convince my older son to read from cover to cover.\n</p>\n<p>\n But with\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n , King has accomplished one more feat. He broke my heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n is, at its core, a love story--heart-wrenching, passionate, terrifying and tender. It is the multi-layered and expertly crafted tale of a twenty-five year marriage, and a widow''s journey through grief, through discovery and--this is King, after all--through a nightmare scape of the ordinary and extraordinary. Through Lisey''s mind and heart, the reader is pulled into the intimacies of her marriage to bestselling novelist Scott Landon, and through her we come to know this complicated, troubled and heroic man.\n</p>\n<p>\n Two years after his death, Lisey sorts through her husband''s papers and her own shrouded memories. Following the clues Scott left her and her own instincts, she embarks on a journey that risks both her life and her sanity. She will face Scott''s demons as well as her own, traveling into the past and into Boo''ya Moon, the seductive and terrifying world he''d shown her. There lives the power to heal, and the power to destroy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lisey Landon is a richly wrought character of charm and complexity, of realized inner strength and redoubtable humor. As the central figure she drives the story, and the story is so vividly textured, the reader will draw in the perfumed air of Boo''ya Moon, will see the sunlight flood through the windows of the Scott''s studio--or the night press against them. Her voice will be clear in your ear as you experience the fear and the wonder. If your heart doesn''t hitch at the demons she faces in this world and the other, if it doesn''t thrill at her courage and endurance, you''re going to need to check with a cardiologist, first chance.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n is bright and brilliant. It''s dark and desperate. While I''ll always consider\n <em>\n  The Shining\n </em>\n , my first ride on King''s wild Tilt-A-Whirl, a gorgeous, bloody jewel, I found, on this latest ride, a treasure box heaped with dazzling gems.\n</p>\n<p>\n A few of them have sharp, hungry teeth.\n <em>\n  --Nora Roberts\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Following King''s triumphant return to the world of gory horror in\n <em>\n  Cell\n </em>\n , the bestselling author proves he''s still the master of supernatural suspense in this minimally bloody but disturbing and sorrowful love story set in rural Maine. Lisey''s husband, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author Scott Landon, has been dead for two years at the book''s start, but his presence is felt on every page. Lisey hears him so often in her head that when her catatonic sister, Amanda, begins speaking to her with Scott''s voice, she finds it not so much unbelievable as inevitable. Soon she''s following a trail of clues that lead her to Scott''s horrifying childhood and the eerie world called Boo''ya Moon, all while trying to help Amanda and avoid a murderous stalker. Both a metaphor for coming to terms with grief and a self-referencing parable of the writer''s craft, this novel answers the question King posed 25 years ago in his tale "The Reach": yes, the dead do love.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/532'),
(1814, 'Little Earthquakes', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jennifer Weiner, whose novels\n  <em>\n   Good in Bed\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   In Her Shoes\n  </em>\n  earned her a place among women''s book club aficionados everywhere, proves she still has the touch with\n  <em>\n   Little Earthquakes\n  </em>\n  , a tale of love, heartbreak, redemption, and friendship. Weiner''s novel centers around four new mothers, all of whom must learn to adjust their lives and their marriages to deal with the challenges of raising children.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ayinde is a beautiful, biracial newscaster who moves to Philadelphia after her husband, a star player for the NBA, is traded to the 76ers. She meets Becky, an overweight chef who plays the "pregnant or just fat" game every time she passes a mirror, and Kelly, an overachieving event planner who has her whole life mapped out down to the most minute details, after going into labor at a prenatal yoga class. The three become fast friends, and come to rely on each other for everything from burping techniques to intense emotional support. The group grows to include Lia, a semi-famous Hollywood starlet who leaves her husband and returns to Philly after a sudden tragedy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While\n  <em>\n   Little Earthquakes\n  </em>\n  may leave little to the imagination, and some of the characters are laughably stereotypical (the Mama''s boy Jewish doctor and the cheating ball player, to name a few), it is Weiner''s gift for creating compelling characters with whom her readers can identify that make her such a successful storyteller.\n  <em>\n   --Gisele Toueg\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her first and second bestsellers,\n  <em>\n   Good in Bed\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   In Her Shoes\n  </em>\n  , Weiner came up with female characters so smart, lovable and mordantly funny that they reminded readers that Bridget Jones wasn''t the first single woman to light up a bestseller list or the big screenâ€”there were Sheila Levine, Mary and Rhoda, the Golden Girls. Now, just as the star-studded movie version of\n  <em>\n   In Her Shoes\n  </em>\n  is about to be released, Weiner delivers the interwoven tale of four new mothers who come to form a tight posse in contemporary Philadelphia. The heart of this third-person narrative is Becky, an overweight but thoroughly appealing chef at a chic bistro. Married to an adoring doctor and living in a cozy row house, the warm, nurturing Becky is the latest incarnation of Weiner''s previous protagonists, as Weiner''s fans will recognize as she rushes to help another woman who collapses into sudden, crushing labor pains after a prenatal yoga class ("Being in labor all by herself â€”no husband around, no friend to hold her handâ€”was about the worst thing she could imagine," Becky thinks. "Well, that and having her midriff appear on one of those ''Obesity: A National Epidemic'' news reports"). The woman whom Becky helps is Ayinde, the gorgeous wife of an NBA superstar. Picturesquely if improbably, she, Becky and another expectant mom, perky blonde Kelly (who was also at the fateful yoga class and lent a helping hand) become fast friends. Eventually, Lia, a beautiful young actress who has left Hollywood for her hometown of Philadelphia in the wake of a tragedy, joins the group. For much of the story, Weiner, a wonderful natural writer and storyteller, renders her characters and their messy, sometimes wrenching lives in details that resonate as the real deal. In the end, alas, she slips in a soapy Hollywood ending. Still, this is a rich portrayal of new motherhood and a fun ride. Weiner''s readers will root for her to trust ever more her ability to float between comedy and pathos, leaving the shallows for true and surprising depths.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1025'),
(1815, 'Little Women', 'Louisa May Alcott &amp; Susan Straight', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7-12-Louisa May Alcott''s story about the four March sisters who learn the hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  How would one describe this latest recording of the classic story from Alcott (Little Men, Audio Reviews, LJ 11/15/96)? The answer must be, clear, competent, and unexciting. Laura Grafton is a precise reader, but her voice lacks expressiveness, and she makes little attempt to vocally differentiate (and/or animate) the characters. The result is an inoffensive and slightly dull rendering. There''s nothing wrong; the tapes just won''t grab the attention of the casual listener. The producer has made a praiseworthy attempt to reduce costs by having each cassette side carry double text. At $22.95, this tape set is an excellent value. Unfortunately, this double-track format requires a stereo cassette player with a fully functioning balance control. Most portable cassette players and some car stereo systems do not have this feature. Since, at least anecdotally, a large percentage of recreational audiocassette library borrowers are commuters or exercisers, one should consider whether this format would be used by patrons. Libraries purchasing this format might also consider purchasing (and lending) the associated headphone adaptor plugs. Recommended for libraries with limited audiobook budgets and/or appropriate user populations.AI. Pour-El, Iowa State Univ., Ames\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/29'),
(1816, 'Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I love the imaginative, creative world of Charlaine Harris!"\n <br />\n -Christine Feehan\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fans of Laurell K. Hamilton''s Anita Blake... should cotton to Sookie Stackhouse."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A delightful Southern Vampire detective series."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Denver Post\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Charlaine Harris playfully mixes several genres to make a new one that is her own bright creation."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Rocky Mountain News\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a vampire asks cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans that are involved to go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blond and one small mistake for things to turn deadly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/618'),
(1817, 'Living Well in a Down Economy for Dummies', 'Tracy L. Barr', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Get smart about spending and saving Â— and ride out a recession!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Looking for practical ways to make every dollar count? This savvy guide gives you expert tips for tightening your belt and saving cash in every area of your life Â— from your house and car to dining and entertaining to banking and managing debt. You get realistic solutions for making smarter choices and living well in this time of economic turmoil Â— without extraordinary sacrifice!\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Bump up your take-home payÂ— spiff up your resume, find a good job fast, explore telecommuting, or start a home-based business\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Get your personal finances in tip-top shape Â— create a budget, pay down debt, save on insurance, and protect your retirement funds\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Develop recession-proof habits Â— use coupons and rebates, extend the life of your wardrobe, utilize community resources, travel on a budget, and save on utilities and fuel expenses\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Decorate on a dime and entertain on a shoestring Â— plan parties, celebrate the holidays, and give gifts without losing your shirt\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Bounce back from bad financial situations Â— improve bad credit scores, and negotiate with creditors or the IRS\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Open the book and find:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   125 tips for making changes in your life that allow you to continue to live well\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Ways to stand out on paper and in an interview when looking for a job\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Tips on managing debt Â— from working with credit counselors and consolidating your debts to boosting your income\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Smart solutions for weathering financial emergencies, from bankruptcy to foreclosure\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1526'),
(1818, 'Lolita', 'Vladimir Nabokov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Nabokov escribe prosa de la Ãºnica manera en que se deberÃ­a, es decir, extÃ¡ticamente". â€”John Updike\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Entre las mÃ¡s sutiles y complejas creaciones literarias de nuestro tiempo".Â  â€”Mario Vargas Llosa\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lolita, la mÃ¡s famosa y controversial novela de Vladimir Nabokov, cuenta la historia de la obsesiÃ³n devoradora del cuarentÃ³n Humbert Humbert por la nÃ­nfula Dolores Haze. Ternura y fascinaciÃ³n â€”ademÃ¡s de tristeza y un humor mordazâ€” llenan sus pÃ¡ginas pero es, por encima de todo, una meditaciÃ³n sobre el amorâ€”el amor como abuso y alucinaciÃ³n, locura y transformaciÃ³n.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/427'),
(1819, 'London Bridges', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Alex Cross is back--and so is the Big Bad Wolf.\n</p>\n<p>\n Terrorists have seized the worlds largest cities. London, Washington, DC, New York, and Frankfurt will be destroyed, unless their demands are met--and their demands are impossible. After a city in the western United States is fire bombed--a practice run--Alex Cross knows that it is only a matter of time before the bombers threats to the other cities are brutally executed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heading up the investigation by the FBI, CIA, and Interpol, Alex Cross is stunned when surveillance photos show Geoffrey Shafer, the Weasel, near one of the bombing sites. He senses the presence of the Wolf as well, the most vicious predator he has ever battled. With millions of lives in the balance, Cross has to see if the most powerful law enforcement agencies in the world can stay ahead of these two men''s cunning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/359'),
(1820, 'The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When a passenger check-in desk at London''s Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently? What god would be hanging around Heathrow trying to catch the 3:37 to Oslo? And what has this to do with Dirk''s latest--and late-- client, found only this morning with his head revolving atop the hit record "Hot Potato"? Amid the hostile attentions of a stray eagle and the trauma of a very dirty refrigerator, super-sleuth Dirk Gently will once again solve the mysteries of the universe...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Sequel to Holistic Detective Agency. After a Heathrow Airport ticket counter explodes, intergalactic sleuth Dirk Gently finds himself up against a heavenly host of foes--from the IRA to the Norse Gods.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(1821, 'The Long Walk', 'Stephen King &amp; Richard Bachman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ray Garraty--along with 99 other teen boys--has entered the Long Walk, a grueling march at four miles per hour that continues until only one person is standing. The losers receive bullets to the head. As the march progresses, the numbers dwindle, the challenges of continued marching increase, and the senselessness wears on the participants'' state of mind. King (writing as his alter ego, Richard Bachman) delivers another psychologically dark tale with commentary on society, teenage life, and cultural entertainment that is still poignant decades after its original publication. Kirby Heyborne''s skills shine in the narrative passages, which he executes with a good mixture of rhythm and emphasis. Heyborne''s light and youthful-sounding voice exudes the needed attitude of the mostly male adolescent characters. However, some of his character voices for the teens feel created just for the sole purpose of clearly distinguishing them, rather than matching voice organically to personality. His female voices lack substance, but since there are so few of them, listeners will not be too distracted. A Signet paperback.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A master storyteller. (\n <em>\n  Houston Chronicle\n </em>\n ) An illusionist extraordinaire. (\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/575'),
(1822, 'Look to Windward', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set in Banks''s far-future interstellar civilization known as the Culture, this highly literate novel from this celebrated British SF author (Inversions) centers on an act of revenge. The Culture is enormously rich and values personal freedom above all else, but it also has a tradition of meddling in the affairs of other, lesser civilizations. This is invariably done with the best of intentions, but occasionally things do go wrong. Parallels to U.S. foreign policy are probably intended, witness the book''s dedication to "the Gulf War veterans." In a recent attempt to covertly overthrow the repressive caste system at the center of Chelgrian society, agents of the Culture''s secret Special Circumstances unit accidentally triggered a civil war that left five billion Chelgrians both dead and dishonored. Now Chel has sent an ambassador named Quilan to the artificial, bracelet world of Masaq'' Orbital. Ostensibly he''s there to try to convince Ziller, a famous Chelgrian expatriate composer, to return home, but his real mission is to eliminate the AI that controls the Culture orbital. This action will also bring about the destruction of approximately five billion human souls held in suspended animation, thereby, the Chelgrians believe, balancing the books. Although things start a bit slowly, Banks''s fine prose, complex plotting and well-rounded characters will eventually win over even the most discerning readers, and all will find themselves fully rewarded when the novel reaches its powerful conclusion. (Aug. 14)Wasp Factory, etc.).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the 800-year-old light of a distant space battle reaches the Masaq''Orbital, an emissary from Chel arrives on a mission hidden even to himself. Only Ziller, a Chelgrian composer, can unlock a secret that could save or destroy an entire world. Banks (Consider Phlebas; Inversions) uses the far future as a playground for the interplay of ideas and images. First published in Great Britain, this literate and challenging tale by one of the genre''s master storytellers belongs in most sf collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(1823, 'Looking Backward From 2000 to 1887: A Utopian Classic!', 'Edward Bellamy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Utopian Classic! A socialist utopian fantasy about America in the year 2000. Whether you''re a socialist or libertarian, this is an amazing example of this genre. A young man from the late 19th century awakens in the year 2000 to find crime, war, and want nonexistent. First published in 1888, Bellamy''s utopian novel a world of near-perfect cooperation and prosperity. The explanations of the changes in society are sometimes fascinating, and other times horrifying. Bellamy''s perspective of corporations, banks and religion in the new utopian world are different than normally found in utopian fiction and intriguing none the less. Some will find the living, social and sexist perspectives politically incorrect; however, the author definitely lays them out very thoroughly. A thought provoking and entertaining book, it is hard to believe it was written over 100 years ago. A must-read for those interested in utopian and dystopian philosophy, sociology, politics, &amp; religion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1833'),
(1824, 'Looking for Rachel Wallace', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Spenser is..."The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today...the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition." --\n  <em>\n   The Cincinnati Post\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spenser is..."Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer...Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself." --\n  <em>\n   The Boston Globe\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1159'),
(1825, 'Lord of Chaos', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While Jordan''s prose is sometimes bloated, he rises above his Tolkien-influenced contemporaries (Brooks, Eddings, et al.) with his skill at narrative pacing and his ability to create fully realized characters (though his treatment of sexuality will appeal primarily to adolescents). In this sixth volume in the immensely popular The Wheel of Time series (The Fires of Heaven), Rand al''Thor consolidates his power base and attempts to come to a rapprochement with the Aes Sedai, the female mystics who channel the One Power and whose schism lends tension to his meetings with them. The schism has unexpected consequences for three young women: determined Egwene al'' Vere, precocious Elayne Trakand and braid-tugging Nynaeve al''Meara. Centering upon that trio''s exploits and discoveries, and on Rand''s further adventures, this volume offers several major turns of events while laying the groundwork for future intrigues. It may be be several more volumes before Rand al''Thor confronts the Dark One in Tarmon Gai''don ("the last battle"), yet, as Jordan demonstrates here, he''s likely to keep his fans interested throughout the long and winding journey. 250,000 first printing; major ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n While the armies of Rand al''Thor, a farm boy cast by destiny into the world-changing role of the Dragon Reborn, continue their progress toward the Last Battle against the forces of the Dark One, other powers seek to exert control over the reluctant hero. Panoramic in concept, yet always focusing on the individuals whose actions make up the unfolding drama, the complex interweaving of plots and counterplots continues to gain momentum. Jordan''s talent for sustaining the difficult combination of suspense and resolution, so necessary in a multivolume series such as this one (which includes The Fires of Heaven, LJ 11/15/93), is nothing short of remarkable. Libraries should anticipate considerable demand for this title.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/645'),
(1826, 'Lord of Light', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the 1960s, Roger Zelazny dazzled the SF world with what seemed to be inexhaustible talent and inventiveness.\n <em>\n  Lord of Light\n </em>\n , his third novel, is his finest book: a science fantasy in which the intricate, colorful mechanisms of Hindu religion, capricious gods, and repeated reincarnations are wittily underpinned by technology. "For six days he had offered many kilowatts of prayer, but the static kept him from being heard On High." The gods are a starship crew who subdued a colony world; developed godlike--though often machine-enhanced--powers during successive lifetimes of mind transfer to new, cloned bodies; and now lord it over descendants of the ship''s mere passengers. Their tyranny is opposed by retired god Sam, who mocks the Celestial City, introduces Buddhism to subvert Hindu dogma, allies himself with the planet''s native "demons" against Heaven, fights pyrotechnic battles with bizarre troops and weapons, plays dirty with politics and poison, and dies horribly but won''t stay dead. It''s a huge, lumbering, magical story, told largely in flashback, full of wonderfully ornate language (and one unforgivable pun) that builds up the luminous myth of trickster Sam, Lord of Light. Essential SF reading.\n <em>\n  --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rules their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons. Lord of Light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1038'),
(1827, 'Lord of the Flies', 'William Golding &amp; E. M. Forster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n William Golding''s classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph''s chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island''s wild pig population. Soon Ralph''s rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding''s gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition.\n <em>\n  --Jennifer Hubert\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Harold Bloom is the world''s leading Literary critic" - The Times 28.11.00" --Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/744'),
(1828, 'Lords and Ladies', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pratchett (Small Gods) has won an ardent following with his tales of Discworld and his particular brand of comedic fantasy. This latest installment, however, is unlikely to widen his readership. It''s circle time on the Discworld; portentous round depressions are showing up everywhere, even in bowls of porridge. Worlds are weaving closer to one another, with unpredictable results. Only the three wacky witches, formidable Granny Weatherwax, crusty Nanny Ogg and scatterbrained Magrat Garlick, can ensure that the worst does not happen: the return of the elves. Trouble is, almost everyone else in the kingdom of Lancre is eager to welcome the "lords and ladies" back. They''ve forgotten that elves are nasty creatures who live only to torture their prey?humans especially. It''s a tempting premise, but underdeveloped by Pratchett, who relies too heavily on his trademark humor, veering into the silly and sophomoric, to fuel the early portions of this fantasy. Only in the last third of the novel does he strike a successful balance among action, imagination and comedy. There is much fun to the tale once the smiling, sadistic elves actually appear, befuddling the townfolk with their beauty and illusion. An earlier arrival would have done much to strengthen this uneven novel.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n When an invasion of elves from another world threatens the Kingdom of Lancre, only the intervention of Granny Weatherwax and her sister witches can keep the human populace from succumbing to the enemy''s fatal spell. This latest addition to the whimsical "Discworld" series features a tireless flow of tongue-in-cheek humor, lowly puns, and broad, comic vision. Pratchett (Soul Music, LJ 11/15/94) demonstrates why he may be one of the genre''s liveliest and most inventive humorists. A good selection for libraries in possession of previous titles in the series.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/333'),
(1829, 'The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick&#39;s Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption', 'Jim Gorant', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Expanding on his Sports Illustrated cover story, Gorant (Fanatic) offers a chilling investigation into Michael Vick'' s dog-fighting operation and the men and women who brought him to justice and rehabilitated the rescued dogs. Gorant outlines the rise of Bad Newz Kennels, describing in sometimes painful detail the abuse, torture, and execution of the animals--particularly disturbing is an episode in which Vick and a friend swing a failed fighting dog over their heads like a jump rope and kill it by repeatedly slamming it into the ground--and tracing the rescue of dozens of pit bulls seized from Vick'' s property. Gorant outlines the efforts to save these animals from euthanasia, challenging the negative public perceptions of pit bulls and reporting back on the status of dogs like Sox (now a certified therapy dog), Zippy (adopted by a family of five), and Iggy (still shy but growing comfortable with his adopted circle of friends). At a time when Vick has returned to professional football and much of the public outcry about Bad Newz Kennels has been forgotten, this book provides a stark reminder about the horror and prevalence of dog fighting.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''Beautifully written and forthright. . .\n <em>\n  The Lost Dogs\n </em>\n should make some news; not just for animal lovers but for anyone pondering the human propensity for violence and goodness.'''' --\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1254'),
(1830, 'The Lost Hero', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 5-9-This book will delight fans of The Lightning Thief (Hyperion, 2005) as Percy, Annabeth, and others play roles in the new prophecy and its subsequent quest. A few months after The Last Olympian (Hyperion, 2009) ends, Jason wakes up on a bus filled with problem kids from the Wilderness School who are headed to the Grand Canyon. He has no memory of his previous life, but seems to be with his girlfriend, Piper, and his best friend, Leo. The action takes off quickly: storm spirits attack them and capture their coach, who turns out to be a Satyr. Searching for Percy, who is missing, Annabeth arrives and takes the three to Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods. Their parents are gods in their Roman rather than Greek personae. By sunset of the solstice in three days, the teens must rescue Hera, Queen of the gods, or Porphyrion, the giant king created to destroy Zeus and unseat the gods of Olympus, will rise. Their quest takes them across the United States, sometimes flying on a mechanical, 60-foot dragon, as they use their power and wits against Medea, King Midas, and the giant cannibal Enceladus. Riordan excels at clever plot devices and at creating an urgent sense of cliff-hanging danger. His interjection of humor by incongruous juxtaposition-Medea, for example, heads up a New York City department store-provides some welcome relief. The young heroes deal with issues familiar to teens today: Who am I? Can I live up to the expectations of others? Having read the first series is helpful but not essential, and the complex plot is made for sequels.-Connie Tyrrell Burns, Mahoney Middle School, South Portland, ME (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers longing for a return to Camp Half-Blood will get their wish in the first novel of the Heroes of Olympus series, which follows Riordanâ€™s popular Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and includes some of the same characters in minor roles. The new cast features Jason, Piper, and Leo, teen demigods who are just coming to understand and use their unique abilities as they learn how much depends upon their wits, courage, and fast-developing friendship. Setting up the books to come, the backstory of a master plan to unseat the gods is complex but is doled out in manageable bits with a general air of foreboding. Meanwhile, the action scenes come frequently as the three heroic teens fight monstrous enemies in North American locales, including the Grand Canyon, Quebec City, Detroit, Chicago, Omaha, Pikes Peak, and Sonoma Valley. Flashes of humor lighten the mood at times, but a tone of urgency and imminent danger seems as integral to this series as the last. With appealing new characters within a familiar framework, this spin-off will satisfy the demand for more. Grades 4-8. --Carolyn Phelan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/275'),
(1831, 'Lost Light', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Award-winning former crime reporter Connelly (The Black Echo; City of Bones) hits all the right notes with this latest in his Edgar-winning mystery series featuring L.A. detective Harry Bosch. Even though this marks the ninth outing for Harry, the principled, incorruptible investigator shows little sign of slowing in his unrelenting pursuit of justice for all. Disillusioned by his constant battle with police hypocrisy and bureaucracy, Harry quits the department after 28 years on the job. Like so many ex-cops before him, he finds retirement boring: "I was staying up late, staring at the walls and drinking too much red wine." He decides to take advantage of his newly minted private-eye license and get back to work. The case he chooses-one that he had been briefly involved in four years before-is the puzzling unsolved murder of 24-year-old Angella Benton. Angella''s death is linked to the theft of $2 million from a film company foolishly employing real cash as a prop on an action-movie set. Harry patiently follows the bloody trail from Angella''s violated body through the Hollywood heist to the disappearance of an FBI computer expert and the shooting of two LAPD cops. His investigation eventually leads him to the elite terrorist hunters of the new Department of Homeland Security. Few will follow every twist and turn of the labyrinthine plot, but no matter. The fun comes in watching Harry slowly and brilliantly separate the seemingly impossibly knotted strands and then knit them back into whole cloth. This exciting procedural is as good as any in the series, and Connelly''s concluding coda has a kicker about Harry''s private life that will draw gasps of astonishment from longtime readers.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-After more than 25 years with the L.A. Police Department, recently retired Harry Bosch decides to finish the murder investigation of Angella Benton, a case he had been quickly pulled off more than four years earlier. Gaining additional background information from a former colleague, now a quadriplegic as a result of having been shot during the investigation, Harry begins contacting any and all of the people who could have facts pertaining to the crime. He believes that the murder is tied to a film scene and $2 million in cash, and that the entire caper was ingeniously set up well in advance. With dogged determination, he risks his life more than once to prove his theory correct. Connelly expertly weaves the many complex story parts together, resulting in an action-packed ending. As in real life, all aspects of the case must be researched thoroughly, and the bulk of the novel involves the time-consuming, labor-intensive effort that goes into finding answers. Several subplots-including ones involving jazz, Harry''s ex-wife, and another murder-help to round out characters, inject other interests, and relieve the intensity of solving the murder. Young adults who read true crime and forensics, or who are interested in police procedures, will surely pick this one up.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1356'),
(1832, 'The Lost Symbol', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Let''s start with the question every\n <em>\n  The Lost Symbol\n </em>\n as good as\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n ? Simply put, yes. Brown has mastered the art of blending nail-biting suspense with random arcana (from pop science to religion), and\n <em>\n  The Lost Symbol\n </em>\n is an enthralling mix. And what a dazzling accomplishment that is, considering that rabid fans and skeptics alike are scrutinizing every word. *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Lost Symbol\n <em>\n  begins with an ancient ritual, a shadowy enclave, and of course, a secret. Readers know they are in Dan Brown territory when, by the end of the first chapter, a secret within a secret is revealed. To tell too much would ruin the fun of reading this delicious thriller, so you will find no spoilers here. Suffice it to say that as with many series featuring a recurring character, there is a bit of a formula at work (one that fans will love). Again, brilliant Harvard professor Robert Langdon finds himself in a predicament that requires his vast knowledge of symbology and superior problem-solving skills to save the day. The setting, unlike other Robert Langdon novels, is stateside, and in Brown''s hands Washington D.C. is as fascinating as Paris or Vatican City (note to the D.C. tourism board: get your "Lost Symbol" tour in order). And, as with other Dan Brown books, the pace is relentless, the revelations many, and there is an endless parade of intriguing factoids that will make you feel like you are spending the afternoon with Robert Langdon and the guys from\n </em>\n Mythbusters*.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Nothing is as it seems in a Robert Langdon novel, and\n <em>\n  The Lost Symbol\n </em>\n itself is no exception--a page-turner to be sure, but Brown also challenges his fans to open their minds to new information. Skeptical? Imagine how many other thrillers would spawn millions of Google searches for noetic science, superstring theory, and\n <em>\n  Apotheosis of Washington\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  The Lost Symbol\n </em>\n is brain candy of the best sort--just make sure to set aside time to enjoy your meal.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. After scores of Da Vinci Code knockoffs, spinoffs, copies and caricatures, Brown has had the stroke of brilliance to set his breakneck new thriller not in some far-off exotic locale, but right here in our own backyard. Everyone off the bus, and welcome to a Washington, D.C., they never told you about on your school trip when you were a kid, a place steeped in Masonic history that, once revealed, points to a dark, ancient conspiracy that threatens not only America but the world itself. Returning hero Robert Langdon comes to Washington to give a lecture at the behest of his old mentor, Peter Solomon. When he arrives at the U.S. Capitol for his lecture, he finds, instead of an audience, Peter''s severed hand mounted on a wooden base, fingers pointing skyward to the Rotunda ceiling fresco of George Washington dressed in white robes, ascending to heaven. Langdon teases out a plethora of clues from the tattooed hand that point toward a secret portal through which an intrepid seeker will find the wisdom known as the Ancient Mysteries, or the lost wisdom of the ages. A villain known as Mal''akh, a steroid-swollen, fantastically tattooed, muscle-bodied madman, wants to locate the wisdom so he can rule the world. Mal''akh has captured Peter and promises to kill him if Langdon doesn''t agree to help find the portal. Joining Langdon in his search is Peter''s younger sister, Kathleen, who has been conducting experiments in a secret museum. This is just the kickoff for a deadly chase that careens back and forth, across, above and below the nation''s capital, darting from revelation to revelation, pausing only to explain some piece of wondrous, historical esoterica. Jealous thriller writers will despair, doubters and nay-sayers will be proved wrong, and readers will rejoice: Dan Brown has done it again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/56');
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(1833, 'The Lost World', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Written in the wake of\n <em>\n  Jurassic Park\n </em>\n ''s phenomenal box-office success,\n <em>\n  The Lost World\n </em>\n seems as much a guidebook for Hollywood types hard at work on the franchise''s followup as it is a legitimate sci-fi thriller. Which begs the inevitable questions: Is the plot a rehash of the first book? Sure it is, with the action unfolding on yet another secluded island, the mysterious "Site B." Is the cast of characters basically the same? Absolutely, from a freshly minted pair of cute, compu-savvy kids right down to the neatly exhumed chaos theorist Ian Malcolm (who was presumed dead at the close of\n <em>\n  JP\n </em>\n ). But is it fun to read? You betcha. Hollywood (and Michael Crichton) keeps telling us the same old stories for a very good reason: we like them. And the pulp SF formula Crichton has mastered with\n <em>\n  Jurassic Park\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Lost World\n </em>\n is no exception.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n One fact about this sequel to Jurassic Park stands out above all: it follows a book that, with spinoffs, including the movie, proved to be the most profitable literary venture ever. So where does the author of a near billion-dollar novel sit? Squarely on the shoulders of his own past work?and Arthur Conan Doyle''s. Crichton has borrowed from Conan Doyle before?Rising Sun was Holmes and Watson in Japan?but never so brazenly. The title itself here, the same as that of Conan Doyle''s yarn about an equatorial plateau rife with dinos, acknowledges the debt. More enervating are Crichton''s self-borrowings: the plot line of this novel reads like an outtake from JP. Instead of bringing his dinos to a city, for instance, Crichton keeps them in the Costa Rican jungle, on an offshore island that was the secret breeding ground for the beasts. Only chaos theoretician Ian Malcolm, among the earlier principals, returns to explore this Lost World, six years after the events of JP; but once again, there''s a dynamic paleontologist, a pretty female scientist and two cute kids, boy and girl?the latter even saves the day through clever hacking, just as in JP. Despite stiff prose and brittle characters, Chrichton can still conjure unparalleled dino terror, although the wonder is gone and the attacks are predictable, the pacing perfunctory. But his heart now seems to be not so much in the storytelling as in pedagogy: from start to finish, the novel aims to illustrate Crichton''s ideas about extinction?basically, that it occurs because of behavioral rather than environmental changes?and reads like a scientific fable, with pages of theory balancing the hectic action. As science writing, it''s a lucid, provocative undertaking; but as an adventure and original entertainment, even though it will sell through the roof, it seems that Crichton has laid a big dinosaur egg. 2,000,000 first printing; BOMC and QPB main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/816'),
(1834, 'The Lottery', 'Shirley Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a happy ending? No matter what their taste, our Creative Short Stories series has the answer.\n</p>\n<p>\n We''ve taken some of the world''s best stories from dark, musty anthologies and brought them into the light, giving them the individual attention they deserve. Each book in the series has been designed with today''s young reader in mind. As the words come to life, students will develop a lasting appreciation for great literature.\n</p>\n<p>\n The humor of Mark Twain...the suspense of Edgar Allan Poe...the danger of Jack London...the sensitivity of Katherine Mansfield. Creative Short Stories has it all and will prove to be a welcome addition to any library.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n The people of a village perform their annual lottery, with startling consequences for the recipient of the one paper with the black spot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1228'),
(1835, 'The Love Season', 'Elin Hilderbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s a hot August Saturday on Nantucket Island. Over the course of the next 24 hours, two lives will be transformed forever. Marguerite Beale, former chef of culinary hot spot Les Parapluies, has been out of the public eye for over a decade. This all changes with a phone call from Marguerite''s goddaughter, Renata Knox. Marguerite has not seen Renata since the death of Renata''s mother, Candace Harris Knox, fourteen years earlier. And now that Renata is on Nantucket visiting the family of her new fiance, she takes the opportunity, against her father''s wishes, to contact Marguerite in hopes of learning the story of her mother''s life--and death. But the events of the day spiral hopelessly out of control for both women, and nothing ends up as planned. Welcome to "The Love Season"--a riveting story that takes place in one day and spans decades; a story that embraces the charming, pristine island of Nantucket, as well as Manhattan, Paris and Morocco. Elin Hilderbrand''s most ambitious novel to date chronicles the famous couplings of real lives: love and friendship, food and wine, deception and betrayal--and forgiveness and healing. Praise for "The Blue Bistro" ""The Blue Bistro" is a wonderful, wonderful love story, the kind that you read, then recommend to many many friends - and so, I recommend it to you. Highly." -James Patterson, bestselling author of "Beach Road" "A wonderfully poignant behind-the-scenes journey into the world of high-end restaurants, island life, and the inner workings of the human heart. A great summer story." -Lolly Winston, author of "Good Grief" Praise for "Summer People" ""Summer People" is striking not only for the ingenuity of its rivetingplot, but also for the acute sense of character and the finely tuned craftsmanship with which Elin Hilderbrand brings its every nuance to life." -Madison Smartt Bell, author of "The Stone That the Builder Refused" Praise for "Nantucket"" Nights" "What a perfect summer pleasure Elin Hilderbrand provides...mixing the complexities of family life and friendship with suspense, romance, and moonlit Nantucket nights." -Nancy Thayer, author of "Hot Flash Holidays" "Things get more twisted at every turn, with enough lies and betrayals to fuel a whole season of soap operas....Readers will be hooked." -"Publishers Weekly" Praise for the Booksense/NEBA Bestseller "The Beach Club" "Elin Hilderbrand''s first novel holds up as a surprisingly touching...work of fiction you''re likely to think about weeks after you put it down." -"People "magazine\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2389'),
(1836, 'The Lovely Bones', 'Alice Sebold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice Sebold''s haunting and heartbreaking debut novel,\n <em>\n  The Lovely Bones\n </em>\n , unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie''s resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams," where "there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were\n <em>\n  Seventeen\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Glamour\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Vogue\n </em>\n ."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Lovely Bones\n </em>\n works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family''s dramas over the years like an episode of\n <em>\n  My So-Called Afterlife\n </em>\n . Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times,\n <em>\n  The Lovely Bones\n </em>\n is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish, and though things tend to wrap up a little\n <em>\n  too\n </em>\n well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings.\n <em>\n  --Brad Thomas Parsons\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Look Inside the Motion Picture\n  <em>\n   The Lovely Bones\n  </em>\n  (Paramount, 2010)\n </strong>\n <br />\n (Click on each image below to see a larger view)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon\n</p>\n<p>\n Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon\n</p>\n<p>\n Mark Wahlberg as Jack Salmon\n</p>\n<p>\n Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon and Director Peter Jackson\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sebold''s first novel after her memoir, Lucky is a small but far from minor miracle. Sebold has taken a grim, media-exploited subject and fashioned from it a story that is both tragic and full of light and grace. The novel begins swiftly. In the second sentence, Sebold''s narrator, Susie Salmon, announces, "I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." Susie is taking a shortcut through a cornfield when a neighbor lures her to his hideaway. The description of the crime is chilling, but never vulgar, and Sebold maintains this delicate balance between homely and horrid as she depicts the progress of grief for Susie''s family and friends. She captures the odd alliances forged and the relationships ruined: the shattered father who buries his sadness trying to gather evidence, the mother who escapes "her ruined heart, in merciful adultery." At the same time, Sebold brings to life an entire suburban community, from the mortician''s son to the handsome biker dropout who quietly helps investigate Susie''s murder. Much as this novel is about "the lovely bones" growing around Susie''s absence, it is also full of suspense and written in lithe, resilient prose that by itself delights. Sebold''s most dazzling stroke, among many bold ones, is to narrate the story from Susie''s heaven (a place where wishing is having), providing the warmth of a first-person narration and the freedom of an omniscient one. It might be this that gives Sebold''s novel its special flavor, for in Susie''s every observation and memory of the smell of skunk or the touch of spider webs is the reminder that life is sweet and funny and surprising.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/216'),
(1837, 'Lover Avenged', 'J. R. Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ward powers into hardcover with the tangled seventh title in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, picking up four months after the end of 2008''s\n <em>\n  Lover Enshrined\n </em>\n . Rehvenge, a symphath vampire who gets energy from manipulating others'' emotions, is recruited by a group who want to displace vampire king Wrath, a gruff, determined vigilante. Rehvenge is also falling hard for vampire nurse Ehlena, who disdains his affections and focuses on caring for her ailing father. Ward easily juggles numerous personal and political plot lines, keeping the tension revved high while moving forward with subplots that have lingered for several books and will please longtime fans seeking resolution. New readers may be a little lost despite a helpful glossary, but the fast pace and cliffhanger ending will have fans wishing they could start the next book right away.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Tautly written, wickedly sexy and just plain fun."\n <br />\n -Lisa Gardner\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1020'),
(1838, 'Lover Awakened', 'J. R. Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Even within the vampire brotherhood, Zsadist is feared. Still bearing the scars from a tortured past, he is renowned for his unquenchable fury. Anger is his only companion, and terror is his only passion-until he rescues a beautiful female from the evil Lessening Society.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/109'),
(1839, 'Lover Enshrined', 'J. R. Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Wards''s terrific latest picks up the Black Dagger Brotherhood of vampires where\n <em>\n  Lover Unbound\n </em>\n left off. Phury, a sworn Brother who has also become the Primale, is wrestling with a destiny he doesn''t want, an addiction he can''t handle and an insurmountable feeling of inadequacy that bleeds over into his love for Cormia, his Chosen First Mate. He holes up at the Brotherhood''s rural New York base. The Omega, bent on destroying the vampire race, is meanwhile growing ever stronger, and his long-held plan to destroy the Brothers, via the Lessening Society, is coming to fruition. Younger Brotherhood trainees John Matthew, Qhuinn and Blaylock are learning what it means to come of age and are immersed in their own drama with Qhuinn''s malicious cousin, Lash. The stories all reach a shared climax, leading to explosive revelations that set up the next book beautifully. Focusing less on Phury and Cormia and more on the Omega''s plot amps the tension on all sides. A subplot involving Rhevenge, John Matthew and the female symphath Xhex is particularly exciting, with Ward diving into varied subspecies, sexual predilections and questions of identity. Ward has outdone herself with this latest Brotherhood novel.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Phury has long been the self-sacrificing Brother. He maimed himself body and soul to save his twin. Now heâ€™s taken Vischousâ€™ place as the Primale, the one meant to replenish the dwindling number of Brothers and Chosen for the race. But his inner demons threaten to ruin it all. His place among the Brotherhood. His role as Primale. His relationship with his First Mate, Cormia. His greatest challenge, however, is proving to himself he truly is the hero heâ€™s always tried to be. Wardâ€™s fans have come to expect stories jam-packed with complex, ongoing story lines, and her newest is no exception. With major series-turning events, the subplots weigh in more than ever, at times suggestingÂ that there can be too much of a good thing. But in the end the indulgence is worth it. Along with the happy endings, more darkness comes to pass, showing the war between the vampires and the lessers is far from over, whichÂ happily means more Black Dagger Brotherhood storiesÂ to come. --Nina C. Davis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1019'),
(1840, 'Lover Eternal', 'J. R. Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Within the brotherhood, Rhage is the vampire with the strongest appetite. He''s the best fighter, the quickest to act on his impulses, and the most voracious lover-for inside him burns a ferocious curse cast by the Scribe Virgin.\n</p>\n<p>\n Possessed by this dark side, Rhage fears the times when his inner dragon is unleashed, making him a danger to everyone around him. When Mary Luce is unwittingly thrown into the vampire world, she must rely on Rhage''s protection. Knowing that Mary feels the same intense animal attraction, Rhage must make her his alone...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/108'),
(1841, 'Lover Mine', 'J. R. Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n New or casual readers of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series will be lost in its eighth installment (after 2009''s\n <em>\n  Lover Avenged\n </em>\n ), but Ward''s fans love her soap opera storytelling and are happy to forgive unpronounceable names and occasionally overeager tough talk (at a solemn wedding, [the bridegroom] was smiling like a motherfucker). Newly made vampire John Matthew vows to free his mate, the symphath Xhexania, from Lash, a paranoid coke addict who''s transmuting into a nontemporal entity like his vampire-killer father, the Omega. Once freed, Xhexania joins the Brothers in battling the Omega, but refuses to acknowledge her emotional connection to John. Meanwhile, sexually promiscuous Qhuinn, shockingly jealous of his cousin Saxton''s new lover, wonders whether he should have seduced Saxton when he had the chance. Complicated subplots and tortured heroes abound, but attentive readers will love putting it all together.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Darius, a fallen Brother, has returned to the fold with a new identity and a very different destiny. Now, John Matthew, plunged into the heart of war, must face off against evil incarnate-and rescue his one true love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1021'),
(1842, 'Lover Revealed', 'J. R. Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Newbies to Ward''s Black Dagger Brotherhood may struggle to fill in the backstory, but these erotic paranormals are well worth it, and frighteningly addictive. The six "brothers" are vampires: enormous, tattooed, tormented warriors who protect other vampires from destruction by the "lessers," desouled humans in the evil Omega''s Lessening Society. Hero and ex-cop Butch is the only human allowed into the Brotherhood''s inner circle, but Butch is no mere human, a fact suspected by one of his vamp colleagues, and confirmed by the sinister plans of the Omega. The book is fully committed to its urban sensibility, the vampires'' rarified language (a glossary is provided) and their revved-up sex drives, and it all works to great, page-turning effect (with the notable exception of a chick litâ€“like attention to designer brands). Though Butch''s love interest, the virginal, aristocratic vampire Marissa, initially elicits more annoyance than empathy, she grows a spine as the book progresses and Butch''s destiny comes to light. In just two years, the first three books in the series have earned Ward an Anne Riceâ€“style following, deservedly so; this entry should prove no less popular.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n J.R. Ward''s unique band of brothers is to die for. I love this series. (Suzanne Brockmann)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Brotherhood is the hottest collection of studs in romance. (Angela Knight)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Dark fantasy lovers, you just got served. (Lynn Viehl)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1017'),
(1843, 'Lover Unbound', 'J. R. Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The newest in Ward''s ferociously popular Black Dagger Brotherhood series bears all the marks of a polished storyteller completely at home in her world. Vishous, son of the Bloodletter, is a cunning, stone-hearted vampire warrior devoted to killing the wicked, undead vampire slayers known as the Lessers; after an ill-fated visit to a hospital, Vishous falls instantly and unexpectedly in love with a human surgeon, Dr. Jane Whitcomb. Soon, Vishous has brought the unwitting human back to the Brotherhood lair, where she returns his feelings, opening up a potentially cataclysmic conflictâ€”Vishous is, against his will, destined to become the Primale, a warrior with multiple vampire wives who''s meant to ensure the survival of the species. Ward has by now become an expert at fleshing out the stories of her supporting charactersâ€”each with his or her own novelâ€”without overpowering the central story, and while the romance between Vishous and Whitcomb is genre-typical, Ward isn''t afraid to break with convention in challenging, gratifying ways. Though not recommended for newcomers to Ward''s universe or romance traditionalists, this fix will give Brotherhood addicts a powerful rush.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ruthless and brilliant brother Vishous possesses a destructive curse and a frightening ability to see the future. As a member of the Brotherhood, he has no interest in love or emotion, only the battle with the Lessening Society. But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of a human surgeon, Dr. Jane Whitcomb compels him to reveal his inner pain and taste true pleasure for the first time-until a destiny he didn''t choose takes him into a future that does not include her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1018'),
(1844, 'Lover Unleashed', 'J. R. Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Payne, twin sister of Vishous, is cut from the same dark, seductive cloth as her brother. Imprisoned for eons by their mother, the Scribe Virgin, she finally frees herself-only to face a devastating injury. Manuel Manello, M.D., is drafted by the Brotherhood to save her as only he can-but when the human surgeon and the vampire warrior meet, their two worlds collide in the face of their undeniable passion.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n With so much working against them, can love prove stronger than the birthright and the biology that separates them?\n <br />\n</p>\n<h1>\n 1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author J. R. Ward''s thrilling new novel in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.\n</h1>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  J.R. Ward\n </strong>\n worked in healthcare in Boston and spent many years as Chief of Staff at one of the premier academic medical centers in the nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1022'),
(1845, 'Loyalty in Death', 'J. D. Robb &amp; Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 21st-century New York City, tough-as-nails cop Eve Dallas can survive a bombing, seduce her husband, and outsmart a terrorist--all on four hours of sleep. In this latest installment of the In Death series, author J.D. Robb (a.k.a. Nora Roberts) casts our heroine against an enigmatic group of terrorists named Cassandra. With no clear motivation or demands, Cassandra feeds on the thrill of senseless killing and the calculated destruction of Eve''s world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Relying on her own brawn and brains, as well as that of her aid Peabody and her husband Roarke, Eve begins to unravel a mystery that began decades before. When the killer''s threats land close to home, Eve knows she has no choice but to gamble her own life for the chance to save her city as well as her loved ones.\n</p>\n<p>\n J.D. Robb''s combinations of mystery, suspense, and romance keep the fans of this series clamoring for more, and\n <em>\n  Loyalty in Death\n </em>\n has equal amounts of each. While the passion between Eve and Roarke is as good as ever, the introduction of a new romantic element certainly turns up the heat and is a welcome twist. Though the evil-terrorist-in-NYC theme has been done before (most recently in\n <em>\n  The Siege\n </em>\n ), these beloved characters put up a good fight, and keep us glued to the pages.\n <em>\n  --Nancy R.E. O''Brien\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Under any name she''s a #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Eve Dallas must stop a serial bomber from igniting his ultimate weapon in New York City. This one''s "a perfect balance of suspense, futuristic police procedural, and steamy romance" (Publishers Weekly).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1088'),
(1846, 'The Lucky One', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  U.S. Marine Logan Thibault carries a picture of a woman he''snever met because it brings him good luck. But when he sets out to find the woman, he is met with unexpected circumstances surrounding his new love and his shrouded past. Though not Sparkss most original tale, the story flows well and narrator John Bedford Lloyd delivers a solid performance. Lloyds deep bass tone is perfectly suited for Thibault, a manly man if ever there was one. Lloyds supporting characters are rich and interesting in their own right, some speaking in comical Southern drawls, others with a raw reality. The final result is quite touching without much over-the-top sentimentality on Lloyds part.\n  <em>\n   A Grand Central hardcover. (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his 14th book, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks tells the unforgettable story of a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks''s new novel believes he''s found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he''s never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories only a master such as Sparks can write.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1950'),
(1847, 'Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Both hilarious and suspenseful this is "Chick lit" at its gossipy best. What happens when a psychic tells Lucy that she''ll be married within the year? Her flatmates panic! What is going to happen to their blissful existence of eating take-out food, drinking too much wine, bringing men home, and never vacuuming? Lucy reassures her friends that she''s far too busy arguing with her mother and taking care of her irresponsible father to get married. And then there''s the small matter of not even having a boyfriend. But then Lucy meets gorgeous, unreliable Gus. Could he be the future Mr. Lucy Sullivan? Or could it be handsome Chuck? Or Daniel, the world''s biggest flirt? Or even cute Jed, the new guy at work? Will Lucy find her soulmate? Marian Keyes recently published a collection of her journalism, titledUnder the Duvet, and donated all royalties from Irish sales to the Simon Community, a charity that works with the homeless.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1210'),
(1848, 'Lullaby', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The consequences of media saturation are the basis for an urban nightmare in\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n , Chuck Palahniuk''s darkly comic and often dazzling thriller. Assigned to write a series of feature articles investigating SIDS, troubled newspaper reporter Carl Streator begins to notice a pattern among the cases he encounters: each child was read the same poem prior to his or her death. His research and a tip from a necrophilic paramedic lead him to Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent who sells "distressed" (demonized) homes, assured of their instant turnover. Boyle and Streator have both lost children to "crib death," and she confirms Streator''s suspicions: the poem is an ancient lullaby or "culling song" that is lethal if spoken--or even thought--in a victim''s direction. The misanthropic Streator, now armed with a deadly and uncontrollably catchy tune, goes on a minor killing spree until he recognizes his crimes and the song''s devastating potential.\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n then turns into something of a road trip narrative, with Streator, Boyle, her empty-headed Wiccan secretary Mona, and Mona''s vigilante boyfriend Oyster setting out across the U.S. to track down and destroy all copies of the poem.\n</p>\n<p>\n In his previous works, including the cult favorite\n <em>\n  Fight Club\n </em>\n , Palahniuk has demonstrated a fondness for making statements about the condition of humanity, and he uses\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n like a blunt object to repeatedly overstate his generally dim view. Such dogmatic venom undermines the persuasiveness of his thesis about mass communication and free will, but thankfully, Palahniuk offers some respite here by allowing for sympathy and love, as well as through his razor-sharp humor, such as his mock listings for Helen''s possessed properties: "six bedrooms, four baths, pine-paneled entryway, and blood running down the kitchen walls...." At such moments,\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n casts a powerful spell.\n <em>\n  --Ross Doll\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I need to rebel against myself. It''s the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear." Beleaguered reporter Carl Streator is stuck writing about SIDS and grieving for his dead wife and child; he copes by building perfect model homes and smashing them with a bare foot. But things only get worse: Carl accidentally memorizes an ancient African "culling song" that kills anyone he focuses on while mentally reciting it, until killing "gets to be a bad habit." His only friend, Nash, a creepy necrophiliac coroner, amuses himself with Carl''s victims. Salvation of a sort comes in the form of Helen Hoover Boyle, a witch making a tidy living as a real estate broker selling-and quickly reselling-haunted houses. She, too, knows the culling song and finances her diamond addiction by freelancing as a telepathic assassin. Carl and Helen hit the road with Helen''s Wiccan assistant, Mona, and her blackmailing boyfriend, Oyster, on a search-and-destroy mission for all outstanding copies of the culling song, as well as an all-powerful master tome of spells, a grimoire. Hilarious satire, both supernatural and scatological, ensues, the subtext of which seems to be Palahniuk''s conviction that information has become a weapon ("Imagine a plague you catch through your ears"), and the bizarre love affair between Helen and Carl offers the lone linear thread in a field of narrative flak bursts. But the chief significance of this novel is Palahniuk''s decision to commit himself to a genre, and this horror tale of both magic and mundane modernity plants him firmly in a category where previously he existed as a genre of one.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/320'),
(1849, 'Lullaby Town', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Hollywood''s newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelson, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelson wants is for Elvis Cole to comb the country for the airhead wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third biggest filmmaker in America. It''s the kind of case Cole can handle in his sleep - until it turns out to be a nightmare. For when Cole finds Nelson''s wife in a small Conneticut town, she''s nothing like what he expects. The lady has some unwanted - and very nasty - mob connections, which means Elvis could be opening the East Coast branch of his P.I. office . . . at the bottom of the Hudson River.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Elvis Cole is back. The laid-back L.A. private eye, who debuted to electrifying reviews and recognition in The Monkey''s Raincoat, returns with his slightly psychotic partner, Joe Pike. Cole and Pike go bi-coastal, taking on the East Coast mafia and the West Coast''s hottest director: a boy wonder with a big man''s ego and hired muscle to match.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1328'),
(1850, 'The Lunatic Cafe', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Anita has fallen for the leader of a local pack of werewolves. She''s survived a lot, but this love thing may kill her yet.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n The local pack of werewolves comes to prenatural expert Anita Baker for help after a number of their pack come up missing--probably because she is dating the leader of the pack. Anita has survived a lot, from jealous vampires to killer zombies, but this love thing may kill her yet. From the author of Circus of the Damned. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/743'),
(1851, 'The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reading a Christopher Moore novel is a little like eating a potato chip--it''s hard to stop at just one. And you don''t have to look beyond the titles to understand the allure; who could pass up a book called\n <em>\n  Practical Demonkeeping\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  Island of the Sequined Love Nun\n </em>\n ? Each of Moore''s tales skewers a particular literary genre. In\n <em>\n  Coyote Blue\n </em>\n he nailed New Age fascination with Native American religion; in\n <em>\n  Blood-Sucking Fiends: A Love Story\n </em>\n he put a new twist on the classic vampire tale.\n <em>\n  The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove\n </em>\n is a companion piece to his first novel, the hilariously twisted horror story\n <em>\n  Practical Demonkeeping\n </em>\n , and readers of that book will recognize the setting, Pine Cove, California. In addition, Moore includes plenty of his patented weird sex, occasional gross-out death, several off-kilter but nonetheless affecting love stories, and some fabulous secondary characters such as Mavis Sand:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Mavis first began augmenting her parts in the fifties, first out of vanity: breasts, eyelashes, hair. Later, as she aged and the concept of maintenance eluded her, she began having parts replaced as they failed, until almost half of her body weight was composed of stainless steel (hips, elbows, shoulders, finger joints, rods fused to vertebrae five through twelve), silicon wafers (hearing aids, pacemaker, insulin pump), advanced polymer resins (cataract replacement lenses, dentures), Kevlar fabric (abdominal wall reinforcement), titanium (knees, ankles), and pork (ventricular heart valve).\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n In a nutshell, the plot revolves around a gigantic prehistoric lizard whose slumber deep beneath the ocean surface is interrupted by a radioactive leak from a nearby power plant. At the same time, a woman in Pine Cove hangs herself; the local psychiatrist (who has been prescribing antidepressants to everyone in town with gay abandon) decides the suicide was her fault and yanks everyone''s medication; and an elderly black blues singer named Catfish Jefferson arrives to perform at the Head of the Slug saloon. Into this already strange brew mix one schizoid former B-movie starlet, a pot-head town constable, a bereaved local artist, a biologist tracking anomalous behavior in rats, a crooked sheriff, and a pharmacist with a bizarre sexual fixation on sea mammals, and you have a recipe for the kind of madness Moore does so well.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With in-your-face, South Park-worthy humor that only once slips into the truly offensive, Moore (Island of the Sequined Love Nun) has written the definitive Prozac allegory. Like its Puff-the-Libidinous-Dragon protagonist Steve, this novel delightfully runs roughshod over trailer parks, scrip-happy psychiatrists, right-wing moralists and "nuked-out future movie" stars with laugh-aloud wit and gentle affection. Pine Cove is a Pacific coast town of 5000Aa third of whom Dr. Valerie Riordan has rendered dependent on antidepressants. When obsessive-compulsive Bess Leander is found hanged from a calico cloth rope, a possible suicide, Val fears she has been overmedicating, and she blackmails fish-fetishist pharmacist Winston Krauss into giving all antidepressant users placebos instead. As the antidepressants wear off, a hilariously uncontrollable erotic revolution takes place in the formerly groggy and dispirited population. A simultaneous nuclear plant leak into the ocean awakens serotonin-deficit sea beast Steve, who descends on the town, disguised occasionally as a double-wide mobile home. When the doper constable and the methamphetamine-peddling sheriff duke it out, creating chaos instead of restoring order, we learn our lesson about better living through pharmaceuticals. Moore is Daniel Pinkwater for grownups, but a lot funnier; and his irreverent antics reveal a buoyant wit and surreal authority even while rendering the emotional range, sex life, and murderous tendencies of a sea monster. Agent: Nick Ellison. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/412'),
(1852, 'Lying With Strangers', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A first-year resident at a major Boston children''s hospital, Peyton Shields finally has the career she''s always dreamed ofâ€”even though her marriage to Kevin, an up-and-coming young lawyer, is suffering from her hard work and impossibly long hours. But a late-night drive home in a heavy snowstorm changes everything when she is forced off the road.\n </p>\n <p>\n  No one, not even Kevin, believes Peyton''s claims that the "accident" was deliberate. Suddenly, her wonderful life has turned dark and uncertain, and the terror has only just begun. Her husband is growing inexplicably distant and bitter, accusing her of paranoia, betrayal, and infidelity. And a series of bizarre and frightening events is moving Peyton steadily closer to a faceless, resourceful enemy who is watching her every move.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2474'),
(1853, 'M Is for Malice', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Every investigation has a nature of its own, but there are certain shared characteristics," explains private eye Kinsey Millhone in her 13th alphabetic outing. "Here''s what you hope for: a chance remark from the former neighbor on a skip-trace, a penciled notation on the corner of a document, an ex-spouse with a grudge, the number on an account, an item overlooked at the scene of a crime. Here''s what you expect: the dead ends, bureaucratic bullheadedness, the cul-de-sacs, trails that go nowhere or simply fade into thin air, denials, prevarications, the blank-eyed stares from all the hostile witnesses. Here''s what you know: that you''ve done it before and you have the toughness and determination to pull it off again. Here''s what you want: justice. Here''s what you''ll settle for: something equivalent, the quid pro quo." All of the above are on display in Grafton''s latest entry in her increasingly popular series set in a thinly-disguised Santa Barbara, as the virtually ageless Kinsey finds and loses a missing heir and gets back an old lover.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Approaching middle age warily, PI Kinsey Millhone of the Southern California coast is mildly depressed, romantically vulnerable and in the process of reassessing her family ties. Yet, when it comes to her professional abilities, she''s at the top of her form, as this deftly plotted and absorbing novel (her 13th appearance, after L Is for Lawless) proves. Bader Malek, a local industrial tycoon, has died, and his four sons now stand to inherit a substantial fortune. But one of them, Guy, has been missing since 1968. A drug addict, ne''er-do-well and all-around miscreant, Guy had been disinherited by his exasperated father shortly before he vanished. But that particular will has disappeared, and Kinsey has been hired by the family to find out if Guy is still alive and thus in line to collect his original portion of the estate. She quickly succeeds in locating him and brings back a sweet, guileless and totally reformed man. But is he? The three other brothers?a truly devious, arrogant and greedy lot?are deeply ambivalent about Guy''s return. A murder in the family leaves the surviving Malek kin as prime suspects. This is a subtle and swiftly moving novel, pleasantly unpredictable, with an agreeable overlay of smoldering romance, as fellow PI and former lover Robert Dietz reenters Kinsey''s life. Grafton''s heroine?more introspective, yet still feisty and surefooted?leads this finely tuned and at times electrifying tale to a thoroughly satisfying conclusion. 1,000,000 first printing.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/677'),
(1854, 'Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die', 'Ryan North &amp; Matthew Bennardo &amp; David Malki', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. No dates, no details. Just a slip of paper with a few words spelling out your ultimate fate -- at once all-too specific and maddeningly vague.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Machine of Death is an anthology of original stories bound together by a central premise. From the humorous to the adventurous to the mind-bending to the touching, the writers explore what the world would be like if a blood test could predict your death.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But don''t think for a moment this is a book entirely composed of stories about people meeting their ironic dooms. There is some of that, of course. But more than that, this is a genre-hopping collection of tales about people who have learned more about themselves then perhaps they should have, and how that knowledge affects their relationships, their perception of the world, and how they feel about themselves.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Features thirty-four stories by Randall Munroe, Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, Tom Francis, Camille Alexa, Erin McKean, James L. Sutter, David Malki !, Ryan North, and many others\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Features illustrations by Kate Beaton, Kazu Kibuishi, Aaron Diaz, Jeffrey Brown, Scott C., Roger Langridge, Karl Kershl, Cameron Stewart, and many others\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/402'),
(1855, 'Mad Ship', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robin Hobb returns to the sea with\n <em>\n  Mad Ship\n </em>\n , the second book in a projected trilogy set in the same world as her famed\n <em>\n  Farseer\n </em>\n series. Many unresolved questions from\n <em>\n  Ship of Magic\n </em>\n are answered in this tale of sea serpents and dragons; living ships made of wizardwood; the Bingtown Trader families who sail the ships; and their disfigured cousins, the Rain Wild Traders, who build them.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Vestritt family''s liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by Kennit, an ambitious pirate. Captain Haven is a prisoner; his son Wintrow, who bears the Vestritt blood, finds himself competing with Kennit for Vivacia''s love as she becomes a pirate ship. Althea Vestritt, in training to become Vivacia''s captain, arrives home to discover her beloved ship lost. Brashen Trell, her old friend and shipmate, proposes that they sail to Vivacia''s rescue in the liveship Paragon, who has lost two previous crews and is believed mad. Malta, Althea''s niece, seeks help from her suitor, the Rain Wild Trader Reyn, whose family is the Vestritt''s major creditor. Meanwhile, the sea serpents who follow sailing ships struggle to remember their history and return to their place of transformation.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each volume in this series is a major undertaking, but those who enjoy original, epic fantasy, characters who grow and change believably, and fine writing will not want to miss\n <em>\n  The Liveship Traders\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The second book (after Ship of Magic) in Hobbs''s Liveship Traders trilogy solidifies the series''s promise as a major work of high fantasy, reading like a cross between Tolkein and Patrick O''Brian. Protagonist Althea Vestrit is neither unrealistically beautiful nor mindlessly dauntless. She is a very human character who has her share of doubts as she undertakes to assemble a motley crew of allies (including her former lover, Brashen Trell) to take the blind, insane liveship Paragone to sea in search of the Vestrit family''s liveship Vivacia. Meanwhile, Vivacia is enjoying a prosperous career as the flagship of pirate Captain Kennit. In spite of his peg leg, Kennit is a charismatic leader, with a genius for manipulation that his mistress Etta and his prisoner Wintrow Vestrit (Althea''s nephew) seem ready to mistake for virtue. And in Bingtown, Wintrow''s bratty sister, Malta, finally starts growing up when her family and town face ruin and she must take refuge in the Rain Wild forests. This second installment in the trilogy reveals the connections among liveships, the wizardwood used to build them, the sea serpents and the legendary Rain dragons. Apart from an overly long subplot concerning the feckless young Satrap, the novel is tightly written, with few passages not devoted to characterization, world building or action. Again, Hobb gives high fantasy a salty nautical spin that will please a great many readers. (Apr.) FYI: Robin Hobb is a pseudonym for Megan Lindholm.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/586');
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(1856, 'Madame Bovary (Barnes &amp; Noble Classics Series)', 'Gustave Flaubert &amp; Eleanor Marx Aveling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  Madame Bovary\n </em>\n , by Gustave Flaubert, is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars\n </li>\n <li>\n  Biographies of the authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events\n </li>\n <li>\n  Footnotes and endnotes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comments by other famous authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bibliographies for further reading\n </li>\n <li>\n  Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The publication in 1857 of\n <em>\n  Madame Bovary\n </em>\n , with its vivid depictions of sex and adultery, incited a backlash of immorality charges. The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a doctorâ€™s wife bored and unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood. She embarks upon a series of affairs in search of passion and excitement, but is unable to achieve the splendid life for which she yearns. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a downward spiral that inexorably leads to ruin and self-destruction.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Along with Tolstoyâ€™s\n <em>\n  Anna Karenina\n </em>\n , Flaubertâ€™s tragic novel stands as a brilliant portrayal of infidelity, an incisive psychological portrait of a woman torn between duty and desire. Written with acute attention to telling detail,\n <em>\n  Madame Bovary\n </em>\n not only exposes the emptiness of one womanâ€™s bourgeois existence and failure to fill that void with fantasies, sex, and material objects. Emmaâ€™s thirst for life mirrors the universal human impulse for idealized fulfillment.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Chris Kraus is the author of the novels\n <em>\n  I Love Dick, Aliens &amp; Anorexia,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Torpor,\n </em>\n and a collection of essays,\n <em>\n  Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness.\n </em>\n She is co-editor, with Sylvere Lotringer and Hedi El Kholti, of the independent press Semiotext(e). She teaches in the graduate program of the San Francisco Art Institute.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/812'),
(1857, 'Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Readers from Toad Suck, Arkansas, to Idiotsville, Oregon--and everywhere in between--will love\n  <em>\n   Made in America\n  </em>\n  , Bill Bryson''s\n  <em>\n   Informal History of the English Language in the United States.\n  </em>\n  It is, in a word, fascinating. After reading this tour de force, it''s clear that a nation''s language speaks volumes about its true character: you are what you speak. Bryson traces America''s history through the language of the time, then goes on to discuss words culled from everyday activities: immigration, eating, shopping, advertising, going to the movies, and others.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Made in America\n  </em>\n  will supply you with interesting facts and cocktail chatter for a year or more. Did you know, for example, that Teddy Roosevelt''s "speak softly and carry a big stick" credo has its roots in a West African proverb? Or that actor Walter Matthau''s given name is Walter Mattaschanskayasky? Or that the supposedly frigid Puritans--who called themselves "Saints," by the way--had something called a pre-contract, which was a license for premarital sex?\n  <em>\n   Made in America\n  </em>\n  is an excellent discussion of American English, but what makes the book such a treasure is that it offers much, much more.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bryson offers a playfully anecdotal account of the etymology of distinctive words and phrases that help to create a distinctly American English.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/64'),
(1858, 'The Magician King: A Novel', 'Lev Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2011\n </strong>\n : This second volume in Lev Grossmanâ€™s  celebrated series picks up just after the events of its 2009 prequel\n <em>\n  The Magicians\n </em>\n . Quentin, Eliot, Janet, and Julia are now the High Kings and Queens of Fillory, a fantastic realm not unlike Narnia, and they pass their days â€œdeliquescing atom by atom amid a riot of luxury.â€ To ease his royal boredom, Quentin embarks on a quest with Julia. Despite his romantic visions of heroic feats and easy accolades, the quest goes horribly awry, and they find themselves back in the depressingly real world of Chesterton, Massachusetts. With the help of seedy underground magicians, a dragon, and a young boy named Thomas, they undertake a desperate journey back to Fillory. Grossmanâ€™s writing here is sharp and self-aware, and the characters feel like people you actually know, but cooler: they are delightfully profane and dripping with irony, they are arrogant and shallow, they are finding their way in a magically perfect world that somehow still lets them down, and they are learning to fight for the things they love.\n <em>\n  The Magician King\n </em>\n is a triumph of (and an homage to) modern fantasy writing, and a must-read for grown-up fans of Narnia and Harry Potter. --\n <em>\n  Juliet Disparte\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "[A] serious, heartfelt novel [that] turns the machinery of fantasy inside out."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n (Editor''s Choice)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A spellbinding stereograph, a literary adventure novel that is also about a privilege, power and the limits of being human.\n <em>\n  The Magician King\n </em>\n is a triumphant sequel."\n <br />\n -NPR.org\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "[\n <em>\n  The Magician King\n </em>\n ] is ''The Catcher in the Rye'' for devotees of alternative universes. It''s dazzling and devil-may-care...Grossman has created a rare, strange and scintillating novel."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  The Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  The Magician King\n </em>\n is a rare achievement, a book that simultaneously criticizes and celebrates our deep desire for fantasy."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  The Boston Globe\n </em>\n "Grossman has devised an enchanted milieu brimming with possibility, and his sly authorial voice gives it a literary lift that positions\n <em>\n  The Magician King\n </em>\n well above the standard fantasy fare."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  The San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Grossman expands his magical world into a boundless enchanted universe, and his lively characters navigate it with aplomb."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Grossman is brilliant at creating brainy, distinct, flawed, complex characters, and nearly as good at running them through narrative gauntlets that inventively tweak the stories that generations have grown up on."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  The Portland Oregonian\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  The Magician King\n </em>\n , the immensely entertaining new novel by Lev Grossman, manages to be both deep and deeply enjoyable."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  The Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Readers who have already enjoyed\n <em>\n  The Magicians\n </em>\n should lose no time in picking up\n <em>\n  The Magician King\n </em>\n . For those who haven''t, read both books: Grossman''s work is solid, smart and engaging adult fantasy."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Miami Herald\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Now that Harry Potter is through in books and films, grown-up fans of the boy wizard might want to give this nimble fantasy series a try."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  New York Post\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  The Magician King\n </em>\n is Grossman''s sequel to\n <em>\n  The Magicians\n </em>\n , and while it is every bit as delightful and smart as the first one, it''s a very different kind of book...\n <em>\n  The Magician King\n </em>\n is at once an existential exercise that angrily shakes escapism by its shoulders and demands that life have a purpose, and a story about extraordinary deeds, heroism, magic and love-all the stuff that makes escapism go. It''s a fantastic trick that makes this into a book that entertains and disturbs at the same time."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Boing Boing\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Lev Grossman''s\n <em>\n  The Magician King\n </em>\n is a fresh take on the fantasy- quest novel-dark, austere, featuring characters with considerable psychological complexity, a collection of idiosyncratic talking animals (a sloth who knows the path to the underworld, a dragon in the Grand Canal), and splendid set pieces in Venice, Provence, Cornwall and Brooklyn."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  The Daily Beast\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "In this page-turning follow-up to his best-selling 2009 novel\n <em>\n  The Magicians\n </em>\n , Grossman takes another dark, sarcastically sinister stab at fantasy, set in the Narnia-esque realm of Fillory."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  The Magician King\n </em>\n is clearly the middle book in a trilogy, but it''s that rare creature that bridges the gap between tales and still stands on its own. And just as the first book showed that growing up is hard no matter how much power you have, it shows that becoming an adult involves far more than just reaching the right age."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  A.V. Club\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult wisdom-not to be missed."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n (Starred Review)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fans of\n <em>\n  The Magicians\n </em>\n will find this sequel a feast and will be delighted that a jaw-dropping denouement surely promises a third volume to come."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/733'),
(1859, 'Magician: Apprentice', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry. Yet Pug''s strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/802'),
(1860, 'Magician&#39;s Gambit', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Absorbing. Touches all the right Fantasy bases. Warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures, and appealingly human magicians." --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight." --\n <em>\n  Piers Anthony\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fabulous! Eddings has a marvelous storyteller style. Exceedingly well portrayed." --\n <em>\n  Anne McCaffrey\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ce''Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, had joined a dangerous mission to recover the stolen Orb that supposedly protected the West from the evil God Torak. And somehow, she found herself feeling quite tender for Garion, the innocent farm boy, who would be forced into the strange tower in the center of all evil to retrieve the Orb by himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1284'),
(1861, 'The Magician&#39;s Nephew', 'C. S. Lewis &amp; Pauline Baynes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This large, deluxe hardcover edition of the first title in the classic Chronicles of Narnia series,\n <em>\n  The Magician''s Nephew\n </em>\n , is a gorgeous introduction to the magical land of Narnia. The many readers who discovered C.S. Lewis''s Chronicles through\n <em>\n  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe\n </em>\n will be delighted to find that the next volume in the series is actually the first in the sequence--and a step back in time. In this unforgettable story, British schoolchildren Polly and Digory inadvertently tumble into the Wood Between the Worlds, where they meet the evil Queen Jadis and, ultimately, the great, mysterious King Aslan. We witness the birth of Narnia and discover the legendary source of all the adventures that are to follow in the seven books that comprise the series.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rich, heavy pages, a gold-embossed cover, and Pauline Baynes''s original illustrations (hand-colored by the illustrator herself 40 years later) make this special edition of a classic a bona fide treasure. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The magic of C. S. Lewis''s parallel universe never fades." The Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/922'),
(1862, 'Make Room! Make Room!', 'Harry Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The world is crowded. Far too crowded. Its starving billions live on lentils, soya beans, and â€”if theyâ€™re luckyâ€”the odd starving rat.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhabitants, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a killer everyone has forgotten. For even in a world such as this, a policeman can find himself utterly aloneâ€¦.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Acclaimed on its original publication in 1966,\n  <em>\n   Make Room! Make Room!\n  </em>\n  was adapted into the movie\n  <em>\n   Soylent Green\n  </em>\n  in 1973, starring Charlton Heston along with Edward G. Robinson in his last role.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  First published in 1966, Harrison''s novel of an overpopulated urban jungle, a divided class system--operating within an atmosphere of riots, food shortages, and senseless acts of violence--and a desperate hunt for the truth by a cynical NYC detective tells a classic tale of a dark future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1794'),
(1863, 'Making Money', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reprieved confidence trickster Moist von Lipwig, who reorganized the Ankh-Morpork Post Office in 2004''s\n <em>\n  Going Postal\n </em>\n , turns his attention to the Royal Mint in this splendid Discworld adventure. It seems that the aristocratic families who run the mint are running it into the ground, and benevolent despot Lord Vetinari thinks Moist can do better. Despite his fondness for money, Moist doesn''t want the job, but since he has recently become the guardian of the mint''s majority shareholder (an elderly terrier) and snubbing Vetinari''s offer would activate an Assassins Guild contract, he reluctantly accepts. Pratchett throws in a mad scientist with a working economic model, disappearing gold reserves and an army of golems, once more using the Disc as an educational and entertaining mirror of human squabbles and flaws\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Moist von Lipwig, the savior of the Ankh-Morpork post office, has gotten settled into a routine. He''s filling out forms, signing things, will probably get to be head of the Merchants Association next year, and he hasn''t designed a stamp in months. He''s so bored, in fact, that he''s taken to climbing the walls of the post office and breaking into his own office. Lord Vetinari, always brilliant in his ruthlessness, recognizes an opportunity when he sees one, and offers Moist the job of running the royal mint. Moist tries to refuse, pretending that he''s satisfied with the stable life, but he can''t deny the urge for adventure and intrigue for long. The mint is, in the finest Ankh-Morpork tradition, a strange and oddly old-fashioned place, with bizarre traditions so ingrained the long-term employees can''t imagine doing them any other way. Moist is the perfect innovator, with his wildly creative solutions to problems, for changing the way the entire city thinks about money. In the transition from the gold standard and old money, Pratchett brings up all the details that make Ankh-Morpork one of the most satisfying contemporary fantasy cities and continues in his trend of beautifully crafted, wickedly cutting satire on the underpinnings of modern human society. Making Money is smart, funny, and a thoroughly entertaining read. Schroeder, Regina\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/378'),
(1864, 'Mama Does Time', 'Deborah Sharp', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   Mama Does Time\n  </em>\n  has it all -- murder, mystery and a brand new take on Florida''s particular version of mayhem. " -- * Bob Morris, fourth-generation Floridian and Edgar-nominated author of the Zack Chasteen mystery novels*\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Not since the late Anne George has there been such laugh-out-loud Southern fried fun. Deborah Sharp''s\n  <em>\n   Mama Does Time\n  </em>\n  is a hilarious page turner with crisp and intelligent writing." -- * Sue Ann Jaffarian, author of the Odelia Grey Mystery series*\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Who knew that a who-dun-it would not only keep you guessing--but have you laughing! Deborah Sharp is the new Edna Buchanan." --\n  <em>\n   Hoda Kotb, NBC "Today" show co-anchor\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Deborah Sharp''s witty way with words makes\n  <em>\n   Mama Does Time\n  </em>\n  as much fun as a down-home visit with your quirky Florida cousins.'''' --\n  <em>\n   Nancy Martin, author of the Blackbird Sisters Mysteries\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "With a strong, funny heroine, colorful characters, and a look at a part of Florida the tourists rarely see, Deborah Sharp has an engaging new series. Make sure\n  <em>\n   Mama Does Time\n  </em>\n  does time on your bookshelf." --\n  <em>\n   Elaine Viets, author of\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Clubbed to Death: a Dead-End Job Mystery\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Meet Mama: a true Southern woman with impeccable manners, sherbet-colored pantsuits, and four prior husbands, able to serve sweet tea and sidestep alligator attacks with equal aplomb. Mama''s antics â€” especially her penchant for finding trouble â€” drive her daughters Mace, Maddie, and Marty to distraction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One night, while settling in to look for ex-beaus on\n  <em>\n   COPS\n  </em>\n  , Mace gets a frantic call from her mother. This time, the trouble is real: Mama found a body in the trunk of her turquoise convertible and the police think she''s the killer. It doesn''t help that the handsome detective assigned to the case seems determined to prove Mama''s guilt or that the cowboy who broke Mace''s heart shows up at the local Booze â€˜n'' Breeze in the midst of the investigation. Before their mama lands in prison â€” just like an embarrassing lyric from a country-western song â€” Mace and her sisters must find the real culprit.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   TV APPEARANCES\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—Š NBC''s\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    *Today\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  * Show from November 4, 2008\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—Š "\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    *Mayor''s Book Talk\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  *" from January 14, 2009\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—ŠÂ NBC6 "\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    *South Florida Today\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  *." from July 17, 2009\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—ŠÂ NBC''s Today Show from August 4, 2009\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1960'),
(1865, 'Mama Gets Hitched', 'Deborah Sharp', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of Sharp''s charming third Mace Bauer mystery (after 2009''s Mama Rides Shotgun), Mace''s 62-year-old Mama is looking forward to marrying husband number five, Sal Provenza, a Bronx native. Alas, Sal''s family tagalongs are causing quite a stir in tiny Himmarshee, Fla., in particular C''ndee Ciancio, Sal''s brassy, hot-tempered cousin-in-law, who''s driving Mama crazy with her efforts to help plan the wedding. When the murder of caterer Ronnie Hodges coincides with the arrival of C''ndee''s hunky nephew, Tony, Mace worries that some of Sal''s kin may have Mafia ties. Tony''s interest in Mace forces her to make a decision about her on-again/off-again relationship with handsome local cop Carlos Martinez, even as Mace assists Carlos in tracking down leads that totally alter their original assessment of the motive for Ronnie''s murder. Sibling rivalry, steamy romance, a surprising killer, and plenty of catfish and hush puppies make this Southern cozy a winner.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mace Bauerâ€™s mother is getting ever closer to her fifth marriage. In fact, the preparations have entered the home stretch for her Gone with the Windâ€“themed wedding. Mace and her sisters, Marty and Maddie, really donâ€™t want to appear in crinolines and carry parasols, but if it makes Mama happy . . . . The whole celebration seems to be in serious jeopardy, however, when the caterer is murdered just a week before the event. It is up to Mace and her sometime boyfriend, policeman Carlos, to figure out whoâ€™s to blame. Suspects include a wedding planner, Câ€™ndee, and her gorgeous nephew, Anthony. Like the bridegroom, Salvatore Provenza, Câ€™ndee and Anthony are East Coast Yankees. Even worse, Anthony may have links to the Mafia. In between gown fittings, Maceâ€™s increasingly dangerous investigations include visits to a fish camp in the swamps. Once again Sharp has presented a humorous look at life in the interior of Florida. Hereâ€™s hoping her way of life survives this latter-day Yankee invasion. --Judy Coon\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1956'),
(1866, 'Mama Rides Shotgun', 'Deborah Sharp', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Mama''s fixin'' to get hitched to Husband #5. But first, she coerces her daughter, Mace, to saddle up for some country-gal bonding on the Florida Cracker Trail. The trek takes a deadly turn when Lawton Brambleâ€”wealthy rancher and one-time beau of Mama''sâ€”keels over in his Cow Hunter Chili.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lawton had a horde of enemies and a famously bad ticker. Could a grudge-wielding rival have "spiced" the cattleman''s chow? With (or maybe despite) the help of her sisters and her sexy ex-beau, Detective Martinez, Mace sets out to corral a low-down varmint who''s determined to kill again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   TV APPEARANCES\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—Š NBC''s\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    *Today\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  * Show from November 4, 2008\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—Š "\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    *Mayor''s Book Talk\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  *" from January 14, 2009\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—Š NBC6 "\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    *South Florida Today\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  *." from July 17, 2009\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—Š NBC''s Today Show from August 4, 2009\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—Š WJXT-TV from November 17, 2009\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Acclaim for\n  </strong>\n  Mama Does Time\n  <strong>\n   , the first Mace Bauer Mystery:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A humorous, touching reflection on familial love and politics."\n  <br />\n  â€”Mystery Scene\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Native Floridian Deborah Sharp''s acute comic timing and detailed perceptions of old Florida sparkle in her lively debut . . . highly entertaining."â€”Oline H. Cogdill,\n  <strong>\n   South Florida Sun-Sentinel\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Who knew that a who-dun-it would not only keep you guessingâ€”but have you laughing! Deborah Sharp is the new Edna Buchanan."\n  <br />\n  â€”Hoda Kotb, NBC\n  <strong>\n   Today Show\n  </strong>\n  co-anchor\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1954'),
(1867, 'Mama Sees Stars', 'Deborah Sharp', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  My stars and gartersâ€”Hollywood has descended on little ol'' Himmarshee, Florida. As animal wrangler for a cowboy film, Mace is on the set when she discovers the arrogant executive producer shot dead, his body on display in the horse corral. With everyone from spoiled starlets to conniving crew members cursing the man''s name, who in blue blazes\n  <em>\n   didn''t\n  </em>\n  want to kill Norman Sydney? As Mama''s head swells to diva proportions, thanks to her miniscule movie role, Mace shines an unwelcome spotlight on the big-city film folk to reveal a killer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This zany fourth entry in Sharp''s series is a feature worthy of the big screen." â€”\n  <em>\n   LIBRARY JOURNAL\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sibling rivalry, steamy romance, a surprising killer, and plenty of catfish and hush puppies make this Southern cozy a winner." â€”\n  <em>\n   PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A terrific combination of sleuthing and silliness." â€”\n  <em>\n   ST. PETERSBURG TIMES\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Who knew that a who-dun-it would not only keep you guessingâ€”but have you laughing!" â€”HODA KOTB, NBC\n  <em>\n   TODAY\n  </em>\n  SHOW CO-ANCHOR\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like the main character in her â€œMace Bauer Mysteries,â€™â€™ her family roots were set in Florida long before Disney or Miami Vice. As a native and former reporter for USA Today, she knows the spots not found on maps: Molasses Junction. Muse, and now, Himmarshee, her own tiny slice of â€œAuthentic Florida.â€™â€™\n </p>\n <p>\n  To create Himmarshee, Deborah borrowed from the present-day ranching town of Okeechobee, and from the south Florida of her familyâ€™s past.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not far from Ft. Lauderdale, her dad used to walk to town, leading the family cow. A generation later, Deborah rode her horse over the same citrus- and ranch-dotted terrain. Now, itâ€™s all interstates and strip malls.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The difference between Maceâ€™s hometown and hers: Deborah will never let Himmarshee be spoiled by sprawl.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The News-Press in Fort Myers gave Deborah her first job, in 1982. Her favorite assignment: getting cast as a zombie when Day of the Dead filmed on Sanibel Island.Â  Her fellow extras raved about her lurching.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A News-Press bonus: she met TV reporter Kerry Sanders in Immokalee, both of them shivering at dawn to see whether a winter freeze would ruin the green pepper crop. Theyâ€™ve been married since 1989. No kids; no pets, but had goldfish once. Turned out badlyâ€”not a good omen for higher life forms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When they moved back to Deborahâ€™s hometown in 1991, the occasional stories sheâ€™d been writing for USA Today became a flood. Miamiâ€™s loony nature gives it a lock on headlines.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then, 9/11, and everything changed.Â  One of her last assignments before she left the paper was profiling soldiers killed in war. Grieving parents; spouses; kids. She couldnâ€™t absorb all that sadness anymore.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  So, at age fifty, fiction-writing beckoned. Sheâ€™d get to determine the endings. Punish the bad and reward the good. And, sheâ€™d throw in some romance, too.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She likes writing about Mama because the character makes her laugh. And doesnâ€™t everyone need a smile now and then?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   TV APPEARANCES\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—Š NBC''s\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    *Today\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  * Show from November 4, 2008\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—Š "\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    *Mayor''s Book Talk\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  *" from January 14, 2009\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—ŠÂ NBC6 "\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    *South Florida Today\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  *." from July 17, 2009\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—ŠÂ NBC''s Today Show from August 4, 2009\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—Š WJXT-TV from November 17, 2009\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â—Š NBC''s\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    *Today\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  * Show from August 24, 2010\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1957'),
(1868, 'The Mammoth Hunters (Earth&#39;s Children #3)', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Riding Whinney with Jondalar, the man she loves, and followed by the mareâ€™s colt, Ayla ventures into the land of the Mamutoi â€” the Mammoth Hunters. She has finally found the Others she has been seeking. Though Ayla must learn their different customs and language, she is adopted because of her remarkable hunting ability, singular healing skills, and uncanny fire-making technique. She finds women friends and painful memories of the Clan she left behind, and meets Ranec, the dark-skinned, magnetic master carver of ivory, whom she cannot refuse â€” inciting Jondalar to a fierce jealousy that he tries to control by avoiding her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Throughout the icy winter the tension mounts, but warming weather will bring the great mammoth hunt and the mating rituals of the Summer Meeting, when Ayla must choose to remain with Ranec and the Mamutoi, or to follow Jondalar on a long journey into an unknown future.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Third in the acclaimed Earthâ€™s ChildrenÂ® series\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1000'),
(1869, 'The Man From St. Petersburg', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself. These odds would have stopped any man in the world-except the man from St. Petersburg...\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n 1914: the world hangs on the brink of catastrophe--the eve of the war to end all wars. Feliks, a man consumed with a mission, comes to London to commit a murder that could change history. Against him are the whole of the English police, a powerful and brilliant lord--and the young Winston Churchill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/822'),
(1870, 'The Man From the Broken Hills', 'Louis L&#39;amour', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n For years Milo Talon had been riding the outlaw trail, looking for a man who had betrayed his family. Only Hank Rossiter wasnâ€™t the man he had been: old now and blind, Rossiter was trying desperately to hold on to a small ranch to support his daughter, Barbara. Suddenly Talon found himself in the middle of a range war, siding with the man heâ€™d marked for payback. But had Rossiter really changed? And could his daughter be trusted by either of them? For Milo, getting to the truth meant a long hard fight to separate his enemies from his friendsâ€”and forgiveness from revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1710'),
(1871, 'The Man in the High Castle', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dick''s Hugo Award-winning 1962 alternative history considers the question of what would have happened if the Allied Powers had lost WWII. Some 20 years after that loss, the United States and much of the world has now been split between Japan and Germany, the major hegemonic states. But the tension between these two powers is mounting, and this stress is playing out in the western U.S. Through a collection of characters in various states of posing (spies, sellers of falsified goods, others with secret identities), Dick provides an intriguing tale about life and history as it relates to authentic and manufactured reality. Tom Weiner reveals an impressive vocal range that delivers the host of characters with distinct culture, class and gender personas, which helps to sort the various plot strands. His prose reading is engaging, though sometimes lacks sufficient emphasis and energy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/845'),
(1872, 'The Man in the Iron Mask', 'Alexandre Dumas &amp; David Coward', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n No part of the world has ever seemed to me so charming as these pages, and not even my friends are quite so real, perhaps quite so dear, as D''Artagnan. --Robert Louis Stevenson\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The name Alexandre Dumas is more than French --- it is universal. --Victor Hugo\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alexandre Dumas was already a best-selling novelist when he wrote this historical romance, combining (as he claimed) the two essentials of life--"l''action et l''amour."\n <em>\n  The Man in the Iron Mask\n </em>\n concludes the epic adventures of the three Muskateers, as Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their friend D''Artagnan, once invincible, meet their destinies.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  About the Series:\n </strong>\n For over 100 years\n <strong>\n  Oxford World''s Classics\n </strong>\n has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1279'),
(1873, 'Man Without a Country', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Man Without a Country\n </em>\n is Kurt Vonnegut s hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die--God forbid--I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?"), art ("To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."), politics ("I asked former Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton what he thought of our great victory over Iraq and he said, Mohammed Ali versus Mr. Rogers. "), and the condition of the soul of America today ("What has happened to us?").\n</p>\n<p>\n Based on short essays and speeches composed over the last five years and plentifully illustrated with artwork by the author throughout,\n <em>\n  A Man Without a Country\n </em>\n gives us Vonnegut both speaking out with indignation and writing tenderly to his fellow Americans, sometimes joking, at other times hopeless, always searching.\n</p>\n<p>\n Kurt Vonnegut is among the very few grandmasters of contemporary American letters, without whom the very term "American literature" would mean less than it does. His novels include\n <em>\n  Cat s Cradle\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Slaughterhouse Five\n </em>\n , among so many others. Projects with Seven Stories Press in recent years include\n <em>\n  God Bless You\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Dr. Kevorkian\n </em>\n and, with Lee Stringer,\n <em>\n  Like Shaking Hands with God\n </em>\n , a book about writing. His most recent novel is\n <em>\n  Timequake\n </em>\n (1997).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1047'),
(1874, 'Mansfield Park', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe''s\n  <em>\n   The Mysteries of Udolpho\n  </em>\n  and Horace Walpole''s\n  <em>\n   The Castle of Otranto\n  </em>\n  were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen''s ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don''t. In\n  <em>\n   Mansfield Park\n  </em>\n  , for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives'' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family''s two sons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed,\n  <em>\n   Mansfield Park\n  </em>\n  is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen''s patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund''s affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does\n  <em>\n   not\n  </em>\n  vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 9 Up-Jane Austen paints some witty and perceptive studies of character.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
(1875, 'Marley &amp; Me: Life and Love With the World&#39;s Worst Dog', 'John Grogan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Labrador retrievers are generally considered even-tempered, calm and reliable;and then there''s Marley, the subject of this delightful tribute to one Lab who doesn''t fit the mold. Grogan, a columnist for the\n <em>\n  Philadelphia Inquirer\n </em>\n , and his wife, Jenny, were newly married and living in West Palm Beach when they decided that owning a dog would give them a foretaste of the parenthood they anticipated. Marley was a sweet, affectionate puppy who grew into a lovably naughty, hyperactive dog. With a light touch, the author details how Marley was kicked out of obedience school after humiliating his instructor (whom Grogan calls Miss Dominatrix) and swallowed an 18-karat solid gold necklace (Grogan describes his gross but hilarious "recovery operation"). With the arrival of children in the family, Marley became so incorrigible that Jenny, stressed out by a new baby, ordered her husband to get rid of him; she eventually recovered her equilibrium and relented. Grogan''s chronicle of the adventures parents and children (eventually three) enjoyed with the overly energetic but endearing dog is delivered with great humor. Dog lovers will love this account of Grogan''s much loved canine.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Oh my. I don''t think I''ve ever seen anything so cute in my life." Thus author Grogan''s wife sealed their fate when they "just went to look" at a litter of Labrador retriever puppies and ended up picking out Marley. Maybe their first clue should have been that the breeder had discounted the price on their puppy, or when they saw his father charging out of the woods covered in mud with a crazed but joyous look in his eye. Despite these portents, Marley entered their lives, and nothing was ever the same again. Between careening through screen doors and swallowing everything that would fit in his mouth, Marley also managed to comfort these two when they miscarried their first child. Although Marley got kicked out of obedience training after he dragged the instructor across the parking lot and terrorized his pet sitter, he also landed a minor role in a straight-to-video movie. Marley, incorrigible though he was, had inserted himself into the author''s life in a way no normal dog could. A warm, friendly -memoir-with-dog.\n <em>\n  Nancy Bent\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1246'),
(1876, 'Mars', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Mars, "the bloody planet," is a world shrouded in mystery. As the source of endless fascination, Mars offers us the most promise for finding evidence of life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Half Navajo American Jamie Waterman is a geologist whose dream comes true when he is selected for the first landing team on Mars. He endures the rigors of training, the personality conflicts and political intrigues, as well as the dangers of travelling over 100 million kilometers in space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once the international crew lands on Mars, they discover they must battle not only the alien land they have invaded but earthbound bureaucrats as well. As they head toward a chasm that is ten times larger than the Grand Canyon, the twenty-five astronauts come face-to-face with the most shocking discovery of all.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Bova''s newest novel,\n  <em>\n   Mars\n  </em>\n  , was a commercial and critical sensation in hardcover, reaching both science fiction and mainstream audiences across the country. Told in a grand, sweeping style, it recounts the epic story of the first manned mission to Mars -- man''s great unconquered frontier.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1461'),
(1877, 'Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project Speeches: &quot;Beyond Vietnam&quot;', 'Martin Luther King, Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1648'),
(1878, 'Mary, Mary', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Quien es realmente Mary Smith? Una alta ejecutiva de Hollywood es asesinada en el escenario de una pelicula. Pronto, lo que parece ser un crimen aislado se revela como un eslabon mas de una escalofriante cadena, Arnold Griner, redactor de los Angeles Times, comienza a recibir e-mails firmados por una tal Mary Smith en los que, en primera persona, se relata con morboso detalle cada uno de los asesinatos cometidos. El agente del FBI Alex Cross tendra que interrumpir sus vacaciones familiares para enfrentarse a este nuevo caso. / A well-known actress was shot in Beverly Hills. An editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail describing the murder in detail. The killer, known as Mary Smith, has done this before and plans to kill again. Members of Hollywood fear theyre next on Marys list. Filled with twists, MARY, MARY is James Pattersons most sophisticated thriller yet.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/360'),
(1879, 'Maskerade', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s true, there''s a ghost in the Opera House of Ankh Morpork. Sardonic, flamboyant and, well, ghostly, it wears a bone-white Mask and terrorizes the entire company, including the immortal Enrico Basilica, who eats continuously even when he''s singing. Mostly spaghetti with tomato sauce. What better way to flush out a ghost than with a witch? Or even two! And Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg happen to be in Discworld''s capital city trying to recruit a third (since three witches make a coven, and two make only an argument). Enter the Opera''s newest diva, the alarmingly fetching Perdita X. Nitt, who has such an astonishing range that she can sing harmony with herself, and is so agreeably large that she hangs out with the elephants in the cellar. They say that inside every fat woman there''s a thin woman struggling to get out (or at least dying for chocolate). In Perdita''s case, the thin woman is more ambitious, since she would also dearly love to be a witch. Beginning to get the picture? One would hope so. For this isn''t cheese, it''s opera, which runs on a Catastrophe Curve. And to further complicate matters, there is a backstage cat named Greebo who occasionally becomes a person just because it''s so easy. Not to mention Granny Weatherwax''s old friend, Death, whose scythe arm is sore from so much use. And who has been known to don a Mask ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/340'),
(1880, 'Master and Commander', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship''s surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war are faultless rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/439'),
(1881, 'The Master and Margarita', 'Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A mysterious stranger and his retinue have astonished the locals of Stalin''s Moscow with the magic show to end all magic shows and have quite literally set the town alight. But what''s the real purpose behind their visit?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1367');
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(1882, 'Matter', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. This magnificent eighth novel (after 2000''s\n  <em>\n   Look to Windward\n  </em>\n  ) of the Culture, an interstellar posthuman civilization of incredible wealth and technological sophistication, centers on three siblings: Ferbin and Oramen, the misfit heirs of conquering King Hausk of the Sarl, who rules a backward and patriarchal realm deep beneath the surface of the artificial Shellworld Sursamen, and their exiled sister, Djan, now a powerful agent of the Culture''s Special Circumstances division. When King Hausk is murdered, Ferbin narrowly avoids the conspirators and sets out across the galaxy to ask Djan''s help with revenge against the killer, now serving as Oramen''s regent. Soon they learn of the horrific forces a hidden enemy is about to unleash on Sursamen, and must race to save the home that has rejected them both. Beautifully written and filled with memorable characters and startling technology, this tale of intricate politics and interstellar warfare ably demonstrates that Banks is still at the height of his powers.\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It has been eight years since the last Culture novel, and critics have clearly missed Banksâ€™s unique combination of galactic wonder and quirky humor. Their anticipation made for high standards, and for most critics,\n  <em>\n   Matter\n  </em>\n  exceeded them. Many fans of this universe enjoyed the way Banks mixes space opera with royal intrigue, though a few felt he does not quite pull off this cultural collision with his usual finesse. A more common complaint concerned the bookâ€™s length and pacing. While most reviewers were, in the end, happy to immerse themselves in 600 more pages of Culture, the novelâ€™s heft may make it a poor entry point for readers hoping to pick up the series for the first time. It may be best to start with the first in the series,\n  <em>\n   Consider Phlebas\n  </em>\n  (1987).\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/85'),
(1883, 'A Matter of Perspective', 'Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1835'),
(1884, 'Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War', 'Karl Marlantes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2010\n </strong>\n :\n <em>\n  Matterhorn\n </em>\n is a marvel--a living, breathing book with Lieutenant Waino Mellas and the men of Bravo Company at its raw and battered heart. Karl Marlantes doesn''t introduce you to Vietnam in his brilliant war epic--he unceremoniously drops you into the jungle, disoriented and dripping with leeches, with only the newbie lieutenant as your guide. Mellas is a bundle of anxiety and ambition, a college kid who never imagined being part of a "war that none of his friends thought was worth fighting," who realized too late that "because of his desire to look good coming home from a war, he might never come home at all." A highly decorated Vietnam veteran himself, Marlantes brings the horrors and heroism of war to life with the finesse of a seasoned writer, exposing not just the things they carry, but the fears they bury, the friends they lose, and the men they follow.\n <em>\n  Matterhorn\n </em>\n is as much about the development of Mellas from boy to man, from the kind of man you fight beside to the man you fight\n <em>\n  for\n </em>\n , as it is about the war itself. Through his untrained eyes, readers gain a new perspective on the ravages of war, the politics and bureaucracy of the military, and the peculiar beauty of brotherhood.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Mark Bowden Reviews *Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mark Bowden\n </strong>\n is the bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War\n </em>\n , as well as\n <em>\n  The Best Game Ever\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Bringing the Heat\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Killing Pablo\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Guests of the Ayatollah\n </em>\n . He reported at\n <em>\n  The Philadelphia Inquirer\n </em>\n for twenty years and now writes for\n <em>\n  Vanity Fair\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Atlantic\n </em>\n , and other magazines. He lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Matterhorn\n </em>\n is a great novel. There have been some very good novels about the Vietnam War, but this is the first great one, and I doubt it will ever be surpassed. Karl Marlantes overlooks no part of the experience, large or small, from a terrified soldier pondering the nature of good and evil, to the feel and smell of wet earth against scorched skin as a man tries to press himself into the ground to escape withering fire. Here is story-telling so authentic, so moving and so intense, so relentlessly dramatic, that there were times I wasnâ€™t sure I could stand to turn the page. As with the best fiction, I was sad to reach the end.\n</p>\n<p>\n The wrenching combat in\n <em>\n  Matterhorn\n </em>\n is ultimately pointless; the marines know they are fighting a losing battle in the long run. Bravo Company carves out a fortress on the top of the hill so named, one of countless low, jungle-coated mountains near the border of Laos, only to be ordered to abandon it when they are done. After the enemy claims the hillâ€™s deep bunkers and carefully constructed fields of fire, the company is ordered to take it back, to assault their own fortifications. They do so with devastating consequences, only to be ordered in the end to abandon Matterhorn once again.\n</p>\n<p>\n Against this backdrop of murderous futility, Marlantesâ€™ memorable collection of marines is pushed to its limits and beyond. As the deaths and casualties mount, the men display bravery and cowardice, ferocity and timidity, conviction and doubt, hatred and love, intelligence and stupidity. Often these opposites are contained in the same person, especially in the bookâ€™s compelling main character, Second Lt. Waino Mellas. As Mellas and his men struggle to overcome impossible barriers of landscape, they struggle to overcome similarly impossible barriers between each other, barriers of race and class and rank. Survival forces them to cling to each other and trust each other and ultimately love each other. There has never been a more realistic portrait or eloquent tribute to the nobility of men under fire, and never a more damning portrait of a war that ground them cruelly underfoot for no good reason.\n</p>\n<p>\n Marlantes brilliantly captures the way combat morphs into clean abstraction as fateful decisions move up the chain of command, further and further away from the actual killing and dying. But he is too good a novelist to paint easy villains. His commanders make brave decisions and stupid ones. High and low there is the same mix of cowardice and bravery, ambition and selflessness, ineptitude and competence.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are passages in this book that are as good as anything I have ever read. This one comes late in the story, when the main character, Mellas, has endured much, has killed and also confronted the immediate likelihood of his own death, and has digested the absurdity of his mission: "He asked for nothing now, nor did he wonder if he had been good or bad. Such concepts were all part of the joke heâ€™d just discovered. He cursed God directly for the savage joke that had been played on him. And in that cursing Mellas for the first time really talked with his God. Then he cried, tears and snot mixing together as they streamed down his face, but his cries were the rage and hurt of a newborn child, at last, however roughly, being taken from the womb."\n</p>\n<p>\n Vladimir Nabokov once said that the greatest books are those you read not just with your heart or your mind, but with your spine. This is one for the spine.\n <em>\n  --Mark Bowden\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Thirty years in the making, Marlantes''s epic debut is a dense, vivid narrative spanning many months in the lives of American troops in Vietnam as they trudge across enemy lines, encountering danger from opposing forces as well as on their home turf. Marine lieutenant and platoon commander Waino Mellas is braving a 13-month tour in Quang-Tri province, where he is assigned to a fire-support base and befriends Hawke, older at 22; both learn about life, loss, and the horrors of war. Jungle rot, leeches dropping from tree branches, malnourishment, drenching monsoons, mudslides, exposure to Agent Orange, and wild animals wreak havoc as brigade members face punishing combat and grapple with bitterness, rage, disease, alcoholism, and hubris. A decorated Vietnam veteran, the author clearly understands his playing field (including military jargon that can get lost in translation), and by examining both the internal and external struggles of the battalion, he brings a long, torturous war back to life with realistic characters and authentic, thrilling combat sequences. Marlantes''s debut may be daunting in length, but it remains a grand, distinctive accomplishment.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/455'),
(1885, 'The Mauritius Command', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a commandâ€”until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore''s pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La RÃ©union. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captainsâ€”Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/448'),
(1886, 'Maximum Bob', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Hard-ass Palm Beach County judge Bob Isom Gibbs enjoys sending even petty offenders away to do hard time -- which has made the list of miscreants who want him dead longer than a fully grown Florida gator''s tail. And a good number of his illwishers are probation officer Kathy Baker''s clients, including young Dale Crowe and his psycho uncle Elvin. Now, Kathy''s got an even more daunting task than keeping BIG''s horny hands off her: keeping "Maximum Bob" alive. Because Gibbs''s many enemies seem to be willing to go to any lengths -- be it death by amphibian or some more tried-and-true method -- to permanently end the career of an oversexed, racist jurist who''s more interested in scoring than in saving his own red neck.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  When someone puts a live alligator in the backyard of the bigoted "Maximum Bob" Briggs--a judge with a penchant for oversentencing felons--trying to pick out the would-be assassin from the assortment of available bad guys provides pure entertainment, as only Elmore Leonard can deliver.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1855'),
(1887, 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors. Sedaris is an amazing reader whose appearances draw hundreds, and his performancesincluding a jaw-dropping impression of Billie Holiday singing I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weinerare unforgettable. Sedariss essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest hes ever written. At last, someone even meaner than the French! The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child. Entertainment Weekly on Barrel Fever Sidesplitting Not one of the essays in this new collection failed to crack me up; frequently I was helpless. The New York Times Book Review on Naked\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/219'),
(1888, 'The Medici Dagger', 'Cameron West &amp; Seamus Slattery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  1491: Leonardo looked upon his invention, understood its powers, and knew he must hide it from the men of his age. Thus, a profound treasure was lost for five centuries. Now the race to find it begins.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hurtling across the Atlantic, a plane goes down Â— taking with it a page from the journals of Leonardo da Vinci.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In Georgetown, the home of museum curator Rollo Barnett burns to the ground. Only his young son, Reb, escapes alive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Are the tragedies connected? Are they merely accidents or acts of murder? Twenty years later, Hollywood stuntman Reb Barnett, an educated, art-loving, high-risk-addicted daredevil on the run from his nightmares, refuses to believe so. Until a phone call rips him from his world of cinematic illusion, and sends him to Italy on a desperate quest where danger and violence are chillingly real.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reb seeks da Vinci''s Circles of Truth, a coded fifteenth-century map that reveals the hiding place of the Medici Dagger, a weapon made of an alloy so light and indestructible it is worth a fortune to today''s arms manufacturers. To Reb, it is worth even more Â— it is his only link to finding the truth about his father''s death, and to laying bare the dark demons of his own heart. But finding the Circles of Truth is only the first step. Breaking their complex code means matching wits with Leonardo himself. And staying alive means keeping one jump ahead of a shadowy adversary: the killer who haunts Reb''s dreams.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the brilliant Tuscan landscape to the lush California coast,\n  <em>\n   The Medici Dagger\n  </em>\n  sweeps readers into an intriguing intellectual puzzle that delivers shattering suspense and fiery romance with the velocity of a 9mm bullet. Cameron West generates the roller-coaster thrills of the great classic adventure stories Â— with the adrenaline rush of walking on a knife''s edge between excitement and terror.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1428'),
(1889, 'Megan&#39;s Way', 'Melissa Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   Megan''s Way by Melissa Foster is an emotionally moving book...Melissa does a great job in bringing you into the life of her characters and keeps the story rolling smoothly...\n  </em>\n  " --Jeanette Stingley, Women''s Literary Editor, Bella Online\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   A wonderful, warm, and thought-provoking story with a touch of the paranormal. This is a deep and moving book that speaks to men as well as women, and I urge you all to put it on your reading list.\n  </em>\n  " --Thomas Elliott, Book Review Editor, Mensa Bulletin\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€Megan''s Way" is a fine and fascinating read that many will find hope in.\n  </em>\n  " --Midwest Book Review\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   Megan''s Way...beautiful and tender portrayals...very enjoyable read on the order of a Jodi Picoult novel.\n  </em>\n  " --The Bookish Dame\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WINNER\n  </strong>\n  , READERS FAVORITE AWARD: Fiction/Drama\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   WINNER\n  </strong>\n  , BEACH BOOK AWARD: Spiritual\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   FINALIST\n  </strong>\n  , Next Generation Indie Book Awards: New Age\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   FINALIST\n  </strong>\n  , READERS FAVORITE AWARD: Women''s Fiction\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Megan''s Way\n  </em>\n  was inspired by a true - and very personal - event that took place many years ago. My mother had undergone surgery for what I was told, at the time, was a benign condition. Years later, she revealed to me that there had been an oncologist in the operating room - the doctors had thought she had cancer. She also confessed that had they found cancer, she would not have sought treatment. Upon hearing this, I instantly reverted into a little girl again,\n  <em>\n   What? How could you leave me?!\n  </em>\n  The emotional impact of that event, and what that loss would have meant to both of us, festered for years - until\n  <em>\n   Megan''s Way\n  </em>\n  was born.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2369'),
(1890, 'Memnoch the Devil', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fifth volume of Rice''s Vampire Chronicles is one of her most controversial books. The tale begins in New York, where Lestat, the coolest of Rice''s vampire heroes, is stalking a big-time cocaine dealer and religious-art smuggler--this guy should get it in the neck. Lestat is also growing fascinated with the dealer''s lovely daughter, a TV evangelist who''s not a fraud.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lestat is also being stalked himself, by some shadowy guy who turns out to be Memnoch, the devil, who spirits him away. From here on, the book might have been called\n <em>\n  Interview with the Devil (by a Vampire)\n </em>\n . It''s a rousing story interrupted by a long debate with the devil. Memnoch isn''t the devil as ordinarily conceived: he got the boot from God because he objected to God''s heartless indifference to human misery. Memnoch takes Lestat to heaven, hell, and throughout history.\n</p>\n<p>\n Some readers are appalled by the scene in which Lestat sinks his fangs into the throat of Christ on the cross, but the scene is not a mere shock tactic: Jesus is giving Lestat a bloody taste in order to win him over to God''s side, and Rice is dead serious about the battle for his soul. Rice is really doing what she did as a devout young Catholic girl asked to imagine in detail what Christ''s suffering felt like--it''s just that her imagination ran away with her.\n</p>\n<p>\n If you like straight-ahead fanged adventure, you''ll likely enjoy the first third; if you like Job-like arguments with God, you''ll prefer the Memnoch chapters.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rice has made a career out of humanizing creatures of supernatural horror, and in this fifth book of her Vampire Chronicles she requests sympathy for the Devil. Having survived his near-fatal reacquaintance with human mortality in The Tale of the Body Thief (1992), the world-weary vampire Lestat is recruited by the biblical Devil, Memnoch, to help fight a cruel and negligent God. The bulk of the novel is a retelling of the Creation story from the point of view of the fallen angel, who blames his damnation on his refusal to accept human suffering as part of God''s divine plan. Rice grapples valiantly with weighty questions regarding the justification of God''s ways to man, but their vast scope overwhelms the novel''s human dimensions. God and the Devil periodically put on the flesh of mortals, and too often end up sounding like arguing philosophy majors. Meanwhile, the ever-fascinating Lestat, whose poignant personal crisis of faith is mirrored in Memnoch''s travails, becomes a passive observer, dragged along on trips to Heaven and Hell before being returned to Earth to relate what he has witnessed. Though Rice boldly probes the significance of death, belief in the afterlife and other spiritual matters, one wishes that she had found a way to address them through the experiences of human and near-human characters, as she has done so brilliantly in the past. One million first printing; BOMC and QPB main selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/255'),
(1891, 'Memorial Day', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Fighting terrorism on foreign ground, CIA superagent Mitch Rapp does whatever it takes to protect American freedom.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  MEMORIAL DAY\n </p>\n <p>\n  CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States, just as the nation''s capital prepares for a grand Memorial Day tribute to the veterans of World War II. Racing to Afghanistan, Mitch Rapp leads a commando raid on an al Queda stronghold in a remote border village -- and defuses plans for a nuclear strike on Washington. The crisis averted, the special ops work is done. But Rapp knows, in the face of a new kind of enemy, nothing is as it seems -- and it''s up to him alone to avert a disaster of unimaginable proportions.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest entry in Flynn''s popular Mitch Rapp series (after 2003''s\n  <em>\n   Executive Power\n  </em>\n  ) offers a gripping look at what could transpire if a terrorist group were to sneak a nuclear weapon into the U.S. Rapp, the relentless, marble-hearted CIA assassin and terrorist hunter, would never let that happen, of course, and Flynn''s description of the process of bringing a nuke ashore and the lengths to which the government''s counterterrorism force will go to prevent harm to U.S. citizens add up to another page-flipping extravaganza. Rapp, back in the field after a long stint on desk duty for insubordination, unearths the bomb plot during a daring commando raid on an al-Qaeda stronghold in Afghanistan. A U.S. strike force manages to intercept and disarm the nuke moments after it arrives by freighter in Charleston, S.C. Everyone, including series stalwart President Robert Hayes, congratulates themselves on a job well done, but Rapp isn''t convinced; he believes al-Qaeda leader Mustafa al-Yamani has smuggled a second nuke into the country and plans to detonate it in Washington, D.C., during Memorial Day celebrations. Rapp, a ruthless terrorist pursuer by temperament and training, turns it up several notches this time around, following al-Yamani''s scent with feverish abandon. Flynn trots out his usual assortment of characters to keep the action tenseâ€”wishy-washy cabinet members, political climbers, invective-spewing terrorists and a selected assortment of ice queens who use sex as a weapon. Yet his skillful use of converging plots, particularly the panic created by having a nuke on the loose, is enough to keep Flynn''s growing fan base more than willing to overlook the formulaic components.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The king of high-concept political intrigue." -- Dan Brown\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You''ll be hooked....Move over, Jack Ryan!" --\n  <em>\n   Portland Oregonian\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2443'),
(1892, 'Memories of Ice', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like a tide of corrupted blood, it seethes across the land, devouring all. In its path stands an uneasy alliance: Onearm''s army and Whiskeyjack''s Bridgeburners alongside their enemies of oldÂ—the forces of the Warlord Caladan Brood, Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii mages, and the Rhivi people of the plains.\n</p>\n<p>\n But ancient undead clans are also gathering; the T''lan Imass have risen. For it would seem something altogether darker and more malign threatens this world. Rumors abound that the Crippled God is now unchained and intent on a terrible revenge.\n</p>\n<p>\n Marking the return of many characters from\n <em>\n  Gardens of the Moon\n </em>\n and introducing a host of remarkable new players,\n <em>\n  Memories of Ice\n </em>\n is both a momentous new chapter in Steven Erikson''s magnificent epic fantasy and a triumph of storytelling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1304'),
(1893, 'Memory in Death', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Eve Dallas is one tough cop. Sheâ€™s got no problem dealing with a holiday reveler in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term â€œsidewalk Santa.â€ But when she gets back to the station and Trudy Lombard shows up, itâ€™s all Eve can do to hold it together. Instantly, sheâ€™s plunged back into the past, to the days when she was a vulnerable, traumatized girl - trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits in front of her, smiling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Trudy claims she just wanted to see how Eve was doing. But Eveâ€™s husband, Roarke, suspects otherwise - and his suspicions prove correct when Trudy arrives at his office demanding money in exchange for keeping the ugly details of his wifeâ€™s childhood a secret. Barely restraining himself, Roarke shows her the door - and makes it clear that sheâ€™d be wise to get out of New York and never bother him or his wife again.\n</p>\n<p>\n But just a few days later, Trudyâ€™s found on the floor of her hotel room, a mess of bruises and blood. A cop to the core, Eve is determined to solve the case, if only for the sake of Trudyâ€™s bereaved son. Unfortunately, Eve is not the only one to have suffered at this womanâ€™s hands, and she and Roarke will follow a circuitous, dangerous path to find out who turned this victimizer into a victim.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1101'),
(1894, 'The Memory Keeper&#39;s Daughter', 'Kim Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Edwards''s assured but schematic debut novel (after her collection,\n <em>\n  The Secrets of a Fire King)\n </em>\n hinges on the birth of fraternal twins, a healthy boy and a girl with Down syndrome, resulting in the father''s disavowal of his newborn daughter. A snowstorm immobilizes Lexington, Ky., in 1964, and when young Norah Henry goes into labor, her husband, orthopedic surgeon Dr. David Henry, must deliver their babies himself, aided only by a nurse. Seeing his daughter''s handicap, he instructs the nurse, Caroline Gill, to take her to a home and later tells Norah, who was drugged during labor, that their son Paul''s twin died at birth. Instead of institutionalizing Phoebe, Caroline absconds with her to Pittsburgh. David''s deception becomes the defining moment of the main characters'' lives, and Phoebe''s absence corrodes her birth family''s core over the course of the next 25 years. David''s undetected lie warps his marriage; he grapples with guilt; Norah mourns her lost child; and Paul not only deals with his parents'' icy relationship but with his own yearnings for his sister as well. Though the impact of Phoebe''s loss makes sense, Edwards''s redundant handling of the trope robs it of credibility. This neatly structured story is a little too moist with compassion.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics roundly applaud Kim Edwardsâ€™s debut novel,\n <em>\n  The Memory Keeperâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n , which plays into one of our largest fears: What happens when a baby is born with Down syndrome? Edwards, an award-winning short-story writer, extends this question even further: What happens if this baby somehow "disappears" without the motherâ€™s knowledge?\n <em>\n  The Memory Keeperâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n explores deception, family secrets, the influence of the past on the present, our tendency to rationalize poor decisions, and the tenuous nature of human connections. In her sympathetic rendering of parallel stories, Edwards crafts a riveting "study in what really determines a familyâ€™s happiness" (\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n ). Critics praised Edwardsâ€™s prose, which "takes on the cadence of poetry" as she describes her psychologically burdened characters (\n <em>\n  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\n </em>\n ). Yet while the\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n admired the absence of "sticky-sweet" moments, the\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n noted a few times when Edwards slipped "into the treacly trade." But if these minor flaws, combined with abrupt transitions, sometimes slow down the narrative,\n <em>\n  The Memory Keeperâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n packs a hefty emotional punch that will keep readers turning the pages.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1292'),
(1895, 'Men at Arms', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Another wild romp through Discworld! Corporal Carrot, a young dwarf, is newly in charge of the recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork. Edward, the 37th Lord d''Eath, has just discovered that Ankh-Morpork, kingless for generations, has a sovereign ruler, who must be convinced that he is, in fact, the King. The fate of Ankh-Morpork rides on a young man''s courage, an ancient sword''s magic, and a three-legged poodle''s bladder.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his latest effort, Pratchett skewers the hard-boiled detective novel as effectively as he''s satired fantasy fiction all these years. Set on Discworld, there are a few more gargoyles and exploding dragons than Sam Spade ever had to deal with. But there''s a trail of corpses and a hero named Carrot determined to track down the killer. His partners-the token dwarf, troll and werewolf on the police force-must overcome discrimination as well as the occasional rampaging orangutan. Although Men at Arms isn''t as consistently funny as his earlier novels, the dialogue is hilarious, and Pratchett''s take on affirmative action is a whole lot of fun. There''s not a lot of rational narrative cause-and-effect here, but it doesn''t really matter. As usual, Pratchett provides enough bad-tempered clowns, bloodthirsty trolls and dogs with low self-esteem to keep readers entertained.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/334'),
(1896, 'The Merchant of Venice', 'William Shakespeare &amp; Jonathan Bate &amp; Eric Rasmussen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is one of Shakespeareâ€™s darkest comedies, for the romantic story of a young man, Bassanio, who has squandered his fortune and must borrow money to woo the wealthy lady he loves is set against the more disturbing story of the Jewish moneylender Shylock and his demand for the â€œpound of fleshâ€ owed him by the Venetian merchant, Antonio. Here pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglement to display the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Each Edition Includes:\n <br />\n â€¢ Comprehensive explanatory notes\n <br />\n â€¢ Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship\n <br />\n â€¢ Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English\n <br />\n â€¢ Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories\n <br />\n â€¢ An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He was one of eight children born to John Shakespeare, a merchant of some standing in his community. William probably went to the Kingâ€™s New School in Stratford, but he had no university education. In November 1582, at the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, who was pregnant with their first child, Susanna. She was born on May 26, 1583. Twins, a boy, Hamnet ( who would die at age eleven), and a girl, Judith, were born in 1585. By 1592 Shakespeare had gone to London working as an actor and already known as a playwright. A rival dramatist, Robert Greene, referred to him as â€œan upstart crow, beautified with our feathers.â€ Shakespeare became a principal shareholder and playwright of the successful acting troupe, the Lord Chamberlainâ€™s Men (later under James I, called the Kingâ€™ s Men). In 1599 the Lord Chamberlainâ€™s Men built and occupied the Globe Theater in Southwark near the Thames River. Here many of Shakespeareâ€™s plays were performed by the most famous actors of his time, including Richard Burbage, Will Kempe, and Robert Armin. In addition to his 37 plays, Shakespeare had a hand in others, including\n <em>\n  Sir Thomas More\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Two Noble Kinsmen\n </em>\n , and he wrote poems, including\n <em>\n  Venus and Adonis\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Rape of Lucrece\n </em>\n . His 154 sonnets were published, probably without his authorization, in 1609. In 1611 or 1612 he gave up his lodgings in London and devoted more and more time to retirement in Stratford, though he continued writing such plays as\n <strong>\n  The Tempest\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Henry VII\n </strong>\n until about 1613. He died on April 23 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. No collected edition of his plays was published during his life-time, but in 1623 two members of his acting company, John Heminges and Henry Condell, put together the great collection now called the First Folio.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/236'),
(1897, 'Mercy Street', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart crafts compelling stories of romantic suspense, full of richly imagined characters, dazzling plot twists, and breathless action that keeps the pages turning. Now Stewart begins a thrilling new seriesâ€“with a novel that proves to be her biggest and boldest yet.On a balmy spring evening, four high school seniorsâ€“three boys and a girlâ€“enter a park in the small Pennsylvania city of Conroy. The next morning, two of the boys are found shot to death, and the girl and the third boy are gone. After three weeks with no leads and no sign of either of the two missing teenagers, the chief of police begins to wonder if they too were victims. But with no other suspects, the authorities conclude that one of these kids was the shooter.The missing boyâ€™s grandmother, a secretary at the local parish church, maintains his innocence. On her behalf, the parish priest, Father Kevin Burch, hires former detective Mallory Russo as a private investigator to figure out what happened in the park that night. Mallory had ended her nine-year stint with the Conroy police force some time ago after becoming a target of a smear campaign. Now a true-crime author, Mallory is surprised to receive the priestâ€™s offerâ€“and highly intrigued by the case. She canâ€™t help but accept the challengeâ€“especially when she learns that her investigation will be financed by Father Burchâ€™s cousin the reclusive billionaire Robert Magellan, a man whose own wife and infant son disappeared without a trace a year ago, a man who understands the heartache of not knowing what happened to a loved one. Detective Charlie Wanamaker is facing another sort of tragedy. He fled Conroy years ago with no plans to return to what he considered a dying factory townâ€“until a family emergency brought him back. Finding the situation much worse than heâ€™d thought, he trades his job as a big-city detective for one with the Conroy police department. Assigned to the park shooting case, Charlie quickly realizes that the initial investigation left a lot of questions unanswered. Unofficially, he teams up with Mallory to uncover the truth and find the two kids, dead or alive. What Charlie and Mallory discover will take them down a twisted path that leads to an old unsolved murderâ€“and justice for a killer with a heart of stone.Mercy Street is tautly paced, resonant with emotion, and relentlessly gripping. It showcases Mariah Stewart at her most brilliant, as she ratchets up the suspense to new levels of excitement.Praise for Mariah Stewartâ€œMariah Stewart is one to watch and savor for a long time.â€â€“The Philadelphia Inquirerâ€œStewart can always be counted on to write an exciting romantic suspense thriller.â€â€“TheBestReviews.comFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1928'),
(1898, 'Mere Christianity', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Mere Christianity is the most popular of C. S. Lewis''s works of nonfiction, with several million copies sold worldwide. Heard first as radio addresses and then published as three separate books, this book brings together Lewis''s legendary broadcast talks in which he set out simply to ''explain and defend the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times.'' It is a collection of scintillating brilliance which remains strikingly fresh for the modern reader, and confirms C. S. Lewis''s reputation as one of the leading Christian writers and thinkers of our age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1368'),
(1899, 'Merrick', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Just when you thought it was safe for a bloodsucker to go out in the dark in New Orleans, along comes Merrick Mayfair, a sultry, hard-drinking octoroon beauty whose voodoo can turn the toughest vampire into a marionette dancing to her merry, scary tune. In\n <em>\n  Merrick\n </em>\n , Anne Rice brings back three of her most wildly popular characters--the vampires Lestat and Louis and the dead vampire child Claudia--and introduces them to the world of her Mayfair Witches book series.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is Louis who brings about the collision of the fang and voodoo universes. Louis made Claudia a vampire in Rice''s classic\n <em>\n  Interview with the Vampire\n </em>\n , in which she was destroyed, and now he''s obsessed with raising her ghost to make amends and seek guidance from the beyond. (Claudia physically resembles Rice''s young daughter who died of a blood-related illness. Rice nearly died of a diabetic coma in 1998, and writing\n <em>\n  Merrick\n </em>\n turned her excruciating recovery into an exhilarating burst of creativity).\n</p>\n<p>\n Vampire David Talbot lobbies Merrick to call Claudia''s spirit and slake Louis''s guilt, but Talbot winds up in the grip of an obsession with the witch. You see, Talbot, unlike most vampires, lived 70 years as a human, so his sexual response to humans is still as strong as his blood thirst. Merrick can cast spells to make men crave her, and Talbot is tormented. After she reads his palm, he muses, "I wanted to take her in my arms, not to feed from her, no, not harm her, only kiss her, only sink my fangs a very little, only taste her blood and her secrets, but this was dreadful and I wouldn''t let it go on."\n</p>\n<p>\n The secrets of\n <em>\n  Merrick\n </em>\n are dark and sensuous, but the book is a romp animated by Rice''s feeling of coming back to life through the magic of a literary outpouring. The narrative flashes back to the past, to an Indiana Jones-ish adventure in a Guatemalan cave, and to scenes from many other Rice novels. It may be helpful to read\n <em>\n  Merrick\n </em>\n with the Rice-approved guidebooks\n <em>\n  The Vampire Companion\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Witches'' Companion\n </em>\n at hand.\n</p>\n<p>\n After many books, Rice''s grand Vampire Chronicles tale was in peril of getting long in the tooth. Merrick Mayfair''s magic represents an infusion of fresh blood.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Talbot, a vampire familiar to Rice readers, though now inhabiting a different body, relates this eerie tale about an "octoroon of exceptional beauty" named Merrick, a Mayfair witch with whom he has been obsessed for an eternity. The narrative weaves through timeAfrom present-day New Orleans, to Talbot''s first meeting with Merrick, to an adventure they shared years ago in the jungles of Guatemala. Flashbacks aside, this story focuses on Talbot''s attempt to convince Merrick to use her voodoo magic to conjure up the vampire daughter of his friend and fellow vampire Louis. Fans will recognize characters from past books, including Louis and Lestat. Rice offers a haunting look at the separate but equally intriguing worlds of witches and vampires united here through Merrick''s witchcraft on Talbot''s behalf. Jacobi''s reading of the tale is spellbinding. His refined British toneAwith the slightest trace of a classic Transylvanian accentAfits Talbot''s character perfectly, and he flavors the narrative with verve and mystery accordingly. Simultaneous release with the Knopf hardcover (Forecasts, Aug. 14). (Oct.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/262'),
(1900, 'Message in a Bottle', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you thought\n  <em>\n   The Notebook\n  </em>\n  was a tearjerker, get out the hankies, pull up a chair, and get ready to have your heart monkey-wrenched by Nicholas Sparks''s second star-crossed love story,\n  <em>\n   Message in a Bottle\n  </em>\n  . When Theresa Osborne takes a much-needed summer holiday at Cape Cod, she finds a lot more than a break from the hustle and bustle. On an early-morning jog along Cape Cod Bay, she comes across a corked bottle with a scrolled-up message inside that reads, "My Dearest Catherine, I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together..." It bobbles around in the same vein for several more paragraphs and ends with "...am alone on the pier and I do not care what others think as I bow my head and cry and cry and cry. Garret."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Garret may eat quiche, but no bother--before you can say "Look! I found two more letters!" Theresa is hot on his trail and determined to find this mysterious yet sensitive message-in-a-bottle man. She finds him at a sleepy North Carolina port, working on his beloved sailboat,\n  <em>\n   The Happenstance\n  </em>\n  . From there, a romance buds and blossoms into a colorful bouquet of emotional baggage. Theresa has problems with her past--or, more accurately, her past is a problem. She is so scarred from her "I''m a super churchgoing guy now that I''ve run out on my wife" ex-husband that she hasn''t tried to date since her divorce some three or four years before. And who is Catherine? And what''s Garret''s bag, anyway? When Theresa finds out, she plunges to the depths of her soul and uncorks a whopper of a secret about herself, bringing Garret to terms with who he really is.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Message in a Bottle\n  </em>\n  has the earmarks of sentimental tongue-wagging at its finest and should please romantics and cynics alike--it''s sure to bring romantics to their knees, while cynics will be slapping theirs in laughter.\n  <em>\n   --Rebekah Warren\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Avoiding a sophomore slump, Sparks follows The Notebook with another sentimental candidate for the bestseller lists. Boston parenting columnist Theresa Osborne has lost faith in the dream of everlasting love. Three years after divorcing her cheating husband, the single mother is vacationing on Cape Cod when she finds a bottle washed up on the shore. Inside, a message begins: "My Dearest Catherine, I miss you." Subsequent publication of the poignant missive in her column turns up two more letters, found by others, from the same mysterious writer, Garrett Blake. Piqued by his epistolary constancy, Theresa follows the trail to North Carolina, where she discovers that Garrett has been mourning his late wife for three years; writing the sea-borne messages is his only solace. Theresa also finds that Garrett just might be ready to love again... and that she might be the woman for him. There are few surprises here as we watch the couple learn to love in Catherine''s slowly waning shadow. By the time they do, Sparks has proved that a man who romantically (and manually) pens missives to his lost lady love in the era of e-mail is a welcome hero in this fin-de-millennium fax-happy world. (Knowing that Kevin Costner has been slated to play Garrett on screen doesn''t hurt, either.) Film rights to Warner Bros.; simultaneous Time Warner audio; Literary Guild main selection and Reader''s Digest select edition; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1059'),
(1901, 'Metamorphosis and Other Stories', 'Franz Kafka &amp; Jason Baker &amp; Donna Freed', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Metamorphosis and Other Stories\n </em>\n , by Franz Kafka, is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars\n </li>\n <li>\n  Biographies of the authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events\n </li>\n <li>\n  Footnotes and endnotes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comments by other famous authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bibliographies for further reading\n </li>\n <li>\n  Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n</p>\n<p>\n Virtually unknown during his lifetime, Franz Kafka is now one of the worldâ€™s most widely read and discussed authors. His nightmarish novels and short stories have come to symbolize modern manâ€™s anxiety and alienation in a bizarre, hostile, and dehumanized world. This vision is most fully realized in Kafkaâ€™s masterpiece, â€œ\n <em>\n  The Metamorphosis\n </em>\n ,â€ a story that is both harrowing and amusing, and a landmark of modern literature.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bringing together some of Kafkaâ€™s finest work, this collection demonstrates the richness and variety of the authorâ€™s artistry. â€œ\n <em>\n  The Judgment\n </em>\n ,â€ which Kafka considered to be his decisive breakthrough, and â€œ\n <em>\n  The Stoker\n </em>\n ,â€ which became the first chapter of his novel\n <em>\n  Amerika\n </em>\n , are here included. These two, along with â€œ\n <em>\n  The Metamorphosis\n </em>\n ,â€ form a suite of stories Kafka referred to as â€œThe Sons,â€ and they collectively present a devastating portrait of the modern family.\n</p>\n<p>\n Also included are â€œ\n <em>\n  In the Penal Colony\n </em>\n ,â€ a story of a torture machine and its operators and victims, and â€œ\n <em>\n  A Hunger Artist\n </em>\n ,â€ about the absurdity of an artist trying to communicate with a misunderstanding public. Kafkaâ€™s lucid, succinct writing chronicles the labyrinthine complexities, the futility-laden horror, and the stifling oppressiveness that permeate his vision of modern life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jason Baker is a writer of short stories living in Brooklyn, New York.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/669');
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(1902, 'Metro Girl', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  She writes "high speed comic mayhem" (Detroit Free Press); she s "a blast of fresh air" (Washington Post), "side-splittingly funny" (Publishers Weekly) and "a winner" (Glamour). In other words, she s Janet Evanovich. And she debuts at HarperCollins with a spectacular new novel, complete with high stakes, hot nights, murder and graft. Not to mention car chases, car races, car explosions, and car--well, you get the idea.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alexandra Barnaby got the brains in her family. The little gray cells certainly bypassed Barney s younger brother, Wild Bill. He s a pretty good boat captain but he s taken on a new job with his eyes conveniently closed. Before long, Bill goes missing, so Barney is dispatched to Florida with the bugs and the heat and the bad-hair-day humidity. Barney s thinking things can t get too much worse as she makes the rounds of South Beach, unemployed and sunburned, following her brother s trail of broken-hearted bimbos.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Too bad for Barney--she s wrong about the getting worse part. Enter Sam Hooker. Somebody s stolen his boat and the trail leads to--you guessed it--Wild Bill. Since Will Bill is missing, Hooker decides to follow Barney and see if she can lead him to his boat.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dogs and cats never die in the world of Evanovich, and bad guys are almost always brought to justice. Sam Hooker and Alexandra Barnaby, in their quest to reclaim what s theirs, blast through Florida from Daytona straight on to Key West, exposing a plot to grab Cuban land and to lay waste the people involved. Cussing and tasteless sexual inneuendo included.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1760'),
(1903, 'Micah', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hamilton (\n <em>\n  Incubus Dreams\n </em>\n ) delivers a highly palatable portion of what makes her series heroine, federal marshal and vampire-hunter Anita Blake, a bestseller: equal portions hot sex and supernatural crime fightingâ€”with a dollop of old-fashioned male-female melodramaâ€”served up in a world where new were-animals have their own crisis hotline. Filling in for a colleague, Anita travels to Philadelphia to reanimate a deceased federal witness, accompanied by Micah, her wereleopard lover. The jaunt serves as a chance for them to share some rare one-on-one timeâ€”without any of her five other lovers aroundâ€”which Anita fears is not necessarily a good thing. Even worse, since her magic energy has grown unexpectedly strong, she suspects this won''t be your run-of-th e-mill reincarnation. A good entry point for the uninitiated, this offering provides further insight into both characters and their universe. A bonus excerpt will whet fans'' appetites for the 13th full-length novel in the series,\n <em>\n  Danse Macabre\n </em>\n , coming this June.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vampire hunter Anita Blake is called on to raise the dead-while trying to suppress her ever-growing feelings for a certain wereleopard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/582'),
(1904, 'Middlesex', 'Jeffrey Eugenides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driverâ€™s license...records my first name simply as Cal."So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1960, graduated from Brown University, and received an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1986. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993. Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeA New York Times Editors'' ChoiceA Los Angeles Times Best BookNational Book Critics Circle Award NomineeLambda Literary Award NomineeIn the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls'' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between themâ€”along with Callie''s failure to develop physicallyâ€”leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.The explanation for this shocking state of affairs is a rare genetic mutationâ€”and a guilty secretâ€”that have followed Callie''s grandparents from the crumbling Ottoman Empire to Prohibition-era Detroit and beyond, outlasting the glory days of the Motor City, the race riots of 1967, and the family''s second migration, into the foreign country known as suburbia. Thanks to the gene, Callie is part girl, part boy. And even though the gene''s epic travels have ended, her own odyssey has only begun. Spanning eight decadesâ€”and one unusually awkward adolescenceâ€”Jeffrey Eugenides'' long-awaited second novel is a grand, original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"A towering achievement . . . A story that manages to be both illuminating and transcendent . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer many of us suspected him of being."â€”Jeff Turrentine, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Jeffrey Eugenides is a big and big-hearted talent, and Middlesex is a weird, wonderful novel that will sweep you off your feet."â€”Jonathan Franzen"Impressive [and] wonderfully engaging . . . A Buddenbrooks-like saga that traces three generations'' efforts to grapple with America and with their own versions of the American Dream . . . [Eugenides] has not only followed up on a precocious debut with a broader and more ambitious book, but in doing so, he has also delivered a deeply affecting portrait of one family''s tumultuous engagement with the American 20th century . . . It is a novel that employs all its author''s rich storytelling talents to give us one Greek-American family''s idiosyncratic journey from the not-so-pearly gates of Ellis Island to the suburban vistas of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, while at the same time tracing the rise and fall in fortunes of Detroit, from its apotheosis as the Motor City in the 40''s and 50''s through the race riots of 1967 and its subsequent decline. It is also a novel that invokes ancient myths and contemporary pop songs to show how family traits and inclinations are passed down generation to generation, a novel that uses musical leitmotifs to show the unexpected ways in which chance and fate weave their improvisations into the loom of family life."â€”Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"One of the delights of Middlesex is how soundly it''s constructed, with motifs and characters weaving through the novel''s episodes, pulling it tight . . . His narrator is a soul who inhabits a liminal realm, a creature able to bridge the divisions that plague humanity, endowed with ''the ability to communicate between the genders, to see not with the monovision of one sex but in the stereoscope of both. That utopian reach makes Middlesex deliriously American; the novel''s patron saint is Walt Whitman, and it has some of the shagginess of that poet''s verse to go along with the exuberance. But mostly it is a colossal act of curiosity, of imagination and of love."â€”Laura Miller, The New York Times Book Review"At last Detroit has its great novel. What Dublin got from James Joyceâ€”a sprawling, ambitious, loving exasperated, and playful chronicle of all its good and bad partsâ€”Detroit has from native son Eugenides."â€”Detroit Free Press "A towering achievement . . . A story that manages to be both illuminating and transcendent . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer many of us suspected him of being."â€”Jeff Turrentine, Los Angeles Times Book Review"Whatever you might be expecting, Middlesex will surprise you . . . a rolling epic . . . the kind of book that urges you to be read in one day, then reread."â€”Jonathan Safran Foer, Bomb"Rollicking, gleefully inventive . . . Middlesex serves as a tribute to Nabokovian themes . . . Eugenides recounts the revelation of Callie''s genetic abnormality through a series of near-discoveries that are amazingly, comically missed."â€”The Washington Post "A big, cheeky, splendid novel, and its confidence is part of its success, because it goes places few narrators would dare to tread . . . Because Eugenides has imbued his second novel with transcontinental range and historical depth, he has thrown open the gates of Ithaca and sent his narrator on the road. And because he has remembered that the human experience of it is the sine qua non of any adventure, he has given us something lyrical and fine."â€”Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe"Middlesex is a novel about discovery, one man''s discovery of his place in the world and acceptance of his singularity, his uniqueness. In the process, it is a novel that challenges our preconceptions about gender and our understanding of the universal truths of growing up and growing old."â€”Michael Pearson, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"Middlesex sweeps the reader along with easy grace and charm, tactfully concealing intelligence, sophistication, and the ache of earned wisdom beneath bushels of inventive storytelling . . . the novel''s carefully studied casual look . . . [is] a little like Callie''s mismatched features-''taken all together, something captivating emerged. An inadvertent harmony.''"â€”The New York Observer"An Epic . . . This feast of a novel is thrilling in the scope of its imagination and surprising in its tenderness."â€”People "[Middlesex is] one of the most impressive American novels . . . Eugenides has created a spirited, high-energy comic epic. At once remarkably readable, intelligent, and moving, Middlesex becomes that rare cultural hybrid, a page-turner that wows the critics."â€”Newsday"A big book so wildly imagined . . . and yet so warm-hearted that it''s hard to resist . . . it is frequently hilarious and touching."â€”USA Today "An often affecting, funny, and deeply human book . . . a charming writer . . . Middlesex is enormously ambitious book, whose many stories do indeed gather to present a broad swath of Greek-American life."â€”The New Republic "The verbal energy and narrative range of Saul Bellow''s early fiction (say, The Adventures of Augie March) are born again in this dazzling novel . . . A virtuosic combination of elegy, sociohistorical study, and picaresque adventure: altogether irresistible."â€”Kirkus Reviewsâ€œIn his second novel, the author once again proves himself to be a wildly imaginative writer . . . Likely to hold readers in thrall with its affecting characterizations of a brave and lonely soul and its vivid depiction of exactly what it means to be both male and female.â€â€”Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist"Eugenides proves that he is not only a unique voice in modern literature but also well versed in the nature of the human heart. Highly recommended."â€”Library Journal"From the opening paragraph, in which the narrator explains that he was ''born twice,'' first as a baby girl in 1960, then as a teenage boy in 1974, readers are aware that Calliope Stephanides is a hermaphrodite. To explain his situation, Cal starts in 1922, when his grandparents came to America. In his role as the ''prenatal narrator,'' he tells the love story of this couple, who are brother and sister; his parents are blood relatives as well. Then he tells his own story, which is that of a female child growing up in suburban Detroit with typical adolescent concerns. Callie, as he is know then, worries because she hasn''t developed breasts or started menstruating; her facial hair is blamed on her ethnicity, and she and her mother go to get waxed together. She develops a passionate crush on her best girlfriend, ''the Object,'' and consummates it in a manner both detached and steamy. Then an accident causes Callie to find out what she''s been suspectingâ€”she''s not actually a girl. The story questions what it is that makes us who we are and concludes that one''s inner essence stays the same, even in light of drastic outer changes. Mostly, the novel remains a universal narrative of a girl who''s happy to grow up but hates having to leave her old self behind. Readers will love watching the narrator go from Callie to Cal, and witnessing all of the life experiences that get her there."â€”School Library Journal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/780'),
(1905, 'Midnight Tides', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those with a taste for massive high fantasy epics will welcome Erikson''s fifth entry in his Malazan Book of the Fallen saga (after 2006''s House of Chains), though it largely deals with the calm between storms. In the north, the Warlock King has united the tribes of Tiste Edur into a formidable realm, though his four feisty sons may yet cause problems. In the south, the still more formidable kingdom of Lether is using both bribery and military threats to intimidate its neighbors and rebuild its ancient empire. Tiste Edur will have none of this, however, for reasons going back to bloody feuds of centuries past. The author has a rare talent for building character by internal dialogue without slowing the pace. The large cast may daunt new readers, but maps and a glossary help fill the gaps. The ending suggests there''ll be a lot more action in the sixth book (out of a projected 10).\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The series has clearly established itself as the most significant work of epic fantasy since Stephen R. Donaldson''s\n <em>\n  Chronicles of Thomas Covenant."--\n </em>\n SF Site\n</p>\n<p>\n "Extraordinarily enjoyable . . . Erikson is a master of lost and forgotten epochs, a weaver of ancient epics."--Salon.comÂ Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1311'),
(1906, 'A Million Little Pieces', 'James Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n At the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his front teeth knocked out and his nose broken. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor any recollection of the past two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, he checked into a treatment facility shortly after landing. There he was told he could either stop using or die before he reached age 24. This is Freyâ€™s acclaimed account of his six weeks in rehab.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </strong>\n <br />\n The electrifying opening of James Frey''s debut memoir,\n <em>\n  A Million Little Pieces\n </em>\n , smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox confronting "The Fury" head on:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n One of the more harrowing sections is when Frey submits to major dental surgery without the benefit of anesthesia or painkillers (he fights the mind-blowing waves of "bayonet" pain by digging his fingers into two old tennis balls until his nails crack). His fellow patients include a damaged crack addict with whom Frey wades into an ill-fated relationship, a federal judge, a former championship boxer, and a mobster (who, upon his release, throws a hilarious surf-and-turf bacchanal, complete with pay-per-view boxing). In the book''s epilogue, when Frey ticks off a terse update on everyone, you can almost hear the Jim Carroll Band''s brutal survivor''s lament "People Who Died" kicking in on the soundtrack of the inevitable film adaptation.\n</p>\n<p>\n The rage-fueled memoir is kept in check by Frey''s cool, minimalist style. Like his steady mantra, "I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal," Frey''s use of repetition takes on a crisp, lyrical quality which lends itself to the surreal experience. The book could have benefited from being a bit leaner. Nearly 400 pages is a long time to spend under Frey''s influence, and the stylistic acrobatics (no quotation marks, random capitalization, left-aligned text, wild paragraph breaks) may seem too self-conscious for some readers, but beyond the literary fireworks lurks a fierce debut.\n <em>\n  --Brad Thomas Parsons\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frey is pretender to the throne of the aggressive, digressive, cocky Kings David: Eggers and Foster Wallace. Pre-pub comparisons to those writers spring not from Frey''s writing but from his attitude: as a recent advance profile put it, the 33-year-old former drug dealer and screenwriter "wants to be the greatest literary writer of his generation." While the Davids have their faults, their work is unquestionably literary. Frey''s work is more mirrored surface than depth, but this superficiality has its attractions. With a combination of upper-middle-class entitlement, street credibility garnered by astronomical drug intake and PowerPoint-like sentence fragments and clipped dialogue, Frey proffers a book that is deeply flawed, too long, a trial of even the most naâ€¹ve reader''s credulousness-yet its posturings hit a nerve. This is not a new story: boy from a nice, if a little chilly, family gets into trouble early with alcohol and drugs and stays there. Pieces begins as Frey arrives at Hazelden, which claims to be the most successful treatment center in the world, though its success rate is a mere 17%. There are flashbacks to the binges that led to rehab and digressions into the history of other patients: a mobster, a boxer, a former college administrator, and Lilly, his forbidden love interest, a classic fallen princess, former prostitute and crack addict. What sets Pieces apart from other memoirs about 12-stepping is Frey''s resistance to the concept of a higher power. The book is sure to draw criticism from the recovery community, which is, in a sense, Frey''s great gimmick. He is someone whose problems seem to stem from being uncomfortable with authority, and who resists it to the end, surviving despite the odds against him. The prose is repetitive to the point of being exasperating, but the story, with its forays into the consciousness of an addict, is correspondingly difficult to put down.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1263'),
(1907, 'Mind Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author of night prey and winter prey...an all-new Lucas Davenport thriller. Run for it... It was raining when psychiatrist Andi Manette left the parent-teacher conference with her two young daughters, and she was distracted. She barely noticed the red van parked beside her, barely noticed the van door slide open as they dashed up to the car. The last thing she did notice was the hand reaching out for her and the voice from out of the past -- and then the three of them were gone. Hours later, deputy chief Lucas Davenport stood in the parking lot, a blood-stained shoe in his hand, the ground stained pink around him, and knew that this would be one of the worst cases he''d ever been on. With an urgency born of dread, he presses the attack, while in an isolated farmhouse, Andi Manette does the same, summoning all her skills to battle an obsessed captor. She knows the man who has taken her and her daughters, knows there is a chink in his armor, if only she can find it. But for both her and Davenport, time is already running out. John Sandford''s novels have always been extraordinary for their harrowing twists, unforgettable characters, and crackling prose. But "Mind Prey" tops them all. It is the work of a true master.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1730'),
(1908, 'Minding Frankie', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Reading a Maeve Binchy novel is like settling in for a cozy visit with an old friend. In vintage Binchy style, a cast of colorfully eccentric characters living in a snug Dublin neighborhood seamlessly weave in and out of each otherâ€™s lives, united by family, faith, friendship, and community. When a young alcoholic learns he has fathered a child with a dying woman, he must step into the role of father, protector, and provider to his infant daughter, Frankie, in a matter of weeks. Determined to succeed, though totally unprepared for his new responsibilities, Noel gets an essential assist from his visiting American cousin. Exercising her tremendous gifts of organization and insight, Emily cobbles together a neighborhood support system, featuring a few familiar faces from previous Binchy books. As everybody begins to mind Frankie, a suspicious social worker pokes her nose in where it doesnâ€™t belong, attempting to dredge up any dirt she can on Noel and his slightly unorthodox network of babysitters. Readers will need a box of tissues handy as the good-hearted residents of St. Jarlathâ€™s Crescent prove that it does indeed take a village to raise a child. --Margaret Flanagan\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of Binchyâ€™s best works. She harmoniously handles a diverse group of characters, the good deeds that characterize life in Ireland are believable, and the ending is sweet. One hopes to find Frankie in one of Binchyâ€™s future novels.â€ â€”Susan Rogers,\n  <em>\n   Newark Star-Ledger\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œBinchyâ€™s world view is a large, benevolent one, and the reader is happier for it . . . bless her big Irish heart.â€ â€”Laurie Hertzel, Minneapolis\n  <em>\n   Star-Tribune\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMaeve Binchy has done it again [with] yet another warm tale of individual growth and human community, [in which] she assembles a large cast of characters and deploys them with her characteristic playfulness . . . Binchy specializes in exploring human foibles without spelling them out in tiresome detail . . . Thereâ€™s a good chance that many readers, like this one, will consider Minding Frankie one of Binchyâ€™s best novels yet.â€ â€”Maude McDaniel,\n  <em>\n   BookPage\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  â€œJoyful, quintessential Binchy.â€ â€”Karen Holt,\n  <em>\n   O, The Oprah Magazine\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Â \n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œAll across America, Maeve Binchy fans will be kicking off their shoes, making a nice cup of tea, and curling up on the couch as they re-enter Binchyâ€™s cozy world. The Irish author returns here to a charming Dublin milieu of favorite characters from past novels, with some important new ones.â€ â€”Melinda Bargreen,\n  <em>\n   The Seattle Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œBinchy is a national treasure in her homeland of Ireland, and her latest novel is a perfect illustration of why.â€¦Your heart will have no trouble recognizing the landscape [of this] touching saga.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œReading a Maeve Binchy novel is like settling in for a cozy visit with an old friend.Â  In vintage Binchy style, a cast of colorfully eccentric characters living in a snug Dublin neighborhood seamlessly w...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1011'),
(1909, 'Minority Report and Other Classic Stories', 'Philip K. Dick &amp; James Triptree', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Many thousands of readers worldwide consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick''s work has continued to mount and his reputation has been enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now presented annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works. This collection includes all of the writer''s earliest short and medium-length fiction (including several previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1954-1964, and featuring such fascinating tales as The Minority Report (the inspiration for Steven Spielberg''s film), Service Call, Stand By, The Days of Perky Pat, and many others. Here, readers will find Dick''s initial explorations of the themes he so brilliantly brought to life in his later work. Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle and in the last year of his life, the now-classic film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep? The classic stories of Philip K. Dick offer an intriguing glimpse into the early imagination of one of science fiction''s most enduring and respected names.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/846'),
(1910, 'Misery', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Misery\n  </em>\n  (1987), as in\n  <em>\n   The Shining\n  </em>\n  (1977), a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Paul Sheldon, the hero of\n  <em>\n   Misery\n  </em>\n  , sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa--a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman''s (Annie''s) body. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard''s\n  <em>\n   She\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her; but all the same he needs her power. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Misery\n  </em>\n  touches on several large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a "brand-name" bestselling author with legions of zealous fans. And yet it''s a tight, highly resonant echo chamber of a book--one of King''s shortest, and best novels ever.\n  <em>\n   --Fiona Webster\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  King''s new novel, about a writer held hostage by his self-proclaimed "number-one fan," is unadulteratedly terrifying. Paul Sheldon, a writer of historical romances, is in a car accident; rescued by nurse Annie Wilkes, he slowly realizes that salvation can be worse than death. Sheldon has killed off Misery Chastain, the popular protagonist of his Misery series and Annie, who has a murderous past, wants her back. Keeping the paralyzed Sheldon prisoner, she forces him to revive the character in a continuation of the series, and she reads each page as it comes out of the typewriter; there is a joyously Dickensian novel within a novel here, and it appears in faded typescript. Studded among the frightening moments are sparkling reflections on the writer and his audience, on the difficulties, joys and responsibilities of being a storyteller, on the nature of the muse, on the differences between "serious" and "popular" writing. Sheldon is a revealingly autobiographical figure; Annie is not merely a monster but is subtly and often touchingly portrayed, allowing hostage and keeper a believable, if twisted, relationship. The best parts of this novel demand that we take King seriously as a writer with a deeply felt understanding of human psychology. One million first printing; $400,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1980'),
(1911, 'Misfit in Middle America', 'Mandy M Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1530'),
(1912, 'Mistborn: The Final Empire', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Brandon Sanderson, fantasyâ€™s newest master tale spinner, author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises and magical martial-arts action that begins in Mistborn.For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the â€œSliver of Infinity,â€ reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Rulerâ€™s most hellish prison. Kelsier â€œsnappedâ€ and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. Â Kelsier recruited the underworldâ€™s elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kelâ€™s plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, sheâ€™s a half-Skaa orphan, but sheâ€™s lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.Readers of Elantris thought they''d discovered someone special in Brandon Sanderson. Mistborn proves they were right. Brandon Sanderson is an instructor at Brigham Young University. For fascinating behind-the-scenes information, visit him at www.brandonsanderson.com. Brandon Sanderson, fantasyâ€™s newest master tale spinner, author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises and magical martial-arts action that begins in Mistborn.For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Rulerâ€™s most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.Kelsier recruited the underworldâ€™s elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kelâ€™s plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, sheâ€™s a half-Skaa orphan, but sheâ€™s lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed. "A fascinating world . . . one that deserves a sequel."â€”The Washington Post"An enjoyable, adventurous read that . . . should satisfy even easily-bored teens."â€”Locus"Sanderson''s eerie . . . fantasy, set in a mist-haunted, ash-ridden world, pits Kelsier, "the Survivor of Hathsin," against the immortal Lord Ruler''s 1,000-year domination of both the Great Houses and their serflike "skaa." Through Allomancy acquired in the Ruler''s most hellish prison, Kelsier can "burn" 10 metals internally, fueling superhuman powers he uses to assemble rebels in a loose plan to destroy the nobility, the empire and the Lord Ruler himself. Kelsier uses Vin, a street urchin with the same Mistborn powers Kelsier possesses, to infiltrate the Great Houses'' society, where she falls in love with philosopher prince Elend Venture. This mystico-metallurgical fantasy combines Vin''s coming-of-age-in-magic and its well-worn theme of revolt against oppression with copious mutilations, a large-scale cast of thieves, cutthroats, conniving nobles and exotic mutants. Fast-paced action . . . the characters . . . have a raw stereotypic appeal."â€”Publishers Weekly"The Sliver of Infinity, the Lord Ruler, is the locus of religious and temporal order in a world in which the skaa are slaves or worse. Half-skaa erstwhile thief Kelsior is the only person to survive and escape the Lord Ruler''s most brutal prison, in which, however, he discovered he has the powers of the Mistborn, which are based on the internal "burning" of certain metals, all of which the Mistborn can use, while most others can burn only one. Now Kelsior plans his most daring raid ever, into the center of the palace to discover the secret of the Lord Ruler''s power. Beforehand, his band finds the half-skaa orphan Vin in another thieving crew, where she''s useful because she brings good luck. She is also Mistborn and, if she can master and learn to trust her powers, will enable Kelsior''s crew to infiltrate the nobility and possibly overthrow the status quo. Intrigue, politics, and conspiracies mesh complexly in a world Sanderson realizes in satisfying depth and peoples with impressive characters."â€”Regina Schroeder, Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/199'),
(1913, 'Mistral&#39;s Kiss', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In bestseller Hamilton''s steamy fifth in the Meredith Gentry fantasy series (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  A Stroke of Midnight\n </em>\n ), the fey former Los Angeles PI has given up detecting and fully embraced her duties as Princess Meredith NicEssus, potential heir to the faerie throne. Since the extremely orgasmic princess''s foremost duty is to prove her fertility in order to gain the throne, she spends most of her time bedding her immortal sidhe royal guardsmen, giving each a fair shot as her future consort. All the group sex has a profoundly transformative effect: her men are regaining their full powers, and the long-dead faerie gardens are springing to life. But when Meredith and her merry men inadvertently find themselves in the territory of King Sholto, who has been betrayed by others in the faerie court, there''s deadly danger even for immortals. Lots of earth-shattering, supernatural sex and a rousing climactic battle will have Hamilton''s fans panting for more.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Laurell K. Hamilton\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n A Kiss of Shadows\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIâ€™ve never read a writer with a more fertile imagination.â€\n <br />\n â€“Diana Gabaldon\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n A Caress of Twilight\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSensual, without a doubt . . . This book moves like a whirlwind.â€\n <br />\n â€“St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Seduced by Moonlight\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis [faerie] society is one of the most detailed, imaginative and lovingly drawn in all fantastic fiction, and the Meredith Gentry series has become something special.â€\n <br />\n â€“San Jose Mercury News\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n A Stroke of Midnight\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNonstop action . . . This book will leave you breathless.â€\n <br />\n â€“St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/599'),
(1914, 'Moby Dick', 'Lew Sayre Schwartz &amp; Herman Melville &amp; Dick Giordano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The great white resurfaces in this gripping, comic book-style retelling. Comic-strip veterans Schwartz and Giordano condense Melville''s leviathan tale into an action-packed, 48-page adventure. Despite forgoing Melville''s "Call me Ishmael" first-person narrative and sensory details, this retelling closely adheres to the original plot, including some pivotal scenes absent from Allan Drummond''s spare but entertaining 1997 Moby Dick. The dense story clips along, thanks to concise but appealingly hammy storytelling and melodramatic drawings, plus multiple panels that quicken the pace. When Ishmael meets Queequeg, for instance, the author squeezes out every drop of suspense: "There in the dimly lit room looms the forbidding image of Queequeg... harpoon at the ready, poised to sink its sharp head into his shaking body!!" Giordano ratchets up the tension with a series of close-ups of Ishmael''s terrified face as he awakens to the "savage" in his rented room. The brooding, dark-toned panels exude imminent danger-an ideal milieu for Captain Ahab''s doomed voyage. The book also provides a brief biography of Melville, as well as facts about whaling and New Bedford, Mass., the city that commissioned this retelling in celebration of the 150th anniversary (in 2001) of Moby Dick''s original publication. Ages 8-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-8-In trimming Melville''s leviathan novel down to picture-book length, some of what made the original so intriguing is inevitably lost; what this version retains is the main action of the story and details of life at sea. The former is captured admirably by dramatic illustrations that have a classic comic-book feel. Unfortunately, the flow of the story is often confusing: the loss of a first-person narrator relegates Ishmael to near nonexistence; the flow of images can be disjointed, leaving readers wondering what panel to read next; and the text, while suitably hyperbolic, is awkwardly reliant on ellipses and exclamation marks. Just as in the original tale, information on whalers and whaling appears throughout the work, yet here the handling is uneven. "Ambergris" is clarified in a side panel, "captor pilings" go unexplained, and "scrimshaw" is mentioned in one of three short essays (on Melville; whales; and New Bedford, CT) that bookend the main text. Readers looking for an introduction to Melville''s most famous work may find this title useful; otherwise, it is an additional purchase, particularly for those who already own Will Eisner''s mythic comic adaptation (NBM, 2001) or those lucky enough to have acquired Bill Sienkiewicz''s breathtaking "Classics Illustrated" edition (Berkley, 1990).\n <br />\n <em>\n  Douglas P. Davey, Guelph Public Library, Ontario, Canada\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1192'),
(1915, 'Mockingjay', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she''s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she''s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what''s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss''s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins''s groundbreaking\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Suzanne Collins, Author of *Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  You have said from the start that The Hunger Games story was intended as a trilogy. Did it actually end the way you planned it from the beginning?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Very much so. While I didn''t know every detail, of course, the arc of the story from gladiator game, to revolution, to war, to the eventual outcome remained constant throughout the writing process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  We understand you worked on the initial screenplay for a film to be based on\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  . What is the biggest difference between writing a novel and writing a screenplay?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  There were several significant differences. Time, for starters. When you''re adapting a novel into a two-hour movie you can''t take everything with you. The story has to be condensed to fit the new form. Then there''s the question of how best to take a book told in the first person and present tense and transform it into a satisfying dramatic experience. In the novel, you never leave Katniss for a second and are privy to all of her thoughts so you need a way to dramatize her inner world and to make it possible for other characters to exist outside of her company. Finally, there''s the challenge of how to present the violence while still maintaining a PG-13 rating so that your core audience can view it. A lot of things are acceptable on a page that wouldn''t be on a screen. But how certain moments are depicted will ultimately be in the director''s hands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Are you able to consider future projects while working on\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  , or are you immersed in the world you are currently creating so fully that it is too difficult to think about new ideas?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I have a few seeds of ideas floating around in my head but--given that much of my focus is still on\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  --it will probably be awhile before one fully emerges and I can begin to develop it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  The Hunger Games is an annual televised event in which one boy and one girl from each of the twelve districts is forced to participate in a fight-to-the-death on live TV. What do you think the appeal of reality television is--to both kids and adults?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Well, they''re often set up as games and, like sporting events, there''s an interest in seeing who wins. The contestants are usually unknown, which makes them relatable. Sometimes they have very talented people performing. Then there''s the voyeuristic thrillâ€”watching people being humiliated, or brought to tears, or suffering physically--which I find very disturbing. There''s also the potential for desensitizing the audience, so that when they see real tragedy playing out on, say, the news, it doesn''t have the impact it should.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  If you were forced to compete in the Hunger Games, what do you think your special skill would be?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Hiding. I''d be scaling those trees like Katniss and Rue. Since I was trained in sword-fighting, I guess my best hope would be to get hold of a rapier if there was one available. But the truth is I''d probably get about a four in Training.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What do you hope readers will come away with when they read The Hunger Games trilogy?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Questions about how elements of the books might be relevant in their own lives. And, if they''re disturbing, what they might do about them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What were some of your favorite novels when you were a teen?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\n  </em>\n  by Betty Smith\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  by Carson McCullers\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Nineteen Eighty Four\n  </em>\n  by George Orwell\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Anna Karenina\n  </em>\n  by Leo Tolstoy\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Slaughterhouse-Five\n  </em>\n  by Kurt Vonnegut\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   A Wrinkle in Time\n  </em>\n  by Madeleine Lâ€™Engle\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Lord of the Flies\n  </em>\n  by William Golding\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Boris\n  </em>\n  by Jaapter Haar\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Germinal\n  </em>\n  by Emile Zola\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Dandelion Wine\n  </em>\n  by Ray Bradbury\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Cap Pryor)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up Following her subversive second victory in the Games, this one composed of winners from past years, Katniss has been adopted by rebel factions as their symbol for freedom and becomes the rallying point for the districts in a desperate bid to take down the Capitol and remove President Snow from power. But being the Mockingjay comes with a price as Katniss must come to terms with how much of her own humanity and sanity she can willingly sacrifice for the cause, her friends, and her family. Collins is absolutely ruthless in her depictions of war in all its cruelty, violence, and loss, leaving readers, in turn, repulsed, shocked, grieving and, finally, hopeful for the characters they''ve grown to empathize with and love.\n  <em>\n   Mockingjay\n  </em>\n  is a fitting end of the series that began with\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  (2008) and\n  <em>\n   Catching Fire\n  </em>\n  (2009) and will have the same lasting resonance as William Golding''s\n  <em>\n   Lord of the Flies\n  </em>\n  and Stephen King''s\n  <em>\n   The Stand\n  </em>\n  . However, the book is not a stand-alone; readers do need to be familiar with the first two titles in order to appreciate the events and characters in this one.\n  <em>\n   Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK\n  </em>\n  (c) Copyright 2010. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2379');
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(1916, 'Moll Flanders', 'Daniel Defoe &amp; Virginia Woolf', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œDefoeâ€™s excellence it is, to make me forget my specific class, character, and circumstances, and to raise me while I read him, into the universal man.â€ â€”Samuel Taylor Coleridge\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoeâ€™s\n <em>\n  Moll Flanders\n </em>\n details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief. The story of Moll Flanders vividly illustrates Defoeâ€™s themes of social mobility and predestination, sin, redemption and reward.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1721 edition printed by Chetwood in London, the only edition approved by Defoe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/832'),
(1917, 'A Moment of Weakness', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jade Connor and Tanner Eastman were best friends until a family tragedy tore them apart. Almost ten years later, they find each other again, and their innocent childhood feelings blossom into a love that is soon crushed by his mother''s lies. When Jade''s son is taken from her ten years later because her strong Christian beliefs make her appear fanatical, she must turn to the one man she never thought to trust again. She hopes he can use his legal skills to return the son he never knew he had. As Christian beliefs war with a system that views strong convictions as suspect, Kingsbury (Waiting for Morning) offers a basic, unsurprising "love lost, love found" plot, but her unusual legal twist makes for interesting developments. Purchase where demand for fact-based fiction is strong.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   *Had they found each other again after all these years, only to lose everything that matters most?\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  As children, Jade Conner and Tanner Eastman were best friendsâ€”until scandal drove them apart. Then, one golden summer, they find each other again.Â  Through endless days they share their hearts and souls and dreams of forever.Â  Then, in a moment of weakness, they make a decision that will tear them apart for nearly a decade.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â In their own separate corners of the country, Jade and Tanner have become fighters for religious freedom. Now Jadeâ€™s unfaithful husband is determined to destroy her in a custody battle that will rock the nation and shake peopleâ€™s understanding\n  <br />\n  of faith and freedom. Could Jade lose her only child because of her faith? Only one man can help her in her darkest hour. And only one old woman knows the secret about that summer and the truth that can set them all free.\n  <br />\n  *\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1972'),
(1918, 'Mona Lisa Overdrive', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Into the cyber-hip world of William Gibson comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled...or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes.\n</p>\n<p>\n An over-the-top thrill ride sequel to\n <em>\n  Neuromancer\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Count Zero\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gibson burst upon the scene in 1984 with Neuromancer, a revolutionary, innovative novel that not only gathered up just about every award in the SF field, but also virtually invented a new sub-genre, which has come to be called "cyberpunk." He followed it with Count Zero , set in the same neon-lit, over-urbanized, polluted, high-tech future; an even better novel, it was necessarily not as breathtakingly unfamiliar and inventive as the first. This new novel completes the series, following the lives of some of the characters from the previous books (Bobby Newmark, Count Zero himself, is here) as well as many new ones, particularly Angie Mitchell, star of simstims and idol of millions, who is intuitively sensitive to cyberspace and the vodun deities that are its manifestations. Told in a gorgeous, highly compressedalmost poeticstyle that requires the reader''s attention and intelligence, this very satisfying novel can stand on its own. Major ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/715'),
(1919, 'Money to Burn', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In this timely stand-alone thriller ripped from the headlines,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author James Grippando, whom the\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  calls "a writer to watch," explores a world in which the destruction of financial institutions and the people who run them can occur in a matter of hoursâ€”perhaps even minutes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At thirty-one, Michael Cantella is a rising star at Wall Street''s premier investment bank, Saxton Silvers. Everything is going according to plan until Ivy Layton, the love of his life, vanishes on their honeymoon in the Bahamas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fast-forward four years. It''s the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, and Michael is still on track: successful career, beautiful new wife, piles of money. Reveling in his good fortune, Michael logs in to his computer, enters his password, and pulls up his biggest investment account: Zero balance. He tries another, and another. All of them zero. Someone has wiped him out. His only clue is a new e-mail message:\n  <em>\n   Just as planned. xo xo.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  With these three words Michael''s life as he knows it is liquidated, along with his investment portfolio. Saxton Silvers is suddenly on the brink of bankruptcy, and he''s the leading suspect in its ruin. Michael is left alone, framed, and facing divorce, with undercover FBI agents afoot, spyware on his computer, and mysterious e-mails from a "JBU." Embroiled in corporate espionage, he''s desperate to clear his name and realizes that several signs point to his first wife, Ivy, as a key player. But what if Ivy has come back from the dead, only to visit on Michael a fate worse than death?\n </p>\n <p>\n  With echoes of\n  <em>\n   The Firm\n  </em>\n  , James Grippando''s newest thriller takes readers to the inner circle of Wall Street, illustrating the very real dangers of what Warren Buffett called "financial weapons of mass destruction."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2475'),
(1920, 'The Monkey&#39;s Raincoat', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When Ellen Lang''s husband disappears with their son, she hires Elvis Cole to track him down. A quiet and seemingly submissive wife, Ellen can''t even write a check without him. All she wants is to get him and her son back - no questions asked.\n</p>\n<p>\n The search for Ellen''s errant husband leads Elvis into the seamier side of Hollywood. He soon learns that Mort Lang is a down-on-his-luck talent agent who associates with a schlocky movie producer, and the last place he was spotted was at a party thrown by a famous and very well-connected ex-Matador. But no one has seen him since - including his B-movie girlfriend.\n</p>\n<p>\n At the same time the police find Mort in his parked car with four gunshots in his chest - and no kid in sight - Ellen disappears. Now nothing is what it seems, and the heat is on. It''s up to Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike to find the connection between sleazy Hollywood players and an ex-Matador.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Far and away the most satisfying private eye novel in years. Grab this one - it''s a winner!" - Lawrence Block\n</p>\n<p>\n "Is Bob Crais good? Put it this way: if they''re taking you out to put you against the firing squad wall, and you want to enjoy your last moments on earth, pass on the last cigarette and ask for an Elvis Cole novel." - Harlan Ellison\n</p>\n<p>\n "Robert B. Parker has some competition on his hands....Elvis Cole is an appealing character and Crais'' style is fresh and funny." - Sue Grafton\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Taking the mystery community by storm, this Elvis Cole novel was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards and won both the Anthony and Macavity for Best Novel of the Year. Crais, a VP at Paramount, was previously head script writer for Quincy, Hill Street Blues, and Cagney and Lacey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1326'),
(1921, 'Monstrous Regiment', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n What do you get when you cross a vampire, a troll, Igor, a collection of misfits, and a young woman who shoves a pair of socks down her pants to join the army? The answer''s simple. You have\n <em>\n  Monstrous Regiment\n </em>\n , the characteristically charming novel by Terry Pratchett.\n</p>\n<p>\n Polly becomes Private Oliver Perks, who is on a quest to find her older brother, who''s recently MIA in one of the innumerable wars the tiny nation of Borogravia has a habit of starting with its neighbors. This peevish tendency has all but expended Borogravia''s ranks of cannon fodder. Whether Sergeant Jackrum knows her secret or not, he can''t afford to be choosy, as Perks and her/his comrades are among the last able-bodied recruits left in Borogravia. This collection of misfits includes the aforementioned vampire (reformed and off the blood, thank you), troll, and macabre Igor, who is only too happy to sew you a new leg if you aren''t too particular about previous ownership. Off to war, Polly/Oliver learns that having a pair of, um, socks is a good way to open up doors in this man''s army.\n</p>\n<p>\n For those who haven''t made this underrated author''s acquaintance,\n <em>\n  Monstrous Regiment\n </em>\n is as good a place to start as any. Readers will encounter Pratchett''s subtle and disarming wit, his trademark footnoted asides along with a not-too-shabby tale of honor, courage, and duty in the face of absurd circumstances.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pratchett flexes his satirical muscles again, with the follies of war his theme. Polly Oliver has disguised herself as a boy to join the army of Borogravia, which is always at war and bursting with patriotism, though the Borogravians are often less than clear on why they are fighting. But then, as followers of a god who believes that cats, babies, and cheese are abominations, they are used to contradictions; they mostly pray to their duchess, who may be dead. Their latest war has interfered with the commerce of Ankh-Morpork, which has dispatched Sam Vimes to bring matters to a "satisfactory" conclusion. But Sam still thinks more like the city watchman he was than the duke he now is, and this confuses people. Meanwhile, Polly''s regiment, the Ins-and-Outs, has become quite high-profile, what with having, it is said, a vampire, a werewolf, and an Igor in its ranks, and with capturing, quite unexpectedly, the Zlobenian prince and his soldiers, an event publicized by Ankh-Morpork newspaperman William de Worde. Anyway, they''re suddenly popular in Ankh-Morpork, and they subsequently turn the war upside down, so that it doesn''t end the way the propagandists would have liked. No surprise, of course, to Sam Vimes. Polly concludes that it is, on some level, all about socks. Thoroughly funny and surprisingly insightful.\n <em>\n  Regina Schroeder\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/372'),
(1922, 'A Month of Summer', 'Lisa Wingate', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After a call from the Dallas police, Rebecca Macklin leaves her family and law practice in California to return to her childhood homeÂ to deal with her estranged father, who is suffering from Alzheimerâ€™s disease. She has built up a lifetime of resentment toward her father after he divorced her mother and married Hannah Beth. Arriving at the house, she finds everything in disarrayÂ and Hannah Beth recovering in the nursing home from a debilitating stroke.Â Hannah Bethâ€™s mentally disabled sonâ€™s simple joy starts to thaw the resentment that Rebecca has built up for decades, and she is tornÂ as she takes care of her father,Â who confuses her with her mother, andÂ desperately misses her own family even though there are problems with her marriage. With her signature gentle spiritualism, Wingate sheds light on the toll that aging and disease take on families as she launches a new series with broad appeal. --Patty Engelmann\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA remarkably talented and innovative writer, with a real feel for human emotions.â€\n  <br />\n  -Linda Lael Miller\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLisa Wingate is a glorious storyteller.â€\n  <br />\n  -Adriana Trigiani\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2361'),
(1923, 'Moon Called', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n While trying to live a so-called normal existence, mechanic Mercy Thompson, a shapeshifter raised by werewolves, gets into trouble with the gremlins, witches, and vampires with whom she deals on a daily basis. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/30'),
(1924, 'Moon Is a Harsh Mistress', 'Robert A. Heinlein &amp; Turk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest work.It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale of the disparate people--a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic--who become the rebel movement''s leaders. And it is the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to this inner circle, and who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution''s ultimate success.The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of the high points of modern science fiction, a novel bursting with politics, humanity, passion, innovative technical speculation, and a firm belief in the pursuit of human freedom. Robert Anson Heinlein was educated at the University of Missouri and the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving as a naval officer for five years, he retired for health reasons and began publishing SF in 1939. Considered the dean of American SF writers, Heinlein was loved and emulated during the half century that he wrote SF. He wrote dozens of novels and short stories, including Double Star, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, all of which won Hugo Awards. Heinlein was the recipient of the First Grand Master Nebula in 1975, and he was the guest of honor at three World SF Conventions: in 1941, 1961, and 1976. He has repeatedly been voted "best all-time author" in readers'' polls. Robert A. Heinlein passed away in 1988. The Hugo Award-winning classic that helped launch modern libertarianism, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is Heinlein''s unforgettable tale of a Lunar revolution in 2076. Led by a one-armed computer technician, a radical blonde bombshell, an aging academic, and a sentient, all-knowing computer, the revolution''s proclamationâ€”"TANSTAAFL" (There Ain''t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)â€”remains a slogan of the libertarian movement today. "He presided over American Science Fiction."â€”Joe Haldeman"He was admired and envied for more than a century by the brightest human beings on Earth."â€”Larry Niven\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/641'),
(1925, 'The Moon Is Down', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America''s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books\n  <em>\n   East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Tortilla Flat\n  </em>\n  . Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersÂ—and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  In this masterful account set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by Nazi troops, a small, peaceable town comes face to face with evil imposed from the outside--and betrayal born within the close-knit community.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1745'),
(1926, 'Moonlight Mile', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2010\n </strong>\n : Itâ€™s tough going for a good man in a messed-up world, particularly in Dennis Lehane''s Boston. Patrick Kenzie knows he did the right thing twelve years ago (during the events in\n <em>\n  Gone, Baby, Gone\n </em>\n ) when he located missing 4-year-old Amanda McCready and returned her to her neglectful mother, even though she wouldâ€™ve been better off with her kidnappers. That doesnâ€™t mean heâ€™s had an easy time living with his decision. In\n <em>\n  Moonlight Mile\n </em>\n , Patrick is still scraping by as a freelance PI, but now heâ€™s married to his former partner Angie Gennaro and with a daughter of his own. When Patrick learns that once again Amanda McCreadyâ€™s gone missing, his conscience gets the better of him and he''s soon on the trail of the enigmatic 16-year-old, only to discover that the moral complexity of his work has not lessened with time. And neither has Lehane''s talent as a top-notch crime writer. Much like a cup of Dunkin'' Donuts coffee, Lehane never fails to satisfy and the latest Patrick and Angie story is no less addictive.\n <em>\n  --Shane Hansanuwat\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An old case takes on new dimensions in Lehane''s sixth crime novel to feature Boston PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, last seen in 1999''s Prayers for Rain. Twelve years earlier, in 1998''s Gone, Baby, Gone, Patrick and Angie investigated the kidnapping of four-year-old Amanda McCready. The case drove a temporary wedge between the pair after Patrick returned Amanda to her mother''s neglectful care. Now Patrick and Angie are married, the parents of four-year-old Gabriella, and barely making ends meet with Patrick''s PI gigs while Angie finishes graduate school. But when Amanda''s aunt comes to Patrick and tells him that Amanda, now a 16-year-old honor student, is once again missing, he vows to find the girl, even if it means confronting the consequences of choices he made that have haunted him for years. While Lehane addresses much of the moral ambiguity from Gone, this entry lacks some of the gritty rawness of the early Kenzie and Gennaro books. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/400'),
(1927, 'Moonrise', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Book I of the Moonbase Saga, "Moonrise" is the story of the development of the first permanent human settlement on the moon, from its beginnings in the mind of one brilliant, driven man to its amazing reality. Bold new technologies are developed to sustain life on a harsh and unforgiving frontier. The human personalities and passions that drive the project are explored - as well as the rivalries that threaten to destroy it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1462'),
(1928, 'Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything', 'Joshua Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2011\n </strong>\n :\n <em>\n  Moonwalking with Einstein\n </em>\n follows Joshua Foer''s compelling journey as a participant in the U.S. Memory Championship. As a science journalist covering the competition, Foer became captivated by the secrets of the competitors, like how the current world memory champion, Ben Pridmore, could memorize the exact order of 1,528 digits in an hour. He met with individuals whose memories are truly uniqueâ€”from one man whose memory only extends back to his most recent thought, to another who can memorize complex mathematical formulas without knowing any math. Brains remember visual imagery but have a harder time with other information, like lists, and so with the help of experts, Foer learned how to transform the kinds of memories he forgot into the kind his brain remembered naturally. The techniques he mastered made it easier to remember information, and Foer''s story demonstrates that the tricks of the masters are accessible to anyone.\n <br />\n <em>\n  --Miriam Landis\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Author Q&amp;A with Joshua Foer\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n First, can you explain the title of you book,\n <em>\n  Moonwalking with Einstein\n </em>\n ?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The title refers to a memory device I used in the US Memory Championshipâ€”specifically it''s a mnemonic that helped me memorize a deck of playing cards. Moonwalking with Einstein works as a mnemonic because it''s such a goofy image. Things that are weird or colorful are the most memorable. If you try to picture Albert Einstein sliding backwards across a dance floor wearing penny loafers and a diamond glove, that''s pretty much unforgettable.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What are the U.S. Memory Championships? How did you become involved?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The U.S. Memory Championship is a rather bizarre contest held each spring in New York City, in which people get together to see who can remember the most names of strangers, the most lines of poetry, the most random digits. I went to the event as a science journalist, to cover what I assumed would be the Super Bowl of savants. But when I talked to the competitors, they told me something really interesting. They weren''t savants. And they didn''t have photographic memories. Rather, they''d trained their memories using ancient techniques. They said anyone could do it. I was skeptical. Frankly, I didn''t believe them. I said, well, if anyone can do it, could you teach me? A guy named Ed Cooke, who has one of the best trained memories in the world, took me under his wing and taught me everything he knew about memory techniques. A year later I came back to the contest, this time to try and compete, as a sort of exercise in participatory journalism. I was curious simply to see how well I''d do, but I ended up winning the contest. That really wasn''t supposed to happen.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What was the most surprising thing you found out about yourself competing in the Memory Championships?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n In the process of studying these techniques, I learned something remarkable: that there''s far more potential in our minds than we often give them credit for. I''m not just talking about the fact that it''s possible to memorize lots of information using memory techniques. I''m talking about a lesson that is more general, and in a way much bigger: that it''s possible, with training and hard work, to teach oneself to do something that might seem really difficult.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Can you explain the "OK Plateau?"\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The OK Plateau is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just never get appreciably faster at it. That''s because it''s become automatic. You''ve moved it to the back of your mind''s filing cabinet. If you want to become a faster typer, it''s possible, of course. But you''ve got to bring the task back under your conscious control. You''ve got to push yourself past where you''re comfortable. You have to watch yourself fail and learn from your mistakes. That''s the way to get better at anything. And it''s how I improved my memory.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What do you mean by saying there an "art" to memory?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The "art of memory" refers to a set of techniques that were invented in ancient Greece. These are the same techniques that Cicero used to memorize his speeches, and that medieval scholars used to memorize entire books. The "art" is in creating imagery in your mind that is so unusual, so colorful, so unlike anything you''ve ever seen before that it''s unlikely to be forgotten. That''s why mnemonists like to say that their skills are as much about creativity as memory.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How do you think technology has affected how and what we remember?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Once upon a time people invested in their memories, they cultivated them. They studiously furnished their minds. They remembered. Today, of course, we''ve got books, and computers and smart phones to hold our memories for us. We''ve outsourced our memories to external devices. The result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they''re failing us altogether. We''ve forgotten how to remember.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What is the connection between memory and our sense of time?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n As we get older, life seems to fly by faster and faster. That''s because we structure our experience of time around memories. We remember events in relation to other events. But as we get older, and our experiences become less unique, our memories can blend together. If yesterday''s lunch is indistinguishable from the one you ate the day before, it''ll end up being forgotten. That''s why it''s so hard to remember meals. In the same way, if you''re not doing things that are unique and different and memorable, this year can come to resemble the last, and end up being just as forgettable as yesterday''s lunch. That''s why it''s so important to pack your life with interesting experiences that make your life memorable, and provide a texture to the passage of time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How is your memory now?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Ironically, not much better than when I started this whole journey. The techniques I learned, and used in the memory contest, are great for remembering structured information like shopping lists or phone numbers, but they don''t improve any sort of underlying, generalizable memory ability. Unfortunately, I still misplace my car keys.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo of Joshua Foer Â© Emil Salman Haaretz)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you sometimes can''t remember where you put your car keys or, like Foer, the car itself, don''t panic. You''re not alone, and you can do something about it. In this intriguing look at the nature of memory, Foer reassures us that we don''t need to acquire a better memory; we just need to use the one we have more effectively. Foer introduces us to people whose memories are both astonishing, like the man who could memorize 1,528 random digits in order, and frightening, such as a man with such an extreme case of amnesia that he doesn''t know his own age and can''t remember that he has a memory problem. He explores various ways in which we test our memories, such as the extensive training British cabbies must undergo. He also discusses ways we can train ourselves to have better memories, like the PAO system, in which, for example, every card in a deck is associated with an image of a specific person, action, or object. An engaging, informative, and for the forgetful, encouraging book. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1277'),
(1929, 'Moonwar', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ben Bova''s extraordinary Moonbase Saga continues with a breathtaking near-future adventure rich in character and incident. The action begins seven years after the indomitable Stavenger family has realized its cherished dream of establishing a colony on the inhospitable lunar surface. Moonbase is now a thriving community under the leadership of Doug Stavenger, a marvel of scientific ahievement created and supported by nanotechnology: virus-size machines that can build, cure, and destroy. But nanotechnology has been declared illegal by the home planet''s leaders. And a powerful despot is determined to lay claim to Stavenger''s peaceful city...or obliterate it, if necessary. The people of MoonbaseÂ—a colony with no arms or militaryÂ—must now defend themselves from earth-born aggression with the only weapon at their disposal: the astonishing technology that sustains their endangered home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1463'),
(1930, 'The Moral Landscape. By Sam Harris', 'Sam Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1231'),
(1931, 'Morning, Noon &amp; Night', 'Sidney Sheldon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A power revered by presidents and kings, a fortune unsurpassed by few people on earth: all that ended for Harry Stanford the day he mysteriously-and fatally-plunged from his luxury yacht into the Mediterranean Sea. Then, back home in Boston, as the family gathers to grieve for his memory and to war over his legacy, a stunningly beautiful young woman appears. She claims to be Stanford''s long-lost daughter and entitled to her share of his estate. Now, flaming with intrigue and passion through the glamorous preserves of the world''s super rich, the ultimate game of wits begins, for stakes too dazzling and deadly to imagine.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Who is the beautiful woman who appears out of the blue after Harry Stanford, one of the wealthiest men in the world, is mysteriously drowned in his yacht off the coast of Corsica? She claims to be his child--and entitled to her shar of the tycoon''s estate--but is she genuine or just an imposter? National ads/media.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1641'),
(1932, 'Mort', 'Terry Pratchett &amp; Victor Gollancz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Consistently, inventively mad...wild and wonderful!" --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  Issac Asimov''s Science Fiction Magazine\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Discworld takes the classic fantasy universe through its logical, and comic evolution." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  Cleveland Plain Dealer\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Unadulterated fun...Witty, frequently hilarious." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can''t refuse -- especially since being, well,\n <em>\n  dead\n </em>\n isn''t compulsory.As Death''s apprentice, he''ll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won''t need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he''d ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/312'),
(1933, 'Mortal Stakes', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Is Marty throwing fast balls or throwing games? It doesn''t take long for Spenser to link Marty''s performance with Linda''s past...or to find himself trapped between a crazed racketeer and an enforcer toting an M-16.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  America''s favorite pastime has suddenly become a very dangerous sport, and one wrong move means strike three, with Spenser out for good!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1156'),
(1934, 'The Most Beautiful Woman in Town', 'Charles Bukowski', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France where he is published by the great publishing houses), he is critically recognized as one of America''s greatest living realist writers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920 and brought to America at the age of two. Eighteen or twenty books of prose and poetry, Bukowski, after publishing prose in Story and Portfolio, stopped writing for ten years. He arrived in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County General Hospital, hemorrhaging as a climax to a ten year drinking bout. Some say he didn''t die. After leaving the hospital he got a typewriter and began writing againâ€”this time, poetry. He later returned to prose and gained some fame with his column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man. After 14 years in the Post Office he resigned at age 50, he says, to keep from going insane. He now claims to be unemployable and eats typewriter ribbons.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920 and brought to Los Angeles at age three. Using the city as a backdrop for his work, Bukowski wrote prolifically, publishing over fifty volumes of poetry and prose. He died in San Pedro, California on March 9, 1994. His books are widely translated and posthumous volumes continue to appear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1366'),
(1935, 'Mostly Harmless', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(1936, 'Mother Night', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured Americaâ€™s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as a â€œtrue artistâ€* with Catâ€™s Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, â€œone of the best living American writers.â€Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.*The New York Timesâ€œA great artist.â€â€”Cincinnati Enquirerâ€œVonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writerâ€¦a zany but moral mad scientist.â€â€”Time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(1937, 'Moving Pictures', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Philosophical humor of the highest order." --\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Unadulterated fun. Pratchett parodies everything in sight." --\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discworld''s pesky alchemists are up to their old tricks again. This time, they''ve discovered how to get gold from silver -- the silver screen that is. Hearing the siren call of Holy Wood is one Victor Tugelbend, a would-be wizard turned extra. He can''t sing, he can''t dance, but he can handle a sword (sort of), and now he wants to be a star. So does Theda Withel, an ambitious ingÃ©nue from a little town (where else?) you''ve probably never heard of.\n</p>\n<p>\n But the click click of moving pictures isn''t just stirring up dreams inside Discworld. Holy Wood''s magic is drifting out into the boundaries of the universes, where raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, the never-weres, the wild ideas are beginning to ferment into a really stinky brew. It''s up to Victor and Gaspode the Wonder Dog (a star if ever one was born!) to rein in the chaos and bring order back to a starstruck Discworld. And they''re definitely not ready for their close-up!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/322'),
(1938, 'Mr. Murder', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Martin Stillwater is a novelist with a wife and children he adores -- and an imagination he can''t control. One rainy afternoon, a stranger breaks into Martin''s house and accuses him of stealing his family, his name, and his life. Martin has no choice but to take his family and flee, even as he questions his own sanity. But wherever they go, the stranger is right behind them.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The formula Koontz ( The Bad Place ) uses here is a familiar one: an overpowering evil stalks an innocent family that remains unaware of the menace until isolated from all help and forced to run for their lives. But enhanced by Koontz''s lean prose and rich characterization, this fearsome tale summons up new frissons of horror. Marty Stillwater''s second horror novel is bestseller-bound; he''s the subject of a People magazine feature article; and his wife, Paige, and their two young daughters complete the perfect family. Then he begins having blackouts and paralyzing panic attacks that lead him to hide guns around the house. The weapons prove handy when an armed stranger--Marty''s Doppelganger --breaks into the house to kill him and reclaim the life, family and destiny that he swears Marty stole. A fierce battle leaves the stranger dead but when Paige and the police arrive, the body is gone. Unable to trust the cops, the family runs for the hills to try to evade the seemingly indestructible "Other." Meanwhile, sinister agents are desperately tracking The Other for their own less-than-ethical ends. Playing on every emotion and keeping the story racing along, Koontz masterfully escalates the tension. He closes the narrative with the most ingenious twist ending of his career. Literary Guild &amp; Doubleday Book Club main selection; Mystery Guild alternate selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/508'),
(1939, 'Mrs. Dalloway', 'Virginia Woolf &amp; Bonnie Kime Scott &amp; Mark Hussey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane''s swooping path, Virginia Woolf''s\n <em>\n  Mrs. Dalloway\n </em>\n follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl''s angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.\n</p>\n<p>\n Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa''s web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society''s demands.\n <em>\n  --Joannie Kervran Stangeland\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. If the novel before Mrs. Dalloway aspired to immensities of scope and scale, to heroic journeys across vast landscapes, with Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf insisted that it could also locate the enormous within the everyday; that a life of errands and party-giving was every bit as viable a subject as any life lived anywhere; and that should any human act in any novel seem unimportant, it has merely been inadequately observed. The novel as an art form has not been the same since. Mrs. Dalloway also contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English, and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century."\n <br />\n --Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1030'),
(1940, 'Murder on the Orient Express', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of Agatha Christieâ€™s most famous mysteries,\n <em>\n  Murder on the Orient Express\n </em>\n was inspired by two real-life crimes and the authorâ€™s own experience being stranded on the Orient Express during Christmas of 1931. While traveling to Paris, a wealthy American is stabbed to death in his cabin on the Orient Express. With the train stuck in a snowdrift, there is no easy escape for the killer. Fortunately, detective Hercule Poirot is aboard and launches a clever investigation into the curious assortment of passengers, of whom each seems to have a motive.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel,\n <em>\n  The Mysterious Affair at Styles\n </em>\n (1920). She achieved wide popularity with\n <em>\n  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd\n </em>\n (1926) and produced a total of eighty novels and short-story collections over six decades. Twenty-four of Christie''s best whodunits are now available from Black Dog &amp; Leventhal as part of their bestselling hardcover Agatha Christie Collection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1331'),
(1941, 'My Antonia', 'Willa Cather', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather''s\n <em>\n  My Ãntonia\n </em>\n by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents'' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ãntonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather''s masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ãntonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ãntonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather''s novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.\n</p>\n<p>\n As if all this humanity weren''t enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we''ve just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America''s development) and learns Virgil''s phrase "\n <em>\n  Optima dies ... prima fugit\n </em>\n " that Cather uses as the novel''s epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like\n <em>\n  My Ãntonia\n </em>\n , was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue.\n <em>\n  --Melanie Rehak\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Up--In Jim Burden''s accounting of his life with, and without, Antonia Shimerda, listeners are transported to the hardscrabble Nebraska prairie and the rural immigrant experience. When Jim first sees the Shimerda family, immigrants from Bohemia, disembarking from the same train that is taking him West to live with his grandparents, he has no idea the impact they will have on his life. Nostalgically, he remembers the good and bad times they had on their respective farms and creates his portrait of Antonia, an independent and tough survivor. The brief biography of author Willa Cather at the beginning of the CD explains how her life mirrors Antonia''s life in many ways, helping listeners understand the context of the story. Patrick Lawlor''s rich, fluid voice lends an air of sophistication to Burden, reinforcing the class structure inherent at the beginning of the 20th century. Lawlor''s attempts to create voices for the characters often falls flat. Since the novel is Burden''s reminiscence, it would have been better told in Burden''s voice alone. Since\n <em>\n  My Antonia\n </em>\n continues to be a staple in many English curriculums, this is a good audiobook for schools and public libraries to have available.--\n <em>\n  Lynn Evarts, Sauk Prairie High School, Prairie du Sac, WA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/953');
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(1942, 'My Dead Body', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n NOBODY LIVES FOREVER. NOT EVEN A VAMPYRE.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattanâ€™s Vampyres, heâ€™s definitely a dead man walking. Heâ€™s been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a private eye, an enforcer, an exile, and a vigilante, but now heâ€™s just a target with legs.\n</p>\n<p>\n For a year heâ€™s sloshed around the subway tunnels and sewers, tapping the veins of the lost, while above ground a Vampyre civil war threatens to drag the Clans into the sunlight once and for all. Whatâ€™s it gonna take to dig him up? Just the search for a missing girl whoâ€™s carrying a baby that just might be the destiny of Vampyre-kind. Not that Joe cares all that much about destiny and such. What he cares about is that his ex-girl Evie wants him to take the gig. Whatâ€™s the risk? Another turn playing pigeon in a shooting gallery. Whatâ€™s the reward? Maybe one shot of his own. Whatâ€™s he aiming for? Nothing much. Just all the evil at the heart of his world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/620'),
(1943, 'My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Opening with a cute story from when she was seven and photographed her parents having sex, stand-up comedian Handler goes on to discuss the virtues of the one-night stand, which amount to having sex early enough so you''re not months into a relationship before you discover he''s into "anal beads and duct tape." She discusses her quest for sex with a "black man," which doesn''t work out because the date she finds on ChocolateSingles.com has a penis so large, she "would have had to be the size of the Lincoln Tunnel to accommodate that thing." After him, there''s a "little midget," but she sobers up before sleeping with him. Next come a number of would-be partners with penises too small to consider. Finally, there''s a guy Handler\n <em>\n  does\n </em>\n sleep with, only an embarrassing incident involving a "giant skid mark" prevents her from seeing him again. By the end, Handler considers settling down with one man, which might actually net her more sex than these mostly unconsummated one-night stands. Anyone who laughs at the mere mention of vaginas and penises may find Handler''s book almost as much fun as getting drunk and waking up in some stranger''s bed.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ve either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend''s irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them.\n <em>\n  My Horizontal Life\n </em>\n chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details.\n <em>\n  My Horizontal Life\n </em>\n is one guilty pleasure you won''t be ashamed to talk about in the morning.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/612'),
(1944, 'My Inventions', 'Nickola Tessla', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1698'),
(1945, 'My Life', 'Bill Clinton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n An exhaustive, soul-searching memoir, Bill Clinton''s\n <em>\n  My Life\n </em>\n is a refreshingly candid look at the former president as a son, brother, teacher, father, husband, and public figure. Clinton painstakingly outlines the history behind his greatest successes and failures, including his dedication to educational and economic reform, his war against a "vast right-wing operation" determined to destroy him, and the "morally indefensible" acts for which he was nearly impeached.\n <em>\n  My Life\n </em>\n is autobiography as therapy--a personal history written by a man trying to face and banish his private demons.\n</p>\n<p>\n Clinton approaches the story of his youth with gusto, sharing tales of giant watermelons, nine-pound tumors, a charging ram, famous mobsters and jazz musicians, and a BB gun standoff. He offers an equally energetic portrait of American history, pop culture, and the evolving political landscape, covering the historical events that shaped his early years (namely the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and JFK) and the events that shaped his presidency (Waco, Bosnia, Somalia). What makes\n <em>\n  My Life\n </em>\n remarkable as a political memoir is how thoroughly it is infused with Clinton''s unassuming, charmingly pithy voice:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can''t be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgments can make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes the only, response to pain.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n However, that same voice might tire readers as Clinton applies his penchant for minute details to a distractible laundry list of events, from his youth through the years of his presidency. Not wanting to forget a single detail that might help account for his actions, Clinton overdoes it--do we really need to know the name of his childhood barber? But when Clinton sticks to the meat of his story--recollections about Mother, his abusive stepfather, Hillary, the campaign trail, and Kenneth Starr--the veracity of emotion and\n <em>\n  Kitchen Confidential\n </em>\n -type revelations about "what it is like to be President" make\n <em>\n  My Life\n </em>\n impossible to put down.\n</p>\n<p>\n To Clinton, "politics is a contact sport," and while he claims that\n <em>\n  My Life\n </em>\n is not intended to make excuses or assign blame, it does portray him as a fighter whose strategy is to "take the first hit, then counterpunch as hard as I could." While\n <em>\n  My Life\n </em>\n is primarily a stroll through Clinton''s memories, it is also a scathing rebuke--a retaliation against his detractors, including Kenneth Starr, whose "mindless search for scandal" protected the guilty while "persecuting the innocent" and distracted his Administration from pressing international matters (including strikes on al Qaeda). Counterpunch indeed.\n</p>\n<p>\n At its core,\n <em>\n  My Life\n </em>\n is a charming and intriguing if flawed book by an equally intriguing and flawed man who had his worst failures and humiliations made public. Ultimately, the man who left office in the shadow of scandal offers an honest and open account of his life, allowing readers to witness his struggle to "drain the most out of every moment" while maintaining the character with which he was raised. It is a remarkably intimate, persuasive look at the boy he was, the President he became, and man he is today.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Condensing a 900-page text into a six-and-a-halfâ€“hour audiobook is no small challenge, but this production proves that it can be doneâ€”and done well. Inevitably, people will wonder what has been left out. The answer: anecdotes from Clinton''s childhood; blow-by-blow accounts of his gubernatorial and presidential races; a plethora of details regarding his smaller accomplishments as president; and some blistering indictments of Kenneth Starr and other conservatives. What''s left is a moving but all-too-brief portrait of Clinton''s troubled childhood and an in-depth look at the battles he fought before and after being elected. It should come as no surprise to anyone who has heard Clinton speak that the former president narrates his autobiography with aplomb. His voice rings with mirth when he relates an amusing anecdote and expresses sadness when he describes how his abusive, alcoholic father faced death with more courage than he did life. Clinton covers the expected topicsâ€”Whitewater (a "bogus scandal"); his "immoral and foolish" dalliance with Monica Lewinsky; his attempts to balance the budget and bring peace to the Middle Eastâ€”but the most illuminating details are the small ones (such as when he recalls, with a smile in his voice, impulsively buying a house and telling Hillary: "Remember that little house you liked so much? I bought it. You have to marry me now, because I can''t live there alone"). Although not all of the transitions between topics are seamless and listeners may wish John McElroy, who created this abridgment, had included more details from Clinton''s younger years, Clinton''s legendary charisma shines through in his reading, making this audiobook a rare treat. B&amp;w photos on packaging.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/881'),
(1946, 'My Man Jeeves', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Wodehouse, P.G."My Man Jeeves" in the revolutionary Bed Book Landscape Reading Format - a new approach to reading in bed as well as other places people enjoy reading while lying down, such as the beach, or on a grassy lawn in the park. Bed Books provide the freedom to lie in any comfortable position without being obligated to sit up in order to read. They can be an essential aid for readers who may be prone to back and neck strain when assuming the contorted body positions normally required for reading while lying down, and for those who have previously found it difficult or impossible to read books in bed, such as the elderly and the disabled. Bed Books can also be read sitting up as easily as with a conventional book. See the current Bed Book Catalog at: www.bedbooks.NET www.readinginbed.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1626'),
(1947, 'My Sister&#39;s Keeper', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The difficult choices a family must make when a child is diagnosed with a serious disease are explored with pathos and understanding in this 11th novel by Picoult (Second Glance, etc.). The author, who has taken on such controversial subjects as euthanasia (Mercy), teen suicide (The Pact) and sterilization laws (Second Glance), turns her gaze on genetic planning, the prospect of creating babies for health purposes and the ethical and moral fallout that results. Kate Fitzgerald has a rare form of leukemia. Her sister, Anna, was conceived to provide a donor match for procedures that become increasingly invasive. At 13, Anna hires a lawyer so that she can sue her parents for the right to make her own decisions about how her body is used when a kidney transplant is planned. Meanwhile, Jesse, the neglected oldest child of the family, is out setting fires, which his firefighter father, Brian, inevitably puts out. Picoult uses multiple viewpoints to reveal each character''s intentions and observations, but she doesn''t manage her transitions as gracefully as usual; a series of flashbacks are abrupt. Nor is Sara, the children''s mother, as well developed and three-dimensional as previous Picoult protagonists. Her devotion to Kate is understandable, but her complete lack of sympathy for Anna''s predicament until the trial does not ring true, nor can we buy that Sara would dust off her law degree and represent herself in such a complicated case. Nevertheless, Picoult ably explores a complex subject with bravado and clarity, and comes up with a heart-wrenching, unexpected plot twist at the book''s conclusion.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School - Anna was genetically engineered to be a perfect match for her cancer-ridden older sister. Since birth, the 13-year-old has donated platelets, blood, her umbilical cord, and bone marrow as part of her family''s struggle to lengthen Kate''s life. Anna is now being considered as a kidney donor in a last-ditch attempt to save her 16-year-old sister. As this compelling story opens, Anna has hired a lawyer to represent her in a medical emancipation suit to allow her to have control over her own body. Picoult skillfully relates the ensuing drama from the points of view of the parents; Anna; Cambell, the self-absorbed lawyer; Julia, the court-appointed guardian ad litem; and Jesse, the troubled oldest child in the family. Everyone''s quandary is explicated and each of the characters is fully developed. There seems to be no easy answer, and readers are likely to be sympathetic to all sides of the case. This is a real page-turner and frighteningly thought-provoking. The story shows evidence of thorough research and the unexpected twist at the end will surprise almost everyone. The novel does not answer many questions, but it sure raises some and will have teens thinking about possible answers long after they have finished the book.\n <em>\n  - Susan H. Woodcock, Fairfax County Public Library, Chantilly, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/286'),
(1948, 'My Uncle Oswald', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Uncle Oswald is, if you remember, the greatest rogue, bounder, connoisseur, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. Here, many famous names are mentioned and there is obviously a grave risk that families and friends are going to take offence...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Uncle Oswald discovers the electrifying properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle and the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, a girl absolutely soaked in sex, and sets about seducing all the great men of the time for his own wicked, irreverent reasons.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Uncle Oswald, the great rogue and fornicator, has discovered the world''s most powerful aphrodisiac and a method of quick-freezing sperm. So with the help of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, he sets out to preserve 51 living geniuses and crowned heads, from James Joyce to King Albert and Henry Ford.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1590'),
(1949, 'The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With a style that is razor sharp, an eye that never shies from the gritty details, and a taste for stories that simultaneously shock, disturb, and entertain, Charlie Huston is one of a kind. And The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death is the type of story-swift, twisted, hilarious, somehow hopeful-that only he could dream up. The fact is, whether it''s a dog hit by a train or an old lady who had a heart attack on the can, someone has to clean up the nasty mess. And that someone is Webster Fillmore Goodhue, who just may be the least likely person in Los Angeles County to hold down such a gig. With his teaching career derailed by tragedy, Web hasn''t done much for the last year except some heavy slacking. But when his only friend in the world lets him know that his freeloading days are over, and he tires of taking cash from his spaced-out mom and refuses to take any more from his embittered father, Web joins Clean Team-and soon finds himself sponging a Malibu suicide''s brains from a bathroom mirror, and flirting with the man''s bereaved and beautiful daughter. Then things get weird: The dead man''s daughter asks a favor. Her brother''s in need of somebody who can clean up a mess. Every cell in Web''s brain tells him to turn her down, but something else makes him hit the Harbor Freeway at midnight to help her however he can. Is it her laugh? Her desperate tone of voice? The chance that this might be history''s strangest booty call? Whatever it is, soon enough it''s Web who needs the help when gun-toting California cowboys start showing up on his doorstep. What''s the deal? Is it something to do with what he cleaned up in that motel room in Carson? Or is it all about the brewing war between rival trauma cleaners? Web doesn''t have a clue, but he''ll need to get one if he''s going to keep from getting his face kicked in. Again. And again. And again. Full of black humor, stunning violence, singular characters, and neon dialogue, " "The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death is classic Charlie Huston: a wild ride that''ll leave you breathless and shaken, grinning and begging for more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1223'),
(1950, 'Mystic River', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ever since blasting onto the literary scene with the Shamus Award-winning\n <em>\n  A Drink Before the War\n </em>\n , Dennis Lehane has been the golden boy of noir. His Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro novels are marvels of tight pacing, dialogue so good it gets under your skin and stays there, with dead-on portrayals of working-class Boston neighborhoods. Sure, he''s the oft-proclaimed, hard-boiled heir to Hammett and Chandler, but Lehane also takes a page from the Hemingway school of hyper-intense writing. He pares away and pares away until he''s left with the absolute essentials--and then those essentials just explode off the page.\n</p>\n<p>\n In his five Kenzie-Gennaro novels, the detective duo is at the nexus of Lehane''s big bang. Darkly funny and just this side of jaded, Angie and Patrick move through Dorchester''s bleak streets with an assurance born of familiarity. It''s impossible to imagine these streets without the pair, or to imagine the pair away from those streets.\n <em>\n  Mystic River\n </em>\n , then, arrives as a bit of a gamble, as Lehane moves from the sharp edges of portraiture to the broader strokes of landscape. No Angie, no Patrick: this neighborhood is on its own. It''s not any prettier and certainly no friendlier, and its working-class faÃ§ade still barely masks the irresistible tug of violent ways, means, and ends.\n</p>\n<p>\n Twenty-five years ago, Dave Boyle got into a car. When he came back four days later, he was different in a way that destroyed his friendship with Sean Devine and Jimmy Marcus. Now Sean''s a cop, Jimmy''s a store owner with a prison record and mob connections, and Dave''s trying hard to keep his demons safely submerged. When Jimmy''s daughter Katie is found murdered, each of the men must confront a past that none is eager to acknowledge. Lehane tugs delicately on the strands that weave this neighborhood together, testing for their strengths and weaknesses; this novel seems as much anthropological case study as thriller.\n</p>\n<p>\n By turns violent and pensive,\n <em>\n  Mystic River\n </em>\n is vintage Lehane. How good is it? You may go in missing Angie and Patrick, but after a few pages you won''t even realize they''re gone. Lehane''s noir is still black magic.\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lehane ventures beyond his acclaimed private eye series with this emotionally wrenching crime drama about the effects of a savage killing on a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood. Written with a sensitivity toward character that exceeds his previous efforts, the story tracks the friendship of three boys from a defining moment in their childhood, when 11-year-old Dave Boyle was abducted off the streets of East Buckingham and sexually molested by two men before managing to escape. Boyle, Jimmy Marcus and Sean Devine grow apart as the years pass, but a quarter century later they are thrust back together when Marcus''s 19-year-old daughter, Katie, is murdered in a local park. Marcus, a reformed master thief turned family man, goes through a period of intense grief, followed by a thirst for revenge. Devine, now a homicide cop assigned to the murder, tries to control his old friend while working to make sense of the baffling case, which involves turning over the past as much as it does sifting through new evidence. In time, Devine begins to suspect Boyle, a man of many ghoulish secrets who has led a double life ever since the molestation. Lehane''s story slams the reader with uncomfortable images, a beautifully rendered setting and an unnerving finale. With his sixth novel, the author has replaced the graphic descriptions of crime and violence found in his Patrick Kenzie-Angela Gennaro series (Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone) with a more pensive, inward view of life''s dark corners. It''s a change that garners his themesAregret over life choices, the psychological imprints of childhood, personal and professional compromiseAa richer context and his characters a deeper exploration. Agent, Ann Rittenberg. (Feb. 6) Forecast: Given the excitement in-house at Morrow that this is Lehane''s breakthrough book, and the promotion they''re placing behind it, it stands an excellent chance of leaping straight onto the bestseller lists. A one-day laydown, $250,000 ad-promo and an 11-city author tour, plus a blurb from Michael Connelly designating Lehane as "the heir apparent," should provide the groundwork for explosive sales. Rights have been sold in the U.K., France and Germany, and there will be a large-print edition as well as an audio from Harper Audio.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/404'),
(1951, 'Myths to Live By', 'Joseph Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Myths to Live By,\n  </em>\n  Joseph, Campbell explores the enduring power of the universal myths that influence our lives daily and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate present, returning always to the source from which all mythology springs; the creative imagination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Campbell stresses that the borders dividing the earth have been shattered; that myths and religions have always followed the certain basic archetypes and are no longer exclusive to a single people, region, or religion. He shows how we must recognize their common denominators and allow this knowledge to be of use in fulfilling human potential everywhere.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  The brilliant author of The Masks of God shares his ideas and speculations on our universal myths, in a fascinating, very personal work which explores the enduring power of the myths that influence our lives and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate present.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1766'),
(1952, 'N Is for Noose', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Suppose we could peer through a tiny peephole in time and chance upon a flash of what was coming up in the years ahead?" The questioner is Kinsey Millhone, middle-aged, two-time divorcee detective and junk food junkie star of Sue Grafton''s popular "alphabet" mysteries; the book is\n <em>\n  ''N'' Is for Noose\n </em>\n . If Kinsey had had just a smidgen of foresight, she would never have taken her current case, handed down to her from her on-again, off-again flame and comrade in arms, Robert Dietz. We encounter the two this time out after Deitz''s knee surgery, as Kinsey drives his "snazzy little red Porsche" back to Carson City, where she checks out his digs for the first time. To her surprise, he lives in a palatial penthouse, which--under the unspoken bylaws of investigative etiquette--she qualmlessly snoops through. They sit around for a fortnight playing gin rummy and eating peanut butter and pickle sandwiches together, but perennially single Kinsey grows wary: "It was time to hit the road before our togetherness began to chafe."\n</p>\n<p>\n She heads off to meet Dietz''s former client, Mrs. Selma Newquist, a devastated widow whose makeup tips seem to come from Tammy Faye Baker. Her husband Tom Newquist, a detective himself, had been working on a mysterious case when he abruptly died of a heart attack. Selma suspects foul play, but bless her, she isn''t the brightest star in the sky and can''t figure out what Tom was working on even though he''s left behind enough paper to fill a recycling truck. Kinsey digs right in and roams the sleepy, one-horse town of Nota Lake for clues, interviewing a colorful cast of in-laws and locals. Beneath the quaint, quiet, country veneer, she unearths a bubbling hotbed of internal strife and familial double-dealing. Was Tom covering up for his partner? Is Selma protecting someone? Grafton''s knack for gritty details and realistic characters ("[Selma''s] skin tones suggested dark coloring, but her hair was a confection of white-blond curls, like a cloud of cotton candy"), coupled with the fast-paced, believable story line, makes for another delightful, entertaining read. --Rebekah Warren, Bestsellers editor\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The noose of the title implies a tight knot, but the twists and turns of Grafton''s latest plot are pretty loose. Not that the fans of self-reliant PI Kinsey Millhone''s 13 previous alphabet appearances (from 1982''s A Is for Alibi through 1996''s M Is for Malice) are likely to object. This story takes Kinsey away from her Southern California coastal town of Santa Teresa to the small mountain community of Nota Lake in the Sierras. There, Selma Newquist hires Kinsey to ferret out the problem that had been seriously bothering her cop husband, Tom, before his recent death from a heart attack. Kinsey''s efforts are soon stonewalled as the residents of Nota Lake unite, suggesting that the widow is being troublesome while the good-guy cop should be left to rest in peace. Kinsey wonders whether the townspeople might be right until she is seriously beaten up in her Nota Lake motel room. Focusing on finding the dead man''s missing notebook, she follows his trail to a seedy hotel not far from Santa Teresa that he visited a few weeks before his death. While keeping a suspicious eye on the dead man''s police partner and a few other local figures, Kinsey determines that Tom Newquist had been investigating an old murder near Nota Lake, which may have had ties to a similar, recent murder. Lots of coincidences, some over-the top characters, including a hyper-raunchy older woman, and some unprepared-for elements contribute to the rather chaotic climax. But Grafton''s easy-reading, intelligent prose and her heroine''s sharp humor, served up dark and wry, make up for a slew of plot weaknesses. 1,000,000 first printing; Mystery Guild main selection; Literary Guild selection; 18-city author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/678'),
(1953, 'Naked (Turtleback School &amp; Library Binding Edition)', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/220'),
(1954, 'Naked Empire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beginning with\n <em>\n  Wizard''s First Rule\n </em>\n and continuing with six subsequent fantasy masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled and awed millions of readers worldwide. Now Goodkind returns with a broad-canvas adventure of epic intrigue, violent conflict, and terrifying peril for the beautiful Kahlan Amnell and her husband, the heroic Richard Rahl, the Sword of Truth.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Richard Rahl has been poisoned. Saving an empire from annihilation is the price of the antidote. With the shadow of death looming near, the empire crumbling before the invading hordes, and time running out, Richard is offered not only his own life but the salvation of a people, in exchange for delivering his wife, Kahlan, into bondage to the enemy.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TerryÂ Goodkind\n </strong>\n is a #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n Â bestselling author. His books include the eleven-volume Sword of Truth series, beginning withÂ \n <em>\n  Wizardâ€™s First Rule\n </em>\n , the basisÂ for the televisionÂ show Legend of the Seeker. Goodkind was bornÂ and raised inÂ Omaha, Nebraska, where he alsoÂ attended art school. Alongside aÂ career in wildlife art, he has also been a cabinetmaker and a violin maker, and he has doneÂ restoration work onÂ rare and exotic artifactsÂ from around the world -- each with its ownÂ story toÂ tell, he says. While continuing toÂ maintain the northeastern home he builtÂ withÂ his own hands, in recent years he and his wifeÂ Jeri have created aÂ second home in the desertÂ Southwest, where he now spends the majorityÂ of hisÂ time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/760'),
(1955, 'Naked in Death', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''a perfect balance of suspense, futuristic police procedural and steamy romance...truly fine entertainment...sure to leave you hungering for more...'' Publisher''s Weekly\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In hardcover for the first time, here is the novel that started it all-the first book in J. D. Robb''s number-one\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n -bestselling In Death series, featuring New York City homicide detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But New York City Detective Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing-passion.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n When a senator''s daughter is killed, the secret life of prostitution she''d been leading is revealed. The high-profile case takes Lieutenant Eve Dallas into the rarefied circles of Washing-ton politics and society. Further complicating matters is Eve''s growing attraction to Roarke, who is one of the wealthiest and most influential men on the planet, devilishly handsome . . . and the leading suspect in the investigation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1080'),
(1956, 'Naked Lunch: The Restored Text', 'William S. Burroughs &amp; James Grauerholz &amp; Barry Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "He was," as\n <em>\n  Salon\n </em>\n ''s Gary Kamyia notes, "20th-century drug culture''s Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland into a parallel universe, one as thoroughly and obsessively rendered as Blake''s."\n</p>\n<p>\n Why has this homosexual ex-junkie, whose claim to fame rests entirely on one book--the hallucinogenic ravings of a heroin addict--so seized the collective imagination? Burroughs wrote\n <em>\n  Naked Lunch\n </em>\n in a Tangier, Morocco, hotel room between 1954 and 1957. Allen Ginsberg and his beatnik cronies burst onto the scene, rescued the manuscript from the food-encrusted floor, and introduced some order to the pages. It was published in Paris in 1959 by the notorious Olympia Press and in the U.S. in 1962; the landmark obscenity trial that ensued served to end literary censorship in America.\n</p>\n<p>\n Burroughs''s literary experiment--the much-touted "cut-up" technique--mirrored the workings of a junkie''s brain. But it was junk coupled with vision: Burroughs makes teeming amalgam of allegory, sci-fi, and non-linear narration, all wrapped in a blend of humor--slapstick, Swiftian, slang-infested humor. What is\n <em>\n  Naked Lunch\n </em>\n about? People turn into blobs amidst the sort of evil that R. Crumb, in the decades to come, would inimitably flesh out with his dark and creepy cartoon images. Perhaps the most easily grasped part of\n <em>\n  Naked Lunch\n </em>\n is its America-bashing, replete with slang and vitriol. Read it and see for yourself.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n William S. Burroughs''s classic tale has been fully restored by his longtime editors, Grauerholz and Miles, and is invigorated by this enthusiastic reading. Mark Bramhall offers a professional performance peppered with every trick of the actor''s trade to make it a resonating effort. He approaches the work with such energy that the story seems like a new entity, freshly relevant and timely. Listeners will lose themselves in the journey of junkie William Lee as he makes his way from bizarre destination to even more bizarre destination in this unforgettable novel.\n <em>\n  A Grove paperback. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/66'),
(1957, 'The Name of the Rose', 'Umberto Eco &amp; William Weaver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eco, an Italian philosopher and best-selling novelist, is a great polymathic fabulist in the tradition of Swift, Voltaire, Joyce, and Borges. The Name of the Rose, which sold 50 million copies worldwide, is an experimental medieval whodunit set in a monastic library. In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate heresy among the monks in an Italian abbey; a series of bizarre murders overshadows the mission. Within the mystery is a tale of books, librarians, patrons, censorship, and the search for truth in a period of tension between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Empire. The book became a hit despite some obscure passages and allusions. This deftly abridged version, ably performed by Theodore Bikel, retains the genius of the original but is far more accessible. Foucault''s Pendulum, Eco''s second novel, is a bit irritating. The plot consists of three Milan editors who concoct a series on the occult for an unscrupulous publishing house that Eco ridicules mercilessly. The work details medieval phenomena including the Knights Templar, an ancient order with a scheme to dominate the world. Unfortunately, few listeners will make sense of this failed thriller. The Island of the Day Before is an ingenious tale that begins with a shipwreck in 1643. Roberta della Griva survives and boards another ship only to find himself trapped. Flashbacks give us Renaissance battles, the French court, spies, intriguing love affairs, and the attempt to solve the problem of longitude. It''s a world of metaphors and paradoxes created by an entertaining scholar. Tim Curry, who also narrates Foucault''s Pendulum, provides a spirited narration. Ultimately, libraries should avoid Foucault''s Pendulum, but educated patrons will form an eager audience for both The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before.\n <br />\n <em>\n  James Dudley, Copiague, N.Y.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA brilliantly conceived adventure into another time, an intelligent and complex novel, a lively and well-plotted mystery.â€\n <br />\n â€”SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel explodes with pyrotechnic inventions, literally as well as figuratively . . . The narrative impulse that commands the story is irresistible . . . Mr. Ecoâ€™s delight in his narrative does not fail to touch the reader.â€\n <br />\n â€”NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLike the labyrinthine library at its heart, this brilliant novel has many cunning passages and secret chambers . . . Fascinating . . . Ingenious . . . Dazzling.â€\n <br />\n â€”NEWSWEEK\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhether youâ€™re into Sherlock Holmes, Montaillou, Borges, the nouvelle critique, the Rule of St. Benedict, metaphysics, library design, or The Thing from the Crypt, youâ€™ll love it. Who can that miss out?â€\n <br />\n â€”SUNDAY TIMES (LONDON)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[The Name of the Rose] is an example of that rare publishing phenomenon, the literary mega best seller which transcends linguistic boundaries . . . [It has] a gripping mystery, vivid characterization, an atmospheric setting, fascinating period detail, sly humour, dramatic confrontations, stunning set pieces, and a supple, eloquent prose that can shift its register to encompass the experience of faith, doubt, horror, erotic ecstasy, and despair.â€\n <br />\n â€”from the Introduction by David Lodge\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/868'),
(1958, 'The Name of the Wind', 'Patrick Rothfuss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com''s Best of the Year...So Far Pick for 2007:\n  </strong>\n  Harry Potter fans craving a new mind-blowing series should look no further than\n  <em>\n   The Name of the Wind\n  </em>\n  --the first book in a trilogy about an orphan boy who becomes a legend. Full of music, magic, love, and loss, Patrick Rothfuss''s vivid and engaging debut fantasy knocked our socks off.\n  <em>\n   --Daphne Durham\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Patrick Rothfuss\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Were you always a fan of fantasy novels?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Always. My first non-picture books were the Narnia Chronicles. After that my mom gave me\n  <em>\n   Ihe Hobbit\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Dragonriders\n  </em>\n  . I grew up reading about every fantasy and sci-fi book I could find. I used to go to the local bookstore and look at the paperbacks on the shelf. I read non-fantasy stuff too, of course. But fantasy is where my heart lies. Wait... Should that be "where my heart lays?" I always screw that up.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Who are some of your favorite authors? Favorite books?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Hmmm.... How about I post that up as a list?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What are you reading now?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Right now I''m reading\n  <em>\n   Capacity\n  </em>\n  , by Tony Balantyne. He was nominated for the Philip K Dick award this last year. I heard him read a piece of the first novel,\n  <em>\n   Recursion\n  </em>\n  , out at Norwescon. I picked it up and got pulled right in.\n  <em>\n   Capacity\n  </em>\n  is the second book in the series. Good writing and cool ideas. Everything I''ve like best.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  How did Kvothe''s story come to you? Did you always plan on a trilogy?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  This story started with Kvothe''s character. I knew it was going to be about him from the very beginning. In some ways it''s the simplest story possible: it''s the story of a man''s life. It''s the myth of the Hero seen from backstage. It''s about the exploration and revelation of a world, but it''s also about Kvothe''s desire to uncover the truth hidden underneath the stories in his world. The story is a lot of things, I guess. As you can tell, I''m not very good at describing it. I always tell people, "If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn''t have needed to write a whole novel about it." I didn''t plan it as a trilogy though. I just wrote it and it got to be so long that it had to be broken up into pieces. There were three natural breaking points in the story.... Hence the Trilogy.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What is next for our hero?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Hmm..... I don''t really believe in spoilers. But I think it''s safe to say that Kvothe grows up a little in the second book. He learns more about magic. He learns how to fight, gets tangled up in some court politics, and starts to figure unravel some of the mysteries of romance and relationships, which is really just magic of a different kind, in a way.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patrick Rothfuss''s Books You Should Read\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Last Unicorn\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Neverwhere\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Declare\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Beatrice''s Goat\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blankets\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  See more recommendations (with comments) from Patrick Rothfuss\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  The originality of Rothfuss''s outstanding debut fantasy, the first of a trilogy, lies less in its unnamed imaginary world than in its precise execution. Kvothe ("pronounced nearly the same as ''Quothe'' "), the hero and villain of a thousand tales who''s presumed dead, lives as the simple proprietor of the Waystone Inn under an assumed name. Prompted by a biographer called Chronicler who realizes his true identity, Kvothe starts to tell his life story. From his upbringing as an actor in his family''s traveling troupe of magicians, jugglers and jesters, the Edema Ruh, to feral child on the streets of the vast port city of Tarbean, then his education at "the University," Kvothe is driven by twin imperativesâ€”his desire to learn the higher magic of naming and his need to discover as much as possible about the Chandrian, the demons of legend who murdered his family. As absorbing on a second reading as it is on the first, this is the type of assured, rich first novel most writers can only dream of producing. The fantasy world has a new star.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(1959, 'Nantucket Nights', 'Elin Hilderbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The ties between women can run as deep as the ocean-but so can the secrets.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  For 20 years, Kayla, Antoinette and Val have performed their own special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their daily, separate lives to drink champagne, swap stories and swim naked under the Nantucket stars. But on one of those bonding nights, one of their trio swims out from the shore and doesn''t return. After the surviving friends emerge from their grief, they realize that the repercussions of their loss go far beyond their little circle, and they begin to uncover layers of secrets-and their connections to each other-that were never revealed on the beach. What has made their friendship strong now has the power to destroy-their marriages, families, even themselves.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Elin Hilderbrand\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the Booksense/NEBA bestseller\n  <em>\n   The Beach Club\n  </em>\n  . A graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa Writers'' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing fellow, her short fiction has appeared in\n  <em>\n   Seventeen, The Massachusetts Review\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Colorado Review\n  </em>\n  . She lives year-round on Nantucket Island with her husband, Chip Cunningham, and their son.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kayla\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is December on Nantucket Islandâ€”a month of white skies and the first truly cold winds of the winter, a month made bearable by Christmas cheer. When Kayla stands next to the big Douglas fir in front of Pacific National Bank, she gazes down Main Street at the rows of trees with their fat colored lights, the snow flurries dusting the cobblestones, and the people she has lived amongst for twenty years, who are hurrying into the warm shops.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kayla has shopping to do as well. At The Complete Kitchen, she buys an ice cream scoop for Lukeâ€™s teacher, and the woman behind the register offers her an hors dâ€™oeuvre from a silver platter: smoked salmon on rye bread topped with caviar that looks like black pearls. At Nantucket Sleigh Ride, theyâ€™re handing out hot cider in paper cups. Kayla buys ornaments and a strand of scallop-shell lights. At Johnstonâ€™s of Elgin cashmere shop, Kayla splurges on a cherry red pashmina for a party she and Raoul have been invited to on the fifteenth. The salesgirl wraps the pashmina in cream-colored tissue paper, ties it up with red ribbon, and then slips it into a fancy shopping bag with silk cord handles. Walking back to her car, Kayla marvels at how, on the outside, everything in her life appears to be back to normal. And on a day like today, better than normal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Antoinette has been missing for three months.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Kayla walks into her house, the phone rings. She still canâ€™t bring herself to answer the phone because sheâ€™s afraid.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œAfraid of what?â€\n  </em>\n  Raoul asked her once.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Afraid of this very thing: She waits for the machine to pick up, and then she hears a voice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œKayla,â€ the voice says. â€œThis is Paul Henry. I have news. Please call me.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kayla deletes the message and begins pacing the house, still clutching her shopping bags. She is grateful that sheâ€™s the only one home. No one else heard the message.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   I have news.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Afraid of what?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Afraid that everything is\n  <em>\n   not\n  </em>\n  back to normal. Antoinette, the woman whom Kayla once called her best friend, was swept off the coast of Great Point while swimming in the middle of the night on Labor Day weekend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Was Antoinette dead? Alive? There was no way to know.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright Â© 2002 by Elin Hilderbrand.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2383');
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(1960, 'Napalm &amp; Silly Putty', 'George Carlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Standup comic George Carlin follows up his dark-horse smash bestseller\n <em>\n  Brain Droppings\n </em>\n with another compendium of cranky meditations, cinching his reputation as the Andy Rooney of boomer hepcats. "Road rage, air rage," Carlin rails. "Why should I be forced to divide my rage into separate categories? To me, it''s just one big, all-around, everyday rage. I don''t have time for fine distinctions." Carlin is not into the lengthy essay--he''s a sprinter of the mind. Most sentences in the book could be lifted out to stand alone and provoke deep thought: "How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it''s a spy satellite?" Good question. "Why do they bother saying ''Raw sewage''? Do some people cook that stuff?" Yuck, but yes, Carlin''s got a point.\n</p>\n<p>\n He can do an extended bit too, most memorably the transcript of Jesus on a talk show plugging his new tell-all memoir about the Trinity,\n <em>\n  Three''s a Crowd\n </em>\n . Carlin is funny, but genuinely angry and poignant at times: "You live 80 years and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic," he says. Sad, but about right.\n</p>\n<p>\n And how did Carlin get into his line of business, "thinking up goofy s---," as he puts it? There''s a clue in one entry in this book: "As of 1995 the number of people who had lived on earth was 105,472,380,169 ... it means that at this point there have been almost 1 quadrillion human bowel movements and most of them occurred before people had anything to read. These are the kind of thoughts that kept me from moving quickly up the corporate ladder."\n</p>\n<p>\n Thank god Carlin stayed low on the corporate food chain and high on his own utterly idiosyncratic ideas!\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Politically incorrect comic and Grammy winner Carlin has shown no signs of burnout during a four-decade career arc as solo stand-up, TV writer and sitcom actor (That Girl; The George Carlin Show), with 18 hit recordings and 10 solo HBO specials, plus film roles (Dogma; The Prince of Tides). Living in L.A. and Vegas, he continues to take his act to stages across the country. Four years ago, Carlin''s huge fan following kept his Brain Droppings on the New York Times bestseller list for 40 weeks, so it''s no surprise he''s back for another round of acrid and oblique observations on modern mores. He covers a wide range of issues from rape and religion to the homeless: "There''s no war on homelessness... it''s because there''s no money in it." And any topic is fair game: abortion, airport security, cars, funerals, language, organ donors, sports, technology, TV and war. On the latter, he says, "Men, insecure about the size of their penises, choose to kill one another." Over 100 scintillating short pieces are interrupted by loony lists and hundreds of clever one-liners. The fragmented format and colloquial style of writing suggest that much of this laugh-out-loud book is drawn directly from Carlin''s stage act. Several satires here ("A day in the life of Henry VIII," a nine-page interview with Jesus, an avant-garde play program) indicate a different direction Carlin might consider for future books. (May 1)Forecast: HighBridge''s abridged audiocassette and CD might lead some to peruse the book, which splashes in the wake of a massive Carlin retrospective ("From Class Clown to Social Critic") two months ago at the Museum of Television &amp; Radio (N.Y./L.A.). With a 10-city author tour and national publicity, sales could equal those of Brain Droppings (700,000 copies).\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/946'),
(1961, 'Narcissus in Chains', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Hamilton''s Anita Blake, police consultant, executioner, necromancer, private eye and wereleopard protector, returns in her amorous 10th adventure, driven more by conflicting desires for the lovers she neglected in her last outing, Obsidian Butterfly (2000), than by the urge to solve any mystery. Once again, in a world where vampires and werecreatures are protected by law, Blake attempts to resolve her libido''s constant crisis. Plunged into the netherworld of a leather D/S (dominant/submissive) bar, Narcissus in Chains, by the abduction of one of her inherited wereleopards, Blake finds herself deep into shapeshifter politics and a were creature power struggle that is all a metaphor for her own inner struggle. Whom should she choose werewolf Richard or vampire Jean-Claude? Or should she take a new lover? Who cares? Blake is eventually infected by the "ardeur" from the vampire clan and tinged with shapeshifting abilities from the were clan. As she becomes more like the fantastic creatures she protects or kills, she, alas, doesn''t get any more interesting as a character. Her obsessions with lust serve mainly to overwhelm a rickety plot. Blake needs to put her clothes back on and get back to work. Too much flesh and not enough plot leads to the old but so true saying, "Less is more." (Oct. 9) Forecast: With a 15-city author tour and 100,000 first printing, this should be as successful saleswise as previous books in the series.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hamilton''s vampire-hunting Anita Blake faces a plethora of foes in her tenth outing. Just returned to St. Louis after six months away, Anita is still no closer to choosing between her lovers--Jean-Claude, a vampire, and Richard, a werewolf. But she has to rely on both for help after two of the wereleopards that she has been watching are abducted at a seedy club called Narcissus in Chains. Anita and her boyfriends rescue the wereleopards from the sinister people holding them, but Anita is wounded in the fight and put at risk of becoming a wereleopard herself. Richard angrily captures the wereleopard he believes is responsible and threatens to execute him. Anita must now rescue that wereleopard from Richard and the werewolves he leads, even as she mourns the apparent end of her relationship with him. Then she realizes that those who kidnapped the first two wereleopards are targeting other lycanthropes. Maybe she will be next. With plenty of steamy sex and graphic violence, this is engaging reading for vampire cultists.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/754'),
(1962, 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Barnes &amp; Noble Classics Series)', 'Frederick Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave\n </em>\n , by Frederick Douglass, is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars\n </li>\n <li>\n  Biographies of the authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events\n </li>\n <li>\n  Footnotes and endnotes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comments by other famous authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bibliographies for further reading\n </li>\n <li>\n  Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n No book except perhaps\n <em>\n  Uncle Tomâ€™s Cabin\n </em>\n had as powerful an impact on the abolitionist movement as\n <em>\n  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass\n </em>\n . But while Stowe wrote about imaginary characters, Douglassâ€™s book is a record of his own remarkable life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Born a slave in 1818 on a plantation in Maryland, Douglass taught himself to read and write. In 1845, seven years after escaping to the North, he published\n <em>\n  Narrative\n </em>\n , the first of three autobiographies. This book calmly but dramatically recounts the horrors and the accomplishments of his early yearsâ€”the daily, casual brutality of the white masters; his painful efforts to educate himself; his decision to find freedom or die; and his harrowing but successful escape.\n</p>\n<p>\n An astonishing orator and a skillful writer, Douglass became a newspaper editor, a political activist, and an eloquent spokesperson for the civil rights of African Americans. He lived through the Civil War, the end of slavery, and the beginning of segregation. He was celebrated internationally as the leading black intellectual of his day, and his story still resonates in ours.\n</p>\n<p>\n Robert Oâ€™Meally is Zora Neale Hurston Professor of Literature at Columbia University and the Director of Columbia Universityâ€™s Center for Jazz Studies. He wrote the introduction and notes to the Barnes &amp; Noble classics edition of\n <em>\n  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1278'),
(1963, 'The Narrows', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a gravitas to the mystery/thrillers of Michael Connelly, a bedrock commitment to the value of human life and the need for law enforcement pros to defend that value, that sets his work apart and above that of many of his contemporaries. That gravitas is in full force in Connelly''s newest, and as nearly always in the work of this talented writer, it supports a dynamite plot, fully flowered characters and a meticulous attention to the details of investigative procedure.There are also some nifty hooks to this new Connelly: it features his most popular series character, retired L.A. homicide cop Harry Bosch, but it''s also a sequel to his first stand-alone,\n <em>\n  The Poet\n </em>\n (1996), and is only his second novel (along with\n <em>\n  The Poet\n </em>\n ) to be written in both first and third person. The first-person sections are narrated by Bosch, who agrees as a favor to the widow to investigate the death of Bosch''s erstwhile colleague and friend Terry McCaleb (of\n <em>\n  Blood Work\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Darkness More Than Night\n </em>\n ). Bosch''s digging brings him into contact with Rachel Walling, the FBI agent heroine of\n <em>\n  The Poet\n </em>\n , and the third-person narrative concerns mostly her. Though generally presumed dead, the Poetâ€”the serial killer who was a highly placed Fed and Walling''s mentorâ€”is alive and killing anew, with, we soon learn, McCaleb among his victims and his sights now set on Walling. The story shuttles between Bosch''s California and the Nevada desert, where the Poet has buried his victims to lure Walling. The suspense is steady throughout but, until a breathtaking climactic chase, arises more from Bosch and Walling''s patient and inspired following of clues and dealing with bureaucratic obstacles than from slash-and-dash: an unusually intelligent approach to generating thrills. Connelly is a master and this novel is yet another of his masterpieces.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a writer of Connellyâ€™s popularity, particularly one that works with a regular cast of characters, mixed reviews are to be expected. Each successive book opens the possibility of a narrative letdown. Part of Connellyâ€™s decision to collate a few of his most enduring characters into\n <em>\n  The Narrows\n </em>\n was to address concerns many fans had with the ending of\n <em>\n  The Poet\n </em>\n . Though it strikes a few critics as a risky move that doesnâ€™t bear repeating, the general consensus is that Connelly pulls the sequel off. Some reviewers disagree about whether the back-story is ample enough for the uninitiated. But whether\n <em>\n  The Narrows\n </em>\n is his best or his worst work, its has elements of both, and plenty of the subtle characterization and gripping storyline that fans have come to expect from Connelly.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1357'),
(1964, 'Native Son', 'Richard Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, prison, or death, driven by despair, frustration, poverty, and incomprehension. As a young black man in the Chicago of the ''30s, he has no way out of the walls of poverty and racism that surround him, and after he murders a young white woman in a moment of panic, these walls begin to close in. There is no help for him--not from his hapless family; not from liberal do-gooders or from his well-meaning yet naive friend Jan; certainly not from the police, prosecutors, or judges. Bigger is debased, aggressive, dangerous, and a violent criminal. As such, he has no claim upon our compassion or sympathy. And yet...\n</p>\n<p>\n A more compelling story than\n <em>\n  Native Son\n </em>\n has not been written in the 20th century by an American writer. That is not to say that Richard Wright created a novel free of flaws, but that he wrote the first novel that successfully told the most painful and unvarnished truth about American social and class relations. As Irving Howe asserted in 1963, "The day\n <em>\n  Native Son\n </em>\n appeared, American culture was changed forever. It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture."\n</p>\n<p>\n Other books had focused on the experience of growing up black in America--including Wright''s own highly successful\n <em>\n  Uncle Tom''s Children\n </em>\n , a collection of five stories that focused on the victimization of blacks who transgressed the code of racial segregation. But they suffered from what he saw as a kind of lyrical idealism, setting up sympathetic black characters in oppressive situations and evoking the reader''s pity. In\n <em>\n  Native Son\n </em>\n , Wright was aiming at something more. In Bigger, he created a character so damaged by racism and poverty, with dreams so perverted, and with human sensibilities so eroded, that he has no claim on the reader''s compassion:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "I didn''t want to kill," Bigger shouted. "But what I killed for, I am! It must''ve been pretty deep in me to make me kill! I must have felt it awful hard to murder.... What I killed for must''ve been good!" Bigger''s voice was full of frenzied anguish. "It must have been good! When a man kills, it''s for something... I didn''t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ''em. It''s the truth..."\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Wright''s genius was that, in preventing us from feeling pity for Bigger, he forced us to confront the hopelessness, misery, and injustice of the society that gave birth to him.\n <em>\n  --Andrew Himes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Wright''s classic 1940 novel about a young African-American man who murders a white woman in 1930s Chicago is a truly remarkable literary accomplishment. Peter Francis James has never been better, bringing the character of Bigger Thomas to life in a profound and moving performance that is as touching as it is truthful. James''s powerful baritone demands to be heard, captivating listeners with Wright''s realistic portrayal of life in the inner city, capturing the mood of each and every scene. With moderate yet believable variations in tone and dialect for each of the characters, James ignites the collective imagination of his audience. Wright''s novel is real, raw and brutally honest and James''s reading follows suit.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1031'),
(1965, 'The Naughtiest Girl in the School', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Elizabeth Allen is spoilt and selfish. When''s she''s sent away to boarding school she makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there''s ever been! But Elizabeth soon finds out that being bad isn''t as simple as it seems ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1856'),
(1966, 'Need You Now', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  New York Times\n </i>\n bestseller James Grippando returns with a gripping new stand-alone novel: a story ripped from the headlines, in which a young financial adviser and his girlfriend uncover a conspiracy that reaches from Wall Street to Washington, from the trading floors of the Stock Exchange to the deepest halls of government. Like Grippando''s recent bestsellers,\n <i>\n  Afraid of the Dark\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n  Money to Burn\n </i>\n &#8212;as well as Grippando classics like\n <i>\n  A King''s Ransom\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n  Beyond Suspicion\n </i>\n &#8212;the provocative\n <i>\n  Need You Now\n </i>\n is a fast-paced thriller in which danger and conspiracy lie behind every plot and promise, and the future of the nation lies in the hands of an unlikely champion.\n</p>\n<p>\n &#147;Grippando grips from the first page.&#148; &#8212;Harlan Coben\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2484'),
(1967, 'Needles of Stone', 'Tom Graves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This book takes the reader on an extraordinary journey. Using his skills as a dowser, the author explores the realm of Earth mysteries -- megaliths, ley-lines, barrows, beacon hills, and other ancient features -- and puts forward some startling, but nonetheless highly plausible ideas. He reveals a view of our world that links past and present, a world that hints at a magical technology linking people and place; a world whose energies could perhaps have been harnessed in the past to improve the quality of life. It is also a plea for us to rediscover the profound connection with place that our ancestors knew, and to begin to heal a relationship with land that has been badly ravaged by the values and assumptions of the modem world. "Needles of Stone" has long and rightly been considered a classic. With the addition of new chapters, this 30th Anniversary edition allows the author to bring the work up-to-date and gives him an opportunity to reflect on what has happened since the book was first written.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1501'),
(1968, 'Nessun Dove', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1688'),
(1969, 'Netherland', 'Joseph O&#39;Neill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. Ramkissoon, a Gatsby-like figure who is part idealist and part operator, introduces Hans to an â€œotherâ€ New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality. Hans is alternately seduced and instructed by Chuckâ€™s particular brand of naivete and chutzpah--by his ability to a hold fast to a sense of American and human possibility in which Hans has come to lose faith.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Netherland\n </em>\n gives us both a flawlessly drawn picture of a little-known New York and a story of much larger, and brilliantly achieved ambition: the grand strangeness and fading promise of 21st century America from an outsiderâ€™s vantage point, and the complicated relationship between the American dream and the particular dreamers. Most immediately, though, it is the story of one man--of a marriage foundering and recuperating in its mystery and ordinariness, of the shallows and depths of male friendship, of mourning and memory. Joseph Oâ€™Neillâ€™s prose, in its conscientiousness and beauty, involves us utterly in the struggle for meaning that governs any single life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1153'),
(1970, 'Neuromancer', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here is the novel that started it all, launching the\n <strong>\n  cyberpunk\n </strong>\n generation, and the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. With\n <em>\n  Neuromancer\n </em>\n , William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same.\n</p>\n<p>\n Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kaleidoscopic, picaresque, flashy, and decadent...an amazing virtuoso performance...\n <em>\n  Neuromancer\n </em>\n , in every sense, is state-of-the-art. --\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/720'),
(1971, 'Never Let Me Go', 'Kazuo Ishiguro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n All children should believe they are special. But the students of Hailsham, an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them, and only by rumor and the occasional fleeting remark by a teacher do they discover their unconventional origins and strange destiny. Kazuo Ishiguro''s sixth novel,\n <em>\n  Never Let Me Go\n </em>\n , is a masterpiece of indirection. Like the students of Hailsham, readers are "told but not told" what is going on and should be allowed to discover the secrets of Hailsham and the truth about these children on their own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Offsetting the bizarreness of these revelations is the placid, measured voice of the narrator, Kathy H., a 31-year-old Hailsham alumna who, at the close of the 1990s, is consciously ending one phase of her life and beginning another. She is in a reflective mood, and recounts not only her childhood memories, but her quest in adulthood to find out more about Hailsham and the idealistic women who ran it. Although often poignant, Kathy''s matter-of-fact narration blunts the sharper emotional effects you might expect in a novel that deals with illness, self-sacrifice, and the severe restriction of personal freedoms. As in Ishiguro''s best-known work,\n <em>\n  The Remains of the Day\n </em>\n , only after closing the book do you absorb the magnitude of what his characters endure.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“The elegance of Ishiguro''s prose and the pitch-perfect voice of his narrator conspire to usher readers convincingly into the remembered world of Hailsham, a British boarding school for special students. The reminiscence is told from the point of view of Kathy H., now 31, whose evocation of the sheltered estate''s sunlit rolling hills, guardians, dormitories, and sports pavilions is imbued with undercurrents of muted tension and foreboding that presage a darker reality. As an adult, Kathy re-engages in lapsed friendships with classmates Ruth and Tommy, examining the details of their shared youth and revisiting with growing awareness the clues and anecdotal evidence apparent to them even as youngsters that they were different from everyone outside. [...] Ishiguro conveys with exquisite sensitivity the emotional texture of the threesome''s relationship, their bonds of personal loyalty that overcome fractures of trust, the palpable boundaries of hope, and the human capacity for forgiveness. Highly recommended for literary merit and as an exceptional platform for the discussion of a controversial topic.\n <em>\n  â€“Lynn Nutwell, Fairfax City Regional Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/628'),
(1972, 'Never Say Never', 'Lisa Wingate', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Donetta, 69, and her like-aged friends from the tiny town of Daily, Texas, decide to take a giant leap from their mundane lives and go on a cruise. After they begin their journey to the ship, the people in the port town of Perdida, Texas, the groupâ€™s destination, receive word that a major hurricane is coming their way. Once in Perdida, the band of friends learns their ship has already sailed, and their only choice is to turn around and become part of the massive, frenzied evacuation. Free spirit Kai Miller, the 27-year-old owner of Gifts from the Sea, joins the exodus, and thereâ€™s plenty of peril on the road from both man and nature as Kai and Donettaâ€™s group fight their way to Daily. Narrated in turns by Donetta and Kai, popular and versatile Wingateâ€™s exciting, often humorous tale realistically captures the chaos and heroism of small-town America in the throes of disaster as well as a can-do attitude in the aftermath. --Shelley Mosley\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kai Miller floats through life like driftwood tossed by waves. She''s never put down roots in any one place--and she doesn''t plan to. But when a chaotic hurricane evacuation lands her in Daily, Texas, she begins to think twice about her wayfaring existence. And when she meets hometown-boy Kemp Eldridge, she can almost picture settling down in Daily--until she discovers he may be promised to someone else. Daily has always been a place of refuge for those the wind blows in, but for Kai, it looks like it will be just another place to leave behind. Then again, Daily always has a few surprises in store--especially when Aunt Donetta has cooked up a scheme.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2363'),
(1973, 'Neverwhere', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Neverwhere\n </em>\n ''s protagonist, Richard Mayhew, learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. He ceases to exist in the ordinary world of London Above, and joins a quest through the dark and dangerous London Below, a shadow city of lost and forgotten people, places, and times. His companions are Door, who is trying to find out who hired the assassins who murdered her family and why; the Marquis of Carabas, a trickster who trades services for very big favors; and Hunter, a mysterious lady who guards bodies and hunts only the biggest game. London Below is a wonderfully realized shadow world, and the story plunges through it like an express passing local stations, with plenty of action and a satisfying conclusion. The story is reminiscent of Douglas Adams''s\n <em>\n  The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy\n </em>\n , but Neil Gaiman''s humor is much darker and his images sometimes truly horrific. Puns and allusions to everything from\n <em>\n  Paradise Lost\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\n </em>\n abound, but you can enjoy the book without getting all of them. Gaiman is definitely not just for graphic-novel fans anymore.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Gaiman assumes the role of narrator for his latest book, offering an intimate reading that steals one''s attention almost immediately and keeps the listener involved throughout. As the story is based in the United Kingdom, Gaiman is a quintessential raconteur for the tale, with his charming Scottish brogue instilling life and spirit into the central character of Richard Mayhew. Pitch perfect, with clear pronunciation, Gaiman invites listeners into his living room for a fireside chat, offering a private and personal experience that transcends the limitations of traditional narration. The author knows his story through and through, capturing the desired emotion and audience reaction in each and every scene. His characters are unique, with diverse personalities and narrative approaches, and Gaiman offers a variety of dialects and tones. The reading sounds more like a private conversation among friends with Gaiman providing the convincing and likable performance the writing deserves.\n <em>\n  A Harper Perennial paperback (Reviews, May 19, 1997). (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/706'),
(1974, 'A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life&#39;s Purpose', 'Eckhart Tolle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Building on the astonishing success of\n <em>\n  The Power of Now\n </em>\n , Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tolle tells us there is good news, however. There is an alternative to this potentially dire situation. Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one.\n</p>\n<p>\n In illuminating the nature of this shift in consciousness, Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates. Then gently, and in very practical terms, he leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly are--which is something infinitely greater than anything we currently think we are--and learn to live and breathe freely.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1039'),
(1975, 'New Moon', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9 Upâ€“Recovered from the vampire attack that hospitalized her in the conclusion of\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n (Little, Brown, 2005), Bella celebrates her birthday with her boyfriend Edward and his family, a unique clan of vampires that has sworn off human blood. But the celebration abruptly ends when the teen accidentally cuts her arm on broken glass. The sight and smell of her blood trickling away forces the Cullen family to retreat lest they be tempted to make a meal of her. After all is mended, Edward, realizing the danger that he and his family create for Bella, sees no option for her safety but to leave. Mourning his departure, she slips into a downward spiral of depression that penetrates and lingers over her every step. Vampire fans will appreciate the subsequently dour mood that permeates the novel, and it''s not until Bella befriends Jacob, a sophomore from her school with a penchant for motorcycles, that both the pace and her disposition begin to take off. Their adventures are wild, dare-devilish, and teeter on the brink of romance, but memories of Edward pervade Bella''s emotions, and soon their fun quickly morphs into danger, especially when she uncovers the true identities of Jacob and his pack of friends. Less streamlined than\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n yet just as exciting,\n <em>\n  New Moon\n </em>\n will more than feed the bloodthirsty hankerings of fans of the first volume and leave them breathless for the third.\n <em>\n  â€“Hillias J. Martin, New York Public Library\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 8-11. "Which is tempting you more, my blood or my body?" Things are heating up between Bella Swan and her vampire boyfriend, Edward Cullen, in this sequel to the immensely popular\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n (2005). Then Bella is injured at her birthday party, and the Cullens'' reaction to her blood sends Edward''s family packing. Bella is inconsolable until she discovers that reckless behavior allows her to hear Edward''s warning voice in her head. To keep him close, she decides to live as dangerously as possible, acquiring two motorcycles and developing a close friendship with Jacob, who helps her rebuild them. Romantics will miss Edward''s presence, but the suspense created by a pack of werewolves bent on protecting Bella from a vindictive vampire will keep them occupied until the lovers can be reunited. The writing is a bit melodramatic, but readers won''t care. Bella''s dismay at being ordinary (after all, she''s only human) will strike a chord even among girls who have no desire to be immortal, and like the vampires who watch Bella bleed with "fevered eyes," teens will relish this new adventure and hunger for more.\n <em>\n  Cindy Dobrez\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/388'),
(1976, 'New Spring', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The city of Canluum lies close to the scarred and desolate wastes of the Blight, a walled haven from the dangers away to the north, and a refuge from the ill works of those who serve the Dark One. Or so it is said. The city that greets Al'' Lan Mandragoran, exiled king of Malkier and the finest swordsman of his generation, is instead one that is rife with rumour and the whisperings of Shadowspawn. Proof, should he have required it, that the Dark One grows powerful once more and that his minions are at work throughout the lands. And yet it is within Canluum'' s walls that Lan will meet a woman who will shape his destiny. Moiraine is a young and powerful Aes Sedai who has journeyed to the city in search of a bondsman. She requires aid in a desperate quest to prove the truth of a vague and largely discredited prophecy - one that speaks of a means to turn back the shadow, and of a child who may be the dragon reborn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/634'),
(1977, 'New York: The Novel', 'Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Edward Rutherfurd on *New York\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Strangely, I suspect it was Viking ancestors who drew me to New York.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For centuries my father''s family lived on Britain''s biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the port of Bristol with America. In the nineteenth century they were in shipping from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and on the great rivers of Europe--the Rhine, the Danube, even the Russian River Dnieper. I myself was born beside a river--the Avon in Sarum. So when I first encountered New York''s great harbor and the Hudson River as a teenager, and came to understand their historic canal and railroad links to the vast spaces of the Midwest, I felt both the thrill of a new adventure, and a deep sense of homecoming.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I first considered writing\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n  in 1991. I''d been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife and sending my children to New York schools. I was even on the board of a coop building. But I wasn''t sure how to organize such complex material, and for many years I put the project aside.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was kind encouragement and old-fashioned editing from William Thomas at Doubleday that finally persuaded me to try again. And soon I was hooked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  New York''s gift to the storyteller is magnificent: Indian and Dutch beginnings; larger-than-life historical characters like Lord Cornbury, the transvestite British Governor, the socialite Mrs. Astor, and the titanic J.P. Morgan; huge events from the Revolutionary War and the Civil War--when New York threatened to secede from the Union--to the Crash of ''29 and the tragedy of 9/11. But it''s the ordinary people I discover in my research--African slaves, Irish laborers, society ladies and sweatshop workers--whose lives move me most, and who provide so many of my plots and characters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  My own personal experiences also helped. I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen. One of my closest friends since university is an Italian immigrant. Understanding the poverty and humiliations of her childhood helped me create the book''s Caruso family who came through Ellis Island and lived in Little Italy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I also love discovering how things work. It was as fascinating to study the history of Wall Street banking--and how financial crises always repeat themselves!--as it was to learn how the Empire State Building was constructed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But above all, what I love about New York is that people have always come there in search of freedom, and usually found it. I was lucky to be born beside Sarum''s Avon. But I''d like my New York children to scatter my ashes in the Hudson.\n  <em>\n   --Edward Rutherfurd\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Jeanne Maseoro)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œLike James Michener and Leon Uris, Rutherfurd does a magnificent job of packaging a crackling good yarn within a digestible overview of complex historical circumstances and events.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "History has never been so fun to read....Rutherfurd''s research is exhaustive....fun....This is history, but with a very readable story line."--\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1071'),
(1978, 'Next', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There''s a new genetic cure for drug addiction--is it worse than the disease?\n</p>\n<p>\n What''s coming\n <em>\n  Next\n </em>\n ? Get a hint of what Michael Crichton sees on the horizon in this short video clip: high bandwidth or low bandwidth\n</p>\n<p>\n We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it''s possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies.\n</p>\n<p>\n We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes...\n</p>\n<p>\n Devilishly clever,\n <em>\n  Next\n </em>\n blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Next\n </em>\n challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and the bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing,\n <em>\n  Next\n </em>\n shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.\n</p>\n<p>\n The future is closer than you think.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Crichton (Jurassic Park) once again focuses on genetic engineering in his cerebral new thriller, though the science involved is a lot less far-fetched than creating dinosaurs from DNA. In an ambitious effort to show what''s wrong with the U.S.''s current handling of gene patents and with the laws governing human tissues, the author interweaves many plot strands, one involving a California researcher, Henry Kendall, who has mixed human and chimp DNA while working at NIH. Kendall produces an intelligent hybrid whom he rescues from the government and tries to pass off as a fully human child. Some readers may be disappointed by the relative lack of action, the lame attempts to lighten the mood with humor (especially centering on an unusually bright parrot named Gerard), and the contrived convergence of the main characters toward the end. Still, few can match Crichton in crafting page-turners with intellectual substance, and his opinions this time are less likely to create a firestorm than his controversial take on global warming in 2004''s State of Fear.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/936'),
(1979, 'Night', 'Elie Wiesel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Synopsis:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Night\n </em>\n is Elie Wiesel s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man s capacity for inhumanity to man.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Night\n </em>\n offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.\n</p>\n<p>\n Author Bio: Elie Wiesel is the internationally celebrated author, Nobel laureate, and spokesperson for humanity whose decision to dedicate his life to bearing witness for the Holocaust''s martyrs and survivors found its earliest and most enduring voice in Night, his penetrating and profound account of the Nazi death camps. Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, he was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel''s memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America Congressional Gold Medal, the French Legion of Honor, and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The New York Times:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A slim volume of terrifying power."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Biography:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Since his unprecedented memoir\n <em>\n  Night\n </em>\n woke up the world to the atrocities of the Holocaust in 1958, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel has dedicated his days to turning his survival story from one of horror to one of hope. From several works inspired by his experience to his insightful reflections in\n <em>\n  After the Darkness\n </em>\n , Wiesel s work serves to both admonish and inspire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/125'),
(1980, 'Night and Day', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone confronts a town''s darkest secrets in the shocking new novel from the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   Â—bestselling author and â€œAmerica''s greatest mystery writerâ€ (\n   <em>\n    The New York Sun\n   </em>\n   ).\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Things are getting strange in Paradise, Massachusetts. Police Chief Jesse Stone is called to the junior high school when reports of lewd conduct by the school''s principal, Betsy Ingersoll, filter into the station. Ingersoll claims she was protecting the propriety of her students when she inspected each girl''s undergarments in the locker room. Jesse would like nothing more than to see Ingersoll punished, but her high-powered attorney husband stands in the way. At the same time, the women of Paradise are faced with a threat to their sense of security with the emergence of a tormented voyeur, dubbed â€œThe Night Hawk.â€ Initially, he''s content to peer through windows, but as times goes on, he becomes more reckless, forcing his victims to strip at gunpoint, then photographing them at their most vulnerable. And according to the notes he''s sending to Jesse, he''s not satisfied to stop there. It''s up to Jesse to catch the Night Hawk, before it''s too late.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1150'),
(1981, 'The Night Crew', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anna Batory runs the night crew. Small, dark-haired, shy but tough, a Wisconsin farm girl on the streets of Los Angeles, she roams the city with her small band of video free-lancers in their truck from ten to dawn, looking for news: accidents, robberies, murders, demonstrations - anything they can shoot and sell to the local stations or the networks. It''s an exhilarating life ... until the day two deaths shake their world. The first is the jumper. Five stories up, perched on the ledge of a hotel window, dark pants, white shirt, just standing there - and then he''s gone, falling through the air toward their cameras. The second is Jason, one of Anna''s cameramen. Strangely affected by the jumper, he quits the scene early that night, not to be seen again until his body turns up on the beach several hours later, shot in the head. The police wonder if it''s drug-related, but Anna isn''t so sure, and the more she looks into it on her own, the more the ghosts of the past - hers, Jason''s, and finally the jumper''s - begin to emerge, until her whole world turns as dark and dangerous as the night itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1738');
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(1982, 'Night Fall', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Corey, former NYPD homicide detective, assigned to the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force in the pre-millennium 90''s, makes a return appearance in a thoughtful novel offering an alternative to the government''s "official" position on what really happened to TWA Flight 800, which crashed off the Long Island coast in the summer of 1996. Accompanying his wife Kate to a memorial marking the five-year anniversary of the crash, Corey''s curiosity is aroused by what appears to be a concerted effort by Kate''s fellow federal agents to keep him--and her--from investigating a case that appears to be closed. Corey''s detecting skills lead him to two witnesses to the crash, who were enjoying an adulterous interlude on the beach at the time the plane went down--and videotaping their sexual escapades while what appears to be a terrorist missile attack takes place in the background. What ratchets up the tension in this capably written thriller is what the reader knows but Corey doesn''t as he heads for a showdown with those responsible for the official cover-up as the clock ticks down to the morning of September 11, 2001. DeMille''s deft touch with a riddle wrapped in an enigma--what really happened to Flight 800--makes his "what if" scenario a more than plausible theory; you don''t have to believe in conspiracies or government cover-ups to find his latest engrossing, entertaining, and enlightening.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Nelson DeMille on\n  <em>\n   Night Fall\n  </em>\n  : An Exclusive Essay\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a true story, the explosion of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island in 1996, that inspired Nelson DeMille to write the fictional\n <em>\n  Night Fall\n </em>\n . Read this Amazon.com exclusive essay for insight into the coincidences that made this tragedy a subject DeMille couldn''t ignore.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Demille''s latest is sure to be a #1 bestsellerâ€”but it''s also sure to be controversial. The book is centered on an investigation of the July 1996 crash of flight TWA 800, "when... a big Boeing 747 bound for Paris with 230 passengers and crew on board, exploded off the Atlantic coast of Long Island, sending all 230 souls to their deaths." In July 2001, Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force detective John Corey, a brilliant, smart-ass detective last seen in\n <em>\n  Plum Island\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Lion''s Game\n </em>\n , accompanies his FBI agent wife, Kate Mayfield, to the fifth anniversary of the disaster. John, whose wife worked the crash in 1996, understands that Kate has brought him along because she doesn''t buy the official finding of "mechanical failure" and wants him to mount his own investigation. There are 200 eyewitnesses who swear they saw a missile lift into the clear night sky and bring down the airplane, a charge dismissed by the CIA as an optical illusion. Though Corey is warned away from the investigation, like any good fictional detective, this only serves to spur him on. He uncovers evidence that a man and a woman, on the beach that fateful night videotaping their adulterous affair, inadvertently caught on tape the missile hitting the plane. The book is primarily about John tracking down the couple, but as the end nears, readers will begin to understand the perilous direction in which Demille is leading them. The pages will turn in a blur as a feeling of dread grows, until the end comes and one''s worst fears are confirmed. Readers will think about this one for a long time.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1306'),
(1983, 'Night Passage', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The author of two dozen Spenser novels as well as numerous other works of fiction, Robert B. Parker is no stranger to either critical or popular acclaim. With his hallmark sharp wit and taut action, Parker has created in the Spenser series the standard against which all contemporary detective novels are measured, and a character considered the paragon of private eyes. In\n  <em>\n   Night Passage,\n  </em>\n  Parker sets the bar even higher, with the introduction of Jesse Stone, a hero cut from different cloth.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, the thirty-five-year-old Stone''s future looks bleak. So he''s shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can''t help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can''t refuse.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once on board, Jesse doesn''t have to look for trouble in Paradise: it comes to him. For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruptionÂ—replete with triple homicide, tight Boston mob ties, flamboyantly errant spouses, maddened militiamen and a psychopath-about-town who has fixed his violent sights on the new lawman. Against all this, Jesse stands utterly alone, with no one to trust; even he and the woman he''s seeing are like ships that pass in the night. He finds he must test his mettle and powers of command to emerge a local heroÂ—or the deadest of dupes.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the flagship volume in a new series featuring a complex and engaging sleuth,\n  <em>\n   Night Passage\n  </em>\n  is cause for celebration.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1143'),
(1984, 'Night Road', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    For a mother, life comes down to a series of choices.Â \n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    To hold onâ€¦\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    To let go..\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    To forgetâ€¦\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    To forgiveâ€¦\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Which road will you take?\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Night Road\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her childrenâ€™s needs above her own, and it showsâ€”her twins, Mia and Zachâ€”are bright and happy teenagers.Â  When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude.Â  Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Miaâ€™s best friend.Â  Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable.Â Â Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Jude does everything to keep her kids on track for college and out of harmâ€™s way.Â  It has always been easy-- until senior year of high school.Â  Suddenly she is at a loss.Â  Nothing feels safe anymore; every time her kids leave the house, she worries about them.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  On a hot summerâ€™s night her worst fears come true. One decision will change the course of their lives.Â  In the blink of an eye, the Farraday family will be torn apart and Lexi will lose everything.Â  In the years that follow, each must face the consequences of that single night and find a way to forgetâ€¦or the courage to forgive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vivid, universal, and emotionally complex, NIGHT ROAD raises profound questions about motherhood, identity, love, and forgiveness.Â  It is a luminous, heartbreaking novel that captures both the exquisite pain of loss and the stunning power of hope.Â  This is Kristin Hannah at her very best, telling an unforgettable story about the longing for family, the resilience of the human heart, and the courage it takes to forgive the people we love.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: A Conversation Between Kristin Hannah and Emily Giffin\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Emily Giffin (left) is the author of five\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling novels, including\n   <em>\n    Something Borrowed\n   </em>\n   , which has been adapted as a major motion picture that will be in theaters in summer 2011. A graduate of Wake Forest University and the University of Virginia School of Law, she lives in Atlanta with her family.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin Hannah (right) is the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author of eighteen novels, including\n   <em>\n    Winter Garden\n   </em>\n   . She is a former lawyer turned writer and the mother of one son. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin Hannah:\n  </strong>\n  Well, first, I have to say, Emily, that I am just the tiniest bit irritated with you. When I got the call to do this interview, I was thrilled, to say the least. It came at a really busy time for me--right after the holidays and we all know how crazy that is--and my work in progress was giving me fits. Then I picked up\n  <em>\n   Heart of the Matter\n  </em>\n  , and lost myself. No more writing, no more cooking, no getting my hair done or reading my email. Once I started the story I literally couldn''t put it down. Brava, girlfriend, I say. Your characters are so real and compelling, and they always say exactly the right thing. With so much honest emotion, I just have to ask how much of your work comes from your own life?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Emily Giffin:\n  </strong>\n  It never fails to thrill me when someone responds to one of my novels--especially when it''s another writer. Writers understand the alchemy involved in making up something from nothing. And I just finished your book,\n  <em>\n   Night Road\n  </em>\n  , and I found it so emotional, so moving, and so terrifying--especially since I have three young children who will someday be teenagers. In terms of how much does my work come from my own life, I would say that I''m absolutely inspired by people, places, conversations, relationships, and issues that I observe, and that the "what if" part of my novel is very much inspired by these things in my life. But the details of my plots and the specifics of my characters come from my own head. How about you, Kristin? I''ll ask you the million-dollar question that every author gets asked: where do you get your ideas?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin:\n  </strong>\n  Ah, the idea question. I don''t want to sound coy, but the truth is, I don''t quite know. It''s the most magical part of the process for me. I''m a pretty analytical gal, and I approach writing in the same just-the-facts-ma''am way I approach most things. I need to find an issue that engages me on an intellectual level, and then I need to marry that curiosity with a kind of passion. I need to feel genuinely passionate about each story before I ever write a word, and I have to actually have something to say. It takes me at least a year to research and write a novel, and so I have to really adore each part of it--the characters, setting, story. Most of all, it has to make me feel something genuine. That''s really the most important component. Usually it begins with a single "what if" question--what if you discovered your mother had a whole secret life about which you knew nothing (\n  <em>\n   Winter Garden\n  </em>\n  ) or what if your husband were accused of a crime you believed he hadn''t committed (\n  <em>\n   True Colors\n  </em>\n  )--and then I write and re-write until the characters seem as real to me as old friends.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin:\n  </strong>\n  I''m amazed by how much we have in common. We''re both moms, both lawyers, both lived in London for a time. You''re like a younger, cooler version of me. How did you make the transition from lawyer to writer, and do you think you''ll ever practice law again?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Emily:\n  </strong>\n  I would hardly say I''m cooler than you, Kristin! I hear you live in Hawaii part time! What is cooler than that? I made the transition from lawyer to writer because I was so miserable being a lawyer that I needed some escape from the day-to-day of it. And inventing stories was that escape. I can say, without hesitation, that I will never practice law again. Would you? What kind of law did you practice, and for how long? What did you find appealing (or discouraging) about law? Did you find that it gave you fodder for any of your novels?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Kristin:\n  </strong>\n  Honestly, I have met very few lawyers who don''t say that what they really want to do is write. Like you, I can say with certainty that I will never practice law again. Not that anyone would want me to. But I still keep my Bar membership up...just in case this whole writing thing doesn''t work out. And yes, in the past few years, I have finally begun to put some of that law school education to work for me. I find that I''m really enjoying adding legal issues to my work. Of course, I have to talk to\n  <em>\n   real\n  </em>\n  lawyers to make sure I''m getting it right...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read more of the conversation between Emily Giffin and Kristin Hannah\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hannah follows up Winter Garden with a strained story of friendship, social pressures, love, and forgiveness. After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addict mother, Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle. Despite financial problems, the two are glad to have found each other, and though Lexi resolves to stay safely on the periphery at her new high school, she soon meets Mia, unhappy and awkward despite a solid family life, a loving twin brother, Zach, and a closetful of clothes. The friendship flourishes, and Mia''s mother, Jude, relieved and pleased for her daughter, draws Lexi into the family circle. But trouble begins in senior year with a slowly growing attraction between Zach and Lexi, who take great pains to make Mia comfortable with the change in the dynamics. This familiar story takes an unfortunate turn deep into after-school-special territory when Lexi, Mia, and Zach collectively make a bad decision that results in a tragedy with extreme repercussions. Even readers who like their melodrama thick will have problems as Hannah pushes credibility to the breaking point, and more than once. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1919'),
(1985, 'Night Shift', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Unbearable suspense (\n <em>\n  Dallas Times-Herald\n </em>\n ) Eerie...ought to chill the cockles of many a heart. (\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Twenty excursions into horror-from the master.\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n From the depths of darkness, where hideous rats defend their empire, to dizzying heights where a beautiful girl hangs by a hair above a hellish fate, this chilling collection of twenty short stories will plunge readers into the subterranean labyrinth of the most spine-tingling, eerie imagination of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/534'),
(1986, 'Night Watch', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British author Pratchett''s storytelling, a clever blend of Monty Pythonesque humor and Big Questions about morality and the workings of the universe, is in top form in his 28th novel in the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series (The Last Hero, etc.). Pragmatic Sam Vimes, Commander of Ankh-Morpork''s City Watch, can''t complain. He has a title, his wife is due to give birth to their first child any moment and he hasn''t had to pound a beat in ages but that doesn''t stop him from missing certain bits of his old life. Thank goodness there''s work to be done. Vimes manages to corner a murderer, Carcer, on the library dome at Unseen University during a tremendous storm, only to be zapped back in time 30 years, to an Ankh-Morpork where the Watch is a joke, the ruling Patrician mad and the city on the verge of rebellion. Three decades earlier, a man named John Keel took over the Night Watch and taught young Sam Vimes how to be a good cop before dying in that rebellion. Unfortunately, in this version of the past, Carcer has killed Keel. The only way Vimes can hope to return home and ensure he has a future to return home to is to take on Keel''s role. The author lightens Vimes''s decidedly dark situation with glimpses into the origins of several of the more unique denizens of Ankh-Morpork. One comes away, as always, with the feeling that if Ankh-Morpork isn''t a real place, it bloody well ought to be.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A freak accident hurls Commander Sam Vines back into his own past, where he must assume a new identity and watch his younger self struggle to rise in the ranks of the City Watch of Ankh-Morpork while tracking down a dangerous criminal and finding a way to return to his own time. The 28th addition to Pratchett''s "Discworld" series explores time travel and historical inevitability with cleverness and humor. The author''s talent for comedy does not falter as he continues to set the standard for comic fantasy. A good choice, particularly where the series is popular.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/367'),
(1987, 'Nightmares &amp; Dreamscapes', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Many people who write about horror literature maintain that mood is its most important element. Stephen King disagrees: "My deeply held conviction is that\n <em>\n  story\n </em>\n must be paramount.... All other considerations are secondary--theme, mood, even characterization and language."\n</p>\n<p>\n These fine stories, each written in what King calls "a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism," prove his point. The theme, mood, characters, and language vary, but throughout, a sense of story reigns supreme.\n <em>\n  Nightmares &amp; Dreamscapes\n </em>\n contains 20 short tales--including several never before published--plus one teleplay, one poem, and one nonfiction piece about kids and baseball that appeared in the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n . The subjects include vampires, zombies, an evil toy, man-eating frogs, the burial of a Cadillac, a disembodied finger, and a wicked stepfather. The style ranges from King''s well-honed horror to a Ray Bradbury-like fantasy voice to an ambitious pastiche of Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald. And like a compact disc with a bonus track, the book ends with a charming little tale not listed in the table of contents--a parable called "The Beggar and the Diamond."\n <em>\n  --Fiona Webster\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n King''s cornucopia of short tales, each accompanied by an introduction from the author, was a 15-week PW bestseller.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/536'),
(1988, 'Nights in Rodanthe', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sparks (A Bend in the Road, etc.) logs more miles on the winding high road of romance with the story of two middle-aged people who meet by chance in the small North Carolina coastal town of Rodanthe. The impassioned but doomed romance seems to owe much to Robert James Waller''s The Bridges of Madison County. Once again, a housewife who has focused on everyone but herself indulges in a brief, intense, secret affair with a stranger who changes her life forever. As the story begins, Adrienne Willis is 60, the divorced mother of three grown children. To help her troubled daughter cope with the untimely recent death of her husband, Adrienne tells her the tale of her love affair, which took place 15 years before. At the time, Adrienne was an uptight matron whose ex-husband had just left her for a younger woman. This rejection colors her entire life, and Sparks realistically portrays a vulnerable and isolated woman who throws herself into raising her children to escape her despair. Paul Flanner, her paramour, is a surgeon and an obsessive workaholic with no genuine connection to his wife or son, whose world completely falls apart when one of his patients inexplicably dies. Sparks builds a taut, plausible relationship between his protagonists, but even fans may be irked by the obviousness of their story and the inevitability of their fate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sparks, popular author of several romantically themed best-sellers, including\n  <em>\n   Message in a Bottle\n  </em>\n  (1998), is back at it with his latest mix of love story and pathos. He doesn''t disappoint, whipping up plenty of melodrama in the story of two shattered people, both badly scarred by past experiences, who find each other late in life and realize they are soul mates. Adrienne Willis is a 45-year-old mother of three whose husband recently abandoned her for a younger woman. When she visits the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina, seeking a bit of respite from her problems, she meets Paul Flanner, a 54-year-old doctor who has sold his thriving medical practice and come to Rodanthe to escape his own tortured past. Despite their short courtship, the two find themselves falling madly and passionately in love and vow to spend their lives together. Unfortunately, Paul needs to make amends with the son he has long neglected and so embarks on an ill-fated trip, which leads to heartbreak. Sparks has a very solid fan base, and they will be clamoring for his latest.\n  <em>\n   Kathleen Hughes\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1060'),
(1989, 'Nine Dragons', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009:\n </strong>\n An investigation into a cold-blooded murder introduces Detective Harry Bosch to a Chinese underworld lurking in the dark recesses of the City of Angels. Its tentacles are far reaching, yet it remains shrouded in secrecy due to time-honored cultural traditions that keep the exploited from speaking out. To the victim''s family, Bosch promises revenge, but when his own daughter suddenly becomes a target, he promises blood. However, working a case with leads on both sides of the Pacific provides little room (or time) for error.\n <em>\n  9 Dragons\n </em>\n is a gritty, coffee-and-cigarettes crime thriller full of smart twists and generous helpings of suspense. Fans of Michael Connelly can expect another exceptional thrill ride, while newcomers will be immediately engaged by the tortured and unrelenting Bosch. "He knew one day it would come to this, that the darkness would find [his daughter] and that she would be used to get him," writes Connelly. "That day was now." --\n <em>\n  Dave Callanan\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Connelly nimbly balances Harry Bosch''s personal and professional lives, both of which take a substantial beating, in his 14th novel to feature the LAPD homicide detective. Bosch, last seen with his recently discovered half-brother, lawyer Mickey Haller, in\n <em>\n  The Brass Verdict\n </em>\n (2008), investigates the shooting death of a liquor store owner. While the murder has none of the hallmarks of a regular gang hit, Bosch discovers the dead man was paying a weekly protection fee to a man Bosch suspects is part of a Chinese triad. Even though Bosch is warned to drop the case, he doesn''t take the threat seriously until he receives a video showing his 13-year-old daughter, Madeline, being kidnapped in Hong Kong, where she lives with her mother and Bosch''s ex-wife, a former FBI agent. Bosch flies to Hong Kong to try to rescue Madeline, prepared to face down one of the world''s most powerful crime syndicates. Tenacious as ever, Bosch is even more formidable in his role as a protective father.\n <em>\n  10-city author tour. (Oct. 13)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1358'),
(1990, 'Nineteen Minutes', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best known for tackling controversial issues through richly told fictional accounts, Jodi Picoult''s 14th novel,\n <em>\n  Nineteen Minutes\n </em>\n , deals with the truth and consequences of a smalltown high-school shooting. Set in Sterling, New Hampshire, Picoult offers reads a glimpse of what would cause a 17-year-old to wake up one day, load his backpack with four guns, and kill nine students and one teacher in the span of nineteen minutes. As with any Picoult novel, the answers are never black and white, and it is her exceptional ability to blur the lines between right and wrong that make this author such a captivating storyteller.\n</p>\n<p>\n On Peter Houghton''s first day of kindergarten, he watched helplessly as an older boy ripped his lunch box out of his hands and threw it out the window. From that day on, his life was a series of humiliations, from having his pants pulled down in the cafeteria, to being called a freak at every turn. But can endless bullying justify murder? As Picoult attempts to answer this question, she shows us all sides of the equation, from the ruthless jock who loses his ability to speak after being shot in the head, to the mother who both blames and pities herself for producing what most would call a monster. Surrounding Peter''s story is that of Josie Cormier, a former friend whose acceptance into the popular crowd hangs on a string that makes it impossible for her to reconcile her beliefs with her actions.\n</p>\n<p>\n At times,\n <em>\n  Nineteen Minutes\n </em>\n can seem tediously stereotypical-- jocks versus nerds, parent versus child, teacher versus student. Part of Picoult''s gift is showing us the subtleties of these common dynamics, and the startling effects they often have on the moral landscape. As Peter''s mother says at the end of this spellbinding novel, "Everyone would remember Peter for nineteen minutes of his life, but what about the other nine million?" --\n <em>\n  Gisele Toueg\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Bestseller Picoult (\n <em>\n  My Sister''s Keeper\n </em>\n ) takes on another contemporary hot-button issue in her brilliantly told new thriller, about a high school shooting. Peter Houghton, an alienated teen who has been bullied for years by the popular crowd, brings weapons to his high school in Sterling, N.H., one day and opens fire, killing 10 people. Flashbacks reveal how bullying caused Peter to retreat into a world of violent computer games. Alex Cormier, the judge assigned to Peter''s case, tries to maintain her objectivity as she struggles to understand her daughter, Josie, one of the surviving witnesses of the shooting. The author''s insights into her characters'' deep-seated emotions brings this ripped-from-the-headlines read chillingly alive.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/287'),
(1991, 'No Country for Old Men', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Seven years after\n <em>\n  Cities of the Plain\n </em>\n brought his acclaimed Border Trilogy to a close, McCarthy returns with a mesmerizing modern-day western. In 1980 southwest Texas, Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles across several dead men, a bunch of heroin and $2.4 million in cash. The bulk of the novel is a gripping man-on-the-run sequence relayed in terse, masterful prose as Moss, who''s taken the money, tries to evade Wells, an exâ€“Special Forces agent employed by a powerful cartel, and Chigurh, an icy psychopathic murderer armed with a cattle gun and a dangerous philosophy of justice. Also concerned about Moss''s whereabouts is Sheriff Bell, an aging lawman struggling with his sense that there''s a new breed of man (embodied in Chigurh) whose destructive power he simply cannot match. In a series of thoughtful first-person passages interspersed throughout, Sheriff Bell laments the changing world, wrestles with an uncomfortable memory from his service in WWII andâ€”a soft ray of light in a book so steeped in bloodshedâ€”rejoices in the great good fortune of his marriage. While the action of the novel thrills, it''s the sensitivity and wisdom of Sheriff Bell that makes the book a profound meditation on the battle between good and evil and the roles choice and chance play in the shaping of a life.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n McCarthyâ€™s\n <em>\n  Border Trilogy\n </em>\n , distinguished by the award-winning\n <em>\n  All the Pretty Horses\n </em>\n (1992), contains dark Westerns set against beautiful, bleak landscapes. His newest novel updates his character-driven plots and themes of violence and moral ambiguity. Perhaps the true sign of a master is one whose work raises debateâ€”and this is what\n <em>\n  No Country\n </em>\n has done. Most critics praised McCarthyâ€™s clean, simple prose, though a few thought it too spare for such a graceful stylist. ("The man looked at Chigurhâ€™s eyes for the first time. Blue as lapis. At once glistening and opaque. Like wet stones.") Compelling characters (even women) abound, but Sheriff Bell came off as either smart or too long winded. Finally, the violence seemed gratuitous to some. Even if\n <em>\n  No Country\n </em>\n may be a more minor McCarthy novel, itâ€™s still a terrifying page-turner in the vein of the\n <em>\n  Trilogy\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/379'),
(1992, 'No Cure for Cancer', 'Dennis Leary &amp; Denis Leary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1903'),
(1993, 'No Dominion', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Joe Pittâ€™s life sucks. He hasnâ€™t had a case or a job in God knows how long and his stashes are running on empty. What stashes? The only ones that count to a guy like Joe: blood and money. The money he uses to buy blood; the blood he drinks. Hey, buddy, itâ€™s that or your neckâ€“you want to choose? The only way to lay his hands on both is to take a gig with the local Vampyre Clan. See, something new is on the streets, a new high, a high so strong it can send a Vampyre spazzing through Joeâ€™s local watering hole. Till Joe sends him through a plate-glass window, that is.\n</p>\n<p>\n So itâ€™s time for Joe to gut up and swallow that pride and follow the leads wherever they go. It wonâ€™t be long before heâ€™s slapping stoolies, getting sapped, and being taken for a ride above 110th Street. Someoneâ€™s pulling Joeâ€™s strings, and now heâ€™s riding the A train, looking to find who it is. Heâ€™s gonna cut them when he finds themâ€“the strings and the hands that hold them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/614'),
(1994, 'No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories', 'Miranda July', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly -- they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With great compassion and generosity, July reveals their idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives.\n <em>\n  No One Belongs Here More Than You\n </em>\n is a stunning debut, the work of a writer with a spectacularly original and compelling voice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1204'),
(1995, 'Northanger Abbey', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though\n  <em>\n   Northanger Abbey\n  </em>\n  is one of Jane Austen''s earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she''d established her reputation with works such as\n  <em>\n   Pride and Prejudice\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Emma\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Sense and Sensibility\n  </em>\n  . Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe''s\n  <em>\n   The Mysteries of Udolpho\n  </em>\n  . Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into\n  <em>\n   Northanger Abbey\n  </em>\n  , but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen''s introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland''s father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does\n  <em>\n   not\n  </em>\n  die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects\n  <em>\n   Northanger Abbey\n  </em>\n  is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen''s novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Austen is the hot property of the entertainment world with new feature film versions of Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility on the silver screen and Pride and Prejudice hitting the TV airwaves on PBS. Such high visibility will inevitably draw renewed interest in the original source materials. These new Modern Library editions offer quality hardcovers at affordable prices.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/63'),
(1996, 'The Notebook', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love."\n  <em>\n   The Notebook\n  </em>\n  , a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she choose Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1932, two North Carolina teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love. Spending one idyllic summer together in the small town of New Bern, Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson do not meet again for 14 years. Noah has returned from WWII to restore the house of his dreams, having inherited a large sum of money. Allie, programmed by family and the "caste system of the South" to marry an ambitious, prosperous man, has become engaged to powerful attorney Lon Hammond. When she reads a newspaper story about Noah''s restoration project, she shows up on his porch step, re-entering his life for two days. Will Allie leave Lon for Noah? The book''s slim dimensions and cliche-ridden prose will make comparisons to The Bridges of Madison County inevitable. What renders Sparks''s (Wokini: A Lakota Journey of Happiness and Self-Understanding) sentimental story somewhat distinctive are two chapters, which take place in a nursing home in the ''90s, that frame the central story. The first sets the stage for the reading of the eponymous notebook, while the later one takes the characters into the land beyond happily ever after, a future rarely examined in books of this nature. Early on, Noah claims that theirs may be either a tragedy or a love story, depending on the perspective. Ultimately, the judgment is up to readers?be they cynics or romantics. For the latter, this will be a weeper. Major ad/promo; first serial to Good Housekeeping; movie rights to New Line Cinema; Warner Audio; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1062'),
(1997, 'Notes From a Small Island', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestsellingauthor of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to returnto the United States. ("I had recently read," Bryson writes, "that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another,so it was clear that my people needed me.") But before departing, he set out ona grand farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and back again,\n  <em>\n   Notes from a Small Island\n  </em>\n  is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie''s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. The result is an uproarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Mother Tongue\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Made in America\n  </em>\n  -decided to return to the United States. ("I had recently read," Bryson writes, "that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me.") But before departing, he set out on a grand farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and back again, Notes from a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie''s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. The result is an uproarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1475'),
(1998, 'Nothing to Lose', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of bestseller Child''s solid 12th Jack Reacher novel (after\n <em>\n  Bad Luck and Trouble\n </em>\n ), the ex-military policeman hitchhikes into Colorado, where he finds himself crossing the metaphorical and physical line that divides the small towns of Hope and Despair. Despair lives up to its name; all Reacher wants is a cup of coffee, but what he gets is attacked by four thugs and thrown in jail on a vagrancy charge. After he''s kicked out of town, Reacher reacts in his usual mannerâ€”he goes back and whips everybody''s butt and busts up the town''s police force. In the process, he discovers, with the help of a good-looking lady cop from Hope, that a nearby metal processing plant is part of a plan that involves the war in Iraq and an apocalyptic sect bent on ushering in the end-time. With his powerful sense of justice, dogged determination and the physical and mental skills to overcome what to most would be overwhelming odds, Jack Reacher makes an irresistible modern knight-errant.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Jake Reacher only rents rooms one night at a time, confirming his â€œabsolute freedom to move on.â€ About the only thing sure to convince Reacher to stick around is someone telling him he has to leave. Thatâ€™s what happens when the former military policeman turned inveterate loner stops for a cup of coffee in an aptly named company town called Despair, Colorado. Strangers arenâ€™t allowed in Despair, heâ€™s told, and two cops arrive to drive him out to the city limits. You can run Reacher out of town, maybe, but you sure as hell canâ€™t keep him out. Forming an unlikely alliance with a female cop in the neighboring town thatâ€™s calledâ€”you guessed itâ€”Hope, Reacher sneaks back to Despair and finds all manner of strange goings-on: the creepy burg is run by a megalomaniac entrepreneur who is using his metal-salvage business for something definitely snarky. But what? Reacher finds the answers, of course, but to do so, he pretty much has to go up against the whole damn town. What is it that makes these action-fantasies so satisfying? Yes, there is something of the cartoon superhero in Reacherâ€™s steel-trap mind and body, but the action is so grounded in everyday details that instead of laughing it all off as silly, we find ourselves responding on a deeply emotional, archetypal level. We all feel as if the whole town is against us sometimes; Reacher lets us experience what it would be like, just once, to slap every last one of the fools aligned against us upside the head and then, pausing only to pack our toothbrush, hit the highway. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/962'),
(1999, 'Now and Then', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Investigating a case of infidelity sounds simpleÂ—until it plunges Spenser and his beloved Susan into a politically charged murder plot that''s already left three people dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1139'),
(2000, 'Now, Talking About Cricket: A Short Story', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1628'),
(2001, 'O Is for Outlaw', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wise-cracking, staunchly independent, and chronically curious, Grafton''s gritty gumshoe Kinsey Millhone is back. This time, the alphabet series star will take on the toughest case to date: her past. What begins as a random phone call from a "storage space scavenger" (someone who buys the contents of defaulted storage units) leads Kinsey to a box of old papers and personal effects that her ex-husband, Mickey Magruder, left behind. Inside, she finds a 15-year-old unsent letter from a bartender that, among other things, reveals her former hubby was having an affair. The letter also contains details about the murder of a transient--a crime for which Mickey was blamed. Although never convicted, Mickey was ruined--losing his job, wife, and friends. But 15 years later, Kinsey realizes that foul play may have been involved in the murder, a deadly temptation for her.\n</p>\n<p>\n Die-hard fans will especially enjoy Kinsey''s self-disclosure--something she''s infamous for not doing--about her childhood, the fate of her parents, and the randy details of her first marriage. A very vulnerable and interesting side to Kinsey''s character is also revealed when her obsessive-compulsive fact-finding bent is mixed up with matters of the heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n A fast, fun read,\n <em>\n  O Is for Outlaw\n </em>\n is packed with Grafton''s clear, colorful imagery and signature metaphors: "Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered, but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what''s evident forever affected by the gravity of what''s concealed."\n <em>\n  --Rebekah Warren\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grafton''s fans will be thrilled with this knockout 15th Kinsey Millhone mystery, which deals with Kinsey''s first marriage. In a complex story that zigzags between past and present, the California PI gets involved again with her first ex-husband, former cop Michael "Mickey" Magruder, who initially reappears in her life by chance when she comes across memorabilia he kept after their separation 14 years earlier. The mementos include an undelivered letter addressed to Kinsey, providing Mickey with an alibi for the beating death of Vietnam vet Benny Quintero, the unproven charge against Mickey that prompted Kinsey to leave him. Conscience-stricken, Kinsey looks up acquaintances from her early marriage, questioning her judgment and values at the time. Then two Los Angeles police detectives inform her that Mickey has been shot and is in a coma, and Kinsey decides to investigate. As usual in Grafton''s novels, the PI encounters a string of offbeat characters who lead or mislead her in a gyre of confusion; here, many of them had motive and opportunity to shoot Mickey. In time, Kinsey stumbles on a clueAat first bewilderingAthat leads back to the Vietnam War and, eventually, points the way to Benny''s killer and Mickey''s assailant. In addition to her distinctive humor, sharp sense of place and crisp dialogue defining character, Grafton adds depth to this outing through unexpected details of Kinsey''s past. Meanwhile, Kinsey''s examination of her youthful self-righteousness and na?vet? initiates a provocative contemplation of guilt, morals and loyalty that graces one of the very best entries in a long-lived and much-loved series. Agent, Molly Friedrich at Aaron Priest. $500,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selection; author tour. (Oct.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/679');
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(2002, 'O&#39;Hurley&#39;s Return: Skin Deep', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  SKIN DEEP:\n  <br />\n  Regrets. Even movie stars have them. Chantel Oâ€™Hurleyâ€™s family was far away, her mansion was empty, and when she was threatened, there was no one to turn to. There was certainly no comfort in Quinn Doran. He looked like heâ€™d been carved out of stone and he was just as intractable. But in that hardness was a promise: â€œI will keep you safe. I will bring you home.â€ But could she get him to stay?\n </p>\n <p>\n  WITHOUT A TRACE:\n  <br />\n  Redemption. With everything heâ€™d seen and done, Trace Oâ€™Hurley was way past that. And nothing the flame-haired Irish beauty Gillian Fitzpatrick said could change the fact that he was just a disillusioned man with nothing left to lose. But somehow Gillian made him believe that he could do the impossible â€” rescue her family, take down a terrorist organization. Ask for forgiveness. Be one of the Oâ€™Hurleys again. At last.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  The high price of fame meant learning to deal with obsessive fans. But this one was different. He was watching and waiting, and Chantwel O''Hurley was afraid. She needed help, and it came with a $500-a-day price tag--Quinn Doran, a P.I. with the kind of tough, go-to-hell looks that made a woman''s pulse race. Chantel didn''t need his arrogant insinuations. She needed to stay alive. Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1600'),
(2003, 'Obama&#39;s Wars', 'Bob Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Obamaâ€™s Wars\n  </em>\n  , Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the core of Obamaâ€™s Wars is the unsettled division between the civilian leadership in the White House and the United States military as the president is thwarted in his efforts to craft an exit plan for the Afghanistan War.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSo whatâ€™s my option?â€ the president asked his war cabinet, seeking alternatives to the Afghanistan commanderâ€™s request for 40,000 more troops in late 2009. â€œYou have essentially given me one option. ...Itâ€™s unacceptable.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWell,â€ Secretary of Defense Robert Gates finally said, â€œMr. President, I think we owe you that option.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  It never came. An untamed Vice President Joe Biden pushes relentlessly to limit the military mission and avoid another Vietnam. The vice president frantically sent half a dozen handwritten memos by secure fax to Obama on the eve of the final troop decision.\n </p>\n <p>\n  President Obamaâ€™s ordering a surge of 30,000 troops and pledging to start withdrawing U.S. forces by July 2011 did not end the skirmishing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  General David Petraeus, the new Afghanistan commander, thinks time can be added to the clock if he shows progress. â€œI donâ€™t think you win this war,â€ Petraeus said privately. â€œThis is the kind of fight weâ€™re in for the rest of our lives and probably our kidsâ€™ lives.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hovering over this debate is the possibility of another terrorist attack in the United States. The White House led a secret exercise showing how unprepared the government is if terrorists set off a nuclear bomb in an American cityâ€”which Obama told Woodward is at the top of the list of what he worries about all the time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Verbatim quotes from secret debates and White House strategy sessionsâ€”and firsthand accounts of the thoughts and concerns of the president, his war council and his generalsâ€”reveal a government in conflict, often consumed with nasty infighting and fundamental disputes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Woodward has discovered how the Obama White House really works, showing that even more tough decisions lie ahead for the cerebral and engaged president.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Obamaâ€™s Wars\n  </em>\n  offers the reader a stunning, you-are-there account of the president, his White House aides, military leaders, diplomats and intelligence chiefs in this time of turmoil and danger.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/147'),
(2004, 'An Object of Beauty', 'Steve Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby''s and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallel the soaring heights--and, at times, the dark lows--of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/470'),
(2005, 'Obsidian Butterfly', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anita Blake, the tough, sexy vampire executioner, zombie animator, and police consultant for preternatural crimes in St. Louis, hunts monsters in New Mexico in the ninth book of Laurell K. Hamilton''s excellent series. Edward, Anita''s mentor in slaying, asks Anita to return the favor that she has owed him since she killed a backup he brought in to protect her. He needs Anita''s preternatural expertise as well as her firepower. Something is skinning and mutilating a few of its chosen victims, and dismembering others. Edward has no idea what creature could be responsible for such heinous crimes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Summoning Anita has its downside for Edward, since it means letting her onto his turf. Anita is surprised to find that this normally aggressive man has a personal life, and shocked by his ability to be entirely different from the stone cold killer she''s known. She also has problems with the cop in charge in Albuquerque, who believes her powers must be evil, and with the other backups Edward has brought in. Most of all, she has to deal with her own vulnerability--she''s tried to shut down her ties to her vampire and werewolf lovers and go it alone, but it turns out to be harder than she thought.\n</p>\n<p>\n Anita''s usual supporting cast is missing, and she''s taking time out from her complex love life, but there''s plenty of bloody action, vampires, werewolves, and Aztec ritual. Plus a lot more about Edward. Fans will find this installment similar to the earlier books in the series, particularly\n <em>\n  The Laughing Corpse.\n </em>\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An inhabitant of an alternate Earth very much like our own--except that magic coexists there with natural law, and preternatural beings like vampires and werewolves coexist with humans--Anita Blake is full of contradictions that make her a potent lead character for this continuing series. Although Anita is a licensed vampire executioner, one of her lovers is a vampire (the other is a werewolf); she packs more firepower than a small army, but is a dedicated Christian; she''s tough-as-nails yet ultrafeminine; she tangles with seriously dangerous supernatural forces, but she''s as matter of fact about dealing with magic as she is about bashing bad guys, and she''s as quick with a quip as she is with a well-placed kick to the groin. In her ninth adventure (after Blue Moon), Anita is summoned to New Mexico by Edward (aka "Death"), the cold-blooded killer from previous books to whom she owes a favor. In the course of investigating a series of grotesque murders (victims torn to bloody bits, survivors flayed of all flesh), Edward becomes more human and Anita less so. Celibate for six months, Anita''s usual steamy sexual encounters with her inhuman but hunky boyfriends are missing from this novel, but there''s still a lot of beefcake to appreciate and the considerable sexual tension is both humorous and supportive of the plot. The gory story line--which wraps around an Aztec vampire goddess, a dwarf necromancer, bull-headed bigoted cops, hearts ripped from chests and a witch who conveniently appears in the nick of time--needs that bit of sustenance, but the book is still a monstrously entertaining read. (Jan.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/751'),
(2006, 'Oceans Apart', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A night that changed everything . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eight years ago, during a stormy weekend on the shores of Hawaii, Connor Evans broke his vows. He''s kept his secret, until the woman from Connor''s past dies, leaving behind a young son . . . Michele never thought her family was perfect, but they were happy. Now her family is on the brink of destruction. Will a lonely child help bridge the distance between themâ€”before it''s too late?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A riveting story of secret sin and the healing power of forgiveness\n </p>\n <p>\n  Airline pilot Connor Evans and his wife, Michele, seem to be the perfect couple living what looks like a perfect life. Then a plane goes down in the Pacific Ocean. One of the casualties is Kiahna Siefert, a flight attendant Connor knew well. Too well. Kiahnaâ€™s will is very clear: before her seven-year-old son, Max, can be turned over to the state, he must spend the summer with the father heâ€™s never met, the father who doesnâ€™t know he exists: Connor Evans.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now will the presence of one lonely child and the truth he represents destroy Connorâ€™s family ? Or is it possible that healing and hope might come in the shape of a seven-year-old boy?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Karen Kingsbury is a\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author. She has penned more than thirty titles, including\n  <em>\n   Between Sundays\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Even Now\n  </em>\n  . With nearly 5 million copies of her books in print, she is quickly becoming one of America''s favorite inspirational authors. She lives in Washington state with her husband, Don, and their six children.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2425'),
(2007, 'Odd Hours', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive Essay: Destiny and *Odd Hours\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Odd Thomas came to me as a gift, the entire first chapter of his first book having poured out of me as I was in the middle of writing\n <em>\n  The Face\n </em>\n . I wrote it by hand, though I never work that way, and I never hesitated to think what should come next. He was fully-realized in my mind from the moment I began to write in that lined legal tablet. With other stories and characters, I can identify the source of the inspiration, but not with Oddie and his books. He just suddenly was. When I write about him, his narrative voice is so clear to me that I almost hear him in my head.\n</p>\n<p>\n For those among you who long have thought that I should be institutionalized, just relax: I said I almost hear him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Many times over the years, I said I would never write an open-ended series. Then along came Oddie, and he proved me wrong. Or so I thought. As I wrote the first chapter of\n <em>\n  Odd Hours\n </em>\n , the fourth featuring my fry-cook hero, I realized that this was not an open-ended series, after all, but that it would conclude with six or seven novels. I now think seven.\n</p>\n<p>\n I suddenly saw the end point of his journey, the arc of it to the final book, and I was stunned. Beginning with this fourth story, the stakes were being raised dramatically; Oddie was going to face far more physical and moral danger than previously; and he was going to mature toward the fulfillment of a destiny that I had not seen coming until that moment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Initially, I tried to argue myself out of the direction that\n <em>\n  Odd Hours\n </em>\n was taking. I didn''t believe that the first three books had put down a sufficient foundation to support the formidable architecture that I saw rising from it in the next three or four novels.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I began to reread the first three books, however, I quickly discovered that I had unconsciously paved the road that the series was now taking. I had thought I was writing a series with an overall theme about the power and beauty of humility. Indeed I was, but it was also something more than that; and Oddie''s ultimate destiny will not be merely purification to a state of absolute humility, but will be that and something else I find quite wonderful.\n</p>\n<p>\n What lies ahead will be a challenge to write--or perhaps not. The character of Odd Thomas was a gift to me, and now I see that the entire architecture of a seven-book series was another gift that came to me complete on the same day Oddie arrived, although I needed time to recognize it.\n</p>\n<p>\n This world is a place of wonder, and life is a mysterious enterprise; but nothing in all my years has been more mysterious than Odd Thomas''s origins and my compulsion to write about him.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  -- Dean Koontz\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fourth adventure of Odd Thomas, the young man haunted by theÂ deceased who can also foresee potential murderous disaster, may not be the bestâ€”his eponymous initial outing isâ€”but darned if it isnâ€™t the most purely entertaining. Observing Koontzâ€™s SOP, it starts with a bang and goes like a house afire straight through to the penultimate chapter (the last chapter cleans up). Odd goes out for a walk on the boardwalk to find the Lady of the Bell, a pregnant girl roughly his own age (21), who has appeared to him in a troubling dream. He succeeds, but then a blond gorilla and two skinny redheaded guys packing heat show up. When Odd touches the gorilla, he gets a flash of the dream. So does the gorilla, who is immediately, murderously suspicious, so Odd, after sending the girl packing, takes a header off the boardwalk. For most of the rest of the book, Odd flees the three baddies, discovering that the local police chief and a liberal minister are in cahoots with them, until he reverses the procedure to prevent very serious destruction, indeed, aimed at regime change in America. Choosing so grandiose an objective for Odd, Koontz forges the kind of sweeping melodrama, complete with screwball laughs, nail-biting moments, and surprises, that is the bedrock of American narrative entertainment. --Ray Olson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/520'),
(2008, 'Odd Thomas', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once in a very great while, an author does everything right-as Koontz has in this marvelous novel. Odd Thomas, who narrates, is odd indeed: only 20, he works contentedly as a fry cook in a small fictional California town, despite a talent for writing. The reason for his lack of ambition? A much rarer talent: Odd sees and converses with ghosts, the lingering dead who have yet to pass on, a secret he has kept from nearly everyone but his girlfriend, an eccentric author friend and the local police chief, whom he occasionally helps solve terrible crimes. Odd also has the ability to see bodachs, malevolent spirits that feast on pain and whose presence signifies a likelihood of imminent violence. The proximity of bodachs to a weird-looking stranger in town, whom Odd dubs "Fungus Man," alerts Odd that trouble is brewing; breaking into Fungus Man''s house, Odd discovers not only hundreds of bodachs but a shrine to serial killers that helps him deduce that somehow Fungus Man will wreak widespread havoc very soon-so Odd is caught in a classic race against time to deter catastrophe. As with Koontz''s best novels, this one features electrifying tension and suspense, plus a few walloping surprises. But Koontz fans know that the author has recently added humor to his arsenal of effects, and this thriller also stands out for its brilliant tightrope walk between the amusing and the macabre; one of the dead with whom Odd interacts frequently, for instance, is Elvis, still pining for his long-dead mother, Gladys. Above all, the story, like most great stories, runs on character-and here Koontz has created a hero whose honest, humble voice will resonate with many. In some recent books, Koontz has tended to overwrite, but not here: the narrative is as simple and clear as a newborn''s gaze. This is Koontz working at his pinnacle, providing terrific entertainment that deals seriously with some of the deepest themes of human existence: the nature of evil, the grip of fate and the power of love.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Odd Thomas is just that. He works as a fry cook in the fictional California town of Pico Mundo. Should he ever leave that position, he sees a future in selling tires or shoes. What he lacks in ambition, he makes up for with a special gift. He communes with and sees the dead, some of whom enlist his help in avenging their deaths from foul play. His gift is a secret from everyone except his beautiful girlfriend and the Chief of Police, who never questions Odd''s tips, advice, or presence at a murder scene. The man sees "bodachs" as well, small, evil creatures, fluid in shape, that feed upon horrific acts of carnage. He is horrified to see hordes of them gathering in his town. He spots a weird looking stranger in whom the bodachs appear very interested, nicknames him Fungus Man, and rightly assumes that he is involved in the impending disaster. Breaking into the man''s house, Odd finds a mysterious black room, a shrine to serial killers, and a page from a calendar that tells him the date of the planned event. Now it''s a race against time to foil the plot. The rapid pace, eerie circumstances, and bizarre characters will keep readers turning pages. Just when the suspense is almost unbearable, Koontz exhibits his wry sense of humor to break the tension. The last chapters are so powerful and heartrending that they should be read several times.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Katherine Fitch, Rachel Carson Middle School, Fairfax, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/512'),
(2009, 'The Odyssey', 'Homer &amp; Robert Squillace &amp; George Herbert Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Odyssey\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Homer\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n</p>\n<p>\n Long before\n <em>\n  The Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Star Wars\n </em>\n , and Harry Potter, the ancient Greek poet\n <strong>\n  Homer\n </strong>\n established the standard for tales of epic quests and heroic journeys with\n <em>\n  The Odyssey\n </em>\n . Crowded with characters, both human and non-human, and bursting with action,\n <em>\n  The Odyssey\n </em>\n details the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and hero of the Trojan War, as he struggles to return to his home and his waiting, ever-faithful wife, Penelope.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Along the way he encounters the seductive Circe, who changes men into swine; the gorgeous water-nymph, Calypso, who keeps him a â€œprisoner of loveâ€ for seven years; the terrible, one-eyed, man-eating giant Cyclops; and a host of other ogres, wizards, sirens, and gods. But when he finally reaches Ithaca after ten years of travel, his trials have only begun. There he must battle the scheming noblemen who, thinking him dead, have demanded that Penelope choose one of them to be her new husbandâ€”and Ithacaâ€™s new king.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Often called the â€œsecond work of Western literatureâ€ (The Iliad, also by Homer, being the first),\n <em>\n  The Odyssey\n </em>\n is not only a rousing adventure drama, but also a profound meditation on courage, loyalty, family, fate, and undying love. More than three thousand years old, it was the first story to delineate carefully and exhaustively a single character arc â€” a narrative structure that serves as the foundation and heart of the modern novel. Robert Squillaceâ€™s revision of George Herbert Palmerâ€™s classic prose translation captures the drama and vitality of adventure, while remaining true to the original Homeric language.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Robert Squillace\n </strong>\n teaches in the Cultural Foundations division of New York Universityâ€™s General Studies Program. He has published numerous essays on literature and the book Modernism, Modernity and Arnold Bennett.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Robert Squillace''s Introduction to *The Odyssey\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n When Odysseus awakens from his dream-like voyage on the shore of his own island, he fails to recognize the place, asking: "To what men''s land am I come now? Lawless and savage are they, with no regard for right, or are they kind to strangers and reverent toward the gods?" While the mists of Athene have produced the mariner''s confusion, his questions do not vanish with their dissipation. Is Ithaca the ordered kingdom he left behind or a new realm of incurable savagery? And, after all the alternative worlds through which we have passed, to what land have we finally come? After meeting Arete and Polyphemus and Anticleia and Achilles and Circe and Calypso and the Sirens and the Lotus-eaters and many others, how do we now perceive Ithaca? The poem offers no unified answers, instead multiplying the complications it has engaged since Telemachus set sail for Pylos.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The first surprise of the Ithacan episode, at least to many modern readers, is its length; the landfall of Odysseus on his home shore marks only about the halfway point of the tale. Homer''s buildup to the battle with the suitors is one of the slowest and most suspenseful in literature-even though his original audience knew the outcome from the start. As Alfred Hitchcock once observed, the sudden explosion of a bomb of which viewers know nothing generates a half-second''s shock, while the slow ticking of a bomb of whose existence they do know generates a quarter-hour''s suspense. Moreover, Homer fills the delay with its own significance. In the period between Odysseus''s landing and the fight with the suitors, a series of recognition scenes unfolds, of disguises adopted and then penetrated or let fall. Odysseus reveals himself to his son, Telemachus, and to his loyal swineherd and cowherd. The old dog Argos, who had known his master as a pup, and the old nurse Eurycleia see on their own through the guise of age and poverty that Athene has helped the man of strategies don. To recognize Odysseus means more than simply to know who this particular individual is-or was, for if Odysseus remains unrecognized as the island''s patriarch, if he cannot reclaim his old identity, he will become the old beggar he appears to be. To acknowledge the identity of this stranger as Odysseus is, in effect, to acknowledge authority itself, to demonstrate one''s acquiescence to the whole system that legitimizes a king''s rule. After all, no one who opposes the rights of Odysseus learns who the old beggar really is until he puts an arrow through AntinoÃ¼s''s throat. Not even such old, disloyal servants as Melantho and Melanthius show the slightest suspicion that the mysterious stranger they enjoy abusing is their dangerous master returned. Only those who submit themselves to the hierarchical system, who recognize their own places, can also recognize Odysseus. Indeed, Argos not only recognizes but directly mirrors his master, who also risks consignment to the dung heap in his disregarded age if he can no longer prove himself the man he used to be, bend the great bow he once wielded, and, in an image suggestive of continued sexual prowess, fire an arrow through a dozen axes.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Telemachy''s emphasis on the twin values of authority and identity dovetail with particular neatness in the token by which Odysseus is known. An old scar received years earlier in a boar hunt, the first heroic episode that vaulted the youth toward his maturity, made him who he is, written into his body so long as he lives. As in the Nekyia, bodily existence-bodily prowess and endurance-measure the value of life; indeed, the scar suggests that one defines oneself by exterior, bodily deeds, not by any individual interior psychology. The violence of Odysseus''s reaction to his old nurse''s discovery of the scar, a symbol of his passage from boyhood to maturity, even recalls the curt rejection of Penelope by her son, a parallel reinforced by the nurturing role Eurycleia has played for both father and son. In these respects, the return to Ithaca seems also to be a return to the familiar, hierarchical values presented to Telemachus on his miniature odyssey.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n And yet identity is never so fluid as it is in the second half of the epic, authority never so elusive. Though the scar represents the absolute fixity of self, what saves Odysseus on Ithaca is his capacity not to be who he is. This same ability to reconstruct himself in accordance with the demands of circumstance freed him from the cave of Polyphemus and taught him how to approach NausicaÃ¤. Were Odysseus merely to weave these impostures to overcome imminent danger, little sense of contradiction with the idea of a solid core of self would result. But such shifting marks Odysseus''s character even more deeply than the scar does. So habitually does he transform himself into someone else that by the time he approaches his father, the aged LaÃ«rtes, in the guise of yet another wandering stranger, the excuse that he needs to test the old man''s loyalty has worn nearly transparent. The hero''s tendency to assume other selves has not only come to define him, it connects him most nearly with the divine. For the gods can be anything, as Athene''s transformations into man, woman, child, and bird affirm; to be stuck as oneself is to be merely human. Odysseus reaches his apogee not by his glorious force of arms, but by his lies and fictions. In one of the most charming moments of the work, Athene recognizes their unity in owning the divine gift of the creation of what is not: "Bold, shifty, and inexhaustible of lies, will you not now within your land cease from the false misleading tales which from the bottom of your heart you love? . . . you are far the best of men in plots and tales, and I of all the gods am famed for craft and lies." When Odysseus acknowledges of his patron that "You take all forms," he might as well be talking about himself. Nor does the scar suffice to confirm the hero''s identity to his feminine alter ego, Penelope. She acknowledges her husband only when he shows that he remembers the secret of their bed. Such a test of identity-with all the erotic overtones that a private, mutual knowledge of the bed evokes, an implicitly carnal knowledge-depends not on the exterior, public reputation preserved in that reminder of past deeds, the scar, but on a private, intangible, even unspeakable knowing of who someone is. Nowhere does the work come closer to identifying the interior sense of desire as the heart of selfhood.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The poem also equivocates in its rhetorical support for the hierarchical system by which the man at the top of the ladder, so long as he acts justly, exercises complete authority to enforce order down to the bottom rung. The careful differentiation the poem makes between the really vicious, the merely weak, and the nearly sympathetic suitors transforms the hero''s slaughter of his foes from exultant triumph to, at best, regrettable necessity. While Homer never challenges the morality of Odysseus''s actions, this differentiation modulates the emotional tone of his victory. Even more tellingly, the poem refuses to allow the killing of the suitors and their mistresses to be a resolution. Since the first book, the confrontation of Odysseus and the enemies occupying his house has been anticipated as a climax, a final judgment between chaos and authority. Surprisingly, it is nothing of the kind. Indeed, Odysseus''s victory lasts only the length of a single night, after which he must embark on a new journey, leaving Penelope yet again to escape the vengeance of his victims'' families. In the hills, he gathers fresh support from his father''s household; the suitors'' families pursue and the fighting begins all over again. Since what the poem seems to have advertised as Odysseus''s greatest triumph fails to bring peace, the human capacity to enforce order by strength of arms falls into grave doubt. The killing only stops when the gods command it, forestalling its resumption by blacking out the bitter memories of the survivors. If memory itself leads men to war, how can it be in any king''s power to make a lasting peace?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n So Ithaca appears after the Odyssean tour of alternative worlds. And yet in a sense we remain in an alternative world even after the hero of the epic has come among the familiar scenes of his homeland: the alternative world of fiction. The second half of the epic makes readers more conscious of storytelling than ever, virtually offering a seminar on the nature and uses of fiction. When Odysseus spends his first night with his wife, he tells her the whole tale of the\n <em>\n  Odyssey\n </em>\n in compressed and chronological form. This condensation neatly contains the epic and at the same time alerts us by contrast to the complexities of the tale''s nonchronological, expansive construction. For that matter, little occurs in the poem that is not also narrated; even the suitors tell the story of their slaughter amid the shades of the underworld, delighting Agamemnon. What is real, what lasts, it seems, is the story, not the event. Fictions may, of course, be simple lies; the disguised Odysseus deceives both Eumaeus and Penelope by claiming to be a Cretan veteran of the Trojan War who suffered difficulties among the Phoenicians and Egyptians-and who has encountered the great Odysseus himself. Every detail of this moonshine rings true, the tale confining itself to plausible circumstances among well-known peoples of the Mediterranean coast; as the narrator observes about his surrogate storyteller: "He made the many falsehoods of his tale seem like the truth." No monsters haunt the tracks of Aethon-the name Odysseus adopts in deceiving Penelope-no one hears the Sirens sing, no one changes form, and no one speaks to the dead. Within the confines of the poem, then, the apparently impossible (the actual voyage of Odysseus) is true and the entirely plausible (the journey Odysseus makes up) is false, implicitly suggesting that the truth of a story is not to be found in the accuracy of its events to what we perceive as daily reality, but in their signif...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1216'),
(2010, 'Of Human Bondage', 'W. Somerset Maugham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Of Human Bondage (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham is a semi-autobiographical novel, a striking psychological masterwork of one young man''s life journey, obsession, love, alienation and personal vulnerability.\n</p>\n<p>\n Philip Carey, subtle, intellectual and artistic, is born with a club foot, a condition which causes him lifelong psychological torment. Philip spends his youth as an art student in Paris, then as a medical student in London. He forms friendships, relationships, observes beauty and engages in a variety of social interaction. He experiences a loss of faith, poverty, extravagance, and becomes sensually obsessed with an ultimately vulgar and worthless woman who reappears at different stages of his life and causes him to reassess his own maturity and self-worth.\n</p>\n<p>\n A classic exploration of human bonds, needs, passion, and self-delusion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1187'),
(2011, 'Of Mice and Men', 'John Steinbeck &amp; Susan Shillinglaw', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steinbeck refuses to allow himself to be pigeonholed. This is as completely different from Tortilla Flat and In Dubious Battle as they are from each other. Only in his complete understanding of the proletarian mentality does he sustain a connecting link - though this is assuredly not a "proletarian novel". It is oddly absorbing - this picture of the strange friendship between the strong man and the giant with the mind of a not-quite-bright child. Driven from job to job by the failure of the giant child to fit into the social pattern, they finally find - in a ranch - what they feel their chance to achieve a homely dream they have built. There''s a simplicity, a directness, a poignancy in the story that gives it a singular power, difficult to define. Steinbeck is a genius - and an original. (\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.\n</p>\n<p>\n Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersâ€”and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/135'),
(2012, 'Official Book Club Selection According to Kathy Griffin', 'Kathy Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Conversation with Kathy Griffin:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Q: State your name and profession.\n <br />\n KG: My name is Kathy Griffin, and I am a teller of d\n <em>\n  k jokes. And a plumber.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: This is your first book. Had you ever considered writing anything before? A novel? Or a work of historical scholarship? Or a children''s story?\n  <br />\n </strong>\n KG: I had not considered it, because I''d always been told by the nuns at St. Bernadine''s that my cursive was poor. A children'' s story is an interesting idea. How''s this for a title: "Waterboarding Pre-Teens: The Debate is Back On." I have a political side as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: You seem fairly obsessed with Oprah. Is this something you''ll ever outgrow?\n  <br />\n </strong>\n KG: I will never outgrow my obsession with Oprah. Just as she will never outgrow her cardigan sweaters. Oops, she already has. Now look, that sounds like a dig, but it''s not. It''s called a struggle, and I''m on it with her. I support her. (Not as much as she needs those underwire bras to support her, because she''s got some serious ropes and pulleys going on there.) The point is, I worship her, and fear her at the same time. And believe me, that'' s how she wants it. Don''t be fooled.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Did I miss something? Where''s Celine Dion in this book?\n  <br />\n </strong>\n KG: I didn''t write about Celine Dion, only because of my fear of her husband Rene Angelil. I have an unfounded but constant fear that he could be in the French-Canadian mafia. Or have French-Canadian mafia ties, and by ties I don''t mean les cravats. And I fear that I may be abducted, whisked away and held prisoner at a charming little brasserie in Montreal, forced to eat multiple Croque Monsieur sandwiches until I confess to knowing the lyrics to every single one of her songs.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: What do you think gays should take away from reading this book?\n  <br />\n </strong>\n KG: I think the gays should be happy with this book. It talks a lot about being who you are, and I certainly mention a lot of gay people. I would say it definitely has strong gay themes, and the gay community should know that frankly it has been a moral struggle for me to even acknowledge the heterosexual community in this book at all. But I am slowly reaching out an olive branch to the heterosexual community, even though I believe everything they do goes against the teachings of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But I''m trying not to judge them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q: Describe your ideal, make-a-wish day of personal experiences with bats\n </strong>\n t celebrities.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  KG: Well, it would start with some sort of a fit in the hair-and-makeup trailer on a set. I heard a story that when Sharon Stone was working on "Casino," she got into such a fight with her hairdresser, that after he spent four hours doing this beautiful bouffant hairdo for her, she got up and walked in the sink and put her head underwater. I have no idea if that''s true, but I hope it is, cause that''s some awesome s\n </strong>\n t I would love to see. Then it would go right to lunch, where I could witness an eating disorder. Maybe a Lohan is purging in a bush somewhere with her finger down her throat. Or perhaps there''s an Olsen twin on a scale crying because she finally tipped 100. Any outburst over weight I would cherish. Also, it would be great to see an actress have a workload meltdown. So maybe at 2:00 some A-lister saying, "I can''t handle this s\n <em>\n  t anymore." Because I love when actors can''t deal with a normal workday, and they think two in the afternoon is like midnight, so I would love to see somebody storming to their car, exhausted because they''ve put in a grueling four-hour workday of saying three lines and texting their nanny. Then it''s maybe off to an illicit affair. At the top of my wish list would be following a rapper or a football player over to his baby mama''s house where a screaming match ensues to the point where someone, maybe me, has to anonymously dial 911, and then I take a couple pictures, and I become an unannounced star witness later at the trial, entering Joan Collins-style in a smashing hat. And then at the end of the day it''s a healthy round of clubbing with Janice Dickinson, and then on the way home we go to the Beverly Glen pharmacy and run into Paula Abdul. All three of us secretly take our small white-paper pharmacy bags and put them behind our backs and make uncomfortable small talk.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Official Book Club Selection\n </strong>\n is Kathy Griffin unplugged, uncensored, and unafraid to dish about what really happens on the road, away from the cameras, and at the star party after the show. (It''s also her big chance to score that coveted book club endorsement she''s always wanted. Are you there, Oprah? It''s me, Kathy.)\n</p>\n<p>\n Kathy Griffin has won Emmys for her reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, been nominated for a Grammy, worked and walked every red carpet known to man, and rung in the New Year with Anderson Cooper. But the legions of fans who pack Kathy''s sold-out comedy shows have heard only part of her remarkable story. Writing with her trademark wit, the feisty comic settles a few old scores, celebrates the friends and mentors who helped her claw her way to the top, and shares insider gossip about celebrity behaviorâ€“the good, the bad, and the very ugly. She recounts the crazy ups and downs of her own career and introduces us to some of the supertalented people she encountered before they got famous (or, in some cases, after fame went to their heads). Word to the wise: If you''ve ever crossed Kathy Griffin at some point in your life, check the index for your name.\n</p>\n<p>\n Along the way, Kathy reveals intimate details about her life before and after she made the big time. She opens up about everything from growing up with a dysfunctional family in suburban Illinois to bombing as a young comedian in L.A., from her well-publicized plastic surgery disasters to her highly publicized divorce, and more. Only in this book will you learn how the dinner table is the best training ground for a career in stand-up, how speaking your mind can bite you on the ass and buy you a house, and which people in Kathy''s life have taught her the most valuable lessonsâ€“both inside and outside the entertainment industry. And as if all that wasn''t enough, there are also dozens of exclusive and somewhat embarrassing photos from Kathy''s own collectionâ€“featuring the diva of the D List herself, with her old nose as well as her new one, plus celebrity friends, foes, frenemies, and hangers-on for you to gawk at.\n</p>\n<p>\n Refreshingly candid, unflinchingly honest, and full of hilarious "Did she really say that?" moments,\n <strong>\n  Official Book Club Selection\n </strong>\n will make you laugh until you cry, or just puke up a little bit.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/692'),
(2013, 'Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n It began on April Fool''s Day, 1945, which was also Easter Sunday. It lasted eighty-four days. In that time the United States lost its commander in chief, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and at the site of the battle itself, lost its most beloved war correspondent, Ernie Pyle. In that time Germany was finally defeated, but when GIs on the island heard the news, they snorted in contempt - "So what?" For these men were fighting for their own lives against a tenacious Japanese force whose goal was to "bleed all over" the Americans and thus drown them in Japanese blood. To achieve final victory over Japan, Okinawa had to be seized; it would be a catapult for the planned invasion of Japan itself. And so the U.S. Marines and Army attacked Okinawa with 540,000 men and 1,600 seagoing ships, eclipsing even D-Day in troops, tonnage, and firepower. But Japanese troops were hunkered down in a honeycomb of caves and terrain that the U.S. Tenth Army commander, Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, called the most formidable fixed position in the history of warfare. And General Buckner asked his men to employ "corkscrew and blowtorch" - explosives and flame - to conquer the island. What he didn''t need to ask for was individual heroism. For the last battle of World War II was full of acts of valor that went far beyond the call of duty. At the end, American casualties totaled almost 50,000. But the Japanese were left with 100,000 dead. And Nippon''s navy was crushed, 7,800 of its planes lost, many in the last frenzied kamikaze attacks of the war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/978'),
(2014, 'Old Man and the Sea', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact\n <em>\n  The Old Man and the Sea\n </em>\n revived Ernest Hemingway''s career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as\n <em>\n  Across the River and into the Trees\n </em>\n . It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it''s still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway''s favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author''s later work: "The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords." Hemingway''s style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: "The old man was dreaming about the lions." Perhaps there''s some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but\n <em>\n  The Old Man and the Sea\n </em>\n was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway''s career.\n <em>\n  --James Marcus\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "''The best story Hemingway has written...No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently'' Sunday Times"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/650'),
(2015, 'Oliver Twist', 'Charles Dickens &amp; Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The inimitable Martin Jarvis brings his talents to bear on Charles Dickens''s classic in an audiobook that will delight listeners with its superb recreations of gritty 19th-century London. To escape Mr. Bumble and life in the workhouse, Oliver flees to London where he meets the Artful Dodger and becomes embroiled with Fagin''s ragtag band of thieves. Jarvis simply dazzles: his performance captures both the humor and sorrow of the text, his narration is crisp, and his characterizations--his rendition of the terrifying district magistrate, Mr. Fang, is particularly memorable--are as varied as they are energetic, befitting, and enjoyable.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oliver Twist was Dickens''s second novel and one of his darkest, dealing with burglary, kidnapping, child abuse, prostitution, and murder. Alongside this gallery of horrors are the corrupt and incompetent institutions of 19th-century England set up to address social problems and instead making them worse. The author''s moral indignation drives the creation of some of his most memorably grotesque characters: squirming, vile Fagin; brutal Bill Sykes; the brooding, sickly Monks; and Bumble, the pompous and incorrigibly dense beadle. Clearly, a reading of this work must carry the author''s passionate narrative voice while being flexible and broad enough to define the wide range of character voices suggested by the text. John Wells''s capable but bland reading only suggests the rich possibilities of the material. Restraint and Dickens simply don''t go together. The abridgment deftly and seamlessly manages to deliver all major characters and plot lines, but there are many superior audiobook versions of this material, both abridged and unabridged. Not recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -John Owen, Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, CA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/856');
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(2016, 'Olympos', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Welcome back to the Trojan War gone round the bend. Hector and Achilles have joined forces against the Olympic Gods. Back on a future Earth, assorted creatures from Shakespeare''s\n <em>\n  The Tempest\n </em>\n get ready to rumble in a winner-takes-the-universe battle royale. And amid it all, a group of confused mere mortals with their classically trained robot allies (from Jupiter no less) race across time and space to keep from getting squashed as the various Titans of the Western Canon square off.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confused? It''s all part of Dan Simmons''s\n <em>\n  Olympos\n </em>\n , a novel one part fun-with-quantum-physics and two parts through-the-looking-glass survey of Western Literature. Picking up where he left off in the high-wire act\n <em>\n  Ilium\n </em>\n , Simmons doesn''t disappoint. Not only is\n <em>\n  Olympos\n </em>\n excellent hard science fiction and grand space opera, it''s a riveting and fast-paced book that is alternately shocking, thrilling, and often deftly hilarious as his hapless human creations wrestle the forces of literary history itself. Be sure to read\n <em>\n  Ilium\n </em>\n first though. That and a more-than passing familiarity with\n <em>\n  The Illiad\n </em>\n might come in handy for the journey to Mars, Ilium''s far-off shores, and the Earth that might be. --\n <em>\n  Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Master of the Universes\n  </em>\n  : An Exclusive Interview with Dan Simmons\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Changing genres as easily as others change clothes, bestselling author Dan Simmons has written horror, mystery, historical fiction, thrillers, fantasy, and science fiction. In this Amazon.com exclusive interview, he talks about his latest SF triumph,\n <em>\n  Olympos\n </em>\n , a tale of Mars, the Greek gods, and survival in a post-human world.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Drawing from Homer''s\n <em>\n  Iliad\n </em>\n , Shakespeare''s\n <em>\n  Tempest\n </em>\n and the work of several 19th-century poets, Simmons achieves another triumph in this majestic, if convoluted, sequel to his much-praised\n <em>\n  Ilium\n </em>\n (2003). Posthumans masquerading as the Greek gods and living on Mars travel back and forth through time and alternate universes to interfere in the real Trojan War, employing a resurrected late 20th-century classics professor, Thomas Hockenberry, as their tool. Meanwhile, the last remaining old-style human beings on a far-future Earth must struggle for survival against a variety of hostile forces. Superhuman entities with names like Prospero, Caliban and Ariel lay complex plots, using human beings as game pieces. From the outer solar system, an advanced race of semiorganic Artificial Intelligences, called moravecs, observe Earth and Mars in consternation, trying to make sense of the situation, hoping to shift the balance of power before out-of-control quantum forces destroy everything. This is powerful stuff, rich in both high-tech sense of wonder and literary allusions, but Simmons is in complete control of his material as half a dozen baroque plot lines smoothly converge on a rousing and highly satisfying conclusion.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1051'),
(2017, 'The Omnivore&#39;s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Signature]Reviewed by\n <em>\n  Pamela Kaufman\n </em>\n Pollan (\n <em>\n  The Botany of Desire\n </em>\n ) examines what he calls "our national eating disorder" (the Atkins craze, the precipitous rise in obesity) in this remarkably clearheaded book. It''s a fascinating journey up and down the food chain, one that might change the way you read the label on a frozen dinner, dig into a steak or decide whether to buy organic eggs. You''ll certainly never look at a Chicken McNugget the same way again.Pollan approaches his mission not as an activist but as a naturalist: "The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world." All food, he points out, originates with plants, animals and fungi. "[E]ven the deathless Twinkie is constructed out of... well, precisely\n <em>\n  what\n </em>\n I don''t know offhand, but ultimately some sort of formerly living creature, i.e., a\n <em>\n  species\n </em>\n . We haven''t yet begun to synthesize our foods from petroleum, at least not directly."Pollan''s narrative strategy is simple: he traces four meals back to their ur-species. He starts with a McDonald''s lunch, which he and his family gobble up in their car. Surprise: the origin of this meal is a cornfield in Iowa. Corn feeds the steer that turns into the burgers, becomes the oil that cooks the fries and the syrup that sweetens the shakes and the sodas, and makes up 13 of the 38 ingredients (yikes) in the Chicken McNuggets.Indeed, one of the many eye-openers in the book is the prevalence of corn in the American diet; of the 45,000 items in a supermarket, more than a quarter contain corn. Pollan meditates on the freakishly protean nature of the corn plant and looks at how the food industry has exploited it, to the detriment of everyone from farmers to fat-and-getting-fatter Americans. Besides Stephen King, few other writers have made a corn field seem so sinister.Later, Pollan prepares a dinner with items from Whole Foods, investigating the flaws in the world of "big organic"; cooks a meal with ingredients from a small, utopian Virginia farm; and assembles a feast from things he''s foraged and hunted.This may sound earnest, but Pollan isn''t preachy: he''s too thoughtful a writer, and too dogged a researcher, to let ideology take over. He''s also funny and adventurous. He bounces around on an old International Harvester tractor, gets down on his belly to examine a pasture from a cow''s-eye view, shoots a wild pig and otherwise throws himself into the making of his meals. I''m not convinced I''d want to go hunting with Pollan, but I''m sure I''d enjoy having dinner with him. Just as long as we could eat at a table, not in a Toyota.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <em>\n  Pamela Kaufman is executive editor at\n </em>\n Food &amp; Wine\n <em>\n  magazine.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Botany of Desire\n </em>\n (2001), about how people and plants coevolve, Michael Pollan teased greater issues from speciously small phenomena.\n <em>\n  The Omnivore''s Dilemma\n </em>\n exhibits this same gift; a Chicken McNugget, for example, illustrates our consumption of corn and, in turn, agribusiness''s oil dependency. In a journey that takes us from an "organic" California chicken farm to Vermont, Pollan asks basic questions about the moral and ecological consequences of our food. Critics agree it''s a wake-up call and, written in clear, informative prose, also entertaining. Most found Pollan''s quest for his foraged meal the highlight, though the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n faulted Pollan''s hypocritical method of "living off the land." Many also voiced a desire for a more concrete vision for the future. But if the book doesn''t outline a diet plan, it''s nonetheless a loud, convincing call for change.[HTML_REMOVED]\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/296'),
(2018, 'On Every Side', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  After suffering the loss of his mother and separation from his sister and the girl he loved, Jordan Riley fills the holes in his soul with anger. But Faith Evans begins to disassemble the walls around Jordan â€™s heart, and he realizes thereâ€™s something very familiar about herâ€¦\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Everything Is on the Line\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ...for Faith Evans,\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  an up-and-coming newscaster. A woman of honor and integrity, who finds herself making a stand against the one man she never imagined would be her enemy...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ...for Jordan Riley,\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  a powerful attorney dedicated to fighting for human rights and against God. A man still reckoning with the boyhood loss of the three women who once meant everything to him...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ...for Bethany, Pennsylvania,\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  a small town no one ever dreamed would become the center of national attention. But it has. All because of a beloved, hundred-year-old statue of Jesus Christ that stands in Bethanyâ€™s park. A statue that some say is a clear violation of separation of church and state. A statue that has to come down. A statue that suddenly becomes the focus of a bitter conflictâ€”one rife with political intrigue, social injustice, and personal conflicts. Before itâ€™s over, everything that Jordan and Faith and the town of Bethany stand for will be challenged.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Will love be enough when the battle rages on every side?\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Story Behind the Book\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEach of my novels is a piece of my heart.\n  <em>\n   Where Yesterday Lives\n  </em>\n  was my first-ever novel, and as such it is somewhat autobiographical. The childhood story of Ellen Barrett, her love for her parents and siblings, is my storyâ€”though her current story and struggles are fictional.\n  <em>\n   On Every Side\n  </em>\n  sheds light on the struggle for religious freedom in todayâ€™s climate; something I am passionate about. Finally,\n  <em>\n   When Joy Came to Stay\n  </em>\n  is the story of one womanâ€™s battle against depression and the secrets of her past.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Karen Kingsbury\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kingsbury offers up another of her morality tales with On Every Side, about Jordan Riley, a lawyer who tries to get a statue of Jesus removed from a park in his old hometown but runs into a lost love, Faith Moses, who opposes him. Faith is a TV news anchor, good at her job, whose bosses criticize her for working in too many religious stories. Kingsbury bases her romance on a true story, but in her hands, it''s little more than propaganda, since Jordan''s point of view is given no real credence. He came to it because of childhood trauma, and, of course, Faith shows him the error of his ways.\n  <em>\n   John Mort\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Karen Kingsbury\n  </strong>\n  is one of America â€™s favorite inspirational storytellers, best known for her Life-Changing Fictionâ„¢. She is the author of more than thirty emotionally gripping novels, many of which have been adapted for film and television. Previously a staff writer for the\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  and a People magazine contributor, Karen lives with her husband and six children in the Pacific Northwest.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2423'),
(2019, 'On Mystic Lake', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  What do you do when everything you hold dear, everything you believe yourself to be, proves not to be true? Like Scarlett O''Hara, you go home, if not to Tara, then to the last place that you felt like you. Award-winning author Kristin Hannah makes her hardcover debut by taking readers to just such a place in\n  <em>\n   On Mystic Lake\n  </em>\n  . As her only child leaves to study abroad and her husband admits his love for a younger woman, Annie Colwater feels invisible. Having devoted herself to being the best wife and mother she could be for the last 20 years, Annie no longer knows who she is. She heads home to her father and to Mystic, Washington--where she grew up, where the dreams she barely remembers first blossomed, and where her first love, Nick Delacroix, still lives. Back in Mystic, Annie receives a healthy dose of perspective: Nick''s wife has recently committed suicide, leaving Nick to find solace in the bottom of a Scotch bottle while his 6-year-old daughter, Izzie--who hasn''t spoken since her mother''s death--is doing her best to "disappear" just like Mommy. Annie volunteers to care for Izzie, since Nick cannot understand what his grieving daughter needs. And in the process, Annie recovers herself, the woman she thought gone forever, while Nick realizes that his future lies with Annie and Izzie. Just when the future starts to look bright for the three, Annie is faced with a devastating choice between the life she thought had left her behind, and a new beginning with Nick and Izzie, who helped to unearth her forgotten dreams. Kristin Hannah has produced a treasure of a book, one that will make you cry and will strike a chord in anyone who has ever had to pick up the pieces and start over.\n  <em>\n   --Alison Trinkle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her first hardcover after a distinguished career in paperback romance (Home Again), Hannah shows what it takes for an author to make that defining leap. Never one to gush, she is more than ever disciplined in her writing, and the result is a clean, deep thrust into the reader''s heart. Annie Colwater knows she''s in for a spell of loneliness when her 17-year-old daughter, Natalie, leaves Southern California for a summer in London, but the teary airport farewell is just the beginning of a chaotic time. Blake, Annie''s husband, tells her that he wants a divorce so he can start a new life with his sweetheart, a young partner in his law firm. Blake''s a cad?a habitual philanderer, and the sort of father who forgets birthdays?but we don''t totally blame him for bailing out. Annie is Natalie''s doting mother, Blake''s dutiful wife and otherwise barely there. In search of the self she must find to survive, Annie goes back to Mystic, Wash., and the home of her father, gruffly loving Hank Borne, who did his best to raise her after the early death of her mother. Maternal loss is a terrain Hannah seems to know to a harrowing fare-thee-well. Annie''s redemption begins with her profound kindness to six-year-old Isabella Delacroix, whose mother, Kathy?once Annie''s best friend?has recently died. A romance with alcoholic cop Nick, Isabella''s father, unfolds tenderly and with suspense, for all its inevitability. When Annie discovers she is pregnant with Blake''s child, and then gives birth prematurely to a tiny girl who may not survive, the phrase "page-turner" is redefined. In Hannah''s world, nothing can be taken for granted and triumph must be earned, with hard work, truthful reckoning and tears. 100,000 first printing; first serial to Good Housekeeping; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections; film rights optioned by Hearst Entertainment; rights sold in the U.K., Germany, France, Sweden and China.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1920'),
(2020, 'On the Road', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouacâ€™s classic novel that defined a generation\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as\n <em>\n  On the Road\n </em>\n . Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac''s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "beat" and has inspired generations of writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite their discovery of the book as the event that "set them free." Based on Kerouac''s adventures with Neal Cassady,\n <em>\n  On the Road\n </em>\n tells the story of two friends whose four cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naÃ¯vetÃ© and wild abandon, and imbued with Kerouac''s love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz,\n <em>\n  On the Road\n </em>\n is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up. This hardcover edition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of the novel in 1957 and will be a must-have for any literature lover.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Celebrating 50 Years of *On the Road\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n In three weeks in a Manhattan apartment in April 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first satisfactory draft of\n <em>\n  On the Road\n </em>\n as a single, 120-foot scroll.\n <em>\n  On the Road: The Original Scroll\n </em>\n prints the text of this remarkable literary artifact in book form.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of\n </em>\n On the Road\n <em>\n  (They''re Not What You Think)\n </em>\n : John Leland, author of\n <em>\n  Hip: A History\n </em>\n , argues that\n <em>\n  On the Road\n </em>\n still matters not for its youthful rebellion but because it is full of lessons about how to grow up.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the back cover of\n <em>\n  On the Road: The Original Scroll\n </em>\n : Jack Kerouac displaying one of his later scroll manuscripts, most likely\n <em>\n  The Dharma Bums\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Kerouac''s map of his first hitchhiking trip, July-October 1947 (click image to see the full map)\n</p>\n<p>\n Original\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n review of\n <em>\n  On the Road\n </em>\n (click image to see the full review)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  On the Road\n </em>\n chronicles Kerouac''s years traveling the North American continent-from East Coast to West Coast to Mexico-with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Read by Will Patton\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/671'),
(2021, 'The Once and Future King', 'Terence Hanbury White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Quartet of novels by T.H. White, published in a single volume in 1958. The quartet comprises The Sword in the Stone (1938), The Queen of Air and Darkness--first published as The Witch in the Wood (1939)--The Ill-Made Knight (1940), and The Candle in the Wind (published in the composite volume, 1958). The series is a retelling of the Arthurian legend, from Arthur''s birth to the end of his reign, and is based largely on Sir Thomas Malory''s Le Morte Darthur. After White''s death, a conclusion to The Once and Future King was found among his papers; it was published in 1977 as The Book of Merlyn. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Describes King Arthur''s life from childhood to coronation, creation of the Round Table, and search for the Holy Grail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1028'),
(2022, 'One Door Away From Heaven', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dean Koontz virtually invented the cross-genre novel, and in\n <em>\n  One Door Away from Heaven\n </em>\n he mixes an action thriller with post-\n <em>\n  X-Files\n </em>\n alien paranoia to remarkable effect. Micky Bellsong is a young woman at a crisis point in her life, using a stay at her Aunt Geneva''s to sort things out. Then the precocious and deformed Leilani Klonk walks into her life, telling stories of her stepfather and drugged-up mother, who believe aliens will beam the girl into their mothership and heal her deformities before her 10th birthday. But tales of the stepfather''s vicious past, including his hand in several murders, leave Micky believing that a far more terrible fate awaits her friend. So when the parents take off with Leilani, Micky pursues.\n</p>\n<p>\n As is typical with a Koontz novel, nothing turns out to be what it seems, and the meticulously crafted plot tightens like a noose with every turn of the page. His characters are exceptionally drawn, driving the novel forward with realism and warmth. Micky is one of his more attractive young heroines, but the real star is Leilani, a mature young girl whose plucky nature and sparkling dialogue instantly make her Koontz''s most memorable creation. She embodies his belief that despite violence, pain, and suffering, there is always goodness to be found in every person and situation. Koontz has once again proven why he is one of the premier novelists of his generation.\n <em>\n  --Jonathan Weir, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Koontz''s latest is powered by an impassioned stand against utilitarian bioethics, and it''s chock-a-block with trademark characters vulnerable kids, nurturing parental substitutes, a dog of above-average intelligence and a villain of insuperable nastiness sure to provoke a pleasurable conditioned response from his readers. The discursive story coalesces from two converging subplots steeped in the weirdness of fringe ufology: in one, loser Michelina Bellsong struggles to save crippled nine-year-old Leilani Klonk from an evil stepdad planning to pass off her imminent disposal as a benevolent alien abduction; in the other, a strange boy who goes by the alias Curtis Hammond is the quarry of two cross-country manhunts, one led by the FBI and the other by mass murderers who, like the messianic Curtis, may not be what they seem. En route to a pyrotechnic finale in rural Idaho, Koontz shoots bull''s-eyes at target issues that shape his theme, including assisted suicide, substance abuse, the irresponsibility of the counterculture and the goofiness of true-believer ET enthusiasts. Koontz''s once form-fitting style has gotten baggy of late, however, and readers may find themselves wishing he had better filtered the flights of fancy his characters sometimes indulge at chapter length. For all that, the novel is surprisingly focused on its inspirational message "we are the instruments of one another''s salvation and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light" and conveys it with such conviction that only the most critical will demur. (Dec. 26)Forecast: A terrific cover, depicting two female figures on a country path beneath a star-filled night sky, will alert browsers to the awe and mystery within the novel; Koontz''s name and Bantam''s promo machine will do the rest. Koontz could hit #1 with this one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/521'),
(2023, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#39;s Nest', 'Ken Kesey &amp; Joe Sacco &amp; Chuck Palahniuk &amp; Robert Faggen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A glittering parable of good and evil."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A visually arresting deluxe edition of Ken Kesey''s counterculture classic\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey''s 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now in a new deluxe edition with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk and cover by Joe Sacco, here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy''s heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them all imprisoned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/486'),
(2024, 'One for the Money', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephanie Plum is so smart, so honest, and so funny that her narrative charm could drive a documentary on termites. But this tough gal from New Jersey, an unemployed discount lingerie buyer, has a much more interesting story to tell: She has to say that her Miata has been repossessed and that she''s so poor at the moment that she just drank her last bottle of beer for breakfast. She has to say that her only chance out of her present rut is her repugnant cousin Vinnie and his bail-bond business. She has to say that she blackmailed Vinnie into giving her a bail-bond recovery job worth $10,000 (for a murder suspect), even though she doesn''t own a gun and has never apprehended a person in her life. And she has to say that the guy she has to get, Joe Morelli, is the same creep who charmed away her teenage virginity behind the pastry case in the Trenton bakery where she worked after school.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If that hard-luck story doesn''t sound compelling enough, Stephanie''s several unsuccessful attempts at pulling in Joe make a downright hilarious and suspenseful tale of murder and deceit. Along the way, several more outlandish (but unrelentingly real) characters join the story, including Benito Ramirez, a champion boxer who seems to be following Stephanie Plum wherever she goes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Janet Evanovich shares an authentic feel for the streets of Trenton in her debut mystery (she developed her talents in a string of romance novels before creating Ms. Plum), and her tough, frank, and funny first-person narrator offers a winning mix of vulgarity and sensitivity. Evanovich is certainly among the best of the new voices to emerge in the mystery field of the 1990s.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  First novels this funny and self-assured come along rarely; dialogue this astute and raunchy is equally unusual. The gutsy heroine introduced here is Stephanie Plum of Trenton, N.J., a recently laid-off lingerie buyer who has no job, no car and no furniture. She does have a hamster, a deranged grandmother, two caring parents and several pairs of biking shorts and sports bras. Finding work with her cousin Vinnie, she becomes a bond hunter and scrounges money enough to buy a gun, a Chevy Nova and some Mace. Her first assignment is to locate a cop accused of murder. Joe Morelli grew up in Stephanie''s neighborhood. Possessed of legendary charm, he relieved Stephanie of her virginity when she was 16 (she later ran over him with a car). In her search, Stephanie catches her prey, loses him and grills a psychotic prizefighter, the employer of the man Morelli shot. She steals Morelli''s car and then installs an alarm so he can''t steal it back. Resourceful and tough, Stephanie has less difficulty finding her man than deciding what she wants to do with him once she''s got him. While the link between the fighter and the cop isn''t clear until too late in the plot, Evanovich''s debut is a delightful romp and Stephanie flaunts a rough-edged appeal. Mystery Guild alternate; author tour; film rights optioned to Tri-Star.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/785'),
(2025, 'One Shot', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The final sentence of Child''s ninth suspenser (after\n <em>\n  The Enemy\n </em>\n )â€”"Then he could buy a pair of shoes and be just about anywhere before the sun went down"â€”is quintessential Jack Reacher, the rugged ex-army cop who practically defines the word "loner" and kicks ass with the best of ''em. In the book''s gripping opening, five people are killed when a shooter opens fire in a small unnamed Indiana city. But when ex-infantry specialist James Barr is apprehended, he refuses to talk, saying only, "Get Jack Reacher for me." But Reacher''s already en route; having seen a news story on the shooting, he heads to the scene with disturbing news of his own: "[Barr''s] done this before. And once was enough." Nothing is what it seems in the riveting puzzle, as vivid set pieces and rapid-fire dialogue culminate in a slam-bang showdown in the villains'' lair. (And what villains: a quintet of Russian Ã©migrÃ©s, the stuff of everybody''s worst nightmares, led by a wily 80-year-old who makes Freddy Krueger look like Little Lord Fauntleroy.) As usual, Child makes the most of Reacher''s dry wit, cut-to-the-chase psychology and stubborn taciturnityâ€”in short, this is a vintage double play for author and leading man.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From The New Yorker\n</h3>\n<p>\n Child''s new novel begins when a sniper methodically kills five office workers with six quick shots and then disappears. But in a Child thriller the expectations aroused by one page are sure to be dashed on the next; unravelling and re-tangling violent narratives is the writer''s specialty. This is the ninth of his books to feature the drifter-investigator Jack Reacherâ€”a hybrid of John D. MacDonald''s Travis McGee and Mickey Spillane''s Mike Hammerâ€”and it certainly ranks in the first tier of the series. There is considerable mayhem, lovingly described ("A long time ago the bones in his spine had been methodically cracked with an engineer''s ball-peen hammer"), and there''s a good cast, including suspicious law-enforcement personnel and an elderly Russian who is missing most of his fingers. Before it''s all, vividly, over, one feels confident that Reacherâ€”smart, rootless, and braveâ€”will not only get his man but make him suffer.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/963'),
(2026, 'One Tuesday Morning / Beyond Tuesday Morning Compilation Limited Edition: WITH Beyond Tuesday Morning', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Based on the tragedy of the Twin Towers ... twopowerful novels of heroism, loss, and redemptionby New York Times bestselling author Karen KingsburyONE TUESDAY MORNING The last thing Jake Bryan knew was the sound of the World Trade Center collapsing on top of him and his fellow firefighters. The man in the hospital bed remembers nothing. Not rushing with his teammates up the stairway of the south tower to help trapped victims. Not being blasted from the building. And not the woman sitting by his bedside who says she is his wife. Jamie Bryan will do anything to help her beloved husband regain his memory. But that means helping Jake rediscover the one thing Jamie has never shared with him: his deep faith in God.BEYOND TUESDAY MORNING Determined to find meaning in her grief three years after the terrorist attacks on New York City, FDNY widow Jamie Bryan pours her life into volunteer work at a small memorial chapel across from where the Twin Towers once stood. There, unsure and feeling somehow guilty, Jamie opens herself to the possibility of love again. But, in the face of a staggering revelation, only the persistence of a tenacious man, questions from Jamie''s curious daughter, and words from her dead husband''s journal can move Jamie beyond one Tuesday morning ... toward life.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is America''s favorite inspirational novelist, with over 15 million books in print. Her Life-Changing Fiction has produced multiple bestsellers, including Take One, Between Sundays, Even Now, One Tuesday Morning, Beyond Tuesday Morning, and Ever After, which was named the 2007 Christian Book of the Year. An award-winning author and newly published songwriter, Karen has several movies optioned for production, and her novel Like Dandelion Dust was made into a major motion picture and is now available on DVD. Karen is also a nationally known speaker with several women''s groups. She lives in Washington with her husband, Don, and their six children, three of whom were adopted from Haiti. SPANISH BIO: Karen Kingsbury es autora de mas de treinta titulos, incluyendo algunos EXITOS de venta, uno de los cuales se uso para la pelicula de la semana de CBS. Es una de las atoras favoritas de novelas inspiradoras.Se han impreso mas de dos millones de ejemplares de sus libros. Kingsbury reside en el estado de Washington con Don, su esposo, y sus seis hijos, tres de los cuales los adotatron en Haiti.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2426'),
(2027, 'Origin in Death', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in the year 2059, this latest in Robb''s long-running series (\n <em>\n  Naked in Death\n </em>\n , etc.) featuring acerbic Lt. Eve Dallas of the New York police is the best in recent memory. In the past, Robb has kept whiz-bang futuristic effects to a minimum, allowing her world to grow organically out of dialogue and characterization; this time she incorporates science fiction elementsâ€”including the future of cosmetic surgery, cloning, scientific morality and physical mortalityâ€”into her plot, giving the series a big shot of adrenaline. Eve and her partner, Det. Delia Peabody, are visiting the Wilfred B. Icove Center for Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgery on a celebrity murder case when the center''s founder, old Wilfred Icove, is discovered with a scalpel rammed into his heart. Wilfred Jr., also a surgeon at the center, is grief stricken, as is his family and most of the rest of the country. Wilfred Sr., everyone agrees, was a saint. Except he wasn''t, as Eve and savvy mystery readers will have already guessed. Eve gathers her usual crime-fighting crew around her, including her drop-dead gorgeous, fabulously wealthy, staggeringly brilliant husband, Roarke. Robb tones down the romance and ups the action ante as the team uncovers an increasingly horrific crime that builds to a race-against-the-clock climax that will have readers cheering.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "''a perfect balance of suspense, police procedural and steamy romance... Truly fine entertainment....sure to leave you hungering for more...''Publishers Weekly"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1100'),
(2028, 'The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, Volume 2', 'Charles Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/825'),
(2029, 'Orphan Star', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   One man in the Universe holds the key to the mystery of Flinxâ€™s pastâ€“and that man is trying to kill him!\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  It is a strange childhood for a kid, to be adopted by the restless Mother Mastiff and raised in the bustling marketplace of Drallar. Flinx never knew the mom and dad who abandoned him years ago. In fact, his birth has always been shrouded in mystery. But Flinx eventually discovers that his unknown parents have left him a curious legacyâ€“extraordinary mental powers that are both a marvelous gift and a dreaded curse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This double-edged legacy will lead Flinx, along with his loyal protector, the mini-dragon Pip, on a harrowing journey in search of the truth . . . about who he is and where he comes from. It is a daring adventure that brings him to another worldâ€“and into the clutches of one of the most evil and powerful men in the galaxy. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Orphan Star\n   </em>\n   is the newest addition to the Del Rey Imagine program, which offers the best in fantasy and science fiction for readers twelve and up.\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1429'),
(2030, 'Oryx and Crake', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Oryx and Crake\n  </em>\n  , a science fiction novel that is more Swift than Heinlein, more cautionary tale than "fictional science" (no flying cars here), Margaret Atwood depicts a near-future world that turns from the merely horrible to the horrific, from a fool''s paradise to a bio-wasteland. Snowman (a man once known as Jimmy) sleeps in a tree and just might be the only human left on our devastated planet. He is not entirely alone, however, as he considers himself the shepherd of a group of experimental, human-like creatures called the Children of Crake. As he scavenges and tends to his insect bites, Snowman recalls in flashbacks how the world fell apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While the story begins with a rather ponderous set-up of what has become a clichÃ©d landscape of the human endgame, littered with smashed computers and abandoned buildings, it takes on life when Snowman recalls his boyhood meeting with his best friend Crake: "Crake had a thing about him even then.... He generated awe ... in his dark laconic clothing." A dangerous genius, Crake is the book''s most intriguing character. Crake and Jimmy live with all the other smart, rich people in the Compounds--gated company towns owned by biotech corporations. (Ordinary folks are kept outside the gates in the chaotic "pleeblands.") Meanwhile, beautiful Oryx, raised as a child prostitute in Southeast Asia, finds her way to the West and meets Crake and Jimmy, setting up an inevitable love triangle. Eventually Crake''s experiments in bioengineering cause humanity''s shockingly quick demise (with uncanny echoes of SARS, ebola, and mad cow disease), leaving Snowman to try to pick up the pieces. There are a few speed bumps along the way, including some clunky dialogue and heavy-handed symbols such as Snowman''s broken watch, but once the bleak narrative gets moving, as Snowman sets out in search of the laboratory that seeded the world''s destruction, it clips along at a good pace, with a healthy dose of wry humor.\n  <em>\n   --Mark Frutkin, Amazon.ca\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Atwood has visited the future before, in her dystopian novel, The Handmaid''s Tale. In her latest, the future is even bleaker. The triple whammy of runaway social inequality, genetic technology and catastrophic climate change, has finally culminated in some apocalyptic event. As Jimmy, apparently the last human being on earth, makes his way back to the RejoovenEsencecompound for supplies, the reader is transported backwards toward that cataclysmic event, its full dimensions gradually revealed. Jimmy grew up in a world split between corporate compounds (gated communities metastasized into city-states) and pleeblands (unsafe, populous and polluted urban centers). His best friend was "Crake," the name originally his handle in an interactive Net game, Extinctathon. Even Jimmy''s mother-who ran off and joined an ecology guerrilla group when Jimmy was an adolescent-respected Crake, already a budding genius. The two friends first encountered Oryx on the Net; she was the eight-year-old star of a pedophilic film on a site called HottTotts. Oryx''s story is a counterpoint to Jimmy and Crake''s affluent adolescence. She was sold by her Southeast Asian parents, taken to the city and eventually made into a sex "pixie" in some distant country. Jimmy meets Oryx much later-after college, after Crake gets Jimmy a job with ReJoovenEsence. Crake is designing the Crakers-a new, multicolored placid race of human beings, smelling vaguely of citron. He''s procured Oryx to be his personal assistant. She teaches the Crakers how to cope in the world and goes out on secret missions. The mystery on which this riveting, disturbing tale hinges is how Crake and Oryx and civilization vanished, and how Jimmy-who also calls himself "the Snowman," after that other rare, hunted specimen, the Abominable Snowman-survived. Chesterton once wrote of the "thousand romances that lie secreted in The Origin of Species." Atwood has extracted one of the most hair-raising of them, and one of the most brilliant.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/54'),
(2031, 'Othello', 'William Shakespeare &amp; Paul Werstine &amp; Barbara A. Mowat', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Folger Shakespeare Library: the world''s leading center for Shakespeare studies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each edition includes:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Scene-by-scene plot summaries\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   A key to famous lines and phrases\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   An introduction to reading Shakespeare''s language\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library''s vast holdings of rare books\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Essay by Susan Snyder\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world''s largest collection of Shakespeare''s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/234'),
(2032, 'The Other Boleyn Girl', 'Philippa Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sisterly rivalry is the basis of this fresh, wonderfully vivid retelling of the story of Anne Boleyn. Anne, her sister Mary and their brother George are all brought to the king''s court at a young age, as players in their uncle''s plans to advance the family''s fortunes. Mary, the sweet, blond sister, wins King Henry VIII''s favor when she is barely 14 and already married to one of his courtiers. Their affair lasts several years, and she gives Henry a daughter and a son. But her dark, clever, scheming sister, Anne, insinuates herself into Henry''s graces, styling herself as his adviser and confidant. Soon she displaces Mary as his lover and begins her machinations to rid him of his wife, Katherine of Aragon. This is only the beginning of the intrigue that Gregory so handily chronicles, capturing beautifully the mingled hate and nearly incestuous love Anne, Mary and George ("kin and enemies all at once") feel for each other and the toll their family''s ambition takes on them. Mary, the story''s narrator, is the most sympathetic of the siblings, but even she is twisted by the demands of power and status; charming George, an able plotter, finally brings disaster on his own head by falling in love with a male courtier. Anne, most tormented of all, is ruthless in her drive to become queen, and then to give Henry a male heir. Rather than settling for a picturesque rendering of court life, Gregory conveys its claustrophobic, all-consuming nature with consummate skill. In the end, Anne''s famous, tragic end is offset by Mary''s happier fate, but the self-defeating folly of the quest for power lingers longest in the reader''s mind.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before Henry VIII ever considered making Anne Boleyn his wife, her older sister, Mary, was his mistress. Historical novelist Gregory (Virgin Earth) uses the perspective of this "other Boleyn girl" to reveal the rivalries and intrigues swirling through England. The sisters and their brother George were raised with one goal: to advance the Howard family''s interests, especially against the Seymours. So when Mary catches the king''s fancy, her family orders her to abandon the husband they had chosen. She bears Henry two children, including a son, but Anne''s desire to be queen drives her with ruthless intensity, alienating family and foes. As Henry grows more desperate for a legitimate son and Anne strives to replace Catherine as queen, the social fabric weakens. Mary abandons court life to live with a new husband and her children in the countryside, but love and duty bring her back to Anne time and again. We share Mary''s helplessness as Anne loses favor, and everyone abandons her amid accusations of adultery, incest, and witchcraft. Even the Boleyn parents won''t intervene for their children. Gregory captures not only the dalliances of court but the panorama of political and religious clashes throughout Europe. She controls a complicated narrative and dozens of characters without faltering, in a novel sure to please public library fans of historical fiction. Kathy Piehl, Minnesota State Univ., Mankato\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1257');
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(2033, 'Other Side of the Story', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ever wondered what the Other Woman was thinking as she stole your man? Couldn''t bear to ask an old best friend if she''d ever forgiven you for absconding with her boyfriend? Itched to be a fly on your agent''s office wall as she ignored your calls? Here''s voyeurism at its playful, charming finest in Keyes''s latest (after\n <em>\n  Sushi for Beginners\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  Under the Duvet\n </em>\n ; etc.). Gemma Hogan is living a lovely carefree life in Dublin when her father walks out on her mother, and she is summoned to play mom to her mom. But the magic of e-mail allows her to vent her woes to a friend in Seattle, who finds them hilarious enough to send to a top London agent, JoJo Harvey. JoJo, who is half Jessica Rabbit and half corporate powerhouse, likes Gemma''s work but has bigger fish to fry-she is having a tormented affair with her married boss; her slimy co-worker is trying to beat her out for a coveted partner position; and her famed client Lily Wright, who wrote a gorgeous little cheerful fable that sold hundreds of thousands of copies, can''t seem to get it together to write another book. Lily, in turn, is struggling with young motherhood, catastrophic finances and the paralyzing guilt of stealing her now-husband Anton from her former best friend, one Gemma Hogan. Keyes skillfully ties her interlocking plots together with grace and humor, and explores three disparate but gloriously real women''s lives. It''s a credit to Keyes that although she never exactly breaks new ground, she always serves up funny, heartwarming, believable fiction.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The impressively prolific Irish novelist is back with yet another delightful tale featuring three clever, totally mad women. Gemma Hogan is going through a bit of a rough patch, and it all starts with her haircut. Although she thinks she looks like Liza Minnelli in\n <em>\n  Cabaret\n </em>\n , her friends keep greeting her with the words, "Live long and prosper." In addition, her dad has run away from home. She must tend to her incredibly needy mom while juggling her job and trying to recover from losing the love of her life, Anton, to her friend Lily "Every Man for Myself" Wright. Gemma has serious vengeance issues. Meanwhile, Lily, feeling terribly guilty about Gemma''s unrequited love for Anton, has written a runaway best-seller and embarked on a home renovation spree with the profits, all of which is threatened when her second novel tanks. Her literary agent, ambitious Jojo Harvey, has done the previously unthinkable--become involved with her married boss. Packing every page with her trademark one-liners, the insightful Keyes has the ability to examine life, love, and work issues with great wit and aplomb.\n <em>\n  Sex and the City\n </em>\n junkies will find a suitable replacement here--one with considerably more warmth and without the ugly clothes.\n <em>\n  Joanne Wilkinson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1213'),
(2034, 'Our Mutual Friend', 'Charles Dickens &amp; Jennifer Mooney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Our Mutual Friend\n </em>\n was the last novel Charles Dickens completed and is, arguably, his darkest and most complex. The basic plot is vintage Dickens: an inheritance up for grabs, a murder, a rocky romance or two, plenty of skullduggery, and a host of unforgettable secondary characters. But in this final outing the author''s heroes are more flawed, his villains more sympathetic, and the story as a whole more harrowing and less sentimental. The mood is set in the opening scene in which a riverman, Gaffer Hexam, and his daughter Lizzie troll the Thames searching for drowned men whose pockets Gaffer will rifle before turning the body over to the authorities. On this particular night Gaffer finds a corpse that is later identified as that of John Harmon, who was returning from abroad to claim a large fortune when he was apparently murdered and thrown into the river.\n</p>\n<p>\n Harmon''s death is the catalyst for everything else that happens in the novel. It seems the fortune was left to the young man on the condition that he marry a girl he''d never met, Bella Wilfer. His death, however, brings a new heir onto the scene, Nicodemus Boffin, the kind-hearted but low-born assistant to Harmon''s father. Boffin and his wife adopt young Bella, who is determined to marry money, and also hire a mysterious young secretary, John Rokesmith, who takes an uncommon interest in their ward. Not content with just one plot, Dickens throws in a secondary love story featuring the riverman''s daughter, Lizzie Hexam; a dissolute young upper-class lawyer, Eugene Wrayburn; and his rival, the headmaster Bradley Headstone. Dark as the novel is, Dickens is careful to leaven it with secondary characters who are as funny as they are menacing--blackmailing Silas Wegg and his accomplice Mr. Venus, the avaricious Lammles, and self-centered Charlie Hexam.\n <em>\n  Our Mutual Friend\n </em>\n is one of Dickens''s most satisfying novels, and a fitting denouement to his prolific career.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Up-With a cast of characters that covers the whole spectrum of London life, Dickens weaves a tapestry of tales that are by turn funny, moving and tragic.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/857'),
(2035, 'The Outlaw Demon Wails', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1240'),
(2036, 'Outliers: The Story of Success', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008\n </strong>\n : Now that he''s gotten us talking about the viral life of ideas and the power of gut reactions, Malcolm Gladwell poses a more provocative question in\n <em>\n  Outliers\n </em>\n : why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more never reach their potential? Challenging our cherished belief of the "self-made man," he makes the democratic assertion that superstars don''t arise out of nowhere, propelled by genius and talent: "they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot." Examining the lives of outliers from Mozart to Bill Gates, he builds a convincing case for how successful people rise on a tide of advantages, "some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Outliers\n </em>\n can be enjoyed for its bits of trivia, like why most pro hockey players were born in January, how many hours of practice it takes to master a skill, why the descendents of Jewish immigrant garment workers became the most powerful lawyers in New York, how a pilots'' culture impacts their crash record, how a centuries-old culture of rice farming helps Asian kids master math. But there''s more to it than that. Throughout all of these examples--and in more that delve into the social benefits of lighter skin color, and the reasons for school achievement gaps--Gladwell invites conversations about the complex ways privilege manifests in our culture. He leaves us pondering the gifts of our own history, and how the world could benefit if more of our kids were granted the opportunities to fulfill their remarkable potential. --\n <em>\n  Mari Malcolm\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Signature\n <em>\n  Reviewed by\n </em>\n Leslie ChangIn\n <em>\n  Outliers\n </em>\n , Gladwell (\n <em>\n  The Tipping Point\n </em>\n ) once again proves masterful in a genre he essentially pioneeredâ€”the book that illuminates secret patterns behind everyday phenomena. His gift for spotting an intriguing mystery, luring the reader in, then gradually revealing his lessons in lucid prose, is on vivid display.\n <em>\n  Outliers\n </em>\n begins with a provocative look at why certain five-year-old boys enjoy an advantage in ice hockey, and how these advantages accumulate over time. We learn what Bill Gates, the Beatles and Mozart had in common: along with talent and ambition, each enjoyed an unusual opportunity to intensively cultivate a skill that allowed them to rise above their peers. A detailed investigation of the unique culture and skills of Eastern European Jewish immigrants persuasively explains their rise in 20th-century New York, first in the garment trade and then in the legal profession. Through case studies ranging from Canadian junior hockey champions to the robber barons of the Gilded Age, from Asian math whizzes to software entrepreneurs to the rise of his own family in Jamaica, Gladwell tears down the myth of individual merit to explore how culture, circumstance, timing, birth and luck account for successâ€”and how historical legacies can hold others back despite ample individual gifts. Even as we know how many of these stories end, Gladwell restores the suspense and serendipity to these narratives that make them fresh and surprising.One hazard of this genre is glibness. In seeking to understand why Asian children score higher on math tests, Gladwell explores the persistence and painstaking labor required to cultivate rice as it has been done in East Asia for thousands of years; though fascinating in its details, the study does not prove that a rice-growing heritage explains math prowess, as Gladwell asserts. Another pitfall is the urge to state the obvious: No one, Gladwell concludes in a chapter comparing a high-IQ failure named Chris Langan with the brilliantly successful J. Robert Oppenheimer, not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires and not even geniusesâ€”ever makes it alone. But who in this day and age believes that a high intelligence quotient in itself promises success? In structuring his book against that assumption, Gladwell has set up a decidedly flimsy straw man. In the end it is the seemingly airtight nature of Gladwell''s arguments that works against him. His conclusions are built almost exclusively on the findings of othersâ€”sociologists, psychologists, economists, historiansâ€”yet he rarely delves into the methodology behind those studies. And he is free to cherry-pick those cases that best illustrate his points; one is always left wondering about the data he evaluated and rejected because it did not support his argument, or perhaps contradicted it altogether. Real life is seldom as neat as it appears in a Malcolm Gladwell book.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <em>\n  Leslie T. Chang is the author of\n </em>\n Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China\n <em>\n  (Spiegel &amp; Grau).\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/736'),
(2037, 'The Outsiders', 'S. E. Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Outsiders\n </em>\n is a book that delves deeply into the hearts, minds, and stories of a group that had no voice before S. E. Hinton gave them one. She began writing the book at age 15, spurred on by the disturbing trend she saw growing in her high school towards division between groups. "I was worried and angered by the social situation," Hinton writes. "I saw two groups at the extreme ends of the social scale behaving in an idiotic fashion -- one group was being condemned and one wasn''t.... When a friend of mine was beaten up for no other reason than that some people didn''t like the way he combed his hair, I took my anger out by writing about it."\n</p>\n<p>\n Thirty years after it was first published,\n <em>\n  The Outsiders\n </em>\n still carries the same frightening and unifying messages for teens (and readers of all ages). The ruthlessly realistic and violent story of the Greasers and the Socs, rival gangs from very different sides of the railroad tracks, is narrated by Ponyboy Curtis, a smart, sensitive kid who has grown to become one of the most recognizable figures in the history of young adult literature. Any teen who has ever felt isolated or different can identify with Ponyboy, a kid forced to be tough on the outside, but who underneath is just as scared and needy as anyone. Hinton herself has said that she has never written a character as close to her own self as Ponyboy is. Young Adult fiction was shaped and defined by Susan Eloise Hinton, and the realism she attached to the genre became the norm, enabling later writers like Robert Cormier and Judy Blume to find characters and voices that actually spoke to adolescents. Since 1967, Ponyboy has become the hero for countless teenagers nationwide as\n <em>\n  The Outsiders\n </em>\n stands to influence an entire new legion of adolescents who need Ponyboy as much as ever.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents'' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1249'),
(2038, 'Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner', 'Lisa Wingate', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Big Lizard Bottoms-where getting hitched is a local industry-is not any place Lindsey Attwood, a play-it-safe paleontologist who''s sworn off romance, ever expected to find herself. She''s here posing as a horse psychology student to help recover dinosaur tracks stolen from a local guest ranch. After only a day at the ranch, things start spiraling out of control. Her horse-therapy horse hates her, she''s been adopted by a huge stray dog with a bad reputation, and there''s this local rancher who has her all moonstruck. After years of digging around in the past, Lindsey''s wondering if it''s finally time to see what the present has to offer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2366'),
(2039, 'The Overlook', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Bestseller Connelly''s dazzling 13th Harry Bosch novel (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  Echo Park\n </em>\n ) reunites Bosch with his former flame, FBI agent Rachel Walling. Bosch must break in a new partner, rookie Iggy Ferras, when they''re called to look into the execution of physicist Stanley Kent on a Mulholland Drive overlook. When a special FBI unit, headed by Walling, arrives and tries to usurp his case, claiming it''s a matter of national security, Bosch refuses to back down. Walling''s focus on the potential theft of radioactive material from the hospital where Kent was lending his expertise to cancer treatment and her unwillingness to share information only make Bosch more determined to solve the case. This is a quick read, almost half the length of Connelly''s previous novels, but he spares no punches when it comes to complexity and suspense. The scramble to investigate threats to national security, justified or otherwise, is a timely subject and one on which Connelly puts a brilliant new spin.\n <em>\n  (May 22)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Connelly originally published\n <em>\n  The Overlook\n </em>\n as a serialized novella in the\n <em>\n  New York Times Magazine\n </em>\n ; the 16 sections contained 3,000 words each. Although expanded to novel form,\n <em>\n  The Overlook\n </em>\n weighs in as a good, if slim (and perhaps, as a few critics claim, slight), addition to the Harry Bosch series. For the most part, the novel succeeds in maintaining Connelly''s trademark fast-paced action, plot twists, suspense, and spare, humorous writing-all over the course of 12 hours. Some reviewers cited tired characters, dull romance, a bizarre time frame, and plotting missteps, but for followers of Harry Bosch,\n <em>\n  The Overlook\n </em>\n is a worthy addition.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/896'),
(2040, 'P Is for Peril', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Dowan Purcell, a respected physician who operates a nursing home, disappears, his ex-wife hires Santa Teresa PI Kinsey Millhone to look into it. Fiona Purcell is still seething over Dow''s affair and subsequent marriage to Crystal, a former stripper, yet they''re still friends, and she seems worried. But when his body is discovered, she''s among the suspects. Both of Dow''s wives, at least one of his business partners, and perhaps even Crystal''s teenage daughter had motives to kill.\n</p>\n<p>\n While in her most recent adventures (\n <em>\n  N Is for Noose\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  O Is for Outlaw\n </em>\n ) Kinsey has acquired new digs, an extended family, and a few more gray hairs, in this one (which takes place some time in the mid-''80s), she''s 36, still living in the remodeled garage that was blown up in an earlier novel. Easier than a facelift, and while Sue Grafton is a solid enough writer to pull it off, dedicated Kinsey fans will miss the more complex and multidimensional character who aged so ruefully and interestingly in the ''90s. This isn''t Grafton''s strongest case; it''s hard to care about any of Purcell''s women or his associates. More exciting is the secondary plot, which involves a handsome landlord who offers Kinsey the new office space she''s been seeking and turns out to be a lot more trouble than she bargained for. Despite its somewhat plodding pace and the echo of a more evolved heroine that rings through its pages, Grafton''s many fans will probably shoot\n <em>\n  P Is for Peril\n </em>\n right to the top of the bestseller list.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n PI Kinsey Millhone''s trademark dry sense of humor is largely absent in the first half of the 15th book in this justifiably popular series, though it resurfaces as the suspense finally begins to build in the second half. In the bleak November of 1986, Kinsey looks into the disappearance of Dr. Dowan Purcell, who''s been missing for nine weeks. Dr. Purcell is an elderly physician who runs a nursing home that''s being investigated for Medicare fraud. His ex-wife, Fiona, hires Kinsey when it seems as though the police have given up on the search. Fiona thinks that he could be simply hiding out somewhere, especially since he''s pulled a disappearance stunt twice before. However, Purcell''s current wife, Crystal, believes that he may be dead. Kinsey is dubious about finding any new leads after so much time has elapsed. She''s also worried about having to move out of the office space she now occupies in the suite owned by her lawyer, and between her interviews with suspects she tries to rent a new office from a pair of brothers whose mysterious background begins to make her suspicious. Grafton''s Santa Teresa seems more like Ross Macdonald''s town of the same name than ever before, with dysfunctional families everywhere jostling for the private eye''s attention. The novel has a hard-edged, wintry ambience, echoed in Fiona Purcell''s obsession with angular art deco furniture and architecture. Unfortunately, Grafton''s evocation of the noir crime novels and styles of the 1940s, although atmospheric, doesn''t make up for a lack of suspense and lackluster characters. (June 4)Forecast: With a 600,000-copy first printing and a national author tour, this Literary Guild Main Selection is sure to shoot well up the bestseller lists.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/680'),
(2041, 'The Pacific', 'Hugh Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Pacific: An Opinionated History\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Pacific\n  </em>\n  presents the Pacific War, from Americaâ€™s first battle with the Japanese to the final shot. It blends eyewitness accounts into a larger perspective on the course of the war. However, this larger perspective is not solely provided by the historian, but also by the veterans. Put another way, instead of layering some oral histories onto a historical framework, I follow the lives of five veterans who, between them, experienced most of the key moments of the war. By walking with these men through their respective wars, the reader comes to see\n  <em>\n   The Pacific\n  </em>\n  as a whole.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The result of this approach is, I think, unusually powerful. The war comes at the reader with speed and power and meaning. The veterans, moreover, were not historians calmly researching and reporting all the facts. Their very definite opinions about people and events, as expressed in the book, must be understood in that light. Although historians may contest some of their judgments, I think they are valuable. Itâ€™s not just that veterans have a right to their own opinionsâ€”they certainly earned itâ€”itâ€™s that their passion is infectious. Reading this book, you will always care about what happens and why.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A careful reader will of course discern a great many of my conclusions about the war. I choose these particular men out of hundreds of possibilities for a reason. You will notice, for instance, that the US Army receives scant notice. I recognize that there were more army divisions serving in the Pacific than Marine Corps divisions. I admit that in fighting their way through the South Pacific, the soldiers won battles every bit as harrowing as those fought by the Leathernecks. As a historian, though, I believe that the drive through the South Pacific was secondary. Had the US only been able to sustain one drive, it would have been the one through the Central Pacific. In order to keep my book to manageable length, I focused on the US Navy and its Marine Corps.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although the book focuses on Marines, specifically the story of the First Marine Division, it also includes the life of one aircraft carrier pilot. The Pacific War was a carrier war as no war has ever been. Few men saw as much of the carrier war as Vernon â€œMikeâ€ Micheel. To see Mike fly a dive bomber at the Battle of Midway and later at the Philippine Sea is to simultaneously appreciate these critical turning points; to understand them within the context of the war; and to witness the profound change in circumstances which occurred between them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mike Micheel served with two of the carrier warâ€™s most important figures: Captain Miles Browning and Admiral J.J. â€œJockoâ€ Clark. Through Mike, we do not come to understand them in their totality, as their biographies provide. We see them in action and as viewed by someone who served under them. Mike did not care for Browning, who is revered by some historians, because Browning â€œshort deckedâ€ his squadronsâ€”as captain of the carrier USS Yorktown, he failed to ensure his pilots had enough open deck and enough headwind with which to take off. Conversely, Admiral Clark, who once accused Mike of skipping work to go drinking in the bars, comes off better than Browning. Clarkâ€™s personality could be as abrasive as Browningâ€™s, but his motivations were sound. Mike understood that Clark wanted his ship to be the best. Every sailor on board\n  <em>\n   Yorktown\n  </em>\n  believed that their Admiral worked hard to achieve that goal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Watching Mikeâ€™s experiences with these men, we understand why he judged them so. Part of his information about them came from hearsay or, as its known in the navy, scuttlebutt. Scuttlebutt is notoriously inaccurate. Mike knew that and tried not to be influenced by it, but he still was. The importance of gossip in the life of a man in combat is often stated by historians, but\n  <em>\n   The Pacific\n  </em>\n  endeavors to allow the reader to\n  <em>\n   experience\n  </em>\n  a manâ€™s struggle to understand, to survive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each of the millions of men under arms in WWII experienced his own unique war. Each man within a company or a squadron comprehended his reality differently than his comrades. Can five men, with their own set of idiosyncratic experiences, represent this vast and complex war sufficiently to warrant the bookâ€™s all-encompassing title? I think so. By choosing these particular five men, I have written a history that simultaneously describes the individual experience and illuminates the general truths of that vast ocean of enmity we call\n  <em>\n   The Pacific\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Hugh Ambrose\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this follow-up to his late father''s Band of Brothers, which tracked a single army unit from Georgia to the battlefields of Europe, historian Ambrose turns his attention to the Pacific theater, following four individual marines and one Naval Aviator through their time in combat. The book opens with the Japanese invasion of the Philippines and the capture of U.S. Forces on the Bataan peninsula and Corregidor Island. First-hand accounts from U.S. combatants describe vividly the horrific conditions of the island-hopping campaign and the ferocity of the fighting, but also the lengths to which young men would go to join up: subject Eugene B. Sledge purposely flunked out of college to enlist in the Marine Corps. Captain Austin Shofner recounts the brutality of his internment in a Japanese prison war camp, his daring escape, fighting alongside Philippine guerillas, and his eventual repatriation with the U.S. Marine Corps. Ambrose also reveals how, at the time, many marines expressed contempt for Gen. MacArthur, receiving accolades back home while they made halting, bloody progress across such islands as Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Doing for the war against Japan what Band of Brothers did for the war against Germany, Ambrose''s history effectively immerses readers in the Good War''s second front.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/35'),
(2042, 'Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void', 'Mary Roach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2010\n </strong>\n : With her wry humor and inextinguishable curiosity, Mary Roach has crafted her own quirky niche in the somewhat staid world of science writing, showing no fear (or shame) in the face of cadavers, ectoplasm, or sex. In\n <em>\n  Packing for Mars\n </em>\n , Roach tackles the strange science of space travel, and the psychology, technology, and politics that go into sending a crew into orbit. Roach is unfailingly inquisitive (Why is it impolite for astronauts to float upside down during conversations? Just how smelly does a spacecraft get after a two week mission?), and she eagerly seeks out the stories that don''t make it onto NASA''s website--from SPCA-certified space suits for chimps, to the trial-and-error approach to crafting menus during the space program''s early years (when the chefs are former livestock veterinarians, taste isn''t high on the priority list).\n <em>\n  Packing for Mars\n </em>\n is a book for grownups who still secretly dream of being astronauts, and Roach lives it up on their behalf--weightless in a C-9 aircraft, she just can''t resist the opportunity to go "Supermanning" around the cabin. Her zeal for discovery, combined with her love of the absurd, amazing, and stranger-than-fiction, make\n <em>\n  Packing for Mars\n </em>\n an uproarious trip into the world of space travel.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Roach (Stiff) once again proves herself the ideal guide to a parallel universe. Despite all the high-tech science that has resulted in space shuttles and moonwalks, the most crippling hurdles of cosmic travel are our most primordial human qualities: eating, going to the bathroom, having sex and bathing, and not dying in reentry. Readers learn that throwing up in a space helmet could be life-threatening, that Japanese astronaut candidates must fold a thousand origami paper cranes to test perseverance and attention to detail, and that cadavers are gaining popularity over crash dummies when studying landings. Roach''s humor and determined curiosity keep the journey lively, and her profiles of former astronauts are especially telling. However, larger questions about the "worth" or potential benefits of space travel remain ostensibly unasked, effectively rendering these wild and well-researched facts to the status of trivia. Previously, Roach engaged in topics everyone could relate to. Unlike having sex or being dead, though, space travel pertains only to a few, leaving the rest of us unsure what it all amounts to. Still, the chance to float in zero gravity, even if only vicariously, can be surprising in what it reveals about us.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/277'),
(2043, 'The Pact', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jodi Picoult''s extraordinary tale of love, friendship and family dares to explore the terrifying secrets that lurk in the hearts of the people we think we know inside and out. Emily Gold and Chris Harte are soul mates. They have lived next door since they were born, sharing everything from chicken pox to Chinese food, and in high school their friendship blossoms into something more. Then a midnight call from the hospital changes everything: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There''s a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris took from his father''s cabinet - a bullet Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a detective has doubts about the suicide pact theory and slowly Chris''s and Emily''s closely guarded secrets are revealed as the real truth about the lead up to that night unfolds. The Pact is a compelling story of friendship and family, betrayal and anguish, and the unforeseen consequences of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/288'),
(2044, 'A Painted House', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ever since he published\n <em>\n  The Firm\n </em>\n in 1991, John Grisham has remained the undisputed champ of the legal thriller. With\n <em>\n  A Painted House\n </em>\n , however, he strikes out in a new direction. As the author is quick to note, this novel includes "not a single lawyer, dead or alive," and readers will search in vain for the kind of lowlife machinations that have been his stock-in-trade. Instead, Grisham has delivered a quieter, more contemplative story, set in rural Arkansas in 1952. It''s harvest time on the Chandler farm, and the family has hired a crew of migrant Mexicans and "hill people" to pick 80 acres of cotton. A certain camaraderie pervades this bucolic dream team. But it''s backbreaking work, particularly for the 7-year-old narrator, Luke: "I would pick cotton, tearing the fluffy bolls from the stalks at a steady pace, stuffing them into the heavy sack, afraid to look down the row and be reminded of how endless it was, afraid to slow down because someone would notice."\n</p>\n<p>\n What''s more, tensions begin to simmer between the Mexicans and the hill people, one of whom has a penchant for bare-knuckles brawling. This leads to a brutal murder, which young Luke has the bad luck to witness. At this point--with secrets, lies, and at least one knife fight in the offing--the plot begins to take on that familiar, Grisham-style momentum. Still, such matters ultimately take a back seat in\n <em>\n  A Painted House\n </em>\n to the author''s evocation of time and place. This is, after all, the scene of his boyhood, and Grisham waxes nostalgic without ever succumbing to deep-fried sentimentality. Meanwhile, his account of Luke''s Baptist upbringing occasions some sly (and telling) humor:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I''d been taught in Sunday school from the day I could walk that lying would send you straight to hell. No detours. No second chances. Straight into the fiery pit, where Satan was waiting with the likes of Hitler and Judas Iscariot and General Grant. Thou shalt not bear false witness, which, of course, didn''t sound exactly like a strict prohibition against lying, but that was the way the Baptists interpreted it.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Whether Grisham will continue along these lines, or revert to the judicial shark tank for his next book, is anybody''s guess. But\n <em>\n  A Painted House\n </em>\n suggests that he''s perfectly capable of telling an involving story with nary a subpoena in sight.\n <em>\n  --James Marcus\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Who needs lawyers? Not Grisham, in his captivating new novel, now between hardcovers after serialization in the Oxford American. Here there are hardscrabble farmers instead, and dirt-poor itinerant workers and a seven-year-old boy who grows up fast in a story as rich in conflict and incident as any previous Grisham and as nuanced as his very best. It''s September 1952 in rural Arkansas when young narrator Luke Chandler notes that "the hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day." These folk are in Black Oak for the annual harvest of the cotton grown on the 80 acres that the Chandlers rent. The three generations of the Chandler family treat their workers more kindly than most farmers do, including engaging in the local obsession--playing baseball--with them, but serious trouble arises among the harvesters nonetheless. Most of it centers around Hank Spruill, a giant hillbilly with an equally massive temper, who one night in town beats a man dead and who throughout the book rubs up against a knife-wielding Mexican who is dating Hank''s 17-year-old sister on the sly, leading to another murder. In fact, there''s a mess of trouble in Luke''s life, from worries about his uncle Ricky fighting in Korea to concerns about the nearby Latcher family and its illegitimate newborn baby, who may be Ricky''s son. And then there are the constant fears about the weather, as much a character in this novel as any human, from the tornado that storms past the farm to the downpours that eventually flood the fields, ruining the crop and washing Luke and his family into a new life.Grisham admirers know that this author''s writing has evolved with nearly every book, from the simple mechanics that made The Firm click to the manifestations of grace that made The Testament such a fine novel of spiritual reckoning. The mechanics are still visible here--as a nosy, spying boy, Luke serves as a nearly omnipresent eye to spur the novel along its course--but so, too, are characters that no reader will forget, prose as clean and strong as any Grisham has yet laid down and a drop-dead evocation of a time and place that mark this novel as a classic slice of Americana. Agent, David Gernert. (One-day laydown, Feb. 6)FORECAST: Will Grisham''s fans miss the lawyers? Not hardly. This is a Grisham novel all the way, despite its surface departures from the legal thrillers, and it will be received as such, justifying the 2.8-million first printing. (For more on Grisham, see Book News, p. 178)\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/696'),
(2045, 'Painted Ladies', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The brilliant new Spenser novel from the beloved\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   -bestselling author Robert B. Parker.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen. Convinced that Ashton Prince played a bigger role than just ransom delivery boy, Spenser enters into a daring game of cat-and-mouse with the thieves. But this is a game he might not come out of alive...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Completed the year before he passed away,\n  <em>\n   Painted Ladies\n  </em>\n  is Spenser and Robert B. Parker at their electrifying best.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1142'),
(2046, 'The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies', 'Clive Barker &amp; Sarah Stokes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Comprehensive collection of nonfiction by the bestselling horror and dark fantasy author Clive Barker, with 100 essays and articles from the past 25 years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1447'),
(2047, 'Pale Blue Dot', 'Carl Sagan &amp; Ann Druyan &amp; Carol Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a tour of our solar system, galaxy and beyond, Cornell astronomer Sagan meshes a history of astronomical discovery, a cogent brief for space exploration and an overview of life-from its origins in the oceans to humanity''s first emergence to a projected future where humans "terraform" and settle other planets and asteroids, Earth having long been swallowed by the sun. Maintaining that such relocation is inevitable, the author further argues that planetary science is of practical utility, fostering an interdisciplinary approach to looming environmental catastrophes such as "nuclear winter" (lethal cooling of Earth after a nuclear war, a widely accepted prediction first calculated by Sagan in 1982). His exploration of our place in the universe is illustrated with photographs, relief maps and paintings, including high-resolution images made by Voyager 1 and 2, as well as photos taken by the Galileo spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope and satellites orbiting Earth, which show our planet as a pale blue dot. A worthy sequel to Sagan''s Cosmos. Author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sagan''s great appeal as a popular-science writer, beyond his prodigious knowledge, is his optimism and sense of wonder. A visualizer and a visionary, he fires our imagination and turns science into high drama. After writing about our origins in\n  <em>\n   Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors\n  </em>\n  (1992), Sagan turns his attention to outer space and takes up where\n  <em>\n   Cosmos\n  </em>\n  left off 14 years ago. An astonishing amount of information was amassed during that productive era, and Sagan, of course, is up on all of it. A passionate and eloquent advocate of space exploration, he believes that the urge to wander, and the need for a frontier, is intrinsic to our nature, and that this trait is linked to our survival as a species. Throughout this beautifully illustrated, revelatory, and compelling volume, Sagan returns again and again to our need for journeys and quests as well as our unending curiosity about our place in the universe. Such philosophical musings are interwoven with precise and enthusiastic accounts of the triumphs of interplanetary exploration, from the\n  <em>\n   Apollo\n  </em>\n  moon landings to the spectacular findings of robotic missions, especially the\n  <em>\n   Voyager\n  </em>\n  spacecraft. Sagan describes one exciting discovery after another regarding the four giants--Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune--and their many moons, mysterious and exquisite rings, and volatile atmospheres. He argues, convincingly, that planetary exploration is of immense value. It not only teaches us about our celestial neighbors, but helps us understand and protect Earth. Yes, we have seemingly insurmountable problems on this pale blue dot, but we have always reached for the stars, and we mustn''t stop now.\n  <em>\n   Donna Seaman\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/195'),
(2048, 'Pale Demon', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Harrison''s intriguing ninth Hollows novel (after 2010''s Black Magic Sanction) lives up to the earlier books, which established Harrison as a major urban fantasy player. Witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan needs to get to her brother''s wedding. This leads to an uneasy alliance with her elven frenemy Trent Kalamack, who''s being pushed toward Seattle by a quest. Meanwhile, Jenks the pixy is recovering from the loss of his wife, Matalina, and needs distraction. The result: "A witch, an elf, and a pixy on the Great American Road Trip" through a landscape reworked by magic, facing down terrifying foes en route. Elegant and taut as a gymnast''s cartwheel, Harrison''s polished prose drives a story that will have readers swerving in their seats every time Rachel turns the wheel. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The ninth Rachel Morgan novel finds our tough and feisty witch on a mission to get her shunning rescinded, which requires traveling to the annual witch convention in San Francisco. But the coven doesnâ€™t want her to make her appointment, so theyâ€™ve put her on the no fly list, which is why she has to accept Trentâ€™s offer of a cross-country car trip. The rich elf has his own reasons for traveling cross-country, telling Rachel and Ivy that he is on a traditional elf quest. Fans of the series will recognize that simply having Trent, Jenks, Ivy, and Rachel on a road trip is enough to make for a good story, but that is merely the beginning of an action-packed tale that finds Rachel coming fully into her demon magic powers and reevaluating her long-held impressions of Trent. Ending with hints of some major character developments and changes in Rachelâ€™s life, this is an excellent entry that is guaranteed to satisfy Harrisonâ€™s legion of followers. (Should there be any overlap between Clint Eastwood and Kim Harrison fan clubs, that subset will certainly enjoy Harrisonâ€™s allusions here to Eastwoodâ€™s Pale Rider.) The Rachel Morgan series is fast becoming one of the hottest tickets in the urban-fantasy subgenre. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1243'),
(2049, 'Pale Kings and Princes', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  "Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor inÂ Â a dishonorable world. When he says he will doÂ Â something, it is done. The dialogues zings, andÂ Â there is plenty of action... but it is the moralÂ Â element that sets them above most detective fiction."Â Â --\n  <em>\n   Newsweek\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  The bestselling author of Pastime and Double Deuce presents a "taut thriller . . . (that will) keep the reader''s adrenaline pumping overtime" (Publishers Weekly). Caught in a snowstorm of drugs, passion, and hate, Spenser investigates a cocaine-related murder. Part of Dell''s ongoing Robert B. Parker reissue program.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1167'),
(2050, 'Paper Doll', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Spenser tracks a mystery woman who refuses to rest in peace, in Robert B. Parker''s most beguiling thriller yet. Sam Spade. Philip Marlowe. Lew Archer. Spenser. Like his legendary predecessors, the tough and classy Boston PI has become an American institution. With Paper Doll, Robert B. Parker takes Spenser down a sinister path, where every welcome masks a warning and identity is paper-thin. Hired by Loudon Tripp, an aggrieved Boston aristocrat who believes the brutal street slaying of his wife, Olivia, to be something other than random violence, Spenser immediately senses Tripp''s picture-perfect version of his family''s life is false. For starters, the victim''s reputation is far too saintly, while her house is as lived-in as a stage set and her troubled children don''t appear the product of a happy home. Spenser plunges into a world of grand illusion, peopled by cardboard cutouts, including: a distinguished public servant with plenty to hide; a wealthy executive whose checks bounce; a sleepy southern town seething with scandal; and the ambiguous Olivia herself. Consummately mysterious and smokily sensual, Paper Doll is Parker and Spenser at their compelling best.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Olivia Nelson appears to be the perfect wife and mother. So why was the socialite bludgeoned to death with a hammer? The police say it was random violence; Olivia''s husband hires Spenser to prove otherwise. But the truth turns out to be as elusive as needles in a haystack. It''s a case where nothing is what it seems--not even the victim. LG Alternate.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1124'),
(2051, 'Paper Money', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  An explosive novel of high finance and underworld villainy from the grand master of international action and suspense.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Paper Money\n  </em>\n  is a tautly woven, intriguing story of a single day in the life of the London Evening Post. As various stories break--the awarding of an oil-drilling contract, a mammoth cash robbery, the blackmailing of a politician--awkward questions begin to tie the events together, but will the full story ever make the headlines? By the grand master of suspense, Ken Follett (\n  <em>\n   The Modigliani Scandal\n  </em>\n  ). First time published in the United States.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1774');
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(2052, 'The Pardon', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney has spent years rebelling against his father, Harry, now Florida''s governor. Their estrangement seems complete when Harry allows one of Jack''s clients -- a man Jack believes is innocent -- to die in the electric chair.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when a psychopath bent on serving his own twisted version of justice places both Jack and Harry in extreme jeopardy, the two have nowhere to turn but to each other. Together they must find a way to overcome their cunning tormentor''s manipulation . . . even as the stakes are being raised to far more perilous heights.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Matters like realism and credibility take a back seat to high concept in this brisk but far-fetched first novel by a Florida attorney who poses a nifty question: What if a governor who favors the death penalty faced the prospect of allowing his own son to be executed for murder? In 1992, Florida governor Harold Swyteck allowed convicted killer Raul Fernandez to die in the electric chair despite the pleadings of his lawyer son, Jack, who claimed to have confidential proof that Fernandez was innocent. Now, in 1994, the man who supposedly gave Jack that proof-the man who claims to have committed the murder that was pinned on Fernandez-is blackmailing the governor by threatening to reveal that he let an innocent man die. Meanwhile, Jack has gotten an admitted killer, Eddie Goss, free on a technicality; when Goss is killed and all the evidence points to Jack as the murderer, the governor faces his dilemma: Will he sign his son''s death warrant if he''s convicted-or will he try to save him? Grippando''s fast pacing obscures much plot manipulation and heavy-handed characterization. The novel''s premise is compelling, but the structural holes sink this narrative. 75,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; audio rights to HarperAudio; Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club and Mystery Guild alternates; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This first novel is yet another entry into the crowded legal thriller genre. Jack Swyteck, defense attorney, has for many years rebelled against his father, Harry, currently the governor of their state. The story begins with the denial by Harry of a request for a stay of execution for one of Jack''s clients, which sets into play a series of events. First, Jack is arrested for murder, and then Harry is blackmailed and faced with political ruin. These events lead to a reconciliation between father and son, who must now pull together and face a vengeful psychopath. The action, while slow to get started, ultimately leads to a series of increasingly violent episodes. Recommended for libraries with large collections of mysteries or thrillers. [Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and Mystery Guild alternates.]-Erna Chamberlain, SUNY at Binghamto.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --Erna Chamberlain, SUNY at Binghamton\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2477'),
(2053, 'The Paris Wife', 'Paula McLain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Author Paula McLain on *The Paris Wife\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Most of us know or think we know who Ernest Hemingway was -- a brilliant writer full of macho swagger, driven to take on huge feats of bravery and a pitcher or two of martinis -- before lunch. But beneath this man or myth, or some combination of the two, is another Hemingway, one weâ€™ve never seen before. Hadley Richardson, Hemingwayâ€™s first wife, is the perfect person to reveal him to us -- and also to immerse us in the incredibly exciting and volatile world of Jazz-age Paris.\n</p>\n<p>\n The idea to write in Hadleyâ€™s voice came to me as I was reading Hemingwayâ€™s memoir,\n <em>\n  A Moveable Feast\n </em>\n , about his early years in Paris. In the final pages, he writes of Hadley, â€œI wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.â€ That line, and his portrayal of their marriage -- so tender and poignant and steeped in regret -- inspired me to search out biographies of Hadley, and then to research their brief and intense courtship and letters -- they wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of delicious pages to another!\n</p>\n<p>\n I couldnâ€™t help but fall in love with Hadley, and through her eyes, with the young Ernest Hemingway. He was just twenty when they met, handsome and magnetic, passionate and sensitive and full of dreams. I was surprised at how much I liked and admired him -- and before I knew it, I was entirely swept away by their gripping love story.\n</p>\n<p>\n I hope you will be as captivated by this remarkable couple as I am -- and by the fascinating world of Paris in the 20â€™s, the fast-living, ardent and tremendously driven Lost Generation.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Look Inside *The Paris Wife\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest and Hadley Hemingway, Chamby, Switzerland, winter 1922\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest and Hadley Hemingway on their wedding day, 1921\n</p>\n<p>\n Ernest, Hadley, and Bumby, Schruns, Austria, 1925\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Hemingways and friends at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Helen Simonson on *The Paris Wife\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  *Helen Simonson\n </strong>\n is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Major Pettigrewâ€™s Last Stand\n </em>\n . She was born in England and spent her teenage years in a small village in East Sussex. A graduate of the London School of Economics and former travel advertising executive, she has lived in America for the past two decades. After many years in Brooklyn, she now lives with her husband and two sons in the Washington, D.C., area.*\n</p>\n<p>\n Paula McLain has taken on the task of writing a story most of us probably think we already know--that of a doomed starter wife. To make life more difficult, McLain proposes to tell us about Ernest Hemingwayâ€™s first wife, Hadley Richardson, who is a twenty-eight-year-old Midwestern spinster when she marries the twenty-one-year-old unpublished, (but already cocksure) writer and runs off to Paris with him. The talent and joy of this novel is that McLain does a startling job of making us understand this as a great love story and seducing us into caring deeply, about both Ernest and Hadley, as their marriage eventually comes apart.\n</p>\n<p>\n This novel moves beyond the dry bones of biography or skewed personal vision of memoir, and takes a leap into the emotional lives of these characters. It is a leap of faith for those readers who think they know Hemingway, but McLainâ€™s voice sticks close enough to historical material, and to the words and tone of Hemingwayâ€™s own writing, to be convincing. She had me at the description of young Hadleyâ€™s father committing suicide.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe carpets had been cleaned but not changed out for new, the revolver had been emptied and polished and placed back in his desk.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Hadley is also crippled by a childhood fall and trapped into spinsterhood by her motherâ€™s declining health and eventual death. By the time she meets Hemingway, we are rooting for her to make a break for foreign shores--even as we understand the danger of marrying a tempestuous man. Hemingway is all nervous purpose, ambition and charisma as he meets Hadley and is drawn to her quiet strength and ordinary American sweetness. In his youth and uncertainty, she is his rock and yet we already suspect that as he grows in artistic power, she will become an unwanted anchor. Through Hadleyâ€™s eyes and plain-speaking voice, we see all of twenties Paris and the larger-than-life artists who gather in the cafes. We drink tea with Gertrude Stein and champagne with Fitzgerald and Zelda. We run with the bulls in Pamplona and spend winters in alpine chalets. And we see, through her love for him, the young writer becoming the Hemingway of legend. Perhaps it is the nature of all great artists to be completely selfish and obnoxious, but Hadleyâ€™s voice is always one of compassion. Even as Hemingway leaves her completely out of\n <em>\n  The Sun also Rises\n </em>\n , even as Hemingway publicly flirts with other women, she continues to explain and defend him. It is a testament to Paula McLain that the reader is slow to dislike Hemingway, even as he slowly and inexorably betrays Hadleyâ€™s trust.\n</p>\n<p>\n I loved this novel for its depiction of two passionate, yet humanly-flawed people struggling against impossible odds--poverty, artistic fervor, destructive friendships--to cling on to each other. I raise a toast to Paula McLainâ€™s sure talent.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n History is sadly neglectful of the supporting players in the lives of great artists. Fortunately, fiction provides ample opportunity to bring these often fascinating personalities out into the limelight. Gaynor Arnold successfully resurrected the much-maligned Mrs. Charles Dickens in\n <em>\n  Girl in a Blue Dress\n </em>\n (2009), now Paula McLain brings Hadley Richardson Hemingway out from the formidable shadow cast by her famous husband. Though doomed, the Hemingway marriage had its giddy high points, including a whirlwind courtship and a few fast and furious years of the expatriate lifestyle in 1920s Paris. Hadley and Ernest traveled in heady company during this gin-soaked and jazz-infused time, and readers are treated to intimate glimpses of many of the literary giants of the era, including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But the real star of the story is Hadley, as this time around, Ernest is firmly relegated to the background as he almost never was during their years together. Though eventually a woman scorned, Hadley is able to acknowledge without rancor or bitterness that "Hem had helped me to see what I really was and what I could do." Much more than a woman-behind-the-man homage, this beautifully crafted tale is an unsentimental tribute to a woman who acted with grace and strength as her marriage crumbled. --Margaret Flanagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1190'),
(2054, 'The Partner', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in a small town in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Danilo had a past with many chapters. Four years earlier, he had been Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent Biloxi law firm. He had a pretty wife, a new daughter, and a bright future. Then one cold winter night, Patrick was trapped in a burning car and died a horrible death. When he was buried his casket held nothing more than his ashes.\n</p>\n<p>\n From a short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial. Then he fled. Six weeks later, a fortune was stolen from his ex-law firm''s offshore account. And Patrick fled some more. But they found him.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n From the master of courtroom drama comes the ultimate in suspense --\n <em>\n  The Partner\n </em>\n , John Grisham''s new spellbinding novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/723'),
(2055, 'The Passage', 'Justin Cronin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This paperback edition includes:\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â Â A Â sneak preview of\n </em>\n The Twelve\n <em>\n  , coming in 2012\n  <br />\n </em>\n Â Â A Â revealing interview with author Justin Cronin\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n MAGAZINE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Washington Post â€¢ Esquire â€¢ U.S. News &amp; World Report â€¢\n </em>\n NPRâ€™s\n <em>\n  On Point â€¢ St. Louis Post-Dispatch â€¢ BookPage â€¢ Library Journal\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </em>\n <em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival,\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n The Passage\n is the story of Amyâ€”abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girlâ€”and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escapeâ€”but he canâ€™t stop societyâ€™s collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n USA Today has named The Passage as a must summer read: Booksellers across the country are buzzing about this novel, which features a jacket blurb by Stephen King. Film rights have been bought by Fox 2000 for Ridley and Tony Scott.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/823'),
(2056, 'Pastime', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1171'),
(2057, 'The Pastures of Heaven', 'John Steinbeck &amp; James Nagel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America''s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books\n <em>\n  East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Tortilla Flat\n </em>\n . Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersÂ—and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1747'),
(2058, 'The Path of Daggers', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Jordan''s bestselling Wheel of Time epic is one of the most popular fantasy series of all time for a reason. Jordan''s world is rich and complex, and he''s assembled an endearing, involving core of characters while mapping out an ambitious and engaging story arc.\n</p>\n<p>\n But with the previous book,\n <em>\n  Crown of Swords\n </em>\n , and now with\n <em>\n  Path of Daggers\n </em>\n , the series is in a bit of a holding pattern.\n <em>\n  Path\n </em>\n continues the halting gait of the current plot line: Rand is still on the brink of losing it, all the while juggling the political machinations around him and again taking to the field against the Seanchan. The rest of the Two Rivers kids and company don''t seem to be moving much faster. Egwene continues to slowly consolidate her hold as the "true" Amyrlin (finally getting closer to Tar Valon and the inevitable confrontation with Elaida), and Nynaeve and Elayne keep on wandering toward the Lion Throne, again on the run from the Seanchan. Mat Cauthon is barely mentioned, and fellow\n <em>\n  ta''veren\n </em>\n Perrin keeps busy with politics in Ghealdan. The ending does provide promise, though, that book nine might match the pace and passion of the previous books.\n</p>\n<p>\n If you''re already hooked, you could sooner overcome a weave of Compulsion than avoid picking up a copy of\n <em>\n  Path of Daggers\n </em>\n . But if you''re new to the series, start at the beginning with the engrossing, much-better-paced\n <em>\n  Eye of the World\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The eighth book of Jordan''s bestselling The Wheel of Time saga (A Crown of Swords, etc.) opens with a renewed invasion by the Seanchans, a conquering race whose arsenal includes man-carrying flying reptiles and enslaved female magic-workers as well as powerful soldiers, many of whom have joined the Seanchans out of fear of the Dragon Reborn. The Dragon himself, Rand al''Thor, appears in only a small part of the narrative, but during that time he endures the ugly experience of seeing his magic kill his friends, heightening his fear that his destiny is to slay everyone he cares about. The first third of the book is a little slower paced than is usual for Jordan, emphasizing the growth of relationships, but the action picks up soon enough. More compact than some previous volumes in the saga, this one has the virtues readers have come to expect from the author: meticulous world-building; deft use of multiple viewpoints; highly original and intelligent systems of magic; an admirable wit; and a continuous awareness of the fate of the turnip farmer or peddler caught in the path of the heroes'' armies. Unlike some authors of megasagas, Jordan chooses his words with care, creating people and events that have earned him an enormous readership. For sheer imagination and storytelling skill, if not quite for mythic resonance, The Wheel of Time now rivals Tolkien''s The Lord of the Rings. 500,000 first printing; $500,000 ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/649'),
(2059, 'Path of the Assassin', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  After rescuing the President from kidnappers in Brad Thorâ€™s roaring national bestselling debut, Navy SEAL turned Secret Service Agent Scot Harvath shifts his attentions to rooting out, capturing, or killing all those responsible for the plot. As he prepares to close out his list, a bloody and twisted trail of clues points toward one manâ€”the worldâ€™s most ruthless terrorist. One problem remains: Harvath and his CIA-led team have no idea what the man looks like. With no alternative, they are forced to recruit a civilianâ€”a woman who has survived a brutal hijacking and is now the only person who can positively identify their quarry. From the burning deserts of North Africa to the winding streets of Rome, Harvath must brave a maelstrom of bloodshed and deception before a madmanâ€™s twisted vision engulfs the world in the fires of all-out war.\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If Thor''s second international thriller had any more testosterone, it would grow hair. This follow-up to The Lions of Lucerne is loaded with explosions, gunfights, car chases and hairbreadth escapes as Secret Service agent Scot Harvath battles religious extremists and incompetent CIA spooks to save the world from WWIII. The Hand of God, an apparent Israeli terrorist group, is blowing up mosques in Saudi Arabia, assassinating Arab leaders and hijacking airplanes, all in an effort to provoke the Arab world into war with Israel. Harvath tries to derail the terrorist plot and avenge the deaths of buddies killed in the first book. Aided by Meg Cassidy, a beautiful Chicago public relations expert, Harvath chases the terrorist leader and a silver-eyed assassin from Hong Kong through Europe to North Africa. However, since Cassidy is the only one alive who has seen the face of the terrorist leader, the assassin chases them, too, trying to kill Cassidy before she can point him out. The story is one bloody episode after another, with a touch of romance and colorful turf battles between the CIA, FBI, Delta Force and Harvath himself. Thor stacks the deck in favor of his hero-Harvath never makes a mistake, and his view of how counterterrorism operations should be conducted is invariably proven correct. To top it off, he boasts about his remarkable talents. With its infallible hero, fetching sidekick and wicked bad guys, this international shoot ''em up sticks close to formula, but the well-choreographed action and thrills will keep readers engrossed.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Brad Thor is as current as tomorrow''s headlines."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Dan Brown\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of the best emerging thriller writers on the continent."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Ottawa Citizen\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...a blood-soaked sequel to the presidential-kidnapping debut that so arrested critics....Thor leaves little to the imagination when it comes to the cut and thrust of terrorist-busting; the action is relentless and gory, the pacing sublime, as is the authenticity of everything from weaponry to locales."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Ottawa Citizen\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Clancy fans will love this. Brad Thor has packed this riveting and timely thriller with enough military technology, CIA intrigue, and exotic settings to kidnap even the most demanding readers, deprive them of sleep, and convert them into instant devotees."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Dan Brown,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Da Vinci Code\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If Thor''s second international thriller had any more testosterone, it would grow hair....the well-choreographed action and thrills will keep readers engrossed."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2458'),
(2060, 'Patriot Games', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Red Storm Rising\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Sum of All Fears\n </em>\n brings Jack Ryan back in his to fight his deadliest battle yet.\n</p>\n<p>\n From England to Ireland to America, an explosive wave of violence sweeps a CIA analyst and his family into the deadliest game of our time: international terrorism. An ultra-left-wing faction fo the IRA has targeted the CIA man for his act of salvation in an assasination attempt. And now he must pay ... with his life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Introduced in The Hunt for Red October, Jack Ryan, the naval historian who freelances for the CIA, returns in this novel, in which Clancy demonstrates once again that he is a master of a genre he seems to have createdthe technico-military thriller. On a visit with his wife and daughter in London, Ryan stumbles onto an attempt by a new Irish revolutionary group to kidnap the Prince and Princess of Wales and their eldest son. Using his Marine Corps training, Ryan saves the royals (which leads to several visits between the Ryans and the residents of Buckingham Palace), but Ryan becomes the target of the surviving terrorists. Many familiar elements of the Clancy style are evident here: a fascination with machines and systems and procedures; thin characters; idealization of the soldier''s life ("the discipline and the essential toughness that makes them different"); sarcastic humor; and a discordant sentimentality about family life. There are also some unintended ironies, particularly Clancy''s praise of the CIA and the Marines, considering recent news from Washington and Moscow. Nonetheless, Clancy spins a marvelously tense yarn that will appeal to his legion of fans. First serial rights to Penthouse; Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Military Book Club, Reader''s Digest Condensed Books selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/867'),
(2061, 'Pattern Recognition', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first of William Gibson''s usually futuristic novels to be set in the present,\n <em>\n  Pattern Recognition\n </em>\n is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow,\n <em>\n  Pattern Recognition\n </em>\n takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying "cool hunter" with an allergy to brand names.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called "the footage," let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce''s quest will take her in and out of harm''s way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her fatherâ€™s disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson''s brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With\n <em>\n  Pattern Recognition\n </em>\n , Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson''s lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gibson, known as the "patron saint of cyberpunk lit," has made his reputation with futuristic tales. Though his new novel is set in the present, baroque descriptions of everyday articles and menacing anthropomorphic treatment of the Internet and sister technology give it a sci-fi feel. Cayce Pollard, a market researcher with razor-sharp intuition, makes big bucks by evaluating potential products and advertising campaigns. In London, she stays in the trendy digs of documentary filmmaker friend Damien (away on assignment), whom she e-mails frequently. When Cayce brusquely rejects the new logo of advertising mogul Hubertus Bigend, she earns his respect and a big check but makes an enemy of his graphic designer, vindictive Dorotea Benedetti. Hubertus later hires Cayce to ferret out the origin of a series of sensual film clips appearing guerrilla style on computers all over the world and attracting a growing cult following. Cayce treats this as a standard job until somebody breaks into Damien''s flat and hacks into her computer. Suddenly every casual encounter carries undertones of danger. Her investigative trail takes her to Tokyo and Russia and through a rogue''s gallery of iconoclastic Web-heads. Casting a further shadow is the memory of her father, Win, a security expert (probably CIA) missing and presumed dead in the World Trade Center disaster of exactly a year earlier. For complicated reasons even she doesn''t understand, she connects her current dilemma with her father''s tragedy and follows the trail with the fervor of a personal vendetta. Gibson''s brisk, kinetic style and incisive observations should keep the reader entertained even when Cayce''s quest begins to lose urgency. Gibson''s best book since Mona Lisa Overdrive should satisfy his hardcore fans while winning plenty of new ones.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/726'),
(2062, 'Pawleys Island', 'Dorothea Benton Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  With characteristic humor and a full cast of eccentric and wonderfully lovable characters, Dorothea Benton Frank delivers a refreshingly honest and funny novel about an artist who suddenly enters the complacent lives of several Lowcountry locals - and turns them upside down. It''s a twist-filled tale of friendship, family, and finding happiness by becoming who you are meant to be.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Frank''s fifth Lowcountry Tale is a lively story about friendship and family, Southern-style. On the small South Carolina barrier island that gives the book its title, semiretired attorney Abigail Thurmond spends most of her days playing golf and gossiping with her best friend, the portly, lovably aristocratic Huey Valentine. But their comfortable lives of leisure are turned upside-down with the arrival of one diminutive Rebecca Sims. Becca''s obvious artistic talent and poise make it easy for Huey to show her art and hire her to manage his art gallery, but when his 86-year-old mother unearths Becca''s tragic past, Huey can''t help sticking his aquiline nose in her business. Once an attentive wife and loving mother of two in Charleston, Becca became the victim of her abusive husband, who turned her children against her and then filed for divorce. Abigail and Huey must help their new friend, of course, and as they draw closer to one another through Becca''s tribulations, Abigail is finally able to examine the ghosts that have haunted her for years, and Huey gets to reveal a (pretty unsurprising) secret of his own. Frank''s absorbing narrative manages to feel both authentically Southern and universally empathetic.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Frank''s fifth book in her Lowcountry series (following\n  <em>\n   Shem Creek\n  </em>\n  , 2004) focuses on the tight-knit community of Pawleys Island, an "arrogantly shabby" oasis off the coast of South Carolina. Shifting first-person narratives invite you into this charming southern isle that, behind its decorum, is the kind of place that you don''t go unless you want your life shaken and stirred. Rebecca Simms naively seeks retreat there, but she soon realizes just how tangled and involved island life can be. Her new employer, his feisty mother, and their ex-lawyer friend all drag out Rebecca''s painful past. Through these newfound friends'' curiosity and genuine concern, Rebecca soon finds that she cannot hide from her recently shattered marriage. This compulsively readable novel tackles the weighty topics of marital infidelity and self-transformation, but its warm conversational tone will give it appeal to fans of both Fannie Flagg and Larry McMurtry''s\n  <em>\n   Terms of Endearment\n  </em>\n  . A true southern comfort.\n  <em>\n   Misha Stone\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2394'),
(2063, 'Pawn of Prophecy', 'David Eddings &amp; Leigh Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Absorbing. Touches all the right Fantasy bases. Warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures, and appealingly human magicians." --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fabulous! Eddings has a marvelous storyteller style. Exceedingly well portrayed." --\n <em>\n  Anne McCaffrey\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight." --\n <em>\n  Piers Anthony\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Eddings'' BELGARIAD is exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight."\n <br />\n Piers Anthony\n <br />\n Long ago, the Storyteller claimed, in this first book of THE BELGARIAD, the evil god Torak drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. So long as it lay at Riva, the prophecy went, men would be safe.\n <br />\n But Garion did not believe in such stories. Brought up on a quiet farm by his Aunt Pol, how could he know that the Apostate planned to wake dread Torak, or that he would be led on a quest of unparalleled magic and danger by those he loved--but did not know...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1282'),
(2064, 'The Pearl', 'John Steinbeck &amp; Jose Clemente Orozco &amp; Linda Wagner-martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n February 27 marks the great Steinbeck''s 100th birthday, and the publishing world is celebrating appropriately. The Library of America volume collects the author''s little-known 1942 novel The Moon Is Down along with popular standards Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), and East of Eden (1952). If you prefer individual copies, Penguin is also releasing top-quality paperback Centennial Editions of several of Steinbeck''s titles, which in addition to those listed above and those in the Library of America collection include his travelog Travels with Charley in Search of America (ISBN 0-14-200070-1) and the Pulitzer Prize winner The Grapes of Wrath (ISBN 0-14-200066-3), perhaps the greatest American novel of the 20th century. Penguin, which publishes Steinbeck''s 26 works, reports that the volumes still sell more than one million copies annually. Happy birthday, big guy!\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.\n</p>\n<p>\n Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersâ€”and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1065'),
(2065, 'The Pelican Brief', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Grisham''s head was full of movies when he wrote\n <em>\n  The Pelican Brief\n </em>\n , which is such a brisk page-turner you could use it to dry your hair. He had Julia Roberts in mind for the heroine, Darby Shaw, a brilliant Tulane law student who comes up with an ingenious theory to explain the baffling assassinations of two Supreme Court justices in one day. They were shot and strangled by ace international terrorist Khamel, who loves the film\n <em>\n  Three Days of the Condor\n </em>\n , but government gumshoes don''t get what connects the deaths. Silly government guys! They died so the conservative president, who just wants to be left alone to play golf, will appoint new, conservative justices who will help out a case involving an industrialist who is the enemy of pelicans and other living things. It''s all spelled out for them in Darby''s brief. She likes to do legal feats to impress her boyfriend, her boyish law prof Thomas (who, like Grisham, prefers to shave at most once a week, and is cool, smart, and antiauthoritarian). The prof likes to paint her toes red, in homage to Susan Sarandon in\n <em>\n  Bull Durham\n </em>\n . (Sarandon also starred in the film version of Grisham''s\n <em>\n  The Client\n </em>\n .)\n</p>\n<p>\n But when Thomas gets splattered by a car bomb meant for Darby, she escapes the hospital and hooks up with a\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n reporter, Gray Grantham, who sleuths like the guys in\n <em>\n  All the President''s Men\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Grisham wishes he hadn''t written\n <em>\n  The Pelican Brief\n </em>\n quite so quickly (his first novel,\n <em>\n  A Time to Kill\n </em>\n , went through dozens of drafts), but\n <em>\n  Pelican\n </em>\n ''s very breathlessness contributes to its dreamy, cinematic chase-o-rama atmosphere.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this tale of the aftermath of the assassinations of two Supreme Court justices, Grisham delivers a suspenseful plot at a breakneck pace, although his characters are stereotypes. The hardcover was on the PW bestseller list 48 weeks and the mass market was No. 1 last week.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/724'),
(2066, 'The Penultimate Peril', 'Lemony Snicket &amp; Brett Helquist', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Daniel Handler\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Your Wikipedia (online encyclopedia) entry defines you as author, screenwriter, and accordionist. Is that how you would describe yourself?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I find that nothing makes people back away faster at a social gathering than "accordionist." Except perhaps "screenwriter." And, even "author" always makes people nervous, so I usually say "writer."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How long have you been writing?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n All my life really, since I was\n <em>\n  able\n </em>\n to write all I wanted to do was write. I think largely I ended up becoming a writer because I could think of nothing else that I was good at--at all. As a kid, I always wanted to be a writer, and I had no backup plan whatsoever as an adult.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Are the Baudelaire children ever going to be happy?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Well, they are happy on a regular basis, just not for very long. Um, are they ever going to be happy permanently? I don''t know any permanently happy people, thank goodness.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Okay, then is the series going to end on a happy note?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Well, I always remind readers of the Snicket books that happy is a comparative term, so the end will be happier than some people would think, but less happy than others.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n When can fans expect the final book?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I believe the thirteenth volume will be released in the fall of 2006, although something terrible could happen to the author at any moment and then the books would not be released at all.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking for more from Daniel Handler? Check out his answers to Amazon.com''s\n <em>\n  The Significant Seven\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An Interview with Lemony Snicket\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Lemony Snicket has captured the hearts of childen and adults alike with the hilariously gloomy series that began, of course, with\n <em>\n  The Bad Beginning\n </em>\n . Amazon.com had a chance to question the author of this marvelously morbid and delightfully depressing series, and the communication was grim indeed. Read the cumbersome communique and see for yourself.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 5-8. "Book the Twelfth," second to last in the fantastically popular A Series of Unfortunate Events, reunites the beleaguered Baudelaire orphans with a host of characters from previous adventures as they gather at Hotel Denouement (with rooms organized according to the Dewey decimal system) to await the delivery of--the sugar bowl. Well, fans will get the drift, despite the fact that this inventive go-round seems more dizzying and stuffed with definitions than usual. But even as the series draws to a close, new questions arise--the most important one being, are the kids valorous volunteers or villains after all?\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(2067, 'Perdido Street Station', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful," she could have been talking about China MiÃ©ville''s\n <em>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </em>\n . The novel''s publication met with a burst of extravagant praise from Big Name Authors and was almost instantly a multiaward finalist. You expect hyperbole in blurbs; and sometimes unworthy books win awards, so nominations don''t necessarily mean much. But\n <em>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </em>\n deserves the acclaim. It''s ambitious and brilliant and--rarity of rarities--sui generis. Its clearest influences are Mervyn Peake''s Gormenghast trilogy and M. John Harrison''s Viriconium books, but it isn''t much like them. It''s Dickensian in scope, but fast-paced and modern. It''s a love song for cities, and it packs a world into its strange, sprawling, steam-punky city of New Crobuzon. It can be read with equal validity as fantasy, science fiction, horror, or slipstream. It''s got love, loss, crime, sex, riots, mad scientists, drugs, art, corruption, demons, dreams, obsession, magic, aliens, subversion, torture, dirigibles, romantic outlaws, artificial intelligence, and dangerous cults.\n</p>\n<p>\n Generous, gaudy, grand, grotesque, gigantic, grim, grimy, and glorious,\n <em>\n  Perdito Street Station\n </em>\n is a bloody fascinating book. It''s also so massive that you may begin to feel you''re getting too much of a good thing; just slow down and enjoy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yes, but what is\n <em>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </em>\n about? To oversimplify: the eccentric scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is hired to restore the power of flight to a cruelly de-winged birdman. Isaac''s secret lover is Lin, an artist of the khepri, a humano-insectoid race; theirs is a forbidden relationship. Lin is hired (rather against her will) by a mysterious crime boss to capture his horrifying likeness in the unique khepri art form. Isaac''s quest for flying things to study leads to verification of his controversial unified theory of the strange sciences of his world. It also brings him an odd, unknown grub stolen from a secret government experiment so perilous it is sold to a ruthless drug lord--the same crime boss who hired Lin. The grub emerges from its cocoon, becomes an extraordinarily dangerous monster, and escapes Isaac''s lab to ravage New Crobuzon, even as his discovery becomes known to a hidden, powerful, and sinister intelligence. Lin disappears and Isaac finds himself pursued by the monster, the drug lord, the government and armies of New Crobuzon, and other, more bizarre factions, not all confined to his world.\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n King Rat (1999), Miâ€šville''s much-praised first novel of urban fantasy/horror, was just a palate-teaser for this appetizing, if extravagant, stew of genre themes. Its setting, New Crobuzon, is an audaciously imagined milieu: a city with the dimensions of a world, home to a polyglot civilization of wildly varied species and overlapping and interpenetrating cultures. Seeking to prove his unified energy theory as it relates to organic and mechanical forms, rogue scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin tries to restore the power of flight to Yagharek, a member of the garuda race cruelly shorn of its wings. Isaac''s lover, Lin, unconsciously mimics his scientific pursuits when she takes on the seemingly impossible commission of sculpting a patron whose body is a riot of grotesquely mutated and spliced appendages. Their social life is one huge, postgraduate bull session with friends and associates--until a nightmare-inducing grub escapes from Isaac''s lab and transforms into a flying monster that imperils the city. This accident precipitates a political crisis, initiates an action-packed manhunt for Isaac and introduces hordes of vividly imagined beings who inhabit the twilight zone between science and sorcery. Miâ€šville''s canvas is so breathtakingly broad that the details of individual subplots and characters sometime lose their definition. But it is also generous enough to accommodate large dollops of aesthetics, scientific discussion and quest fantasy in an impressive and ultimately pleasing epic.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/393'),
(2068, 'Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea', 'Sebastian Junger &amp; Junger Sebastian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The unabridged audio version of Sebastian Junger''s\n <em>\n  The Perfect Storm\n </em>\n , read by Richard M. Davidson, moves in the same haunting fashion as the deadly storm referenced in the title. Opening slowly, the story lulls you with a false sense of calm, behind which looms an inexorable power. Almost imperceptibly the drama begins to build and before you know what''s hit you, the sheer force of the cumulative events has swept you into a maelstrom of tragic human consequence.\n</p>\n<p>\n Junger''s carefully researched and sympathetic book is a mesmerizing chronicle of man''s struggle against nature. Davidson''s unassuming, slightly nasal tone subtly captures the drollery of the salty New England attitude. "People often get premonitions when they do jobs that could get them killed ... the trick is knowing when to listen to them." He makes listening to\n <em>\n  The Perfect Storm\n </em>\n seem like you''re bearing witness to a natural disaster. You''re powerless to help, but the awesome spectacle has such an emotional hold that it''s nearly impossible to turn away. Start this tape too late in the evening and you may be in for a dark and stormy night. (Running time: nine hours, six cassettes)\n <em>\n  --George Laney\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The powerfully destructive forces of nature that created the Halloween Gale of 1991 are made vivid through interviews with survivors, families, and Coast Guard rescue crews.True adventure at its best\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/665'),
(2069, 'Personal Injuries', 'Scott Turow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A gripping, suspenseful, deeply satisfying new novel about corruption, deceit, and love.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Robbie Feaver (pronounced "favor") is a charismatic personal injury lawyer with a high profile practice, a way with the ladies, and a beautiful wife (whom he loves), who is dying of an irreversible illness. He also has a secret bank account where he occasionally deposits funds that make their way into the pockets of the judges who decide Robbie''s cases.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Robbie is caught by the Feds, and, in exchange for leniency, agrees to "wear a wire" as he continues to try to fix decisions. The FBI agent assigned to supervise him goes by the alias of Evon Miller. She is lonely, uncomfortable in her skin, and impervious to Robbie''s charms. And she carries secrets of her own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the law tightens its net, Robbie''s and Evon''s stories converge thrillingly. Scott Turow takes us into, the world of greed and human failing he has made immortal in\n  <em>\n   Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Laws of Our Fathers,\n  </em>\n  all published by FSG. He also shows us enduring love and quiet, unexpected heroism.\n  <em>\n   Personal Injuries\n  </em>\n  is Turow''s most reverberant, most moving novel-a powerful drama of individuals trying to escape their characters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1636');
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(2070, 'Persuader', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jack Reacher, the taciturn ex-MP whose adventures in Lee Child''s six previous solidly plotted, expertly paced thrillers have won a devoted fan base, returns in this explosive tale of an undercover operation set up by the FBI to rescue an agent investigating Zachary Beck, a reclusive tycoon believed to be a kingpin in the drug trade. The novel begins with a bang as Reacher rescues Beck''s son from a staged kidnapping in order to get close to his father--and trace the connection between Beck and Quinn, a former army intelligence officer who tried to sell blueprints of a secret weapon to Iraq but was murdered before he could pull it off. Or so Reacher thinks, until he spots Quinn in the crowd at a concert in Boston. As usual, Child ratchets up the tension and keeps the reader in suspense until the last page, although his enigmatic hero hardly ever seems to break a sweat. In the tough guy tradition, Reacher and his creator are overdue for a breakout, and this muscular, well-written mystery might be the one.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The promo copy on the ARC of Child''s new thriller proclaims, "We dare to make this claim: Lee Child is the best thriller writer you''re probably not reading-yet." Hopefully the "six-figure" marketing campaign promised by Child''s new publisher will make that statement obsolete, because readers will be hard-pressed to find a more engaging thriller this spring season. Child is a master of storytelling skills, not least the plot twist, and the opening chapter of this novel spins a doozy, as a high-octane, extremely violent action sequence sees Child hero Jack Reacher rescue a young man, 20-year-old Richard Beck, from an attempted kidnapping before the rug is pulled out from under the reader with the chapter''s last line. The rest of the novel centers on the Beck family''s isolated, heavily guarded estate on the Maine coast where Reacher takes Richard. Richard''s father is suspected by Feds of being a major drug dealer and the kidnapper of another Fed, and also seems to have ties to a fiend who killed Reacher''s lady 10 years before, someone Reacher thought he''d killed in turn, in a vengeance slaying. Tension runs high, then extremely high, as Reacher, ingratiating himself with the dealer and hired on as a bodyguard, pokes around the estate, looking for the kidnapped Fed and evading and/or disposing of in-house bad guys as they begin to suspect he''s not who he seems. But then little in Child''s novels is as it at first seems, and numerous further plot twists spark the story line. What makes the novel really zing, though, is Reacher''s narration-a unique mix of the brainy and the brutal, of strategic thinking and explosive action, moral rumination and ruthless force, marking him as one of the most memorable heroes in contemporary thrillerdom. Any thriller fan who has yet to read Lee Child should start now.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/964'),
(2071, 'Persuasion', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen''s last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn''t an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she''s still alone. But then the guy she never stopped loving comes back from the sea. As always, Austen''s storytelling is so confident, you can''t help but allow yourself to be taken on the enjoyable journey.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Austen is the hot property of the entertainment world with new feature film versions of Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility on the silver screen and Pride and Prejudice hitting the TV airwaves on PBS. Such high visibility will inevitably draw renewed interest in the original source materials. These new Modern Library editions offer quality hardcovers at affordable prices.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/67'),
(2072, 'Pet Sematary', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Renowned for its superior productions, BBC radio may have outdone itself by adapting Stephen King''s\n <em>\n  Pet Sematary\n </em>\n to audio. A clamorous cacophony of talking, whining, whistling, and howling, Pet Sematary is a quick, entertaining earful for those who don''t have other auditory distractions to contend with, such as a car full of talking whining, whistling, howling children. However, the melodramatic prose marries well with the acting; such is the case when one reader--whose voice bears an uncanny resemblance to Kramer''s from\n <em>\n  Seinfeld\n </em>\n --tells another about the effects of the Pet Sematary: "Heroin makes junkies feel good when they put it in their arms, but all the time it''s poisoning their mind and body--this place can be like that and don''t you ever forget it!" (Running time: three hours, two cassettes)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this BBC dramatization of King''s (Wizard and Glass, Audio Reviews, LJ 2/15/98) 1983 best seller, Dr. Louis Creed moves his ideal family from congested, urban Chicago to the rural simplicity of Ludlow, ME. His property sits near a long-established pet burial ground and a mysterious Indian burial ground from which the dead can be raised. The program effectively draws us into the characters'' world: marriage and family, then shock, grief and madness as we explore the nature and mystery of death. Presenting a multivoiced dramatization rather than a reading of the novel, the actors work together, with added music and sound effects, to create King''s macabre world. Recommended.?Kristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/538'),
(2073, 'PETTICOAT INFLUENCE: (A FOOTBALL STORY)', 'Petticoat Influence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1576'),
(2074, 'Phantom', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Exclusive Video\n </strong>\n <br />\n Watch author Terry Goodkind discuss how his own morality and sense of good and evil shape the chararacters and action in his epic ten volume\n <em>\n  Sword of Truth\n </em>\n series.\n</p>\n<p>\n Watch a video clip featuring author Terry Goodkind\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the eagerly awaited second volume of bestseller Goodkind''s Chainfire trilogy, which will wrap up his long-running Sword of Truth series, star-crossed Richard Cypher (aka Lord Richard Rahl) searches for his beautiful "phantom" wife, Kahlan Amnell, who lost her memory in 2005''s Chainfire after the Sisters of the Dark cast a spell on her. Meanwhile, Richard has memorized a magical instruction book, The Book of Counted Shadows, which will help open the three boxes of the Orden, though the consequences could be dire for the Old World: "Open the correct box, and one gains the power of Orden-the essence of life itself, power over all things living and dead... Open the wrong box... and every living thing in existence is incinerated into nothingness. It would be the end of all life." Despite the simplistic good vs. evil conflict and bland prose, the author expertly juggles many complex plot lines and brings to life a host of colorful characters. Goodkind has recently made a deal with Sam Raimi of the Spiderman franchise to translate the series into film.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/762'),
(2075, 'The Phantom Tollbooth', 'Norton Juster &amp; Jules Feiffer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here''s nothing for me to do, nowhere I''d care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored,\n <em>\n  bored\n </em>\n young protagonist who can''t see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.\n</p>\n<p>\n Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by Maurice Sendak for the 35th anniversary edition, he states, "\n <em>\n  The Phantom Tollbooth\n </em>\n leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it''s more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm clock for a body). The brilliant satire and double entendre intensifies in the Word Market, where after a brief scuffle with Officer Short Shrift, Milo and Tock set off toward the Mountains of Ignorance to rescue the twin Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Anyone with an appreciation for language, irony, or\n <em>\n  Alice in Wonderland\n </em>\n -style adventure will adore this book for years on end.\n <em>\n  (Ages 8 and up)\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n " I read [The Phantom Tollbooth] first when I was 10. I still have the book report I wrote, which began ''This is the best book ever.''"\n <br />\n --Anna Quindlen,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A classic... Humorous, full of warmth and real invention."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1205'),
(2076, 'Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel', 'Michio Kaku', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this latest effort to popularize the sciences, City University of New York professor and media star Kaku (\n <em>\n  Hyperspace\n </em>\n ) ponders topics that many people regard as impossible, ranging from psychokinesis and telepathy to time travel and teleportation. His Class I impossibilities include force fields, telepathy and antiuniverses, which don''t violate the known laws of science and may become realities in the next century. Those in Class II await realization farther in the future and include faster-than-light travel and discovery of parallel universes. Kaku discusses only perpetual motion machines and precognition in Class III, things that aren''t possible according to our current understanding of science. He explains how what many consider to be flights of fancy are being made tangible by recent scientific discoveries ranging from rudimentary advances in teleportation to the creation of small quantities of antimatter and transmissions faster than the speed of light. Science and science fiction buffs can easily follow Kaku''s explanations as he shows that in the wonderful worlds of science, impossible things are happening every day.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 11)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kaku (\n <em>\n  Parallel Worlds\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Beyond Einstein\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Hyperspace\n </em>\n ) introduces complex theories of physics to general readers. As\n <em>\n  The Economist\n </em>\n notes, Kaku "makes a good stab at explaining difficult physics. But his grasp of his subject is perhaps trumped by his knowledge of science fiction." While Kaku writes in language designed to captivate nonscience readers, it''s his references to pop cultureâ€”\n <em>\n  Star Trek\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  Terminator 3\n </em>\n â€”that clarify his fringe physics. (Those wishing to explore the topic further can refer to Kaku''s detailed footnotes.) To critics'' delight, Kaku also investigates the moral issues of futuristic technology that SF does so well and asks provoking questions about the fate of humankind. The only complaints? Kaku omits a few obvious SF parallels, and, more seriously, readers who don''t enjoy that genre may find less of interest here.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1206'),
(2077, 'Piccadilly Jim', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim - nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a string of broken hearts and breaches of promise. Eventually he becomes rather good at it and manages to go to pieces with his eyes open. But no sooner has Jimmy cut a wild swathe through fashionable London than his terrifying Aunt Nesta decides he must mend his ways. He then falls in love with the girl he has hurt most of all, and after that things get complicated. In a dizzying plot, impersonations pile on impersonations so that (for reasons that will become clear, we promise) Jimmy ends up having to pretend he''s himself. Does he deserve a happy ending? Read and find out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1627'),
(2078, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', 'Oscar Wilde &amp; Ian Edginton &amp; I. N. J. Culbard &amp; Metro Media', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The classic tale of a man who sells his moral health for the opportunity to retain his youth and good looks, and the portrait that reveals his own corruption to him, is well-suited to this graphic novel adaptation. Edginton retains many of Wildeâ€™s eloquent phrasings, and Culbardâ€™s black-and-white images give us a Belle Epoch London to fit with Dorian Grayâ€™s recklessness. Lord Henry Wootonâ€™s Svengali role is clearly defined here, and the working-class victims of Grayâ€™s appetites and denialsâ€”including the Vane siblingsâ€”have some of the most distinct and personalized features among the cast of characters. Gray himself verges on cartoon proportions, a fitting tribute to Wildeâ€™s presentation of him as lacking moral depth. Fitting with the original story, Culbard uses scenes from taverns, opium dens, and bawdy houses, and includes an image of an accurately rendered male nude garden statue. Teens who have read the original will appreciate this rendition, and those who havenâ€™t read Wilde directly should be encouraged to give him a try after this taste. Grades 8-12. --Francisca Goldsmith\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œYouth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world worth having but youth!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Picture of Dorian Gray\n </em>\n is a graphic adaptation of Oscar Wildeâ€™s classic work, stunningly re-imagined by writer Ian Edginton and artist I.N.J. Culbard. This Gothic morality tale is the story of a man who, taken by his own beauty, pledges his soul in a desperate bid for eternal youth. But when his wish is granted, things go terribly wrong. A painting of Dorian begins to age in his place, while Dorian himself becomes a dangerous narcissist who destroys everyone standing in his way until the day he is forced to come face to face with the ugliness of his own conscience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(2079, 'The Pillars of Creation', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Seven books into his Sword of Truth series, author Terry Goodkind continues to expand and enlarge the fantasy realm D''Hara. But with the\n <em>\n  Pillars of Creation\n </em>\n he takes a detour from his usual approach, leaving his primary protagonists in the background to spin a story of one woman''s battle to discover the truth of her heritage.\n</p>\n<p>\n Told in vivid and often gruesome detail, Goodkind''s fable grabs the reader with a familiar archetypal theme: a young woman, Darken Rahl''s illegitimate daughter Jennsen, flees her home in the wake of murderous forces rising from her lineage. She runs in the shadows of Lord Richard Rahl''s domain with a spy sent by Emperor Jagang, the enemy of D''Hara. With his help, she journeys across the entire realm, chasing rumor and misinformation to ultimately discover the truth of her heritage.\n</p>\n<p>\n Loyal readers, who know the truth that Jennsen seeks, may find this book tedious as they wonder when Lord Richard Rahl and Mother Confessor Kahlan are going to swoop in and save the day. But Goodkind appears to be challenging readers, and perhaps himself, to see the benevolent administration of Richard Rahl from its underside and from an opposition perspective. The change in perspective works up to a point. Goodkind has created a fast-paced adventure story that might be appreciated by diehard fans if they can leave their longing for the status quo at the door.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fantasy bestseller Goodkind brings his usual strong sense of place and distinct characterization to his seventh sprawling novel in the popular Sword of Truth series, though the action, too often discussed rather than shown, takes a while to warm up. The struggle continues between the New World''s Seeker of Truth, Lord Richard Rahl, and the Old World''s totalitarian leader, Emperor Jagang "the Just," against the dry and barren beauty of the desert landscape. After deposing his father, old Lord Rahl, Richard lingers in the background at his immense fortress. Meanwhile, battling for power are the bastards that old Rahl has also sired, notably Richard''s oafish lout of a half-brother, Oba, who tries to murder his way to the throne. Taking center stage is the vengeful Jennsen, who wants to kill Richard because she blames him for her mother''s murder. Of course, Richard isn''t the villain she takes him for, though Jennsen is slow to catch on. Amid the interminable sword-and-sorcery in the tradition of Robert E. Howard (Howard would have especially appreciated the huge serpent with which Oba and Jennsen contend), the author spouts his familiar political pieties. Lip service may be paid to public good, but passion arises only in scenes of violence. For all its clumsy exposition, unlikely coincidences and feeble attempts at humor, this latest installment, with its striking jacket art showing a beautiful desert landscape, is as certain to please Goodkind''s legions of fans as previous books in the series.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/759'),
(2080, 'The Pillars of the Earth', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.\n</p>\n<p>\n Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes\n <em>\n  The Pillars of the Earth\n </em>\n extraordinary is the timeâ€”the twelfth century; the placeâ€”feudal England; and the subjectâ€”the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape. Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his charactersâ€”into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life.\n</p>\n<p>\n The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king.\n</p>\n<p>\n At once a sensuous and endearing love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age,\n <em>\n  The Pillars of the Earth\n </em>\n is without a doubt Ken Follett''s masterpiece.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Ken Follett, internationally-acclaimed master of split-second suspense, author of six #1 bestsellers, reaches beyond the expected to achieve his most brilliant and remarkable novel. The epic story of the building of a cathedral in 12th century England and the lives of the people entwined with it and each other is a sensuous, enduring narrative, and a gripping tale of faith, ambition, bloodshed and betrayal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/827'),
(2081, 'Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama', 'Bill O&#39;Reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When Bill O''Reilly interviewed then-Senator Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential elections, the two had a lively debate about the nation''s future.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since that time, America has changed rapidlyâ€”some would even say seismically. And many believe these shifts are doing more than just rocking the political and social climate; they''re rocking the American core.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What are these changes? Who, in addition to President Obama, have been the biggest forces behind them? What exactly do they mean for you, the everyday American citizen? How are they affecting your money, health, safety, freedom, and standing in this nation? Which are Pinheaded moves and which are truly Patriotic? In his latest spirited book, O''Reilly prompts further debate with the President and the American people on the current state of the union.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After five consecutive, no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is megabestsellers, you can count on Bill to offer blunt and constructive political commentary. And as he did in his popular memoir, he offers some introspection too, looking back at his own actions and those of past Pinheads and Patriots who have inspired a code of conduct for such taxing times.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As always, O''Reilly is fair, balanced, and uncompromisingly tough when guarding the American way. Only Pinheads would fail to fight for what they love most about this country or to embrace some measure of change to make it better. The rest of us Patriots will read this book to discover the difference between the two.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For more than thirteen years, three-time Emmy Award winner Bill Oâ€™REilly has presided over\n  <em>\n   The Oâ€™Reilly Factor\n  </em>\n  on the FOX News Channel, the highest-rated news program on cable. Prior to that, he served as a national correspondent for ABC News and as an anchor of the nationally syndicated news magazine program\n  <em>\n   Inside Edition\n  </em>\n  . He is the author of numerous megabestsellers, including\n  <em>\n   A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity\n  </em>\n  , a deeply personal memoir that has sold more than one million copies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2486'),
(2082, 'The Plains of Passage', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The long-awaited fourth installment of the Earth''s Children series is as warm and inviting as its campfire milieu. sure fire bestseller. Auel again describes her characters'' travails, a passionate interest of millions of readers, in impeccably researched detail. The continuous recitation of flora and fauna, coupled with flashbacks to events in the previous books, becomes somewhat tiresome, however. (Would that our "memory" were as instinctual as that of the Clan.) The saga continues the cross-continental journey of Ayla, her mate Jondalar and their menagerie to his homeland. En route, they encounter a variety of problems, yet manage to find panaceas for each. Their enlightened compilation of skills, inventions, therapies and recipes transforms the voyagers into spirit-like personas providing The Others with constant awe. A brief encounter with the Neanderthal Clan rekindles the unique charm of the first (and strongest) book. Such locutions as "out of the cooking skin into the coals" or "Mother''s path of milk" for the Milky Way are coyly anachronistic. Nonetheless, this volume is as welcome as letters from a long-lost friend. A novel 1.25 million first printing; major ad/promo; first serial to Ladies'' Home Journal; BOMC main selection; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- Auel follows the successful formula of the other books in this series--man''s emergence from primitivism to civilization. Ayla and Jondalar continue their journey, accompanied by Whinny, Racer, and Wolf, closely observing the terrain and prudently, even inventively, developing "modern" techniques to deal with danger and evil. Perhaps most interesting is Ayla''s triumph over the matriarchal despot Attaroa; the reverberating echoes of the women''s movement''s attendant strengths and weaknesses lend a nice touch of irony. The love scenes are not quite as steamy as in the other books. The conclusion is too abrupt, coming just as the characters reach their destination, but The Plains of Passage is still satisfying.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Joan L. Reynolds, West Potomac High School, Fairfax County, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1002'),
(2083, 'Plan of Attack', 'Bob Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 2003 American invasion of Iraq was contentious, not just in the arena of global public opinion, but within the tight-lipped world of the George W. Bush White House. As Bob Woodward reveals in\n <em>\n  Plan of Attack\n </em>\n , Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were part of a group leading the charge to war while Secretary of State Colin Powell, General Tommy Franks, and others actively questioned the plan to invade a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks while war in Afghanistan was still being waged. Woodward gained extensive access to dozens of key figures and enjoyed hours of direct contact with the President himself (more time, seemingly, than former Bush administration officials Richard Clarke and Paul O''Neill claim to have had). As a result, he''s able to cite the kind of gossip you won''t find in a White House press release: Franks calls Pentagon official Douglas Feith "the f\n <em>\n  cking stupidest guy on the face of the earth," Powell shares his alarm over how the cautious Cheney of the first Bush administration had transformed into a zealot, and Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar seems to enjoy significantly more entrÃ©e and influence than most anyone would have thought. Bush is shown as a man intent on toppling Saddam Hussein in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and never really wavering in his decision despite offering hints that non-military solutions could be achieved. Light is also shed on CIA director George Tenet, who insists that the evidence that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction was "a slam dunk" only to later admit that his intelligence was flawed when months of post-war searches turned up nothing. But the book''s most interesting character is Powell. A former soldier himself, who finds himself increasingly at odds with the agenda of the administration, Powell rejects evidence on WMDs that he sees as spurious but ultimately endorses the invasion effort, apparently out of duty. Upon its publication, the Bush administration roundly denied many of the accounts in the book that demonstrated conflict within their circles, poor judgment, or lousy planning, but the Bush/Cheney reelection campaign nonetheless listed\n </em>\n Plan of Attack\n <em>\n  as recommended reading. And it is. It shows alarming problems in the way the war was conceived and planned, but it also demonstrates the tremendous conviction and dedication of the people who decided to carry it out.\n </em>\n --John Moe*\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Based on exhaustive research and remarkable access to the White House, including two sessions with President Bush and more than 75 interviews with administration officials, veteran Washington Post assistant managing editor Woodward delivers an engrossing blow-by-blow of the run-up to war in Iraq. In November 2001, just months after September 11, Woodward reports, Bush pulled aside defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and asked him to secretly begin updating war plans for Iraq. Sixteen months later, in March 2003, after an intense war-planning effort, a tense political fight at home and a carefully crafted "if-you-donâ€™t-we-will" diplomatic strategy with the U.N., the American invasion began. Woodward has penned a forceful, often disturbing narrative that captures the deep personality and policy clashes within the Bush administration. Bush, along with Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Karl Rove and Paul Wolfowitz, are portrayed as believing in a sweeping mission to export democracy and to have America be viewed as strong and willing to walk the walk. They are counterbalanced by Colin Powell, who emerges here as a reluctant warrior, a pragmatic voiceâ€”eventually mutedâ€”cautioning the president against a rush to war. The most stunning aspect of the story, however, is the glaring intelligence failure of George Tenetâ€™s CIA, from bad WMD information to what Woodward reports as the outright manipulation of questionable intelligence to make the case for war. With this book, Woodward, the author of an astonishing nine number-one bestsellers, has delivered his most important and impressive work in years. Ultimately, this first-class work of contemporary history will be remembered for shedding needed light on the Iraq War, whatever its final outcome.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/148'),
(2084, 'Planet of the Apes', 'Pierre Boulle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Before you see the movie, read the original novel!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  First published more than thirty-five years ago, Pierre Boulleâ€™s chilling novel launched one of the greatest science fiction sagas in motion picture history, from the classic 1968 movie starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell, through four sequels and two television series . . . and now the newest film adaptation directed by Tim Burton.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the not-too-distant future, three astronauts land on what appears to be a planet just like Earth, with lush forests, a temperate climate, and breathable air. But while it appears to be a paradise, nothing is what it seems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They soon discover the terrifying truth: On this world humans are savage beasts, and apes rule as their civilized masters. In an ironic novel of nonstop action and breathless intrigue, one man struggles to unlock the secret of a terrifying civilization, all the while wondering: Will he become the savior of the human race, or the final witness to its damnation? In a shocking climax that rivals that of the original movie, Boulle delivers the answer in a masterpiece of adventure, satire, and suspense.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1578'),
(2085, 'Plantation', 'Dorothea Benton-Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n " Il y a six mois, j''habitais New York et me croyais satisfaite de ma vie conjugale, voyez-vous ! Nous possÃ©dions, Richard et moi, un superbe appartement sur Park Avenue, et notre fils Eric grandissait Ã  son rythme. Non, je ne m''attendais vraiment pas Ã  ce qui allait arriver " Caroline mÃ¨ne une vie idyllique Ã  New York : un mari merveilleux, un petit garÃ§on adorable et un mÃ©tier Ã©panouissant. Mais lorsque son frÃ¨re menace de faire enfermer leur mÃ¨re dans une institution spÃ©cialisÃ©e, elle dÃ©cide de retourner jouer les mÃ©diatrices sur les lieux de son enfance, la sublime propriÃ©tÃ© de Tall Fines. Les souvenirs se rÃ©veillent alors la mort prÃ©maturÃ©e de son pÃ¨re, la rivalitÃ© avec son frÃ¨re et les relations conflictuelles avec sa mÃ¨re. Caroline va devoir affronter les fantÃ´mes du passÃ© et rÃ©apprendre Ã  connaÃ®tre les vivants. Dans ce roman polyphonique Ã©lÃ©gamment construit, Dorothea Benton Frank analyse avec humour et finesse les relations mÃ¨re-fille Ã  l''Ã¢ge de la maturitÃ©.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2391'),
(2086, 'The Player of Games', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Player of Games\n  </em>\n  , Iain M. Banks presents a distant future that could almost be called the end of history. Humanity has filled the galaxy, and thanks to ultra-high technology everyone has everything they want, no one gets sick, and no one dies. It''s a playground society of sports, stellar cruises, parties, and festivals. Jernau Gurgeh, a famed master game player, is looking for something more and finds it when he''s invited to a game tournament at a small alien empire. Abruptly Banks veers into different territory. The Empire of Azad is exotic, sensual, and vibrant. It has space battle cruisers, a glowing court--all the stuff of good old science fiction--which appears old-fashioned in contrast to Gurgeh''s home. At first it''s a relief, but further exploration reveals the empire to be depraved and terrifically unjust. Its defects are gross exaggerations of our own, yet they indict us all the same. Clearly Banks is interested in the idea of a future where everyone can be mature and happy. Yet it''s interesting to note that in order to give us this compelling adventure story, he has to return to a more traditional setting. Thoughtful science fiction readers will appreciate the cultural comparisons, and fans of big ideas and action will also be rewarded.\n  <em>\n   --Brooks Peck\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Culture''s greatest game player travels to the Empire of Azad to participate in a complex competition that could settle the fates of two civilizations. Theauthor of Consider Phlebas vividlyportrays an empire ruled by arcane conventions and sophisticated brutality in an ambitious novel of gamesmanship and intrigue. Supple prose and subtle manipulations of plot produce a thought-provoking story which is highly recommended.-- JC\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/91'),
(2087, 'Player Piano', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.â€â€”\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œAn exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Life\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHis black logic . . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear.â€â€”\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kurt Vonnegutâ€™s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paulâ€™s rebellion is vintage Vonnegutâ€”wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(2088, 'Playing for Pizza', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  *Playing for Pizza: * A Q&amp;A with John Grisham\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n American football in Italy seems like an unlikely subject for a John Grisham novel. What was the inspiration for\n <em>\n  Playing for Pizza\n </em>\n ?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Three years ago when I was in Bologna researching "The Broker", I discovered American football. One of my guides in the area played football for the Bologna Warriors for 10 years. I couldn''t believe that American football actually existed there, but the more I heard about it the more intrigued I became.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n There is some great football writing in this novel. What kind of research was involved in capturing how this American institution is played in small town Italy?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The only way to research the book was to go to Parma and watch a game. The coach is an American who played at Illinois State, and he proved to be extremely valuable. I met many of the Italian players and the story simply unfolded.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Speaking of research, you write lovingly of Italian food and wine in this book. What''s your idea of the perfect Italian meal?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n First course: prosicutto and melon; second course: stuffed tortellini; third course: roasted stuffed capon, all served with a great Barolo wine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Without giving away too much of the plot, your protagonist falls in love by the novel''s end. Did you know when you started writing that Rick would get the girl?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Of course.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You have a new legal thriller coming in January 2008. Can you give us any hints about what to expect?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I really don''t like to talk about a book until it''s finished. Sorry. But it will not be another work of non-fiction, nor will it be about football. Lots of lawyers in the next one.\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Christopher Evan Welch kicks and scores with his engaging narration of Grisham''s charming tale of touchdowns and tortellini. Rick Dockery, a 28-year-old third-string NFL quarterback, is playing for the Cleveland Browns. In the final minutes of a decisive game, Rick is brought off the bench to disastrous results. The Browns lose the game and a chance at going to the Super Bowl. After he is unceremoniously dumped by the team, the quarterback agrees to play for a small but tenacious team called the Parma Panthersâ€”whose playing field is in Parma, Italy. Welch perfectly captures the tone for this humorous and often touching fish-out-of-water story. Welch brings the listener along with Rick, as the young quarterback painfully adjusts to the strange new world he''s thrust into. He brings to life Rick''s discovery of Italy, with all its history and colorful characters. Especially delicious are the descriptions of the rich Italian foods that Rick and his teammates seem to constantly consume. By the end of the book, listeners will be seeking out the nearest Italian trattoria.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/703'),
(2089, 'Playing the Odds', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Serena MacGregor''s father knew she''d never settle down and produce a grandchild while working as a blackjack dealer on a luxury cruise ship. But he knew he could stack the odds in his favor by sending unsuspecting Justin Blade - part Comanche and all gambler - to see that his daughter was lucky in love . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1607'),
(2090, 'Playmates', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Spenser smells corruption in a college town. Taft University''s hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash. All manner of sleaze -- from corrupt academics to hoods with graduate degrees -- have their fingers in the pot.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spenser''s search takes him from lecture halls to blue collar bars and finally into a bloody confrontation with almost certain death. But Spenser saves an arrogant young athlete -- even though it nearly kills him to do it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Spenser is a tough as they come and spiked with a touch of real class." (Kirkus Reviews)\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Spenser, America''s favorite iron-pumping, gourmet-cooking private eye, smells corruption in college town. Taft University''s hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash, and if Spenser doesn''t watch his own footwork, the guilty parties will shave a few years off his life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1169'),
(2091, 'Plum Island', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Taking the best elements from two of his most outstanding bestsellers, The Gold Coast and The General''s Daughter, Nelson DeMille combines the breathless suspense of an expertly wrought murder mystery with his wry perspective on a peculiarly American social scene to deliver an enthralling and compelling story. Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey convalesces in the Long Island township of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen -- and at least one killer. Tom and Judy Gordon, a young, attractive couple Corey knows, have been found on their patio, each with a bullet in the head. The local police chief, Sylvester Maxwell, wants Corey''s big-city expertise, but Maxwell gets more than he bargained for. The early signs point to a burglary gone wrong. But because the Gordons were biologists at Plum Island, the offshore animal disease research site rumored to be involved in germ warfare, it isn''t long before the media is suggesting that the Gordons stole something very deadly. Suddenly a local double murder becomes a crime with national and worldwide implications. John Corey doesn''t like mysteries, which is why he likes to solve them. His investigations lead him into the lore, legends, and ancient secrets of northern Long Island -- more deadly and more dangerous than he could ever have imagined. During his journey of discovery, he meets two remarkable women, Detective Beth Penrose and Mayflower descendant Emma Whitestone, both of whom change his life irrevocably. Ultimately, through his understanding of the murders, John Corey comes to understand himself. Fast-paced and atmospheric, marked by entrancing characters, incandescent storytelling, and brilliant comic touches, Plum Island is Nelson DeMille at his thrill-inducing best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1307'),
(2092, 'Plum Loving', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this tart and hilarious "between-the-numbers" Stephanie Plum novel from bestseller Evanovich (\n  <em>\n   Twelve Sharp\n  </em>\n  ), the Jersey bond enforcement agent, who already has two guys in her life (cop Joe Morelli and bounty hunter Ranger), reconnects with Diesel, a third heartthrob. Diesel offers Stephanie a deal: if he lets her find Annie Hart, a relationship coach who''s become a big-ticket bond on Stephanie''s Most Wanted List after fleeing a charge for a robbery she didn''t commit, then Stephanie can do Annie a big favor by playing Cupid for a number of Annie''s lovelorn clients, including a shy butcher, a desperate vet, an overworked single mom, a 30-something virgin and the marriage-phobic fellow who just happens to be Stephanie''s pregnant sister''s boyfriend. Diesel and Stephanie''s short but sweet adventure ends on a teasing note that will leave fans hungry for the next juicy Plum-a-thon.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A perfect Valentine''s Day bonbon, a dreamy comma in the numbered series that features Stephanie Plum of Trenton, bounty hunter and gal from the Burg. A few years ago at Christmas, Diesel appeared in Stephanie''s apartment. He''s back, still blond, disheveled, and now hiding matchmaker Annie Hart. Stephanie is looking for Annie because she''s wanted on assault. Diesel wants Stephanie to do the matchmaking in Annie''s place and then he will hand her over so Stephanie can collect the bond. Is Diesel an angel? He does have a few interesting abilities, and he doesn''t seem bothered by walls and doors. There is a hint of sweet magic as this odd couple bring together a butcher and a barista, a woman with too many kids and pets and a lonely veterinarian, and even Lula, Stephanie''s plus-sized colleague, and Tank (longtime readers will know the silent Tank as Ranger''s second in command). Evanovich keeps the language light and sweet and the action nonstop, filling a few plot holes in the main series and finally getting Stephanie''s sister, Valerie, married to the ill-named Albert Kloughn on Valentine''s Day. Adorable.\n  <em>\n   GraceAnne DeCandido\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/782');
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(2093, 'Plum Lucky', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In bestseller Evanovich''s breezy third holiday novella (after\n  <em>\n   Plum Lovin''\n  </em>\n  ), Stephanie Plum''s kooky Grandma Mazur finds a duffle full of money on the street and hightails it to Atlantic City. When Stephanie learns that the money was stolen from Delvina, a notorious Trenton mobster, she and her friend Lula head off in pursuit. In Atlantic City, the Jersey bounty hunter discovers she''s not the only one after Grandma after meeting Snuggy, an ex-jockey who originally stole the money and is convinced he''s a leprechaun. With her on-again off-again boyfriend Morelli tied up with a murder case and the sexy Ranger otherwise occupied, Stephanie turns to the mysterious Diesel for help. As she tries to keep Grandma safe and fend off the advances of Diesel amid the slot machines and craps tables, Stephanie realizes she may be in over her head. With her trademark wit, cast of eccentric side characters and hilariously absurd plot twists, Evanovich treats her fans to a delightful miniadventure sure to whet their appetites for the next full-length Plum escapade.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Evanovich has been producing these short and sweet bonbons in the Stephanie Plum Trenton universe around holidays: Christmas (Visions of Sugar Plums, 2002), Valentineâ€™s Day (Plum Lovinâ€™, 2007), this oneâ€™s for St. Patrickâ€™s. The theme is green, as in a guy who thinks he is a leprechaun, talks to horses, andÂ steals a bagful of cash that Stephanieâ€™s Grandma Mazur lifts and takes to Atlantic City. Also present in these interludes between Evanovichâ€™s numbered Plum series is the enigmatice Diesel, who has powers beyond those of mortal men (even Stephanieâ€™s two beaux, Morelli and Ranger). The usual cast finds itself in Atlantic City, trying to hold on to the leprechaun, win back the money, and rescue the horse, until a very ugly mobster, whose money was pinched by the leprechaun, kidnaps Grandma Mazur. Diesel may be an angel, but he thinks Stephanieâ€™s hot, and Stephanie may be a skip tracer, but she also worries about her grandma. Oh, and for awhile, the horse really is in her kitchen. Silly, hilarious, delightful. --GraceAnne A. DeCandido\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/783'),
(2094, 'Plum Punch: Four Short Tales', 'David Moynihan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1479'),
(2095, 'Plum Spooky', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Klutzy bounty hunter Stephanie Plum teams up with mysterious Diesel and the monkey left on her doorstep to track down a nerdy genius and his sinister business partner in the depths of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Lorelei King does her usual superlative job for the Evanovich oeuvre, adding juice and dimension to each wacky character. She deftly handles everyone, from bail bond receptionist Connie''s classic New Jersey accent and outrageous sidekick Lula''s brash outbursts to Ranger''s smooth purr (it''s amazing how he, as voiced by King, can make the word babe mean so many different things). The structures of Plum novels tend to be similar; it''s the laughs that keep readers coming back. King enhances the humor of this series, so much so that Evanovich fans should consider putting down that book and plugging in the CD player instead.\n  <em>\n   A St. Martin''s Press hardcover (reviewed online). (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Those who know and love Stephanie, Ranger, Morelli, Lula, Bob the dog, Rex the hamster, and the rest of that wacky crew in Evanovichâ€™s Trenton-set series, have also clasped Diesel, who appears only in these â€œbetween-the-numbersâ€ tales, to their collective hearts. Big, blond, dimpled, and paranormal, he flits into Stephâ€™s bail-bondswoman life with unnerving irregularity, and he has special powers that extend well beyond bounty hunting. This time Diesel has a cousin named Wulf, pale, black-clad, and dead-eyed, who has hidden a nerdy scientist and a lot of equipment in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. The repartee sparkles and shimmies from razor wit to toilet humor (and back again), and the plot involves mud, food tossing, explosive farts, occasional kissing, and hilarious (and true-to-life, alas) allergic reactions (that would be from Lula). A group of monkeys, and one in particular named Carl, figure mightily in the plot, in one instance actually making the stoic, understated Ranger burst into laughter. Donâ€™t miss Morelliâ€™s brother-in-law, the sly Star Trek and vampire tropes, and the Jersey Devil. Incredible amounts of fun. --GraceAnne A. DeCandido\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/784'),
(2096, 'Poems, Series 1', 'Emily Dickinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio," - something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer''s own mind. Such verse must inevitably forfeit whatever advantage lies in the discipline of public criticism and the enforced conformity to accepted ways. On the other hand, it may often gain something through the habit of freedom and the unconventional utterance of daring thoughts. In the case of the present author, there was absolutely no choice in the matter; she must write thus, or not at all. A recluse by temperament and habit, literally spending years without setting her foot beyond the doorstep, and many more years during which her walks were strictly limited to her father''s grounds, she habitually concealed her mind, like her person, from all but a very few friends; and it was with great difficulty that she was persuaded to print, during her lifetime, three or four poems. Yet she wrote verses in great abundance; and though brought curiously indifferent to all conventional rules, had yet a rigorous literary standard of her own, and often altered a word many times to suit an ear which had its own tenacious fastidiousness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1579'),
(2097, 'The Poet', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With his four Harry Bosch novels, Michael Connelly joined "the top rank of a new generation of crime writers" (Los Angeles Times). Now Connelly returns with his most searing thriller yet - a major new departure that recalls the best work of Thomas Harris (Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs) and James Patterson (Along Came a Spider).\n</p>\n<p>\n Our hero is Jack McEvoy, a Rocky Mountain News crime-beat reporter. As the novel opens, Jack''s twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has just killed himself. Or so it seems. But when Jack begins to investigate the phenomenon of police suicides, a disturbing pattern emerges, and soon suspects that a serial murderer is at work - a devious cop killer who''s left a coast-to-coast trail of "suicide notes" drawn from the poems of Edgar Allan Poe. It''s the story of a lifetime - except that "the Poet" already seems to know that Jack is trailing him. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Here is definitive proof that Michael Connelly is among the best suspense novelist working today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/897'),
(2098, 'Point of Impact', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n He was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, twenty years later, disgruntled hero of an unheroic war, all Bob Lee Swagger wants to be left alone and to leave the killing behind.\n</p>\n<p>\n But with consummate psychological skill, a shadowy military organization seduces Bob into leaving his beloved Arkansas hills for one last mission for his country, unaware until too late that the game is rigged.\n</p>\n<p>\n The assassination plot is executed to perfectionâ€”until Bob Lee Swagger, alleged lone gunman, comes out of the operation alive, the target of a nationwide manhunt, his only allies a woman he just met and a discredited FBI agent.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Bob Lee Swagger is on the run, using his lethal skills once moreâ€”but this time to track down the men who set him up and to break a dark conspiracy aimed at the very heart of America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1218'),
(2099, 'Point of Origin', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When your everyday life is filled with death it''s easy to find yourself a little edgy. The audio version of Patricia Cornwell''s\n  <em>\n   Point of Origin\n  </em>\n  gives fans of her familiar heroine, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a little something extra, a chance to hear the deep hurt and burning cynicism of the chief medical examiner''s biting words. "You don''t put your hands inside their ruined bodies and touch and measure their wounds.... You see clean case files and glossy photos and cold crime scenes. You spend more time with the killers than with those they ripped from life. And maybe you sleep better than I do, too. Maybe you still dream because you aren''t afraid to."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Perhaps because Kate Reading has also narrated Cornwell''s\n  <em>\n   Unnatural Exposure\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Cause of Death\n  </em>\n  , her voice conveys experience and the history of what has come before, allowing listeners to hear between the lines. Using a subtle but effective range of vocal inflections, Reading lifts the characters off the page and carries them along as the plot spins ever faster, tangling Scarpetta in a snarl of arson, deceit, and psychopathic murder. With her arch nemesis making threats and suspicious fires leaving calcified corpses, Dr. Scarpetta''s long-overdue romantic getaway has gone up in smoke. It''s just one more day at the morgue, and\n  <em>\n   Point of Origin\n  </em>\n  , another hit in the popular series of Scarpetta mysteries, finds the good doctor''s attitude honed razor sharp. (Running time: 11 hours, eight cassettes)\n  <em>\n   --George Laney\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cornwell fans who relish her Kay Scarpetta stories for the postmortem findings will welcome this tale of twisted minds and the gory havoc they cause. Acronym fans will also be pleased. This tale opens with the complete destruction by fire of a Virginia horse farm, the owner of which was said to be in London. As consultant to the FBI and the ATF''s NRT (that''s the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms'' National Response Team), Scarpetta joins the investigation on site and discovers some remains of a young woman in the master bath. Although the origin of the fire remains a mystery, research turns up two similar unsolved incidents from years earlier, female victims who were dead before the accompanying conflagration. Another fire disguising another murder, and the escape of Carrie Grethen, evil woman partner of Scarpetta''s now dead archenemy Temple Gault, from a New York City hospital for the criminally insane, ups Scarpetta''s anxiety level about both her beloved, brilliant niece, Lucy, who was seduced by Grethen in The Body Farm, and her lover, psychological profiler Benton Wesley. A third fire covers a third personally devastating death before Scarpetta is able to finger Grethen''s new diabolical partner and survive a harrowing finale in a helicopter. Although Cornwell repeatedly tells us how anxious, strung out or devastated Scarpetta feels in the face of Grethen''s evil threats, there''s very little dramatization of these powerfully emotional conditions. The author is convincing mainly in the delivery of chilling forensic details. One million first printing; $750,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club and Mystery Guild main selections; simultaneous Putnam Berkley audio.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1394'),
(2100, 'The Poisonwood Bible', 'Barbara Kingsolver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Oprah Book ClubÂ® Selection, June 2000:\n </strong>\n As any reader of\n <em>\n  The Mosquito Coast\n </em>\n knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with\n <em>\n  At Play in the Fields of the Lord\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  Kalimantaan\n </em>\n understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in\n <em>\n  The Poisonwood Bible\n </em>\n , you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they''re not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan''s daughters. But of course it isn''t long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they''ve arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan''s fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?\n</p>\n<p>\n In fact they can and they do. The first part of\n <em>\n  The Poisonwood Bible\n </em>\n revolves around Nathan''s intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor''s animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member''s fortune across a span of more than 30 years.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Poisonwood Bible\n </em>\n is arguably Barbara Kingsolver''s most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price''s wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel''s tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan''s refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver''s tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.\n</p>\n<p>\n Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver''s fully realized, three-dimensional characters make\n <em>\n  The Poisonwood Bible\n </em>\n compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this risky but resoundingly successful novel, Kingsolver leaves the Southwest, the setting of most of her work (The Bean Trees; Animal Dreams) and follows an evangelical Baptist minister''s family to the Congo in the late 1950s, entwining their fate with that of the country during three turbulent decades. Nathan Price''s determination to convert the natives of the Congo to Christianity is, we gradually discover, both foolhardy and dangerous, unsanctioned by the church administration and doomed from the start by Nathan''s self-righteousness. Fanatic and sanctimonious, Nathan is a domestic monster, too, a physically and emotionally abusive, misogynistic husband and father. He refuses to understand how his obsession with river baptism affronts the traditions of the villagers of Kalinga, and his stubborn concept of religious rectitude brings misery and destruction to all. Cleverly, Kingsolver never brings us inside Nathan''s head but instead unfolds the tragic story of the Price family through the alternating points of view of Orleanna Price and her four daughters. Cast with her young children into primitive conditions but trained to be obedient to her husband, Orleanna is powerless to mitigate their situation. Meanwhile, each of the four Price daughters reveals herself through first-person narration, and their rich and clearly differentiated self-portraits are small triumphs. Rachel, the eldest, is a self-absorbed teenager who will never outgrow her selfish view of the world or her tendency to commit hilarious malapropisms. Twins Leah and Adah are gifted intellectually but are physically and emotionally separated by Adah''s birth injury, which has rendered her hemiplagic. Leah adores her father; Adah, who does not speak, is a shrewd observer of his monumental ego. The musings of five- year-old Ruth May reflect a child''s humorous misunderstanding of the exotic world to which she has been transported. By revealing the story through the female victims of Reverend Price''s hubris, Kingsolver also charts their maturation as they confront or evade moral and existential issues and, at great cost, accrue wisdom in the crucible of an alien land. It is through their eyes that we come to experience the life of the villagers in an isolated community and the particular ways in which American and African cultures collide. As the girls become acquainted with the villagers, especially the young teacher Anatole, they begin to understand the political situation in the Congo: the brutality of Belgian rule, the nascent nationalism briefly fulfilled in the election of the short-lived Patrice Lumumba government, and the secret involvement of the Eisenhower administration in Lumumba''s assassination and the installation of the villainous dictator Mobutu. In the end, Kingsolver delivers a compelling family saga, a sobering picture of the horrors of fanatic fundamentalism and an insightful view of an exploited country crushed by the heel of colonialism and then ruthlessly manipulated by a bastion of democracy. The book is also a marvelous mix of trenchant character portrayal, unflagging narrative thrust and authoritative background detail. The disastrous outcome of the forceful imposition of Christian theology on indigenous natural faith gives the novel its pervasive irony; but humor is pervasive, too, artfully integrated into the children''s misapprehensions of their world; and suspense rises inexorably as the Price family''s peril and that of the newly independent country of Zaire intersect. Kingsolver moves into new moral terrain in this powerful, convincing and emotionally resonant novel. Agent, Frances Goldin; BOMC selection; major ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/490'),
(2101, 'The Pool of Fire', 'John Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Long ago, the TripodsÂ—huge, three-legged machinesÂ—descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods'' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives. But for a brief time in each person''s lifeÂ—in childhoodÂ—he is not a slave. For Will, his time of freedom is about to endÂ—unless he can escape to the White Mountains, where the possibility of freedom still exists. The Tripods trilogy follows the adventures of Will and his cohorts, as they try to evade the Tripods and maintian their freedom and ultimately do battle against them. The prequel, When the Tripods Came, explains how the Tripods first invaded and gained control of the planet.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Will and a small group of free people plan to destroy the three great cities of the Tripods before the arrival of a space ship destined to doom humanity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1785'),
(2102, 'Pop Goes the Weasel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Alex Cross is back, to face his most complex and formidable villain yet, a man known as The Weasel, who threatens to destroy all Alex holds dear.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Things are looking great for Alex Cross. He is in love with a very special woman and even a series of ghastly murders he''s investigating can''t diminish his happiness. Cross''s pursuit of the killer quickly produces a suspect- a British diplomat named Geoffrey Shaffer. However, proving that Shaffer is the murderer is a difficult challenge. The diplomat engages in a brilliant series of surprising counter moves, in court and out, and Cross and his fiancee become the targets of a deadly cabal of killers masterminded by Shaffer.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Pop!Goes the Weasel\n </em>\n is James Patterson at the peak of his power. It''s his most dynamic and powerful psychological thriller to date. Here is a villain no reader will forget, a love story of great tenderness, and a plot of relentless suspense and heart pounding pace. Booksellers and readers will soon discover why James Patterson is at the very top of his field and one of the finest suspense writers of his time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/363'),
(2103, 'Porch Lights', 'Dorothea Benton Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When Jimmy McMullen, a fireman with the NYFD, is killed in the line of duty, his wife, Jackie, and ten-year-old son, Charlie, are devastated. Charlie idolized his dad, and now the outgoing, curious boy has become quiet and reserved. Trusting in the healing power of family, Jackie decides to return to her childhood home on Sullivans Island.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Crossing the bridge from the mainland, Jackie and Charlie enter a world full of wonder and magicâ€”lush green and chocolate grasslands and dazzling red, orange, and magenta evening skies; the heady pungency of Lowcountry Pluff mud and fresh seafood on the grill; bare toes snuggled in warm sand and palmetto fronds swaying in gentle ocean winds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Awaiting them is Annie Britt, the family matriarch who has kept the porch lights on to welcome them home. Thrilled to have her family back again, Annie promises to make their visit perfectâ€”even though relations between mother and daughter have never been what you''d call smooth. Over the years, Jackie and Annie, like all mothers and daughters, have been known to have frequent and notorious differences of opinion. But her estranged and wise husband, Buster, and her flamboyant and funny best friend Deb are sure to keep Annie in line. She''s also got Steven Plofker, the flirtatious and devilishly tasty widowed physician next door, to keep her distracted as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Captivated by the island''s alluring natural charms and inspired by colorful Lowcountry loreâ€”lively stories of Blackbeard and his pirates who once sailed the waters surrounding the Carolinas and of former resident Edgar Allan Poeâ€”mother, daughter, and grandson will share a memorable, illuminating summer. Told in Annie''s and Jackie''s alternating voices, and filled with Dorothea Benton Frank''s charming wit, indelible poignancy, and hallmark themesâ€”the bonds of family, the heart''s resilience, and the strength of loveâ€”\n  <em>\n   Porch Lights\n  </em>\n  is a triumph from "the queen of Southern fiction" (\n  <em>\n   Charlotte Observer\n  </em>\n  ).\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestselling author\n  <strong>\n   DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK\n  </strong>\n  was born and raised on Sullivans Island, South Carolina. She and her husband divide their time between South Carolina and New Jersey. Please visit her website at www.dotfrank.com and join her on Facebook.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2399'),
(2104, 'Port Mortuary', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Cornwell''s compelling 18th Kay Scarpetta novel (after The Scarpetta Factor), her strongest work in years, involves the chief medical examiner in a case that''s both far-reaching in its national security implications and deeply personal. The story begins at the real Port Mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, where Scarpetta is assisting in developing techniques for virtual autopsies, then shifts back to her recently adopted home at Boston''s Cambridge Forensic Center (CFC). A young man''s mysterious death becomes even stranger after full-body scans reveal destruction so extensive it''s as if a bomb went off inside his body. Scarpetta and husband Benton Wesley-along with her niece, Lucy Farinelli, and ex-cop turned CFC investigator Pete Marino-discover links not only to a government project with the ability to cause mass casualties but also to another grisly case currently under investigation. As Scarpetta''s military past rears its head, the emotional damage the investigation of the cases is bound to wreak on Cornwell''s steadfast heroine will leave readers eager for the next installment. Long-time fans will welcome the return after a decade to a first-person narration with direct access to Scarpetta''s thoughts.\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cornwell returns to formâ€”somewhatâ€”after the plodding Scarpetta Factor (2009). Told in the first person, the story finds Kay Scarpetta, now the chief medical examiner of the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts, involved in a couple of cases: the mysterious sudden death of a man and the murder of a child (whose confessed killer seems to be innocent). Soon she begins to suspect the two cases are relatedâ€”joined by a piece of high-tech hardware found in the first victimâ€™s apartmentâ€”and before too long, she realizes sheâ€™s facing what could be her most clever foe yet. For the first time in a while, Cornwell seems genuinely interested in Scarpetta again, giving the novel that spark of life that has made the series so enjoyable for its many fans. The book is still a long way from the glory days of Postmortem (1991) and From Potterâ€™s Field (1995), but itâ€™s definitely a step in the right direction. Series fans who have felt a bit let down of late will be pleased. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Print, radio, television, in-person, billboards, Twitter, Facebook, iPhone appsâ€”about the only thing Putnam isnâ€™t doing to promote Cornwellâ€™s latest is a graffiti campaign. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1395'),
(2105, 'The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hitchens, an avowed atheist and author of the bestseller\n <em>\n  God Is Not Great\n </em>\n , is a formidable intellectual who finds the notion of belief in God to be utter nonsense. The author is clear in his introduction that religion has caused more than its fair share of world problems. "Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually nonconformist as existing in a state of incurable mortal sin that can incidentally cause floods and earthquakes." The readings Hitchens chooses to bolster his atheist argument are indeed engaging and important. Hobbes, Spinoza, Mill and Marx are some of the heavyweights representing a philosophical viewpoint. From the world of literature the author assembles excerpts from Shelley, Twain, Conrad, Orwell and Updike. All are enjoyable to read and will make even religious believers envious of the talent gathered for this anthology. What these dynamic writers are railing against often enough, however, is a strawman: an immature, fundamentalist, outdated, and even embarrassing style of religion that many intelligent believers have long since cast off. It could be that Hitchens and his cast of nonbelievers are preaching to the choir and their message is tired and spent. However, this remains a fascinating collection of readings from some of the Westâ€™s greatest thinkers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Hitchens has returned to the Belief Wars backed by a full army...the Godless Warrior marshals in an Atheist A-Team...to buttress his own arguments...Hitchens is the guide as well as the commentartor linking it all together."--"San Diego Tribune"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/675'),
(2106, 'Portnoy&#39;s Complaint', 'Philip Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Portnoy''s Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: ''Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient''s "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.'' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift fÃ¼r Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.With a new Afterword by the author for the 25th Anniversary edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/981'),
(2107, 'Portrait in Death', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lieutenant Eve Dallas may live in 2059, but she''s still a recognizable Manhattan police officer: mouthy, courageous, skeptical and impatient. In Roberts''s latest In Death novel (after Purity in Death), she''s charged with finding a killer who murders young people full of innocence and promise, photographs them after death, then taunts both a top reporter and Dallas herself with notes about his handiwork. Just as her investigation of Manhattan''s clubs and colleges nears its peak, Eve''s husband, the wealthy entrepreneur Roarke, discovers that his mother is not the cold abandoner he remembers, but a tender young Irishwoman whom his father brutally murdered. While he struggles to understand his heritage, the couple must navigate stormy marital waters. Though the mystery''s denouement doesn''t live up to its promise, the book ably delivers on other fronts. Intensely female yet unfeminine in any traditional sense, Dallas has a complex edge that transcends genre stereotypes and gives the book''s romantic interludes a real charge. As always in Roberts''s work, appealing secondary characters add genuine warmth and humor. And while this futuristic vision of New York may not be totally accurate (it''s unlikely, for example, that Dallas''s oft-used "bite me" will still be in vogue 50 years from now), it''s perfectly calibrated to intrigue.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Intensely female yet unfeminine in any traditional sense, Dallas has a complex edge that transcends genre stereotypesâ€¦ --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n , starred review, February 24, 2003\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1095'),
(2108, 'Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Now updated with new material that brings the killer''s picture into clearer focus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1396'),
(2109, 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Perhaps Joyce''s most personal work, "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man" depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature''s most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce evokes Stephen''s youth, from his impressionable years as the youngest student at the Clongowed Wood school to the deep religious conflict he experiences at a day school in Dublin, and finally to his college studies where he challenges the conventions of his upbringing and his understanding of faith and intellectual freedom. James Joyce''s highly autobiographical novel was first published in the United States in 1916 to immediate acclaim. Ezra Pound accurately predicted that Joyce''s book would "remain a permanent part of English literature, " while H.G. Wells dubbed it "by far the most important living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catholic upbringing." A remarkably rich study of a developing young mind, "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man" made an indelible mark on literature and confirmed Joyce''s reputation as one of the world''s greatest and lasting writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/661'),
(2110, 'Post Captain', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Patrick Oâ€™Brian is regarded by many as the greatest historical novelist now writing. Post Captain, the second novel in his remarkable Aubrey/Maturin series, led Mary Renault to write; â€˜Master and Commander raised dangerously high expectations; Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them.â€™ This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining and enjoying more amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He flees to the continent to seek refuge; instead he finds himself a hunted fugitive as Napoleon has ordered the internment of all Englishmen in France. Aubreyâ€™s adventures in escaping from France and the debtorsâ€™ prison will grip the reader as fast as his unequalled actions at sea.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/440'),
(2111, 'The Postman Always Rings Twice', 'James M. Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick, April 2000:\n </strong>\n It is sometimes easy to trace a literary genre to its source, and James M. Cain''s first novel,\n <em>\n  The Postman Always Rings Twice\n </em>\n , is the noir novel that paved the way for all the noir fiction that followed. The famous film starring Lana Turner and John Garfield is notoriously dark, but the novel is even more full of despair and devoid of hope. It is a short book--little more than a novella--but its searing characterization and depiction of tawdry greed and lust is branded into every reader''s memory.\n</p>\n<p>\n Frank Chambers, a drifter, is dropped from the back of a truck at a rundown rural diner. When he spots Cora, the owner''s wife, he instantly decides to stay. The sexy young woman, married to Nick, a violent and thuggish boor, is equally attracted to the younger man and sees him as her way out of her hopeless, boring life. They begin a clandestine affair and plot to kill Nick, beginning their own journey toward destruction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Horace McCoy, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, and the other notable noir writers never achieved Cain''s spare brilliance. Virtually all of his major works have been filmed, though several Hollywood studios refused to make the films, directors refused to be involved, and actors turned down roles because of their repugnance at the lack of morality inherent in all Cain''s characters. Reading him may not be fit for a Sunday school class, but once you begin you will be unable to resist continuing, like picking at a painful scab or watching a tarantula inside a glass dome.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A good, swift, violent story." --Dashiell Hammett\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A poet of the tabloid murder." --Edmund Wilson\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/924'),
(2112, 'The Postman', 'David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gordon Krantz survived the Doomwar only to spend years crossing a post-apocalypse United States looking for something or someone he could believe in again. Ironically, when he''s inadvertently forced to assume the made-up role of a "Restored United States" postal inspector, he becomes the very thing he''s been seeking: a symbol of hope and rebirth for a desperate nation. Gordon goes through the motions of establishing a new postal route in the Pacific Northwest, uniting secluded towns and enclaves that are starved for communication with the rest of the world. And even though inside he feels like a fraud, eventually he will have to stand up for the new society he''s helping to build or see it destroyed by fanatic survivalists. This classic reprint is not one of David Brin''s best books, but the moving story he presents overcomes mediocre writing and contrived plots.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A major motion picture from Warner Bros., directed by and starring Kevin Costner.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Critical acclaim for David Brin and\n <em>\n  The Postman:\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  The Postman\n </em>\n will keep you engrossed until you''ve finished the last page."\n <em>\n  --Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Brin is a bold and imaginative writer."\n <em>\n  --The Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(2113, 'Postmortem', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cornwell, a former reporter who has worked in a medical examiner''s office, sets her first mystery in Richmond, Va. Chief medical officer for the commonwealth of Virginia, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the narrator, dwells on her efforts to identify "Mr. Nobody," the strangler of young women. The doctor devotes days and nights to gathering computer data and forensic clues to the killer, although she''s hampered by male officials anxious to prove themselves superior to a woman. Predictably, Scarpetta''s toil pays off, but not before the strangler attacks her; a reformed male chauvinist, conveniently nearby, saves her. Although readers may be naturally disposed to admire Scarpetta and find the novel''s scientific aspect interesting, they are likely to be put off by her self-aggrandizement and interminable complaints, annoying flaws in an otherwise promising debut.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This award-winning novel based on Richmond''s real-life "South Side Strangler" case introduced Virginia''s chief medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta, and launched Cornwell''s career. Narrator Lorelei King generally has a pleasant reading voice and uses good pacing to build suspense. However, this is not a successful merger of book and reader for American ears. Listeners may be confused to hear that Kay wears "cocky" (khaki), for instance, and accenting the second syllable of such words as modem and condom distract the listener from the story. Furthermore, the voices of supporting characters (such as Marino, a "stoopid" New Jersey cop, and Lucy, a fussy Southern child) are stereotypical. Fortunately, an unabridged version of Postmortem is available from several other producers, including Recorded Books (Audio Reviews, LJ 2/15/94). Not recommended.?Juleigh Muirhead Clark, Williamsburg, Va.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1397'),
(2114, 'Potshot', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The town of Potshot, Arizona, is under siege by a band of murderous marauders, and the law is helpless to stop them. But now there''s a new gun in town-Boston P.I. Spenser-and he''s gathered a posse of the best and baddest to back him up.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Parker still finds clever ways to invigorate his Spenser series." (\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1132'),
(2115, 'The Power of Myth', 'Bill Moyers &amp; Joseph Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Among his many gifts, Joseph Campbell''s most impressive was the unique ability to take a contemporary situation, such as the murder and funeral of President John F. Kennedy, and help us understand its impact in the context of ancient mythology. Herein lies the power of\n <em>\n  The Power of Myth\n </em>\n , showing how humans are apt to create and live out the themes of mythology. Based on a six-part PBS television series hosted by Bill Moyers, this classic is especially compelling because of its engaging question-and-answer format, creating an easy, conversational approach to complicated and esoteric topics. For example, when discussing the mythology of heroes, Campbell and Moyers smoothly segue from the Sumerian sky goddess Inanna to\n <em>\n  Star Wars\n </em>\n '' mercenary-turned-hero, Han Solo. Most impressive is Campbell''s encyclopedic knowledge of myths, demonstrated in his ability to recall the details and archetypes of almost any story, from any point and history, and translate it into a lesson for spiritual living in the here and now.\n <em>\n  --Gail Hudson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The symbols of mythology and legend are all aroundÂ Â us, embedded in the fabric of our daily lives, andÂ Â the Moyers-Campbell dialogues are a welcom guideÂ Â to recognizing and understanding their meanings."Â Â --\n <em>\n  Cincinnati Post\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/931'),
(2116, 'The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment', 'Eckhart Tolle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s no wonder that The Power of Now has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 foreign languages. Much more than simple principles and platitudes, the book takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the discovery of truth and light. In the first chapter, Tolle introduces readers to enlightenment and its natural enemy, the mind. He awakens readers to their role as a creator of pain and shows them how to have a pain-free identity by living fully in the present. The journey is thrilling, and along the way, the author shows how to connect to the indestructible essence of our Being, "the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death." Featuring a new preface by the author, this paperback shows that only after regaining awareness of Being, liberated from Mind and intensely in the Now, is there Enlightenment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1040'),
(2117, 'A Practical Guide to Racism', 'C. H. Dalton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAs everyone knows, there''s only one thing that can end racism: laughter. Or fire. This book is a ready source of both. Read it with someone you hate.â€\n <br />\n â€”Jon Stewart,\n <em>\n  The Daily Show\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn insightful and provocative treatise on race.?â€\n <br />\n â€”John Hodgman, author of\n <em>\n  The Areas of My Expertise\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMr. Dalton''s book is sure to soothe, or possibly inflame, racial hatred.â€\n <br />\n â€”George Meyer, writer and producer for\n <em>\n  The Simpsons\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A look at the races of the world by a lovable bigot, capturing the proud history and bright future of racism in one handy, authoritative, and deeply offensive volume\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Meet â€œC. H. Dalton,â€ a professor of racialist studies and an expert on inferior people of all ethnicities, genders, religions, and sexual preferences. Presenting evidence that everyone should be hated,\n <em>\n  A Practical Guide to Racism\n </em>\n contains sparkling bits of wisdom on such subjects as:\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· The good life enjoyed by blacks, who shuffle through life unhindered by the white manâ€™s burdens, to become accomplished athletes, rhyme smiths, and dominoes champions\n <br />\n Â· The sad story of the industrious, intelligent Jews, whose entire reputation is sullied by their taste for the blood of Christian babies\n <br />\n Â· A close look at the bizarre, sweet-smelling race known as â€œwomen,â€ who are not very good at anythingâ€”especially ruling the free world\n <br />\n Â· A crucial manual to Arabs, a people so sensitive they are liable to blow up at any time. Literally.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Including a comprehensive glossary of timeless epithets, with hundreds of pejorative words for everyone from Phoenicians to Jews,\n <em>\n  A Practical Guide to Racism\n </em>\n is an essential field guide for our multicultural world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1301'),
(2118, 'A Prayer for Owen Meany', 'John Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend''s mom with a baseball and believes--accurately--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving''s novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie\n <em>\n  Simon Birch\n </em>\n , is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery O''Connor''s work. Irving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and beast, the Garp-like unknown father of the narrator (Owen''s orphaned best friend), the rough comedy. The scene of doltish the doltish headmaster driving a trashed VW down the school''s marble staircase is a marvelous set piece. So are the Christmas pageants Owen stars in. But it''s all, as\n <em>\n  Highlights\n </em>\n magazine used to put it, "fun with a purpose." When Owen plays baby Jesus in the pageants, and glimpses a tombstone with his death date while enacting\n <em>\n  A Christmas Carol\n </em>\n , the slapstick doesn''t cancel the fact that he\n <em>\n  was\n </em>\n born to be martyred. The book''s countless subplots add up to a moral argument, specifically an indictment of American foreign policy--from Vietnam to the Contras.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book''s mystic religiosity is steeped in Robertson Davies''s Deptford trilogy, and the fatal baseball relates to the fatefully misdirected snowball in the first Deptford novel,\n <em>\n  Fifth Business\n </em>\n . Tiny, symbolic Owen echoes the hero of Irving''s teacher GÃ¼nter Grass''s\n <em>\n  The Tin Drum\n </em>\n --the two characters share the same initials. A rollicking entertainment,\n <em>\n  Owen Meany\n </em>\n is also a meditation on literature, history, and God.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although he is convincing in his appraisal of the tragedy of Vietnam and in his religious philosophizing, "Irving''s storytelling skills have gone seriously astray in this contrived, preachy, tedious tale of the eponymous Owen Meany, a latter-day prophet and Christ-like figure who dies a martyr after having inspired true Christian belief in the narrator Johnny Wheelwright," warned PW . Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/622');
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(2119, 'Prayers for Rain', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Prayers for Rain\n </em>\n is Dennis Lehane''s fifth installment in his intricately plotted, beautifully written, and much underacknowledged Boston mystery series. Lehane''s books reflect our morally complex times, when the borders between right and wrong are somewhat blurry.\n</p>\n<p>\n Private investigator Patrick Kenzie is in the middle of a personal crisis--he''s lost his passion for the profession, and is tired of people with their "predictable vices, their predictable needs and wants and dormant desires." Angie Gennaro, his occasional sweetheart, lifelong friend, and fellow investigator has quit the business. She''s still deeply resentful about Patrick''s handling of the Amanda McCready case, the focus of\n <em>\n  Gone, Baby, Gone\n </em>\n . Without Angie, private investigating has lost its fizz.\n</p>\n<p>\n The suicide of a former client, Karen Nichols, gives Kenzie his investigative itch back. Six months earlier, Kenzie tracked down a stalker who had been harassing Nichols, and put an end to his heinous hobby. But Nichols needed more help than this PI could ever have imagined. "She''d been drowning, and I''d been busy." The successful, middle-class young woman had been sinking into a sea of drugs, alcohol, and prostitution, hitting the bottom when she jumped from the Boston Custom House. Her death consumes Kenzie--he is convinced that someone pulled her into the vortex, although her nearest and dearest simply call her weak.\n</p>\n<p>\n Kenzie teams up with his explosive, loving, gun-toting friend Bubba Rogowski, and, after a boozy reunion, Angie Gennaro joins them. This fearless threesome must surely be the most original team in contemporary crime fiction. Good at the core--but seriously screwed up by various demons from their pasts--tact and decorum is hardly their style. They work their way across Boston, doing whatever it takes to question Nichols''s family and acquaintances. By unveiling the real Nichols, tragic family secrets, betrayals, and conspiracies are also unmasked.\n</p>\n<p>\n If you haven''t experienced Dennis Lehane''s world before, be prepared for an invigorating new reading experience.\n <em>\n  --Naomi Gesinger\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the shattering consequences of their last case (Gone, Baby, Gone), Lehane''s PI partners Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are back, but not together. Estranged from Angie personally and professionally, Patrick works the old Boston neighborhoodAwith the occasional help of his loyal and happily homicidal pal Bubba RogowskiAwhile Angie has moved uptown to a blue-chip corporate security firm. Enter Karen Nichols, a nice, hard-working sort who''s being stalked. Patrick and Bubba are glad to take care of the stalkerAin an extremely satisfying wayAand everybody expects a happy ending. Which no one gets, because six months later the woman dives to her death off the Custom House tower. It turns out that everything that could go wrong with her life didAall at the same time. Everyone, including the policeAand Karen''s strangely unsympathetic familyAchalks it up to a streak of extraordinarily bad luck, but Patrick is suspicious. He doesn''t believe in coincidences and needs Angie''s help to uncover a killer whose methods seem to put him beyond the lawAone who makes his victims do the work, by manipulating their minds and lives until suicide seems a plausible alternative. Lehane''s sense of place is acute, and his ear is finely attuned to the voices of Boston''s many neighborhoods, as Patrick and Angie trace Karen''s downward spiral, from the exclusive, cobbled streets of Beacon Hill to the wharves and bars of the North End. As the plot twists through layers of old deceit and current corruption, the victims multiply while the killer remains elusive, protected by the terror he inspires. With sharp dialogue, inventively gruesome violence and the darkest of dark humor, Lehane''s fifth novel proves again that he''s the hippest heir of Hammett and Chandler. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/405'),
(2120, 'Precious', 'Sapphire', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. That is the device deployed in the first novel by poet and singer Sapphire. "Sometimes I wish I was not alive," Precious says. "But I don''t know how to die. Ain'' no plug to pull out. ''N no matter how bad I feel my heart don''t stop beating and my eyes open in the morning." An intense story of adversity and the mechanisms to cope with it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Precious\n  </em>\n  is now a major motion picture based on the novel\n  <em>\n   Push\n  </em>\n  by Sapphire, starring Gabourey ''Gabby'' Sidibe, Mo''Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, and Lenny Kravitz. Enjoy these images from the film, and click the thumbnails to see larger images.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With this much anticipated first novel, told from the point of view of an illiterate, brutalized Harlem teenager, Sapphire (American Dreams), a writer affiliated with the Nuyorican poets, charts the psychic damage of the most ghettoized of inner-city inhabitants. Obese, dark-skinned, HIV-positive, bullied by her sexually abusive mother, Clareece, Precious Jones is, at the novel''s outset, pregnant for the second time with her father''s child. (Precious had her first daughter at 12, named Little Mongo, "short for Mongoloid Down Sinder, which is what she is; sometimes what I feel I is. I feel so stupid sometimes. So ugly, worth nuffin.") Referred to a pilot program by an unusually solicitous principal, Precious comes under the experimental pedagogy of a lesbian miracle worker named, implausibly enough, Blue Rain. Under her angelic mentorship, Precious, who has never before experienced real nurturing, learns to voice her long suppressed feelings in a journal. As her language skills improve, she finds sustenance in writing poetry, in friendships and in support groups-one for "insect" survivors and one for HIV-positive teens. It is here that Sapphire falters, as her slim and harrowing novel, with its references to Harriet Tubman, Langston Hughes and The Color Purple (a parallel the author hints at again and again), becomes a conventional, albeit dark and unresolved, allegory about redemption. The ending, composed of excerpts from the journals of Precious''s classmates, lends heightened realism and a wider scope to the narrative, but also gives it a quality of incompleteness. Sapphire has created a remarkable heroine in Precious, whose first-person street talk is by turns blisteringly savvy, rawly lyrical, hilariously pig-headed and wrenchingly vulnerable. Yet that voice begs to be heard in a larger novel of more depth and complexity. 150,000 first printing; first serial to the New Yorker; audio rights to Random; foreign rights sold to England, France, Germany, Holland, Portugal and Brazil.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1072'),
(2121, 'Predator', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s not often a crime novel offers such a smorgasbord of oddball elements, including autopsy advice, methods of combating tree blight, the use of spiders in sadomasochist torture and couples covering the sexual and psychological waterfronts. There''s even a little nasty fun at the expense of television psychoanalysts. With geographic locations switching slightly faster than the speed of sound, it''s to Reading''s credit that she smoothes out the ultra rumpled excesses of Cornwell''s mind-boggling plot and takes full advantage of the yarn''s narrator-friendly present tense. Having given voice to several earlier books in the series, she''s got the main characters down cold. Her Dr. Kay Scarpetta is all snarky professional reserve and personal insecurity. Self-loathing lesbian niece Lucy, sounds properly troublesome and troubled, with an added catch in the throat due to a secret she''s keeping. Pete Marino, the bullet-headed, gym rat security chief of the Lucy-originated National Forensic Academy, sounds so gruff and aggressive, he should be kept on a chain leash. And Scarpetta''s inamorato, Benton Wesley, whose study of mass murderers'' brain patterns gives the novel its title, is, as his name suggests, the very model of a dry, annoyingly passive-aggressive personality. The joke here-intended or not-is that the novel''s protagonists are almost as mentally or emotionally disturbed as its homicidal villains. Cornwell seems to have grown weary of the lot of them. But there''s still a flicker of life left and Reading has the skill to make the most of it.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Investigating the disappearance of two sisters in Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta follows clues that twist and turn, leading her into the psychopathic depths of a jailed serial killer''s mind.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1401'),
(2122, 'Prelude to Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  To Emperor Cleon I, the science of psychohistory seems to offer the opportunity to predict and direct the course of his Galactic Empire. To Hari Seldon, discoverer of the still theoretical science, it becomes a nightmare as the young historian becomes the most wanted man in the colonized universe. An intricately twisted plot, uncomplicated but amiable characters, and an abundance of leisurely explication mark Asimov''s latest addition to his classic Foundation novels. While familiarity with earlier titles is not necessary, series followers will particularly enjoy this prequel. Recommended.JC\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire... the man who holds the key to the future - an apocalyptic power to be know forever after as the Foundation.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/52'),
(2123, 'The President&#39;s Daughter', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  BLOODLINE\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dina McDermott is on top of the world. Attractive and independent at thirty, she runs her own business, funded by a generous inheritance. But an explosive chain of events will soon be set into motionâ€”and her perfect life will spin out of control.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A journalist with a fearless instinct, Simon Keller believes heâ€™s struck gold when he unearths an unsettling story about former president Graham Hayward, one that started with a secret affair and ended in tragedy. The trail leads Simon to Dina McDermottâ€™s front doorâ€”and threatens to expose a parentage that would rock the political world. Shaken to her core by a shattering truth, Dina is suddenly thrust into the crosshairs of a cold-blooded killerâ€”and on the run of her life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1935'),
(2124, 'Prey', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Prey\n </em>\n , bestselling author Michael Crichton introduces bad guys that are too small to be seen with the naked eye but no less deadly or intriguing than the runaway dinosaurs that made 1990''s\n <em>\n  Jurassic Park\n </em>\n such a blockbuster success.\n</p>\n<p>\n High-tech whistle-blower Jack Forman used to specialize in programming computers to solve problems by mimicking the behavior of efficient wild animals--swarming bees or hunting hyena packs, for example. Now he''s unemployed and is finally starting to enjoy his new role as stay-at-home dad. All would be domestic bliss if it were not for Jack''s suspicions that his wife, who''s been behaving strangely and working long hours at the top-secret research labs of Xymos Technology, is having an affair. When he''s called in to help with her hush-hush project, it seems like the perfect opportunity to see what his wife''s been doing, but Jack quickly finds there''s a lot more going on in the lab than an illicit affair. Within hours of his arrival at the remote testing center, Jack discovers his wife''s firm has created self-replicating nanotechnology--a literal swarm of microscopic machines. Originally meant to serve as a military eye in the sky, the swarm has now escaped into the environment and is seemingly intent on killing the scientists trapped in the facility. The reader realizes early, however, that Jack, his wife, and fellow scientists have more to fear from the hidden dangers within the lab than from the predators without.\n</p>\n<p>\n The monsters may be smaller in this book, but Crichton''s skill for suspense has grown, making\n <em>\n  Prey\n </em>\n a scary read that''s hard to set aside, though not without its minor flaws. The science in this novel requires more explanation than did the cloning of dinosaurs, leading to lengthy and sometimes dry academic lessons. And while the coincidence of Xymos''s new technology running on the same program Jack created at his previous job keeps the plot moving, it may be more than some readers can swallow. But, thanks in part to a sobering foreword in which Crichton warns of the real dangers of technology that continues to evolve more quickly than common sense,\n <em>\n  Prey\n </em>\n succeeds in gripping readers with a tense and frightening tale of scientific suspense.\n <em>\n  --Benjamin Reese\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the opening pages of Crichton''s electrifying new thriller, his first in three years, readers will know they are in the hands of a master storyteller (Timeline, Jurassic Park, etc.). The book begins with a brief intro noting the concerns of Crichton (and others) with the nascent field of nanotechnology, "the quest to build manmade machinery of extremely small size, on the order of... a hundred billionths of a meter"-for this is a cautionary novel, one with a compelling message, as well as a first-rate entertainment.Rare for Crichton, the novel is told in the first person, by Jack Forman, a stay-at-home dad since he was fired from his job as a head programmer for a Silicon Valley firm. In the novel''s first third, Crichton, shades of his Disclosure, smartly explores sexual politics as Jack struggles with self-image and his growing suspicion that his dynamic wife, Julia, a v-p for the technology firm Xymos, is having an affair. But here, via several disturbing incidents, such as Jack''s infant daughter developing a mysterious and painful rash, Crichton also seeds the intense drama that follows after Julia is hospitalized for an auto accident, and Jack is hired by Xymos to deal with trouble at the company''s desert plant. There, he learns that Xymos is manufacturing nanoparticles that, working together via predator/prey software developed by Jack, are intended to serve as a camera for the military. The problem, as Crichton explains in several of the myriad (and not always seamlessly integrated) science lessons that bolster the narrative, is that groups of simple agents acting on simple instructions, without a central control, will evolve unpredictable, complex behaviors (e.g., termites building a termite mound). To meet deadlines imposed by financial pressures, Xymos has taken considerable risks. One swarm of nanoparticles has escaped the lab and is now evolving quickly-adapting to desert conditions, feeding off mammalian flesh (including human), reproducing and learning mimicry-leading to the novel''s shocking, downbeat ending.Crichton is at the top of his considerable game here, dealing with a host of important themes (runaway technology, the deleterious influence of money on science) in a novel that''s his most gripping since Jurassic Park. In the long run, this new book won''t prove as popular as that cultural touchstone (dinos, nanoparticles aren''t), but it''ll be a smash hit and justifiably so. Film rights sold to 20th Century Fox; simultaneous abridged and unabridged audiotape and CD editions; large-print edition. (One-day laydown Nov. 25)\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/973'),
(2125, 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Next to the exhortation at the beginning of\n  <em>\n   Moby-Dick\n  </em>\n  , "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen''s\n  <em>\n   Pride and Prejudice\n  </em>\n  must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet''s vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy''s hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy''s insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth''s low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen''s best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there''s more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of\n  <em>\n   Pride and Prejudice\n  </em>\n  would be hard-pressed to disagree.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Austen is the hot property of the entertainment world with new feature film versions of Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility on the silver screen and Pride and Prejudice hitting the TV airwaves on PBS. Such high visibility will inevitably draw renewed interest in the original source materials. These new Modern Library editions offer quality hardcovers at affordable prices.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/225'),
(2126, 'Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Series)', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."\n </p>\n <p>\n  So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen''s perfect comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. "Pride and Prejudice seems as vital today as ever," writes Anna Quindlen in her introduction to this Modern Library edition. "It is a pure joy to read." Eudora Welty agrees: "The gaiety is unextinguished, the irony has kept its bite, the reasoning is still sweet, the sparkle undiminished. [It is] irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be."\n </p>\n <p>\n  This volume is the companion to the BBC television series, a lavish production aired on the Arts and Entertainment Network.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library''s seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world''s best books, at the best prices.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  In late eighteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of three of her four sisters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/68'),
(2127, 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies', 'Jane Austen &amp; Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Itâ€™s difficult to tell if criticsâ€™ reactions to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies should be characterized as praise or astonishment. Some reviewers treated the book as a delightful gimmick. Others found that, beneath the surface, the book actually constituted an interesting way of looking at Austenâ€™s novel. Zombies answer certain puzzling questions: Why were those troops stationed near Hertfordshire? Why did Charlotte Lucas actually marry Mr. Collins? (She had recently been bitten by zombies and wanted a husband who could be counted on to behead herâ€”of course!) But critics also pointed out that this parody shows that Austenâ€™s novel has remained so powerful over time that even the undead canâ€™t spoil it.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This may be the most wacky by-product of the busy Jane Austen fan-fiction industryâ€”at least among the spin-offs and pastiches that have made it into print. In whatâ€™s described as an â€œexpanded editionâ€ of Pride and Prejudice,Â 85 percent of the original text has been preserved but fused withÂ  â€œultraviolent zombie mayhem.â€ For more than 50 years,Â we learn,Â England has been overrun by zombies,Â prompting people like the Bennets to send their daughtersÂ away to China for training in the art of deadly combat, and prompting others, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, to employ armies of ninjas. Added to the familiar plot turns that bring Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy together is the fact that both are highly skilled killers, gleefully slaying zombies on the way to their happy ending.Â Is nothing sacred? Well, no, and mash-ups using literary classics that are freely available on the Web may become a whole new genre. Whatâ€™s next? Wuthering Heights and Werewolves? --Mary Ellen Quinn\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/689'),
(2128, 'The Prince and the Pauper', 'Mark Twain &amp; W. Hatherell &amp; Robert Tine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Prince and the Pauper\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Mark Twain\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n Â series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n When\n <strong>\n  Mark Twain\n </strong>\n â€™s\n <em>\n  The Prince and the Pauper\n </em>\n was published in 1881, the Atlanta Constitution sang its praises in no uncertain terms: â€œThe book comes upon the reading public in the shape of a revelation.â€ A timeless tale of switched identities, Twainâ€™s story revolves around the miserably poor Tom Canty â€œof Offal Court,â€ who is lucky enough to trade his rags for the gilded robes of Englandâ€™s prince, Edward Tudor. As each boy is mistaken for the other, Tom enters a realm of privilege and pleasure beyond his most delirious dreams, while Edward plunges into a cruel, dangerous world of beggars and thieves, cutthroats and killers. Befriended by the heroic Miles Hendon, Edward struggles to survive on the squalid streets of London, in the process learning about the underside of life in â€œMerry England.â€\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n With its mixing of high adventure, raucous comedy, and scathing social criticism, presented in a hilarious faux-sixteenth-century vernacular that only Mark Twain could fashion,\n <em>\n  The Prince and the Pauper\n </em>\n remains one of this incomparable humoristâ€™s most popular and oft-dramatized tales.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Robert Tine\n </strong>\n is the author of six novels, including\n <em>\n  State of Grace\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Black Market\n </em>\n . He has written for a variety of periodicals and magazines, from the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Robert Tineâ€™s Introduction to *The Prince and the Pauper\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n The story itselfâ€”the swapping of identities between Edward Tudor, heir to the throne of England, and one of his lowliest subjects, a certain Tom Canty of Offal Court, Londonâ€”was a neat conceit and one that no one would have doubted Twain would have immense fun spinning out. However, while there are moments in the book of what the critics called Twainâ€™s â€œburlesque,â€ this apparently simple story delves deeply into the baseness of the human conditionâ€”and examines it closely at both ends of the social spectrum. It is not difficult to imagine wanton cruelty and pain meted out in the slums and low dens of Tudor London. But Twain did not spare the aristocracy; he accused them of cupidity, treachery, and outright violence. Brutality is no less brutal for having been dealt by a finely attired lord of the realm rather than by a drink-soaked mendicant clad in rags, worried that he will not come up with the two pennies required to pay his rent. One has to admit that to Twainâ€™s contemporaries, and to readers today,\n <em>\n  The Prince and the Pauper\n </em>\n is not a\n <em>\n  funny\n </em>\n book.\n</p>\n<p>\n But it is an exciting one, almost a thriller. Will the deception succeed? Will Tom Canty take the throne? And will Edward Tudor, Prince of Wales (as Twain erroneously styles him), live his life in rags and squalor, raving and raging until his dying day about his own blue blood and the common, ungrateful usurper of the throne? Itâ€™s a close thing, and there are times when the reader doubts that Twain will manage to pull off a suitably happy ending.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then there is the problem with the language Twain employs. The book is filled with archaic and, in the mouths of the noble characters, flowery language. The more base characters speak a guttural if elaborate patois: â€œâ€˜Gone stark mad as any Tom oâ€™ Bedlam! . . . But mad or no mad, I and thy Gammer Canty will soon find where the soft places in thy bones lie, or Iâ€™m no true man!â€™â€ (p. 24). The aristocrats are no less orotund, even when condemning one of their own to death: â€œâ€˜Alack, how I have longed for this sweet hour! and lo, too late it commeth, and I am robbed of this so coveted chance. But speed ye, speed ye! let others do this happy office [that is, a beheading] sith â€™tis denied to meâ€™â€ (p. 52). This is not the Mark Twain the reading public was used toâ€”we are a long way from Tom, Huck, and Puddâ€™nhead. But Twain had always been a meticulous and discerning student of the spoken word, and absent a living example of Tudor speech, he readily admitted reading a great deal of Shakespeare to get the language down for both prince and pauper.\n</p>\n<p>\n At first, the language seems a trifle daunting, but it quickly becomes easy to read and in the end adds immeasurably to the authenticity of the book. To have had his characters speak in the manner of Victorian Londoners of his age would have undercut the profound sense of time and place Twain manages to convey so well.\n</p>\n<p>\n Having said how much\n <em>\n  The Prince and the Pauper\n </em>\n is\n <em>\n  not\n </em>\n a typical example of Twainâ€™s work, it is worth taking a look at the factors that make it, in fact, a comfortable fit with the rest of the Twain canon. Like Tom Canty, the pauper of the story, Twain knew well the privations of youthful poverty. His father, John Marshall Clemens\n</p>\n<p>\n (1798â€“1847), was an inept businessman, perennially in debt, sometimes bringing his family to such low financial water as to force the selling of family land, and even the household furniture. At one point in Twainâ€™s youth the family was forced to face the humiliation of having to take in boarders. True, Twain never knew the crushing poverty of the Canty clan, but he grew up knowing the cold sting of want.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Cantyâ€™s father is an ogre, a tyrant, a drunkard, and an abuser. Were he alive today his treatment of his family would, more than likely, land him in jail. Twainâ€™s own father, while no monster, was cold, distant, unaffectionate, and, it seems, uninterested in any of his seven children, still less in his wife (Jane Lampton Clemens, 1803â€“1890), with whom he lived in a loveless marriage. As Twain admits so candidly in a fragment of an autobiography published in 1907: â€œI had never once seen a member of the Clemens family kiss another oneâ€”except once. When my father lay dying in our house in Hannibal he put his arm around my sisterâ€™s neck and drew her down and kissed her, saying, â€˜Let me die.â€™â€ (Paine, A. B.\n <em>\n  Mark Twain: A Biography\n </em>\n , Vol. I, New York: Harper &amp; Brothers, 1912, p. 73.) It is not difficult to imagine that Twain could take his own experiences of poverty and cruelty and amplify them into the truly ghastly conditions of Tom Cantyâ€™s early life.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Twainâ€™s reputation grew he was transformed from lowly newspaper reporter into celebrated author. This celebrity allowed him to hobnob with the Great and Good (including the Russian czar, the German kaiser, and the emperor of Austria-Hungary) and to develop a keen eye for the doings of the upper classes. The courts of the nineteenth century were at least as grand, perhaps even more so, than those of Tudor England. Mark Twain was a proud American and a republican, and he scoffed at the very notion of aristocracy, as well as at a type of American traveler of a certain class who fawned over the titled and highborn. However, he did admit: â€œWe are all likeâ€”on the inside . . . we dearly like to be noticed by a duke. . . . When a returned American is playing the earls\n <strong>\n </strong>\n he has met I can look on silent and unexcited and never offer to call his hand, although I have three kings and a pair of emperors up my sleeve.â€ (Camfield, p.376.) These crowned heads do more than just pump up an awestruck American Grand Tourist: Twainâ€™s travels in the courts, palaces, and lavish country houses of Europe must have provided grist for his mill and found their way into the pages of\n <em>\n  The Prince and the Pauper.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/177'),
(2129, 'Prince Caspian', 'Clive Staples Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Caspian''s father is dead, and Narnia is ruled by his wicked uncle Miraz. Hearing tales of the old Narnia and of Talking Beasts from his tutor, a dwarf, Caspian escapes from the palace to find it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/903'),
(2130, 'Princeps&#39; Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The rousing fifth installment of Butcher''s military fantasy cycle (after 2007s\n <em>\n  Captains Fury\n </em>\n ) finds the land of Alera recovering from Lord Kalaruss rebellion, an invasion by the wolven Canim and a bloody slave revolt. Now a new threat emerges: the all-devouring insectoid Vord, who have learned to control the elemental furies that once protected Alera. Young Tavi of Calderon, recently recognized as the heir to Aleras throne, fights seasickness and interspecies hostilities escorting the Canim invaders back to their homeland, only to negotiate a fragile alliance with them against the Vord. No less powerful than his intense battle scenes, Butchers vivid characterizations, based on ancient Roman Republican ideals, range from duty-honor-country austerity in battle to brilliant peacemaking, noble self-sacrifice and Tavis coming-of-age as a wise Marcus Aurelian ruler.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the fifth Codex Alera novel, Tavi is the recognized heir to the throne. When armistice with the Canim ends, and he and his legions take the Canim in Alera home, they discover that the Vord, hostile to Aleran and Canim alike, have ravaged Cane, and now the former foes must fight the common enemy. Meanwhile, Alera struggles to rebuild after civil war, but that doesnâ€™t stop intrigues among the power-players. Perhaps the Vord attacking with the Aleransâ€™ they-thought-unique weapon, furycrafting, will. A treat for action fans and series followers. --Frieda Murray\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/78'),
(2131, 'The Princess Bride', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1541'),
(2132, 'The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern&#39;s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure', 'William Goldman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Princess Bride\n </em>\n is a true fantasy classic. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. Morgenstern''s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern''s original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. Morgenstern''s mostly complimentary views of the text. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles."\n</p>\n<p>\n Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Is\n <em>\n  The Princess Bride\n </em>\n a critique of classics like\n <em>\n  Ivanhoe\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Three Musketeers\n </em>\n , that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you''ll put it on your "keeper" shelf.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n PRAISE FOR\n <em>\n  THE PRINCESS BRIDE\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Goldman''s] swashbuckling fable is nutball funny . . . A ''classic'' medieval melodrama that sounds like all the Saturday serials you ever saw feverishly reworked by the Marx Brothers." --\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n "One of the funniest, most original, and deeply moving novels I have read in a long time." --\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/745'),
(2133, 'The Professional', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The wives of Boston''s wealthiest men have a mutual secret: they all had an affair with the same cad who''s blackmailing them, and Spenser''s been hired to stop him. But when the wives start dying one by one, Spenser''s new case becomes murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1141'),
(2134, 'Prometheus Rising', 'Aaron Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1416'),
(2135, 'Promised Land', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Spenser is good at finding things. But this time he has a client out on Cape Cod who is in over his head. Harvey Shepard has lost his pretty wife -- and a very pretty quarter million bucks in real estate. Now a loan shark is putting on the bite.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spenser finds himself doing a slow burn in the Cape Cod sun. The wife has turned up as a hot suspect in a case of murder one...the in-hock hubby has 24 hours before the mob makes him dead...and suddenly Spenser is in so deep that the only way out is so risky it makes dying look like a sure thing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Spenser is the sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read private eye around today." (The Cincinnati Post)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1157'),
(2136, 'Promises in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of bestseller Robb''s megablast 28th novel to feature Lt. Eve Dallas (after\n <em>\n  Salvation in Death\n </em>\n ), Eve is dismayed to discover at a Manhattan crime scene that the victim is a friend, Det. Amaryllis Coltraine, who''s been fatally zapped by her own stun gun. Dallas uncovers a connection to Coltraine''s ex-boyfriend, Alex Ricker, whose father, a notorious criminal serving a life sentence at the Omega Penal Colony, blames Dallas and her husband, Roarke, for his imprisonment. Humorous touches, like the wild poolside wedding shower Dallas must abruptly leave after receiving word of a prime suspect found shot to death, provide relief from the intensity of the murder investigation. In a nice paranormal twist, Dallas uses dream visits with Coltraine to help expose a devious killer whose identity is a stunner. Robb (aka Nora Roberts) has a real gift for keeping this long-running thriller series fresh.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n NYPD Lieutenant Eve Dallas always does her best to solve every one of her cases, but her latest assignment just might be her most difficult yet. Not only was the victim, Amarylis Coltraine, a cop who was killed with her own weapon, but the case also takes on an added personal dimension since Amarylis was Chief Medical Examiner Morrisâ€™ lover, and Morris is one of Eveâ€™s best friends. When the killer sends Eve a package containing Coltraineâ€™s badge, weapon, and a taunting note suggesting that she might be next on the list, Eve finds herself trying to untangle a case that may be linked to her own past. All of the familiar ingredients Robbâ€™s millions of readers expect to fall neatly into placeâ€”a cleverly constructed plot, an intriguing cast of secondary characters, and a sexy romance between tough-as-nails Eve and her mysterious billionaire husband Roarkeâ€”do so in the 30th gritty, suspenseful addition to Robbâ€™s best-selling, futuristic police-procedural series. --John Charles\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1107'),
(2137, 'Protect and Defend: A Thriller', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Vince Flynn returns with his most explosive political thriller yet. A tour de force of action-packed suspense,\n  <em>\n   Protect and Defend\n  </em>\n  delivers an all-too-realistic and utterly compelling vision of nations navigating the minefield of international intrigue. A true "heavyweight in the political thriller arena" (\n  <em>\n   Minneapolis Star Tribune\n  </em>\n  ), Vince Flynn has created a flesh-and-blood hero that readers can cheer for and a "finger-blistering page-turner" they won''t dare put down.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Protect and Defend,\n  </em>\n  the action begins in the heart of Iran, where billions of dollars are being spent on the development of a nuclear program. No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its neighboring enemy, Israel launches one of the most creative and daring espionage operations ever conceived. The attack leaves a radioactive tomb and environmental disaster in the middle of Iran''s second largest city. An outraged Iranian government publicly blames both Israel and the United States for the attack and demands retribution. Privately, Iran''s bombastic president wants much more. He wants America and Israel to pay for their aggression with blood.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Enter Mitch Rapp, America''s top counterterrorism operative. Used to employing deception, Rapp sees an opportunity where others see only Iranian reprisals that could leave thousands of Americans dead. Rapp convinces President Josh Alexander to sign off on a risky operation that will further embarrass the Iranian government and push their country to the brink of revolution. As part of the plan, CIA director Irene Kennedy is dispatched to the region for a clandestine meeting with Azad Ashani, her Iranian counterpart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Rapp isn''t the only one hatching plans. Iran''s President Amatullah has recruited Hezbollah master terrorist Imad Mukhtar to do his dirty work. For decades Mukhtar has acted as a surrogate for Iran, blazing a trail of death and destruction across the Middle East and beyond. When Kennedy''s meeting with Ashani goes disastrously wrong, Rapp and Mukhtar are set on a collision course that threatens to engulf the entire region in war. With the clock ticking, Rapp is given twenty-four hours, no questions asked, to do whatever it takes to stop Mukhtar, and avert an unthinkable catastrophe.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Despite Guidall''s best efforts, Flynn''s words are so flat and his characters and plot so contrived and mechanical that it''s hard to imagine who might actually enjoy this listening chore. The subject is certainly timely: what should the U.S. government do to defuse the Iranian nuclear program? Flynn''s solution is to have top secret counterterrorism expert Mitch Rapp try to destabilize the Iranian government-a plan which goes wrong when his boss, CIA chief Irene Kennedy, is kidnapped. Guidall does manage to catch some of the sadness in Rapp''s heart as he thinks about the loss of his family in a previous novel. But Guidall can''t rewrite Flynn''s words-very few of which give Rapp any semblance of human feeling. Simultaneous release with the Atria hardcover (Reviews, Sept. 24).\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Spectacular and exceptionally timely....Mitch Rapp is back with a vengeance." --\n  <em>\n   The Providence Journal\n  </em>\n  (RI)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2444'),
(2138, 'Proven Guilty', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Dresden, Chicago''s only consulting wizard, takes on phobophages, creatures that feed on fear who attack a horror film convention, in the diverting eighth installment of Butcher''s increasingly complicated Dresden Files series (\n <em>\n  Dead Beat\n </em>\n , etc.). Harry finds that fighting monsters is only the prelude to maneuvers amid the warring wizards of the White Council and the vampire Red Court. Less and less V.I. Warshawski with witchcraft, Harry aims his deductive powers at political intrigues rather than crime solving. The body count from the magical melees, however, would do any hard-boiled gumshoe proud. Butcher''s believable, likable set of characters go for the jocular much more than the jugular. Deeper fears do run through the book, and Harry, taking on an apprentice, has to face up to the consequences of his all-too-human failings. Look for the series to really take off with the debut of a two-hour pilot on the Sci-Fi Channel this summer produced by Nicholas Cage.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The second Dresden Files hardcover finds Chicago wizard Harry Dresden assigned an unpleasant task by the White Council of Wizards. He has to find out where the Winter Fairy Court stands in the White Council''s war against the vampires. To make matters worse, he has gotten a missive from a powerful wizard claiming someone is using black magic in Chicago. It doesn''t take long for Harry to pinpoint the source of the problem. Molly, the daughter of a close friend, comes to him for help after her boyfriend is accused of attacking an elderly theater owner at a horror-movie convention. When another attack occurs and Harry sees the dangerous type of magic used, he knows he is dealing with a very serious threat indeed. Butcher is in fine form here, and with the Sci Fi channel in the process of turning the first Dresden Files novel,\n <em>\n  Storm Front\n </em>\n (2000), into a TV movie, expect the series'' audience to grow.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/93');
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(2139, 'Purity in Death', 'J. Robb &amp; Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A sick computer can and does infect other computers, but not its operator," claims Roarke, dreamboat husband of New York''s hotshot futuristic cop, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, in the 15th installment in Robb''s `Death'' series (after Reunion in Death). Roarke''s theory is put to the test when pedophiles and drug dealers begin dying from a computer-generated virus that literally blows the mind of its victims. It doesn''t take long for Eve to figure out that a vigilante terrorist organization with superior tech knowledge is meting out its own form of justice the group even leaves the message "absolute purity achieved" on victims'' computer screens. Pinpointing the group is more of a challenge. Suspects could be anyone from members of the justice system to formerly abused children, the latter of which strikes a personal and painful nerve in Eve, who was abused as a child. Readers familiar with Eve''s history and the sea of characters brought over from her previous books will be more comfortable than first- timers attempting to wade through this sluggish installment. Despite Robb''s smooth-as-glass prose, her latest isn''t likely to win new converts to the series.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A well-paced and expertly rendered series. --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1094'),
(2140, 'Pursuit of Honor', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR VINCE FLYNN RETURNS WITH HIS MOST EXHILARATING POLITICAL THRILLER TO DATE, A PULSE-POUNDING TALE OF ESPIONAGE, COVERT INTELLIGENCE, AND COUNTERTERRORISM.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, D.C., targeting the National Counterterrorism Center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees. It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part of elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his trusted team member, Mike Nash. Now that the initial shock of the catastrophe is over, key Washington officials are up in arms over whether to make friends or foes of the agents who stepped between the enemy''s bullets and countless American lives regardless of the legal consequences. Not for the first time, Rapp finds himself in the frustrating position of having to illustrate the realities of national security to politicians whose view from the sidelines is inevitably obstructed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, three of the al Qaeda terrorists are still at large, and Rapp has been unofficially ordered to find them by any means necessary. No one knows the personal, physical, and emotional sacrifices required of the job better than Rapp. When he sees Nash cracking under the pressure of the mission and the memories of the horrors he witnessed during the terrorist attack, he makes a call he hopes will save his friend, assuage the naysayers on Capitol Hill, and get him one step closer to the enemy before it''s too late. Once again, Rapp proves himself to be a hero unafraid "to walk the fine line between the moral high ground and violence" (\n  <em>\n   The Salt LakeTribune\n  </em>\n  ) for our country''s safety, for the sake of freedom, for the pursuit of honor.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2445'),
(2141, 'Pygmy', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palahniuk''s 10th novel (after\n <em>\n  Snuff\n </em>\n ) is a potent if cartoonish cultural satire that succeeds despite its stridently confounding prose. A gang of adolescent terrorists trained by an unspecified totalitarian state (the boys and girls are guided by quotations attributed to Marx, Hitler, Augusto Pinochet, Idi Amin, etc.) infiltrate America as foreign exchange students. Their mission: to bring the nation to its knees through Operation Havoc, an act of mass destruction disguised as a science project. Narrated by skinny 13-year-old Pgymy, the propulsive plot deconstructs American fixtures, among them church (religion propaganda distribution outlet), spelling bees (forced battle to list English alphabet letters) and TV news reporters (Horde scavenger feast at overflowing anus of world history), before moving on to a Columbine-like shooting spree by a closeted kid who has fallen in love with the teenage terrorist who raped him in a shopping mall bathroom. Decoding Palahniuk''s characteristically scathing observations is a challenge, as Pygmy''s narrative voice is unbound by rules of grammar or structure (a typical sentence: Host father mount altar so stance beside bin empty of water), but perseverance is its own perverse reward in this singular, comic accomplishment.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n "What will he think of next?" asked the flabbergasted critic from the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n . Indeed, while several reviewers praised the novel as a darkly humorous commentary on American society, most agreed it contained serious flaws. Palahniuk''s tenth novel seems designed to flummox readers with its extreme profanity, graphic sexual violence involving minors, and portrayal of adults as either brainless buffoons or shameless perverts. Critics were also split on the author''s repeated use of an undefined syntax, reminiscent of pidgin English, throughout. What readers, after all, will have the patience to read sentences like, "Revered soon dying mother, distribute you ammunitions correct for Croatia-made forty-five-caliber, long-piston-stroke APS assault rifle"? Overall, critics acknowledged that diehard Palahniuk fans might savor\n <em>\n  Pygmy\n </em>\n but that most folks would find it too stomach-turning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/321'),
(2142, 'Pyramids', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn''t a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he''s been trained at Ankh-Morpork''s famed assassins'' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun.First, there''s the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing with mad priests, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to top it all off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal -- not to mention aheadstrong handmaiden -- at the heart of his realm.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett is one of the worldâ€™s most popular authors. His acclaimed novels have sold more than 75 million copies worldwide. In January 2009, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Pratchett a Knight Bachelor in recognition of his â€œservices to literature.â€ Sir Terry lives in England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/315'),
(2143, 'Q Is for Quarry', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Private investigator Kinsey Millhone has served Sue Grafton well through 16 letters of the alphabet in a perennially popular series that occasionally breaks new ground but more often traverses familiar territory, as is the case here. Two old, ailing cops--one retired, the other disabled--try to breathe some life into an 18-year-old mystery that haunts them both for different reasons. They enlist Kinsey''s help in identifying the victim, a young woman who was murdered and left for dead in the old quarry of the title. Neither they nor Kinsey expect that reopening an old case will incite the killer to strike again--not once, but twice. And while the real case of the still-unidentified victim that inspired this fictionalized scenario continues to languish in the cold case file in the Santa Barbara sheriff''s office, Grafton''s solution is as plausible as any. While the unlikely trio of Millhone and her cranky geezer sidekicks offers a few chuckles, the inner reaches of Kinsey''s soul remain largely inaccessible to her as well as to the reader, which will probably not bother most of Kinsey''s or Grafton''s many admirers.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While Kinsey Millhone is as energetic and tenacious as ever, and the plot hustles along at a gratifying pace, her 17th adventure is a little slow getting underway with all the initial accumulated biographical data. Two policemen out hunting discover a teenage girl''s body near a quarry off California''s Highway 1. Eighteen years later, the two recruit Millhone to help them try to identify the victim. Stacey Oliphant, now retired from the force, and Con Dolan, unwillingly sidelined by heart trouble, are as quarrelsome as an old married couple, but they both desperately want to find the killer in the quarry case. Their inquiries lead the trio from Santa Teresa to Quorum, a town in the desert near the Arizona border. At the time of the murder, a wrecked red convertible was found near the crime scene-stolen from an auto shop in Quorum. When Millhone and her cohorts talk to the grumpy shop owner, Ruel McPhee, and his charming son, Cornell, they get little information. Visits around town and probing conversations reveal various family secrets and covert liaisons, until the somewhat precipitous unmasking of the killer. Grafton briefly shoehorns in Millhone''s interactions with her lost family, but that subject continues to feel as artificially imposed as it did in earlier books. A marvelously successful addition, however, is the twosome of Dolan and Oliphant. Their deftly rendered relationship is a delight; with any luck, the duo will appear in future Millhone mysteries. A main selection of the Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club and Mystery Guild, and a BOMC featured selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/681'),
(2144, 'Queen of Sorcery', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Absorbing. Touches all the right Fantasy bases. Warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures, and appealingly human magicians." --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight." --\n <em>\n  Piers Anthony\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fabulous! Eddings has a marvelous storyteller style. Exceedingly well portrayed." --\n <em>\n  Anne McCaffrey\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "BELGARIAD is exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight."\n <br />\n PIERS ANTHONY\n <br />\n The master Sorcerer Belgarath and his daughter Polgara the arch-Sorceress were on the trail of the Orb, seeking to regain its saving power before the final disaster prophesized by the legends. And with them went Garion, a simple farm boy only months before, but now the focus of the struggle. He had never believed in sorcery and wanted no part of it. Yet with every league they traveled, the power grew in him, forcing him to acts of wizardry he could not accept.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1283'),
(2145, 'The Queen of the Damned', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Did you ever wonder where all those mischievous vampires roaming the globe in Anne Rice''s Vampire Chronicles came from? In this, the third book in the series, we find out. That raucous rock-star vampire Lestat interrupts the 6,000-year slumber of the mama of all bloodsuckers, Akasha, Queen of the Damned.\n</p>\n<p>\n Akasha was once the queen of the Nile (she has a bit in common with the Egyptian goddess Isis), and it''s unwise to rile her now that she''s had 60 centuries of practice being undead. She is so peeved about male violence that she might just have to kill most of them. And she has her eye on handsome Lestat with other ideas as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n If you felt that the previous books in the series weren''t gory and erotic enough, this one should quench your thirst (though it may cause you to omit organ meats from your diet). It also boasts God''s plenty of absorbing lore that enriches the tale that went before, including the back-story of the boy in\n <em>\n  Interview with the Vampire\n </em>\n and the ancient fellowship of the Talamasca, which snoops on paranormal phenomena. Mostly, the book spins the complex yarn of Akasha''s eerie, brooding brood and her nemeses, the terrifying sisters Maharet and Mekare. In one sense,\n <em>\n  Queen of the Damned\n </em>\n is the ultimate multigenerational saga.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The cult audience for Rice''s two previous vampire novels, Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat , will undoubtedly broaden with this third book, which features the same characters and a more complex plot. As before, Rice tells her story in fine melodramatic style, overwriting with zest and exuberance: the text pulses with menace, mystery and violence, and with sensuality verging on erotica. Here Lestat and all other vampires pay the price for his obsessive need for fame, his reckless honesty in describing the "blood drinkers" among us, and his frenzied rock concert in San Francisco. Lestat''s kiss has awakened Queen Akasha from her 6000 year sleep. She immediately begins a wholesale slaughter of most of the world''s vampires, sparing only a small remnant (including Lestat) who she expects will join her in a crazed crusade against male mortals. Meanwhile, vampires and psychic humans around the globe are having the same terrifying dream in which twin red-haired women weep over the body of another woman, whose eyes and brains are on a plate nearby. As Rice gradually reveals the significance of the dream, she also focuses on Jesse, who works for the Telamasca, a secret society that collects data on those with paranormal powers. Though she ingeniously pulls together the various plot strands, Rice then almost loses the reader in philosophic overkill. She regains her verve in the final chapter, however, promising yet another mesmerizing installment of the Vampire Chronicles. 150,000 first printing: Literary Guild main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/249'),
(2146, 'The Quick and the Dead', 'Louis L&#39;amour', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against other menâ€”men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didnâ€™t even possess.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet bandits were only part of McKaskelâ€™s worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian, had appeared one night and saved his life. But was Vallianâ€™s true interest Duncanâ€™s wife, Susanna? And, more important, how did she feel about him?\n </p>\n <p>\n  As they push on into the wilderness, Duncan must discover who is the greater threatâ€”the thieves outside his camp or the enigmatic stranger within.â€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1711'),
(2147, 'Quicksilver', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Neal Stephenson is one of America''s most collectible authors. The ever-growing number of his devoted readers has created a huge demand for signed and first trade editions of his works.\n</p>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Quicksilver: The Deluxe Limited Edition,\n </em>\n William Morrow presents the first limited edition ever published of Neal Stephenson''s work. Limited to a single edition of just 1,000 copies, the book is a beautifully designed example of the art of bookbinding. Each volume will be numbered and signed by Neal Stephenson. Collectors and readers alike will welcome the chance to add this handsome volume to their Neal Stephenson collection.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Limited to an edition of 1,000 copies-never to be reprinted.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Completely redesigned from the trade hardcover in a larger format-7" x 10".\n </li>\n <li>\n  Each book numbered and signed by the author.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Each volume hand-bound in Japanese silk.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Each volume housed in a handsome slipcase featuring a die-cut aperture for the Quicksilver icon and covered in the same Japanese silk. The slipcase will also feature a silk ribbon pull for easy removal.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Matching signed limited editions of the second and third volumes of Stephenson''s Baroque Cycle will be published by William Morrow at six-month intervals.\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/145'),
(2148, 'R Is for Ricochet', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When wealthy octogenarian Nord Lafferty hires Kinsey Millhone to help his newly paroled daughter find her way back to the straight and narrow after doing time for embezzlement, the Santa Teresa P.I. has no idea what she''s getting into. Reba Lafferty''s ex-boss, land developer Alan Beckwith, is the man who sent her to prison--so how come she''s meeting him just hours after her release, and treating Kinsey to an X-rated reunion scene played out in his parked Mercedes? And why is he also playing sex games with Reba''s formerly best friend, who still works for him? A visit from an old friend from the FBI clears up the mystery--Beckwith is suspected of running a money-laundering game, and they need Reba to make their case by rolling over on him. Itâ€™s not until Millhone presents Reba with photographic evidence of Beckwith''s two-timing that she agrees to do what the Feds want... but she''ll only do it her way, which could get a lot of people killed. Grafton fleshes out this well-crafted thriller with a romantic subplot involving a romantic triangle that features Kinsey''s elderly landlord Henry, his brother, and a vivacious widow who can''t seem to choose between them. It doesn''t add much to the plot, but the fans of this evergreen series (who must be wondering what will happen to Millhone when Grafton gets to the end of the alphabet) probably won''t mind a bit.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Grafton offers more of the same-old same-old in her less-than-inspired 18th Kinsey Millhone novel (after 2002''s\n <em>\n  Q Is for Quarry\n </em>\n ). In this sexy adventure, the spunky hard-boiled detective has to escort the newly paroled Reba Lafferty, privileged ne''er-do-well, to her stately home, keeping her on the straight and narrow. Reba challenges the PI with her barely concealed hankerings for the now off-limits booze, gambling and charming Alan Beckwith, married real estate developer and former employer for whom Reba took a two-year barbwire vacation courtesy of the California Institution for Women. Lust is in the air as studly, stylish cop Cheney Phillips enters in his red Mercedes, fanning the flames with Kinsey, when Beckwith''s activities catch the eye of the feds. Kinsey lends a supportive ear to her beloved 87-year-old landlord, smitten by a 70-year-old neighbor. Kinsey and Reba team up to get the goods on Beckwith, but reckless Reba has vengeful ideas of her own and more than once lands their collective fat in the fire. If the chemistry between Cheney and Kinsey seems forced at times, Grafton as usual creates believable and enduring characters and a strong sense of place in her town of Santa Teresa circa 1987. And that should be more than enough for most fans.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/682'),
(2149, 'Rabbit at Rest', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s 1989, and Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom feels anything but restful. In fact he''s frozen, incapacitated by his fear of death--and in the final year of the Reagan era, he''s right to be afraid. His 55-year-old body, swollen with beer and munchies and racked with chest pains, wears its bulk "like a set of blankets the decades have brought one by one." He suspects that his son Nelson, who''s recently taken over the family car dealership, is embezzling money to support a cocaine habit.\n</p>\n<p>\n Indeed, from Rabbit''s vantage point--which alternates between a winter condo in Florida and the ancestral digs in Pennsylvania, not to mention a detour to an intensive care unit--decay is overtaking the entire world. The budget deficit is destroying America, his accountant is dying of AIDS, and a terrorist bomb has just destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 above Lockerbie, Scotland. This last incident, with its rapid transit from life to death, hits Rabbit particularly hard:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Imagine sitting there in your seat being lulled by the hum of the big Rolls-Royce engines and the stewardesses bring the clinking drinks caddy... and then with a roar and giant ripping noise and scattered screams this whole cozy world dropping away and nothing under you but black space and your chest squeezed by the terrible unbreathable cold, that cold you can scarcely believe is there but that you sometimes actually feel still packed into the suitcases, stored in the unpressurized hold, when you unpack your clothes, the dirty underwear and beach towels with the merciless chill of death from outer space still in them.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Marching through the decades, John Updike''s first three Rabbit novels--\n <em>\n  Rabbit, Run\n </em>\n (1960),\n <em>\n  Rabbit Redux\n </em>\n (1971), and\n <em>\n  Rabbit Is Rich\n </em>\n (1981)--dissect middle-class America in all its dysfunctional glory.\n <em>\n  Rabbit at Rest\n </em>\n (1990), the final installment and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, continues this brilliant dissection. Yet it also develops Rabbit''s character more fully as he grapples with an uncertain future and the consequences of his past. At one point, for example, he''s taken his granddaughter Judy for a sailing expedition when his first heart attack strikes. Rabbit gamely navigates the tiny craft to shore--and then, lying on the beach, feels a paradoxical relief at having both saved his beloved Judy and meeting his own death. (He doesn''t, not yet.) Meanwhile, this all-American dad feels responsible for his son''s full-blown drug addiction but incapable of helping him. (Ironically, it''s Rabbit''s wife Janice, the "poor dumb mutt," who marches Nelson into rehab.)\n</p>\n<p>\n His misplaced sense of responsibility--plus his crude sexual urges and racial slurs--can make Rabbit seems less than lovable. Still, there''s something utterly heroic about his character. When the end comes, after all, it''s the Angstrom family that refuses to accept the reality of Rabbit''s mortality. Only Updike''s irreplaceable mouthpiece rises to the occasion, delivering a stoical, one-word valediction: "Enough."\n <em>\n  --Rob McDonald\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, morbidly depressed, overweight and living with wife Janice in a Florida retirement community, recovers from a heart attack and is led astray by his libido one last time. "Updike is razor-sharp and mordantly funny," said PW. "If this novel is in some respects an elegy to Rabbit''s bewildered existence, it is also a poignant, humorous, instructive guidebook to the aborted American dream." The book took a Pulitzer Prize.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/183'),
(2150, 'Rabbit Is Rich', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The reviewers seemed to be under the impression that the hero was a terrible character. It''s incredible! No, I think it''s the most interesting American novel I''ve read in quite a long time"\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Mary McCarthy, interviewed in The Paris Review\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "The power of the novel comes from a sense, not absolutely unworthy of Thomas Hardy, that the universe hangs over our fates like a great sullen hopeless sky. There is real pain in the book, and a touch of awe"\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Norman Mailer, Esquire\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "...An American protest against all the attempts to impress upon us the ''healthy, life-loving and comic'' as our standard for novels. It is sexy, in bad taste, violent, and basically cynical. And good luck to it."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Angus Wilson, naming three Books of the Year in the Observer\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n And Rabbit Redux\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Against all odds, Rabbit Redux is a sequel that succeeds; it is in every respect uncannily superior to its distinguished predecessor and deserves to achieve even greater critical and popular acclaim."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Brendan Gill, The New Yorker\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "I can think of no stronger vindication of the claims of essentially realistic fiction than this extraordinary synthesis of the disparate elements of contemporary experience. Rabbit Redux is a great achievement, by far the most audacious and successful book Updike has written."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard Locke, The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.\n <br />\n Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has come to enjoy prosperity as the Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors. The rest of the world may be falling to pieces, but Harrry''s doing all right. That is, until his son returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/182'),
(2151, 'Rabbit Redux', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A superb performance, all grace and dazzle...a brilliant portrait of middle America." -- Life\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, sexy story. Harry Angstrom -- known to all as Rabbit, one of America''s most famous literary characters -- finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves -- or further complicates -- his problems, makes for a novel of the first order.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit....A masterpiece." -- Time\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "An awesomely accomplished writer...For God''s sake, read the book. It may even -- will probably change your life." -- Anatole Broyard\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dazzling." -- The Washington Post\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A triumph." -- Newsday\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren''t as simple as they used to be - at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his teenage son, his job is under threat and his mother is dying. Suddenly, into his confused life - and home - comes Jill, an eighteen-year-old runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend to stay, a young black radical named Skeeter, the pair''s fragile harmony soon begins to fail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(2152, 'Rabbit, Run', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novel by John Updike, published in 1960. The novel''s hero is Harry ("Rabbit") Angstrom, a 26-year-old former high-school athletic star who is disillusioned with his present life and flees from his wife and child in a futile search for grace and order. Three sequels--Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990)--continue the story of Rabbit in the succeeding decades of his life. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s 1959 and Harry Rabbit'' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six, he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he resolves to flee from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a thousand-mile journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life. Because, as he knows only too well, after you''ve been first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/179'),
(2153, 'The Rachel Papers (Promo)', 'Martin Amis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly-sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously. He sets the scene with infinite care -- but it doesnâ€™t come off quite as Charles expects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1646'),
(2154, 'Rachel&#39;s Holiday', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Twenty-seven and the miserable owner of size eight feet, Rachel Walsh enjoys two naughty habits: a lover who likes his leather pants tight, and a fondness for recreational drugs. But as Rachel learns, what goes up must come down. First she loses her job, then her lover, and then finds herself being marched off to the Cloisters, Dublin''s answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. OutragedÂ—surely she''s not thin enough to be an addict!Â—it suddenly dawns on Rachel that it''s about time she had a vacation, and where better than a place crammed with jacuzzis, gyms, and rock stars going tepid turkey? What she gets instead, however, are middle-aged men in sweaters and enough group therapy to drive her to distraction, until she meets Chris. A man with a past, will he be her salvationÂ—or more trouble than Rachel''s ever known? Engaging and wickedly funny,\n <em>\n  Rachel''s Holiday\n </em>\n is a powerful story of love and discovery.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  About the Author:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Marian Keyes is the author of\n <em>\n  Watermelon\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married\n </em>\n . She lives in Dublin, Ireland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1211'),
(2155, 'Rage', 'Richard Bachman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Written by Richard Bachman. In quiet Placerville, Maine, a slightly twisted boy named Charles Decker holds the 24 other students of his algebra class at gunpoint after shooting 2 teachers. Abused by his father as a child, he describes the important parts of his life, and in the process, lets a lot of the students he holds hostage tell the rest of the class their "Dirty Secrets". Things almost come to an early end when Charles is shot by a sniper, but the bullet hits a padlock he had placed in his pocket earlier. As things progress, the students become more and more responsive to their captor, all except Ted Jones. The students get their own back, and play one last nasty trick on another student before being released unharmed. But Charles is out of luck... This was initially titled "Getting it On" (After Deckers favourite saying) but was later renamed Rage, and released under Bachman''s name. It has not been reprinted in the last few years as Stephen King thought it too violent, and similar to many killings in some American Schools. This is a pity as it is an excellent insight into the mind of someone that it walking the thin edge of sanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/541'),
(2156, 'Rainbow Six', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n No one would have blamed David Dukes if he had declined reading for Tom Clancy''s\n <em>\n  Rainbow Six\n </em>\n . Not only is "Rainbow" a melting pot of secret-agent patois, but the 700-page-plus book version runs at a rampant pace--this despite the usual wealth of Clancy detail. But actor and audio pro Dukes (and the editor responsible for condensing the script onto six hours of tape) handles this daunting task admirably, applying a steady--but not urgent--Everyman''s tone and imparting a sense that we''re hearing the\n <em>\n  whole\n </em>\n story. Listeners may want more, but will be satiated with this abridged rendition.\n</p>\n<p>\n Dukes also bounces seamlessly among dialects, giving distinct but easy-to-understand voices to Rainbow, a colorful cast of international good guys assembled to save the world from terrorism. The group is led by a sometimes violent but justice-minded ex-CIA agent, John Clark, who is proof that Clancy can paint a dark protagonist as vividly as his good knight, Jack Ryan. But\n <em>\n  Rainbow Six\n </em>\n is an equally bright showcase for reader Dukes, who, like Clark, is bent on providing justice. Dukes''s reading gives justice to the abridged form. (Running time: six hours, four cassettes)\n <em>\n  --Rob McDonald\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two years ago, Executive Orders, which thrust Jack Ryan into the Oval Office, raised the bar for its immensely popular author. This first Clancy hardcover since then, though a ripping read, matches its predecessor neither in complexity nor intensity nor even, at 752 pages, length, despite a strong premise and some world-class action sequences. Instead of everyman Ryan, its lead is the more shadowed John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL vigilante of Without Remorse who has appeared in several Ryan adventures. Clark now heads Rainbow Six, an international special-ops anti-terrorist strike force?and, despite the novelty of the conceit, that''s a problem, as the profusion of protagonists, though sharply drawn (including, most notably, "Ding" Chavez, Clark''s longtime protege), deprives the book of the sort of strong central character that has given Clancy''s previous novels such heart. The story opens vigorously if arbitrarily, with an attempted airline hijacking foiled by Clark and Chavez, who happen to be on the plane. After that action sequence, the duo and others train at Rainbow Headquarters outside London, then leap into the fray against terrorists who have seized a bank in Bern, Switzerland. And so the pattern of the narrative is set: action sequence, interlude, action sequence, interlude, etc., giving it the structure and pace of a computer game. A major subplot involving bioterrorism that evolves into an overarching plotline syncopates that pattern, though Clancy''s choice of environmentalists as his prime villains will strike some readers as odd. All of Clancy''s fans, however, will revel in the writer''s continued mastery at action writing; Rainbow''s engagements, which occupy the bulk of the novel, are immensely suspenseful, breathtaking combos of expertly detailed combat and primal emotion. While not Clancy''s best, then, his 10th hardcover will catapult to the top of bestseller lists?and for good reason. Two million first printing; $1 million ad/promo; simultaneous Random Audio and Red Storm Entertainment computer game; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/872'),
(2157, 'The Rainmaker', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rudy Baylor, a new law school graduate, once dreamed of the good life as a corporate attorney. Now he faces joblessness and bankruptcy--unless he can win an insurance case against a heavyweight team of lawyers, a case that starts small but mushrooms into a frightening war of nerve and legal skill that could cost Rudy not only his future, but also his life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grisham''s intricate, spellbinding sixth novel differs from his last few?it''s his only book with first-person narration and his first since his debut to be set in a courtroom?but the trademark Grisham touches are in place. Rookie attorney Rudy Baylor is the customary David fighting a legal Goliath (here a multibillion-dollar insurance company), and the suspense builds with impeccable pacing despite workaday prose. When the modestly sized law firm that contracted for his future services unexpectedly merges with a tony Ivy League firm, Rudy finds himself without a job and bankrupt. Filing a $10 million lawsuit takes away some of the sting, as does a lonely elderly woman''s offer of low rent on a small apartment in exchange for rewriting her will. To make a living, Rudy finds himself chasing ambulances for a racketeering shyster, leading to his becoming enthralled with a beautiful young woman hospitalized by her husband''s murderous attack. When Rudy agrees to represent the parents of a dying 22-year-old denied insurance coverage for a bone-marrow transplant, he finds that he is up against the firm that broke contract with him. Melding the courtroom savvy of A Time to Kill with the psychological nuance of The Chamber, imbued with wry humor and rich characters, this bittersweet tale, the author''s quietest and most thoughtful, shows that Grisham''s imagination can hold its own in a courtroom as well as on the violent streets outside. Major ad/promo; large-print edition, ISBN 0-385-47512-8; audio rights to BDD Audio.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/725'),
(2158, 'Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems', 'Ralph Waldo Emerson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems, written by legendary author Ralph Waldo Emerson, is widely considered to be one of the greatest classic texts of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Ralph Waldo Emerson is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books International and beautifully produced, Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone''s personal library.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 â€”1882) was a renowned lecturer and writer, whose ideas on philosophy, religion, and literature influenced many writers, including Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. After an undergraduate career at Harvard, he studied at Harvard Divinity School and became an ordained minister, continuing a long line of ministers in his family. He traveled widely and lectured, and became well known for his publications\n <em>\n  Essays\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Nature\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1296'),
(2159, 'Rant', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Buster Casey, destined to live fast, die young and murder as many people as he can, is the rotten seed at the core of Palahniuk''s comically nasty eighth novel (after\n <em>\n  Haunted\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  Diary\n </em>\n ; etc.). Set in a future where urbanites are segregated by strict curfews into Daytimers and Nighttimers, the narrative unfolds as an oral history comprising contradictory accounts from people who knew Buster. These include childhood friends horrified by the boy''s macabre behavior (getting snakes, scorpions and spiders to bite him and induce instant erections; repeatedly infecting himself with rabies), policemen and doctors who had dealings with the rabies "superspreader"; and Party Crashers, thrill-seeking Nighttimers who turn city streets into demolition derby arenas. After liberally infecting his hometown peers with rabies, Buster hits the big city and takes up with the Party Crashers. A series of deaths lead to a police investigation of Buster (long-since known as "Rant"â€”the sound children make while vomiting) that peaks just as Buster apparently commits suicide in a blaze of car-crash glory. This dark religious parable (there''s even a resurrection) from the master of grotesque excess may not attract new readers, but it will delight old ones.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Zombies, government conspiracies, religious epiphanies, time travel, a postmodern Typhoid Mary, and a woman who mixes thumbtacks into her cookie doughâ€”all are fair game in\n <em>\n  Rant\n </em>\n , Chuck Palahniuk''s eighth novel. Critics agreed that\n <em>\n  Rant\n </em>\n is vintage Palahniuk, a grim thriller ride filled with his signature black humor, withering social commentary, and stomach-churning details. Some grumbled, however, that the ideas in\n <em>\n  Rant\n </em>\n have been recycled from previous novels, particularly\n <em>\n  Fight Club\n </em>\n . They were also disappointed with the novel''s lack of depth, distracting structure (a succession of hundreds of brief eyewitness testimonies), and underlying glorification of violence. The truth is that Palahniuk is an acquired taste. Readers either love him or leave him alone, and will judge\n <em>\n  Rant\n </em>\n accordingly.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/326'),
(2160, 'Rapture in Death', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The year is 2056. mood-altering drugs are legal, prostitution is licensed, virtual-reality games have replaced TV sets for entertainment and New York supercop Eve Dallas continues her sleuthing in Robb''s fourth installment in the Death series (Naked in Death, Glory in Death, etc.). This time around, Eve has married her soul mate, Roarke, and is caught up in the puzzling suicide of a technician who''s been working on Roarke''s unfinished space resort. The young tech, Eve learns, had cheerfully hanged himself after a VR trip. Back on Earth, autopsies from two similar suicides reveal a pin-sized burn on the brains of the victims. All clues point to a deadly subliminal message in a VR toy?one that Roarke produces. This is sexy, gritty, richly imagined suspense. The fact that it is written by Nora Roberts under the pseudonym J.D. Robb is a tribute to her versatility.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Sexy, gritty, richly imagined suspense." (\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1083'),
(2161, 'Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them', 'FRANCINE PROSE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n The trick to writing, Prose writes, is readingâ€”carefully, deliberately and slowly. While this might seem like a no-brainer, Prose (\n <em>\n  Blue Angel\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  A Changed Man\n </em>\n ) masterfully meditates on how quality reading informs great writing, which will warm the cold, jaded hearts of even the most frustrated, unappreciated and unpublished writers. Chapters treat the nuts and bolts of writing (words, sentences, paragraphs) as well as issues of craft (narration, character, dialogue), all of which Prose discusses using story or novel excerpts. This is where the book truly shines; Prose is remarkably egalitarian in choosing exemplars of fiction: David Gates, Denis Johnson, John le CarrÃ© and ZZ Packer, for instance, are considered as seriously as Chekhov, Melville, Flaubert or Babel. Prose insists that "literature not only breaks the rules, but makes us realize that there\n <em>\n  are none\n </em>\n ," and urges writers to re-read the classics (Chekhov, especially) and view "reading as something that might move or delight you." Prose''s guide to reading and writing belongs on every writer''s bookshelf alongside E.M. Forster''s\n <em>\n  Aspects of the Novel\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Life is precious, and much of that preciousness lies in the details: the sights, the sounds, the scents we too often ignore in our busy lives. Prose makes a superb application of that concept for readers of fiction. To know how the great writers create their magic, one needs to engage in a close reading of the masters, for that is precisely what successful writers have done for thousands of years. College programs in creative writing and summer workshops serve a purpose, but they can never replace a careful reading of the likes of Austen, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Salinger, Tolstoy, and Woolf. In this excellent guide, Prose explains exactly what she means by close reading, drawing attention to the brick and mortar of outstanding narratives: words, sentences, paragraphs, character, dialogue, details, and more. In the process, she does no less than escort readers to a heightened level of appreciation of great literature. Many will want to go to the shelves to read again, or for the first time, the books she discusses. And to aid them, she thoughtfully adds a list at the end: Books to Be Read Immediately.\n <em>\n  â€“Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1114'),
(2162, 'Reaper Man', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  They say there are only two things you can count on ...\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now DEATH is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use.\n</p>\n<p>\n But like every cutback in an important public service, DEATH''s demise soon leads to chaos and unrest Â— literally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons. The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen University Â— home of magic, wizardry, and big dinners Â— Windle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been-there-done-that routine. To get the fresh start he deserves, Windle and the rest of Ankh-Morpork''s undead and underemployed set off to find DEATH and save the world for the living (and everybody else, of course).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/323');
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(2163, 'Reaper&#39;s Gale', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this bloody and dour seventh entry in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  The Bonehunters\n </em>\n ), the Letherii empire is under siege from within and without. The Tiste Edur uneasily rule the Empire of Lether, against the will of the Letherii people. Several factions in Lether seek to overthrow Rhulad, the emperor of a Thousand Deaths, who is quite probably insane and sinks further into madness every time he dies in combat and his sword resurrects him. Two forces also threaten Lether from the outside: the tribal Awl, led by the brutal warrior Redmask, force a confrontation, while a flotilla from the Malazan Empire sails toward the Letherii capital. The plethora of characters, attacks and counterattacks, hidden schemes and battling gods will mostly appeal to serious fans of brutal and complex epics, at least those who have fortified themselves by reading the earlier books.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œTruly epic in scope, Erikson has no peer when it comes to action and imagination, and joins the ranks of Tolkien and Donaldson in his mythic vision and perhaps then goes one better.â€--SF Site\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRare is the writer who so fluidly combines a sense of mythic power and depth of world with fully realized characters and thrilling action, but Steven Erikson manages it spectacularly.â€--Michael A. Stackpole\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Â \n </strong>\n <br />\n "Extraordinarily enjoyable . . . Erikson is a master of lost and forgotten epochs, a weaver of ancient epics."--Salon.comÂ Â \n <strong>\n  <br />\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1316'),
(2164, 'The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction', 'Stephen Crane &amp; Richard Fusco', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  Stephen Crane\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n</p>\n<p>\n Young Henry Fleming dreams of finding glory and honor as a Union soldier in the American Civil War. Yet he also harbors a hidden fear about how he may react when the horror and bloodshed of battle begin. Fighting the enemy without and the terror within, Fleming must prove himself and find his own meaning of valor.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Unbelievable as it may seem,\n <strong>\n  Stephen Crane\n </strong>\n had never been a member of any army nor had taken part in any battle when he wrote\n <em>\n  The Red Badge of Courage\n </em>\n . But upon its publication in 1895, when Crane was only twenty-four, Red Badge was heralded as a new kind of war novel, marked by astonishing insight into the true psychology of men under fire. Along with the seminal short stories included in this volumeâ€”â€œThe Open Boat,â€ â€œThe Veteran,â€ and â€œThe Men in the Stormâ€â€”\n <em>\n  The Red Badge of Courage\n </em>\n unleashed Craneâ€™s deeply influential impressionistic style.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Richard Fusco\n </strong>\n has been an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Josephâ€™s University in Philadelphia since 1997. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature and in short-story narrative theory, he has published on a variety of American, British, and Continental literary figures.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Richard Fusco''s Introduction to *The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n What still fascinates is how, amid such conditions, Crane was able to informally pursue his aesthetic education and produce a novel that is one of the better summations of American sensibilities in the 1890s. His mind was, in effect, a sponge, capable of absorbing the principles of past and current literary traditions, the insights of the leading writers of the day, the beliefs held by competing philosophical schools, the dogmas held by diverse Christian sects, and the trends of political and economic thought. His artistic genius resided in his ability to knit many dissimilar and, at times, conflicting perspectives so thoroughly in a text that we pay more attention to their similarities than their differences. He paints a grim but objective portrait of war''s horror in one passage in\n <em>\n  Red Badge\n </em>\n , yet when we turn the page we find ourselves immersed in Fleming''s subjective reflection about that event.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Many critics have debated over the years whether Crane was essentially a Realist, a Naturalist, or an Impressionist. I and many others contend that he was all those things and much more. For Crane, the scene or the moment dictates the artistic device the writer should employ. Novels such as\n <em>\n  Red Badge\n </em>\n , then, become compendia of many aesthetic possibilities. In a Crane text, this oscillation among so many ways of looking at the world reflects what all humans must contend with in life. The religious, political, philosophical, or artistic belief that seems best to explain one moment may prove inadequate for the next. Crane''s novel about the Civil War offers a chain of partially successful attempts by Henry Fleming to comprehend his environment and purpose.\n <em>\n  The Red Badge of Courage\n </em>\n thus not only chronicles Crane''s own restless mind; it also embodies the multifaceted dilemmas with which all intellects curious about man''s relationship with the universe must cope.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The dominant literary figures in the United States after the Civil War were the Realists. By the 1890s, Realism''s most accomplished practitioners included Mark Twain and Henry James, but William Dean Howells had become the artistic director of the school. Through his magazine columns (the most prominent was "The Editor''s Study" in\n <em>\n  Harper''s Monthly\n </em>\n ), through the example he set in his novels and short stories, and through the new writers whose work he promoted, Howells established a good number of artistic principles for the postbellum generation of American fictionalists. Above all other considerations, he stressed that writers ought to write about subjects, people, and environments with which they were wholly familiar. Realists should not impose their personal biases or philosophical, political, and ethical predispositions on the voice of a text''s third-person narrator. The world should be described as if one were looking through a camera lens. The Realist should avoid presenting portraits of people who reside at the extreme ends of the human condition; those who occupy the center of American society are fitter subjects for literary art. Thus, the goal of the writer is to capture with fidelity that which typifies a society.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n These and other like precepts pervaded the literary scene that Crane encountered in New York during the early 1890s. They became salient and valuable for him after he heard Hamlin Garland lecture about Howells''s work and influence in Avon, New Jersey, in 1891. Crane published a newspaper piece about the talk, which attracted Garland''s notice. At that time, Garland, ten years Crane''s senior, was himself an emerging Realist of the local-color school. Many American local colorists, who had their aesthetic origins in Ivan Turgenev''s seminal short-story collection\n <em>\n  Sportsman''s Notebook\n </em>\n , published realistic fiction based upon their regional experiences, chronicling the lives and manners of the people they grew up with or lived among for a long time. Adherents to this approach included Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Rose Terry Cooke, Bret Harte, and George Washington Cable. During the summer of 1891, Garland himself contributed to this collective effort to portray America region by region through publishing\n <em>\n  Main-Travelled Roads\n </em>\n , a story collection based on his family''s farming experiences in the Midwest. (Donna Campbell provides an excellent discussion of Crane''s tenuous relationship with the local-color movement in her\n <em>\n  Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction\n </em>\n , 1885-1915; see "For Further Reading.")\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n When Crane began to gather materials for\n <em>\n  Red Badge\n </em>\n in 1893, most of his immediate resources had realistic assumptions underlying their intentions. Matthew Brady''s photographs of the Civil war had recorded with graphic accuracy the ghastliness of battle. Nonfictional reminiscences and novels such as Wilbur F. Hinman''s\n <em>\n  Corporal Si Klegg and His ''Pard''\n </em>\n , Joseph Kirkland''s\n <em>\n  The Captain of Company K\n </em>\n , and the novel that some critics believe marks the incipient moment of American Realism, John William De Forest''s\n <em>\n  Miss Ravenel''s Conversion from Succession to Loyalty\n </em>\n , all share the desire to acquaint a civilian reader with the actualities of war and of military life.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Crane''s most immediate source, however, owed its realistic intentions to another sort of discourse-history. In 1893 he borrowed from the mother of a former childhood playmate the multivolume work\n <em>\n  Battles and Leaders of the Civil War\n </em>\n (1887), a compilation of a mammoth series of articles that had first appeared in\n <em>\n  The Century magazine\n </em>\n years earlier. Here Crane found a rich vein of primary material, including essays by participating Union and Confederate officers, such as Generals Darius N. Couch, Alfred Pleasonton, Oliver O. Howard, and R. E. Colston. With these accounts, Crane began to understand the facts, tactics, and strategies of the Battle of Chancellorsville that he would integrate into his story. Despite the occasional note of nostalgia or bravado, despite the defensive tone adopted by a general in explaining the misdeeds of his troops, these historical sources on the whole do comply with the empirical spirit pursued by a new generation of nineteenth-century historians. These writers presented firsthand testimony when available and assembled all known facts in their correct chronological sequence in order to illustrate an historical event as accurately as the evidence allows.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n For all his research in these and other historical texts, however, Crane could not compensate for his one obvious deficiency, one that challenged any claim he might make to call himself a Realist. Realists were supposed to confine their efforts to subjects they knew well and had experienced intimately. Born six years after the Civil War ended, Crane had never even seen a battle before he finished the manuscript for\n <em>\n  Red Badge\n </em>\n . His mentor Howells would later chide him about this predicament, telling him that Maggie was more artistically successful because he based it upon what he had lived and observed directly, unlike\n <em>\n  Red Badge\n </em>\n , which was constructed from the observations of others and Crane''s own guesses. How ironic it was, after the latter novel was published, that the reading public hailed Crane as the nascent star of American Realism.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1346'),
(2165, 'Red Dragon', 'Thomas Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas''s\n <em>\n  Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine\n </em>\n open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel,\n <em>\n  The Silence of the Lambs\n </em>\n . As in\n <em>\n  Silence\n </em>\n , the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.\n</p>\n<p>\n The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn''t what bugs him about crime busting. It''s just too creepy to get inside a killer''s twisted mind. But he comes back to stop a madman who''s been butchering entire families. The FBI needs Graham''s insight, and Graham needs Lecter''s genius. But Lecter is a clever fiend, and he manipulates both Graham and the killer at large from his cell.\n</p>\n<p>\n That killer, Francis Dolarhyde, works in a film lab, where he picks his victims by studying their home movies. He''s obsessed with William Blake''s bizarre painting\n <em>\n  The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun\n </em>\n , believing there''s a red dragon within him, the personification of his demonic drives. Flashbacks to Dolarhyde''s terrifying childhood and superb stream-of-consciousness prose get us right there inside his head. When Dolarhyde does weird things, we understand why. We\n <em>\n  sympathize\n </em>\n when the voice of the cruel dead grandma who raised and crazed him urges him to mayhem--she''s way scarier than that old bat in\n <em>\n  Psycho\n </em>\n . When he falls in love with a blind girl at the lab, we hope he doesn''t give in to Grandma''s violent advice.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book is awesomely detailed, ingeniously plotted, judiciously gory, and fantastically imagined. If you haven''t read it, you''ve never had the creeps.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Acclaim for the novels of Thomas Harris:\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n For\n <strong>\n  Black Sunday\n </strong>\n :\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Frighteningly believable."â€”\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Suspenseful, nightmarish."â€”\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Breathtaking. All forces converge with an apocalyptic bang!"â€”\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fast-paced, all too realistic... with a shattering climax."â€”\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n "A spellbinder... The race to save the Super Bowl is hair-raising, one that will keep you rooted to your chair."â€”\n <em>\n  Hartford Courant\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n For\n <strong>\n  Red Dragon\n </strong>\n :\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  Red Dragon\n </strong>\n is an engine designed for one purposeâ€”to make the pulse pound, the heart palpitate, the fear glands secrete."â€”\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A gruesome, graphic, gripping thriller... Extraordinarily harrowing."â€”\n <em>\n  Plain Dealer\n </em>\n , Cleveland\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Want to faint with fright? Want to have your hair stand on end? Want to read an unforgettable thriller with equal parts of horror and suspense? Harris was obviously only warming up with his best seller\n <strong>\n  Black Sunday\n </strong>\n ."â€”\n <em>\n  Daily News,\n </em>\n New York\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Irresistible... A shattering thriller... Readers should buckle themselves in for a long night''s read because from the first pages... Harris grabs hold."â€”\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n "The scariest book of the season."â€”\n <em>\n  Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Easily the crime novel of the year."â€”\n <em>\n  Newsday\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1232'),
(2166, 'The Red Gloves Collection', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Compiled in this collector edition are Gideon''s Gift, Sarah''s Song, Maggie''s Miracle, and Hannah''s Hope. Readers worldwide have been touched by these heart-warming tales of hope, inspiration, and joyous miracles by bestselling author Karen Kingsbury.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Karen Kingsbury lives in Vancouver, Washington.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1974'),
(2167, 'Red Harvest', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guiltyÂ—even if that meant taking on an entire town.\n  <strong>\n   Red Harvest\n  </strong>\n  is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  A brutal and realistic depiction of gang warface, this gritty crime novel is also "an acknowledged literary landmark." -- NY Times Book Review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1467'),
(2168, 'Red Mist', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world''s #1 bestselling crime writer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people as far away as California seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding''s death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2373'),
(2169, 'The Red Pyramid', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Grade 4â€“9â€”Riordan takes the elements that made the "Percy Jackson" books (Hyperion) so popular and ratchets them up a notch. Carter, 14, and Sadie, 12, have grown up apart. He has traveled all over the world with his Egyptologist father, Dr. Julius Kane, while Sadie has lived in London with her grandparents. Their mother passed away under mysterious circumstances, so when their father arrives in London and wants to take them both on a private tour of the British Museum, all is not necessarily what it seems. The evening ends with the apparent destruction of the Rosetta Stone, the disappearance of Dr. Kane, and the kidnapping of Carter and Sadie. More insidiously, it leads to the release of five Egyptian gods, including Set, who is their mortal enemy. Carter and Sadie discover the secrets of their family heritage and their ability to work magic as they realize that their task will be to save humanity from Set, who is building a destructive red pyramid inside Camelback Mountain in Phoenix. The text is presented as the transcript of an audio recording done by both children. Riordan creates two distinct and realistic voices for the siblings. He has a winning formula, but this book goes beyond the formulaic to present a truly original take on Egyptian mythology. His trademark humor is here in abundance, and there are numerous passages that will cause readers to double over with laughter. The humor never takes away from the story or from the overall tone. A must-have book, and in multiple copies.â€”\n <em>\n  Tim Wadham, St. Louis County Library, MO\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Since their mother''s death, six years ago, 12-year-old Sadie Kane has lived in London with her maternal grandparents while her older brother, 14-year-old Carter, has traveled the world with their father, a renowned African American Egyptologist. In London on Christmas Eve for a rare evening together, Carter and Sadie accompany their dad to the British Museum, where he blows up the Rosetta Stone in summoning an Egyptian god. Unleashed, the vengeful god overpowers and entombs him, but Sadie and Carter escape. Initially determined to rescue their father, their mission expands to include understanding their hidden magical powers as the descendants of the pharaohs and taking on the ancient forces bent on destroying mankind. The first-person narrative shifts between Carter and Sadie, giving the novel an intriguing dual perspective made more complex by their biracial heritage and the tension between the siblings, who barely know each other at the story''s beginning. The first volume in the Kane Chronicles, this fantasy adventure delivers what fans loved about the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series: young protagonists with previously unsuspected magical powers, a riveting story marked by headlong adventure, a complex background rooted in ancient mythology, and wry, witty twenty-first-century narration. The last pages contain a clever twist that will leave readers secretly longing to open their lockers at the start of school. Grades 5-8. --Carolyn Phelan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/276'),
(2170, 'The Red Queen', 'Philippa Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody does the Tudors better than Gregory (\n <em>\n  The Other Boleyn Girl\n </em>\n ), so it should come as no surprise that her latestâ€”the War of the Roses as seen through the eyes of Henry VII''s mother â€”is confident, colorful, convincing, and full of conflict, betrayal, and political maneuvering. Gregory gives readers Margaret Beaufort in her own words, from innocent nine-year-old to conspiring courtier who stops at nothing to see her son on England''s throne. Gregory devotees will note the difference between the supernaturally gifted Yorkist White Queen and Lancastrian Margaret, who, despite saintly aspirations, grows worldly through three marriages; a powerless widow at 13, remarried and separated from her only son by 15, it is not until she''s 29 that Margaret is ready to realize her most audacious ambitions. Gregory clones have made historical novels from a woman''s perspective far too familiar to make this seem as fresh as her earlier works. Yet, like Margaret Beaufort, Gregory puts her many imitators to shame by dint of unequalled energy, focus, and unwavering execution.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Having fictionalized Elizabeth Woodville in The White Queen (2009), royal chronicler Gregory now turns to Henry VIII''s other indomitable grandmother. The opposite of her alluring Yorkist rival, plain Lancastrian heiress Margaret Beaufort grows up knowing women are useful only for bearing sons, but divine visions grant her an unwavering conviction about her future greatness. At age 12, she weds Lancastrian warrior Edmund Tudor and pours her ambition into his posthumous son, Henry. Constantly separated from her beloved child after her second marriage to a pacifist knight, her frustrations are palpably felt; she later brokers her own union with a crafty turncoat who may be the key to her hopes. While England seethes with discord during the turbulent Wars of the Roses, Margaret''s transformation from powerless innocent to political mastermind progresses believably as rival heirs to England''s throne are killed in battle, executed, or deliberately eliminated. With constant pronouncements about Margaret''s God-given destiny, the approach isn''t exactly subtle, but Gregory''s vivid, confident storytelling makes this devout and ruthlessly determined woman a worthy heroine for her time. --Sarah Johnson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1258'),
(2171, 'Red Seas Under Red Skies', 'Scott Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like its roguish protagonists, Lynch''s colorful sequel to 2006''s\n <em>\n  The Lies of Locke Lamora\n </em>\n is charming, unpredictable and fast on its feet and stands surprisingly well on its own given its convoluted plot. Initially poised to rob the Sinspire, the notoriously thief-proof casino where the penalty for cheating is death, Locke and his partner, Jean, are unwillingly sidetracked into joining and then leading a pirate crew, swindling their way across the sea as they had previously done on land. The cinematic influences on Lynch''s fantasy setting are evident, the borrowing is mostly ingenious and the prose frequently enthralls, but tone and pacing suffer from odd inconsistencies. A handful of dark moments clash uncomfortably with the overall devil-may-care atmosphere. Most frustrating of all is the handling of key secondary character Ezri Delmastro, who shines too briefly as an energetic romantic interest for Jean. The ending promises at least one more installment, but fans may be unhappy if the saga strays too far from its amiable roots.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The science-fiction caper novel constitutes a small genre to begin with (Keith Laumer and Harry Harrison may be its best-known names), but Lynch added something entirely new to it with his debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006). That novel, which told the story of a young boy taken under the wing of a master thief, was set on a distant planet but at a stage in the planet''s history roughly equivalent to our own pirate age. Now Locke, the talented boy who became a world-class thief, returns with a caper so big it defies all reasonâ€”to penetrate the vault of the Sinspire, the most protected casino on the planet, and take its contents. If the first novel had undercurrents of Oliver Twist, this one is more in the vein of Ocean''s Eleven or The Sting: fast paced, colorful, funny, with a fiendishly intricate plot containing plenty of right-angle turns. Locke and his partner, Jean, trade banter like Redford and Newman and work their light-fingered magic with charm and panache. Lynch hasn''t merely imagined a far-off world, he''s created it, put it all down on paperâ€”the smells, the sounds, the people, the feel of the place. The novel is a virtuoso performance, and sf/fantasy fans will gobble it up, though they''ll have to fight with caper novel aficionados for every crumb. Pitt, David\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/447'),
(2172, 'The Red Tent', 'Anita Diamant', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider''s look at the daily life of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and only daughter, Dinah. Told in the voice of Jacob''s daughter Dinah (who only received a glimpse of recognition in the Book of Genesis), we are privy to the fascinating feminine characters who bled within the red tent. In a confiding and poetic voice, Dinah whispers stories of her four mothers, Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, and Bilhah--all wives to Jacob, and each one embodying unique feminine traits. As she reveals these sensual and emotionally charged stories we learn of birthing miracles, slaves, artisans, household gods, and sisterhood secrets. Eventually Dinah delves into her own saga of betrayals, grief, and a call to midwifery.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Like any sisters who live together and share a husband, my mother and aunties spun a sticky web of loyalties and grudges," Anita Diamant writes in the voice of Dinah. "They traded secrets like bracelets, and these were handed down to me the only surviving girl. They told me things I was too young to hear. They held my face between their hands and made me swear to remember." Remembering women''s earthy stories and passionate history is indeed the theme of this magnificent book. In fact, it''s been said that\n <em>\n  The Red Tent\n </em>\n is what the Bible might have been had it been written by God''s daughters, instead of her sons.\n <em>\n  --Gail Hudson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Skillfully interweaving biblical tales with events and characters of her own invention, Diamant''s (Living a Jewish Life, HarperCollins, 1991) sweeping first novel re-creates the life of Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob, from her birth and happy childhood in Mesopotamia through her years in Canaan and death in Egypt. When Dinah reaches puberty and enters the Red Tent (the place women visit to give birth or have their monthly periods), her mother and Jacob''s three other wives initiate her into the religious and sexual practices of the tribe. Diamant sympathetically describes Dinah''s doomed relationship with Shalem, son of a ruler of Shechem, and his brutal death at the hands of her brothers. Following the events in Canaan, a pregnant Dinah travels to Egypt, where she becomes a noted midwife. Diamant has written a thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating portrait of a fascinating woman and the life she might have lived. Recommended for all public libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Nancy Pearl, Washington Ctr. for the Book, Seattle\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/839'),
(2173, 'Redemption', 'Karen Kingsbury &amp; Gary Smalley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The recent penchant for pairing prolific Christian novelists with well-known CBA nonfiction authors is cause for skepticism, and justifiably so in this first collaboration between Smalley, an author and speaker on family relationships, and novelist Kingsbury. "Good-looking" Indiana University professor Tim Jacobs has found his stereotypical midlife affair with his "achingly beautiful" student Angela Manning more than a passing distraction. His "gorgeous" wife, Kari, who models in her spare time, discovers the affair just as she finds she is pregnant. Even as Kari refuses to grant Tim a divorce, she learns that her high school sweetheart, football star and "hunk" Ryan Taylor, is still single and interested in picking up their romance where they left off. Tim hits the bottle, and things look grim for the couple. Not surprisingly, counseling plays a large role in the work Kari and Tim do to try and salvage their marriage. There is a fairly shameless plug for Smalley''s Relationship Center in Branson, Mo., when Kari and Tim''s pastor suggests they travel to a two-day "Marriage Intensive Seminar" in the Ozarks. (Readers are also invited to contact the center.) Minus the heavy doses of counseling references and descriptions of the characters'' surpassing gorgeousness, Kingsbury''s writing is much improved from Halfway to Forever. While she laudably avoids a neat wrapup, it''s likely because there are six more books to come in the series. This novel functions largely as an encouraging self-help book rather than as a solid contribution to inspirational fiction.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Laura Baxter Jacobs has a fulfilling relationship with the Lord, an exciting life of modeling and volunteer work, and a wonderful marriage. Then an anonymous phone call reveals her husband''s infidelity, turning her world upside down. Laura prays and forgives Tim, deciding to use this break as a springboard to rebuild their marriage. Tim, however, wants a divorce. The reappearance of an old boyfriend and the constant harp+ing of Laura''s sisters to divorce Tim also upset her, but Laura plans to stick with her decision to love her husband and win him back with a little help from God. In the first of a five-book series, Smalley (Love Is a Decision) and Kingsbury (When Joy Came To Stay) explore tough and touchy issues facing today''s Christians. While the novel''s conclusion is unsurprising and Dee Henderson''s O''Malley series (see above) is stronger on issues of individual faith, fans of inspirational fiction will still enjoy this.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1975'),
(2174, 'The Reef', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1827'),
(2175, 'Regulators', 'Richard Bachman &amp; Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An evil creature called Tak uses the imagination of an autistic boy to shift a residential street in small-town Ohio into a world so bizarre and brutal that only a child could think it up. It''s as two-dimensional and gaudy as a kid''s comic book, but for this reviewer,\n  <em>\n   The Regulators\n  </em>\n  is a gripping adventure tale about what happens when a mind fixated on TV (especially old Westerns and a cartoon called\n  <em>\n   MotoKops 2200\n  </em>\n  ) runs amok. As Michael Collins writes in\n  <em>\n   Necrofile,\n  </em>\n  "[Stephen] King offers his readers a glimpse of the true evil of popular culture ... which has no design or intent, only an empty need to sustain itself. King is, I think, about the canniest observer of what America is, and that he generally writes horror ought to give us pause from time to time."\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Why revive the Bachman byline more than a decade after Stephen King was found lurking behind it? Not for thematic reasons. This devilishly entertaining yarn of occult mayhem married to mordant social commentary is pure King and resembles little the four nonsupernatural (if science-fictional) pre-Thinner Bachmans. The theme is the horror of TV, played out through the terrors visited upon quiet Poplar Street in the postcard-perfect suburban town of Wentworth, Ohio, when a discorporeal psychic vampire settles inside an autistic boy obsessed with TV westerns and kiddie action shows and brings screen images to demented, lethal life. The long opening scene, in which characters and vehicles from the TV show Motokops 2200 (think Power Rangers) sweep down the street, spewing death by firearm, is a paragon of action-horror. The story rarely flags after that, evoking powerful tension and, at times, emotion. The premise owes a big unacknowledged debt to the classic Twilight Zone episode "It''s a Good Life"; echoes of earlier Kings resound often as well?the psychic boy (The Shining), a writer-hero (Misery, The Dark Half), etc. But King makes hay in this story in which anything can happen, and does, including the warping of space-time and the savage deaths of much of his large cast. The narrative itself warps fantastically, from prose set in classic typeface to handwritten journals to drawings to typewritten playscript and so on. So why the Bachman byline? Probably for fear that yet another new King in 1996 in addition to six volumes of The Green Mile and Viking''s forthcoming Desperation might glut the market. Maybe, maybe not. But one thing is certain: call him Bachman or call him King, the bard of Bangor is going to hit the charts hard and vast with this white-knuckler knockout. Main selection of the Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Mystery Guild and Science Fiction Book Club.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/576'),
(2176, 'Rejoice', 'Karen Kingsbury &amp; Gary Smalley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A fresh new look for the best-selling series from Americaâ€™s number-one inspirational novelist, Karen Kingsbury. Fans will enjoy a personal note from Karen and Gary Smalley as well as discussion questions for book group use. Revisit the Baxter family in all their life-changing events, or share the series with someone who hasnâ€™t discovered it yet.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   The Redemption series won\n   <em>\n    Christian Retailing\n   </em>\n   â€™s 2005 Retailerâ€™s Choice Award for Best Series! In addition,\n   <em>\n    Rejoice\n   </em>\n   was a 2005 Gold Medallion Award finalist!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This latest release in the Redemption series reunites readers with the continuing saga of the Baxter family. Brooke Baxter has achieved everything this world has to offerâ€”a prestigious career, a beautiful home, and two wonderful children. Her recent return to her faith is an encouragement to her family. But if she faces tremendous loss, can her fledgling faith and her rocky marriage survive?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Karen Kingsbury\n  </strong>\n  is currently America''s best-selling inspirational author. She has written more than 30 of her Life-Changing Fiction titles and has nearly 5 million books in print. Dubbed by Time magazine as the Queen of Christian Fiction. Karen and her husband, Don, live in the Pacific Northwest and are parents to one girl and five boys, including three adopted from Haiti.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Gary Smalley\n  </strong>\n  is one of the country''s best known authors and speakers on family relationships. He is the author and co-author of 16 best-selling, award-winning books along with several popular films and videos.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1979'),
(2177, 'Relentless', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1New York Timesbestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz delivers a mesmerizing new thriller that explores the razor-thin line between the best and worst of human natureand the anarchy simmering just beneath society''s surfaceas a likeable, successful family man is drawn into a confrontation with a foe of unimaginable malice.... Bestselling novelist Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich is a lucky man and he knows it. He makes a handsome living doing what he enjoys. His wife, Penny, a children''s book author and illustrator, is the love of his life. Together they have a brilliant six-year-old, Milo, affectionately dubbed "Spooky," and a non-collie named Lassie, who''s all but part of the family. So Cubby knows he shouldn''t let one bad review of his otherwise triumphant new book get to himeven if it does appear in the nation''s premier newspaper and is penned by the much-feared, seldom-seen critic, Shearman Waxx. Cubby knows the best thing to do is ignore the gratuitously vicious, insulting, and inaccurate comments. Penny knows it, even little Milo knows it. If Lassie could talk, she''d tell Cubby to ignore them, too. Ignore Shearman Waxx and his poison pen is just what Cubby intends to do. Until he happens to learn where the great man is taking his lunch. Cubby just wants to get a look at the mysterious recluse whose mere opinion can make or break a careeror a life. But Shearman Waxx isn''t what Cubby expects; and neither is the escalating terror that follows what seemed to be an innocent encounter. For Waxx gives criticism; he doesn''t take it. He has ways of dealing with those who cross him that Cubby is only beginning to fathom. Soon Cubby finds himself in a desperate struggle with a relentless sociopath, facing an inexorable assault on far more than his life. Fearless, funny, utterly compelling,Relentlessis Dean Koontz at his riveting best, an unforgettable tale of the fragile bonds that hold together all that we most cherishand of those who would tear those bonds asunder. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/522'),
(2178, 'Relic', 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A series of bizarre and brutal murders is taking place in the halls of the New York Museum of Natural History, only days before a massive exhibition is set to open. Margo Green knows that the killer is something not human, something that''s not even supposed to exist. Where did it come from, how did it get into the museum, and how can it be stopped?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A monster on the loose in New York City''s American Museum of Natural History provides the hook for this high-concept, high-energy thriller. A statue of the mad god Mbwun, a monstrous mix of man and reptile, was discovered by a Museum expedition to South America in 1987. Now, it is about to become part of the new Superstition Exhibition at the museum (here renamed the "New York Museum of Natural History"). But as the exhibition''s opening night approaches, the museum may have to be shut down due to a series of savage murders that seem to be the work of a maniac-or a living version of Mbwun. When the museum''s director pulls strings to ensure that the gala affair takes place, it''s up to a small band of believers, led by graduate student Margo Green, her controversial adviser and an FBI agent who investigated similar killings in New Orleans, to stop the monster-if the culprit is indeed a monster-from going on a rampage. Less horror then action-adventure, the narrative builds to a superbly exciting climax, and then offers a final twist to boot. With its close-up view of museum life and politics, plausible scientific background, sharply drawn characters and a plot line that''s blissfully free of gratuitous romance, this well-crafted novel offers first-rate thrills and chills. Film rights optioned by Kennedy-Marshall Productions; audio rights to Brilliance Corp.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/201'),
(2179, 'Reliquary', 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The netherworld of New York City?its subways, aqueducts, sewers and the homeless who inhabit them?proves as shuddery a setting for the authors'' latest scientific monster mash as the American Museum of Natural History did for their bestselling Relic, to which this is the sequel. In the earlier novel, Mbwun, a ferocious creature that seemed part reptile, part human, rampaged through the museum killing people. The sequel, set 18 months after Mbwun was destroyed, opens with a police diver finding the headless bodies of two people apparently killed by underground cannibals. The corpses are sent to the museum''s lab for analysis, which brings a number of returnees from Relic?burly homicide cop Vincent D''Agosta, anthropologist Margo Green, New York Post crime reporter Bill Smithback?to the case. They''re soon joined by the novels'' Sherlock Holmes figure, the irresistibly cool Special Agent Pendergast of the FBI. Forays by these principals into the kingdom of the Mole People (underground homeless), plus some forensic breakthroughs, point to a race of mini-Mbwun at work in an escalating series of savage killings that incite the city''s upper crust to civil disobedience. The city''s answer, to flood its nether vaults, turns out to threaten a global catastrophe that only Pendergast and company, aided by Navy SEALS, can avert. The story''s "surprise" ending makes as much sense as ketchup on popcorn, and the entire novel has a desperate air about it as the authors stuff it with complications and, by pitting the homeless against the swells, try to create a kind of Decapitation of the Vanities. It''s high on suspense and tremendous fun in parts, though, especially when exploring the city''s nightmare underbelly. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The curator of the Natural History Museum rejoins police and the FBI as they attempt to solve horrific murders. A frightening sequel to The Relic, it''s a terrific read on its own.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/202'),
(2180, 'Remember', 'Karen Kingsbury &amp; Gary Smalley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stereotypes and melodrama abound in this third installment of the "Redemption" series (after Redemption and Remember) featuring the Baxter family in Bloomington, Indiana. Luke Baxter and Reagan Decker made a terrible mistake the night of September 10, 2001, one that neither feels can be fixed in the wake of September 11. Meanwhile, Ashley Baxter is trying to reconnect with Landon Blake, who has gone off to become a New York City firefighter in honor of a friend who perished there. Unfortunately, the characters are little more than cardboard cutouts, and the novel reads more like a public service announcement against premarital sex than a contribution to literature. Every time a Baxter errs, he or she is socked with tragic deaths, life-threatening illnesses, or some other monumental disaster. A far better pick on the ups and downs of relationships is Linda Nichols''s If I Gained the World (see below). Purchase only where the "Redemption" series is in demand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A fresh new look for the best-selling series from Americaâ€™s number-one inspirational novelist, Karen Kingsbury. Fans will enjoy a personal note from Karen and Gary Smalley as well as discussion questions for book group use. Revisit the Baxter family in all their life-changing events, or share the series with someone who hasnâ€™t discovered it yet.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   The Redemption series won\n   <em>\n    Christian Retailing\n   </em>\n   â€™s 2005 Retailerâ€™s Choice Award for Best Series!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Convinced she could make it on her own, Ashley Baxter has kept the most important people in her life at a distanceâ€”her family, the man who loves her, and the God she is sure can never forgive her. Now, just as she begins to open her heart, the events of September 11 rip into Ashleyâ€™s world and she is led to heartbreaking and hope-filled decisions that will forever change her life. This story vividly illustrates that we must value others more than ourselves, and it drives home one of Gary Smalleyâ€™s key messages: Honor one another.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Remember\n  </em>\n  is second in the five-book Redemption series by Gary Smalley and Karen Kingsbury that centers around the Baxter family. As readers follow the hopes and struggles of the family, they will explore key relationship themes as well as the larger theme of redemption, both in charactersâ€™ spiritual lives and in their relationships.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1976');
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(2181, 'Remember Me?', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Behind The Book: A Note to Amazon Readers from Author Sophie Kinsella\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s hard, in hindsight, to say exactly how a book comes into being. There are so many ideas and themes that get explored and discarded along the way; so many layers that are built up. Plus it''s a bit like having a babyâ€”once the hard work is over it becomes a blur!\n</p>\n<p>\n But with all my novels, I usually start with one little kernel of an idea--and gradually build it up over months of thinking, plotting, the "coffee shop stage" as I call it. With\n <em>\n  Can you Keep A Secret?\n </em>\n it was: what if you told someone all your secrets? With\n <em>\n  Remember Me?\n </em>\n it was: what if you woke up and didn''t recognize your life? What if you lost three years of memory--and everything had changed in that time?\n</p>\n<p>\n All my books involve some kind of wish-fulfilment; some kind of escapism--whether it''s shopping, or a whirlwind romance, or stepping off the career treadmill--and\n <em>\n  Remember Me?\n </em>\n is maybe the ultimate form of wish-fulfilment. What if you didn''t recognize your life... because it had become so perfect?\n</p>\n<p>\n The image that kept coming to me was of a girl, blinking up at her Greek God of a husband, whom she doesn''t recognize. It made me giggle every time I thought about it. And so I created my amnesiac heroine Lexi, and her perfect new glossy, unrecognizable life--from the new shiny teeth to the designer handbag, to the perfect millionaire husband. The potential for comedy was irresistible.\n</p>\n<p>\n Another theme I wanted to explore was identity, which I''ve always found fascinating. Our lives take unpredictable turns and we all change over time. But it''s so gradual we don''t always notice it. Would your younger self recognize your older self? Put another way, if you woke up tomorrow in the year 2011... what would you find?\n</p>\n<p>\n I grew incredibly close to Lexi whilst writing this book, and really felt all her ups and downs. I laughed and cried and cringed at every embarrassing moment (of which there are plenty!) I think of all my heroines she has maybe the biggest challenge to face and journey to make--as her biggest obstacle is herself.\n</p>\n<p>\n I hope you enjoy her journey!\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Shopaholic\n </em>\n powerhouse Kinsella delights again with her latest, a winning if unoriginal tale of amnesia striking an ambitious shrew and changing her life for the better. After taking a nasty bump on the head, Lexi Smart awakens in a hospital convinced that it''s 2004 and that she''s just missed her father''s funeral. It''s actually three years later, and she no longer has crooked teeth, frizzy hair and a loser boyfriend. Initially wowed by what she''s becomeâ€”a gorgeous, cut-throat businesswomanâ€”Lexi soon finds herself attempting to figure out how it happened. As her personality change and lost memory threaten her job, Lexi tries to dredge up some chemistry with her handsome albeit priggish husband, Eric, though the effort is unnecessary with Eric''s colleague Jon, who tells Lexi that she was about to leave Eric for him. Amnesia tales may be old hat, but Kinsella keeps things fresh and frothy with workplace politicking, romantic intrigue and a vibrant (though sometimes caricatured) cast. Though the happy ending won''t come as a surprise, readers will be rooting for Lexi all along.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1199'),
(2182, 'Remember Tuesday Morning', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A wall went up around Alex Brady''s heart when his father, a New York firefighter, died in the Twin Towers. Turning his back on the only woman he ever loved, Alex shut out all the people who cared about him to concentrate on fighting crime. He and his trusty K9 partner, Bo, are determined to eliminate evil in the world and prevent tragedies like 9-11. Then the worst fire season in California''s history erupts, and Alex faces the ultimate challenge to protect the community he serves. An environmental terrorist group is targeting the plush Oak Canyon Estates. At the risk of losing his job, and his soul, Alex is determined to infiltrate the group and put an end to their corruption. Only the friendship of Clay and Jamie Michaels---and the love of a dedicated young woman---can help Alex drop the walls around his heart and move forward into the future God has for him.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is America''s favorite inspirational novelist, with over 20 million books in print. Her Life-Changing Fiction has produced multiple bestsellers, including Unlocked, Leaving, Take One, Between Sundays, Even Now, One Tuesday Morning, Beyond Tuesday Morning, and Ever After, which was named the 2007 Christian Book of the Year. An award-winning author and newly published songwriter, Karen has several movies optioned for production, and her novel Like Dandelion Dust was made into a major motion picture and is now available on DVD. Karen is also a nationally known speaker with several women''s groups including Women of Faith. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, Don, and their five sons, three of whom are adopted from Haiti. Their daughter Kelsey is married to Christian artist Kyle Kupecky. SPANISH BIO: Karen Kingsbury es autora de mas de treinta titulos, incluyendo algunos EXITOS de venta, uno de los cuales se uso para la pelicula de la semana de CBS. Es una de las atoras favoritas de novelas inspiradoras.Se han impreso mas de dos millones de ejemplares de sus libros. Kingsbury reside en el estado de Washington con Don, su esposo, y sus seis hijos, tres de los cuales los adotatron en Haiti.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2430'),
(2183, 'The Renegade&#39;s Woman', 'Nikita Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1699'),
(2184, 'Requiem for a Dream', 'Hubert Selby Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Selby''s place is in the front rank of American novelists." --\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over twenty years after its first publication in 1978, Requiem for a Dream makes it to the big screen in a major motion picture starring Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Jared Leto, and Christopher McDonald. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the highly acclaimed director of Pi, the movie was released in November 2000. In this searing novel, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of uncut heroin and getting rich. But their habit gets the better of them, consumes them and destroys their dreams. "Selby''s place is in the front rank of American novelists. His work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Dostoevsky''s....To understand Selby''s work is to understand the anguish of America." -- The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/224'),
(2185, 'The Rescue', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Denise Holden''s life is a fragile mix of luck and hard work. A single mom of a speech-delayed son, Denise makes ends meet by moving to the small town of Edenton, North Carolina, and working the late shift as a waitress. When Denise crashes her car and her son Kyle flees the accident and disappears into the storm, her only stroke of luck is the quick arrival of Taylor McAden, a volunteer fireman. Taylor''s got a knack for fixing people, and he can''t help wanting to be involved with Denise beyond the initial rescue of Kyle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Taylor helps Denise recover from the accident and get to know the town, they discover a sweet bond and a magical chemistry that pulls them closer and closer. Though Taylor fits perfectly into Denise''s family, he''s unable to open his heart to being loved by her. As Taylor struggles to understand his conflicting desires, Denise questions the wisdom of gambling with Kyle''s and her own emotions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Author Nicholas Sparks has found a loyal audience for his stories about the internal battles that accompany the arrival of love. His heroes may be truck-driving manly men and his heroines emotional swamis, but it''s easy to overlook the traditional roles when the complexities of human relationships are so beautifully described. Sparks has found his forte, and this novel is sure to be as popular as his earlier works.\n  <em>\n   --Nancy R.E. O''Brien\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Secret traumas again haunt Sparks''s characters, in the author''s fourth novel (after The Notebook; Message in a Bottle; A Walk to Remember). Denise Holden, the 29-year-old heroine, is destitute and forced to live in her mother''s old house in Edenton, N.C. She''s also the single mother of a handicapped child, Kyle, a four-year-old with "auditory processing problems" that render him unable to express himself or to fully understand others. Though she doesn''t suspect it, Denise is on a literal collision course with true love. After she smashes her car into a tree and wakes up to discover Kyle missing, she finds deliverance in the form of Taylor McAden, dashing firefighter and compulsive risk taker, who rescues Kyle, too. Since Taylor enjoys an instant, unprecedented rapport with Kyle, there is little standing in the way of burgeoning romance. Trouble comes, however, when Denise learns of Taylor''s checkered romantic past. Taylor''s inability to commit, it seems, is somehow tied to his compulsive heroism, of which numerous histrionic examples are described. Denise''s quest to find the source of Taylor''s emotional distance takes up the final third of the book. The story here is mostly a pretext for the emotional assault that Sparks delivers, but when he manages to link affect to action, the result is cunningly crafted melodrama. These occasions are rare, though; more often Sparks gets bogged down in interminable interior monologue. Because these characters are preordained lovers, their feelings prescribed by fiction conventions, their psychology amounts to little more than a profusion of banality. Yet Sparks''s narrative acquires immediacy when his characters'' exaggerated emotions compel immoderate actions, and his readers will surely delight at these moments of heightened expressiveness. 1 million first printing; 24-city author tour. (Sept.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1943'),
(2186, 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Warning! This second volume in the "Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy" series is definitely not a standalone book. Enjoying, or even understanding, the continuing adventures of Earthling Arthur Dent, his strange pal Ford Prefect, and the very, very odd Zaphod Beeblebrox requires previous study and preparation. Confusion and possible insanity awaits the poor soul who tries to figure out the second title without having read the first. Arthur and Ford, having survived the destruction of Earth by surreptitiously hitching a ride on a Vogon constructor ship, have been kicked off that ship by its commander. Now they find themselves aboard a stolen Improbability Drive ship commanded by Beeblebrox, ex-president of the Imperial Galactic Government and full-time thief. Narrated by Adams, this production is a treat for fans of the late author and others who enjoy British comedy. Be sure to buy all five parts of the "Hitchhiker" series or your patrons will storm your office. One caveat: this audiobook will need to be repackaged for library circulation.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Barbara Rhodes, Northeast Texas Lib. Syst., Garland\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œDouglas Adams is a terrific satirist.â€â€”*Washington Post Book World\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œWhatâ€™s such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adamsâ€™s sardonically silly eyes.â€â€”\n  </em>\n  Detroit Free Press\n  <br />\n  *\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(2187, 'Retreat, Hell!', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  It is the fall of 1950. The Marines have made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, but a roller coaster awaits them. The bit in his teeth, Douglas MacArthur is intent on surging across the 38th parallel toward the Yalu River, where he is certain no Chinese are waiting for him, while Major Ken McCoy, operating undercover, hears a different story entirely, and is just as intent on nailing down the truth before it is too late. Meanwhile, Brigadier General Fleming Pickering, shuttling between two continents, works desperately to mediate the escalating battle between MacArthur and President Harry Truman, while trying to keep his mind from the cold fact that somewhere out there, his own daredevil pilot son, Pick, is lost behind enemy lines - and may be lost forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before Retreat, Hell! is finished, all their fates will be determined - and for some of them, it will be a bitter pill indeed.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1533'),
(2188, 'Return', 'Karen Kingsbury &amp; Gary Smalley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "RETURN proves that Karen Kingsbury and Gary Smalley are a team that are not to be topped. Just when I say their books cannot possibly get any better, they blow me away with an inspiring, gut-wrenching view at the Baxter family''s life."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tracy Farnsworth, RoundTableReviews.com\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A fresh new look for the best-selling series from Americaâ€™s number-one inspirational novelist, Karen Kingsbury. Fans will enjoy a personal note from Karen and Gary Smalley as well as discussion questions for book group use. Revisit the Baxter family in all their life-changing events, or share the series with someone who hasnâ€™t discovered it yet.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   The Redemption series won\n   <em>\n    Christian Retailing\n   </em>\n   â€™s 2005 Retailerâ€™s Choice Award for Best Series!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This touching novel reunites readers with the Baxter family and focuses on the only Baxter son, Luke. He is determined to leave his faith and his past behind and embrace a new, free-thinking future. But what he doesnâ€™t realize is that his past holds a secret even he doesnâ€™t know. When Luke finds out, his comfortable new life is turned upside down, and he must turn back to his roots.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1977'),
(2189, 'The Return of the King (Lord of the Rings Trilogy #3)', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkienâ€™s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkienâ€™s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/170'),
(2190, 'Return to Sullivans Island', 'Dorothea Benton Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Dorothea Benton Frank returns to the enchanted landscape of South Carolina''s Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island to tell the story of the next generation of Hamiltons and Hayes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Return to Sullivans Island\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether you were away from the Lowcountry for a week or for years, it was impossible to remember how gorgeous it was. It never changed and everyone depended on that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Newly graduated from college and an aspiring writer, Beth Hayes craves independence and has a world to conquer. But her notions of travel, graduate study, and writing the great American novel will have to be postponed. With her mother, Susan, leaving to fulfill her own dreams in Paris and her Aunt Maggie, Uncle Grant, and stepfather, Simon, moving to California, Beth is elected by her elders to house-sit the Island Gamble. Surrounded by the shimmering blue waters of the Atlantic, the white clapboards, silver tin roof, and confessional porch have seen and heard the stories of generations of Hamiltons. But will the ghosts of the Island Gamble be watching over Beth?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Buoyed by sentimental memories of growing up on this tiny sandbar that seems to be untouched by time, Beth vows to give herself over to the Lowcountry force and discover the wisdom it holds. She will rest, rejuvenate, and then reenter the outside world. Just as she vows she will never give into the delusional world of white picket fences, minivans, and eternal love, she meets Max Mitchell. And all her convictions and plans begin to unravel with lightning speed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There is so much about life and her family''s past that she does not know. Her ignorance and naivetÃ‰nearly cost her both her inheritance and her family''s respect. But Beth finds unexpected friends to help her through the disaster she faces: her wise and charming Aunt Sophie; Cecily Singleton, the granddaughter of Livvie Singleton; and Woody Morrison, the solid young investment banker.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This wonderful ensemble of characters could be your own family, but watch what unfolds as they succumb to the island''s spell. If everything happens for a reason, then Beth''s return to Sullivans Island teaches her that betrayal and tragedy are most easily handled when you surround yourself with loyal family and friends in a magical place that loves you so much that it wants to claim you as its own.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2400'),
(2191, 'Reunion', 'Karen Kingsbury &amp; Gary Smalley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Faithfulreader.com:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  What kind of testimony to your faith are you\n  <br />\n  demonstrating in this book? If you are writing fiction, do you write\n  <br />\n  fiction that is based upon your faith, or that has a message for the\n  <br />\n  reader? Is your goal to demonstrate your faith in your writing?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Karen Kingsbury\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n  REUNION is the final book in the Redemption Series, a series that follows the Baxter family and their tragedies and triumphs. Faith plays an integral part in the Baxter family, though itÂ demonstrated in a realistic manner. Some characters struggle with God, others are apathetic, and others are very devoted. The combination has a way of touching allÂ readers, wherever they are with their personal walk of faith. One of the most common statements from readers is that the Baxters are very real people. They struggle and get sick, they make mistakes, but always they know that there is Redemption through faith in Christ.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not every one of my books is evangelistic, with faith as the central\n  <br />\n  theme. Instead, faith is an element of the stories the way it is with\n  <br />\n  all people because we are spiritual beings. Whether we are running from\n  <br />\n  faith, ignorant of it or devoted to God, faith is an element. That''s\n  <br />\n  the way it comes across in my books.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A fresh new look for the best-selling series from Americaâ€™s number-one inspirational novelist, Karen Kingsbury. Fans will enjoy a personal note from Karen and Gary Smalley as well as discussion questions for book group use. Revisit the Baxter family in all their life-changing events, or share the series with someone who hasnâ€™t discovered it yet.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   The Redemption series won\n   <em>\n    Christian Retailing\n   </em>\n   â€™s 2005 Retailerâ€™s Choice Award for Best Series! In addition,\n   <em>\n    Reunion\n   </em>\n   was a 2005 Gold Medallion Award finalist!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This touching story allows us to see into the lives of the Baxter family as Erin and Sam attempt to adopt a child. As the family looks forward to a heartwarming reunion, they find out that Mr. and Mrs. Baxter have a secret that could change their lives forever.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1978'),
(2192, 'Reunion in Death', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Seasoned author Nora Roberts, writing as Robb, delivers another exhilarating entry in her popular futuristic cop series featuring Eve Dallas (Seduction in Death, etc.). Dallas, a New York police lieutenant, is a hard-bitten warrior cop who buries the pain and anger of her early childhood by excelling on the job. In her latest adventure, all the usual suspects are back: Eve''s charismatic husband, Roarke; her plucky assistant, Peabody; and hipster techno-geek McNab. For this round, their objective is to take down a woman Eve arrested 10 years ago, a poisoner named Julianna Dunne. Julianna''s out on parole, and now rich old men are dying sudden deaths. What''s more, the ex-con wants to exact a little revenge on her one-time adversary. Eve''s search for Dunne takes her all over the country, and eventually to Dallas, Tex., the city that gave her both her name and a legacy of violent nightmares. This is a satisfying, well-paced novel that offers readers a little of everything sex, death, family drama and well-orchestrated chase scenes. Although Robb''s plot is tight and suspenseful, the real pleasure here comes from watching Eve struggle to maintain her distance from others, even as she finds herself tied ever more closely to her friends and family by the bonds of love. (Mar. 5)Forecast: It''s a given that Roberts''s books will grace the bestseller charts, but a stylish cover image depicting a ghostly, Manhattan subway entrance may attract new readers.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The most recent chapter of Robb''s popular series features Lt. Eve Dallas facing a recently released murderer back to get even. Early in her career, Eve testified against Julianna Dunn, and, during her incarceration, Julianna has been planning how to confuse, humiliate, and ultimately destroy her. This violent reunion begins with the poisoning of middle-aged, wealthy men in seemingly innocuous circumstances on Eve''s New York City beat and soon looks like it will culminate with the killing of her husband, Roark. Disconcerting houseguests, a tense visit into Eve''s childhood in the city of Dallas, and a comic scene searching for clues in the New York underworld add to the plot and give reader Susan Ericksen the opportunity to charm the listener thoroughly. Her reading is full of color: her accent, pitch, and pacing all add to the listening experience and make this one difficult tape to pause. Recommended for popular collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Juleigh Muirhead Clark, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Lib., Colonial Williamsburg Fdn., VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1093'),
(2193, 'The Reversal', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Connelly''s new thriller features two of his series heroes-the wily defense attorney Mickey Haller and his half-brother, LAPD detective Harry Bosch. This time Haller is working the other side of the courtroom, as a special independent prosecutor trying to keep a very nasty child molester and killer behind bars, with Bosch doing his legwork. As we''ve seen in The Brass Verdict, the author has Haller narrating his chapters, while the Bosch-centered sections are told in the third person. For the former, Peter Giles has developed a breezy, fast-paced vocal approach, while the detective''s process is presented in a tougher, no frills manner. Additional characters are provided their own unique voices, including the smooth-talking district attorney, the arrogant villain, Haller''s icy-but-melting former wife, and a brave but wavering witness to the crime. Not only is the production highly entertaining, the package is particularly generous, offering an additional two CDs containing unabridged MP3-format versions of The Reversal and the previous Haller-Bosch match, The Brass Verdict, also read by Giles. A Little, Brown hardcover. (Nov.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Connelly may be our most versatile crime writer. His Harry Bosch series has taken the hard-boiled cop novel to a new level of complexity, both in its portrayal of the heroâ€™s inner life and in Connellyâ€™s ability to intertwine landscape and meaning. His Mickey Haller novels, on the other hand, starring the maverick lawyer who uses his Lincoln Town Car as an office, are testaments to the sublime architecture of plot. With the crime novel now commonly rubbing elbows with literary fiction, it sometimes seems that pure story has become a forgotten stepchild. In his Haller novels, Connelly reminds us how satisfying it can be to follow the path of a well-constructed plot. So it is here, in the third Haller novel, which finds the antiestablishment attorney accepting an unlikely offer: a one-time gig as a prosecutor, retrying a case in which a killerâ€™s 24-year-old conviction has been overturned on the basis of DNA. Taking second chair will be Hallerâ€™s ex-wife, the formidable Maggie, with Harry Bosch (identified in The Brass Verdict, 2008, as Hallerâ€™s half brother) serving as special investigator. The table is set for a straightforward legal thriller, albeit one starring three superbly multidimensional characters. And, yet, Connelly bobs and weaves around all our expectations. There is suspense, of course, and there are plenty of surprises, both in the courtroom and outside of it, but this is a plot that wonâ€™t be pigeonholed. Reading this book is like watching a master craftsman, slowly and carefully, brick by brick, build something that holds together exquisitely, form and function in perfect alignment. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/898'),
(2194, 'The Reverse of the Medal', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ashore between cruises, Captain Jack Aubrey is persuaded to sink some money into an investment scheme. Soon this innocent decision enmeshes him in various criminal and even treasonous enterprises, which threaten to destroy his entire career. Bad luck? A deliberate plot? Read this latest installment of the Aubrey-Maturin saga to find out.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''!full of the energy that comes from a writer having struck a vein! Patrick O''Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.'' James Hamilton- Paterson ''You are in for the treat of your lives. Thank God for Patrick O''Brian: his genius illuminates the literature of the English language, and lightens the lives of those who read him.'' Kevin Myers, Irish Times ''In a highly competitive field it goes straight to the top. A real first-rater.'' Mary Renault ''I never enjoyed a novel about the sea more. It is not only that the author describes the handling of a ship of 1800 with an accuracy that is as comprehensible as it is detailed, a remarkable feat in itself. Mr O''Brian''s three chief characters are drawn with no less depth of sympathy than the vessels he describes, a rare achievement save in the greatest writers of this genre. It deserves the widest readership.'' Irish Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/463'),
(2195, 'The Revolution: A Manifesto', 'Ron Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Congressman, Republican Presidential candidate and author Paul (A Foreign Policy of Freedom) says "Let the revolution begin" with this libertarian plea for a return to "the principles of our Founding Fathers: liberty, self-government, the Constitution, and a noninterventionist foreign policy." Specific examples demonstrate how far U.S. law has strayed from this path, particularly over the past century, as well as Paul''s firm grasp of history and dedication to meaningful debate: "it is revolutionary to ask whether we need troops in 130 countries... whether the accumulation of more and more power in Washington has been good for us...to ask fundamental questions about privacy, police-state measures, taxation, social policy." Though he can rant, Paul is informative and impassioned, giving readers of any political bent food for thought. With harsh words for both Democrats and Republicans, and especially George W. Bush, Paul''s no-nonsense text questions the "imperialist" foreign policy that''s led to the war in Iraq ("one of the most ill considered, poorly planned, and... unnecessary military conflicts in American history"), the economic situation and rampant federalism treading on states'' rights and identities ("The Founding Fathers did not intend for every American neighborhood to be exactly the same"). Though his policy suggestions can seem extreme, Paul''s book gives new life to old debates.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The real truth about Liberty. This book takes a wrecking ball to the political establishment. Senator Goldwater would have loved it -- it''s\n <em>\n  The\n  <strong>\n   Conscience of a Conservative *for the 21st century." (\n  </strong>\n  Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., former member of Congress\n </em>\n * )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/284'),
(2196, 'Revolutionary Road', 'Richard Yates', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The rediscovery and rejuvenation of Richard Yates''s 1961 novel\n <em>\n  Revolutionary Road\n </em>\n is due in large part to its continuing emotional and moral resonance for an early 21st-century readership. April and Frank Wheeler are a young, ostensibly thriving couple living with their two children in a prosperous Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s. However, like the characters in John Updike''s similarly themed\n <em>\n  Couples\n </em>\n , the self-assured exterior masks a creeping frustration at their inability to feel fulfilled in their relationships or careers. Frank is mired in a well-paying but boring office job and April is a housewife still mourning the demise of her hoped-for acting career. Determined to identify themselves as superior to the mediocre sprawl of suburbanites who surround them, they decide to move to France where they will be better able to develop their true artistic sensibilities, free of the consumerist demands of capitalist America. As their relationship deteriorates into an endless cycle of squabbling, jealousy and recriminations, their trip and their dreams of self-fulfillment are thrown into jeopardy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yates''s incisive, moving, and often very funny prose weaves a tale that is at once a fascinating period piece and a prescient anticipation of the way we live now. Many of the cultural motifs seem quaintly dated--the early-evening cocktails, Frank''s illicit lunch breaks with his secretary, the way Frank isn''t averse to knocking April around when she speaks out of turn--and yet the quiet desperation at thwarted dreams reverberates as much now as it did years ago. Like F. Scott Fitzgerald''s\n <em>\n  The Great Gatsby\n </em>\n , this novel conveys, with brilliant erudition, the exacting cost of chasing the American dream.\n <em>\n  --Jane Morris, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n "So much nonsense has been written on suburban life and mores that it comes as a considerable shock to read a book by someone who seems to have his own ideas on the subject and who pursues them relentlessly to the bitter end," said LJ''s reviewer (LJ 2/1/61) of this novel of unhappy life in the burbs. It is reminiscent of the popular film American Beauty in its depiction of white-collar life as fraught with discontent. Others have picked up on this theme since, but Yates remains a solid read.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1034'),
(2197, 'Rich Dad Poor Dad Classics', 'Robert T. Kiyosaki &amp; Sharon L. Lechter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Rich Dad''s Classics Box Set contains 3 titles from the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series:\n <em>\n  Rich Dad, Poor Dad, the bestselling personal finance guide for the millions hoping to become masters of their money\n </em>\n Rich Dad''s Cashflow Quadrant, the follow-up to Rich Dad, Poor Dad, reveals why some people work less and earn more, pay less taxes, and feel more financially secure than others * Rich Dad''s Guide to Investing covers the basic rules of investing, including how to reduce investment risk and how to convert earned income into passive and portfolio income.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/491'),
(2198, 'The Right Stuff', 'Tom Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tom Wolfe began\n <em>\n  The Right Stuff\n </em>\n at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979--the year the book appeared--Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. In his foreword, he notes that as late as 1970, almost one in four career Navy pilots died in accidents. "\n <em>\n  The Right Stuff\n </em>\n ," he explains, "became a story of why men were willing--willing?--delighted!--to take on such odds in this, an era literary people had long since characterized as the age of the anti-hero."\n</p>\n<p>\n Wolfe''s roots in New Journalism were intertwined with the nonfiction novel that Truman Capote had pioneered with\n <em>\n  In Cold Blood\n </em>\n . As Capote did, Wolfe tells his story from a limited omniscient perspective, dropping into the lives of his "characters" as each in turn becomes a major player in the space program. After an opening chapter on the terror of being a test pilot''s wife, the story cuts back to the late 1940s, when Americans were first attempting to break the sound barrier. Test pilots, we discover, are people who live fast lives with dangerous machines, not all of them airborne. Chuck Yeager was certainly among the fastest, and his determination to push through Mach 1--a feat that some had predicted would cause the destruction of any aircraft--makes him the book''s guiding spirit.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet soon the focus shifts to the seven initial astronauts. Wolfe traces Alan Shepard''s suborbital flight and Gus Grissom''s embarrassing panic on the high seas (making the controversial claim that Grissom flooded his Liberty capsule by blowing the escape hatch too soon). The author also produces an admiring portrait of John Glenn''s apple-pie heroism and selfless dedication. By the time Wolfe concludes with a return to Yeager and his late-career exploits, the narrative''s epic proportions and literary merits are secure. Certainly\n <em>\n  The Right Stuff\n </em>\n is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America''s manned space program.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Technically accurate, learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic . . .\n <em>\n  The Right Stuff\n </em>\n is superb."\n <em>\n  --The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the most romantic and thrilling books ever written about men who put themselves in peril."\n <em>\n  --The Boston Globe\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "An exhilarating flight into fear, love, beauty, and fiery death . . . Magnificent."--\n <em>\n  People\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Absolutely first class . . . Improbable as some of Wolfe''s tales seem, I know he''s telling it like it was."\n <em>\n  --The Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Crammed with inside poop and racy incident . . . fast cars, booze, astro groupies, the envies and injuries of the military caste system . . . Wolfe lays it all out in brilliantly staged Op Lit scenes."--\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Splendid . . . It shows our propensity to manufacture heroes, and, just as quickly, to forget them; it shows how a scientific program was exploited for political advantage; it provides a revealing character study of seven exceptional Americans."--\n <em>\n  The Saturday Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/140'),
(2199, 'Ringworld', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''Tom Parker captures the personalities of the travelers through individual vocalization and provides smooth, expressive narration. The listener is soon caught up in the adventures of these vivid characters as they struggle to survive . . . a rousing adventure.'''' --\n <em>\n  AudioFile\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''Niven''s style is such that you can be awed, then titillated, then amused all on the same page. . . . After more than thirty years, the story remains interesting, and the ideas fascinating. I highly recommend this audiobook, whether you''ve experienced Ringworld already or not. I enjoyed every minute.'''' --SFFAudio.com\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''[Parker] skillfully uses inflection and timing to heighten drama or highlight humorous details as appropriate. Parker deftly brings to life Louis Wu and other members of the ''motley crew'' . . . This is SF--and narration--at its best.'''' --\n <em>\n  Kliatt\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/434'),
(2200, 'The Rise of Endymion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In "The Rise of Endymion, " Dan Simmons brings to a triumphant conclusion one of the most celebrated, compelling, and dramatic science fiction sagas of our time. Brilliant, provocative, unfailingly inventive, the odyssey began with the Hugo Award{winning "Hyperion, " continued through the critically acclaimed "The Fall of Hyperion" and "Endymion, " and now ascends to its greatest heights yet....The final chapter of this magnificent saga begins with two momentous events: the death and resurrection of Pope Julius XV and the coming-of-age of the new messiah. Her name is Aenea and she is the only person who can counter the pope and his plan to unleash the Pax Fleet, the Church''s military wing, on a final genocidal Crusade to gain total dominion over the universe. The Church is allied with the infamous AI Core, which has offered immortality to humankind--or at least to those faithful who pledge total obedience to the Church--but at what terrible price? The Core has its own dark motives and secrets, and only Aenea knows what they are.Aenea, too, has an ally. Her protector, Raul Endymion, onetime shepherd and convicted murderer, finds her in exile undergoing a strange apprenticeship on Old Earth. Here she has gained access to an information matrix created by the Others--the same mysterious Others who moved Old Earth to save it from the Core. But who are these Others? What has Aenea learned from them? And why has Old Earth been turned into a stage upon which cybrids from the past--from John Keats to Frank Lloyd Wright--repeat historical dramas of human genius for purposes known only to the Others?The answers to these questions must wait. Together with the android A. Bettik,Endymion and his beloved Aenea embark on a final mission to find and comprehend the underlying fabric of the universe. The surprising nature of this medium and Aenea''s ability to instruct her growing army of disciples in its discovery and use could provide the one weapon powerful enough to thwart their enemies while liberating humanity. Meanwhile, the enigmatic Shrike--monster, angel, killing machine--has followed them on their intergalactic sojourn and now stands ready to complete its own mission, revealing at last the long-held secret of its origin and purpose.In "The Rise of Endymion, " Dan Simmons masterfully weaves together the complex strands of this extraordinary series. He answers all of the unsolved mysteries posed in the earlier volumes and brings the story full circle to the planet Hyperion, where it all began. A work of unparalleled power and vision, "The Rise of Endymion" is a masterpiece of the imagination by one of our most gifted writers. Praise for Dan Simmons and the "Hyperion" novels:  "The Rise of Endymion: " "Simmons'' scope is truly staggering, his inventiveness continues to impress, and the narrative offers something for everyone." "--Kirkus Reviews"  "Hyperion: " "The "Hyperion" saga is an astonishing achievement, overbrimming with adventure, lyricism and insight. A miracle of invention and economy, played out on a dozen and more meticulously created worlds, the tetralogy is surely one of science fiction''s grandest visions." "--BookPage" "Extraordinary." "--Asimov''s Science Fiction" "A magnificently original blend of themes and styles." "--The Denver Post"  "The Fall of Hyperion: " "Generously conceivedand stylistically sure-handed...an unfailingly inventive narrative that bears comparison with such classics as Isaac Asimov''s "Foundation" series, Frank Herbert''s "Dune, " and Gene Wolfe''s "Book of the New Sun." " "--The New York Times Book Review" "Dan Simmons has brilliantly conceptualized a future 700 years distant. In sheer scope and complexity it matches, and perhaps even surpasses, those of Isaac Asimov and James Blish." "--The Washington Post Book World"  "Endymion: " "[A] mastery of far-future science fiction." "--The New York Times Book Review" "Best science fiction novel of 1995." "--Rocky Mountain News"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1079'),
(2201, 'The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for the rise of\n <strong>\n  Theodore Roosevelt\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMagnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character. . . . It is one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. There should be a queue awaiting the next volume.â€\n <br />\n -W. A. Swanberg,\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTheodore Roosevelt, in this meticulously researched and beautifully written biography, has a claim on being the most interesting man ever to be President of this country.â€\n <br />\n -Robert Kirsch,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times Book Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSpectacles glittering, teeth and temper flashing, high-pitched voice rasping and crackling, Roosevelt surges out of these pages with the force of a physical presence.â€\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  The Atlantic Monthly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMorrisâ€™s book is beautifully written as well as thoroughly scholarly-clearly a masterpiece of American biography. . . . Hundreds of thousands will soon be reading this book . . . and will look forward, as I do, to Morrisâ€™s second volume.â€\n <br />\n -Kenneth S. Davis,\n <em>\n  Worcester Sunday Telegram\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Theodore Rex*\n </strong>\n *is the storyâ€”never fully told beforeâ€”of Theodore Rooseveltâ€™s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, â€œTRâ€ succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Youngest of all our chief executives, he rallied a stricken nation with his superhuman energy, charm, and political skills. He proceeded to combat the problems of race and labor relations and trust control while making the Panama Canal possible and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. But his most historic achievement remains his creation of a national conservation policy, and his monument millions of acres of protected parks and forest.\n <strong>\n  Theodore Rex\n </strong>\n ends with TR leaving office, still only fifty years old, his future reputation secure as one of our greatest presidents.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1179'),
(2202, 'Rising Tides', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "New York Times" bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the second novel in the dramatic trilogy of three men who return home to honor their father''s last wish--to care for Seth, a troubled boy in need of a family. Coming home has taught the brothers more than they ever dreamed about the meaning of family and responsibility. Now it is time to learn the meaning of acceptance and love...  Of the three brothers, it was Ethan who shared his father''s passion for the Maryland shore. And now with his father gone, Ethan is determined to make the family boatbuilding business a success. But amidst his acheivements lie the most important challenges of his life...  There is young Seth, who needs him more than ever. And a woman he has always loved but never believed could have. But beneath Ethans''s seemingly still waters is a dark and painful past. He must learn to see around the shadows to accept who he is. Because through Ethan''s past lies the future--and his one chance at happiness...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1608'),
(2203, 'River Marked', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Car mechanic Mercy Thompson has always known there was something different about her, and not just the way she can make a VW engine sit up and beg. Mercy is a shapeshifter, a talent she inherited from her long-gone father. She''s never known any others of her kind. Until now.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River-one that her father''s people may know something about. And to have any hope of surviving, Mercy and her mate, the Alpha werewolf Adam, will need their help...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patricia Briggs\n  </strong>\n  lives in Washington state with her husband, children, and a small herd of horses.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1361');
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(2204, 'The Road Not Taken: A Selection of Robert Frost&#39;s Poems', 'Robert Frost &amp; Louis Untermeyer &amp; John O&#39;hara Cosgrave', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The best-loved poems from one of American literature''s most towering figuresNo poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," and he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes.Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost''s most beloved work for a new generation of poets and readers.In this brilliant selection of Frost''s classic poems, students and scholars alike will encounter a body of work central to American culture. Robert Frost (1874-1963) is widely regarded as one of America''s finest poets. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on four different occasions, and also served as Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. The Road Not Taken offers a far-ranging selection of the best and most-beloved poems of Robert Frost. Perhaps the most widely studied and appreciated (and certainly the most famous) of all modern American poets, Frost crafted a rich, vast, and familiar-yet-new landscape in his verse that each succeeeding generation of readers has come to know and love. "Of U.S. poets, none had lodged poems more surely where they will be hard to get of," as Time has noted. "His lines often have the trenchancy and inevitability of folk sayings."With Louis Untermeyer''s biographical introduction and an ongoing commentary that touches upon each poem presented here, this choice of Frost''s work gives context to both the life and work of a titan of American literature. Clearly annotated and carefully arranged, The Road Not Taken is also an ideal introduction to this timeless, vitally important poetry. "Frost has bequeathed to his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding."â€”John F. Kennedy"Frost was the first American poet who could honestly be reckoned a master-poet by world standards."â€”Robert Graves"[Our] most eminent [and] most distinguished . . . Anglo-American poet."â€”T.S. Eliot"Frost [is among] the greatest of the American poets of the 20th century."â€”Randall Jarrell"No other American poet has so much art or so much subject matter."â€”Mark Van Doren"Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost''s is most likely to stand the test of time."â€”Lewis Gannett\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/693'),
(2205, 'The Road Virus Heads North', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n One of the dark, eerie tales that can only come from Stephen King, orginally a part of the #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller\n <em>\n  Everything''s Eventual\n </em>\n , "The Road Virus Heads North" tracks an author who buys a creepy paiting at a yard sale which was painted by a metal-head neighbor just before he committed suicide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1518'),
(2206, 'The Road', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as "an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century," Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including the bestselling\n <em>\n  No Country for Old Men\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Road\n </em>\n . Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose,\n <em>\n  The Road\n </em>\n is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we''ve read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked Dennis Lehane, author of equally rich, occasionally bleak and brutal novels, to read it and give us his take. Read his glowing review below.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Dennis Lehane\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dennis Lehane, master of the hard-boiled thriller, generated a cult following with his series about private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, wowed readers with the intense and gut-wrenching\n  <em>\n   Mystic River\n  </em>\n  , blew fans all away with the mind-bending\n  <em>\n   Shutter Island\n  </em>\n  , and switches gears with\n  <em>\n   Coronado\n  </em>\n  , his new collection of gritty short stories (and one play).\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel,\n <em>\n  The Road\n </em>\n , in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, it''s not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the corner. Stealing across this horrific (and that''s the only word for it) landscape are an unnamed man and his emaciated son, a boy probably around the age of ten. It is the love the father feels for his son, a love as deep and acute as his grief, that could surprise readers of McCarthy''s previous work. McCarthy''s Gnostic impressions of mankind have left very little place for love. In fact that greatest love affair in any of his novels, I would argue, occurs between the Billy Parham and the wolf in\n <em>\n  The Crossing\n </em>\n . But here the love of a desperate father for his sickly son transcends all else. McCarthy has always written about the battle between light and darkness; the darkness usually comprises 99.9% of the world, while any illumination is the weak shaft thrown by a penlight running low on batteries. In\n <em>\n  The Road\n </em>\n , those batteries are almost out--the entire world is, quite literally, dying--so the final affirmation of hope in the novel''s closing pages is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of his father''s (and McCarthy''s) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down, lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things: faith.\n <em>\n  --Dennis Lehane\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n McCarthy''s latest novel, a frightening apocalyptic vision, is narrated by a nameless man, one of the few survivors of an unspecified civilization-ending catastrophe. He and his young son are trekking along a treacherous highway, starving and freezing, trying to avoid roving cannibal armies. The tale, and their lives, are saved from teetering over the edge of bleakness thanks to the man''s fierce belief that they are "the good guys" who are preserving the light of humanity. In this stark, effective production, Stechschulte gives the father an appropriately harsh, weary voice that sways little from its numbed register except to urge on the weakening boy or soothe his fears after an encounter with barbarians. When they uncover some vestige of the former world, the man recalls its vanished wonder with an aching nostalgia that makes the listener''s heart swell. Stechschulte portrays the son with a mournful, slightly breathy tone that emphasizes the child''s whininess, making him much less sympathetic than his resourceful father. With no music or effects interrupting Stechschulte''s carefully measured pace and gruff, straightforward delivery, McCarthy''s darkly poetic prose comes alive in a way that will transfix listeners.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/380'),
(2207, 'Roadwork', 'Stephen King &amp; Richard Bachman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman. In this gritty narrative, a lone man takes on the wheels of progress in a showdown of cataclysmic proportions. When a highway project puts him out of work and threatens to destroy his home, he has more than enough time on his hands to plot his revenge. Driving his wife and friends away with his obstinate refusal to give in, he pushes the powers-that-be to the limit, taking a stand against what he sees as a criminal act in progress. Building to a shattering climax, ''''Roadwork'''' is a suspenseful tale you won''t soon forget!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/542'),
(2208, 'Robinson Crusoe', 'Daniel Defoe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 3-6-As with any abridged version, the story is spare, but what it loses in prose, it gains in readability. The easy-to-understand text keeps some of the flavor of the original, but in condensing 27 chapters and more than 300 pages of narrative to 50-plus pages with half as many chapters, much of the long-winded description has been eliminated. However, the modernized spelling, added dialogue, shortened expository passages, large type, and emphasis on fast-paced storytelling will make this classic accessible to a younger audience. The story ends abruptly with Robinson Crusoe''s return to England. None of the adventures after his arrival in his homeland-the discovery of riches at his Brazilian plantation, Friday''s encounter with the bear, or the attack by ravenous wolves on the trek to France-are included. Nevertheless, the bare-bones telling, combined with more than a dozen of Wyeth''s lavish oil paintings (which originally graced the 1920 edition), makes this a worthwhile purchase.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Laurie Edwards, West Shore School District, Camp Hill, PA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the first novels ever written, Daniel Defoe''s\n <em>\n  Robinson Crusoe\n </em>\n (1719), the classic adventure story of a man marooned on an island for nearly 30 years, is part of our culture. From Scott O''Dell''s\n <em>\n  Island of the Blue Dolphins\n </em>\n (1960) to the recent movie\n <em>\n  Castaway\n </em>\n , the elemental situation of the person suddenly alone, who must make a life in a dangerous environment, continues to enthrall all ages. Yet few adults, never mind young people, can wade through Defoe''s lengthy tome with its convoluted eighteenth-century prose. So here''s a shortened storybook version--retold by Timothy Meis in accessible style, yet true to the spirit of the original and the time when it was first published--in a large picture-book format with clear type, high-quality paper, and more than a dozen unforgettable narrative paintings by Wyeth, first published in 1920 and newly reproduced here in glowing color.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story begins with the universal quest: the young man in Britain, torn between his safe home and his hunger for adventure, breaks away from his loving father and sails away into the unknown. After a series of harrowing escapes, he''s shipwrecked on a desert island. His lively first-person account shows how his intelligence and education help him survive for many years, and how he uses technology, including guns and tools salvaged from the ship. He sets up home, reads the Bible, finds a parrot as a pet, and even devises a calendar to keep track of time. Then one day he finds a human footprint: "Was it someone who could save me and take me back to civilization? Or was it a savage who landed here?" When some "savages" arrive in several canoes, he uses his guns to get rid of them, and he rescues one of their captives, a handsome fellow with very dark skin. Delighted to have a companion at last, Crusoe names the newcomer Friday (since Crusoe found him on Friday). Crusoe teaches "my man Friday" to speak English, fire a gun, carve a canoe, and clothe his nakedness, and they live happily together. Later they rescue a white man and Friday''s father from a group of "savages," and, eventually, they all return to their homes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Defoe is said to have based his novel on the true adventures of Alexander Selkirk (who spent four or five years on an island in the South Pacific) and on accounts of other castaways of the time. The survival adventure is still enthralling. But what about the racism? This is clearly the classic colonialist story, but whose history is it? And how will young people read it today? Is it just boring, politically correct nitpicking to object to the use of the word "savages" throughout the book and even on the book flap? Yes, there are some bad guys among the whites, but even they are called "men"; the dark-skinned people are always known as "savages." How do we talk about this story today? The guns and tools make Crusoe boss, but wouldn''t Friday have been able to teach the newcomer some survival skills? Does it never occur to Crusoe to learn Friday''s own name and language? Who discovered whom? Wyeth''s clear, action-packed illustrations are magnificent. But there''s one shockingly jarring scene of Friday groveling in gratitude at Crusoe''s feet. When the whites say thanks, they embrace each other.\n</p>\n<p>\n So, no, the objections are not just P. C. sermonizing. The racism is highly offensive. But the fact that the story is so widely known and has such elemental appeal makes this an excellent book for discussion, especially in classes studying the history of exploration and discovery. Louise Erdrich addressed a similar problem [BKL Ap 1 99] when she commented that although she had loved the Little House books as a child, in rereading them as an adult, she was shocked to recognize that "not only was there no consciousness about the displaced people whose land the newcomers were taking, but also that there was a fair amount of racism." Still, she disagrees with censorship of any kind: "The best way is for good teachers and parents to install racism radar detectors so that kids can make their own judgments, because they''re going to have to."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Robinson Crusoe\n </em>\n is part of the fine Scribner Storybook Classic series that includes\n <em>\n  The Last of the Mohicans\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Robin Hood,\n </em>\n all of which bring readers to Wyeth''s paintings\n <em>\n  . Treasure Island\n </em>\n will be out later this year.\n <em>\n  Hazel Rochman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/833'),
(2209, 'Romeo and Juliet', 'William Shakespeare &amp; Jacqueline Ritten', '<div class="comments">\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,\n  <br />\n  Which, as they kiss, consume.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n When Romeo first lays eyes on the bewitching Juliet, it''s love at first sight. But though their love runs true and deep, it is also completely forbidden. With family and fate determined to keep them apart, will Romeo and Juliet find a way to be together?\n</p>\n<p>\n William Shakespeare''s masterpiece is one of the most enduring stories of star-crossed love of all time. Beautifully presented for a modern teen audience with both the original play and a prose retelling of the beloved story, this is the must-have edition of a timeless classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/235'),
(2210, 'Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz', 'Ron Jeremy &amp; Eric Spitznagel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n He''s the porn world''s Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he''s starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of them, and over the last twenty years has become porn''s biggest ambassador to the mainstream. He''s appeared in 60 regular films, 14 music videos, and VH1''s\n <em>\n  Surreal Life\n </em>\n , starred in the critically acclaimed\n <em>\n  Porn star\n </em>\n (a movie about his life), and in\n <em>\n  Being Ron Jeremy\n </em>\n (a take off on\n <em>\n  Being John Malkovich\n </em>\n ), co-starring Andy Dick. And that''s just the tip of the iceberg. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Ron Jeremy is a born storyteller (funny, considering he doesn''t do a lot of talking in his films). He knows where all the bodies are buried, and in this outrageous autobiography he not only shows you the grave but also gives you the back story on the tombstone. Get ready for\n <em>\n  Ron Jeremy\n </em>\n â€”a scandalously entertaining deep insider''s view of the porn industry and its emergence into popular culture, and a delectable self-portrait of the amazingly endowed Everyman every man wanted to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/633'),
(2211, 'Room', 'Emma Donoghue', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Una obra de arte completamente originalÃƒÂ¢Ã‚â‚¬Ã‚Â¦ Una novela poderosa, de una belleza oscura y sumamente reveladora. --MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, autor de Las horas\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Donoghue ha construido un relato que avanza con el suspense de un thrillerÃƒÂ¢Ã‚â‚¬Ã‚Â¦ Dificil de abandonar e intensamente conmovedor. --The Sunday Times\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Una novela memorableÃƒÂ¢Ã‚â‚¬Ã‚Â¦ Una voz unica para hablar acerca del amor y una mirada fresca y reveladora del mundo en que vivimos. --The New York Times Book Review\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Donoghue ha construido un relato que avanza con el suspense de un thrillerÃ¢â‚¬Â¦ Dificil de abandonar e intensamente conmovedor. --The Sunday Times\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Una novela memorableÃ¢â‚¬Â¦ Una voz unica para hablar acerca del amor y una mirada fresca y reveladora del mundo en que vivimos. --The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Amazon Best of the Month, September 2010: In many ways, Jack is a typical 5-year-old. He likes to read books, watch TV, and play games with his Ma. But Jack is different in a big way--he has lived his entire life in a single room, sharing the tiny space with only his mother and an unnerving nighttime visitor known as Old Nick. For Jack, Room is the only world he knows, but for Ma, it is a prison in which she has tried to craft a normal life for her son. When their insular world suddenly expands beyond the confines of their four walls, the consequences are piercing and extraordinary. Despite its profoundly disturbing premise, Emma Donoghue''s Room is rife with moments of hope and beauty, and the dogged determination to live, even in the most desolate circumstances. A stunning and original novel of survival in captivity, readers who enter Room will leave staggered, as though, like Jack, they are seeing the world for the very first time. --Lynette Mong Description in Spanish: Para Jack, un niÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â±o de cinco aÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â±os, la Habitacion es el mundo entero, el lugar donde nacio, donde come, juega y aprende. Por la noche, Mama lo pone a dormir en el Armario, por si viene el Viejo NickÃƒÂ¢Ã‚â‚¬Ã‚Â¦ Para su madre, la Habitacion es el cubiculo donde lleva siete aÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â±os encerrada. Con gran teson e ingenio, ha creado en ese reducido espacio una vida para su hijo, y su amor por el es lo unico que le permite soportar lo insoportable. Pero la curiosidad de uno crece a la par que la desesperacion de la otra. Solo queda urdir la huido, un plan mas arriesgado de lo que ambos puedan imaginar.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/858'),
(2212, 'Rose Madder', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n After 14 years of being beaten, Rose Daniels wakes up one morning and leaves her husband -- but she keeps looking over her shoulder, because Norman has the instincts of a predator. And what is the strange work of art that has Rose in a kind of spell? In this brilliant dark-hued fable of the gender wars, Stephen King has fashioned yet another suspense thriller to keep readers right at the edge.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated, this cat-and-mouse game of a novel is one of King''s most engrossing and topical horror stories. At the center of the action is heroine Rose McClendon, a battered wife who starts life anew by leaving her police officer husband, a consummately cruel man depicted by King as a paragon of evil. Crowded with character and incident, the novel builds to a nearly apocalyptic conclusion that combines the best of King''s long novels?the breadth of vision of The Stand, for example?with the focused plot and careful psychological portraiture of Dolores Claiborne. The story of Rose''s joyous growth from tortured wife (her persecution gruesomely but realistically portrayed) to independent woman alternates with the terrifying details of her husband''s deliberate pursuit to create unflagging tension. The book is a phantasmagorical roller-coaster ride, peopled by a broad array of indelibly characterized men and women and fueled by an air of danger that is immediate and overwhelming. 1.75 million first printing; BOMC main selection; simultaneous Penguin Audio; paperback sale to Signet.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/545'),
(2213, 'Roses Are Red', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Roses Are Red\n </em>\n , James Patterson''s sixth Alex Cross thriller, opens with the District of Columbia detective attempting to mend his nearly unraveled family. The year-long kidnapping of one''s intended (1999''s\n <em>\n  Pop Goes the Weasel\n </em>\n ) will do that to a relationship. Christine, the kidnappee, is amenable with one reasonable condition: that her family''s horizon remain uncluttered by homicidal maniacs. How unfortunate, then, that the joyous christening of their newborn son is rudely interrupted by the FBI bearing news of several heinous murders requiring the attention of detective (and doctor of psychology) Cross.\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "Three-year-old boy, the father, a nanny," Kyle said one more time before he left the party. He was about to go through the door in the sun porch when he turned to me and said, "You''re the right person for this. They murdered a family, Alex."\n </p>\n <p>\n  As soon as Kyle was gone, I went looking for Christine. My heart sank. She had taken Alex and left without saying good-bye, without a single word.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Which leaves Cross free to hunt the Mastermind, the barbarous brains behind a widening series of bank robberies in which employees or their family members are held hostage and, when instructions aren''t followed to the finest iota, slaughtered. Given the cases'' glaring and unfathomable inhumanity, Cross''s long- time DCPD partner (the wonderful giant, John Sampson) gives way to the warm, attractive, and fiercely intelligent FBI Agent Betsey Cavalierre.\n</p>\n<p>\n The longer and harder Cross and Cavalierre remain on his trail, the bolder and more brutal--and shiveringly close to home--the Mastermind''s strikes become. And, thanks mostly to lightning-short paragraphs and a point of view that rappels from the first-person Cross to the third-person Mastermind, the tale progresses at hot-trot speed to a bona fide doozy of a denouement. It''ll be over before you know it, so sit back, hold your breath, and enjoy the show. And stay tuned for the next one.\n <em>\n  --Michael Hudson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alex Cross is backAand that alone will have this novel crowning bestseller lists, a feat Patterson''s books have achieved often of late, both his Cross (Pop Goes the Weasel) and non-Cross (Cradle and All) thrillers. Patterson won an Edgar for his first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, but he hasn''t won one since. One reason is that his prose, though sturdy as a trusted rowboat, is just as wooden; another is that his plottingAhere detailing Washington, D.C., homicide detective Cross''s pursuit of a crazed but crafty homicidal criminal known as the MastermindAis about as sophisticated as that of a Frank and Joe Hardy tale. So why are the Cross novels so popular? In part because Patterson constructs them out of short, simple sentences, paragraphs and chapters that practically define the brisk, fun, E-Z read, and in part because, here and elsewhere, he engages in the smart and unusual tactic of alternating third- and first-person (from Cross''s POV) narrative. Mostly, though, readers adore them because Cross is such a lovable hero, a family-oriented African-American whose compassion warmly balances the icy cruelty of Patterson''s villains and their sometimes graphically depicted crimes (as is the case here). In the new novel, Cross suffers lady problems as his old love, who''s in terror of Cross''s job, leaves him, and he fumbles toward a new romance with an FBI agent; he also suffers personal trauma as his beloved daughter develops a brain tumor. That''s back-burner action, though. The main focus here is, first, on a series of shocking Mastermind-engineered bank robbery/kidnappings involving wanton killings and, second, on the hunt to ID the MastermindAa hunt both absorbing and annoying for its several (rather smelly) red herrings, and concluding with a revelation that screams sequel. While there''s nothing subtle in this novel, every blatant element is packaged for maximum effect: roses may be red, but Patterson''s newest is green all the way. U.K. and translation rights, Arthur Pine Associates. 1.25 million first printing; Literary Guild and Doubleday Direct main selections; simultaneous Random House large-print edition and Time Warner Audio. (Nov.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/366'),
(2214, 'Rough Weather', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Hired as a bodyguard at an exclusive society wedding, Spenser witnesses an unexpected crime: the kidnapping of the young bride, which opens the door for murder, family secrets, and the reappearance of an old nemesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1140'),
(2215, 'Royal Assassin', 'Robin Hobb &amp; Stephen Youll &amp; John Howe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Continuing in the tradition of her first book (Assassin''s Apprentice) Hobb propels the Farseer saga into its second installment with irresistible plotting and memorable characters. Fitz is a trained assassin in the service of King Shrewd and also the king''s illegitimate grandson. He is sworn to protect heir to the throne Prince Verity and Verity''s new bride, but his task is complicated by an invasion of vicious barbarians who turn helpless captives into zombie-like Forged Ones. The home front is no safer, with an ailing King and usurpers to the throne waiting in the wings. Romance, sibling rivalry, battlefield exploits, betrayal, political intrigue and telepathic magic insure that there''s never a dull moment in the Kingdom of the Six Duchies. Through deft description and characterizations, Hobb manages to create a kingdom that looks like a fairy tale but feels like the real world?which makes it almost impossible not to become immersed in Hobb''s fantasy epic. The ending clamors for a sequel-and hopefully sooner, than later.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Second entry in Hobb''s fantasy series about the Six Duchies and their Farseer kings (Assassin''s Apprentice, 1995). At Buckkeep, King Shrewd lies dying, attended only the by the faithful, enigmatic Fool; King in Waiting Verity spends all his time Skilling to befuddle and bemuse the dreaded Red Ship Raiders, while his beautiful, neglected wife, Kettricken, wanders disconsolately. Young FitzChivalry, still ailing after his previous mission, tries to serve both Shrewd and Verity while seeking ways to frustrate the vaulting ambitions of Shrewd''s youngest son, the viperous Prince Regal. Shrewd, meantime, has forbidden poor Fitz to marry his beloved Molly, a commoner. Fitz also possesses the Wit, an ability to talk to and empathize with animals, and he bonds with a young wolf he rescues from cruel captivity. Verity builds his own warships, but still can''t defeat the Raiders--and the weaker Verity grows, the more the people listen to Regal''s treacherous murmurings. Finally, Verity goes into the mountains seeking the Elderlings, a godlike race that helped a previous Farseer king to defeat the Raiders, leaving Fitz to protect Kettricken and Shrewd. Another spellbinding installment, built of patient detail, believable characters, and mature plotting--though, at an unwarranted 608 pages, there are ominous signs that Hobb''s beginning to lose control of her narrative. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/579'),
(2216, 'The Ruins', 'Scott Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1993, Scott Smith wowed readers with\n <em>\n  A Simple Plan\n </em>\n , his stunning debut thriller about what happens when three men find a wrecked plane and bag stuffed with over 4 million dollars--a book that Stephen King called "Simply the best suspense novel of the year!" Now, thirteen years after writing a novel that turned into a pretty great movie featuring Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton, Smith is back, with\n <em>\n  The Ruins\n </em>\n , a horror-thriller about four Americans traveling in Mexico who stumble across a nightmare in the jungle. Who better to tell readers if Smith has done it again than the undisputed King of Horror (and champion of Smith''s first book)? We asked Stephen King to read\n <em>\n  The Ruins\n </em>\n and give us his take. Check out his review below.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Stephen King\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Stephen King is the author of too many bestselling books to name here, but some of our favorites include:\n  <em>\n   Cell\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Stand\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   On Writing\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Shining\n  </em>\n  , and the entire Dark Tower series. King also received the National Book Foundation 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, has had many  movies and television miniseries adapted from his novels, short stories, and screenplays, and is a regular columnist for\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  . Keep your eyes peeled for\n  <em>\n   Lisey''s Story\n  </em>\n  (October 2006), a new television series on TNT based on *Nightmares &amp; Dreamscapes * (July 2007), and a graphic novel series based on the Dark Tower books coming from Marvel (2007).\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n When I heard that Scott Smith was publishing a new novel this summer, I felt the way I did when my kids came in an hour or two late from their weekend dates: a combination of welcoming relief (thank God you''re back) mingled with exasperation and anger (where the hell have you been?). Well, it''s only a book, you say, and maybe that''s true, but Scott Smith is a singularly gifted writer, and it seems to me that the twelve years between his debut--the cult smash\n <em>\n  A Simple Plan\n </em>\n --and his return this summer with\n <em>\n  The Ruins\n </em>\n is cause for exasperation, if not outright anger. Certainly Smith, who has been invisible save for his Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film version of\n <em>\n  A Simple Plan\n </em>\n , will have some ''splainin to do about how he spent his summer vacation. Make that his last twelve summer vacations.\n</p>\n<p>\n But enough. The new book is here, and the question devotees of\n <em>\n  A Simple Plan\n </em>\n will want answered is whether or not this book generates anything like\n <em>\n  Plan\n </em>\n ''s harrowing suspense. The answer is yes.\n <em>\n  The Ruins\n </em>\n is going to be America''s literary shock-show this summer, doing for vacations in Mexico what Jaws did for beach weekends on Long Island. Is it as successful and fulfilling as a novel? The answer is not quite, but I can live with that, because it''s riskier. There will be reviews of this book by critics who have little liking or understanding for popular fiction who''ll dismiss it as nothing but a short story that has been bloated to novel length (I''m thinking of Michiko Kakutani, for instance, who microwaved Smith''s first book). These critics, who steadfastly grant pop fiction no virtue but raw plot, will miss the dazzle of Smith''s technique;\n <em>\n  The Ruins\n </em>\n is the equivalent of a triple axel that just misses perfection because something''s wrong with the final spin.\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s hard to say much about the book without giving away everything, because the thing is as simple and deadly as a leg-hold trap concealed in a drift of leavesâ€¦or, in this case, a mass of vines. You''ve got four young American tourists--Eric, Jeff, Amy, and Stacy--in Cancun. They make friends with a German named Mathias whose brother has gone off into the jungle with some archeologists. These five, plus a cheerful Greek with no English (but a plentiful supply of tequila), head up a jungle trail to find Mathias''s brotherâ€¦the archaeologistsâ€¦and the ruins.\n</p>\n<p>\n Well, two out of three ain''t bad, according to the old saying, and in this case; what''s waiting in the jungle isn''t just bad, it''s horrible. Most of\n <em>\n  The Ruins\n </em>\n ''s 300-plus pages is one long, screaming close-up of that horror. There''s no let-up, not so much as a chapter-break where you can catch your breath. I felt that\n <em>\n  The Ruins\n </em>\n did draw on a trifle, but I found Scott Smith''s refusal to look away heroic, just as I did in A Simple Plan. It''s the trappings of horror and suspense that will make the book a best seller, but its claim to literature lies in its unflinching naturalism. It''s no\n <em>\n  Heart of Darkness\n </em>\n , but at its suffocating, terrifying, claustrophobic best, it made me think of Frank Norris. Not a bad comparison, at that.\n</p>\n<p>\n One only hopes Mr. Smith won''t stay away so long next time.\n <em>\n  --Stephen King\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Four American tourists vacationing in Cancun make friends with a German traveler and join the hunt for his brother, who has mysteriously vanished after following a new flame to an archeological site. But inadequate planning, horrendous conditions and unforeseen dangers quickly turn this jungle adventure into a fight for survival. The novel itself is creepy, compelling and simple in scope, but the audiobook adaptation doesn''t quite succeed in relating the feeling of dread the text imparts. Wilson reads in an assured (if somewhat flat) voice in the tenor range, but his tone often seems too light to properly convey the novel''s dark and foreboding mood. He also doesn''t do much to differentiate between the characters; although Smith has characters who feel very real and distinct, listeners could have used more help from the narrator to distinguish one point-of-view from the next. A book like this oneâ€”which presents the story from several different POVsâ€”would have benefited from a team of talented narrators to help bring the narrative to life. Regrettably, Wilson goes it alone, delivering a sufficient but mediocre performance.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/266'),
(2217, 'The Runaway Jury', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Millions of dollars are at stake in a huge tobacco-company case in Biloxi, and the jury''s packed with people who have dirty little secrets. A mysterious young man takes subtle control of the jury as the defense watches helplessly, but they soon realize that he in turn is controlled by an even more mysterious young woman. Lives careen off course as they bend everyone in the case to their will.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grisham is either remarkably prescient or just plain lucky; because with public concerns about the tobacco companies heating up, and two major nonfiction books currently garnering a lot of attention, he has come up with a tobacco-suit novel that lights up the courtroom. In a Mississippi Gulf Coast town, the widow of a lifelong smoker who died prematurely of lung cancer is suing Big Tobacco. Enter Rankin Fitch, a dark genius of jury fixing, who has won many such trials for the tobacco companies and who foresees no special problems here. Enter also a mysterious juror, Nicholas Easter, whom Fitch''s army of jury investigators and manipulators can''t quite seem to track-and his equally mysterious girlfriend Marlee, who soon shows Fitch she knows even more about what''s happening in the jury room than he does. The details of jury selection are fascinating and the armies of lawyerly hangers-on and overpaid consultants that surround such potentially profitable (to either side) cases are horribly convincing. The cat-and-mouse game played between Nicholas, Marlee and Fitch over the direction of the jury quickly becomes hair-raising as the stakes inch ever higher. As usual with Grisham, the writing is no more than workmanlike, the characterizations are alternatively thin and too broad, but all is redeemed by his patented combination of expertise and narrative drive. What makes The Runaway Jury his most rewarding novel to date is that it is fully enlisted in an issue of substance, in which arguments of genuine pith are hammered out and resolved in a manner that is both intellectually and emotionally satisfying. It''s a thriller for people who think, and Jesse Helms won''t like it one bit. First printing of 2.8 million; major ad/promo; Literary Guild main selection. (May) ~ Mystery\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/727'),
(2218, 'Running Blind', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jack Reacher is back, dragged into what looks like a series of grisly serial murders by a team of FBI profilers who aren''t totally sure he''s not the killer they''re looking for, but believe that even if he isn''t, he''s smart enough to help them find the real killer. And what they''ve got on the ex-MP, who''s starred in three previous Lee Child thrillers (\n <em>\n  Tripwire\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Die Trying\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Killing Floor\n </em>\n ), is enough to ensure his grudging cooperation: phony charges stemming from Reacher''s inadvertent involvement in a protection shakedown and the threat of harm to the woman he loves.\n</p>\n<p>\n The killer''s victims have only one thing in common--all of them brought sexual harassment charges against their military superiors and all resigned from the army after winning their cases. The manner, if not the cause, of their deaths is gruesomely the same: they died in their own bathtubs, covered in gallons of camouflage paint, but they didn''t drown and they weren''t shot, strangled, poisoned, or attacked. Even the FBI forensic specialists can''t figure out why they seem to have gone willingly to their mysterious deaths. Reacher isn''t sure whether the killings are an elaborate cover-up for corruption involving stolen military hardware or the work of a maniac who''s smart enough to leave absolutely no clues behind. This compelling, iconic antihero dead-ends in a lot of alleys before he finally figures it out, but every one is worth exploring and the suspense doesn''t let up for a second. The ending will come as a complete surprise to even the most careful reader, and as Reacher strides off into the sunset, you''ll wonder what''s in store for him in his next adventure.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jack Reacher, the wandering folk hero of Child''s superb line of thrillers (Tripwire, etc.), faces a baffling puzzle in his latest adventure: who is the exceptionally crafty villain murdering women across the country, leaving the naked bodies in their bathtubs (which are filled with army camouflage green paint), escaping the scenes and leaving no trace of evidence? The corpses show no cause of death and Reacher''s sole clue is that all the victims thus far were sexually harassed while serving in the military. There''s got to be some sort of grand scheme behind the killings, but with no physical evidence, FBI agents bumble around until they finally question Reacher, a former military cop who handled each of the dead women''s harassment cases. After Reacher convinces investigators he''s innocent, theyAcuriouslyAask him to stay on as a case consultant. Reacher doesn''t like the ideaAhe''s too much of a lone wolfAbut he has little choice. The feds threaten him and his girlfriend, high-powered Manhattan attorney Jodie Jacob, with all sorts of legal entanglements if he doesn''t help. So Reacher joins the FBI team and immediately attacks the feds'' approach, which is based solely on profiling. Then he breaks out on his own, pursuing enigmatic theories and hunches that lead him to a showdown with a truly surprising killer in a tiny village outside Portland, Ore. Some of the concluding elements to Child''s fourth Reacher outingAhow the killer gains access to the victims'' homes, as well as the revelation of the elaborate MOAfall into place with disappointing convenience. Yet the book harbors two elements that separate it from the pack: a brain-teasing puzzle that gets put together piece by fascinating piece, and a central character with Robin Hood-like integrity and an engagingly eccentric approach to life.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/965'),
(2219, 'The Running Man', 'Stephen King &amp; Richard Bachman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) crafted\n <em>\n  The Running Man\n </em>\n early in his career, though after such mega-hits as\n <em>\n  Carrie\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Shining\n </em>\n . A bit of a departure from the supernatural horror that is most frequently associated with his work, the novel describes a science fiction dystopia where market capitalism and television game shows have spiraled out of control, and the separation between the haves and the have-nots has been formalized with separate currencies. King establishes characters quickly, creating sympathy in the first few pages for Ben Richards--whose 18-month-old baby girl is suffering from a horrible cough, perhaps pneumonia. Not able to afford medicine, Richards enters himself in the last-chance money-making scheme of the Free-Vee games. The games include\n <em>\n  Treadmill to Bucks\n </em>\n , in which heart-attack prone contestants struggle to outlast a progressively demanding treadmill, or the accurately named\n <em>\n  Swim the Crocodiles\n </em>\n . After a rigorous battery of physical and mental examinations, Richards is assigned "Elevator Six"--the path of a chosen few--that leads to\n <em>\n  The Running Man\n </em>\n game. In this game, the stakes and the prizes are raised. Success means a life of luxury. Failure means death. Unfortunately, few ever win the game; in fact, as the producer tells Richards, in six years no one has survived.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Running Man\n </em>\n is a short book, tightly written to be read and enjoyed quickly. The future world it depicts is vividly captured with a few essential details. The action is also fast paced and, though the novel differs from much of King''s other work, the sardonic social commentary reveals a pleasing glimmer of King''s characteristically twisted sense of humor.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Merely by tickling the keys of his word-processor King can make the flesh creep half a world away'' -- The Times ''Stephen King is one of those natural storytellers...getting hooked is easy'' -- Frances Fyfield, Express ''An incredibly gifted writer, whose writing, like Truman Capote''s, is so fluid that you often forget that you''re reading'' -- Guardian\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/977'),
(2220, 'S Is for Silence', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kinsey Millhone has kept her appeal by being distinctive and sympathetic without craving center stage. While some mysteries that provide the PI''s shoe size or most despised food create a forced and intrusive intimacy, a master like Grafton makes the relationship relaxed and reassuring. Millhone''s life is modest and familiar, though her love life, now featuring police detective Cheney Phillips, tends to be oddly remote. This 19th entry (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  R Is for Ricochet\n </em>\n ) adopts a new convention: Millhone''s customary intelligent and occasionally self-deprecating first-person reportage is interrupted by vignettes from the days surrounding the Fourth of July, 34 years earlier, when a hot-blooded young woman named Violet Sullivan disappeared. Violet''s daughter, Daisy, who was seven at the time, hires Millhone to discover her mother''s true fate. Violet had toyed with every man in town at one time or another, so there''s no shortage of scandalous secrets and possible suspects. Constant revelations concerning several absorbing characters allow a terrific tension to build. However, the utterly illogical and oddly abrupt ending undermines what is otherwise one of the stronger offerings in this iconic series.\n <em>\n  One million first printing; Literary Guild, BOMC and Mystery Guild main selection. (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grafton''s determined march through the criminal alphabet puts readers within striking distance of the end, a destination no Grafton fan wants to reach. The latest in the lexicon should really be * C Is for Cold Case\n <em>\n  , since it involves a disappearance that took place nearly 35 years in the past. (Although the alphabet keeps progressing, Grafton''s heroine, Kinsey Millhone, is still in her late 30s and, given her high-fat eating habits, probably wouldn''t have survived to be a sleuth in her 60s.) The daughter of a really neglectful mother (who could have starred in * I Is for Issues\n </em>\n ) has been haunted by her mother''s disappearance from a Fourth of July celebration when the daughter was only three years old. Part of the intrigue from this case comes from Grafton''s sensitive portrayal of the psychological consequences of neglect. Boldly departing from the conventions of victim fiction, Grafton portrays the daughter as sniveling and annoying as well as desperate. Millhone doesn''t have much hope for the case but starts digging (it''s fascinating in itself to see how Millhone flounders and flounders until she finds a crack in the case). Grafton juxtaposes flashbacks to 1953, when the mother disappeared, with the current investigation, giving different points of view on the woman. Although she gives us a bit too much of Millhone''s eating and living habits (probably in response to fan enthusiasm), this novel also presents strong character portrayals, a mosaic of motives, and a stunning climax.\n <em>\n  Connie Fletcher\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/683');
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(2221, 'Safe Haven', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo''s empathic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nicholas Sparks is the author of 15 books. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and children. You can visit the author''s web site at www. nicholassparks.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1061'),
(2222, 'Salem&#39;s Lot', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen King''s second book,\n <em>\n  ''Salem''s Lot\n </em>\n (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem''s Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker''s Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel,\n <em>\n  ''Salem''s Lot\n </em>\n is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it''s also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In\n <em>\n  ''Salem''s Lot\n </em>\n , the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, ''What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?'' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets,\n <em>\n  Bag of Bones\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Fiona Webster\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Grand Rapids Press\n </em>\n Spine-tingling fiction at its best.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Chattanooga Times\n </em>\n A novel of chilling, unspeakable evil.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n A super exorcism...tremendous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/546'),
(2223, 'Salvation in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Holy communion spells death for Fr. Miguel Flores, a popular Catholic priest in New York City''s Spanish Harlem, after he swallows wine laced with cyanide during a funeral in bestseller Robb''s unusually introspective 27th crime thriller to feature Lt. Eve Dallas (after\n <em>\n  Strangers in Death\n </em>\n ). The ensuing homicide investigation suggests that Flores could actually be Lino Martinez, a former member of a disbanded gang, the Soldados, suspected of two bombings before he disappeared. The death by cyanide of another religious figure, Jimmy Jay Jenkins, founder of the Church of Eternal Light, complicates matters. Are the two murders connected? Sussing out the answer to that question involves some serious digging. Dallas''s husband, Roarke, and fun sidekick, Det. Delia Peabody, lend support. Robb offers a multilayered solution to several crimes that serves as yet another reminder that wolves sometimes hide in sheep''s (or priest''s) clothing, but justice, like faith, has no expiration date.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Eve Dallas series of near-future mysteries rolls comfortably along in this latest installment, the twenty-ninth. The series began in 1995 so the author can fairly be accused of cranking them out (sheâ€™s also published a book or two under her real name, Nora Roberts). Despite being a lesser product of the Roberts machine, the Dallas novels have a certain charm, in a mass-produced kind of way. The near-future setting (the mid-twenty-first century) is nicely realized without being too excessively detailed; the protagonist, homicide detective Dallas, is a likable and strong character, well able to support a multivolume series; and the casesâ€”including this one, about a murder in an ancient church, the aftermath of which reveals that the victim might not have been the gentle Catholic priest his parishioners thought he wasâ€”are imaginative and suspenseful. The dialogue is a little clumsy, and the narrative passages sometimes seem a bit contrived, but thereâ€™s a reason so many Dallas novels have appeared in so short a time: they sell. So will this one. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1106'),
(2224, 'Sarah&#39;s Key', 'Tatiana de Rosnay', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  De Rosnay''s U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the VÃ©lodrome d''Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand TÃ©zac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the VÃ©l'' d''Hiv'' roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand''s family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discoversâ€”especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to surviveâ€”the more she uncovers about Bertrand''s family, about France and, finally, herself. Already translated into 15 languages, the novel is De Rosnay''s 10th (but her first written in English, her first language). It beautifully conveys Julia''s conflicting loyalties, and makes Sarah''s trials so riveting, her innocence so absorbing, that the book is hard to put down.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is a remarkable historical novel, a book which brings to light a disturbing and deliberately hidden aspect of French behavior towards Jews during World War II.Â  Like\n  <em>\n   Sophie''s Choice\n  </em>\n  , it''s a book that impresses itself upon one''s heart and soul forever.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Naomi Ragen, author of\n  <em>\n   The Saturday Wife\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Covenant\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  â€œSarah''s Key unlocks the star crossed, heart thumping story of an American journalist in Paris and theÂ 60-year-old secret that could destroy her marriage.Â  This book will stay on your mind long after it''s back on the shelf.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Risa Miller, author of\n  <em>\n   Welcome to Heavenly Heights\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1112'),
(2225, 'The Satanic Verses', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie''s\n  <em>\n   The Satanic Verses\n  </em>\n  , which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie''s powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Banned in India before publication, this immense novel by Booker Prize-winner Rushdie ( Midnight''s Children ) pits Good against Evil in a whimsical and fantastic tale. Two actors from India, "prancing" Gibreel Farishta and "buttony, pursed" Saladin Chamcha, are flying across the English Channel when the first of many implausible events occurs: the jet explodes. As the two men plummet to the earth, "like titbits of tobacco from a broken old cigar," they argue, sing and are transformed. When they are found on an English beach, the only survivors of the blast, Gibreel has sprouted a halo while Saladin has developed hooves, hairy legs and the beginnings of what seem like horns. What follows is a series of allegorical tales that challenges assumptions about both human and divine nature. Rushdie''s fanciful language is as concentrated and overwhelming as a paisley pattern. Angels are demonic and demons are angelic as we are propelled through one illuminating episode after another. The narrative is somewhat burdened by self-consciousness that borders on preciosity, but for Rushdie fans this is a splendid feast. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo; first serial to Harper''s; BOMC alternate; QPBC alternate; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1070'),
(2226, 'A Savage Place', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spenser''s job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story of her career. But her star witness has just bowed out with three bullets in his chest, two tough guys have doubled up to test Spenser''s skill with his fists, and Candy is about to use her own sweet body as live bait in a deadly romantic game--a game that may cost Spenser his life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1161'),
(2227, 'A Scanner Darkly', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick''s hugely influential SF stories.\n <em>\n  A Scanner Darkly\n </em>\n cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick''s own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. Nevertheless, it''s blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the time when as a boy he discovered masturbation.) The antihero Bob Arctor is forced by his double life into warring double personalities: as futuristic narcotics agent "Fred," face blurred by a high-tech scrambler, he must spy on and entrap suspected drug dealer Bob Arctor. His disintegration under the influence of the insidious Substance D is genuine tragicomedy. For Arctor there''s no way off the addict''s downward escalator, but what awaits at the bottom is a kind of redemption--there are more wheels within wheels than we suspected, and his life is not entirely wasted.\n <em>\n  --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n America in the near future has lost the war against drugs. Though the government tries to protect the upper class, the system is infested with undercover cops like Fred, who regularly ingests the popular Substance D as part of his ruse. The drug has caused Fred to develop a split personality, of which he is not aware; his alter ego is Bob, a drug dealer. Fred''s superiors then set up a hidden holographic camera in his home as part of a sting operation against Bob. Though he appears on camera as Bob, none of Fred''s co-workers catch on: since Fred, like all undercover police, wears a scramble suit that constantly changes his appearance, his colleagues don''t know what he looks like. The camera in Fred/Bob''s apartment reveals that Bob''s intimates regularly betray one another for the chance to score more drugs. Even Donna, a young dealer whom Bob/Fred loves, prefers the drug to human contact. Originally published in 1977, the out-of-print novel comes frighteningly close to capturing the U.S. in 1991, in terms of the drug crisis and the relationships between the sexes. But the unrelenting scenes among the addicts make it a grueling read.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/842'),
(2228, 'The Scar', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the third book in an astounding, genre-breaking run, China MiÃ©ville expands the horizon beyond the boundaries of New Crobuzon, setting sail on the high seas of his ever-growing world of Bas Lag.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Scar\n </em>\n begins with MiÃ©ville''s frantic heroine, Bellis Coldwine, fleeing her beloved New Crobuzon in the peripheral wake of events relayed in\n <em>\n  Perdidio Street Station\n </em>\n . But her voyage to the colony of Nova Esperium is cut short when she is shanghaied and stranded on Armada, a legendary floating pirate city. Bellis becomes the reader''s unbelieving eyes as she reluctantly learns to live on the gargantuan flotilla of stolen ships populated by a rabble of pirates, mercenaries, and press-ganged refugees. Meanwhile, Armada and Bellis''s future is skippered by the "Lovers," an enigmatic couple whose mirror-image scarring belies the twisted depth of their passion. To give up any more of MiÃ©villeâ€™s masterful plot here would only ruin the voyage through dangerous straits, political uprisings, watery nightmares, mutinous revenge, monstrous power plays, and grand aspirations.\n</p>\n<p>\n MiÃ©ville''s skill in articulating brilliantly macabre and involving descriptions is paralleled only by his ability to set up world-moving plot twists that continually blow away the reader''s expectations. Man-made mutations, amphibious aliens, transdimensional beings, human mosquitoes, and even vampires are merely neighbors, coworkers, friends, and enemies coexisting in the dizzying tapestry of diversity that is Armada.\n <em>\n  The Scar\n </em>\n proves MiÃ©ville has the muscle and talent to become a defining force as he effortlessly transcends the usual clichÃ©s of the genre.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this stand-alone novel set in the same monster-haunted universe as last year''s much-praised Perdido Street Station, British author Mieville, one of the most talented new writers in the field, takes us on a gripping hunt to capture a magical sea-creature so large that it could snack on Moby Dick, and that''s just for starters. Armada, a floating city made up of the hulls of thousands of captured vessels, travels slowly across the world of Bas-Lag, sending out its pirate ships to prey on the unwary, gradually assembling the supplies and captive personnel it needs to create a stupendous work of dark magic. Bellis Coldwine, an embittered, lonely woman, exiled from the great city of New Crobuzon, is merely one of a host of people accidentally trapped in Armada''s far-flung net, but she soon finds herself playing a vital role in the byzantine plans of the city''s half-mad rulers. The author creates a marvelously detailed floating civilization filled with dark, eccentric characters worthy of Mervyn Peake or Charles Dickens, including the aptly named Coldwine, a translator who has devoted much of her life to dead languages; Uther Doul, the superhuman soldier/scholar who refuses to do anything more than follow orders; and Silas Fennec, the secret agent whose perverse magic has made him something more and less than human. Together they sail through treacherous, magic-ridden seas, on a quest for the Scar, a place where reality mutates and all things become possible. This is state-of-the-art dark fantasy and a likely candidate for any number of award nominations. (July 2). Forecast: Perdido Street Station won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award. A major publicity push including a six-city author tour should help win new readers in the U.S.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/395'),
(2229, 'The Scarecrow', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the LA Times, he''s got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang - a final story that will win the newspaper journalism''s highest honour - a Pulitzer prize. Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. But as Jack delves into the story he soon realises that Alonzo''s so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a killer known as The Scarecrow who has worked completely below the police and FBI radar.Jack is soon off and running on the biggest story he''s had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before - but The Scarecrow knows he''s coming...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/899'),
(2230, 'The Scarlet Letter', 'Nathaniel Hawthorne &amp; Nancy Stade', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Scarlet Letter\n </em>\n , by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars\n </li>\n <li>\n  Biographies of the authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events\n </li>\n <li>\n  Footnotes and endnotes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work\n </li>\n <li>\n  Comments by other famous authors\n </li>\n <li>\n  Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bibliographies for further reading\n </li>\n <li>\n  Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Americaâ€™s first psychological novel, Nathaniel Hawthorneâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Scarlet Letter\n </em>\n is a dark tale of love, crime, and revenge set in colonial New England. It revolves around a single, forbidden act of passion that forever alters the lives of three members of a small Puritan community: Hester Prynne, an ardent and fierce woman who bears the punishment of her sin in humble silence; the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a respected public figure who is inwardly tormented by long-hidden guilt; and the malevolent Roger Chillingworth, Hesterâ€™s husbandâ€”a man who seethes with an Ahab-like lust for vengeance.\n</p>\n<p>\n The landscape of this classic novel is uniquely American, but the themes it explores are universalâ€”the nature of sin, guilt, and penitence, the clash between our private and public selves, and the spiritual and psychological cost of living outside society. Constructed with the elegance of a Greek tragedy,\n <em>\n  The Scarlet Letter\n </em>\n brilliantly illuminates the truth that lies deep within the human heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nancy Stade is trained as a lawyer and has worked in the federal government and the private sector. She currently lives in Mexico, where she is working on a novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/638'),
(2231, 'Scarpetta', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital s psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder . . . that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The one thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered and more violent deaths will follow. Gradually, an inexplicable and horrifying truth emerges: Whoever is committing the crimes knows where his prey is at all times. Is it a person, a government? And what is the connection between the victims?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the days that follow, Scarpetta; her forensic psychologist husband, Benton Wesley; and her niece, Lucy, who has recently formed her own forensic computer investigation firm in New York, will undertake a harrowing chase through cyberspace and the all-too-real streets of the city -- an odyssey that will take them at once to places they never knew, and much, much too close to home.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Throughout, Cornwell delivers shocking twists and turns, and the kind of cutting-edge technology that only she can provide. Once again, she proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   About the Author\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  PATRICIA CORNWELL s most recent bestsellers include\n  <em>\n   Book of the Dead, The Front,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed\n  </em>\n  . Her earlier works include\n  <em>\n   Postmortem\n  </em>\n  -- the only novel to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards and the French Prix du Roman d Aventure in a single year -- and\n  <em>\n   Cruel and Unusual,\n  </em>\n  which won Britain s prestigious Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 1993. Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for the best detective created by an American author.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/921'),
(2232, 'The Scarpetta Factor', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patricia Cornwell and James Patterson: Author One-on-One\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  In this Amazon exclusive, we brought together blockbuster authors Patricia Cornwell and James Patterson and asked them to interview each other. Find out what two of the top authors of their genres have to say about their characters, writing process, and more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  James Patterson is one of the bestselling writers of all time, with more than 170 million copies of his books sold worldwide. He is the author of two of the most popular detective series of the past decade, featuring Alex Cross and the Women''s Murder Club, and he also writes nonfiction and The Maximum Ride series for young readers. Read on to see James Patterson''s questions for Patricia Cornwell, or turn the tables to see what Cornwell asked Patterson.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patterson\n  </strong>\n  : Here''s a chance to say all the great things the critics would about\n  <em>\n   The Scarpetta Factor\n  </em>\n  , if there were any newspapers left that still reviewed books. Or, as they say in the TV interviews: Tell us about this one, Patricia.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cornwell\n  </strong>\n  : As was true in the last book (\n  <em>\n   Scarpetta\n  </em>\n  ), the new one is set in New York City, and it begins with Kay Scarpetta working on the autopsy of a young woman who presumably was murdered the night before in Central Park. While the apparent circumstances of the violent crime say one thing, the body is telling Scarpetta a very different and incredibly disturbing story that causes the prosecutor, the police, other officials, and even Scarpetta''s friends and colleagues, to wonder if she''s making mistakes or has begun to believe her own legend. While others are questioning and criticizing her, she begins to doubt herself and her decision to be the senior forensic analyst for CNNâ€”an exposure that possibly leads to her BlackBerry disappearing and a suspicious package being left for her at her apartment building. As the intrigue unfolds, the past is no longer past, and she is soon faced with an old nemesis who threatens to be her final undoing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patterson\n  </strong>\n  : This book is set in New York againâ€”what do you like about the Big City? What don''t you like?\n  <em>\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Cornwell\n  <em>\n   : Certainly New York City is the ultimate Big City. By placing Scarpetta in the midst of NYC within its medical examiner''s office, I''ve positioned her on an international stage where anything can and does happen. The machinery is huge (NYPD and the FBI field office, for example), yet the private lives of the characters remain intimate and small. Not only is this a big story about a big-city case that captivates the world, it''s also a very close look at the characters and who and what they are to one another in contemporary times. In terms of what I like and don''t like about NYC? The only thing I don''t like about it is driving there.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patterson\n  </strong>\n  : I often get asked what I have in common with Alex Cross. What would you say you have in common with Kay Scarpetta?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cornwell\n  </strong>\n  : Scarpetta and I share the same values and sensibilities. We approach cases the same way (which should be rather obvious, since I work the cases by taking on her persona). Beyond that, there are many differences. I''m not Catholic or Italian or married to Benton Wesley. I''m not a forensic pathologist with a law degree. I don''t have her emotional discipline or inhibitions, nor do I have her professional dazzle. (I always remind people I was an English major who started working at age eleven, first as a babysitter, then in food service!) I don''t have Scarpetta''s pedigree. But then, she isn''t a writer, unless she''s writing professional journal articles or autopsy reports.\n  <em>\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Patterson\n  <strong>\n   : What''s your routine like when it comes to writing? Do you do write every day? On the road? Do you need vacations from your writing?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cornwell\n  <strong>\n   : I wish I had more of a routine. I begin each book with research that continues up to the very end of the process. But gradually, as I approach the deadline, I sink deeper into seclusion until eventually I donâ€™t even answer e-mails or the phone anymore (unless it''s my partner, Staci). I just write morning, noon, and night. The pulling together and completion of a novel is so intense, I''m almost living out of body by the time I''m done. It''s the most wonderful and miserable experience imaginable. I would love a vacation but never seem to have time, and I doubt I''d know what to do if you made me "do nothing." In fact, Staci and I have a strange habit of going to foreign lands and visiting their police departments and morgues instead of just hanging out at the beach. I don''t write every day because I do so much research, and currently, I have many other responsibilities that keep me busier than ever (filming, involvement with forensic institutesâ€”just the business of life, for example).\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Patterson\n  <strong>\n   : What''s the best feedback you''ve had from a reader? Orâ€”what was the best piece of writing advice you''ve had?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cornwell\n  <strong>\n   : Frankly, the best feedback was when a reader complained some years ago that he wasnâ€™t sure I liked my characters anymore. And I thought about this and realized I wasnâ€™t sure I did, either. A horrible thing to realize. It was because the series had gone on for so long that it was time to reinvent the characters and their relationships with one another and the world they inhabit. I think this remake is most apparent in the last book,\n   <em>\n    Scarpetta\n   </em>\n   , and I am on a wonderful and invigorating new course that is even more evident in the new one,\n   <em>\n    The Scarpetta Factor\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Patterson\n  <strong>\n   : Bonus question: How do you feel about the Hollywood adaptations of your work? Don''t be afraidâ€”let it all hang out.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cornwell\n  <em>\n   : In the past, very disappointed, because the projects went nowhere. Now, so far so good. The first films (\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Lifetime\n  </em>\n  movies of\n  <em>\n   At Risk\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Front\n  </em>\n  , which are non-Scarpetta novellas) air this spring. I had a magnificent experience from beginning to end with the producers, actorsâ€”everyone. It''s way too early to talk about the 20th Century Fox project with Angelina Jolie, although who wouldn''t be excited about her?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n  <hr />\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Cornwell''s solid 17th thriller to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after\n  <em>\n   Scarpetta\n  </em>\n  ) finds Scarpettaâ€”who''s the senior forensic analyst for CNNâ€”probing the murder of a Central Park jogger as well as looking into the disappearance of Hannah Starr, a wealthy financial planner. Quizzed on-air about previously undisclosed details of the perplexing Starr case, Scarpetta realizes that the tentacles of the case reach further than she imagined. Her niece, forensic computer whiz Lucy Farinelli, has her own reasons for digging into Starr''s disappearance, along with Lucy''s girlfriend, New York County ADA Jaime Berger. NYPD Det. Pete Marino, another series staple, is also in the loop as a member of Berger''s task force. But it''s the dark past of Scarpetta''s psychologist husband, Benton Wesleyâ€”particularly his presumed death in\n  <em>\n   Point of Origin\n  </em>\n  and shocking reappearance five years later in\n  <em>\n   Blow Fly\n  </em>\n  â€”that binds the disparate pieces together and make this one of Cornwell''s stronger recent efforts.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1398'),
(2233, 'Scarpetta&#39;s Winter Table', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Not intended for serious cooks, but ideal for fastidious fans of Ms. Cornwell,\n  <em>\n   Scarpetta''s Winter Table\n  </em>\n  is perfect for the thrillerphile who has everything. This offbeat, 81-page novella takes you behind the scenes to Dr. Kay Scarpetta''s kitchen, where you''ll learn how to make her "Bad Mood Pasta Primavera," "Holiday Pizza," and "Childhood Key Lime Pie"--just to name a few. Along for the culinary festivities are the doctor''s trusty cohorts, Pete Marino, captain of the Richmond police department, and Scarpetta''s niece, Lucy. Both add their favorite concoctions, such as Marino''s "Cause-of-Death Eggnog" and Lucy''s "Friendly Grill." Those who have read Cornwell''s\n  <em>\n   Point of Origin\n  </em>\n  will find a double delight in\n  <em>\n   Winter Table\n  </em>\n  , as it''s amply stuffed with references from the bestselling thriller. However, recipe readers be warned: there are no measurements, exact lists of ingredients, or detailed cooking instructions. It reads like a short story, with vague descriptions of what each dish contains--the intent being that each person will make a slightly different version. This may be frustrating for a by-the-book cook, but flexible, freestyle chefs may find it''s just what the doctor ordered.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this bonbon, billed as a "special gift" from the author to her readers, popular Cornwell protagonist Dr. Kay Scarpetta is joined by Detective Peter Marino and niece Lucy Farinelli as they cook their way through a memorable Christmas. DAVIDSON, Diane Mott.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1399'),
(2234, 'School Days', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Lily EllsworthÂ—erect, firm, white-haired, and stylishÂ—is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and a bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark''s alleged involvement in a school shooting, Spenser is led into an inquiry that grows more harrowing at every turn. Though seven people were killed in cold blood, and despite Jared''s being named as a co-conspirator by the other shooter, Mrs. Ellsworth is convinced of her grandson''s innocence. Jared''s parents are resigned to his fate, and the boy himself doesn''t seem to care whether he goes to prison for a crime he might not have committed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the probe goes on, Spenser finds himself up against a number of roadblocksÂ—from the school officials who don''t want him asking questions, to Jared''s own parents, who are completely indifferent to the boy''s defense. Ultimately, Spenser discovers a web of blackmail and some heavy-duty indiscretionsÂ—and a truth too disturbing to contemplate. Before the case reaches its unfortunate end, he is forced to make a series of difficult decisionsÂ—with fatal consequences.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1137'),
(2235, 'Sea Change', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone faces the case of his career in the newest novel in the bestselling series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a woman''s partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it initially appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be an emotionally charged investigation. Florence Horvath was an attractive, recently divorced heiress from Florida; she also had a penchant for steamy sex and was an enthusiastic participant in a video depicting the same. Somehow the combination of her past and present got her killed, but no one is talking-not the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Lady Jane\n  </em>\n  , the Fort Lauderdale yacht moored in Paradise Harbor; not her very blond, very tan twin sisters, Corliss and Claudia; and not her curiously affectless parents, living out a sterile retirement in a Miami high rise. But someone-Jesse-has to speak for the dead, even if it puts him in harm''s way.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1147'),
(2236, 'The Sea of Monsters', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-9â€“In this sequel (Miramax Books, 2006) to Rick Riordan''s\n <em>\n  The Lightning Thief\n </em>\n (Hyperion, 2005; Listening Library, 2005) 13-year-old Percy is just finishing up his school year and is looking forward to another great summer at Camp Half-Blood with all the other demigods. But even before school ends, things start happening, and soon Percy is at camp along with Tyson, a homeless kid adopted by Percy''s school. At camp, Percy not only discovers that Tyson is a Cyclops and a son of Poseidon, which makes him Percy''s half-brother, but also that the camp is in trouble. There''s a quest to rescue Percy''s friend, Grover the satyr, and to retrieve the Golden Fleece. The plot zips along with plenty of action; lots of mythological monsters, titans, and gods; and a leavening of humor. Jesse Bernstein does a good job of giving Percy a youthful voice in this first-person narrative, while at the same time creating appropriate voices for the other characters. Listeners who have not read or listened to the first book in the projected trilogy will want to do so before the next installment is published.â€“\n <em>\n  Sarah Flowers, Santa Clara County Library, CA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 6-9. In this second adventure in Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Percy is anticipating the end of seventh grade and a summer at Camp Half-Blood with kids who are the offspring of Greek gods and mortals. He dreams that his pal Grover, a satyr, is in danger. After monsters attack in his school gym class, Percy and Tyson, a homeless kid, are picked up by Annabeth, a half-blood friend, and rushed to the camp, which is under attack. The tree that guards the camp is dying, and Chiron, the activity director, has been dismissed. Another dream reveals that Grover, whose peril is increasing, is on the same island as the legendary Golden Fleece, which may be the cure for the troubled camp. With the help of Hermes, Percy and his pals set off to the Sea of Monsters, where they encounter legendary dangers. Riordan''s clever mix of classical mythology, contemporary teen characters, and an action-packed adventure will bring new readers to the series.\n <em>\n  Diana Herald\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/271'),
(2237, 'Sea Swept', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n International best-selling author Nora Roberts presents the first in a quartet of a novels that deal with the lives and loves of four brothers living in Chesapeake Bay Cameron, Ethan and Philip were all troubled young boys who were rescued and adopted at difficult periods in their lives by the extraordinary couple, Raymond and Stella Quinn. Now grown and living on their own, the Quinn brothers must return to the family home on the Maryland shore, to honour their fathers last request. Sea Swept is Camerons story. Cameron has lived the reckless life of a daredevil since leaving the quiet community of Chesapeake Bay. He likes fast cars, fast boats and fast women. But when his dying father calls him home to care for Seth, a troubled young boy not unlike Cameron once was, his life changes overnight. After years of independence, Cameron has to learn to live with his brothers once again, while he struggles with taking care of a difficult teenager. Old rivalries and new resentments flare between Cameron and his brothers but they have to try and set aside their differences for Seths sake. Only Seths fate is in the hands of a tough but beautiful social worker. She alone has the power to bring the Quinns together - or tear them apart...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1610'),
(2238, 'Season of the MacHete', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Cool and glamorous, they could be a successful couple on a holiday. But Damian and Carrie Rose are psychopathic murderers for hire. Their new venue is a picture-perfect vacation island. Their adversary will be Peter Macdonald, the dashing young American who forsakes a life of leisure for a confrontation with cold-blooded terror. And risks everything only to discover that he alone suspects the hideous truth about... "Season of the Machete"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1748'),
(2239, 'Second Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Isaac Asimov''s Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity''s light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruinsâ€”destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first timeâ€”but now he is certain he knows where it lies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. They too want the Second Foundation destroyedâ€¦before it destroys them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/44'),
(2240, 'Secret Honor', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In Wolf''s Lair, a German general works toward the assassination of Adolf Hitler. In Buenos Aires, the general''s son, code-named Galahad, falls under suspicion by the SS after a Nazi operation suddenly goes bad. In the middle of it all is OSS agent Cletus Frade, who knows the identity of father and son and what they will do... if they can survive that long. For not only are SS and Abwehr officers hot on their trails in both countries, but the OSS has branded Frade a rogue agent and is determined to shake the truth from him, at whatever cost. If Frade can''t figure a way to hold them all off, then the futures of all three men may be very short indeed....\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  A World War II spy novel set in Argentina, featuring Cletus Frade, an OSS agent and heir to an oil fortune in Texas. Argentina is crawling with Nazis--their submarines refuel there--and some Nazis are prepared to spy for America in return for favors.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1534'),
(2241, 'Secret of Haunted Mesa', 'Phyllis A. Whitney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Living in the shadow of her famous sister, Jenny tries to get attention by intruding on the life of a recluse whose growing friendship makes her aware of the cultural conflict of the local Indians.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1577'),
(2242, 'Secret Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lucas Davenport returns -- in the most harrowing Prey of all.Everybody has his secrets. But some of them will get you killed. John Sandford has long been praised as "one of the most gifted thriller writers at work in this country or any other" (Richmond-Times Dispatch) -- but this time he surpasses himself.The company chairman lay on the cold ground of the woods, his eyes unseeing, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a rifle bullet at close range. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with his or her own complicated agenda, each with a reason not to be sorrowful about the man''s death. If he read it in a book, Lucas Davenport thought, it would seem like one of those classic murder mysteries, the kind where the detective gathers everyone together at the end and solves the case with a little speech.But it wasn''t going to be that easy, he knew. There were currents running through this group, hints and whispers of something much greater than the murderof a single man. He had felt this way not long before, sensed the curling of an indefinable evil, and not only had it nearly gotten him killed, it had lost him his fiancee, who''d never been able to recover from the violence of the encounter. Sometime soon, unless he could stop it, there would be another death, and then still another, and Davenport couldn''t help but wonder if maybe this time, the final death might not be his own....John Sandford has written extraordinar\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1731'),
(2243, 'Secrets of Lockpicking', 'Stephen Hampton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1508'),
(2244, 'Secrets of Paris', 'Luanne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Irresistible, long sought by readers, and now in paperback for the first time,\n  <em>\n   Secrets of Paris\n  </em>\n  shows\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Luanne Rice at her most incandescentâ€”a deeply moving story of true love, abiding friendship, and a once perfect marriage in precarious balance.\n  <br />\n </strong>\n <br />\n Lydie McBride has always embraced life to the fullest. But when an unthinkable tragedy strikes her family, everything she believes in is shattered. Her art-historian husband, Michael, watches the passion disappear from Lydieâ€™s eyes and from their marriage, and hopes an assignment to Paris will help them reclaim a love that once seemed unassailable. But the City of Lights holds secrets and seductions for them both, including the mysteries of an alluring Frenchwoman with whom Michael will work. And Lydieâ€™s unexpected friendship with two dramatically different women will enable her to find a new life. Will there be a place for the man with whom she always wanted to share that life . . . if she can find him again?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1916');
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(2245, 'Seduced by Moonlight', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The third novel in Laurell K. Hamilton''s Meredith Gentry series,\n <em>\n  Seduced by Moonlight\n </em>\n continues the story of Merry Gentry, a mortal Faerie princess hiding in L.A. Her aunt, the immortal and insane Queen of Air and Darkness, has ordered her to compete with her cousin, Prince Cel, in making a baby. Whoever produces a child first wins the throne of the Unseelie Court. But Merry still hasn''t conceived--and that''s not her only problem. Unknown assassins seek her life; her magical powers are becoming potent and uncontrollable; and her sadistic aunt has just commanded her to return to Faerie.\n</p>\n<p>\n Readers tired of mild modern fairy-tales about nice, polite elves may want to explore the Meredith Gentry series, which remembers that Faerie was originally a dark, dangerous realm of sex and violence. Hamilton''s Queen of Air and Darkness is a vicious killer and torturer, and many of her fay drink blood or practice kinky sex (or both). Under royal orders to bed many males, Merry is far from averse; she and several lovers hit the bedroom on page 8 of\n <em>\n  Seduced by Moonlight\n </em>\n and don''t emerge until page 175. There''s no shortage of sex, but not as much as the page count may indicate; the characters like to talk and sulk even more than they like to fornicate. The large cast and complicated backstory make this book the wrong starting point; newcomers should begin with the first novel,\n <em>\n  A Kiss of Shadows\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Cynthia Ward\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Considering all the complications, sexual and otherwise, that Merry Gentry, heir to the faerie throne, endured in A Kiss of Shadows (2000) and A Caress of Shadows (2002), it''s no surprise to find the start of Hamilton''s third book in her erotic fantasy series weighed down by attempts to conversationally recap earlier convolutions. Even readers of the first two books might have problems sorting out exactly why Merry is messing with the goblin king via magic mirror. Though the author maintains interest through such devices as an imaginative sex scene involving Merry, two of her sidhe studs and a doll-sized, winged, blood-sucking demi-fey, it takes a milieu switch from L.A. to St. Louis and the Unseelie court for the plot to take off and become a page turner. Merry confronts faerie politics that make Machiavelli look like a rookie, while her aunt''s sadistic madness leads to what must rank as one of the bloodier scenes of fictional slaughter. Since Merry''s previous role as a private eye has almost completely disappeared, nefarious deeds require magic to solve rather than detection. Hamilton''s trademark mix of the personal and emotional along with the sexual will as usual delight her fans. Add yet another tour de force ending, a new final total of 16 lustful sidhe male immortals with whom to couple (or triple or...), and a fair future is assured for Merry for at least another few books.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/595'),
(2246, 'Seduction in Death', 'J. D. Robb &amp; Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, continues her prolific string of hits with her latest installment in the In Death series of futuristic thrillers starring hard-boiled detective Eve Dallas and a quirky cast of characters, including Eve''s husband, Roarke, who owns most of Manhattan and can be relied upon to bring all his considerable resources to bear to help his wife solve the case whether she wants him to or not, and Peabody, Eve''s uptight assistant, who has an off-again, on-again thing going with the irreverent Officer McNab. This time Eve is on the trail of a serial killer--or maybe killers--who stalks young women looking for love in online poetry chat rooms. Once a romantic date has been arranged, the murderer sets the scene with roses, champagne, and candlelight, then serves his unsuspecting victims a lethal combination of date-rape drugs that takes them to the height of pleasure and too far beyond. But this killer is really clever, altering his look to become each victim''s dream date. What a nightmare! Detective Dallas is on the case, chasing an anonymous psychopath with a twisted taste in romance. But Eve seems a little more fragile this time around, still plagued by the nightmare of childhood abuse. Is retirement from the business of crime solving in the near future for Detective Dallas? Robb has found a winning formula in the genre, so hopefully we''ll see a lot more of peppery Eve Dallas.\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the 13th installment of Robb''s (aka Nora Roberts) futuristic In Death series (after Betrayal in Death), New York''s Lieutenant Eve Dallas takes on a Casanova killer who targets young women via on-line poetry chat rooms. The killer sets the mood for murder with rose petals, candlelight and expensive wine laced with a deadly date-rape drug. The novel opens (as others have in the past) with Eve reliving the horror of stabbing her abusive father to death. The narrative then switches to another grim scene that of a woman who has been pushed from a balcony. With the technology available in 2059, identifying the culprit should be simple, but this killer is more inventive than most: he becomes each victim''s fantasy man. To make Eve''s job even more difficult, a psychological profile indicates that there may be two killers or one with a multiple-personality disorder. Robb sprinkles her narrative with the usual supporting characters: Roarke, Eve''s rich husband, uses his state-of-the-art computers to assist her with the case; Peabody, Eve''s assistant, is still dancing a sexual tango with Officer McNab; and Roarke''s lofty but caring butler remains a thorn in Eve''s side. Although Robb''s energetic prose and hard-edged dialogue will keep readers engrossed, this installment offers little that is new or fresh. (Sept. 4)Forecast: Thirteen may very well be Robb''s unlucky number. Although the recent revelation that J.D. Robb is Nora Roberts will prompt many new readers to pick up the latest book in the series, Robb''s long-time fans may find that this well is running dry.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1092'),
(2247, 'The Seeress of Kell', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This final volume of the quintet begun with Guardians of the West finds Belgarion, the Child of Light, racing to his cataclysmic and long-prophesied meeting with Zandramas, Child of the Dark, which will determine the future of the world. His small band--consisting of, among others, his wife, Ce''Nedra; members of his shape-changing family; and his former enemy, Zakath, Emperor of Mallorea--is joined by Cyradis, the blind seeress of Kell, who is foreordained to decide which will win, the forces of Light or those of Dark. From the mysterious city of Kell they are directed to Perivor, bastion of chivalry, where they will learn the location of the meeting place, Korim, the Place Which Is No More. After various adventures and encounters with Zandramas''s agents, the final battle of wills is joined, with Belgarion becoming privy to astonishing revelations about some of his companions. This volume is not for a newcomer to Eddings''s series; while it ties up loose ends and brings the hero and his friends to a happy conclusion, the meeting that the previous four books have been foreshadowing is anticlimatic.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fifth and final chunk of Eddings''s enormous Good vs. Evil fantasy (most recently Sorceress of Darshiva, 1989). Finally, then, we have reached the showdown in the Place Which is No More. Cyradis, the blind title character, must choose between the Light (Garion''s candidate, Eriond the godlike) and the Dark (the evil sorceress Zandramas has selected Geran, Garion''s young son, as her representative). Naturally, the fate of the entire universe is at stake. The role of the good guys is to counter and neutralize the plots and deceptions of Zandramas, so that Cyriadis can make an honest choice. No prizes for guessing which she chooses. Various Gods, Orbs, dragons, and whatnots embroider the proceedings; Eddings''s usual jolly banter enlivens the dialogue; yet the showdown--promised through five long, long novels--amounts to nothing much. Fans and nonfans alike will rejoice that the series is concluded at last. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1291'),
(2248, 'Seize the Night', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chris Snow, the light-phobic, oddball hero of Dean Koontz''s\n <em>\n  Fear Nothing\n </em>\n , is once again caught in the middle of something ugly. The children (and pets) of Moonlight Bay, California, are disappearing. The first to go is Jimmy Wing, the son of Snow''s former girlfriend, Lilly. Then Snow''s own hyper-intelligent dog goes missing. Snow decides that he will find them, but what he uncovers is more than just a simple kidnapping; before he can turn back, he''s up against an age-old vendetta, an active time machine, and a genetic experiment gone awry.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Seize the Night\n </em>\n offers up the same eclectic mix of characters that appeared in\n <em>\n  Fear Nothing\n </em>\n : boardhead Bobby, disc jockey Sasha, Snow, and all of their friends band together to find the missing kids and figure out why the people of Moonlight Bay are morphing into demonic versions of their former selves. They outsmart corrupt cops, outrun genetically enhanced monkeys, and outlive a time warp with a vengeance--all between nightfall and sunrise, the only time that Snow can be outside.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though the premise is a little bit hard to believe, and the surf lingo occasionally irritating,\n <em>\n  Seize the Night\n </em>\n is ultimately fun to read. Koontz successfully draws you in and keeps you entertained through an unexpected climax and an enlightening resolution.\n <em>\n  --Mara Friedman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n No bestselling suspense novelist creates magnetic characters as consistently as Koontz does. In last year''s Fear Nothing, this veteran author presented his most memorable figures yet: hero/narrator Christopher Snow, whose genetic affliction forces him to shun light; Chris''s sidekick, the ultracool surfing dude Bobby; and ultrasmart dog Orson, a product of scientific experiments gone awry at Fort Wyvern in Chris''s coastal California town. In this independent-minded sequel, the second novel of a trilogy, the wonderfully delineated loyalties among these characters and others will win readers'' hearts as Koontz plunges his cast into terror. Koontz moves the trilogy''s overarching plot in a wholly unexpected direction, pursuing not the experiments that begat Orson but a parallel time-travel/disruption experiment. The gambit feels a bit arbitrary, but it voids the attenuation that plagues many middle volumes. The story begins right after that of Fear Nothing, when Chris learns that children have been abducted to the Fort. Soon Orson is gone as well, but he''s replaced smartly by Mungojerrie, the clever cat introduced in volume one. Set mostly at the abandoned Fort, as Chris and company search for the missing kids and dog, the novel proves supernally spooky (and, at times, surprisingly?deliberately?humorous). The suspense soars, culminating in a volcanic if somewhat confusing eruption of action climaxes. A principal villain makes a late appearance, but he''s not as menacing as Fear Nothing''s fiendish monkey troops, who also show up. Though not as seamlessly constructed as Fear Nothing, this novel stands as vintage Koontz, a rousing crowd-pleaser that recapitulates some of his recurrent themes?the pain of the outsider; the power of love; the threat of scientism?while sturdily continuing a trilogy that''s shaping up as his masterwork. Simultaneous BDD audio. (Feb.; on sale 12/29).\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/524'),
(2249, 'Selfish Gene', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Dawkins first book,\n <em>\n  The Selfish Gene\n </em>\n , was a smash hit...Best of all, Dawkins laid out this biology-some of it truly subtle-in stunningly lucid prose. (It is, in my view, the best work of popular science ever written.)"--\n <em>\n  New York Review of Books\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This important book could hardly be more exciting."--\n <em>\n  The Economist\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The sort of popular science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius."--\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Who should read this book? Everyone interested in the universe and their place in it."--Jeffrey R. Baylis,\n <em>\n  Animal Behaviour\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book should be read, can be read, by almost everyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution."--W. D. Hamilton,\n <em>\n  Science\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The presentations are remarkable for their clarity and simplicity, intelligible to any schoolchild, yet so little condescending as to be a pleasure to the professional."--\n <em>\n  American Scientist\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Richard Dawkins'' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life.\n <br />\n In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume,\n <em>\n  The Selfish Gene\n </em>\n , Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk.\n <br />\n This 30th anniversary edition of Dawkins'' fascinating book retains all original material, including the two enlightening chapters added in the second edition. In a new Introduction the author presents his thoughts thirty years after the publication of his first and most famous book, while the inclusion of the two-page original Foreword by brilliant American scientist Robert Trivers shows the enthusiastic reaction of the scientific community at that time. This edition is a celebration of a remarkable exposition of evolutionary thought, a work that has been widely hailed for its stylistic brilliance and deep scientific insights, and that continues to stimulate whole new areas of research today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/831'),
(2250, 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though not the first novel she wrote,\n  <em>\n   Sense and Sensibility\n  </em>\n  was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it\n  <em>\n   Elinor and Marianne\n  </em>\n  , Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor''s hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward''s manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor''s growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne''s disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Austen is the hot property of the entertainment world with new feature film versions of Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility on the silver screen and Pride and Prejudice hitting the TV airwaves on PBS. Such high visibility will inevitably draw renewed interest in the original source materials. These new Modern Library editions offer quality hardcovers at affordable prices.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/69'),
(2251, 'Sentimental Education', 'Gustave Flaubert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in French in 1869 as L''Education sentimentale: Histoire d''un jeune homme. The protagonist, Frederic Moreau, and his beloved, Mme Arnoux, are based on Flaubert''s youthful infatuation with an older married woman. Frederic''s puppy love for Mme Arnoux is at first steadfast and idealistic, and she remains faithful to her rather frivolous husband. Frederic''s love ends in disillusionment, as do the subsequent passions of his life. His youthful ambitions lead to failure and boredom, and his idealistic views of social progress are disappointed by reality. Among the novel''s most remarkable qualities is Flaubert''s vivid and faithful presentation of its social and political setting, including the Revolution of 1848, the republic that followed, and the mood of the French people amid the era''s many changes. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Notes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/813'),
(2252, 'Separation of Power', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n CIA superagent Mitch Rapp is back in action in this high-velocity adventure from the master of the political thriller, Vince Flynn. SEPARATION OF POWER CIA director Thomas Stansfield is dead -- a fact many individuals in and around the nation''s capital are pleased to hear. But their happiness proves to be short-lived once they learn that Stansfield''s successor is the late director''s close friend and protÃ©gÃ©, Dr. Irene Kennedy. Her plan of action is to pursue the very goals Stansfield established -- something Stansfield''s fiercest enemies don''t want to hear. And something they refuse to accept. Meanwhile, Israel has discovered that Saddam Hussein is close to entering the nuclear arms race -- and they''ve vowed to stop the Iraqi madman before he can get his hands on the ultimate weapon. With the Middle East teetering on the precipice of chaos and devastation, the president of the United States is forced to act. The commander in chief''s secret weapon? None other than the CIA''s top counterterrorism operative, Mitch Rapp. But the window for action on this crucial mission is incredibly tight. Israel has given the United States only two weeks to take the nukes out. After that, they''ll do whatever it takes to destroy the weapons themselves. With the haunting specter of World War III looming, Rapp races against time and impossible odds -- navigating the deadly alleys of Baghdad, tearing through the corruption-riddled streets of Washington, D.C., and taking drastic measures against anyone who gets in his way. With action that sizzles and true-to-life insider detail, Separation Of Power showcases New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn at his shell-shocking best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2446'),
(2253, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events #4: The Miserable Mill', 'Lemony Snicket &amp; Brett Helquist &amp; Michael Kupperman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The Baudelaire orphans looked out the grimy window of the train and gazed at the gloomy blackness of the Finite Forest, wondering if their lives would ever get better," begins\n <em>\n  The Miserable Mill\n </em>\n . If you have been introduced to the three Baudelaire orphans in any of Lemony Snicket''s previous novels, you know that not only will their lives not get better, they will get much worse. In the fourth installment in the "Series of Unfortunate Events," the sorrowful siblings, having once again narrowly escaped the clutches of the evil Count Olaf, are escorted by the kindly but ineffectual Mr. Poe to their newest "home" at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill. Much to their horror (if not surprise), their dormitory at the mill is crowded and damp, they are forced to work with spinning saw blades, they are fed only one meal a day (not counting the chewing gum they get for lunch), and worst of all, Count Olaf lurks in a dreadful disguise as Shirley the receptionist just down the street. Not even the clever wordplay and ludicrous plot twists could keep this story buoyant--reading about the mean-spirited foreman, the deadly blades, poor Klaus (hypnotized and "reprogrammed"), and the relentless hopelessness of the children''s situation only made us feel gloomy. Fans of these wickedly funny, suspenseful adventures won''t want to miss out on a single one, but we''re hoping the next tales have the delicate balance of delight and disaster we''ve come to expect from this exciting series. (Ages 9 to 12)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 4-7-In the fourth (HarperCollins, 2000) delightfully doleful tale of the Baudelaire orphans and their wicked antagonist, Count Olaf, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are sent to live with the owner of the Lucky Smells Sawmill and discover that they are to labor in the mill under the most inhuman of conditions. Not only are they given only five minutes for lunch, but lunch is just a piece of gum! Pay consists of coupons ("buy two get one free") the workers can''t use. When Klaus''s eyeglasses are broken, he is sent to an eye doctor whose receptionist proves to be Count Olaf in disguise. Soon the children realize that Count Olaf and the eye doctor are scheming to get the children''s fortune. All the elements of silent movie serials are here: cliff hanging chapter endings, villainous adults, and even a climactic scene in which the one person who has tried to help the orphans is tied to a log and pushed toward a buzzing saw. Fortunately, at the last moment the eye doctor falls into the blade instead. Of course, the orphans escape Olaf''''s clutches once again, but he eludes capture and we know it will not be long before the orphans will fall victim to his schemes again. The reader is purported to be Lemony Snicket, and he uses just the right dismal tone to relate these wretched happenings. This audiobook is sure to fly off the shelf in libraries where the Snicket series is popular (is there any library where it is not?), and most school and public librarians will want to add it to their collections.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Louise L. Sherman, formerly Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJ\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/111'),
(2254, 'Settlement', 'Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1844'),
(2255, 'Seven Habits of Highly Effective People', 'Stephen R. Covey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the inspirational tradition of ''The road less traveled'', ''The seven habits of highly effective people'' is a holistic, integrated approach to solving personal and professional problems by becoming principle-centered. This is a revolutionary guidebook to achieving peace of mind within and building trust without by seeking the roots of human behavior in character and by learning principles rather than merely practices.With pointed anecdotes and penetrating insights, Stephen R. Covey - leading management consultant and author of best-selling spiritual books - reveals how our actions follow from who we are. He shows how we can end self-defeating behavior at home and at work by adopting the ''Seven Habits of Highly Effective People''. Covey shows how these habits are not a ''quick fix'' but rather a step-by-step Ã¡thway to the principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity that give us the security to adapt to change in our family and business lives - as well as the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities such change creates.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/926'),
(2256, 'Seven Up', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Semiretired mob guy Eddie DeCooch is caught trafficking contraband cigarettes through Trenton, New Jersey. When DeCooch fails to show for a court appearance, bond enforcement agent Stephanie Plum is assigned the task of finding him and dragging his decrepit ass back to jail. Not such an easy job, it turns out, since DeCooch has learned a lot of tricks over the years and isn''t afraid to use his gun. He''s already shot Loretta Ricci, an innocent old lady, and left her for worm food in his shed. He wouldn''t mind shooting Stephanie next.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Likeable losers (and Steph''s former high school classmates) Walter "MoonMan" Dunphy and Dougie "The Dealer" Kruper have inadvertently become involved with DeCooch. They''ve gotten sucked into an operation that is much more than simple cigarette smuggling and holds risks far greater than anyone could have imagined.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Dougie disappears, Steph goes into search mode. When Mooner disappears, she calls in the heavy artillery and asks master bounty hunter Ranger for help. Ranger''s price for the job? One night with Stephanie, dusk to dawn. Not information she''s want to share with her sometime live-in roommate, vice cop Joe Morelli,\n </p>\n <p>\n  A typical dilemma in the world of Plum.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And on the homefront, Stephanie''s "perfect" sister, Valerie, has decided to move back to Trenton, bringing her two kids from hell with her. Grandma Mazur is asking questions about being a lesbian, and Bob, the bulimic dog, is eating everything in sightÂ—including the furniture.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mud wrestling, motorcycles, fast cars, fast food, and fast men. It''s\n  <em>\n   Seven Up\n  </em>\n  . Absolutely Janet Evanovich at her very best.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  A typical dilemma in the world of Plum.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And on the homefront, Stephanie''s "perfect" sister Valerie has decided to move back to Trenton, bringing her two kids from hell. Grandma Mazur is asking questions about being a lesbian, and Bob, the bulimic dog, is eating everything in sight-including the furniture.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/791'),
(2257, 'Seventh Son', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the award-winning Ender''s Game on, each of Card''s last three novels has featured a secular saint, less a character than a catalyst to galvanize those around him into reexamining the thorny moral tangles in which they live. This first volume of the Tales of Alvin Maker introduces young Alvin Miller Jr., the seventh son of a seventh son, who lives on the frontier of an alternate early 19th century America, where folk magic such as faith healing and second sight really works. While Alvin embarks on his mythic struggle against the Unmaker of all things, he is watched over by a flesh and blood guardian angel; he is pursued by the rigid, zealous Reverend Thrower; and he is guided by the wandering Taleswapper, William Blake. This beguiling book recalls Robert Penn Warren in its robust but reflective blend of folktale, history, parable and personal testimony, pioneer narrative. The series promises to be (in Warren''s phrase) a "story of deep delight."\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA Set in the Northwest Territory in the late 18th Century, this is an American fantasy in the tradition of T. H. White''s Sword in the Stone (Putnam, 1939). Mixing fantasy with philosophy and historical figures with imaginary ones, this first book in the ``Tales of Alvin Maker'''' series succeeds on several levels. Alvin Miller, seventh son of a seventh son, is heir to great powers that he must learn to use and control. A rich cast of characters try either to help or destroy Alvin in his childhood. It is apparent that Alvin is the focus of gathering forces of good and evil preparing for battle. Readers will be left at the end of the book wondering what will happen to young Alvin in his coming apprenticeship. The sequel will be eagerly awaited. Mary Williams, Harris County Public Library\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1362'),
(2258, 'The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity', 'William Paul Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Mackenzie Allen Philips'' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his\n <em>\n  Great Sadness,\n </em>\n Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack''s world forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1035'),
(2259, 'Shadow and Claw', 'Gene Wolfe &amp; Gene Claw Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe''s most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Shadow &amp; Claw brings together the first two books of the tetralogy in one volume:The Shadow of the Torturer is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession -- showing mercy toward his victim.Ursula K. Le Guin said, "Magic stuff . . . a masterpiece . . . the best science fiction I''ve read in years!"The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic, and learn the truth about his hidden destiny."Arguably the finest piece of literature American science fiction has yet produced [is] the four-volume Book of the New Sun."--Chicago Sun-Times"The Book of the New Sun establishes his preeminence, pure and simple. . . . The Book of the New Sun contains elements of Spenserian allegory, Swiftian satire, Dickensian social consciousness and Wagnerian mythology. Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within . . . once into it, there is no stopping."--The New York Times Book Review Gene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" by The Washington Post. A former engineer, he has written numerous books and won a variety of awards for his SF writing. The Book of the New Sun, a series of four novels, is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe''s most memorable work, hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis"â€”and by The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction as "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century".Shadow &amp; Claw collects the first two novels in this Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning tetralogy: The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator. "The Book of the New Sun establishes [Wolfe''s] pre-eminence, pure and simple . . . The Book of the New Sun contains elements of Spenserian allegory, Swiftian satire, Dickensian social consciousness, and Wagnerian mythology. Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within . . . Once into it, there is no stopping."â€”The New York Times Book Review"Arguably the best piece of literature American science fiction has yet produced."â€”Chicago Sun-Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/136'),
(2260, 'Shadow of Night', 'Deborah Harkness', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <p>\n   "Together we lifted our feet and stepped into the unknown"â€”the thrilling sequel to the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestseller\n   <em>\n    A Discovery of Witches\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <p>\n   Deborah Harkness exploded onto the literary scene with her debut novel,\n   <em>\n    A Discovery of Witches\n   </em>\n   , Book One of the magical\n   <em>\n    All Souls Trilogy\n   </em>\n   and an international publishing phenomenon. The novel introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and the handsome geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont; together they found themselves at the center of a supernatural battle over an enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Now, picking up from\n   <em>\n    A Discovery of Witchesâ€™\n   </em>\n   cliffhanger ending,\n   <em>\n    Shadow of Night\n   </em>\n   plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London, a world of spies, subterfuge, and a coterie of Matthewâ€™s old friends, the mysterious School of Night that includes Christopher Marlowe and Walter Raleigh. Here, Diana must locate a witch to tutor her in magic, Matthew is forced to confront a past he thought he had put to rest, and the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Deborah Harkness has crafted a gripping journey through a world of alchemy, time travel, and magical discoveries, delivering one of the most hotly anticipated novels of the season.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Deborah Harkness is a scholar and writer specializing in the history of science and medicine. She has received numerous awards, including Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships. Currently a professor of history at the University of Southern California, her most recent academic publication is\n   <em>\n    The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution\n   </em>\n   . This is her first novel.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ...eGod...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2405'),
(2261, 'Shadow of the Giant', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Card''s latest installment in his Shadow subseries (\n <em>\n  Ender''s Shadow\n </em>\n , etc.), which parallels the overarching series that began with\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n (1985), does a superlative job of dramatically portraying the maturing process of child into adult. The imminent death of Bean, a superhuman 20-something Battle School graduate who suffers from uncontrolled growth due to a genetic disorder, leaves little time for Peter the Hegemon, Ender''s older brother, to set up a single world government and for Bean and his wife and former classmate, Petra, to reclaim all their stolen children. When Card''s focus strays from his characters into pure politics, the story loses power, but it''s recharged as soon as he returns to the well-drawn interactions among Bean''s Battle School classmates whose decisions will determine Earth''s fate. They were trained to fight a (literally) single-minded alien enemy, but that war is over. Now, as young adults in command of human armies pitted against each other in messy conflicts with no clear solutions, Bean''s old cohorts must help create a peaceful future for Earth after they''re gone. Card makes the important point that there''s always more than one side to every issue. Fans will marvel at how subtly he has prepared for the clever resolution.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Considering the dynasty of novels launched by\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n (1984), perhaps Card ought to consider renaming his central protagonist. Though this is putatively the eighth book in the Ender saga, when considering the books as two quartets linked across a 1,000-year gap (a by-product of Ender''s light-speed travel to Lusitania), it''s the fourth of the sequence that began with\n <em>\n  Ender''s Shadow\n </em>\n (1999). Here,\n <em>\n </em>\n Card further develops the premise that the return of Ender''s battle team to Earth was tantamount to introducing "two Alexanders, a Joan of Arc here and there, and a couple of Julius Caesars, maybe an Attila, and . . . a Genghis Khan" into the geopolitical fray. The tension between characters'' personal fulfillment and collective obligations also comes to the fore, as couple Bean and Petra desperately search for their eight missing embryos stolen by the mad eugenicist of\n <em>\n  Shadow Puppets\n </em>\n (2002), watch Bean''s health deteriorate, and attempt to restore order to the world under hegemon Peter Wiggin. The emergence of several additional perspectives makes for a somewhat cumbersome narrative, but it doesn''t much matter. Like Card''s idolized Battle School alumni, novels in this saga (not to mention Card himself) have acquired an irresistible aura from early associations with boy-hero Ender Wiggin.\n <em>\n  Jennifer Mattson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/943'),
(2262, 'Shadow of the Hegemon', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Orson Scott Card finally explores what happened on earth after the war with the Buggers in the sixth book of his Ender series,\n <em>\n  Shadow of the Hegemon\n </em>\n . This novel is the continuation of the story of Bean, which began with\n <em>\n  Ender''s Shadow\n </em>\n , a parallel novel to Card''s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n While Ender heads off to a faraway planet, Bean and the other brilliant children who helped Ender save the earth from alien invaders have become war heroes and have finally been sent home to live with their parents. While the children try to fit back in with the family and friends they haven''t known for nearly a decade, someone''s worried about their safety. Peter Wiggins, Ender''s brother, has foreseen that the talented children are in danger of being killed or kidnapped. His fears are quickly realized, and only Bean manages to escape. Bean knows he must save the others and protect humanity from a new evil that has arisen, an evil from his past. But just as he played second to Ender during the Bugger war, Bean must again step into the shadow of another, the one who will be Hegemon.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Shadow of the Hegemon\n </em>\n , Card can''t help but fall back into old patterns. But while the theme is the same as in previous books--brilliant, tragic children with the fate of the human race resting on their shoulders--\n <em>\n  Shadow of the Hegemon\n </em>\n does a wonderful job of continuing Bean''s tale against a backdrop of the politics and intrigue of a fragile earth. While the novel is accessible, new readers to the series would be wise to begin with\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  Ender''s Shadow\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Kathie Huddleston\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fine follow-up to Ender''s Shadow features that novel''s hero, Bean (now a young man), wrestling with Card''s trademark: superbly real moral and ethical dilemmas. In a world between wars, filled with ambitious countries jockeying to carve up their neighbors, the children of Battle School are the strongest asset a nation can possess. The greatest of the children, "Ender" Wiggin, has gone off to colonize a new world. The second best, Bean, is hunted by a young psychopathic genius, Achilles, who schemes to conquer Earth with the aid of Ender''s soldiers. Peter, Ender''s brother, who was too ruthless to make it to Battle School, also works to rule the planet, but through more peaceful, political means. Bean must decide if becoming Peter''s shadow and guiding him to become Hegemon will help defeat Achilles, and if one boy''s megalomania will make a better world than another''s. Children playing at war as if it were a game recalls Card''s most famous work, Ender''s Game, which won both a Hugo and a Nebula award. The complexity and serious treatment of the book''s young protagonists will attract many sophisticated YA readers, while Card''s impeccable prose, fast pacing and political intrigue will appeal to adult fans of spy novels, thrillers and science fiction. (Jan. 2) Forecast: Card is immensely popular; this is one of his best novels. Like Ender''s Game, it will soar on genre lists and should flirt with, and perhaps woo, regular lists. Tor will ensure this through a $300,000 ad/promo campaign including a nine-city author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/941'),
(2263, 'Shadow Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A slumlord and a welfare supervisor butchered in Minneapolis . . . a rising political star executed in Manhattan . . . an influential judge taken out in Oklahoma City . . . all with the same grisly modus operandi: the victims'' throats were slashed with an Indian ceremonial knife. John Sanford''s new Lucas Davenport novel is even more mesmerizing than his debut in Rules of Prey. "A big, scary, suspenseful read".--Stephen King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1732'),
(2264, 'Shadow Puppets', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Shadow Puppets\n </em>\n , Orson Scott Card continues the storyline of\n <em>\n  Shadow of the Hegemon\n </em>\n , following the exploits of the Battle School children, prodigies who have returned to an Earth thrown into chaos after the unifying force of the alien invasion they stopped in\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Ender''s Shadow\n </em>\n has dissipated.\n</p>\n<p>\n Foremost among these whiz kids is the brilliant Bean who, in\n <em>\n  Shadow of the Hegemon\n </em>\n , rescued his comrades from his nemesis--the dastardly Achilles. Now, the down-but-not-out evil genius is again scheming towards global domination and vengeance against the irrepressible Bean. It''s up to Bean and his newfound love, Petra, to outwit the young psychopath and save the world. Meanwhile, the other Battle School children are called to serve again as an expansionist China threatens the stability of post-Bugger War Earth.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Shadow Puppets\n </em>\n is, for better or worse, exactly what readers have come to expect from Card. There are thought-provoking musings on geopolitics, war, courage, arrogance, good versus evil, and the concept of children wise beyond their years dealing with grave responsibility. Unfortunately, many of these furnishings are looking a little frayed around the edges, but fans will enjoy an exciting, fast-paced plot and a suspense-filled conclusion.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Card''s bestselling Ender series will be delighted with this tale of teen empowerment (following 2001''s Shadow of the Hegemon), as the Battle School brats cope with life after the war with the Formics. Peter Wiggins, now leader of the worldwide Earth government, the Hegemon, makes a tactical error when he authorizes the rescue of his archenemy, Achilles, from the Chinese, only to discover Achilles, dangerously insane, is a Trojan Horse. Peter, along with his parents, must flee the planet temporarily, only to discover plots within plots at the site of the now dismantled Battle School. Meanwhile, Bean, accompanied by his wife, Petra, comes to terms with his body: he won''t stop growing, and he''s doomed to a short life. He and Petra seek out the man who manipulated his genes in order to have him create children without the same problem, only to have the embryos stolen. Bean and Petra race against time to try to rescue their unborn children while keeping Peter apprised of world events. Into this mix, Card tosses in a war, Chinese expansionism, unrest in India and a dangerously unfettered Achilles. The political becomes the personal in a final showdown between Bean and Achilles. These teens play for keeps: the world is their stage, with Battle School grads in key positions of power in China, the Muslim world and India, all ready to work together to create world peace. Card discusses important topics here, the nature of the parent-child relationship; the roles of love and service, that are implicitly part of coming of age.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/942');
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(2265, 'The Shadow Rising', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Having declared himself the Dragon Reborn, Rand al''Thor must proceed to fulfill the prophecy that he will protect the world from the return of the Dark One. Jordan''s hefty addition to his massive series begins very much in medias res as an unknown danger threatens the city of Tar Valon, home of the powerful, nunlike Aes Sedai. In a whirlwind of uncertainty stirred up by the conflicting motivations of such groups as the Whitecloaks, the Darkfriends and Trollocs (among an abundance of others), Rand travels to the city of Rhuidean in the Aiel Waste for answers. Jordan ( The Dragon Reborn ) seems to be intent on turning the series into an endless soap opera; in each successive volume he introduces more new elements than he resolves. What was originally a mood-setting technique--the tendency of most characters not to share their special knowledge with either their companions or the reader--has by now become boring. Hundreds of characters and dozens of conflicting plots cause much of the action to take place offstage. As a result, this fully imagined saga threatens to burst the seams of its steadily more intricate design. Nevertheless, the sheer force of his invention develops a momentum that established Jordan fans, and probably like-minded new readers, will find hard to resist.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the power of the Dark One grows stronger, Rand al''Thor and his friends face greater challenges in their war against the Shadow. From the halls of Tar Valon, where the Aes Sedai mystics discover agents of darkness in their own ranks, to the Aiel Waste, where a hidden city holds secrets forbidden to all but a few, Rand and his companions seek to fulfill the destiny laid out for them. Jordan''s multivolume epic continues to live up to its high ambitions. Complex plotting, an array of strong characters, lavish detail, and a panoramic scope make this series a feast for fantasy aficionados. Expect demand for this.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/644'),
(2266, 'Shadow&#39;s Edge', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kylar Stern has rejected the assassin''s life. The Godking''s successful coup has left Kylar''s master, Durzo, and his best friend, Logan, dead. He is starting over: new city, new friends, and new profession.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But when he learns that Logan might actually be alive and in hiding, Kylar is faced with an agonizing choice: will he give up the way of shadows forever and live in peace with his new family, or will he risk everything by taking on the ultimate hit?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brent Weeks was born and raised in Montana. After getting his paper keys from Hillsdale College, Brent had brief stints walking the earth like Caine from\n <em>\n  Kung Fu\n </em>\n , tending bar, and corrupting the youth. (Not at the same time.) He started writing on bar napkins, then on lesson plans, then full time. Eventually, someone paid him for it. Brent lives in Oregon with his wife, Kristi. He doesn''t own cats or wear a ponytail. Find out more about the author at www.brentweeks.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/114'),
(2267, 'Shadowfires', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Rachael Leben''s request for a quick and clean divorce left her successful husband, Eric, enraged and humiliated. Seething with anger, he stormed off, straight into the path of an oncoming vehicle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eric is pronounced dead at the scene, but Rachael knows the secrets he''s left behind. And when his body disappears from the morgue, she knows that her turbulent marriage is far from over...\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Rachel wants no part of her husband Eric''s research empire or his fortune. She just wants to be free of his obsessions. Her request for a quick and clean divorce enrages Eric. Consumed by pure and terrifying hatred, he storms into the street--only to be killed in a horrible traffic accident. Rachel thinks her nightmare is over, but it''s only just begun. Previously published by Avon under the pseudonym of Leigh Nichols.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1883'),
(2268, 'Shame the Devil: A Novel', 'George Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick, February 2000\n </strong>\n : Just as Robert B. Parker and Dennis Lehane have made Boston their own and Los Angeles has been the distinct province of a lineage leading from Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald to Michael Connelly and Robert Crais, so is George Pelecanos the storyteller who''s put Washington, D.C., on the noir map. Once considered "the best-kept secret in crime fiction" by his peers, he is now fast leaving behind those days of strictly word-of-mouth fame and cult status.\n</p>\n<p>\n Telling it like he sees it, and looking fearlessly into those dark, forgotten alleyways that lay too far beyond the corridors of power to make it into any guidebooks, Pelecanos conjures up a gritty, ghostly Washington of working-class neighborhoods and aging suburbs and shoots it through with chillingly unpredictable menace. Most Washington natives probably wouldn''t recognize the place--but they couldn''t stop trying either, knowing that they''ve at least glimpsed (out of the corners of their eyes) those environs where a Pelecanos character is most at home.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Shame the Devil\n </em>\n , we find a society of grieving men and women connected by loss, betrayal, the need for revenge, and the shadowy presence of evil. As in other Pelecanos tales, the heroes are not easily identified, love is a coming together of wounded souls, and answers are found where least expected. In the aftermath of a botched armed robbery, a fair number of lives have been thrown into a downward spiral. The problems, however, come on faster and with more fury once the status quo sustaining the survivors has been breached by an ill-wishing and unwanted addition to their little group.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here are two favorite moments. In one, protagonist Dimitri Karras asks the name of a fellow bar patron. Hearing that he''s called Happy, Karras comments that he doesn''t look too happy. The answer: "He''s pacing himself." The other: we hear the thoughts of the sociopathic villain: "Some believed that incarceration was a mark of failure, but Frank disagreed. Prison was an essential element of any career criminal''s education."\n</p>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Shame the Devil\n </em>\n , Pelecanos solidifies his position among the elite of the brilliant coterie of young noir writers who are creating the emerging classics of the genre.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the shooting stops on a blistering summer day at May''s Pizza Parlor in Washington, D.C., in 1995, five people lie dead, a policeman is left crippled and robber Frank Farrow speeds off with his loot and not a trace of regret. But Farrow, the main villain in Pelecanos''s fine new addition to his hard-boiled lineup, still isn''t satisfied. He wants to return to finish off the injured cop, who killed Farrow''s brother during the shoot-out. Farrow doesn''t anticipate, however, the burning desire for revenge harbored by the family and friends of those butchered in the notorious pizza bloodbath. Chief among them is 50-ish Dimitri Karras, whose five-year-old son died when he was mowed down by the getaway vehicle Farrow was driving. Now, three years later, Karras is just getting his life back together, much like the other survivors, all of whom meet regularly to share their grief and soothe their torment. By chance, Karras teams up with Nick Stephanos, a freelance investigator who finds out Farrow is back in town to exact his twisted vengeance. Stephanos tries to dissuade Karras from tracking down Farrow, but even he understands the urge for retaliation. Karras and Stephanos, who have starred in several of Pelecanos''s earlier books (King Suckerman; The Sweet Forever), deepen considerably as characters in this hard-driving story of heartache, Stephanos''s adjustment to the new-found maturity of middle age and Dmitri''s search for some small relief in revenge. Set against a backdrop of greasy-spoon diners, church basements, dive bars and sparsely furnished apartments, the narrative is unsettlingly harsh yet captivatingly tender, the gritty back-and-forth of everyday urban life vividly etched. 11-city author tour. (Jan.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1117'),
(2269, 'Shardik', 'Richard Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Shardik was Adams''s 1974 follow-up to his phenomenally popular debut, Watership Down. The title character is a gigantic bear who is the god of the primitive Ortelgan people. The hunter Kelderek becomes Shardik''s greatest disciple and, eventually, ruler when the bear finally does make its return. On the surface, the book works as a fantasy adventure; on a deeper level, it explores our relationship with the divine. No matter what you want to see in it, Shardik is a good read.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   Shardik\n  </em>\n  is a powerful work, dipping deep into old forms-allegory, epic, myth-resonating in the caverns of the readers'' unconscious . . . It is an exciting story, the adventures compelling." (\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Grips with suspense, haunts with mystery . . . a memorable work, not to be read once only but to be reread as loved books are . . . a human saga." (\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Richard Adams''s\n  <em>\n   Watership Down\n  </em>\n  was a number one bestseller, a stunning work of the imagination, and an acknowledged modern classic. In\n  <em>\n   Shardik\n  </em>\n  Adams sets a different yet equally compelling tale in a far-off fantasy world.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Shardik\n  </em>\n  is a fantasy of tragic character, centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people. Mighty, ferocious, and unpredictable, Shardik changes the life of every person in the story. His advent commences a momentous chain of events. Kelderek the hunter, who loves and trusts the great bear, is swept on by destiny to become first devotee and then prophet, then victorious soldier, then ruler of an empire and priest-king of Lord Shardik-Messenger of God-only to discover ever-deeper layers of meaning implicit in his passionate belief in the bear''s divinity.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A gripping tale of war, adventure, horror and romance,\n  <em>\n   Shardik\n  </em>\n  , on a deeper level, is a remarkable exploration of mankind''s universal desire for divine incarnation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/989'),
(2270, 'The Shelters of Stone (Earth&#39;s Children #5)', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Shelters of Stone\n  </strong>\n  opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalarâ€™s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homesâ€”formed in great cliffs of vertical limestoneâ€”are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the Ninth Cave (and the one who initiated Jondalar into the Gift of Pleasure), she meets a fellow healer with whom to share her knowledge and skills.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But as Ayla and Jondalar prepare for the formal mating at the Summer Meeting, there are difficulties. Not all the Zelandonii are welcoming. Some fear Aylaâ€™s unfamiliar ways and abhor her relationship with those they call flatheads and she calls Clan. Some even oppose her mating with Jondalar, and make their displeasure known. Ayla has to call on all her skills, intelligence, knowledge, and instincts to find her way in this complicated society, to prepare for the birth of her child, and to decide whether she will accept new challenges and play a significant role in the destiny of the Zelandonii.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jean Auel is at her very best in this superbly textured creation of a prehistoric society.\n  <strong>\n   The Shelters of Stone\n  </strong>\n  is a sweeping story of love and danger, with all the wonderful detailâ€”based on meticulous researchâ€” that makes her novels unique. It is a triumphant continuation of the Earthâ€™s ChildrenÂ® saga that began with\n  <strong>\n   The Clan of the Cave Bear\n  </strong>\n  . And it includes an amazing rhythmic poem that describes the birth of Earthâ€™s Children and plays its own role in the narrative of\n  <strong>\n   The Shelters of Stone\n  </strong>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1003'),
(2271, 'Shem Creek', 'Dorothea Benton Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Pat Conroy has called her books â€œhilarious and wiseâ€, noting that they are â€œfunny, sexy and usually damp with sea water.â€ Anne Rivers Siddons said of\n  <strong>\n   Sullivans Island\n  </strong>\n  that it â€œroared with life.â€ Now Dorothea Benton Frank takes us back to the Lowcountry to introduce a whole new cast of characters whose lives will surely move your heart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Linda Breland has no experience managing a restaurant, but then neither did Brad Jackson, and he owns the place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meet Linda Breland, single parent of two teenage daughters. The oldest, Lindsey, who always held her younger sister in check, is leaving for college. And Gracie, her Tasmanian devil, is giving her nightmares. Lindaâ€™s personal life? Well, between the married men, the cold New Jersey winters, her pinched wallet and her ex-husband who marries a beautiful, successful woman ten years younger than she isâ€”letâ€™s just say, Linda has seen enough to fill a thousand pages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the story opens, she is barreling down Interstate 95, bound for Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, the land of her ancestors. Welcomed by the generous heart of her advice dispensing sister, Mimi, Linda and her daughters slowly begin to find their way and discover a sweeter rhythm of life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then thereâ€™s Brad Jackson, a former investment banker of Atlanta, Georgia who hires her to run his restaurant on Shem Creek. Like everyone else, Bradâ€™s got a story of his ownâ€”namely an almost ex-wife, Loretta who is the kind of gal who gives women a bad name.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The real protagonist of this story is the Lowcountry itself. The magical waters of Shem Creek, the abundant wildlife and the astounding power of nature give this tiny corner of the planet its infallible reputation as a place for introspection, contemplation and healing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As in all her previous work, youâ€™ll find Shem Creek to be compulsively readable, irreverent but warm and blazingly authenticâ€”and youâ€™ll dread reaching the last page. It is her vivid writing, colorful characters and rich narrative that have made Dorothea Benton Frank one of our nationâ€™s greatest storytellers.\n  <strong>\n   Shem Creek\n  </strong>\n  is a triumphant novel that proves we are all entitled to a second chance. The challenge is to learn how to recognize it when it comes and to know which chance to take.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Frank (\n  <em>\n   Isle of Palms\n  </em>\n  ) delivers another novel rich in the charms of smalltown South Carolina, the fourth in her bestselling Lowcountry series. Linda Breland, a single mother tired of living hand-to-mouth in New Jersey, decides to move herself and her two teenage daughters to her distant hometown of Mount Pleasant, S.C., where her sister, Mimi, still lives. Linda''s straight-shooting style impresses local restaurateur Brad Jackson, who hires her to manage his restaurant; hints of a future romance are about as subtle as a kitchen fire. Frank easily, breezily shifts among her multiple first-person narrators. In Linda and Mimi, she explores two very different lives: Mimi is divorced, childless and neat as a pin; Linda is outspoken, maternal and frank about her teenage pregnancy and youthful marriage, which fell apart when her husband''s mid-life crisis sent him into the arms of a younger woman. Similarly, Linda''s daughtersâ€”dependable Lindsay, who is starting college in the fall, and smart-mouthed Gracie, whose penchant for hanging out with the wrong crowd helped fuel her mother''s desire to moveâ€”offer a marvelous sibling contrast. The strong pull of friendship, the leisurely pace of a tiny, waterfront Southern town, and the steady buildup of romance help buoy Frank''s well-drawn, memorable characters in the face of life''s challenges.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dorothea Benton Frank represents the best of fiction. --\n  <em>\n   News and Record\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   [Greensboro, NC]\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2393'),
(2272, 'The Shining', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n Horror at an unflagging pace....scary!\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Nashville Banner\n </em>\n This chilling novel will haunt you, and make your blood run cold and your heart race with fear.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cosmopolitain\n </em>\n Guaranteed to frighten you into fits....freezing terror....with a climax tha is literally explosive.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Overlook Hotel is more than just a home-away-from-home for the Torrance family. For Jack, Wendy, and their young son, Danny, it is a place where past horrors come to life. And where those gifted with the shining do battle with the darkest evils. Stephen King''s classic thriller is one of the most powerfully imagined novels of our time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Shining\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/479'),
(2273, 'Ship of Destiny', 'Robin Hobb &amp; Stephen Youll', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robin Hobb concludes her nautical fantasy epic with\n <em>\n  Ship of Destiny\n </em>\n , set in the world of her Farseer series. It lives up to its predecessors,\n <em>\n  Ship of Magic\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Mad Ship\n </em>\n in every way: the characters continue to develop, the plot moves swiftly, and the setting is vividly realized.\n</p>\n<p>\n Again, three generations of Vestrit women are at the heart of the story. Ronica, the matriarch, stands alone against accusations that her family is responsible for the chaos that has overtaken Bingtown. She fights to uncover treachery and maintain the Trader''s Council. Her daughter, Althea, sails on the disturbed liveship Paragon, hunting for Vivacia, the Vestrit''s liveship, now the flagship of a pirate fleet under Kennit, who is both ruthless and compassionate. Her granddaughter, Malta, has disappeared following an earthquake in the ancient treasure city by the Rain Wild River. Her fiancÃ©, Reyn, and her brother, Selden, are trapped while seeking her. They are rescued by the dragon Tintaglia, whom they helped liberate. Reyn asks Tintaglia''s aid in finding Malta, but Tintaglia has her own urgent mission to accomplish, one which will change everything. Hobb weaves these plot threads into an exciting and satisfying conclusion. This is an original trilogy well worth reading!\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n One has to use a jeweler''s loupe to find a flaw or a dull moment in this splendid conclusion to one of the finest fantasy sagas to bridge the millennium. True, there are moments in this third novel of the Liveship Traders Trilogy (Mad Ship; Ship of Magic) when things progress too easilyDthe folk of Bingtown, for example, seem to embrace diversity, equality and female empowerment too quickly to be believed. But otherwise, this book soars. Hobb weaves together multiple storylines: there''s Althea Vestrit''s quest for her family''s liveship, Vivacia; the awakening of Paragon (the eponymous "ship of destiny"); the establishing of links between the liveships made of wizardwood and the sea serpents who, cocooned in wizardwood, mature into dragons; the appearance of the dragon Tintaglia; and the maturing of Malta Haven through rescuing the Satrap. Such a profusion of plotlines could have overwhelmed or slowed down the book, but Hobb handles them with such agility that the reader is likely to want not fewer but more stories. The most absorbing theme continues to revolve around Captain Kennit, his mistress, Etta (now carrying his child), and the conversion of Wintrow Haven into Kennit''s heir as king of the Pirate Isles. (Kennit, perhaps the most interesting character in the trilogy, clearly was developed with a good deal of scholarship about the history of piracy.) This installment leaves nothing to be desired: the subplots advance in parallel; the nautical themes are handled splendidly; and the characters (including one of the more engaging and terrifying dragons in current fantasy) and world-building are of the very highest standard. Like its predecessors, this is a masterful achievement. Major ad/promo. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/592'),
(2274, 'Ship of Magic', 'Robin Hobb &amp; Stephen Youll', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robin Hobb, author of the Farseer trilogy, has returned to that world for a new series.\n <em>\n  Ship of Magic\n </em>\n is a sea tale, reminiscent of\n <em>\n  Moby Dick\n </em>\n and Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey/Maturin series in its details of shipboard life. It is also a fantasy adventure with sea serpents, pirates, and all sorts of magic. The\n <em>\n  liveships\n </em>\n have distinct personalities and partner with specific people, somewhat like Anne McCaffrey''s Brain ships and their Brawns, though these are trading ships and have full crews.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hobb has peopled the book with many wonderfully developed characters. Most of the primary ones are members of the Vestritts, an Old Trader family which owns the liveship\n <em>\n  Vivacia\n </em>\n . Their stories are intercut with those of Kennit, the ambitious pirate Brashen, the disinherited scion of another family who served on the Vestritt''s ship, and\n <em>\n  Paragon\n </em>\n , an old liveship abandoned and believed mad. The sentient sea serpents have their own story hinted at, as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though\n <em>\n  Ship of Magic\n </em>\n is full of action, none of the plotlines get resolved in this book. Readers who resent being left with many questions and few answers after almost 700 pages should think twice before starting, or wait until the rest of the series is out so that their suspense won''t be too prolonged. But Hobb''s writing draws you in and makes you care desperately about what will happen next, the mark of a terrific storyteller.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The untimely death of Old Trader Ephron Vestrit deprives his daughter Althea of her inheritance and places her ambitious brother-in-law Kyle in command of the live ship Viveca and the family fortunes. The author of the Farseer trilogy (Assassin''s Apprentice, LJ 3/15/95; Royal Assassin, Bantam, 1996; Assassin''s Quest, Bantam, 1997) launches a new series set in a world of sentient ships, merchant traders, ruthless pirates, dangerous treasures, seagoing dragons, and a mysterious elder race. Hobb excels in depicting complex characters; even her villains command respect, if not sympathy, for their actions. Most libraries should purchase this exotic, nonstandard fantasy.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/583'),
(2275, 'Shit My Dad Says', 'Justin Halpern', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Photographs from\n  <em>\n   Sh\n  </em>\n  t My Dad Says*\n  <br />\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  (Click on Thumbnails to Enlarge)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n I have no idea why I''m sopping wet in this photo, but I''m going to guess it''s because I rolled in something filthy or spilled something on myself. Hosing me down was my dadâ€™s favorite method for cleaning me off.Here I am with my dad in his garden, which he adores and whose upkeep he takes very seriously. "It''s my first love, besides your mother and horse racing. And you and your brothers, too, I suppose," heâ€™s said.My dad used to carry me on his shoulders quite a bit when I was a child--until the time I accidentally urinated on him while I was up there. We were at a neighborâ€™s house and he quickly ran outside, threw me off, ripped off his shirt, then hosed me down like he was from the CDC and I''d come in contact with the Ebola Virus.\n</p>\n<p>\n My dad is an avid reader, and all throughout my childhood heâ€™d come home after working for 12 hours and weâ€™d sit on the couch and read together.My familyâ€™s trip to the Grand Canyon in 1983 was one of only two family vacations we took. It coincided with the time when my dad started to lose his hair, and decided he''d wear hats to mask his increasing baldness. It wasnâ€™t long before he changed his tune, tossed the caps, and decided he didnâ€™t care what anyone else thought.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIf youâ€™re wondering if there is a real man behind the quotes on Twitter, the answer is a definite and laugh-out-loud yes.â€ (Christian Lander, New York Times bestselling author of Stuff White People Like )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is ridiculously hilarious, and makes my father look like a normal member of society.â€ (Chelsea Handler )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJustin Halpernâ€™s dad is up there with Aristotle and Winston F*cking Churchill. Heâ€™s brilliant, and his sonâ€™s book is absolutely hilarious.â€ (A.J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fun gift book that is bound to crack up anyone who flips through it.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Sh*t My Dad Says is f\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n great!...Very funny, very irreverent, very real. Itâ€™s refreshing at a time when weâ€™re all choking to death on political correctness and can go for days without meeting a single person with common sense.â€ (Janet Evanovich, Time Magazine )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJustin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touchingâ€”and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book.â€ (Laurie Notaro, New York Times bestselling author of The Idiot Girlsâ€™ Action-Adventure Club )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShoot-beer-out-your-nose funny.â€ (Maxim )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRead this unless youâ€™re allergic to laughing.â€ (Kristen Bell )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/739'),
(2276, 'Shock Wave', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<hr />\n<p>\n A Mysterious Plague in the Antarctic...\n <br />\n A Diamond Empire Run by an Evil Genius...\n <br />\n A Devastating New Technology...\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n NUMA agent DIRK PITTÂ® is investigating the baffling deaths of thousands of Antarctic marine animals when he stumbles on something even more chilling. The passengers and crew of a cruise ship all died simultaneously and instantly, leaving stranded on a remote island whaling station a small party of tourists led by the beautiful Maeve Fletcher. And the carnage is just beginning, as Pitt''s investigation leads him to Maeve''s estranged father and sisters, owners of the global diamond cartel Dorsett Consolidated Mining. From a chilling escape at a high-security Canadian mine to a tiny boat adrift on lonely, shark-infested seas, the ingenious Pitt is racing to thwart Dorsett''s ruthless plans Â— before an unthinkable disaster claims millions of innocent lives!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1299'),
(2277, 'Shopaholic and Baby', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Becky Brandon (nÃ©e Bloomwood) is pregnant! She couldnâ€™t be more overjoyedâ€“especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from the designer nursery . . . to the latest, coolest pram . . . to the celebrity, must-have obstetrician.\n</p>\n<p>\n But when the celebrity obstetrician turns out to be her husband Lukeâ€™s glamorous, intellectual ex-girlfriend, Becky''s perfect world starts to crumble. Sheâ€™s shopping for two . . . but are there three in her marriage?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1200'),
(2278, 'Shopaholic and Sister', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Becky Brandon (nÃ©e Bloomwood) returns with a vengeance in bestseller Kinsella''s fourth Shopaholic novel. Her 10-month globe-trot with hubby Luke was a shopping spree disguised as a honeymoonâ€”heck, Becky will walk across hot coals for an aquamarine necklace (and thereby trick her Sri Lankan yogi into thinking she''s achieved enlightenment)â€”but the problems of the real world (sort of) surface once the happy couple lands back in London. ("Luke''s penthouse has its own lift right to the front door, which is just so cool!"). Even lovely Luke''s patience is supremely tried when those two truckloads of purchases show up. What''s worse: Becky''s best friend, Suze, has found a new best friend, and her parents have discovered another daughter. Seems Dad had a fling with a train stewardess back in the 1970sâ€”and Jessica was the result. Becky is over the moon, picturing heart-to-heart talks, shopping excursions, sisters'' nights out and so forthâ€”so she''s totally unprepared for the actual Jessica, a frugal environmentalist who (gasp!) actually hates shopping. Prattling Becky tries to charm her sis, but it doesn''t seem to be working; meanwhile, Luke is preoccupied with his job, and then there''s that stranger from Milan whom Becky owes for getting her that impossibly perfect Angel bag... what does he want with Luke? Of course everything will work out in the endâ€”and there will be a nice message about the importance of friends and familyâ€”but this installment isn''t as winning as its predecessors.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Becky Bloomwood, shopaholic extraordinaire, is back. She and her new husband, Luke Brandon, have been on a whirlwind ten-month honeymoon that''s taken them all around the world, but both are itching to get back to London. When they do return, Becky is disturbed to discover that her best friend has a new good buddy, and Becky''s parents are acting strangely. It turns out that they''ve just learned that her dad fathered a child a few years before he met her mother. Becky is thrilled to learn she has a half-sister, until she meets Jess. Jess is nothing like Becky: her clothes aren''t fashionable, she prefers dank caves to shoe stores, and she is incredibly frugal. After an awkward weekend together, the sisters part company on bad terms. To make matters worse, Becky''s gotten herself into a pickle with a purchase that could put a strain on her marriage. Like the previous installments,\n <em>\n  Shopaholic &amp; Sister\n </em>\n is hilarious fun for Prada and Gucci aficionados.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1201'),
(2279, 'Shopaholic Takes Manhattan', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The world is a different place since Helen Fielding triumphed on both sides of the Atlantic, but the torrent of benignly self-indulgent Bridget Jones''s Diary knockoffs has not subsided. In this sequel to Kinsella''s bestselling Confessions of a Shopaholic, Becky Bloomwood, a personal finance "expert" with her own TV show, is more of a financial mess than ever: she can''t stop shopping, even though she can''t afford anything. She''s even assigned her flatmate, Suze, to monitor her spending, but to no avail: Becky is full of cute rationalizations, like "Foreign money doesn''t count, so you can spend as much as you like," and can''t stop herself from sneaking into posh boutiques. Her work-obsessed boyfriend, Luke, runs a financial PR agency, and when he gets the green light to open an office in New York City, he brings Becky along. Upon her arrival in the Big Apple, she euphorically discovers Barney''s, Saks, Sephora and sample sales but when wind of her shopping excesses gets back to the British press, she loses both her relationship and her TV job. Becky manages to save the day in predictably winning fashion, with plenty of comic moments along the way. Sure, it''s tongue-in-cheek and all in good fun but will the barrage of shopping hijinks be enough to hold readers this time around? Kinsella creates some winning characters, but the credit card and shopping bag action is wearing dangerously thin.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The irresistible heroine of\n <strong>\n  Confessions of a Shopaholic\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Shopaholic Ties the Knot\n </strong>\n is back! And this time Becky Bloomwood and her credit cards are headed across the Atlantic.â€¦\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Beckyâ€™s biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. And worse, figuring out how to pack light. But packing takes on a whole new meaning when Luke announces heâ€™s moving to New York for businessâ€”and he asks Becky to go with him! Before you can say â€œPrada sample sale,â€ Becky has landed in the Big Apple, home of Park Avenue penthouses and luxury boutiques.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Surely itâ€™s only a matter of time until she becomes an American TV celebrity, and she and Luke are the toast of Gotham society. Nothing can stand in their way, especially with Beckyâ€™s bills miles away in London. But then an unexpected disaster threatens her career prospects, her relationship with Luke, and her available credit line!\n <strong>\n  Shopaholic Takes Manhattan\n </strong>\n â€”but will she have to return it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1202'),
(2280, 'Shopaholic Ties the Knot', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Another entertaining entry in Kinsella''s unabashedly fluffy Shopaholic series. Life could not get any better for Becky Bloomwood, the irresistibly daft heroine of\n <em>\n  Confessions of a Shopaholic\n </em>\n (2001) and\n <em>\n  Shopaholic Takes Manhattan\n </em>\n (2002). She has managed to parlay her personal and professional passions into a dream job as a personal shopper at Barney''s, and she and her wildly successful boyfriend live a life of relative peace and prosperity in Manhattan''s West Village. Well, at least they would if Becky could manage to curb her extravagant spending habits a bit. When Luke finally pops the question, a euphoric Becky manages to entangle herself in another rather sticky predicament. Becky''s cozy mum back in England has planned a homespun wedding for her only daughter on the same day for which Luke''s frosty society mother has booked the Plaza in New York. Two weddings on the same day, what''s a committed consumer to do? Chock-full of the charming antics and asides that made the first two installments hilarious best-sellers.\n <em>\n  Margaret Flanagan\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The lovable heroine of\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Confessions of a Shopaholic\n </em>\n and\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Shopaholic Takes Manhattan*\n  </em>\n </strong>\n is back!â€”in a hilarious tale of one blushing bride who just canâ€™t say no to saying â€œI do.â€*\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Life has been good for Becky Bloomwood: Sheâ€™s become the best personal shopper at Barneys, she and her successful entrepreneurial boyfriend, Luke, are living happily in Manhattanâ€™s West Village, and her new next-door neighbor is a fashion designer! But with her best friend, Suze, engaged, how can Becky fail to notice that her own ring finger is bare? Not that sheâ€™s been thinking of marriage (or diamonds) or anything . . . Then Luke proposes! Bridal registries dance in Beckyâ€™s head. Problem is, two other people are planning her wedding: Beckyâ€™s overjoyed mother has been waiting forever to host a backyard wedding, with the bride resplendent in Mumâ€™s frilly old gown. While Lukeâ€™s high-society mother is insisting on a glamorous, all-expenses-paid affair at the Plaza. Both weddings for the same day. And Becky canâ€™t seem to turn down either one. Can everyoneâ€™s favorite shopaholic tie the knot before everything unravels?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1203'),
(2281, 'A Short History of Nearly Everything', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n From primordial nothingness to this very moment,\n <em>\n  A Short History of Nearly Everything\n </em>\n reports what happened and how humans figured it out. To accomplish this daunting literary task, Bill Bryson uses hundreds of sources, from popular science books to interviews with luminaries in various fields. His aim is to help people like him, who rejected stale school textbooks and dry explanations, to appreciate how we have used science to understand the smallest particles and the unimaginably vast expanses of space. With his distinctive prose style and wit, Bryson succeeds admirably. Though\n <em>\n  A Short History\n </em>\n clocks in at a daunting 500-plus pages and covers the same material as every science book before it, it reads something like a particularly detailed novel (albeit without a plot). Each longish chapter is devoted to a topic like the age of our planet or how cells work, and these chapters are grouped into larger sections such as "The Size of the Earth" and "Life Itself." Bryson chats with experts like Richard Fortey (author of\n <em>\n  Life\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Trilobite\n </em>\n ) and these interviews are charming. But it''s when Bryson dives into some of science''s best and most embarrassing fights--Cope vs. Marsh, Conway Morris vs. Gould--that he finds literary gold.\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the title suggests, bestselling author Bryson (In a Sunburned Country) sets out to put his irrepressible stamp on all things under the sun. As he states at the outset, this is a book about life, the universe and everything, from the Big Bang to the ascendancy of Homo sapiens. "This is a book about how it happened," the author writes. "In particular how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since." What follows is a brick of a volume summarizing moments both great and curious in the history of science, covering already well-trod territory in the fields of cosmology, astronomy, paleontology, geology, chemistry, physics and so on. Bryson relies on some of the best material in the history of science to have come out in recent years. This is great for Bryson fans, who can encounter this material in its barest essence with the bonus of having it served up in Bryson''s distinctive voice. But readers in the field will already have studied this information more in-depth in the originals and may find themselves questioning the point of a breakneck tour of the sciences that contributes nothing novel. Nevertheless, to read Bryson is to travel with a memoirist gifted with wry observation and keen insight that shed new light on things we mistake for commonplace. To accompany the author as he travels with the likes of Charles Darwin on the Beagle, Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton is a trip worth taking for most readers.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/57'),
(2282, 'The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even diehard fans of the Twilight Saga may wish to skip this one. Although Meyer adds some nice touches--the narrator is herself a vampire, for example--critics had few positive things to say about Bree''s life story. "Intelligent and gifted, Bella, Jacob and Edward are intrinsically glamorous to readers,"\n <em>\n  Salon\n </em>\n notes. "But Bree is PVT (poor vampire trash) and she knows it." While Bree could have been interesting, she''s less than the "wild, amoral, bloodthirsty teen protagonist" (\n <em>\n  Guardian\n </em>\n ) critics hoped to see; clunky prose and dialogue don''t help. Still, the\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n speaks for many readers: "The satisfaction of\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n novels cannot be measured by such terms as â€˜good'' and â€˜bad.'' ... [A]ll fans will read and all haters will skip [this novella] regardless of the reviews."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bree Tanner, who first appeared briefly as a newborn vampire in Meyerâ€™s Eclipse (2007), is the star of this slim partner to the megamillion-selling Twilight series. A self-described â€œvampire nerd,â€ Bree recounts her adventures as she roams Seattle fulfilling her thirst for blood (and Meyer fansâ€™ thirst for more books). In a passionate introduction, Meyer reiterates what Eclipse readers already know: Bree has few nights left on Earth. As she joins her red-eyed coven in battle against yellow-eyed adversaries that, while foreign to Bree, will be instantly recognizable to millions of human readers, she finds her first (kissable) friend and discovers a truth about daylight. Formatted as one long, breathless chapter, this novella includes the same casual language and elements of suspense and romance found in the Twilight quartet, and interlocking characters and dialogue fit it easily into Bree and Bellaâ€™s scene in Eclipse. While Twilight fans will appreciate the story as an expansion of Bellaâ€™s world, this rapid read also stands satisfyingly alone. Grades 9-12. --Andrew Medlar\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/386'),
(2283, 'The Shotgun Rule', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n One of the crime genre''s rising stars, Huston (\n <em>\n  Six Bad Things\n </em>\n ) delivers a stunning, darkly comic coming-of-age novel, set in the summer of 1983 in an unnamed Northern California town. Four teenage boys, out of school and experimenting with drugs, booze and sex, find trouble fast when they break into the home of the notorious Arroyo brothers to retrieve a stolen bicycle. In the process, they stumble on the Arroyo family''s main operation, a meth lab. In a classic moment of naÃ¯ve bravado, they steal part of the stash, setting off a downward spiral of events that will reopen the door to the town''s dark past, when an earlier generation of criminals, including one of the boy''s fathers, controlled the streets. Huston''s natural gift for dialogue shines as he recreates the language of teenage males, in all its crude and often hilarious glory. Most importantly, Huston has the courage to both unsettle and entertain the reader, and his story resonates long after its disturbing final scenes.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his first stand-alone thriller, Huston explores a 1980s suburban California milieu similar to the one that set the stage for his wonderful Hank Thompson trilogy: teenage screwups chasing away the summertime blues by engaging in minor-league mayhem. Here, four white-bread friends who smoke pot and pilfer neighbors'' jewelry tangle with a trio of hardcase Hispanic brothers who stash their youngest pal''s bike in their crank lab/chop shop. The fast-unfolding plot''s tension springs from elements both expected (the fine line between youthful indiscretions and life-ruining mistakes) and surprising (how the kids'' actions unearth a long-buried feud involving their parents). Huston demonstrates a great feel for characters on the cusp of maturityâ€”which helps readers connect with their adolescent aches even when they''re being a pain. But just when it seems this might be a mislabeled YA yarn, the book delivers a fully realized elder generation as well. Huston also manages to minimize the racially charged aspects of the teen showdown by making one member of the foursome a Latino punk rocker who steals more than his share of scenes. Sennett, Frank\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1224'),
(2284, 'Shutter Island', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe''s radical approach to psychiatry; an approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing. Or is there another, more personal reason why he has come there? As the investigation deepens, the questions only mount. The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/406');
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(2285, 'Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Butcher''s long-running and bestselling urban fantasy series featuring Chicago wizard PI Harry Dresden were stunned by the concluding events of the 2010 novel Changes. They''ll probably want to skip ahead to the last of this collection''s 11 stories, "Aftermath," set just hours after the end of that book. With Dresden''s fate uncertain, it''s his longtime ally, Sgt. Karrin Murphy, who must help find a kidnapped werewolf. This entry is the collection''s strongest, full of powerful emotion. The rest of the book is a mixed bag, ranging from Butcher''s first attempt at short fiction--"a novice effort" that "wasn''t up to par for professional publication"--to more recent tales set around and between the novels. First-timers will be lost, and this uneven volume mostly makes the case that Butcher''s talent is best displayed in longer form. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n These are Butcherâ€™s short pieces about Harry Dresden. (Previous novels featuring that character, which the authorâ€™s many fans will recall with pleasure, include Proven Guilty, 2006, and White Knight, 2007). Most of these stories are reprints (â€œSomething Borrowed,â€ â€œItâ€™s My Birthday, Too,â€ â€œDay Off,â€ and â€œLast Callâ€ are included), but the collection offers some previously unpublished material. Butcher has not only given the genesis of each story but also indicates where each fits chronologically among the novels. Anyone who likes the Harry Dresden long works probably thinks itâ€™s high time this collection came out. Enjoy, but be warned that there is a sequel to Changes (2010) in the collection. --Frieda Murray\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/892'),
(2286, 'The Silence of the Lambs', 'Thomas Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Silence of the Lambs\n </em>\n , by Thomas Harris, is even better than the successful movie. Like his earlier\n <em>\n  Red Dragon\n </em>\n , the book takes us inside the world of professional criminal investigation. All the elements of a well-executed thriller are working here--driving suspense, compelling characters, inside information, publicity-hungry bureaucrats thwarting the search, and the clock ticking relentlessly down toward the death of another young woman. What enriches this well-told tale is the opportunity to live inside the minds of both the crime fighters and the criminals as each struggles in a prison of pain and seeks, sometimes violently, relief.\n</p>\n<p>\n Clarice Starling, a precociously self-disciplined FBI trainee, is dispatched by her boss, Section Chief Jack Crawford, the FBI''s most successful tracker of serial killers, to see whether she can learn anything useful from Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Lecter''s a gifted psychopath whose nickname is "The Cannibal" because he likes to eat parts of his victims. Isolated by his crimes from all physical contact with the human race, he plays an enigmatic game of "Clue" with Starling, providing her with snippets of data that, if she is smart enough, will lead her to the criminal. Undaunted, she goes where the data takes her. As the tension mounts and the bureaucracy thwarts Starling at every turn, Crawford tells her, "Keep the information and freeze the feelings." Insulted, betrayed, and humiliated, Starling struggles to focus. If she can understand Lecter''s final, ambiguous scrawl, she can find the killer. But can she figure it out in time?\n <em>\n  --Barbara Schlieper\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this thrillingly effective follow-up to Harris''s masterful 1981 suspense novel Red Dragon, the heroine is new, but the villain isn''t: Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the evil genius who played a small but crucial role in the earlier novel, returns, to mesmerizing effect. When a serial killer known as Buffalo Bill (he kidnaps, slays and skins young women) begins a crosscountry rampage, FBI trainee Clarice Starling tries to interview Lecter, a psychiatrist whose brilliant insights into the criminally insane are matched only by his bloodlusthe''s currently imprisoned for nine murders, and would like nothing more than the chance to kill again. Lecter, a vicious gamesman, will offer clues to the murderer''s pattern only in exchange for information about Clarice, analyzing her with horrible accuracy from the barest details. When Bill strikes again, the agent begins to realize that Lecter may know much more, and races against time and two twisted minds. Harris understands the crafting of literary terror as very few writers do; readers who put themselves in his good, coldblooded hands will lose sleep, and demand a sequel. 200,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1233'),
(2287, 'The Silmarillion', 'John Ronald Reuel Tolkien &amp; Christopher Tolkien &amp; Ted Nasmith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The tales of The Silmarillion were the underlying inspiration and source of J.R.R. Tolkien''s imaginative writing; he worked on the book throughout his life but never brought it to a final form. Long preceding in its origins The Lord of the Rings, it is the story of the First Age of Tolkien''s world, the ancient drama to which characters in The Lord of the RIngs look back and in which some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The title Silmarillion is shortened from Quenta Silmarillion, "The History of the Silmarils," the three great jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves, in which he imprisoned the light of the Two Trees that illumined Valinor, the land of the gods. When Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, destroyed the Trees, that light lived on only in the Silmarils; Morgoth seized them and set them in his crown, guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his people against the gods, their exile in Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all the heroisim of Elves and Men, against the great Enemy. The book includes several other, shorter works beside The Silmarillion proper. Preceding it are "Ainulindale," the myth of Creation, and "Valaquenta," in which the nature and powers of each of the gods is set forth. After The Silmarillion is "Akallabeth," the story of the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age; completing the volume is "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age," in which the events of The Lord of the Rings are treated in the manner of The Silmarillion. This new edition of The Silmarillion contains the revised and corrected "second edition" text and, by way of introduction, a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1951, which provides a brilliant exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages. It also contains almost fifty full-color illustrations by the artist Ted Nasmith, many of which appear for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(2288, 'The Silver Boat', 'Luanne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Bestseller Luanne Rice returns with a novel as timeless as the sea on which it''s set.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the beloved\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling Luanne Rice comes a heartwarming yet heart-wrenching portrait of three far-flung sisters who come home to Martha''s Vineyard one last time. Their mother''s beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth-especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back to their ancestral homeland.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Transplanted into the unfamiliar, each sister sees life, her heart, and her relationship to home in a new way. But how do they let go of a place that contains the complicated love of their imperfect family? Without the house, where will they be together?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The novel is a season on Martha''s Vineyard; a mission to Ireland; a cast of friends, including one wildly off-the-grid Zen genius; passionate love in the surf; and three very different sisters with lives filled with beauty, sorrow, and deep love they''d never been quite sure they could trust.\n  <em>\n   The Silver Boat\n  </em>\n  is Luanne Rice at her very best, complete with her singular talent for capturing a family in all its flawed complexity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1917'),
(2289, 'Silver Borne', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n All-new action in the #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series   When mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson attempts to return a powerful Fae book she''d previously borrowed in an act of desperation, she finds the bookstore locked up and closed down.  It seems the book contains secret knowledge-and the Fae will do just about anything to keep it out of the wrong hands. And if that doesn''t take enough of Mercy''s attention, her friend Samuel is struggling with his wolf side-leaving Mercy to cover for him, lest his own father declare Sam''s life forfeit.  All in all, Mercy has had better days. And if she isn''t careful, she might not have many more to live...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(2290, 'The Silver Chair', 'C. S. Lewis &amp; Pauline Baynes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Narnia...where owls are wise, where some of the giants like to snack on humans (and, if carefully cooked, on Marsh-wiggles, too), where a prince is put under an evil spell...and where the adventure begins.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eustace and Jill escape from the bullies at school through a strange door in the wall, which, for once is unlocked. It leads to the open moor...or does it? Once again Aslan has a task for the children, and Narnia needs them. Through dangers untold and caverns deep and dark, they pursue the quest that brings them face to face with the evil Witch. She must be defeated if Prince Rilian is to be saved.\n</p>\n<p>\n King Caspian''s beloved son Prince Rilian has disappeared. Aslan sends Eustace and his school friend Jill to Narnia on a quest to search for the young prince and defeat the evil Witch.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/905'),
(2291, 'Silver Girl: A Novel', 'Elin Hilderbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing - because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars.Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie''s had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island can''t offer complete escape, and they''re plagued by new and old troubles alike. When Connie''s brother Toby - Meredith''s high school boyfriend - arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between the life she is leading and the life she could have had. Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, Elin Hilderbrand delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2384'),
(2292, 'Simple Plan', 'Scott Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Smith''s remarkably adept debut thriller traces the fates of three people and a wrecked plane with $4.4 million.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-On an afternoon jaunt, Hank, his brother, and a friend accidentally discover a wrecked plane. Inside they find the dead pilot and a sack containing four million dollars. The men know that they should notify the authorities, but instead they devise a foolproof scheme for keeping the money. They will hide it for one year, tell no one, live normally, and then divide the loot into three equal portions. Nothing can go wrong with such a simple plan-or can it? Smith draws his characters deftly, fully exploring the changes that occur in each of the men after their discovery. The plot is clever, gripping, and full of twists. As Hank narrates the story, the tension builds slowly, but is sustained until the surprise ending. YAs will quickly become caught up in this polished suspense novel.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/261'),
(2293, 'The Sinister Pig', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The victim, well dressed but stripped of identification, is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, presenting Sergeant Jim Chee with a complex puzzle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why did the Washington office of the FBI snatch custody of this case from its local agents, cover it with secrecy, and call it a hunting accident? What was the victim seeking among the maze of pipelines and pumping stations in America''s largest gas field? Was he investigating the embezzlement of billions of dollars from the Indian Tribal royalty trust in the Department of the Interior?\n </p>\n <p>\n  On a level nearer to Chee''s heart, did photographs Bernie Manuelito had taken on an exotic game ranch near the Mexican border reveal something connected with this crime? Had Bernie, once a member of his squad but now a rookie Border Patrol Officer, put herself in terrible danger?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn helps Chee connect the lines on a dusty old map to find the answers Â— and the Sinister Pig Â— among the great Scimitar-Horned Oryx grazing on the historic old Tuttle Ranch.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1504'),
(2294, 'Sister Carrie', 'Theodore Dreiser &amp; Rachel Sarah &amp; Richard Lingeman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This epic of urban life tells of small- town heroine Carrie Meeber, adrift in an indifferent Chicago. Setting out, she has nothing but a few dollars and an unspoiled beauty. Hers is a story of struggleâ€” from sweatshop to stage successâ€”and of the love she inspires in an older, married man whose obsession with her threatens to destroy him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/863'),
(2295, 'Six Bad Things', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Hank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets. So when a Russian backpacker shows up in town asking questions, Hank tries to play it cool. But he knows the jig is up when the backpacker mentions the money . . . and the family Hank left behind. Suddenly Hankâ€™s in a desperate race to get to his parents in California before anyone can harm them. Along the way heâ€™ll face Federales and Border Patrol, mafiosi and vigilantes, extortionists and drug dealers, and a couple of psychotic surf bums with an ax to grind. From the golden beaches of the YucatÃ¡n to the seedy strip clubs of Vegas, Charlie Huston opens a door to the squalid underworld of crime and corruptionâ€“and invites the reader to live it in the extreme.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1220'),
(2296, 'Six Short Stories', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (1881-1975) was a comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Wodehouse''s main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. Wodehouse was admired both by contemporaries like Rudyard Kipling as well as by modern writers like Terry Pratchett. Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes. His other works include: A Prefect''s Uncle (1903), Tales of St. Austin''s (1903), The Gold Bat (1904), The Head of Kay''s (1905), Love Among the Chickens (1906), The White Feather (1907), Mike (1909), Psmith, Journalist (1909), Psmith in the City (1910), The Little Nugget (1913), Something New (1915), The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories (1917), Piccadilly Jim (1917), A Damsel in Distress (1919), Indiscretions of Archie (1921) and The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1629'),
(2297, 'Sizzling Sixteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this tepid Stephanie Plum adventure from Evanovich (Finger Lickin'' Fifteen, etc.), a personal case distracts the Trenton, N.J., bondswoman from tracking the usual group of eccentric skips--the kidnapping of her cousin, Vinnie, who''s being held for ransom in the high six figures. As Stephanie, sidekick Lula, and office manager Connie soon realize, Vincent Plum Bail Bonds is seriously in the red due to Vinnie''s gambling. Vinnie''s also gotten caught up with local mobster Bobby Sunflower in a complicated scheme. Even though her sleazy cousin isn''t her favorite person and chasing oddball felons isn''t her ideal career, Stephanie knows family loyalty counts for something, plus she owes him for giving her a job all those years ago. So with Lula and Connie in tow--and romantic interests Morelli and Ranger lurking in the background-- Stephanie must save the day once again. Evanovich is at her best spinning the bizarre subplots involving Stephanie''s bail jumpers, but the larger story simply recycles elements from previous installments.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephanie Plum, half-Italian, half-Hungarian, a shrewd mixture of smarts and dumb luck, works for her cousin Vinny as a bail bondswoman in Trenton, New Jersey. Vinny, however, is in deep fecal matter, owing too much money to the very scary guys who have kidnapped him. Stephanie, office manager Connie, and Lula, plus-sized and focused (if not on the job at hand), manage to spring Vinny (more than once) and find a lot of money to pay what he owes. Along the way, they facilitate a cow stampede and an alligator escape; are assisted by a bunch of Hobbit con-goers; and find their office going up quite thoroughly in flames. Stephanie wrecks the usual car and ping-pongs between the hot and dangerous Ranger and the hot and domestic Morelli. Ranger says the â€œloveâ€ word to Stephanie, but it is Morelli at the end, offering her a pink, lacy thong. In the first few pages, Evanovich both catches readers up on the hilarious and cockeyed history of the preceding 15 books and gives fans a little more of everything they want, including the return of beloved stoner Mooner. Funny, scary, silly, and sweet. --GraceAnne A. DeCandido\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/800'),
(2298, 'Skeleton Crew', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the introduction to\n <em>\n  Skeleton Crew\n </em>\n (1985), his second collection of stories, King pokes fun at his penchant for "literary elephantiasis," makes scatological jokes about his muse, confesses how much money he makes (gross and net), and tells a story about getting arrested one time when he was "suffused with the sort of towering, righteous rage that only drunk undergraduates can feel." He winds up with an invitation to a scary voyage: "Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way."\n</p>\n<p>\n And he sure does.\n <em>\n  Skeleton Crew\n </em>\n contains a superb short novel ("The Mist") that alone is worth the price of admission, plus two forgettable poems and 20 short stories on such themes as an evil toy monkey, a human-eating water slick, a machine that avenges murder, and unnatural creatures that inhabit the thick woods near Castle Rock, Maine. The short tales range from simply enjoyable to surprisingly good.\n</p>\n<p>\n In addition to "The Mist," the real standout is "The Reach," a beautifully subtle story about a great-grandmother who was born on a small island off the coast of Maine and has lived there her whole life. She has never been across "the Reach," the body of water between island and mainland. This is the story that King fans give to their friends who don''t read horror in order to show them how literate, how charming a storyteller he can be. Don''t miss it.\n <em>\n  --Fiona Webster\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This hefty sampler of King''s shorter works, from all stages of the horror master''s career, demonstrates the range of his abilities. Some of the stories here rank among his best, and "even the less successful ones are fun," PW observed.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/547'),
(2299, 'Skin Trade', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hamilton''s 17th Anita Blake novel draws the vampire hunter into a game of cat-and-mouse with a particularly monstrous vampire named Vittorio. Aided by sadistic serial killer Otto Jefferies, convenient sociopath Edward Kemper and fanged escorts handpicked by her lover Jean-Claude, U.S. marshal Anita offers her services to Las Vegas, now under siege from Vittorio''s army of enthralled preternatural beings. Manipulated by the cunning Vittorio and occasionally misled by coincidental events, Anita employs her insight into Vittorio''s condition and weaponized libido as the decisive weapons in this struggle. The book is largely concerned with the melodramatic conflict between hunter and hunter and Blake''s soap-operatic love life, but Hamilton does manage some genuinely moving passages, particularly those describing the terror of innocent vampires caught up in the arbitrary and draconian U.S. legal system.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City''s local authorities what they''re dealing with. Only it''s worse than she thought. Police officers and one executioner have been slain-paranormal style.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/588'),
(2300, 'Skipping Christmas', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Grisham turns a satirical eye on the overblown ritual of the festive holiday season, and the result is\n <em>\n  Skipping Christmas\n </em>\n , a modest but funny novel about the tyranny of December 25. Grisham''s story revolves around a typical middle-aged American couple, Luther and Nora Krank. On the first Sunday after Thanksgiving they wave their daughter Blair off to Peru to work for the Peace Corps, and they suddenly realize that "for the first time in her young and sheltered life Blair would spend Christmas away from home."\n</p>\n<p>\n Luther Krank sees his daughter''s Christmas absence as an opportunity. He estimates that "a year earlier, the Luther Krank family had spent $6,100 on Christmas," and have "precious little to show for it." So he makes an executive decision, telling his wife, friends, and neighbors that "we won''t do Christmas." Instead, Luther books a 10-day Caribbean cruise. But things start to turn nasty when horrified neighbors get wind of the Krank''s subversive scheme and besiege the couple with questions about their decision.\n</p>\n<p>\n Grisham builds up a funny but increasingly terrifying picture of how this tight-knit community turns on the Kranks, who find themselves under increasing pressure to conform. As the tension mounts, readers may wonder whether they will manage to board their plane on Christmas day.\n <em>\n  Skipping Christmas\n </em>\n is Grisham-lite, with none of the serious action or drama of his legal thrillers, but a funny poke at the craziness of Christmas.\n <em>\n  --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For all its clever curmudgeonly edge and minor charms, no way does this Christmas yarn from Grisham rank with A Christmas Carol, as the publisher claims. Nor does it rank with Grisham''s own best work. The premise is terrific, as you''d expect from Grisham. Fed up with the commercial aspects of Christmas, particularly all the money spent, and alone for the holiday for the first time in decades (their daughter has just joined the Peace Corps), grumpy Luther Krank and his sweeter wife, Nora, decide to skip Christmas this year to forgo the gifts, the tree, the decorations, the cards, the parties and to spend the dollars saved on a 10-day Caribbean cruise. But as clever as this setup is, its elaboration is ho-hum. There''s a good reason why nearly all classic Christmas tales rely on an element of fantasy, for, literarily at least, Christmas is a time of miracles. Grisham sticks to the mundane, however, and his story lacks magic for that. He does a smartly entertaining job of satirizing the usual Christmas frenzy, as Luther and Nora resist entreaties from various charities as well as increasing pressure from their neighbors (all sharply drawn, recognizable members of the generic all-American burb, the book''s setting) to do up their house in the traditional way, including installing the giant Frosty that this year adorns the roof of every home on the block except theirs. And when something happens that prompts the Kranks to jump back into Christmas at the last minute, Grisham does slip in a celebration of the real spirit of Christmas, to the point of perhaps squeezing a tear or two from his most sentimental readers (even if he comes uncomfortably close to It''s a Wonderful Life to do so). But it''s too little, too late. The misanthropy in this short novel makes a good antidote to the more cloying Christmas tales, and the book is fun to read. To compare it to Dickens, however, is...humbug. 1.5-million first printing.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/705'),
(2301, 'Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kurt Vonnegut''s absurdist classic\n <em>\n  Slaughterhouse-Five\n </em>\n introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut''s) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.\n</p>\n<p>\n Don''t let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut''s isn''t a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..."\n <em>\n  Slaughterhouse-Five\n </em>\n (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut''s most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like\n <em>\n  Catch- 22\n </em>\n , it fashions the author''s experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority.\n <em>\n  Slaughterhouse-Five\n </em>\n boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut''s other works, but the book''s basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time." So begins Vonnegut''s absurdist 1969 classic. Hawke rises to the occasion of performing this sliced-and-diced narrative, which is part sci-fi and partially based on Vonnegut''s experience as a American prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany during the firebombing of 1945 that killed thousands of civilians. Billy travels in time and space, stopping here and there throughout his life, including his long visit to the planet Tralfamador, where he is mated with a porn star. Hawke adopts a confidential, whisper-like tone for his reading. Listening to him is like listening to someone tell you a story in the back of a busâ€”the perfect pitch for this book. After the novel ends, Vonnegut himself speaks for a short while about his survival of the Dresden firestorm and describes and names the man who inspired this story. Tacked on to the very end of this audio smorgasbord is music, a dance single that uses a vintage recording of Vonnegut reading from the book. Though Hawke''s reading is excellent, one cannot help but wish Vonnegut himself had read the entire text.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(2302, 'Sleepless', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Barry Eisler Reviews *Sleepless\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position with the CIAâ€™s Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and startup executive in Silicon Valley and Japan. Eislerâ€™s bestselling thrillers have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year, have been included in numerous "Best of" lists, and have been translated into nearly 20 languages. The first book in Eislerâ€™s John Rain series,\n  <em>\n   Rain Fall\n  </em>\n  , has been made into a movie starring Gary Oldman. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of\n  <em>\n   Sleepless\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n One of the great things about Charlie Huston is the way he sneaks up on you. You think\n <em>\n  The Shotgun Rule\n </em>\n is about teen gangs and the consequences of crime--and gradually realize that on a deeper level it''s about fathers and sons and reconciliation with the past. You think\n <em>\n  The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death\n </em>\n is about the quirky crews who clean blood and brain matter from the furniture and rugs when someone prematurely shuffles off this mortal coil--and you start to see it''s really about healing the wounds within. And you think\n <em>\n  Sleepless\n </em>\n is about zombies, and a dystopian Los Angeles that''s as real as tomorrow, and horribly believable government/corporate conspiracies, and a stylish and awesomely capable assassin--and you realize when you finish (tears in your eyes, in my case), that it''s really about the unlikely human bonds that transcend shock and horror and trauma.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are so many things I loved about this book. That sly Huston humor, lurking just beneath the tilted and terrifying zombified world he depicts, is one:\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Movies themselves had not stopped shooting. Certainly production had been scaled back, and more than one studio had gone under or, more accurately, been consumed whole by somewhat heartier competitors, but even as energy costs spiked, even as all cities, most suburbs, and many rural areas, experienced outbreaks of organized violence, even as the standing army was deployed with obvious permanence to the oil fields in Alaska, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, and Brazil, even as the draft was reinstated and the gears of the economy audibly snapped their teeth and ground to a squealing halt, even as the drought extended and crops withered, even as the ice caps melted and coastal waters rose, people still liked a good picture."\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n And Charlie isn''t only skilled with the broad brush. His grace notes, the little asides that animate the larger images and characters and themes, are legion. It felt so right that sufferers from the sleepless disease call the non-afflicted "snorers"... and there''s Vinnie the Fish, the ex-criminal and current open-air seafood restauranteur who believes the height of dining elegance is a meal served with a real fork, not a spork... and the lethally poised Lady Chizu''s carefully arranged collection of typewriters "upon which suicide notes were written. And not another word, after."\n</p>\n<p>\n Some of what''s in the book felt so real I had to Google it to know more. A role-playing game called Chasm Tide. The etiology of Fatal Familial Insomnia and the sleepless prion. I won''t tell you what I found, but I was all the more impressed.\n</p>\n<p>\n I could go on, but I''m running out of room. So let me just note again the aforementioned assassin, Jasper. If you''ve read my Rain books, you know I like assassins possessed of style, exceptional lethality, and unusual self-awareness. Jasper has all that, and more. He''s the best fictional assassin I''ve come across in a long time: believable, fascinating, ruthless. A joy to spend time with, as is the book itself.\n</p>\n<p>\n The characters, the vision, the atmosphere... long after the final page surrenders the last of the story''s surprising and utterly satisfying secrets,\n <em>\n  Sleepless\n </em>\n will stay with you. It''s Charlie''s best yet--his most ambitious, his most engrossing, his most affecting. A strong statement, you''ll agree, if you''ve read his other terrific stories. But see for yourself--and prepare to be wowed.\n <em>\n  --Barry Eisler\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Huston''s impressive, challenging thriller set in a postapocalyptic Los Angeles, a devastating illness renders the afflicted unable to sleep. In about a year, those with SLP (as the sleepless illness is known) deteriorate and die. Amid the city''s rampant violence and lawlessness, LAPD cop Parker Park Haas tries to persuade himself that a future exists for his newborn daughter. As the outside world becomes increasingly dangerous, Park pursues an undercover investigation that takes him deep into the milieu of an online game called Chasm Tide, into which many people have retreated. As in the author''s Joe Pitt vampire series (\n <em>\n  My Dead Body\n </em>\n , etc.), this book has at its heart a love story: Park''s wife is dying from SLP, and Park begins to fear he may be getting it, too. Can the mysterious mercenary known only as Jasper help? Some fans of Huston''s crime fiction may not be comfortable with a novel that itself resembles a role-playing game, but it will gain him a whole new readership.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1222'),
(2303, 'Sleepwalk With Me: And Other Painfully True Stories', 'Mike Birbiglia', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Comedian Birbiglia, frequent contributor to public radioâ€™s This American Life and The Moth and author of the blog My Secret Public Journal, has the ability to remember a lot of things most of us would just as soon forget. Lucky for us, in this memoir Birbiglia recalls the events leading up to his earning the childhood nickname â€œTinklesâ€ (though you might be able to guess how it happened), and he tells the story of how, instead of bestowing his first kiss on his middle-school crush, he tossed his cookies at her feet. Heâ€™s now, hopefully, cashing in on the demoralizing dues paid in his youth and early career as a stand-up comicâ€”readers will recognize him from the late-night circuit and Comedy Central specials, and the book itself is an extension of his one-man show. Charming, brainier than heâ€™d probably admit, and frequently poignant in spite of himself, Birbiglia throws together an alternately rollicking and warm handful of stories; the lengthy title story, of his struggle with a sleep disorder, is as fascinating as it is hilarious. --Annie Bostrom\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia was always a very funny guy who told stories onstage. But in the last two years it''s been inspiring to see the stories get bigger and more complicated and emotional as he turned himself into a real storyteller andâ€”with this bookâ€”a real author as well. These are deeply relatable, totally engaging stories. They''re as moving and amusing as they come.â€ â€”Ira Glass, host and producer of â€œThis American Lifeâ€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia can write an entertaining yet soulful story in his sleepâ€”that and jump out of motel windows.â€ â€”Sarah Vowell, author of\n  <em>\n   The Wordy Shipmates\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Assassination Vacation\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFirst, know that this book is well written and funny. Now, know that I hate cynicism. Hate it. This book is the opposite of cynicism. I love\n  <em>\n   Sleepwalk With Me\n  </em>\n  .â€ â€”Jeff Garlin, Co-creator and Co-star of\n  <em>\n   Curb Your Enthusiasm\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia is a good friend of mine but I''m still really happy when weird, bad things happen to him because I love hearing the stories.â€ â€”Seth Meyers, head writer and host of Weekend Update,\n  <em>\n   Saturday Night Live\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFunny. Very funny. Birbiglia is the child Woody Allen and Bob Newhart never hadâ€”please don''t try to picture that ''encounter.'' Smart and self-aware, with just enough perspective on his quirks and issues that you don''t have to feel too sorry for him...as you laugh at and/or with him.â€ â€”Bob Odenkirk, creator and star of HBO''s\n  <em>\n   Mr. Show with Bob and David\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia has always made me laugh and so did this book. No one explains their insanity as sanely or as honestly or is as funny as Mike. If you think youâ€™re crazy, this is the book for you. Itâ€™s a good thing the kid is a talented writer and comic or heâ€™d be screwed.â€ â€”Lewis Black\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ\n  <em>\n   Sleepwalk with Me\n  </em>\n  is so funny, inspired, and jealous-makingly well written, I am beginning to suspect that Mike Birbiglia MAY ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN AWAKE WHILE HE WROTE IT. This changes my whole worldview.â€ â€”John Hodgman, author of\n  <em>\n   More Information Than You Require\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œInsightful, heartfelt, and comedicâ€”what more could you want from a book? Mike Birbiglia is a unique and wonderful new voice in American theater and letters.â€ â€”Jonathan Ames, creator of HBO''s "Bored to Death" and author of\n  <em>\n   The Extra Man\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Wake Up, Sir!\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ\n  <em>\n   Sleepwalk With Me\n  </em>\n  is about the things that keep us all up at night: love, family and growing up. In equal parts hilarious and moving, this book should cement Mike Birbigliaâ€™s status as a national treasure.â€ â€”Andy Borowitz, author of\n  <em>\n   Who Moved My Soap: The CEO''s Guide to Surviving Prison; The Bernie Madoff Edition\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia is a great storyteller, just as funny on the page as on the stage. These comic gems strung together create a hilarious and touching memoir of growing up awkwardly and finding his way in the cruel world of stand-up. An original wit who raises self-deprecation to an art form, and always leaves you thinking and laughing." â€”Nathan Lane\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1015'),
(2304, 'The Slippery Slope: Book the Tenth (A Series of Unfortunate Events)', 'Lemony Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Like bad smells, uninvited weekend guests or very old eggs, there are some things that ought to be avoided.\n</p>\n<p>\n Snicket''s saga about the charming, intelligent, and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to alarm its distressed and suspicious fans the world over. The 10th book in this outrageous publishing effort features more than the usual dose of distressing details, such as snow gnats, an organised troupe of youngsters, an evil villain with a dastardly plan, a secret headquarters and some dangerous antics you should not try at home. With the weather turning colder, this is one chilling book you would be better off without.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ages 10+\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/127'),
(2305, 'Small Favor', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Intricate yet accessible plotting and near-Arctic winter weather mark the 10th Harry Dresden adventure from bestseller Butcher (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  White Night\n </em>\n ). A friendly snowball fight opens the Chicago-based wizard-detective''s latest tale, but it''s not long before a host of more dangerous foes are out for Harry''s blood. A missing human mobster is said to be seeking greater influence among Chicago''s extranormal population, but the true threat proves both more subtle and of much greater consequence. Butcher smoothly manages a sizable cast of allies and adversaries, doles out needed backstory with crisp efficiency and sustains just the right balance of hair''s-breadth tension and comic relief. Encounters with a series of increasingly dangerous Billy Goats Gruff unfold with particular cleverness, and key developments involving Sgt. Karrin Murphy, Harry''s reluctant police liaison, will intrigue seasoned fans as well as newcomers attracted by last year''s TV adaptation of the series.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Investigating a questionable crime scene, Harry Dresden realizes something much nastier than simple arson is involved. Then the Winter Queen Mab shows up, requesting one of the two favors he still owes her. Soon Harry is embroiled in Fae maneuvering and fighting an even nastier enemy, all because Mab maneuvered him into helping crime boss Marcone. Fortunately, Harry has amazing friends, including some characters he hasnâ€™t gotten along with in the past. Packed with the epic battling characteristic of the Dresden Files, promising something fascinating for the next volume, this is another fine combination of mystery and fantasy, seasoned by Harryâ€™s appalling sense of humor. --Regina Schroeder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(2306, 'Small Gods (Discworld Series)', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Lost in the chill deeps of space between the galaxies, it sails on forever, a flat, circular world carried on the back of a giant turtleâ€”\n</p>\n<p>\n Discworld\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”a land where the unexpected can be expected. Where the strangest things happen to the nicest people. Like Brutha, a simple lad who only wants to tend his melon patch. Until one day he hears the voice of a god calling his name. A small god, to be sure. But bossy as Hell.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Lost in the chill deeps of space between the galaxies, it sails on forever, a flat, circular world carried on the backs of four giant turtles. This is Discworld--a land where the unexpected can be expected, where the strangest things happen to the nicest people.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/325'),
(2307, 'Small Vices', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The bad kid from the ''hood has a long, long record, but did he really murder the white coed from ritzy Pemberton College? His former lawyers believe that he was framed, and they hire Spenser and Hawk to uncover the truth. Plumbing the depths of the seamy side of life, they encounter a no man''s land of twisted cops and spoiled rich kids with peculiar private proclivities. When a master assassin''s bullet takes Spenser down, he survives the attack but remains dead to the world, plotting to pay back his shooter while recovering his strength in secret. From the back streets of Boston to Manhattan''s most elegant thoroughfares, Small Vices delivers both galvanizing action, suspense and a complex meditation on morality and mortality in the blend that legions of Spenser fans recognize and appreciate.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Spenser dies--and lives to tell the tale--in Parker''s stunning new mystery novel. In an attempt to smoke out a killer, Spenser plays dead after he barely survives a master assassin''s bullet. For it is only then that he can see justice done--and let the shooter know that it''s payback time. BOMC Main Selection. 320 pp. 150,000 print.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1128'),
(2308, 'Smokin&#39; Seventeen: A Stephanie Plum Novel', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for Janet Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œNo less than her plotting, Evanovichâ€™s characterizations are models of screwball artistry. . . . The intricate plot machinery of her comic capers is fueled by inventive twists.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œChutzpah and sheer comic inventiveness . . . The Evanovich/Plum books [are] good fun.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”The Washington Post\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Where thereâ€™s smoke thereâ€™s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum.\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  is that Stephanieâ€™s name is on the killerâ€™s list.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Short on time to find evidence proving the killerâ€™s identity, Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that itâ€™s time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanieâ€™s mom is encouraging Stephanie to dump them both and choose a former high school football star whoâ€™s just returned to town. Stephanieâ€™s sidekick, Lula, is encouraging Stephanie to have a red-hot boudoir â€œbake-off.â€ And Grandma Bella, Morelliâ€™s old-world grandmother, is encouraging Stephanie to move to a new state when she puts â€œthe eyeâ€ on Stephanie.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  With a cold-blooded killer after her, a handful of hot men, and a capture list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire, Stephanieâ€™s life looks like itâ€™s about to go up in smoke.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1942');
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(2309, 'Snow Crash', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n , Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year''s hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what''s a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel,\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun,\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In California of the near future, when the U.S. is only a "Burbclave" (city-state), the Mafia is just another franchise chain (CosaNostrastet Pizza, Incorporated) and there are no laws to speak of, Hiro Protagonist follows clues from the Bible, ancient Sumer and high technology to help thwart an attempt to take control of civilization--such as it is. When he logs on to Metaverse, an imaginary place entered via computer, Hiro encounters Juanita Marquez, a "radical" Catholic and computer whiz. She warns him off Snow Crash (a street drug named for computer failure) and gives him a file labeled Babel (as in Tower of Babel). Another friend, sp ok/pk Da5id, who ignores Juanita''s warning, computer crashes out of Metaverse into the real world, where he physically collapses. Hiro, Juanita, Y.T. (a freewheeling, skateboard-riding courier) and sundry other Burbclave and franchise power figures see some action on the way to finding out who is behind this bizarre "drug" with ancient roots. Although Stephenson ( Zodiac ) provides more Sumerian culture than the story strictly needs (alternating intense activity with scholarship breaks), his imaginative juxtaposition of ancient and futuristic detail could make this a cult favorite.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/144'),
(2310, 'Snuff', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palahniuk''s audacious ninth novel tells the story of Cassie Wright, an aging porn queen who intends to put an exclamation point on her career by having sex with 600 men in one day on film. The story begins with Mr. 600â€”the pornosaur who introduced Cassie to the businessâ€”as he describes the other 599 actors awaiting their moment on screen. The perspective then shifts to Mr. 72, an adopted Midwestern 20-something who is one of the many young men claiming to be Cassie''s long-lost son. Mr. 137, a has-been television star hoping to revive his career, wants to ask Cassie''s hand in marriage so that the two can star in a reality TV show. But for a novel centered around a gargantuan gangbang, there''s surprisingly little action; the small amount of narrative movement takes place backstage, where the characters attempt to get a sense of one another while waiting for their number to be called. There are sharp moments when Palahniuk compassionately and candidly examines the flesh-on-film industry, but mostly this reads like a cross between the Spice Channel and\n <em>\n  Days of Our Lives\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palahniuk has followed his tendency towards sensationalism to its logical conclusion and written a novel about a pornographic film, to mixed reactions. Naysayers wrote that\n <em>\n  Snuff\n </em>\n either failed in its satirical role or, worse, Palahniuk has simply run out of ideas and only wants to make readers cringe. Yet other reviewers felt that, as in previous novels, Palahniukâ€™s strong, character-driven explorations of the unseemly actually reveal a great deal about our society. Certainly, he riffs cleverly on Cassieâ€™s cinematic history (â€œGropes of Wrath,â€ for example). But Palahniukâ€™s play on movies and literature in the context of this novel perhaps points to an important question raised by the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n : â€œWhat the hell is going on? The country that produced Melville, Twain and James now venerates King, Crichton, Grisham, Sebold and Palahniuk.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/327'),
(2311, 'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The looniest of the lot."â€”\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA madcap adventure . . . Adamsâ€™s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.â€â€”*United Press International\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œThe most ridiculously exaggerated situation comedy known to created beings . . . Adams is irresistible.â€â€”\n  </em>\n  Boston Globe\n  <br />\n  *\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earthâ€™s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of\n  <em>\n   The Hitchhikerâ€™s Guide to the Galaxy\n  </em>\n  all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  God only knows what it all means. Fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since itâ€™s light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. But what else is new?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(2312, 'Solar', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the afterglow of winning a Nobel Prize, Michael Beard lives a dismal life marked by multiple marriages, figurehead positions, and his own gluttony. However, after his most recent wife leaves him, Beard attempts to start living life to the fullest. He stumbles into this new life with a great deal of fanfare and catastrophe: covering up murder, nearly losing his penis to frostbite, and devising a plan to harness the power of the sun to save the planet. Roger Allam''s English accent and gravelly voice balances a range of characters and emotions, especially Beard''s arrogance and self-righteousness. More importantly, Allam''s straightforward delivery of Beard''s zany adventures enhances the humorous quality of McEwan''s text. A Doubleday hardcover (Reviews, Feb. 1).\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics expressed decidedly mixed opinions about McEwan''s latest work--and perhaps it''s no surprise that he was better-reviewed on his UK home front. While most critics on either side of the pond praised the author''s intelligent plot (especially his command of science) and ample storytelling gifts, the majority agreed that\n <em>\n  Solar\n </em>\n is not his best novel to date. A few commented that the several narrative strands, which take place over more than a decade, do not cohere; Beard''s jaunt to the North Pole, for example is interesting but tangential. Tired jokes, a rushed climax, and Beard''s own piggish character felt claustrophobic to others. But most contentious of all was the satirical, comic tone superimposed on the very serious subject of climate change. Though\n <em>\n  Solar\n </em>\n is a worthy inquiry into truth, morality, and the future of humanity, some critics could not get past McEwan''s approach.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/384'),
(2313, 'Sole Survivor', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Joe Carpenter, the hero of Dean Koontz''s newest novel,\n <em>\n  Sole Survivor,\n </em>\n is a man nearly paralyzed by grief. One year earlier, his wife and two children had been among the 230 victims of a plane crash that left no survivors. So when Joe encounters a woman who claims to have been aboard that plane and survived the catastrophe, and then she almost immediately disappears, he is understandably riled up. In the course of trying to track this woman down, Joe finds himself entangled in a web of shadowy conspiracy and perilous secrets.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this latest book, Koontz pumps up the volume and gives his readers what they''ve come to expect from him: an expert mix of cover ups, cults, bizarre suicides, and a shocking twist at the end that keeps\n <em>\n  Sole Survivor\n </em>\n racing along from one improbable but undeniably thrilling event to the next.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA. Joe Carpenter''s life stops with the deaths of his beloved wife and two young daughters in an airplane crash surrounded by mystery?350 dead and no survivors. Marking the first anniversary of the disaster with a visit to their graves, Joe encounters a young woman taking pictures of their tombstones. She tells him her name is Rose and that she survived the crash that killed his family. Before Joe can continue the conversation, they are attacked by two gunmen. As Rose flees for her life, Joe knows he must discover the truth of what happened to the fatal flight and the reason for the cover-up. His search leads him to relatives of other crash victims?most of whom commit bizarre suicides and all of whom have been contacted by Rose. His investigation reveals that Rose was in possession of government secrets that could change the world once she exposed them. Koontz has readers so totally involved that even Joe''s impossible dream, that a member of his family may have survived the crash under Rose''s protection, seems possible. A spellbinding novel.?Katherine Fitch, Lake Braddock Middle School, Burke, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/528'),
(2314, 'Someday', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Pressures of the celebrity lifestyle weigh heavily on Dayne and Katy Matthews as they take on separate movie projects. Tabloid rumors talk of trouble and unfaithfulness between the two, but finally something drastic catches Dayne''s attention and makes him realize the destruction they''re playing with. But will it be too late? The Flanigan family recognizes the deep loss of the Christian Kids Theater program, and they lead a final effort to keep the theater from being torn down. Meanwhile, John Baxter takes the next step in his growing relationship with Elaine, giving him a season to contemplate selling the Baxter house and, along with it, losing a lifetime of memories made there. As the rest of the family considers the future and what may lie ahead, they must pull together like never before. Only their undying love for each other can help the Baxters get past the trials of today for a life they know is possible . . . someday.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Karen Kingsbury\n  </strong>\n  is currently America''s best-selling inspirational author. She has written more than 30 of her Life-Changing Fiction titles and has nearly 5 million books in print. Dubbed by Time magazine as the Queen of Christian Fiction. Her fiction has made her one of the country''s favorite storytellers, and one of her novels-Gideon''s Gift-is under production for an upcoming major motion picture release. Her emotionally gripping titles include the popular Redemption series, the Firstborn series, Divine, One Tuesday Morning, Beyond Tuesday Morning, Oceans Apart, and A Thousand Tomorrows.Karen and her husband, Don, live in the Pacific Northwest and are parents to one girl and five boys, including three adopted from Haiti.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1967'),
(2315, 'Something Fresh', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n IA Blandings novel /IThis is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his long-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler. As Wodehouse wrote, ''without at least one impostor on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself''. In ISomething Fresh/I there are two, each with an eye on a valuable scarab which Lord Emsworth has acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket. But of course things get a lot more complicated than this''Åš\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1632'),
(2316, 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger &amp; Dark''s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes. . .and the stuff of nightmare.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury''s unparalleled literary classic\n  <em>\n   SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES.\n  </em>\n  For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin.The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger &amp; Dark''s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes. . .and the stuff of nightmare.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury''s unparalleled literary classic SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(2317, 'Song of Susannah', 'Stephen King &amp; Darrel Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s something about a crippled, black, schizophrenic, civil rights activist-turned-gunslinger whose body has been hijacked by a white, pregnant demon from a parallel world that keeps a seven-volume story bracingly strong as it veers toward its Armageddon-like conclusion. When Susannah Dean is transported via a magic door on the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis (the scene of much of\n <em>\n  The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla\n </em>\n ) to New York City in the summer of 1999, the "demon-mother" who possesses her, Mia, has only one thing on her mind. She must give birth to her "chap" at a predetermined location in Manhattan''s East 60s, as instructed by the henchmen-or "Low Men"-of the evil Crimson King. Pressed for time, Father Callahan, preteen Jake and talking pet "billy-bumbler" Oy follow Susannah and Mia''s trail in an effort to prevent an act that would quicken the destruction of the Dark Tower and, in turn, of all worlds. Meanwhile, gunslingers Roland and Eddie travel to 1977 Maine in search of bookstore owner Calvin Tower, who is being hunted down by mobster Enrico Balazar and his gang, who first appeared in Eddie''s version of New York in\n <em>\n  The Drawing of the Three\n </em>\n Avid readers of the series will either be completely enthralled or extremely irritated when, in a gutsy move, the author weaves his own character into this unpredictable saga, but either way there''s no denying the ingenuity with which King paints a candid picture of himself. The sixth installment of this magnum opus stops short with the biggest cliffhanger of King''s career, but readers at the edge of their seats need only wait a few short months (\n <em>\n  Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower\n </em>\n ) to find out how-and if-King''s fictional universe will come to an end. 10 full-color illus. not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n King''s epical Dark Tower hastens to a close, and its penultimate volume is one of the speediest. The gunslingers of Mid-World and other alternate Earths have defeated\n <em>\n  The Wolves of the Calla\n </em>\n (2003) but lost one of their number. Susannah Dean, nee Odetta Holmes, lacking her lower legs after a minion of the Satan of Mid-World, the Crimson King, pushed her in front of a subway train, and whose personality is sometimes split between black bourgeoise Odetta and viciously paranoiac Detta Walker, has been taken over by the spirit Mia to be the body in which Mia will gestate a boy who will eventually kill head gunslinger Roland. The child is to be born in New York in 1999, which is where Susannah-Mia repairs through one of the doors between worlds. The other gunslingers pursue through the same door, but only 11-year-old Jake Chambers, accompanied by former ''Salems'' Lot priest Don Callahan, get to New York. Roland and Susannah''s husband, Eddie Dean, tumble into an ambush in New England in 1977. Each chapter--called a stanza and ending with two songlike quatrains--advances one subset of gunslingers'' progress. King keeps us on tenterhooks throughout--and leaves us there. Before quite departing, he tacks on a clever coda about the gradual creation of the Dark Tower--but in which world? The series concludes with\n <em>\n  The Dark Tower\n </em>\n in September.\n <em>\n  Ray Olson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/567'),
(2318, 'Sons and Lovers', 'D. H. Lawrence &amp; Victoria Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Sons and Lovers\n </em>\n , by\n <strong>\n  D. H. Lawrence\n </strong>\n , is part of the\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Called the most widely-read English novel of the twentieth century,\n <strong>\n  D. H. Lawrence\n </strong>\n â€™s largely autobiographical\n <em>\n  Sons and Lovers\n </em>\n tells the story of Paul Morel, a young artist growing into manhood in a British working-class community near the Nottingham coalfields. His mother Gertrude, unhappily married to Paulâ€™s hard-drinking father, devotes all her energies to her son. They develop a powerful and passionate relationship, but eventually tensions arise when Paul falls in love with a girl and seeks to escape his family ties. Torn between his desire for independence and his abiding attachment to his loving but overbearing mother, Paul struggles to define himself sexually and emotionally through his relationships with two womenâ€”the innocent, old-fashioned Miriam Leivers, and the experienced, provocatively modern Clara Dawes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heralding Lawrenceâ€™s mature period, Sons and Lovers vividly evokes the all-consuming nature of possessive love and sexual attraction. Lushly descriptive and deeply emotional, it is rich in universal truths about human relationships.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Victoria Blake\n </strong>\n is a freelance writer. She has worked at\n <em>\n  The Paris Review\n </em>\n and contributed to the\n <em>\n  Boulder Daily Camera\n </em>\n , small literary presses in the United States, and English-language publications in Bangkok, Thailand. She currently lives and works in San Diego, California.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Victoria Blake''s Introduction to *Sons and Lovers\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n The story of how and why D.H. Lawrence wrote\n <em>\n  Sons and Lovers\n </em>\n is a love story as much as it is a story about literature. The story begins at D.H. Lawrence''s birth and ends just before the outbreak of World War One. Although it is a love story, it is not a story about amor, per se, the exclusive romantic love. Rather, it is about love in all its various guises-love for the Mother Country and the mother, love for the work of writing and, above all, love for life itself. D.H. Lawrence was a passionate man; he threw himself into life. In his presence, his peers were aware of life lived more highly, of emotions felt more truly and of the rawness of human experience. Lawrence took life in huge gulps, personalizing it and, in the end, changing it to suit his own artistic goals.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I remember seeing him sitting apart at a table doing matriculation work," writes Jessie Chambers in her book\n <em>\n  D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record\n </em>\n (see "For Further Reading"). "He smiled across at me, and I saw again his uniqueness, how totally different he was from any of the other youths. . . . There was his sensitiveness . . . his delicacy of spirit, that, while it contributed vitally to his charm, made him more vulnerable, more susceptible to injury from the crudeness of life" (p. 47).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Sons and Lovers\n </em>\n is Lawrence''s third novel. He began writing it when he was twenty-five years old, a young, sensitive schoolteacher with periodic bouts of pneumonia and a penchant for problems of the heart. The novel underwent four major revisions and a name change before being published in 1913. As conceived, it was to be a book based on fact: the story of the young man, Paul Morel, growing up in a coal-mining district of the English Midlands. As such, it would be a thinly disguised fictionalization of Lawrence''s own life, a portrait of the artist as a young man or, as the critic Harold Bloom suggests, a portrait of the artist as a young prig.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lawrence was born in 1885 in a lower-middle-class town in Nottinghamshire during a time in English history characterized by repressive social mores, strict morality, and austere, even ascetic, religious practices. In other words, the author was born at a time and in a place particularly inclined toward priggishness.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lawrence chaffed under the yoke of Victorian England. His gift of perception, which told him that life was a vast mystery and wonder, also told him that his country was ruining itself with its industrialization, its mechanization, and its impulse toward war. As he grew up, he grew intolerant. "Curse you, my countrymen," he wrote to Edward Garnett, his publisher and friend, in a letter dated July 1912, "you have put the halters round your necks, and pull tighter and tighter from day to day. You are strangling yourselves, you blasted fools" (\n <em>\n  The Letters of D. H. Lawrence\n </em>\n , Vol. 1, edited by James T. Boulton). To borrow Lawrence''s own phrase, England suffered under a "Thou Shalt Not" mentality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lawrence longed for the implied permission of the "Thou Shalt," two words that promise not only freedom but also free will. The purpose of life, Lawrence wrote, was not simply to live, but to live vitally and at the edge of the great mystery of existence. This will to live-or, perhaps more correctly, the will toward life-was, in a characteristically Lawrencian sense, mixed up with a philosophy of sex. With more emotion than logic, Lawrence felt that "Thou Shalt," when murmured by a partially clothed woman, promised not only sexual union but also spiritual union. His philosophy is not simply, as future critics would categorize it, "sex in the head." What Lawrence wanted was not crude, not base, not purely sexual. "It''s a pity that sex is such an ugly little word," Lawrence wrote in an essay titled "Sex Versus Loveliness." "While ever it lives, the fire of sex, which is the source of beauty and anger, burns in us beyond our understanding. . . . Sex and beauty are one thing, like flame and fire. If you hate sex, you hate beauty." Lawrence wanted, through sex, to understand beauty and through beauty, mystery. It was this understanding that Lawrence defined as intuition, and it was this intuition that Lawrence felt to be his prime talent as a writer.\n</p>\n<p>\n And it is a pity that sex was such a dirty little word in Victorian England, though for admirers of Lawrence it would be hard to wish it otherwise. The most subtle, almost sublime, tensions in his writing owe much to the war between his second-natural will to live and his natural desire to obey.\n <em>\n  Sons and Lovers\n </em>\n is the work of a confused man, one who could not figure out which impulse to follow. As in life, so in fiction. In\n <em>\n  Sons and Lovers\n </em>\n , the two impulses are represented on the one side by Paul Morel''s relationship with his mother and on the other side by his relationship with first Miriam, then Clara. In a much-quoted letter written to Edward Garnett dated November 1912, Lawrence defends the idea of the book, succinctly illuminating its themes.\n</p>\n<p>\n A woman of character and refinement goes into the lower class, and has no satisfaction in her own life. She has had a passion for her husband, so the children are born of passion, and have heaps of vitality. But as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers-first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother-urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can''t love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives, and holds them. . . . As soon as the young men come into contact with women, there''s a split. William gives his sex to a fribble, and his mother holds his soul. But the split kills him, because he doesn''t know where he is. The next son gets a woman who fights for his soul-fights his mother. The son loves the mother-all the sons hate and are jealous of the father. The battle goes on between the mother and the girl, with the son as object. The mother gradually proves stronger, because of the tie of blood. The son decides to leave his soul in his mother''s hands, and, like his elder brother, go for passion. He gets passion. Then the split begins to tell again. But, almost unconsciously, the mother realizes what is the matter, and begins to die. The son casts off his mistress, attends to his mother dying. He is left in the end naked of everything, with the drift toward death (Letters).\n</p>\n<p>\n Since Freud, mother love versus romantic love has become a familiar theme. Hundreds of pages, perhaps thousands, have been written about Lawrence''s Oedipus complex as demonstrated in the novel. Critics began to see the novel in a Freudian light as early as 1913;\n <em>\n  Sons and Lovers\n </em>\n was taken to be the first, great, Freudian allegory. "As he stooped to kiss his mother, she threw her arms round his neck, hid her face on his shoulder, and cried, in a whimpering voice, so unlike her own that he writhed in agony," Lawrence wrote. "''And I''ve never-you know, Paul-I''ve never had a husband-not really-''" Mrs. Morel says. Paul "stroked his mother''s hair, and his mouth was on her throat."\n</p>\n<p>\n Although Lawrence was aware of Freudian ideas as early as 1912, there is no indication that he intended the book to have a Freudian subtext. Responding to the Freudian interpretation, he thought the critics had carved a half lie from an honest portrayal of his childhood. He saw what he had written as a novel, not a case history, and considered the text universal, a representation of "the tragedy of thousands of young men in England" (from the Garnett letter of November 1912). Later, in 1921, he published an anti-Freudian tract titled\n <em>\n  Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n However, Lawrence admitted in various letters that he had loved his mother like a lover. He wrote descriptions of Mrs. Lawrence as if he were writing about a girlfriend: "She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman-you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us," he wrote to Louise Burrows in December 1910, on the eve of his mother''s death (Letters). In the same month he wrote to Rachel Ann and Taylor, "This has been a kind of bond between me and my mother. We have loved each other, almost with a husband and wife love, as well as filial and maternal." Later in the same letter he wrote, "Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had it, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breath me like an atmosphere" (Letters).\n</p>\n<p>\n This, then, is the setting for the composition of\n <em>\n  Sons and Lovers\n </em>\n . A remarkably gifted young man, tragically stifled under both the yoke of his mother''s love and the weight of Victorian morals, conceives of an autobiographical novel that will stick to the facts of his upbringing. Eastwood, the rundown though respectable mining town where Lawrence was born, changes to Bestwood. Lydia Lawrence, his mother, changes to Gertrude Morel. And Lawrence, with little change, renames himself Paul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/566'),
(2319, 'Sophie&#39;s Choice', 'William Styron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œStunning. . . a triumph. . . . A dazzling, gripping book.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSplendidly written, thrilling . . . A passionate novel.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA monumental work of fiction.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  The\n </em>\n <em>\n  Christian Science Monitor\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie''s past: her memories of pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and - the essence of her terrible secret - her choice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1032'),
(2320, 'Sorceress of Darshiva', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The wizard and shape-changer Belgarion continues his quest against evil in the land of Mallorea. "Eddings depicts a complex, believable and colorful society filled with nobles, rogues and common people, the latter characters ringing particularly true," PW commended .\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the bestselling THE Mallorean series contnues, Garion is pursuing Zandramas, in the form of a great dragon flying over them, across the known world. With the forces of evil threatening on both sides, Garion still had to get to the Place Which Is No More, as the Seeress of Kell had warned, but they had no idea where that might be....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1290'),
(2321, 'Soul Music (Discworld Series)', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When her dear old Granddad Â— the Grim Reaper himself Â— goes missing, Susan takes over the family business. The progeny of Death''s adopted daughter and his apprentice, she shows real talent for the trade. That is until a little string in her heart goes "twang."\n</p>\n<p>\n With a head full of dreams and a pocketful of lint, Imp the Bard lands in Ankh-Morpork, yearning to become a rock star. Determined to devote his life to music, the unlucky fellow soon finds that all his dreams are coming true. Well almost.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this finger-snapping, toe-tapping tale of youth, Death, and rocks that roll, Terry Pratchett once again demonstrates the wit and genius that have propelled him to the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n This 13th novel set in Discworld tells the story of Death''s granddaughter, who inherited the job and grew to enjoy it. Amd of Imp the Bard, who strove to make his fortune in a rock band, and who was so unlucky that all his dreams came true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/338'),
(2322, 'Soul of the Fire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Richard Rahl has traveled far from his roots as a simple woods guide. Emperor of the D''Haran Empire, war wizard, the Seeker of TruthÂ—none of these roles mean as much to him as his newest: husband to his beloved Kahlan Amnell, Mother Confessor of the Midlands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But their wedding is the key that unlocks a spell sealed away long ago in a faraway country. Now a deadly power pours forth that threatens to turn the world into a lifeless waste.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Separated from the Sword of Truth and stripped of their magic, Richard and Kahlan must journey across the Midlands to discover a dark secret from the past and a trap that could tear them apart forever. For their fate has become inextricably entwined with that of the MidlandsÂ—and there''s no place so dangerous as a world without magic...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/757'),
(2323, 'Sourcery', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There was an eighth son of an eighth son.Â Â He was, quite naturally, a wizard.Â Â And there it should have ended.Â Â However (for reasons we''d better not go into), he had seven sons.Â Â And then he had an eighth son...a wizard squared...a source of magic...a Sourcerer.SOURCERY SEES THE RETURN OF RINCEWIND AND THE LUGGAGE AS THE DISCWORLD FACES ITS GREATEST-AND FUNNIEST-CHALLENGE YET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/313'),
(2324, 'Southern Cross', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cornwell (Point of Origin) leaves the recently morose and introspective Kay Scarpetta mysteries for her alternative series featuring the trio of Police Chief Judy Hammer, Deputy Chief Virginia West, and rookie Andy Brazil. They''ve moved to Richmond to reorganize that city''s police force, stumbling into a series of miscommunications and computer glitches that threaten their attempts to increase police efficiency. Southern Cross is a looser, funnier, more satirical novel where Cornwell allows the minor characters to upstage the plot, even the family pets in the flavor of Rita Mae Brown''s Mrs. Murphy series. The reader knows far more than the lead characters, but that is part of the fun as this is a more successfully realized novel than Hornet''s Nest. Reader Cristine McMurdo-Wallis carries the story well, but the packaging is not library quality at all. Nonetheless, this is recommended, especially for those who''ve appreciated Cornwell in the past but have grown weary of her Scarpetta books.AJoyce Kessel, Villa Maria Coll., Buffalo, NY\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From AudioFile\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Is this a true crime or a novel? Cristine McMurdo-Wallis''s per-formance doesn''t give you any clues but allows the text to provide the answer. Richmond Police Chief Judy Hammer and her two assistants attempt to track down computer hackers, end gang violence and solve a racially motivated homicide. Cornwell''s text links them all, in unexpected and often funny twists. McMurdo-Wallis''s journalistic reading of this police drama sounds more like a radio news magazine than an entertaining story. But it works, in much the way the old "Dragnet" television series used toÃ"just the facts, Ma''am, just the facts." Her one all-out characterization of an immigrant socialite brings exactly the right spice to the mix. R.P.L. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1400'),
(2325, 'Spade and Archer: The Prequel to the Maltese Falcon', 'Joe Gores', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favors, and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a second skin. We know that his late partner, Miles Archer, was a son of a bitch; that Spade is sleeping with Archer''s wife, Iva; that his tomboyish secretary, Effie Perine, is the only innocent in his life. What we don''t know is how Spade became who he is. Spade &amp; Archercompletes the picture. 1921: Spade sets up his own agency in San Francisco and clients quickly start coming through the door. The next seven years will see him dealing with booze runners, waterfront thugs, stowaways, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, bumbling cops, and the illegitimate daughter of Sun Yat-sen; with murder, other men''s mistresses, and long-missing money. He''ll bring in Archer as a partner, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. He''ll tangle with a villain who never loses his desire to make Spade pay big for ruining what should''ve been the perfect crime. And he''ll fall in lovethough it won''t turn out for the best. It never does with dames . . . Spade &amp; Archeris a gritty, pitch-perfect, hard-boiled novelthe work of a master mystery writerdestined to become a classic in its own right.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1782'),
(2326, 'Speaker for the Dead', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender''s Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts. Like its predecessor, this book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Card''s novel Ender''s Game introduced Ender Wiggin, a young genius who used his military prowess to all but exterminate the "buggers," the first alien race mankind had ever encountered. Wiggin then transformed himself into the "Speaker for the Dead," who claimed it had been a mistake to destroy the alien civilization. Many years later, when a new breed of intelligent life forms called the "piggies" is discovered, Wiggin takes the opportunity to atone for his earlier actions. This long, rich and ambitious novel views the interplay between the races from the differing perspectives of the colonists, ethnologists, biologists, clergy, politicians, a computer artificial intelligence, the lone surviving bugger and the piggies themselves. Card is very good at portraying his characters in these larger, social, religious and cultural contexts. It''s unfortunate, then, that many of the book''s mysteries and dilemmas seem created just to display Ender''s supposedly godlike understanding. A fine, if overlong, novel nonetheless.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/937'),
(2327, 'Speaking in Tongues', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Tate Collier is the silver-tongued prosecutor whose successful career has finally caught up with him. When their daughter disappears, Collier and his ex-wife desperately want to believe it''s teenage rebellion. But insidious signs point to foul play. Indeed, the past has come back to haunt CollierÂ—in the form of Aaron Matthews, a brilliant, Harvard-educated psychiatrist bent on vengeance of Biblical proportions. Matthews, a gifted orator himself, soon drops words for weaponry, and in his murderous rage will go to any length to ruin Collier''s life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring an urgent race against the clock and the trademark Deaver plot twists,\n  <em>\n   Speaking in Tongues\n  </em>\n  delivers the suspense punch that has made this author a favorite and legitimate bestseller.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1772'),
(2328, 'Sphere', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Jurassic Park\n </em>\n author Michael Crichton is possibly the best science teacher for the masses since H.G. Wells, and\n <em>\n  Sphere\n </em>\n , his thriller about a mysterious spherical spaceship at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, is classic Crichton. A group of not-very-complex characters (portrayed in the film by Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Queen Latifah) assemble to solve a cleverly designed roller coaster of a mystery while attempting (with mixed success) to avoid sudden death and expounding (much more successfully) on the latest, coolest scientific ideas, including the existence of black holes. Somehow, Crichton manages to convey the complicated stuff in utterly simplistic prose, making him, as his old pal Steven Spielberg puts it, "the high priest of high concept." Yet there is more to Crichton than science and big-ticket show biz. He is also, as any reader of his startling memoir\n <em>\n  Travels\n </em>\n knows, a bit of a mystic--he is entirely open to notions spouted by spoon-bending psychics that most science writers would scorn.\n <em>\n  Sphere\n </em>\n is not only a gratifying sci-fi suspense tale; it also reflects Crichton''s keen interest in the unexplained powers of the human mind. When something passes through a black hole in Crichton''s fiction, a lesson is learned. The book also contains another profound lesson: when you''re staring down a giant squid with an eyeball the size of a dinner plate, don''t blink first.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA As in Crichton''s Andromeda Strain (Knopf, 1969), the focus of this science adventure tale is humankind''s encounter with an alien life form. Within a space ship lying on the sea bottom is a mysterious sphere that promises each of the main characters some personal reward: military might, professional prestige, power, understanding. Trapped underwater with the sphere, the humans confront eerie and increasingly dangerous threats after communication with the alien object has been achieved. The story is exciting and loaded with scientific and psychological speculations that add interest at no cost to the action, including an intriguing sequence in which human and computer attempt to decode the alien communication. As the story races to an end, suspicions of evil-doing fall as many ways as in a detective novel. Young adults should find this book both accessible and satisfying. Mike Parson, Houston Public Library\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/810'),
(2329, 'Split Image', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n After a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach, Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall realize just how much they really have in common with their victims, their suspects-and each other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1151'),
(2330, 'The Spoils of War', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Weave was on the verge of winning a decisive victory after a milennia of war, thanks to their new allies from earth. But then the birdlike Wais scholar Lalelang found evidence that Humans might not adapt well to peace. Researching further, she uncovered a secret group of telepathic Humans called the Core, who were on the verge of starting another war, and then eliminating Lalelang. At the last moment, she was saved by a lone Core commander. He took a chance on her intelligence and compassion, and gambled the fate of Humanity on the possibility that together, they could find an alternative to a galaxy-wide bloodbath....\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1431');
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(2331, 'Spook Country', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now that the present has caught up with William Gibson''s vision of the future, which made him the most influential science fiction writer of the past quarter century, he has started writing about a time--our time--in which everyday life feels like science fiction. With his previous novel,\n <em>\n  Pattern Recognition\n </em>\n , the challenge of writing about the present-day world drove him to create perhaps his best novel yet, and in\n <em>\n  Spook Country\n </em>\n he remains at the top of his game. It''s a stripped-down thriller that reads like the best DeLillo (or the best Gibson), with the lives of a half-dozen evocative characters connected by a tightly converging plot and by the general senses of unease and wonder in our networked, post-9/11 time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Across the Border to *Spook Country\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n For the last few decades, William Gibson, who grew up in Virginia and elsewhere in the United States, has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, just across the border from Amazon.com''s Seattle headquarters, which made for a short drive for a lunchtime interview before the release of\n <em>\n  Spook Country\n </em>\n . We met just a few miles from where the storylines of the new novel, in a rare scene set in Gibson''s own city, converge. You can read the full transcript of the interview, in which we discussed, among other things, writing in the age of Google, visiting the Second Life virtual world, the possibilities of science fiction in an age of rapid change, and his original proposal for\n <em>\n  Spook Country\n </em>\n , which we have available for viewing on our site. Here are a few excerpts from the interview:\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Could you start by telling us a little bit about the scenario of the new book?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  William Gibson:\n </strong>\n It''s a book in which shadowy and mysterious characters are using New York''s smallest crime family, a sort of boutique operation of smugglers and so-called illegal facilitators, to get something into North America. And you have to hang around to the end of the book to find out what they''re doing. So I guess it''s a caper novel in that regard.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n The line on your last book,\n <em>\n  Pattern Recognition\n </em>\n was that the present had caught up with William Gibson''s future. So many of the things you imagined have come true that in a way it seems like we''re all living in science fiction now. Is that the way you felt when you came to write that book, that the real world had caught up with your ideas?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gibson:\n </strong>\n Well, I thought that writing about the world today as I perceive it would probably be more challenging, in the real sense of science fiction, than continuing just to make things up. And I found that to absolutely be the case. If I''m going to write fiction set in an imaginary future now, I''m going to need a yardstick that gives me some accurate sense of how weird things are now. ''Cause I''m going to have to go beyond that. And I think over the course of these last two books--I don''t think I''m done yet--I''ve been getting a yardstick together. But I don''t know if I''ll be able to do it again. I don''t know if I''ll be able to make up an imaginary future in the same way. In the ''80s and ''90s--as strange as it may seem to say this--we had such luxury of stability. Things weren''t changing quite so quickly in the ''80s and ''90s. And when things are changing too quickly, as one of the characters in\n <em>\n  Pattern Recognition\n </em>\n says, you don''t have any place to stand from which to imagine a very elaborate future.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Now that you''re writing about the present, do you consider yourself a science fiction writer these days? Because the marketplace still does.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gibson:\n </strong>\n I never really believed in the separation. But science fiction is definitely where I''m from. Science fiction is my native literary culture. It''s what I started reading, and I think the thing that actually makes me a bit different than some of the science fiction writers I''ve met who are my own age is that I discovered Edgar Rice Burroughs and William Burroughs in the same week. And I started reading Beat poets a year later, and got that in the mix. That really changed the direction. But it seems like such an old-fashioned way of looking at things. And it''s better not to be pinned down. It''s a matter of where you''re allowed to park. If you can park in the science fiction bookstore, that''s good. If you can park in the other bookstore, that''s really good. If people come and buy it at Amazon, that''s really good.\n</p>\n<p>\n I''m sure I must have readers from 20 years ago who are just despairing of the absence of cyberstuff, or girls with bionic fingernails. But that just the way it is. All of that stuff reads so differently now. I think nothing dates more quickly than science fiction. Nothing dates more quickly than an imaginary future. It''s acquiring a patina of quaintness even before you''ve got it in the envelope to send to the publisher.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n So do you think that''s your own career path, that you''re less interested in imagining a future, or do you think that the world is changing?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gibson:\n </strong>\n I think it''s actually both. Until fairly recently, I had assumed that it was me, me being drawn to use this toolkit I''d acquired when I was a teenager, and using my old SF toolkit in some kind of attempt at naturalism, 21st-century naturalistic fiction. But over the last five to six years it''s started to seem to me that there''s something else going on as well, that maybe we''re in what the characters in my novel\n <em>\n  Idoru\n </em>\n call a "nodal point," or a series of them. We''re in a place where things could just go anywhere. A couple of weeks ago I happened to read Charlie Stross''s argument as to why he believes that there will never, ever be any manned space travel. It''s not going to happen. We''re not going to colonize Mars. All of that is just a big fantasy. And it''s so convincing. I read that and I''m like, "My god, there goes so much of the fiction I read as a child."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Set in the same high-tech present day as\n <em>\n  Pattern Recognition\n </em>\n , Gibson''s fine ninth novel offers startling insights into our paranoid and often fragmented, postmodern world. When a mysterious, not yet actual magazine,\n <em>\n  Node\n </em>\n , hires former indie rockerâ€“turnedâ€“journalist Hollis Henry to do a story on a new art form that exists only in virtual reality, Hollis finds herself investigating something considerably more dangerous. An operative named Brown, who may or may not work for the U.S. government, is tracking a young, Russian-speaking Cuban-Chinese criminal named Tito. Brown''s goal is to follow Tito to yet another operative known only as the old man. Meanwhile, a mysterious cargo container with CIA connections repeatedly appears and disappears on the worldwide Global Positioning network, never quite coming to port. At the heart of the dark goings-on is Bobby Chombo, a talented but unbalanced specialist in Global Positioning software who refuses to sleep in the same spot two nights running. Compelling characters and crisp action sequences, plus the author''s trademark metaphoric language, help make this one of Gibson''s best.\n <em>\n  8-city author tour. (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/731'),
(2332, 'Spring Fever', 'Mary Kay Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Summer Rental\n  </em>\n  delivers herÂ delicious newÂ escapist novel about small towns, old flames, and deep secrets\n </p>\n <p>\n  Annajane Hudgens truly believes she is over her ex-husband, Mason Bayless.Â  Theyâ€™ve been divorced for four years, sheâ€™s engaged to a new, terrific guy, and sheâ€™s ready to leave the small town where she and Mason had so much history.Â  She is so over Mason that she has absolutely no problem attending his wedding to the beautiful, intelligent, delightful Celia.Â  But when fate intervenes and the wedding is called to a halt as the bride is literally walking down the aisle, Annajane begins to realize that maybe sheâ€™s been given a second chance.Â  Maybe everything happens for a reason.Â  And maybe, just maybe, she wants Mason back.Â  But there are secrets afoot in this small southern town.Â  On the peaceful surface of Hideaway Lake, Annajane discovers that the past is never really gone.Â  Even if there are people determined to keep Annajane from getting what she wants, happiness might be hers for the taking, and the life she once had with Mason in this sleepy lake town might be in her future.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  MARY KAY ANDREWS is the New York Times bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Summer Rental,\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <em>\n   The Fixer Upper, Deep Dish, Blue Christmas, Savannah Breeze, Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Savannah Blues.\n  </em>\n  A former journalist for\n  <em>\n   The Atlanta Journal Constitution,\n  </em>\n  she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  From her seat in the sanctuary of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Annajane Hudgens wondered if there had ever been a more flawless day for a wedding.\n  <br />\n  Spring had arrived spectacularly early in Passcoe, North Carolina. Only the first week in April, yet the dogwoods and azaleas were already burst into bloom, and the weeping cherry trees lining the walkway to the church trailed fingertips of pale pink onto a blue and white carpet of violets and alyssum.\n  <br />\n  It was as if the bride, the equally flawless Celia Wakefield, had somehow managed to\n  <em>\n   will\n  </em>\n  perfect weather. Or perhaps sheâ€™d specified blue skies and color-coordinated bursts of blooms in one of her famously precise memos. If anybody could do that, Annajane mused, it would be Celia.\n  <br />\n  Could there be a more beautiful setting? Baylesses had been getting married at the Church of the Good Shepherd for nearly two hundred years. Not in this grand sanctuary, of course. The original church was a quaint, stoop-shouldered gray granite affair, with uneven oak floors, a single Gothic-arched leaded-glass window above the altar, and two rows of ten primitively wrought pine pews built by black laborers from the casket factory in Moore County, twenty minutes down the road.\n  <br />\n  Annajane could remember sitting beside her best friend, Pokey, in the Bayless family pew after countless Saturday-night sleepovers, back when they were both still in pigtails. By then, Pokeyâ€™s grandmother had already started her slow descent into senility, although Annajane had not known that. Miss Pauline, for whom Pokey had been named, seldom spoke, but she was content to sit in church on Sunday mornings and smile and nod to the hymns, dabbing at her cataract-clouded blue eyes with her ever-present handkerchief and patting Annajaneâ€™s hand. â€œShe thinks youâ€™re me,â€ Pokey would whisper, giggling at her grandmotherâ€™s confusion and grimacing and holding her nose when Miss Pauline passed gas, which she did frequently.\n  <br />\n  When the â€œnewâ€ Church of the Good Shepherd was built in the early â€™90s, with reproduction Tiffany stained-glass windows, solid cherry pews, and a custom-built German pipe organ, the old church was renamed the Woodrow Memorial Chapel in memory of Pauline Woodrow, who died in her sleep the year Pokey and Annajane turned fourteen.\n  <br />\n  Annajaneâ€™s own wedding had been held in the chapel, the one concession her new in-laws made to what they considered Annajaneâ€™s â€œquaintâ€ ideas. Since sheâ€™d paid for the wedding herself, sheâ€™d insisted on having an intimate affair, just family and close friends, fewer than forty people, with Pokey as her only attendant. It had rained the November evening of her nuptials, and at the time sheâ€™d considered it wildly romantic that the loud thrum of the rain on the churchâ€™s tin roof threatened to drown out the wedding march played on the chapelâ€™s original wheezy pump organ.\n  <br />\n  Had it been only seven years ago? Sometimes she wasnâ€™t sure any of it had really happened at all, that it wasnâ€™t something sheâ€™d just remembered from a long-ago dream.\n  <br />\n  Todayâ€™s affair was nothing like Annajaneâ€™s modest wedding. The sanctuary was at capacityâ€”beyond capacity, if you went by the county fire code, which said the church could hold five hundred people. It seemed to Annajane that every living person who had ever known or done business with the Bayless family, or even just sipped a bottle of their Quixie cherry soft drink, had crammed themselves into one of the polished wooden pews beneath the soaring exposed rafters of the imposing Episcopal church.\n  <br />\n  Annajane felt her eyelids droop now. It was too warm in the church, and the scent of the lilies and roses banking everything that didnâ€™t move was overpowering. Sheâ€™d had almost no sleep the night before, and not much more sleep the night before that. And, yes, sheâ€™d had herself a good stiff drink, Quixie and bourbon on the rocks, back at the house, after sheâ€™d finished dressing and before sheâ€™d left for the church. She closed her eyes, just for a moment, felt her chin droop to her chest, and the next moment, she felt a sharp elbow dig into her ribs.\n  <br />\n  Pokey had managed to wedge herself into the pew. â€œWake up and slide over!â€ she ordered.\n  <br />\n  Annajaneâ€™s eyes flew open, and she looked up, just in time to see Sallie Bayless, seated in the front row, two pews ahead of them, turn and shoot Pokey a stern look of warning. Sallieâ€™s gleaming auburn hair shone in the candlelit church. She was sixty-four, but still had the dewy complexion, sparkling brown eyes, and slender figure of a woman twenty years younger. Now, those eyes narrowed as they took in Pokeyâ€™s tardy and disheveled appearance.\n  <br />\n  Pokey gave her mother a grin and a finger wave, and Sallieâ€™s head swiveled back around, eyes front, head held high, the Bayless pearls, a double strand, clasped firmly around her neck.\n  <br />\n  Annajane offered an apologetic smile to the elderly woman to her right. The woman frowned, but begrudgingly inched aside to allow the new arrival to be seated.\n  <br />\n  As usual, Pokey Bayless Riggs took no notice of the stir sheâ€™d caused. Sheâ€™d been causing a stir nearly every day of her thirty-five years, and today, her brotherâ€™s wedding day, was no different.\n  <br />\n  The boatneck collar of Pokeyâ€™s expensive new red silk jacket had slipped off her right shoulder, exposing a leopard-print bra strap and an unseemly amount of cleavage. Little Clayton was two years old, but Pokey was still struggling to lose her baby weight. Sheâ€™d managed to pop one of the jacketâ€™s rhinestone buttons, and the tight silk skirt had somehow twisted around so that the zipper was now in the front, rather than on the side. She was bare-legged, which was a scandal in and of itself, but now Annajane noticed that her best friend had ditched the Sallie-mandated sedate dyed-silk slingback pumps in favor of a pair of blinged-out silver flip flops.\n  <br />\n  Pokeyâ€™s thin, poker-straight blond hair had already lost its beauty-salon bounce, and now hung limply on either side of her full pink cheeks. Her lipstick was smeared. But her eyes, her amazing cornflower-blue eyes, glinted with mischief.\n  <br />\n  â€œBusted!â€ Annajane whispered, not daring to look at her best friend.\n  <br />\n  â€œChrist!â€ Pokey muttered. â€œThis is so not my fault. I couldnâ€™t find a parking spot! The church lotâ€™s full and the whole block is lined with cars on both sides of the street. I had to leave the Land Rover clear down the block in front of the gas station and run all the way here.â€\n  <br />\n  â€œArenâ€™t you supposed to be up there with your mom and everybody else in the family?â€ Annajane asked. â€œI mean, you\n  <em>\n   are\n  </em>\n  the groomâ€™s only sister.â€\n  <br />\n  â€œScrew that,â€ Pokey said swiftly. â€œI refuse to make nice with that woman. Mason knows I donâ€™t like her. Mama knows it too. Iâ€™m taking a moral stand here.â€\n  <br />\n  â€œWho the hell are all these people anyway?â€ she asked, glancing around at the packed church and zeroing in on the brideâ€™s side of the aisle. â€œNot family, right? Since poor lilâ€™ Celia is an orphan, and the only family she could produce is that elderly great aunt staying over at Mamaâ€™s house. Did Celia charter a bus or something?â€\n  <br />\n  Annajane shrugged. â€œYouâ€™re apparently the only person in Passcoe who\n  <em>\n   doesnâ€™t\n  </em>\n  think that Celia Wakefield is the best thing since flush toilets and sliced store-bought bread.â€\n  <br />\n  â€œDonâ€™t give me that. You hate her as much as I do,â€ Pokey said under her breath.\n  <br />\n  â€œNot at all,â€ Annajane replied. â€œIâ€™m happy for them.â€\n  <br />\n  â€œYippy-fuckinâ€™-skippy,â€ Pokey drawled. â€œHappy, happy, happy. Itâ€™s fine for you. In less than a week, youâ€™ll pack up your U-Haul and head for Atlanta and your nice new life without even a glance in the rearview mirror. New man, new job, new address. But where does that leave me? Stuck here in stinkinâ€™ Passcoe, with my mama, my evil brother Davis, and good ole Mason and his new bride, Cruella de Vil.â€\n  <br />\n  â€œPoor, poor Pokey,â€ Annajane mocked her right back. â€œRichest girl in town, married to the second richest man in town.â€\n  <br />\n  â€œThird richest,â€ Pokey corrected. â€œOr maybe fourth. Davis and Mason have way more money than Pete, especially since people quit buying furniture made in America.â€\n  <br />\n  â€œSpeaking of, where is Pete?â€ Annajane asked, craning her neck to look for him. Instead of spotting Pokeyâ€™s tall redheaded husband, Pete, her eyes rested on another tardy couple, Bonnie and Matthew Kelsey, hurrying up the right-side aisle of the church.\n  <br />\n  Bonnie Kelseyâ€™s eyes met Annajaneâ€™s. She blushed, and looked away quickly, clutching Matthewâ€™s arm and steering him into a pew as far away from Annajaneâ€™s as she could manage in the overcrowded church.\n  <br />\n  Pokey saw the maneuver for what it was. â€œBitch,â€ she said.\n  <br />\n  â€œItâ€™s all right,â€ Annajane said smoothly. â€œI mean, what do you expect? Matt and Mason play golf every week. From what I hear, Bonnie and Celia get along like a house afire. Best friends forever! Anyway, Bonnieâ€™s not the only one to sign up for Team Celia. Every woman in this room has been staring daggers at me since I walked into this church. I knew when I agreed to come today that it would be awkward.â€\n  <br />\n  â€œAwkward?â€ Pokey laughed bitterly. â€œItâ€™s freakish, is what it is. Who else but you would agree to show up at her ex-husbandâ€™s wedding?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright Â© 2012 by Whodunnit, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2406'),
(2333, 'The Spring Suit', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n And it''s got to be done right, or you might as well not do it at all. You can''t go offending people. But gee, you''ve no idea what an amount of gall women have! Why, the first week I was at the office a female got past me by saying she was the boss'' wife. She looked all right, she spoke all right; so I thought she was all right, and I opened the gate. In about ten minutes out she came, said good morning with a nice smile, and beat it. And two seconds later I''m rung for and there''s the boss chewing holes in the carpet and smashing up the furniture with his bare hands. Seems she was a lady book agent; and before he could get rid of her she had landed him with Historic Heartbreakers, highly educational and as interesting as a novel. Since then I''ve played it safe. No body gets past me without an appointment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1638'),
(2334, 'Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Featuring David Sedaris''s unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel and the Chipmunk," a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family members.Once again David Sedaris shows us the most outrageous, tender, absurd sides of ourselves in his "profoundly funny, well-crafted stories that somehow, magically, bring home a major point about fidelity or guilt or love" (Christian Science Monitor).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/222'),
(2335, 'Ssn', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Assigned to protect a carrier group, the U.S.S. Cheyenne, a nuclear submarine commanded by Captain Bartholomew Mackey, is on its way to the Spratly Islands when a Chinese invasion results in the start of World War III\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1500'),
(2336, 'Stalking the Angel', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Hired by a hotel magnate to locate a priceless Japanese manuscript, L.A. private eye Elvis Cole encounters the notorious Yakuza, the Japanese mob, and is drawn into a game of sexual obsession, amorality, and evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Stalking the Angel is a righteous California book: intelligent, perceptive, hard, clean." - James Elroy\n</p>\n<p>\n "Elvis Cole provides more fun for the reader than any L.A. private eye to come along in years." - Joseph Wambaugh\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Introduced in The Monkey''s Raincoat, L.A. private eye Elvis Cole has a smart mouth, a flair for martial arts, a passion for truth, and a borderline sociopath for a partner. When a ruthless hotel magnate hires Cole to find a priceless Japanese manuscript, Cole heads into a nest of notorious Yakuza in the heart of L.A.''s Little Tokyo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1327'),
(2337, 'The Stand', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can''t ignore it. Stephen King''s most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world''s population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I\n <em>\n  love\n </em>\n to burn things up," King says. "It''s the werewolf in me, I guess....\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."\n</p>\n<p>\n There is much to admire in\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n : the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book.\n <em>\n  --Fiona Webster\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In its 1978 incarnation, The Stand was a healthy, hefty 823-pager. Now, King and Doubleday are republishing The Stand in the gigantic version in which, according to King, it was originally written. Not true . The same excellent tale of the walking dude, the chemical warfare weapon called superflu and the confrontation between its survivors has been updated to 1990, so references to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Reagan years, Roger Rabbit and AIDS are unnecessarily forced into the mouths of King''s late-''70s characters. That said, the extra 400 or so pages of subplots, character development, conversation, interior dialogue, spiritual soul-searching, blood, bone and gristle make King''s best novel better still. A new beginning adds verisimilitude to an already frighteningly believable story, while a new ending opens up possibilities for a sequel. Sheer size makes an Everest of the whole deal. BOMC selection, QPB main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/480'),
(2338, 'Star Spangled Murder', 'Leslie Meier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Lucy Stone is in the doghouseÂ—with her next-door neighbor, Mrs. Prudence Pratt. It seems that Kudo, the Stones'' misbehaving mutt, has developed a taste for Mrs. Pratt''s blue-ribbon winning chickens, as well an escape artist''s talent for sneaking out. With the Fourth of July coming up, Lucy doesn''t want to set off any more fireworks with the crabby Prudence.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Another sign that the crazy days of summer are in full swing arrives when a group of naturistsÂ—a.k.a. nudistsÂ—descends on Tinker''s Cove, skinny-dipping at the pond that borders Mrs. Pratt''s property, giving her something else to complain about. Worse still, the local lobstermen are upset about poachersÂ—and suspicion falls on Mrs. Pratt''s husband and son. Then the July Fourth fireworks are canceled to protect a patch of extremely rare purple-spotted lichen, and Mrs Pratt is the victim of a hit and run.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tinker''s Cove is full of suspects, but none with so personal a motive as the Stones. Their feud with Mrs. Pratt has put them at risk of losing their freedom this Independence DayÂ—unless Lucy can start things off with a bang by catching a red, white and blue killer. . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for Leslie Meier and Her Lucy Stone Mysteries\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Leslie Meier writes with sparkle and warmth." Â—\n  <em>\n   Chicago Sun Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Leslie Meier has created such a wonderful series, I always look forward to reading the next book, and I''m never disappointed."Â—\n  <em>\n   I Love a Mystery\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A truly American version of the English ''cozy.''" Â—\n  <em>\n   Tulsa World\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1937'),
(2339, 'Star Surgeon', 'James White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1754'),
(2340, 'Stardust', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Stardust\n </em>\n is an utterly charming fairy tale in the tradition of\n <em>\n  The Princess Bride\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Neverending Story\n </em>\n . Neil Gaiman, creator of the darkly elegant Sandman comics and author of\n <em>\n  The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish\n </em>\n , tells the story of young Tristran Thorn and his adventures in the land of Faerie. One fateful night, Tristran promises his beloved that he will retrieve a fallen star for her from beyond the Wall that stands between their rural English town (called, appropriately, Wall) and the Faerie realm. No one ever ventures beyond the Wall except to attend an enchanted flea market that is held every nine years (and during which, unbeknownst to him, Tristran was conceived). But Tristran bravely sets out to fetch the fallen star and thus win the hand of his love. His adventures in the magical land will keep you turning pages as fast as you can--he and the star escape evil old witches, deadly clutching trees, goblin press-gangs, and the scheming sons of the dead Lord of Stormhold. The story is by turns thrillingly scary and very funny. You''ll love goofy, earnest Tristran and the talking animals, gnomes, magic trees, and other irresistible denizens of Faerie that he encounters in his travels.\n <em>\n  Stardust\n </em>\n is a perfect read-aloud book, a brand-new fairy tale you''ll want to share with a kid, or maybe hoard for yourself. (If you read it to kids, watch out for a couple of spicy sex bits and one epithet.)\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Tristran Thorn falls in love with the prettiest girl in town and makes her a foolish promise: he says that he''ll go find the falling star they both watched streak across the night sky. She says she''ll marry him if he finds it, so he sets off, leaving his home of Wall, and heads out into the perilous land of faerie, where not everything is what it appears. Gaiman is known for his fanciful wit, sterling prose and wildly imaginative plots, and Stardust is no exception. Gaiman''s silver-tongued narration vividly brings this production to life. Like the bards of old, Gaiman is equally proficient at telling tales as he is at writing them, and his pleasant British accent feels like a perfect match to the material. Gaiman''s performance is an extraordinary achievementâ€”if only all authors could read their own work so well. The audiobook also includes a brief, informative and enjoyable interview with Gaiman about the writing of the novel and his work in the audiobook studio.\n <br />\n <em>\n  CopyrightÂ© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/708'),
(2341, 'Stardust', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show''s star, Jill Joyce, he knows it''s on its way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  First, there''s Jill herself. She''s spoiled, arrogant, drugged out -- made worse by fear. Someone is out to get her -- does she imagine it, or is it real?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spenser monitors her neurosis, but finds evidence of harassment. It escalates to murder. Now begins the dangerous part -- while the act may have ended, the murderer lingers on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "STARDUST is a four-star noir suspense that no Spenser fan will be able to resist." (Publisher''s Source)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1170'),
(2342, 'The Stars My Destination', 'Alfred Bester &amp; Alexander Eisenstein &amp; Phyllis Eisenstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h1>\n  5 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series,\n </h1>\n <p>\n  a library of the finest science fiction ever written.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Science fiction has only produced a few works of actual genius,\n  <br />\n  and this is one of them"-Joe Haldeman\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Bester at the peak of his powers is, quite simply, unbeatable"\n  <br />\n  -James Lovegrove\n </p>\n <p>\n  Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester (1913-1987) is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books (in which capacity he created the original Green Lantern Oath). But Bester is best known for his science-fiction novels, and The Stars My Destination may be his finest creation. With its sly potshotting at corporate skullduggery, The Stars My Destination seems utterly contemporary, and has maintained its status as an underground classic for fifty years. (Bester fans should also note that iPicturebooks has reprinted The Demolished Man, which won the very first Hugo Award in 1953.)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alfred Bester was among the first important authors of contemporary science fiction. His passionate novels of worldly adventure, high intellect, and tremendous verve, The Stars My Destination and the Hugo Award winning The Demolished Man, established Bester as a s.f. grandmaster, a reputation that was ratified by the Science Fiction Writers of America shortly before his death. Bester also was an acclaimed journalist for Holiday magazine, a reviewer for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and even a writer for Superman.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1007'),
(2343, 'State of Fear', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Michael Crichton Timeline\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Amazon.com reveals a few facts about the "father of the techno-thriller."\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1942:\n </strong>\n John Michael Crichton is born in Chicago, Illinois on Oct. 23.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1960:\n </strong>\n Crichton graduates from Roslyn High School on Long Island, New York, with high marks and a reputation as a star basketball player. He decides to attend Harvard University to study English. During his studies, he rankles under his writing professors'' criticism. As an act of rebellion, Crichton submits an essay by George Orwell as his own. The professor doesnâ€™t catch the plagiarism and gives Orwell a B-. This experience convinces Crichton to change his field of study to anthropology.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1964:\n </strong>\n Crichton graduates summa cum laude from Harvard University in anthropology. After studying further as a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University and receiving the Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship, which allowed him to travel in Europe and North Africa, Crichton begins coursework at the Harvard School of Medicine. To help fund his medical endeavors, he writes spy thrillers under several pen names. One of these works,\n <em>\n  A Case of Need\n </em>\n , wins the 1968 Mystery Writers of America''s Edgar Allan Poe Award.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1969:\n </strong>\n Crichton graduates from Harvard Medical school and is accepted as a post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Science in La Jolla, Calif. However, his career in medicine is waylaid by the publication of the first novel under his own name,\n <em>\n  The Andromeda Strain\n </em>\n . The novel, about an apocalyptic plague, climbs high on bestseller lists and is later made into a popular film. Crichton said of his decision to pursue writing full time: "To quit medicine to become a writer struck most people like quitting the Supreme Court to become a bail bondsman."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1972:\n </strong>\n Crichton''s second novel under his own name\n <em>\n  The Terminal Man\n </em>\n , is published. Also, two of Crichton''s previous works under his pen names,\n <em>\n  Dealing\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Case of Need\n </em>\n are made into movies. After watching the filming, Crichton decides to try his hand at directing. He will eventually direct seven films including the 1973 science-fiction hit\n <em>\n  Westworld\n </em>\n , which was the first film ever to use computer-generated effects.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1980:\n </strong>\n Crichton draws on his anthropology background and fascination with new technology to create\n <em>\n  Congo\n </em>\n , a best-selling novel about a search for industrial diamonds and a new race of gorillas. The novel, patterned after the adventure writings of H. Ryder Haggard, updates the genre with the inclusion of high-tech gadgets that, although may seem quaint 20 years later, serve to set Crichton''s work apart and he begins to cement his reputation as "the father of the techno-thriller."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1990:\n </strong>\n After the 1980s, which saw the publication of the underwater adventure\n <em>\n  Sphere\n </em>\n (1987) and an invitation to become a visiting writer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988), Crichton begins the new decade with a bang via the publication of his most popular novel,\n <em>\n  Jurassic Park\n </em>\n . The book is a powerful example of Crichton''s use of science and technology as the bedrock for his work. Heady discussion of genetic engineering, chaos theory, and paleontology run throughout the tightly-wound thriller that strands a crew of scientists on an island populated by cloned dinosaurs run amok. The novel inspires the 1993 Steven Spielberg film, and together book and film will re-ignite the worldâ€™s fascination with dinosaurs.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1995:\n </strong>\n Crichton resurrects an idea from his medical school days to create the Emmy-Award Winning television series\n <em>\n  ER\n </em>\n . In this year,\n <em>\n  ER\n </em>\n won eight Emmys and Crichton received an award from the Producers Guild of America in the category of outstanding multi-episodic series. Set in an insanely busy an often dangerous Chicago emergency room, the fast-paced drama is defined by Crichton''s now trademark use of technical expertise and insider jargon. The year also saw the publication of\n <em>\n  The Lost World\n </em>\n returning readers to the dinosaur-infested island.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  2000:\n </strong>\n In recognition for Crichton''s contribution in popularizing paleontology, a dinosaur discovered in southern China is named after him. "Crichton''s ankylosaur" is a small, armored plant-eating dinosaur that dates to the early Jurassic Period, about 180 million years ago. "For a person like me, this is much better than an Academy Award," Crichton said of the honor.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  2004:\n </strong>\n Crichtonâ€™s newest thriller\n <em>\n  State of Fear\n </em>\n is published.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com''s Significant Seven\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Michael Crichton kindly agreed to take the life quiz we like to give to all our authors: the Amazon.com Significant Seven.\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What book has had the most significant impact on your life?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Prisoners of Childhood\n </em>\n by Alice Miller\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Tao Te Ching\n </em>\n by Lao Tzu (Witter Bynner version)\n <br />\n <em>\n  Symphony #2 in D Major\n </em>\n by Johannes Brahms (Georg Solti)\n <br />\n <em>\n  Ikiru\n </em>\n by Akira Kurosawa\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What is the worst lie you''ve ever told?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Surely you''re joking.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Describe the perfect writing environment.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Small room. Shades down. No daylight. No disturbances. Macintosh with a big screen. Plenty of coffee. Quiet.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I don''t want an epitaph. If forced, I would say "Why Are You Here? Go Live Your Life."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Benjamin Franklin\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n If you could have one superpower what would it be?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Invisibility\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For his latest foray, Crichton alters his usual formula--three parts thrills and spills to one part hard science--to a less appetizing concoction that is half anti-global warming screed and half adventure yarn. This adds a mission impossible element to Wilson''s narration: how to make pages of research interesting enough to hold the listener''s attention until hero and heroine face their next peril. Unfortunately, Wilson approaches the statistical information like a newscaster communicating via Teleprompter. This earns him an A-plus for elocution and timbre, but a more average grade when it comes to dramatic interpretation. Consequently, the scientific material that Crichton spent three years researching seems even more copious in audio format than in print. And it''s certainly much harder to flip past. Wilson is more successful in handling conversational passages, employing accents and adding subtle touches to various voices--a cynical tone for the hero, who''s a mildly hedonistic corporate lawyer, and an edgier, less patient attitude for the beautiful, ready-for-anything heroine. As they hot-foot it around the globe, assisting an Indiana Jones-like MIT professor in thwarting evils perpetrated by a mass-murdering environmentalist, Wilson stirs up a little suspense by speaking faster and more energetically. But the book''s abundance of statistics would slow any narrator''s momentum, and Wilson is no exception.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/814'),
(2344, 'State of the Union: A Thriller', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  From the national bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Lions of Lucerne\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Path of the Assassin\n  </em>\n  comes another electrifying international thriller featuring all-American hero Scot Harvath, as he plunges into the frigid heart of the Russian tundra to save the fragile state of the union.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On a cold January morning, the United States awakes to discover that an old enemy, one long believed dead and buried, has crawled out of its grave to lay siege to the world''s only superpower.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the stunning discovery that enhanced Soviet-made suitcase nukes have been secreted in America''s major cities, President Jack Rutledge gathers his National Security Council to weigh the feasibility of a first strike against the Russian Federation. There''s only one problem. For over two decades, the Russians have been funneling international aid money into a top secret air defense system, which has just been brought on-line and which will render any conventional attack upon their country utterly ineffective.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After exhausting all of his other options, and with Soviet sleeper agents preparing to detonate their deadly payloads across the United States, the president turns to the nation''s final hope, ex-Navy SEAL and Secret Service Agent Scot Harvath.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Assigned to a covert section of the Department of Homeland Security and charged with defending the nation against all foreign aggressors by any means necessary, Harvath finds himself hand-picked by the president to unravel a brilliantly orchestrated, fiendishly timed conspiracy that has already shattered the fragile peace between the world''s nations and which, if successful, will leave the United States in smoldering ruins.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With family friend and former Deputy FBI Director Gary Lawlor nowhere to be found and suspected of betraying his country, Harvath embarks on an adventure that will test the bonds of loyalty and reveal a nation''s deepest secrets.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fortunately for America, series hero Scot Harvath (The Lions of Lucerne; Path of the Assassin) possesses almost superhuman abilities and an equal amount of fantastic luck in this blistering, testosterone-fueled espionage thriller. Making use of an innovative plot device, Thor resuscitates that old Cold War bugbear, Russia, as a credible threat to our country''s very existence. Twenty years before the story''s start, Russian agents hide at least 19 suitcase nuclear devices in secret locations throughout the United States. As the book opens, President Jack Rutledge is ordered by the Russians to inform the American people in his State of the Union address that America will withdraw forthwith from world affairs, remove its troops from all foreign countries, surrender its seat in the United Nations and divest itself of all involvement with the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the G-8. If he does not do as he is commanded, sleeper agents will set off the hidden nuclear weapons, and millions of Americans will die. Harvath-former SEAL, former Secret Service agent and special agent with the Office of International Investigative Assistance-is assigned the job of thwarting this nefarious plan, and he''s got seven days to do it. Assisting him are many stalwarts drawn from elite military and other government agencies, all armed with the most techno of weapons, each lovingly described. As the clock ticks down, the battle takes Harvath around the globe, from a brothel in Berlin to the frigid waters of the Baltic Sea and back to the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. It''s a complex plot, but Thor (host of the PBS television program Traveling Lite) keeps everyone in line and trotting briskly ahead. Readers of the genre will understand that Harvath''s triumph is a foregone conclusion and will marvel at the canny plan and clever devices he employs to succeed.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Frighteningly real."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Ottawa Citizen\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Scot Harvath is the perfect all-American hero for the post-September 11th world."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Nelson DeMille\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2451'),
(2345, 'Steal This Computer Book 3: What They Won&#39;t Tell You About the Internet', 'Wally Wang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In this third edition, Wallace Wang employs the same informative, irreverent, and entertaining style that made the first two editions of STEAL THIS COMPUTER BOOK so successful. Along with discussing the methods that hackers and crackers use to do their dirty work, the book also addresses ethical issues surrounding hacking. Thoroughly updated, this edition now also includes information on rootkits, spyware, Web bugs, identity theft, hacktivism, wireless hacking (wardriving), and firewalls.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  This worldwide bestseller, with over 150,000 copies sold of previous editions, is a great crossover title that appeals to both readers with computer security experience and those new to the topic. The included CDROM has over 300 programs.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1536');
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(2346, 'Steve Jobs', 'Walter Isaacson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS.Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple''s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2358'),
(2347, 'Steven Erikson 8 Books Collection Set', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n</h3>\n<p>\n Titles in This Set Toll the Hounds Reaper''s Gale The Bonehunters Midnight Tides House of Chains Memories of Ice Deadhouse Gate Garden of the Moon\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/779'),
(2348, 'Steven Wright Humor', 'Steven Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Collection of humorous observation from comedian Steven Wright.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/150'),
(2349, 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves', 'P. G. Wodehouse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse wrote more than a hundred books and at least twenty film scripts, and he collaborated on more than thirty plays and musical comedies with the likes of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin. Best known as the creator of Jeeves -- the impossibly wise, supremely well-mannered gentleman''s gentleman -- and Wooster -- his unflaggingly affable but bumbling employer -- Wodehouse invokes the very British spirit of a bygone era in a gentle satire that, as Evelyn Waugh puts it, "satisfies the most sophisticated taste and the simplest." In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, fate conspires to draw Bertie Wooster back to Totleigh Towers, the site of an earlier ordeal that nearly landed our hero in prison and, worse still, in continuing danger of marriage to Madeline Bassett, the svelte and sadly syrupy daughter of the house. Only one thing stands between Bertie and the dreaded state of matrimony, and that is his good friend Gussie Fink-Nottle, lover of newts and Madeline Bassett. So long as Gussie and Madeline continue to profess their undying love for each other, Bertie is safe...but disaster looms when Gussie rebels at Madeline''s attempt to turn him into a vegetarian. Throw in the intrigues of Miss Stiffy Byng and her dog Bartholomew to gain the Reverend Stinker Pinker a vicarage, the renewed rivalry of art collectors Sir Watkyn Bassett and Bertie''s Uncle Tom, and the irresistible cooking skills of American Emerald Stoker (who happens to be the younger sister of Bertie''s old friend Pauline, whom he also narrowly avoided marrying), and you have trouble of the sort that only Jeeves can mend. In other words, here is a classic version of one of the great plots of the English language from the Master himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1633'),
(2350, 'Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers', 'Mary Roach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Uproariously funny" doesn''t seem a likely description for a book on cadavers. However, Roach, a Salon and Reader''s Digest columnist, has done the nearly impossible and written a book as informative and respectful as it is irreverent and witty. From her opening lines ("The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back"), it is clear that she''s taking a unique approach to issues surrounding death. Roach delves into the many productive uses to which cadavers have been put, from medical experimentation to applications in transportation safety research (in a chapter archly called "Dead Man Driving") to work by forensic scientists quantifying rates of decay under a wide array of bizarre circumstances. There are also chapters on cannibalism, including an aside on dumplings allegedly filled with human remains from a Chinese crematorium, methods of disposal (burial, cremation, composting) and "beating-heart" cadavers used in organ transplants. Roach has a fabulous eye and a wonderful voice as she describes such macabre situations as a plastic surgery seminar with doctors practicing face-lifts on decapitated human heads and her trip to China in search of the cannibalistic dumpling makers. Even Roach''s digressions and footnotes are captivating, helping to make the book impossible to put down.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Those curious or brave enough to find out what really happens to a body that is donated to the scientific community can do so with this book. Dissection in medical anatomy classes is about the least bizarre of the purposes that science has devised. Mostly dealing with such contemporary uses such as stand-ins for crash-test dummies, Roach also pulls together considerable historical and background information. Bodies are divided into types, including "beating-heart" cadavers for organ transplants, and individual parts-leg and foot segments, for example, are used to test footwear for the effects of exploding land mines. Just as the nonemotional, fact-by-fact descriptions may be getting to be a bit too much, Roach swings into macabre humor. In some cases, it is needed to restore perspective or aid in understanding both what the procedures are accomplishing and what it is hoped will be learned. In all cases, the comic relief welcomes readers back to the world of the living. For those who are interested in the fields of medicine or forensics and are aware of some of the procedures, this book makes excellent reading.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/278'),
(2351, 'Still Life With Crows', 'Douglas Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the fading farm community of Medicine Creek, Kansas, is terrorized by a series of disturbing murders by a killer who displays his victims, FBI agent Pendergast discovers a link between a moonshine operation and an unsolved killing from more than 150 years earlier. 150,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/205'),
(2352, 'Stone Cold', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone returns, tracking the path of a pair of thrill killers.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Investigating a serial killer in an affluent suburban town is difficult, and dangerous, and with the added pressures from the town selectmen and the media, the heat is turned up on Jesse. He''s spending too much time with the bottle-and with his ex-wife-neither of which helps him, or the case. And the harder these outside forces push against him, the more Jesse retreats into himself, convinced-despite all the odds-that it''s up to him alone to stop the killing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As tough, clear-eyed, and sardonic as Jesse Stone himself, this is the Grand Master working at the peak of his powers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1146'),
(2353, 'Stone Kiss', 'Faye Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  AS NIGHT DESCENDS,\n  <br />\n  A KILLER AWAKENS\n  <br />\n  With ten consecutive New York Times bestsellers, Faye Kellerman is truly a "master of mystery" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Now she turns her acute eye on 1920s Munich, a war-wounded city rocked by political agitation and stalked by a nameless, barbaric butcher.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lustmord-the joy of murder. The terrifying concept seems apt for the brutal slaying of a beautiful young society wife dumped in the vast English Garden. Homicide inspector Axel Berg is horrified by the crime...and disturbed by the artful arrangement of the victim''s clothes and hair-a madman''s portrait of death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Berg''s superiors demand quick answers and a quick arrest: a vagrant, the woman''s husband, anyone who can be demonized will do. When a second body is discovered, the city erupts into panic, the unrest fomented by the wild-eyed, hate-mongering Austrian Adolf Hitler and his Brownshirt party of young thugs.\n  <br />\n  Berg can trust no one as he relentlessly hunts a ruthless killer, dodging faceless enemies and back-alley intrigue, struggling to bring a fiend to justice before the country-and his life-veer straight into darkness.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1859'),
(2354, 'The Stone Monkey', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Recruited to help the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, manage to track down a cargo ship headed for New York City carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as ''the Ghost.'' But when the Ghost''s capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race against time; to stop the Ghost before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have escaped from the ship and vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City''s Chinese community. Over the next harrowing forty-eight hours, the Ghost brilliantly and ruthlessly hunts for the families, while Rhyme, aided by a quirky policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die, and Amelia Sachs pursues a very different kind of police work - forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may affect her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1777'),
(2355, 'Stone of Tears', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An Epic of Awesome Power Kahlan has at last gained the one goal she had always thought was beyond her grasp ... love. Against all odds, the ancient bonds of secret oaths, and the dark talents of men long dead, Richard has won her heart. Amid sudden and disastrous events, Richard''s life is called due to satisfy those treacherous oaths. To save his life, Kahlan must forsake Richard''s love and cast him into the chains of slavery, knowing there could be no sin worse than such a betrayal. Richard is determined to unlock the secrets bound in the magic of ancient oaths and to again be free. Kahlan, alone with the terrible truth of what she has done, must set about altering the course of a world thrown into war. But even that may be easier than ever winning back the heart of the only man she will ever love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/753'),
(2356, 'Storm Front', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As in the audio adaptation of Butcher''s first Dresden Files novel, Storm Front, Marsters (who played Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer) slips easily into the role of down-on-his-luck wizard Harry Dresden. Marsters''s self-deprecating tone fits the character perfectly; he reads with a dry, ironic humor that doesn''t mask Harry''s genuine concern for the lives of innocents. Marsters also displays a remarkable skill for lending even the strangest characters and creatures voices-including gentleman gangster Johnny Marconi, his henchmen, a sexy female werewolf and Bob, the British-accented talking skull. In this outing, Harry is again out of cash, and police detective Karrin Murphy, who''s still angry at him over the events of the first book, isn''t inclined to throw work his way. But soon a series of mysterious, violent murders sends her to Harry for help. Are the killings the work of a local motorcycle gang? Or a werewolf-and if so, which werewolf? Mac Finn, the werewolf environmentalist? The group of idealistic college kids who voluntarily become werewolves by night? Or the trigger-happy group of FBI agents turned werewolf vigilantes? Though the price of this audio package may put off some listeners, Marsters''s lively telling makes it worth every penny.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n He handles the male and female, and the human and para-human, characters with equal aplomb, --\n <em>\n  Audiofile\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n James Marsters does a nice, low-key job with the first-person narrative, --\n <em>\n  AudioFile\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n even managing some moving pathos out of unpromising moments. Y.R. AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine --\n <em>\n  Audiofile\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/82'),
(2357, 'A Storm of Swords', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Is George R.R. Martin for real? Can a fantasy epic actually get\n <em>\n  better\n </em>\n with each new installment? Fans of the genre have glumly come to expect go-nowhere sequels from other authors, so we''re entitled to pinch ourselves over Martin''s tightly crafted Song of Ice and Fire series. The reports are all true: this series is the real deal, and Martin deserves his crown as the rightful king of the epic.\n <em>\n  A Game of Thrones\n </em>\n got things off to a rock-solid start,\n <em>\n  A Clash of Kings\n </em>\n only exceeded expectations, but it''s the\n <em>\n  Storm of Swords\n </em>\n hat trick that cements Martin''s rep as the most praiseworthy fantasy author to come along since that other R.R.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like the first two books,\n <em>\n  A Storm of Swords\n </em>\n could coast on the fundamentals: deftly detailed characters, convincing voices and dialogue, a robust back-story, and a satisfyingly unpredictable plot. But it''s Martin''s consistently bold choices that set the series apart. Every character is fair game for the headman''s axe (sometimes literally), and not only do the good guys regularly lose out to the bad guys, you''re never exactly sure who you should be cheering for in the first place.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Storm\n </em>\n is full of admirable intricacies. Events that you thought Martin was setting up solidly for the first two books are exposed as complex feints; the field quickly narrows after the Battle of the Blackwater and once again, anything goes. Robb tries desperately to hold the North together, Jon returns from the wildling lands with a torn heart, Bran continues his quest for the three-eyed crow beyond the Wall, Catelyn struggles to save her fragile family, Arya becomes ever more wolflike in her wanderings, Daenerys comes into her own, and Joffrey''s cruel rule from King''s Landing continues, making even his fellow Lannisters uneasy. Martin tests all the major characters in\n <em>\n  A Storm of Swords\n </em>\n : some fail the trial, while others--like Martin himself--seem to only get stronger.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The third volume of the high fantasy saga that began with A Game of Thrones and continued in A Clash of Kings is one of the more rewarding examples of gigantism in contemporary fantasy. As Martin''s richly imagined world slides closer to its 10-year winter, both the weather and the warfare worsen. In the north, King Joffrey of House Lannister sits uneasily on the Iron Throne. With the aid of a peasant wench, Jaime Lannister, the Kingslayer, escapes from jail in Riverrun. Jaime goes to the other youthful ruler, Robb Stark, to secure the release of Joffrey''s prisoners, Robb''s sisters Arya and Sansa Stark. Meanwhile, in the south, Queen Daenarys tries to assert her claim to the various thrones with an army of eunuchs, but discovers that she must choose between conquering more and ruling well what she has already taken. The complexity of characters such as Daenarys, Arya and the Kingslayer will keep readers turning even the vast number of pages contained in this volume, for the author, like Tolkien or Jordan, makes us care about their fates. Those two fantasy greats are also evoked by Martin''s ability to convey such sensual experiences as the heat of wildfire, the chill of ice, the smell of the sea and the sheer gargantuan indigestibility of the medieval banquet at its most excessive. Perhaps this saga doesn''t go as far beyond the previous bounds of high fantasy as some claim, but for most readers it certainly goes far enough to command their attention. (Nov.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/465'),
(2358, 'The Strain', 'Guillermo Del Toro &amp; Chuck Hogan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009:\n </strong>\n Who better to reinvent the vampire genre than Guillermo Del Toro, the genius behind\n <em>\n  Pan''s Labyrinth\n </em>\n , and Chuck Hogan, master of character-driven thrillers like\n <em>\n  Prince of Thieves\n </em>\n ? The first of a trilogy,\n <em>\n  The Strain\n </em>\n is everything you want from a horror novel--dark, bloody, and packed full of mayhem and mythology. But, be forewarned, these are not like any vampires you''ve met before--they''re not sexy or star-crossed or "vegetarians"--they are hungry, they are connected, and they are multiplying. The vampire virus marches its way across New York, and all that stands between us and a grotesque end are a couple of scientists, an old man with a decades-old vendetta, and a young boy. This first installment moves fast and sets up the major players, counting down to the beginning of the end. Great summer reading. --\n <em>\n  Daphne Durham\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning\n  <em>\n   Pan''s Labyrinth\n  </em>\n  and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Strain\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In two months--the world.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city--a city that includes his wife and son--before it is too late.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Strain\n  </em>\n  : Chapter One\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Once upon a time," said Abraham Setrakianâ€™s grandmother, "there was a giant."\n</p>\n<p>\n Young Abrahamâ€™s eyes brightened, and immediately the cabbage borscht in the wooden bowl got tastier, or at least less garlicky. He was a pale boy, underweight and sickly. His grandmother, intent on fattening him, sat across from him while he ate his soup, entertaining him by spinning a yarn.\n</p>\n<p>\n A\n <em>\n  bubbeh meiseh\n </em>\n , a "grandmotherâ€™s story." A fairy tale. A legend.\n</p>\n<p>\n "He was the son of a Polish nobleman. And his name was Jusef Sardu. Master Sardu stood taller than any other man. Taller than any roof in the village. He had to bow deeply to enter any door. But his great height, it was a burden. A disease of birth, not a blessing. The young man suffered. His muscles lacked the strength to support his long, heavy bones. At times it was a struggle for him just to walk. He used a cane, a tall stick--taller than you--with a silver handle carved into the shape of a wolfâ€™s head, which was the family crest."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes, Bubbeh?" said Abraham, between spoonfuls.\n</p>\n<p>\n "This was his lot in life, and it taught him humility, which is a rare thing indeed for a nobleman to possess. He had so much compassion-- for the poor, for the hardworking, for the sick. He was especially dear to the children of the village, and his great, deep pockets--the size of turnip sacks--bulged with trinkets and sweets. He had not much of a childhood himself, matching his fatherâ€™s height at the age of eight, and surpassing him by a head at age nine. His frailty and his great size were a secret source of shame to his father. But Master Sardu truly was a gentle giant, and much beloved by his people. It was said of him that Master Sardu looked down on everyone, yet looked down on no one."\n</p>\n<p>\n She nodded at him, reminding him to take another spoonful. He chewed a boiled red beet, known as a "baby heart" because of its color, its shape, its capillary-like strings. "Yes, Bubbeh?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "He was also a lover of nature, and had no interest in the brutality of the hunt--but, as a nobleman and a man of rank, at the age of fifteen his father and his uncles prevailed upon him to accompany them on a six-week expedition to Romania."\n</p>\n<p>\n "To here, Bubbeh?" said Abraham. "The giant, he came here?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "To the north country,\n <em>\n  kaddishel\n </em>\n . The dark forests. The Sardu men, they did not come to hunt wild pig or bear or elk. They came to hunt wolf, the family symbol, the arms of the house of Sardu. They were hunting a hunting animal. Sardu family lore said that eating wolf meat gave Sardu men courage and strength, and the young masterâ€™s father believed that this might cure his sonâ€™s weak muscles."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes, Bubbeh?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Their trek was long and arduous, as well as violently opposed by the weather, and Jusef struggled mightily. He had never before traveled anywhere outside his familyâ€™s village, and the looks he received from strangers along the journey shamed him. When they arrived in the dark forest, the woodlands felt alive around him. Packs of animals roamed the woods at night, almost like refugees displaced from their shelters, their dens, nests, and lairs. So many animals that the hunters were unable to sleep at night in their camp. Some wanted to leave, but the elder Sarduâ€™s obsession came before all else. They could hear the wolves, crying in the night, and he wanted one badly for his son, his only son, whose gigantism was a pox upon the Sardu line. He wanted to cleanse the house of Sardu of this curse, to marry off his son, and produce many healthy heirs.\n</p>\n<p>\n "And so it was that his father, off tracking a wolf, was the first to become separated from the others, just before nightfall on the second evening. The rest waited for him all night, and spread out to search for him after sunrise. And so it was that one of Jusefâ€™s cousins failed to return that evening. And so on, you see."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes, Bubbeh?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Until the only one left was Jusef, the boy giant. That next day he set out, and in an area previously searched, discovered the body of his father, and of all his cousins and uncles, laid out at the entrance to an underground cave. Their skulls had been crushed with great force, but their bodies remained uneaten--killed by a beast of tremendous strength, yet not out of hunger or fear. For what reason, he could not guessâ€”though he did feel himself being watched, perhaps even studied, by some being lurking within that dark cave.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Master Sardu carried each body away from the cave and buried them deep. Of course, this exertion severely weakened him, taking most of his strength. He was spent, he was\n <em>\n  farmutshet\n </em>\n . And yet, alone and scared and exhausted, he returned to the cave that night, to face what evil revealed itself after dark, to avenge his forebears or die trying. This is known from a diary he kept, discovered in the woods many years later. This was his last entry."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Continue Reading *The Strain\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Director Del Toro (who won an Oscar for\n <em>\n  Pan''s Labyrinth\n </em>\n ) makes a dramatic splash in his fiction debut, the first volume in a vampires vs. humanity trilogy, coauthored with Hogan (\n <em>\n  Prince of Thieves\n </em>\n ). Just as a jumbo jet on a flight from Germany to New York is touching down at JFK, something goes terribly wrong. When Ephraim Goodweather, of the Centers for Disease Control, investigates the darkened plane, he finds all but four passengers and crew dead, drained of blood. Despite Goodweather''s efforts to keep the survivors segregated, they get discharged into the general population. Soon after, the corpses of the tragedy''s victims disappear. The epidemiologist begins to credit the wild stories of Abraham Setrakian, an elderly pawnbroker who''s the book''s Van Helsing figure, and concludes that a master vampire has arrived in the U.S. The authors maintain the suspense and tension throughout in a tour de force reminiscent of Whitley Strieber''s early work.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/837'),
(2359, 'Strange Highways', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  You are about to travel along the strange highways of human experience: the adventures and terrors and failures and triumphs that we know as we make our way from birth to death, along the routes that we choose for ourselves and along others onto which we are detoured by fate. It is a journey down wrong roads that can lead to unexpectedly and stunningly right destinations...into subterranean depths where the darkness of the human soul breeds in every conceivable form...over unfamiliar terrain populated by the denizens of hell. It is a world of unlikely heroes, haunted thieves, fearsome predators, vengeful children, and suspiciously humanlike robots.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Mega-bestselling author Dean Koontz''s highly successful novels continue to sell at a phenomenal rate, with total sales worldwide of more than 125 million copies. His newest book, Strange Highways, guarantees the same thrilling suspense which Koontz fans have come to expect. The Hideaway is now a major film from Tristar, starring Jeff Goldblum and Christine Lahti.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1888'),
(2360, 'Stranger in Paradise', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n An Apache hit man arrives in Paradise to find a missing girl and snuff out her mother. But his conscience is getting the best of him. If he doesn''t make the hit, he''ll pay for it. So might Jesse Stone, who''s been enlisted to protect them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1149'),
(2361, 'The Stranger', 'Albert Camus &amp; Stuart Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Stranger\n </em>\n is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus''s compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its time. Alienation, the fear of anonymity, spiritual doubt--all could have been given a purely modern inflection in the hands of a lesser talent than Camus, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957 and was noted for his existentialist aesthetic. The remarkable trick of\n <em>\n  The Stranger\n </em>\n , however, is that it''s not mired in period philosophy.\n</p>\n<p>\n The plot is simple. A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he''s imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. The trial''s proceedings are absurd, a parsing of incidental trivialities--that Meursault, for instance, seemed unmoved by his own mother''s death and then attended a comic movie the evening after her funeral are two ostensibly damning facts--so that the eventual sentence the jury issues is both ridiculous and inevitable.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meursault remains a cipher nearly to the story''s end--dispassionate, clinical, disengaged from his own emotions. "She wanted to know if I loved her," he says of his girlfriend. "I answered the same way I had the last time, that it didn''t mean anything but that I probably didn''t." There''s a latent ominousness in such observations, a sense that devotion is nothing more than self-delusion. It''s undoubtedly true that Meursault exhibits an extreme of resignation; however, his confrontation with "the gentle indifference of the world" remains as compelling as it was when Camus first recounted it.\n <em>\n  --Ben Guterson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The new translation of Camus''s classic is a cultural event; the translation of Cocteau''s diary is a literary event. Both translations are superb, but Ward''s will affect a naturalized narrative, while Browner''s will strengthen Cocteau''s reemerging critical standing. Since 1946 untold thousands of American students have read a broadly interpretative, albeit beautifully crafted British Stranger . Such readers have closed Part I on "door of undoing" and Part II on "howls of execration." Now with the domestications pruned away from the text, students will be as close to the original as another language will allow: "door of unhappiness" and "cries of hate." Browner has no need to "write-over" another translation. With Cocteau''s reputation chiefly as a cineaste until recently, he has been read in French or not at all. Further, the essay puts a translator under less pressure to normalize for readers'' expectations. Both translations show the current trend to stay closer to the original. Marilyn Gaddis Rose, SUNY at Binghamton\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/932'),
(2362, 'Strangers', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author of Phantoms, Whispers and other thrillers takes an unconscionable time to tell his latest story. The "strangers" are thousands of miles apart when they begin to suffer inexplicable terrors. In California, Dom Corvaisis sleepwalks, fleeing from an unseen menace. In Massachusetts, gifted young Dr. Ginger Weiss''s panic attacks threaten her career. A priest in the Midwest loses his faith suddenly, then finds he can heal fatally injured people. And, in Elko, Nevada, the owner of a motela tough ex-Marinebecomes paralyzed by fears of the dark. Mysterious clues bring these characters and others, similarly afflicted, to the motel, where apparently they had met long before. As they compare experiences, the victims realize they''ve been brainwashed and determine to find out why. That means facing death at the hands of a maniac in a scene that finally induces frissons of terror in the reader. But it''s too late; Koontz has vitiated suspense throughout the narrative with numbing repetitions and long explanations of such matters as Jewish cooking, the baldachin over the altar at St. Patrick''s Cathedral, a weaver''s tools, etc. 75,000 first printing; $75,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild dual selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Six strangers are unaccountably seized by nightmares, attacks of fear, and bouts of uncharacteristic behavior. The six begin to seek each other out as puzzling photographs and messages arrive, indicating that the cause may lie in a forgotten weekend stay at an isolated Nevada motel. Koontz has topped a fine roster of horror and suspense novels with an almost unbearably suspenseful page-turner. His ability to maintain the mystery through several plot twists is impressive, as is his array of believable and sympathetic characters. With its masterful blend of elements of espionage, terror, and even some science fiction, Strangers may be the suspense novel of the year. Recommended for popular collections. Literary Guild dual main selection. Eric W. Johnson, Univ. of Bridgeport Lib . , Conn.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/529'),
(2363, 'Strangers in Death', 'J. D. Robb &amp; Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LIEUTENANT EVE DALLAS EXPLORES THE HIDDEN CONNECTIONS AMONG RIENDS AND LOVERS, ENEMIES AND STRANGERS\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Technology may be different in 2060 New York, yet the city is still a place of many cultures and giant divides. And as ever, some murders receive more attention than others, especially those in which the victim is a prominent businessman, found in his Park Avenue apartment, tied to the bed and strangled with cords of black velvet.\n</p>\n<p>\n It doesn''t surprise Lieutenant Eve Dallas that Thomas Anders''s scandalous death is a source of titillation and speculation for the public and humiliation for his family. While everyone else in the city is talking about it, those close to Anders arem''t so anxious to do so. Fortunately, because Dallas''s billionaire husband, Roarke, happens to own the prime real estate where Anders''s sporting-goods firm was headquartered, she has some help with access.\n</p>\n<p>\n But the facts don''t add up. Physical evidence suggests that the victim didn''t struggle. The security breach in the highly fortified apartment indicates that the killer was someone close to Anders, but everyone''s alibi checks out, from the wife who was off in the tropics to the loving nephew who stands to inherit millions. Was this a crime of passion or a carefully planned execution?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Nora Roberts is cool." Stephen King\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1105'),
(2364, 'The Street Lawyer', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Grisham is back with his latest courtroom conundrum,\n <em>\n  The Street Lawyer\n </em>\n . This time the lord of legal thrillers dives deep into the world of the homeless, particularly their barely audible legal voice in a world dominated by large, all-powerful law firms. Our hero, Michael Brock, is on the fast track to partnership at D.C.''s premier law firm, Sweeny &amp; Drake. His dream of someday raking in a million-plus a year is finally within reach. Nothing can stop him, not even 90-hour workweeks and a failing marriage--until he meets DeVon Hardy, a.k.a. "Mister," a Vietnam vet with a grudge against his landlord--and a few lawyers to fry. Hardy, with no clear motive, takes Brock and eight of his colleagues hostage in a boardroom, demanding their tax returns and interrogating them with a conviction that would have put perpetrators of the Spanish Inquisition to shame. Hardy, a man of few words and a lot of ammunition, mumbles cryptically, "Who are the evictors?" as he points a .44 automatic within inches of Brock''s face. The violent outcome of the hostage situation triggers an abrupt soul-searching for the young lawyer, and Hardy''s mysterious question continues to haunt him. Brock learns that Hardy had been in and out of homeless shelters most of his life, but he had recently begun paying rent in a rundown building; that means he has legal recourse when a big money-making outfit such as Sweeny &amp; Drake boots him with no warning. When Brock realizes that his profession caters to the morally challenged, he sets out on an aimless search through the dicier side of D.C., ending up at the 14th Street Legal Clinic. The clinic''s director, a gargantuan man named Mordecai Green, woos Brock to the clinic with a $90,000 cut in pay and the chance to redeem his soul. Brock takes it--and some of the story''s credibility along with it; it''s hard to believe that a Yale graduate who sacrificed everything--including his marriage--to succeed in the legal profession would quickly jump at the opportunity for low-paying, charitable work. However, Brock''s search for corruption in the swanky upper echelons of Sweeny &amp; Drake (via the toughest streets of D.C.) is filled with colorful characters and realistic, gritty descriptions. In the\n <em>\n  The Street Lawyer\n </em>\n , Grisham once again defends the voiceless and powerless. In the words of Mordecai Green, "That''s justice, Michael. That''s what street law is all about. Dignity."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n America''s most popular author is arguably its most popular crusader as well, tilting his pen against myriad targets, including big law (The Firm, etc.), big tobacco (The Runaway Jury), big insurance (The Rainmaker) and now, in perhaps his sweetest, shortest novel, against anyone, big or little, who treats the homeless as less than human. The expected powerhouse opening involves the hostage-taking?by an armed, homeless man who calls himself Mister?of nine attorneys of a huge law firm headquartered in D.C. Among the nine is narrator Michael Brock, an antitrust lawyer who receives a faceful of blood when a police sniper blows away Mister''s head. "I''m alive! I''m alive," Michael cries like Ebenezer Scrooge, but, like Scrooge, this greedy hotshot is ripe for a moral awakening. The next day, Michael visits the shabby offices of Mister''s attorney, Mordecai Green, who explains that Mister and others had been illegally evicted from makeshift housing on orders from a real-estate development company represented by Michael''s firm. Inspired by Green and shaken by his firm''s complicity, Michael volunteers at a homeless shelter. When a family he meets there dies on the street, and turns out to have been among the evictees, Michael quits his job, goes to work for Green and, using as evidence a file he steals from the firm, aims to sue his former employer on behalf of the evictees. In turn, the firm places Michael in its crosshairs, pressuring him to give up the file through legal maneuvers, having him arrested and hints of darker means. The cat-and-mouse between Michael and the firm is vintage Grisham, intricately plotted, but the emphasis in this smoothly told, baldly manipulative tale is less on action and suspense, which are moderate, than on Michael''s change of heart and moving exploration of the world of the homeless. Dickens would be well pleased, and so will Grisham''s fans. 2.8 million first printing.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/728'),
(2365, 'Stroke of Midnight, A', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/598'),
(2366, 'Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions', 'Christian Lander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n , and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music, food co-ops, and vintage T-shirts make them weak in the knees.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n They believe theyâ€™re unique, yet somehow theyâ€™re all exactly the same, talking about how they â€œgetâ€ Sarah Silvermanâ€™s â€œsubversiveâ€ comedy and Wes Andersonâ€™s â€œdrollâ€ films. Theyâ€™re also down with diversity and up on all the best microbrews, breakfast spots, foreign cinema, and authentic sushi. Theyâ€™re organic, ironic, and do not own TVs.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n You know who they are: Theyâ€™re white people. And theyâ€™re here, and youâ€™re gonna have to deal. Fortunately, hereâ€™s a book that investigates, explains, and offers advice for finding social success with the Caucasian persuasion. So kick back on your IKEA couch and lose yourself in the ultimate guide to the unbearable whiteness of being.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE:\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œThe best of a hilarious Web site: an uncannily accurate catalog of dead-on predilections. The Criterion Collection of classic films? Haircuts with bangs? Expensive fruit juice? â€˜Blonde on Blondeâ€™ on the iPod? The author knows who reads\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  and who wears plaid.â€\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€“Janet Maslinâ€™s summer picks, CBS.com\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  The author of "Stuff White People Like" skewers the sacred cows of lefty Caucasian culture, from the Prius to David Sedaris. . . . It gently mocks the habits and pretensions of urbane, educated, left-leaning whites, skewering their passion for Barack Obama and public transportation (as long as it''s not a bus), their idle threats to move to Canada, and joy in playing children''s games as adults. Kickball, anyone?â€\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€“Salon.com\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œA handy reference guide with which you can check just how white you are. Hint: If you like only documentaries and think your child is gifted, you glow in the dark, buddy.â€\n </strong>\n <br />\n *â€“NY Daily News\n <strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Christian Lander is the creator of the website Stuff White People Like. He is a Ph.D. dropout who was the 2006 public speaking instructor of the year at Indiana University. He has lived in Toronto, Montreal, Copenhagen, Tucson, Indiana, and now Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Jess, a photographer who contributed many of the photos in the book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/555'),
(2367, 'Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek', 'Olivia Munn &amp; Mac Montandon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  Now the star of NBCâ€™s Perfect Couples, Olivia Munnâ€™s hilarious first collection of essays, Suck It Wonder Woman, offers up such stories like â€œThoughtâ€™s About My First Agentâ€™s Girlfriendâ€™s Vagina,â€ wherein Olivia skewers life in Hollywood. In â€œSex: What You Can Do to Help Yourself Have More of It,â€ she frankly gets down to the business of getting it on, including advice on how to appropriately wrap it and bag it. In â€œWhat to Do When the Robots Invade (Yes, When!),â€ Olivia offers valuable information on. . .what to do when the robots invade! This book also includes such handy treasures as a timeline of great moments in Geek history, a flip book, and an unofficial FAQ section.\n </em>\n <em>\n  Suck It, Wonder Woman!\n </em>\n brings Olivia Munnâ€™s incredible wit, and lightning-fast costume changes to a world that needs more scrapbooking, sea monkeys, and a freakinâ€™ hoverboard!\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Â \n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Â \n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/426'),
(2368, 'Sudden Mischief', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Brad Sterling - former Harvard football player, ne''er-dowell, and Susan Silverman''s long-out-of-touch ex-husband - is, by all appearances, a successful businessman. But when he is charged with sexual harassment in the course of running a vast fund-raiser called Galapalooza, he turns to Susan for help. Though Brad denies the charge, he''s desperate, behind in alimony and child support to other exes, and on the verge of dissolution. When Spenser reluctantly agrees to the case, he finds Brad denies everything. Sterling claims everything is fine - he is free of debt and free of problems. While the harassment charge begins to look more and more specious, Spenser begins to sense there is something wrong with Galapalooza, when leads to charities turn into dead end. Susan, meanwhile, becomes steadily more problematic as she wrestles with demons reinvigorated by the resurrection of her ex-husband. As the questions mount, Brad disappears, a body is found, and a shadowy mob connection begins to coalesce. Spenser finds himself fighting a two-front war: against some very bad men on the one hand, and an increasingly difficult Susan, struggling with her own resurrection, on the other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1129');
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(2369, 'The Sum of All Fears', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once again, Tom Clancy manages to add new twists to the alternate U.S. history he initiated in\n <em>\n  The Hunt for Red October\n </em>\n . In\n <em>\n  The Sum of All Fears\n </em>\n , the center of conflict is the perpetual hot spot the Mideast, where a nuclear weapon falls into the hands of terrorists just as peace seems possible. Clancy realistically paints an almost unthinkable scenario--the bomb is planted on American soil in the midst of an escalation in tension with the Soviet Union; the terrorists hope to rekindle cold war animosity and prevent reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.\n</p>\n<p>\n Despite such a dramatic story line, Clancy doesn''t neglect the individuals who drive his tale. Jack Ryan''s problems are as much domestic as they are part of the international crisis that is the ostensible narrative: National Security Director Elizabeth Elliot has the president''s ear, and she has convinced him that Ryan''s ethics are questionable. She hints at marital infidelity and an insider-trading scandal. Of course, both accusations are false, but her arguments have enough evidence behind them (e.g. some photographs of an innocent embrace with a friend) to cause a strain in the Ryans'' marriage and a flurry of media attention. While "Mr. Clark" tracks the terrorists, he also provides some needed intelligence to heal the Ryan family.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Sum of All Fears\n </em>\n is the stuff of nightmares but contains enough verisimilitude to terrify sober minds. Ryan has matured into a complex protagonist as Clancy''s writing, too, has matured. Ryan is plagued by stress and self-doubts that test even his dauntless moral compass and make him a more interesting subject for readers'' attention. Those fascinated by military hardware, from nuclear submarines to atomic weapons, will find almost enough here to start their own army. And Clancy''s understanding of international politics seems chillingly correct.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clancy evolves from storyteller to novelist in his latest techno-thriller, as gadgets take second place to politics and personalities. In the late 1990s the world is cautiously emerging from the Cold War; even the Arab-Israeli conflict is being resolved, thanks to the cleverness of Clancy''s hero Jack Ryan. But as confrontation yields to cooperation, what becomes of displaced terrorists? Palestinians without a cause and East Germans without a country seek to rekindle U.S.-U.S.S.R. animosity. A small nuclear device is exploded at the Super Bowl; in Berlin American and Russian troops are tricked into firing on each other; residual suspicions carry the action from there. After the solution of the Middle East crisis serves as an exciting preliminary to the main plot, the novel''s middle parts seem a recycling of situations and characters from Red October and Cardinal of the Kremlin. But in the last third of the book Clancy integrates story lines, taking readers on a nonstop roller-coaster ride to a nail-biting finish. Fundamentally, Clancy is writing about a vital and elusive quality: grace under pressure. Whether terrorists or statesmen, Clancy''s characters face a common challenge--situations that break down pretensions of rank, power and ideology. Their responses, carefully and empathetically constructed, make this book compelling instead of merely ingenious.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/874'),
(2370, 'Summer', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A NEW BEGINNING: Hollywood actor Dayne Matthews and Katy Hart are married and living in Bloomington, Ind., where Dayne has found a solution to his on-camera love scenesâ€”he wants Katy to star in his next film. Katy wins the part and is cast opposite her super-star husband. The story of a small town girl''s dream come true is too much for the press to resist, and in an effort to appease them, the couple agrees to a 12-episode reality show. It seems like the perfect compromise but by the time they finish filming the movie, they feel cracks around the edges of their marriage. Now they face an uncertain future, and possibly the end of everything that truly matters to them.\n  <br />\n  AN UNFORGETTABLE SUMMER: The Baxter family learns that Ashley and Kari are both pregnant, but an ultrasound reveals that something is wrong with one of the babies. As the summer progresses, the sisters pray for a miracle while trying to face the unthinkable. It''s in this trying season that they must all learn the lesson God has been trying to teach themâ€”He is still in control, and He will be with them regardless of the outcome.\n  <br />\n  AN EMOTIONAL FAREWELL: The Flanigans continue to draw closer to their only daughter, yet Bailey struggles to find her way amidst the turmoil of adolescence. She has always made good decisions, but she wants to experience more of life. Her friendship with Cody Colemanâ€”the young border staying with the Flanigansâ€”continues to blossom in this summer after his graduation. But when Cody decides to enlist in the Army, he''ll have to say goodbye to the family he''s come to love and the girl he''ll never forget.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Karen Kingsbury\n  </strong>\n  is currently America''s best-selling inspirational author. She has written more than 30 of her Life-Changing Fiction titles and has nearly 5 million books in print. Dubbed by Time magazine as the Queen of Christian Fiction. Her fiction has made her one of the country''s favorite storytellers, and one of her novels-Gideon''s Gift-is under production for an upcoming major motion picture release. Her emotionally gripping titles include the popular Redemption series, the Firstborn series, Divine, One Tuesday Morning, Beyond Tuesday Morning, Oceans Apart, and A Thousand Tomorrows.Karen and her husband, Don, live in the Pacific Northwest and are parents to one girl and five boys, including three adopted from Haiti.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1966'),
(2371, 'A Summer Affair', 'Elin Hilderbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sheila Crispin Cook, mother of four young children and nationally renowned glassblower, bites off more than she can chew when she agrees to co-chair the Nantucket''s Children Summer Gala. Sheila is asked to chair the benefit, in part, because she is the former high school sweetheart of rock star Max West. Max agrees to play the gala and it looks like smooth sailing for Sheila-until she promises a "museum-quality" piece of glass for the auction, offers her best friend the catering job, goes nose-to-nose with her Manhattan socialite co-chair, and begins a "good-hearted" affair with the charity''s Executive Director, Lockhart Dixon.\n  <br />\n  Hearts break and emotions are pushed to the limit in this riveting story of one woman''s attempt to deal with loves past and present, family, business, and high-powered social pressures. Elin Hilderbrand''s unique understanding of the joys and longings that animate women''s lives will make this her newest summer bestseller.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Publishers Weekly:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hilderbrand''s seventh novel delves into the psyche of a guilt-ridden mother/artist who embarks on a self-destructive path. Nantucket glass artist Claire Danner Crispin has pieces in private collections and one in the Whitney, but is overwhelmed with the needs of her husband and four kids (she gave up full-time glassblowing to take care of the family). Her troubles worsen when Daphne, a friend she''d been drinking with, is severely injured in a drunken car wreck. Claire is convinced that Daphne''s husband, Lockhart, holds her responsible, so she''s surprised when he asks her to co-chair a charity gala and create a new piece of glass art for auction. The plot mushrooms as Claire and Lockhart begin an affair; Claire rethinks her priorities; a slew of gala-related complications arise; and Claire''s ex-boyfriend turned rock star comes into play. Hilderbrand keeps a lot of balls in the air, and if she pays too much attention to event-planning minutiae, there are still enough conflicts to keep readers entertained.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elin Hilderbrand lives on Nantucket with her husband and their three young children. She grew up in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and traveled extensively before settling on Nantucket, which has been the setting for hersix previous novels. Hilderbrand is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the graduate fiction workshop at the University of Iowa.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2463'),
(2372, 'Summer Knight', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Fans of Laurell K. Hamilton and Tanya Huff will love this series."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "What would you get if you crossed Spenser with Merlin? Probably you would come up with someone very like Harry Dresden."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Washington Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Now available in hardcover-the fourth novel in the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling Dresden Files series.\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Harry Dresden''s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicago''s only professional wizard.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But in all Harry''s years of supernatural sleuthing, he''s never faced anything like this: the spirit world''s gone completely postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble-and not just of the door-slamming, boo-shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Someone-or something-is stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesn''t figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/88'),
(2373, 'Summer of Night', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hugo Award-winning novelist Simmons pens an outstandingly eerie horror story about a group of Midwestern boys stalked by an ancient evil.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A monstrous, timeless entity is devouring children. Adults either refuse to understand what is happening, or are themselves agents for the monster. A group of young boys, in uneasy partnership with an outcast girl, realize they must kill the creature before it devours them all. Simmons ( The Fall of Hyperion, LJ 3/15/90), winner of several prestigious awards for science fiction and horror (most recently a Hugo Award for Hyperion , Doubleday, 1989) ranks with the best the genre has to offer. In outline, this novel resembles Stephen King''s It ( LJ 8/86). The children are well drawn and affecting in their bravery. This book should be in most horror fiction collections. BOMC alternate.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ. Lib., Davenport, Ia.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/258'),
(2374, 'Summer People', 'Elin Hilderbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Every summer the Newton family retreats to their beloved home on Nantucket for three months of sunshine, cookouts, and bonfires on the beach. But this summer will not be like any other. When Arch Newton, a prominent New York attorney, dies in a plane crash on his way home from a business trip, his beautiful widow Beth can barely keep things together. Above all, though, she decides that she must continue the family tradition of going to Nantucket, and at the same time fulfill a promise that Arch made before he died.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beth invites Marcus, the son of Arch''s final and most challenging client, to spend the summer with her and her teenage twins Winnie and Garrett, who have mixed reactions to sharing their special summer place with this stranger. Always a place of peace before, Nantucket becomes the scene of roiling emotions and turbulent passions as Marcus, Winnie, and Garrett learn about loss, first love, and betrayal. And when they stumble upon a shocking secret from Beth''s past, they must keep it from destroying the family they''ve been trying so hard to heal.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2385'),
(2375, 'Summer Rental', 'Mary Kay Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Sometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right direction....Ellis, Julia, and Dorie. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid-thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Ellis, recently fired from a job she gave everything to, is rudderless and now beginning to question the choices sheâ€™s made over the past decade of her life. Juliaâ€”whose caustic wit covers up her woundsâ€”has a man who loves her and is offering her the world, but she canâ€™t hide from how deeply insecure she feels about her looks, her brains, her life. And Dorie has just been shockingly betrayed by the man she loved and trusted the most in the worldâ€¦though this is just the tip of the iceberg of her problems and secrets. A month in North Carolinaâ€™s Outer Banks is just what each of them needs.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Ty Bazemore is their landlord, though heâ€™s hanging on to the rambling old beach house by a thin thread. After an inauspicious first meeting with Ellis, the two find themselves disturbingly attracted to one another, even as Ty is about to lose everything heâ€™s ever cared about. Maryn Shackleford is a stranger, and a woman on the run. Maryn needs just a few things in life: no questions, a good hiding place, and a new identity. Ellis, Julia, and Dorie can provide what Maryn wants; can they also provide what she needs? Five people questioning everything they ever thought they knew about life. Five people on a journey that will uncover their secrets and point them on the path to forgiveness. Five people who each need a sea change, and one month that might just give it to them.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Mary Kay Andrews spins a beach blanket sizzler around three lifelong friends...This warm weather treat has a lot going for it, not least the sunny forecast that summer love can blossom into a four-season commitment."\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   â€”Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   â€œNarrator Isabel Keating makes the most of the material, giving each character a distinctive Southern accent, fitting for these girls from Savannah. Recommended for Andrewsâ€™s fans and those wishing some light fair.â€ â€“\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   â€œFor a group of girls on a roadtrip, this is the perfect way to pass the time.â€ â€“\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Smitten with Reading\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   â€œAndrewsâ€¦is at her warm and funny bestâ€¦[she] simply excels at creating the kind of characters readers can relate to, and she has a fabulous sense of humor to boot.â€\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   â€”Library Journal (starred review)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   â€œAndrews spins a beach blanket sizzlerâ€¦ This warm weather treat has a lot going for it.â€\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   â€”Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   â€œ[A] tailor-made beach readâ€¦another charmerâ€\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   â€”Booklist\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   â€œâ€¦unraveling secrets makes for fascinating reading. This is a perfect beach book: the tale of a sandy, flea-bittensummer house and one month in August in which honesty triumphs over silence, and love over lies. Ellis falls in love, and Dorie meets a new guy, and Julie makes a big decision, and Maryn breaks freeâ€¦ and the readers ofSummer Rental will stay glued to their sandy beach chairs waiting to see what happens next.â€Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   --Barnes &amp; Noble Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   â€œâ€¦this is prime beach-read materialâ€\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   --Daily Record (Gannett Newspapers)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   About the Author\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   MARY KAY ANDREWS is the\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Fixer Upper, Deep Dish, Blue Christmas, Savannah Breeze, Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Savannah Blues.\n  </em>\n  A former journalist for\n  <em>\n   The Atlanta Journal Constitution,\n  </em>\n  she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2390'),
(2376, 'Summerland: A Novel', 'Elin Hilderbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. But what begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver of the car, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother in a coma. The other passengers, Penny''s boyfriend Jake and her friend Demeter, are physically unhurt - but the emotional damage is overwhelming, and questions linger about what happened before Penny took the wheel.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  As summer unfolds, startling truths are revealed about the survivors and their parents - secrets kept, promises broken, hearts betrayed. Elin Hilderbrand explores the power of community, family, and honesty, and proves that even from the ashes of sorrow, new love can still take flight.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Takes the chick-lit trope of reclaimed friendship and updates it with a timely twist ... Hilderbrand throws in a handful of plot twists that bounce the story along like a funky old jeep ... SILVER GIRL [is] the kind of safe investment beachgoers should adore'' -- Boston Globe ''Hilderbrand captivates with racy narrative, topical references, and characters who are both familiar and memorable'' -- People ''It provides a pacey read, with colourful characters that have fascinating motivations. I couldn''t get them out of my head for days'' -- Sunday Express on SILVER GIRL ''So deliciously addictive that it will be the ''It'' beach book of the summer'' -- Kirkus Review on THE ISLAND ''An honest, raw tale of friendship and love'' -- Cosmopolitan on THE CASTAWAYS ''This book was a great read - you really care what happens to the characters. Perfect holiday reading. I didn''t want to put it down'' -- Candis on BAREFOOT ''A gem of a summer read with a glamorous location, elite lifestyle, and Hilderbrand''s appealing take on the constant stress that fills the lives of women everywhere'' -- Booklist on A SUMMER AFFAIR\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Hilderbrand captivates with racy narrative, topical references, and characters who are both familiar and memorable'' -- People ''Takes the chick-lit trope of reclaimed friendship and updates it with a timely twist... Hilderbrand throws in a handful of plot twists that bounce the story along like a funky old jeep... Silver Girl [is] the kind of safe investment beachgoers should adore'' -- Boston Globe on SILVER GIRL ''It provides a pacey read, with colourful characters that have fascinating motivations. I couldn''t get them out of my head for days'' -- Sunday Express on SILVER GIRL ''so deliciously addictive that it will be the "It" beach book of the summer'' -- Kirkus Review on THE ISLAND ''An honest, raw tale of friendship and love'' -- Cosmopolitan on THE CASTAWAYS ''This book was a great read - you really care what happens to the characters. Perfect holiday reading. I didn''t want to put it down'' -- Candis on BAREFOOT ''A gem of a summer read with a glamorous location, elite lifestyle, and Hilderbrand''s appealing take on the constant stress that fills the lives of women everywhere'' -- Booklist on A SUMMER AFFAIR\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2489'),
(2377, 'The Summons', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Law professor Ray Atlee and his prodigal brother, Forrest, are summoned home to Clanton, Mississippi, by their ailing father to discuss his will. But when Ray arrives the judge is already dead, and the one-page document dividing his meager estate between the two sons seems crystal clear. What it doesn''t mention, however, is the small fortune in cash Ray discovers hidden in the old man''s house--$3 million he can''t account for and doesn''t mention to brother Forrest, either.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ray''s efforts to keep his find a secret, figure out where it came from, and hide it from a nameless extortioner, who seems to know more about it than he does, culminate in a denouement with an almost biblical twist. It''s a slender plot to hang a thriller on, and in truth it''s not John Grisham''s best in terms of pacing, dramatic tension, and interesting characters (except for Harry Rex, a country lawyer who was the judge''s closest friend and in many ways is the father Ray wishes he''d had. He''s so vivid he jumps off the page). But Grisham''s legions of fans are likely to enjoy\n <em>\n  The Summons\n </em>\n even if it lacks the power of some of his classic earlier books, like\n <em>\n  The Firm\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Brethren\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Testament\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Last year''s historical family drama A Painted House and the Christmas satire Skipping Christmas demonstrated that Grisham is willing to take risks. But fans of his legal thrillers already knew that, with his last three, particularly The Testament, making Play-Doh of the rules of the genre. Sometimes Grisham''s friskiness works, and sometimes it doesn''t. There''s much to admire in his newest thriller, particularly his colorful evocation of a Deep South legal setting, his first use of this milieu since his debut novel, A Time to Kill, and some finely drawn characters. Even so, this isn''t one of his most satisfying books, for while the narrative engages, it never catches fire. The setup is prime Grisham: Ray Atlee, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, is summoned home to Clanton, Miss., to the deathbed of his father, legendary judge Reuben V. Atlee; also summoned is Ray''s younger brother, Forrest, a chronic drug abuser. Ray arrives home first, to find the judge dead and more than $3 million stored in boxes in a cabinet cash not mentioned in the judge''s will and whose source baffles Ray. Grisham does a wonderful job of digging into Ray''s increasingly frazzled head as, stunned, the professor decides to keep the money a secret, even from Forrest, and to safeguard it until he figures out what to do. Greed, frayed nerves and fear plague Ray during the coming weeks, as he investigates, scrambling from one hideout to the next, becoming ever more aware that someone dangerous is following him and wants the money. Several scenarios Ray''s indulging his passion for flying small planes; his playing some of the cash at casinos to test it for counterfeiting; his dealings with screwed-up Forrest and his father''s cronies, notably an ex-mistress and a wily old attorney propel the story, and Ray, forward to the source of the money, a revelation that allows Grisham to take his usual swipes at big lawyerism but which will register for many as anticlimactic though there''s a final twist that as nifty and unexpected as anything Grisham has wrought. Grisham''s writing is silky smooth here, his storytelling captivating; but the novel''s lack of action a stone thrown through a window is as violent as it gets and the dissipation of all tension too far from the end make this, while a clever tale, one that''s just too quiet. Grisham''s fans might as well trim their nails while reading this, because they sure won''t be biting them.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/729'),
(2378, 'The Sun Also Rises', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Sun Also Rises\n </em>\n first appeared in 1926, and yet it''s as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer. Hemingway''s famously plain declarative sentences linger in the mind like poetry: "Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy''s. She started all that." His cast of thirtysomething dissolute expatriates--Brett and her drunken fiancÃ©, Mike Campbell, the unhappy Princeton Jewish boxer Robert Cohn, the sardonic novelist Bill Gorton--are as familiar as the "cool crowd" we all once knew. No wonder this quintessential lost-generation novel has inspired several generations of imitators, in style as well as lifestyle.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jake Barnes, Hemingway''s narrator with a mysterious war wound that has left him sexually incapable, is the heart and soul of the book. Brett, the beautiful, doomed English woman he adores, provides the glamour of natural chic and sexual unattainability. Alcohol and post-World War I anomie fuel the plot: weary of drinking and dancing in Paris cafÃ©s, the expatriate gang decamps for the Spanish town of Pamplona for the "wonderful nightmare" of a week-long fiesta. Brett, with fiancÃ© and ex-lover Cohn in tow, breaks hearts all around until she falls, briefly, for the handsome teenage bullfighter Pedro Romero. "My God! he''s a lovely boy," she tells Jake. "And how I would love to see him get into those clothes. He must use a shoe-horn." Whereupon the party disbands.\n</p>\n<p>\n But what''s most shocking about the book is its lean, adjective-free style.\n <em>\n  The Sun Also Rises\n </em>\n is Hemingway''s masterpiece--one of them, anyway--and no matter how many times you''ve read it or how you feel about the manners and morals of the characters, you won''t be able to resist its spell. This is a classic that really does live up to its reputation.\n <em>\n  --David Laskin\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The publisher is using these two perennial favorites to launch its new Scribner Paperback Fiction line. This edition of Paradise marks the 75th anniversary of the smash 1920 first novel that skyrocketed Fitzgerald to literary stardom at the ripe old age of 23. Several years later, The Sun (1926), Hemingway''s own first novel, performed an identical service for him at age 26. The line will eventually include additional titles by these giants as well as works by Edith Wharton, Langston Hughes, and other greats.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/652'),
(2379, 'Sunrise', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Welcome back to Bloomington, Ind., where some of Kingsbury''s most popular Christian novels are set. Kingsbury''s latest feel-good offering launches a new four-book series to follow the Baxter Family Dramas, which have nearly two million copies in print. She introduces a few new faces and follows familiar characters like the Baxters through their mostly sunny lives. Unfortunately, the plot is all but nonexistent. Hunky actor Dayne Matthews and the lovely Katy Hart are engaged to be married, but they face a dilemma: how to plan a private wedding that won''t be overrun by reporters desperate for a shot of the Hollywood heartthrob tying the knot. Dayne hires a Tinseltown wedding planner who specializes in secret star nuptials, although Katy frets that keeping the wedding hush-hush may necessitate deceiving some close friends and relatives. Meanwhile, Jim Flanigan, football coach at Clear Creek High, suspects his players are drinking and tries to crack down. Inspirational platitudes litter the pages ("Jim already knew the possibilities. Now it was a matter of trusting God for the outcome"). Readers new to Kingsbury will have a little trouble keeping the characters straight and figuring out the backstory, but her many fans will relish this visit with old and new friends, despite the clichÃ©s.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   2008 Retailer''s Choice Award winner!\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  In preparation for their long-awaited wedding day, Dayne and Katy are determined to keep the ceremony a secret from the paparazzi. Their relationship grows closer and stronger as they plan together, but in the end it takes the help of the Baxter family and many of the CKT kids so that they''ll even have a chance at a private wedding. John Baxter is thrilled that his oldest son will be settling down a few miles away, but he isn''t sure how any of his kids will handle a situation he can no longer run fromâ€”the feelings he is having for his friend Elaine. In the meantime, the Flanigan family is struggling with their young boarder, Cody Coleman, Jim Flanigan''s star receiver. After an alcohol overdose, Cody fights for his life. Only God''s grace and a miracle can bring him back from the brink of deathâ€”physically and spiritually.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1965'),
(2380, 'Sunset', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   2009 Retailer''s Choice Award winner!\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  As John Baxter makes plans to marry Elaine, one of the Baxters enters into the most trying season of all. During a time of renewed love and hope for the future, the Baxters try to come together to establish the sacred ground of marriage and to chart a course for the future. Memories of times gone by meet with the changes of today in a story that proves only the support of faith and family can take a person into the sunset years of life.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Karen Kingsbury\n  </strong>\n  is currently America''s best-selling inspirational author. She has written more than 30 of her Life-Changing Fiction titles and has nearly 5 million books in print. Dubbed by Time magazine as the Queen of Christian Fiction. Her fiction has made her one of the country''s favorite storytellers, and one of her novels-Gideon''s Gift-is under production for an upcoming major motion picture release. Her emotionally gripping titles include the popular Redemption series, the Firstborn series, Divine, One Tuesday Morning, Beyond Tuesday Morning, Oceans Apart, and A Thousand Tomorrows.Karen and her husband, Don, live in the Pacific Northwest and are parents to one girl and five boys, including three adopted from Haiti.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1968'),
(2381, 'Sunset Express', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Elvis Cole, wisecracking private eye, finds himself embroiled in a controversial LA murder case. A wealthy WASP entrepreneur appears to have murdered his wife. A hot-shot defense attorney takes the case and hires Elvis to find proof that the L.A. detective - rumored to be dirty - fooled around with the evidence. But as Elvis investigates, he becomes more suspicious of the media-loving lawyer than the cops. With sidekick Joe Pike and girlfriend Lucy Chenier in tow, Elvis carries the day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1334'),
(2382, 'Super Freakonomics', 'Steven D. Levitt &amp; Stephen J. Dubner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n best-selling\n <em>\n  Freakonomics\n </em>\n was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with\n <em>\n  SuperFreakonomics,\n </em>\n and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.\n</p>\n<p>\n Four years in the making,\n <em>\n  SuperFreakonomics\n </em>\n asks not only the tough questions, but the unexpected ones: What''s more dangerous, driving drunk or\n <em>\n  walking\n </em>\n drunk? Why is chemotherapy prescribed so often if it''s so ineffective? Can a sex change boost your salary?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  SuperFreakonomics\n </em>\n challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands?\n </li>\n <li>\n  How much good do car seats do?\n </li>\n <li>\n  What''s the best way to catch a terrorist?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Did TV cause a rise in crime?\n </li>\n <li>\n  What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Can eating kangaroo save the planet?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Which adds more value: a pimp or a Realtor?\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else, whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is â€“ good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Freakonomics\n </em>\n has been imitated many times over â€“ but only now, with\n <em>\n  SuperFreakonomics,\n </em>\n has it met its match.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From\n  <em>\n   Superfreakonomics\n  </em>\n  : Where do you stand on the freak-o-meter?\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Four years ago, you were cool. You read\n <em>\n  Freakonomics\n </em>\n when it first came out. You impressed family and friends and dazzled dates with the insights you gleaned. Now Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with\n <em>\n  Superfreakonomics\n </em>\n , a\n <em>\n  freak\n </em>\n quel even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.\n</p>\n<p>\n Have you been keeping up? Can you call yourself a SuperFreak? Test your\n <em>\n  Superfreakonomics\n </em>\n know-how now:\n <strong>\n  Question 1:\n </strong>\n 5 points\n <br />\n According to\n <em>\n  Superfreakonomics\n </em>\n , what has been most helpful in improving the lives of women in rural India?\n <br />\n A. The government ban on dowries and sex-selective abortions\n <br />\n B. The spread of cable and satellite television\n <br />\n C. Projects that pay women to not abort female babies\n <br />\n D. Condoms made specially for the Indian market\n <strong>\n  Question 2:\n </strong>\n 3 points\n <br />\n Among Chicago street prostitutes, which night of the week is the most profitable?\n <br />\n A. Saturday\n <br />\n B. Monday\n <br />\n C. Wednesday\n <br />\n D. Friday\n <strong>\n  Question 3:\n </strong>\n 5 points\n <br />\n You land in an emergency room with a serious condition and your fate lies in the hands of the doctor you draw. Which characteristic doesnâ€™t seem to matter in terms of doctor skill?\n <br />\n A. Attended a top-ranked medical school and served a residency at a prestigious hospital\n <br />\n B. Is female\n <br />\n C. Gets high ratings from peers\n <br />\n D. Spends more money on treatment\n <strong>\n  Question 4:\n </strong>\n 3 points\n <br />\n Which cancer is chemotherapy more likely to be effective for?\n <br />\n A. Lung cancer\n <br />\n B. Melanoma\n <br />\n C. Leukemia\n <br />\n D. Pancreatic cancer\n <strong>\n  Question 5:\n </strong>\n 5 points\n <br />\n Half of the decline in deaths from heart disease is mainly attributable to:\n <br />\n A. Inexpensive drugs\n <br />\n B. Angioplasty\n <br />\n C. Grafts\n <br />\n D. Stents\n <strong>\n  Question 6:\n </strong>\n 3 points\n <br />\n True or False: Child car seats do a better job of protecting children over the age of 2 from auto fatalities than regular seat belts.\n <strong>\n  Question 7:\n </strong>\n 5 points\n <br />\n Whatâ€™s the best thing a person can do personally to cut greenhouse gas emissions?\n <br />\n A. Drive a hybrid car\n <br />\n B. Eat one less hamburger a week\n <br />\n C. Buy all your food from local sources\n <strong>\n  Question 8:\n </strong>\n 3 points\n <br />\n Which is most effective at stopping the greenhouse effect?\n <br />\n A. Public-awareness campaigns to discourage consumption\n <br />\n B. Cap-and-trade agreements on carbon emissions\n <br />\n C. Volcanic explosions\n <br />\n D. Planting lots of trees\n <strong>\n  Question 9:\n </strong>\n 5 points\n <br />\n In the 19th century, one of the gravest threats of childbearing was puerperal fever, which was often fatal to mother and child. Its cause was finally determined to be:\n <br />\n A. Tight bindings of petticoats early in the pregnancy\n <br />\n B. Foul air in the delivery wards\n <br />\n C. Doctors not taking sanitary precautions\n <br />\n D. The mother rising too soon in the delivery room\n <strong>\n  Question 10:\n </strong>\n 3 points\n <br />\n Which of the following were not aftereffects of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks on September 11, 2001:\n <br />\n A. The decrease in airline traffic slowed the spread of influenza.\n <br />\n B. Thanks to extra police in Washington, D.C., crime fell in that city.\n <br />\n C. The psychological effects of the attacks caused people to cut back on their consumption of alcohol, which led to a decrease in traffic accidents.\n <br />\n D. The increase in border security was a boon to some California farmers, who, as Mexican and Canadian imports declined, sold so much marijuana that it became one of the states most valuable crops.\n <strong>\n  Answers and Scoring\n </strong>\n <br />\n Question 1\n <br />\n B, Cable and satellite TV. Women with television were less willing to tolerate wife beating, less likely to admit to having a â€œson preference,â€ and more likely to exercise personal autonomy. Plus, the men were perhaps too busy watching cricket. Question 2\n <br />\n A, Saturday nights are the most profitable. While Friday nights are the busiest, the single greatest determinant of a prostituteâ€™s price is the specific trick she is hired to perform. And for whatever reason, Saturday customers purchase more expensive services. Question 3\n <br />\n C, One factor that doesnâ€™t seem to matter is whether a doctor is highly rated by his or her colleagues. Those named as best by their colleagues turned out to be no better than average at lowering death rates--although they did spend less money on treatments. Question 4\n <br />\n C, Leukemia. Chemotherapy has proven effective on some cancers, including leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkinâ€™s disease, and testicular cancer, especially if these cancers are detected early. But in most cases, chemotherapy is remarkably ineffective, often showing zero discernible effect. That said, cancer drugs make up the second-largest category of pharmaceutical sales, with chemotherapy comprising the bulk. Question 5\n <br />\n A, Inexpensive drugs. Expensive medical procedures, while technologically dazzling, are responsible for a remarkably small share of the improvement in heart disease. Roughly half of the decline has come from reductions in risk factors like high cholesterol and high blood pressure, both of which are treated with relatively inexpensive drugs. And much of the remaining decline is thanks to ridiculously inexpensive treatments like aspirin, heparin, ACE inhibitors, and beta-blockers. Question 6\n <br />\n False. Based on extensive data analysis as well as crash tests paid for by the authors, old-fashioned seat belts do just as well as car seats. Question 7\n <br />\n B, Shifting less than one day per weekâ€™s worth of calories from red meat and dairy products to chicken, fish, eggs, or a vegetable-based diet achieves more greenhouse-gas reduction than buying all locally sourced food, according to a recent study by Christopher Weber and H. Scott Matthews, two Carnegie Mellon researchers. Every time a Prius or other hybrid owner drives to the grocery store, she may be cancelling out its emissions-reducing benefit, at least if she shops in the meat section. Emission from cows, as well as sheep and other ruminants, are 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than the carbon dioxide released by cars and humans. Question 8\n <br />\n C, the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines discharged more than 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, which acted like a layer of sunscreen, reducing the amount of solar radiation and cooling off the earth by an average of one degree F. Question 9\n <br />\n C, doctors not taking sanitary precautions. This was the dawning age of the autopsy, and doctors did not yet know the importance of washing their hands after leaving the autopsy room and entering the delivery room. Question 10\n <br />\n C, the psychological effect of the attacks caused people to increase their alcohol consumption, and traffic accidents increased as a result.\n <strong>\n  Scoring\n </strong>\n <br />\n 32-40: Certified SuperFreak\n <br />\n 25-31: Freak--surprises lay in wait for you\n <br />\n 16-24: Wannabe freak--youâ€™ve got some reading to do\n <br />\n 1-15: Conventional wisdomer--youâ€™re still thinking in old ways\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Economist Levitt and journalist Dubner capitalize on their megaselling\n <em>\n  Freakonomics\n </em>\n with another effort to make the dismal science go gonzo. Freaky topics include the oldest profession (hookers charge less nowadays because the sexual revolution has produced so much free competition), money-hungry monkeys (yep, that involves prostitution, too) and the dunderheadedness of Al Gore. There''s not much substance to the authors'' project of applying economics to all of life. Their method is to notice some contrarian statistic (adult seat belts are as effective as child-safety seats in preventing car-crash fatalities in children older than two), turn it into economics by tacking on a perfunctory cost-benefit analysis (seat belts are cheaper and more convenient) and append a libertarian sermonette (governments tend to prefer the costly-and-cumbersome route). The point of these lessons is to bolster the economist''s view of people as rational actors, altruism as an illusion and government regulation as a folly of unintended consequences. The intellectual content is pretty thin, but it''s spiked with the crowd-pleasing provocationsâ€”''A pimp''s services are considerably more valuable than a realtor''s'' â€”that spell bestseller.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/415'),
(2383, 'Surely You&#39;re Joking, Mr. Feynman!', 'Richard P. Feynman &amp; Ralph Leighton &amp; Edward Hutchings &amp; Albert R. Hibbs', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A series of anecdotes shouldn''t by rights add up to an autobiography, but that''s just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out "Is Electricity Fire?"), unafraid to offend (see "You Just\n <em>\n  Ask\n </em>\n Them?"), Feynman informs by entertaining. It''s possible to enjoy\n <em>\n  Surely You''re Joking, Mr. Feynman\n </em>\n simply as a bunch of hilarious yarns with the smart-alecky author as know-it-all hero. At some point, however, attentive readers realize that underneath all the merriment simmers a running commentary on what constitutes authentic knowledge: learning by understanding, not by rote; refusal to give up on seemingly insoluble problems; and total disrespect for fancy ideas that have no grounding in the real world. Feynman himself had all these qualities in spades, and they come through with vigor and verve in his no-bull prose. No wonder his students--and readers around the world--adored him.\n <em>\n  --Wendy Smith\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Raymond Todd gives an extraordinary performance bringing to evanescent life the amusing adventures of this Nobel prize-winning physicist. Feynman was the quintessential inquirer whose investigations led him, at times, to sophisticated equations, at other times to a kind of social mischief that is delightful in its purity and inspiring in its intellectual courage. Based upon an impromptu talk during drum-playing sessions with his friend Ralph Leighton, this surprise best seller is packed with unforgettable anecdotes. Working at Los Alamos, Feynman cracked safes containing the secrets of the bomb. He challenged an abacus salesman to an arithmetical duel. He trained himself to sniff like a bloodhound. He played frigideira in a Brazilian samba band. In Las Vegas, he learned the ways of gamblers and show girls. He gave his first physics lecture in front of Einstein. Refreshingly honest, iconoclastic, thought-provoking, this one-of-a-kind classic is a must for every collection.?Peter Josyph, New York\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/805');
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(2384, 'The Surgeon&#39;s Mate', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n O''Brian''s superb series on the early-19th-century adventures of Jack Aubrey, a Royal Navy officer, and his friend Stephen Maturin, Navy surgeon and naturalist, continues with a look at the darker side of Maturin''s life: his work in British intelligence. Aubrey, Maturin and Diana Villiers (Maturin''s fickle and enigmatic love) are passengers on a packet ship from Nova Scotia to England when two American privateers give chase. They are hunting Maturin, who has compromised U.S. spy networks. The Americans are eluded, and upon reaching England, Maturin sets off to France. Armed with safe conduct papers, he lectures on natural history and installs Villiers in Paris. Suspicious French agents try to bait Maturin but he refuses to be lured into an indiscretion. On his return to London, Maturin is sent to woo Catalan officers and troops from the French cause to the British. Aubrey provides transport, but despite his best support, including staging a splendid charade chase on the water, the mission takes a nasty turn when their ship founders; seized by the French, Maturin and Aubrey are hauled off to Paris''s infamous Temple Prison.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n This time out, Captain Jack Aubrey and ship''s surgeon Stephen Maturin limp home from America for a brief rest before sailing to the Baltic to subvert the occupying Catalan troops--and then to the Bay of Biscay to run aground. The dashing Aubrey/Maturin naval tales (among others, The Ionian Mission--see above) continue to come out in intervals from England, where they are hugely and deservedly popular. Published some years ago in the UK, they''ve been arriving out of order, so readers find themselves sorting out prequels from sequels. But shipping arrangements do no damage to these polished, historically accurate, and intensely pleasurable tales of the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic era. Anglo-Iberian physician and spy Stephen Maturin is again the linchpin, providing the excuse for his dashing friend Aubrey to flee the mess he has made of his British investments. Aboard H.M.S Ariel, Aubrey transports Maturin to the Baltic, where the doctor will use his linguistic skills and impeccable Catalan separatist credentials to convince Spanish troops holding Baltic islands for Napoleon that they should desert the Corsican monster and throw their lot in with England. The Baltic mission is successful, but the subsequent flight from Scandinavia runs into the rocks off the French coast. The officers are taken prisoner and transported to Paris, where they dine handsomely on meals cooked by a pretty widow as they await execution. Splendid escape. Literate and amusing. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/453'),
(2385, 'Survivor', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some say that the apocalypse swiftly approacheth, but that simply ain''t so according to Chuck Palahniuk. Oh no. It''s already here, living in the head of the guy who just crossed the street in front of you, or maybe even closer than that. We saw these possibilities get played out in the author''s bloodsporting-anarchist-yuppie shocker of a first novel,\n <em>\n  Fight Club\n </em>\n . Now, in\n <em>\n  Survivor\n </em>\n , his second and newest, the concern is more for the origin of the malaise. Starting at chapter 47 and screaming toward ground zero, Palahniuk hurls the reader back to the beginning in a breathless search for where it all went wrong. This time out, the author''s protagonist is self-made, self-ruined mogul-messiah Tender Branson, the sole passenger of a jet moments away from slamming first into the Australian outback and then into oblivion. All that will be left, Branson assures us with a tone bordering on relief, is his life story, from its Amish-on-acid cult beginnings to its televangelist-huckster end. All of this courtesy of the plane''s flight recorder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Speaking of little black boxes, Skinnerians would have a field day with the presenting behavior of the folks who make up Palahniuk''s world. They pretend they''re suicide hotline operators for fun. They eat lobster before it''s quite... done. They dance in morgues. The Cleavers they are not. Scary as they might be, these characters are ultimately more scared of themselves than you are, and that''s what makes them so fascinating. In the wee hours and on lonely highways, they exist in a perpetual twilight, caught between the horror of the present and the dread of the unknown. With only two novels under his belt, Chuck Palahniuk is well on his way to becoming an expert at shining a light on these shadowy creatures.\n <em>\n  --Bob Michaels\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The rise and fall of a media-made messiah is the subject of Palahniuk''s impressive second novel (after the well-received Fight Club), a wryly mannered commentary on the excesses of pop culture that tracks the 15 minutes of fame of the lone living member of a suicide cult. Tender Branson, aged 33, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the "black box" while flying randomly until the plane runs out of gas and crashes. Branson relates in his long flashback the vicissitudes of his life: a member of the repressive Creedish Death Cult, supposedly founded by a splinter group of Millerites in 1860, he is hired out as a domestic servant who must dedicate his earnings to the cult. Despite his humble beginnings, Branson finds himself on the edge of fame and fortune when the cult members begin their suicide binge, and he keeps himself on the media radar by using the psychic dreams of his potential romantic interest, Fertility Hollis, in which the girl accurately predicts a series of strange disasters. After a brief period at the top of the freak-show heap, Branson succumbs to the excesses of his trade when his agent mysteriously dies at the Super Bowl as Branson predicts the outcome of the game at half-time, simultaneously triggering a riot and turning him into a murder suspect. Branson''s spookily matter of fact account of his bizarre experiences does not excite tension until the narrative is well under way, but the novel picks up momentum during the homestretch when Branson goes on the lam with Fertility and his murderous brother Adam, and the story steamrolls toward its nightmarish climax. Palahniuk''s DeLilloesque cultural witticisms and his satirical take on the culture of instant celebrity invest the narrative with a dark humor that does not quite overcome its lack of a coherent plot. Agent, Edward Hibbert. (Feb.) FYI: Fight Club is being filmed by David Fincher.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/328'),
(2386, 'Survivor in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the 20th fine volume of Roberts''s futuristic mystery franchise, police lieutenant Eve Dallas is called in when lawyer Grant Swisher and his family are massacred with eerie skillfulness on the Upper West Side. The only survivor is 10-year-old Nixie, who evadesâ€”and witnessesâ€”the killers as she creeps down to the kitchen for a midnight snack. Despite the painful memories of her own childhood that Nixie''s presence calls up, Eve decides to hide the girl in the high-tech mansion she shares with her husband, billionaire businessman Roarke. With help from Roarke; her faithful sidekick, Peabody; and others, Eve discovers the existence of a shadowy former military operative with a grudge against Swisherâ€”the lawyer helped the operative''s battered wife divorce him right before she disappeared. The relatively early disclosure of the villain''s identity and the dearth of other viable suspects dulls the suspense in the first half of the book, but tension escalates toward an absorbing denouement as a trap Eve sets for her target ends up with Nixie as its unintentional bait. Throughout, the series'' colorful supporting cast and Eve''s prickly personalityâ€”smartly showcased in her power struggles with everything from space-age vending machines to her own pastâ€”remain as vividly appealing as ever.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is sheer entertainment, a souped-up version of Agatha Christie for the new millennium\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1099'),
(2387, 'Sushi for Beginners', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For Ashling Kennedy, the new job she lands at start-up Irish fashion magazine Colleen is a dream come true. For Lisa Edwards, a high-maintenance London editor expecting a promotion to New York, her appointment as editor-in-chief of Colleen is a slap in the face, the only consolation being her rumpled-but-handsome new boss, Jack Devine. Furious at being passed up for a job at Manhattan magazine, Lisa vows to make Colleen the envy of the fashion industry, even if it kills her. She drives her Dublin staff to exhaustion, and Colleen becomes a smashing success. But after a particularly lusty meeting with her much-maligned long-distance London boyfriend, she wonders if the move and the single-minded career obsession have been worth it. Meanwhile, Ashling is betrayed by her boyfriend and her best friend Clodagh, whose bourgeois domesticity she''s long envied. Ashling realizes that she has to let go of her cheerful "Miss Fix-It" demeanor and go after what she wants. Lisa is chagrined and Ashling is shocked to learn that Jack may actually fancy Ashling, but one "sushi for beginners" dinner has her convinced. British bestseller Keyes''s latest confection (after Watermelon) makes such a painfully brittle start the reader nearly despairs of the cardboard cutout characters, but slowly they begin to breathe and morph into charmers. Keyes''s considerable following on these shores will declare this a delight.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keyes'' latest novel about hipster singles in the city takes place in Dublin, where they live and play and bemoan their romantic and professional fates. All the best elements of the popular literary trend in British "chick-lit" are here--a lovable, yet awkward, every-girl heroine; the boss-cad with a heart of gold; the funky best friend; and everyone dropped in a chic and happening workplace, the editorial offices of new Irish women''s magazine\n <em>\n  Colleen.\n </em>\n Ambitious fashionista Lisa has been summarily removed from her coveted editorship in London to one in Dublin, where she regularly barks orders to her rookie assistant, Ashling. World-class worrier Ashling vents with her friends Joy and Ted while secretly envying her friend Clodagh''s domestic dream life. Clodagh, meanwhile, has been having strong urges to run away from her loving husband, demanding children, and countryside manor. Keyes stirs these delightful ingredients into a frothy mixture that will please her fans. Readers will happily visit with these likable blokes, who are definitely "friends of Bridget."\n <em>\n  Kaite Mediatore\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1212'),
(2388, 'Suzanne&#39;s Diary for Nicholas', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Talk about a change of pace! Renowned suspense writer and Edgar Award winner James Patterson, author of such bestsellers-turned-blockbuster-movies as\n <em>\n  Along Came a Spider\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Kiss the Girls\n </em>\n , exposes his sensitive side in his new novel,\n <em>\n  Suzanne''s Diary for Nicholas\n </em>\n . Katie Wilkinson''s boyfriend Matt dumps her; not a total cad, he leaves her a gift, a diary kept by Suzanne, his first wife, for their son Nicholas. Though it''s not exactly the diamond ring Katie was hoping for, she''s unable to make herself destroy the diary--against her better judgment, Katie begins to read.\n</p>\n<p>\n Drawn against her will into the other woman''s world, Katie learns of physician Suzanne''s heart attack at age 35 and her decision to slow down, accomplished by a move to Martha''s Vineyard and a new job as a simple country doctor. When love comes knocking, in the form of housepainter-cum-poet Matt Harrison, Suzanne is ready to listen to her newly repaired heart. Though painful for Katie, she begins to know and like Suzanne and her infant son Nicholas. Suzanne''s devotion to Matt and their son shines through, as well as her plainspoken wisdom. While the journal helps Katie understand Matt, whether they can write a future together remains in question.\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Say what? A women''s weepy from the megaselling author of the hard-boiled Alex Cross mysteries? Yes, and it''s not the stretch some might imagine. Patterson has demonstrated his flair for female POV and characters in the stand-alone When the Wind Blows and in his current bestseller, 1st to Die and Cross himself has his gooey side. So how good is the novel? Good enough to lightly pluck the heartstrings and to impress with its craft and its calculation. As usual, Patterson mixes first- and third-person narration. Katie Wilkinson is a Manhattan book editor who''s been inexplicably left by her lover and star author, a Martha''s Vineyard poet named Matt. After he splits, Matt mails Katie the diary kept by his wife, Suzanne, for their young son. Katie reads it (the novel''s extensive first-person passages) and reacts to it (briefer third-person interludes). The diary details how physician Suzanne, recovering from a heart attack at age 35, forsakes the rat race, moves to Martha''s Vineyard and finds bliss with Matt, a housepainter who reads Moby-Dick and writes strong poems, and with their newborn son, Nicholas. The novel sloshes with sentiment (some of it quite icky) and simple spiritual truths, while acknowledging the reality of pain and loss: rose bushes galore, with thorns. Patterson sustains suspense through clever plotting and by Katie''s wondering about the fate of Suzanne and Nicholas; what''s finally revealed pushes her, and the novel, to a bittersweet conclusion. Patterson is one smart author (here, he dazzles with his use of refrains, stories-within-stories and romance novel tropes); this jump into another genre won''t hurt his reputation as a master of popular lit. (July)Forecast: A lovely dust jacket featuring a title in violet script trumpets this as a love story. Will Patterson''s fans buy it? Some mostly women yes. And a 12-city author tour and major print and TV publicity will draw in enough new fans, most of them also women, to float the title onto bestseller lists though not at Alex Cross numbers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/368'),
(2389, 'Swallowing Darkness', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at long last, I am with child -- twins, fathered by my royal guard. Though my uncle, Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, claims that he is the true father since he abducted me from my home, betrayed, and defiled me. And now he has branded my guards as a threat to my unborn children.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Bearing an heir has placed me halfway to my aunt''s throne, that much closer to my reign over the Unseelie Court -- and well ahead of her son, my cousin Cel, in this race. Now I must stay alive to see my children born and claim my place as queen.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But not all in faerie are pleased with the news, and conspirators from every court in the realm plot against me and mine. They seek to strip my guards, my lovers, from me by poisoned word or cold steel. But I still have supporters, and even friends, among the goblins and the sluagh, who will stand by me.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n I am Meredith Nic Essus, and those who would defy and destroy me are destined to pay a terrible price -- for I am truly my father''s daughter. To protect what is mine, I will sacrifice anything-even if it means waging a great battle against my darkest enemies and making the most momentous decision ever made as princess of faerie.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/605'),
(2390, 'Swan Song', 'Robert Mccammon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Swan Song\n </em>\n is rich with such characters as an ex-wrestler named Black Frankenstein, a New York City bag lady who feels power coursing from a weird glass ring, a boy who claws his way out of a destroyed survivalist compound. They gather their followers and travel toward each other, all bent on saving a blonde girl named Swan from the Man of Many Faces.\n <em>\n  Swan Song\n </em>\n is often compared to Stephen King''s\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n , and for the most part, readers who enjoy one of the two novels, will enjoy the other. Like\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n , it''s an end-of-the-world novel, with epic sweep, apocalyptic drama, and a cast of vividly realized characters. But the tone is somewhat different: The good is sweeter, the evil is more sadistic, and the setting is harsher, because it''s the world after a nuclear holocaust.\n <em>\n  Swan Song\n </em>\n won a 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. It''s a monster of a horror book, brimming over with stories and violence and terrific imagery--God and the Devil, the whole works.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Compelling.... A long, satisfying look at hell and salvation." * -- Publishers Weekly*\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "A wild ride into terror.... A grand and disturbing adventure." -- Dean R. Koontz\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/476'),
(2391, 'Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition', 'David Pogue', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Is Windows giving you pause? Ready to make the leap to the Mac instead? There has never been a better time to switch from Windows to Mac, and this incomparable guide will help you make a smooth transition.\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past three challenges: transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around Mac OS X.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Learning to use a Mac is not a piece of cake, but once you do, the rewards are oh-so-much better. No viruses, worms, or spyware. No questionable firewalls, inefficient permissions, or other strange features. Just a beautiful machine with a thoroughly reliable system. Whether you''re using Windows XP or Vista, we''ve got you covered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you''re ready to take on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the latest edition of this bestselling guide tells you everything you need to know:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Transferring your stuff --\n   </strong>\n   Moving photos, MP3s, and Microsoft Office documents is the easy part. This book gets you through the tricky things: extracting your email, address book, calendar, Web bookmarks, buddy list, desktop pictures, and MP3 files.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Re-creating your software suite --\n  </strong>\n  Big-name programs (Word, Photoshop, Firefox, Dreamweaver, and so on) are available in both Mac and Windows versions, but hundreds of other programs are available only for Windows. This guide identifies the Mac equivalents and explains how to move your data to them.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Learning Snow Leopard --\n   </strong>\n   Once you''ve moved into the Mac, a final task awaits: Learning your way around. Fortunately, you''re in good hands with the author of\n   <em>\n    Mac OS X: The Missing Manual\n   </em>\n   , the #1 bestselling guide to the Macintosh.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Moving from Windows to a Mac successfully and painlessly is the one thing Apple does not deliver.\n  <em>\n   Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition\n  </em>\n  is your ticket to a new computing experience.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1480'),
(2392, 'Sword and Citadel', 'Gene Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 02 The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe''s most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Sword &amp; Citadel brings together the final two books of the tetralogy in one volume:The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe''s remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home.The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will forever alter the realm known as Urth."Brilliant . . . terrific . . . a fantasy so epic it beggars the mind. An extraordinary work of art!"-Philadelphia Inquirer"The Book of the New Sun establishes [Wolfe''s] preeminence, pure and simple. . . . The Book of the New Sun contains elements of Spenserian allegory, Swiftian satire, Dickensian social consciousness and Wagnerian mythology. Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within . . . once into it, there is no stopping."--The New York Times Book Review The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe''s most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Sword &amp; Citadel brings together the final two books of the tetralogy in one volume:The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe''s remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home.The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will forever alter the realm known as Urth."Brilliant . . . terrific . . . a fantasy so epic it beggars the mind. An extraordinary work of art!"-Philadelphia Inquirer"The Book of the New Sun establishes [Wolfe''s] preeminence, pure and simple. . . . The Book of the New Sun contains elements of Spenserian allegory, Swiftian satire, Dickensian social consciousness and Wagnerian mythology. Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within . . . once into it, there is no stopping."--The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/137'),
(2393, 'The Sword of Shannara', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Living in peaceful Shady Vale, Shea Ohmsford knew little of the troubles that plagued the rest of the world. Then the giant, forbidding Allanon revaled that the supposedly dead Warlock Lord was plotting to destory the world. The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness was the Sword of Shannara, which could only be used by a true heir of ShannaraÂ—Shea being the last of the bloodline, upon whom all hope rested. Soon a Skull Bearer, dread minion of Evil, flew into the Vale, seeking to destroy Shea. To save the Vale, Shea fled, drawing the Skull Bearer after him....\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Long ago, the wars of the ancient Evil had ruined the world and forced mankind to compete with many other races--gnomes, trolls, dwarfs, and elves. But in peaceful Shady Vale, half-elfin Shea Ohmsford knew little of such troubles. Then came the giant, forbidding Allanon, possessed of strange Druidic powers, to reveal that the Warlock Lord was plotting to destroy the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1363'),
(2394, 'The System of the World', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The colossal and impressive third volume (after\n <em>\n  Quicksilver\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Confusion\n </em>\n ) of Stephenson''s magisterial exploration of the origins of the modern world in the scientific revolution of the baroque era begins in 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, hoping to mediate the feud between Sir Isaac Newton and Leibniz, both of whom claim to have discovered the calculus and neither of whom is showing much scientific rationality in the dispute. This brawl takes place against the background of the imminent death of Queen Anne, which threatens a succession crisis as Jacobite (Stuart, Catholic) sympathizers confront supporters of the Hanoverian succession. Aside from the potential effect of the outcome on the intellectual climate of England, these political maneuverings are notable for the role played by trilogy heroine Eliza de la Zour, who is now wielding her influence over Caroline of Ansbach, consort of the Hanoverian heir. Eliza has risen from the streets to the nobility without losing any of her creativity or her talents as a schemer; nor has outlaw Jack Shaftoe lost any of his wiliness. What he may have lost is discretion, since he oversteps the boundaries of both law and good sense far enough to narrowly escape the hangman. In the end, reluctant hero Waterhouse prevails against the machinations of everybody else, and scientific (if not sweet) reason wins by a nose. The symbol of that victory is the inventor Thomas Newcomen standing (rather like a cock crowing) atop the boiler of one of his first steam engines. This final volume in the cycle is another magnificent portrayal of an era, well worth the long slog it requires of Stephenson''s many devoted readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n The conclusion to\n <em>\n  The Baroque Cycle\n </em>\n is a veritable doorstop, but a doorstop perhaps worth its weight in 18th-century gold coinsâ€”especially to those who need a reminder about the dangerous misuses of science and â€œprogress.â€ Critics canâ€™t heap enough praise on Stephensonâ€™s eloquent narration, true-to-life characters, and impeccable plotting (â€œgenerated via Waterhouseâ€™s Logic Mills,â€ says the\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n ). Stephenson exquisitely unearths Baroque history, too, from mints to gardens to Jacobites. While compelling, youâ€™ll best appreciate this epic history-romance-science fiction story â€œonce you have a solid liberal arts education under your beltâ€ (\n <em>\n  Chronicle\n </em>\n ). Stephenson mostly gets away with his philosophical pedantry because heâ€™s so smart and inventive. If you have the courage to delve in, you wonâ€™t be disappointed. And if you canâ€™t bring yourself to start with\n <em>\n  Quicksilver\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  System\n </em>\n includes a preface relating â€œthe story thus farâ€ that reviewers found helpful enough.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/151'),
(2395, 'T Is for Trespass', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Tony awardâ€“winner Judy Kaye has been the voice of private eye Kinsey Millhone since the beginning, and 19 titles later, she''s still an inspired choice, capturing the character''s unique combination of femininity and ruggedness, intelligence, street savvy and self-confidence with just a hint of uncertainty.\n <em>\n  Trespass\n </em>\n is possibly a series best. Both reader and sleuth are working at full tilt as Kinsey interacts with a large cast. Her foremost opponent is the devious and homicidal black widow who has spun a web around the detective''s aged and infirmed next door neighbor. Grafton deviates from Kinsey''s narration to delve into the killer''s history and mind-set, underlining the seriousness of her threat. Kaye offers a crisp, chillingly cold aural portrait of a sociopath capable of anything. Kaye''s spot-on interpretation of the two very different leading characters would be praiseworthy enough, but she''s just as effective in capturing the elderly men and women, the screechy landladies, the drawling rednecks, the velvet-tongued smooth operators, the fast talking lawyers and all the inhabitants of Kinsey''s world.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although Kinsey Millhone has been around for 25 years, critics agree that\n <em>\n  T Is for Trespass\n </em>\n is one of Sue Graftonâ€™s finest works to date. About elder abuse and identity theft, among other crimes, the novel devotes pages to both Kinseyâ€™s and the villainâ€™s perspectives and thus becomes more of a battle of wits between the two women than a real mystery. As Kinsey decides when and how far to get involved in Gusâ€™s horrific plight, her other cases (a child molester is on the loose, for example) kept critics turning the pages. Reviewers also appreciated that Kinsey ages blissfully slowlyâ€”since 1982, when\n <em>\n  A Is for Alibi\n </em>\n was published, she has only gained five yearsâ€”and thus remains in the Internet-free 1980s, where interpersonal relationships triumph. The ending put off a few critics, but otherwise this 20th installment thoroughly engrosses.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/684'),
(2396, 'Tai-Pan', 'James Clavell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   *It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme rulerâ€¦Tai-Pan!\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   *\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1840'),
(2397, 'Takedown: A Thriller', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Harvath must endure the burning streets of Manhattan, where he can administer his own form of justice and finally exact his bitter revenge.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  More terrorist-whupping kicks off Thor''s latest addition to his series (Blowback, etc.) featuring Scot Harvath, covert counter terrorism operative for the Department of Homeland Security. Harvath abducts an Algerian bomb-maker out of Montreal while another U.S. team snatches Mohammed bin Mohammed (a.k.a M&amp;M), head of al-Qaeda''s weapons of mass destruction committee, from Somalia and stashes him in a secret facility in New York City. But Harvath''s premonition that the next terrorist attack would make "9/11 look like choir practice" comes true when Al-Qaeda operative Abdul Ali, backed by a three-foot-tall freelance intelligence agent known as "the Troll," goes to New York to rescue M&amp;M. As part of the al-Qaeda rescue attempt, the Big Apple comes under furious attack. The U.S. president''s daughter is seriously injured and thousands are slain as Harvath and his team chase a ruthless enemy through the devastated streets and subways. Bullets fly, bombs explode and people die. Back in Washington, to the disgust of the president, cowardly bureaucrats mewl and whine. Despite stock characters and just-get-the-job-done writing, hawkish readers may relish the non-stop action, lethal weapons, flag waving platitudes and outrageous American-on-terrorist torture. Others may have no stomach for Thor''s vision of a U.S. that has dispensed with rule of law to deal with "bad guys...always probing for another soft spot they could exploit."\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Brad Thor\n  </strong>\n  is the #1Â \n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  Â bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Black List, Full Black, The Athena Project,\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Foreign Influence, The Apostle, The Last Patriot, The First Commandment, Takedown, Blowback\n  </em>\n  (recognized by NPR as one of the â€œ100 Best Thrillers of All Timeâ€)\n  <em>\n   , State of the Union, Path of the Assassin,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Lions of Lucerne\n  </em>\n  .Â  Visit his website at www.BradThor.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2453'),
(2398, 'The Taking', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1975, the now defunct Laser Books issued\n <em>\n  Invasion\n </em>\n by Aaron Wolfe, aka Koontz (who later expanded that novel into\n <em>\n  Winter Moon\n </em>\n , 1994), a breakneck tale of alien invasion centered on an isolated farm. Koontz''s new novel also concerns alien invasion, and a comparison of the two books offers insight into the evolution of this megaselling author''s work.\n <em>\n  Invasion\n </em>\n was mostly speed and suspenseâ€”a brilliant if superficial exercise in terror. The new novel also features abundant suspense, as a couple in an isolated California home endure a phosphorescent rain and learn that, around the world,\n <em>\n  something\n </em>\n is attacking humans and laying waste to communications. It''s only when they drive to a nearby town that they learn of a global alien invasion; the tension ratchets as a weird fog descends and the aliens not only manifest physically but animate the dead. For years, however, Koontz has aimed at more than just thrills; today he is a novelist of metaphysics and moral reflection. His aliens are inherently evil as well as scary; standing against them are the human capacity for hope and the forces of goodness and innocence (here, as elsewhere, embodied in dogs), and near novel''s end Koontz puts an overtly religious spin on his tale. Koontz''s language has changed over the years, too, and not always for the better. While his care with words engenders admiration, his love of metaphor and alliteration can slow down the reading ("the luminous nature of the torrents that tinseled the forest and silvered the ground"). Also missing here is the wonderful humor that elevated his last novel,\n <em>\n  Odd Thomas\n </em>\n , and some other recent work. Koontz remains one of the most fascinating of contemporary popular novelists, and this stands as an important effort, but not his best, though its sincerity and passion can''t be denied.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n A glowing rain begins falling at one a.m. in the San Bernardino Mountains of California, where productive but hardly best-selling novelist Molly Sloan and her ex-priest husband, Neil, live outside a small town. Besides being luminous, the downpour smells like rancid semen, Molly thinks, and it brings with it a feeling of oppression. Animals cower from it, as Molly grasps when she sees a pack of coyotes huddling on the porch. The little wolves seem to be appealing to her for help, and when she walks out to them, they seem to expect her to lead them. She goes to wake Neil, rescuing him from a nightmare, and to wash--no, scour--her hands where the rain hit them. The torrent continues, taking out the power, but then appliances come on spontaneously, and the hands of clocks run wildly in opposite directions. The Sloans conclude they must leave after an interior mirror reflects the house as invaded by ghastly vegetation--but doesn''t reflect them at all. Opening sequences come no creepier than this one, and the rest of Koontz''s version of the extraterrestrial attack scenario so well lives up to it that the revelation, painstakingly apprehended by Molly, of who the aliens really are comes as no surprise. Nor do Koontz''s authorial insertions about modernity and social degeneracy seem anything but explanatory in the context of this gripping, blood-curdling, thought-provoking parable.\n <em>\n  Ray Olson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/539'),
(2399, 'The Tale of the Body Thief', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s been said that Vladimir Nabokov''s best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote\n <em>\n  The Body Thief\n </em>\n , the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley''s\n <em>\n  Frankenstein\n </em>\n , to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. Perhaps as a result of Shelley''s influence,\n <em>\n  The Body Thief\n </em>\n is far more psychologically penetrating than its predecessors, with a laser-like focus on a single tormented soul. Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice''s toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he''s in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lestat has always had a faulty impulse-control valve, and it gets him in truly intriguing trouble this time. On the plus side, he gets to experience romance with a nun and orange juice--"thick like blood, but full of sweetness." But Lestat is horrified by an uncommon cold, and his toilet training proves traumatic. He''s also got to catch Raglan James, who has no intention of giving up his dishonestly acquired new superpowered body. Lestat enlists the help of David Talbot, a mortal in the Talamasca, a secret society of immortal watchers described in\n <em>\n  Queen of the Damned\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n The swapping of bodies and supernatural stories is choice, and there''s even a moral: never give a bloodsucker an even break.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rice''s fourth Vampire Chronicle--a 14-week PW bestseller and a BOMC main selection in cloth--depicts the tormented vampire Lestat''s struggles with immortality. An enchanting tale of body-switching, necromancy and betrayal, set in New Orleans, Miami and Paris.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/254'),
(2400, 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each titleâ€”offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n This edition of\n <em>\n  A Tale of Two Cities\n </em>\n includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R.L. Fisher.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n They fled to London, seeking safety, and found each other--Dr. Manette, falsely imprisoned for decades; his daughter, Lucie, whose stunning beauty was matched by her loyalty and grace; and Charles Darnay, who abandoned a royal title he hated to risk being called a traitor in France, a spy in England. Together, their love touched the hearts of even stodgy banker Mr. Lorry and cynical, jaded lawyer Sydney Carton...\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But in Paris, the fires of revolution exploded in uncontrollable fury. The noble goals of freedom fighters became the crazed bloodbath called the Reign of Terror. And when three exiles returned home on an errand of mercy, they were trapped in a nightmare of mock trials and made rage. Once in Paris, nothing could save Darnay, Lucie, or Manette...\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Except a miracle.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of Englandâ€™s greatest writers. Best known for his classic serialized novels, such as Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, Dickens wrote about the London he lived in, the conditions of the poor, and the growing tensions between the classes. He achieved critical and popular international success in his lifetime and was honored with burial in Westminster Abbey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/851'),
(2401, 'Tales From Watership Down', 'Richard Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Nigel HaversWatership Down was one of this century''s best-loved works of imaginative literature. Now Richard Adams returns, to tell us what happened to the rabbits after their defeat of General Woundwort.Tales From Watership Down begins with some of the great folk stories well known to all rabbits. Then we listen in as Dandelion, the rabbits'' master storyteller, relates the thrilling adventures experienced by Al-ahrairah, the mythical rabbit hero, and his stalwart, Rabscuttle, during the long journey home after their terrible encounter with the Black Rabbit of InlÃ© (as narrated in Watership Down). Finally, in the principal part of the book, we are told eight enchanting stories about the rabbits of the Down-- Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and their companions--including the impact on the warren of the obsessive doe Flyairth, and the appointment of Hyzenthlay as a female Chief Rabbit and partner to Hazel.All listners-- the millions who remember Watership Down with the deepest affection, and also those for whom this volume will be their first encounter with the rabbits-- will find these nineteen tales utterly compelling, the fruit of Richard Adams spellbinding narrative power and ability to conjure up a world that is at the same time both real and unreal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1583'),
(2402, 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers'' attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger''s new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J. K. Rowling, and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. Never before have Muggles been privy to these richly imaginative tales: -The Wizard and the Hopping Pot -The Fountain of Fair Fortune -The Warlock''s Hairy Heart -Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump -The Tale of the Three Brothers. The stories are accompanied by delightful pen-and-ink illustrations by Ms.Rowling herself, featuring a still-life frontispiece for each one. Professor Dumbledore''s commentary -- apparently written some eighteen months before his death -- reveals not just his vast knowledge of Wizarding lore, but also more of his personal qualities: his sense of humor, his courage, his pride in his abilities, and his hard-won wisdom. Names familiar from the Harry Potter novels sprinkle the pages, including Aberforth Dumbledore, Lucius Malfoy and his forebears, and Sir Nicholas deMimsy-Porpington (or "Nearly Headless Nick"), as well as other professors at Hogwarts and the past owners of the Elder Wand. Dumbledore tells us of incidents unique to the Wizarding world, like hilariously troubled theatrical productions at Hogwarts or the dangers of having a "hairy heart." But he also reveals aspects of the Wizarding world that his Muggle readers might find all too familiar, like censorship, intolerance, and questions about the deepest mysteries in life.  But not only are these tales the equal of fairy tales we now know and love, reading them gives new insight into the world of Harry Potter. This purchase also represents another very important form of giving: From every sale of this book, Scholastic will give its net proceeds to The Children''s High Level Group, a charity cofounded in 2005 by J. K. Rowling and Emma Nicholson MEP to make life better for vulnerable children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/192'),
(2403, 'The Talisman', 'Stephen King &amp; Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first (1984) collaboration between horror/fantasy writers King and Straub, this book has been reissued in multiple formats to coincide with the publication of its sequel, Black House. In The Talisman, 12-year-old Jack Sawyer takes on a quest in this and a parallel world, the "Territories," to acquire a mystical talisman that will save the life of his dying mother and her "twinner," the Queen of the Territories. Jack "flips" back and forth between worlds during his journey, finding his way through and past representatives of good and evil in both. Award-winning reader Frank Muller continues his long string of superlative performances. This program will generate lots of demand a must for current fiction collections. Also available in the newer, highly compressed MP3-CD format, which requires a CD player that is MP3-compatible or a computer with CD-ROM drive and MP3 player software loaded. Kristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œEXTRAORDINARY . . . MAKES YOUR HAIR STAND ON END.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“*The Washington Post\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œA CLASSIC . . . RARE AND DAZZLING . . . A JOURNEY TO RIVAL THE GREATEST ADVENTURE STORIES EVER TOLD.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“\n  <em>\n   New York Daily News\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/481'),
(2404, 'Talk of the Town', 'Lisa Wingate', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "...the place and the characters stuck with me.... You can''t ask anything more from a novel." --\n  <em>\n   Jennifer Donovan, 5MinutesforMom.com\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A story of overcoming the odds with a corral full of laughs, Talk of the Town is delightful to read." --\n  <em>\n   Ane Mulligan, NovelReviews.blogspot.com\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Lisa Wingate''s entrancing story was a delight to read." --\n  <em>\n   RomanceDesigns.com\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Talk of the Town is just the ticket for those looking for a light hearted and humorous read." --\n  <em>\n   Rel Mollet, TitleTrakk.com\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The story is modern but the characters are traditional, and that makes the reader feel right at home." --\n  <em>\n   Susan Cronk, curledup.com\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This lively tale of Hollywood getting its comeuppance is sure to delight." --\n  <em>\n   Violet Nesdoly, blogcritics.org\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wingate (Tending Roses) pens a light and entertaining story of life in a small town with Texas-sized charm." --\n  <em>\n   Publisher''s Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "People are going to talk, alright, and the conversation is going to be about Talk of the Town. Lisa Wingate writes engaging stories that strike the heart. God has gifted her with a marvelous talent and I, for one, am most grateful." --Debbie Macomber, New York Times #1 bestselling author\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Offers up a blue-plate special of romance, humor, and a rollicking good time. I absolutely loved it...." --Deeanne Gist, bestselling author of Courting Trouble\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2367');
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(2405, 'Taming a Sea-Horse', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Nice girls don''t. But blond, beautiful April Kyle does. She''s a hooker hooked on the wrong guy -- and she''s on her way to trouble. So is Spenser.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Looking out for April has landed him in the crud of Times Square. It''s not a long way to big-business boardrooms where blood money get laundered into long green, sex is a commodity, and young girls are the currency.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Spenser''s back and New York''s got him...proficient with his gun and fists, not to mention his quick verbal shots." (Daily News)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1166'),
(2406, 'Tara Road (5 CDs)', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. By a chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn, a woman from New England unable to come to terms with her only son''s death and now separated from her husband. The two women exchange houses for the summer with extraordinary consequences, each learning that the other has a deep secret that can never be revealed. Drawn into lifestyles vastly differing from their own, at first each resents the news of how well the other is getting on. Ria seems to have become quite a hostess, entertaining half the neighborhood, which at first irritates the reserved and withdrawn Marilyn, a woman who has always guarded her privacy. Marilyn seems to have become bosom friends with Ria''s children, as well as with Colm, a handsome restaurateur, whom Ria has begun to miss terribly. At the end of the summer, the women at last meet face-to-face. Having learned a great deal, about themselves and about each other, they find that they have become, firmly and forever, good friends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1012'),
(2407, 'The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge', 'Carlos Castaneda', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Original publisher University of California Press here offers a 30th-anniversary edition of Castenada''s Teachings. Along with the original text, this sports a new introduction by the author, who, it was revealed recently, died earlier this year. Though this is reasonably priced for a hardcover, libraries needing multiples copies may opt for the paperback.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Castaneda''s sanity lends to even the most lurid experiences the force of data. It compels us to believe that don Juan is one of the most extraordinary figures in anthropological literature, a neolithic sage. It helps us to accept, from the continent we stole, a mysterious gift of wisdom." --\n <em>\n  Life\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s impossible to view the world in quite the same way after reading him. . . . If Castaneda is correct, there is another world, a sometimes beautiful and sometimes frightening world, right before our eyes at this moment --\n <em>\n  if only we could see." (Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "We are incredibly fortunate to have Carlos Castaneda''s books. . . . One can''t exaggerate the significance of what he has done." --\n <em>\n  Roger Jellinek, The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/951'),
(2408, 'Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln', 'Doris Kearns Goodwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln''s political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war. We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through. This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln''s mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation''s history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1253'),
(2409, 'Tears of the Moon', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With over one hundred and twelve million books in print and forty two New York Times bestsellers to date, Nora Roberts is indisputably the most celebrated and loved women''s fiction writer today. ''Tears of the Moon'' is her second book in the enchanting Irish trilogy featuring the Gallagher siblings of Ardmore, Ireland. In this splendid story Nora Roberts evokes a land filled with magic, music and myth, and captures the secret dreams and enduring passions of three extraordinary siblings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1611'),
(2410, 'Tell-All', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tell-All is many things: a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when grand dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama full of big gestures and muted psychic torment. A veritable Tourettes Syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list. A merciless send-up of of Lillian Hellmans habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond.Our narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine Miss Kathie Kenton, a star of the wattage of Elizabeth Taylor and the emotional torments of Judy Garland. The survivor of multiple marriages, career comebacks and cosmetic surgeries, Miss Kathie lives the way legends should. But danger lurks when gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III arrives and worms his way into Miss Kathies heart and boudoir. Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written his celebrity tell-all memoir and that it foretells her death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman-penned World War II musical extravaganza Unconditional Surrender, in which Miss Kathie portrays Lily defeating Japanese forces from Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki. As the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans and for posterity.A dark reimagining of All About Eve and an hilarious assault on celebrity, Tell-All is vintage Palahniuk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/329'),
(2411, 'The Tempest', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Tempest,\n  </em>\n  long considered one of Shakespeare''s most lyrical plays, Prospero Â— a magician on an enchanted island Â— punishes his enemies, brings happiness to his daughter, and comes to terms with human use of supernatural power.\n  <em>\n   The Tempest\n  </em>\n  embodies both seemingly timeless romance and the historically specific moment in which Europe begins to explore and conquer the New World. Its complexity of thought, its range of characters Â— from the spirit Ariel and the monster Caliban to the beautiful Miranda and her prince Ferdinand Â— its poetic beauty, and its exploration of difficult questions that still haunt us today make this play wonderfully compelling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  THE NEW FOLGER\n </p>\n <p>\n  LIBRARY SHAKESPEARE\n </p>\n <p>\n  Designed to make Shakespeare''s great plays available to all readers, the New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare''s plays provides accurate texts in modern spelling and punctuation, as well as scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, many pictures clarifying Shakespeare''s language, and notes recording all significant departures from the early printed versions. Each play is prefaced by a brief introduction, by a guide to reading Shakespeare''s language, and by accounts of his life and theater. Each play is followed by an annotated list of further readings and by a "Modern Perspective" written by an expert on that particular play.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world''s largest collection of Shakespeare''s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Academic Programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, Chair of the Folger Institute, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare''s Romances and of essays on Shakespeare''s plays and on the editing of the plays.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Paul Werstine is Professor of English at King''s College and the Graduate School of the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is the author of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare''s plays and was Associate Editor of the annual Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England from 1980 to 1989.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/242'),
(2412, 'Tempting Fate', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Attorney Caine MacGregor had a reputation for being a demon in the courtroom -- and in the bedroom. He yearned to break down Diana Blade''s icy wall of control and release the passionate woman within. When he offered Diana a partnership - in both business and pleasure -- could he entice her to risk everything for the love of a MacGregor?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1614'),
(2413, 'Ten Big Ones', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephanie Plum, girl bounty hunter, the terror of Trenton, the bane of her boyfriend Joe Morelli''s existence, and the delight of her crazy grandma''s heart, is in the wrong place at the wrong time--as usual. Just happening to be indulging her nachos jones at a local deli when it''s robbed by the notorious Red Devils, Plum is the eye witness who could put the gang leader, known as the Junkman, behind bars... if he just lets her live long enough. Looking for a place to hide out from the killer until the cops catch up with him, Stephanie sneaks into her fellow bounty hunter Ranger''s apartment without telling Morelli, who''s not overly fond of him. All the usual suspects in this long-running series are along for a wilder than ever ride, including Lula the gun-toting ex-hooker, Grandma Mazur, Stephanie''s pregnant sister Valerie and her fiancÃ©, as well as a host of minor characters who bring Trenton''s seedier environs to life.\n  <em>\n   Ten Big Ones\n  </em>\n  is another madcap caper by a writer whose fans will doubtless catapult this easy beach read to the top of the bestseller list.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Evanovich is at her best in her 10th Stephanie Plum adventure (after 2003''s\n  <em>\n   To the Nines\n  </em>\n  ), which reads like the screenplay for a 1930s screwball comedy: fast, funny and furious. The Trenton, N.J., bond enforcement agent (bounty hunter), accompanied by her trigger-happy friend Lula, an errant file clerk, is after a quirky collection of bail-jumpersâ€”a man who killed a neighbor''s rosebushes relieving himself on them, a drag queen musician/school bus driver accused of assault, and a woman who claims she robbed a Frito-Lay truck because she hated her low-carb dietâ€”when she witnesses a convenience store robbery. Unfortunately, Anton Ward, the holdup man, learns that Stephanie can identify him and puts out a contract on her. After she tells her colleague Ranger her predicament, he offers her sanctuary. As usual, she''s torn between sexy Ranger and her longtime lover, cop Joe Morelli, with whom she''s living. The rollicking plot, replete with car chases, family squabbles, massive doughnut consumption and a frantic, wacky finale, keeps the reader breathless. As usual, Evanovich''s eccentric charactersâ€”fun-loving Grandma Mazur, anxious to accompany Stephanie on her job; self-absorbed sister Valerie and her hapless fiancÃ© Albert Kloughn (pronounced Clown); Sally Sweet, the transvestite who shows a talent for wedding planningâ€”are a treat.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/794'),
(2414, 'Tender is the night', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With an Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the "Roaring Twenties". A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Diver''s troubled marriage and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth. Despite cataloguing a maelstrom of interpersonal conflict, Tender is the Night has a poignancy and warmth which springs from the quality of F. Scott Fitzgerald''s writing and the tragic personal experiences on which the book is based.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/807'),
(2415, 'Term Limits', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Taking America back . . . one politician at a time.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In one bloody night, three of Washingtonâ€™s most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American government: set aside partisan politics and restore power to the people. No one, they warn, is out of their reachâ€”not even the president. A joint FBI-CIA task force reveals the killers are elite military commandos, but no one knows exactly who they are or when they will strike next. Only Michael Oâ€™Rourke, a former U.S. Marine and freshman congressman, holds a clue to the violence: a haunting incident in his own past with explosive implications for his countryâ€™s future. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Minneapolis Star-Tribune:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Term Limits is a...roller-coaster, edge-of-your-seat thriller with loads of insiders'' lowdown on D.C. politics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vince Flynn\n  </strong>\n  is the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of nine previous thrillers, including\n  <em>\n   Consent to Kill\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Act of Treason\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Protect and Defend\n  </em>\n  . He lives in the Twin Cities with his wife and three children. Visit his website at www.vinceflynn.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2447'),
(2416, 'The Terminal Man', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Harry Benson is prone to violent, uncontrollable seizures and is under police guard after attacking two people. Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit at University Hospital in Los Angeles, is convinced he can cure Benson through a procedure called Stage Three. During this highly specialized experimental surgery, electrodes will be placed in the patient''s brain, sending monitored, soothing pulses to its pleasure canyons. But though the operation is a success, there is an unforeseen development. Benson learns how to control the pulses and is increasing their frequency. He escapesâ€”a homicidal maniac loose in the cityâ€”and nothing will stop his murderous rampages or impede his deadly agenda . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1659'),
(2417, 'The Testament', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Troy Phelan, a 78-year-old eccentric and the 10th-richest man in America, is about to read his last will and testament, divvying up an estate worth $11 billion. Phelan''s three ex-wives, their grasping spawn, a legion of lawyers, several psychiatrists, and a plethora of sound technicians wait breathlessly, all eyes glued to digital monitors as they watch the old man read his verdict. But Phelan shocks everyone with a bizarre, last-gasp attempt to redistribute the spoils, setting in motion a legal morality tale of a contested will, sin, and redemption.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Our hero, Nate O''Riley--a washed-up, alcoholic litigator with two ruined marriages in his wake and the IRS on his tail--is dispatched to the Brazilian wetlands in search of a mysterious heir named in the will. After a harrowing trip upriver to a remote settlement in the Pantanal, he encounters Rachel Lane, a pure-hearted missionary living with an indigenous tribe and carrying out "God''s work." Rachel''s grave dedication and kindness impress the jaded lawyer, so much that a nasty bout of dengue fever leads him to a vision that could change his life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Back in the States, the legal proceedings drag on and Grisham has a high time with Phelan''s money-hungry descendents, a regrettable bunch who squandered millions, married strippers, got druggy, and befriended the Mob. The youngest son, Ramble, is a multi-pierced, tattoo-covered malcontent with big dreams for his rock band, the Demon Monkeys. Will Nate get straight with Rachel''s aid? Do the greedy heirs get theirs? What''s the real legacy of a lifetime''s work?\n  <em>\n   The Testament\n  </em>\n  is classic Grisham: a down-and-out lawyer, a lot of money, an action-packed pursuit, and the highest issues at stake. It''s not just about great characters; it''s about the question of what character is.\n  <em>\n   --Rebekah Warren\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A traditional gangbuster Grisham opening?in which an aged billionaire outfoxes his greedy heirs by signing a bombshell will, then jumps to his death?gives little clue how this seductive tale will develop. The novel also features the usual attorney hero and legal action, but Grisham confounds expectations by sweeping readers into adventure in the Brazilian wetlands and, more urgently, into a man''s search for spiritual renewal. Nate O''Riley, 48, is a drunk. He''s also a top D.C. attorney who, winding up his fourth rehab stint in 10 years, is asked by his firm to find one Rachel Lane. The illegitimate daughter to whom the firm''s client, tycoon Troy Phelan, has left his entire $11 billion fortune, Rachel is a missionary-physician tending Indians somewhere in Brazil''s Pantanal region. Nate''s experiences there prove nightmarish, including fierce storms, a plane crash, dangerous animals, hunger and, finally, dengue fever, which nearly kills him. But as Grisham crosscuts from Brazil to D.C. and the sleazy machinations of Phelan''s other children and their lawyers to negate Phelan''s will, readers will wonder which is the real jungle; never has Grisham revealed so nakedly his contempt for the legal profession. What Grisham holds dear is made clear in his unforgettable portrait of Rachel, whose serenity and integrity stun Nate, while inspiring him to forsake forever his lust for booze, power and money and to turn toward God. The message (which isn''t entirely new to Grisham; see The Street Lawyer) and the storytelling that conveys it aren''t subtle, but Grisham''s smart use of the suspense novel to explore questions of being and faith puts him squarely in the footsteps of Dickens and Graham Greene. Sincere, exciting and tinged with wonder, this novel is going to sell like an angel, and deservedly so. Agent, David Gernert. 2.8 million first printing. (On-sale date: Feb. 1)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/730'),
(2418, 'Then Came You', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  scholarship and a family sheâ€™s ashamed to invite to Parentsâ€™ Weekend. Tall, blond, and outwardly identical to her wealthy prep-school-educated classmates, her plan is to take the ten thousand dollars sheâ€™ll receive from donating her â€œpedigreeâ€ eggs and try to save her father from addictionâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  Annie Barrow is a thirty-four-year-old working-class married mother of two who scrapes by on her husbandâ€™s single paycheck. After watching a TV show about surrogates, she thinks sheâ€™s found a way to recover a sense of purpose and bring in some extra cashâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  India Bishop, thirty-eight (really forty-three), believes sheâ€™s found her happy ending when she marries a very wealthy and much older man, Marcus Croft, but decides that a baby will seal the deal. When all of her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to technology, and Annie and Jules, to help make her dreams come trueâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  But each womanâ€™s plans are thrown into disarray when Marcus suddenly dies, and his twenty-three-year-old daughter Bettina is named guardian of the unborn child. As the babyâ€™s due date draws near, these four womenâ€”with nothing and everything in commonâ€”discover what makes each of them a mother in her own right.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With her laugh-out-loud humor, startling tenderness, and spot-on characterizations, Jennifer Weiner once again takes listeners into the heart of womenâ€™s lives in America, in an unforgettable, timely tale that interweaves themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and donorship, parental rights and the measure of motherhood.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1913'),
(2419, 'Theodore Rex', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this lively biography, Edmund Morris returns to the gifted, energetic, and thoroughly controversial man whom the novelist Henry James called "King Theodore." In his two terms as president of the United States, Roosevelt forged an American empire, and he behaved as if it was his destiny. In this sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  , Morris charts Roosevelt''s accomplishments: the acquisition of the Panama Canal and the Philippines, the creation of national parks and monuments, and more. "Collaring Capital and Labor in either hand," Morris writes, Roosevelt made few friends, but he usually got what he wanted--and earned an enduring place in history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Morris combines a fine command of the era''s big issues with an appreciation for the daily minutiae involved in governing a nation. Less controversially inventive, but no less readable, than the Ronald Reagan biography\n  <em>\n   Dutch\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  gives readers new reason both to admire and fault an American phenomenon.\n  <em>\n   --Gregory McNamee\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second entry in Morris''s projected three-volume life of Theodore Roosevelt focuses on the presidential years 1901 through early 1909. Impeccably researched and beautifully composed, Morris''s book provides what is arguably the best consideration of Roosevelt''s presidency ever penned. Making good use of TR''s private and presidential papers as well as the archives of such protâ€šgâ€šs as John Hay, William Howard Taft, Owen Wister and John Burroughs Morris marshals a rich array of carefully chosen and beautifully rendered vignettes to create a dazzling portrait of the man (the youngest ever to hold the office of president). Morris proves the perfect guide through TR''s eight breathless, fertile years in the White House: years during which the doting father and prolific author conserved millions of Western acres, swung his "big stick" at trusts and monopolies, advanced progressive agendas on race and labor relations, fostered a revolution in Panama (where he sought to build his canal), won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War and pushed through the Pure Food and Drug Act. John Burroughs once wrote that the hypercreative TR "was a many sided man, and every side was like an electric battery." In the end, Morris succeeds brilliantly at capturing all of TR''s many energized sides, producing a book that is every bit as complex, engaging and invigorating as the vibrant president it depicts. Illus. (On-sale: Nov. 20)Forecast: Long-awaited, this volume comes out in the centennial of TR''s rise to the presidency. Morris''s gift for storytelling and his outstanding reputation from volume one (and perhaps his notoriety for the controversial Reagan bio Dutch) should guarantee large sales.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1180'),
(2420, 'The Theory Of Everything', 'C. Leung', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1427'),
(2421, 'Thief of Time', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it -- the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where it''s wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?), to places like cities, where busy denizens lament, "Oh where does the time go?"While everyone always talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. He''s going to stop. Well, stop time that is, by building the world''s first truly accurate clock. Which means esteemed History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd have to put on some speed to stop the timepiece before it starts. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, Time -- as we know it -- will end. And then the trouble will really begin...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/362'),
(2422, 'Thin Air', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the famed Boston PI''s 22nd case, an oddly sympathetic villain and a resolute heroine draw Spenser into a barrio enclave in a depressed Massachusetts factory town. Readers know that Lisa St. Clair, a radio deejay newly married to a Boston police detective, has been kidnapped and imprisoned in a Proctor, Mass. tenement by Rico, her former lover. The cop, who knows only that his wife has disappeared, is shot and seriously injured just after he asks Spenser to investigate. Chapters alternate between the room where Lisa is kept under guard and constantly running video cameras and Spenser''s gradual assembling of clues. The PI discovers Lisa''s former name and occupation; he thinks up a way to penetrate Proctor''s divided and desperate Hispanic community, ruled by Rico and a rival. Lots of atmosphere and even suspense?Will Lisa resist Rico''s demands? Can Spenser discover a way to rescue her??are built up in short sentences and one-line paragraphs. Spenser''s pal Hawk is away (his place taken briefly by the sharp L.A. crook, Chollo), and his lover, Susan, and dog Pearl are kept mostly backstage during a slightly stretched out story that, nevertheless, packs a lot of punch. Mystery Guild selection; Literary Guild alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Spenser, Parker''s most popular creation, here searches for a mysterious woman.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1126'),
(2423, 'The Thin Man', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett''s most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic,\n  <strong>\n   The Thin Man\n  </strong>\n  is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett''s most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve crimes in between wisecracks and martinis.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1476'),
(2424, 'Thinner', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''An incredibly gifted writer, whose writing, like Truman Capote''s, is so fluid that you often forget that you''re reading'' -- Guardian ''Astonishingly good...honourable, deeply felt and almost wonderful'' -- Independent on HEARTS IN ATLANTIS\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When an old gypsy man curses Billy Halleck for sideswiping his daughter, six weeks later he''s ninety-three pounds lighter. Now Billy is terrified. And desperate enough for one last gamble...that will lead him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil melting his flesh away.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/483'),
(2425, 'The Third Option', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   When diplomacy has failed and military intervention is deemed inappropriate, our leaders sometimes take THE THIRD OPTION\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp falls prey to government forces with an agenda of their own after Dr. Irene Kennedy is named the successor to dying CIA Director Thomas Stansfieldâ€”a choice that enrages many inside the worldâ€™s most powerful intelligence agency. Her detractors will resort to extreme measures to prevent her from taking the reinsâ€”which makes Rapp an expendable asset. But Mitch Rapp is no oneâ€™s pawn, and he will stop at nothing to find out who has set him up.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rancorous political infighting surrounds the selection of a successor to the dying head of the CIA just as Mitch Rapp, the agency''s top operative, embarks on a dangerous mission to take out a well-known German industrialist believed to be supplying Middle East terrorists with highly sensitive equipment critical to constructing a nuclear bomb. When Rapp''s ultimately successful mission is compromised from within, ailing CIA director Thomas Stansfield puts his imprimatur on the efforts of his chosen successor, Irene Kennedy, director of the agency''s Counterterrorism Center, to identify the powerful interests both inside and outside the agency that wanted Rapp to fail.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The motive soon becomes clear; there are people who''ll stop at nothing to remove Kennedy from the helm of the agency after Stansfield dies. One thing they didn''t count on was Rapp''s survival, and now he''s a lethal weapon whose sights are fixed directly on the most powerful among them. This is a strong, swift thriller, a bit predictable (the senator in the black hat has dogs named Caesar and Brutus) but nonetheless involving. Author Vince Flynn sustains the dramatic tension from the opening paragraph to the last; in Mitch Rapp, he''s got the makings of a promising series hero.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A CIA counterterrorist gets caught in the middle of a deadly Beltway power play in Flynn''s (Balance of Power) latest political thriller. Long on one-dimensional characters, action scenes and espionage details, it falls short on comprehensible plotting. Battle-scarred protagonist Mitch Rapp returns to take on a sensitive new assignment in Europe, only to have things go awry when his two CIA colleagues turn on him following the assassination of a wealthy German count who has been selling arms to Saddam Hussein. Rapp survives their double-dealing, but he is forced to go underground to decipher the labyrinthine chain of political connections and to learn who was trying to have him killed. Back in Washington, a similar game of spy-versus-spy is being conducted by the elderly, dying director of the CIA and his chosen successor. Rapp eventually surfaces to help his bosses, but things get personal for the ace counterterrorist when Rapp''s bride-to-be is kidnapped as part of the ongoing political maneuvers. Flynn sweats the small stuff to bring his conspiracy to life, but he also introduces enough secondary characters to populate two novels, and he frequently stalls the narrative momentum by providing an overwhelming level of detail regarding various high-tech gadgets and espionage operations. The biggest disappointment, though, comes at the end, when the book is exposed as a shameless setup for a sequel. Flynn is a popular writer, but his third thriller won''t do much to enhance his critical reputation or his sales. 9-city author tour. (Nov.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2448'),
(2426, 'The Thirteen-Gun Salute', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploits as a privateer, brilliantly chronicled in The Letter of Marque. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturin--his friend, ship''s surgeon, and sometimes intelligence agent--on a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes which would put English merchant shipping at risk.The journey of the Diane encompasses a great and satisfying diversity of adventures. Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans; a killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef; and in the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds: the French envoys, well entrenched in the Sultan''s good graces, against the savage cunning of Stephen Maturin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/467'),
(2427, 'The thirteenth tale', 'Diane Setterfield', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny.All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter''s collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist.The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who loved her most, remains an ever-present pain. Struck by a curious parallel between Miss Winter''s story and her own, Margaret takes on the commission.As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family, including the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida''s storytelling but remains suspicious of the author''s sincerity. She demands the truth from Vida, and together they confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves. The Thirteenth Tale is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/227'),
(2428, 'This Side of Heaven', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Painfully estranged from her son, Annie Warren learns in the wake of a devastating tragedy about the existence of her eight-year-old granddaughter, whose desperate mother spins a web of deception to claim a financial settlement. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1941'),
(2429, 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Set in atmospheric coastal Japan, this epic story centers on an earnest young clerk, Jacob de Zoet, who arrives in the summer of 1799 to make his fortune and return to Holland to wed his fiancÃ©e. But Jacobâ€™s plans are shaken when he meets the daughter of a Samurai.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Imagine an empire that has shut out the world for a century and a half. No one can leave, foreigners are excluded, their religions banned and their ideas deeply mistrusted. Yet a narrow window onto this nation-fortress still exists: an artificial walled island connected to a mainland port, and manned by a handful of European traders. And locked as the land-gate may be, it cannot prevent the meeting of minds '' or hearts. The nation was Japan, the port was Nagasaki and the island was Dejima, to where David Mitchell''s panoramic novel transports us in the year 1799. For one Dutch clerk, Jacob de Zoet, a dark adventure of duplicity, love, guilt, faith and murder is about to begin '' and all the while, unbeknownst to him and his feuding compatriots, the axis of global power is turning...\n  <br />\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The author ofCloud Atlas''s most ambitious novel yet, for the readers of Ishiguro, Murakami, and, of course, David Mitchell. The year is 1799, the place Dejima, the "high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island" that is the Japanese Empire''s single port and sole window to the world. It is also the farthest-flung outpost of the powerful Dutch East Indies Company. To this place of superstition and swamp fever, crocodiles and courtesans, earthquakes and typhoons, comes Jacob de Zoet. The young, devout and ambitious clerk must spend five years in the East to earn enough money to deserve the hand of his wealthy fianceacute;e. But Jacob''s intentions are shifted, his character shaken and his soul stirred when he meets Orito Aibagawa, the beautiful and scarred daughter of a Samurai, midwife to the island''s powerful magistrate. In this world where East and West are linked by one bridge, Jacob sees the gaps shrink between pleasure and piety, propriety and profit. Magnificently written, a superb mix of historical research and heedless imagination,The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoetis a big and unforgettable book that will be read for years to come.\n  <br />\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The author ofCloud Atlas''s most ambitious novel yet, for the readers of Ishiguro, Murakami, and, of course, David Mitchell. The year is 1799, the place Dejima, the "high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island" that is the Japanese Empire''s single port and sole window to the world. It is also the farthest-flung outpost of the powerful Dutch East Indies Company. To this place of superstition and swamp fever, crocodiles and courtesans, earthquakes and typhoons, comes Jacob de Zoet. The young, devout and ambitious clerk must spend five years in the East to earn enough money to deserve the hand of his wealthy fianceacute;e. But Jacob''s intentions are shifted, his character shaken and his soul stirred when he meets Orito Aibagawa, the beautiful and scarred daughter of a Samurai, midwife to the island''s powerful magistrate. In this world where East and West are linked by one bridge, Jacob sees the gaps shrink between pleasure and piety, propriety and profit. Magnificently written, a superb mix of historical research and heedless imagination,The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoetis a big and unforgettable book that will be read for years to come.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1175'),
(2430, 'A thousand splendid suns', 'Khaled Hosseini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After 103 weeks on the *New York Times* bestseller list and with four million copies of *The Kite Runner* shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made *The Kite Runner* a beloved classic, *A Thousand Splendid Suns* is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman''s love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, *A Thousand Splendid Suns* is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/603'),
(2431, 'A Thousand Voices', 'Lisa Wingate', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dell Jordan has spent the last two years after graduating from high school in Europe. Her adopted family has hopes of her going to Juilliard to study music, but Dell has reached an impasse.Â She needs to understand her past before she can envisionÂ her future. At 13, after living a life of poverty,Â she was adopted by Karen and James. She is raised with loveÂ in Kansas City, yet feels isolated, always thinking of herself as the odd one out with her Native American features. So she sets out to the Kiamichi Mountains of Oklahoma, where she was born, looking for her Choctaw roots. Arriving, by chance,Â during a festival, Dell finds what she was looking forâ€”people who look like her celebrating their rich cultural heritage, making her proud of who she is and the people she comes from. Wingate gives her readers a tender and compassionate conclusion to her Tending Roses stories, tying together theÂ spiritual threads that connectÂ all her characters andÂ leaving the reader filled with hope. Engelmann, Patty\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lisa Wingate lives with her husband and two sons in central Texas, where she is a popular writer and inspirational speaker. She grew up in Oklahoma and studied writing at Oklahoma State University. Author website: lisawingate.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2365'),
(2432, 'A Thousandfold Thought', 'R. Scott Bakker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n All opposition to the man once derided as the Prince of Nothing has vanished or been vanquished. Their leaders slain, the heathen Fanim have fled in disarray. One final march will bring the Holy War to the fabled city of Shimeh. But so very much has changed.Anasurimbor Kellhus, the Warrior-Prophet, now leads the Men of the Tusk. The cuckolded sorcerer Achamian serves as his tutor, betraying his school to keep safe the man he believes can prevent the Second Apocalypse. The Scylvendi barbarian, Cnaiur, succumbs finally to madness. The Consult, sensing the endgame of millennia of planning, work frantically to prepare for the coming of the No-God.The final reckoning is at hand. Faceless assassins will strike in the dead of night. Kings and Emperors will fall. The sorcerous Schools will be unleashed. And Anasurimbor Kellhus will at last confront his father and the dread revelation of the Thousandfold Thought.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/992'),
(2433, 'Three Complete Novels', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but a literary juggler." --\n <em>\n  The Times\n </em>\n (London). In this compilation of chilling tales, he continues to captivate with complex characters and riveting suspense. A psychic and a reporter do battle with an unseen enemy in\n <em>\n  Cold Fire\n </em>\n , while\n <em>\n  Hideaway\n </em>\n explores the meaning of death and the transcendent power of love. In\n <em>\n  The Key to Midnight\n </em>\n , published in hardcover for the first time, a woman awakes to find that her identity and memories have been manufactured for her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/507'),
(2434, 'The Three Musketeers', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: apartment of the captain of the musketeers, congratulating himself with all his heart at having so narrowly escaped the end of this strange quarrel. CHAPTER III. THE AUDIENCE. M. De Treville was at the moment in rather an ill-humour ; nevertheless, he saluted the young man politely, who bowed to the very ground, and he smiled on receiving his compliment, the Be"arnese accent of which recalled to him at the same time his youth and his country, a double remembrance, which makes a man smile at all ages. But stepping towards the antechamber, and making a sign to d''Artagnan with his hand, as if to ask his permission to finish with others before he began with him, he called three times, with a louder voice at each time, so that he went through all the tones between the imperative accent and the angry accent. " Athos ! Porthos ! Aramis !" The two musketeers, with whom we have already made acquaintance, and who answered to the last two of these three names, immediately quitted the group of which they formed a part, and advanced towards the cabinet, the door of which closed after them as soon as they had entered. Their appearance, although it was not quite at ease, excited by its carelessness, at once full of dignity and submission, the admiration of D''Artagnan, who beheld in these two men demi-gods, and in their leader an Olympian Jupiter, armed with all his thunders. When the two musketeers had entered, when the door was closed behind them, when the buzzing murmur of the antechamber, to which the summons which had been made had doubtless furnished fresh aliment, had recommenced ; when M. de TreVille had three or four times paced in silence, and with a frowning brow, the whole length of his cabinet, passing each time before Porthos and Aramis, who were as upright and sil...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1280');
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(2435, 'Three to Get Deadly/Four to Score', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Three to Get Deadly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A "saintly" old candy-store owner is on the lam-and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises, Stephanie finds herself dealing with dead drug dealers and slippery fugitives on the chase of her life. And with the help of eccentric friends and family, Steph must see to it that this case doesn''t end up being her last...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Four to Score\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stephanie Plum, Trenton, New Jersey''s favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter, is back--and on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who''s skipped bail. With then help of 73-year-old Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker Lula, a transvestite musician named Sally Sweet, and the all-too-hospitable, all-too-sexy Joe Morelli, Stephanie might just catch her woman. Then again, with more mishaps than there are exits on the Jersey Turnpike--including murders, firebombs, and Stephanie''s arch-rival bounty hunter chasing after the same fugative--Stephanie better watch her back big-time if she wants to live to crack this case.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Janet Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the Stephanie Plum books, including\n  <em>\n   One for the Money\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Sizzling Sixteen\n  </em>\n  , and the Diesel &amp; Tucker series, including\n  <em>\n   Wicked Appetite\n  </em>\n  . Janet studied painting at Douglass College, but that art form never quite fit, and she soon moved on to writing stories. She didnâ€™t have instant success: she collected a big box of rejection letters. As she puts it, â€œWhen the box was full I burned the whole damn thing, crammed myself into pantyhose and went to work for a temp agency.â€ But after a few months of secretarial work, she managed to sell her first novel for $2,000. She immediately quit her job and started working full-time as a writer. After 12 romance novels, she switched to mystery, and created Stephanie Plum. The rest is history. Janetâ€™s favorite exercise is shopping, and her drug of choice is Cheeze Doodles. She and her husband live in New Hampshire, in house with a view of the Connecticut River Valley.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/788'),
(2436, 'Three Weeks With My Brother', 'Micah Sparks &amp; Nicholas Sparks &amp; Henry Leyva', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n As moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas Sparks''s unique memoir, written with his brother, chronicles the life-affirming journey of two brothers bound by memories, both humorous and tragicIn January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother, Micah, set off on a three-week trip around the globe. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at thirty-seven and thirty-eight respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. Against the backdrop of the wonders of the world and often overtaken by their feelings, daredevil Micah and the more serious, introspective Nicholas recalled their rambunctious childhood adventures and the tragedies that tested their faith. And in the process, they discovered startling truths about loss, love, and hope.Narrated with irrepressible humor and rare candor, and including personal photos, THREE WEEKS WITH MY BROTHER reminds us to embrace life with all its uncertainties...and most of all, to cherish the joyful times, both small and momentous, and the wonderful people who make them possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1946'),
(2437, 'Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night: James Penney&#39;s New Identity\\\\Operation Northwoods\\\\Epitaph\\\\The Face in the Window\\\\Empathy', 'James Grippando &amp; J. A. Konrath &amp; Heather Graham &amp; James Siegel &amp; James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Featuring North America''s foremost thriller authors,\n  <em>\n   Thriller\n  </em>\n  is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as David Morrell and John Lescroart famous, to four of the hottest new voices in the genre, this blockbuster will tantalize and terrify.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lock the doors, draw the shades, pull up the covers and be prepared for\n  <em>\n   Thriller\n  </em>\n  to keep you up all night.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Editor Patterson and the 32 writers who signed up for this breakthrough collection are all donating their royalties to the new International Thriller Writers, which had its first convention in June 2006 in Arizona. They plan, no doubt, to be rewarded for their work with extra fame and future fortune. But hopefully the eight excellent readers who bring the audio version to a generally high quality of life got paid for their efforts, because they are otherwise unrewarded and virtually anonymous. Aside from a listing of their names on the CD box, there''s no mention anywhere of who reads what. Despite the lack of publicity, these actors do a fine job, adding an extra ingredient to the best stories in the collectionâ€”pieces by Gayle Lynds; her sadly late husband, Dennis Lynds; J.A. Konrath; Raelynn Hillhouse; David Morrell; M. Diane Vogt; and M.J. Rose are especially strongâ€”and even bringing some of the lesser stories up a rung on the excitement ladder. Thriller addicts who''d rather listen than read will find solid value for time and money spent, and wannabe crime fiction writers will learn a lot from Patterson''s lively introductions.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An electrifying collection . . . Prepare to be thrilled from start to finish." --\n  <em>\n   Vince Flynn, New York Times bestselling author\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If you''ve never encountered the genre before, set aside a day or two and feed your mind at a rich and bountiful literary buffet. Highest possible recommendation." --\n  <em>\n   Bookreporter.com\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The best by the best storytellers in the business.\n  <em>\n   Thriller\n  </em>\n  has no equal." --\n  <em>\n   Clive Cussler, New York Times bestselling author\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[An] outstanding anthology." --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly, starred review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2479'),
(2438, 'Thud!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each species still views the other with simmering animosity. Lately, the influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh-Morpork''s more diminutive citizensâ€”a volatile situation made far worse when the pint-size provocateur is discovered bashed to death . . . with a troll club lying conveniently nearby. Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is aware of the importance of solving the Hamcrusher homicide without delay. (Vimes''s second most-pressing responsibility, in fact, next to always being home at six p.m. sharp to read Where''s My Cow? to Sam, Jr.) But more than one corpse is waiting for Vimes in the eerie, summoning darkness of a labyrinthine mine network being secretly excavated beneath Ankh-Morpork''s streets. And the deadly puzzle is pulling him deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fearâ€”and perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/376'),
(2439, 'Tick Tock', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler."â€”\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n  , London\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist living the American Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. Itâ€™s a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  That night Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the stitches breaking over the dollâ€™s heart. And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phanâ€™s reality will be torn apart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth, something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something that he canâ€™t destroy. It wants Tommyâ€™s life, and he doesnâ€™t know why. He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress he meets by chanceâ€”or by a design far beyond his comprehension. He has too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Because the vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning on Tommyâ€™s computer screen:\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The deadline is dawn.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Ticktock\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Time is running out.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/540'),
(2440, 'The Time Machine and the Invisible Man', 'H. G. Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Time Machine and The Invisible Man*, by **H. G. Wells**, is part of the **Barnes &amp; Noble Classics* *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.** *The Time Machine*, **H. G. Wells**â€™s first novel, is a tale of Darwinian evolution taken to its extreme. Its hero, a young scientist, travels 800,000 years into the future and discovers a dying earth populated by two strange humanoid species: the brutal Morlocks and the gentle but nearly helpless Eloi.*The Invisible Man* mixes chilling terror, suspense, and acute psychological understanding into a tale of an equally adventurous scientist who discovers the formula for invisibilityâ€”a secret that drives him mad.Immensely popular during his lifetime, H. G. Wells, along with Jules Verne, is credited with inventing science fiction. This new volume offers two of Wellsâ€™s best-loved and most critically acclaimed â€œscientific romances.â€ In each, the author grounds his fantastical imagination in scientific fact and conjecture while lacing his narrative with vibrant action, not merely to tell a â€œripping yarn,â€ but to offer a biting critique on the world around him. â€œThe strength of Mr. Wells,â€ wrote Arnold Bennett, â€œlies in the fact that he is not only a scientist, but a most talented student of character, especially quaint character. He will not only ingeniously describe for you a scientific miracle, but he will set down that miracle in the midst of a country village, sketching with excellent humour the inn-landlady, the blacksmith, the chemistâ€™s apprentice, the doctor, and all the other persons whom the miracle affects.â€ **Alfred Mac Adam**** teaches literature at Barnard College-Columbia University. He is a translator and art critic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1026'),
(2441, 'A Time to Kill', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grisham''s first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for three years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a swift, sunlit stream. Grisham is a born legal storyteller and his dialogue is pitch perfect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The plot turns with jeweled precision. Carl Lee Hailey gets an M-16 from the Chicago hoodlum he''d saved at Da Nang, wastes the rapists on the courthouse steps, then turns to attorney Jake Brigance, who needs a conspicuous win to boost his career. Folks want to give Carl Lee a second medal, but how can they ignore premeditated execution? The town is split, revealing its social structure. Blacks note that a white man shooting a black rapist would be acquitted; the KKK starts a new Clanton chapter; the NAACP, the ambitious local reverend, a snobby, Harvard-infested big local firm, and others try to outmaneuver Jake and his brilliant, disbarred drunk of an ex-law partner. Jake hits the books and the bottle himself. Crosses burn, people die, crowds chant "Free Carl Lee!" and "Fry Carl Lee!" in the antiphony of America''s classical tragedy. Because he''s lived in Oxford, Mississippi, Grisham gets compared to Faulkner, but he''s really got the lean style and fierce folk moralism of John Steinbeck.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this lively novel, Grisham explores the uneasy relationship of blacks and whites in the rural South. His treatment is balanced and humane, if not particularly profound, slighting neither blacks nor whites. Life becomes complicated in the backwoods town of Clanton, Mississippi, when a black worker is brought to trial for the murder of the two whites who raped and tortured his young daughter. Everyone gets involved, from Klan to NAACP. Grisham''s pleasure in relating the byzantine complexities of Clanton politics is contagious, and he tells a good story. There are touches of humor in the dialogue; the characters are salty and down-to-earth. An enjoyable book, which displays a respect for Mississippi ways and for the contrary people who live there. Recommended.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - David Keymer, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Utica\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/697'),
(2442, 'The time traveler&#39;s wife', 'Audrey Niffenegger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare''s passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger''s cinematic storytelling that makes the novel''s unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant. An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler''s Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/433'),
(2443, 'Timeline', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survivalÂ—six hundred years ago. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/817'),
(2444, 'Timescape', 'Gregory Benford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The author of\n  <em>\n   Tides of Light\n  </em>\n  offers his Nebula Award-winning SF classic--a combination of hard science, bold speculation, and human drama. In the year 1998, a group of scientists works desperatey to communicate with the scientists of 1962, warning of an ecological disaster that will destroy the oceans in the future--if it is not averted in the past.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  The author of Tides of Light offers his Nebula Award-winning SF classic--a combination of hard science, bold speculation, and human drama. In the year 1998, a group of scientists works desperatey to communicate with the scientists of 1962, warning of an ecological disaster that will destroy the oceans in the future--if it is not averted in the past.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1870'),
(2445, 'Tinker', 'James P. Baen &amp; Baen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n DESCRIPTIONInventor, girl genius, Tinker lives in a near-future Pittsburgh which now exists mostly in the land of the elves. She runs her salvage business, pays her taxes, and tries to keep the local ambient level of magic down with gadgets of her own design. When a pack of wargs chase an Elven noble into her scrap yard, life as she knows it takes a serious detour. Tinker finds herself taking on the Elven court, the NSA, the Elven Interdimensional Agency, technology smugglers and a college-minded Xenobiologist as she tries to stay focused on what''s really important--her first date. Armed with an intelligence the size of a planet, steel-toed boots, and a junk yard dog attitude, Tinker is ready to kick butt to get her first kiss.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1538'),
(2446, 'The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/737'),
(2447, 'Tishomingo blues', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Daredevil Dennis Lenahan has brought his act to the Tishomingo Lodge &amp; Casino in Tunica, Mississippi -- diving off an eighty-foot ladder into nine feet of water for the amusement of gamblers, gangsters, and luscious belles. His riskiest feat, however, was witnessing a Dixie-style mob execution while atop his diving platform. Robert Taylor saw the hit also. A blues-loving Detroit hustler touring the Southland in a black Jaguar, Taylor''s got his own secret agenda re the "Cornbread Cosa Nostra," and he wants Dennis in on the game. But there''s a lot more in Robert Taylor''s pocket than a photo of his lynched great-grandfather. And high-diver Dennis could be about to take a long, fatal fall -- right into a mess of hoop skirts, Civil War play-acting ... and more trouble than he ever dreamed possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/413'),
(2448, 'The Titan&#39;s Curse', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6-9â€“In this installment, Riordan continues to enliven ancient mythology with wit, contemporary staging, and teenage heroics. Percy Jackson is now 14, a bit older and wiser, yet still entangled with the Fates. Friends, monsters, dysfunctional gods, and the romantic stirrings of all things natural and mythological are encountered. His good friend, if oft-time rival, Annabeth (daughter of Athena) is missing, as is Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Joined by best buddy Grover-the-goat-boy and an argumentative array of accomplices, Percy sets off to fulfill, and hopefully foil, the foreboding prophecy of the Oracle. Plagued by ominous dreams, thwarted by hideous monsters, and challenged by conflicting partnerships, the search party''s success hinges on unlikely unity. The droll pitch is teen-perfect, as when Apollo heats up the scene by arriving in his fire-red Maserati, wearing jeans, a sleeveless T-shirt, and loafers. ''Wow,'' Thalia muttered, ''Apollo is hot.'' ''He''s the sun god,'' I said. ''That''s not what I meant.'' Intricate prophecies and relationships are neatly braided into the adventurous plot. Teachers will cheer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians as they inspire students to embrace Greek mythology and score the ultimate Herculean challenge: getting kids to read. All in all, a winner of Olympic proportions and a surefire read-aloud.â€“\n <em>\n  Alison Follos, North Country School, Lake Placid, NY\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Just after finding Bianca and Nico, two newly discovered half-bloods, Percy, Grover, Annabeth, and Thalia end up trapped between a helicopter and a manticore. Artemis and her Hunters save the day, but Annabeth disappears overÂ a cliff; thenÂ Artemis rushes off to hunt a dangerous monster. Back at Camp Half-Blood, the Oracle foretells that Artemis must be rescued and makes a prediction that bodes ill for one of their numberâ€”but which one? Percy, who is supposed to remain behind while others pursue the quest, follows inÂ search of the missing Annabeth. Their adventures range widely across the U.S., taking themÂ to locales that includeÂ Washington, D.C.,Â and the deserts of the Southwest and pitting them against the usual assortment of colorful adversaries. The Percy Jackson &amp; the Olympians series is builtÂ around a terrific ideaâ€”that the half-mortal offspring of Greek gods live among us, playing out struggles of mythic scaleâ€”and Riordan takes it from strength to strength with this exciting installment, adding even more depth to the characters and story arc while retaining its predecessors'' nonstop laughs and action. Tixier Herald, Diana\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/272'),
(2449, 'To the lighthouse', 'Virginia Woolf', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration.\n <br />\n To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, where the plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow. The novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls the power of childhood emotions and highlights the impermanence of adult relationships. One of the book''s several themes is the ubiquity of transience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/149'),
(2450, 'To the Nines', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Stephanie Plum''s got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother, her family, the men in her life, the guy who slices meat at the deli...oh, the list goes on). An ordinary person would cave under the pressure.But hey, she''s from Jersey.Stephanie Plum may not be the best bounty hunter in beautiful downtown Trenton, but she''s pretty darn good at turning bad situations her way...and she always gets her man. InTo The Nines, her cousin Vinnie (who''s also her boss) has posted bail on Samuel Singh, an immigrant who becomes an illegal alien by violating his Visa and extending his stay in the United States. When the elusive Mr. Singh goes missing, Stephanie is on the case. But what she uncovers is far more sinister than anyone imagines and leads to a group of killers who give new meaning to the word "hunter..."In a race against time that takes her from the Jersey Turnpike to the Vegas strip, Stephanie Plum is on the chase of her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/793'),
(2451, 'Toll the Hounds', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways, but the quarry has turned and the hunters become the hunted. Hidden hands pluck the strings of tyranny like a fell chorus. While the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of Hounds...And in the distant city of Black Coral, where rules Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, ancient crimes awaken, intent on revenge. It seems Love and Death are indeed about to arrive...hand in hand, dancing. A thrilling, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic, Toll the Hounds is the new chapter in Erikson''s monumental series - epic fantasy at its most imaginative and storytelling at its most exciting.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1369'),
(2452, 'The Tommyknockers', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  King''s new novel, a numbing variation on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, offers its own best commentary on itself. Nearly one-third of the way through the 560-page book, protagonist Bobbi Anderson, a writer of westerns, describes what she has stumbled upon in her backyard to her friend Gardener, an alcoholic poet: "It was a flying saucer. No self-respecting science-fiction writer would put one in his story, and if he did, no self-respecting editor would touch it with a ten-foot pole.. . . It is the oldest wheeze in the book." After the vampirish Tommyknockers in the spaceship have wrought their evil magic upon the inhabitants of Haven (Tommyknockers live on the blood of comatose humans circulated through mind-reading PCs connected to VCRs), the unfortunate townspeople have, it seems, "become" (the word, over-used and never explained, is King''s) "something else" (the vague words are also the author''s). The "gadgets" of the town "become" living beings that kill (there are marauding hedge cutters and Coke machines, Electrolux vacuums, Yamaha motorcycles and flying smoke detectors ) and The Tommyknockers is consumed by the rambling prose of its author. Taking a whole town as his canvas, King uses too-broad strokes, adding cartoonlike characters and unlikely catastrophes like so many logs on a fire; ultimately he loses all semblance of style, carefully structured plot or resonant meaning, the hallmarks of his best writing. It is clear from this latest work that King himself has "become" a writing machinethis is his fourth novel since It was published 14 months ago; the faithful readers not overwhelmed by his latest fictional "gadget" are likely to wonder, as poet Gardener does near the novel''s end: "What had it all been for? He realized miserably that he was never going to know."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Yet another mammoth horror novel from King, this dark tale depicts a small town''s fatal encounter with creatures from outer space. Events start with Roberta Anderson, a writer of Old West novels, unearthing a flying saucer on her remote wooded property. Five hundred pages later alcoholic poet Jim Gardener, Roberts''s former English teacher, finds himself aboard the flying saucer in outer space. In the interval the creatures (Tommyknockers) destroy the citizenry of Haven, Maine. While this is not one of King''s more original novels, it does have plenty of blood and guts, macabre humor, and a well-wrought realization of the New England countryside. No doubt King''s legions of fans will demand it. BOMC main selection. James B. Hemesath, Adams State Coll. Lib., Alamosa, Col.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/482'),
(2453, 'Tomorrow Might Be Different', 'Mack Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1714'),
(2454, 'Tortilla Flat', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck''s most widely read and beloved novels-*Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row*, and *The Pearl*. From Steinbeck''s tale of commitment, loneliness, and hope in *Of Mice and Men*, to his tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in *Cannery Row,* to *The Pearl''*s examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck created stories that were realistic, rugged, and imbued with energy and resilience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1066'),
(2455, 'Trace', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cornwell''s latest after the disappointing\n  <em>\n   Blow Fly\n  </em>\n  has indomitable medical examiner Kay Scarpetta returning to her office in Richmond five years after being fired. This homecoming will cheer fans: not only does the move put Scarpetta on her own turf, it reinvigorates Cornwell''s storytelling, restoring some of the spunk lately lacking in her lead character. Dr. Joel Marcus, Scarpetta''s replacement as Virginia''s chief medical examiner, has summoned her back to help him puzzle through the mysterious death of a 14-year-old girl. Marcus is generally loathed: he''s petty, inept, has a secret garbage-truck phobia and harbors an intense hatred for Scarpetta. Meanwhile, Scarpetta''s niece Lucy, owner of a fabulously successful private-eye firm, has her own troubles trying to sort out who attempted to kill her friend Henri (short for Henrietta), who''s now under psychiatric treatment by Scarpetta''s lover in Aspen, Benton Wesley. Lurking in the background is Edgar Allan Pogue, a nutcase who has a thing for dead bodies and a grudge against Scarpetta. It''s her job, as always, to connect all the puzzling forensic dots and identify the killer in time to save herself and her loved ones. She does this, mostly, but leaves the reader to puzzle out a few salient points on his or her own. Cumbersome backstory slows the action, but in general the old Scarpetta comes through, at least in the main, and this will be enough to reassure her many fans and carry them over until her next appearance. * BOMC, Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selection*.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Against advice from her niece Lucy, Kay Scarpetta answers a request to return to the Richmond medical examiner''s office, the same office from which she was fired, to help with the sensitive case of a dead teen. When she and Pete Marino arrive, they find the new medical examiner to be a vituperative, uncooperative martinet and the office that Kay ran so efficiently in chaos. Two murders, oddly linked, demand their attention. In the meantime, Lucy, still unsettled despite her success with the Last Precinct investigative agency, is having personal problems (there''s been an attack on her housemate), which strangely enough find her treading the same path as her aunt Kay. Traces of the smart, dynamic, yet vulnerable Scarpetta of the early novels are in evidence here, and Cornwell has better control of her plot and characters than in her last few efforts, faltering only occasionally when psychobabble weighs things down. The mystery is intriguing, there''s plenty of forensic detail, and the ending, though perhaps too abrupt, opens the way for Scarpetta and her associates to proceed in any direction that calls to them.\n  <em>\n   Stephanie Zvirin\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/918'),
(2456, 'Trainspotting', 'Irvine Welsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For the first time in hardcover with the original jacket art: **"The best book ever written by man or woman...deserves to sell more copies than the Bible."â€”*Rebel, Inc.***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Trainspotting* is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh''s spectacular careerâ€”an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.''s *Last Exit to Brooklyn* did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter. *Trainspotting* was made into the 1996 cult film starring Ewan MacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle (*A Shallow Grave*).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/120'),
(2457, 'Trample an Empire Down', 'Mack Reynolds', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1715'),
(2458, 'Transfer of Power', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   What if America''s most powerful leader was also its prime target?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vince Flynn''s shattering thriller,\n  <em>\n   Term Limits,\n  </em>\n  soared onto national bestseller lists and marked the emergence of a new master of political fiction in the same league as Tom Clancy. In\n  <em>\n   USA Today,\n  </em>\n  Larry King called\n  <em>\n   Term Limits\n  </em>\n  "a page-turning read," while critics and readers nationwide praised its riveting premise of Washington under siege -- a scenario made chillingly real by this superb storyteller. Now, Flynn infiltrates America''s power structure at its very core, in a new novel that places the president of the United States in the direct line of terrorist fire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On a busy Washington morning, amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officials, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a hail of gunfire. A group of terrorists has descended on the Executive Mansion, and gained access by means of a violent massacre that has left dozens of innocent bystanders murdered. Through the quick actions of the Secret Service, the president is evacuated to his underground bunker, but not before almost one hundred hostages are taken.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While the politicians and the military leaders argue over how to negotiate with the terrorists, one man is sent in to break through the barrage of panicked responses and political agendas surrounding the chaotic crisis. Mitch Rapp, the CIA''s top counterterrorism operative, makes his way into the White House and soon discovers that the president is not as safe as Washington''s power elite had thought. Moving stealthily among the corridors and secret passageways of the White House, stepping terrifyingly close to the enemy, Rapp scrambles to save the hostages before the terrorists can extract the president from the safety of his bunker. In a race against time, Rapp makes a chilling discovery that could rock Washington to its core: someone within his own government is maneuvering in hopes that his rescue attempt will fail.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the crackling tension and explosive action that made\n  <em>\n   Term Limits\n  </em>\n  "a roller-coaster, edge-of-your-seat thriller"\n  <em>\n   (Minneapolis Star-Tribune),\n  </em>\n  Vince Flynn delivers\n  <em>\n   Transfer of Power\n  </em>\n  -- a blockbuster novel that carries us just beyond today''s headlines.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2449'),
(2459, 'Transition', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Banks''s latest novel opens with a warning from "Patient 8262" stating that he or she is an unreliable narrator, before the epic takes off, plunging the reader into a whirlwind of intricately constructed characters and detailed accounts of their experiences as they "flit" across multiple Earths. The cast of characters include Adrian, the greedy city trader, emblematic of the selfishness needed to become a "traveler"; the Philosopher, an assassin who despises killing; a catch-me-if-you-can rogue operative named Mrs. Mulverhill; and the imperious Madame d''Ortolan, possibly the leader of the Concern, a vast multi-world organization that claims to protect worlds from chaos, but may also hide a greater, darker purpose. Banks''s prose is elegant and electric and his story dizzying, but inevitable contradictions are brilliantly tied together-the only way many characters maintain sanity is to question everything, and readers would be well-advised to do the same. Banks manages the neat feat of synthesizing 19th-century style with the cutting edge, the irreverent with the philosophical, and the intellectual with the adventurous.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organization with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among those operatives are Temudjin Oh, of mysterious Mongolian origins, an un-killable assassin who journeys between the peaks of Nepal, a version of Victorian London and the dark palaces of Venice under snow; Adrian Cubbish, a restlessly greedy City trader; and a nameless, faceless state-sponsored torturer known only as the Philosopher, who moves between time zones with sinister ease. Then there are those who question the Concern: the bandit queen Mrs. Mulverhill, roaming the worlds recruiting rebels to her side; and Patient 8262, under sedation and feigning madness in a forgotten hospital ward, in hiding from a dirty past.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  There is a world that needs help; but whether it needs the Concern is a different matter.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/95'),
(2460, 'Treason&#39;s Harbour', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the ninth book in the series. Uniquely among authors of naval fiction, Patrick O''Brian allows his characters to develop with experience. The Jack Aubrey of Treason''s Harbour has a record of successes equal to that of the most brilliant of Nelson''s band of brothers, and he is no less formidable or decisive in action or strategy. But he is wiser, kinder, gentler too. Much of the plot of Treason''s Harbour depends on intelligence and counter-intelligence, a field in which Aubrey''s friend Stephen Maturin excels. Through him we get a clearer insight into the life and habits of the sea officers of Nelson''s time than we would ever obtain seeing things through their own eyes. There is plenty of action and excitement in this novel, but it is the atmosphere of a Malta crowded with senior officers waiting for news of what the French are up to, and wondering whether the war will end before their turn comes for prize money and for fame, that is here so freshly and vividly conveyed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/459'),
(2461, 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn', 'Betty Smith &amp; Anna Quindlen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father''s child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother''s child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive. Betty Smith''s poignant, honest novel created a big stir when it was first published over 50 years ago. Her frank writing about life''s squalor was alarming to some of the more genteel society, but the book''s humor and pathos ensured its place in the realm of classics--and in the hearts of readers, young and old. (Ages 10 and older)\n  <em>\n   --Emilie Coulter\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of the books of the Century.â€ (New York Public Library )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart of life. . . . If you miss\n  <em>\n   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\n  </em>\n  you will deny yourself a rich experience.â€ (\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of the most dearly beloved and one of the finest books of our day.â€ (Orville Prescott )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1054'),
(2462, 'The Trial', 'Franz Kafka', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, Kafka''s nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers. This new edition is based upon the work of an international team of experts who have restored the text, the sequence of chapters, and their division to create a version that is as close as possible to the way the author left it.In his brilliant translation, Breon Mitchell masterfully reproduces the distinctive poetics of Kafka''s prose, revealing a novel that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/670'),
(2463, 'Triangle', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n none\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1779'),
(2464, 'Tripwire', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Reacher''s anonymity in Florida is shattered by an investigator who''s come looking for him. But hours after his arrival, the stranger is murdered. Retracing the PI''s trail back to New York, Reacher''s compelled to find out who was looking for him and why. He never expected the reasons to be so personal-and twisted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/968'),
(2465, 'Tropic of Cancer', 'Henry Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/396');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(2466, 'Trouble in Paradise', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Robert Parker''s\n  <em>\n   Trouble in Paradise\n  </em>\n  imagines an old-fashioned tough guys'' world where most of the women are summed up by their figures and the men are measured by their ability to intimidate. Chief Jesse Stone of Paradise, Massachusetts, is Parker''s hero again in this sequel to\n  <em>\n   Night Passage\n  </em>\n  . When he''s not thinking about what his girlfriends look like under their clothes, Stone''s touring his beat, hanging out at the Gray Gull Hotel bar to get intelligence on local thugs, or interrogating teens about their destructive pranks. But he has a vulnerable side, too, and Parker adds new layers of depth and complexity to his latest series character. Jesse''s still reeling from his divorce. He and his ex-wife, Jenn, are not entirely ready to let go. In fact, Jenn has followed Jesse east from L.A. and is suffering in the Boston climate as one of the anchors on the local news. Romance with Jenn is further complicated by Jesse''s ongoing attraction to attorney Abby Taylor and his emerging relationship with realtor Marcy Campbell.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jesse''s domestic troubles are gradually overshadowed, however, when ex-con Jimmy Macklin arrives in town. Macklin plans to pull "the mother of all stickups" on the ritzy Stiles Island in Paradise Harbor. He has figured out that the Stiles Island bridge, with its underpinning of utility cables and pipes, is a veritable lifeline to the mainland, and he''s gathered a rogues'' gallery of professional crooks and killers to help him take the bridge and make the island into a thieves'' paradise. The one problem: Macklin never figured that Paradise, Massachusetts, would have a police chief as tough and resourceful as Jesse Stone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As usual, Parker''s stark and facile prose perfectly complements the masculine sufferings of his hero, and the action of the novel unfolds with an effortlessness that intimates a craftsman at work. With Parker''s Spenser safely canonized as a detective fiction legend, Jesse Stone''s unfolding world offers a welcome new addition to Parker''s ouevre.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tough and tight, Parker''s second Jesse Stone crime novel (after last year''s Night Passage) finds the chief of police of modest Paradise, Mass., battling a ruthless gang of thieves even as he jousts with personal demons. Two parallel plotlines tell the story. One follows career criminal James Macklin and his moll, Faye, and their planning and subsequent execution of the heist of all the money and valuables on super-rich Stiles Island, which is connected by bridge to Paradise. Meanwhile, there''s Stone, a cool customer who''s not afraid to step on wealthy toes but who can''t get his love life in order and can barely control his taste for booze. The crime line is the stronger of the two, traced in prose as lean as any Parker has wrought, a grand little caper tale in its own right as Macklin collects a rogue''s gallery of accomplices, isolates Stiles Island by dynamiting its bridge and harbor, then preys upon its inhabitants. Stone''s romantic entanglements, particularly his troubled relationship with his ex-wife, add texture to the novel and are notably less sentimental than the amours of his Spenser stories. They manifest at times in a histrionic way, however?as when the ex assaults a woman trying to get Stone fired?that retards the surge of the crime story. Stone remains a magnetic character, as silent as Spenser is chatty but equally strong, though likely too enigmatic at this juncture to engender the sort of reader affection that Spenser enjoys. Parker fans and all who love muscular crime writing will appreciate this tale, as the Boston-based crime master once again shows how to do it well, and with style. BOMC main selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1144'),
(2467, 'True Believer', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Charming, divorced Jeremy Marsh is a rising star. As a dashing, successful 37-year-old Manhattan science journalist, his skeptical scrutiny of ineffective antidepressants, cults and television clairvoyants has caught the eye of North Carolina restaurant owner Doris McClellan, who invites Jeremy to bucolic Boone Creek to scoop the story of eerie mystery lights appearing in an ancient cemetery. A diviner who can predict the sex of unborn babies, Doris suspects the lights are a ghostly curse. Her beautiful librarian granddaughter, Lexie Darnell, makes a lovely, if guarded, tour guide as Jeremy revs up his electromagnetic equipment for the ghost hunt. After witnessing the ethereal graveside lights, both grow closer, much to the chagrin of local deputy Rodney Hopper, who wants Lexie for himself. Guided by sage Doris and manipulated by meddling mayor Tom Gherkin, big-city Jeremy and smalltown Lexie find that trepidation about their differences somehow manages to bloom into love. Jeremy eventually uncovers the hidden truth behind the glowing graveyard fog and departs the lush gothic environs for New York. Can love bridge the gap? Sparks (\n  <em>\n   The Wedding\n  </em>\n  ) delivers another shrink-wrapped, reliably uncomplicated romantic confection that''s light as air, smooth as silk and gloriously sweet.\n  <em>\n   Agent, Theresa Park\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   (One-day laydown Apr. 12)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New York skeptic Jeremy Marsh makes his living exposing frauds in the articles he writes for\n  <em>\n   Scientific American\n  </em>\n  . His latest target is a famous psychic who claims to speak to the dead. The acclaim he receives for his expose places Jeremy in the public eye with an appearance on national television. Jeremy then travels to Boone Creek, North Carolina, to search for the truth behind the mysterious lights that appear in the local cemetery. The legend is that an old curse causes the spirits to wander, and now the town wants to capitalize on the phenomena to bring in badly needed tourist dollars. But Doris McClellan, the local psychic, wants the lights debunked, and asks Jeremy to investigate. What Jeremy doesn''t count on is falling for Doris'' granddaughter, Lexie, the town librarian. Lexie has had enough of smooth-talking city men, and shields her heart, but Jeremy keeps trying to penetrate her tough shell. Lexie never wants to leave Boone Creek, and she believes that Jeremy will never want to stay. Although Sparks'' latest starts with great potential, the main characters feel cool and distant; it is the secondary characters who embody the warmth and verve that usually mark Sparks'' best-sellers.\n  <em>\n   Patty Engelmann\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1945'),
(2468, 'True Colors', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her 17th novel, bestseller Hannah portrays the delicate and enduring bonds of sisterhood. The story of the Grey sisters is set in a small Washington town and follows Winona, Aurora and Vivi Ann from the time of their mother''s death, when they are young teens in 1979, on through adulthood, cataloguing their trials and the men who typically come bearing them, beginning with Luke, Winona''s high school best friend and secret crush. But when he falls in love with Vivi Ann, who later cheats on him with farmhand Dallas, it leads a jealous Winona to betray her sister. Vivi Ann and Dallas get married, have a baby and run the Grey family farm, but Dallas is eventually arrested for murder, and lawyer Winona refuses to take his case, seemingly killing her relationship with Vivi Ann. Dallas is convicted and things look bleak for Vivi Ann and her son, but Winona''s late-breaking friendship with her nephew paves the way for the happy ending. Though Hannah boldly embraces over-the-top drama, she really knows what womenâ€”her characters and her audienceâ€”want.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Women across America laughed, cried, and reconnected with their friends after reading Kristin Hannahâ€™s smash hit, Firefly Lane. Now, in True Colors, she explores the poignant, powerful, complex world of sistersâ€¦\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Grey sisters had only each other when their mother died years ago. Their stern, unyielding father gave them almost no attention. Winona, the oldest, needs her fatherâ€™s approval most of all. An overweight dreamer, she never felt at home on the sprawling horse ranch that had been in her family for three generations. Aurora, the middle, is the peacemaker. Vivi Ann, the youngest, is the undisputed star of the family. Everything comes easily to Vivi Ann, her fatherâ€™s love most of all. But when Vivi Ann makes a fateful decision to follow her heart, rather than take the route of a dutiful daughter, events are set in motion that will test the love and loyalties of the Grey sisters. They will be pitted against each other in ways none could have imagined. Secrets will be revealed, and a terrible, shocking crime will shatter both the family and their beloved town. With breathtaking pace and penetrating insight, Kristin Hannahâ€™s\n  <em>\n   True Colors\n  </em>\n  is a novel about sisters, vengeance, jealousy, betrayalâ€”and ultimately, what it truly means to be a family.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1923'),
(2469, 'Trunk Music', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1352'),
(2470, 'The Truth', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The denizens of Ankh-Morpork fancy they''ve seen just about everything. But then comes the Ankh-Morpork Times, struggling scribe William de Worde''s upper-crust, newsletter turned Discworld''s first paper of record.An ethical joulnalist, de Worde has a proclivity for investigating stories -- a nasty habit that soon creates powerful enemies eager to stop his presses. And what better way than to start the Inquirer, a titillating (well, what else would it be?) tabloid that conveniently interchanges what''s real for what sells.But de Worde''s got an inside line on the hot story concerning Ankh-Morpork''s leading patrician Lord Vetinari. The facts say Vetinari is guilty. But as William de Worde learns, facts don''t always tell the whole story. There''s that pesky little thing called the truth ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/361'),
(2471, 'Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life&#39;s Greatest Lesson', 'Mitch Albom', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This true story about the love between a spiritual mentor and his pupil has soared to the bestseller list for many reasons. For starters: it reminds us of the affection and gratitude that many of us still feel for the significant mentors of our past. It also plays out a fantasy many of us have entertained: what would it be like to look those people up again, tell them how much they meant to us, maybe even resume the mentorship? Plus, we meet Morrie Schwartz--a one of a kind professor, whom the author describes as looking like a cross between a biblical prophet and Christmas elf. And finally we are privy to intimate moments of Morrie''s final days as he lies dying from a terminal illness. Even on his deathbed, this twinkling-eyed mensch manages to teach us all about living robustly and fully. Kudos to author and acclaimed sports columnist Mitch Albom for telling this universally touching story with such grace and humility.\n  <em>\n   --Gail Hudson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Detroit Free Press journalist and best-selling author recounts his weekly visits with a dying teacher who years before had set him straight.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/28'),
(2472, 'Turn Coat', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The new novel in the hit *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files series.** The Warden Morgan has been accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Councilâ€”and thereâ€™s only one, final punishment for that crime. Heâ€™s on the run, wants his name cleared, and needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog. Someone like Harry Dresden... Now, Harry must uncover a traitor within the Council, keep a less-than-agreeable Morgan under wraps, and avoid coming under scrutiny himself. And a single mistake may cost someone his headâ€”someone like Harry\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/971'),
(2473, 'Turntables Of The Night', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1497'),
(2474, 'Twelve Sharp', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As bungling bounty hunter Stephanie Plum deals with the usual bail jumpers and struggles with chaotic relationships, a new twist emerges in the form of a mysterious female stalker. The latest madcap adventure in Janet Evanovich''s Stephanie Plum series, Twelve Sharp will delight both new readers and devoted fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/796'),
(2475, 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Barnes &amp; Noble Classics Series)', 'Jules Verne &amp; Walter James Miller &amp; Frederick Paul Walter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\n  </em>\n  , by\n  <strong>\n   Jules Verne\n  </strong>\n  , is part of the\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <em>\n  <ul>\n   <li>\n    All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n   </li>\n  </ul>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n </em>\n pulls together a constellation of influencesÂ—biographical, historical, and literaryÂ—to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n <p>\n  Widely regarded as the father of modern science fiction,\n  <strong>\n   Jules Verne\n  </strong>\n  wrote more than seventy books and created hundreds of memorable characters. His most popular novel,\n  <em>\n   Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\n  </em>\n  , is not only a brilliant piece of scientific prophecy, but also a thrilling story with superb, subtle characterizations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The year is 1866 and the Pacific Ocean is being terrorized by a deadly sea monster. The U.S. government dispatches marine-life specialist Pierre Aronnax to investigate aboard the warship\n  <em>\n   Abraham Lincoln\n  </em>\n  . When the ship is sunk by the mysterious creature, he and two other survivors discover that the monster is in fact a marvelous submarineÂ—the\n  <em>\n   Nautilus\n  </em>\n  Â—commanded by the brilliant but bitter Captain Nemo. Nemo refuses to let his guests return to land, but instead taking them on a series of fantastic adventures in which they encounter underwater forests, giant clams, monster storms, huge squid, treacherous polar ice andÂ—most spectacular of allÂ—the magnificent lost city of Atlantis!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Victoria Blake\n  </strong>\n  is a freelance writer. She has worked at the\n  <em>\n   Paris Review\n  </em>\n  and contributed to the\n  <em>\n   Boulder Daily Camera\n  </em>\n  , small literary presses in the United States, and English-language publications in Bangkok, Thailand. She currently lives and works in San Diego, California.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1983'),
(2476, 'Twilight', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. ''Be very still,'' he whispered, as if I wasn''t already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat."\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles. In\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  , an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because--he''s a vampire. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. But, Bella would rather be dead than part from Edward, so she risks her life to stay near him, and the novel burns with the erotic tension of their dangerous and necessarily chaste relationship.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meyer has achieved quite a feat by making this scenario completely human and believable. She begins with a familiar YA premise (the new kid in school), and lulls us into thinking this will be just another realistic young adult novel. Bella has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy Olympic Peninsula to be with her father. At school, she wonders about a group of five remarkably beautiful teens, who sit together in the cafeteria but never eat. As she grows to know, and then love, Edward, she learns their secret. They are all rescued vampires, part of a family headed by saintly Carlisle, who has inspired them to renounce human prey. For Edward''s sake they welcome Bella, but when a roving group of tracker vampires fixates on her, the family is drawn into a desperate pursuit to protect the fragile human in their midst. The precision and delicacy of Meyer''s writing lifts this wonderful novel beyond the limitations of the horror genre to a place among the best of YA fiction. (Ages 12 and up)\n  <em>\n   --Patty Campbell\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Stephenie Meyer\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Were you a fan of\n  <em>\n   Buffy the Vampire Slayer\n  </em>\n  ?\n  <em>\n   Angel\n  </em>\n  ? What are you watching now that those shows are off the air?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I have never seen an entire episode of\n  <em>\n   Buffy\n  </em>\n  or\n  <em>\n   Angel\n  </em>\n  . While I was writing\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  , I let my older sister read along chapter by chapter. She''s a huge Buffy fan and she kept trying to get me to watch, but I was afraid it would mess up my vision of the vampire world so I never did.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I don''t have a ton of time for TV, and my kids get rowdy when I have on "mommy shows," but I do have a secret fondness for reality shows (the good ones, at least in my opinion). I always TiVo\n  <em>\n   Survivor\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Amazing Race\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   America''s Next Top Model\n  </em>\n  .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What inspired you to write\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  ? Is this the beginning of a series? Why write for teens?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  was inspired by a very vivid dream, which is fairly faithfully transcribed as chapter thirteen of the book. There are sequels on the way--I''m hard at work editing book two (tentatively titled\n  <em>\n   New Moon\n  </em>\n  ) right now, and book three is waiting in line for its turn.\n  <br />\n  I didn''t mean to write for teens--I didn''t mean to write for anyone but myself, so I had an audience of one twenty-nine year old (and later one thirty-one year old when my sister started reading). I think the reason that I ended up with a book for teens is because high school is such a compelling time period--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating memories. It''s a fascinating place: old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else''s approval. There''s a lot of scope for a novel in that.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What is your favorite vampire story? Fave vampire movie?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I guess my favorite vampire story would be\n  <em>\n   The Vampire Lestat\n  </em>\n  , by Anne Rice, simply because it''s one of the only ones I''ve ever read. I keep meaning to pick up Bram Stoker''s\n  <em>\n   Dracula\n  </em>\n  , because I get asked this question so often and I should probably start with the classics, but I haven''t gotten around to it yet. Again, I''m afraid to read other vampire books now, for fear of finding things either too similar, or too different from my own vampire world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ack! I can''t even answer the movie question. I can''t remember ever seeing a single vampire movie, outside of clips from Bela Lugosi movies on TV. I don''t like true horror movies--my favorite scary movies are all Hitchcock''s.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What other young adult authors do you read?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  My favorite young adult author is L.M. Montgomery I also enjoy  J.K. Rowling (but who doesn''t?), and Ann Brashares. As a teen, I skipped straight to adult books (lots of sci-fi and Jane Austen), so I''m rediscovering the world of teen literature now.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Stephenie Meyer''s List of Books You Should Read\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Romeo and Juliet\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dragonflight\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   To Kill a Mockingbird\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Princess Bride\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  See more recommendations from Stephenie Meyer\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q&amp;A with Stephanie Meyer\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What book has had the most significant impact on your life?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The book with the most significant impact on my life is\n  <em>\n   The Book of Mormon\n  </em>\n  . The book with the most significant impact on my life as a writer is probably\n  <em>\n   Speaker for the Dead\n  </em>\n  , by Orson Scott Card, with\n  <em>\n   Rebecca\n  </em>\n  by Daphne du Maurier coming in as a close second.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  The CD is easy:\n  <em>\n   Absolution\n  </em>\n  by Muse, hands down. It''s harder to give myself just one movie, but the one I watch most frequently is\n  <em>\n   Sense and Sensibility\n  </em>\n  --the one with the screenplay by Emma Thompson. One book is impossible. I''d have to have\n  <em>\n   Pride and Prejudice\n  </em>\n  , but I couldn''t live without something by Orson Scott Card and a nice, thick Maeve Binchy, too.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What is the worst lie you''ve ever told?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  My lies are all very, very boring: "No, you really look great in hot pink!" "My children only watch one hour of TV a day." "I didn''t eat the last Swiss Cake Roll--it must have been one of the kids." That''s the best I''ve got.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Describe the perfect writing environment.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  It''s late at night and the house is silent, but I''m still (miraculously) full of energy. I have my headphones in and I''m listened to a mix of Muse, Coldplay, Travis, My Chemical Romance, and The All-American Rejects. Beside me is a fabulous, and yet mysteriously low in calorie, cheesecake....\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I''d like it to say that I really tried at the important things. I was never perfect at any of them, but I honestly tried to be a great mom, a loving wife, a good daughter, and a true friend. Under that, I''d want a list of my favorite\n  <em>\n   Simpsons\n  </em>\n  quotes.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I''d love to have a chance to talk to Orson Scott Card--I have a million questions for him. Mostly things like, "How do you come up with this stuff?!" But, if he wasn''t available, I''d settle for Matthew Bellamy (lead singer of Muse).\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  If you could have one superpower, what would it be?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I''d want something offensive, rather than defensive. Like shooting fireballs from my hands. That way, you''re really open to going either way--hero or villain. I like to have choices.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Grade 9 Upâ€“Headstrong, sun-loving, 17-year-old Bella declines her mom''s invitation to move to Florida, and instead reluctantly opts to move to her dad''s cabin in the dreary, rainy town of Forks, WA. She becomes intrigued with Edward Cullen, a distant, stylish, and disarmingly handsome senior, who is also a vampire. When he reveals that his specific clan hunts wildlife instead of humans, Bella deduces that she is safe from his blood-sucking instincts and therefore free to fall hopelessly in love with him. The feeling is mutual, and the resulting volatile romance smolders as they attempt to hide Edward''s identity from her family and the rest of the school. Meyer adds an eerie new twist to the mismatched, star-crossed lovers theme: predator falls for prey, human falls for vampire. This tension strips away any pretense readers may have about the everyday teen romance novel, and kissing, touching, and talking take on an entirely new meaning when one small mistake could be life-threatening. Bella and Edward''s struggle to make their relationship work becomes a struggle for survival, especially when vampires from an outside clan infiltrate the Cullen territory and head straight for her. As a result, the novel''s danger-factor skyrockets as the excitement of secret love and hushed affection morphs into a terrifying race to stay alive. Realistic, subtle, succinct, and easy to follow,\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  will have readers dying to sink their teeth into it.\n  <em>\n   â€“Hillias J. Martin, New York Public Library\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/387'),
(2477, 'Two for the Dough', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  It''s Stephanie Plum, New Jersey''s "fugitive apprehension" agent (aka bounty hunter), introduced to the world by Janet Evanovich in the award-winning novel\n  <em>\n   One for the Money.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Stephanie''s back, armed with attitude Â— not to mention stun guns, defense sprays, killer flashlights, and her trusty .38, Stephanie is after a new bail jumper, Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton''s burg. He''s fresh out of the army, suspiciously wealthy, and he''s just shot his best friend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With her bounty hunter pal Ranger stepping in occasionally to advise her, Stephanie staggers kneedeep in corpses and caskets as she traipses through back streets, dark alleys, and funeral parlors.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And nobody knows funeral parlors better than Stephanie''s irrepressible Grandma Mazur, a lady whose favorite pastime is grabbing a front-row seat at a neighborhood wake. So Stephanie uses Grandma as a cover to follow leads, but loses control when Grandma warms to the action, packing a cool pistol. Much to the family''s chagrin, Stephanie and Granny may soon have the elusive Kenny in their sights.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fast-talking, slow-handed vice cop Joe Morelli joins in the case, since the prey happens to be his young cousin. And if the assignment calls for an automobile stakeout for two with the woman who puts his libido in overdrive, Morelli''s not one to object.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Low on expertise but learning fast, high on resilience, and despite the help she gets from friends and relatives, Stephanie eventually must face the danger alone when embalmed body parts begin to arrive on her doorstep and she''s targeted for a nasty death by the most loathsome adversary she''s ever encountered. Another case like this and she''ll be a real pro.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Two for the Dough\n  </em>\n  is irresistible fun and powerful suspense entertainment from an acclaimed author who is already a national star.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1982'),
(2478, 'The Two Towers', 'John Ronald Reuel Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Two Towers is the second part of JRR Tolkien''s epic masterpiece The Lord of the Rings. This 50th anniversary edition features special packaging and is the first paperback edition to include the definitive edition of the text.Impossible to describe in a few words, JRR Tolkien''s great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. Tolkien created a vast new mythology in an invented world which has proved timeless in its appeal.Now, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its first publication, the text has been fully restored with almost 400 corrections - with the full co-operation of Christopher Tolkien - making it the definitive version of the text, and as close as possible to the version that J.R.R. Tolkien wanted.In addition to now having the definitive version of the text, this paperback features special packaging to commemorate the golden anniversary of the Nation''s Big Read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/169'),
(2479, 'U Is for Undertow', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n C alling T is for Trespass"taut, terrifying, transfixing and terrific," USA Today went on to ask, "What does it take to write twenty novels about the same character and manage to create a fresh, genre-bending novel every time?" It''s a question worth pondering. Through twenty excursions into the dark side of the human soul, Sue Grafton has never written the same book twice. And so it is with this, her twenty-first. Once again, she breaks genre formulas, giving us a twisting, complex, surprise-filled, and totally satisfying thriller. It''s April, 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone''s thirty-eighth birthday, and she''s alone in her office doing paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. He has a preppy air about him and looks as if he''d be carded if he tried to buy booze, but Michael Sutton is twenty-seven, an unemployed college dropout. Twenty-one years earlier, a four-year-old girl disappeared. A recent reference to her kidnapping has triggered a flood of memories. Sutton now believes he stumbled on her lonely burial when he was six years old. He wants Kinsey''s help in locating the child''s remains and finding the men who killed her. It''s a long shot but he''s willing to pay cash up front, and Kinsey agrees to give him one day. As her investigation unfolds, she discovers Michael Sutton has an uneasy relationship with the truth. In essence, he''s the boy who cried wolf. Is his current story true or simply one more in a long line of fabrications? Grafton moves the narrative between the eighties and the sixties, changing points of view, building multiple subplots, and creating memorable characters. Gradually, we see how they all connect. But at the beating center of the novel is Kinsey Millhone, sharp-tongued, observant, a loner-"a heroine," said The New York Times Book Review, "with foibles you can laugh at and faults you can forgive."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/685'),
(2480, 'Ubik', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Philip K. Dick''s searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/848'),
(2481, 'UFO documents', 'FBI Top Secret Files', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1860'),
(2482, 'The Ultimate Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide - All Six Books', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1810'),
(2483, 'The Ultimate Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy (Barnes &amp; Noble Leatherbound Classics)', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Your planet has just been destroyed and youâ€™re lost in the space-time continuum, butâ€”\n  <em>\n   Donâ€™t Panic!\n  </em>\n  Just thumb your way to the end of the universe for a nice cuppa tea with the help of\n  <em>\n   The Ultimate Hitchhikerâ€™s Guide to the Galaxy,\n  </em>\n  your Baedeker for intergalactic zaniness. Featuring all five novels in\n  <strong>\n   Douglas Adamsâ€™s\n  </strong>\n  beloved Hitchhikerâ€™s seriesâ€”\n  <em>\n   The Hitchhikerâ€™s Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; Mostly Harmless\n  </em>\n  â€”and the bonus short story â€œYoung Zaphod Plays It Safe,â€ this omnibus provides you with the perfect itinerary for sightseeing across the universe, from the beginning to the end of time. Along the way youâ€™ll meet paranoid robots, avert Armageddon (more than once!), and learn the answer to the ultimate question concerning life, the universe, and everythingâ€”even though youâ€™ll never learn what the question is. So strap in, get ready for lift-off, and prepare yourself for comedy on a cosmic scale.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Ultimate Hitchhikerâ€™s Guide to the Galaxy\n  </em>\n  is one of Barnes &amp; Nobleâ€™s leatherbound contemporary classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the worldâ€™s greatest authors in exquisitely designed bonded-leather bindings with distinctive gilt edging and an attractive silk-ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectable, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for any home library.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(2484, 'The Ultimate Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy', 'Douglas Adams &amp; Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s safe to say that\n  <em>\n   The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy\n  </em>\n  is one of the funniest science fiction novels ever written. Adams spoofs many core science fiction tropes: space travel, aliens, interstellar war--stripping away all sense of wonder and repainting them as commonplace, even silly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This omnibus edition begins with\n  <em>\n   The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy\n  </em>\n  , in which Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth''s destruction. Then in\n  <em>\n   The Restaurant at the End of the Universe\n  </em>\n  , Arthur and his new friends travel to the end of time and discover the true reason for Earth''s existence. In\n  <em>\n   Life, the Universe, and Everything\n  </em>\n  , the gang goes on a mission to save the entire universe.\n  <em>\n   So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish\n  </em>\n  recounts how Arthur finds true love and "God''s Final Message to His Creation." Finally,\n  <em>\n   Mostly Harmless\n  </em>\n  is the story of Arthur''s continuing search for home, in which he instead encounters his estranged daughter, who is on her own quest. There''s also a bonus short story, "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe," more of a vignette than a full story, which wraps up this completist''s package of the Don''t Panic chronicles. As the series progresses, its wackier elements diminish, but the satire of human life and foibles is ever present.\n  <em>\n   --Brooks Peck\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œWITH DROLL WIT, A KEEN EYE FOR DETAIL AND HEAVY DOSES OF INSIGHT . . . ADAMS MAKES US LAUGH UNTIL WE CRY.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€“San Diego Union\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œLIVELY, SHARPLY SATIRICAL, BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN . . . RANKS WITH THE BEST SET PIECES IN MARK TWAIN.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€“The Atlantic\n  </em>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(2485, 'Ulysses', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the most important works of modernist literature, James Joyce''s "Ulysses" was originally published in serial format from 1918 to 1920 and then published in a single edition in 1922, which this edition is drawn from. "Ulysses" chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. While the novel appears largely unstructured at first glance it is in fact very closely paralleled to Homer''s "Odyssey," containing eighteen episodes that correspond to various parts of Homer''s work. Filled with experimental forms of prose, stream of consciousness, puns, parodies, and allusions that Joyce himself hoped would "keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant." This expansive work is considered one of the great works of English literature and a must read for fans of the modernist genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/664'),
(2486, 'Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain', 'Portia de Rossi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œI didnâ€™t decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier . . .â€\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the Hollywood film in which she was playing her first leading role. This should have been the culmination of all her years of hard workâ€”first as a child model in Australia, then as a cast member of one of the hottest shows on American television. On the outside she was thin and blond, glamorous and successful. On the inside, she was literally dying.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this searing, unflinchingly honest book, Portia de Rossi captures the complex emotional truth of what it is like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. She recounts the elaborate rituals around eating that came to dominate hours of every day, from keeping her daily calorie intake below 300 to eating precisely measured amounts of food out of specific bowls and only with certain utensils. When this wasnâ€™t enough, she resorted to purging and compulsive physical exercise, driving her body and spirit to the breaking point.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Even as she rose to fame as a cast member of the hit television shows\n  <em>\n   Ally McBeal\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Arrested Development,\n  </em>\n  Portia alternately starved herself and binged, all the while terrified that the truth of her sexuality would be exposed in the tabloids. She reveals the heartache and fear that accompany a life lived in the closet, a sense of isolation that was only magnified by her unrelenting desire to be ever thinner. With the storytelling skills of a great novelist and the eye for detail of a poet, Portia makes transparent as never before the behaviors and emotions of someone living with an eating disorder.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From her lowest point, Portia began the painful climb back to a life of health and honesty, falling in love with and eventually marrying Ellen DeGeneres, and emerging as an outspoken and articulate advocate for gay rights and womenâ€™s health issues.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this remarkable and beautifully written work, Portia shines a bright light on a dark subject. A crucial book for all those who might sometimes feel at war with themselves or their bodies,\n  <em>\n   Unbearable Lightness\n  </em>\n  is a story that inspires hope and nourishes the spirit.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/279'),
(2487, 'Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption', 'Laura Hillenbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/672'),
(2488, 'Uncle Tom&#39;s cabin', 'Harriet Beecher Stowe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The library of America is dedicated to publishing America''s best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1068'),
(2489, 'Under the banner of heaven: a story of violent faith', 'Jon Krakauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jon Krakauerâ€™s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God.At the core of Krakauerâ€™s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of Americaâ€™s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/550'),
(2490, 'Under the Dome', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Stephen Kingâ€™s bestselling tour-de-force, Under the Dome, is now available completely unabridged on MP3 CD for the amazing low price of $14.99 and will coincide with the hardcover and audio of Kingâ€™s latest novel, 11/22/63.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chesterâ€™s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardenerâ€™s hand is severed as â€œthe domeâ€ comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and whenâ€”or ifâ€”it will go away.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizensâ€”town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physicianâ€™s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothingâ€”even murderâ€”to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isnâ€™t just short. Itâ€™s running out.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  The jacket concept for UNDER THE DOME originated as an ambitious idea from the mind of Stephen King. The artwork is a combination of photographs, illustration, and 3-D rendering. This is a departure from the direction of King s most recent, illustrated covers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In order to achieve the arresting image for this jacket, Scribner art director Rex Bonomelli had to seek out artists who could do a convincing job of creating a realistic portrayal of the town of Chester s Mill, the setting of the novel. Bonomelli found the perfect team of digital artists, based in South America and New York, whose cutting edge work had previously been devoted to advertisement campaigns. This was their first book jacket and an exciting venture for them. They are used to working with the demands of corporate clients, says Bonomelli. We gave them freedom and are thrilled with what they came up with.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This CGI (computer generated imagery) enhanced image looks more like something made for the big screen than for the page and is sure to make a lasting impact on King fans.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The multiple elements of this jacket art lend themselves perfectly to a unique, four-part jacket reveal campaign. The first aspect was unveiled on September 21, followed by the release of additional images on September 25 and September 28, and culminating with the full reveal on October 5, when the world sees that everything is UNDER THE DOME.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/484');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(2491, 'Unlocked: A Love Story', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An average of 1 in 110 children has autism spectrum disorder, an astonishing number that also bespeaks sadness and frustration on the part of lots of parents of autistic children. Popular and prolific novelist Kingsbury (Ever After) takes on autism in the story Holden Harris, an 18-year-old high school student with autism and target for high school bullies. Popular Ella Reynolds, star of the high school''s musical Beauty and the Beast, sticks up for Holden against her friends who are his tormentors. Added to the complex topics of autism and bullying is a subplot about teen-age suicide, making for far more weight than this story can bear. Her legions of fans may well find this nicey-nicey story resolution inspirational; that is the Kingsbury brand. But given the gravity of the subjects, what one finds inspirational another will likely see a naÃ¯ve and unpersuasive fantasy that Walt Disney does a whole lot better, with music. Kingsbury is in over her head. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Before You Take a Stand ... You Got to Take a Chance.Holden Harris is an eighteen-year-old locked in a prison of autism. Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden is very happy and socially normal---on the inside, in a private world all his own. In reality, he is bullied at school by kids who only see that he is very different. Ella Reynolds is part of the ''in'' crowd. A cheerleader and star of the high school drama production, her life seems perfect. When she catches Holden listening to her rehearse for the school play, she is drawn to him ... the way he is drawn to the music. Then, Ella makes a dramatic discovery---she and Holden were best friends as children. Frustrated by the way Holden is bullied, and horrified at the indifference of her peers, Ella decides to take a stand against the most privileged and popular kids at school. Including her boyfriend, Jake.Ella believes miracles can happen in the unlikeliest places, and that just maybe an entire community might celebrate from the sidelines. But will Holden''s praying mother and the efforts of Ella and a cast of theater kids be enough to unlock the prison that contains Holden? This time, friendship, faith, and the power of a song must be strong enough to open the doors to the miracle Holden needs.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1408'),
(2492, 'Unnatural Exposure', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Virginia Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland, plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher loose in Virginia? That''s what the panicked public thinks, thanks to a local TV reporter who got the leaked news from her boyfriend, Scarpetta''s vile rival, Investigator Percy Ring. But the butchered bodies are so many red herrings intended to throw idiots like Ring off the track. Instead of a run-of-the-mill serial killer, we''re dealing with a shadowy figure who has plans involving mutant smallpox, mass murder, and messing with Scarpetta''s mind by e-mailing her gory photos of the murder scenes, along with cryptic AOL chat-room messages. The coolest innovation: Scarpetta''s gorgeous genius niece, Lucy, equips her with a DataGlove and a VPL Eyephone, and she takes a creepy virtual tour of the e-mailed crime scene.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Unnatural Exposure\n  </em>\n  boasts brisk storytelling, crackling dialogue, evocative prose about forensic-science sleuthing, and crisp character sketches, both of familiar characters like Scarpetta''s gruff partner Pete Marino and bit players like the landfill employee falsely accused by Ring. Plus, let''s face it: serial killers are old hat. Cornwell''s most vivid villains are highly plausible backstabbing colleagues like Ring, who plots to destroy Lucy''s FBI career by outing her as a lesbian. Some readers object to the rather abrupt ending, but, hey, it''s less jarring than\n  <em>\n   Hannibal\n  </em>\n  ''s, and it''s the logical culmination of Cornwell''s philosophy about human nature. To illuminate the novel''s finale, read Cornwell''s remarks on paranoia in her Amazon.com interview.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kay Scarpetta grapples with a serial killer who contacts her via the Internet in this latest from crime novelist Cornwell, who is involved in some headline-making scandal of her own: In a recent trial, she was named as the former lover of a woman whose husband attempted to murder her in a rage over the affair.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/913'),
(2493, 'The Unofficial Harry Potter Encyclopedia: Harry Potter A - Z', 'Kristina Benson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Ultimate Reference for the Harry Potter Enthusiast! In depth and current overview of the characters in Harry''s World! Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels by English author J. K. Rowling about a teenage boy named Harry Potter. Since the release of her first novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone in 1997, the books have gained enormous popularity, critical acclaim and commercial success worldwide, spawning films, video games and assorted merchandise. The Unofficial Harry Potter Encyclopedia: Harry Potter A - Z studies each character in Harry''s World from his two best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger to Lord Voldemort to Professor Dumbledore. No Wizard, Witch or Muggle is to be missed in this encyclopedia of characters. Note: This book is an independent and unauthorized publication. It is not endorsed by J.K Rowling, her publishers, copyright or trademark holders.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1658'),
(2494, 'Unseen Academicals', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they''re in the mood for trying everything else. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too). As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever. Because the thing about football u the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/980'),
(2495, 'Until Dark', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A skilled compositor for the FBI, Kendra Smith has a way with witnesses, helping them to remember crucial details about their attackers they might otherwise have forgotten. She believes her work helps to provide closure for the victims and their familiesâ€“closure that has eluded\n  <em>\n   her\n  </em>\n  for the eleven years since her brother was kidnapped, his body never found.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Determined to put her painful past behind her, Kendra throws herself into every case one hundred percent. Now she is called in to sketch the face of a man the press is calling the Soccer Mom Killer. Itâ€™s a difficult investigation made even harder by the presence of Special Agent Adam Stark, a man with whom she once had a brief, passionate affair. As the number of victims continues to rise, and with a killer always one step ahead, Kendra will learn a lethal lesson: You can run from the past, but you canâ€™t hide. . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2419'),
(2496, 'Up Country', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Up Country\n </em>\n , Nelson DeMille cannily revives the army career of Chief Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, the cynical, hardworking Criminal Investigation Division man who was forcibly retired after solving the high-profile killing in __. Brenner''s called back to investigate the murder of a young army lieutenant by his captain. The catch is, the crime took place during the heat of the Tet Offensive, and the only living witness was a North Vietnamese soldier who described the incident in a 30-year-old letter that has only recently come to light. Soon Brenner, a Vietnam vet, is on an ostensible nostalgia tour of his old stomping grounds. The trip immediately turns dangerous as he heads "up country" to search for the letter writer, accompanied by a gorgeous American businesswoman, who''s hiding more than even the smartest CID officer could imagine.\n</p>\n<p>\n DeMille, who saw his own tour of duty in Vietnam (and even found a letter on a dead Vietnamese soldier), intersperses historical facts and chilling political possibilities with enough local color to provide some serious flashbacks for his fellow veterans. To non-vets the book may seem very long, but the payoff at the end is worth a couple hundred extra pages.\n <em>\n  --Barrie Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n That DeMille has written a sequel to The General''s Daughter comes as no surprise; after all, that''s arguably his best-known novel because of the hit film version starring John Travolta. Nor is it surprising that he''s set this sequel in Vietnam; returning hero Chief Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, Ret., served two stints there during the war, and DeMille himself not only saw action in Nam but returned in 1997 for an extended visit. What is curious, and relatively unfortunate, is that the long narrative focuses so much on travelogue instead of intrigue and action; it''s as if DeMille, a wickedly fine thriller writer, has been possessed by the soul of James Michener. Still, the overarching story line captivates, as Brenner agrees to return to Vietnam to track down a Vietnamese witness to a 30-year-old unprosecuted crime, in which a U.S. Army captain murdered an army lieutenant and plundered some treasure. Joined by beautiful Susan Weber, who says she''s an American expat businesswoman doing a favor for the U.S. government, Brenner travels to the little village where the witness may still live; along the way, the pair flirt, sightsee, visit a nude beach, sightsee, have sex, sightsee, and talk a lot. The sightseeing carries serious emotional impact as Brenner processes his wartime past and Vietnam''s present, and it carries serious risk, as Colonel Mang of the secret police tracks Brenner''s and Susan''s movements. There''s some violence as the two Americans elude Mang and his minions, and a melodramatic finale as Brenner realizes just who the murderous captain now is, and some dramatic suspense as Brenner peels away layers of Susan''s identity covers. And then there''s blasted, resilient Vietnam, which DeMille captures expertly, in all its anguished pride. With a film version in development at Paramount and the Warner publicity machine working at top gear, expect this engrossing but not exceptional novel to shoot to the top. 15-city author tour.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1313'),
(2497, 'Ur', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   FIRST TIME ON AUDIO...\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  An Unabridged Novella Unavailable In Any Collection!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology that made\n  <em>\n   Cell\n  </em>\n  a #1 bestseller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in\n  <em>\n   UR,\n  </em>\n  in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a disturbing window into other worlds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend''s parting shot: "Why can''t you just read off the computer like everyone else?" He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his wildest dreams...and all-too-human tragedies that surpass his most terrible nightmares.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From vintage cars (\n  <em>\n   Christine\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   From a Buick 8\n  </em>\n  ) to household appliances (\n  <em>\n   Maximum Overdrive\n  </em>\n  ) to exercise equipment (\n  <em>\n   Stationary Bike\n  </em>\n  ), Stephen King has mesmerized us with tales of apparently ordinary machines that take on lives of their own.\n  <em>\n   UR\n  </em>\n  gives this classic theme an up-to-the-minute spin, resulting in a horror masterpiece for our time and for the ages.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/489'),
(2498, 'Use of Weapons', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness'' The Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances'' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman''s life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, USE OF WEAPONS is a masterpiece of science fiction.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/96'),
(2499, 'V.', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winner of the coveted William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1963, "V." remains a popular literary classic by one of America''s great modernists. "This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century."-- "Atlantic Review" "This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century." "--Atlantic Review" "Filled with wild humor, inventive wordplay and a darkly imaginative power." "--Philadelphia Inquirer"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/238'),
(2500, 'Valediction', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn''t afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn''t want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man''s bullet is wearing Spenser''s name. But Boston''s big boys don''t know Spenser''s ready and willing to meet death more than halfway.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Tough, wisecracking, unafraid and unexpectedly literate --in many respects the very exemplar of the species." (The New York Times)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  5 1-hour cassettes\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1164'),
(2501, 'The Valley of Horses', 'Jean M. Auel &amp; Leonor Tejada Conde-pelayo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Shiningly intense... Sheer storytelling skill holds the reader in a powerful spell." --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of\n  <strong>\n   The Clan of the Cave Bear\n  </strong>\n  , and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. The short summer gives her little time to look, and when she finds a sheltered valley with a herd of hardy steppe horses, she decides to stay and prepare for the long glacial winter ahead. Living with the Clan has taught Ayla many skills but not real hunting. She finally knows she can survive when she traps a horse, which gives her meat and a warm pelt for the winter, but fate has bestowed a greater gift, an orphaned foal with whom she develops a unique kinship. One winter extends to more; she discovers a way to make fire more quickly and a wounded cave lion cub joins her unusual family, but her beloved animals donâ€™t fulfill her restless need for human companionship. Then she hears the sound of a man screaming in pain. She saves tall, handsome Jondalar, who brings her a language to speak and an awakening of love and desire, but Ayla is torn between her fear of leaving her valley and her hope of living with her own kind.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/999'),
(2502, 'The Vampire Armand', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the familiar style of vampire as seducer, narrator Alfred Molina (\n  <em>\n   Boogie Nights\n  </em>\n  ) uses his smooth, tranquil voice to excellent effect, luring listeners ever deeper into the dark, mysterious, and blood-soaked world of\n  <em>\n   The Vampire Armand\n  </em>\n  . Rice has crafted an intriguing plot, one that expands on events from her earlier books, yet stands alone as a compelling exploration of the Cimmerian secrets that have shaded one of her most fascinating characters. Molina is a talented reader, and he revels here in the expertly crafted story line, lush language, and tortured emotions of a haunted soul caught in the eternal darkness that lurks between the living and the dead. (Running time: four hours, four cassettes)\n  <em>\n   --George Laney\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fantasy''s great advantage is that authors can make anything happen?even rewriting their own stories, as Rice does here. Readers of her 1995 novel, Memnoch the Devil, will recall that the vampire Armand ended his existence by stepping into the sun. Since he was a popular character from earlier tales, a resounding protest from fans followed. In response, Rice concocted a way in this, her seventh Vampire Chronicle since Interview with the Vampire (1976), to raise Armand from the dead. He is, in fact, the narrator of this story, in which he looks back on his earthly existence, revisiting his apprenticeship in 16th-century Venice to the regal vampire artist, Marius De Romanus, who saved his life with the kiss of immortality. Afterward, Armand returned to his Russian homeland, but when disaster parted him from Marius, he became the nihilistic leader of a pack of Parisian vampires. Rice offers exquisite details of erotic romps and political intrigues while reprising other material familiar to her fans, but finally returns to the pressing question of what happened to Armand in the sun''s lethal rays. She supplies a vivid and resonant description of the experience, set against the counterpoint of Beethoven''s Appassionata. Unfortunately, she dims the effect by dragging Armand through rambling scenes involving two odd children, Sybelle and Benji. Otherwise, this is a lavishly poetic recital in which Armand struggles with the fragility of religious belief. The final scene is a stunner. Editor, Victoria Wilson; agent, Lynn Nesbit. First printing 750,000; BOMC main selection; simultaneously available in audio and large-print editions.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/256'),
(2503, 'The Vampire Lestat', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After the spectacular debut of\n  <em>\n   Interview with the Vampire\n  </em>\n  in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in\n  <em>\n   Cry to Heaven\n  </em>\n  and the Free People of Color in\n  <em>\n   The Feast of All Saints\n  </em>\n  . But Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in\n  <em>\n   Interview\n  </em>\n  , finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel,\n  <em>\n   The Vampire Lestat\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  As with the first book in the series, the novel begins with a frame narrative. After over a half century underground, Lestat awakens in the 1980s to the cacophony of electronic sounds and images that characterizes the MTV generation. Particularly, he is captivated by a fledgling rock band named Satan''s Night Out. Determined both to achieve international fame and end the centuries of self-imposed vampire silence, Lestat takes command of the band (now renamed "The Vampire Lestat") and pens his own autobiography. The remainder of the novel purports to be that autobiography: the vampire traces his mortal youth as the son of a marquis in pre-Revolutionary France, his initiation into vampirism at the hands of Magnus, and his quest for the ultimate origins of his undead species.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While very different from the first novel in the Vampire Chronicles,\n  <em>\n   The Vampire Lestat\n  </em>\n  has proved to be the foundation for a broader range of narratives than is possible from Louis''s brooding, passive perspective. The character of Lestat is one of Rice''s most complex and popular literary alter egos, and his Faustian strivings have a mythopoeic resonance that links the novel to a grand tradition of spiritual and supernatural fiction.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rice continues what promises to be a series with this fascinating sequel to her Interview with the Vampire. One of its characters, Lestat, encouraged by the telling of that story, narrates his own history, focusing on his boyhood transformation, subsequent wanderings, and constant attempts to rationalize his newly acquired immortality. Don''t expect the usual stake-in-the-heart story; Rice is creating a new vampire mythos, mixing ancient Egyptian legends into her narrative, and weaving a rich and unforgettable tale of dazzling scenes and vivid personalities. This extraordinary book outclasses most contemporary horror fiction and is a novel to be savored. Highly recommended. Literary Guild alternate. Eric W. Johnson, Univ. of New Haven Lib., West Haven\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/248'),
(2504, 'The Vanished Man', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. When a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot, they break down the door. The room is empty. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme, it means relying on his protÃ©gÃ©e to ferret out a master illusionist they''ve dubbed ''the conjurer'' who baits them with gruesome murders that become more diabolical with each fresh crime. As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1778'),
(2505, 'Vanity Fair', 'William Makepeace Thackeray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The classic by William Thackeray. "If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1037'),
(2506, 'Velocity', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. A diabolic killer plays a harrowing game of cat and mouse with a reclusive bartender in Koontz''s latest gripping suspense thriller. Billy Wiles, a 30-something bartender and former writer, is content with his solitary Napa County existence listening to "beer-based psychoanalysis" from tavern regulars; visiting his hospitalized, comatose fiancÃ©e, Barbara; and carving wood sculptures. But the simple life gets mighty complicated when he finds a note with a deadly, time-sensitive ultimatum: he must choose between the death of a young schoolteacher or an elderly humanitarian in six hours. Reluctant local sheriff Lanny Olsen dismisses it as a joke until a comely teacher is found strangled and another threatening note appearsâ€”offering even less time for Billy to decide the fate of two more people. Who would have guessed that one of those people would be Olsen? After his friend''s murder, Billy finds that the cunning killer has gained access to every aspect of his life as the ultimatums grow increasingly more personal. Suppressing horrific childhood memories, Billy scrambles to bury grisly incriminating evidence the murderer has deviously planted. More gruesome deaths and shaky suspicions trap Billy right in the demented killer''s lair for just the beginning of Koontz''s serpentine showdown. Graphic, fast-paced action, well-developed characters and relentless, nail-biting scenes show Koontz at the top of his game.\n  <em>\n   (May 24)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€“Bartender Billy Wiles''s life spirals out of control after he finds a note on his windshield telling him that he has a choice: involve the police, and a lovely blonde schoolteacher dies. Do nothing, and an elderly woman active in charity work dies. His options only become harder once the killer targets people whom Billy knows and plants circumstantial evidence tying him to the crimes. His greatest fear is for his comatose fiancÃ©e, and he works frantically to find the murderer before Barbara is hurt. Koontz keeps the plot moving at an accelerating pace, and there are enough twists and turns to keep the story from being predictable. Billy isn''t a hero in the traditional sense, but he is a sympathetic protagonist, an average man pushed to his limits by an implacable foe. Although there is a great deal of violence and an impressive body count, the worst of it occurs off-screen. The themes aren''t subtle, but they are worth considering--the importance of connection and community, the enduring power of love, and the validity of modern art.\n  <em>\n   Velocity\n  </em>\n  is a fast, entertaining read.\n  <em>\n   â€“Susan Salpini, TASISâ€“The American School in England\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/543'),
(2507, 'Vengeance in Death', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Futuristic...and steamy. --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A madman brutally murders two men-both with ties to an ugly secret shared by Lieutenant Eve Dallas'' new husband, Roarke.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1085'),
(2508, 'Venus', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered with clouds of sulfuric acid. The atmosphere is a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and poisonous gases.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is where Van Humphries must go. Or die trying.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His older brother perished in the first attempt to land a man on Venus, years before, and his father had always hated Van for surviving when his brother died. Now his father is offering a ten billion dollar prize to the first person to land on Venus and return his oldest son''s remains.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To everyone''s surprise, Van takes up the offer. But what Van Humphries will find on Venus will change everythingÂ—our understanding of Venus, of global warming on Earth, and his knowledge of who he is.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1465'),
(2509, 'Violets Are Blue', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of James Patterson''s resourceful cop Alex Cross will be relieved to find that he''s back on familiar territory with\n  <em>\n   Violets Are Blue\n  </em>\n  --and, more importantly, that this is one of the best Alex Cross thrillers yet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The malign criminal genius of\n  <em>\n   Roses Are Red\n  </em>\n  is fixing to give Alex a hard time once again. The FBI joins Patterson''s dogged cop in a particularly unsettling investigation: two San Francisco joggers have been viciously murdered and are found suspended by their feet, with all the blood drained from their corpses. And when further brutal deaths follow in California and on the East Coast, Alex is forced to contemplate the bizarre possibility of modern-day vampires, although his instincts point him to one of the many sinister religious cults that flourish on the West Coast. Aided by Jamilla Hughes, a streetwise young woman detective from San Francisco, Alex finds that he has to crack not one but two impenetrable mysteries to stop further bloodletting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Patterson fans expect the extremely concise, page-turning chapters (116 of them here!), along with a reluctance to dawdle over details of his hero''s personal life, and both characteristics are firmly back in place. If you can resist reading this one in just a few sittings, you deserve some kind of a thriller reader''s medal.\n  <em>\n   --Barry Forshaw, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Washington, D.C., police detective Alex Cross returns for another visit (after Roses Are Red) to the top of the lists and for two new cases of disparate quality. The first, which dominates the narrative, takes place within America''s vampire underground and is as exciting as anything Patterson has written; the second, in which Cross at last defeats the nemesis known as "the Mastermind," feels tacked on only to knot loose ends. In San Francisco, two joggers are slain, seemingly by both tiger and human teeth, and their blood drained; then an upscale couple is killed similarly in Marin County deaths suggestive of an earlier Cross case, prompting the detective''s old pal Kyle Craig of the FBI to ask for his help. Craig''s plea plunges Cross not only into a fetishistic netherworld in which thousands play at being vampires and a handful actually do kill for blood, but into personal turbulence as he alienates his family by his dedication to work, and as his always troubled love life takes further dips and flights, the latter in the company of SFPD Insp. Jamilla Hughes, who joins him on the cases. We know the good guys'' immediate quarry, but they don''t: two golden young men, brothers and self-styled vampires, with a pet tiger at their side. But who is the Sire, their ultimate leader? Meanwhile, the Mastermind, a brilliant homicidal maniac, plagues Cross with threatening phone calls. Most readers probably won''t finger the Sire, but anyone who can''t name the Mastermind long before Patterson reveals his identity must be reading this book backwards. The action reels around the country, from D.C. to California to Las Vegas to North Carolina, and readers will be swept away by it and by Patterson''s expert mixing of Cross''s professional and personal challenges. The narrative split between the two cases, vampiric and Mastermind, jars but not enough to seriously mar fans'' pleasure, and the two cases will probably mesh more elegantly in the inevitable movie to come. (Nov. 19)Forecast: Is there a writer hotter than Patterson? A 10-city author tour, the forthcoming TV miniseries of his First to Die, and the simultaneous AudioBooks (unabridged and abridged, tape and CD) of Violets Are Blue will only increase the heat.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/979'),
(2510, 'Virtual Light', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Now, with his most fascinating novel to date, Gibson looks into our very near future, bringing it into sharp and darkly comic focus. Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, 2005, the uneasy sister-states of Northern and Southern California, in a nation and society still divided along seismic fault lines of wealth and power...chasms seldom crossed except in fear, exploitation, or violence. The millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake the ruins of our outworn modern era and the first chaotic suggestions of a new paradigm. In Tokyo a new city is growing from the rubble of Godzilla the Superquake. In San Francisco Mr. Yamazaki, a Japanese anthropology student, investigates the deeper meaning of an anarchic squatter community constructed around the disused Bay Bridge. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Berry Rydell just wants to make a living. Not the easiest thing for an ex-cop from Tennessee to do - now that the network has decided not to base that episode of Cops in Trouble on his brief but all too eventful career with the Knoxville P.D. Rydell signs on with IntenSecure Armed Response, driving a six-wheeled Hotspur Hussar... It''s only a matter of time before he runs into Chevette Washington, a bicycle messenger who has just crashed the wrong party...and who is about to pick the pocket of another kind of courier - an employee of Costa Rica''s Medellin-financed havens of illicit data. When IntenSecure sends Rydell to San Francisco to drive for Lucius Warbaby, a skip-tracer in the Virtual Reality maze of DatAmerica, Rydell and Chevette find themselves on a journey into the ecstasy and dread that mirror each other at the heart of the postmodern experience. A tour de force of relentless suspense, daringinsight, and graphic intensity Virtual Light is a provocative and unforgettable portrait of life on the edge of the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1542'),
(2511, 'Visions in Death', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  On one of the cityâ€™s hottest nights, New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas is sent to Central Park â€” and into a hellish new investigation. The victim is found on the rocks, just above the still, dark water of The Lake in Central Park. Around her neck is a single red ribbon. Her hands are posed, as if in prayer. But it is the eyes â€”removed with such precision, as if done by the careful hand of a surgeon â€” that have Dallas most alarmed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As more bodies turn up, each with the same defining scars, Eve is frantic for answers. Against her instincts, she accepts help from a psychic who offers one vision after another â€” each with shockingly accurate details of the murders. And when partner and friend Peabody is badly injured after escaping an attack, the stakes are raised. Are the eyes a symbol? A twisted religious ritual? A souvenir? With help from her husband, Roarke, Dallas must uncover the killerâ€™s motivation before another vision becomes another nightmare...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1098'),
(2512, 'Visions of Sugar Plums (Stephanie Plum Series)', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  It''s five days before Christmas and things are not looking merry for Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum. She hasn''t got a tree. She hasn''t bought any presents. The malls are jam-packed with staggering shoppers. There''s not a twinkle light anywhere to be seen in her apartment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And there''s a strange man in her kitchen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sure, this has happened to Stephanie Plum before. Strangers, weirdos, felons, creeps, and lunatics are always finding their way to her front door. But this guy is different. This guy is mysterious, sexy-and he has his own agenda. His name is Diesel and he is a man on a mission. And Diesel is unlike anyone Stephanie has ever met before in her life. The question is, what does he want with her? Can he help her find a little old toy maker who has skipped out on his bail right before Christmas? Can he survive the Plum family holiday dinner? Can he get Stephanie a tree that doesn''t look like it was grown next to a nuclear power plant? These questions and more are keeping Stephanie awake at night. Not to mention the fact that she needs to find a bunch of nasty elves, her sister Valerie has a Christmas "surprise" for the Plums, her niece Mary Alice doesn''t believe in Santa anymore, and Grandma Mazur has a new stud muffin. So bring out the plastic reindeer, strap on your jingle bells, and get ready to celebrate the holidays-Jersey style.\n  <em>\n   Visions of Sugar Plums\n  </em>\n  -the world of Plum has never been merrier!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1984'),
(2513, 'Void Moon', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Void of Moon The Emotional Journey Through Marital Separation Void of Moon, The Emotional Journey Through Marital Separation is based on the author, Denise Falcone''s, personal journey and the experiences of many women through this strange and unfamiliar time. Each chapter or stage in this process deals with a single emotion or an important effect that all women must work through before their journey is complete. The author''s personal interpretations give voice to each emotion so women can listen and recognize the feeling as it resonates within them. Once a connection to a feeling is established, a woman is not as alone in this process as she thought she was. From there, she can accept her feeling, experience it, and hopefully move through it. We all have emotions and it is this focus on the emotions that gives this book a huge audience. Void of Moon helps to open the way for women who are separating from their spouses, emotionally and/or physically with encouragement, guidance, and company on their path, while leading them gently in the direction of greater sanity and peace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1318'),
(2514, 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader', 'C. S. Lewis &amp; Pauline Baynes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The BBC Radio production of\n  <em>\n   The Voyage of the Dawn Treader\n  </em>\n  is a delightful two-hour sail on the most fabulous ship in Narnia. Lucy and Edmund, with their dreadful cousin Eustace, get magically pulled into a painting of a ship at sea. That ship is the\n  <em>\n   Dawn Treader\n  </em>\n  , and on board is Caspian, King of Narnia. He and his companions, including Reepicheep, the valiant warrior mouse, are searching for seven lost lords of Narnia, and their voyage will take them to the edge of the world. Their adventures include being captured by slave traders, a much-too-close encounter with a dragon, and visits to many enchanted islands, including the place where dreams come true. The adaptation is faithful to its source, C.S. Lewis''s series of Narnia books, which have provided exciting and uplifting tales for generations of children. BBC Radio does wonders with sound effects--the ship creaks in the wind, the sorrowful dragon roars lugubriously--and musical cues and interludes that keep the pacing dynamic. There''s also a splendid cast of plummy British voices, making this far more than a book read onto cassette--it''s an audio drama, as enjoyable as a trip to the theater. Grownups who buy this tape for their children will want to borrow it for themselves. (Running time: two hours, two cassettes)\n  <em>\n   --Blaise Selby\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 4-8-In the third book in C.S. Lewis''s Chronicles of Narnia (but the fifth installment in Focus on the Family''s Radio Theatre production), Edmund and Lucy Pevensy along with their bratty cousin, Eustace, are transported through a painting into Narnia where they join Prince Caspian on a voyage to the west. The children are tested on this voyage, and visit strange lands and encounter unusual creatures. Eustace is turned into a dragon, and then helped to return to human form by Aslan, the lion god. This outstanding full-cast dramatization adheres closely to the book''s text. Recorded in London, actor Paul Scofield is the storyteller, and other parts are dramatically read by other British actors. The production features sound effects and background music, which sometimes becomes obtrusive. While adults might find the story a little dated at times and the religious elements somewhat heavy handed, children will not notice and will enjoy the story. This is a more complete version of the story than the excellent BBC production available from Bantam Audiobooks (1998).\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Louise Sherman, formerly Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJ\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/904'),
(2515, 'Waiting for Morning', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   *â€œIâ€™m afraid thereâ€™s been a car accident...â€\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  As Hannah Ryan waits for her family to return home from a camping trip, she realizes she has everything going for herâ€”a husband other women admire, two charming teenage daughters, and a loving Christian home. As the sunny afternoon turns into twilight, her uneasiness grows along with the shadows. Then a car pulls into Hannahâ€™s driveway, bringing two police officers...and devastating news that shatters her life forever.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â In the days that follow, Hannah struggles with unspeakable feelings of sorrow and rageâ€”feelings that fuse into one chilling purpose for living: revenge against Brian Wesley, the drunk driver who has caused all her pain.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â In her fury, Hannah shuts the Lord out of her life. Sheâ€™s determined not to forgive Wesley or the God who allowed this tragedy to happen. Can two caring people help Hannah rediscover her faith...before bitterness destroys her?\n  <br />\n  *\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   KAREN KINGSBURY is a *USA Today and\n  </strong>\n  NewYork Times best-selling author, with more than 15 million books in print. Dubbed the Queen of Christian Fiction by\n  <strong>\n   Time magazine, Karen has written more than forty Life-Changing Fiction titles.Â  Her emotionally gripping novels include the popular Baxter Family Drama, which encompasses the Redemption, Firstborn, and Sunrise series, as well as stand-alone novels such as\n  </strong>\n  Like Dandelion Dust, When Joy Came to Stay, and\n  <em>\n   This Side of Heaven. Karen and her husband, Don, live in the Pacific Northwest and are parents to six children, including three adopted from Haiti. Visit her website at www.KarenKingsbury.com.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n  <hr />\n </em>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1971'),
(2516, 'A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings.For a start there''s the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk. Despite Katz''s overwhelming desire to find cozy restaurants, he and Bryson eventually settle into their stride, and while on the trail they meet a bizarre assortment of hilarious characters. But A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike. Bryson''s acute eye is a wise witness to this beautiful but fragile trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for the conservation of America''s last great wilderness. An adventure, a comedy, and a celebration, A Walk in the Woods is destined to become a modern classic of travel literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/58');
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(2517, 'A Walk to Remember', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the prologue to his latest novel, Nicholas Sparks makes the rather presumptuous pledge "first you will smile, and then you will cry," but sure enough, he delivers the goods. With his calculated ability to throw your heart around like a yo-yo (try out his earlier\n  <em>\n   Message in the Bottle\n  </em>\n  or\n  <em>\n   The Notebook\n  </em>\n  if you really want to stick it to yourself), Sparks pulls us back to the perfect innocence of a first love.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In 1958 Landon Carter is a shallow but well-meaning teenager who spends most of his time hanging out with his friends and trying hard to ignore the impending responsibilities of adulthood. Then Landon gets roped into acting the lead in the Christmas play opposite the most renowned goody two-shoes in town: Jamie Sullivan. Against his best intentions and the taunts of his buddies, Landon finds himself falling for Jamie and learning some central lessons in life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like John Irving''s\n  <em>\n   A Prayer for Owen Meany\n  </em>\n  , Sparks maintains a delicate and rarely seen balance of humor and sentiment. While the plot may not be the most original, this boy-makes-good tearjerker will certainly reel in the fans. Look for a movie starring beautiful people or, better yet, snuggle under the covers with your tissues nearby and let your inner sap run wild.\n  <em>\n   --Nancy R.E. O''Brien\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sure to wring yet more tears from willing readers'' eyes, the latest novel by the bestselling Sparks is a forced coming-of-age story concerning a pair of unlikely young lovers. In a corny flashback device that mimics The Notebook, 57-year-old Landon Carter spirits himself back to his fateful senior year in high school in Beaufort, N.C., when he was an archetypal troublemaking teenager of the 1950s, changed forever by an unexpected first love. Jamie Sullivan, the Bible-toting minister''s daughter, with her drab brown sweaters, spinster hairstyle and sincere, beatific advice, is the obvious target of high school ridicule. Despite conspiring in Jamie''s derision, class president Landon, desperate for a date for the homecoming dance, finds himself asking Jamie. Afterwards, Jamie asks him to participate with her in the metaphor-laden school Christmas play (Jamie plays the angel). Landon endures the taunting of his friends and forms an uneasy friendship with Jamie, which is carefully supervised by her father. The teens visit needy orphans, give Oscar-worthy performances in the school play and share dreams watching the sunset. Landon realizes he''s in love with Jamie, but, of course, she is hiding a devastating secret that could wring her from Landon''s arms forever. Now tortured by his knowledge of what will be her terrible fate, he must make the ultimate decision that catapults him into adulthood. Readers may be frustrated with the invariable formula that Sparks seems to regurgitate with regularity. Although the narrator declares, "My story can''t be summed up in two or three sentences; it can''t be packaged into something neat and simple that people would immediately understand," this is the author''s most simple, formulaic, and blatantly melodramatic package to date. Agent, Theresa Park, Sanford Greenburger Associates. Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild main selections; 20-city author tour; movie rights optioned by Denise DiNovi at Warner Bros.. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1056'),
(2518, 'Walking Shadow', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In fine form here, Parker''s sardonic Boston PI Spenser, last seen in Paper Dolls , encounters danger, venality and plenty of comic material in this brisk tale spanning the worlds of experimental theater and illegal immigration. While he''d rather be at work renovating the old farmhouse that he and his lover, psychiatrist Susan, have bought in nearby Concord, Spenser agrees to find out who is following the Artistic Director of the Port City Theater Company, on whose board of directors Susan sits. The detective is utterly bored by a performance of the latest production in Port City, "a town 50% Portuguese and 50% Chinese"--until one of the actors is fatally shot from the audience. The shooter gets away, leaving Spenser with murder to probe as well. After talking to one of the board members, Spenser is warned out of Port City by the woman''s husband, an important member of a Boston tong. The threat prompts a call to his old pals Hawk and Vinnie, who, he notes, blend in to the theatrical scene "like two coyotes at a poultry festival." As Spenser discovers that the influx of Chinese illegals into the area is being overlooked by the Port City Chief of Police, an actress in the company reports that she too is being followed. Another murder and a kidnapping occur before the mysteries are resolved and Spenser can get back to his sledgehammer. Although the detective lags in reaching a conclusion readers may have sussed out earlier, the expected pleasures of an adroit Spenser adventure are here in full supply. BOMC selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest from the best-selling author of Paper Doll (Putnam, 1993) is a whodunit starring the redoubtable Spenser. According to the publicist, Parker breaks new ground with a truly ambitious plot.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1125'),
(2519, 'War', 'Sebastian Junger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger''s almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.They were known as "The Rock." For one year, in 2007-2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the storied 2nd battalion of the U.S. Army, as they fought their way through a remote valley in Eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he can count, men he knew were killed or wounded, and he himself was almost killed. His relationship with these soldiers grew so close that they considered him part of the platoon, and he enjoyed an access and a candidness that few, if any, journalists ever attain.War is a narrative about combat: the fear of dying, the trauma of killing and the love between platoon-mates who would rather die than let each other down.Gripping, honest, intense, War explores the neurological, psychological and social elements of combat, and the incredible bonds that form between these small groups of men. This is not a book about Afghanistan or the ''War on Terror''; it is a book about the universal truth of all men, in all wars. Junger set out to answer what he thought of as the ''hand grenade question'': why would a man throw himself on a hand grenade to save other men he has probably known for only a few months? The answer elusive but profound, and goes to the heart of what it means not just to be a soldier, but to be human.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger''s almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.They were known as "The Rock." For one year, in 2007-2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the storied 2nd battalion of the U.S. Army, as they fought their way through a remote valley in Eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he can count, men he knew were killed or wounded, and he himself was almost killed. His relationship with these soldiers grew so close that they considered him part of the platoon, and he enjoyed an access and a candidness that few, if any, journalists ever attain.War is a narrative about combat: the fear of dying, the trauma of killing and the love between platoon-mates who would rather die than let each other down.Gripping, honest, intense, War explores the neurological, psychological and social elements of combat, and the incredible bonds that form between these small groups of men. This is not a book about Afghanistan or the ''War on Terror''; it is a book about the universal truth of all men, in all wars. Junger set out to answer what he thought of as the ''hand grenade question'': why would a man throw himself on a hand grenade to save other men he has probably known for only a few months? The answer elusive but profound, and goes to the heart of what it means not just to be a soldier, but to be human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/668'),
(2520, 'The War of the Worlds', 'H. G. Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man''s..."Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth''s comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England''s military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it''s clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1027'),
(2521, 'The Warrior-Prophet', 'R. Scott Bakker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "In The Warrior Prophet, the second volume of The Prince of Nothing trilogy, the thrilling story of the powerful logician-monk Anasurimbor Kellhus and the apocalyptic Holy War is continued, as readers are invited further into the darkly enchanting, horrifying threatening battlescape upon which the war will be decided." As the crusade plunges violently southward, struggling with both the enemy and internecine turmoil, the enigmatic Kellhus finds himself ever closer to the elusive goal of meeting his father, gaining further mastery of the ancient knowledge he will need for the encounter. And amid the brewing apocalypse, his swift-rising career has aroused more than curiosity from his enemies. With each step south, the challenges and perils mount, as the enigmas surrounding Kellhus and his quest blur in and out of focus.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/991'),
(2522, 'The Wasp Factory', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped. I already knew something was going to happen; the Factory told me."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Those lines begin one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels. The narrator, Frank Cauldhame, is a weird teenager who lives on a tiny island connected to mainland Scotland by a bridge. He maintains grisly Sacrifice Poles to serve as his early warning system and deterrent against anyone who might invade his territory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Few novelists have ever burst onto the literary scene with as much controversy as Iain Banks in 1984.\n  <em>\n   The Wasp Factory\n  </em>\n  was reviled by many reviewers on account of its violence and sadism, but applauded by others as a new and\n  <em>\n   Scottish\n  </em>\n  voice--that is, a departure from the English literary tradition. The controversy is a bit puzzling in retrospect, because there is little to object to in this novel, if you''re familiar with genre horror.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Wasp Factory\n  </em>\n  is distinguished by an authentically felt and deftly written first-person style, delicious dark humor, a sense of the surreal, and a serious examination of the psyche of a childhood psychopath. Most readers will find that they sympathize with and even like Frank, despite his three murders (each of which is hilarious in an Edward Gorey fashion). It''s a classic of contemporary horror.\n  <em>\n   --Fiona Webster\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Independent\n  </em>\n  One of the top 100 novels of the century.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  Brilliant...irresistible...compelling.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Mail on Sunday\n  </em>\n  A mighty imagination has arrived on the scene.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Financial Times\n  </em>\n  Macabre, bizarre, and impossible to put down.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Scotsman\n  </em>\n  There''s nothing to force you, having been warned, to read it; nor do I recommend it.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Punch\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Wasp Factory\n  </em>\n  is a first novel not only of tremendous promise, but also of achievement, a minor masterpiece perhaps.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n  (London) Rubbish!\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Times Literary Supplement\n  </em>\n  A literary equivalent of the nastiest brand of juvenile delinquency.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Daily Express\n  </em>\n  Read it if you dare.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1004'),
(2523, 'The Waste Lands', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  King''s third volume on Roland the gunfighter''s search for the Dark Tower offers charming bits of whimsy, some splendidly tense moments and one rip-roaring horror scene. At times, however, it is pretentious and the direction of the sprawling plot uncertain. Roland has two companions on his quest for the tower at the portal of all the worldsp. 53 : Susannah Dean and Eddie Dean, who entered his world from New York City of 1963 and 1987, respectively. When the three track down the den of a 70-foot-tall cyborg bear, they are pointed down a path leading to the Tower. But Roland is slowly going mad, a fact that seems linked to his past experiences with Jake Chambers, a boy who died twicestet ital in the first book of the series. Jake reappears here, displaying great resilience in crossing over from 1977 New York City to join Roland &amp; Co. (As Susannah notes, "This time-travel business is some confusing shit.") They press on, plumbing the depths of a children''s book that tells a profound and ancient tale. Unfortunately, the questers don''t reach the Tower; in fact, they''re caught in a cliff-hanger ending--King says, he''ll write volume four if we want it. Illustrations not seen by PW. 1.5 million first printing; $400,000 ad/promo; BOMC and QPB selections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- The third installment in the offbeat fantasy saga involving the enigmatic Roland (the last gunfighter) and his quest for the Dark Tower. While the story (inspired by Robert Browning''s narrative poem ``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'''') is entertaining, what really makes it outstanding are King''s unique, multifaceted characters. This is Stephen King at his best.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/559'),
(2524, 'Watchers', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cross Lassie with E.T., add a touch of The Wolfen and a dash of The Godfather, and you get a sense of some of the ingredients in this supernatural thriller, which should move Koontz ( Strangers a notch closer to Stephen King''s high-rent district. When Travis Cornell, Koontz''s appealing hero, encounters a stray dog while hiking, he quickly realizes that the animal is most unusual and that something terrifying is stalking them both. The encounter with the dog is the beginning of a tightly woven plot involving genetic manipulation that has created two extraordinary animals; one is the dog, named Einstein, the other is a murderous hybrid called "The Outsider." Hunted down by both the government and a professional killer who has learned the secret of the animals, Travis, Einstein and Nora Devon, a lonely woman befriended by man and canine, attempt to escape their pursuers all the while knowing that a confrontation with The Outsider is inevitable. Though the climax packs a little less wallop than it deserves, this is the sort of thoroughly frightening and entertaining tale that has its readers listening for noises in the night. 100,000 first printing; 100,000 ad/promo; Liteary Guild main selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA A book that incorporates elements of both the horror tale and the action thriller, and the result is an intriguing and enjoyable novel. Watchers is a retelling of the Frankenstein theme with a twist: two creatures, quite different from each other, roam the land. Two animals who are unlike any other animals as a result of DNA research escape from a top-secret laboratory. One is divinely inspiring, engendering love and caring. The other is a hellish nightmare that leaves unspeakable slaughter in its wake. The two creatures and a supporting cast of charactersa government agent, a hired killer, a decent recluse, and a lonely womanare inevitably brought together in a climactic and satisfying showdown. While the plot developments occasionally seem a bit forcedthis is one book that could actually have profited by some extra lengththe shortcomings are minor. Watchers is a satisfying example of good storytelling. Karl Penny, Houston Public Library\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/544'),
(2525, 'Water for Elephants', 'Sara Gruen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of\n <em>\n  Water for Elephants\n </em>\n , he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn''t always like this, however, because Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he was twenty-one. It wasn''t a romantic, carefree decision, to be sure. His parents were killed in an auto accident one week before he was to sit for his veterinary medicine exams at Cornell. He buried his parents, learned that they left him nothing because they had mortgaged everything to pay his tuition, returned to school, went to the exams, and didn''t write a single word. He walked out without completing the test and wound up on a circus train. The circus he joins, in Depression-era America, is second-rate at best. With Ringling Brothers as the standard, Benzini Brothers is far down the scale and pale by comparison.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Water for Elephants\n </em>\n is the story of Jacob''s life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed or fed rotten food, and abused. Jacob, once it becomes known that he has veterinary skills, is put in charge of the "menagerie" and all its ills. Uncle Al, the circus impresario, is a self-serving, venal creep who slaps people around because he can. August, the animal trainer, is a certified paranoid schizophrenic whose occasional flights into madness and brutality often have Jacob as their object. Jacob is the only person in the book who has a handle on a moral compass and as his reward he spends most of the novel beaten, broken, concussed, bleeding, swollen and hungover. He is the self-appointed Protector of the Downtrodden, and... he falls in love with Marlena, crazy August''s wife. Not his best idea.\n</p>\n<p>\n The most interesting aspect of the book is all the circus lore that Gruen has so carefully researched. She has all the right vocabulary: grifters, roustabouts, workers, cooch tent, rubes, First of May, what the band plays when there''s trouble, Jamaican ginger paralysis, life on a circus train, set-up and take-down, being run out of town by the "revenooers" or the cops, and losing all your hooch. There is one glorious passage about Marlena and Rosie, the bull elephant, that truly evokes the magic a circus can create. It is easy to see Marlena''s and Rosie''s pink sequins under the Big Top and to imagine their perfect choreography as they perform unbelievable stunts. The crowd loves it--and so will the reader. The ending is absolutely ludicrous and really quite lovely.\n <em>\n  --Valerie Ryan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With its spotlight on elephants, Gruen''s romantic page-turner hinges on the human-animal bonds that drove her debut and its sequel (\n <em>\n  Riding Lessons\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Flying Changes\n </em>\n )â€”but without the mass appeal that horses hold. The novel, told in flashback by nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski, recounts the wild and wonderful period he spent with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a traveling circus he joined during the Great Depression. When 23-year-old Jankowski learns that his parents have been killed in a car crash, leaving him penniless, he drops out of Cornell veterinary school and parlays his expertise with animals into a job with the circus, where he cares for a menagerie of exotic creatures[...] He also falls in love with Marlena, one of the show''s star performersâ€”a romance complicated by Marlena''s husband, the unbalanced, sadistic circus boss who beats both his wife and the animals Jankowski cares for. Despite her often clichÃ©d prose and the predictability of the story''s ending, Gruen skillfully humanizes the midgets, drunks, rubes and freaks who populate her book.\n <em>\n  (May 26)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1247'),
(2526, 'Watermelon', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Claire Webster, heroine of this breezy Irish bestseller, thinks hubby James is the man of her dreams until he ditches her for an older woman (Claire herself is 29) two hours after their daughter is born. Mother and child repair to Dublin, where there''s hope of solace and sustenance in the bosom of an eccentric family, while Claire downsizes from watermelon to wisp and struggles over the hurdles of blues and booze. When she attracts a handsome young lover and considers dumping the suddenly repentant James, it''s clear a happy ending''s in sight. Or is it? There are a few surprises and plenty of sassy girltalk in this slick if sometimes silly take on what it''s like to be female. Much of the hilarity generated by Claire''s funky family?airhead sisters who squabble over clothes and men, a mother who''d rather watch soap operas than cook, a father perpetually bewildered by the women in his life?wears thin, but readers will identify with Claire''s flaws, applaud her irreverent wit and rejoice at her triumphant recovery. Like the fruit it''s named for, this overlong novel is short on nutrition but long on refreshment.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Claire Webster''s got it all-a perfect marriage to a handsome husband who provides well and now a darling baby girl-until the morning after she gives birth, when her husband, James, informs her that he''s having an affair with their downstairs neighbor and deserts her and his child. Claire flies back to Dublin and the dubious security of her wacky family to sort out her life. A too-handsome hunk of younger man named Adam-whose motives in pursuing her must be suspect, mustn''t they?-enlivens this story of survival in the face of crushing blows to one''s self-esteem. Hilarious interior monolog, with Claire''s refereeing the warring segments of her obstreperous psyche, puts this first novel on the Gen-X "must-read" list. It will appeal to mainstream, women''s fiction, and romance fans, too. Highly recommended.?Jo Manning, Univ. of Miami Lib., Coral Gables, FL\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1214'),
(2527, 'Watership Down', 'Richard Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over thirty years, Richard Adams''s\n <em>\n  Watership Down\n </em>\n is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England''s Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of brothers, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(2528, 'The Way of Kings', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordanâ€™s Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every bit as ambitious and immersive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called\n  <em>\n   The Way of Kings\n  </em>\n  . Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinarâ€™s niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallanâ€™s motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building,\n  <em>\n   The Way of Kings\n  </em>\n  is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Speak again the ancient oaths,\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Life before death.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Strength before weakness.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Journey before Destination.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  and return to men the Shards they once bore.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Knights Radiant must stand again.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/208'),
(2529, 'The Way of Shadows', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "What a terrific story! I was mesmerized from start to finish. Unforgettable characters, a plot that kept me guessing, non-stop action and the kind of in-depth storytelling that makes me admire a writer''s work." --- Terry Brooks\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kylar is a wonderful character - sympathetic and despicable, cowardly and courageous, honorable and unscrupulous...a breathtaking debut!" --- Dave Duncan\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city''s most accomplished artist.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he''s grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins'' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/113'),
(2530, 'The Way to Dusty Death', 'Alistair Maclean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Johnny Harlow seems to have it all: he''s good looking, desired by women, and envied by men; he''s also the reigning Formula One world champion andÂ the poster boy for the world''s most thrilling and richly financed sport. But after a wreck kills his best friend and maims his girlfriend, he takes a hard turn and is driven to drink.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Johnny realizes something is rotten in his beloved sport: too many things are going wrong in too many races. And when he is the apparent cause of the latest accident, he decides the time has come to sort things out. But what he begins to uncover has nothing to do with cars...and there are people will do anything to prevent him from discovering the truth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1440'),
(2531, 'We the Living', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A colossal love story with a massive philosophical framework. --Miami News\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A philosophical novel from Russian-born Ayn Rand, who was known for her belief in the concept of "enlightened self-interest." It portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1119'),
(2532, 'The Wedding', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The wistful, reflective tone of Sparks''s newest love story shines through in Wopat''s competent telling, but his characterizations, particularly of the book''s Southern-bred females, are hampered by the deep tenor of his voice and his accent-less approach. However, his portrayal of methodical attorney Wilson Lewis is spot on. Realizing for the first time that his "innocent neglect" has led his relationship with his wife of 30 years to become stale, Wilson decides to court her. Unfortunately, he doesn''t know how or where to start. Enter Noah Calhoun, Wilson''s sage-like father-in-law, whose picture-perfect romance is depicted in Sparks''s 1996 debut, The Notebook. Wilson now lives in a home for the elderly and spends his days watching over a swan that he believes holds his late wife''s spirit. With Noah''s patient guidance, and with the wedding of Wilson''s daughter fast approaching, Wilson learns how to be the husband his wife deserves. Snippets of music announce the beginning and end of each chapter and complement particularly emotional moments. While this sweetly sentimental audio may be too subdued for a long, tiring drive, it will satisfy listeners looking for a calming nighttime diversion.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sparks returns to characters from\n  <em>\n   The Notebook\n  </em>\n  (1996) and writes about Allie and Noah Calhoun''s oldest daughter, Jane, and her husband, Wilson. As their thirtieth anniversary approaches, Wilson realizes that he loves Jane now more than ever and worries that his neglect (he completely forgot their twenty-ninth anniversary) may have finally driven her away. Wilson plans on showing Jane how much he loves her, but then their oldest daughter, Anna, announces that she and her boyfriend are getting married and asks if they can plan a small utilitarian wedding on her parents'' anniversary. Jane agrees to share the date and convinces Anna to have a formal wedding; something that Jane missed. Jane is surprised by Wilson''s willingness to work and ability to come up with truly miraculous arrangements. This sort of involvement is out of character for Wilson, a workaholic estate attorney in New Bern, North Carolina, but he really is determined to change, and Sparks is at his romantic best in this tender love story about a flawed hero trying to right his wrongs.\n  <em>\n   Patty Engelmann\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1948'),
(2533, 'The Wee Free Men', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching needs magic--fast! Her sticky little brother Wentworth has been spirited away by the evil Queen of faerie, and itâ€™s up to her to get him back safely. Having already decided to grow up to be a witch, now all Tiffany has to do is find her power. But she quickly learns that itâ€™s not all black cats and broomsticks. According to her witchy mentor Miss Tick, "Witches donâ€™t use magic unless they really have to...We do other things. A witch pays attention to everything thatâ€™s going on...A witch uses her head...A witch always has a piece of string!" Luckily, besides her trusty string, Tiffanyâ€™s also got the Nac Mac Feegles, or the Wee Free Men on her side. Small, blue, and heavily tattooed, the Feegles love nothing more than a good fight except maybe a drop of strong drink! Tiffany, heavily armed with an iron skillet, the feisty Feegles, and a talking toad on loan from Miss Tick, is a formidable adversary. But the Queen has a few tricks of her own, most of them deadly. Tiffany and the Feegles might get more than they bargained for on the flip side of Faerie! Prolific fantasy author Terry Pratchett has served up another delicious helping of his famed Discworld fare. The not-quite-teen set will delight in the Feeglesâ€™ spicy, irreverent dialogue and Tiffanyâ€™s salty determination. Novices to Pratchettâ€™s prose will find much to like here, and quickly go back to devour the rest of his Discworld offerings. Scrumptiously recommended. (Ages 10 to 14)\n <em>\n  --Jennifer Hubert\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-7-Tiffany, an extremely competent nine-year-old, takes care of her irritating brother, makes good cheese on her father''s farm, and knows how to keep secrets. When monsters from Fairyland invade her world and her brother disappears, Tiffany, armed only with her courage, clear-sightedness, a manual of sheep diseases, and an iron frying pan, goes off to find him. Her search leads her to a showdown with the Fairy Queen. It is clear from the beginning that Tiffany is a witch, and a mighty powerful one. The book is full of witty dialogue and a wacky cast of characters, including a toad (formerly a lawyer). Much of the humor is supplied by the alcohol-swilling, sheep-stealing pictsies, the Wee Free Men of the title, who are six-inches high and speak in a broad Scottish brogue. (The fact that readers will not understand some of the dialect won''t matter, as Tiffany doesn''t understand either, and it is all part of the joke.) These terrors of the fairy world are Tiffany''s allies, and she becomes their temporary leader as they help her search for the Fairy Queen. Once the story moves into Fairyland it becomes more complex, with different levels of dream states (or, rather, nightmares) and reality interweaving. Tiffany''s witchcraft eschews the flamboyant tricks of wizards; it is quiet, inconspicuous magic, grounded in the earth and tempered with compassion, wisdom, and justice for common folk. Not as outrageous and perhaps not as inventive as The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (HarperCollins, 2001), The Wee Free Men has a deeper, more human interest and is likely to have wider appeal. All in all, this is a funny and thought-provoking fantasy, with powerfully visual scenes and characters that remain with readers. A glorious read.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Sue Giffard, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York City\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/371'),
(2534, 'The Well of Ascension', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sanderson''s entertaining second Mistborn novel begins after most fantasy series end, when the team of brave and cunning heroes find that holding on to power is even harder than overthrowing the previous tyrant. Elend Venture, the scholarly new Lord Ruler of Luthadel, clings to power while Luthadel''s aristocrats and merchants grumble and two enemy armiesâ€”one led by Elend''s father, Lord Straffâ€”camp outside the city gates. Fortunately, Elend can rely on help from his lover and unofficial court assassin, the young allomancer Vin, but her magical metal-using ability makes her a target. An orphan of decidedly low origins, Vin is also having trouble adapting to her position as royal consort, especially since the underclass skaa, newly freed by Elend, look to her as their protector. Meanwhile, the ancient evil known as the Deepness is rising once again. This entertaining read will especially please those who always wanted to know what happened after the good guys won.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the Mistborn trilogy''s middle book, the great revolution''s leader is dead, his apprentice Vin is overwhelmed by his legacy, and the idealistic new ruler is beset by those who want power themselves. Everyone wants to find the overthrown despot''s Atium supplies, and armies besiege Luthadel. On patrol one night, Vin sees a figure apparently made of mist. The history of Kwaan, who helped the despot to power, emerges, portending a terrible power. The Well of Ascension may furnish resolutions to all these situations, but someone must find it. Vin''s struggles with love and power inject the human element into Sanderson''s engaging epic. Schroeder, Regina\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/200'),
(2535, 'A Werewolf Among Us', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1482'),
(2536, 'What a Piece of Work Is Man', 'Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1845'),
(2537, 'What Is the What', 'Dave Eggers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Valentino Achak Deng, real-life hero of this engrossing epic, was a refugee from the Sudanese civil war-the bloodbath before the current Darfur bloodbath-of the 1980s and 90s. In this fictionalized memoir, Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) makes him an icon of globalization. Separated from his family when Arab militia destroy his village, Valentino joins thousands of other "Lost Boys," beset by starvation, thirst and man-eating lions on their march to squalid refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, where Valentino pieces together a new life. He eventually reaches America, but finds his quest for safety, community and fulfillment in many ways even more difficult there than in the camps: he recalls, for instance, being robbed, beaten and held captive in his Atlanta apartment. Eggers''s limpid prose gives Valentino an unaffected, compelling voice and makes his narrative by turns harrowing, funny, bleak and lyrical. The result is a horrific account of the Sudanese tragedy, but also an emblematic saga of modernity-of the search for home and self in a world of unending upheaval.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dave Eggers is best known for\n <em>\n  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius\n </em>\n (2000), and here he shows that he is as adroit at telling another person''s biography as he is narrating his own. Over three years, he conducted 100 hours of interviews with Deng and visited Sudan with him in "synergistic collaboration" (\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n ). Labeled as a novel, this work nonetheless has a historical basis and lends a personal face to the brutality of civil war, squalor, and the struggle for survival. A few critics questioned where Deng''s story ended and Eggers''s literary license began, and the book as a whole could have been better edited. While visceral and heartrending, Deng''s and Eggers''s joint story is ultimately a powerful tale of hope. When both\n <em>\n  People\n </em>\n and the ever-glum Michiko Kakutani of the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n rave, how can one resist?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/869'),
(2538, 'The Wheel of Darkness', 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she''s missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. As a favor, Pendergast agrees to track and recover the relic. A twisting trail of bloodshed leads Pendergast and Constance to the maiden voyage of the\n <strong>\n  Britannia\n </strong>\n , the world''s largest and most luxurious ocean linerÂ—-and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/211'),
(2539, 'When Darkness Falls', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  From the moment Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck is called upon to defend a new client, a homeless man jailed for threatening to jump off a bridge, it''s obvious something is amiss. For one thing, the man called Falcon manages to come up with the $10,000 bail . . . in cash. Then the body of a brutally murdered woman is found in the trunk of the abandoned car he''s living in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But it isn''t until a panicked Falcon takes a group of innocent people hostage, including Jack''s best friend, and barricades himself and his prisoners in a motel room that Swyteck realizes how much is truly at stake. For Falcon has a bigger agenda than suicide, and Jack Swyteck must get to the root of a dark history and bitter secrets before Falcon decides he has nothing to lose by killing them all.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A tense hostage crisis in Miami propels the action in bestseller Grippando''s solid sixth thriller to feature criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck (after\n  <em>\n   Got the Look\n  </em>\n  ). Jack represents an armed homeless man known as Falcon, who takes among his hostages in a seedy motel Jack''s best friend, Theo Knight, an innocent man the lawyer once pulled off death row at the last minute. Vincent Paulo, the recently blinded negotiator, has been dating the one person Falcon insists on talking with, police officer Alicia Mendoza, who also happens to be the mayor''s daughter. With strands reaching back to Argentina''s dirty war, the plot relies heavily on coincidence, but engaging characters, notably the blind Vincent ("People either pity me to death and think that I can''t possibly manage a minute of my life without a sighted person holding my hand, or they think I''ve been magically transformed into some kind of blind mystic with extrasensory powers"), will help readers overlook the implausibilities.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck thinks his latest case is weird, he ain''t seen nothin'' yet. His client, a homeless man who calls himself Falcon, posts $10,000 bail in cash. That has Jack scratching his head, but when a body is found in the trunk of the abandoned car that Falcon calls home, Jack is prepared to go to the mat to defend his client--until, that is, Falcon kidnaps Jack''s best friend, and Jack is propelled into an investigation that pushes his abilities to the limit. Although previous Swyteck novels have not been as compelling as most of Grippando''s stand-alone thrillers, the series is solid and reliable. This one, which delves into the mystery of the Disappeared, the 30,000-plus Argentineans who (because of their opposition to the military regime) vanished between 1975 and 1983, is deeper than its predecessors. And that''s good, because Grippando is at his best when he''s telling a story that''s more than a mere whodunit. The novel feels darker, more dramatic, than the previous Swyteck adventures, and it''s by far the best in the series.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2476');
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(2540, 'When Joy Came to Stay', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Maggie Stovall is trapped inside a person sheâ€™s spent years carefully crafting. Now the truth about who she isâ€”and what sheâ€™s doneâ€”is bursting to the surface and sending Maggie into a spiral of despair. Will she walk away from everything, or can Maggie allow God to take her to a place of ultimate honestyâ€”before itâ€™s too late?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Maggie Stovall.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the golden people. She has it all together. At least on the\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  surfaceâ€¦\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ben Stovall.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Godly husband. Successful attorney. Has no idea of the darkness about\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  to overtake his lifeâ€¦\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amanda Joy.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Child of society. Abused, broken, thrown away. But her trust in God\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  is still aliveâ€¦\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   When Joy Came to Stay\n  </em>\n  is the heart-wrenching story of one womanâ€™s\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  descent into the shadows of depression, her husbandâ€™s search for\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  understanding, and a precious childâ€™s unwavering faith.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kingsburyâ€™s poignant tale of a lost and broken family and how they\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  experience Godâ€™s miraculous healing is a sure guarantee to bring hope\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  and joy to her readers."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Melody Carlson\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  bestselling author, Diary of a Teenage Girl series\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A thought-provoking account of the battle of depression in a\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  believerâ€™s life. It leaves no doubt that God is loving, merciful, and\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  faithful."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Nancy Moser\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  author, The Mustard Seed series\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Story Behind the Book\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEach of my novels is a piece of my heart.\n  <em>\n   Where Yesterday Lives\n  </em>\n  was my first-ever novel, and as such it is somewhat autobiographical. The childhood story of Ellen Barrett, her love for her parents and siblings, is my storyâ€”though her current story and struggles are fictional.\n  <em>\n   On Every Side\n  </em>\n  sheds light on the struggle for religious freedom in todayâ€™s climate; something I am passionate about. Finally,\n  <em>\n   When Joy Came to Stay\n  </em>\n  is the story of one womanâ€™s battle against depression and the secrets of her past.â€ â€”Karen Kingsbury\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Karen Kingsbury\n  </strong>\n  is one of America â€™s favorite inspirational storytellers, best known for her Life-Changing Fictionâ„¢. She is the author of more than thirty emotionally gripping novels, many of which have been adapted for film and television. Previously a staff writer for the\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  and a People magazine contributor, Karen lives with her husband and six children in the Pacific Northwest.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1963'),
(2541, 'When the Wind Blows', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Taking a break from his phenomenally successful Alex Cross series, James Patterson''s\n <em>\n  When the Wind Blows\n </em>\n is as much child''s fantasy as it is an adult nightmare. The novel moves away from the gritty Washington, D.C., setting of the Cross books and follows the daily life of Frannie O''Neill, a Colorado veterinarian. After the mysterious death of her husband several years before, Frannie retreated to an isolated life in her Colorado practice. But a series of bizarre events suddenly disrupts her lonely routine. On a personal level, she is shaken by her new tenant--Kit Harrison. Kit''s too handsome and too friendly and he''s a hunter (or so Frannie thinks). He''s also recovering from a devastating personal tragedy, and, as Frannie eventually learns, he''s really an FBI agent using his vacation to follow a crucial lead. But Kit isn''t the one that''s got Frannie concerned. As she says after stopping her Suburban one night to check out something on the side of the road: "What I saw was way beyond my abilities to imagine, beyond my comprehension, my system of belief, and maybe beyond my ability to communicate right now. The little girl''s arms were folded back in a peculiar way, but when she lifted them--feathers fanned out." The girl is Max, and the mystery of her wings leads Frannie and Kit into a massive conspiracy involving secret genetic research and the scientific manipulation of the human species.\n</p>\n<p>\n Patterson, a former advertising executive who coined such catchy phrases as "Nupe it!," knows how to entertain. His chapters are always short (some only two pages), and his writing is clear and unobtrusive; the reading experience is brisk--akin to watching a summer blockbuster. The book is not as dark or as weighty as the tales of detective-psychologist Alex Cross, but while some fans may be disappointed by Patterson''s migration from pure suspense fiction, his first-person narrator Frannie, has a quirky realism that keeps this flight of fancy mostly on stable ground.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Still mourning her dead husband, veterinarian Frannie O''Neill makes an awful discovery near her hospital. What''s more, an FBI agent is tapping at her door.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/281'),
(2542, 'When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?', 'George Carlin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. There''s no better way to enjoy one of Carlin''s books than to hear him read it himself. With his gravelly voice, Carlin sounds like a foul-mouthed, grumpy grandfather as he riffs on everything from politics and the improper use of language to plane-boarding etiquette and the differences between the sexes. He''s alternately crude ("Every evening at seven-thirty, citizens and consumers get a chance to sound off and air their complaints. Don''t miss\n  <em>\n   Blow It Out Your Ass!\n  </em>\n  ...") and outrageously funny (such as when he compares people of faith to UFO believers), and he''s always irreverent ("A children''s museum sounds like a good idea, but I would imagine it''s not very easy to breathe inside the little glass cases"). The one topic that gets under his skin is euphemisms and, related to that, political correctness: "I can remember when I was young that poor people lived in slums. Not anymore. These days, the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. It''s so much nicer for them." Needless to say, Carlin has his comic timing down pat. His energetic reading is punctuated by conversational bits ("Hah? Whaddya think? Maybe?") and enhanced by his deft vocal variation (such as when he''s narrating the "Continuing Story of Mary &amp; Joseph"), making listeners will feel as if they''ve got a front-row seat at one of his comedy shows.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest book by longtime stand-up comic Carlin will undoubtedly join his previous "acts" in book form on the best-seller lists, so expect demand. Here are more of his irreverent, hilarious takes on contemporary social and political issues; as anyone who is familiar with his routines and books knows, Carlin doesn''t let current notions of what is politically correct stand in the way of his taking a jab. So this series of short observations, one flung at the reader right after another, encompasses the Ten Commandments ("a padded list"), an anti-plastic surgery stance ("Ugliness should be a permanent condition"), body maintenance ("Every time you clip [a toenail], the little clipped part flies several feet away. You notice that?"), and euphemistic language (the first instance was being instructed to call his aunt''s mole a "beauty mark"). The book is not meant to be read straight through but, rather, dipped into here and there. The language is explicit; therefore, this is not recommended for readers advocating propriety in speech on every occasion.\n  <em>\n   Brad Hooper\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/947'),
(2543, 'When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism', 'Bill Maher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Maher, host of the now-defunct TV debate show Politically Incorrect (which many believe was canceled in response to Maher''s riff on the word "cowardly" after the September 11 attacks), brings his latest series of irreverent rants to audio. As the title (inspired by a WWII poster) indicates, this time his target is our nation''s role in the war on terrorism. Though he initially sounds a bit restrained, Maher soon warms to his role as reader and gives the spirited, slick and sarcastic delivery for which he''s so well known. His opinions on airport security, a spoiled citizenry, empty demonstrations of patriotism and Americans'' love affair with cars (which creates a dependence on oil), may dilute some political fine points, but they contain the kind of factoids ("If we increased fuel efficiency by 2.7 miles per gallon, it would eliminate our need for oil from the Persian Gulf") and commonsense logic that often get the so-called "average Joe" riled up. Fans will delight in the Maher-isms that abound here (e.g., many Muslims think of bin Laden as "Michael Jordan, Bill Gates and Batman all rolled into one"). And throughout, Maher keeps listeners in-the-now with qualifiers like "at the time this audio was recorded," befitting his reputation as an outspoken observer of current events. Several postcard reproductions of WWII-style posters created for the book are included in the packaging.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-At first glance, the format of this volume might fool readers into thinking that they are looking at a comedic picture book. The cover, a take-off on a World War II U.S. propaganda poster, shows Maher driving along with a ghostly Osama bin Laden. The book tells readers that to waste gasoline (read oil) by driving alone in an SUV is to help the enemy. The author feels that not enough has been done to prevent further catastrophic terrorist attacks and contends that the government involved the public during World War II by making the best use of propaganda. He argues that Americans have been led to believe that the current war can best be fought if we go about business as usual, pay less in taxes, and continue to buy consumer goods, even if they tie us to regimes in the Middle East known to be financing terror. This book is filled with controversial and perhaps politically incorrect statements, and each essay is likely to provoke a good argument; posters designed for this title illustrate the author''s thesis. For example, one depicts SUVs ("Selfish Use Vehicles") adorned with American flags and shows his impatience with people who, after September 11, turned their vehicles into "traveling country fairs." Teens should be taken with this opportunity to validate their opinions or to reevaluate their life choices. The sexually explicit and irreverent language will be familiar to most high school students.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Don Guerriero, Fairfax County Public Library System, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/454'),
(2544, 'Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman', 'Jon Krakauer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n The bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Into the Wild\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Into Thin Air\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Under the Banner of Heaven\n </em>\n delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young manâ€™s haunting journey.\n <br />\n <em>\n  <br />\n </em>\n Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillmanâ€™s own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillmanâ€™s wife, other family members, and the American public for five weeks following his death. During this time, President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillmanâ€™s name to promote his administrationâ€™s foreign policy. Long after Tillmanâ€™s nationally televised memorial service, the Army grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had â€œprobablyâ€ been killed by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the details of his death and who was responsible.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Where Men Win Glory\n </em>\n , Jon Krakauer draws on Tillmanâ€™s journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account\n <em>\n </em>\n of the events and actions that led to his death. Before he enlisted in the army, Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an undersized, overachieving Arizona Cardinals safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding. With his shoulder-length hair, outspoken views, and boundless intellectual curiosity, Tillman was considered a maverick. America was fascinated when he traded the bright lights and riches of the NFL for boot camp and a buzz cut. Sent first to Iraqâ€”a war he would openly declare was â€œillegal as hellâ€ â€”and eventually to Afghanistan, Tillman was driven by complicated, emotionally charged, sometimes contradictory notions of duty, honor, justice, patriotism, and masculine pride, and he was determined to serve his entire three-year commitment. But on April 22, 2004, his life would end in a barrage of bullets fired by his fellow soldiers.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Krakauer chronicles Tillmanâ€™s riveting, tragic odyssey in engrossing detail highlighting his remarkable character and personality while closely examining the murky, heartbreaking circumstances of his death. Infused with the power and authenticity readers have come to expect from Krakauerâ€™s storytelling,\n <em>\n  Where Men Win Glory\n </em>\n exposes shattering truths about men and war.Â \n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Jon Krakauer in Afghanistan\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Click on thumbnails for larger images\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Krakauer and First Lieutenant Eric Hayes on a foot patrol along the Afghanistan Pakistan border.\n <em>\n  <br />\n  (Photo Â© Dennis Knowles)\n </em>\n Krakauer doing Humvee maintenance, 2007.\n <em>\n  <br />\n  (Photo Â© Eric Hayesy)\n </em>\n Observation Post, Forward Operating Base Tillman\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. There may be no better example of the tragic aftermath of 9/11 than the story of pro-football-player-turned-Army Ranger Pat Tillman, whose death in the wilds of Afghanistan in 2004 created a scandal of government cover-up. In this masterful work, bestselling adventure writer Jon Krakauer (\n <em>\n  Into the Wild\n </em>\n ) renders an intimate portrait of Tillman and brilliantly captures the sadness, madness and heroism of the post-9/11 world. After the attacks, Tillman, a rising football star, eschewed a $3.6 million NFL deal with the Arizona Cardinals to join the military with his brother. From the outset, Pat was elevated by politicians and pundits as a symbol of Americaâ€™s resolve, a role he detested and shunned, believing his football career afforded him no special status. After a grueling three-year training with the elite Army Rangers, however, instead of fighting terrorists, he found himself first deployed to Iraq--a war he called "an imperial whim." Tillman was later redeployed to Afghanistan, where he was killed in an almost unfathomable incident of friendly fire, which the Army obfuscated for weeks while the government hailed Tillman as a hero. Drawing on interviews with family, fellow soldiers and correspondence, Krakauerâ€™s page-turning account captures every detail--Tillmanâ€™s extraordinary character, including the â€œtragic virtuesâ€ that led him to give up a comfortable life and athletic stardom for the army; the harshness of military training and life; the rugged terrain of remote Afghanistan--and, of course, the ravages of war. Most critically, Krakauer, by telling Tillman''s personal story and blowing apart the "cynical cover-up" that followed his killing, Krakauer lays bare the best--and worst--of America''s War on Terror.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/554'),
(2545, 'Where Yesterday Lives', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  At thirty-one, Ellen Barrett has already won a Pulitzer prize. Sadly, though, her skill as a journalist far surpasses her ability to sort out her troubled past. When she returns to picturesque Petoskey, Michigan, for her beloved fatherâ€™s funeral, itâ€™s a traumatic emotional and spiritual journey for Ellenâ€”a rediscovery of what is truly important and eternal.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Will facing her past tear\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   Ellen apartâ€”or teach her what\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   is truly important in her life?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ellen Barrett, thirty-one, is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist with an uncertain marriage, a forgotten faith, and haunting memories of her picturesque hometown and the love she left behind. The eldest of five siblings, Ellen longs for the time, long ago, when they were happyâ€”when they were a family.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then tragedy strikes. Now Ellenâ€™s beloved father is dead, and she must leave Miami and return to her childhood home on the shores of Little Traverse Bay in Petoskey, Michigan.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  As she returns to a world that was, an avalanche of memories is unleashed. And so Ellenâ€™s quest beginsâ€”a quest to make peace with the people who still live there, with the losses and changes that time has wrought, and with the future God has set before her.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Story Behind the Book\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEach of my novels is a piece of my heart.\n  <em>\n   Where Yesterday Lives\n  </em>\n  was my first-ever novel, and as such it is somewhat autobiographical. The childhood story of Ellen Barrett, her love for her parents and siblings, is my storyâ€”though her current story and struggles are fictional.\n  <em>\n   On Every Side\n  </em>\n  sheds light on the struggle for religious freedom in todayâ€™s climate; something I am passionate about. Finally,\n  <em>\n   When Joy Came to Stay\n  </em>\n  is the story of one womanâ€™s battle against depression and the secrets of her past.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Karen Kingsbury\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Karen Kingsbury\n  </strong>\n  is one of America â€™s favorite inspirational storytellers, best known for her Life-Changing Fictionâ„¢. She is the author of more than thirty emotionally gripping novels, many of which have been adapted for film and television. Previously a staff writer for the\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  and a People magazine contributor, Karen lives with her husband and six children in the Pacific Northwest.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2427'),
(2546, 'A Whisper in the Dark', 'Louisa May Alcott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  This collection represents the best of Alcott''s adult oeuvre, starting with\n  <em>\n   A Modern Mephistopheles\n  </em>\n  , a dark Faustian tale inspired by\n  <em>\n   A Long Fatal Love Chase\n  </em>\n  . The stories in this volume display dramatic intensity and thrilling, suspenseful plots that show Alcott to be a complex and passionate writer. Readers will discover within this maelstrom of murder, deceit, obsessive desire, treachery, duplicity, and betrayal that love and honor can still conquer all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book takes its title from the tale "A Whisper in the Dark," arguably Alcott''s high-gothic masterpiece, a story of imperiled innocence. Also featured are: "The Abbot''s Ghost," one of Alcott''s few thrillers that employs the supernatural; "Perilous Play," a sensationalist story in which she suggests that with the appropriate stimulation--in this case hashish--even the innocent reveal a dark side; and V.V.; or\n  <em>\n   Plots and Counterplots\n  </em>\n  , fraught with passion and jealousy that introduces the mysterious Virginie Varens, the darkest heroine in all of her work.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1712'),
(2547, 'White Jazz: A Novel', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Blacker than noir, this latest novel from the author of L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia is set in 1958 and features a dirty LAPD detective with a breathtaking mastery of corruption. Dave Klein, a gangland heavy, USC law grad and police lieutenant, can thread a legal loophole as easily as he slips on brass knuckles. Assigned by the police commissioner to head an investigation into a narc squad payoff source, Klein smells a setup. To save himself, he traces a genealogy of double-dealing that includes incest, institutionalized bribery and police corruption, all going back decades. Ellroy''s telegraphic style, which reduces masses of plot information to quick-study shorthand, captures the seamy stream-of-consciousness of this tainted cop and carries the reader from initial repulsion to a fascination that lingers long after the story''s last notes have faded away. Ellroy adroitly transfers the manic energy of scat and bebop to this final volume of his tense, lowdown L.A. epic. Moreover, he demonstrates perfect pitch for illegalese, but the hepcat banter never obscures the complex plotting of politics and pre-Miranda rights police work, a combination that here makes most other crime novels seem naive. 40,000 first printing; BOMC alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ellroy adeptly leads the reader into the murky, decadent world of Los Angeles in the late 1950s, as seen through the cynical eyes of David Klein, age 42, the commanding officer of the LAPD''s vice division. Klein makes up his own rules as he goes along, rules that involve money, mayhem, and murder as necessary. Klein isn''t the only one to follow such rules, which apparently are the "norm" for other members of the force as well. But Klein suffers the unthinkable when he becomes the scapegoat so that other officers can protect their own dirty laundry from the probing eyes of federal agents. White Jazz is the last volume of what is known as Ellroy''s "L.A. quartet" of crime novels, which includes his previous L.A. Confidential (Mysterious Pr., 1990), The Big Nowhere (Mysterious Pr., 1988), and The Black Dahlia ( LJ 10/15/87). It''s disturbing but riveting reading that Ellroy fans will especially enjoy.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -Marlene Lee, Drain Branch Lib., Ore.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/775'),
(2548, 'The White Mountains', 'John Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Long ago, the TripodsÂ—huge, three-legged machinesÂ—descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods'' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives. But for a brief time in each person''s lifeÂ—in childhoodÂ—he is not a slave. For Will, his time of freedom is about to endÂ—unless he can escape to the White Mountains, where the possibility of freedom still exists. The Tripods trilogy follows the adventures of Will and his cohorts, as they try to evade the Tripods and maintian their freedom and ultimately do battle against them. The prequel, When the Tripods Came, explains how the Tripods first invaded and gained control of the planet.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1786'),
(2549, 'White Night', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n At the start of Butcher''s superlative ninth Dresden Files novel (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  Proven Guilty\n </em>\n ), hardboiled wizard detective Harry Dresden learns that someone is killing Chicago''s minor wizards. Joined by his police friend, Sergeant Murphy, and his Amazonian apprentice, Molly Carpenter, Harry discovers that his brother, Thomas, is a prime suspect. As a Warden of the White Council, at war with both the Red Court of blood-drinking vampires and the White Court of psychic vampires, Harry has to go into action. And there''s plenty of that, including a battle with ghouls on the lakefront that turns into a gripping flashback of another encounter with ghouls some years before in New Mexico. The large cast features such finely drawn characters as gangster Gentleman Johnnie Marcone and Harry''s first love, Elaine Mallory. This installment is sure to get a lift from\n <em>\n  The Dresden Files\n </em>\n TV series, which debuted on the Sci-Fi Channel in January.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n This time, when Harry Dresden gets a call from Murphy, it''s off the record, because she has been demoted, things in SI are politically shaky, and the police have already declared a suicide. Once Harry gets a good look, though, the suicide is clearly a murder with magical intent. As he investigates, hoping as always to stop the killer before more die, evidence points to the worst possible suspect: his half brother. In another complicated case, there are a lot of very powerful players, and with the war between the White Council and the Red Court vampires, politics are played hard and fast. In tracking down the killer, Harry manages to catch the attention of the White Court vampires again, too. On top of all that, he is still teaching strong-willed, occasionally impulsive teenager Molly Carpenter, and the teacher-student dynamic is difficult for him. And oh, yes, Lasciel, the demon trapped in a coin Harry has secured under his summoning circle, is a lingering presence. As usual in the Dresden Files, of which this is volume 9, Butcher puts the characters in a lot of danger, creates appalling moral choices for them, and spins an excellent noirish detective yarn in a well-crafted, supernaturally charged setting. The supporting cast is again fantastic, and Harry''s wit continues to fly in the face of a peril-fraught plot.\n <em>\n  Regina Schroeder\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
(2550, 'The White Queen', 'Philippa Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  THE COUSINS'' WAR\n  <br />\n  Book One\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Philippa Gregory, "the queen of royal fiction,"\n </em>\n <br />\n presents the first of a new series set amid the\n <br />\n deadly feuds of England known as the\n <br />\n Wars of the Roses.*\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Philippa Gregory brings them to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women, starting with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The White Queen\n </em>\n tells the story of a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition who, catching the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose fate is still unknown. From her uniquely qualified perspective, Philippa Gregory explores this most famous unsolved mystery of English history, informed by impeccable research and framed by her inimitable storytelling skills.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Conversation with Philippa Gregory\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n For readers who love your books set in Tudor England, what would you like them to know about the Plantagenets and the House of York?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I suppose I''d like them to know that here is a family just as fascinating as the Tudors, perhaps more so. Certainly, they are more complicated, more wicked, and more passionate--takers of great risk. I think people have been put off this period because it has been so well studied by military historians that it has been regarded as being just about battles. But there is so much more to it than this! The history of the women of the period has been very neglected because of this emphasis on battles and thus the male leaders.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What appealed to you about using Elizabeth Woodville as the main character in a novel? In what ways do you think modern women can identify with Elizabeth?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The things I discovered about Elizabeth in the first days of my reading about this period told me at once that she would fascinate me, and she has done so. Her background as a descendant of a family who claim to be related to a goddess was enough to have me absolutely enchanted straightaway. It is in the historical record that her mother was widely believed to be a witch, and that charge was leveled at Elizabeth also. This is exciting enough, but it also indicates that people were afraid of Elizabeth''s power, and I am interested in powerful women. I think she will fascinate modern women in the same way that many historical women strike a chord: despite so many changes in the world, women are still trying to find happiness, manage their children, seek advantage, and avoid the persecution of misogynists. As women of any time, we have a lot in common. Despite the amazing advances in the rights of women (and I am so grateful for these myself), the struggle for women''s freedom, independence, and the right to exercise power goes on.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Throughout the novel there are scenes relating the story of the goddess Melusina. Is this based on an actual historical fable, or is it something you created for the novel?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The fable of Melusina is well known, perhaps to everyone, in its retelling as the story of the Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen and then in the Disney movie. As I say at the beginning of the novel, the legend of Melusina goes far back in time, perhaps to the classical legends, perhaps even earlier. The fable was studied by Carl Jung; Melusina has been identified as a form of the material of the world--the dark, watery element that combines with the sun in the alchemist''s â€œchemical wedding.â€ This is a potent myth, indeed, and I retell the story here in a way that speaks to my characters and to me.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n â€œThese are not chivalrous times; these are not the times of knights in the dark forest and beautiful ladies in moonlit fountains and promises of love that will be ballads, sung foreverâ€ (page 22), you write in\n <em>\n  The White Queen\n </em>\n . Is there a tendency to romanticize history, both for writers and readers? How do you make sure to realistically portray all aspects of the time period you''re depicting, even the more difficult ones?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Yes, indeed. These are not chivalrous times. I suspect that no times have ever been chivalrous times. We glamorize the past, and we romanticize it; we even look back at our own personal histories and cast a rosy glow or an enhanced dark shadow over our own childhoods. I keep my writing grounded in realism by reading a great deal before I start writing, by looking at the record with a critical eye, and by being skeptical of grandiose claims. Having said that, I too find it hard to resist the charm of Edward or Elizabeth or the marvelous character Jacquetta or any of the other powerful and interesting people who strove for themselves and for their families in these dangerous times. These are not chivalrous or romantic times, but they are times of danger--and in such circumstances one sees both the worst and best in people.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What challenges, if any, did you face when writing about the battle scenes and the military strategy, which was often a crucial factor in determining who took the throne? Did you visit any of the places where the battles took place?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I became a researcher in military history, which is not my natural home! I visited battle sites and I read long and complicated descriptions of battles and the modern speculations. In the end I found myself absolutely intrigued and fascinated by how the battles were lost and won by small events, even sometimes by luck. The mist at Barnet is a recorded fact, and it was possible for me to weave it into the story of Elizabeth and her mother as well as to see it as a determining factor on the battlefield. The three suns of Towton were both a real phenomenon and a powerful metaphor for the troops. The history of battles is a central part to the story of the Cousins'' War, and part of my task in this novel and the others in the series was to take this history, as I take any other, and make it come alive in the novel.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n The fate of Edward and Richard, the princes in the Tower, is a subject that has confounded historians for centuries. Why did you decide to approach this aspect of the story the way you did? Is there evidence to suggest that Elizabeth sent her son Richard into hiding and a page boy in his place to the Tower?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Part of my response to this story was simply emotional: I have a son of my own, and the thought of Elizabeth losing both her sons was tremendously painful. So I confess a bias to wanting at least one to survive. Then there is the historical evidence. A very interesting book by Ann Wroe, Perkin, suggested to me that the so-called pretender Perkin Warbeck might well have been the surviving prince, Richard. Her case for it is very compelling, as others have suggested too. There is other persuasive evidence that both boys were not killed as the traditional history (and Shakespeare) suggests. Even the traditional history--of them being suffocated in their beds in the Tower and buried beneath a stair--is filled with contradictions. If Perkin was Richard--and this is speculative history, as indeed all history around this genuine mystery must be--then Richard must have somehow survived. How could this have happened? It seemed to me most likely, not that he escaped from the Tower, but that he was never sent to it. His mother knew the danger her older son was in, had herself seen Henry VI murdered in the Tower, and was highly aware of the danger to her sons. It seemed to me most unlikely that she would hand over a second son when she had lost the first. The changeling page boy is my invention, but the history of Perkin in Flanders is based on his own confession. His story will continue in the series.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Elizabeth''s father says to her, â€œWe are forming a new royal family. We have to be more royal than royalty itself or nobody will believe us. I can''t say I quite believe it myselfâ€ (page 63). How unlikely was it that Elizabeth Woodville would become queen? How has she been remembered by historians?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Elizabeth''s ascent to the throne is one of the great triumphs of a commoner and was considered so exceptional in her own time that one of the explanations offered was witchcraft. It is really a triumph of unlikely events. How unlikely that Edward, raising troops for a battle, would be diverted by a woman he must have met by chance? How unlikely that he would offer marriage when he knew as well as Warwick that to secure his reign he must marry well, preferably a European princess? How unlikely that even after a secret marriage he would honor his vows? It is a catalogue of unlikely events, and the only coherent explanation is that Edward and Elizabeth fell in love at first sight and married for love. Elizabeth, like many powerful and effective women, has been unkindly treated by historians. Some follow the gossip against her at the time that begrudged her good fortune; some point to the alliances she made for her family as symptoms of greed and self-aggrandizement. She gets little credit for surviving two periods in sanctuary, nor for her courage during the siege of the Tower. She is like many women â€œhidden from historyâ€ in the phrase of historian Sheila Rowbotham, and when her role is acknowledged she is often treated with very harsh criticism.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Anthony Woodville, the queen''s brother, seemed to be ahead of his time in regard to education and culture. What more can you tell us about him? Was Elizabeth honoring his memory by becoming a patroness of Queens'' College Cambridge?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Elizabeth took over the role of patron of Queens'' College from her predecessor Margaret of Anjou, but her interest in education and culture may have been inspired and would certainly have been encouraged by her brother, who was a true Renaissance man: spiritual, martial, thoughtful, and innovative. He brought the printer William Caxton to England and sponsored the first printed book; he was famous for his ability in the joust; and he was a loyal brother to Elizabeth and a devoted uncle to her son. The poem I quote in the book was indeed the poem he wrote the night before he died. We can only speculate as to the sort of man he can have been that he should spend his last hours on earth, not in rage or grief, but in crafting a poem of such detachment and clarity.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n If you could go back in time and live in any of the royal courts you''ve written about, which one would it be and why?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I would be absolutely mad to want to be a woman of any of these times. A Tudor or Plantagenet woman was wholly ruled by men: either father or husband. She would find it difficult to seek any education, make her own fortune, or improve her circumstances. Her husband would have a legal right over her that was equal to his ownership of domestic animals; and the chances of dying in childbirth were very high. If one could go back in time and be a wealthy man, these would be times of adventure and opportunity but still tremendously dangerous. I think I would prefer the Tudor period to diminish the danger of being killed in battle, but there were still regular plagues and foreign wars to face. I cannot sufficiently express my enthusiasm for modern medicine, votes for women, and safe contraception.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n The younger Elizabeth emerges as quite a vivid and spirited character. Will we be seeing more of her in a future book?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Elizabeth, the Princess of York, goes on to marry Henry VII and so is mother to a royal dynasty, just as her father and mother hoped they were creating a royal dynasty. She is, of course, mother of Henry VIII, and her granddaughter is England''s greatest queen--Elizabeth I. Elizabeth of York will be the subject of the third book of this series, to be called The White Princess. But coming next is the story of the mother of Henry VII, the indomitable Margaret Beaufort, whom you may have glimpsed in this novel but who deserves a book all to herself. It is called The Red Queen.\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The queen of British historical fiction (\n <em>\n  The Other Boleyn Girl\n </em>\n ) kicks off a new series with the story of Elizabeth Woodville Grey, whose shifting alliances helped the War of the Roses take root. The marriage of 22-year-old Yorkist King Edward IV to 27-year-old widow Elizabeth brings a sea change in loyalties: Elizabeth''s Lancastrian family becomes Edward''s strongest supporters, while Edward''s closest adviser, the ambitious earl of Warwick, joins with Edward''s brother George to steal the English crown. History buffs from Shakespeare on have speculated about this fateful period, especially the end of Edward and Elizabeth''s two sons, and Gregory invents plausible but provocative scenarios to explore those mysteries; she is especially poignant depicting Elizabeth in her later years, when her allegiance shifts toward Richard III (who may have killed her sons). Gregory earned her international reputation evoking sex, violence, love and betrayal among the Tudors; here she adds intimate relationships, political maneuvering and battlefield conflicts as well as some well-drawn supernatural elements. Gregory''s newest may not be as fresh as earlier efforts, but she captures vividly the terrible inertia of war.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1259'),
(2551, 'White Witch, Black Curse', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Some wounds take time to heal . . . and some scars never fade.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rachel Morgan, kick-ass witch and bounty hunter, has taken her fair share of hits, and has broken lines she swore she would never cross. But when her lover was murdered, it left a deeper wound than Rachel ever imagined, and now she won''t rest until his death is solved . . . and avenged. Whatever the cost.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and when a new predator moves to the apex of the Inderlander food chain, Rachel''s past comes back to haunt her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Literally.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1241'),
(2552, 'Whitethorn Woods', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A proposed highway near the Irish town of Rossmore will mean the destruction of St. Ann''s Well, a shrine in Whitethorn Woods thought to deliver healing, husbands and other miracles. The shrine resides in the parish of Fr. Brian Flynn, curate of St. Augustine''s. As a fracas erupts between shrine skeptics who want the highway and shrine believers who want the shrine preserved, Flynn, unsure of where he stands on the issue and questioning his place in an increasingly secular Ireland, goes to the shrine and prays that he might "hear the voices that have come to you and know who these people are." Binchy (\n  <em>\n   Tara Road\n  </em>\n  ) goes on to deliver just that: a panoply of prosaic but richly drawn first-person characters, such as Neddy Nolan, a not-so-simple simpleton; 60-something Vera, who finds love on a singles trip meant for those much younger; and unassuming antiques magnate James, whose wife of 26 years is dying. Stories of greed, infidelity, mental illness, incest, the joys of being single, the struggles of modern career women, alcoholism, and the heartbreak of parenting span generations, simply and poignantly. Binchy takes it all in and orchestrates the whole masterfully.\n  <em>\n   400,000 announced first printing\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Nestled outside the once sleepy Irish village of Rossmore in a copse known as Whitethorn Woods is the shrine of St. Ann''s Well, which attracts so many of the faithful and hopeful that the little town overflows with visitors. This prompts a controversial proposal to construct a bypass highway that would divert traffic, ironically, right through the Woods, thus destroying the source of the town''s popularity. Worried that the shrine''s days are numbered, villagers flock to the Well, where they plead for everything from the restoration of a faltering love affair to the recognition of an ancestor''s legacy. Foregoing her trademark plot-driven narrative for a tale in which the outcome is predictable (will the shrine be saved? duh!), Binchy instead focuses her prodigious talent on a robust assemblage of characters embroiled in romantic and domestic crises. Inventively and intricately weaving a series of linked vignettes, Binchy astounds with the versatility of the supplicants'' voices, from the diabolical machinations of a mother whose daughter has committed murder to the sad serenity of another whose child was kidnapped decades earlier. Binchy is at her best in this tender yet potent tale of a traditional land and people threatened and challenged by the forces of change.\n  <em>\n   Carol Haggas\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1014');
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(2553, 'Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You&#39;d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini', 'Mark Leyner &amp; Billy Goldberg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Urban legends and perennial wonders get a witty treatment in this lighthearted guide to largely inconsequential yet intriguing aspects of the human body. Leyner, a novelist whose writing appears regularly in the New Yorker and GQ, and New York physician Goldberg address food and the body (does coffee stunt your growth?), "body oddities" (what are goose bumps?), folk remedies (does breast milk cure warts?), drugs (does marijuana help glaucoma?), bathroom humor (why can you ignite a fart?), medical media (is the show ER accurate?), old wives tales (can lip balm be addictive?) and aging (why do old ladies grow beards?). And then there''s the sex chapter-definitely the one where the subtitle is most applicable, with questions like "can people in wheelchairs still have sex?" and "do the kind of underpants men wear affect their fertility?" The book includes e-mail interactions between the authors, which are sometimes funny. Some of the authors'' answers are unsatisfactory and, as a whole, this is much more of a humor book than a health one. The truly curious will find better, more in-depth answers on medical Web sites, but those looking for a good laugh will have some fun with this book.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Is There a Doctor in the House?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Say youâ€™re at a party. Youâ€™ve had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly youâ€™re introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions youâ€™d like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor but havenâ€™t had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. Youâ€™re filled with liquid courage . . . now is your chance! If youâ€™ve ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢How do people in wheelchairs have sex?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Why does asparagus make my pee smell?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Why do old people grow hair on their ears?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Is the old adage â€œbeer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer . . .â€ really true?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n . . . then\n <em>\n  Why Do Men Have Nipples?\n </em>\n is the book for you.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist,\n <em>\n  Why Do Men Have Nipples?\n </em>\n offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/422'),
(2554, 'Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It', 'Gary Taubes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Award-winning science journalist Taubes follows his Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007) with this eminently more reader-friendly explanation of the dangers of dietary carbohydrates. If the USDA dietary guidelinesâ€”recommending that highly caloric grains and carbohydrates comprise 45 to 65 percent of daily caloric intakeâ€”are so healthy, why, he asks, has obesity among Americans been on the upswing? Why has this same diet, endorsed by the American Heart Association, not managed to reduce the incidence of heart disease? And, finally, he asks why mainstream health experts continue to promote the notably unscientific notion of â€œcalories in/calories outâ€ as the single focus of weight management? After explaining in laypersonâ€™s terms the science that debunks the idea that weight control is a matter of burning more calories than one consumes, Taubes offers an alternative viewpoint: no carbs. While his recommendation to eliminate carbohydrates (grains, fruits, sugars, etc.) from oneâ€™s diet is not necessarily a new one, Taubes does present compelling supporting evidence that many, if not all, people should consider at least severely limiting carbohydrates in their diet. --Donna Chavez\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWell-researched and thoughtful . . . Reconsidering how our diet affects our bodies, how we might modify it to be healthier, and being less harsh with those who struggle with their weight are all worthy goals. Taubes has done us a great service by bringing these issues to the table.â€\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Dennis Rosen,\n <em>\n  The Boston Globe\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œLess dense and easier to read [than\n <em>\n  Good Calories, Bad Calories\n </em>\n ] but no less revelatory.â€\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Jeff Baker,\n <em>\n  The Oregonian\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œTaubesâ€™s critique is so pointed and vociferous that reading him will change the way you look at calories, the food pyramid, and your daily diet.â€\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -\n <em>\n  Menâ€™s Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œImportant . . . This excellent book, built on sound research and common sense, contains essential information.â€\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Larry Cox,\n <em>\n  Tucson Citizen\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œAggressive . . . An exhaustive investigation.â€\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Casey Schwartz,\n <em>\n  The Daily Beast\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œPassionate and urgent . . . Backed by a persuasive amount of detail . . . As an award-winning scientific journalist who spent the past decade rigorously tracking down and assimilating obesity research, heâ€™s uniquely qualified to understand and present the big picture of scientific opinions and results. Despite legions of researchers and billions of government dollars expended, Taubes is the one to painstakingly compile this information, assimilate it, and make it available to the public . . . Taubes does the important and extraordinary work of pulling it all together for us.â€\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1036'),
(2555, 'Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid', 'Dr. Denis Leary', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n According to Leary, his first book is not for the faint of heart, by which he means Americans: "I am here to debunk and declassify and otherwise hold up a brutally honest mirror to our fat, ugly, lazy American selves." Now, a good many comedians make a career out of daring to speak the ugly, gasping truths that few others would. Leary brings a particularly acid-tinged tone to his rantings about annoying children, why cats are satanic spawn, what an ugly racket the Catholic Church is and (more surprisingly) why he loves\n <em>\n  Oprah\n </em>\n . The book will most likely appeal to fans of Leary, and while the material might have been better delivered as a live performance (some of these hate-laced monologues are just begging to be read aloud), Leary himself wildly entertains.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n One of America''s most original and biting comic satirists, Denis Leary takes on all the poseurs, politicians, and pop culture icons who have sucked in public for far too long. Sparing no one, Leary zeroes in on the ridiculous wherever he finds it-his Irish Catholic upbringing, the folly of celebrity, the pressures of family life, and the great hypocrisy of politics-with the same bright, savage, and profane insight he brought to his critically acclaimed one-man shows\n <em>\n  No Cure for Cancer\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Lock ''n Load\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Proudly Irish-American, defiantly working class, with a reserve of compassion for the underdog and the overlooked, Leary delivers blistering diatribes that are both penetrating social commentary with no holds barred and laugh-out-loud funny. As always, Leary''s impassioned comic perspective in\n <em>\n  Why We Suck\n </em>\n is right on target.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/570'),
(2556, 'Wicked Business', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    *The hardcover edition ofÂ \n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   Wicked Business\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   *Â containsÂ Plum &amp; Wicked stickersÂ inside!\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether itâ€™s monkey business, funny business, or getting down to business, Janet Evanovichâ€™s Lizzy and Diesel series proves that thereâ€™s no business like\n  <em>\n   Wicked Business\n  </em>\n  .\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  Â \n  <em>\n   <br />\n   Lizzy Tuckerâ€™s once normal life as a pastry chef in Salem, Massachusetts, turns upside down as she battles both sinister forces and an inconvenient attraction to her unnaturally talented but off-limits partner, Diesel.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   When Harvard University English professor and dyed-in-the-wool romantic Gilbert Reedy is mysteriously murdered and thrown off his fourth-floor balcony, Lizzy and Diesel take up his twenty-year quest for the Luxuria Stone, an ancient relic believed by some to be infused with the power of lust. Following clues contained in a cryptic nineteenth-century book of sonnets, Lizzy and Diesel tear through Boston catacombs, government buildings, and multimillion-dollar residences. On their way theyâ€™ll leave behind a trail of robbed graves, public disturbances, and general mayhem.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Dieselâ€™s black sheep cousin, Gerwulf Grimoire, also wants the Stone. His motives are far from pure, and what he plans on doing with the treasure, no one knows . . . but Lizzy Tucker fears sheâ€™s in his crosshairs. Never far and always watching, Grimoire has a growing, vested interest in the cupcake-baker-turned-finder-of-lost-things. As does another dangerous and dark opponent in the huntâ€”a devotee of lawlessness and chaos, known only as Anarchy.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Treasures will be sought, and the power of lust will be unmistakable as Lizzy and Diesel attempt to stay ahead of Anarchy, Grimoire, and his medieval minion, Hatchet, in this ancient game of twisted riddles and high-stakes hide-and-seek.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n   About the Author\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Janet Evanovich\n   </strong>\n   is the #1\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, the Lizzy and Diesel series, twelve romance novels, the Alexandra Barnaby novels and Troublemaker graphic novels, and\n  <em>\n   How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2402'),
(2557, 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West', 'Gregory Maguire', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born with green skin and huge teeth, like a dragon, the free-spirited Elphaba grows up to be an anti-totalitarian agitator, an animal-rights activist, a nun, then a nurse who tends the dying?and, ultimately, the headstrong Wicked Witch of the West in the land of Oz. Maguire''s strange and imaginative postmodernist fable uses L. Frank Baum''s Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a springboard to create a tense realm inhabited by humans, talking animals (a rhino librarian, a goat physician), Munchkinlanders, dwarves and various tribes. The Wizard of Oz, emperor of this dystopian dictatorship, promotes Industrial Modern architecture and restricts animals'' right to freedom of travel; his holy book is an ancient manuscript of magic that was clairvoyantly located by Madam Blavatsky 40 years earlier. Much of the narrative concerns Elphaba''s troubled youth (she is raised by a giddy alcoholic mother and a hermitlike minister father who transmits to her his habits of loathing and self-hatred) and with her student years. Dorothy appears only near novel''s end, as her house crash-lands on Elphaba''s sister, the Wicked Witch of the East, in an accident that sets Elphaba on the trail of the girl from Kansas?as well as the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman and the Lion?and her fabulous new shoes. Maguire combines puckish humor and bracing pessimism in this fantastical meditation on good and evil, God and free will, which should, despite being far removed in spirit from the Baum books, captivate devotees of fantasy. 50,000 first printing; $75,000 ad/promo; first serial to Word; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, has gotten a bum rap. Her mother is embarrassed and repulsed by her bright-green baby with shark''s teeth and an aversion to water. At college, the coed experiences disapproval and rejection by her roommate, Glinda, a silly girl interested only in clothes, money, and popularity. Elphaba is a serious and inquisitive student. When she learns that the Wizard of Oz is politically corrupt and causing economic ruin, Elphaba finds a sense of purpose to her life?to stop him and to restore harmony and prosperity to the land. A Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, and an unknown species called a "Dorothy" appear in very small roles... The story presents Elphaba in a sympathetic and empathetic manner-readers will want her to triumph! The conclusion, however, is the same as L. Frank Baum''s. The book has both idealism and cynicism in its discussion of social, religious, educational, and political issues present in Oz, and, more pointedly, present in our day and time. The idealism is whimsical and engaging; the cynicism is biting. Sometimes the earthy language seems appropriate and adds to the sense of place; sometimes the four-letter words and sexual explicitness distract from the charm of the tale. The multiple threads to the plot proceed unevenly, so that the pace of the story jumps rather than moves steadily forward. Wicked is not an easy rereading of The Wizard of Oz. It is for good readers who like satire, and love exceedingly imaginative and clever fantasy.?Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/451'),
(2558, 'The Wide Window: Or, Disappearance!', 'Lemony Snicket &amp; Brett Helquist &amp; Michael Kupperman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Bad Beginning\n </em>\n , things, well, begin badly for the three Baudelaire orphans. And sadly, events only worsen in\n <em>\n  The Reptile Room\n </em>\n . In the third in Lemony Snicket''s Series of Unfortunate Events, there is still no hope on the horizon for these poor children. Their adventures are exciting and memorable, but, as the author points out, "exciting and memorable like being chased by a werewolf through a field of thorny bushes at midnight with nobody around to help you."\n</p>\n<p>\n This story begins when the orphans are being escorted by the well-meaning Mr. Poe to yet another distant relative who has agreed to take them in since their parents were killed in a horrible fire. Aunt Josephine, their new guardian, is their second cousin''s sister-in-law, and she is afraid of everything. Her house (perched precariously on a cliff above Lake Lachrymose) is freezing because she is afraid of the radiator exploding, she eats cold cucumber soup because she''s afraid of the stove, and she doesn''t answer the telephone due to potential electrocution dangers. Her greatest joy in life is grammar, however, and when it comes to the proper use of the English language, she is fearless.\n</p>\n<p>\n But just when she should be the most fearful--when Count Olaf creeps his way back to find the Baudelaire orphans and steal their fortune--she somehow lets her guard down. Once again, it is up to Violet, Klaus, and Sunny to get themselves out of danger. Will they succeed? We haven''t the stomach to tell you. (Ages 9 to 12)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Author Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) reads volumes three and four of his Series of Unfortunate Events saga. A snappy, techno tune by a group called the Gothic Archies serves as toe-tapping introduction to Handler''s chipper performance of his humorously melodramatic tales. The first two audiobooks in the series, performed by British actor Tim Curry, were released by Listening Library in March.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/110'),
(2559, 'The Widening Gyre', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i''s" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex and drugs--a problem someone has managed to put on videotape.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of the race. Until Spenser hops on the candidate''s bandwagon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But getting back the tape of the lady''s X-rated indiscretion is a nonstop express ride to trouble--trouble that is deep, wide and deadly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A thriller all the way." (Seattle Times)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1163'),
(2560, 'Widow&#39;s Walk', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  "Sometimes you have to wonder how Robert B. Parker keeps his mojo working. . . . There is a trick to keeping the faith with an old hero. In an age of shifty heroes with shaky values, he has created a hero who can still stand up for himself-and us." (\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  When fifty-one-year-old Nathan Smith, a once-confirmed bachelor, is found in his bed with a hole in his head made by a .38-caliber slug, it''s hard not to imagine Nathan''s young bride as the one with her finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she''s guilty. But given that Mary Smith is entitled to the best defense she can afford-and thanks to Nathan''s millions, she can afford plenty-Spenser hires on to investigate Mary''s bona fides. Mary''s alibi is a bit on the flimsy side: She claims she was watching television in the other room when the murder occurred. But the couple was seen fighting at a high-profile cocktail party earlier that evening, and the prosecution has a witness who says Mary once tried to hire him to kill Nathan. What''s more, she''s too pretty, too made-up, too blonde, and sleeps around-just the kind of person a jury loves to hate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spenser''s up against a wall; leads go nowhere, no one knows a thing. Then a young woman, recently fired from her position at Smith''s bank, turns up dead. Mary''s vacant past suddenly starts looking meaner and darker-and Spenser''s suddenly got to watch his back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With lean, crackling dialogue, crisp action, and razor-sharp characters,\n  <em>\n   Widow''s Walk\n  </em>\n  is another triumph.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1133'),
(2561, 'Wild Seed', 'Octavia E. Butler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex -- or design. He fears no one -- until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is a shapeshifter who can absorb bullets and heal with a kiss...and savage anyone who threatens those she loves. She fears no one -- until she meets Doro. From African jungles to the colonies of America, Doro and Anyanwu weave together a pattern of destiny that not even immortals can imagine.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Octavia E. Butler was the first black woman to come to international prominence as a science fiction writer. Incorporating powerful, spare language and rich, well-developed characters, her work tackled race, gender, religion, poverty, power, politics, and science in a way that touched readers of all backgrounds. Butler was a towering figure in life and in her art and the world noticed; highly acclaimed by reviewers, she received numerous awards, including a MacArthur "genius" grant, both the Hugo and Nebula awards, the Langston Hughes Medal, as well as a PEN Lifetime Achievement award.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/893'),
(2562, 'Will Grayson, Will Grayson', 'John Green &amp; David Levithan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2010\n </strong>\n : What''s in a name? A pretty fantastic book idea, for starters. At heart,\n <em>\n  Will Grayson, Will Grayson\n </em>\n is about a couple of kids figuring out how to be themselves. Two of those kids happen to have the same name, and not much in common outside of that, but their serendipitous friendship sets the stage for a much larger, braver, and more candid story than the simplicity of the plot might suggest. The relevance for teens here is clear--high school is the only time in your life when you have the undivided opportunity to obsess over your every move, sentence, and outfit change--but the part about understanding who you are doesn''t stop when you graduate. That''s what makes\n <em>\n  Will Grayson, Will Grayson\n </em>\n as interesting a pick for adults as it is for teens: the questions don''t get simpler, but looking at them through the eyes of a 16-year-old brings a welcome sense of honesty and humor to this thing called life. No one''s ever too old to enjoy that. --*Anne Bartholomew\n <br />\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: David Levithan and John Green Talk About Names\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Will Grayson, Will Grayson is about two teenage boys with the same name, whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. The book originated with the thought of giving two different boys the same name, and to give that name some meaning. It also comes from David''s own experience. So to give you an inside peek at the making of the book, we figured it would be fun to give you insight into our own names, as well as Will Graysonâ€™s.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Levithan\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n To my knowledge, there are only two other David Levithans in the world â€“ my dadâ€™s cousin, and a lawyer in South Africa who, as far as we can tell, isnâ€™t family. The last name Levithan is actually the invention of an immigration official â€“ when my great-grandfather came to America from Russia, it should have translated to Levitan. But somehow the h got in there. Now, whenever I meet another Levithan (which is rare), odds are good that he or she is related to me.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n That said, the story of Will Grayson, Will Grayson came from someone whose name is close to mine, but not identical. David Leventhal went to Brown at the same time I did, and people would confuse us often.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n This ended up being something of a joke, because David was an extraordinary dancer, while I wasâ€¦not an extraordinary dancer. So people would exclaim, â€œWe had no idea someone as clumsy as you could be so graceful on stage!â€ and Iâ€™d have to say, â€œWell, un, that wasnâ€™t me.â€ Finally, right before graduation, I contacted David and we met up. We became instant friends, and when we both moved to New York after college, we were always in each otherâ€™s company. The similarity of our names often threw people for a loopâ€¦ and I thought, well, that might make an interesting story.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Amusingly, David Leventhalâ€™s college roommateâ€™s name was . . . Jon Green.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John Green\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n I was named after my great-grandfather, John Michael Crosby, an itinerant minor-league baseball manager and occasional catcher. I like my name, but being a John Green can certainly be inconvenient, because there are a lot of us. Among many others, there is John Green the realtor in Mississippi (who owns johngreen.com, much to my chagrin), John Green the Australian botanist, and of course John Green the world-renowned Bigfoot scholar. This last John Green, who is so revered in the field of Bigfoot research that he is often called â€œone of the four horseman of Sasquatchery,â€ is kind of my mortal enemy. I once wrote a magazine article in which I passingly noted that Bigfoot is, you know, fictional, and John Green replied with a letter arguing that my anti-Bigfoot stance was besmirching the good name of John Greens everywhere.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Such is the curse of being a John Green. Or a Will Grayson, for that matter.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Will\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n We decided that I (David) would choose our characterâ€™s first name, and John would choose his last name. I liked the name Will because of its different, sometimes contradictory, meanings. As a noun, it can be so strong â€“ where thereâ€™s a will, thereâ€™s a way, and whatnot. But as a verb, itâ€™s split. Sometimes itâ€™s just as definite (It will be done!), but that definiteness is underscored by an uncertainty â€“ you say it will be done, but it hadnâ€™t been done yet, has it? And put it at the start of a question (â€œWill you still love me tomorrow?â€) and it becomes the entrance for all kinds of vulnerability. That seemed right for the characters.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Grayson\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n I liked Grayson because whenever I would hear that name, it always sounded to me like â€œgrace in,â€ which always struck me as a richly ambiguous phrase â€“ is â€œgrace inâ€ the beginning of a clause or the end of it? Are we being asked to find grace in something, or to let grace in? Those questions seemed like interesting ones for the guy I wanted to write about.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Grade 9 Upâ€”Will Grayson''s best friend since fifth grade, nicknamed Tiny Cooper, is bigger than life in terms of his physical stature and his personalityâ€”the "world''s largest person who is really, really gay." Tiny, while seeking the boy of his dreams, has been through the trauma of myriad short-lived romantic relationships and Will has supported him each time his heart is broken. Now, Tiny decides it''s Will''s turn. At first, Will resents Tiny''s matchmaking efforts, but then an amazing coincidence that stems from it brings a new person into their lives. It''s another teen named Will Grayson, who is sad and depressed, and captures Tiny''s heart. While these and other relationships are connecting, intersecting, and eventually changing, Tiny writes and produces an autobiographical high school musical extravaganza that is really about life. On the night it premiers, everything comes full circle and further validates the presence of the Will Graysons. Based on the premises that "love is tied to truth" and "being friends, that''s just something you are," this powerful, thought-provoking, funny, moving, and unique plot is irresistible. Told in alternating chapters from each Will Grayson''s point of view (one in lower case, effectively individualizing identities), complete with honest language, interesting characters, and a heartfelt, gritty edge, this quirky yet down-to-earth collaboration by two master YA storytellers will keep readers turning pages.â€”\n <em>\n  Diane P. Tuccillo, Poudre River Public Library District, Fort Collins, CO\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1255'),
(2563, 'The Wine-Dark Sea', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this installment of O''Brian''s maritime epic, Captain Aubrey and the crew of the\n <em>\n  Surprise\n </em>\n are pursuing an American privateer through the Great South Sea. As is his custom, O''Brian grabs your attention with the first, beautifully memorable sentence: "A purple ocean, vast under the sky and devoid of all visible life apart from two minute ships racing across its immensity." And he doesn''t relinquish it until 260 pages later, by which point Jack Aubrey is delighted at the mere fact of being alive.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though the Jack Aubrey-Stephen Maturin books can be profitably read separately, as fans know, together they read as one long, wonderful novel. This 16th installment (following The Truelove ) is no doubt the best chapter yet. In the early 1800s, Bluff Jack, captain of the privateer Surprise , steers his frigate across the Pacific to South America, around Cape Horn and into the Atlantic, taking French and American prizes, fighting off a Yankee Man of War and suffering dire eye and leg wounds for his trouble. Subtle Stephen, ship''s doctor and British intelligence agent, almost pulls off a coup in Peru and must escape across the Andes, losing some toes to frostbite for his efforts. Favorite characters reappear here: Killick, Jack''s crabby steward; Sarah and Emily Sweeting, precocious Melanesian waifs attached to Maturin''s sick-berth; Sam, Jack''s illegitimate black son and rising Churchman. The naval actions are bang-on and bang-up--fast, furious and bloody--and the Andean milieu is as vivid as the shipboard scenes. As usual, readers can revel in the symbiotic friendship of Jack and Stephen, who make for a marvelous duo, whether in their violin and cello duets or in their sharp dialogue. If O''Brian hasn''t quite had a break-out book yet, then this deserves to be it. 40,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/293'),
(2564, 'The Winner', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Absolute Power. Total Control. And now The Winner: Baldacci doesn''t settle for second best. Here, his heroine, who gets rich after being forced to participate in a fixed lottery, is wanted for murder.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Irritatingly trite woman-in-periler from lawyer-turned-novelist Baldacci. Moving away from the White House and the white-shoe Washington law firms of his previous bestsellers (Absolute Power, 1996; Total Control, 1997), Baldacci comes up with LuAnn Tyler, a spunky, impossibly beautiful, white-trash truck stop waitress with a no-good husband and a terminally cute infant daughter in tow. Some months after the birth of Lisa, LuAnn gets a phone call summoning her to a make-shift office in an unrented storefront of the local shopping mall. There, she gets a Faustian offer from a Mr. Jackson, a monomaniacal, cross-dressing manipulator who apparently knows the winning numbers in the national lottery before the numbers are drawn. It seems that LuAnn fits the media profile of what a lottery winner should be--poor, undereducated but proud--and if she''s willing to buy the right ticket at the right time and transfer most of her winnings to Jackson, she''ll be able to retire in luxury. Jackson fails to inform her, however, that if she refuses his offer, he''ll have her killed. Before that can happen, as luck would have it, LuAnn barely escapes death when one of husband Duane''s drug deals goes bad. She hops on a first-class Amtrak sleeper to Manhattan with a hired executioner in pursuit. But executioner Charlie, one of Jackson''s paid handlers, can''t help but hear wedding bells when he sees LuAnn cooing with her daughter. Alas, a winning $100- million lottery drawing complicates things. Jackson spirits LuAnn and Lisa away to Sweden, with Charlie in pursuit. Never fear. Not only will LuAnn escape a series of increasingly violent predicaments, but she''ll also outwit Jackson, pay an enormous tax bill to the IRS, and have enough left over to honeymoon in Switzerland. Too preposterous to work as feminine wish-fulfillment, too formulaic to be suspenseful. (Book-of-the-Month Club main selection) --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/73'),
(2565, 'The Winning Hand', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In one exraordinary moment, Darcy Wallace was transformed from being down-on-her-luck into a millionaire sharing candlelight dinners with Robert MacGregor Blade. Mac was the most seductive man she ever met -- though he certainly wasn''t the marrying kind. But Darcy was feeling lucky...So with searching kisses and aching vulnerability, the innocent beauty set about making the stubborn bachelor see that love was the biggest gamble -- and he was going to have to ante up!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1616'),
(2566, 'Winter Garden', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Female bonding is always good for a good cry, as Hannah (\n  <em>\n   True Colors\n  </em>\n  ) proves in her latest. Pacific Northwest apple country provides a beautiful, chilly setting for this family drama ignited by the death of a loving father whose two daughters have grown apart from each other and from their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother. After assuming responsibility for the family business, 40-year-old empty-nester Meredith finds it difficult to carry out her father''s dying wish that she take care of her mother; Meredith''s troubled marriage, her troubled relationship with her mother and her mother''s increasingly troubled mind get in the way. Nina, Meredith''s younger sister, takes a break from her globe-trotting photojournalism career to return home to do her share for their mother. How these three women find each other and themselves with the help of vodka and a trip to Alaska competes for emotional attention with the story within a story of WWII Leningrad. Readers will find it hard not to laugh a little and cry a little more as mother and daughters reach out to each other just in the nick of time.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Whitson family is rocked by the sudden death of patriarch Evan, a warm, loving man who doted on his two adult daughters, Meredith and Nina, and his reserved Russian wife, Anya. Meredith, who runs the family business, and Nina, a photojournalist whose job takes her to war zones around the world, have never been able to connect with their cold, forbidding mother. When Anya begins to act strangely, Meredith thinks she belongs in a nursing home, but Nina decides to try to fulfill her fatherâ€™s dying wish and get her mother to tell her and Meredith the elaborate fairy tales she used to share with them. Anya is initially reluctant, but once she begins, Nina realizes these tales are actually the story of Anyaâ€™s life in Stalinist Leningrad. Meredith and Nina decide to attempt to uncover the truth about their motherâ€™s tragic past in the hope of understanding her, and themselves. Though the novel starts off fairly maudlin, it evolves into a gripping read, although itâ€™s a tearjerker. Hannahâ€™s previous books, including Firefly Lane (2008) and True Colors (2009), are tailor-made for book clubs, and her audience should find plenty to discuss in this equally enthralling entry. --Kristine Huntley\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1921'),
(2567, 'Winter Moon', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  DEEPEST NIGHT, MONTANA. An eerie light proclaims the arrival of a mysterious watcher in the woods. And one solitary man begins a desperate battle against something unknown - and unknowable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  BROAD DAYLIGHT, LOS ANGELES. An ordinary morning erupts in cataclysmic violence. A young family is shattered in a heartbeat.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fate will lead this family to an isolated Montana ranch, but their sanctuary will become their worst nightmare. For there they will face a chillingly ruthless enemy, from which no one - living or dead - is safe.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  The #1 bestselling author of Dragon Tears returns with a thriller. A Hollywood director goes on a killing spree in the streets of L.A., while an old caretaker on a lonely Montana ranch witnesses a chilling vision. Connecting both incidents is policeman Jack McGarvey, who is drawn into a terrifying confrontation with something unearthly. Original.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1900'),
(2568, 'Winter&#39;s Heart', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Is Robert Jordan still doing the Light''s work? Even loyal fans have to wonder. (And if you''re not a fan yet, you''ll have to read the previous 6,789 pages in this bestselling series to understand what all the fuss is about.)\n</p>\n<p>\n Everyone''s in agreement on the Wheel of Time''s first four or five volumes: They''re topnotch, where-have-you-been-all-my-life epic fantasy, the best in anybody''s memory at the time since\n <em>\n  The Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n . But a funny thing happened on the way to Tarmon Gai''don, and many of those raves have become rants or (worse) yawns. Jordan long ago proved himself a master at world-building, with fascinating characters, a positively delicious backstory, and enough plot and politics to choke a Trolloc, but that same strength has become a liability. How do you criticize what he''s doing now? You want more momentum and direction in the central plot line, but it''s the secondary stories that have made the world so rich. And as in the last couple of books, (\n <em>\n  A Crown of Swords\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Path of Daggers\n </em>\n ), Jordan doesn''t really succeed at pursuing either adequately, leaving a lot of heavily invested readers frustrated.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Winter''s Heart\n </em>\n at least shows some improvement, but it''s still not\n <em>\n  The Eye of the World\n </em>\n . Elayne''s still waiting to take the crown of Andor; the noticeably absent Egwene is still waiting to go after the White Tower; Perrin gets ready to pursue the Shaido but then disappears for the rest of the book. About the only excitement comes with the long-awaited return of Mat Cauthon and a thankfully rock ''em, sock ''em finale in which Rand finally,\n <em>\n  finally\n </em>\n changes the balance of power in his fight against the Dark One.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ninth installment in Jordan''s sprawling Wheel of Time saga is as bountifully pregnant with plot threads as its predecessorsDand as bewilderingly esoteric for readers who have yet to commit its previous episodes to memory. Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn, seems no nearer to fulfilling his destinyDto unite the embattled races of his domain against the Dark OneDthan he was in The Path of Daggers. The warmongering Seanchan are pouring into Ebou Dar, setting refugees in flight and complex schemes in fidgety motion. Perrin Aybara is distracted from his mission to shepherd the prophet Masema to Rand when he pursues the rebel Aiel who have kidnaped his wife, Faile. The mystical sisterhood of the Aes Sedai remain divided between Elaida, pretender to the title of the White Tower, and Egwene al''Vere, ally to Elayne, Queen of Andor. Elayne, Rand''s lover, barely escapes poisoning, and Rand himself, still smarting from the unhealed wound of an assassination attempt, shapeshifts through a variety of disguises to pass unnoticed in hostile territories. Jordan can always be counted to ground his dizzying intrigues in solid chunks of cultural detail, and he here rises to the occasion, with chapters as dense as Spenserian stanzas with symbols and rituals. Not all of his subplots tie together, and fewer than usual of his vast cast of characters make a memorable impact. Nevertheless, he manipulates the disorder of his narrative to credibly convey a sense of an embattled world on the verge of self-destruction, and he entertainingly juxtaposes the courtly civility of his villains with the precarious chaos they cause. Devotees accustomed to this ongoing epic''s increasing lack of focus will no doubt find it on target. (Nov.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/651'),
(2569, 'The Winter&#39;s Tale', 'William Shakespeare &amp; Jonathan Bate &amp; Eric Rasmussen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for *William Shakespeare: Complete Works\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA remarkable edition, one that makes Shakespeareâ€™s extraordinary accomplishment more vivid than ever.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“James Shapiro, professor, Columbia University, bestselling author of *A Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTwo eminent Shakespeareans . . . have applied modern editing techniques and recent scholarship to correct and update the First Folio. . . . Superb.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“The New York Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA feast of literary and historical information.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI look forward to using it over many years, enjoying Jonathan Bateâ€™s perceptive comments, trusting Eric Rasmussenâ€™s textual scholarship.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“Peter Holland, president of the Shakespeare Association of America and editor of Shakespeare Survey\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own,\n <strong>\n  The Winterâ€™s Tale\n </strong>\n is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power of art.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of todayâ€™s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes from\n <strong>\n  William Shakespeare: Complete Works\n </strong>\n . Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeareâ€™s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeareâ€™s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/243'),
(2570, 'Wintersmith: A Story of the Discworld', 'Terry Pratchett &amp; Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland. At 11, she banished an ancient body-stealing evil. At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you''re thirteen . . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n But the Wintersmith isn''t exactly a boy. He is Winter itselfâ€”snow, gales, iciclesâ€”all of it. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tiffany will need all her cunning to make it to Spring. She''ll also need her friends, from junior witches to the legendary Granny Weatherwax. Theyâ€”\n <em>\n  Crivens\n </em>\n ! Tiffany will need the Wee Free Men, too! She''ll have the help of the bravest, toughest, smelliest pixies ever to be banished from Fairylandâ€”whether she wants it or not. It''s going to be a cold, cold season, because if Tiffany doesn''t survive until Springâ€”Spring won''t come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/377'),
(2571, 'Wise Blood', 'Flannery O&#39;Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Wise Blood\n </em>\n is a comedy with a fierce, Old Testament soul. Flannery O''Connor has no truck with such newfangled notions as psychology. Driven by forces outside their control, her characters are as one-dimensional--and mysterious--as figures on a frieze. Hazel Motes, for instance, has the temperament of a martyr, even though he spends most of the book trying to get God to go away. As a child he''s convinced that "the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin." When that doesn''t work, and when he returns from Korea determined "to be converted to nothing instead of evil," he still can''t go anywhere without being mistaken for a preacher. (Not that the hat and shiny glare-blue suit help.) No matter what Hazel does, Jesus moves "from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark..."\n</p>\n<p>\n Adrift after four years in the service, Hazel takes a train to the city of Taulkinham, buys himself a "rat-colored car," and sets about preaching on street corners for the Church Without Christ, "where the blind don''t see and the lame don''t walk and what''s dead stays that way." Along the way he meets Enoch Emery, who''s only 18 years old but already works for the city, as well the blind preacher Asa Hawks and his illegitimate daughter, Sabbath Lily. (Her letter to an advice column: "Dear Mary, I am a bastard and a bastard shall not enter the kingdom of heaven as we all know, but I have this personality that makes boys follow me. Do you think I should neck or not?") Subsequent events involve a desiccated, centuries-old dwarf--Gonga the Giant Jungle Monarch--and Hazel''s nemesis, Hoover Shoats, who starts the rival Church of Christ Without Christ. If you think these events don''t end happily, you might be right.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Wise Blood\n </em>\n is a savage satire of America''s secular, commercial culture, as well as the humanism it holds so dear ("Dear Sabbath," Mary Brittle writes back, "Light necking is acceptable, but I think your real problem is one of adjustment to the modern world. Perhaps you ought to re-examine your religious values to see if they meet your needs in Life.") But the book''s ultimate purpose is Religious, with a capital R--no metaphors, no allusions, just the thing itself in all its fierce glory. When Hazel whispers "I''m not clean," for instance, O''Connor thinks he is perfectly right. For readers unaccustomed to holding low comedy and high seriousness in their heads at the same time, all this can come as something of a shock. Who else could offer an allegory about free will, redemption, and original sin right alongside the more elemental pleasure of witnessing Enoch Emery dress up in a gorilla suit? Nobody else, that''s who. And that''s OK. More than one Flannery O''Connor in this world might show us more truth than we could bear.\n <em>\n  --Mary Park\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Bronson Pinchot turns in a virtuosic performance of O''Connor''s darkly comic classic first novel. After serving a stint in the army, Hazel Motes finds himself adrift, alone, and rent by spiritual confusion. Pinchot''s narration is superb: dynamic, well paced, and infused with a perfect Southern drawl. Instead of simply creating voices for the characters, Pinchot embodies them. His Hazel is nasty, nasally, and angry; his Enoch Emery boasts a congested twang; and the entire cast is likewise brought to life by Pinchot''s precise and perceptive characterizations and his brilliant evocation of O''Conner''s grotesqueries. A Farrar, Straus, and Giroux paperback. (Aug.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1152');
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(2572, 'Witch &amp; Wizard', 'James Patterson &amp; Gabrielle Charbonnet', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The world is changing - the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now kids are disappearing. For fifteen-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside-down when they are hauled out of bed one night, separated from their parents, and thrown into a secret compound for no reason they can comprehend. The new government is clearly trying to suppress Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Being a Normal Teenager. Imprisoned together and condemned to death, Wisty and Whit begin exhibiting strange abilities and powers they never dreamed of. Maybe there is a reason they were singled out. Can this newly discovered witch and a wizard master their skills in time to save themselves, their parents - and maybe the world?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past decade: the Women''s Murder Club, the Alex Cross novels and Maximum Ride, and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. He lives in Florida with his wife and son. James is passionate about encouraging both adults and children alike to read. This has led to him forming a partnership with the National Literacy Trust, an independent, UK-based charity that changes lives through literacy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/282'),
(2573, 'Witches Abroad', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Be careful what you wish for...\n</p>\n<p>\n Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skillsâ€”which unforunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her\n <em>\n  other\n </em>\n (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata. So now it''s up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl\n <em>\n  doesn''t\n </em>\n marry the Prince.\n</p>\n<p>\n But the road to Genua is bumpy, and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire, werewolf, and falling house (well this is a\n <em>\n  fairy tale\n </em>\n , after all). The trouble really begins once these reluctant foster-godmothers arrive in Genua and must outwit their power-hungry counterpart who''ll stop at nothing to achieve a proper "happy ending"â€”even if it means destroying a kingdom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/324'),
(2574, 'Without Fail', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n What better way to test the security surrounding a U.S. vice president-elect than to hire someone skilled in the killing arts to penetrate his protection? Assassination strategy, though, is only part of the assignment facing Jack Reacher in\n <em>\n  Without Fail\n </em>\n . This restive, blunt-edged ex-military cop must also determine whether recent threats against VP-to-be Senator Brook Armstrong are legitimate or are primarily intended to embarrass the perfectionist head of Armstrong''s new Secret Service detail, M.E. Froelich, who happens to have been a girlfriend of Reacher''s late brother.\n</p>\n<p>\n If\n <em>\n  Without Fail\n </em>\n lacks the emotional urgency of Lee Child''s previous novel,\n <em>\n  Echo Burning\n </em>\n , it still barely lets the reader catch a decent breath between plot crests. Jack and his fetching yet formidable colleague, Frances Neagley, must figure out how warning letters to Armstrong are being delivered into the Secret Service sanctum, whether the senator is at risk because of something political or personal, and who staged the demonstration murders of two innocent men also named Armstrong, first initial\n <em>\n  B\n </em>\n . Unfortunately, a few twists (including the source of a thumbprint applied to the threats against Armstrong) can be figured out in advance, and the story is light on character development. A tiny breach in Reacher''s reclusive carapace opens as Froelich transfers the love she once felt for his brother toward him, and there are suggestions that Neagley may have depths of feeling just waiting to be plumbed. However, other players are mere ciphers--the sacrificial victims of an action-oriented yarn.\n <em>\n  --J. Kingston Pierce\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sixth time''s a charm for thriller meister Child, whose latest escapade starring ex-military cop Jack Reacher is handily his most accomplished and most compelling to date. The suspense-laden plot kicks off with U.S. Secret Service agent M.E. Froelich telling Reacher: "I want to hire you to assassinate the Vice President of the United States." V-p-elect Brook Armstrong has received a series of anonymous death threats, and Froelich needs to uncover their source and ascertain the effectiveness of Armstrong''s security detail. Reacher agrees to masquerade as an assassin because he can''t resist a challenge and because Froelich had loved his older brother, Joe, a Secret Service colleague killed in a botched operation. As Reacher pieces together an increasingly frustrating puzzle, Child ratchets up the excitement with several breathtaking set pieces, including a Thanksgiving dinner for D.C.''s homeless that turns deadly, a jaw-dropping coup de thâ€šÆ’tre and a slam-bang finale in Wyoming''s mountains. He even extracts tension from mundane events, as when Reacher searches for clues on a security video of an office cleaning crew. The novel''s detailed insider''s view of political skullduggery is certain to intrigue readers, and the various characters'' relationships, handled with careful restraint, provide an added layer the growing attachment between Froelich and Reacher; both characters'' recollections of Joe; Reacher''s regard for Frances Neagley, a former colleague whom he calls in for help. And then there''s Reacher himself, the stolid, flawed man''s man who gives no quarter on any level. Indeed, the novel''s final line serves as a prâ€šcis of this quietly fascinating character: "He headed west for the Port Authority and a bus out of town." This Child''s play will be a tough act to follow.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/969'),
(2575, 'Witness in Death', 'J. D. Robb &amp; Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is 2059, and New York City homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas''s husband, Roarke, is producing a revival of Agatha Christie''s thriller Witness for the Prosecution. On opening night, when the villainous character Leonard Vole gets his just deserts, someone substitutes a kitchen knife for the prop knife, and the actor, Richard Draco, is stabbed through the heart. Trouble is, in time-tested British mystery fashion, everyone in the cast had good reason to despise Richard, a misogynist who seduced and discarded beautiful young women, including one whom he knew to be his daughter. It''s up to Eve to solve the case, an emotionally difficult task as she is no stranger to incest herself: she was beaten and raped by her father before she managed to escape him. As Eve fights to keep her head above water, she tries to bond at a deeper level with Roarke, so that her future will heal the pain of her past. Robb (aka Nora Roberts) serves up a welcome mix of edgy, sexy lovers,newfangled gadgets, classic whodunit and noir. (Mar.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The romance between Roarke and Eve is so sizzling."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1089'),
(2576, 'Wizard and Glass', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frank Muller, the recognized virtuoso of audiobook narration (\n <em>\n  The Green Mile\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Shawshank Redemption\n </em>\n ), takes on Stephen King''s Goliath tale of sorcerers, time travelers, and sci-fi love. Totaling more than 27 hours and spanning 18 cassettes,\n <em>\n  Wizard and Glass\n </em>\n requires the listener to love Muller''s Hannibal Lecter-like voice--either that or suffer in audio hell for the equivalent of three full working days. While some might find his breathy staccatos irritating at best, others will find his voice the perfect accompaniment to King''s creepy characters and nightmarish plots. (Running time: 27 hours, 18 cassettes)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frank Muller''s reading of King''s fourth book in a projected seven-part series (e.g., The Waste Lands: The Dark Tower, Bk. 3, Audio Reviews LJ 2/15/92) is effective in creating a suspenseful and fearful atmosphere. We find Roland, the knight errant/gunslinger, continuing his quest to attain the Dark Tower, the source of destructive forces in his Mid-World. A major portion of this work is a recounting by Roland of his ill-fated love affair with Susan Delgado. The writing is expectedly imaginative, the story line engrossing, and the characters vivid. The listener is carried along through alternating Western, urban, and futuristic settings. The work stands on its own, incorporating a summary of Books 1-3, but will be better appreciated if listened to as part of the whole. Recommended for sf/fantasy collections and Stephen King fans.?Catherine Swenson, Norwich Univ. Lib., Northfield, Vt.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/560'),
(2577, 'The Wizard of Oz', 'L. Frank Baum &amp; Regina Barreca', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   THE INSPIRATION FOR THE CLASIC FILM\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Follow the yellow brick road!"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since it first appeared in 1900,\n  <em>\n   The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\n  </em>\n  has brought joy to generations. In it, a girl''s dream world comes to life as the cyclone lifts Dorothy from Kansas, depositing her in the enchanted land of the Munchkins. H ere she meets the famous Oz characters: the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, the Cowardly Lion, and the Wicked Witch of the West. Her adventures along the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City and the Wizard himself evoke the rich, universal appeal of a classic fairy tale.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(2578, 'Wizard&#39;s First Rule', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The protective barrier that separates Westland from its neighbors to the east is about to fall, letting loose a monstrous evil upon the world. Only the combined efforts of a young man dedicated to finding the truth, an enigmatic woman intent on concealing her past, and a crusty old hermit resigned to his inevitable destiny can prevent the opening of the three boxes of Orden-an event with the potential to destroy existence itself. The inclusion of graphic scenes of sado-eroticism, though integral to the story, may deter purchase by some libraries. Nevertheless, this first novel offers an intriguing variant on the standard fantasy quest. The richly detailed world and complex characters will appeal to mature fantasy aficionados.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a classic fantasy world, young Richard Cypher must go on a perilous quest with the Sword of Truth in order to deal with evils that have a contemporary degree of ambiguity about them. On the way, he acquires the normal collection of wizards, dragons, and human companions as well as an equivalent roster of enemies. Both the characters and their world come to life, and Goodkind''s ambitious juxtaposition of modern ambiguities and the classical fantasy setting works more often than not. Although a fairly self-contained story, the book has something of the flavor of the first volume of a saga; neither Goodkind nor his publisher will receive too many complaints if a sequel is in the works. Hardly an aspirant to Tolkien''s mantle, Goodkind certainly seems, at any rate, to be working on being mentioned in the same breath as Robert Jordan.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/752'),
(2579, 'Woken Furies: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel', 'Richard K. Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding twenty-fifth-century novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, and has established a growing legion of fans. Mixing classic noir sensibilities with a searing futuristic vision of an age when death is nearly meaningless, Morgan returns to his saga of betrayal, mystery, and revenge, as Takeshi Kovacs, in one fatal moment, joins forces with a mysterious woman who may have the power to shatter Harlanâ€™s World forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once a gang member, then a marine, then a galaxy-hopping Envoy trained to wreak slaughter and suppression across the stars, a bleeding, wounded Kovacs was chilling out in a New Hokkaido bar when some so-called holy men descended on a slim beauty with tangled, hyperwired hair. An act of quixotic chivalry later and Kovacs was in deep: mixed up with a woman with two names, many powers, and one explosive history.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a world where the real and virtual are one and the same and the dead can come back to life, the damsel in distress may be none other than the infamous Quellcrist Falconer, the vaporized symbol of a freedom now gone from Harlanâ€™s World. Kovacs can deal with the madness of AI. He can do his part in a battle against biomachines gone wild, search for a three-centuries-old missing weapons system, and live with a blood feud with the yakuza, and even with the betrayal of people he once trusted. But when his relationship with â€œtheâ€ Falconer brings him an enemy specially designed to destroy him, he knows itâ€™s time to be afraid.\n</p>\n<p>\n After all, the guy sent to kill him is himself: but younger, stronger, and straight out of hell.\n</p>\n<p>\n Wild, provocative, and riveting, Woken Furies is a full-bore science fiction spectacular of the highest orderâ€“from one of the most original and spellbinding storytellers at work today.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/425'),
(2580, 'Wolf Hall', 'Hilary Mantel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n WINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph? In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel''s Wolf Hall is "a darkly brilliant reimagining of life under Henry VIII. . . . Magnificent." (The Boston Globe). Hilary Mantel is the author of nine previous novels, including A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater Safety, and Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. She has also written a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize, she reviews for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. She lives in England. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardShortlisted for the Orange Prize for FictionIn inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change.Â  England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the kingâ€™s freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum.Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?In Mantel''s 16th century monarchy,Â individuals mustÂ fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death. "It is a famous portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger: Thomas Cromwell in his finery, about 1534, looking formidable and clutching a piece of paper while he sits at a desk that holds the implements he used to write Henry VIIIâ€™s correspondence and draft Henry VIIIâ€™s laws. In Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantelâ€™s arch, elegant, richly detailed biographical novel centered on Cromwell, she has used Holbeinâ€™s delivery of the portrait as the basis for a dagger-sharp moment of truth . . . It is Ms. Mantelâ€™s velvet-gloved delivery of such devastating observations, her bookâ€™s broad historical sweep and her counterintuitive choice to make Cromwell its primary focus that have helped make Wolf Hall a widely favored contender for this yearâ€™s Man Booker Prize . . . Her bookâ€™s main characters are scorchingly well rendered. And their sharp-clawed machinations are presented with nonstop verve in a book that can compress a wealth of incisiveness into a very few well-chosen words . . . Ms. Mantel also has improbable success in reinventing Anne Boleyn. Or at least she succeeds in newly underscoring Anneâ€™s debt to Niccolo, as this bookâ€™s characters refer to Machiavelli. With the kingâ€™s friends, Cromwell notices: ''Anne is brittle in their company, and as ruthless with their compliments as a housewife snapping the necks of larks for the table. If her precise smile fades for a moment, they all lean forward, anxious to know how to please her. A bigger set of fools you would go far to seek.'' And when Anne bears a daughter who can seemingly never inherit the throne (though she will of course grow up to be Queen Elizabeth I), Ms. Mantel provides a prime example of acerbic flair. The baby is described as ''an ugly, purple, grizzling knot of womankind, with an upstanding ruff of pale hair and a habit of kicking up her gown as if to display her most unfortunate feature.'' Deft and diabolical as they are, Ms. Mantelâ€™s slyly malicious turns of phrase would count for little more than banter if they could not succinctly capture the important struggles that have set her characters to talking. But she is able to place Cromwell on plausibly familiar terms with royalty and on a fair moral footing with More, that paragon of self-sacrifice . . . Wolf Hall is far too tricky a book to let Cromwellâ€™s pronouncement be taken at face value. He is, after all, the kingâ€™s wily advocate. And he is never without an agenda. But this much is certain: Moreâ€™s downfall has been assured by the time Cromwell finishes with him. Cromwellâ€™s troubles, which will be no less lethal, are barely stirring when Wolf Hall ends. It is to be hoped that Ms. Mantel makes Cromwellâ€™s endgame part of her future."â€”Janet Maslin, The New York Times â€œA brilliant historical novel focused on the rise to power of a figure exceedingly unlikely, on the face of things, to arouse any sympathy at allÂ . . . This is a novel too in which nothing is wasted, and nothing completely disappears.â€â€”Stephen Greenblatt, The New York Review of Booksâ€œWhether we accept Ms Mantelâ€™s reading of history or not, her characters have a lifeblood of their ownÂ . . . a Shakespearean vigour. Stylistically, her fly-on-the-wall approach is achieved through the present tense, of which she is a master. Her prose is muscular, avoiding cod Tudor dialogue and going for direct modern English. The result is Ms Mantelâ€™s best novel yet.â€â€”The Economistâ€œA novel both fresh and finely wrought: a brilliant portrait of a society in the throes of disorienting change, anchored by a penetrating character study of Henryâ€™s formidable advisor, Thomas Cromwell. Itâ€™s no wonder that her masterful book just won this yearâ€™s Booker Prize . . . [Mantelâ€™s prose is] extraordinarily flexible, subtle, and shrewd.â€â€”Wendy Smith, The Washington Post"Mantel has filled in the blanks plausibly, brilliantly. Wolf Hall has epic scale but lyric texture. Its 500-plus pages turn quickly, winged and falconlike. Trained in the law, Mantel can see the understated heroism in the skilled administrator''s day-to-day decisions in service of a well-ordered civil societyâ€”not of a medieval fief based on war and not, heaven help us, a utopia . . . Hilary Mantel''s Wolf Hall is both spellbinding and believable."â€”Christopher Benfey, The New York Times Book Review â€œ[Mantelâ€™s] interest is in the question of good and evil as it applies to people who wield great power. That means anguish, exultation, deals, spies, decapitations, and fabulous clothes . . . She always goes for color, richness, music. She has read Shakespeare closely. One also hears the accents of the young James Joyce.â€â€”Joan Acocella, The New Yorkerâ€œMantelâ€™s abilities to channel the life and lexicon of the past are nothing short of astonishing. She burrows down through the historical record to uncover the tiniest, most telling details, evoking the minutiae of history as vividly as its grand sweep. The dialogue is so convincing that she seems to have been, in another life, a stenographer taking notes in the taverns and palaces of England.â€â€”Ross King, Los Angeles Timesâ€œInstead of bringing the past to us, [Mantel''s] writing, brilliant and black, launches us disconcertingly into the past. We are space-time travelers landed in an alien world . . . history is a feast whose various and vital excitements and intrigues make the book a long and complex pleasure.â€â€”Richard Eder, The Boston Globeâ€œHistorical fiction at its finest,Â Wolf Hall captures the character of a nation and its people. It exemplifies something that has lately seemed as mythical as those serpent princesses: the great English novel.â€â€”Bloomberg News"[Mantel] wades into the dark currents of 16th century English politics to sculpt a drama and a protagonist with a surprisingly contemporary feel . . . Wolf Hall is sometimes an ambitious read. But it is a rewarding one as well.â€â€”Marjorie Kehe, The Christian Science Monitorâ€œThe story of Cromwellâ€™s rise shimmers in Ms. Mantelâ€™s spry intelligent prose . . . [Mantel] leaches out the bones of the story as it is traditionally known, and presents to us a phantasmagoric extravaganza of the charactersâ€™ plans and ploys, toils and tactics.â€â€”Washington Timesâ€œThere are no new stories, only new ways of telling them. Set during Henry VIIIâ€™s tumultuous, oft-covered reign, this epic novel . . . proves just how inspired a fresh take can be. [Mantel] is an author as audacious as Anne [Boleyn] herself, imagining private conversations between public figures and making it read as if she had a glass to the wall.â€â€”People Magazineâ€œFans of historical fictionâ€”or great writingâ€”should howl with delight.â€â€”USA Todayâ€œThis masterwork is full of gems for the careful reader. The recurring details alone . . . shine through like some kind of Everymanâ€™s poetry. Plainspoken and occasionally brutal, Wolf Hall is both as complex and as powerful as its subject, as messy as life itself.â€â€”Clea Simon, The Boston Phoenixâ€œReader, youâ€™re in excellent hands with Hilary Mantel . . . for this thrumming, thrilling read. . . . Part of the delight of masterfully paced Wolf Hall is how utterly modern it feels. It is political intrigue pulsing with energy and peopled by historical figures who have never seemed more aliveâ€”and more human.â€â€”Ellen Kanner, Miami Heraldâ€œWolf Hall is a solid historical novel thatâ€™s also a compelling read . . . Mantelâ€™s narrative manages to be both rich and lean: thereâ€™s plenty of detail, but itâ€™s not piled in endless paragraphs. The plot flows swiftly from one development to the next.â€â€”David Loftus, The Oregonianâ€œ[Mantel] seamlessly blends fiction and history and creates a stunning story of Tudor England . . . With its excellent plotting and riveting dialogue, Wolf Hall is a gem of a novel that is both accurate and gripping.â€â€”Cody Corliss, St. Louis Post-Dispatch â€œ[A] spirited novel . . . Mantel has a solid grasp of court politics and a knack for sharp, cutting dialogue.â€â€”Thom Geier, Entertainment Weekly"The monarch is the focus of history, but somebody has to make the show run behind the pageantry. For Henry VIII, it was Thomas Cromwell, for a time, at least. Henry had his own take on term limitsâ€”an axâ€”and in time many of his advisers lost their heads on the chopping block. While Cromwell (a very distant relation to Oliver Cromwell, who was keen on the ax as well) managed the king''s monumental project of taking the church away from Rome efficiently and loyally, he eventually rankled the irritable Henry (all those wives!) and was executed. Most Americans can be forgiven for confusing the Cromwells, but the English know the difference. Thomas is usually portrayed as a cunning, ruthless villain who smashed the monasteries while persecuting the real or imagined enemies of the king and of his heretical takeover of the Catholic church in England. All of this happened in the 16th century, when England was riven with religious upheaval and governed by a king desperate for a male heir. Married to the older Catherine of Aragon, a Spaniard and widow of his brother, Henry was unsuccessful in siring a son, only a daughter, Mary, who caused much mischief later. Guided by Cromwell, the king dumped Catherine for the younger and presumably more fertile Anne Boleyn. While this history sounds better suited for horse-breeding operations, lovers of royalty revel in it. It is the stuff of romance and mythology, and frequently the human dimension takes a backseat to the intrigue. Hilary Mantel has brilliantly restored that dimension to history in this highly original novel, a fictional biography of Cromwell that won the Man Booker Prize in September. History aside, Wolf Hall breathes life into a world of 500 years ago through Mantel''s fully realized central character and the people who surround him. Much of the novel is about day-to-day living in the 16th centuryâ€”the stocking of kitchens, making of clothes and, most vividly, the lives of families . . . If you give yourself over to her prose, you can find yourself in Cromwell''s world in the profound way only fiction can deliver."â€”Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"Henry VIII? Anne Boleyn? 500-plus pages? If Mantel hadn''t won the 2009 Booker Prize for this I would never have read it. And would have missed out big-time. Mantel approaches this well-traveled road from a fresh viewpoint: that of the tolerant, brilliant, and witty Thomas Cromwell . . . Mantel shows Cromwell a contented and involved family man, despite his long hours. We are ever aware that life is precarious in this world and this is driven home when, escaping one year''s plague season, his wife and two daughters succumb in the next. Cromwell never really recovers. Still, over the years his household grows as he takes in stray relatives, protÃ©gÃ©s and promising servants and indulges his passion for building. Mantel skillfully portrays his riseâ€”his use of diplomacy and his own protestant sympathies to give Henry the freedom and money he wantsâ€”as the tumultuous life of the court unfolds in scandal and self-interest. Unlike the aristocracy to whom ordinary people are almost an alien species, Cromwell remains aware of the rhythm of common lives and ambitious for the country''s practical needsâ€”roads, better nutrition, even maps . . . Mantel''s prose is clean and straightforward; she evokes the era without wielding archaic forms. Her research never protrudes, but the details paint pictures in the mind''s eye. Dialogue drives much of the narrative, as words are meat and bread to Cromwell . . . Mantel intends a sequel, though so far it is only a title and a box of notes, she has said. Readers who were sorry to see this beguiling, dense, colorful and often funny novel end, will look forward to it."â€”Lynn Harnett, Portsmouth Heraldâ€œThe essential Mantel element . . . is a styleâ€”of writing and of thinkingâ€”that combines steely-eyed intelligence with intense yet wide-ranging sympathy. This style implies enormous respect for her readers, as if she believes that we are as intelligent and empathetic as she is, and one of the acute pleasures of reading her books is that we sometimes find ourselves living up to those expectations. . . . If you are anything like me, you will finish Wolf Hall wishing it were twice as long as its 560 pages. Torn away from this sixteenth-century world, in which you have come to know the engaging, pragmatic Cromwell as if he were your own brotherâ€”as if he were yourselfâ€”you will turn to the Internet to find out more about him . . . But none of this, however instructive will make up for your feeling of loss, because none of this additional material will come clothed in the seductive, inimitable language of Mantelâ€™s great fiction.â€â€”Wendy Lesser, Bookforumâ€œMantel sets a new standard for historical fiction with her latest novel Wolf Hall, a riveting portrait of Thomas Cromwell . . . Mantelâ€™s crystalline style, piercing eye and interest in, shall we say, the darker side of human nature, together with a real respect for historical accuracy, make this novel an engrossing, enveloping read.â€â€”BookPageâ€œThis is in all respects a superior work of fiction, peopled with appealing characters living through a period of tense high drama . . . There will be few novels this year as good as this one.â€â€”Library Journal (starred review)â€œMixing fiction with fact, Mantel captures the atmosphere of the times and brings to life the important players.â€â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1185'),
(2581, 'Wolves of the Calla', 'Stephen King &amp; Bernie Wrightson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Roland of Gilead''s quest to save all worlds from evil continues in this fifth installment of King''s epic tale, which finds the gunslinger and his companions helping the farmers of Calla Bryn Sturgis fight against the terrifying "Wolves" who threaten to kidnap the Calla''s children. Joining them is Father Callahan, who first appeared in King''s second book, ''Salem''s Lot (1975). Using a low, gruff voice that only Clint Eastwood could equal, Guidall aptly captures Roland''s rough-edged character, but it''s often difficult to distinguish between the tenors he employs for the book''s many male characters. Andy the robot, however, is one character that listeners won''t confuse with the others. Wise-guy gunslinger Eddie might compare Andy to Star Wars'' C3PO, both in his "complacent, slightly prissy voice" and his lanky, mechanical appearance, but avid listeners will find that the tone Guidall adopts for Andy more closely resembles that of the beloved 1980s toy Speak &amp; Spell. In the afterword, King thanks the narrator of the first four Dark Tower novels, Frank Muller, whose debilitating motorcycle accident in 2001 prevented him from finishing the series. "[A]udio insists you absorb everything," King notes, and in Muller''s absence, Guidall does a fine job of bringing this epic tale to life.--udio insists you absorb everything," King notes, and in Muller''s absence, Guidall does a fine job of bringing this epic tale to life.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Wizard and Glass\n </em>\n (1997), volume 4 of King''s massive, postapocalyptic, chivalrized western, The Dark Tower, was rather a snooze, not for lack of action but because it was primarily a flashback that drew unmercifully on King''s stash of horse-opera cliches. "''S''all very nice," one thought, "but let''s move it, Steve!" Volume 5--this book--moves it, despite not getting Roland the Gunslinger much nearer the Dark Tower, taking another big backward glance, and continuing to mine an open pit of oater conceits. Roland''s\n <em>\n  ka-tet--\n </em>\n himself and three twentieth-century New Yorkers, all of them now fellow gunslingers--approach a ranching and farming community anticipating a recurrent pestilence. After 23 years, the Wolves are coming from the evil-darkened East to abduct one of every pair of prepubescent twins older than three. The children will be returned, but nearly witless and sterile, doomed to grow immensely and enormously painfully in their middle teens, serve (if not too stupid) as workhorses, and suddenly, painfully wither and die in their early thirties. An erstwhile priest in the community knows what Roland and company are, and he persuades a community to send a committee to ask for their help. Of course, once asked, the code of the gunslinger compels acceptance. Gonna be a humdinger of a fight! Fore and aft of the showdown, King stuffs the book with juice, like the big flashback, in which Pere Callahan reveals his past in . . . ''Salem''s Lot. One of the greatest cavalcades in popular fiction is back on track.\n <em>\n  Ray Olson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/562'),
(2582, 'The Woman in White', 'Wilkie Collins &amp; John Sutherland', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Josephine Bailey and Simon Prebble turn in stellar performances of Collins''s classic, commonly regarded as the world''s first mystery novel. Late one night, on the way to his new post, art teacher Walter Hartright encounters a ghostly woman dressed all in white, tending to a grave. The next day, he meets his new pupils, Laura Fairlie and her half-sister, Marian, and discovers that the sisters have mysterious ties to the woman in white. For a story told by a sequence of first-person narrators, Bailey and Prebble provide well-paced, alternating readings: Prebble''s Hartright is steady, even-keeled, and sensitive; his Marian is bright and clear and blunt. Bailey''s Laura is equally well rendered: kind and young, sad and sweet. The voices both narrators provide the host of other charactersâ€”including the hot-tempered Sir Percival Glyde and the devious Count Foscoâ€”are attended with equal imagination and skill. A must-listen for mystery lovers. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n `with each volume having an introduction by an acknowledged expert, and exhaustive notes, the World''s Classics are surely the most desirable series and, all-round, the best value for money'' Oxford Times\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n `Collins''s mid-Victorian novel is one of the first, and possibly still the greatest, of all literary thrillers.'' The Irish Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1347'),
(2583, 'Word Gets Around', 'Lisa Wingate', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Evangelical Christian novelist Wingate introduced readers to the delightfully homespun what-you-see-is-what-you-get town of Daily, Tex., in\n  <em>\n   Talk of the Town\n  </em>\n  . In this sequel about the city''s happenings and residents, Wingate expands upon the story line and offers readers more lovingly presented Texas talk, charm and romance. Wounded by the death of her husband, Lauren Eldridge is summoned back to Daily by her daddy, who''s gotten himself into a financial pickle. Trying to pay an old debt by risking the ranch, Lauren''s father asks his daughter to come home and tame a wild horse before the movie he''s invested in starts shooting in Daily. Lauren''s first instinct is to run anywhere but home. Still, she braves the emotional journey to help her father, remembering how he supported her after the accident that killed her spouse. What Lauren discovers back home amid familiar faces and places is forgiveness, love and a big, Texas-sized romance. Wingate''s text is funny, to be sure, but a predictable story line detracts from what could have been a more poignant tale.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kelly Rochardâ€™s dream trip to Paris was turning into a nightmare. Almost as soon as she arrives, she isÂ robbed. Fortunately, Will Maguire, a fellow American, comes to Kellyâ€™s rescue by not only helping with the police but by offering to let Kelly stay with him until she can sort things out. Before Kelly realizes it,Â Paris works its romantic magic, and she finds herself caught up in a totally unexpected affair. When sheÂ returns to her old life in South Bend, Indiana, she is determined to put her Parisian fling behind her until Will unexpectedly turns up. Greeneâ€™s latest superbly crafted, richly emotional contemporary romance is chic, charming, and completely romantic. --John Charles\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2362'),
(2584, 'Word of Honor', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n If fiction can assuage the lingering moral pain of the Vietnam War, it''s through the kind of driving honesty coupled with knowledgeability that DeMille (By the Rivers of Babylon) employs here, in a story which, as riveting as The Caine Mutiny but with wider implications, probes the conflicting concepts of honor, duty and loyalty as they relate to an event of the My Lai varietyand assesses blame. Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder. Tyson, confronted by an army authority anxious to save its own face, an embarrassed federal government (which has its own "deal" to propose) and a threatened marriage, and entangled, furthermore, in his own past lives and present sense of guilt, must call on all his lawyer''s cleverness and his own inner toughness to fight his case. The flashbacks to Hue, the pre-trial investigation (involving an attractive female major), the court-martial proceedings, the emotions of the principal characters and the soul-sickness wrought by war (which is the story''s effective subtext)all are depicted with marvelous vividness. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo. Foreign rights: Jack Ellison. November 11\n <br />\n Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This huge and merciless account follows an ordinary corporate man, Ben Tyson, as his Army commission is reactivated so that he can be court-martialed on charges of murder. The events go back 15 years to a hospital in Vietnam where his platoon took heavy action and many civilians died. Did he wantonly kill enemy and civilian alike? The investigation, intended to restore military honor after My Lai, gives no quarter. All the hostile witnesses are called up while friendly witnesses are lost or silent. Tyson''s own sense of honor lets him give only tiny scraps of information even to his attorney. The courtroom sequences are so powerful that most of the other action is like filler. The dialogue rings true and shows a gift for wit and timing. Apart from its unfortunate length and a slightly over-drawn hero, this succeeds as a mature and compassionate statement about Americans at war in Vietnam. Barbara Conaty, Medical Coll. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee\n <br />\n Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1315'),
(2585, 'World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War', 'Max Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n â€œThe end was near.â€ â€”Voices from the Zombie War\n</p>\n<p>\n The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time.\n <em>\n  World War Z\n </em>\n is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.\n</p>\n<p>\n Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, â€œBy excluding the human factor, arenâ€™t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isnâ€™t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as â€˜the living deadâ€™?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eyewitness reports from the first truly global war\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI found â€˜Patient Zeroâ€™ behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although heâ€™d rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was â€˜cursed.â€™ I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boyâ€™s skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse.â€ â€”Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of China\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œâ€˜Shock and Aweâ€™? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy canâ€™t be shocked and awed? Not just wonâ€™t, but biologically canâ€™t! Thatâ€™s what happened that day outside New York City, thatâ€™s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldnâ€™t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! Theyâ€™re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid!â€ â€”Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkers\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTwo hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth.â€ â€”General Travis Dâ€™Ambrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/47');
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(2586, 'World Without End', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide.\n  <em>\n   The Pillars of the Earth\n  </em>\n  is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of\n  <em>\n   The Pillars of the Earth\n  </em>\n  , Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year,\n  <em>\n   World Without End\n  </em>\n  .\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with\n <em>\n  The Pillars of the Earth\n </em>\n , a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmed--"it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you" (\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n )--and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  World Without End\n </em>\n takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of\n <em>\n  The Pillars of the Earth\n </em>\n . The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas--about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human race--the Black Death.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor,\n <em>\n  World Without End\n </em>\n breathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Questions for Ken Follett\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n What a phenomenon\n <em>\n  The Pillars of the Earth\n </em>\n has become. It was a bestseller when it was published in 1989, but it''s only gained in popularity since then--it''s the kind of book that people are incredibly passionate about. What has it been like to see it grow an audience like that?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Follett:\n </strong>\n At first I was a little disappointed that\n <em>\n  Pillars\n </em>\n sold not much better than my previous book. Now I think that was because it was a little different and people were not sure how to take it. As the years went by and it became more and more popular, I felt kind of vindicated. And I was very grateful to readers who spread the news by word of mouth.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Pillars\n </em>\n was a departure for you from your very successful modern thrillers, and after writing it you returned to thrillers. Did you think you''d ever come back to the medieval period? What brought you to do so after 18 years?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Follett:\n </strong>\n The main reason was the way people talk to me about\n <em>\n  Pillars\n </em>\n . Some readers say, "Itâ€™s the best book Iâ€™ve ever read." Others tell me they have read it two or three times. I got to the point where I really had to find out whether I could do that again.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n In\n <em>\n  World Without End\n </em>\n you return to Kingsbridge, the same town as the previous book, but two centuries later. What has changed in two hundred years?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Follett:\n </strong>\n In the time of Prior Philip, the monastery was a powerful force for good in medieval society, fostering education and technological advance. Two hundred years later it has become a wealthy and conservative institution that tries to hold back change. This leads to some of the major conflicts in the story.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n <em>\n  World Without End\n </em>\n features two strong-willed female characters, Caris and Gwenda. What room to maneuver did a medieval English town provide for a woman of ambition?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Follett:\n </strong>\n Medieval people paid lip-service to the idea that women were inferior, but in practice women could be merchants, craftspeople, abbesses, and queens. There were restrictions, but strong women often found ways around them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n When you sit down to imagine yourself into the 14th century, what is the greatest leap of imagination you have to make from our time to theirs? Is there something we can learn from that age that has been lost in our own time?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Follett:\n </strong>\n Itâ€™s hard to imagine being so dirty. People bathed very rarely, and they must have smelled pretty bad. And what was kissing like in the time before toothpaste was invented?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eighteen years after\n <em>\n  Pillars of the Earth\n </em>\n weighed in with almost 1,000 pages of juicy historical fiction about the construction of a 12th-century cathedral in Kingsbridge, England, bestseller Follett returns to 14th-century Kingsbridge with an equally weighty tome that deftly braids the fate of several of the offspring of\n <em>\n  Pillars\n </em>\n '' families with such momentous events of the era as the Black Death and the wars with France. Four children, who will become a peasant''s wife, a knight, a builder and a nun, share a traumatic experience that will affect each of them differently as their lives play out from 1327 to 1361. Follett studs the narrative with gems of unexpected information such as the English nobility''s multilingual training and the builder''s technique for carrying heavy, awkward objects. While the novel lacks the thematic unity of\n <em>\n  Pillars\n </em>\n , readers will be captivated by the four well-drawn central characters as they prove heroic, depraved, resourceful or mean. Fans of Follett''s previous medieval epic will be well rewarded.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/828'),
(2587, 'The World Without Us', 'Alan Weisman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n If a virulent virusâ€”or even the Raptureâ€”depopulated Earth overnight, how long before all trace of humankind vanished? That''s the provocative, and occasionally puckish, question posed by Weisman\n <em>\n  (An Echo in My Blood\n </em>\n ) in this imaginative hybrid of solid science reporting and morbid speculation. Days after our disappearance, pumps keeping Manhattan''s subways dry would fail, tunnels would flood, soil under streets would sluice away and the foundations of towering skyscrapers built to last for centuries would start to crumble. At the other end of the chronological spectrum, anything made of bronze might survive in recognizable form for millions of yearsâ€”along with one billion pounds of degraded but almost indestructible plastics manufactured since the mid-20th century. Meanwhile, land freed from mankind''s environmentally poisonous footprint would quickly reconstitute itself, as in Chernobyl, where animal life has returned after 1986''s deadly radiation leak, and in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, a refuge since 1953 for the almost-extinct goral mountain goat and Amur leopard. From a patch of primeval forest in Poland to monumental underground villages in Turkey, Weisman''s enthralling tour of the world of tomorrow explores what little will remain of ancient times while anticipating, often poetically, what a planet without us would be like.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From The New Yorker\n</h3>\n<p>\n Teasing out the consequences of a simple thought experimentâ€”what would happen if the human species were suddenly extinguishedâ€”Weisman has written a sort of pop-science ghost story, in which the whole earth is the haunted house. Among the highlights: with pumps not working, the New York City subways would fill with water within days, while weeds and then trees would retake the buckled streets and wild predators would ravage the domesticated dogs. Texasâ€™s unattended petrochemical complexes might ignite, scattering hydrogen cyanide to the windsâ€”a "mini chemical nuclear winter." After thousands of years, the Chunnel, rubber tires, and more than a billion tons of plastic might remain, but eventually a polymer-eating microbe could evolve, and, with the spectacular return of fish and bird populations, the earth might revert to Eden.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2007\n <em>\n  Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/119'),
(2588, 'A Wrinkle in Time', 'Madeleine L&#39;Engle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyone in town thinks Meg Murry is volatile and dull-witted, and that her younger brother, Charles Wallace, is dumb. People are also saying that their physicist father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurred on by these rumors and an unearthly stranger, the tesseract-touting Mrs Whatsit, Meg and Charles Wallace and their new friend Calvin O''Keefe embark on a perilous quest through space to find their father. In doing so, they must travel behind the shadow of an evil power that is darkening the cosmos, one planet at a time. This is no superhero tale, nor is it science fiction, although it shares elements of both. The travelers must rely on their individual and collective strengths, delving deep within themselves to find answers.\n</p>\n<p>\n A well-loved classic and 1963 Newbery Medal winner, Madeleine L''Engle''s\n <em>\n  A Wrinkle in Time\n </em>\n is sophisticated in concept yet warm in tone, with mystery and love coursing through its pages. Meg''s shattering, yet ultimately freeing, discovery that her father is not omnipotent provides a satisfying coming-of-age element. Readers will feel a sense of power as they travel with these three children, challenging concepts of time, space, and the triumph of good over evil. The companion books in the Time quartet, continuing the adventures of the Murry family, are\n <em>\n  A Wind in the Door\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  A Swiftly Tilting Planet\n </em>\n , which won the American Book Award; and\n <em>\n  Many Waters\n </em>\n . Every young reader should experience L''Engle''s captivating, occasionally life-changing contributions to children''s literature. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n 1998 marks is the 35th anniversary of\n <em>\n  A Wrinkle in Time\n </em>\n by Madeleine L''Engle. To celebrate, Bantam Doubleday Dell is publishing two wonderful new editions of L''Engle''s Time Quartet, including\n <em>\n  A Wrinkle in Time; A Wind in The Door; A Swiftly Tilting Planet;\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Many Waters.\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In both the new digest and the mass market editions, each title includes a new introduction by the author. Covers of the digest editions are illustrated by Caldecott Honor illustrator Peter SÃs, and the mass market edition covers are illustrated by renowned science fiction and fantasy illustrator Cliff Nielsen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/407'),
(2589, 'Wyrd Sisters (Discworld Series)', 'Terry Pratchett &amp; Victor Gollancz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Terry''s Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meet Granny Weatherwax, the most highly regarded non-leader a coven of non-social witches could ever have. Generally, these loners don''t get involved in anything, mush less royal intrigue. but then there are those times they can''t help it. As Granny Weatherwax is about to discover, though, it''s a lot harder to stir up trouble in the castle than some theatrical types would have you think. Even when you''ve got a few unexpected spells up your sleeve.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n When murder, mayhem and the sudden arrival of a royal baby disturb the monthly cauldron-stirring of three witches, trouble is bound to be brewed up in the little kingdom of Lancre. Kingdoms wobble and crowns topple in this sixth hilarious Discworld adventure!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/314'),
(2590, 'Xenocide', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Orson Scott Card''s\n <em>\n  Xenocide\n </em>\n is a space opera with verve. In this continuation of Ender Wiggin''s story, the Starways Congress has sent a fleet to immolate the rebellious planet of Lusitania, home to the alien race of\n <em>\n  pequeninos\n </em>\n , and home to Ender Wiggin and his family. Concealed on Lusitania is the only remaining Hive Queen, who holds a secret that may save or destroy humanity throughout the galaxy. Familiar characters from the previous novels continue to grapple with religious conflicts and family squabbles while inventing faster-than-light travel and miraculous virus treatments. Throw into the mix an entire planet of mad geniuses and a self-aware computer who wants to be a martyr, and it''s hard to guess who will topple the first domino. Due to the densely woven and melodramatic nature of the story, newcomers to Ender''s tale will want to start reading this series with the first books,\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Speaker for the Dead\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Card returns to the highly popular, award-winning story of Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the boy wonder who saved humanity from alien invasion and, guilt-ridden over his near-total destruction of the alien species, has now become a sort of traveling conscience. This third Ender novel picks up where Speaker for the Dead left off: on the planet Lusitania, Ender and the other human colonists strive to neutralize the "descolada," a possibly sentient virus that adapts itself rapidly to every attack. Meanwhile, tensions are rising between the colonists and the indigenous "pequeninos," who rely on the descolada for their survival; and the fleet sent by Starways Congress to destroy the rebellious colony closes in with its doomsday weapon. With the help of their family, their pequenino friends, and Jane (an artificial intelligence living in the galactic computer network), Ender and his sister Valentine race against time to resolve these crises. The plot is sometimes compelling, but the novel''s many flaws make the book more often dull and irritating. Card''s style is openly didactic, and when his characters do veer away from lengthy philosophical and scientific ruminations, they venture into contrived personality conflicts and endless self-deprecation. Some, notably Ender, Valentine and the wonderchild Wang-mu, are simply too good to be true--too smart, too reasonable, too kind and generous. The reader quickly tires of such impossible perfection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/938'),
(2591, 'The Year of Living Biblically: One Man&#39;s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible', 'A. J. Jacobs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   From the bestselling author of\n  </em>\n  The Know-It-All* comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible.\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to play a ten-string harp; to stone adulterers.\n</p>\n<p>\n The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal and will make you see history''s most influential book with new eyes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jacobs''s quest transforms his life even more radically than the year spent reading the entire\n <em>\n  Encyclopedia Britannica\n </em>\n for\n <em>\n  The Know-It-All\n </em>\n . His beard grows so unruly that he is regularly mistaken for a member of ZZ Top. He immerses himself in prayer, tends sheep in the Israeli desert, battles idolatry, and tells the absolute truth in all situations - much to his wife''s chagrin.\n</p>\n<p>\n Throughout the book, Jacobs also embeds himself in a cross-section of communities that take the Bible literally. He tours a Kentucky-based creationist museum and sings hymns with Pennsylvania Amish. He dances with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn and does Scripture study with Jehovah''s Witnesses. He discovers ancient biblical wisdom of startling relevance. And he wrestles with seemingly archaic rules that baffle the twenty-first-century brain. Jacobs''s extraordinary undertaking yields unexpected epiphanies and challenges. A book that will charm readers both secular and religious,\n <em>\n  The Year of Living Biblically\n </em>\n is part Cliff Notes to the Bible, part memoir, and part look into worlds unimaginable. Thou shalt not be able to put it down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1230'),
(2592, 'The Year of the Flood: A Novel', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood.\n  <em>\n   The Year of the Flood\n  </em>\n  is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God''s Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God''s Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Have others survived? Ren''s bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo''hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can''t stay locked away...\n </p>\n <p>\n  By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious,\n  <em>\n   The Year of the Flood\n  </em>\n  is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Margaret Atwood on *The Year of the Flood\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Iâ€™ve never before gone back to a novel and written another novel related to it. Why this time? Partly because so many people asked me what happened right after the end of the 2003 novel,\n  <em>\n   Oryx and Crake\n  </em>\n  . I didnâ€™t actually know, but the questions made me think about it. That was one reason. Another was that the core subject matter has continued to preoccupy me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When\n  <em>\n   Oryx and Crake\n  </em>\n  came out, it seemed to many like science fiction--way out there, too weird to be possible--but in the three years that passed before I began writing\n  <em>\n   The Year of the Flood\n  </em>\n  , the perceived gap between that supposedly unreal future and the harsh one we might very well live through was narrowing fast. What is happening to our world? What can we do to reverse the damage? How long have we got? And, most importantly--what kind of "we"? In other words, what kind of people might undertake the challenge? Dedicated ones--theyâ€™d have to be. And unless you believe our planet is worth saving, why bother?\n </p>\n <p>\n  So the question of inspirational belief entered the picture, and once you have a set of beliefs--as distinct from a body of measurable knowledge--you have a religion. The Godâ€™s Gardeners appear briefly in\n  <em>\n   Oryx and Crake\n  </em>\n  , but in\n  <em>\n   The Year of the Flood\n  </em>\n  , theyâ€™re central. Like all religions, the Gardeners have their own leader, Adam One. They also have their own honoured saints and martyrs, their special days, their theology. They may look strange and obsessive and even foolish to non-members, but theyâ€™re serious about what they profess; as are their predecessors, who are with us today. Iâ€™ve found out a great deal about rooftop gardens and urban beekeeping while writing this book!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Another question frequently asked about\n  <em>\n   Oryx and Crake\n  </em>\n  concerned gender. Why was the story told by a man? How would it have been different if the narrator had been a woman? Such questions led me to Ren and Toby, and then to their respective lives, and also to their places of refuge. A high-end sex club and a luxury spa would in fact be quite good locations in which to wait out a pandemic plague: at least youâ€™d have bar snacks, and a lot of clean towels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In his book,\n  <em>\n   The Art Instinct\n  </em>\n  , Denis Dutton proposes that our interest in narrative is built in--selected during the very long period the human race spent in the Pleistocene--because any species with the ability to tell stories about both past and future would have an evolutionary edge. Will there be a crocodile in the river tomorrow, as there was last year? If so, better not go there. Speculative fictions about the future, like\n  <em>\n   The Year of the Flood\n  </em>\n  , are narratives of that kind. Where will the crocodiles be? How will we avoid them? What are our chances?\n  <em>\n   --Margaret Atwood\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© George Whiteside)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Signature\n  <em>\n   Reviewed by\n  </em>\n  Marcel TherouxIn her 2002 speculative novel,\n  <em>\n   Oryx and Crake\n  </em>\n  , Margaret Atwood depicted a dystopic planet tumbling toward apocalypse. The world she envisaged was in the throes of catastrophic climate change, its wealthy inhabitants dwelling in sterile secure compounds, its poor ones in the dangerous pleeblands of decaying inner cities. Mass extinctions had taken place, while genetic experiments had populated the planet with strange new breeds of animal: liobams, Mo''Hairs, rakunks. At the end of the book, we left its central character, Jimmy, in the aftermath of a devastating man-made plague, as he wondered whether to befriend or attack a ragged band of strangers. The novel seemed complete, closing on a moment of suspense, as though Atwood was content simply to hint at the direction life would now take. In her profoundly imagined new book,\n  <em>\n   The Year of the Flood\n  </em>\n  , she revisits that same world and its catastrophe. Like\n  <em>\n   Oryx and Crake\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Year of the Flood\n  </em>\n  begins just after the catastrophe and then tracks back in time over the corrupt and degenerate world that preceded it. But while the first novel focused on the privileged elite in the compounds and the morally bankrupt corporations,\n  <em>\n   The Year of the Flood\n  </em>\n  depicts more of the world of the pleebs, an edgy no-man''s land inhabited by criminals, sex workers, dropouts and the few individuals who are trying to resist the grip of the corporations.The novel centers on the lives of Ren and Toby, female members of a fundamentalist sect of Christian environmentalists, the God''s Gardeners. Led by the charismatic Adam One, whose sermons and eco-hymns punctuate the narrative, the God''s Gardeners are preparing for life after the prophesied Waterless Flood. Atwood plays some of their religion for laughs: their hymns have a comically bouncing, churchy rhythm, and we learn that both Ren and Toby have been drawn toward the sect for nonreligious reasons. Yet the gentleness and benignity of the Gardeners is a source of hope as well as humor. As absurd as some of their beliefs appear, Atwood seems to be suggesting that they''re a better option than the naked materialism of the corporations.This is a gutsy and expansive novel, rich with ideas and conceits, but overall it''s more optimistic than\n  <em>\n   Oryx and Crake\n  </em>\n  . Its characters have a compassion and energy lacking in Jimmy, the wounded and floating lothario at the previous novel''s center.Each novel can be enjoyed independently of the other, but what''s perhaps most impressive is the degree of connection between them. Together, they form halves of a single epic. Characters intersect. Plots overlap. Even the tiniest details tessellate into an intricate whole. In the final pages, we catch up with Jimmy once more, as he waits to encounter the strangers. This time around, Atwood commits herself to a dramatic and hopeful denouement that''s in keeping with this novel''s spirit of redemption.\n  <em>\n   Marcel Theroux''s most recent novel,\n  </em>\n  Far North\n  <em>\n   , was published by Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux in June.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/60'),
(2593, 'Yellow Admiral', 'Rugman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At last! Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are back as Patrick O''Brian provides his indomitably loyal fans with another adventure, this one by land as well as by sea. Lucky Jack Aubrey finds himself not so lucky as his troubles amount ashore, his prospects of admiralty dimmed and Sophie''s affection waning. At sea, he fares little better: in the storms off Brest he captures a French privateer ladden with gold and ivory at the expense of missing a signal and deserting his post. And worst of all, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fortunately, Maturin returns from a mission in Chile with news that may help restore Aubrey to good favor with both his beloved navy and wife. Then, off to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Yellow Admiral\n  </strong>\n  is a change of pace, a reversion to the themes of the earlier novels in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Much of the story takes place on land, giving scope to O''Brian''s fascination with the landscape, physical and social, of early nineteenth-century England. In vivid glimpses of various rural pursuits, and nuanced observation of politics and domestic arrangements, O''Brian proves himself ever more surely to be the heir of Jane Austen. Not to say there aren''t some rousing and bloody sea-battles!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As befits a popular and enduring fictional hero, Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy is besieged on all sides in the 18th installment of O''Brian''s splendid 19th-century historical adventure series (The Commodore, etc.). Jack is fighting expensive, possibly ruinous, legal battles with slavers, as well as with rich landowners trying to enclose common lands around his family estate. He must also deal with a Navy superior with a financial interest in the enclosure, who is trying to wreck Jack''s career. (If a captain becomes an admiral without a command he is "in the cant phrase... yellowed"). Jack, on blockade duty off Brittany, frets that the impending peace will indeed yellow him; and he''s also in for some rough marital weather with his wife, Sophie. Meanwhile, the series'' other hero, Irish-Catalan physician Stephen Maturin, who''s Jack''s best friend, connects in "the dark of the moon" with Chilean independence leaders who may hire Jack to head their own young navy. O''Brian is at the top of his elegant form here. He offers a wealth of sly humor (Navy officers'' talk is "really not fit for mixed company because of its profoundly nautical character"), some splendid set pieces (a bare-knuckle boxing match, lively sea actions), characters who are palpably real and, as always, lapidary prose. This is splendid storytelling from a true master. Major ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/297'),
(2594, 'You Belong to Me', 'Mary Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Much like the real-life\n  <em>\n   Dr. Laura Schlessinger\n  </em>\n  , Dr. Susan Chandler, the star of\n  <em>\n   You Belong to Me\n  </em>\n  , is a clinical psychologist who hosts a call-in radio show. She''s bright, sharp-tongued, and even has "shoulder-length dark blonde hair." Fortunately for Dr. Laura, the similarities end there. During an episode of\n  <em>\n   Ask Dr. Susan\n  </em>\n  , Chandler unwittingly gets herself tangled in the web of a dangerous serial killer. It begins innocently enough when Chandler invites Dr. Donald Richards, a criminologist/psychiatrist/author to talk about his book,\n  <em>\n   Vanishing Women\n  </em>\n  and the plight of lonely women who are preyed upon by calculating killers. Chandler is particularly interested in the disappearance of woman named Regina Clausen, a high-profile investment advisor who vanished on a luxury cruise. Chandler feels indebted to Clausen--an investing tip she offered on CNBC turned a modest birthday check into a "bonanza"--so the good doctor uses her radio forum to help crack the case. Sure enough, during the last moments of the show, a nervous, married woman who goes by the name "Karen" calls in with invaluable clues. Apparently, she was almost a victim and can identify the murderer, but is frightened to come forward because of an insanely jealous husband. As Dr. Susan pursues her timid witness and digs deeper into the case, she realizes a hair too late that she is also one of the hunted. The fast-moving story line and easily digestible plot of\n  <em>\n   You Belong to Me\n  </em>\n  is vintage Mary Higgins Clark.\n  <em>\n   --Rebekah Warren\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jayne Atkinson reads this suspenseful work with increasing credibility. Psychologist Susan Chandler, host of a call-in radio show, runs a segment on missing women. These women left behind only the suspicion of foul play. Susan had no way of knowing that the wrong people would be listening that day or that her program would set off another chain of murders with herself poised as the penultimate victim. Atkinson gives the myriad characters unique inflections. She is also effective at tracking the fast-paced point-of-view leaps that mark the abridgment; minor characters are thoroughly introduced and killed off all in a single paragraph. However, the red herrings are particularly well done. Unfortunately, when the killer is finally unmasked, his/her motivations aren''t really defensible not even in the madness of a killer''s mind. Nevertheless, Clark''s popularity and Atkinson''s skill make this a must-buy for public libraries.AJodi Israel, Norwood, MA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1414'),
(2595, 'You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking but Utterly True Facts', 'Cracked.com Staff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In a sea of literary lies, finally a book that will tell you the truth about the things you need to know."\n <br />\n -Sarah Silverman\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Smart, funny, and cool."\n <br />\n -Roger Ebert\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "The funniest, wisest, greatest book ever written! I keep reading and rereading it here in my padded cell!"\n <br />\n -Stan Lee\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n You''re going to wish you never picked up this book.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Some facts are too terrifying to teach in school. Unfortunately, Cracked.com is more than happy to fill you in:\n <br />\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  A zombie apocalypse? It could happen. 50% of humans are infected with a parasite that can take over your brain.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  The FDA wouldn''t let you eat bugs, right? Actually, you might want to put down those jelly beans. And that apple. And that strawberry yogurt.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Think dolphins are our friends? Then these sex-crazed thrill killers of the sea have you right where they want you.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  The most important discovery in the history of genetics? Francis Crick came up with it while on LSD.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Think you''re going to\n  <em>\n   choose\n  </em>\n  whether or not to buy this book? Scientists say your brain secretly makes all your decisions 10 seconds before you even know what they are.\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1324'),
(2596, 'Your Heart Belongs to Me', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the #1New York Timesbestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psycheand the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Here a brilliant young man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts with the most frightening words of all... At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocketuntil the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, he''s diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; it''s his only hope, and it''s dwindling fast. Ryan is about to lose it all...his health, his girlfriend Samantha, and his life. One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Business is good and he hopes to renew his relationship with Samantha. Then the unmarked gifts begin to appeara box of Valentine candy hearts, a heart pendant. Most disturbing of all, a graphic heart surgery video and the chilling message:Your heart belongs to me. In a heartbeat, the medical miracle that gave Ryan a second chance at life is about to become a curse worse than death. For Ryan is being stalked by a mysterious woman who feels entitled to everything he has. She''s the spitting image of the twenty-six-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan''s own chest. And she''s come to take it back. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/548'),
(2597, 'Zeitoun', 'Dave Eggers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From The New Yorker\n</h3>\n<p>\n Through the story of one manâ€™s experience after Hurricane Katrina, Eggers draws an indelible picture of Bush-era crisis management. Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a successful Syrian-born painting contractor, decides to stay in New Orleans and protect his property while his family flees. After the levees break, he uses a small canoe to rescue people, before being arrested by an armed squad and swept powerlessly into a vortex of bureaucratic brutality. When a guard accuses him of being a member of Al Qaeda, he sees that race and culture may explain his predicament. Eggers, compiling his account from interviews, sensibly resists rhetorical grandstanding, letting injustices speak for themselves. His skill is most evident in how closely he involves the reader in Zeitounâ€™s thoughts. Thrown into one of a series of wire cages, Zeitoun speculates, with a contractorâ€™s practicality, that construction of his prison must have begun within a day or so of the hurricane.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n called\n <em>\n  Zeitoun\n </em>\n "the stuff of great narrative fiction," and critics agreed that Eggers tells Zeitoun''s tragic story without the postmodern trickery and tirades he has exhibited in previous works. Instead, he allows the story to tell itself while imbuing Zeitoun''s tragedy with deep sympathy and emotion. Although Eggers didn''t witness Hurricane Katrina''s devastation firsthand, he captures the experience through Zeitoun''s eyes and approaches his subject very intimately. A few critics noted that while this perspective was convincing, it required "faith on the part of the reader that everything in the book happened as it appears here" (\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n ). But this was a minor complaint in an overall unforgettable story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/870'),
(2598, 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values', 'Robert M. Pirsig', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n At its heart, the story is all too simple: a man and his son take a lengthy motorcycle trip through America. But this is not a simple trip at all, for around every corner, through mountain and desert, wind and rain, and searing heat and biting cold, their pilgrimage leads them to new vistas of self-discovery and renewal.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mantenance\n </em>\n is an elemental work that has helped to shape and define the past twenty-five years of American culture. This special audio edition presents this adventure in a compelling way - for the millions who have already taken this journey and want to travel these roads again, and for the many more who will discover for the first time the wonders and challenges of a journey that will change the way they think and feel about their lives.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n The extraordinary story of a man''s quest for truth. It will change the way you think and feel about your life The cycle you''re working on is a cycle called ''yourself,'' Robert M. Pirsig says. The study of the art of motorcycle maintainence is really a study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. The book details a cross-country motorcycle trip by a man and his 11-year-old son, as well as his quest for truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/289'),
(2599, 'Zen in the Art of Writing', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Every morning I jump out of bed and step onÂ Â a land mine. The land mine is me. After theÂ Â explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting theÂ Â pieces back together. Now, it''s your turn. Jump!"Â Â Zest. Gusto. Curiosity. These are the qualitiesÂ Â every writer must have, as well as a spirit ofÂ Â adventure. In this exuberant book, the incomparableÂ Â Ray Bradbury shares the wisdom, experience, andÂ Â excitement of a lifetime of writing. Here areÂ Â practical tips on the art of writing from a master ofÂ Â the craft-everything from finding original ideas toÂ Â developing your own voice and style-as well as theÂ Â inside story of Bradbury''s own remarkable careerÂ Â as a prolific author of novels, stories, poems,Â Â films, and plays. Zen In The Art OfÂ Â Writing is more than just a how-to manual for theÂ Â would-be writer: it is a celebration of the act ofÂ Â writing itself that will delight, impassion, andÂ Â inspire the writer in you. In it, BradburyÂ Â encourages us to follow the unique path of our instinctsÂ Â and enthusiasms to the place where our inner geniusÂ Â dwells, and he shows that success as a writerÂ Â depends on how well you know one subject: your ownÂ Â life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1016'),
(2600, 'Zero History', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Another smartly scouted roadmap of alternate routes through today''s global culture, applauded the\n <em>\n  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\n </em>\n , and the other critics agreed. Gibson leads readers on a wild adventure that encompasses fashion, the military-industrial complex, viral marketing, behavioral anthropology, addiction, and even base jumping, weaving all of these distinctive threads into a satisfyingly cohesive whole. A couple reviewers cited some implausible plot twists and exaggerated characters, but most praised Gibson''s increased focus on his characters, his razor-sharp prose, and his incisive observations on modern culture. Hailed as the funniest and lightest of Gibson''s books to date,\n <em>\n  Zero History\n </em>\n stands well alone, but readers already familiar with the series'' previous titles will find this last installment much more rewarding.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a gig investigating â€œlocative artâ€ for the â€œoverly wealthy and dangerously curiousâ€ Hubertus Bigend, founder of the trend-forecasting firm Blue Ant (Spook Country, 2007), Hollis Henry finds herself once again under Bigend''s employ. This time she is hired to discover the identity of the designer of a secret brand of clothing called Gabriel Hounds, whom Bigend hopes to enlist in his bid to get into the design, contracting, and manufacture of U.S. military clothing (and its inevitable spin-off into the mainstream consumer market). Military contracting, according to Bigend, is essentially recession proof. Meanwhile, the translator and cryptologist Milgrim (also returning from Spook Country), a former Ativan addict (now in recovery on Bigend''s dime) with â€œzero historyâ€ (being off the grid, he has no credit or address history), is asked to assist Hollis in her investigation. What begins as a seemingly innocent apparel-related project takes on more sinister overtones when the two are followed from London to Paris by a competitor with shady dealings in the arms trade and a personal ax to grind with Milgrim. Gibson, who made a name with Neuromancer (1984) and other speculative takes on new technologies, returns to his familiar concerns with hacker culture, surveillance, paranoia, and viral marketing, with occasional digressions into the semiotics of fashion and celebrity and references to cosplay, base jumping, and the Festo AirPenguin (look it up). --Ben Segedin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/735'),
(2601, 'The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead', 'Max Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this outrageous parody of a survival guide, Saturday Night Live staff writer Brooks prepares humanity for its eventual battle with zombies. One would expect the son of Mel Brooks to have a genetic predisposition to humor, and indeed, he does, and he exhibits it relentlessly here: he outlines virtually every possible zombie-human encounter, drafts detailed plans for defense and attack and outlines past recorded attacks dating from 60,000 B.C. to 2002. In planning for that catastrophic day when "the dead rise," Brooks urges readers to get to know themselves, their bodies, their weaponry, their surroundings and, just in case, their escape routes. Some of the book''s more amusing aspects are the laughable analyses Brooks proposes on all aspects of zombiehood, and the specificity with which he enumerates the necessary actions for survival-i.e., a member of an anti-zombie team must be sure to have with him at all times two emergency flares, a signaling mirror, daily rations, a personal mess kit and two pairs of socks. Comic, though unnecessarily exhaustive, this is a good bet for Halloween gag gifts and fans of Bored of the Rings-esque humor. 100 line drawings.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "''So meticulous and well researched that it''s more scary than funny. This book lays out everything you need to know to protect yourself from flesh-eating monsters'' - Esquire ''A bloody-minded, straight laced manual for evading the grasp of the undead'' - Time Out ''A tome you start reading for fun and then at page 50 you go out and buy a machete just to be on the safe side'' - New York Post ''Ignorance is the undead''s strongest ally, knowledge their deadliest enemy. Personal choice, the will to live, must be paramount when the dead begin to rise. The choice is up to you.'' (from The Zombie Survival Guide)"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.dayhomeimprovements.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/42'),
(2602, '127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place', 'Aron Ralston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Ralston manages to keep the tension flowing throughout . . . alternating each chapter of angst-ridden, present-tense narrative with a cosier chapter of climbing nostalgia. This lends the book a Hitchcockian rhythm, see-sawing neatly between calm and tension. . . . . He is somehow able to chronicle the ebb and flow of his thoughts and feelings during his ordeal with an exactness that gives his book the emotional pull of a psychological thriller.''\n</p>\n<p>\n Craig Brown, book of the week in the MAIL ON SUNDAY\n</p>\n<p>\n ''Ralston is a passionate man who has lived his life resolutely pursuing this passion. His fortitude in his dire predicament was, as he would say, awesome, and from this it is possible to learn much about hope in the face of overwhelming odds.''\n</p>\n<p>\n Toby Clements, DAILY TELEGRAPH\n</p>\n<p>\n ''Heroic, searing and compelling'' Benedict Allen ''[This book has] the emotional pull of a psychological thriller''\n</p>\n<p>\n MAIL ON SUNDAY\n</p>\n<p>\n ''A gripping book . . . It not only details his entrapment and escape but tells vivid tales of extreme mountaineering prior to that defining misadventure''\n</p>\n<p>\n Joanna Walters, DAILY EXPRESS\n</p>\n<p>\n ''Ralston is superb at evoking the epic beauty of the land, and his description of his ordeal is riveting: think Touching the Void directed by Tarantino''\n</p>\n<p>\n Sarfraz Manzoor, NEW STATESMAN\n</p>\n<p>\n ''Riveting . . . if you only read one adventure book this year, this is it''\n</p>\n<p>\n THE GREAT OUTDOORS\n</p>\n<p>\n ''Here is one man''s heroic struggle with the infinite, a searing and compelling read. Aron Ralston tells his agonizing, inspiring tale of survival with all the verve and honesty you''d expect of someone who somehow found inspiration even in the face of a lonely death.''\n</p>\n<p>\n Benedict Allen\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n THE â€œEXTRAORDINARYâ€ (_Booklist_) #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERâ€”THE â€œHARROWINGâ€ (_The Washington Post_) SURVIVORâ€™S MEMOIR YOU WILL NEVER FORGET\n</p>\n<p>\n Aron Ralston, an experienced twenty-seven-year-old outdoorsman, was on a dayâ€™s solitary hike through a remote and narrow Utah canyon when he dislodged an eight-hundred- pound boulder that crushed his right hand and wrist against the canyon wall. Emerging from the searing pain, Aron found himself completely stuck. No one knew where he was; no one was coming to rescue him. With scant water and food, and a cheap pocketknife his only tool, he eliminated his options one by one. On the fifth night, wracked by delirium and uncontrollable shivers, Aron scratched his epitaph into the rock wall, certain he would not see daylight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet with the new morning came an epiphany: if he could use the rockâ€™s vise-like hold to break his arm bones, his blunted pocketknife could serve as a surgeonâ€™s blade. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/634'),
(2603, '1984', 'Orwell, George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(2604, '2001 - A Space Odyssey', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
(2605, '2010: Odyssey Two', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(2606, '2061: Odyssey Three', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(2607, '3001: The Final Odyssey', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(2608, '4.50 From Paddington', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/2');
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(2611, 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter', 'Grahame-Smith, Seth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/66'),
(2612, 'After the Funeral', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/67'),
(2613, 'Airframe', 'Crichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/68'),
(2614, 'The Alchemist', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/327'),
(2615, 'Alex Cross 1 - Along Came A Spider', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/69'),
(2616, 'Alex Cross 10 - London Bridges', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(2617, 'Alex Cross 11 - Mary, Mary', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(2618, 'Alex Cross 12 - Cross', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/19'),
(2619, 'Alex Cross 13 - Double Cross', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(2620, 'Alex Cross 14 - Cross Country', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
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(2623, 'Alex Cross 2 - Kiss the Girls', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/70'),
(2624, 'Alex Cross 3 - Jack and Jill', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/71'),
(2625, 'Alex Cross 4 - Cat and Mouse', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/72'),
(2626, 'Alex Cross 5 - Pop Goes the Weasel', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/73'),
(2627, 'Alex Cross 6 - Roses Are Red', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/74'),
(2628, 'Alex Cross 7 - Violets Are Blue', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/75'),
(2629, 'Alex Cross 8 - Four Blind Mice', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(2630, 'Alex Cross 9 - The Big Bad Wolf', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(2631, 'Alvin Maker 1 - Seventh Son', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
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(2633, 'Alvin Maker 3 - Prentice Alvin', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(2634, 'Alvin Maker 4 - Journeyman', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(2635, 'Alvin Maker 5 - Heart Fire', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(2636, 'Alvin Maker 6 - The Crystal City', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/45'),
(2637, 'The Amber Spyglass', 'Pullman, Philip', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/328'),
(2638, 'The Ambler Warning', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/329'),
(2639, 'American Gods', 'Gaiman, Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(2640, 'American Psycho', 'Ellis, Bret Easton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/50'),
(2641, 'Anansi Boys', 'Gaiman, Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/51'),
(2642, 'Anathem', 'Stephenson, Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/53'),
(2643, 'And Another Thing', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/57'),
(2644, 'And Then There Were None', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/58'),
(2645, 'Angels &amp; Demons', 'Brown, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An ancient secret brotherhood.A devastating new weapon of destruction.When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.Langdon''s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican''s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.An explosive international thriller, Angels &amp; Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
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(2648, 'The Apocalypse Watch', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/630'),
(2649, 'The Appeal', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/210'),
(2650, 'Appointment with Death', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/79'),
(2651, 'Apt Pupil', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/80'),
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(2654, 'The Associate', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/213'),
(2655, 'At Bertram&#39;s Hotel', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(2656, 'At First Sight', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/85'),
(2657, 'Atlas Shrugged', 'Rand, Ayn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/87'),
(2658, 'The Audacity of Hope', 'Obama, Barack', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/214'),
(2659, 'Barrel Fever', 'Sedaris, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/88'),
(2660, 'The Beach House', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/217'),
(2661, 'Beach Road', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/91'),
(2662, 'A Bend in the Road', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(2663, 'The Best of Me', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Author Nicholas Sparks\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : What was your inspiration for writing\n  <em>\n   The Best of Me\n  </em>\n  ?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : I suppose the inspiration was two-fold. It had been a long time since Iâ€™d done a â€œreunionâ€ story (like\n  <em>\n   The Notebook\n  </em>\n  ) so it was time to do another. At the same time, I wanted it to be different than The Notebook in almost every way. At the same time, I wanted to write a novel about characters in their forties. At that age, people are coming to terms with the decisions and choices theyâ€™ve made in the past.\n  <em>\n   The Best of Me\n  </em>\n  was essentially a combination of those two ideas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : This book deals with falling in love for the first time and how sometimes that love is so strong it can cross the span of time and space no matter what happens. Is that something you believe in?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : Yes, I believe itâ€™s possible. First love is always powerful, and for some people, that love really does last forever. The problem with that, however, is that over time, the love often becomes romanticized. I wanted to write a novel that explored that concept as well. Neither Dawson nor Amanda are the same people theyâ€™d been when they were younger, and little by little, that romanticism diminishes over the course of the story. For them, however, the new reality nonetheless left them feeling the same way about each other as they once had. And yet, they fell in love once more. Or maybe, phrasing it differently, they never fell out of love in the first place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : Former high school sweethearts Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole reconnect after 25 years when their mentor, Tuck Hostetler, dies and they are summoned back to Oriental, North Carolina for his funeral. One of things that drove Amanda and Dawson apart was that they were from the opposite side of the tracks. Are class differences still a part of everyday life in a town like Oriental, North Carolina?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : Class differences arenâ€™t as powerful as they once were, but theyâ€™re still prevalent. I donâ€™t know, however, if itâ€™s limited to places like Oriental, and nor do I see it as entirely and without question a terrible thing. People who intend to spend their lives together should have things in common, and like it or not, class is, and always has been, part of that, because it shapes the people that we are.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With Amanda and Dawson--and many others in the real world, of course--the class differences were less important than their similarities. Neither one of them got along with their parents, both were intelligent, both had dreams, and over the years, both of them had disappointments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : Today, we can easily reconnect with people from our past via Facebook and other social networking sites. How often do you think people try to find their first love on these sites?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : Itâ€™s very common. I know people whoâ€™ve reconnected with someone from their past then later married them, but thatâ€™s probably less common than simply reaching out via social media to an old boyfriend or girlfriend simply to find out whatâ€™s been going on in their lives. I can understand the draw: First love is powerful because itâ€™s a first, and itâ€™s almost impossible to forget.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : At the point when Amanda and Dawson reconnect, Amanda has been married almost twenty years and itâ€™s clear she is having problems in her marriage. Having been married for 22 years yourself, what would you say is the key to a successful marriage?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : For every couple, itâ€™s different, because every couple faces different challenges, and every person has differing abilities when it comes to meeting those challenges. The key to any successful marriage is to realize that the commitment you once made to each other is the most important aspect to keep in mind. That simple truth, if truly felt, should be enough to make you realize that you canâ€™t put that commitment at risk. If your partner feels the same way, he or she wouldnâ€™t put that commitment at risk either.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the same time, itâ€™s important to understand that all marriages have challenging periods. No one is perfect, after all. But if the commitment to each other--which sometimes requires a commitment to change--is truly felt, then most likely, that marriage will be successful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : This book has a large, spiritual component to it. Tuck sees Clara, his dead wife, and Dawson sees a man in a blue windbreaker, although he is not sure who he is and the reader does not find out until the end. Do you believe in ghosts?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : I think I do. I had an experience much like the one Dawson described: at times, I could see unexplainable movement from the corners of my eyes. Quick, instantaneous movements that vanished before I could turn my head. If you talk to the owners of the house where those events occurred, they will swear it was a ghost. Other events occurred in that house as well before the â€œghostâ€--or whatever it was--was finally exorcised from the premises. But thatâ€™s a longer story for another time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : There is an absolutely stunning scene that unfolds when Amanda and Dawson go to Tuckâ€™s country cottage for the first time. Itâ€™s very reminiscent of a scene that happens in\n  <em>\n   The Notebook.\n  </em>\n  Would you say this book, which examines young love versus middle age love, is the book closest in sentiment to\n  <em>\n   The Notebook?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : Without question, this is closest in sentiment--at least through the majority of the story â€“ when compared to The Notebook. I wanted to do exactly that. At the same time, I wanted to make everything else about the story completely different as well, and Iâ€™m hopeful I did that as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : Tuck writes letters to Amanda and Dawson to be read after he is dead. They are wise and beautifully written. In this day and age of constant, electronic overload, do you lament the lost art of letter writing?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : I do. I love letters as opposed to e-mail. But Iâ€™m old-fashioned that way.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : Warner Bros. has already bought the film rights to\n  <em>\n   The Best of Me\n  </em>\n  . You will be a producer on this film along with Denise DiNovi. How often is an author also a producer for the movie version of a book he/she has written? Is this unprecedented?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : Iâ€™m sure other authors have served as a producer of their work; some have even directed. But it was somewhat unprecedented for Warner to agree to that â€“ and purchase the novel--before Iâ€™d written a single page.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q\n  </strong>\n  : Of all the movies based on your novels, which is your favorite?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n  </strong>\n  : Iâ€™ve been fortunate in that all the movies have been well-done and all have been successful, so I donâ€™t have a personal favorite. I can say, however, is that, at the current time, The Notebook seems most likely to become a classic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Photo by Nina Subin\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She''d believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew -- about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear -- was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead:\n  <em>\n   Can love truly rewrite the past?\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/643'),
(2664, 'The Big Four', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/218'),
(2665, 'Black Coffee', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/93'),
(2666, 'Black Hawk Down', 'Bowden, Mark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
(2667, 'The Bleachers', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/221'),
(2668, 'The Blind Side', 'Lewis, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/222'),
(2669, 'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking', 'Gladwell, Malcolm', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/96'),
(2670, 'The Body in the Library', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/224'),
(2671, 'Bond 1 - Casino Royale', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(2672, 'Bond 10 - The Spy Who Loved Me', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/112'),
(2673, 'Bond 11 - On Her Majesty&#39;s Secret Service', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/113'),
(2674, 'Bond 12 - You Only Live Twice', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/115'),
(2675, 'Bond 13 - The Man With The Golden Gun', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/116'),
(2676, 'Bond 2 - Live and Let Die', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/99'),
(2677, 'Bond 3 - Moonraker', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(2678, 'Bond 4 - Diamonds Are Forever', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/102'),
(2679, 'Bond 5 - From Russia with Love', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(2680, 'Bond 6 - Dr. No', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/107'),
(2681, 'Bond 7 - Goldfinger', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/108'),
(2682, 'Bond 8 - For Your Eyes Only', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/110'),
(2683, 'Bond 9 - Thunderball', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/111'),
(2684, 'The Book of Useless Information', 'Botham, Noel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/226'),
(2685, 'Border Trilogy 1 - All the Pretty Horses', 'McCarthy, Cormac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/118'),
(2686, 'Border Trilogy 2 - The Crossing', 'McCarthy, Cormac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/537'),
(2687, 'Border Trilogy 3 - Cities of The Plain', 'McCarthy, Cormac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/538'),
(2688, 'Born To Be Riled', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/541'),
(2689, 'Bourne Trilogy 1 - The Bourne Identity', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/543'),
(2690, 'Bourne Trilogy 2 - The Bourne Supremacy', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/544'),
(2691, 'Bourne Trilogy 3 - The Bourne Ultimatum', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/545'),
(2692, 'Brain Droppings', 'Carlin, George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/547'),
(2693, 'Brave New World', 'Huxley, Aldous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/548'),
(2694, 'Breathless', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/550'),
(2695, 'The Brethren', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/230'),
(2696, 'A Brief History of Time', 'Hawking, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(2697, 'A Briefer History of Time', 'Hawking, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(2698, 'The Broker', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open any door in Washington." That is, until he tried to broker a deal selling access to the world''s most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder. When caught, Backman accepted prison as the one option that would keep him safe and alive, since the interested parties (the Israelis, the Saudis, the Russians, and the Chinese) were all itching to get their hands on his secrets at any cost. Little does he know that his own government has designs on accessing that information--or at least letting it die with him. Now, six years after his incarceration, the director of the CIA convinces a lame duck president to pardon Backman, and the broker becomes a free man--and an open target.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/231'),
(2699, 'By The Pricking of My Thumbs', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/553'),
(2700, 'By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/557'),
(2701, 'Cards on the Table', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/558'),
(2702, 'A Caribbean Mystery', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(2703, 'A Case of Conscience', 'MacLeod, Ken', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(2704, 'Cat Among the Pigeons', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/564'),
(2705, 'Catch-22', 'Heller, Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/568'),
(2706, 'The Catcher in the Rye', 'Salinger, J.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/235'),
(2707, 'Catching Fire', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Gr 7 Up--Every year in Panem, the dystopic nation that exists where the U.S. used to be, the Capitol holds a televised tournament in which two teen "tributes" from each of the surrounding districts fight a gruesome battle to the death. In\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  , Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, the tributes from impoverished District Twelve, thwarted the Gamemakers, forcing them to let both teens survive. In this rabidly anticipated sequel, Katniss, again the narrator, returns home to find herself more the center of attention than ever. The sinister President Snow surprises her with a visit, and Katnissâ€™s fear when Snow meets with her alone is both palpable and justified.\n  <em>\n   Catching Fire\n  </em>\n  is divided into three parts: Katniss and Peetaâ€™s mandatory Victory Tour through the districts, preparations for the 75th Annual Hunger Games, and a truncated version of the Games themselves. Slower paced than its predecessor, this sequel explores the nation of Panem: its power structure, rumors of a secret district, and a spreading rebellion, ignited by Katniss and Peetaâ€™s subversive victory. Katniss also deepens as a character. Though initially bewildered by the attention paid to her, she comes almost to embrace her status as the rebelsâ€™ symbolic leader. Though more of the story takes place outside the arena than within, this sequel has enough action to please\n  <em>\n   Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  fans and leaves enough questions tantalizingly unanswered for readers to be desperate for the next installment.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Reviewers were happy to report that the\n  <em>\n   Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  trilogy is alive and well, and all looked forward to the third book in the series after this one''s stunning conclusion. But they disagreed over whether\n  <em>\n   Catching Fire\n  </em>\n  was as good as the original book\n  <em>\n   Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  or should be viewed as somewhat of a "sophomore slump." Several critics who remained unconvinced by Katniss''s romantic dilemma made unfavorable comparisons to the human-vampire-werewolf love triangle in Stephenie Meyer''s\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  series. But most reviewers felt that\n  <em>\n   Catching Fire\n  </em>\n  was still a thrill because Collins replicated her initial success at balancing action, violence, and heroism in a way that will enthrall young readers without giving them (too many) nightmares.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/641'),
(2708, 'Cell', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/569'),
(2709, 'The Chamber', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/236'),
(2710, 'Change of Heart', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/571'),
(2711, 'Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang', 'Handler, Chelsea', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***WHAT . . . A RIOT! *** Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."**** EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***WHAT . . . A RIOT! *** Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/574'),
(2712, 'Childhood&#39;s End', 'Clarke, Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/575'),
(2713, 'The Children Of Hurin', 'J.R.R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/245'),
(2714, 'Children of Men', 'James, P. D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/577'),
(2715, 'Choke', 'Palahniuk, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/581'),
(2716, 'Christine', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Evil is alive in Libertyville. It inhabits a custom painted Red and White 1958 Plymouth Fury and the teenage boy, Arnold Cunningham, who buys it from the strange Roland LeBay.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Helped by Arnold''s girlfriend Leigh Cabot, Dennis Guilder embarks to find out the real truth behind Christine and finds more than he bargained for: From murder, to suicide, and a strange feeling that surrounds Christine - she gets even with anyone that crosses her! Can Dennis save Arnold from the evil that is Christine?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/582'),
(2717, 'Clarkson on Cars', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/587'),
(2718, 'The Client', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/246'),
(2719, 'The Clocks', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/247'),
(2720, 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Burgess, Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(2721, 'A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers', 'McDonald, G. Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(2722, 'Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst', 'Reingold, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/591'),
(2723, 'Congo', 'Crichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/592'),
(2724, 'Coraline', 'Gaiman, Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/593'),
(2725, 'Covert One 1 - The Hades Factor', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/596'),
(2726, 'Covert One 2 - The Cassandra Compact', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/599'),
(2727, 'Covert One 3 - The Paris Option', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/601'),
(2728, 'Covert One 4 - The Altman Code', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/606'),
(2729, 'Covert One 5 - The Lazarus Vendetta', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/608'),
(2730, 'Covert One 7 - The Arctic Event', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/610'),
(2731, 'Cradle and All', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/611'),
(2732, 'Crash', 'Ballard, J.G.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/612'),
(2733, 'Crooked House', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/613'),
(2734, 'The Cry Of The Halidon', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/249'),
(2735, 'Cryptonomicon', 'Stephenson, Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/614'),
(2736, 'Cujo', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/615'),
(2737, 'The Curse of Lono', 'Thompson, Hunter S', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/250'),
(2738, 'Curtain', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/616'),
(2739, 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Brown, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory''s ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever.THE DA VINCI CODE heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thrillerâ€¦utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/251'),
(2740, 'Dark Pitt 3 - Iceberg', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/617'),
(2741, 'Darktower 1 - The Gunslinger', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/618'),
(2742, 'Darktower 2 - The Drawing of the Three', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/619'),
(2743, 'Darktower 3 - The Waste Lands', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/620'),
(2744, 'Darktower 4 - Wizard and Glass', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/621'),
(2745, 'Darktower 5 - The Wolves of the Calla', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/622'),
(2746, 'DarkTower 7 - The Dark Tower', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/624'),
(2747, 'The Day It Rained Forever', 'Bradbury, Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/252'),
(2748, 'Dead Man&#39;s Folly', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/625'),
(2749, 'Dear John', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/626'),
(2750, 'Death Comes as the End', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/627'),
(2751, 'Death in the Clouds', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/628'),
(2752, 'Death on the Nile', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/530'),
(2753, 'Deception Point', 'Brown, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Da Vinci Code* comes an explosive, high-tech thriller that takes readers from the chilling depths of the Arctic Ocean to the treacherous heights of Washington power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Deception Point,* bestselling author Dan Brown transports readers from the ultrasecret National Reconnaissance Office to the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle, and back again to the hallways of power inside the West Wing. Heralded for masterfully intermingling science, history, and politics in his critically acclaimed, blockbuster thrillers *Angels &amp; Demons* and *The Da Vinci Code,* Brown has crafted a novel in which nothing is as it seems -- and behind every corner is a stunning surprise. *Deception Point* is pulse-pounding fiction at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/531'),
(2754, 'Destination Unknown', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/532'),
(2755, 'The Devil and Miss Prym', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/253'),
(2756, 'Dexter 3 - Dexter in the Dark', 'Lindsay, Jeff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/535'),
(2757, 'Dexter 4 - Dexter by Design', 'Lindsay, Jeff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/536'),
(2758, 'Diamond Age', 'Stephenson, Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/539'),
(2759, 'Diary', 'Palahniuk, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/540'),
(2760, 'Digital fortress', 'Brown, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A computer whiz takes on the government in defense of the right to privacy. On hearing the National Security Agency has secretly installed a program that can read anyone''s e-mail, Ensei Tankado comes up with a program to paralyze it. A conflict ensues and people die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/542'),
(2761, 'Dirk Gently 1 - Dirk Gently&#39;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/546'),
(2762, 'Dirk Gently 2 - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/549'),
(2763, 'Dirk Pitt 1 - Pacific Vortex', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/551'),
(2764, 'Dirk Pitt 10 - Dragon', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/562'),
(2765, 'Dirk Pitt 11 - Sahara', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/563'),
(2766, 'Dirk Pitt 12 - Inca Gold', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/565'),
(2767, 'Dirk Pitt 13 - Shock Wave', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/566'),
(2768, 'Dirk Pitt 14 - Flood Tide', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/567'),
(2769, 'Dirk Pitt 15 - Atlantis Found', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/572'),
(2770, 'Dirk Pitt 17 - Trojan Odyssey', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/573'),
(2771, 'Dirk Pitt 18 - Black Wind', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/576'),
(2772, 'Dirk Pitt 18 - Valhalla Rising', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/578'),
(2773, 'Dirk Pitt 2 - The Mediterranean Caper', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/552'),
(2774, 'Dirk Pitt 4 - Raise The Titanic', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/554'),
(2775, 'Dirk Pitt 5 - Vixen 03', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/555'),
(2776, 'Dirk Pitt 6 - Night Probe!', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/556'),
(2777, 'Dirk Pitt 7 - Deep Six', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/559'),
(2778, 'Dirk Pitt 8 - Cyclops', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/560'),
(2779, 'Dirk Pitt 9 - Treasure', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/561'),
(2780, 'Discworld 01 - The Colour of Magic', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/579'),
(2781, 'Discworld 02 - The Light Fantastic', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/580'),
(2782, 'Discworld 03 - Equal Rites', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/583'),
(2783, 'Discworld 04 - Mort', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/584'),
(2784, 'Discworld 05 - Sourcery', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/585'),
(2785, 'Discworld 06 - Wyrd Sisters', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/586'),
(2786, 'Discworld 07 - Pyramids', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/588'),
(2787, 'Discworld 08 - Guards! Guards!', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/589'),
(2788, 'Discworld 09 - Eric', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/590'),
(2789, 'Discworld 10 - Moving Pictures', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/594');
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(2791, 'Discworld 12 - Witches Abroad', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/597'),
(2792, 'Discworld 13 - Small Gods', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/598'),
(2793, 'Discworld 14 - Lords and Ladies', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/600'),
(2794, 'Discworld 15 - Men at Arms', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/602'),
(2795, 'Discworld 16 - Soul Music', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/603'),
(2796, 'Discworld 17 - Interesting Times', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/604'),
(2797, 'Discworld 18 - Maskerade', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/605'),
(2798, 'Discworld 19 - Feet of Clay', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/607'),
(2799, 'Discworld 20 - Hogfather', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/609'),
(2800, 'Discworld 21 - Jingo', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/629'),
(2801, 'Discworld 22 - The Last Continent', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/448'),
(2802, 'Discworld 23 - Carpe Jugulum', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/449'),
(2803, 'Discworld 24 - Fifth Elephant', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/450'),
(2804, 'Discworld 26 - The Thief of Time', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/451'),
(2805, 'Discworld 27 - The Last Hero', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/453'),
(2806, 'Discworld 28 - The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/454'),
(2807, 'Discworld 29 - Night Watch', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/456'),
(2808, 'Discworld 30 - Monstrous Regiment', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/457'),
(2809, 'Discworld 30 - Thud!', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/459'),
(2810, 'Discworld 31 - The Wee Free Men', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/460'),
(2811, 'Discworld 32 - A Hat Full Of Sky', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/461'),
(2812, 'Discworld 33 - Going Postal', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/464'),
(2813, 'Discworld 35 - Wintersmith', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/466'),
(2814, 'Discworld 36 - Making Money', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/467'),
(2815, 'Discworld 37 - Unseen Academicals', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/468'),
(2816, 'Disworld 25 - The Truth', 'Pratchett, Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/470'),
(2817, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', 'Dick, Philip K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/471'),
(2818, 'Don&#39;t Stop Me Now', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/473'),
(2819, 'Dragon Tears', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/475'),
(2820, 'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim', 'Sedaris, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother''s wedding. He mops his sister''s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn''t it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motivesà¸a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love.\n <i>\n  Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim\n </i>\n is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/476'),
(2821, 'Drive', 'Pink, Daniel H.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/480'),
(2822, 'Driving Blind', 'Bradbury, Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/481'),
(2823, 'Duma Key', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/483'),
(2824, 'Dumb Witness', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/484'),
(2825, 'Dune', 'Herbert, Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/485'),
(2826, 'The Eaters of the Dead', 'Crichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/254'),
(2827, 'The Elegant Universe', 'Greene, Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/255'),
(2828, 'Elephants Can Remember', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/488'),
(2829, 'Eleven Minutes', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/489'),
(2830, 'Ender in Exile', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/490'),
(2831, 'Enders Game 1 - Ender&#39;s Game', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ender''s Game Nebula and Hugo Award Winner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From its first publication in January 1985, Ender''s Game quickly became a classic in the science fiction field. It was greeted enthusiastically by the Science Fiction Writers of America, which gave it the Nebula Award for best novel of 1985, and the 1986 World Science Fiction Convention awarded Ender''s Game the best novel Hugo. (What really stunned everyone was the following year, when the sequel, Speaker for the Dead, also won both awards -- something no author had ever done before, still less for a book and its sequel!) While Card has gone on to win other awards (two more Hugos, a World Fantasy Award, and in 1996 the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel of the year for his book Alvin Journeyman), Ender''s Game continues to be his most popular novel, capturing the imagination of children, teenagers, and adults. Ender''s Game has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Swedish. Why does the story work so well? Many people call it "the science fiction novel for people who don''t think they like science fiction." While the trappings of science fiction are there -- spaceships, aliens, futuristic machinery -- the reason the book works for so many people is that it''s first and foremost a human story, of a boy who finds the burdens of the world placed on his back. Isolated and alone, his anguish resonates in the hearts of all readers. Yes, kids who read the book really enjoy the whole idea of the Battle School, a three-dimensional playspace where children in special suits have mock combats between armies. Others are intrigued by the military aspects of the book. When the Marine University at Quantico required students in one class to read Ender''s Game, it wasn''t for the strategy -- tactics in 3D space aren''t really a big deal for the Marines. Rather, it was because Ender''s Game is virtually a textbook in how to develop a strong relationship between a commander and his troops -- with plenty of examples also in how to fail as a commander. Other people -- especially in the online community -- love Ender''s Game because of the powerful role it shows for computer networks in the world of the future. The Internet has taken a few steps in the direction shown by Ender''s Game, but we''re still a long way from a time when public discourse takes place primarily on the Internet and e-discussions can influence public policy. So Ender''s Game is still a dream. Yet others find the "Mind Game" most appealing. This is the computer game that students in the Battle School play, allowing their teachers to evaluate their emotional state. Ender, however, forces the computer to reprogram itself to allow him to play the game in new, unpredictable ways. The whole idea of a self-altering game that responds to the needs and desires of the player still intrigues many -- though Card has still not been able to persuade any computer game publishers to develop a self-creating game! Above all, though, Ender''s Game is the story of growing up alone, trying to find independence when none is allowed, trying to find meaning in a life whose meaning has already been defined. Almost everyone has at some time felt himself or herself to be in the same kind of no-win situation as Ender Wiggin, and the triumph of the book is not that Ender Wiggin "wins," but that he grows up along the way. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright Â© 1985 Orson Scott Card A Tor Book - Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. Jacket art by John Harris - Jacket design by Carol Russo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/491'),
(2832, 'Enders Game 2 - Speaker for the Dead', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Speaker for the Dead Nebula and Hugo Award Winner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Three thousand planet-bound years have fled since Ender Wiggin won humanity''s war with the Buggers by totally destroying them. Ender remains young-travelling the stars at relativistic speeds, a hundred years or more might pass while he experiences a month-long voyage. In three thousand years, his books The Hive Queen and The Hegemon have become holy writ, and the name of Ender anathema; he is the Xenocide, the one who killed an entire race of thinking, feeling beings, the only other sapient race humankind had found in all the galaxy. The only ones, that is, until the planet called Lusitania was discovered and colonized. On Lusitania humans found another race of ramen ... a young race, beings just beginning to lift their eyes to the stars and wonder what might be out there. The discovery was seen as a gift to humanity, a chance to redeem the destruction of the Buggers. And so the Pequininos, as they were named by the portuguese-speaking settlers, the "Piggies," were placed off-limits to the colony. The only humans allowed to meet them and speak with them are trained xenobiologists, and then only two at a time. This time, there will be no tragic misunderstandings leading to war. This time... This time, again, men die -bizarrely killed by the Piggies. Andrew Wiggin is called to Lusitania to Speak the deaths of the two xenobiologists, and walks into a maelstrom of fear and hatred. To Speak for these dead, he must first unravel the web of secrets surrounding the lives of the Piggies and those who study them. He must Speak not only for the dead, but for a living alien race. This magnificent sequel to ENDER''S GAME won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best SF Novel of the Year. Orson Scott Card is one of the finest, most innovative writers of the past decade, whose works also include the acclaimed alternate world fantasy series, The Tales of Alvin Maker. Copyright Â© 1986 Orson Scott Card A Tor Book - Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. Jacket art by John Harris - Jacket design by Carol Russo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/494'),
(2833, 'Enders Game 3 - Xenocide', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Xenocide The millennia-long saga of Andrew Wiggin called Ender, called The Speaker For the Dead called The Xenocide continues .... On the world Lusitania there are now three sapient races-the Pequeninos, who evolved there; Humans, who came to colonize; and a Hive Queen and her children brought by Ender long years ago. But on Lusitania there is also the descolada, a virus deadly to human beings which would spread like wildfire throughout the Stairways Congress should it ever escape the planet. The Starways Congress decided that The descolada should be wiped out once and for all, and sent a fleet, armed with a planet-destroying weapon, to do it. A fourth intelligence, loyal to Ender and Lusitania caused that fleet to disappear. On a distant world called Path live a people whose culture owes much to that of ancient China on Earth. They have evolved a caste known as the godspoken, people of superior intellectual abilities who pay a terrible price for their gifts. The godspoken of Path have given their loyalty and service to the Starways Congress. Among the god spoken is a young girl named, in The language of her people, Gloriously Bright. It is to her that the Starways Congress turn with the mystery of the disappearance of the Lusitania Fleet. There is no doubt that Gloriously Bright will discover the answer to the puzzle. The question is, what will she do with the information\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/495'),
(2834, 'Enders Game 4 - Children of the Mind', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender''s Game, who as a man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and restore the Hive Queen to life. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Lusitania is home to three sentient species: The Pequeninos, a strange race native to Lusitania; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But the Starways Congress fears Lusitania and a strange virus that it harbors, and they have gathered a fleet to destroy the planet. Ender''s oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over three thousand years, allowed the Starways Congress to discover her existence when she tried t stop the fleet. Now they are trying to kill her as well, by shutting down the network of computers and ansibles in which she lives. They are afraid of her and of her control over all human communications. Jane can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by world. Soon she will not be able to move the ships. But there is hope: during the first trip outside, Ender''s mind briefly took control and created two new beings - replicas of his brother Peter, who was the Hegemon, and his sister Valentine. These two children of Ender''s mind, together with his adopted children from Lusitania, are racing against time to discover new worlds, to influence the Starways Congress to recall the fleet, and to save Jane by finding a home for her disembodied intelligence once the Human Network is closed off to her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/498'),
(2835, 'Enders Game 5 - Ender&#39;s Shadow', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ender''s Shadow : A Parallel Novel to Ender''s Game Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender''s Quartet, with a novel that allows us to reenter that world anew. With all the power of his original creation, Card has created a parallel volume to Ender''s Game, a book that expands and complements the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion. The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. The first battles went badly, and now as Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien enemy, all focus is on the development and training of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth â€” they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean â€” the one who became Ender''s right hand, his strategist, and his friend. One who was with him, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean''s past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else''s. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children''s gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Bean''s desperate struggle to live, and his success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School''s recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/499'),
(2836, 'Enders Game 6 - Shadow of the Hegemon', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/502'),
(2837, 'Enders Game 7 - Shadow Puppets', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/504'),
(2838, 'Enders Game 8 - Shadow of the Giant', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/507'),
(2839, 'Endless Night', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/508'),
(2840, 'Evil Under the Sun', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/509'),
(2841, 'Fahrenheit 451', 'Bradbury, Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/512'),
(2842, 'Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy)', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/633'),
(2843, 'A Farewell To Arms', 'Hemingway, Ernest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(2844, 'Farseer 1 - Assassin&#39;s Apprentice', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/514'),
(2845, 'Farseer 2 - Royal Assassin', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/517'),
(2846, 'Farseer 3 - Assassin&#39;s Quest', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/519'),
(2847, 'Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas', 'Thompson, Hunter S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/521'),
(2848, 'The Fifth Mountain', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/257'),
(2849, 'Fifty Shades Darker', 'E L James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/647'),
(2850, 'Fifty Shades Freed', 'E L James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/648'),
(2851, 'Fifty Shades of Grey', 'E. L. James', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Nominated for Best Romance in the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind - until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The unworldly, innocent Ana is shocked to realize she wants this man, and when he warns her to keep her distance it only makes her more desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana''s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her - but on his own terms. Shocked yet thrilled by Grey''s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success - his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving adoptive family - Grey is man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a passionate, physical and daring affair, Ana learns more about her own dark desires, as well as the Christian Grey hidden away from public scrutiny\n  <br />\n  Can their relationship transcend physical passion? Will Ana find it in herself to submit to the self-indulgent Master? And if she does, will she still love what she finds?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/644'),
(2852, 'Fight Club', 'Palahniuk, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/523'),
(2853, 'The Firm', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/258'),
(2854, 'First Meetings in the Enderverse', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/524'),
(2855, 'Five Little Pigs', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/525'),
(2856, 'For Crying Out Loud!', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/526'),
(2857, 'Ford Country', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/527'),
(2858, 'Foundation 1 - Foundation', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/528'),
(2859, 'Foundation 2 - Foundation and Empire', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/529'),
(2860, 'Foundation 3 - Second Foundation', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/428'),
(2861, 'Foundation 4 - Foundation&#39;s Edge', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/431'),
(2862, 'Foundation 5 - Foundation and Earth', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/432'),
(2863, 'Foundation 6 - Prelude to Foundation', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/433'),
(2864, 'Foundation 7 - Forward the Foundation', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/434'),
(2865, 'The Fountainhead', 'Rand, Ayn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/261'),
(2866, 'The Fountains of Paradise', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/263'),
(2867, 'Frankenstein 1 - Prodigal Son', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/435'),
(2868, 'Frankenstein 2 - City of Night', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/436'),
(2869, 'Frankenstein 3 - Dead and Alive', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/437'),
(2870, 'FREAKONOMICS: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything', 'Levitt, Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/438'),
(2871, 'The Giver', 'Lowry, Lois', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/265'),
(2872, 'The God Delusion', 'Dawkins, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/267'),
(2873, 'A God In Ruins', 'Uris, Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(2874, 'The Godfather', 'Puzo, Mario', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/269'),
(2875, 'The Golden Compass', 'Pullman, Philip', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/270'),
(2876, 'Gonzo Papers - The Great Shark Hunt', 'Thompson, Hunter S', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/439'),
(2877, 'Good Omens', 'Gaiman, Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/440'),
(2878, 'The Graveyard Book', 'Gaiman, Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/272'),
(2879, 'A Graveyard For Lunatics', 'Bradbury, Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(2880, 'The Great Simolean Caper', 'Stephenson, Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/273'),
(2881, 'The Green Mile', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/274'),
(2882, 'Guns, Germs and Steel', 'Diamond, Jared', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/441'),
(2883, 'Hallowe&#39;en Party', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/442'),
(2884, 'Handle With Care', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/443'),
(2885, 'Hannibal', 'Harris, Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/444'),
(2886, 'Harry Potter 1 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#39;s Stone', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/445'),
(2887, 'Harry Potter 2 - Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/446'),
(2888, 'Harry Potter 3 - Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/447'),
(2889, 'Harry Potter 4 - Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/452'),
(2890, 'Harry Potter 5 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/455'),
(2891, 'Harry Potter 6 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/458'),
(2892, 'Harry Potter 7 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/462'),
(2893, 'Haunted', 'Palahniuk, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/463'),
(2894, 'Hell&#39;s Angel', 'Thompson, Hunter S', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/465'),
(2895, 'Hercule Poirot&#39;s Christmas', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/469'),
(2896, 'HHGTTG 1 - Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/472'),
(2897, 'HHGTTG 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/474'),
(2898, 'HHGTTG 3 - Life, the Universe, and Everything', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/477'),
(2899, 'HHGTTG 4 - So Long, And Thanks For All the Fish', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/478'),
(2900, 'HHGTTG 5 - Mostly Harmless', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/479'),
(2901, 'Hickory Dickory Dock', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/482'),
(2902, 'Hide and Seek', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/486'),
(2903, 'The Hobbit', 'Tolkien, J.R.R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/278'),
(2904, 'The Hollow', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/281'),
(2905, 'The Host', 'Meyer, Stephenie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/283'),
(2906, 'The House On Hope Street', 'Steel, Danielle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/284'),
(2907, 'House Rules', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The astonishing new novel from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a family torn apart by an accusation of murder.** *They tell me I''m lucky to have a son who''s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there''s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn''t know how.* Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger''s syndrome. He''s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject -- in his case, forensic analysis. He''s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do...and he''s usually right. But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for a change, the police come to Jacob with questions. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger''s -- not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, flat affect -- can look a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel. Suddenly, Jacob and his family, who only want to fit in, feel the spotlight shining directly on them. For his mother, Emma, it''s a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it''s another indication of why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And over this small family the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder? Emotionally powerful from beginning to end, *House Rules* looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way -- and fails those who don''t. EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The astonishing new novel from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a family torn apart by an accusation of murder.** *They tell me I''m lucky to have a son who''s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there''s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn''t know how.* Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger''s syndrome. He''s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject -- in his case, forensic analysis. He''s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do...and he''s usually right. But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for a change, the police come to Jacob with questions. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger''s -- not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, flat affect -- can look a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel. Suddenly, Jacob and his family, who only want to fit in, feel the spotlight shining directly on them. For his mother, Emma, it''s a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it''s another indication of why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And over this small family the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder? Emotionally powerful from beginning to end, *House Rules* looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way -- and fails those who don''t.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/492'),
(2908, 'How To Get Rich', 'Trump, Donald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/493'),
(2909, 'How to Make People Like You In 90 Seconds Or Less', 'Boothman, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/496'),
(2910, 'How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships', 'Driver, Janine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/497'),
(2911, 'The Hunger Games', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A chilling tale of survival from the New York Times bestselling author. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the other districts in line by forcing them to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight-to-the-death on live TV. One boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and sixteen are selected by lottery to play. The winner brings riches and favor tohis or her district. But that is nothing compared to what the Capitol wins: one more year of fearful compliance with its rule. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her impoverished district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before - and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. Acclaimed writer Suzanne Collins, author of the New York Times bestselling Underland Chronicles, delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in this stunning novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/640'),
(2912, 'I Am Legend', 'Matheson, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/500'),
(2913, 'I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/501'),
(2914, 'The Icarus Agenda', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/287'),
(2915, 'If I Did It', 'Simpson, O.J.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/503'),
(2916, 'The Illustrated Man', 'Bradbury, Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/289'),
(2917, 'The Innocent Man', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/290'),
(2918, 'Into the Wild', 'Jon Krakauer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate, and funny, did McCandless simply read too much Thoreau and Jack London and lose sight of the dangers of heading into the wilderness alone? Krakauer, whose own adventures have taken him to the perilous heights of Everest, provides some answers by exploring the pull the outdoors, seductive yet often dangerous, has had on his own life.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive, apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, Va., who self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to nature. Krakauer, a contributing editor to Outside and Men''s Journal, retraces McCandless''s ill-fated antagonism toward his father, Walt, an eminent aerospace engineer. Krakauer also draws parallels to his own reckless youthful exploit in 1977 when he climbed Devils Thumb, a mountain on the Alaska-British Columbia border, partly as a symbolic act of rebellion against his autocratic father. In a moving narrative, Krakauer probes the mystery of McCandless''s death, which he attributes to logistical blunders and to accidental poisoning from eating toxic seed pods. Maps. 35,000 first printing; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/645'),
(2919, 'Invisible Monsters', 'Palahniuk, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/505'),
(2920, 'The Iron Man', 'Howard, Robert E.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/291'),
(2921, 'IT', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/506'),
(2922, 'It&#39;s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life', 'Armstrong, Lance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/510'),
(2923, 'Jack Ryan 1 - Without Remorse', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/511'),
(2924, 'Jack Ryan 10 - Rainbow Six', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/351'),
(2925, 'Jack Ryan 11 - Bear And The Dragon', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/356'),
(2926, 'Jack Ryan 12 - The Teeth of the Tiger', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/357'),
(2927, 'Jack Ryan 2 - Patriot Games', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/513'),
(2928, 'Jack Ryan 3 - Red Rabbit', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/515'),
(2929, 'Jack Ryan 4 - The Hunt for Red October', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/516'),
(2930, 'Jack Ryan 5 - The Cardinal of the Kremlin', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/518'),
(2931, 'Jack Ryan 6 - Clear and Present Danger', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/520'),
(2932, 'Jack Ryan 7 - The Sum of All Fears', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/522'),
(2933, 'Jack Ryan 8 - Debt of Honor', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/344'),
(2934, 'Jack Ryan 9 - Executive Orders', 'Clancy, Tom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/345'),
(2935, 'The Janson Directive', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/292'),
(2936, 'Joe Pitt 1 - Already Dead', 'Huston, Charlie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/358'),
(2937, 'Joe Pitt 2 - No Dominion', 'Huston, Charlie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/360'),
(2938, 'Joe Pitt 3 - Half the Blood of Brooklyn', 'Huston, Charlie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/361'),
(2939, 'Joe Pitt 4 - Every Last Drop', 'Huston, Charlie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/365'),
(2940, 'Joe Pitt 5 - My Dead Body', 'Huston, Charlie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/366'),
(2941, 'Judge and Jury', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/368'),
(2942, 'Jumper 1 - Jumper', 'Gould, Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/369'),
(2943, 'Jumper 2 - Reflex', 'Gould, Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/372'),
(2944, 'Jumper 3 - Griffin&#39;s Story', 'Gould, Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/373'),
(2945, 'Jurassic Park', 'Chrichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/375'),
(2946, 'Kaleidoscope', 'Steel, Danielle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/380'),
(2947, 'Keeping Faith', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/381'),
(2948, 'The King of Torts', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/298'),
(2949, 'Kitchen Confidential', 'Bourdain, Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/382'),
(2950, 'The Lake House', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/301'),
(2951, 'The Last Juror', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/304'),
(2952, 'Leap of Faith', 'Steel, Danielle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/383'),
(2953, 'Lies My Teacher Told Me', 'Loewen, James W.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/386'),
(2954, 'Lightning', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/387'),
(2955, 'Liveship Traders 1 - Ship of Magic', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/388'),
(2956, 'Liveship Traders 2 - The Mad Ship', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/393'),
(2957, 'Liveship Traders 3 - Ship of Destiny', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/396'),
(2958, 'Lone Eagle', 'Steel, Danielle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/401'),
(2959, 'Lord Edgeware Dies', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/402'),
(2960, 'Lord Of The Flies', 'Golding, William', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/403'),
(2961, 'The Lord of the Rings 1 - The Fellowship of the Ring', 'Tolkien, J.R.R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/306'),
(2962, 'The Lord of the Rings 2 - The Two Towers', 'Tolkien, J.R.R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/307'),
(2963, 'The Lord of the Rings 3 - The Return of the King', 'Tolkien, J.R.R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/172'),
(2964, 'Lost', 'Maguire, Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/407'),
(2965, 'The Lost Symbol', 'Brown, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(2966, 'The Lost World', 'Chrichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/180'),
(2967, 'The Lost Worlds of 2001', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(2968, 'The Lovely Bones', 'Sebold, Alice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/182');
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(2970, 'M - Autobiography of Malcolm X', 'X, Malcolm', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/409'),
(2971, 'Maktub', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/410'),
(2972, 'The Man in the Brown Suit', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/185'),
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(2974, 'Matarese Circle', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/411'),
(2975, 'The Matarese Countdown', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/187'),
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(2978, 'Maximum Ride 3 - Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/414'),
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(2982, 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', 'Sedaris, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/418'),
(2983, 'The Memory of Running', 'McLarty, Ron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/189'),
(2984, 'Mere Christianity', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/419'),
(2985, 'Message In A Bottle', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/420'),
(2986, 'The Minority Report', 'Dick, Phillip', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/190'),
(2987, 'The Mirror Crack&#39;s From Side to Side', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/191'),
(2988, 'Mirror Mirror', 'Maquire, Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/421'),
(2989, 'Misery', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/422'),
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(2991, 'Mockingjay', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she''s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she''s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what''s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss''s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins''s groundbreaking\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Suzanne Collins, Author of *Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  You have said from the start that The Hunger Games story was intended as a trilogy. Did it actually end the way you planned it from the beginning?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Very much so. While I didn''t know every detail, of course, the arc of the story from gladiator game, to revolution, to war, to the eventual outcome remained constant throughout the writing process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  We understand you worked on the initial screenplay for a film to be based on\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  . What is the biggest difference between writing a novel and writing a screenplay?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  There were several significant differences. Time, for starters. When you''re adapting a novel into a two-hour movie you can''t take everything with you. The story has to be condensed to fit the new form. Then there''s the question of how best to take a book told in the first person and present tense and transform it into a satisfying dramatic experience. In the novel, you never leave Katniss for a second and are privy to all of her thoughts so you need a way to dramatize her inner world and to make it possible for other characters to exist outside of her company. Finally, there''s the challenge of how to present the violence while still maintaining a PG-13 rating so that your core audience can view it. A lot of things are acceptable on a page that wouldn''t be on a screen. But how certain moments are depicted will ultimately be in the director''s hands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Are you able to consider future projects while working on\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  , or are you immersed in the world you are currently creating so fully that it is too difficult to think about new ideas?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I have a few seeds of ideas floating around in my head but--given that much of my focus is still on\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  --it will probably be awhile before one fully emerges and I can begin to develop it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  The Hunger Games is an annual televised event in which one boy and one girl from each of the twelve districts is forced to participate in a fight-to-the-death on live TV. What do you think the appeal of reality television is--to both kids and adults?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Well, they''re often set up as games and, like sporting events, there''s an interest in seeing who wins. The contestants are usually unknown, which makes them relatable. Sometimes they have very talented people performing. Then there''s the voyeuristic thrillâ€”watching people being humiliated, or brought to tears, or suffering physically--which I find very disturbing. There''s also the potential for desensitizing the audience, so that when they see real tragedy playing out on, say, the news, it doesn''t have the impact it should.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  If you were forced to compete in the Hunger Games, what do you think your special skill would be?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Hiding. I''d be scaling those trees like Katniss and Rue. Since I was trained in sword-fighting, I guess my best hope would be to get hold of a rapier if there was one available. But the truth is I''d probably get about a four in Training.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What do you hope readers will come away with when they read The Hunger Games trilogy?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Questions about how elements of the books might be relevant in their own lives. And, if they''re disturbing, what they might do about them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What were some of your favorite novels when you were a teen?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\n  </em>\n  by Betty Smith\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  by Carson McCullers\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Nineteen Eighty Four\n  </em>\n  by George Orwell\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Anna Karenina\n  </em>\n  by Leo Tolstoy\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Slaughterhouse-Five\n  </em>\n  by Kurt Vonnegut\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   A Wrinkle in Time\n  </em>\n  by Madeleine Lâ€™Engle\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Lord of the Flies\n  </em>\n  by William Golding\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Boris\n  </em>\n  by Jaapter Haar\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Germinal\n  </em>\n  by Emile Zola\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Dandelion Wine\n  </em>\n  by Ray Bradbury\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Cap Pryor)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up Following her subversive second victory in the Games, this one composed of winners from past years, Katniss has been adopted by rebel factions as their symbol for freedom and becomes the rallying point for the districts in a desperate bid to take down the Capitol and remove President Snow from power. But being the Mockingjay comes with a price as Katniss must come to terms with how much of her own humanity and sanity she can willingly sacrifice for the cause, her friends, and her family. Collins is absolutely ruthless in her depictions of war in all its cruelty, violence, and loss, leaving readers, in turn, repulsed, shocked, grieving and, finally, hopeful for the characters they''ve grown to empathize with and love.\n  <em>\n   Mockingjay\n  </em>\n  is a fitting end of the series that began with\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  (2008) and\n  <em>\n   Catching Fire\n  </em>\n  (2009) and will have the same lasting resonance as William Golding''s\n  <em>\n   Lord of the Flies\n  </em>\n  and Stephen King''s\n  <em>\n   The Stand\n  </em>\n  . However, the book is not a stand-alone; readers do need to be familiar with the first two titles in order to appreciate the events and characters in this one.\n  <em>\n   Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK\n  </em>\n  (c) Copyright 2010. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/642'),
(2992, 'Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory', 'Lee, Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/423'),
(2993, 'Motorworld', 'Clarkson, Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/424'),
(2994, 'The Moving Finger', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/193'),
(2995, 'Mrs McGinty&#39;s Dead', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/425'),
(2996, 'The Murder at the Vicarage', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/194'),
(2997, 'Murder in Mesopotamia', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/426'),
(2998, 'A Murder is Announced', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(2999, 'Murder is Easy', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/427'),
(3000, 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/195'),
(3001, 'Murder on the Links', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/429'),
(3002, 'Murder on the Orient Express', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/430'),
(3003, 'My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands', 'Handler, Chelsea', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand.** You''ve either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend''s irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool. Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won''t be ashamed to talk about in the morning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/330'),
(3004, 'My Sister&#39;s Keeper', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/331'),
(3005, 'The Mysteries of Free Masonry / Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master&#39;s Lodge', 'William Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/196'),
(3006, 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/197'),
(3007, 'The Mystery of the Blue Train', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/198'),
(3008, 'N or M', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/332'),
(3009, 'Naked', 'Sedaris, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/333'),
(3010, 'The Naked Sun', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/199'),
(3011, 'Napalm and Silly Putty', 'Carlin, George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/334'),
(3012, 'Narnia 1 - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/335'),
(3013, 'Narnia 2 - Prince Caspian', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/336'),
(3014, 'Narnia 3 - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/337'),
(3015, 'Narnia 4 - The Silver Chair', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/338'),
(3016, 'Narnia 5 - The Horse and His Boy', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/339'),
(3017, 'Narnia 6 - The Magician&#39;s Nephew', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/340'),
(3018, 'Narnia 7 - The Last Battle', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/341'),
(3019, 'Nemesis', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/342'),
(3020, 'Neverwhere', 'Gaiman, Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her--and the life he knows vanishes like smoke.\n <br />\n Several hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work, taxi drivers won''t stop for him, his hundred rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and darkness a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals andabandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.\n <br />\n For this is the home of Door, the mysterious girl whom Richard rescued in the London Above. A personage of great power and nobility in this murky, candlelit realm, she is on a mission to discover the cause of her family''s slaughter, and in doing so preserve this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it. And with nowhere else to turn, Richard Mayhew must now join the Lady Door''s entourage in their determined--and possibly fatal--quest.\n <br />\n For the dread journey ever-downward--through bizarre anachronisms and dangerous incongruities, and into dusty corners of stalled time--is Richard''s final hope, his last road back to a "real" world that is growing disturbingly less real by the minute.\n <br />\n If Tim Burton reimagined The Phantom of the Opera, if Jack Finney let his dark side take over, if you rolled the best work of Clive Barker, Peter Straub and Caleb Carr into one, you still would have something that fell far short of Neil Gaiman''s NEVERWHERE. It is a masterful debut novel of darkly hypnotic power, and one of the most absorbing reads to come along in years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/343'),
(3021, 'A New Earth', 'Tolle, Eckhart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(3022, 'Next', 'Crichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/346'),
(3023, 'The Night Circus', 'Erin Morgenstern', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2011\n  </strong>\n  : Erin Morgensternâ€™s dark, enchanting debut takes us to the black and white tents of\n  <em>\n   Le Cirque des Reves\n  </em>\n  , a circus that arrives without warning, simply appearing when yesterday it was not there. Young Celia and Marco have been cast into a rivalry at\n  <em>\n   The Night Circus\n  </em>\n  , one arranged long ago by powers they do not fully understand. Over time, their lives become more intricately enmeshed in a dance of love, joy, deceit, heartbreak, and magic. Author Morgenstern knows her world inside and out, and she guides the reader with a confident hand. The setting and tone are never less than mesmerizing. The characters are well-realized and memorable. But it is the Night Circus itself that might be the most memorable of all. --\n  <em>\n   Chris Schluep\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for THE NIGHT CIRCUS:\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   The Night Circus\n  </em>\n  made me happy. Playful and intensely imaginative, Erin Morgenstern has created the circus I have always longed for and she has populated it with dueling love-struck magicians, precocious kittens, hyper-elegant displays of beauty and complicated clocks. This is a marvelous book."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   -- Audrey Niffenegger, author of *The Time Travelerâ€™s Wife\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Debut author Morgenstern doesn''t miss a beat in this smashing tale of greed, fate, and love...a giant, magical story destined for bestsellerdom. This is an electric debut on par with\n  <em>\n   Special Topics in Calamity Physics\n  </em>\n  ."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   *--Publishers Weekly, starred review\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n  <hr />\n </em>\n <p>\n  "Self-assured, entertaining debut that blends genres and crosses continents in quest of magicâ€¦ Generous in its vision and fun to read. Likely to be a big bookâ€”and, soon, a big movie, with all the franchise trimmings."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus\n  </em>\n  Reviews, starred review\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "This big and compelling first novel ushers in a menacing tone with its first sentence: "The circus arrives without warning."...With appeal for readers not particularly geared to fantasy but who plainly enjoy an unusual and well-drawn story, this one will make a good crossover suggestion."\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Booklist, starred review\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n   â€œâ€˜Dark as soot and bright as sparks,â€™\n   <em>\n    The Night Circus\n   </em>\n   still holds me willingly captive in a world of almost unbearable beauty. This is a love story on a grand scale: it creates, it destroys, it ultimately transcends. Take a bow, Erin Morgenstern. This is one of the best books I have ever read.â€\n   <br />\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  Brunonia Barry, author of\n  <em>\n   The Lace Reader\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€œA riveting debut.\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Night Circus\n  </em>\n  pulls you into a world as dark as it is dazzling, fully-realized but still something out of a dream. You will not want to leave it.â€&lt;...\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/637'),
(3024, 'Nightfall', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/347'),
(3025, 'Nights in Rodanthe', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/348'),
(3026, 'Nineteen Minutes', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/349'),
(3027, 'No Country For Old Men', 'McCarthy, Cormac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/350'),
(3028, 'The Notebook', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/200'),
(3029, 'Notes from a Small Island', 'Byson, Bill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestsellingauthor of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to returnto the United States. ("I had recently read," Bryson writes, "that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another,so it was clear that my people needed me.") But before departing, he set out ona grand farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home.Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and back again, Notes from a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie''s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. The result is an uproarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile."Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestselling author of ,i&gt;The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to return to the United States. ("I had recently read," Bryson writes, "that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me.") But before departing, he set out on a grand farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and back again, Notes from a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie''s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. The result is an uproarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/352'),
(3030, 'NUMA 1 - Serpent', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/353'),
(3031, 'NUMA 2 - Blue Gold', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/354'),
(3032, 'NUMA 3 - Fire Ice', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/355'),
(3033, 'NUMA 4 - White Death', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/359'),
(3034, 'NUMA 5 - Lost City', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/362'),
(3035, 'NUMA 6 - Polar Shift', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/363'),
(3036, 'NUMA 7 - The Navigator', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/364'),
(3037, 'NUMA 8 - Medusa', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/367'),
(3038, 'Odd Thomas 2 - Forever Odd', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/371'),
(3039, 'Odd Thomas 3 - Brother Odd', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/374'),
(3040, 'Odd Thomas 4 - Odd Hours', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/376'),
(3041, 'On The Road', 'Kerouac, Jack', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/377'),
(3042, 'One Door Away From Heaven', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/378'),
(3043, 'One, Two, Buckle My Shoe', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/379'),
(3044, 'Ordeal by Innocence', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/384'),
(3045, 'Outliers: The Story of Success', 'Gladwell, Malcolm', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/385'),
(3046, 'The Pact', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/201'),
(3047, 'A Painted House', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/29'),
(3048, 'The Pale Horse', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/202'),
(3049, 'The Partner', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/203'),
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(3052, 'Percy Jackson 1 - The Lightning Thief', 'Riordan, Rick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/391'),
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(3057, 'Perfect Match', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/398'),
(3058, 'The Peril at End House', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/205'),
(3059, 'The Physics of Star Trek', 'Krauss, Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/206'),
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(3073, 'Pretty Little Liars 6 - Killer', 'Shepard, Sara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/260'),
(3074, 'Pretty Little Liars 7 - Heartless', 'Shepard, Sara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/262'),
(3075, 'Prey', 'Crichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/266'),
(3076, 'Pride And Prejudice And Zombies', 'Grahame-Smith, Seth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/268'),
(3077, 'Quicker Than The Eye', 'Bradbury, Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/271'),
(3078, 'The Quickie', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/215'),
(3079, 'Rain Wild 1 - The Dragon Keeper', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Rain Wild Chronicles 01\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/275'),
(3080, 'Rain Wild 2 - Dragon Haven', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/276'),
(3081, 'The Rainmaker', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/216'),
(3082, 'Rant', 'Palahniuk, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/277'),
(3083, 'Red Dragon', 'Harris, Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/279'),
(3084, 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad', 'Kiyosaki, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/280'),
(3085, 'The Road', 'McCarthy, Cormac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/219'),
(3086, 'The Rum Diary', 'Thompson, Hunter S', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/220'),
(3087, 'Runaway Jury', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/282'),
(3088, 'Sad Cypress', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/285'),
(3089, 'Safe Harbor', 'Steel, Danielle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/286'),
(3090, 'Sail', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/288'),
(3091, 'Salem Falls', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/293'),
(3092, 'Salems Lot', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/294'),
(3093, 'Santa Land Diaries', 'Sedaris, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/295'),
(3094, 'A Scanner Darkly', 'Dick, Philip K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(3095, 'The Scarletti Inheritance', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/223'),
(3096, 'Screwjack', 'Thompson, Hunter S', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/296'),
(3097, 'The Screwtape Letters', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/225'),
(3098, 'The Secret Adversary', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/227'),
(3099, 'The Secret of Chimneys', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/228'),
(3100, 'The Selfish Gene', 'Dawkins, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/229'),
(3101, 'A Separate Peace', 'John Knowles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Set at a boysâ€™ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, â€œA Separate Peaceâ€ is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.  A bestseller for more than thirty years, â€œA Separate Peaceâ€ is John Knowlesâ€™s crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/646'),
(3102, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events 1- The Bad Beginning', 'Snicket, Lemony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(3103, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events 10 - The Slippery Slope', 'Snicket, Lemony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/52'),
(3104, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events 11 - The Grim Grotto', 'Snicket, Lemony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/54'),
(3105, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events 12 - The Penultimate Peril', 'Snicket, Lemony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/55'),
(3106, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events 13 - The End', 'Snicket, Lemony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/56'),
(3107, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events 2- The Reptile Room', 'Snicket, Lemony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(3108, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events 3- The Wide Window', 'Snicket, Lemony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(3109, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events 4 - The Miserable Mill', 'Snicket, Lemony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/42'),
(3110, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events 5 - The Austere Academy', 'Snicket, Lemony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/43'),
(3111, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events 6 - The Ersatz Elevator', 'Snicket, Lemony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/44'),
(3112, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events 7 - The Vile Village', 'Snicket, Lemony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(3113, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events 8 - The Hostile Hospital', 'Snicket, Lemony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/48'),
(3114, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events 9 - The Carnivorous Carnival', 'Snicket, Lemony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/49'),
(3115, 'The Seven Dials Mystery', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/232'),
(3116, 'Seven Habits of Highly Effective People', 'Covey, Stephen R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/297'),
(3117, 'The Shining', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/233'),
(3118, 'A Short History of Nearly Everything', 'Bryson, Bill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/59'),
(3119, 'The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner', 'Meyer, Stephenie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/234'),
(3120, 'Shutter Island', 'Lehane, Dennis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/299'),
(3121, 'The Sigma Protocol', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/237'),
(3122, 'The Silence of the Lambs', 'Harris, Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/238'),
(3123, 'The Silmarillion', 'Tolkien, J.R.R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Silmarillion\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/239'),
(3124, 'The Sittaford Mystery', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/240'),
(3125, 'Skipping Christmas', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/300'),
(3126, 'Slaughterhouse Five', 'Vonnegut, Kurt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/302'),
(3127, 'Sleeping Murder', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/303'),
(3128, 'Snow Crash', 'Stephenson, Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/305'),
(3129, 'Snuff', 'Palahniuk, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/308'),
(3130, 'Soldier Son 1 - Shaman&#39;s Crossing', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/309'),
(3131, 'Soldier Son 2 - Forest Mage', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/310'),
(3132, 'Soldier Son 3 - Renegande&#39;s Magic', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/311'),
(3133, 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', 'Bradbury, Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/312'),
(3134, 'Space Trilogy 1 - Out Of The Silent Planet', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/313'),
(3135, 'Space Trilogy 2 - Perelandra', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/314'),
(3136, 'Space Trilogy 3 - That Hideous Strength', 'Lewis, C.S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/315'),
(3137, 'Sparkling Cyanide', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/316'),
(3138, 'Sphere', 'Crichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/317'),
(3139, 'Spider&#39;s Web', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/318'),
(3140, 'The Stand', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/241'),
(3141, 'Stardust', 'Gaiman, Neil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/319'),
(3142, 'Strangers', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/320'),
(3143, 'The Street Lawyer', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/242'),
(3144, 'The Subtle Knife', 'Pullman, Philip', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/243'),
(3145, 'The Summons', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/244'),
(3146, 'SuperFreakonomics', 'Levitt, Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/321'),
(3147, 'Surely You&#39;re Joking, Mr. Feynman!', 'Feynman, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/322'),
(3148, 'Survivor', 'Palahniuk, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/323'),
(3149, 'Suzannes Diary for Nicholas', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/324'),
(3150, 'Taken at the Flood', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/325'),
(3151, 'The Tawny Man 1 - Fools Errand', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/123'),
(3152, 'The Tawny Man 2 - Golden Fool', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/124'),
(3153, 'The Tawny Man 3 - Fools Fate', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/126'),
(3154, 'The Tenth Circle', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/127'),
(3155, 'The Testament', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/128'),
(3156, 'The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe', 'Hawking, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(3157, 'They Came to Baghdad', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/142'),
(3158, 'They Do It With Mirrors', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/143'),
(3159, 'Things Fall Apart', 'Achebe, Chinua', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/144'),
(3160, 'Thinner', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/145'),
(3161, 'Third Girl', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/146'),
(3162, 'Three Act Tragedy', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/151'),
(3163, 'Time Odyssey 1 - Times Eye', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(3164, 'Time Odyssey 2 - Sunstorm', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/153'),
(3165, 'Time Odyssey 3 - Firstborn', 'Clarke, Arthur C.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/154'),
(3166, 'A Time to Kill', 'Grisham, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/60'),
(3167, 'Timeline', 'Crichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/155'),
(3168, 'The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference', 'Gladwell, Malcolm', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(3169, 'Towards Zero', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/156'),
(3170, 'The Tristan Betrayal', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/134'),
(3171, 'True Believer', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/157'),
(3172, 'Twilight 1 - Twilight', 'Meyer, Stephenie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/158'),
(3173, 'Twilight 2 - New Moon', 'Meyer, Stephenie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/159'),
(3174, 'Twilight 3 - Eclipse', 'Meyer, Stephenie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/160'),
(3175, 'Twilight 4 - Breaking dawn', 'Meyer, Stephenie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/161'),
(3176, 'Under the Dome', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/162'),
(3177, 'The Unexpected Guest', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/135'),
(3178, 'The Urantia Book', 'Urantia Foundation staff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/137'),
(3179, 'The Valkyries', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/138');
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(3180, 'Vampire Chronicles 1: Interview with the vampire', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses.It is a novel only Anne Rice could write...."Magnificent, compulsively readable."CHICAGO TRIBUNE\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/163'),
(3181, 'Vampire Chronicles 10: Blood Canticle', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins whereBlackwood Farmleft off and tells the story of Lestat''s quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair. Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who''s come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to the all-powerful Lestat; her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat''s help with the temporary madness of his wife; Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos who has taken Mona''s child; and Patsy, the country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood. Delightfully, at the book''s centre is the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil, now pursuing the transformation set in motion withMemnoch the Devil. He struggles with his vampirism and yearns for goodness, purity and love, as he saves Patsy''s ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, uncovers the mystery of the Taltos and unselfishly decides the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair. A story of love and loyalty, of the search for passion and promise,Blood Canticleis Anne Rice at her finest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/173'),
(3182, 'Vampire Chronicles 2: The vampire Lestat', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Returning to the hypnotic world she so brilliantly created in **Interview with the Vampire**, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her power to enthrall.  With the same richness of drama, atmosphere and incident, she tells the fantastic story of the vampire Lestat, whom we first perceived as the seductive devil-vampire of **Interview with the Vampire** and whom we now follow through the ages as he searches for the origin and meaning of his own dark immortality.  And who, more and more, engages our sympathy until he stands revealed as a questing romantic, a vampire-hero with his own strange and passionate courage and morality.As the novel opens, Lestat, having risen from the earth after a fifty-five years'' sleep,  and infatuated with the modern world, presents himself in all his vampire brilliance as a rock star, a superstar, a seducer of millions.  And, in this blaze of adulation, daring to break the vampire oath of silence, he determines to tell his story, to rouse the generations of the living dead from their slumbers and to penetrate the riddle of his own existence.As he speaks we are plunged back into eighteenth-century France, into the castle where we meet the young Lestat: child of impoverished aristocrats, heroic hunter of wolves, at odds with his tyrannical father, running away to join a traveling troupe of actors.  We see him in the licentious Paris of the day, first apprentice at a boulevard theater, then its most celebrated actor, idolized, adored by many and--night after night--watched by one . . . until, in a sleep filled with dreams of the wolves he killed as a boy, he is shocked awake by a dark figure and suddenly, horribly, eternally joined to the unholy brotherhood.We follow Lestat as he searches for others like him--in churches and brothels, in gambling houses, huts and palaces--sometimes joined by the vampire-angel Gabrielle, who is bound to him both by blood and by passion; sometimes traveling with his adored Nicolas, the violinist whose music and beauty are equally transcendent.  We follow Lestat as he travels from the snowcapped mountains of the Auvergne and the primeval forest of ancient Gaul to Sicily, Istanbul, Venice and Cairo, searching for his origins, sometimes finding clues to the birth of the vampire race, knowing always that the central truth eludes him.But all the while, throughout his travels, through many lands and many times, Lestat has made enemies among his brethren--vampires who are in terror of his questions, who fear he will disturb the uneasy balance in which they exist with the mortal world, and who suspect in him a desire to rule.  And when, in the caves below a craggy Greek island, in a sanctuary whose walls are covered with gold-flecked murals, the very first of the living dead awake, the truth at the heart of his quest is at last revealed.  Ancient forces held immobile through the ages are irreversibly set in motion, and as the novel rushes to its stunning climax, Lestat''s vampire foes converge in pursuit of him on the demonic freeways of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/164'),
(3183, 'Vampire Chronicles 3: The Queen of the Damned', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "A welcome chance to catch up with old friends...Fascinating...When we emerge from its folds, there''s good news on the last page: ''The chronicle of the vampires will continue.'' Yum."PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERA feat of mesmerizing storytelling, a chilling entertainment, THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED unleashes Akasha, the Queen herself, who has risen from a six-thousand year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to "save" mankind and destroy Lestat--in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "A welcome chance to catch up with old friends...Fascinating...When we emerge from its folds, there''s good news on the last page: ''The chronicle of the vampires will continue.'' Yum."PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERA feat of mesmerizing storytelling, a chilling entertainment, THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED unleashes Akasha, the Queen herself, who has risen from a six-thousand year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to "save" mankind and destroy Lestat--in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/165'),
(3184, 'Vampire Chronicles 4: The Tale of the Body Thief', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "A wonderfully mesmerizing adventure, delving into the convoluted mind of one of modern fiction''s most famous anti-heroes, the vampire Lestat. Rice''s writing is elegant and thought-provoking and her story is a gem."THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNEFor centuries Lestat has been a courted prince in the universe of the dead. Now he is alone and everything he once believed in seems false. So he embarks on a dangerous journey to destroy his doubts and loneliness forever....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/166'),
(3185, 'Vampire Chronicles 5: Memnoch the Devil', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Anne Rice''s extraordinary novel, the Vampire Lestat--outsides, canny monster, hero-wanderer--is at last offered the chance to be redeemed.He is brought into direct confrontation with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death.We are in New York.  The city is blanketed in snow.  Through the whiteness Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic daughter of a drug lord, the woman who arouses Lestat''s tenderness as no mortal ever has.While torn between his vampire passions and his overwhelming love for Dora, Lestat is  confronted by the most dangerous of adversaries he has yet known.He is snatched from the world itself by the mysterious Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. He is invited to be a witness at the Creation.  He is taken like the ancient prophets into the heavenly realm and is ushered into Purgatory.He must decide if he can believe in the Devil or in God.  And finally, he must decide which, if either, he will serve.In the first four Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summoned up for us worlds that are fantastic and distant, making them as resonant, real, and immediate as our own.  In this, her most daring and darkest novel, she takes us, with Lestat, into the mythical world that is most important to us--into the realms of our own theology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/167'),
(3186, 'Vampire Chronicles 6: The Vampire Armand', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand--eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classicInterview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms. Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood--a ruined city under Mongol dominion--and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood. As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and today''s New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/168'),
(3187, 'Vampire Chronicles 7: Merrick', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At the center is the beautiful, unconquerable witch,  Merrick. She is a descendant of the gens de colors libres, a cast  derived from the black mistresses of white men, a society of New  Orleans octaroons and quadroons, steeped in the lore and ceremony of  voodoo, who reign in the shadowy world where the African and the  French--the white and the dark--intermingle. Her ancestors are the  Great Mayfair Witches, of whom she knows nothing--and from whom she  inherits the power and magical knowledge of a Circe.Into this  exotic New Orleans realm comes David Talbot, hero, storyteller,  adventurer, almost mortal vampire, visitor from another dark realm. It  is he who recounts Merrick''s haunting tale--a tale that takes us from  the New Orleans of the past and present to the jungles of Guatemala,  from the Mayan ruins of a century ago to ancient civilizations not yet  explored.Anne Rice''s richly told novel weaves an irresistible  story of two worlds: the witches'' world and the vampires'' world, where  magical powers and otherworldly fascinations are locked together in a  dance of seduction, death, and rebirth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/169'),
(3188, 'Vampire Chronicles 8: Blood and Gold', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the best Anne Rice tradition, the great Vampire Marius returns to tell us the mesmerizing story of his life through the ages, from the time of Caesar Augustus to the present. The Vampire Marius, child of the Millenea, has lived two thousand years. He tells his story to Thorne, a lone vampire who was a Viking in a mortal life tells of his birth into the Senatorial Class at the time of Caesar Augustus, and how he was transformed into a "dark god" by Druids in the forests of Gaul; how he created the Vampire Armand and became guardian of Akasha and Enkil, the Queen and the King of Vampires, who hold within themselves the secret core of the life of the undead "destroy them and you destroy all vampires." He relates how he became the voice of reason among the vampires, and how he created Pandora, the vampire he still grieves for... We see Marius as a mortal boy in the teeming streets of second-century Rome, and in young manhood in the time of Constantine and his battle to save Rome from the Visigoths. We follow him through the Dark Ages and the Black Death, and through another thousand years to Venice and to Florence, where he seeks out the great Botticelli and becomes a painter, working in a glorious palazzo a blood drinker in the thick of a rich and brilliant mortal life. Worlds within worlds unfold historic, fantastic, cultural, vampiric, from the London of Henry VIII to 17th-century Paris and Weimar as the novel moves to its splendid finale in an Aegean kingdom ruled by the great vampire: the magician Marius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/170'),
(3189, 'Vampire Chronicles 9: Blackwood Farm', 'Rice, Anne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgÃ¤nger, â€œGoblin,â€ a spirit from a dream world that Quinn canâ€™t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgÃ¤nger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinnâ€™s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds. A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(3190, 'Vanishing Acts', 'Picoult, Jodi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/174'),
(3191, 'Veronika Decides to Die', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/175'),
(3192, 'A Walk To Remember', 'Sparks, Nicholas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/61'),
(3193, 'Watchers', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/176'),
(3194, 'What Dreams May Come', 'Matheson, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/177'),
(3195, 'Wheel of Time 00 - New Spring', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/179'),
(3196, 'Wheel of Time 01 - The Eye of the World', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/183'),
(3197, 'Wheel of Time 02 - The Great Hunt', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/184'),
(3198, 'Wheel of Time 03 - The Dragon Reborn', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/188'),
(3199, 'Wheel of Time 04 - The Shadow Rising', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/76'),
(3200, 'Wheel of Time 05 - The Fires of Heaven', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/78'),
(3201, 'Wheel of Time 06 - Lord of Chaos', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/81'),
(3202, 'Wheel of Time 07 - A Crown of Swords', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/82'),
(3203, 'Wheel of Time 08 - The Path of Daggers', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/86'),
(3204, 'Wheel of Time 09 - Winter&#39;s Heart', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/89'),
(3205, 'Wheel of Time 10 - Crossroads of Twilight', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/90'),
(3206, 'Wheel of Time 11 - Knife of Dreams', 'Jordan, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/92'),
(3207, 'Wheel of Time 12 - The Gathering Storm', 'Sanderson, Brandon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/95'),
(3208, 'When the Wind Blows', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/98'),
(3209, 'When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops', 'Carlin, George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/100'),
(3210, 'Why Didnt They Ask Evans', 'Christie, Agatha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(3211, 'Wicked - The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West', 'Maguire, Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(3212, 'Wicked 3 - A Lion Among Men', 'Maguire, Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/109'),
(3213, 'The Winner Stands Alone', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/139'),
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(3215, 'The Witch of Portbello', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/140'),
(3216, 'Womans Murder Club 1 - 1st To Die', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/119'),
(3217, 'Womans Murder Club 2 - Second Chance', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/120'),
(3218, 'Womans Murder Club 3 - 3rd Degree', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/121'),
(3219, 'Womans Murder Club 4 - 4th of July', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/122'),
(3220, 'Womans Murder Club 5 - The 5th Horseman', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/125'),
(3221, 'Womans Murder Club 6 - The 6th Target', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/130'),
(3222, 'Womans Murder Club 7 - 7th Heaven', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/133'),
(3223, 'Womans Murder Club 8 - The 8th Confession', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/136'),
(3224, 'Womans Murder Club 9 - The 9th Judgment', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: During an intimate dinner party, a cat burglar breaks into the home of A-list actor Marcus Dowling. When his wife walks in on the thief, the situation quickly teeters out of control, leaving an empty safe and a lifeless body. The same night, a woman and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down in an abandoned garage. The killer hasn''t left a shred of evidence, except for a foreboding and cryptic message: WCF, the letters written in blood-red letters. With two elusive criminals on the loose, Detective Lindsay Boxer calls on the Women''s Murder Club to help her stop them before they continue their spree. But before they can break either case, the Lipstick Killer changes his act and demands a ransom--not for a single victim, but for all of San Francisco. Lindsay puts her own life on the line--but will it be enough to save the city from this deranged killer?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/147'),
(3225, 'World War Z', 'Brooks, Max', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/148'),
(3226, 'A World Without Ice', 'Pollack, Ph.D., Henry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/65'),
(3227, 'Your Dream Home: A Comprehensive Guide to Buying a House, Condo, or Co-op', 'Smith, Marguerite', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/149'),
(3228, 'Your Heart Belongs to Me', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/150'),
(3229, 'The Zahir', 'Coelho, Paulo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/141'),
(3230, 'Zodiac', 'Stephenson, Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/631'),
(3231, 'Zombie Survival Guide', 'Brooks, Max', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://www.bobisspectacular.com/get/thumb_90_120/632'),
(3232, '120 days of sodom', 'Marquis de Sade', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/368'),
(3233, '1984', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/310'),
(3234, '2001 A Space Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1002'),
(3235, '2010 Odyssey Two', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1003'),
(3236, '2061 Odyssey Three', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1000'),
(3237, '3001 The Final Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1001'),
(3238, 'Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter', 'Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/305'),
(3239, 'Alex Cross 01 Along Came a Spider', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Washington, D.C., police detective, Alex Cross becomes caught up in a kidnapping case that may involve a schizophrenic psychopath. By the author of Black Market. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild &amp; Doubleday Main.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/964'),
(3240, 'Alex Cross 02 Kiss the Girls', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This time it''s personal for Cross. The most elusive of killers has abducted Cross''s niece, Naomi, a talented law student. Only such a devastating blow could bring the detective back - this time to the Deep South, where old slave prisons are buried in the forests, and houses of horror can disappear as in your worst nightmare. Naomi''s kidnapping rips Alex Cross away from his kids and his jazz piano and sends him south with several questions burning in his mind. Why did the police wait seventy-two hours before beginning their search? And what is the head of the FBI doing at the scene of a small-town crime? Meanwhile, somewhere out there Casanova is living a secret fantasy. In his private hideaway, the world''s greatest lover has assembled seven of the South''s most extraordinary young women for his personal use. It''s an accomplishment he can share with only one other soulmate - and that''s definitely not his wife back in suburbia. But Casanova doesn''t count on the exceptional abilities of one of his harem - or having Alex Cross as a nemesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/965'),
(3241, 'Alex Cross 03 Jack &amp; Jill', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the middle of the night, a controversial U.S. senator is found murdered in bed in his Georgetown pied-a-terre. The police turn up only one clue: a mysterious rhyme signed "Jack and Jill" promising that this is just the beginning. Jack and Jill are out to get the rich and famous, and they will stop at nothing until their fiendish plan is carried out. Meanwhile, Washington, D. C., homicide detective Alex Cross is called to a murder scene only blocks from his house, far from the corridors of power where he spends his days. The victim: a beautiful little girl, savagely beaten--and desposited in front of the elementary school Cross''s son, Damon, attends. Could there be a connection between the two murders? As Cross tries to put the pieces together, the killer- or killers - strike again. And again. No one in Washington is safe - not children, not politicians, not even the President of the United States. Only Alex Cross has the skills and the courage to crack the case-but will he discover the truth in time? A relentless roller coaster of heart-pounding suspense and jolting plot twists, Jack and Jill proves once again that no one can write a more compelling thriller than James Patterson-the master of the nonstop nightmare."James Patterson does everything but stick our finger in a light socket to give us a buzz."-- New York Times Books Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/966'),
(3242, 'Alex Cross 05 Pop Goes the Weasel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Likened to a "young Muhammad Ali," Alex Cross, the Porsche-driving profiler, doctor, detective, and father of two has seen his fair share of vicious killers. From a bloodthirsty butcher who came after his family (\n  <strong>\n   ) to a devilish duo working cross-country (\n  </strong>\n  ), Cross has managed to outmaneuver all of his enemies. Until he meets the Weasel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A series of killings in the forgotten, crime-infested ghettos of southeast D.C. has sent Cross and his 6''9" 250-pound partner, John Sampson, in search of the "Jane Doe" killer. However, their racist, tyrannical boss George Pitman orders them to stay out of the southeast and investigate the high-profile murder of a wealthy white man. Cross already has suspicions that the murders are linked, but when Sampson''s ex turns up in an abandoned southeast warehouse kicked to death, the two detectives carry on with their original investigation. Meanwhile, Cross''s longtime love, Christine (_Cat and Mouse_), has taken prominence in his life, and it looks as if the two will finally get hitched--with one glitch: Cross puts everything he loves in jeopardy as he obsessively goes after the Weasel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Akin to a slick Hollywood action flick,\n  <em>\n   Pop Goes the Weasel\n  </em>\n  doesn''t have time for meaningful character development or thoughtful moral analysis. And it doesn''t need to. Its winning formula is based on short scenes (chapters average about 3 pages), addictive plot progression, and mean dialogue: "Sampson sighed and said, ''I think her tongue is stapled inside the other girl. I''m pretty sure that''s it, Alex. The Weasel stapled them together.'' I looked at the two girls and shook my head. ''I don''t think so. A staple, even a surgical one, would come apart on the tongue''s surface.... Crazy glue would work."\n  <em>\n   --Rebekah Warren\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Patterson dedicates his latest (after 1998''s When the Wind Blows) to "the millions of Alex Cross readers who so frequently ask ''Can''t you write faster?''" Those readers won''t be disappointed: the successful formula is in high gear, with the Washington, D.C., psychologist/homicide detective up to his ears in unsolved murders. This tale features a duplicitous villain, a glut of dirty office politics and the inevitable threat to someone Cross just can''t live without. A highly moral character, Cross is now firmly rooted in many imaginations as Morgan Freeman, who played him in the film version of Kiss the Girls. When he''s not caring for Damon and Jannie, his two young children, Cross takes boys to visit their fathers in prison and works in a soup kitchen. After his boss, Chief Pittman, refuses to believe that a serial killer is striking in the neglected Southeast section, Cross and four other officers work extra hours on their own, the only ones who really care. Readers learn early on that the killer is a British diplomat, Geoffrey Shafer, a chilling madman ostensibly holding his sanity together with drugs. Shafer is obsessed with a real-life version of a computer game called the Four Horsemen, during which he masquerades as a taxi driver who kills his unsuspecting passengers. If Shafer is almost too good to be trueAanother fictional psychopath with infinite resourcesAPatterson is shrewd enough to show him making mistakes (like forgetting to wash) as he comes apart at the seams. The killer is caught in the middle of the narrative, setting the scene for a bold courtroom drama. Even the disappearance of Cross''s new lady love (his wife was killed in a previous book) is less of a clich?d device than a ritual sacrifice as Patterson''s well-oiled suspense machine grinds away with solid precision. 1 million first printing; $1 million ad/promo; 14-city author tour; Time Warner audio. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/968'),
(3243, 'Alex Cross 06 Roses Are Red', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE SPECTACULAR EIGHTH #1 BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF POP GOES THE WEASEL#1 Washington Post#1 Publishers Weekly#1 Wall Street Journal#1 Chicago Tribune#1 Entertainment Weekly#1 Philadelphia InquirerIn this heart-pounding new thriller, Detective Alex Cross pursues the most brilliant killer he''s ever confronted, a mysterious criminal who calls himself the Mastermind. In a series of crimes that has stunned Washington, D.C., bank robbers have been killing bank employees and their families if the robbers'' instructions are not followed to the letter. Alex Cross knows this is no ordinary criminal -- the pathological need for control and perfection is too great. Cross is in the midst of a crisis at home -- but the case becomes all-consuming as he learns that the Mastermind is plotting one huge, last, perfect crime...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/969'),
(3244, 'Alex Cross 08 Four Blind Mice', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Detective Alex Cross is on his way to resign from the Washington, D.C., Police Force when his partner shows up at his door with a case he can''t refuse. One of John Sampson''s oldest friends, from their days together in Vietnam, has been arrested for murder. Worse yet, he is subject to the iron hand of the United States Army. The evidence against him is strong enough to send him to the gas chamber. Sampson is certain his friend has been framed, and Alex''s investigation turns up evidence overlooked-or concealed-by the military authorities. Drawing on their years of street training and an almost telepathic mutual trust, Cross and Sampson go deep behind military lines to confront the most terrifying-and deadly-killers they have ever encountered. Behind these three highly skilled killing machines there appears to be an even more threatening controller. Discovering the identity of this lethal genius will prove to be Cross''s most terrifying challenge ever. On his visits home, Alex must confront another, more harrowing mystery: what''s the matter with Nana Mama? As he explores the possibility of a new relationship with a woman who offers him new hope, Alex must also confront the fact that his beloved grandmother is only human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/971'),
(3245, 'Alex Cross 09 The Big Bad Wolf', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as "the Wolf. "Alex Cross''s first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves. Even as he admires the FBI''s vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau''s clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/972'),
(3246, 'Alex Cross 10 London Bridges', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two of the greatest villains James Patterson has ever created in one book! Minutes after soldiers evacuate a Nevada town, a bomb completely destroys it. On vacation, FBI agent Alex Cross gets the call: the blast was perpetrated by the Wolf. A supercriminal and Cross''s deadliest nemesis, the Wolf threatens to obliterate major cities, including London, Paris, and New York. Then evidence reveals the involvement of a ruthless assassin known as the Weasel. Could these two dark geniuses be working together? Now with just four days to prevent an unimaginable cataclysm, Cross is catapulted into an international chase of astonishing danger - and toward the explosive truth about the Wolf''s identity, a revelation that Cross may not survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/973'),
(3247, 'Alex Cross 12 Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Forensic psychologist Alex Cross''s storied career in private practice, with the FBI and as a Washington, D.C., cop has brought him into contact with all kinds of seriously disturbed killers, but his 12th outing from bestseller Patterson (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Mary, Mary\n  </em>\n  ) may be the ultimate in lunatic deadliness. Beginning with a flashback to the murder of Cross''s wife, Maria, Patterson quickly introduces Michael Sullivan (aka the Butcher of Sligo). What follows is a frenetically paced series of brutal rapes and killings by Sullivan, once employed by the mob as a freelancer and now at war with them. Cross juggles being a single parent and being involved in the dangerous game of tracking serial killers until he finally decides to give it up for his family. Needless to say, he''s drawn back into the game when it promises a chance of finding Maria''s killer. Cross''s competence and vulnerability make a stark contrast with Sullivan''s sadistic mutilations and psychological manipulations of his victims. Fans know that Cross will survive, but at what cost?\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Patterson''s departure from the nursery-rhyme titles in his latest Alex Cross yarn is a tip-off that the focus this time is not so much on the case as on the man. For the first time in Patterson''s 13-year-old series, we relive the day in 1993 when Cross'' wife, Maria, was murdered. Alex was a young gun with the D.C. police then, and Maria was a social worker in the poorest and most dangerous section of the city before she became the victim of a drive-by shooting. Cut to the present, and Alex--who has been with the FBI for some time, become a successful crime writer, and started to lose a bit of that "dragon slayer" touch--decides to devote more time to his three kids, much to the delight of Nana Mama, Alex''s nonagenarian three-in-one grandmother, nanny, and guiding light. Alex is nothing if not loyal, so when his former partner John Sampson asks him to help track down a sicko who is serially raping Georgetown coeds, Alex cannot say no. Little does he know, however, that the search for the rapist will have ties to Maria''s death. That her killer was never found is a constant source of frustration for Alex, and this case offers a chance to finally put Maria''s memory to rest. Even as the story whips by with incredible speed, Patterson manages to pack it full of suspense, emotion, and a resolution that, while perfectly satisfying, carries the author''s trademark teaser hinting at the "more" that surely will come.\n  <em>\n   Mary Frances Wilkens\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/958'),
(3248, 'Alex Cross 13 Double Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Patterson''s 13th Alex Cross thriller (after 2006''s Cross) pits the legendary profiler, now retired from law enforcement and working as a psychiatrist in private practice, against two serial killers. Kyle Craig, Cross''s former colleague in the FBI (who was revealed to be the Mastermind, a particularly vicious and resourceful murderer, in 2001''s Violets Are Blue), has managed to escape from a Colorado maximum-security prison and is steadily working his way through his list ofÃ‚Â those he holds responsible for his capture and incarceration. Cross, who heads the list, is drawn back into police work by his love interest, Maryland homicide detective Brianna Stone, who''s been assigned to the task force focusing on the D.C. Audience Killer (or DCAK), who stages high-profile and sadistic murders to get the most public attention possible. Even newcomers will find themselves turning the pages to see how everything turns out, but significant plot holes and implausibilities make this a far cry from the similar, but far more suspenseful, two-front war waged by Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This novel gives the reader double excitement with not one but two maniacs after Alex Cross...Even if you are not an Alex Cross fan, you will enjoy this thriller by James Patterson. Be sure to add\n  <em>\n   Double Cross\n  </em>\n  to your reading list." (\n  <strong>\n   BestsellersWorld.com\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Double Cross is a strong, addictive page turner. It is definitely worth the trip to the book store." (\n  <strong>\n   TheMysterySite.com\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "DOUBLE CROSS is one of Patterson''s best works to date, full of action and excitement. One cannot read DOUBLE CROSS without feeling as if there are even bigger things yet to come from Cross and his creator." (\n  <strong>\n   Bookreporter.com\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If, like me, you are an Alex Cross fan, run, don''t walk, to your favorite book store and get up to date on the life of Alex Cross. If you enjoy fast paced, well written intrigue, you''ll devour Double Cross, just as I did." (\n  <strong>\n   AllThingsGirl.net\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Double Cross is vintage Patterson. It is fast moving and suspenseful and takes the occasional surprise twist. Life for a Patterson fans doesn''t get much better than this." (\n  <strong>\n   1340MagBooks.com\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/959'),
(3249, 'Alex Cross 14 Cross Country', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Patterson''s 14th Alex Cross thriller doesn''t follow up on the plot threads left dangling in 2007''s\n  <em>\n   Double Cross\n  </em>\n  concerning still-on-the-loose serial killer Kyle Craig. Instead, Cross, a Washington, D.C., police detective, takes on a very different quarryâ€”a human monster known as the Tiger with ties to the African underworld. When the Tiger and his teenage thugs butcher writer Ellie Cox, her husband and children in their Georgetown home, Cross is devastated because Ellie had been his girlfriend in college. The Cox family massacre proves to be just the first in a series. Cross pursues the Tiger to Nigeria, where the profiler finds himself at the mercy of corrupt government officials who may be working with the Tiger. Spending less time than usual exploring his villains psychological backstory, Patterson delivers an atypical tale of James Bondâ€“style revenge. Craig''s brief cameo toward the end suggests the series will resume its usual path in the next book.\n  <em>\n   (Nov. 17)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Tame holiday stress with [this] irresistible read!" (\n  <strong>\n   Women''s World\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/960'),
(3250, 'Alex Cross 15 Alex Cross&#39;s Trial', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of Patterson''s serial-killer hunting detective, Alex Cross, expecting another cat-and-mouse thriller based on this book''s title, will find Cross''s appearance limited to a two-page preface in which the fictional character explains why he''s written a book called Trial. Abraham Cross, a relative who lived in Eudora, Miss., at the beginning of the 20th century, helps liberal lawyer Ben Corbett to expose the truth about a wave of lynchings near that town, an assignment undertaken at the request of Corbett''s friend, President Theodore Roosevelt. When Corbett arrives in Eudora, where he was born and raised, he receives a frosty reception from many unhappy with his record of representing African-Americans accused of murder, including a cold shoulder from his father, a judge. Soon, Corbett finds evidence that racism is alive and well, and that brutal murders of blacks, often for the most trivial of reasons, are endemic. Some may be disappointed that Abraham plays a relatively minor role, given the jacket line that "the Cross family had more than one hero."\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The Man Who Can''t Miss." (_\n  <strong>\n   TIME\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/961');
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(3251, 'Alex Cross 16 I, Alex Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   James Patterson and Patricia Cornwell: Author One-on-One\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  In this Amazon exclusive, we brought together blockbuster authors James Patterson and Patricia Cornwell and asked them to interview each other. Find out what two of the top authors of their genres have to say about their characters, writing process, and more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cornwell\n  </strong>\n  : James, your questions were so good, I''m going to ask you similar ones. Let''s start with why you write? Do you love it or love having done it? What motivates you?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patterson\n  </strong>\n  : I truly love writing. I sometimes think about my grandfather when I reflect on this. When I was a boy, I lived in a town on the Hudson River. During the summers, my grandfather would take me once a week on his frozen food and ice cream delivery route. We''d be up at four in the morning packing up the truck, and by five we''d be on our way. Driving a delivery truck isn''t the most glamorous job in the world, but every morning, my grandfather would drive over the Storm King Mountain toward West Point, and he''d be singing at the top of his voice. And he told me this: "Jim," he said, "when you grow up, I don''t care if you''re a truck driver or a famous surgeonâ€”just remember that when you go over the mountain to work in the morning, you''ve got to be singing." Writing stories keeps me singing. Writing to me isn''t work, and I like that a ton.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cornwell\n  </strong>\n  : What is your routine when you''re facing your next novel? What is the process like for you, and what is your favorite part of it? Least favorite?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patterson\n  </strong>\n  : I like to have a lot of ideas in the air at one time. I''ve got around 20 manuscripts sitting in my office right now, in some degree of completion. It''s a lot of material, a lot of stories. My least favorite part? Hmm. Maybe sharpening pencils? Actually, Iâ€™ve always kind of liked sharpening pencils. I donâ€™t mean to seem too over the top about this, but I really wouldnâ€™t change any of it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cornwell\n  </strong>\n  : What do you and Alex Cross have in common? How are you different?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patterson\n  </strong>\n  : We''re both family-oriented guys. I think it''s a real treat to be able to get along with your wife every day, which I do; my wife and I really have trouble being apart for very long. And I think readers will agree Alex is generally doing better in the romance department. One difference between us would be that I''m much more content to sit around and write. I think Alex would get a little bored on a "ride-along" with me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cornwell\n  </strong>\n  : What inspired you to create Alex Cross?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patterson\n  </strong>\n  : Hardly anyone knows it but when I started the first Alex Cross novel, Alex was a woman named Alexis. After 100 pages or so, I changed the character to Alex. When I was a kid growing up, my grandparents had a small restaurant and the cook was an African-American woman who eventually moved into our house. All through my growing up period I spent a lot of time with this woman''s family. They were funny, wise, the food was great, so was the music, and the family is at least part of the inspiration for the Crosses.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cornwell\n  </strong>\n  : What''s the one thing a reader has said that you''ve never forgotten and perhaps found startling?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patterson\n  </strong>\n  : I''m sure you''ve had this, too, Patricia, but the one comment that gets me every time is hearing people say my books have them reading again. I know sometimes you and I get some heat for being as popular as we are, and are saddled with that old equation that says if you''re a bestseller, you must be lowbrow. But I frankly don''t think thereâ€™s anything more meaningful than hearing that I''ve turned a person back into a reader (or in the case of younger readers, got them started).\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cornwell\n  </strong>\n  : How about you? You''re the one with all the movies! Good experience or not?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patterson\n  </strong>\n  : Sounds like we''re on the same page there, Patricia. I definitely feel like some past projects didn''t quite live up to their potential. And I likewise have hopes for a couple of movies in the works: the third Alex Cross movie, and the very first\n  <em>\n   Maximum Ride\n  </em>\n  movie, which has Avi Arad (producer of\n  <em>\n   Spider Man\n  </em>\n  ), Catherine Hardwicke (director of\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  ), and Don Payne (writer for\n  <em>\n   The Simpsons\n  </em>\n  ) on board. There''s also a very promising TV series based on a new book I''ve written that''s being developed with CBS and Imagine.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Patterson offers nothing new on a theme he himself has already done to death in his 16th novel featuring detective Alex Cross (after Cross Country), in which Cross takes on yet another barbaric serial killer, this one known as Zeus. Word that an estranged 24-year-old niece, Caroline Cross, has been murdered disturbs Cross''s birthday party. To make that horror even worse, the killer fed Caroline''s body through a wood chipper. Cross soon discovers that Caroline supported herself as a high-price escort for Washington, D.C.''s elite, and that other women who served similar clients have turned up missing. Cross''s investigation soon attracts the attention of the feds, and he concludes that Zeus is better connected than most of the psychopaths he''s brought to justice. A subplot centering on a health threat to another member of Cross''s family adds padding. Readers expecting the killer to be identified through insightful profiling will be disappointed.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/962'),
(3252, 'Alex Cross 17 Cross Fire', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  READERS LOVE\n  <em>\n   I, ALEX CROSS\n  </em>\n  !\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[Patterson''s] books don''t pussyfoot around when it comes to the villains. These are bad, bad people... [_I, Alex Cross_] is political, with a lot of intrigue in high places." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Today Show\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Al Roker\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I truly believe that James Patterson has an IV hooked up to his writing arm and Great Ideas, Great Plots, and Great Characters dribble constantly into his bloodstream..._I, Alex Cross_ stuns." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    TheReviewBroads.com\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The stakes are higher than ever before...More than a crime thriller, it''s an absorbing family drama." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    NightsandWeekends.com\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Wedding bells ring\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Detective Alex Cross and Bree''s wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.''s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories--is the marksman a hero or a vigilante?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A murderer returns\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation. As Alex and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, the murders continue. It becomes clear that they are the work of a professional who has detailed knowledge of his victims'' movements--information that only a Washington insider could possess.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Caught in a lethal cross fire\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Alex contends with the sniper, Siegel, and the wedding, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good. With a supercharged blend of action, deception, and suspense,\n  <em>\n   Cross Fire\n  </em>\n  is James Patterson''s most visceral and exciting Alex Cross novel ever.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/963'),
(3253, 'Alvin Maker 01 Seventh Son', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/998'),
(3254, 'Alvin Maker 02 Red Prophet', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/999'),
(3255, 'Alvin Maker 03 Prentice Alvin', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/994'),
(3256, 'Alvin Maker 04 Journeyman', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/995'),
(3257, 'Alvin Maker 05 Heartfire', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/996'),
(3258, 'Alvin Maker 06 The Crystal City', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/997'),
(3259, 'Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist', 'Michael J. Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Star. Husband. Father. Activist. But one word encapsulates everything he stands for, everything he''s accomplished: Optimist. Struck with Parkinson''s at the height of his fame, Fox has taken what some might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions. In Always Looking Up, he writes about the personal philosophy that carried him through his darkest hours, and speaks with others who have emerged from difficult periods with optimism to spare. With humor and wit, Fox shows how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life.\n  <br />\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Star. Husband. Father. Activist. But one word encapsulates everything he stands for, everything he''s accomplished: Optimist. Struck with Parkinson''s at the height of his fame, Fox has taken what some might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions. In Always Looking Up, he writes about the personal philosophy that carried him through his darkest hours, and speaks with others who have emerged from difficult periods with optimism to spare. With humor and wit, Fox shows how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life.\n  <br />\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox:  Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of *Always Looking Up* will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagement and discovery: an emotional, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual outlook that has served him throughout his struggle with Parkinson''s disease. Michael''s exit from a very demanding, very public arena offered him the time-and the inspiration-to open up new doors leading to unexpected places. One door even led him to the center of his own family, the greatest destination of all.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ***The last ten years, which is really the stuff of this book, began with such a loss: my retirement from Spin City.  I found myself struggling with a strange new dynamic: the shifting of public and private personas.  I had been Mike the actor, then Mike the actor with PD. Now was I just Mike with PD? Parkinson''s had consumed my career and, in a sense, had become my career.  But where did all of this leave Me?  I had to build a new life when I was already pretty happy with the old one.*.**     \\t\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *Always Looking Up* is a memoir of this last decade, told through the critical themes of Michael''s life: work, politics, faith, and family. The book is a journey of self-discovery and reinvention, and a testament to the consolations that protect him from the ravages of Parkinson''s.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  With the humor and wit that captivated fans of his first book, *Lucky Man*, Michael describes how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1475'),
(3260, 'American Psycho', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/249'),
(3261, 'American Star', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/200'),
(3262, 'Anansi Boys', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fat Charlie Nancy''s normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn''t know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother.   Now brother Spider''s on his doorstepâ€”about to make Fat Charlie''s life more interesting . . . and a lot more dangerous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1459'),
(3263, 'Angel 01 Angel', 'L.A. Weatherly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alex is a ruthless assassin - of angels. Forget everything you''ve heard about them before. Angels are not benign celestial creatures, but fierce stalkers whose irresistible force allows them to feed off humans, draining them of their vitality until there is barely anything left. As far as Alex is concerned, the only good angel is a dead angelÅ¼until he meets Willow. She may look like a normal teenager but Willow is no ordinary girl. Half-angel, half-human, Willow may hold the key to defeating the evil angels. But as the hunter and the hunted embark on an epic and dangerous journey and Willow learns the dark and terrifying secrets of her past, Alex finds himself drawn to WillowÅ¼with devastating consequences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/991'),
(3264, 'Angel 02 Angel Fire', 'L.A. Weatherly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1342'),
(3265, 'Angel Star 01 Leminscate', 'Jennifer Murgia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1302'),
(3266, 'Angelology 01 Angelology', 'Danielle Trussoni', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Set in the secluded world of cloistered abbeys, long-lost secrets and angelic humans, Angelology has all the makings of a blockbuster hit, combining elements of The Da Vinci Code and Kate Mosse''s Labyrinth Sister Evangeline was just a young girl when her father left her at St. Rose Convent under the care of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. Now a young woman, she has unexpectedly discovered a collection of letters dating back sixty years - letters that bring her deep into a closely guarded secret, to an ancient conflict between the millennium-old Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful Nephilim, the descendants of angels and humans. Rich and mesmerizing, Angelology blends biblical lore, mythology and the fall of the Rebel Angels, creating a luminous, riveting tale of one young woman caught in a battle that will determine the fate of the world. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1220'),
(3267, 'Animal Farm', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1006'),
(3268, 'Anita Blake 01 - Guilty Pleasures', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/162'),
(3269, 'Anita Blake 02 - The Laughing Corpse', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/163'),
(3270, 'Anita Blake 03 - Circus of the Damned', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/164'),
(3271, 'Anita Blake 04 - The Lunatic Cafe', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/165'),
(3272, 'Anita Blake 05 - Bloody Bones', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/166'),
(3273, 'Anita Blake 06 - The Killing Dance', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/167'),
(3274, 'Anita Blake 07 - Burnt Offerings', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/168'),
(3275, 'Anita Blake 08 - Blue Moon', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/169'),
(3276, 'Anita Blake 09 - Obsidian Butterfly', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/170'),
(3277, 'Anita Blake 10 - Narcissus in Chains', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(3278, 'Anita Blake 11 - Cerulean Sins', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/172'),
(3279, 'Anita Blake 12 - Incubus Dreams', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/173'),
(3280, 'Anita Blake 13 - Micah', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/255'),
(3281, 'Anita Blake 14 - Danse Macabre', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/256'),
(3282, 'Anna Karenina', 'Leo Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1007'),
(3283, 'Anthem', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/318'),
(3284, 'As The World Dies 01 The First Days', 'Rhiannon Frater', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two very different women flee into the Texas Hill Country on the first day of the zombie rising. Together they struggle to rescue loved ones, find other survivors, and avoid the hungry undead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/906'),
(3285, 'As The World Dies 02 Fighting to Survive', 'Rhiannon Frater', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Katie and Jenni have found new lives with the survivors of their makeshift fort, but danger still lurks. Nothing is easy in the new world where the dead walk and every day is a struggle to keep safe.  As the elements, bandits, and the zombie horde threaten their safe haven, Jenni and Katie join the other survivors in fighting to survive as the world dies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/907'),
(3286, 'As The World Dies 03 Siege', 'Rhiannon Frater', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the survivors continue to seek stability in their lives, forces both inside and outside the fort walls move them toward a final, climactic conflict between the living and the dead. Jenni, Katie and the others discover that they are not alone, that there is another enclave of survivors whose leaders plan to take over the fort.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/908'),
(3287, 'Atlas Shrugged', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/316'),
(3288, 'The Audacity of Hope', 'Barack Obama', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama''s call for a new kind of politicsâ€”a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America''s place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1053'),
(3289, 'The Bachman Books', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/491'),
(3290, 'Bag of Bones', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/688'),
(3291, 'Ballantyne 01 A Falcon Flies', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "In a towering tale of lovers, family, enemies, and honor, Wilbur Smith chronicles a journey into the heart of a continent--where only the bold would survive..."" "A MAN HAD DISAPPEARED IN AFRICAIn 1860, a man and woman approach the coast of Africa aboard a swift clipper--in the command of an American who knows no law. Robyn Ballantyne and her brother Morris have waited years for this moment: to return to Africa, to search for their missionary father who had disappeared somewhere in the wilderness. A TRIAL LED TO AN ANCIENT CITY, UNTOLD WONDERS, AND HORRORTraveling north from Cape Town, they follow a map left by a madman--into an uncharted world of waterfalls and jungle, teeming wildlife, murderous disease, and the ghastly ruins of an astounding city. AND THE ONLY WAY OUT WILL BE THROUGH A HEART OF DARKNESSUncovering their father''s trail, Robyn and her brother are in the midst of a slave trade that pours out of Africa like a bloody wound. Now, to survive what they have found, they must make their separate ways out--through pitched battles on land and on sea...and through the pride, passions and fury of their hearts... "An epic...Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."--"Tulsa"" World"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/835'),
(3292, 'Ballantyne 02 Men of Men', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It was called The Devils''s Own: a steep scar in the African earth, around which men toiled with picks, shovels, and dreams of the milky treasures that would become prized, polished diamonds. In this demonic race, native tribesmen became miners. Sometimes they became thieves. And then they became rebels. Zouga Ballantyne, an African-born Englishman, sees the Devil''s Own mine as his ticket to the North: a realm of waterfalls and fertile plains, teeming wildlife, and seeded fields of gold. But what happens in the diamond mines of the fledgling Boer Free State sets the course for Ballantyne and a cast of comrades, enemies, and lovers#xC3;#x1A;--and for the continent itself. #xA0; From the visions of imperialists to the fury between a father and a son, from the lengths a man will go for a woman and a woman for her convictions, a tragic clash of generations and civilizations was shaking 19th century Africa, where some warriors fought for their gods#xC3;#x1A;--and others for the men who came before them...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/836'),
(3293, 'Ballantyne 03 The Angels Weep', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With THE ANGELS WEEP, bestselling author Wilbur Smith captures the agony, beauty, and hope of men and women who gave their lives to a land...  AFRICA LURED THE LUST IN MEN''S HEARTS...On a continent of breathtaking beauty and bitter suffering, two vastly different cultures clashed, mingled, and recoiled. Here, amidst mist-shrouded mountains and gold-studded plateaus, ancient tribesmen lived close to the earth, as white men dug fortunes out from beneath them and laid plans for a new civilization. THE VIOLENCE IN THEIR SOULS...Out of Southern Africa the enigmatic Cecil Rhodes built an empire in the late 1800s and attracted the brightest and bravest of a generationÃ‚--including a remarkable far-flung family named Ballantyne. But for the natives, another day was dawning: a day of retribution... AND THEIR APPETITE FOR REVENGE.From a courageous woman doctor to a fierce, one-eyed slave trader turned soldier, the whites of Africa were buffeted by two horrific waves of war. And just when a bloody peace seemed possible, the seeds of future turmoil were sown ...  Ã‚"An epic...Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels.Ã‚"Ã‚--Tulsa World\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/837'),
(3294, 'Ballantyne 04 The Leopard Hunts in Darkness', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Master storyteller Wilbur Smith is Ã‚"without rivalÃ‚" (Tulsa World). In THE LEOPARD HUNTS IN DARKNESS, he takes us on an adventure into modern Africa, where man is the most dangerous beast of all... HE ESCAPED AFRICA WITH HIS LIFEIn Manhattan, Craig Mellow is the toast of the literary world, a young writer whose bestselling novels and larger-than-life adventures are fueled by natural-born charisma. But Craig lost a limb and a legacy in Africa. And his heart still clings to the land. NOW HE''S GOING BACKA representative of the World Bank recruits Craig to return to his war-torn homelandÃ‚--to use his knowledge of Zimbawe''s people, languages, and wildlife to stabilize its future. But once he sets foot on the continent, Craig cannot resist what runs in his bloodÃ‚... TO RECLAIM HIS SOULSoon, this scion of a legendary family is caught in a new era of massive ivory poaching, of tribal warfare waged with modern killing tools, and international politics hardwired directly to Washington and Moscow. With a woman by his side and a traitor behind his back, Craig is about to learn a lesson of a brutal new ageÃ‚--if he can survive Africa one more time.   Ã‚"Smith deftly evokes not only the horrific but also the beautiful, particularly the lush landscape of Africa."Ã‚--The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/838'),
(3295, 'Battle Royale', 'Koushun Takami', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/604'),
(3296, 'The Bell Jar', 'Sylvia Plath', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/873'),
(3297, 'Benny Imura 01 Rot &amp; Ruin', 'Jonathan Maberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/794'),
(3298, 'The Betrayal of Maggie Blair', 'Elizabeth Laird', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In seventeenth-century Scotland, saying the wrong thing can lead to banishmentâ€”or worse. Accused of being a witch, sixteen-year-old Maggie Blair is sentenced to be hanged. She escapes, but instead of finding shelter with her principled, patriotic uncle, she brings disaster to his door.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Betrayed by one of her own accusers, Maggie must try to save her uncle and his family from the king''s men, even if she has to risk her own life in the process. Originally published in the UK, this book has a powerful blend of heart-stopping action and thought-provoking themes.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1344'),
(3299, 'Between Planets', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/667'),
(3300, 'The Bitch', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/201'),
(3301, 'Black House', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/527'),
(3302, 'Blades of the Rose 01 Warrior', 'Zoe Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  To most people, the realm of magic is the stuff of nursery rhymes and dusty libraries. But for Capt. Gabriel Huntley, it''s become quite real and quite dangerous. . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In Hot Pursuit. . .\n  <br />\n  The vicious attack Capt. Gabriel Huntley witnesses in a dark alley sparks a chain of events that will take him to the ends of the Earth and beyond--where what is real and what is imagined become terribly confused. And frankly, Huntley couldn''t be more pleased. Intrigue, danger, and a beautiful woman in distress--just what he needs.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In Hotter Water. . .\n  <br />\n  Raised thousands of miles from England, Thalia Burgess is no typical Victorian lady. A good thing, because a proper lady would have no hope of recovering the priceless magical artifact Thalia is after. Huntley''s assistance might come in handy, though she has to keep him in the dark. But this distractingly handsome soldier isn''t easy to deceive. . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/930'),
(3303, 'Blades of the Rose 02 Scoundrel', 'Zoe Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After three years of straight-laced widowhood, London Harcourt jumps at the chance to join her father on a voyage to the Greek Isles where she succumbs to the amorous advances of adventurer--and notorious ladies man--Bennett Day. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/931'),
(3304, 'Blades of the Rose 03 Rebel', 'Zoe Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the third book of The Blades of the Rose paranormal series that began in "Warrior" and "Scoundrel," Archer takes readers to the Canadian frontier of 1875 and into an extraordinary realm of magic and romance. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/932'),
(3305, 'Blades of the Rose 04 Stranger', 'Zoe Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The fourth novel in Archer''s paranormal series The Blades of the Rose transports readers to Victorian England--to an exciting world of fantasy and magic that exists right beneath the surface of reality. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/929'),
(3306, 'Blood Meridian', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/645'),
(3307, 'Blood of Eden 01 The Immortal Rules', 'Julie Kagawa', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <em style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  <strong>\n   In a future world, Vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity.\n  </strong>\n </em>\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Â \n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten.Â \n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred ofÂ \n </span>\n <em style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  them.\n </em>\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Â The vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself is attackedâ€”and given the ultimate choice. DieÂ… or become one of the monsters.Â \n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Faced with her own mortality, Allie becomes what she despises most. To survive, she must learn the rules of being immortal, including the most important: go long enough without human blood, and you will go mad.Â \n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Then Allie is forced to flee into the unknown, outside her city walls. There she joins a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legendâ€”a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.Â \n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  But it isn''t easy to pass for human. Especially not around Zeke, who might see past the monster inside her. And Allie soon must decide whatâ€”and whoâ€”is worth dying for\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1441'),
(3308, 'Blood Singer 01 Blood Song', 'Cat Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bodyguard Celia Graves has definitely accepted her share of weird assignments, both human and supernatural. But her newest job takes the cake. Guarding a Prince from terrorists and religious fundamentalists is hard enough, but it seems like the entire supernatural world is after this guy too. When she is betrayed by those she is employed to help, and everything goes horribly wrong, Celia wakes to find herself transformed. Neither human nor vampire, Celia has become an Abominationâ€”something that should not existâ€”and now both human and supernatural alike want her dead. With the help of a few loyal friendsâ€”a sexy mage, a powerful werewolf, and a psychic copâ€”Celia does her best to stay alive. On the run from her enemies, Celia must try to discover who is behind her transformationâ€¦before itâ€™s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1043'),
(3309, 'Blood Singer 02 Siren Song', 'Cat Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nothing if not resilient, Celia Graves is slowly adjusting to being a half-human, half-vampire Abomination.Â But her troubles are far from over.Â Her best friendâ€™s murder is still unsolved, the cops are convinced she should be in jail, and her old lover, the magician Bruno DeLuca, has resurfaced in her life, saying he has something important to tell her.The vampire attack that transformed Celia kicked her latent Siren abilities into high gear, and now sheâ€™s been summoned to the Sirensâ€™ island to justify her existenceâ€”and possibly fight for her lifeâ€”in front of the Siren Queen.Â Celia isnâ€™t sure sheâ€™ll survive to make the trip.Â The demon she defeated in Blood Song hasnâ€™t exactly gone quietlyâ€”heâ€™s left Celia suffering from a powerful curse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1079'),
(3310, 'Blood Ties 01 The Turning', 'Jennifer Armintrout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/777'),
(3311, 'Blood Ties 02 The Possession', 'Jennifer Armintrout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/778'),
(3312, 'Blood Ties 03 Ashes to Ashes', 'Jennifer Armintrout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/779'),
(3313, 'Blood Ties 04 All Souls&#39; Night', 'Jennifer Armintrout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/780'),
(3314, 'Bloodlines 01 Bloodlines', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n No Description Available.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1343'),
(3315, 'Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology', 'Marc Headley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Nominated by Foreword Magazine as 2009 Book of the Year Award Finalist. Marc Headley provides an insider''s view of life as a member of Scientology''s "Sea Organization". Marc worked at Scientology''s secret desert compound, which houses all Scientology management, for 15 years. The 500 acre property is located deep in the California desert. The local townspeople were told lectures and films were made there. But is that all that was happening? It is the location of a multi-million dollar home for L. Ron Hubbard, built two decades after his death. It is the home of Scientology''s current leader, David Miscavige. So what really happens at the Int Base? Are the stories on the internet true? How does Scientology conduct management of its day to day operations? Could stories of armed guards, weapons, staff beatings, and razor wire fences be true? If so, how could a facility like this exist in modern day America? Hundreds of staff tried to escape over the years. Some succeeded but were never seen or heard of again, most failed. Why were people kept here? What really went on at the headquarters of Scientology? This is the story of what happened behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology. "...the Scientology cult, is I guarantee you, a thousand times more bizarre than you could have ever imagined." The John &amp; Ken Show, KFI AM 640 "Headley''s book also provides stunning material that has rarely been collected in one place... a damning account of life working for Scientology leader David Miscavige at the secretive desert base..." Tony Ortega, The Village Voice "...a new book exposing alleged details about not just Scientology -- but Tom Cruise''s association with the church -- is available..." The Washington Post "Marc Headley , a former insider at the church, has written a tell-all book, called Blown for Good, about his 15 years of work with Scientology. And folks...you can''t handle the truth..." The Frisky "\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1332'),
(3316, 'Body Finder 01 The Body Finder', 'Kimberly Derting', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodiesâ€”or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat left for her. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he''s claimed haunt her daily, Violet realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet find the murdererâ€”and Violet is unnerved by her hope that Jay''s intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she''s falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer . . . and becoming his prey herself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/985'),
(3317, 'Books of Blood 01', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/274'),
(3318, 'Books of Blood 02', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/275'),
(3319, 'Books of Blood 03', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/276'),
(3320, 'Books of Blood 04', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/277'),
(3321, 'Books of Blood 05', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/278'),
(3322, 'Books of Blood 06', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/279'),
(3323, 'Books of Ember 01 The City of Ember', 'Jeanne DuPrau', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">\n  SUMMARY:\n </span>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">\n  <br />\n </span>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">\n  ''''æ´—In the city of Ember, the sky was always dark . . .'' Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she''s sure it holds a secret that will save the city. She and her friend Doon must decipher the message before the lights go out on Ember forever! This stunning debut novel offers refreshingly clear writing and fascinating, original characters.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1308'),
(3324, 'Books of Ember 02 The People of Sparks', 'Jeanne DuPrau', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">\n  SUMMARY:\n </span>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">\n  <br />\n </span>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">\n  Having escaped the underground city of Ember to the Unknown Regions, Lina, Doon, and the others seek help from the village people of Sparks, in the sequel to The City of Ember. Reprint.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1309');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(3325, 'Books of Ember 03 The Prophet of Yonwood', 'Jeanne DuPrau', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople''s reactions to the apocalyptic visions of one of their neighbors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1310'),
(3326, 'Books of Ember 04 The Diamond of Darkhold', 'Jeanne DuPrau', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">\n  SUMMARY:\n </span>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">\n  <br />\n </span>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">\n  It''s been several months since Lina and Doon escaped the dying city of Ember and, along with the rest of their people, joined the town of Sparks. Now, struggling through the harsh winter aboveground, they find an unusual book. Torn up and missing most of its pages, it alludes to a mysterious device from before the Disaster, which they believe is still in Ember. Together, Lina and Doon must go back underground to retrieve what was lost and bring light to a dark world. In the fourth Book of Ember, bestselling author Jeanne DuPrau juxtaposes yet another action-packed adventure with powerful themes about hope, learning, and the search for truth. "From the Hardcover edition."\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1307'),
(3327, 'Books of Faerie 01 Lament - The Faerie Queen&#39;s Deception', 'Maggie Stiefvater', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/355'),
(3328, 'Books of Faerie 02 Ballad- A Gathering of Faerie', 'Maggie Stiefvater', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/356'),
(3329, 'Border Trilogy 01 All the Pretty Horses', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/646'),
(3330, 'Border Trilogy 02 The Crossing', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/647'),
(3331, 'Border Trilogy 03 Cities of the Plain', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/648'),
(3332, 'Bossypants', 'Tina Fey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n    SUMMARY:\n   </span>\n  </h3>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey''s story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty onSaturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon -- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence. Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we''ve all suspected: you''re no one until someone calls you bossy. ( Includes Special, Never-Before-Solicited Opinions on Breastfeeding, Princesses, Photoshop, the Electoral Process, and Italian Rum Cake!)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1293'),
(3333, 'Boston Noir', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Brand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O''Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron.Dennis Lehane ( Mystic River , The Given Day ) has proven himself to be a master of both crime fiction and literary fiction. Here, he extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the cityâ€”the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between.Lehaneâ€™s own contributionâ€”the longest story in the volumeâ€”is set in his beloved home neighborhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul, and throat of the reader.In 2003, Lehaneâ€™s novel Mystic River was adapted into film and quickly garnered six Academy Award nominations (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each winning Academy Awards). Boston Noir launches in November 2009 just as Shutter Island , the film based on Lehaneâ€™s best-selling 2003 novel of the same title, hits the big screen.Dennis Lehane is the author of The New York Times bestseller Mystic River (also an Academy Awardâ€“winning major motion picture); Prayers for Rain ; Gone, Baby, Gone (also a major motion picture); Sacred ; Darkness, Take My Hand ; A Drink Before the War , which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; and, most recently, The Given Day . A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he splits his time between the Boston area and Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/640'),
(3334, 'Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me', 'Marlon Brando', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is Marlon Brando''s own story, and his reason for telling it is best revealed in his own words: "I have always considered my life a private affair and the business of no one beyond my family and those I love. Except for moral and political issues that aroused in me a desire to speak out, I have done my utmost throughout my life, for the sake of my children and myself, to remain silent...But now, in my seventieth year, I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture". To date there have been over a dozen books written about Marlon Brando, and almost all of them have been inaccurate, based on hearsay, sensationalist or prurient in tone. Now, at last, fifty years after his first appearance onstage in New York City, the actor has told his life story, with the help of Robert Lindsey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1469'),
(3335, 'Brangelina', 'Ian Halperin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ian Halperin, New York times bestselling author of Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson, explores the relationship of the world''s most famous celebrity couple with exclusive revelations and personal anecdotes. This supercouple, unlike any other, consistently turns heads, rolls cameras and delivers action. The rugged, yet debonair actor Brad Pitt (Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Inglourious Basterds) and the always sexy and illustrious actress Angelina Jolie (Girl Interrupted, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Changeling) have made a lasting impression through their movies and their magic. Find out the truth behind Angelina''s notorious French kiss with her brother James at the 2000 Oscars. Learn about her childhood and estrangement from her father Jon Voight. Discover the truth of Brad''s marriage to everybody''s friend, Jennifer Aniston, and of her readiness to have children...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1345'),
(3336, 'Brave New World', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1008'),
(3337, 'A Briefer History of Time', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1004'),
(3338, 'The Broken Empire 01 Prince of Thorns', 'Mark Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1373'),
(3339, 'BTVS S1 00 The Harvest', 'Richie Tankersley Cusick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It was 1927 and 41 bodies were found near the Union Station in Chicago. Shortly after the arrival of a certain woman, the murders ceasedÂ­for each generation; there is only one slayer, as the saying goes. Now, starting all over againÂ­Buffy, the new kid at Sunnydale High School wants to forget all about vampire slaying, but with disappearing boys, a dead body in the locker, and Giles, the Watcher to egg her on, Buffy, the Slayer is prepared to face the evil stalking Sunnydale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/608'),
(3340, 'BTVS S1 01 How I Survived My Summer Vacation', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/609'),
(3341, 'BTVS S2 02 Paleo', 'Yvonne Navarro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/611'),
(3342, 'BTVS S3 01 Sins of the Father', 'Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/610'),
(3343, 'BTVS S3 03 Immortal', 'Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/612'),
(3344, 'BTVS S3 05 Obsidian Fate', 'Diana G. Gallagher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/615'),
(3345, 'BTVS S4 01 Prophecies: The Lost Slayer, Part One', 'Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/616'),
(3346, 'BTVS S4 05 Prime Evil', 'Diana G. Gallagher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/614'),
(3347, 'BTVS S6 01 The Wisdom of War', 'Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/617'),
(3348, 'BTVS The Xander Years, Vol 1', 'Keith R.A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Xander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer''s friend is in trouble for being handsome and charming. His feelings for Buffy are genuine but she seems to prefer Angel, the vampire with a human heart. Now, with the high-flying Cordelia Chase as his steady date, Xander wants to sit back and relaxÂ­until she decides he''s seriously harming her social standing. But, his crafty plan to win her back may earn him more love than a guy can handle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/618'),
(3349, 'BTVS The Xander Years, Vol 2', 'Jeff Mariotte', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Buffy The Vampire Slayer Series Title\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/619'),
(3350, 'Candide', 'Voltaire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this new translation of Voltaire''sCandide,distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novel''s irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire thesatirist awicked pleasure for English-speaking readers. Candide recountsthe fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunegonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaire''s philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright placesCandide inthe contexts of Voltaire''s life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1017'),
(3351, 'Carrie', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/530'),
(3352, 'Case', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/531'),
(3353, 'The Cat Who Walked Through Walls', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/656'),
(3354, 'Catch-22', 'Joseph Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of people he hasn''t even met are trying to kill him. His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions that he is committed to flying, he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade, the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the book takes its title: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.Catch-22 is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to some one dangerously sane -- a masterpiece of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1018'),
(3355, 'The Catcher in the Rye', 'J.D. Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Get your "A" in gear! They''re today''s most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception "SparkNotes(TM) has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. "SparkNotes''(TM) motto is "Smarter, Better, Faster because: - They feature the most current ideas and themes, written by experts.- They''re easier to understand, because the same people who use them have also written them.- The clear writing style and edited content enables students to read through the material quickly, saving valuable time. And with everything covered--context; plot overview; character lists; themes, motifs, and symbols; summary and analysis, key facts; study questions and essay topics; and reviews and resources--you don''t have to go anywhere else!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1054'),
(3356, 'Cell', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/327'),
(3357, 'Century Trilogy 01 Fall of Giants', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of World War I, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for women''s suffrage. By the best-selling author of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/934'),
(3358, 'Change of Heart', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The acclaimed #1New York Timesbestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother''s tragic loss and one man''s last chance at gaining salvation.Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth?One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen.For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, something happens that changes everything for him. Now, he has one last chance for salvation, and it lies with June''s eleven-year-old daughter, Claire. But between Shay and Claire stretches an ocean of bitter regrets, past crimes, and the rage of a mother who has lost her child.Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy''s dying wish?Once again, Jodi Picoult mesmerizes and enthralls readers with this story of redemption, justice, and love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1019'),
(3359, 'Chaos Walking 01 The Knife of Never Letting Go', 'Patrick Ness', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Chaos Walking #1)\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer. Imagine you''re the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don''t fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1313'),
(3360, 'Chaos Walking 02 The Ask and the Answer', 'Patrick Ness', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Chaos Walking #2)\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Part two of the literary sci-fi thriller follows a boy and a girl who are caught in a warring town where thoughts can be heard â€” and secrets are never safe.Reaching the end of their flight in THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO, Todd and Viola did not find healing and hope in Haven. They found instead their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss, waiting to welcome them to New Prentisstown. There they are forced into separate lives: Todd to prison, and Viola to a house of healing where her wounds are treated. Soon Viola is swept into the ruthless activities of the Answer, while Todd faces impossible choices when forced to join the mayorâ€™s oppressive new regime. In alternating narratives the two struggle to reconcile their own dubious actions with their deepest beliefs. Torn by confusion and compromise, suspicion and betrayal, can their trust in each other possibly survive?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1315'),
(3361, 'Chaos Walking 03 Monsters of Men', 'Patrick Ness', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The electrifying finale to the multi-award-winning trilogy, Chaos Walking! ''War,'' says the Mayor.''At last.'' Three armies have marched on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. And Todd and Viola are caught in the middle of it all. As the battles commence, can they hope to stop all-out war? Can there ever be peace when they''re so hopelessly outnumbered? And if, as they have been told, ''War makes monsters of men'', what terrible choices await them? And what of the third voice that watches them, one bent on revenge... The electrifying finale to the multi-award-winning Chaos Walking trilogy, Monsters of Men is a heart-stopping novel about power, survival, and the devastating reality of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1314'),
(3362, 'Chemical Garden 01 Wither', 'Lauren DeStefano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children. When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can''t bring herself to hate him as much as she''d like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband''s strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1259'),
(3363, 'Christine', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/535'),
(3364, 'Citizen of the Galaxy', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/668'),
(3365, 'The City &amp; the City', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author China MiÃ©ville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any otherâ€“real or imagined.When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador BorlÃº of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.BorlÃº must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszelâ€™s equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, BorlÃº is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead womanâ€™s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City &amp; the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1454'),
(3366, 'Cleopatra&#39;s Daughter', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. Feared and hunted by the powers in Rome, the lovers choose to die by their own hands as the triumphant armies of Antonyâ€™s revengeful rival, Octavian, sweep into Egypt. Their three orphaned children are taken in chains to Rome; only twoâ€“ the ten-year-old twins Selene and Alexanderâ€“survive the journey. Delivered to the household of Octavianâ€™s sister, the siblings cling to each other and to the hope that they will return one day to their rightful place on the throne of Egypt. As they come of age, they are buffeted by the personal ambitions of Octavianâ€™s family and court, by the ever-present threat of slave rebellion, and by the longings and desires deep within their own hearts. The fateful tale of Selene and Alexander is brought brilliantly to life in *Cleopatraâ€™s Daughter. *Recounted in Seleneâ€™s youthful and engaging voice, it introduces a compelling cast of historical characters: Octavia, the emperor Octavianâ€™s kind and compassionate sister, abandoned by Marc Antony for Cleopatra; Livia, Octavian''s bitter and jealous wife; Marcellus, Octavianâ€™s handsome, flirtatious nephew and heir apparent; Tiberius, Liviaâ€™s sardonic son and Marcellusâ€™s great rival for power; and Juba, Octavianâ€™s watchful aide, whose honored position at court has far-reaching effects on the lives of the young Egyptian royals. Seleneâ€™s narrative is animated by the concerns of a young girl in any time and placeâ€“the possibility of finding love, the pull of friendship and family, and the pursuit of her unique interests and talents. While coping with the loss of both her family and her ancestral kingdom, Selene must find a path around the dangers of a foreign land. Her accounts of life in Rome are filled with historical details that vividly capture both the glories and horrors of the times. She dines with the empireâ€™s most illustrious poets and politicians, witnesses the creation of the Pantheon, and navigates the colorful, crowded marketplaces of the city where Roman-style justice is meted out with merciless authority. Based on meticulous research, *Cleopatraâ€™s Daughter *is a fascinating portrait of imperial Rome and of the people and events of this glorious and most tumultuous period in human history. Emerging from the shadows of the past, Selene, a young woman of irresistible charm and preternatural intelligence, will capture your heart.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1232'),
(3367, 'Colorado Kid', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/676'),
(3368, 'The Complete H. P. Lovecraft Reader', 'H.P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   CONTENTS:\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Nameless City\n  <br />\n  The Festival\n  <br />\n  The Colour out of Space\n  <br />\n  The Call of Cthulhu\n  <br />\n  The Dunwich Horror\n  <br />\n  The Whisperer in Darkness\n  <br />\n  Dreams in the Witch-house\n  <br />\n  The Haunter of the Dark\n  <br />\n  The Shadow over Innsmouth\n  <br />\n  The Shadow out of Time\n  <br />\n  At the Mountain of Madness\n  <br />\n  The Case of Charles Dexter Ward\n  <br />\n  Azathoth\n  <br />\n  Beyond the Wall of Sleep\n  <br />\n  Celephais\n  <br />\n  Cool Air\n  <br />\n  Dagon\n  <br />\n  Ex Oblivione\n  <br />\n  Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family\n  <br />\n  From Beyond\n  <br />\n  He\n  <br />\n  Herbert West: Reanimator\n  <br />\n  Hypnos\n  <br />\n  Imprisoned with the Pharaohs\n  <br />\n  In the Vault\n  <br />\n  Medusa''s Coil\n  <br />\n  Memory\n  <br />\n  Nyarlathotep\n  <br />\n  Pickman''s Model\n  <br />\n  Poetry of the Gods\n  <br />\n  The Alchemist\n  <br />\n  The Beast in the Cave\n  <br />\n  The Book\n  <br />\n  The Cats of Ulthar\n  <br />\n  The Crawling Chaos\n  <br />\n  The Descendant\n  <br />\n  The Doom That Came to Sarnath\n  <br />\n  The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath\n  <br />\n  The Evil Clergyman\n  <br />\n  The Horror at Martin''s Beach\n  <br />\n  The Horror at Red Hook\n  <br />\n  The Hound\n  <br />\n  The Lurking Fear\n  <br />\n  The Moon Bog\n  <br />\n  The Music of Erich Zann\n  <br />\n  The Other Gods\n  <br />\n  The Outsider\n  <br />\n  The Picture in the House\n  <br />\n  The Quest of Iranon\n  <br />\n  The Rats in the Walls\n  <br />\n  The Shunned House\n  <br />\n  The Silver Key\n  <br />\n  The Statement of Randolph Carter\n  <br />\n  The Strange High House in the Mist\n  <br />\n  The Street\n  <br />\n  The Temple\n  <br />\n  The Terrible Old Man\n  <br />\n  The Thing on the Doorstep\n  <br />\n  The Tomb\n  <br />\n  The Transition of Juan Romero\n  <br />\n  The Tree\n  <br />\n  The Unnamable\n  <br />\n  The White Ship\n  <br />\n  Through the Gates of the Silver Key\n  <br />\n  What the Moon Brings\n  <br />\n  Polaris\n  <br />\n  The Very Old Folk\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1443'),
(3369, 'Cosmopolis', 'Don DeLillo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism -- when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments -- are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. Today he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol''s funeral, and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors -- experts on security, technology, currency, finance, and a few sexual partners -- as the limo sputters toward an increasingly uncertain future.\n </span>\n <p style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 19px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 18px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  <em>\n   Cosmopolis,\n  </em>\n  Â Don DeLillo''s thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1465'),
(3370, 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  An adaptation for children of Dumas'' novel, in which a young man, unjustly accused and imprisoned for treason, eventually escapes, uncovers a treasure, and begins his long repressed vengeance against those who betrayed him.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1055'),
(3371, 'Courtney 01 Birds of Prey', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year is 1667. Sir Francis Courtney and his son Hal are on patrol in their fighting caravel off the Agulhas Cape of South Africa. They are lying in wait for one of the treasure-laden galleons of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient. so begins a quest for adventure and the spoils of war that sweeps them from the settlement of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa to the Great Horn of Ethiopia far to the north - at a time when international maritime law permitted acts of piracy, rape, and murder otherwise punishable by death. Wilbur Smith introduces a generation of the indomitable Courtneys and thrillingly re-creates their part in the struggle for supremacy and riches on the high seas.From the very first pages, Wilbur Smith spins a colorful and exciting tale, crackling with tension and drama, that builds and builds to a stunning climax. Packed with vivid descriptive passages of the open seas, breathless pacing, and an extraordinary cast of characters, Birds of Prey is a masterpiece from a storyteller at the height of his powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/847'),
(3372, 'Courtney 02 Monsoon', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One man. Three sons. A powerful destiny waiting to unfold. Monsoon is the sweeping epic that continues the saga begun in Wilbur Smith''s bestselling Birds of Prey. Once a voracious adventurer, it has been many years since Hal Courtney has dared the high seas. Now he must return with three of his sons - Tom, Dorian, and Guy - to protect the East India Trading Company from looting pirates, in exchange for half of the fortune he recovers. It will be a death or glory mission in the name of the crown. But Hal must also think about the fates of his sons. Like their father before them, Tom, Dorian, and Guy are drawn inexorably to Africa. When fate decrees that they must all leave England forever, they set said for the dark, unexplored continent, seduced by the allure and mystery of this new, magnificent, but savage land. All will have a crucial part to play in shaping the Courtneys'' destiny, as the family vies for a prize beyond any of their dreams. In a story of anger and passion, peace and war, Wilbur Smith evinces himself at the height of his storytelling powers. Set at the dawn of eighteenth-century England, with the Courtneys riding wind-tossed seas toward Arabia and Africa, Monsoon is an exhilarating adventure pitting brother against brother, man against sea, and good against evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/848'),
(3373, 'Courtney 03 Blue Horizon', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new generation of Courtneys stake their claim on the wilderness of Southern Africa in this brilliant new novel from the celebrated international bestselling author. At the close of Wilbur Smith''s bestselling Monsoon, Tom Courtney and his brother Dorian battled on the high seas and finally reached the Cape of Good Hope to start life afresh. In this spellbinding new novel, the next generation of Courtneys are out to stake their claim in Southern Africa, travelling along the infamous ''Robber''s Road''. It is a journey both exciting and hazardous, that takes them through the untouched wilderness of a beautiful land filled with warring tribes and wild animals. At heart a story of love and hatred, vengeance and greed, Blue Horizon is an utterly compelling adventure from one of the world''s most celebrated novelists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/849'),
(3374, 'Courtney 04 When the Lion Feeds', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "One of the world''s great storytellers, Wilbur Smith''s captivates readers'' imaginations in this classic novel of passion, adventure, and one man''s destiny." "ON A CONTINENT, WHERE MAGNIFICENT RICHES WERE HIDDEN..."He began life at his twin brother''s side, soon running wild on his father''s ranch on the edge of Africa. But violence, desire, and fate sent Sean Courtney into exile--where he would fight and love his way to extraordinary success and heartbreaking failure... "LIVES WOULD BE LIVED AND LOST."In a place called The Ridge of White Waters, Sean made a life-long friendship, mined a fortune of gold, and met his own demons. Then an act of cunning betrayal struck--and ignited a new adventure to a new frontier. "AND TO THE DARING WENT THE GREATEST FORTUNE OF ALL..."From facing the murderous charge of a towering bull elephant to watching men die unspeakable deaths, Sean fought new enemies, forged new allies--and dreamed of establishing a family on a farm of his own. But the young man who had lived by his courage, sweat, and blood was about to discover that the past still had its claws in him... "Only a handful of 20th century writers tantalize our senses as well as Smith...a rare author who wields a razor-sharp sword of craftsmanship."--"Tulsa"" World"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/839'),
(3375, 'Courtney 05 The Triumph of the Sun', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "In his" New York Times" bestselling novels Wilbur Smith has captured the drama of a vast continent. Now, in his most magnificent tale yet, he takes us back to 1884 and into the dusty city of Khartoum, where an English family and besieged populace wait for rescue--or for death..." """"IN A CLASH OF TWO CULTURESThey''ve come from out of the shifting sands and down from ancient mountains. Mounted on horse and camel, carrying gleaming swords and plundered rifles, the sons of Allah are led by a holy warrior imbued with "jihad, " driving his army of thousands to wipe out the last Englishmen from the isolated Nile city... A FAMILY STOOD STRONGBut in Khartoum is a legendary British general, a brilliant, mercenary trader, a beautiful woman and a courageous soldier whose fates have become one. They know that time is running out and rescue is improbable. So they prepare for one last stand--and the beginning of an epic journey of survival... WHILE LOVERS AND FIGHTERS RISKED EVERYTHINGFrom a passionate rivalry for a woman to an unforgettable face-off between warriors, TRIUMPH OF THE SUN is adventure fiction writ large--alive with the sounds of throngs, the terror of battle, and the mystical fire of human courage in the darkest moments of all. "Swift and powerful...masterful."--"Booklist" "Smith is without rival."--"Tulsa"" World"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/850'),
(3376, 'Courtney 06 The Sound of Thunder', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''Only once in his life had Sean met a man whose strength matched his own '' and now, again, they were pitted against each other . . . Sean Courtney, impulsive adventurer of When the Lion Feeds returns from the wildnerness a rich man '' until he is robbed by the Boers of his wagons, his gold and the girl he loves. A grim homecoming finds his country in the cruel grip of war. But in the bloody days ahead, conflicts within his family will prove far more bitter than any fought on the veld . . . ''The world''s leading adventure writer'' Daily Express ''The pace would do credit to a Porsche, and the invention is as bright and explosive as a fireworks display'' Sunday Telegraph '' . . . action follows action . . . mystery is piled on mystery . . . tales to delight the millions of addicts of the gutsy adventure story'' Sunday Express '' . . . a natural storyteller who moves confidently and often splendidly in his period and sustains a flow of convincing incident'' The Scotsman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/840'),
(3377, 'Courtney 07 Assegai', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Courtney - 13\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto Von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser''s burgeoning army. But Leon had not bargained for falling passionately in love with Eva, the Count''s beautiful and enigmatic mistress.  Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa, to gather information from Von Meerbach. He stumbles on a plot against the British involving the disenchanted survivors of the Boer War, but it is only when Eva and Von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/851'),
(3378, 'Courtney 08 The Burning Shore', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a breathtaking adventure of love, war, and bitter revenge, New York Times bestselling author Wilbur Smith captures a courageous quest for survival against a country''s greatest oddsÃ‚.... FROM THE FIRES OF THE SECOND WORLD WARCentaine de Thiry grew up with privilege, wealth, and freedom on a sprawling French estate. Then war came crashing down around her, and a daring young South African aviator named Michael Courtney stole her heart amidst the destruction. But the tides of fate and battle sent the young woman on a journey across a dangerous sea to the coast of Africa. ACROSS A BLAZING AFRICAN DESERTWhen Centaine''s ship is torpedoed and sunk, she is plunged into a shark-filled sea miles from the unseen shore. And when she reaches land, Centaine puts foot not in the lush world that Michael Courtney described to her, but on the edge of a burning desertÃ‚--alone and fighting for her life. A WOMAN DISCOVERS A WONDROUS LANDÃ‚--AND THE PRICE OF SURVIVALIn a strange world, under a great rushing sky, Centaine sets forth in the company of wandering BushmenÃ‚--and then into the arms of a renegade white soldier who may be her savior or destruction. As Michael Courtney''s family searches for Centaine, she comes near her promised landÃ‚--and the untold tragedy and riches that it holds...  Ã‚"You can get lost in Wilbur SmithÃ‚...with his swashbuckling novels of Africa.Ã‚"Ã‚--Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/842'),
(3379, 'Courtney 09 A Sparrow Falls', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling author Wilbur Smith tells a powerful story of a man''s quest for truth and redemption--from the bloody trenches of World War I to the white, wind-swept beaches of Mozambique A WAR TO END ALL WARSMark Anders grew up on eight thousand acres of African land that bore his family name. Then he fought in Europe''s Great War and, upon returning to his ancestral home, he saw savagery unlike any other.... A PARADISE LOSTIn Africa, Mark''s family estate has been despoiled. His grandfather has died under mysterious circumstances. And he has inherited a murderous enemy--the rogue scion of the powerful Courtney clan--in an altogether new kind of war. A PLACE CALLED HOMENow, Mark will make a fateful choice between two women. Journey into the wilderness to uncover his grandfather''s fate. Find his way through battles raging between fathers and sons, generals and politicians, and nature and man. In an age of violent conflict, Mark Anders will live or die for justice--and his fight will echo across a country he always loved.... "Action is Smith''s game, and he is a master."--The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/841'),
(3380, 'Courtney 10 Power of the Sword', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n and beautiful land of South Africa, races clash in an unequal struggle for justice that divides a family and inflames a whole continent. Manfred De La Rey, hard and lean as a desert lion, allows a blind, raging anger to catapult him to a dangerous success. While Shasa Courtney, his brother, strives to give meaning to his country''s uncertain future, he is trapped in the inevitable rush of history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/843'),
(3381, 'Courtney 11 Rage', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling author Wilbur Smith unleashes his crowning epic with  RAGE The Passions of a Torn Land In the second half of the twentieth century, the future bears down on AfricaÃ‚--fueled by the sins of the past and the blood feuds of nations, tribes, and families. For the Courtney family, who have known this continent from the depths of its gold mines to the pinnacle of political power, a time of reckoning is at hand.The Dawning of a New AgeShasa Courtney has lived, fought and loved amongst Afrikaners, Englishmen, and natives. His mother is by his side but the rest of the world around him is exploding. Even his family harbors secrets more dangerous than his own worst enemies. The Race Toward RevolutionÃ‚...Now, a continent is convulsed. Streets teem with protestors. Desperate and devious men forge volatile alliances. And Shasa faces shocking revelations amongst traitors, fugitives, and heroesÃ‚--leading a beloved country into the flames of civil warÃ‚... Ã‚"Action is Smith''s game, and he is a master.Ã‚"Ã‚--The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/844'),
(3382, 'Courtney 12 Golden Fox', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Courtney family blood has long run hot--as hot as the passion and turmoil boiling in war-torn South Africa. When one of their own succumbs to the worst kind of evil, those ties are put to the ultimate test.Isabella Courtney, dazzling daughter of South Africa''s ambassador to England, is passionately obsessed with Ramon, the Marques de Santiago y Machado--also known as the Golden Fox, one of the world''s most ruthless terrorists. When she secretly bears his child, Ramon kidnaps the boy and persuades powerful, yet reluctant, Isabella to betray South Africa and her beloved family...until the truth at last comes out, and the explosive Courtneys rally to her side and strike back with a raging vengance....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/845'),
(3383, 'Courtney 13 A Time To Die', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Beneath the unforgiving, blazing heat of the African sun, two men and a woman embark on a savage hunt. A hunt that will tear their safe safari apart, plunging them into the restless tides of a deadly civil war. For Sean Courtney, veteran guerrilla fighter and professional warrior, it is a time to fight and a time to find a deep and passionate love. For the beautiful Claudia Monterro it is a time to face the ultimate test in a world where American values count for nothing. And for Ricardo, her father, a rich and ruthless tycoon, it is a time to confront a dangerous obsession.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/846'),
(3384, 'Crime and Punishment', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The story of an impoverished Russian student''s murder of a miserly landlady and its repercussions on his life and his family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1020'),
(3385, 'Crusade 01 Crusade', 'Nancy Holder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/796'),
(3386, 'Cry Wolf', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year is 1935, shortly before World War II. The "Wolf of Rome", Italy''s army under Mussolini, is poised to invade Ethiopia, whose army is not only ill-equipped, but also severely outnumbered. Desperate to save his troubled land, Emperor Haile Selassie enlists American Jake Barton and Englishman Gareth Swales, two risk-takers who both share a taste for danger and the thrill of adventure. The mission seems simple: Deliver four ancient refurbished armored cars and Vicky Camberwell, an American journalist, in exchange for a hefty weight of gold. But soon Jake and Gareth realize that this is just the beginning of a long, harrowing journey that will take them from the sea to the scorching deserts of Africa to the peaks of its treacherous mountains, where a dramatic struggle to stay alive awaits them...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/816'),
(3387, 'Cujo', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/460'),
(3388, 'Cutler 01 Dawn', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her fine new Virginia school, Dawn Longchamp feels happy and safe. But nothing is what it seems...  Now Dawn and her older brother Jimmy have a chance for a decent, respectable life, and Dawn''s secret, precious hope to study singing can come true. Philip Cutler, the handsomest boy in school, sets Dawn''s heart on fire. She is deeply devoted to her brooding brother; but with Philip, she imagines a lovely dream of romance...  Then Dawn''s mother suddenly dies, and her entire world begins to crumble. After a terrible new shock, she is thrust into a different family and an evil web of unspoken sins. Her sweet innocence lost, humiliated and scorned, Dawn is desperate to find Jimmy again and...strip away the wicked lies that will change all their lives forever!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1021'),
(3389, 'Cutler 02 Secrets of the Morning', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1022');
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(3390, 'Cutler 03 Twilight&#39;s Child', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1014'),
(3391, 'Cutler 04 Midnight Whipsers', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1015'),
(3392, 'Cutler 05 Darkest Hour', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1016'),
(3393, 'Cybill Disobedience', 'Cybill Shepherd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A riveting, candid, fresh and self-revealing book." --\n  <em>\n   -- Liz Smith\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gutsy." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  San Francisco Examiner\n  <em>\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Nobody kisses and tells like Cybill Shepherd." --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  New York Daily News\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   About the Author\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Aimee Lee Ball has coauthored several books including\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   No Time to Die\n  </em>\n  with Liz Tilberis. She has written about health, politics, business, and the arts for many national magazines including\n  <em>\n   New York, GQ, Harper''s Bazaar,\n  </em>\n  and the\n  <em>\n   New York Times.\n  </em>\n  She lives in New York City.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1470'),
(3394, 'Dangerous to Know', 'Barbara Taylor Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n /BRADFORD BARBARA; A/ The author of A Woman of Substance returns with her New York Times bestseller, Dangerous to Know. Charismatic millionaire Sebastian Locke is a man renowned for his charm and intelligence. When Locke is found dead at his country estate, Vivienne Trent, a journalist and Sebastian''s ex-wife, sets out to find the truth about his death--and life--and uncovers startling revelations that will turn her life\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1086'),
(3395, 'Danse Macabre', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/462'),
(3396, 'The Dark of the Sun', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Congo. Situated at the heart of sub-Saharan Africa, it is a place where men die for diamonds. For love. And for the unholy pleasure of othersâ€¦Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band with the dubious support of three officers. His mission: To relieve a diamond-mining town cut off by the fighting and retrieve a priceless consignment of diamonds. Along the way, he meets a beautiful Belgian woman. Shermaine is a dream come true. But the rest of Curryâ€™s journey is about to become a living nightmare.Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits, guerillas, and hostile tribes that infest the land. In a sinister atmosphere of omnipotent evil, Curry fights to stay aliveâ€”and protect Shermaine, his one true love. But to do so, he must face another, even deadlier enemy: one of his own menâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/826'),
(3397, 'Dark Swan 01 Storm Born', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/382'),
(3398, 'Dark Swan 02 Thorn Queen', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/383'),
(3399, 'Dark Swan 03 Iron Crowned', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling author Richelle Mead takes readers back to the Otherworld, an embattled realm mystically entwined with our world--and ruled by one woman''s dangerous choice. . .Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham is the best at banishing entities trespassing in the mortal realm. But as the Thorn Land''s queen, she''s fast running out of ways to end the brutal war devastating her kingdom. Her only hope: the Iron Crown, a legendary object even the most powerful gentry fear. . . Who Eugenie can trust is the hardest part. Fairy king Dorian has his own agenda for aiding her search. And Kiyo, her shape-shifter ex-boyfriend, has every reason to betray her along the way. To control the Crown''s ever-consuming powers, Eugenie will have to confront an unimaginable temptation--one that will put her soul and the fate of two worlds in mortal peril. . . Praise for Richelle Mead''s Storm Born. . .My kind of book--great characters, dark worlds, and just the right touch of humor. A great read. --Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1186'),
(3400, 'Dark Tower 01 The Gunslinger', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/499'),
(3401, 'Dark Tower 02 The Drawing of the Three', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/500'),
(3402, 'Dark Tower 03 The Waste Lands', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/501'),
(3403, 'Dark Tower 04 Wizard and Glass', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/502'),
(3404, 'Dark Tower 05 The Wolves of the Calla', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/508'),
(3405, 'Dark Tower 06 Song of Susannah', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/509'),
(3406, 'Dark Tower 07 The Dark Tower', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/679'),
(3407, 'Darkangel 01 The Darkangel', 'Meredith Ann Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/715'),
(3408, 'Darkangel 02 A Gathering of Gargoyles', 'Meredith Ann Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/716'),
(3409, 'Darkangel 03 The Pearl of the Soul of the World', 'Meredith Ann Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/717'),
(3410, 'Darkest Powers 01 The Summoning', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/325'),
(3411, 'Darkest Powers 02 The Awakening', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/323'),
(3412, 'Darkest Powers 03 The Reckoning', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/324'),
(3413, 'Darkest Powers Derek 01 Dangerous', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/606'),
(3414, 'Darkest Powers Derek 02 Divided', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/605'),
(3415, 'Darkglass Mountain 01 The Serpent Bride', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/772'),
(3416, 'Darkglass Mountain 02 The Twisted Citadel', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/774'),
(3417, 'Darkglass Mountain 03 The Infinity Gate', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/773'),
(3418, 'Daughter of Smoke and Bone 01 Daughter of Smoke and Bone', 'Laini Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.\n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; " />\n <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; " />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  In a dark and dusty shop, a devil''s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.\n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; " />\n <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; " />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.\n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; " />\n <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; " />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she''s prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she''s about to find out.\n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; " />\n <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; " />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1437'),
(3419, 'The Dead Zone', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/680'),
(3420, 'Deadly 01 Deadly Fear', 'Cynthia Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/738'),
(3421, 'Deadly Embrace', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/206'),
(3422, 'Dean and Me: A Love Story', 'Jerry Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  They were the unlikeliest of pairsâ€”a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got together, something clickedâ€”something miraculousâ€”and audiences saw it at once.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before long, they were as big as Elvis or the Beatles would be after them, creating hysteria wherever they went and grabbing an unprecedented hold over every entertainment outlet of the era: radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin and Lewis were a national craze, an American institution. The millions (and the women) flowed in, seemingly without endâ€”and then, on July 24, 1956, ten years from the day when the two men joined forces, it all ended.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  After that traumatic day, the two wouldnâ€™t speak again for twenty years. And while both went on to forge triumphant individual careersâ€”Martin as a movie and television star, recording artist, and nightclub luminary (and charter member of the Rat Pack); Lewis as the groundbreaking writer, producer, director, and star of a series of hugely successful movie comediesâ€”their parting left a hole in the national psyche, as well as in each manâ€™s heart.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of a fifty-year friendship, from the springtime, 1945 afternoon when the two vibrant young performers destined to conquer the world together met on Broadway and Fifty-fourth Street, to their tragic final encounter in the 1990s, when Lewis and his wife ran into Dean Martin, a broken and haunted old man.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Dean &amp; Me\n  </em>\n  , Jerry Lewis makes a convincing case for Dean Martin as one of the greatâ€”and most underratedâ€”comic talents of our era. But what comes across most powerfully in this definitive memoir is the depth of love Lewis felt, and still feels, for his partner, and which his partner felt for him: truly a love to last for all time.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over the course of their 10-year partnership, Lewis and Dean Martin made 16 wildly popular movies (they were the world''s number one box office earners from 1950 to 1956), but their real strength was their performances in nightclubs, theaters and on television. Audiences found their mixture of music and ad-libbed, irreverent comedic pandemonium intoxicating. The duo''s fascinating kinshipâ€”Lewis idolized his partner, while Martin was aloofâ€”has been chronicled in Shawn Levy''s\n  <em>\n   King of Comedy\n  </em>\n  and Nick Tosches''s\n  <em>\n   Dino\n  </em>\n  , but Lewis wants to give his late partner the credit he feels critics missed by always praising the "the monkey" rather than the straight man. Untangling the complicated union, Lewis doesn''t spare himself, admitting that when the team''s relationship unraveled (they weren''t speaking between scenes on their last film), he became a bully on set and made others the brunt of the anger he couldn''t vent at Martin. Lewis is a wonderful raconteur, and his tales capture the excitement of their budding career and the slow, sad erosion of the fun. Whether it''s his age (Lewis is 79) or his coauthor (Kaplan co-wrote John McEnroe''s\n  <em>\n   You Cannot Be Serious\n  </em>\n  ), fans will be surprised and entertained by Lewis''s honesty and diminished ego and bitterness. Photos.\n  <em>\n   First serial to\n  </em>\n  Vanity Fair\n  <em>\n   . (On sale Oct. 25)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis soared to popularity in post-World War II America, as their unlikely chemistry proved successful. The two met in New York City in 1945, where Lewis, a struggling comedian, and Martin, a handsome crooner, were looking to hit the big time. This candid memoir examines the tumultuous yet productive relationship that developed between the two as they spent 10 years performing live shows and making movies. As Lewis tells it, in the early years of the duo''s success, they began hanging out with movie stars and other celebrities, and life was one continuous party, with loads of money and all the booze, babes, and good times that either could ask for. But despite attempts to manage their egos and to handle the other pressures that come from living a fast life, eventually the magic began to fade and the two finally called it quits in 1956. After parting ways, both achieved great solo success: Martin becoming a member of the famous Rat Pack and Lewis a successful writer, producer, and director. Although they never really worked together again, Lewis maintains that he never stopped loving Dean Martin, and indeed this book is an adoring tribute to the man. (It may leave some readers wondering what Dean''s side of the story would be.)\n  <em>\n   Kathleen Hughes\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1471'),
(3423, 'Delcroix Academy 01 The Candidates', 'Inara Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/792'),
(3424, 'Delirium 01 Delirium', 'Lauren Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ninety-five days, and then I''ll be safe. I wonder whether the procedure will hurt. I want to get it over with. It''s hard to be patient. It''s hard not to be afraid while I''m still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn''t touched me yet. Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don''t.   Lauren Oliver astonished readers with her stunning debut, Before I Fall. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called it "raw, emotional, and, at times, beautiful. An end as brave as it is heartbreaking." Her much-awaited second novel fulfills her promise as an exceptionally talented and versatile writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/941'),
(3425, 'Delirium 02 Pandemonium', 'Lauren Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you when you have it. And when you don''t. I''m pushing aside the memory of my nightmare, pushing aside thoughts of Alex, pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my old school, push, push, push, like Raven taught me to do. The old life is dead. But the old Lena is dead too. I buried her. I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame. Pandemonium is a poignant, explosive, recklessly romantic and utterly heartbreaking novel. Like Delirium, the first in the compelling trilogy, it will take you to the very edge. That''s all you need to know. We''ll let Lena do the rest of the talking . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <br />\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lauren Oliver is the author of the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   Before I Fall\n  </em>\n  , a\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  Best Book of the Year. Her thrilling second novel,\n  <em>\n   Delirium\n  </em>\n  , debuted on the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller list and is the first book in a trilogy. Oliver is also the author of a luminous novel for younger readers,\n  <em>\n   Liesl &amp; Po\n  </em>\n  . A graduate of the University of Chicago and the MFA program at New York University, Lauren is now a full-time writer and lives in Brooklyn, New York.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1478'),
(3426, 'Demonica 01 Pleasure Unbound', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/548'),
(3427, 'Demonica 02 Desire Unchained', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/549'),
(3428, 'Demonica 03 Passion Unleashed', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n FORBIDDEN TEMPTATIONS\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n Serena Kelley is an archaeologist and treasure hunter-and a woman with a secret. Since she was seven, she''s been the keeper of a powerful charm that grants her health and immortality . . . as long as she stays a virgin. But Serena isn''t all that innocent. And when a dangerously handsome stranger brings her to the brink of ecstasy, she wonders if she''s finally met the one man she cannot resist.\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n FATAL DESIRES\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n Wraith is a Seminus demon with a death wish. But when an old enemy poisons him, he must find Serena and persuade her to give him the only known antidote in the universe-her charm. Yet, as she begins to surrender to his seductions and Wraith senses the cure is within his grasp, he realizes a horrible truth: He''s falling for the woman whose life he must take in order to save his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/546'),
(3429, 'Demonica 04 Ecstasy Unveiled', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A DEMON ENSLAVED Lore is a Seminus half-breed demon who has been forced to act as his dark master''s assassin. Now to earn his freedom and save his sister''s life, he must complete one last kill. Powerful and ruthless, he''ll stop at nothing to carry out this deadly mission. AN ANGEL TEMPTED Idess is an earthbound angel with a wild side, sworn to protect the human Lore is targeting. She''s determined to thwart her wickedly handsome adversary by any means necessary-even if that means risking her vow of eternal chastity. But what begins as a simple seduction soon turns into a passion that leaves both angel and demon craving complete surrender. Torn between duty and desire, Lore and Idess must join forces as they battle their attraction for each other. Because an enemy from the past is rising again-one hellbent on vengeance and unthinkable destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/547'),
(3430, 'Desperation', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/464'),
(3431, 'Dexter 01 Darkly Dreaming Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/283'),
(3432, 'Dexter 02 Dearly Devoted Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/284'),
(3433, 'Dexter 03 Dexter in the Dark', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/285'),
(3434, 'Dexter 04 Dexter by Design', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/304'),
(3435, 'Dexter 05 Dexter is Delicious', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/790'),
(3436, 'Dexter 06 Double Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dexter Morgan is not your average serial killer. He enjoys his day job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department . . . but he lives for his nighttime hobby of hunting other killers. Dexter is therefore not pleased to discover that someone is shadowing him, observing him, and copying his methods. Dexter is not one to tolerate displeasure . . . in fact, he has a knack for extricating himself from trouble in his own pleasurable way. Like the previous five best-selling novels in the Dexter series, Double Dexter showcases the witty, macabre originality that has propelled Jeff Lindsay to international success. Double Dexter is raucously entertaining, full of smart suspense and dark laughs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1399'),
(3437, 'The Diamond Hunters', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, daughter Tracey and estranged foster-child Johnny Lance, turns out to be a bequest not of love, but of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer Benedict an instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. ''Destroy Johnny'' was the old man''s implacable message to his son, and, obsessively jealous of his foster-brother, Benedict sets out in ruthless pursuit of this goal. In a desperate bid to support Johnny, Tracey acquires for him the concession in the diamond-rich seabed round the coral islands of Thunderbolt and Suicide off the savage South West African coast, and Johnny throws all his resources into the construction of a vessel that will recover the stones from the ocean floor and repair his fortune at last. But Benedict, already involved in illegal diamond-dealing as a sideline, seizes this chance to attack his rival and, with a network of accomplices and some ingenious electronic tampering, plots to syphon off the diamonds. Johnny will not only be ruined by his liabilities, he will also be a laughing stock. However, Benedict''s obsessive jealousy is his undoing. He cannot resist stripping his rival of his beautiful but bitchy wife Ruby as well, and when he then discards her, she takes her revenge, precipitating a climax of murder and destruction that consumes Benedict at last. Narrated with Wilbur Smith''s irresistible driving thrust, this is a tale of brotherly hatred, redeemed only by the deepening love between Johnny and Tracey. It is set in London, Cape Town, on the thunderous seas around the ocean diamond fields and ends in a final confrontation between Johnny and Benedict in the blistering hyena-infested desert.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/827'),
(3438, 'A Discovery of Witches', 'Deborah Harkness', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Deep in the stacks of Oxford''s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell. Debut novelist Deborah Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense. Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. This smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but it is as contemporary and sensual as the Twilightseries-with an extra serving of historical realism.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/986'),
(3439, 'Divergent 01 Divergent', 'Veronica Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Beatrice Prior''s dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue-Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is-she can''t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are-and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she''s chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she''s kept hidden from everyone because she''s been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her. Debut author Veronica Roth bursts onto the literary scene with the first book in the Divergent series-dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1301'),
(3440, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."--John Brunner THE INSPIRATION FOR "BLADERUNNER." . . "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn''t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans. Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn''t want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results. "[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from."--Paul Williams, "Rolling Stone" "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1080'),
(3441, 'Dolan&#39;s Cadillac', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/678'),
(3442, 'Dollenganger 01 Flowers in the Attic', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden.Blond, beautiful, innocent little secrets, struggling to stay alive.Flowers In the AtticThe four Dollanganger children had such perfect lives -- a beautiful mother, a doting father, a lovely home. Then Daddy was killed in a car accident, and Momma could no longer support the family. So she began writing letters to her parents, her millionaire parents, whom the children had never heard of before.Momma tells the children all about their rich grandparents, and how Chris and Cathy and the twins will live like princes and princesses in their grandparents'' fancy mansion. The children are only too delighted by the prospect. But there are a few things that Momma hasn''t told them.She hasn''t told them that their grandmother considers them "devil''s spawn" who should never have been born. She hasn''t told them that she has to hide them from their grandfather if she wants to inherit his fortune. She hasn''t told them that they are to be locked away in an abandoned wing of the house with only the dark, airless attic to play in. But, Momma promises, it''s only for a few days....Then the days stretch into months, and the months into years. Desperately isolated, terrified of their grandmother, and increasingly convinced that their mother no longer cares about them, Chris and Cathy become all things to the twins and to each other. They cling to their love as their only hope, their only strength -- a love that is almost stronger than death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1011'),
(3443, 'Dollenganger 02 Petals on the Wind', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Cathy discovers that she has the power to revenge those childhood years locked in an attic with her brother and sister.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Cathy discovers that she has the power to revenge those childhood years locked in an attic with her brother and sister.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1012'),
(3444, 'Dollenganger 03 If There Be Thorns', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chris and Cathy made such a loving home for fourteen-year-old Jory -- so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart,who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old.Then the lights came on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was there, watching them, guarded by her strange old butler. Soon she had Bart over for cookies and ice cream and asked him to call her "Grandmother".And soon Bart''s transformation began...Fed by the hint of terrible things about his mother and father...leading him into shocking acts of violence.Now while this little boy trembles on the edge of madness, his anguished parents await the climax to a horror that flowered in an attic long ago, a horror whose thorns are still wet with blood, still tipped with fire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1013'),
(3445, 'Dollenganger 04 Seeds of Yesterday', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The final, haunting novel, in the extraordinary story that has enthralled millions!The horror began with Flowers in the Attic, the terrifying tale of four innocent children locked away from the world by a cruel mother.The shocking fury continued with Petals on the Wind and If There be Thorns. Now V.C. Andrews has created the last dark chapter in the strange, chilling tale of passion and peril.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1009'),
(3446, 'Dollenganger 05 Garden of Shadows', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Before terror flowered in the attic there was a young girl. An innocent, hopeful girl... When young Olivia arrives at Foxworth Hall, she thinks her marriage to handsome Malcolm will bring the joy she has longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with festering desires and forbidden passions, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread--an evil that will threaten her children, two charming boys and one very special, beautiful girl. For within the halls of this cursed house a shocking secret lives. A secret that will taint the Foxworth family for generations to come...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1010'),
(3447, 'Door Into Summer', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/657'),
(3448, 'Double Star', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/669'),
(3449, 'Down River', 'John Hart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Going back is never easy . . . Adam Chase has spent the last five years in New York trying to forget. When he left North Carolina, Adam left for good. Now he has no choice but to return -" and being remembered as a murderer doesn''t help. Within hours of arriving, Adam is beaten up, accosted and has to face the hostility of those closest to him, including Grace, the young woman he cannot forget. Nothing has changed. And then people start turning up dead. For a man only just acquitted of murder, Adam''s homecoming does not go well. And he has a dark streak, a history of violence. Everyone doubts. No one trusts him. And as the past threatens to overshadow the present, Adam becomes the prime suspect for the new murders. He alone can clear his name . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1039'),
(3450, 'Dream Catcher 01 Wake', 'Lisa McMann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/732'),
(3451, 'Dream Catcher 02 Fade', 'Lisa McMann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/731'),
(3452, 'Dream Catcher 03 Gone', 'Lisa McMann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/730'),
(3453, 'Dreamcatcher', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/467'),
(3454, 'Dubliners', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader''s notes to help the modern reader understand Joyce''s use of textures, dialect, and symbols.Each of the beautifully written short stories in this collection precisely details a brief scene in the life of a resident of Dublin at the turn of the 20th century. Although the characters do not know each other, their experiences unfold along the same streets and often overlap thematically. Their tragedies mirror that of Ireland, a country struggling for political identity and held back, in Joyce''s view, by rigid religious ideas and adherence to tradition.Joyce''s great skill at dialect offers a sense of the city''s complex social structure, while themes of isolation, emotional paralysis, violence, regret, and death run throughout the collection and link all of the stories. Chronologically, too, the stories appear to progress; portrayals of youthful confusion and disillusionment in the opening story, "The Sisters," become the haunting midlife meditations of "The Dead." Like his masterpieces Ulysses and Finnegan''s Wake, James Joyce''s Dubliners displays consummate control of nuances, emotions, and images.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1042'),
(3455, 'The DUFF: (Designated Ugly Fat Friend)', 'Kody Keplinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/920'),
(3456, 'Duma Key', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/677'),
(3457, 'Dune 01 Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Follows the adventures of Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke given up for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce, nomadic people, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1078'),
(3458, 'Dune 02 Dune Messiah', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert''s magnificent Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination as one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known-and feared-as the man christened Muad''Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremens, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne-and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family''s dynasty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1077'),
(3459, 'Dune 03 Children of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  The science fiction masterpiece continues in the Ã‚â€œmajor event,Ã‚â€( Los Angeles Times) Children of Dune.With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank HerbertÃ‚''s Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul MuadÃ‚''Dib, disappeared in the deserts of Arrakis. Like their father, they possess supernormal abilitiesÃ‚â€”making them valuable to their aunt Alia, who rules the Empire. If Alia can obtain the secrets of the twinsÃ‚'' prophetic visions, her rule will be absolute. But the twins have their own plans for their destiny.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1073'),
(3460, 'Dune 04 God Emperor of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A beautiful new package with a new introductionÃ‚â€¦ Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the oncedesert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the worldÃ‚''s savior, the Emperor Paul MuadÃ‚''Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanityÃ‚''s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him nearimmortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past 3,500 years. LetoÃ‚''s rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has not only made his appearance inhuman, but his morality. A rebellion has risen to oppose the despotÃ‚''s rule, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family. But Siona is unaware that LetoÃ‚''s vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wantedÃ‚â€¦or could possibly conceiveÃ‚â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1074'),
(3461, 'Dune 05 Heretics of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakisâ€”now called Rakisâ€”has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying. Now, the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandridersâ€”fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1075'),
(3462, 'Dune 06 Chapterhouse: Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A beautiful new hardcover package for the A"exciting and grippingA" (Kirkus Reviews) New York Times bestselling science fiction classic. The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquestA-the Bene Gesserit, heirs to DuneA''s power. Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse, and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once theyA''ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxyA-the spice Melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimesA-a man who served under the God Emperor Paul MuadA''Dib.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1076'),
(3463, 'Dust Lands 01 - Blood Red Road', 'Moira Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1438'),
(3464, 'Dying to Live', 'Kim Paffenroth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A lone survivor in a zombie-infested world, Jonah Caine wandered for months, struggling to understand the apocalypse in which he lives.Unable to find a moral or sane reason for the horror that surrounds him, he is overwhelmed by violence and insignificance. Then Jonah comes across a group of survivors living in a museum-turned-compound. They are led by Jack, an ever-practical and efficient military man; and Milton, a mysterious prophet who holds a strange power over the dead. Both share Jonahâ€™s anguish over the brutality of their world as well as his hope for its beauty. Together with others, they build a community that reestablishes an island of order and humanity surrounded by relentless ghouls. But this newfound peace is short-lived, as Jonah and his band of refugees clash with another group of survivors who remind them that the undead are not the onlyâ€”nor the most grotesqueâ€”horrors they must face.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/904');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(3465, 'Eagle in the Sky', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With bold characters and stirring prose, Wilbur Smith writes riveting novels filled with adventure and intrigue. In EAGLE IN THE SKY, this master storyteller tells the story of a man born to...FLY LIKE AN ANGELOn land, he was a youth too handsome and too blessedâ€”with carefree charm and enormous wealth. In the air he was something else entirely: born to fly fast and hard, to send the fastest jet fighters into towering climbs and screaming, murderous dives. In a country struggling for its survival, David Morgan found a home, a cause, a woman and a war.FIGHT LIKE THE DEVILSouth African by birth, David was born into a golden cage, and his hunger for freedom took him to the blood-soaked Holy Land and into a hellish cycle of violence that would lure him past the rules of warâ€”and burn away his physical grace forever.AND PRAY FOR REVENGEBut a woman blinded in a terrorist attack could only see the beautiful David Morgan she once knew. With her, David returned home to carve out a paradise in wild Africa. And that is where he would meet his worst enemy. And this time, he had everything in the world to lose...â€œSmith is without rival.â€--Tulsa Worldâ€œ[Wilbur Smith] puts the reader right there with details that are intimate, inspiring, horrifyingâ€¦fans will be happy to know Smith hasn''t lost his touch for the dramatic, exotic adventure story."â€”The Orlando Sentinel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/821'),
(3466, 'Egyptian 01 River God', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Tanus, the fair-haired young lion of a warrior, the gods have decreed that he will lead Egypt''s army in a bold attempt to reunite the Kingdom''s shared halves. But Tanus will have to defy the same gods to attain the reward they have forbidden him, an object more prized than battle''s glory: possession of the Lady Lostris, a rare beauty with skin the color of oiled ceder--destined for the adoration of a nation, and the love of one extraordinary man.International bestselling author Wilbur Smith, creator of two dozen highly acclaimed novels, draws readers into a magnificent, richly imagined saga. Exploding with all the drama, mystery and rage of a bygone time, River God is a masterpiece from a storyteller at the height of his powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/831'),
(3467, 'Egyptian 02 The Seventh Scroll', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For 4,000 years, the lavish crypt of the Pharaoh Mamose has never been found...until the Seventh Scroll, a cryptic message written by he slave Taita, gives beautiful Egyptologist Royan Al Simma a tantalizing clue to its location. But this is a treasure cache others would kill to possess. Only one step ahead of assassins, Royan runs for her life and into the arms of the only man she can trust, Sir Nicholas Quenton-Harper-a daring man who will stake his fortune and his life to join her hunt for the king''s tomb. Together, they will embark on a breathtaking journey to the most exotic locale on earth, where the greatest mystery of ancient Egypt, a chilling danger and an explosive passion are waiting. Steeped in ancient mystery, drama and action, The Seventh Scrollis a masterpiece from a storyteller at the height of his powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/832'),
(3468, 'Egyptian 03 Warlock', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the world''s most acclaimed adventure writers returns to the world of ancient Egypt with the stunning sequel to the" New York Times" bestselling "River God." In the wake of a sixty-year war over the reign of the kingdoms of Egypt, two young pharaohs have risen to claim power, but only one can succeed, deciding the fate of his empire forever... The mission of Prince Nefer, rightful heir to the throne, is to rebuild a magnificent kingdom in the stark and tumbled ruins of the embattled city of Gallala. The desire of Lord Naja is to destroy his rival and rule the land with unholy supremacy. But Nefer has on his side the warlock Taita, a matchless ally and legendary priest of notorious powers... To see their dream come true, Nefer and Taita must stay one step ahead of the depraved assassin, survive the tortuous shadow of her ever-pursuing armies, and outwit the shocking betrayals of is own flesh and blood. As Nefer''s courage increases, and as Taita''s magic grows more beguiling, so grows stronger the power of their tireless enemies.... Now, with the threat of tyranny and blood thundering closer and closer toward the vulnerable gates of Gallala, the ultimate battle for Egypt will begin... Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa. He has written thirty novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His books are now translated into twenty-six languages and have sold over 110 million copies. One of the world''s most acclaimed adventure writers returns to the world of ancient Egypt with the stunning sequel to the" New York Times" bestselling "River God." In the wake of a sixty-year war over the reign of the kingdoms of Egypt, two young pharaohs have risen to claim power, but only one can succeed, deciding the fate of his empire forever... The mission of Prince Nefer, rightful heir to the throne, is to rebuild a magnificent kingdom in the stark and tumbled ruins of the embattled city of Gallala. The desire of Lord Naja is to destroy his rival and rule the land with unholy supremacy. But Nefer has on his side the warlock Taita, a matchless ally and legendary priest of notorious powers... To see their dream come true, Nefer and Taita must stay one step ahead of the depraved assassin, survive the tortuous shadow of her ever-pursuing armies, and outwit the shocking betrayals of is own flesh and blood. As Nefer''s courage increases, and as Taita''s magic grows more beguiling, so grows stronger the power of their tireless enemies.... Now, with the threat of tyranny and blood thundering closer and closer toward the vulnerable gates of Gallala, the ultimate battle for Egypt will begin... "Action is Wilbur Smith''s game, and he is a master."--"The Washington Post Book World" "Fascinating...[a] magical sequel to "River God.""--"Tulsa World" "Brilliant...irresistible and impossible to put down."--"Times Record News "(Wichita Falls, TX)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/833'),
(3469, 'Egyptian 04 The Quest', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Wilbur Smith returns with the eagerly awaited sequel to his thrilling Egyptian series. Following on from River God, The Seventh Scroll andWarlock, The Questcontinues the story of the Warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods and a master of magic and the supernatural. Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up. Something catastrophic is taking place in the distant and totally unexplored depths of Africa from where the mighty river springs. In desperation Pharoah sends for Taita, the only man who might be able to win through to the source of the Nile and discover the cause of all their woes. None of them can have any idea of what a terrible enemy lies in ambush for The Warlock in those mysterious lands at the end of their world\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/834'),
(3470, 'Elephant Song', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n WHITE GOLDIvory. In Africa, it is the tragic and thrilling object of greed, corruption, and senseless death. In this dangerous world of poachers and blood money, one determined man and one dedicated woman risk their lives to stop the senseless slaughter of a species on the brink of extinction.Following a trail that leads from the Mountains of the Moon and the deep forests of central Africa to the secret opulence of Taiwan and London''s corridors of power, naturalist Dr. Daniel Armstrong and anthropologist Kelly Kinnear fight the battle of their lives against terrifying adversaries--the powerful individuals and conglomerates who would wipe out an entire race of human beings to satisfy their insatiable lust for elephant''s ivory...."Compelling...Adventure, realism, and suspense are the stuff of Wilbur Smith''s books....This story transcends any formula by making its case, passionately, for the human hunger for justice."--The Christian Science Monitor"Filled with intrigue and adventure on almost every page...Smith pulls his readers to the edge of their seats....For those who love an exciting adventure novel, this is one that will be difficult to put down."--Richmond Times-Dispatch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/822'),
(3471, 'Emma Harte 01 A Woman of Substance', 'Barbara Taylor Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From "New York Times" bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes a triumphant novel of an unforgettable woman  Determined to rise above all that she has ever known, a young and impoverished Emma Harte embarks on a journey first of survival, then of unimaginable achievement. Driven to succeed, the iron-willed Emma parlays a small shop into the world''s greatest department store and an international business empire: Harte Enterprises.  Unhappily married twice, loving only the one man she can never marry, personal happiness eludes her. Harte Enterprises, the realization of her grand dreams, is her all: her heart, her soul, her life. When those closest to her threaten to destroy her empire through their greed and envy, Emma brilliantly outwits her enemies. She wreaks her devastating revenge on those who would betray her in a way only she knows how.  Drawing us into the mesmerizing life of a remarkable woman who dared to seize a dream and was willing to pay any price to make it come true, Barbara Taylor Bradford''s deeply involving novel is a celebration of an indomitable spirit.  Over 6 Million Copies In Print  "A wonderfully entertaining novel."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1088'),
(3472, 'Emma Harte 02 Hold the Dream', 'Barbara Taylor Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Barbara Taylor Bradford''s enthrallingNew York Times bestsellerA Woman of Substance introduced a remarkable heroine and her rise to fame, power, and wealth. Now the triumphant storyand unpredictable heritageof Emma Harte continues... A LEGACY TO SHARE As the strong-willed force behind a thriving international business empire, Emma Harte built a life rooted in a single-minded purpose, one of unyielding determination and terrible sacrifice to achieve the stunning pinnacle of success. But the most difficult decision of her hard-won life is yet to come... AN INHERITANCE TO PROTECT There''s only one way for Emma to ensure the promise of Harte Enterprisesby relinquishing control of the mighty empire to her beloved granddaughter, Paula McGill Fairley, a woman with her own dreams, and her own resolve to make them come true. But for Paula, with an extraordinary opportunity comes the professional and personal challenges of a lifetime... A DREAM TO HOLD Supported and encouraged by a lifelong friend, Paula strives to be all that her grandmother was. But victory comes with a price, and Paula is put to the ultimate test as devastating greed and jealousy, scandalous lies, and flesh and blood betrayals threaten the very foundation of her future and a grand and true love that has flourished in silence and secret...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1085'),
(3473, 'Ender&#39;s Game 01', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/287'),
(3474, 'Evernight 01 Evernight', 'Claudia Gray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/754'),
(3475, 'Evernight 02 Stargazer', 'Claudia Gray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/755'),
(3476, 'Evernight 03Hourglass', 'Claudia Gray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/758'),
(3477, 'Evernight 04 Afterlife', 'Claudia Gray', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Â Destiny awaits Bianca and Lucas . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bianca and Lucas have always believed they could endure anything to be together. When a twist of fate not only transforms Bianca into a wraith but also turns Lucas into a vampireâ€”the very creature he spent his life huntingâ€”they are left reeling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Haunted by his powerful need to kill, Lucas can turn to only one place for help . . . Evernight Academy. Bianca is determined to remain with him. But with the vampire leader of Evernight waging a war against wraiths, her former home has become the most dangerous place she could be, despite the new powers her ghostly transformation has given her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A battle between wraiths and vampires looms, and Bianca and Lucas face a terrifying new reality. They''ve overcome every obstacle life has thrown at them, but is their love strong enough to survive the challenges\n  <i>\n   after\n  </i>\n  life?Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1230'),
(3478, 'Everything to Gain', 'Barbara Taylor Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mallory Keswick can''t imagine how her life could possibly be better. She has a wonderful, fulfilling marriage to a man who loves, supports, and nurtures her. She has a lovely home and beautiful twins who bring joy to her days, to all of which she devotes herself wholeheartedly. Mallory feels she has finally found the elusive sense of family that never quite rang true in her own childhoodâ€”until an exceptionally cruel act of violence tears apart the fabric of her happiness. Devastated, distraught, and wondering how she will ever go on, suddenly Mallory''s spirit is being tested as never before, forcing her to discover new reserves of courage and strength to confront the darkness that has left her with nothing more to lose and . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1041'),
(3479, 'Everything&#39;s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/689'),
(3480, 'The Eye of the Tiger', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE DEEP. THE DEADLY. THE DAMNED...For a thousand years, an unimaginable treasure has rested on the bottom of the Indian Ocean, hidden by swift blue currents, guarded by deadly coral reefs, and even deadlier schools of man-eating great white sharks. Harry Fletcher, a former soldier turned fisherman, is now being pulled into a murderous mystery by men willing to kill and a beautiful woman willing to lie for what rests far beneath the sea. Now, Harry has no choice but to enter full bore into an international battle to raise an extraordinary object from the deep. Because possessing this treasure isn''t just about getting rich -- it''s about staying alive...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/828'),
(3481, 'The Eyes Of The Dragon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/690'),
(3482, 'Fallen 01 The Fallen', 'Thomas E. Sniegoski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/364'),
(3483, 'Fallen 02 Leviathan', 'Thomas E. Sniegoski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/365'),
(3484, 'Fallen 03 Aerie', 'Thomas E. Sniegoski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/366'),
(3485, 'Fallen 04 Reckoning', 'Thomas E. Sniegoski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/367'),
(3486, 'Falling Under 01 Falling Under', 'Gwen Hayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Theia Alderson has always led a sheltered life in the small California town of Serendipity Falls. But when a devastatingly handsome boy appears in the halls of her school, Theia knows she''s seen Haden before- not around town, but in her dreams.  As the Haden of both the night and the day beckons her closer one moment and pushes her away the next, the only thing Theia knows for sure is that the incredible pull she feels towards him is stronger than her fear.  And when she discovers what Haden truly is, Theia''s not sure if she wants to resist him, even if the cost is her soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1246'),
(3487, 'A Farewell to Arms', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/865'),
(3488, 'Farmer in the Sky', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/670'),
(3489, 'Farnham&#39;s Freehold', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/671'),
(3490, 'The Fault In Our Stars', 'John Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazelâ€™s story is about to be completely rewritten.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw,\n  <em>\n   The Fault in Our Stars\n  </em>\n  is award-winning author John Greenâ€™s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012\n  </strong>\n  : In\n  <em>\n   The Fault in Our Stars\n  </em>\n  , John Green has created a soulful novel that tackles big subjects--life, death, love--with the perfect blend of levity and heart-swelling emotion. Hazel is sixteen, with terminal cancer, when she meets Augustus at her kids-with-cancer support group. The two are kindred spirits, sharing an irreverent sense of humor and immense charm, and watching them fall in love even as they face universal questions of the human condition--How will I be remembered? Does my life, and will my death, have meaning?--has a raw honesty that is deeply moving.\n  <em>\n   --Seira Wilson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAn electric portrait of young people who learn to live life with one foot in the grave. Filled with staccato bursts of humor and tragedy,\n  <em>\n   The Fault in Our Stars\n  </em>\n  takes a spin on universal themes--Will I be loved? Will I be remembered? Will I leave a mark on this world?--by dramatically raising the stakes for the characters who are asking.â€\n  <br />\n  --Jodi Picoult, author of\n  <em>\n   My Sisterâ€™s Keeper\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Sing You Home\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A novel of life and death and the people caught in between,\n  <em>\n   The Fault in Our Stars\n  </em>\n  is John Green at his best. You laugh, you cry, and then you come back for more." -- Markus Zusak, bestselling and Printz HonorÂ­ winning author of\n  <em>\n   The Book Thief\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "John Green writes incredible, honest truths about the secret, weird hearts of human beings. He makes me laugh and gasp at the beauty of a sentence or the twist of a tale. He is one of the best writers alive and I am seething with envy of his talent." --E. Lockhart, National Book Award Finalist and Printz HonorÂ­winning author of\n  <em>\n   The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Boyfriend List\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1480'),
(3491, 'Faust', 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Enduring legend of the old philosopher who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Retold here profoundly, in poetic form, by one of the giants of world literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1048'),
(3492, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. Now this cult classic of gonzo journalism is a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro. Opens everywhere on May 22, 1998.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1044'),
(3493, 'Feed', 'Mira Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we had created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives--the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will [come] out, even if it kills them."--P. [4] of cover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1298'),
(3494, 'Fever 01 Darkfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n MacKayla Laneâ€™s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, sheâ€™s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinksâ€¦until something extraordinary happens. When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her deathâ€“a cryptic message on Macâ€™s cell phoneâ€“Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sisterâ€™s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessedâ€“a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Faeâ€¦. As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sisterâ€™s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlaneâ€“an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human womenâ€“closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Macâ€™s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Bookâ€“because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their handsâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1200'),
(3495, 'Fever 02 Bloodfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n I used to think my sister and I were just two nice southern girls whoâ€™d get married in a few years and settle down to a quiet life. Then I discovered that Alina and I descend, not from good wholesome southern stock, but from an ancient Celtic bloodline of powerful sidhe-seers, people who can see the Fae. Not only can I see the terrifying otherworldly race, but I can sense the sacred Fae relics that hold the deadliest of their magic.When my sister was found dead in a trash-filled alley in Dublin, I came over to get answers. Now all I want is revenge. And after everything Iâ€™ve learned about myself, I know I have the power to get itâ€¦.MacKayla Laneâ€™s ordinary life underwent a complete makeover when she landed on Irelandâ€™s shores and was plunged into a world of deadly sorcery and ancient secrets. In her fight to stay alive, Mac must find the Sinsar Dubhâ€“a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable, which holds the key to power over both the worlds of the Fae and of Man. Pursued by Fae assassins, surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she cannot trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and irresistible men: Vâ€™lane, the insatiable Fae who can turn sensual arousal into an obsession for any woman, and the ever-inscrutable Jericho Barrons, a man as alluring as he is mysterious. For centuries the shadowy realm of the Fae has coexisted with that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1201'),
(3496, 'Fever 03 Faefever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The New York Times bestselling author of Darkfever and Bloodfever returns to Dublinâ€™s Fae-infested shores in a bold, sensual new novel. Hurtling us into a realm of seduction and shadows, Karen Marie Moning tells the enthralling tale of a woman who explores the limits of her mysterious powers as she enters a world of ancient sorceryâ€”and confronts an enemy more insidious than she could ever have imagined.He calls me his Queen of the Night. Iâ€™d die for him. Iâ€™d kill for him, too. When MacKayla Lane receives a torn page from her dead sisterâ€™s journal, she is stunned by Alinaâ€™s desperate words. And now MacKayla knows that her sisterâ€™s killer is close. But evil is closer. And suddenly the sidhe-seer is on the hunt: For answers. For revenge. And for an ancient book of dark magic so evil, it corrupts anyone who touches it.Macâ€™s quest for the Sinsar Dubh takes her into the mean, shape-shifting streets of Dublin, with a suspicious cop on her tail. Forced into a dangerous triangle of alliance with Vâ€™lane, an insatiable Fae prince of lethally erotic tastes, and Jericho Barrons, a man of primal desires and untold secrets, Mac is soon locked in a battle for her body, mind, and soul. As All Hallowsâ€™ Eve approaches and the city descends into chaos, as a shocking truth about the Dark Book is uncovered, not even Mac can prevent a deadly race of immortals from shattering the walls between worldsâ€”with devastating consequences.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1197'),
(3497, 'Fever 04 Dreamfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master''s spell....In "New York Times" bestselling author Karen Marie Moning''s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin''s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest--and most erotically charged--adventure of her life. He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister''s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted "sidhe-"seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac''s every thought--and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust. As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V''lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister''s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac''s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge.... It''s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth--about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons...and about the world she thought she knew.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1198'),
(3498, 'Fever 05 Shadowfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it''s good. MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister''s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years. What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh -a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds. In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves. Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card? From the luxury of the Lord Master''s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac''s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it. From the Hardcover. edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1199'),
(3499, 'Firebringer 01 Birth of the Firebringer', 'Meredith Ann Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/712'),
(3500, 'Firebringer 02 Dark Moon', 'Meredith Ann Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/713'),
(3501, 'Firebringer 03 The Son of Summer Stars', 'Meredith Ann Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/714'),
(3502, 'Firelight 01 Firelight', 'Sophie Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/753'),
(3503, 'Firestarter', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/468'),
(3504, 'The First Law 01 The Blade Itself', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers. Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating his friends at cards. Vain, shallow, selfish and self-obsessed, the biggest blot on his horizon is having to get out of bed in the morning to train with obsessive and boring old men. And Logen Ninefingers, an infamous warrior with a bloody past, is about to wake up in a hole in the snow with plans to settle a blood feud with Bethod, the new King of the Northmen, once and for all - ideally by running away from it. But as he''s discovering, old habits die really, really hard indeed . . . . . . especially when Bayaz gets involved. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he''s about to make the lives of Glotka, Jezal and Logen a whole lot more difficult . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/989'),
(3505, 'The First Law 02 Before They Are Hanged', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It''s bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepared for the slaughter that''s coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod''s scouts, let alone the cream of his forces.In the heat-ravaged south the Gurkish are massing to assault the city of Dagoska, defended by Inquisitor Glokta. The city is braced for the inevitable defeat and massacre to come, preparations are made to make the Gurkish pay for every inch of land . . . but a plot is festering to hand the city to its beseigers without a fight, and the previous Inquisitor of Dagoska vanished without trace. Threatened from within and without the city, Glokta needs answers, and he needs them soon.And to the east a small band of malefactors travel to the edge of the world to reclaim a device from history - a Seed, hidden for generations - with tremendous destructive potential. A device which could put a end to war, to the army of Eaters in the South, to the invasion of Shanka from the North - but only if it can be found, and only if its power can be controlled . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/987'),
(3506, 'The First Law 03 Last Argument of Kings', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but its going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm, and theres only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy. Its past time for the Bloody-Nine to come home. With too many masters and too little time, Superior Glokta is fighting a different kind of war. A secret struggle in which no-one is safe, and no-one can be trusted. His days with a sword are far behind him. Its a good thing blackmail, threats and torture still work well enough. Jezal dan Luthar has decided that winning glory is far too painful, and turned his back on soldiering for a simple life with the woman he loves. But love can be painful too, and glory has a nasty habit of creeping up on a man when he least expects it. While the King of the Union lies on his deathbead, the peasants revolt and the nobles scramble to steal his crown. No-one believes that the shadow of war is falling across the very heart of the Union. The First of the Magi has a plan to save the world, as he always does. But there are risks. There is no risk more terrible, after all, than to break the First Law . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/988'),
(3507, 'Food Rules', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/250'),
(3508, 'For The New Intellectual', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/319'),
(3509, 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/866'),
(3510, 'Forest of Hands and Teeth 01 The Forest of Hands and Teeth', 'Carrie Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Mary''s world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Maryâ€™s truths are failing her. Sheâ€™s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her futureâ€”between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death?Carrie Ryan lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. You can visit Carrie at www.carrieryan.com.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/937'),
(3511, 'Forest of Hands and Teeth 02 The Dead-Tossed Waves', 'Carrie Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. Sheâ€™s content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets Gabryâ€™s mother thought she left behind when she escaped from the Sisterhood and the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the cult of religious zealots who worship the dead. Like the stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry. And suddenly, everything is changing. One reckless moment, and half of Gabryâ€™s generation is dead, the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry only knows one thing: she must face the forest of her motherâ€™s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/936'),
(3512, 'Forest of Hands and Teeth 03 The Dark and Hollow Places', 'Carrie Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Annah knows she has a twin sister, but she forgot her long ago. Back when they went to play in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, she and Elias lost her, and after that there was no going back to the village.Life''s been hard, but Elias has taken care of her, and living in the Dark City can help one to forget the horror of the Unconsecratedâ€”if you try hard enough. But when Elias disappears, Annah''s world crumbles. To her, life isn''t worth much more than the walking dead who roam the wasted world she lives in. It''s not until she meets Catcher that she cares to start living again. Yet Catcher has secrets. Dark, terrifying secrets that link him to a past she''s longed to forget and to a future too deadly to consider. Annah must decide: Can she continue to live a world covered in the blood of the living?Or is death the answer to all her problems?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1257'),
(3513, 'Foundation 01', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/334'),
(3514, 'Foundation 02 Foundation and Empire', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/335'),
(3515, 'Foundation 03 Second Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/336'),
(3516, 'Foundation 04 Foundation&#39;s Edge', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/330'),
(3517, 'Foundation 05 Foundation and Earth', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/331'),
(3518, 'Foundation 06 Prelude To Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/332'),
(3519, 'Foundation 07 Forward The Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/333'),
(3520, 'The Fountainhead', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/315'),
(3521, 'Four Past Midnight', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/517'),
(3522, 'Friday', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/672'),
(3523, 'From a Buick 8', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/470'),
(3524, 'The Gambler', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Based on Dostoevsky''s own troubled experiences at the gaming tables, "The Gambler" is a brilliant and telling portrayal of a man crippled by the overwhelming powers of addiction and obsession. Stationed in the house of a tyrannical Russian general, Aleksei Ivanovich seeks solace in the hypnotic turn of the roulette wheel. Yet, what begins as an idle pastime soon becomes a dangerous obsession, as Ivanovich sinks deeper into debt. Observing his mental and financial ruin are his fellow gamblers-including the hilarious and stunningly observed Grandmama, frittering away her family''s inheritance while those who seek to gain from her death look on with ill-concealed horror. And as passion, hatred, and unadulterated greed rise to the surface, Dostoevsky creates a dark psychological novel of truly extraordinary proportions. Russian novelist and short story writer Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the greatest, most influential prose writers of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1056'),
(3525, 'The Games', 'Ted Kosmatka', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Advance praise for *The Games\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€œModern SF started with something like E. E. Smithâ€™s\n  </em>\n  The Skylark of Space\n  <em>\n   and progressed to Jack Williamsonâ€™s\n  </em>\n  The Legion of Space*, then to Heinleinâ€™s classics, and on through the work of Larry Niven, John Varley, Greg Egan, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorowâ€”and now, writers like Ted Kosmatka.â€â€”Jonathan Strahan\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This stunning first novel from Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Ted Kosmatka is a riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics. Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event,\n  <em>\n   The Games\n  </em>\n  envisions a harrowing world that may arrive sooner than you think.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Silas Williams is the brilliant geneticist in charge of preparing the U.S. entry into the Olympic Gladiator competition, an internationally sanctioned bloodsport with only one rule: no human DNA is permitted in the design of the entrants. Silas lives and breathes genetics; his designs have led the United States to the gold in every previous event. But the other countries are catching up. Now, desperate for an edge in the upcoming Games, Silasâ€™s boss engages an experimental supercomputer to design the genetic code for a gladiator that cannot be beaten.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  The result is a highly specialized killing machine, its genome never before seen on earth. Not even Silas, with all his genius and experience, can understand the horror he had a hand in making. And no one, he fears, can anticipate the consequences of entrusting the act of creation to a computerâ€™s cold logic.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Now Silas races to understand what the computer has wrought, aided by a beautiful xenobiologist, Vidonia JoÃ£o. Yet as the fast-growing gladiator demonstrates preternatural strength, speed, andâ€”most disquietinglyâ€”intelligence, Silas and Vidonia find their scientific curiosity giving way to a most unexpected emotion: sheer terror.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1479'),
(3526, 'Geek Love', 'Katherine Dunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/251');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(3527, 'Gentleman Bastard 01 The Lies of Locke Lamora', 'Scott Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one part Robin Hood, one part\n </span>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Â \n </span>\n <em style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  Oceanâ€™s Eleven\n </em>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  , and entirely enthralling.â€¦\n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  An orphanâ€™s life is harshâ€“and often shortâ€“in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged both death and slavery, only to fall into the hands of an eyeless priest known as Chainsâ€“a man who is neither blind nor a priest. A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains passes his skills on to his carefully selected â€œfamilyâ€ of orphansâ€“a group known as the Gentlemen Bastards. Under his tutelage, Locke grows to lead the Bastards, delightedly pulling off one outrageous confidence game after another. Soon he is infamous as the Thorn of Camorr, and no wealthy noble is safe from his sting.\n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Passing themselves off as petty thieves, the brilliant Locke and his tightly knit band of light-fingered brothers have fooled even the criminal underworldâ€™s most feared ruler, Capa Barsavi. But there is someone in the shadows more powerfulâ€“and more ambitiousâ€“than Locke has yet imagined.\n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Known as the Gray King, he is slowly killing Capa Barsaviâ€™s most trusted menâ€“and using Locke as a pawn in his plot to take control of Camorrâ€™s underworld. With a bloody coup under way threatening to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the Gray King at his own brutal gameâ€“or die trying.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1385'),
(3528, 'Gentleman Bastard 02 Red Seas Under Red Skies', 'Scott Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  In his highly acclaimed debut,\n </span>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Â \n </span>\n <strong style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  The Lies of Locke Lamora\n </strong>\n <em style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  ,Â \n </em>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora. Now Lynch brings back his outrageous hero for a caper so death-defying, nothing short of a miracle will pull it off.\n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <strong style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  <br />\n </strong>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they canâ€™t rest for longâ€”and are soon back to what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing the proceeds for themselves.Â \n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  This time, however, they have targeted the grandest prize of all: the Sinspire, the most exclusive and heavily guarded gambling house in the world. Its nine floors attract the wealthiest clienteleâ€”and to rise to the top, one must impress with good credit, amusing behaviorâ€¦and excruciatingly impeccable play. For there is one cardinal rule, enforced by Requin, the houseâ€™s cold-blooded master: it is death to cheat at any game at the Sinspire.Â \n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Brazenly undeterred, Locke and Jean have orchestrated an elaborate plan to lie, trick, and swindle their way up the nine floorsâ€¦straight to Requinâ€™s teeming vault. Under the cloak of false identities, they meticulously make their climbâ€”until they are closer to the spoils than ever.Â \n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  But someone in Tal Verrar has uncovered the duoâ€™s secret. Someone from their past who has every intention of making the impudent criminals pay for their sins. Now it will take every ounce of cunning to save their mercenary souls. And even that may not be enough.â€¦\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1384'),
(3529, 'Georgina Kincaid 01 Succubus Blues', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/378'),
(3530, 'Georgina Kincaid 02 Succubus on Top', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/375'),
(3531, 'Georgina Kincaid 03 Succubus Dreams', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/376'),
(3532, 'Georgina Kincaid 04 Succubus Heat', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/377'),
(3533, 'Georgina Kincaid 05 Succubus Shadows', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/380'),
(3534, 'Gerald&#39;s Game', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/471'),
(3535, 'Girl in Times Square', 'Paullina Simons', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1444'),
(3536, 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/681'),
(3537, 'Girl, Interrupted', 'Susanna Kaysen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she''d never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital.nbsp;nbsp;She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen''s memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/922'),
(3538, 'The Given Day', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/639'),
(3539, 'The Giver 01 The Giver', 'Lois Lowry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Reproducible Reading Study Guides that give students the background and support they need to understand and enjoy literature. With these reading guides, your students will practice reading comprehension skills, sharpen their vocabulary and learn to identify literary elements.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/917'),
(3540, 'The Giver 02 Gathering Blue', 'Lois Lowry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lois Lowry''s magnificent novel of the distant future, The Giver, is set in a highly technical and emotionally repressed society. This eagerly awaited companion volume, by contrast, takes place in a village with only the most rudimentary technology, where anger, greed, envy, and casual cruelty make ordinary people''s lives short and brutish. This society, like the one portrayed in The Giver, is controlled by merciless authorities with their own complex agendas and secrets. And at the center of both stories there is a young person who is given the responsibility of preserving the memory of the culture--and who finds the vision to transform it. Kira, newly orphaned and lame from birth, is taken from the turmoil of the village to live in the grand Council Edifice because of her skill at embroidery. There she is given the task of restoring the historical pictures sewn on the robe worn at the annual Ruin Song Gathering, a solemn day-long performance of the story of their world''s past. Down the hall lives Thomas the Carver, a young boy who works on the intricate symbols carved on the Singer''s staff, and a tiny girl who is being trained as the next Singer. Over the three artists hovers the menace of authority, seemingly kind but suffocating to their creativity, and the dark secret at the heart of the Ruin Song. With the help of a cheerful waif called Matt and his little dog, Kira at last finds the way to the plant that will allow her to create the missing color--blue--and, symbolically, to find the courage to shape the future by following her art wherever it may lead. With astonishing originality, Lowry has again created a vivid and unforgettable setting for this thrilling story that raises profound questions about the mystery of art, the importance of memory, and the centrality of love. (Ages 10 and older) --Patty Campbell\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/919'),
(3541, 'The Giver 03 Messenger', 'Lois Lowry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For the past six years, Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man, known for his special sight. Village was a place that welcomed newcomers, but something sinister has seeped into Village and the people have voted to close it to outsiders. Matty has been invaluable as a messenger. Now he must make one last journey through the treacherous forest with his only weapon, a power he unexpectedly discovers within himself.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/918'),
(3542, 'Glamorama', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Arguably the novel of the 1990s...Glamorama should establish Ellis as the most fearless and ambitious writer of his generation...A must read." --The Seattle TimesThe author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world.Â Â In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the volume exponentially.Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs who exists in magazines and gossip columns and whose life resembles an ultra-hip movie, is living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another.Â Â And then it''s time to move on to the next stage.Â Â But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1237'),
(3543, 'Glory Road', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/673'),
(3544, 'The God Delusion', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A preeminent scientist -- and the world''s most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe''s wonders than any faith could ever muster.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1297'),
(3545, 'Gold Mine', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the sweat of lovers to the blood of warriors, Wilbur Smith delivers a compelling tale with fast-paced adventure and electrifying intrigue in this unforgettable novel... WHEN A REALM OF TREASURE IS AT STAKE... North of Johannesburg, five companies share the Kitchenerville fields, furiously blasting and digging deep into the earth. For some men, gold mining is a way of lifeÃ‚--and death. For some it''s just a business. For one man, it''s the most dangerous game of all... FORTUNES ARE GAMBLED, LOVERS ARE BETRAYED...Rod Ironsides makes love to his boss''s wife and drives his miners faster and harder than anyone has ever dared. A few weeks ago, Ironsides had a passion for golf and one-night stands. Now, he has been handed a prize and a curse: to blast through rock and reap a fortuneÃ‚--or be destroyed. AND DEATH IS ONLY AN INSTANT AWAY...From a split-second, oxygen-sucking explosion to a looming underground wall of water, there are a dozen ways Rod can fail. But his passion and fury won''t let him back down from a conspiracy he cannot see: men who want to turn his mine into a death trapÃ‚--for the bloodiest pay-day of all... "An epic...Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."Ã‚--Tulsa World\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/823'),
(3546, 'Gone 01', 'Michael Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/362'),
(3547, 'Gone 02 Hunger', 'Michael Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/363'),
(3548, 'Gone 03 Lies', 'Michael Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/361'),
(3549, 'Gone with the Wind 01 Gone with the Wind', 'Margaret Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/863'),
(3550, 'Gone with the Wind 02 Scarlett', 'Alexandra Ripley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/950'),
(3551, 'The Grand Design', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the nature of reality? Why are the laws of nature so finely tuned as to allow for the existence of beings like ourselves? And, finally, is the apparent â€œgrand designâ€ of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motionâ€”or does science offer another explanation?Â \n</span>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1408'),
(3552, 'The Graveyard Book', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  He would be completely normal if he didn''t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jackâ€”who has already killed Bod''s family. . . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his *New York Times* bestselling modern classic *Coraline*. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1460'),
(3553, 'Guild Hunter 01 Angels&#39; Blood', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/890'),
(3554, 'Guild Hunter 02 Archangel&#39;s Kiss', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling author of Angels'' Blood   Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux wakes from a year-long coma to find that she has become an angel-and that her lover, the stunningly dangerous archangel Raphael, likes having her under his control. But almost immediately, Raphael must ready Elena for a flight to Beijing, to attend a ball thrown by the archangel Lijuan. Ancient and without conscience, Lijuan''s power lies with the dead. And she has organized the most perfect and most vicious of welcomes for Elena...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/889'),
(3555, 'Halo: Cryptum', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n   100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings.\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  But one species--eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge--achieved dominance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They were the Forerunners--the keepers of the Mantle, the next stage of life in the Universeâ€™s Living Time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then they vanished.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is their story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting\n  </em>\n  is a young rebellious Forerunner. He is a Manipular, untried--yet to become part of the adult Forerunner society, where vast knowledge and duty waits. He comes from a family of Builders, the Forerunnersâ€™ highest and most politically powerful rate. It is the Builders who create the grand technology that facilitates Forerunner dominance over the known universe.  It is the Builders who believe they must shoulder the greatest burden of the Mantle--as shepherds and guardians of all life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bornstellar is marked to become a great Builder just like his father.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But this Manipular has other plans.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He is obsessed with lost treasures of the past. His reckless passion to seek out the marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors--long-vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent---forces his fatherâ€™s hand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bornstellar is sent to live among the Miners, where he must come to terms with where his duty truly lies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But powerful forces are at play.  Forerunner society is at a major crux. Past threats are once again proving relentless. Dire solutions--machines and strategies never before contemplated--are being called up, and fissures in Forerunner power are leading to chaos.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On a Lifeworkerâ€™s experimental planet, Bornstellarâ€™s rebellious course crosses the paths of two humans, and the long lifeline of a great military leader, forever changing Bornstellarâ€™s destiny â€¦and the fate of the entire galaxy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is a tale of life, death, intergalactic horror, exile, and maturity. It is a story of overwhelming change--and of human origins.  For the Mantle may not lie upon the shoulders of Forerunners forever.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <br />\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1219'),
(3556, 'Handling the Undead', 'John Avjide Lindquist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/909'),
(3557, 'The Handmaid&#39;s Tale', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwoodâ€™sThe Handmaid''s Talehas become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules. Like Aldous Huxleyâ€™sBrave New Worldand George Orwellâ€™sNineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid''s Talehas endured not only as a literary landmark but as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1294'),
(3558, 'Have Space Suit - Will Travel', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/674'),
(3559, 'Heart of Darkness', 'Joseph Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A dark allegorical masterpiece based on the author''s own traumatic experiences in the Belgian Congo, recounts the voyage of Marlow up the Congo River in search of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz - a white trader whose domination of the local natives had transformed him into a depraved and abominable tyrant. Large print format.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1045'),
(3560, 'Hearts in Atlantis', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/474'),
(3561, 'Her Own Rules', 'Barbara Taylor Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Meredith Stratton worked hard to become a successful businesswomanâ€”and now she owns six elegant inns all over the world. But on a trip abroad she is struck by a strange illness, one that seems to have no physical cause. Meredith has always played by her own rulesâ€”and wonâ€”and now she must uncover the roots of this mystery ailment that threatens her future happiness. The answers lie buried somewhere in her forgotten past. And with the help of a caring psychiatrist, Meredith will have to peel back the layers of her most carefully designed and constructed creation: herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1082'),
(3562, 'The Heretic Queen', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1235'),
(3563, 'Hex Hall 01 Hex Hall', 'Rachel Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It''s gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie''s estranged father-an elusive European warlock-only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it''s her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.By the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tagalong ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire on campus. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect.As a series of blood-curdling mysteries starts to converge, Sophie prepares for the biggest threat of all: an ancient secret society determined to destroy all Prodigium, especially her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/620'),
(3564, 'Hex Hall 02 Demonglass', 'Rachel Hawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sophie Mercer thought she was a witch. That was the whole reason she was sent to Hex Hall, a reform school for delinquent Prodigium (akaÂ witches,Â shapeshifters, and fairies). But that was before she discovered the family secret, andÂ that her hot crush, Archer Cross, is an agent for The Eye, a group bent on wiping Prodigium off the face of the earth.Turns out, Sophie''s a demon, one of only two in the world--the other being her father. What''s worse, she has powers that threaten the lives of everyone she loves. Which is precisely why Sophie decides she must go to London for the Removal, a dangerous procedure that will destroy her powers.But once Sophie arrives she makes a shocking discovery. Her new friends? They''re demons too. MeaningÂ someone is raising them in secret with creepy plans to use their powers, and probably not for good. Meanwhile, The Eye is set on hunting Sophie down, and they''re using Acher to do it. But it''s not like she has feelings for him anymore. Does she?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1231'),
(3565, 'High Fidelity: A Novel', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It has been said often enough that baby boomers are a television generation, but the very funny novel\n  <em>\n   High Fidelity\n  </em>\n  reminds that in a way they are the record-album generation as well. This funny novel is obsessed with music; Hornby''s narrator is an early-thirtysomething English guy who runs a London record store. He sells albums recorded the old-fashioned way--on vinyl--and is having a tough time making other transitions as well, specifically adulthood. The book is in one sense a love story, both sweet and interesting; most entertaining, though, are the hilarious arguments over arcane matters of pop music.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  British journalist Hornby has fashioned a disarming, rueful and sometimes quite funny first novel that is not quite as hip as it wishes to be. The book dramatizes the romantic struggle of Rob Fleming, owner of a vintage record store in London. After his girlfriend, Laura, leaves him for another man, he realizes that he pines not for sexual ecstasy (epitomized by a "bonkus mirabilis" in his past) but for the monogamy this cynic has come to think of as a crime. He takes comfort in the company of the clerks at the store, whose bantering compilations of top-five lists (e.g., top five Elvis Costello songs; top-five films) typify the novel''s ingratiating saturation in pop culture. Sometimes this can pall: readers may find that Rob''s ruminations about listening to the Smiths and the Lemonheads?pop music helps him fall in love, he tells us?are more interesting than his list of five favorite episodes of Cheers. Rob takes comfort as well in the company of a touring singer, Marie La Salle, who is unpretentious and "pretty in that nearly cross-eyed American way"?but life becomes more complicated when he encounters Laura again. Hornby has earned his own place on the London bestseller lists, and this on-the-edge tale of musical addiction just may climb the charts here. First serial to Esquire.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1335'),
(3566, 'Hollywood Divorces', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/207'),
(3567, 'Hollywood Wives - The New Generation', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/208'),
(3568, 'Horsemen of the Apocalypse 01 - Hunger', 'Jackie Morse Kessler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   "Thou art the Black Rider. Go thee out unto the world."\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lisabeth Lewis has a black steed, a set of scales, and a new job: she''s been appointed Famine. How will an anorexic seventeen-year-old girl from the suburbs fare as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Traveling the world on her steed gives Lisa freedom from her troubles at homeâ€”her constant battle with hunger, and her struggle to hide it from the people who care about her. But being Famine forces her to go places where hunger is a painful part of everyday life, and to face the horrifying effects of her phenomenal power. Can Lisa find a way to harness that powerâ€”and the courage to fight her own inner demons?\n </p>\n <p>\n  A wildly original approach to the issue of eating disorders, Hunger is about the struggle to find balance in a world of extremes, and uses fantastic tropes to explore a difficult topic that touches the lives of many teens.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1337'),
(3569, 'Horsemen of the Apocalypse 02 - Rage', 'Jackie Morse Kessler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Missy didn''t mean to cut so deep. But after the party where she was humiliated in front of practically everyone in school, who could blame her for wanting some comfort? Sure, most people don''t find comfort in the touch of a razor blade, but Missy always was . . . different. That''s why she was chosen to become one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War. Now Missy wields a new kind of bladeâ€”a big, brutal sword that can cut down anyone and anything in her path. But it''s with this weapon in her hand that Missy learns something that could help her triumph over her own pain: control. A unique approach to the topic of self-mutilation,\n <i>\n  Rage\n </i>\n is the story of a young woman who discovers her own power and refuses to be defeated by the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1338'),
(3570, 'House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies', 'William Irwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An unauthorized look at the philosophical issues raised by one of today''s most popular television shows: House  House is one of the top three television dramas on the air, pulling in more than 19 million viewers for each episode. This latest book in the popular Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series takes a deeper look at the characters and issues raised in this Emmy Award-winning medical drama, offering entertaining answers to the fascinating ethical questions viewers have about Dr. Gregory House and his medical team.  Henry Jacoby (Goldsboro, NC) teaches philosophy at East Carolina University. He has published articles primarily on the philosophy of mind and was a contributor to South Park and Philosophy (978-1-4051-6160-2).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/927'),
(3571, 'House of Night 01 Marked', 'P.C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/749'),
(3572, 'House of Night 02 Betrayed', 'P.C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/750'),
(3573, 'House of Night 03 Chosen', 'P.C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/744'),
(3574, 'House of Night 04 Untamed', 'P.C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/745'),
(3575, 'House of Night 05 Hunted', 'P.C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/746'),
(3576, 'House of Night 06 Tempted', 'P.C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/747'),
(3577, 'House of Night 07 Burned', 'P.C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/748'),
(3578, 'House Rules', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The astonishing new novel from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a family torn apart by an accusation of murder.** *They tell me I''m lucky to have a son who''s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there''s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn''t know how.* Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger''s syndrome. He''s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject -- in his case, forensic analysis. He''s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do...and he''s usually right. But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for a change, the police come to Jacob with questions. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger''s -- not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, flat affect -- can look a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel. Suddenly, Jacob and his family, who only want to fit in, feel the spotlight shining directly on them. For his mother, Emma, it''s a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it''s another indication of why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And over this small family the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder? Emotionally powerful from beginning to end, *House Rules* looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way -- and fails those who don''t. EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The astonishing new novel from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a family torn apart by an accusation of murder.** *They tell me I''m lucky to have a son who''s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there''s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn''t know how.* Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger''s syndrome. He''s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject -- in his case, forensic analysis. He''s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do...and he''s usually right. But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for a change, the police come to Jacob with questions. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger''s -- not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, flat affect -- can look a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel. Suddenly, Jacob and his family, who only want to fit in, feel the spotlight shining directly on them. For his mother, Emma, it''s a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it''s another indication of why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And over this small family the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder? Emotionally powerful from beginning to end, *House Rules* looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way -- and fails those who don''t.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/583');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(3579, 'Hull Zero Three', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; ">\n A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination-unknown. Its purpose-a mystery. Its history-lost.\n <br />\n <br />\n Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home-a new planet and the woman he was meant to love in his arms-he finds himself, wet, naked, and freezing to death. The dark halls are full of monsters but trusting other survivors he meets might be the greater danger.\n <br />\n <br />\n All he has are questions-- Who is he? Where are they going? What happened to the dream of a new life? What happened to the woman he loved? What happened to Hull 03?\n <br />\n <br />\n All will be answered, if he can survive. Uncover the mystery. Fix the ship. Find a way home.\n <br />\n <br />\n <strong>\n  HULL ZERO THREE\n </strong>\n Â is an edge of your seat thrill ride through the darkest reaches of space\n</span>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1260'),
(3580, 'Hunger Games 01 The Hunger Games', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/282'),
(3581, 'Hunger Games 02 Catching Fire', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/281'),
(3582, 'Hunger Games 03 Mockingjay', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/280'),
(3583, 'Hungry as the Sea', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Wilbur Smith sets his vividly realistic novels on the razor''s edge between human courage and nature''s wrath. In Hungry As The Sea, this master storyteller takes us to the frigid South Atlantic, where one man fights for his life-- and for redemption.Nicholas Berg is steaming out of Cape Town aboard the salvage tug Warlock. Once Berg ruled an ocean-going empire. Now, his future has come down to a powerful boat and a daring rescue mission. One of his former ships is being lashed against the cliffs of Cape Alarm, surrounded by deadly icebergs and survivors clinging to their boats. Berg has gambled everything on reaching the Golden Adventurer before a competitor and a violent storm-- to win a fortune in salvage fees. But if Nick Berg succeeds, and climbs back into the international shipping game, that''s when the real danger will begin...From the power of a relentless ocean to the hunger of men to survive upon her, this is a towering novel of adventure, love and the daring of the human soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/824'),
(3584, 'I Am Legend', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone.Â An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.Â By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization.Â By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn....Â Richard Mathesonâ€™s classic novel has now been transformed by Warner Bros. into a major motion picture starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith.Â Directed by Francis Lawrence (â€œConstantineâ€), the film opens nationwide in December 2007.Â  Richard Matheson is the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It . . . , and What Dreams May Come. A Grand Master of Horror and past winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, he has also won the Edgar, the Hugo, the Spur, and the Writer''s Guild awards. He lives in Calabasas, California. Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn. "One of the most important writers of the twentieth century."â€”Ray Bradbury "One of the most important writers of the twentieth century."â€”Ray Bradbury"I think the author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me."â€”Stephen King"Matheson is one of the great names in American terror fiction."â€”The Philadelphia Inquirer"Matheson inspires, it''s as simple as that."â€”Brian Lumley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1046'),
(3585, 'The Idiot', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A&amp;towering figure of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky depicted with remarkable insight the depth and complexity of the human soul. In this literary classic, he focuses on a nobleman, whose gentle, child-like nature has earned him the nickname of "the idiot."A superb, panoramic view of mid-19th-century Russian manners, morals and philosophy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1057'),
(3586, 'Idylls of the King', 'Alfred Lord Tennyson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1392'),
(3587, 'If I Stay 01 If I Stay', 'Gayle Forman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen year- old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck...Â \n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  A sophisticated, layered, and heartachingly beautiful story about the power of family and friends, the choices we all make -and the ultimate choice Mia commands.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/321'),
(3588, 'If I Stay 02 Where She Went', 'Gayle Forman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1463'),
(3589, 'If You Ask Me: And of Course You Won&#39;t', 'Betty White', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everything in between.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White''s wit and wisdom take center stage as she tackles topics like friendship, romantic love, aging, television, fans, love for animals, and the brave new world of celebrity.\n  <em>\n   If You Ask Me\n  </em>\n  mixes her thoughtful observations with humorous stories from a seven- decade career in Hollywood. Longtime fans and new fans alike will relish Betty''s candid take on everything from her rumored crush on Robert Redford (true) to her beauty regimen ("I have no idea what color my hair is and I never intend to find out") to the Facebook campaign that helped persuade her to host\n  <em>\n   Saturday Night Live\n  </em>\n  despite her having declined the hosting job three times already.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring all-new material, with a focus on the past fifteen years of her life,\n  <em>\n   If You Ask Me\n  </em>\n  is funny, sweet, and to the point-just like Betty White.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Reads like a chat with the beloved star."\n </p>\n <p>\n  (-\n  <em>\n   The Denver Post\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Betty White\n  </strong>\n  is an entertainment icon who has playing starring roles on\n  <em>\n   The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Hot in Cleveland\n  </em>\n  , hosted\n  <em>\n   Saturday Night Live\n  </em>\n  (as the result of a fan-driven Facebook campaign), and spoken out on behalf of animals for many years.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1472'),
(3590, 'The Iliad and Odyssey', 'Homer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/254'),
(3591, 'Immortal Danger', 'Cynthia Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/737'),
(3592, 'The Immortals 01 Evermore', 'Alyson Noel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/768'),
(3593, 'The Immortals 02 Blue Moon', 'Alyson Noel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/765'),
(3594, 'The Immortals 03 Shadowland', 'Alyson Noel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ever and Damen have traveled through countless past lives and fought off the world''s darkest enemies to be together forever, but just as their long-awaited destiny is finally within reach, a powerful curse threatens them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/766'),
(3595, 'The Immortals 04 Dark Flame', 'Alyson Noel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *In Alyson Noelâ€™s most darkly seductive Immortals novel yet, Ever fights for control of her body, her soulâ€”and the timeless true love sheâ€™s been chasing for centuries.* Ever is trying to help Haven transition into life as an immortal. But with Haven drunk on her new powers and acting recklessly, she poses the ultimate threatâ€”exposing their secret world to the outside. As Ever struggles to keep the Immortals hidden, it only propels Haven closer to the enemyâ€”Roman and his evil companions At the same time, Ever delves deeper into dark magick to free Damen from Romanâ€™s power. But when her spell backfires, it binds her to the one guy whoâ€™s hell-bent on her destruction. Now thereâ€™s a strange, foreign pulse coursing through her, and no matter what she does, she canâ€™t stop thinking about Romanâ€”and longing for his touch. As she struggles to resist the fiery attraction threatening to consume her, Roman is more than willing to take advantage of her weakened stateâ€¦and Ever edges closer and closer to surrender. Frantic to break the spell before its too late, Ever turns to Jude for help, risking everything she knows and loves to save herselfâ€”and her future with Damen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/767'),
(3596, 'The Immortals 05 Night Star', 'Alyson Noel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/764'),
(3597, 'The Immortals 06 Everlasting', 'Alyson Noel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   <em>\n    Their epic love story has captured the hearts of millions and enchanted readers across the world.Â  In this beautiful finale, their journey draws to a spectacular conclusionâ€”where all will be revealed.\n   </em>\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Their darkest enemies now defeated, Damen and Ever are free to embark upon their final questâ€”to free Damen from the poison lingering in his body.Â  If they can just find the antidote, theyâ€™ll finally be able to feel each otherâ€™s touchâ€”andÂ experience the passionate nightÂ theyâ€™ve been longing for.Â  But their fight to be together will lead them into the most formidable terrain yetâ€¦ into the dark heart of Summerland.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here in a land of scorched earth and endless rain, Ever and Damen will discover their relationshipâ€™s hidden origins, expose a secret history they never imaginedâ€¦and come face to face with the\n  <em>\n   true\n  </em>\n  reason fate keeps tearing them apart.Â  Only then, when the final mystery is unraveled and the last secret revealed, Ever and Damenâ€™s future will hinge on one ultimate decision that will put everything at stakeâ€¦ even eternity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1448'),
(3598, 'Imperial Bedrooms', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bret Ellisâ€™s first novel, Less Than Zero, is one of the signal novels of the last thirty years, and he now follows those infamous teenagers into an even more desperate middle age.Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and heâ€™s soon drifting through a long-familiar circle. Blair, his former girlfriend, is married to Trent, a powerful manager whoâ€™s still a bisexual philanderer, and their Beverly Hills parties attract various levels of fame and fortune. Then thereâ€™s Clayâ€™s childhood friend Julian, a recovering addict, and their old dealer, Rip, face-lifted beyond recognition and seemingly even more sinister than in his notorious past.But Clayâ€™s own demons emerge once he meets a gorgeous young actress determined to win a role in his movie. And when his life careens out of control, heâ€™s forced to come to terms with the deepest recesses of his characterâ€”and with his proclivity for betrayal.A genuine literary event.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1238'),
(3599, 'The Importance of Being Earnest', 'Oscar Wilde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''A Trivial Comedy for Serious People'': its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its highly self-conscious characters hides deep anxieties about social and personal identity: Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station and named after a railway ticket, is prepared to be re-christened to obtain the Christian name - Earnest - his beloved Gwendolen requires in a husband; he then has to confront the stigma of being the illegitimate child of a servant, before fortune, and a benevolent dramatist, reveal his true and entirely respectable identity. This is the only one-volume edition of the play to include an appendix with earlier versions and additional scenes that allow an appreciation of Wilde''s creative process.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1058'),
(3600, 'Incarceron 01 Incarceron', 'Catherine Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ** A thrilling, high-concept fantasy for fans of Garth Nix and Nancy Farmer. **\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *Incarceron* is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. Very few prisoners believe that there is an Outside, however, which makes escape seems impossible.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  And then Finn finds a crystal key that allows him to communicate with a girl named Claudia. She claims to live Outside- she is the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, and doomed to an arranged marriage. Finn is determined to escape the prison, and Claudia believes she can help him. But they don''t realize that there is more to Incarceron than meets the eye. Escape will take their greatest courage and cost more than they know.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/924'),
(3601, 'Incarceron 02 Sapphique', 'Catherine Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Finn has escaped Incarceron only to find that he must defend his right to the throne from another challenger. His life and Claudia''s hang on Finn convincing the Court that he is the lost prince, even though he has his own doubts about being the true heir.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/923'),
(3602, 'Indigo Court 01 Night Myst', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eons ago, vampires tried to turn the Dark Fae in order to harness their magic, only to create a demonic enemy more powerful than they imagined. Now Myst, the Vampiric Fae Queen of the Indigo Court, has enough power to begin a long prophesied supernatural war. And Cicely Waters, a witch who can control the wind, may be the only one who can stop her-and save her beloved Fae prince from the Queen''s enslavement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1214'),
(3603, 'Infernal Devices 01 Clockwork Angel', 'Cassandra Clare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Magic is dangerous--but love is more dangerous still. When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London''s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos. Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What''s more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa''s power for his own. Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by--and torn between--two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm''s length . . . everyone, that is, but Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world. . . . and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/928'),
(3604, 'The Informers', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard over a car radio. The characters go to the same schools. They eat at the same restaurants. They have sex with the same boys and girls. They buy from the same dealers. Fusing voices into an intense, impressionistic narrative that blurs genders, generations and even identities, these stories capture the lives of a group of people, connected in the way only people in L.A. can be suffering from nothing less than the death of the soul. ''A writer at the peak of his powers . . . The book takes us from the first to the seventh circles of hell, from Salinger to de Sade'' Will Self ''Ellis has the ability to capture modern reality with the ferocity of a collector driving a pin through a social butterfly'' Guardian '' The Informersis spare, austere, elegantly designed, telling in detail, coolly ferocious, sardonic in its humor; every vestige of authorial sentiment is expunged'' New York Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1241'),
(3605, 'Inheritance 01 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms', 'N.K. Jemisin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/553'),
(3606, 'Inheritance 02 The Broken Kingdoms', 'N.K. Jemisin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The gods have broken free after centuries of slavery, and the world holds its breath, fearing their vengeance. The saga of mortals and immortals continues in THE BROKEN KINGDOMS. In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. Oree''s peculiar guest is at the heart of it, his presence putting her in mortal danger -- but is it him the killers want, or Oree? And is the earthly power of the Arameri king their ultimate goal, or have they set their sights on the Lord of Night himself?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/591'),
(3607, 'Insomnia', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/477'),
(3608, 'Iron Witch Saga 01 The Iron Witch', 'Karen Mahoney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Dark and beautiful, sensual and dangerous, utterly enthralling. Karen Mahoney is a brilliant storyteller, blending magic and alchemy with bold, captivating characters who step right off the page and draw you into their world. You''ll fall under this book''s spell."â€”Richelle Mead, New York Times &amp; USA Today bestselling authorFreak. That''s what her classmates call seventeen-year-old Donna Underwood. When she was seven, a horrific fey attack killed her father and drove her mother mad. Donna''s own nearly fatal injuries from the assault were fixed by magicâ€”the iron tattoos branding her hands and arms. The child of alchemists, Donna feels cursed by the magical heritage that destroyed her parents and any chance she had for a normal life. The only thing that keeps her sane and grounded is her relationship with her best friend, Navin Sharma.When the darkest outcasts of Faerieâ€”the vicious wood elvesâ€”abduct Navin, Donna finally has to accept her role in the centuries old war between the humans and the fey. Assisted by Xan, a gorgeous half-fey dropout with secrets of his own, Donna races to save her friendâ€”even if it means betraying everything her parents and the alchemist community fought to the death to protect."Mahoney''s debut sizzles with romance and alchemical swashbuckling, but it''s the steadfast character of Donna Underwood that kept me hooked. Her choices, her loyalty, her determinationâ€”all make for a refreshing and captivating read. The only problem with The Iron Witch is that the next book can''t come fast enough."â€”Tiffany Trent, author of In the Serpent''s Coils\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/938'),
(3609, 'IT', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/478'),
(3610, 'JOB: A Comedy of Justice', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/649'),
(3611, 'Julia&#39;s Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes From a Lifetime of Cooking', 'Julia Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  What would you give to see the notes Julia Child keeps in her handwritten loose-leaf kitchen reference guide? Your wish is granted! This clever little volume was inspired by Child''s notebook, compiled from her own "trials, remedies, and errors."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Organized by large category and technique, it''s a very handy reference guide for anyone reasonably comfortable in the kitchen. Each section contains a master recipe followed by variations. The emphasis is on technique, so if you occasionally find yourself trying to remember at what temperature to best roast a duck, the best way to cook green beans and keep them green, or how to save your hollandaise, then this is the book for you. And what good is a reference guide without an index? As always, Child comes to our rescue with a fantastic, comprehensive index, 19 pages long for 107 pages of text, so we can find the answers to life''s burning questions in a flash.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Part of what makes Julia Child such an icon is that she can describe a complicated dish, and in the next breath convince us to make it. Classic Chocolate Mousse, Sabayon, Scalloped Potatoes Savoyarde, and Butterflied Leg of Lamb sound manageable when they follow recipes for Roast Chicken, Mashed Potatoes, and Scrambled Eggs. And with Child''s help, they are. "Quick, snappy answers" for both basic and complicated cooking questions make this a work we''ll never outgrow. And if Julia can use a cheat sheet, so can we! Fans of Child will love that her personality shows through in comments like, "Don''t crowd the pan... or you''ll be sorry," and, to introduce her Basic Vinaigrette Dressing, "I use the proportions of a very dry martini." Eight pages of photos taken by her husband, Paul, including one of Child with the famous dancing goose, make this even more of a treasure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If there is anyone qualified to offer kitchen wisdom, it must be Julia Child. After a lifetime of cooking and teaching, her knowledge is a perfect gift for fans, novices, or anyone responsible for putting dinner on the table every night.\n  <em>\n   --Leora Y. Bloom\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This slender book from the doyenne of gourmet cooking is a boon for those who need a refresher course in, or a handy source for, basics. These notes come from Child''s own kitchen notebook, years in the making. Generally, each recipe is included in "master" form with numerous variations; for example, a section on potatoes explains the ins and outs of Mashed Potatoes, as well as provides a recipe for Garlic Mashed Potatoes. Child''s voice is always welcome, and never more so than when she is providing no-muss-no-fuss advice like this. A quick section on dried beans covers soaking as well as cooking in a pressure cooker or Crock-Pot, and some more esoteric treats, such as homemade bread and souffl?s, have their place here. Helpful tips proliferate throughout: Sea Scallops Saut?ed with Garlic and Herbs are followed by a paragraph on scallops that exude too much juice, and a section on tarts explains how to prebake a shell. Even Hamburgers (plain and flavored) are covered here.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1311'),
(3612, 'Jumper 01 Jumper', 'Steven Gould', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written In The 1990S By American Author Steven Gould, Jumper Is The Inspiration For The Film Of The Same Name To Be Released In Feb 08 And Starring Samuel L Jackson. It Tells The Story Of Davy Rice, Played By Hayden Christensen, As He Escapes His Tortured Childhood To Explore The World Via Teleportation And Find His Long Lost Mother. At Seventeen The World Is At Your Feet&amp; Especially If You Can Teleport. David Rice Barely Remembers His Mother. She Left His Alcoholic Father When Davy Was Very Young. She Left Davy Too, And Since Then All Of William Rice''S Abusive Anger Has Been Focused On His Young Teenage Son. One Evening, As He Is About To Receive Another Brutal Beating, Davy Shuts His Eyes And Wishes To Be Safe. When He Opens Them Again, He Finds Himself In His Small Town''S Library. Slowly, He Realises He Is Very Special, He Can Teleport. Armed With His New Power, Davy Sets Out With New Purpose: He Will Leave His Abusive Home And Find His Long Lost Mother. Davy''S Confidence Grows As His Skills Do, But They Also Draw Unwanted Attention And Soon Davy Finds That He Too Is Hunted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1038'),
(3613, 'Jumper 02 Reflex', 'Steven Gould', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Davy thinks he''s alone...what if he isn''t?When Davy was a young teen, he discovered that he was capable of teleportation. At first, it was only when he was terrified and in horrible danger. Later, he learned to control his ability, and went to work for a secret government agency.Now, a mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. They don''t want to hire him, and they don''t have any hope of appealing to him to help them. What they want is to own him. They want to use his abilities for their own purposes, whether Davy agrees to it or not. And so they set about brainwashing him and conditioning him, and they have found a way to keep a teleport captive.But there''s one thing that they don''t know. No one knows it, not even Davy. The secret is that experiencing teleportation, over and over again, can teach a person how to do it. Davy''s wife Millie is the only person on Earth who has teleported nearly as often as he has. She discovered her new talent the same way Davy did -- in mortal danger, facing imminent death, she suddenly found herself in her own apartment.Now, if she can learn to control this ability, and fast, she may be able to rescue Davy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1033'),
(3614, 'Jumper 03 Griffin&#39;s Story', 'Steven Gould', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Griffin has a secret. It''s a secret that he''s sworn to his parents to keep, and never tell.Â Griffin is a Jumper: a person who can teleport to any place he has ever been.Â  The first time was when he was five, and his parents crossed an ocean to protect the secret.Â The most important time was when he was nine.Â That was the day that the men came to his house and murdered his parents.Â Griffin knows that the men were looking for him, and he must never let them find him.Â Griffin grows up with only two goals: to survive, and to kill the people who want him dead. And a Jumper bent on revenge is not going to let anything stand in his way.Â "Jumper," based on Steven Gould''s earlier novel of the same name, will be aÂ  major motion picture scheduled for release by 20th Century Fox starring Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Doug Limon.Â Â "Jumper: Â Griffin''s Story"Â features the character played by Jamie Bell in the film.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1034'),
(3615, 'Just After Sunset', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/708'),
(3616, 'Justine', 'Marquis de Sade', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/369'),
(3617, 'K-PAX', 'Gene Brewer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Psychiatrist Gene Brewer doesn''t have a diagnosis for the mysterious new patient who calls himself "prot" (rhymes with goat). But this strange and likeable man cannot be--as he claims--from the planet K-PAX.Or can he? Prot knows facts about space that are confounding the experts. He is soon revealing Dr. Brewer''s own deepest pains and most sublime longings. And his tales of K-PAX have other patients competing to go along with him when he heads "home". Now the doctor is racing the clock to find prot''s true identity before he losses a man whose "madness" might just save them all. . .Published in a dozens countries with movie rights sold to the producer of Field of Dreams, K-PAX has touched the hearts and expanded the horizons of readers around the world. It promises to join Robert Heinlein''s classic Stranger in a Strange Land as a moving, thought-provoking masterpiece of modern-day fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1331'),
(3618, 'K-PAX 02 On a Beam of Light', 'Gene Brewer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Five years to the day, almost to the second, after he disappeared from the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute, leaving his host body in a catatonic state, the being known as prot (rhymes with goat) has returned. Now, in sixteen more sessions with psychiatrist Gene Brewer, prot reveals that he has come back to escort a chosen few to his home planet, K-PAX.K-PAX is an idyllic planet free of the pain and suffering of Earth. Prot has incredible insights into how to cure that suffering, and his radical ideas have made him a celebrity. Now, legions of people are longing to follow him home.But Dr. Brewer has heard it before. Five years ago, he discovered another person buried deep in prot''s personality: Robert Porter of Montana. The mystery of Robert''s illness and of prot''s true origins lie deep within Robert''s shattered psyche. Now Dr. Brewer must race against the clock to unlock the secrets of Robert''s traumatic past and not only save his patient''s fate-but also that of humanity...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1477'),
(3619, 'Kenzie-Gennaro 01 A Drink Before the War', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/629'),
(3620, 'Kenzie-Gennaro 02 Darkness, Take My Hand', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/634'),
(3621, 'Kenzie-Gennaro 03 Sacred', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/635'),
(3622, 'Kenzie-Gennaro 04 Gone, Baby, Gone', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/624'),
(3623, 'Kenzie-Gennaro 05 Prayers for Rain', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/637'),
(3624, 'Kenzie-Gennaro 06 Moonlight Mile', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nov 2010\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An old case takes on new dimensions in Lehane''s sixth crime novel to feature Boston PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, last seen in 1999''s Prayers for Rain. Twelve years earlier, in 1998''s Gone, Baby, Gone, Patrick and Angie investigated the kidnapping of four-year-old Amanda McCready. The case drove a temporary wedge between the pair after Patrick returned Amanda to her mother''s neglectful care. Now Patrick and Angie are married, the parents of four-year-old Gabriella, and barely making ends meet with Patrick''s PI gigs while Angie finishes graduate school. But when Amanda''s aunt comes to Patrick and tells him that Amanda, now a 16-year-old honor student, is once again missing, he vows to find the girl, even if it means confronting the consequences of choices he made that have haunted him for years. While Lehane addresses much of the moral ambiguity from Gone, this entry lacks some of the gritty rawness of the early Kenzie and Gennaro books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/623'),
(3625, 'King Rat', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Saul Garamond returns from a journey in late evening and sneaks into his bedroom to avoid a confrontation with his estranged father. He awakes to the intrusion of police and the news that his father has been murdered and he is the number-one suspect. Forgotten in a jail cell, he is freed by a peculiar, stinking, and impossibly strong stranger--only to find rescue may be worse than imprisonment. The plot moves through subterranean and rooftop London quick as a techno beat, as Saul discovers his curious heritage and finds himself marked for death in an age-old secret war among frightful inhuman powers. China MiÃ©ville''s urban fantasy novel, King Rat, is an impressive, even daring, debut. It is a Lost Prince story that avoids both black-and-white morality and the standard fantasy-novel adoration of royalty. Furthermore, it is inspired by the unlikeliest of sources, the Rat King legend and the Pied Piper of Hamelin fairy tale. Finally, King Rat, powered and propelled by the rhythms of jungle/drum-''n''-bass music, is a fantasy novel set in the 1990s that genuinely captures the 1990s. --Cynthia Ward\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1450'),
(3626, 'The Kingkiller Chronicle 01 Name of the Wind', 'Patrick Rothfuss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The riveting first-person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime- ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that transports readers into the body and mind of a wizard. It is a high-action novel written with a poet''s hand, a powerful coming-of-age story of a magically gifted young man, told through his eyes: to read this book is to be the hero.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1204'),
(3627, 'The Kingkiller Chronicle 02 The Wise Man&#39;s Fear', 'Patrick Rothfuss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Day Two: The Wise Man''s Fear. "There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man." An escalating rivalry with a powerful member of the nobility forces Kvothe to leave the University and seek his fortune abroad. Adrift, penniless, and alone, he travels to Vintas, where he quickly becomes entangled in the politics of courtly society. While attempting to curry favor with a powerful noble, Kvothe discovers an assassination attempt, comes into conflict with a rival arcanist, and leads a group of mercenaries into the wild, in an attempt to solve the mystery of who (or what) is waylaying travelers on the King''s road. All the while, Kvothe searches for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, forced to reclaim the honor of the Edema Ruh, and travels into the Fae realm. There he meets Felurian, the faerie woman no man can resist, and who no man has ever survived. Under her tutelage, Kvothe learns much about true magic and the ways of women. In The Wise Man''s Fear Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1203'),
(3628, 'Knife Music', 'David Carnoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kristen Kroiter was sixteen, a high-school sophomore, when she was injured in a car accident. Dr. Ted Cogan had saved her life when he treated her in the ER six months ago-but now police detectives were questioning Cogan about her, in intimate detail. What was going on? What had she told them?That''s just it, the cops said. She hadn''t told them anything. She had died. Looked like a suicide. And Cogan was in a heap of trouble.Tense and twisting, Knife Music is the story of a doctor struggling to clear his name after being accused of raping and causing the suicide of a young girl. The novel pits Cogan, a forty-three-year- old surgeon and self-described womanizer, against Hank Madden, a handicapped veteran detective. From the outset it''s not clear who is victim and who is victimizer, as the usually dispassionate. Madden grapples with his long-suppressed prejudices and his obsession with bringing Ted Cogan to justice at any cost. It all leads up to the most stunning surprise ending since Scott Turow''s Presumed Innocent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/926'),
(3629, 'Kraken', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With this outrageous new novel, China MiÃ©ville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read thisâ€”or any otherâ€”year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring aboutâ€”or preventâ€”the End of All Things.In the Darwin Centre at Londonâ€™s Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centreâ€™s prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis duxâ€”better known as the Giant Squid. But Billyâ€™s tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air.As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose existence he has been blissfully ignorant of until now, a city whose denizensâ€”human and otherwiseâ€”are adept in magic and murder.There is the Congregation of God Kraken, a sect of squid worshippers whose roots go back to the dawn of humanityâ€”and beyond. There is the criminal mastermind known as the Tattoo, a merciless maniac inked onto the flesh of a hapless victim. There is the FSRCâ€”the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unitâ€”a branch of Londonâ€™s finest that fights sorcery with sorcery. There is Wati, a spirit from ancient Egypt who leads a ragtag union of magical familiars. There are the Londonmancers, who read the future in the cityâ€™s entrails. There is Grisamentum, Londonâ€™s greatest wizard, whose shadow lingers long after his death. And then there is Goss and Subby, an ageless old man and a cretinous boy who, together, constitute a terrifyingâ€”yet darkly charismaticâ€”demonic duo.All of themâ€”and othersâ€”are in pursuit of Billy, who inadvertently holds the key to the missing squid, an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1451'),
(3630, 'L.A. Connections', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/209'),
(3631, 'Lacy', 'Diana Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/580'),
(3632, 'Lady Chatterley&#39;s Lover', 'D.H. Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/864'),
(3633, 'Landover 01 - Magic Kingdom For Sale - Sold!', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/220'),
(3634, 'Landover 02 - The Black Unicorn', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/223'),
(3635, 'Landover 03 - Wizard at Large', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/224'),
(3636, 'Landover 04 - The Tangle Box', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/227'),
(3637, 'Landry 01 Ruby', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ruby Landry finds her simple life in the Louisiana bayou changing when she meets and falls in love with Paul Tate, a man from the right side of the tracks\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1031'),
(3638, 'Landry 02 Pearl in the Mist', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1032'),
(3639, 'Landry 03 All That Glitters', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Driven from the Dumas Mansion back to her beloved bayou, Ruby''s only hope is that fate will let her begin anew...  Living again in a humble shack, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her precious infant daughter, Pearl. Paul Tate -- her first love, whom she was forced to abandon -- is at her side once more, now a man of dazzling wealth. When he whisks her into his grand house, it seems their future is assured. As mistress of Cypress Woods, Ruby can forget even the shocking reason she and Paul must wed in a secret ceremony and remain husband and wife in name alone.  But the thick, expensive walls of Cypress Woods cannot shut out the terrible memories that have woven their fabric over her destiny, or the cold eyes of Paul''s mother, Gladys, reminding Ruby of the secret she must keep to give Pearl a loving father. Then her venomous twin sister, Gisselle, arrives to taunt her with news of Beau Andreas, the true father Pearl has never met, and the only man Ruby will ever long for with all her body and soul, Desperate to find the complete, fulfilling life she craves, Ruby builds a precarious new existence, a flimsy shanty of hope that the first flood washes away. Only when the storm exposes the very blackest evils of the past will she glimpse the rainbow''s fragile promise, a morning of sunshine and laughter with a family of her own....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1028'),
(3640, 'Landry 04 Hidden Jewel', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Following the spectacular successes of Ruby, Pearl in the Mist and All That Glitters, bestselling author V.C. Andrews delivers the eagerly awaited fourth novel in the thrilling Landry family series. As Pearl attempts to realize her dreams of becoming a doctor, she also works to discover the shocking truths of her heritage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1029'),
(3641, 'Landry 05 Tarnished Gold', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the eagerly awaited prequel to the captivating Landry series, and the fifth and final book in the series. Her high school graduation just days away, Gabriel is happy despite the rift between her Mama and conniving Daddy. Then rich cannery owner Octavious Tate surprises her near a secluded pond and shatters her innocence forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1030');
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(3642, 'The Last Child', 'John Hart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Hartâ€™s New York Times bestselling debut, The King of Lies, announced the arrival of a major talent. With Down River, he surpassed his earlier success, transcending the barrier between thriller and literature and winning the 2008 Edgar Award for best novel. Now, with The Last Child, he achieves his most significant work to date, an intricate, powerful story of loss, hope, and courage in the face of evil.Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people heâ€™d been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is---confident in a way that he can never fully explain.Determined to find his sister, Johnny risks everything to explore the dark side of his hometown. It is a desperate, terrifying search, but Johnny is not as alone as he might think. Detective Clyde Hunt has never stopped looking for Alyssa either, and he has a soft spot for Johnny. He watches over the boy and tries to keep him safe, but when Johnny uncovers a dangerous lead and vows to follow it, Hunt has no choice but to intervene.Then a second child goes missing . . . Undeterred by Huntâ€™s threats or his motherâ€™s pleas, Johnny enlists the help of his last friend, and together they plunge into the wild, to a forgotten place with a history of violence that goes back more than a hundred years. There, they meet a giant of a man, an escaped convict on his own tragic quest. What they learn from him will shatter every notion Johnny had about the fate of his sister; it will lead them to another far place, to a truth that will test both boys to the limit.Traveling the wilderness between innocence and hard wisdom, between hopelessness and faith, The Last Child leaves all categories behind and establishes John Hart as a writer of unique power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1059'),
(3643, 'Last Survivors 01 Life As We Knew It', 'Susan Beth Pfeffer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/756'),
(3644, 'Last Survivors 02 The Dead And The Gone', 'Susan Beth Pfeffer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/757'),
(3645, 'Last Survivors 03 This World We Live In', 'Susan Beth Pfeffer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The heart-wrenching companion to the bestselling novels *Life As We Knew It* and *The Dead &amp; The Gone*.Itâ€™s been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earthâ€™s climate. Miranda and her two brothers spend their days scavenging for food and household items, while their mother stays at home and desperately tries to hold on to the ordinary activities of their previous life. But they all know that nothing is truly normal in this surreal new world they live in.            The struggle to survive intensifies when Mirandaâ€™s father and stepmother arrive with a baby and three strangers in tow. One of the newcomers is Alex Morales, and as Mirandaâ€™s complicated feelings for him turn to love, his plans for his future thwart their relationship. Then a devastating tornado hits the town of Howell, and Miranda makes a decision that will change their lives forever.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/751'),
(3646, 'The Last Vampire 01 The Last Vampire', 'Christopher Pike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An omnibus brings together stories four through six in the Last Vampire series--Phantom, Evil Thirst, and Creatures of Forever--continuing the story of Alisa Perne, a vampire caught between the mortal and the immortal. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1266'),
(3647, 'The Last Vampire 02 Black Blood', 'Christopher Pike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Believing that she and her partner, Ray, are the last remaining vampires, five-thousand-year-old Alisa is stunned when she learns about a series of brutal murders in the United States that can only be the work of their own kind. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1261'),
(3648, 'The Last Vampire 03 Red Dice', 'Christopher Pike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alisa and her former FBI partner, Joel, learn of a government plan to capture them in order to steal and analyze their vampire blood for the purpose of duplicating it, and when Joel is caught, Alisa risks her life to free him. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1262'),
(3649, 'The Last Vampire 04 The Phantom', 'Christopher Pike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After five thousand years she was again mortal. The dead alchemist''s experiment has worked. Alisa is no longer a vampire, but a frail and confused human. Not only that -- she is pregnant. The baby grows in her at supernatural speed. As the stranger watches. The stranger from the past. But what child will Alisa''s seed produce? A demon or an angel? Alisa does not know. But the stranger does. He knows everything that ever was. And he knows everything that is to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1263'),
(3650, 'The Last Vampire 05 Evil Thirst', 'Christopher Pike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alisa''s daughter, Kalika, has transformed into a blood-thirsty monster with power far beyond Alisa''s. It is Alisa''s task to track her down and destroy her, yet Alisa still has trouble believing her daughter is totally evil. She still hopes to save Kalika, even if it means risking her own life--and perhaps the lives of everyone in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1264'),
(3651, 'The Last Vampire 06 Creatures of Forever', 'Christopher Pike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alisa the vampire confronts her most mysterious foe in an otherworldly force that promises to destroy or save her when it forces her to choose between sacrificing herself and saving others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1265'),
(3652, 'The Last Vampire 07 The Eternal Dawn', 'Christopher Pike', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Alisa has spent the past five thousand years as a vampire, living alone and fighting for survival. In her loneliness, Alisa cannot resist bringing Teriâ€”a descendant of her human familyâ€”into her life. But Alisa is surrounded by death and destruction, and just by knowing Alisa, Teriâ€™s life is at risk. Alisaâ€™s guilt grows when she becomes involved in a dangerous conspiracy. A top-secret group knows Alisaâ€™s secret and will stop at nothing to use her powers for their cause. As Alisa desperately tries to protect herself and Teri from the unknown enemy, she discovers a force more powerful and more lethal than anything she has ever seen. Alisa doesnâ€™t know who to trust, who to challenge, or who she will becomeâ€¦.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Alisa has spent the past five thousand years as a vampire, living alone and fighting for survival. In her loneliness, Alisa cannot resist bringing Teri''a descendant of her human family''into her life. But Alisa is surrounded by death and destruction, and just by knowing Alisa, Teri''s life is at risk. Alisa''s guilt grows when she becomes involved in a dangerous conspiracy. A top-secret group knows Alisa''s secret and will stop at nothing to use her powers for their cause. As Alisa desperately tries to protect herself and Teri from the unknown enemy, she discovers a force more powerful and more lethal than anything she has ever seen. Alisa doesn''t know who to trust, who to challenge, or who she will become....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1267'),
(3653, 'The Law of Nines', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A publishing event- #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Terry Goodkind turns in a new direction and delivers a stunningly original thriller. Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the midwestern United States, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved, has suddenly made him-and everyone he loves-into a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence . . . In Alex, Terry Goodkind brings to life a modern hero in a whole new kind of high-octane thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/888'),
(3654, 'Le Morte D&#39;Arthur, vol 1', 'Thomas Malory', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1389'),
(3655, 'Le Morte D&#39;Arthur, vol 2', 'Thomas Malory', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1388'),
(3656, 'Legend 01 Legend', 'Marie Lu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1386'),
(3657, 'Les Misrables', 'Victor Hugo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ROMANCES Of VICTOR HUGO Dttion LES MISERABLES VOLUME ONE CHAPTER II. M. MYRIEL BECOMES MONSEIGNEUB WELCOME. The Episcopal Palace of D adjoined the hospital. It was a spacious, handsome mansion, built at the beginning of the last century by Monseigneur Henri Puget, Doctor in Theology of the Faculty of Paris, and Abbe of Simore, who was Bishop of D in 1712. This palace was a true seigneurial residence: everything had a noble air in it, ? the episcopal apartments, the reception rooms, the bedrooms, the court of honor, which was very wide, with arcades after the old Florentine fashion, and the gardens planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb gallery on the ground floor, Monseigneur Henri Puget had given a state dinner on July 29, 1714, to Messeigneurs Charles Brulart de Genlis, Archbishop, Prince of Em- brun; Antoine de Mesgrigny, Capuchin and Bishop of Grasse; Philip de Vendome, Grand Prior of France and Abbe of St. Honore" de Le"rins; Frangois de Ber- ton de Grillon, Baron and Bishop of Vence; Csesar de Sabran de Forcalquier, Bishop and Lord of Glandeve, and Jean Soanen, priest of the oratory, preacher in ordinary to the King, and Bishop and Lord of Senez. The portraits of these seven reverend personagesdecorated tht dining-room, and the memorable date, July 29, 1714, was engraved in golden letters on a white marble tablet. The hospital was a small, single-storeyed house with a little garden. Three days after his arrival the Bishop visited it, and when his visit was over asked the Director to be kind enough to come to his house. " How many patients have you at this moment ? " he asked. " Twenty-six, Monseigneur." " The number I counted," said the Bishop. " The beds are very close together," the Director co...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/856'),
(3658, 'Less Than Zero', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''One of the most disturbing novels I''ve read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality'' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist. Twenty-five years on, Less Than Zerocontinues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe. Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, Less Than Zero narrated by Clay, an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth, its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity, and its author''s refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour. ''An extraordinarily accomplished first novel'' New Yorker ''The Catcher in the Ryefor the MTV generation'' USA Today ''Remarkable. A killer sexy, sassy, sad'' Village Voice\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1239'),
(3659, 'Lethal Seduction', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/210'),
(3660, 'Leviathan 01 Leviathan', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Grade 7 Upâ€”This is World War I as never seen before. The story begins the same: on June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated, triggering a sequence of alliances that plunges the world into war. But that is where the similarity ends. This global conflict is between the Clankers, who put their faith in machines, and the Darwinists, whose technology is based on the development of new species. After the assassination of his parents, Prince Aleksandar''s people turn on him. Accompanied by a small group of loyal servants, the young Clanker flees Austria in a Cyklop Stormwalker, a war machine that walks on two legs. Meanwhile, as Deryn Sharp trains to be an airman with the British Air Service, she prays that no one will discover that she is a girl. She serves on the\n  <em>\n   Leviathan\n  </em>\n  , a massive biological airship that resembles an enormous flying whale and functions as a self-contained ecosystem. When it crashes in Switzerland, the two teens cross paths, and suddenly the line between enemy and ally is no longer clearly defined. The ending leaves plenty of room for a sequel, and that''s a good thing because readers will be begging for more. Enhanced by Thompson''s intricate black-and-white illustrations, Westerfeld''s brilliantly constructed imaginary world will capture readers from the first page. Full of nonstop action, this steampunk adventure is sure to become a classic.â€”\n  <em>\n   Heather M. Campbell, formerly at Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO\n  </em>\n  END\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "Full of nonstop action, this steampunk adventure is sure to become a classic." -- starred, *School Library Journal\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1417'),
(3661, 'Leviathan 02 Behemoth', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker powers.Â \n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing as a commoner. Finally together aboard the airshipÂ \n </span>\n <em style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  Leviathan\n </em>\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  , they hope to bring the war to a halt. But when disaster strikes theÂ \n </span>\n <em style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  Leviathan\n </em>\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  ''s peacekeeping mission, they find themselves alone and hunted in enemy territory.Â \n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Alek and Deryn will need great skill, new allies, and brave hearts to face what''s ahead\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1419'),
(3662, 'Leviathan 03 Goliath', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alekâ€™s throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a girl. (She has to pose as a boy in order to serve in the British Air Service.) And if they werenâ€™t technically enemies.Â \n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  The tension thickens as the Leviathan steams toward New York City with a homicidal lunatic on board: secrets suddenly unravel, characters reappear, and nothing is at it seems in this thunderous conclusion to Scott Westerfeldâ€™s brilliant trilogy.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1418'),
(3663, 'Limitless', 'Alan Glynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAlan Glynn has created enough twists and thrills to keep readers up lateâ€”even without resorting to illegal and dangerous substances.â€â€”\n  <i>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA compulsive chemical thriller.â€â€”\n  <i>\n   San Francisco Chronicle\n  </i>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM RELATIVITY MEDIA\n </p>\n <p>\n  A burnout at thirty-five, months behind on his book, low on cash, and something of a loser, Eddie Spinola could use a shot in the arm.Â One day he randomly runs into Vernon, his ex-wifeâ€™s brother, and his ex-dealer.Â Now employed by a shadowy pharmaceutical company, Vernon has something that might help:Â a new designer drug that stimulates brain function.Â One pill and Eddie is hooked.Â His book is finished within days; he learns and synthesizes information at a frightening rate; and he can go a long time without sleep or food.Â Naturally, he begins to play the stock market.Â But when Vernon turns up dead, Eddie makes off with the only stash of the drug in existence. Then come the side effects:Â black-outs, blinding headaches, and violent outbursts he canâ€™t seem to remember.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Alan Glynnâ€™sÂ _Limitless _is a high-concept thriller for this Adderall age, and a haunting meditation on the allure and theÂ curse of human potential.Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1400'),
(3664, 'Logan 01 Melody', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1026'),
(3665, 'Logan 02 Heart Song', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1027'),
(3666, 'Logan 03 Unfinished Symphony', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1023'),
(3667, 'Logan 04 Music in the Night', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Laura Logan, life on Cape-Cod has been filled with magical days with her twin brother Cary. When the school term begins, Laura and Cary hear cruel voices saying unspeakable things about the Logans. Laura and Cary are both caught in a vortex of gossip and lies - left alone to suffer because of a shameful past and dark secrets that no one will explain...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1024'),
(3668, 'Logan 05 Olivia', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1025'),
(3669, 'Looking for Jake and Other Stories', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Step into a London ravaged by unearthly creatures at once utterly alien and chillingly familiar. In China Mieville''s award-winning novella ''The Tain'', we learn the reason for the invaders'' terrible revenge. One survivor must trek through the ruins of the city with a desperate plan to stand against their assault.  In addition to ''The Tain'', this superb collection contains thirteen short stories, of visionary cityscapes and urban paranoia, ghosts, monsters and impossible diseases. Several of the stories are published here for the first time: these include one set in New Crobuzon, the location of the award-winning series of novels that began with " Perdido Street Station"; and one in comic-strip form, illustrated by top graphic artist Liam Sharp. This collection displays the sheer imaginative scope of China Mieville''s work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1452'),
(3670, 'Lords of Avalon 01 Sword of Darkness', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1397'),
(3671, 'Lords of Avalon 02 Knight of Darkness', 'Kinley MacGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1398'),
(3672, 'Lorien Legacies 02 The Power of Six', 'Pittacus Lore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1372'),
(3673, 'LOTR 01 The Hobbit', 'J.R.R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/808'),
(3674, 'LOTR 02 The Fellowship of the Ring', 'J.R.R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/807'),
(3675, 'LOTR 03 The Two Towers', 'J.R.R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/811'),
(3676, 'LOTR 04 The Return of the King', 'J.R.R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/809'),
(3677, 'LOTR 05 The Silmarillion', 'J.R.R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/810'),
(3678, 'Love in the Time of Cholera', 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace, her brothers'' resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples'' refusal to depart from routine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1295'),
(3679, 'The Lovely Bones', 'Alice Sebold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susie sees her happy, suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet . . . The Lovely Bones is a luminous and astonishing novel about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting - but, above all, about finding light in the darkest of places. ''Spare, beautiful and brutal prose . . . The Lovely Bones is compulsive enough to read in a single sitting, brilliantly intelligent, elegantly constructed and ultimately intriguing'' The Times''Moving and compelling . . . It will put an imperceptible but stealthily insistent hold on you. I sat down in the morning to read the first couple of pages; five hours later, I was still there, book in hand, transfixed'' Maggie O''Farrell, Sunday Telegraph\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1060'),
(3680, 'Lucky', 'Alice Sebold', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Sebold, the author of the current bestseller The Lovely Bones, was a college freshman at Syracuse University, she was attacked and raped on the last night of school, forced onto the ground in a tunnel "among the dead leaves and broken beer bottles." In a ham-handed attempt to mollify her, a policeman later told her that a young woman had been murdered there and, by comparison, Sebold should consider herself lucky. That dubious "luck" is the focus of this fiercely observed memoir about how an incident of such profound violence can change the course of one''s life. Sebold launches her memoir headlong into the rape itself, laying out its visceral physical as well as mental violence, and from there spins a narrative of her life before and after the incident, weaving memories of parental alcoholism together with her post-rape addiction to heroin. In the midst of each wrenching episode, from the initial attack to the ensuing courtroom drama, Sebold''s wit is as powerful as her searing candor, as she describes her emotional denial, her addiction and even the rape (her first "real" sexual experience). She skillfully captures evocative moments, such as, during her girlhood, luring one of her family''s basset hounds onto a blue silk sofa (strictly off-limits to both kids and pets) to nettle her father. Addressing rape as a larger social issue, Sebold''s account reveals that there are clear emotional boundaries between those who have been victims of violence and those who have not, though the author attempts to blur these lines as much as possible to show that violence touches many more lives than solely the victim''s.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sebold was raped as a college freshman, but the police said she was "lucky." At least she wasn''t murdered and dismembered like the girl before her. Now a journalist, Sebold here details the aftermathAposttraumatic stress syndrome, heroin addiction, and, finally, some measure of understanding. This book is based partly on a feature appearing in the New York Times Sunday Magazine that prompted an appearance on Oprah.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1316'),
(3681, 'Lunar Park', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1240'),
(3682, 'Madame Bovary', 'Gustave Flaubert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/855'),
(3683, 'Madame Tussaud', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1234'),
(3684, 'Malazan 01 Gardens of the Moon: A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with the Lord of Darkness, Anomander Rake, the Malazan Empire simmers with discontent and its legions yearn for some respite. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his Bridgeburners, and Tattersail - the lone surviving sorceress of the Second Legion - the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to draw breath and mourn the dead. But Empress Laseen''s gaze has moved on and fallen upon the ancient citadel of Darujhistan, for this last of the Free Cities of Genabackis still holds out against her... However the empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister forces are gathering, and it would seem that the gods themselves are preparing to play their hand... Acclaimed by the author''s peers, critics and readers alike, Gardens of the Moon is the defining opening chapter in what has been hailed a landmark of epic fantasy - Steven Erikson''s awesome sequence ''The Malazan Book of the Fallen''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1225'),
(3685, 'Malazan 02 Deadhouse Gates', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   Preparing for a long-prophesied uprising in the Holy Desert Raraku, seer Sha''ik and her followers anticipate the Malazan Empire''s most violent conflict, which they believe will shape destinies and give rise to legendary figures. By the author of Gardens of the Moon. Reprint.\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   Preparing for a long-prophesied uprising in the Holy Desert Raraku, seer Sha''ik and her followers anticipate the Malazan Empire''s most violent conflict, which they believe will shape destinies and give rise to legendary figures. By the author of Gardens of the Moon. Reprint.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Preparing for a long-prophesied uprising in the Holy Desert Raraku, seer Sha''ik and her followers anticipate the Malazan Empire''s most violent conflict, which they believe will shape destinies and give rise to legendary figures. By the author of Gardens of the Moon. Reprint.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1226'),
(3686, 'Malazan 03 Memories of Ice', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A third volume of the fantasy epic that began with Gardens of the Moon finds the uneasy alliance between Onearm''s army and Whiskeyjack''s Bridgeburners against the Pannion Domin empire further challenged by rumors that the Crippled God has escaped and is out for revenge. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1227'),
(3687, 'Malazan 04 House of Chains', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Northern Genabackis, a raiding party of savage tribal warriors descends from the mountains into the southern flatlands. Their intention is to wreak havoc amongst the despised lowlanders, but for the one named Karsa Orlong it marks the beginning of what will prove to be an extraordinary destiny.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Some years later, it is the aftermath of the Chain of Dogs. Tavore, the Adjunct to the Empress, has arrived in the last remaining Malazan stronghold of Seven Cities. New to command, she must hone twelve thousand soldiers, mostly raw recruits but for a handful of veterans of Coltaineâ€™s legendary march, into a force capable of challenging the massed hordes of Shaâ€™ikâ€™s Whirlwind who lie in wait in the heart of the Holy Desert.But waiting is never easy. The seerâ€™s warlords are locked into a power struggle that threatens the very soul of the rebellion, while Shaâ€™ik herself suffers, haunted by the knowledge of her nemesis: her own sister, Tavore.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  And so begins this awesome new chapter in Steven Eriksonâ€™s acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1228'),
(3688, 'Malazan 05 Midnight Tides', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After decades of warfare, the five tribes of the Tiste Edur have finally been united under the implacable rule of the Warlock King of Hiroth, but their peace has been exacted at the cost of a pact made with a hidden power, and ancient forces are awakening that could unleash a vengeful bloodbath on all concerned. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1229'),
(3689, 'Malazan 06 The Bonehunters', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha''ik is dead. One last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y''Ghatan and under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails. The prospect of laying siege to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy. For it was here that the Empire''s greatest champion Dassem Ultor was slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled. A place of foreboding, its smell is of death. Â But elsewhere, agents of a far greater conflict have made their opening moves. The Crippled God has been granted a place in the pantheon, a schism threatens and sides must be chosen. Whatever each god decides, the ground-rules have changed, irrevocably, terrifyingly and the first blood spilled will be in the mortal world. Â A world in which a host of characters, familiar and new, including Heboric Ghost Hands, the possessed Apsalar, Cutter, once a thief now a killer, the warrior Karsa Orlong and the two ancient wanderers Icarium and Mappo--each searching for such a fate as they might fashion with their own hands, guided by their own will. If only the gods would leave them alone. But now that knives have been unsheathed, the gods are disinclined to be kind. There shall be war, war in the heavens. And, the prize? Nothing less than existence itself... Â Here is the stunning new chapter in Steven Erikson''s magnificent Malazan Book of the Fallen--hailed asÂ an epic of the imagination and acknowledged as a fantasy classic in the making.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1221'),
(3690, 'Malazan 07 Reaper&#39;s Gale', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n All is not well in the Letherii Empire. Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, spirals into madness, surrounded by sycophants and agents of his Machiavellian chancellor.Â  Meanwhile, the Letherii secret police conduct a campaign of terror against their own people. The Errant, once a farseeing god, is suddenly blind to the future. Conspiracies seethe throughout the palace, as the empire - driven by the corrupt and self-interested - edges ever-closer to all-out war with the neighboring kingdoms.Â  Â The great Edur fleet--its warriors selected from countless numbers of people--draws closer. Amongst the warriorsÂ are Karsa Orlong and Icarium Lifestealer--each destined to cross blades with the emperor himself. That yet more blood is to be spilled is inevitable... Against this backdrop, a band of fugitives seek a way out of the empire, but one of them, Fear Sengar, must find the soul of Scabandari Bloodeye. It is his hope that the soul might help halt the Tiste Edur, and so save his brother, the emperor. Yet, traveling with them is Scabandari''s most ancient foe: Silchas Ruin, brother of Anomander Rake. And his motives are anything but certain - for the wounds he carries on his back, made by the blades of Scabandari, are still fresh. Â Fate decrees that there is to be a reckoning, for such bloodshed cannot go unanswered--and it will be a reckoning on an unimaginable scale. This is a brutal, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic; this is epic fantasy at its most imaginative, storytelling at its most thrilling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1222'),
(3691, 'Malazan 08 Toll the Hounds', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways, but the quarry has turned andÂ the hunters become the hunted. Â Hidden hands pluck the strings of tyranny like a fell chorus. While the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of Hounds...And in the distant city of Black Coral, where rules Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, ancient crimes awaken, intent on revenge. It seems Love and Death are indeed about to arrive...hand in hand, dancing. Â A thrilling, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic, Toll the Hounds is the new chapter in Erikson''s monumental series - epic fantasy at its most imaginative and storytelling at its most exciting.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1223'),
(3692, 'Malazan 09 Dust of Dreams', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In war everyone loses.Â  This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier in every worldâ€¦In Letherii, the exiled Malazan army commanded by Adjunct Tavore begins its march into the eastern Wastelands, to fight for an unknown cause against an enemy it has never seen. This last great army of the Malazan Empire is resolved to make one final defiant, heroic stand in the name of redemption.Â  But can deeds be heroic when there is no one to witness them?Â  And can that which is not witnessed forever change the world?Â  Destinies are rarely simple, truths never clear but one certainty is that time is on no oneâ€™s side.Â  For the Deck of Dragons has been read, unleashing a dread power that none can comprehendâ€¦In a faraway land and beneath indifferent skies, the final chapter of â€˜The Malazan Book of the Fallenâ€™ has begunâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1224'),
(3693, 'Malazan 10 The Crippled God', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY\n  </u>\n </b>\n :\n <br />\n Savaged by the K''Chain Nah''Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come. A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods -- if her own troops don''t kill her first.Awaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. Drawing upon an alien power terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every human, every civilization, in order to begin anew. They welcome the coming conflagration of slaughter, for it shall be of their own devising, and it pleases them to know that, in the midst of the enemies gathering against them, there shall be betrayal. In the realm of Kurald Galain, home to the long lost city of Kharkanas, a mass of refugees stand upon the First Shore. Commanded by Yedan Derryg, the Watch, they await the breaching of Lightfall, and the coming of the Tiste Liosan. This is a war they cannot win, and they will die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects. Elsewhere, the three Elder Gods, Kilmandaros, Errastas and Sechul Lath, work to shatter the chains binding Korabas, the Otataral Dragon, and release her from her eternal prison. Once freed, she will be a force of utter devastation, and against her no mortal can stand. At the Gates of Starvald Demelain, the Azath House sealing the portal is dying. Soon will come the Eleint, and once more, there will be dragons in the world. And so, in a far away land and beneath indifferent skies, the final cataclysmic chapter in the extraordinary ''Malazan Book of the Fallen'' begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1202'),
(3694, 'The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance', 'Anthology', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/329'),
(3695, 'The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women', 'Anthology', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/231'),
(3696, 'The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/217'),
(3697, 'Maximum Ride 01 The Angel Experiment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In James Patterson''s blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it''s like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time...like when Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the "School" where she and the others were experimented on by a crew of wack jobs. Her friends brave a journey to blazing hot Death Valley, CA, to save Angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare--this one involving fighting off the half-human, half-wolf "Erasers" in New York City. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or in the bowels of the Manhattan subway system, Max and her adopted family take the ride of their lives. Along the way Max discovers from her old friend and father-figure Jeb--now her betrayed and greatest enemy--that her purpose is save the world--but can she?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/979'),
(3698, 'Maximum Ride 02 School&#39;s Out - Forever', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Adventure, fighting, backstabbing and love abound" (VOYA) in this action-packed follow-up to the #1 New York Times blockbuster MAXIMUM RIDE: THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT, now available in paperback. The heart-stopping quest of six winged kids--led by fourteen-year-old Max--to find their parents and investigate the mind-blowing mystery of their ultimate destiny continues when they''re taken under the wing of an FBI agent and attempt, for the first time, to live "normal" lives. But going to school and making friends doesn''t stop them from being relentlessly hunted by sinister spies, who lead Max to face her most frightening match yet: a new and better version of herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/984'),
(3699, 'Maximum Ride 03 Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In MAXIMUM RIDE: SAVING THE WORLD AND OTHER EXTREME SPORTS, the time has arrived for Max and her winged "Flock" to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of "Re-evolution", a sinister experiment to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race...and to terminate the rest. Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel have always worked together to defeat the forces working against them--but can they save the world when they are torn apart, living in hiding and captivity, halfway across the globe from one another?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/983');
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(3700, 'Maximum Ride 04 The Final Warning', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n FIRST SHE WAS WATCHED. In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her - and maybe save the planet while she''s at it. THEN SHE WAS THREATENED. Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control genetic experiment. Max and the other members of the flock - five kids who share her remarkable ability - have been asked to aid a group of environmental scientists studying the effects of global warming. The expedition seems like a perfect combination of adventure, activism - and escaping government forces who are watching the flock all the time. THIS IS HER FINAL WARNING. But even in Antarctica, enduring in the harshest weather on our planet, Maximum Ride is an irresistible target in constant danger. For whoever controls her powers could also control the world. . . . Maximum Ride is James Patterson''s greatest character, a heroine who manages to be human and fearless at once. The Final Warning is an unrelenting new adventure from the writer Time magazine has called "The Man Who Can''t Miss."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/978'),
(3701, 'Maximum Ride 05 Max', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock have barely recovered from their last arctic adventure, when they are confronted by the most frightening catastrophe yet. Millions of fish are dying off the coast of Hawaii and someone--or something--is destroying hundreds of ships. Unable to discover the cause, the government enlists the Flock to help them get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.While Max and her team are exploring the depths of the ocean, their every move is being carefully tracked by Mr. Chu--a criminal mastermind with his own plans for the Flock. Can they protect themselves from Mr. Chu''s army of mercenaries and save the ocean from utter destruction?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/980'),
(3702, 'Maximum Ride 06 Fang', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Being a kid with wings--constantly on the run--has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the Flock makes her fear the worst. Then, a cryptic message from a young girl arrives, warning them "The sky will fall." And as if an impending apocalypse weren''t bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max''s soul mate: Fang will be the first to die. Max''s desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the team weather the storm, or will the turmoil rip them apart for the last time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/981'),
(3703, 'Maze Runner 01 The Maze Runner', 'James Dashner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/775'),
(3704, 'Maze Runner 02 The Scorch Trials', 'James Dashner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/776'),
(3705, 'Maze Runner 03 The Death Cure', 'James Dashner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Thomas knows that Wicked can''t be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they''ve collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission. It''s up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test.\n  <br />\n  What Wicked doesn''t know is that something''s happened that no Trial or Variable could have foreseen. Thomas has remembered far more than they think. And he knows that he can''t believe a word of what Wicked says.\n  <br />\n  The time for lies is over. But the truth is more dangerous than Thomas could ever imagine.\n  <br />\n  Will anyone survive the Death Cure?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  JAMES DASHNER was born and raised in Georgia but now lives and writes in the Rocky Mountains. He is also the author of\n  <em>\n   The 13th Reality\n  </em>\n  . To learn more about him and his books, visit jamesdashner.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1340'),
(3706, 'The Menace From Earth', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Short Story Collection\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/658'),
(3707, 'Mercedes Thompson 01 Moon Called', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mercy Thompson''s life is not exactly normal. Her next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she''s fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But then, Mercy isn''t exactly normal herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1254'),
(3708, 'Mercedes Thompson 02 Blood Bound', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshift at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind. But this new vampire is hardly ordinary-and neither is the demon inside of him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1252'),
(3709, 'Mercedes Thompson 03 Iron Kissed', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it''s up to shapeshifting car mechanic Mercy Thompson to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not. And she''ll have to choose between the two werewolves in her life-whether she wants to or not.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1255'),
(3710, 'Mercedes Thompson 04 Bone Crossed', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **New in the #1 *New York Times* bestselling urban fantasy series.**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In a world where "witches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters live beside ordinary people" (*Booklist*), it takes a very unusual woman to call it home. By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercy''s found herself maintaining a tenuous harmony between the human and the not-so- human on more than one occasion. This time she may get more than she bargained for.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1253'),
(3711, 'Mercedes Thompson 05 Silver Borne', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson never knows what the next day (or night) may bring. After all, her world is inhabited by witches, werewolves, and vampires. But now a book of fae secrets has come to light, and Mercy''s about to find out just how implacable-and dangerous- the fae can be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1247'),
(3712, 'Mercedes Thompson 06 River Marked', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Car mechanic Mercy Thompson has always known there was something different about her, and not just the way she can make a VW engine sit up and beg. Mercy is a shapeshifter, a talent she inherited from her long-gone father. She''s never known any others of her kind. Until now.  An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River-one that her father''s people may know something about. And to have any hope of surviving, Mercy and her mate, the Alpha werewolf Adam, will need their help...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1248'),
(3713, 'Mercy 01 Mercy', 'Rebecca Lim', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   <b>\n    Note: This is an advanced reader copy, not retail.\n   </b>\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A fallen angel haunted by her past. Yearning for her immortal beloved. Forever searching for answers. Who will show her Mercy?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mercy has lost herself. She can''t count how many times she''s ''woken up'' in a new body, and assumed a new life, only to move on again and again. During the day she survives in the human world on instinct and at night her dreams are haunted by\n  <em>\n   him.\n  </em>\n  Mercy''s heart would know him anywhere. But her memory refuses to cooperate\n </p>\n <p>\n  But\n  <em>\n   this\n  </em>\n  time is different. When Mercy wakes up she meets Ryan, an eighteen year old reeling from the loss of his twin sister who was kidnapped two years ago. Everyone else has given up hope, but Ryan believes his sister is still alive. Using a power she doesn''t fully comprehend, Mercy realizes that Ryan is right. His sister\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  alive and together they can find her. For the first time since she can remember, Mercy has a purpose; she can help. So she doesn''t understand why the man in her dreams cautions her not to interfere. But as Ryan and Mercy come closer to solving the dark mystery of his sister''s disappearance, danger looms just one step behind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Will Mercy be able to harness her true self and extraordinary power in time?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first in a dazzling new series,\n  <em>\n   Mercy\n  </em>\n  masterfully weaves romance, mystery and the supernatural into a spell-binding tale.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1401'),
(3714, 'The Metamorphosis', 'Franz Kafka', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of Kafka''s classic tale of family, alienation, and a giant bug.Acclaimed graphic artist Peter Kuper presents a kinetic illustrated adaptation of Franz Kafka''s The Metamorphosis. Kuper''s electric drawings-where American cartooning meets German expressionism-bring Kafka''s prose to vivid life, reviving the original story''s humor and poignancy in a way that will surprise and delight readers of Kafka and graphic novels alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1047'),
(3715, 'Midnight 01 Hotter After Midnight', 'Cynthia Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/733'),
(3716, 'Midnight 02 Midnight Sins', 'Cynthia Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/734'),
(3717, 'Midnighters 01 The Secret Hour', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1416'),
(3718, 'Midnighters 02 Touching Darkness', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1415'),
(3719, 'Midnighters 03 Blue Noon', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1414'),
(3720, 'The Minority Report', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The popular sci fi author''s classic short story, "The Minority Report"--now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise and produced by Dreamworks--takes place in a future world where scientists predict criminal behavior before it happens. This volume features the title story plus 17 others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1061'),
(3721, 'Misery', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/483'),
(3722, 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/659'),
(3723, 'Murder in Mykonos 01 Murder in Mykonos', 'Jeffrey Siger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mykonos has always had a romantic reputation, until the body of a blonde female tourist is discovered on a pile of bones under the floor of a remote mountain church. When the islandâ€™s new police chief - the young, politically incorrect, former Athens homicide detective Andreas Kaldis - starts finding bodies, bones and suspects almost everywhere he looks, heâ€™s forced to admit that the island paradise is harbouring a ritualistic serial killer.\n <br />\n Mykonosâ€™s character is at stake, but political niceties no longer matter when another blonde vanishes. Andreas must delve into ancient myths and forgotten island hideaways as he races against a killer intent on claiming a new blonde victim - who is herself determined to out step him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1245'),
(3724, 'Murder in Mykonos 02 Assassins of Athens', 'Jeffrey Siger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the body of a boy from one of Greece''s most prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens'' worst neighbourhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis ? now head of the Special Crimes Division ? is certain there''s a message in the murders. But who sent it ? and why?Andreas'' search for answers takes him deep into the sordid, criminal side of Athens nightlife and on to the glittering society world, where age-old frictions between old and new money breed jealousy, murder, revenge, revolutionaries and dangerous, if not deadly, truths...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1244'),
(3725, 'Murder in Mykonos 03 An Aegean Prophecy', 'Jeffrey Siger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  St John wrote the apocalyptic Book of Revelation over 1900 years ago in a cave on Greece''s eastern Aegean island of Patmos. When a revered monk from that holy island''s thousand-year-old monastery is murdered in Patmos''s town square during Easter Week, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis is called upon to find the killer.Andreas''s impolitic search for answers brings him face-to-face with a scandal haunting the world''s oldest surviving monastic community. On the pristine Aegean peninsula of Mount Athos, isolated from the rest of humanity, twenty monasteries sit protecting the secrets of Byzantium amid a way of life virtually unchanged for more than 1500 years. But today this sacred refuge harbours modern international intrigues that threaten to destroy the very heart of the Church . . . in a matter of days.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1243'),
(3726, 'My Billion Year Contract: Memoir of a Former Scientologist', 'Nancy Many', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I just finished reading it. I could not put it down! The title is based upon what is known as a Billion Year Contract to work for Scientology s elite para military force for the next billion years. Believe it or not, this is a real contract. This autobiography is based upon the author Nancy Many s committment to that contract and the ensuing years of her life and the lives of others as members of the dark side ofScientology. It details the effects the contract and committment had on her life while an active member and later on when deciding to no longer be a member of Scientology. Nancy is former high level scientology member who went from dealing directly with the founder and scientology celebrities to a babbling mess because of Scientology s seemingly endless security clearance interrogation procedures, deprivation techniques, and unanswered questions. One day she cracked. Not everyone cracks but many do. You ll read about what it s like to be forced into Scientology s `rehabilitation project force (RPF) and what it s like to suffer from the gang bang mental torture sessions and Scientology attacks against it s perceived enemies and what it took to recover. Nancy Many demonstrates what happens to the mind when totalitarian tactics and policies are used to control the individual and the thought processes that occur which result in a person staying in scientology despite these dehumanizing tactics used against them. This is a story of love and how a cult brings it s members to tow the line or jump off the cliff without a cushion or support. It is especially true that the book is a shocking story of abuse, imprisonment, espionage, lies, mental torture and suicide vital reading for anyone who wants to know what goes on behind the curtain. Beside the telling of her personal tragedy and that of others who were harmed by scientology, Nancy Many really gives the reader a sense of what happens to the compliant member and those who are considered errant. For any one dealing with cult issues, this is especially helpful. As she got better, she then worked to help others. She found resources for what what might help even the most messed up of former members. She did this not only for herself but because others had died for lack of it. In the process of her own recovery,she came to understand how she was able to go along with doing things that were against her instincts or moral code or even the law and how scientology creates this mechanism of control on members. There is specific information which I think will shock and dismay even the most jaded former members. Nancy also reveals information about L Ron Hubbard, his family and how they were treated when he was illand his will was being redone. For those who wonder WHY she didn t just up and leave in the instant, you get to understand the mindset. Especially helpful was reading what it was like for her when the seeds of doubt would come in as she found herself in the middle between the pro and anti scientology factions while working undercover for the higher echelons of the church. Because she was President of Scientology s Celebrity Center in Los Angeles, there s insider information on what Scientology does with celebrities and how they manipulate them. Because of her investigative work for the church, you learn how that office worked against it s enemies ( and still works against them. Even the spies of scientology are spied upon to keep them in line! (Some church, heh?) There s lots of previously unrevealed info, which is especially eye opening. It s a facinating and disturbing read. It is a story of the triumpth over evil and the importance of grace but more importantly, it is something that the Church of Scientology DOES NOT want people to read. So go read it. --Mary M\n </p>\n <p>\n  I wanted to let you know I finished reading your book last night. What a story! It held my interest all the way through, obviously because I lived through a lot of it myself and found it fascinating, but also because it was well written and kept me wondering what came next. You obviously put a lot of thought into putting these memories into order and making some sense out of some very senseless events. The result is very coherent and consistent and the picture it ends up painting of Scientology is appalling and frightening. I never lost my mind, thank god, but I remember coming close to it. And certainly I lost myself my own purposes, goals and my belief in myself. I just became an unthinking worker bee, day after day, accepting the abuse. I m just thankful that I came to my senses enough to refuse to go back on post and refuse the RPF (Rehabilitation Project Force) and insist on being offloaded. I just knew I had to get out of there or die if not literally, then spiritually. I have a lot of admiration for what you have done for those who were hardest hit by Scientology abuses. I think it has an important message, and it shows the underside of Scientology in a way that no other book on Scientology that I have ever seen does. It is a very personal story, and it shows how Scientology messes with people s minds irresponsibly. You were very lucky to have Chris through the whole experience. More than anything, it is a story of how love and decency and real caring can do more than any of their vaunted levels . --Jeff H\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  To a young, teenage girl, Scientology seemed to be just what the author was looking for; a way to improve herself and attain spiritual enlightenment. But it was only after she joined Scientology s elite inner circle, the Sea Organization, and signed a Billion Year contract that she discovered the dark world of fanaticism and abuse at the center of Scientology s vast empire. For more than two decades she worked at all levels of the organization, from serving as a personal aide to the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, who placed her in charge of the religion s worldwide expansion to becoming the head of Celebrity Center, the organization that caters to it s celebrity members. Early in her Scientology career, she spent five years as a covert agent engaged in espionage activities for the Church s shadowy Guardian s Office. After leaving the Sea Org she spent an additional two years as an undercover operative for the reformed Guardian s Office, the Office of Special Affairs, which continued the same pattern of covert intelligence and dirty tricks against the Church s perceived enemies while using intense legal attacks and bolstered by hire private investigators. She personally experienced the Sea Organization s Rehabilitation Project Force; a labor camp where erring members are re-educated . When her loyalty came into question she was subjected to weeks of grueling interrogation, ending up in restraints after being rushed to a hospital by ambulance, unable to even recognize her husband. It is a shocking story of abuse, imprisonment, espionage, lies, mental torture and suicide- vital reading for anyone who wants to know what goes on behind Scientology s curtain.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1333'),
(3727, 'Mystic River', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/628'),
(3728, 'Needful Things', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/485'),
(3729, 'Nefertiti', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This fictionalized life of the notorious queen is told from the point of view of her younger sister, Mutnodjmet. In 1351 B.C., Prince Amunhotep secretly kills his older brother and becomes next in line to Egypt''s throne: he''s 17, and the 15-year-old Nefertiti soon becomes his chief wife. He already has a wife, but Kiya''s blood is not as royal, nor is she as bewitching as Nefertiti. As Mutnodjmet, two years younger than her sister, looks on (and falls in love), Amunhotep and the equally ambitious Nefertiti worship a different main god, displace the priests who control Egypt''s wealth and begin building a city that boasts the royal likenesses chiseled in stone. Things get tense when Kiya has sons and the popular Nefertiti has only daughters, and they come to a boil when the army is used to build temples to the pharaoh and his queen instead of protecting Egypt''s borders. Though sometimes big events are telegraphed, Moran, who lives in California and is making her U.S. debut, gets the details just right, and there are still plenty of surprises in an epic that brings an ancient world to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1236'),
(3730, 'Nevermore', 'Kelly Creagh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/621'),
(3731, 'New Chronicles 01 - Pandora', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/176'),
(3732, 'New Chronicles 02 - Vittorio the Vampire', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/177'),
(3733, 'New Crobuzon 01 Perdido Street Station', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to noneâ€”not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory.Isaac has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before fathomed. Though the Garuda''s request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger.While Isaac''s experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows largerâ€”and more consumingâ€”by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzonâ€”and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes . . .A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader''s imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1453'),
(3734, 'New Crobuzon 02 The Scar', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A human cargo bound for servitude in exile...A pirate city hauled across the oceans...A hidden miracle about be revealed...This is the story of a prisoner''s journey. The search for the island of a forgotten people, for the most astonishing beast in the seas, and ultimately for a fabled place - a massive wound in reality, a source of unthinkable power and danger. From the author of Perdido Street Station, another colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding imagination, which was acclaimed in The Times Literary Supplement as: ''An astonishing novel, guaranteed to astound and enthral the most jaded palate...exhilarating, sometimes very moving, occasionally shocking, always humane and thought-provoking''.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1455'),
(3735, 'New Crobuzon 03 Iron Council', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n China MiÃ©ville''s novel Iron Council is the tumultuous story of the "Perpetual Train." Born from monopolists'' greed and dispatched to tame the western lands beyond New Crobuzon, the train is itself the beginnings of an Iron Council formed in the fire of frontier revolt against the railroad''s masters. From the wilderness, the legend of Iron Council becomes the spark uniting the oppressed and brings barricades to the streets of faraway New Crobuzon. The sprawling tale is told through the past-and-present eyes of three characters. The first is Cutter, a heartsick subversive who follows his lover, the messianic Judah Low, on a quest to return to the Iron Council hidden in the western wilds. The second is Judah himself, an erstwhile railroad scout who has become the iconic golem-wielding hero of Iron Council''s uprising at the end of the tracks. And the third is Ori, a young revolutionary on the streets of New Crobuzon, whose anger leads him into a militant wing of the underground, plotting anarchy and mayhem. MiÃ©ville (The Scar, Perdido Street Station) weaves his epic out of familiar and heavily political themes--imperialism, fascism, conquest, and Marxism--all seen through a darkly cast funhouse mirror wherein even language is distorted and made beautifully grotesque. Improbably evoking Jack London and Victor Hugo, Iron Council is a twisted frontier fable cleverly combined with a powerful parable of Marxist revolution that continues MiÃ©ville''s macabre remaking of the fantasy genre. --Jeremy Pugh\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1449'),
(3736, 'Night Angel 01 The Way of Shadows', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city''s most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he''s grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins'' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/911'),
(3737, 'Night Angel 02 Shadow&#39;s Edge', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kylar Stern has rejected the assassin''s life. The Godking''s successful coup has left Kylar''s master, Durzo, and his best friend, Logan, dead. He is starting over: new city, new friends, and new profession. But when he learns that Logan might actually be alive and in hiding, Kylar is faced with an agonizing choice: will he give up the way of shadows forever and live in peace with his new family, or will he risk everything by taking on the ultimate hit?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/910'),
(3738, 'Night Angel 03 Beyond the Shadows', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Logan Gyre is king of Cenaria, a country under siege, with a threadbare army and little hope. He has one chance - a desperate gamble, but one that could destroy his kingdom.In the north, the new Godking has a plan. If it comes to fruition, no one will have the power to stop him. Kylar Stern has no choice. To save his friends-and perhaps his enemies-he must accomplish the impossible: assassinate a goddess. Beyond the Shadows is the action-packed conclusion to the Night Angel Trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/912'),
(3739, 'Night Huntress 01 Halfway to the Grave', 'Jeaniene Frost', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of those deadbeats is her father - the guy responsible for ruining her mother''s life. But when she''s captured by Bones, a bounty hunter and a vampire, she finds herself forced into an unholy partnership. In exchange for his help in finding her father, and still astonished she hasn''t ended up as his dinner, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. But that''s not all Bones has to show her - Cat''s starting to believe maybe vampires aren''t all evil after all, especially ones as cute as Bones. She''s half-convinced that being half-dead doesn''t have to be all bad. But before she can enjoy her newfound status as confident kick-ass demon hunter Cat finds herself, and Bones, hotly pursued by a band of killers. Shes is going to have to pick a side - and fast . . . Halfway to the Grave has breathless action, a roller-coaster plot, flashes of dark humour, and a love story that will leave you screaming for more. I devoured it in a single sitting and I can''t wait for the sequel! Ilona Andrews, New York Times Bestseller\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/976'),
(3740, 'Night Huntress 02 One Foot in the Grave', 'Jeaniene Frost', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n You can run from the grave, but you can''t hide . . .   Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She''s still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, taught her, but when Cat is targeted for assassination, the only man who can help her is the vampire she left behind.   Being around him awakens all her emotions, from the adrenaline kick of slaying vamps side by side to the reckless passion that consumed them. But a price on her headâ€”wanted: dead or half-aliveâ€”means her survival depends on teaming up with Bones. And no matter how hard she tries to keep things professional between them, she''ll find that desire lasts forever . . . and that Bones won''t let her get away again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/977'),
(3741, 'Night Huntress 03 At Grave&#39;s End', 'Jeaniene Frost', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It should be the best time of half-vampire Cat Crawfield''s life. With her undead lover Bones at her side, she''s successfully protected mortals from the rogue undead. But though Cat''s worn disguise after disguise to keep her true identity a secret from the brazen bloodsuckers, her cover has finally been blown, placing her in terrible danger.And if that wasn''t enough, a woman from Bones'' past is determined to bury him once and for all. Caught in the crosshairs of a vengeful vamp yet determined to help Bones stop a lethal magic from being unleashed, Cat''s about to learn the true meaning of bad blood. And the tricks she''s learnt as a special agent won''t help her here. She''s going to have to fully embrace her vampire instincts if she''s going to save herself - and Bones - from a fate worse than the grave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/974'),
(3742, 'Night Huntress 04 Destined for an Early Grave', 'Jeaniene Frost', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Her deadly dreams leave her in grave dangerSince half-vampire Cat Crawfield and her undead lover Bones met six years ago, they''ve fought against the rogue undead, battled a vengeful Master vampire, and pledged their devotion with a blood bond. Now it''s time for a vacation. But their hopes for a perfect Paris holiday are dashed when Cat awakes one night in terror. She''s having visions of a vampire named Gregor who''s more powerful than Bones and has ties to her past that even Cat herself didn''t know about.Gregor believes Cat is his and he won''t stop until he has her. As the battle begins between the vamp who haunts her nightmares and the one who holds her heart, only Cat can break Gregor''s hold over her. She''ll need all the power she can summon in order to bring down the baddest bloodsucker she''s ever faced . . . even if getting that power will result in an early grave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/975'),
(3743, 'Night Huntress 05 This Side of the Gravel', 'Jeaniene Frost', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Danger waits on both sides of the grave.   Half-vampire Cat Crawfield and her vampire husband Bones have fought for their lives, as well as for their relationship. But just when they''ve triumphed over the latest battle, Cat''s new and unexpected abilities threaten to upset a long-standing balance . . .   With the mysterious disappearance of vampires, rumors abound that a species war is brewing. A zealot is inciting tensions between the vampires and ghouls, and if these two powerful groups clash, innocent mortals could become collateral damage. Now Cat and Bones are forced to seek help from a dangerous "ally"â€”the ghoul queen of New Orleans herself. But the price of her assistance may prove more treacherous than even the threat of a supernatural war . . . to say nothing of the repercussions Cat never imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1091'),
(3744, 'Night of January 16th', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/317'),
(3745, 'Night Shift', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/486'),
(3746, 'Night Watch 01 Eternal Hunter', 'Cynthia Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/741'),
(3747, 'Nightmares and Dreamscapes', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/487'),
(3748, 'Nightshade 01 Nightshade', 'Michelle Rowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jillian Conrad never believed in vampires-until she was unwillingly injected with a serum that was supposed to act as a deadly poison to them. Now, tormented half-vampire Declan Reese wants her blood to destroy the undead kingdom. Unfortunately, the serum has also made her blood irresistible to all vampires-including Declan, whose desire for Jillian is more than mere hunger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1094'),
(3749, 'No Country for Old Men', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the lawâ€“in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bellâ€“can contain.As Moss tries to evade his pursuersâ€“in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human livesâ€“McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morningâ€™s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/644'),
(3750, 'North and South 01 North and South', 'John Jakes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When their two sons meet as West Point cadets, the southern, plantation-owning Main family and the industrialist Hazards of Pennsylvania find their lives interlocked, as the nation moves toward Civil War. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/814'),
(3751, 'North and South 03 Heaven and Hell', 'John Jakes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As one might expect, this final volume in Jake''s North and South trilogy makes splendid reading. Dealing with Reconstruction as the earlier volumes dealt, respectively, with pre-Civil War rumblings and the war itself, this novel resumes the saga of the Hazards of Pennsylvania and the Mains of South Carolina, both families now sadly depleted and bound together as much by hate as love. The Union has triumphed but there''s no peace, as radical northern Republicans seek to impose punitive rule on the South and succeed in bringing impeachment proceedings against President Johnson; the Ku Klux Klan goes its ludicrous and hideous way; and in the West, army generals, most notably Custer, savagely subdue the Indians. The principal fictional characters threading the accurate groundwork of major national events are, on the Hazard side, steelmaker George, his abolitionist sister Virgiliastet and his corrupt, incompetent brother Stanley who (significantly) goes into politics. In the Main family, there are Orry''s octoroon widow Madeline, a prime target of the Klan, his unscrupulous sister Ashton and, most insistently and compellingly, Charles, whose adventures include scouting for Custer, until he becomes disgusted by the Washita Massacre, and, with Indian help, tracking the crazed abductor of his small son. Idealism and corruption, tenderness and brutality, innocence and insanity, all figure in the narrative, a highly colored amalgam of heaven and hell, with the latter predominating. Literary Guild dual main selection; Doubleday Book Club main selection; first serial to Cosmopolitan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/815'),
(3752, 'The Number of the Beast', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/660'),
(3753, 'Odd and the Frost Giants', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In this inventive, short, yet perfectly formed novel inspired by traditional Norse mythology, Neil Gaiman takes readers on a wild and magical trip to the land of giants and gods and back.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In a village in ancient Norway lives a boy named Odd, and he''s had some very bad luck: His father perished in a Viking expedition; a tree fell on and shattered his leg; the endless freezing winter is making villagers dangerously grumpy.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Out in the forest Odd encounters a bear, a fox, and an eagleâ€”three creatures with a strange story to tell.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now Odd is forced on a stranger journey than he had imaginedâ€”a journey to save Asgard, city of the gods, from the Frost Giants who have invaded it.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  It''s going to take a very special kind of twelve-year-old boy to outwit the Frost Giants, restore peace to the city of gods, and end the long winter.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Someone cheerful and infuriating and clever . . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Someone just like Odd .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1458'),
(3754, 'Of Human Bondage', 'W. Somerset Maugham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to try his hand at art, then back to London to study medicine. But even so, nothing can sate his nagging hunger for experience. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1090'),
(3755, 'Of Love and Other Demons', 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Of Love and Other Demons (Spanish: Del amor y otros demonios) is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, first published in 1994. In the prologue, Garcia Marquez claims the novel is the fictional representation of a legend the author was told by his Grandmother as a child; of a 12 year-old girl who contracts rabies but was believed to be a ''miracle-worker'', with long flowing copper hair that continues to grow after death. In this frame-story, it was only after an excavation of tombs that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is witness to the grave of a similar young girl with long red hair, that he was inspired to write Of Love and Other Demons. Mariana Solanet, however, in Garcia Marquez for Beginners, states this source was invented. She points rather to a story in Daniel Lemaitre''s History of Cartagena Garcia Marquez came across in research for Love in the Time of Cholera.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1296'),
(3756, 'Of Mice and Men', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americas greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.  Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersand to the many who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/858'),
(3757, 'The Old Man and the Sea', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/867'),
(3758, 'One Day', 'David Nicholls', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  â€˜I can imagine you at forty,â€™ she said, a hint of malice in her voice. â€˜I can picture it right now.â€™ He smiled without opening his eyes. â€˜Go on then.â€™ 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY. From the author of the massive bestseller STARTER FOR TEN.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  It''s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. They both know that the next day, after college graduation, they must go their separate ways. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. As the years go by, Dex and Em begin to lead separate livesâ€”lives very different from the people they once dreamed they''d become. And yet, unable to let go of that special something that grabbed onto them that first night, an extraordinary relationship develops between the two. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same dayâ€”July 15thâ€”of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/933'),
(3759, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#39;s Nest', 'Ken Kesey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/872'),
(3760, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the 20th century''s enduring works, "One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize- winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendi a family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendi a family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility -- the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth -- these universal themes dominate the novel. Whether he is describing an affair of passion or the voracity of capitalism and the corruption of government, Gabriel Garci a Ma rquez always writes with the simplicity, ease, and purity that are the mark of a master. Alternately reverential and comical, "One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/857'),
(3761, 'Open, An Autobiography', 'Andre Agassi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/301'),
(3762, 'Orphans of the Sky', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/650'),
(3763, 'Otherworld 00 Men of the Otherworld', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/728'),
(3764, 'Otherworld 01 Bitten', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/729'),
(3765, 'Otherworld 02 Stolen', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/718'),
(3766, 'Otherworld 03 Dime Store Magic', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/719'),
(3767, 'Otherworld 04 Industrial Magic', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/720');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(3768, 'Otherworld 05 Haunted', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/721'),
(3769, 'Otherworld 06 Broken', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/722'),
(3770, 'Otherworld 07 No Humans Involved', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/723'),
(3771, 'Otherworld 08 Personal Demon', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/724'),
(3772, 'Otherworld 09 Living with the Dead', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/725'),
(3773, 'Otherworld 10 Frostbitten', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/726'),
(3774, 'Otherworld 11 Waking the Witch', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/328'),
(3775, 'Outlander 01 Outlander', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/588'),
(3776, 'Outlander 02 Dragonfly In Amber', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/590'),
(3777, 'Outlander 03 Voyager', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/589'),
(3778, 'Outlander 04 Drums of Autumn', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/586'),
(3779, 'Outlander 05 The Fiery Cross', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/587'),
(3780, 'Outlander 06 A Breath of Snow and Ashes', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/584'),
(3781, 'Outlander 07 An Echo in the Bone', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/585'),
(3782, 'Paradise Lost', 'John Milton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As a young student, John Milton fantasized about bringing the poetic elocution of Homer and Virgil to the English language. Milton realized this dream with his graceful, sonorous "Paradise Lost," now considered the most influential epic poem in English literature. A retelling of the biblical story of mankind'' s fall from grace, Milton'' s epic opens shortly after the dramatic expulsion of Satan and his army of angels from Heaven. What follows is a cosmic battle between good and evil that ranges across vast, splendid tracts of time and space, from the wild abyss of Chaos and the fiery lake of Hell to the Gate of Heaven and God'' s newly created paradise, the Garden of Eden. Controversy still swirls around Milton'' s magnificent and sympathetic characterization of Satan, a portrait so compelling that many critics have maintained that he is the true hero of the story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/854'),
(3783, 'Paranormalcy 01 Paranormalcy', 'Kiersten White', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/921'),
(3784, 'Parasol Protectorate 01 Soulless', 'Gail Carriger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alexia Tarabotti is labouring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she''s a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire - and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London''s high society? Or will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart? SOULLESS is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London: full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1269'),
(3785, 'Parasol Protectorate 02 Changeless', 'Gail Carriger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alexia Tarabotti, now Lady Maccon, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears - leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria.But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions, and an arsenal of biting civility. Even when her investigations take her into the BACKWATERS of ugly waistcoats, Scotland, she is prepared: upending werewolf pack dynamics as only A soulless can. She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she feels like it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1270'),
(3786, 'Parasol Protectorate 03 Blameless', 'Gail Carriger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Quitting her husband''s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London''s vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they''re armed with pesto.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1268'),
(3787, 'The Past Through Tomorrow', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/661'),
(3788, 'Personal Demons 01 Personal Demons', 'Lisa Desrochers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/793'),
(3789, 'Pet Sematary', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/511'),
(3790, 'The Pillars of the Earth 01 The Pillars of the Earth', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Pillars of the Earth sweeps through 12th-century England in an era of raging civil war, telling of a group of men and women whose fates are linked to the building of a great cathedral, a site of bloodshed and treachery. A masterpiece of raw courage and passion from the author of Eye of the Needle. William Morrow.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/952'),
(3791, 'The Pillars of the Earth 02 World Without End', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An anticipated sequel to The Pillars of the Earth is set two centuries after the building of the elaborate Gothic cathedral in Kingsbridge, where its prior finds himself at the center of a web of ambition and revenge that places the city at a crossroad of commerce, medicine and architecture. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/951'),
(3792, 'Podkayne of Mars', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/651'),
(3793, 'Poison: A Novel of the Renaissance', 'Sara Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the simmering hot summer of 1492, a monstrous evil is stirring within the Eternal City of Rome. The brutal murder of an alchemist sets off a desperate race to uncover the plot that threatens to extinguish the light of the Renaissance and plunge Europe back into medieval darkness.Determined to avenge the killing of her father, Francesca Giordano defies all convention to claim for herself the position of poisoner serving Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, head of the most notorious and dangerous family in Italy. She becomes the confidante of Lucrezia Borgia and the lover of Cesare Borgia. At the same time, she is drawn to the young renegade monk who yearns to save her life and her soul.Navigating a web of treachery and deceit, Francesca pursues her fatherâ€™s killer from the depths of Romeâ€™s Jewish ghetto to the heights of the Vatican itself. In so doing, she sets the stage for the ultimate confrontation with ancient forces that will seek to use her darkest desires to achieve their own catastrophic ends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1258'),
(3794, 'The Post-Birthday World', 'Lionel Shriver', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/786'),
(3795, 'Power of a Woman', 'Barbara Taylor Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Beginning with "A Woman of Substance," all of Barbara Taylor Bradford''s novels have been met with huge success, and her popularity only increases with each new book she writes. Seven of her novels have already been adapted for television, including the Emmy-nominated "A Woman of Substance," starring Deborah Kerr and Liam Neeson, and the hit "Everything to Gain, " featuring Sean Young, Jack Scalia, Charles Shaughnessy and Samantha Eggar.Stephanie Jardine is the protagonist of this moving novel about family secrets, betrayals, revenge, redemption and the healing power of love. At 47, Stevie is at the apex of her career and life, running the American branch of Jardine''s, the prestigious Crown Jewellers of London. Finally at terms with her long widowhood, Stevie now draws emotional strength and contentment from her work and family. Then an unexpected act of violence committed by a stranger on the other side of the world plunges Stevie into turmoil and despair.  In order to save her injured daughter''s life and ensure her future, Stevie must go back to her past and confront a devastating relationship. As she battles to save her daughter, Stevie comes to understand both how fragile life really is and how it can be ineluctably changed by others when we least expect it.  As she has shown in the past, Barbara Taylor Bradford has that rare gift of understanding the bonds of family, the immutability of the past and the importance of forgiveness. "Power of a Woman" is ultimately the story of a woman who at one moment in time is the innocent victim of a stranger''s vengeance, yet who manages in the end to triumph through her own inner power as a woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1089'),
(3796, 'Pride &amp; Prejudice &amp; Zombies', 'Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/322'),
(3797, 'Pride &amp; Prejudice &amp; Zombies 02 Dawn of the Dreadfuls', 'Steve Hockensmith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/306'),
(3798, 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n National Theatre, direction A.L. Erlanger Realty Corporation, management S.E. Cochran, Max Gordon presents "Pride and Prejudice," a sentimental comedy in three acts by Helen Jerome, dramatized from the Jane Austen novel "Pride and Prejudice," staged by Robert Sinclair, settings and costumes by Jo Mielziner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1051'),
(3799, 'The Prince', 'Niccolo Machiavelli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The most famous book on politics ever written,The Princeremains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is practiced rather than as it ought to be practiced. Harvey C. Mansfield''s brilliant translation of this classic work, along with the new materials added for this edition, make it the definitive version ofThe Prince, indispensable to scholars, students, and those interested in the dark art of politics. This revised edition of Mansfield''s acclaimed translation features an updated bibliography, a substantial glossary, an analytic introduction, a chronology of Machiavelli''s life, and a map of Italy in Machiavelli''s time. "Of the other available [translations], that of Harvey C. Mansfield makes the necessary compromises between exactness and readability, as well as providing an excellent introduction and notes."Clifford Orwin,The Wall Street Journal "Mansfield''s work . . . is worth acquiring as the best combination of accuracy and readability."Choice "There is good reason to assert that Machiavelli has met his match in Mansfield. . . . [He] is ready to read Machiavelli as he demands to be readplainly and boldly, but also cautiously."John Gueguen,The Sixteenth Century Journal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1062'),
(3800, 'Prophecy of the Sisters', 'Michelle Zink', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/543'),
(3801, 'The Puppet Masters', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/662'),
(3802, 'Pure, White &amp; Deadly', 'John Yudkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1483'),
(3803, 'Rachel Morgan 01 Dead Witch Walking', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The underground population of witches, vampires, werewolvesâ€”creatures of dreams and nightmaresâ€”has lived beside humans for centuries, hiding their powers. But after a genetically engineered virus wipes out a large part of humanity, many of the "Inderlanders" reveal themselves, changing everything.   Rachel Morgan, witch and bounty hunter with the Inderland Runner Services, is one of the best at apprehending supernatural lawbreakers throughout Cincinnati, but when it comes to following the rules, she falls desperately short. Determined to buck the system, she quits and takes off on the run with an I.S. contract on her head and is reluctantly forced to team up with Ivy, Inderland''s best runner . . . and a living vampire. But this witch is way out of her league, and to clear her name, Rachel must evade shape-changing assassins, outwit a powerful businessman/crime lord, and survive a vicious underground fight-to-the-death . . . not to mention her own roommate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1193'),
(3804, 'Rachel Morgan 02 The Good, the Bad, and the Undead', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s a tough life for witch Rachel Morgan, sexy, independent bounty hunter, prowlng the darkest shadows of downtown Cincinnati for criminal creatures of the night.   She can handle the leather-clad vamps and even tangle with a cunning demon or two. But a serial killer who feeds on the experts in the most dangerous kind of black magic is definitely pushing the limits.   Confronting an ancient, implacable evil is more than just child''s playâ€”and this time, Rachel will be lucky to escape with her very soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1194'),
(3805, 'Rachel Morgan 03 Every Which Way but Dead', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s no witch in Cincinnati tougher, sexier, or more screwed up than bounty hunter Rachel Morgan, who''s already put her love life and soul in dire jeopardy through her determined efforts to bring criminal night creatures to justice. Between "runs," she has her hands full fending off the attentions of her blood-drinking partner, keeping a deadly secret from her backup, and resisting a hot new vamp suitor. Rachel must also take a stand in the war that''s raging in the city''s underworld, since she helped put away its former vampire kingpinâ€”and made a deal with a powerful demon to do so that could cost her an eternity of pain, torment, and degradation. And now her dark "master" is coming to collect his due.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1195'),
(3806, 'Rachel Morgan 04 A Fistful of Charms', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The evil night things that prowl Cincinnati despise witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. Her new reputation for the dark arts is turning human and undead heads alike with the intent to possess, bed, and kill herâ€”not necessarily in that order. Now a mortal lover who abandoned Rachel has returned, haunted by his secret past. And there are those who covet what Nick possessesâ€”savage beasts willing to destroy the Hollows and everyone in it if necessary. Forced to keep a low profile or eternally suffer the wrath of a vengeful demon, Rachel must nevertheless act quickly. For the pack is gathering for the first time in millennia to ravage and rule. And suddenly more than Rachel''s soul is at stake.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1196'),
(3807, 'Rachel Morgan 05 For a Few Demons More', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Despite dating one vampire and living with another, Rachel Morgan has always managed to stay just ahead of trouble . . . until now.   A fiendish serial killer stalks the Hollows, claiming victims across society, and the resulting terror ignites a vicious Inderland gang war. And while the ancient artifact Rachel is hiding may be the key to stopping the murderer, revealing it could also create a battle to the death among the numerous supernatural races that live in and around Cincinnati.   For every action has its price, and when the vampire master Piscary is set free and the demonic Algaliarept dares to walk openly under the sun, even Rachel Morgan can''t hide forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1189'),
(3808, 'Rachel Morgan 06 The Outlaw Demon Wails', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When you dance with demons, you lay your soul on the line . . . In the Hollows, where the natural and the supernatural co-existâ€”not always peacefullyâ€”desperate times often call for unorthodox measures. But bounty hunter-witch Rachel Morgan did the absolutely unthinkable to save the lives of her friends: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. And now her sins have come home to haunt her. As Rachel hunts for the truth behind a terrifying murder, the discovery of a shocking family secret is about to throw her entire life into question. And the long-lost ancient knowledge she seeks resides in the demonic ever-after. But there are some lines that should never be crossedâ€”like the one Rachel Morgan''s stepping over . . . again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1190'),
(3809, 'Rachel Morgan 07 White Witch, Black Curse', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kick-ass bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan has crossed forbidden lines, taken demonic hits, and still stands. But the death of her lover struck her harder than she ever thought possible. She won''t rest until his murder is solved . . . and avenged.   But a new predator is moving to the apex of the Inderlander food chainâ€”and now Rachel''s past is coming back to haunt her.   Literally.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1191'),
(3810, 'Rachel Morgan 08 Black Magic Sanction', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison''s most complex and nuanced adventure yet, bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan fights a deadly battleâ€”mind, body, and soul   Black Magic Sanction   Rachel Morgan has fought and hunted vampires, werewolves, banshees, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both witch and bounty hunterâ€”and lived to tell the tale. But she''s never faced off against her own kind . . . until now. Denounced and shunned for dealing with demons and black magic, her best hope is life imprisonmentâ€”at worst, a forced lobotomy and genetic slavery. Only her enemies are strong enough to help her win her freedom, but trust comes hard when it hinges on the unscrupulous tycoon Trent Kalamack, the demon Algaliarept, and an ex-boyfriend turned thief.   It takes a witch to catch a witch, but survival bears a heavy price.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1192'),
(3811, 'Rachel Morgan 09 Pale Demon', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Condemned and shunned for black magic, Rachel Morgan has three days to get to the annual witchesâ€™ conference and clear her name, or be trapped in the demonic ever-after . . . forever after.  But a witch, an elf, a living vampire, and a pixy in one car going across the country? Talk about a recipe for certain disaster, even without being the targets for assassination.  For after centuries of torment, a fearsome demon walks in the sunlightâ€”freed at last to slay the innocent and devour their souls. But his ultimate goal is Rachel Morgan, and in the fight for survival that follows, even embracing her own demonic nature may not be enough to save her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1185'),
(3812, 'Rachel&#39;s Holiday', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/891'),
(3813, 'Rafa', 'Rafael Nadal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  With nine Grand Slam victories at this writing, 25-year-old Rafael Nadal doesn''t have to wait for the end of his career to be acclaimed as one of the greatest tennis players of all time. In what has been called a golden age of the sport, this mild-mannered Spaniard has excelled even when competing with the likes of Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. Rafa: My Story presents Nadal''s astonishing stories through his own eyes. This autobiography, which Nadal wrote himself, provides our most revealing insights yet about a superlative athlete known for his modesty and reticence.\n </span>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1412'),
(3814, 'Red Planet', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/652'),
(3815, 'The Remains of the Day', 'Kazuo Ishiguro', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The novel''s narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens'' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Greeted with high praise in England, where it seems certain to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Ishiguro''s third novel (after An Artist of the Floating World ) is a tour de force-- both a compelling psychological study and a portrait of a vanished social order. Stevens, an elderly butler who has spent 30 years in the service of Lord Darlington, ruminates on the past and inadvertently slackens his rigid grip on his emotions to confront the central issues of his life. Glacially reserved, snobbish and humorless, Stevens has devoted his life to his concept of duty and responsibility, hoping to reach the pinnacle of his profession through totally selfless dedication and a ruthless suppression of sentiment. Having made a virtue of stoic dignity, he is proud of his impassive response to his father''s death and his "correct" behavior with the spunky former housekeeper, Miss Kenton. Ishiguro builds Stevens''s character with precisely controlled details, creating irony as the butler unwittingly reveals his pathetic self-deception. In the poignant denouement, Stevens belatedly realizes that he has wasted his life in blind service to a foolish man and that he has never discovered "the key to human warmth." While it is not likely to provoke the same shocks of recognition as it did in Britain, this insightful, often humorous and moving novel should significantly enhance Ishiguro''s reputation here.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1317'),
(3816, 'Remember', 'Barbara Taylor Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An electrifying new novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford, who demonstrates her superb storytelling gifts in this passionate tale of Nicky Wells. Beautfiul and fabulously successful as a television war correspondent, she deeply mourns the loss of her great love, only to be confronted with disturbing suspicions that this remarkable man led a mysterious double life....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1050'),
(3817, 'The Replacement', 'Brenna Yovanoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/542'),
(3818, 'Revolution', 'Jennifer Donnelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. Sheâ€™s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And sheâ€™s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heightsâ€™ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break.Â PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didnâ€™t wantâ€”and couldnâ€™t escape.Â Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrineâ€™s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. Thereâ€™s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journalâ€™s antique pagesâ€”until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrineâ€™s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present.Â Jennifer Donnelly, author of the award-winning novel A Northern Light, artfully weaves two girlsâ€™ stories into one unforgettable account of life, loss, and enduring love. Revolution spans centuries and vividly depicts the eternal struggles of the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1092'),
(3819, 'Riders', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/218'),
(3820, 'Riding the Bullet', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/694'),
(3821, 'Riftwar 01 Magician: Apprentice', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1434'),
(3822, 'Riftwar 02 Magician: Master', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1435'),
(3823, 'Riftwar 03 Silverthorn', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1432'),
(3824, 'Riftwar 04 A Darkness at Sethanon', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1433'),
(3825, 'Riley Jenson Guardian 01 Full Moon Rising', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/804'),
(3826, 'Riley Jenson Guardian 02 Kissing Sin', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/803'),
(3827, 'Riley Jenson Guardian 03 Tempting Evil', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/802'),
(3828, 'Riley Jenson Guardian 04 Dangerous Games', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/801'),
(3829, 'Riley Jenson Guardian 05 Embraced by Darkness', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/800'),
(3830, 'Riley Jenson Guardian 06 The Darkest Kiss', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/799'),
(3831, 'Riley Jenson Guardian 07 Deadly Desire', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/798'),
(3832, 'Riley Jenson Guardian 08 Bound to Shadows', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/797'),
(3833, 'Riley Jenson Guardian 09 Moon Sworn', 'Keri Arthur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson works for Melbourne''s Directorate of Other Races, an organisation created to police the supernatural races - and protect humans from their depredations. More werewolf than vampire, Riley is vulnerable to the moon heat, the weeklong period before the full moon, when her need to mate becomes all-consuming. But that''s the least of her worries. Evil is on the rampage in Melbourne and it''s up to her to stop it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/805'),
(3834, 'Rivals', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/219'),
(3835, 'Rivers of London', 'Ben Aaronovitch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  CSI London, Urban Fantasy-style! My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don''t have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluable, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now I''m a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated: nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the Thames, and digging up graves in Covent Garden . . . and there''s something festering at the heart of the city I love, a malicious vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despair.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city, and it''s falling to me to bring order out of chaos - or die trying.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1184'),
(3836, 'The Road', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/643'),
(3837, 'Roadwork', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/514'),
(3838, 'Robot 01 I, Robot', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/346'),
(3839, 'Robot 02 The Caves Of Steel', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/347'),
(3840, 'Robot 03 Naked Sun', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/348'),
(3841, 'Robot 04 The Robots Of Dawn', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/349'),
(3842, 'Robot 05 Robots &amp; Empire', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/350'),
(3843, 'Robot 06 The Bicentennial Man', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/337'),
(3844, 'Robot 08 Pebble In The Sky', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/339'),
(3845, 'Robot City 01 Odyssey', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/340'),
(3846, 'Robot City 02 Suspicion', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/341'),
(3847, 'Robot City 03 Cyborg', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/342'),
(3848, 'Robot City 04 Prodigy', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/343'),
(3849, 'Robot City 05 Refuge', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/344'),
(3850, 'Robot City 06 Perihelion', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/345'),
(3851, 'Rocket Ship Galileo', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/653'),
(3852, 'The Rolling Stones', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/663'),
(3853, 'Rose Madder', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/515'),
(3854, 'The Rules of Attraction', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Incisive, controversial and startlingly funny, The Rules of Attractionexamines a group of affluent students at a small, self-consciously bohemian, liberal-arts college on America''s East Coast. Lauren, who changes the man in her bed even more often than she changes course, is dating Victor but sleeping with Sean. Sean cool, ambivalent and deeply cynical might be in love with Lauren, but he''s not going to let that stop him from bedding Paul. Paul, as shrewd as he is passionate, is Lauren''s ex-lover and the final point in this curious triangle. This is a breathtaking tale of sex, expectation, desire and frustration. ''A tour of the heart of darkness, a moral armageddon'' The Times ''Compelling . . . sympathetic to his "lost generation" the way only Fitzgerald was about his'' Vanity Fair ''One of the primary inside sources in upper-middle-class America''s continuing investigation of what has happened to its children'' New York Times ''Inspired. A wonderfully comic novel'' Gore Vidal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1242'),
(3855, 'Salem&#39;s Lot', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/516'),
(3856, 'A Secret Affair', 'Barbara Taylor Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two titles together in one volume from the author who has become synonymous with entertaining heartfelt bestellers.A Secret Affair Bill Fitzgerald is an acclaimed American television foreign correspondent. Exhausted after a long stint in Bosnia, he travels to Venice to meet Francis Xavier Peterson, an old friend. Whilst at the bar of the Gritti Palace Hotel on the Grand Canal with Frankie, Bill is struck by the dark beauty of a young woman seated alone. Vanessa Stewart is a glass designer from New York who is visiting the glass-blowing works in Murano. The three expatriates meet and decide to celebrate Thanksgiving together. And that evening, full of warmth and camaraderie, begins an illicit though fateful love affair.Love In Another Town Jake Cantrell is suave, charming and a brilliant electrical engineer saddened by the failure of his marriage to Amy. Maggie Sorrell is a bright and elegant interior designer. She, too, has suffered a broken marriage. In picturesque Kent, Connecticut, Jake and Maggie join a local amateur dramatics group, and are introduced. The relationship blossoms, but ahead lie obstacles '' the fifteen-year difference in their ages, Amy''s sudden illness, her reluctance to divorce Jake, and Maggie''s own inner turmoil. But together they overcome the odds and find the ultimate: love in another town.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1084'),
(3857, 'Seriously...I&#39;m Kidding', 'Ellen DeGeneres', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  I''ve experienced a whole lot the last few years and I have a lot to share. So I hope that you''ll take a moment to sit back, relax and enjoy the words I''ve put together for you in this book. I think you''ll find I''ve left no stone unturned, no door unopened, no window unbroken, no rug unvacuumed, no ivories untickled. What I''m saying is, let us begin, shall we?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ellen DeGeneres is a beloved stand-up comedian, television host, bestselling author, and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show\n  <em>\n   The Ellen DeGeneres Show\n  </em>\n  , and was also a judge on\n  <em>\n   American Idol\n  </em>\n  in its ninth season in 2009.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  DeGeneres has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a film actress, she starred in\n  <em>\n   Mr. Wrong\n  </em>\n  , appeared in EDtv and\n  <em>\n   The Love Letter\n  </em>\n  , and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney-Pixar animated film\n  <em>\n   Finding Nemo\n  </em>\n  , for which she awarded a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first and only time a voice acting won a Saturn Award. She also starred in two television sitcoms,\n  <em>\n   Ellen\n  </em>\n  from 1994 to 1998 and\n  <em>\n   The Ellen Show\n  </em>\n  from 2001 to 2002. She has won twelve Emmys and numerous awards for her work and charitable efforts.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1473'),
(3858, 'Seven Deadly Sins 01 Original Sin', 'Allison Brennan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/545'),
(3859, 'Seven Deadly Sins 02 Carnal Sin', 'Allison Brennan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/544'),
(3860, 'Seven Kingdoms 01 Graceling', 'Kristin Cashore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, and is expected to carry out his dirty work, punnishing and torturing anyone who displeases him. Breaking arms and cutting off fingers are her stock-in-trade. Finding life under his rule increasingly unbearable Katsa forms an underground Council, whose purpose is to combat the destructive behaviour of the seven kings - after all, the Middluns is only one of the Seven Kingdoms, each of them ruled by their own king and his personal agenda for power. When the Council hears that the King of Liend''s father has been kidnapped Katsa investigates . . . and stumbles across a mystery. Who would want to kidnap him, and why? and who was the extraordinary Graced fighter who challenged her fighting skills, for the first time, as she and the Council rushed the old man to saftey? Something dark and deadly is rising in the north and creeping across the continent, and behind it all lurks the shadowy figure of a one-eyed king . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/540'),
(3861, 'Seven Kingdoms 02 Fire', 'Kristin Cashore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A must-read title for all fans of Patrick Rothfuss and Trudi Canavan, FIREis an exceptional fantasy novel. From the deft characterisation to the gripping story, the fast-paced action to the evocative prose, this is one of the strongest fantasy novels of the year. Set in a world of stunningly beautiful, exceptionally dangerous monsters, Fire is one of the most dangerous monsters ofall - a human one. Marked out by her vivid red hair, she''s more than attractive. Fire is mesmerising. But with this extraordinary beauty comes influence and power. People who are susceptible to her appeal will do anything for her attention, and for her affection. They will turn away from their families, their work, and their duties for her. They will forget their responsibilities to please her . . . and worse, crush nations, neglect kingdoms and abuse their power. Aware of her power, and afraid of it, Fire lives in a corner of the world away from people, and away from temptation. Until the day comes when she is needed - a day when, for her king, she has to stand against not only his enemies, but also against herself . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/541'),
(3862, 'Shade 01 Shade', 'Jeri Smith-Ready', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Love ties them together. Death can''t tear them apart. Best. Birthday. Ever. At least, it was supposed to be. With Logan''s band playing a critical gig and Aura''s plans for an intimate after-party, Aura knows it will be the most memorable night of her boyfriend''s life. She never thought it would be his last. Logan''s sudden death leaves Aura devastated. He''s gone. Well, sort of. Like everyone born after the Shift, Aura can see and hear ghosts. This mysterious ability has always been annoying, and Aura had wanted nothing more than to figure out why the Shift happened so she can undo it. But not with Logan''s violet-hued spirit still hanging around. Because dead Logan is almost as real as ever. Almost. It doesn''t help that Aura''s new friend Zachary is so understanding . . . and so very alive. His support means more to Aura than she cares to admit. As Aura''s relationships with the dead and the living grow ever complicated, so do her feelings for Logan and Zachary. Each holds a piece of Aura''s heart? and clues to the secret of the Shift.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1095'),
(3863, 'Shannara 01 Trilogy 1 - The Sword Of Shannara', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/257'),
(3864, 'Shannara 01 Trilogy 2 - The Elfstones of Shannara', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/235'),
(3865, 'Shannara 01 Trilogy 3 - The Wishsong of Shannara', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/238'),
(3866, 'Shannara 02 Heritage 1 - The Scions of Shannara', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/240'),
(3867, 'Shannara 02 Heritage 2 - The Druid of Shannara', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/253'),
(3868, 'Shannara 02 Heritage 3 - The Elf Queen of Shannara', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/179'),
(3869, 'Shannara 02 Heritage 4 - The Talismans of Shannara', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/182'),
(3870, 'Shannara 03 Prequel - The First King of Shannara', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/185'),
(3871, 'Shannara 04 Word and Void (Prelude) 1 - Running With The Demon', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/186'),
(3872, 'Shannara 04 Word and Void (Prelude) 2 - A Knight Of The Word', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/191'),
(3873, 'Shannara 04 Word and Void (Prelude) 3 - Angel Fire East', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/192'),
(3874, 'Shannara 05 Voyage of the Jerle Shannara 1 - Isle Witch', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/193'),
(3875, 'Shannara 05 Voyage of the Jerle Shannara 2 - Antrax', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/194'),
(3876, 'Shannara 05 Voyage of the Jerle Shannara 3 - Morgawr', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/197'),
(3877, 'Shannara 06 High Druid of Shannara 1 - Jarka Ruus', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/198'),
(3878, 'Shannara 06 High Druid of Shannara 2 - Tanequil', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/202'),
(3879, 'Shannara 06 High Druid of Shannara 3 - Straken', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/203'),
(3880, 'Shannara 07 Genesis 1 - Armageddon&#39;s Children', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/204'),
(3881, 'Shannara 07 Genesis 2 - The Elves of Cintra', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/205'),
(3882, 'Shannara 07 Genesis 3 - The Gypsy Morph', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/212'),
(3883, 'Shannara 08 Legends 1 - Bearers of the Black Staff', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/213'),
(3884, 'Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large', 'William Shatner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  You love William Shatner.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  You admire his many and varied talents.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  You appreciate his creativity and willingness to take risks.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  You want to learn his master negotiation techniques.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  You wish you could hang out with him.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Admit it. You want to BE William Shatner.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  And now...you can (almost).\n </p>\n <p>\n  This collection of rules, illustrated with stories from Bill''s illustrious life and career, will show you how Bill became WILLIAM SHATNER, larger than life and bigger than any role he ever played.\n  <em>\n   Shatner Rules\n  </em>\n  is your guide to becoming William Shatner. Or more accurately, beautifully Shatneresque.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Because let''s face it...Shatner does rule, doesn''t he?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1474');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(3885, 'Sherlock 01 A Study in Scarlet', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Dr. Watson ends up renting rooms in Baker Street with the eccentric Sherlock Holmes, he finds that he has let himself in for a great deal more than he imagined. He is called upon to help the budding detective solve a perplexing mystery, involving a dead body found in a locked room. Although the body shows no signs of having been attacked Holmes is convinced that a murder has been committed. As Watson looks on, he uses his exceptional powers of deduction to unravel a case that involves both kidnapping and thwarted love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1279'),
(3886, 'Sherlock 02 The Sign of the Four', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (1859-1930) was a Scottish author. He is most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. His first significant work was A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton''s Christmas Annual for 1887 and featured the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes, who was partially modelled after his former university professor, Joseph Bell. Other works include The Firm of Girdlestone (1890), The Captain of the Polestar (1890), The Doings of Raffles Haw (1892), Beyond the City (1892), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896), The Great Boer War (1900), The Green Flag (1900), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), and The Lost World (1912).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1281'),
(3887, 'Sherlock 03 The Hound of the Baskervilles', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Classic / British English (Available April 2008) Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead just outside his home, Baskerville Hall. Many of the Baskerville family have died mysteriously. People say that they were killed by a gigantic devil-like creature - the Hound of the Baskervilles! Can that be true? And can Sherlock Holmes save the new owner of Baskerville Hall from a terrible death?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1280'),
(3888, 'Sherlock 04 The Valley of Fear', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Only Holmes and Watson can get to the bottom of this baffling murder mystery. John Douglas is found in his study blasted faceless with a sawn-off shotgun. There is no obvious motive or suspect. Douglas and his wife, Ivy, a rich and locally popular couple, have lived for years in the ancient, moated Birlstone Manor House. Despite Douglas'' nightly ritual of raising the drawbridge, a perpetrator had concealed himself, shot Douglas, and made a clean getaway.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1282'),
(3889, 'The Shining', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/675'),
(3890, 'Ship Breaker 01 Ship Breaker', 'Paolo Bacigalupi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  In America''s Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it''s worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life...\n </span>\n <br style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  In this powerful novel, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set in a vivid and raw, uncertain future\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1439'),
(3891, 'Shout at the Devil', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Wilbur Smithâ€™s adventure tales are big, bold and unforgettable. In SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, the New York Times bestselling master storyteller takes us to a brutal paradise engulfed in the fires of civilizationâ€™s war...A MAN ON HIS OWNThey couldnâ€™t be anymore different: an earnest young Englishman named Sebastian Oldsmith and an Irish American adventurer named Flynn Oâ€™Flynn who never encounters a rule he doesnâ€™t break. Fate brings them together in Zanzibar. A sadistic German turns them into allies, then into warriors.A WOMAN IN LOVEFrom the moment Rosa Oâ€™Flynn lays eyes on Sebastian, Rosa finds the man she would love foreverâ€”never mind what plans her father has for her. But imperialism is shaking Mozambique, where Oâ€™Flynn is the craftiest, fiercest beast in the jungle. And when Rosa and Sebastian lose what is most precious, they join a band of rogues, natives, wanderers, and hunters to start their own war against an enemy who has nothing to fearâ€”and everything to lose...A HUNT FOR THE MOST DANGEROUS PREY OF ALLFrom the sound and sight of a charging bull elephant to ships ablaze on the Indian Ocean, this is a full throttle saga of survivalâ€”against nature, man, and the devil himself...â€œAction is Wilbur Smithâ€™s game, and he is a master.â€â€”The Washington Post Book Worldâ€œ[Wilbur Smith] puts the reader right there with details that are intimate, inspiring, horrifyingâ€¦. Fans will be happy to know Smith hasn''t lost his touch for the dramatic, exotic adventure story."â€”The Orlando Sentinel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/825'),
(3892, 'Shutter Island', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/638'),
(3893, 'Sisters of the Moon 01 Witchling', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Meet three semi-supernatural sisters, out to save the Otherworld . . . We''re the D''Artigo sisters: Half-human, half-Faerie, we''re savvy-and sexy-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But our mixed-blood heritage short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Delilah shapeshifts into a tabby cat whenever she''s stressed. Menolly''s a vampire who''s still trying to get the hang of being undead. And me? I''m Camille-a wicked-good witch. Except my magic''s as unpredictable as the weather, as my enemies are about to find out the hard way . . . At the Wayfarer Inn, a portal to Otherworld and the local hangout for humans and beasties alike, a fellow operative, Jocko, has been murdered. Every clue points to Shadow Wing, the soul-munching, badass leader of the Subterranean Realms. He''s made it clear that he aims to raze humankind to the ground, turning both Earth and Otherworld into his private playground. Our assignment: Keep Shadow Wing and his minions from creeping into Earth via the Wayfarer. The demons figure they''re in like Flynn. After all, with only my bumbling sisters and me standing in the way, how can they miss? But we''ve got a secret for them: Faulty wiring or not, nobody kicks ass like the D''Artigo girls . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1210'),
(3894, 'Sisters of the Moon 02 Changeling', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The first in an engrossing new series, [Witchling was] a whimsical reminder of fantasy''s importance in life" (Publishers Weekly). Now comes Changeling-again featuring Camille, the good witch, Menolly, the vampire, and Delilah, a feline shapeshifter. They''re the D''Artigo sisters, half-human, half-Faerie supernatural agents who are now enlisted to find the fiends responsible for slaughtering the weres of Rainier Puma Pride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1211'),
(3895, 'Sisters of the Moon 03 Darkling', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The D''Artigo sisters, Camille, Delilah, and Menolly, are half-human, half- Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. When humans begin to go missing, then turn up as newly born vampires, Menolly- an acrobat extraordinaire-turned-vampire- must face the demons haunting her memories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1212'),
(3896, 'Sisters of the Moon 04 Dragon Wytch', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The DArtigo sisters are half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Camille is doing her best to juggle magic, men, and the demonic war into which theyve been thrustuntil she discovers a secret that could change all their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1213'),
(3897, 'Sisters of the Moon 05 Night Huntress', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Dâ€™Artigo sisters are half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Delilah, a werecat whoâ€™s one of the Autumn Lordâ€™s Death Maidens, has to fight off the demon general who stole the third Spirit Seal and is now out for blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1205'),
(3898, 'Sisters of the Moon 06 Demon Mistress', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Menolly, Camille, and Delilah are the DArtigo Sistershalf-human, half-Faerie operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Their latest assignment is to root out the secret society responsible for unleashing chaos magic against the cityand to stop a demon from devouring Delilahs soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1206'),
(3899, 'Sisters of the Moon 07 Bone Magic', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The *New York Times* bestselling author of *Demon Mistress* returns with a new sensual Otherworld paranormal... ** Another equinox is here, and life''s getting more tumultuous for the D''Artigo sisters. Smoky, the dragon of Camille''s dreams, must choose between his family and her. Plus, the sisters can''t locate the new demon general in town. And Camille''s summoned to Otherworld, thinking she''ll reunite with her long-lost soul mate Trillian. But once there, she must undergo a drastic ritual that will forever change her and those she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1208'),
(3900, 'Sisters of the Moon 08 Harvest Hunting', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Three sisters ridding the Otherworld of evil-one monster at a time.   We''re the D''Artigo sisters: sexy, savvy operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But being half-human, half-Fae means our supernatural talents can go haywire at any time. My sister Camille is a wicked good witch whose life recently took a drastic turn. Menolly''s a vampire who''s still getting the hang of being undead. And me? I''m Delilah, a werecat with a very interesting love life. But life isn''t all fun and games. We''re on the trail of the demon general who has decided that we''ve become quite a nuisance...   It''s Samhain, and the Autumn Lord has called for my training to begin with the Death Maidens...and I find that I like it. But we''ve got problems: werewolves are going missing and a new magical drug, "Wolf Briar," is being used as a weapon. My dear Chase and I have come to a delicate crossroads. And most dangerous of all: Stacia Bonecrusher has put a bounty on our heads. Now it''s a race to take out the demon general before she realizes the sixth Spirit Seal is within her reach...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1216'),
(3901, 'Sisters of the Moon 09 Blood Wyne', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The D''Artigo sisters have just turned in their badges to the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Now that they''re free agents they''re hoping things will be easier, but when you''re half-human, half-Fae, things can go astray at the most inopportune times...especially if you''re attempting to go undercover and penetrate the underworld of a vamp society on the brink of war.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <br />\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1215'),
(3902, 'Skeleton Crew', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/519'),
(3903, 'Sleepless', 'Cyn Balog', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr 9 Upâ€“An interesting, quick-paced, and compelling paranormal romance. Eron DeMarchelle has known Julia all her life. As her Sandman, it is his duty to lure her, and his other charges, to sleep each night. Now, Julia''s boyfriend has passed away and just when she unknowingly needs Eron the most, he may be unable to help her. Sandmen are contracted for 100 years after their deaths and then they are able to become human again. Eron has begun training his replacement, who just happens to be Julia''s ex, Griffin, an impulsive and obsessive young man. As he begins to break the rules trying to stay forever with Julia, Eron must fight to save both her and himself. Julia is a smart heroine surrounded by flawed, yet mostly lovable boys and involved in a star-crossed romance. It''s a surefire formula. Told in chapters alternating between Eron and Julia, the story includes some teenage drinking, some sexually mature scenes, and stalking, but it is definitely recommended for public library collections._Jessica Miller, New Britain Public Library, CT_\n  <br />\n  Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Â An interesting, quick-paced, and compelling paranormal romance... definitely recommended for public library collections.\n  <br />\n  --School Library Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  Suspense, believable characters and an imaginative twist on a ghost story/romance make for a lovely read. --Kirkus Reviews\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1334'),
(3904, 'Song of Ice and Fire 01 - A Game of Thrones', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/214'),
(3905, 'Song of Ice and Fire 02 - A Clash of Kings', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/215'),
(3906, 'Song of Ice and Fire 03 - A Storm of Swords', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/216'),
(3907, 'Song of Ice and Fire 04 - A Feast for Crows', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/221'),
(3908, 'Song of Ice and Fire 05 - A Dance With Dragons', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   PRAISE FOR GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhatâ€™s A Song of Ice and Fire? Itâ€™s the only fantasy series Iâ€™d put on a level with J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Lord of the Rings\n  </em>\n  . . . . Itâ€™s a fantasy series for hip, smart people, even those who donâ€™t read fantasy.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Â Â \n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A Game of Thrones\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReminiscent of T. H. Whiteâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Once and Future King,\n  </em>\n  this novel is an absorbing combination of the mythic, the sweepingly historical, and the intensely personal.â€_â€”Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Clash of Kings\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMartin amply fulfills the first volumeâ€™s promise and continues what seems destined to be one of the best fantasy series ever written.â€â€”_The Denver Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Storm of Swords\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œRiveting . . . a series whose brilliance continues to dazzle.â€â€”_Patriot News_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Feast for Crows\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOf those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best. In fact . . . this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien.â€â€”_Time _\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dubbed â€œthe American Tolkienâ€ by\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his spellbinding landmark series--as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again--beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has three times three thousand enemies, and many have set out to find her. Yet, as they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone--a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Nightâ€™s Watch, will face his greatest challenge yet. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And from all corners, bitter conflicts soon reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all. . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1336'),
(3909, 'Southern Vamp 01 - Dead Until Dark', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/222'),
(3910, 'Southern Vamp 02 - Living Dead in Dallas', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/225'),
(3911, 'Southern Vamp 03 - Club Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/226'),
(3912, 'Southern Vamp 04 - Dead to the World', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/228'),
(3913, 'Southern Vamp 05 - Dead As A Doornail', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/229'),
(3914, 'Southern Vamp 06 - Definitely Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/232'),
(3915, 'Southern Vamp 07 - All Together Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/233'),
(3916, 'Southern Vamp 08 - From Dead to Worse', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/236'),
(3917, 'Southern Vamp 09 - Dead and Gone', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/237'),
(3918, 'Southern Vamp 10 - Dead in the Family', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/239'),
(3919, 'Southern Vamp 11 - Dead Reckoning', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1300'),
(3920, 'The Stand', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/683'),
(3921, 'Starship Troopers', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/654'),
(3922, 'Steel', 'Carrie Vaughn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n   It was a slender length of rusted steel, tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other, as if it had broken. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her.\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n  </span>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n   This was the tip of a rapier.\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. But a pirate''s life is bloody and brief, and as Jill learns about the dark magic that brought her there, she forms a desperate scheme to get homeâ€”one that risks everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Time travel, swordplay, and romance combine in an original high-seas adventure from\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller Carrie Vaughn.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carrie Vaughn survived her air force brat childhood and managed to put down roots in Colorado. Her first book,\n  <em>\n   Kitty and the Midnight Hour\n  </em>\n  , launched a popular series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk-radio advice show. Ms. Vaughn has also written many short stories and is the author of the young adult novel\n  <em>\n   Voices of Dragons\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ms. Vaughn lives in Colorado.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1283'),
(3923, 'Stefan&#39;s Diaries 01 Origins', 'L.J. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Set during the Civil War, against a backdrop of grand estates, unimaginable riches, and deadly secrets, three teenagers in Mystic Falls, Virginia enter a torrid love triangle that will span eternity.   Brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore are inseparable until they meet Katherine, a stunning, mysterious woman who turns their world upside down. Siblings turned rivals, the Salvatores compete for Katherineâ€²s affection, only to discover that her sumptuous silk dresses and glittering gems hide a terrible secret: Katherine is a vampire. And she is intent on turning them into vampires so they can live together-forever.   Ages 14+\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/955'),
(3924, 'Stefan&#39;s Diaries 02 Bloodlust', 'L.J. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A new beginning . . .   When Stefan Salvatore''s first love turned him into a vampire, his worldâ€”and his soulâ€”were destroyed. Now he and his brother, Damon, must flee their hometown, where they risk being discovered . . . and killed.   The brothers head to New Orleans, looking for safe haven. But the city is more dangerous than they ever imagined, full of other vampiresâ€”and vampire hunters. Will Stefan''s eternal life be forever damned?   Based on the popular CW TV show inspired by the bestselling novels, Stefan''s Diaries reveals the truth about what really happened between Stefan, Damon, and Katherineâ€”and how the Vampire Diaries love triangle began.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/956'),
(3925, 'Stefan&#39;s Diaries 03 The Craving', 'L.J. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1299'),
(3926, 'Steve Jobs', 'Walter Isaacson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1371'),
(3927, 'Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography', 'Rob Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A lovely autobiography, equal parts dish and pathos."--_Vanity Fair_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[Lowe] writes viscerally and insightfully...He looks back at the aberrant highs of his heart-throb days, the changing nature of stardom in Hollywood, the trade-off he has made between high life and home life, and the step-by-step effort behind his show business survival. He looked like the callowest kid in the "Outsiders" crew. Now he looks like the sturdiest of them all"--_The New York Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I really enjoyed it...Thoroughly entertaining: the Brat Pack years, the Wayne''s World years, the Alcoholic Obscurity, the Glamorous Romances (Princess Stephanie of Monaco!), the Inevitable Rehab, and the Triumphant Comeback on The West Wing."--_Time Magazine_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[Lowe''s] charming, honest, even affectionate memoir is the story of strong guts behind a strikingly handsome face...A book to recommend widely."--_Booklist_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood''s top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Outsiders\n  </em>\n  placed Lowe at the birth of the modern youth movement in the entertainment industry. During his time on\n  <em>\n   The West Wing\n  </em>\n  , he witnessed the surreal nexus of show business and politics both on the set and in the actual White House. And in between are deft and humorous stories of the wild excesses that marked the eighties, leading to his quest for family and sobriety.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Never mean-spirited or salacious, Lowe delivers unexpected glimpses into his successes, disappointments, relationships, and one-of-a-kind encounters with people who shaped our world over the last twenty-five years. These stories are as entertaining as they are unforgettable.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1312'),
(3928, 'Stranger in a Strange Land', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/655'),
(3929, 'The Sun Also Rises', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/868'),
(3930, 'The Sunbird', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Ben Kazin is a brilliant acrheologist. Louren Sturvesant is rich, impulsive, and physically imposing, everything Ben is not. Now, the to men--friends, competitors and partner--are searching for the legendary lost city of Opet, built by an Egyptian culture that reached Africa two thousand years ago, then vanished completely.For Ben, the expedition is a chance to prove a controversial thesis. For Louren, it is a chance to spend milions--and make it all back in gold and glory. But what awaits them is an astounding discovery, a seige of terror, and an act of betrayal that will tear the two men apart and bind them together forever...Hidden beneath water, jungle, and blood-red cliffs is a lost world where two men and a beautiful woman were caught in a furious battle of passions two thousands years ago, but which has begun once again....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/829'),
(3931, 'Sword of Truth 00 Debt of Bones', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby''s struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive.Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby''s request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to break, both Abby and Zedd are caught in a desperate fight to save the life of a child...but neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal.With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby, for everyone-will never again be the same.Discover why millions of readers the world over have elevated Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/878'),
(3932, 'Sword of Truth 01 Wizard&#39;s First Rule', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The masterpiece that started The New York Times bestselling epic Sword of TruthIn the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher''s forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence.In a dark age it takes courage to live, and more than mere courage to challenge those who hold dominion, Richard and Kahlan must take up that challenge or become the next victims. Beyond awaits a bewitching land where even the best of their hearts could betray them. Yet, Richard fears nothing so much as what secrets his sword might reveal about his own soul. Falling in love would destroy them--for reasons Richard can''t imagine and Kahlan dare not say.In their darkest hour, hunted relentlessly, tormented by treachery and loss, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword--to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed . . . or that their time has run out.This is the beginning. One book. One Rule. Witness the birth of a legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/879'),
(3933, 'Sword of Truth 02 Stone of Tears', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Wizard''s First Rule, Richard Cypher''s world was turned upside down. Once a simple woods guide, Richard was forced to become the Seeker of Truth, to save the world from the vile dominance of Darken Rahl, the most viciously savage and powerful wizard the world had ever seen. He was joined on this epic quest by his beloved Kahlan, the only survivor among the Confessors, who brought a powerful but benevolent justice to the land before Rahl''s evil scourge. Aided by Zedd, the last of the wizards who opposed Rahl, they were able to cast him into the underworld, saving the world from the living hell of life under Rahl.But the veil to the underworld has been torn, and Rahl, from beyond the veil, begins to summon a sinister power more dreadful than any he has wielded before. Horrifying creatures escape through the torn veil, wreaking havoc on the unsuspecting world above.If Rahl isn''t stopped, he will free the Keeper itself, an evil entity whose power is so vast and foul that once freed, it can never again be contained.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/880'),
(3934, 'Sword of Truth 03 Blood of the Fold', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a fantasy world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell stand against the ancient forces which besiege the New World - forces so terrible that when last they threatened, they could only be withstood by sealing off the Old World from whence they came. Now the barrier has been breached, and the New World is again beset by their evil power. War, monsters, and treachery plague the world, and only Richard and Kahlan can save it from an armageddon of unimaginable savagery and destruction.Terry Goodkind, author of the brilliant fantasy bestsellers of the Sword of Truth series, has created his most masterful epic yet, a sumptuous feast of magic and excitement replete with the wonders of his unique fantasy vision.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/881'),
(3935, 'Sword of Truth 04 Temple of the Winds', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the red moon will come the firestorm...Wielding the Sword of Truth, Richard Rahl has battled death itself and come to the defense of the D''Haran people. But now the power-mad Emperor Jagang confronts Richard with a swift and inexorable foe: a mystical plague cutting a deadly swath across the land and slaying thousands of innocent victims.To quench the inferno, he must seek remedy in the wind...To fight it Richard and his beloved Kahlan Amnell will risk everything to uncover the source of the terrible plague-the magic sealed away for three millennia in the Temple of the Winds.Lightning will find him on that path...But when prophecy throws the shadow of betrayal across their mission and threatens to destroy them, Richard must accept the Truth and find a way to pay the price the winds demand...or he and his world will perish.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/882'),
(3936, 'Sword of Truth 05 Soul of the Fire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Soul of the Fire is the fifth book in Terry Goodkind''s wildly popular Sword of Truth saga. The previous books are: Wizard''s First Rule, Stone of Tears, Blood of the Fold, and Temple of the Winds. When last we saw our heroes--Richard Cypher (Lord Rahl) and Kahlan Amnell--they each had made enormous sacrifices to save one another from certain doom. To save her beloved, Khalan, Mother Confessor of the Midlands, had spoken the three chimes, summoning these chaotic beings from the world beyond and unwittingly releasing incredibly destructive power. Now the chimes are stealing souls, and malevolent forces are reshaping the world itself. To save everything from almost certain doom, Richard, Kahlan, and the wizard Zedd must hunt the elusive chimes and reharness them before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/883'),
(3937, 'Sword of Truth 06 Faith of the Fallen', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Faith of the Fallen Sequel to the New York Times bestselling Soul of the FireTerry Goodkind author of the enormously popular Sword of Truth novels, has forged perhaps his best novel yet, pitting Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell against threats to the freedom of the world that will take them to opposite ends of the world to defeat the forces of chaos and anarchy.Emperor Jagang is rising once again in the Old World and Richard must face him, on his own turf. Richard heads into the Old World with Cara, the Mord-Sith, while his beloved Kahlan remains behind. Unwilling to heed an ancient prophecy, Kahlan raises an army and goes into battle against forces threatening armed insurrection in the Midlands.Separated and fighting for their lives, Richard and Kahlan will be tested to the utmost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/884'),
(3938, 'Sword of Truth 07 The Pillars of Creation', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, Jennsen seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin. Richard Rahl and his wife, Kahlan, have been reunited after their long separation, but with winter descending and the paralyzing dread of an army of annihilation occupying their homeland, they must venture deep into a strange and desolate land. Their quest turns to terror when they find themselves the helpless prey of a tireless hunter.Exploited by those intent on domination, Jennsen finds herself drawn into the center of a violent struggle for conquest and revenge. Worse yet, she finds her will seized by dark forces more abhorrent than anything she ever envisioned. Only then does she come to realize that the voices were real. Staggered by loss and increasingly isolated, Richard and Kahlan desperately struggle to survive. But if they are to live, they must stop the relentless, unearthly threat that comes out of the darkest night of the human soul. To do so, Richard will be called upon to face the demons stalking among the Pillars of Creation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/885'),
(3939, 'Sword of Truth 08 Naked Empire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Beginning with Wizard''s First Rule and continuing with six subsequent fantasy masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled and awed millions of readers worldwide. Now Goodkind returns with a broad-canvas adventure of epic intrigue, violent conflict, and terrifying peril for the beautiful Kahlan Amnell and her husband, the heroic Richard Rahl, the Sword of Truth.Richard Rahl has been poisoned. Saving an empire from annihilation is the price of the antidote. With the shadow of death looming near, the empire crumbling before the invading hordes, and time running out, Richard is offered not only his own life but the salvation of a people, in exchange for delivering his wife, Kahlan, into bondage to the enemy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/887'),
(3940, 'Sword of Truth 09 Chainfire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end.As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn''t soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation. But Kahlan learns that if she ever were to unlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finally possess her, body and soul.If she is to survive in a murky world of deception and betrayal, where life is not only cheap but fleeting, Kahlan must find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn world swirling around her. What she uncovers are secrets darker than she could ever have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/875'),
(3941, 'Sword of Truth 10 Phantom', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end.As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn''t soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation. But Kahlan learns that if she ever were to unlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finally possess her, body and soul.If she is to survive in a murky world of deception and betrayal, where life is not only cheap but fleeting, Kahlan must find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn world swirling around her. What she uncovers are secrets darker than she could ever have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/876'),
(3942, 'Sword of Truth 11 Confessor', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he lovesâ€¦and has lost. Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable and memorable journeys ever written. It started with one rule, and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history. When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/877'),
(3943, 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each titleâ€”offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of A Tale of Two Cities includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R.L. Fisher.They fled to London, seeking safety, and found each other--Dr. Manette, falsely imprisoned for decades; his daughter, Lucie, whose stunning beauty was matched by her loyalty and grace; and Charles Darnay, who abandoned a royal title he hated to risk being called a traitor in France, a spy in England. Together, their love touched the hearts of even stodgy banker Mr. Lorry and cynical, jaded lawyer Sydney Carton...But in Paris, the fires of revolution exploded in uncontrollable fury. The noble goals of freedom fighters became the crazed bloodbath called the Reign of Terror. And when three exiles returned home on an errand of mercy, they were trapped in a nightmare of mock trials and made rage. Once in Paris, nothing could save Darnay, Lucie, or Manette...Except a miracle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1005'),
(3944, 'The Talisman', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/684'),
(3945, 'Tatiana and Alexander 01 The Bronze Horseman', 'Paullina Simons', '<div class="comments">\n<span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents. The routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. For the Metanov family, for Leningrad and particularly for Tatiana, life will never be the same again. On that fateful day, Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander. The family suffers as Hitler''s army advances on Leningrad, and the Russian winter closes in. With bombs falling and the city under siege, Tatiana and Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other, but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana''s family apart, and at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it. Confronted on the one hand by Hitler''s vast war machine, and on the other by a Soviet system determined to crush the human spirit, Tatiana and Alexander are pitted against the very tide of history, at a turning point in the century that made the modern world\n</span>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1446');
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(3946, 'Tatiana and Alexander 02 A Novel', 'Paullina Simons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <em style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  Tatiana and Alexander\n </em>\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Â continues Paullina Simons'' truly epic tale. The previous instalment,Â \n </span>\n <em style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  The Bronze Horseman\n </em>\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  , introduced the charismatic characters of Tatiana Metanova, a strong willed, idiosyncratic teenager and Alexander, a young officer in the Red army. Set against the background of war torn Leningrad, the novel described their dangerously passionate love affair, while cataloguing the horrors of Hitler''s invasion of Russia in June 1941.\n </span>\n <p style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 19px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 18px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  InÂ \n  <em>\n   Tatiana and Alexander\n  </em>\n  , Tatiana is 18 years old and pregnant with Alexander''s child. Believing herself to be a widow she has escaped to America and is working as a nurse on Ellis Island. Her life is good, her baby son is beautiful, and her new friends entertaining, but her heart calls out for Alexander. Alexander, meanwhile, has been arrested by Stalin''s secret police and is awaiting death, accused of being a spy and a traitor. In a series of flashbacks his childhood is revealed. His father, a committed communist, removed his family from a comfortable life in America "to live what we believe" in poverty stricken Russia. Alexander, an American, has been serving in the Russian Red Army in attempt to protect himself. Wounded, beaten, betrayed, the memory of Tatiana is the only thing that stops him from despairing--"you were my only life force".\n </p>\n <p style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 19px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 18px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  <em>\n   Tatiana and Alexander\n  </em>\n  Â powerfully describes the triumph of the human spirit in a world of sadness and loss. As Tatiana says: "We walk alone through this world, but if we are lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness"\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1447'),
(3947, 'Tatiana and Alexander 03 The Summer Garden', 'Paullina Simons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  From the bestselling author of The Girl in Times Square, comes the magnificent conclusion to the saga that was set in motion when Tatiana fell in love with her Red Army officer, Alexander Belov, in wartime Leningrad in 1941.Â \n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Tatiana and Alexander have since suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. After years of separation, they are miraculously reunited in America, the land of their dreams. They have a beautiful son, Anthony. They have proved to each other that their love is greater than the vast evil of the world. But though they are only in their twenties, in their hearts they are old, and they are strangers. In the climate of fear and mistrust of the Cold War, dark forces are at work in the US that threaten their life and their family. Can they be happy? Or will the ghosts of yesterday reach out to blight even the destiny of their firstborn son?Â \n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  Epic in scope, masterfully told, The Summer Garden is a novel of unique and devastating emotional power that spans two thirds of the twentieth century, and three continents\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1445'),
(3948, 'Theatre Illuminata 01 Eyes Like Stars', 'Lisa Mantchev', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/603'),
(3949, 'These Things Hidden', 'Heather Gudenkauf', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When teenager Allison Glenn is sent to prison for a heinous crime, she leaves behind her reputation as Linden Falls'' golden girl forever. Her parents deny the existence of their once-perfect child. Her former friends exult her downfall. Her sister, Brynn, faces whispered rumors every day in the hallways of their small Iowa high school. It''s Brynnâ€”shy, quiet Brynnâ€”who carries the burden of what really happened that night. All she wants is to forget Allison and the past that haunts her.But then Allison is released to a halfway house, and is more determined than ever to speak with her estranged sister.Now their legacy of secrets is focused on one little boy. And if the truth is revealed, the consequences will be unimaginable for the adoptive mother who loves him, the girl who tried to protect him and the two sisters who hold the key to all that is hidden.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1218'),
(3950, 'Thinner', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/687'),
(3951, 'The Thorn Birds', 'Colleen McCullough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Colleen McCullough''s sweeping saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback has enthralled readers the world over. This is the chronicle of three generations of Clearys, ranchers carving lives from a beautiful, hard land while contending with the bitterness, frailty, and secrets that penetrate their family. Most of all, it is the story of only daughter Meggie and her lifelong relationship with the haunted priest Father Ralph de Bricassartâ€”an intense joining of two hearts and souls that dangerously oversteps sacred boundaries of ethics and dogma. A poignant love story, a powerful epic of struggle and sacrifice, a celebration of individuality and spirit, Colleen McCullough''s acclaimed masterwork remains a monumental literary achievementâ€”a landmark novel to be cherished and read again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/862'),
(3952, 'Thrill!', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/211'),
(3953, 'Time Enough for Love', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/664'),
(3954, 'Time for the Stars', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/665'),
(3955, 'Time Osyssey 01 Time&#39;s Eye', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sir Arthur C. Clarke is a living legend, a writer whose name has been synonymous with science fiction for more than fifty years. An indomitable believer in human and scientific potential, Clarke is a genuine visionary. If Clarke has an heir among todayâ€™s science fiction writers, it is award-winning author Stephen Baxter. In each of his acclaimed novels, Baxter has demonstrated dazzling gifts of imagination and intellect, along with a rare ability to bring the most cerebral science dramatically to life. Now these two champions of humanism and scientific speculation have combined their talents in a novel sure to be one of the most talked-about of the year, a 2001 for the new millennium. TIMEâ€™S EYEFor eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankindâ€” until they act. In an instant, Earth is carved up and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the planet and every living thing on it no longer exist in a single timeline. Instead, the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants.Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Are these technologically advanced devices responsible for creating and sustaining the rifts in time? Are they cameras through which inscrutable alien eyes are watching? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still?The answer may lie in the ancient city of Babylon, where two groups of refugees from 2037â€”three cosmonauts returning to Earth from the International Space Station, and three United Nations peacekeepers on a mission in Afghanistanâ€”have detected radio signals: the only such signals on the planet, apart from their own. The peacekeepers find allies in nineteenth-century British troops and in the armies of Alexander the Great. The astronauts, crash-landed in the steppes of Asia, join forces with the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan. The two sides set out for Babylon, each determined to win the race for knowledge . . . and the power that lies within.Yet the real power is beyond human control, perhaps even human understanding. As two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting. . . .From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1064'),
(3956, 'Time Osyssey 02 Sunstorm', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the sequel to Time''s Eye, a modern-day woman hurtled into the midst of the turmoil stumbles upon a mysterious portal that links back to the Firstborn, omnipotent beings responsible for the upheaval of history and the creators of the notorious black monolith of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1065'),
(3957, 'Time Osyssey 03 Firstborn', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Firstbornâ€“the mysterious race of aliens who first became known to science fiction fans as the builders of the iconic black monolith in 2001: A Space Odysseyâ€“have inhabited legendary master of science fiction Sir Arthur C. Clarkeâ€™s writing for decades. With Timeâ€™s Eye and Sunstorm, the first two books in their acclaimed Time Odyssey series, Clarke and his brilliant co-author Stephen Baxter imagined a near-future in which the Firstborn seek to stop the advance of human civilization by employing a technology indistinguishable from magic.Their first act was the Discontinuity, in which Earth was carved into sections from different eras of history, restitched into a patchwork world, and renamed Mir. Mirâ€™s inhabitants included such notables as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and United Nations peacekeeper Bisesa Dutt. For reasons unknown to her, Bisesa entered into communication with an alien artifact of inscrutable purpose and godlike powerâ€“a power that eventually returned her to Earth. There, she played an instrumental role in humanityâ€™s race against time to stop a doomsday event: a massive solar storm triggered by the alien Firstborn designed to eradicate all life from the planet. That fate was averted at an inconceivable price. Now, twenty-seven years later, the Firstborn are back.This time, they are pulling no punches: They have sent a â€œquantum bomb.â€ Speeding toward Earth, it is a device that human scientists can barely comprehend, that cannot be stopped or destroyedâ€“and one that will obliterate Earth.Bisesaâ€™s desperate quest for answers sends her first to Mars and then to Mir, which is itself threatened with extinction. The end seems inevitable. But as shocking new insights emerge into the nature of the Firstborn and their chilling plans for mankind, an unexpected ally appears from light-years away.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1066'),
(3958, 'Timeless 01 Timeless', 'Alexandra Monir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When tragedy strikes Michele Windsor''s world, she is forced to uproot her life and move across the country to New York City, to live with the wealthy, aristocratic grandparents she''s never met. In their old Fifth Avenue mansion filled with a century''s worth of family secrets, Michele discovers a diary that hurtles her back in time to the year 1910. There, in the midst of the glamorous Gilded Age, Michele meets the young man with striking blue eyes who has haunted her dreams all her life a man she always wished was real, but never imagined could actually exist.And she finds herself falling for him, into an otherworldly, time-crossed romance. Michele is soon leading a double life, struggling to balance her contemporary high school world with her escapes into the past. But when she stumbles upon a terrible discovery, she is propelled on a race through history to save the boy she loves a quest that will determine the fate of both of their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/990'),
(3959, 'The TommyKnockers', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/686'),
(3960, 'Tomorrow 01 When The War Began', 'John Marsden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/242'),
(3961, 'Tomorrow 02 The Dead Of The Night', 'John Marsden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/243'),
(3962, 'Tomorrow 03 The Third Day, The Frost', 'John Marsden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/244'),
(3963, 'Tomorrow 04 Darkness, Be My Friend', 'John Marsden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/245'),
(3964, 'Tomorrow 05 Burning for Revenge', 'John Marsden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/246'),
(3965, 'Tomorrow 06 The Night is for Hunting', 'John Marsden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/247'),
(3966, 'Tomorrow 07 The Other Side Of Dawn', 'John Marsden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/248'),
(3967, 'Trainspotting', 'Irvine Welsh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  For the first time in hardcover with the original jacket art: **"The best book ever written by man or woman...deserves to sell more copies than the Bible."â€”*Rebel, Inc.***\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *Trainspotting* is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh''s spectacular careerâ€”an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.''s *Last Exit to Brooklyn* did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter. *Trainspotting* was made into the 1996 cult film starring Ewan MacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle (*A Shallow Grave*).\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/947'),
(3968, 'Tunnel in the Sky', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/666'),
(3969, 'Uglies 01 Uglies', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Playing on every teen''s passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The "New Pretties" are then free to play and party, while the younger "Uglies" look on enviously and spend the time before their own transformations in plotting mischievous tricks against their elders. Tally Youngblood is one of the most daring of the Uglies, and her imaginative tricks have gotten her in trouble with the menacing department of Special Circumstances. She has yearned to be pretty, but since her best friend Shay ran away to the rumored rebel settlement of recalcitrant Uglies called The Smoke, Tally has been troubled. The authorities give her an impossible choice: either she follows Shay''s cryptic directions to The Smoke with the purpose of betraying the rebels, or she will never be allowed to become pretty. Hoping to rescue Shay, Tally sets off on the dangerous journey as a spy. But after finally reaching The Smoke she has a change of heart when her new lover David reveals to her the sinister secret behind becoming pretty. The fast-moving story is enlivened by many action sequences in the style of videogames, using intriguing inventions like hoverboards that use the rider''s skateboard skills to skim through the air, and bungee jackets that make wild downward plunges survivable -- and fun. Behind all the commotion is the disturbing vision of our own society -- the Rusties -- visible only in rusting ruins after a virus destroyed all petroleum. Teens will be entranced, and the cliffhanger ending will leave them gasping for the sequel. (Ages 12 and up) --Patty Campbell\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?  Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can''t wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally''s world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.  But Tally''s new friend Shay isn''t sure she wants to be pretty. She''d rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn''t very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/942'),
(3970, 'Uglies 02 Pretties', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   **Gorgeous. Popular.\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   Perfect. Perfectly wrong.**\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she''s completely popular. It''s everything she''s ever wanted.\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   But beneath all the fun -- the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom -- is a nagging sense that something''s wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally''s ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what''s wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold.\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life -- because the authorities don''t intend to let anyone with this information survive.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Gorgeous. Popular.Perfect. Perfectly wrong.Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she''s completely popular. It''s everything she''s ever wanted.But beneath all the fun -- the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom -- is a nagging sense that something''s wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally''s ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what''s wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold.Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life -- because the authorities don''t intend to let anyone with this information survive.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/943'),
(3971, 'Uglies 03 Specials', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   **"Special Circumstances":**\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   The words have sent chills down Tally''s spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally''s never been ordinary.\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   And now she''s been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still remembers something more.\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   Still, it''s easy to tune that out -- until Tally''s offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she''s programmed to complete. Either way, Tally''s world will never be the same.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  "Special Circumstances":The words have sent chills down Tally''s spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally''s never been ordinary.And now she''s been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still remembers something more.Still, it''s easy to tune that out -- until Tally''s offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she''s programmed to complete. Either way, Tally''s world will never be the same.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/944'),
(3972, 'Uglies 04 Extras', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **Fame**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  It''s a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. Without those strict roles and rules, the world is in a complete cultural renaissance. "Tech-heads" flaunt their latest gadgets, "kickers" spread gossip and trends, and "surge monkeys" are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. And it''s all monitored on a bazillion different cameras. The world is like a gigantic game of *American Idol*. Whoever is getting the most buzz gets the most votes. Popularity rules.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  As if being fifteen doesn''t suck enough, Aya Fuse''s rank of 451,369 is so low, she''s a total nobody. An extra. But Aya doesn''t care; she just wants to lie low with her drone, Moggle. And maybe kick a good story for herself.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Then Aya meets a clique of girls who pull crazy tricks, yet are deeply secretive of it. Aya wants desperately to kick their story, to show everyone how intensely cool the Sly Girls are. But doing so would propel her out of extra-land and into the world of fame, celebrity...and extreme danger. A world she''s not prepared for.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/945'),
(3973, 'Un Lun Dun', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  What is Un Lun Dun?\n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <strong style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  <br />\n </strong>\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all the lost and broken things of London end up . . . and some of its lost and broken people, tooâ€“including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas; Obaday Fing, a tailor whose head is an enormous pin-cushion, and an empty milk carton called Curdle. Un Lun Dun is a place where words are alive, a jungle lurks behind the door of an ordinary house, carnivorous giraffes stalk the streets, and a dark cloud dreams of burning the world. It is a city awaiting its hero, whose coming was prophesied long ago, set down for all time in the pages of a talking book.\n </span>\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n  When twelve-year-old Zanna and her friend Deeba find a secret entrance leading out of London and into this strange city, it seems that the ancient prophecy is coming true at last. But then things begin to go shockingly wrong\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1456'),
(3974, 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being', 'Milan Kundera', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/791'),
(3975, 'Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain', 'Portia de Rossi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAnorexia was my first love,â€ de Rossi declares in her memoir of her early Hollywood career and the eating disorders that went along with it. Her unflinching self-portrait depicts a cripplingly self-conscious young Australian in LA overwhelmed by the pressure to be thin. Never comfortable in her own skin, a by-product of her status as a closeted lesbian, de Rossi was sure if she ever gained weight (or came out as being gay), the shooting star sheâ€™d been cultivating would turn to lead. Weight loss was the key that allowed de Rossi to feel powerful and in control, until dieting became a sickness that nearly killed her and devastated her family. De Rossiâ€™s story and words are not revolutionary, but they are frank, brave, and revelatory of the unhealthy trends that stardom can generate. Although more development of de Rossiâ€™s happy ending (her eventual complete recovery, self-acceptance, coming-out, and marriage to Ellen DeGeneres) would be welcome, the book succeeds as itâ€™s intended: a journal of her sickness and a provocatively sad love affair with dieting. --Annie Bostrom\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œBreathtakingly honest, brutal and beautiful.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Jonathan Safran Foer\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDe Rossi tells her story with genuine insight and unflinching honesty. You will cheer her on.â€ â€”Jeannette Walls\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPossibly the best book on the subject ever written. De Rossi is the real deal, a fine writer with a sharp mind and substance. This rich, layered book of remarkable courage, power, and significance will serve as life-changing inspiration for many.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Augusten Burroughs\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/915'),
(3976, 'Under the Done', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/241'),
(3977, 'Unearthly 01 Unearthly', 'Cynthia Hand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Clara has known she was part-angel ever since she turned fourteen two years ago, but only now is her Purpose - the crucial rite of passage for every part-angel - becoming clear to her. Clara''s Purpose leads her family to Wyoming, where, amidst terrifying scenes of a bush inferno, she finds the boy of her visions, Christian. He is everything she could wish for - so why does she also have feelings for her enigmatic classmate Tucker? Clara discovers that her Purpose is only a small part of a titanic struggle between angels and their destructive counterparts, the Black Wings. And when the fire of her visions erupts and both Christian and Tucker are in danger, who will she choose to save? From debut novelist Cynthia Hand comes a riveting tale full of supernatural powers, forbidden romance, and the choice between fulfilling your destiny or following your heart. Ages 12+\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/954'),
(3978, 'Unearthly 02 Hallowed', 'Cynthia Hand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n   For months part-angel Clara Gardner trained to face the raging forest fire from her visions and rescue the alluring and mysterious Christian Prescott from the blaze. But nothing could prepare her for the fateful decisions she would be forced to make that day, or the startling revelation that her purposeâ€”the task she was put on earth to accomplishâ€”is not as straightforward as she thought.\n  </span>\n  <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n  <br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " />\n  <span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">\n   Now, torn between her increasingly complicated feelings for Christian and her love for her boyfriend, Tucker, Clara struggles to make sense of what she was supposed to do the day of the fire. And, as she is drawn further into the world of part angels and the growing conflict between White Wings and Black Wings, Clara learns of the terrifying new reality that she must face: Someone close to her will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning\n  </span>\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1464'),
(3979, 'The Unit', 'Ninni Holmqvist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. She is promised a nicely furnished apartment inside the Unit, where she will make new friends, enjoy the state of the art recreation facilities, and live the few remaining days of her life in comfort with people who are just like her. Here, women over the age of fifty and men over sixtyâ€“single, childless, and without jobs in progressive industriesâ€“are sequestered for their final few years; they are considered outsiders. In the Unit they are expected to contribute themselves for drug and psychological testing, and ultimately donate their organs, little by little, until the final donation. Despite the ruthless nature of this practice, the ethos of this near-future society and the Unit is to take care of others, and Dorrit finds herself living under very pleasant conditions: well-housed, well-fed, and well-attended. She is resigned to her fate and discovers her days there to be rather consoling and peaceful. But when she meets a man inside the Unit and falls in love, the extraordinary becomes a reality and life suddenly turns unbearable. Dorrit is faced with compliance or escape, andâ€¦well, then what?THE UNIT is a gripping exploration of a society in the throes of an experiment, in which the â€œdispensableâ€ ones are convinced under gentle coercion of the importance of sacrificing for the â€œnecessaryâ€ ones. Ninni Holmqvist has created a debut novel of humor, sorrow, and rage about love, the close bonds of friendship, and about a cynical, utilitarian way of thinking disguised as care.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/913'),
(3980, 'Vampire Academy 01', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/371'),
(3981, 'Vampire Academy 02 Frostbite', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/381'),
(3982, 'Vampire Academy 03 Shadow Kiss', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/372'),
(3983, 'Vampire Academy 04 Blood Promise', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/373'),
(3984, 'Vampire Academy 05 Spirit Bound', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/742'),
(3985, 'Vampire Academy 06 Last Sacrifice', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/788'),
(3986, 'Vampire Assassin 01 The Fallen Blade: Act One of the Assassini', 'Jon Courtenay Grimwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Venice in the early fifteenth century is at the height of its power. In theory Duke Marco commands. But Marco is a simpleton so his aunt and uncle rule in his stead. Within the Serene Republic, their word is law, but for all their influence, Venice''s fate still lies in other hands . . . Lady Giulietta is the Duke''s cousin. She enjoys greater privilege than many can even dream of, but her status will demand a terrible price. Atilo Il Mauros is head of theAssassini, the shadow army that enforces Venice''s will - both at home and abroad. Prince Leopold zum Bas Friedland is the bastard son of the German emperor and leader of thekrieghund- the only force in Venice more feared than Atilo''s assassins. And then there is Atilo''s angel-faced apprentice. Only a boy, Tycho is already stronger and faster than any man has a right to be. He can see in the dark, but sunlight burns him. It is said that he drinks blood. Award-winning author Jon Courtenay Grimwood seamlessly blends history, politics and dark fantasy in a compelling vision of a Venice that might have been.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1093'),
(3987, 'Vampire Chronicles 01 - Interview With The Vampire', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(3988, 'Vampire Chronicles 02 - The Vampire Lestat', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/180'),
(3989, 'Vampire Chronicles 03 - Queen of the Damned', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(3990, 'Vampire Chronicles 04 - The Tale of the Body Thief', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/183'),
(3991, 'Vampire Chronicles 05 - Memnoch The Devil', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/184'),
(3992, 'Vampire Chronicles 06 - The Vampire Armand', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/187'),
(3993, 'Vampire Chronicles 07 - Merrick', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/188'),
(3994, 'Vampire Chronicles 08 - Blood and Gold', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/189'),
(3995, 'Vampire Chronicles 09 - Blackwood Farm', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/190'),
(3996, 'Vampire Chronicles 10 - Blood Canticle', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/195'),
(3997, 'The Vampire&#39;s Kiss', 'Cynthia Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/739'),
(3998, 'Veronika Decides to Die', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything -- youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning, she takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. But she does -- at a mental hospital where she is told that she has only days to live.   Inspired by events in Coelho''s own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Bold and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1067'),
(3999, 'The Vespertine', 'Saundra Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s the summer of 1889, and Amelia van den Broek is new to Baltimore and eager to take in all the pleasures the city has to offer. But her gaiety is interrupted by disturbing, dreamlike visions she has only at sunsetvisions that offer glimpses of the future. Soon, friends and strangers alike call on Amelia to hear her prophecies. However, a forbidden romance with Nathaniel, an artist, threatens the new life Amelia is building in Baltimore. This enigmatic young man is keeping secrets of his ownstill, Amelia finds herself irrepressibly drawn to him. When one of her darkest visions comes to pass, Amelia''s world is thrown into chaos. And those around her begin to wonder if she''s not the seer of dark portents, but the cause.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1233'),
(4000, 'The Virtue of Selfishness', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/320'),
(4001, 'Voice of the Heart', 'Barbara Taylor Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford now sets her enthralling storytelling talents against a glittering tapestry of love and success as an ambitious beauty strives to make her dazzling dreams come true at any cost...EVEYTHING A WOMAN WANTSRising from unknown actress to Hollywood star, internationally renowned Katherine Tempest has the world at her feet. Envied by her peers, worshipped by all men, and applauded by fans worldwide, Katherine''s magnetism is spellbinding. While everyone knows the legend, only a select few are privileged enough to know the woman. And her secrets...EVERYTHING A WOMAN NEEDSFor behind the faade of the world''s most famous beauty is a life as carefully constructed as her flawless image. Perfectly ruthless, determined, and manipulative, she has irrevocably changed the lives of everyone she touched. Now, with one terrible lie she has set her own life on a grand course of self-destruction, and is desperately in need of the one thing that can save it: the trust and forgiveness of each friend and lover she has betrayed.EVERYTHING A WOMAN RISKSMoving from the intimate stages of London to the dazzling lights of Hollywood to the private quarters of the rich and famous, Katherine must now give the performance of a lifetime-as herself-when the final curtain threatens to come down on all she has fought for, aspired to, and dreamed of.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1087'),
(4002, 'War and Peace', 'Leo Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/860');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(4003, 'The War of the Worlds', 'H. G. Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n H.G. Wells created The War of the Worlds, his archetypical story of alien invasion, amidst an 1890s backdrop of rampant and rapid industrialization, global British hegemony, and incipient war with Europe-all of which are reflected in his tale of Martian attack. The story remains startlingly relevant today in our era wracked with worldwide concerns over terrorism and national security. This new edition--with an introduction by mass-psychology expert Robert E. Bartholomew and classic illustrations by Alvin-Correa--is sure to enthrall and intrigue yet another generation of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/859'),
(4004, 'Watch 01 The Night Watch', 'Sergei Lukyanenko', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The phenomenal Russian bestseller. A vampire novel set in a richly realized post-Soviet Moscow,The Night Watchhas sold across Europe and to 20th Century Fox for huge advances. InThe Night Watch, the first of a quartet, and reminiscent of Philip Pullman''sHis Dark Materialsin its ambitions and achievement, the setting is contemporary Moscow. A small number of Muscovites with supernatural powers those who are Other, owing allegiance either to the Dark or the Light co-exist in an uneasy truce, each side keeping a close eye on the other''s activities around the city. Anton, an Other on the side of the Light, is a night-watchman, patrolling the streets and Metro of the city as he protects ordinary people from the vampires of the Dark. On his rounds, Anton comes across a young woman, Svetlana, whom he realizes is under a curse that threatens the entire city, and a boy, Igor, a young Other, as yet unaware of his own enormous power. Partnered by Olga, an Other who is in the form of an owl, he struggles to remove the curse and thereby save the city, while at the same time prevent Igor from falling into the clutches of the Dark. The Night Watchexplores the nature of good and evil and the tensions between the individual and the collective in a gripping narrative that owes as much toThe Master and Margaritaas it is does to the richly realized worlds of Philip Pullman and Tolkien. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1272'),
(4005, 'Watch 02 The Day Watch', 'Sergei Lukyanenko', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are The Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to The Dark or The Light. In The Day Watch, second book of the Night Watch trilogy, Alice, a young but powerful Dark Other, attends a planning meeting with her comrades in the Day Watch. The team is on a mission to apprehend an uninitiated Other, a practicing Dark witch who has so far eluded the bureaux responsible for finding and initiating unlicensed practitioners of magic. It seems a routine operation. But when they arrive, the Night Watch team has already made the arrest. A fierce battle ensues, during which Alice almost dies. Drained of her powers, she is sent to recuperate at a youth camp near the Black Sea. There she meets Igor; the chemistry between them is instant and irresistible. But then comes a shattering realisation: Igor is a Light Mage. Suddenly Alice remembers him as one of those involved in the battle that left her crippled. Now that they know, there is no alternative to a magical duel, a battle that neither of them wants to win...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1271'),
(4006, 'Watch 03 The Twilight Watch', 'Sergei Lukyanenko', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. Night Watch Agent Anton Gorodetsky''s holiday is abruptly shortened when an urgent call from Gesar - his boss and Night Watch head - forces him to return to work. Gesar has received an anonymous note, stating that an Other has revealed the full truth about their kind to a human, and intends to convert the human in an Other. The note has also been sent to the Day Watch, and to the Inquisition - but only the very highest-level Others know the addresses. So the Inquisition orders the cooperation of Night and Day Watch in an effort to unmask the culprit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1274'),
(4007, 'Watch 04 The Last Watch', 'Sergei Lukyanenko', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While on holiday in Scotland, visiting a macabre tourist attraction, ''The Dungeons of Edinburgh'', a young Russian tourist is murdered. As the police grapples with the fact that the cause of the young man''s death was a massive loss of blood, the Watches are immediately aware that there is a renegade vampire on the loose. Anton - the hero of The Night Watch and The Day Watch - is detailed to this seemingly mundane investigation, but on arriving in Scotland begins to realise that there is much more to the story than a wildcat vampire and a single murder. Aided by Thomas, the head of Edinburgh''s Night Watch, Anton investigates and ruminates, and becomes aware that a team of unlicensed Others are hunting for a fabled magical treasure, hidden in the sixth level of the Twilight by Merlin himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1273'),
(4008, 'The Water Wars', 'Cameron Stracher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Living in an environmentally devastated world where water has become its most precious resource, Vera and her brother Will befriend a boy who seems to have unlimited access to fresh water and who suspiciously disappears, prompting a dangerous search challenged by pirates, a paramilitary group and greedy corporations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1063'),
(4009, 'We Need to Talk About Kevin', 'Lionel Shriver', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/784'),
(4010, 'The Weight of Silence', 'Heather Gudenkauf', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Calli Clark is a dreamer. A sweet, gentle girl, Callie suffers from selective mutism, bought on by a tragedy she experienced as a toddler. Her mother Antonia tries her best to help, but is confined by marriage to a violent husband.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1217'),
(4011, 'Wheel of Time 01 Eye of the World', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1420'),
(4012, 'Wheel of Time 02 The Great Hunt', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1421'),
(4013, 'Wheel of Time 03 The Dragon Reborn', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1422'),
(4014, 'Wheel of Time 04 The Shadow Rising', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1423'),
(4015, 'Wheel of Time 05 The Fires of Heaven', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1424'),
(4016, 'Wheel of Time 06 Lord of Chaos', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1425'),
(4017, 'Wheel of Time 07 Crown of Swords', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1426'),
(4018, 'Wheel of Time 08 The Path of Daggers', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1427'),
(4019, 'Wheel of Time 10 Crossroads of Twilight', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1430'),
(4020, 'Wheel of Time 12 Knife of Dreams', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1431'),
(4021, 'Wicked Lovely 01 Wicked Lovely', 'Melissa Marr', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/593'),
(4022, 'Wicked Lovely 02 Ink Exchange', 'Melissa Marr', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/594'),
(4023, 'Wicked Lovely 03 Fragile Eternity', 'Melissa Marr', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/592'),
(4024, 'Wicked Lovely 04 Radiant Shadows', 'Melissa Marr', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/599'),
(4025, 'Wild Cards 01 Wild Cards', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1378'),
(4026, 'Wild Cards 02 Aces High', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1379'),
(4027, 'Wild Cards 03 Jokers Wild', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1380'),
(4028, 'Wild Cards 04 Aces Abroad', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1381'),
(4029, 'Wild Cards 05 Down and Dirty', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1382'),
(4030, 'Wild Cards 06 Ace in the Hole', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1374'),
(4031, 'Wild Cards 07 Dead Man&#39;s Hand', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1375'),
(4032, 'Wild Cards 08 One-Eyed Jacks', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1376'),
(4033, 'Wild Cards 09 Jokertown Shuffle', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1377'),
(4034, 'Wild Justice', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It begins as a routine trip to South Africa. It ends in a nightmare for 400 passengers taken hostage. The hijacker is a beautiful pawn for an elusive figure-codename Caliph, whose campaign of terror has just begun. And the one man who rescued Flight 070 is the only man who can stop Caliph dead in his tracks.His name is Major Peter Stride, commanding agent of a crack team of anti-terrorist operatives. He''s used to doing battle-and winning. But when his help is sought by the mysterious widow of one of Caliph''s victims, and his own daughter is kidnapped, Stride plunges into a darker and more personal war than ever before. A war that will take him across the oceans and continents, closer to a shocking betrayal...and closer still to a madman who has the power to destroy the world and who knows Stride''s every move- down to what could be his last one...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/830'),
(4035, 'Wildflowers 01 Misty', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  During a group therapy session, Misty, the child of divorced parents who use her to inflict pain on each other, reveals her own dark secret, her hatred of her warring parents, in the first volume in the new Wildflowers miniseries.Â \n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1068'),
(4036, 'Wildflowers 02 Star', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Star hides her pain, like the other girls in the therapy group that''s supposed to help them. But she knows how she feels deep in her heart. Even though her mother and father are still alive, they are dead to her. But today, as her grandmother drives her to Doctor Marlowe''s for her group therapy session, Star knows it is her turn to reveal her secrets. She will tell her story to Doctor Marlowe, Misty, Cat and Jade, and she will finally face the dark nightmares of her past ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1069'),
(4037, 'Wildflowers 03 Jade', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Marlowe''s therapy group is filled with tragic stories, but no one can top Jade--a woman lured into madness and used as a pawn in a chilling courtroom drama. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1070'),
(4038, 'Wildflowers 04 Cat', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cat was new to Dr. Marlowe''s therapy group, but already she was jealous. The other girls were at each other all the time, but she could see that, in a funny way, they liked each other and liked to challenge and tease each other. Cat wanted them to like her, too. Who else would like her but these girls. When she saw the way some of the kids at school looked at her, it made her feel like a leper. She felt as if her face were made of glass and all her thoughts and memories were displayed for anyone to read . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1071'),
(4039, 'Wildflowers 05 Into the Garden', 'V.C. Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THEY BEGAN AS STRANGERS -- FOUR TEENAGE GIRLS WITH NOTHING IN COMMON BUT THEIR MISERABLE CHILDHOODS. SOON, THEY WOULD REALIZE THAT THEIR SECRET PASTS HAD BOUND THEM TOGETHER FOREVER....Misty, Star, Jade, and Cat first came together in Dr. Marlowe''s group therapy sessions. They trusted no one but each other -- and even that bond was fragile at best. One by one, each of the Wildflowers told her own story and bravely unveiled the inner wounds inflicted by years of lies, deceit, and untold family secrets; each revealed the shocking tales of how their parents hurt them, used them, or simply abandoned them. And as they shared their darkest feelings, they no longer felt like lost souls with nowhere to turn. Finally, years of loneliness and pain gave way to the realization that someone else in this world understood them. But then the sessions ended, and the girls didn''t know if they would ever see each other again.Now they are coming together one more time. Jade has sent out invitations to her parents'' mansion -- the sprawling, opulent home that served as a battleground for much of her young life. There, the four will rekindle their bonds of friendship and trust. But this time, away from Dr. Marlowe''s watchful eye, it will be different. Today, in the mansion''s attic, Star, Jade, Cat, and Misty will take each other''s hands and swear to tell the real truth -- the shattering secrets that lie deep within them like smoldering coals. And once the darkest secret of all is spoken aloud, there will be no turning back. For there may be some things the Wildflowers should leave buried forever....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1072'),
(4040, 'Witch 01 Once a Witch', 'Carolyn MacCullough', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/752'),
(4041, 'Witches of Santa Anna 01-07', 'Lauren Barnholdt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY AT A DISCOUNTED PRICE\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The complete set of the Witches of Santa Anna series of novellas...Includes CLAIMED, TRICKED, RUMORED, HUSHED, PURSUED, ENTICED, and RUINED.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Natalia Moore is the new girl at Santa Anna Prep, and all she wants to do is fly under the radar -- get to her classes, meet a few friends, and try not to make a total fool of herself in the meantime. But when handsome and popular Campbell Elliot goes out of his way to be nice to the new girl, Natalia''s plan to go unnoticed flies out the window.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Camâ€™s hot, but heâ€™s completely off-limits. Raine Marsden, the most popular and meanest girl in school, has had her eye on him ever since the summer. And Raine doesnâ€™t like competition.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Cam goes as far as inviting Natalia to the exclusive weekend party at Raine''s house, Raine sets her sights on a new victim. But what Natalia doesn''t know is that Raine and her friends are no ordinary mean girls. They have powers most people can only dream of, and nobody will stand in the way of what they want. And what Raine wants is Campbell.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Witches of Santa Anna series of novellas, proves just how far true love will go and that nothing--not even pure evil--can change your destinyâ€¦.\n </p>\n <p>\n  NOTE: This compilation contains all seven novellas in the series, CLAIMED, TRICKED, RUMORED, HUSHED, ENTICED, PURSUED, and RUINED...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1318'),
(4042, 'Witches of Santa Anna 08 Denial', 'Lauren Barnholdt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  DENIAL, Book Eight in the Witches of Santa Anna series of novellas....\n </p>\n <p>\n  In Season One of The Witches of Santa Anna, Natalia and Cam had to fight to be together.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In Season Two, they''ll fight even harder not to lose each other.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With Raine gone, Cam and Natalia believe the worst is behind them. But Raineâ€™s left a trail of collateral damage in her wake.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Camâ€™s starting to realize that he canâ€™t protect Natalia from the forces out to take her from him. And Natalia still canâ€™t figure out who to trust.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Everyone at Santa Anna is on edge, wondering when Raineâ€™s going to come back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Because the thing about Raine? She doesnâ€™t give up that easily. She has friends. Powerful friends. Friends that want to make sure Cam and Natalia donâ€™t stay together.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And in the end, Cam and Natalia will be forced to battle something more powerful than they ever imagined.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alliances will be broken. Bonds will be tested. Questions will be answered. And you wonâ€™t believe how it all turns out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With new characters, new dangers, and new secrets, Season Two of the Witches of Santa Anna proves that true love conquers all and that nothing â€“ not even pure evil â€“ can change your destiny....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1319'),
(4043, 'Wolves of Mercy Falls 01 Shiver', 'Maggie Stiefvater', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/552'),
(4044, 'Wolves of Mercy Falls 02 Linger', 'Maggie Stiefvater', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/582'),
(4045, 'Wondrous Strange 01 Wondrous Strange', 'Lesley Livingston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/601'),
(4046, 'Wondrous Strange 02 Darklight', 'Lesley Livingston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/602'),
(4047, 'Wuthering Heights', 'Emily Bronte', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/642'),
(4048, 'Zodiac', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Zodiac, the brilliant second novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the The Baroque Cycle and Snow Crash, is now available from Grove Press. Meet Sangamon Taylor, a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evilâ€”all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places. Before long Taylorâ€™s house is bombed, his every move followed, heâ€™s adopted by reservation Indians, moves onto the FBIâ€™s most wanted list, makes up with his girlfriend, and plays a starring role in the near-assassination of a presidential candidate. Closing the case with the aid of his burnout roommate, his tofu-eating comrades, three major networks, and a range of unconventional weaponry, Sangamon Taylor pulls off the most startling caper in Boston Harbor since the Tea Party.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://nicky7a.no-ip.org:3316/get/thumb_90_120/1052'),
(4049, '[Gideon 03]', 'Dying for Revenge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1528'),
(4050, '[RIOT]', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/924'),
(4051, '2011 Baby Names Almanac', 'Emily Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/842'),
(4052, 'Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment', 'Steve Harvey &amp; Denene Millner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Steve Harvey, the host of the nationally syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show, can''t count the number of impressive women he''s met over the years, whether it''s through the "Strawberry Letters" segment of his program or while on tour for his comedy shows. Yet when it comes to relationships, they can''t figure out what makes men tick. Why? According to Steve it''s because they''re asking other women for advice when no one but another man can tell them how to find and keep a man. In Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve lets women inside the mindset of a man and sheds light on concepts and questions such as:    The Ninety Day Rule: Ford requires it of its employees. Should you require it of your man?    The five questions every woman should ask a man to determine how serious he is.   And much more . . .    Sometimes funny, sometimes direct, but always truthful, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is a book you must read if you want to understand how men think when it comes to relationships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1865'),
(4053, 'Acts of Congress', 'Snapper, Red', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1096'),
(4054, 'Addicted', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For successful African-American businesswoman Zoe Reynard, finding the pleasure she wants, the way she wants it, is not worth the risk of losing everything she has: marriage to the man she has loved since childhood, a thriving company, three wonderful children. But Zoe feels helpless in the grip of an overpowering addiction...to sex.Finding a compassionate woman therapist to help her, Zoe finally summons the courage to tell her torrid story, a tale of guilt and desire as shocking as it is compelling. From the sensitive artist with whom she spends stolen hours on rumpled sheets to the rough and violent man who draws her toward destruction,Zoe is a woman desperately searching for fulfillment -- and something darker, deeper, and perhaps deadly. As her life spins out of control and her sexual escapades carry her toward a dangerous choice, Zoe is racing against time to uncover the source of her "fatal attraction" -- as chilling secrets tumble forth from the recesses of a woman''s mind, and perilous temptations lead toward a climax that can threaten her sanity, her marriage...and her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/762'),
(4055, 'Addicted', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1474'),
(4056, 'Aesop&#39;s Fables', 'Aesop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Aesop''s Fables, by Aesop, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. As legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modern-day readers. Translated into countless languages and familiar to people around the world, Aesopâ€™s fables never tarnish despite being told again and again. This collection presents nearly 300 of Aesopâ€™s most entertaining and enduring storiesâ€”from â€œThe Hare and the Tortoiseâ€ and â€œThe Town Mouse and the Country Mouseâ€ to â€œThe Goose That Laid the Golden Eggsâ€ and â€œThe Wolf in Sheepâ€™s Clothing.â€ Populated by a colorful array of animal characters who personify every imaginable human typeâ€”from fiddling grasshoppers and diligent ants to sly foxes, wicked wolves, brave mice, and grateful lionsâ€”these timeless tales are as fresh and relevant today as when they were first created. Full of humor, insight, and wit, the tales in Aesopâ€™s Fables champion the value of hard work and perseverance, compassion for others, and honesty. They are age-old wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and children alike.D. L. Ashliman is emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He taught folklore, mythology, German, and comparative literature at that institution for thirty-one years. He has also served as guest professor at the University of Augsburg in Germany.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/849'),
(4057, 'Aesop&#39;s Fables (Penguin Classics)', 'Aesop', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sardonic, wry and wise, Aesop''s Fables are some of the most enduring and well-loved literary creations in history. In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. Here we see a wily fox outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock him. Each jewel-like fable provides a warning about the consequences of wrong-doing, as well as offering a glimpse into the everyday lives of Ancient Greeks.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  AESOP probably lived in the middle part of the sixth century BC. A statement in Herodotus gives grounds for thinking that he was a slave.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/850'),
(4058, 'Afterburn', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/987'),
(4059, 'Afterburn: a novel', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the latest romantic romp from *New York Times* bestselling author Zane, two hapless lovers get lost in a dating game gone awry. When Washington, D.C., chiropractor Yardley Brown goes to his local bank, it isn''t only to make deposits into his account. He has long since accrued some interest in Rayne Waters, a bank employee who''s too beautiful to be true -- and too beautiful to be single. At least that''s what Yardley believes, which is why he has never approached her. Little does he know that Rayne is anything but taken. Not for want of trying, of course. But after barely surviving a dating disaster with her hairdresser''s brother and then falling for a member of her church band who, it turns out, is celibate, she''s on the verge of giving up. That is, until Yardley -- discouraged by his own slew of dead-end romances -- finally works up the courage to give her a try. The true craziness, however, is just beginning, thanks to a cast of characters who seem bent on botching the young couple''s relationship. There''s Rayne''s erratic mother, who constantly boasts about being a "good whore"; Yardley''s playboy buddies, always trolling for sex; and, worst of all, past lovers who make a habit of popping up and ruining things as only old flames (or previous mistakes) can. Weaving the carnal and the comical in true Zane fashion, Rayne and Yardley''s struggle to find love in a world gone mad is a timeless talk about everything that can go wrong in the dating game -- and a few things that can go right.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/804'),
(4060, 'Alibi', 'Teri Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1055'),
(4061, 'ALittleDare', 'A Little Dare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/885'),
(4062, 'All About The Money', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1565'),
(4063, 'All Or Nothing', 'Karrington, Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1542'),
(4064, 'All That Drama', 'McKinney, Tina Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1029'),
(4065, 'Allergic 2 Broke', 'Carrey, Teruka', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1514'),
(4066, 'And Mistress Makes Three', 'Francis Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1400'),
(4067, 'Angel&#39;s Revenge', 'Teri Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1056'),
(4068, 'Animals In War', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1359'),
(4069, 'Another Tear', 'Bee, Traci', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/787'),
(4070, 'Another Time, Another Place', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/995'),
(4071, 'Any Way the Wind Blows', 'E. Lynn Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1394'),
(4072, 'Appassionata', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1149'),
(4073, 'Baby Brother', '50 Cent &amp; NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1152'),
(4074, 'Baby Brother&#39;s Blues', 'Pearl Cleage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1058'),
(4075, 'Babylon Sisters', 'Pearl Cleage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1018'),
(4076, 'Bachelor Undone', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/905'),
(4077, 'Bachelor Undone', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Every woman wants him. But he only wants her.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Darcy Owens leaves snowy New York for some Jamaican fun in the sun, the city planner isn''t expecting to meet the hero of her fantasies. But the sexy, sun-kissed man she sees her first day on the beach comes pretty close. Until he turns out to be York Ellis, the drop-dead-gorgeous but supremely arrogant ex-cop who thinks she needs his protectionâ€¦and his passion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When York looks at Darcy, he knows she''s the woman he''d give his life for. So when Darcy finds herself in peril, the security expert vows to safeguard her. Now it''s not only his body at risk. It''s his heart he''s in danger of losing when she tempts him with the one thing the sworn bachelor never dreamed he''d find: passionate, glorious love.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Jackson is a master at writing... "\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Publishers Weekly on SENSUAL CONFESSIONS\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sexy, and sizzling..."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Library Journal on INTIMATE SEDUCTION\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Darcy stood on the balcony and glanced out at the beach. It was hard to believe this was her third day in Jamaica and she was just getting out of her hotel room today for the first time. She, who rarely got sick, had gotten a stomach virus her first day and had stayed in her hotel room in bed. What a bummer of a way to start off her vacation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The good thing was that today she was feeling like her old self again, and she intended to spend as much time outside as she possibly could. She had lost two valuable days, but from here on out it was full steam ahead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When she had checked in, the hotel clerk had given her a list of the hotel''s activities for the week, and tonight they would be hosting a classy beach party. Her health had improved just in time. A party was the last thing she wanted to miss.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She turned away from the window and crossed the room to glance at herself in the full-length mirror. She had purchased the wide-brimmed straw hat from a gift shop at the airport, and the sundress she was wearing had caught her eye the moment she''d seen it at Macy''s over the summer. At the time, a trip to Jamaica had been just a fancy, and in a way, it was hard to believe she was actually here.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Instead of donning a bikini and lying on the beach today, she thought she would take a tour of the island and get some sightseeing in. She had purchased a new digital camera and intended to put it to good use. And she definitely intended to do some shopping. When she had visited Jamaica a few years agoâ€”a college graduation present from her parentsâ€”she had purchased several pieces of jewelry that had been handcrafted by an island woman. Darcy intended to see if the small shop near the pier was still there. There were several more pieces she would love to add to her collection.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She glanced around the room. Since she would be here for three weeks she''d decided to get one of the residential suites, and she loved it. It was huge and spacious, and although it was costing her a pretty penny, it was worth it. Besides, she deserved it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The furniture in the sitting area was elegant and the decor colors of cream, yellow, mint green and plum perfectly reflected an island theme. Floor-to-ceiling windows lined one wall and provided a balcony view of the water.\n </p>\n <p>\n  French doors led from the sitting room directly into the bedroom, which had its own balcony. There was nothing like waking up to the beauty of the Caribbean Sea. But it was the bathroom that she''d found simply breathtaking. It had a dressing room area and a closet large enough to camp out in if the need arose. Then there was the humongous Jacuzzi tub that could hold several couples if you were inclined to get that kinkyâ€¦which she wasn''t. She wasn''t into sharing of any kind when it came to relationships.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Grabbing her purse off the table, she headed for the door. It was a beautiful day, and she planned to spend as much of it as she could outside. Then she would return and take a shower and a nap before getting ready for the party tonight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  York walked along the pier. It hadn''t taken any time to get his game plan in place and head toward the island. Jamaica was beautiful, but unlike all the other times he came to the island, he was here for business.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Regardless of what Malcolm thought, every member of the cast and crew was a suspect. His team had divided the list, and every single person was being checked out. He was hoping it wouldn''t take long to expose the culprit since he planned to spend the holidays back in the States. His parents had moved to Seattle a few years ago and luckily didn''t expect everyone to show up on their doorsteps for the holidays. In fact, as long as he could remember, once he and his siblings began having lives of their own, his parents would spend the holidays in Toronto, visiting friends they had there. Usually York would spend a quiet Christmas at home, and those times he wanted company, he had five sets of godparents he could visit.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Most people knew the story as to how six guys who''d met and become best friends while attending More-house had on graduation day made a pact to stay in touch by becoming godfathers to each of their children and that the firstborn sons'' names would carry the letters of the alphabet from\n  <em>\n   U\n  </em>\n  to\n  <em>\n   Z.\n  </em>\n  And that was how Uriel Lassiter, Virgil Bougard, Winston Coltrane, Xavier Kane, York Ellis and Zion Blackstone had come into existence. He was close to his godparents and god-brothers and couldn''t imagine them not being a part of his life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He checked his watch. A couple of his men had checked in already with their reports, and it was obvious Malcolm didn''t know some of his people as well as he thought he did. However, there was nothing to indicate any of them could be suspected of anything other than engaging in a number of illicit affairs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  York glanced around and saw he was the object of several women''s attention. He didn''t mind, and if he''d had the time, he would even indulge their fantasies. He was well aware that a number of women came to the island alone to get their groove on. They were man-hunters who were only looking for a good time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He kept walking. He was on assignment, and there wasn''t a woman he''d met yet who could make him take his mind off work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Darcy squinted against the brightness of the sun while moving from shop to shop in Montego Bay. Reggae music seemed to be playing just about everywhere. Pausing, she pulled out her sunglasses to shield her eyes from the sun. It was hard to believe how bright it shone here when, according to weather reports, it was still snowing in New York.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She stopped at a fruit stand, admiring the basket of strawberries, all plump and ripe, when something out of the corner of her eye caught her attention.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A man.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And boy, what a man he was. She could only see his profile, but even from almost fifteen feet away she could tell he was a fine specimen of the opposite sex. He was in a squatting position, going through a rack of T-shirts that some peddler was trying to sell him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Darcy tilted the sunglasses a little off her eyes to get a better view, deciding she didn''t want to miss anythingâ€”especially the way the denim of his jeans managed to stretch tight across his thighs. And the way his shoulders filled the shirt he was wearing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He stood up a little and his tushâ€”OMG, it was definitely the kind a woman would drool over. She bet they were perfect masculine cheeks, firm and fine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her mind began working, and she immediately began seeing him as a hero from one of the romance novels she read.\n  <em>\n   But which one?\n  </em>\n  she asked herself, thumping her finger against her chin.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She immediately thought of Jansen Trumble, the bad boy from the spicy novel\n  <em>\n   Mine Until Morning.\n  </em>\n  That had been one hot book, and even after reading it at least four or five times, she would give just about anything to have a rumble with Trumble. She settled her sunglasses back on her eyes thinking if she couldn''t have the fictional Trumble then a lookalike would have to suffice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Miss, would you like to try some of my strawberries? I just rinsed this batch off. I bet you''d like them."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her attention was pulled momentarily away from the gorgeous hunk when an island woman offered her a tray of fresh strawberries, sill wet from a recent rinsing. "Thanks, I''d love to try one."\n </p>\n <p>\n  She popped a strawberry in her mouth, immediately enjoying the taste when the sweet flavor burst on her tongue . It was wet, juicy and so delicious. That made her glance back over at the man. Now he was standing to his full height as he continued to consider the T-shirts. He was tall, and she could see just how well built he was.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She tilted her head, thinking there was something about him that was oddly familiar, although she had yet to see his features. Like her, he was wearing sunglasses. His were aviators. And even from a distance she could tell he was an American. He had chocolate colored skin, and his dark hair was cut close to his head.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Delicious, miss?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  She glanced back at the woman and smiled, remembering they were talking about the strawberries and not the man. "Yes, definitely delicious."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Would you like another?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Darcy chuckled. She hadn''t intended on being greedy but since the woman askedâ€¦ "Yes, I''d love another."\n </p>\n <p>\n  She put another strawberry into her mouth, and when she glanced back over at the man, she saw he was staring over at her. Facing him, she immediately recognized him and almost choked on the strawberry in her mouth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  York Ellis!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Even wearing sunglasses she would know him anywhere. The shape of his mouth and his chiseled jaw would give him away each time. What the heck was he doing here?\n </p>\n <p>\n  She felt irritation invade her entire body. Staring into his handsome face did nothing to calm her rising anger. Her best friend was married to one of his godbrothers, so they were usually invited to the same family functions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She and York always managed to rub each other the wrong way whenever they would run into each other. Things had been that way between them since the time they''d met at Ellie and Uriel''s wedding two years ago. During that time, her ex-husband Harold had tried threatening her to take him back. York had tried coming on to her at the reception. She had been in a bad mood at the time and had rebuffed his advances. Evidently he hadn''t taken rejection well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He removed his sunglasses and stood staring across the way at her, evidently as surprised to see her as she was to see him. She felt her body get hot under his intense stare but forced her emotions to stay in check. She certainly couldn''t be that hard up for a man that she would be attracted to him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And this wasn''t just any man. It was York Ellis. He was arrogant. Cocky. Too damn sure of himself at times to suit her. So why was she having such a hard time dragging her gaze from him? Why instead was she allowing her eyes to roam all over him, taking in how well he fit his jeans, his shirt? And then, there was his looksâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  So, okay he had a nice looking...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1632'),
(4078, 'Bachelor Untamed', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/874'),
(4079, 'Backstage: Street Chronicles', 'Nikki Turner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1120'),
(4080, 'Bad Boy', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/954'),
(4081, 'Ballers Bitches', 'Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Follow the lives of Diamond, Kennedy and Blair in the new series Baller Bitches. Diamond has decided to upgrade her life and not be the naive girl her baby daddy disrespected and took for granted, but will her new status put her life in danger? Kennedy is determined to take what she''s learned in the entertainment business to become a mogul of her own but is she equipped to handle the cutthroat tactics that come along with it? Blair has always felt she wasn''t good enough to make it in the glamourous world of show business but when she''s finally presented an opportunity to shine does she have what it takes or will she give into her insecurities. Find out in Baller Bitches where the saga will continue with a new story every 2 months.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Also read the first chapter of Boss Bitch which is coming soon!!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1518'),
(4082, 'Bankroll Squad', 'Weaver, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/811'),
(4083, 'Bankroll Squad 2: Kyla&#39;s Revenge', 'Weaver, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/812'),
(4084, 'Bankroll Squad 3: The Finale', 'Weaver, David &amp; Tina Nance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/821');
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(4085, 'Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage', 'Christopher Andersen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "She is my rockâ€”the one person who keeps it real." â€”Barack "I don''t want anybody to think that it''s easy. . . . We have a strong marriage, but it''s not perfect." â€”Michelle They exploded onto the world scene and within a matter of a few short years captured the ultimate political prize. In so doing, they became a First Couple like no other: Heâ€”the biracial son of a free-spirited Kansas-born woman and a mercurial Kenyan father who abandoned him at an early ageâ€”was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, educated at Columbia and Harvard, and launched his political career in America''s heartland. She, by contrast, was the product of a solidly middle-American family with roots planted firmly in Chicago''s working-class South Sideâ€”paving the way for her to achieve her dreams of an Ivy League education and a position at one of the nation''s top law firms. By the time they claimed the White House in one of the most hotly contested presidential races in modern history, Barack and Michelle Obama were seen by millions around the world as the new Jack and Jackie Kennedyâ€”brilliant, attractive, elegant, youthful, *exciting*. Accompanied by their two young daughters, Malia and Sasha, the Obamas would arrive at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the promise of a new Camelot all but assured. Given the obvious historic significance of what they have accomplished together, the marriage of Barack and Michelle stands as one of the great personal and political partnerships in American history. Yet, incredibly, the true nature of that relationship has remained a mystery. Until now. In the style of his No. 1 *New York Times* bestsellers *The Day Diana Died* and *The Day John Died*, as well as his bestselling books about the Kennedys, the Clintons, and the Bushes, author Christopher Andersen draws on important sourcesâ€”some speaking here for the first timeâ€”to paint the first complete, compelling portrait of America''s first black First Family. Among the many intriguing insights and stunning revelations: New behind-the-scenes details of the Obamas'' courtship and marriageâ€”and the lovers who went before. The early tragedies that shaped both Barack''s and Michelle''s personalities, and how those events haunt them to this day. Also, new information about Barack''s rootless childhood, at times tortured adolescence, and the true extent of his early drug use. How Barack''s ambition put a strain on their relationship from the very beginning, how close the Obamas really came to breaking up, and how Michelle made the difficult decision that saved their marriage. The little-known near-tragedy that brought Barack and Michelle closer than they had ever been. How Michelle may have saved her husband''s presidential campaign, and her surprising behind-the-scenes role as the president''s chief advisor. The pressures and delights of raising two young girls in the relentless glare of the media, and how, like Jack and Jackie Kennedy before them, Barack and Michelle strive to make the lives of America''s two most famous children as "normal" as possible. *Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage* is an intimate and ultimately riveting look at their unique partnership, and the humor, faith, fortitude, and grace that defines it. It is, above all, an extraordinary American love story. EDITORIAL REVIEW: "She is my rockâ€”the one person who keeps it real." â€”Barack "I don''t want anybody to think that it''s easy. . . . We have a strong marriage, but it''s not perfect." â€”Michelle They exploded onto the world scene and within a matter of a few short years captured the ultimate political prize. In so doing, they became a First Couple like no other: Heâ€”the biracial son of a free-spirited Kansas-born woman and a mercurial Kenyan father who abandoned him at an early ageâ€”was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, educated at Columbia and Harvard, and launched his political career in America''s heartland. She, by contrast, was the product of a solidly middle-American family with roots planted firmly in Chicago''s working-class South Sideâ€”paving the way for her to achieve her dreams of an Ivy League education and a position at one of the nation''s top law firms. By the time they claimed the White House in one of the most hotly contested presidential races in modern history, Barack and Michelle Obama were seen by millions around the world as the new Jack and Jackie Kennedyâ€”brilliant, attractive, elegant, youthful, *exciting*. Accompanied by their two young daughters, Malia and Sasha, the Obamas would arrive at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the promise of a new Camelot all but assured. Given the obvious historic significance of what they have accomplished together, the marriage of Barack and Michelle stands as one of the great personal and political partnerships in American history. Yet, incredibly, the true nature of that relationship has remained a mystery. Until now. In the style of his No. 1 *New York Times* bestsellers *The Day Diana Died* and *The Day John Died*, as well as his bestselling books about the Kennedys, the Clintons, and the Bushes, author Christopher Andersen draws on important sourcesâ€”some speaking here for the first timeâ€”to paint the first complete, compelling portrait of America''s first black First Family. Among the many intriguing insights and stunning revelations: New behind-the-scenes details of the Obamas'' courtship and marriageâ€”and the lovers who went before. The early tragedies that shaped both Barack''s and Michelle''s personalities, and how those events haunt them to this day. Also, new information about Barack''s rootless childhood, at times tortured adolescence, and the true extent of his early drug use. How Barack''s ambition put a strain on their relationship from the very beginning, how close the Obamas really came to breaking up, and how Michelle made the difficult decision that saved their marriage. The little-known near-tragedy that brought Barack and Michelle closer than they had ever been. How Michelle may have saved her husband''s presidential campaign, and her surprising behind-the-scenes role as the president''s chief advisor. The pressures and delights of raising two young girls in the relentless glare of the media, and how, like Jack and Jackie Kennedy before them, Barack and Michelle strive to make the lives of America''s two most famous children as "normal" as possible. *Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage* is an intimate and ultimately riveting look at their unique partnership, and the humor, faith, fortitude, and grace that defines it. It is, above all, an extraordinary American love story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/822'),
(4086, 'Basketball Jones', 'E. Lynn Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1391'),
(4087, 'Be With Me', 'Maya Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   She has a killer on her tail and three men in her bed?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  An author who knows how to please turns up the Heat in a sizzling new novel of erotic suspense?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hutch, Cam, and Sawyer were juvenile delinquents when they formed a friendship with the wealthy but lonely Regina. She felt loved for the first time in her life?by all three. Today she?s a police officer and wary of resuming her relationship with the hot trio?until an attempt is made on her life. When they jump in to protect her, an all-new bond is formed, one riskier than ever before because now a killer looms in the shadows.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is\n  <strong>\n   Maya Banks\n  </strong>\n  â€™ third novel for Berkley.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1289'),
(4088, 'Bedroom Chronicles: An Anthology', 'Jamise L. Dames &amp; Brenda L. Thomas &amp; Amaleka McCall &amp; Anna J.', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  What really goes on behind closed doors? BEDROOM CHRONICLES, an anthology offering four degrees of heat from four bestselling authors, reveals all. Taking readers on a steamy ride, Bedroom Chronicles turns up the heat, page by page, and allows an intimate view into the lives of Shaila, Celeste, Denim, and Cherise, four very different woman who have one thing in commonâ€”an ultimate fire coupled with desire. Shaila forgot the cardinal rule on how to keep a man: Be a lady in the streets and a freak in the sheets, and now she must master it to save her relationship. In The Rebounder, she learns her game and plays her position, and receives a lesson: stay on top of your business or someone else will climb on it for you. Enjoying the thrill of her steamy journey, she has to question just how far sheâ€™s willing to go because sometimes thereâ€™s no turning back. Is it a crime to love someone to death? In A Crime of Passion, Celeste and Byron take their vows to another level, bringing out their wild sides and showing a level of passion in their marriage that is beyond reason. The ride you will take in this stunning court case leaves nothing to the imagination, and is truly one you will never forget. Demin Nelson is a wealthy heiress with an insatiable sex drive. She can afford to buy anything and anyone she wants, except Amare Douglas, a sexy gardener with a secret who proves to be her sexual match. In her quest to own him, Denim becomes obsessed with his bedroom work, and walks on the wild side to keep him. When prominent anesthesiologist and overachiever, Cherise Grant can''t get the men she wants, she blames her looks, weight and boring lifestyle. To combat loneliness, she comes up with The Experiment and discovers an alternative method to get the control over men she has always desired. Cherise''s plan, though unethical, becomes the best outlet she''s ever had.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œCaptivating and powerful! Dames seduces with an alarming, tightly woven dose of deceit, passion, and strength.â€Â  â€”Noire, author,\n  </em>\n  G-Spot\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  Unzipped\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jamise L. Dames\n  </strong>\n  is a public speaker, a published songwriter, a book columnist, and a teen advocate. She is the author of\n  <em>\n   Mommaâ€™s Baby, Daddyâ€™s Maybe\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Pushing Up Daisies\n  </em>\n  . She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.\n  <strong>\n   Brenda L. Thomas\n  </strong>\n  speaks with women about domestic violence and manages her own marketing company. She is the author of\n  <em>\n   Fourplay, Laying Down My Burdens, Threesome,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Velvet Rope\n  </em>\n  . She lives in Philadelphia.\n  <strong>\n   Amaleka McCall\n  </strong>\n  holds a masters degree in public administration. She is the author of\n  <em>\n   HUSH, Myra,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Twisted Tale of Karma\n  </em>\n  . She lives in Woodbridge, Virginia.\n  <strong>\n   Anna J.\n  </strong>\n  is the author of\n  <em>\n   My Woman, His Wife\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Snow White\n  </em>\n  . She lives in Philadelphia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1437'),
(4089, 'Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (like me)', 'Harper, Lexy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/823'),
(4090, 'Before I Go To Sleep', 'Watson, S J', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1585'),
(4091, 'Before I Let Go', 'Darren Coleman', '<div class="comments">\n<p align="center">\n An\n <i>\n  Essence\n </i>\n bestseller,\n <i>\n  Before I Let Go\n </i>\n <br />\n is the sexy story of three male best friends'' dramatic search\n <br />\n for love, intimacy, and the perfect relationship.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nate is a D-O-G with an obsession for conquering as many women as possible. But when he breaks his own rules and falls for two women at the same time, all hell breaks loose. Brendan is the type of man every woman claims to want -- at least until she gets one. Will he ever find a woman as sweet as he is, or is he doomed to be the poster child for "Good Guys Who Love Bad Girls"? Cory is successful, smart, and handsome. He''s never gotten over his first love, and when he moves back to his hometown, he has to face secrets and make decisions that will change his life forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n <i>\n  Before I Let Go\n </i>\n is a sizzling, entertaining tale of how men come to terms -- in the most startling ways -- with lust, love, and life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1346'),
(4092, 'Beg Me', 'Lisa Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/832'),
(4093, 'Begonia Brown: A Philadelphia Story', 'Simmons, Julia Press', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1523'),
(4094, 'Behind Closed Doors', 'Kimberla Lawson Roby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1143'),
(4095, 'Behind The Veil', 'Suzetta Perkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1027'),
(4096, 'Behind the Veil', 'Suzetta Perkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1473'),
(4097, 'Bella', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1354'),
(4098, 'Beloved', 'Toni Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:Â \n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Setheâ€™s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1031'),
(4099, 'Beneath The Surface', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1562'),
(4100, 'The Best of Everything', 'Kimberla Lawson Roby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1154'),
(4101, 'Betrayal The 2nd Deadly Sin KDP', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1226'),
(4102, 'Betrayed', 'Suzetta Perkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  <i>\n   Nineteen years after she was raped, Mimi Bailey makes a desperate attempt to protect her secret when she returns to the scene of the crime.\n  </i>\n </b>\n</p>\n<p>\n Setrina "Mimi" Bailey is carrying a nineteen-year-old secret that she''d like to remain hidden forever. However, a move to Durham, North Carolina, threatens to expose her secret and forever disrupt the lives of those she''s protected from the truth all those years.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mimi Bailey was raped by Victor Christianson, her best friend Brenda''s fianc&#233;, while they were in college. Now, Mimi''s daughter, Afrika, who is eighteen years old and college bound, wants to further her education at the same college where her mother still bears the scars of the crime. Mimi is unsuccessful in changing Afrika''s mind. And when Victor gets wind that Mimi is back in the area and has a daughter who looks very much like his own, he stops at nothing to chase them out of town and eliminate the reminder of his infidelity.\n</p>\n<p>\n A complex tale of mystery...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/999'),
(4103, 'Between My Thighs: An Urban Erotic Tale', 'Naija', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/833'),
(4104, 'Beyond Temptation', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/873'),
(4105, 'Big Girls Do Cry', 'Carl Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/860'),
(4106, 'Big Juicy Lips', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/848'),
(4107, 'Big Juicy Lips', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1485'),
(4108, 'Billie Jo', 'Kimberley Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1168'),
(4109, 'Bitch', 'Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Precious Cummings came from nothing but was determined to have it all. Using her most deadly weapons-undeniable beauty, body and street savvy brains, Precious sets out to change the cards that she had been dealt. After meeting Nico Carter, a man who can help her achieve her goals, virtually overnight she is on her way. Precious quickly transforms from Project Chick to Hood Queen and is determined to hold on to her position even if it means crossing the man who made it possible. Set on revenge, Precious gambles it all in her quest to gain everything. Just when she believes the dice have rolled in her favor, Precious has to answer for the web of deceit that she has set in motion.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n To my loyal readers after a long legal battle, All rights to the Bitch Series belong exclusively to me! I''m re-releasing Bitch, Bitch Reloaded and The Bitch Is Back under A King Production. As always I appreciate your support and I hope to continue writing books you all enjoy!!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/834'),
(4110, 'Bitch', 'Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Precious Cummings came from nothing but was determined to have it all. Using her most deadly weapons-undeniable beauty, body and street savvy brains, Precious sets out to change the cards that she had been dealt. After meeting Nico Carter, a man who can help her achieve her goals, virtually overnight she is on her way. Precious quickly transforms from Project Chick to Hood Queen and is determined to hold on to her position even if it means crossing the man who made it possible. Set on revenge, Precious gambles it all in her quest to gain everything. Just when she believes the dice have rolled in her favor, Precious has to answer for the web of deceit that she has set in motion.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n To my loyal readers after a long legal battle, All rights to the Bitch Series belong exclusively to me! I''m re-releasing Bitch, Bitch Reloaded and The Bitch Is Back under A King Production. As always I appreciate your support and I hope to continue writing books you all enjoy!!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1647'),
(4111, 'Bitch Chronicles', 'Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Bitch Chronicles is a Special Collector''s Edition of the entire Bitch Series. If you''ve read Bitch, Bitch Reloaded, The Bitch Is Back, Queen Bitch and Last Bitch Standing, here is an opportunity to have this captivating saga in one book. If you''re unfamiliar with the characters get ready to go on a thrilling ride of how one woman''s determination took her from having nothing to gaining it all. This is where the journey began for Precious Cummings.\n</p>\n<p>\n The saga continues in Bitch A New Beginning with her daughter Aaliyah.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/835'),
(4112, 'The Bitch Is Back', 'Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Precious Cummings is more ruthless than ever in Part 3 of the Bitch series. In The Bitch Is Back, Precious is relishing in every hood queen s dream life. She has her king, Supreme, and her princess, their daughter Aaliyah. With an estate in Beverly Hills, a fleet of luxurious cars and endless cash flow, the drama Precious experienced in the gritty streets of New York is a distant memory ... or so she thought. Without warning, Precious worst nightmare becomes a reality. Pretty Boy Mike, the man who brutally raped Precious and who plotted to have her husband Supreme killed, has escaped from prison. With her life in danger, Precious resorts to what she knows best murder and mayhem to defend herself and the people she loves. Hell hath no fury than a gangsta chick out to protect what she cherishes the most her family. Brace yourself as Precious again wreaks havoc from West to East Coast battling her most treacherous enemy yet.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in California, Maryland and North Carolina, Deja King represents a new breed of writers producing young, hip and sexy novels that introduce readers to street life in all its complexity. Having worked and studied in such high-profile institutions as The Terrie Williams Agency, the Lee Strasburg Theater Institute and Click Radio, King has rubbed elbows with celebrities, athletes and artists. Opting to take a break from industry challenges, King changed direction to explore something even more wonderful -- motherhood. King welcomed her son, Logan Michael, into the world in mid 2001. It was during this time that she discovered her love for writing. Deja King is the author of the Triple Crown titles Bitch and Bitch Reloaded. Now, with the release of the highly anticipated The Bitch is Back, which is Part 3 of the Bitch series, Ms. King once again finds herself in good company.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/949'),
(4113, 'The Bitch Is Back', 'Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Precious Cummings is more ruthless than ever in Part 3 of the Bitch series. In The Bitch Is Back, Precious is relishing in every hood queen s dream life. She has her king, Supreme, and her princess, their daughter Aaliyah. With an estate in Beverly Hills, a fleet of luxurious cars and endless cash flow, the drama Precious experienced in the gritty streets of New York is a distant memory ... or so she thought. Without warning, Precious worst nightmare becomes a reality. Pretty Boy Mike, the man who brutally raped Precious and who plotted to have her husband Supreme killed, has escaped from prison. With her life in danger, Precious resorts to what she knows best murder and mayhem to defend herself and the people she loves. Hell hath no fury than a gangsta chick out to protect what she cherishes the most her family. Brace yourself as Precious again wreaks havoc from West to East Coast battling her most treacherous enemy yet.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in California, Maryland and North Carolina, Deja King represents a new breed of writers producing young, hip and sexy novels that introduce readers to street life in all its complexity. Having worked and studied in such high-profile institutions as The Terrie Williams Agency, the Lee Strasburg Theater Institute and Click Radio, King has rubbed elbows with celebrities, athletes and artists. Opting to take a break from industry challenges, King changed direction to explore something even more wonderful -- motherhood. King welcomed her son, Logan Michael, into the world in mid 2001. It was during this time that she discovered her love for writing. Deja King is the author of the Triple Crown titles Bitch and Bitch Reloaded. Now, with the release of the highly anticipated The Bitch is Back, which is Part 3 of the Bitch series, Ms. King once again finds herself in good company.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1648'),
(4114, 'Bitch Reloaded', 'Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The femme fatale of the streets is back and she s deadlier than ever. Precious miraculously survives her brush with death, but the celebration is cut short when tragedy strikes. Convinced that Nico Carter is responsible for ripping her world apart, Precious'' sole purpose for living is to make him pay in blood. The street life that she left behind calls her name as Precious wreaks havoc on anyone who stands in her way of getting revenge. While on her path of destruction, new enemies arise and old friends resurface, complicating Precious plans to bring Nico down. But soon she realizes that everything isn''t what it seems. Will the dark road Precious travels finally lead to her own demise once and for all?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in California, Maryland and North Carolina, Deja King represents a new breed of writers producing young, hip and sexy novels that introduce readers to street life in all its complexity. Having worked and studied in such high-profile institutions as The Terrie Williams Agency, the Lee Strasburg Theater Institute and Click Radio, King has rubbed elbows with celebrities, athletes and artists. Opting to take a break from industry challenges, King changed direction to explore something even more wonderful ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚â‚¬Ã‚Â¦ motherhood. King welcomed her son, Logan Michael, into the world in mid 2001. It was during this time that she discovered her love for writing. Now, with the release of her highly anticipated sequel, Bitch Reloaded, Ms. King once again finds herself in good company.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/840'),
(4115, 'Bitch Reloaded', 'Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The femme fatale of the streets is back and she s deadlier than ever. Precious miraculously survives her brush with death, but the celebration is cut short when tragedy strikes. Convinced that Nico Carter is responsible for ripping her world apart, Precious'' sole purpose for living is to make him pay in blood. The street life that she left behind calls her name as Precious wreaks havoc on anyone who stands in her way of getting revenge. While on her path of destruction, new enemies arise and old friends resurface, complicating Precious plans to bring Nico down. But soon she realizes that everything isn''t what it seems. Will the dark road Precious travels finally lead to her own demise once and for all?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in California, Maryland and North Carolina, Deja King represents a new breed of writers producing young, hip and sexy novels that introduce readers to street life in all its complexity. Having worked and studied in such high-profile institutions as The Terrie Williams Agency, the Lee Strasburg Theater Institute and Click Radio, King has rubbed elbows with celebrities, athletes and artists. Opting to take a break from industry challenges, King changed direction to explore something even more wonderful ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚â‚¬Ã‚Â¦ motherhood. King welcomed her son, Logan Michael, into the world in mid 2001. It was during this time that she discovered her love for writing. Now, with the release of her highly anticipated sequel, Bitch Reloaded, Ms. King once again finds herself in good company.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1533'),
(4116, 'Black &amp; Ugly', 'T Styles', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Parade Knight hates her complexion. As a result, she considers herself to be unattractive and condones the misuse of her body. Sky Taylor is beautiful, fly and wanted, and loves reminding Parade of her imperfections especially after suspecting that she may be sleeping with her man, Jay Hernandez. Miss Wayne is hilarious and a self-proclaimed girlfriend who enjoys the attention his friends bring. If you let Miss Wayne tell it, he s not a gay, he s just one of the girls. Daffany Stans uses her body for profit and hides a health secret so serious that it could endanger the lives of her friends, considering their sex partners are so closely related. Black and Ugly is a tale of four totally different friends from the same block, whose friendship is tested during a seemingly innocent game of Truth or Dare. When fatal secrets begin to surface, will Parade give up the friend whose shadow she has walked in all her life? And will Miss Wayne and Daphne abandon their friends to save themselves?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a goal to become one of the world s greatest multi-genre African American female authors, T. Styles takes her swing at her true love, Urban Lit writing. Born in Southeast Washington, D.C, and raised in Houston, Texas, she now resides in Baltimore County, Maryland with her son. She credits her creativity to God, the hundreds of DVDs she has in her collection and trailblazers such as Sister Souljah, saying that, In order to be blessed, you have to pay homage to those who ve paved the way. Although writing is her love, she is certainly multi-talented. Having worked as a Certified Massage Therapist, Model and Public Speaker for major companies/organizations such as The Office of the US Supreme Court, Marriot, Carefirst Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Eduserc, she has discovered that her true passion is writing. In addition to working with companies and individuals regarding Health and Wellness issues, T spends her time speaking honestly about the issues she s experienced with the law as a juvenile. She is no stranger to the complexities and issues of the street. I believe urban writing doesn t glorify crime, it brings to light what really exists. It is my hope that through writing, I can steer as many young people away from this lifestyle as possible. To me, there s no harm in that. With an excellent support system, including her son and best friend, she plans to use all of the tools at her disposal, as she strives to create the next great novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1605'),
(4117, 'Black &amp; Ugly as Ever', 'T. Styles', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The gang you fell in love with returns from the street classic Black &amp; Ugly!\n </strong>\n <br />\n Parade Knight finally gets what she wants, a man of her own, despite hating her own dark skin. But as the nights grow longer and her sexual encounters become more frequent with her fiance Smokes, she wonders why she still can t seem to get her old flame Jay Hernandez off her mind. Faced with choosing between the man who proposed and the man she loves, she doesn t see a set-up coming, but it may be too late.\n <br />\n Daffany s heart is heavy as she battles with the disease that haunts her body, and the poison she places in her blood. But when she s unable to afford her drug of choice, she s given a cheap alternative and it takes her on an all time high.\n <br />\n Miss Wayne s colorful antics go to the next level as he fights to keep their friendship together. But when it becomes apparent that he s all alone in his efforts, he wonders if they ll ever be the same.\n <br />\n Black &amp; Ugly As Ever is a warm street tale with a coldhearted truth. That if you don t pick yourself up when you fall, you ll be a doormat for others. You ll laugh, cry and feel a part of these childhood friends lives as they dodge danger to keep things together.\n <br />\n This beautiful sequel has finally arrived!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  WWW.TheCartelpublications.COM\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1607'),
(4118, 'Black Diamond', 'Dixon, Ja&#39;Nese', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/841'),
(4119, 'Black Gangster', 'Donald Goines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1598'),
(4120, 'Black Widow', 'Nikki Turner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1086'),
(4121, 'Black Widow', 'Jessie Keane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1463'),
(4122, 'Blackgentlemen.com', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1043'),
(4123, 'Blitz', 'Ebonee Monique', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mia Robinson has worked hard to obtain an affluent lifestyle. With plenty of money in the bank, an impressive network of tastemaker friends, a booming real-estate business and a loving man by her side she is assured that she and daughter Brandi will never lack the finer things in life. However, when Brandi''s long-lost father mysteriously returns in their lives, Mia must work overtime to make sure a buried secret doesn''t resurface.While Mia struggles with the decision to give Charles a child, she learns that her soon-to-be fifteen year old daughter is pregnant. Soon people began to whisper, friends turn away and social circles become smaller. Will the bombardment of the unexpected demolish Mia''s dream life or will this rags-to-riches, self-made tycoon rise to the challenge and maintain control?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1543'),
(4124, 'Blue Collar Blues', 'Rosalyn McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1134'),
(4125, 'Blue Skies', 'Byrd, Adrianne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1449'),
(4126, 'Body By Night', 'Day, Zuri', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1069'),
(4127, 'Body Chemistry', 'Girard, Dara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1338'),
(4128, 'Body Heat', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nikki Jamison didn''t know being a playwright in New York would end up like\n <em>\n  this\n </em>\n . After a few financial and creative flops, she''s determined to put her Broadway dreams behind her. Recalling a friend''s story about an empty villa in St. Lucia, Nikki decides that it''s the perfect place to recover--in luxury! But when the home owner shows up unexpectedly, Nikki''s little white lie leads to an out-of-control marital charade.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Hylan Dawson is married. Only problem is he doesn''t know it. When Hylan takes off for his vacation home, his plan is to get a little R &amp; R...maybe indulge in a summer fling. But as soon as he arrives on the island, the locals begin congratulating him on his recent nuptials. Hylan feels for his sexy wife, even if she is an impostor. Are the "newlyweds" falling into a bed of sizzling summer seduction--or marching toward a lifetime of wedded bliss?\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/774'),
(4129, 'Body Heat', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nikki Jamison didn''t know being a playwright in New York would end up like\n <em>\n  this\n </em>\n . After a few financial and creative flops, she''s determined to put her Broadway dreams behind her. Recalling a friend''s story about an empty villa in St. Lucia, Nikki decides that it''s the perfect place to recover--in luxury! But when the home owner shows up unexpectedly, Nikki''s little white lie leads to an out-of-control marital charade.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Hylan Dawson is married. Only problem is he doesn''t know it. When Hylan takes off for his vacation home, his plan is to get a little R &amp; R...maybe indulge in a summer fling. But as soon as he arrives on the island, the locals begin congratulating him on his recent nuptials. Hylan feels for his sexy wife, even if she is an impostor. Are the "newlyweds" falling into a bed of sizzling summer seduction--or marching toward a lifetime of wedded bliss?\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1654'),
(4130, 'A Bona Fide Gold Digger', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n From bestselling author Allison Hobbs comes the sassy, savvy tale of a woman consumed by a secret sex life, wealth and indulgence - obsessions she will go to any length to fulfill.\n</p>\n<p>\n Milan Walden is living the high life. She has it all, a high-power career, respect from her peers, and unlimited business potential. But when she finds herself unemployed and facing criminal charges, she flees the only life she''s ever known to start again.\n</p>\n<p>\n Milan accepts a position as a live-in companion to ailing millionaire Noah Brockington. Her hunger for glamour and luxury drives her to become involved in a twisted relationship with her employer that soon results in a bizarre prenup and frantic preparations for the strangest wedding anyone could expect.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fighting off greedy family members, Noah''s obession with quirky sex, and the yearnings of her heart, Milan finds a new zest for life as she strives to become the sole heir of the Brockington fortune.\n <i>\n  A Bona Fide Gold Digger\n </i>\n is an addicti...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/820'),
(4131, 'A Bona Fide Gold Digger', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1486'),
(4132, 'Bonded by Blood', 'Cash', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  From her deathbed, where HIV is choking away her last breaths, Black Girl, an infamous ex-prostitute of Atlanta s Auburn Avenue ho stroll, exacts two promises from her three young teen-aged sons, Khalil, B-Man, and Quantavious. She does not try to fool herself that the boys will be anything, but hustlers. Hustling is in their blood from both ends hers and her father s, Rapheal s, who was Black Girl s pimp before drugs knocked them both on their asses and destroyed Rapheal s stable of top-notch hos. In Khalil, Black Girl sees the making of a boss mack, much like his pops. In B-Man, her middle son, she sees a fierce jack boy and a heartless killa. In her baby boy, Q , Black Girl prophesizes a major drug king pin. Together, she knows her sons can rape the game from all angles and put ATL in a chokehold. But to do so, they must never let money, hos, jealousy or envy come between them. They must remain bonded by blood, which she makes them promise at her deathbed. Black Girl also makes them promise to forgive Rapheal, and not hold her demise against him. But some promises are hard to keep, especially when hate, jealousy, and envy run deep. When fast money, dimed up chicks, unspoken grudges and unforgivable violations are tossed into the mix, will a deathbed promise to their mother be enough to stop the bloodshed once it begins? Which brother will remain standing in the end?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ca$h has put together an entertaining read that left no loose ends. The timing of events was precise which made me want to read the entire book in one sitting. Though there was one scene where I felt the transition to the next set of events could have been smoother, the overall story was surely a good one. Ca$h is also the author of Trust No Man, parts 1 and 2, making Bonded by Blood his first stand alone book. I ve heard great things about his prior two books, so having put my stamp of approval on this one I think its safe to say that Ca$h is making a name for himself in the urban literature genre. This review is based on an uncorrected proof, therefore editing was not considered. Star Rating: 4.0 --English ARC Book Club, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cash was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but lived most of his life in Atlanta, Georgia. He decided to start writing fiction while incarcerated at a state prison in Georgia. His style is street, raw, and he has an imagination that''s in overdrive. Cash now resides in Hardwick, Georgia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1559'),
(4133, 'Boo and I Mean It!', 'Barbara Park', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In the 24th installment of Barbara Park''s Junie B. Jones series of illustrated early chapter books,\n <em>\n  Boo... And I Mean It!\n </em>\n , the precocious first grader is worried about Halloween--with good reason. Paulie Allen Puffer has given her five good reasons, in fact, not least of which is that\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n witches and monsters go trick-or-treating on Halloween (no costumes necessary); if you carve pumpkins with pointy teeth, they will bite your feet; and...shhh...candy corn isn''t really corn. Junie B. goes to great lengths to avoid trick-or-treating altogether, but she finally decides that if she dresses up like Squirty the Clown (a disturbing circus clown who terrified her grandmother by chasing her with a seltzer bottle and making her wear an "unattractive balloon hat"), even the most horrific witches and monsters will be scared off. As ever, her way of expressing herself "I did a groan" and "Chills came on my arms" is grammatically unique, but as you get to know her, more endearing than alarming. Children who have mixed feelings about Halloween festivities will relate to Junie B.''s fears, and they''ll be relieved when Halloween passes without a monster attack or pumpkin bite, just a delicious bag of 100% candy. (Ages 4 to 8)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/783'),
(4134, 'Bootleg', 'Damon Wayans &amp; David Asbery', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1324'),
(4135, 'Booty Call *69', 'Gray, Erick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1373'),
(4136, 'Both Sides of the Fence 2: Gate Wide Open (Urban Renaissance)', 'Pope, M.T.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1427'),
(4137, 'Both Sides Of The Fence 3: Loose Ends', 'Pope, M.T.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1435'),
(4138, 'Boys Don&#39;t Cry', 'Malorie Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In Boys Don''t Cry, bestselling author Malorie Blackman explores the unchartered territory of teenage fatherhood.You''re waiting for the postman - he''s bringing your A level results. University, a career as a journalist - a glittering future lies ahead. But when the doorbell rings it''s your old girlfriend; and she''s carrying a baby. You''re fine to look after it, for an hour or two, while she does some shopping. Then she doesn''t come back and your future suddenly looks very different.Malorie''s dramatic new novel will take you on a journey from tears to laughter and back again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1213'),
(4139, 'Break Every Rule', 'Francis Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1398'),
(4140, 'BREAKING THE CYCLE', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/966'),
(4141, 'Brothers and Wives: A Novel', 'Cydney Rax', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/946'),
(4142, 'Burning Desire', 'Relentless Aaron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1106'),
(4143, 'Calibre Quick Start Guide', 'John Schember', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1659'),
(4144, 'Campaign For Seduction', 'Ann Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/769'),
(4145, 'Can I Get a Witness?', 'ReShonda Tate Billingsley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1129'),
(4146, 'Candy Licker', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1222'),
(4147, 'Caramel Flava', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1005'),
(4148, 'Caramel flava: the eroticanoir.com anthology', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A legend among her fellow authors as far as erotic literary fiction goes." --\n <em>\n  Today''s Black Woman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Zane, the queen of erotic fiction and publisher of Strebor Books, an imprint of Atria Books/Simon &amp; Schuster, presents the second in a series of collections of great erotic fiction. Based on the Featured Erotica section of her website, Eroticanoir.com, which gets more than three million hits a year from around the world, these sensual tales, handpicked by Zane, are sure to please her fans.\n</p>\n<p>\n These stories are written specifically with both African-American and Latino readers in mind, but they are for all people because as Zane always states: "Sensuality is universal." Among the contributors are names already familiar to readers of erotica, such as Tracee A. Hanna, Teresa Lamai, Michelle De Leon, Naleighna Kai, William Fredrick Cooper, and, of course, Zane -- as well as emerging voices, such as Pat Tucker, James W. Lewis, and Nikki Sinclair.\n</p>\n<p>\n Zane always selects stories that turn her on, and she guarantees they will turn you on, also. These storytellers take risks. The stories are unique and creative. The contributors to this book are great at what they do -- making readers hot.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A todos los amantes del mundo.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n No importa el color de su piel, la pasiÃ³n es universal.\n</p>\n<p>\n To all the lovers in the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n No matter what your skin color, passion is universal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1505'),
(4149, 'CARMEN', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/922'),
(4150, 'The Cartel 2: Tale of the Murda Mamas', 'Ashley &amp; JaQuavis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/788'),
(4151, 'The Cartel 3: The Last Chapter', 'Ashley &amp; JaQuavis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/793'),
(4152, 'The Cartel', 'Ashley &amp; JaQuavis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/792'),
(4153, 'The Cartel', 'Ashley Snell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The port of Miami brings in millions of dollars worth of cocaine every year, and The Cartel controls eighty percent of it. The Diamond family is a force to be reckoned with, but all hell breaks loose when they lose their leader. The most ruthless gangster Miami has ever seen, Carter Diamond leaves behind a wife, twin sons, a daughter, and a secret. The secret is his illegitimate son, Carter Jones. When Young Carter learns of his father''s death, he comes to town and is introduced to the legacy of The Cartel. Miamor is a woman who uses her beauty to enhance her skill as a contract killer. She is the leader of The Murder Mamas. When her crew is hired to take down The Cartel, they get caught slipping, and Miamor loses her sister in the process. She is determined to get revenge from The Cartel. Unknowingly, she meets the son of Carter Diamond, and he immediately catches her heart. She is sleeping with the enemy, and when she finds out, she is torn between love and revenge. Young...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1488'),
(4154, 'Cartier Cartel', 'Nisa Santiago', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1507'),
(4155, 'Changing Faces', 'Kimberla Lawson Roby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Whitney is a plus-size woman who just can''t turn down a box of Krispy Kremes or find a man who will stay put. Taylor is in a long-term relationship with a boyfriend who''s allergic to commitment. Charisse is married, with two adorable children, but somehow doesn''t have what she really wants&#8212;or needs. Best friends since high school, this devoted troika is about to discover a wave of unexpected troubles when Charisse suddenly spins out of control.\n</p>\n<p>\n Her doormat husband is threatening to go public with a very shady secret Charisse desperately wants to keep hidden, especially from her interfering mother. And she feels only a very risky scheme will save her now.\n</p>\n<p>\n The one constant for Whitney, Taylor, and Charisse has always been the support they''ve offered one another. But this time, how far can friendship go?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1136'),
(4156, 'Charge It To The Game', 'Blount, Tonya &amp; Karrington, Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/899');
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(4157, 'THE CHASE IS ON', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n [WESTMORELAND 07] -- WHAT CHASE WESTMORELAND WANTED... Something sure looked tempting, and Chase knew it wasn''t on his restaurant''s menu. His new neighbor Jessica Claiborne was as deliciously enticing as the confections she created--so enticing, Chase was finding it difficult to concentrate on anything but the curve of her lips. CHASE WESTMORELAND GOT! Jessica couldn''t deny the heat that sparked every time Chase was near. But she had a secret, one that could destroy the desire she saw burning in his eyes. Yet if she wanted a chance with Chase, she was going to have to reveal the truth and withstand the heat that was bound to go beyond the kitchen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1587'),
(4158, 'Chaser', 'Miasha', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n How far will you go for love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1282'),
(4159, 'Chasing Destiny', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Billie is as notorious for her beauty as she is for the hot yellow Ducati motorcycle she rides down L.A.''s meanest streets. Tough and talented, she does things her way. Until an unplanned pregnancy spins her life out of control. Her problem: Her lover Keith''s divorce decree has been revoked, forcing him to choose between Billie and his dangerously manipulative wife, Carmen, along with their troubled and deceptive daughter, Destiny, a fifteen-year-old dancing on the edge of womanhood. Horrific things happen when Keith''s daughter disappears in the company of low friends in dark places. And in chasing Destiny, Billie, Keith, and Carmen find their lives inextricably linked by a dangerous and seductive pursuit-at any speed, at any cost.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dickey''s (Genevieve) latest melodrama rides with Los Angeles''s rough-and-tumble motorcycle crowd and has his signature sultry prose and African-American cast, but presents a surprisingly harsh attitude toward female characters. Billie (aka Ducati), a beautiful and self-assured biker, finds herself between the rubber and the road when her unemployed lover, Keith, confesses he''s returning to his wife, Carmen, for the sake of their daughter-right after Billie informs him she''s pregnant with his child. Carmen, a shady lawyer, will stop at nothing to reconcile her marriage, offering Billie money to vamoose and even threatening her own daughter, 15-year-old Destiny. Destiny, however, has her own problems: angry at her parents for separating, she rebels by sneaking out with the wrong crowd. When she''s drugged, robbed and raped, a humiliated Destiny decides to run away rather than face her parents. By midnovel, Carmen, Billie and Keith are, yes, chasing Destiny and deploying dirty tricks to get what they want. With an emphasis on vulgarity and violence, the book is lively, but disappointing: rather than showcase what brings women together, Dickey hyperbolizes what tears them apart, advancing a caricature of women as troubled souls who, when hurt, hurt others. (On sale Apr. 11)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dickey is a master at writing about women and what they want and how they want it. (\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1361'),
(4160, 'Cheaper to Keep Her (part 1)', 'Swinson presents Unique, Kiki', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1123'),
(4161, 'Cheaper to Keep Her part 2 (The Saga Continues)', 'Kiki Swinson presents Unique', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1117'),
(4162, 'Cheaters', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  This "hot, sexy, and funny" bestseller (\n  <strong>\n   Library Journal\n  </strong>\n  ) solidifies\n  <strong>\n   Eric Jerome Dickey''s\n  </strong>\n  place as a master of the modern relationship novel. With\n  <strong>\n   Cheaters\n  </strong>\n  , the bestselling author of\n  <strong>\n   Milk in My Coffee\n  </strong>\n  rips the covers off the L.A. singles scene--exposing the lovelorn lives, and lowdown lies, of six young professionals...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Everyone''s talking about CHEATERS...\n </p>\n <p>\n  "STEAMY." --\n  <strong>\n   Seattle Times\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "SURPRISING." --\n  <strong>\n   USA Today\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "DELICIOUS." --\n  <strong>\n   Washington Post\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "PROVOCATIVE." --\n  <strong>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "FIRST-RATE." --\n  <strong>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "AMBITIOUS." --\n  <strong>\n   Booklist\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "FRESH." --\n  <strong>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "HONEST." --\n  <strong>\n   Ebony\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "TERRIFIC." --\n  <strong>\n   Philadelphia Inquirer\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After a brief detour to New York City for\n  <em>\n   Milk in My Coffee\n  </em>\n  , Eric Jerome Dickey returns to Southern California for his fourth multi-track African American love story. The main story is a "he said, she said" affair between Stephan Mitchell, a well-to-do young software designer who''s determined not to let any one woman get in the way of his good time, and ChantÃ© Marie Ellis, who''s decided to start turning the tables on men who try to play her for a fool. From now on, she declares, "A dog gets what a dog gets...\n  <em>\n   dogged\n  </em>\n  ." Dickey makes their road to romance extremely rocky; in addition to sorting out their own feelings for each other, both Stephan and ChantÃ© have to contend with exes who have just gotten out of their lives. Meanwhile, Stephan''s best friend, Darnell, is having problems with his marriage: he wants to be a writer, but his wife insists that he put aside the "hobby" to pay more attention to her. When he meets ChantÃ©''s friend Tammy, an up-and-coming actress-singer who not only understands Darnell''s artistic passion but encourages him, his commitment to marital fidelity is pushed to the limit.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As always, Dickey shows that he''s on top of the current scene, peppering his characters'' lives with the latest in black fashion and culture (if you ever find yourself driving in the Los Angeles area, you''ll know exactly what your radio presets should be). Although the ending might be a little too neatly wrapped up, you''ll never know before you get there whether the next chapter''s going to contain romance, comedy, heartache--or maybe a little of each. Dickey''s at the top of his form in\n  <em>\n   Cheaters\n  </em>\n  , establishing yet another credential for his status at the top of the contemporary urban romance heap.\n  <em>\n   --Ron Hogan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dickey (Milk in My Coffee) takes on the subjects of love, sex, marriage and infidelity among Los Angeles''s young, upscale African-American community. In this audio version, the author''s reading is supported by male and female performers who play out specific character roles. This fits the multiple points of view of the novel, which unfolds serially through self-contained "he said/she said" vignettes. Stephen, a software designer, is a ladies'' man who uses deceit to play the field (his motivations, stemming from childhood experiences, are given through flashbacks). Chant?, one of the objects of his affection, gets wise to Stephen''s ways and schemes to "dog" him back. Darnell, a married lawyer who yearns to become a novelist, provides Dickey an outlet to explain his own reasons for becoming a writer. Because the action is played out in short, charged scenes, it works smartly as audio drama, highly entertaining in its sharply observed turns of dialogue. Based on the 1999 Dutton hardcover. (Aug.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1315'),
(4163, 'Checkmate', 'Malorie Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1206'),
(4164, 'Chocolate Flava', 'Zane Presents', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1042'),
(4165, 'Chocolate flava: the eroticanoir.com anthology', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As a bestselling author and successful publisher of Strebor Books, Zane''s name is synonymous with popular fiction -- especially erotica. Her website, Eroticanoir.com, gets over a million hits a year from around the world, and her fans look forward to every one of her publishing ventures with eager anticipation.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Chocolate Flava\n </em>\n is the first in a series of collections of great erotic fiction edited by Zane, the reigning queen of erotica. Based on the Featured Erotica section of her website,\n <em>\n  Chocolate Flava\n </em>\n gathers twenty-five sizzling tales from some of the most talented -- and dedicated -- writers of erotica working today.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a his-and-her collection. There are stories specifically written with female readers in mind, and others written expressly for men. Among the contributors are names already familiar to readers of erotica, such as Reginald Harris, Robert Edison Sandiford, Jonathan Luckett and, of course, Zane -- as well as emerging voices, such as Geneva Barnes and Robert Scott Adams. What they all have in common is that they are great at what they do, and have been handpicked by Zane -- an editor who knows a hot story when she sees it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Zane wanted stories "that took risks, that explored unique situations, that were creative beyond compare." She wanted to show that men and women can equally express themselves through the medium of erotic fiction. She wanted stories that would turn her on. This collection of selected sexy short stories will turn you on, too.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Zane\n </strong>\n is the author of\n <em>\n  The Heat Seekers, Addicted, The Sex Chronicles, The Sisters of APF, Nervous, Shame on It All, Skyscraper,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Gettin'' Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles II.\n </em>\n She lives in the Washington, D.C., area.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1508'),
(4166, 'Chocolate Kisses', 'Ray, Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1413'),
(4167, 'The Choir Director', 'Carl Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/817'),
(4168, 'A Christmas Affair', 'Byrd, Adrianne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1454'),
(4169, 'Christmas in the Hood', 'Nikki Turner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1110'),
(4170, 'City of Ashes', 'Cassandra Clare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what''s normal when you''re a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who''s becoming more than a friend. But the Shadowhunting world isn''t ready to let her go -- especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace. And Clary''s only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil -- and also her father.\n</p>\n<p>\n To complicate matters, someone in New York City is murdering Downworlder children. Is Valentine behind the killings -- and if he is, what is he trying to do? When the second of the Mortal Instruments, the Soul-Sword, is stolen, the terrifying Inquisitor arrives to investigate and zooms right in on Jace. How can Clary stop Valentine i...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/889'),
(4171, 'City of Bones', 'Cassandra Clare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It''s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?\n</p>\n<p>\n This is Clary''s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It''s also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace''s world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. ....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/875'),
(4172, 'City of Fallen Angels', 'Cassandra Clare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Who will be tempted by darkness? Who will fall in love, and who will find their relationship torn apart? And who will betray everything they ever believed in?\n</p>\n<p>\n Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the heart-pounding fourth installment of the Mortal Instruments series, the stakes are higher than ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/890'),
(4173, 'City of Glass', 'Cassandra Clare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n To save her mother''s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters -- never mind that enter-ing the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Clary uncovers more about her family''s past, she finds an ally in mysterious Shadow-hunter Sebastian. With Valentine mustering the full force of his power to destroy all Shadow-hunters forever, their only chance to defeat him is to fight alongside their eternal enemies. But can Downworlders and Shadowhunters put aside their hatred to work together? While Jace realizes exactly how much he''s willing to risk for Clary, can she harness her newfound powers to help save the Glass City -- whatever the cost?\n</p>\n<p>\n Love is a mortal sin and the secrets of the past prove deadly as ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/880'),
(4174, 'Class', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1357'),
(4175, 'The Climax', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/900'),
(4176, 'Clockwork Angel', 'Cassandra Clare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Magic is dangerous--but love is more dangerous still.\n</p>\n<p>\n When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London''s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos.\n</p>\n<p>\n Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What''s more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa''s power for his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/895'),
(4177, 'Clockwork Prince', 'Cassandra Clare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The situation at the London Institute has never been more precarious. With Mortmain and his clockwork army still threatening, the Council wants to strip Charlotte of her power and hand the running of the Enclave over to the unscrupulous and power-hungry Benedict Lightwood.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the hope of saving Charlotte and the Institute, Will, Jem, and Tessa set out to unravel the secrets of Mortmain''s past--and discover unsettling Shadowhunter connections that hold the key not only to the enemy''s motivations, but also to the secret of Tessa''s identity. Tessa, already caught between the affections of Will and Jem, finds herself with another choice to make when she learns how the Shadowhunters helped make her a "monster." Will she turn from them to her brother, Nate, who has been begging her to join him at Mortmain''s side? Where will her loyalties--and love--lie? Tessa alone can choose to save the Shadowhunters of London...or end them forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/898'),
(4178, 'Coca Kola - The Baddest Chick', 'Santiago, Nisa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Steady Schemin'' Harlem honeys Apple and Kola are back and cutthroat as ever, and serving The City That Never Sleeps with a wakeup call. Now permanently disfigured, the once beautiful Apple''s future isn''t looking bright as the empire she worked so hard to build begins to crumble, brick by brick. The tables are turned, and Apple finds out that the ultimate betrayal cuts that much deeper when it''s perpetrated by blood. Meanwhile, Kola is lying in wait for Queen Apple to be dethroned. She stacks her paper and assembles her plan to take her twin out once and for all. But Apple isn''t bowing out gracefully.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1511'),
(4179, 'The Coldest Winter Ever', 'Sister Souljah', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/979'),
(4180, 'Colored People', 'Henry Louis Gates, Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling.\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </i>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1594'),
(4181, 'Coming after school (Fantasy)', 'Ervin, Keisha &amp; Elliott, K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/930'),
(4182, 'Commit To Violence', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1553'),
(4183, 'The Common Years', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1356'),
(4184, 'The Company We Keep', 'Mary Monroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1224'),
(4185, 'Contagious Lust', 'Snapper, Red &amp; BlaQue, Essence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1101'),
(4186, 'Controversy', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A dangerous attraction...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael Adams is no angel. But she''s no murderer either, even if she did joke with her sisters about killing her ex-husband, Phil, after their nasty divorce. How was she to know that someone really wanted Phil dead--or that she would become the prime suspect? It doesn''t help that the investigating detective is so distractingly gorgeous that Michael can hardly think straight....\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael is sexy, smart and a little bit wild-- everything Detective Kyson Dekker loves in a woman. True, there is that tiny problem of her being the prime suspect in a homicide, and the fact that Kyson is torn between seducing her and getting her to confess. But if she''s being framed, Michael needs protection--and Kyson is ready to prove he''s the man for the job, in every way....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/797'),
(4187, 'Controversy', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A dangerous attraction...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael Adams is no angel. But she''s no murderer either, even if she did joke with her sisters about killing her ex-husband, Phil, after their nasty divorce. How was she to know that someone really wanted Phil dead--or that she would become the prime suspect? It doesn''t help that the investigating detective is so distractingly gorgeous that Michael can hardly think straight....\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael is sexy, smart and a little bit wild-- everything Detective Kyson Dekker loves in a woman. True, there is that tiny problem of her being the prime suspect in a homicide, and the fact that Kyson is torn between seducing her and getting her to confess. But if she''s being framed, Michael needs protection--and Kyson is ready to prove he''s the man for the job, in every way....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1656'),
(4188, 'The Conversation', 'Hill Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1293'),
(4189, 'The Corner (Slim&#39;s Revenge)', 'Richardson, Alex &amp; Roby, Janaya &amp; Wells, Lu Ann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/950'),
(4190, 'The Corner II', 'Richardson, Alex', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1608'),
(4191, 'The Corner III (No Way Out)', 'Richardson, Alex &amp; Wells, Lu Ann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1609'),
(4192, 'Corrupted Chapter 13', 'Tyree, Omar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/968'),
(4193, 'The Cost of Vengeance', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1572'),
(4194, 'Country Boy', 'Karrington, Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1516'),
(4195, 'Country Boy', 'Karrington, Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1642'),
(4196, 'Country Boy 2', 'Karrington, Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/931'),
(4197, 'Country Boy 2', 'Karrington, Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1640'),
(4198, 'Covenant', 'Massey, Brandon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/843'),
(4199, 'Coveted', 'Mychea', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/932'),
(4200, 'Crave All Lose All', 'Gray, Erick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1365'),
(4201, 'Criminal Minded', 'Tracy Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n<p>\n Lamin Michaels learned at his mother''s knee the importance of chasing paper, so it''s no surprise he gets into the drug game when he''s just a teenager. When he meets Zion, a product of the New York City  foster care and prison system, Lamin knows that he has meet the perfect partner in crime. Together, they build a huge narcotics empire.\n <br />\n <br />\n Then, Lamin falls hard for a beautiful girl named Lucky. Lucky makes Lamin realize that there is more to life than cash and more cash. When Lamin goes legit with a career in the entertainment industry, Zion tries to keep their business going on both the street and the boardroom. It''s not long before Zion becomes the target of a corruption scandal involving murder, extortion and money laundering. Once the dirt is exposed, will Lamin and Zion be able to remain one step ahead, or will their paper chasing days haunt them forever?\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1035'),
(4202, 'The Cruisers #1: The Cruisers', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/925'),
(4203, 'Crush', 'Lovely, Lutishia; Grant, Michele; Rax, Cydney', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1184'),
(4204, 'Cry Revenge (Holloway House Originals)', 'Donald Goines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1599'),
(4205, 'Crystal', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/923'),
(4206, 'Daddy Cool: A Novel (Old School Books)', 'Donald Goines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1496'),
(4207, 'Daddy Long Stroke', 'Cairo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/777'),
(4208, 'Daddy Long Stroke', 'Cairo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Dramatic, bold and racy,\n <i>\n  Daddy Long Stroke\n </i>\n uncovers the shocking and painful reality of some men''s belief systems about women and sex. Cairo offers readers a voyeuristic look into the mind of a womanizer who manipulates and seduces women by using what he''s got--good looks, chiseled physique, charisma, and sexual prowess--to get what he wants without remorse, or regret.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sexy and thuggish, Alexander Maples, aka Daddy Long Stroke, is a womanizer. Arrogant and self-indulged, he is what every woman secretly craves in the bedroom--rough, rugged, and ravenous. And he is always happy to deliver.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alexander knows no boundaries when it comes to pleasing a woman, leaving no area untouched, not even her heart--or her wallet. But love is the last thing on his mind. Getting paid, and whetting his sexual appetite are the only things that motivate this salacious gigolo. And any woman trying to claim him finds herself on the receiving end of heartache, tears, and drama.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1492'),
(4209, 'Daddy&#39;s House', 'Azarel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1323'),
(4210, 'Dangerously In Love', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/881'),
(4211, 'Dangerously In Love', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In\n <i>\n  Dangerously in Love\n </i>\n , a stripper, a desperate housewife, and a sexually addicted husband take fatal attraction to a new level -- and reveal the extreme risks of falling in love.\n</p>\n<p>\n Chanell Lawson, aka Sensation, is a premiere exotic dancer who is sick and tired of sex industry. She finally is ready to exchange her pole-dancing routine for a more traditional life. When she meets her ideal catch, however, Chanelle begins to suspect he has a dark side and soon fears that the man of her dreams may be her worst nightmare.\n</p>\n<p>\n After three years of marriage, Dayna Reynolds believes getting pregnant will revitalize her failing marriage. But an absent husband won''t help her chances. Feeling unattractive and unloved, a vulnerable Dayna easily succumbs to the advances of an enigmatic stranger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reed Reynolds seeks success by socializing with members of an elite society. His new associates would be shocked to learn his secret life -- a life so sordid it jeopardizes his marriage, finan...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1480'),
(4212, 'The Daring Book for Girls', 'Andrea J. Buchanan; Alexis Seabrook; Miriam Peskowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kadushin, whose lush voice brought the heroine of Stephenie Meyers''s\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  series to life, does her best to inject some intrigue and mystery into this mile-wide, inch-deep compendium of random facts billed as a manual for everything that girls need to know, a selection from the bestselling book. Alas, the audio version, replete with time lines, 14 variations of how to play tag and sesquipedalian vocabulary words, sorely lacks dynamism. The brief histories of famous womenâ€”Joan of Arc, Marie Curie, Salomeâ€”make for more engaging listening than material about how to change a tire or administer first aid. Listeners might find themselves wishing for something akin to the screen selection feature on a DVD, so that if they need information on, say, what constitutes a foul in tetherball, they could get to it without having to wade through the section on women who have earned patents for various inventions. Without such an index, the listener is reduced to writing down the information Kadushin relays, which raises the question: isn''t this available in book form?\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Daring Book for Girls\n  </em>\n  is the manual for everything that girls need to knowâ€”and that doesn''t mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it''s female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it''s not just a guide to giggling at sleepoversâ€”although that''s included, of course! Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this book is every girl''s invitation to adventure.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/824'),
(4213, 'Darius Jones', 'Mary B. Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1220'),
(4214, 'Dark Corner', 'Brandon Massey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/836'),
(4215, 'The Darkness To Come', 'Massey, Brandon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/837'),
(4216, 'Darnell Rock Reporting', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1109'),
(4217, 'A Day Late and a Dollar Short', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Price family--Viola, the matriarch; her sometimes husband Cecil; and their four adult children--sticks together through life''s most trying circumstances in this new novel by the author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/948'),
(4218, 'Dead Gorgeous', 'Malorie Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1199'),
(4219, 'DEADLY DECISIONS', 'Renee, Mimi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1520'),
(4220, 'DEADLY DECISIONS II', 'Renee, Mimi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1521'),
(4221, 'Deadly Double', 'Byrd, Adrianne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1453'),
(4222, 'Deadly Embrace', 'Collins, Jackie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1321'),
(4223, 'Deadly Pursuit', 'Ann Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/781'),
(4224, 'The Deal, the Dance, and the Devil', 'Victoria Christopher Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n What would you do for five million dollars? Adam and Evia Langston have lived in their own little garden of Eden since the two married at the age of seventeen. Working their way up from the humblest of beginnings, the Langstons have thrived beyond anything they could have ever imagined. Now they live in the finest home, drive the best cars, and indulge in all the trimmings that signify their massive success.\n</p>\n<p>\n But then the recession hits and rips apart the family''s financial stability. Unable to support their three children and other relatives, Adam and Evia find themselves drowning in financial trouble and teetering on the brink of complete disaster. With nowhere to turn, the Langstons have no idea what to do.\n</p>\n<p>\n Until Shay-Shaunt&#233;, Evia''s multimillionaire boss, comes to the Langstons with a five-million-dollar offer that seems so hard to refuse. Will the Langstons make this deal? Or will they recognize that the glitter of five million dollars may be far from gold?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1084'),
(4225, 'Dear G-Spot', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1016'),
(4226, 'Dear Summer (real in the streets)', 'Elliott, K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1201'),
(4227, 'Death List', 'Donald Goines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1596'),
(4228, 'Deception, Lies and Truth (My Man, My boyz)', 'Vernon, Dwayne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1433'),
(4229, 'A Deep Dark Secret', 'Kimberla Lawson Roby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1137'),
(4230, 'Deep Deception 2', 'McKinney, Tina Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1020'),
(4231, 'Deep Throat Diva', 'Cairo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  Deliciously dirty,\n  <i>\n   Deep Throat Diva\n  </i>\n  is the titillating story of a young woman who will do anything to keep her secrets from coming to light and ruining her wedding.\n </b>\n With brains, beauty, and a four-carat diamond engagement ring, Pasha Willow seems to have the perfect life. She''s the successful owner of a trendy hair salon, lives in a posh condo with her handsome soon-to-be husband, drives an expensive car, and indulges in relentless shopping sprees. But behind the high-end fashion, captivating smile, and mesmerizing eyes, belies a woman with a deep, dark secret.While her fianc&#233; served five years in prison, Pasha found an alternative way to feed her desires--one that ended with several obsessed men clamoring for more of her. And now, with the love of her life a free man and back in her arms, she must find a way to balance her past with her present and not give into temptation.As her wedding day slowly approaches and her dirty secrets begin to unfold, Pasha...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/784'),
(4232, 'Deep Throat Diva', 'Cairo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  Deliciously dirty,\n  <i>\n   Deep Throat Diva\n  </i>\n  is the titillating story of a young woman who will do anything to keep her secrets from coming to light and ruining her wedding.\n </b>\n With brains, beauty, and a four-carat diamond engagement ring, Pasha Willow seems to have the perfect life. She''s the successful owner of a trendy hair salon, lives in a posh condo with her handsome soon-to-be husband, drives an expensive car, and indulges in relentless shopping sprees. But behind the high-end fashion, captivating smile, and mesmerizing eyes, belies a woman with a deep, dark secret.While her fianc&#233; served five years in prison, Pasha found an alternative way to feed her desires--one that ended with several obsessed men clamoring for more of her. And now, with the love of her life a free man and back in her arms, she must find a way to balance her past with her present and not give into temptation.As her wedding day slowly approaches and her dirty secrets begin to unfold, Pasha...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1491'),
(4233, 'Defenseless', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/765'),
(4234, 'Defenseless', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1652'),
(4235, 'Deja Vu', 'Suzetta Perkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n As the former mistress of a notorious crime boss, Angelica Barnes struggles to lead a normal life-- but it seems that every avenue she takes is filled with pain, mayhem, and danger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Angelica Barnes has been released from prison in Raleigh, North Carolina, having served a five-year sentence as an accomplice in the illegal activities of her ex-boyfriend, Robert Santiago. She''s a convicted felon, and integrating back into society hasn''t been easy--that is, until she accepts an offer she can''t refuse and moves to New York City. But her hopeful dreams of a better future are shattered when she must fall back on her former life to make ends meet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Unbeknownst to Angelica, an old foe sits in the shadows, waiting to reel her back into his grasp. Unable to defend herself, Angelica becomes a prisoner of her past, but with the help of a friend, she executes a daring plan to escape her enemy forever. But will she ever\n <i>\n  really\n </i>\n be free?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1040'),
(4236, 'Deliver Me From Evil', 'Mary Monroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The New York Times bestselling author of God Don''t Like Ugly and God Still Don''t Like Ugly, Mary Monroe has been hailed as "a real talent" (San Jose Mercury News) and as one of today''s most provocative storytellers. In her sensational new novel, a beautiful, resourceful woman is caught in a high-stakes game of money, sex and betrayal--all in the name of a better future...\n</p>\n<p>\n Once upon a time, Christine Thurman had the perfect marriage. A girl from the wrong side of the tracks, she made good by marrying Jesse Ray Thurman and helping him build a business worth millions. Together, they were the perfect couple--attractive, successful, and deeply in love. Christine was convinced she''d spend the rest of her life by her handsome husband''s side.\n</p>\n<p>\n But twelve years later, J.R. has become obsessed with building his video store empire and is taking his wife for granted. Feeling trapped and alone in a dead-end marriage, Christine finds herself tempted by her old haunts and the people she thought she left behind long ago. Suddenly, without J.R. even realizing it, their seemingly unshakeable bond has started fraying at the seams--and Christine will do anything to break free.\n</p>\n<p>\n Enter Wade Eddie Fisher, a bad boy with good looks from Christine''s past. Wade left their hometown long ago to follow his Hollywood dreams, but now he''s back, penniless, and as tempting as ever. Even though Wade is far from dependable, he offers Christine something she can''t seem to resist. Soon she''s immersed in a sultry affair, and before she knows it, she''s concocted a scheme so risky that it promises to deliver everything she could possibly want--or shatter the lives of everyone close to her...\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Monroe delivers what could be her wildest and most entertaining novel yet. Greed, betrayal and murder intersect as Wade Eddie Fisher, who looks like a low-income Lenny Kravitz, and Christine Thurman, the wife of super-successful video store entrepreneur J.R. Thurman, devise a plan to fake her kidnapping, collect $500,000 and get her out of her marriage. (A pre-nup would leave her with nothing if she divorced.) But after the shoddy plan is put into action and creepy thug Jason Mack comes onboard, things quickly disintegrate. J.R. offers to pay double for Christine''s immediate and safe return, setting into motion among the conspirators murderous plots and double-crosses. The narrative is fun but suffers from repetitive exposition and unsympathetic characters, though their nasty (or pathetic, depending) natures create enough surprises to keep readers piqued till the end.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1172'),
(4237, 'Desperate hoodwives: an urban tale', 'Meesha Mink; De&#39;nesha Diamond', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **DREAMS OFTEN DIE IN THE PROJECTS**In the first book of a drama-drenched new series, four unforgettablewomen will do anything to escape the hood. From their front stoops at Bentley Manor, longtime residents Miz Osceolaand Miz Cleo have seen just about everything and know all too well thatthere''s no happily-ever-after in the projects. There''s only the desperateneed to get out by any means possible. **Aisha** has what every other ghetto girl envies: a loving man whosupplies her with all the fashion, money, and accessories that scream"hood success." Now that her husband''s in jail, Aisha may have to putsomething more precious than her designer gear up for sale in order tomaintain her image. The cost may be too high even for her expensive tastes. **Devani** knows she''s found her way out of the hood when she sleepswith Tyrik, a star pro athlete. When Tyrik''s calls get further and furtherapart, Devani''s mother suggests the perfect scheme: become his baby momma.Will Devani''s plans force her man to commit, or backfire with the worstof consequences? **Molly** is so in love with her husband, Junior, that she doesn''t care if she''s the only white girl in the hood. Blinded by her love, Mollylets everyone walk all over her. But Junior may cross the line, forcing Molly to give back all the abuse she''s taken. **Lexi** has five children - and four broke baby daddies. Now she ismarried to Luther, Mr. Right in every way but in the bedroom. Determinedto finally provide a good man for her kids, Lexi must struggle to fighther cravings for sex with her ex. Will she stay faithful to her husbandor give in to a passion that may very well prove deadly?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1369'),
(4238, 'The Devil Is a Lie', 'ReShonda Tate Billingsley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As Luck Would Have It...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1125'),
(4239, 'The Devil', 'Graham Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Drug dealers beware. The Devil is coming to get you. Gangster Stephen French invented the perfect crime: robbing drug barons of their huge fortunes. In SAS-style swoops, French raided their fortified mansions and tortured them with horrifying violence until they paid up. Through ''taxing'' the richest and most powerful crimelords in the UK, he netted over Â£20 million.French was no ordinary criminal. He was a world-champion fighter, he studied psychology at university to master mind-control techniques, and he used the teachings of Machiavelli and samurai warriors to outwit his enemies.  The Devil also reveals French''s complex relationship with Curtis Warren, the wealthiest criminal in British history. The two were childhood pals, then partners and finally bitter enemies.Now a legitimate businessman, French built up a multimillion-pound empire. Having eventually turned his back on his former life, he is now seeking to set the record straight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1273'),
(4240, 'Diamond Playgirls', 'Daaimah S. Poole &amp; Miasha &amp; T. Styles &amp; Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Four of today''s hottest young female African-American authors--Poole, Miasha, Deja King, and T. Styles--present an exciting new novella collection about four women sharing a Harlem brownstone who discover they have more in common that just their address.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1370'),
(4241, 'Diamond Playgirls', 'Daaimah S. Poole; Miasha; King Deja; T. Styles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Four beautiful, professional women, living on separate floors of a Harlem brownstone are about to discover they have a lot more in common than just their address... Dior''s name is no accident--she''s got a taste for the finer things in life, and New York City is just the place to find them. So far she''s got the job and the apartment. Now she needs the man--and she hopes she''s found him on the Internet. Dior is prepared to find out on Valentine''s Day... Party promoter Tamara has been recruited from Atlanta to open a hot new club. All the women in her family are known for their great looks, great cooking--and the fact that they can''t stay married. Tamara is hoping to break that tradition. But is dating three different men the best strategy? With beauty, brains, and a hefty bank account, Chloe is a BAP on a mission: she wants to run a top magazine. But just as she''s up for a big promotion her boyfriend gives her an ultimatum. Will Chloe choose to follow her ambition--or her heart? Casting director Mona-Lisa works hard--and plays even harder. She''s avoided relationships her whole life. When a tragedy opens her eyes to the possibility of true love, she''s compelled to share a special day with a man from her past. But she''s overlooked some crucial details... One by one, each woman crosses paths at a local club on Valentine''s Day--and the secrets about to be revealed will forever change their lives...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1462'),
(4242, 'Diary of a Groupie', 'Omar Tyree', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1235'),
(4243, 'Diary of a Mistress', 'Miasha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1278'),
(4244, 'Dirtiest Revenge', 'Don, Cha&#39;Bella', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1371'),
(4245, 'Dirty Game', 'Jessie Keane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1345'),
(4246, 'Dirty Little Secrets', 'Joy King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Nothing prepares Tyler Blake for the fast-paced living of New York City. A small-town girl from Georgia, she quickly gets caught up in the glamorous entertainment industry.Â  While pursuing her dream of becoming an actress, Tyler continually gets sidetracked by men who promise to help her and finds herself going from one dysfunctional relationship to another. Just when Tyler finally believes she has found her ideal man, in hip-hop producer Brian McCall, everything begins to go horribly wrong. Trapped in a nightmarish relationship, Tyler is determined not to go down without a fight.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tyler Blake grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. Her mother left her father for a man who provided them a better life. He treats Tyler like a princess, and she grows up with a warped self-image and an unrealistic view of relationships. When Tyler breaks up with her high-school boyfriend for a more dangerous college student, she sacrifices her self-worth. After graduating from high school, she moves to New York to fulfill her dreams of becoming a movie star and of finding a man who will love her unconditionally. Her first bad relationship is with a famous rapper. Next she becomes involved with a basketball player who is emotionally, mentally, and physically abusive. Her relationship with Brian, a music producer, turns ugly when she fights for custody of their son. After winning her court battle, she walks away with a renewed sense of empowerment. Tyler gets a break at stardom when she meets a famous actor. Tyler finally gets her heart''s desire and the reader an absorbing tale.\n <em>\n  Lillian Lewis\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was engrossed in the story, and so hungry for the drama, that I had to fight to keep from glancing over at the next page. Not only was this a riveting, sexy tale, but there were many lessons to be learned, page after page.Â  The saddest thing about Dirty Little Secrets was that it had to end."---Trista Russell, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Going Broke\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Fly on the Wall\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n "A true roller-coaster ride for the heart and mindâ€¦. Honest and real."---Maryann Reid, author of\n <em>\n  Marry Your Baby Daddy\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Use Me or Lose Me\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1372'),
(4247, 'Dirty Old Men (And Other Stories).jb.decrypted', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1247');
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(4248, 'Disciplined', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A spoiled, self-indulgent heiress receives an anonymous invitation to what she believes will be a weekend of sexual extravagance but ultimately learns some valuable lessons about frivolous encounters and selfish pleasures. Yoyin''s whole life has been an egocentric quest for unbridled, hedonistic pleasure. When she travels to a beautiful island villa under the premise of fulfilling her darkest desires, she soon learns that sexual satisfaction comes with a price. She is relentlessly pushed beyond her comfort level and becomes enraged when her expectations are not fulfilled. Will Yoyin learn the secret teachings that have been planned for her or will she continue to give in to the demands of her libido while ignoring the yearnings of her heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/862'),
(4249, 'Disciplined', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1484'),
(4250, 'Diva&#39;s Last Curtain Call', 'Henry, Angela', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1455'),
(4251, 'A Do Right Man', 'Omar Tyree', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Finally, a story of a handsome, educated, heterosexual black man and his experiences with careers and relationships in the fast-moving ''90s!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bobby Dallas, a budding radio talk-show host, has no skeletons or kids in the closet. All that''s missing is a talented, sexy, smart black woman by his side. And that should be easy, right?\n </p>\n <p>\n  But after a shattering breakup with his first love, Bobby wanders for years between women and jobs, unsure about marriage, family, economics, and his overall stability. Having achieved his dream of becoming a highly successful radio talk-show host, Bobby is a man with the best of intentions not only in his career, but also in love. He learns, though, that being a "do right man" is far from easy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1288'),
(4252, 'Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success', 'Russell Simmons &amp; Chris Morrow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Living legend Russell Simmons shares his experiences and beliefs on how to be successful.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Russell Simmons, the original and eternal Hip-Hop Mogul, is one of the most innovative and influential figures in modern American business and culture. (\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  )I consider him one of the great entrepreneurs out there today. Russell knows the market and he sees the future, and thatÃ‚â€™s the ultimate businessperson. (DonaldTrump)Simmons is the Godfather. Def Jam was the model that birthed Bad Boy, No Limit, Roc-A-Fella, and all these other labels. And then later, Phat Farm birthed Sean Jean, Rocawear, MarcJacobs, and all these other clothing companies. Russell is the architect of what we do. (JayZ)Ã‚â€˜Not many people can stay cool for twenty years,Ã‚â€™ says Morgan Stanley star software analyst, Chuck Phillips. Ã‚â€˜ThatÃ‚â€™s worth a lot.Ã‚â€™ (\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  )Russell and I both are both from the streets of Queens --different neighborhoods, but a similar struggle. So I have a true appreciation and respect for the commitment he''s made to uplifting himself in life. But I have even more respect for the commitment he''s made to uplifting other people in the struggle as we\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Master entrepreneur and visionary Russell Simmons has influenced virtually all aspects of business and media: in music with the co-founding of the immensely successful original Def Jam Recordings; in the fashion industry with the trail-blazing Phat Farm, Baby Phat, Run Athletics, and Def Jam University clothing lines; in film with Simmons Lathan Media Group; in television with HBOâ€™s â€œThe Def Comedy Jamâ€ and â€œRussell Simmons Presents Def Poetryâ€; on Broadway with the Tony Award winning stage production â€œRussell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadwayâ€, and numerous other ventures in the financial services industry, mobile communications, and philanthropy. A native New Yorker, he is the proud father of two daughters.\n  <br />\n  Chris Morrow is the author of\n  <em>\n   Stir It Up: Reggae Album Cover Art\n  </em>\n  and has written about hip-hop and politics for numerous publications, including\n  <em>\n   The Source\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The New York Daily News\n  </em>\n  . A resident of Brooklyn, New York, he has been working as a speechwriter for Russell Simmons since 2003.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1300'),
(4253, 'A Dollar and A Dream', 'Carl Weber, La Jill Hunt, Angel Hunter &amp; Dwayne S. Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/827'),
(4254, 'The Don Divas...Living By Any Means Necessary', 'Twenty First Street Urban Editing', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/957'),
(4255, 'Don&#39;t Drop The Soap', 'Pope, M.T.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Meet Candu Waters, a Baltimore man who loves to drop the soap and does anything to reap the rewards of Dropping the Soap.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1429'),
(4256, 'Don&#39;t get it twisted', 'Eric Pete', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Isrie Walker and Deja Douglas have been there for each other since back in the day. Isrie is an expert at ill-fated relationships who''s finally ready to throw in the towel-until she runs right into a sexy businessman. Well, actually, right into his BMW. Deja is a talented photographer who hides behind her camera and her bubbly personality. She doesn''t look anything like the skinny women she shoots all day, so when a hard-bodied male model asks her out, she figures he''s way too good to be true. But that doesn''t stop her from getting a little closer. Now, with their love lives heating up, Deja and Isrie are about to discover that things are rarely what they seem. Fortunately, they''ll always have each other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1375'),
(4257, 'Dope Sick', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/942'),
(4258, 'Double Cross', 'Malorie Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1205'),
(4259, 'Double Dippin&#39;', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/819'),
(4260, 'Double Dippin&#39;', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Bestselling author Allison Hobbs delivers a powerful, compelling novel, chronicling the volatile lives and relationships of twin brothers.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Tariq and Shane Batista were four years old, they witnessed something that no child should ever be subjected to. In an act of confusion and terror, their mentally unstable mother was murdered right in front of them. Even though they are twins, Tariq and Shane grow into two very different young men. Tariq is the kind-hearted "golden-boy" while Shane is dark and brooding, angry and deceitful. After being placed in foster homes together, Shane is sent to a reform school for boys when they become teenagers. When they''re reunited, Shane is hardly reformed and now has two shady sidekicks, Brick and Misty. Tariq has an unconventional yet stable home life, complete with a wife and a child. Shane has no ambition and seems content to play the part of small-time gigolo and get by on the financial support of the women who flock to him. Still,...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1487'),
(4261, 'Down Home with the Neelys', 'Pat Neely', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Meet the Neelys: Pat and Gina, husband-and-wife team, hosts of their own television show, and proprietors of the celebrated Memphis and Nashville eateries, Neely''s Bar-B-Que.\n <br />\n <br />\n The Neelys'' down-home approach to cooking has earned them the highest accolades from coast to coast. It has also won them millions of viewers on the Food Network. Simply put, the Neelys are all about good food and good times. In this, their eagerly awaited debut cookbook, the Neelys share the delicious food they have been cooking up for years both at home and in their restaurants.\n <br />\n <br />\n Pat and Gina hail from families with a boundless love of cooking and bedrock traditions of sharing meals. At the Neelys'', mealtime is\n <i>\n  family\n </i>\n time, and that means no stinting on "the sauce." Indeed, that''s one of the Neely secrets: the liberal application of barbeque sauce to almost anything--spaghetti, nachos, salad, you name it. Of course, there are other secrets as well, and you will find them all in the...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/989'),
(4262, 'The Dream Bearer', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/943'),
(4263, 'Dreaming of You', 'Francis Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1405'),
(4264, 'Drive Me Crazy', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1527'),
(4265, 'Druglord', 'Graham Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When ruthless drug baron John Haase was sentenced to 18 years'' imprisonment for heroin-trafficking in 1995, it was a major victory for Customs and the police. But in a shock move, after Haase and his partner Paul Bennett had served only 11 months, then Home Secretary Michael Howard signed a Royal Pardon for their release. Howard defended his decision by revealing that Haase and Bennett had become invaluable informants. But Haase had in fact duped the authorities, and far from being forced into hiding as a supergrass, he gained new kudos among the criminal underworld for beating the system so audaciously. Graham Johnson interviewed Haase at Whitemoor prison and has obtained a copy of his sworn affidavit revealing the truth behind the Royal Pardon scandal. Allegations of huge bribes, mass fabrication of evidence and dark powers at the heart of the justice system make this an explosive exposÃ© of Britain''s number-one drug kingpin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1275'),
(4266, 'DUBIOUS', 'McKinney, Tina Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1026'),
(4267, 'Duplicity', 'Oasis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1233'),
(4268, 'Dutch', 'Teri Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1057'),
(4269, 'Dutch III: International Gangster', 'Teri Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1376'),
(4270, 'Dutch III: International Gangster', 'Teri Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1461'),
(4271, 'Emily', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1160'),
(4272, 'Entangled (Real in the streets)', 'Elliott, K', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1202'),
(4273, 'Erotic City', 'Pynk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Erotic City is sex-fest central-a hip, upscale swingers club for grown-folks only, located in the heart of Atlanta. It is a grand, three-story sexual mecca where the uninhibited freaks come out four nights a week to get their ultimate groove on without fear of reprisal or judgment, yet judgment from the outside world threatens all that the club''s owner, Milan Kennedy, has worked so hard to achieve. Pynk brings us a fast-paced, sexy ride through a world of having sex in public, bribery, judgments, and suspense that sheds light on family, churchgoers, relationships, revenge, and the amazing sex-filled world of those who swing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1081'),
(4274, 'Essence of Desire', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/910'),
(4275, 'Essence of Desire', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1622'),
(4276, 'Eternally Yours', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/879'),
(4277, 'Eve', 'K&#39;Wan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The only family Eve Panelli has ever known is the infamous Twenty Gang. Orphaned as a small child, Eve quickly learned the art of the hustle, and by age seventeen she had spent two years in prison. But now Eve is eighteen, back on the streets of Harlem with her gang and up to one of her old tricks: strong-arm robbery. Despite her edge, she''s got a soft spot for Felon, the up-and-coming street king.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Eve''s life takes a serious turn when the powerful DeNardi family, the city''s biggest drug supplier, tries to tighten its hold on Harlem. And when Eve''s best friend, Cassidy, is murdered in the crossfire, Eve seeks revenge--starting all the way at the top.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this juicy, hard-hitting hip-hop romp, K''wan (\n <em>\n  Hoodlum\n </em>\n ) paints an almost too raw, black-and-white portrait of Eve Panelli, a banging little Harlem outlaw who''s had to grow up fast since the murder of her parentsâ€”Joe-Joe, her Italian-Irish dad, a "soldier" in an Italian mob family, and Shanice, her black mother. At 17, Eve feels like a $5 whore when she gets out of juvenile detention after taking the heat for two fellow Harlem gangstas, Felon, whom she''s secretly sweet on, and Butter, his closest road dawg. Felon loves Eve, but he''s also a hustler who''d "rather be cold and rich than warm and broke" when he begins dealing with Carlo DeNardi, the degenerate son of the mobster who offed Eve''s parents. Aside from her cool Uncle Bobby, a vet in a wheelchair, Eve''s true "fam" becomes the Twenty-Gang sistaz. The brutal murder of Cassidy, Eve''s best home girl and crime partner, leads to Eve''s heart-stopping opportunity for revenge and a thrilling conclusion.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Evelyn Panelli is of Italian, black, and Irish descent, with red hair and blue-green eyes and with the demeanor of a boy. She has lived a rough life in the streets as a member of the all-girl family, Twenty-Gang. At 17 she is sentenced to a jail term of no less than 18 months but no longer than two years in a juvenile detention center. Upon release, Eve quickly resumes her criminal lifestyle as a strong-arm robber. She also comes home to discover that her former partners, Felon and Butter, are now kings of the street. She and Felon have always had an attraction to one another but have maintained a business relationship. The DeNardises, a powerful Italian family, want to do more business in Harlem, but the son, Carlos, hates doing business with Butter and goes after his girl, Cassidy. The stakes are raised when Butter learns that Cassidy and Carlos have been dealing with one another. The conflict escalates, which forces Eve to single-handedly seek revenge for her family.\n <em>\n  Lillian Lewis\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1194'),
(4278, 'Every Woman Needs a Wife', 'Kai, Naleighna', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1529'),
(4279, 'Every Woman&#39;s Got a Secret', 'Brenda L. Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/918'),
(4280, 'Everybody Say Amen', 'ReShonda Tate Billingsley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1121'),
(4281, 'Eviction Notice: A Hood Rat Novel', 'K&#39;Wan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for K''wan\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''K''wan excels at dialogue, and his densely packed universe has every element of successful street drama.'''' --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Welfare Wifeys\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''K''wan once again comes through with a gritty and violent yarn that raises the street-lit bar.'''' --\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Section 8\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When three young friends, Porsha, Frankie and Sahara, decide to sublease an apartment from a mutual acquaintance, life becomes one big party for the girls. But the party comes to an abrupt end when they find out theyâ€™ve been fleeced for their money and an eviction notice is taped to their door. They have seventy-two hours to come up with the money or be tossed into the streets by the city marshals. Armed with various schemes, they set out to try and stop the eviction and find themselves caught in the crossfire of a bloody war between the Notorious Clark family and a new player in the game.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile the police are still searching for the killer known only as The Animal, while his former lover Gucci tries to put the pieces of her life back together. When all is said and done, all parties involved will discover something about Animal and his abduction that no one was prepared for.\n</p>\n<p>\n There goes the neighborhood, again!\n</p>\n<p>\n One of\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n ''s Best Street Lit Books of 2011\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1195'),
(4282, 'The Ex Files', 'Victoria Christopher Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1061'),
(4283, 'Ex-Terminator Life After Marriage', 'Suzetta Perkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1008'),
(4284, 'Ex-Terminator: Life After Marriage', 'Suzetta Perkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  What happens to those who are left behind in the turbulent breakup of failed love and romance? A new novel from book club favorite, Suzetta Perkins.\n </b>\n</p>\n<p>\n The transition from despair to satisfaction is an emotional, and yet often hilarious road to bump along.\n <i>\n  Ex-Terminator\n </i>\n brings a fresh view to life after divorce as four women and a man struggle to move beyond their feelings of loss, failure, and abandonment, in order to establish a sense of normalcy and discover who they really are again.\n</p>\n<p>\n Can new love be found, even while the old still lingers and haunts everyday thoughts and actions? As these brokenhearted people form a support group to shore each other up in the midst of their stormy lives, little do they know how much they will come to mean to one another, or how each one will be changed by the healing they discover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1022'),
(4285, 'The Face That Launched A Thousand Bullets (The Cartel Publications Presents)', 'Styles, T.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1601'),
(4286, 'Fallen', 'Quiana', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1537'),
(4287, 'The Family Business', 'Pete, Eric &amp; Weber, Carl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1610'),
(4288, 'Fantasy (Lipstick)', 'Hobbs, Allison &amp; Ervin, Keisha &amp; Santiago, Danielle &amp; J, Anna', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1385'),
(4289, 'Fantasy III', 'Ervin, Keisha &amp; Owens, Michael &amp; J., Anna &amp; Elliott, K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1534'),
(4290, 'Fatal Attraction', 'Yunglit', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1540'),
(4291, 'Feel The Fire (Unforgettable Series)', 'Byrd, Adrianne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1451'),
(4292, 'Feelin&#39; the Vibe', 'Candice Dow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/806'),
(4293, 'The Feud', 'Kimberley Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1165'),
(4294, 'Fifty Shades Darker', 'E L James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Daunted by the singular sexual tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house. But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven, and demanding Fifty Shades. While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront her anger and envy of the women who came before her and make the most important decision of her life. Erotic, sparkling and suspenseful, Fifty Shades Darker is the irresistibly addictive second part of the Fifty Shades trilogy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n THE\n <em>\n  NEW YORK TIMES\n </em>\n BESTSELLING FIFTY SHADES Trilogy\n <br />\n <br />\n "In a class by itself."Â \n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n E L James is a formerÂ television executive, wife and mother of two based in West London. Since early childhood she dreamed of writing stories that readers would fall in love with, but put those dreams on hold to focus on her family and her career. She finally plucked up the courage to put pen to paper with her first novel,\n <em>\n  Fifty Shades of Grey\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1867'),
(4295, 'Fifty Shades Freed', 'E L James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When unworldly student Ana Steele first encountered the driven, damaged young entrepreneur Christian Grey, it sparked a sensual affair that changed both their lives irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and ultimately repelled by Christianâ€™s singular sexual tastes, Ana demanded a deeper commitment; determined to keep her, Christian agreed. Now, together, they have moreâ€”love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world of infinite possibilities. But Ana always knew that loving her Fifty Shades would not be easy and being together poses challenges neither of them ever anticipated. Ana must somehow learn to share Christianâ€™s opulent lifestyle without sacrificing her own integrity, identity, or independence; Christian must somehow overcome his compulsion to control and lay to rest the horrors that blighted his past and haunt his present. Just when it seems that together their love can conquer any obstacle, tragedy, malice and fate combine to make Anaâ€™s worst nightmares come true.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n THE\n <em>\n  NEW YORK TIMES\n </em>\n BESTSELLING FIFTY SHADES Trilogy\n <br />\n <br />\n "In a class by itself."Â \n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n E L James is a formerÂ television executive, wife and mother of two based in West London. Since early childhood she dreamed of writing stories that readers would fall in love with, but put those dreams on hold to focus on her family and her career. She finally plucked up the courage to put pen to paper with her first novel,\n <em>\n  Fifty Shades of Grey\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1868'),
(4296, 'Fifty Shades of Grey', 'E L James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind - until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time. Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A GoodReads Choice Awards Finalist for Best Romance\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "In a class by itself."Â \n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n E L James is a formerÂ television executive, wife and mother of two based in West London. Since early childhood she dreamed of writing stories that readers would fall in love with, but put those dreams on hold to focus on her family and her career. She finally plucked up the courage to put pen to paper with her first novel,\n <em>\n  Fifty Shades of Grey\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1866'),
(4297, 'Finding Forever', 'Ervin, Keisha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1536'),
(4298, 'The Finley Sisters&#39; Oath of Romance (Indigo)', 'Walker, Keith Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ten years ago, Mona, Rene and Dawn were the closest and most popular friends at Finley High School. Everyone knew they would be kindred spirits forever, but after graduation the real world lured them in three different directions, and the trio has little contact until their high school reunion. The girls, now women, are instantly inseparable again, but broken promises linger like ghosts from the past. An attempt to recapture the hope and innocence of their youth leads the ladies down a road of discovery that is sometimes hilarious, sometimes sensual, other times dark and painful. And what they thought was their simplest vow, to live love to the fullest, is no easy task for the Finley sisters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1317'),
(4299, 'Fire and Desire (Arabesque)', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/917'),
(4300, 'Fire and Desire (Arabesque)', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1631'),
(4301, 'The First Lady', 'Carl Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/838'),
(4302, 'Flirt', 'Tracy Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1038'),
(4303, 'Fool, Stop Trippin&#39;', 'McKinney, Tina Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1021'),
(4304, 'Forbidden Fruit', 'Michelle, Nika', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1541'),
(4305, 'Forever a Hustler&#39;s Wife', 'Nikki Turner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1076'),
(4306, 'Forever Yours', 'Francis Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1416'),
(4307, 'Forged of Steele Bundle', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/911'),
(4308, 'Forged of Steele Bundle', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1635'),
(4309, 'Fornication Volume One (Honey Dip)', 'Simmons, Julia Press', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1546'),
(4310, 'Four Degrees of Heat', 'Rochelle Alers, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Brenda L. Thomas &amp; Crystal Lacey Winslow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1108'),
(4311, 'Fourplay', 'Brenda L. Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/763'),
(4312, 'Freaks Cum Out (Dawn of the Freak)', 'Dehvine, Solae', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1420'),
(4313, 'From Harlem with Love', 'Foye, K&#39;wan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1177'),
(4314, 'From the Streets to the Sheets', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1223'),
(4315, 'Full Figured 3: Carl Weber Presents', 'Hampton, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/868'),
(4316, 'Full Figured 4: Carl Weber Presents', 'Weber, Natalie &amp; Anna J.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/869'),
(4317, 'G-Spot', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1197'),
(4318, 'G-Spot 2 Betrayal: The 2nd Deadly Sin (G-Spot 2: The Seven Deadly Sins)', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1230'),
(4319, 'G-Spot 2 ENVY; the 4th deadly sin', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1147'),
(4320, 'G-Spot 2 Envy: The 4th Deadly Sin (G-Spot 2: The Seven Deadly Sins)', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1422'),
(4321, 'G-Spot 2 Greed: The 3rd Deadly Sin (G-Spot 2: The Seven Deadly Sins)', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1231'),
(4322, 'G-Spot 2 Lust: The 5th Deadly Sin (G-Spot 2: The Seven Deadly Sins)', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1423'),
(4323, 'G-Spot 2 Pride: The 1st Deadly Sin', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1227'),
(4324, 'G-Spot 2 Pride: The 1st Deadly Sin (G-Spot 2: The Seven Deadly Sins)', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1421'),
(4325, 'Game', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/927'),
(4326, 'Gang War', 'Graham Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n ''If those pricks want a war, lad, we''ll show what some proper soljas can do.''Dylan, Nogger and their crew ''tax'' rival drug dealers using a red-hot  steam iron and celebrate by making videos of themselves raping wannabe  WAGs. In their world, guns and knives are as common as mobile phones.  But when an innocent three-year-old girl is killed in the crossfire,  extreme measures are brought in to combat gang warfare.  From burgeoning organised crime to warped celebrity culture, Gang War is an apocalyptic vision of a world in freefall.The gripping debut novel by the bestselling author of Powder Wars is a mind-blowing tale that is all the more shocking because it is inspired by real-life events.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1280'),
(4327, 'Gangland [NOOK Book]', 'K&#39;Wan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Remastered: Featuring new scenes and an alternate ending.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Love always comes with a price\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  After the murder of a dirty Los Angeles detective St. Louis Alexander aka Lou-Loc found himself a hunted man. Trying to stay one step ahead of the gas chamber he flees to New York to try and pick up the pieces of his life.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fate throws him a curve ball when he meets Satin Angelino and finds himself headover heels in love. Satin is young, fine and keeping a secret that could cost him his life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1192'),
(4328, 'Gangsta', 'Foye, K&#39;wan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hot! Urban! Powerful! Unforgettable! --Urban Edition Book Reviews\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  K''wan, do you, stay true and much success. ''''Gangsta'''' is a gotta read! --Author Vickie M. Stringer, ''''Let That Be The Reason''''\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''Lou-Loc is a character that comes to life. K''wan, I see you coming for my crown! --Author Shannon Holes, ''''B-More Careful''''\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For years, Lou-Loc - an efficient assassin and O.G. of the Crip organization - did dirt. After dancing on the razor''s edge, he becomes weary of the street life that consumed him during his years of service to his set. He begins to wonder, Is there a better way to make a living? Lou-Loc and his sociopath counterpart, ''''Gutter,'''' leave L.A for the colorful streets of New York. Lou-Loc has dreams of becoming a writer. Gutter has dreams of becoming a King Pin. Conflicting, intriguing and suspenseful - this novel will keep you on the edge of your seat.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1200'),
(4329, 'A Gangsters Melody', 'Wright, Sean A.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/751'),
(4330, 'Genevieve', 'Dickey, Eric Jerome', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1550'),
(4331, 'Gets No Love', 'Eric Pete', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From one of the hottest voices in contemporary fiction, a novel about love and redemption. Lance is doing just fine for himself in New Orleans, except that he can''t stop thinking about the one girl who broke his heart-and their engagement. When she found out about his bad-boy past-a past that included one of her best friends-she called the whole thing off. Now he''s on a quest to win her back with a little help from his best friend Akhet, an ex-thug turned local rap star. But when Akhet suddenly has to face some unfinished business from his former life, Lance learns a dangerous lesson: Before you can start on the future, you have to put the past to rest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1270'),
(4332, 'Gettin&#39; Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles II', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1009'),
(4333, 'Getting Even', 'Evelyn F. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1237'),
(4334, 'Getting Sexy: Three Erotic Tales', 'Kayla Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Getting some: Lucky Annelise may be having the best sex of her life with her new man, but she can''t help noticing her two closest friends and her sister, fresh from very recent, very public breakups, are miserable. So she does what any good friend would do: plans a girls'' weekend in Vegas! In a town that emphasizes hedonism, Lishelle is sorely tempted. Between sensual masseurs and private exotic dancers, how''s a girl to choose? She finally lets her guard down and beds the perfect guy for a no-strings-attached affair, a sexy rapper looking for a good time with no questions asked. Meanwhile, Claudia is busy getting her groove on with a younger man who makes her laugh. Even better, he''s eager to please and much to her delight wants her to be in control in the bedroom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1265'),
(4335, 'Getting Some', 'Kayla Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1238'),
(4336, 'Getting to Happy', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  An exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale--the novel that changed African American fiction forever.   Terry McMillan''s Waiting to Exhale was more than just a bestselling novel-its publication was a watershed moment in literary history. McMillan''s sassy and vibrant story about four African American women struggling to find love and their place in the world touched a cultural nerve, inspired a blockbuster film, and generated a devoted audience.Â \n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now, McMillan revisits Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin fifteen years later. Each is at her own midlife crossroads: Savannah has awakened to the fact that she''s made too many concessions in her marriage, and decides to face life single again-at fifty-one. Bernadine has watched her megadivorce settlement dwindle, been swindled by her husband number two, and conned herself into thinking that a few pills will help distract her from her pain. Robin has an all-American case of shopaholism, while the big dream of her life-to wear a wedding dress- has gone unrealized. And for years, Gloria has taken happiness and security for granted. But being at the wrong place at the wrong time can change everything. All four are learning to heal past hurts and to reclaim their joy and their dreams; but they return to us full of spirit, sass, and faith in one another. They''ve exhaled: now they are learning to breathe.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1067'),
(4337, 'GHETTO SUPERSTAR', 'Nikki Turner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1099'),
(4338, 'A Gift for Philomena', 'Girard, Dara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1333'),
(4339, 'Gimme an O!', 'Kayla Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1210'),
(4340, 'Give Me Fever', 'Niobia Bryant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1142'),
(4341, 'The Glass Slipper Project', 'Girard, Dara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1340'),
(4342, 'God Ain&#39;t Blind', 'Mary Monroe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In this gripping, unforgettable new novel by\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Mary Monroe, forever friends Annette Goode Davis and Rhoda O''Toole are about to learn that even the rockiest relationships can survive just about anythingâ€”as long as you''re there for each other when it matters most. . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Annette Goode Davis is a survivor, and while life''s obstacles have often knocked her down, she''s never let them keep her there for long. To Annette, life is all about family and old friends like Rhoda O''Toole. And right now, Annette needs all the friends she can get. . .because her marriage is in big trouble, and she has no idea why. . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lately, her husband Pee Wee barely has the time of day for Annette and she suspects he may have fallen for another woman. Desperate to regain his affections, Annette goes on a crash diet, gets a total makeover, and looks hotter than she has for a long, long time. Everyone noticesâ€”everyone except Pee Wee.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Annette is ripe for the picking when she meets Louis Baines, a handsome young caterer who showers her with attention. Soon, Annette is embroiled in a full blown affair and spending money on Louis like there''s no tomorrow. But when Annette learns a terrible secret about her new lover, she realizes she''s in way over her head. Her life crumbling down around her, Annette turns to the only person she knows she can trust: Rhoda.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With Rhoda by her side, Annette''s determined to find a way out of this mess. But when the truth finally comes out, Annette must face the fact that she may have destroyed the life she lovedâ€”and this time, not even Rhoda can help her make things right...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hilarious, raunchy soul sistahs Annette Davis and Rhoda O''Toole return in this latest wacky adventure in Monroe''s God series (\n  <em>\n   God Don''t Play\n  </em>\n  , etc.). This time, Rhoda persuades her 46-year-old BFF to have an affair since Pee Wee, Annette''s husband, hasn''t touched his newly svelte wife in a year. Pee Wee has cancer, but doesn''t tell his wife until he''s cured so she''s ripe for the picking. Rhoda sees nothing wrong with discreet adultery: she''s been having an affair for years with her husband Otis''s best friend, Bully Bullard. Sexy caterer Louis Baines, who''s 30, woos Annette with all the right moves, and Annette finds him irresistible until it turns out he''s after her money. Another extreme annoyance is Rhoda''s 19-year-old Naomi Campbell look-alike daughter, Jade, who wreaked havoc in Annette''s life by trying to steal Pee Wee and has come home with a Mexican hottie who chickens out on marrying her. Monroe''s never better than when she''s writing about Annette and Rhoda, an outrageous Lucy &amp; Ethelâ€“style African-American comedy duo who are always getting in trouble.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1264'),
(4343, 'God Ain&#39;t Through Yet', 'Mary Monroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1229'),
(4344, 'God Don&#39;t Like Ugly', 'Mary Monroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1228'),
(4345, 'God Don&#39;t Play', 'Mary Monroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1232'),
(4346, 'God Still Don&#39;t Like Ugly', 'Mary Monroe &amp; Frank Muller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Sequel to\n  <em>\n   God Don''t Like Ugly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An Essence Bestseller\n   <br />\n   A Selection of the Black Expressions Book Club\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this haunting and powerful new novel, national bestselling author Mary Monroe revisits Annette Goode, Rhoda Nelson, and the other unforgettable characters from God Don''t Like Ugly. After a five-year separation, Annette is ready to take tentative steps to re-establish her friendship with Rhoda, but has her troubled girlhood companion come to terms with her past?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Group Discussion Guide Included.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sequel to Monroe''s first novel,\n  <em>\n   God Don''t Like Ugly\n  </em>\n  (2000), revisits the lives of Annette Goode and her family and friends. After years of having no contact with her father, Annette reaches out to him. She and her father begin corresponding, and she finally makes the trip from Ohio to Miami for a visit. Annette''s relationships with men have been disappointing. When she meets Jerome, she finally has a man who wants and loves her. When his uncle reveals to the family at their prewedding celebration that she sold her body, her past catches up with her and her future changes. Heartbroken and saddened, she seeks comfort from her childhood friend, Pee Wee Davis. She has also been tormented by the secrets of murder at the hands of her unstable friend, Rhoda. So after years of not speaking to one another they reconnect. Annette has to wrestle with the truth and with friendship and love to decide what is best for her.\n  <em>\n   Lillian Lewis\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Mary Monroe is a remarkable talent."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Chicago Sun-Times\n  </em>\n  (\n  <em>\n   Chicago Sun-Times\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1242'),
(4347, 'Goddess of Vengeance', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1309'),
(4348, 'Going Down: An Erotic Tale of Murder', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1554'),
(4349, 'The Golden Hustla', 'Wahida Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1091'),
(4350, 'Gonna Lay Down My Burdens', 'Mary Monroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Mary Monroe, acclaimed bestselling author of\n <em>\n  God Don''t Like Ugly\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Upper Room\n </em>\n returns with the masterful story of a woman who''s ready to take back her life--if she can figure out how. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gonna Lay Down My Burdens\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In the sweltering little town of Belle Helene, Alabama, Carmen Taylor keeps her weaknesses, her frustrations, and her sorrows to herself. She''s too busy dealing with the dramas of troubled friends like Desiree Lucienne, the petite, pampered daughter of a doctor who tries to beat the wildness out of her. But that doesn''t stop Desiree from trawling for men, and trying to drag Carmen along.\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s not that Carmen hasn''t had her share of boozy pick-ups--only that they can''t compare to the one steamy night she spent with the man she''s loved since they were both kids. Now a local cop, all-too-fine Chester Sheffield keeps showing up in Carmen''s life, wanting to do something about the feelings they obviously share. But that would mean abandoning her "boyfriend" Burl Tupper, and that''s something Carmen just can''t do. Ever since a foolish teenage prank of Carmen''s landed Burl in a wheelchair, she''s been trying to make it up to him. When Carmen doesn''t take her chance with Chester, Desiree does. And although the women''s friendship stays solid, greater challenges await.\n</p>\n<p>\n On a sultry, reckless moonlit night, Carmen commits a desperate crime of passion, and, with Desiree, hits the road running. But she can''t run from the truth. Now she has two choices--a life on the lam, or a return to Belle Helene, the place where it all began. . .and the only place Carmen can lay down her burdens and seize her one true chance at love and redemption.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise For The Novels Of Mary Monroe\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  God Don''t Like Ugly\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A highly satisfying page turner--and one that will stand out." --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Upper Room\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Warm, energetic, and charming."--\n <em>\n  The Houston Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Magnificent, funny, and terrifying."--\n <em>\n  The San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "There is an electricity, an excitement, and a vitality to this novel that makes it unique. . .[Mary Monroe is] a remarkable talent." --\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Powerful and impressive with fascinating characters."--\n <em>\n  Wisconsin Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Supremely rich in language and blessed with a genuine originality." --\n <em>\n  Financial Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mary Monroe''s Gonna Lay Down My Burdens opens with a bang, when Carmen Taylor intervenes in a violent lovers'' quarrel between her friends Chester and Desiree, and Chester winds up dead. Most of the novel is told in flashback, following Carmen and Chester''s ill-fated attraction to one another, which began when they were teenagers. It traces the friendship between Carmen and troubled Desiree, as well as Carmen''s relationship with Burl, a boy she tried to use to make Chester jealous, with disastrous and long-lasting results. Monroe (God Don''t Like Ugly) will surely return to the Blackboard bestseller list with this title, a standout among similar offerings.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n At 30, Carmen has spent her whole life in Belle Helene, Alabama, shouldering enough sadness and guilt to make her feel like an old woman. There are friends who have been lost in accidents, friends in destructive relationships, and her fiance, Burl, who has ended up in a wheelchair. To top it all off, Carmen has been in love with the unattainable Chester since she was a little girl. Luck finally shines down on her, and she spends one magical night with the man of her dreams, but guilt forces her to accept that she must stand by Burl whether she loves him or not. Then everything comes to a climax on the eve of Carmen''s marriage to Burl when she goes to help a friend in need and ends up on the run from the law. Monroe''s remarkable romance delves both painfully and humorously into the lives of southern African Americans, and her richly drawn characters will stay with readers long after the book is finished.\n <em>\n  Megan Kalan\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1211');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(4351, 'A Good Time In The Hood', 'King, Diesel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the initial volume of this anthology, Diesel King presents a shocking revolution to the world of gay erotica. One that surpasses the comforts of lustful man-sex beyond the safe confines of Castro and Christopher Streets, and into the rough terrain of the various slums and ghettos that dots the landscape in between. A Good Time in the Hood is a collection of homoerotic adventures told and experienced firsthand by a strikingly handsome muscled man of color that truly enjoys sex with other men of color in these kinds of places. He revisits his most intimate accounts, starting with him and his homeboys running trains on all the neighborhood punks in the dilapidated housing projects that he once resided in. He then recounts "repaying" what he thought was a business partner through classic humiliation to turning out a quiet but sexually curious college student with the help of his former cellmate. In a surprise twist of events, he also finds himself sharing his wanton lust with two middle-aged brothers in the same night. He even took to mentoring a nineteen-year-old boy about the dangers of teasing grown men along so many other scorching hot narratives. Diesel King offers just a modest taste of the man and his numerous escapades within these pages. He does so with the sole purpose of whetting appetites and leaving everyone hungry for more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1424'),
(4352, 'Grown Folks Business', 'Victoria Christopher Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1083'),
(4353, 'A Guilty Affair', 'Maureen Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Journalist Riley Kane has long suspected that the death of her fiance, Trevor, a San Antonio police officer, was not a simple accident. The only person who can uncover the truth about Trevor is his former partner, Noah Roarke. But thoughts of Noah fill Riley with guilty longing.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Noah kept his distance from beautiful, tempting Riley while Trevor was alive. Now she''s back, in his office...and in his arms. Blindsided by the heat that surges between them, Noah tells himself that the sooner he helps Riley find closure, the sooner she can leave town. But getting her out of his system-and out of his heart-won''t be that easy....\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1244'),
(4354, 'Gumbo', 'E. Lynn Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1380'),
(4355, 'Gutter', 'K&#39;Wan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The explosive sequel to GANGSTA has finally arrived!Â Blood answers for blood on the streets of Harlem.Â Itâ€™s been months since Lou-loc was brutally murdered on his way to freedom and the pain is still fresh. Gutter, Lou-locâ€™s best friend, finds himself on a path to self destruction, vowing to eradicate the entire Blood faction in New York City in the name of his fallen comrade. Sharell urges him to abandon the suicide mission, but his oath wonâ€™t allow it. Not even for the child they are expecting. But as Gutter slips further into madness, a shocking revelation brings Satin out. In the middle of all this is a man named Major Blood. He has been flown in from Cali with two very simple instructions. Shut down Harlem Crip, and execute El Diabloâ€™s murderer.Â Walk back into the mouth of madness in the not-to-missed sequel to GANGSTA. K''wanÂ is the #1 Essence bestselling author of Still Hood, Hood Rat, Eve, Hoodlum, Street Dreams, Gangsta and Road Dawgz. He has been featured in Time, KING, The New York Press, MTV andÂ BET. Blood answers for blood on the streets of Harlem.Â Itâ€™s been months since Lou-loc was brutally murdered on his way to freedom and the pain is still fresh. Gutter, Lou-locâ€™s best friend, finds himself on a path to self destruction, vowing to eradicate the entire Blood faction in New York City in the name of his fallen comrade. Sharell urges him to abandon the suicide mission, but his oath wonâ€™t allow it. Not even for the child they are expecting. But as Gutter slips further into madness, a shocking revelation brings Satin out. In the middle of all this is a man named Major Blood. He has been flown in from Cali with two very simple instructions. Shut down Harlem Crip, and execute El Diabloâ€™s murderer.Â Walk back into the mouth of madness in Gutter, the not-to-missed sequel to Gangsta. "In the sequel to Gangsta, K''wan offers a gritty and explosive cautionary tale. Kenyatta Soladine, aka Gutter, is an Algerian immigrant and head of the Harlem Crips, recently recovered from a gunshot-induced coma to learn that his best friend has been murdered by the rival Bloods. Overcome with guilt and rage, Gutter and his gang seek revenge by killing not just those responsible, but every member of the Bloods in town, despite the protests of Gutter''s wife, Sharell, his business associates and his advisers. In response, the Bloods import some serious help from Los Angeles: Major Blood, a deranged and murderous sociopath with an age-old vendetta against the Soladine family. Plenty of mayhem follows, taking in gangsters, their families and innocent bystanders on both coasts . . . K''wan does have his eyes and ears to the street, believably detailing his characters'' dialogue and reactions."â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1180'),
(4356, 'The Handy Answer Book for Kids', 'Gina Misiroglu', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  As a launching pad for inquisitive young minds and a life raft for parents at wits end, this collection addresses a critical part of being a kid: asking questions. A wide variety of questions are answered, such as\n  <em>\n   Is there life on Mars? Do rivers ever dry up? Why are there wars? Is there such a thing as a funny bone? What is DNA?\n  </em>\n  Having this nearby will equip every parent for those difficult, absurd, or sometimes funny questions from their kids.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The biggest problem for parents with inquisitive children is not knowing the answers. For those times, consider [this book]."Â \n  <em>\n   â€”Boston Globe\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "ParentsÂ . . .Â can reach for [this resource] when their kids throw a doozy of a question their way."Â  â€”\n  <em>\n   San Diego Union-Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Of strong interest for any parent who wants to arm their child with general knowledge."Â  â€”\n  <em>\n   Children''s Bookwatch\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A great little reference book, filled with pictures and charts and other visual delights. The questions are a lot of fun, ranging from the profound\n  <em>\n   Who is God?\n  </em>\n  to the trivial\n  <em>\n   How does a vacuum cleaner pick up dirt?\n  </em>\n  "Â  â€”Superfastreader.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Having this nearby will equip every parent for those difficult, absurd, or sometimes funny questions from their kids. The book is well organized with tabs marking each section for easy reference."Â  â€”pageturners-underthecover.blogspot.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''d judge it as a perfect book for an audience of curious children ages eight to thirteen or so, and the parents of children who like to ask questions."Â  â€”lesasbookcritiques.blogspot.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Visible Ink has been publishing the Handy Answer books for over a decade now and they have been a favorite in both school and public libraries. This informative resource will suit public and school library users well."Â  â€”\n  <em>\n   American Reference Books Annual\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Gina Misiroglu\n  </strong>\n  is the author of several books, includingÂ \n  <em>\n   The Handy Politics Answer Book\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Superhero Book\n  </em>\n  . She lives in Los Angeles.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/982'),
(4357, 'The Handy Answer Book for Kids', 'Judy Galens &amp; Judy Galens (joint Author) &amp; Nancy Pear', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Kids ask the darnedest things. If you''ve ever tried to fend for yourself in this alien world, you know that a book like this is long overdue.\n  <em>\n   The Handy Answer Book for Kids\n  </em>\n  addresses nearly 800 queries that only a kid can think up. It''s easy to understand and organized by simple topical chapters, permitting kids (and parents) to help themselves. Born in a moment of quiet desperation, it easily handles the occasional solitary stumper lobbed like a live grenade, like\n  <em>\n   How many stars are there?\n  </em>\n  It''s more than a bunch.\n  <em>\n   What did people use before toothbrushes were invented?\n  </em>\n  With\n  <em>\n   Handy Kids\n  </em>\n  , love means never having to say I don''t know. Chapters include Earth, Sky, and Beyond; Me, Myself, and I; My Family and Friends; Being Green (about the plant world); How Things Work; Home Life and School Days; World Tour; Animal Neighbors; and others.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The biggest problem for parents with inquisitive children is not knowing the answers. For those times, consider\n  <em>\n   The Handy Answer Book for Kids (and Parents)\n  </em>\n  ."Â  â€”\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Judy Galens\n  </strong>\n  is glad for the opportunity to satisfy both her own curiosity and prepare for life as the Answer Mom. Judy has worked on a wide array of reference books for kids and adults, covering subjects from world music to food festivals, from hockey to weather.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1002'),
(4358, 'A Hard Act to Follow', 'Amour, K', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/752'),
(4359, 'Harlem Girl Lost 2', 'Blue, Treasure E.', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <b>\n   What if You Could Take it All Back?\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Jessica Jones never thought living her teenage dream would lead to a living nightmare. When she and her three best friends venture out on prom night, theyâ€™re drunk on young love and excited for their college plans. But a tragic incident turns a night of high school achievement into a crime scene,  and Jessica and her girls are left with bloody hands and a shattered future.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  After spending years paying off a debt that wasnâ€™t theirs, Jessica and her friends return to Harlem to find it very different from when they left. Crack is now king, and its destruction has left their families in ruin and their neighborhoods consumed by its peddlers.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Jessica takes a stand, and her friends are there to back her up when demons from the past come beating down their doors. Jessica and the girls must pass the ultimate test in order to preserve their lives, their families, and their Harlem.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1285'),
(4360, 'The Harlem Hellfighters', 'Walter Dean Myers &amp; Bill Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/952'),
(4361, 'Harriet', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1162'),
(4362, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Young wizard Harry Potter finds himself back at the miserable Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He doesn''t realize the difficulty of the task that awaits him. Harry must pull out all the stops in order to find his missing friend. No Canadian Rights for the Harry Potter Series HARRY POTTER and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and (c) Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Harry Potter publishing rights (c) J. K. Rowling. (s05)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/857'),
(4363, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Potter is preparing to leave the Dursleys and Privet Drive for the last time. But the future that awaits him is full of danger, not only for him, but for anyone close to him - and Harry has already lost so much. Only by destroying Voldemort''s remaining Horcruxes can Harry free himself and overcome the Dark Lord''s forces of evil. In this dramatic conclusion to the Harry Potter series, Harry must leave his most loyal friends behind, and in a final perilous journey find the strength and the will to face his terrifying destiny: a deadly confrontation that is his alone to fight. In this thrilling climax to the phenomenally bestselling series, J.K. Rowling reveals all to her eagerly waiting readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/863'),
(4364, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can''t wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry needs to be on his guard at all times - his worst enemy is preparing a terrible fate for him. With characteristic wit, fast-paced humour and marvellous emotional depth, J.K. Rowling has proved herself yet again to be a master storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/864'),
(4365, 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''In a brief statement on Friday night, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He Who Must Not Be Named has returned to this country and is once more active."It is with great regret that I must confirm that the wizard styling himself Lord - well, you know who I mean - is alive and among us again," said Fudge.These dramatic words appeared in the final pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.In the midst of this battle of good and evil, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes up the story of Harry Potter''s sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with Voldemort''s power and followers increasing day by day . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/865'),
(4366, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *I say to you all, once again--in the light of\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Lord Voldemortâ€™s return, we are only as strong\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  as we are united, as weak as we are divided.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Lord Voldemortâ€™s gift for spreading discord and\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.*\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  So spoke Albus Dumbledore at the end of Harry Potterâ€™s fourth year at Hogwarts. But as Harry enters his fifth year at wizard school, it seems those bonds have never been more sorely tested. Lord Voldemortâ€™s rise has opened a rift in the wizarding world between those who believe the truth about his return, and those who prefer to believe itâ€™s all madness and lies--just more trouble from Harry Potter.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Add to this a host of other worries for Harryâ€¦\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ A venomous, disgruntled house-elf\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ And of course, what every student dreads: end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¦and youâ€™d know what Harry faces during the day. But at night itâ€™s even worse, because then he dreams of a single door in a silent corridor. And this door is somehow more terrifying than every other nightmare combined.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowlingâ€™s seven-part story, Harry Potter confronts the unreliability of the very government of the magical world, and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Despite this (or perhaps because of it) Harry finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty and unbearable sacrifice.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Though thick runs the plot (as well as the spine), readers will race through these pages, and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only for the next train back.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/871'),
(4367, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents'' deaths.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/872'),
(4368, 'He&#39;s Just A Friend', 'Mary B. Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In her sizzling bestseller\n <i>\n  Soul Mates Dissipate,\n </i>\n and its smoking sequel,\n <i>\n  Never Again Once More,\n </i>\n Mary B. Morrison blazed a new trail in African American erotic fiction. Now she introduces a sassy, unstoppable heroine who vows to marry money and status&#8212;when what she really needs is love. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Fancy Taylor wants to settle down. And after having dated twenty-six men in fifty-two weeks, she has enough experience to know that if a man is married, he''s bad news. Unfortunately, irresistible Byron Van Lee&#8212;who has a big car, big income, big ego, and big youknowwhat&#8212;neglects to mention his wife and kids until after Fancy falls for him big time. Determined to make Byron hers, Fancy dreams up an outrageous scheme to get him to divorce his wife. Meanwhile, she turns to Desmond Brown for a shoulder to cry on.\n</p>\n<p>\n Desmond, aka Mr. Reliable, is always there to pick up the pieces or fill an empty Saturday night. Since he''s a mechanic, he can fix Fancy''s car, too....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1218'),
(4369, 'Head Bangers', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hope and Faith: two things that everyone needs to survive. But the words take on a different meaning in the form of a set of twins who attend Crockett University in Washington, D.C. As seniors, they are looking forward to a bright future in corporate America. Meanwhile, they have decided to relieve some of the stress involved in getting a higher education by being members of APF. Soror Ride ''em High and Soror Lick ''em Low, originally hail from Atlanta and, like most twins, they share a connection. In fact, their physical bond is so strong, that one can often feel a pounding in her vagina while the other is engaged in sexual activity. But everything is not perfect when it comes to being a twin. Sometimes animosity and jealousy can creep in; especially when Hope and Faith find themselves both attracted to the same man on campus. Is blood really thicker than water? Or, in this case, thicker than basic carnal desires?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1006'),
(4370, 'Heart of the Falcon', 'Francis Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1402'),
(4371, 'Heart&#39;s Secret', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/778'),
(4372, 'Heartbreak of a Hustler&#39;s Wife: A Novel', 'Turner, Nikki', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1577'),
(4373, 'Heat', 'Geneva Holliday', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1436'),
(4374, 'The Heat Seekers', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1458'),
(4375, 'Heated', 'Niobia Bryant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1141'),
(4376, 'Heaven Forbid', 'Lutishia Lovely', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1182'),
(4377, 'Heaven Right Here', 'Lovely, Lutishia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1198'),
(4378, 'Heaven&#39;s Hell', 'Takerra Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1051'),
(4379, 'Heaven&#39;s Hell', 'Allen, Takerra', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1467'),
(4380, 'Hidden Pleasures', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/883'),
(4381, 'A Hire Love', 'Candice Dow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/815'),
(4382, 'Hittin&#39; the Bricks: An Urban Erotic Tale', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1188'),
(4383, 'Hittin&#39; the Bricks: An Urban Erotic Tale', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œUrban erotica has never been hotter!â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Nikki Turner, author of\n  <strong>\n   Black Widow\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Have you ever been betrayed by those you love? Violated in the worst kind of way? And no matter how hard you tried to fight your way out of a trick bag, no matter how tall you tried to walk, did the cold streets of life lead you right back to your grimy destiny?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The bestselling author of\n  <strong>\n   G-Spot\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Candy Licker\n  </strong>\n  , Noire pens the intense tale of Eva Patterson, a tragic daughter of the ghetto who finds peril on the streets of New York. With an abusive mother and a heroin monkey on her back, Eva experiences a series of traumatizing events, forcing her to flee her Brooklyn tenement and seek refuge with her beloved cousin Fiyah in Harlem.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But fate is not done wreaking havoc in Evaâ€™s life yet. Poised on the brink of progress, Eva meets King Brody, a vicious Harlem drug lord who runs Bricks, the hottest rap club in town. Unbeknownst to Eva, her cousin Fiyahâ€™s thirst for glory leads him to cut a killer deal with Brody. A trade-off is arranged: Fiyah gets a recording contractâ€“and Brody gets Eva.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The problem is, Eva already has a man: Ice Mello Williams, a hot Harlem rapper who has a bitter feud going with Fiyah and is determined to seize his recording contract.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Torn between the man she loves and a violent kingpin, Eva becomes an unwilling pawn in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Can Fiyah and Mello help her elude the sadistic jaws of Brody, or will she end up losing her life in his brutal trap?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Brooklyn housing projects were deserted as Eva\n  <br />\n  Patterson took a shortcut through the buildings, trying\n  <br />\n  not to get drenched in the pouring rain. It was unusually\n  <br />\n  cold for early fall, and all she had on was the corduroy\n  <br />\n  skirt and Salvation Army sweater sheâ€™d been wearing\n  <br />\n  when Rasheena kicked her out of their tenement apartment, but the temperature was the last thing on her mind as her eyes scanned the crime- ridden buildings in search of a safe place to go.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSheena, please . . .â€ Their neighbor Iris had butt in on\n  <br />\n  the earlier drama as Rasheena cursed her daughter out\n  <br />\n  like she was a grown woman. Iris had puffed out her\n  <br />\n  cheeks and held her breath between tokes of weed. â€œStunt, stop\n  <br />\n  fuckinâ€™ trippinâ€™. Evaâ€™s a good girl. And young as she is, I know\n  <br />\n  you ainâ€™t . . . putting her out in the . . . street this time of . . .\n  <br />\n  night.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a GreyGoose night, and Rasheena drunk was somebody\n  <br />\n  altogether different than Rasheena high. The high Rasheena\n  <br />\n  would have been sitting in a corner somewhere. Getting her nod\n  <br />\n  on and leaving Eva the hell alone.The drunk Rasheena had stood\n  <br />\n  over her daughter giving her a grimy look that said Eva could kiss\n  <br />\n  her ass.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhat?!?â€ Rasheena had turned to Iris. â€œFourteen is _grown!\n </p>\n <p>\n  _Sheeit . . . my ass was on the ave gettinâ€™ tricked when I was\n  <br />\n  twelve. Who the fuck took care of me?â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rasheena slurped a mouthful of Goose straight from the\n  <br />\n  bottle, then chased it with a long swig of cranberry juice and\n  <br />\n  explained. â€œLook, I. If you lie you steal, and Eva is a thief. A\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   goddamn\n  </em>\n  thief. Thereâ€™s two things I ainâ€™t â€™bout to watch in my\n  <br />\n  own goddamn house. My duji and my dick! Ya feel me? Eva\n  <br />\n  grown enough to fuck with my man and dabble in my shit?\n  <br />\n  Then she grown enough to let the doorknob hitâ€™er in the ass on\n  <br />\n  the way out!â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWell\n  <em>\n   damnnn,\n  </em>\n  â€ Iris toked the blunt and muttered under\n  <br />\n  her breath. â€œYâ€™all the ones who got her started on that shit in\n  <br />\n  the first place . . .â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eva had just sat there crying inside and looking forty instead\n  <br />\n  of fourteen. She\n  <em>\n   had\n  </em>\n  tried to dip in Rasheenaâ€™s stash, but sheâ€™d\n  <br />\n  been sick all day and couldnâ€™t go out and make no money. Eva\n  <br />\n  hated stealing from her mother. These days she hated taking\n  <br />\n  anything from anybody, but she had a hungry monkey on her\n  <br />\n  back. And Iris had it right. Eva wasnâ€™t responsible for putting\n  <br />\n  herself on the gutter path to drug abuse, but neither did she\n  <br />\n  have what it took to get off of it. She hadnâ€™t gotten a hit all day,\n  <br />\n  and just thinking about having to get out on those cold streets\n  <br />\n  was enough to bring her jones down even harder.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Donâ€™t worry I got you,_â€ Evaâ€™s stepfather Jahden put his hand\n  <br />\n  up to his mouth and whispered. He winked and grinned as Eva\n  <br />\n  slunk into the tiny room sheâ€™d once shared with her cousin\n  <br />\n  Fuego, whose street- translated name was Fiyah. Eva missed her\n  <br />\n  cousin real bad. But Fiyahâ€™s mother had gotten out of rehab a\n  <br />\n  couple of years earlier and heâ€™d gone back to Harlem to live\n  <br />\n  with her. Even with all the grimy things theyâ€™d done together\n  <br />\n  Fiyah was down for her through thick and thin, and Eva\n  <br />\n  wished she could have escaped to Harlem with him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAnd donâ€™t you take a damn thing outta here that I bought\n  <br />\n  you!â€ Rasheena screamed from the kitchen. Eva sighed. The\n  <br />\n  only thing she was interested in taking from the room was the\n  <br />\n  most important thing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her works.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jahden grabbed her thin arm as she headed out the front\n  <br />\n  door.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHold on, baby. I said I got you.â€ A mid- level drug dealer,\n  <br />\n  Jahden specialized in pushing smack while most trap boys were\n  <br />\n  busy trading that rock. His hand slid around Evaâ€™s narrow\n  <br />\n  shoulders then fell to the small of her back. Eva stiffened as his\n  <br />\n  fingers crept down the lump of her ass and massaged her\n  <br />\n  cheeks. A cold sweat broke out all over her skin. _If my real father\n  <br />\n  was here Jah wouldnâ€™t be touching me like this, _she cried inside.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   This nasty pervert woulda been bodied by now.\n  </em>\n  Eva bit her\n  <br />\n  tongue, trying not to throw up. Jahden liked to cold sex her.\n  <br />\n  He would do things to her that Evaâ€™s young body just wasnâ€™t\n  <br />\n  ready to handle. There was no end to his twisted demands, and\n  <br />\n  earlier in the day he had forced Eva to sit on the floor and\n  <br />\n  watch him fuck Rasheena from the back while Rasheena got in\n  <br />\n  Irisâ€™s pussy at the same time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCheck me out, Eva baby!â€ he had panted as his ass cheeks\n  <br />\n  gyrated and pumped like a steam engine. Eva shuddered. Her\n  <br />\n  mother was rotating her head in circles and lapping nookie\n  <br />\n  juice like that shit came in thirty- one flavors. Jahden laughed at\n  <br />\n  the look of revulsion on Evaâ€™s face, then screamed on her as she\n  <br />\n  closed her eyes and tried to escape the horrible scene playing\n  <br />\n  out in front of her. â€œBitch open ya goddamn eyes! You betta be\n  <br />\n  a student and pay attention, dammit!â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eva had just sat there and cried. She was traumatized and\n  <br />\n  sickened. She wanted to stick a knife in Jahdenâ€™s neck. The\n  <br />\n  same way heâ€™d stuck a fearsome needle in her neck a year ago\n  <br />\n  and turned her into the scared, humiliated shell she was today.\n  <br />\n  Although Rasheena had starved her child almost to skin and\n  <br />\n  bones and done things to Eva that even the lowest dog- mother\n  <br />\n  would never consider, Jahden was the real reason her life was so\n  <br />\n  fucked up and Eva hated him for it. Every other day sheâ€™d\n  <br />\n  promise herself that sheâ€™d kick dope cold turkey before she let\n  <br />\n  him rape her\n  <em>\n   or\n  </em>\n  get her high again, but her greatest fear had become\n  <br />\n  her greatest joy, and Eva was helpless.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rasheena, who had held Eva down the first time Jahden shot\n  <br />\n  her up, and who had then stood by and watched as her boy -\n  <br />\n  friend busted her young daughterâ€™s cherry, had been acting real\n  <br />\n  jealous. She got mad whenever it looked like Jahden would\n  <br />\n  rather fuck Eva than fuck her, and she put her foot down and\n  <br />\n  demanded that from that day on Eva had to pay for her skag\n  <br />\n  with cold hard gwap just like every other fiend- head customer.\n  <br />\n  Desperate, young Eva had taken to the streets to earn her\n  <br />\n  drug money the only way she knew how. On her knees and on\n  <br />\n  her back. Sheâ€™d been beaten by strange men, raped, stabbed,\n  <br />\n  and almost strangled. She had cried out to God for help, begging\n  <br />\n  to know what she had done to deserve such a dark, treacherous\n  <br />\n  life. But as usual, there were no answers for Eva. There\n  <br />\n  was only more destitution and misery. Only fear and more\n  <br />\n  pain. And right now, standing next to Jahden while he rubbed\n  <br />\n  all over her ass, she was hurting. Real bad. Hurting and scared.\n  <br />\n  Seeing the disgust on her face Jahden grinned and reached in\n  <br />\n  his shirt pocket. He passed her a tiny foil- wrapped package and\n  <br />\n  squeezed her fingers when she tried to take it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI got what you need, baby girl.â€ He cupped his dick and\n  <br />\n  licked his lips. â€œSee how cool I am? Tonight Iâ€™ma let you get it\n  <br />\n  for free.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eva burned with rage, but he was right. She feared what he\n  <br />\n  had, but she needed it too. She snatched it greedily and fled.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Downstairs, Evaâ€™s nose was runny and her entire body\n  <br />\n  ached. A deep pain gripped her as she was leaving her building,\n  <br />\n  and it wasnâ€™t just from anger or from her motherâ€™s cruel behavior.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rasheena had once been a top clothing model for a highly\n  <br />\n  successful designer, but these days she was a common needle\n  <br />\n  fiend who put her man, her drink, and her drugs way ahead of\n  <br />\n  her only child. She had also been an extremely beautiful and\n  <br />\n  intelligent black woman who could have gone far in life. Tall\n  <br />\n  and shapely, with skin the color of brown sugar, she had wide\n  <br />\n  eyes, stunning lips, and hips like sweet chocolate milkshakes.\n  <br />\n  Back in the day she used to be known as the finest chick in\n  <br />\n  Brownsville, but a fast life and a series of grimy men had\n  <br />\n  proven more than Rasheena could handle. Sheâ€™d traded her exotic\n  <br />\n  beauty for one too many heroin trips, and these days she\n  <br />\n  scrambled with the low- life Jahden because he not only paid\n  <br />\n  her rent, but he also kept her head right.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Having a junkie for a mother was bad enough, but the\n  <br />\n  drunken rages Rasheena flew into always cut Eva deep. Juiced,\n  <br />\n  Rasheena would wrap an extension cord around her fist and\n  <br />\n  whip her daughter until Evaâ€™s skin split open and she passed\n  <br />\n  out from the pain. Evaâ€™s starving body was a canvas of thick,\n  <br />\n  ugly scars and fresh bruises that sheâ€™d picked until they were\n  <br />\n  oozing, infected sores. Her stomach, ass, and back would be so\n  <br />\n  cut open that her wounds bled through and pussed over and\n  <br />\n  glued her undergarments to her skin. Her arms and legs had\n  <br />\n  their fair share of crisscrossed cuts and welts too, but Rasheena\n  <br />\n  had learned to chill on those areas after the school social worker\n  <br />\n  got on her case and told her sheâ€™d make sure her black ass got\n  <br />\n  locked up the next time she saw Eva with a fresh belt mark.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was hard for Eva to admit that she would rather see her\n  <br />\n  mother mainline heroin than guzzle vodka and gin, but that\n  <br />\n  was the way it was with Rasheena. Besides, Eva understood\n  <br />\n  duji. She respected that shit. Liquor was something else\n  <br />\n  though. A smack head could find any old corner and cop a\n  <br />\n  quiet nod, but a drunk usually got loud and abusive. Drunks\n  <br />\n  liked to bully the weak, and that was Rasheena to a tee.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eva dodged rain puddles and hunched her narrow shoulders\n  <br />\n  against the cold. It was after midnight, and the sixteen- story\n  <br />\n  concrete towers of Howard Houses Projects were a mixture of\n  <br />\n  illumination and darkness. Rain curled Evaâ€™s silky hair and\n  <br />\n  drenched her down to her bruised skin. Shivering, she tightened\n  <br />\n  her grip on the tiny package sheâ€™d gotten from ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1466'),
(4384, 'Hollywood Divorces / Hollywood Wives: The New Generation', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1319'),
(4385, 'Hollywood Wives: The New Generation', 'Collins, Jackie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1314'),
(4386, 'Honey Flava', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/977'),
(4387, 'Honey Flava', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Honey Flava\n </em>\n features an erotic feast of short stories with enough Asian flava to ignite fireworks. With an African American and Asian mix of sexy characters, Zane picks the most clever and bold male and female writers to deliver a collection like no other. Stories like\n <em>\n  Geisha Girl\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Pins and Needles\n </em>\n give tea and acupuncture a whole new meaning, and the word "Master" is a term of endearment in\n <em>\n  The Meaning of Zhuren\n </em>\n . In tantalizing portraits of some of the hottest -- and sweetest -- scenes you''ll ever want to experience, Honey Flava will take you to a sensual paradise of no return.\n</p>\n<p>\n Zane delivers a new and special taste, proving that passion and sensuality have truly universal meaning.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Zane\n </strong>\n is the author of _Addicted, The Sex Chronicles, Gettin'' Buck Wild, The Heat Seekers, The Sisters of APF, Shame on It All, Nervous, Skyscraper, Afterburn,\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n Love Is Never Painless_ and is also the editor of\n <em>\n  Chocolate Flava\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Caramel Flava.\n </em>\n She is the publisher of Strebor Books, an imprint of Atria Books/Simon &amp; Schuster, and lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her family. Visit her website atwww.eroticanoir.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1620'),
(4388, 'Hood', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1163'),
(4389, 'A Hood Chick&#39;s Story pt. 2', 'DeVaughn, LaShonda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/759'),
(4390, 'A Hood Chick&#39;s Story pt. 3: The Final Chapter', 'DeVaughn, LaShonda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1494'),
(4391, 'A Hood Chick&#39;s Story', 'DeVaughn, LaShonda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/758'),
(4392, 'The Hood Life: A Bentley Manor Tale', 'Meesha Mink; De&#39;nesha Diamond', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A pimp, a killer, a playa, and a drug dealer struggle to get their game right in a sizzling novel where leaving the life and trying to go straight is a deadly option. Tavon, better known as "Sweet," would pimp his own mother -- and he does. Convinced that the prostitution game chose him, Sweet loves his high-rolling life. But when he unexpectedly becomes a father, will Sweet be able to choose between the family trade and his grown, not-so-innocent daughter? EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A pimp, a killer, a playa, and a drug dealer struggle to get their game right in a sizzling novel where leaving the life and trying to go straight is a deadly option.** **Tavon,** better known as "Sweet," would pimp his own mother -- and he does. Convinced that the prostitution game chose him, Sweet loves his high-rolling life. But when he unexpectedly becomes a father, will Sweet be able to choose between the family trade and his grown, not-so-innocent daughter? After ten years in prison, the drive-by **Demarcus** committed still haunts him. Determined to stay above the law, he''s found Allah, promised to change his ways forever, and finally do right by his girl, Zoey. But when an opportunity arises that will set him and Zoey right for life, Demarcus may have more faith in his killah reputation than the Koran.... **Kaseem** runs every single drug going in and out of Bentley Manor. His empire provides clothes, cash, and his satisfaction of his wifey, Quilla -- along with the company of other ladies, of course. But when Kaseem''s crew becomes more violent, will he be able to escape the life -- and the gangsters -- he created? The best playa on the block, **Rhakmon** can get a woman to do anything he wants. His latest girlfriend, Shaterica, lets him steal, lie, and cheat -- smitten to be under his spell. But when Rhakmon''s devious deeds are finally brought to light, the revenge Shaterica plans may ultimately be more horrible than anything he could have imagined.... From the ladies who brought you *Desperate Hoodwives* and *Shameless Hoodwives,* the streets of Atlanta are hotter than ever with drama, sex, and danger -- profilin'' four men desperate for anything *but* their hood life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1003'),
(4393, 'Hood Rat', 'K&#39;Wan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Hood Rat (n.)\n </strong>\n : A woman of questionable repute, one who has been known to "get around" in the ''hood.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Yoshi\n </strong>\n is young, fine, and larcenous.Â  She lives her life playing on men''s hearts as well as their pockets.Â  She learns the hard way that all that glitters isn''t gold.Â \n <strong>\n  Billy\n </strong>\n , a former high school basketball star, is at the end of her rope with the opposite sex.Â  To her, all men are dogs, so she secretly seeks comfort in the arms of women, until she meets a man who makes her reevaluate her feelings.Â \n <strong>\n  Reese\n </strong>\n is an around-the-way chick, trying to keep up with the Joneses.Â  There''s a revolving door on her bedroom as she triesÂ to find the love she always felt was missing.Â  Her promiscuity leaves her pregnant from a one-night stand and Reese is faced with the task of breaking an age-old cycle, passed down from mother to daughter in her family, and standing on her own.Â \n <strong>\n  Rhonda\n </strong>\n is twenty-something with three kids, by three men, and riding the system all the way to the bank.Â  To her, work is a dirty word; between the multiple checks she gets from the government, and the games she plays with men, she''s living the life of a ghetto superstar.Â  The game soon turns ugly when one of her "sponsors" snaps and decides to get some payback.\n</p>\n<p>\n Harlem has never seen four friends as scandalous as these.Â  The neighborhood will never be the same again.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n K''wan''s latest (after\n <em>\n  Eve\n </em>\n ) is a meandering trip across Harlem with plenty of pit stops for vice and violence. Yoshi is a stripper who prostitutes herself for extra cash; Rhonda is a promiscuous and abusive mother of three; Reese is a scabrous, demanding kept woman; and Billy is an attractive, sporty woman with a healthy distrust of the men who live in their Harlem ''hood. All of the women get sucked into drama involving neighborhood rappers, drug dealings, abortion, fistfights, catfights, shootings, rape, AIDS or good, old-fashioned drunkenness. There''s a bevy of minor characters, each involved in intersecting subplots, though these don''t so much coalesce as run their course. The most interesting story involves Paul, a man who''s trying to go straight and become an artist, and who''s also dating a respectable lawyer named Marlene, but things are destined to end badly. None of the characters rises above stereotype and the plotting is mechanical, but the big draw here is the electric prose, which is imbued with profane, comic lyricism.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  K''WAN\n </strong>\n is the #1\n <em>\n  Essence\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Welfare Wifeys\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Section 8\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Gutter\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Still Hood\n </em>\n , and others. He wrote his first novel,\n <em>\n  Gangsta\n </em>\n , as a therapeutic release, and it went on to become an\n <em>\n  Essence\n </em>\n bestseller and a part of urban-lit history. In 2008 he received the Black Author of the Year Award from Black Press Radio. He has been featured in\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  KING\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The New York Press\n </em>\n , and on MTV andÂ BET. Besides an author, Kâ€™wan is also a motivational speaker, a mentor to at-risk children and the C.E.O. of Black Dawn, Inc. He lives in New Jersey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1595'),
(4394, 'Hoodlum', 'K&#39;Wan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n He set out to be the good son, but the streets had a different plan.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Born to one of the cityâ€™s most notorious crime families, Shai Clark has always managed to be a good kid. A college hoops star, Shai shunned the world that his father had created and focused on his dreams of going pro. Tommy, Shaiâ€™s trigger-happy older brother, is next in line for the throne and rules under his father through brute force. But Poppa has bigger plans for Shai.\n <br />\n The situation soon turns ugly when Poppa is murdered and Tommy is removed from the equation. Suddenly Shai finds himself at the head of his fatherâ€™s empire and the streets are thrown into chaos. It is then that he must decide whether to pursue his own dreams or put his fatherâ€™s affairs in order. Unable to sit idly by while the Clarksâ€™ underworld empire is pillaged, Shai takes up his fatherâ€™s mantle and brings his game to the streets. He quickly learns that there are two sides to every coin, and the streets hold no mercy for the weak.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Hoodlum\n </em>\n chronicles three generations of Trinidadian immigrants and their rise to power in the New York City heroin trade.\n <br />\n A Kâ€™wan classic.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n K''Wan''s gritty latest (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  Street Dreams\n </em>\n ) follows the fortunes of two brothers whose ghetto mafia family crumbles under the weight of murder and disloyalty. Tommy Clark runs the streets of Harlem with an iron fist (though his dad, Poppa, who''s been "laying his gangsta down for thirty-something years," is still king), and he''s poised to inherit the family "business." But then Tommy''s younger brother, Shai, turns up, kicked out of college for betting on the basketball games he starred in. Though Poppa discourages Shai from street life, his stubborn, competitive kid has other plans, and pretty soon Shai''s hustling the streets with fearless friend Swan and getting busy with local girl Honey while Tommy and Poppa run a risky heroin side operation, encouraging animosity within opposing underworld factions. When Poppa is murdered, it paves the way for the brothers to exact their retaliation in a spray of bullets, while crooked cops close in on Tommy for an execution-style murder. With every page soaked with street-smart vernacular, K''Wan''s fourth novel delivers another aggressive, bloody portrait of unrepentant urban outlaws.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOne of hip-hop fictionâ€™s hottest authors.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  KING Magazine\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <br />\n </strong>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Street Dreams\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThe legacies of Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines are forever preservedâ€¦. [\n <em>\n  Street Dreams\n </em>\n ] is as real as it gets.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Upscale\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œKâ€™wan steadily builds to a frantic, movie-worthy climax.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œKâ€™wan has really outdone himself on this oneâ€¦. A must-read for fans of urban fiction.â€\n <br />\n â€”Shannon Holmes, national bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Bad Girlz\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Never Go Home Again\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1187');
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(4395, 'Hooker to Housewife', 'Joy King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Tyler Blake is off to Hollywood, the newest starlet of Tinsel Town, with a wonderful man by her side. Unfortunately that man is married, and she once again crosses paths with controlling T-Roc. When Tyler thinks her life can''t get any more complicated, she falls in love with Andre Jackson. He has it all--money, fame, movie star looks, and the bad boy reputation that Tyler vowed to avoid. But more than that Andre has Chantal Morgan, long term girlfriend and mother of his child, who is determined to go from hooker to housewife. Has Tyler finally met her match?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n JOY KING represents a new genre of young, hip and sexy novelistsÂ who take readers behind the velvet rope of the glamorous but often shady entertainment industry.Â Loosely chronicling her life experiences into fiction, she made her debutÂ with\n <em>\n  Dirty Little Secrets\n </em>\n .Â \n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Chapter One\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Queen of New York\n</p>\n<p>\n 2007\n</p>\n<p>\n The honey-blond bombshell strutted into the nail salon on Park Avenue like she owned New York City. All eyes turned to catch a glimpse of the cover girl beauty. She had the gorgeous face and impeccable style that made you ask yourself, Where have I seen her before? Is she a model, actress, or singer? Is she famous? No, she wasn''t any of the above, but she was famous. Make that infamous.\n</p>\n<p>\n Chantal Morgan did what many considered the impossible. She used her powers of persuasion to land the biggest mogul in the music industry. Andre Jackson was the Bill Gates of hip-hop, and Chantal was the femme fatale of industry chicks.\n</p>\n<p>\n She didn''t come by her fame the conventional way, but she worked the tools she had. Those tools were her lips, her ass, and her pussy. The deadly combination put her at the top of her game. For the average girl that would''ve been enough, but there was nothing average about Chantal Morgan and she assumed everyone else knew it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Chantal couldn''t fathom why after almost five years of her precious services she still hadn''t walked down the aisle with Andre. What was it going to take, she''d quietly wondered. She had had his daughter, been through more drama with him than the law should allow, and still he refused to make her legitimate. Chantal''s fame continued to come from being his baby mother and girlfriend. That was unacceptable for the self-proclaimed Queen Bitch.\n</p>\n<p>\n She refused to remain in the ever-expanding group of celebrity baby mamas, which she considered beneath her. The frustration was building up and Chantal was exhausted from hitting the same brick wall. Maybe it''s true what they say: "A man won''t wife a ho."\n</p>\n<p>\n Chantal sat at the nail salon getting Swarovski crystals on her gel-coated tips, admiring the ten-carat emerald-cut diamond sitting on her finger. It was a present from Andre for her twenty-fifth birthday. It was the third ring in two years but he still hadn''t proposed. Every time she wanted to discuss getting engaged, it seemed he would immediately buy her a new bauble, as if that was supposed to keep her mouth shut. With Chantal being the materialistic slave that she was, it always worked. This ring, like the ones before it, was one more gift she could shamelessly flaunt in front of her equally shallow girlfriends. But when she was alone, with no phony cheerleaders to gas her up with false praises, Chantal had to admit that this situation was wearing on her psyche. She believed it was time for Andre to wife her. Not just say it, but do it.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Pretty ring. You married? Husband must be rich," said the Chinese manicurist, as she meticulously created the design on Chantal''s index finger.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Not yet, but I''m working on it."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Oh, he not ready to get married?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Not yet," Chantal retorted, smacking her lips.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Oh, work harder," the Chinese lady said, shaking her head back and forth, as though Chantal was a disappointment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Chantal said to herself, I should have told the nosey bitch that I was engaged. Now she''s looking at me like why am I wearing this big-ass rock and I can''t get my man to commit. Come hell or high water, by end of this year I will be Mrs. Andre Jackson.\n</p>\n<p>\n After sitting under the dryer for a half hour, Chantal''s $300 design was finally dry. She was being extra careful because she wanted her nails to stay in perfect form. Chantal had to be more on point than usual since she was escorting Andre to a red carpet movie premiere and wanted all eyes to be on her. With the dress she was picking up from Roberto Cavalli and with Marisa doing her hair and makeup, the original movie goddess herself, Dorothy Dandridge would have to make a grand entrance in order to shut her down. And since she was resting somewhere in royal diva heaven Chantal knew she had it all sewn up.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Chantal opened the glass door and stepped outside, the cold air instantly sent chills down her spine. It was the middle of March and there is nothing like a New York winter. Even with her floor-length chinchilla coat she couldn''t escape the harsh weather. Not being one to wait, especially for people who are supposed to serve her, Chantal became frustrated when the driver wasn''t parked in front waiting as he was ordered to do.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You have to be kidding me. Where is the dumb fuck? It''s freezing outside and the hired help is nowhere to be seen!" Chantal muttered as she scanned the area for the car. Just then Chantal saw Carlos driving the black Rolls-Royce Phantom around the corner. She ran toward the vehicle in her black Gucci stiletto boots because it was too cold to wait for him to drive around a taxi that was blocking traffic. When she finally got in the car and slammed the door, the heat instantly warmed her and it felt so good she almost forgot to drill Carlos about where the hell he''d been. He gave her some lame excuse about the cops telling him to move out of the way. Whatever, she thought to herself, he was probably cruising around the block trying to pick up some girls and frontin'' like this is his whip. Chantal knew the game. She used to be one of those girls chasing the guy in the fly ride because she assumed he had some paper.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Go to the Roberto Cavalli boutique at 711 Madison Avenue," Chantal directed him, thinking to herself that as soon as she got home she was going to tell Andre to fire him.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Carlos pulled up to the store she called the sales lady and told her to bring out her dress. She wasn''t about to step out of the balmy car into the freezing cold. Chantal eyed the petite wannabe Eva Mendes-looking trick as she exited the store and ran toward the Phantom. The Cuban salesgirl gave Chantal a fake-ass grin and handed her the bag with the dress inside. As she waved good-bye and turned her back Chantal rolled her eyes and said under her breath, "That bitch doesn''t think I know she was fucking Andre. Trying to act like she''s so professional all the while she was swallowing my man''s dick. Huh, that''s why she''s working at Roberto Cavalli, and I''m shopping here."\n</p>\n<p>\n Those struggling days were long gone for Chantal now. She was finally living the good life. No more worrying about where her next dollar was coming from. She''d sealed that deal when she locked Andre down with their daughter. Melanie was a beautiful little girl and Chantal knew Andre was proud of her. People could say what they wanted, but Chantal knew if there was one thing she was good at besides sex, that was making some pretty babies. Ever since she was in high school, every guy would tell her they wanted her to be their baby mama. She reasoned that dudes always want the girl with the nice complexion and pretty hair, plus she had the body, too. She was constantly beating cats off with a baseball bat.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Carlos opened her door, Chantal handed him her bags and walked into the lobby at the Trump World Tower. Andre had a penthouse in the building, and the fact she was laying her head there made her the envy of all women. Okay, maybe she wasn''t laying her head there every night but the fact was she was the queen of that domain. When Chantal wasn''t in Chicago, then she was in New York with Andre. She was still scheming to get him to move her and Melanie in permanently but until that happened she made sure to leave all her shit around for his hoochies to see.\n</p>\n<p>\n On her elevator ride up, Chantal reflected back on one night when she came to town unexpectedly and thought she was about to catch a case. She had wanted to surprise Andre, so she caught a flight and arrived at his place in the early evening. When she opened the door she could hear some Sade playing but didn''t think anything of it. Andre loved to listen to Sade when he was trying to relax. Chantal took her pumps off so he couldn''t hear her feet on the marble floor. When she walked up the wraparound stairs she was the one who was surprised by intense breathing mixed with moaning. As she tiptoed closer to the bedroom door she heard a woman''s voice saying, "Oh baby, you feel so good. Go deeper, deeper baby."\n</p>\n<p>\n Then a male voice, which sounded like Andre, groaned, "This dick feel good to you, baby?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes, baby, I love my dick," the woman moaned.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Your dick! Bitch, you''ve lost your damn mind!" Chantal roared as she pushed opened the door. They had candles lit with the soft music playing. Andre''s ass was in the air about to come down and stroke the chick in her pussy once again. He looked up at Chantal like he was being introduced to the devil himself. There was so much rage across Chantal''s face, Andre knew it was about to be on.\n</p>\n<p>\n "What the fuck are you doing here? Your ass supposed to be in Chicago," Andre said.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yeah, that''s what you thought. So what, you decided to dick down the next bitch because I''m not here? I''m gonna fuck this trick up and then I''m coming to get you."\n</p>\n<p>\n The half-black, half-Filipina chick jumped out of the bed, putting her hands over her pint-size tits. Like Chantal gave a fuck about her body, she just wanted the trick out of her man''s bed and his house.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Chantal, calm the fuck down, you''re acting real crazy right now."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Oh, you haven''t seen crazy yet!" Chantal barked while taking off her jacket and diamond hoop earrings, preparing for a brawl. She kept on her rings hoping to leave a signature mark on the girl''s face. "You think I''m going to let you play me out with some cunt?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ain''t n...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1296'),
(4396, 'The Hot Box', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1023'),
(4397, 'Hot Like Fire (Dafina Contemporary Romance)', 'Niobia Bryant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1452'),
(4398, 'Hot Westmoreland Nights', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/887'),
(4399, 'Hot Westmoreland Nights', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  He knew better than to lust after the hired help. But Ramsey Westmoreland''s new cook was just so delectable...it was enough to make the Denver rancher rethink his rules. When temptation got the best of him, he discovered Chloe Burton was just as hot in the bedroom as she was in the kitchen.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though their affair was growing steamier by the minute, Ramsey couldn''t help but question Chloe''s true motives. And when he discovered her ultimate betrayal, he was set to satisfy himself with cold showers. Until he realized his fatal mistake: never underestimate the power of the human heart,\n  <em>\n   especially\n  </em>\n  a Westmoreland''s.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1578'),
(4400, 'How Did I Get Here: A Novella', 'Ahmad Aleem Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Preston Brown is one of the most elegant and upcoming stars in the African-American community; who has destiny written all over him. He has everything a twenty-five year old man could ever want in life: a miraculous looking wife (Delight), kids, dog, and a career lined up after seminary school to top it all off. Although, very intelligent and keen with words you will find out how Preston''s strengths will ultimately turn into his center of weakness. Preston finds himself in a series of unfortunate events that makes it difficult for him to even believe in himself after some time. Preston''s ambitious attributes meet the test when he finds himself caught up with a woman that attracts him in every way. Preston soon finds himself in a dilemma of whether to stay married or get a divorce. The first of a three part series will read to you a story about failure, struggle, and redemption at its greatest capacities. Find out how the consistent faith of his wife delivers him from evil and how Preston finds humility as the greatest spiritual relief he has ever felt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1301'),
(4401, 'How Do I Get Out of Here', 'Ahmad Aleem Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1302'),
(4402, 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The author of Waiting to Exhale checks in again with a fresh, exuberant novel. Stella Payne is a Superwoman who has everything--except a man to rock her world, something she''s convinced she can well do without. On a spur-of-the-moment Jamaican vacation she meets Winston, a man half her age, and finds, to her dismay, that her world is indeed well and truly rocked. Stella soon realizes that she''s come to a cataclysmic juncture in her life, one that forces new and difficult questions about her passions and expectations.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1071'),
(4403, 'How To Stay Married', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1351'),
(4404, 'A Hustler&#39;s Promise: Some Promises Won&#39;t Be Broken', 'Chanel, Jackie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1495'),
(4405, 'A Hustler&#39;s Son 2 (The Cartel Publications Presents)', 'Styles, T.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1602'),
(4406, 'A Hustler&#39;s Wife', 'Turner, Nikki', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1138'),
(4407, 'I Got This', 'Jennifer Hudson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A personal and inspirational memoir from Grammy and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, focused on her amazing transformation as she embraced a healthy lifestyle and lost over eighty pounds.\n</p>\n<p>\n Soulful and sultry, Jennifer Hudson wowed the world with her powerful voice in\n <i>\n  American Idol\n </i>\n ''s third season, and then took Hollywood by storm with a star turn in\n <i>\n  Dreamgirls\n </i>\n that won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. But before we knew her as an American Idol standout, Jennifer was singing in her church choir in the Southside of Chicago. This uplifting memoir tells the story of Jennifer''s meteoric rise from\n <i>\n  American Idol\n </i>\n to\n <i>\n  Dreamgirls\n </i>\n to her amazing weight loss on the megablockbuster Weight Watchers diet plan. With the Weight Watchers brand endorsing her, Jennifer gives her fans tips for embracing a healthy lifestyle in order to lose weight and reclaim their bodies. Full of stories from her\n <i>\n  American Idol\n </i>\n days, her experience acting in\n <i>\n  Dreamgirls\n </i>\n ,...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1339'),
(4408, 'I Hate Rules!', 'Nancy Krulik', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/878'),
(4409, 'I Know I&#39;ve Been Changed', 'ReShonda Tate Billingsley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1112'),
(4410, 'I Know Who Hold Tomorrow', 'Francis Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1386'),
(4411, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1274'),
(4412, 'I Promise', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beautiful and brilliant, Christian McKinley could set the world on fire. Instead, this Southern girl only dreams of returning to her family''s ranch in Texas. But Malcolm Williams, son of one of Atlanta''s most prominent African-American families, has other plans for her. Only hours after their college graduation, he publicly proposes to Christian at the social event of the year.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gorgeous, well-connected and obscenely rich, Malcolm is accustomed to women swooning over him--everyone but Christian, that is. But how can she tactfully turn down a proposal that practically every woman in Atlanta would kill for? By inadvertently falling in love with his twin brother, Jordan. When Malcolm catches Christian in a kiss with his own brother, he''s outraged. Yet even with a family feud threatening to explode, neither Christian nor Jordan can deny the sweetness in the kiss they shared--or their desire for more....\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n I would like to make a toast." Jordan Williams held up his glass. "To our first sale. This is only the beginning."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hear! Hear!" his four associates cheered. They clinked their glasses while a series of high fives ensued.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pride filled Jordan as he looked down at his first signed contract, and not to mention his first check. It was a new beginning for him and his five-person operation. Look out world, J.W. Enterprises was ready to make its mark on the world of technology. His team had a full two months before they had to buckle down and start their programming, though with his excitement, he wished they could start tomorrow.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Boss, didn''t you have an appointment at your parents tonight?" Charlotte Harris asked, looking down at her watch.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Damn, I forgot." He checked the time. Eight-thirty. He should have been at his parents more than an hour ago. He set his glass down with a thump and reached for his jacket. "Could you be a doll and lock up for me?" he asked, kissing the older woman''s cheek to sugarcoat the request. "Thanks, you''re the best," he added before she could respond, then dashed toward the door as if someone had lit a fire under him.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I guess this means you can finally quit the family business," a smiling Quentin called out from the crowd.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan forced a smile he didn''t feel and slipped out of the office. He raced down the hallway and out into the balmy evening. Despite the time, sunlight peeked from behind the clouds, but the orange hue suggested that it wouldn''t last much longer.\n</p>\n<p>\n He pressed the button on his key ring and disarmed the car alarm. His sleek black Mercedes rode like a dream as he pulled out onto Peachtree Street and headed toward the highway. If he were lucky he would make it to his parents'' within thirty minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  I guess this means you can finally quit the family business.\n </em>\n Quentin''s words echoed in Jordan''s head, but his heart seemed to plummet to the pit of his stomach. His father wasn''t going to take the news well. Opulence meant the world to Noah and he had made it clear he wanted Jordan to take over the company. Jordan had his own dreams, but he knew his father wouldn''t see it that way.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan exhaled. The weight of the world settled on his shoulders. For the last two years, he had operated J.W. Enterprises without breathing a word of his activities to his family. Of course, they all knew of his love of computers, but they considered it a hobby.\n</p>\n<p>\n Glancing into his side mirrors, he changed lanes. He saw the reflection in the rearview mirror and caught the uncanny resemblance of his father''s image. His announcement wasn''t going to be easy.\n</p>\n<p>\n He exited off Highway I-85 and headed into Buckhead.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dad, there''s something I''ve been meaning to talk to you about," he practiced. No. He shouldn''t dance around the subject. He needed to be more direct. He looked into the mirror again and started over. "Dad, I''ve started my own business." That wasn''t going to work either. Jordan shook his head and prayed for strength.\n</p>\n<p>\n Minutes later, he turned off the main road and onto his parents'' private estate. The sun diminished and a black curtain cloaked the sky as a million stars glimmered against its rich backdrop.\n</p>\n<p>\n A myriad of lights lit the English manor-style house that sat in the middle of twelve acres. As he drove down the long driveway, Jordan gave himself a quick pep talk, but he prepared for the worst.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''re late," Rosa Chavez Williams scolded her son as he entered the house.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I know, Mama." Jordan closed the heavy mahogany door behind him. Music and laughter drifted throughout the house and pulled his attention away from his mother. He looked past her to see men and women dressed in formal attire. "Is Malcolm home yet?" He headed up the stairs.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Of course he''s here. Everyone''s here. Dinner was served almost two hours ago," she chastised, following him.\n</p>\n<p>\n He entered his old bedroom and smiled at the tuxedo draped across the bed.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I knew you''d be late." Rosa patted his shoulder, then encouraged him to hurry.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan turned and kissed his mother. "I''ll be down in twenty minutes. By the way, what''s the big occasion?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Your brother has some secret announcement he wants to make to the family. I hope it''s not what I think it is," she said with a tinge of fear laced in her voice.\n</p>\n<p>\n "What''s that?" He stripped out of his shirt.\n</p>\n<p>\n "That he wants to marry that dreadful McKinley girl." Rosa''s hands covered her heart as if the possibility would kill her.\n</p>\n<p>\n "What girl?" Jordan''s gaze focused on her.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Never you mind. If you came and visited more often, you''d know what''s going on with your own family. Now hurry up." She turned and closed the door behind her.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan rushed into the adjoining bathroom. After years of family protocol, and despite how much he hated these elaborate parties, he was used to dressing in record time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tonight''s party gave him a reprieve from his announcement to the family. He was grateful.\n</p>\n<p>\n Twenty minutes later, he''d dressed and descended the stairs to join the family. He winced at seeing his father, Noah, leaning against the bottom post.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hiding?" Jordan asked.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hate formal functions," Noah mumbled. "I think your mother invited half of Georgia here tonight."\n</p>\n<p>\n "We have that many people?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Noah nodded.\n</p>\n<p>\n "What''s the occasion?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Your brother wants to make some kind of announcement. I know it had better be good for the tab your mother ran up."\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan held a hand across his stomach as he laughed at his father''s penny-pinching ways. "Since I''ve missed dinner, maybe we can get someone to fix us a couple of sandwiches."\n</p>\n<p>\n Noah''s eyes twinkled. "Good idea."\n</p>\n<p>\n Slapping his father''s back, Jordan continued in good humor, "Mom isn''t going to like our skipping out on the party."\n</p>\n<p>\n Noah wrinkled his nose. "She''s got to find us first."\n</p>\n<p>\n The kitchen was a madhouse as servants dashed in and out with various hors d''oeuvres for the party.\n</p>\n<p>\n Headlong into the refrigerator, Jordan searched for something to make a decent sandwich.\n</p>\n<p>\n Noah grumbled as he watched the servants. "This is insane."\n</p>\n<p>\n This was the perfect time, Jordan encouraged himself. Yet, he still didn'' t know how to tell his father the news that would undoubtedly break his heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''m glad you were able to make it." Noah broke into his son''s reverie.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan smiled as he placed condiments on the counter. Try as he might he couldn''t get the right words organized in his head.\n</p>\n<p>\n His father reached over and made his own sandwich.\n</p>\n<p>\n "How''s the development of the North Carolina location coming along?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fine, just fine."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Your mother wants to throw you a party next month. She says that it''s not every day one of our sons manages his own office or something like that. I think she was just looking for an excuse to throw another party."\n</p>\n<p>\n "That''s not necessary."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I know, but your mother gets excited when it comes to planning these things. I, on the other hand, break out in a cold sweat." Noah held Jordan''s gaze as he added, "I wish I could get your brother interested in the business, but he''s as bad as your mother: spend, spend, spend. It''s a wonder we''re not living on the streets."\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan laughed. "To let you tell it, you''d think the company was near bankruptcy."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ha! My competitors would love that."\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan frowned at the dark shadow that crossed his father''s features, but it quickly vanished.\n</p>\n<p>\n "The fact is Opulence is a solid business," Noah declared. "We''ve made record sales for the third quarter in a row. I have plans for this next quarter. Big plans."\n</p>\n<p>\n A piece of Jordan''s sandwich wedged in his dry throat.\n <em>\n  I have to tell him.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "I was thinking," his father continued. "What do you think about opening another store in the Gwinnett Mall area?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Grimacing, Jordan swallowed. "I think I need something to wash this down." He avoided the subject by turning to retrieve two glasses and a gallon of milk from the refrigerators.\n</p>\n<p>\n Noah''s tight scrutiny followed him. "You didn''t answer me," he pressed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan filled their glasses, then locked gazes with his father. "I think that''s a good idea."\n <em>\n  Tell him.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n They ate in silence while Jordan figured out a way to make his announcement. What was he so afraid of? Hadn''t his father always been supportive?\n</p>\n<p>\n "I need to talk to you about something, Pop."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I figured as much."\n</p>\n<p>\n "You did?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "I don''t have to be a rocket scientist to know something is on your mind."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Here goes.\n </em>\n "I wanted to talk to you about the business. I know how much you want me in the North Carolina office, but I''ve been thinking." Jordan took another gulp of milk. His stomach twisted into knots with each word he spoke. "You know how much I''ve always wanted to pursue a career in computers and I think that now is the perfect time for me to branch out and do that." It didn''t quite come out the way he''d hoped, but at least he''d made the announcement.\n</p>\n<p>\n Noah''s mocha skin color reddened. "Computers?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan flinched.\n <em>\n  Here it comes.\n </em>\n He watched his father''s eyes darken.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Why all of a sudden do you want to play on computers?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan exhaled. This wasn''t going well. "I don''t want to play on computers. I want to make computers easier, better. The world of technology fascinates me. I want to start my own company andâ€¦"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Start your own company?" Noah backed away from the counter as if Jordan''s words had burned him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan shook his head. "I need some fresh air. If anyone needs me, tell them I''ll be out in the gardens."\n</p>\n<p>\n Sympathy pooled in the older man''s eyes. "Yes, sir."\n</p>\n<p>\n Christian McKinley wiped at her tears. Tonight had been a complete disaster. She looked down at the five-carat diamond ring that glittered on her finger. How had she gotten herself into this mess?\n</p>\n<p>\n Her best friend, Alexandria, walked up behind her. "Chris, are you all right?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Trying to put on a brave face, Christian smiled, but shook her head in contradiction. "Alex, this is too much. I can''t marry him. I can''t marry anyone."\n</p>\n<p>\n Alex said nothing as she grasped Christian''s hand to offer support.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I didn''t even know he felt this way toward me." Christian glanced up at her six-foot friend and caught the vacant look in her expression. "Hello?" She waved a hand in front of her friend''s face. "Are you the...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/767'),
(4413, 'I Promise', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beautiful and brilliant, Christian McKinley could set the world on fire. Instead, this Southern girl only dreams of returning to her family''s ranch in Texas. But Malcolm Williams, son of one of Atlanta''s most prominent African-American families, has other plans for her. Only hours after their college graduation, he publicly proposes to Christian at the social event of the year.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gorgeous, well-connected and obscenely rich, Malcolm is accustomed to women swooning over him--everyone but Christian, that is. But how can she tactfully turn down a proposal that practically every woman in Atlanta would kill for? By inadvertently falling in love with his twin brother, Jordan. When Malcolm catches Christian in a kiss with his own brother, he''s outraged. Yet even with a family feud threatening to explode, neither Christian nor Jordan can deny the sweetness in the kiss they shared--or their desire for more....\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n I would like to make a toast." Jordan Williams held up his glass. "To our first sale. This is only the beginning."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hear! Hear!" his four associates cheered. They clinked their glasses while a series of high fives ensued.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pride filled Jordan as he looked down at his first signed contract, and not to mention his first check. It was a new beginning for him and his five-person operation. Look out world, J.W. Enterprises was ready to make its mark on the world of technology. His team had a full two months before they had to buckle down and start their programming, though with his excitement, he wished they could start tomorrow.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Boss, didn''t you have an appointment at your parents tonight?" Charlotte Harris asked, looking down at her watch.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Damn, I forgot." He checked the time. Eight-thirty. He should have been at his parents more than an hour ago. He set his glass down with a thump and reached for his jacket. "Could you be a doll and lock up for me?" he asked, kissing the older woman''s cheek to sugarcoat the request. "Thanks, you''re the best," he added before she could respond, then dashed toward the door as if someone had lit a fire under him.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I guess this means you can finally quit the family business," a smiling Quentin called out from the crowd.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan forced a smile he didn''t feel and slipped out of the office. He raced down the hallway and out into the balmy evening. Despite the time, sunlight peeked from behind the clouds, but the orange hue suggested that it wouldn''t last much longer.\n</p>\n<p>\n He pressed the button on his key ring and disarmed the car alarm. His sleek black Mercedes rode like a dream as he pulled out onto Peachtree Street and headed toward the highway. If he were lucky he would make it to his parents'' within thirty minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  I guess this means you can finally quit the family business.\n </em>\n Quentin''s words echoed in Jordan''s head, but his heart seemed to plummet to the pit of his stomach. His father wasn''t going to take the news well. Opulence meant the world to Noah and he had made it clear he wanted Jordan to take over the company. Jordan had his own dreams, but he knew his father wouldn''t see it that way.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan exhaled. The weight of the world settled on his shoulders. For the last two years, he had operated J.W. Enterprises without breathing a word of his activities to his family. Of course, they all knew of his love of computers, but they considered it a hobby.\n</p>\n<p>\n Glancing into his side mirrors, he changed lanes. He saw the reflection in the rearview mirror and caught the uncanny resemblance of his father''s image. His announcement wasn''t going to be easy.\n</p>\n<p>\n He exited off Highway I-85 and headed into Buckhead.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dad, there''s something I''ve been meaning to talk to you about," he practiced. No. He shouldn''t dance around the subject. He needed to be more direct. He looked into the mirror again and started over. "Dad, I''ve started my own business." That wasn''t going to work either. Jordan shook his head and prayed for strength.\n</p>\n<p>\n Minutes later, he turned off the main road and onto his parents'' private estate. The sun diminished and a black curtain cloaked the sky as a million stars glimmered against its rich backdrop.\n</p>\n<p>\n A myriad of lights lit the English manor-style house that sat in the middle of twelve acres. As he drove down the long driveway, Jordan gave himself a quick pep talk, but he prepared for the worst.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''re late," Rosa Chavez Williams scolded her son as he entered the house.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I know, Mama." Jordan closed the heavy mahogany door behind him. Music and laughter drifted throughout the house and pulled his attention away from his mother. He looked past her to see men and women dressed in formal attire. "Is Malcolm home yet?" He headed up the stairs.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Of course he''s here. Everyone''s here. Dinner was served almost two hours ago," she chastised, following him.\n</p>\n<p>\n He entered his old bedroom and smiled at the tuxedo draped across the bed.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I knew you''d be late." Rosa patted his shoulder, then encouraged him to hurry.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan turned and kissed his mother. "I''ll be down in twenty minutes. By the way, what''s the big occasion?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Your brother has some secret announcement he wants to make to the family. I hope it''s not what I think it is," she said with a tinge of fear laced in her voice.\n</p>\n<p>\n "What''s that?" He stripped out of his shirt.\n</p>\n<p>\n "That he wants to marry that dreadful McKinley girl." Rosa''s hands covered her heart as if the possibility would kill her.\n</p>\n<p>\n "What girl?" Jordan''s gaze focused on her.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Never you mind. If you came and visited more often, you''d know what''s going on with your own family. Now hurry up." She turned and closed the door behind her.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan rushed into the adjoining bathroom. After years of family protocol, and despite how much he hated these elaborate parties, he was used to dressing in record time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tonight''s party gave him a reprieve from his announcement to the family. He was grateful.\n</p>\n<p>\n Twenty minutes later, he''d dressed and descended the stairs to join the family. He winced at seeing his father, Noah, leaning against the bottom post.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hiding?" Jordan asked.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hate formal functions," Noah mumbled. "I think your mother invited half of Georgia here tonight."\n</p>\n<p>\n "We have that many people?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Noah nodded.\n</p>\n<p>\n "What''s the occasion?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Your brother wants to make some kind of announcement. I know it had better be good for the tab your mother ran up."\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan held a hand across his stomach as he laughed at his father''s penny-pinching ways. "Since I''ve missed dinner, maybe we can get someone to fix us a couple of sandwiches."\n</p>\n<p>\n Noah''s eyes twinkled. "Good idea."\n</p>\n<p>\n Slapping his father''s back, Jordan continued in good humor, "Mom isn''t going to like our skipping out on the party."\n</p>\n<p>\n Noah wrinkled his nose. "She''s got to find us first."\n</p>\n<p>\n The kitchen was a madhouse as servants dashed in and out with various hors d''oeuvres for the party.\n</p>\n<p>\n Headlong into the refrigerator, Jordan searched for something to make a decent sandwich.\n</p>\n<p>\n Noah grumbled as he watched the servants. "This is insane."\n</p>\n<p>\n This was the perfect time, Jordan encouraged himself. Yet, he still didn'' t know how to tell his father the news that would undoubtedly break his heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''m glad you were able to make it." Noah broke into his son''s reverie.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan smiled as he placed condiments on the counter. Try as he might he couldn''t get the right words organized in his head.\n</p>\n<p>\n His father reached over and made his own sandwich.\n</p>\n<p>\n "How''s the development of the North Carolina location coming along?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fine, just fine."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Your mother wants to throw you a party next month. She says that it''s not every day one of our sons manages his own office or something like that. I think she was just looking for an excuse to throw another party."\n</p>\n<p>\n "That''s not necessary."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I know, but your mother gets excited when it comes to planning these things. I, on the other hand, break out in a cold sweat." Noah held Jordan''s gaze as he added, "I wish I could get your brother interested in the business, but he''s as bad as your mother: spend, spend, spend. It''s a wonder we''re not living on the streets."\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan laughed. "To let you tell it, you''d think the company was near bankruptcy."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ha! My competitors would love that."\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan frowned at the dark shadow that crossed his father''s features, but it quickly vanished.\n</p>\n<p>\n "The fact is Opulence is a solid business," Noah declared. "We''ve made record sales for the third quarter in a row. I have plans for this next quarter. Big plans."\n</p>\n<p>\n A piece of Jordan''s sandwich wedged in his dry throat.\n <em>\n  I have to tell him.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "I was thinking," his father continued. "What do you think about opening another store in the Gwinnett Mall area?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Grimacing, Jordan swallowed. "I think I need something to wash this down." He avoided the subject by turning to retrieve two glasses and a gallon of milk from the refrigerators.\n</p>\n<p>\n Noah''s tight scrutiny followed him. "You didn''t answer me," he pressed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan filled their glasses, then locked gazes with his father. "I think that''s a good idea."\n <em>\n  Tell him.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n They ate in silence while Jordan figured out a way to make his announcement. What was he so afraid of? Hadn''t his father always been supportive?\n</p>\n<p>\n "I need to talk to you about something, Pop."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I figured as much."\n</p>\n<p>\n "You did?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "I don''t have to be a rocket scientist to know something is on your mind."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Here goes.\n </em>\n "I wanted to talk to you about the business. I know how much you want me in the North Carolina office, but I''ve been thinking." Jordan took another gulp of milk. His stomach twisted into knots with each word he spoke. "You know how much I''ve always wanted to pursue a career in computers and I think that now is the perfect time for me to branch out and do that." It didn''t quite come out the way he''d hoped, but at least he''d made the announcement.\n</p>\n<p>\n Noah''s mocha skin color reddened. "Computers?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan flinched.\n <em>\n  Here it comes.\n </em>\n He watched his father''s eyes darken.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Why all of a sudden do you want to play on computers?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan exhaled. This wasn''t going well. "I don''t want to play on computers. I want to make computers easier, better. The world of technology fascinates me. I want to start my own company andâ€¦"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Start your own company?" Noah backed away from the counter as if Jordan''s words had burned him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jordan shook his head. "I need some fresh air. If anyone needs me, tell them I''ll be out in the gardens."\n</p>\n<p>\n Sympathy pooled in the older man''s eyes. "Yes, sir."\n</p>\n<p>\n Christian McKinley wiped at her tears. Tonight had been a complete disaster. She looked down at the five-carat diamond ring that glittered on her finger. How had she gotten herself into this mess?\n</p>\n<p>\n Her best friend, Alexandria, walked up behind her. "Chris, are you all right?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Trying to put on a brave face, Christian smiled, but shook her head in contradiction. "Alex, this is too much. I can''t marry him. I can''t marry anyone."\n</p>\n<p>\n Alex said nothing as she grasped Christian''s hand to offer support.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I didn''t even know he felt this way toward me." Christian glanced up at her six-foot friend and caught the vacant look in her expression. "Hello?" She waved a hand in front of her friend''s face. "Are you the...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1650'),
(4414, 'I Say a Little Prayer', 'E. Lynn Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1381'),
(4415, 'I Wish I Had a Red Dress', 'Pearl Cleage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1036'),
(4416, 'I&#39;d Rather Be Single', 'Tysha &amp; Golson, Kaie &amp; DeVaughn, LaShonda &amp; Renee, Mimi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1303'),
(4417, 'I&#39;m Still Wifey', 'Swinson, Kiki', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n While Kira''s husband Ricky is behind bars serving federal time, she clings onto the hope that one day she''ll get a taste of sweet revenge for Russâ€”the nigga who played her! In the mix of all the drama, Kira unintentionally falls for a new ''hood rich cat who has it all. Money, good looks, and yes, a girl back home in Jersey! This time around Kira plans to play by a different set of rules!\n</span>\n<p>\n Although, Ricky is locked down in a Virginia federal prison, it doesn''t stop his reign of terror. He gets wind of everything that went down with Kira and gives her a life altering ultimatum. Nevertheless, Kira refuses to adhere to his demand and Ricky has no choice but to suit up his street team. The question is: How will it end this time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1538'),
(4418, 'I&#39;m Still Wifey', 'Swinson, Kiki', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n While Kira''s husband Ricky is behind bars serving federal time, she clings onto the hope that one day she''ll get a taste of sweet revenge for Russâ€”the nigga who played her! In the mix of all the drama, Kira unintentionally falls for a new ''hood rich cat who has it all. Money, good looks, and yes, a girl back home in Jersey! This time around Kira plans to play by a different set of rules!\n</span>\n<p>\n Although, Ricky is locked down in a Virginia federal prison, it doesn''t stop his reign of terror. He gets wind of everything that went down with Kira and gives her a life altering ultimatum. Nevertheless, Kira refuses to adhere to his demand and Ricky has no choice but to suit up his street team. The question is: How will it end this time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1641'),
(4419, 'Ian&#39;s Ultimate Gamble', 'Ian&#39;s Ultimate Gamble', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/888'),
(4420, 'IAN&#39;S ULTIMATE GAMBLE', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n [WESTMORELANDS 09]  --  Casino owner Ian Westmoreland thought he had seen the last of Brooke Chamberlain, until she checked into his resort claiming to need a little R &amp; R. Brooke had betrayed him years before, and Ian was willing to bet there was more to her visit than she would admit. No woman had even come close to igniting the heat and passion inside him as Brooke once had. And if Ian was going to discover what Brooke was hiding, what better way than through seduction?  But in this game of bedroom cat and mouse, the stakes were very high. Would Ian''s ultimate gamble pay off?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1639'),
(4421, 'If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer', 'O.J. Simpson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **"I''m going to tell you a story you''ve never heard before, because no one knows this story the way I know it."** *The opening line of "If I Did It: Confessions of A Killer"* In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately acquitted of criminal charges. The victims'' families brought a civil case against Simpson, which found him liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole committing battery with malice and oppression. In 2006, HarperCollins announced the publication of a book in which O.J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders. In response to public outrage that Simpson stood to profit from these crimes, HarperCollins canceled the book. A Florida bankruptcy court awarded the rights to the Goldmans in August 2007 to satisfy the civil judgment in part. The Goldman family views the book as his confession, and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read this book and learn the truth. This is O.J. Simpson''s original manuscript, approved by him, with up to 14,000 words of additional key commentary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1307'),
(4422, 'If You Dare', 'Byrd, Adrianne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1504'),
(4423, 'If You Want Me', 'Kayla Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1239'),
(4424, 'Imogen', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1360'),
(4425, 'In Bed With Her Boss (Kimani Romance)', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/912'),
(4426, 'In Bed With Her Boss (Kimani Romance)', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1625'),
(4427, 'In My Hood', 'Endy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1271'),
(4428, 'In My Hood 2', 'Endy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1411'),
(4429, 'In My Hood 3', 'Endy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1272'),
(4430, 'In Search of Our Roots', 'Henry Louis Gates, Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unlike most white Americans who, if they are so inclined, can search their ancestral records, identifying who among their forebears was the first to set foot on this country''s shores, most African Americans, in tracing their family''s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was a brutally efficient nullifier of identity, willfully denying black men and women even their names. Yet, from that legacy of slavery, there have sprung generations who''ve struggled, thrived, and lived extraordinary lives.\n <br />\n <br />\n For too long, African Americans'' family trees have been barren of branches, but, very recently, advanced genetic testing techniques, combined with archival research, have begun to fill in the gaps. Here, scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., backed by an elite team of geneticists and researchers, takes nineteen extraordinary African Americans on a once unimaginable journey, tracing family sagas through U.S. history and back to Africa.\n <br />\n <br />\n Those whose recovered pasts...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1591'),
(4431, 'Insatiable', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/876');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(4432, 'Insatiable', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  <i>\n   Insatiable: a seductive portrait of two women and their obsession with one man.\n  </i>\n </b>\n</p>\n<p>\n Life has delivered some hard knocks to Terelle Chambers, who grew up shuttling between foster homes. She desperately needs something or someone to believe in.  She plans her future around Marquise, the father of her toddler daughter. Devastatingly sexy, Marquise is currently in jail on drug charges. Terelle, however, is living for his imminent return and dreaming of the day they can start building a life together as a real family.\n</p>\n<p>\n A cunning seductress, Kai Montgomery is the bi-racial adopted daughter of a wealthy Caucasian couple. Rich, beautiful, and well-bred, Kai is Terelle''s polar opposite. After being dumped by an affluent and very married physician, Kai is without a sex partner. When one of numerous trysts results in the best sex of her life, she becomes obsessed and is quickly set on a collision course destined to destroy many lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1483'),
(4433, 'Intercourse', 'Jamise L. Dames', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A rush of high-powered, sexy drama, this novel depicts the lives of three women who risk their happiness for truth and are blindsided by their own selfishness as they play with fire. As their twisted lives lead them on journeys of self-discovery, these women learn two important lessons the hard way: love is a feeling born within, not a thing that can be obtained between the sheets, and age does not make a woman, maturity and responsibility do.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œCaptivating and powerful! Dames seduces with an alarming, tightly woven dose of deceit, passion, and strength.â€Â  â€”Noire, author,\n  </em>\n  G-Spot\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  Unzipped\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œJamise L. Dames has crafted a superb novel that will keep your eyes locked on the page with intrigue.â€Â  â€”Earl Sewell, author,\n  </em>\n  Cougars\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  Have Mercy\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œSensual and intriguing! Dames weaves a tale full of swing and passion.â€Â  â€”Tracy Price-Thompson, author,\n  </em>\n  1-900-A-N-Y-T-I-M-E\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jamise L. Dames\n  </strong>\n  is a public speaker, a published songwriter, a book columnist, and a teen advocate. She is the author of\n  <em>\n   Mommaâ€™s Baby, Daddyâ€™s Maybe\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Pushing Up Daisies\n  </em>\n  . She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1387'),
(4434, 'The Interruption of Everything', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The perfect wife and mother of three grown children, Marilyn Grimes struggles to deal with the problems of midlife--an empty nest, wildly fluctuating hormones, too many demands on her time, and too little room for herself--as she struggles to recall some of her own postponed dreams and reinvent her marriage, friendship, family, and herself. Reprint.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1072'),
(4435, 'Intimate Seduction', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/845'),
(4436, 'Invincible: A Novel', 'Styles P', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/994'),
(4437, 'Irresistible Forces', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n One week of mind-blowing sex on a beautiful Caribbean island. Of all the business proposals financial tycoon Dominic Saxon has heard, Taylor Steele''s is definitely the most tempting. All Taylor wants in return is for Dominic to father her baby. No strings, no commitmentsâ€¦just a mutually satisfying arrangement. Make that very satisfying. For a man with no intention of marrying again, it sounds ideal.\n</p>\n<p>\n Taylor wants a baby, not a relationship. And sexy, intelligent Dominic seems like a man with perfect genes. Turns out, Dominic has perfect everything. Their "procreation vacation" is a whirlwind of sensual ecstasy. But when it''s over, will either of them be able to say goodbye?\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Ababy.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Taylor Steele''s heart began beating rapidly the way it always did whenever she thought about her most ardent desire. A mixture of relief and anticipation soared through her upon realizing that she was about to embark upon a phase in her life that she had been looking forward to for a long time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Motherhood.\n</p>\n<p>\n She leaned back in the chair behind her desk and stared out the window while tapping her fingertips against her bottom lip. For the first time she wasn''t appreciating the view of the Lincoln Memorial. Her thoughts were on something else entirely. She was inwardly counting her blessings.\n</p>\n<p>\n During this past year she had achieved a number of her goals. First by venturing out and starting up her own wealth and asset management firm, which she named Assets of Steele, and then moving from New York to the nation''s capital and purchasing a beautiful condo with a view of the Potomac River from her bedroom window. That wasn''t at all bad for a twenty-five-year-old woman who''d made the decision after college not to return to her hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, and work for her family''s multimillion-dollar manufacturing company. Instead she had set her sights on New York after accepting a position with one of the major banks as a wealth and asset manager.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now she could turn her attention to the final stage of her plan that she needed in place before making her most sought-after dream a reality. And that was the man she had chosen to father her child without the benefit of marriage. She was even open to joint custody of the child, if he wanted to go that route.\n</p>\n<p>\n A permanent hookup with someone was not what she wanted, not even a teeny-tiny bit. Nor was she looking for a long-term lover, either. A short-term one could handle the task intended quite nicely. The last thing she wanted was a long-term romantic commitment of any kind.\n</p>\n<p>\n But she was selective.\n</p>\n<p>\n She had decided very early in her plans that not just any man would do. It had to be someone with all the qualities she wanted to pass on to her off-spring. He had to be handsome, intelligent, caring, healthy and wealthy. Definitely wealthy; after all, wealth was her business. And with those "must-have" qualifications embedded deep in her mind, she could think of only one man who met her criteria.\n</p>\n<p>\n Dominic Saxon.\n</p>\n<p>\n She tried ignoring the warmth of sensations that seeped through her veins. Dominic was one of her clients and she had never met a man who radiated so much sensuality. Part African-American and part French, at thirty-four he was the epitome of every woman''s fantasy and a major player in numerous women''s nightly dreams. The sexiness was there in his looks, his body, when he walked, talked or just plain stared at you. He was definitely the most gorgeous man she''d ever encountered. Besides that, she knew from the many charities he was associated with that he was highly intelligent and caring. And although she wasn''t privy to his health records, she had no reason to think he wasn''t in the best of health and could not father a child. The man was as virile as any man could get.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the very beginning she had been attracted to him and for the past two years it had taken everything she had to keep their relationship strictly business, although he''d never given her the impression he expected anything else. Whenever they met he was always professional and courteous. She knew that he merely saw her as one of his employees and nothing more. He was paying a hefty fee for the services she rendered and her job was to take all the wealth he''d accumulated in his thirty-four years and make him richer, which wasn''t hard since he was an ace at making the most of every financial opportunity.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was common knowledge that he was the son of a wealthy Frenchman and his beautiful African-American wife, and from the time Dominic was born he''d had the best of everythingâ€”schools, social contacts and money, and he''d used all three to his benefit. He rotated residences between the United States and France, although she heard he also owned a beautiful apartment in London, as well as a private island off the French coast of Normandy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Taylor picked up the brochure that had been sent to her compliments of her youngest sister, Cheyenne. It was meant to be a joke after a conversation the two of them had shared a week ago when she''d told Cheyenne that she wanted a baby, but not a husband.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cheyenne had sent her the pamphlet that she''d come across in her travels as a professional model that advertised procreation vacations. A week on a Caribbean island, plenty of dirty talk with trained professionals, exotic food and aphrodisiac-laden drinksâ€¦and if needed, a week''s supply of Viagra.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was advertised as a dream come true and the Bahamas resort encouraged potential guests to use their facilities for a week of near-constant, mind-blowing sex just for the purpose of making a baby. The packet Cheyenne had sent included several pictures bordering the brochure that could be considered X-rated. But they did a good job of getting their point across.\n</p>\n<p>\n Compared to the frosty March weather they were experiencing, the island seemed like a really nice place to be right now. She could spend her time resting, relaxing and, of course, making a baby. Now if she could only convince the man she''d chosen to father her child to go along with her planâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ms. Steele, Mr. Saxon has arrived."\n</p>\n<p>\n Taylor''s secretary''s voice coming across the intercom interrupted her thoughts, and immediately she took a deep breath when more heady sensations coursed through her. It was time to put her plan into action. "Please escort him in, Mrs. Roberts."\n</p>\n<p>\n Dominic Saxon checked his watch. He had just about an hour to meet with Taylor Steele and then he had an unexpected meeting back at the hotel. He had received a call from his parents saying they were flying into D.C. from California and wanted to meet with him. His father''s voice had sounded urgent but he had refused to say what the meeting was about.\n</p>\n<p>\n Whenever Dominic made a pit stop in the nation''s capital it was usually to check on the Saxon Hotel, just one of many his family owned in several major cities around the country. Usually Taylor would fly into New York for their meetings, so it came as a surprise when he''d gotten a call asking that he drop by her office on this trip.\n</p>\n<p>\n She had been assigned as his financial advisor when she had worked for a bank in Manhattan. From the very beginning, the degree of her intelligence when it came to wealth management, as well as her comprehensive view of his personal portfolio, investment goals and financial objectives had amazed him. He was already a successful businessman but together they created a long-term strategy that was increasing his fortune exponentially.\n</p>\n<p>\n Besides being very knowledgeable on financial affairs, he''d found Taylor to be an extremely beautiful woman. Even now he could recall the desire that had consumed him the first time he''d seen her and because of it, he had concluded the less he saw of his wealth and asset manager the better off he was. He had decided that first day that she was definitely a woman worth taking to his bedâ€”he was one who didn''t believe in mixing business with pleasure, no matter how enticing the thought or deep the craving. Yet the thought had remained lodged in his mind. He would be the first to admit it had been hard as hell to control the urge to take things further. He was used to beautiful women but there was something about Taylor Steele that caused him to think of hot sex every time he was in the same room with her.\n</p>\n<p>\n Regardless of the iron-clad control he was known forâ€”physically and emotionallyâ€”he was definitely a hot-blooded man, which was something he seemed to remember each and every time he breathed Taylor''s scent.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ms. Steele is ready to see you, Mr. Saxon. I''ll escort you in."\n</p>\n<p>\n He stood and smiled at her secretary, a nice older lady, who seemed more suited to baking cookies for her grandkids than trying to tackle the huge computer sitting in front of her. "Thank you, and I don''t need an escort."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes, sir."\n</p>\n<p>\n He fought for control of both his body and mind as he headed toward the door that had Taylor Steele''s name plate on it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Taylor inhaled a deep breath as she stared across the room at the man who walked into her office. He was wearing a black business suit with a white shirt that spelled out his wealth, and at thirty-four his mixed heritage made his looks striking. A sensuous shiver glided down her spine. He was simply gorgeous. His height, tall and imposing at six foot three, was hard to miss. She had seen photographs of him and his mother, a renowned fashion designer, earlier that year in People magazine. Megan Saxon was known for her beauty as well as for her skill and talent with fabrics.\n</p>\n<p>\n From his mother, Dominic had inherited the shape of his lips, which could only be defined as full and sultry even on a male. He had his father''s startling green eyes, which were a breathtaking contrast to his maple-brown coloring. Then there was the thick, black, curly hair that flowed past his shoulders when he wasn''t wearing it back in a rakish-looking pony-tailâ€¦as he was now. And last but not at all least were the chiseled jaw, cleft chin and high cheekbones.\n</p>\n<p>\n As she stared at him, her courage began wavering. Anyone would say she had a lot of nerve to proposition Dominic Saxon to father her child and then expect him to back off. But then anyone who thought she had a lot of nerve would know that in essence she really did. She was known to be gutsy enough to try anything onceâ€”as long as it was legal. And there was nothing illegal about making an offer. The only thing he could say was yes or no, and inwardly she crossed her fingers that she would get a yes.\n</p>\n<p>\n What did she have to lose?A very profitable client was the first response that popped into her mind. Would he still want her to handle his financial affairs after she made such an outlandish request?\n</p>\n<p>\n "Taylor?"\n</p>\n<p>\n She let out a relaxed breath with the sound of her name from his lips. She loved his accent, a blend of English and French. More than once during the course of their busines...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1442'),
(4438, 'Irresistible You', 'Francis Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1388'),
(4439, 'Is It Just Me?', 'Whoopi Goldberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Have you noticed that things aren''t as civil as they once were? Or that rudeness is no longer an exception but a lifestyle? Sure you have. All you need to do is set foot outside your door to see that bad manners are taking over everywhere. People are yakking on cell phones in restaurants, even at church. Folks in carpools wear enough cologne to make our eyes bleed. Complete strangers think it''s OK to rub a pregnant lady''s belly. Passengers abuse flight attendants, family outings to the ball park are ruined by rowdy drunks...a congressman heckled the President of the United States.\n</p>\n<p>\n Well, Whoopi Goldberg has noticed all this and more and asked herself, "Is it just me?" Unleashing her trademark irreverence and humor, her new book of observations takes a funny and excruciatingly honest look at how a loss of civility is messing with the quality of life for all of us.\n</p>\n<p>\n So if your pet peeve is folks who talk in movie theaters like it was their living room, or if you get bugged by...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/956'),
(4440, 'Is It Just Me?: Or is it Nuts Out There?', 'Whoopi Goldberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Whoopi Goldberg has always been her own woman. From her days in standup, through her acclaimed work as an actor, and as co-host of The View, Whoopi has been outspoken and honest, respectfully taking no prisoners even while drawing people in and making them laugh or cry. Total honesty, administered civilly and with a healthy dose of audacity, is her hallmark and her way of life. In her new book, Whoopi shares stories from her own life when she''s been forced to deal with tough situations in family, marriage, friendship, and business. She relates how she navigated through them with healthy honesty, which has all but vanished in the era of the volatile pundit. Naturally, she tells these stories with the humor, irreverence, and joy for which she''s known, and she also speaks up about the challenges dealing with one another here and now, especially with the growing disrespect and rudeness in this country. Cheeky, a bit naughty, occasionally in-your-face, this humorous book will bring readers into her world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1308'),
(4441, 'It Aint All For Nothin', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/944'),
(4442, 'It Had To Be You', 'Francis Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1418'),
(4443, 'Jack Sweettooth', 'Malorie Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1207'),
(4444, 'Jail Bird', 'Jessie Keane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1348'),
(4445, 'Jump!', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1166'),
(4446, 'Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business', 'Barbara Park', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/882'),
(4447, 'Junie B. Jones and her big fat mouth', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 2-4. In another hilarious, easy chapter book about Junie B. Jones, the irrepressible kindergartner veers from catastrophe to rapture and back again. This time she has trouble deciding what to be on Job Day. Older kids will laugh at Junie''s mistakes and misunderstandings, especially with language, and they''ll remember their own bewilderment and bloopers. She gets punished for shooting off her big fat mouth ("Punishment is the school word for sitting at a big table all by yourself"). She''s frank that the Pledge of Allegiance is a jumble for her ("I don''t know what that dumb story is even talking about"). She''s heartbroken to discover that Mickey Mouse isn''t real. When she hates, she hates (even her "bestest" friend); when she''s humiliated, she can''t bear it ("I hided my head"). Brunkus'' energetic drawings pick up the slapstick action and the spunky comic hero.\n <em>\n  Hazel Rochman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Another hilarious, easy book about Junie B. Jones."--_Booklist _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/891'),
(4448, 'Junie B. Jones and that Meanie Jim&#39;s Birthday', 'Barbara Park', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/892'),
(4449, 'Junie B. Jones and the mushy gushy valentime', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Review\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "She''s funny, she''s outrageous, she''s bigger than life. I''m in love with Junie B....and with Barbara Park''s warm, wonderful, laugh-aloud stories." -- Patricia Reilly Giff, author of the Newbery Honor Book\n  <strong>\n   Lily''s Crossing\n  </strong>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s a mushy gushy mystery!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hurray! February 14 -- Valentime''s Day, Junie B. calls it -- is just around the corner. Junie B. can''t wait to see all the valentimes she''ll get. But she never expected a big, mushy card from a secret admirer! Who\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  this secret mystery guy, anyway? Junie B. is determined to find out!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/901'),
(4450, 'Junie B. Jones and the yucky blucky fruitcake', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 2^-4. Junie B. Jones is back, as intense, vulnerable, and funny as ever, in this chapter book that''s part of the First Stepping Stone Book series. Always, she wants to be the "bestest winner of anyone," but in her school carnival, she loses and loses, and when the kids laugh (especially that boy Jim that she HATES), it ruins her "self-steam." The innocent first-person narrative of this kindergarten kid will make lower-school readers laugh out loud at her mispronunciations as they recognize their own confusion and failure, then and now.\n <em>\n  Hazel Rochman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The innocent first-person narrative will make lower-school readers laugh out loud at her mispronunciations as they recognize their own confusion and failure." --\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/907'),
(4451, 'Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 2-3?Junie''s kindergarten classmates convince her that an invisible monster lives under her bed. Her parents and grandmother are unable to convince her otherwise until Junie hits upon the idea of putting her unflattering school picture under the bed to frighten the monster. In Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook, the little girl discovers that "finders keepers losers weepers" is not an appealing philosophy when she loses the special gloves her grandfather gave her and the child who finds them doesn''t take them to the lost and found. Junie''s first-person narration is sprinkled with deliberate grammatical errors and misunderstood word usage in an attempt to show a five-year-old''s viewpoint ("I runned home," "They got stoled on purpose."). Precocious use of sophisticated language is also used to achieve an intended humorous effect. The black-and-white, full- and half-page illustrations reflect Junie''s cockeyed view of the world and will help attract beginning chapter-book readers. The issues the child is dealing with are right on target for the intended age group, but Junie''s personality is more annoying than endearing and the humor lacks freshness and spontaneity. Buy where the series is popular.?Lisa Smith, Lindenhurst Memorial Library, NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Park is truly a funny writer. Although Junie B. is a kindergartner, she''s sure to make middle graders laugh out loud." --\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/916'),
(4452, 'Junie B. Jones Has a Peep in Her Pocket', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kindergarten is just about to let out for the summer, and room 9 is going on a field trip to a farm. All the children squeal with joy--all but Junie B. Jones.\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  ''Cause guess what? Farms are not my favorites.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Junie B. Jones, hilarious heroine of more than a dozen well-loved books, is mortally afraid of ponies. An imprudent babysitter once allowed her to watch a cable TV show called\n <em>\n  When Ponies Attack\n </em>\n , so a trip to a farm seems like the ultimate in reckless endangerment. Never mind the roosters, which, according to her classmate, Meanie Jim, can peck your head to a nub. It takes some pretty fast talking by Junie''s parents, teacher, and the farmer himself to get Junie to participate in the field trip, where she has a surprisingly good time. Until she bonds with Peep, a fluffy little chick, only to discover, to her horror, that Peep''s destiny is to become a rooster.\n</p>\n<p>\n Award-winning author Barbara Park has joined with illustrator Denise Brunkus to create a charmingly outrageous character with a precocious yet childish voice that readers will never forget: "After that my heart got very poundy inside. ''Cause I heard the sound of footprints, that''s why." Brunkus''s comical drawings of Junie and her friends are the "bestest" ever. Don''t miss any of the laugh-out-loud titles in the Junie B. Jones series. (Ages 5 to 8)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "It''s hard for anyone to resist Junie B."--_Booklist_\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s a real hoot!"--_School Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A genuinely funny, easily read story."--_Kirkus _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/919'),
(4453, 'Junie B. Jones is (almost) a flower girl', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n " Park is truly a funny writer. Although Junie B. is a kindergartner, she''s sure to make middle graders laugh out loud." --\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Junie B. is a very grown-up little lady. So how come everyone treats her like a baby? It''s not fair. But Junie B. knows just how to fix the situation. Her aunt Flo is getting married. What a perfect chance for Junie B. to show everyone how grown-up she is! Too bad she wasn''t picked to be the flower girl in the wedding so she could really show off. But surely Junie B. can still find\n <em>\n  some\n </em>\n way to get everyone''s attention.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/920'),
(4454, 'Junie B. Jones is a beauty shop guy', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kindergarten-Grade 2-This exuberant kindergartner''s newest adventure begins with a visit to the local beauty shop. Fascinated with sitting in the "spinny" chair and helping the beautician give her dad a haircut, Junie decides that her hopes and dreams are wrapped up in scissors, smelly hair gel, and fluffy towels. When her father warns her that it takes years of hard work to learn how to cut hair, the girl takes his advice and starts practicing...on her bunny slippers, on the dog, and eventually on herself. When she goes to school wearing three hats to cover her unfortunate "sprigs," only her teacher and a session with the real beautician can save her. Parks does an excellent job of keeping her adult characters real, in charge, yet not overbearing. Junie''s teacher''s sympathy and understanding are heartwarming, and her dad''s exasperation is completely believable. Junie is always the focus and the one who solves the dilemma, this time by confessing to her teacher and admitting that she might need some help. Brunkus''s illustrations complete the child''s exploits. The honesty and inventiveness of this savvy kindergartner make the Junie B. books accessible and completely enjoyable.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Linda Bindner, formerly at Athens Clarke County Library, GA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Park is truly a funny writer. Although Junie B. is a kindergartner, she''s sure to make middle graders laugh out loud." --\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/936'),
(4455, 'Junie B. Jones Is a Graduation Girl', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Junie B. Jones and all of Room 9 are getting ready to graduate from kindergarten! Their teacher--known to our heroine as "Mrs."--distributes their fresh white caps and gowns ("Cats and gowns, cats and gowns!" Junie hollers), and makes her students promise to keep them in their boxes until the big day. But Junie B., being Junie B., is sure that just one peek on the way home won''t soil her gown. And then she\n <em>\n  must\n </em>\n show off to her stuffed animals with a lot of whirling and skipping, which of course makes her thirsty. But guess what? "Grape juice can go wrong."\n</p>\n<p>\n The 17th title in Barbara Park''s popular\n <em>\n  Junie B. Jones\n </em>\n beginning chapter book series is filled with more messy antics from the irrepressible 6-year-old with the rather unusual speaking style. She may be trouble, but Junie B. Jones has definite six-appeal. Don''t miss any of the titles in this lively series, from\n <em>\n  Junie B. Jones Has a Peep in Her Pocket\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day\n </em>\n . Denise Brunkus''s witty drawings deftly capture the tragicomedies of kindergarten life. Although the cute-precocious style may eventually grate on grownups'' nerves, kids won''t tire of Junie B.''s everyday adventures. (Ages 5 to 8)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s kindergarten graduation!\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n All the children in Room Nine are excited when they get their bright white graduation gowns. Mrs. says to keep them in their boxes until the big day. But Junie B. Jones just can''t help herself. Thenâ€”uh-oh!â€”an accident happens! Can Junie B. find a way to fix things? Or will graduation be a spotty dotty disaster?\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/937'),
(4456, 'Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kindergarten-Grade 2?In this early chapter book, Junie, a boisterous, effervescent kindergartner, and her friend Grace invite themselves over to the home of Lucille''s wealthy grandmother, with whom the girl and her family live. They agree to help Lucille beg her "richie nanna" for a poodle. Once there, the girls find that everything in the house is exquisite?and untouchable. Lucille''s bedspread is silk and her huge stuffed animals cost a fortune. Junie accidentally drops a crystal glass, which shatters into pieces. Her hot dog slides off her fork onto a white Irish linen table cloth. The friends have a good time but Junie is glad to go home to her own nanna''s house where she can drink out of a plastic glass and not have to worry about breaking anything. Appealing black-and-white line-and-wash drawings extend the humorous situations. While parts of the story are funny and ring true, Junie''s babyish, immature grammar will quickly wear thin.?Janet M. Bair, Trumbull Library, CT\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Park is truly a funny writer. Although Junie B. is a kindergartner, she''s sure to make middle graders laugh out loud." --\n  <em>\n   School Library Journal\n  </em>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/938'),
(4457, 'Junie B. Jones is Captain Field Day', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Junie B. Jones''s kindergarten teacher has some strange ideas about field day: "Field Day is a day to run around in the fresh air and enjoy the sunshine. We came out here to have fun and get some exercise. And we''re not going to care one little bit about who wins or who loses." Only what''s so fun about losing? That''s what Junie B. wants to know. In the great contest between room 8 and room 9, somehow, room 8 keeps winning all the events. As Captain Field Day of room 9, Junie B. is feeling her superpowers--and her good sportsmanship--slipping away. Can\n <em>\n  anyone\n </em>\n save the day?\n</p>\n<p>\n For beginning chapter-book readers, Junie B. Jones\n <em>\n  always\n </em>\n saves the day. As in\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n , and the many other titles in Barbara Park''s series, Junie B.''s inimitable style wins her friends and fans everywhere. Denise Brunkus''s comical, expressive drawings capture all the joys and foibles of kindergarten life. With occasional "big" words (like\n <em>\n  slumped\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  sarcastic\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  apparently\n </em>\n ) and Junie B.''s grammatical curiosities, this witty book works best as a classroom read-aloud. (Ages 5 to 8)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Afternoon kindergarten is having a field day, and Junie B. Jones is team captain! Only, here''s the problem. Room Eight keeps on winning too many events. And so how will Room Nine ever become the kindergarten champions? As Captain Field Day, will Junie B. find a way to lead her team to victory? Or will it be up to someone else to save the day?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/755'),
(4458, 'Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 2-3?Junie''s kindergarten classmates convince her that an invisible monster lives under her bed. Her parents and grandmother are unable to convince her otherwise until Junie hits upon the idea of putting her unflattering school picture under the bed to frighten the monster. In Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook, the little girl discovers that "finders keepers losers weepers" is not an appealing philosophy when she loses the special gloves her grandfather gave her and the child who finds them doesn''t take them to the lost and found. Junie''s first-person narration is sprinkled with deliberate grammatical errors and misunderstood word usage in an attempt to show a five-year-old''s viewpoint ("I runned home," "They got stoled on purpose."). Precocious use of sophisticated language is also used to achieve an intended humorous effect. The black-and-white, full- and half-page illustrations reflect Junie''s cockeyed view of the world and will help attract beginning chapter-book readers. The issues the child is dealing with are right on target for the intended age group, but Junie''s personality is more annoying than endearing and the humor lacks freshness and spontaneity. Buy where the series is popular.?Lisa Smith, Lindenhurst Memorial Library, NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Park is truly a funny writer. Although Junie B. is a kindergartner, she''s sure to make middle graders laugh out loud." --\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/756'),
(4459, 'Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 1^-2, younger for reading aloud. Junie B. Jones falls in love with the new boy in her kindergarten class in the latest First Stepping Stone Book about the eager pre-schooler and her friends. As with Lois Lowry''s\n <em>\n  See You Around, Sam\n </em>\n (1996), older kids will laugh at Junie''s klutzy innocence, even as they recognize their own vulnerability in the classroom and the school yard. Brunkus'' line drawings pick up the farce of Junie''s desperate efforts in the world of romance and rivalry.\n <em>\n  Hazel Rochman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Park is truly a funny writer. Although Junie B. is a kindergartner, she''s sure to make middle graders laugh out loud." --\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/770'),
(4460, 'Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Park is truly a funny writer. Although Junie B. is a kindergartner, she''s sure to make middle graders laugh out loud." --\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s going to be a Pet Day at school--only the rule is No Dogs! And\n</p>\n<p>\n that''s the only kind of pet Junie B. has! If Mother won''t let her get a new\n</p>\n<p>\n pet, then Junie B. will have to take matters into her own hands. Maybe a jar of\n</p>\n<p>\n ants? Or a wiggly worm? Or--could it be--something even better? The world''s\n</p>\n<p>\n funniest kindergartner is back in her twelfth book!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/776'),
(4461, 'Junie B., First Grader (at last!)', 'Barbara Park', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/782'),
(4462, 'Junie B., first grader (at last!)', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It had to happen. The spunkiest sass mouth in room 9 finally\n <em>\n  B.\n </em>\n I think I have mentioned that to you before... B., B., B., B., B.")\n</p>\n<p>\n The 18th installment in Barbara Park''s popular beginning chapter-book series puts our temperamental heroine into a brand-new class where she has to make brand-new friends. And as if that weren''t hard enough, her brand-new teacher, Mr. Scary ("He made that name up, I believe," Junie writes in a journal assignment), figures out that she needs eyeglasses. Will all the other kids laugh at her? Will that obnoxious Excellent-plus-getting May become even more obnoxious?\n</p>\n<p>\n With Park''s solid track record, the appeal of Junie B. just can''t be doubted-she can be a good friend to readers her age, which is a difficult grade level to find fun books for. And even kids who don''t need glasses will likely still giggle along as Junie B. plays "the E game" (an eye test) with the nurse, and kids who\n <em>\n  do\n </em>\n need glasses will find themselves with a strong (if a little scared at first) ally. (Ages 4 to 8)\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 1-3-While first grade offers a whole year of exciting possibilities for Junie B., things get off to a confusing start. Feeling tentative about her new teacher, she renames him Mr. Scary. Her last year''s best friend now has two new best friends and her old bus pal has a new buddy. Then, Junie''s teacher discovers that she needs glasses. Now that is something to worry about. "What if Room One laughs their head off at me? What if I look like a goonie bird and no one wants to be my friend?" However, her classmates, who already agree that twins with rhyming names, a boy with a spiky gel hairdo, and bilingual Jose are fascinating, determine that Junie B. and her purple glasses are definitely cool. As always, Park is in touch with what the kids know and how they feel. A satisfying read, especially for fans.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Sharon R. Pearce, Geronimo Public School, OK\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1493'),
(4463, 'Junie B., first grader: boss of lunch', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Junie, an outspoken, sometimes exasperating, first grader is thrilled when she is told she can help out Mrs. Gutzman in the school cafeteria and imagines what it will be like to be a professional lunch lady. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/799'),
(4464, 'Junie B., First Grader: Cheater Pants', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 1-4-In her fourth "First Grader" book, Junie B. grapples with the ethical issue of cheating and learns how to work collaboratively. She gets caught after she copies a homework assignment. Later, she and another student confess to cheating on a spelling test. Between these two episodes, Junie B. and three classmates have a great experience writing a cinquain poem on friendship. The story wraps up nicely with the protagonist getting support from her parents and a cinquain composed by her teacher, commending her on her honesty. This beginning chapter book is written in first-person narrative with occasional journal entries. Dollops of humor keep the plot from being heavy-handed. The adults and children are believably portrayed, and the comical drawings match the tone of the story.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Marilyn Ackerman, Brooklyn Public Library, NY\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 1-2. No one wants to be a cheater pants, a "nasty, rotten ratty pants," especially not first-grader Junie B. Jones. However, in the latest addition to Park''s popular early chapter-book series, Junie B. is indeed guilty as charged. One day when she neglects to do her homework, she leans over to copy prissy, perfect, punctual May''s paper. After being busted in an embarrassing fashion, Junie B. laments in her journal, "I wish I could disappear into thin hair." Fortunately, with the help of her teacher, Mr. Scary, she learns her lesson: she wasn''t "borrowing" May''s homework, she was, in fact, cheating. Or was she? Park creates a wonderful classroom of distinct personalities, reflecting the best and most irksome parts of being a kid with equal aplomb. Junie B. is quite entertaining--if you can get used to the deliberately odd constructions such as "I did a gasp at that thing." Brunkus'' comical, distinctly Eloise-like pencil illustrations suit the precocious Junie B. to a T.\n <em>\n  Karin Snelson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/800'),
(4465, 'Junie B., first grader: one-man band', 'Barbara Park', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Junie B. Jones is thrilled. "The whole entire first grade" is planning a kickball tournament, and this feisty first grader daydreams about being the star of Room One. Unfortunately, where Junie B. goes, trouble must follow. "And itâ€™s called, I accidentally kicked my ball over the fence. And I didnâ€™t want to go get it. So I had to find something else to kick." That something else turns out to be her momâ€™s watering can--which happens to be full at the time. Now Junie B. has an owie on her piggy toe and it looks like she won''t be able to participate in the tournament. But wait! Her friend Sheldon can''t play kickball either, due to a spectacular fall in the classroom. Maybe these two can come up with an alternate plan that will still allow Junie B. to be the star!\n</p>\n<p>\n Barbara Parkâ€™s inexhaustible beginning chapter-book series has all the ingredients young readers like best: humor, repetition, predictability (with a few surprises), and lots of silly action. Grown-up readers might tire of the cute malapropisms, but kids will thrive on the "whole entire" series. (Ages 5 to 8)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 1-3--In this adventure, Junie B. is sidelined by an injury and cannot participate in the first-grade kickball tournament. When her teacher offers her a chance to be a cheerleader, stage fright almost ruins her halftime performance, but the irrepressible protagonist comes through in the end. Text and illustrations work well together. Junie''s distinct and authentic voice speaks to beginning chapter-book readers. Her journal entries (complete with corrected spelling mistakes) are a nice counterpoint to the straightforward plot. Classroom politics, family dynamics, and the frustrations and triumphs of growing up are treated with humor and hope. This will be a hit where the series is popular._--Ellen M. Riordan, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/801'),
(4466, 'Junie B., first grader: shipwrecked', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everybody''s favorite sass-mouth first grader comes back for her 23rd installment in this\n <em>\n  star\n </em>\n !"), but as with all Junie endeavors, expect a bumpy voyage.\n</p>\n<p>\n The usual classroom crew is back, including Lennie, Herbert, and Jose, and Junie doesn''t disappoint with her unintentionally hilarious asides ("Attendance is the school word for who isn''t here") and trademark wisdom ("Glitter can turn your whole day around"). (Ages 4 to 8)\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 1-3â€“In another zany appearance, feisty Junie B. wins a starring role as the\n <em>\n  Pinta\n </em>\n , the "fastest" of Columbus''s ships, in a play to be presented on Parents'' Night. Amid typical kid-type disasters (a flu virus, arguments over staging, a frazzled teacher), the students in Room One have a dramaticâ€“and surprisingâ€“opening night. Like the other beginning chapter books in this series, Junie B. tells her story in simple, realistic language, including grammatical and spelling errors. Illustrations add humorous details. The interactions of the characters are consistently interesting, and the plot moves quickly. Readers will relate instantly to the trials and tribulations of this first grader, and her approach to conflict resolution and her unrefined social skills make good springboards for classroom discussion. This protagonist often offers examples of how not to handle a situation, but she is always endearing and wonderfully funny._â€“Corrina Austin, Locke''s Public School, St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/802'),
(4467, 'Junie B., first grader: toothless wonder', 'Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The inimitable Miss Jones stars in Junie B., First Grader: Toothless Wonder by Barbara Park, illus. by Denise Brunkus. Junie is the first in her class to have a loose upper tooth. But she wants nothing to do with the Tooth Fairy and fears she''ll end up looking like her dentally challenged uncle. Ages 6-8.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 1-4-In this 20th book about Junie B., Parks hits on the universal theme of losing one''s first tooth. As the first person in her class to have this experience, Junie B. worries that she''ll look funny, but her teacher assures her that it is a momentous event in her life, and that she''ll look more grown up when the new one comes in. This, of course, delights the child. However, she is convinced that the tooth fairy is really a witch. After all, what would a tooth fairy do with all of those teeth? This is an ideal read-aloud to first graders and a choice that they will enjoy reading independently as they move into chapter books. Humorous black-and-white drawings show Junie B. as she interacts with her classmates and family.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Jean Lowery, Bishop Woods Elementary School, New Haven, CT\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/813'),
(4468, 'Just Deserts', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/866'),
(4469, 'Just Deserts (Kimani Romance)', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/908'),
(4470, 'Just Deserts (Kimani Romance)', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1623'),
(4471, 'Just Say No!', 'Omar Tyree', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1240'),
(4472, 'Just Too Good to Be True', 'E. Lynn Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1392'),
(4473, 'Just Wanna Testify: A Novel', 'Pearl Cleage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1024');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(4474, 'Justify My Thug', 'Wahida Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Justify My Thug continues the scintillating drama of Wahida Clark''s bestselling Thug series. Following the action of Thug Lovin'', the story rejoins the saga''s favorite couple, Tasha and Trae, as they try to overcome their troubles and make their marriage work. Meanwhile, Jaz is facing drama of her own. In the torrid world of sex, drugs, and crime, Wahida Clark continues her definitive Hip-Hop soap opera that fans have come to love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1097'),
(4475, 'The Kat Trap', 'Cairo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  A sexy, raw debut novel about the life of a young murderess who lures her victims to their own deaths by seducing them.\n </b>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ghetto-born and street-raised, Katrina -- or Kat for short, is a self-proclaimed hood goddess. With her in-your-face razor-sharp attitude, alluring charm, and exotic beauty, Katrina is vivacious, vicious, and unsuspectingly dangerous. Detached from her emotions, she has no time for regrets. The product of a neglectful mother and an incarcerated father, Katrina is willing to do whatever it takes to climb -- or kill -- her way out of the hood.\n</p>\n<p>\n Calculated and cunning, Katrina already has two bodies on her hands by the ripe age of twenty. When a mysterious man invites her to join his multi-million dollar "work-for-hire" network of professional assassins, it becomes the opportunity of a lifetime. The first female killer on his team, she travels all over the United States and fulfills the bloody requests of her every client. With each murder, Katrina feels ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/789'),
(4476, 'The Kat Trap', 'Cairo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ghetto-born and street-raised, KatrinaÃƒÂ¢â‚¬â€or Kat for short, is a self-proclaimed hood goddess. With her in-your-face-razor-sharp attitude, alluring charm and exotic beauty, Katrina is vivacious, vicious and unsuspectingly dangerous. Detached from her emotions, she has no time for regrets or excuses. In spite of having a mother who neglected her and a father she hardly knows because of numerous incarcerations, she is willing to do whatever it takes to get her hustle on and to climb her way out of the hood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1489'),
(4477, 'Kick', 'Walter Dean Myers &amp; Ross Workman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/926'),
(4478, 'Kill Alex Cross', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1326'),
(4479, 'Kill Me If You Can', 'JOE TK', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1328'),
(4480, 'Killing Them Softly', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1557'),
(4481, 'King&#39;s Pleasure', 'Byrd, Adrianne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1503'),
(4482, 'Kismet (Beyond the Bedroom Series)', 'Pittman, Raynesha &amp; Randolph, Brandie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1539'),
(4483, 'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang', 'Ashley Snell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When a set-up goes wrong and Six finds herself sleeping with the enemy, who will she choose, the man she loves, or the man she''s supposed to hate? Detroit hustlers Free and Six have been together seven years, but their relationship has been nothing but drama. Free hasn''t been faithful and Six has taken out her hurt by physically hurting the other women. Free ends up in jail for three years, and when he''s sprung, he''s not happy to learn that Six has been living the high-life on his dime and blown through $100,000! Then Six gets entangled in one of Free''s schemes and finds herself in a role almost too good to be true&#8212;posing as the woman of another man who actually treats her with respect. Though you can bet there won''t be a "happily ever after" for anyone involved....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/805'),
(4484, 'Kiss the Year Goodbye', 'Brenda L. Thomas, Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker, Crystal Lacey Winslow &amp; Daaimah S. Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/757'),
(4485, 'Kitty-Kitty, Bang-Bang', 'Cairo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With murder, mayhem and hot sex,\n <i>\n  Kitty-Kitty, Bang-Bang\n </i>\n is a wickedly delicious sequel to\n <i>\n  The Kat Trap\n </i>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n It was her cutthroat ambition and ruthlessness that got Katrina, or Kat for short, out of the hood and on top of her game. Once a murderer on a seductive prowl with two missions in mind--satisfying her insatiable libido and killing unsuspecting marks--Katrina has lain down her guns. Having once used her alluring charm and exotic beauty to lure men to their deaths, Katrina has had a change of heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n She''s settled for a simpler life and traveling, partying, and shopping have become her only guilty pleasures. In addition, she''s avoiding relationships and men like the plague. For her, life couldn''t be any sweeter--at least that''s what she wants to believe.\n</p>\n<p>\n But, when drama rears its ugly head, Katrina returns with a vengeance. There''s the issue of confronting her ex-friend who she learned had slept with an old boyfriend. Then there are her three aunts--who...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/772'),
(4486, 'Knife Edge', 'Malorie Blackman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1212'),
(4487, 'Knowing', 'Rosalyn McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1132'),
(4488, 'Ladies Listen Up', 'Darren Coleman', '<div class="comments">\n<center>\n</center>\n<p>\n You''ll never hear the truth from your man, so ... Ladies Listen Up\n</p>\n<p>\n Diego Christian''s trail of deceit follows him all the way to the altar. After ruining the life of the woman he was to marry, he continues to find himself in one casual relationship after another with other men''s wives and girlfriends. Through his sex-a-thon he meets a magazine editor who helps him develop his own column â€” "Ladies Listen Up" â€” dishing out relationship advice to women. When his behavior finally begins to cost him, Diego has to decide if he can â€” or wants to â€” change.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jacob Marsh, a teacher at Lyndon B. Johnson High School, is Diego''s best friend. Jacob has always been cool under pressure and is a master manipulator. When he makes a critical mistake with a student who has a crush on him, he soon learns that covering it up may cost him everything he''s worked so hard to keep.\n</p>\n<p>\n Through their drama-filled trysts, Diego, Jacob, and others give women the lowdown on the way men work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1358'),
(4489, 'Lady Jasmine', 'Victoria Christopher Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Juicy Jasmine Larson Bush is at it again -- battling her past in order to save her future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1059'),
(4490, 'Last Bitch Standing', 'Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In the final installment of the Bitch Series, Precious Cummings only has one agenda and that is to destroy her most conniving enemy yet, Maya. Precious has no doubt that she can shut it down, the only problem is locating her nemesis who has disappeared with her husband, Supreme and daughter, Aaliyah. As Precious fights to not only win the battles but the war, she is determined to be the Last Bitch Standing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The characters from Stackin'' Paper, Trife Life To Lavish and Stackin'' Paper 2 will play pivotal roles in this story to prepare you for Trife Life To Lavish part 2 and Bitch A New Beginning. So if you haven''t yet, read this series to get a complete understanding of how these stories intertwine!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1169'),
(4491, 'Last Bitch Standing', 'Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In the final installment of the Bitch Series, Precious Cummings only has one agenda and that is to destroy her most conniving enemy yet, Maya. Precious has no doubt that she can shut it down, the only problem is locating her nemesis who has disappeared with her husband, Supreme and daughter, Aaliyah. As Precious fights to not only win the battles but the war, she is determined to be the Last Bitch Standing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The characters from Stackin'' Paper, Trife Life To Lavish and Stackin'' Paper 2 will play pivotal roles in this story to prepare you for Trife Life To Lavish part 2 and Bitch A New Beginning. So if you haven''t yet, read this series to get a complete understanding of how these stories intertwine!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1646'),
(4492, 'The Last Chapter', 'Ashley Snell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Cartel has come full circle with this fast-paced, groundbreaking novel, the finale to the hit series by New York Times bestsellers Ashley & JaQuavis. Miamor is fighting for her life in the belly of the beast. She''s been kidnapped, and she''s staring death in the eye. Is the reign over for the head of the Murda Mamas? Carter is in federal custody and leaves the Diamond Empire to Zyir and Mecca. When the past comes back to haunt Mecca and the truth finally comes to light, will The Cartel rise or fall? Breeze is in the clutches of the crazed Ma''tee, and she desperately searches for a way out. Will she escape, or die his love slave? The answers to these questions lie inside the pages of Cartel 3: The Final Chapter. Open it to discover the shocking truth, and prepare yourself for the unpredictable conclusion of one of the best street series of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/798'),
(4493, 'The Last Street Novel', 'Omar Tyree', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1248'),
(4494, 'Last Train For Paris', 'Garris, Ebony &amp; Karrington, Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1173'),
(4495, 'Lawd, Mo&#39; Drama', 'McKinney, Tina Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1030'),
(4496, 'The Leak [NOOK Book]', 'K&#39;Wan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Leak\n </em>\n is a complimentary short prequel story that leads into Kâ€™wanâ€™s hit novel,\n <em>\n  Welfare Wifeys\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1181'),
(4497, 'Let the Church Say Amen', 'ReShonda Tate Billingsley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1114'),
(4498, 'Letter to My Daughter', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1266'),
(4499, 'Letters to a Young Brother', 'Hill Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Offering inspirational advice in a down-to-earth style, this unique compilation of letters provides wisdom, guidance, and heartfelt insight to help the reader chart their own path to success. Based on the author''s motivational speaking at inner-city schools across the country, the letters deal with the tough issues that face young people today.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bombarded with messages from music and the media, Harper set out to dispel the stereotypical image of success that young people receive today and instead emphasizes alternative views of what it truly means to be a successful male, such as educational and community achievements and self-respect. Intended to provide this frequently regarded "lost generation" of young men with words of encouragement and guidance, Harper''s deep-rooted passion regarding the plight of today''s youth drove him to write this book, sure to change the lives of readers for years to come.\n</p>\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1295'),
(4500, 'Letters to a Young Sister', 'Hill Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1292'),
(4501, 'Liar&#39;s Game', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1281'),
(4502, 'Lickin License', 'Allah, Intelligent', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1174'),
(4503, 'Lickin&#39; License Part 2: More Sex, More Saga', 'Allah, Intelligent', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1544'),
(4504, 'Lies Lovers Tell', 'Day, Zuri', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1068'),
(4505, 'Life After a Balla', 'D., Jackie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1519'),
(4506, 'Life After Wifey', 'Swinson, Kiki', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1530'),
(4507, 'Life After Wifey', 'Swinson, Kiki', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1644'),
(4508, 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless', 'NOIRE &amp; Swinson, Kiki', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1151'),
(4509, 'Like No One Else', 'Maureen Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   She Can Run\n  </i>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Ballet dancer Tommie Purnell has finally left her troubles behind her. After a devastating scandal derails her dancing career in New York, she flees to Houston for a fresh start. Once her new dance studio takes off, the rest of Tommie''s life follows suit. But when a local woman connected to Tommie turns up dead, Tommie is petrified...and doesn''t know where to turn.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   But She Can''t Hide\n  </i>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  When veteran homicide detective Paulo Sanchez walks through her door, Tommie wonders if her troubles have just doubled. She and Paulo had a torrid attraction years ago...but she''s sworn off men because of too many broken dreams. Yet their sizzling attraction can''t be denied, and as their passion intensifies, the killer''s body count also rises. That''s when all clues point toward the one person Tommie thought she could finally believe in...\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1249'),
(4510, 'Lipstick Hustla', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/830'),
(4511, 'Lipstick Hustla', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1479'),
(4512, 'A Little Dare', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When Shelly Brockman walked into his office, Sheriff Dare Westmoreland could almost taste the sweet, steamy passion they''d once shared. Then Shelly informed him he was the father of her son, the unruly preteen he''d arrested that day, and his fantasies turned to fury!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shelly had returned to her hometown in Georgia to save her son from the mean streets of Los Angeles. Getting to know his father would be good for her son. But would being so close to Dare--the only man to make her pulse race--reopen a wounded heart that had never healed? Or, would this be her final chance to win Dare''s love?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1627'),
(4513, 'Little Girl Lost 2: The Napoleon Bentley Connection', 'Johnson, Keith Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1305'),
(4514, 'Little Girl Lost 3: Legal Tender', 'Johnson, Keith Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1316'),
(4515, 'Little Girl Lost 4: The Prince &amp; His Bride', 'Johnson, Keith Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1306'),
(4516, 'Little Girl Lost 5: Queens of New Orleans', 'Johnson, Keith Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1310'),
(4517, 'Little Girl Lost 6: The Return of Johnnie Wise', 'Johnson, Keith Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1304'),
(4518, 'Little Girl Lost 7: Johnnie Wise In The Line Of Fire', 'Johnson, Keith Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1298'),
(4519, 'Live and Learn', 'Niobia Bryant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1178'),
(4520, 'Lockdown', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/940'),
(4521, 'Long White Con', 'Slim, Iceberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1597'),
(4522, 'Loose Ends', 'Parks, Electa Rome', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1410'),
(4523, 'Love and a Gangsta', 'Gray, Erick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1379'),
(4524, 'Love and Lies', 'Kimberla Lawson Roby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1127'),
(4525, 'Love Hurts', 'Johnson, Keith Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1311'),
(4526, 'Love Is Never Painless', 'Zane &amp; Eileen M. Johnson, V. Anthony Rivers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/981'),
(4527, 'Love Like Hallelujah', 'Lutishia Lovely', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1190'),
(4528, 'A Love So Deep', 'Suzetta Perkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1007'),
(4529, 'A Love So Deep', 'Suzetta Perkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n How do you save a widower who weaves a road map of self-destruction because his wife of forty years has suddenly died and he''s unable to cope with the reality of that loss? Graham Peters has shut everyone out of his life and has tried unsuccessfully to immortalize his wife, Amanda, by reliving daily (through flashbacks) their life together. But with a little prodding from best friend, Charlie Ford, Graham''s spirit begins to lift, and he finds that there is life after death in the likeness of Ms. Rita Long, a sultry jazz singer at a local nightclub, far from the church that has been his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n A man now obsessed with the beautiful, long-legged Rita Long, Graham is faced with questions. Can he love another woman the way he loved Amanda? Will his daughters think he''s lost his mind because he''s seeing Rita? After all, Amanda has only been in the ground a couple of months. Can he bring this new woman into his home that reeks of Amanda...to possibly begin a new life together?\n</p>\n<p>\n Ms. R...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1472'),
(4530, 'A Love Story 2', 'Weaver, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1502'),
(4531, 'A Love Story', 'Weaver, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/760'),
(4532, 'Love Takes Time', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/791'),
(4533, 'Love, Honor or Stray: New Day Divas Series Book Three', 'E.N. Joy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1397'),
(4534, 'Love, Honor, and Betray', 'Kimberla Lawson Roby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1155'),
(4535, 'Love&#39;s Damage', 'Timothy M Carson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n On the heels of Timothy Michael Carson''s critically acclaimed\n <i>\n  When the Truth Lies\n </i>\n , comes his next enthralling page-turner,\n <i>\n  Love''s Damage\n </i>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Kenton, Shawna, and Anjel can''t seem to elude heartache no matter how hard they try. Trying to redefine the laws that govern the heart, each attempts to find and keep love by playing by their own rules. But can they avoid the ups and downs, twists and turns, and make-ups to break-ups long enough to find what each is looking for?\n</p>\n<p>\n Kenton has had his share of being played and has decided to turn the tables. Tired of having his heart broken, he decides to become the heartbreaker instead and makes a personal vow to never again become a victim of love''s wrath. But how long can one truly elude the rules of love?\n</p>\n<p>\n His cousin, Shawna, doesn''t believe in playing by anyone''s rules. After a previous relationship left her jilted, she adapts a "love''em and leave''em" attitude until a chance meeting makes her rethink her approach to...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1015'),
(4536, 'Love&#39;s Deception', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/796'),
(4537, 'Love&#39;s Wicked Game: A Provocative, Persuasive Story of Love, Lust and Money', 'JOHNSON, EDDIE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1179'),
(4538, 'Lover Man', 'Geneva Holliday', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1268'),
(4539, 'Lovers &amp; Players', 'Collins, Jackie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1313'),
(4540, 'Mafia Princess', 'Michelle Monay &amp; Joy King &amp; Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The story of a Goon and his Daughter\n</p>\n<p>\n Semaj Richardson was raised by the streets, and her ambition was to own them. Changing foreign whips as she hustles one major drug dealer after another is just a day in the life with her treacherous father as her #1 partner in crime. The devious duo s schemes lead to murder plots and countless setups.\n</p>\n<p>\n Unbeknownst to Semaj the same street life she relentlessly chased can be what may become her downfall. When she meets drug kingpin Quasim, who virtually changes her sheisty mindset overnight, her dreams become a reality. But soon her dark past resurfaces, bringing all the havoc she caused to the forefront.\n</p>\n<p>\n Will Semaj ever be able to escape her previous life or will the revelation of her family history pull her into a world that can ultimately destroy her?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kidnapping, murder, betrayal, and family secrets fill the pages from urban literary powerhouse Michelle Monay in her explosive third novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1367'),
(4541, 'Mafia Princess', 'Joy Deja King &amp; Michelle Monay', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In this world you come in on your feet but you leave out in a coffin.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Milano Family is known to be notorious, and Semaj has witnessed it firsthand, but when someone blows up the family car, leaving two close relatives dead, Semaj s world falls apart and she discovers the downside of a life of crime.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  After reuniting with her grandfather, Semaj thought her days of destruction were in her rearview mirror, but old demons have surfaced and she finds herself back on the hustle. Only this time, the stakes are much higher.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once Semaj takes over the lucrative drug operation, she steps up and changes the rules of the Family business, but when someone goes against the grain, things get out of hand. Honor is broken and disloyalty threatens to tear the family apart, and Semaj finds herself caught in a deadly web of hidden agendas, deceit and murder.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  With an enemy lurking and a mystery man in the shadows, it is up to him if Semaj lives or dies. This is the life of a Mafia Princess.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1368'),
(4542, 'Make You Mine', 'Niobia Bryant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  It all started with a heated one-night stand...\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Three months after a first date that ended in a night of explosive passion, Caress Coleman and Julius Jones find themselves somewhere between roommates with benefits and true love. She''s smart, beautiful--and one paycheck away from broke. He''s smart, handsome, and very successful. But that''s just the beginning of their differences....\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n She''s a slob--and that''s putting it nicely.\n <br />\n He''s a neat freak--and that''s an understatement.\n</p>\n<p>\n She''s happy in sweatpants.\n <br />\n He''s an urban sophisticate who wears the hippest designer labels.\n</p>\n<p>\n She''s a Reality TV addict.\n <br />\n He prefers listening to jazz.\n</p>\n<p>\n They''re total opposites in every way but one: they share a sizzling attraction that just won''t quit. But can it last for the long haul?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Newark native Bryant populates her hometown setting with clichÃ©d characters and stock plot lines. Newly unemployed secretary Caress Coleman finds solace in the arms of successful photographer Julius Jones, but their one-night stand results in Caress''s pregnancy. Mutual friends implausibly let Caress into Julius''s apartment while he is away on business. Julius allows Caress to remain despite the requisite doubts about paternity and cohabitation with a near-stranger. Their close proximity refuels their attraction, until Caress asserts her independence by moving out when she gets a new job. A poorly dramatized birth, kidnapping and custodial lawsuit briefly raise tough issues of mistrust and responsibility that vanish in the abrupt resolution. Bryant''s fans may be pleased by connections with 2001''s\n <em>\n  Three Times a Lady,\n </em>\n but there''s little else to recommend this tired urban romance.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Niobia Simone Bryant''s a nationally bestselling and award winning author of both steamy romance and mainstream fiction. She also writes urban fiction under the psuedonym Meesha Mink. She writes full time and lives in both New Jersey and South Carolina.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1441'),
(4543, 'The Make', 'Jessie Keane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Life is good for Gracie Doyle - running her Manchester casino keeps her busy. Until the police turn up at her door one day and her world is turned upside down. She is given news that her two estranged brothers have been viciously attacked. George is in hospital on a ventilator and worringly, Harry is missing.Gracie has no option but to leave the good life and dip her toe into the murky waters of her East End past. She leaves for London in an attempt to avenge her brothers and in doing so uncovers some unsavoury secrets about the lifestyle they''ve been leading. Their little games have got them into big trouble with the wrong people...She must keep her wits about her and try to find Harry, or it could prove fatal...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1349'),
(4544, 'Mama Dearest', 'E. Lynn Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1383'),
(4545, 'Mama Ruby', 'Monroe, Mary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1403'),
(4546, 'The Man Handler', 'Cairo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/795'),
(4547, 'The Man Handler', 'Cairo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1490'),
(4548, 'The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1171'),
(4549, 'Maneater', 'Mary B. Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1221'),
(4550, 'Married Lovers', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1322'),
(4551, 'Married to a Balla', 'D., Jackie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1525'),
(4552, 'Married To Ben Frank (&quot; Changes Are Possible &quot; Short Story)', 'Yunglit &amp; Shanneasha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1545'),
(4553, 'Married To Ben Frank 2 (&quot; Fed Up &quot;)', 'Yunglit', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1548'),
(4554, 'Material Girl', 'Ervin, Keisha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1243'),
(4555, 'Material Girl 2: Labels and Love', 'Ervin, Keisha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1297'),
(4556, 'A Matter of Race', 'Johnson, Keith Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1299'),
(4557, 'Me, Myself and Him', 'Joy, E.N.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1395'),
(4558, 'Memoirs of a Creole Crime Cartel', 'Snapper, Red', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1105'),
(4559, 'Men And Supermen', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1355'),
(4560, 'Message from a Mistress', 'Niobia Bryant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1276'),
(4561, 'Microsoft Word - Spencer&#39;s Forbidden Passion - Brenda Jackson.doc', 'lesley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1588'),
(4562, 'Midnight', 'Sister Souljah', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/978'),
(4563, 'Midnight and the Meaning of Love', 'Souljah, Sister', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/983'),
(4564, 'Midnight Dreams', 'Kayla Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Midnight Passion\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Forced to wait tables after her husband stole money from their successful Manhattan hair salon and left her for another woman, Jade Alexander made two resolutions for the New Year--reopen her business someday and never trust another man again with her heart. But when she attends her friend''s New Year''s Eve party, she meets her old flame, Terrell Edmonds. As the clock strikes midnight, Jade can feel her resolve weakening--and her desire kindling--under his piercing gaze.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Midnight Wishes\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Six years ago, Terrell Edmonds lost Jade--the only woman he believes was "the one" for him--by letting her marry the wrong man. Determined not to lose her again, Terrell sets out to convince Jade that love can be sweeter the second time around--and together, they can make all of their wishes for the New Year come true...\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n If Jade Alexander had any guts, she would dump the mug of steaming hot coffee in the jerk''s lap, then quit before her boss had a chance to fire her. Nobodyâ€”regular customer or notâ€”put a hand on her butt and got away with it. As a waitress, she was used to a degree of sexism, to men losing their manners around an attractive woman. Maybe it was the fantasy of a smiling woman serving them food and drinks with no complaints that made them lose all reason, but that still didn''t make it right. There were limits to the abuse she would take, and Mr. Madden had just crossed the line.\n</p>\n<p>\n Glaring at him, she opened her mouth to tell him what he could do with his hand. But the words didn''t come. The truth was, Jade couldn''t afford any guts, much less a roof over her head. She desperately needed this lousy job and the tips she made more than anything else right now. So what if the men who frequented The Red Piano were inconsiderate morons? She''d dealt with them for a year. She could deal with them for another.\n</p>\n<p>\n No pain, no gain, as the saying went.\n</p>\n<p>\n And she''d certainly had her share of pain. If you looked up the word in the dictionary, you''d find a stunned picture of Jade. This past year had been the worst of her life, such an emotional and physical struggle, that she''d more than once contemplated packing it in and moving back to New Orleans to live with her parents. But while she was lacking in guts, she certainly wasn''t lacking in pride. There was no way she would ever admit to being a failure. She wasn''t a victim, she was a survivor. It was all in how you looked at it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Even if her jerk of an ex-husband had taken her to the cleaners.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Huh, Jade? What do you think?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Placing the mug of coffee on the table, she stepped away from him, casting a long look at his offending hand, hoping he''d gotten the picture. "I''m sorry, what did you say?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "I asked," he began slowly, "if we could get together sometime. You know, outside of this restaurant. I love seeing you here, but it''s not enough, know what I mean? Maybe we can get together for some drinks, a little dancing. Or something." He winked.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jade could only imagine what he meant by or something. And she certainly wasn''t interested. "Mr. Maddenâ€¦"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Please, call me Milton."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Milton, Iâ€”"\n</p>\n<p>\n Reaching out, he took her hand. Jade lost her thought.\n</p>\n<p>\n Originally she was going to be nice, let him down gently. Now she knew he''d get the picture only if she told it to him straight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pulling her hand from his, she said, "Mr. Madden, I am as interested in spending time with you as I am in dating a slug."\n</p>\n<p>\n His widened eyes and slackened jaw said he was too stunned to speak, but Jade didn''t care. She turned quickly, marching to the kitchen. If her manager got on her case, so be it. Milton Madden could find another woman to harass. She''d had enough.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once in the kitchen, Jade leaned against a tiled wall and closed her eyes. The assorted smells of different foods washed over her, combining in a not-so-appetizing way that made her want to gag. God, she hated this job.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hey, hon. What''s the matter?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Opening her eyes, Jade saw Gerald''s concerned face. Gerald was a fellow server, and one of the best things about working here. "Oh, Gerald. Thank God you''re here. I need you to take a table for me."\n</p>\n<p>\n "That bad?"\n</p>\n<p>\n She nodded. "It''s Mister Touchy-Feely Milton Madden."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Uh-oh. And I guess his hands went a-touchin'' and afeelin'' today."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I don''t know where that man learned his manners," Jade said, marveling at Milton''s nerve. "I have to wonder if he has a mother."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Well, don''t you worry, hon. I''ll take the table."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks, Gerald. I served him a cup of coffee, but I didn''t ring it in yet."\n</p>\n<p>\n "No problem," Gerald said with a wave of his hand. Winking, he added, "This should be fun."\n</p>\n<p>\n Chuckling, he left the kitchen and went to the dining room. Jade smiled. Gerald would see to it that Milton got a taste of his own medicineâ€”though Milton certainly wouldn''t like it. Gerald was gay.\n</p>\n<p>\n Relieved to have gotten over that hurdle, Jade grabbed a large tray, filled it with the hot plates of food for her customers, and returned to the dining room floor. The Red Piano was full this evening, and the collective sound of voices and music was so loud it was hard to think. Two days after Christmas, and New York City went on without missing a beat. Outside, people crowded the streets as if it weren''t the holiday season. Manhattan truly was the city that never slept.\n</p>\n<p>\n No doubt, some tourists had already arrived for the world''s biggest partyâ€”New Year''s Eve in Times Square. Funny, Jade thought, that most New Yorkers she knew had never even been to the grand eventâ€”herself included. While she''d been born and bred in Louisiana, she''d been in Manhattan for twelve years and considered herself a New Yorker through and through. She''d even been able to lose her Southern accent.\n</p>\n<p>\n She brought six plates of chicken teriyaki and rice to a table with six women, wondering as she said "Enjoy your meals" why they''d all ordered the same thing. People were definitely interesting; though Jade had already known that. Working in a restaurant confirmed that fact every day. And it was amazing the things she witnessed, like engagements, heated family arguments, two people who were so obviously having a secret affair that they may as well have had a neon sign above their heads that said CHEATERS.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Jade turned from the party of six, she saw the hostess seating yet another couple in her section. She groaned. It was only a little after 7 p.m., and she was already so exhausted she didn''t know how she''d make it through the rest of the evening. Having taken a few days off and visited her family in New Orleans, it was harder than she''d expected to get back into the groove of working at this restaurant.\n</p>\n<p>\n Especially when she was aware that in four days, it would be a new year. A new millennium. And she was far short of reaching her New Year''s goal.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fourteen months ago, the year 2000 had seemed like a realistic goal to reopen her salon. She''d been down but not out when she''d lost her successful business, and was convinced that a year or so''s hard work would earn her enough money to lease a new shop. She''d even dreamed of christening her salon with a New Year''s celebration, then open for business two days later. Yeah, Jade had had a lot of dreams, but the truth was, she was approaching the New Year with barely enough money to survive, let alone enough to start another business.\n</p>\n<p>\n On days like this, she hated her ex-husband. She''d been raised a Christian and believed in forgiveness, but every time she thought about Nelson''s betrayal, forgiveness was just too hard to manage. She''d trusted Nelson Crumm, had believed in him, and he''d failed her. He''d more than failed her. He''d taken away the life she''d worked so hard for. Once she had been the successful owner of Dreamstyles, a hair salon in midtown Manhattan for women of color. Her salon had catered to several different types, from students to artists to professionals, and she was proud of the success she''d achieved. It wasn''t uncommon for businesswomen to stop in her salon over lunch for a cut, a wash, or even a color if they had a two-hour break. She opened early and closed late, allowing for people who needed to come in at different hours to get different jobs done. Sometimes she would be at her salon until close to midnight, finishing a weave or braids or whatever time-consuming job needed to be done to have her clients looking their best. She didn''t mind, however, because she loved her job.\n</p>\n<p>\n And while she''d initially feared the long hours she put in at the salon would affect her marriage negatively, Nelson hadn''t seemed to mind her hours, mostly because he worked as an in-houseVice President of Finance for an advertising firm as well as a freelance accountant. In other words, he worked crazy hours as well. He was nothing if not dedicated to his career, as Jade was to hers, and she thought he''d make the perfect business partner as well as the perfect marriage partner.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jade had never been more stunned than when she''d learned Nelson had been stealing money from her salon. Having met him when she''d already owned her salon and when he''d already worked ten years for a Manhattan advertising firm, she had easily trusted him with her salon''s books once they were engaged. However, five years into the marriage, she''d discovered the painful truth that Nelson led a double life. He loved to gamble, and when he''d run out of his own money to throw away on stupid illusions of striking it rich, he''d stolen hers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jade had thought everything was fine until her checks started bouncing. Unable to fathom what was going on, she''d confronted her bank manager, who had told her that her account had been depleted. Stunned, Jade had confronted her husband. Nelson angrily denied any knowledge of a problem, saying the bank must have made a mistake. But three weeks later, after a lot of tension and no answers, he packed his bags and left. His note said that he was leaving her for someone who trusted him. At first Jade had been so devastated with the knowledge that she''d pushed Nelson away, until the bank records showed the whopping amount of money he''d withdrawn. Then she''d gotten angry, but a lot of good that did. In the end, with no assets, Jade was forced to sell the salon, and even the money from the sale was used to pay her overwhelming debts. She''d barely had two pennies to rub together after that.\n</p>\n<p>\n Shaking her head, Jade forced the disturbing memories from her mind. She didn''t want to think about the depth of her husband''s betrayal. Thinking about it wouldn''t change the facts. With a new year approaching, she had to concentrate on moving ahead and forgetting the past.\n</p>\n<p>\n That thought in mind, she walked to the table that housed her new customers, forcing herself into "cheerful waitress" mode. The couple sat on the same side of the booth, their linked hands resting atop the table, the sides of their faces pressed together as they giggled at some private joke. Jade stopped midstride as she saw the loving couple, a pang of sadness gripping her. She didn''t miss Nelson, but she did miss the memory ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1294'),
(4565, 'The Mike Black Saga Book One', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1558'),
(4566, 'The Mike Black Saga; MOB', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1564'),
(4567, 'The Mike Black Saga; No More Tears In The End', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1563'),
(4568, 'The Mike Black Saga; Payback', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1552'),
(4569, 'The Mike Black Saga: In A Cold Sweat', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1571'),
(4570, 'Miss Wayne &amp; the Queens of DC', 'T. Styles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Miss Wayne from the Essence Best Selling novel Black and Ugly and Black &amp; Ugly as Ever returns in this standalone spin-off!\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Miss Daffany s mothers risky lifestyle finally catches up with her, they all come back from LA, to Washington DC for her funeral. Once in town, Miss Wayne hooks up with his fabulous male friends and decides he misses home.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Both Parade and Daffany fear he might want to stay in DC and their suspicions are correct when he doesn t come back with them. With the Queens of DC, he can wear flashy clothes, live the glamorous and be around people like him. But when the novelty wears off, he realizes that there s a reason he never fully embraced his alternative lifestyle. But it s too late and he becomes a victim of the company he keeps. Murder. Hate. Revenge. All find places in his world and soon the life of those he cares about become endangered.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Miss Wayne &amp; The Queens of DC is a fast paced, funny, heartfelt story. You ll enjoy flashbacks of his life growing up with Parade, Daffany and Sky, and see how he grew to become the diva his is today. But, will he survive?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A Must Read!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1606'),
(4571, 'Missionary No More', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An Eroticanoir.com Anthology Purple Panties II\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/996'),
(4572, 'Mistress No More', 'Bryant, Niobia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1284'),
(4573, 'Mocha Chocolate: Taste A Piece of Ecstasy', 'Greene-Dowdell, Shani &amp; Gabrielle, Elissa &amp; Mills, Hazel &amp; Pennington, Carla S &amp; Moore, Niyah &amp; Kindred, Kanarian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1444'),
(4574, 'Mogul', 'Terrance Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  From the Essence bestselling author of Hiding in Hip Hop and an entertainment insider--a juicy debut novel about the "down-low" life of one of New York''s most beloved Hip Hop producers.\n </b>\n</p>\n<p>\n After the sudden death of his father, a renowned jazz musician, Aaron "Big A.T." Tremble clings to music as an escape. Making hip hop beats becomes his life. His love for music lands him at the estate of Larry "Pop" Singleton, a retired and respected Hip Hop music mogul who sees something special in Big A.T., and he also knows the truth about his sexuality. With Pop''s blessings and nurturing, Big A.T. is on the path to becoming the next great Hip Hop producer in New York.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the help of Pop and "the family," a network of secretly gay men in the Hip Hop world, Big A.T. finds success and starts his own music label. He''s signed and worked with some of the biggest Hip Hop artists in the country. One of them is Brooklyn native lyricist, "Tickman." Together they are making sweet music...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1066'),
(4575, 'Mommy&#39;s Angel', 'Miasha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1277'),
(4576, 'Moth to a Flame', 'Antoinette, Ashley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1445'),
(4577, 'Mother', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1262'),
(4578, 'Mr. Satisfaction', 'Jackson, Brenda &amp; King, Joy &amp; Dawson, Delilah &amp; Reid, Maryann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1500'),
(4579, 'Murder Mamas', 'Ashley &amp; JaQuavis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1446'),
(4580, 'Murderville', 'Coleman, Ashley &amp; Coleman, JaQuavis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1447'),
(4581, 'My Best Friend and My Man', 'Cydney Rax', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/935'),
(4582, 'My Daughter&#39;s Boyfriend', 'Cydney Rax', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/934'),
(4583, 'My Friend Michael', 'Frank Cascio', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Frank Cascio was a close friend of tragic superstar Michael Jackson for more than twenty-five years. In\n <i>\n  My Friend Michael\n </i>\n , Cascio offers a deeply personal, behind-the-scenes look at the Michael Jackson he knew. Filled with never-before-told stories and intimate details,\n <i>\n  My Friend Michael\n </i>\n is the most candid, moving, and provocative portrait of the &#147;King of Pop&#148; to date&#8212;a fair and loving portrait of a true American pop music icon and of a remarkable friendship that endured through triumph and struggle, scandal and controversy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1547'),
(4584, 'My Husband&#39;s Girlfriend', 'Cydney Rax', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/933'),
(4585, 'My Man, My Boyz', 'Vernon, Dwayne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1434');
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(4586, 'My Only Desire', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Kappa Psi Kappa brother Taariq Bryson loves the single life. So when his frat brother sets him up on a date with his sister-in-law Anna Jacobs, Taariq figures it will be just another notch on his freewheeling playboy belt. But the two prove to be a stormy combination, that is until they''re stranded together and share a night of explosive passion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Anna''s track record with men is a disaster. And her blind date with sexy, arrogant Taariq Bryson tops the list. So when they''re isolated in a remote cabin, Anna prepares for the worst. Instead, the sexual sparks fly...but it''s more than body heat that keeps this unlikely pair coming back for more. Can their combustible, passionate affair ignite a real love match?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/790'),
(4587, 'My Only Desire', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Kappa Psi Kappa brother Taariq Bryson loves the single life. So when his frat brother sets him up on a date with his sister-in-law Anna Jacobs, Taariq figures it will be just another notch on his freewheeling playboy belt. But the two prove to be a stormy combination, that is until they''re stranded together and share a night of explosive passion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Anna''s track record with men is a disaster. And her blind date with sexy, arrogant Taariq Bryson tops the list. So when they''re isolated in a remote cabin, Anna prepares for the worst. Instead, the sexual sparks fly...but it''s more than body heat that keeps this unlikely pair coming back for more. Can their combustible, passionate affair ignite a real love match?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1653'),
(4588, 'Natural Born Hustler', 'Nikki Turner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1087'),
(4589, 'Nervous', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1001'),
(4590, 'Nervous: A Novel', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Zane''s legion of fans can''t get enough of her way of telling a juicy, sexy story. In\n <em>\n  Nervous,\n </em>\n the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling queen of erotica brings us a tale of a woman with a split personality. Jonquinette has always been nervous around men, but on the weekends her alter ego, Jude, goes on intense sexual escapades. When Jonquinette seeks the help of Dr. Marcella Spencer, the psychiatrist Zane originated in her bestselling novel\n <em>\n  Addicted,\n </em>\n Jude''s response is to go on a sexual rampage. In the meantime, Jonquinette becomes interested in her new neighbor, Mason, but Jude has no intention of letting Jonquinette fall in love -- not when Jude''s having so much fun. Based on a short story of the same title from her bestselling collection\n <em>\n  The Sex Chronicles, Nervous\n </em>\n is classic Zane with an edge. So, relax, sit back. You''re in for a nerve-tingling read.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Zane\n </strong>\n is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellingÂ author of, among others,\n <em>\n  Afterburn\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  TheÂ Heat Seekers\n </em>\n , the Flava series, and\n <em>\n  Dear G-Spot\n </em>\n .Â Her television series,\n <em>\n  Zane''s Sex Chronicles\n </em>\n , is featured on Cinemax, and her bestselling novel\n <em>\n  Addicted\n </em>\n has been adapted for aÂ major motion picture.Â She is the publisher of Strebor Books, an imprint of Atria Books/Simon &amp; Schuster, and lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her family. Visit her website at www.eroticanoir.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1569'),
(4591, 'Never Again Once More', 'Morrison, Mary B.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/839'),
(4592, 'New Title 1', 'Takerra, Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1041'),
(4593, 'New York&#39;s Finest (1st of the Trilogy)', 'Swinson, Kiki', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1122'),
(4594, 'No One in the World', 'E. Lynn Harris &amp; RM Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n E. Lynn Harris and RM Johnson-- two powerful voices of a generation--unite with an insightful and emotional project that tackles themes of family, loyalty and identity.The untimely passing of the beloved\n <i>\n  New York Times\n </i>\n bestselling author E. Lynn Harris has left fans pining for more. With this collaboration, fans are given the book they''ve been clamoring to read--and the book that Harris and\n <i>\n  Essence\n </i>\n bestselling author RM Johnson long wanted to write.Cobi Winslow, a handsome, well-educated district attorney, knows nothing about the life of his estranged twin brother, Eric Reed, a career criminal raised in the foster care system. Following their parents'' death, Cobi searches for and finds his brother, hoping to regain lost years.Meanwhile, Cobi navigates the pressures of society as he lives life in the closet. The stress comes to a head when he learns that in order to inherit the wealth of his father''s estate and save the struggling family business, he must marry a...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1377'),
(4595, 'No One Left To Tell', 'Rose, Karen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1204'),
(4596, 'Not a Day Goes By', 'E. Lynn Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1382'),
(4597, 'Not Even if You Begged', 'Francis Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1399'),
(4598, 'NOTHING STAYS THE SAME', 'Suzetta Perkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/998'),
(4599, 'Nothing Stays the Same', 'Suzetta Perkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  <i>\n   Combining suspense, high drama, and seduction, Nothing Stays the Same is about a man who''s on the brink of losing his business, home, family, and even his self respect.\n  </i>\n </b>\n Marvin Thomas, CEO of Thomas and Richmond Tecktronics, Inc., is living the good life. He and his partner, Kenny Richmond, head a Fortune 500 company in Atlanta. But Marvin is harboring a secret. The company is deep in debt and is being threatened with a takeover--which Marvin has failed to share with his partner, the shareholders, and his wife, Rachel. Marvin has exhausted most of the company''s available cash flow, including is own, to keep the company afloat and faces the biggest decision of his life-- save the business or sell his shares in the company of which he''s the majority shareholder. However, a fifty-thousand dollar extortion scheme and an incriminating photo may send Marvin over the edge long before he''s had an opportunity to redeem himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1471'),
(4600, 'Notorious', 'Kiki Swinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n After the drama in\n <em>\n  Playing Dirty,\n </em>\n Yoshi Lomax is on the run, but trouble follows her wherever she goes. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n When things get too hot in Miami, criminal lawyer Yoshi figures she''ll be safe if she goes home to Norfolk, Virginia, for a little while. But the streets there are just as mean, and a sistah needs to keep her head to avoid getting popped by a drive-by. And when Yoshi witnesses the brutal murder of a snitch by a ruthless drug dealer, she knows she''ll be the next one in the gangsta''s sights. Out of time and abandoned by everyone but her cousin Carmen, Yoshi''s goin'' to have to learn to fight back if she wants to live another day. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n More praise for Kiki Swinson\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kiki Swinson is unstoppable. Whether she''s writing about life in the ''hood or living the fabulous life, one thing is for sure--Kiki always delivers a sizzling read."--Crystal Lacey Winslow,\n <em>\n  Essence\n </em>\n Ã‚Â® bestselling author\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "I''m Still Wifey\n </em>\n is the truth! Kiki Swinson has done it again. This book pulls you in from the very first page."--Treasure E. Blue,\n <em>\n  Essence\n </em>\n Ã‚Â® bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Harlem Girl Lost\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kiki captures the heat of the streets."--Wahida Clark,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1438'),
(4601, 'Now Is Your Time!', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/939'),
(4602, 'The Object of His Protection', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/851'),
(4603, 'Obsession', 'Kayla Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1214'),
(4604, 'Octavia', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1150'),
(4605, 'Off the Chain', 'Candice Dow', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/807'),
(4606, 'One Better', 'Rosalyn McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1131'),
(4607, 'One in a Million', 'Kimberla Lawson Roby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1153'),
(4608, 'One in a Million', 'Byrd, Adrianne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1459'),
(4609, 'One Lyfe To Live', 'Gray, Erick S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1570'),
(4610, 'One Night with You', 'Francis Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1417'),
(4611, 'One Special Moment', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/859'),
(4612, 'One Taste', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A provocatively explicit account of an unhappily married couple whose passionless union causes them to seek alternative sexual satisfaction in scandalous ways. Regina Wheeler married her high school sweetheart and has never experienced sexual intimacy with any other man. After many years of being dutifully married to Matt and suffering from short-lived and predictably boring sex, Regina begins to wonder what she''s been missing. Constantly rejected and ignored by an inattentive wife, Matt on the other hand, starts what he thinks will be a passing fling with a street-wise, much younger woman. But fiery passion unexpectedly ignites and Matt instantly becomes hopelessly addicted. It turns out that one taste is not enough for him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/831'),
(4613, 'Only Hers', 'Francis Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1412'),
(4614, 'Ordained By the Streets (Street Preacher Ebook Series Vol. 1)', 'E. N. Joy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1396'),
(4615, 'The Other Brother', 'Brandon Massey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/826'),
(4616, 'The other woman', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his newest novel, Eric Jerome Dickey strides boldly over the minefield that is modern marriage. The central couple''s biggest challenge is timing: He works days; she works nights. Instead of growing together, they''re rapidly drifting apart, coexisting on stolen phone calls from work, punctuated by occasional bedroom encounters that leave them both feeling even emptier and more alone. When she finds out about his affair-and starts her own-the delicate fabric of their marriage is torn irrevocably asunder. Or is it? In Dickey''s expert hands, what begins as a seemingly unforgivable betrayal segues into the sexy and searing story of a man and a woman at a pivotal turning point in their relationship. Only time will tell whether they''ll let it all go...or can hold on to the love that drew them together in the first place. Dickey''s eighth blockbuster novel sparkles with humor, honesty, and powerful compassion as a contemporary couple faces the challenges that test their trust, their faith, and their staying power. Poignant and passionate, The Other Womanis certain to resonate with readers of all marital persuasions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1004'),
(4617, 'The Other Woman', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Eric Jerome Dickey strides boldly over the minefield that is modern marriage. The central couple''s biggest challenge is timing: He works days; she works nights. Instead of growing together, they''re rapidly drifting apart, coexisting on stolen phone calls from work, punctuated by occasional bedroom encounters that leave them both feeling even emptier and more alone. When she finds out about his affair-and starts her own-the delicate fabric of their marriage is torn irrevocably asunder. Or is it? In Dickey''s expert hands, what begins as a seemingly unforgivable betrayal segues into the sexy and searing story of a man and a woman at a pivotal turning point in their relationship. Only time will tell whether they''ll let it all go...or can hold on to the love that drew them together in the first place.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Plans for revenge spin out of control in this sharp-edged, sizzling novel by bestselling Dickey (Liar''s Game; Between Lovers). The unnamed narrator has it all-a loving husband, a beautiful home and a lucrative career as a television producer in Los Angeles. Although she works long hours, she knows that she and her husband, Charles, a middle-school teacher, depend on her earnings to live the good life. Upon receiving strange messages at work from a mysterious man named David Lawrence, she assumes that he is a media-hungry stalker. But when David finally reaches her, he tells her that her husband has been having an affair with his wife, Jessica. The reporter in her takes over, and she immediately confronts Charles, who admits that he had an affair with Jessica, but says it is over. Confused, angry and in complete shock, she demands that Charles give her the intimate details of the affair; he refuses. "And I''m supposed to accept that?... My marriage is supposed to be my place of solace, not a place of fucking grief, and my husband is supposed to my friend, not my fucking enemy. Choose which one you wanna be." Unwilling to go on without answers to her many questions, she soon finds herself commiserating with David Lawrence. As the pieces of the puzzle come together, her world falls apart and she finds herself desperate for revenge. But will revenge heal her tattered soul or destroy her completely? Dickey offers plenty of straight-on sex and violence, but also probes questions of contemporary morals and the psychology of betrayal, writing compellingly and believably from his heroine''s point of view. This will be another crowd pleaser.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ". . . sharp-edged, sizzling . . . another crowd pleaser."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  (\n  <em>\n   Publisher''s Weekly\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1465'),
(4618, 'Out of Control', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1555'),
(4619, 'Pages of Passion', 'Girard, Dara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1336'),
(4620, 'Pandora', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1159'),
(4621, 'Pandora&#39;s Box', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  Ambition, desperation, and redemption abound in nationally bestselling author Allison Hobbs''s unforgettable novel about a woman forced to sink to the darkest depths of morality . . . and her quest to fight her way back.\n </b>\n</p>\n<p>\n Victoria Carlton invested everything into her dream of becoming a singer--her hopes, her time, her life savings--only to fall victim to the harsh realities of the recording industry. Devastated, broke, and faced with the choice between committing herself and her young son to a world of homeless shelters or entering the seedy world of prostitution, she applies for a job at Pandora''s Box, a downtown Philadelphia brothel that bills itself as a "massage salon." Her lifestyle quickly improves, and the gratification of instant cash replaces her willingness to find a low-paying, legitimate occupation.\n</p>\n<p>\n One day, an unlikely customer appears at Pandora''s Box. Young, handsome, and well dressed, he is immediately drawn to Victoria. The two begin a love affair...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/906'),
(4622, 'The Paris Secret', 'Henry, Angela', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/753'),
(4623, 'Payback Is a Mutha', 'Wahida Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her hot, gritty new urban drama, Essence Â® bestselling author Wahida Clark tells the story of a woman who thinks she has everything, but who really has everything to loseâ€” starting with her best friend, and ending with her lifeâ€¦ Brianna and Shan couldnâ€™t be more different. From her $1200 weave to her closet full of Gucci, Prada, and Chanel, Brianna believes that men were born to bankroll her lifestyle. Shan likes to make her own money by working for a living at a menâ€™s prisonâ€”and prefers Sean John, Baby Phat, and Fubu to Jimmy Choo. Still, despite appearances, Shan and B are sisters where it countsâ€”or so they thinkâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  For B, lying is part of the hustle, and the hustle is what gets her sex, clothes, carsâ€”pretty much whatever she wants. She couldnâ€™t care less who gets hurt along the way, as long as it isnâ€™t her. But itâ€™s one thing to hustle tricks, and quite another to betray the one person who really cares. When one of Bâ€™s schemes goes too far, blood is spilledâ€”and Shan is caught in the crossfire. Now, with friendship and lives on the line, Briannaâ€™s got one last chance to change her waysâ€”or suffer the consequencesâ€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/990'),
(4624, 'Payback Is a Mutha', 'Wahida Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In this gritty urban drama,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Wahida Clark tells the story of a woman who thinks she has everything, but who really has everything to loseâ€”starting with her best friend, and ending with her life. . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Brianna and Shan couldn''t be more different. From her $1,200 weave to her closet full of Gucci, Prada, and Chanel, Brianna believes that men were born to bankroll her lifestyle. Shan likes to make her own money by working for a living at a men''s prisonâ€”and prefers Sean John, Baby Phat, and Fubu to Jimmy Choo. Still, despite appearances, Shan and B are sisters where it countsâ€”or so they think. . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  For B, lying is part of the hustle, and the hustle is what gets her sex, clothes, carsâ€”pretty much whatever she wants. She couldn''t care less who gets hurt along the way, as long as it isn''t her. But it''s one thing to hustle tricks, and quite another to betray the one person who really cares. When one of B''s schemes goes too far, blood is spilledâ€”and Shan is caught in the crossfire. Now, with friendship and lives on the line, Brianna''s got one last chance to change her waysâ€”or suffer the consequences. . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1460'),
(4625, 'Payback With Ya Life', 'Clark, Wahida', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the sequel to one of Wahidaâ€™s most successful titles [Payback is a Mutha], old scores are settled and before long, new tensions arise.\n <br />\n Still recovering from the suicide of her best friend, Shan now pregnant by a married man is forced to make major decisions in her life. Ready to leave the fast life behind, Shan believes a move to Detroit will help her become a stronger woman--but someone wants revenge against Shanâ€™s brother and is willing to destroy Shan in the process.\n <br />\n Torn over his love for his sister and his desire to get back on top of the drug game, Shan''s brother, Peanut knows the danger of the streets. Old beefs become new scores and before long, a turf war is raging. With the stakes as high as they''ve ever been, only a few people will be left standing-and Shan is determined to be one of them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/991'),
(4626, 'Pecking Order', 'Omar Tyree', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1246'),
(4627, 'Perfect Fit', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1074'),
(4628, 'Perfect Fit', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1621'),
(4629, 'Pimp', 'Iceberg Slim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1510'),
(4630, 'Pitbulls In A Skirt (The Cartel Publications Presents)', 'Malone, Mikal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1561'),
(4631, 'Pitbulls In A Skirt 2 (The Cartel Publications Presents)', 'Malone, Mikal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1568'),
(4632, 'Pitbulls In A Skirt 3: The Rise of Lil C (The Cartel Publications Presents)', 'Malone, Mikal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1560'),
(4633, 'The Playa Chronicles', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1574'),
(4634, 'Player Haters', 'Carl Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/854'),
(4635, 'Pleasure', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The bold new blockbuster from the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Born in Trinidad and living in Atlanta after a relationship gone bad, Nia Simone Bijou is an ambitious writer who has it all. Except for the one thing that''ll give her the control she craves-and the power she deserves: absolute, uninhibited sexual satisfaction. Now, in the sweltering days and nights of summer, the heat is on. Nia''s fantasies will become a reality-with man after man after man. She will shatter the limits of erotic love. She will open herself up to experiences she never dared before. And as her fantasies begin to spin out of control, she''ll discover the unexpected price of the extreme.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Is obsession required to experience the ultimate in sexual fulfillment? Dickey searches for the answer to that question in his latest steamy romance (after\n  <em>\n   Waking with Enemies\n  </em>\n  ) via Nia Simone Bijoux, a ghostwriter recently moved to Atlanta. A devout AnaÃ¯s Nin fan, Nia''s in hot pursuit of the perfect lay. Enlivened by sometimes catchy narration (Self-pleasuring was popcorn.... My body was telling me it needed steak), Nia''s adventures with identical sins, twins Mark and Karl, introduce her to the dubious delights of threesomes and more, leading eventually to a showdown with Mark''s wife, Jewell Stewark, a TV anchorwoman. Marred somewhat by Nia''s pretentious airs (her self-involvement can be crippling to the narrative), this erotic potboiler still delivers its message that saying yes to pleasure can also lead to self-enlightenment.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "[Pleasure] delivers."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Pure erotica...will leave you hot and bothered."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Known for his steamy love scenes, Dickey doesn''t disappoint in [\n  <em>\n   Pleasure\n  </em>\n  ]."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <em>\n   Minneapolis Star-Tribune\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1286'),
(4636, 'The Pleasure&#39;s All Mine', 'Kai, Naleighna', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Naleighna Kai once again brings you deep, heartfelt emotion, beautifully crafted prose, and a dose of belly-laughing humor that is not to be missed in The Pleasure''s All Mine!" ---L.A. Banks, New York Times Bestselling author of The Vampire Huntress Legends series\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Raven Armand''s son and agent are hell-bent on finding the perfect man for her-even if she kills them. The two unlikely matchmakers'' brilliant plan is to pair her up with Pierce Randall, a music industry mogul and the only man who''s ever piqued her interest. Just when it looks as if their plan is working, Raven risks everything for a one-night rendezvous at the Castle to discover where her fantasies will take her. Unfortunately, it could turn out to be the costliest experience of her life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meanwhile, Pierce has his hands full putting out fires as fast as his shady business partner starts them. He hasn''t been looking for love, but it finds him packaged in a voluptuous and fiery woman unlike any he''s ever known. It doesn''t bother him that Raven was tricked into meeting him, but when she lays down her relationship rules, then disappears on a mysterious trip she won''t explain, Pierce realizes Ms. Right might be all wrong.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Will sexual curiosity cost Raven the love of a lifetime?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1611'),
(4637, 'Polo', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1148'),
(4638, 'Poor Little Bitch Girl', 'Collins, Jackie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1320'),
(4639, 'Powder Wars', 'Graham Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Gangster Paul Grimes was a one-man crimewave with a breathtaking capacity to steal. Any villains who got in his way were made to pay -- often with their blood. But when his son died of a drugs overdose, the old-school mobster swore revenge on the new generation of Liverpool-based heroin and cocaine dealers. Against all odds, he turned undercover informant. The first gangster to fall foul of Grimes'' change of heart was Curtis Warren, aka ''Cocky'', the wealthiest and most successful criminal in British history. Grimes infiltrated his cocaine cartel and led Customs to the largest narcotics seizure on record, putting Warren in the dock in the drugs trial of the twentieth century. After turning his attention to heroin baron John Haase, Grimes rose to become the boss of the villain''s notoriously bloodthirsty ''security firm'' -- a professional gang of racketeers addicted to cocaine, explosive violence and non-stop criminality. But as his net began to tighten, Grimes was confronted...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1279'),
(4640, 'Power &amp; Beauty', 'Ritz, David &amp; Harris, Tip &quot;T.I.&quot;', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1576'),
(4641, 'Power Play', 'Girard, Dara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1344'),
(4642, 'The Preachers Son', 'Carl Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1011'),
(4643, 'PRETTY BRIGHT', 'Renee, Mimi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1580'),
(4644, 'A Price to Pay for Everything', 'Jenkins, Kameisha &amp; Karrington, Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/761'),
(4645, 'Prima Donna', 'Ervin, Keisha &amp; Eyez, Cat', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1526'),
(4646, 'A Private Affair', 'Warren, Mike', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1425'),
(4647, 'Private Arrangements', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n No man has ever tempted her like this... Nikki Cartwright can''t believe Jonas Steele - the Jonas Steele - has chosen her for a high-profile marketing venture. It could make her career. But when she remembers the kiss they once shared, a kiss so intimate it sent their desire skyrocketing from simmering to blazing, Nikki knows she must guard her heart against the seductive Phoenix playboy as if her life depends on it. Jonas has no problem making their professional relationship personal. With the beautiful and talented photographer within his reach, he can erase her from his system once and for all. From a whirlwind Las Vegas affair to jet-setting across four continents, this Steele discovers getting Nikki out of his system is easier said than done, and now he wants her to belong to him heart and soul - as the woman of his most passionate fantasies....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1498'),
(4648, 'Private Deceptions', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1551'),
(4649, 'Private Games', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1582'),
(4650, 'A Project Chick', 'Turner, Nikki', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tressa is a fly girl accustomed to the lavish lifestyle that her possessive, deranged, baby''s daddy, Lucky, has provider her with. In order to keep her high post standards of living, she has excused so many of his unforgivable actions. It is not until he pulls off the ultimate stunt that she realizes that no mink coat, car, house or any amount of money is worth her peace of mind. Never blinking or thinking twice, Tressa leaves everything behind, with the exception of her street savvy, and sets out to make a life of her own, one that would be filled with hard times and even harder luck. Tressa soon finds herself making the transition from public figure to public assistance. Every day of her life seems like one drama-filled chapter after another. From the baby daddy drama, to the backstabbing friends, to the various unforgettable men she sorts through and disposes of. There will be times she has to struggle and scramble just to make ends meet, and other times when she will stand tall and hold her own. In this captivating tale, Tressa''s voyage will expose readers to a side of a struggling single mother that has yet to be revealed to them Nikki Turner, the best selling author of A Hustler''s Wife, once again will take readers on a safari through the jungle of the fierce and stormy streets, leaving readers on the edge of their seats begging for an encore.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Princess of ''''Hip Hop Fiction'''' is crowned Nikki. She brings a mellow swing to the genre with her debut title A Hustler''s Wife. Only a couple of months on the shelves, A Hustler''s Wife ranked #2 on the Essence Magazine Bestseller''s list. Nikki''s instant success was no fluke. It''s been #1 ever since. Nikki Turner is a gutsy, gifted, courageous new voice taking the urban literary community by storm with her realistic characters, plots and settings. She is a self-accomplished writer, initially penning short stories before trying her hand at this debut novel. Nikki developed a love for writing when her seventh grade English teacher gave her a journal. She started a life-long habit of putting her thoughts and feelings onto paper, which she still does to this very day.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1140'),
(4651, 'Project Queen', 'Teresa D. Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n LaShae "Shae" Byrts is a hot commodity in her hood. Using her body and beauty has earned her the title, "Project Queen". She''s got it, and was born to flaunt it! She''s determined to break away from her abusive mother, and leave her impoverished lifestyle far behind.When she begins dating a notorious drug dealer, she assumes all of her problems are over. She couldn''t be further from the truth. She finds out that beauty is only skin deep, and all of the money, spinning rims, and glitter, can come at a violent price.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1077'),
(4652, 'Project Queen II', 'Teresa D. Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Della is the illegitimate daughter of Jimmy Byrts and Lorain Wilkerson, a strung-out drug addict. She desperately seeks the love that her mother, a woman who cares more for drugs than her own daughter, couldnâ€™t give. She suffers from tragic situations which blinds her to real love. She only knows how to show it through sex, and it doesnâ€™t matter who gets hurt in the process.\n <br />\n <br />\n A night of what should have been partying and fun turns into horror. It changes Della forever. She vows that what was inflicted upon her will be inflicted back on her attackers. She will pay them all back - with a vengeance.\n <br />\n <br />\n Will her obsession with getting even cause her to spiral out of control? Who can save her? Better yet, does she want to be saved?\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1078'),
(4653, 'The Proposal', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The moment he met Bella Bostwick, Jason Westmoreland wanted her&#8212;\n <i>\n  and\n </i>\n the land she''d inherited. With one convenient proposal, he could have the Southern beauty in his bed and her birthright in his hands. If only Bella would say yes....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1079'),
(4654, 'The Proposal', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The moment he met Bella Bostwick, Jason Westmoreland wanted her&#8212;\n <i>\n  and\n </i>\n the land she''d inherited. With one convenient proposal, he could have the Southern beauty in his bed and her birthright in his hands. If only Bella would say yes....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1636'),
(4655, 'Prudence', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1167'),
(4656, 'The Punany Experience', 'Jessica Holter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The War Between Tops and Bottoms. Not Your Average Down Low Story\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1341'),
(4657, 'Pure Paradise', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A deliciously decadent glimpse inside a day salon that also caters to the sexual fantasies of its affluent clientele.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/809'),
(4658, 'Pure Paradise', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A deliciously decadent glimpse inside a day salon that also caters to the sexual fantasies of its affluent clientele.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1481'),
(4659, 'Purple Panties', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/965'),
(4660, 'Purple Panties', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Zane, the *New York Times* bestselling author and Queen ofErotic Fiction, brings a new collection of lesbian eroticathat will blow the sheets off beds everywhere.** What happens when "The Finest Man" you have ever laid eyes on is a woman? What happens when a woman comes home to her man after a hard day''s work with "Lipstick on Her Collar?" What happens when a married woman runs across the love of her life -- another woman -- who insists that "It''s All or Nothing?" Is there such a thing as playing too "Hard to Get?" What happens when "Mom''s Night Out" turns into group sex? What happens when you discover your true sexuality "At Last?" All of these questions and more are answered within the pages of *Purple Panties*. Written by women from all over the world, here is a new level of lesbian erotica, compiled by Zane, that promises the most exciting and steamy reading experience possible. These stories move beyond race, age, and all walks of life, including long-hidden passions, secret rendezvous with strangers, and May-December romances. With Zane''s ever-growing popularity, and the need for increasingly quality erotica, *Purple Panties* will satisfy a long-standing demand for African-American lesbian literature. In the tradition of such successful erotica anthologies as *Chocolate Flava* and *Caramel Flava, Purple Panties* uncovers a new world of evocative risk-taking that has never been explored before from a lesbian perspective. The adventures in these stories are beyond everyone''s wildest imaginations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1469'),
(4661, 'Push', 'Sapphire', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she is urged to write down her thoughts in a book. This is Precious'' diary, in which she honestly records her relationships and her life.Â \n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Told with tremendous power, vitality and wit; this is an uncompromising and hugely enjoyable novel.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/958'),
(4662, 'Push Comes to Shove', 'Oasis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1234'),
(4663, 'The Pussy Trap', 'Capri, Ne Ne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1612'),
(4664, 'Put a Ring on It', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  From the bestselling author of\n  <i>\n   Double Dippin''\n  </i>\n  and\n  <i>\n   Big Juicy Lips--\n  </i>\n  a story about three friends with three different paths to the same goal: a husband, despite the dismal odds.\n </b>\n</p>\n<p>\n Desperate to be married, Vangie, Nivea, and Harlow are all on a quest to get to the altar. Dumped by her economically challenged fianc&#233;, Nivea begins a destructive course of action, as she begins to self medicate with excessive amounts of liquor.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Vangie''s deadbeat baby daddy resurfaces and begins courting her with unrestrained zeal and spending quality time with their young son, she thinks that they have finally healed their troubled relationship.\n</p>\n<p>\n After a horrifying childhood, Harlow believes she has finally found true love when she becomes engaged to savvy businessman, Drake Morgan. But Drake may have a secret that will destroy Harlow''s only chance at happiness.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though holding distinct views and relying on diverse strategies, will any of these women find love,...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/886'),
(4665, 'Put A Ring On It', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1478'),
(4666, 'Queen Bitch', 'Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Queen Bitch\n </em>\n , Precious has lost it all, her daughter, Aaliyah, the love of her life, Supreme, and the luxurious lifestyle she s grown accustomed to. The perpetrator of her demise is the very person she called family Maya. Precious learns the hard way, it s true what they say, blood is thicker than water, as Maya aligns herself with her brother, Pretty Boy Mike.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Precious fights to escape the death sentence that awaits her, Maya is plotting to steal the life she believes is rightfully hers. But Precious has no plans of relinquishing her crown. She is willing to do anything, to make sure Maya pays for the deceit and devastation she has caused her family.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the cards stacked against her, Precious has to gamble it all and use the only weapon she has left her street savvy brains to outwit the most dangerous enemies she s encountered yet. In this game where the winner takes all, who will come out on top the mentor or the protÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â©gÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â©? Because there can only be one Queen Bitch.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in California, Maryland, North Carolina and New Jersey, Deja King represents a new breed of writers producing young, hip and sexy novels that introduce readers to street life in all its complexity. Having worked and studied in such high-profile institutions as The Terrie Williams Agency, the Lee Strasburg Theater Institute and Click Radio, King has rubbed elbows with celebrities, athletes and artists. Opting to take a break from industry challenges, King changed direction to explore something even more wonderful -- motherhood. King welcomed her son, Logan Michael, into the world. It was during this time that she discovered her love for writing. Deja King is the author of the Triple Crown titles Bitch, Bitch Reloaded and The Bitch Is Back. And now, the highly anticipated Queen Bitch, which is Part 4 of the Bitch series, Ms. King is also the author of Dirty Little Secrets, Hooker to Housewife, Superstar and Stackin'' Paper under her pseudonym Joy King.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  For all the readers who want Queen Bitch in their hands before it hits the streets on Black Friday, visit dejaking.com to Pre-Order your signed copy.\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1089'),
(4667, 'Queen Bitch', 'Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Queen Bitch\n  </em>\n  , Precious has lost it all, her daughter, Aaliyah, the love of her life, Supreme, and the luxurious lifestyle she s grown accustomed to. The perpetrator of her demise is the very person she called family Maya. Precious learns the hard way, it s true what they say, blood is thicker than water, as Maya aligns herself with her brother, Pretty Boy Mike.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Precious fights to escape the death sentence that awaits her, Maya is plotting to steal the life she believes is rightfully hers. But Precious has no plans of relinquishing her crown. She is willing to do anything, to make sure Maya pays for the deceit and devastation she has caused her family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the cards stacked against her, Precious has to gamble it all and use the only weapon she has left her street savvy brains to outwit the most dangerous enemies she s encountered yet. In this game where the winner takes all, who will come out on top the mentor or the protÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â©gÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â©? Because there can only be one Queen Bitch.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in California, Maryland, North Carolina and New Jersey, Deja King represents a new breed of writers producing young, hip and sexy novels that introduce readers to street life in all its complexity. Having worked and studied in such high-profile institutions as The Terrie Williams Agency, the Lee Strasburg Theater Institute and Click Radio, King has rubbed elbows with celebrities, athletes and artists. Opting to take a break from industry challenges, King changed direction to explore something even more wonderful -- motherhood. King welcomed her son, Logan Michael, into the world. It was during this time that she discovered her love for writing. Deja King is the author of the Triple Crown titles Bitch, Bitch Reloaded and The Bitch Is Back. And now, the highly anticipated Queen Bitch, which is Part 4 of the Bitch series, Ms. King is also the author of Dirty Little Secrets, Hooker to Housewife, Superstar and Stackin'' Paper under her pseudonym Joy King.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   For all the readers who want Queen Bitch in their hands before it hits the streets on Black Friday, visit dejaking.com to Pre-Order your signed copy.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1524'),
(4668, 'Queen of His Heart', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/785'),
(4669, 'Quidditch through the Ages', 'Whisp, Kennilworthy &amp; Rowling, J.K.; Whisp, Kennilworthy &amp; Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/814'),
(4670, 'Raunchy', 'T. Styles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Neighbors considered five year old Harmony Phillips, her father Cornell Phillips and her mother Estelle Pointer, to be upstanding citizens in their quiet little estate at Concord Manor. They turned a blind eye to the lavish lifestyle they lived, compliments of Cornell''s involvement in the drug trade. When at the tender age of five, Harmony is abruptly taken away from her home by her scorned mother, her world is rocked. Without her father''s protection, she doesn''t just lose her expensive dolls she also loses any chance of a normal and healthy life.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Many years later, under the mental and physical abuse of her mother, Harmony develops a seething hate toward all women, including herself. She quickly develops into a cold, calculating, young and beautiful woman. What a deadly combination. After crossing the wrong people, Harmony is forced to relocate out of state. Before long, her fast sexual lifestyle causes her to breed kids of her own. Eventually she teaches her children every backbiting trick she knows. And if they go against her, she subjects them to abuse far greater than that she endured by the hands of her mother.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Harmony discovers that she has inherited Concord Manor, she uproots her children from their new home in Texas, and moves them back to Maryland. Secrets come out within Concord''s walls and somehow, her children gain the confidence they''ll need to fight for their lives.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Raunchy is a heartbreaking, explicit story of failed mother and daughter relationships. And although hope looms in this tale, it can undoubtedly be said that if some women are not fit to be mothers, Harmony Phillips is the worst of them all.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1604'),
(4671, 'Raunchy 2', 'T. Styles &amp; Advanced Editoral Service', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  After escaping death at her own child''s hands, you''d think Harmony Phillips would change. Instead she feels resentful believing her kids took the life from her she felt she deserved. In a bed in Concord Manor, she is nursed back to health by those she wrote off. And while her mind hatches all kinds of revengeful mental and physical plans, she doesn''t look into the eyes of one of her kids. Had she looked long and hard, she would have seen that she had nourished a mind so evil that it would make her own schemes seem saintly. Mad''s only mission in life is to show the world what kind of a person the woman who gave birth to her is. To makes matters worse, she has taken a liking to her father Kali, and that''s when all hell breaks loose. The last part of this trilogy * Raunchy 3: Jayden''s Passion * follows this novel.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1600'),
(4672, 'Real Wifeys: Get Money', 'Mink, Meesha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1549'),
(4673, 'Recipe for Temptation', 'Maureen Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1093'),
(4674, 'Red Hats', 'Damon Wayans', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1327'),
(4675, 'Red Light Wives', 'Mary Monroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1225'),
(4676, 'Redemption&#39;s Kiss', 'Ann Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/780'),
(4677, 'Relapse: A Novel', 'Nikki Turner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1119');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(4678, 'Restricted', 'Allen, Takerra', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1130'),
(4679, 'Resurrecting Midnight', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the heels of his bestselling noir-inspired series featuring the assassin Gideon, Eric Jerome Dickey returns with another sizzler reminiscent of his earlier works - novels that won the hearts of listeners and launched Dickey to the top of the charts. Known for his irresistible blend of action and romance, Dickey has solidified his place as America''s king of seduction. Publishers Weekly gave Sleeping with Strangers a starred review, calling it ''total blockbuster entertainment,'' while Essence called it ''one of Dickey''s most satisfying reads yet.'' Dickey is sure to delight his legions of fans with this latest pulse-pounder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1583'),
(4680, 'Reverend Feelgood', 'Lutishia Lovely', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1183'),
(4681, 'Riders', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1352'),
(4682, 'Riding Dirty on I-95', 'Nikki Turner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1113'),
(4683, 'Riding the Corporate Ladder [NOOK Book]', 'Keith Thomas Walker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Riding the Corporate Ladder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1456'),
(4684, 'RidingtheStorm', 'Riding the Storm (html)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/893'),
(4685, 'RidingtheStorm', 'Riding the Storm (html)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1630'),
(4686, 'The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/941'),
(4687, 'A Risky Affair', 'Maureen Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Following the deaths of her adoptive parents, Solange Washington is finally ready to move on. But after she has a run-in with magnificently bare-chested Dane Roarke, a private investigator hired to run a routine background check on her, Solange''s pulse goes wild--even as questions about her past surface....\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Dane knows there''s more to Solange''s story than meets the eye, and he suspects it has to do with secrets about her real parents. Torn by his desire for this vibrant lady and his growing suspicions, Dane walks a thin line between trust and truth...because passion has made this case personal.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1245'),
(4688, 'Risky Pleasures', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/867'),
(4689, 'Rivals', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1170'),
(4690, 'Roman', 'Vernon, Dwayne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1426'),
(4691, 'Round the Clock', 'Girard, Dara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1337'),
(4692, 'Rozalyn', 'Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/951'),
(4693, 'Rozalyn 2: Vengeance of the Heart', 'Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1584'),
(4694, 'Santangelo Story', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1318'),
(4695, 'The Sapphire Pendant', 'Girard, Dara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1331'),
(4696, 'Satisfy Me', 'Fiona Zedde &amp; Renee Alexis &amp; Syndey Molare', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "Still the One" - Beverly should be closing up shop, not checking out the seriously good looking brother on Aisle 5. But that beautiful piece of walking DNA is no stranger. He''s Ethan Jacobs, who she hasn''t seen in twenty years. Now that he''s all grown up in every way, he''s ready to show Beverly what she''s been missing down to her very private core. "Her Wildest Fantasy" - At the ultra-private sex club Video, the password is "Hedonist." It''s a place where nothing is forbidden, and you can get your freak on for anything the extensive menu offers. For Sonata, the first time at Video is erotic, eye-opening, beyond all her wildest fantasies - and her first time will definitely not be her last..."Pure Pleasure" - Professor Julian Tate is all about the work and little else. His only company is a sultry dream siren who comes to him in sleep, satisfying him as no one else can - until he meets Tamarind Hannah. Now, this sexy, Jamaican artist is about to unlock the doors to Julian''s most taboo sexual desires and make his wildest dreams a straight-up reality...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1362'),
(4697, 'Satisfy Me Tonight', 'Fiona Zedde &amp; Syndey Molare &amp; Kimberly Kaye Terry &amp; Kimberly Terry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Feelin'' fine, wanting more â€¦ it''s all about sexual satisfaction. Succumb to heated passion and red-hot desire with these steamy stories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sexual Attraction" Fiona Zedde\n </p>\n <p>\n  The music is hip, the dancing is hot, and DJ Denis Benoit grooves to the women getting it on. Then he meets Kenna and suddenly nothing matters but touching her, holding her-and making her his own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Driving My Man Wild" Sydney Molare\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Berze finds a book on how to seduce your man for life, she figures it''s the perfect way to spice up her marriage. She and Jare are ready for some red hot lovin'' and they can''t wait to get the party started.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Captive" Kimberly Kaye Terry\n </p>\n <p>\n  Abducted in the night Arianna is frightened-but then aroused-when she discovers her kidnapper is a man she''s lusted after for years. She acts submissive, but secretly sets out to tease and torment him all night long.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1443'),
(4698, 'Say You Need Me', 'Kayla Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1208'),
(4699, 'Scandalicious', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  From the bestselling author of\n  <i>\n   Double Dippin''\n  </i>\n  and\n  <i>\n   Big Juicy Lips\n  </i>\n  --scandal abounds as a husband, his wife--and their lovers--become entangled in a dangerously delicious dance of revenge, lust, and deception.\n </b>\n</p>\n<p>\n Solay is the proud owner of Scandalicious, a trendy cupcake boutique that''s raking in the dough. Practically married to her business, Solay does not have time for romance or its complications. What she needs is a friend with benefits. When she hires a gorgeous male escort, she believes that she''s found the perfect solution. Addicted to his incredible bedroom skills, Solay soon discovers that being "whipped" is as distracting as being in love.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lincoln has been a faithful husband for seven years. His world collapses when he discovers that his trophy wife has been cheating. Though she pleads for forgiveness, he simply can''t. Will his desire for vengeance overpower his ability to forgive?\n</p>\n<p>\n Melanee is a quiet assistant baker by day and part of a...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/870'),
(4700, 'Scandalicious', 'Hobbs, Allison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1477'),
(4701, 'Scandalous Motives', 'Snapper, Red', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1104'),
(4702, 'Scandalous Motives', 'Redsnapper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Waynell Deveraux wants to live a normal life with a man who can love her. But she is forced to marry an man who wants nothing from her but to be his sex slave. Her life will change as she is approached by a secret society. One that engages in the deepest and darkest sexual sins known to man. She finds herself caught in the middle as her sexual desires take control of her life as she is engulfed with intrigue!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tonight she will experience sexual pleasures that she didn''t know existed, as she embarks on a journey that will catapult her to the dark side of her desires. When she finds herself transported through a door between worlds believed to be closed for all time and lands in the magical circle of the Guild, she knows that her life will never be the same. One that will show her pleasures she never imagined and brings her confidence to life!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1464'),
(4703, 'Scandalous Motives- Heartless Reactions', 'Snapper, Red', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1094'),
(4704, 'Scandalous Motives- Relentless Ambitions', 'Snapper, Red', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1095'),
(4705, 'Scarlet Women', 'Jessie Keane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1347'),
(4706, 'Schooled In Lies', 'Henry, Angela', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/915'),
(4707, 'Score!', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1156'),
(4708, 'Secret Agent Seduction', 'Maureen Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Born to live a life of intrigue and adventure, beautiful Secret Service agent Lia Charles has never met a challenge she can''t overcome. That is, until she receives her latest assignment--rescue the brilliant, boldly charismatic and bona fide hottie Armand Magliore, a revolutionary leader of a war-ravaged Caribbean republic. Lia will need all of her special-ops training and all of her professional objectivity to get Armand to safety, and to keep their relationship from heating up. Even so, it isn''t long before Lia discovers that extracting the handsome revolutionary from the dark, treacherous jungles will be the easy part. Guarding her heart from a darkly handsome rebel will test her to her limits.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1250'),
(4709, 'Secret Love', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Handsome cattle baron Jacob Madaris reluctantly fulfills a poker pal''s request to host beautiful actress Diamond Swain for a three-week respite at his sprawling Texas ranch, Whispering Pines. Worried that the star''s arrival will disrupt the smooth operation of his successful business and distract his workers, Jake decides to keep Diamond''s presence low-key. Although he has vowed to never let a sophisticate like his nasty ex-wife into his heart again, and Diamond''s own bitter divorce from an abusive husband makes a romantic match with Jake unlikely, the requisite relationship develops. Confronted with unwanted media attention after eventually going public with their love, Jake and Diamond rely on the support of his large and loyal family. Jackson''s (Fire and Desire) talent for character development imparts credibility to the otherwise improbable marriage that the couple manages to keep secret for more than a year. (Jan.)\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Celebrity actress Diamond Swain needs a peaceful place to hide out from the news-hungry paparazzi--a place like Whispering Pines. And yet from the moment she arrives at the remote Texas ranch, Diamond finds herself at odds with its rugged owner, Jake Madaris--a man who challenges her to care about more than making it to the top.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jake doesn''t have time to babysit some Hollywood star. Then he comes face-to-face with beautiful, compassionate Diamond and is drawn into a whirlwind, secret romance. But is what he shares with her strong enough to overcome the media''s prying eyes? Together Jake and Diamond must discover what''s truly important...if they''re to claim a love that lasts a lifetime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/904'),
(4710, 'Secret Love', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Handsome cattle baron Jacob Madaris reluctantly fulfills a poker pal''s request to host beautiful actress Diamond Swain for a three-week respite at his sprawling Texas ranch, Whispering Pines. Worried that the star''s arrival will disrupt the smooth operation of his successful business and distract his workers, Jake decides to keep Diamond''s presence low-key. Although he has vowed to never let a sophisticate like his nasty ex-wife into his heart again, and Diamond''s own bitter divorce from an abusive husband makes a romantic match with Jake unlikely, the requisite relationship develops. Confronted with unwanted media attention after eventually going public with their love, Jake and Diamond rely on the support of his large and loyal family. Jackson''s (Fire and Desire) talent for character development imparts credibility to the otherwise improbable marriage that the couple manages to keep secret for more than a year. (Jan.)\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Celebrity actress Diamond Swain needs a peaceful place to hide out from the news-hungry paparazzi--a place like Whispering Pines. And yet from the moment she arrives at the remote Texas ranch, Diamond finds herself at odds with its rugged owner, Jake Madaris--a man who challenges her to care about more than making it to the top.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jake doesn''t have time to babysit some Hollywood star. Then he comes face-to-face with beautiful, compassionate Diamond and is drawn into a whirlwind, secret romance. But is what he shares with her strong enough to overcome the media''s prying eyes? Together Jake and Diamond must discover what''s truly important...if they''re to claim a love that lasts a lifetime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1619'),
(4711, 'Secret Society', 'Miasha', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1283'),
(4712, 'Secrets of a Kept Woman (Volume 1)', 'Greene-Dowdell, Shani', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/959'),
(4713, 'Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva', 'Victoria Rowell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1090'),
(4714, 'Section 8: A Hood Rat Novel', 'K&#39;Wan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Since she was a little girl, Tionna''s on and off addicted mother taught her to get hers by any means necessary. Tionna''s heart is as cold as a December chill, but she holds a warm place in it for Duhan, the father of her two sons, and her on-again-off-again boyfriend since they were teenagers. Duhan becomes her knight in shining armor until the government turns their dream into a nightmare. With Duhan behind bars and everything she loves seized she finds herself starting over in the same neighborhood she swore she''d never come back to. With two kids, a man in prison and noÂ back up plan, Tionna is once again living by her wits in order to maintain the lifestyle she''d become so accustomed to. Back in the thick of things with her best friends Gucci, Boots and Tracy, she finds herself rediscovering her old life and suddenly begins to wonder if she''s really cut out to be a prisoner''s wife. K''wan is the #1 Essence bestselling author of Gutter, Still Hood, Hood Rat, Eve, Hoodlum, Street Dreams, Gangsta and Road Dawgz. He has been featured in Time, KING, The New York Press, and on MTV andÂ BET. Since she was a little girl, Tionna''s on-and-off addicted mother taught her to get hers by any means necessary. Tionna''s heart is as cold as a December chill, but she holds a warm place in it for Duhan, the father of her two sons, and her on-again-off-again boyfriend since they were teenagers. Duhan becomes her knight in shining armor until the government turns their dream into a nightmare. With Duhan behind bars and everything she loves seized she finds herself starting over in the same neighborhood she swore she''d never come back to.With two kids, a man in prison and noÂ back up plan, Tionna is once again living by her wits in order to maintain the lifestyle she''d become so accustomed to. Back in the thick of things with her best friends Gucci, Boots and Tracy, she finds herself rediscovering her old life and suddenly begins to wonder if she''s really cut out to be a prisoner''s wife. "Quick and entertaining, K''wan''s latest captures a small slice of modern urban life with a great degree of credibility."â€”Publishers Weekly "In his ninth novel, K''Wan (Gangsta; Road Dawgz) continues his popular Hood Rat series, with yet more of what his readers expect: action, murder, betrayal, sex, more action, familiar faces and a few surprises. Readers are first introduced to Tionna, a single mom of two, desperate to recover her footing after her man gets arrested for his involvement in drug and gun dealing. Moving back to her old neighborhood in shame, Tionna devises a plan with her girlfriendsâ€”Gucci, Boots and Tracyâ€”to con local record label mogul Don B. Meanwhile, Gucci meets and falls for Animal, a notorious criminal who''s on the fence about going legitimate as a rapper. As their pursuits intertwine, Tionna and friends find much to learn about unintended consequences. Quick and entertaining, K''wan''s latest captures a small slice of modern urban life with a great degree of credibility and finds in Animal his most conflicted, memorable and likable character yet."â€”Publishers WeeklyPraise for K''wan:â€œThe big draw here is the electric prose, which is imbued with profane, comic lyricism."â€”Publishers Weekly on Hood Rat"One of hip-hop fiction''s hottest authors .Â . . fans will appreciate many of the qualities that make K''wan a writer to check for: gritty settings, memorable dialogue and authentic action."â€”KING magazine on Street Dreamsâ€œThis gangsta romp is indisputably a page-turner.â€â€”Library Journal on Eve\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1186'),
(4715, 'Seduction', 'Geneva Holliday', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1269'),
(4716, 'Seduction, Westmoreland Style', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Montana horse breeder McKinnon Quinn savored his "no women on my ranch" rule. So when Casey Westmoreland asked for a job training horses, he turned her down flat. For despite her innocent looks, she tempted him beyond reason.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Casey had vowed to get McKinnon to hire her and make him her first--her only--lover. Yet after every steamy encounter, the infuriating man dodged her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was as if he had a secret he was desperate to keepâ€¦ making Casey just as desperate to uncover it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/894'),
(4717, 'Seduction, Westmoreland Style', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Montana horse breeder McKinnon Quinn savored his "no women on my ranch" rule. So when Casey Westmoreland asked for a job training horses, he turned her down flat. For despite her innocent looks, she tempted him beyond reason.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Casey had vowed to get McKinnon to hire her and make him her first--her only--lover. Yet after every steamy encounter, the infuriating man dodged her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was as if he had a secret he was desperate to keepâ€¦ making Casey just as desperate to uncover it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1657'),
(4718, 'Seductive Company', 'India, Sexy &amp; Snapper, Red', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1100'),
(4719, 'Seen It All and Done the Rest', 'Pearl Cleage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1070'),
(4720, 'Sensuality', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/988'),
(4721, 'Sex at Work Bundle', 'Kimberly Kaye Terry &amp; Catherine Ross &amp; Megan Hart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A radio call-in talk show host has an after-hours caller who offers the best phone sex she''s ever had. A bodacious personal trainer fulfills her wildest sexual fantasies...by astral projection. A drab office worker transforms herself at night into the sex goddess of the blogosphere. These passionate ladies make the astonishing discovery that the most tantalizing, exciting sex of their lives can be enjoyed from afar. Here are three delecatably naughty erotic tales from Spice Briefs available at one low price. Bundle includes\n <em>\n  Come Back to Me\n </em>\n by Kimberly Kaye Terry,\n <em>\n  Psychic Sex\n </em>\n by Cathleen Ross and\n <em>\n  This is What I Want\n </em>\n by Megan Hart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1440'),
(4722, 'The Sex Chronicles', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From a bold and captivating voice comes a collection of stories that probes women''s darkest passions and pushes the boundaries of erotic fiction. Sometimes romantic, sometimes raw, Zane appeals to men and women alike with these tales of intoxicating sensuality. THE "Sex" CHRONICLES SHATTERING THE MYTH Anyone who thinks that men are by nature more sexual than women or that African-American women are especially inhibited hasn''t read Zane. Here, she presents an erotic read in three parts: "Wild, Wilder, " and "Off Da Damn Hook." With a unique ability to tell it like it is -- and also to tell it like it could be in your wildest dreams -- Zane crafts stories about everyone from the sensual housewife who wants her husband to experiment more to a secret underground sorority of women that organizes some rather unconventional social events. By turns tender and outrageous, "The Sex Chronicles" is a pleasure from beginning to end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1013'),
(4723, 'Sex in the Sanctuary', 'Lutishia Lovely', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1189'),
(4724, 'Sexaholics', 'Pynk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1080'),
(4725, 'Shame on It All', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Shame on It All* is an unforgettable showcase for Zane''s talent -- insight, comedy, and wild high jinks. For anyone who has ever observed the behavior of a close friend or family member and suppressed the urge to scream "Shame on you!" out loud, *Shame on It All* is the novel for you. Harmony, Bryce, and Lucinda (a.k.a. Lucky) Whitfield are sisters in every sense of the word. They argue and get on each other''s nerves, but when it comes down to the wire they are extremely protective of one another. *Shame on It All* follows their adventures, their friendships, their love lives, and their outlooks on life in today''s society. Jam-packed with unpredictable, unbelievable, and just downright crazy situations with a few surprising twists thrown in for good measure, *Shame on It All* is as wild as they come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/962'),
(4726, 'Shame on It All', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1470'),
(4727, 'Shame on It All', 'Zane; Andre Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Fleming Author of\n <em>\n  After Hours: A Collection of Erotic Writing by Black Men\n </em>\n At a time when much of African American fiction has fallen into formulas and mediocrity, Zane has lifted the bar...with this insightful, often hilarious work. --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Shame on It All\n </em>\n is an unforgettable showcase for Zane''s talent -- insight, comedy, and wild high jinks.\n</p>\n<p>\n For anyone who has ever observed the behavior of a close friend or family member and suppressed the urge to scream "Shame on you!" out loud,\n <em>\n  Shame on It All\n </em>\n is the novel for you.\n</p>\n<p>\n Harmony, Bryce, and Lucinda (a.k.a. Lucky) Whitfield are sisters in every sense of the word. They argue and get on each other''s nerves, but when it comes down to the wire they are extremely protective of one another.\n <em>\n  Shame on It All\n </em>\n follows their adventures, their friendships, their love lives, and their outlooks on life in today''s society. Jam-packed with unpredictable, unbelievable, and just downright crazy situations with a few surprising twists thrown in for good measure,\n <em>\n  Shame on It All\n </em>\n is as wild as they come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1626'),
(4728, 'Shameless Hoodwives: A Bentley Manor Tale', 'Meesha Mink; De&#39;nesha Diamond', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Hearts break, lives shatter, and liars prevail at Bentley Manor, where everyone sins shamelessly. ** In the second novel from the authors of *Desperate Hoodwives,* four women will try to escape Bentley Manor -- a place no one has ever left unscathed... **â€¢ Keisha** married the high school basketball star, but now Smokey''s addicted to crack. Unable to feed her children, Keisha feels that she''s not only hit bottom but has taken her children with her. When Smokey''s brother offers to help, will it come at the ultimate price? **â€¢ Takiah** abruptly fled her pimp husband with her baby. Desperate to start over, she finds a hiding place. Living with Grandma Cleo means returning to church -- but Takiah''s salvation is the last thing on the pastor''s mind... **â€¢ Princess** is lucky to have found a ride-or-die friend in Lucky, who helps protect her from her mom''s abusive ways. With a voice to rival Mary J. and Whitney, at just seventeen Princess holds a ticket out. But when Lucky is gone, will she have the courage to follow her dreams? **â€¢ Woo Woo** *has* escaped the projects with her suburban husband -- the type of man every woman wants. But she can''t resist sneaking back to Bentley Manor for steamy sexcapades with her drug dealer boyfriend. It''s not only WooWoo who has a secret...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/963'),
(4729, 'She Ain&#39;t the One', 'Weber, Carl &amp; Morrison, Mary B.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/828'),
(4730, 'She Had It Coming', 'Mary Monroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe delivers a powerful and provocative new novel about one woman''s search for love in a world where secrets don''t always stay hidden, friends don''t always have our backs, and the choices we make in one rash moment can change everything...If there''s one thing Dolores Reese knows, it''s how to keep a secret. It''s a skill she learned early in life, watching her best friend Valerie Proctor do whatever it took to protect her family from her violent stepfather. Back then, Dolores was in foster care -- just like Floyd Watson, a local boy who intrigues Dolores from the moment they meet. Even in high school, Dolores knows with certainty that she and Floyd are soul mates. When one bad decision sends an innocent Floyd to prison for life, Dolores pays clandestine visits and -- out of a mix of love and pity -- promises to stick by him.While Floyd''s world stands still, Dolores''s horizons open up in exciting new ways when she lands a position working for a cruise line. There, she meets Paul Dunne, an accomplished businessman who promises her the kind of future she''s always wanted -- the kind she once imagined having with Floyd. Dolores is sure she can continue to visit Floyd without revealing that she''s now married to another man. But when Floyd is suddenly freed on new evidence, Dolores is torn and makes a fateful decision -- to live a double lie, devoting herself to two different husbands in two different cities. With Valerie as her confidante and accomplice, Dolores hopes to pull off the ultimate deception. But into this risky situation comes another man, one Dolores can''t resist. And if she isn''t careful, Dolores just might find out what happens when love, dishonesty, and dangerous jealousy collide...\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The question in Monroe''s steamy but seedy shocker is who should suffer the most: the unreliable narrator or her BFF who commits murder on the night of their senior prom? Dolores Reese, a foster child, and her best friend, Valerie Proctor, get caught in a web of deadly secrets after LoReese witnesses Valerie killing her stepfather, Zeke Proctor, to protect her mother. The friends drift apart but stay in sporadic touch, and 16 years later, Lo, now married, confides her own secret: she''s jailhouse married to her first love, Floyd Watson, who''s been locked up for years on a bogus rape/murder charge. When Floyd is belatedly cleared of the charges, Lo''s determined to stay married to both men, and Valerie agrees to help her. Monroe draws a bleak picture of how secrets can wreck friendships, but she fails to create much sympathy for either the sometimes sarcastic and conceited Lo or Valerie. Readers might find Lo''s bigamy lifestyle a little too unbelievable and a late-breaking affair too out-of-left-field, but those who can sit back and go along with the chain of double-crosses and deception should enjoy the ride.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dolores Reese has had a rough life, but she has managed to stayÂ out of trouble. A foster child in South Central L.A., her boyfriend, Floyd, ends upÂ wrongly arrested, charged with the brutal rape and murder of a young girl, and sentenced to life in prison. Dolores is crushed,Â but sheÂ slowly rebuilds her life while promising to stick by Floyd no matter what. However, sheÂ meets and marries Paul, keeping Floyd a complete secret even though she visits him monthly. On one of these visits, Floyd asks her to marry him, and feeling pity, she agrees and goes through with the ceremony. Then Floyd is released, and DoloresÂ finds herself building lies on top of lies as she lives two separate lives with two separate husbands. Itâ€™s only a matter of time before she is found out. Though it all seems rather farfetched, Monroe keeps the suspense high, and readers will draw a bated breath with the turn of each page. --Hilary Hatton\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1118'),
(4731, 'Shooter', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/921'),
(4732, 'Show and Tell', 'Niobia Bryant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Four friends are about to discover that getting your desires met can sometimes cost you everything. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Monica Winters, aka AlizÃ©, can''t turn down the chance to intern at one of the nations'' most prestigious companies. Even if it means working side by side with the only man she''s ever loved, who''s now planning a wedding with another woman. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Hard-working single mom Latoya James, aka MoÃ«t, has finally healed her relationship with her religious parents. But when her baby''s father, a multi-platinum rap artist, demands sole custody of their daughter, she wonders how to hold onto her faith when she has no choice but to fight dirty. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Keesha Lands, aka "Dom" Perignon, gave up her lucrative stripper job and is working at her daughter''s daycare center. But burying her past is harder than she thinks&#8212;and soon it will take every ounce of strength to resist her old life. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n When a New York socialite takes her under her wing, Danielle Johnson, aka Cristal, finds herself...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1146'),
(4733, 'Shyt List (The Cartel Publications Presents)', '(T. Styles), Reign', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/964'),
(4734, 'Shyt List (The Cartel Publications Presents)', '(T. Styles), Reign', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1616'),
(4735, 'Shyt List 2 (The Cartel Publications Presents)', 'Reign (T. Styles)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/969'),
(4736, 'Shyt List 2 (The Cartel Publications Presents)', 'Reign (T. Styles)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1617'),
(4737, 'Shyt List 3 (The Cartel Publications Presents)', 'Reign (T. Styles)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1589'),
(4738, 'Shyt List 3 (The Cartel Publications Presents)', 'Reign (T. Styles)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1618'),
(4739, 'Shyt List 4: Children of the Wronged (The Cartel Publications Presents)', '(T. Styles), Reign', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1603'),
(4740, 'Shyt List 5: Smokin&#39; Crazies The Finale&#39; (The Cartel Publications Presents)', 'Reign (T. Styles)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1590'),
(4741, 'Shyt List 5: Smokin&#39; Crazies The Finale&#39; (The Cartel Publications Presents)', 'Reign (T. Styles)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1624'),
(4742, 'A Silken Thread', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  For Erica Sanders, finding a soul mate was easy. Brian Lawson is the man she wants and everyone agrees they''re the ideal couple. The one exception is Erica''s mother. She even hires a private detective to investigate Brian, but the truth he uncovers is the last thing she expectedâ€”a devastating betrayal that rips both families apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Convinced her relationship can''t be salvaged, Erica ends her engagement. Yet she has lingering doubts over her choice. A chance meeting proves the passion between Brian and Erica hasn''t dimmedâ€”but neither has the determination of others to keep them apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As secrets are revealed, Erica and Brian find themselves caught between the bonds of the past and an uncertain future. Masterfully told with the sensuality and drama that Brenda Jackson does best, this is an unforgettable story of relationships at their most complex, and how hard it can be to choose between living separate lives or holding fast when love hangs by a silken thread.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/884'),
(4743, 'A Sin and a Shame', 'Victoria Christopher Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1062'),
(4744, 'Sin No More', 'Kimberla Lawson Roby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1145'),
(4745, 'Sinful Chocolate', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/786'),
(4746, 'Sinful Chocolate', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1651'),
(4747, 'Single Mama Drama', 'Kayla Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Just when Vanessa Cain, a young Miami single mama, thinks she''s found Mr. Right after a string of meaningless hookups in Perrin''s heart-stomping, soul-thumping romantic thriller, she learns that her fiancÃ©, former pro football player Eli Johnson, has been murdered. CNN reports that Eli not only was still married but was seeing another woman, whose outraged husband shot and killed the pair with a bow and arrow. Reeling from the news, Vanessa is even more shocked when Eli''s wife contacts her and demands half of the condo Vanessa shared with Eli. Taking refuge in her new job at a motivational speaking agency, Vanessa finds herself falling head over heels for a new man. Perrin (\n <em>\n  Sweet Spot\n </em>\n ) peppers the swiftly moving plot with a delicious girl-done-wrong-but-keeps-her-spirit-intact message. Perrin''s growing fan base is sure to welcome any sequel.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Twenty-eight-year-old Vanessa Cain had no idea that Eli, her husband-to-be, was already a married man. Or that he had a girlfriend on the side! Then, when Eli is killed by his mistress''s husband, Vanessa''s crazy world gets even more complicated. Now Eli''s hostile widow, who happens to own the hip South Beach condo Vanessa and her young daughter shared with Eli, wants her out. Vanessa loves her home--it''s the one stable thing in her life. But to keep it, she has to come up with money. Lots of it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Which means bringing in big business for her boss''s motivational speaking agency. And Chaz Andersen is big, the biggest name in life coaching and the hottest man alive. So with a business plan and a bikini, Vanessa heads down to the Bahamas to convince Chaz to sign with her--unaware that this single mama is about to get herself into a whole lot more drama.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1287'),
(4748, 'Single Mama&#39;s Got More Drama', 'Kayla Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vanessa Cain returns in Perrin''s over-the-top sequel to\n <em>\n  Single Mama Drama\n </em>\n . With her fiancÃ© dead and his wife hounding her for her condo, Vanessa is in desperate straits. Ex-boyfriend Lewis has proposed marriage and financial stability, but her heart belongs to Chaz, a motivational speaker who left her after she lied to him. Vanessa must also contend with Byron, her daughter''s deadbeat father, who has been growing increasingly aggressive in his demands to see his child. The book doesn''t lack for drama, but it is deficient in most other areas: the charactersâ€”including Vanessaâ€”are unbelievable, and the writing is as pedestrian as the plotting is clumsy.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Unbeknownst to Vanessa, her deceased fiancÃ©, Eli, was married, and now his widow is hounding her about the South Beach condo she bought with him. She wants Vanessa out, but single-mother Vanessa wants to stay so her young daughter, Rayna, will have some stability. Now Vanessaâ€™s ex-boyfriend, Lewis, wants to marry her, and, to top off this already complicated situation, Raynaâ€™s father, who abandoned them when she was pregnant, now wants to be a part of his daughterâ€™s life. And someone is following her. Perrin whips up lots of drama as her beautiful African American heroine faces one crisis after another while looking for love and caring for her daughter. --Patty Engelmann\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1290'),
(4749, 'Single Mom', 'Omar Tyree', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1253'),
(4750, 'Sins of the Mother', 'Victoria Christopher Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1082'),
(4751, 'Sir, Yes Sir', 'Warren, Mike', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1431'),
(4752, 'The Sisters of APF', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1028'),
(4753, 'The sisters of APF: the indoctrination of Soror Ride Dick', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Zane''s writing warms me, heats me up, satisfies me with a passion. This woman does incredible, erotic things with words. Read with a lover nearby."\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Sisters of APF\n </em>\n is Zane''s first book based on one of her most popular short story subjects, the sexy escapades of a sorority like no other.\n</p>\n<p>\n APF stands for Alpha Phi Fuckem, a sorority dedicated to sexual freedom and the fulfillment of its members. Zane''s APF stories have appeared in her earlier collections, including\n <em>\n  The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth,\n </em>\n and are favorites among her readers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Many readers have written to Zane and asked to join the sorority or to launch a new chapter in their region. APF is fantasy, but the enthusiasm of Zane''s fans is real. So now, with\n <em>\n  The Sisters of APF,\n </em>\n she''s offering readers what they want, a book-length story chronicling the adventures -- and recruitment process -- of the fearlessly sexy women of APF.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mary Ann is the daughter of a chicken farmer from South Dakota. She has never been more than fifty miles from home and has led a sheltered life. By the time she goes off to college in Washington, D.C., she has been intimate with only one man -- her high school sweetheart. The resident manager of Mary Ann''s dormitory, Patricia, befriends the country bumpkin. She finds Mary Ann amusing, but also senses something intriguing about her, hidden under the surface. After Mary Ann becomes smitten with Trevor, the campus playboy, Patricia is determined to show Mary Ann how not to be a victim, but rather how to outdo the players and heartbreakers. She indoctrinates Mary Ann into the ranks of the sexiest secret society ever: the sisters of APF.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1613'),
(4754, 'Sixty-Nine', 'Pynk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s New Year''s Eve 2008, and best friends Magnolia Butler, Rebe Richardson, and Darla Howard, all born in 1969, are about to turn the dreaded 4-0 in January 2009. Magnolia, a New Year''s Day baby, is childless, and always a bridesmaid, never a bride. Rebe, the mother of a college-aged daughter named Trinity, has just gone through a divorce from a man whose sexual appetite far exceeded her desires and abilities. Darla is also a New Year''s Day baby, still mourning her husband''s death after five years. After way too many glasses of champagne, Rebe, challenges them to open their minds in a way they''d never done before, daring them to try something new...sexually. SIXTY-NINE is a liberating story about sisterhood and friendship, and about how past experiences and beliefs can influence one''s views about life and sex.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1088'),
(4755, 'Skeletons', 'McFadden, Shimeka', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What happens when Skeletons that were once carefully hidden in closets behind Gucci handbags, Prada shoe boxes and Valentino scarves start to show their faces in the lives of three close friends?  Jovanna, Santanna and Asteria quickly learn that what is done in the dark will eventually come to light and that some secrets, no matter how damaging, are not enough to break the bonds of true friendship and true love. â€¨Skeletons live in everyone''s closet, but when those secrets start to tear away at love, friendship and family do those Skeletons become dangerous and in some cases deadly.â€¨ â€¨Skeletons, some secrets are necessary others are deadly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1592'),
(4756, 'Skyscraper', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/980'),
(4757, 'Sleeping with Strangers', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1593'),
(4758, 'Sleeping With the Enemy', 'Wahida Clark &amp; Kiki Swinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n EssenceÂ® bestselling authors Wahida Clark and Kiki Swinson deliver a double-shot of street lit fiction--two novellas about women betrayed who are out for nothing less than revenge...\n</p>\n<p>\n Enemy in My Bed\n <br />\n WAHIDA CLARK\n</p>\n<p>\n She rules the weed scene in Memphis, USA. But Kreesha can''t control the dangerous way she''s feelin'' about Reign--a brother who''s married, just out of prison, and one strike away from lockdown-for-life. He''s a past master of the game, and Kreesha can''t get enough of his body or heart. But when Reign betrays her to the Feds, she''ll risk everything to save her empire and give Reign one last seduction--with a bullet...\n</p>\n<p>\n Keeping My Enemies Close\n <br />\n KIKI SWINSON\n</p>\n<p>\n Larissa Taylor is fed up with lying, cheating men. Her best friend Tenisha''s suggestion: try a guaranteed-to-be-faithful brother in prison. But Sean Miller is one thug-a-licious addiction. So, when a sex-struck Larissa is caught smuggling weed for Sean, she''s the one who winds up behind bars. Now, Tenisha''s got Larissa''s man and baby. But Larissa is ready to go beyond even street justice to make sure her ex-friend and cheating man get the ultimate payback...\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two novellas from Clark and Swinson prove to be inaccessible to anyone not already familiar with street lit and will likely disappoint fans of the genre. In Clark''s Enemy in My Bed, Memphis weed dealer Kreesha is in love with Reign, even though he''s locked up and married to someone else. When he gets out of prison, she sets him up with a dealing business. When he gets busted, he turns on Kreesha and her crew, but Kreesha doesn''t plan on going down easy. Swinson''s Keeping My Enemies Close follows Larissa Taylor, who smuggles drugs into prison for her boyfriend, Sean Supreme Miller. She gets caught, and a pregnant Larissa eventually gives custody of her son to her friend Tenisha. Turns out, though, that Tenisha set her up, and now Tenisha has Larissa''s son and man. When Larissa gets out of prison, there''s a bloody payback. Unfortunately, the dialect is heavy, the language coarse and the characters little more than vehicles for playing out revenge fantasies.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n ""\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1428'),
(4759, 'Sliding Into Home', 'Kendra Wilkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: KENDRA BARES ALL Fans of the E! smash hit series *The Girls Next Door *fell in love with sporty Playboy beauty Kendra Wilkinsonâ€™s care- free spirit, infectious laugh, and down-to-earth nature. Now that sheâ€™s moved out of the worldâ€™s most famous bachelor pad and into her own delightfully chaotic world on *Kendra *as wife to NFL star Hank Baskett and mother to their newborn son, weâ€™ve watched her hilarious antics as she adjusts to domestic life. But how much do we really know about the fun-loving star? In this humorous and optimistic, sometimes heartbreaking, but always unfailingly honest memoir, Kendra reveals the highs and lows of her extraordinary journey. She wasnâ€™t always the quintessential girl next door. Before she was a reality television superstar, Hugh Hefnerâ€™s girlfriend, or one of the most popular Playboy cover models ever, Kendra was an athletic tomboy whose father walked out on her family when she was a little girl. She grew into a rebellious teenager with a serious drug habit before she quit cold turkey and beat the odds to graduate from a high school that almost didnâ€™t give her a second (or third, or fourth) chance. Following her rocky teenage years, an out-of-the- blue phone call from Hugh Hefner changed everything. Kendra dishes candidly about life in the Playboy Mansion: the sex, the parties, the show, and even her relationships with her *Girls Next Door *costarsâ€”Hef, Holly, and Bridget. She tells the true story about how she and Hank met and built a relationship in secret while she was still Hefâ€™s girl- friend and a public face of Playboy. Finally, she reflects on the slew of unexpected changes in the short space of a year that have brought her sliding into home from Playboy party girl to wife and mother with a blooming Hollywood career. If you think youâ€™ve seen all of Kendra, think again. Sheâ€™s only warming up. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/984');
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(4760, 'Snapped', 'Tracy Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n<p>\n As the pampered wife of Frankie Bingham, Camille wants for nothing. After all Frankie and their life together are her whole world. So Camille tries not to be bothered by his closeness with his coworker and dear friend Gillian. But it soon becomes clear that Camille''s suspicions are correct. When his indiscretions become a public matter for the world Camille is pushed to a dangerous breaking point that spells disaster for them all.\n <br />\n <br />\n Camille''s sister Misa is newly divorced and clueless about men. She smothers men with phone calls, emails and pops up unannounced at their homes. She hacks into their voicemail and email and causes drama. So when she sets her sights on Baron, he has no idea what hit him. Will her quest to win his heart cost her everything?\n <br />\n <br />\n Dominique Storms appears to have it all - a great career, a beautiful NYC condo and a gifted teenaged daughter. Her only problem is that the man she loves is incarcerated. While trying to juggle the demands of...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1045'),
(4761, 'Snapped (Urban Renaissance)', 'McKinney, Tina Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1025'),
(4762, 'So You Call Yourself a Man', 'Weber, Carl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/829'),
(4763, 'So You Call Yourself a Man', 'Carl Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A raucous "desperate husbands" story lineâ€”co-starring crazy baby mamas, shady churchgoers and various deranged personalitiesâ€”ups the conflict quotient significantly in Weber''s latest (_Baby Mamma Drama_,\n  <em>\n   The Preacher''s Son\n  </em>\n  , etc.). In signature Weber style, alternating first-person chapters follow the troubled, Catch-22 lives of best-of-friends trio James Robinson, Brent Williams and Sonny Harrison. Within the first five pages, James''s marriage is in jeopardy when Michelle, an ex-flame (and Trent''s former girlfriend from\n  <em>\n   Player Haters\n  </em>\n  ), reappears with a love child that she claims is his. Gorgeous Brent is a devout Christian who marries a big woman with a big heart, but ends up in a fiery love affair with a respected church memberâ€”one that calls more than his marriage into question. And after getting a Dear John letter from his wife, who unexpectedly takes off with their children, Sonny reconnects with an ex-, but wife Jessica''s reasons for leaving, when they come out, may put all of his relationships in doubt. While some plot points are contrived, major revelations and an eye-raising twist will make even seen-it-all fans gasp. And the drama doesn''t end but plants the seeds for Weber''s next,\n  <em>\n   The First Lady\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The acclaimed national bestselling author of such smart, sexy novels as The Preacherâ€™s Son and Player Haters returns with a tale of three best friends whoâ€™ve grown from boys to men together. But now that theyâ€™re each either married or about to be, theyâ€™re coming up against some of the real tests of manhoodâ€¦ James Robinson and his wife, Cathy, have had their rough patches. But seven years into their marriage, things are better, and hotter, than everâ€”until the not-so-distant past catches up with James. During a particularly rocky period, James hooked up with a woman on his UPS route, and he wasnâ€™t just delivering packages. Now, three years later, the fling has come back to haunt himâ€”with a baby in tow. James has to decide whether to tell his wife, or keep the affair a secret and give in to his ex-mistressâ€™s outrageous child support demands. The choice might not be so tough if he wasnâ€™t falling in loveâ€”with his newfound son.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Jamesâ€™s best friend, Brent Williams, has got his own romantic complications. Heâ€™s a fine brother whoâ€™s had women throwing themselves at him all his life, but itâ€™s taken Brent a while to find someone who wants him for the man he is on the inside. He thinks heâ€™s found her in his fiancÃ©e, Alison Jones. The plus-size beauty isnâ€™t his usual type, but more important to Brent, sheâ€™s a born-again Christian, like him. They seem like a match made in heaven until a sexy third party threatens to come between themâ€”someone Brent has been praying to resist.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ever since he got married and moved to Seattle, Sonny Harrison has missed his friends in New York. But thatâ€™s going to change now that James has pulled some strings and gotten him a job at UPS. Thereâ€™s just one problemâ€”Sonnyâ€™s wife. When Sonny tells her the good news, she promptly sends him packing. Sonnyâ€™s heartbrokenâ€”until he reunites with his high school sweetheart, Tiffany. But his quick devotion soon turns suffocatingâ€”and scary. Tiffany wants out, but the harder she tries to end things, the harder Sonny hangs on. As his behavior becomes more and more obsessive, Brent and James may be the only ones who can intervene. But will helping Tiffany mean losing their friend forever?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1476'),
(4764, 'Solid Soul (Kimani Romance)', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/913'),
(4765, 'Solid Soul (Kimani Romance)', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1658'),
(4766, 'Some Things I Never Thought I&#39;d Do', 'Pearl Cleage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1010'),
(4767, 'A Song Flung Up to Heaven', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1267'),
(4768, 'The Sorceress', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <center>\n  <b>\n   A graphically sensual tale blending the paranormal with breathtaking suspense.\n  </b>\n </center>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jennifer Darnell accepts a nanny position for one of the most powerful political couples in Philadelphia. The little boy she''s hired to care for has been diagnosed as autistic but his sinister behavior has Jen suspecting that the child is in cahoots with the devil.\n</p>\n<p>\n After sighting a naked woman running across a bridge in broad daylight, Jen is convinced she''s losing her mind. But when she bumps into a gorgeous police officer who admits to seeing the woman, too, Jen is moderately comforted. While she and the hot-looking cop attempt to unravel the mystery, sparks fly between them, and a steamy love affair begins.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, Eris, the fallen goddess from\n <i>\n  The Enchantress\n </i>\n has been languishing on the Dark Realm. Yearning for revenge against the Stovall family, she escapes her hellish holding place.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now back with a vengeance, Eris is on the prowl for sex and blood. Using ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/818'),
(4769, 'Soulmates Dissipate', 'Mary B. Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Mary B. Morrison''s debut novel,\n <i>\n  Soul Mates Dissipate,\n </i>\n became a word-of-mouth sensation. In a matter of months, delighted readers sent this sensual and bittersweet story of true love tested to the top of the\n <i>\n  Blackboard\n </i>\n bestseller list&#8212;and it continues to touch lives and win new fans every day. Hilarious, heartwarming, and uplifting,\n <i>\n  Soulmates Dissipate\n </i>\n establishes Mary B. Morrison as an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like her name, Jada Diamond Tanner sparkles. An exquisite ebony-skinned fashion photographer, she turns heads wherever she goes. But while Jada has her pick of handsome, sophisticated lovers, no one captures her heart&#8212;-until she meets gorgeous financial advisor Wellington Jones. From the moment of their first embrace, Jada is sure Wellington is the soul mate she has waited for.\n</p>\n<p>\n But while Jada and Wellington''s love is exhilarating, they find themselves facing challenges they never could have imagined&#8212;from...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1217'),
(4770, 'Spontaneous', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/909'),
(4771, 'Spontaneous', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1628'),
(4772, 'Stackin&#39; Paper', 'Joy King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Genesis has been dominating the hood by any means necessary since he was released from juvenile detention at the age of eighteen. After grinding in the streets of Philadelphia for years he finally catches a break. Genesis is able to take the drug game to the next level when he starts doing business with a set of treacherous twin sisters in Atlanta. From the east to the west coast every dough boy respects his name, but his ambitions have superceded pushing drugs. Genesis is ready to take his hustle to the next level, but the allure of the game has a firm grip on him, until falling in love with Talisa Washington. Talisa has the beauty, class, sophistication, and most importantly, connections to make it happen. When the King of the streets meets a Pampered Princess will their worlds collide or can they overcome their obstacles and together start Stackin'' Paper.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Joy King is the author of Dirty Little Secrets, Hooker to Housewife and Superstar. King is also the author of the Bitch series under her pseudonym Deja King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/985'),
(4773, 'Stealing Candy', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/855'),
(4774, 'Stealing Candy', 'Allison Hobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1482'),
(4775, 'A Steele for Christmas', 'Jackson, Brenda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1499'),
(4776, 'Still Candy Shopping', 'Swinson, Kiki &amp; McCall, Amaleka', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1124'),
(4777, 'Still Hood', 'K&#39;Wan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Only the strong survie on the streets of Brooklyn. And while Dena Jones definitely has what it takes not only to survive but to succeed, she wants out. And she''s determined to make it out of Crooklyn.Â Sheâ€™s determined to make it out of Crooklyn by any means necessary and doesnâ€™t have a problem manipulating men to get what she wants.Â Just ask her boyfriend Lance, or his girlfriend Michelle.\n</p>\n<p>\n True has finally made it. His debut album has the streets going crazy and is threatening to spill over into the mainstream. After the murder of his group, his jump off and almost his dreams,Â True''s life is finally starting to look up, until karma catches up with him. Somebody wants him dead and he doesnâ€™t know why, or does he?\n</p>\n<p>\n Jah and Yoshiâ€™s was supposed to be a romance straight out of a story but there are no such things as fairy tails in the ghetto. Her position as a stylist keeps her in the mix and in the company of some industry heavyweights. Jah tries to be understanding but he canâ€™t help but to wonder just how much he can trust his girlfriend. He had promised to love her regardless of her past but in addition to wondering whether his girlfriend is creeping with her clients Jah has got a bigger problem. Someone is trying to kill True and its his job to make sure that doesnâ€™t happen.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n K''wan (\n <em>\n  Hoodlum\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  Hood Rat\n </em>\n ) delivers a convoluted, overplotted and ultimately disappointing cautionary tale. Early on, the reader is introduced to Black Ice, the slick pimp; Don B., the rap entrepreneur and head of the Big Dawgz crew; True, Don B.''s hottest new rapper and protege; Jah, the increasingly reluctant bodyguard; Jah''s makeup artist girlfriend Yoshi; and Dena Jones, a local girl who falls into the wrong crowd. As True and the Big Dawgz crew prepare for a video shoot in Harlem, no one''s aware that there''s someone out to kill True. The video shoot sets up the rest of the novel''s tragic events, including murders (there are a lot), a gang rape and manifold permutations of the mayhem caused by greed and deception. The novel''s long on grit and violence, but readers will be put off by the scattershot structure, an unmanageably large cast and a consistently half-baked feel.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  K''WAN\n </strong>\n is the #1\n <em>\n  Essence\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Welfare Wifeys\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Section 8\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Gutter\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Hood Rat\n </em>\n , and others. He wrote his first novel,\n <em>\n  Gangsta\n </em>\n , as a therapeutic release, and it went on to become an\n <em>\n  Essence\n </em>\n bestseller and a part of urban-lit history. In 2008 he received the Black Author of the Year Award from Black Press Radio. He has been featured in\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  KING\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The New York Press\n </em>\n , and on MTV andÂ BET. Besides an author, Kâ€™wan is also a motivational speaker, a mentor to at-risk children and the C.E.O. of Black Dawn, Inc. He lives in New Jersey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1176'),
(4778, 'Still Thicker Than Water', 'Takerra Allen &amp; Heaven Inc Urban Entertainment', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  THE MUCH ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO THE STREET LIT HIT THICKER THAN WATER!!! Still Love... The much anticipated reunion of Jersey''s favorite diva, Tatum, and the notorious and spellbinding outlaw, Respect. The answer to the question we were all left wondering, will it be? Still Lust... Sasha, Mike, and Chauncey? Desire rules in this menage a'' trois of emotions, as Sasha struggles with a plight. The hustler that broke her heart or the good guy that''s trying to mend it? Still Lies... There''s no escaping them. Even with the revelations of Neli in TTW, there are still secrets lurking in the shadows, but aren''t there always? Still Betrayal... From Jersey''s gritty hoods, to the steamy streets of Atlanta, and even crossing waters to the tropics of Jamaica, the favorites of Thicker than Water, along with some newcomers, bring the drama to a pulsing head, building the anticipation to an explosion of heat onto the pages of this enthralling sequel. At last, what we all want to know...need to know...have to know. Is it, Still Thicker than Water? TTW FANS WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ...Thicker Than Water is very entertaining and will have you on the edge of your seat. The drama was unbelievable and kept me glued to the very end. I was really excited when I read one of the characters with the same name as mine. The ending left me hanging and wanting more, but at the same time thrilled that there will be a part II. Ms. Allen has definitely got the literary game on lock. --Reviewed by Tange...OOSA Online Book Club O.O.S.A. Gets It Read! --OOSA Online Book Club\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thicker Than Water is an energetic read focusing on the relationships between four friends and the many ventures that they dare to encounter... This is my first Takerra Allen read, and I highly commend her on taking an age old plot and portraying it in an impressive and superbly written novel. Ms. Allen incorporates suspense and a tad of mystery to make this an even more pleasurable and intriguing tale... I have high hopes for the conclusion of this story line and anxiously await the sequel! Kudos Takerra...Kudos! --Reviewed by Tazzyt2bossye for Urban-Reviews.com --Tazzyt2bossye for Urban-Reviews.com --Urban Reviews\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thicker Than Water is an urban chick flick waiting to happen. Takerra paints a gritty, true to life portrayal, of friendship and betrayal...! --Dutch (Kwame Teague, Author of the Dutch Trilogy) --Author Dutch\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Takerra Allen was born in Jersey City, NJ and resides in Somerset, NJ. In addition to being an Author, the 25 year old is the CEO of an all female Entertainment Company entitled Heaven Inc., and the half sister to the late renowned Tupac Shakur (sharing the same biological father, former Black Panther, William Garland). She is also an active Community Activist.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/992'),
(4779, 'Still thicker than water', 'Takerra, Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1052'),
(4780, 'Still Wifey Material', 'Kiki Swinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Kira is back and needs to make up for lost time. After deciding to leave the Witness Protection Program she gets disturbing news that Quincy an old flame, Rhonda her business partner, Sunshine an old rival, and her grandmother were all murdered. Kira wants a new beginning so she moves to Houston, Texas with her cousin, Nikki in search of southern hospitality. Little does she know that the streets in Houston and the men who run them are just as dangerous as the hometown she fled.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Determined to prove that she is still wifey material, Kira jumps back onto the club scene in search of another sugar-daddy. When she meets Fatu, a Nigerian nightclub owner, her situation is instantly upgraded when he asks to marry her.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  As Kira begins to make plans for her wedding, her cousin Nikki has plans of her own. Tired of always living in Kira''s shadow, Nikki is furious that once again Kira is walking away with the boss. Especially when she had eyes on Fatu first! Nikki is prepared to breakup Kira''s engagement by any means necessary but Kira has bigger problems. Fatu isn''t the legitimate businessman Kira thought he was. She''s uncovered confidential information about Fatu that he is willing to kill for in order to keep secret.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Fatu, the notorious crime boss has finally met his match and she''s a woman by the name of Kira!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1522'),
(4781, 'StoneColdSurrender', 'Stone Cold Surrender', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/896'),
(4782, 'StoneColdSurrender', 'Stone Cold Surrender', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1634'),
(4783, 'Straight Talk, No Chaser', 'Steve Harvey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/986'),
(4784, 'Strawberry Mansion: A Philadelphia Story', 'Simmons, Julia Press', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/993'),
(4785, 'Street Chronicles Girls in the Game', 'Nikki Turner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1126'),
(4786, 'Street Dreams', 'K&#39;Wan Foye &amp; K&#39;Wan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Love, Betrayal and Loyalty on the Streets of Harlem\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Daruis, a.k.a. Rio, the only child of a singer turned alcoholic, feels he has nothing to hold on to except the idea of escaping the ghetto. Years ago, he took a gun charge for a friend and did some prison time. Unable to find a job when he gets out, Rio turns to hustling as a way out. In the meantime, Rio finds escape in the arms of his soulmate, Trinity.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n When Trinity''s mother died, her abusive father looks to her to play the role of house wife and bedmate. Trinity finds strength to endure in Rio''s arms. Together they vow to do whatever it takes to make it out of the ghetto. But soon they find their backs against the wall when the streets come to claim their due.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "K''wan has really out done himself on this one.\n <em>\n  Street Dreams\n </em>\n is a must read for any fan of urban fiction."\n <br />\n -Shannon Holmes, national bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Bad Girlz\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  B-More Careful\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "K''wan delivers another classic with\n <em>\n  Street Dreams\n </em>\n . . .You won''t be disappointed!"\n <br />\n -Mark Anthony,\n <em>\n  Essence\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Paper Chasers\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Gangsta was hot and Road Dawgz hushed any and all who thought K''wan was just a passing thing. But\n <em>\n  Street Dreams\n </em>\n is a classic. The kid has got a story to tell."\n <br />\n -Darren Coleman,\n <em>\n  Essence\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Before I Let Go\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "K''wan has done it again with another bangin'' tale of the streets. . .This is by far K''wan''s best work. The game is over!"\n <br />\n -Joy,\n <em>\n  Essence\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Dollar Bill\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "K''wan promises to bring the good ol'' days back to literature. . .when authors existed that wrote such gripping tales that you never had to question whether or not you should cop their books. K''wan''s stories are always satisfaction guaranteed, with characters that you can see and feel. With\n <em>\n  Street Dreams\n </em>\n he is set to take over the griot of a new generation. Make way for the Donald Goines/Iceberg Slim of our era."\n <br />\n -Tracy Brown, author\n <em>\n  Black\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you thought Gangsta and Road Dawgz were bestsellers. . .wait until you read this! K''wan is raising the stakes for all of us. He''s a triple threat to the industry."\n <br />\n -KaShamba Williams, author of\n <em>\n  Blinded\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Grimey\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  K''WAN\n </strong>\n is the #1\n <em>\n  Essence\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Welfare Wifeys\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Section 8\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Gutter\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Still Hood\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Hood Rat\n </em>\n , and others. He wrote his first novel,\n <em>\n  Gangsta\n </em>\n , as a therapeutic release, and it went on to become an\n <em>\n  Essence\n </em>\n bestseller and a part of urban-lit history. In 2008 he received the Black Author of the Year Award from Black Press Radio. He has been featured in\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  KING\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The New York Press\n </em>\n , and on MTV andÂ BET. Besides an author, Kâ€™wan is also a motivational speaker, a mentor to at-risk children and the C.E.O. of Black Dawn, Inc. He lives in New Jersey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1193'),
(4787, 'Street Fame (Real in the streets)', 'Elliott, K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1203'),
(4788, 'Street Love', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/945'),
(4789, 'The Streets Keep Calling', 'Chunichi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1614'),
(4790, 'Streets of New York Volume 1', 'Anthony Whyte, Erick S Gray, Mark Anthony, Shannon Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1384'),
(4791, 'Succulent', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1017'),
(4792, 'Sunrise Over Fallujah', 'Walter Dean Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/953'),
(4793, 'Superstar', 'Joy King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You were introduced to Tyler Blake when she revealed her Dirty Little Secrets. Then you met the femme fatale of all industry chicks, Chantal Morgan, as she desperately tried to go from Hooker to Housewife. Now prepare yourself for the ultimate showdown as their lives collide. After being left at the altar on her wedding day, Chantal Morgan snaps. And when she discovers her would be groom, Andre Jackson, with her arch nemesis Tyler Blake, it completely sends her over the edge. Chantal would rather see Andre and Tyler dead before allowing them to be a Hollywood power couple. Enter master manipulator T-Roc, who takes full advantage of the disastrous outcome this love triangle has caused for his own selfish gain. With T-Roc at the helm, he unleashes a scheme so brutal you don t know who will fall or who will end up being a Superstar.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Joy King represents a new breed of writers producing young, hip and sexy novels that takes readers behind the velvet rope of the glamorous but often shady entertainment industry. She made her debut with Dirty Little Secrets and followed it up with the bestselling sequel Hooker to Housewife. The saga continues with Superstar. A prolific writer Ms. King is also the author of the Bitch series, which she writes under her pseudonym Deja King. For more information visit joykingonline.com myspace.com/joyking\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/997'),
(4794, 'Supreme Clientele', 'Ashley Snell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "Every Hustler''s reign ends in one of two ways...prison or death." Refusing to let the prediction become a reality, Julius "Jules" Carter creates new rules to an old game. Strategically, he forms one of the most notorious drug operations Harlem has ever seen. Jules thought the game was his biggest challenge that is until he meets Tish. Young and Ambitious she is determined to escape from Harlem''s allure, but her love for Jules has her rooted. She gets tangled in his web of lies and deceit. When she finds out about his past demons and connects them with her own, she soon finds out that there''s a thin line between love and hate. You can''t turn a bad girl good, but once a good girl turns bad she''s gone forever. Julius finds out the hard way that everything done in the dark eventually comes to light. Ashley and JaQuavis narrate a fast paced, suspenseful tale of one of Harlem''s biggest drug lords, his rise to power, and the woman behind him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/794'),
(4795, 'Supreme Clientele', 'Ashley &amp; JaQuavis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1475'),
(4796, 'Surrender', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/858'),
(4797, 'Surrender to Love', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/779'),
(4798, 'Sweet St. Louis', 'Omar Tyree &amp; Karolina Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1241'),
(4799, 'Sweet Swagger', 'Warren, Mike', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1432'),
(4800, 'Sweeter Than Honey', 'Mary B. Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "Lace St. Thomas operates Immaculate Perception, a hot Vegas firm that pairs wealthy clients with sexy female escorts. But when one of her most requested girls turns up dead, Lace knows she''s in real danger.Renaming herself Honey Thomas, she flees to Atlanta to start a new life. But her past is not so easily left behind, and it will take everything Honey has to flip this bad-news script and fight to save everything she''s worked for.Visit us at www.kensingtonbooks.com"\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prolific Morrison launches her new series with a harsh, explicit look at the Las Vegas sex industry. Strong-willed Lace St. Thomas is the madam at Immaculate Perception, a high-end escort service run by the nefarious, mysterious Valentino. Lace, who''s been through the sex industry wringer, wants to get her favorite girl, Sunny, out of the business, but a case of mistaken identity leads to a confrontation between Valentino and Sunny (Valentino had slept with Summer, Sunny''s twin sister) that ends fatally for Sunny. From there, a convoluted plot mushrooms: Summer instinctively knows something has happened to Sunny, and she, along with Lace, become involved in Det. Sapphire Bleu''s vendetta to take down Valentino. (Sapphire and Sunny were best friends.) Valentino, in turn, plots to kill Lace, and Lace''s abusive mother tracks down Lace to demand she return home and donate marrow to aid in her sister''s cancer treatment. The final confrontation between Lace, Summer and Valentino sends Lace off on a new life to be chronicled in future installments. The plot''s unwieldy and the characters aren''t especially striking, but Morrison certainly knows her way around the bedroom.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1439'),
(4801, 'Sweeter Than Revenge', 'Ann  Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/775'),
(4802, 'Table for Two', 'Girard, Dara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1334'),
(4803, 'Tale of the Murda Mamas', 'Ashley Snell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Diamonds are forever . . . or are they? The Cartel runs Miami, and loyalty to their organization runs deep, but when someone breaks the rules, things may be beyond repair. A snitch in the crew has dismantled the notorious Cartel, and now disloyalty threatens to tear the family apart. Young Carter is in the fight for his life, as he faces drug kingpin charges due to the treachery of his best friend, Ace.\n</p>\n<p>\n Kidnapping, murder, deception, and seduction fill this highly anticipated sequel. Will Zyir find out that Breeze is still alive? Will Mecca be exposed as his brother''s killer? Is Miamor dead or alive? Ashley and JaQuavis are back with The Cartel 2. Their twisted tale of deceit will have you on the edge of your seat, trying to figure out what happens next.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/810'),
(4804, 'Tales from da Hood', 'Nikki Turner', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1133'),
(4805, 'Tall, Dark...Westmoreland!', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/897'),
(4806, 'Tall, Dark...Westmoreland!', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1638'),
(4807, 'Taming Mariella', 'Girard, Dara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1335'),
(4808, 'Taming the Wolf', 'Maureen Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Samara Layton needs a pot of gold. Her community outreach organization in Washington, D.C. is in dire financial straits. As executive director, it''s up to Samara to rescue the non-profit organization from bankruptcy, and time is running out. As a last-ditch resort, she seeks help from her estranged mother, world-renowned fashion designer Asha Dubois. In exchange for her mother''s financial assistance, Samara agrees to model in Asha''s spring fashion show in New York City. She gets more than she bargained for when she steps onto the runway and into the smoldering gaze of the sexiest man she''s ever seen. Life has taught Samara to be skeptical of all men, so she''s convinced Marcus Wolf is up to no good when he asks her out after the fashion show. When she rudely turns down his dinner invitation, she has no idea that she will soon need his help to rescue her business. And little does she know that Marcus is the man who will take her body to heights of ecstasy, and ultimately claim her heart and soul... Prominent civil rights attorney Marcus Wolf is in New York City on an important business trip. Attending a fashion show is not on his itinerary, until a friend talks him into it. From the moment Samara Layton steps onto the runway in a breathtakingly sheer gown, Marcus is captivated. When their eyes meet, the electricity between them is enough to light up all of Manhattan. But while Marcus would like nothing more than to seduce the exotic beauty, he has no interest in pursuing a serious relationship with her. All his life, women have brought him nothing but heartache-starting with his very own mother, who betrayed him in the worst imaginable way. This confirmed bachelor definitely isn''t looking for love. But when Samara comes to him for help, she makes him an offer he can''t possibly refuse....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Maureen Smith\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the romantic suspense novels\n  <em>\n   Ghosts of Fire, With Every Breath,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Heartbeat Away.\n  </em>\n  Her 2002 debut novel,\n  <em>\n   Ghosts of Fire,\n  </em>\n  was nominated for a\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times Reviewers''\n  </em>\n  Choice Award and an Emma Award for favorite new author, and won the\n  <em>\n   Romance in Color\n  </em>\n  Reviewers'' Choice Awards for New Author of the Year and Romantic Suspense of the Year. Her second novel,\n  <em>\n   With Every Breath,\n  </em>\n  was also nominated for a\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n  Reviewers'' Choice Award, and garnered four Emma Award nominations in the categories of Favorite Hero, Favorite Romantic Suspense, Author of the Year, and Book of the Year. Maureen received a B.A. in English from the University of Maryland, College Park. As a former freelance writer, her feature articles appeared in various newspapers, magazines, and online publications. She now lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, two children, a cat, and a miniature schnauzer.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1251'),
(4809, 'TamingClintWestmoreland', 'Taming Clint Westmoreland', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/902'),
(4810, 'TamingClintWestmoreland', 'Taming Clint Westmoreland', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1637'),
(4811, 'Tangled Roots', 'Henry, Angela', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/754'),
(4812, 'Tar Baby', 'Toni Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1053'),
(4813, 'A Taste of Honey', 'Darren Coleman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1363'),
(4814, 'Taste of Reality', 'Kimberla Lawson Roby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1144'),
(4815, 'Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America', 'Dana Milbank', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n Washington Post _columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that â€œthe tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.â€ In America in 2010, Glenn Beck provides the very refreshment Jefferson had in mind: Whether heâ€™s the patriot or the tyrant, heâ€™s definitely full of manure.\n</p>\n<p>\n The wildly popular Fox News host with three million daily viewers perfectly captures the vitriol of our time and the fact-free state of our political culture. The secret to his success is his willingness to traffic in the fringe conspiracies and Internet hearsay that others wouldnâ€™t touch with a ten-foot pole: death panels, government health insurance for dogs, FEMA concenÂ­tration camps, an Obama security force like Hitlerâ€™s SS.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Beck, who is, according to a recent Gallup poll, admired by more Americans than the Pope, has nothing in his background that identifies him as an ideologue, giving rise to the speculation that his right-wing shtick is just thatâ€”the act of a brilliant showman, known for both his over-the-top daily outÂ­rages and for weeping on the air.\n</p>\n<p>\n Milbank describes, with lacerating wit, just how the former shock jock without a college degree has managed to become the most recognizable leader of antigovernment conservatives and exposes him as the guy who is single-handedly giving patriÂ­otism a bad name.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Author Dana Milbank on Beck University\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n As part of his $32-million-a-year business empire, Fox News host/radio show host/March on Washington demagogue Glenn Beck has begun offering on-line classes through â€œBeck University.â€ For an annual tuition of $74.95, and hundreds of perfectly good hours wasted, you will learn why everything they teach you at other universities is, as Beck puts it, â€œunbelievably incompleteâ€ â€“ because those schools, unlike Beck University, are constrained by annoyances such as facts.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alternatively, for much less money and pain, you can decline Beck Universityâ€™s admission offer and buy this book. Consider it the Cliffâ€™s Notes to Glenn Beck University: Everything you need to know about the most successful, and dangerous, media personality in America. Iâ€™d call it â€œGlenn Beck for Dummies,â€ but people might confuse it with Beckâ€™s broadcasts.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Class Offerings:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Chemistry 101:\n </strong>\n How Beck uses menthol paste to produce the famous tears that flow from his eyes.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Economics 110:\n </strong>\n Beck describes himself as a â€œregular schmoeâ€ who lives in a â€œsubdivision,â€ then takes a chauffer-driven sedan to his 16-room mansion on three acres in the wealthiest hamlet in America: New Canaan, Connecticut.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Economics 330:\n </strong>\n Beckâ€™s apocalyptic pronouncements on air have made him a favorite of advertisers selling gold coins and â€œSurvival Seed Banksâ€ that can be used in the End Times.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Religion 220:\n </strong>\n Beckâ€™s advancement of the White Horse Prophecy, an obscure Mormon philosophy dating to the Prophet Joseph Smith, who said elders of the Mormon Church will save the Constitution.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Biology 111:\n </strong>\n The saga of how Glenn Beck was almost killed by his hemorrhoids.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Biology 330:\n </strong>\n The science behind Beckâ€™s killing of a frog and restoring life to a dead fish on his Fox News set.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Psychology 125:\n </strong>\n How to convince millions of people that the U.S. government is operating concentration camps in Wyoming.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  History 114:\n </strong>\n Beckâ€™s discovery that progressives in America are using â€œthe same tacticâ€ Hitler did in â€œrounding up Jews and exterminating them.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  History 220:\n </strong>\n Advanced Revisionism. Beck, fierce foe of government spending, once said of the Wall Street bailout: â€œthe real story is the $700 billion that youâ€™re hearing about now is not only, I believe, necessary, it is also not nearly enough, and all of the weasels in Washington know it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Genealogy 401:\n </strong>\n Beckâ€™s research determines that Woodrow Wilson is Obamaâ€™s grandfather.\n</p>\n<p>\n Enroll today. Because the End is Near.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "[A] droll, take-no-prisoners account of the nation''s most audacious conspiracy-spinner...Milbank is pitch-perfect in describing a typical Beck performance. He has watched and listened to more Beck programs than I believed possible for the human mind to absord...Milbank is also superb in describing how Beck manipulates his listeners..."\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n -- David Oshinsky for _The Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n "Train-wreck fascinating...Milbank''s obsessions about Beck''s obsessions can be contagious."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n </em>\n _San Francisco Chronicle\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Milbank''s fast-paced chronicle of Beck World ably details the meteoric rise of a low-rent radio shock jock to national phenomenon in less than a decade."\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n --The Christian Science Monitor\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1329'),
(4816, 'Tears of a Hustler 2', 'White, Silk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/970'),
(4817, 'Tears of a Hustler PT 1', 'White, Silk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/971'),
(4818, 'Tears of a Hustler PT. 3', 'White, Silk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/976'),
(4819, 'Tears on a Sunday Afternoon', 'Michael Presley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1393'),
(4820, 'The Teflon Queen', 'White , Silk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/975'),
(4821, 'Tell Me You Love Me', 'Kayla Perrin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1209'),
(4822, 'Tempt Me at Midnight', 'Maureen Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1252'),
(4823, 'Tempted by Trouble', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***New York Times* bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey returns with a flaming-hot stand-alone set in the world of conmen and thieves. ** We can plan all we want, but sometimes fate has a different agenda... Dmytryk was a respectable man...once. College educated, happily married, a stable job at a car factory in Detroit. He''s the king of the world with nowhere to go but up. But when a crippling recession annihilates the auto industry, Dmytryk and his wife Cora suddenly find themselves without jobs. And after two years of trying to live honestly, they begin to realize that honesty just doesn''t pay the bills. Afraid of losing her home and her marriage, Cora compromises her faith and makes some choices that she isn''t proud of. And when a powerful and ruthless crime boss named Eddie Coyle gives them an opportunity to buy back their old lives, Cora urges Dmytryk to man up. All he has to do is join Eddie''s crime ring and rob some banks: two minutes, in and out, nobody gets hurt. Torn between desperation and his moral integrity, Dmytryk gives in, but no sooner does he enter a life of crime than Cora abandons him, taking with her his dreams for a better life and disappearing without a trace. Now, more determined than ever to get his life back on track, Dmytryk is only one bank job away from having enough money to leave Eddie Coyle and find Cora. But when the job goes dangerously wrong, he realizes yet again that destiny has another plan for him. Forced into seclusion with one of his partners-a dangerous and damaged woman with a plan of her own-Dmytryk wonders if he''ll ever find his way back to his old life. And in the end, will he even want to?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1054'),
(4824, 'Tempted by Trouble', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1468'),
(4825, 'Tender Secrets', 'Ann  Christopher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/768'),
(4826, 'Tender to His Touch', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/803'),
(4827, 'TheDurangoAffair', 'Durango Affair (html)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1575'),
(4828, 'These Are My Confessions', 'Robinson, Cheryl &amp; Smith, Meta &amp; King, Joy &amp; Parks, Electa Rome', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1409'),
(4829, 'Thicker Than Water', 'Allen, Takerra', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1014'),
(4830, 'Thin Ice', 'BANKSTON, KR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1509'),
(4831, 'Thin Ice 2 - Hide &amp; Seek', 'BANKSTON, KR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1615'),
(4832, 'Thin Ice 3 - Armageddon', 'BANKSTON, KR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1501'),
(4833, 'Thin Ice 4 - Resurrections', 'BANKSTON, KR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1512'),
(4834, 'Thin Ice 5 - Checkmate', 'BANKSTON, KR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1506'),
(4835, 'Thong on Fire', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1157'),
(4836, 'Three Sides to Every Story', 'Clarence Nero', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/914'),
(4837, 'Three The Hard Way', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1573'),
(4838, 'Threesome', 'Brenda L. Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/771'),
(4839, 'Thug Lovin&#39;', 'Wahida Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1102'),
(4840, 'Thug-A-Licious', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1196'),
(4841, 'Thugs And The Women Who Love Them', 'Wahida Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1092'),
(4842, 'The Ties That Bind', 'Parks, Electa Rome', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1408'),
(4843, 'Till You Hear From Me: A Novel', 'Pearl Cleage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1073'),
(4844, 'To Love a Stranger', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/766'),
(4845, 'Too Little, Too Late', 'Victoria Christopher Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1075'),
(4846, 'Too Much of a Good Thing Ain&#39;t Bad', 'Clarence Nero', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/929'),
(4847, 'Topless', 'Relentless Aaron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1107');
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(4848, 'Torn', 'Ervin, Keisha', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Torn follows the bittersweet relationship between lovestruck Mo and eternal-playboy Quan. The line between right and wrong in their relationship is hazy because Mo and Quan have invested nearly a decade of love, time and money in each other. Although the fruits of Quan''s hustling is visible in the expensive house, cars and clothes, Mo would trade it all for a true bond of love from his heart to hers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mo''s father and her friends, Quan''s mother, and even Mo''s own intuition tell her to move on, but her desire for Quan controls her actions. Quan, on the other hand, knows he isn''t right, yet explodes at the very thought of Mo possibly being unfaithful. Their relationship is simultaneously passionate and pathetic, keeping you absorbed page after page. While they are saying Yes, yes, yes! , you will be cringing and saying, No, no, no! When you add baby-momma-drama, shady friends and other love interests, Mo and Quan are forced to make life-changing decisions that will test whether or not they are soul mates.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Keisha Ervin''s latest spin on love, life and lies is nothing less than incredible. Torn is street literature in its finest form. Keisha Ervin has written a story transcends its environment. Gunshots, crackheads and drug lords have been replaced with the sleepless nights, the phone calls that need to be taken in private and heart-to-heart advice that may hit home for some of the readers. There is even guest appearances by sisters Mina and Meesa, from Keisha Ervins''s National Best Selling Novels Mina''s Joint and Me &amp; My Boyfriend respectively.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Keisha Ervin''s Torn has added on to her remarkable repertoire and is a yet another Best Seller in the making, following Chyna Black, Me &amp; My Boyfriend, Mina''s Joint and Hold U Down. If you came across After The Storm in Triple Crown''s second anthology Street Love, Torn is the breathtaking expansion on that short story. This is not book for quick consumption like an item off the dollar menu. Instead, this book is full of substance, a tale that you will not mind taking time to read and digest. --Joey Pinkney, Freelance Writer\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Her female intuition told her he was a dog but yet and still she lent him her soul, gave him her heart and allowed herself to fall in love. Torn between infatuation, lust, denial and playing wifey, the only thing Mo knows for sure is that she''s been through hell, survived nine years, three miscarriages, numerous flings, heated arguments and a few knock-down drag-out fights only to realize she is further deep in love and more confused than ever. Come join National Best Selling Author Keisha Ervin as she spins a classic tale about loving someone so much you lose yourself, only to find in the end that what you thought was real love was just a game.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1535'),
(4849, 'Torn Between Two Lovers', 'Carl Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/861'),
(4850, 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart', 'Zane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1033'),
(4851, 'Toys', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1034'),
(4852, 'Tradition and the Black Atlantic', 'Henry Louis Gates, Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1581'),
(4853, 'The Traitor', 'Kimberley Chambers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1158'),
(4854, 'Trapstar', 'Karrington, Blake &amp; Farris, Marva', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1046'),
(4855, 'Trapstar', 'Karrington, Blake &amp; Farris, Marva', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1643'),
(4856, 'Trick Baby', 'Iceberg Slim', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1515'),
(4857, 'Trife Life 2 Lavish', 'Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Tierra Thompson has a chip on her shoulder and an ax to grind. She was born in the hood, and at twenty-one she has grown tired of calling it home. After hustling and being hustled by the dealers around the way, the hard truth is setting in and Tierra has to decide if she is willing to sell her soul to escape the grittiness of the streets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nichelle Martin and Tierra have been best friends since childhood and used to be partners in crime until Nichelle lucked up and became wifey to Renaldo\n  <em>\n   Renny\n  </em>\n  ONeal. Renny is known in the borough of Queens, as being the man who is making all the paper. With Nichelle s new upgraded status, her lifestyle is in stark contrast to the one formerly shared with her best friend Tierra. Escaping the grimy projects that her man now reigns over is proving to be bittersweet for Nichelle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the hood, with street fame comes greed and jealousy. The need to remain on top, births the most trivial behavior. Can these two best friends keep their bond since childhood intact as both set out to go from Trife Life To Lavish?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Deja King is the author of the Bitch Series. King is also the author of Dirty Little Secrets, Hooker to Housewife, Superstar and Stackin'' Paper under her pseudonym Joy King. For more information visit dejaking.com myspace.com/joyking\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1366'),
(4858, 'Trife Life to Lavish Part 2 Genesis &amp; Genevieve Am I My Brother&#39;s Keeper', 'Deja King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Nichelle feels betrayed and alone as she wonders what happened to her man Renny and if her best friend Tierra is dead or alive. As she fights through the turmoil she is more determined than ever to locate the brother she never knew she had, Genesis, but will the calculating and ruthless Arnez stand in her way?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Genesis is still a broken man after losing his wife on their wedding day. The ever so loyal CoCo is right by his side trying to mend his broken heart but she is not sure if he is interested in what she is offering. Things get further complicated when Genesis begins to focus all his attention on finding out what happened to his long lost sister Genevieve. But as Genesis gets closer to discovering the truth, chaos erupts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Precious has always tried to be in control of her own destiny but she was dealt a card that turned her already shaky relationship with Supreme upside down. As she struggles to keep her family intact, it seems impossible with Nico constantly lurking in the background. Things become further complicated when secrets become revealed and their loyalty is tested.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Quentin Jacobs is loved by many and hated by few. But the one person s love he wants more than anything is that of his daughter Precious. Quentin will not be deterred and as he begins to make headway, Precious gives him an ultimatum; it s either me or Maya. Who will he choose?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Get ready as this explosive tale reveals all and prepares you for a new generation of street royalty in Bitch...A New Beginning.\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <hr />\n <hr />\n <hr />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1364'),
(4859, 'True Confessions', 'Parks, Electa Rome', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1404'),
(4860, 'True to the Game', 'Teri Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1064'),
(4861, 'True to the Game II', 'Teri Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n TRUE TO THE GAME II will pick up where True to the Game left off-- with one difference, Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay.  Little does Gena know that the man she has fallen in love with, so soon after Quadir''s death, is his archrival, Jerrell Jackson.  Unfortunately, Jerrell is determined to get his revenge against Quadir''s crew and he''ll start with Gena.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1063'),
(4862, 'True to the Game III', 'Teri Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The third and most explosive installment of the groundbreaking True to the Game trilogy will take you on a marathon race through the mean streets of Philly. Starting off where the second installmentâ€™s dramatic cliffhanger left us, True III will finally reveal Genaâ€™s mysterious stalker and savior, as well as introduce a new killer so vicious, so cunning, so ruthless, heâ€™ll have you looking over your shoulder with each turn of the page. The crooked cops are searching for the money, Genaâ€™s family members are now the target for Gena whoâ€™s hiding from everything and everyone, as the race is on for Genaâ€™s survival. Will she manage to keep the money, can she get out of town and make a new life for herself, and will her family survive the maniacal killer that is hell bent on tracking her down? Will Gena stay, True to the Game?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1065'),
(4863, 'True You', 'Janet Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n ONE OF THE GREATEST ENTERTAINERS OF OUR TIME CANDIDLY REVEALS HER VERY PERSONAL STRUGGLE WITH AN ISSUE SO MANY OF US FACE EVERY DAY: SELF-ESTEEM\n</p>\n<p>\n Janet Jackson emerged from the shadows of an already famous family to become one of the most beloved, recognizable, and influential performers in the world. But at what cost?\n</p>\n<p>\n From the age of ten, when she made her acting debut on\n <i>\n  Good Times,\n </i>\n Janet was told by Hollywood that she needed to slim down. Her well-meaning brothers, especially fun-loving Michael, teased her relentlessly until she began to believe that who she was wasn''t good enough. It was an idea that no amount of critical acclaim in television and film or, later, international platinum success in music could change.\n</p>\n<p>\n Janet turned to food for comfort and escape. She developed a self-destructive pattern familiar to so many of us: fear and uncertainty led to bad feelings about herself and ultimately depression. The depression led to overeating. And her yo-yoing...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1332'),
(4864, 'Truth Be Told', 'Victoria Christopher Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The author of\n <i>\n  Essence\n </i>\n bestsellers\n <i>\n  Temptation\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n  Joy\n </i>\n returns with a story about one woman''s personal and spiritual journey to overcome the consequences of her husband''s dark secret.\n</p>\n<p>\n Grace Monroe has the ideal life: a devoted husband, adoring daughters, and a booming career in politics. Newly elected on a Christian platform to the Los Angeles city council, she is determined to put her mistakes behind her and focus on her bright future. But when a secret from her husband''s past is revealed, setting off a chain of attacks that threaten to rip her family apart, Grace must face a dilemma that will force her to question her life and her faith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1060'),
(4865, 'TTW 3 ( Thicker Than Water 3 )', 'Allen, Takerra', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1047'),
(4866, 'The Turning Point', 'Ray, Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1406'),
(4867, 'Twisted', 'Tracy Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <p>\n    Celeste Styles is starting over. After losing her cherished salon in a suspicious fire, she has finally left her adulterous relationship and her drama-filled life in Brooklyn for the peace and tranquility of Atlanta, Georgia. But when Rah-Lo heads down south after deciding to leave his wife Asia, Celeste is floored and isn''t quite sure if she wants to rekindle their affair. Meanwhile, Asia is hell bent on revenge. Vowing not to let Celeste get away with her man\n    <i>\n     that\n    </i>\n    easily, she, too, heads to Atlanta. But just on her heels is Ishmael Wright, ready to save the day and to warn his best friend Rah-Lo about his vengeful wife. Though Ishmael also has something else up his sleeve.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Secret betrayals are exposed, bitter rivalries explode, love is lost and found. Life will never be the same on the streets of "Hotlanta" in Tracy Brown''s epic new urban drama.\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1039'),
(4868, 'Two Tears in a Bucket', 'Bee, Traci', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1048'),
(4869, 'TYCE', 'Jaudon, Shareef', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1049'),
(4870, 'TYCE II', 'Jaudon, Shareef;Mayes, Sherdava;Anderson, Taigo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1513'),
(4871, 'Unconditionally Single', 'Mary B. Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1216'),
(4872, 'Unforgettable', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ladies'' man Marcel Taylor got his nickname, Casanova Brown, the old-fashioned way&#8212;he earned it. His life of privilege has been filled with the finer things and the finest women, but he''s becoming bored with it all...until a mysterious seductress enters his world. When Marcel meets &#34;Mayte&#34; at a masquerade ball, he''s powerless to resist her seductive charms and desperate to learn her true identity. Beneath the mask, Mayte is hardly a stranger to the infamous Casanova Brown. Yet, once revealed, she will finally show him the true face of love....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/773'),
(4873, 'Unforgettable', 'Adrianne Byrd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ladies'' man Marcel Taylor got his nickname, Casanova Brown, the old-fashioned way&#8212;he earned it. His life of privilege has been filled with the finer things and the finest women, but he''s becoming bored with it all...until a mysterious seductress enters his world. When Marcel meets &#34;Mayte&#34; at a masquerade ball, he''s powerless to resist her seductive charms and desperate to learn her true identity. Beneath the mask, Mayte is hardly a stranger to the infamous Casanova Brown. Yet, once revealed, she will finally show him the true face of love....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1655'),
(4874, 'Until There Was You', 'Francis Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Essence" bestselling author Francis Ray reminds us--with this captivating novel featuring the life and loves of the Grayson family--that there''s nothing like the first time..."CAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THEMAll he was looking for was some peace and quiet. Instead, what ex-FBI agent Luke Grayson finds in the secluded cabin in the woods is a gorgeous, smoky-eyed woman...who just happens to be pointing a gun in his direction.BRING THEM CLOSER TOGETHER?Dr. Catherine Stewart is relieved that the handsome stranger she encounters is not a dangerous intruder. But how is she supposed to relax in her woodsy hideaway with stubborn, intense, brooding Luke around? A woman could get into a lot of trouble with a man like that--and trouble is exactly what each of these two lost souls came here to avoid..."UNTIL THERE WAS YOU""Tenderness and passion that smolders between the pages."--"Romantic Times BOOKreviews"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1419'),
(4875, 'Unzipped: An Urban Erotic Tale', 'NOIRE', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1161'),
(4876, 'Up to No Good', 'Carl Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/846'),
(4877, 'Urban Diaries', 'Jackson, Sexcee &amp; Mynd, Ntricate', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1050'),
(4878, 'An Urban Drama', 'Glenn, Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1556'),
(4879, 'The Velvet Rope', 'Brenda L. Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/764'),
(4880, 'Vendetta: Lucky&#39;s Revenge', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1312'),
(4881, 'Vengeance', 'Mychea', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1448'),
(4882, 'VERBAL PENETRATION', 'Jessica Holter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1342'),
(4883, 'Visible Lives', 'Hardy, James Earl &amp; Dean, Terrance &amp; Bennett Clay, Stanley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1430'),
(4884, 'W. Awdry - [THOMAS AND FRIENDS 01]', 'Danger at the Dieselworks (Tho ds) (v5.0)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/856'),
(4885, 'Waiting to Exhale', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes the contemporary classic of women, triumph, revenge, and comradeship in a special new trade edition.Â \n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  McMillan''s tale of four thirty-something women supporting each other through thick and thin-and through the frustrating search for a good man-has already sold millions.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1457'),
(4886, 'Waking With Enemies', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1103'),
(4887, 'The Walking Dead 001', 'Robert Kirkman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Introducing the first eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times Best Seller series collected into one massive paperback collection! Collects The Walking Dead #1-48. This is the perfect collection for any fan of the Emmy Award-winning television series on AMC: over one thousand pages chronicling the beginning of Robert Kirkman''''s Eisner Award-winning continuing story of survival horror- from Rick Grimes'''' waking up alone in a hospital, to him and his family seeking solace on Hershel''''s farm, and the controversial introduction of Woodbury despot: The Governor. In a world ruled by the dead, we are finally forced to finally start living.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1777'),
(4888, 'The Walking Dead 002', 'Robert Kirkman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1778'),
(4889, 'The Walking Dead 003', 'Robert Kirkman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1779'),
(4890, 'The Walking Dead 004', 'Robert Kirkman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1780'),
(4891, 'The Walking Dead 005', 'Robert Kirkman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1783'),
(4892, 'The Walking Dead 006', 'Robert Kirkman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1784'),
(4893, 'The Walking Dead 007', 'Robert Kirkman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1785'),
(4894, 'The Walking Dead 008', 'Robert Kirkman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1786'),
(4895, 'The Walking Dead 009', 'Robert Kirkman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1787'),
(4896, 'The Walking Dead 010', 'Robert Kirkman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1788'),
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(4989, 'The Wealth Cure', 'Hill Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The perennial\n <i>\n  New York Times\n </i>\n bestselling author helps readers discover how to put money in its place and use wealth-building as a tool for joy and fulfillment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hill Harper is uniquely poised to guide readers through tough times and offers bestselling advice for reaping the rewards of a truly happy life. With\n <i>\n  The Wealth Cure\n </i>\n , he does more than that: He presents a revolutionary new definition of wealth, motivating readers to not only build financial security but to also achieve wealth in every aspect of their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n Using his own journey as a parable, Harper inspires the reader to evaluate their values while explaining the importance of laying a sound financial foundation and how to recognize the worth of your relationships and increase the value of your interactions with the people in your life. Drawing on his personal recollections and true stories from family and friends, Harper helps readers begin to see money not as a goal but as a tool that provides...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1291'),
(4990, 'Welfare Wifeys: A Hood Rat Novel', 'K&#39;Wan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n After the deaths and arrests of his entire crew and an informant-fueled investigation into his past, the man known on the streets as Animal relocates to Texas and finds fame and stardom as the newest act signed to the notorious Big Dawg Entertainment. His girlfriend, Gucci, is thrilled when she gets the news that heâ€™s coming back to New York on a promotional tour, but when she discovers the hidden agenda behind his homecoming nothing can prepare her for the life-altering consequences that will come of it.\n</p>\n<p>\n There goes the neighborhood . . . again.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n K''wan (Section 8) continues the stories of characters Animal, Gucci, Don B. and his Big Dawg crew, while introducing some new ones, who all inhabit the complicated and interconnected world of the "hood." Animal is now a big-time hip-hop star who''s returning to New York from Texas on music-related business and to avenge the deaths of his posse. Malika gave up a middle-class life when she became pregnant by Suede, who after his release from prison betrayed her and denied their son, Solomon. K''wan offers fans more of what they expect--double-crossing, violence, sex, and drama involving the characters they have come to love or hate. For first-time readers, the backÂ­stories from previous novels can get confusing, while narrative threads suddenly drop away without resolution. The novel ends much like others in the series, begging for a sequel, but regardless, K''wan excels at dialogue, and his densely packed universe has every element of successful street drama.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for K''wan\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œQuick and entertaining, K''wan''s latest captures a small slice of modern urban life with a great degree of credibility and finds in Animal his most conflicted, memorable, and likable character yet.â€\n <em>\n  ---Publisherâ€™s Weekly\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Section 8\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKâ€™wan once again comes through with a gritty and violent yarn that raises the street-lit bar.â€\n <em>\n  ---Library Journal\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Section 8\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA street-lit version of\n <em>\n  The Godfather . . .\n </em>\n <em>\n  Hoodlum\n </em>\n does what literature should do. It shows us that writing really matters.â€\n <em>\n  ---Library Journal\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Hoodlum\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe big draw here is the electric prose, which is imbued with profane, comic lyricism.â€\n <em>\n  ---Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Hood Rat\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of hip-hop fictionâ€™s hottest authors . . . fans will appreciate many of the qualities that make Kâ€™wan a writer to check for: gritty settings, memorable dialogue, and authentic action.â€\n <em>\n  ---KING\n </em>\n magazine on\n <em>\n  Street Dreams\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1185'),
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(4992, 'What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day...', 'Pearl Cleage', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1044'),
(4993, 'What Mother Never Told Me', 'Donna Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Raised in the Delta by her grandmother, Parris McKay has the voice of an angel and the promise of a bright, loving future with the man she adores. But everything Parris believes about her life is rocked to the core when she discovers that Emma, the mother she believed dead, is very much alive.Compelled to discover the roots of this decades-long deception, Parris goes in search of her mother in France, but the meeting only opens old wounds for them both. Hurt and disillusioned, Parris finds solace in two new friends, Leslie and Celeste. Both have difficult relationships with their own mothers, and both, like Parris, are coming to terms with a legacy of long-buried secrets. And as Emma returns to the States, spurring unexpected revelations, the bond that Parris, Leslie and Celeste forge will sustain them on a journey from heartbreak to healing.Compelling, candid and wise, What Mother Never Told Me is an unforgettable story about the power of our pasts to define usâ€”and sometimes to hold us back. It is a novel about abiding love and hidden truths, about family bonds that may be tested but never truly broken, about the lies that tear us apartâ€”and the friendships that can make us whole again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1374'),
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(4996, 'What They Want', 'Omar Tyree', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1236'),
(4997, 'What&#39;s Really Hood!', 'Wahida Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1098'),
(4998, 'Whatever You Like', 'Maureen Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1257'),
(4999, 'When the Truth Lies', 'Timothy M Carson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1019'),
(5000, 'White Lines', 'Tracy Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1037'),
(5001, 'Whos Loving You', 'Mary B. Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1215'),
(5002, 'Why Do I Have to Think Like a Man?', 'Shanae Hall, Rhonda Frost', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1517'),
(5003, 'Wicked!', 'Cooper, Jilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1175'),
(5004, 'A Wife for a Westmoreland', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1497'),
(5005, 'Wifey', 'Swinson, Kiki', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n Kira owns a profitable hair and nail salon. She lives in a nice home in an exclusive community with her husband Ricky, an infamous, well-known drug dealer from the rough streets of D.C. He is also known to be one of the most feared men in the South.\n</span>\n<p>\n Because of Ricky''s drug-empire, Kira finds herself in the most dangerous situation ever. Ricky forces Kira to believe that he''s going to call on his reinforcements, so everything will end in his favor. However, unknown to Ricky, Kira felt the need to devise an escape plan on her own. Will she choose loyalty or her life?\n</p>\n<p>\n In a world where everyone wants to be "wifey" the question is--can you play your position and handle the drama the streets will throw your way?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1532'),
(5006, 'Wifey', 'Swinson, Kiki', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n Kira owns a profitable hair and nail salon. She lives in a nice home in an exclusive community with her husband Ricky, an infamous, well-known drug dealer from the rough streets of D.C. He is also known to be one of the most feared men in the South.\n</span>\n<p>\n Because of Ricky''s drug-empire, Kira finds herself in the most dangerous situation ever. Ricky forces Kira to believe that he''s going to call on his reinforcements, so everything will end in his favor. However, unknown to Ricky, Kira felt the need to devise an escape plan on her own. Will she choose loyalty or her life?\n</p>\n<p>\n In a world where everyone wants to be "wifey" the question is--can you play your position and handle the drama the streets will throw your way?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1649'),
(5007, 'Wifey 4 Life', 'Swinson, Kiki', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Kira''s quiet life in the islands is interrupted when she''s called back to Virginia to attend her cousin Nikki''s funeral. Reluctantly, Kira plans a short, incognito trip to do just that. However, her plans are derailed when news of her arrival spreads.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now there''s a bounty on her head, and several snakes are ready to cash in. Behind enemy lines in her own hometown, Kira is faced with yet another battle to stay alive as she finds out once again, that she''s living on borrowed time. Will she be able to cheat death again, or will death snatch her from behind in part five of the *Wifey series?*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1531'),
(5008, 'Wifey 4 Life', 'Swinson, Kiki', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Kira''s quiet life in the islands is interrupted when she''s called back to Virginia to attend her cousin Nikki''s funeral. Reluctantly, Kira plans a short, incognito trip to do just that. However, her plans are derailed when news of her arrival spreads.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now there''s a bounty on her head, and several snakes are ready to cash in. Behind enemy lines in her own hometown, Kira is faced with yet another battle to stay alive as she finds out once again, that she''s living on borrowed time. Will she be able to cheat death again, or will death snatch her from behind in part five of the *Wifey series?*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1645'),
(5009, 'Wishing On A Starr', 'Byrd, Adrianne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1450'),
(5010, 'Witch &amp; Wizard: The Fire', 'Patterson, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1325'),
(5011, 'With Friends Like These', 'ReShonda Tate Billingsley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1128'),
(5012, 'The Women Who Raised Me', 'Victoria Rowell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1085'),
(5013, 'Wrapped In Pleasure', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/844'),
(5014, 'WRAPPED IN PLEASURE', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n [WESTMORELAND 16]  --  Two Westmoreland novels - one classic and one new - from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Brenda Jackson Delaney''s Desert Sheikh A mix-up in Delaney Westmoreland''s vacation plans forces her to share a cabin with a tall, dark and oh-so-handsome sheikh who is bent on her seduction. Jamal Ari Yasir intends to school Delaney in sensuality for his own pleasure. But instead of loving and leaving her, he becomes enraptured by an irresistible and unforgettable passion for his sexy-as-sin roommate. Can the arrogant sheikh convince his secret lover that they are fated for more than just a summer fling? Seduced by a Stranger Johari Yasir has no interest in returning to her homeland to marry a man she''s never met - at least, not without sowing some wild oats first. And when a handsome charmer offers to whisk her away in his private plane, she impulsively accepts. Rasheed Valdemon is shocked that his bride-to-be would fly off with someone she barely knows - even thoughhe''s the one doing the asking. More surprising is his hunger for this lovely, rebellious woman. Yet what will happen when she realizes she''s been seduced by the man who''s destined to be her husband?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1633'),
(5015, 'The Writer Behind the Words', 'Girard, Dara', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/1343'),
(5016, 'Yesterday, I Cried', 'IYANLA VANZANT &amp; Bonni Leon-Berman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://techlyfe.dyndns.org/get/thumb_90_120/960');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(5017, 'Alvin Journeyman', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Alvin is a Maker, the first to be born in a century.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family in the town of Vigor Church. He will share in their isolation, work as a blacksmith, and try to teach anyone who wishes to learn the knack of being a Maker. For Alvin has had a vision of the Crystal City he will build, and he knows that he cannot build it alone.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But he has left behind in Hatrack River enemies as well as true friends. His ancient foe, the Unmaker, whose cruel whispers and deadly plots have threatened Alvinâ€™s life at every turn, has found new hands to do his work of destruction.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The legal thriller wave laps at the shores of fantasy fiction in this fourth novel (after Prentice Alvin) in Card''s popular series about natural-born mage Alvin Smith, who''s the seventh son of a seventh son, and the magical early America in which he lives. Also returning are Alvin''s equally talented brother Calvin, who''s a scoundrel, the mixed-up little boy Arthur Stuart and Alvin''s ladylove, Peggy Larner. Hatred of his brother and boundless ambition prompt Calvin to run off to England, where he meets an English barrister who so embarrasses him by seeing through his lies that he moves onto France, hoping to learn the arts of manipulation under the tutelage of Napoleon Bonaparte himself. Meanwhile, Alvin must leave his beloved town of Vigor Church because of a lovesick young girl''s lies. Returning to Hatrack River, where he was born, he becomes embroiled in a trial for his life. Unfortunately, much of the novel''s action stops during the trial, as Alvin languishes in his cell and Card jabs at lawyers and the justice system. The courtroom scenes prove something of a procedural joke, with truth finally served only because Alvin uses his magic to make everything come out right. This parable bogs down in its own folksiness, but fans of Card, who''s won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, may love it dearly. Major ad/promo; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA?At last, Book IV of this terrific series. Set in an alternate history, Card''s frontier America is a land where wives'' tales are fact and magic- in the form of hexes, beseechings, and "knacks"- really works. Alvin has the most powerful knack of all; he is a Maker, with power over the physical world. In this installment, he ignores a prophetic warning and falls victim to the manipulations of The Unmaker, an ancient enemy that seeks anarchy. While embroiled in a legal dispute that places him in jail, Alvin draws to him the people who will assist in his quest to build the Crystal City of his vision. Alvin Journeyman is the springboard for this quest that will be played out in future volumes. Knowledge of previous titles is beneficial, so be sure to have copies available of Seventh Son, Red Prophet, and Prentice Alvin.?Robin Deffendall, Bull Run Regional Library, Manassas, VA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/106'),
(5018, 'Arctic Drift', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Dirk Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Cussler and son Dirk imagine the U.S. and Canada on the brink of war in their third collaborative Dirk Pitt novel (after\n  <em>\n   Treasure of Khan\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Black Wind\n  </em>\n  ). In 2011, as the price of gas hits $10 a gallon, President Garner Ward must contend with a corrupt Canadian cabal that''s subverting efforts to solve America''s energy problems. Pitt barely escapes serious injury when a bomb destroys a D.C. lab along with records of research into an artificial photosynthesis process that could, almost immediately, eliminate the threat of global warming. That discovery may be connected with a legendary failed 19th-century sailing expedition to the Arctic as well as a series of deaths due to the phenomena that the Native Americans of British Columbia know as the Devil''s Breath. The Cusslers won''t suspend many readers'' disbelief, but thriller fans in search of a quick, exciting read should be satisfied.\n  <em>\n   750,000 printing; author tour. (Dec.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Impossible to put down... a compelling sense of adventure that can rival any cinematic blockbuster\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/116'),
(5019, 'Arctic Drift', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Dirk Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Cussler and son Dirk imagine the U.S. and Canada on the brink of war in their third collaborative Dirk Pitt novel (after\n  <em>\n   Treasure of Khan\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Black Wind\n  </em>\n  ). In 2011, as the price of gas hits $10 a gallon, President Garner Ward must contend with a corrupt Canadian cabal that''s subverting efforts to solve America''s energy problems. Pitt barely escapes serious injury when a bomb destroys a D.C. lab along with records of research into an artificial photosynthesis process that could, almost immediately, eliminate the threat of global warming. That discovery may be connected with a legendary failed 19th-century sailing expedition to the Arctic as well as a series of deaths due to the phenomena that the Native Americans of British Columbia know as the Devil''s Breath. The Cusslers won''t suspend many readers'' disbelief, but thriller fans in search of a quick, exciting read should be satisfied.\n  <em>\n   750,000 printing; author tour. (Dec.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Impossible to put down... a compelling sense of adventure that can rival any cinematic blockbuster\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/163'),
(5020, 'The Ascendant Stars', 'Michael Cobley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Battle-ready factions converge above Darien, all with the same objective. The goal is control over this newly-discovered planet and access to the powerful weapons at its heart. Despotic Hegemony forces dominate much of known space and they want this world too, but Darien''s inhabitants will fight for their future.However, key players in this conflict aren''t fully in control. Hostile AIs have infiltrated key minds and have an agenda, requiring nothing less than the destruction or subversion of all organic life. And they are near to unleashing their cohorts, a host of twisted machine intelligences caged beneath Darien. Fighting to contain them are Darien''s hidden guardians, and their ancient ally the Construct, on a millennia-long mission to protect sentient species. As the war reaches its peak, the AI army is roaring to the surface, to freedom and an orgy of destruction. Darien is first in line in a machine vs. human war - for life or the sterile dusts of space.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/101'),
(5021, 'Atlantis Found', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  An Antarctic whaler stumbles across an aged wreckâ€”her frozen crew guarding a priceless treasure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A team of anthropologists is buried under a mountain by a deliberate explosion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A ship that should have died fifty-six years ago reappears, and almost sinks a National Underwater and Marine Agency ship.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dirk Pitt knows that somehow these events are connected. His investigations lead to an ancient mystery with devastating modern consequences, and a diabolical enemy unlike any he has ever known. Now, he is racing to save not only his lifeâ€”but the world. The trap is set. The clock is ticking. And only one man stands between the earth and Armageddonâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dirk Pitt, indestructible hero of 14 previous Clive Cussler novels and special-projects director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (which is something like the CIA of the ocean depths), makes James Bond look like a tuxedoed, martini-swilling poseur. Pitt has raised the\n  <em>\n   Titanic\n  </em>\n  , escaped massive volcanic eruptions, ducked nuclear explosions, foiled criminal plans for world domination, saved everyone on earth from germ warfare, and mastered the ins and outs of various electronic gizmos and futuristic vehicles while evading every imaginable form of almost certain death. (Of course, he''s also wildly successful with brilliant, beautiful women, but in an admirably circumspect, sensitive-guy way.) It stands to reason Pitt''s the right man to handle a crisis of millennial proportions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When mysterious black obsidian skulls and other artifacts of an exceedingly ancient culture begin to turn up in odd places, Pitt jumps in with both feet. It soon becomes dangerously apparent that a powerful, amoral group of fanatics calling itself the Fourth Empire wants the strange discoveries to remain underground. Pitt teams up with a beautiful red-haired expert in ancient languages to decipher the meaning of the artifacts. They were made 10 millennia ago in a then-temperate Antarctica by a seafaring civilization advanced enough to predict its own destruction by a comet impact. Now the Fourth Empire (whose literal and figurative progenitor comes as no surprise) is predicting a similar disaster in only a matter of months, and preparing to take control of the earth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cussler''s known for hands-on research--his hobbies are the backbone of Pitt''s adventures: flying, climbing, diving, racing. The scientific and historical riffs that fill in the background of\n  <em>\n   Atlantis Found\n  </em>\n  are the weakest parts of the book--they''re Pitt-less, and they give every discovery in the book away early. But what the heck--Cussler''s not the king of suspense, he''s the emperor of nonstop action.\n  <em>\n   Atlantis Found\n  </em>\n  bounces along on a good-humored techno-joyride, and for Cussler''s legion of fans, that will be more than enough.\n  <em>\n   --Barrie Trinkle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dirk Pitt, Cussler''s larger-than-life hero, butts heads with an army of elite killers seeking to destroy the world in another wickedly engrossing yet predictably scripted tale of bravery against all odds. As the story begins, artifacts from a previously undiscovered civilization, ancient but highly advanced, are popping up all over the globe. Pitt himself is on site in a Colorado mine when archeologists come across strange carvings and mysterious inscriptions. But then an explosion traps the party below ground, and a band of black-suited terrorists arrive at the scene with guns blazing. Though Pitt saves the day, the incident points toward a wider network of evil schemes. Working for the National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency, Pitt finally identifies the terrorists as members of the Fourth Empire, an organization headed by the diabolical Wolf family, a secret clan of genetically engineered people who worship the Nazi Third Reich. But it''s only after Pitt and his able sidekick, Al Giordino, battle old German U-boats, dodge surface-to-air missiles and narrowly escape death on a remote island off Australia that they find out what the Fourth Empire is up to. The neo-Nazis aim to prevent the world from discovering the artifacts of this previously unknown seafaring culture because they tell of a catastrophic event that wiped out civilization 9000 years ago and reveal when the next cataclysm will hit. The Wolfs plan to accelerate the date through their own scheme to destroy Earth, meanwhile sheltering themselves and their thousands of followers on enormous, disaster-proof ships. Pitt knows his assignment: save the world--a tall order, but one he''s filled many times before. Cussler''s 15th Pitt adventure (after Flood Tide) is a rampaging story of history, technology and heroism, written with Cussler''s typical make-no-apologies enthusiasm. For muscle-flexing, flag-waving, belief-suspending fare, he has no equal. 750,000 first printing; $750,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection; simultaneous audio; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/127'),
(5022, 'Back Spin', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters'' motelâ€”and back in time to a U.S. Open twenty-three years ago, when Jack Coldren should have won, but didn''t. Suddenly Myron finds him self surrounded by blue bloods, criminals, and liars. And as one family''s darkest secrets explode into murder, Myron finds out just how rough this game can get.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fictionâ€”Myron Bolitarâ€”a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Another winner...Pungent observations, indelibly drawn characters and a twisting, surprise-laden plot."â€”\n  <em>\n   Atlanta Journal and Constitution\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sharp plotting and emotional density, as well as nonstop wisecracks."â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Another winner...Pungent observations, indelibly drawn characters and a twisting, surprise-laden plot."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --The Atlanta Journal and Constitution\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sharp plotting and emotional density, as well as nonstop wisecracks."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/173'),
(5023, 'The Battle of the Labyrinth', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Percy Jackson isn''t expecting freshman orientation to be any fun.  But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to diabolical.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In this latest installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos''s army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop them, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth-a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn. Full of humor and heart-pounding action, this fourth book promises to be their most thrilling adventure yet.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/200'),
(5024, 'Belgarath the Sorcerer', 'David Eddings &amp; Leigh Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Bestselling authors David and Leigh Eddings welcome readers back to the time before The Belgariad and The Malloreon series. Join them as they chronicle that fateful conflict between two mortally opposed Destinies, in a monumental war of men and kings and Gods.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the world was young and Gods still walked among their mortal children, a headstrong orphan boy set out to explore the world. Thus began the extraordinary adventures that would mold that youthful vagabond into a man, and the man into the finely honed instrument of Prophecy known to all the world as Belgarath the Sorcerer.\n  <br />\n  Then came the dark day when the Dark God Torak split the world asunder, and the God Aldur and his disciples began their monumental labor to set Destiny aright. Foremost among their number was Belgarath. His ceaseless devotion was foredoomed to cost him that which he held most dear--even as his loyal service would extend through echoing centuries of loss, of struggle, and of ultimate triumph.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this epic fantasy, depicting thousands of years of sorcerous, noble and godly machinations, the Eddingses return to the world of their multivolume sagas, The Belgariad and The Malloreon. This prequel to the earlier books, presented as Belgarath''s memoirs, offers an absorbing story line and some memorable characters as, once again, the authors touch all the right fantasy bases, with warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures and appealingly human magicians involved in a titanic war over the course of seven millennia. Because of the vast scope, the sense of ages passing and of destiny unfolding is well conveyed; but that same scale confines the authors to handling some events and characters only briefly, and it mutes the story''s emotional power. Nonetheless, Eddings fans will no doubt snatch this novel off the shelves, while readers new to the authors'' world won''t find a more appropriate place to beginning exploring it. 400,000 first printing; major ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While relating his event-filled life, the immortal sorcerer Belgarath weaves a compelling tale of two opposing Necessities that spans 7000 years and bears witness to the rise and fall of human hopes and destinies. The latest effort by the authors of The Belgariad (Ballantine, 1986) provides a new spin on material familiar to series followers. It illuminates the mysterious past of a world cracked apart in its infancy by the jealousy of its gods. The sometimes humorous, sometimes sharply rueful voice of the narrator provides a welcome anchor in this lavishly portrayed journey through time. A welcome addition to most fantasy collections, this title can be enjoyed apart from its predecessors.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(5025, 'Believing the Lie', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After writing sixteen Inspector Lynley novels,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Elizabeth George has millions of fans waiting for the next one. As\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n  put it, It''s tough to resist George''s storytelling, once hooked." With Believing the Lie, she''s poised to hook countless more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he''s sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man''s uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio''s digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Deborah''s investigation of the prime suspect-Bernard''s prodigal son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict-leads her to Nicholas''s wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for information from the rest of the family, including the victim''s bitter ex-wife and the man he left her for, and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family''s veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left behind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Elizabeth George\n  </strong>\n  is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of sixteen suspense novels, one book of nonfiction, and two short-story collections. Her work has been honored with the Anthony and Agatha awards, as well as several other prestigious prizes. She lives in Washington State.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/112'),
(5026, 'Black Wind', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Dirk Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Clive Cussler''s dazzling new Dirk Pitt(r) adventure.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clive the Mighty!" hailed Kirkus Reviews about Cussler''s last Dirk Pitt(r) novel,\n  <em>\n   Trojan Odyssey\n  </em>\n  . "Hurricane Clive at his most tumultuous." Nobody has been able to match Cussler yet for the intricate plotting and sheer audacity of his work, and\n  <em>\n   Black Wind\n  </em>\n  sets the bar even higher.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese tried a last desperate measure-a different kind of kamikaze mission, this one carried out by two submarines bound for the West Coast of the United States, their cargo a revolutionary new strain of biological virus. Neither sub made it to the designated target.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But that does not mean they were lost.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Someone knows about the subs and what they bore, knows too where they might be, and has an extraordinary plan in store for the prize inside-a scheme that could reshape the world as we know it. All that stands in the way are three people: a marine biologist named Summer, a marine engineer named Dirk, and their father, Dirk Pitt, the new head of NUMA. Pitt has faced devastating enemies before, and has even teamed up with his children to track them down. But never has he looked upon the face of pure evil . . . until now.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Filled with dazzling suspense and breathtaking action,\n  <em>\n   Black Wind\n  </em>\n  is Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  About halfway through this rip-snorting adventure thriller, a "white-haired man" rescues heroes Dirk Pitt Jr. and his sister, Summer, from death by drowning. That man is revealed to be author Cussler (\n  <em>\n   Trojan Odyssey\n  </em>\n  , etc.), reminding Dirk of "an older version of his own father," legendary oceanographer Dirk Pitt, hero of Cussler''s previous novels. Just as the primary action baton is passed in this tale from Pitt Sr. to Jr., readers may note that Cussler''s coauthor is his own son. But even if Cussler is beginning to pass on his writing baton, he''s doing so with panache: thriller fans will revel in this action-packed yarn of land- and sea-based derring-do stuffed with technical details on matters from biochemical weapons "chimeras" to rocket launches. The villain is a South Korean industrialist working for the North Koreans with an eye toward unifying Korea by ridding the country of American troops, allowing for an invasion of the South. His plan is to aim a sea-borne rocket filled with a combo of deadly viruses at Los Angeles, with clues laying blame on Japanese terrorists, thus distracting America while the North makes its move. But villain and modus operandi matter less than the series of exciting hairbreadth escapes wrought by Dirks Jr. and Sr. and Summerâ€”including Dirk Sr.''s escape from being poached alive in a minisub trapped underneath massive rocket boosters spewing an inferno of flames. There''s a slight, nasty gloss of "yellow peril" on the villain and his actions, and it''s only the Americans who greet likely death with a grin and a quip, but that''s a minor knock on some major entertainment that''s bound toward the top of the charts.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€“Two Japanese submarines loaded with deadly chimera virus head for the west coast of the United States during the waning days of World War II but are sunk before ever endangering the coast. Sixty years later, South Korean industrialist Kang learns of their whereabouts and tests the deadly potion on some animals and a few people in Alaska. When the death reports start coming in, research sends Dirk Pitt, the younger; his sister; his crew from NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency); Dirk Pitt, the elder; and other forces on a race against time to prevent Kang from unleashing the virus. He dreams of creating a frenzy of blame between the countries for such an attack even as he takes joy in the fact that hundreds of thousands of Americans would die in agony. The Cusslers provide a high tide of ocean-based adventure and creepy bad guys. Featuring plenty of intense action, the plot fairly runs across the pages, with even the quieter moments full of intrigue. Lots of historical facts and science thread their way into the story, giving it a sense of realism. Filled with submarines, technical discussions on all sorts of ocean machinery, and some facts about chimera viruses, the novel provides some basic knowledge of bioterrorism. As always, the Pitts remain steadfast and true leaders, and the story leaves readers eager for their next adventure.\n  <em>\n   â€“Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/118'),
(5027, 'Blood of the Fold', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In a fantasy world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell stand against the ancient forces which besiege the New World - forces so terrible that when last they threatened, they could only be withstood by sealing off the Old World from whence they came. Now the barrier has been breached, and the New World is again beset by their evil power. War, monsters, and treachery plague the world, and only Richard and Kahlan can save it from an armageddon of unimaginable savagery and destruction. Terry Goodkind, author of the brilliant fantasy bestsellers of the Sword of Truth series, has created his most masterful epic yet, a sumptuous feast of magic and excitement replete with the wonders of his unique fantasy vision.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the third installment of Goodkind''s heroic fantasy "Sword of Truth" series. Reluctant wizard Richard Cypher and his love, the warrior Kahlan Amnell, live in a world of magical boundaries that hold back the forces of darkness. But war is coming because the barrier between the worlds has been breached, and the "Blood of the Fold," a group of fanatical zealots, is attempting to kill all people with magic. They are nothing, however, compared to the ancient, unspeakable evil about to be unleashed. There is a lot of sword and sorcery action here, and although it has a darker tone than most fantasies, there is also a strain of humor unseen in works by Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, or David Eddings. In addition, series protagonist Amnell is rapidly becoming one of the most interesting female characters in a genre where they are few and far between. Buck Schirner is an adept reader, expert at rendering this vast, glittering tapestry of a world. This superior production is an excellent choice for public libraries where multivolume fantasy series are in demand.ABarbara Perkins, Irving P.L., TX\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The BookcassetteÂ® format is a special recording technique developed as a means of condensing the full, unabridged audio text of a book to record it on fewer tapes. In order to listen to these tapes, you will need a cassette player with balance control to adjust left/right speaker output. Special adaptors to allow these tapes to be played on any cassette player are available through the publisher or some US retail electronics stores.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(5028, 'Blue Gold', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A POD OF WHALES, Â DEAD WITHOUT REASON IN SAN DIEGO BAY . . .Â \n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A PRIMITIVE BRAZILIAN TRIBE WHOSE SECRETS COULD SAVE LIVES . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A BILLIONAIRE TYCOON SET ON WORLD DOMINATION . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  An investigation into the sudden deaths of a pod of gray whales leads National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission. Meanwhile, in South Americaâ€™s lush hills, a specially assigned NUMAÂ® team discovers a murdered bodyâ€”a member of a mysterious local tribe, who live like ghosts beyond a five-part waterfall the locals call the Hand of God, and are rumored to be led by a mythical white goddess. Now they are in danger from a vicious cadre of bio-pirates intent on stealing medicinal discoveries worth millions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soon, Austin and his crew realize that theyâ€™re working opposite ends of the same grand scheme, and must race against time to save the worldâ€™s freshwater supply from a twisted eco-extortionist. But every step toward salvation takes them deeper into a dense jungle of treachery, blackmail, and death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A NOVEL FROM THE NUMAÂ® FILES\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Reading a Clive Cussler novel is like watching several movies at once. He''s a master of the jump cut, moving the action from one continent to another with an entirely different cast of characters, good guys and bad, in each place. He always manages to pull the various characters, plots, and counterplots together, though, and the heroes always triumph in the end after saving the world from eco-terrorists, megalomaniacs with their ambitions primed for world domination, and a few regular old criminals thrown in for good measure. In this new adventure from the National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency (NUMA) files, Kurt Austin and his partner Joe Zavala nearly die during a powerboat race when a pod of dead, bloated gray whales bobs to the surface and obstructs the race course. Attempting to discover what killed the whales, Kurt and Joe track their migratory route to a mysterious underwater laboratory on the Baja Peninsula. Once again they narrowly miss death when the lab explodes, destroying their minisubmarine and almost poaching them alive. What seemed like a simple scientific investigation turns into something very different: a confrontation with a 7-foot Valkyrie who''s bent on taking over the earth''s depleted freshwater reserves. In order to thwart her plans, Austin and Zavala venture deep into the jungle of the Venezuelan rain forest to find a supposedly mythical tribal goddess (one with a Ph.D. in science, of course) whose secret formula to desalinate seawater can put the kibosh on the Valkyrie''s plans. Helped by a husband-wife NUMA team who''ve already made the goddess''s acquaintance, plus the always fascinating techno-toys so beloved of superheroes, Kurt and Joe save the day. But before they do, there''s plenty of heart-stopping action, random acts of murder and mutilation, and even a little romance. Great pacing, plenty of gadgets, a strong narrative, and bigger-than-life heroes and villains. If you''ve run out of summer action flicks already, make your own popcorn and curl up with\n  <em>\n   Blue Gold\n  </em>\n  instead.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Clive Cussler\n  </strong>\n  is acclaimed worldwide as the Grandmaster of Adventure. He got his start in advertising, first as an award-winning copy writer, and then as creative director for two of the nation''s largest agencies. His initial foray into fiction was in 1973, when he wrote his first Dirk PittÂ® novel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since then he has continued to write Dirk PittÂ® adventures while living a life that nearly parallels that of his action hero. Like Pitt, Cussler enjoys discovering and collecting things of historical significance. With NUMA (National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency, a non profit group begun by Cussler) he has had an amazing record of finding over 60 shipwrecks, one of which was the long-lost Confederate submarine Hunley. Cussler also has a renowned and extensive classic car collection, which features over 80 examples of custom coachwork.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along with being Chairman of NUMA, he is also a fellow of the Explorers Club (which honored him with the Lowell Thomas Award for outstanding underwater exploration), the Royal Geographical Society and the American Society of Oceanographers. Married to Barbara Knight for 40 years, with three children and two grandchildren, he divides his time between the mountains of Colorado and the deserts of Arizona.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/153'),
(5029, 'The Bobbsey Twins and the Mystery at Snow Lodge', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Bobbsey Twins--Bert and Nan, Freddie and Flossie--have won millions of fans since their first adventure in 1904. While remaining true to the spirit of the original editions, these revisions of the classic mysteries have fast-moving plots and exciting illustrations especially for today''s young readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/83'),
(5030, 'The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for many years, the longest-running series of children''s novels. The books related the adventures of the children of the middle-class Bobbsey family, which included two sets of fraternal twins: Bert and Nan, who were 12 years old, and Flossie and Freddie, who were six. Share the stories of your childhood with your children and grandchildren! Here are the original Bobbsey Twins adventures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/91'),
(5031, 'The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This volume is produced from digital images created by Internet Archive for The New York Public Library. The Internet Archive and The New York Public Library seek to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. To enhance your reading pleasure, HP''s patented BookPrep technology is used to clean and remove aging as well as scanning artifacts. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found at http://www.bookprep.com. To view over 800,000 images available from The New York Public Library, please visit the Digital Gallery (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(5032, 'The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for many years, the longest-running series of children''s novles. The books related the adventures of the children of the middle-class Bobbsey family, which included two sets of fraternal twins: Bert and Nan, who where 12 years old, and Flossie and Freddie, who where six. Share the stories of your childhood with your children and grandchildren! Here are the original Bobbsey Twin adventures\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/87'),
(5033, 'The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Purchase one of 1st World Library''s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "Come on, let''s make a snow man!" cried Bert Bobbsey, as he ran about in the white drifts of snow that were piled high in the yard in front of the house. "That''ll be lots of fun!" chimed in Freddie Bobbsey, who was Bert''s small brother. "We can make a man, and then throw snowballs at him, and he won''t care a bit; will he, Bert?" "No, I guess a snow man doesn''t care how many times you hit him with snowballs," laughed the older boy, as he tried to catch a dog that was leaping about in the drifts, barking for joy. "The more snowballs you throw at a snow man the bigger he gets," said Bert.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/82'),
(5034, 'The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 1915. The story begins: What are you doing, Freddie? asked Bert Bobbsey, leaning over to oil the front wheel of his bicycle, while he glanced at his little brother, who was tying strings about the neck of a large, handsome dog. Making a harness, answered Freddie, not taking time to look up. A harness? repeated Bert, with a little laugh. How can you make a harness out of bits of string? I''m going to have straps, too, went on Freddie, keeping busily on with his work. Flossie has gone in after them. It''s going to be a fine strong harness. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/81'),
(5035, 'The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This volume is produced from digital images created by Internet Archive for The New York Public Library. The Internet Archive and The New York Public Library seek to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. To enhance your reading pleasure, HP''s patented BookPrep technology is used to clean and remove aging as well as scanning artifacts. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found at http://www.bookprep.com. To view over 800,000 images available from The New York Public Library, please visit the Digital Gallery (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/90'),
(5036, 'The Bobbsey Twins, or Merry Days Indoors and Out, Book 1, Newly Released Original Version', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The adventures of Americas''s favorite twins, in a new release of the original version of the best selling series.The Bobbsey Twins: Merry Days Indoors and Out, Book 1 takes place over the course of a school year, with Nan and Bert described as eight years old and Freddie and Flossie four.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/88'),
(5037, 'Bobbsey Twins: The Secret at the Seashore', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Bobbsey Twins--Bert and Nan, Freddie and Flossie--have won millions of fans since their first adventure in 1904. While remaining true to the spirit of the original editions, these revisions of the classic mysteries have fast-moving plots and exciting illustrations especially for today''s young readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/85'),
(5038, 'The Bobbsey Twins&#39; Adventure in the Country', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Bobbsey Twins barely escape a frightening encounter with a ferocious bull in this countryside adventure. The Bobbsey Twins--Bert and Nan, Freddie and Flossie--have won millions of fans since their first adventure in 1904. While remaining true to the spirit of the original editions, these revisions of the classic mysteries have fast-moving plots and exciting illustrations especially for today''s young readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/77'),
(5039, 'The Bobbsey Twins&#39; Adventure in Washington', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Meet the two sets of Bobbsey twins: Flossie and Freddie and Nan and Bert. Join them as they escape a ferocious bull, witness a shipwreck, set sail on a houseboat, and go camping. Travel to New York City, the West Indies, and Washington-or stay in Lakeport, the eastern city that is home. Solve mysteries including buried treasure, fires, missing money, and thieves. Stay with The Bobbsey Twins throughout their adventures!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  READING LEVEL:Ages 8-14; Grades 3-8\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/80'),
(5040, 'The Bobbsey Twins&#39; Big Adventure at Home', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Bobbsey twins solve the mystery of a buried pirate chest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/89'),
(5041, 'The Bobbsey Twins&#39; Mystery at School', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In spite of what Nan and Bert had said about Mrs. Bobbsey being very busy, Flossie and Freddie looked anxiously in the direction of their house as they walked along. But no sight of their mother greeted them. They did see a friend, however, and this was none other than Snap, their new dog, who, with many barks and wags of his fluffy tail, ran out to meet his little masters and mistresses.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/78'),
(5042, 'The Bobbsey Twins&#39; Mystery on the Deep Blue Sea', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Meet the two sets of Bobbsey twins: Flossie and Freddie and Nan and Bert. Join them as they escape a ferocious bull, witness a shipwreck, set sail on a houseboat, and go camping. Travel to New York City, the West Indies, and Washington-or stay in Lakeport, the eastern city that is home. Solve mysteries including buried treasure, fires, missing money, and thieves. Stay with The Bobbsey Twins throughout their adventures!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/92'),
(5043, 'The Bobbsey Twins&#39; Search in the Great City', 'Laura Lee Hope', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the Bobbseys see the many sights of New York City, they search for a missing person and try to solve the case of a theft back at Lakeport.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/86'),
(5044, 'Burning for Revenge', 'John Marsden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The action doesn''t let up in the most explosive Tomorrow book yet -- another international bestseller from John Marsden.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The journey to Stratton isn''t an easy trip, especially when the enemy''s headquarters lie somewhere along the way. And that''s exactly where Ellie and her friends unwittingly find themselves. With only five of them against hundreds of armed soldiers, escape seems like a suicide mission. But Stratton is where Ellie''s grandmother lives, so the journey must be made -- even though the odds aren''t good.\n  <br />\n  Ellie must summon all of her courage and guerrilla instincts to survive the latest high-stakes installment of the action-packed Tomorrow series.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ellie has started to believe she won''t survive the war. Their band of eight teenage guerrillas is down to five now--Robyn and Corrie and Chris are dead, and only she and Homer and Kevin and Lee and Fi are still trying to sabotage the enemy who has taken over their country. They''re growing numb and soul sick from the violence, because they''ve been fighting for a long time--through four previous novels, actually: John Marsden''s\n  <em>\n   Tomorrow: When the War Began\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Dead of Night\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   A Killing Frost\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Darkness Be My Friend\n  </em>\n  . At the same time, they are normal teens who kid around, fall in and out of love, and think long thoughts about the meaning of life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is this poignant human dimension that lifts Marsden''s series above the run-of-the-mill spy action novel--that and the fact that nobody is better at writing about things blowing up. And his scenes leading up to the explosion create tension so powerful it is almost unbearable to keep on reading--but impossible not to. In\n  <em>\n   Burning for Revenge\n  </em>\n  , the five have been abandoned in enemy territory when the New Zealand general decides that they are not valuable enough to send a rescue helicopter. Without any definite plans, they sneak into the back of a truck, only to find themselves at the end of the ride deep within the enemy''s airfield. How they battle out of the situation and leave the enemy''s air power in ruins makes a breathlessly exciting story that will not disappoint the many teen fans of this excellent series. (Ages 12 and older)\n  <em>\n   --Patty Campbell\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 8 Up-"If only our country hadn''t been invaded." Ellie and her friends are back in this fifth volume of Marsden''s adventure series that started with Tomorrow, When the War Began (Houghton, 1995). Having orchestrated several harrowing guerrilla attacks on the enemy, the five teens find themselves inside the enemy-held Wirrawee Airfield, outnumbered by hundreds of trained and heavily armed soldiers. Their decision to inflict as much damage as possible sounds like a suicide mission, but these gutsy teens pull off a brutal attack and escape worthy of a Hollywood movie. The action is fast paced and heart stopping, and the characters are so believable that readers forget that the story is fiction. Although Marsden''s description of warfare and death is explicit, it is necessary to make his story real. Ellie, the narrator, is thoughtful, resilient, brave, and yet totally human. The other characters are equally intriguing; teenagers will readily identify with their fears and emotions. Fans of this incredibly suspenseful and riveting series will not be disappointed. If your library owns volumes one through four, this is a must buy. If you haven''t yet discovered Marsden''s writing, it is well worth investigat-ing.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Susie Paige, Rogers Memorial Library, Southampton, NY\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/41'),
(5045, 'Calibre Quick Start Guide', 'John Schember', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/1');
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(5046, 'Careless in Red: A Novel', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   He found the body on the forty-third day of his walk . . .\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Devastated by the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and rugged coastline. But no matter how far he walks, the painful memories do not diminish.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then, at the base of a cliff near a town better known for its surfing than its intrigue, Lynley discovers the body of a young man who has fallen to his death. First a witness, then a suspect when the hand of a killer is revealed, Lynley remains, above all, a policeman willing to aid the gruff head of an understaffed local constabulary in her investigation. But the secrets in this community run dark and deepâ€”and Lynley must somehow find a way to let go of the past long enough to solve a most devious and dreadful crime.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. At the start of bestseller George''s stellar new suspense novel, the grieving Thomas Lynley, a Scotland Yard detective who left the force after the murder of his pregnant wife, Helen, in\n  <em>\n   With No One as Witness\n  </em>\n  (2005), is filling his days with a long trek in his native Cornwall.Ã‚Â During his ramble, Lynley stumbles on the body of teenager Santo Kerne, who apparently fell from a cliff onto some rocks, though it soon becomes evident that someone tampered with Kerne''s climbing gear.Ã‚Â As the first on the scene, Lynley himself comes under suspicion, despite his lack of history with the victim, by the investigating officer, the capable but crusty Det. Insp. Bea Hannaford. Lynley fittingly plays a secondary role in the homicide inquiry as he continues to struggle to find a reason for living after his devastating loss.Ã‚Â The plausible resolution of the crime leaves enough ambiguity to satisfy readers who prefer psychologically sophisticated plots and motivations.\n  <em>\n   10-city author tour. (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You canâ€™t keep a good detective down. George has put longtime series hero Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley of New Scotland Yard through quite a bit lately: in her last novel, With No One as Witness (2005), Lynleyâ€™s much-loved wife was shot to death on the street, reducing him to a grief-stricken shell andÂ leading to his resignation from the Yard. How to resurrect him? George uses a pretty klunky (but familiar to all mystery fans) deus ex machina device. Lynley has embarked on a walk along the coastal path in Cornwall; his rationale is that if he doesnâ€™t keep moving, despair will overtake him. Sure enough, on day 43 of his walk, he spots, far below, what seems to his trained eye to beÂ the vivid red and crumpled shape of a man who has plunged to his death. The machine creaks into place, with Lynley (whose walk has made him appear like a homeless man) being treated as a suspect, then with grudging respect from the local, bumbling constabulary, and finally as someone his old associate Barbara Havers of New Scotland Yard seeks to restore to his post. Despite the obvious restoration device, George delivers, once again, a mystery imbued with psychological suspense and in-depth characterization. --Connie Fletcher\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/19'),
(5047, 'Castle of Wizardry', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  END OF THE QUEST\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide. After that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion--and for the little princess Ce''Nedra.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad,Â Â begun in Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, and Magician''s Gambit--a fantasy set against a background of the war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years--a novel of fate, strange lands, and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!Â Â \n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Absorbing. Touches all the right Fantasy bases. Warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures, and appealingly human magicians." --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight." --\n  <em>\n   Piers Anthony\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fabulous! Eddings has a marvelous storyteller style. Exceedingly well portrayed." --\n  <em>\n   Anne McCaffrey\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Eddings [The Belgariad series] -- This is like Bonanza, or like I Love Lucy. There will be other fantasy series, but there can never be another that''s so seminal, that so captures the essence of fantasy. Big Dave and Little Leigh grow their heroes from the ground up, and they grow the best.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Veronica Chapman, Senior Editor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/74'),
(5048, 'Catching Fire', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Gr 7 Up--Every year in Panem, the dystopic nation that exists where the U.S. used to be, the Capitol holds a televised tournament in which two teen "tributes" from each of the surrounding districts fight a gruesome battle to the death. In\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  , Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, the tributes from impoverished District Twelve, thwarted the Gamemakers, forcing them to let both teens survive. In this rabidly anticipated sequel, Katniss, again the narrator, returns home to find herself more the center of attention than ever. The sinister President Snow surprises her with a visit, and Katnissâ€™s fear when Snow meets with her alone is both palpable and justified.\n  <em>\n   Catching Fire\n  </em>\n  is divided into three parts: Katniss and Peetaâ€™s mandatory Victory Tour through the districts, preparations for the 75th Annual Hunger Games, and a truncated version of the Games themselves. Slower paced than its predecessor, this sequel explores the nation of Panem: its power structure, rumors of a secret district, and a spreading rebellion, ignited by Katniss and Peetaâ€™s subversive victory. Katniss also deepens as a character. Though initially bewildered by the attention paid to her, she comes almost to embrace her status as the rebelsâ€™ symbolic leader. Though more of the story takes place outside the arena than within, this sequel has enough action to please\n  <em>\n   Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  fans and leaves enough questions tantalizingly unanswered for readers to be desperate for the next installment.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Reviewers were happy to report that the\n  <em>\n   Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  trilogy is alive and well, and all looked forward to the third book in the series after this one''s stunning conclusion. But they disagreed over whether\n  <em>\n   Catching Fire\n  </em>\n  was as good as the original book\n  <em>\n   Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  or should be viewed as somewhat of a "sophomore slump." Several critics who remained unconvinced by Katniss''s romantic dilemma made unfavorable comparisons to the human-vampire-werewolf love triangle in Stephenie Meyer''s\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  series. But most reviewers felt that\n  <em>\n   Catching Fire\n  </em>\n  was still a thrill because Collins replicated her initial success at balancing action, violence, and heroism in a way that will enthrall young readers without giving them (too many) nightmares.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/31'),
(5049, 'Caught', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  International bestselling author Harlan Cobenâ€™s last seven novels,\n  <em>\n   The Woods, Promise Me, The Innocent, Just One Look, No Second Chance, Gone for Good\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Tell No One\n  </em>\n  have appeared at the top of all the major bestseller lists, including\n  <em>\n   The New York Times, Book Sense, The Times (London), Le Monde, Publishers Weekly, USA Today\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  , as well as many others throughout the United States and the world. His most recent book\n  <em>\n   The Woods\n  </em>\n  (2007) was a bestseller on lists across the country including\n  <em>\n   USA Today, Publishers Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Nielsen Bookscan\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   Promise Me\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Woods\n  </em>\n  were both named one of the best thrillers of the year by\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  . Cobenâ€™s books are published in 38 languages and have 40 million copies in print world wide. His new novel,\n  <em>\n   Hold Tight\n  </em>\n  , will be published in the U.S. on April 15, 2008.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In his first books, Coben immersed himself in the exploits of sports agent Myron Bolitar. Critics loved the series, saying, â€œYou race to turn pagesâ€¦both suspenseful and often surprisingly funnyâ€ (\n  <em>\n   People\n  </em>\n  ). After seven whodunit books Coben moved away from Myron Bolitar. â€œI came up with a great idea that simply would not work for Myron,â€ says Coben. The result was the critically acclaimed\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   Tell No One\n  </em>\n  , which has been credited by many as reinventing the thriller and which became the most decorated thriller of 2001 â€“ nominated for an Edgar, an Anthony, a Macavity, a Nero, and a Barry; winner of the Audie award for Best Audio Mystery/Suspense Book; and a #1 hardcover book on the Book Sense 76 list. Coben followed the success of\n  <em>\n   Tell No One\n  </em>\n  with the blockbuster\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   Gone For Good\n  </em>\n  (2002),\n  <em>\n   No Second Chance\n  </em>\n  (2003),\n  <em>\n   Just One Look\n  </em>\n  (2004),\n  <em>\n   The Innocent\n  </em>\n  (2005),\n  <em>\n   Promise Me\n  </em>\n  (2006) and\n  <em>\n   The Woods\n  </em>\n  (2007).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cobenâ€™s unique take on the American dream has struck an international chord. Bookspan, recognizing his broad appeal, named\n  <em>\n   No Second Chance\n  </em>\n  its first ever International Book of the Month in 2003.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since 1995, Harlan Coben has won the Mystery Writers of Americaâ€™s Edgar Award, the Private Eye Writers of Americaâ€™s Shamus Award, and the Anthony Award â€“ the first writer to win all three. In 2004 he was shortlisted for the Author of the Year Award for the British Book Awards, dubbed â€œThe Oscars of the Book Trade.â€ He was the first American to make the list.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Tell No One\n  </em>\n  , Coben''s first stand alone novel, was released as a film in France in 2006. A runaway smash,\n  <em>\n   Tell No One\n  </em>\n  has grossed over $32 million in France and\n  <em>\n   Variety\n  </em>\n  called the film, "a sharp, efficient package."\n  <em>\n   Tell No One\n  </em>\n  was directed by Guillaume Canet (\n  <em>\n   Mon Idole\n  </em>\n  ), and features an all-star cast including Kristin Scott Thomas (\n  <em>\n   Gosford Park\n  </em>\n  ), Nathalie Baye (\n  <em>\n   Catch Me If You Can\n  </em>\n  ), and Marie-JosÃ©e Croze (\n  <em>\n   Munich\n  </em>\n  ). The movie will be released in theaters in the US in the summer of 2008. FOX TV has purchased the rights to Cobenâ€™s popular Myron Bolitar series for a pilot by\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  creator-executive producer Hart Hanson.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A graduate of Amherst College, Harlan Coben was born and raised in New Jersey, where he still lives with his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben. Harlan and Anne have four young children and two dogs.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/165'),
(5050, 'Chainfire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  With\n  <em>\n   Wizard''s First Rule\n  </em>\n  and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself....if she is even still alive. If she was ever even real.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A weak, repetitive plot mars the ninth novel in bestseller Goodkind''s Sword of Truth fantasy series (after 2003''s Naked Empire). The story opens promisingly enough. Richard, Lord Rahl, ruler of D''Hara, seeker and bearer of the Sword of Truth, is sorely wounded in battle. Healed by the sorceress Nicci, he regains consciousness only to discover his wife, Kahlan, is missing-and no one believes she exists. Meanwhile, the armies of Emperor Jagang, leader of the brutal Imperial Order, threaten D''Hara. Distracted by Kahlan''s disappearance, Richard refuses to lead troops against Jagang''s forces, insisting his people must stand up for themselves. Bargaining with the witch woman Shota, he trades the Sword of Truth for information on Kahlan and learns of "chainfire," hidden in "the place of the bones in the Deep Nothing." Journeying there, Richard discovers chainfire is a spell capable of unraveling existence. Meanwhile, the Sisters of the Dark have stolen two of the three boxes of Orden, seeking to call the Keeper of the Dead to life. Even fans will be disappointed by the minimal action and lengthy speeches that slow this juggernaut of a novel to a tedious crawl. Hopefully, Goodkind has positioned all his pieces and the pace will pick up in the next installment.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Wonderfully creative, seamless, and stirring."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Kirkus\n  </em>\n  on\n  <em>\n   Wizard''s First Rule\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wonderful."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Kliatt\n  </em>\n  on\n  <em>\n   Stone of Tears\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Each volume of the Sword of Truth . . . proves more difficult to review than the last. There are only so many ways of heaping praise on a series that gets better and better."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n  on\n  <em>\n   Blood of the Fold\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  " . . . outstanding work . . . adrenaline and characters who actually behave like adults. Highly recommended."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   San Diego Union Tribune\n  </em>\n  on\n  <em>\n   Temple of the Winds\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...thoroughly enjoyable."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   VOYA\n  </em>\n  on\n  <em>\n   Soul of the Fire\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mr. Goodkind''s compelling prose weaves a magic spell over readers."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n  on\n  <em>\n   Faith of the Fallen\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Near-perfect pacing, well-realized settings, and superior descriptive narrative."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   VOYA\n  </em>\n  on\n  <em>\n   The Pillars of Creation\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Everything one could ask for in an epic fantasy."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  on\n  <em>\n   Stone of Tears\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/53'),
(5051, 'The Chase', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense, action, and sheer audacity. Now he does it again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers in years.\n </p>\n <p>\n  April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-four years before. But it is not the engine or its grisly contents that interest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to come next . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  1906: For two years, the western states of America have been suffering an extraordinary crime spree: a string of bank robberies by a single man who cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses and then vanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of the "Butcher Bandit," the U.S. government brings in the best man they can find-a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell, who has caught thieves and killers coast to coast.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Bell has never had a challenge like this one. From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, he pursues what is quickly becoming clear to him is the sharpest criminal mind he has ever encountered, and the woman who seems to hold the key to the bandit''s identity. Using science, deduction, and intuition, Bell repeatedly draws near only to grasp at thin air, but at least he knows his pursuit is having an effect. Because his quarry is getting angry now, and has turned the chase back on him. The hunter has become the hunted. And soon it will take all of Isaac Bell''s skills not merely to prevail . . . but to survive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Filled with intricate plotting, dazzling signature set pieces, and not one but two extraordinary villains, this is the work of a master writing at the height of his powers.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cussler takes a breather from his several ongoing series with this historical thriller set in the western states, circa 1906. The U.S. government hires the renowned Van Dorn Detective Agency and its equally renowned lead agent, Isaac Bell, to capture the bank robber known as the Butcher Bandit. The Butcher has gunned down 38 men and women and two children, leaving behind neither witnesses nor clues. Bell heads the manhunt and finally figures out the Butcher''s true identity, which is when the real chase begins. Unfortunately, Cussler''s style is patterned on the clunky dialogue (I pray you catch the murdering scum) and improbable characters of the period''s dime novels, and his in-depth research makes his descriptions sound like advertising. Once San Francisco gets hit by the 1906 earthquake and the principals climb aboard a pair of fire-breathing locomotives, the novel cranks up a head of steam and some high-speed thrills.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cussler is the author or coauthor of 33 books, including 19 Dirk Pitt novels and 7 NUMA Files books. This latest adventure involves the hulk of a steam locomotive that comes to the surface of a lake in Montana in 1950. It contains the bodies of three men who died 44 years before. Flash back to 1906 and a two-year crime spree out west. There''s a series of bank robberies by an evil person who murders any witnesses. The government brings in a detective to solve the case, but soon the hunter becomes the hunted. As always, Cussler ties everything together in the end. The author''s many fans probably know that at the start, but they will want to read the novel anyway. Cohen, George\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/145'),
(5052, 'Children of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The desert planet of Arrakis has begun to grow green and lush. The life-giving spice is abundant. The nine-year-old royal twins, possesing their father''s supernatural powers, are being groomed as Messiahs.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But there are those who think the Imperium does not need messiahs...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRanging from palace intrigue and desert chases to religious speculation and confrontations with the supreme intelligence of the universe, there is something here for all science fiction fans.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHerbert adds enough new twists and turns to the ongoing saga that familiarity with the recurring elements brings pleasure.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Challenging Destiny\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Frank Herbert\n  </strong>\n  was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs--including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter and editor of several West Coast newspapers--before becoming a full-time writer. He died in 1986.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(5053, 'Clive Cussler Collection', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/113'),
(5054, 'Confessor', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he lovesâ€¦and has lost. Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable and memorable journeys ever written. It started with one rule and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history. When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the most popular writers of fantasy today, Terry Goodkind divides his time between Maine and Nevada.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From AudioFile\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the concluding novel to his epic fantasy series, Goodkind ties up most of the plot threads while leaving some open for possible later exploration. Like much of the series, this volume is dominated by diatribes on the evils of socialism and religion. Despite this, listeners will be drawn into the complex plot twists and the final battle between Richard Rahl and Emperor Jagang. Sam Tsoutsouvas compels listeners through the story with a deep, stern voice that perceptibly softens when speaking the dialogue of women and children. Tsoutsouvas maintains a consistent tone and pace that align well with the book. L.E. Â© AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine--\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/55'),
(5055, 'Corsair', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Jack Du Brul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  For five novels, Clive Cussler has brought readers into the world of the\n  <em>\n   Oregon\n  </em>\n  , a seemingly dilapidated ship packed with sophisticated equipment, and captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo. And now the\n  <em>\n   Oregon\n  </em>\n  and its crew face their biggest challenge yet.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Corsairs are pirates, and pirates come in many different varieties. There are the pirates who fought off the Barbary Coast in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the contemporary pirates who infest the waters of Africa and Asia, and the pirates . . . who look like something else.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the U.S. secretary of stateâ€™s plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Juan Cabrillo to search for her, and their misgivings are well founded. The crew locates the plane, but the secretary of state has vanished. It turns out Libyaâ€™s new foreign minister has other plans for the conference, plans that Cabrillo cannot let happen. But what does it all have to do with a two- hundred- year-old naval battle and the centuries-old Islamic scrolls that the Libyans seem so determined to find? The answers will lead him full circle into history, and into another pitched battle on the sea, this time against Islamic terrorists, and with the fate of nations resting on its outcome.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReaders will burn up the pages following the blazing action and daring exploits of these men and women and their amazing machines,â€ writes\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  of the\n  <em>\n   Oregon\n  </em>\n  Files series. And theyâ€™ll do it once again, with\n  <em>\n   Corsair\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a plane carrying the U.S. secretary of state, en route to a Middle East peace conference, disappears over Libya, the techno-wizards aboard the supership\n  <em>\n   Oregon\n  </em>\n  try to track it down and recover any survivors. Juan Cabrillo and his crew discover a terrorist presence that reaches to the highest levels of the Libyan government. This exciting story translates well into audio format, and Scott Brick''s performance enhances the action-adventure. His moderate tone makes for easy listening, and his clarity renders the scientific and political elementsâ€”and intriguesâ€”at the heart of the book comprehensible. Brick has narrated previous Cussler novels and his renditions of the characters will be familiar to fans, who will find themselves in the company of old friends.\n  <em>\n   A Putnam hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 26). (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the sixth entry set onboard the Oregon (and the third cowritten with Du Brul), Juan Cabrillo, the one-legged â€œchairmanâ€ of the ancient but technologically sophisticated ship, is hired to dig up the remnants of a crashed plane. But this wasnâ€™t just any plane crash: on board was Fiona Katamora, the U.S. secretary of state, who was on her way to a summit meeting in Libya. Although Cabrillo and his crew are able to recover the wreckage, there is no sign of the secretary. The Libyan foreign minister seems to have plans of his own, which is why the CIA thought to hire Cabrillo rather than to trust the Libyans to investigate the crash. A corsair is a variety of pirate, known for fights off the Barbary Coast more than 200 years ago. But theyâ€™re back with a vengeance here, infesting the waters of Asia and Africa and becoming a terrorist threat like no other. The Libyans are after something, something centuries old, and only Cabrillo can find the answers. The action, suspense, and drama are full throttle throughout. Cussler fans used to international intrigue and battles at sea will not be disappointed.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/161'),
(5056, 'The Covenant of Genesis', 'Andy McDermott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  AN INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY.\n  <br />\n  A MERCILESS FOE.\n  <br />\n  A DEADLY RACE FOR THE TRUTH.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Off a remote stretch of the Indonesian coast, archaeologist Nina Wilde has made an astounding discovery: an artifact that will rewrite everything thatâ€™s known about human history. But before she can return to tell the world of her find, her ship is brutally attacked, her crew is ruthlessly murdered, and the artifact is stolen. Someone wants this secret to stay hiddenâ€”and will do anything to keep it that way.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the depths of the ocean to the Australian outback to the halls of the United Nations, Nina and her fiancÃ©, ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, embark on a quest to stop the all-powerful Covenant of Genesis, a clandestine group sworn to keep Ninaâ€™s discovery a secret. Nina and Eddie have faced tough adversaries before, but the relentless Covenant is always two steps ahead of themâ€”and more than willing to kill again. Who will be the first to expose the truthâ€”and claim the most valuable archaeological prize of all time?\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Enter\n  <strong>\n   The Covenant of Genesis\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  And discover an action-packed thrill ride that will keep you reading long into the night!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Archeological danger duo Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase, now engaged to be married, dodge bullets in pursuit of another fabled object in their fourth adventure (after 2010''s\n  <em>\n   The Secret of Excalibur\n  </em>\n  ). Nina isn''t actually certain what she''s looking for, but she knows the vastly powerful, resourceful, and mysterious consortium known as the Covenant of Genesis wants to destroy it, which provides incentive enough for her to disregard expense, ethics, and personal safety while pursuing it. She and Eddie escape marauding henchmen seeking to destroy their entire crew and all evidence of an ancient stone tablet they found in Indonesia, only to be attacked back at Nina''s New York office. They immediately commence an intercontinental game of hunt and be hunted, cracking heads, wise, and the occasional Indiana Jonesâ€“style whip amid plenty of action and gore.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Occasional Indiana Jonesâ€“style whip amid plenty of action and gore." ---Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/202'),
(5057, 'Crescent Dawn', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Dirk Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the bloated fourth Dirk Pitt novel from Cussler and son Dirk (after Arctic Drift), evildoers Ozden Aktan Celik and Ozden''s sister, Maria, who are bent on Muslim domination of the Middle East, plot to blow up sacred Muslim sites like Jerusalem''s Dome of the Rock and pin the blame on the CIA in particular and the West in general. Dirk, the director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, and the Celiks are both searching for lost religious artifacts related to Jesus, artifacts whose rediscovery could embarrass certain powerful members of the British establishment. The authors keep the action moving with plenty of wreck diving, running sea battles, and ships laden with explosives. Fans of the indefatigable Pitt will enjoy watching their hero as he joins the battle on land, in the air, and at sea, but others might wish the Cusslers had picked less familiar terrorist targets. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cusslerâ€™s umpteenth installment in the 40-year run of Dirk Pitt chronicles, now written with his son, the eponymous Dirk Cussler, has become as formulaic a franchise as the James Bond movies. In fact, Pitt is a Bond of the seas with similar exotic locales, scenery-chewing villains, over-the-top technology, and bodacious babes served with a bucket of testosteroneâ€”â€œshaken not stirred.â€ But with formula fiction, as with theme restaurants, itâ€™s fun, and you always know what youâ€™re getting. Cussler, the Cheesecake Factory of adventure writers, doesnâ€™t disappoint in his latest, in which the bizarre cargo carried by a Roman galley in 327 CE and the mysterious explosion of a British battleship in 1916 have tremendous ramifications on the current political climate of the Middle East. Brother-and-sister baddies Ozden and Maria Celik aim to resurrect the Ottoman Empire, to which they lay claim as the allegedly last surviving royal heirs, by fomenting a fundamentalist uprising in Turkey and the surrounding Middle Eastern countries. But theyâ€™ll succeed only if they can keep Dirk Pitt and his NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) team from discovering what was being transported in that ancient galley. High-Demand Back Story: A tried-and-true formula by a tried-and-true New York Times bestselling author will create its own stir. --Michael Gannon\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/137'),
(5058, 'The Crystal City', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled North America, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate world where magic works, and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place in the lives of the people of this world. Dowsers find water, the second sight warns of dangers to come, and a torch can read a person''s future---or their heart.\n  <br />\n  In this world where "knacks" abound, Alvin, the seventh son of a seventh son, is a very special man indeed. He''s a Maker; he has the knack of understanding how things are put together, how to create them, repair them, keep them whole, or tear them down. He can heal hearts as well as bones, he build a house, he can calm the waters or blow up a storm. And he can teach his knack to others, to the measure of their own talent.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alvin has been trying to avert the terrible war that his wife, Peggy, a torch of extraordinary power, has seen down the life-lines of every American. Now she has sent him down the Mizzippy to the city of New Orleans, or Nueva Barcelona as they call it under Spanish occupation. Alvin doesn''t know exactly why he''s there, but when he and his brother-in-law, Arthur Stuart, find lodgings with a family of abolitionists who know Peggy, he suspects he''ll find out soon.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Nueva Barcelona is about to experience a plague, and Alvin''s efforts to protect his friends by keeping them healthy will create more danger than he could ever have suspected. And in saving the poor people of the city, Alvin will be put to the greatest test of his life---a test that will draw on all his power. For the time has come for him to turn to his old friend Tenskwa-Tawa, the Red Prophet who controls the lands to the west of the Mizzippy. Now Alvin must take the first steps on the road to the Crystal City that was shown to him in a vision so long ago.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If not the best in the series, Card''s latest Alvin Maker novel (after 1998''s Heartfire: Tales of Alvin Maker V) still enchants. In the author''s alternative American frontier world, Indians work the magics of nature, Africans transform themselves with trinkets and whites have knacks-magical talents that allow them to shape metal, find water, win the hearts of followers and more. Alvin, the powerful seventh son of a seventh son, can create things that cannot be destroyed. He also has more than his fair share of knacks as well as some Indian magic. Determined to stop suffering where he finds it, he dreams of building the Crystal City, which will help mankind live in peace. A large part of the appeal lies in the book''s homegrown characters using their powers for ordinary purposes. A blacksmith''s knack shapes axes that never dull, while a midwife can sense the health of her patients. Even as Alvin performs miracles to lead thousands of slaves out of bondage, he is filled with uncertainty about what to do with his life and self-doubt because he couldn''t save his stillborn child. Alvin''s fans will be relieved to know that the City is indeed begun in this volume, but those who were expecting the start of the civil war, previously billed as forthcoming, will have longer to wait.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Card creates a solid episode in what is perhaps his most interesting ongoing series."--Bookpage on\n  <em>\n   The Crystal City\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "By mixing real settings, people, and situations with his own brand of characterization and biblical metaphor, the author has created an early America as it might have been if magic had played a part in its development."--Rocky Mountain News on\n  <em>\n   The Crystal City\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/108'),
(5059, 'Crystal Gorge', 'David Eddings &amp; Leigh Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The epic trilogy by two "New York Times" bestselling authors concludes. Aracia, sister of the goddess Zelana ("The Elder Gods"), and Veltan ("The Treasured One") have ignored the prophecy of The Dreamers. Now their ignorance may bring about the destruction of Dhrall.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for David Edings: ''My ideal summer read! Having enjoyed the entire ten-book serial, I was delighted to be able to read this latest addition as it not only provides fantastic escapism in itself, but, being a prequel, will make my re-reading of the other books all the more fascinating.'' The Irish Times ''All the verve and pace we''ve come to expect.'' The Dark Side ''Offers an absorbing storyline and some memorable characters as, once again, the author touches all the right fantasy bases, with warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures and appealingly human magicians involved in a titanic war over the course of seven millennia. Eddings fans will no doubt snatch this novel off the shelves while readers new to the authors'' world won''t find a more appropriate place to begin exploring it.'' Publishers Weekl\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Eddings was born in Washington State in 1931 and grew up near Seattle. He graduated from the University of Washington and went on to serve in the US Army. Subsequently he worked as a buyer for the Boeing company and taught college-level English. His first novel was a contemporary adventure, but he soon began a spectacular career as a fantasy writer with his bestselling series The Belgariad.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/63'),
(5060, 'Cyclops', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dirk Pitt doesn''t go looking for adventure: it finds him easily enough. His chance witnessing of an airship disaster - which nearly kills him - and subsequent discovery of the gruesome fate of the crew sets in motion the most nail-biting chain of events of his career. The hijacking on a golf course of one of the world''s most powerful leaders; an exotic but outrageous undercover operation in the Caribbean; the sinister intrigue of a secret power base on the moon . . . Pitt''s considerable resources and guile are about to be tested to the limit.But when he finds a trail leading towards a fabulous treasure hidden fathoms deep in the ocean, Pitt realises he is on to something very special indeed. For somewhere in the raging waters lies the legendary lost lady of El Dorado, the golden prize that had already lured thousands to their graves . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/131'),
(5061, 'Dark Watch', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Jack Du Brul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The author of the bestselling NUMA(r) and Dirk Pitt(r) series returns with an all- new novel of adventure and intrigue featuring his unbeatable hero of the high seas-Juan Cabrillo...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cussler''s back, this time with coauthor Dubrul. For those readers who are still counting, it''s Cussler''s twenty-eighth book. This one involves the clandestine spy ship\n  <em>\n   Oregon,\n  </em>\n  whose crew--led by one Juan Cabrillo--work for what Cussler describes as "high-powered Western interests." Cabrillo''s newest employers are a consortium of Japanese shipping tycoons who are being threatened by pirates. The plot includes commercial freighters that are disappearing, missiles that North Korea is selling to Syria, bad guys planting a bomb on a ship that the U.S. wants to destroy, the sinking of a research vessel, covert operations from any number of nations, and the threat of diseases such as typhoid and cholera that could run rampant--and that''s just the first 100 pages. These are a few trite lines ("We can''t see diddly," for example) and an ending that doesn''t come as a surprise, but Cussler''s countless fans won''t care.\n  <em>\n   George Cohen\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Readers will burn up the pages following the blazing action and daring exploits of these men and women and their amazing machines."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  (\n  <em>\n   Publisher''s Weekly\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/156'),
(5062, 'Darkest Fear', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Edgar Award-winner Harlan Coben brings us his most astonishingâ€”and deeply personalâ€”novel yet. And it all begins when Myron Bolitar''s ex tells him he''s a father ... of a dying thirteen-year-old boy.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Myron never saw it coming. A surprise visit from an ex-girlfriend is unsettling enough. But Emily Downing''s news brings him to his knees. Her son Jeremy is dying and needs a bone-marrow transplantâ€”from a donor who has vanished without a trace. Then comes the real shocker: The boy is Myron''s son, conceived the night before her wedding to another man.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Staggered by the news, Myron plunges into a search for the missing donor. But finding him means cracking open a dark mystery that involves a broken family, a brutal kidnapping spree, and the FBI. Somewhere in the sordid mess is the donor who disappeared. And as doubts emerge about Jeremy''s true paternity, a child vanishes, igniting a chain reaction of heartbreaking truth and chilling revelation.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Myron Bolitar''s father''s recent heart attack brings Myron smack into a midlife encounter with issues of adulthood and mortality. And if that''s not enough to turn his life upside down, the reappearance of his first serious girlfriend is. The basketball star turned sports agent, who does a little detecting when business is slow, is saddened by the news that Emily Downing''s 13-year-old son is dying and desperately needs a bone marrow transplant; even if she did leave him for the man who destroyed his basketball career, he wouldn''t wish tsuris like that on anyone. And he''s not at all interested in getting involved with Emily again, not even to track down the one mysterious donor who may be able to save the boy. But when Myron learns that Jeremy Downing is his\n  <em>\n   own\n  </em>\n  son, conceived the night before Emily and Greg Downing married, he embarks on a search for someone who disappeared a lifetime ago. And what he finds leads him to a powerful family determined to keep an old secret, a disgraced reporter who may have plagiarized a novel to create a serial killer, a very interested FBI agent, and a missing child.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is the seventh outing in a series that''s been gaining in popularity since Bolitar''s first appearance, in Harlan Coben''s\n  <em>\n   Deal Breaker\n  </em>\n  . Myron''s a bit of a baby, but he''s not afraid to get rough when the situation calls for it, he''s eminently likable, and his heart''s in the right place. The fireworks are supplied by his friend and partner, Win, who really deserves a series of his own, and Esperanza, the lesbian wrestler-lawyer who has finally talked Myron into making her a partner in the business. Like Coben''s other Bolitar novels, she''s worth every penny.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Book seven in Coben''s wonderfully rich series (after 1999''s The Final Detail), which features sports agent Myron Bolitar, former basketball player and totally believable human being, is all about fathers, sons and the intricate and often painful chains that link them together. Myron, who has just moved out of his parents'' house at the age of 34, is worried about his father''s health after a heart attack, but it''s hard for either of them to talk about the older man''s condition. Myron tends to have long relationships with women that end in tears. ("You''re in your mid-thirties, single, sensitive, and you like show tunes," says his current lover, a troubled television star. "If you were a better dresser, I''d say you were gay.") Emily, his college girlfriend from Duke who dumped him for a more successful basketball rival, re-enters the picture to tell him that her critically ill 13-year-old son needs a bone marrow transplant, but the only suitable registered donor has disappeared. Can Myron find him? And, by the way--Myron is the boy''s real father. The search takes Myron deep into some decades-old unsolved crimes involving another father and son--a sadistic deranged killer and a conflicted newspaper columnist. Myron''s deadly preppy friend, Win, is on hand to supply his own frightening brand of violence, and the gorgeous Esperanza Diaz, the former wrestler who''s now a full partner in MB SportsReps, supplies wisdom as well as glamour. But the heart of the novel is, as always, the fallible but infinitely appealing, accessible figure of Myron Bolitar--a modern Don Quixote complete with knee brace and cell phone, ready to take on the world''s problems. (June)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/176');
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(5063, 'A Darkness at Sethanon', 'Raymond Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  An evil wind blows through Midkemia. Dark legions have risen up to crush the Kingdom of the Isles and enslave it to dire magics. The final battle between Order and Chaos is abotu to begin in the ruins of the city called Sethanon.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Pug, the master magician sometimes known as Milamber, must undertake an awesome and perilous quest to the dawn of time to grapple with an ancient and terrible Enemy for the fate of a thousand worlds.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Further praise for the\n  <strong>\n   Riftwar\n  </strong>\n  saga:\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Most exciting...a very worthy and absorbing addition to the fantasy field."\n  <br />\n  -- Andre Norton on\n  <strong>\n   Magician\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As exciting and absorbing as Magician in every way. The excellent characterization wedded to a tight and well-turned plot makes it one of the outstanding fantasy offerings of the season."\n  <br />\n  -- Andre Norton on\n  <strong>\n   Silverthorn\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A lively tale where engaging characters inhabit a well-rounded fantasy land." -- Publishers Weekly on Prince of the Blood\n  <br />\n  "Has humor and tears and romance...just about everything a fantasy fan could ask for...This is a book to read whether or not you have read the earlier trilogy."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   UPI\n  </em>\n  on\n  <strong>\n   Prince of the Blood\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A superior, rousing adventure."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  on\n  <strong>\n   The King''s Buccaneer\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An entertaining tale of high-seas adventure and exotic fantasy."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Locus\n  </em>\n  on\n  <strong>\n   The King''s Buccaneer\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  ?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Raymond E. Feist is the international bestselling author or co-author of twenty one novels, including\n  <strong>\n   Magician\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n   Silverthorn\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n   A Darkness at Sethanon\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n   Faerie Tale\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n   The Kings Buccaneer\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n   Talon of the Silver Hawk\n  </strong>\n  , and\n  <strong>\n   King of Foxes\n  </strong>\n  . Feist is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, and resides in Southern California with his family. He travels, collects wine, and lives and dies with the San Diego Chargers.?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(5064, 'Darkness Be My Friend', 'John Marsden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The battle continues as five ordinary kids must journey back into the heart of an epic conflict.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Five months into World War III, Ellie and her four remaining friends have barely escaped the Australian town of Wirrawee with their lives and their sanity intact.\n  <br />\n  But as the next step becomes clear, they realize they must once again sacrifice their hard-won comfort and safety. A group of soldiers has recruited the kids to guide the way to the Wirrawee air base.\n  <br />\n  What could possibly motivate Ellie and her friends to return? This risky sabotage mission may be their only hope of rescuing their families, too.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There are only five of them left now. Ellie and her four friends, Lee, Homer, Kevin, and Fi, have reluctantly returned to New Zealand from Australia to lead more guerrilla attacks on the enemy (who invaded their country in the previous book,\n  <em>\n   Tomorrow, When the War Began\n  </em>\n  ). The group has staged raids on their captive hometown Wirrawee from the wilderness sanctuary they call Hell, blowing up and burning enemy headquarters and bridges and supply depots, and killing with their bare hands when they must. By the end of the two sequels,\n  <em>\n   The Dead of Night\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Killing Frost\n  </em>\n  , they are strong and resourceful, but tired and soul-sick with the pervasive violence. Two of them have been killed, and one has killed himself in despair. When they were rescued and airlifted to New Zealand, they thought the nightmare was over. But now they have been sent back to Wirrawee to guide a party of adult raiders on a planned sabotage of a strategic airfield. Something goes wrong; the adults never come back from the raid, and Ellie and her friends are again left on their own to do what they can--and must--to survive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like John Marsden''s other books, this story is immersed in darkness and dread. It''s packed with almost unbearable suspense and breathtaking action, as the personalities and relationships of these decent country kids are eroded by the imperative for violence. Marsden fans will elbow each other aside for a copy of this one, and will look forward to the three new installments on the way. (Ages 12 and older)\n  <em>\n   --Patty Campbell\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 8 Up-The fourth volume of Marsden''s saga of teenage survival and defense of their homeland during war continues the tale at its customary breakneck pace. In the previous books, Ellie and her continually dwindling troop of friends arrived home from a week''s camping in the bush to discover that their small town-and, seemingly, all of Australia-has been overtaken by an unnamed enemy army. This latest volume takes up the tale as Ellie and her four remaining buddies leave the safety of New Zealand to return to their old campsite, planning to infiltrate the enemy-held town of Wirrawee under the protection of New Zealand soldiers. The soldiers soon disappear, however, leaving the teens once again on their own. In this middle book of the tale-which runs to seven titles in Australia-the teens learn the fates of their families and manage to survive without further losses. There are hair-raising adventures aplenty, including a break-in at the general store that goes awry, as well as Ellie''s unintentional mortal dispatch of an enemy officer. As with previous titles, the ending leaves readers hanging in wait for the succeeding books. The adventures here are finely wrought and enough new background detail is supplied to keep loyal followers of the series engaged in the characters'' development. However, this isn''t a story to approach midstream. It needs to be read from the beginning, and teens will want to continue once they have done that, for Marsden''s style is as surefooted as his independent band of teens.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(5065, 'The Dead of Night', 'John Marsden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  War rages on! The second installment of the internationally bestselling Tomorrow series is even more action-packed than the first...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A few months after the first fighter jets landed in their own backyard, Ellie and her five terrified but defiant friends struggle to survive amid a baffling conflict. Their families are unreachable; the mountains are now their home.\n  <br />\n  When two of them fall behind enemy lines, Ellie knows what must happen next: a rescue mission. Homer, the strongest and most unpredictable among them, is the one to take charge. While others have their doubts about his abilities, Homer has no choice but to prove them wrong - or risk losing everything to the enemy.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this sequel to Tomorrow, When the War Began, the teenagers continue their guerrilla warfare against the invading foreign army. PW said, "Though it''s still a superior adventure tale, it lacks the provocative edge and hard-hitting moral challenges of the author''s best work." Ages 12-up. (May) r\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6-10. Marsden picks up right where Tomorrow, When the War Began (Houghton, 1995) left off. A few months have passed since Ellie and six of her friends returned from a camping trip deep in the Australian outback to find their country invaded by an unidentified, non-English-speaking nation. The Dead of Night opens with a brief recounting of what happened in the previous novel; two members of the group, Corrie and Kevin, are still missing. Homer, a self-appointed leader, rallies the others together to track them down. They discover that Kevin has been imprisoned, and Corrie is alive, but in a coma. The teens continue their guerrilla activities and, by the end of the story, have lost Chris, another comrade. As in Tomorrow, Ellie narrates and keeps a written record of the group''s activities and experiences. She is a fully realized character who grows considerably in the story. She is a thoughtful, realistic protagonist who wrestles not only with the brutalities of war, but also with her own adolescence. Her feelings for Lee are particularly well done. She wants to have sex with him, but worries about the complications that could result. These realistically depicted human conflicts make the book much more than just an exciting apocalyptic adventure. In the end, only four members of the original seven remain, but they are still committed to fighting the enemy. Hope is alive. Although this sequel can stand on its own, readers of Tomorrow will find it far more satisfying.?Edward Sullivan, New York Public Library\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(5066, 'Deal Breaker', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron''s prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Trying to unravel the truth about a family''s tragedy, a woman''s secret, and a man''s lies, Myron is up against the dark side of his businessâ€”where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fictionâ€”Myron Bolitarâ€”a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/170'),
(5067, 'Debt of Bones', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby''s struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby''s request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to break, both Abby and Zedd are caught in a desperate fight to save the life of a child...but neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby, for everyone-will never again be the same.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Discover why millions of readers the world over have elevated Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Terry Goodkind (Faith of the Fallen) presents Debt of Bones, a prequel to his Sword of Truth series that involves series character First Wizard Zedd in the time before the Boundaries were drawn. Abby, a poor peasant who has an ancient claim on Zedd, asks the impossible of him to save her community, including her husband, child and father at the possible price of countless other lives. Illus.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the armies of Panis Rahl spread across the land, a young woman from a beleaguered town begs a boon from First Wizard Zedd, ignorant of the consequences of her request. This revised version of a novella that first appeared in the fantasy anthology Legends illuminates the period in history before the events of Goodkind''s "Sword of Truth" series. The conflict between love and duty forms a central theme in this brief and touching tale of people caught up in events they cannot fully control. Keith Parkinson''s pencil illustrations add a delicate touch to the story, highlighting key events in the narrative. Libraries wishing to complete their Goodkind collection will want this gracefully written story.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/44'),
(5068, 'Deception on His Mind', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Balford-le-Nez is a dying seaside town on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town''s small but growing Asian community is found dead near its beach, the sleepy town ignites. Working without her long-time partner, Detective Inspector Lynley, Sergeant Barbara Havers must probe not only the mind of a murderer and a case very close to her own heart, but also the terrible price people pay for deceiving others . . . and themselves.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Deception on His Mind\n  </em>\n  Sergeant Barbara Havers places herself at the center of an investigation in Essex concerning the mysterious death of a recently arrived immigrant from Pakistan. Although still recovering from the broken ribs and nose (received at the end of\n  <em>\n   In the Presence of the Enemy\n  </em>\n  ), Havers convinces herself that she needs to stay on the job in order to help her neighbor Taymullah Azhar and his elfin daughter Hadiyyah who have a familial connection to the dead man. As is typical with Elizabeth George''s novels (this is the 10th in a popular and powerful series), the murder and its investigation are the central feature of the story. But in this case they are also the means by which she explores the Pakistani experience in a foreign and not always friendly culture. As Havers herself notes, the food may well have improved in Britain with an increasingly diverse population, but that same population has "engendered a score of polyglot problems." Whether or not the dead man is a victim of a racially motivated crime is only one of the questions Havers tries to sort out. The result, with George''s typically complex characterizations and deft plot turns, is a deeply satisfying novel. Fans of Havers''s superior officer, Thomas Lynley, and his lady love Helen Clyde will be disappointed as the two are off on their honeymoon. But with Lynley out of the picture, Havers, with her prickly personality, caustic tongue, and sound investigative skills, comes well and truly into her own. Nitpickers might question one aspect of the final denouement--motive and opportunity are securely in place but the means are on the outskirts of unbelievable. Still, the book is a rich and enjoyable one that continues to tickle the imagination well after it has been shelved amidst other favorites.\n  <em>\n   --K.A. Crouch\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA?Detective Barbara Havers is now on her own. Her partner, the glamorous Lord Lynley, and the even more glamorous Lady Helen are off on their honeymoon and the decidedly less-than-glamorous Havers is to recuperate from extensive wounds suffered in their previous case. She declines an invitation by her neighbor and good friend, eight-year-old Hadiyyah, to join her and her somewhat remote professorial father on a trip to the seaside. Somewhat to her chagrin, however, Havers finds herself worrying about the ostensibly naive father as she hears disturbing news of murder and racial unrest in the same coastal town. She goes to Balford only to land in the middle of a tangled web woven around the murder of the fiance of the young daughter of a wealthy Pakistani business man. The plot is well developed, the red herrings many and varied, and the social commentary on the racial unease in England is well handled. Havers emerges as a more sympathetic character here, and readers get the feeling she is beginning to "get a life." YAs will enjoy the engrossing mystery with deft characterizations.?Susan H. Woodcock, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/20'),
(5069, 'Deep Six', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For the President of the United States, the crisis point is approaching fast. With his new Soviet initiative entering its most crucial phase, the President suddenly finds himself faced with a pollution disaster of potentially cataclysmic proportions. And then - incredibly - he vanishes into thin air, leaving his country poised on the brink of chaos.It''s left to troubleshooter extraordinaire Dirk Pitt to hotwire the connections between these two shattering events. From the icy Alaskan waters to a Korean shipbreaker''s yard; from a Caribbean shipwreck to a blazing inferno in the Mississippi Delta, he tracks down a conspiracy so fiendish and sophisticated that even the superpowers are helpless in its grip . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/128'),
(5070, 'Demon Lord of Karanda', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In an adventurous sequel to THE MALLOREAN, David Eddings tells the story of King Garion''s abducted infant son and his efforts to save him. Unfortunately, he and his friends are detained by the friendly, but determined Zakath, who refuses to let them leave. As a horde of demons ravage the Cities and a plague lets loose its terrors, Garion has little time left to reach his destination, or the kidnapper wins by default.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The trial of the sorceress Zandramas leads Garion and his companions into the heart of enemy territory where a cult of demon worshipers forces an unlikely alliance between the forces of Light and Darkness. Eddings uses gentle humor and endearing characters to temper the seriousness of his complex fantasy epic. Recommended for fantasy collections. JC\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In an adventurous sequel to THE MALLOREAN, David Eddings tells the story of King Garion''s abducted infant son and his efforts to save him. Unfortunately, he and his friends are detained by the friendly, but determined Zakath, who refuses to let them leave. As a horde of demons ravage the Cities and a plague lets loose its terrors, Garion has little time left to reach his destination, or the kidnapper wins by default.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(5071, 'Devil&#39;s Gate', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster-when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world?\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world''s major nations. The penalty for refusal? The destruction of their greatest cities. Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention unique to Cussler,\n  <em>\n   Devil''s Gate\n  </em>\n  is one of the most thrilling novels yet from the grand master of adventure.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Clive Cussler\n  </strong>\n  is the author of many\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers, most recently\n  <em>\n   The Kingdom\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Race\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Arizona.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Graham Brown\n  </strong>\n  is the author of\n  <em>\n   Black Rain\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Black Sun\n  </em>\n  . A pilot and an attorney, he lives in Arizona.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(5072, 'The Diamond Throne', 'David Eddings &amp; Leigh Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Sparhawk, Pandion Knight, and Queen''s Champion have returned to Elenia after ten years of exile, only to find young Queen Ehlanda trapped in a block of ensorcelled crystal. As Sparhawk sets out to find a cure for Ehlana, he discovers that only he can defeat the evil plots that threaten her rule....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eddings begins his new Elenium series in a world that has different names but much the same feel as those of his bestselling Belgariad and Malloreon series. Fans will find themselves back in step as the Pandion knight Sparhawk sets off to find a cure for his poisoned Queen Ehlana. PW praised Eddings''s "graceful, fluid style of storytelling."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A young queen''s life and a country''s future lie in the balance as an exiled Pandion knight, a Styric "witch," an aging squire, and a mysterious child begin a long and arduous trek through foreign lands in search of an elusive cure for an unknown disease. The author of the popular "Belgariad" and "Malloreon" series draws once more on his particular strengths, combining heroic yet humorous characters with exotic settings and tangled politics to create a fast-moving fantasy that will appeal to his large readership. Highly recommended.-- JC\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/65'),
(5073, 'Dirk Pitt Revealed', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Craig Dirgo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  With nearly 100 million copies of his bestselling books in print, Clive Cussler is an extraordinary author whose life parallels that of his fictional hero, DIRK PITT. Whether searching for famous shipwrecks or cruising in classic cars from his private collection, Cussler''s spirit feeds the soul of DIRK PITT -- a hero whose adventures race along at supersonic speed. Now with this truly unique insider''s guide, you can dive in and explore the worlds of both Clive Cussler, the grand master of adventure, and DIRK PITT, the world''s greatest action adventure hero.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Inside\n   <em>\n    Clive Cussler and Dirk PittÂ® Revealed\n   </em>\n   you''ll find:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   The prologue to Clive Cussler''s next exciting DIRK PITT novel!\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   An exclusive interview with Clive Cussler -- including the evolution of the DIRK PITT novels and the close ties between Cussler and his hero\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   "The Reunion" -- an original short story in which Cussler crashes NUMA''s twenty-year reunion and reminisces with DIRK PITT and all his favorite characters\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   A brief synopsis of every DIRK PITT novel, including why\n   <em>\n    Pacific Vortex!\n   </em>\n   -- not\n   <em>\n    The Mediterranean Caper\n   </em>\n   -- should be considered the first PITT novel\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   A concordance for the DIRK PITT novels -- complete with A-Z listings of every major character, car, ship, aircraft, weapon, locale, and more.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Complete with rare photos, dedications, the Clive Cussler car collection, and advanced DIRK PITT trivia,\n  <em>\n   Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed\n  </em>\n  contains a mother lode of information every fan will treasure.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen Coonts Nobody does it better than Clive Cussler, nobody.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tom Clancy A new Clive Cussler novel is like a visit from your best friend.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Clive Cussler\n  </strong>\n  is acclaimed worldwide as the Grandmaster of Adventure. He got his start in advertising, first as an award-winning copy writer, and then as creative director for two of the nation''s largest agencies. His initial foray into fiction was in 1973, when he wrote his first Dirk PittÂ® novel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since then he has continued to write Dirk PittÂ® adventures while living a life that nearly parallels that of his action hero. Like Pitt, Cussler enjoys discovering and collecting things of historical significance. With NUMA (National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency, a non profit group begun by Cussler) he has had an amazing record of finding over 60 shipwrecks, one of which was the long-lost Confederate submarine Hunley. Cussler also has a renowned and extensive classic car collection, which features over 80 examples of custom coachwork.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along with being Chairman of NUMA, he is also a fellow of the Explorers Club (which honored him with the Lowell Thomas Award for outstanding underwater exploration), the Royal Geographical Society and the American Society of Oceanographers. Married to Barbara Knight for 40 years, with three children and two grandchildren, he divides his time between the mountains of Colorado and the deserts of Arizona.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/124'),
(5074, 'Domes of Fire', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Danger stalked Queen Ehlana''s realm. When an ambasador from the far-off Tamul Empire begged for help, Sparhawk, Ehlana''s champion and Prince Consort, was the Emperor''s last hope. For surely the knight who had killed the evil God Azash could prevail against the terror in Tamul. But waiting for him was a glittering court seething with corruption, treachery--and the greatest danger Sparhawk would ever face!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Magic, insurrection, rebirth and new gods and cultures propel this first volume of a proposed second trilogy featuring Sir Sparhawk, Queen Ehlana and other stalwarts of Eddings''s best-selling Elenium trilogy. The distant Tamul Empire, endangered by civil unrest exacerbated by paranormal (or magical, depending on the point of view) incidents, begs help from Sparhawk, destroyer of the Elder God Azash and savior of the Elenes. Undertaking the long journey to Tamul, the knight, his royal wife, their daughter Princess Danae and assorted followers encounter unrest in each of the lands through which they pass. Incidents taking more or less the same form--rumors, supported by rabble-rousing orators, of ancient heroes reborn to lead the downtrodden--arouse Sparhawk''s suspicion of godly or magical opposition to his cause. Arriving in the Tamul capital, Sparhawk and his cohorts thwart a plot against the emperor but find disturbing evidence that the Troll-Gods and other old enemies are at work. Eddings'' likable, spirited characters are not deeply etched but they reflect his original touch nevertheless.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hard on the heels of the Elenium trilogy, Eddings launches a new fantasy epic featuring the futher adventures of Pandion knight Sparhawk and his companions. Eddings is a first-class storyteller with a gift for easy humor and colorful characters. There will be considerable demand for this title.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/68'),
(5075, 'Dragon', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A PLUNDERED TREASURE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS . . . A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION IN THE PACIFIC . . . AN EVIL PLOT TO BRING THE WEST TO ITS KNEES!A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly, thunderously vaporized by Japanese fanatics with a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. While Washington bureaucrats scramble, a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from a secret island control center. But from the ocean depths, NUMA agent DIRK PITTÂ® is igniting a daring counterattack. Battling death-dealing robots and a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors, Pitt alone controls the West''s secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave of destruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/120'),
(5076, 'Drop Shot', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Valerie Simpson is a young female tennis star with a troubled past who''s now on the verge of a comeback and wants Myron as her agent. Myron, who''s also got the hottest young male tennis star, Duane Richwood, primed to take his first grand slam tournament, couldn''t be happier. That is, until Valerie is murdered in broad daylight at the U.S. Open and Myron''s number one client becomes the number one suspect.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clearing Duane''s name should be easy enough. Duane was playing in a match at the time of Valerie''s death. But why is his phone number in Valerie''s black book when he claims only to have known her in passing? Why was she calling him from a phone booth on the street? The police stop caring once they pin the murder on a man known for having stalked Valerie and seen talking to her moments before the murder. But Myron isn''t satisfied. It seems too clean for him.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Myron pries a bit and finds himself prying open the past where six years before, Valerie''s fiancee, the son of a senator, was brutally murdered by a juvenile delinquent and a straight-A student was subsequently gunned down on the street in retaliation, his death squandered in bureaucratic files. And everyone from the Senator to the mob want Myron to stop digging.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The truth beneath the truth is not only dangerous, it''s deadly. And Myron may be the next victim.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fictionâ€”Myron Bolitarâ€”a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Engaging . . . hilarious!"\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  (\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A fast-paced plot, witty dialogue, more than a few surprises, and a you''ll-never-guess-whodunit denouement."â€”\n  <em>\n   Armchair Detective\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Superb writing...Harlan Coben serves up an ace with\n  <strong>\n   Drop Shot\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   .\n  </em>\n  "â€”John Lutz, author of\n  <em>\n   Death by Jury\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(5077, 'Dune Messiah', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert''s magnificent Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination as one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dune Messiah\n  </em>\n  continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known-and feared-as the man christened Muad''Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremens, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne-and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family''s dynasty.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1965 Frank Herbert published\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  . After it was heralded as a masterpiece of science fiction, he wrote the briefer\n  <em>\n   Dune Messiah\n  </em>\n  in 1969, concentrating eponymously on Paul Atreides, and then, sensing the sales potential, added sequels. They were continued by his son, culminating in the just published finale,\n  <em>\n   Sandworms of Dune\n  </em>\n  . Now, 38 years after its publication, four narrators capture\n  <em>\n   Dune Messiah\n  </em>\n  on discs, while listeners, with no glossary, try to recall the meaning of its esoteric nomenclature. The audio gets off to a lively start as the book opens with nearly all conversation, playing up the camaraderie between the narrators who have partnered on several other readings of classic sci-fi novels. While the cast works well together, some of the male narrators emphasize a stately dullness. Kellgren, the sole feminine voice, supplies real emotion and a true sense of awe.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Unique among SF novels ... I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings.'' -- Arthur C. Clarke on DUNE ''One of the landmarks of modern science fiction ... an amazing feat of creation.'' -- Analog on DUNE\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/35'),
(5078, 'The Elder Gods', 'David Eddings &amp; Leigh Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Somewhere beyond the farthest pole of the world, the land of Dhrall lies anchored by the will of four powerful Gods. Able to bend reality to their whims and influence the lives of mortal men, these deities are still bound by the laws of nature and cannot take lives. Yet the Gods are not the only power. For in the center of Dhrall lives a voracious horror known as the Vlagh. A nightmare made flesh, the Vlagh has bred a massive army of hideous monsters to overrun the world. In the coming battles the people of Dhrall will be aided by a ragtag force of foreign mercenaries and pirates, but the true champions of the war will be four enigmatic children known as the Dreamers. Raised by the Gods themselves, these children can alter the fabric of reality. But, unlike the Elder Gods, the Dreamers do not hesitate to kill...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David and Leigh Eddings introduce readers to their newly minted Land of Dhrall with\n  <em>\n   The Elder Gods\n  </em>\n  , the first book in the four-book Dreamers Saga. Dhrall is under the gentle rule of four gods representing the four compass points. These gods are reaching the end of their terms of power when the god of the North brings four children who are destined to take over for them into his siblings'' lairs. The children are dreamers and able to see the possible outcome of battles in a coming war with the evil creature that controls the wasteland at the center of Drahll''s map. Thus, the gods and their young charges undertake quests to hire mercenary armies and thwart the initial invasion into their lands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The book unfolds like a children''s primer. This pedantic style proves to be heavy-handed for adult readers and will quickly try their patience. If the Eddings were trying to concoct a book that would be suitable for reading aloud to fifth graders they''ve succeeded, but even the most die-hard fantasy fan will tire quickly of the sing-song approach and plot twists that can be sniffed out from miles away.\n  <em>\n   --Jeremy Pugh\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Only die-hard fans of the bestselling Eddings duo (The Belgariad series) will enjoy this slow-moving, low-tension epic fantasy, the first in a projected four-book series. The Land of Dhrall dwells under the stewardship of four gods, each oriented with one of the four compass directions. Dahlaine and his brother, Veltan, rule the North and South, while their sisters, Zelana and Aracia, rule the West and the East, respectively. Dhrall''s center is a wasteland under the control of That-Called-the-Vlagh, a dark, inhuman thing of vast patience, power and ambition. Prophesy speaks of the Dreamers, children whose dreams will defeat the Vlagh by controlling the natural forces of Mother Sea and Father Earth. Dahlaine and his siblings each raise a baby Dreamer; only after the precocious children start to dream does he reveal that they are actually fellow gods in the world''s life cycle, reborn with no memory of their previous lives. Dahlaine and his siblings hire human mercenaries, who eventually meet the Vlagh''s forces in battle, but the dark armies prove unexpectedly resourceful. Despite a variety of characters (pirates, gods, aboriginals, soldiers, etc.), all speak in the same unlikely, bland manner, and dialogue generally replaces action. The authors will have to pick up the pace in the next volume to keep readers interested.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/61'),
(5079, 'Enchanters&#39; End Game', 'David Eddings &amp; Leigh Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  THE DRIVE OF PROPHECY\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The quest was over. The Orb of Aldur was restored. And once again, with the crowning of Garion, there was a descendant of Riva Iron-grip to rule as Overlord of the West.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the Prophecy was unfulfilled. In the east, the evil God Torak was about to awaken and seek dominion. Somehow, Garion had to face the God, to kill or be killed. On the outcome of that dread duel rested the destiny of the world. Now, accompanied by his grandfather, the ancient sorcerer Belgarath, Garion headed toward the City of Endless Night, where Torak awaited him.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  To the south, his fiancÃ©e, the princess Ce''Nedra, led the armies of the West in a desperate effort to divert the forces of Torak''s followers from the man she loved.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Prophecy drove Garion on. But it gave no answer to the question that haunted him: How does a man kill an immortal God?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here is the brilliant conclusion to the epic of The Belgariad, which began in Pawn of Prophecy--a novel of fate, strange lands, and a Prophecy that must be fulfilled--the resolution of the war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Absorbing. Touches all the right Fantasy bases. Warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures, and appealingly human magicians." --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight." --\n  <em>\n   Piers Anthony\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fabulous! Eddings has a marvelous storyteller style. Exceedingly well portrayed." --\n  <em>\n   Anne McCaffrey\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Eddings [The Belgariad series] -- This is like Bonanza, or like I Love Lucy. There will be other fantasy series, but there can never be another that''s so seminal, that so captures the essence of fantasy. Big Dave and Little Leigh grow their heroes from the ground up, and they grow the best.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Veronica Chapman, Senior Editor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/75'),
(5080, 'Fade Away', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating heroes in suspense fiction: the wisecracking, tenderhearted sports agent Myron Bolitar. In this gripping third novel in the acclaimed series, Myron must confront a past that is dead and buriedâ€”and more dangerous than ever before.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  The home is top-notch New Jersey suburban. The living room is Martha Stewart. The basement is Legosâ€”and blood. The signs of a violent struggle. For Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he once competed against is bringing back memoriesâ€”of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved. Now, among the stars, the wannabes, the gamblers, and the groupies, Myron is embarking upon the strange ride of a sports hero gone wrong that just may lead to certain death. Namely, his own.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wisecracking sports agent Myron Bolitar returns with style in his third mystery (after Deal Breaker and Dropshot). This time, Myron is given a chance to return to professional basketball after being sidelined by a heartbreaking injury 10 years ago. No, the owner of the New Jersey Dragons doesn''t want Myron to play. He wants him to use his skills as a onetime FBI undercover agent ("the worst kept secret in the continental United States") to find a missing player and former rival. The hunt for the absent player turns up an ugly web of complications that include a dead body, blackmail, a nasty custody suit, out-of-control gambling and thugs intent on revenge. Myron finds himself dragged in deeper than expected as the case stirs unresolved issues from his own past. With the help of his lethally loyal pal Win, he untangles the mess with bravado and not a little personal pain. Coben writes a fast-moving narrative in a style witty enough to keep pace without straining too hard.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Brilliant! Perfect for fans of Sue Grafton, Robert B. Parker, and everyone else!"â€”Nancy Pickard, author of\n  <em>\n   I.O.U.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fast action, snappy dialogue...[An] enjoyable read."â€”\n  <em>\n   Toronto Star\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/172'),
(5081, 'Faith of the Fallen', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Terry Goodkind author of the enormously popular Sword of Truth novels, has forged perhaps his best novel yet, pitting Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell against threats to the freedom of the world that will take them to opposite ends of the world to defeat the forces of chaos and anarchy.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Emperor Jagang is rising once again in the Old World and Richard must face him, on his own turf. Richard heads into the Old World with Cara, the Mord-Sith, while his beloved Kahlan remains behind. Unwilling to heed an ancient prophecy, Kahlan raises an army and goes into battle against forces threatening armed insurrection in the Midlands.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Separated and fighting for their lives, Richard and Kahlan will be tested to the utmost.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fantasy series fans may argue over the relative merits of Terry Goodkind''s Sword of Truth, George R.R. Martin''s Song of Ice and Fire, and Robert Jordan''s Wheel of Time, but in a world of middle books that go nowhere and endless waits between episodes, Goodkind is certainly still serving up some of the best fantasy on today''s menu.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Seeker of Truth and his Mother Confessor sweetie are both looking a little worse for the wear after their chime-hunt in\n  <em>\n   Soul of the Fire\n  </em>\n  . To top that off, Lord Rahl finds himself a reluctant prophet with the vision that their cause, the fight for freedom against the Imperial Order, is essentially sunk. (Chalk that up to part of the Wizard''s First Rule: people really are stupid.) The two lovers soon find themselves separated, Richard off to the Old World thanks to treacherous Sister of the Dark Nicci, and Kahlan left behind, forced to betray Richard and his prophecy by raising an army to fend off the approaching armies of Emperor Jagang.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether it''s fair or not, Goodkind will likely get beaten up a bit for visiting the trough once too often, Ã  la Jordan. But fear not:\n  <em>\n   Faith of the Fallen\n  </em>\n  does progress at a good clip, and its conclusion--while by no means a final payout--should satisfy.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sequel to Soul of the Fire in Goodkind''s popular Sword of Truth series, this extended barrage of sword-swinging fantasy pits the New World''s Seeker of Truth, Richard Rahl, and his wife, Mother Confessor Kahlen Amnell, against the lethal totalitarian forces of the Imperial Order under Jangang "the Just" and his gorgeous masochistic minion Nicci, aka Death''s Mistress, a dreaded Sister of the Dark. After Richard helps a desperately wounded Kahlen heal in a mountain hideaway guarded by their ill-tempered blonde bombshell bodyguard, Cara, Nicci ensorcels Kahlen and forces Richard to abandon her for inhuman bondage in the Order-dominated Old World. Kahlen defies Richard''s prophecy that arms alone will never defeat the Order. She takes command of the D''Haran army, hopelessly outnumbered against Jagang''s black-magicked hordes who are invading the New World. Untangling all this gives Goodkind an ample canvas for enough disemboweling, spit roasting and miscellaneous mutilating of men, women and children to out-Sade the infamous marquis. His fansAand they are legionAwill revel in vicarious berserker battle scenes and agonize deliciously as Richard, reduced to slavery by Nicci, toils to establish a bastion of capitalism in the cold gray heart of the Stalinesque Old World. All the ponderous sound and fury of Goodkind''s attack on socialist-style do-gooders who are destroying the world, however, founders in a welter of improbable coincidences, heavy-handed humor and a disconcerting dependence on misusing the verb "smirk." For sheer volume of its Technicolor bloodbaths and its bathetic propagandistic bombast, this installment of Goodkind''s fantasy saga makes an indelible impact; anyone who yearns for Goodkind is going to be in high clover. $250,000 ad/promo. (Aug.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/50'),
(5082, 'Father&#39;s Financial Favour', 'Terry Appel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  This book is about how God took an orphan from poverty to generosity mhim a son, and through this son, released some of His wisdom about how to manage finances in the Father''s house.  The author''s desire is that it would bless you and help you come to know, and walk in Father''s financial freedom.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "This powerful book reminds us that the church at large has yet to fully understand all the biblical principles on finance.  It will challenge you to mature as a son, and to enter into the abundance that God has in store for everyone who is willing to work through the minefields of poverty and idolatry"\n  <br />\n  Eu Hong Seng, Senior Pastor, Full Gospel Tabernacle, Malaysia\n  <br />\n  "I consider it a great priviledge to endorse Terry Appel''s new book Father''s Financial Favour - from Poverty to Generosity...  Terry''s book is a real breakthrough...  The Insights Terry relates concerning God''s ways of stewarding finances and resources are life changing and fresh, not only with our ministry, but with our family finances as well.  All of Terry''s teachings have helped bring about substancial breakthrough.  Equally important...  Terry''s teachings and ministry come under the umbrella of a great focus on the Father heart of God...  I believe this book is a ''must read'' for all who desire to be both good stewards of God''s provision and know the wonderful provision of Father Fod for their lives"\n  <br />\n  Marc A. Dupont, Mantle of Praise Ministries, Inc Dayton Ohio\n  <br />\n  "Father''s Financial Favour is the challenging journey of an orphan, who discovers sonship and the joy of being led from poverty to generosity.  Terry Appel''s insight will help you discover the financial freedom Father has planned for your life.  If you want to understand finances, Father''s way, then read this book"\n  <br />\n  Barry Boucher, Pastor, The Life Centre, Ottawa Canada.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/110');
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(5083, 'The Final Detail', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In this sixth novel in the award-winning Myron Bolitar series, Harlan Coben delivers a riveting powerhouse thrillerâ€”a twisting mystery of betrayal, family secrets, and murder.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Myron Bolitarâ€™s colleague at MB SportsReps, Esperanza, has been arrested for the murder of a client, a fallen baseball star attempting a comeback. Myron is determined to prove Esperanzaâ€™s innocenceâ€”even if she wonâ€™t speak to him on the advice of her lawyer, who warns Myron to keep away from both the case and his client. But Myron is already too close, too involved, and has too much at stake. And the closer Myron gets to the truth, the more the evidence points to the only viable suspect besides Esperanza: Myron himself.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Myron Bolitar is a fascinating character--a guy in his 30s who just moved into his own New York apartment, and who still looks forward to dinner with his parents in New Jersey. A former pro-basketball star and Harvard Law School grad, he now runs his own sports agency, and also dabbles in the private investigation business. He is helped (and sometimes hindered) by his rich, blond, preppy friend Windsor Horne Lockwood III. Win has some awesome lethal powers hidden under his Brooks Brothers suits!\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Final Detail\n  </em>\n  Win and Myron are looking into the murder of a client--a troubled New York Yankees baseball player called Clu Haid. Clu was apparently shot to death by Esperanza Diaz, who just happens to be Myron''s best friend and partner in the sport''s agency. Esperanza is hiding something, but Myron isn''t sure if it has to do with her job, or with her private life. His search for the truth takes him back to a shabby incident from his own past, and to times he would rather forget. Author Harlan Coben casually drops in dozens of poignant moments of humanity that keep us--and Myron--firmly grounded in reality.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Other books in this excellent series include\n  <em>\n   Backspin\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Deal Breaker\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Drop Shot\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   One False Move\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   --Dick Adler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You know things are getting tough for Myron Bolitar when the crime-solving sports agent finds that his favorite tippleAthe chocolate drink Yoo-HooAhas lost its kick. At a particularly harrowing point in his latest Bolitar book (after One False Move), Coben reveals that his hero actually "craved a venti-size skim iced latte with a splash of vanilla." Despite being a former pro basketball star and Harvard Law School grad, Myron remains a touching everyman, a guy who still looks forward to dinner with his parents and can even cry in the bathroom after his father admits to some recent chest pains. In this case, Myron probes the murder of one of his clients, a troubled baseball player named Clu Haid, who was apparently shot by Myron''s sports-agency partner, Esperanza Diaz. Esperanza is hiding something, but Myron isn''t sure if it has to do with business or with her bisexuality. His search for the truth takes him to a bar called Take a Guess ("It''s About Ambiguity, Not Androgyny"), where he falls for a Julie Newmar/Catwoman look-alike who may or may not be female, and to the front offices at Yankee Stadium. Ultimately, the trail leads him to revisit a 12-year-old mystery about a missing girl as well as a shabby incident in his own past. Along the way, Coben works in poignant scenes, such as an interview with a mother who wallpapers her house with family photographs. Myron relies less on the lethal powers of his rich, blond, preppy friend Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III) than in previous adventures. The change makes for the strongest entry yet in a series that deftly balances realism with excitement, while refusing to fall back on genre clich?s. Major ad/promo; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/175'),
(5084, 'Fire Ice', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The hero of "Serpent" and "Blue Gold" confronts a deadly global plot, in the breathtaking new Kurt Austin adventure. Austin, leader of NUMA''s Special Assignment Team, faces a new menace, in the form of a mining tycoon who has proclaimed himself Czar of Russia. Claiming Romanov ancestry and backed by billions of dollars, he is determined to overthrow the already-shaky Russian government - and US opposition doesn''t bother him one bit.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This newest addition to the Kurt Austin series (after Blue Gold) has the men from NUMA ([National] Underwater &amp; Marine Agency) team up with former KGB spies to face down a Russian mobster with czarist aspirations and a zealot''s hatred for the "corruption and materialism" of the Western lifestyle. The NUMA research vessel Argo is in the Black Sea for a PR jaunt when Austin spots the overdue TV crew being chased down an island beach by mounted Cossacks. Austin learns from his old KGB Cold War adversary Vladimir Petrov that the island is a mothballed submarine base commandeered by paranoid mobster Mikhail Razov (employer of the Cossacks), a billionaire who built Ataman Industries by taking over utilities and mines sold by the state. Razov claims descent from the Romanovs and is plotting to assume the throne. Meanwhile, when a U.S. Navy sub goes missing and a mysterious tidal wave swamps a Maine coastal town, the NUMA team figures out that Ataman is mining "fire ice" unstable and explosive solid methane in the high-pressure deep-sea bottom. Austin and his oceanographic team join forces with Petrov and set out to foil Razov''s plot. Cussler is in top form here, working in a role for Old Ironsides and Czar Nicholas II''s crown while throwing in enough derring-do and eco-lore to leave his fans breathless. Coauthor Kemprecos (Blue Gold, with Cussler) adds his oceanographic expertise to the mix.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High School-Deposits of "fire ice," frozen methane hydrate found in abundance off of the East Coast of the United States, become potential hazards of monumental proportions. When an insane Russian mining mogul decides he can use the sub stance to threaten and destroy large areas of major national powers, he becomes the target for Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA''s (National Underwater and Marine Agency) Special Assignments Team. Austin and his partner in the fight against crime, Joe Zavala, encounter a band of traditionally dressed and armed Cossacks; an underground bunker of a Nazi sub; and the Russian mogul''s assistant, who looks and acts like Rasputin. With its many surprises, constant action, and Cussler''s special brand of characters, the book will be just the thing for readers who enjoy fast-paced action-adventure flavored with some alternate-history events.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/148'),
(5085, 'Flood Tide', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a hero whose name never appears in print without a registered trademark symbol beside it sets out on a new adventure, readers should know what to expect: a great deal of derring-do, outlandish adventures, and fantastical scenarios. For Dirk Pitt, reality is an inconsequential construct. What matters is the U.S. National Underwater and Maritime Agency (NUMA) superhero''s unflagging energy, wit, strength, sex appeal, and patriotism. In this tale of a Chinese billionaire who plans to divert the mighty Mississippi in order to expand his illegal smuggling ring, find a treasure lost at sea nearly half a century ago, and, incidentally, split the U.S. into three countries controlled by China, Cussler''s American version of James Bond struggles to save the day. All his trusty sidekicks are here, including Al Giordino, a regular partner in Pitt''s underwater adventures, and Admiral Sandecker, the NUMA commander. This time there''s a beautiful Chinese American INS agent as the love interest, and a mendacious American president, too. Flood Tide is a romp that will tickle Pitt and Cussler''s many fans, as well as readers new to this author who may find themselves stranded on the tarmac or tanning on Caribbean beaches.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(5086, 'For the Sake of Elena', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridgeâ€”where Elena was a student at St. Stephen''s Collegeâ€”her father and his second wife each had their own very different image of the girl. As for Elena, she lived a life of casual and intense physical and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and goals to achieve--until someone, lying in wait along the route she ran every morning, bludgeoned her to death.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unwilling to turn the killing over to the local police, the university calls in New Scotland Yard. Thus, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, enter the rarefied world of Cambridge University, where academic gowns often hide murderous intentions.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  For both officers, the true identity of Elena Weaver proves elusive. Each relationship the girl left behind casts new light both on Elena and on those people who appeared to know her bestâ€”from an unsavory Swedish-born Shakespearean professor to the brooding head of the Deaf Students Union.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  What''s more, Elena''s father, a Cambridge professor under consideration for a prestigious post, is a man with his own dark secrets. While his past sins make him neurotically dedicated to Elena and blind to her blacker side, present demons drive him toward betrayal.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley of New Scotland Yard investigates murder at Cambridge University as he continues his suit for the love of Lady Helen in George''s ( A Suitable Vengeance ) latest well-crafted mystery. The high-born Lynley and his sergeant, Barbara Havers, whose personal dilemmas revolve around choosing adequate care for her increasingly senile mother, are sent to advise the Cambridge constabulary after student Elena Weaver, a long-distance runner and daughter of highly respected university history professor Anthony Weaver, is found battered to death near a running path. As the investigation reveals that Elena, who was deaf, was not at all the innocent naif her doting father imagined, Lynley comes to understand Lady Helen''s deep-rooted questions about their relationship and their individual independence. Another murder occurs and assorted extracurricular passions among prominent academics are bared; George also explores such issues as whether deafness is a cultural stigma or a genuine handicap, the nature of family identity and betrayal, and the imperatives of the creative temperament. While elements of the plot are somewhat stretched, George''s story never fails to engage. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo .\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fifth outing for Scotland Yard''s Inspector Lynley (rich, sleek aristocrat) and Sergeant Havers (rough-edged, bitter plain- Jane)--this time called up to Cambridge to investigate the brutal murder of a sexy, unstable, deaf student. Who ambushed Elena Weaver during one of her usual early- morning runs and pummeled her to death? Suspects abound--especially once an autopsy reveals that Elena was pregnant. She had accused one teacher of sexual harassment, had been having an affair with another (married) one. She''d also been involved with a deaf-rights activist. Meanwhile, she was having stormy times with her overprotective father, a Cambridge don hoping for a major new appointment, and with her edgy stepmother. And is it just coincidence that the woman who finds Elena''s body, an important local artist, was the sometime mistress of Elena''s father? As usual, George lays on the psychosexual Sturm und Drang with a sure, if slightly heavy, hand; the dialogue occasionally thickens into awkward, stagy speeches. Also as usual, the sleuths contend with personal anguish: Havers must deal with a senile mum; Lynley continues his tediously drawn-out courtship of Lady Helen--an overwrought imitation of Lord Peter and Miss Vane. But, though uneven and puffy, this is George''s best work since her debut (A Great Deliverance)--a generally absorbing job in the P.D. James manner, without the excesses and missteps of the other Lynley/Havers outings. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(5087, 'Gardens of the Moon', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen''s rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins.Â \n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, their lone surviving mage, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the many dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities, yet holds out. It is to this ancient citadel that Laseen turns her predatory gaze.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  However, the Empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister, shadowbound forces are gathering as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand . . .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Conceived and written on a panoramic scale,\n  <em>\n   Gardens of the Moon\n  </em>\n  is epic fantasy of the highest order--an enthralling adventure by an outstanding voice. Â \n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this sprawling fantasy epic of the Malazan empire at war with its enemies and itself, the first of a projected 10-volume series, Canadian newcomer Erikson offers many larger-than-life scenes and ideas, but his characters seem to shrink to fit the story. Perhaps they need to stay small enough for the reader to keep them all in mind. Jumping often between plot lines, the novel follows Ganoes Stabro Paran from his boyhood dreaming of soldiers to his escape from imperial service. Paran travels on journeys of body and soul, going from innocent to hardened rebel against gods and empire without losing his moral core. Other characters may go further, to death and back even, but none is as sharply portrayed. The book features a plethora of princes and paupers, powers and principalities, with much inventive detail to dazzle and impart a patina of mystery and ages past. The fast-moving plot, with sieges, duels (of sword and of spell), rebellions, intrigue and revenge, unearthed monsters and earth-striding gods, doesn''t leave much room for real depth. Heroes win, villains lose, fairness reigns, tragedy is averted. Erikson may aspire to China MiÃ©ville heights, but he settles comfortably in George R.R. Martin country.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the first of a projected 10 volumes of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, the Malazan Empire is up to its eyebrows in the intrigues of mage Anomander Rake and his sorcerous minions, the Tiste Andii. The empress Laseen pursues her grisly ambitions with the aid of the Ninja-like Claw assassins, but Erikson focuses on the grunt-level fighting of military engineers Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his Bridgeburners and the field-grade mage Tattersall, who are more than ready to go home, when the empress commands a battle in and around the Free City of Darujhistan. Erikson portrays this hurly-burly--something very like the Lord of the Rings'' Battle of the Pellenor Fields--from the perspective of those who had to get out of the way of the charges and exchanges of spells and sometimes died anyway. It remains to be seen whether Erikson''s excellent writing will carry through nine more volumes of this gritty, realistic fantasy in the manner of Glen Cook''s Dark Company series. Wager on fantasy readers'' robust appetites, however.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
(5088, 'Golden Buddha', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Captain Cabrillo and his intelligence agents plan to strike a deal with the Russians and Chinese to exchange a golden Buddha containing records of oil reserves for Tibet''s freedom, but his enemies will do anything to stop him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/115'),
(5089, 'Gone for Good', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n On October 17, eleven years ago, Julie Miller was found brutally strangled in the basement of her house in the township of Livingston, New Jersey. On that day, Will''s brother, Ken Klein, became the subject of an international manhunt accused of the crime. He has not been seen since. Will has tried to get on with his life in the intervening years. He has a beautiful new girlfriend, Sheila, and a job working with the homeless. But when his mother reveals on her deathbed that Ken is still alive, and shortly afterwards Sheila disappears, the cracks start to show in his landscape again. But it is only when he finds that Sheila herself is wanted for a savage double-murder that his life actually starts to fall apart...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/166'),
(5090, 'A Great Deliverance', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale''s lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they''d hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell''s raiders.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now into Keldale''s pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father''s headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I''m not sorry."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet as Lynley and Havers wind their way through Keldale''s dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this tranquil English valleyâ€”and in their own lives as well.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her debut novel, George too often plays to the gallery with characterizations broad enough to border on caricature. The legendharking back to violent events in Cromwell''s timethat surrounds local Keldale Abbey pales in comparison to a modern-day crime committed in this quiet corner of Yorkshire, England: Roberta Teys, a silent, obese adolescent, is accused of killing her church-going father with an axe. The detectives sent by Scotland Yard to investigate are a mismatched pair. Inspector Thomas Lynley is smooth, attractive and utterly upper-class; "stubby, sturdy" detective-sergeant Barbara Havers, conscious of her plain appearance and lower-class origins, considers Lynley a "sodding little fop." Thrown together, they weigh the general conviction in the villagethat Roberta could not possibly have wielded the bloody axeagainst mounting evidence that damns the now catatonic girl. In sifting slowly through the ashes of the past, the detectives find enough horrific skeletons in every closet to lead them to a climax unexpectedly loaded with fire and fury. While Lynley seems rather bland despite emotion roiling beneath the surface, it is Havers'' painful secrets and driving rage that encourage one to overlook decidedly uneven passages in this essentially intriguing psychological thriller. 35,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Spellbinding...a truly fascinating story that is part psychological suspense and part detective story."â€”\n  <em>\n   Chicago Sun-Times\n  </em>\n  "Pure entertainment from its insidious beginning to its gripping end."â€”\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n  "Exceptionally assured and impressive...highly entertaining."â€”\n  <em>\n   Newsweek\n  </em>\n  "Awesome...immediately thrusts the author into P.D. James'' dark orbit."â€”\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(5091, 'Grinning Man (Short Story)', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n Alvin and Arthur are traveling throughÂ \n <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">\n  Kentucky\n </a>\n Â country and come across a man who is grinning at a bear. Further on, they find a town where a prosperous\n <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller" title="Miller" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">\n  miller\n </a>\n Â takes Alvin and Arthur in to work, but Alvin soon discovers why the miller is so prosperous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/109'),
(5092, 'Guardians of the West', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Discover the magic of The Malloreonâ€“David Eddingsâ€™s acclaimed series, the sequel to his bestselling The Belgariad. Now the first three Malloreon books appear in a single volume, taking us on an epic quest across strange lands among gods, kings, sorcerers, and ordinary men. It is a gripping tale of two ancient warring destinies fighting a battle of good against evil.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Garion has slain the evil God Torak and is now the King of Riva. The prophecy has been fulfilledâ€“or so it seems. For there is a dire warning, as a great evil brews in the East. Now Garion once again finds himself with the fate of the world resting on his shoulders. When Garionâ€™s infant son is kidnapped by Zandramas, the Child of Dark, a great quest begins to rescue the child. Among those on the dangerous mission are Garion and his wife, Queen Ceâ€™Nedra, and the immortal Belgarath the Sorcerer and his daughter, Polgara. They must make their way through the foul swamps of Nyissa, then into the lands of the Murgos. Along the way, they will face grave dangersâ€“captivity, a horde of demons, a fatal plagueâ€“while Zandramas plots to use Garionâ€™s son in a chilling ritual that will make the Dark Prophecy supreme. . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/14'),
(5093, 'Heartfire', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person''s heart. She can follow the paths of each person''s future, and know each person''s most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin Maker''s birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now they are married, and Peggy is a part of Alvin''s heart as well as his life.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Alvin''s destiny has taken them on separate journeys. Alvin has gone north into New England, where knacks are considered witchcraft, and their use is punished with death.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Peggy has been drawn south, to the British Crown Colonies and the court of King Arthur Stuart in exile. For she has seen a terrible future bloom in the heartfires of every person in America, a future of war and destruction. One slender path exists that leads through the bloodshed, and it is Peggy''s quest to set the world on the path to peace.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the fifth novel in Orson Scott Card''s popular Alvin the Maker series, based on an alternate America where some people are born with\n  <em>\n   knacks\n  </em>\n  , which resemble magical abilities. The protagonist of the series, Alvin, is a\n  <em>\n   maker\n  </em>\n  who not only can fix things (such as restoring a wounded bird to health with his doodlebug) but is also something of a natural leader. Alvin and his small band of followers are on a quest to build the Crystal City, a place where those who have knacks can live in safety from the people who sometimes burn them as witches. While Alvin visits the nearly holy province of New England to find out just how cities work, his wife Margaret, traveling under the name Peggy, journeys to the kingdom of Camelot, which was formerly known as Charleston, South Carolina. There she hopes to persuade the exiled King Arthur to help her abolish the practice of slavery. Heartfire is an excellent midseries novel that''s sure to delight fans of Alvin.\n  <em>\n   --Craig E. Engler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fifth in Hugo and Nebula winner Card''s immensely popular Tales of Alvin Maker, this installment of alternative American history centers around two grievous social wrongs. Arthur Stuart, exiled King of England, reigns in Camelot (Charleston), capital of the slaveholding southern Crown Colonies; in New England, meanwhile, "witchers" connive to execute anyone with the "knack," the ability to connect to the powers of the universe. Just before civil war erupts, telekinetic Alvin and his historical friends, such as John James Audubon, and legendary ones, such as riverman Mike Fink, set about to abolish New England''s antiwitch laws, while Alvin''s wife and mentor, Margaret, uses her ability to read human souls to offer the hope of freedom to the Colonies'' slaves and to heal Alvin''s malevolent brother before he can kill her husband. Card''s antebellum settings, dialogue and historical figures seem authentic and thoroughly researched, and, as always, he offers excellent differentiation of characters. However, Card is as occasionally windy and preachy as ever, and the plethora of lengthy philosophical and/or psychological digressions make for considerably less fictional sizzle than fizzle. Consider this a good bet for fans of the series, but not for a wider readership.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/107'),
(5094, 'Hidden City', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  WAR TO THE DEATH\n  <br />\n  The Pandion Knight Sparhawk had bested the massed forces of the God Cyrgon upon the field of battle. But victory turned to ashes when the foul God''s minions kidnapped Sparhawk''s wife, the beautiful Queen Ehlana. Sparhawk must surrender Bhelliom, the awesome jewel of power--or Ehlana would die.\n  <br />\n  But Cyrgon''s lackeys had misjudged their foe. Sparhawk fought on, and none of his companions flinched from the awesome struggle, though each must vanquish forces of evil from Tamuli''s dark past, and from fetid places beyond human ken.\n  <br />\n  Still, the full magnitude of their peril was yet to be revealed...Cyrgon had dared the unthinkable: He had called forth Kleal, Bhelliom''s opposite, to rend the very world asunder. Thus, as it had ever been decreed, would Bhelliom and Kleal contend for the fate of this world--even as the man Sparhawk must finally face the God Cyrgon, in mortal combat and alone...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this conclusion to the trilogy begun with Domes of Fire, Sir Sparhawk must rescue his wife, Queen Ehlana of Elenia, from the followers of the mad god Cyrgon. Her kidnapping occurs as various Church Knights and Atan troops are finishing what they believe are mopping-up operations against the enemies of the Tamuli emperor, Sarabian. Ehlana''s abductor is the son of the Styric renegade masterminding a plot against the emperor. Her safe return is promised in exchange for Bhelliom, the powerful living gem responsible for the destruction of the evil god Azash. The Pandion knight Berit, disguised as Sparkhawk by a spell, moves from place to place following the kidnappers'' instructions, while Sparhawk, in another guise, seeks allies, and the child-goddess Aphrael (reborn as Ehlana''s and Sparhawk''s daughter Danae) calls on some reluctant fellow gods to lend aid. These moves are gravely complicated by the machinations of Cyrgon, who has unleashed Klael, the ancient embodiment of evil. A new note of introspection gives a fuller dimension to Eddings''s rousing adventure.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  To rescue his beloved Queen from the clutches of a mad god''s minions, the Pandion Knight Sparhawk confronts a monster capable of destroying his world. The conclusion to the latest series by the best-selling author of "The Belgariad" and other fantasy series promises to be a much-requested title. Libraries should purchase according to demand.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/70'),
(5095, 'Hold Tight', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   Bestseller\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mike and Tia Baye decide to spy on their son Adam, who has become moody and withdrawn since his friendâ€™s suicide. The software they install on his computer exposes every website visited, every e-mail and instant message sent or received. But each keystroke draws them deeper into a maze of mayhem and violence that could destroy them all.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Parents will find this compulsive page-turner from Edgar-winner Coben (\n  <em>\n   The Woods\n  </em>\n  ) particularly unnerving. A sadistic killer is at play in suburban Glen Rock, N.J., outside New York City, but somehow he''s less frightening than the more mundane problems that send ordinary lives into chaos. How do you weigh a child''s privacy against a parent''s right to know? How do you differentiate normal teenage rebelliousness from out-of-control behavior? When and how do you intervene if suicidal signs appear? Other issues include single parenting; career versus family; marital honesty; and how much information you should share with a child at what age. Coben plucks each of these strings like a virtuoso as Mike and Tia Baye try to deal with the increasing withdrawal of their 16-year-old son, Adam, after a friend''s suicide. A pair of brutal, seemingly senseless killings, punctuate the unfolding domestic troubles that ratchet up the tension and engulf the Baye family, their friends and neighbors in a web of increasing tragedy. The this could be me factor lends poignancy to the thrills and chills.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''An irresistibly fluid narrative drive and more twists than a box of corkscrews, help make Hold Tight another masterwork from one of crime fiction''s most accomplished writers.'' --\n  <em>\n   YORKSHIRE EVENING POST\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''Coben''s 17th novel reads like a checklist of contentious societal ills: gun crimes, substance abuse and modern parenting techniques all feature in a plot that, like many of his thrillers, underlines how easily fate and confusion can conspire to induce tragedy.'' --\n  <em>\n   ESQUIRE\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''Hold Tight is one of his [Coben''s] finest stand-alone novels, demonstrating his quiet skill at orchestrating tension... This is vintage Harlan Coben, and a cinematic adaptation (French or otherwise) is bound to follow.'' --\n  <em>\n   GOOD BOOK GUIDE\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''Once started there''s no way it will remain unfinished'' --\n  <em>\n   LONDON LITE\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''This novel exudes the sort of high-grade glossy competence that characterises a good Agatha Christie story or an episode of The Sopranos. And that''s a considerable compliment.'' --\n  <em>\n   Andrew Taylor, THE SPECTATOR\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''This thrilling book will have you hooked'' --\n  <em>\n   BELLA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''Vintage Coben'' --\n  <em>\n   IRISH INDEPENDENT\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''[A] superior thriller... Hold Tight, as the title suggests, provides a rollercoaster ride, full of twists and turns, which explores the fireceness of paternal love.'' --\n  <em>\n   EVENING STANDARD\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''an excellent psychological thriller... If, like me, you have been waiting with baited breath for the new Harlen Coben book - Hold Tight will not disappoint.'' --\n  <em>\n   CRIME SQUAD\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a thriller writer... starts trading on ''ishoos'' it''s generally a sign of trouble at the creative mill. Not here.'' --\n  <em>\n   DAILY TELEGRAPH\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/167'),
(5096, 'The Hunger Games', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games," a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review.\n  <em>\n   Reviewed by\n  </em>\n  Megan Whalen Turner\n  <br />\n  If there really are only seven original plots in the world, it''s odd that boy meets girl is always mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the good guy never is. Yet we have\n  <em>\n   Fahrenheit 451\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Giver\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The House of the Scorpion\n  </em>\n  â€”and now, following a long tradition of Brave New Worlds,\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  . Collins hasn''t tied her future to a specific date, or weighted it down with too much finger wagging. Rather less\n  <em>\n   1984\n  </em>\n  and rather more\n  <em>\n   Death Race 2000\n  </em>\n  , hers is a gripping story set in a postapocalyptic world where a replacement for the United States demands a tribute from each of its territories: two children to be used as gladiators in a televised fight to the death.Katniss, from what was once Appalachia, offers to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she is entirely focused on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the importance of holding on to one''s humanity in such inhuman circumstances. It''s a credit to Collins''s skill at characterization that Katniss, like a new Theseus, is cold, calculating and still likable. She has the attributes to be a winner, where Peeta has the grace to be a good loser.It''s no accident that these games are presented as pop culture. Every generation projects its fear: runaway science, communism, overpopulation, nuclear wars and, now, reality TV. The State of Panemâ€”which needs to keep its tributaries subdued and its citizens complacentâ€”may have created the Games, but mindless television is the real danger, the means by which society pacifies its citizens and punishes those who fail to conform. Will its connection to reality TV, ubiquitous today, date the book? It might, but for now, it makes this the right book at the right time. What happens if we choose entertainment over humanity? In Collins''s world, we''ll be obsessed with grooming, we''ll talk funny, and all our sentences will end with the same rise as questions. When Katniss is sent to stylists to be made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked in front of them, strangely unembarrassed. They''re so unlike people that I''m no more self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet, she thinks. In order not to hate these creatures who are sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It isn''t just the contestants who risk the loss of their humanity. It is all who watch. Katniss struggles to win not only the Games but the inherent contest for audience approval. Because this is the first book in a series, not everything is resolved, and what is left unanswered is the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We know what she has given up to survive, but not whether the price was too high. Readers will wait eagerly to learn more.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Megan Whalen Turner is the author of the Newbery Honor book\n  </em>\n  The Thief\n  <em>\n   and its sequels,\n  </em>\n  The Queen of Attolia\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  The King of Attolia\n  <em>\n   . The next book in the series will be published by Greenwillow in 2010.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up -In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss''s young sister, Prim, is selected as the mining district''s female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son of the town baker who seems to have all the fighting skills of a lump of bread dough, will be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained for this their whole lives. Collins''s characters are completely realistic and sympathetic as they form alliances and friendships in the face of overwhelming odds; the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will definitely resonate with the generation raised on reality shows like ''Survivor'' and ''American Gladiator.'' Book one of a planned trilogy.\n  <em>\n   Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/32'),
(5097, 'The Hunt for Atlantis', 'Andy McDermott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Following in the tradition of Clive Cussler and Matthew Reilly, Andy McDermott takes us a roller-coaster ride in search of the legendary Atlantis. Archaeologist Nina Wilde believes she has found the location of the lost city of Atlantis and now she wants the opportunity to prove her theory. Someone else though wants her dead! With the help of ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase and beautiful heiress Kari Frost, Nina faces a breakneck race against time around the world, pursued at every step by agents of the mysterious -- and murderous -- Brotherhood of Selasphoros. From the jungles of Brazil to the mountains of Tibet, from the streets of Manhattan to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, the hunt for Atlantis leads to a secret hidden for 11,000 years -- which in the wrong hands could destroy civilization as we know it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/203'),
(5098, 'I Am Number Four', 'Pittacus Lore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic booksâ€”but we are real.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. we have lived among you without you knowing. But\n  <em>\n   they\n  </em>\n  know.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They caught Number One in Malaysia.\n  <br />\n  Number Two in England.\n  <br />\n  And Number Three in Kenya.\n  <br />\n  They killed them all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I am Number Four. I am next.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2010\n  </strong>\n  : John Smith has just arrived in Paradise, Ohio, just another stop in a string of small towns where the 15-year-old has been hiding out from the Mogadorians. Those terrifying aliens are hellbent on destroying him and the other nine Loric children who have sought refuge on Earth. The Mogadorians are picking off the surviving kids in numerical order. The first three are dead and John''s number is up. Will his Legacies, his defining super powers, develop in time for him to fight against the enemy?\n  <em>\n   I Am Number Four\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   is a breathless page-turner of a sci-fi novel that will have readers rooting for the teen alien who must unleash his fire power to save himself, his human friends, and the planet. This is the first of a slated multi-book series that, judging by this first book, will help reinvigorate a traditional YA genre that''s grown a bit light on strong character development. So, gear-up sci-fi fans, the battle for Earth is on and there''s a new kid in town!\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   --Lauren Nemroff\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Will Hill and Pittacus Lore: Author One-on-One\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Will Hill''s new thrilling trilogy kicks off with\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Department Nineteen\n  </em>\n  . Recently he was able to ask some questions of the mysterious Pittacus Lore. Read the resulting Amazon-exclusive interview below, or turn the tables to see what happened when Pittacus interviewed Will.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Will:\n   </strong>\n   Number Four is told to blend in but he finds this a difficult task. Being a mysterious figure yourself, has this ever happened to you?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Pittacus:\n   </strong>\n   I have always taken great care to conceal my identity. I change my appearance regularly. I do not speak or correspond with many people. No one has ever suspected me of being what I am, which is an alien military leader with superpowers. If anyone ever does, it will be a bad day for me.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Will:\n   </strong>\n   Why is now the time to write the unknown history of the planet Lorien and the Nine? What do you think the people of Earth can learn from the Lorien Legacies?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Pittacus:\n   </strong>\n   We are in the middle of a war to save the remaining Lorien, and to save earth. We thought the people of earth might want to know about it. I hope humanity does not make the same mistake we did on our planet, which was to be unprepared the day war arrived on a grand scale.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Will:\n   </strong>\n   Who do you think would win in a fight, Dracula or a Mogadorian?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Pittacus:\n   </strong>\n   Dracula wouldnâ€™t stand a chance. If he tried to drink Mogadorian blood heâ€™d poison himself. Itâ€™s would be like drinking battery acid.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Will:\n   </strong>\n   Number Four has his legacies as his best weapon. Do you think John could be an agent of\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Department Nineteen\n  </em>\n  ?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Pittacus:\n   </strong>\n   Once we have vanquished the Mogadorians, maybe that is what he will become. He certainly has some mad skills.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Will:\n   </strong>\n   Sarah in\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   I Am Number Four\n  </em>\n  is in love with an alien. Jamie in\n  <em>\n   Department Nineteen\n  </em>\n  is falling for a vampire named Larissa. What makes young love just so difficult? Do you think these crazy kids/vampires/aliens will ever make it work?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Pittacus:\n   </strong>\n   Love is a beautiful and confusing thing. I hope they all live happily ever after.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Will:\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   I Am Number Four\n  </em>\n  has made the perfect action sci-fi movie. What has it been like to see this come to life on the big screen?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Pittacus:\n   </strong>\n   Itâ€™s been thrilling and fun and very cool. Weâ€™re hoping to see all six of the books become films.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Will:\n   </strong>\n   What can we expect in\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Power of Six\n  </em>\n  ?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Pittacus:\n   </strong>\n   Six is a powerful young woman. Mogadorians fear her. In\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Power of Six\n  </em>\n  , we see why.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n   From School Library Journal\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Grade 7 Upâ€”Despite the amazing powers that many of the people of Lorien possess, the planet was defeated and its natural resources looted by Mogadorians in a matter of days. Only nine children escaped with their guardians to Earth, where they planned to hide until they developed their powers in order to defeat their enemies and revive Lorien. The Mogadorians hunt the Nine and have already killed three of them. And that''s just the backstory. When Number Four, bearing the name "John Smith," moves to Paradise, OH, he runs afoul of the school bully, falls for the most beautiful girl in town, and befriends the local alien conspiracy nerd in short order. There is plenty of great action, but the dialogue is average, as is the character development. With its interesting premises and a fast-pace telling, the story will grab readers who are willing to suspend quite a bit of disbelief. Others, who like their science fiction with a bit more science and internal logic, will have to search elsewhere.â€”\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Eric Norton, McMillan Memorial Library, Wisconsin Rapids, WI\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/187');
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(5099, 'I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Nine&#39;s Legacy', 'Pittacus Lore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Number Nine-when John frees him from his cell in the power of six, he''s ferocious, reckless, and ready to fight back. But being held captive changes a person-even a Lorien.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before meeting John Smith, aka Number Four, before being held prisoner, Nine was hunting down Mogadorians in Chicago with his C''pan, Sandor. What happened there would change Nine forever. .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now you can have an exclusive look at what Nine was like before his capture, and read about his dramatic escape from his point of view.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/188'),
(5100, 'I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Six&#39;s Legacy: The Lost Files: Six&#39;s Legacy', 'Pittacus Lore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Number Six - when John meets her in\n  <em>\n   I Am Number Four\n  </em>\n  she''s strong, powerful, and ready to fight. But who is she? Where has she been living? How has she been training? When did she develop her legacies? And how does she know so much about the Mogadorians?\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Six''s Legacy\n  </em>\n  , discover the story behind Six. Before Paradise, Ohio, before John Smith, Six was traveling through West Texas with her C''pan, Katarina. What happened there would change Six forever . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/189'),
(5101, 'I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Fallen Legacies', 'Pittacus Lore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Before Number Four, there were One, Two, and Three. Until now we''ve only known that the Mogadorians caught Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya. But all of that is about to change. . . .   In i am number four: the lost files: the fallen legacies, you''ll learn the true story behind these ill-fated members of the Garde. Before they were murdered by the Mogadorians, before Number Four was next, they were all just kids on an alien planet called Earthâ€”discovering their powers, trying to stay hidden, and running for their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/186'),
(5102, 'Iceberg', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Frozen inside a million-ton mass of ice-the charred remains of a long missing luxury yacht, vanished en route to a secret White House rendezvous.Â  The only clue to the ship''s priceless-and missing-cargo: nine ornately carved rings and the horribly burned bodies of its crew.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Cussler has developed and patented a vibrant, rollicking narrative style that seldom shows signs of relenting." -\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Chicago Tribune\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For Raise the Titanic!: ''A great adventure thriller which spins from one dizzying climax to another ... Riveting ... simply super and very cleverly done'' Publishers Weekly\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(5103, 'In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Read by Derek JacobiCalder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous gritstone ridges. But this time, when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of stones known as Nine Sisters Henge, it is clearly not a case for Mountain Rescue. The corpses are those of a young man and woman. Each met death in a different fashion. Each died violently.To Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley this grisly crime promises to be one of the toughest assignments of his career. For the unfortunate Nicola Maiden was the daughter of a former officer in an elite undercover unit, a man Lynley once regarded as a mentor. Now, Lynley struggles to find out if Nicola''s killer was an enemy of her father''s or one she earned herself, while a disgraced Barbara Havers, determined to redeem herself in the eyes of her longtime partner, crisscrosses London seeking information on the second murder victim.Yet the more dark secrets Lynley and Havers uncover, the more they learn that neither the victims nor the suspects are who they appear to be. And once again they come up against the icy realization that human relationships are often murderous--and that the blood that binds can also kill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(5104, 'In the Presence of the Enemy', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at\n  <em>\n   The Source,\n  </em>\n  he discovers that someone else excels at ferreting out secrets as well.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ten-year-old Charlotte Bowen has been abducted, and if Luxford does not admit publicly to having fathered her, she will die. But Charlotte''s existence is Luxford''s most fiercely guarded secret, and acknowledging her as his child will throw more than one life and career into chaos. Luxford knows that the story of Charlotte''s paternity could make him a laughingstock and reveal to his beautiful wife and son the lie he''s lived for a decade. Yet it''s not only Luxford''s reputation that''s on the line: it''s also the reputationâ€”and careerâ€”of Charlotte Bowen''s mother. For she is Undersecretary of State for the Home Office, one of the most high-profile Junior Ministers and quite possibly the next Margaret Thatcher.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Knowing that her political future hangs in the balance, Eve Bowen refuses to let Luxford damage her career by printing the story or calling the police. So the editor turns to forensic scientist Simon St. James for help. It''s a case that fills St. James with disquiet, however, for none of the players in the drama seem to react the way one would expect.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then tragedy occurs and New Scotland Yard becomes involved. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley soon discovers that the case sends tentacles from London into the countryside, and he must simultaneously outfox death as he probes Charlotte Bowen''s mysterious disappearance. Meanwhile, his partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, working part of the investigation on her own and hoping to make the coup of her career, may be drawing closer to a grim solutionâ€”and to dangerâ€”than anyone knows.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In the Presence of the Enemy\n  </strong>\n  is a brilliantly insightful and haunting novel of ideals corrupted by self-interest, of the sins of parents visited upon children, and of the masks that hide people from each otherâ€”and from themselves.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her previous novels, including the bestselling Playing for the Ashes, George has developed the characters of forensic scientist Simon St. James, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers to a fine degree. In this, her eighth novel, the secret love child of an ambitious politician and a sleazy tabloid publisher is kidnapped. When Scotland Yard gets involved, Lynley and Havers must elude death as they search for the child and her kidnappers. An insightful and haunting novel of ideals corrupted and retribution visited upon the heads of the innocent.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After seven outings (the last was Playing for the Ashes), upper-crust Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his stubby, working-class sergeant, Barbara Havers, have formed a comfortable working relationship, which George plays to perfection here. Ten-year-old Charlotte, daughter of Conservative MP Eve Bowen, is abducted after leaving a weekly music lesson not far from her London home. Dennis Luxford, editor for a tabloid-style, decidedly anti-Conservative newspaper, receives a message threatening Charlotte unless he acknowledges her paternity. Bowen, a rising star in the Home Office, chooses to avoid using the police, knowing that disclosure of her brief, long-ago fling with Luxford will ruin her politically. She agrees with Luxford to ask forensic scientist Simon St. James and his assistant Lady Helen (who is Lynley''s lover) to investigate undercover. But soon a murder draws in Scotland Yard, allowing Lynley and Havers to lead a complicated investigation to its electrifying and astonishing conclusion. This absorbing tale, in which retribution for the sins of the parents is exacted from-and by-their children, raises questions of parental love and responsibility on several levels. George''s fully developed characters will live with the readers long after the last page is turned. Mystery Guild selection; Literary Guild alternate; BDD Audio.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(5105, 'Inca Gold', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When a tsunami hit a Spanish treasure galleon, all trace of a golden hoard greater than that of any pharaoh''s vanished into history. Until NUMA agent DIRK PITTÂ® dives into an ancient sacrificial pool far into the Andean jungle in order to rescue two archaeologists, and plunges into a vortex of corruption, betrayal, and death. A sinister crime syndicate has traced the long-lost treasure -- worth almost a billion dollars -- from the Andes to the banks of a hidden underground river flowing beneath a Mexican desert. Nothing will stop their ruthless and murderous drive to recover the gold. Nothing, that is, until Pitt and his team place themselves square in the path of danger....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A chance rescue of two divers trapped in a Peruvian sinkhole leads series hero Dirk Pitt ( Raise the Titanic! ; Deep Six ) into a search for lost treasure that involves grave robbers, art thieves and ancient curses. Cussler''s latest adventure novel features terrorists who aren '' t really terrorists and a respected archeologist who is not what he seems; it all boils down to a race between Pitt and some unscrupulous crooks for a cache of Inca gold hidden away from the Spanish and lost since the 16th century. The villains, a society of art and antiquity smugglers called the Solpemachaco , want to get their hands on the Golden Body Suit of Tiapollo, which contains in its hieroglyphics a description of the Inca treasure''s hidden burial place. Pitt ends up searching for a jade box containing a quipu , an Inca silver-and-gold metalwork map to the treasure. The box was stolen from the Indians by the Spanish, stolen from the Spanish by Francis Drake and then lost in the South American jungle, but readers who know Pitt know that that a 400-year-old missing clue is only a minor obstacle. Master storyteller Cussler keeps the action spinning as he weaves a number of incredible plotlines and coincidences into a believable and gripping story. It''s pure escapist adventure, with a wry touch of humor and a certain self-referential glee (Cussler himself makes a cameo appearance), but the entertainment value meets the gold standard. 550,000 first printing; Literary Guild super release and Doubleday Book Club super release.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dirk Pitt is back in fine form as he rescues two archaeologists from certain death in a Peruvian sinkhole. Before Pitt climbs out of the hole he runs afoul of the Solpemachace, a group of three brothers who steal and sell Indian artifacts. Pitt finds a rope sculpture, a quipu, that points the way to a huge Inca treasure. Meanwhile, the Solpemachace steal the Golden Body Suit of Tiapollo, which leads them to the same treasure inside a mountain in Baja, Mexico. As both sides race to the treasure, the Solpemachace capture Pitt''s girlfriend, Congresswoman Loren Smith. With his lifelong, wisecracking friend, Al Giordino, Pitt braves an uncharted underground river to rescue Loren and stop the Solpemachace. Cussler weaves Inca legends and lore in a spellbinding tale featuring enduring hero Pitt, a skin-diving Indiana Jones with a James Bond attitude. Cussler fans will demand this one. For all fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/135'),
(5106, 'The Innocent', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  You never meant to kill himâ€¦.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fightâ€”and ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, heâ€™s an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. But all it will take is one shocking, inexplicable call from Oliviaâ€™s phone to shatter Mattâ€™s life a second timeâ€¦.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An electrifying thrill ride of a novel that peeks behind the white picket fences of suburbia, The Innocent is at once a twisting, turning, emotionally charged story and a compelling tale of the choices we make and the repercussions that never leave.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Matt Hunter made a mistake when he was 20 years old and paid for it with a four-year stint in prison that left him with a determination never to be locked up again. Finally, his life is back on the promising track he was taking before he accidentally killed a man: He has a good job, a newly pregnant wife he adores, and is about to close on the home of their dreams. Then he gets a couple of bizarre photos on his cell phone that seem to show his wife in a compromising position with a black-haired stranger. But before he can sort out who sent the anonymous pictures and why, he''s running from the law--especially from the cop who was his best friend in grade school, and a sharp young detective who''s stepped right into the middle of an FBI investigation spurred by the discovery that a dead nun who wasn''t who she claimed to be is somehow mixed up in Matt and Olivia Hunter''s life. Coben deftly wields a complicated plot involving a missing stripper, a dead gangster, an incriminating videotape, and a couple of agents who aren''t quite who they seem to be, while Hunter manages to hold onto his faith in Olivia despite her clouded past and uncertain future. Like all Coben''s protagonists, (including the hero of his popular series starring sports agent turned detective Myron Bolitar) Hunter is a nice, middle-class New Jersey boy who''s still the innocent of the title, despite the miscarriage of justice that sent him to prison. Or was it? That''s the moral question at the heart of this tightly constructed thriller, which will no doubt shoot directly to the top of the bestseller list, and deservedly so.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    A Bit of Bolitar\n   </em>\n   : An Exclusive Essay by Harlan Coben\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beloved series character Myron Bolitar appears in a new short story included with Harlan Coben''s latest thriller,\n  <em>\n   The Innocent\n  </em>\n  . In this Amazon.com exclusive essay, Coben shares his thoughts on Bolitar''s return.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Coben seems to delight in making bad things happen to good people (\n  <em>\n   Tell No One\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   Gone for Good\n  </em>\n  ; etc.), and he does it again in this, his best book to date. A paralegal, devoted husband and soon-to-be father, Matt Hunter has a not-so-secret past: when he was 20, in an attempt to break up a fistfight, he killed a man and served four years in prison for it. He''s been out five years, living in his New Jersey hometown, and life is pretty good. But when his beloved wife, Olivia, goes away on a business trip, he receives 15 seconds of digital video on his camera phone showing her in a hotel room with another man. Meanwhile, Loren Muse, Essex County homicide investigator, is working on an unusual case: an autopsy of a nun reveals breast implants, which hint at a previous, not so holy life. After the FBI is called in, evidence links Matt to the nun killing. Like all of Coben''s stand-alone thrillers, this is a long, extremely complex tale with plenty of gunfire, betrayals, late-night chases and good people forced to go on the lam. All the characters have extensive, interesting histories, which makes their actions believable under the extreme circumstances that engulf them. Some readers have felt that Coben has been treading water with his last two outings, but this one should re-establish his credentials.\n  <em>\n   Major ad/promo. (Apr. 26)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/182'),
(5107, 'The Jungle', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Jack Du Brul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Clive Cussler''s tales of the\n  <em>\n   Oregon\n  </em>\n  and its crew have made fans of hundreds of thousands of readers. And in this latest adventure, a devastating weapon of unbelievable power is sought by a man of unstoppable greed and ambition...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Juan Cabrillo and his crew of mercenaries engage in one daring rescue operation after another with progressively higher stakes in Cussler''s high-octane eighth Oregon Files novel (after The Silent Sea), his sixth collaboration with Du Brul. The rescue of a kidnap victim, an Indonesian teenage boy, from an Afghan village, yields a bonus in the form of MacD Lawless, a former U.S. Army Ranger, who proves of immediate value. Betrayals, more rescues, and escapes follow as one mysterious man seeks world domination using a discovery linked to 13th-century China. Cabrillo''s handpicked team members, who operate from their state-of-the-art ship, the Oregon, are the only chance to stop a plot that threatens to bring the U.S. government to its knees. The frenetic action moves from Afghanistan to Singapore and the Burmese jungle with lots of derring-do at sea before climaxing in a surprising locale in a fashion sure to delight series fans. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   The Silent Sea\n  </em>\n  :\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fast-paced and a lot of fun-delivers the wallop Cussler''s fans have come to expect."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/157'),
(5108, 'Just One Look', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn''t belong-a photo from at least twenty years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies it''s him, he disappears that night, taking the photo with him. Now, to save her family from a fierce, silent killer who will stop at nothing to get the photo, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Just one look at Coben''s latest stand-alone thriller (after\n  <em>\n   No Second Chance\n  </em>\n  ) highlights the author''s customary strengths (swift pacing, strong lead characters) but also his weaknesses, including limited originality and, in this case, a plot so complicated that many final pages are devoted to sorting it out. The premise is simple enough: suburban housewife Grace Lawson collects some pictures at the local Photomat; inexplicably, one is an old print depicting her husband, Jack, with other college students; when Grace shows the photo to Jack, he drives away-and disappears. Grace''s hunt for her missing husband, whom we learn has been kidnapped (but why? and Coben fans will note that the author''s last novel also hinged on a kidnapped family member), sweeps her back into a nightmare she thought she''d escaped: the evening years ago when she survived a rock concert rampage, occasioned by a shooting that left many dead. Meanwhile, Eric Wu, a-dare we say?-inscrutable martial-arts killer who has snatched Jack for reasons unknown, menaces assorted folk. Eventually Grace, aided by a Gotti-like mobster whose child was killed in the rampage, gloms on to Wu, as well as on to Jack''s sister, a high-powered attorney who, it turns out, is representing the guy who started the rampage by firing his gun. Only he didn''t start the rampage after all, and then there''s the rock star who vanished after the shooting and resultant mayhem-what''s he now doing on Grace''s doorstep? This is all as complicated as a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle and about as hard to figure out, although in the midst of the murk there are some wonderful character touches. Coben can write thrillers that lift readers off their seats; this one, alas, will have them slumping.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If the trick of suspense writing is to get readers to identify so passionately with the beleaguered principal character that they disappear into the story, feeling the knife points of tension themselves, then Coben is the Houdini of the form. Coben, who has won the Trifecta of mystery writing--the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus Awards--likes to burst the bubble of suburban security by having his characters'' well-ordered, happy lives upended in ways that mirror readers'' fears. In his four stand-alone thrillers, the past comes back to bite or haunt the protagonist, or the present vanishes in one fatal moment. In this latest excursion into the dark, a suburban mother finds one picture that does not belong in the pack of family outing photos she''s just picked up. The picture, showing a group of college students, seems as if it was taken 20 years ago. One of the group looks like her husband. A girl in the group has an\n  <em>\n   X\n  </em>\n  drawn across her face. When Mrs. Happily Married shows the picture to her husband, he seems shaken, then leaves home. Coben ratchets up the suspense of the wife trying to find her husband with another drama, that of a serial killer in the neighborhood. A tragic accident from the woman''s past intersects with her husband''s secrets and the movements of the killer in ways that are satisfyingly creepy.\n  <em>\n   Connie Fletcher\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/168'),
(5109, 'Keeper of the Keys', 'Janny Wurts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Jaric, a scribe''s apprentice, is ordered to keep the Keys that bind the Mharg demons, but he has to choose whether to risk the dangerous training necessary to fulfill his mystical talent.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''A great natural storyteller'' - L. Sprague De Camp\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''A gifted creator of wonder'' - Raymond E Feist\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Janny Wurts is the author of the ''Cycle of Fire'' series, co-author of the Empire series and is currently working through the Wars of Light and Shadow series. She paints all her own covers and is also an expert horsewoman, sailor, musician and archer.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/96'),
(5110, 'King of the Murgos', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Guided by the Orb of the God Aldur, Garion and Ce''Nedrea begin a great quest to rescue their kidnapped child. Making their way through the foul swamps of Nyisssa, then into the lands of the Murgos, they must ultimately face a horrible danger--to themselves and all mankind....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  King Belgarion and Queen Ce''Nedra are still searching for their kidnapped son Geran in this second volume of The Mallorean, Eddings''s sequel to his bestselling fantasy series The Belgariad. After pursuing the Bear Cult in the last book, they now have information that the culprit is actually the evil Zandramas. Despite the seeming urgency of their quest, the journey becomes almost leisurely as the company, including the ancient sorcerer Belgarath, his daughter Polgara and the spy called Silk, stop repeatedly along the way. They visit the cave-dwelling mystics, the Ulgos, the imperial Tolnedrans, the forest Dryads, the Serpent Queen and the city of Rak Urga, where they make an unlikely ally of timid, wily Urgit, King of the Murgos. If this is seldom really gripping, the flavorful interplay among Eddings''s stubborn, resourceful characters keeps the narrative continually entertaining.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the words of the Prophecy lead the Rivan King Garion and his companions across the lands of the Snake-Queen and the once hostile Murgos, the malignant Zandramaskidnapper of Garion''s sonpursues another Prophecy which, if fulfilled, will lead to the triumph of Darkness. Eddings continues to provide solid fantasy entertainment featuring engaging characters and warm, wry humor in this sequel to Guardians of the West. Recommended for fantasy collections. JC\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(5111, 'The Kingdom', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Grant Blackwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sam and Remi Fargo return for the thrilling third adventure in the acclaimed new series.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Spartan Gold\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Lost Empire\n  </em>\n  , Clive Cussler brought readers into the world of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo, whose passion and instinct for treasure-hunting has led to extraordinary discoveries-and perilous journeys.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Their next adventure, however, might be their most astonishing yet.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Fargos are used to hunting for treasure, not people. But then a Texas oil baron contacts them with a personal plea: an investigator friend of the Fargos'' was on a mission to find the oil baron''s missing father-and now the investigator is missing, too. Would Sam and Remi be willing to look for them both? Though something about the situation doesn''t quite add up, the Fargos agree to go on the search.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  What they find will be beyond anything they could have imagined. On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India, and China, the Fargos will find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils, a centuries-old puzzle chest, the ancient Tibetan kingdom of Mustang, a balloon aircraft from a century before its time . . . and a skeleton that could turn the history of human evolution on its head.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Packed with the endless imagination and breathtaking suspense that are his hallmarks,\n  <em>\n   The Kingdom\n  </em>\n  once again proves that Clive Cussler is "just about the best storyteller in the business" (\n  <em>\n   New York Post\n  </em>\n  ).\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clive Cussler is the author of many\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers, most recently\n  <em>\n   The Spy\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Lost Empire\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Arizona.\n  <br />\n  Grant Blackwood caught the fiction-writing bug at the age of eighteen while reading Clive Cusslerâ€™s\n  <strong>\n   The Mediterranean Caper\n  </strong>\n  , and spent the next four years working in different styles of fiction before settling on novel-length work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mr. Blackwood is a U.S. Navy veteran, having spent three years active duty aboard the guided missile frigate USS Ford as an Operations Specialist and a Pilot Rescue Swimmer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two months after leaving the Navy in July 1987, Mr. Blackwood started the first draft of his first novel, which as he puts it, â€œwasnâ€™t good enough to be published, but good enough to earn a spot in my sock drawer. It took me several more years of rewriting before I realized the publishers and agents whoâ€™d been saying â€˜noâ€™ were saying no for a good reason.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Twelve years to the day after leaving the Navy, Mr. Blackwood received an offer from Penguin-Putnam/Berkley to buy his second novel,\n  <strong>\n   The End of Enemies\n  </strong>\n  , which hit the stands May 8th.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mr. Blackwood is 36 years old and lives in Minnesota, where he is working on this next novel, the second in the Briggs Tanner series of thrillers, which is due out in Spring/Summer of 2002.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/138'),
(5112, 'The Last Olympian', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos''s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan''s power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it''s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time. In this momentous final book in the "New York Times" best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy''s sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/196'),
(5113, 'The Lightning Thief', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="2">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">\n   The Lightning Thief is a 2005 fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology, the first young adult novel written by Rick Riordan. It is the first novel in the Percy Jackson &amp; the Olympians series, which charts the adventures of modern-day twelve-year-old Percy Jackson as he discovers he is ademigod, the son of a mortal woman and the Greek god Poseidon. Percy and his friends go on a quest to prevent a war between the gods Zeus, Poseidon and Hades.\n  </span>\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/199'),
(5114, 'Live Wire', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When Myron Bolitar gets involved in the family drama of his former tennis star client and her rock star husband, he discovers secrets about his own family, specifically his brother, who abandoned the Bolitars long ago. As Myron races to locate his missing brother while their father clings to life, he must face the lies that led to their estrangement-including the ones told by Myron himself.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Edgar-winner Coben''s 10th Myron Bolitar novel (after Long Lost) is a perfect 10: providing readers with new information about the past of the former athlete turned agent and owner of MB Reps; a satisfyingly complex mystery; and the always entertaining, sometimes shocking exploits of Bolitar''s partner and friend, Windsor Horne Lockwood III (aka Win). Suzze Tervantino, a former tennis prodigy and one of Bolitar''s first clients, visits his New York office and shows him a Facebook posting that suggests that her husband, rock star Lex Ryder, isn''t the father of the child she''s carrying. When Ryder, also a client of MB Reps, disappears, Suzze begs Bolitar to find him. In the process, Bolitar catches a glimpse of his sister-in-law, Kitty, at a crowded nightclub, and begins a search for her and his estranged younger brother, Brad, whom he hasn''t seen for 16 years. This explosively fast thriller will leave fans clamoring for more. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Coben, who has perfected the techno-thriller, in which social media tools are used in ingeniously devious ways (Hold Tight, 2008), has won the trifecta of mystery awards: the Edgar, the Shamus, and the Anthony''and is the only writer to have such a clutch at his command. Here, he returns to his humble roots and resurrects his sports agent and sleuth Myron Bolitar, who appeared in Coben''s debut, Deal Breaker, in 1995, and has starred in nine other novels. Coben may be a little too fond of Bolitar; over the years, he has transformed him from a struggling New Jersey sports agent to a wildly successful superagent who handles all forms of entertainment and, bad news for the reader, is now given to self-indulgent introspection, rumination, and endless dialogue with his sidekick, Win. This overwriting changes the Bolitar novel from spare and lively to a flabby 350-plus pager. A prime example of this work''s need for a less-indulgent author (or editor) is the cringe-inducing scene in which Win appears with two Asian beauties, named Mee and Yu. Bolitar and Win carry on with sophomoric puns and a forecast of sexual activity that is supposed to be hilarious but reads as incredibly insensitive. The plot is fairly standard, involving a client whose husband disappears, with a link to Bolitar''s sister-in-law and estranged brother. Bracing action, a Coben staple, is bogged down by bloated writing. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Coben takes a literary misstep with his return to series character Myron Bolitar, but his name-brand status ensures an audience. --Connie Fletcher\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/185'),
(5115, 'Long Lost', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Harlan Coben''s millions of fans have waited three long years for a new Myron Bolitar novel and soon their patience will be rewarded in spectacular fashion. Myron hasn''t heard from Terese Collins in years. Not since their affair ended without explanation. He''s had no contact with her since, so her call catches him off guard. She''s in Paris, she says, in trouble and only Myron can help. Terese tells him a sad story she''s never before revealed: a good marriage, her struggles to get pregnant, the happiest moment of her life when her only child was born, the day everything she''d ever loved was taken from her. As the years passed Terese heard nothing from her ex-husband, until the phone call that brought her to Paris. But on arrival, Terese finds her husband has been murdered, leaving her as a prime suspect. Then comes a startling piece of evidence that turns the entire case upside down, laying bare Terese''s long-buried family secrets in the most shocking way and leaving Myron nowhere to turn for help. Caught in a foreign landscape where nothing is as it seems, he must tear apart the city - and eventually the globe - fighting for answers to unfathomable questions that will take Myron, and Harlan Coben''s readers, where they have never gone before.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Myron Bolitar takes on international terrorists in bestseller Coben''s fast-paced ninth thriller to feature the sports and entertainment agent (after\n  <em>\n   Promise Me\n  </em>\n  ). With his romantic relationship with 9/11 widow Ali Wilder on the rocks, Myron is free at a moment''s notice to accept the invitation of his former lover, Terese Collins, a TV newswoman who dropped out of his life years earlier, to join her in Paris. There Terese tells Myron her investigative reporter ex-husband, Rick, whom Myron never knew about, recently got back in touch with her and hinted at an earthshaking revelation. Rick''s murder plunges Bolitar into a frenzied, often violent chase across Europe in an effort to learn Rick''s secret. Aided by his upper-class sidekick and bodyguard, Win, Bolitar builds up an impressive body count as he attempts to prove he didn''t kill Rickâ€”and foil a terrorist plot that''s as imaginative as it is preposterous. Bolitar fans will cheer their hero every step of the way.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mutli-award-winning author Coben returns to the series that kick-started his red-hot career in his latest novel starringÂ Harvard-educated sports agent/private eye Myron Bolitar (after Promise Me, 2006). Myron hasnâ€™t had contact with Teresa Collins in seven years, so he is taken aback by her early-morning phone call from Paris. Her ex-husband, who begged her to meet him there, isÂ missing, and she needs Myronâ€™s help. Before they can launch a search, however, they are taken into custody by the French police; it seems Teresaâ€™s husband has been murdered, and she is the prime suspect. One other unexpected complication: DNA found at the scene of the crime appears to belong to the coupleâ€™s daughter, except their daughter has been dead for years. Just when Myron starts making progress on putting the pieces together, he is kidnapped by a covert organization and subjected to intense torture. MyronÂ wakes up inÂ a hospital back in the U.S. in bad mental and physical shapeÂ but isÂ immediately sheltered byÂ his loyal staff, including Win, hisÂ blueblooded business partner, and Esperanza,Â a former wrestling star turned lawyer. Their easygoing, humorous camaraderie as well as Cobenâ€™s chilling incorporation of modern medical technology and modern interrogation techniquesÂ make thisÂ novel hard to put down.Â Coben puts a wickedÂ topical spin on Children of the Corn inÂ an action-packed thriller with aÂ horrific yet credibleÂ premise. --Joanne Wilkinson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/178'),
(5116, 'Lost City', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The key to eternal life has been found beneath two thousand feet of icy water in an area known as the "Lost City." To a family of ruthless French arms dealers the Lost City is the key to world domination. To Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA''s Special Assignments Team, and his colleague Joe Zavala, it may be their greatestâ€”and deadliestâ€”challenge of all.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kurt Austin, leader of the National Underwater and Marine Agency''s Special Assignments Team, battles international evildoers again in the fifth installment of this excellent series. There are several parallel plots: a mysterious aviator has been found frozen in a massive glacier; a mutant seaweed is threatening to choke the world''s oceans; a giant submarine is roaming the thermal vents of the deep sea area known as the Lost City; and the secretive, arms-dealing Fauchard family, run by ruthless black-widow Racine and her homicidal son, Emil, is up to no good. Also there''s a mysterious 16th-century helmet, a search for the philosopher''s stone and an island of filthy, mutant cannibals. Austin''s love interest is lush, sensual Skye Labelle, an archeologist specializing in arms and armor ("She had a good body, but it would never make the cover of\n  <em>\n   Sports Illustrated\n  </em>\n  "). Kidnappings, hair''s-breadth escapes, fierce battles, strange science, beautiful women and plenty of action add up to vintage Cussler. Of course, one of the secrets of the genre is to waste no time on ancillary details: "Before long, a cigar-shaped object came into view"; "Before long, they were stepping out of the cockpit onto the deck." Readers will find that, before long, they''re racing through the pages as Austin and his band of merry men fight to stop the Fauchards from reaching the ultimate evildoer''s goal: world domination.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€“The Fauchards, successful developers and sellers of weapons, keep their place as a major power in the industry through many centuries. Kurt Austin and his crew of trained scientists and elite fighters from the National Underwater and Marine Agency begin investigating nefarious activities of the powerful Racine Fauchard and her son. Their dastardly project involves scientific experiments on humans in order to find an elixir of eternal youth. They are also leading a team of mercenaries who are melting down a massive glacier containing the remains of a Fauchard ancestor and a metal helmet on which is recorded the formula for the elixir. At the same time, the oceans of the world are under siege from a mutant strain of algae, one of the vile spin-off plots by the devilish Racine. Myriad subplots weave together until they form the ending. Along the way, the action fluctuates from a steady pace to racing forward when they intertwine. The story is set in the present, and historical events are added to help explain elements of the complex plot. Settings range from under the Atlantic Ocean to the French Alps and Greece. The Fauchards'' creepy castle, complete with dungeon and torture chamber, increases the feeling of science fiction that often accompanies Cussler''s stories. Interesting and entertaining reading.\n  <em>\n   â€“Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/154'),
(5117, 'Lost Empire', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Grant Blackwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Husband and wife team Sam and Remi Fargo return in this extraordinary new adventure following their\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling debut,\n  <em>\n   Spartan Gold\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While scuba-diving on the Tanzania coast, Sam and Remi Fargo find a U.S. Civil War ship''s bell engraved with Aztec hieroglyphs. Recovering it and discovering its provenance becomes irresistible--especially when they realize someone is desperate to conceal its secrets. From Africa through North America to Asia, the Fargos race to stay ahead of their ruthless pursuers. Narrator Scott Brick continues to keep Cussler''s escapades light entertainment; having narrated the previous books in the series, Brick is now part and parcel of the Cussler audiobook fan''s continued enjoyment--and essential in ratcheting up the tension and excitement as needed. A Putnam hardcover (Reviews, Aug. 2). (Sept.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the second installment (after Spartan Gold, 2009) of Cusslerâ€™s action-packed new series featuring husband-and-wife treasure-hunters Sam and Remi Fargo, a spunky Nick and Nora for the twenty-first century. Scuba diving off the coast of East Africa, the couple discovers a bell, covered in cryptic carvings, from a long-lost Confederate warship. While they struggle to decode the clues found on the bell, a sinister faction is shadowing them in hopes of also discovering the secret to which the clues lead. Unlike the Fargos, this group does not want the secret uncovered and will kill to keep it hidden, as the discovery would result in a rewrite of the history books. In his inimitable way, Cussler throws everything into the pot: Confederate warships, the Aztecs, the Krakatoa explosion of 1883, pirates, and, in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock, Cussler himself in a cameo appearance. Blackwood, the coauthor, seems to have brought a breath of fresh air to Cusslerâ€™s usual testosterone-laced style by toning down the traces of xenophobia and misogyny that often permeate the long-in-the-tooth Dirk Pitt series. HIGH DEMAND BACKSTORY: Fans of Mathew Reilly and James Rollins will revel in this treasure-hunting adventure. --Michael Gannon\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/140'),
(5118, 'Magician: Apprentice', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry. Yet Pug''s strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Totally gripping ... . A fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid imagination." --\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n  .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Most exciting ... a very worthy and absorbing addition to the fantasy field." -- Andre Norton\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry. Yet Pug''s strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos. "Totally gripping ... . A fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid imagination." --\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n  . "Most exciting ... a very worthy and absorbing addition to the fantasy field." -- Andre Norton\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/2'),
(5119, 'Magician: Master', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  He held the fate of two worlds in his hands...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name--\n  <em>\n   Milamber\n  </em>\n  . He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay withing him. And he took his place in an ancient struggle against an evil Enemy older than time itself.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Totally gripping... A fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid imagination." --\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "He held the fate of two worlds in his hands...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name--\n  <em>\n   Milamber\n  </em>\n  . He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay withing him. And he took his place in an ancient struggle against an evil Enemy older than time itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Totally gripping... A fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid imagination." --\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/3');
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(5120, 'Magician&#39;s Gambit', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Ce''Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, had joined a dangerous mission to recover the stolen Orb that supposedly protected the West from the evil God Torak. And somehow, she found herself feeling quite tender for Garion, the innocent farm boy, who would be forced into the strange tower in the center of all evil to retrieve the Orb by himself.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Absorbing. Touches all the right Fantasy bases. Warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures, and appealingly human magicians." --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight." --\n  <em>\n   Piers Anthony\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fabulous! Eddings has a marvelous storyteller style. Exceedingly well portrayed." --\n  <em>\n   Anne McCaffrey\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Eddings [The Belgariad series] -- This is like Bonanza, or like I Love Lucy. There will be other fantasy series, but there can never be another that''s so seminal, that so captures the essence of fantasy. Big Dave and Little Leigh grow their heroes from the ground up, and they grow the best.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Veronica Chapman, Senior Editor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/73'),
(5121, 'The Mediterranean Caper', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dirk Pitt rides a tidal wave of intrigue in this classic Cussler.  On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern U.S. Air Force base--a mysterious saboteur preys on an American scientific expedition--and Dirk Pitt plays a deadly game of hunter and hunted with the elusive head of an international smuggling ring.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/121'),
(5122, 'Medusa', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  For seven books, Clive Cussler has dazzled readers with the "spine-tingling adventures" (\n  <em>\n   Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n  ) of Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA(r) Special Assignments Team, but in\n  <em>\n   Medusa\n  </em>\n  the NUMA(r) team faces what may be its most perilous mission of all.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the Micronesian Islands, a top secret, U.S. government- sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly . . . disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half mile below the surface, its passengers-including Zavala-left to die. Only Kurt Austin''s heroic measures save them from a watery grave, but, suspecting a connection, Austin puts the NUMA(r) team on the case. He has no idea what he''s just gotten them all into. A hideous series of medical experiments . . . an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization . . . a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. Austin and Zavala have been in tight spots before, but this time it''s not just their own skins they''re trying to save-it''s the lives of millions.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention unique to Cussler,\n  <em>\n   Medusa\n  </em>\n  is the most thrilling novel yet from the grand master of adventure.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the prologue to the winning eighth Kurt Austin adventure from bestseller Cussler and Shamus-winner Kemprecos (after\n  <em>\n   The Navigator\n  </em>\n  ), 18-year-old Caleb Nye, a farm boy on his first sea voyage in 1848, finds himself a modern-day Jonah after being swallowed by a whale and then cut from the stomach, alive but forever changed. In the present, a Russian captain sees his Typhoon-class submarine sold to an unknown buyer, and in China, Dr. Song Lee, who''s been banished to the countryside, gets orders to return to Beijing to fight a deadly SARS epidemic. Meanwhile, off Bermuda, Kurt Austin and the stalwart crew of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) lower a bathysphere to the ocean depths, where something big snaps the cables connecting the vessel to the mother ship. Soon enough, the disparate plot lines converge in an action-packed tale that snags readers and drags them racing through heavy seas and high drama.\n  <em>\n   600,000 first printing.\n   <br />\n   Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  *\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kurt Austin must stop a deadly virus from decimating the world in the latest NUMA Files novel. Research using a newly discovered jellyfish shows promising results, but before the tests even start, scientists studying these Blue Medusas start dying. As the pandemic threatens to spread through China, the NUMA team realizes that a Chinese triad is behind the outbreak. Now in their eighth adventure, Austin and partner Zavala are becoming almost as entertaining as Dirk Pitt and his gang. Some clunky dialogue and an ending right out of a Scooby Doo cartoon hurt aÂ bit, but Cussler fans will stick around for the action. --Jeff Ayers\n </p>\n <p>\n  *\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/155'),
(5123, 'Miracle Cure', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Harlan Coben Classic-Now Back in Print!\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a clinic on Manhattan''s Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well. And one by one, they''re being targeted by a serial killer.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  There''s only one cure, but many ways to die...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Coben ( Play Dead ) adroitly applies the fundamental rules of thrillerdom (offer a raft of potential villains; keep the action moving at breakneck speed) in this highly entertaining novel about a conspiracy apparently designed to prevent the development of a cure for AIDS. When one of a trio of research scientists on the brink of coming up with an AIDS antidote dies, it looks like suicide, but TV journalist Sara Lowell and her husband, NBA star Michael Silverman, who are friends of the clinic''s founder, think otherwise. Their suspicions are confirmed when several clinic patients, including the son of a U.S. senator, are murdered. A televangelist with his own agenda, Sara''s prominent physician father, and a high-ranking government official all seem intent upon derailing the AIDS research, a situation that becomes most personal when Michael is diagnosed with the disease. Police lieutenant "Twitch" Bernstein, a closet homosexual, ultimately comes face-to-face with the person responsible for the killings. The final revelation of the identity of the master conspirator comes as a real surprise. This page-turner also raises some interesting questions about medical research and its funding.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- Coben casts a dynamic, beautiful, and successful woman, Sara Lowell, and her handsome and famous sports figure, Michael Silverman, as his main characters. Their friend, Dr. Harvey Riker, takes them into his confidence when he tells them that his medical clinic has discovered a cure for AIDS. To his horror, his cured patients are being murdered by a serial killer dubbed the Gay Slasher by the media. Sara''s father is in stiff competition with Riker for funding of his cancer clinic and her sister, Cassandra, is romantically involved with the doctor. When Michael collapses on the basketball court and is diagnosed as HIV positive, tracking down the murderer and supporting Riker''s clinic take on new dimensions for Sara. This is a fast moving mystery that''s sure to capture YAs'' attention, especially in light of today''s headlines.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Katherine Fitch, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Burke, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/169'),
(5124, 'Missing Joseph', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When Deborah St James hears of the unexpected death of Reverend Sage, her sadness has a very personal tinge. For their paths had crossed some months earlier at a particularly vulnerable time for Deborah, and she had found herself confessing her intimate anguish to this sympathetic stranger. When she realizes that his death is far from accidental, Deborah, with her husband, Simon, enlists the help of Inspector Lynley, and the trio embark upon an investigation that hinges upon the overriding -- and ultimately destructive -- power of parental love.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The title of this layered, intricate mystery could refer to the husband and father rarely included in paintings of the Madonna and Child or to an infant victim of crib death 15 years before the grim winter of the story''s setting. Both possibilities resonate as George''s forensic analyst Simon St. James and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley of New Scotland Yard, both last seen in For the Sake of Elena , unravel a case that embraces issues of sexuality, procreation and familial love. In Lancashire, in gray, bone-chilling December, the vicar of Winslough is found poisoned by water hemlock, which was served--in an apparent accident--by an herbalist, a solitary woman whose sexually precocious daughter the vicar had been counseling. Simon and his wife Deborah, troubled by their failure to conceive a child, take a long week-end at Winslough in January and are drawn into village gossip about the death, which Simon doubts could have been unintended. Irregularities in the local police follow-up (the constable is sleeping with the herbalist) prompt him to call on Tommy to reopen the case. Probing relationships between lovers and between parents and children (notable here are those between the constable and his retired-copper father, between the vicar''s housekeeper and her mom, both schooled in the local witch tradition), George sustains suspense as Tommy traces the vicar''s death back through London to a long-ago suicide near Truro. A liberal dose of unhappiness widely applied and a tendency to talkiness are easily tolerable in this deftly plotted, highly atmospheric novel. Author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''She writes extremely well, plots brilliantly and reaches an emotional level deeper than most ... Captivating'' -- The Times ''Splendid writing ... the mystery is a very good one'' -- Sunday Telegraph ''Superbly constructed ... George wastes not a single strand of her virtuoso plot'' -- Scotsman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(5125, 'Mockingjay', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she''s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she''s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what''s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss''s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins''s groundbreaking\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she''s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she''s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what''s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss''s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins''s groundbreaking\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Suzanne Collins, Author of *Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  You have said from the start that The Hunger Games story was intended as a trilogy. Did it actually end the way you planned it from the beginning?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Very much so. While I didn''t know every detail, of course, the arc of the story from gladiator game, to revolution, to war, to the eventual outcome remained constant throughout the writing process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  We understand you worked on the initial screenplay for a film to be based on\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  . What is the biggest difference between writing a novel and writing a screenplay?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  There were several significant differences. Time, for starters. When you''re adapting a novel into a two-hour movie you can''t take everything with you. The story has to be condensed to fit the new form. Then there''s the question of how best to take a book told in the first person and present tense and transform it into a satisfying dramatic experience. In the novel, you never leave Katniss for a second and are privy to all of her thoughts so you need a way to dramatize her inner world and to make it possible for other characters to exist outside of her company. Finally, there''s the challenge of how to present the violence while still maintaining a PG-13 rating so that your core audience can view it. A lot of things are acceptable on a page that wouldn''t be on a screen. But how certain moments are depicted will ultimately be in the director''s hands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Are you able to consider future projects while working on\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  , or are you immersed in the world you are currently creating so fully that it is too difficult to think about new ideas?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I have a few seeds of ideas floating around in my head but--given that much of my focus is still on\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  --it will probably be awhile before one fully emerges and I can begin to develop it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  The Hunger Games is an annual televised event in which one boy and one girl from each of the twelve districts is forced to participate in a fight-to-the-death on live TV. What do you think the appeal of reality television is--to both kids and adults?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Well, they''re often set up as games and, like sporting events, there''s an interest in seeing who wins. The contestants are usually unknown, which makes them relatable. Sometimes they have very talented people performing. Then there''s the voyeuristic thrillâ€”watching people being humiliated, or brought to tears, or suffering physically--which I find very disturbing. There''s also the potential for desensitizing the audience, so that when they see real tragedy playing out on, say, the news, it doesn''t have the impact it should.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  If you were forced to compete in the Hunger Games, what do you think your special skill would be?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Hiding. I''d be scaling those trees like Katniss and Rue. Since I was trained in sword-fighting, I guess my best hope would be to get hold of a rapier if there was one available. But the truth is I''d probably get about a four in Training.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What do you hope readers will come away with when they read The Hunger Games trilogy?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Questions about how elements of the books might be relevant in their own lives. And, if they''re disturbing, what they might do about them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What were some of your favorite novels when you were a teen?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\n  </em>\n  by Betty Smith\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  by Carson McCullers\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Nineteen Eighty Four\n  </em>\n  by George Orwell\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Anna Karenina\n  </em>\n  by Leo Tolstoy\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Slaughterhouse-Five\n  </em>\n  by Kurt Vonnegut\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   A Wrinkle in Time\n  </em>\n  by Madeleine Lâ€™Engle\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Lord of the Flies\n  </em>\n  by William Golding\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Boris\n  </em>\n  by Jaapter Haar\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Germinal\n  </em>\n  by Emile Zola\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Dandelion Wine\n  </em>\n  by Ray Bradbury\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Cap Pryor)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up Following her subversive second victory in the Games, this one composed of winners from past years, Katniss has been adopted by rebel factions as their symbol for freedom and becomes the rallying point for the districts in a desperate bid to take down the Capitol and remove President Snow from power. But being the Mockingjay comes with a price as Katniss must come to terms with how much of her own humanity and sanity she can willingly sacrifice for the cause, her friends, and her family. Collins is absolutely ruthless in her depictions of war in all its cruelty, violence, and loss, leaving readers, in turn, repulsed, shocked, grieving and, finally, hopeful for the characters they''ve grown to empathize with and love.\n  <em>\n   Mockingjay\n  </em>\n  is a fitting end of the series that began with\n  <em>\n   The Hunger Games\n  </em>\n  (2008) and\n  <em>\n   Catching Fire\n  </em>\n  (2009) and will have the same lasting resonance as William Golding''s\n  <em>\n   Lord of the Flies\n  </em>\n  and Stephen King''s\n  <em>\n   The Stand\n  </em>\n  . However, the book is not a stand-alone; readers do need to be familiar with the first two titles in order to appreciate the events and characters in this one.\n  <em>\n   Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK\n  </em>\n  (c) Copyright 2010. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(5126, 'Naked Empire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  NAKED EMPIRE. It begins . . . "You knew they were there, didn''t you?" Kahlan asked in a hushed tone as she leaned closer. Against the darkening sky, she could just make out the shapes of three black-tipped races taking to wing, beginning their nightly hunt. That was why he''d stopped. That was what he''d been watching as the rest of them waited in uneasy silence. "Yes," Richard said. He gestured over his shoulder without turning to look. "There are two more, back there." Kahlan briefly scanned the dark jumble of rock, but she didn''t see any others. Lightly grasping the silver pommel with two fingers, Richard lifted his sword a few inches, checking that it was clear in its scabbard. A last fleeting glimmer of amber light played across his golden cape as he let the sword drop back, in place. In the gathering gloom of dusk, his familiar tall, powerful contour seemed as if it were no more than an apparition made of shadows. Just then, two more of the huge birds shot by right overhead. One, wings stretched wide, let out a piercing scream as it banked into a tight gliding turn, circling, once in assessment of the five people below before stroking its powerful wings to catch its departing comrades in their swift journey west. This night they would find ample food.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the most popular writers of fantasy today, Terry Goodkind divides his time between Maine and Nevada.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From AudioFile\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Terry Goodkind fans will enjoy this eighth volume in the Sword of Truth fantasy series. Richard and Kahlan continue their struggle against the imperial order. This time a twisted wizard enslaves a mountain kingdom that''s been sealed away from the wider world for three thousand years. Richard must win both freedom for the people and the antidote to a poison that''s slowly killing him. Jim Bond has a pleasant low-tenor voice. He makes Terry Goodkind''s characters, and their convictions, come through strongly and clearly. Bond smoothly handles the thrust and parry of the story''s philosophical debates, as well as the actual swordplay and sorcery of the explosive combat scenes. R.G.M. Â© AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine--\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/52'),
(5127, 'The Navigator', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the\n  <em>\n   Navigator\n  </em>\n  was stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood. Their second very nearly is a UN investigator who, were it not for the timely assistance of Austin and Zavala, would now be at the bottom of a watery grave.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What''s so special about this statue? Austin wonders. The search for answers will take the NUMA team on an astonishing odyssey through time and space, one that encompasses no less than the lost treasures of King Solomon, a mysterious packet of documents personally encoded by Thomas Jefferson, and a top secret scientific project that could change the world forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And that''s before the surprises really begin . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rich with all the hair-raising action and endless invention that have become Cussler''s hallmarks,\n  <em>\n   The Navigator\n  </em>\n  is Clive''s best yet.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of action-hero Kurt Austin of the National Underwater and Maritime Agency expect imaginative plotting, but it never comes down the chute in this seventh NUMA Files novel from bestseller Cussler and Shamus-winner Kemprecos (after\n  <em>\n   Polar Shift\n  </em>\n  ). Austin and his team are hunting icebergs when they chance upon a pirate raid aimed at stealing a priceless Phoenician antiquity launched by a stereotypical megalomaniacal villain, Viktor Baltazar, who believes he''s a descendant of King Solomon. Baltazar and Austin joust continually (once, literally!) over the antique, which may be connected to the lost ark of the covenant, Thomas Jefferson and the suspicious death of Meriwether Lewis. Sequences including the attempted human sacrifice of the requisite gorgeous female U.N. investigator are all too predictable, and the writing ("The Filipino''s lips curved like slices of liverwurst in a frying pan") is often less than Cussler''s best.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Calculations seem to point to this being popular adventure novelist Cussler''s thirty-fourth book, the seventh one written in collaboration with Kemprecos and the seventh one to chronicle the adventures of the NUMA Special Assignments Team. In his latest romp, Cussler is concerned with an ancient Phoenician statue called the Navigator, which was stolen from a Baghdad museum in 900 BCE. The compelling, well-organized plot--taken from a template that works--includes such disparate but ultimately workable elements as a foiled hijacking, a secret scientific project, pirates, a beautiful woman ("Her gown''s scooped neckline displayed a decolletage that hovered between proper and sexy"), and the heroic machinations of the NUMA sleuths. Without exactly revealing the ending, suffice it to say--or, actually, suffice it to pose the question, Has the NUMA team ever failed in its quest for justice? Read it to make certain you''ve answered the question correctly. Cussler''s multitude of fans will undoubtedly eat up this new novel just as they have previous ones.\n  <em>\n   George Cohen\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/147'),
(5128, 'The Night Is for Hunting', 'John Marsden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Hell"s a big place, but it gets crowded when Ellie and her friends take an uncooperative crew of orphans under their wing and into their hidden refuge. It"s not easy to keep four young children busy and happy in the bush, and things only get worse when Ellie and Homer find evidence that mysterious visitors have discovered their sanctuary. Could it be a patrol of enemy soldiers sent on a search and destroy mission? They find out all too soon.\n  <br />\n  In a time and place where war robs your identity, makes you forget your past and fear your future, it seems impossible for Ellie to make sense of a world that is quickly falling apart. And after a peaceful food raid turns into a nightmarish fight for survival, escape back to Hell seems hopeless.\n  <br />\n  Ellie, Fi, Homer, Lee, and Kevin brave the worst in this electrifying continuation of their battle to stay alive and sane in a war zone that was once their home.\n  <br />\n  The Night Is for Hunting is the sixth book in the Tomorrow When the War Began series.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The adventures of five Australian teenagers continue in the sixth installment in the Tomorrow series, The Night Is for Hunting by John Marsden. While trying to care for a group of ungrateful orphans, Ellie and her friends struggle to survive against enemy invaders.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr 7 Up-Marsden continues the saga that began in Tomorrow When the War Began (Houghton, 1995), in which Australia was invaded and occupied by an unknown enemy and a group of teens organized a guerrilla campaign against the invaders. New Zealand has since been drawn into the war, but the setting of this sixth installment is largely in "Hell," a part of the Australian outback used by the young partisans as a safe haven when they aren''t launching attacks against the enemy. Ellie and her comrades take in "ferals," children who have been left to run wild in the streets of a nearby town. The kids are not receptive to being cared for, and the teens'' attempts at building a sense of community and family sometimes allow for a few lighthearted moments. The war, of course, is never far away. There are plenty of dramatic, fast-paced battle scenes with lots of action and carnage, which is vividly depicted. Ellie wrestles with her conscience throughout the story. Does she have the right to kill others in order to survive? Marsden offers no definitive answer to such questions, leaving readers to make up their own minds. Although this story picks up where Darkness, Be My Friend (Houghton, 2001) left off, it stands on its own well enough for readers unfamiliar with the series to appreciate it. The main audience for the book, however, is likely to be those who have followed the war from the beginning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Edward Sullivan, White Pine School, TN\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/42'),
(5129, 'Night Probe!', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n May 1914. Two top diplomats hurry home by sea and rail, each carrying a document of world-changing importance. Then the liner Empress of India is sunk in a collision, and the Manhattan-Line express plunges from a shattered bridge - both dragging their VIP passengers to watery oblivion. Tragic coincidence - or conspiracy?Seventy-five years later, a chance revelation reopens the question. In the energy-starved fear-torn 1980s, those long-lost papers could destroy whole nations, and Dirk Pitt confronts his biggest challenge yet. Racing against time, against hired killers - and the horrors of the sea bed - he launches his deep-sea search craft in the hunt for the documents. ''Night Probe'' has begun . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/130'),
(5130, 'No Second Chance', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The "nimble and ingenious" (\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   ) thriller from the #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author-now in paperback!\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shot twice by an unseen assailant, Dr. Marc Seidman lies in a hospital bed. His wife has been killed. His six-month-old daughter, Tara, has vanished. But then a ransom note arrives, giving him one chance to save her.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Forbidden to talk to the police or the FBI, Marc is helpless as the authorities hone in on a new suspect: him. And he doesn''t know who to trust as deadly secrets-about his wife, about an old love he''s never forgotten, and about his own past-surface. Torn between agony and hope, Mark finds himself clinging to one, unwavering vow: to bring Tara home at any cost.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Supercharged by a father''s fierce drive to rescue his kidnapped daughter, Coben''s third stand-alone thriller proves far more gripping than his second, Tell No One. Marc Seidman, a plastic surgeon near New York City, wakes up in a hospital to learn that he has been gravely wounded, his wife shot dead and his infant daughter, Tara, snatched. The ensuing narrative, which shuttles between third person and Marc''s first person, covers more than a year in Marc''s hunt for Tara and climaxes twice with his fumbling of payments in response to ransom demands, plunging him into despair. A smartly drawn supporting cast supports Marc in his quest, including an old girlfriend-an ex-FBI agent-who reappears in his life; Marc''s lawyer, who''s also his best friend; a cop/FBI duo who for a while suspect Marc of engineering the snatch and ransom demands; and a working-class hero who joins forces with Marc near the end of his hunt and steals every scene he''s in. On the villain''s side lurk several shady folk, including a psychopathic former child star and her hulking boyfriend. The plot is overly complicated, and there''s a revelation at book''s end that veteran thriller readers will have sussed out long before. Those flaws matter little, though, in the face of the emotional onslaught of Marc''s gut-wrenching, self-questioning, relentless narration, which will carry readers like a tidal wave through the novel''s twists and turns. What Coben''s thriller lacks in originality, it makes up for in sheer vigor; few browsers or dippers will put this down.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Very few writers can induce in their readers the kind of trancelike state, punctuated by frequent "wows," that most of us associate with much-loved books from childhood. Coben can. Although he has had a fairly short mystery-writing career (this is his fourth novel), Coben has already won a great deal of acclaim. He is the only writer to have won all three of the genre''s most competitive awards: the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus. His current thriller is as pleasantly painful to read as its predecessors. Coben starts with an excruciating premise: What would you do if your infant were kidnapped? His hero, a plastic surgeon specializing in pediatric reconstructions, has no known enemies. But he wakes up 12 days after having been shot in his own home to discover that his wife has died, his six-month-old daughter has been taken, and he himself is a suspect. When the kidnappers make contact, promising that there will be "no second chance" if the cops or feds are brought into the case, Coben''s hero is thrown into an agony of hope and indecision. The novel, spanning 18 months and jumping between the father and the kidnappers, sets off depth charges of meets, double-crosses, near-misses, and vengeful acts. Coben holds it together with his hero''s determination and smarts. This is the kind of book that will leave readers dazed--but only after they finally look up from the final page.\n  <em>\n   Connie Fletcher\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/179'),
(5131, 'One False Move', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Itâ€™s no secret that Harlan Cobenâ€™s name is synonymous with unrelenting suspense. In this compelling fifth novel in his acclaimed Myron Bolitar series, the unforgettable sports agent agrees to protect basketball star Brenda Slaughter while trying to unravel the tragic riddle of her life.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a big-time New York sports agent, Myron has a professional interest in Brenda. Then a personal one. But between them isnâ€™t just the difference in their backgrounds or the color of their skin. Between them is a chasm of corruption and lies, a vicious young mafioso on the make, and one secret that some people are dying to keepâ€“and others are killing to protect.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As readers who have enjoyed his appearances in original paperbacks already know, Harlan Coben''s former professional basketball star Myron Bolitar is not your everyday testosterone-enriched jock. Myron is a mild-mannered guy who drinks chocolate soda and until very recently lived at home with his parents in suburban New Jersey. In his hardcover debut, we find Myron sharing a New York apartment with his longtime lady friend, writer Jessica Culver, and still running MB SportsReps, where he ostensibly manages the careers of other athletes, but really spends most of his time playing private eye. The arrival in Myron''s life of rising pro basketball star Brenda Slaughter seriously tests his commitment to Jessica, who is in Hollywood working on a movie. It seems that Brenda''s father Horace--Myron''s old coach--has disappeared, and Brenda is receiving death threats that might involve a gangster family''s plans for a new female professional basketball league. Or the threats might have something to do with Brenda''s mother''s connection to a wealthy New Jersey political family. Myron and his banker friend Win, a preppy with a penchant for violence, are more than enough to double-team the bad guys. Previous Myron Bolitar games in paperback include\n  <em>\n   Backspin\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Deal Breaker\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Drop Shot\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Fade Away\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Series sports agent Myron Bolitar handles everything with panache: his relationships, his clients, and this search for two missing people. When a sports store mogul asks him to "watch over" basketball star Brenda Slaughter, Myron winds up looking for her father, who disappeared a week ago, and her mother, who deserted the family some 20 years earlier. Myron not only discovers mob interest in female basketball but also a connected suspicious death in a high-profile political family. Standard plotting, then, but authentic conversation, colorful characters, and exciting New York and New Jersey surrounds more than compensate. Strongly recommended.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/174'),
(5132, 'The Orphaned World', 'Michael Cobley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Darien is no longer a lost outpost of humanity, but the prize in an intergalactic power struggle. Hegemony forces control the planet, while Earth merely observes, rendered impotent by galactic politics. Yet Earth''s ambassador to Darien will become a player in a greater conflict as there is more at stake than a turf war on a newly discovered world. An ancient temple hides access to a hyperspace prison, housing the greatest threat sentient life has ever known. Millennia ago, malignant intelligences were caged there following an apocalyptic struggle, and their servants work on their release. Now a new war is coming.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Space opera has never been in more capable hands GUARDIAN Fast and exciting WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY Packs a mighty punch BOOKGEEKS.CO.UK\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Cobley was born in Leicester, England, but for most of his life has lived in or near Glasgow, Scotland. He has studied engineering, been a DJ and has cultivated an interest in regional politics.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/100'),
(5133, 'The Other Side of Dawn', 'John Marsden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  This is it -- the final explosive chapter in an epic saga of war and rebellion. An international bestseller that fans will not be able to resist.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since their town was invaded by enemy soldiers and transformed into a war zone, Ellie and her four surviving friends have been fighting for their lives. One year later, a resolution may finally be in sight. But as enemy forces close in on her hideout, Ellie discovers that the final battle may be the most dangerous yet. And not every soldier is fated to see the end of every conflict.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are no more hiding places left in this exhilarating conclusion to Ellie''s struggle for freedom, dignity, and, above all else, a sense of peace.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At last, the final episode of the gripping Tomorrow series by wildly popular Aussie author John Marsden has crossed the Pacific, and this concluding chapter in the lives of Ellie, Fi, Homer, Kevin, and Lee may be the most exciting one yet. Informed by Colonel Finley that the military is making a move that could be compared to the D-day attack of WWII, the outback teen guerillas know that the end of the bewildering war that changed their lives is drawing near. Armed with plastic explosives and grenades, courtesy of the New Zealand Army, they have been instructed to "spread chaos and confusion behind their (enemy) lines in every way, shape and form." For Ellie and company, this means targeting a hostile refueling station and train tracks. Of course, nothing is ever easy. There are still the feral kids to worry about and the dismal discovery that soldiers have infiltrated Hell, their only secured hiding place in the bush. As\n  <em>\n   The Other Side of Dawn\n  </em>\n  rockets at breakneck speed towards its stunning climax, only one thing is certain: there is no guarantee that any of them will make it through this last conflict alive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not a book for new recruits,\n  <em>\n   The Other Side of Dawn\n  </em>\n  will be most enjoyed by those hard-core fans who have been with Ellie and the gang from the beginning. Wirrawee buffs will be rewarded with classic Marsden: teeth-jarring action sequences interspersed with meaningful moments between friends who may not see the sunrise again together. This is a satisfying ending to a smashing good series. (Ages 13 and older)\n  <em>\n   --Jennifer Hubert\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Australian author John Marsden''s The Other Side of Dawn brings his Tomorrow series to its dramatic conclusion. Bestsellers in Australia, the seven-book series revolves around a dwindling group of teenagers fighting for their lives and Australia''s survival against a brutal invading army. Here, as the war enters a final phase, the dangers for narrator Ellie and her friends seem greater than ever. Who among them will find a lasting peace? Ages 12-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/43'),
(5134, 'Pacific Vortex', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Dirk Pitt''s first, most terrific adventure! Dirk Pitt, death-defying adventurer and deep-sea expert, is out to the ultimate test as he plunges into the perilous waters of the Pacific Vortex -- a fog-shrouded sea zone where dozens of ships have vanished without a trace. The latest victim is the awesome superb Starbuck, America''s deep-diving nuclear arsenal. Its loss poses an unthinkable threat to national defense. Pitt''s job is to find it, salvage it, before the sea explodes. In a furious race against time, Pitt''s mission swirls him into a battle with underwater assassins-and traps him in the arms of Summer Moran, the most stunningly exotic and dangerous toward disaster, Clive Cussler plummets his hero onto an ancient sunken island-the astonishing setting for the explosive climax of Pacific Vortex!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œDirk Pitt [is] oceanographyâ€™s answer to Indiana Jones.â€â€”The Associated Press\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For Raise the Titanic!: ''A great adventure thriller which spins from one dizzying climax to another ... Riveting ... simply super and very cleverly done'' Publishers Weekly\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/136'),
(5135, 'Pawn of Prophecy', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  "Eddings'' BELGARIAD is exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight."\n  <br />\n  Piers Anthony\n  <br />\n  Long ago, the Storyteller claimed, in this first book of THE BELGARIAD, the evil god Torak drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. So long as it lay at Riva, the prophecy went, men would be safe.\n  <br />\n  But Garion did not believe in such stories. Brought up on a quiet farm by his Aunt Pol, how could he know that the Apostate planned to wake dread Torak, or that he would be led on a quest of unparalleled magic and danger by those he loved--but did not know...?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Absorbing. Touches all the right Fantasy bases. Warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures, and appealingly human magicians." --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fabulous! Eddings has a marvelous storyteller style. Exceedingly well portrayed." --\n  <em>\n   Anne McCaffrey\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight." --\n  <em>\n   Piers Anthony\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is a television commercial for potato chips that challenges "Bet you can''t eat just one." A similar challenge could easily be made for the books that are part of the Belgariad series: "Bet you can''t read just one." When I read Pawn of Prophecy, I couldn''t stop and continued right on through the other four books of the Belgariad. I was then quite sad that I finished the series. It felt like saying good-bye to a bunch of great friends...and after all we had been through together that was hard.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â --Tim Kochuba, General Manager\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/71'),
(5136, 'Payment in Blood', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives and eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no authority, aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, grapple for both a motive and a murderer. Emotions run deep in this highly charged drama, for the list of suspects soon includes Britain''s foremost actress, its most successful theatrical producer, and the woman Lynley loves. He and Havers must tread carefully through the complicated terrain of human relationships, while they work to solve a case rooted in the darkest corners of the past and the unexplored regions of the human heart.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, eighth Earl of Asherton, is sent to Scotland to solve the death of playwright Joy Sinclair in what PW termed a "vividly characterized story of murder and espionage with elements of theatrical life, British class consciousness and love gone awry."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The much acclaimed author of A Great Deliverance delivers her challenging second novel--a literate, vastly detailed, and intricately characterized piece which progresses from a frigid Scottish manor house/hotel to a swarming, theatrical London. Scotland Yard''s Thomas Lynley (series detective and Earl of Asherton), unexpectedly assigned to a gory stabbing murder, uncovers deeply hidden family secrets and various psychological convolutions among suspects, but allows personal jealously to color his choice of prime suspect. A bit mechanical in places, and slow-moving in others, but steadily absorbing and masterful overall. The upcoming author tour should boost demand --especially from readers of George''s first.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/25'),
(5137, 'Phantom', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  On the day that she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day when the world began to end. As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesnâ€™t soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation. But Kahlan learns that if she ever were to unlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finally possess her, body and soul. If she is to survive in a murky world of deception and betrayal, where life is not only cheap but fleeting, Kahlan must find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn world swirling around her. What she uncovers are secrets darker than she could ever have imagined.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the most popular writers of fantasy today, Terry Goodkind divides his time between Maine and Nevada.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From AudioFile\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second in the Chainfire trilogy within the Sword of Truth series continues to explore the effects of the chainfire spell, including the removal of Kahlan from the memory of everyone (almost) who knew her. Two story lines struggle to come together: Kahlan travels with the dark sisters through the villages that populate this fantasy world, struggling to remember who she is and daring to hope for escape; her husband, Richard Rahl, continues to search for her and to urge her friends not to forget her. Sam Tsoutsouvas provides an intense and nuanced narration. He moves with the flow of the plot and anticipates the drama and suspense of the confrontations and battles. J.E.M. Â© AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine--\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/54');
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(5138, 'The Pillars of Creation', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind has created his most lavish adventure yet. Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, a young woman named Lauren seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin.With winter descending and the paralyzing dread of an army of annihilation occupying their homeland, Richard Rahl and his wife Kahlan must venture deep into a strange and desolate land. Their quest turns to terror when they find themselves the helpless prey of a tireless hunter.Meanwhile, Lauren finds herself drawn into the center of a struggle for conquest and revenge. Worse yet, she finds her will seized by forces more abhorrent than anything she ever envisioned. Only then does she come to realize that the voices were real.Staggered by loss and increasingly isolated, Richard and Kahlan must stop the relentless, unearthly threat which has come out of the darkest night of the human soul. To do so, Richard will be called upon to face the demons stalking among the Pillars of Creation.Discover breathtaking adventure and true nobility of spirit. Find out why millions of readers the world over have elevated Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/51'),
(5139, 'A Place of Hiding', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In one of her most compelling mysteries\n  <em>\n   ,\n  </em>\n  bestselling novelist Elizabeth George explores the darker landscapes of human relationships. Here she tells a gripping, suspenseful story of betrayal and devotion, war and remembrance, love and loss . . . and the higher truths to which we must all ultimately answer.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  An isolated beach on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is the scene of the murder of Guy Brouard, one of Guernseyâ€™s wealthiest inhabitants and its main benefactor. Forced as a child to flee the Nazis in Paris, Brouard was engaged in his latest project when he died: a museum honoring those who resisted the German occupation of the island during World War II. It is from this period that his murderer may well have come. But there are others on Guernsey who want Guy Brouard dead. As forensic scientist Simon St. James and his wife, Deborah, soon discover, seemingly everyone on the history-haunted island has something to hide. . . . And behind all the lies and alibis, a killer is lurking.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this latest from bestseller Elizabeth George, China River, recuperating from a failed love affair, agrees to accompany her ne''er-do-well brother Cherokee to the Channel Islands to hand-deliver a set of architectural drawings to an expatriate millionaire whose plans to fund a museum commemorating the war-time exploits of his Guernsey neighbors comes a cropper after he''s found dead under suspicious circumstances. George spins an intricate and lively plot that spotlights the efforts of series regulars Deborah and Simon St. John to help Deborah''s old friends free themselves; in the process, she introduces a fascinating cast of secondary characters, many of whom had much more obvious motives to wish Guy Brouard dead than the California siblings who seem tailor-made for a frame-up. A fine addition to George''s ouevre, this thirteenth outing in her popular series will delight her fans.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans disappointed by George''s atypical story collection, I, Richard (2002), will be relieved to find the bestselling transatlantic author back at the top of her form. This exquisitely plotted mystery bursts with well-developed characters, notably forensic scientist Simon St. James and his photographer wife, Deborah. Lured by the free airline tickets and the $5,000 fee, China River, an old friend of Deborah''s, and her half-brother, Cherokee (their mother was into the hippie counterculture), agree to fly from sunny California to rainy England to deliver a package containing architectural drawings to Guy Brouard, a rich landholder on the Channel island of Guernsey. The drawings are for a museum Brouard plans to build on the island honoring those who resisted the WWII German occupation. When the philandering philanthropist gets murdered and the police arrest China, Cherokee turns to Simon and Deborah for help. Curiously, for all the victim''s wealth, no one seems to benefit from his death. The theme of hiding-of hopes, of the past, of secret places-underpins this intricate story about friendship, anger, loyalty and betrayal. Comic touches provide some relief as the suspense builds to an unexpected and explosive climax. With her flair for language, George reinforces her reputation as one of today''s finest mystery writers.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(5140, 'Plague Ship', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Jack Du Brul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the dependably entertaining if less than top-notch fifth Oregon Files thriller from bestseller Cussler and Du Brul (after\n  <em>\n   Skeleton Crew\n  </em>\n  ), Capt. Juan Cabrillo, who heads the Corporation, a covert military company for hire, and the multifaceted crew of the\n  <em>\n   Oregon\n  </em>\n  , a high-tech ship disguised to look like a tramp steamer, take on a group known as the Responsivists. The Responsivists publicly espouse a program of global population control, but are secretly planning a devastating attack on the human race utilizing a virulent virus found aboard an ancient ship that may be Noah''s Ark. The authors are up to their usual high standards when in fighting mode, though the chief villain, the doctor who heads the Responsivists, falls short of Juan''s billing as the single-most-evil human being I have ever met. Readers may wish that next time out the bad guys put up more of a struggle.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''The guy I read'' Tom Clancy ''Cussler is hard to beat'' Daily Mail\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/160'),
(5141, 'Play Dead', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  No sooner had supermodel Laura Ayers and Celtics star David Baskin said "I do" than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia''s Great Barrier Reed, David went out for a swim-and never returned. Now widowed and grieving, Laura''s search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception that stretches back thirty years...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Terrible secrets lead basketball star David Baskin to fake his death while honeymooning in the tropics in this manipulative but otherwise engaging first novel. His bereaved bride, supermodel Laura Ayars, not sure that David''s drowning was accidental, starts sleuthing--which proves dangerous when somebody begins killing people who may have the answers she wants. Meanwhile, David, fitted out with a new identity and appearance, tries out for his original team, the Boston Celtics, and "replaces" himself at his former position. Why he has faked his death is explained in the story''s penultimate surprise. But why he risks playing in front of fans who know his style is never addressed. Crucial coincidences abound, such as the love affair of David''s brother and Laura''s sister--adults who, as kids 30 years before, just happen to have witnessed their parents'' worst sins. Coben manufactures tension primarily by keeping key details out of his narrative, a method that eventually wears thin. The resolution comes as a relief, with less of a bang than its buildup promises.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Laura Ayers and David Baskin secretly marry, it is a match made in heaven. She is a former model turned entrepreneur, while he is the Boston Celtics basketball sensation. But tragedy strikes on their Australian honeymoon when David never returns from a swim in treacherous waters. As Laura struggles with her grief, events unfold to make her question David''s mysterious disappearance. She begins to uncover a conspiracy of past and present that slowly destroys all those involved. Coben weaves a delicate web of intrigue that throws alternating suspicion on each person Laura trusts. A fast-moving thriller with a rapidly twisting plot that keeps readers in suspense until the final page. --Katherine Fitch, Jefferson Sci-Tech, Alexandria, VA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/180'),
(5142, 'Playing for the Ashes', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When the body of England''s leading batsman, Kenneth Fleming, is discovered in the burnt-out shell of a country cottage, it looks like a clear-cut case of arson. Further investigation reveals an almost embarrassing multitude of suspects for murder: from Fleming''s lover to his son, nearly everyone in contact with Fleming seems to have a motive - and an opportunity. Inspector Lynley and his partner, Barbara Havers, are called in from Scotland Yard to help the local police force. They find a torment of twisted familial relationships and broken dreams - and as he brings the murderer to justice, Lynley must bear the weight of his own conscience.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With a British cricket term as its title, the seventh crime novel (after Missing Joseph ) featuring English Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers probes the proximity of love and hate. After cricket star Kenneth Fleming is found asphyxiated in a burned cottage on the estate of Miriam Whitelaw, his patron, Lynley and Havers, with local Detective Inspector Isabelle Ardery, look into the victim''s tangled domestic affairs. Fleming, in the middle of divorce proceedings, was supposed to have been in Greece; the woman renting the cottage is missing. Lynley and Havers find the patron''s wayward daughter, Olivia, formerly a drug user and prostitute, who, now afflicted with ALS (Lou Gehrig''s Disease--and Stephen Hawking''s), is living on a barge with an animal-rights activist. Woven into the investigation are Olivia''s accounts of her mother''s relationship with the cricket star and of her own quest for her mother''s love. Circumventing Ardery and using the media in a way discouraged by his superiors, Lynley puts his job in jeopardy. Although George''s fluent prose is in full gear, the story fails to sustain momentum, sinking under the combined weight of superfluous detail and an overreaching psychological tone.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  George is a gifted writer who spins rich, colorful, mesmerizing, multifaceted stories that combine an absorbing mystery with provocative insights into her characters'' innermost thoughts and emotions. Her latest story once again features Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his sidekick, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. Chalk and cheese when it comes to background, philosophy, style, and personality, Lynley and Havers easily forget their differences when a tough homicide needs solving--take, for example, the asphyxiation death of renowned, all-England cricket player Kenneth Fleming. The duo''s inquiries turn up some disturbing facts about the cricket star. Not only was his personal life a shambles, but he had a very odd relationship with a former teacher. The case is more byzantine than any Lynley and Havers have encountered in their years as a crack homicide team, and even when they''ve identified Fleming''s killer, the file isn''t really closed. As usual, there''s more to think about in George''s story than simply whodunit. Readers will be astounded by the ease with which she weaves complex relationships and provocative moral, emotional, and ethical questions into the compelling plot. Another tour de force from one of today''s best storytellers.\n  <em>\n   Emily Melton\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
(5143, 'Polar Shift', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Polar Shift: It is the name for a phenomenon that may have occurred many times in the past. At its weakest, it disorients birds and animals and damages electrical equipment. At its worst, it causes massive eruptions, earthquakes and climatic changes. At its very worst, it would mean the obliteration of all living matter...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sixty years ago, an eccentric Hungarian genius discovered how to artificially trigger such a shift, but then his work disappeared, or so it was thought. Now, the charismatic leader of an anti-globalization group plans to use it to give the world''s industrialized nations a small jolt, before reversing the shift back again. The only problem is, it can''t be reversed. Once it starts, there is nothing anyone can do.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Austin, Zavala and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team have certainly faced dire situations before, but never have they encountered anything like this.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This time even they may be too late.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is Cussler''s and Kemprecos'' sixth novel starring Kurt Austin and his NUMA Files National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) Files Special Assignments Team. This one concerns a polar shift, a phenomenon that can trigger huge eruptions, earthquakes, and climate changes. Sixty years ago, a Hungarian scientist discovered how to artificially set off such a shift, and now an antiglobalization group plans to strike the world''s industrialized countries. The water in the world''s oceans and lakes will be jerked in a different direction, pounding the coastline, causing massive floods. All electrical devices will fail, and there will be hurricanes and tornadoes of unheard-of force. Radiation sickness from solar rays penetrating the earth''s magnetic field will kill millions. The earth''s crust will break open, causing volcanic eruptions and lava flows. But fear not; Austin and his cohorts are coming to the rescue. The plot is inconceivable, but Cussler''s loyal fans won''t care.\n  <em>\n   George Cohen\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An excellent series."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  (\n  <em>\n   Publisher''s Weekly\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/151'),
(5144, 'Polgara the Sorceress', 'David Eddings &amp; Leigh Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  She soars above a world of warriors, kings, and priests. The daughter of Belgarath and the shape-shifter Poledra, she has fought wars, plotted palace coups, and worked her powerful magic for three thousand years. Now, Polgara looks back at her magnificent life, in this fitting crown jewel to the saga that is the Eddings'' Belgariad and Mallorean cycles.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her hair streaked white by her father''s first touch, her mind guided by a mother she will not see again for centuries, Polgara begins life in her Uncle Beldin''s tower, and in the prehistorical, magical Tree that stands in the middle of the Vale. There, she first learns the reaches of her powers. There she assumes the bird shapes that will serve her on her adventures. And there she starts on the path toward her destiny as Duchess of Erat, shepherdess of the cause of good, adversary of Torak the One-Eyed Dragon God, and guardian of the world''s last, best hope: the heir to the Rivan throne.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here is the legendary life story of a woman of wit, passion, and complex emotions, a woman born of two majestic parents who could not have been more unlike one another. Ordained to make peace and make war, to gain love and lose love, Polgara lives out her family''s rich prophecy in the ceaseless struggle between the Light and the Dark.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Polgara is the epic culmination of a magnificent saga, and a fitting farewell to a world which, once experienced, will never be forgotten.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A sorceress reminisces on her proud life in this final volume in the authors'' best-selling sf series, "The Belgariad" (e.g., Belgarath the Sorcerer, LJ\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Already a runaway bestseller in the UK, this latest doorstopper fantasy from the husband-and-wife team expands upon the events encompassing two huge five-book sagas, The Belgariad and The Malloreon, plus a sequel-cum-companion volume, Belgarath the Sorcerer (1995). This enormous tome focuses on Belgarath''s daughter Polgara, the 3,000-year-old shape-shifting sorceress, and her tumultuous world of magic, one-eyed evil gods, kings, swords, orbs, and whatnot. Neither sequel nor prequel, but--what? Postquel? Omniquel? (Radio satellite tour) --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(5145, 'Power From on High: What It Is and How to Obtain It', 'Charles Finney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Charles Finney boldly uncovers the awful truth that today''s Christians, even Church leaders, are sadly lacking in this critical gift of power, but he offers hope as he reveals the wonderful fact that this power is available to every Christian who dares ask for it in faith. Finney emphasizes that the Holy Spirit urgently desires to take full control of your life, and he laists certain conditions that must be met before you can be filled eith the Spirit and receive Power from on High.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/206'),
(5146, 'The Power of Six', 'Pittacus Lore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  They know about the charm.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They know about our legacies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They caught Number One, Number Two, and Number Three.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They killed them all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I am Number Seven. One of six still alive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We are growing stronger.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We are starting to come together.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We are ready to fight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We are the last defense.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe action is taut, the characters are fascinating, and the fact that the teens are slowly finding one another and learning about Lorien secrets is sure to yield an impressive all-out battle down the road. This series continues to head in interesting directions.â€ (Bulletin of the Center for Childrenâ€™s Books )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLore picks up and expands on a strong premise that originated in the first novel. An intriguing potential romantic triangle brewing between John, Six, and Sam adds layers as they search for answers.â€ (Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for I AM NUMBER FOUR: â€œNumber Four is a hero for this generation.â€ (Michael Bay, director of Transformers )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThereâ€™s genuine suspenseâ€¦itâ€™s easy to get lost in the world of the sweet teen from another planet.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTerrifically propulsive.â€ (Booklist )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œActionâ€“packed.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œRiveting.â€ (The Horn Book )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is a canâ€™t-put-it-down book.â€ (Justine Magazine )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe intense pace, bigger-than-life fight scenes, and good vs. evil showdown set up a series that will easily draw in action-oriented sci-fi fans, who will eagerly await the next round.â€ (Bulletin of the Center for Childrenâ€™s Books )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA breathless page-turner of a sci-fi novel that will have readers rooting for the teen alien who must save himself, his human friends, and the planet. So, gear-up sci-fi fans, the battle for Earth is on and thereâ€™s a new kid in town!â€ (Amazon.com )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Pittacus Lore is Lorienâ€™s ruling Elder. He has been on Earth for the last twelve years, preparing for the war that will decide Earthâ€™s fate. His whereabouts are unknown.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/190'),
(5147, 'Prentice Alvin', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Tales of Alvin Maker\n  </em>\n  series continues in volume three,\n  <em>\n   Prentice Alvin\n  </em>\n  . Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a blacksmith. But Alvin must also learn to control and use his own talent, that of a Maker, else his destiny will be unfulfilled.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A country schoolteacher and the child of a runaway slave find their destinies entwined with that of Alvin Miller, whose talent for "making" has marked him for destruction by the evil force known as the Unmaker. Card''s epic tale of a magical, alternate America demonstrates his skill in graceful storytelling. Recommended, along with Seventh Son and Red Prophet , for most fantasy collections.-- JC\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A tribute to the art of storytelling. . . highly recommended."-\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Card has uncovered a rich vein of folklore and magic here, to which his assured handling of old time religion and manifest love of children is admirably suited: an appealing and intriguing effort."-\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A beguiling book. . . robust but reflective blend of folktale, history, parable and personal testimony, pioneer narrative. The series promises to be a story of deep delight."--\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(5148, 'Promise Me', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Determined to keep his friends'' children safe, Myron Bolitar makes two neighborhood girls promise to call him if they are ever in a bind. Several nights later, a call comes in at two o''clock a.m. The next day, a girl is missing, and Myron is the last person who saw her. And now, he must race to find her, before she is gone forever...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After a six-year hiatus, it''s good to herald the return of Myron Bolitar, the former Boston Celtics basketball star who became a sports agent and crime solver in Coben''s sprightly, exciting series. Even better, it''s great fun to hear Coben himself performing this excellent audio version. As a reader, Coben has a quality best summed up by the Yiddish word\n  <em>\n   hamishe\n  </em>\n  (homelike, in its weaker translation). He may not be Laurence Olivier, but he sure knows how to make believers of his listeners. When Bolitar talks about going back to live with his parents in New Jersey, Coben catches the basic boyishness of his aging hero and the impact such a move has on Myron''s love life. Of course, the world has gotten a lot more complicated: Bolitar''s ladyfriend lost her husband on September 11. When he offers to help her teenage daughter, he quickly finds himself involved in some very dangerous adventures. With fading sports stars behaving badly in real life, it''s a great pleasure to see that Bolitar has found ways to survive honorably.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Coben, the reigning master of clockwork suspense, and winner of the trifecta of mystery-writing honors--the Edgar, the Agatha, and the Shamus--produces a fascinating hybrid thriller here. Coben began his career writing detective novels starring Myron Bolitar, an ex-Celtics basketball player turned entertainment agent. For the past six years, he has concentrated on stand-alone thrillers. Coben''s novels are noted for their use of technology, both as weapons used against the innocent and as ways for victims to escape their tormentors, usually with a clock ticking ominously in the background. In\n  <em>\n   Promise Me\n  </em>\n  , Coben skillfully grafts this deadline suspense onto the career of his series hero, Bolitar. As in his stand-alones, the novel starts with a purely domestic situation--at a party in his home, attended by friends and their offspring, Bolitar overhears two teen girls talking about driving home drunk from parties. Stung by his own memory of a high-school friend who died in a car crash, Bolitar makes the girls promise to contact him if they ever need a lift or are in trouble. The call does come a few nights later. Myron drives the caller to a friend''s house, but she ends up disappearing, and guilt-ridden Myron must use all his resources to try to find what happened. Coben''s resurrection of Bolitar works superbly: the melding of high suspense and high technology with a somewhat battered, very canny, questing hero is sure to produce another major hit for the way-hot Coben.\n  <em>\n   Connie Fletcher\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/177'),
(5149, 'Queen of Sorcery', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  "BELGARIAD is exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight."\n  <br />\n  PIERS ANTHONY\n  <br />\n  The master Sorcerer Belgarath and his daughter Polgara the arch-Sorceress were on the trail of the Orb, seeking to regain its saving power before the final disaster prophesized by the legends. And with them went Garion, a simple farm boy only months before, but now the focus of the struggle. He had never believed in sorcery and wanted no part of it. Yet with every league they traveled, the power grew in him, forcing him to acts of wizardry he could not accept.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Absorbing. Touches all the right Fantasy bases. Warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures, and appealingly human magicians." --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight." --\n  <em>\n   Piers Anthony\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fabulous! Eddings has a marvelous storyteller style. Exceedingly well portrayed." --\n  <em>\n   Anne McCaffrey\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Eddings [The Belgariad series] -- This is like Bonanza, or like I Love Lucy. There will be other fantasy series, but there can never be another that''s so seminal, that so captures the essence of fantasy. Big Dave and Little Leigh grow their heroes from the ground up, and they grow the best.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Veronica Chapman, Senior Editor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/72'),
(5150, 'The Race', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Intrepid detective Isaac Bell engages in his most dangerous case yet. It is the early years of the 20th century, air travel is in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first flier to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the candidates - a barnstorming woman flier named Josephine Frost - and that''s where Isaac Bell comes in. Frost''s violent-tempered business magnate husband, Harry, has just killed her lover and tried to kill her and now he''s on the run - but Whiteway is sure he''ll try again. Not that that''s news to Bell. He tangled with Harry Frost ten years before, and lost badly. He knows that Frost has access to thieves, murderers and thugs in every city in the country. He knows Frost won''t just be coming after his wife, but after Whiteway. And Bell knows that if he takes the case, Frost will be after him, too. Yes, Bell knows all that...but he still has no idea what he has just gotten himself into. Things are not quite what they seem to him - and that will prove to be a very fatal mistake indeed.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of a great number of international bestsellers, including the famous Dirk Pitt(R) adventures, such as Crescent Dawn; the NUMA(R) Files adventures, the Oregon Files, such as The Jungle; and the Isaac Bell historical thrillers, which began with The Chase. He lives in Arizona. www.clivecussler.co.uk Justin Scott''s twenty six novels include The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle; the Ben Abbot detective series; and five modern sea thrillers published under his pen name Paul Garrison. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, the filmmaker Amber Edwards.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/144'),
(5151, 'Raise the Titanic', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A tidal wave of pounding excitement from the first page to the last . . . Two and a half miles beneath the icy North Atlantic the mighty Titanic holds the key to the safety of the free world. The Americans want it. So do the Russians. Ace maritime troubleshooter Dirk Pitt faces one of the most stupendous tests of courage and ingenuity ever. Raise the Titanic is a spellbinding blockbuster of action and suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/133'),
(5152, 'Red Prophet', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Come here to the magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its own chosen people.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Card''s fantasy series, "Tales of Alvin Maker," got off to a delightful bang with Seventh Son, which introduced an alternate early America where folk magics such as healing and dowsing really work. A nation still inchoate, its independent states are a crazy quilt, some rebellious while others remain loyal to a variety of European countries, some repressive while others grant native American Indians citizenship. This second volume finds an exiled Napoleon in Detroit, dreaming of empire and glory while Governor William Henry Harrison is plotting his own future on the graves of red Americans. Between these forces are the native followers of two brothers, the warrior Ta-Kumsaw and the pacifist prophet of the title, Tenskwa-Tawa. With its preachy tone, tepid mysticism and forced coincidences, this sequel, though interesting, doesn''t live up to its predecessor. Card recently won the Hugo Award two years in a row, the first time a novel (Ender''s Game) and its sequel (Speaker for the Dead) have both taken top honors.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Young Alvin Miller''s magical talent for making things whole becomes the focus of a desperate race to prevent a bloodthirsty war between the Indians and the white settlers in North America. Set in an alternate world steeped in natural magic, this sequel to Seventh Son continues to demonstrate the author''s love for American folklore. Recommended. JC\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(5153, 'The Rise of Nine', 'Pittacus Lore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Until the day I met John Smith, Number Four, I''d been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Together, we are much more powerful. But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find the others. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  I went to Spain to find Seven, and I found even more, including a tenth member of the Garde who escaped from Lorien alive. Ella is younger than the rest of us, but just as brave. Now we''re looking for the othersâ€”including John.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But so are they.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They caught Number One in Malaysia.\n  <br />\n  Number Two in England.\n  <br />\n  And Number Three in Kenya.\n  <br />\n  They caught me in New Yorkâ€”but I escaped.\n  <br />\n  I am Number Six.\n  <br />\n  They want to finish what they started.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But they''ll have to fight us first.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PRAISE FOR THE I AM NUMBER FOUR SERIES:â€œNumber Four is a hero for this generation.â€ (Michael Bay, director of Transformers )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA breathless page-turner of a sci-fi novel that will have readers rooting for the teen alien who must save himself, his human friends, and the planet. So, gear-up sci-fi fans, the battle for Earth is on and thereâ€™s a new kid in town!â€ (Amazon.com, Best Book of the Month Review )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThereâ€™s genuine suspenseâ€¦itâ€™s easy to get lost in the world of the sweet teen from another planet.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTerrifically propulsive.â€ (Booklist )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œActionâ€“packed.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œRiveting.â€ (The Horn Book )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is a canâ€™t-put-it-down book.â€ (Justine Magazine )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe action is taut, the characters are fascinating, and the fact that the teens are slowly finding one another and learning about Lorien secrets is sure to yield an impressive all-out battle down the road. This series continues to head in interesting directions.â€ (Bulletin of the Center for Childrenâ€™s Books )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLore picks up and expands on a strong premise that originated in the first novel. An intriguing potential romantic triangle brewing between John, Six, and Sam adds layers as they search for answers.â€ (Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Pittacus Lore is Lorienâ€™s ruling Elder. He has been on Earth for the last twelve years, preparing for the war that will decide Earthâ€™s fate. His whereabouts are unknown.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/191'),
(5154, 'The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of THE BELGARIAD and THE MALLOREON', 'David Eddings &amp; Leigh Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Join David and Leigh Eddings on a fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of the extensive background materials they compiled before beginning the masterpiece of epic fantasy unforgettably set down in The Belgariad and The Malloreon and their two companion volumes, Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Our tour stretches from the wealthy Empire of Tolnedra to the remote Isle of the Winds, from the mysterious mountains of Ulgoland to the forbidding reaches of darkest Mallorea. Along the way, you will meet old friends and enemies alike. Rare volumes will be opened to your eyes. Sacred holy books in which you may read the secrets of the Gods themselves and of their prophets. Scholarly histories of the rise and fall of empires from the Imperial Library at Tol Honeth. The profound mysteries of the Malloreon Gospels. THE RIVAN CODEX will enrich your understanding of all that has gone before . . . and whet your appetite for more spectacular adventures from this talented team.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  So you want to write a multivolume, bestselling epic fantasy? Here''s the book to help you.\n  <em>\n   The Rivan Codex\n  </em>\n  was published to answer the many letters David and Leigh Eddings have received from students, teachers, and aspiring writers. It''s a companion to the 12-book fantasy series comprised of The Belgariad (five books), The Malloreon (five books),\n  <em>\n   Belgarath the Sorcerer\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Polgara the Sorceress\n  </em>\n  . In David Eddings''s words,\n  <em>\n   The Rivan Codex\n  </em>\n  "may give the student of our genre some insights into the creative process--something on the order of ''connect wire A to wire B. Warning! Do not connect wire A to wire C, because that will cause the whole thing to blow up in your face." This is a collection of the groundwork David and Leigh Eddings laid for the Belgariad and Malloreon series. On this firm foundation they imagined and built their world in book after book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There''s a fascinating introduction, a personal history of Belgarath the sorcerer, Holy Books, Gospels, Histories, King Anheg''s diary, and an afterword. Footnotes tell how the authors used and changed these materials in writing the books. And of course, there are plenty of maps (the starting point for all epic fantasies).\n  <em>\n   --Nona Vero\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though full of treasures, this farewell to the world of the authors'' bestselling Belgariad and Mallorean sagas is rather a mixed bag. The book contains an autobiographical foreword, explaining the roots of the double saga in David Eddings''s reading of medieval epics, the editorial influence of the late Lester del Rey, the longstanding but only recently acknowledged role of the author''s wife as "unindicted collaborator" and the perils of writing high fantasy in general. The volume then presents a variety of well-crafted pseudobiblia, such as Belgarath''s autobiography and many of the Holy Books. It goes on to the historical, economic and ethnographic background of the major nations of the sagas. There are many other pieces that reflect well on the Eddingses'' world-building skillsAas if the novels themselves had not already demonstrated their craft. This book may be unintelligible to those who are not Eddings fans, but it will be irresistible to those who are. It is also of some scholarly interest in revealing the roots of one of the founding megasagas in modern English-language fantasy. Science Fiction Book Club alternate selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/13'),
(5155, 'The Ruby Knight', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Ehlanda, Queen of Elenia, has been poisoned. A deep enchantment sustains her life, but it will end soon. Then Sparhawk, Knight of the Queen''s Champion, learns where to get to cure for the poison. He and his companions set forth on a dangerous quest to find the antidote before the queen should perish and the peace ends....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sir Sparhawk and his companions seek the Bhelliom, an antidote to a rare poison administered to Elenia''s queen. "Eddings''s delightful style propels the reader along a well-crafted and carefully unfolding course, and even through the few places he falls back on cliches of the genre," said PW.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Pandion knight Sparhawk and his companions continue their quest for the Bhelliom, the legendary jewel whose power alone can save a dying queen. Eddings''s strength lies in his ability to create thoroughly likable heroes with personalities that transcend the formulaic fantasy genre. Graceful prose and judicious humor add style to this excellent addition to fantasy collections. Recommended.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/66'),
(5156, 'Sacred Stone', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Craig Dirgo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A power that could destroy the world\n   <br />\n   A prize that men will kill to possess\n   <br />\n   Juan Cabrillo must find it first...\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two opposing groups seek a 50,000-year-old radioactive meteorite known as the Sacred Stone. Muslim extremists have stolen a nuclear device and need the stone to give them the power to vaporize any city in the west. A megalomaniacal industrialist leads a group seeking to carry out the utter annihilation of Islam itself. And caught between the two militant factions is Juan Cabrillo and his crew, who must do whatever they can to stop the impending doom...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eric the Red''s A.D. 1000 discovery of a radioactive meteorite has present-day life-or-death ramifications in Cussler and Dirgo''s second novel (after\n  <em>\n   Golden Buddha\n  </em>\n  ) featuring the\n  <em>\n   Oregon\n  </em>\n  , a state-of-the-art warship disguised as a rusty tramp steamer and manned by some of the world''s finest ex-military and intelligence operatives. Known collectively as the Corporation, the men and women of the\n  <em>\n   Oregon\n  </em>\n  â€”"mercenaries with a conscience"â€”offer their services to various countries and individuals with specialized security and military needs. The Corporation''s chairman, series hero Juan Cabrillo, has several pressing concerns: supply security for the emir of Qatar, who is attending a conference in Iceland; track down a nuclear bomb that has gone astray; and pick up the aforementioned meteorite, which has just been found ensconced in a mysterious shrine. These jobs become dangerously complicated when industrialist Halifax Hickman, a man fueled by revenge and hatred, enters the picture. The meteorite, the atomic bomb and a vial of plague are to be used in attacks on holy sitesâ€”Israel''s Dome of the Rock and Saudi Arabia''s al-Haram mosqueâ€”and at an Elton John concert. It''s a deadly game, but the brilliant Cabrillo is a master player, moving his pieces at lightning speed on several boards until he outmaneuvers his opposition in this action-packed page-turner.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the second novel in the\n  <em>\n   Oregon Files\n  </em>\n  series featuring Juan Cabrillo as the chairman of the Corporation, a group of ex-military and intelligence operatives who hire themselves out to countries and individuals needing specialized services--"a private army of mercenaries with a conscience."\n  <em>\n   The Oregon\n  </em>\n  is a 500-foot-long cargo steamer with a state-of-the-art communications and command center and a helicopter. The group''s mission is to pick up a meteorite and deliver it to the CIA. It might be made of iridium, and iridium can be used to construct a "dirty bomb." Muslim terrorists who have stolen a nuclear device may use the radioactive material in the meteorite to vaporize a large Western city. Another group, led by a demented industrialist, seeks to destroy the Islamic world. As always, the plot covers many locales around the world, and the dialogue contains lots of military jargon. The large cast of characters includes Elton John and Eric the Red (yes, the legendary explorer). Even though the good guys always win, Cussler fans will remain engaged.\n  <em>\n   George Cohen\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/162'),
(5157, 'Sahara', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Clive Cussler''s breathtaking thriller is now available in a premium edition in an exciting new package. Egypt, 1996. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, Dirk Pitt thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist who''s investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world''s seas. Racing to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt and his team, equipped with an extraordinary, state-of-the-art yacht, run a gauntlet between a billionaire industrialist and a bloodthirsty West African tyrant. In the scorching desert, Pitt finds a gold mine manned by slaves and uncovers the truth behind two enduring mysteriesthe fate of a Civil War ironclad and its secret connection with Lincoln''s assassination, and the last flight of a long-lost female pilot. Now, amidst the blazing, shifting sands of the Sahara, Dirk Pitt will make a desperate standin a battle the world cannot afford to lose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/125'),
(5158, 'The Sapphire Rose', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Finally the knight Sparhawk had come to possess Bhellion, the legendary jewel of magic. With it, he frees Queen Ehalana from the crystalline cocoon that preserves her life, but Bhellion carries dangers of its own. And now Sparkhawk is being stalked by a dark lurking menace that is only the beginning of his troubles....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eddings should satisfy his many fans with the final volume of his Elenium fantasy trilogy, an adroit mixture of the exalted and the mundane.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''What separates the grown-up authors from the boys is the quality of the writing and David Eddings is one of the best'' Western Mail ''Sparhawk is the best-realized hero in modern fantasy'' Daily Telegraph\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/67'),
(5159, 'Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves', 'Matthew Reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Book Description The action-packed new thriller from SUNDAY TIMES bestseller Matthew Reilly. This time the world''s on fire! Product Description At an abandoned Soviet base in the Arctic,a battle to save all life on Earth is about to begin... THE SECRET BASE It is a top-secret base known only as Dragon Island. A long-forgotten relic of the Cold War, it houses a weapon of terrible destructive force, a weapon that has just been re-activated... AN ARMY OF MURDERERS When Dragon Island is seized by a brutal terrorist force calling itself the Army of Thieves, the fate of the world suddenly hangs in the balance. But there are no crack units close enough to get to Dragon in time to stop the Army setting off the weapon. ONE SMALL TEAM Except, that is, for a small equipment-testing team up in the Arctic led by a Marine captain named Schofield, call-sign SCARECROW. It''s not a strike team; just a handful of Marines and civilians. It''s not equipped to attack a fortified island held by a small army.But it will go in anyway, because someone has to. THE ULTIMATE HERO IS BACK, FACING THE ULTIMATE ARMY OF VILLAINS. About the Author Matthew Reilly wrote his first book whilst attending the University of New South Wales, Australia. His novel, ICE STATION, became an international bestseller and has been published in more than 15 countries. Matthew''s latest novel, THE FIVE GREATEST WARRIORS, smashed into the SUNDAY TIMES bestseller list at no.2 on hardback publication.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(5160, 'The Sea of Monsters', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Percy Jackson''s seventh-grade year has been surprisingly quiet. Not a single monster has set foot on his New York prep-school campus. But when an innocent game of dodgeball among Percy and his classmates turns into a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants, things get . . . well, ugly. And the unexpected arrival of Percy''s friend Annabeth brings more bad news: the magical borders that protect Camp Half-Blood have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and unless a cure is found, the only safe haven for demigods will be destroyed. In this fresh, funny, and hugely anticipated follow up to The Lightning Thief, Percy and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their beloved camp. But first, Percy will discover a stunning new secret about his family -- one that makes him question whether being claimed as Poseidon''s son is an honor or simply a cruel joke.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/198');
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(5161, 'The Secret of Excalibur', 'Andy McDermott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The third brilliant adventure thriller featuring archaeologist Nina Wilde, in which Nina must find Excalibur, King Arthur''s beloved sword. Said to make whoever holds it unstoppable in battle, the sword Excalibur has been coveted across the ages, and thought lost for over a thousand years. With a cryptic message to archaeologist Nina Wilde, this may be about to change. Historian Bernd Rust believes he can locate Excalibur... and that the sword is the key to harnessing an incredible source of energy. Nina is sceptical Ä until she and Rust are attacked by mercenaries determined to steal his research. Nina and her boyfriend, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase, are soon propelled into a deadly race to find Excalibur. From the deserts of Syria to the arctic wastes of Russia , Nina and Chase must battle a merciless enemy who plans to use the swordÄs powers to plunge the world into a new era of war...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/204'),
(5162, 'Seeds of Earth', 'Michael Cobley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Merciless. Relentless. Unstoppable.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The first intelligent species to encounter mankind attacked without warning. Merciless. Relentless. Unstoppable. With little hope of halting the invasion, Earth''s last roll of the dice was to dispatch three colony ships, seeds of Earth, to different parts of the galaxy. The human race would live on ... somewhere.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   150 years later, the planet Darien hosts a thriving human settlement, which enjoys a peaceful relationship with an indigenous race, the scholarly Uvovo. But there are secrets buried on Darien''s forest moon. Secrets that go back to an apocalyptic battle fought between ancient races at the dawn of galactic civilization. Unknown to its colonists, Darien is about to become the focus of an intergalactic power struggle where the true stakes are beyond their comprehension. And what choices will the Uvovo make when their true nature is revealed and the skies grow dark with the enemy?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Praise for the Humanity''s Fire trilogy:\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Proper galaxy-spanning Space Opera ... a worthy addition to the genre" (\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Iain M. Banks\n  </em>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "A complex, finely detailed thriller-cum-space opera"\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   (\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   About the Author\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Michael Cobley was born in Leicester, England, and has lived in Glasgow, Scotland, for most of his life. He has studied engineering, been a DJ and has an abiding interest in democratic politics.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   His previous books include the Shadowkings dark fantasy trilogy, and Iron Mosaic, a short story collection.\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Seeds of Earth\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Orphaned Worlds\n  </em>\n  , books one and two of the Humanity''s Fire sequence, are his first full-length foray into space opera. Find out more about Michael Cobley at www.michaelcobley.com.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/99'),
(5163, 'The Seeress of Kell', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  THE FINAL RECKONING\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Time was running out for Garion and his companions in their quest to recover Garion''s infant son and heir. If they could not locate the Place Which Is No More, then Zandramas, the Child of Dark, would use Garion''s son in a rite that would raise the Dark Prophecy to eternal dominion over the universe!\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Only the Seeress of Kell could reveal the site of that mysterious place--and that she could do only once Garion and Polgara had fulfilled an ancient prophecy in the mountain fastness of the Seers . . .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kell itself was closed to Zandramas--but her dark magic could force the knowledge she needed from one of Garion''s party. She laid her traps and dispatched her foul minions, determined to claim the world for the Dark God. But Garion would let nothing stand between him and his son . . .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here is the epochal conclusion to David Eddings'' bestselling The Malloreon, the culmination of an unparalleled quest across strange lands and among strange peoples--a magnificent fantasy of men, Kings, Sorcerers, and Gods caught up in the seven-thousand-year war between two ancient, opposing Destinies battling to determine the fate of all creation.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This final volume of the quintet begun with Guardians of the West finds Belgarion, the Child of Light, racing to his cataclysmic and long-prophesied meeting with Zandramas, Child of the Dark, which will determine the future of the world. His small band--consisting of, among others, his wife, Ce''Nedra; members of his shape-changing family; and his former enemy, Zakath, Emperor of Mallorea--is joined by Cyradis, the blind seeress of Kell, who is foreordained to decide which will win, the forces of Light or those of Dark. From the mysterious city of Kell they are directed to Perivor, bastion of chivalry, where they will learn the location of the meeting place, Korim, the Place Which Is No More. After various adventures and encounters with Zandramas''s agents, the final battle of wills is joined, with Belgarion becoming privy to astonishing revelations about some of his companions. This volume is not for a newcomer to Eddings''s series; while it ties up loose ends and brings the hero and his friends to a happy conclusion, the meeting that the previous four books have been foreshadowing is anticlimatic.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fifth and final chunk of Eddings''s enormous Good vs. Evil fantasy (most recently Sorceress of Darshiva, 1989). Finally, then, we have reached the showdown in the Place Which is No More. Cyradis, the blind title character, must choose between the Light (Garion''s candidate, Eriond the godlike) and the Dark (the evil sorceress Zandramas has selected Geran, Garion''s young son, as her representative). Naturally, the fate of the entire universe is at stake. The role of the good guys is to counter and neutralize the plots and deceptions of Zandramas, so that Cyriadis can make an honest choice. No prizes for guessing which she chooses. Various Gods, Orbs, dragons, and whatnots embroider the proceedings; Eddings''s usual jolly banter enlivens the dialogue; yet the showdown--promised through five long, long novels--amounts to nothing much. Fans and nonfans alike will rejoice that the series is concluded at last. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(5164, 'Serpent', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon''s scheme hinges on Nina''s recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Only Kurt Austin and his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon and the Andrea Doria''s silent steel hull - and if their deadly mission fails, Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death and destruction.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After more than a quarter century of chronicling the aquatic adventures of action hero Dirt Pitt, Cussler (Flood Tide; Shock Wave) has finally decided to cast his line in somewhat different waters. Co-written by veteran mystery author Paul Kemprecos (Bluefin Blues; The Mayflower Murder), this novel still features the sturdy men and women of the National Underwater Marine Agency, plenty of hair-raising derring-do and a convivial cast of characters engaged in an outlandishly hatched thrill ride. The stars of this show are NUMA divers Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala, two young bucks without the seasoning and panache of Pitt but worthy successors, nonetheless. They are trying to find out why top archeologists are being killed, some of them butchered, at dig sites. The archeologists have apparently stumbled across artifacts proving, contrary to established historical thought, that Christopher Columbus wasn''t the first Old World explorer to set foot in the New World. The killings can be traced to a mysterious organization in Texas called Time Quest, whose stated mission is to provide volunteers for digs. Its real intention, however, is much darker: to prevent anyone from learning that Spain was not the first on the scene in the New World and that the culture it claimed to discover had, in fact, been imported from other corners of the globe. Ultimately, Time Quest''s leader, the evil Francisco Halcon, wants to foment revolution in the Western U.S. and reclaim it as Latin-American territory. The showdown between Halcon and NUMA''s forces plays out in typical Cussler furyAfirst on the decks of the sunken passenger liner Andrea Doria in the waters off Nantucket and again in an underwater Mayan crypt in Guatemala. It''s all great fun, if not a little top-heavy at times from flabby subplots and excessive detail on arcane historical facts and the machinery of deep-sea exploration. As for Pitt, his fans will be relieved to know that he and longtime sidekick Al Giordino make a brief appearance to wish Austin and Zavala luck, then depart for a mission in Antarctica, no doubt to return with tales of peril and glory. (June)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It won''t surprise those who remember Cussler''s\n  <em>\n   Raise the Titanic!\n  </em>\n  (1976) that he now uses the 1956 sinking of the\n  <em>\n   Andrea Doria\n  </em>\n  as the springboard for another thriller involving the National Underwater and Maritime Agency. According to Cussler, the\n  <em>\n   Andrea Doria\n  </em>\n  sinking was deliberate, but that secret begins unraveling two generations later, when archaeologist Nina Kirov, fleeing a "terrorist" attack on her dig, is rescued by a NUMA vessel. Aboard are Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala, NUMA field operatives equally deft with underwater hardware and the ladies. The pair''s first job is standing off the "terrorists" pursuing Kirov. Plots--not to mention counterplots--rapidly thicken as NUMA squares off against Halcon, who is clearly a descendant of Fu Manchu despite his Latino characterization. Halcon seeks an immense treasure, brought by fleeing Carthaginians to the Mayan empire, to finance an independent Latino nation in the U.S. Southwest. Before Halcon is defeated, Cussler dispenses, with new collaborator Kemprecos'' aid, the fast action, larger-than-life characters, less-than-graceful prose, credulity-stretching scenarios, and high-saltwater content that are his trademarks. A superlative subplot relays the adventures of archaeologist Gamay Trout and her companion, the Mayan Dr. Chi, as they try to escape outlaws, Halcon''s minions, and the natural hazards of the Yucatan Peninsula. Likely to prove eminently satisfactory to Cussler fans.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/146'),
(5165, 'Seventh Son', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  From the author of\n  <em>\n   Enderâ€™s Game\n  </em>\n  , an unforgettable story about young Alvin Maker: the seventh son of a seventh son. Born into an alternative frontier America where life is hard and folk magic is real, Alvin is gifted with the power. He must learn to use his gift wisely. But dark forces are arrayed against Alvin, and only a young girl with second sight can protect him.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the award-winning Ender''s Game on, each of Card''s last three novels has featured a secular saint, less a character than a catalyst to galvanize those around him into reexamining the thorny moral tangles in which they live. This first volume of the Tales of Alvin Maker introduces young Alvin Miller Jr., the seventh son of a seventh son, who lives on the frontier of an alternate early 19th century America, where folk magic such as faith healing and second sight really works. While Alvin embarks on his mythic struggle against the Unmaker of all things, he is watched over by a flesh and blood guardian angel; he is pursued by the rigid, zealous Reverend Thrower; and he is guided by the wandering Taleswapper, William Blake. This beguiling book recalls Robert Penn Warren in its robust but reflective blend of folktale, history, parable and personal testimony, pioneer narrative. The series promises to be (in Warren''s phrase) a "story of deep delight."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA Set in the Northwest Territory in the late 18th Century, this is an American fantasy in the tradition of T. H. White''s Sword in the Stone (Putnam, 1939). Mixing fantasy with philosophy and historical figures with imaginary ones, this first book in the ``Tales of Alvin Maker'''' series succeeds on several levels. Alvin Miller, seventh son of a seventh son, is heir to great powers that he must learn to use and control. A rich cast of characters try either to help or destroy Alvin in his childhood. It is apparent that Alvin is the focus of gathering forces of good and evil preparing for battle. Readers will be left at the end of the book wondering what will happen to young Alvin in his coming apprenticeship. The sequel will be eagerly awaited. Mary Williams, Harris County Public Library\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(5166, 'Shadowfane', 'Janny Wurts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Ivainson Jaric, heir to the Firelord''s legacy, is caught in a life and death struggle to win his inherited powers. Taen Dreamweaver battles her evil brother, corrupted by demons to slaughter his own kind. If either one of the falls, the Stormwarden will never win free of his icy imprisonment to help their cause.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Scait, Demonlord of Shadowfane, uses his captured human talent for his conquest, his machinations raise an even greater threat, one that could hurl all the world to its destruction , and end mankind''s chance of reclaiming freedom among the stars...\n </p>\n <p>\n  And so the Cycle of Fire races toward its powerful conclusion!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''IT OUGHT TO BE ILLEGAL FOR ONE PERSON TO HAVE SO MUCH TALENT'' Stephen R. Donaldson\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A World Fantasy Award-winning artist (her painting adorns the cover of this, and of all her books), Janny Wurts is the author of several bestselling fantasy series, including the\n  <em>\n   Cycle of Fire trilogy\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Wars of Light and Shadow,\n  </em>\n  as well as the recently released,\n  <em>\n   Shadowfane,\n  </em>\n  all published by HarperPrism.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She lives in Florida with her husband, artist Don Maitz.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/97'),
(5167, 'Shelter', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A young adult debut from internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mickey Bolitar''s year can''t get much worse. After witnessing his father''s death and sending his mom to rehab, he''s forced to live with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A new school comes with new friends and new enemies, and lucky for Mickey, it also comes with a great new girlfriend, Ashley. For a while, it seems like Mickey''s train-wreck of a life is finally improving - until Ashley vanishes without a trace. Unwilling to let another person walk out of his life, Mickey follows Ashley''s trail into a seedy underworld that reveals that this seemingly sweet, shy girl isn''t who she claimed to be. And neither was Mickey''s father. Soon, Mickey learns about a conspiracy so shocking that it makes high school drama seem like a luxury - and leaves him questioning everything about the life he thought he knew.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  First introduced to readers in Harlan Coben''s latest adult novel,\n  <em>\n   Live Wire\n  </em>\n  , Mickey Bolitar is as quick-witted and clever as his uncle Myron, and eager to go to any length to save the people he cares about. With this new series, Coben introduces an entirely new generation of fans to the masterful plotting and wry humor that have made him an award-winning, internationally bestselling, and beloved author.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Follow Mickey Bolitar on his next adventure in\n  <em>\n   Seconds Away\n  </em>\n  , coming out in Fall 2012!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''This explosively fast thriller will leave fans clamoring for more'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ''Cunningly plotted and dependably entertaining'' EVENING STANDARD\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You know something? I honestly can''t think of anything I didn''t like about Shelter. From the dialogue to the emotions expressed by Mickey, from the investigation to the hint of a massive conspiracy - it was all superb. And man! That cliffhanger! It feels a long, long time to the next novel in the series. This is sharp, dangerous, funny and, above all, vital reading. It is a masterpiece of a thriller story for Young Adults. Buy Shelter immediately, you won''t regret it. FLOOR TO CEILING BOOKS It''s a cracking read - I''m a bit of a sucker for noir set in the high school environment... A great place for younger readers to discover the wonderful suburban crime dramas of Mr Coben and, for those who know what to expect, another great read to add to their growing collection. Can''t wait for the next one in the Mickey Bolitar series. High scoring stuff indeed. BOOKS AND WRITERS the ending is spine-tingling and shocking, which bodes well for the next book! Shelter is a gripping little thriller than should be bought and read as soon as possible, regardless of the reader''s age. Superb. ALTERNATIVE MAGAZINE ONLINE Shelter is a cleverly plotted mystery that leaves you wanting more. I read it in one sitting. It was compulsive NATE CLASSROOM Interwoven with the comedy and crime are poignant observations about family and friends that make this teen crime debut for Harlan Coben something extra special. Highly recommended. THE BOOKBAG There''s plenty of action here, some understated, sly, secretly plotted and some roistering and rumbustious and all deep within a world of gangsters, organised crime and criminal deception. BOOKS FOR KEEPS 20111101 A gripping read. CAROUSEL\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/184'),
(5168, 'The Shining Ones', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Book Two of The Tamuli. The New York Times Bestseller!\n  <br />\n  Years ago, the Child-Goddess Aphrael had hidden Bhelliom, the Stone of Power, at the bottom of the sea. Yet now it is needed again to stop a malign force from spreading evil and destruction across the lands. Sparhawk, Queen''s champion, sets out to retrieve the Stone. But others seek the gem for their own diabolical ends. Most fearsome of these are the Shining Ones, whose mere touch melts human flesh from bone. Now Sparhawk finds himself stalked by these creatures out of myth . . . whose touch is all too real.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sir Sparhawk and his wife, Queen Ehlana of Elenia, encounter ever more sinister plots in the second book of The Tamuli , following Domes of Fire , as they try to help the emperor of Tamuli take a firm grasp of the government. In a world of many gods, whose powers depend on the number and fervor of their worshippers, the royal couple find themselves pawns in the struggle of one entity to free his followers, albeit bloodthirsty and un-neighborly, from constraints placed upon them eons previously. Unrest spreads throughout Tamuli, with indications of sorcery and meddling by various gods, prompting the goddess Aphrael, reincarnated as the royal couple''s young daughter Danae, to retrieve the powerful sapphire-rose jewel Bhelliom, hidden a few years earlier after being used to destroy the evil god Azash. While Sparhawk, Aphrael (now in the guise of the child Flute) and various companions race through a hostile countryside, encountering the mythical and abhorred Shining Ones, the queen and emperor play a more stylized game to keep the enemy at bay. Neatly blending simplicity and complexity, this tale of comradeship, dastardly doings, multiple gods, strange races and noble and ignoble humans is vintage Eddings.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Book Two of Eddings''s latest trilogy (Domes of Fire, 1992): a second set of yarns about the Pandion Knight, Sparhawk, his wife, Queen Ehlana, and a supporting cast of thousands. This time out, our heroes quickly learn who is behind the latest crop of troubles: Zalasta, the Styric sage, who for hundreds of years has secretly nursed a virulent hatred of the child-goddess Aphrael, her sister Sephrenia, and the good guys in general. Sparhawk, meanwhile, learns to communicate with Bhelliom, the powerfully magical blue jewel that he has just retrieved from the sea with Aphrael''s help. He has also made contact with the legendary Shining Ones, supposedly ghoulish types whose touch is death; they turn out to be victims of Zalasta''s treachery and a centuries-old misunderstanding. The Shining Ones, in the process of becoming transcendental, need Bhelliom''s assistance; in exchange, Xanetia, who can read minds, will help to expose the conspiracy that Zalasta created against the emperor Sarabian. Behind Zalasta, it emerges, is the god Cyrgon; he''s prodding the Trolls to go to war by pretending to be their gods (they are actually trapped inside Bhelliom), so again Sparhawk must do rapid negotiating: the Troll-Gods, in return for their freedom, agree to restrain their Trolls and help defeat Cyrgon. Finally, Ehlana, left idiotically unprotected, is kidnapped by the bad guys. And so to volume three. Very little action, a great deal of chat, and lots of rather pointless embroidery. At least those who enjoyed volume one should be happy; non-fans need not bother. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/69'),
(5169, 'Shock Wave', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Mysterious Plague in the Antarctic...A Diamond Empire Run by an Evil Genius...A Devastating New Technology...NUMA agent DIRK PITTÂ® is investigating the baffling deaths of thousands of Antarctic marine animals when he stumbles on something even more chilling. The passengers and crew of a cruise ship all died simultaneously and instantly, leaving stranded on a remote island whaling station a small party of tourists led by the beautiful Maeve Fletcher. And the carnage is just beginning, as Pitt''s investigation leads him to Maeve''s estranged father and sisters, owners of the global diamond cartel Dorsett Consolidated Mining. From a chilling escape at a high-security Canadian mine to a tiny boat adrift on lonely, shark-infested seas, the ingenious Pitt is racing to thwart Dorsett''s ruthless plans -- before an unthinkable disaster claims millions of innocent lives!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/134'),
(5170, 'The Silent Sea', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Jack Du Brul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  An ancient curse...\n  <br />\n  A prize beyond imagination...\n  <br />\n  Juan Cabrillo will face one to win the other.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The seventh Oregon Files adventure thriller begins on December 7, 1941, when five boys encounter tragedy while looking for buried pirate treasure on a small island off the coast of Washington State. Flash-forward to today: Juan Cabrillo, captain of the Oregon (a high-tech vessel posing as a tramp freighter), is in Argentina, trying to recover a downed NASA satellite. Well, donâ€™t you know, Juan stumbles on something he totally didnâ€™t expect to find, and soon heâ€™s chasing after the secrets of an ancient curse that might still be causing trouble. Fast-paced and a lot of fun, the latest Cabrillo novel delivers the wallop Cusslerâ€™s fans have come to expect. Cabrillo himselfâ€”he shares his name with a sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer, by the wayâ€”makes a fine protagonist, sharp-witted and two-fisted. Considering the Oregon Files novels involve action, exploration, and high-tech gadgetry, itâ€™s surprising no one has turned them into movies yet. The prolific Cussler, who, like James Patterson, now employs coauthors (Du Brul in this case), is often accused of writing by the numbers, but this time those numbers add up to entertaining fare for high-adventure fans. --David Pitt\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clive Cussler is the author of many\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers, most recently\n  <em>\n   The Spy\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Lost Empire\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Arizona.\n  <br />\n  Jack Du Brul is a graduate of the Westminster School and George Washington University. Trying to add as much adventure to his life as he does to his novels, Du Brul has climbed Masada at noon, swam in the Arctic Ocean off Point Barrow, explored war-torn Eritrea, camped in Greenland, and was gnawed on by piranhas in the Amazon River. He collects zeppelin memorabilia and when not writing or traveling (25 countries and counting), he can be found in a favorite chair with a book and a brandy. Jack Du Brul lives in Burlington, Vermont.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/159'),
(5171, 'Silverthorn', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A poisoned bolt has struck down the PrincessÂ Â Anita on the day of her wedding to Prince Arutha ofÂ Â Krondor.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  To save his beloved,Â Â Arutha sets out in search of the mytics herb calledÂ Â Silverthorn that only grows in the dark andÂ Â forbidding land of theÂ Â Spellweavers.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Accompanied by a mercenary, a minstrel, and a cleverÂ Â young thief, he wil confront an ancient evil and doÂ Â battle with the dark powers that threaten theÂ Â enchanted realm of Midkemia.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "IÂ Â found\n  <em>\n   Silverthorn\n  </em>\n  to be asÂ Â exciting and absorbing as\n  <em>\n   Magician\n  </em>\n  Â Â in every way. The excellent characterizationÂ Â wedded to a tight and well-tumed plot makes it one ofÂ Â the outstanding fantasy offerings of the season."Â Â --Andre Norton\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A poisoned bolt has struck down the Princess Anita on the day of her wedding to Prince Arutha of Krondor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To save his beloved, Arutha sets out in search of the mytics herb called Silverthorn that only grows in the dark and forbidding land of the Spellweavers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Accompanied by a mercenary, a minstrel, and a clever young thief, he wil confront an ancient evil and do battle with the dark powers that threaten the enchanted realm of Midkemia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I found\n  <em>\n   Silverthorn\n  </em>\n  to be as exciting and absorbing as\n  <em>\n   Magician\n  </em>\n  in every way. The excellent characterization wedded to a tight and well-tuned plot makes it one of the outstanding fantasy offerings of the season." --Andre Norton\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(5172, 'Skeleton Coast', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Jack Du Brul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The author of the bestselling NUMA(r) and Dirk Pitt(r) series continues the adventure and intrigue featuring his unbeatable hero of the high seas: Captain Juan Cabrillo...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The guy I read Tom Clancy Cussler is hard to beat Daily Mail\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clive Cussler is the author of many\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers, most recently\n  <em>\n   The Spy\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Lost Empire\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Arizona.\n  <br />\n  Jack Du Brul is a graduate of the Westminster School and George Washington University. Trying to add as much adventure to his life as he does to his novels, Du Brul has climbed Masada at noon, swam in the Arctic Ocean off Point Barrow, explored war-torn Eritrea, camped in Greenland, and was gnawed on by piranhas in the Amazon River. He collects zeppelin memorabilia and when not writing or traveling (25 countries and counting), he can be found in a favorite chair with a book and a brandy. Jack Du Brul lives in Burlington, Vermont.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/158'),
(5173, 'Sorceress of Darshiva', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  As the bestselling THE Mallorean series contnues, Garion is pursuing Zandramas, in the form of a great dragon flying over them, across the known world. With the forces of evil threatening on both sides, Garion still had to get to the Place Which Is No More, as the Seeress of Kell had warned, but they had no idea where that might be....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The wizard and shape-changer Belgarion continues his quest against evil in the land of Mallorea. "Eddings depicts a complex, believable and colorful society filled with nobles, rogues and common people, the latter characters ringing particularly true," PW commended .\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the bestselling THE Mallorean series contnues, Garion is pursuing Zandramas, in the form of a great dragon flying over them, across the known world. With the forces of evil threatening on both sides, Garion still had to get to the Place Which Is No More, as the Seeress of Kell had warned, but they had no idea where that might be....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/76'),
(5174, 'Sorceress of Darshiva - OLD', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  As the bestselling THE Mallorean series contnues, Garion is pursuing Zandramas, in the form of a great dragon flying over them, across the known world. With the forces of evil threatening on both sides, Garion still had to get to the Place Which Is No More, as the Seeress of Kell had warned, but they had no idea where that might be....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The wizard and shape-changer Belgarion continues his quest against evil in the land of Mallorea. "Eddings depicts a complex, believable and colorful society filled with nobles, rogues and common people, the latter characters ringing particularly true," PW commended .\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the bestselling THE Mallorean series contnues, Garion is pursuing Zandramas, in the form of a great dragon flying over them, across the known world. With the forces of evil threatening on both sides, Garion still had to get to the Place Which Is No More, as the Seeress of Kell had warned, but they had no idea where that might be....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(5175, 'Soul of the Fire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Richard Rahl has traveled far from his roots as a simple woods guide. Emperor of the D''Haran Empire, war wizard, the Seeker of Truth--none of these roles mean as much to him as his newest: husband to his beloved Kahlan Amnell, Mother Confessor of the Midlands.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But their wedding day is the key that unlocks a spell sealed away long ago in a faraway country. Now a deadly power pours forth that threatens to turn the world into a lifeless waste.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Separated from the Sword of Truth and stripped of their magic, Richard and Kahlan must journey across the Midlands to discover a dark secret from the past and a trap that could tear them apart forever. For their fate has become inextricably entwined with that of the Midlands--and there''s no place so dangerous as a world without magic...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Soul of the Fire\n  </em>\n  is the fifth book in Terry Goodkind''s wildly popular Sword of Truth saga. The previous books are:\n  <em>\n   Wizard''s First Rule\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stone of Tears\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Blood of the Fold\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Temple of the Winds\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  When last we saw our heroes--Richard Cypher (Lord Rahl) and Kahlan Amnell--they each had made enormous sacrifices to save one another from certain doom. To save her beloved, Khalan, Mother Confessor of the Midlands, had spoken the three chimes, summoning these chaotic beings from the world beyond and unwittingly releasing incredibly destructive power. Now the chimes are stealing souls, and malevolent forces are reshaping the world itself. To save everything from almost certain doom, Richard, Kahlan, and the wizard Zedd must hunt the elusive chimes and reharness them before it''s too late.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although comparisons to Robert Jordan''s Wheel of Time series are inevitable, there''s obviously enough room in the world for more than one blockbuster swords and sorcery series. With\n  <em>\n   Soul of the Fire\n  </em>\n  , fans of epic sagas will get their fill of adventure, magic, strange beings, and struggles for power as Goodkind delivers another thrilling episode of the Sword of Truth, with all the complexity and taut characterization we''ve come to expect from this master of fantasy.\n  <em>\n   --Adam Fisher\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Seeker of Truth Richard Rahl and his wife, Mother Confessor Kahlan Amnell, survive another incredible series of obstacles in Goodkind''s sequel to his acclaimed Temple of the Winds. Here, readers learn that when Kahlan used a spell to save Richard from death in the last book, she inadvertently released the Chimes, deadly ancient beings who threaten to destroy the world by absorbing all its magic. Richard''s grandfather Zedd goes off to combat the Chimes while Richard and Kahlan, accompanied by Du Chaillu, a pregnant spirit woman who is bound to Richard by an ancient prophesy, travel to Anderith to find the journal of a wizard who defeated the Chimes in ages past. But in Anderith, the rivalry between the Ander and Haken peoples (somewhat heavily handled, with overtones of the author''s pro-colonial opinions) threatens to divide the land just when it needs unity in order to defend itself against an invasion by Emperor Jagang''s thuggish hordes. After many suspenseful moments, everything comes somewhat raggedly together in a happy ending. Notable for its engaging secondary characters, the novel also evinces flashes of sly wit, as when an evil Chime takes the form of a menacing chicken. Though the narrative sprawls all over the map and the tone can edge too far towards the didactic, Goodkind''s ingenious world-building will keep readers captivated by the latest installment of his bestselling Sword of Truth series.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/49'),
(5176, 'Spartan Gold', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Grant Blackwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   THE EXTRAORDINARY NEW ADVENTURE SERIES FROM THE #1\n   <em>\n    NEW YORK TIMES\n   </em>\n   - BESTSELLING AUTHOR\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A fortune lost for ages . . . a millionaire pursuing his destiny . . . Sam and Remi Fargo are about to encounter both.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  When it comes to explosive, adrenaline-charged adventure, Clive Cussler is hailed as "the master of building suspense and tension" (\n  <em>\n   Richmond Times- Dispatch\n  </em>\n  ). Now Cussler unveils his newest heroes, a husband-and-wife team who hunt treasure for a living-even at the risk of dying. . . .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thousands of years ago, two superpowers of the ancient world went to war, and a treasure of immeasurable value was lost to the shadows of history.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In 1800, while crossing the Pennine Alps with his Grand Reserve Army, Napoleon Bonaparte stumbled across a startling discovery. Unable to transport it, he created an enigmatic map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. When Napoleon died, the bottles disappeared-and the treasure was lost again.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Until now. Treasure-hunting husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Maryland when they are shocked to discover a World War II German U-boat. Inside, they find a bottle taken from Napoleon''s famous "Lost Cellar," and fascinated, they set out to find the rest of the collection. But another connoisseur of sorts is hunting his own prize, and the Lost Cellar is his key to finding it.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  That man is Hadeon Bondaruk, a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire, and the treasure will be his,\n  <em>\n   no matter what.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention that are unique to Cussler,\n  <em>\n   Spartan Gold\n  </em>\n  is a dazzling thriller from the grand master of adventure fiction.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Clive Cussler\n  </strong>\n  is the author of numerous\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers.\n  <strong>\n   Grant Blackwood\n  </strong>\n  , a U.S. Navy veteran, spent three years on a guided missile frigate. He is the author of the Briggs Tanner series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/139'),
(5177, 'The Spy', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Justin Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  One man wants to destroy the world.\n  <br />\n  One man can save it.\n  <br />\n  Isaac Bell is on the case.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set in 1908, bestseller Cussler and Scott''s action-packed third adventure featuring Isaac Bell, head operative of the Van Dorn Detective Agency, leaves behind the railroad theme of the first two books (\n  <em>\n   The Chase\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Wrecker\n  </em>\n  ), focusing instead on the espionage-riddled world of warship and armament manufacturing in the buildup to WWI. Someone is murdering the leading lights of America''s naval research and development. When the indefatigable Bell looks into the supposed suicide of chief gun designer Arthur Langner, he uncovers a succession of possible international suspects, all of whom are attempting to disrupt America''s development of a fleet of dreadnought battleships. Bell clashes with old enemies and new until the climactic battle, where he must stop a massive submarine attempting to sink the navy''s newest battleship. The expanded area of interest will attract new readers to this exciting series in the Cussler franchise.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cussler, who made a name for himself more than 30 years ago with his Dirk Pitt thrillers, has lately been working with a variety of coauthors. With Scott, he wrote the second Isaac Bell thriller, The Wrecker (2009), which followed The Chase (2007). The Bell series has constituted a definite comeback for Cussler, whose previous novels were starting to feel a bit lethargic. This latest Bell adventure, set in 1908, continues the hot streak. Bell, the private investigator who bears more than a passing similarity to Sherlock Holmes (he''s a master of disguise with a keen intellect and a knack for seeing the truth behind the misdirection), is called in to consult on a case involving the apparent suicide of a top designer of military weapons. The dead man''s daughter suspects foul play, and soon Bell is convinced she''s right, but can he unmask the villains and keep himself alive? Well, of course he can, but the fun is in seeing how he does itâ€”and Cussler and Scott provide us with a ton of fun. This is a fine thriller, rich in character, period detail, and suspense. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/143'),
(5178, 'Stone of Tears', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In Wizard''s First Rule, Richard Cypher''s world was turned upside down. Once a simple woods guide, Richard was forced to become the Seeker of Truth, to save the world from the vile dominance of Darken Rahl, the most viciously savage and powerful wizard the world had ever seen. He was joined on this epic quest by his beloved Kahlan, the only survivor among the Confessors, who brought a powerful but benevolent justice to the land before Rahl''s evil scourge. Aided by Zedd, the last of the wizards who opposed Rahl, they were able to cast him into the underworld, saving the world from the living hell of life under Rahl. But the veil to the underworld has been torn, and Rahl, from beyond the veil, begins to summon a sinister power more dreadful than any he has wielded before. Horrifying creatures escape through the torn veil, wreaking havoc on the unsuspecting world above. If Rahl isn''t stopped, he will free the Keeper itself, an evil entity whose power is so vast and foul that once freed, it can never again be contained.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the most popular writers of fantasy today, Terry Goodkind divides his time between Maine and Nevada.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From AudioFile\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This sequel to Wizard''s First Rule continues the saga of Richard Cypher and his beloved Kahlan. This lengthy epic, filled with magic, love, hate, war and lots of gore, is aptly presented by narrator Dick Hill. Hill''s voice at first seems too deep to carry off the wide range of characterizations necessary, but he soon surprises us. Texture, inflection and great emotion emerge as we are led through each dramatic crisis. The narrator''s reading intensifies our image of every landscape and every event that occurs as Richard the Truth Seeker pursues, willingly or not, the path set out for him. This is raw, colorful listening for the adult fantasy-adventure reader. J.J.F. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/46');
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(5179, 'The Storm', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a NUMA research vessel is taking water samples at sunset, when a crew member spots a sheen of black oil ahead of them. But it is not oil. Like a horde of army ants, a swarm of black particles suddenly attacks the ship, killing everyone aboard, while the ship itself goes up in flames.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A few hours later, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are on their way to the Indian Ocean. What they will find there on the smoldering hulk of the ship will eventually lead them to the discovery of the most audacious scheme they have ever known: a plan to permanently alter the weather on a global scale. It will kill millions . . . and it has already begun.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Filled with the boundless invention unique to Clive Cussler, this is one of the most thrilling novels yet from the grand master of adventure.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of a great number of international bestsellers, including the famous Dirk Pitt(R) adventures, such as Crescent Dawn; the NUMA(R) Files adventures, the Oregon Files, such as The Jungle; the Isaac Bell historical thrillers, which began with The Chase and the Fargo Adventures series, most recently The Kingdom. He lives in Arizona. Graham Brown is the author of Black Rain and Black Sun, and the co-author of Devil''s Gate. A pilot and an attorney, he lives in Arizona. www.clivecussler.co.uk\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Prologue\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Indian Ocean September 1943\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The S.S. John Bury shuddered from bow to stern as it plowed through the rolling waters of the Indian Ocean. She was known as a â€œfast freighter,â€ designed to accompany warships and used to traveling at a decent clip, but with all boilers going full out the\n  <em>\n   John Bury\n  </em>\n  was moving at a pace she hadnâ€™t seen since her sea trials. Damaged, burning, and trailing smoke, the\n  <em>\n   John Bury\n  </em>\n  was running for her life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ship crested a ten-foot wave, the deck pitched down and the bow dug into another swell. A wide swath of spray kicked up over the rail and whipped back across the deck, rattling what was left of the shattered bridge.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Topside, the\n  <em>\n   John Bury\n  </em>\n  was a mangled wreck. Smoke poured from twisted metal where rockets had pounded the superstructure. Debris littered the deck, and dead crewmen lay everywhere.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the damage was above the waterline, and the fleeing ship would survive if it avoided any more hits.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the dark horizon behind, smoke poured from other vessels that had been less fortunate. An orange fireball erupted from one, flashing across the water and briefly illuminating the carnage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The burning hulks of four ships could be seen, three destroyers and a cruiser, ships that had been the\n  <em>\n   John Buryâ€™s\n  </em>\n  escort. A Japanese submarine and a squadron of dive-bombers had found them simultaneously. As dusk approached, oil burned around the sinking vessels in a mile-long slick. It fouled the sky with dense black smoke. None of them would see the dawn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The warships had been targeted and destroyed quickly, but the\n  <em>\n   John Bury\n  </em>\n  had only been strafed, hit with rockets and left to run free. There could be only one reason for that mercy; the Japanese knew of the top secret cargo she carried and they wanted it for themselves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Captain Alan Pickett was determined not to let that happen, even with half his crew dead and his face gashed by shrapnel. He grabbed the voice tube and shouted down to the engine room.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMore speed!â€ he demanded.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There was no response. At last report a fire had been raging belowdecks. Pickett had ordered his men to stay and fight it, but now the silence left him gripped with fear.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œZekes off the port bow!â€ a lookout called from the bridge wing. â€œTwo thousand feet and dropping.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pickett glanced through the shattered glass in front of him. In the failing light he saw four black dots wheeling in the gray sky and dropping toward the ship. Flashes lit from their wings.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGet down!â€ he shouted.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Too late. Fifty caliber shells stitched a line across the ship, cutting the lookout in half and blasting apart what was left of the bridge. Shards of wood, glass and steel flew about the compartment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pickett hit the deck. A wave of heat flashed over the bridge as another rocket hit ahead of it. The impact rocked the ship, peeling back the metal ceiling like a giant can opener.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the wave of destruction passed, Pickett looked up. The last of his officers lay dead, the bridge was demolished. Even the shipâ€™s wheel was gone, with only a stub of metal still attached to the spindle. Yet somehow the vessel chugged on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Pickett climbed back up, he spotted something that gave him hope: dark clouds and sweeping bands of rain. A squall line was moving in fast off the starboard bow. If he could get his ship into it, the coming darkness would hide him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Holding on to the bulkhead for support, he reached for what remained of the wheel. He pushed with all the strength he had left. It moved half a turn, and he fell to the ground holding it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ship began to change course.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pressing against the deck, he pushed the wheel upward and then brought it back down again for another full revolution.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The freighter was leaning into the turn now, drawing a curved white wake on the oceanâ€™s surface, coming around toward the squall.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The clouds ahead were thick. The rain falling from them was sweeping the surface like a giant broom. For the first time since the attack began, Pickett felt they had a chance, but as the ship plowed toward the squall the awful sound of the dive-bombers turning and plunging toward him again put that in doubt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He searched through the shipâ€™s gaping wounds for the source of that noise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dropping from the sky directly in front of him were two Aichi D3A dive-bombers, Vals, the same type the Japanese had used with deadly effect at Pearl Harbor and months later against the British fleet near Ceylon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pickett watched them nose over and listened as the whistling sound of their wings grew louder. He cursed at them and pulled his sidearm.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGet away from my ship!â€ he shouted, blasting at them with the Colt .45.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They pulled up at the last minute and roared past, riddling the ship with another spread of .50 caliber shells. Pickett fell back onto the deck, a shell clean through his leg, shattering it. His eyes opened, gazing upward. He was unable to move.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Waves of smoke and gray sky rolled above him. He was finished, he thought. The ship and its secret cargo would soon fall into enemy hands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pickett cursed himself for not scuttling the ship. He hoped it would somehow go down on its own before it could be boarded.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As his eyesight began to fail, the sound of more dive-bombers caught his ear. The roar grew louder, the banshee scream from their wings calling out and announcing the terrible inevitability of the end.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then the sky above darkened. The air turned cold and wet, and the S.S.\n  <em>\n   John Bury\n  </em>\n  disappeared into the storm, swallowed up by a wall of mist and rain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She was last reported by a Japanese pilot as burning but sailing under full power. She was never seen or heard from again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Northern Yemen, near the Saudi border August 1967\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tariq al-Khalif hid his face behind a cloth of soft white cotton. The kaffiyeh covered his head and wrapped around his mouth and nose. It kept the sun, wind and sand from his weather-beaten features as it hid him from the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Only Khalifâ€™s eyes showed, hard and sharp from sixty years in the desert. They did not blink or turn away as he stared at the dead bodies in the sand before him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eight bodies in all. Two men, three women, three children; stripped naked, all clothes and belongings gone. Most had been shot, a few had been stabbed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the camel train at Khalifâ€™s back waited, a rider moved slowly up toward him. Khalif recognized the strong, young figure in the saddle. A man named Sabah, his most trusted lieutenant. A Russian-made AK-47 lay slung over his shoulder.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBandits for certain,â€ Sabah said. â€œNo sign of them now.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Khalif studied the rough sand at his feet. He noticed the tracks disappearing to the west, headed directly toward the only source of water for a hundred miles, an oasis called Abi Quzzaâ€”the â€œsilken water.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNo, my friend,â€ he said. â€œThese men are not waiting around to be discovered. They hide their numbers by sticking to the hard ground, where no tracks are left, or they walk on the softest sand, where the marks soon fade. But here I can see the truth, theyâ€™re heading toward our home.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Abi Quzza had belonged to Khalifâ€™s family for generations. It provided life-giving water and a modicum of wealth. Date palms grew in abundance around its fertile springs, along with grass for the sheep and camels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the growing number of trucks and other forms of modern transportation, the caravans that paid for its gifts had begun to dwindle, and the role of camel-raising Bedouins like Khalif and his family were fading along with them, but they were not yet gone. For the clan to have any prospects at all, Khalif knew the oasis must be protected.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYour sons will defend it,â€ Sabah said.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The oasis lay twenty miles to the west. Khalifâ€™s sons, two nephews and their families waited there. A half dozen tents, ten men with rifles. It would not be an easy place to attack. And yet Khalif felt a terrible unease.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWe must hurry,â€ he said, climbing back onto his camel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sabah nodded. He slid the AK-47 forward to a more aggressive position and nudged his camel forward.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Three hours later they approached the oasis. From a distance they could see nothing but small fires. There were no signs of struggle, no ripped tents or stray animals, no bodies lying in the sand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Khalif ordered the camel train to a halt and dismounted. He took Sabah and two others, moving forward on foot.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The silence around them was so complete, they could hear the crackle of wood in the fires and their own feet scuffling in the sand. Somewhere in the distance, a jackal began to yelp. It was a long way off, but the noise carried in the desert.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Khalif halted, waiting for the jackalâ€™s call to fade. When it died away, a more pleasant sound followed: a small voice singing a traditional Bedouin melody. It came from the main tent and fl owed quietly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Khalif began to relax. It was the voice of his youngest son, Jinn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBring the caravan,â€ Khalif said. â€œAll is well.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Sabah and the others went back to the camels, Khalif walked forward. He reached his tent, threw open the flap, and froze.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A bandit dressed in rags stood there, holding a curved blade to his sonâ€™s throat. Another bandit sat beside him, clutching an old rifle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne move and I slice his neck,â€ the bandit said.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWho are you?â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI am Masiq,â€ the bandit said.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhat do you want?â€ Khalif asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Masiq shrugged. â€œWhat donâ€™t we want?â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe camels have value,â€ Khalif said, guessing what they were after. â€œI will give them to you. Just spare my family.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYour offer is meaningless to me,â€ Masiq r...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/150'),
(5180, 'Stormwarden', 'Janny Wurts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In the land of Vaere, the Stormwarden Anskiere, wizard of wind and water, must draw on the assistance of three young people, all possessing extraordinary talents as well as flaws, in his struggle to defeat the demons that once again threaten total conquest. Reprint.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''THIS IS ONE OF THOSE DO-NOT-PUT-DOWN-UNTIL-FINISHED BOOKS, OF WHICH THERE ARE TOO FEW'' - Andre Norton\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''A GIFTED CREATOR OF WONDER'' - Raymond E. Feist\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''JANNY WURTS IS A GREAT NATURAL STORYTELLER'' - L. Sprague de Camp\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''THE WORLD JANNY WURTS WRITES ABOUT IS WONDERFULLY VIVID'' - Stephen R. Donaldson\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Janny Wurts is the author of the ''Cycle of Fire'' series, co-author of the Empire series and is currently working through the Wars of Light and Shadow series. She paints all her own covers and is also an expert horsewoman, sailor, musician and archer.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/95'),
(5181, 'A Suitable Vengeance', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride. But the savage murder of a local journalist is the catalyst for a lethal series of events that shatters the calm of a picturesque Cornwall village and embroils Lynley and St. James in a case far outside their jurisdictionâ€”and a little too close to home. When a second death follows closely on the heels of the first, Lynley finds he can''t help taking the investigation personallyâ€”because the evidence points to a killer within his own family.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the heart of George''s ( Payment in Blood ) darkly vibrant modern English mystery lie love, requited and not; and injuries of the kind that only intimates--parents, siblings, lovers, close friends--or perhaps one''s own treacherous ego can inflict. Thomas Lynley, eighth earl of Asherton and a detective inspector of New Scotland Yard, brings his fiancee Deborah Cotton to Cornwall to meet his widowed mother. Accompanying them are Lynley''s best friend, forensic scientist Simon St. James; St. James''s sister Sidney; her boyfriend Justin Brooke; Lady Helen Clyde, St. James''s partner and former lover; and Deborah''s father, St. James''s valet. Unexpected events of the weekend include a violent fight between Sidney and Justin, the appearance of Lynley''s cocaine-addicted brother, the brutal murder of the village newspaper editor, and Justin''s death on the cliffs. Lynley and St. James attempt to trace motives and alibis among guests and villagers while each is deeply enmeshed in personal pain: Lynley''s over his estrangement from his mother since his father''s death many years before, and St. James''s over his unspoken--and, he believes, unspeakable--love for Deborah. The resolution of the accumulating murders involves different kinds of illegal drugs and centers around the activities of a young London woman whose true identity surprises everyone. Even more intricate than George''s deftly handled plot, however, are the paths etched by her anguished, memorable characters, as they struggle with the secrets of their hearts.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- A beautifully written novel that will hold YAs'' attention. The family home of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Eighth Earl of Ashenton, becomes a hotbed of suspicion instead of the scene of a lovely engagement party when a murder in a nearby village brings buried feelings to the surface. For those who demand more of their murder mysteries than a slam-bang whodunit, George provides deeply drawn characters along with page-turning excitement. The principals take readers into their innermost feelings even as they themselves are denying those feelings, and the story''s complexities are just as intricate as the characters themselves. Family ties, love connections, friendships, denial, goodness and greed, humility and arrogance, drugs, and even transvestite action all weave their way through the plot and through the murders. Competent readers should have no trouble with the Briticisms or sometimes difficult style. The excellent descriptive writing and fascinating twists make A Suitable Vengeance well worth the extra effort expended.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Bunni Union, Young Adult Services, Geauga West Library, OH\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(5182, 'Tell No One', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  From\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Harlan Coben comes an unforgettable duet of classic novelsâ€”two top-notch thrillers filled with the authorâ€™s signature storytelling genius.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   TELL NO ONE\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive. Everyone tells him itâ€™s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossibleâ€”that somewhere, somehow, his wife is aliveâ€¦and heâ€™s been warned to tell no one.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA COMPELLING AND ORIGINAL SUSPENSE THRILLER.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GONE FOR GOOD\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleinsâ€™ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young womanâ€”a girl Will had once lovedâ€”was found brutally murdered in her familyâ€™s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good. Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother, and even himself.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œRIVETINGâ€¦HAS MORE TWISTS AND TURNS THAN AN AMUSEMENT PARK RIDE.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”USA Today\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Harlan Coben is the winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards. His critically acclaimed novels have been published in thirty-three languages around the world and have been number one bestsellers in more than half a dozen countries. In addition to the Myron Bolitar series (\n  <strong>\n   Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear\n  </strong>\n  , and the upcoming\n  <em>\n   Promise Me\n  </em>\n  ), he is also the author of\n  <strong>\n   Tell No One, Gone for Good,\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    No Second Chance,\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Just One Look,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Innocent.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  *Chapter One\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eight Years Later\n  <em>\n   *\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   Another girl was about to break my heart.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   She had brown eyes and kinky hair and a toothy smile. She also had braces and was fourteen years old andâ€“\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Are you pregnant?" I asked.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Yeah, Dr. Beck."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   I managed not to close my eyes. This was not the first time I''d seen a pregnant teen. Not even the first time today. I''ve been a pediatrician at this Washington Heights clinic since I finished my residency at nearby Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center five years ago. We serve a Medicaid (read: poor) population with general family health care, including obstetrics, internal medicine, and, of course, pediatrics. Many people believe this makes me a bleeding-heart do-gooder. It doesn''t. I like being a pediatrician. I don''t particularly like doing it out in the suburbs with soccer moms and manicured dads and, well, people like me.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "What do you plan on doing?" I asked.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Me and Terrell. We''re real happy, Dr. Beck."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "How old is Terrell?"\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Sixteen."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   She looked up at me, happy and smiling. Again I managed not to close my eyes.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The thing that always surprises meâ€“alwaysâ€“is that most of these pregnancies are not accidental. These babies want to have babies. No one gets that. They talk about birth control and abstinence and that''s all fine and good, but the truth is, their cool friends are having babies and their friends are getting all kinds of attention and so, hey, Terrell, why not us?\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "He loves me," this fourteen-year-old told me.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Have you told your mother?"\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Not yet." She squirmed and looked almost all her fourteen years. "I was hoping you could tell her with me."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   I nodded. "Sure."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   I''ve learned not to judge. I listen. I empathize. When I was a resident, I would lecture. I would look down from on high and bestow upon patients the knowledge of how self-destructive their behavior was. But on a cold Manhattan afternoon, a weary seventeen-year-old girl who was having her third kid with a third father looked me straight in the eye and spoke an indisputable truth: "You don''t know my life."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   It shut me up. So I listen now. I stopped playing Benevolent White Man and became a better doctor. I will give this fourteen-year-old and her baby the absolute best care possible. I won''t tell her that Terrell will never stay, that she''s just cut her future off at the pass, that if she is like most of the patients here, she''ll be in a similar state with at least two more men before she turns twenty.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Think about it too much and you''ll go nuts.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   We spoke for a whileâ€“or, at least, she spoke and I listened. The examining room, which doubled as my office, was about the size of a prison cell (not that I know this from firsthand experience) and painted an institutional green, like the color of a bathroom in an elementary school. An eye chart, the one where you point in the directions the Es are facing, hung on the back of the door. Faded Disney decals spotted one wall while another was covered with a giant food pyramid poster. My fourteen-year-old patient sat on an examining table with a roll of sanitary paper we pulled down fresh for each kid. For some reason, the way the paper rolled out reminded me of wrapping a sandwich at the Carnegie Deli.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The radiator heat was beyond stifling, but you needed that in a place where kids were frequently getting undressed. I wore my customary pediatrician garb: blue jeans, Chuck Taylor Cons, a button-down oxford, and a bright Save the Children tie that screamed 1994. I didn''t wear the white coat. I think it scares the kids.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   My fourteen-year-oldâ€“yes, I couldn''t get past her ageâ€“was a really good kid. Funny thing is, they all are. I referred her to an obstetrician I liked. Then I spoke to her mother. Nothing new or surprising. As I said, I do this almost every day. We hugged when she left. Over her shoulder, her mother and I exchanged a glance. Approximately twenty-five moms take their children to see me each day; at the end of the week, I can count on one hand how many are married.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Like I said, I don''t judge. But I do observe.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   After they left, I started jotting notes in the girl''s chart. I flipped back a few pages. I''d been following her since I was a resident. That meant she started with me when she was eight years old. I looked at her growth chart. I remembered her as an eight-year-old, and then I thought about what she''d just looked like. She hadn''t changed much. I finally closed my eyes and rubbed them.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Homer Simpson interrupted me by shouting, "The mail! The mail is here! Oooo!"\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   I opened my eyes and turned toward the monitor. This was Homer Simpson as in the TV show\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Simpsons\n  </em>\n  . Someone had replaced the computer''s droning "You''ve got mail" with this Homer audio wave. I liked it. I liked it a lot.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   I was about to check my email when the intercom''s squawking stopped my hand. Wanda, a receptionist, said, "Your, uh, hmm, your, uh . . . Shauna is on the phone."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   I understood the confusion. I thanked her and hit the blinking button. "Hello, sweetums."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Never mind," she said. "I''m here."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Shauna hung up her cellular. I stood and walked down the corridor as Shauna made her entrance from the street. Shauna stalks into a room as though it offends her. She was a plus-size model, one of the few known by one name. Shauna. Like Cher or Fabio. She stood six one and weighed one hundred ninety pounds. She was, as you might expect, a head-turner, and all heads in the waiting room obliged.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Shauna did not bother stopping at Reception and Reception knew better than to try to stop her. She pulled open the door and greeted me with the words "Lunch. Now."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "I told you. I''m going to be busy."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Put on a coat," she said. "It''s cold out."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Look, I''m fine. The anniversary isn''t until tomorrow anyway."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "You''re buying."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   I hesitated and she knew she had me.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Come on, Beck, it''ll be fun. Like in college. Remember how we used to go out and scope hot babes together?"\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "I never scoped hot babes."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Oh, right, that was me. Go get your coat."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   On the way back to my office, one of the mothers gave me a big smile and pulled me aside. "She''s even more beautiful in person," she whispered.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Eh," I said.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Are you and she . . ." The mother made a together motion with her hands.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "No, she''s already involved with someone," I said.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Really? Who?"\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "My sister."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   We ate at a crummy Chinese restaurant with a Chinese waiter who spoke only Spanish. Shauna, dressed impeccably in a blue suit with a neckline that plunged like Black Monday, frowned. "Moo shu pork in a tortilla shell?"\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Be adventurous," I said.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   We met our first day of college. Someone in the registrar''s office had screwed up and thought her name was Shaun, and we thus ended up roommates. We were all set to report the mistake when we started chatting. She bought me a beer. I started to like her. A few hours later, we decided to give it a go because our real roommates might be assholes.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   I went to Amherst College, an exclusive small-Ivy institution in western Massachusetts, and if there is a preppier place on the planet, I don''t know it. Elizabeth, our high school valedictorian, chose Yale. We could have gone to the same college, but we discussed it and decided that this would be yet another excellent test for our relationship. Again, we were doing the mature thing. The result? We missed each other like mad. The separation deepened our commitment and gave our love a new distance-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder dimension.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Nauseating, I know.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Between bites, Shauna asked, "Can you baby-sit Mark tonight?"\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Mark was my five-year-old nephew. Sometime during our senior year, Shauna started dating my older sister, Linda. They had a commitment ceremony seven years ago. Mark was the by-product of, well, their love, with a little help from artificial insemination. Linda carried him to term and Shauna adopted him. Being somewhat old-fashioned, they wanted their son to have a male role model in his life. Enter me.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Next to what I see at work, we''re talking Ozzie and Harriet.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "No prob," I said. "I want to see the new Disney film anyway."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "The new Disney chick is a babe and a half," Shauna said. "Their hottest since Pocahontas."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Good to know," I said. "So where are you and Linda going?"\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Beats the hell out of me. Now that lesbians are chic, our social calendar is ridiculous. I almost long for the days when we hid in closets."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   I ordered a beer. Probably shouldn''t have, but one wouldn''t hurt.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Shauna ordered one too. "So you broke up with what''s-her-name," she said.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Brandy."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Right. Nice name, by the way. She have a sister named Whiskey?"\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "We only went out twice."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Good. She was a skinny witch. Besides, I got someone perfect for you."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "No, thanks," I said.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "She''s got a killer bod."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Don''t set me up, Shauna. Please."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Why not?"\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Remember the last time you set me up?"\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "With Cassandra."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Right."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "So what was wrong with her?"\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "For one thing, she was a lesbian."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   "Christ, Beck, you''re such a bigot."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Her cell phone rang. She leaned back and answered it, but her eyes never left my face. She barked something and flipped the mouthpiece up. "I have to go," she said.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   I signaled for the check.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   &amp;...\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(5183, 'Temple of the Winds', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  On the red moon will come the firestorm...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wielding the Sword of Truth, Richard Rahl has battled death itself and come to the defense of the D''Haran people. But now the power-mad Emperor Jagang confronts Richard with a swift and inexorable foe: a mystical plague cutting a deadly swath across the land and slaying thousands of innocent victims.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  To quench the inferno, he must seek remedy in the wind...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  To fight it Richard and his beloved Kahlan Amnell will risk everything to uncover the source of the terrible plague-the magic sealed away for three millennia in the Temple of the Winds.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lightning will find him on that path...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when prophecy throws the shadow of betrayal across their mission and threatens to destroy them, Richard must accept the Truth and find a way to pay the price the winds demand...or he and his world will perish.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A deadly plague sweeps the fantasy world of Goodkind''s best-selling series.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Another independently intelligible doorstopper addition to Goodkind''s Sword of Truth series (Blood of the Fold, 1996, etc.). This time, sword-wielder and wizard Richard Rahl, his warrior beloved Kahlan, grandfather Zedd, and the rest of the cast are threatened by the Imperial Order and their dream walker, Jagang, who sends a wizard-assassin, Marlin, to kill Richard. Meanwhile, old flame Nadine, befuddled by a witch, shows up intending to marry Richard; close behind comes the healer Drefan, Richard''s half- brother. Marlin/Jagang announces gleefully that he''s caught Richard in a ``bound fork prophesy,'''' a fancy way of saying heads I win, tails you lose. Another one for the fans. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/48'),
(5184, 'The Thief', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Justin Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  On the ocean liner\n  <em>\n   Mauretania\n  </em>\n  , two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency''s intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize business and popular culture-and perhaps something more.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  For war clouds are looming, and a ruthless espionage agent has spotted a priceless opportunity to give the Germans an edge. It is up to Isaac Bell to figure out who he is, what he is up to, and stop him. But he may already be too late . . . and the future of the world may just hang in the balance.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clive Cussler is the author of many\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers, most recently\n  <em>\n   The Race\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Devil''s Gate\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Arizona.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/142'),
(5185, 'The Third Day, the Frost', 'John Marsden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  What''s the biggest danger you can think of? THIS IS BIGGER.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  What''s the toughest challenge you can imagine? THIS IS TOUGHER.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  What''s the greatest fear you have? YOU''RE ABOUT TO FIND OUT.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  First there was\n  <em>\n   Tomorrow, When the War Began\n  </em>\n  , then came\n  <em>\n   The Dead of Night\n  </em>\n  . Now it''s\n  <em>\n   The Third Day, The Frost\n  </em>\n  . And things can only get worse.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''How long do you think they''ll keep looking for us?'' I asked Lee, as we lay there.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''Until they find us,'' he answered grimly. They came in summer. They fell upon the land swiftly and suddenly. Through autumn they spread, like locusts, like mice, like a plague.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now it''s winter. They''re still here.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But so too are Ellie and Homer and their friends. Half-a-dozen teenagers with all the odds against them. All they have going for them is their friendship, and their own inner spirit.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  How far can courage go? What do you save first when you''re fighting for everything - yourself, your friends, your family, your country? In\n  <em>\n   The Third Day, The Frost\n  </em>\n  the answers are as big as the questions. John Marsden is one of the new breed of Australia''s writers for young people: lively, fresh, provocative. Many young readers actually turn off the TV and leave their computer games to go and read John''s books. And, for a number of them, they are the first books they voluntarily read.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(5186, 'This Body of Death', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George is back with a spellbinding tale of mystery and murder featuring Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. His former team doesn''t trust the leadership of their new department chief, Isabelle Ardery, whose management style seems to rub everyone the wrong way. In fact, Lynley may be the sole person who can see beneath his superior officer''s hard-as-nails exterior to a hidden-and possibly attractive-vulnerability. While Lynley works in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest. There they discover a beautiful and strange place where animals roam free, the long-lost art of thatching is very much alive, and outsiders are not entirely welcome. What they don''t know is that more than one dark secret lurks among the trees, and that their investigation will lead them to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking. A multilayered jigsaw puzzle of a story skillfully structured to keep readers guessing until the very end, This Body of Death is a magnificent achievement from a writer at the peak of her powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/111'),
(5187, 'This Body of Death: A Novel', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author Elizabeth George is back with a spellbinding tale of mystery and murder featuring Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. His former team doesn''t trust the leadership of their new department chief, Isabelle Ardery, whose management style seems to rub everyone the wrong way. In fact, Lynley may be the sole person who can see beneath his superior officer''s hard-as-nails exterior to a hiddenâ€”and possibly attractiveâ€”vulnerability.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Lynley works in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest. There they discover a beautiful and strange place where animals roam free, the long-lost art of thatching is very much alive, and outsiders are not entirely welcome. What they don''t know is that more than one dark secret lurks among the trees, and that their investigation will lead them to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A multilayered jigsaw puzzle of a story skillfully structured to keep readers guessing until the very end,\n  <em>\n   This Body of Death\n  </em>\n  is a magnificent achievement from a writer at the peak of her powers.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Bestseller George''s richly rewarding 16th novel to feature Det. Insp. Thomas Lynley (after\n  <em>\n   Careless in Red\n  </em>\n  ) offers an intricate plot that will satisfy even jaded fans of psychological suspense. Aggressively career-minded Isabelle Ardery, the new acting superintendent of London''s Metropolitan Police, boldly manages to lure Lynley, who''s been grieving over his wife''s murder, back from Cornwall to look into a murder case. The body of Jemima Hastings, a young woman recently relocated from Hampshire, has turned up in a London cemetery. With suspects in both locales and numerous leads to follow and interviews to conduct, Ardery succeeds in raising the hackles of Det. Sgt. Barbara Havers, Det. Insp. John Stewart, and other members of the investigating team. George tantalizes with glimpses of a horrific earlier murder case; showcases Lynley at his shrewdest, most diplomatic best; and confounds readers with a complex array of evidence, motives, and possible solutions.\n  <em>\n   6-city author tour. (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rarely can a conventional mystery sustain itself over nearly 650 pages. Some P. D. James novels have been almost that long and have succeeded in maintaining suspense and holding the reader, but this latest from Georgeâ€”acclaimed crime writer and winner of the Anthony Award, Agatha Award, and Franceâ€™s Le Grand Prix de LittÃ©rature PoliciÃ¨reâ€”fails on both counts. There is a too-leisurely feel throughout, a sense that the author is luxuriating in extra space, and thatâ€™s not a good fit for suspense. Detective Inspector Lynley returns, still grieving the deaths of his wife and unborn child in Cornwall, but moving forward, assisting New Scotland Yard in an investigation involving a young woman whose body was found in a London cemetery. George intersects this plotline with a real-life case, the Bulger kidnapping, involving the harrowing kidnapping and murder of a toddler by three boys. Reimagining this case, with all the details a novelist can bring to bear, seems in bad taste at best. Except for Inspector Lynley, whose character is always intriguing, the two plots limp along, making little headway. In addition, the new love interest that George provides for Lynley seems contrived. This very bloated effort will interest only Georgeâ€™s longtime fans. --Connie Fletcher\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/27'),
(5188, 'The Titan&#39;s Curse', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped.And now it''s up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess?  They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when she disappeared -- a monster rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus forever.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/197'),
(5189, 'The Tomb of Hercules', 'Andy McDermott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author of THE HUNT FOR ATLANTIS, comes an electrifying new novel ndash; prepare yourself for an adrenalin-fuelled ride. nbsp; An ancient warrior For archaeologist Nina Wilde it''s the opportunity of a lifetime. Her studies of an ancient text have convinced her that a tomb containing the remains of legendary warrior Hercules may actually exist. If she can locate it, it will be the most important historical find ever to be unearthed. An incredible treasure As Nina and Eddie Chase, her ex-SAS bodyguard, begin their search it''s clear that others want to find the tomb ndash; and the unimaginable riches contained within. Then Chase''s attention is diverted by the re-appearance of a face from his past... A lethal enemy Nina and Chase are soon following a violent trail of corruption and conspiracy around the globe. From Switzerland to Shanghai , Botswana to London , it''s a race against time to find the Tomb of Hercules before it falls into the most evil of hands...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/205');
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(5190, 'Tomorrow, When the War Began', 'John Marsden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  World War III becomes an unstoppable reality in the action-packed first installment of the Tomorrow series--an international bestseller in an eye-catching new paperback.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Ellie and her friends go camping, they have no idea they''re leaving their old lives behind forever. Despite a less-than-tragic food shortage and a secret crush or two, everything goes as planned. But a week later, they return home to find their houses empty and their pets starving. Something has gone wrong--horribly wrong. Before long, they realize the country has been invaded, and the entire town has been captured--including their families and all their friends.\n  <br />\n  Ellie and the other survivors face an impossible decision: They can flee for the mountains or surrender. Or they can fight.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Australian friends return from a camping trip in the outback to discover that enemy forces have invaded the country and imprisoned everyone in town. A gripping tale, told with Marsden''s customary incisiveness. Ages 12-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 8 Up?Australian teenager Ellie and six of her friends return from a winter break camping trip to find their homes burned or deserted, their families imprisoned, and their country occupied by a foreign military force in league with a band of disaffected Australians. As their shock wears off, the seven decide they must stick together if they are to survive. After a life-threatening skirmish with the occupiers, the teens retreat to their isolated campsite in the bush country and make plans to fight a guerilla war against the invaders. Writing in a distinct voice and showing rare intelligence and sensitivity, Ellie recounts their courageous battles against the Goliath in control of their land. She also records her feelings and observations about the romantic partnerships that develop within her small circle of friends, and shows how they mature and blossom during this time of crisis. Though readers are left wondering whether these heroes and heroines will survive (one is severely wounded at the end of the novel), Ellie''s uncommonly honest and clear narration makes this coming-of-age adventure a story they won''t forget. Fast-paced and provocative, it''s a natural for book talking.?Jack Forman, Mesa College Library, San Diego\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(5191, 'A Traitor to Memory', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When an elderly woman is deliberately run down and killed on a quiet London street, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley must discover why. It is an investigation that will lead him to walk a fine line between personal loyalty and professional honor. What brought Eugenie Davies to London on a rainy autumn night? Why was she carrying the name of the man who found her body? Could her murder have some connection to a 28-year-old musical wunderkind, a virtuoso violinist whose talents have been internationally renowned since he was ten? To answer these questions Lynley will put his career in jeopardy even as he tries to safeguard those of his longtime partners Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata. Together, they must untangle the dark secrets and darker passions of a family whose history conceals the truth behind a horrific crime.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This can only add to her growing reputation as doyenne of English mystery novelists. ... [S]ome particularly moving moments."â€”*Publishers Weekly\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "A superbly paced, all-consuming treat.... George has the ability to display and then dissect her characters in a painfully realistic way. If dogged police work is what you demand from mysteries, hit the sidewalk with these complicated British detectives."â€”\n  </em>\n  USA Today*\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wrenching ... George still stands several rungs up the ladder from her more superficial rivals."â€”\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Elizabeth Georgeâ€™s first novel,\n  <strong>\n   A Great Deliverance\n  </strong>\n  , was honored with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel Awards and received the Grand Prix de LittÃ©rature PoliciÃ¨re. Her third novel,\n  <strong>\n   Well-Schooled in Murder\n  </strong>\n  , was awarded the prestigious German prize for suspense fiction, the MIMI.\n  <strong>\n   A Suitable Vengeance, For the Sake of Elena, Missing Joseph, Playing for the Ashes, In the Presence of the Enemy, Deception on His Mind, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner, A Traitor to Memory\n  </strong>\n  , and\n  <strong>\n   I, Richard\n  </strong>\n  were international bestsellers. Elizabeth George divides her time between Huntington Beach, California, and London. Her novels are currently being dramatized by the BBC.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/18'),
(5192, 'Treasure of Khan', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Dirk Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When an oil survey team is abducted after a suspicious accident, Dirk Pitt follows leads to Mongolia, where he learns about a megalomaniac''s plot to supply oil to China and to undermine global oil markets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/123'),
(5193, 'Treasure of Khan', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Dirk Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Genghis Khan almost conquered the world. Now, one man wants to finish the job-unless Dirk Pitt can stop him.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dirk Pitt''s 19th adventure, the second collaboration between father and son Clive and Dirk Cussler (after 2004''s\n  <em>\n   Black Wind\n  </em>\n  ), offers a plot as credible as it is monstrous and the kind of exotic aquatic detail that amazes, informs and entertains. The action, and there''s plenty of it, ranges from Siberia''s Lake Baikal and the wilds of Mongolia to the Hawaiian islands. The treasure is that of Genghis and Kublai Khan, the great Mongolian conqueror and his grandson. The villain is a modern-day Mongol with dreams of restoring national power and pride. The heroes are Pitt, sidekick Al Giordino and Pitt''s son and daughter, Dirk Jr. and Summer, all affiliated with Pitt''s National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA). The exploits of Pitt and company, particularly their narrow escapes, tend toward the larger-than-life, but these are nicely balanced by down-to-earth explanations of such phenomena as seiche waves and oil seeps.\n  <em>\n   750,000 first printing.\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   (Dec.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dirk Pitt returns in a fast-paced adventure that takes the latter-day James Bond from a Russian lake to the sands of Mongolia in search of the treasure of Xanadu. Meanwhile, a murderous tycoon is bent on world domination, and only Pitt and his crack NUMA team can stop him. Cussler has been writing the Pitt thrillers for 30-odd years, and he has the recipe down pat. (His son, Dirk, recently has assumed the role of coauthor.) Fans of the long-running series will hungrily gobble this dish of genre pudding, but those who find Cussler''s work slick and formulaic won''t discover anything here to change their minds.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/126'),
(5194, 'The Treasured One', 'David Eddings &amp; Leigh Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  New York Times bestselling authors David and Leigh Eddings, creators of such grand fantasy epics as The Belgariad and The Malloreon, continue the national bestselling saga of The Dreamers with an epic new novel of gods and mortals who must defy the dark forces that would destroy them all... Flush from their narrow victory over the horrific Vlagh, Longbow and his companions are drawn to a pastoral territory in south Dhrall, confident that they will thwart the next assault by their inhuman foe. But on the border of the Wasteland, the Vlagh is breeding a monstrous new army of venomous bat-bugs and armored spiders. These grotesque legions threaten to overwhelm the allies, who are further shocked by a prophecy delivered by the Dreamers: an invasion by a new, second army. A force of armed acolytes approaches to plunder this unspoiled land in a global holy war. Now farmers and hunters, soldiers and madmen, mortals and gods-all charge to a battle that will decide the fate of the world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the bestselling Eddings duo''s disappointing second entry in their Dreamers series (after 2003''s\n  <em>\n   The Elder Gods\n  </em>\n  ), the four gods (one for each point of the compass) face a new menace in the Land of Dhrall. Neither omnipotent nor omniscient, head god Dahlaine, his brother Veltan and their two sisters aren''t even particularly bright. The Vlagh, an evil insectoid creature that''s trying to take over the world by producing an army of mutated snake people, goes south to carry the fight for domination to Veltan''s realm. The dreamers (the younger gods) forecast the coming horde and provide enough information for Dahlaine and his siblings to prepare themselves. Indeed, the gods'' preparations for one rather tedious, unexciting battle occupy the bulk of the book. This fantasy comes as a great letdown from the authors of the luminous Belgariad series (\n  <em>\n   Pawn of Prophecy\n  </em>\n  , etc.). No true hero shines forth, and the gods'' powerlessness makes them worse than cardboard cutouts. Filled with second- or even third-hand action, the story lacks urgency. The next volume desperately needs to be better in order to save the series.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for David Edings: ''Fantastic escapism'' The Irish Times ''Offers an absorbing storyline and some memorable characters as, once again, the author touches all the right fantasy bases, with warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures and appealingly human magicians involved in a titanic war over the course of seven millennia. Eddings fans will no doubt snatch this novel off the shelves while readers new to the authors'' world won''t find a more appropriate place to begin exploring it.'' Publishers Weekly ''There''s no denying Eddings'' offerings do entertain. This novel is for fantasy fans fed up with more fusty fare, or for anyone who likes mischief and merriment.'' West Australian\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
(5195, 'Trojan Odyssey', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A daring rescue sends Dirk Pitt on an adventure that will determine the future of the planet ...  When a hurricane unexpectedly blows up off the coast of Nicaragua, a giant floating hotel lies in its path. With no escape for the helpless passengers and crew, it''s left to Dirk Pitt and NUMA to launch a rescue and save the day. But in the storm''s wake, Pitt and his team discover clues that point to an ancient mystery with shocking implications for today.   As Pitt investigates further, he uncovers a plot by a mysterious billionaire called Specter to dramatically alter the Earth''s climate, leaving him in control of the only solution. With foes attempting to stop him on every side, Pitt is in a race against time to prevent global catastrophe ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/117'),
(5196, 'Valhalla Rising', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It is July 2003. In the middle of its maiden voyage, the luxury cruise ship Emerald Dolphin suddenly catches fire and sinks. What caused it? Why didn''t the alarms go off? What was its connection to the revolutionary new engines powering the ship? NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt races to rescue the passengers and investigate the disaster, but he has no idea of the bizarre events that are about to engulf him.  Before the next few weeks are over, Pitt will find himself confronted by an extraordinary series of monsters, both human and mechanical, modern and ancient. He will tread upon territory previously known only to legend. And, at the end of it all, though many lives will be lost, and many saved, it is Pitt''s own life that will be changed forever...  Filled with dazzling suspense and breathtaking action, "Valhalla Rising" is Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/119'),
(5197, 'Vector Prime', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Twenty-one years have passed since the heroes of the Rebel Alliance destroyed the Death Star, breaking the power of the Emperor. Since then, the New Republic has valiantly struggled to maintain peace and prosperity among the peoples of the galaxy. But unrest has begun to spread and threatens to destroy the Republic''s tenuous reign.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Into this volatile atmosphere comes Nom Anor, a charismatic firebrand who heats passions to the boiling point, sowing seeds of dissent for his own dark motives. And as the Jedi and the Republic focus on internal struggles, a new threat surfaces from beyond the farthest reaches of the Outer Rim--an enemy bearing weapons and technology unlike anything New Republic scientists have ever seen.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Suddenly, Luke Skywalker; his wife, Mara; Han Solo; Leia Organa Solo; and Chewbacca--along with the Solo children--are thrust again into battle, to defend the freedom so many have fought and died for. But this time, the power of the Force itself may not be enough . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fifty-seven years have passed since the events of\n  <em>\n   Phantom Menace\n  </em>\n  , 25 since\n  <em>\n   A New Hope\n  </em>\n  , and 21 since the Empire''s final defeat over Endor. The still-fragile New Republic, rocked by internal conflict, now faces a potentially overwhelming challenge from beyond the known galaxy: the Yuuzhan Vong, a sinister race of warriors using highly advanced (and creepy) organic "devices" and vehicles, whose immense strength and technological edge lets them fight toe to toe with Jedi. And who better to flesh out these powerful and malevolent aliens, so dismissive and disdainful of humanity, than R.A. Salvatore, the author who almost single-handedly popularized Dungeons and Dragons'' equally awful bad guys, the Drow, with his Drizzt Do''Urden books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In kicking off Del Rey''s five-year\n  <em>\n   New Jedi Order\n  </em>\n  story arc, Salvatore must endure the predictable hazing of any new\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  author. But an accomplished storyteller backed by legions of fans, the Dark Elf author proves to be up to the task and thankfully sensitive to the well-loved characters he''s borrowing time with.\n  <em>\n   Vector Prime\n  </em>\n  sets up the early stages of the covert Praetorite Vong invasion, giving us a closeup glimpse of this nefarious new race and following our heroes'' attempts to combat them. Luke struggles with whether to revive the Jedi Council; Mara still fights her deadly disease; Lando is back helping Han, Chewie, and Leia; and Leia and Solo''s kids finally come into their own. Prepare yourself, though, for when a major, beloved character gets ceremoniously smushed. (Although we''ve seen Boba Fett come back from worse.... )\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Twenty-one years have passed since the heroes of the Rebel Alliance destroyed the Death Star, breaking the power of the Emperor. Since then, the New Republic has valiantly struggled to maintain peace and prosperity among the peoples of the galaxy. But unrest has begun to spread and threatens to destroy the Republic''s tenuous reign.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Into this volatile atmosphere comes Nom Anor, a charismatic firebrand who heats passions to the boiling point, sowing seeds of dissent for his own dark motives. And as the Jedi and the Republic focus on internal struggles, a new threat surfaces from beyond the farthest reaches of the Outer Rim--an enemy bearing weapons and technology unlike anything New Republic scientists have ever seen.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Suddenly, Luke Skywalker; his wife, Mara; Han Solo; Leia Organa Solo; and Chewbacca--along with the Solo children--are thrust again into battle, to defend the freedom so many have fought and died for. But this time, the power of the Force itself may not be enough . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/98'),
(5198, 'Vixen 03: A Novel', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 1954. Vixen 03 is down. TheÂ Â plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-sixÂ Â Doomsday bombsâ€”canisters armed with quick-deathÂ Â germs of unbelievable potencyâ€”vanishes. Vixen hasÂ Â in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake inÂ Â Colorado. 1988. Dirk Pitt, who heroically raisedÂ Â the Titanic, discovers the wreckage ofÂ Â Vixen 03. But two deadly canistersÂ Â are missing. They''re in the hands of a terroristÂ Â group. Their lethal mission: to sail a battleshipÂ Â seventy-five miles up the Potomac and blastÂ Â Washington, D.C., to kingdom come. Only Dirk can stopÂ Â them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/122'),
(5199, 'Well-Schooled in Murder', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad''s housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a childâ€”and then, tragically, for a child killer. Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils closest to the dead boy, Lynley and Havers sense that something extraordinarily evil is going on behind Bredgar Chambers''s cloistered walls. But as they begin to unlock the secrets of this closed society, the investigation into Matthew''s death leads them perilously close to their own emotional woundsâ€”and blinds them to the signs of another murder in the making....\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Thomas Lynley (the earl turned policeman) and Sergeant Havers focus their prodigious talents on uncovering the murderer of a young boy from an exclusive independent school near London. While author George necessarily centers the plot on solving the case, she adroitly plumbs the emotional and psychological depths of fully fleshed characters coping with various forms of personal stress in addition to the murder. As in her previous work ( A Great Deliverance ; Payment in Blood , LJ 7/1/89), George offers refined, feeling prose, an abiding sense of humanity, and a pervasive undercurrent of mystery. A necessary purchase, exceedingly fair and full of grace. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "George is a master...an outstanding practitioner of the modern English mystery."â€”\n  <em>\n   Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A spectacular new voice in mystery writing."â€”\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A compelling whodunit...a reader''s delight."â€”\n  <em>\n   Daily News,\n  </em>\n  New York\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Like P.D. James, George knows the import of the smallest human gesture;\n  <strong>\n   Well-Schooled in Murder\n  </strong>\n  puts the younger author clearly in the running with the genre master."â€”*People\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Ms. George may wind up creating one of the most popular and entertaining series in mystery fiction today."â€”\n  </em>\n  The Sun,* Baltimore\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/28'),
(5200, 'What Came Before He Shot Her CD', 'Elizabeth George &amp; Charles Keating', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The brutal, inexplicable death of Inspector Thomas Lynley''s wife has left Scotland Yard shocked and searching for answers. Even more horrifying is that the trigger was apparently pulled by a twelve-year-old boy. What were the circumstances that led to his final act of desperation? That story begins on the other side of London in rough North Kensington, where the virtually orphaned Campbell children are bounced from home to home. Fifteen-year-old Ness is headed for trouble as fast as her high-heeled boots will take her. Middle child Joel cares for the youngest, Toby, but something clearly isn''t right with Toby. Before long, a local gang starts harassing Joel and threatening his brother. To protect his family, Joel ends up making a pact with the devilâ€”a move that leads straight to the front doorstep of Thomas Lynley. The anatomy of a murder, the story of a family in crisis,\n  <em>\n   What Came Before He Shot Her\n  </em>\n  is a powerful and emotional novel, full of deep psychological insights, that only the incomparable Elizabeth George could write.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Performed by Charles Keating\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller George (\n  <em>\n   With No One as Witness\n  </em>\n  ) departs from the usual investigative nuts and bolts of her Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers mystery thrillers with this searing examination of the lives of one horribly dysfunctional family and their immigrant London milieu. Switching uncomfortably at times from dialogue in a rough patois to exposition in a language both formal and sociological, George delivers a stinging indictment of a society unable to respond effectively to the needs of its poorer citizens. Kendra Osborne, a 40-year-old woman with modest ambitions and plans to achieve them, has no idea how to cope when her mother "dumps" her sister''s three children on her doorstep and heads for Jamaica. Fifteen-year-old Ness, 11-year-old Joel and seven-year-old Toby each have a wealth of problems exacerbated by their mixed-race heritage. It''s no accident that George refers to Dickens on the first page of this earnest but perhaps overly didactic novel, which focuses on the burdens borne by Joel as he''s swept by forces he can neither understand nor control into a fatal encounter.\n  <em>\n   8-city author tour. (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Scotland Yard detective Thomas Lynley is all but missing from this novel, and critics aren''t sure what to make of his absence as well as that of most of the other popular series characters (only two of Lynley''s police sidekicks appearâ€”as minor walk-ons). The majority of critics cite this psychological crime novel as a deeply disturbing and unrelenting, yet illuminating, portrayal of a dysfunctional family and of the ways its members can go tragically astray. Two reviewers, however, cited a disconnected narrative, an overly complicated plot, too much detail, and a bleak, hopeless tone as major faults of the novel. There are, of course, no surprises about how the novel ends: Elizabeth George has already told that story in\n  <em>\n   With No One As Witness\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/29'),
(5201, 'White Death', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A confrontation between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser has forced Austin and colleague Joe Zavala to come to the rescue of a shipful of trapped men, but when the two investigate further, they discover that something far more sinister is at work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/149'),
(5202, 'With No One as Witness', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When the Metropolitan Police fail to realise a serial killer is at work, London ignites over the fact that the killer''s victims are young black and mixed race boys. Institutionalised racism is claimed by the community''s activists and tabloids alike. Acting Superintendent Thomas Lynley is given the case, and his Scotland Yard task force is soon handling more killings and a looming tragedy.Elizabeth George brings to the familiar subject of the serial killer a freshness and clarity of vision that provide illuminating insight into the psychological complexity of the tortured criminal mind. She does so within a richly textured, thrillingly suspenseful narrative that defies any reader to predict its outcome. Nor does she neglect our favourite characters, whose private lives provide an engrossing counterpoint to their professional duties.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Acting Supt. Thomas Lynley and Det. Constable Barbara Havers face their most challenging and perilous case yetâ€”the linked murders of four youths, three of black or mixed parentageâ€”in bestseller George''s absorbing 13th British police procedural (after 2003''s\n  <em>\n   A Place of Hiding\n  </em>\n  ). Crime fans will find plenty of forensic minutiae and details of police bureaucracy and politics, but it''s characterization at which George really excels. The up-and-down career of Havers is at low ebb following her demotion from sergeant to constable, and her rocky personal life doesn''t make that easier to bear. Lynley''s professional life has become more difficult due to the continued absence of Supt. Malcolm Webberly and the need to deal directly with Asst. Commissioner David Hillier. The tension builds as the brutal serial killings continue and the pressure to solve them mounts. George expertly uses every device in the book from red herrings to blind alleys, from subtle twists to swift shocks. This is an outstanding and explosive addition to a popular series.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Issues of racism within the police are brought to the fore when the ritualistic murder of a teenage boy is linked to the deaths of three other youths. It''s clear there''s a serial killer at work, and New Scotland Yard is called in to solve the case and quell accusations of police prejudice. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley has his hands full----not only with finding the murderer but also with ensuring that volatile Barbara Havers doesn''t further damage her career. Then there''s the matter of keeping an eye on a tabloid reporter and a profiler whom intractable Assistant Commissioner Hillier has foisted on the team. Veteran thriller writer George, an American, is as at home with the social dynamics of the seedier parts of London as she is with the multidimensional personalities of Lynley and his colleagues (Winston Nkata, in particular, really comes into his own here). This is a riveting installment in a superb series--far more than just plain good. It''s also a turning point for the series as George makes some bold, surprising decisions that permanently change the lives of the characters her fans have come to know.\n  <em>\n   Stephanie Zvirin\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/30'),
(5203, 'Wizard&#39;s First Rule', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, Richard Cypher encounters a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, in his forest sanctuary. She seeks his help...and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence. In their darkest hour, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his swordâ€”to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed...or that their time has run out. This is the beginning. One book. One rule. Witness the birth of a legend. â€œWonderfully creative, seamless, and stirring.â€ â€“ Kirkus Review\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This is a phenomenal fantasy, endlessly inventive, that surely marks the commencement of one of the major careers in the genre. It has three things I find rare in combination: an interesting, lucid narrative; almost unremitting development and action; and some genuinely original and thoughtful aspects. Wizard''s First Rule may be Terry Goodkind''s first novel; his career is nevertheless already impressive." --Piers Anthony\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A wonderfully creative, seamless, and stirring epic fantasy debut." --\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Goodkind choreographs and intricate duality in which the dividing line between good and evil is often turned upside down." --\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Goodkind choreographs and intricate duality in which the dividing line between good and evil is often turned upside down." --\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the most popular writers of fantasy today, Terry Goodkind divides his time between Maine and Nevada.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/45'),
(5204, 'The Woods', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Paul Copeland, a New Jersey county prosecutor, is still grieving the loss of his sister twenty years ago-the night she walked into the woods, never to be seen again. But now, a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to the disappearance. The victim could be the boy who vanished along with Paul''s sister. And, as hope rises that his sister could still be alive, dangerous secrets from his family''s past threaten to tear apart everything Paul has been trying to hold together...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of this disappointing stand-alone from bestseller Coben (\n  <em>\n   Promise Me\n  </em>\n  ), Paul "Cope" Copeland, acting county prosecutor for Essex County, N.J., and Lucy Gold, his long-lost summer camp love, are still haunted by a fateful night, decades earlier, when their nighttime tryst allowed some younger campers, including Cope''s sister, to venture into the nearby forest, where they apparently fell victim to the Summer Slasher, a serial killer. Cope''s intense focus on a high-profile rape prosecution of some wealthy college students shifts after one of the Slasher''s victims, whose body was never found, turns up as a recent corpse in Manhattan, casting doubt on the official theory of the old case. Cope''s own actions on that night again come under scrutiny, even as the highly placed fathers of the men he''s prosecuting work to unearth as many skeletons as possible to pressure him into dropping the rape case. Less than compelling characters fail to compensate for a host of implausibilities. Hopefully, Coben will return to form with his next book.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this stand-alone legal thriller, Harlan Coben presents a riveting courtroom drama, creates riveting players, and delves into family secrets, love, loss, mistakes, and betrayal. A few critics noted that while\n  <em>\n   The Woods\n  </em>\n  falls into Coben''s typical formulaâ€”a past crime affects innocent people in the presentâ€”it still comes off as fresh. The trial scenes, Cope''s ruminations on what really happened that night, and the back-and-forth narration are particularly well done. Only the\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  faulted the novel''s cheap thrills, improbable revelations, and awkward conclusion. Nevertheless, few readers will remain unaffected by its emotional heft.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/183'),
(5205, 'The Wrecker', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Justin Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Chase\n  </em>\n  , Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero, the tall, lean, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by his sense of justice, travels early-twentieth-century America pursuing thieves and killers . . . and sometimes criminals much worse.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad?s Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn sends in his best man, and Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West, a man known as the Wrecker, who recruits accomplices from the down-and-out to attack the railroad, and then kills them afterward. The Wrecker traverses the vast spaces of the American West as if he had wings, striking wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he a striker? An anarchist? A revolutionary determined to displace the ?privileged few?? A criminal mastermind engineering some as yet unexplained scheme?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done?that, in fact, the Wrecker is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If Bell doesn?t stop him in time, more than a railroad could be at risk?it could be the future of the entire country.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Filled with intricate plotting and dazzling set pieces,\n  <em>\n   The Wrecker\n  </em>\n  is one of the most entertaining thrillers in years.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set in 1907, the rousing second thriller to feature detective Isaac Bell (after\n  <em>\n   The Chase\n  </em>\n  ) from bestseller Cussler and Scott pits Bell against the Wrecker, who''s been destroying trains and railroad facilities around the country for no apparent reason. These horrific incidents are wreaking havoc on the plans of Osgood Hennessy, the Southern Pacific Railroad''s president, who''s constructing the massive Cascade Canyon Bridge in Oregon. If the project isn''t completed by winter, Hennessy''s bankers will withdraw financing and his company will be destroyed. As in the first book, the purposefully stilted writing style takes a little getting used to, but there''s plenty of excitement to be had in a world where massive, fire-breathing trains fly along at speeds of up to 120 mph. While the Wrecker''s identity is revealed early on and there''s never any doubt that Isaac will get his man, readers will find many thrills and much diabolical cleverness along the way.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cussler, known primarily for his contemporary high-tech thrillers, steps back in timeâ€”more than a century, in factâ€”in this rousing sequel to The Chase (2007). Van Dorn Detective Agency operative Isaac Bell returns, this time to track down a clever saboteur whoâ€™s been dubbed the Wrecker. Seems the Wrecker has it in for the Southern Pacific Company, and he will stop at nothing, including murder, to keep the company from putting through a new railway line between San Francisco and northern California. Isaac is a sharply drawn series lead, and the story, as befits a railroad-themed thriller, moves at a brisk clip. In addition, thereâ€™s a very nice surprise in the final scenes. Readers who have sensed a certain been-there-done-that feeling in some of Cusslerâ€™s recent novels will be pleased to find a new spark here. More Isaac Bell novels would be most welcome. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/141'),
(5206, 'The Younger Gods', 'David Eddings &amp; Leigh Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In the thrilling conclusion to The Dreamers, the Vlagh prepares for one merciless attack that will pit her forces against the might of both the Elder Gods and the Younger Gods. All may be for naught, however, if the allies fail to respond to the fact that one within their ranks is losing her mind.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for David Eddings:â€˜My ideal summer readâ€¦ Having enjoyed the entire ten-book serial, I was delighted to be able to read this latest addition as it not only provides fantastic escapism in itself, but, being a prequel, will make my re-reading of the other books all the more fascinating.â€™ THE IRISH TIMESâ€˜All the verve and pace weâ€™ve come to expect.â€™THE DARK SIDEâ€˜Offers an absorbing storyline and some memorable characters as, once again, the author touches all the right fantasy bases, with warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures and appealingly human magicians involved in a titanic war over the course of seven millennia. Eddings fans will no doubt snatch this novel off the shelves while readers new to the authorsâ€™world wonâ€™t find a more appropriate place to begin exploring it.â€™PUBLISHERS WEEKLYâ€˜Thereâ€™s no denying Eddingsâ€™offerings do entertain. This novel is for fantasy fans fed up with more fusty fare, or for anyone who likes mischief and merriment.â€™WEST AUSTRALIAN\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Eddings published his first novel, High Hunt, in 1973, before turning to the field of fantasy with the pioneering series The Belgariad. Born in Spokane, WA, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in 1954 and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Washington in 1961. He has served in the United States Army, has worked as a buyer for the Boeing Company, has been a grocery clerk, and college English teacher. Leigh Eddings has collaborated with her husband since the beginning. They live in Nevada.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://helpdesk1.betenson.com:8080/get/thumb_90_120/64'),
(5207, '1001 People Who Made America', 'Alan Axelrod', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Who are the pivotal figures in American historyÂ—the men and women who have helped shape who we are as a people and how we look at ourselves as Americans? In this companion to his popular\n <em>\n  1001 Events That Made America,\n </em>\n Alan Axelrod suggests we can answer this question only after we look with an open mind into all the areas of our collective past.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  1001 People Who Made America\n </em>\n does just that, highlighting the famous as well as the infamous, the virtuous as well as the notorious, from the nation''s earliest days to the present. Serving up history in lively, accessible bits, the book presents a who''s who of American politics, arts, science, business, religion, and pop culture, along with concise explanations of each figure''s historical significance. Featured personalities range from Jesse James to Al Capone, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Betty Friedan, George Washington to George W. Bush, Harriet Tubman to Martin Luther King, Jr., Stephen Foster to Elvis, John L. Sullivan to Muhammad Ali, Edwin Booth to Marlon Brando, Washington Irving to Thomas Pynchon, Jacob Aster to Bill Gates.\n</p>\n<p>\n Axelrod''s writing is packed with information and insight, giving readers a deeper understanding of what it means to be an American. The appealing design and easy-to-read format invite browsing and make this book a great gift for history buffs and all thoughtful Americans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2167'),
(5208, '1066', 'Andrew Bridgeford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Here is an author who could easily make a living writing thrillers because it is precisely this technique he has applied to this highly readable book. We are left chapter after chapter on the edge of our seat wondering what unexpected rabbit will next be pulled out of the Tapestry''s hat, if one can use the expression... a haunting book.'' Roy Strong, Daily Mail ''An often gripping yarn ! Bridgeford gives an exciting account of the tapestry''s busy drama and engaging realism.'' Daily Telegraph ''The quality of Bridgeford''s research, and the originality of his suggestions, is delightful.'' Independent ''Bridgeford marshals the battalions of his argument with all the analytical force, lucidity and panache of a counsel from the golden age of advocacy.'' Sunday Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe''s greatest treasure. The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered (it''s not really a tapestry) in the late eleventh century. As an artefact, it is priceless, incomparable -- nothing of it''s delicacy and texture, let alone wit, survives from the period. As a pictorial story it is delightful: the first feature-length cartoon. As history it is essential: it represents the moment of Britain''s last conquest by a foreign army and celebrates the Norman victory over the blinded Saxon Harold. Or does it? In this brilliant piece of detective interpretation, Andrew Bridgeford looks at the narrative contained within the tapestry and has discovered a wealth of new information. Who commissioned it? Who made it? Who is the singular dwarf named as Turold? Why, in a work that celebrates a Norman conquest is the defeated Harold treated so nobly? Is Harold indeed the victim of the arrow from the sky? And who is the figure depicted in the tapestry who, at the moment of crisis for the Normans rallies the army just at the point when it mistakenly believes William is dead and it will be defeated? Using the tapestry, the book retells with vivid characterisation the story of the remaking of England in and after 1066. It is a compelling story, as is the tale of the extraordinary survival of the tapestry itself: history has rarely been writ so large, with such fine detail and yet been so veiled in mystery.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2168'),
(5209, '10th Anniversary', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <strong>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n    with Maxine PaetroÂ \n   </span>\n  </strong>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <strong>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </strong>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <strong>\n   For every secret\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Detective Lindsay Boxer''s long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals--but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   For every lie\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life--a woman who has been accused of murdering her husband in front of her two young children. Yuki''s career rests on a guilty verdict, so when Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant, she is forced to choose. Should she trust her best friend or follow her instinct?\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   There''s a different way to die\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Lindsay''s every move is watched by her new boss, Lieutenant Jackson Brady, and when the pressure to find the baby begins interfering with her new marriage to Joe, she wonders if she''ll ever be able to start a family. With James Patterson''s white-hot speed and unquenchable action,\n  <i>\n   10th Anniversary\n  </i>\n  is the most deliciously chilling Women''s Murder Club book ever.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/245'),
(5210, '11/22/63', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTSRANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENTKENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED.WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK?\n</p>\n<p>\n In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen Kingâ€”who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writerâ€”takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.\n</p>\n<p>\n It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him awayâ€”a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunningâ€™s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his lifeâ€”like Harryâ€™s, like Americaâ€™s in 1963â€”turning on a dime. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsessionâ€”to prevent the Kennedy assassination.\n</p>\n<p>\n So begins Jakeâ€™s new life as George Amberson, in a different world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where thereâ€™s Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading eventually, of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2842');
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(5211, '1225 Christmas Tree Lane', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "It''s just not Christmas without a Debbie Macomber story..." --Writers Unlimited on A Cedar Cove Christmas\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Macomber deftly combines sweet romance and a breath of suspense without losing the homespun charm that''s been delighting readers for years."\n</p>\n<p>\n -RT Book Reviews on 92 Pacific Boulevard\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Readers new to Macomber''s considerable narrative charms will have no problem picking up the story, while loyal fans are in for a treat."\n</p>\n<p>\n -Booklist on 6 Rainier Drive\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Debbie Macomber is a skilled storyteller."\n</p>\n<p>\n -Publishers Weekly on 50 Harbor Street\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "The books in Macomber''s contemporary Cedar Cove series are irresistibly delicious and addictive."\n</p>\n<p>\n -Publishers Weekly on 44 Cranberry Point\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Excellent characterization will keep readers anticipating the next visit to Cedar Cove."\n</p>\n<p>\n -Booklist on 311 Pelican Court\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Macomber''s endearing characters offer courage and support to one another and find hope and love in the most unexpected places."\n</p>\n<p>\n -Booklist on 204 Rosewood Lane\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Macomber is known for her honest portrayals of ordinary women in small-town America, and this tale cements her position as an icon of the genre."\n</p>\n<p>\n -Publishers Weekly on 16 Lighthouse Road\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The people of Cedar Cove know how to celebrate Christmas. Like Grace and Olivia and everyone else, Beth Morehouse expects\n <em>\n  this\n </em>\n Christmas to be one of her best. Her small Christmas-tree farm is prospering, her daughters and her dogs are happy and well, and her new relationship with local vet Ted Reynolds is showing plenty of romantic promise.\n</p>\n<p>\n Butâ€¦someone recently left a basket filled with\n <em>\n  puppies\n </em>\n on her doorstep, puppies she''s determined to place in good homes. That''s complication number one. And number two is that her daughters Bailey and Sophie have invited their dad, Beth''s ex-husband, Kent, to Cedar Cove for Christmas. The girls have visions of a mom-and-dad reunion dancing in their heads.\n</p>\n<p>\n As always in lifeâ€”and in Cedar Coveâ€”there are surprises, too. More than one family''s going to have a puppy under the tree. More than one scheme will go awry. And more than one romance will have a happy ending!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2906'),
(5212, '1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus', 'Charles C. Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   1491\n  </em>\n  is not so much the story of a year, as of what that year stands for: the long-debated (and often-dismissed) question of what human civilization in the Americas was like before the Europeans crashed the party. The history books most Americans were (and still are) raised on describe the continents before Columbus as a vast, underused territory, sparsely populated by primitives whose cultures would inevitably bow before the advanced technologies of the Europeans. For decades, though, among the archaeologists, anthropologists, paleolinguists, and others whose discoveries Charles C. Mann brings together in\n  <em>\n   1491\n  </em>\n  , different stories have been emerging. Among the revelations: the first Americans may not have come over the Bering land bridge around 12,000 B.C. but by boat along the Pacific coast 10 or even 20 thousand years earlier; the Americas were a far more urban, more populated, and more technologically advanced region than generally assumed; and the Indians, rather than living in static harmony with nature, radically engineered the landscape across the continents, to the point that even "timeless" natural features like the Amazon rainforest can be seen as products of human intervention.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mann is well aware that much of the history he relates is necessarily speculative, the product of pot-shard interpretation and precise scientific measurements that often end up being radically revised in later decades. But the most compelling of his eye-opening revisionist stories are among the best-founded: the stories of early American-European contact. To many of those who were there, the earliest encounters felt more like a meeting of equals than one of natural domination. And those who came later and found an emptied landscape that seemed ripe for the taking, Mann argues convincingly, encountered not the natural and unchanging state of the native American, but the evidence of a sudden calamity: the ravages of what was likely the greatest epidemic in human history, the smallpox and other diseases introduced inadvertently by Europeans to a population without immunity, which swept through the Americas faster than the explorers who brought it, and left behind for their discovery a land that held only a shadow of the thriving cultures that it had sustained for centuries before.\n  <em>\n   --Tom Nissley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A\n   <em>\n    1491\n   </em>\n   Timeline\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Europe and Asia\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dates\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   The Americas\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  25000-35000 B.C.   Time of paleo-Indian migration to Americas from Siberia, according to genetic evidence. Groups likely traveled across the Pacific in boats.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wheat and barley grown from wild ancestors in Sumer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  6000\n </p>\n <p>\n  5000   In what many scientists regard as humankind''s first and greatest feat of genetic engineering, Indians in southern Mexico systematically breed maize (corn) from dissimilar ancestor species.\n </p>\n <p>\n  First cities established in Sumer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  4000\n </p>\n <p>\n  3000   The Americas'' first urban complex, in coastal Peru, of at least 30 closely packed cities, each centered around large pyramid-like structures\n </p>\n <p>\n  Great Pyramid at Giza\n </p>\n <p>\n  2650\n </p>\n <p>\n  32   First clear evidence of Olmec use of zero--an invention, widely described as the most important mathematical discovery ever made, which did not occur in Eurasia until about 600 A.D., in India (zero was not introduced to Europe until the 1200s and not widely used until the 1700s)\n </p>\n <p>\n  800-840 A.D.   Sudden collapse of most central Maya cities in the face of severe drought and lengthy war\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vikings briefly establish first European settlements in North America.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1000\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reconstruction of Cahokia, c. 1250 A.D.*   Abrupt rise of Cahokia, near modern St. Louis, the largest city north of the Rio Grande. Population estimates vary from at least 15,000 to 100,000.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Black Death devastates Europe.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1347-1351\n </p>\n <p>\n  1398   Birth of TlacaÃ©lel, the brilliant Mexican strategist behind the Triple Alliance (also known as the Aztec empire), which within decades controls central Mexico, then the most densely settled place on Earth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Encounter: Columbus sails from Europe to the Caribbean.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1492   The Encounter: Columbus sails from Europe to the Caribbean.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syphilis apparently brought to Europe by Columbus''s returning crew.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1493\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ferdinand Magellan departs from Spain on around-the-world voyage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1519\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sixteenth-century Mexica drawing of the effects of smallpox\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Cortes driven from TenochtitlÃ¡n, capital of the Triple Alliance, and then gains victory as smallpox, a European disease never before seen in the Americas, kills at least one of three in the empire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1525-1533   The smallpox epidemic sweeps into Peru, killing as much as half the population of the Inka empire and opening the door to conquest by Spanish forces led by Pizarro.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1617   Huge areas of New England nearly depopulated by epidemic brought by shipwrecked French sailors.\n </p>\n <p>\n  English Pilgrims arrive at Patuxet, an Indian village emptied by disease, and survive on stored Indian food, renaming the village Plymouth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  1620\n </p>\n <p>\n  *Courtesy Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Collinsville, Ill., painting by Michael Hampshire.\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Courtesy Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, N.M. (Bernardino de SahagÃºn,\n  <em>\n   Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva EspaÃ±a,\n  </em>\n  1547-77).\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In a riveting and fast-paced history, massing archeological, anthropological, scientific and literary evidence, Mann debunks much of what we thought we knew about pre-Columbian America. Reviewing the latest, not widely reported research in Indian demography, origins and ecology, Mann zestfully demonstrates that long before any European explorers set foot in the New World, Native American cultures were flourishing with a high degree of sophistication. The new researchers have turned received wisdom on its head. For example, it has long been believed the Inca fell to Pizarro because they had no metallurgy to produce steel for weapons. In fact, scholars say, the Inca had a highly refined metallurgy, but valued plasticity over strength. What defeated the Inca was not steel but smallpox and resulting internecine warfare. Mann also shows that the Maya constructed huge cities and governed them with a cohesive set of political ideals. Most notably, according to Mann, the Haudenosaunee, in what is now the Northeast U.S., constructed a loose confederation of tribes governed by the principles of individual liberty and social equality. The author also weighs the evidence that Native populations were far larger than previously calculated. Mann, a contributor to the\n  <em>\n   Atlantic Monthly\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Science\n  </em>\n  , masterfully assembles a diverse body of scholarship into a first-rate history of Native America and its inhabitants. 56 b&amp;w photos, 15 maps.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2170'),
(5213, '1492: The Year Our World Began', 'Felipe Fernandez-Armesto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that began to bind the planet: from the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe to the way major religions and civilizations divide the world. Events that began in 1492 even transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith - all the glories and follies of the time are in this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2171'),
(5214, '1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created', 'Charles C. Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Nathaniel Philbrick on\n   <em>\n    1493\n   </em>\n   by Charles C. Mann\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Nathaniel Philbrick\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   The Last Stand\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   In the Heart of the Sea\n  </em>\n  , which won the National Book Award;\n  <em>\n   Sea of Glory\n  </em>\n  , winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize; and\n  <em>\n   Mayflower\n  </em>\n  , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history and one of the\n  <em>\n   New York Times''\n  </em>\n  ten best books of the year. He has lived on Nantucket since 1986._\n </p>\n <p>\n  Iâ€™m a big fan of Charles Mannâ€™s previous book\n  <em>\n   1491\n  </em>\n  , in which he provides a sweeping and provocative examination of North and South America prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Itâ€™s exhaustively researched but so wonderfully written that itâ€™s anything but exhausting to read.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With his follow-up,\n  <em>\n   1493\n  </em>\n  , Mann has taken it to a new, truly global level. Building on the groundbreaking work of Alfred Crosby (author of\n  <em>\n   The Columbian Exchange\n  </em>\n  and, Iâ€™m proud to say, a fellow Nantucketer), Mann has written nothing less than the story of our world: how a planet of what were once several autonomous continents is quickly becoming a single, â€œglobalizedâ€ entity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mann not only talked to countless scientists and researchers; he visited the places he writes about, and as a consequence, the book has a marvelously wide-ranging yet personal feel as we follow Mann from one far-flung corner of the world to the next. And always, the prose is masterful. In telling the improbable story of how Spanish and Chinese cultures collided in the Philippines in the sixteenth century, he takes us to the island of Mindoro whose â€œsouthern coast consists of a number of small bays, one next to another like tooth marks in an apple.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  We learn how the spread of malaria, the potato, tobacco, guano, rubber plants, and sugar cane have disrupted and convulsed the planet and will continue to do so until we are finally living on one integrated or at least close-to-integrated Earth. Whether or not the human instigators of all this remarkable change will survive the process they helped to initiate more than five hundred years ago remains, Mann suggests in this monumental and revelatory book, an open question.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Timeline for\n   <em>\n    1493\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   200,000,000 B.C.:\n  </strong>\n  Geological forces begin to break up the worldâ€™s single giant continent, Pangaea, forever separating the hemispheres. After this, Eurasia and the Americas develop completely different suites of plants and animals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1493 A.D.:\n  </strong>\n  Columbus sails on second voyage, establishing the first consequential European settlement in the Americas. Without intending to, he ends the long separation of the hemispheresâ€”and sets off the ecological convulsion known as the Columbian Exchange.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1518:\n  </strong>\n  In the first environmental calamity of the modern era, accidentally imported African scale insects in Hispaniola lead to an explosion of fire ants. Spaniards flee the ant-infested island in droves; colonists in Santo Domingo hold procession in honor of St. Saturninus, praying for his aid against the insect plague.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1545:\n  </strong>\n  Spaniards discover the worldâ€™s biggest silver strike in Bolivia. In the next century, the worldâ€™s supply of this precious metal will more than double, giving Europe an economic edge that will help it colonize Africa, Asia and the Americas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1549:\n  </strong>\n  Initial appearance of tobaccoâ€”the addictive American drug that becomes the first global commodity crazeâ€”in China. That same year, HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s inaugurates the human part of the Columbian Exchange by signing the first contract to import large numbers of Africans to the American mainland.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1571:\n  </strong>\n  Miguel LÃ³pez de Legazpi colonizes Manila and establishes continual trade with Chinaâ€”Columbusâ€™s life-long, never-fulfilled dream. Knitting the entire inhabited planet into a single web of trade, Legazpiâ€™s actions are the beginning of todayâ€™s economic globalization.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ~1615:\n  </strong>\n  Earthworms come to northern North America in English ship ballast. During the next three centuries, they will re-engineer forests from Ohio Valley to Hudson Bay.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1630-60:\n  </strong>\n  The gush of American silver finally causes its price to collapse, setting off a the worldâ€™s first global economic calamity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1644:\n  </strong>\n  Collapse of Ming dynasty. Long struggle between remaining Ming in south and incoming Qing dynasty in north leads the latter to forcibly evacuate most of the southern coast; millions of dispossessed people pour into the mountains, where they grow maize and sweet potatoes, American crops first smuggled into China from Manila and other European bases.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1775:\n  </strong>\n  Franceâ€™s Flour War, set off by high bread prices, persuades King Louis XVI to allow the pioneering nutritional chemist Antoine-Augustin Parmentier to stage a series of publicity stunts to persuade farmers to grow potatoes, a distrusted foreign species from Peru. Parmentierâ€™s PR is so successful that broad swathes of northern Europe are soon covered with a monoculture of potatoes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1781:\n  </strong>\n  Britainâ€™s â€œsouthern strategyâ€ pushes Gen. Cornwallisâ€™s army into North Americaâ€™s malaria zone, an area dominated by malaria parasites introduced from Europe and Africa. Defeated by malaria, the British army surrenders to a general it never fought: George Washington. This ends the Revolutionary War.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1845:\n  </strong>\n  Europeâ€™s potato monoculture, which is unlike anything ever seen in Peru, turns out to be especially vulnerable to another Peruvian import, the potato blight. Ravaging the continent from Russia to Ireland, the blight causes a famine that kills an estimated two million people, half of them in Ireland.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ~1867:\n  </strong>\n  LÃ©opold Trouvelot, French amateur entomologist, smuggles gypsy moths to Medford, Mass., hoping to breed them with native silk-producing moths to produce a more robust silk-producer. Their almost immediate escape sets off an invasion that continues today. Trouvelot hurriedly returns to France before the dimensions of the problem can be known.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1880-1912:\n  </strong>\n  Industrializing nations, desperate for the elastic belts, pliable gaskets and the aborbent tires needed by steam engines and vehicles, buy every scrap of rubber they can get from the Amazonâ€™s rubber trees, the sole source of high-quality latex. The ensuing rubber boom collapses after an Englishman smuggles rubber trees out of Brazil. Soon much of southeast Asia is covered with this foreign tree.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1979:\n  </strong>\n  The golden apple snail is sent from Brazil to Taiwan to launch an escargot industry there. It escapes, proliferates, and becomes a major menace to the islandâ€™s rice crop.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA muscular, densely documented follow-up [to_\n  <em>\n   Mannâ€™s\n  </em>\n  1491]\n  <em>\n   . . . Like its predecessor,\n  </em>\n  1493 _runs to more than 400 pages, but it moves at a gallop . . . As a historian Mann should be admired not just for his broad scope and restless intelligence but for his biological senstivity. At every point of his tale he keeps foremost in his mind the effect of humansâ€™ activities on the broader environment they inhabit.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Alfred W. Crosby,\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œIn the wake of his groundbreaking book_ 1491_ Charles Mann has once again produced a brilliant and riveting work that will forever change the way we see the world. Mann shows how the ecological collision of Europe and the Americas transformed virtually every aspect of human history. Beautifully written, and packed with startling research,\n  <em>\n   1493\n  </em>\n  is a monumental achievement."\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -David Grann, author of\n  <em>\n   The Lost City of Z\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œSpirited . . . One thing is indisputable: Mann is definitely global in his outlook and tribal in his thinking . . . Mannâ€™s taxonomy of the ecological, political, religious, economic, anthropological and mystical melds together in an intriguing whole cloth.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Jonathan E. Lazarus,\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  [Newark]\n  <em>\n   Star-Ledger\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œFascinating . . . Convincing . . . A spellbinding account of how an unplanned collision of unfamiliar animals, vegetables, minerals and diseases produced unforeseen wealth, misery, social upheaval and the modern world.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Starred review,_ Kirkus_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA landmark book . . . Entrancingly provocative,\n  <em>\n   1493\n  </em>\n  bristles with illuminations, insights and surprises.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -John McFarland,\n  <em>\n   Shelf Awareness\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA fascinating survey . . . A lucid historical panorama thatâ€™s studded with entertaining studies of Chinese pirate fleets, courtly tobacco rituals, and the bloody feud between Jamestown colonists and the Indians who fed and fought them, to name a few. Brilliantly assembling colorful details into big-picture insights, Mannâ€™s fresh challenge to Eurocentric histories puts interdependence at the origin of modernity.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Starred review,_ Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn\n  <em>\n   1491\n  </em>\n  Charles Mann brilliantly described the Americas on the eve of Columbusâ€™s voyage. Now in\n  <em>\n   1493\n  </em>\n  he tells how the world was changed forever by the movement of foods, metals, plants, people and diseases between the â€˜New Worldâ€™ and both Europe and China. His book is readable and well-written, based on his usual broad research, travels and interviews. A fascinating and important topic, admirably told.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -John Hemming, author of\n  <em>\n   Tree of Rivers\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFascinating . . . Engaging and well-written . . . Information and insight abound on every page. This dazzling display of erudition, theory and insight will help readers to view history in a fresh way.â€Â Â Â Â Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Roger Bishop,\n  <em>\n   BookPage\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œCharles Mann expertly shows how the complex, interconnected ecological and economic consequences of the European discovery of the Americas shaped many unexpected aspects of the modern world. This is an example of the best kind of history book: one that changes the way you look at the world, even as it informs and entertains.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -Tom Standage, author of\n  <em>\n   A History of the World in Six Glasses\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2172'),
(5215, '1776', 'David Mccullough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King''s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books -- Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough''s 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2178'),
(5216, '1861: The Civil War Awakening', 'Adam Goodheart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Goodheart, a historian and journalist who will be writing a column on the Civil War for the New York Times online, makes sophisticated use of a broad spectrum of sources for an evocative reinterpretation of the Civil War''s beginnings. Wanting to retrieve the war from recent critics who dismiss the importance of slavery in the Union''s aims, he reframes the war as "not just a Southern rebellion but a nationwide revolution" to free the country of slavery and end paralyzing attempts to compromise over it. The revolution began long before the war''s first shots were fired. But it worked on the minds and hearts of average whites and blacks, slaves and free men. By 1861 it had attained an irresistible momentum. Goodheart shifts focus away from the power centers of Washington and Charleston to look at the actions and reactions of citizens from Boston to New York City, from Hampton Roads, Va., to St. Louis, Mo., and San Francisco, emphasizing the cultural, rather than military, clash between those wanting the country to move forward and those clinging to the old ways. War would be waged for four bitter years, with enduring seriousness, intensity, and great heroism, Goodheart emphasizes. 15 illus. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Exhilarating ... inspiring ... irresistible ...\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  creates the uncanny illusion that the reader has stepped into a time machine."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â --\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  New York Times Book Review (cover review)\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "In his marvelous book...Goodheart brings us into 19th-century America, as ambiguous, ambitious and fractured as the times we live in now, and he brings to pulsing life the hearts and minds of its American citizens."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  --Huffington Post\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Riveting and thought-provoking narrative."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â  --Library Journal (\n  <em>\n   starred review\n  </em>\n  )\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Hardly a page of this book lacks an important insight or a fact that beguiles the readers. ... Goodheart shows us that even at 150 years'' distance there are new voices, and new stories, to be heard about the Civil War."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  --Boston Globe\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Beautifully written and thoroughly original--quite unlike any other Civil War book out there."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â --Kirkus Reviews (\n  <em>\n   starred review\n  </em>\n  )\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  advance praise for Adam Goodheartâ€™s\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_1861_ is the best book I have ever read on the start of the Civil War. Sumter, secession, and Lincoln appear in a wonderfully fresh and illuminating light, supported by a cast of extraordinary players that few Americans know about.Â  Penetrating, eloquent, and deeply moving, this is a classic introduction to the nationâ€™s greatest conflict.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Tony Horwitz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of\n   <em>\n    Confederates in the Attic\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCombining a master historianâ€™s sure command of original sources and a novelistâ€™s deft touch with character and narrative, Adam Goodheart has produced the young centuryâ€™s liveliest book about how a generation of remarkable and ordinary Americans alike variously provoked, resisted, and endured the dissolution of their country and the tragic march toward civil war. Major and minor characters, political movements, and whole towns and villages come alive under Goodheartâ€™s expert scrutiny. The result is that rarest of history books: a work of remarkable original scholarship crafted into an irresistible read.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Harold Holzer, chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and author of\n   <em>\n    Lincoln President-Elect\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAdam Goodheart brings to this book a rare combination of talent: passion and precision as a historian, grace and generosity as a writer.\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  puts us in the young nation that was about to shed its skin and begin life as something new.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Richard Ben Cramer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNo one could capture Whitmanâ€™s â€˜hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted yearâ€™ more vividly than Adam Goodheart has done in this magnificent book.Â \n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  isnâ€™t merely a work of history; itâ€™s a time-travel device that makes a century and a half fall away and sets us down, eyes and ears wide open, right in the midst of the chaos and the glory.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Anne Fadiman, author of\n   <em>\n    The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down\n   </em>\n   , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith boundlessÂ  verve, Adam Goodheart has sketched an uncommonly rich tableau of America on the cusp of the Civil War. The research is impeccable, the cast of little-known characters we are introduced to is thoroughly fascinating, the book is utterly thought-provoking, and the story is luminescent. What a triumph.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Jay Winik, author of New York Times best-sellers\n   <em>\n    April 1865\n   </em>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   The Great Upheaval\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œAdam Goodheart is a Monet with a pen instead of a paintbrush. Like an impressionist painting,\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  reveals layers of meaning and beauty as one studies it closely.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”James McPherson, author of\n   <em>\n    Battle Cry of Freedom\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2179'),
(5217, '1915: The Death of Innocence', 'Lyn Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n By Christmas 1914, the wild wave of enthusiasm that had sent men flocking to join up a few months earlier began to tail off, and though the original British Expeditionary Force had suffered 90 percent casualties, most people, particularly the soldiers themselves, still believed that 1915 would see the breaking of the deadlock. But their hopes were shattered on the bloody battlefields of Neuve Chapelle, Ypres, Loos, and far away on the shores of Gallipoli.Lyn Macdonald''s story of 1915 is stark, brutal, frank, sometimes painfully funny, always human. Never before has any writer collected so many firsthand accounts of the experiences of ordinary soldiers, through diaries, letters, and interviews with survivors -- and it is the dogged heroism and sardonic humor of the soldiers that shine through the pages of this epic narrative. 1915 is a uniquely compelling blend of military history and poignant memories of the fighters who survived the ordeal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2180'),
(5218, '1968', 'Mark Kurlansky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Given its broad and vibrant subject, it would be quite difficult for a writer of any proficiency to pen a boring book on 1968, and Mark Kurlansky has indeed pulled together an entertaining and enlightening popular history with\n <em>\n  1968: The Year That Rocked the World\n </em>\n . With the Vietnam War and Soviet repression providing sparkplugs in the East and West, student movements heated up in Berkeley, Prague, Mexico City, Paris, and dozens of other hotspots. With youth in ascendancy, music, film, and athletics became generational battlegrounds between opposition forces that couldn''t be more appalled with one another. Not so fortuitously, the Summer Olympics in Mexico City and a presidential election in the United States conspired to elevate the tension higher as months passed. Kurlansky is skilled at concisely capturing the personalities behind the conflicts, whether they be heartbroken Czech leader Alexander Dubcek as Eastern Bloc troops violently suppress his nation''s uprising or respected veteran newsman Walter Cronkite reluctantly editorializing against the war in Vietnam. The author is more than willing to choose heroes (the doomed Robert Kennedy) and villains (victorious presidential candidate Richard Nixon), and clearly sides with the rebels in most cases. In general, Kurlansky is more adept at covering the political front than he is the equally revolutionary arts world, and it''s apparent that any chapter in this book could be expanded into a book of its own. One''s expectation is that captivated readers will view\n <em>\n  1968\n </em>\n as a portal into a deeper exploration of a fascinating time.\n <em>\n  --Steven Stolder\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n By any measure, it was a remarkable year. Mentioning the Tet offensive, the My Lai massacre, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the Democratic convention in Chicago, and the Prague Spring and its backlash gives only the merest impression of how eventful and transformative the year must have felt at the time. As Kurlansky (Cod, Salt, etc.) has made the phrase "changed the world" a necessary component of subtitles for books about mundane objects, his choice to focus on a year that so "rocked" the world is appropriate. To read this book is to be transported to a very specific past at once more naive and more mature than today; as Kurlansky puts it, it was a time of "shocking modernism" and "quaint innocence," a combination less contradictory than it first appears. The common genesis of demonstrations occurring in virtually every Western nation was the war in Vietnam. Without shortchanging the roles of race and age, Kurlansky shrewdly emphasizes the rise of television as a near-instantaneous (and less packaged than today) conduit of news as key to the year''s unfolding. To his credit, Kurlansky does not overdo Berkeley at the expense of Paris or Warsaw or Mexico City. The gains and costs of the new ethic of mass demonstration are neatly illustrated by the U.S. presidential campaign: the young leftists helped force the effective abdication of President Lyndon Johnson - and were rewarded with "silent majority" spokesman Richard Nixon. 1968 is a thorough and loving (perhaps a bit too loving of the boomer generation) tapestry - or time capsule.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2181'),
(5219, '1984', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Among the seminal texts of the 20th century,\n  <em>\n   Nineteen Eighty-Four\n  </em>\n  is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell''s nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff''s attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell''s prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Novel by George Orwell, published in 1949 as a warning about the menaces of totalitarianism. The novel is set in an imaginary future world that is dominated by three perpetually warring totalitarian police states. The book''s hero, Winston Smith, is a minor party functionary in one of these states. His longing for truth and decency leads him to secretly rebel against the government. Smith has a love affair with a like-minded woman, but they are both arrested by the Thought Police. The ensuing imprisonment, torture, and reeducation of Smith are intended not merely to break him physically or make him submit but to root out his independent mental existence and his spiritual dignity. Orwell''s warning of the dangers of totalitarianism made a deep impression on his contemporaries and upon subsequent readers, and the book''s title and many of its coinages, such as NEWSPEAK, became bywords for modern political abuses. --\n  <em>\n   The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/397'),
(5220, '1Q84', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  â€œMurakami is like a magician who explains what heâ€™s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it''s the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driverâ€™s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 â€”â€œQ is for â€˜question mark.â€™ A world that bears a question.â€ Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Aomameâ€™s and Tengoâ€™s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwellâ€™sâ€”\n  <em>\n   1Q84\n  </em>\n  is Haruki Murakamiâ€™s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2907'),
(5221, '1st to Die', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  The Women''s Murder Club pits four San Francisco women professionals  against a serial killer who''s stalking and murdering newlyweds in bestselling  author James Patterson''s newest thriller. Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector  who''s just gotten some very bad news. She deals with it by immersing herself in  her newest case and soliciting the personal as well as professional support of  her closest friend, who happens to be the city''s medical examiner. The two  women, along with an ambitious and sympathetic reporter and an assistant DA,  form an unlikely alliance, pooling their information and bypassing the chain of  command in an engaging, suspenseful story whose gruesome setup is vintage  Patterson.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What is the worst thing anyone has ever done?" the killer muses to himself  early in the narrative. "Am I capable of doing it? Do I have what it takes?"  Answering his own question, he embarks on a murderous spree that takes him from  the bridal suite in a Nob Hill hotel to a honeymoon destination in the Napa  Valley and thence to a wedding reception at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and  Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. Dispatching his victims on the happiest day of their  lives, he purposefully leaves enough clues for his distaff trackers to discover  his identity and put him behind bars. But just when the women think they''ve got  the case all wrapped up, the killer turns the tables on them in a bloody  denouement that even the most discerning reader won''t see coming. Patterson,  author of the popular Alex Cross mysteries, promises future adventures for the  Women''s Murder Club, which may give him an opportunity to develop his heroines''  characters more completely and win new fans among those who prefer their  detectives in high heels and lipstick.Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/246'),
(5222, '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it''s at least 3 million years old. Even more amazing, after it''s unearthed the artifact releases a powerful signal aimed at Saturn. What sort of alarm has been triggered? To find out, a manned spacecraft, the\n  <em>\n   Discovery\n  </em>\n  , is sent to investigate. Its crew is highly trained--the best--and they are assisted by a self-aware computer, the ultra-capable HAL 9000. But HAL''s programming has been patterned after the human mind a little too well. He is capable of guilt, neurosis, even murder, and he controls every single one of\n  <em>\n   Discovery\n  </em>\n  ''s components. The crew must overthrow this digital psychotic if they hope to make their rendezvous with the entities that are responsible not just for the monolith, but maybe even for human civilization.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clarke wrote this novel while Stanley Kubrick created the film, the two collaborating on both projects. The novel is much more detailed and intimate, and definitely easier to comprehend. Even though history has disproved its "predictions," it''s still loaded with exciting and awe-inspiring science fiction.\n  <em>\n   --Brooks Peck\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Odyssey is an oddity: it is a novel based on a screenplay by Clarke and Kubrick that itself was based on a Clarke short story. And though it has thrilled fans for 31 years, still no one is really sure what it means. This nice hardcover sports a new introduction by Clarke.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1322'),
(5223, '2010: Odyssey Two', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 2001: A Space Odyssey shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s. An instant book and movie classic, its fame has grown over the years. Yet along with the almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years, for example: who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space? What could drive HAL to kill the crew? Now all those questions and many more have been answered, in this stunning sequel to the international bestseller. Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in its depiction of Man''s place in the Universe, and filled with the romance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement and a must-read for Arthur C. Clarke fans old and new."A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001."Carl Sagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1323'),
(5224, '2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America', 'Albert Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Is this what''s in store?June 12, 2030 started out like any other day in memoryâ€”and by then, memories were long.Â  Since cancer had been cured fifteen years before, America''s population was aging rapidly.Â  That sounds like good news, but consider this: millions of baby boomers, with a big natural predator picked off, were sucking dry benefits and resources that were never meant to hold them into their eighties and beyond.Â  Young people around the country simmered with resentment toward â€œthe oldsâ€ and anger at the treadmill they could never get off of just to maintain their parents'' entitlement programs.But on that June 12th, everything changed: a massive earthquake devastated Los Angeles, and the government, always teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, was unable to respond.Â  The fallout from the earthquake sets in motion a sweeping novel of ideas that pits national hope for the future against assurances from the past and is peopled by a memorable cast of refugees and billionaires, presidents and revolutionaries, all struggling to find their way.Â  In 2030, the author''s all-too-believable imagining of where today''s challenges could lead us tomorrow makes gripping and thought-provoking reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3439'),
(5225, '206 Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. When Tempe finds herself regaining consciousness in some kind of very small, very dark, very cold enclosed spacebound, hands to feetTempe begins slowly to reconstruct... Tempe and Lieutenant Ryan had accompanied the recently discovered remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue. Suddenly, Tempe was accused of mishandling the autopsyand the case. Back in Montreal, the corpse of a second elderly woman was found in the woods, and then a third. Seamlessly weaving between Tempe''s present-tense terror as she''s held captive and her memory of the cases of these murdered women, Reichs reveals the incredible devastation that would occur if a forensic colleague sabotaged work in the lab. The chemistry between Tempe and Ryan intensifies as this complex, riveting tale unfolds, proving once again, that Reichs is the dominant talent in forensic mystery writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3425'),
(5226, '2061: Odyssey Three', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world''s best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1324');
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(5227, '23 Things They Don&#39;t Tell You About Capitalism', 'Ha-Joon Chang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chang (Bad Samaritans) takes on the "free-market ideologues," the stentorian voices in economic thought and, in his analysis, the engineers of the recent financial catastrophe. Free market orthodoxy has inserted its tenterhooks into almost every economy in the world--over the past three decades, most countries have privatized state-owned industrial and financial firms, deregulated finance and industry, liberalized international trade and investments, and reduced income taxes and welfare payments. But these policies have unleashed bubbles and ever increasing income disparity. How can we dig ourselves out? By examining the many myths in the narrative of free-market liberalism, crucially that the name is itself a misnomer: there is nothing "free" about a market where wages are largely politically determined; that greater macroeconomic stability has not made the world economy more stable; and a more educated population itself won''t make a country richer. An advocate of big, active government and capitalism as distinct from a free market, Chang presents an enlightening prÃ©cis of modern economic thought--and all the places it''s gone wrong, urging us to act in order to completely rebuild the world economy: "This will some readers uncomfortable... it is time to get uncomfortable." (Jan.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œChang presents an enlightening prÃ©cis of modern economic thoughtâ€”and all the places itâ€™s gone wrong, urging us to act in order to completely rebuild the world economy: â€˜This will [make] some readers uncomfortableâ€¦[;] it is time to get uncomfortable.â€™â€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€”Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMyth-busting and nicely-written collection of essaysâ€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€”Independent\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   (UK)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œShaking Economics 101 assumptions to the core â€¦ Eminently accessible, with a clearly liberal (or at least anticonservative) bent, but with surprises along the wayâ€”for one, the thought that markets need to become less rather than more efficient.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”_Kirkus Reviews_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have pictured it but as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”John Gray,\n   <em>\n    Observer\n   </em>\n   (UK)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€œA lively, accessible and provocative book.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”_Sunday Times_ (UK)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor 40 years, I have worked as a journalist and trained thousands of other journalists from my former perches as a University of Missouri Journalism School professor and as executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors. I have written newspaper articles, magazine features and entire books with heavy doses of economics policy and business behavior. I wish the book\n  <em>\n   23 Things They Donâ€™t Tell You About Capitalism\n  </em>\n  had been available when I was a rookie; I would have been more alert to the hands-off-business catechism by which Americans are relentlessly indoctrinated.â€â€”\n  <strong>\n   Steven Weinberg,\n   <em>\n    Remapping Debate\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   __\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2836'),
(5228, '2nd Chance', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  with Andrew Gross\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n  When a little girl is shot on the steps of a San Francisco church, Detective Lindsay Boxer know''s it''s time to reconvene the "Women''s Murder Club". Reporter Cindy Thomas, assistant DA Jill Bernhardt and medical examiner Claire Washburn, along with Lindsay soon track down a mystifying killer.\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/247'),
(5229, '30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account', 'Peter Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œThis is a fabulously idiosyncratic small masterpiece ... itâ€™s so good it takes your breath away.â€â€”Times (UK)After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character. Seeking the help of his old friends, Carey is soon drawn into their strange, anarchic worlds, each one orbiting the place he has come back to see. The result is a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as the southerly bluster that sometimes batters Sydneyâ€™s shores. Famous sights such as Bondi Beach, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Blue Mountains all take on a strange new intensity when exposed to the penetrating gaze of the author and his friends.30 Days in Sydney offers the reader an enchanting glimpse behind the facades and the Venetian blinds of the city.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1760'),
(5230, '3001: The Final Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It began four million years ago with a gleaming black monolith - an inexplicable apparition that ignited the spark of human consciousness transforming ape into man. It continued at the dawn of the twenty-first century when an identical black monolith was excavated on the moon - beginning the adventures of Dave Bowman, his deputy, Frank Poole, and the supercomputer HAL. Only Dave Bowman would survive to encounter a third, and far more massive, monolith on Jupiter''s moon Europa - and be forever transformed into the star child. It is the world of 2001: A Space Odyssey. And now, the odyssey enters its perilous, ultimate stage. In 3001, the human race, incredibly, has survived, fearful of the trio of monoliths that dominate the solar system. Then a single hope flickers. The body of Frank Poole, believed dead for a thousand years, is recovered from the frozen reaches of the galaxy. Poole is restored to conscious life, and readied to resume the voyage that HAL abruptly terminated a thousand years ago. He knows he can''t proceed without Dave Bowman. But first he must fathom the terrifying truth of what Bowman - and HAL - have become inside the monolith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1325'),
(5231, '3rd Degree', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   with Andrew Gross\n  </span>\n </font>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    Detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant District Attorney Jill Bernhardt are enjoying a quiet afternoon in San Francisco when a townhouse across the street explodes in flames. A sinister note signed "August Spies" is found at the scene of the disaster, and the body of an infant who was asleep in the house at the time of the explosion cannot be found. Soon a wave of violent incidents, all with links to political terrorism and involving "August Spies," sweeps through the city. An upcoming economic summit of the world''s most powerful nations will surely be a target. And it''s up to the Women''s Murder Club to get to the bottom of the violence before it''s too late. Delivering the breakneck pace and never-saw-it-coming plot twists that have made James Patterson the most addictive writer at work today, 3rd Degree is another searing and unforgettable thriller from the nation''s #1 bestselling suspense writer.\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/253'),
(5232, '44 Charles Street', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First time in paperback!A magical transformation takes place in Danielle Steelâ€™s luminous novel: Strangers become roommates, roommates become friends, and friends become a family in a turn-of-the-century house in Manhattanâ€™s West Village.Â The plumbing was prone to leaks, the furniture rescued from garage sales. And every square inch was being devotedly restored to its original splendorâ€”even as a relationship fell to pieces. Now Francesca Thayer, newly separated from her boyfriend, is suddenly the sole mortgage payer on her Greenwich Village townhouse. The struggling art gallery owner does the math and then the unimaginable. She puts out an advertisement for boarders, and soon her home becomes a whole new world.First comes Eileen, a fresh, pretty L.A. transplant, now a New York City schoolteacher. Then thereâ€™s Chris, a young father fighting for custody of his seven-year-old son. The final tenant is Marya, a celebrated cookbook author hoping to start a new chapter in life after the death of her husband. Over the course of one amazing, unforgettable, ultimately life-changing year, Francesca discovers that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life. The house at 44 Charles Street fills with laughter, heartbreak, and hopeâ€”and in the hands of master storyteller Danielle Steel, itâ€™s a place those who visit will never want to leave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3186'),
(5233, 'The 48 Laws of Power', 'Robert Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE BESTSELLING BOOK FOR THOSE WHO WANT POWER, WATCH POWER, OR WANT TO ARM THEMSELVES AGAINST POWER . . .A moral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into forty-eight well-explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws require prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), some stealth ("Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions"), and some the total absence of mercy ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally") but like it or not, all have applications in real-life situations. Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, P. T. Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded -- or been victimized by -- power, these laws will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1012'),
(5234, '4th of July', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  with Maxine PaetroÂ \n </p>\n <p>\n  After losing one of its own, Lindsay Boxer and the Women''s Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever--one that could easily be their last. A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity.  While awaiting trial, Lindsay escapes to the beautiful town of Half Moon Bay, but the peaceful community there is reeling from a string of unspeakable murders. Working with her friends in the Women''s Murder Club, Lindsay finds a link between these killings and a case she worked on years before--an unsolved murder that has haunted her ever since. As summer comes into full swing, Lindsay battles for her life on two fronts: before a judge and jury as her trial comes to a climax, and facing unknown adversaries who will do anything to keep her from the truth about the killings--including killing again. It all comes to a head before the big annual 4th of July celebration on the waterfront at Half Moon Bay.  Patterson fine-tunes the tension like never before in this heart-racing new novel in the bestselling detective series to debut in years.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/254'),
(5235, '52 Pickup', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell had had only one affair in his twenty-two years of happy matrimony. Unfortunately someone caught his indiscretion on film and now wants Harry to fork over one hundred grand to keep his infidelity a secret. And if Harry doesn''t pay up, the blackmailer and his associates plan to press a lot harder -- up to and including homicide, if necessary. But the psychos picked the wrong pigeon for their murderous scam. Because Harry Mitchell doesn''t get mad...he gets even.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3106'),
(5236, 'The 5th Horseman', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   with Maxine Paetro\n  </span>\n </font>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    The members of the Women''s Murder Club face an unspeakable menace in the most suspenseful hospital drama since Coma. Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer is shopping with the newest member of the Women''s Murder Club, lawyer Yuki Castellano, and Yuki''s mother, Keiko, when suddenly Keiko collapses. She''s rushed to San Francisco Medical Center where her condition stabilizes. Yet days later, the hospital calls Yuki with devastating news. Keiko was given the wrong medication and it brought on a fatal heart attack.  Even more astonishing, this is not the first time SFMC has made this mistake. Just as patients are about to be released with a clean bill of health, their conditions take a mysterious turn for the worse. As the hospital comes under scrutiny, Lindsay and the Women''s Murder Club investigate for themselves. Is there a maniac at work, playing God with people''s lives? And has Lindsay somehow made him--or her--even worse? The newest addition to the top-selling new mystery series takes the Women''s Murder Club into the most terrifying situation they have yet to encounter.\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/255'),
(5237, '61 Hours', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jack Reacher is back.Â The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1Â New York TimesÂ bestselling author Lee Childâ€™s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page.Â Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearbyÂ Bolton,Â South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If sheâ€™s going to live long enough to testify, sheâ€™ll need help. Because a killer is coming toÂ Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.Reacherâ€™s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessedâ€”but so is the woman whose life heâ€™ll risk his own to save.Â InÂ 61 Hours, Lee Child has written a showdown thriller with anÂ explosiveÂ ending that readers will talk about for a long time to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2543'),
(5238, '66 North', 'Michael Ridpath', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Ridpath spent eight years as a bond trader in the City before giving up his job to write full-time. He lives in north London with his wife and three children. Visit his website at www.michaelridpath.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/712'),
(5239, 'The 6th Target', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  withÂ Maxine Paetro\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women''s  Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman  behind bars before anyone else is hurt.  And Lindsay Boxer and her new  partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a  series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being  plucked off the streets together with their nannies--but the kidnappers  aren''t demanding ransom.  Amid uncertainty and rising panic, Lindsay  juggles the possibility of a new love with an unsolvable investigation, and  the knowledge that one member of the club could be on the brink of death.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  And just when everything appears momentarily under control, the case takes  a terrifying turn, putting an entire city in lethal danger.  Lindsay must  make a choice she never dreamed she''d face--with no certainty that either  outcome has more than a prayer of success.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/256'),
(5240, '700 Sundays', 'Billy Crystal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A memoir based on the Emmy-nominated actor''s Broadway play is a humorous and poignant portrayal of his youth that describes his experiences of growing up in a family headed by a father who worked two jobs to support the family before succumbing to heart failure when Crystal was fifteen. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1761'),
(5241, '77 Shadow Street', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton''s history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground. . . .\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow Hill at the highest point of an old heartland city, a Gilded Age palace built in the late 1800s as a tycoonâ€™s dream home. Almost from the beginning, its grandeur has been scarred by episodes ofÂ  madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse. But since its rechristening in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building, the Pendleton has been at peace. For its fortunate residentsâ€”among them a successful songwriter and her young son, a disgraced ex-senator, a widowed attorney, and a driven money managerâ€”the Pendletonâ€™s magnificent quarters are a sanctuary, its dark past all but forgotten.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, elevators plungeÂ  into unknown depths. With each passing hour, a terrifying certainty grows: Whatever drove the Pendletonâ€™s past occupants to their unspeakable fates is at work again. Soon, all those within its boundaries will be engulfed by a dark tide from which few have escaped.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Dean Koontz transcends all expectations as he takes readers on a gripping journey to a place where nightmare visions become realâ€”and where a group of singular individuals hold the key to humanityâ€™s destiny. Welcome to 77 Shadow Street.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2928'),
(5242, '7th Heaven', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  withÂ Maxine Paetro\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California''s golden boy, Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case--a very devastating lead. As fire after fire consume couples in wealthy, comfortable homes, Lindsay and the Murder Club must race to find the arsonists responsible and get to the bottom of Michael Campion''s disappearance. But suddenly the fires are raging too close to home. Frightened for her life and torn between two men, Lindsay must find a way to solve the most daunting dilemmas she''s ever faced--at work and at home.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/257'),
(5243, 'The 7th Month', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In Lisa Gardnerâ€™s first-ever short story following thirteen bestselling novels, The 7th Month takes readers between the books and into a day in the life of Boston Detective D. D. Warren.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In her seventh month of pregnancy, D.D. should be taking it easy. Instead, she accepts a small consulting role on the set of a serial killer film shooting in Boston. D.D. figures sheâ€™ll be useful to someone for at least one night, serving as a police expert and making a little extra money in the bargain.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  It seems like a simple taskâ€”until the previous film consultant, a former Boston cop, is found beaten to death. Suddenly D.D.â€™s date with Hollywood gets serious. Extremely pregnant, on the trail of a killer, and surrounded by a hundred and four murder suspects in the middle of a graveyard, D.D. must quickly unravel a tangled web of lies. As another cast member is attacked, D.D. realizes that like it or not, her priorities have changedâ€”and her last desperate hope is that she can catch a killer before she and her unborn baby face mortal danger.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Packed with the suspenseful storytelling that has turned Gardnerâ€™s novels into New York Times bestsellers, The 7th Month reveals new insights into a beloved series heroine.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Includes an exclusive early look at Catch Me, coming February 7, 2012.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3087'),
(5244, 'The 8th Confession', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  with Maxine PaetroÂ \n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless is found brutally executed, reporter Cindy Thomas knows the story could be\n  <i>\n   huge\n  </i>\n  . Probing deeper into the victim''s history, she discovers he may not have been as saintly as everyone thought...\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Rich, beautiful, and powerful, Isa and Ethan Bailey were living in the spotlight as San Francisco''s perfect couple--until they are found dead in their luxurious home.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  As the hunt for two criminals tests the skills of the entire Women''s Murder Club, sparks begin to fly between Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner, Rich Conklin, making it difficult to stay focused on the case. The electrifying new chapter in the Women''s Murder Club series, THE 8TH CONFESSION serves up the mile-a-minute twists that only James Patterson can deliver.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/258'),
(5245, '97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement', 'Jane Ziegelman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ziegelman (Foie Gras: A Passion) puts a historical spin to the notion that you are what you eat by looking at five immigrant families from what she calls the "elemental perspective of the foods they ate." They are German, Italian, Irish, and Jewish (both Orthodox and Reform) from Russia and Germany--they are new Americans, and each family, sometime between 1863 and 1935, lived on Manhattanâ„¢s Lower East Side. Each represents the predicaments faced in adapting the food traditions it knew to the country it adopted. From census data, newspaper accounts, sociological studies, and cookbooks of the time, Ziegelman vividly renders a proud, diverse community learning to be American. She describes the funk of fermenting sauerkraut, the bounty of a pushcart market, the culinary versatility of a potato, as well as such treats as hamburger, spaghetti, and lager beer. Beyond the foodstuffs and recipes of the time, however, are the mores, histories, and identities that food evokes. Through food, the author records the immigrantsâ„¢ struggle to reinterpret themselves in an American context and their reciprocal impact on American culture at large.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this compelling foray into forensic gastronomy, Ziegelman pulls the facade off the titular 97 Orchard Street tenement.The result is a living dollhouse that invites us to gaze in from the sidewalk.With minds open and mouths agape, we witness the comings and goings of the building''s inhabitants in the years surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. By focusing on the culinary lives of individuals from a variety of ethnic groups, Ziegelman pieces together a thorough sketch of Manhattan''s Lower East Side at a time when these immigrants were at the forefront of a rapidly changing urban life. The food facts she uncovers are sure to interest and astound even those outside the culinary community, and guarantee that the reader will never look at a kosher dill pickle, a wrapped hard candy, or even the delectable foie gras the same way again. Ziegelman cleverly takes this opportunity to show us that in learning about food, we''re actually learning about historyâ€”and when it comes to the sometimes surprising journey some of our favorite meals have taken to get here, it''s fascinating stuff. --Annie Bostrom\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2184'),
(5246, 'The 9th Judgment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   &amp; Maxine Paetro\n  </span>\n </font>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in blood red lipstick.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling walks in on a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars worth of precious jewels. In just seconds there is an empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    Lindsay spends every waking hour working with her partner Rich--and her desire for him threatens to tear apart both her marriage and the Women''s Murder Club. Before Lindsay and her friends can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her own life on the line--but is it enough to save the city? With unparalleled danger and explosive action,\n    <i>\n     The 9\n     <sup>\n      th\n     </sup>\n     Judgment\n    </i>\n    is James Patterson at his compelling, unstoppable best!\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/259'),
(5247, 'A. Lincoln: A Biography', 'Ronald C White Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ronald C. White, Jr., is the author of two bestselling books on Abraham Lincoln: The Eloquent President and Lincolnâ€™s Greatest Speech, a New York Times Notable Book. White earned his Ph.D. at Princeton and has lectured on Lincoln at hundreds of universities and organizations, and at Gettysburg and the White House. He is a Fellow at the Huntington Library and a Visiting Professor of History at UCLA. He lives with his wife, Cynthia, in La CaÃ±ada, California.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2206'),
(5248, 'The Abbey', 'Chris Culver', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ash Rashid is a former homicide detective who can''t stand the thought of handling another death investigation. Another year, and he''ll be out of the department completely. That''s the plan, at least, until his niece''s body is found in the guest home of one of his city''s most wealthy citizens. The coroner calls it an overdose, but the case doesn''t add up. Against orders, Ash begins a danger-filled investigation to find his niece''s murderer, but the longer he searches, the more entangled he becomes in a case that hits increasingly close to home. If he doesn''t solve it fast, his niece won''t be the only family member he has to bury.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/663'),
(5249, 'Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy', 'John Julius Norwich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for John Julius Norwich\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs a historian, Lord Norwich knows what matters. As a writer, he has a taste for beauty, a love of language, and an enlivening wit. He contrives, as no English writer has done before, to sustain a continuous interest in that crowded history.â€â€”Hugh Trevor-Roper, author of\n <em>\n  The Last Days of Hitler\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Golden Age of Europe\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNorwich is an enchanting and satisfying raconteur.â€â€”_The Washington Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHe has put readers of this generation more in his debt than any other English writer.â€â€”_The Sunday Times_ (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNorwich is a historian of uncommon urbanity: scholarly and erudite but never pedantic. His style is as graceful and easy as it is knowledgeable.â€â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Norwich] is certainly the English languageâ€™s most passionate and dedicated chronicler of [Veniceâ€™s] extraordinary history.â€â€”_The Seattle Times_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Critical praise for ABSOLUTE MONARCHS\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Absolute Monarchs_ sprawls across Europe and the Levant, over two millenniums, and with an impossibly immense cast: 265 popes, feral hordes of Vandals, Huns and Visigoths, expansionist emperors, Byzantine intriguers, Borgias and Medicis, heretic zealots, conspiring clerics, bestial inquisitors and more. Norwich manages to organize this crowded stage and produce a rollicking narrative. He keeps things moving at nearly beach-read pace.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Bill Keller,\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  New York Times\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Book Review, Cover review\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRenowned historian Norwich offers a rollicking account of the men who held the papal office, their shortcomings and their virtues, and the impact of the papacy on world history. He conducts us masterfully on a tour of the lives of the popes from Peter to Benedict XVI. . . . Entertaining and deeply researched, Norwichâ€™s history offers a wonderful introduction to papal lives.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Publishers Weekly\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œHistorian, travel writer, and television documentarian Norwich presents an excellent, often surprising history of that 2,000-year-old institutionâ€¦.he focuses on political history as he traces the evolution of the papacy as an institution, while at the same time providing entertaining profiles of the most historically significant popesâ€¦.An outstanding historical survey.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Booklist\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhen Norwich writes, I read; this member of the House of Lords is a notable and engrossing historian, perhaps best known for his monumental study of Byzantium. Here he offers a history of the nearly two-millennia-old papacy that should be popular with many readers.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Library Journal\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA spirited, concise chronicle of the accomplishments of the most noteworthy popes. . . . Norwich doesnâ€™t skirt controversies, ancient and present, in this broad, clear-eyed assessment.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Kirkus Reviews\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â A SWEEPING CHRONICLE OF ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANTâ€”AND CONTROVERSIALâ€”INSTITUTIONS IN HISTORY\n</p>\n<p>\n With the papacy embattled in recent years, it is essential to have the perspective of one of the worldâ€™s most accomplished historians. In\n <em>\n  Absolute Monarchs\n </em>\n , John Julius Norwich captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and devotion, intrigue and scandal. The men (and maybe one woman) who have held this position of infallible power over millions have ranged from heroes to rogues, admirably wise to utterly decadent. Norwich, who knew two popes and had private audiences with two others, recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Norwich presents such brave popes as Innocent I, who in the fifth century successfully negotiated with Alaric the Goth, an invader civil authorities could not defeat, and Leo I, who two decades later tamed (and perhaps paid off) Attila the Hun. Here, too, are the scandalous figures: Pope Joan, the mythic woman said (without any substantiation) to have been elected in 855, and the infamous â€œpornocracy,â€ the five libertines who were descendants or lovers of Marozia, debauched daughter of one of Romeâ€™s most powerful families.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Absolute Monarchs\n </em>\n brilliantly portrays reformers such as Pope Paul III, â€œthe greatest pontiff of the sixteenth century,â€ who reinterpreted the Churchâ€™s teaching and discipline, and John XXIII, who in five short years starting in 1958 â€œopened up the church to the twentieth century,â€ instituting reforms that led to Vatican II. Norwich brings the story to the present day with Benedict XVI, who is coping with a global priest sex scandal.\n</p>\n<p>\n Epic and compelling,\n <em>\n  Absolute Monarchs\n </em>\n is the astonishing story of some of historyâ€™s most revered and reviled figures, men who still cast light and shadows on the Vatican and the world today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2207'),
(5250, 'Absolute Power', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman start to make love, trapping Luther Whitney, a career break-in artist, behind a secret wall. Then the passion turns deadly, and Luther is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal murder involving Alan Richmond, the president of the United States, the man with...Absolute Power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/139'),
(5251, 'Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World', 'Michael D. Fayer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Appeal to anyone with a curious mind who has ever wondered what all the quantum mechanics fuss is about, and to those who simply want to understand the everyday world." - ForeWordPhysics is a complex, even daunting topic, but it is also deeply satisfying-even thrilling. And liberated from its mathematical underpinnings, physics suddenly becomes accessible to anyone with the curiosity and imagination to explore its beauty. Science without math? It''s not that unusual. For example, we can understand the concept of gravity without solving a single equation. So for all those who may have pondered what makes blueberries blue and strawberries red; for those who have wondered if sound really travels in waves; and why light behaves so differenty from any other phenomenon in the universe, it''s all a matter of quantum physics. Absolutely Small presents (and demystifies) the world of quantum science like no book before. It explores scientific concepts-from particles of light, to probability, to states of matter, to what makes greenhouse gases bad-in considerable depth, but using examples from the everyday world. Challenging without being intimidating, accessible but not condescending, Absolutely Small develops the reader''s intuition for the very nature of things at their most basic and intriguing levels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/432'),
(5252, 'Abuse of Power', 'Michael Savage', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk-show host comes a high-intensity debut thriller, the story of a smeared network journalist who uncovers a chilling terrorist plot Jack Hatfield is a hardened former war correspondent who rose to national prominence for his insightful, provocative commentary. But after being smeared as a bigot and extremist by a radical leftist media-watchdog group, he ultimately loses his job and finds himself working in obscurity as a freelance news producer in San Francisco.One afternoon Hatfield is on a ride-along with the SFPD bomb squad when a seemingly routine carjacking turns deadly, after police find several pounds of military-grade explosives in the jacked car. And when the FBI urges Hatfield to stay out of it, he knows heâ€™s onto something big.This event will open up a shadowy trail that leads Hatfield from San Francisco to Tel Aviv, London, Paris, and back again, as he works with a stunning Yemeni intelligence agent and a veteran Green Beret to expose a terrorist group known as the Hand of Allah---and a plot within the highest corridors of power that will dwarf 9/11.In this lightning-paced first thriller, spanning the globe from Europe and Israel to the back alleys of San Franciscoâ€™s Chinatown, a reporter must make the choice between protecting his own life and investigating a terrorist cell whose goal is nothing less than total political control---no matter what the cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3188'),
(5253, 'Abyss', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Following a trail of clues across the galaxy, Luke Skywalker continues his quest to find the reasons behind Jacen Solo''s dark downfall and to win redemption for the Jedi Order. Sojourning among the mysterious Aing-Tii monks has left Luke and his son Ben with no real answers, only the suspicion that the revelations they seek lie in the forbidden reaches of the distant Maw Cluster. There, hidden from the galaxy in a labyrinth of black holes, dwell the Mind Walkers: those whose power to transcend their bodies and be one with the Force is as seductive and intoxicating as it is potentially fatal. But it may be Luke''s only path to the truth. Meanwhile, on Coruscant, the war of wills between Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala and the Jedi Order is escalating. Outraged over the carbonite freezing of young Jedi Knights Valin and Jysella Horn after their inexplicable mental breakdowns, the Jedi are determined to defy Daala''s martial tactics, override Council Master Kenth Hamner''s wavering leadership, and deal on their own terms with the epidemic of madness preying on their ranks. As Han and Leia Solo, along with their daughter Jaina, join the fight to protect more stricken Knights from arrest, Jedi healers race to find a cure for the rapidly spreading affliction. But none of them realize the blaster barrel is already swinging in their directionand Chief Daala is about to pull the trigger. Nor do Luke and Ben, deep in the Maw Cluster and pushing their Force abilities beyond known limits, realize how close they areto the Sith strike squad bent on exterminating the Skywalkers, to a nexus of dark-side energy unprecedented in its power and its hunger, and to an explosive confrontation between opposing wielders of the Force from which only one Mastergood or evilcan emerge alive. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3566'),
(5254, 'The Accidental Time Machine', 'Joe Haldeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Joe Haldeman "has quietly become one of the most important science fiction writers of our time" (Rocky Mountain News). Now he delivers a provocative novel of a man who stumbles upon the discovery of a lifetime-or many lifetimes. Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring subtle quantum forces that relate to time changes in gravity and electromagnetic force, his calibrator turns into a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who has left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose taking a time machine trip himself-or so he thinks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2787'),
(5255, 'The Accidental Tourist', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Scarred by grief after their 12-year-old son''s senseless murder (he was shot by a holdup man in a Burger Bonanza), Macon and Sarah Leary are losing their marriage too. Macon is unable to cope when she leaves him, so he settles down\n <code>\n  safe among the people he''d started out with,'''' moving back home with two divorced brothers and spinster sister Rose. Author of a series of guidebooks called\n </code>\n Accidental Tourist'''' for businessmen who hate to travel, Macon is Tyler''s focus here, as she gently chronicles his journey from lonely self-absorption to an ``accidental'''' new life with brassy Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow Bow Animal Hospital, who renews and claims his heart. Not a character, including Macon''s dog Edward, is untouched by delightful eccentricity in this charming story, full of surprises and wisdom. All of Tyler''s novels are wonderful; thisher tenthis the best yet. BOMC main selection. Janet Wiehe, P.L. of Cincinnati &amp; Hamilton Cty.\n <br />\n Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œINDISPUTABLY HER BEST BOOK . . .\n  <br />\n  It leaves one aching with pleasure and pain.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œHilarious . . . and touching . . . Anne Tyler is a wise and perceptive writer with a warm understanding of human foibles.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <em>\n  St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œComic . . . Sweetly perverse . . . A novel animated by witty invention and lively personalities.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnne Tyler [is] covering common ground with uncommon insight. . . . Convincingly real.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <em>\n  People\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/976'),
(5256, 'Achebe&#39;s Things Fall Apart', 'Ode Ogede', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ode Ogede''s book is one rare vehicle of refreshing advanced students'' knowledge and introducing beginners to the main reading contentions of canonical texts beloved by schooling systems that provides, as they say in Nigeria, more than "how-for-do" information. This guide ventures new insights about its subject and proposes new questions . . . it offers a solid, advanced introduction to Achebe criticism. The bibliography is exhaustive. The coverage is comprehensive. The questions it raises should encourage advanced thinking about Things Fall Apart. (AdÃ©lÃ©kÃ¨ AdÃ©Ã¨ kÃ³, Research in African Literatures, Vol 42, No 2 )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''Ode S. Ogede''s book is one rare vehicle of refreshing advanced students'' knowlÂ­edge and introducing beginners to the main reading contentions of canonical texts beloved by schooling systems that provides, as they say in Nigeria, more than "how-for-do" information... This book offers a solid, advanced introduction to Achebe criticism. The bibliography is exhaustive. The coverage is comprehensive. The questions it raises should encourage advanced thinking about\n  <em>\n   Things Fall Apart\n  </em>\n  .''\n </p>\n <p>\n  (\n  <em>\n   Project Muse\n  </em>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ode Ogedeâ€™s book is one rare vehicle of refreshing advanced studentsâ€™ knowledge and introducing beginners to the main reading contentions of canonical texts beloved by schooling systems that provides, as they say in Nigeria, more than â€œhow-for-doâ€ information. This guide ventures new insights about its subject and proposes new questions . . . it offers a solid, advanced introduction to Achebe criticism. The bibliography is exhaustive. The coverage is comprehensive. The questions it raises should encourage advanced thinking about Things Fall Apart. (, )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''Ode S. Ogedeâ€™s book is one rare vehicle of refreshing advanced studentsâ€™ knowlÂ­edge and introducing beginners to the main reading contentions of canonical texts beloved by schooling systems that provides, as they say in Nigeria, more than â€œhow-for-doâ€ informationâ€¦ This book offers a solid, advanced introduction to Achebe criticism. The bibliography is exhaustive. The coverage is comprehensive. The questions it raises should encourage advanced thinking about\n  <em>\n   Things Fall Apart\n  </em>\n  .â€™\n </p>\n <p>\n  (, )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ode Ogede is Professor of English at North Carolina Central University and past vice-president of the Modern Language Association of Nigeria. His publications include\n  <em>\n   Achebe and the Politics of Representation\n  </em>\n  and numerous essays on modern African fiction.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1098'),
(5257, 'Acheron', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The most anticipated story in the blockbuster Dark-Hunter series. The never-before-revealed story of the Dark-Hunter leader, Acheron.Â  He was made human in order to escape death, but in death he was reborn a god. . .Â Eleven thousand years ago a god was born. Cursed into the body of a human, Acheron spent a lifetime of shame. However, his human death unleashed an unspeakable horror that almost destroyed the earth. Then, brought back against his will, Acheron became the sole defender of mankind. Only it was never that simple. For centuries, he has fought for our survival and hidden a past heâ€™ll do anything to keep concealed. Until a lone woman who refuses to be intimidated by him threatens his very existence. Now his survival, and ours, hinges on hers and old enemies reawaken and unite to kill them both. War has never been more deadly... or more fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3638'),
(5258, 'Act of Treason', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The fallout from a horrific Washington explosion has just begun -- and so has CIA superagent Mitch Rapp''s hunt for a killer with a personal agenda.In the final weeks of a fierce presidential campaign, a motorcade carrying candidate Josh Alexander is shattered by a car bomb. Soon after the attack, Alexander is carried to victory by a sympathy vote, but his assailants have not been found. When CIA director Irene Kennedy and Special Agent Skip McMahon receive damaging intelligence on Washington''s most powerful players, they call on Mitch Rapp -- the one man reckless enough to unravel a global network of contractkillers on an explosive mission that leads back to the heart of our nation''s capital...and the inner sanctum of the Oval Office.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/434');
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(5259, 'Adland: Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet', 'James P. Othmer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The life of an advertising executive couldn''t be further from the glamorous world of\n  <em>\n   Mad Men\n  </em>\n  , according to this entertaining, albeit meandering, memoir. After a giddy beginning banging out copy for a small ad agency, Othmer, a longtime creative director and copywriter, worked his way to the top in 2000 only to discover that his traditional agency was being abandoned in favor of forward-thinking brand stewards who wanted hip new ideas from smaller shops well-versed in new media and digital marketing. Fascinated by groundbreaking interactive campaigns like the 2007 Nine Inch Nails Internet Easter egg hunt and Burger King''s Subservient Chicken gag, he found his love for advertising reinvigorated, and his book is an effort to better understand the inescapable industry''s influence on culture. Though there''s no particular conclusion drawn, and the story itself wanders, the humor and genuine excitement that shine through may keep some media-world readers interestedâ€”most tellingly when, at a swanky party full of advertising executives, the author wistfully observes that even real life has begun to feel fake.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œGreat. . . . Raucous. . . . Picks up where\n  <em>\n   Mad Men\n  </em>\n  leaves off.â€ â€”_Forbes_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEntertaining and thought-provoking. . . . [Othmerâ€™s] sharp voice helps cut through the hype, and underscores how the distinction between entertainment and advertising is vanishing more quickly than anyone imagines.â€ â€”â€œSmart Money,â€ WSJ.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] hilarious chronicle of the absurd world of Madison Avenue.â€ â€”_The Free Lance Star_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn engrossing tour of a revolution that is unlikely to be televised. . . . Othmer wields his pen like a stiletto.â€ â€”CNN/Money.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn enjoyable and profound read. . . . It resonates with everything we love about this industry, everything we hate, everything that keeps us working in it, everything that makes us want to leave and everything that makes us believe in what could still be possible. . . . Buy it now.â€ â€”_Advertising Age_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOthmerâ€™s story has dual appealâ€”as a portrait of a changing industry and a template for readers torn between a drive for professional success and a pull toward human happiness. . . . A great resource for anyone whose professional life makes them want to sing the from theme song from\n  <em>\n   Alfie\n  </em>\n  .â€ â€”_The Huffington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of the pop culture must-reads of the year.â€ â€”LargeHeartedBoy.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA memoir about selling and selling out in a world Don Draper and his\n  <em>\n   Mad Men\n  </em>\n  colleagues never could have envisioned. . . . As juicy a read as the chicken KFC hired (Othmer) to promote.â€ â€”_Louisville Courier Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTruth in advertising comes through in this revealing tome.â€ â€”MediaBistro.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOthmer is a witty and charming tour guide who chats self-deprecatingly about his own Adland epiphanies and humiliations while leading...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1798'),
(5260, 'Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks', 'James P. Delgado', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  More than a million ships have gone lost or missing in the seas, and going down in "the museum of the deep" to find famous shipwrecks is a risky yet profitable business, sometimes challenging the limits of human endurance. Delgado, a marine archeologist and a member of the Sea Hunter TV retrieval team, presents a chronicle of distinguished wreckage, addressing the wrecksâ€™ histories, the scope of the undersea explorations to locate them, the joy of discovery and the thrill of bringing artifacts to the surface. There are some very significant finds here: the supply ship Isabella, lost in 1830; the Pearl Harbor wreckage of USS Arizona and USS Utah; the flotilla of ships destroyed by an atomic bomb at the Bikini atoll; the massive ruin of the "unsinkable" Titanic; the Russian ship carrying Catherine the Greatâ€™s jewels, which sank off Finland in 1771; and others. Fans of the National Geographic International TV series will attest to Delgadoâ€™s expert care of the ship artifacts as theyâ€™re studied, mapped, tagged, photographed and raised to the surface, where they are treated to stop the ravages of time. This sea adventurerâ€™s inside look will excite thrill seekers, inform novices and educate all readers about the importance of preserving the seaâ€™s historic past against poachers and souvenir hunters. Photos.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Leading archaeologist and consummate storyteller James Delgado takes readers on a rollicking deep-sea dive into his highly unusual life''s work: locating and exploring the world''s most famous shipwrecks. Colorful characters, near misses, and the thrill of standing â€” or floating â€” in history''s footprints make for a highly entertaining look at the fascinating history and glittering bounty beneath the waves. Included are accounts of Pearl Harbor, the Titanic, and Bikini Atoll, site of the world''s first nuclear tests.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2210'),
(5261, 'Adventures of Tom Sawyer', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Each novel, complete in just 80-pages, has been painstakingly adapted to retain the integrity of the original work. Each provides the reader a sense of the author''s style and an understanding of the novel''s theme.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1349'),
(5262, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain''s story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing subsequent generations of writers -- from Sherwood Anderson to Twain''s fellow Missourian, T.S. Eliot, from Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner to J.D. Salinger -- "Huckleberry Finn," like the river which flows through its pages, is one of the great sources which nourished and still nourishes the literature of America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1348'),
(5263, 'The Affair', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With Reacher, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Lee Child has created "a series that stands in the front rank of modern thrillers" ("The Washington Post"). Everything starts somewhere. . . . For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover--to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish. Reacher is a good soldier. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, he finds layers no one saw coming, and the investigation spins out of control. Local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux has a thirst for justice--and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust one another, Reacher and Deveraux reluctantly join forces. Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission, and turn him into a man to be feared. A novel of unrelenting suspense that could only come from the pen of #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Lee Child, "The Affair" is the start of the Reacher saga, a thriller that takes Reacher--and his readers--right to the edge . . . and beyond. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2552'),
(5264, 'African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe', 'Doris May Lessing', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''African Laughter'' is a portrait of Doris Lessing''s homeland. In it she recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being exiled from the old Southern Rhodesia for twenty-five years for her opposition to the white minority government. The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, people and spirit are evoked by Lessing in a narrative of detailed scenes. Swooping from the verandahs to the grass roots and back again, noting the kinds of changes that can be appreciated only by one who has lived there before, Lessing embraces every facet of life in Zimbabwe from the lost animals of the bush to political corruption, from AIDS to a communal enterprise created by poor rural blacks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1800'),
(5265, 'After the Fire, a Still Small Voice', 'Evie Wyld', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. One of\n  <em>\n   Granta\n  </em>\n  ''s New Voices of 2008, debut novelist Wyld chronicles the stories of two Australian men and the shards of trauma that have made up both lives. Frank and Leon live parallel lives: the narratives begin with young Leon''s father heading to the Korean War, and, 40 years later, with an adult Frank holing up in a decrepit beachfront shack. Leon''s father returns from Korea badly damaged, having been in a prison camp, and soon runs away, with Leon''s mother giving chase. Later Leon is drafted and faces in Vietnam horrors similar to those that traumatized his father. Meanwhile, in the present day, Frank is starting over after his girlfriend leaves him. Making do in the family shack, he befriends his neighbors and threads together a passable existence in spite of remembered tragedies, anger at his shadowy father and a spate of local children gone missing. The two narrative threads stay separate until the final pages, and, refreshingly, their connection isn''t overplayed. At times startling, Wyld''s book is ruminative and dramatic, with deep reserves of empathy colored by masculine rage and repression.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From The New Yorker\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Frank last visited his familyâ€™s shack, on a Queensland beach, as a gas-huffing teen-ager, battered by his motherâ€™s death and his fatherâ€™s abusive neglect. He returns an alcoholic man, â€œthe bloody feel of some bastard terrible thing swimming inside him,â€ having lashed out at his girlfriend until she left. The shack has served as a retreat before: for Frankâ€™s grandfather, reeling from the Korean War, and for his father, who holed up there after serving in Vietnam. The stories of these wounded forebears are layered into Frankâ€™s tormented recovery, trauma seeping from one man into the next. Wyld has a feel both for beauty and for the ugliness of inherited pain. The mood is creepyâ€”strange creatures in the sugar cane, grieving neighbors, a missing local girlâ€”and the sentiment is plain: â€œSometimes people arenâ€™t all right and thatâ€™s just how it is.â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/928'),
(5266, 'After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam', 'Lesley Hazleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Narrative history at its most compelling, "After the Prophet" relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam. Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over his successor had begun. Pitting the family of his favorite wife, the controversial Aisha, against supporters of his son-in-law, the philosopher-warrior Ali, the struggle would reach its breaking point fifty years later in Iraq, when soldiers of the first Sunni dynasty massacred seventy-two warriors led by Muhammad''s grandson Hussein at Karbala. Hussein''s agonizing ordeal at Karbala was soon to become the Passion story at the core of Shia Islam. Hazleton''s vivid, gripping prose provides extraordinary insight into the origins of the world''s most volatile blend of politics and religion. Balancing past and present, she shows how these seventh-century events are as alive in Middle Eastern hearts and minds today as though they had just happened, shaping modern headlines from Iran''s Islamic Revolution to the civil war in Iraq. "After the Prophet" is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and an emotional and political revelation for Western readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2211'),
(5267, 'Against All Enemies', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The master of international intrigue and explosive action introduces a new hero for a new era of warfare . . . against a new kind of threat.  Get ready to meet ex-Navy SEAL Max Moore.   A terrorist bombing in Pakistan wipes out Max Moore''s entire CIA team. As the only survivor, the former Navy SEAL plunges deeper into the treacherous tribal lands to find the terrorist cell, but what he discovers there leads him to a much darker conspiracy in an unexpected part of the globeâ€”the US/Mexico border. Here a drug war rages between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels. The landscape is strewn with bodies, innocents and drug dealers alike, but is there an even deadlier enemy lurking in background? Into this deadly brew, Moore leads a group of specially selected agents whose daring actions reveal shocking answers and uncover an unholy planâ€”a strike against the very heart of America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3282'),
(5268, 'Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances', 'Scott Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œPowerful stuff. . . .This isnâ€™t your typical memoir. It is brutally honest, difficult to read, and important.â€ (_The Tucson Citizen_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   The extraordinary personal journey of a man who, against all odds, rose to become one of Americaâ€™s most surprising and promising new political figures\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Scott Brown''s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken, dirty-fingernail hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old, while trying to protect his mother.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, Brown tells the story of his difficult, often nomadic childhood, shunted from house to apartment, and town to town, seventeen times over his first eighteen years. He somehow thrived despite a largely absent father, who married four separate times. So did his mother, in relationships frequently stained with alcohol, anger, and even violence. For nearly two decades'' growing up, Brown endured innumerable hardships and challenges, even stealing food to eat. He was periodically sent off to live with relatives, his possessions wrapped in a few old blankets. Saved by basketball, he was the boy who shoveled snow from the public courts to shoot hoops alone in the frozen cold.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With clear-eyed conviction and unflinching can-dor, Brown tells the story of his own bad-boy days, of the coaches who mentored him, and of how he found a way out of familial chaos through the swish of a ball in the net, winning a starting slot on the Tufts varsity basketball team as a freshman player and becoming the tenth-highest scorer to graduate in the school''s history. His rise from there was even more improbable: a first-year law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as\n  <em>\n   Cosmopolitan\n  </em>\n  magazine''s "America''s Sexiest Man" and was vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling at the height of the 1980s. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to continue with his military and legal training, settle down, raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Here, too, are the secrets from the unprecedented Senate race that captured the country''s imagination and how Scott Brown won his remarkable victory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound, this is the story of one man''s dream and his determination to fight for a better future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1806'),
(5269, 'Against All Things Ending', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The long-awaited sequel to The Runes of the Earth and Fatal Revenant returns readers to the Land-and unravels some of the mysteries haunting Covenant and Linden Avery.  Thomas Covenant is alive again, restored to his mortal body by the unimaginable combined force of his own white gold ring, Linden Avery''s Staff of Law, and the ancient dagger called High Loric''s krill. His resurrection is Linden''s defiant act of love, despite warnings from mortals and immortals that unleashing this much power would destroy the world. She brought his spirit back from its prison in the Arch of Time, and revived his slain body, so that Covenant lies whole on the cool grass, and the world seems at peace. But the truth is inescapable: The thunderclap of power has awakened the Worm of the World''s End, and all of them, and the Land itself, are forfeit to its devouring. If they have any chance to save the Land, it will come from unlikely sources- including the mysterious boy Jeremiah, Linden''s adopted son, whose secrets are only beginning to come to light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3621'),
(5270, 'Against Medical Advice', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  with Hal Friedman\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  aka Torn Apart\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck.  From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances, and Cory embarked on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist to discover the cause of his disease.  Soon it became unclear what tics were symptoms of his disease and what were side effects of the countless combinations of drugs. The only certainty is that it kept getting worse. Simply put: Cory Friedman''s life was a living hell. AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE is the true story of Cory and his family''s decades-long battle for survival in the face of extraordinary difficulties and a maddening medical establishment. It is a heart-rending story of struggle and triumph with a climax as dramatic as any James Patterson thriller.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/260'),
(5271, 'Against Nature', 'Joris-Karl Huysmans', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Language Notes\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Text: English (translation)\n  <br />\n  Original Language: French\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848â€“1907) is recognized as one of the most challenging and innovative figures in European literature and acknowledged as principal architect of the fin-de-siÃ¨cle imagination. He was a career civil servant who wrote ten novels, most notably\n  <em>\n   A Rebours\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   La`-Bas\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Robert Baldick translated many volumes from the French for Penguin Classics, including volumes by Diderot, Flaubert, and Verne, and wrote a biography of Huysmans. He died in 1972.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Patrick McGuinness is a fellow and tutor in French at St. Anneâ€™s College, Oxford.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/929'),
(5272, 'The Age of Innocence', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  If you are either learning German, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a German speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of The Age of Innocence. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your German-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with German synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader''s exposure to the subtleties of both languages.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3076'),
(5273, 'The Age of Revolution', 'Winston Churchill', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">\n </span>\n</h3>\n<h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(176, 163, 119); ">\n Synopsis\n</h3>\n<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n Winston S. Churchill''sÂ \n <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  A History of the English Speaking Peoples\n </i>\n Â is the literary masterwork of the twentieth century''s greatest historical figure. Beginning with Marlborough''s victory at Blenheim in 1704 and ending with Wellington''s defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, Churchill recounts Britain''s rise to world leadership over the course of the eighteenth century. In this volume Churchill provides an excellent illustration of his unique literary voice, together with an introduction to his thoughts on the forces that shape human affairs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2414'),
(5274, 'The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science', 'Richard Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Oliver Sacks on\n  <em>\n   The Age of Wonder\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Oliver Sacks is the author of\n <em>\n  The Age of Wonder\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n I am a Richard Holmes addict. He is an incomparable biographer, but in\n <em>\n  The Age of Wonder\n </em>\n , he rises to new heights and becomes the biographer not of a single figure, but of an entire unique period, when artist and scientist could share common aims and ambitions and a common language--and together create a "romantic," humanist science. We are once again on the brink of such an age, when science and art will come together in new and powerful ways. For this we could have no better model than the lives of William and Caroline Herschel and Humphry Davy, whose dedication and scientific inventiveness were combined with a deep sense of wonder and poetry in the universe. Only Holmes, who is so deeply versed in the people and culture of eighteenth-century science, could tell their story with such verve and resonance for our own time.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Elena Seibert)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The Romantic imagination was inspired, not alienated, by scientific advances, argues this captivating history. Holmes, author of a much-admired biography of Coleridge, focuses on prominent British scientists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including the astronomer William Herschel and his accomplished assistant and sister, Caroline; Humphrey Davy, a leading chemist and amateur poet; and Joseph Banks, whose journal of a youthful voyage to Tahiti was a study in sexual libertinism. Holmes''s biographical approach makes his obsessive protagonists (Davy''s self-experimenting with laughing gas is an epic in itself) the prototypes of the Romantic genius absorbed in a Promethean quest for knowledge. Their discoveries, he argues, helped establish a new paradigm of Romantic science that saw the universe as vast, dynamic and full of marvels and celebrated mankind''s power to not just describe but transform Nature. Holmes''s treatment is sketchy on the actual science and heavy on the cultural impact, with wide-ranging discussions of the 1780s ballooning craze, Mary Shelley''s\n <em>\n  Frankenstein\n </em>\n and scientific metaphors in Romantic poetry. It''s an engrossing portrait of scientists as passionate adventurers, boldly laying claim to the intellectual leadership of society. Illus.\n <em>\n  (July 14)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2415'),
(5275, 'Aggressor', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAddictive... Packed with wild action and revealing tradecraft.â€\n  <br />\n  _â€“Daily Telegraph\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œMcNab is a terrific novelist. When it comes to thrills, heâ€™s Forsyth class.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€“Mail on Sunday\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The stunning new thriller from the master of the genre.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nick Stone seems to be living his dream, not a care in the world as he steers his camper van round the surfing and parachuting centres of Australia, a board on the roof, freefall rig behind him, and a beautiful young backpacker at his side. But when he witnesses on TV the massacre of children in a terrorist siege on the other side of the world, long-suppressed memories are triggered and Nick finds himself catapulted once more into working for the American secret services â€” only this time, of his own free will.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As events unfold in the bleak, medieval villages of Azerbajhan, and the teeming streets of modern Istanbul, it isnâ€™t long before Nick discovers the true objective of the mission on which he has embarked. His talents are being misused by those who stalk the corridors of power, and he is determined to make a stand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hurtled at breakneck pace through a deadly landscape of greed, violence and ever-shifting allegiances, the reader will be left in no doubt that McNab is the master of the genre â€” and\n  <strong>\n   Aggressor\n  </strong>\n  is McNab at his searing, blockbusting best.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/438'),
(5276, 'Agincourt: Henry v and the Battle That Made England', 'Juliet R. V. Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Barker, a British biographer (_The BrontÃ«s_) and accomplished medievalist, brings an excellent synergy of academic and literary skills to this study of the 1415 British campaign in France and the battle that was its climax, around which she elaborately reconstructs the conflict''s antecedents. Henry V spent years preparing the ground: asserting initially shaky authority in England, exploiting domestic strife in France and isolating the disorganized kingdom from its traditional allies. During the campaign itself, a train of artillery manned by foreign gunners supplemented the men-at-arms and the longbowmen, who were the British army''s real backbone. But the French were not the vainglorious incompetents of English legend and Shakespearean drama. Many in northern France made a brave effort, often putting aside personal and political differences to stand together at Agincourt, where they came closer to success than is generally realized. Barker shows that the battle hung by a thread: French numbers against English desperation, with courage a common virtue. She also illustrates how Agincourt was decisiveâ€”not only for its consequences in France. An English defeat would have meant chaos, perhaps civil war. Destiny on both sides of the Channel turned on the outcome of St. Crispin''s Day.\n <em>\n  (June 14)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Battle of Agincourt of 1415 has endured in popular awareness on the strength of Shakespeare''s\n <em>\n  Henry the Fifth.\n </em>\n The historical Henry V bears scant resemblance to Falstaff''s royal drinking buddy: in Barker''s lushly detailed account, Henry V was a pious warrior, an able administrator, and an aggressive diplomat. Barker dwells extensively on Henry''s rapid intensification, after ascending to the throne in 1413, of the Hundred Years'' War, the English attempt to control the crown and territory of France. As a result, her emphasis on the organization of the campaign that culminated at Agincourt delivers a superb description of how a medieval military force was raised. Founded on feudal precepts of lord-and-vassal obligation, Henry''s army and that of France were personalistic, a trait Barker turns to positive advantage in portraying the combatants. From longbow men to men-at-arms, Barker successfully individuates the Agincourt battle so that readers perceive actual people, not just a melee of thousands, engaging in the battle. With fluency and empathy, Barker delivers a superior performance that should capture avid history readers.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2214'),
(5277, 'Airframe', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Cruising 35,000 feet above the earth, a twin-engine commercial jet encounters an accident that leaves 3 dead, 56 wounded, and the cabin in shambles. What happened? With a multi-billion-dollar company-saving deal on the line, Casey Singleton is sent by her hard-driving boss to uncover the mysterious circumstances that led to the disaster before more people die. But someone doesn''t want her to find the truth. Airframe bristles with authentic information, technical jargon, and the command of detail Crichton''s readers have come to expect. Check out Amazon.com''s Airframe feature and read an excerpt from the book!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/323'),
(5278, 'Albion', 'Peter Ackroyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even a writer as popular, prolific and inventive as Ackroyd can concoct a bore. Nevertheless, Albion is likely to succeed on his considerable reputation and the success of his bestselling London: The Biography. Here Ackroyd seeks to define and describe what he sees as distinctive qualities of the English imagination as they have developed since the country''s beginnings. Quoting the 17th-century Richard Burton''s The Anatomy of Melancholy, he claims a cultural continuity-"we weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again." But the Englishman, as Daniel Defoe remarked, and Ackroyd concedes, remained infinitely adaptable, having already assimilated waves of invasion and conquest-and become "Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman-English." Explaining that "mungrell" mingling in 53 thematic chapters, Ackroyd appropriates nearly every quality in literature and the arts for England (largely ignoring Ireland and downplaying Scotland). He cites love of gardens, worship of trees, cultivation of dream-visionaries, affection for eccentricity, affinity for morbid sensationalism, attraction to understatement, pleasure in alliteration, fondness for cross-dressing, passion for antiquarianism, ease with an empirical temper, relish for detective and ghost stories, penchant for portrait miniatures, creative adaptation of folksong. It is a sentimental stretch. Where London was animated by a brilliant exploitation of anecdote, Albion lacks its verve. Rather, it is armed with a goodly-and defensive-helping of "It has often been said," "it might even be said," "It is no surprise, either, that," and often bogs down in bland thesis and empty persuasion. Yet vastly learned and frequently engaging, it may prove good bedtime reading-a veritable night school. B&amp;w and color illus. not seen by PW.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following the triumph of\n <em>\n  London: A Biography\n </em>\n (2001), Ackroyd confidently and entertainingly delves into a far more elusive aspect of the English experience, the origins of England''s distinctive, widely influential imagination. Albion is an ancient name for the island as well as for the primeval giant who made it his home, a clue to the two primary characteristics Ackroyd discusses in this marvelous synthesis: the deeply rooted connection between the English and their land and a reverence for the past. Ackroyd begins by discussing how trees became sacred symbols of life and continuity, and, as he does with each ensuing subject, whether it''s the sea, stones, rain, gardens, music, painting, or ghosts, he presents a cascade of evocative examples, keenly interpreting various artists, composers, and dozens of writers, including Chaucer, Blake, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Austen, and J. R. R. Tolkien. The English imagination is stoked by visions and leavened with wit, Ackroyd avers, forming not a linear progression but, rather, a shining circle that leads back to the "original sources of inspiration," be they Celtic, classical, or Christian. A master extrapolator and wonderfully epigrammatic stylist fluent in many disciplines, Ackroyd has created a key to English creativity past, present, and future.\n <em>\n  Donna Seaman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2215'),
(5279, 'Albion&#39;s Seed', 'David Hackett Fischer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This cultural history explains the European settlement of the United States as voluntary migrations from four English cultural centers. Families of zealous, literate Puritan yeomen and artisans from urbanized East Anglia established a religious community in Massachusetts (1629-40); royalist cavaliers headed by Sir William Berkeley and young, male indentured servants from the south and west of England built a highly stratified agrarian way of life in Virginia (1640-70); egalitarian Quakers of modest social standing from the North Midlands resettled in the Delaware Valley and promoted a social pluralism (1675-1715); and, in by far the largest migration (1717-75), poor borderland families of English, Scots, and Irish fled a violent environment to seek a better life in a similarly uncertain American backcountry. These four cultures, reflected in regional patterns of language, architecture, literacy, dress, sport, social structure, religious beliefs, and familial ways, persisted in the American settlements. The final chapter shows the significance of these regional cultures for American history up to the present. Insightful, fresh, interesting, and well-written, this synthesis of traditional and more current historical scholarship provides a model for interpretations of the American character. Subsequent volumes of this promised multivolume work will be eagerly awaited. Highly recommended for the general reader and the scholar.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - David Szatmary, Univ. of Washington, Seattle\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Professor Fischer''s careful research and analysis opens a much needed discussion of cultural character and origins in North America. The variety and complexity of historical sources will inform the work of other cultural historians and analysts."--Nadesan Permaul, UC Berkeley\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is history at a lively pace, peppered with curious details about the origins of families....The author makes a convincing case."--Dolores and Roger Flaherty,\n  <em>\n   Chicago Sun-Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A pleasure to read, for it is written with Fischer''s characteristic perspicuity. Moreover, the numerous drawings by Jennifer Brody and maps by Andrew Mudryk are a visual treat."--Raymond A. Mohl,\n  <em>\n   Review Essay\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The kind of book one can open to almost any page and immediately become engrossed....readers will enjoy and benefit from this book....We eagerly await volume two."--Neil R. Stout,\n  <em>\n   Vermont History\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Holds up to readers a mirror in which they can discover in themselves and in their own world the persistence of their heritage....An engrossing work that will whet the appetite for more."--_The National Genealogical Society Quarterly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ingenious and provocative....Raises matters of cardinal interest."--IThe Times Literary Supplement\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A splendid work of historical scholarship. . . . based on an original conception of cultural history which I find extremely usable. Eminently readable."--Omer Hadziselimovic,\n  <em>\n   Earlham College\n  </em>\n  [SEE REVIEW CARD FOR ACCENTS ON LAST NAME]\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] sprightly analysis....This is history at a lively pace, peppered with curious details about the origins of familiar words and practices....The author makes a convincing case for his claim that `in a cultural sense most Americans are Albion''s seed."--_Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about American cultural and social origins ever written....A richly rewarding book, and one of great significance....It blends the best of new and old scholarship in lucid language designed to attract laymen and students alike. Very simply,\n  <em>\n   Albion''s Seed\n  </em>\n  is a splendid achievement."--Michael Kammen,\n  <em>\n   New York Newsday\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "David Hackett Fischer''s book could not be much bigger or more ambitious. It is the first in a series of volumes that he hopes will eventually constitute a cultural history of the United States....This book starts his series with a bang--a big bang....Remarkable....A revisionist blockbuster."--Gordon Wood,\n  <em>\n   The New Republic\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Beautifully produced, this work should popularize the discoveries of a generation of scholars in the new social history. Anyone interested in these four cultures of the Anglo-American colonists will find here population data, family life, community mores, and achetypical individuals, portrayed in a clear and often lively text, thoughtfully analyzed illustrations, and wonderful maps."--Stephen Saunders Webb,\n  <em>\n   Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2216'),
(5280, 'The Alchemist', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like the one-time bestseller\n  <em>\n   Jonathan Livingston Seagull\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Alchemist\n  </em>\n  presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he''s off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman''s books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy''s misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second''s encounter with God and with eternity."\n  <em>\n   --Gail Hudson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This inspirational fable by Brazilian author and translator Coelho has been a runaway bestseller throughout Latin America and seems poised to achieve the same prominence here. The charming tale of Santiago, a shepherd boy, who dreams of seeing the world, is compelling in its own right, but gains resonance through the many lessons Santiago learns during his adventures. He journeys from Spain to Morocco in search of worldly success, and eventually to Egypt, where a fateful encounter with an alchemist brings him at last to self-understanding and spiritual enlightenment. The story has the comic charm, dramatic tension and psychological intensity of a fairy tale, but it''s full of specific wisdom as well, about becoming self-empowered, overcoming depression, and believing in dreams. The cumulative effect is like hearing a wonderful bedtime story from an inspirational psychiatrist. Comparisons to The Little Prince are appropriate; this is a sweetly exotic tale for young and old alike. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1082'),
(5281, 'Aleph', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny.In his most personal novel to date, internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist, Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to begin again: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the landscapes around him.Setting off to Africa, and then to Europe and Asia via the Trans-Siberian Railway, he initiates a journey to revitalize his energy and passion. Even so, he never expects to meet Hilal. A gifted young violinist, she is the woman Paulo loved five hundred years beforeâ€”and the woman he betrayed in an act of cowardice so far-reaching that it prevents him from finding real happiness in this life. Together they will initiate a mystical voyage through time and space, traveling a path that teaches love, forgiveness, and the courage to overcome lifeâ€™s inevitable challenges. Beautiful and inspiring, Aleph invites us to consider the meaning of our own personal journeys: Are we where we want to be, doing what we want to do?Some books are read. Aleph is lived.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3692'),
(5282, 'Alex Cross&#39;s Trial', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington D.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin.  When President Roosevelt, under whom Ben served in the Spanish-American war, asks Ben to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in his home town in Mississippi, he cannot refuse.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  The details of Ben''s harrowing story--and his experiences with a remarkable man named Abraham Cross--were passed from generation to generation, until they were finally recounted to Alex Cross by his grandmother, Nana Mama. From the first time hear heard the story, Alex was unable to forget the unimaginable events Ben witnessed in Eudora and pledged to tell it to the world.\n  <i>\n   Alex Cross''s Trial\n  </i>\n  is unlike any story Patterson has ever told, but offers the astounding action and breakneck speed of any Alex Cross novel.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/261'),
(5283, 'Alex Haley&#39;s the Autobiography of Malcolm X', 'Anita J. Aboulafia', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work''s historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1306'),
(5284, 'Alexander the Great', 'Robin Lane Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. His achievements were unparalleled - he had excelled as leader to his men, founded eighteen new cities and stamped the face of Greek culture on the ancient East. The myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world. Robin Lane Fox''s superb account searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Combining historical scholarship and acute psychological insight, it brings this colossal figure vividly to life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robin Lane Fox was the main historical advisor to Oliver Stone on his Alexander film, and took part in many of its most dramatic re-enactions. He has been University Reader in Ancient History at Oxford University since 1990 and Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College, Oxford, since 1977. His books and articles include major works on the relation between the pagan and early Christian religions of the Roman Empire and his forthcoming History of the Ancient World will be published by Penguin in autumn 2005.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2221');
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(5285, 'Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light', 'Patrick McGilligan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Director Hitchcock is in a class by himself. His legendary films, including Rear Window, The 39 Steps and Notorious, coupled with his TV show, Alfred Hitchock Presents, aired his singular brand of evil and salvation. In this enthralling, scholarly and candid appraisal of the artist, McGilligan, a biographer of James Cagney and Jack Nicholson, neatly reveals the man behind the camera. A quiet Catholic boy from London''s East End, Hitchcock (1899- 1980) began as a production designer on silent films and eventually became Britain''s premier movie director. David Selznick tapped him for Hollywood, and although their relationship was stormy, it spelled success. Hitchcock, who claimed, "I''m not interested in logic, I''m interested in effect," quickly redefined the medium. He told his stories visually, invented innovative camera angles and reveled in suspense tales. Always, he was aided by his wife, Alma, an invaluable partner on every project. A Hitchcock film "characteristically mingled light with darkness," possibly because its creator was so conflicted. Hitchcock adored gossip, dirty jokes and icy blondes, though, sexually impotent, he could not consummate his desire; his voyeurism instead played out on screen. He relished the occasional cruelty, but it did not obscure his genius or his generosity. He worked tirelessly for the British war effort, though America was committed to neutrality until Pearl Harbor, and was deeply loyal to old friends. McGilligan has crafted an inside look at this unique director and the studio machinations that sustained him. Film buffs will relish how power and creativity play out in Hollywood. The rest will learn how obsession can produce art. 32-page b&amp;w photo insert not seen by PW.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author of the useful\n <em>\n  George Cukor\n </em>\n (1991) and\n <em>\n  Fritz Lang\n </em>\n (1997), biographies of film directors less documented than Hitchcock, now turns to that perhaps most-written-about filmmaker of all. Of course, the last major biography (as opposed to various kinds of studies) came 20 years ago, and McGilligan''s effort incorporates many significant findings made since. It also serves as a corrective to Donald Spoto''s\n <em>\n  Dark Side of Genius\n </em>\n (1983), which focused unduly on Hitchcock''s baser qualities. McGilligan portrays Hitchcock as driven by his neuroses, but also as a devoted husband and father and a clear-headed businessman. Still, the gist of the volume focuses on its subject''s inventive filmmaking in detailed accounts on the making of each of his 60 movies, with particular attention paid to the screenwriters, many of them relative tyros, with whom Hitchcock collaborated. McGilligan''s valuable discoveries include short fiction by a 19-year-old Hitchcock; his insights, illumination on Hitchcock''s flawed final films. So detailed and readable that it is hard to imagine another Hitchcock biography will be needed 20 years hence.\n <em>\n  Gordon Flagg\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1807'),
(5286, 'Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales', 'Ali Wentworth', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Growing up in a family of political journalistsâ€”and daughter of President Reaganâ€™s White House social secretaryâ€”Ali Wentworth rebelled against her blue-blood upbringing, embracing Hollywood, motorcycles, even a few wildly inappropriate marriage proposals. Today she is an acclaimed comedic actress and writer, former\n  <em>\n   Oprah\n  </em>\n  regular, wife of political and media star George Stephanopoulos, and a mother who lets her two girls eat cotton candy before bed. Though sheâ€™s settled down, her rebellious nature thrives in her comedy and her view of her crazy world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this addictively funny and warm memoir, she takes us through the looking glass and into the wonderland of her life, from a childhood among Washingtonâ€™s elite to a stint in the psych ward they called a New England prep school; days doing L.A. sketch comedy (with then-aspiring artists Will Ferrell and Lisa Kudrow) to a series of spectacularly failed loves (that eventually led her to Mr. Right). Constant throughout is her mother, Muffieâ€”a flawlessly elegant yet firm, no-nonsense force of nature and pure WASP convictions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As charming and off-the-wall as Ali herself,\n  <em>\n   Ali in Wonderland\n  </em>\n  is an entertaining look at life that is both intimate and hilarious.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Ali Wentworth and her mother, Muffie Cabot\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  Were you nervous when I first gave you the book to read?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  YES! I was! Because everyone has a view of their childhood that is very different from the parentâ€™s view of their childhood and I didnâ€™t know what to expectâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  Anything you would change?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Not a thing (clears her throat), but I believe in the old Japanese tale of Rashomon, in which everyoneâ€™s view of an incident is different.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  Not sure what youâ€™re talking about, but okay.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Itâ€™s an old, wise, Japaneseâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  (interrupting) Anything surprised you?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Well yes, quite a bit. Of course, everything is laced with humor. I donâ€™t remember things the way you do.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  No? Like what?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  I didnâ€™t know about some of the babysitterâ€™s behavior.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  Like the one who sold heroin out of our house?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Yes, like that one.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  Or the one who stole your only sonâ€™s virginity?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Is this what weâ€™re talking about today?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  Youâ€™re right. Letâ€™s move on. Mom, your favorite part?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Thereâ€™s so much I love.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  Mom, go ahead, you can be honest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  I love all the chapters about when you were a little girl. Before you went off to boarding school.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  You mean when you shipped me off to boarding school?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Not against your willâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  The guy who assembled the straight jacket would beg to differ.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Donâ€™t print that; people will think itâ€™s true.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  I want them to.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  You learned a lot in boarding school.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  It was womenâ€™s prison and I barely made it out alive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  (Silence)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  What other parts did you like?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Well, I wasnâ€™t around as much when you were olderâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  And tried drugs?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  (Silence)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  Just once, Mom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Muffie is clearly uncomfortable)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  Did the book seem accurate to you?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Yes, but youâ€™re a writer and you make events come to life that are your reality.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  Meaningâ€¦ itâ€™s all BS?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Just YOUR reality!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  You had some comments after you read it?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Yes, I did. I thought you needed to tone down the pee and fart references.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  But thatâ€™s just human nature and happened during certain points in my life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Wellâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  I get your point. Less is more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  I also was protective of you and wanted you to make the ex-boyfriends less identifiable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  So they wouldnâ€™t kill me?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Well, that would be unfortunate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  Want me to write another book?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Do you have to?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  If I did, any ideas?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  When the muse strikes you!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  I donâ€™t understand that either. Do you think my siblings will like the book?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  They will laugh. Roll their eyes. Recognize you on every page.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  Of your four kids, whoâ€™s your favorite?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Muffie:\n  </strong>\n  Do you actually think Iâ€™m going to answer that?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali:\n  </strong>\n  Do you want a percentage of sales, or not?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œEverything that comes out of Ali Wentworthâ€™s mouth is funny!â€ (Jerry Seinfeld )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAli has written a truly hilarious book . . . and sheâ€™s also a good kisser!â€ (Chelsea Handler )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAli Wentworth is funny and warm and crazy all at once. Like Barbara Eden. But on something. Like crystal meth.â€ (Alec Baldwin )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] lively, laugh-out-loud memoir....Fans of Amy Sedaris and Merrill Markoe will enjoy Wentworthâ€™s warped Weltanschauung and wicket wit.â€ (Book )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA breezily amusing memoir...â€ (New York Post )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of the most hilarious reads Iâ€™ve enjoyed in a long time.â€ (Gwyneth Paltrow, goop )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] satirical dissection of class and privilegeâ€¦.A smart, often-funny memoir.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWentworth is amusing and frank, often frenetic, with sharp intelligence underneath the sassy wackiness; passages about her struggle with depression, falling in love with her husband, and her daughterâ€™s baptism have funny moments, but theyâ€™re thoughtful and touching, tooâ€¦. Highly entertaining memoir.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAli Wentworth tumbles comically through Ali in Wonderland.â€ (Vanity Fair )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAli Wentworthâ€™s book is like Chicken Soup for the Vagina. Gays and straight men, Iâ€™m not leaving you out here! Ali is truly one of the quickest, funniest girls Iâ€™ve ever met. Enjoy!â€ (Kathy Griffin )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI would tone down the pee and fart references.â€ (Muffie Cabot (Ali''s mother) )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[H]ilarious...â€ (Marie Claire )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[H]ilarious...â€ (Food &amp; Wine )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œUnanimous applause greeted this actress-comedianâ€™s tour of her fabulous lifeâ€¦all recounted in a manner that had one reader wondering if Wentworth is â€˜a long-lost sister of the Sedaris clan.â€™â€ (Elle, Readers'' Prize February 2012 )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith candor and humor, [Wentworth] writes about her life, her marriage and growing up in the elite world of her illustrious motherâ€¦â€ (Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3734'),
(5287, 'Alice Adams', 'Booth Tarkington', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  This compelling satire details irresistible characteristics of social status in a small Midwestern town. Mr. and Mrs. Adams and their two children are members of the lower middle-class. Their daughter, Alice, wrestles with this economic classification and attempts to make the society folk of the town appreciate her. Because Alice has no social influence nor wealth and her presence is held in disregard by prospective suitors, Mrs. Adams tries to improve the situation by persuading her husband to leave a job he''s held all his life and to establish a new career. After much apprehension and in possession of a glue formula stolen from his previous employer, he resigns his mediocre but satisfying employment which puts him in a predicament that leads to his professional downfall. Tarkington''s understanding of class rivalries, social condescension, and financial avarice is evident in this tale where his main point indicates that in every joyless moment hope, though unexpected, is attainable. He illustrates how the Adams'' laborious efforts are ultimately unsuccessful. Any intrusion by Alice and her mother on the upper class is unlikely and Tarkington''s depiction of such is secretly amusing.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3075'),
(5288, 'All My Life', 'Susan Lucci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "See that moon up there?\n  <br />\n  You can reach that high.\n  <br />\n  Never be afraid because you can be anything you want to be."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Susan Lucci was only five years old when her father shared these encouraging words with her. They inspired the highly imaginative child who loved make-believe to craft one of the most enduring characters in television history, an achievement that would earn her a record twenty-one Emmy nominationsâ€”the most for an actor in the award''s historyâ€”and the crown as "Leading Lady of Daytime."\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Lucci and\n  <em>\n   All My Children\n  </em>\n  were introduced to the world in 1971, American television changed forever. Susan''s character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an originalâ€”the first vixen viewers loved to hate. But while millions have enjoyed getting to know Erica''s many sidesâ€”and have been awed at how this character has continually remade herselfâ€”the woman who plays her has remained a mystery.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In her long-awaited memoir, this very private actress, wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, sister, friend, and entrepreneur pulls back the curtain to reveal her story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Susan, like Erica Kane, has undergone a metamorphosis many times.\n  <em>\n   All My Life\n  </em>\n  shares the stories of those transformations: starring in roles on television and stage, where she took Broadway not just by storm but "by tsunami" as one critic raved about her performance in\n  <em>\n   Annie Get Your Gun\n  </em>\n  ; mounting successful cabaret acts (solo and with Regis Philbin); bringing art and joy back to New York in the wake of 9/11; conquering the tango with Tony Dovolani on ABC''s hit show\n  <em>\n   Dancing with the Stars\n  </em>\n  ; and building a successful career as an entrepreneur with a signature line of products.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Susan goes beyond her success to talk about the darker moments, too, including the childhood guilt she harbored over the death of her dear grandmother, the car accident that nearly took away her career and her eyesight, her newborn son''s life-threatening illness, coping with her husband''s cancer, and the pain of miscarriageâ€”one of the many parallels between her Erica Kane.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As charming, down-to-earth, and compelling as the woman whose story it tells,\n  <em>\n   All My Life\n  </em>\n  shines a spotlight on one of our most popular stars and reminds us of the power of dreams and how we can find the courage and tenacity to make them come true.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Look Inside\n   <em>\n    All My Life\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Click on the images below to open larger versions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   All My Children\n  </em>\n  in Los Angeles.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Susan Lucci and\n  <em>\n   All My Children\n  </em>\n  were introduced to the world in 1971, American television changed forever. Susan''s character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an original. But while millions have enjoyed getting to know Erica''s many sides, the woman who plays her has remained a mystery.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In her long-awaited memoir, this very private entertainment icon pulls back the curtain to reveal her own story. Warm, candid, and inviting,\n  <em>\n   All My Life\n  </em>\n  chronicles Susan''s journey from her childhood to playing Erica Kane, and from finding true love to living that "Cinderella moment" when she finally won her Emmy. As charming, down-to-earth, and compelling as the woman whose story it tells,\n  <em>\n   All My Life\n  </em>\n  reminds us of the power of dreams and how we can all find the courage and tenacity to make them come true.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1809'),
(5289, 'All Over but the Shouting', 'Rick Bragg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n One reason Rick Bragg won a Pulitzer Prize for his feature articles at the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n is that he never forgets his roots. When he writes about death and violence in urban slums, Bragg draws on firsthand knowledge of how poverty deforms lives and on his personal belief in the dignity of poor people. His memoir of a hardscrabble Southern youth pays moving tribute to his indomitable mother and struggles to forgive his drunken father.\n <em>\n  All Over but the Shoutin''\n </em>\n is beautifully achieved on both these counts--and many more.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?On Palm Sunday, 1994, a tornado ripped through a church in Piedmont, AL, killing 20 people. This is Bragg''s hometown, and he began his story on the tragedy for the New York Times as follows: "This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven. This is a place where the song ''Jesus Loves Me'' has rocked generations to sleep, and heaven is not a concept, but a destination." It is writing of this quality that won the author his job as a national correspondent and the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. He grew up in poverty, the second of three sons of an alcoholic, abusive father and a loving mother. The early chapters give a beautiful description of warm and happy moments he enjoyed with her and his family even as she struggled to provide for them after they''d been abandoned. Teens will enjoy reading about the resourceful, talented, and lucky young man''s career as he moved from local reporter to working for regional and national papers. A book for students with an interest in writing, journalism, or the South and of use for autobiography assignments.?Patricia Noonan, Prince William Public Library, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1810'),
(5290, 'All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs', 'Elie Wiesel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From his early years with his loving Jewish family to the horrors of Auschwitz to his life as a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Elie Wiesel tells his story. Passionate and poignant, All Rivers Run to the Sea is an unforgettable book of love and rage, doubt and faith, despair and trust, and ultimately, of wisdom. of photos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1813'),
(5291, 'All Summer Long', 'Susan Mallery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Former underwear model turned entrepreneur Clay Stryker has loved, tragically lost and vowed that he''ll never risk his heart again. After making his fortune, the youngest of the rugged Stryker brothers returns to Fool''s Gold, California, to put down roots on a ranch of his own. But he''s frustrated to discover that even in his hometown, people see him only for his world-famousâ€¦assets.Firefighter Chantal (Charlie) Dixon grew up an ugly duckling beside her delicately beautiful mother, a feeling reinforced long ago by a man who left soul-deep scars. Now she has good friends, a solid job and the itch to start a familyâ€”yet she can''t move toward the future while she''s haunted by painful memories.Clay finds an unexpected ally, and unexpected temptation, in tomboyish Charlie, the only person who sees beyond his dazzling good looks to the real man beneath. But when Charlie comes to him with an indecent proposal, will they be able to overcome their pasts and find a love that lasts beyond one incredible summer?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3800'),
(5292, 'All That Is Bitter and Sweet', 'Ashley Judd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAll That Is Bitter and Sweet,â€ is, at its heart, the story of Ashley Juddâ€™s awakening. In sharing the secrets of a childhood fraught with neglect, abuse and debilitating depression, she confronts the stigma of mental illness and celebrates the serenity that comes with the hard work of recovery. The reward is a new role on a new stage -- global advocate for HIV/AIDS sufferers. The humanitarian pursuit of social justice and gender equality is gritty work, but the people she meets in the slums, brothels, sex-slave markets, clinics and orphanages reinforce her faithful contention that every life has value. Juddâ€™s search for justice and peace -- for herself, and for the millions without a voice â€“ is testament to the adage that when we help one person, we help the whole world."Â  --\n  <strong>\n   Greg Mortenson\n  </strong>\n  , author of NYT bestselling *Three Cups of Tea\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Ashley Judd has written a deeply moving story -- amazingly, searingly, frank. It is her life story, warts and all. As I read her account of her childhood, I ask ''How could one so traumatized, so abused in childhood, become the woman we know, so caring, so altruistic, so compassionate, so concerned for others, and so joyful?''" --\n   <strong>\n    Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n   </strong>\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  *"Ashley Judd is has lived an extraordinary life. She has learned from it and turned it into a blessing and a call to action for others. Her journey is both moving and inspiring, unique and universal. Reading about it makes your own life make more sense." --\n  <strong>\n   Marianne Williamson\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This lovely woman, this movie star, this determined dreamer will be familiar to you, assuming you have struggled to resolve your childhood, carve out a career and make greater use of yourself. Â Ashley Judd''s story reminds us to work harder and on more important tasks, and promises that if we do, contentedness awaits." --\n  <strong>\n   Kelly Corrigan\n  </strong>\n  , author of NYT bestselling\n  <em>\n   The Middle Place\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Lift\n   <br />\n   &amp;#1...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ashley Judd is an award-winning film and stage actor known for her roles in both box-office hits and art-house gems, and the daughter and sister of country-music royalty. In 2002, drawing on a deep well of empathy, she found her true calling: as a humanitarian and advocate for those suffering in neglected parts of the world.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Asked why she was opting out of a successful career, walking away while she was one of the highest-paid women in Hollywood, Ashley herself could not provide an answer. She simply knew that after her first trip to the notorious brothels, slums, and hospices of southeast Asia, her own life depended on advocating on behalf of the vulnerable. Promising each new sister, â€œI will never forget you,â€ Ashley began writing extraordinary diariesâ€”on which this memoir is basedâ€”expanding her capacity to relate to, and to share with a global audience, stories of survival and resilience.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along the way, Ashley realized that the coping strategies she had developed to deal with her own emotional pain, stemming from childhood abandonment, were no longer working. Seeking in-patient treatment in 2006 for the grief that had nearly killed her, Ashley found not only her own recovery and an enriched faith but an expanded kit of spiritual tools that energized and advanced her feminist social justice work.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, in this deeply moving and unforgettable memoir, Ashley Judd describes her odyssey, as a left-behind lost child attains international prominence as a fiercely dedicated advocate. Her story ranges from anger to forgiveness, isolation to interdependence, depression to activism. In telling it, she resoundingly answers the ineffable question about the relationship between healing oneself and service to others.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1814'),
(5293, 'All That Remains', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cornwell combines bone-rattling suspense with an insider''s view of forensic science as her sleuth, Richmond, Va., medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, investigates a series of grim murders of young couples. A 13-week PW bestseller, a Mystery Guild selection and a Literary Guild featured alternate in cloth.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- The decomposed bodies of Fred Cheyney and Deborah Harvey don''t show up for months, well into Dr. Kay Scarpetta''s account of her investigation into their disappearance. The two lovers are the fifth pair in a string of mysterious\n  <code>\n  </code>\n  couple murders,'''' all bearing the same characteristics: two young people completely vanish, leaving behind an abandoned car and no clues about their fate. Months later the skeletal remains are found by hunters in remote wooded locales, and no evidence about the causes of death can be discovered. At the same time, the FBI appears to be foiling attempts to discover the identity of the murderer by withholding crime-scene information, and Kay''s old friend Abby, a newspaper reporter, complicates matters by conducting her own search for the truth. This rich brew makes for a compelling story to which Cornwell has added such stand-bys from her two previous Scarpetta novels as Pete Marino, a middle-aged police detective, and Benton Wesley, an FBI investigator who knows how to keep a secret. Mystery-loving YAs and fans of Cornwell''s previous novels will enjoy her latest.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Carolyn E. Gecan, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3027'),
(5294, 'All the King&#39;s Men', 'Robert Penn Warren', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  One of the great classics of American fiction reissued as it was originally written.Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King''s Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. Its original publication by Harcourt catapulted author Robert Penn Warren to fame and made the novel a bestseller for many seasons. Set in the 1930s, it traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success, caught between dreams of service and a lust for power. All the King''s Men is as relevant today as it was fifty years ago.In a momentous publishing event, Robert Penn Warren''s masterpiece has been restored and reintroduced by literary scholar Noel Polk, whose work on the texts of William Faulkner has proved so important to American literature. Polk presents the novel as it was originally written, and without the deletions required by its original editors. The result restores Warren''s complexity and subtlety to an already near-perfect work, charging the characters with an energy and a more tangled web of relationships than previously was available. All the King''s Men is a landmark in letters. This new edition brings it fully to life."The publication of a new, corrected edition of All the King''s Men is welcome news for all who care about American literature. Robert Penn Warren''s prize-winning novel has remained a classic since its publication more than half a century ago. Editor Noel Polk has studied the manuscript and all other available versions of Warren''s finest novels, eliminating errors and retrieving deleted material. The result has been to enrich the character of narrator Jack Burden and his protagonist, Willie Talos, in this story of tumultuous Louisiana politics which also has implications for morals and manners in the modern world."\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3067'),
(5295, 'All the Pretty Horses', 'Cormac Mccarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal\n <em>\n  hacienda\n </em>\n where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy''s Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in\n <em>\n  Suttree\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Blood Meridian\n </em>\n . Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole''s coming of age.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a novel so exuberant in its prose, so offbeat in its setting and so mordant and profound in its deliberations that one searches in vain for comparisons in American literature. None of McCarthy''s previous works, not even the award-winning The Orchard Keeper (1965) or the much-admired Blood Meridian (1985), quite prepares the reader for the singular achievement of this first installment in the projected Border Trilogy. John Grady Cole is a 16-year-old boy who leaves his Texas home when his grandfather dies. With his parents already split up and his mother working in theater out of town, there is no longer reason for him to stay. He and his friend Lacey Rawlins ride their horses south into Mexico; they are joined by another boy, the mysterious Jimmy Blevins, a 14-year-old sharpshooter. Although the year is 1948, the landscape--at some moments parched and unforgiving, at others verdant and gentled by rain--seems out of time, somewhere before history or after it. These likable boys affect the cowboy''s taciturnity--they roll cigarettes and say what they mean--and yet amongst themselves are given to terse, comic exchanges about life and death. In McCarthy''s unblinking imagination the boys suffer truly harrowing encounters with corrupt Mexican officials, enigmatic bandits and a desert weather that roils like an angry god. Though some readers may grow impatient with the wild prairie rhythms of McCarthy''s language, others will find his voice completely transporting. In what is perhaps the book''s most spectacular feat, horses and men are joined in a philosophical union made manifest in the muscular pulse of the prose and the brute dignity of the characters. "What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them," the narrator says of John Grady. As a bonus, Grady endures a tragic love affair with the daughter of a rich Spanish Hacendado , a romance, one hopes, to be resumed later in the trilogy.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1328'),
(5296, 'Allies', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What began as a quest for truth has become a struggle for survival for Luke Skywalker and his son, Ben. They have used the secrets of the Mindwalkers to transcend their own bodies and speak with the spirits of the fallen, risking their very lives in the process. They have faced a team of Sith assassins and beaten the odds to destroy them. And now the death squadâ€™s sole survivor, Sith apprentice Vestara Khai, has summoned an entire fleet of Sith frigates to engage the embattled father and son. But the dark warriors come bearing a surprising proposition that will bring Jedi and Sith together in an unprecedented alliance against an evil more ancient and alien than they can imagine.While the Skywalkers and their Sith allies set off on their joint mission into the treacherous web of black holes that is the Maw, Han and Leia Solo risk arrest and worse to aid the Jedi imprisoned back on Coruscant. Tyrannical Chief of State Natasi Daala has issued orders that will open a permanent schism between her government and the Jedi Orderâ€”a schism that could turn all Jedi into renegades and wanted criminals. But it is in the depths of the Maw that the future of the galaxy will be decided. For there the Skywalkers and their Sith allies will engage a true monster in battle, and Luke will come face-to-face with a staggering truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3187'),
(5297, 'The Alloy of Law', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history--or religion.Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice. One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs. "--\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3710'),
(5298, 'Almost a Family', 'John Darnton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Soon after Pearl Harbor, Darnton''s father, Barney Darnton, a correspondent for the New York Times, shipped off to the South Pacific, leaving behind infant Darnton and his older brother and mother. By year''s end, Barney had been killed in the war. Darnton''s mother, also a reporter and editor at the Times, struggled to raise her kids on her own. Darnton describes his adolescence, such as attending and getting expelled from prep school, attending college, meeting his future wife, and eventually finding his own way into journalism. In this unsentimental narrative, Darnton vividly chronicles the high-water era of classic journalism and his stints as a Times correspondent in Africa and Solidarity-era Poland, but what drives his memoir are the pursuit of the fullest possible picture of his father''s death, the story of his mother''s alcoholism and sobriety, and most of all, the quest for deeply buried facts about his parents and their relationship. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this interesting and often moving memoir of loss, longing, and discovery, Darnton, a Pulitzer Prize''winning journalist, was only 11 months old when his father, Barney, a war correspondent, was killed in New Guinea in 1942. Barney''s wife and John''s mother was also a journalist. She was an emotionally fragile woman who was prone to long periods of severe depression, but she created and passed on to her children an idealized fantasy of their brief, earlier family life. Eventually John, assisted by his historian brother, Robert, felt a compulsion to learn more about a father he never knew. The result of their odyssey is surprising and painful but liberating. Their father is revealed as both less saintly and more interesting than the portrait created for them. As his revelations unfold, Darnton also offers a vivid description of the evolution of American society over the decades preceding WWII. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1816'),
(5299, 'Almost Home', 'Jessica Blank', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Why would anyone choose to live on the streets?    There is Eeyore, just twelve years old when she runs away from her priveleged home, harboring a secret she''s too ashamed to tell anyone. Rusty is a sensitive gay teen who winds up alone when his older boyfriend ditches him in Hollywood. Squid has gone through too many foster homes to count. There''s Scabius, a delusional punk from Utah who takes the ''me against the world'' motto to dangerous extremes. And Critter is a heroin dealer with movie star looks and a vulnerable heart. Laura should be home studying, but she can''t face another one of her mom''s boyfriends.    And then there''s Tracy, the damaged thread that ties them all together, irrevocably changing each life she touches.    This unlikely band of characters form their own dysfunctional family, complete with love and belonging, abuse and betrayal. Each will make their way home, wherever it may be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/930'),
(5300, 'Alone', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For 300-some pages, Gardner (\n <em>\n  The Perfect Husband\n </em>\n ) keeps readers spellboundâ€”not just by her plot but by the beautifully realized character of Massachusetts police sniper Bobby Dodge. He meets his match in Catherine Gagnon, who as a girl was snatched, raped and nearly murdered. Now she''s the wife of erratic, rich Jimmy Gagnon and mother of perpetually ill four-year-old Nathan. When Bobby kills Jimmy during a hostage situation at the Gagnons, he does it to save Catherine and Nathan. But was it a righteous shoot, or did Catherine engineer the killing? Judge James Gagnon and his wife, Maryanne, think Bobby murdered their son out of lust for Catherine. As other people start dying, very messily, and the DA and cops come down hard on Bobby, Gardner keeps the tension high and the pace fast. But resolution comes in what may be the clunkiest chase crafted by a pro this year: "Bobby processed everything at once. Three open doorways, three bedrooms. He ran by the first, then the second, and came sprinting into the third just in time to see Maryanne staggering back." Ten pages later, so many characters have run into so many rooms, it''s amazing that the right person finally gets his head blown off by the right avenger. But Garner then ends with a neat postlude offering one more twist; her fans will feel requited.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was bad enough that Catherine Gagnon survived a horrible childhood abduction where for a month she lived in a cave and was the plaything for her sicko abductor. But now, 25 years later, she faces tragedy again as she fights to keep her son, Nathan. One chilly November night, a police sniper kills her husband, Jimmy, in response to her 911 call claiming he was about to hurt Nathan. Jimmy''s death means that his parents, an influential judge and his blue-blooded wife, are more determined than ever to take Nathan from Catherine, whom they see as unfit to mother their only grandchild. True, the birth of Nathan mentally paralyzed Catherine, who could not get past the memories of her abduction and her emotionally absent parents. But is she really the monster the Gagnons and their PI make her out to be? Massachusetts state police special-ops officer Bobby Dodge, the sniper who took out Jimmy, doesn''t think so, and unwittingly falls under the spell of the manipulative widow. A twisted, effective psychological thriller.\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/623'),
(5301, 'Along Came a Spider', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids it was headline news. Then one of them was found - dead. For such a high-profile case, they needed Alex Cross, a psychologist, and Jezzie Flanagan, a Secret Service agent - yet even they were no match for the killer.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/271');
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(5302, 'Already Gone', 'John Rector', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jake Reese is a writing teacher at an American university. He lives in a small brick Tudor close to campus with his art buyer wife, Diane. His life is quiet--even ordinary. And he likes it that way. But it wasnâ€™t always quiet. In Jakeâ€™s distant past was a life on the streets, inflicting damage and suffering on more people than he can count. And now someone from his past, it seems, has come looking for him.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A raw, gripping thriller about the price paid for past sins, John Rectorâ€™s third novel is a live wire that crackles with the intensity of a man who has nothing left to lose. When two men attack Jake in a parking lot and cut off his ring finger, he tries to dismiss it as an unlucky case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But when events take a more sinister turn and Diane goes missing, Jake knows he can no longer hide from the truth. As he embarks on a mission to find his wife, he realizes his dark past is refusing to stay buried, and that his future is about to unfold in ways he could never have imagined.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  With taut and brooding prose, Rector paints a formidable portrait of a reformed manâ€™s slow descent into a life he thought he had walked away from forever. As the intensity becomes almost unbearable, the pace quickens and the suspense applies an unrelenting, vicelike grip, as\n  <em>\n   Already Gone\n  </em>\n  hurtles toward its ultimate explosive climax.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with John Rector\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Already Gone\n  </em>\n  opens with an dramatic attack that eventually drives a wedge between Jake and his wife. Then you pull back and carefully build an emotional situation between these newlyweds. Was opening with that kind of contrast always your plan?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John Rector:\n  </strong>\n  The contrast wasn''t as much a plan as a necessity.\n  <em>\n   Already Gone\n  </em>\n  takes off at full speed, so I had to introduce the reader to the characters right away. The trick was building the characters as the story developed, so the reader wouldn''t get bored and close the book. Writing action and plot twists isn''t the hard part--the hard part is creating characters the reader will care about. To do that, I had to show who they were before the main conflict tore through their lives and changed everything.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Are you ever surprised by how your writing unfolds?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   JR:\n  </strong>\n  Yes, I''m often surprised by how things unfold as I''m writing. I usually have an idea where things are heading, but in each book, there has come a point where the different elements all come together in an unexpected way and form a bigger picture. That revelation is one of my favorite things about writing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  You are a prize-winning short-story writer as well as a best-selling novelist. How is writing a story different than writing a novel?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   JR:\n  </strong>\n  Anyone who has tried both can tell you that writing short fiction is a different skill set. When you''re working on a short story, every single line you write has to either develop character or advance the plot. If a line doesn''t add something essential, it should be cut. With novels, you have a little more room to play. It becomes more about the scene than the individual lines, but the goal is the same.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Do you still write short fiction?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   JR:\n  </strong>\n  For the past several years, my focus has been on novels, so I haven''t written short fiction in quite a while. I''ve received emails from a number of readers asking about my old stories, so I recently decided to put a few together and released a small collection. It''s called\n  <em>\n   The Walls Around Us,\n  </em>\n  and it''s a snapshot of what I was working on when I started writing fiction. Short stories were my way of learning how to create a scene, build tension, and develop characters. I had a great time writing them, but my true love is the novel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  I''ve heard that you don''t consider yourself a mystery/thriller writer, but\n  <em>\n   Already Gone\n  </em>\n  is a thrilling, mysterious read. How would you describe your writing, and what kinds of readers do you think will love this book?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   JR:\n  </strong>\n  I consider myself a suspense writer. Some of what I write falls into the mystery/thriller genre, but I''ve also written horror stories, noir stories, and even science fiction. The only constant element in everything I''ve written is suspense. Anyone who likes fast-paced, dark novels with a lot of danger and plot twists should like my books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What are you reading now?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   JR:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   The Queen''s Gambit\n  </em>\n  by Walter Tevis and\n  <em>\n   The Outlaw Album\n  </em>\n  by Daniel Woodrell.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What do you like to read over and over again?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   JR:\n  </strong>\n  There are a few books I always seem to revisit:\n  <em>\n   The Notebook\n  </em>\n  by Agota Kristof,\n  <em>\n   No Country for Old Men\n  </em>\n  by Cormac McCarthy,\n  <em>\n   Where I''m Calling From\n  </em>\n  by Raymond Carver,\n  <em>\n   Night Shift\n  </em>\n  by Stephen King,\n  <em>\n   Big Bad Love\n  </em>\n  by Larry Brown,\n  <em>\n   Hot Water Music\n  </em>\n  by Charles Bukowski, and\n  <em>\n   A Farewell to Arms\n  </em>\n  by Earnest Hemingway are the first ones that come to my mind. I go back to these books because the writing in them is so clear and vivid and beautiful, which to me is the best kind of writing--also the hardest. Whenever I''m struggling, it''s nice to be able to grab one of these books, flip it open, and see how it should be done.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Duane Swierczynski Reviews *Already Gone\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  Books are like houses. Some houses, you can tell right away they''re about to collapse at any moment and you need to scramble out quick. Other houses may seem OK at first, but then you realize that maybe the ceiling''s too low, or there''s not enough natural light in the living room, or the floors creak too much. Finally, there are some houses that are expertly crafted, both in terms of structural integrity and design. But the problem is, you''ve been inside\n  <em>\n   dozens\n  </em>\n  of houses just like it.\n  <em>\n   Zzzzz.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then you have houses like the ones John Rector builds...you can''t help but marvel at how much weight is supported by his lean, spare sentences. The whole thing should collapse--but doesn''t.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read the rest of this review at www.kindlepost.com.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Rectorâ€™s third novel (after\n  <em>\n   The Grove\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Cold Kiss\n  </em>\n  ), newly hired young English professor Jake Reese and his wife, an art buyer, have been married only a month, and there is a great deal they donâ€™t know about each otherâ€™s pastâ€”to a dangerous extent. When two thugs attack Jake and cut off his ring finger, he is horrified and bewildered, finally seeking help from a foster uncle with apparent mob connections. Further death threats confuse him, and then his wife dies in a car accident.......More developments come to light, involving diamonds, hijacking, betrayals, and murder. VERDICT The suspense and plot twists are gripping. While the first-person, present-tense narration and oddly unsatisfying ending give the work a pulp-fiction air, it also has that genreâ€™s appealing raw action, cliff-hanging chapter endings, and graphic, cinematic drama. In spite of its flaws, this one is hard to put down.â€”Roland Person, formerly with Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/931'),
(5303, 'Altar of Eden', 'James Rollins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Following the fall of Baghdad, two Iraqi boys stumble upon armed men looting the city zoo. The floodgates have been opened for the smuggling of hundreds of exotic birds, mammals, and reptiles to Western nations, but this crime hides a deeper secret. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground weapons lab is ransackedâ€”and something even more horrific is set free.   Seven years later, Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk stumbles upon a fishing trawler shipwrecked on a barrier island. The crew is missing or dead, but the boat holds a frightening cargo: a caged group of exotic animals, clearly part of a black market smuggling ring.   Yet, something is wrong with these beasts, disturbing deformities that make no sense: a parrot with no feathers, a pair of Capuchin monkeys conjoined at the hip, a jaguar cub with the dentition of a saber-toothed tiger. They also all share one uncanny traitâ€”a disturbingly heightened intelligence.   To uncover the truth about the origin of this strange cargo and the terrorist threat it poses, Lorna must team up with a man who shares a dark and bloody past with her and is now an agent with the U.S. Border Patrol, Jack Menard.   Together, the two must hunt for a beast that escaped the shipwreck while uncovering a mystery tied to fractal science and genetic engineering, all to expose a horrifying secret that traces back to humankind''s earliest roots.   But can Lorna stop what is about to be born upon the altar of Eden before it threatens not only the world but also the very foundation of what it means to be human?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3588'),
(5304, 'Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace', 'David Lipsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "If you can think of times in your life that youâ€™ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves.Â Â To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself.Â Â And I think itâ€™s probably possible to achieve that.Â Â I think part of the job weâ€™re here for is to learn how to do it.Â Â I know that sounds a little pious."-- David Foster WallaceÂ An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring,Â  based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallaceâ€™sÂ Infinite JestÂ tour." Â Â In David Lipskyâ€™s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America.Â  Wallaceâ€™s pieces forÂ Harperâ€™sÂ Magazine in the â€™90s were, according to Lipsky, â€œlike hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away.Â  You knew something gigantic was coming.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  ThenÂ Rolling StoneÂ sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tourâ€”forÂ Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport.Â  They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight.Â  They endure a terrible readerâ€™s escort in Minneapolis.Â  Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance.Â  Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an â€œorgy of spectationâ€).Â  They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallaceâ€™s dogs.Â  Amidst these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable things - everything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and counfounds him - in the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him and came to feel about himâ€”that grateful, awake feelingâ€”the same way he felt aboutÂ Infinite Jest.Â  Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church.Â A biography in five days,Â Although Of Course You End Up Becoming YourselfÂ is an indelible portrait of one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers. Told in his own words, here is Wallaceâ€™s own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer, of being young generally, trying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with andâ€”as he tells itâ€”what is was like to become David Foster Wallace.Â David Lipsky is a contributing editor atÂ Rolling StoneÂ magazine.Â  His fiction and nonfiction have appeared inÂ The New Yorker,Â Harper''sÂ Magazine,Â The Best American Short Stories,Â The Best American Magazine Writing,Â The New York Times,Â The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. He contributes as an essayist to NPR''s All Things Considered, and is the recipient of a Lambert Fellowship, a Media Award from GLAAD, and a National Magazine Award.Â  He''s the author of the novel The Art Fair, a collection of stories,Â Three Thousand Dollars, and the bestselling nonfiction bookÂ Absolutely American, which was aÂ TimeÂ magazine Best Book of the Year.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1818'),
(5305, 'The Altman Code', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Ludlum is light years beyond his literary competition in piling plot twist upon plot twist, until the mesmerized reader is held captive...[He] dominates the field in strong, tightly plotted, adventure-drenched thrillers. Ludlum pulls out all the stops and dazzles his readers."--\n  <em>\n   Chicago\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Tribune\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six pack of thriller writers combined."--\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Reading a Ludlum novel is like watching a James Bond film."--\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Welcome to Robert Ludlum''s world...fast pacing, tight plotting, international intrigue."--\n  <em>\n   The Plain Dealer\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Robert Ludlum is the master of gripping, fast-moving intrigue. He is unsurpassed at weaving a tapestry of stunningly diverse figures, then assembling them in a sequence so gripping that the reader''s attention never wavers."--\n  <em>\n   The Daily Oklahoman\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t ever begin a Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day."--\n  <em>\n   Chicago\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Sun-Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If a Pulitzer Prize were awarded for escapist fiction, Robert Ludlum undoubtedly would have won it. Ten times over."--\n  <em>\n   Mobile\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Register\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An exciting medical-military thriller that moves at a rapid pace to its climax...an exciting new series."--\n  <em>\n   Midwest\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Book Review\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A pop hit...that should bounce right up the bestseller lists."--\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gripping...robust writing and a breakneck pace."--\n  <em>\n   Boston\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Herald\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "Reading a Ludlum novel is like watching a James Bond film."--*Entertainment Weekly\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  When word reaches the White House that a Chinese cargo ship is transporting chemicals to a rogue nation intent on creating new biological weapons, the President knows he must act quick to obtain the proof he needs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ROBERT LUDLUM''S\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   THE ALTMAN CODE\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Covert-One agent Jon Smith is sent to rendezvous in Taiwan with another agent who has acquired the ship''s true manifest. But before Smith can get the document, he is ambushed, the second agent is murdered, and the evidence is destroyed. Smith escapes with only his life and a verbal message: The President''s biological father is still alive, held prisoner by the Chinese for fifty years. As the mysterious ship draws closer to its end port, Smith is losing time in uncovering the truth about the vessel and its cargo--a truth that probes the secrets of the Chinese ruling party, a faction in Washington working to undermine the elected government, and an international cabal thrusting the world to the brink of war...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1191'),
(5306, 'The Amateur Marriage', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne Tyler''s\n <em>\n  The Amateur Marriage\n </em>\n is not so much a novel as a really long argument. Michael is a good boy from a Polish neighborhood in Baltimore; Pauline is a harum-scarum, bright-cheeked girl who blows into Michael''s family''s grocery store at the outset of World War II. She appears with a bloodied brow, supported by a gaggle of girlfriends. Michael patches her up, and neither of them are ever the same. Well, not the same as they were before, but pretty much the same as everyone else. After the war, they live over the shop with Michael''s mother till they''ve saved enough to move to the suburbs. There they remain with their three children, until the onset of the sixties, when their eldest daughter runs away to San Francisco. Their marriage survives for a while, finally crumbling in the seventies. If this all sounds a tad generic, Tyler''s case isn''t helped by the characteristics she''s given the two spouses. Him: repressed, censorious, quiet. Her: voluble, emotional, romantic. Mars, meet Venus. What marks this couple, though, and what makes them come alive, is their bitter, unproductive, tooth-and-nail fighting. Tyler is exploring the way that ordinary-seeming, prosperous people can survive in emotional poverty for years on end. She gets just right the tricks Michael and Pauline play on themselves in order to stay together: "How many times," Pauline asks herself, "when she was weary of dealing with Michael, had she forced herself to recall the way he''d looked that first day? The slant of his fine cheekbones, the firming of his lips as he pressed the adhesive tape in place on her forehead." Only in antogonism do Michael and Pauline find a way to express themselves.\n <em>\n  --Claire Dederer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Because Tyler writes with scrupulous accuracy about muddled, unglamorous suburbanites, it is easy to underestimate her as a sort of Pyrex realist. Yes, Tyler intuitively understands the middle class''s Norman Rockwell ideal, but she doesn''t share it; rather, she has a masterful ability to make it bleed. Her latest novel delineates, in careful strokes, the 30-year marriage of Michael Anton and Pauline Barclay, and its dissolution. In December 1941 in St. Cassians, a mainly Eastern European conclave in Baltimore, 20-year-old Michael meets Pauline and is immediately smitten. They marry after Michael is discharged from the army, but their temperaments don''t mix. For Michael, self-control is the greatest of virtues; for Pauline, expression is what makes us human. She is compulsively friendly, a bad hider of emotions, selfish in her generosity ("my homeless man") and generous in her selfishness. At Pauline''s urging, the two move to the suburbs, where they raise three children, George, Karen and Lindy. Lindy runs away in 1960 and never comes back-although in 1968, Pauline and Michael retrieve Pagan, Lindy''s three-year-old, from her San Francisco landlady while Lindy detoxes in a rehab community that her parents aren''t allowed to enter. Michael and Pauline got married at a time when the common wisdom, expressed by Pauline''s mother, was that "marriages were like fruit trees.... Those trees with different kinds of branches grafted onto the trunks. After a time, they meld, they grow together, and... if you tried to separate them you would cause a fatal wound." They live into an era in which the accumulated incompatibilities of marriage end, logically, in divorce. For Michael, who leaves Pauline on their 30th anniversary, divorce is redemption. For Pauline, the divorce is, at first, a tragedy; gradually, separation becomes a habit. A lesser novelist would take moral sides, using this story to make a didactic point. Tyler is much more concerned with the fine art of human survival in changing circumstances. The range and power of this novel should not only please Tyler''s immense readership but also awaken us to the collective excellency of her career.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/977'),
(5307, 'The Amber Spyglass', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Amber Spyglass brings the intrigue of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife to a heart-stopping end, marking the final volume of His Dark Materials as the most powerful of the trilogy. Along with the return of Lyra, Will, Mrs. Coulter, Lord Asriel, Dr. Mary Malone, and Iorek Byrnison the armored bear, come a host of new characters: the Mulefa, mysterious wheeled creatures with the power to see Dust; Gallivespian Lord Roke, a hand-high spymaster to Lord Asriel; and Metatron, a fierce and mighty angel. So, too, come startling revelations: the painful price Lyra must pay to walk through the land of the dead, the haunting power of Dr. Malone''s amber spyglass, and the names of who will live--and who will die--for love. And all the while, war rages with the Kingdom of Heaven, a brutal battle that--in its shocking outcome--will uncover the secret of Dust. Philip Pullman deftly brings the cliff-hangers and mysteries of His Dark Materials to an earthshattering conclusion--and confirms his fantasy trilogy as an undoubted and enduring classic.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1308'),
(5308, 'The Ambler Warning', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For some bestselling authors, death is no impediment to an enduring career. But the latest Ludlum (d. 2001) novel, penned by an unnamed hired hand, reveals the problems inherent in such an arrangement: neither sufficiently like Ludlum''s originals nor compellingly distinctive, it inhabits a kind of thriller purgatory to which only the most dedicated Ludlumite will be eager to venture. After a two-decade career as a clandestine operative, Hal Ambler is drugged and warehoused in the Parrish Island Psychiatric Facility, a government nuthouse for spies. A sympathetic nurse aids his escape, and soon Ambler is on the run, trying to figure out who he is and, more importantly, who he was. There are a few interesting charactersâ€”particularly CIA accountant Clayton Caston, a man who knows little about feelings but who can tease a mountain of information out of a spy''s expense accountâ€”but the villains are mostly invisible and everybody else ends up dead before you really get to know them. Just because a writer can copy what was once a successful style does not automatically assure his publisher a successful book.\n <em>\n  (Oct. 25)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is Ludlum''s twenty-sixth, a remarkable feat given that he is deceased. The locale is a barrier island six miles off the coast of Virginia and officially part of the National Wildlife Refuge System. It''s really the site of a psychiatric facility for patients who possess highly classified information. At Parrish Island, "potential security risks could be carefully managed and the patients are identified by number, never by name." One of them is Hal Ambler, who had been a clandestine operative for nearly two decades. He doesn''t know why he''s being held by his own government. He also doesn''t know how long he has been confined, but realizes he must escape. There''s probably no doubt in readers'' minds--right from the start--of the outcome, but they will be delighted to stick around to the end. Given the late author''s still-viable name recognition, this novel is bound to be popular; and it could even be used as a good way for librarians to introduce unfamiliar readers to his works\n <em>\n  George Cohen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1256'),
(5309, 'American Assassin: A Thriller', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With this 11th Mitch Rapp adventure, Flynn does something a little different. Taking a step back in time, he tells the story of how Rapp initially came to work for the CIA. As a young man, Rapp lost his fiancÃ©e in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103. Grief-stricken, he swears revenge on the terrorists. He''s quickly recruited by the CIA and soon makes his first kill and is on his way to his first clandestine mission. George Guidall has a keen ear for dialogue, and his relaxed reading keeps Flynn''s sometimes overheated prose and over-the-top plot grounded in a realm of believability. Still, he is more than capable of pulling out the stops when the action kicks in, keeping listeners on the edge of their seats once the bullets begin to fly. Flynn delivers his usual high-octane international thriller, but, in giving Rapp''s backstory, he''s infused it with more depth and heart than usual, and Guidall matches him beat for beat, proving himself a fine choice of storyteller. An Atria hardcover. (Oct.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œCaptivating.â€ â€”Glenn Beck\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/452'),
(5310, 'American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood', 'Marie Arana', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though this memoir of growing up in America and Peru centers on Arana''s parents'' turbulent marriage, her real focus is the way cultures define, limit and enrich us. At one point, Arana, whose mother is American and father is Peruvian, recalls her first lesson in the color politics of Latin America. She was living in a gated house, in a factory town high in the Andes, and wanted to invite the daughter of the family cook to her birthday party. Of course she can come, said Arana''s mother, but if she does, none of the mothers of the other little girls will allow them to attend; an Indian girl is not accepted at a party of aristocratic schoolchildren. "I am reminded of my political innocence," Arana writes, "when I go to Latino conferences in [the U.S.]. When I see the children of Spanish-blooded oligarchs line up alongside migrant workers for a piece of affirmative action." It is this willingness to slice through convenient classifications, to see the rifts in every group, that distinguishes Arana''s account of how she learned to navigate between a culture that encouraged family loyalty and another that fostered independence. She writes beautifully, whether describing hunting for ghosts in Peru''s highlands, chewing tobacco in Wyoming, attending an American school in Lima or finding friends in New Jersey. Arana, the editor of the Washington Post Book World, blends a journalist''s dedication to research with a style that sings with humor. Her memoir is an outstanding contribution to the growing shelf of Latina literature. Agent, Amanda Urban.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Arana, editor of the Washington Post Book World, recently described this memoir as a love story. It is fraught with the tension of two worlds colliding: her North American mother''s independent, free-spirited individualism crashes into her South American father''s traditional, family-based orientation. Their children formed the bicultural bridge between them. In rich, lyrical prose, the author details her privileged, Peruvian childhood, watched by amas, and schooled at home. She writes of her grandfather who lived like a hermit in his own house, and further back the ancestors who played a horrifying role on Peru''s rubber plantations. She describes the scent of sugar, "raw, rough, Cartavio brown" from her father''s factory; the sounds of "El Gringo," the crazy blind man on his daily rounds; and the surreal world of los pishtacos, the ghosts, so mystifying, but terrifyingly real to Arana. She also writes of her mother and her former marriages, and finally of her life in America. Here Arana is an American Chica, where she leads not a double life, sometimes in her "American skin" at other times she is a Latina, but a triple life in which she makes up a "whole new person." While this book, filled with humor and insight, will be of special interest to Hispanic teens, it is a sparkling addition to the story of America''s "salad bowl" and will appeal to young people of all heritages.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Jane S. Drabkin, Chinn Park Regional Library, Prince William, VA\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1821'),
(5311, 'The American Civil War and the Wars of the Industrial Revolution', 'Brian Holden Reid', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brian Holden Reid is Professor of American History and Military Institutions and Head of the Department of War Studies at King''s College, London. Since 1993 he has been a member of the Council of the Society for Army Historical Research and from 1998-2004 served as Chairman. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Royal Geographical Society and the Royal United Services Institute. His books include J. F. C. Fuller: Military Thinker (1987; 1990), The Origins of the American Civil War (1996), and Studies in British Military Thought (1998), and The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century (1999; 2002)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2419'),
(5312, 'The American Civil War', 'John Keegan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of Americaâ€™s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and often malnourished combatants; the effective absence of decisive battles among some two to three hundred known to us by name. Now Keegan examines these and other puzzles with a peerless understanding of warfare, uncovering dimensions of the conflict that have eluded earlier historiography.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While offering original and perceptive insights into psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics, Keegan reveals the warâ€™s hidden shapeâ€”a consequence of leadership, the evolution of strategic logic, and, above all, geography, the Rosetta Stone of his legendary decipherments of all great battles. The American topography, Keegan argues, presented a battle space of complexity and challenges virtually unmatched before or since. Out of a succession of mythic but chaotic engagements, he weaves an irresistible narrative illuminated with comparisons to the Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and other conflicts.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   The American Civil War\n  </em>\n  is sure to be hailed as a definitive account of its eternally fascinating subject.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2416'),
(5313, 'American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900', 'H. W. Brands', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this timely study, University of Texas historian Brands (Traitor to His Class) describes the rise of the great corporate capitalists after the Civil War. J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie constituted an trinity of power-obsessed individuals who instinctively understood that wealth was the ultimate political weapon. They defined the cold-blooded authority of big business. Fascinating detours away from the tale of corporate empires examine the Reconstruction process in the South, the Indian Wars of the West, the opening of the Great Plains, immigration in the East, and the rise of organized labor and the agrarian reformers. Effectively, excerpts from the first-person accounts of Booker T. Washington, Black Elk, Jacob Riis, and others convey the drama of the time. Perhaps the only significant omission in this fast-paced, engrossing narrative is a tendency to dwell on political doctrines that sought to repudiate or restrain capitalism while only briefly discussing the dogma of Herbert Spencer''s social Darwinism,Â which favored the monopolists.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  American Colossus\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n "Mr. Brands, a terrific writer who commands his material, handles this sprawling, complicated story with authority and panache. A book that might have been a worthy but boring tome turns out to be as close as serious history gets to a page turner...._American Colossus_ is a first-rate overview of one of the most important periods in American history, one without which the American Century could not have happened."\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”John Steele Gordon,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A superb new historyâ€¦.This is a big, brash narrative running from the Confederate surrender at Appomattox to the trust busting of Theodore Rooseveltâ€¦.I read swaths of this book twice, just to savor Brandsâ€™ storytelling and mastery of detail."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”James Pressley, Bloomberg News\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Brands paints a vivid portrait of both this understudied age and those industrialists still introduced by high school teachers as â€˜robber baronsâ€™: Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morganâ€¦.As Mr. Brands relates the tycoonsâ€™ stories, he drops some anecdotes wonderfully relevant today."\n <br />\n â€”_The Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n _"An excellent bookâ€¦.H. W. Brands is a smart, lively writerâ€¦ [who] demonstrates, as the best historians do, that past is prologue."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Dallas Morning News\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Age of Gold\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”David McCullough, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n John Adams\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œA barn burner . . . Masterfully sketched historical figures, subtly developed themes, and especially well-braided stories . . . Eureka!â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Traitor to His Class\n </em>\n <br />\n (Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography)\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThis is a rare book indeed, shedding new light and brilliant insight upon an elusive subject we thought we knew well . . .\n <em>\n  Traitor to His Class\n </em>\n will quickly emerge as the finest one-volume biography of FDR.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”David Oshinsky, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œH. W. Brands has accomplished a remarkable feat in this terrific workâ€¦. He has brought to vivid life the central figures in his story . . . while at the same time providing a fresh understanding of the rich historical context for their thoughts and actions at every step along the way.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning historian and author of\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Team of Rivals\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œThis may well be the best general biography of Franklin Roosevelt we will see for many years to come.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”_Christian Science Monitor_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for _The First American\n <br />\n _(Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œH. W. Brands has given us the authoritative Franklin biography for our time.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning\n  <em>\n   Founding Brothers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA biography with a rich cast of secondary characters and a large and handsome stock of historical sceneryâ€¦This is a Franklin to savor.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Wall Street Journal_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Lone Star Nation\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œSweeping and specific . . . [Brands] writes the story with clarity and vigor . . . .Clearly adds to our knowledge of an era when men rode to the sound of guns and honor was a comprehensible concept.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Washington Post Book World_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œBrands [is] on the path to becoming the preeminent popular historian of his generation.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Andrew Jackson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA great story . . . Serves up everything you might expect in a ripping yarn: murderous duels, savage Indian raids, equally savage counterattacks.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Washington Post Book World\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n _â€œOld Hickory rides again in Brandsâ€™ elegantly written and carefully researched biography . . . A must-read!â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Douglas Brinkley, author of\n  <em>\n   The Great Deluge\n  </em>\n  , winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2222'),
(5314, 'American Gods', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   American Gods\n  </em>\n  is Neil Gaiman''s best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn''t sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he''s been delivering since his Sandman days.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow''s dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow''s road story is the heart of the novel, and it''s here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.\n </p>\n <p>\n  More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what''s real and what''s not.\n  <em>\n   --Therese Littleton\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Titans clash, but with more fuss than fury in this fantasy demi-epic from the author of Neverwhere. The intriguing premise of Gaiman''s tale is that the gods of European yore, who came to North America with their immigrant believers, are squaring off for a rumble with new indigenous deities: "gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon." They all walk around in mufti, disguised as ordinary people, which causes no end of trouble for 32-year-old protagonist Shadow Moon, who can''t turn around without bumping into a minor divinity. Released from prison the day after his beloved wife dies in a car accident, Shadow takes a job as emissary for Mr. Wednesday, avatar of the Norse god Grimnir, unaware that his boss''s recruiting trip across the American heartland will subject him to repeat visits from the reanimated corpse of his dead wife and brutal roughing up by the goons of Wednesday''s adversary, Mr. World. At last Shadow must reevaluate his own deeply held beliefs in order to determine his crucial role in the final showdown. Gaiman tries to keep the magical and the mundane evenly balanced, but he is clearly more interested in the activities of his human protagonists: Shadow''s poignant personal moments and the tale''s affectionate slices of smalltown life are much better developed than the aimless plot, which bounces Shadow from one episodic encounter to another in a design only the gods seem to know. Mere mortal readers will enjoy the tale''s wit, but puzzle over its strained mythopoeia. (One-day laydown, June 19)Forecast: Even when he isn''t in top form, Gaiman, creator of the acclaimed Sandman comics series, trumps many storytellers. Momentously titled, and allotted a dramatic one-day laydown with a 12-city author tour, his latest will appeal to fans and attract mainstream review coverage for better or for worse because of the rich possibilities of its premise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1025'),
(5315, 'American History Revised: 200 Startling Facts That Never Made It Into the Textbooks', 'Seymour Morris, Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œAmerican History Revised is as informative as it is entertaining and humorous. Filled with irony, surprises, and long-hidden secrets, the book does more than revise American history, it reinvents it.â€ â€”James Bamford, bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets, and The Shadow FactoryÂ Â This spirited reexamination of American history delves into our past to expose hundreds ofstartling facts that never made it into the textbooks, and highlights how little-known peopleand events played surprisingly influential roles in the great American story.Â  Â We tend to think of history as settled, set in stone, but American History Revised reveals a past that is filled with ironies, surprises, and misconceptions. Living abroad for twelve years gave author Seymour Morris Jr. the opportunity to view his country as an outsider and compelled him to examine American history from a fresh perspective. As Morris colorfully illustrates through the 200historical vignettes that make up this book, much of our nationâ€™s past is quite differentâ€”and far more remarkableâ€”than we thought.Â Â Â Â Â  We discover that:Â â€¢ In the 1950s Ford was approached by two Japanese companies begging for a joint venture. Ford declined their offers, calling them makers of â€œtin cars.â€ The two companies were Toyota and Nissan. â€¢ Eleanor Roosevelt and most womenâ€™s groups opposed the Equal Rights Amendmentforbidding gender discrimination. â€¢ The two generals who ended the Civil War werenâ€™t Grant and Lee. â€¢ The #1 bestselling American book of all time was written in one day. â€¢ The Dutch made a bad investment buying Manhattan for $24. â€¢ Two young girls aimed someday to become First Ladyâ€”and succeeded. â€¢ Three times, a private financier saved the United States from bankruptcy.Â Â Â Â Â Â  Organized into ten thematic chapters, American History Revised plumbs American historyâ€™s numerous inconsistencies, twists, and turns to make it come alive again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2733');
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(5316, 'An American Life: The Autobiography', 'Ronald Reagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ronald Reagan''s autobiography is a work of major historical importance. Here, in his own words, is the story of his life--public and private--told in a book both frank and compellingly readable. Few presidents have accomplished more, or been so effective in changing the direction of government in ways that are both fundamental and lasting, than Ronald Reagan. Certainly no president has more dramatically raised the American spirit, or done so much to restore national strength and self-confidence. Here, then, is a truly American success story--a great and inspiring one. From modest beginnings as the son of a shoe salesman in Tampico, Illinois, Ronald Reagan achieved first a distinguished career in Hollywood and then, as governor of California and as president of the most powerful nation in the world, a career of public service unique in our history. Ronald Reagan''s account of that rise is told here with all the uncompromising candor, modesty, and wit that made him perhaps the most able communicator ever to occupy the White House, and also with the sense of drama of a gifted natural storyteller. He tells us, with warmth and pride, of his early years and of the elements that made him, in later life, a leader of such stubborn integrity, courage, and clear-minded optimism. Reading the account of this childhood, we understand how his parents, struggling to make ends meet despite family problems and the rigors of the Depression, shaped his belief in the virtues of American life--the need to help others, the desire to get ahead and to get things done, the deep trust in the basic goodness, values, and sense of justice of the American people--virtues that few presidents have expressed more eloquently than Ronald Reagan. With absolute authority and a keen eye for the details and the anecdotes that humanize history, Ronald Reagan takes the reader behind the scenes of his extraordinary career, from his first political experiences as president of the Screen Actors Guild (including his first meeting with a beautiful young actress who was later to become Nancy Reagan) to such high points of his presidency as the November 1985 Geneva meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, during which Reagan invited the Soviet leader outside for a breath of fresh air and then took him off for a walk and a man-to-man chat, without aides, that set the course for arms reduction and charted the end of the Cold War. Here he reveals what went on behind his decision to enter politics and run for the governorship of California, the speech nominating Barry Goldwater that first made Reagan a national political figure, his race for the presidency, his relations with the members of his own cabinet, and his frustrations with Congress. He gives us the details of the great themes and dramatic crises of his eight years in office, from Lebanon to Grenada, from the struggle to achieve arms control to tax reform, from Iran-Contra to the visits abroad that did so much to reestablish the United States in the eyes of the world as a friendly and peaceful power. His narrative is full of insights, from the unseen dangers of Gorbachev''s first visit to the United States to Reagan''s own personal correspondence with major foreign leaders, as well as his innermost feelings about life in the White House, the assassination attempt, his family--and the enduring love between himself and Mrs. Reagan. "An American Life "is a warm, richly detailed, and deeply human book, a brilliant self-portrait, a significant work of history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1828'),
(5317, 'American Lion', 'Jon Meacham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jacksonâ€™s election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad. To tell the saga of Jacksonâ€™s presidency, acclaimed author Jon Meacham goes inside the Jackson White House. Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers, he details the human dramaâ€“the family, the women, and the inner circle of advisersâ€“that shaped Jacksonâ€™s private world through years of storm and victory.One of our most significant yet dimly recalled presidents, Jackson was a battle-hardened warrior, the founder of the Democratic Party, and the architect of the presidency as we know it. His story is one of violence, sex, courage, and tragedy. With his powerful persona, his evident bravery, and his mystical connection to the people, Jackson moved the White House from the periphery of government to the center of national action, articulating a vision of change that challenged entrenched interests to heed the popular willâ€“or face his formidable wrath. The greatest of the presidents who have followed Jackson in the White Houseâ€“from Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to FDR to Trumanâ€“have found inspiration in his example, and virtue in his vision.Jackson was the most contradictory of men. The architect of the removal of Indians from their native lands, he was warmly sentimental and risked everything to give more power to ordinary citizens. He was, in short, a lot like his country: alternately kind and vicious, brilliant and blind; and a man who fought a lifelong war to keep the republic safeâ€“no matter what it took. Jon Meacham in American Lion has delivered the definitive human portrait of a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidencyâ€“and America itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2223'),
(5318, 'American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot', 'Craig Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his markâ€”as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer. To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: in 1993, the washed-up Ferguson washed up in the United States. Finally sober, Ferguson landed a breakthrough part on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, a success that eventually led to his role as the host of CBS''s The Late Late Show. By far Ferguson''s greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008, just before his command performance for the president at the White House Correspondents'' Association Dinner. In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his markâ€”as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer.   To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: in 1993, the washed-up Ferguson washed up in the United States. Finally sober, Ferguson landed a breakthrough part on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, a success that eventually led to his role as the host of CBS''s The Late Late Show. By far Ferguson''s greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008, just before his command performance for the president at the White House Correspondents'' Association Dinner. In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2840'),
(5319, 'American Outlaw', 'Jesse James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Jesse James has survived lower depths, faced harder times, and beaten down more private demons than most--and lived to tell his story with honesty, introspection, and humility.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1822'),
(5320, 'American Passage: The History of Ellis Island', 'Vincent J. Cannato', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Using a variety of primary sources, Cannato (_The Ungovernable City_) describes Ellis Island as a place and as an experience for the approximately 12 million immigrants who passed through it from 1892 to 1924. He follows its reincarnation as a detention center for wartime aliens and as a monument and museum, which he admits may celebrate uncritically "ethnic triumphalism" and upward mobility. Cannato writes that understaffing resulted in only perfunctory screening for mental, physical, and moral traits that might have made newcomers public charges, and he disabuses readers of the fallacy that examiners, rather than steamship officials or immigrants bent on assimilation, changed entrants'' last names. With a focus on how "actual people created, interpreted, and executed immigration laws," Cannato maintains that regulation, which sometimes degraded into restriction, formed part of Progressive era reform and growing federal involvement to safeguard what was deemed the public interest. This measured book helps to place in perspective discussionsâ€”sure to matter to genealogists and those engaged in political discourseâ€”of Ellis Island and the idea of immigration as a privilege rather than a right. Essential reading.â€”Frederick J. Augustyn Jr., Library of Congress\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe story of America is one of immigration. By bringing us the inspiring and sometimes unsettling tales of Ellis Island, Vincent Cannatoâ€™s American Passage helps us understand who we are as a nation.â€ (Walter Isaacson, author of\n <em>\n  Einstein\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReading Vincent Cannatoâ€™s American Passage was an amazing journey into our nationâ€™s immigrant past. Never before has Ellis Island been written about with such scholarly care and historical wisdom. Highly recommended!â€ (Douglas Brinkley, author of\n <em>\n  The Great Deluge\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTo his great credit Cannato does not pretend to answer our tough questions about immigration, nor to find a â€˜usable pastâ€™ in the history of Ellis Island. He just tells one heck of a story that oozes with relevance.â€ (Walter A. McDougall, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of\n <em>\n  Throes of Democracy\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHistorian Vincent Cannato appears to have overlooked nothing in telling the tale of the historic island, now a national monument. . . . Cannato is not only a meticulous researcher and historian, heâ€™s also a lively storyteller. A rare combination.â€ (_USA Today_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImmigration has long been a critical slice of the American narrative, and here, in American Passage, Vincent Cannato tells its story with great brio. From landing point to national Monument, from immigrants to interpreters, we see the veritable Babel of Ellis Island play out across the years.â€ (Jay Winik, author of\n <em>\n  The Great Upheaval\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  April 1865\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlthough Ellis Island is about immigrants from far-away places, it is in fact as American as Thanksgiving and apple pie. This amazing story is recounted beautifully in Vincent Cannatoâ€™s well-written and evocative book, which will bring pleasure and profit to readers.â€ (Kenneth T. Jackson, editor in chief,\n <em>\n  Encyclopedia of New York City\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCannato navigates the crosscurrents of immigration since the 1700s, illustrating his tale generously with odd facts and highly readable stories.â€ (_Associated Press_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCannato does a masterful job of weaving together a slew of singular immigrant stories with the larger issues that surrounded newcomers. He gives us the politics, the health scares and epidemics, the crowding, the corruption and the public policy.â€ (_The New York Post_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMr. Cannatoâ€™s writing is vivid and accessible, and his approach is admirably even-handed.â€ (_The Wall Street Journal_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCannato resists the temptation to setimentalize Ellis Island. He understands that, now as then, immigration is an issue that leaves Americans uncomfortable and contentious, even as it continues to bring new blood and energy into the country.â€ (Jonathan Yardley,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2224'),
(5321, 'American Pastoral', 'Philip Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century''s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth''s protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father''s glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede''s beautiful American luck deserts him.For Swede''s adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenagerâ€”a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longer-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth''s masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2839'),
(5322, 'American Psycho', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This review is based on the galley issued by Ellis''s original publisher, Simon &amp; Schuster, before it cancelled the book. The book is now going through the editing process at Vintage. There may be some changes in the final version. The indignant attacks on Ellis''s third novel (see News, p. 17; Editorial, p. 6) will make it difficult for most readers to judge it objectively. Although the book contains horrifying scenes, they must be read in the context of the book as a whole; the horror does not lie in the novel itself, but in the society it reflects. In the first third of the book, Pat Bateman, a 26-year-old who works on Wall Street, describes his designer lifestyle in excruciating detail. This is a world in which the elegance of a business card evokes more emotional response than the murder of a child. Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, Bateman calmly and deliberately blinds and stabs a homeless man. From here, the body count builds, as he kills a male acquaintance and sadistically tortures and murders two prostitutes, an old girlfriend, and a child he passes in the zoo. The recital of the brutalization is made even more horrible by the first-person narrator''s delivery: flat, matter-of-fact, as impersonal as a car parts catalog. The author has carefully constructed the work so that the reader has no way to understand this killer''s motivations, making it even more frightening. If these acts cannot be explained, there is no hope of protection from such random, senseless crimes. This book is not pleasure reading, but neither is it pornography. It is a serious novel that comments on a society that has become inured to suffering. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/90 and 12/90.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Nora Rawlinson, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and]\n <strong>\n  American Psycho\n </strong>\n is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novelâ€¦. The novelistâ€™s function is to keep a running tag on the progress of culture; and heâ€™s done it brilliantlyâ€¦. A seminal book.â€ â€”Fay Weldon,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œA masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book.â€ â€”Katherine Dunn\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œA great novel. What Emerson said about genius, that itâ€™s the return of oneâ€™s rejected thoughts with an alienated majesty, holds true for\n <strong>\n  American Psycho\n </strong>\n â€¦. There is a fever to the life of this book that is, in my reading, unknown in American literature.â€ â€”Michael Tolkin\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œThe first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themesâ€¦. [Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands come to on the clock.â€ â€”Norman Mailer,\n <em>\n  Vanity Fair\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1026'),
(5323, 'The American Revolution: A History', 'Gordon S. Wood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gordon S. Wood''s\n <em>\n  The American Revolution\n </em>\n , part of the Modern Library Chronicles series, is an erudite, concise summary of the events and circumstances surrounding the seminal conflict, both physical and philosophical, in American history. The Modern Library Chronicles are accessible-but-serious works of scholarship, meant to serve as introductions (or refresher courses) on large subjects for interested readers.\n <em>\n  The American Revolution\n </em>\n is an excellent case in point. Wood deftly describes seeds of the Revolution, most notably disgruntlement on the colonists'' part brought about by increasingly maladroit and fiscally punishing British policies. He then follows the course of actual warfare and its aftermath, most interestingly the fraught, bitter battle to draw a governing blueprint for the new country.\n</p>\n<p>\n Wood breaks little new interpretive ground himself, here, but as a synthesizer (and amiable, skillful narrator/guide) he stands on high ground.\n <em>\n  --H. O''Billovitch\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A famed historian sums up his life''s work; his first book since winning the Pulitzer Prize.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2420'),
(5324, 'American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee', 'Karen Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author Karen Abbott\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n My grandmother used to tell me stories about growing up during the Great Depression, and she once related a tale about a cousin who saw Gypsy Rose Lee perform in 1935. â€œShe took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove,â€ the cousin said, â€œand she was so damned good at it I wouldâ€™ve gladly given her fifteen more.â€ This story got me thinking: who\n <em>\n  was\n </em>\n Gypsy Rose Lee? And how did an awkward girl named Louise Hovick become her? I spent three years researching the answer, research that included connecting with Gypsyâ€™s late sister, the actress June Havoc; I was the last person to interview her.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I arrived at Juneâ€™s Connecticut farm I found her lying in bed, her hair done up in pert white pigtails. She was ninety-four years old, give or take, and the legs that once danced on stages across the country were now motionless, two nearly imperceptible bumps tucked beneath crisp white sheets. Her eyes were a bold shade of blue and painfully sensitive to light. She told me the musical\n <em>\n  Gypsy\n </em>\n distorted her childhood so thoroughly it was as if â€œI didnâ€™t own me anymore.â€ She realized her sister was â€œscrewing me out in public,â€ and that, in the end, there was no stopping either\n <em>\n  Gypsy\n </em>\n or Gypsy; the play was both her sisterâ€™s monument and her best chance for monumental revisionism.\n</p>\n<p>\n It took another visit for June to share more personal memories: money was Gypsyâ€™s â€œgod,â€ and she would do anything to anybody, including June, to make more of it. Gypsy did in fact do things, not only to June but also to herselfâ€”â€œterribleâ€ and â€œawfulâ€ and â€œshockingâ€ things, things beneath her sisterâ€™s formidable intellect and keen wit, things that made June believe, to that day, that love (even love fraught with competition and jealousy) never existed between them at all.\n</p>\n<p>\n I asked and listened, for as much time as June gave me. I asked until her patience wore thin and her eyes watered with the effort to stay open.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI hope I didnâ€™t upset you today,â€ I whispered. â€œThatâ€™s not my intention.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI know,â€ June said. Those startling eyes found their focus, settling on mine. â€œIâ€™m sorry I couldnâ€™t be more open about some thingsâ€¦ Iâ€™m still ashamed for her. I wish they hadnâ€™t happened.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWould Gypsy wish the same?â€ I asked.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShe had no shame.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A pause, and I said, feebly, â€œYou were a good sister to her.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A hand tunneled out from the sheet. She coiled long, blade-thin fingers around my wrist.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI was no sister,â€ June said. â€œI was a knot in her life. I was nothing.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n She retracted her hand, gave her eyes permission to close. I kissed her cheek and crept out the bedroom door. I was grateful she let me insideâ€”even on the periphery, even brieflyÂ¬â€”and I suspected she was saving her own questions for the day she reunited with the sister she did profess to love, the one she still called Louise.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  American Rose\n </em>\n :\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Abbott creates a brainy striptease similar to the one her subject may have performed: uncovering doozies in one chapter about Lee''s outrageous life, followed in the next by the less salacious (but always captivating) details about how New York City''s Minsky brothers, who played a crucial role in Lee''s stardom, built their burlesque empire." â€”_Newsday_\n</p>\n<p>\n "At its core,\n <em>\n  American Rose\n </em>\n is a haunting portrait of a woman ''giving what she has to, keeping all she can,'' offering her audiences a sassy, confident self while making sure they would never know the damaged soul who created her." â€”_The_\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_American Rose_ is the rare biography that captures the imagination and doesn''t let go. It would scare the bejeesus out of Gypsy Rose Lee, and it''s guaranteed to enthrall readers." â€”_Book Page\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "[Abbott''s] portrait of the famed stripper is both darker and more inspiring than the famed stripper''s version of her life as filtered by Broadway or Hollywood." â€”\n </em>\n Atlanta Journal-Constitution\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Praise for Karen Abbottâ€™s\n <em>\n  Sin in the Second City\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA delicious history . . . a lush love letter to the underworld . . . [Abbott] describes the Leveeâ€™s characters in such detail that itâ€™s easy to mistake this meticulously researched history for literary fiction.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Abbottâ€™s] research enables the kind of vivid description Ã  la fellow journalist Erik Larsonâ€™s The\n <em>\n  Devil in the White City\n </em>\n that makes what could be a dry historic account an intriguing read.â€â€”_The Seattle Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] satisfyingly lurid tale . . . Change the hemlines, add 100 years, and the book could be filed under current affairs.â€â€”_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAssiduously researched . . . Even this bookâ€™s minutiae . . . make for good storytelling.â€â€”_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA colorful history of old Chicago that reads like a novel.â€â€”_The Atlanta Journal-Constitution_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLavish . . . an immensely readable book.â€â€”_The Wall Street Journal _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1824'),
(5325, 'American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History', 'Chris Kyle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe raw and unforgettable narrative of the making of our countryâ€™s record-holding sniper, Chris Kyleâ€™s memoir is a powerful book, both in terms of combat action and human drama. Chief Kyle is a true American warrior down to the bone, the Carlos Hathcock of a new generation.â€\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called â€œthe devilâ€ by the enemies he hunted and â€œthe legendâ€ by his Navy SEAL brothers . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills (the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him\n  <em>\n   al-Shaitan\n  </em>\n  (â€œthe devilâ€) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S. Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealth positions. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyleâ€™s masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A native Texan who learned to shoot on childhood hunting trips with his father, Kyle was a champion saddle-bronc rider prior to joining the Navy. After 9/11, he was thrust onto the front lines of the War on Terror, and soon found his calling as a world-class sniper who performed best under fire. He recorded a personal-record 2,100-yard kill shot outside Baghdad; in Fallujah, Kyle braved heavy fire to rescue a group of Marines trapped on a street; in Ramadi, he stared down insurgents with his pistol in close combat. Kyle talks honestly about the pain of warâ€”of twice being shot and experiencing the tragic deaths of two close friends.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   American Sniper\n  </em>\n  also honors Kyles fellow warriors, who raised hell on and off the battlefield. And in moving first-person accounts throughout, Kyles wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on their marriage and children, as well as on Chris.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal,\n  <em>\n   American Sniper\n  </em>\n  is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2951'),
(5326, 'American Tabloid', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK''s presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . . Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . . Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man''s loyalty . . . Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . .James Ellroy''s trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he''s written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2838'),
(5327, 'American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA : When FDR Put the Nation to Work', 'Nick Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Launched in 1935, at the bottom of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) served as a linchpin of FDR''s New Deal. Through the WPA, Roosevelt put millions of unemployed Americans to work on public construction projects, from dams and courthouses to parks and roads. The WPA''s Federal Writers Project employed a host of artists and writers (among them Jackson Pollock, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston and Studs Terkel); theater and musical artists also received funding. Taylor (_Ordinary Miracles: Life in a Small Church_) vividly and painstakingly paints the full story of the WPA from its inception to its shutdown by Congress in 1943, at which point the war boom in manufacturing had made it unnecessary. In an eloquent and balanced appraisal, Taylor not only chronicles the WPA''s numerous triumphs (including New York''s LaGuardia Airport) but also its failures, most notably graft and other chicanery at the local level. Taylor details as well the dicey intramural politics in Congress over which states and districts would get the largest slice of the WPA pie. All told, Taylor''s volume makes for a splendid appreciation of the WPA with which to celebrate the upcoming 75th anniversary of the New Deal''s beginnings in 1933.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 4)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Franklin Roosevelt assumed the presidency in March 1933, the rate of unemployment was approximately 25 percent. Staples of todayâ€™s government support system for the needy, such as unemployment compensation and food stamps, did not exist. Roosevelt had not campaigned as a big government â€œliberal,â€ but he and his brain trust felt compelled to do something and do it fast. One of the cornerstones of the New Deal was the WPA, or Works Progress Administration. It was a controversial program. Conservative economists and politicians viewed it as an unwarranted and wasteful intrusion of government into the economy But as Taylor illustrates in this comprehensive analysis of the program, the short-term results, over the eight-year life of the program, were enormous. Dams, roads, and bridges were built; on a smaller scale, WPA workers painted murals, served hot meals to the indigent, and even repaired toys. Perhaps more important, hope was provided for the hopeless. Taylor has written a passionate defense of a program that millions saw as a godsend. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2225'),
(5328, 'Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation', 'Charles Glass', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An unforgettable portrait of the diverse American community in Paris during the occupation.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n From the spring of 1940 to liberation in the summer of 1944,\n <em>\n  Americans in Paris\n </em>\n recounts tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival under the brutal Nazi occupation through the eyes of the Americans who lived through it all. Renowned journalist Charles Glass tells the story of a remarkable cast of five thousand expatriates-artists, writers, scientists, playboys, musicians, cultural mandarins, and ordinary businessmen-and their struggles in Nazi Paris. Glass''s discovery of letters, diaries, war documents, and police files reveals as never before how Americans were trapped in a web of intrigue, collaboration, and courage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2226'),
(5329, 'The Americans: The Democratic Experience', 'Daniel Boorstin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The third and final volume in Daniel Boorstin''s award-winning trilogy, The Americans: The Democratic Experience wraps up his remarkable exploration of the American character. Beginning roughly from the time of the Civil War and ending with the moon landing, The Democratic Experience, like its two predecessors, spends remarkably little time with presidents, senators and famous battles. Indeed, in his account it is the leaders and their high-level dealings that are the footnotes to the experience of common people. Boorstin begins his book with an exploration of a distinctively American type, the "go-getter." The Western states, largely unexplored and unmapped, comprised a territory rich in opportunities for those willing to go find them, or, even better, to go make them. Boorstin provides fascinating looks into the formation of American society through the lens of these found and made opportunities. Oil, cattle, and gold are just a part of the story. His exploration extends across the whole web of social relations and business practices that were influenced and created by a nation''s early experiences with its own vastness. We think of the typical go-getters, the prospectors and oil men striking out into the heart of the continent looking to make their fortune. But with this phenomenon comes a whole host of secondary effects that Boorstin examines in fascinating detail. For example, he points out that with a problematic lack of established knowledge of local customs and practices, businessmen seeking to establish themselves in the West had to find support and guidance. The role of intermediary, therefore, became a crucial one, giving birth to another industry, and a figure more enduring than the cowboy or the pioneer: the American lawyer. Along the way, Boorstin also tackles some more typical Western stories, discussing the cowboy, the frontiersman and the emigrant, bringing new clarity and discrimination to some old, familiar myths. He also looks into the growth of individual states, such as Nevada, the opportunities created through gambling and, oddly enough, divorce, and the rise of organized crime. As he did most interestingly in his other works, Boorstin describes the American experience, and the formation of the American character through the technology and the systems that spring up to meet certain needs and that become closely woven into the fabric of American life. The department store, mail order shopping, the sewing machine, IQ tests, and life insurance all arise as a result of needs to some degree peculiar to the American experience and go on to inform the way Americans think about abstractions like intelligence, poverty, income, consumption and class. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Americans: The Democratic Experience is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand present-day American culture.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2423'),
(5330, 'Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America', 'Mark R. Levin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mark R. Levin\n  </strong>\n  , nationally syndicated talk-radio host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation, is the author of\n  <em>\n   Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto\n  </em>\n  , which spent more than three months as a #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller and sold more than one million copies. His books\n  <em>\n   Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Loverâ€™s Story of Joy and Anguish\n  </em>\n  were also bestsellers. He has worked as an attorney in the private sector and as a top adviser and administrator to several members of President Ronald Reaganâ€™s cabinet.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2955'),
(5331, 'Among Others', 'Jo Walton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins. But her mind found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels that were her closest companions. Then her mother tried to bend the spirits to dark ends, and Mori was forced to confront her in a magical battle that left her crippled--and her twin sister dead.Fleeing to her father whom she barely knew, Mori was sent to boarding school in Englandâ€“a place all but devoid of true magic. There, outcast and alone, she tempted fate by doing magic herself, in an attempt to find a circle of like-minded friends. But her magic also drew the attention of her mother, bringing about a reckoning that could no longer be put offâ€¦Combining elements of autobiography with flights of imagination in the manner of novels like Jonathan Lethemâ€™s The Fortress of Solitude, this is potentially a breakout book for an author whose genius has already been hailed by peers like Kelly Link, Sarah Weinman, and Ursula K. Le Guin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2734'),
(5332, 'Among the Mad', 'Jacqueline Winspear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Christmas Eve,1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the Home Secretary receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met. Maisie is invited into Scotland Yard''s elite Special Branch as a special adviser on the case '' and becomes involved in a race against time to find a man who soon proves he has the knowledge, and will, to murder thousands of innocent people. Before this harrowing case is over, Maisie must negotiate her way through a darkness not encountered since she was a nurse in wards filled with shell-shocked men. In Among the Mad, Jacqueline Winspear combines a heart-stopping story with a rich evocation of a fascinating period to create her most compelling and satisfying novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3426'),
(5333, 'Amy Winehouse: The Biography', 'Chas Newkey-Burden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An indisputable musical icon and controversial celebrity figure, Amy Winehouseâ€™s unique blend of jazz, pop, and soul singing and songwriting have brought her a host of awardsâ€”including two prestigious Ivor Novellos and five Grammysâ€”as well asÂ an army of committed fans who adore her rich voice and painfully honest lyrics. Meanwhile, wild stories about her turbulent and hedonistic personal life have kept Amy in the headlines. She is a daily fixture in the tabloids and a fascination of celebrity magazines, yet she also holds the respect of many serious musicians. This remarkable biography traces the life of the tattooed wonder from her childhood pranks in north London through her days at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and her time spent working with pop impresario Simon Fuller, up to the talented and rebellious Amy Winehouse of today.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chas Newkey-Burden is the author of\n <em>\n  Paris\n </em>\n <em>\n  Hilton\n </em>\n andÂ \n <em>\n  Great Email Disasters,\n </em>\n and the coauthor of\n <em>\n  Not in My Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy\n </em>\n . He has interviewed and profiled a host of celebrities, including David Beckham, Ricky Gervais, and Jenna Jameson.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1826'),
(5334, 'Anansi Boys', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Fat Charlie Nancy is not having a good week. It all hit the proverbial fan when his rotter of an estranged father dropped dead at a karaoke night and Charlie discovered that his dad was in fact Anansi the spider god. Then he found out that he has a brother (called Spider) who is also a god. And that said brother is hell bent on taking over his life, flat and fiance, and, just to add insult to injury, doing a much better job of being him. Desperate to reclaim his life, Charlie enlists the help of four loco old ladies and their unique brand of voodoo and unleashes a bitter and twisted force to get rid of Spider. But as darkness descends and badness begins is Fat Charlie Nancy going to get his life back in one piece or is he about to enter a whole netherworld of pain?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1294'),
(5335, 'Anathem', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this follow-up to his historical Baroque Cycle trilogy, which fictionalized the early-18th century scientific revolution, Stephenson (\n <em>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </em>\n ) conjures a far-future Earth-like planet, Arbre, where scientists, philosophers and mathematiciansâ€”a religious order unto themselvesâ€”have been cloistered behind concent (convent) walls. Their role is to nurture all knowledge while safeguarding it from the vagaries of the irrational saecular outside world. Among the monastic scholars is 19-year-old Raz, collected into the concent at age eight and now a decenarian, or tenner (someone allowed contact with the world beyond the stronghold walls only once a decade). But millennia-old rules are cataclysmically shattered when extraterrestrial catastrophe looms, and Raz and his teenage companionsâ€”engaging in intense intellectual debate one moment, wrestling like rambunctious adolescents the nextâ€”are summoned to save the world. Stephenson''s expansive storytelling echoes Walter Miller''s classic\n <em>\n  A Canticle for Leibowitz\n </em>\n , the space operas of Larry Niven and the cultural meditations Douglas Hofstadterâ€”a heady mix of antecedents that makes for long stretches of dazzling entertainment occasionally interrupted by pages of numbing colloquy.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephenson has never been an easy writer to pin down, and he has a reputation for not always wearing his erudition lightly. Particularly in his later booksâ€”and that now includes\n <em>\n  Anathem\n </em>\n â€”readers are vetted at the door before being invited into the authorâ€™s labyrinthine worlds. The early books were held up alongside the work of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and other cyberpunk gods, though in the last decade Stephenson has carved a niche as one of the most ambitious writers working today in any genre.\n <em>\n  Anathem\n </em>\n is intellectually rigorous and exceedingly complex, even to the point, as the\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n avows, of being â€œgrandiose, overwrought and pretty damn dull.â€ Others complained of too much abstraction. Stephensonâ€™s fans are legion, however, and many will add\n <em>\n  Anathem\n </em>\n to their list of must-read doorstops.\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1027'),
(5336, 'An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine', 'Howard Markel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  From acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel, author of\n  <em>\n   When Germs Travel,\n  </em>\n  the astonishing account of the years-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud, young, ambitious neurologist, and William Halsted, the equally young, pathfinding surgeon. Markel writes of the physical and emotional damage caused by the then-heralded wonder drug, and how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of itâ€”or because of it. One became the father of psychoanalysis; the other, of modern surgery.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Both men were practicing medicine at the same time in the 1880s: Freud at the Vienna General Hospital, Halsted at New Yorkâ€™s Bellevue Hospital. Markel writes that Freud began to experiment with cocaine as a way of studying its therapeutic usesâ€”as an antidote for the overprescribed morphine, which had made addicts of so many, and as a treatment for depression.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Halsted, an acclaimed surgeon even then, was curious about cocaineâ€™s effectiveness as an anesthetic and injected the drug into his arm to prove his theory. Neither Freud nor Halsted, nor their colleagues, had any idea of the drugâ€™s potential to dominate and endanger their lives. Addiction as a bona fide medical diagnosis didnâ€™t even exist in the elite medical circles they inhabited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   An Anatomy of Addiction,\n  </em>\n  Markel writes about the life and work of each man, showing how each came to know about cocaine; how Freud found that the drug cured his indigestion, dulled his aches, and relieved his depression. The author writes that Freud, after a few months of taking the magical drug, published a treatise on it,\n  <em>\n   Ãœber Coca,\n  </em>\n  in which he described his â€œmost gorgeous excitement.â€ The paper marked a major shift in Freudâ€™s work: he turned from studying the anatomy of the brain to exploring the human psyche.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Halsted, one of the most revered of American surgeons, became the head of surgery at the newly built Johns Hopkins Hospital and then professor of surgery, the hospitalâ€™s most exalted position, committing himself repeatedly to Butler Hospital, an insane asylum, to withdraw from his out-of control cocaine use.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Halsted invented modern surgery as we know it today: devising new ways to safely invade the body in search of cures and pioneering modern surgical techniques that controlled bleeding and promoted healing. He insisted on thorough hand washing, on scrub-downs and whites for doctors and nurses, on sterility in the operating roomâ€”even inventing the surgical glove, which he designed and had the Goodyear Rubber Company make for himâ€”accomplishing all of this as he struggled to conquer his unyielding desire for cocaine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   An Anatomy of Addiction\n  </em>\n  tells the tragic and heroic story of each man, accidentally struck down in his prime by an insidious malady: tragic because of the time, relationships, and health cocaine forced each to squander; heroic in the intense battle each man waged to overcome his affliction as he conquered his own world with his visionary healing gifts. Here is the full story, long overlooked, told in its rich historical context.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1829');
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(5337, 'Anatomy of an Epidemic', 'Robert Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States\n <em>\n  tripled\n </em>\n over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemic spreading most rapidly among our nationâ€™s children. What is going on?\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Anatomy of an Epidemic\n </em>\n challenges readers to think through that question themselves. First, Whitaker investigates what is known today about the biological causes of mental disorders. Do psychiatric medications fix â€œchemical imbalancesâ€ in the brain, or do they, in fact,\n <em>\n  create\n </em>\n them? Researchers spent decades studying that question, and by the late 1980s, they had their answer. Readers will be startledâ€”and dismayedâ€”to discover what was reported in the scientific journals.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then comes the scientific query at the heart of this book: During the past fifty years, when investigators looked at how psychiatric drugs affected\n <em>\n  long\n </em>\n -_term _outcomes, what did they find? Did they discover that the drugs help people stay well? Function better? Enjoy good physical health? Or did they find that these medications, for some paradoxical reason,\n <em>\n  increase\n </em>\n the likelihood that people will become chronically ill, less able to function well, more prone to physical illness?\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the first book to look at the merits of psychiatric medications through the prism of long-term results. Are long-term recovery rates higher for medicated or unmedicated schizophrenia patients? Does taking an antidepressant decrease or increase the risk that a depressed person will become disabled by the disorder? Do bipolar patients fare better today than they did forty years ago, or much worse? When the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) studied the long-term outcomes of children with ADHD, did they determine that stimulants provide any benefit?\n</p>\n<p>\n By the end of this review of the outcomes literature, readers are certain to have a haunting question of their own: Why have the results from these long-term studiesâ€”all of which point to the same startling conclusionâ€”been kept from the public?\n</p>\n<p>\n In this compelling history, Whitaker also tells the personal stories of children and adults swept up in this epidemic. Finally, he reports on innovative programs of psychiatric care in Europe and the United States that are producing good long-term outcomes. Our nation has been hit by an epidemic of disabling mental illness, and yet, as\n <em>\n  Anatomy of an Epidemic\n </em>\n reveals, the medical blueprints for curbing that epidemic have already been drawn up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2229'),
(5338, 'Ancient Chinese Warfare', 'Ralph D. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sawyer, a leading scholar of Chinese warfare and fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, is best known for his comprehensively edited translations of classical military writings. His latest analytical work is no less significant. It begins in the prehistoric period and continues through the fifth century B.C.E., an era traditionally described as one of stability, almost idyllic compared to the two-century warring states period that followed. Sawyer instead demonstrates through archeological evidence, traditional accounts, and convincing interpretations of inscriptions that conflict in China became increasingly complex, lethal, and decisive during the Hsia and Shang dynasties. Armies became structured forces with bureaucratized logistics. Warrior values were integrated into mainstream cultures. Sawyer''s analysis ranges from the evolution of fortification, through the metallurgical innovations behind improved weapons, to the technologies and animal husbandry that enabled the chariots that became ancient China''s signature. Warfare, says Sawyer, stimulated innovation, social change, and material progress. It also destroyed the peace and security of communities, then peoples, absorbed into ever-larger political systems sustained by force. Ancient China, shaped by its wars, was firmly set on "a trajectory of state building and aggressive activity." Illus. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n P. H. Liotta, author ofÂ _The Real Population Bomb: Megacities and Global Security\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œAfter decades of intense and dedicated scholarship, Ralph Sawyer has produced an astonishing volume. His linguistic and strategic skillsâ€”his fierce geniusâ€”are everywhere in evidence. Sawyer is a master, and\n <em>\n  Ancient Chinese Warfare\n </em>\n is his masterpiece.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Ralph Peters, retired Military Intelligence officer and author ofÂ _The War After Armageddon_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Ancient Chinese Warfare_ is, paradoxically, a crucial book for the 21st century. As the â€˜newâ€™ China aspires to global power, understanding the foundations of this civilizationâ€™s way of war helps us grasp Beijingâ€™s present psychology and behavior.Â The Chinese take a very long view of history, and we need to learn to do so.Â To that end, the brilliant work of Ralph D. Sawyer has long proven unrivalled...and this book is his masterpiece.Â No work better illustrates the deep (and gnarled) roots of Chinaâ€™s contemporary ambitions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Nicola Di Cosmo, Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian History at the Institute for Advanced Study\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ_Ancient Chinese Warfare_ is an important, informative, and exciting book. Written with panache, brimming with new ideas, and based on a level of knowledge that would challenge any expert, Sawyerâ€™s work has transformed single-handedly our understanding of ancient Chinese military history. Readers will find in this book a solidly informed and vivid account of Chinaâ€™s ways of warfare from the Shang dynasty to the mid-first millennium BC. Only few of them will appreciate the massive effort of synthesis and analysis that this book represents, and it is to Sawyerâ€™s credit that he has succeeded in bringing an extremely difficult topic to a level that everyone can understand, learn from, and enjoy.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Edward N. Luttwak, author ofÂ _The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œNot unexpectedly, this book enhances Ralph D. Sawyerâ€™s reputation as the premier interpreter of Chinese strategy and warfare. The surprise is that with the aid of a flowing style he has written a highly readable, indeed very enjoyable book on a seemingly abstruse subject. In a manner fascinating in itself, Sawyer brilliantly reconstructs the fragmentary archaeological evidence.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2231'),
(5339, 'Ancient Iraq', 'Georges Roux', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A history of the politics, economics, and culture of ancient Mesopotamia, from prehistoric times to the dawn of the Christian era, surveying the shared civilization of Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2232'),
(5340, 'Ancients', 'David L. Golemon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eons before the birth of the Roman Empire, there was a civilization dedicated to the sciences of earth, sea, and sky. In the City of Light lived people who made dark plans to lay waste to their uncivilized neighborsÂ using the very power of the planet itself. As the great science of their time was brought to bear on the invading hordes, hell was set loose on Earth. And the civilization of Atlantis disappeared in a suicidal storm of fire and waterâ€¦Now history threatens to repeat itself. The great weapon of the Ancients has been discovered in the South Pacific, and it is being deciphered by men of hatred who want to unleash hell on Earth once again. This time, itâ€™s up to the Major Jack Collins and the Event Groupâ€”comprised of the nationâ€™s most brilliant minds in the fields of science, philosophy, and the military to find the truth behind the worldâ€™s greatest unsolved mythsâ€”to end the cycle of destruction. Meanwhile, the seas rise, the earth cracks, and entire cities crumble to dust as the evil plan mapped out thousands of years before begins to take shapeâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3927'),
(5341, 'And Another Thing: The World According to Clarkson', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Everyone knows that Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place after all, he wrote a bestselling book about it. Yet despite the appearance of The World According To Clarkson, things don''t seem to have improved much. However, Jeremy is not someone to give up easily and he''s decided to have another go. In And Another Thing, our exasperated hero discovers that: bull; He inadvertently dropped a bomb on North Carolina bull; We''re all going to explode at the age of 62 bull; Russians look bad in Speedos. But not as bad as we do. bull; No one should have to worry about being Bill Oddie''s long lost sister bull; He should probably be nicer about David Beckham Thigh-slappingly funny and as ever in your face, Jeremy Clarkson bursts the pointless little bubbles of the idiots while celebrating the special, the unique and the sheer bloody brilliant. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1326'),
(5342, 'The Andromeda Strain', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Some biologists speculate that if we ever make contact with extraterrestrials, those life forms are likely to be--like most life on earth--one-celled or smaller creatures, more comparable to bacteria than little green men. And even though such organisms would not likely be able to harm humans, the possibility exists that first contact might be our last.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That''s the scientific supposition that Michael Crichton formulates and follows out to its conclusion in his excellent debut novel,\n  <em>\n   The Andromeda Strain\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  A Nobel-Prize-winning bacteriologist, Jeremy Stone, urges the president to approve an extraterrestrial decontamination facility to sterilize returning astronauts, satellites, and spacecraft that might carry an "unknown biologic agent." The government agrees, almost too quickly, to build the top-secret Wildfire Lab in the desert of Nevada. Shortly thereafter, unbeknownst to Stone, the U.S. Army initiates the "Scoop" satellite program, an attempt to actively collect space pathogens for use in biological warfare. When Scoop VII crashes a couple years later in the isolated Arizona town of Piedmont, the Army ends up getting more than it asked for.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Andromeda Strain\n  </em>\n  follows Stone and rest of the scientific team mobilized to react to the Scoop crash as they scramble to understand and contain a strange and deadly outbreak. Crichton''s first book may well be his best; it has an earnestness that is missing from his later, more calculated thrillers.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outerfringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont,a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town''s inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/324'),
(5343, 'The Andromeda Strain/The Terminal Man', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <h1>\n  1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Michael Crichton has been called "one of the great storytellers of our age,"* a master at seamlessly blending cutting-edge science and technology with spellbinding adventure. Now two of his most electrifying thrillers have been combined in one volume, to astonish and terrify a new generation of readers with brilliant and disturbing visions of the frighteningly possible.\n </h1>\n <p>\n  The Andromeda Strain\n </p>\n <p>\n  A satellite sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study" falls back to earth, crash-landing in a desolate area of Arizona, twelve miles from the tiny town of Piedmont. The terror has begun . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Terminal Man\n </p>\n <p>\n  The brain of a patient prone to violent, uncontrollable seizures has been implanted with experimental electrodes designed to soothe his homicidal impulses. But the doctors never dreamed heâ€™d learn to control the monitor inside his head. Now an unstoppable maniac is loose in an unsuspecting city.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Crichton''s novels include\n  <em>\n   Pirate Latitudes\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Next\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   State of Fear\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Prey\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Timeline\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Jurassic Park\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Andromeda Strain\n  </em>\n  . He is also known as a filmmaker and the creator of\n  <em>\n   ER\n  </em>\n  . One of the most popular writers in the world, he has sold over 150 million books, which have been translated into thirty-six languages; thirteen have been made into films. He remains the only writer to have had the number-one book, movie, and TV show at the same time.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/325'),
(5344, 'Angel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n In the seventh book in the bestselling series, evil scientists are still trying to convince Max that she needs to save the world, this time by providing the genetic link in speeding up the pace of evolution. Worse, they''re trying to convince her that her perfect mate is Dylan, the newest addition to the flock. The problem is that, despite herself, Max is starting to\n <u>\n  believe\n </u>\n it.\n <br />\n <br />\n Fang travels the country collecting his own gang of evolved humans, but the two separate flocks must unite to defeat a frightening doomsday cult whose motto is\n <strong>\n  <i>\n   Save the Planet: Kill the Humans.\n  </i>\n </strong>\n And this time, the true heroine, for once, might just be little Angel.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/272'),
(5345, 'Angel Experiment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Get ready for the maximum thrill ride from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson. Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, Angel, and Maximum: Six kids who are pretty normal in most ways--except that they''re 98% human and 2% bird. Riding the wind, their wings are an amazing gift...and yet, their world can morph into a nightmare in a single instant. For when the bloodthirsty Erasers--half men, half-wolves genetically engineered by sick and sinister scientists--kidnap little Angel, the Flock embarks on a rescue mission that will change them forever. From Death Valley, California, to the bowels of the New York City subway system, 14-year-old Max leads her five feisty "family" members on a journey full of nonstop action, adventure, and soul-seeking--not to mention a little bit of saving the world on the side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/273'),
(5346, 'Angel Falls', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother of two, falls into a coma, it is up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together, to care for their grieving, frightened children. Day after day, he sits by her bedside, telling stories of the precious life they have built, hoping, always hoping, that she will wake up. Then he discovers evidence of her secret past: a hidden first marriage to Julian True, a man no woman could resist . . . or forget. Desperate to bring Mikaela back at any cost, Liam turns to the one person who could make her respondâ€” and who could take her out of his arms forever.ANGEL FALLS is a moving portrayal of marriage and commitment, and of an ordinary man who risks everything in the name of love.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/984'),
(5347, 'Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Anne Rice returns to the mesmerizing storytelling that has captivated readers for more than three decades in a tale of unceasing suspense set in time past--a metaphysical thriller about angels and assassins. The novel opens in the present. At its center: Toby O''Dare--a contract killer of underground fame on assignment to kill once again. A soulless soul, a dead man walking, he lives under a series of aliases--just now: Lucky the Fox--and takes his orders from "The Right Man." Into O''Dare''s nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions comes a mysterious stranger, a seraph, who offers him a chance to save rather than destroy lives. O''Dare, who long ago dreamt of being a priest but instead came to embody danger and violence, seizes his chance. Now he is carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear . . . In this primitive setting, O''Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation, a journey of danger and flight, loyalty and betrayal, selflessness and love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3387'),
(5348, 'Angelology', 'Danielle Trussoni', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A thrilling epic about an ancient clash reignited in our time- between a hidden society and heaven''s darkest creatures   There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Genesis 6:5  Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in upstate New York. Now, at twenty-three, her discovery of a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller to the late mother superior of Saint Rose Convent plunges Evangeline into a secret history that stretches back a thousand years: an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim.  For the secrets these letters guard are desperately coveted by the once-powerful Nephilim, who aim to perpetuate war, subvert the good in humanity, and dominate mankind. Generations of angelologists have devoted their lives to stopping them, and their shared mission, which Evangeline has long been destined to join, reaches from her bucolic abbey on the Hudson to the apex of insular wealth in New York, to the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris and the mountains of Bulgaria.  Rich in history, full of mesmerizing characters, and wondrously conceived, Angelology blends biblical lore, the myth of Orpheus and the Miltonic visions of Paradise Lost into a riveting tale of ordinary people engaged in a battle that will determine the fate of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3448'),
(5349, 'Angels &amp; Demons', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil EuropÃ©en pour la Recherche NuclÃ©aire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (\n <em>\n  Digital Fortress\n </em>\n ) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels &amp; Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville''s\n <em>\n  The Eight\n </em>\n (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco''s\n <em>\n  Foucault''s Pendulum\n </em>\n (but more accessible).\n</p>\n<p>\n Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society''s ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra''s daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It''s tasty.\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Look Inside the Motion Picture\n  <em>\n   Angels &amp; Demons\n  </em>\n  (Sony Pictures, 2009)\n </strong>\n <br />\n Click on each image below to see a larger view\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca with College of Cardinals\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon and Ayelet Zurer as Vittoria Vetra\n</p>\n<p>\n Armin Mueller-Stahl as Straus and Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, Ayelet Zurer as Vittoria Vetra, and Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca\n</p>\n<p>\n Ewan MacGregor as Carlo Ventresca\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pitting scientific terrorists against the cardinals of Vatican City, this well-plotted if over-the-top thriller is crammed with Vatican intrigue and high-tech drama. Robert Langdon, a Harvard specialist on religious symbolism, is called in by a Swiss research lab when Dr. Vetra, the scientist who discovered antimatter, is found murdered with the cryptic word "Illuminati" branded on his chest. These Iluminati were a group of Renaissance scientists, including Galileo, who met secretly in Rome to discuss new ideas in safety from papal threat; what the long-defunct association has to do with Dr. Vetra''s death is far from clear. Vetra''s daughter, Vittoria, makes a frightening discovery: a lethal amount of antimatter, sealed in a vacuum flask that will explode in six hours unless its batteries are recharged, is missing. Almost immediately, the Swiss Guard discover that the flask is hidden beneath Vatican City, where the conclave to elect a new pope has just begun. Vittoria and Langdon rush to recover the canister, but they aren''t allowed into the Vatican until it is discovered that the four principal papal candidates are missing. The terrorists who are holding the cardinals call in regarding their pending murders, offering clues tied to ancient Illuminati meeting sites and runes. Meanwhile, it becomes clear that a sinister Vatican entity with messianic delusions is in league with the terrorists. Packing the novel with sinister figures worthy of a Medici, Brown (Digital Fortress) sets an explosive pace as Langdon and Vittoria race through a Michelin-perfect Rome to try to save the cardinals and find the antimatter before it explodes. Though its premises strain credulity, Brown''s tale is laced with twists and shocks that keep the reader wired right up to the last revelation. (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1101'),
(5350, 'Angels Flight', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Connelly, whose novel\n <em>\n  The Poet\n </em>\n won the 1997 Anthony Award for Best Mystery, is already recognized as one of the smartest and most vivid scribes of the hard-boiled police procedural. Now, with his much-anticipated sixth Harry Bosch novel,\n <em>\n  Angels Flight\n </em>\n , Connelly offers one of the finest pieces of mystery writing to appear in 1998. Bosch is awakened in the middle of the night and, out of rotation, he is assigned to the murder investigation of the high-profile African American attorney Howard Elias. When Bosch arrives at the scene, it seems that almost the entire LAPD is present, including the IAD (the Internal Affairs Division). Elias, who made a career out of suing the police, was sadistically gunned down on the Angels Flight tram just as he was beginning a case that would have struck the core of the department; not surprisingly, L.A.''s men and women in blue become the center of the investigation. Haunted by the ghost of the L.A. riots, plagued by incessant media attention, and facing turmoil at home, Bosch suddenly finds himself questioning friends and associates while working side by side with some longtime enemies.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Angels Flight\n </em>\n is a detective''s nightmare scenario and is disturbingly relevant to the racially tense last decade of the 20th century. Amidst the twists and turns of his complex narrative, Connelly affirms his rightful place among the masters of contemporary mystery fiction.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n Angels Flight is the eighth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the sixth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  In the article:\n </strong>\n Plot summary\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/458'),
(5351, 'Angle of Repose', 'Wallace Stegner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Stegner''s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner''s masterpiece.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  The novel tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks nonetheless on a search to rediscover his grandmother, no long dead, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3056'),
(5352, 'Animal Farm', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell''s fable of a workers'' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway''s\n  <em>\n   The Old Man and the Sea\n  </em>\n  as the Shortest Serious Novel It''s OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell''s intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism,\n  <em>\n   Animal Farm\n  </em>\n  is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals'' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire\n  <em>\n   Animal Farm\n  </em>\n  may be, but it''s a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell''s view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy.\n  <em>\n   --Joyce Thompson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This 50th-anniversary commemorative edition of Orwell''s masterpiece is lavishly illustrated by Ralph Steadman. In addition, it contains Orwell''s proposed introduction to the English-language version as well as his preface to the Ukrainian text. Though all editions of Animal Farm are equal, this one is more equal than others.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/460'),
(5353, 'Anna Karenina', 'Leo Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Some people say\n  <em>\n   Anna Karenina\n  </em>\n  is the single greatest novel ever written, which makes about as much sense to me as trying to determine the world''s greatest color. But there is no doubt that\n  <em>\n   Anna Karenina\n  </em>\n  , generally considered Tolstoy''s best book, is definitely one ripping great read. Anna, miserable in her loveless marriage, does the barely thinkable and succumbs to her desires for the dashing Vronsky. I don''t want to give away the ending, but I will say that 19th-century Russia doesn''t take well to that sort of thing.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Pevear and Volokhonsky, winners of the 1991 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their version of Fyodor Dostoyevsky''s The Brothers Karamazov, have produced the first new translation of Leo Tolstoy''s classic Anna Karenina in 40 years. The result should make the book accessible to a new generation of readers. In an informative introduction, Pevear gives the reader a history of the work Tolstoy called his first true novel and which took him some four years to write. Pevear explains how Tolstoy took real events, incorporated them into his novel, and went through several versions before this tale of the married Anna and her love for Count Vronsky emerged in its final form in 1876. It was during the writing of the book that Tolstoy went through a religious crisis in his life, which is reflected in this novel. The translation is easily readable and succeeds in bringing Tolstoy''s masterpiece to life once again. For all libraries. Ron Ratliff, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1030'),
(5354, 'Another Thing to Fall', 'Laura Lippman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The California dream weavers have invaded Charm City with their cameras, their stars, and their controversy. . . .   When private investigator Tess Monaghan literally runs into the crew of the fledgling TV series Mann of Steel while sculling, she expects sharp words and evil looks, not an assignment. But the company has been plagued by a series of disturbing incidents since its arrival on location in Baltimore: bad press, union threats, and small, costly on-set "accidents" that have wreaked havoc with its shooting schedule. As a result, Mann''s creator, Flip Tumulty, the son of a Hollywood legend, is worried for the safety of his young female lead, Selene Waites, and asks Tess to serve as her bodyguard/babysitter. Tumulty''s concern may be well founded. Not long ago a Baltimore man was discovered dead in his own home, surrounded by photos of the beautiful, difficult superstar-in-the-making.   In the past, Tess has had enough trouble guarding her own body. Keeping a spoiled movie princess under wraps may be more than she can handleâ€”even with the help of Tess''s icily unflappable friend Whitneyâ€”since Selene is not as naive as everyone seems to think, and far more devious than she initially appears to be. This is not Tess''s world. And these are not her kind of people, with their vanities, their self-serving agendas and invented personas, and their remarkably skewed visions of realityâ€”from the series'' aging, shallow, former pretty-boy leading man to its resentful, always-on-the-make cowriter to the officious young assistant who may be too hungry for her own good.   But the fish-out-of-water P.I. is abruptly pulled back in by an occurrence she''s all too familiar withâ€”murder. Suddenly the wall of secrets around Mann of Steel is in danger of toppling, leaving shattered dreams, careers, and lives scattered among the ruinsâ€”a catastrophe that threatens the people Tess cares about . . . and the city she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3596'),
(5355, 'Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties', 'Lucy Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The term Roaring Twenties connotates an era of uninhibited excess, characterized by drinking, shameless flappers, jazz, and gangland wars. All of these aspects are covered in this enjoyable, if uneven, survey of the decade. Moore also convincingly asserts that this was a period of significant social and political change with long-term effects. Utilizing a topical approach, she offers interesting descriptions of the emergence of organized crime, the excesses of big business, the Harlem Renaissance, and the stirrings of civil rights activism. She provides many useful tidbits about personalities as varied as Al Capone and Marcus Garvey. As long as Moore stays with her descriptive narrative, her account moves along smoothly. Unfortunately, her efforts to analyze these trends and to link them to our current economic and political conditions donâ€™t ring true and are often based upon unwarranted assumptions. Still, for general readers, this work provides an interesting and wide-ranging look at a tumultuous period. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for\n   <em>\n    Anything Goes\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³A gorgeous historical indulgence.Â² --_InStyle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³Quickstepping over the surface of the 1920s, a high-octane and high- speed decade that F. Scott Fitzgerald christened the Jazz Age, U.K. writer Moore emphasizes that the 1920s was a time a lot like our recent past.Â² --_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³Lucy MooreÂ¹s enlightening, well-researched biography of the 1920s will appeal to scholars as well as a general audience. Filled with attention-grabbing details that many historians neglect and a wide range of subjectsâ€¹from celebrities like Charlie Chaplin or Bessie Smith to political corruption and social upheavalâ€¹_Anything Goes_ will not disappoint readers, no matter their educational background.Â² --_ForeWord Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³A varied and dazzling portrait gallery of crooks and film stars, boxers and presidents, each brilliantly delineated and coloured in by a historian with a novelistÂ¹s relish for human foibles.Â² --_The Sunday Times_ (London)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2234'),
(5356, 'Ape House', 'Sara Gruen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships-but unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language. Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn''t understand people, but animals she gets-especially the bonobos. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she''s ever felt among humans . . . until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter who braves the ever-present animal rights protesters outside the lab to see what''s really going on inside. When an explosion rocks the lab, severely injuring Isabel and; liberating; the apes, John''s human interest piece turns into the story of a lifetime, one he''ll risk his career and his marriage to follow. Then a reality TV show featuring the missing apes debuts under mysterious circumstances, and it immediately becomes the biggest-and unlikeliest-phenomenon in the history of modern media. Millions of fans are glued to their screens watching the apes order greasy take-out, have generous amounts of sex, and sign for Isabel to come get them. Now, to save her family of apes from this parody of human life, Isabel must connect with her own kind, including John, a green-haired vegan, and a retired porn star with her own agenda. Ape House delivers great entertainment, but it also opens the animal world to us in ways few novels have done, securing Sara Gruen''s place as a master storyteller who allows us to see ourselves as we never have before. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3433'),
(5357, 'The Apocalypse Reader', 'Justin Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Across boundaries of place and time, these writers celebrate the variety and vitality of the short story as a form by writing their own conclusions to the story of the world. Obliteration has never hurt so good. Contributors include Grace Aguilar, Steve Aylett, Robert Bradley, Dennis Cooper, Lucy Corin, Elliott David, Matthew Derby, Carol Emshwiller, Brian Evenson, Neil Gaiman, Jeff Goldberg, Theodora Goss, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jared Hohl, Shelley Jackson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stacey Levine, Tao Lin, Kelly Link, H.P. Lovecraft, Gary Lutz, Rick Moody, Michael Moorcock, Adam Nemett, Josip Novakovich, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette Phair, Edgar Allan Poe, Terese Svoboda, Justin Taylor, Lynne Tillman, Deb Olin, Unferth, H.G. Wells, Allison Whittenberg, and Diane Williams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2788'),
(5358, 'The Apocalypse Watch', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n American agent Harry Latham has prenetrated the fortresslike mountain hideaway of the Brotherhood of the Watch, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the fall of the Third Reich. After three years in deep cover, Latham has suddenly disappeared. His brother Drew, Special Officer for Consular Operations in Paris, is frantic to discover Harry''s fate. But when Harry resurfaces, he''s carrying dangerous cargo: an explosive list of the secret supports of the Brotherhood, including high-ranking US officials. Why has the Brotherhood let him live? Can Drew Latham still trust his own brother? Drew''s search for the truth about Harry and the growing Nazi threat to the free world will plunge him into a labyrinth of deceit and death.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ludlum''s latest suspense tale of international intrigue spent 12 weeks on PW''s bestseller list.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1257'),
(5359, 'The Apostle', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Every politician has a secret. And when the daughter of a politically connected family is kidnapped abroad, America''s new president will agree to anythingeven a deadly and ill-advised rescue planin order to keep his secret hidden. But when covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is assigned to infiltrate one of the world''s most notorious prisons and free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom, he quickly learns that there is much more to the operation than anyone dares to admit. As the subterfuge is laid bare, Harvath must examine his own career of ruthlessly hunting down and killing terrorists and decide if he has what it takes to help one of the world''s worst go free.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3676'),
(5360, 'The Appeal', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the author of twenty bestselling books, John Grisham has set the standard for legal thrillers since the debut of\n <em>\n  The Firm\n </em>\n in 1991. Enjoy this Q&amp;A--as well as a personal note to Amazon readers--from John Grisham.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1. Your new novel starts off where most courtroom dramas end--with the verdict. Where did you get the idea to reverse the usual order of events this time around?\n </strong>\n <br />\n The actual trial is not a terribly significant part of the story. Most all of the action and intrigue begins after the trial is over, with the verdict and the subsequent appeal.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  2.\n  <em>\n   The Appeal\n  </em>\n  overtly suggests that elected judges can be bought. If the novel is meant as a cautionary tale, what''s next--the Presidential primaries?\n </strong>\n <br />\n Why not? Over one billion dollars will be spent next year in the Presidential primaries and general election. With that kind of money floating around, anything can be bought.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  3. Speaking of electoral politics, you''ve been more vocal recently about your political views ... first supporting Jim Webb for Senate and now endorsing Hillary Clinton for the White House. Have you given any thought to running for office yourself?\n </strong>\n <br />\n No. I made that mistake 25 years ago, and promised myself I would never do it again. I enjoy watching and participating in politics from the sidelines, but it''s best to keep some distance.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  4. This is your first legal thriller in three years. How did it feel to get back to the genre that started it all, and can fans expect another thriller from you next year?\n </strong>\n <br />\n I still enjoy writing the legal thrillers, and don''t plan to get too far away from them. Obviously, they have been very good to me, and they remain popular. I plan to write one a year for the next several years.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  5. Your nonfiction book\n  <em>\n   The Innocent Man\n  </em>\n  continues to be a bestseller in paperback. In your ongoing work with The Innocence Project, have you come across another story of the wrongfully convicted that begs to be written as nonfiction?\n </strong>\n <br />\n There are literally hundreds of great stories out there about wrongfully convicted defendants. I am continually astounded by these stories, and I resist the temptation to take the plunge again into non-fiction.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  6. What''s on your bedside reading list at the moment?\n </strong>\n <br />\n 1.\n <em>\n  The Nine\n </em>\n by Jeffrey Toobin\n <br />\n 2.  Eric Clapton''s autobiography\n <br />\n 3.\n <em>\n  East of Eden\n </em>\n by John Steinbeck.\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A Mississippi jury returns a $41-million verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping carcinogenic waste into a small town''s water supply. The company''s ruthless billionaire CEO is thwarted and the good guys (a courageous young woman who lost her husband and child and her two lawyers who''ve gone half a million dollars in debt preparing her case) receives its just reward. This sounds like the end of a Grisham legal thriller, but instead it''s the beginning of a book-length lesson in how greed and big business have corrupted our electoral and judicial systems. Grisham''s characters are over-the-top. The CEO and the other equally overdone villainsâ€”his venal trophy wife, a self-serving senator and a pair of smarmy political fixersâ€”as well as the unbelievably good-hearted, self-sacrificing lawyers and an honorable state judge, are one dimensional. Michael Beck, with his natural Southern drawl, does a fine job of adding credibility and nuance to the large cast. But his efforts are for naught. In fact, the more he makes us feel for these characters, the less apt we are to be satisfied with the sourball moral of Grisham''s downbeat discourse.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1258'),
(5361, 'Appetite for America', 'Stephen Fried', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generationsâ€”from the 1880s all the way through World War IIâ€”and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the founding father of the nationâ€™s service industry, whose remarkable family business civilized the West and introduced America to Americans.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Appetite for America\n </strong>\n is the incredible real-life story of Fred Harveyâ€”told in depth for the first time everâ€”as well as the story of this countryâ€™s expansion into the Wild West of Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, of the great days of the railroad, of a time when a deal could still be made with a handshake and the United States was still uniting. As a young immigrant, Fred Harvey worked his way up from dishwasher to household name: He was Ray Kroc before McDonaldâ€™s, J. Willard Marriott before Marriott Hotels, Howard Schultz before Starbucks. His eating houses and hotels along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad (including historic lodges still in use at the Grand Canyon) were patronized by princes, presidents, and countless ordinary travelers looking for the best cup of coffee in the country. Harveyâ€™s staff of carefully screened single young womenâ€”the celebrated Harvey Girlsâ€”were the countryâ€™s first female workforce and became genuine Americana, even inspiring an MGM musical starring Judy Garland.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the verve and passion of Fred Harvey himself, Stephen Fried tells the story of how this visionary built his business from a single lunch counter into a family empire whose marketing and innovations we still encounter in myriad ways. Inspiring, instructive, and hugely entertaining,\n <strong>\n  Appetite for America\n </strong>\n is historical biography that is as richly rewarding as a slice of fresh apple pieâ€”and every bit as satisfying.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   *With two photo inserts featuring over 75 images, and an appendix with over fifty Fred Harvey recipes, most of them never-before-published.\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2237');
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(5362, 'Appetite for Life', 'Noel Riley Fitch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noel Riley Fitch''s savory new biography,\n <em>\n  Appetite for Life\n </em>\n , reveals a woman as appealing as the good food and serious cooking she popularized. As a California girl and Smith College undergraduate, Fitch writes, Julia McWilliams was notable for her high spirits and voracious appetite. Performing intelligence work in Asia during World War II, she met Paul Child, and their marriage of mutual devotion and affection endured until his death in 1994. His postwar assignment took them to France, where she discovered her true calling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fitch reminds us that Child championed fresh ingredients at a time when frozen foods and TV dinners dominated American supermarket shelves, and that she demystified haute cuisine with her earthy humor and casual attitude toward mistakes. This affectionate portrait of the remarkable Julia Child reflects her fervent belief that the pleasures of the table are a natural accompaniment to the pleasures of life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n No one person in the U.S. improved the nation''s standard of eating more than Julia Child. Her celebrity stems less from her masterwork,\n <em>\n  Mastering the Art of French Cooking\n </em>\n , than from her perennially popular PBS television series,\n <em>\n  The French Chef\n </em>\n . Born into a wealthy Southern California home, Julia McWilliams led a lively but pampered existence until she met Paul Child in wartime India. These two eager esthetes, for whom the worst possible sin was being boring, bonded into an extraordinarily strong marriage that helped the husband survive McCarthy''s purges and gave the wife a decade to focus on her revolutionary book. Although the Childs crossed paths with dozens of political, artistic, and literary notables in postwar Paris, Marseille, Bonn, Oslo, and Washington, biographer Fitch does little but catalog names. But he does make both Childs'' personalities come alive, from Paul''s meticulousness to Julia''s exuberant, even bawdy, gusto. Uneasy yet productive relationships among Julia and her coauthors fed off both professional and cultural differences. Fitch recounts in mortifying detail one of publishing''s great gaffes: Houghton Mifflin let\n <em>\n  Mastering\n </em>\n slip away to Knopf. Julia''s evolution from author into television personality and food guru began in her fifties; now in her eighties, she continues to reshape the food world she transfigured.\n <em>\n  Mark Knoblauch\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1842'),
(5363, 'Apple Turnover Murder', 'Joanne Fluke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s June in Lake Eden, Minnesota, and for Hannah Swensen, that means bridal showers galore, plus a massive fundraising event in need of confections - not to mention a killer who never learned that charity begins at home. Early summer brings plenty of work for Hannah, even before Mayor Bascomb''s wife drops by The Cookie Jar to place an order...for eleven-hundred cookies! Stephanie Bascomb is organizing an elaborate three-day event to support local charities, and though it''s a worthy cause, Hannah almost flips when her business partner, Lisa, suggests setting up an apple turnover stand. Hannah''s never made a turnover - but, pushover that she is, she places her faith in Lisa''s mother-in-law''s recipe and agrees to be a magician''s assistant in the fundraiser''s talent show. Dozens of pastries and one hideous purple dress later, Hannah has to admit that stepping out of her comfort zone has been fun as well as profitable. The only snag is the show''s host, community college professor Bradford Ramsey. Hannah and her younger sister Michelle each had unfortunate romantic relationships with Ramsey, and when the cad comes sniffing around between acts, Hannah tells him off. But when the curtain doesn''t go up, she discovers Ramsey backstage - dead as a doornail with a turnover in his hand. Now, to protect her reputation and Michelle''s, Hannah must get to the bottom of the professor''s bitter end. There are plenty of scorned suspects, including an ex-wife who feels cheated in more ways than one, and a prominent local who may have been using Ramsey to avenge her own randy spouse. But who was unstable enough to snuff out Professor Love? A killer who''s flakier than puff pastry - and far more dangerous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3465'),
(5364, 'The Aquaintaine Progession', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n It begins in Geneva.  There American lawyer Joel Converse meets a man he hasn''t seen in twenty years, a covert operative who dies violently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse a staggering legacy of death: "THE GENERALS...THEY''RE BACK...AQUITAINE!"  Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alone with the world''s most shattering secret.  Pursued by anonymous executioners to the dark corners of Europe, he is forced to play a game of survival by blood rules he thought he''d long left behind.  One by one, he traces each thread of a deadly progression to the hear of every major governmentâ€”a network of coordinated global violence that no one believes possible.  No one but Converse and the woman he once loved and lost.  The only two people on earth who can wrest the world from the iron grasp of Aquitaine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1259'),
(5365, 'The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag', 'Chol-hwan Kang', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, one man''s suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2424'),
(5366, 'The Arctic Event', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ponderous prose and a less than credible plot-line weigh down Cobb''s Covert-One novel, the seventh in a series (The Hades Factor, etc.) based on a concept created by the late Robert Ludlum. After the chance discovery of a crashed aircraft in the Arctic Circle, the Russians, who are on the verge of signing a landmark antiterrorism pact with the United States, inform President Samuel Castilla that it''s a Soviet plane that went down in the 1950s while carrying a ton of weaponized anthrax. Castilla, who suspects that there''s more to the story than the Russians are letting on, orders series Jonathan Smith, chief operative for the shadowy Covert-One intelligence service, and his team to investigate. Two women whose field skills are matched by their physical attractiveness join Smith, setting up predictable situations when they fall into the hands of the bad guys. Veteran thriller fans are likely to find the underlying premise behind the Russians'' duplicity unconvincing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ROBERT LUDLUM was the author of twenty-one novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. Mr. Ludlum passed away in March 2001.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  JAMES COBB, a longtime mystery/thriller writer, is a graduate of the University of Puget Sound and an avid student of military history and technology. He is a member of the United States Naval Institute and the Navy League. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1193'),
(5367, 'Are You There, Vodka? It&#39;s Me, Chelsea', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Handler proves the adage that just because one can, doesn''t mean one should. This applies to both her role as a writer and a narrator. In this disjointed collection of memories and experiences, even her overenthusiastic voice cannot compensate for the irrelevance and frivolousness that is this book. Her anecdotes cover a range of topics from sex to sibling rivalry to parental humiliation, all showcasing how smart and witty she can be-in hindsight. Whether rambling about how she''s freaked out by red-headed men or bemoaning her arrest and short stint in prison, her attempts to be funny fall flat and her valley-girl persona wears quickly on listeners. Her lively voice has the potential to do well with audiobooks, but the overall tone and ecstatic energy she emits only emphasizes the inconsequential prose. Listeners might find themselves asking for Vodka to help reach the end of this production. A Simon &amp; Schuster hardcover.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Chelsea Handler writes like Judy Blume, if Judy Blume were into vodka, Ecstasy, and sleeping with midgets and nineteen-year-olds."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Jennifer Weiner, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  In Her Shoes\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ms. Handler''s style is a friendlier, more workaday version of the haughty self-abasement practiced by Sarah Silverman, leavened by the everywoman spirit of Kathy Griffin...She seems like a cruel queen bee from an expensive college: There''s something suspiciously sophisticated about how her jokes line up that suggests the moral austerity of a comic not of [Joan] Rivers''s bad-girl school: Tina Fey."\n</p>\n<p>\n --\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Where have I been all of Chelsea Handler''s life? I had no idea how funny, how brilliant she is. She is too clever for words."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Liz Smith,\n <em>\n  New York Post\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Chelsea Handler is a terrific comedian and a hilarious writer."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Jay Leno\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1295'),
(5368, 'Armageddon', 'Max Hastings', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  Armageddon\n </em>\n is the epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by Max Hastingsâ€“one of Britainâ€™s most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy â€œto stand with that of the best journalists and writersâ€ (\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n ).\n</p>\n<p>\n In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitlerâ€™s army was beaten, and expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied airborne landing in Holland, American setbacks on the German border and in the HÃ¼rtgen Forest, together with the bitter Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered that timetable. Hastings tells the story of both the Eastern and Western Fronts, and paints a vivid portrait of the Red Armyâ€™s onslaught on Hitlerâ€™s empire. He has searched the archives of the major combatants and interviewed 170 survivors to give us an unprecedented understanding of how the great battles were fought, and of their human impact on American, British, German, and Russian soldiers and civilians.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hastings raises provocative questions: Were the Western Allied cause and campaign compromised by a desire to get the Soviets to do most of the fighting? Why were the Russians and Germans more effective soldiers than the Americans and British? Why did the bombing of Germanyâ€™s cities continue until the last weeks of the war, when it could no longer influence the outcome? Why did the Germans prove more fanatical foes than the Japanese, fighting to the bitter end? This book also contains vivid portraits of Stalin, Churchill, Eisenhower, Montgomery, and the other giants of the struggle.\n</p>\n<p>\n The crucial final months of the twentieth centuryâ€™s greatest global conflict come alive in this rousing and revelatory chronicle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2238'),
(5369, 'Arrowsmith', 'Sinclair Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Possibly the greatest satirist of his age, Lewis wrote novels that present a devastating picture of middle-class American life in the 1920s. Although he ridiculed the values, the lifestyles, and even the speech of his characters, there is often affection behind the irony. Sinclair''s most praised novel and the one that won him the Pulitzer Prize (which he refused) Arrowsmith tells the tale of Martin Arrowsmith fulfills a lifelong dream of becoming a physician with a passion for research. Combating the forces of ignorance and greed, he relentlessly pursues scientific truth, even in the face of his own personal tragedy. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3072'),
(5370, 'The Art of Fielding', 'Chad Harbach', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2011\n  </strong>\n  : Though\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is his fiction debut, Chad Harbach writes with the self-assurance of a seasoned novelist. He exercises a masterful precision over the language and pacing of his narrative, and in some 500 pages, there''s rarely a word that feels out of place. The title is a reference to baseball, but Harbach''s concern with sports is more than just a cheap metaphor.\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  explores relationships--between friends, family, and lovers--and the unpredictable forces that complicate them. There''s an unintended affair, a post-graduate plan derailed by rejection letters, a marriage dissolved by honesty, and at the center of the book, the single baseball error that sets all of these events into motion.\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is somehow both confident and intimate, simple yet deeply moving. Harbach has penned one of the year''s finest works of fiction.\n  <em>\n   --Kevin Nguyen\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Reading\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is like watching a hugely gifted young shortstop: you keep waiting for the errors, but there are no errors. First novels this complete and consuming come along very, very seldom." (\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan Franzen, author of *Freedom\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Chad Harbach''s\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is one of those rare novels--like Michael Chabon''s\n  <em>\n   Mysteries of Pittsburgh\n  </em>\n  or John Irving''s\n  <em>\n   The World According to Garp--\n  </em>\n  that seems to appear out of nowhere and then dazzles and bewitches and inspires until you nearly lose your breath from the enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as the unexpected news-blast that the novel is very much alive and well." (\n  <strong>\n   James Patterson\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An intricate, poised, tingling debut. Harbach''s muscular prose breathes new life into the American past-time, recasts the personal worlds that orbit around it, and leaves you longing, lingering, and a baseball convert long after the last page." (\n  <strong>\n   TÃ©a Obreht, author of *The Tiger''s Wife\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Chad Harbach has hit a game-ender with\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  . It''s pure fun, easy to read, as if the\n  <em>\n   other\n  </em>\n  Fielding had a hand in it - as if\n  <em>\n   Tom Jones\n  </em>\n  were about baseball and college life." (\n  <strong>\n   John Irving\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That baseball rewards languid virtuosos and frothing monomaniacs about equally is one of the game''s weird fascinations. That Academe does the same would not be useful information in the hands of a hack. But\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  marries the national pastime to the life of the mind, takes off running, and never flags. Chad Harbach''s pen shatters stereotypes like fastballs shatter bats. His sentence-making keeps things fluid and tense as a September pennant race. When the best shortstop alive sounds believably like a Tibetan lama, and when a thrown ball striking a shovel head at dawn leaves your own head ringing with certainty that truth and friendship have triumphed, you know you''re in the hands of a writer you can trust." (\n  <strong>\n   David James Duncan, author of\n   <em>\n    The Brothers K\n   </em>\n   and *The River Why\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Spectacular!\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is a wise, warm-hearted, self-assured, and fiercely readable debut, which heralds the coming of a young American writer to watch. Harbach''s characters live and breathe, yearn, ache, and in the end, make you love them for their flaws. You won''t want this book to end." (\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan Evison, author of\n   <em>\n    All About Lulu\n   </em>\n   and *West of Here\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Here is that rarest of pleasures, a baseball novel by someone who really knows baseball. The beautiful part is that\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is mere baseball fiction the way\n  <em>\n   Moby Dick\n  </em>\n  is just a fish story. I read this vividly written, powerfully imagined story of a group of young ballplayers and the small-college world they inhabit in a single weekend--read it when I was supposed to be going to the park, making lunch, seeing a movie. Chad Harbach is that kind of writer, so affecting, subtle, funny and true that he gets in the way of your plans and makes everything better." (\n  <strong>\n   Nicholas Dawidoff author of\n   <em>\n    The Catcher Was A Spy\n   </em>\n   and editor of\n   <em>\n    Baseball\n   </em>\n   : *A Literary Anthology\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Not being a huge fan of the national pastime, I found it easy to resist the urge to pick up this novel, but once I did I gave myself over completely and scarcely paused for meals. Like all successful works of literature\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is an autonomous universe, much like the one we inhabit although somehow more vivid." (\n  <strong>\n   Jay McInerney, author of\n   <em>\n    Bright Lights, Big City\n   </em>\n   and *How It Ended\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Easily one of the best books of the year,\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is a triumph in every way, from glittering storytelling talent to an emotional depth of the rarest kind. I savored every page and plot line, and hated to see it end. Comparisons will abound--everything from\n  <em>\n   The Natural\n  </em>\n  to\n  <em>\n   The Story of Edgar Sawtelle\n  </em>\n  to\n  <em>\n   Infinite Jest--\n  </em>\n  but they need not be offered, because this one will stand on its own for years to come." (\n  <strong>\n   Michael Koryta, author of *The Ridge\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Beautifully made, surpassingly human, and quietly subversive,\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  restores one''s faith in the national pastime--i.e., reading and writing novels." (\n  <strong>\n   Benjamin Kunkel, author of *Indecision\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is terrific. It is a baseball novel the way\n  <em>\n   Bang the Drum Slowly\n  </em>\n  is a baseball novel--it is about much, much more. The plot builds and builds, the characters are spirals of fault and goodness, the descriptions of action are precise and shining." (\n  <strong>\n   John Casey, author of *Compass Rose\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s left a little hole in my life the way a really good book will, after making room in my days for reading it--which is also what a really good book will do." (\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan Franzen, *TIME\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Astonishingly assured yet seemingly effortless...Sport is the metaphor here, but it is only that; [\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  ] is a wonderful tale of youth, ambition, love, and a little, unpredictable thing called life. In other words, it''s a whole other ballpark." (\n  <strong>\n   Sara Nelson, *O, The Oprah Magazine\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Chad Harbach can make anything mesmerizing: a potato cube in a bowl of clam chowder, a college baseball player''s batting average, the antics of teenagers, the antics of grownups, the consequences of falling in love, the consequences of falling from grace. What a beautiful book this is, a feast to gulp and savor." (\n  <strong>\n   Joanna Scott\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An immediately accessible narrative reminiscent of John Irving, Harbach...draws readers into the lives of his characters, plumbing their psyches with remarkable psychological acuity, and exploring the transformative effect that love and friendship can have on troubled souls. And, yes, it''s a hell of a baseball story, too, no matter who wins." (\n  <strong>\n   Bill Ott,\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n   (starred review)\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  ] emerges fully formed, a world unto itself. Harbach writes with a tender, egoless virtuosity...There''s just something so easy and riveting about the way this book''s layers unfold; not since\n  <em>\n   Lonesome Dove\n  </em>\n  have I been so sorry to let a group of characters go." (\n  <strong>\n   Andres Corsello, *GQ\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A debut swinging for the fences...You don''t have to like baseball to savor Chad Harbach''s sumptuous debut novel, a wise and tender story of love and friendship, ambition and the cruelty of dashed dreams, featuring an appealing cast of characters.... Harbach demonstrates an impressive gift for balancing his exploration of these fragile entanglements with an absorbing, well-plotted story, so we''re rooting as hard for the small company of troubled souls as we are for the ragtag Westish nine. There aren''t many books of 500 pages that feel too short. But like a true fan enjoying a game of baseball as it scrolls its leisurely signature across a summer afternoon, there are moments when you will find yourself wishing\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  would never end. It''s that good." (\n  <strong>\n   Harvey Freedenberg, *BookPage\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Written with wit and grace and the true fan''s eye and ear for the subtleties of the game. With\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  , Harbach turns a double play that would make Skrimshander and Roth proud: The book will knock out baseball and literature fans alike." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Sports Illustrated\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Witty, intellectual and big-hearted." (\n  <strong>\n   Angie Drobnic Holan, *The St. Petersburg Times\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Harbach spins this simple premise into a wide-ranging book about desire and loss, friendship and loneliness....A rich, engrossing story." (\n  <strong>\n   Rob Brunner, *Entertainment Weekly\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[\n  <em>\n   The Art of\n   <strong>\n    Fielding\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   ] is not only a wonderful baseball novel--it zooms immediately into the pantheon of classics, alongside\n  </em>\n  The Natural\n  <em>\n   by Bernard Malamud and\n  </em>\n  The Southpaw* by Mark Harris--but it''s also a magical, melancholy story about friendship and the coming of age that marks the debut of an immensely talented writer...Mr. Harbach has the rare abilities to write with earnest, deeply felt emotion without ever veering into sentimentality, and to create quirky, vulnerable and fully imagined characters who instantly take up residence in our hearts and minds. He also manages to re-work the well-worn, much-allegorized subject of baseball and make us see it afresh, taking tired tropes about the game (as a metaphor for life''s dreams, disappointments and hopes of redemption) and interjecting them with new energy. In doing so he has written a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting....You don''t need to be a baseball fan to fall under this novel''s spell, but THE ART OF FIELDING possesses all the pleasures that an aficionado cherishes in a great, classic game: odd and strangely satisfying symmetries, unforeseen swerves of fortune, and intimations of the delicate balance between individual will and destiny that play out on the field." (\n  Michiko Kakutani,\n  The New York Times\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   * )\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  "His first time at bat, Harbach wins. Confident and deliberate,\n  <em>\n   Art\n  </em>\n  imitates baseball...\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is an old-fashioned novel in the very best way--unhurried , engrossing, a universe unto itself...It''s that rare, big social novel with the quiet confidence not to overreach for grand statements on the times, and a debut that never feels like it''s straining to impress. There''s just quiet confidence in honest storytelling--Harbach is all Derek Jeter, not Alex Rodriguez....Harbach''s images are so lively and surprising, his characters so intoxicatingly engaging, that\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  becomes something special and unique, a complete and satisfying fictional universe....Harbach, in his first time at bat, has made the near-impossible act of writing a very good American novel feel almost effortless." (\n  <strong>\n   David Daley, *USA Today\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] triumphant first novel...Like a great baseball game, the novel manages to feel traditional and contemporary all at once." (\n  <strong>\n   Sam Sacks, *The Wall Street Journal\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Harbach is witty, wise...engaging...Harbach excels in writing about baseball and those who play it...Harbach''s hand is sure.... echoes of the 19th-century greats lend unexpected richness to a book that ends up high in the standings." (\n  <strong>\n   Dennis Drabelle, *The Washington Post\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Chad Harbach does not merely echo\n  <em>\n   Moby Dick\n  </em>\n  . In at least one respect, he goes Mr. Melville one better. Whereas Ishmael alone symbolically dies and then bobs to the surface in Melville''s novel, Harbach puts the noggins of two of his major characters in the paths of potentially lethal pitches. Both young men are feared dead. Each rises to play again. So\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is ambitious, and Harbach''s reach is not limited... Though there''s plenty of baseball in\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  , Harbach''s novel is no more about the game than\n  <em>\n   Moby Dick\n  </em>\n  is about whaling. Both books examine determination and striving, which can ennoble one or drive one mad... The invocations of Melville''s ambition and achievement are lightened by the fun Harbach has with his characters." (\n  <strong>\n   Bill Littlefield, *Boston Sunday Globe\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Charming...Watchers of\n  <em>\n   Friday Night Lights\n  </em>\n  will be at home in Harbach''s generously told novel...But there''s also much more here to interest readers of the contemporary literary novel, a genre that''s clearly a preoccupation of Harbach''s....The main order of business here is to entertain, and in this Harbach succeeds. His prose, furthermore, is uncommonly resourceful...Such torches are more than surface felicities. They serve a larger purpose in a story that is, after all, about virtuosity and promise--about a young man whose future is incandescently bright, until he becomes too aware of its fragility....The dream of perfection deferred allows Harbach to tell a story about our national pastime that manages, as well, to be about our historical present--in other words, a story about fallibility." (\n  <strong>\n   Wyatt Mason, *The New Yorker\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Harbach takes plenty of cues from other great baseball novels, like Bernard Malamud''s\n  <em>\n   The Natural\n  </em>\n  and Philip Roth''s\n  <em>\n   The Great American Novel\n  </em>\n  , but more so from Melville, in a display of cleverness that wraps around Westish life....\n  <em>\n   The Art Of Fielding\n  </em>\n  captures the bright, big sense of purpose Henry and the other Harpooners feel as they step onto the field... Henry''s attachment to baseball and his new home delivers a satisfying wallop of meaning that ultimately links his friends'' fates with his." (\n  <strong>\n   Ellen Wernecke, The Onion A.V. Club\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sharp-witted...\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   ...is an affecting portrait of the seductive powers of athletic talent and society''s eagerness to indulge its possessors. It also transcends baseball.... As the novel expands into a meditation on young love and male bonds, Harbach''s prose remains as exacting as, say, firing a leather sphere at an awaiting glove." (\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Mike Peed,\n  </em>\n  Men''s Journal\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is a long, generous and deeply absorbing story that more than lives up to all the pre-publication anticipation....Harbach writes in precise, intelligent, yet very accessible language, and he seems to understand what makes college students tick.... Harbach is wise enough to understand what baseball\n  <em>\n   really\n  </em>\n  represents -- the folly of pursuing perfection; the challenge of bringing mind and body into perfect union -- and he explores these themes with exceptional grace on and off the field, through the perspectives of a half-dozen beautifully drawn characters.... Over the course of two baseball seasons and 500-plus pages, we become immersed in these people''s lives in the way that we only can in an epic novel; the closer the book draws to its conclusion, the slower we begin to read, for fear that we''ll have to bid adieu to this beautifully conjured universe too soon. Indeed, Harbach works wonders in painting an expansive portrait of this college... The sport doesn''t matter as much as the emotions and anxieties that it evokes in us: the fear that we won''t be as good today as we were yesterday or the day before; the doubt that plagues even the most confident souls....[a] stirring, singular novel -- the best new work of American fiction that I''ve read this year." (\n  <strong>\n   Christopher Kellly, *Fort Worth Star-Telegram\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A debut novelist delivers his assured pitch right into our strike zone....\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  lives up to the hype.... Harbach''s prose is considered, clean and pastoral, and he makes it easy to root for each of his characters.\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is a decidedly American story, impeccably told. Skrimshander''s pride, his struggle to regain his confidence and his dreams of a second act will resonate with baseball fans, readers of Franzen-style family dramas and anyone drawn to smart, funny, engaging writing.... this novel came right down the middle of my strike zone. But as\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is such a rich and occasionally heartbreaking experience, others will not only realize where their strike zone is, but they''ll let Harbach paint the corners for them." (\n  <strong>\n   Corban Goble, The Awl\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Large-hearted... Harbach writes about the Harpooners with touching intimacy (and an impressive knowledge of baseball).... expansive, thought-provoking and ambitious... This is a big book in every way... If\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  begins as a baseball story, so it ends as one, too--poignantly, beautifully, and improbably." (\n  <strong>\n   David Goodwillie, The Daily Beast\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] brilliant, intensely readable first novel...Harbach, whose knowledge of baseball is encyclopaedic but never ponderous, resists the temptation to which many other baseball writers...have succumbed: to write not a novel but a version of the core baseball myth, the game as a pastoral vision of America, in which the heroes and villains, the fictional stand-ins for the Babe and the Say-Hey Kid and Shoeless Joe, enact predestined roles. Instead, Harbach finds analogies in other literary genres: the epic, the picaresque, the coming-of-age story, the self-scrutinizing memoir.... In an endearingly traditional way, he subordinates the ironic commentaries and the mirroring influences to the tender, funny, poignant story of Henry''s travails and their unexpected resolution." (\n  <strong>\n   Richard Horwich, *Newsday\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Chad Harbach makes the case for baseball, thrillingly, in his slow, precious and altogether excellent first novel.... It seems a stretch for a baseball novel to hold truth and beauty and the entire human condition in its mitt, well THE ART OF FIELDING isn''t really a baseball novel at all, or not only. It''s also a campus novel and a bromance (and for that matter a full-fledged gay romance), a comedy of manners and a tragicomedy of errors...Welcome to the big leagues, kid. Now get out there and play." (\n  <strong>\n   Gregory Cowles, *The New York Times Book Review\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] delightful debut...Erudite enough to reference Herman Melville, Homer and T.S. Eliot, yet sufficiently geeky to pay homage to the epic struggles of ill-fated ball-players such as Steve Blass, Steve Sax and Mackey Sasser... a showcase for...Harbach''s mad skills, his humor and above all, the humanity with which the author infuses each of his characters...The author''s observations about baseball can be both pithy and witty... wonderfully insightful. And the writing throughout, as Walt Whitman once said of the game itself, is glorious...a natural talent, one who has the potential to become a Hall of Famer." (\n  <strong>\n   Adam Langer, *San Francisco Chronicle\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Dazzling debut....\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  might be the best book you''ll read this year....Harbach''s debut novel has a succulent heft to it--a growing weight of love and devotion that is comprised of Harbach''s deft and boundlessly emotive writing. The remarkable sincerity with which he develops characters renders their conflicts and complexities so authentic it''s impossible not to care about them.\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is youthful, invigorating and fiercely intelligent writing....[It] is not really a book about baseball. Westish College sports are a backdrop as life''s more prevalent struggles--doubt, romance, grief and determination--collide and merge marvellously....This is a book about love, family and dedication...A nearly flawless construction of dazzlingly clear sentences...The most enjoyable aspect of\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is the true-to-life humanity Harbach''s characters are infused with. Their heartache, loss and yearning are palpable.\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  brims with its author''s extraordinary talents. It''s going to be hard waiting to see what Harbach does next." (\n  <strong>\n   Alex Lemon, *The Dallas Morning News\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Inspiring...Ambitious in a refreshing way." (\n  <strong>\n   Jim Higgins, *The Milwaukee Sunday Journal-Sentinel\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Debut novel hits a grand slam... Resplendent... Ambitious and accomplished... Harbach''s characters are well developed and eminently realistic. The rich portrayals of their psychological struggles and interactions add a warmth and dept to the already colorful narrative....Harbach''s novel is mature, compelling, graced with both charm and humor, and shaped as much by his expressive prose as by its memorable and substantive characterizations. Harbach is a gifted storyteller and his debut novel may well herald a fresh, new talent in the realm of contemporary American fiction.\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  , like baseball itself, is beautiful in its simplicity, yet made great by the effortless subtlety of its many nuanced intricacies." (\n  <strong>\n   Jeremy Barber, *The Sunday Oregonian\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Harbach writes with the self-assurance of a seasoned novelist. He exercises a masterful precision over the language and pacing of his narrative, and in some 500 pages there''s rarely a word that feels out of place....\n  <em>\n   The Art of Fielding\n  </em>\n  is somehow both confident and intimate, simple yet deeply moving. Harbach has penned one of the year''s finest works of fiction." (\n  <strong>\n   Kevin Nguyen, *Louisville Courier-Journal\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fast on its way to becoming a classic of the genre." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    San Francisco Chronicle\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Can the book possibly live up to this advance billing? In a word, yes....Harbach has pulled it off...thanks to the sheer mastery of his writing. It doesn''t hurt that the baseball details are so realistic they seem stolen from an actual small college somewhere in the American heartland.... The real magic is in the way Harbach strings words together, the inventive descriptors that liven every page." (\n  <strong>\n   James Bailey,* Baseball America\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An early contender for book of the year... critics have called this an entrant in the ''Great American Novel'' sweepstakes.... One of the best baseball books in memory." (\n  <strong>\n   David Swanson,* Maxim\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[An] endearing first novel... Harbach opens his formidable lens beyond pitch-perfect male bonding...That all its characters are crafted with an ardour equal to any ninth-inning at-bat makes THE ART OF FIELDING a marvel...Many first novels swing for the fence; Harbach''s novel\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  the fence. Baseball fan or no, you should read it." (\n  <strong>\n   Scott Muskin, *Minneapolis Star-Tribune\n  </strong>\n  * )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3218'),
(5371, 'The Art of Racing in the Rain', 'Garth Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.   Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn''t simply about going fast. Using the techniques needed on the race track, one can successfully navigate all of life''s ordeals.   On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through: the sacrifices Denny has made to succeed professionally; the unexpected loss of Eve, Denny''s wife; the three-year battle over their daughter, ZoÃ«, whose maternal grandparents pulled every string to gain custody. In the end, despite what he sees as his own limitations, Enzo comes through heroically to preserve the Swift family, holding in his heart the dream that Denny will become a racing champion with ZoÃ« at his side. Having learned what it takes to be a compassionate and successful person, the wise canine can barely wait until his next lifetime, when he is sure he will return as a man.   A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2901'),
(5372, 'Arthas: Rise of the Lich King', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Frostmourne.It was caught in a hovering, jagged chunk of ice, the runes that ran the length of its blade glowing a cool blue. Below it was a dais of some sort, standing on a large gently raised mound that was covered in a dusting of snow. A soft light, coming from somewhere high above where the cavern was open to daylight, shone down on the runeblade. The icy prison hid some details of the sword''s shape and form, exaggerated others. It was revealed and concealed at the same time, and all the more tempting, like a new lover imperfectly glimpsed through a gauzy curtain. Arthas knew the blade -- it was the selfsame sword he had seen in his dream when he first arrived. The sword that had not killed Invincible, but that had brought him back healed and healthy. He''d thought it a good omen then, but now he knew it was a true sign. This was what he had come to find. This sword would change everything. Arthas stared raptly at it, his hands almost physically aching to grasp it, his fingers to wrap themselves around the hilt, his arms to feel the weapon swinging smoothly in the blow that would end Mal''Ganis, end the torment he had visited upon the people of Lordaeron, end this lust for revenge. Drawn, he stepped forward.The uncanny elemental spirit drew its icy sword. "Turn away, before it is too late," it intoned.* * *His evil is legend. Lord of the undead Scourge, wielder of the runeblade Frostmourne, and enemy of the free peoples of Azeroth. The Lich King is an entity of incalculable power and unparalleled malice -- his icy soul utterly consumed by his plans to destroy all life on the World of Warcraft.But it was not always so. Long before his soul was fused with that of the orc shaman Ner''zhul, the Lich King was Arthas Menethil, crown prince of Lordaeron and faithful paladin of the Silver Hand.When a plague of undeath threatened all that he loved, Arthas was driven to pursue an ill-fated quest for a runeblade powerful enough to save his homeland. Yet the object of his search would exact a heavy price from its new master, beginning a horrifying descent into damnation. Arthas''s path would lead him through the arctic northern wastes toward the Frozen Throne, where he would face, at long last, the darkest of destinies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3540'),
(5373, 'The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.  Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, itas the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, itas the chains of labor. But in "The Ascent of Money," Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. Whatas more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.  Through Fergusonas expert lens familiar historical landmarks appear in a new and sharper financial focus. Suddenly, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the worldas first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. And the origins of the French Revolution are traced back to a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scot murderer.  With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? Whatas the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do?  This is history for the present. Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market canat provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis. Perhaps most important, "The Ascent of Money" documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the worldas biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generationaan economic transformation unprecedented in human history.  Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble burstsasooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. And thatas why, whether youare scraping by or rolling in it, thereas never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2427'),
(5374, 'The Assassin', 'Stephen Coonts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ruthless al Qaeda leader Abu Qasim has escaped from the grasp of the Americans and is plotting his next move. International commandersÂ aim toÂ destroy Qasim and his inner circle before he can strike again. But after the mysterious death of a high-ranking official, it soon becomes clear that thereâ€™s a leak within the ranks of the Westernersâ€¦and that Qasim has turned the tables on his rivals. Now heâ€™s the oneÂ  targeting themâ€”and his aim is to kill.Admiral Jake Grafton dispatches special agent Tommy Carmellini to infiltrate the terrorist plot. He tracks the gorgeous and seductive Marisa Petrou, a Frenchwoman who may be Qasimâ€™s daughter and who may or may notÂ wish him dead. Who is behind theÂ assassinations of the wealthy and powerful Western vigilante team? Will Qasim slip the noose once again? As the stakes grow higher, and top brass face greater risk than ever before, itâ€™s up to Carmellini to put a stop to a master of terrorâ€”before he unleashes even more death across the globe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3509'),
(5375, 'Assegai', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Smith continues the saga of the Courtney family of Africa begun in 1964 with\n <em>\n  When the Lion Feeds\n </em>\n . In this installment, Leon Courtney, ladies'' man and former lieutenant in the King''s African Rifles, becomes a professional big game hunter and safari guide in the years leading up to WWI. Among his clients are Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Teddy Roosevelt, and a spoiled German princess who is fond of the whip. The story really doesn''t kick into gear until halfway through, on the eve of war, when Courtney''s uncle, Brig. Gen. Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, asks him to spy on his newest client, Count Otto von Meerbach, a German industrialist with a secret agenda. Courtney also begins an affair with Otto''s mistress, Eva, who has a secret life of her own. Will Courtney defeat Otto''s dastardly scheme and rescue Eva? Though the outcome is never in doubt, Smith manages to serve up adventure, history and melodrama in one thrilling package that will be eagerly devoured by series fans.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The highly popular historical novelist returns with another guaranteed best-seller. In the early 1900s, Second Lieutenant Leon Courtney decides to hang up his military career after a near-fatal mission in British East Africa (and a subsequent court-martial proceeding instigated by a vindictive superior office). He takes up big-game hunting, but thatâ€™s only his cover: in reality, he is working as a spy, gathering intelligence for his uncle Penrod Ballantyne. Leonâ€™s target is Count Otto Von Meerbach, a German weapons manufacturer (the novel is set only a handful of years before World War I), but Leon doesnâ€™t count on falling in love with the targetâ€™s seductive mistress, Eva. Can Leon foil Von Meerbachâ€™s plot to foment an African rebellion and, at the same time, protect the beautiful Eva? There is a reason Smith is a hugely popular writer of historical novels: his remarkable talent for re-creating historical periods and crafting characters we care about is virtually unmatched in the genre. Smithâ€™s novels of the Courtney and Ballantyne families (in 2005, he brought the two sagas together in The Triumph of the Sun) have been entertaining readers for nearly five decades, and if this novel is any indication, he is showing no signs of slowing down. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3647');
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(5376, 'Assholes Finish First', 'Tucker Max', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  What do you do after you write a #1 bestselling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures that makes you rich and famous? Celebrate by getting more drunk and having insane amounts of sex, obviously. And pretty soon you''ve got another bestselling book on your hands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stuffed full of ridiculous stories of bad decisions, debauchery, and sexual recklessness,\n  <em>\n   Assholes Finish First\n  </em>\n  starts where\n  <em>\n   I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell\n  </em>\n  left off, then proceeds to "some next-level shit."\n </p>\n <p>\n  You already know how women react to confidence, game, and vodka, but what happens when you add money and fame to the mix? You get answers to the hard questions you''ve never thought of asking:\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ What''s it like to have sex with a midget? What about two midgets?\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ What does it do to a man to watch a 19-year-old do wind sprints to sober up, so that she can have sex with you before her twin sister does?\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ At what number of virgins does deflowering them stop being fun and start feeling like a job?\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢ When a girl you met three hours ago decides to tattoo your name on her body, what is the appropriate reaction?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The answers are inside, they are absurd and hilarious, and they are the product of one man''s experiences:\n </p>\n <p>\n  His name is Tucker Max, and he is still an asshole.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2946'),
(5377, 'The Associate', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Grisham''s contemporary legal thriller offers an action-and-suspense plot reminiscent of that of his breakout book, 1991''s The Firm, in contrast to 2008''s didactic The Appeal, which served as a platform for his concerns about the corrupting effects of judicial elections. Kyle McAvoy, a callow Yale Law School student, dreams of a public service gig on graduation, until shadowy figures blackmail him with a videotape that could revive a five-year-old rape accusation. Instead of helping those in need, McAvoy accepts a position at a huge Wall Street firm, Scully &amp; Pershing, whose clients include a military contractor enmeshed in a $800 billion lawsuit concerning a newly-designed aircraft. McAvoy can avoid exposure of his past if he feeds his new masters inside information on the case. Readers should be prepared for some predictable twists, an ending with some unwarranted ambiguity and some unconvincing details (the idea that a secret file room in a high stakes litigation case would be closed from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. every night stretches credulity to the breaking point). Still, Grisham devotees should be satisfied, even if this is one of his lesser works.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics agree with\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n that\n <em>\n  The Associate\n </em>\n "is vintage Grisham, for better or worse, made timely with its sorry portrait of what passes for everyday ethics on Wall Street." Like his previous novels,\n <em>\n  The Associate\n </em>\n is heavy on readability, predictability, and pace, and lighter on character development, scene setting, and styleâ€”no surprises here. Fans of Grisham cited masterfully drawn characters and page-turning subplots, but less enthusiastic reviewers faulted stock villains, a rather mysterious Kyle, and implausible storylines.\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n even claimed that unlike Michael Crichton or Scott Turow, who "wrestle with actual issues," Grisham deals with, well, nothing. Still, you know what you''re getting into with\n <em>\n  The Associate\n </em>\n , for better or for worse.\n <br />\n Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1260'),
(5378, 'At First Sight', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When we last left 37-year-old Jeremy Marsh (a scant six months ago, in Sparks''s April pub\n  <em>\n   True Believer\n  </em>\n  ), the science columnist had traveled from his New York base to Boone Creek, N.C., to get a storyâ€”and ended up falling in love with Lexie Darnell, the 30-year-old town librarian. Now Lexie''s pregnantâ€”but it''s true love (and a portable job) that''s allowing divorcÃ© Jeremy to move down so they can marry and build a life together. The book centers on the tension-filled runup to the wedding. Sparks pulls out all the smalltown stopsâ€”psychic grandmother, meddling mayor, sullen townie ex, jealous best friendsâ€”and offers Mars/Venus commentary on what makes his characters tick. Jeremy''s writer''s block, instead of heightening the will-they-or-won''t-they tension, is as enervating for readers as it is for him. More compelling are the mysterious e-mails Jeremy receives that suggest Lexie may not be telling the truth (about who the father is, for one thing), and the character of Lexie''s psychic grandmother, Doris, who has correctly predicted the sex of every child born in the town. As the wedding gets closer (and house renovations suck more and more money from Jeremy''s dwindling savings), Jeremy and Lexie have some serious talking to do, and Sparks throws in a substantial zinger at the end. It''s majorly manipulative and totally effective. Have plenty of tissues on hand.\n  <em>\n   (Oct. 18)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The relationship between journalist Jeremy Marsh and librarian Lexie Darnell that began in\n  <em>\n   True Believer\n  </em>\n  (2005) has now progressed. Jeremy is moving from New York to Boone Creek, North Carolina, as they plan for their wedding and the birth of their child. A friend of Jeremy''s warns him that he really doesn''t know Lexie, and asks him if he''s sure that he''s in love. With the seeds of suspicion planted, Jeremy starts receiving mysterious e-mails that also cast doubt on their relationship. Add to that the fact that he is dealing with writer''s block and that he has to come to terms with a change in lifestyle as an urbanite now living in the rural South. This is a man under duress. To avoid gossip, he and Lexie are maintaining separate residences and keeping the pregnancy a secret. Lexie is comfortable with the town''s rules of behavior, but Jeremy is at a loss and finds himself tense and unsure about the future of what he thought was the perfect match. With his trademark sensitivity, Sparks delves into the nitty-gritty of relationships, and considers the sacrifices that each partner has to make in order to have a successful marriage. And readers beware: this is multiple-hankie romance.\n  <em>\n   Patty Engelmann\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1296'),
(5379, 'At Last', 'Jill Shalvis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  HER LOVE HAS COME ALONG . . .\n  <br />\n  Amy Michaels loves her new life in Lucky Harbor. A waitress in the local diner, she''s looking forward to her first weekend hike through the mountains. But when a wrong turn takes her off the trail, she finds herself up close and personal with forest ranger Matt Bowers. And even though she''s tempted to kiss that sexy smile right off his face, she won''t make the mistake of getting involved with the town heartthrob.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A former cop whose life went south, Matt doesn''t let anyone get too close. But something about the feisty beauty caught his eye the moment he first saw her in the diner. After a hot night under a starry sky, Matt can''t deny their attraction-or the fact that for the first time in a long time, he feels the stirrings of something more. Now it''s up to Matt to help Amy see that, no matter what is in their past, together they can build a future in Lucky Harbor.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "4 Stars! Shalvis''s latest Lucky Harbor novel is a winner-full of laughter, snark and a super-hot attraction between the main characters. Shalvis has painted a wonderful world, full of entertaining supporting characters and beautiful scenery." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    RT Book Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story." (\n  <strong>\n   Robyn Carr,\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author of *Harvest Moon\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Heartwarming and sexy...an abundance of chemistry, smoldering romance, and hilarious sisterly antics." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n   <em>\n    on\n   </em>\n   Simply Irresistible\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Jill Shalvis is a total original! It doesn''t get any better." (\n  <strong>\n   Suzanne Forster,\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ms. Shalvis characters leap off the page" (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    RT Book Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Shalvis writes with humor, heart, and sizzling heat!" (\n  <strong>\n   Carly Phillips,\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   Bestselling Author\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill''s bestselling, award-winning books wherever romances are sold and visit her website for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  You can learn more at:\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  JillShalvis.com\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Twitter @jillshalvis\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Facebook.com/jillshalvis\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3896'),
(5380, 'At Risk', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n For decades, Patricia Cornwell has demonstrated her extraordinary ability not only to entertain and enthrall but to surprise as well. Beginning in January 2006,\n <i>\n  The New York Times Magazine\n </i>\n will serialize a brand-new Cornwell thriller, a book filled with all the chilling suspense, rich characters, and trademark forensics that have made her an international phenomenon. But what she does with those ingredients is a revelation.\n <br />\n <br />\n A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, attractive but hard-charging, is planning to run for governor, and as a showcase she''s planning to use a new crime initiative called At Risk-its motto: "Any crime, any time." In particular, she''s been looking for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology, and she thinks she''s found the perfect subject in an unsolved twenty-year-old murder-in Tennessee. If her office solves the case, it ought to make them all look pretty good, right?\n <br />\n <br />\n Her investigator is not so sure-not sure about anything to do with this woman, really-but before he can open his mouth, a shocking piece of violence intervenes, an act that shakes up not only both their lives but the lives of everyone around them. It''s not a random event. Is it personal? Is it professional? Whatever it is, the implications are very, very bad indeed . . . and they''re about to get much worse.\n <br />\n <br />\n Sparks fly, traps spring, twists abound-this is the master working at the top of her game.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3036'),
(5381, 'At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA', 'George Tenet', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Former CIA director Tenet leaves the main vocal duties for this audio in the capable hands of Conger (who also recently narrated\n  <em>\n   The Reagan Diaries\n  </em>\n  ). Yet in reading both the brief introduction and lengthy-but highly compelling-afterword, Tenet demonstrates a command of the spoken word that makes one wonder why he did not handle his own narration. However, the two men project a compatible style and tone, conveying deeply personal emotion within the boundaries of professionalism and decorum. Tenet does not shy away from acknowledging his own responsibility in controversies involving terrorism and the Iraq War, but he also takes several key political leaders to task for scapegoating the intelligence community in the wake of unpopular policy. The musical interludes at the start and end of each CD serve to maintain the cloak and dagger ambience. Those who prefer to skim the surface of news events may find the length taxing, but listeners ready to move beyond the headlines and into a wider world of nuanced complexity will be more than satisfied.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tenet, former director of the CIA, has finally delivered his long-anticipated book. It was supposed to provide background and insight into the events of September 11 as well as the lead-up (and fall down) of the Iraq War. But most readers will find that Tenet''s hodgepodge of facts tangled with homey anecdotes, excuses, and mea culpas will leave them as confused as ever.Â Alternately presenting himself as the folksy Greek American kid from Queens and the high-charging power broker, Tenet is proud of the many things the CIA did right under his charge, such as disrupting terrorist attacks leading up to 9/11 (while, of course, missing the big one), and he writes feverishly about successes in Afghanistan and elsewhere during the trying months afterward. The book is at its best painting just how dangerous, confusing, and exhausting those days were. Then comes the distraction from terrorism that was Iraq, and according to Tenet, common purpose disappeared in Washington, and interagency warfare reigned. Cheney comes out looking bad, and Rice worse, but much of the blame for the ill-preparedness goes to the slightly lower-level neocons: Wolfowitz, Libby, et al. As for the president, Tenet likes himâ€“â€“a lot. But in a telling few pages, Bush keeps trying to get neocon favorite Ahmed Chalabi off the payroll, and no one pays a bit of attention to him. Turning these pages is like walking through mirrors. Cooper, Ilene\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1844'),
(5382, 'The Athena Project', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The world''s most elite counterterrorism unit has just taken its game to an entirely new level. And not a moment too soon . . . From behind the rows of razor wire, a new breed of counterterrorism operator has emerged. Just as skilled, just as fearsome, and just as deadly as their colleagues, Delta Force''s newest members have only one thing setting them aparttheir gender. Part of a top-secret, all-female program codenamed The Athena Project, four of Delta''s best and brightest women are about to undertake one of the nation''s deadliest assignments. When a terrorist attack in Rome kills more than twenty Americans, Athena Team members Gretchen Casey, Julie Ericsson, Megan Rhodes, and Alex Cooper are tasked with hunting down the Venetian arms dealer responsible for providing the explosives. But there is more to the story than anyone knows. In the jungles of South America, a young U.S. intelligence officer has made a grisly discovery. Surrounded by monoliths covered with Runic symbols, one of America''s greatest fears appears to have come true. Simultaneously in Colorado, a foreign spy is close to penetrating the mysterious secret the U.S. government has hidden beneath Denver International Airport. As Casey, Ericsson, Rhodes, and Cooper close in on their target, they will soon learn that another attackone of unimaginable proportionshas already been set in motion, and the greatest threat they face may be the secrets kept by their own government.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3556'),
(5383, 'The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War', 'Norman Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stone builds on his expertise in the long 19th century in this very successful overview of a cold war whose end, he says, was a complete surprise. Intellectually, Marxism-Leninism in parts of the West was more of a vital belief system than in the East, where it was an orthodoxy Diplomatically, for every Western success there seemed to be multiple triumphs for Communist countries or Third World proxies. Militarily, a thermonuclear stalemate framed a spectrum of defeats in unconventional wars and insurgencies. Europe was moribund; America was uncertain. Then the U.S.S.R. imploded. The Western-generated forces of individualism and creativity might have been overshadowed, says Stone, but for Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, who he says personified their re-emergence. The Atlantic world boomed unexpectedly while the East was gridlocked and the Third World hobbled by ideologically based overextension and overmanagement, too arteriosclerotic to withstand the stress of reform. Stone''s consistently vivid text presents history as a contingent process whose results are never idealâ€”but neither are they permanent. Illus.\n <em>\n  (June 1)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Economist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[Stone] has a terrific eye for detail, bringing to life everything from the ruins of Germany to Ronald Reaganâ€™s White House with a wonderfully waspish turn of phraseâ€¦. He captures well the Westâ€™s weakness, as well as the seemingly powerful challenge that eastern-style socialism posed to Western freedom.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Michael Burleigh,\n  <em>\n   Spectator\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œSparkling....The bookâ€™s importance is to remind us that the Cold War was an active contest, whose outcome was by no means certain....Stone has produced a powerful alternative to the Left â€˜liberalâ€™ reading of Cold War history, without sounding in the least triumphalist.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New Statesman\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStoneâ€™s eye for the telling detail gives his account of the cold war years an edge of authenticity lacking from more conventional historiesâ€¦. A beguiling mix of grand narrative and autobiographical vignettes,\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and its Enemies\n </em>\n is the one book that anyone who wants to understand the cold war as it developed must readâ€¦. [A] rich, exuberant and melancholy book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Norman Stone] paints on a broad canvas, showing how the Cold War unfoldedâ€¦. The West is currently engaged in a new sort of war, with radical Islam.... Meanwhile, the economy of the developed world is more precarious than it was in the darkest hours of the 1970s. Mr. Stone doesnâ€™t stop to address the contemporary crisis, but\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n is an inspiring reminder that the West has risen to meet such challenges before, helped at crucial moments by bold leaders.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStone, one of Great Britainâ€™s most distinguished historians, now offers his own assessment of the period between the end of World War II and the fall of the Soviet Unionâ€¦. [He] bring[s] decades of erudition to his analysis; moreover, he lived in Eastern Europe during part of the period under review and brings that perspective to his work as well.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John Gray,\n  <em>\n   New Statesman\n  </em>\n  (London)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œStoneâ€™s eye for the telling detail gives his account of the cold war years an edge of authenticity lacking from more conventional historiesâ€¦. A beguiling mix of grand narrative and autobiographical vignettes, The Atlantic and Its Enemies is the one book that anyone who wants to understand the cold war as it developed must readâ€¦. [A] rich, exuberant and melancholy book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrilliant....A forthright, brave history, full of wit and humanity, and readable to a degree that will delight all but the green-eyed.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Geoffrey Wheatcroft,\n  <em>\n   Guardian\n  </em>\n  (London)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[Stone] knows central Europe better than most historians, and has no sympathy with the â€˜revisionistâ€™ claim that the west started the conflict, or that both sides were equally to blameâ€¦. All of this is told in a lively or even rollicking fashion, and the word â€˜personalâ€™ in Stoneâ€™s subtitle is an understatement; idiosyncratic or downright eccentric might be more like it. The author is one of the great academic characters of our time.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Boyd Tonkin,\n  <em>\n   Independent\n  </em>\n  (London) (UK)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œWandering, opinionated, mischievous, the book is strung between two downfalls, that of the Third Reich in 1945 and the Soviet empire in 1989. Stoneâ€™s vagabond history rattles across one world-shaking scene of upheaval after another, from the Moscow-backed putsches of the late 1940s in eastern Europe via the 1960sâ€™ feast of fools and the 1970s convulsions that led to the later triumph of Thatcher, Reagan and Pinochet to the unpredicted foundering of Soviet power: Stoneâ€™s terminus, and his final vindication in the face of gormless academic fellow-travellersâ€¦. The book bristles with gleeful passages of lefty-baiting provocationâ€¦.In these moods, part-Evelyn Waugh, part-Jeremy Clarkson, Stone just loves to goad the liberal left. Yet they alternate with hard-headed analyses of the financial shifts behind political faÃ§ades (with a brilliant account of how Saudi oil-price manipulation helped sink the Soviet Union), virtuoso sketches of pivotal events (such as Papa Docâ€™s funeral) and enthralling, colourful swerves into memoir.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mark Mazower,\n  <em>\n   Financial Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œPedantic historians are just one of Norman Stoneâ€™s targets in this swashbuckling survey of the cold war. Perhaps the most brilliant Europeanist of his generation, a man with an intimate knowledge of at least half a dozen countries, and the languages to match, he serves the reader a spicier fare than the pabulums provided by his more cautious brethren." _\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <em>\n  _TusconCitizen.com\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œWhat gives this hefty 668-page book its literary legs is how the author has vividly captured the atmosphere of the time and the moral and political crises that tempered strategies on both sides of the Atlantic.\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n is full of surp\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  _\n  <em>\n   _TusconCitizen.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œWhat gives this hefty 668-page book its literary legs is how the author has vividly captured the atmosphere of the time and the moral and political crises that tempered strategies on both sides of the Atlantic.\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n is full of surprises."\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  _\n  <em>\n   _Bookviews.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œSome works of history are so monumental that they are especially deserving of praise. This is the case of Norman Stoneâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   National Review\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStone, the veteran British journalist and historian, has produced an original interpretative narrative that is idiosyncratic and downright odd in placesâ€¦. Yet it is precisely Stoneâ€™s departures from the standard political-diplomatic themes that enable him to offer a fresh and provocative perspective on events we might have thought thoroughly familiarâ€¦. One of the beguiling charms of Stoneâ€™s narrative is the way in which his cool, understated prose bursts from the page at piquant moments, especially when describing the defects of political leaders of the 1960s and 1970sâ€¦.\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n [is] a worthy addition to the essential Cold War canon. Add it to your shelf.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pat Shipman, Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University and author of\n  <em>\n   Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNancy Marie Brown again uses her extraordinary ability to bring medieval time to life in_ The Abacus and the Cross_, in the person of the â€˜Scientist Popeâ€™ Gerbert of Aurillac (later Pope Sylvester III). Working from sparse records, Brown manages to tell us of the remarkable scholar, brilliant mathematician, and inveterate punster who loved both his holy orders and luxurious living. She shows us a time in which the route to God lay through the study of science and math and when intellectual developments flowed across the boundaries of religion and empire in Eurasia. This is a remarkable book that reflects on our modern times on every page.â€\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jeff Sypeck, author of\n  <em>\n   Becoming Charlemagne\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA pleasure to read,\n <em>\n  The Abacus and the Cross\n </em>\n draws readers into a worldÂ ofÂ intrigue, superstition, and scholarship. Nancy Marie Brown writes lucidly about math and science, finding important stories in the lives of medieval peopleÂ who deserve to be widely remembered.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2428'),
(5384, 'Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories', 'Simon Winchester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Krakatoa" tells the breathtaking saga of the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, setting it against the backdrop of mankind''s intellectual evolution Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vast infinity. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to far shores--whether it was the Vikings, the Irish, the Chinese, Christopher Columbus in the north, or the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south--the Atlantic evolved in the world''s growing consciousness of itself as an enclosed body of water bounded by the Americas to the West, and by Europe and Africa to the East. "Atlantic" is a biography of this immense space, of a sea which has defined and determined so much about the lives of the millions who live beside or near its tens of thousands of miles of coast. The Atlantic has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists and warriors, and it continues to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. Poets to potentates, seers to sailors, fishermen to foresters--all have a relationship with this great body of blue-green sea and regard her as friend or foe, adversary or ally, depending on circumstance or fortune. Simon Winchester chronicles that relationship, making the Atlantic come vividly alive. Spanning from the earth''s geological origins to the age of exploration, World War II battles to modern pollution, his narrative is epic and awe-inspiring.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2735'),
(5385, 'Atlantis Found', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dirk Pitt, indestructible hero of 14 previous Clive Cussler novels and special-projects director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (which is something like the CIA of the ocean depths), makes James Bond look like a tuxedoed, martini-swilling poseur. Pitt has raised the\n  <em>\n   Titanic\n  </em>\n  , escaped massive volcanic eruptions, ducked nuclear explosions, foiled criminal plans for world domination, saved everyone on earth from germ warfare, and mastered the ins and outs of various electronic gizmos and futuristic vehicles while evading every imaginable form of almost certain death. (Of course, he''s also wildly successful with brilliant, beautiful women, but in an admirably circumspect, sensitive-guy way.) It stands to reason Pitt''s the right man to handle a crisis of millennial proportions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When mysterious black obsidian skulls and other artifacts of an exceedingly ancient culture begin to turn up in odd places, Pitt jumps in with both feet. It soon becomes dangerously apparent that a powerful, amoral group of fanatics calling itself the Fourth Empire wants the strange discoveries to remain underground. Pitt teams up with a beautiful red-haired expert in ancient languages to decipher the meaning of the artifacts. They were made 10 millennia ago in a then-temperate Antarctica by a seafaring civilization advanced enough to predict its own destruction by a comet impact. Now the Fourth Empire (whose literal and figurative progenitor comes as no surprise) is predicting a similar disaster in only a matter of months, and preparing to take control of the earth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cussler''s known for hands-on research--his hobbies are the backbone of Pitt''s adventures: flying, climbing, diving, racing. The scientific and historical riffs that fill in the background of\n  <em>\n   Atlantis Found\n  </em>\n  are the weakest parts of the book--they''re Pitt-less, and they give every discovery in the book away early. But what the heck--Cussler''s not the king of suspense, he''s the emperor of nonstop action.\n  <em>\n   Atlantis Found\n  </em>\n  bounces along on a good-humored techno-joyride, and for Cussler''s legion of fans, that will be more than enough.\n  <em>\n   --Barrie Trinkle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dirk Pitt, Cussler''s larger-than-life hero, butts heads with an army of elite killers seeking to destroy the world in another wickedly engrossing yet predictably scripted tale of bravery against all odds. As the story begins, artifacts from a previously undiscovered civilization, ancient but highly advanced, are popping up all over the globe. Pitt himself is on site in a Colorado mine when archeologists come across strange carvings and mysterious inscriptions. But then an explosion traps the party below ground, and a band of black-suited terrorists arrive at the scene with guns blazing. Though Pitt saves the day, the incident points toward a wider network of evil schemes. Working for the National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency, Pitt finally identifies the terrorists as members of the Fourth Empire, an organization headed by the diabolical Wolf family, a secret clan of genetically engineered people who worship the Nazi Third Reich. But it''s only after Pitt and his able sidekick, Al Giordino, battle old German U-boats, dodge surface-to-air missiles and narrowly escape death on a remote island off Australia that they find out what the Fourth Empire is up to. The neo-Nazis aim to prevent the world from discovering the artifacts of this previously unknown seafaring culture because they tell of a catastrophic event that wiped out civilization 9000 years ago and reveal when the next cataclysm will hit. The Wolfs plan to accelerate the date through their own scheme to destroy Earth, meanwhile sheltering themselves and their thousands of followers on enormous, disaster-proof ships. Pitt knows his assignment: save the world--a tall order, but one he''s filled many times before. Cussler''s 15th Pitt adventure (after Flood Tide) is a rampaging story of history, technology and heroism, written with Cussler''s typical make-no-apologies enthusiasm. For muscle-flexing, flag-waving, belief-suspending fare, he has no equal. 750,000 first printing; $750,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection; simultaneous audio; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1208'),
(5386, 'Atlas Shrugged', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies but against those who needed him most - and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world''s motor - and the motive power of every man? This novel presents a panorama of human life - from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy... to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction... to the philosopher who becomes a pirate... to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad... to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1032'),
(5387, 'The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream', 'Barack Obama', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Barack Obama''s first book,\n <em>\n  Dreams from My Father\n </em>\n , was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book\n <em>\n  The Audacity of Hope\n </em>\n , Obama engages themes raised in his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, shares personal views on faith and values and offers a vision of the future that involves repairing a "political process that is broken" and restoring a government that has fallen out of touch with the people. We had the opportunity to ask Senator Obama a few questions about writing, reading, and politics--see his responses below.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  20 Second Interview: A Few Words with Barack Obama\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How did writing a book that you knew would be read so closely by so many compare to writing your first book, when few people knew who you were?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n In many ways,\n <em>\n  Dreams from My Father\n </em>\n was harder to write. At that point, I wasn''t even sure that I could write a book. And writing the first book really was a process of self-discovery, since it touched on my family and my childhood in a much more intimate way. On the other hand, writing\n <em>\n  The Audacity of Hope\n </em>\n paralleled the work that I do every day--trying to give shape to all the issues that we face as a country, and providing my own personal stamp on them.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What is your writing process like? You have such a busy schedule, how did you find time to write?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I''m a night owl, so I usually wrote at night after my Senate day was over, and after my family was asleep--from 9:30 p.m. or so until 1 a.m. I would work off an outline--certain themes or stories that I wanted to tell--and get them down in longhand on a yellow pad. Then I''d edit while typing in what I''d written.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n If readers are to come away from\n <em>\n  The Audacity of Hope\n </em>\n with one action item (a New Year''s Resolution for 2007, perhaps?), what should it be?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Get involved in an issue that you''re passionate about. It almost doesnâ€™t matter what it is--improving the school system, developing strategies to wean ourselves off foreign oil, expanding health care for kids. We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You''re known for being able to work with people across ideological lines. Is that possible in today''s polarized Washington?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n It is possible. There are a lot of well-meaning people in both political parties. Unfortunately, the political culture tends to emphasize conflict, the media emphasizes conflict, and the structure of our campaigns rewards the negative. I write about these obstacles in chapter 4 of my book, "Politics." When you focus on solving problems instead of scoring political points, and emphasize common sense over ideology, you''d be surprised what can be accomplished. It also helps if you''re willing to give other people credit--something politicians have a hard time doing sometimes.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How do you make people passionate about moderate and complex ideas?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I think the country recognizes that the challenges we face aren''t amenable to sound-bite solutions. People are looking for serious solutions to complex problems. I don''t think we need more moderation per se--I think we should be bolder in promoting universal health care, or dealing with global warming. We just need to understand that actually solving these problems won''t be easy, and that whatever solutions we come up with will require consensus among groups with divergent interests. That means everybody has to listen, and everybody has to give a little. That''s not easy to do.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What has surprised you most about the way Washington works?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n How little serious debate and deliberation takes place on the floor of the House or the Senate.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You talk about how we have a personal responsibility to educate our children. What small thing can the average parent (or person) do to help improve the educational system in America? What small thing can make a big impact?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Nothing has a bigger impact than reading to children early in life. Obviously we all have a personal obligation to turn off the TV and read to our own children; but beyond that, participating in a literacy program, working with parents who themselves may have difficulty reading, helping their children with their literacy skills, can make a huge difference in a child''s life.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Do you ever find time to read? What kinds of books do you try to make time for? What is on your nightstand now?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Unfortunately, I had very little time to read while I was writing. I''m trying to make up for lost time now. My tastes are pretty eclectic. I just finished Marilynne Robinsonâ€™s\n <em>\n  Gilead\n </em>\n , a wonderful book. The language just shimmers. I''ve started\n <em>\n  Team of Rivals\n </em>\n by Doris Kearns Goodwin, which is a great study of Lincoln as a political strategist. I read just about anything by Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, or Philip Roth. And I''ve got a soft spot for John le Carre.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What inspires you? How do you stay motivated?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I''m inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I''m inspired by the love people have for their children. And I''m inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1286'),
(5388, 'Auschwitz: A Doctor&#39;s Eyewitness Account', 'Miklos Nyiszli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform scientific research on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous Angel of Death: Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele s personal research pathologist. Miraculously, he survived to give this terrifying and sobering account.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2242'),
(5389, 'The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid', 'Pat F. Garrett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n More than twelve decades after Billy the Kid''s death in 1881, books, movies, and essays about this western outlaw are still popular. And they all go back to one source: The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid, published in 1882 by the man who killed Billy, Sheriff Pat Garrett. Frederick Nolan, an authority on the American Southwest, examines the legends introduced by The Authentic Lifeand shows how Garrett''s book is responsible for misconceptions about the Kid''s early life and his short, violent career. This edition, complete with the original text, corrects errors, amplifies Garrett''s narrative, and elucidates the causes and course of the Lincoln County War in New Mexico during the 1870s. Nolan provides an introduction that reappraises the last, fatal meeting of Garrett and Billy the Kid, as well as a postscript about the sheriff''s snakebitten life following the moment that made him famous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2430'),
(5390, 'Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "I''ve struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"--meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank mind." The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain''s death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain''s works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain''s uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain''s authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1846'),
(5391, 'An Autobiography', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A new-look printing of Agatha Christie''s ''most absorbing mystery'' to mark the 25th anniversary of her death.  Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, having become the best-selling novelist in history. Her autobiography, published in 1977 a year after her death, tells of her fascinating private life, from early childhood through two marriages and two World Wars, and her experiences both as a writer and on archaeological expeditions with her second husband, Max Mallowan. Not only does the book reveal the true genius of her legendary success, but the story is vividly told and as captivating as one of her novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1802'),
(5392, 'Ava&#39;s Man', 'Rick Bragg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The same fierce pride and love that animated\n <em>\n  All Over but the Shoutin''\n </em>\n glow in Rick Bragg''s new book. In fact, he informs us in the prologue that it was the readers of his bestselling 1997 memoir about his mother''s struggle to raise three sons out of dire poverty who told him what he had to write about next. "People asked me where I believed my own momma''s heart and backbone came from ... they said I short-shrifted them in the first book." Bragg sets out to make amends in this heartfelt biography of his maternal grandfather, Charlie Bundrum, who with wife Ava nurtured seven children through hard times that never seemed to ease in rural Alabama and Georgia. "He was a tall, bone-thin man who worked with nails in his teeth and a roofing hatchet in a fist as hard as Augusta brick," writes Bragg, "who inspired backwoods legend and the kind of loyalty that still makes old men dip their heads respectfully when they say his name." Charlie''s children adored him so much that 40 years after his premature death in 1958 at age 51, Bragg''s elderly aunts and mother began to cry when asked about him. Chronicling Charlie''s hardscrabble life in the flinty, expressive cadences of working-class Southern speech, Bragg depicts a rugged individual who would find no place in the homogenized New South. The marvelous stories collected from various relatives--Charlie facing down a truckload of mean drunks with a hammer, hatchet, and 12-gauge shotgun, or brewing illegal white whiskey in the woods ("He never sold a sip that he did not test with his own liver")--are not just snapshots of a colorful character. They''re also the author''s tribute to an oral culture with tenacious roots and powerful significance in the American South.\n <em>\n  --Wendy Smith\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In less capable hands, this biography could have been mawkish and mundane. Instead, Bragg''s telling of his maternal grandfather''s life is eloquent and touching, and his spare prose is alive with fresh metaphors and memorable sentences. Bragg never knew Charlie Bundrum, who died prematurely at age 51 in 1958; the story of this proud, flawed, loving and much-loved hero of Depression-era Appalachia is derived from family and community oral history. Interestingly, this book emerged because readers of Bragg''s bestselling book about his mother, Ava (All Over but the Shoutin''), wanted to understand the force that drove her to be such a strong figure. Few actors could have read this work as well as the author has. Bragg''s Appalachian accent, slightly polished by Northern living, adds authenticity to the fine, funny and painful anecdotes that made up his grandfather''s life and to the feelings each story encompasses. His smooth reading enhances the rhythms and sounds of his prose, rendering with genuine sincerity his deep admiration for his people and for the vanishing culture they represent. Simultaneous release with the Knopf hardcover (Forecasts, Aug. 6). (Aug.)n\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1848'),
(5393, 'Awakening', 'S. J. Bolton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An idyllic village is thrown into Â­turmoil in the startling, heart-racing new thriller from the author of Sacrifice. How did it all begin? I suppose it would be the day I rescued a new-born baby from a poisonous snake, heard the news of my motherâ€™s death and encountered my first ghost . . .Veterinary surgeon Clara Benning is young and intelligent, but practically a recluse. Disfigured by a childhood accident, she lives alone and shies away from human contact whenever possible. But when a man dies following a supposed snake bite, the victimâ€™s post mortem shows a higher concentration of venom than could ever be found in a single snake. Assisted by her softly spoken neighbour, and an eccentric reptile expert, Clara unravels sinister links to a barbaric ancient ritual, an abandoned house and a fifty-year-old tragedy that left the survivors fiercely secretive. Then the villageâ€™s inventive attacker strikes again, and Claraâ€™s own solitary existence is brutally invaded. For someone the truth must remain buried in the past â€” even if they have to kill to keep it there.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/933');
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(5394, 'Ayn Rand and the World She Made', 'Anne Conover Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Anne C. Heller\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Many people discover Ayn Randâ€™s novels\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  It''s true that I didnâ€™t read Ayn Randâ€™s popular novels in high school or college. I read them for the first time seven or eight years ago, while I was editing a trial issue of a new financial magazine at CondÃ© Nast Publications.\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  . In the novel, the speech is delivered by a young copper baron to an assembled crowd of liberal bureaucrats and corporate welfare-statists. He argues that money, far from being the root of all evil, as the liberals in the novel pretend to think, is really "the root of all good," and "the barometer of a societyâ€™s virtue." The speech surprised me with its passion and seemingly air-tight logic and aroused my curiosity. So I read the books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At that time, Rand and her work werenâ€™t in the news, as they are now. Once I had finished\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  for the second time, I looked around to see what had been written about her. Later, I learned that the novels were still selling in the hundreds of thousands of copies every year and that she was influential among libertarians and certain conservatives; yet no full-scale, impartial biography of this extraordinary woman had been written. Only former disciples and detractors had published books about her. The time seemed right to take a fresh approach.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Do you think your experience with her work, philosophy, and life was different from those who read her in their adolescence?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  Yes. I appreciated Randâ€™s insights into the nature of power and her spectacular ability to integrate plot, character, and theme more than I might have when younger. And, I was less susceptible to her romantic celebration of heroic achievement.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Ayn Rand and the World She Made\n  </em>\n  is the first objective, investigative biography of Ayn Rand. What new sources did you use for your research? Did you travel for your research?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  The only other biography was written in the 1980s by\n </p>\n <p>\n  I traveled all over the United States to work in relevant archives and to conduct interviews with her former friends and followers, many now in their eighties and nineties, who spoke surprisingly candidly about her capacity for cruelty as well as her genius and personal magnetism. I had three lengthy interviews with her long-time lover, Nathaniel Branden, now eighty, and spoke with most members of what used to be called the "inner circle" of her cult following. I also had access to interviews with her elderly Russian sister and with close friends from the 1920s and 1930s, all now deceased.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  What surprised you most?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  I was surprised by many things--by how deeply her hostility to liberal social programs was rooted in her Russian childhood, by her remarkable insight into the psychology of envy and mediocrity, by her personal courage, and by her unfailing ability to spot a flaw in any opposing argument. I was also surprised to discover that many of her former followers, though personally damaged by her temper and her moral absolutism, remembered her as the most important and beneficent person in their lives. They had been wounded by her and yet loved her and were protective of her memory and legend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Why does Rand remain a bestseller?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  She certainly does remain popular. In a 1991 poll, sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club, Americans named\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  the book that had most influenced their lives after the Bible. In a separate 1998 poll by Modern Library, readers chose\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fountainhead\n  </em>\n  as number one and two on a list of the one hundred greatest novels of the twentieth century, and Randâ€™s other two novels,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like Holden Caulfield and Huckleberry Finn, Randâ€™s fictional heroes strike each new generation as timelessly American in their self-reliance and revolt against timidity and conformity. And her passionate, brainy arguments on behalf of limited government and unfettered individual rights strike a strong chord, especially in times of economic trouble and increased government activism.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Brennan Cavanaugh)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum was born to Jewish parents in 1905 Russia. Ayn Rand left Russia in 1926 for America and founded her anticollectivist philosophy, Objectivism, a philosophy of free market capitalism and the pursuit of self-interest as a moral good. Depressive, pill-taking, chain-smoking and manipulative, Rand''s life was defined by a longtime Sunset Boulevardâ€“like affair with Nathaniel Branden, who went on to start the self-esteem movement. At the same time, the combustible Rand was married to a passive man with matinee-idol looks. Magazine editor and journalist Heller competently describes Rand''s feuds with William F. Buckley and with her sister, who had remained in the U.S.S.R., and the more courtly relationship Rand had with publisher Bennett Cerf. This objective account of the Objectivist Rand will interest her still large and devoted readership. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Nov. 3)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1851'),
(5395, 'Azincourt', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An extraordinary and dramatic depiction of the legendary battle of Agincourt from the number one historical novelistAgincourt, fought on October 25th 1415, on St Crispin''s Day, is one of the best known battles, in part through the brilliant depiction of it in Shakespeare''s Henry V, in part because it was a brilliant and unexpected English victory and in part because it was the first battle won by the use of the longbow - a weapon developed by the English which enabled them to dominate the European battlefields for the rest of the century.Bernard Cornwell''s Azincourt is a vivid, breathtaking and meticulously well researched account of this momentous battle and its aftermath. From the varying viewpoints of nobles, peasants, archers, and horsemen, Azincourt skilfully brings to life the hours of relentless fighting, the desperation of an army crippled by disease and the exceptional bravery of the English soldiers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3449'),
(5396, 'Baby, Let&#39;s Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him', 'Alanna Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nash culls reminiscences from long-term girlfriends, starlets like Ann-Margret and Cybill Shepherd, and assorted strippers, showgirls and groupies for this gossipy, besotted biography of rock''s original sex god. They attest to the allure that had females lining up for access to the young Elvis''s bed: devastating looks, pelvic gyrations and a bad-boy sneer combined with a romantic soul, sublime kissing technique and a courtliness that lulled parents into handing over their underage daughters. (He was attracted to 14-year-old brunettes, Nash argues, like future wife Priscilla.) And there''s the indefinable magnetismâ€”i.e., celebrityâ€”that kept them coming through the drugs and debauchery, the bizarre monologues and random gunplay, the impotence and incontinence and vomit and bloat of the King''s declining years. Nash''s mix of breathless melodrama (his voice was soft and sensuous, and he had a mischievous grin on his face, and he was looking straight at her) with rote psychoanalysis (Elvis could never really let go of [his mother] Gladys) often reads like a fan magazine. Her shallow but vivid portrait nonetheless manages to evoke much of what made Elvis so enthralling.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 5)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe most comprehensive work ever on how the women in Presleyâ€™s lifeâ€¦influenced him and his music.â€ (New York Newsday )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDeliciously gossipy but never mean, revealingly intimate but never leering, Baby, Letâ€™s Play House is a masterwork of psycho-sexual history neatly disguised as celebrity journalism.â€ (David Hajdu, author of Positively 4th Street, music critic for The New Republic, and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism David Hajdu, author of Positively 4th Street, music critic for The New Republic, and professor at Co )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn this astounding look at the Kingâ€™s unstoppable pursuit of women from his elementary school days until his untimely death at 42, hundreds of girls and women pass through the revolving doors of Elvisâ€™ love life.â€ (Atlanta Journal-Constitution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUn-put-downabble.â€ (Jezebel.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nash meticulously documents and explores all the relationships Elvis had with women that were â€˜extremely special,â€™ as Ann-Margret so delightfully (and euphemistically) phrases it. I was delighted to see my stepmother, June Carter, make an appearance, as she always became uncharacteristically silent when Elvisâ€™ name came up in conversation. Nash belongs in the pantheon of great music writers, and this book is a fascinating study (Rosanne Cash )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exhaustive and penetrating work that functions as an intimate personal profile, a family study and a psychosexual investigation of one of the 20th centuryâ€™s true cultural icons.â€ (Memphis Commercial Appeal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nashâ€¦turns her eye toward The Kingâ€™s other women in a psychological history ...Among those who loved him tender - Ann-Margret and Cybill Shepherd. Those who turned him down include Cher and Karen Carpenter. And of course, thereâ€™s plenty on the No. 1 woman in his life - Mom Gladys Presley.â€ (New York Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBy far the best study of Elvis Presley I have read. â€˜The Kingâ€™ emerges more clearly from this mosaic of his troubled love life than from any linear biography to date.Impressively researched, written--and felt.â€ (Philip Norman, New York Times bestselling author of John Lennon and Shout! )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s left to say about Elvis? Plenty, if Alanna Nash is on the case. She rips the satin sheets right off the King, resulting in the most entertaining Elvis book ever. Ann-Margret! Raquel Welch! Barbara Eden! Tura Satana! This is very funny book.â€ (Jimmy McDonough, New York Times bestselling author of Shakey: Neil Young''s Biography )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA frank and fascinating portrait of an essentially lonely man...[told] with grace and intelligence...The work of a master.â€ (Louisville Courier Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nashâ€™s long look at Elvisâ€™ bizarre history with women...collect[s] all the madness, badness and sadness of the Elvis myth in one exhaustive and embarrassingly tempting volume.â€ (New York Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf anything, Baby, Letâ€™s Play House heightens the heartbreaking aspects of Presleyâ€™s life.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA major new contribution to Presley lore...[Alanna Nashâ€™s] focus on Presleyâ€™s relationships with women takes us on a long and often fascinating journey...Itâ€™s a welcome and well-crafted addition to our understanding of his strange, triumphant and tragic life.â€ (The Globe and Mail )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNew girls slip between [Elvisâ€™] satin sheets on nearly every page...Combine that with an absorbing snapshot section, and [Baby, Letâ€™s Play House] will leave you all shook up.â€ (BettyConfidential.com )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1853'),
(5397, 'Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century', 'Betsy Israel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While historians have studied various subsets of women working class, professional, radical, etc., little attention has been paid to the single woman. As journalist Israel documents in this impressive history of single women in America from the Industrial Revolution to modern times, these women have maintained a flourishing subculture, despite attacks and ridicule by the media. While focusing primarily on white, middle-class Manhattan women, Israel draws on a variety of sources, movies, popular novels, magazine and newspaper features that shape the single-woman experience for the broader population. "B-girls" bachelor or bohemian, have always been with us, some from lack of marriage prospects, true, but many by preference. Israel says it''s mainly the appeal of the companionship of other women and the desire for independence from marital suppression that keeps these women from tying the knot. Social acceptance of singletons has flip-flopped over the generations. Positive icons, including the emancipated New Woman, settlement house professionals, WWII''s Rosie the Riveter, and liberated ''70s "chicks," have alternated with scary images of frigid, lonely Old Maids staring at their used-up biological clocks. But even as social critics have changed their tunes about how much rope to allow these women, the women themselves brave factory girls, Bowery Girls, "shoppies," Greenwich Village bohemians, flappers, Murphy Browns and Bridget Joneses have been tough enough to have it "their way." Israel''s witty and provocative look at a topic dear to many women deserves wide readership.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Journalist Israel (Growing Up Fast) writes wittily but reveals few "secrets" about single women in this chronicle of white, never-married women in New York City since the 18th-century. In describing settlement workers and immigrant factory girls, sales clerks and office workers, she draws copiously from standard secondary accounts, and from the popular press she gleans evidence of the derisive stereotypes that accompany the lived experience. As her narrative traverses the century, we encounter "Rosie the Riveter," the desperate women of the 1950s, the liberated witches of the second wave of feminism, and, finally, their disillusioned daughters. Although her bibliography is impressive, this popular history lacks specific citations, and some of her generalizations are misleading. More important, most of the women she discusses are not single so much as not yet married; she says little about the mature single woman, the divorcee, the widow, or the women who cohabit without marriage and virtually nothing about black women, who are more likely to live unmarried throughout adulthood. Still, libraries might consider. Morrow plans a major marketing campaign, and urban public libraries will likely experience a demand.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Cynthia Harrison, George Washington Univ., Washington, DC\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2243'),
(5398, 'The Bachman Books', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The name on the covers was Bachman. But the imagination could only belong to one man. This is a compelling collection of three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense. It includes: "The Long Walk", "Roadwork", and "The Running Man" - in which Stephen King also explains ''Why I was Richard Bachman''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/896'),
(5399, 'Back of Beyond', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The EdgarÂ® Awardwinning and New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller about a troubled cop trying to save his son from a killer in Yellowstone.Â Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who''s fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes a closer look at the scene of his friend''s death, it becomes apparent that foul play is at hand. After years of bad behavior with his department, he''s in no position to be investigating a homicide, but this man was a friend and Cody''s determined to find his killer. When clues found at the scene link the murderer to an outfitter leading tourists on a multi-day wilderness horseback trip into the remote corners of Yellowstone National Parkâ€”a pack trip that includes his son Justinâ€”Cody is desperate to get on their trail and stop the killer before the group heads into the wild. Among the tourists is fourteen-year-old Gracie Sullivan, an awkward but intelligent loner who begins to suspect that someone in their party is dangerous. In a fatal cat and mouse game, where it becomes apparent the murderer is somehow aware of Cody''s every move, Cody treks into the wilderness to stop a killer hell bent on ruining the only thing in his life he cares about.Â Back of BeyondÂ is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Mysteries title.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3444'),
(5400, 'Back Spin', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this classic fourth novel from Harlan Coben''s award-winning Myron Bolitar series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben proves again why he is one of today''s must-read suspense authors - and why Myron Bolitar is one of the most singular and captivating heroes in crime fiction. This time the sports agent and sometime sleuth probes the mystery of a teenager''s disappearance and finds a family whose darkest secrets explode into murder. The boy was born and raised on the tony Main Line. But he vanished on Philadelphia''s mean streets. For Myron Bolitar, his client, golf superstar Linda Coldren, comes first - and that means unraveling the mystery of her son''s kidnapping. But when Myron goes after the missing boy, he crashes through a crowd of lowlifes, blue bloods, and liars on both sides of the social divide. And as Linda''s golf-pro husband suddenly makes a run at the U.S. Open championship, the family''s skeletons burst out of the closet. Myron is about to find out just how deadly this game can get. In an ingenious thriller that crackles with wit and suspense, whose characters all but leap alive from the page, Harlan Coben engages the mind with twisting mysteries even as he makes the heart race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/463'),
(5401, 'Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy', 'Bill Clinton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œI wrote this book because I love my country and I''m concerned about our future,â€ writes Bill Clinton. â€œAs I often said when I first ran for President in 1992, America at its core is an ideaâ€”the idea that no matter who you are or where you''re from, if you work hard and play by the rules, you''ll have the freedom and opportunity to pursue your own dreams and leave your kids a country where they can chase theirs.â€ In Back to Work, Clinton details how we can get out of the current economic crisis and lay a foundation for long-term prosperity. He offers specific recommendations on how we can put people back to work and create new businesses, increase bank lending and corporate investment, double our exports, and restore our manufacturing base. He supports President Obamaâ€™s emphasis on green technology, saying that change in the way we produce and consume energy is the strategy most likely to spark a fast-growing economy and enhance our national security. Clinton also says that we need both a strong economy and a smart government working together to restore prosperity and progress. He demonstrates that whenever weâ€™ve given in to the temptation to blame government for our problems, weâ€™ve lost our commitment to shared prosperity, balanced growth, financial responsibility, and investment in the future. That has led our nation into trouble because there are some things we have to do together. For example, he says, â€œOur ability to compete in the twenty-first century is dependent on our willingness to invest in infrastructure: we need faster broadband, a state-of-the-art national electrical grid, modernized water and sewer systems, and the best airports, trains, roads, and bridges. â€œThere is no evidence that we can succeed in the twenty-first century with an antigovernment strategy,â€ writes Clinton, â€œwith a philosophy grounded in â€˜Youâ€™re on your ownâ€™ rather than â€˜Weâ€™re all in this together.â€™â€ Clinton believes that conflict between government and the private sector has proved to be remarkably good politics, but it has produced bad policies, giving us a weak economy with few jobs, growing income inequality and poverty, and a decline in our competitive position. In the real world, cooperation works much better than conflict, and â€œwe need victories in the real world.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3247'),
(5402, 'Back When We Were Grownups', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/962'),
(5403, 'Backlash', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Locked in a war of wills and weapons, the Jedi Order and the Galactic Alliance must come to terms--before the Sith''s army of darkness enactsrevenge. Repercussions from the dark side''s fatal seduction of Jacen Solo and the mysterious plague of madness afflicting young Jedi continue to wreak galaxywide havoc. Lukeand Ben Skywalker are in pursuit of the now Masterless Sith apprentice--a chase that leads to the forbidding planet Dathomir, where the Skywalkers will be forced into combat for their quarry and their lives.Meanwhile, Han and Leia have completed their own desperate mission, shuttling madness-stricken Jedi to safe haven beyond the grasp of Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala. Yet no greater threat exists thanAbeloth, a being of ravenous dark-side energy who calls out to Jedi and Sith alike. For some it may be the ultimate source of answers for survival. For others it could be the ultimate weapon of conquest. But for all, it isa game-changing encounter of untold magnitude with unimaginable consequences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3321'),
(5404, 'Bad Blood', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Sept 21, 2010 When 19-year-old Bob Tripp hits farmer Jacob Flood in the head with a T-ball bat at the outset of Sandford''s exciting fourth thriller to feature Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers (after Rough Country), Tripp''s subsequent attempt to make murder look like an accident fails. The morning after Tripp''s arrest, he''s found hanging in his cell. Warren County sheriff Lee Coakley seeks Flowers''s help to investigate what role, if any, deputy Jim Crocker, the officer on duty at the jail at the time, played in Tripp''s death. A link to the earlier murder of a young woman leads Flowers and Coakley to members of a small church with strange ways. As the pair become aware of the magnitude of the unspeakable crimes (rape, child abuse, incest) behind the deaths, they search desperately for a lever to pry open what turns out to be Flowers''s biggest, if perhaps most unlikely, case to date.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  When 19-year-old Bob Tripp hits farmer Jacob Flood in the head with a T-ball bat at the outset of Sandford''s exciting fourth thriller to feature Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers (after Rough Country), Tripp''s subsequent attempt to make murder look like an accident fails. The morning after Tripp''s arrest, he''s found hanging in his cell. Warren County sheriff Lee Coakley seeks Flowers''s help to investigate what role, if any, deputy Jim Crocker, the officer on duty at the jail at the time, played in Tripp''s death. A link to the earlier murder of a young woman leads Flowers and Coakley to members of a small church with strange ways. As the pair become aware of the magnitude of the unspeakable crimes (rape, child abuse, incest) behind the deaths, they search desperately for a lever to pry open what turns out to be Flowers''s biggest, if perhaps most unlikely, case to date. Author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  Bobby Tripp was a good kid, working at a grain mill, saving for college. But he killed Jacob Flood, a local farmer delivering his harvest; and then, after Bobby was arrested, he hung himself in jail. The sheriff, Lee Coakley, reaches out for help to Minnesotaâ€™s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. She gets Virgil Flowers, the throwback hippie with the hair, the rock-band T-shirts, and a rep as a lockdown investigator. Coakley and Flowers catch a whiff of sexual abuse involving Bobbyâ€™s girlfriend. The abuse angle widens and is centered on a local church, but the congregation closes ranks with iron uniformity. Flowers and Coakley get a line on a woman who escaped the influence of the church years before. She becomes the key to the case, opening a Pandoraâ€™s box of multiple murders, criminal behavior among the sheriffâ€™s deputies, and revelations of deviancy that go back generations. As usual, Sandford delivers a great mystery with action, suspense, humor, and, yes, sex. Virgil always gets his man, but he also gets the girl. Good reading, especially in the absence of Robert B. Parkerâ€™s Spenser. â€”Wes Lukowsky\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/678'),
(5405, 'Bad Guys', 'Linwood Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œFans of the crime caper will rejoiceâ€ that Linwood Barclay is back with the hilarious follow-up to his â€œriotously funny and irreverentâ€ debut, in which paranoid pop Zack Walker plotted to transplant his city-savvy wife and two teenage kids to the tranquillity of the burbsâ€“where planned communities prevail and fathers rest easy. Well, not quiteâ€¦and now the Walkers have moved home only to find themselves living in the precarious crosshairs of urban sprawl once again, and Zack canâ€™t help but be worriedâ€“really worriedâ€“that just around the corner lurks the presence of some really bad guys.Zack is back, and much to his familyâ€™s relief, the work-at-home science-fiction writer has left the house to take a job as a features writer for the city paper. But now that Zackâ€™s incessant plotting can no longer be hatched from the comforts of his own home, he must be ever more vigilant to outwit the evil at large, whether in the suburbs, the city, or his own imagination. Zack is readyâ€¦or so he thinks.While researching his first feature article, Zack stumbles upon a real-life crime scene, but what seems like an ordinary hit-and-run may actually be a homicide linked to a gang thatâ€™s been burglarizing Crandallâ€™s high-end shops. Suddenly Zack finds himself at the center of a violent crime wave and destined for a confrontation with Barbie Bullock, an unsettling figure infamous in the crime syndicate for his ruthless business tactics and peculiar proclivity for collecting dolls.And all is not quiet on the home front either. Zackâ€™s protective instincts launch into overdrive when he discovers that his daughterâ€™s rejected suitor has been tracing her every step and may harbor a much more ominous motivation than winning a Saturday night date. Nor does his sonâ€™s strange behavior and recent friendship with a creepy computer recluse inspire joy in a fatherâ€™s heart. As worlds begin to collide and boundaries between family and foe blur, Zack goes on the attack, and heaven help the bad guys when this resourceful father comes to make good on a deal gone bad.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3158'),
(5406, 'Bad Love', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address â€“ a tape recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a childlike voice delivering the enigmatic and haunting message:  ''Bad love. Bad love. Don''t give me the bad loveâ€¦''  For child psychologist Dr Alex Delaware, the chant, repeated over and over like a twisted nursery rhyme, is the first intimation that he is about to enter a living nightmare. Others soon follow: disquieting laughter echoing over a phone line that suddenly goes dead, a chilling trespass outside his home, a sickening act of vandalism. A carefully orchestrated campaign of vague threats and intimidation rapidly builds to a crescendo as harassment turns to terror, mischief to madness.  Searching his memory for the phrase ''bad love'', Alex recalls a symposium he attended over a decade ago commemorating the work of Dr Andres de Bosch who ran a clinic for troubled adolescents. But when he tries to contact the other delegates, Alex discovers a seemingly random series of violent deaths amongst them.  As he delves deeper into the history of the clinic, the escalating pattern of violence becomes inescapably clear. And if Alex fails to decipher the twisted logic of the stalker''s mind-games, he will be the next one to die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/745'),
(5407, 'Bad Luck and Trouble', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the nightâ€¦. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of exâ€“army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacherâ€”soldier, cop, heroâ€”is pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee Childâ€™s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friendsâ€¦and is on its way to something even worse.A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his backâ€”no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying storyâ€”about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they donâ€™t know: about two other comrades who have suddenly gone missingâ€”and a trail that leads into the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international terrorism.For now, Reacher can only react. To every sound. Every suspicion. Every scent and every moment. Then Reacher will trust the people he once trusted with his lifeâ€”and take this thing all the way to the end. Because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, theyâ€™d better be ready for what comes right back at themâ€¦From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2544'),
(5408, 'Bad Moon Rising', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n At last, the story of the Were-Hunters, Fang, and Aimee..."From #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon, a stunning and suspenseful new landscape emerges in the thrilling Dark-Hunter world. A world of were-clan loyalties and star-crossed love, where laws will be broken, war will be waged--and nothing will ever be the same..."BROTHERS UNITEDFang Kattalakis isn''t just a wolf. He is the brother of two of the most powerful members of the Omegrion: the ruling council that enforces the laws of the Were-Hunters. When war erupts among the lycanthropes, sides must be chosen. Enemies must become allies. And Fang''s one true passion is strictly forbidden...LOVERS DIVIDEDWhen Aimee, the Arcadian huntress he loves, is accused of betraying her people, Fang is her last and only hope. But in order to save her, he must break the laws of his people and the trust of his brothers--a breach that could destroy both their races and change their world forever. "The Were-Hunter''s war begins..." "[A] publishing phenomenon...[Sherrilyn Kenyon is] the reigning queen of the wildly successful paranormal scene."--"Publishers Weekly"""www.sherrilynkenyon.comwww.dark-hunter.comwww.officialsanctuary.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3639'),
(5409, 'Bad Moon Rising', 'Autumn Dawn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Dey has a taste for ancient treasure----Keg is the one assigned to guard it. Ancient ziggurats protected by forgotten technology are no match for Dey, but Keg is one challenge she can''t dismiss.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Sexy and irrepressible, Keg doesn''t understand why the woman in the pink snakeskinÂ \n </div>\n <div>\n  jacket and sassy ponytails would swagger around with a gun. The conflicting signals of full lips, sweet curves and a yen for danger make other men wary, but he finds it an irresistible attraction. What better way to keep her out of trouble than to make her his own?\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  But Dey is no easy conquest, and their tension mounts higher until a friendâ€™s betrayal puts Dey on the wrong side of the law. With the memory of one fiery kiss burning between them, he has to watch as she''s exiled to the deadly swamps. Determined to find her, he hunts the wilds to no avail.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  One year later, their paths cross again in a war-torn part of the swamp. This time they chose to make their desires come true.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3728'),
(5410, 'Bad Move', 'Linwood Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the too-quiet town of Oakwood, only the lucky die of boredomâ€¦and new homeowner Zack Walker isnâ€™t feeling lucky. Whoever said the burbs were boring will think twice after reading Linwood Barclayâ€™s hilarious debut mystery, in which Dad learns the hard way that he doesnâ€™t always know best.Zack wouldnâ€™t blame you for thinking heâ€™s safety-obsessed. True, he masterminded a plot to trade his familyâ€™s exciting city lifestyle for one of suburban tranquillity. True, even after this strategic move, Zack still has issues with family members who forget their keys in the front door, leave their cars unlocked, or park their backpacks at the top of the stairsâ€”where you could kill yourself tripping over them. Just ask his wife, Sarah, or his teenage kids, Paul and Angie, who endure their share of lectures. Zack knows that he needs to chill out and assume the best for onceâ€”but we know what happens to those who assume.When Zack realizes their two-faced developer sent a petty thief to fix their leaky shower, he starts fighting hard to ignore the fact that Oakwood isnâ€™t the crime-free paradise he was hoping for. But his brief state of denial comes to an abrupt end when, during a walk by the creek, he stumbles across a dead body. Even more shocking, Zack actually knows who the victim isâ€”and who might want him dead. With a killer roaming around their neighborhood and Zackâ€™s overactive imagination in overdrive, heâ€™s sure things canâ€™t get any worse. But then another local is murderedâ€”and Zackâ€™s paranoid tendencies get him implicated in the crime. While his wife is trying to remember why she married him in the first place, and his kids are considering whether itâ€™s time to have him committed, Zack decides thereâ€™s only one thing he can do. To protect his familyâ€”and avoid being busted for a crime he didnâ€™t commitâ€”heâ€™s going to have to override his safety-first instincts, tap into his delusions of machismo, and track down the killer himself.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3157'),
(5411, 'Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism', 'Ha-Joon Chang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chang''s detailed, thorough book puts another theoretical nail in the coffin of free trade and unbridled capitalism. Chang illustrates a vast array of contradictions and hypocrisies spouted by the neoliberal agenda (sometimes known as neo-conservative in the U.S.) to completely deregulate developing governments. Looking at the history of capitalism, he reveals how often free trade has failed where protectionism has benefited many of the richer countries today including the U.S. and U.K. Bond, who has his work cut out for him with Chang''s long, technical and fact-laden work, does a good job of emphasis and pacing. But staying atop the tidal wave of information and complex connections in Chang''s writing may require listening to the audiobook in small chunks or listening to some sections more than once. Bond''s smooth but stern delivery proves a useful companion. Simultaneous release with the Bloomsbury hardcover (Reviews, Nov. 12).\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA well-researched and readable case against free-trade orthodoxy.â€ _\n  <strong>\n   â€”Business Week\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA lively addition to the protectionist side of the debateâ€¦well written and far more serious than most anti-globalization gibberish.â€ _\n  <strong>\n   â€” New York Sun\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBookstore shelves are loaded with offerings by economists and commentators seeking to explain, in accessible prose, why free-trade-style globalization is desirable and even indispensable for countries the world over. Now comes the best riposte from the critics that I have seen. Readers who are leery of open-market orthodoxy will rejoice at the cogency of Bad Samaritans. Ha-Joon Chang has the credentials -- he''s on the economics faculty at Cambridge University -- and the storytelling skill to make a well-informed, engaging case against the dogma propagated by globalization''s cheerleaders. Believers in free trade will find that the book forces them to recalibrate and maybe even backpedal a bitâ€¦.Chang''s book deserves a wide readership for illuminating the need for humility about the virtues of private markets and free trade, especially in the developing world.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”Paul Blustein,\n   <em>\n    Washington\n   </em>\n   _ Post_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations, this penetrating study could be entitled â€œeconomics in the real world.â€ Chang reveals the yawning gap between standard doctrines concerning economic development and what really has taken place from the origins of the industrial revolution until today.  His incisive analysis shows how, and why, prescriptions based on reigning doctrines have caused severe harm, particularly to the most vulnerable and defenseless, and are likely to continue to do so.  He goes on to provide sensible and constructive proposals, solidly based on economic theory and historical evidence, as to how the global economy could be redesigned to proceed on a far more humane and civilized course.  And his warnings of what might happen if corrective action is not taken are grim and apt.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“ Noam Chomsky\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA smart, lively, and provocative book that offers us compelling new ways of looking at globalization.â€ â€”\n  <strong>\n   Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI recommend this book to people who have any interest in these issuesâ€”i.e. everyone.â€\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”Bob Geldof\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œEvery orthodoxy needs effective critics. Ha-Joon Chang is probably the worldâ€™s most effective critic of globalization. He does not deny the benefits to developing countries of integration into the world economy. But he draws on the lessons of history to argue that they must be allowed to integrate on their own terms.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”Martin Wolf,\n   <em>\n    Financial Times\n   </em>\n   , author of\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Why Globalization Works\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œThis is a marvelous book. Well researched, panoramic in its scope and beautifully written,\n  <em>\n   Bad Samaritans\n  </em>\n  is the perfect riposte to devotees of a one-size-fits-all model of growth and globalisation. I strongly urge you to read it.â€â€”\n  <strong>\n   Larry Elliott, economics editor, the\n   <em>\n    Guardian\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2858'),
(5412, 'Bag of Bones', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  No longer content to be the prolific provider of text, King grabs the audio reins to recount this haunted tale of grief, young love, and otherworldly visits. When 40-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan returns to his lakeside cabin to process his wife''s death, he finds the place a beacon for nightmares and ghoulish visits. But there''s hope in Kingsville, as this struggling writer falls in love with a young widow named Mattie and her 3-year-old psychic daughter, Kyra. If you''ve never heard King speak, be warned: 19-plus hours of his western Maine, nasal-drenched tones may be more than some listeners can bear. But there''s a certain warmth and believability to King''s voice--after all, it''s his book and he\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  a middle-aged bestselling novelist--that jive well with Noonan''s character. And since King rarely reads his own work, perhaps his doing so indicates that he''s especially pleased with\n  <em>\n   Bag of Bones\n  </em>\n  ; most listeners should be as well. (Running time: 19.5 hours, 14 cassettes)\n  <em>\n   --Rob McDonald\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carrying galley copy that avoids the h(orror) word while touting its "O. Henry Award-winning author," King''s latest novel features a marketing campaign in accord with the distinguished pedigree of his new publisher. But has King written a book that ranks him as a literary heavyweight? Indeed he has, though not by forsaking his roots: the novel is a classic ghost story. It opens quietly as narrator Mike Noonan, 40, bestselling author of romantic suspense potboilers (and latest in a line of King novelist-heroes, cf. Misery and The Dark Half) describes the death of his wife four years back and his consequent grief and writer''s block. Mike has kept the block hidden from the publishing world?limned in delicious detail, with real names?by annually pulling one of his own, unpublished mss. from a safe-deposit box. Now that he''s out of old novels to submit, he resolves to work through his troubles at Sara Laughs, his country house in backwoods Maine. Arriving there, Mike nearly drives over a three-year-old girl. She is Kyra, granddaughter?by way of beautiful young widow Mattie?of mad computer mogul Max Devore, who is hellbent on snatching the girl from her mother. Taking up Kyra''s cause, falling in love with Mattie, Mike gears up for a custody battle. Invigorated, he breaks through his writer''s block; but great danger, psychological and physical, awaits, from Max Devore but especially from the spirits, mostly malevolent, that haunt Sara Laughs due to hideous crimes committed by Devore''s ancestor a century earlier. Violence, natural and supernatural, ensues as past and present mix, culminating in a torrent of climaxes that bind and illuminate the novel''s many mysteries. From his mint-fresh etching of spooky rural Maine to his masterful pacing and deft handling of numerous themes, particularly of the fragility of our constructs about reality and of love''s ability to mend rifts in those constructs, this is one of King''s most accomplished novels. It is his most personal as well, revealing through Mike''s broodings the intimacies of the creative writing process: a passionate gift from a veteran author to all who care about the art and craft of storytelling. 1.26 million first printing; BOMC main selection (Sept.) FYI: Bag of Bones is the only hardcover Scribner will publish in September.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/812'),
(5413, 'The Balfour Declaration', 'Jonathan Schneer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of â€œa National Home for the Jewish people,â€ and its reverberations continue to be felt to this day. Now the entire fascinating story of the document is revealed in this impressive work of modern history.With new material retrieved from historical archives, scholar Jonathan Schneer recounts in dramatic detail the public and private battles in the early 1900s for a small strip of land in the Middle East, battles that started when the governing Ottoman Empire took Germanyâ€™s side in World War I. The Balfour Declaration paints an indelible picture of how Arab nationalists, backed by Britain, fought for their future as Zionists in England battled diplomatically for influence. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to either side or even to most members of the British government, Prime Minister David Lloyd George was telling Turkey that she could keep her flag flying over the disputed territory if only she would agree to a separate peace.The key players in this watershed moment are rendered here in nuanced and detailed relief: Sharif Hussein, the Arab leader who secretly sought British support; Chaim Weizmann, Zionist hero, the folksmensch who charmed British high society; T. E. Lawrence, the legendary â€œsuper cerebralâ€ British officer who â€œset the desert on fireâ€ for the Arabs; Basil Zaharoff, the infamous arms dealer who was Britainâ€™s most important back channel to the Turks; and the other generals and prime ministers, soldiers and negotiators, who shed blood and cut deals to grab or give away the precious land.A book crucial to understanding the Middle East as it is today, The Balfour Declaration is a rich and remarkable achievement, a riveting volume about the ancient faiths and timeless treacheries that continue to drive global events.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2433'),
(5414, 'Bandits', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Working at his brother-in-law''s New Orleans funeral home isn''t reformed jewel thief Jack Delaney''s idea of excitement -- until he''s dispatched to a leper''s hospital to pick up a corpse that turns out to be very much alive ... and under the care of a beautiful, radical ex-nun in designer jeans. The "deceased" is the one-time squeeze of a Nicaraguan colonel who''s ordered her dead for trying to "infect" him, and Sister Lucy''s looking to spirit the young woman away from his guns and goons. Plus Lucy''s getting ideas about spiriting away some of the colonel''s millions as well -- and someone with Jack Delaney''s talents could come in very handy indeed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3112');
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(5415, 'Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage', 'Christopher Andersen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   "She is my rockâ€”the one person who keeps it real." â€”Barack\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "I don''t want anybody to think that it''s easy. . . . We have a strong marriage, but it''s not perfect." â€”Michelle\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  They exploded onto the world scene and within a matter of a few short years captured the ultimate political prize. In so doing, they became a First Couple like no other: Heâ€”the biracial son of a free-spirited Kansas-born woman and a mercurial Kenyan father who abandoned him at an early ageâ€”was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, educated at Columbia and Harvard, and launched his political career in America''s heartland. She, by contrast, was the product of a solidly middle-American family with roots planted firmly in Chicago''s working-class South Sideâ€”paving the way for her to achieve her dreams of an Ivy League education and a position at one of the nation''s top law firms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By the time they claimed the White House in one of the most hotly contested presidential races in modern history, Barack and Michelle Obama were seen by millions around the world as the new Jack and Jackie Kennedyâ€”brilliant, attractive, elegant, youthful,\n  <em>\n   exciting\n  </em>\n  . Accompanied by their two young daughters, Malia and Sasha, the Obamas would arrive at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the promise of a new Camelot all but assured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Given the obvious historic significance of what they have accomplished together, the marriage of Barack and Michelle stands as one of the great personal and political partnerships in American history. Yet, incredibly, the true nature of that relationship has remained a mystery. Until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the style of his No. 1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   The Day Diana Died\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Day John Died\n  </em>\n  , as well as his bestselling books about the Kennedys, the Clintons, and the Bushes, author Christopher Andersen draws on important sourcesâ€”some speaking here for the first timeâ€”to paint the first complete, compelling portrait of America''s first black First Family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among the many intriguing insights and stunning revelations:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    New behind-the-scenes details of the Obamas'' courtship and marriageâ€”and the lovers who went before.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The early tragedies that shaped both Barack''s and Michelle''s personalities, and how those events haunt them to this day. Also, new information about Barack''s rootless childhood, at times tortured adolescence, and the true extent of his early drug use.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How Barack''s ambition put a strain on their relationship from the very beginning, how close the Obamas really came to breaking up, and how Michelle made the difficult decision that saved their marriage.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The little-known near-tragedy that brought Barack and Michelle closer than they had ever been.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How Michelle may have saved her husband''s presidential campaign, and her surprising behind-the-scenes role as the president''s chief advisor.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The pressures and delights of raising two young girls in the relentless glare of the media, and how, like Jack and Jackie Kennedy before them, Barack and Michelle strive to make the lives of America''s two most famous children as "normal" as possible.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage\n  </em>\n  is an intimate and ultimately riveting look at their unique partnership, and the humor, faith, fortitude, and grace that defines it. It is, above all, an extraordinary American love story.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christopher Andersen is the critically acclaimed author of twenty-eight books, which have been translated into more than twenty-five languages worldwide. A former contributing editor of\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine and senior editor of\n  <em>\n   People\n  </em>\n  magazine, Andersen has also written hundreds of articles for a wide range of publications, including\n  <em>\n   Life\n  </em>\n  magazine, the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Vanity Fair\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1854'),
(5416, 'Bared to You', 'Sylvia Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Our journey began in fire...Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness--beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I''d never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily...Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other''s most private wounds... and desires.The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the torment of our pasts didn''t tear us apart...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3784'),
(5417, 'The Barefoot Bandit: The True Tale of Colton Harris-Moore, New American Outlaw', 'Bob Friel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Barefoot Bandit tells the riveting true story of Colton Harris-Moore, Americaâ€™s twenty-first-century outlaw. Born into a poor family marred by alcohol abuse, Colt had the local sheriff after him before the age of ten. Colt survived by breaking into homes to forage for food, and learned to evade the police by melting into the Pacific Northwest wilds. As a teenager, he escalated to stealing cars, boats, and identities. An extensive manhunt finally caught Colt, but he escaped juvenile prison and fled to nearby Orcas Island, where he assured his place alongside outlaw legends such as D. B. Cooper by stealing an airplane without ever having a formal flight lesson. And that was just the beginning. As a resident of Orcas Island, author Bob Friel witnessed firsthand as local police, FBI agents, SWAT teams, and even Homeland Security helicopters pursued Colt around the island. Coltâ€™s crime spree infuriated and terrified many locals, while others sympathized with the barefoot young criminal--the controversy tearing at the formerly quiet community. The story gained international fame, with Time calling Colt "Americaâ€™s Most Wanted Teen" when he stole and crashed his third airplane. After more than two years on the run in the Northwest, Colt fled Orcas and began a spectacular cross-country trek. Friel followed the Barefoot Bandit all the way to the Bahamas, where the chase finally ended in a hail of gunfire at 3 a.m. on a dark sea.  Through his personal experiences and hundreds of interviews with witnesses, victims, local authorities, Coltâ€™s family, and, indirectly, Colt himself, Friel gives readers an exclusive look at an outlaw legend. Set against the backdrop of the Pacific Northwestâ€™s evergreen islands, where Internet millionaires coexist with survivalists and ex-hippies, this is a gripping, stranger-than-fiction tale about a neglected and troubled child who outfoxed the authorities, gained a cult following, and made the world take notice. "I doubt if even the best fiction writer could create a character like Colton Harris-Moore. This is an incredible but true story. Bob Friel is a gifted reporter and a very fine writer."--Nelson DeMille, New York Times bestselling author of The Gold Coast and The Lion "Something about Colton Harris-Moore--crafty stealer of cars, boats, and airplanes--captured the fascination of our fast-moving country. But it took Bob Friel, a plucky reporter with a pitch-perfect story sense--to chase down the legend and make it real. In Frielâ€™s fine telling, the Barefoot Bandit emerges as both villain and folk hero in a thrilling modern fugitive tale."--Hampton Sides, author of Hellhound on His Trail "A Dillingeresque tale for our current Great Recession era. Friel not only gives a brilliantly clear-eyed look at a banditâ€™s adventures but also the effects they had on his peaceful community."--Matthew Polly, bestselling author of American Shaolin and Tapped Out "Riveting, thorough, and deeply human, this terrific read doesnâ€™t just tell the story--it brings it to life."--Marcus Sakey, bestselling author of The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes and The Blade Itself "Friel offers a thrilling portrait of a bright and neglected teen trying to outrun authorities and his own troubled past." --Booklist "This highly entertaining story of a modern-day Huck Finn will be enjoyed by lovers of adventure stories as well as true crime." --Library Journal "It is Friel''s ability to spin a great yarn that draws the reader in from the start and never lets up. And he does it with deft reporting and a breezy and entertaining style that enlivens a tale as incredible as it is true." --Associated Press\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3814'),
(5418, 'Barrel Fever: Stories and Ess', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In David Sedaris''s world no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Liebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris''s collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a bitter Santa abuses the elves; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1327'),
(5419, 'Basket Case', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack Tagger is a frustrated journalist. His outspoken views have relegated him to the obituary page, with his byline never again to disgrace the front page. But Jack has stumbled across a whale of a story that might just resurrect his career . . .  James Stomarti, infamous frontman of rock band Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, has died in a diving accident and Jack harbours suspicions that the glamorous pop starlet widow may have had a vested interest in her husband''s untimely death. It all smells a little too fishy. Aided and abetted by his rather sexy (if unnervingly ambitious) young editor, Emma, Jack sets out to in pursuit of the truth - and a nice juicy story. But of course nothing is ever straightforward and with murderous goons on his tail, brutal internal politics at the paper and a paranoia about death, Jack is struggling to keep his head above water. Was Jimmy Stomarti murdered? Is someone trying to kill off the Slut Puppies one by one? And what significance can a dead lizard named Colonel Tom possibly have?  This is one book you''ll kill to get your hands on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/464'),
(5420, 'Basketball Jones', 'E. Lynn Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n E. Lynn Harris has wowed and seduced more than three million readers with the wicked drama and undeniable heart in his novels. Now heâ€™s back with another winner sure to top the bestseller listsâ€”a rip-roaring tale of sex, secrets, betrayal . . . and blackmail.Aldridge James â€œAJâ€ Richardson is living the good life. He has a gorgeous town house in always-flavorful New Orleans, plenty of frequent-flier miles from jet-setting around the country on a whim, and an MBAâ€”but heâ€™s never had to work a regular job. He owes it all to his longtime lover, Dray Jones. Dray Jones the rich and famous NBA star. They fell in love in college when AJ was hired to tutor Dray, a freshman on the basketball team. But Dray knew if he wanted to make it to the big time, he must juggle his public image and his private desires. Built on a deep, abiding love, their hidden relationship sustains them both, but when Drayâ€™s teammates begin to ask insinuating questions about AJ, Dray puts their doubts to rest by marrying Judi, a beautiful and ambitious woman. Judi knows nothing about Drayâ€™s â€œother life.â€ Or does she?In Basketball Jones, E. Lynn Harris explores the consequences of loving someone who is forced to conform to the rules society demands its public heroes follow. Filled with nonstop twists and turns, it will keep readers riveted from the first page to the last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3314'),
(5421, 'The Basque History of the World', 'Mark Kurlansky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The buzz about the Guggenheim Bilbao aside, the Basques seldom get good press--from the 12th-century\n <em>\n  Codex of Calixtus\n </em>\n ("A Basque or Navarrese would do in a French man for a copper coin") to current news items about ETA, the Basque nationalist group. Mark Kurlansky, author of\n <em>\n  Cod\n </em>\n , sets out to change all that in\n <em>\n  The Basque History of the World\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n "The singular remarkable fact about the Basques is that they still exist," Kurlansky asserts. Without a defined country (other than Euskadi, otherwise known as "Basqueland"), with no known related ethnic groups, the Basques are an anomaly in Europe. What unites the Basques, above all, is their language--Euskera. According to ETA, "Euskera is the quintessence of Euskadi. So long as Euskera is alive, Euskadi will live." To help provide a complete picture of the Basques, Kurlansky looks at their political, economic, social, and even culinary history, from the valiant Basque underground in World War II to medieval whalers to modern makers of the\n <em>\n  gÃ¢teau Basque\n </em>\n . The most affecting chapter focuses on Guernica, a small market town bombed by German planes for over three hours on April 26, 1937, and uses interviews with survivors to illustrate the horror of the attack.\n</p>\n<p>\n Kurlansky is clearly enamored of the Basques, which leads him to see them in a uniformly positive light. That rosy outlook aside,\n <em>\n  The Basque History of the World\n </em>\n is an excellent introduction to these romantic people.\n <em>\n  Are\n </em>\n they the original Europeans? Kurlansky doesn''t weigh in on the issue, preferring instead to honor the Basque request\n <em>\n  Garean gareana legez\n </em>\n --let us be what we are.\n <em>\n  --Sunny Delaney\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Straddling the border of southern France and northern Spain, the land of the Basques has long been home to a people who had no country of their own but have always viewed themselves as a nation. In this marvelous work of cultural history and appreciation, Kurlansky traces Basque history from pre-Roman times, when Basques worked as the mercenaries of Carthage, to the region''s recent renaissance in language and arts. Along the way, he explains how the Basques came to be among Europe''s first whalers, capitalists, explorers, industrialists and international traders. As he did in Cod, Kurlansky fuses political and economic history with delightful digressions into cultural and culinary traditions (several delicious recipes are included). The book is as politically loaded with opinion as it is culturally informative: Kurlansky expresses sympathy for the cause of Basque independence, arguing that many of Spain''s current policies toward its Basque minority are holdovers from the repressive Franco regime. He also tends to accept the claim that the Basques "are the original Europeans," largely on the ground that Euskera, the Basque language, appears to have no linguistic relative and is likely the oldest European language still spoken. For all the ground it covers, this wildly informative work is a marvel of clarity, glittering with unusual facts and marked by penetrating insights into a people always "making complex choices about the degree of independence that was needed to preserve their way of life, while looking to the rest of the world for commercial opportunities to ensure their prosperity." 56 illustrations, 6 maps, 10 recipes. Agent, Charlotte Sheedy Agency. 5-city author tour. (Oct.) FYI: Cod received the James Beard Award for Excellence in Food Writing and was a New York Public Library Best Book of 1997.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2434'),
(5422, 'Batavia&#39;s Graveyard', 'Mike Dash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author ofTulipomaniacomesBatavia''s Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival. It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company''s flagship, was loaded with a king''s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company''s fleet, a tangible symbol of the world''s richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java, for the Company had also sent along a new employee, Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a bankrupt and disgraced man who possessed disarming charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, Jeronimus soon sparked a mutiny that seemed certain to succeedbut for one unplanned event: In the dark morning hours of June 3, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The commander of the ship and the skipper evaded the mutineers by escaping in a tiny lifeboat and setting a course for Javasome 1,800 miles northto summon help. Nearly all of the passengers survived the wreck and found themselves trapped on a bleak coral island without water, food, or shelter. Leaderless, unarmed, and unaware of Jeronimus''s treachery, they were at the mercy of the mutineers. Jeronimus took control almost immediately, preaching his own twisted version of heresy he''d learned in Holland''s secret Anabaptist societies. More than 100 people died at his command in the months that followed. Before long, an all-out war erupted between the mutineers and a small group of soldiers led by Wiebbe Hayes, the one man brave enough to challenge Jeronimus''s band of butchers. Unluckily for the mutineers, the Batavia''s commander had raised the alarm in Java, and at the height of the violence the Company''s gunboats sailed over the horizon. Jeronimus and his mutineers would meet an end almost as gruesome as that of the innocents whose blood had run on the small island they called Batavia''s Graveyard. Impeccably researched and beautifully written,Batavia''s Graveyardis the next classic of narrative nonfiction, the book that secures Mike Dash''s place as one of the finest writers of the genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2244'),
(5423, 'The Battle for Christmas', 'Stephen Nissenbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This scholarly analysis of our modern celebration of Christmas pulls together a thoroughly convincing case for the widely accepted notion that it is a 19th-century creation, indeed a deliberate reformation and taming of a holiday with wilder pagan origins. Christmas was set at December 25 in the fourth century, not for any biblical link with Christ''s birth, but because the church hoped to annex and Christianize the existing midwinter pagan feast. This latter was based on the seasonal agricultural plenty, with the year''s food supply newly in store, and nothing to do in the fields. It was a time of drinking and debauchery from the Roman Saturnalia to the English Mummers. The Victorians hijacked the holiday, and Victorian writers helped turn it into a feast of safe domesticity and a cacophonous chime of retail cash registers.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christmas in America hasn''t always been the benevolent, family-centered holiday we idealize. The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony so feared the day''s association with pagan winter solstice revels, replete with public drunkenness, licentiousness and violence, that they banned Christmas celebrations. In this ever-surprising work, Nissenbaum (Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America), a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, conducts a vivid historical tour of the holiday''s social evolution. Nissenbaum maintains that not until the 1820s in New York City, among the mercantile Episcopalian Knickerbockers, was Christmas as we know it celebrated. Before Washington Irving and Clement Clarke Moore ("A Visit from St. Nicholas") popularized the genteel version, he explains, the holiday was more of a raucous festival and included demands for tribute from the wealthy by roaming bands of lower-class extortionists. Peppering his insights with analysis of period literature, art and journalism, Nissenbaum constructs his theory. Taming Christmas, he contends, was a way to contain the chaos of social dislocation in a developing consumer-capitalist culture. Later, under the influence of Unitarian writers, the Christmas season became a living object lesson in familial stability and charity, centering on the ideals of bourgeois childhood. From colonial New England, through 18th- and 19th-century New York''s and Philadelphia''s urban Yuletide contributions, to Christmas traditions in the antebellum South, Nissenbaum''s excursion is fascinating, and will startle even those who thought they knew all there was to know about Christmas. Illustrations.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2436'),
(5424, 'The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs', 'Roberta Brandes Gratz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New Yorkâ€™s â€œmaster builderâ€ Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways.Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Mosesâ€™s urban philosophy.As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobsâ€™s philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life. Gratz who was named as one of Planetizenâ€™s Top 100 Urban Thinkers gives an on-the-ground account of urban renewal and community success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2440'),
(5425, 'The Battle for Iwo Jima', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Iwo Jima is one of the most famous battles in World War II, and the greatest battle fought by the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. From that battle came the most famous image of the war, the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi. Robert Leckie, the bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow has written an extraordinary story of one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2441'),
(5426, 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother', 'Amy Chua', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chua (Day of Empire) imparts the secret behind the stereotypical Asian child''s phenomenal success: the Chinese mother. Chua promotes what has traditionally worked very well in raising children: strict, Old World, uncompromising values--and the parents don''t have to be Chinese. What they are, however, are different from what she sees as indulgent and permissive Western parents: stressing academic performance above all, never accepting a mediocre grade, insisting on drilling and practice, and instilling respect for authority. Chua and her Jewish husband (both are professors at Yale Law) raised two girls, and her account of their formative years achieving amazing success in school and music performance proves both a model and a cautionary tale. Sophia, the eldest, was dutiful and diligent, leapfrogging over her peers in academics and as a Suzuki piano student; Lulu was also gifted, but defiant, who excelled at the violin but eventually balked at her mother''s pushing. Chua''s efforts "not to raise a soft, entitled child" will strike American readers as a little scary--removing her children from school for extra practice, public shaming and insults, equating Western parenting with failure--but the results, she claims somewhat glibly in this frank, unapologetic report card, "were hard to quarrel with." (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chuaâ€™s stated intent is to present the differences between Western and Chinese parenting styles by sharing experiences with her own children (now teenagers). As the daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is poised to contrast the two disparate styles, even as she points out that being a â€œChinese Motherâ€ can cross ethnic lines: it is more a state of mind than a genetic trait. Yet this is a deeply personal story about her two daughters and how their lives are shaped by such demands as Chuaâ€™s relentless insistence on straight Aâ€™s and daily hours of mandatory music practice, even while vacationing with grandparents. Readers may be stunned by Chuaâ€™s explanations of her hard-line style, and her meant-to-be humorous depictions of screaming matches intended to force greatness from her girls. She insists that Western children are no happier than Chinese ones, and that her daughters are the envy of neighbors and friends, because of their poise and musical, athletic, and academic accomplishments. Ironically, this may be read as a cautionary tale that asks just what price should be paid for achievement. --Colleen Mondor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1856'),
(5427, 'Battle of Britain', 'Richard Overy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Battle of Britain tells the extraordinary story of one of the pivotal events of the Second World War - the struggle between British and German air forces in the late summer and autumn of 1940. Exposing many of the myths surrounding the conflict, The book provides answers to important questions: how close did Britain really come to invasion? What were Hitler and Churchill''s motives? and what was the battle''s real effect on the outcome of the war? Told with great clarity and objectivity, this is a superb introduction to a defining moment in our history. ''No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain ... In his carefully argued, clearly explained and impressively documented book ... Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths and expose the real history of what he does not doubt was a great British victory ... The best historical analysis in readable form which has yet appeared on this prime subject'' Noble Frankland, The Times Literary Supplement\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2247'),
(5428, 'The Battle of Midway', 'Craig L. Symonds', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "[W]holly satisfying . . . a lucid, intensely researched, mildly revisionist account of a significant moment in American military history." --\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  , starred review\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Well documented through interviews, official records, and secondary sources, the book will show readers that Midway was, as Wellington would have said, "a close-run thing." General military history enthusiasts will be fascinated, and specialists will revel in the careful dissection of the action. --\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A fascinating and informative retelling of the most important naval battle of the Pacific War. Symonds once again demonstrates his superb mastery of his craft." -Jonathan Parshall, co-author of\n  <em>\n   Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Deeply researched, shrewdly argued, and powerfully narrated,\n  <em>\n   The Battle of Midway\n  </em>\n  is a superb work of the historian''s craft. It easily takes its place as the best and most comprehensive account of the pivotal battle from the American perspective." -Richard B. Frank, author of\n  <em>\n   Guadalcanal: The\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this absolutely riveting account of a key moment in the history of World War II, one of America''s leading naval historians, Craig L. Symonds paints an unforgettable portrait of ingenuity, courage, and sacrifice. Symonds begins with the arrival of Admiral Chester A. Nimitz at Pearl Harbor after the devastating Japanese attack, and describes the key events leading to the climactic battle, including both Coral Sea--the first battle in history against opposing carrier forces--and Jimmy Doolittle''s daring raid of Tokyo. He focuses throughout on the people involved, offering telling portraits of Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, Spruance and numerous other Americans, as well as the leading Japanese figures, including the poker-loving Admiral Yamamoto. Indeed, Symonds sheds much light on the aspects of Japanese culture--such as their single-minded devotion to combat, which led to poorly armored planes and inadequate fire-safety measures on their ships--that contributed to their defeat. The author''s account of the battle itself is masterful, weaving together the many disparate threads of attack--attacks which failed in the early going--that ultimately created a five-minute window in which three of the four Japanese carriers were mortally wounded, changing the course of the Pacific war in an eye-blink.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Symonds is the first historian to argue that the victory at Midway was not simply a matter of luck, pointing out that Nimitz had equal forces, superior intelligence, and the element of surprise. Nimitz had a strong hand, Symonds concludes, and he rightly expected to win.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2442'),
(5429, 'The Battle of the Labyrinth', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5â€“9â€”The battle starts, literally, with an explosion and doesn''t let up. After Percy destroys the high school band room battling monsters called\n  <em>\n   empousai\n  </em>\n  who have taken on the form of cheerleaders, he has to hide out at Camp Half-Blood. There, Grover''s searcher''s license is going to be revoked unless he can find the god Pan in seven days. An entrance to the Labyrinth has been discovered, which means that Luke, the half-blood turned bad, can bypass the magical protections and invade the camp. Annabeth insists that she must follow a quest to locate Daedalus''s workshop before Luke does. Percy is disturbed by visions of Nico, the son of Hades, who is summoning forth the spirits of the dead with McDonalds Happy Meals. Percy, Grover, and Percy''s Cyclops half-brother follow Annabeth into the maze not knowing if they will ever find their way out. Riordan cleverly personifies the Labyrinth as a sort of living organism that changes at will, and that traverses the whole of the United States. Kids will devour Riordan''s subtle satire of their world, such as a Sphinx in the Labyrinth whose questions hilariously parody standardized testing. The secret of Pan is revealed with a bittersweet outcome that also sends an eco-friendly message. Like many series, the "Percy Jackson" books are beginning to show the strain of familiarity and repetition. However, the overarching story line remains compelling, and the cliff-hanger ending will leave readers breathless in anticipation of the fifth and final volume.â€”\n  <em>\n   Tim Wadham, Maricopa County Library District, Phoenix, AZ\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rick Riordan is the author of all the books in the New York Times best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series: The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan''s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian. His previous novels for adults include the hugely popular Tres Navarre series, winner of the top three awards in the mystery genre. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife and two sons.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1157'),
(5430, 'Be Cool', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The sequel to Chili Palmer''s hit movie Get Leo tanked and now Chili''s itching for a comeback. So when a power lunch with record-label executive and former associate Tommy Athens ends in a mob hit, he soon finds himself in an unlikely alliance with organized-crime detective Darryl Holmes and the likely next target of Russian gangsters. But where others see danger, Chili Palmer sees story possibilities. Enter Linda Moon, a singer with aspirations that go further than her current gig in a Spice Girls cover band. Chili takes over as Linda''s manager, entering the world of rock stars, pop divas, and hip-hop gangstas. As he wings his way to success in the music business with his trademark cool, Chili manipulates his adversaries and advances his friends, all the while basing the plot of his new film on the action that results. Be Cool is rife with drama, jealousy, and betrayal, and all Chili needs to do is survive to make a new box-office hit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3151'),
(5431, 'The Beach House', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n James Patterson and Peter de Jonge''s The Beach House opens with the death of a handsome townie on Memorial Day weekend in the Hamptons, where being a single-digit millionaire is laughable and being poor is unthinkable. Peter Mullen is a high school dropout who parks cars at the private bashes of the superwealthy Barry and Campion Neubauer. When Peter is found dead on the beach, the Neubauers and their friends insist that he drowned, but his brother Jack, a law student who saw Peter''s body, knows he was beaten to death. As Jack uncovers evidence of his brother''s secret life, he begins to realize that the very rich are indeed different from the rest of us. Revenge is a dish best served cold, and Jack''s patiently plotted payback for Peter''s death is one that the Hamptons will not soon forget. There are no big surprises in The Beach House, but it''s vintage Patterson, with plenty of action, villains with hearts blacker than obsidian, and a working-class hero who pulls himself up by the bootstraps. Patterson and de Jonge previously coauthored the inspirational golf romance Miracle on the 17th Green, but this new game of money, mayhem, and murder clearly suits them to a tee. --Barrie Trinkle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/501'),
(5432, 'Beach Road', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  withÂ Peter De Jonge\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy''s client list is woefully small-occasional real estate closings barely keeps him in paper clips. When he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder that has the East Hampton world in an uproar, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime.  The crime turns the glittering playground for the super-rich into a blazing inferno. Dunleavy''s client is a local hero, but Dunleavy knows the case rests atop a volcano of money, deception, and forbidden desires. His client is the perfect fall guy-unless he can find the key that unlocks the secret rooms of the gilt-shrouded set.  When Dunleavy is joined by his former flame, the savvy and well-connected attorney, Kate Costello, he believes he has a chance. But payback is a bitch-especially from the rich. The violent retaliations of billionaires threatened by his investigation exceed anything Dunleavy has ever seen. With the entire nation''s eyes on him in a new Trial of the Century, Dunleavy orchestrates a series of revelations that lead to a stunning outcome-only to find afterward that the truth is wilder than anything he ever imagined.  Written with the unstoppable velocity and head-twisting surprises that only James Patterson can master, BEACH ROAD will leave readers reeling long after they have turned the last page.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/275'),
(5433, 'The Bear and the Dragon', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Power is delightful, and absolute power should be absolutely delightful--but not when you''re the most powerful man on earth and the place is ticking like a time bomb. Jack Ryan, CIA warrior turned U.S. president, is the man in the hot seat, and in this vast thriller he''s up to his nostrils in crazed Asian warlords, Russian thugs, nukes that won''t stay put, and authentic, up-to-the-nanosecond technology as complex as the characters'' motives are simple. Quick, do you know how to reprogram the software in an Aegis missile seekerhead? Well, if you''re Jack Ryan, you''d better find someone who does, or an incoming ballistic may rain fallout on your parade. Bad for reelection prospects. "You know, I don''t really like this job very much," Ryan complains to his aide Arnie van Damm, who replies, "Ain''t supposed to be fun, Jack."\n </p>\n <p>\n  But you bet\n  <em>\n   The Bear and the Dragon\n  </em>\n  is fun--over 1,000 swift pages'' worth. In the opening scene, a hand-launched RPG rocket nearly blows up Russia''s intelligence chief in his armored Mercedes, and Ryan''s clever spooks report that the guy who got the rocket in his face instead was the hoodlum "Rasputin" Avseyenko, who used to run the KGB''s "Sparrow School" of female prostitute spies. Soon after, two apparent assassins are found handcuffed together afloat in St. Petersburg''s Neva River, their bloated faces resembling PokÃ©mon toys.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The stakes go higher as the mystery deepens: oil and gold are discovered in huge quantities in Siberia, and the evil Chinese Minister Without Portfolio Zhang Han San gazes northward with lust. The laid-off elite of the Soviet Army figure in the brewing troubles, as do the new generation of Tiananmen Square dissidents, Zhang''s wily, Danielle Steel-addicted executive secretary Lian Ming, and Chester Nomuri, a hip, Internet-porn-addicted CIA agent posing in China as a Japanese computer salesman. He e-mails his CIA boss, Mary Pat "the Cowgirl" Foley, that he intends to seduce Ming with Dream Angels perfume and scarlet Victoria''s Secret lingerie ordered from the catalog--strictly for God and country, of course. Soon Ming is calling him "Master Sausage" instead of "Comrade," but can anybody master Ming?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The plot is over the top, with devastating subplots erupting all over the globe and lurid characters scaring the wits out of each other every few pages, but Clancy finds time to insert hard-boiled little lessons on the vileness of Communism, the infuriating intrusions of the press on presidential power, the sexual perversions of Mao, the poor quality of Russian pistol silencers ("garbage, cans loaded with steel wool that self-destructed after less than ten shots"), the folly of cutting a man''s throat with a knife ("they flop around and make noise when you do that"), and similar topics. Naturally, the book bristles like a battlefield with intriguingly intricate military hardware.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When you''ve got a Tom Clancy novel in hand, who needs action movies?\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Klingons" is how hero Jack Ryan describes the villainsDthe Communist Chinese PolitburoDof Clancy''s mammoth new novel; other Yanks refer to Chinese soldiers as "Joe Chinaman." It''s not for subtlety of characterization, then, that this behemoth proves so relentlessly engrossing. Nor is it for any modulation in the arc of its action, which moves insistently from standstill to hurtle. Nor is it for the author''s (expressed) understanding of life''s viscissitudes; in this Clancyverse, no white hat with a name dies, but every black hat gets whupped bad. Partly it''s for the sheer bulkDif ever a book should come equipped with wheels, it''s this oneDwhich plunges readers into a sea of words so vast that, after hours of paddling happily through brisk prose, the horizon remains hidden from sight. Mostly, though, it''s because that sea glitters with undeniable authority. Clancy has demonstrated in earlier books (Rainbow Six, etc.) that he towers above other novelists in his ability to deliver geo-political, techo-military goods on a global scaleDand here he''s at the top of that war-gaming. With aplomb, he spins numerous plot strandsDamong them: a Sino-American spy seduces his way into Politburo secrets; enormous oil and gold reserves are discovered in Siberia; the new Papal Nuncio to Beijing is murdered; the Politburo orders a hit on a top Russian officialDthat lead to a Chinese invasion of Russia and a credible war scenario that occupies the novel''s last quarter and that culiminates in a nuclear crescendo. Each thread carries a handbook''s worth of intoxicating, expertly researchedDseemingly insideDinformation, about advanced weapons of war and espionage, about how various governments work, complemented always with ponderings about the tensions between individual honor and the demands of state. Add to that the excitement for Clancy fans of this being the first novel to feature not just Jack Ryan but also, in significant subordinate roles, Jack Clark and Ding Chavez of Rainbow Six and other tales, and you''ve got a juggernaut that''s going to hit #1 its first week out and stay there for a good while. 2 million first printing; BOMC main selection; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1152'),
(5434, 'Bear Grylls Autobiography', 'Bear Grylls', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Bear Grylls is a man who has always sought the ultimate in adventure. Growing up on the Isle of Wight, he was taught by his father to sail and climb at an early age. Inevitably, it wasn''t long before Bear was leading out-of-bounds night-climbing missions at school. As a teenager, he found identity and purpose through both mountaineering and martial arts, which led the young adventurer to the foothills of the mighty Himalaya and a grandmaster''s karate training camp in Japan. On returning home, he embarked upon the notoriously gruelling selection course for the British Special Forces to join 21 SAS - a journey that was to push him to the very limits of physical and mental endurance. Then, in a horrific free-fall parachuting accident in Africa, Bear broke his back in three places. It was touch and go whether he would ever walk again. However, only eighteen months later and defying doctors'' expectations, Bear became one of the youngest ever climbers to scale Everest, aged only twenty-three. But this was just the beginning of his many extraordinary adventures ...Known and admired by millions - whether from his global adventure TV series, as a bestselling author, or as Chief Scout to the Scouting Association - Bear Grylls has survived where few would dare to go. Now, for the first time, Bear tells the story of his action-packed life. Gripping, moving and wildly exhilarating, Mud, Sweat and Tears is a must-read for adrenalin junkies and armchair adventurers alike.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2001'),
(5435, 'Bearers of the Black Staff', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Five hundred years have passed since the devastating demon-led war that almost exterminated humankind. Those who escaped the carnage were led to sanctuary by the boy saviour known as Hawk: the gypsy morph. But now, the unimaginable has come to pass: the cocoon of protective magic surrounding the valley has vanished. When Sider Ament, last surviving Knight of the Word, detects unknown predators stalking the valley, and Trackers from the human village of Glensk Wood, find two of their own gruesomely killed, there can be no doubt: the once safe haven of generations has been laid bare. Together, the young Trackers, the aging Knight, and a daring Elf princess race to spread word of the encroaching danger. But suspicion and hostility among their countrymen threaten to doom their efforts from within, while beyond the breached borders, a ruthless Troll army masses for invasion. Standing firm between the two, the last wielder of the black staff and its awesome magic must find a successor to carry on the fight against the cresting new wave of evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3715'),
(5436, 'Beat the Reaper', 'Josh Bazell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan''s worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he''d prefer to keep hidden. Whether it''s a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. Pietro "Bearclaw" Brnwna is a hitman for the mob, with a genius for violence, a well-earned fear of sharks, and an overly close relationship with the Federal Witness Relocation Program. More likely to leave a trail of dead gangsters than a molecule of evidence, he''s the last person you want to see in your hospital room. Nicholas LoBrutto, aka Eddy Squillante, is Dr. Brown''s new patient, with three months to live and a very strange idea: that Peter Brown and Pietro Brnwa might-just might-be the same person ... Now, with the mob, the government, and death itself descending on the hospital, Peter has to buy time and do whatever it takes to keep his patients, himself, and his last shot at redemption alive. To get through the next eight hours-and somehow beat the reaper. Spattered in adrenaline-fueled action and bone-saw-sharp dialogue, BEAT THE REAPER is a debut thriller so utterly original you won''t be able to guess what happens next, and so shockingly entertaining you won''t be able to put it down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3334'),
(5437, 'Beatrice and Virgil', 'Yann Martel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Fate takes many forms. . . . Â When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkeyâ€”named Beatrice and Virgilâ€”and the epic journey they undertake together.With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Pi so beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3533');
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(5438, 'Beautiful Boy: A Father&#39;s Journey Through His Son&#39;s Addiction', 'David Sheff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best of the Month, February 2008\n  </strong>\n  : From as early as grade school, the world seemed to be on Nic Sheff''s string. Bright and athletic, he excelled in any setting and appeared destined for greatness. Yet as childhood exuberance faded into teenage angst, the precocious boy found himself going down a much different path. Seduced by the illicit world of drugs and alcohol, he quickly found himself caught in the clutches of addiction.\n  <em>\n   Beautiful Boy\n  </em>\n  is Nic''s story, but from the perspective of his father, David. Achingly honest, it chronicles the betrayal, pain, and terrifying question marks that haunt the loved ones of an addict. Many respond to addiction with a painful oath of silence, but David Sheff opens up personal wounds to reinforce that it is a disease, and must be treated as such. Most importantly, his journey provides those in similar situations with a commodity that they can never lose: hope\n  <em>\n   --Dave Callanan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Expanding on his New York Times Magazine article, Sheff chronicles his son''s downward spiral into addiction and the impact on him and his family. A bright, capable teenager, Nic began trying mind- and mood-altering substances when he was 17. In months, use became abuse, then abuse became addiction. By the time Sheff knew of his son''s condition, Nic was strung out on meth, the highly potent stimulant. While his son struggles to get clean, his second wife and two younger children are pulled helplessly into the drama. Sheff, as the parent of an addict, cycles through denial and acceptance and resistance. The author was already a journalist of considerable standing when this painful story began to unfold, and his impulse for detail serves him personally as well as professionally: there are hard, solid facts about meth and the kinds of havoc it wreaks on individuals, families and communities both urban and rural. His journey is long and harrowing, but Sheff does not spare himself or anyone else from keen professional scrutiny any more than he was himself spared the painsâ€”and joysâ€”of watching a loved one struggling with addiction and recovery. Real recovery createsâ€”and can itself beâ€”its own reward; this is an honest, hopeful book, coming at a propitious moment in the meth epidemic.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1759'),
(5439, 'Beautiful Malice', 'Rebecca James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An international sensation that The Wall Street Journal called a â€œpublishing phenomenon,â€ this layered, poignant, and chilling novel of psychological suspense is the yearâ€™s most stunning American fiction debut. From its wrenching opening to its shocking climax, Beautiful Malice unfolds a haunting story in which people, motives, and circumstances are never what they seem.Who is Katherine Patterson? It is a question she hopes no one can answer. To erase her past, Katherine has moved to a new city, enrolled in a new school, and even changed her name. Sheâ€™s done the next best thing to disappearing altogether. Now, wary and alone, she seeks nothing more than anonymity. What she finds instead is the last thing she expected: a friend.Even more unlikely, Katherineâ€™s new friend is the most popular and magnetic girl in school. Extroverted, gorgeous, flirtatious, and unpredictable, she is everything that Katherine is not and doesnâ€™t want to be: the center of attention. Yet Aliceâ€™s enthusiasm is infectious, her candor sometimes unsettling, and Katherine, in spite of her guarded caution, finds herself drawn into Aliceâ€™s private circle. But Alice has secrets, tooâ€”darker than anyone can begin to imagine. And when she lets her guard down at last, Katherine discovers the darkest of them all. For there will be no escaping the past for Katherine Pattersonâ€”only a descent into a trap far more sinister . . . and infinitely more seductive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3191'),
(5440, 'A Beautiful Place to Die', 'Malla Nunn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Set in South Africa in 1952, Australian filmmaker Nunn''s stellar debut explores a divided society through the frame of a classic murder mystery. When Det. Sgt. Emmanuel Cooper, Nunns tortured sleuth, investigates white suspects in the fatal shooting of Afrikaner police captain Willem Pretorius, he immediately encounters resistance from the victims family. Before long, brutal investigators from the Security Branch offer a politically expedient solution. Cooper must fend off their threats as he pursues a link between the murder and an open Peeping Tom case that Pretorius had been probing. The detective finds no shortage of people who might have had a motive for killing the captain. Fans of Charles Todds Inspector Rutledge series (\n  <em>\n   A Matter of Justice\n  </em>\n  , etc.) will note some parallels, in particular CoopersÃ‚Â being haunted by the spirit of his old sergeant-major. Smooth prose and a deft plot make this novel a welcome addition to crime fiction set in South Africa.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Who murdered the white Afrikaner police captain in a small South African border town in 1952? Was it a family row? As English detective Emmanuel Cooper and his Zulu sidekick investigate the personal relationships, including the role of a powerful landowner family and that of a beautiful â€œColouredâ€ (mixed race) woman, who may know more than she is saying, Cooper finds himself in conflict with the national security police out to get the â€œCommunistâ€ rebels whose nonviolent Defiance Campaign for civil right threatens the government. What holds the reader in this debut historical mystery (the first of a projected series about Detective Cooper) is the fabric of secrets and lies, supported by the Immorality Act, whichÂ makes it a crime to have sex across the color line. It is sometimes hard to keep straight whoâ€™s who in the community, but the story is consistently engaging, with revelations right up until the very end. Born in southern Africa, the author gets the politics exactly right: the farce, cruelty, sorrow, and rebellion in daily life. --Hazel Rochman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/564'),
(5441, 'Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery', 'Leon F. Litwack', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\n </strong>\n <br />\n Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese,\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n ) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Contents\n </em>\n <br />\n 1. "The Faithful Slave"\n <br />\n 2. Black Liberators\n <br />\n 3. Kingdom Comin''\n <br />\n 4. Slaves No More\n <br />\n 5. How Free is Free?\n <br />\n 6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About\n <br />\n 7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions\n <br />\n 8. Back to Work: The New Dependency\n <br />\n 9. The Gospel and the Primer\n <br />\n 10. Becoming a People\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2248'),
(5442, 'Before I Go to Sleep', 'S. J. Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking Iâ€™m still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me. . . ."   Memories define us.   So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep?   Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you loveâ€”all forgotten overnight.   And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story.   Welcome to Christine''s life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3285'),
(5443, 'Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage', 'Kenneth Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, quite readable account of the composer and his work. What comes across is a man who was ferociously driven to create music and to promote it to those who could most effectively advance it. Cage was an iconoclast, yet he developed relationshipsâ€”often symbioticâ€”with some of the iconic artists of the past century, including Arnold Schoenberg, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller, Pierre Boulez, Robert Rauschenberg, and longtime companion Merce Cunningham. What also comes across is a humanity and openness that served Cage well in his personal life and his work, personified in his advice to young percussion student Cunningham: â€œYou were playing everything absolutely perfectly. Now go a little further and make a few mistakes.â€ --Alan Moores\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Excellent, thoroughly researched . . . The first in-depth, detailed account of Cage''s rich and colorful life . . . Silverman''s prose is lively and occasionally mirrors Cage''s own wit." --_Library Journal (starred review)_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSince his death almost two decades ago, Cage''s influence has increased to the point where he is now seen as one of the major creative spirits of his age. This marvelous biography brings into focus the many elusive facets of his music, and situates them against the background of his personal life and the seething cultural currents of the era.â€ â€”John Ashbery\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSilvermanâ€™s artful narrative lays bare Cageâ€™s compositional processes, aesthetic posturing and the cross-cultural philosophical underpinnings to his work with a clarity that musicologists and art historians have yet to achieve.  Not just an exemplary biography, but a significant contribution to the cultural history of American music.â€â€”_Kirkus,_ starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohn Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, quite readable account of the composer and his work.â€  â€”Alan Moores,\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œJohn Cage, a master of musical modernism, meets Kenneth Silverman, a master of the biographical art.  Cage, the most innovative composer of recent times, comes freshly alive in Kenneth Silvermanâ€™s magisterial biography.  Silverman distills an astonishing amount of information in an engaging, fluid narrative that brings alive every facet of John Cageâ€™s lifeâ€”his loves, his friendships, his career, and his path-blazing experiments with sound.   Cage expanded music, and Silverman considerably expands our knowledge of Cage by interweaving fascinating new details of his everyday life with insightful accounts of his musical maturation. A gripping, ceaselessly revelatory biography.â€ â€”David S. Reynolds, author of\n <em>\n  Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Walt Whitmanâ€™s America: A Cultural Biography\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œ_Begin Again_ is a glittering manifestation of the biographerâ€™s craft. With impeccable aim and pitch-perfect tone, Kenneth Silverman has curated the crowded, cacophonous, frenetic and fractured details of modernist master John Cageâ€™s life into a witty and sensuous literary exhibition. Readers will feel privileged to attend the gala opening of this cosmopolitan showâ€”performance art between two covers!â€ â€”Neil Baldwin, author of\n <em>\n  Man Ray: American Artist\n </em>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1763'),
(5444, 'Behind the Berlin Wall', 'Patrick Major', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall.\n</p>\n<p>\n This new history rejects traditional, top-down approaches to Cold War politics, exploring instead how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party members, ''caught out'' by Sunday the Thirteenth. Party, police, and Stasi reports reveal why one in six East Germans fled the country during the 1950s, undermining communist rule and forcing the eleventh-hour decision by Khrushchev and Ulbricht to build a wall along the Cold War''s frontline.\n</p>\n<p>\n Did East Germans resist or come to terms with immurement? Did the communist regime become more or less dictatorial within the confines of the so-called ''Antifascist Defence Rampart''? Using film and literature, but also the GDR''s losing battle against Beatlemania, Patrick Major''s cross-disciplinary study suggests that popular culture both reinforced and undermined the closed society. Linking external and internal developments, Major argues that the GDR''s official quest for international recognition, culminating in Ostpolitik and United Nations membership in the early 1970s, became its undoing, unleashing a human rights movement which fed into, but then broke with, the protests of 1989. After exploring the reasons for the fall of the Wall and reconstructing the heady days of the autumn revolution, the author reflects on the fate of the Wall after 1989, as it moved from demolition into the realm of memory.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2252'),
(5445, 'Being George Washington', 'Glenn Beck', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW GEORGE WASHINGTON, THINK AGAIN.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is the amazing true story of a real-life superhero who wore no cape and possessed no special powersâ€”yet changed the world forever. Itâ€™s a story about a man whose life reads as if it were torn from the pages of an action novel: Bullet holes through his clothing. Horses shot out from under him. Unimaginable hardship. Disease. Heroism. Spies and double-agents. And, of course, the unmistakable hand of Divine Providence that guided it all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Being George Washington is a whole new way to look at history. You wonâ€™t simply read about the awful winter spent at Valley Forgeâ€”youâ€™ll live it right alongside Washington. Youâ€™ll be on the boat with him crossing the Delaware, in the trenches with him at Yorktown, and standing next to him at the Constitutional Convention as a new republic is finally born.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Through these stories youâ€™ll not only learn our real history (and how it applies to today), youâ€™ll also see how the media and others have distorted our view of it. Itâ€™s ironic that the best-known fact about George Washingtonâ€”that he chopped down a cherry treeâ€”is a complete lie. Itâ€™s even more ironic when you consider that a lie was thought necessary to prove he could not tell one.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For all of his heroism and triumphs, Washingtonâ€™s single greatest accomplishment was the man he created in the process: courageous and principled, fair and just, respectful to all. But he was also something else: flawed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Itâ€™s those flaws that should give us hope for today. After all, if Washington had been perfect, then there would be no way to build another one. Thatâ€™s why this book is not just about being George Washington in 1776, itâ€™s about the struggle to be him every single day of our lives. Understanding the way he turned himself from an uneducated farmer into the Indispensable (yet imperfect) Man, is the only way to build a new generation of George Washingtons that can take on the extraordinary challenges that America is once again facing.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2950'),
(5446, 'Being Kendra: Cribs, Cocktails, and Getting My Sexy Back', 'Kendra Wilkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Kendra Wilkinson has revealed herself beforeâ€”in the pages of\n  <em>\n   Playboy\n  </em>\n  and on her reality show,\n  <em>\n   Kendra\n  </em>\n  . Now she reveals her private side, sharing the ups and downs, the joys and challenges of motherhood, marriage, and life in the spotlight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this intimate follow-up to her\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  best-seller,\n  <em>\n   Sliding into Home\n  </em>\n  , Kendra confides her most candid thoughts and feelings on her experiences as a new mom, and she divulges her secrets on how to do it all and make it look easy, sexy, and funâ€”even when itâ€™s not.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now with a husband and baby in her life, a booming brand to manage, and her own needs to think about too, Kendra is learning the art of balance, sometimes the hard way. Not wanting to pawn her child off to nannies like so many other stars, Kendra relishes the role of supermomâ€”kissing boo-boos, making lunches, scheduling playdatesâ€”all while juggling appearances, workout videos, and even training for the ultra-competitive hit show\n  <em>\n   Dancing with the Stars\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  While\n  <em>\n   Being Kendra\n  </em>\n  is full of humor and true stories that women can relate to, itâ€™s also a heartrending look at Kendraâ€™s very personal journey through some dark places, including a private struggle with postpartum depression and a very public tussle with post-baby weight loss. Kendra, who has always been known for her athletic (and enhanced) figure, opens up about her efforts to get her bikini body back and the difficulty of not looking sexy, which she believed was her most valuable quality. Her fight to lose weight at any cost, chronicled on the covers of countless magazines, has become yet another triumph for Kendra as she continues to succeed in the face of adversity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From dental assistant, to Playboy girlfriend and face of a franchise, to wife and new mother, Kendra has embraced what life has thrown at her with determination, fortitude, and a ready laugh. This daring and honest memoir captures Kendra and her family in their best and worst moments as she lives, loves, rebounds, and, ultimately, finds her place in her new world.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Look Inside *Being Kendra\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n  Click on the images below to open larger versions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Itâ€™s all about multitasking.Fun in the sun with baby Hank at a park in San Diego. His first time at a park and paparazzi, of course, were there!On the set of DWTS. Hmmmâ€¦ wonder why Iâ€™m smiling?Hank Jr. loved this dress, which I wore to the cast reveal of\n  <em>\n   Dancing with the Stars\n  </em>\n  . I think he just liked the sparkles.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kendra Wilkinson has revealed herself beforeâ€”in the pages of\n  <em>\n   Playboy\n  </em>\n  and on her reality show,\n  <em>\n   Kendra\n  </em>\n  . Now she reveals her private side, sharing the ups and downs, the joys and challenges of motherhood, marriage, and life in the spotlight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this intimate follow-up to her\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller,\n  <em>\n   Sliding into Home\n  </em>\n  , Kendra confides her most candid thoughts and feelings on her experiences as a new mom, and she divulges her secrets on how to do it all and make it look easy, sexy, and funâ€”even when itâ€™s not.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now with a husband and baby in her life, a booming brand to manage, and her own needs to think about too, Kendra is learning the art of balance, sometimes the hard way. Not wanting to pawn her child off to nannies like so many other stars, Kendra relishes the role of supermomâ€”kissing boo-boos, making lunches, scheduling playdatesâ€”all while juggling appearances, workout videos, and even training for the ultra-competitive hit show\n  <em>\n   Dancing with the Stars\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  While\n  <em>\n   Being Kendra\n  </em>\n  is full of humor and true stories that women can relate to, itâ€™s also a heartrending look at Kendraâ€™s very personal journey through some dark places, including a private struggle with postpartum depression and a very public tussle with post-baby weight loss. Kendra, who has always been known for her athletic (and enhanced) figure, opens up about her efforts to get her bikini body back and the difficulty of not looking sexy, which she believed was her most valuable quality. Her fight to lose weight at any cost, chronicled on the covers of countless magazines, has become yet another triumph for Kendra as she continues to succeed in the face of adversity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From dental assistant, to Playboy girlfriend and face of a franchise, to wife and new mother, Kendra has embraced what life has thrown at her with determination, fortitude, and a ready laugh. This daring and honest memoir captures Kendra and her family in their best and worst moments as she lives, loves, rebounds, and, ultimately, finds her place in her new world.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1764'),
(5447, 'Being Light', 'Helen Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Smith has a keen eye for material details, but her prose is lucid and uncluttered by heavy description.Â  Imagine a satire on Cool Britannia made by the Coen Brothers.Â   --Times Literary Supplement\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A screwball comedy that really works. --The Independent\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is a novel in which the ordinary and the unusual are constantly juxtaposed in various idiosyncratic characters... Its airy quirkiness is a delight. --The Times\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Smith''s world is as wacky as Nicola Barker''s, but much funnier, less disquieting.Â  Perhaps the Evelyn Waugh of Decline and Fall comes closer... She is a great snapper-up of unconsidered trifles... Wicked! --Time Out\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Helen Smith writes novels, children''s books, poetry, plays and screenplays. She lives in London and is a long-term supporter of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture where she mentors members of an exiled writers group to help them tell their stories.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/934'),
(5448, 'Bel-Air Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whome he has a son. Arrington''s much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has hustdied, leaving her a fortune in Centurioon Studios Stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn. It seems many of Hollywood''s rich and beautiful have Arrington adn Centurion in their sights, and Stone finds himself dragged into a surprising deadly web of intrigue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2688'),
(5449, 'Believing the Lie', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After writing sixteen Inspector Lynley novels,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Elizabeth George has millions of fans waiting for the next one. As\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n  put it, It''s tough to resist George''s storytelling, once hooked." With Believing the Lie, she''s poised to hook countless more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he''s sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man''s uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio''s digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Deborah''s investigation of the prime suspect-Bernard''s prodigal son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict-leads her to Nicholas''s wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for information from the rest of the family, including the victim''s bitter ex-wife and the man he left her for, and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family''s veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left behind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Elizabeth George\n  </strong>\n  is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of sixteen suspense novels, one book of nonfiction, and two short-story collections. Her work has been honored with the Anthony and Agatha awards, as well as several other prestigious prizes. She lives in Washington State.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3085'),
(5450, 'A Bell for Adano', 'John Hersey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Novel by John Hersey, published in 1944 and awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1945. The novel''s action takes place during World War II after the occupation of Sicily by Allied forces. Major Victor Joppolo, an American army officer of Italian descent, is part of the Allied military government ruling the town of Adano. In his attempts to reform the town and bring democracy to the people by treating them with respect and decency, Joppolo comes into conflict with his commanding officer, a hard-nosed general who eventually has Joppolo transferred because of his refusal to follow orders. Joppolo''s concern for the town is epitomized by his efforts to replace a bell that the fascists had melted down to use for ammunition.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700 year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3069'),
(5451, 'Ben and Me: From Temperance to Humility', 'Cameron Gunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thirteen weeks. Thirteen virtues.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Cameron Gunn considered himself a regular guy-a pretty good husband, father, attorney, and friend.\n</p>\n<p>\n But was there room for improvement?\n</p>\n<p>\n A reader of history and a fan of Ben Franklin (and weary of self-help advice that never seems to offer much help), Gunn decided to try a little experiment. He would attempt to live by Franklin''s thirteen virtues, a list of lofty ideals the Founding Father held dear, as enumerated in his famous autobiography.\n</p>\n<p>\n Would Gunn''s plan to improve his life, Citizen Ben-style, prove to be a brilliant reinvention of the self-help movement or a boondoggle of revolutionary proportions?\n</p>\n<p>\n By turns heartfelt, hilarious, and more than a little humbling, Gunn''s adventure takes this ordinary man way outside his comfort zone and into a thicket of not-so-modern values. The result is an engaging mix of humor and history-with perhaps a lightning bolt of inspiration or two along the way.\n</p>\n<p>\n Prepare to get up close and personal with everyone''s favorite Founding Father.\n</p>\n<p>\n Temperance\n <br />\n â€¢ Silence\n <br />\n â€¢ Order\n <br />\n â€¢ Resolution\n <br />\n â€¢ Frugality\n <br />\n â€¢ Industry\n <br />\n â€¢ Sincerity\n <br />\n â€¢ Justice\n <br />\n â€¢ Moderation\n <br />\n â€¢ Cleanliness\n <br />\n â€¢ Tranquility\n <br />\n â€¢ Chastity\n <br />\n â€¢ Humility\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2253'),
(5452, 'A Bend in the Road', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sweet, accessible, uplifting and predictable, the latest love story from Sparks (The Notebook) leaves the reader with just one burning question: Why is this consummate beach book being published in the fall? The nearly thwarted but eventually triumphant romance of deputy sheriff Miles Ryan and second-grade teacher Sarah Andrews goes down as easily as marshmallow fluff and offers about as much real nourishment. Miles''s high school sweetheart, Missy, was killed in an unsolved hit and run accident, leaving him to raise their son, Jonah, in New Bern, N.C. Sarah''s politically ambitious husband, Michael, dumped her when her ovaries proved inactive, and she fled to New Bern to teach, and love, other people''s kids. Miles and Sarah meet at a parent-teacher conference, and the sparks fly. But there''s a fly in the ointment as well; an italicized voice threaded among the happy chapters alerts us that Missy''s death was caused by someone whose identity, if revealed, could destroy Miles and Sarah''s newfound joy. In Sparks''s heaven, clouds exist to make silver linings look the brighter. As tough truth shadows their landscape, Miles and Sarah find depths within themselves, and their rekindled light illumines all. New Bern becomes a city of the reborn. Charlie Curtis, Miles''s stickler boss, learns to bend; Missy''s aimless killer morphs into a healer; and Jonah once again knows a mother''s love. The opposite of edgy, with simple sentences and soft-pedaled sex, Sparks''s plain vanilla morality will doubtless sell like ice cream on a steamy day. (Sept.)Forecast: Major television and print advertising and an 18-city author tour will broadcast Sparks''s latest from the rooftops; expect instant bestsellerdom.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A man loses his wife, lives in a haze, and then finds healing new love until the secrets start popping. nonfiction\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1013'),
(5453, 'The Best of Me', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with Author Nicholas Sparks\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q\n </strong>\n : What was your inspiration for writing\n <em>\n  The Best of Me\n </em>\n ?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A\n </strong>\n : I suppose the inspiration was two-fold. It had been a long time since Iâ€™d done a â€œreunionâ€ story (like\n <em>\n  The Notebook\n </em>\n ) so it was time to do another. At the same time, I wanted it to be different than The Notebook in almost every way. At the same time, I wanted to write a novel about characters in their forties. At that age, people are coming to terms with the decisions and choices theyâ€™ve made in the past.\n <em>\n  The Best of Me\n </em>\n was essentially a combination of those two ideas.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q\n </strong>\n : This book deals with falling in love for the first time and how sometimes that love is so strong it can cross the span of time and space no matter what happens. Is that something you believe in?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A\n </strong>\n : Yes, I believe itâ€™s possible. First love is always powerful, and for some people, that love really does last forever. The problem with that, however, is that over time, the love often becomes romanticized. I wanted to write a novel that explored that concept as well. Neither Dawson nor Amanda are the same people theyâ€™d been when they were younger, and little by little, that romanticism diminishes over the course of the story. For them, however, the new reality nonetheless left them feeling the same way about each other as they once had. And yet, they fell in love once more. Or maybe, phrasing it differently, they never fell out of love in the first place.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q\n </strong>\n : Former high school sweethearts Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole reconnect after 25 years when their mentor, Tuck Hostetler, dies and they are summoned back to Oriental, North Carolina for his funeral. One of things that drove Amanda and Dawson apart was that they were from the opposite side of the tracks. Are class differences still a part of everyday life in a town like Oriental, North Carolina?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A\n </strong>\n : Class differences arenâ€™t as powerful as they once were, but theyâ€™re still prevalent. I donâ€™t know, however, if itâ€™s limited to places like Oriental, and nor do I see it as entirely and without question a terrible thing. People who intend to spend their lives together should have things in common, and like it or not, class is, and always has been, part of that, because it shapes the people that we are.\n</p>\n<p>\n With Amanda and Dawson--and many others in the real world, of course--the class differences were less important than their similarities. Neither one of them got along with their parents, both were intelligent, both had dreams, and over the years, both of them had disappointments.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q\n </strong>\n : Today, we can easily reconnect with people from our past via Facebook and other social networking sites. How often do you think people try to find their first love on these sites?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A\n </strong>\n : Itâ€™s very common. I know people whoâ€™ve reconnected with someone from their past then later married them, but thatâ€™s probably less common than simply reaching out via social media to an old boyfriend or girlfriend simply to find out whatâ€™s been going on in their lives. I can understand the draw: First love is powerful because itâ€™s a first, and itâ€™s almost impossible to forget.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q\n </strong>\n : At the point when Amanda and Dawson reconnect, Amanda has been married almost twenty years and itâ€™s clear she is having problems in her marriage. Having been married for 22 years yourself, what would you say is the key to a successful marriage?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A\n </strong>\n : For every couple, itâ€™s different, because every couple faces different challenges, and every person has differing abilities when it comes to meeting those challenges. The key to any successful marriage is to realize that the commitment you once made to each other is the most important aspect to keep in mind. That simple truth, if truly felt, should be enough to make you realize that you canâ€™t put that commitment at risk. If your partner feels the same way, he or she wouldnâ€™t put that commitment at risk either.\n</p>\n<p>\n At the same time, itâ€™s important to understand that all marriages have challenging periods. No one is perfect, after all. But if the commitment to each other--which sometimes requires a commitment to change--is truly felt, then most likely, that marriage will be successful.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q\n </strong>\n : This book has a large, spiritual component to it. Tuck sees Clara, his dead wife, and Dawson sees a man in a blue windbreaker, although he is not sure who he is and the reader does not find out until the end. Do you believe in ghosts?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A\n </strong>\n : I think I do. I had an experience much like the one Dawson described: at times, I could see unexplainable movement from the corners of my eyes. Quick, instantaneous movements that vanished before I could turn my head. If you talk to the owners of the house where those events occurred, they will swear it was a ghost. Other events occurred in that house as well before the â€œghostâ€--or whatever it was--was finally exorcised from the premises. But thatâ€™s a longer story for another time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q\n </strong>\n : There is an absolutely stunning scene that unfolds when Amanda and Dawson go to Tuckâ€™s country cottage for the first time. Itâ€™s very reminiscent of a scene that happens in\n <em>\n  The Notebook.\n </em>\n Would you say this book, which examines young love versus middle age love, is the book closest in sentiment to\n <em>\n  The Notebook?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A\n </strong>\n : Without question, this is closest in sentiment--at least through the majority of the story â€“ when compared to The Notebook. I wanted to do exactly that. At the same time, I wanted to make everything else about the story completely different as well, and Iâ€™m hopeful I did that as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q\n </strong>\n : Tuck writes letters to Amanda and Dawson to be read after he is dead. They are wise and beautifully written. In this day and age of constant, electronic overload, do you lament the lost art of letter writing?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A\n </strong>\n : I do. I love letters as opposed to e-mail. But Iâ€™m old-fashioned that way.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q\n </strong>\n : Warner Bros. has already bought the film rights to\n <em>\n  The Best of Me\n </em>\n . You will be a producer on this film along with Denise DiNovi. How often is an author also a producer for the movie version of a book he/she has written? Is this unprecedented?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A\n </strong>\n : Iâ€™m sure other authors have served as a producer of their work; some have even directed. But it was somewhat unprecedented for Warner to agree to that â€“ and purchase the novel--before Iâ€™d written a single page.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q\n </strong>\n : Of all the movies based on your novels, which is your favorite?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A\n </strong>\n : Iâ€™ve been fortunate in that all the movies have been well-done and all have been successful, so I donâ€™t have a personal favorite. I can say, however, is that, at the current time, The Notebook seems most likely to become a classic.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She''d believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew -- about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear -- was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead:\n <em>\n  Can love truly rewrite the past?\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/10'),
(5454, 'Betrayal of Trust', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont uncovers a dark and deadly conspiracy that reaches deep into the halls of state government, in this latest thriller from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance   At first glance, the video appears to be showing a childish game: a teenage girl with dark wavy hair smiles for the camera, a blue scarf tied around her neck. All of a sudden things turn murderous, and the girl ends up dead.   Itâ€™s as bad as a snuff film can get, and whatâ€™s worse, the clip has been discovered on a phone that belongs to the grandson of Washington Stateâ€™s governor. However, the boy, who has a troubled background, swears that heâ€™s never seen the victim before.   Fortunately, the governor is able to turn to an old friend, J. P. Beaumont, for help. The Seattle private investigator has witnessed many horrific acts over the years, but this one ranks near the top. Even more shocking is that the crimeâ€™s multiple perpetrators could be minors.   Along with Mel Soames, his partner in life as well as on the job, Beaumont soon determines that what initially appears to be a childish prank gone wrong has much deeper implications. But Mel and Beau must follow this path of corruption to its very end, before more innocent young lives are lost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3398'),
(5455, 'Between a Heart and a Rock Place', 'Pat Benatar', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  For more than thirty years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most iconic women in rock music, with songs like "Heartbreaker," "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," and "Love Is a Battlefield" becoming anthems for multiple generations of fans. Now, in this intimate and uncompromising memoir, one of the bestselling female rock artists of all time shares the story of her extraordinary career, telling the truth about her life, her struggles, and how she won thingsâ€”her way.   From her early days in the New York club scene of the 1970s to headlining sold-out arena tours, Benatar offers a fascinating account of a life spent behind the microphone. As the first female artist ever to be played on MTV, she speaks candidly about the realities of breaking into the boys'' club of rock and roll at a time when people everywhere still believed a woman''s only place in popular music was as a girlfriend, a groupie, or a sex symbol. And though her fiery edge and aggressive swagger produced instant success, they also led to fights over her image that would linger for years to come.   Going backstage and into the studio, Benatar sets the record straight about how her music evolved, illustrating the visionary role that her guitarist, producer, and eventual husband, Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, played in combining her classically trained voice with razor-sharp guitar to create her unique hard-rock sound. Together they formed a musical and spiritual bond that would last a lifetime, helping her stay true to herself while avoiding the pitfalls and excesses of rock stardom.   Written with the attitude and defiance that embodies Pat Benatar''s music, Between a Heart and a Rock Place is a rock-and-roll story unlike any other, a remarkable tale of playing by your own rules, even if that means breaking a few of theirs.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1765'),
(5456, 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place', 'Aron Ralston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a moving account of strength in the face of adversity, Ralston presents the full story behind the 2003 event that became worldwide news: his self-amputation of his right arm after it was caught between a boulder and a canyon wall during what began as a routine day hike in the Utah Canyons. An experienced climber, Ralston, 28, effectively shows he wasn''t a risk-taker, and alternates between describing how his jaunt turned into a nightmare when a huge stone suddenly came unstuck as he used it to climb down a ledge, and recalling early experiences that changed his novice attitudes toward hiking, which he admits "were not intrinsically safe." Ralston candidly renders the details of six days of entrapment, using transcribed monologues from videotapes he made while trapped, including his increasingly exhausted thoughts as well as poignant farewells to his family. But his best writing details his self-amputation and his subsequent march to safety, in which he rappelled one-armed down a hill and then hiked six miles before someone found him. Ralston''s prose is never gruesome, nor is it used to shock, even as he describes first breaking his forearm, and then slipping "into some sort of autopilot" as he cuts through muscle fibers to detach the arm. It''s truly thrilling when he finishes and is free: "A crystalline moment shatters and the world is a different place." 16 pages of color photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School - From midday Saturday, April 26, 2003, until midday Thursday, May 1, Ralston was pinned between a boulder and a canyon wall in a remote area of Canyonlands National Park in Utah. He had little food and water. No one would even wonder where he was until he didn''t show up for work on Tuesday. Unable to sit, lie down, use his right arm (that was the part between the rock and the wall), or sleep, he knew right away that he was in for an excruciatingly difficult time. Those 120 hours of what he calls "uninterrupted experience" tested to the fullest his physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual being. His eventual rescue led to international headlines, partially due to his dramatic means of escape: he severed his arm with a cheap, dull, dirty knife. This is a searing and amazingly detailed rendition of his ordeal, along with accounts of several of Ralston''s previous wilderness adventures. He is one active and tough guy, but readers never get the sense that he is boastful or seeking notoriety. Rather, he seems genuinely intrigued, even mildly befuddled, by his insatiable drive to be active in the wild. One could say he takes too many risks, and that he has a tendency toward carelessness. He himself notes this. But the man''s drive and devotion to his calling are nothing but admirable. Sixteen pages of color photographs add considerably to readers'' experience of this nuanced, gripping survival story that belongs in most collections._ - Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1769');
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(5457, 'Between Sisters', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Differences between siblings couldn''t be more extreme than they are in this overwrought feel-good novel by Hannah (Distant Shores), a tale about two estranged sisters. Meghann Dontess is a hotshot, well-to-do Seattle divorce lawyer in her 30s, entirely focused on her career. Her younger sister, Claire Cavenaugh, a single mom living in a backwater town in the Pacific Northwest, takes care of her five-year-old daughter and helps her father run his low-key lakeside resort. The half-sisters were raised by a neglectful mother, who finally abandoned them for Hollywood when she won a starring role in a science fiction series. Meghann was 16 and Claire was nine; Meghann had already essentially raised Claire herself, and after their mother left, she tracked down Claire''s biological father. Sam Cavenaugh was thrilled to be reunited with Claire, but Meghann suddenly found herself motherless and sisterless all at once, and numbed the pain by pouring herself into school, college and career. Now she''s horrified because Claire has recklessly fallen in love with a country singer whom she''s about to marry. Their absentee mom suddenly steps in to get him a recording contract, but before there can be a happy mother-daughter reunion, Claire is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Only Meghann, with her worldly connections, can come to the rescue. The melodramatic plot is something of a stretch, especially when Hannah ties it all together with a happy ending. Some devoted fans will enjoy the sisterly bonding, but the broad-strokes characters will disappoint more demanding readers of women''s fiction.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hannah returns to a minor character, Meghann, from\n  <em>\n   Distant Shores\n  </em>\n  [BKL My 1 02], and explores her life in-depth as she and her sister confront the past in order to have a better future relationship. They share a bitter childhood and find it difficult to trust each other, but for Meghann it goes deeper as her inability to trust anyone leads to a dangerously promiscuous lifestyle. Both sisters feel betrayed by the other, and now lead very different lives. Meghann, a shark of a Seattle divorce attorney, has been in therapy for years. Claire leads a simple, small-town life, and now tells her sister that she''s getting married. Meghann initially tries to save her sister from what she believes will be a disaster since she doesn''t believe in love, only in prenups, but eventually she adopts a more positive attitude and takes the first step toward healing the rift. Then Joe arrives, a wanderer with his own issues. Change comes gradually but with such finesse that the reader will enter the characters'' relationships and make them her own as Hannah transcends the mundane in this gratifying, five-hankie story.\n  <em>\n   Patty Engelmann\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/985'),
(5458, 'Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran', 'Roxana Saberi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œTo read Roxanaâ€™s re-telling of her ordeal is to take a rare and eye-opening walk through Iranâ€™s horrible human rights record. â€¦ A powerful testament to the fortitude of human soul and its ability to survive the most daunting of situations.â€ (\n <strong>\n  Hadi Ghaemi, Director of International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn incredibly riveting account of every journalistâ€™s worst nightmare come true in Iran. In poignantly telling her own story, Roxana Saberi takes us inside the world of Tehranâ€™s notorious Evin Prison, introducing us to a remarkable cast of women who have been otherwise forgotten.â€ (\n <strong>\n  Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe author vividly conveys the fear, confusion and uncertainty experienced by an innocent person trapped in a repressive system where human rights norms have no meaning. Despite her ordeal, she draws strength and inspiration from other women prisoners of conscience detained with her in Tehranâ€™s infamous Evin Prison.â€ (\n <strong>\n  Elise Auerbach, Iran specialist for Amnesty International USA\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSaberiâ€™s moving descriptions of prison scenes and judicial settings offer one of the best accounts of what takes place in the darkest corners of the Islamic Republic. Authoritarian regimes have yet to learn not to imprison, on spurious charges, talented authors and journalists, contributing to the enrichment of prison literature.â€ (\n <strong>\n  Reza Afshari, author of *Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSaberi recounts the stories of her fellow prisoners, human rights workers and others, many of whom were arrested for their religious or political beliefs. . . .She was saved by international attention to her case and makes a plea for increased international vigilance. (\n <strong>\n  Salter Reynolds, *The Los Angeles Times\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe author writes eloquently of both the brutality and beauty - in bonding with her cellmates, and even connecting with her guards - she experienced in Evin. And most importantly, in telling her own story, Saberi has raised critical awareness of so many other political prisoners who remain silenced in captivity.â€ (\n <strong>\n  Heather Horiuchi, *Nichi Bei Weekly\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI highly recommend\n <em>\n  Between Two Worlds\n </em>\n , no matter how much or little you know of the situation in Iran. Seasoned activists will see. . . why they do what they do; the casual reader will glean a sense of what the citizens of Iran face daily.â€ (\n <em>\n  United4Iran.com blog )\n  <br />\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most compelling passages are about a form of religious experience - the struggle of this young American-Iranian as she moves from false â€˜confessionsâ€™ calculated to secure freedom to fierce truth-telling that grants her an inner liberation so powerful that even death is no longer frightening. (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Roger Cohen,\n  </em>\n  The New York Times\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA compelling and moving personal story about triumph over adversity and a unique portrayal of Iranâ€™s judicial system, life in Evin, the systemâ€™s callousness, and the daily injustices. Her measured assessment of the Iranian experience is a further tribute to her profound understanding of the country and its people.â€ (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Feature Story News\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA story of redemption and grace. . . . Saberiâ€™s principled stand and her willingness to speak out about her ordeal has made her an ambassador for press freedom and human rights. . . . This compelling and moving account is a tale of resistance.â€ (\n <strong>\n  Joel Simon, Executive Director of Committee to Protect Journalists\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA spot-on chronicle of the paranoia and utter buffoonery of the Iranian government and its apparatchiks. . . . Saberi spent five months in Evin Prison fighting for her life. She would say that she fought for her soul as well. Her redemption is this compassionate and courageous memoir.â€ (\n <strong>\n  Susanne Pari, *The San Francisco Chronicle\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith no factional axe to grind, Saberiâ€™s English-language memoir provides a candid, timely look at the injustices suffered by prisoners of conscience within Evinâ€™s walls. â€¦ Ultimately, Saberiâ€™s memoir brings us up-to-date on the state of Iranâ€™s prisons, and the picture is grim.â€ (\n <strong>\n  Elham Gheytanchi,\n  <em>\n   Ms.\n  </em>\n  magazine (blog)\n </strong>\n &gt; )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSaberi shows us she is neither a delicate beauty queen nor a fearless reporter. And this is why her story is so powerful. . . . Through this complex self-portrait, she hopes more of the world will demand an end to the human rights catastrophe in Iran.â€ (\n <strong>\n  Eileen Flynn, *The Austin American-Statesman\n </strong>\n * )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEminent reading. . . .\n <em>\n  Between Two Worlds\n </em>\n is about courage in the face of adversity, about overcoming fear in the pursuit of truth and faith in God in the most trying circumstances. These virtues stood her through the prison ordeal and now in telling her story.â€ (\n <em>\n  Time Out Doha\n </em>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA compelling and painful story about a young woman tangled in a legal system that was deciding her fate in an almost labyrinthic and surrealistic way.â€ (\n <strong>\n  Guillermo Arriaga, author, director, and screenwriter\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <em>\n  Between Two Worlds\n </em>\n is an extraordinary story of how an innocent young woman got caught up in the current of political events and met individuals whose stories vividly depict human rights violations in Iran.â€ (\n <strong>\n  Shirin Ebadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSaberi tells the chilling story of her 100 harrowing days in Evin Prison with finely etched detail and heroic candor in an unforgettable chronicle of an all-too-common assault against universal human rights, justice, and truth.â€ (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Roxana Saberi has reported for ABC Radio, the BBC, Feature Story News, Fox News, NPR, and PRI. She lived in Iran from February 2003 to May 2009 and currently resides in the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1770'),
(5459, 'Beverly Hills Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ***New York Times*-bestselling author Stuart Woods returns with the sequel to *The Prince of Beverly Hills*-a page-turning novel of murder, political intrigue, and betrayal set in 1940s Hollywood, the era of the "Red Scare," when almost anyone could be a suspect.**  Rick Barron, a former Beverly Hills cop, has risen to head of production of Centurion Pictures, and he''s at the top of his game. But tensions are high in Hollywood, and when Rick''s friend Sidney Brooks, a successful screenwriter, receives a subpoena from the House Un-American Activities Committee, Rick isn''t surprised. The witch hunt is spreading, and those under investigation are Rick''s closest friends-even his wife, the glamorous starlet Glenna Gleason.  Set in a time of suspicion and uncertainty, *Beverly Hills Dead* is Stuart Woods''s best novel yet-a fast-paced and sexy thriller full of the nail-biting twists and startling turns that Woods fans always expect.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2666'),
(5460, 'Beware of Cat: And Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier', 'Vincent Wyckoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "In letter carrier nightmares, it''s always getting dark out," observes Wyckoff, a 15-year veteran of the postal service, in his sweet, uncomplicated memoir about life as a mailman. He has spent his whole career in one Minneapolis neighborhood, and the book covers everything he goes through there, from encounters with hostile pets to neighborhood gatherings where no one recognizes the civvies-clad postman. The people along Wyckoff''s route, and his take on them, make engaging case studies: the struggling Native American family that still puts out a bag for the annual Letter Carrier''s Food Drive, the five-year-old boy who can''t find his way home, the 99-year-old woman whom Wyckoff kisses on her birthday. Wyckoff may not be typical of all mailmen (he carries dog biscuits and dresses up like Santa Claus at Christmas) but his experiences illuminate the challenges faced by postal workers-and neighbors-across the nation. Wyckoff''s writing is accessible, if a bit bland; this is clearly a first effort, and the dialogue doesn''t always ring true. Though there''s no real plotline, or any major characters aside from Wyckoff himself, this loving portrait of an average American community should give readers a new way of looking at the civil servants in their lives.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One sunny day on his postal route, Vincent Wyckoff crosses the path of an elderly gentleman whistling for his lost parakeet. The old man is upset, and Wyckoff moves down the block slowly, looking high and low, hoping to spot the little bird. He reaches the manâ€™s house and offers sympathy to his wife, who smiles sadly and says, â€œWe havenâ€™t had that bird for twenty-five years.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Letter carriers like Wyckoff walk through the same neighborhood each day, observing the lives and routines of its residents. They learn its stories, make connections between people, and, in many ways, become the common thread that connects neighbors to one another. Along Wyckoffâ€™s mail route, Native American children teach him about totems. He finds assistance for a reclusive chain-smoking book collector who canâ€™t maintain his property. He delivers a much-delayed registered letter mailed from Saigon in 1976. Over the years, Wyckoff sees the neighborhood of blue-collar retirees change as a diverse group of younger people move in and raise their families.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Celebrating the triumphs in everyday life and demonstrating the danger of trusting first impressions,\n  <em>\n   Beware of Cat\n  </em>\n  reveals the inner workings of an ordinary place of extraordinary interest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vincent Wyckoff\n  </strong>\n  was a laborer, a construction worker, and a sheetmetal worker before he became a letter carrier in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1990. This is his first book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1772'),
(5461, 'Beyond Band of Brothers', 'Richard D. Winters', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his well-intentioned but impersonal memoirs, Winters tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries, but Winters''s memoir is disappointingly sparse on details unrelated to troop position. It is in the battles and tactical maneuvers of Easy Company that Winters is most at home: on D-Day, when Easy Company''s commanding officer is killed, Winters takes charge minutes after landing deep in German territory and leads an assault against a German battery. He carefully explicates the reasoning behind his strategy, leading the reader along as the Company attacks German machine gun and mortar outposts. The narrative is laced with Winters''s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades'' bravery: "My God, it''s beautiful when you think of a guy who was so dedicated to his company that he apologizes for getting hit." Although the intrepidness of the group induces more than a tinge of pride, the memoir is devoid of powerful reflections. In the last, sluggish chapters, Winters devotes an excessive amount of time to letters he has received and to expositions on leadership. Winters is too humble for a genre that requires a little bit of conceit.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen Ambrose''s\n  <em>\n   Band of Brothers\n  </em>\n  (1992) and the HBO miniseries based on it made Easy Company--the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which fought from D-Day to the end of World War II, with 150 percent casualties--well known to more than -military-history buffs. After both publication and broadcast, Winters, Easy Company''s commanding officer, received many requests for more information. Feeling that much of the material Ambrose didn''t use deserved an audience, he chose to air it and satisfy all those requests in his memoirs. For those to whom the story is familiar, the major and his collaborator developed an excellent narrative voice to recount Winters'' experiences, actions, and thoughts during everything from training to deployment to battle to subsequent occupation. Winters has been praised as an exemplar of leadership, and here he shows what he did to earn that praise and how he did it. Very well done, book as well as war service.\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2254'),
(5462, 'Beyond the Grave', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Clue found in Book 3 sends Amy and Dan jetting off to find out just what''s behind the fierce rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of the Cahill family. Was a Clue stolen from the Tomas branch? Where is it now? And most important, can Amy and Dan get their hands on it before their rivals do?  It''s a wild race that will take Amy and Dan deep into the bowels of the earth . . . and right into the hands of the enemy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2979'),
(5463, 'Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West', 'Wallace Earle Stegner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . . --Books of the Southwest\n</p>\n<p>\n This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose. --Ivan Doig\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. "No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . ."-- Books of the Southwest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2539'),
(5464, 'The Big Bad Wolf', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Alex Cross''s first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, beautiful women are being kidnapped-to be bought and sold as slaves. Behind this depraved scheme stands a shadowy figure known only as The Wolf, a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organized crime. With Alex''s personal life in chaos because of his ex-fiancÃ©e''s return and with the FBI''s caution testing his patience, Alex has to go out on his own. For to stalk a ruthless predator without a name or a face, Alex Cross must become a lone wolf himself...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/276'),
(5465, 'The Big Bounce', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jack Ryan always wanted to play pro ball. But he couldn''t hit a curveball, so he turned his attention to less legal pursuits. A tough guy who likes walking the razor''s edge, he''s just met his match -- and more -- in Nancy. She''s a rich man''s plaything, seriously into thrills and risk, and together she and Jack are pure heat ready to explode. But when simple housebreaking and burglary give way to the deadly pursuit of a really big score, the stakes suddenly skyrocket. Because violence and double-cross are the name of this game -- and it''s going to take every ounce of cunning Jack and Nancy possess to survive . . . each other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3098'),
(5466, 'Big Girl', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.Â Â Â Â  A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is tall and slender, and her mother, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their daughterâ€™s looks. When Victoria is six, she sees a photograph of Queen Victoria, and her father has always said she looks just like her. After the birth of Victoriaâ€™s perfect younger sister, Gracie, her father liked to refer to his firstborn as â€œour tester cake.â€ With Gracie, everyone agreed that Jim and Christina got it right.Â Â Â  While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her fatherâ€™s belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is that she has to get away from home, and after college in Chicago, she moves to New York City. Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister. And though they couldnâ€™t be more different in looks, they love each other unconditionally. But regardless of her accomplishments, Victoriaâ€™s parents know just what to say to bring her down. She will always be her fatherâ€™s â€œbig girl,â€ and her motherâ€™s constant disapproval is equally unkind.When Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their narcissistic father, Victoria worries about her sisterâ€™s future happiness, and with no man of her own, she feels like a failure once again. As the wedding draws near, a chance encounter, an act of stunning betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point. Behind Victoria is a lifetime of hurt and neglect she has tried to forget, and even ice cream can no longer dull the pain. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and claim the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big girl or not, she is terrific and discovers that herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3706'),
(5467, 'Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing', 'Alan Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this entertaining memoir, Paul recounts an unanticipated life-changing experience that began when his wife accepted a three-year work assignment in Beijing. After resettling their three young children from suburban New Jersey to China, Paul, a music and basketball journalist who played guitar only as a hobby, embarked on an exploration of local culture and music. The search prompted his transition from writing about music to being a bona fide rock star in the band Woodie Alan, a cross-cultural blues group named after Alan and his Chinese band member, Woodie Wu, a guitarist with a Stevie Ray Vaughn tattoo. Paul blogged about his Chinese experience and also wrote a column on it for the Wall Street Journal''s Web site. His story, however, is much more than a musical and journalistic victory dance. It''s equal parts family memoir, travelogue, personal analysis of globalization and expatriate communities, and a view of the world''s most populous nation through American eyes. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  In this funny, poignant, and entertaining memoir, Alan Paul tells his improbable story of an American music journalist unwittingly becoming a rock star in China with grace and good humor. Whatï¿½s more, his Chinese American blues rock band, Woodie Alan, earns the title ï¿½Beijingï¿½s best band.ï¿½ This achievement was an accidental by-product of his journalist-wife Rebeccaï¿½s position as China bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. He writes with enthusiasm about his new life as an expatriate American in China with three children in tow, the difficulty of learning Chinese (he concludes he has a better chance of communicating with dolphins than mastering its strange words and sounds), getting a driverï¿½s license, and understanding Chinese rules of the road, which, he theorizes, means never having to stop unless you absolutely have to. His experiences playing in a mostly Chinese band offer plenty of entertaining anecdotes that offer culture-shock insights. His Chinese sojourn ending after his wife returned to New York as the paperï¿½s international news editor, Paul looks back with equal doses of regret for the unforgettable opportunities that came his way and anticipation toward a new American future. Immensely enjoyable. --June Sawyers\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1775'),
(5468, 'Big Sex Little Death', 'Susie Bright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    "Susie Bright is a one-woman counterculture, a teenaged socialist revolutionary turned Reagan-era sexual freedom fighter. In this lively, bittersweet memoir, she recounts a life full of political and erotic adventures and betrayals, a life at once deeply subversive and totally American, defined as it is by the idea that people should be free to express and pursue their own visions of happiness, no matter how uncomfortable it makes the prigs and scolds among us." â€” Tom Perotta, author of\n    <i>\n     Little Children\n    </i>\n    and\n    <i>\n     Election\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "Susie Bright''s real life is just as compellingâ€”more compellingâ€”than her sex life. And that''s saying something." â€” Dan Savage\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "I have a very scary feeling Susie Bright is not making any of this up. Guns, drugs, threesomes, socialist factionalism, a stabbing . . . all before she got her G.E.D.?" â€” Alison Bechdel, author of\n    <i>\n     Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    <i>\n     "Big Sex Little Death\n    </i>\n    is subtle, hot, enthralling, raw and tenderâ€”I loved it. Susie Bright is a national treasure." â€” Josh Marshall, Editor and Publisher,\n    <i>\n     Talking Points Memo\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "The best-named writer in America, Susie Bright has written a witty, wise, and enlightening memoir." â€” Erica Jong\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    Ever wondered why thereâ€™s no female voice as bold, erotic, unflinching, and revealing as Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, or Philip Roth? There is. It belongs to Susie Bright.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    In this stunning and courageous coming-of-age story, Susie Bright opens her heart and her life. From fearful Irish Catholic Girl Scout to gun-toting teenage revolutionaryâ€”and finally the "The Avatar of American Erotica"\n    <i>\n     (NYTimes)\n    </i>\n    â€”Brightâ€™s life story is shaped as much by Americaâ€™s sexual awakening as the national sexual landscape was altered by Bright herself.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    In\n    <i>\n     Big Sex Little Death,\n    </i>\n    Bright introduces us to her influences and experiences, including her early involvement with notorious high school radicals\n    <i>\n     The Red Tide\n    </i>\n    as well as the magazine she co-founded in the 1980s,\n    <i>\n     On Our Backs\n    </i>\n    â€”the first-ever erotic magazine created by women, which turned the lesbian and bisexual community upside down before it took the "straight" world by storm.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    <i>\n     Big Sex Little Death\n    </i>\n    is an explosive yet intimate memoir thatâ€™s pure Susie: bold, free-spirited, unpredictableâ€”larger than life, yet utterly true to life.\n   </div>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1777'),
(5469, 'The Big U', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </i>\n called Neal Stephenson''s most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious"...but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic\n <i>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </i>\n , it''s back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print,\n <i>\n  The Big U\n </i>\n is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/721'),
(5470, 'Billy Bathgate', 'E. L. Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with  a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. Schultz becomes an unlikely surrogate  parent to the boy, introducing him to the ways of the world and training  Billy to follow in his footsteps. After Billy falls for Schulz''s latest  girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to  join. As he seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following  his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. E.L  Doctorow won the 1990\n <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/lists/awards/penf.html/%24%7B0%7D">\n  PEN/Faulkner Award\n </a>\n for this novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/935'),
(5471, 'Billy Lynn&#39;s Long Halftime Walk', 'Ben Fountain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents at "the battle of Al-Ansakar Canal" - three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew - has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America''s most sought-after heroes. For the past two weeks, the Bush administration has sent them on a media-intensive nationwide\n  <em>\n   Victory Tour\n  </em>\n  to reinvigorate public support for the war. Now, on this chilly and rainy Thanksgiving, the Bravos are guests of America''s Team, the Dallas Cowboys, slated to be part of the halftime show alongside the superstar pop group Destiny''s Child.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among the Bravos is the Silver Star-winning hero of Al-Ansakar Canal, Specialist William Lynn, a nineteen-year-old Texas native. Amid clamoring patriots sporting flag pins on their lapels and Support Our Troops bumper stickers on their cars, the Bravos are thrust into the company of the Cowboys'' hard-nosed businessman/owner and his coterie of wealthy colleagues; a luscious born-again Cowboys cheerleader; a veteran Hollywood producer; and supersized pro players eager for a vicarious taste of war. Among these faces Billy sees those of his family - his worried sisters and broken father - and Shroom, the philosophical sergeant who opened Billy''s mind and died in his arms at Al-Ansakar.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Over the course of this day, Billy will begin to understand difficult truths about himself, his country, his struggling family, and his brothers-in-arms - soldiers both dead and alive. In the final few hours before returning to Iraq, Billy will drink and brawl, yearn for home and mourn those missing, face a heart-wrenching decision, and discover pure love and a bitter wisdom far beyond his years.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poignant, riotously funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking,\n  <em>\n   Billy Lynn''s Long Halftime Walk\n  </em>\n  is a devastating portrait of our time, a searing and powerful novel that cements Ben Fountain''s reputation as one of the finest writers of his generation.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3855'),
(5472, 'Billy Straight', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lisa, the estranged wife of TV superstar cop Cart Ramsey, is found murdered in a Los Angeles park. She''d divorced him for cruelty and the detectives on the case, Petra Connor and Stu Bishop, immediately elevate him to No 1 suspect. But a thorough investigation of the scene reveals that there was probably a witness to the killing. Reading the evidence on the ground Petra and Stu believe it is a homeless man, but in fact it is a homeless boy â€“ Billy Straight. He knows he has vital evidence, but he is too scared of being returned to his former existence to come forward. As Billy battles with his conscience, Petra and Stu have plenty of other leads to follow and a dual narrative of stunning complexity and suspense develops until they eventually combine into a single crescendo of tension. Jonathan Kellerman has produced a thriller which is genuinely unputdownable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/746'),
(5473, 'The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century', 'Steve Coll', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bin Ladens are famous for spawning the world''s foremost terrorist and building one of the Middle East''s foremost corporate dynasties. Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winner Coll (\n <em>\n  Ghost Wars\n </em>\n ) delivers a sprawling history of the multifaceted clan, paying special attention to its two most emblematic members. Patriarch Mohamed''s eldest son, Salem, was a caricature of the self-indulgent plutocrat: a flamboyant jet-setter dependent on the Saudi monarchy, obsessed with all things motorized (he died crashing his plane after a day''s joy-riding atop motorcycle and dune-buggy) and forever tormenting his entourage with off-key karaoke. Coll presents quite a contrast with an unusually nuanced profile of Salem''s half-brother Osama, a shy, austere, devout man who nonetheless shares Salem''s egomania. Other bin Ladens crowd Coll''s narrative with the eye-glazing details of their murky business deals, messy divorces and ill-advised perfume lines and pop CDs. Beneath the clutter one discerns an engrossing portrait of a family torn between tradition and modernity, conformism and self-actualization, and desperately in search of its soul.\n <em>\n  (April 1)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sprawling and immensely wealthy Bin Laden family has a past and present far more complex and interesting than that of one middle-aged man holed up in the borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Coll,Â a Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning journalist and a staff writer for the New Yorker, has written an impressive family saga that spans three generations andÂ four continents and intersects with some of the key eventsÂ of the last century. Osama is, of course, part of this story, but he isnâ€™t necessarily the most interesting or even the most important family member. Coll begins with an examination of the life and career of the family patriarch, Mohamed, whoÂ was born in poverty in southern Yemen, where he toiled in menial jobs. As a teenager, he immigrated to the port city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. His cleverness and ambition meshed perfectly with the building boom fueled by the oil revenues of the Saudi royal family. Before his death in 1967, Mohamed had fatheredÂ more thanÂ 50 children by various wives, and Coll offers portraits of some of them. He effectively shows how the creation of the Bin Laden family fortune was, and continues to be, tightly bound to the fate of the Saudi royal family. This is a well-done, sweeping chronicle of a clan that continues to exert worldwide power and influence. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2043'),
(5474, 'The Birth of Britain', 'Winston Churchill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Birth of Britain\n  </em>\n  is the first volume of\n  <em>\n   A History of the English Speaking Peoples,\n  </em>\n  the immensely popular and eminently readable four-volume work by\n  <strong>\n   Winston Churchill\n  </strong>\n  . A rousing account of the early history of Britain, the work describes the great men and women of the past and their impact on the development of the legal and political institutions of the English. Indeed, Churchill celebrates the creation of the constitutional monarchy and parliamentary system and the kings, queens, and leading nobles who helped create English democracy.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Winston Churchill\n  </strong>\n  (1874-1965) was one of the leading political figures of the twentieth century. Through a long political career that extended from 1900 to 1964, he achieved high-level positions in the British Cabinet. Churchill reached his greatest fame as Prime Minister, most memorably during the Second World War. His "bulldog" personality seemed to personify the British people''s will to survive and triumph over the Nazi threat.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2443'),
(5475, 'The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories', 'Ursula K. le Guin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For more than four decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, this renowned writer has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves. Now, in ''The Birthday of the World'' this artist returns to these worlds in eight brilliant short works, including a never-before-published novella, each of which probes the essence of humanity. The first six tales in this volume are set in the author''s signature world of the Ekumen, ''my pseudocoherent universe with holes in the elbows,'' as Le Guin describes it - a world made familiar in her award-winning novel The Left Hand of Darkness. The seventh, title story was hailed by Publishers Weekly as ''remarkable ... a standout.'' The final offering in the collection, Paradises Lost, is a mesmerizing novella of space exploration and the pursuit of happiness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2741'),
(5476, 'Bismarck: A Life', 'Jonathan Steinberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Otto von Bismarck transformed Europe more completely than anybody in the nineteenth century--except for Napoleon. He unified--and indeed, created--the country at the center of two world wars that would transform the world. This riveting biography illuminates the life of the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck''s friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with the constitution of an ox, a brutal tyrant who could easily shed tears, a convert to an extreme form of evangelical Protestantism who secularized schools and introduced civil divorce. Bismarck may have been in sheer ability the most intelligent man to direct a great state in modern times. His brilliance and insight dazzled his contemporaries. But all agreed there was also something demonic, diabolical, overwhelming, beyond human attributes, in Bismarck''s personality. He was a kind of malign genius who, behind the various postures, concealed an ice-cold contempt for his fellow human beings and a drive to control and rule them. As one contemporary noted: "the Bismarck regime was a constant orgy of scorn and abuse of mankind, collectively and individually." In this comprehensive and expansive biography--a brilliant study in power--Jonathan Steinberg brings Bismarck to life, revealing the stark contrast between the "Iron Chancellor''s" unmatched political skills and his profoundly flawed human character.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2169'),
(5477, 'Bitch Is the New Black', 'Helena Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meet Helena Andrews, sassy, single, smart, and, yes, a bitchâ€”but Tina Fey said it best, bitch is the new black!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Helena Andrews heard this declaration on *Saturday Night Live*, her first reaction was How daaare you? But after a commercial break and some thought, she decided to poke at the stereotype that says "successful" and "bitch" are synonyms. Unafraid and frank, she comes to realize that being a bitch is sometimes the best way to beâ€”except, of course, when it''s not.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Bitch Is the New Black* follows Andrewsâ€”sexy, single, and a self-described smart-assâ€”on her trip from kidnapped daughter of a lesbian to Washington, D.C., political reporter who can''t remember a single senator''s name. Told in Andrews''s singular voice, this addictive memoir explores the roller coaster of being educated and single while trying to become an "actual adult" and find love.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In these candid yet heartfelt essays, she chronicles that ride from beginning to end: a childhood spent on an all-white island, escaping via episodes of *The Cosby Show*; being set up with Obama''s "body guy" Reggie Love by Maureen Dowd; and the shocking suicide of a best friend. Through it all, Andrews and her gang of girlfriends urge each other to "keep it moving." But no one can stay strong all the timeâ€”not even the women we believe do so without trying.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Andrews says, "Despite the fact that the most recognizable woman in the United States is black, popular culture still hasn''t moved past the only adjective apparently meant to describe usâ€” "strong." She is also flawed, tired, naive, greedy, gutsy, frightened, and kind: secret sides that come out in honest detail here.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1779'),
(5478, 'Bite Club: The Morganville Vampires', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine is "a first- class storyteller" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris).   After discovering that vampires populate her town, college student Claire Danvers knows that the undead just want to live their lives. But someone else wants them to get ready to rumble.  There''s a new extreme sport getting picked up on the Internet: bare- knuckle fights pitting captured vampires against each other-or humans. Tracking the remote signal leads Claire- accompanied by her friends and frenemies-to discover that what started as an online brawl will soon threaten everyone in Morganville...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3170'),
(5479, 'Bite Me: A Love Story', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.   Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. ''Cept there''s no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they''re vampires. Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue.   Abby wants to be a bloodsucking fiend, too, but right now she''s really busy with other stuff, like breaking in a pair of red vinyl thigh-high SkankensteinÂ® platform boots and wrangling her Ph.D.-candidate boyfriend, Steve (the love monkey). And then there''s that vampire cat Chet, who''s getting bigger and smarterâ€”and thirstierâ€”by the minute. Abby thought she and Steve could handle the kitty cat on their own, mais non . . .   Before you can say "OMG! WTF?" Tommy and Jody are sprung from captivity, and join forces with Abby, Steve, the frozen-turkey-bowling Safeway crew, the Emperor of San Francisco and his trusty dogs Lazarus and Bummer, Abby''s gay Goth friend Jared, and SF''s finest Cavuto and Rivera to hunt big cat and save the city. And that''s when the fun really begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3322'),
(5480, 'Black and Blue', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Bible John" terrorized Glasgow in the sixties and seventies, murdering three women he met in a local ballroom - and he was never caught. Now a copycat is at work. Nicknamed "Bible Johnny" by the media, he is a new menace with violent ambitions. The Bible Johnny case would be perfect for Inspector John Rebus, but after a run-in with a crooked senior officer, he''s been shunted aside to one of Edinburgh''s toughest suburbs, where he investigates the murder of an off-duty oilman. His investigation takes him north to the oil rigs of Aberdeen, where he meets the Bible Johnny media circus head-on. Suddenly caught in the glare of the television cameras and in the middle of more than one investigation, Rebus must proceed with caution: One mistake could mean an unpleasant and not particularly speedy death, or, worse still, losing his job.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/476'),
(5481, 'The Black Banners: 9/11 and the War Against Al-Qaeda', 'Ali H. Soufan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A book that will change the way we think about al-Qaeda, intelligence, and the events that forever changed America.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  On September 11, 2001, FBI Special Agent Ali H. Soufan was handed a secret file. Had he received it months earlierâ€”when it was requestedâ€”the attacks on New York and Washington could have been prevented. During his time on the front lines, Soufan helped thwart plots around the world and elicited some of the most important confessions from terrorists in the war against al-Qaedaâ€”without laying so much as a hand on them. Most of these stories have never been reported before, and never by anyone with such intimate firsthand knowledge.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  This narrative account of America''s successes and failures against al-Qaeda is essential to an understanding of the terrorist group. We are taken into hideouts and interrogation rooms. We have a ringside seat at bin Laden''s personal celebration of the 9/11 bombings. Such riveting details show us not only how terrorists think and operate but also how they can be beaten and brought to justice. 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ali H. Soufan\n  </strong>\n  , a former FBI special agent, served on the front lines against al-Qaeda and gained an international reputation as a top counterterrorism operative and interrogator. He has been profiled in\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  and featured in books, newspaper articles, and documentaries around the globe.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2444'),
(5482, 'The Black Book', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague''s notebook, Rebus must piece together the most complex and confusing of jigsaws. But not everyone wants the puzzle solved - perhaps not even Rebus himself ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/506');
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(5483, 'Black Boy: (American Hunger) : A Record of Childhood and Youth', 'Richard Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Autobiography by Richard Wright, published in 1945 and considered to be one of his finest works. The book is sometimes considered a fictionalized autobiography or an autobiographical novel because of its use of novelistic techniques.\n <em>\n  Black Boy\n </em>\n describes vividly Wright''s often harsh, hardscrabble boyhood and youth in rural Mississippi and in Memphis, Tenn. When the work was first published, many white critics viewed\n <em>\n  Black Boy\n </em>\n primarily as an attack on racist Southern white society. From the 1960s the work came to be understood as the story of Wright''s coming of age and development as a writer whose race, though a primary component of his life, was but one of many that formed him as an artist. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Black Boy\n </em>\n is Richard Wright''s powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictmentâ€”a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1781'),
(5484, 'Black Cherry Blues', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this winner of the 1990 Edgar Award for best mystery novel, Dave Robicheaux, a former New Orleans policeman, is pursued by a psychopath and flees his home on the Bayou Teche, in the heart of Louisiana, to find a new life in Montana. After settling near the Blackfoot River Canyon, Robicheaux finds himself smack dab in the middle of an illegal Mafia takeover of Indian lands. As he struggles to expose the truth, he must face some hard facts about himself, especially after the appearance of an old Cajun friend, Dixie Lee Pughe.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Burke pits a land-hungry oil company against a Blackfeet Indian reservation in a stunning novel that takes detective fiction into new imaginative realms. His Cajun sleuth, Dave Robicheaux, an ex-New Orleans cop featured in two previous novels, attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, has recurrent nightmares about his murdered wife, and cares for an adopted El Salvadoran refugee girl. When two American Indian activists disappear, Robicheaux''s dogged investigation not only sets him on a collision course with Mafia thugs and oil interests, but also leads him into a romance with Darlene American Horse, his ex-partner''s girlfriend. All the main characters in this darkly beautiful, lyric saga carry heavy emotional baggage, and Robicheaux''s sleuthing is a simultaneous exorcism of demons of grief, loss, fear, rage, vengeance. Burke''s fictional terrain--stretching from the Louisiana bayous to Montana''s red cliffs and pine-dotted hills--is uniquely his own, yet also a microcosm of a multi-ethnic America. He writes from the heart and the gut. 35,000 first printing; major ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/477'),
(5485, 'The Black Circle', 'Patrick Carman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n JOIN ANYTIME TO PLAY FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN!  WHERE ARE AMY AND DAN CAHILL? The two kids were last seen in Egypt, hunting for one of the 39 Clues that could make them the most powerful people on earth. But no one has seen the siblings since. Has the ruthless Irina Spasky finally tracked them down? Or worse . . . the Madrigals?  No one knows where the Clue hunt leads next. But one thing is certain â€“ Book 5 is gearing up to be Dan and Amy\\\\u2019s most dangerous adventure yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2980'),
(5486, 'The Black Echo', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch Â— hero, maverick, nighthawk Â— the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them to the depths of hell. Now, Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city to the tortuous link that must be uncovered, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Joining with an enigmatic and seductive female FBI agent, pitted against enemies inside his own department, Bosch must make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, as he tracks down a killer whose true face will shock him.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Lone LAPD detective Harry Bosch must walk the line between criminals and crooked cops following the death of an old war buddy. Billy had been a fellow "tunnel rat"--fighting with Bosch in the nightmare underground war in Vietnam. But soon Billy''s murder is linked to a bank robbery via complex tunnels beneath the bank.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/507'),
(5487, 'Black Friday', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  aka Black Market\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The breathtaking suspense of Kiss the Girls and the  authenticity of N.Y.P.D. Blue: Welcome to James Patterson''s classic  superthriller, BLACK FRIDAY. A courageous federal agent, a powerful  and resourceful woman lawyer - only they can possibly stop the  unspeakable from happening. New York City is under siege by a secret  militia group - and that''s just the beginning of the relentless terror  of BLACK FRIDAY.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/277'),
(5488, 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War', 'Mark Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Journalist Mark Bowden delivers a strikingly detailed account of the 1993 nightmare operation in Mogadishu that left 18 American soldiers dead and many more wounded. This early foreign-policy disaster for the Clinton administration led to the resignation of Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and a total troop withdrawal from Somalia. Bowden does not spend much time considering the context; instead he provides a moment-by-moment chronicle of what happened in the air and on the ground. His gritty narrative tells of how Rangers and elite Delta Force troops embarked on a mission to capture a pair of high-ranking deputies to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid only to find themselves surrounded in a hostile African city. Their high-tech MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters had been shot down and a number of other miscues left them trapped through the night. Bowden describes Mogadishu as a place of Mad Max-like anarchy--implying strongly that there was never any peace for the supposed peacekeepers to keep. He makes full use of the defense bureaucracy''s extensive paper trail--which includes official reports, investigations, and even radio transcripts--to describe the combat with great accuracy, right down to the actual dialogue. He supplements this with hundreds of his own interviews, turning\n  <em>\n   Black Hawk Down\n  </em>\n  into a completely authentic nonfiction novel, a lively page-turner that will make readers feel like they''re standing beside the embattled troops. This will quickly be realized as a modern military classic.\n  <em>\n   --John J. Miller\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is military writing at its breathless best. Bowden (Bringing the Heat) has used his journalistic skills to find and interview key participants on both sides of the October 1993 raid into the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia, a raid that quickly became the most intensive close combat Americans have engaged in since the Vietnam War. But Bowden''s gripping narrative of the fighting is only a framework for an examination of the internal dynamics of America''s elite forces and a critique of the philosophy of sending such high-tech units into combat with minimal support. He sees the Mogadishu engagement as a portent of a disturbing future. The soldiers'' mission was to seize two lieutenants of a powerful Somali warlord. Despite all their preparation and training, the mission unraveled and they found themselves fighting ad hoc battles in ad hoc groups. Eschewing the post facto rationalization that characterizes so much military journalism, Bowden presents snapshots of the chaos at the heart of combat. On page after page, in vignette after vignette, he reminds us that war is about breaking things and killing people. In Mogadishu that day, there was no room for elaborate rules of engagement. In the end, it was a task force of unglamorous "straight-leg" infantry that saved the trapped raiders. Did the U.S. err by creating elite forces that are too small to sustain the attrition of modern combat? That''s one of the key questions Bowden raises in a gripping account of combat that merits thoughtful reading by anyone concerned with the future course of the country''s military strategy and its relationship to foreign policy.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1318'),
(5489, 'Black Hills', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, "counts coup" on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general''s ghost enters him - and his voice will speak to him for the rest of his event-filled life.Seamlessly weaving together the stories of Paha Sapa, Custer, and the American West, Dan Simmons depicts a tumultuous time in the history of both Native and white Americans. Haunted by Custer''s ghost, and also by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Sioux war-chief Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa''s long life is driven by a dramatic vision he experienced as a boy in his people''s sacred Black Hills. In August of 1936, a dynamite worker on the massive Mount Rushmore project, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost forever and reclaim his people''s legacy-on the very day FDR comes to Mount Rushmore to dedicate the Jefferson face.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/572'),
(5490, 'Black House', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial killer in a neighboring town.\n</p>\n<p>\n Of course, this is no ordinary policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub''s 1984 fantasy\n <em>\n  The Talisman\n </em>\n . At the end of that book, the 13-year-old Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate realm called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a terrible enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her counterpart in the Territories. Now in his 30s, Jack remembers nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn''t entirely forgotten:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  When these faces rise or those voices mutter, he has until now told himself the old lie, that once there was a frightened boy who caught his mother''s neurotic terror like a cold and made up a story, a grand fantasy with good old Mom-saving Jack Sawyer at its center. None of it was real, and it was forgotten by the time he was sixteen. By then he was calm. Just as he''s calm now, running across his north field like a lunatic, leaving that dark track and those clouds of startled moths behind him, but doing it\n  <em>\n   calmly\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Jack is abruptly pulled into the case--and back into the Territories--by the Fisherman himself, who sends Jack a child''s shoe, foot still attached. As Jack flips back and forth between French Landing and the Territories, aided by his 20-years-forgotten friend Speedy Parker and a host of other oddballs (including a blind disk jockey, the beautiful mother of one of the missing children, and a motorcycle gang calling itself the "Hegelian Scum"), he tracks both the Fisherman and a much bigger fish: the\n <em>\n  abbalah\n </em>\n , the Crimson King who seeks to destroy the axle of worlds.\n</p>\n<p>\n While\n <em>\n  The Talisman\n </em>\n was a straightforward myth in 1980s packaging,\n <em>\n  Black House\n </em>\n is richer and more complex, a fantasy wrapped in a horror story inside a mystery, sporting a clever tangle of references to Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, jazz, baseball, and King''s own Dark Tower saga.\n <em>\n  Talisman\n </em>\n fans will find the sure-footed Jack has worn well--as has the King/Straub writing style, which is much improved with the passage of two decades.\n <em>\n  --Barrie Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Today''s literature is plagued by sequelitis; plagued because many of the offspring are abominations. But here''s a marvelous exception. Seventeen years after King and Straub''s first collaboration, The Talisman, comes an immensely satisfying follow-up, a brilliant and challenging dark fantasy that fans of both authors are going to love. Page by page, the novel reads as equal parts King and Straub, with the Maine master''s exuberance and penchant for excess restrained by Straub''s generally more elegant (though no more potent) approach. But the book, far more than its predecessor, is set explicitly in the King universe, with particular ties to the Dark Tower series. Its primary hero is The Talisman''s Jack Sawyer, now retired from the LAPD and living with no memory of his otherwordly Talisman exploits, alone in French Landing, Wisconsin a town surveyed by the authors in an unusual third-person plural narration that buoys the book throughout. Terror stalks French Landing in the form of the Fisherman, who''s been snatching, killing and eating the town''s children. We know that the Fisherman is a resident of the town''s elderly care facility, but Jack doesn''t; when yet another child, Ty Marshall, is taken, Jack enters the hunt for the killer and the boy. He''s joined by an array of locals, notably a gang of philosopher bikers and blind Henry Leyden, a 50-something cool cat whom every reader will adore. Jack is going to need all their help, and more, because The Fisherman is controlled by a malignant entity from End-World, where the Crimson King aims to unravel the fabric of all the universes. It''s to blighted End-World, via the portal of the Black House a creepy local house painted black that Jack and others travel to rescue Ty, in the novel''s frantic conclusion.The book abounds with literary allusions, many to the King-verse, and readers not familiar with King''s work and particularly with The Talisman may feel disoriented, especially at first. But there''s so much here to revel in, from expertly excuted sequences of terror, awe or passion the novel is a deep reservoir of genuine emotion to some of the most wonderful characters to spring from a page in years, to a story whose energy is so high and craft so accomplished that most readers will wish it ran twice its great length. What is probably the most anticipated novel of the year turns out to be its most memorable to date, a high point in both the King and Straub canons. This will be a monster bestseller, and deservedly so. 2 million first printing. (One-day laydown Sept. 15)\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/816'),
(5491, 'Black Ice', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Narcotics officer Cal Moore''s orders were to look into the city''s latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with his head in several pieces and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Years ago, Harry Bosch learned the first rule of the good cop: don''t look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Now, Harry''s making some very dangerous connections, starting with one dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that winds from Hollywood Boulevard''s drug bazaar to the dusty back alleys south of the border and into the center of a complex and lethal game Â— one in which Harry is the next and likeliest victim.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  In this fast-paced sequel to The Black Echo, LAPD detective Harry Bosch continues to investigate the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner-city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico. When he discovers the body of a fellow police officer in a sleazy hotel, Harry gets entangled in a brutal web of violence and drugs.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/509'),
(5492, 'Black Is the New White', 'Paul Mooney', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **A fascinating and fearless memoir from an enduring comedy genius -- the legendary, controversial, inimitable Paul Mooney.**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Most comedians tell jokes. Paul Mooney tells the truth. And for more than forty years -- whether writing for Richard Pryor and *Saturday Night Live*, creating *In Living Color''s* Homey D. Clown and *Chappelle''s Show''s* Negrodamus, or performing stand-up to sold-out crowds around the country -- he''s been provocative, incisive, and always absolutely hilarious.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *Black Is the New White* is an unapologetically candid memoir from a talent whose influence has ranged far wider than his fame -- mostly by his own design. As head writer for *The Richard Pryor Show*, he helped tear down racial barriers and change the course of comedy. He helped Robin Williams and Sandra Bernhard break into show business. He paved the way for superstars like Eddie Murphy. And at every turn he''s shunned the easy set-up and punch line in favor of comedy that''s indisputably real and raw, reflecting the reality of race issues in America even when it''s generated outrage.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  While other stars soared only to crash and burn, Paul Mooney has stayed chiefly behind the scenes, and he''s got a lifetime of stories to show for it. Few have witnessed as much comedy history as Mooney; even fewer could recount it with such riotous honesty and depth of insight. He reveals the truth about his celebrated partnership with the brilliant, self-destructive Richard Pryor, from their first meeting to the very last joke, and reflects on some of his most notorious moments, including organizing a performers'' strike on the iconic Comedy Store and publicly giving up the n-word in his act after Michael Richards''s onstage outbursts. Decades ago, Paul Mooney set out not just to make audiences laugh but to make them think. *Black Is the New White* is the blisteringly funny, no-holds-barred story of how he continues to succeed wildly at both.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1782'),
(5493, 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia', 'Rebecca West', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca West''s\n  <em>\n   Black Lamb and Grey Falcon\n  </em>\n  is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics, or culture--with, in fact, any other book--is its unashamed depth of feeling: think\n  <strong>\n   crossed with\n  </strong>\n  . West visited Yugoslavia for the first time in 1936. What she saw there affected her so much that she had to return--partly, she writes, because it most resembled "the country I have always seen between sleeping and waking," and partly because "it was like picking up a strand of wool that would lead me out of a labyrinth in which, to my surprise, I had found myself immured."\n  <em>\n   Black Lamb\n  </em>\n  is the chronicle of her travels, but above all it is West following that strand of wool: through countless historical digressions; through winding narratives of battles, slavery, and assassinations; through Shakespeare and Augustine and into the very heart of human frailty.\n </p>\n <p>\n  West wrote on the brink of World War II, when she was "already convinced of the inevitability of the second Anglo-German war." The resulting book is colored by that impending conflict, and by West''s search for universals amid the complex particulars of Balkan history. In the end, she saw the region''s doom--and our own--in a double infatuation with sacrifice, the "black lamb and grey falcon" of her title. It''s the story of Abraham and Isaac without the last-minute reprieve: those who hate are all too ready to martyr the innocent in order to procure their own advantage, and the innocent themselves are all too eager to be martyred. To West, in 1941, "the whole world is a vast Kossovo, an abominable blood-logged plain." Unfortunately, little has happened since then to prove her wrong.\n  <em>\n   --Mary Park\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A masterpiece . . . as astonishing in its range, in the subtlety and power of its judgment, as it is brilliant in expression. (_The Times_, London)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Surely one of the great books of our century. (Diana Trilling)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rebecca Westâ€™s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time. (Clifton Fadiman,\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2173'),
(5494, 'Black List', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Brad Thor comes his most explosive thriller yet. Packed with action, intrigue, and sublime plotting, "Black List "is the ultimate tale of deception in a world where--even in death--secrets can no longer be kept.Somewhere, deep inside the United States government, is a deadly list. Members of Congress never get to see it and only the president has the final say over it. Once your name is on the list, it doesn''t come off...until you''re dead. Someone has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath''s name to the list. Somehow, Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to untangle who has framed him for treason and why they want him out of the way. Somewhere...Someone...Somehow...can put all the pieces together. The only question is--will Harvath get to that person before the United States comes under the most withering domestic terrorist attack ever conceived?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3824'),
(5495, 'Black Magic Sanction', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison''s most complex and nuanced adventure yet, bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan fights a deadly battleâ€”mind, body, and soul   Black Magic Sanction   Rachel Morgan has fought and hunted vampires, werewolves, banshees, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both witch and bounty hunterâ€”and lived to tell the tale. But she''s never faced off against her own kind . . . until now. Denounced and shunned for dealing with demons and black magic, her best hope is life imprisonmentâ€”at worst, a forced lobotomy and genetic slavery. Only her enemies are strong enough to help her win her freedom, but trust comes hard when it hinges on the unscrupulous tycoon Trent Kalamack, the demon Algaliarept, and an ex-boyfriend turned thief.   It takes a witch to catch a witch, but survival bears a heavy price.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3400'),
(5496, 'Black Market', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The title refers to a national state of economic disaster after terrorists bomb strategic Wall Street sites. It also alludes to the sale of billions of dollars'' worth of stolen securities, a scheme intended to cripple the United States financially. These events are made credible by the masterful storytelling of Edgar Award winner Patterson. Short, tight chapters that shift rapidly among the fascinating cast of characters successfully raise doubts about who''s good and who''s not as the suspense mounts. Several action scenes are rather violent and a bit gory, but they pass quickly in this fast-paced page turner. There are also some genuinely touching moments. Highly recommended. Will Hepfer, SUNY at Buffalo Libs.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''The action is fast and furious'' Wall Street Journal. ''A tough, twisting tale.'' New York Daily News. ''Patterson brilliantly explores dark crevices of the aberrant mind and lets us soar and dip with rollercoaster thrills.'' Anne Rule\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/478'),
(5497, 'Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within', 'Elif Shafak', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An acclaimed Turkish novelist''s personal account of balancing a writer''s life with a mother''s life.   After the birth of her first child in 2006, Turkish writer Elif Shafek suffered from postpartum depression that triggered a profound personal crisis. Infused with guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment about whether she could ever be a good mother, Shafak stopped writing and lost her faith in words altogether. In this elegantly written memoir, she retraces her journey from free-spirited, nomadic artist to dedicated by emotionally wrought mother. Identifying a constantly bickering harem of women who live inside of her, each with her own characteristics-the cynical intellectual, the goal-oriented go-getter, the practical-rational, the spiritual, the maternal, and the lustful-she craves harmony, or at least a unifying identity. As she intersperses her own experience with the lives of prominent authors such as Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, Ayn Rand, and Zelda Fitzgerald, Shafak looks for a solution to the inherent conflict between artistic creation and responsible parenting.  With searing emotional honesty and an incisive examination of cultural mores within patriarchal societies, Shafak has rendered an important work about literature, motherhood, and spiritual well-being.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1785'),
(5498, 'Black Notice', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The postmortem is in--_Black Notice_, the 10th in Patricia Cornwell''s\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite her personal problems, Scarpetta is still the reigning diva at the department of death. She is sent to investigate the putrefied remains of a man found inside a container ship, "eyes bulged froglike, and the scalp and beard were sloughing off with the outer layer of darkening skin." Kay finds strange, animal-like hairs on the man''s clothing--the same hairs that she discovers on a murdered store clerk a few days later. In actuality, the bizarre killings extend well beyond Virginia; whoever killed the Richmond victims also butchered people in France. Kay and police captain Pete Marino are whisked off to Paris where they must collect top-secret information from a Paris morgue, and avoid becoming victims themselves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This macabre tome is the stuff that classic Scarpetta tales are made of: creepy but compulsive autopsy scenes, plentiful plot twists, and the compelling, if slightly more vulnerable chief medical examiner herself.\n  <em>\n   --Naomi Gesinger\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s like a splash of cold water on a hot day to be plunged, after the irritating third-person satire of Cornwell''s last novel, Southern Cross (1998), back into the bracing narration of medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. As in the nine Scarpettas past (Point of Origin, etc.), here it''s not the novel''s events, startling as they are, that propel the story so much as the deep-hearted responses of Kay, as real a hero as any in thriller fiction, to the "evil"Aher wordAthat threatens. Evil wears several faces here, from petty to monstrous. Most insidious is the office sabotageAinsubordination, thefts, fraudulent e-mailsAthat''s making the grieving Kay look as if she''s lost her grip since her lover''s murder in Point of Origin. More destructive are the overt attempts by calculating Richmond, Va., deputy police chief Diane Bray to ruin Kay''s career as well as that of Kay''s old friend, Capt. Pete Marino. Then there''s the wild rage at life that''s consuming Kay''s niece, a DEA agent. FinallyAthe plot wire that binds the sometimes scattered plotAthere are the mutilation killings by the French serial killer self-styled "Loup-Garou"Awerewolf. The forensic sequences boom with authority; the brief action sequences explode on the pageAin the finale, overbearingly so; the interplay between Kay and Marino is boisterous as always, and there''s an atmospheric sidetrip to Paris and an affecting romantic misadventure for lonely Kay. A thunderhead of disquietude hangs over this compulsively readable novel, sometimes loosing storms of suspense; but to Cornwell''s considerable credit, the unease arises ultimately not from the steady potential for violence, but from a more profound horror: the vulnerability of a good woman like Kay to a world beset by the corrupt, the cruel, the demonic. One million first printing; $750,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club and Mystery Guild main selections; unabridged and abridged audio versions; foreign rights sold in eight countries.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3029'),
(5499, 'Black Ops', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ** W.E.B. Griffin always hits the target-right at the top of the bestseller lists... **\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  W.E.B. Griffin''s explosive Presidential Agent novels have gained worldwide acclaim for "leaving satisfied thriller readers hankering for more."\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now, in Griffin''s latest #1 *New York Times* bestseller, the Russian bear is stirring after many years of hibernation-and it is hungry.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/480'),
(5500, 'Black Sun', 'Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œSizzles with tension and twists.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Steve Berry, author of\n  <strong>\n   The Paris Vendetta\n  </strong>\n  , on\n  <strong>\n   Black Rain\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  â€œA terrific read . . . smart, intelligent, and poised to shake up the whole thriller community. I loved it.â€â€”Linwood Barclay, author of\n  <em>\n   Never Look Away\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œArmchair travel for the adrenaline set . . . Brown infuses nonstop action with spiritual, scientific, and ideological elements without ever pausing for breath.â€\n   <br />\n   â€”Sophie Littlefield, author of\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   A Bad Day for Sorry\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n  <h3>\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Graham Brown is also the author of\n  <strong>\n   Black Rain\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Black Sun\n  </strong>\n  . A pilot and an attorney, he lives with his wife, Tracey, in Tucson, Arizona.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/569'),
(5501, 'Black Water Rising', 'Attica Locke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Houston lawyer Jay Porter responds to pressure from his wife and jumps into the bayou to rescue a drowning white woman during a birthday dinner cruise he''d planned, he has no idea of the hell he''s about to enter. There''s a murder nearby that same night. Jay suspects that the drowning woman was involved. Ominous threats convince him that it''s bigger than just a simple murder and that the players go all the way to the top of Houston''s business and political elite. Only by facing down the racially charged past that''s been haunting him for years can Jay find it in himself to overcome his longstanding belief in keeping quiet instead of speaking up. Despite a slow start and a measured pace that fail to give the narrative the expected intensity, Locke''s debut thriller ends in a satisfying whirlwind of drama. Deftly exploring social and economic themes during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, she balances Jay''s current situation with flashbacks to his past as a student activist fighting for racial equality. Readers who enjoy Stephen Carter''s thrillers (e.g., The Emperor of Ocean Park) will want to try. [Screenwriter Locke is currently working on an HBO miniseries about the Civil Rights Movement.Ed.]Amy Brozio-Andrews, Albany P.L., NY Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2848'),
(5502, 'Black Widow', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A cult of death. A weapon of apocalyptic horror. Juan Cabrillo must stop them both. THE Ã‚â€œFASCINATINGÃ‚â€( BOOKLIST) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Some women you love. Some women you hate. Some women you survive.Doc Ford is drawn into a deadly battle when his goddaughter Shay is blackmailed. Someone filmed her at an out-of-control bachelorette partyÃ‚â€”and they want big money to keep it quiet. When Ford investigates, he finds that the woman responsible is an agent of corruption unlike any Ford has ever encountered before. And she may be the last encounter he ever has.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3522'),
(5503, 'Black Wind', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  About halfway through this rip-snorting adventure thriller, a "white-haired man" rescues heroes Dirk Pitt Jr. and his sister, Summer, from death by drowning. That man is revealed to be author Cussler (\n  <em>\n   Trojan Odyssey\n  </em>\n  , etc.), reminding Dirk of "an older version of his own father," legendary oceanographer Dirk Pitt, hero of Cussler''s previous novels. Just as the primary action baton is passed in this tale from Pitt Sr. to Jr., readers may note that Cussler''s coauthor is his own son. But even if Cussler is beginning to pass on his writing baton, he''s doing so with panache: thriller fans will revel in this action-packed yarn of land- and sea-based derring-do stuffed with technical details on matters from biochemical weapons "chimeras" to rocket launches. The villain is a South Korean industrialist working for the North Koreans with an eye toward unifying Korea by ridding the country of American troops, allowing for an invasion of the South. His plan is to aim a sea-borne rocket filled with a combo of deadly viruses at Los Angeles, with clues laying blame on Japanese terrorists, thus distracting America while the North makes its move. But villain and modus operandi matter less than the series of exciting hairbreadth escapes wrought by Dirks Jr. and Sr. and Summerâ€”including Dirk Sr.''s escape from being poached alive in a minisub trapped underneath massive rocket boosters spewing an inferno of flames. There''s a slight, nasty gloss of "yellow peril" on the villain and his actions, and it''s only the Americans who greet likely death with a grin and a quip, but that''s a minor knock on some major entertainment that''s bound toward the top of the charts.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€“Two Japanese submarines loaded with deadly chimera virus head for the west coast of the United States during the waning days of World War II but are sunk before ever endangering the coast. Sixty years later, South Korean industrialist Kang learns of their whereabouts and tests the deadly potion on some animals and a few people in Alaska. When the death reports start coming in, research sends Dirk Pitt, the younger; his sister; his crew from NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency); Dirk Pitt, the elder; and other forces on a race against time to prevent Kang from unleashing the virus. He dreams of creating a frenzy of blame between the countries for such an attack even as he takes joy in the fact that hundreds of thousands of Americans would die in agony. The Cusslers provide a high tide of ocean-based adventure and creepy bad guys. Featuring plenty of intense action, the plot fairly runs across the pages, with even the quieter moments full of intrigue. Lots of historical facts and science thread their way into the story, giving it a sense of realism. Filled with submarines, technical discussions on all sorts of ocean machinery, and some facts about chimera viruses, the novel provides some basic knowledge of bioterrorism. As always, the Pitts remain steadfast and true leaders, and the story leaves readers eager for their next adventure.\n  <em>\n   â€“Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1210'),
(5504, 'Blackwater: The Rise of the World&#39;s Most Powerful Mercenary Army', 'Jeremy Scahill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty-thousand troops at the ready, Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the ''global war on terror''- yet most people have never heard of it. It was the moment the war turned; on march 31, 2004, four Americans were ambushed and burned near their jeeps by an angry mob in the Sunni stronghold of Falluja. Their charred corpses were hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River. The ensuing slaughter by U.S. troops would fuel the fierce Iraqi resistance that haunts occupation forces to this day. But these men were neither American military nor civilians. They were highly trained private soldiers sent to Iraq by a secretive mercenary company based in the wilderness of North Carolina. ''Blackwater; the rise of the world''s most powerful mercenary army is the unauthorized story of the epic rise of one of the most powerful and secretive forces to emerge from the U.S. military-industrial complex, hailed by the Bush administration as a revolution in military affairs, but considered by others as a dire threat to American democracy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3867'),
(5505, 'Blasphemy', 'Douglas Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The world''s biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself.&amp; The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world''s most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini black hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of Heaven?&amp; Twelve scientists under the leadership of Hazelius are sent to the remote mountain to turn it on, and what they discover must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and CIA operative, is tapped to wrest their secret, a secret that will either destroy the world...or save it.&amp; The countdown begins...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3359'),
(5506, 'Blaze', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clayton Blaze Blazedell Jr.''s chance for a normal life ended when his father repeatedly threw him down a flight of stairs. After finishing his adolescence in an orphanage, the large man with a striking dent in his forehead plays sidekick to George, a social deviant with a knack for cons. However, when George is killed, Blaze must come up with a con of his own. With George''s ghost to guide him, Blaze just might pull it off. Stephen King''s last novel under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman has all the classic markings of the auteur, but is marred even before it starts by King''s introduction, where he almost apologizes for publishing the book. Having narrated several King books already, McLarty already knows the author''s syntax. His raspy but gentle narration provides a familiar and comforting voice for King fans. His rasp lightens up when delivering the slow-witted Blaze, but then deepens for George''s scratchy voice. His old-timer Maine accents also produce a smile, when not evoking mental images of grizzled old semitoothed men.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Blazeâ€”Clayton Blaisdell Jr.â€”is a big dummy, very big: six-seven, 270. But not exactly very dumb. He was a smart little boy until his drunken father threw him downstairs three times in a row. He relearned to read a bit, mostly comic books,Â but wasÂ thereafter an otherwise learning-challenged ward of the stateÂ with a horrendous dent in his forehead. Now a mid-twentiesÂ adult, he has just lostÂ his bosom buddy and partner in petty cons, George, who still speaks to him somehow, especially about the big score, the one to retire on.Â Blaze realizes that GeorgeÂ isn''t really haunting him; in fact, Blaze possesses an excellent, though highly selective, memory. In honor of George, he decides to do the big one, the kidnapping of a wealthy couple''s baby. He succeeds, albeitÂ imperfectly enough that the state cops and FBI know whodunit within a day, and he surprises himself by bonding with the infant, which for readers makes the hunt for Blaze an Alfred Hitchcockâ€“likeÂ exercise in moralÂ ambivalence. It''s impossible not to root for Blaze, especially since Bachman flashes back copiously and with maximal sympathy to the damaged man''s past. Stephen King, who "buried" Bachman in 1985, here revamps a 1973 manuscript by his alter ego thatÂ he says isÂ something ofÂ an homage to James T. Farrell, Jim Thompson, andÂ Steinbeck''s Of Mice and Men. Powerful and moving, it''s a worthy tribute, especially to Steinbeck. Olson, Ray\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/818'),
(5507, 'Bleachers', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Bleachers\n </em>\n John Grisham departs again from the legal thriller to experiment with a character-driven tale of reunion, broken high school dreams, and missed chances. While the book falls short of the compelling storytelling that has made Grisham a bestselling author, it is nonetheless a diverting novella that succeeds as light fiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story centers on the impending death of the Messina Spartans'' football coach Eddie Rake. One of the most victorious coaches in high school football history, Rake is a man both loved and feared by his players and by a town that relishes his 13 state titles. The hero of the novel is Neely Crenshaw, a former Rake All-American whose NFL prospects ended abruptly after a cheap shot to the knees. Neely has returned home for the first time in years to join a nightly vigil for Rake at the Messina stadium. Having wandered through life with little focus since his college days, he struggles to reconcile his conflicted feelings towards his former coach, and he assays to rekindle love in the ex-girlfriend he abandoned long ago. For Messina and for Neely, the homecoming offers the prospect of building a life after Rake.\n</p>\n<p>\n Physically a narrow book,\n <em>\n  Bleachers\n </em>\n is a modest fiction in many respects. The emotional scope is akin to that of a short story, with a single-minded focus on explorations of nostalgia and regret. The dialogue, especially that of Neely''s friend Paul Curry, is sometimes wooden as characters recall Messina history in paragraphs that were perhaps better left to the narrator. But Grisham has otherwise written a well-made, entertaining--if a bit sentimental--story.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grisham demonstrated he could produce bestsellers without legal aid with The Painted House and Skipping Christmas, and he''ll undoubtedly do so again with this slight but likable novel of high school football, a legendary coach and the perils of too early fame. Fifteen years after graduation, Neely Crenshaw, one-time star quarterback of the Messina Spartans, returns home on hearing news of the impending death of tough-as-nails coach Eddie Rake. Neely knows the score: "When you''re famous at eighteen, you spend the rest of your life fading away." It''s a lesson he''s learned the hard way after destroying his knee playing college ball and drifting through life in an ever-downward spiral. He and his former teammates sit in the bleachers at the high school stadium waiting for Rake to die, drinking beer and reminiscing. There is a mystery involving the legendary ''87 championship, and Neely has unfinished business with an old high school sweetheart, but neither story line comes to much. Readers will guess the solution to the mystery, as does the town police chief when it''s divulged to him (" `We sorta figured it out,'' said Mal") and Neely''s former girlfriend doesn''t want to have anything to do with his protestations of love ("You''ll get over it. Takes about ten years"). The stirring funeral scene may elicit a few tears, but Neely''s eulogy falls curiously flat. After living through four hard days in Messina, the lessons Neely learns are unremarkable ("Those days are gone now"). Many readers will come away having enjoyed the time spent, but wishing there had been a more sympathetic lead character, more originality, more pages, more story and more depth.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1261'),
(5508, 'Bleeding Hearts', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A page-turning novel of assassins and double-crossing from the master of modern mystery, Ian Rankin. Michael Weston is a gun for hire. He''s paid well to do his job and ask no questions. But after successfully assassinating a TV reporter, the cops are quickly on his tail. How did they know how to find him? And who is his anonymous employer? Why did he or she want the reporter dead in the first place? Was he set up to be caught and thrown in jail? The answers may lie with Hoffer, a private detective who has been hunting him for years--ever since Michael dispatched a bullet and accidentally hit an innocent young American girl. Her grieving father has kept Hoffer on retainer and on a mission to bring Weston to justice no matter what the cost. Could Hoffer have finally trapped him? The only way Michael can stay ahead of the police is to find his mysterious employer and figure out who has been playing him like a puppet on strings--or he may find himself on the other end of the rifle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/481');
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(5509, 'The Blessings of the Animals', 'Katrina Kittle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cam Anderson is a fixer. As a small-town veterinarian, she ministers to the usual parade of household pets, and as an animal-rescue volunteer she liberates abused horses, abandoned donkeys, stray goats. The one thing Cam canâ€™t salvage is her marriage. The morning her temperamental husband tells her heâ€™s leaving her, sheâ€™s dumbfounded. The afternoon she catches him in the arms of a much younger woman, sheâ€™s devastated. And the fact that everyone around her seems to be rejoicing in their own relationships isnâ€™t helping. Her best friend is engaged; her parents are celebrating their fiftieth anniversary; her gay brother and his partner are adopting. Though she turns to both an old friend and a new acquaintance to help her learn to trust her heart again, Cam ultimately discovers that her menagerie of maltreated critters are her most reliable instructors. With subtle yet shimmering insight, Kittle explores the resilience of human nature and the indelible role animals play in healing shattered emotions. --Carol Haggas\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œWonderfully poignant characters and a deeply satisfying exploration of love in its many incarnations, some of them a bit furrier than others, make this novel Katrina Kittleâ€™s most insightful yet. Donâ€™t miss it!â€ (Lesley Kagen, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow River )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/912'),
(5510, 'Blind Faith', 'C. J. Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Blind Faith\n </em>\n by\n <strong>\n  CJ Lyons had five stars written all over it from the moment I started reading.Â Â \n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n This is a great novel, and I would definitely recommend\n <strong>\n  CJ Lyons\n </strong>\n and her thrillers to readers.\n <em>\n  --chicklitplus.com/blind-faith-cj-lyons/\n  <br />\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TOP PICK!\n </strong>\n "This story is so fast paced with so many mesmerizing characters, "fantastic" is not high enough praise. Lyons proves once again that she is a master of suspense and nontraditional romance."\n <em>\n  ~RT Book Reviews\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sparks and Synchronicity\n </strong>\n <br />\n <br />\n Ever wonder where writers get their ideas?Â  For me it''s usually from very ordinary places--except that my mind seems to file things away and then retrieve them in wonderful new combinations.\n <br />\n <br />\n It all starts with the ability to keep asking "what if."\n <br />\n <br />\n For instance, BLIND FAITH, began with a newspaper story.Â  A woman traveling along I-80, searching for the graves of her two children.Â  Her ex-husband had kidnapped the children and confessed to killing them but didn''t pinpoint the site where he buried them before he killed himself.Â  Her need for closure, her quest to bring her babies home was clear even in the grainy photo that accompanied the story.\n <br />\n <br />\n Wow.Â  I couldn''t stop thinking about her and her odyssey. As a pediatrician I work with families dealing with death and near-death on a frequent basis, but this woman''s story really touched a chord in me.Â  I have had a too-close association with violent death in my own life as well, so I understood first hand how grief could push a person into such a passionate pursuit for the truth.\n <br />\n <br />\n I also wondered at the ultimate betrayal her ex-husband, a man who presumably once loved her and his children, had wrought.Â  What could drive a person to do that, to destroy their family?\n <br />\n <br />\n I followed her story in our local small town newspaper.Â  Then Katrina hit.Â  Another big wow!Â  Yes, the death and destruction was devastating in its enormity.Â  But what I couldn''t stop thinking about was the number of children separated from their families, torn away from everyplace and everyone they knew.\n <br />\n <br />\n Through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children I learned that there were over 4800 kids reported missing, a good portion of whom were identified and reunited with their families thanks to the good people at the NCMEC.\n <br />\n <br />\n Then I heard about all the sexual predators who also fled from New Orleans--most of whom were still at large.Â  Combine this with the images of over-crowded, under-policed shelters and the ideas began to coalesce.\n <br />\n <br />\n What if....what if a woman is called upon to witness the execution of the serial killer who has confessed to killing her husband and son?Â  What if he dies without telling her where he has buried them?\n <br />\n <br />\n That''s all I had when I began writing BLIND FAITH--quite frankly it''s more than I usually have!Â Â  I knew it would be a dark, edgy novel, filled with betrayals and intrigues.Â  A novel where nothing could be taken for granted, where no one was the person they appeared to be.Â  Where dark secrets would be unearthed and the lives of every character would be forever changed.Â  But also an uplifting novel of courage and strength and perseverance, and most of all, revealing that we each have the power to choose.Â  To choose to have faith, to choose to love, to choose to forgive.\n <br />\n <br />\n I didn''t know the ending until I was around 300 pages into it.Â  But that''s what I love about writing, the surprise of seeing what will happen next.Â  I find this journey of discovery the most exciting part of writing, those days when every scene I write unveils another piece of the puzzle.\n <br />\n <br />\n It all begins with a spark fueled by small intersections of serendipitous happenings.Â  That and asking, "what if?"\n <br />\n <br />\n Thanks for reading!\n <br />\n CJ\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/661'),
(5511, 'The Blind Side', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n As he did so memorably for baseball in\n <em>\n  Moneyball\n </em>\n , Lewis takes a statistical X-ray of the hidden substructure of football, outlining the invisible doings of unsung players that determine the outcome more than the showy exploits of point scorers. In his sketch of the gridiron arms race, first came the modern, meticulously choreographed passing offense, then the ferocious defensive pass rusher whose bone-crunching quarterback sacks demolished the best-laid passing game, and finally the rise of the left tackleâ€”the offensive lineman tasked with protecting the quarterback from the pass rusherâ€”whose presence is felt only through the game-deciding absence of said sacks. A rare creature combining 300 pounds of bulk with "the body control of a ballerina," the anonymous left tackle, Lewis notes, is now often a team''s highest-paid player. Lewis fleshes this out with the colorful saga of left tackle prodigy Michael Oher. An intermittently homeless Memphis ghetto kid taken in by a rich white family and a Christian high school, Oher''s preternatural size and agility soon has every college coach in the country courting him obsequiously. Combining a tour de force of sports analysis with a piquant ethnography of the South''s pigskin mania, Lewis probes the fascinating question of whether football is a matter of brute force or subtle intellect. Photos.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n As in\n <em>\n  Moneyball\n </em>\n (\n <strong>\n  July/Aug 2003), which chronicled the strategies behind the Oakland A''s general manager Billy Beane, Berkeley-based author Michael Lewis takes a personal look at a complicated game in his newest nonfiction extravaganza. Just as they embraced\n  <em>\n   Moneyball\n  </em>\n  , critics eagerly wrap their arms around\n  <em>\n   The Blind Side\n  </em>\n  . It''s much more than a treatise on football; it''s an exploration of the limits of conventional thinking and how strategic changes affect the value of quick-footed behemoths. However, while most reviewers are positive, something holds them back. Maybe Lewis makes it all look too easy. Or perhaps, as\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  charges, he takes the easy route through a complicated set of stories. That he makes it easy for his reader to comprehendâ€”and enjoyâ€”is enough for most critics to give Lewis''s latest a rousing cheer.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1126'),
(5512, 'The Blind Spy', 'Alex Dryden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The brilliant new international thriller by the modern spy master. Russiaâ€™s intentions are aggressive. They want to control more of Europe. The Kremlin is threatening to invade Ukraine, a country vital to the Westâ€™s oil and gas supplies. On the ground, in the seething pit of rumour and fear that is the city of Odessa, on the shore of the Black Sea, two top secret agents are searching for ways to prevent the horrors of invasion and war. Anna Resnikov, ex KGB, and Logan Patterson must negotiate the knife-edge of diplomacy and intimidation that pervades every corner of every street, cafÃ© and back ally. They need information, the gold currency of espionage. The CIA is exerting heavy muscle and MI6 is influencing hearts and minds and both have their own agendas. Are there assassins on Anna and Loganâ€™s tail? And will they get to them before they uncover the identity of the deep, deep throat, known as the Blind Spy, who seems to have all the answers?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/653'),
(5513, 'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blink\n  </em>\n  is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of\n  <em>\n   The Tipping Point\n  </em>\n  , campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell''s ideas about what Blink Camp might look like.\n  <em>\n   --Barbara Mackoff\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Best-selling author Gladwell (\n  <em>\n   The Tipping Point\n  </em>\n  ) has a dazzling ability to find commonality in disparate fields of study. As he displays again in this entertaining and illuminating look at how we make snap judgmentsâ€”about people''s intentions, the authenticity of a work of art, even military strategyâ€”he can parse for general readers the intricacies of fascinating but little-known fields like professional food tasting (why\n  <em>\n   does\n  </em>\n  Coke taste different from Pepsi?). Gladwell''s conclusion, after studying how people make instant decisions in a wide range of fields from psychology to police work, is that we can make better instant judgments by training our mind and senses to focus on the most relevant factsâ€”and that less input (as long as it''s the right input) is better than more. Perhaps the most stunning example he gives of this counterintuitive truth is the most expensive war game ever conducted by the Pentagon, in which a wily marine officer, playing "a rogue military commander" in the Persian Gulf and unencumbered by hierarchy, bureaucracy and too much technology, humiliated American forces whose chiefs were bogged down in matrixes, systems for decision making and information overload. But if one sets aside Gladwell''s dazzle, some questions and apparent inconsistencies emerge. If doctors are given an algorithm, or formula, in which only four facts are needed to determine if a patient is having a heart attack, is that really educating the doctor''s decision-making abilityâ€”or is it taking the decision out of the doctor''s hands altogether and handing it over to the algorithm? Still, each case study is satisfying, and Gladwell imparts his own evident pleasure in delving into a wide range of fields and seeking an underlying truth.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1033'),
(5514, 'Blockade Billy', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A quirky baseball player with a past shrouded in secrecy is the tragic hero of this macabre tale from the dark side of the all-American sport. In the voice of George Granny Grantham, retired third-base coach of the New Jersey Titans, King (\n <em>\n  Under the Dome\n </em>\n ) recalls the spring of 1957, when Billy Blakely, a catcher called up from the Titans'' Iowa farm system, helped to boost the team out of the basement and add some excitement to the national pastime. Billy hits with such power and guards the plate with such determination (hence his eponymous nickname) that teammates are willing to forgive such eccentricities as his frequently addressing himself in the third person, or bloodying runners who collide with him. Of course, these kinks are clues to a shocking pathology that King coaxes out in a narrative steeped so perfectly in the argot of the game and the behavior of its players and fans that readers will willingly suspend their disbelief. As King''s fiction goes, this suspenseful short is a deftly executed suicide squeeze, with sharp spikes hoisted high and aimed at the jugular on the slide home.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reviewers tended to dismiss\n <em>\n  Blockade Billy\n </em>\n when they compared it to the sum of King''s oeuvre, but they appreciated the book as a better-than-usual attempt to fictionalize the world of baseball. Readers with a more nostalgic take on the game will particularly enjoy King''s evocation of the way it was played in 1957. And baseball-stats wonks will likely salivate over the mystery of what event could be so horrible that the Majors would efface the scorecard for all time. But other readers may wish to start with one of King''s classics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/823'),
(5515, 'Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith&#39;s Death', 'Rita Cosby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n YOU PROBABLY THINK YOU KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW.\n</p>\n<p>\n ANNA NICOLE SMITH LOST HER SON.\n</p>\n<p>\n SHE ACCIDENTALLY OVERDOSED. SHE WAS A DRUG ADDICT.\n</p>\n<p>\n YOU DON''T KNOW A THING...\n</p>\n<p>\n She was famous for being famous-Americana at its Scarlet Letter-wearing best. A bodacious young girl from Texas, Anna remade herself into the centerfold of the world. She was a "dumb blonde," a stripper, a Playboy Playmate, who boldly took her case against her billionaire husband''s family all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her tragic life and untimely death evoke an odd mix of fascination, shock, and dismay. And through it all, there still exists a voracious thirst to discover more about who she actually was...and how she\n <em>\n  really\n </em>\n died.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a book that is sure to surprise even the most avid pop culture junkies, Rita Cosby blows the lid off this astounding story. After an in-depth investigation, this is the definitive journalistic account of the Anna Nicole Smith saga-with unearthed secrets and explosive, never-before-told information.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n An Emmy-award winning journalist, Rita Cosby hosted the top-rated show on MSNBC, "Rita Cosby: Live &amp; Direct." She also hosted Fox New Channel''s highly rated programs, "Fox News Live with Rita Cosby" and "The Big Story Weekend Edition with Rita Cosby." Some of her groundbreaking interviews include: an exclusive interview with Slobodan Milosevic while he was imprisoned at The Hague; an exclusive interview with Yasser Arafat when his compound was under siege; she was the first journalist to see the suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo and witness an actual interrogation; and a rare, private meeting with Pope John Paul II after receiving an exclusive letter from Timothy McVeigh explaining why he carried out the Oklahoma City bombing. Having interviewed more than a dozen world leaders and four US Presidents, she also made headlines for her interviews with Michael Jackson, David Berkowitz and Dr. Jack Kevorkian. She has been a featured guest on hundreds of television and radio shows worldwide and earned her two bachelors'' degrees from the University of South Carolina.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1786'),
(5516, 'Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism', 'Michael Burleigh', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Burleigh (_Earthly Powers_), one of the leading English-language scholars of the role of ideas in the modern world, makes another major contribution in this pull-no-punches cultural study of terrorism as it has been lived and practiced for a century and a half. Burleigh sees modern terrorism''s roots in the midâ€“19th century, with the emergence of the Irish Fenians, the Russian nihilists, the Western anarchists who used fear induced by violence to compensate for their lack of political power. Their tactics were adopted in the midâ€“20th century by movements seeking decolonization, like the Palestinian Black September, Italy''s Red Brigades and Germany''s Red Army Faction. By century''s end, terrorism further mutated into a tool for marginalized local nations like the Basques. Most recently, terrorism has become identified with what Burleigh calls the world rage of Islamism. Burleigh''s case studies demonstrate mercilessly that terrorism is a career, a culture, and a way of life attractive for its own sake as well as its ostensible objectives. The terrorist milieu, the author demonstrates convincingly, is morally squalid, intellectually bankrupt and politically barren. Burleigh considers the lessons history has to teach us, though he eschews policy recommendations.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sweeping and deeply penetrating work, distinguished historian Michael Burleigh explores the nature of terrorism from its origins in the West to the current global threat fueled by fundamentalists. Burleigh takes us from the roots of terrorism in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Russian Nihilists, and the London-based anarchists of Black International to the various terrorist campaigns that exist today. He also explores the lives of people engaged in careers of political violence and those who are most affected by the scourge of terrorism. Authoritative, illuminating, and masterfully written,\n <em>\n  Blood and Rage\n </em>\n sheds an unflinching light on the global threat that we are likely to face for decades to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2174'),
(5517, 'Blood and Thunder', 'Hampton Sides', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although delivering little in the way of new information, Sides, an\n <em>\n  Outside\n </em>\n magazine editor-at-large and bestselling author (\n <em>\n  Ghost Soldiers\n </em>\n ), eloquently paints the landscape and history of the 19th-century Southwest, combining Larry McMurtry''s lyricism with the historian''s attachment to facts. Inevitably, Sides''s main focus is the virtual decimation of the Navajo nation from the 1820s to the late 1860s. Sides depicts the complex role of whites in the subjugation of the Navajos through his portrait of Kit Carsonâ€”an illiterate trapper, soldier and scout who knew the Native Americans intimately, married two of them and, without blinking, participated in the Indians'' slaughter. Books about Carson have been numerous, but Sides is better than most Carson biographers in setting his exploits against a larger backdrop: the unstoppable idea of manifest destiny. Of course, as counterpoint to the progress of Carson and other whites, Sides details the fierce but doomed defense mounted by the Navajos over long decades. This culminated in their final, desperate "stand" during 1863 at Canyon de Chelly, more than a decade after a contingent of federal troopsâ€”operating under a commander whose last name of "Washington" seems ironic in this contextâ€”killed their great leader, Narbona.\n <em>\n  (Oct. 3)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hampton Sides''s\n <em>\n  Blood and Thunder\n </em>\n is more ambitious in its sweep than his acclaimed\n <em>\n  Ghost Wars\n </em>\n (2001), a World War II history. His recounting of harsh frontier life and the violent clashes among the Navajo, the Spanish (Mexican), and the U.S. Army offers a gripping epic while enlivening many of the era''s remarkable figures, from soldiers to trappers, farmers, Indians, and pioneer women. Critics especially praised Sides''s nuanced discussions of the Navajo and other Native American tribes, as well as his inclusion of maps that chart key routes and conquests. A few critics cited some factual errors, tangential discussions, and omissions of some key historical figures, but overall it''s clear that "Sides knows how to tell a good story" (\n <em>\n  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\n </em>\n ).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2175'),
(5518, 'Blood Dreams', 'Kay Hooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the daughter of a powerful U.S. senator becomes the latest victim of a bloodthirsty serial killer, FBI agent Noah Bishop and his Special Crimes Unit must join forces with a rogue civilian agency, structured much like Bishop''s team of psychics and originally founded by Bishop as a privately funded resource team, to stop the maniac before it is too late. 175,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3369'),
(5519, 'Blood Hunt', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It begins with a phone call. Gordon Reeve''s brother has been found dead in his car in San Diego. The car was locked from the inside, a gun was in his hand. In the US to identify the body Gordon realises that his brother has been murdered. What''s more, it''s soon obvious that his own life is in danger.Once back in Scotland he finds out his home has been bugged by professionals. But Reeve is a professional too. Ex-SAS, he was half of a two-man unit with someone he came to fear, then to hate. It looks like his nemesis is back...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/482'),
(5520, 'Blood Money and Other Stories', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, the incomparable Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America''s nineteenth-century western frontierâ€”elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue.   For every story of inspiring moral courage in America''s untamed West, there''s one of greed and duplicity, of corrupted souls willingly sacrificed to a merciless deity of ill-gotten gold. The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master brings us seven unforgettable western tales of noble stands and cowardly compromisesâ€”and battles of will more devastating than a blazing gunfight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3113'),
(5521, 'Blood Orchid', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chief of Police Holly Barker returns in her third suspenseful adventure-along with her father Ham and Daisy the Doberman. This time, they get introduced to the cutthroat world of Florida real estate...and uncover a scam as dangerous as it is lucrative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2680'),
(5522, 'Blood Sins', 'Kay Hooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Some sins canâ€™t be forgivenâ€¦because some sins no one survives.New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper has touched our darkest fears but none so dark as in her latest thriller. Hereâ€™s a psychopath who lures his victims with a promise no one can resistâ€¦and demands a price no one would knowingly pay.Young, vulnerable, attractive, Tessa Gray made the perfect victim. Which was why Noah Bishop of the FBIâ€™s Special Crimes Unit recruited her to play the role of grieving widow. As the supposed new owner of property coveted by the Church of the Everlasting Sin, sheâ€™d be irresistible bait for the reclusive and charismatic Reverend Samuel. His fortified compound in the mountains near Grace, North Carolina, had been the last known residence of two women murdered in ways that defied scientific explanation.Though hardly as naive or as vulnerable as she appears, Tessa knows she has a lot to learn about using her unique gift. She also knows that Bishop and the SCU have to be desperate to rely on an untried psychic agent in an undercover operation so dangerous. And desperate they are. For the killer theyâ€™re hunting is the most terrifying theyâ€™ve ever faced and shakes even the most seasoned agents: a soulless megalomaniacal cult leader who can use their own weapons, talents, and tactics against them.By entering the cultâ€™s well-guarded compound, Tessa will be exposing herself to the dark magnetism of a psychopath on an apocalyptic crusade of terror that spares no one, not even the youngest victims. And Samuel has protected himself within a fanatically loyal congregation, many of whom occupy surprising positions of power within the community. Even Graceâ€™s chief of police, Sawyer Cavenaughâ€”a man Tessa will have to trust with her lifeâ€”may be unable to protect her. Because no one, not even Tessa herself, can guarantee sheâ€™s strong enough to resistâ€”or powerful enough to battleâ€”a killer whoâ€™s less than human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3349'),
(5523, 'Blood Tears', 'Michael J. Malone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Blood Tears is the first in a series of books featuring DI Ray McBain, a Glasgow detective who has too many friends in the underworld for his own good. A murder case with links to McBainâ€™s childhood in a Catholic orphanage forces him go on the run when he becomes the main suspect. Michael Malone''s novel is Scottish noir at its best â€” Ray McBain is a complex character in a complex situation, where everything leads back to Bethlehem House.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3882'),
(5524, 'Blood Test', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Little Woody Swope was gravely ill. Treatment was possible, if painful. But his parents, members of a bizarre sect called the Touchers, threatened to take him out of hospital. Then Woody was gone. So were the Swopes, leaving their motel suite heavily bloodstained. Enter Alex Delaware, child psychologist, young, burned out and semi-retired. He and his LA cop friend Milo find a heap of suspects - an ageing ex-hippy doctor; a back-country police chief; a male stripper; even Nona, Woody''s sister, a flame-haired Lolita with hate in her eyes and larceny in her soul. But the truth was more bizarre than even Alex could have imagined...Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/747'),
(5525, 'Blood Ties', 'Kay Hooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper takes us to the outer reaches of fear in her latest thriller, as the Special Crimes Unit finds itself targeted by a monster intent on destroying both Noah Bishop and his people.Â Â The elite Special Crimes Unit, the FBIâ€™s most controversial and effective team, is a group of mavericks and misfits trained to use their unique psychic abilities to hunt the worst monsters imaginableâ€”human ones. Led by the enigmatic Noah Bishop, the SCU has earned a reputation for pitting their skills and cunning against killers that other cops fear. But this time Bishop and his agents face an enemy who has them in his sights, a trained sniper with a deadly planâ€”and more than one ace up his sleeve.Â  It starts with an unspeakable series of grisly murders across three states, a trail of blood leading, finally, to the small Tennessee town of Serenade. There, two more brutal killings lure the SCU into what may be the ultimate trap.One of the first investigators on the scene, Special Agent Hollis Templeton, is willing to push herself as hard and as far as necessary. Risking more than her life to help and protect her SCU colleagues, Hollis must cope with her own psychic abilities, which are evolving in unprecedented ways, an attraction to the most complex man sheâ€™s ever known, and a serial murder investigation that turns very, very personal.In her time with the SCU, Hollis has shown an uncanny ability to survive even the deadliest attacks. But what she canâ€™t know is that this killer intends to destroy the team from within. The clock is ticking. The body count is rising. And as Bishop and his agents race to uncover the true identity of their enemy, not even their special senses can warn them just how bloody, and how terrifyingly close, the truth will be.Â From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3523'),
(5526, 'Blood Trust', 'Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It was once said that you must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible . . . Alli Carson has been through her own personal hell. With her father, the President of the United States, recently dead and her mother in a coma from a terrible accident, she has poured herself into her training to become one of the best FBI agents at the Fearington Institute. Her inspiration and solace comes from the one man with whom she has ever felt a kinship, National Security Adviser, Jack McClure. But when Alli becomes the prime suspect in a murder at Fearington, a wide ranging investigation is triggered, involving local homicide detectives,Â  the secret service, the FBI itself, and Alliâ€™s own uncle, the billionaire lobbyist Henry Carson.Â  And yet nothing is what it seems.What follows is a treacherous journey that leads Jack and Alli into a complex web of lies and deceit. Using Jackâ€™s unique gifts to see the through the labyrinth of manipulation, their investigation leads them into the dark heart of the international slave trade, tied to a powerful Albanian crime lord whose ability and influence in global terrorism grows with each day. The two find themselves in the crosshairs of vast global enterprise, one that lurks in the shadows of power and has infiltrated Washington and their lives in ways neither of them could ever have imagined. And hidden deep among it all sits a terrifying criminal mastermind, someone fueled by a hatred that can never be quenched, and a mind that knows neither feeling nor mercy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/671'),
(5527, 'Blood Work', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Connelly has been attracting fans by the droves with his hard-boiled, edgy thrillers. A former crime reporter for the\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  , Connelly combines a poet''s ear for language with a deep understanding of the criminal mind to create dark, dramatic stories that raise the thriller genre to a new level.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Blood Work\n  </em>\n  , Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn''t looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria''s death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb''s chest is Gloria''s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As McCaleb investigates the evidence in the case, the suspected randomness of the crime gives way to an unsettling suspicion of a twisted intelligence behind the murder. Soon McCaleb finds himself on the trail of a killer more horrifying than anything he ever encountered before.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Blood Work is a novel written by Michael Connelly which marks the first appearance of Terry McCaleb. The book was used as the basis for the 2002 movie of the same name, starring Clint Eastwood. Connelly was inspired to write the story by a friend who received an organ transplant. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/483'),
(5528, 'Blood, Bones &amp; Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef', 'Gabrielle Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef\n  </em>\n  , is just what a chef''s story should be--delectable, dripping with flavor, tinged with adrenaline and years of too-little sleep. What sets Hamilton apart, though, is her ability to write with as much grace as vitriol, a distinct tenderness marbling her meaty story. Hamilton spent her idyllic childhood on a wild farm in rural Pennsylvania with an exhilarant father--an artist and set builder--and French mother, both "incredibly special and outrageously handsome." As she entered her teens, however, her family unexpectedly dissolved. She moved to New York City at 16, living off loose change and eating ketchup packets from McDonaldâ€™s; worked 20-hour days at a soulless catering company; traveled, often half-starved, through Europe; and cooked cooked for allergy-riddled children at a summer camp. The constant thread running through this patchwork tale, which culminates with the opening of her New York City restaurant, Prune, is Hamilton''s slow simmering passion for cooking and the comfort it can bring. "To be picked up and fed, often by strangers, when you are in that state of fear and hunger, became the single most important food experience I came back to over and over," Hamilton writes, and it''s this poignant understanding of the link between food and kindness that makes\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter\n  </em>\n  so satisfying to read.\n  <em>\n   --Lynette Mong\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain on\n   <em>\n    Blood, Bones, and Butter\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Anthony Bourdain\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the novels\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  , in addition to the bestseller\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  His work has appeared in the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , and he is a contributing authority for\n  <em>\n   Food Arts\n  </em>\n  magazine. He is also the host of the Emmy Award-winning television show _No Reservations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Very quickly after meeting Gabrielle Hamilton, I understood why she was a terrific and much-admired chef. I knew that her restaurant, Prune, was ground-breaking, that she seemed to have come out of nowhere, instead of being a product of the "system" (she''d emerged from the invisible subculture of catering), to open one of the most quirky, totally uncompromising, and quickly-embraced restaurants in New York City. Her purportedly (but not really) Franco-phobic menus were intensely, notoriously personal, her early embrace of the nose-to-tail attitude was way, way ahead the times, and chefs--all chefs--seemed to like and respect her. Almost as quickly, it became apparent that this chef could write.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Short pieces appeared here and there over the years and they were sharp, funny, incisive, unsparing of both author and subjects--straight to the point and pretense-free, like Hamilton herself. She could write really well. And she had, from all accounts, a story to tell. So when it was announced that\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  was in the works, I was very excited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a long wait.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Five years later, I finally got my hands on an advance copy and eagerly devoured it. It was of course brilliant. I expected it to be. But I wasn''t prepared for exactly how goddamn brilliant the thing was, or how enchanted, difficult, strange, rich, inspiring and just plain hard her life and career--her long road to Prune--had been. I was unprepared for page after page of such sharp, carefully-crafted, ballistically-precise sentences. I was, frankly, devastated. I put this amazing memoir down and wanted to crawl under the bed, retroactively withdraw every book, every page I''d ever written. And burn them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  is, quite simply, the far-and-away best chef or food-genre memoir...ever. EVER. It certainly kicked the hell out of my\n  <em>\n   Kitchen Confidential\n  </em>\n  , which suddenly, in a second, felt shallow, sophomoric and ultimately lightweight next to this...this monster of a book, this--at times--truly hardscrabble lifeâ€¦_Blood, Bones, and Butter_ is deeper, better written, more hardcore, more fully fleshed-out; a more well-rounded story than every sunflower-and-saffron account of soft-core food porn in France. It''s as bullshit and pretense-free as AJ Leibling--and at least as well written, but more poignant, romantic--even thrilling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It makes any "as told to" account of famous chef''s lives look instantly ludicrous and bloodless. I''ve struggled to think of somebody/anybody who''s written a better account of the journey to chefdom and can''t think of anyone who''s come even close.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Writing a memoir of one''s life as a chef--or even writing about one''s relationship with food--has, with the publication of this book, become much more difficult. Hamilton has raised the bar higher than most of us could ever hope to reach. This book will sell a gazillion copies. It will be a bestseller. It will be an enduring classic. It will inspire generation after generation of young cooks, and anyone who really loves food and understands the context in which it is best enjoyed, NOT as some isolated, over-valued object of desire, but as only one important aspect of a larger, richer spectrum of experiences. Each plate of food--like the menu at Prune--is the end result of a long and sometimes very difficult struggle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read this book and prepare to clean your system of all that''s come before. It''s a game-changer and a truly great work by a great writer and great chef.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Owner and chef of New York''s Prune restaurant, Hamilton also happens to be a trained writer (M.F.A., University of Michigan) and fashions an addictive memoir of her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef. The youngest of five siblings born to a French mother who cooked "tails, claws, and marrow-filled bones" in a good skirt, high heels, and apron, and an artist father who made the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Hamilton spent her early years in a vast old house on the rural Pennsylvaniaâ€“New Jersey border. With the divorce of her parents when she was an adolescent, the author was largely left to her own devices, working at odd jobs in restaurants. Peeling potatoes and scraping plates-"And that, just like that, is how a whole life can start." At age 16, in 1981, she got a job waiting tables at New York''s Lone Star Cafe, and when caught stealing another waitress''s check, she was nearly charged with grand larceny. After years of working as a "grunt" freelance caterer and going back to school to learn to write (inspired by a National Book Foundation conference she was catering), Hamilton unexpectedly started up her no-nonsense, comfort-food Prune in a charming space in the East Village in 1999. Hamilton can be refreshingly thorny (especially when it comes to her reluctance to embrace the "foodie" world), yet she is also as frank and unpretentious as her menu-and speaks openly about marrying an Italian man (despite being a lesbian), mostly to cook with his priceless Old World mother in Italy. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1789'),
(5529, 'Bloodlands', 'Timothy Snyder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Americans call the Second World War Â“The Good War.â€ But before it even began, Americaâ€™s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizensÂ—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At warâ€™s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bloodlands\n </em>\n is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive,\n <em>\n  Bloodlands\n </em>\n will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2176'),
(5530, 'Bloodmoney of Espionage', 'David Ignatius', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. [C]ontinues his series of top-notch CIA thrillers with this fast-paced new entryâ€¦. Ignatius writes with authority and skill about a shadow world in which nothing is as it seems and money is power. This may be fiction, but in the end the reader will be struck by how feasible the story really is.... A terrific, believable novel about the intersection of politics, ethics and finance. (Kirkus Reviews)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   From the author of the best-selling\n   <em>\n    Body of Lies\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    The Increment\n   </em>\n   : in a tragedy of revenge, the CIA falls victim to its own daring operation in the Middle East.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA intelligence unit that is trying to buy peace with America''s enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young CIA officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who''s doing the killing and why. Her starting point is Alphabet Capital, the London hedge fund that has been providing cover for this secret operation, but the investigation soon widens to include the capitals of the Middle East and the cruel hills of South Waziristan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sophie thinks she has the backing of her hard-nosed boss, Jeffrey Gertz, and his genial mentor at headquarters, Cyril Hoffman. In addition, she gets help from the well-mannered lieutenant general heading Pakistan''s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate. But the closer Sophie gets to her quarry, the more she realizes that nothing in this gallery of mirrors is quite what it seems. This is a theater of violence and retribution, in which the last act is one that Sophie could not have imagined.\n </p>\n <p>\n  David Ignatius has written a disturbing and compelling novel where the price of unchecked government is paid in blood, and peace can be bought only through betrayal.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/665'),
(5531, 'Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln&#39;s Corpse', 'James L. Swanson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more timeâ€”the Yankees are coming, it warned. Shortly before midnight, Davis boarded a train from Richmond and fled the capital, setting off an intense and thrilling chase in which Union cavalry hunted the Confederate president.   Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime. Lincoln''s murder, autopsy, and White House funeral transfixed the nation. His final journey began when soldiers placed his corpse aboard a special train that would carry him home on the 1,600-mile trip to Springfield. Along the way, more than a million Americans looked upon their martyr''s face, and several million watched the funeral train roll by. It was the largest and most magnificent funeral pageant in American history.   To the Union, Davis was no longer merely a traitor. He became a murderer, a wanted man with a $100,000 bounty on his head. Davis was hunted down and placed in captivity, the beginning of an intense and dramatic odyssey that would transform him into a martyr of the South''s Lost Cause.   The saga that began with Manhunt continues with the suspenseful and electrifying Bloody Crimes. James Swanson masterfully weaves together the stories of two fallen leaders as they made their last expeditions through the bloody landscape of a wounded nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2177'),
(5532, 'Bloody Valentine', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This year Valentine''s Day isn''t for romance. It''s for murder. Mega rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine''s Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder. Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much? There are plenty of suspects living in Jack''s fancy block of flats. Is it them, or could it be the work of an outsider with a twisted mind? One thing''s for sure, the police have got their work cut out solving this bloody mess.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/278');
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(5533, 'Blow Fly', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In ''Blow Fly'', Kay Scarpetta stands at the threshold of a new life after her work as Virginia''s Chief Medical Examiner has come to a jarring end. At the close of The Last Precinct, she knew she would have to leave Richmond if she were to find any peace. She feared that she was about to be fired by the governor. More alarming, she was hounded in the media and in the courtroom, for what some claimed was her involvement in the murder of a deputy police chief. So Scarpetta packed up her belongings and set out for the warmth and solace of the Florida sun. She is settling into a new life as a private forensic consultant and is deep into a case that has left colleagues in Louisiana profoundly disturbed. A woman is found dead in a seedy hotel, dressed to go out, keys in her hand. Her history of blackouts, and her violent outbursts while under their spell, offer more questions than clues about the cause of her death. Then Scarpetta receives news that chills her to the core; Jean-Baptiste Chandonne - the vicious and unrepentant Wolfman, who pursued her to her very doorstep - asks to see her. From his cell on death row, he demands an audience with the legendary Dr. Scarpetta. Only to her will he tell the secrets he knows the authorities desire; the evidence that will bring a global investigation to a swift conclusion. Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, and her colleague Detective Pete Marino are left to wonder - After all the death and destruction, what sort of endgame could this violent psychopath have in mind? And could this request be somehow related to the Louisiana case? Her friends and family by her side, Scarpetta must unravel a twisting conspiracy with an international reach and confront theshock of her life - a blow that will force her to question the loyalty and trust of all she holds dear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3030'),
(5534, 'Blowback', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Scot Harvath''s counterterrorism career has just crashed and burned -- thanks in part to a ruthless senator with her sights set on the White House. But when the war on terror takes a chilling turn, the president has no choice but to secretly bring Harvath back inside. Deep beneath an Alpine glacier, an ancient weapon designed to decimate the Roman Empire has been unearthed -- and a shadowy organization intends to use it for America''s downfall. Racing across Europe, Harvath must secure the ultimate instrument of destruction before it brings the United States and the rest of the world to its knees.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3823'),
(5535, 'Blue Gold From the NUMA Files', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Reading a Clive Cussler novel is like watching several movies at once. He''s a master of the jump cut, moving the action from one continent to another with an entirely different cast of characters, good guys and bad, in each place. He always manages to pull the various characters, plots, and counterplots together, though, and the heroes always triumph in the end after saving the world from eco-terrorists, megalomaniacs with their ambitions primed for world domination, and a few regular old criminals thrown in for good measure. In this new adventure from the National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency (NUMA) files, Kurt Austin and his partner Joe Zavala nearly die during a powerboat race when a pod of dead, bloated gray whales bobs to the surface and obstructs the race course. Attempting to discover what killed the whales, Kurt and Joe track their migratory route to a mysterious underwater laboratory on the Baja Peninsula. Once again they narrowly miss death when the lab explodes, destroying their minisubmarine and almost poaching them alive. What seemed like a simple scientific investigation turns into something very different: a confrontation with a 7-foot Valkyrie who''s bent on taking over the earth''s depleted freshwater reserves. In order to thwart her plans, Austin and Zavala venture deep into the jungle of the Venezuelan rain forest to find a supposedly mythical tribal goddess (one with a Ph.D. in science, of course) whose secret formula to desalinate seawater can put the kibosh on the Valkyrie''s plans. Helped by a husband-wife NUMA team who''ve already made the goddess''s acquaintance, plus the always fascinating techno-toys so beloved of superheroes, Kurt and Joe save the day. But before they do, there''s plenty of heart-stopping action, random acts of murder and mutilation, and even a little romance. Great pacing, plenty of gadgets, a strong narrative, and bigger-than-life heroes and villains. If you''ve run out of summer action flicks already, make your own popcorn and curl up with\n  <em>\n   Blue Gold\n  </em>\n  instead.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Clive Cussler\n  </strong>\n  is acclaimed worldwide as the Grandmaster of Adventure. He got his start in advertising, first as an award-winning copy writer, and then as creative director for two of the nation''s largest agencies. His initial foray into fiction was in 1973, when he wrote his first Dirk PittÂ® novel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since then he has continued to write Dirk PittÂ® adventures while living a life that nearly parallels that of his action hero. Like Pitt, Cussler enjoys discovering and collecting things of historical significance. With NUMA (National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency, a non profit group begun by Cussler) he has had an amazing record of finding over 60 shipwrecks, one of which was the long-lost Confederate submarine Hunley. Cussler also has a renowned and extensive classic car collection, which features over 80 examples of custom coachwork.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along with being Chairman of NUMA, he is also a fellow of the Explorers Club (which honored him with the Lowell Thomas Award for outstanding underwater exploration), the Royal Geographical Society and the American Society of Oceanographers. Married to Barbara Knight for 40 years, with three children and two grandchildren, he divides his time between the mountains of Colorado and the deserts of Arizona.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1225'),
(5536, 'Blue Nights', 'Joan Didion', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Blue Nights\n  </em>\n  opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintanaâ€™s wedding in New York seven years before.\n  <em>\n   Today would be her wedding anniversary.\n  </em>\n  This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintanaâ€™s childhoodâ€”in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. â€œHow could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?â€ Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Blue Nights\n  </em>\n  â€”the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, â€œthe opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warningâ€â€”like\n  <em>\n   The Year of Magical Thinking\n  </em>\n  before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California, and now lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and eight previous books of nonfiction. Her collected nonfiction,\n  <em>\n   We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live,\n  </em>\n  was published by Everyman''s Library in 2006.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2874'),
(5537, 'Blue-Eyed Devil', 'Lisa Kleypas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hardy Cates is a self-made man who''s bent on revenge against the Travis family. Regarding him as the most dangerous man in town, Haven Travis''s family struggles against their rebellious daughter''s attraction to him. But then the heiress and the bad boy uncover an explosive chemistry between them. Hardy Cates has a history he''s not proud of, but now he''s trying to clean up his act. He is looking for the perfect society wife, the kind of woman Haven Travis could never be. After a love affair went badly wrong, Haven vows to stay far away from Cates - but the blue-eyed devil is hard to resist. Then a menace from Haven''s past appears, and Hardy may be the only one to save her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3451'),
(5538, 'Bob Dylan in America', 'Sean Wilentz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Among those who write regularly about Dylan,\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Wilentz possesses the rare virtues of modesty, nuance, and lucidity\n  <strong>\n   , and for that\n  </strong>\n  he should be celebrated and treasured\n  <strong>\n   ....Wilentz is very, very good on the actual music.Â  In fact, the centerpiece of his book is a vivid look at the ''Blonde on Blonde'' sessions, during which the musicians teased and groped their way toward the album''s ''thin, wild mercury sound,'' in Dylan''s famous description."â€”Bruce Handy in\n  </strong>\n  _The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "In this\n  <strong>\n   often revelatory\n  </strong>\n  new study, Wilentz locates Dylan''s work in the context of some surprising influences....The greatest gift for Dylan fans, however, is Wilentz''s detailed account of the making of 1966''s ''Blonde on Blonde''....Unless Dylan himself writes about it in the fabled\n  <em>\n   Chronicles: Volume Two\n  </em>\n  , this is\n  <strong>\n   the definitive word on the creation of his greatest album.\n  </strong>\n  "â€”Andy Green in\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Rolling Stone\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Bob Dylan in America,_ a new biography of the singer-songwriter by distinguished cultural [and] political historian Sean Wilentz, gives an\n  <strong>\n   enjoyably thorough, convincing\n  </strong>\n  explanation of why Dylan''s new music has gone on finding new audiences ever since he burst upon the New York folk scene of the early 1960s, fresh from the iron range of northern Minnesorta and ferociously ambitious for his art. It''s an\n  <strong>\n   extraordinary, resonant intersection of subject and biographer.\n  </strong>\n  ...Where\n  <strong>\n   Wilentz excels\n  </strong>\n  is in teasing out the origins of Dylan''s artistic impulses, the context in which they arose and flowered, the multiple sources of his art."â€”Tim Rutten in _\n  <strong>\n   The Los Angeles Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Another book about Bob Dylan!Â  Is there any more to be said?Â  The answer is, of course, yes, and\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  who better to say it than Sean Wilentz, a Princeton professor of American history?...\n  <strong>\n   What this book finally does -- this is me, not Wilentz -- is establish Dylan as the 20th century''s Walt Whitman.Â  Like Whitman he sings the songs of America in the conviction that they can be said in no other way.Â  And, like Whitman, he commits himself to travelling the roads of America, looking and remembering.Â  From the shelves full of Dylan books this and one other -- Christopher Ricks''s\n   <em>\n    Dylan''s Visions of Sin\n   </em>\n   -- are\n  </strong>\n  the ones to read\n  <strong>\n   .Â  This is also one to look at:\n  </strong>\n  the pictures are cunningly well chosen\n  <strong>\n   ."â€”Bryan Appleyard in\n  </strong>\n  _The Sunday Times (UK)\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Like many\n  <strong>\n   a quirkily brilliant music critic\n  </strong>\n  ...Mr. Wilentz chooses pet aspects of his subject''s career and then invests them with the requisite importance....Mr. Wilentz''s vast knowledge of Dylan performances touchingly conveys his nearly lifelong reverence for his subject."â€”Janet Maslin in _\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n  <em>\n   BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentzâ€™\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Martin Scorsese\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "All the American connections that Wilentz draws to explain the appearance of Dylanâ€™s music are fascinating, particularly at the outset the connection to Aaron Copland. The writing is strong, the thinking is strong â€“ the book is dense and strong everywhere you look."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Philip Roth\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony â€˜encyclopediaâ€™ compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Al Kooper\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "This should have been impossible. Writing about Bob Dylan''s music, and fitting it into the great crazy quilt of American culture, Sean Wilentz sews a whole new critical fabric, part history, part close analysis, and all heart. What he writes, as well as anyone ever has, helps us enlarge Dylan''s music by reckoning its roots, its influences, its allusive spiritual contours. This isn''t\n  <em>\n   Cliff Notes\n  </em>\n  or footnotes or any kind of academic exercise. It''s not a critic chinning on the high bar. It''s one artist meeting another, kickstarting a dazzling conversation."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Jay Cocks\n  </strong>\n  , screenwriter for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE GANGS OF NEW YORK\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentz is one of the few great American historians. His political and social histories of American Democracy are masterful and magisterial. In this work, he turns his attention to the artistic genius of Bob Dylan â€“ and the result is a masterpiece of cultural history that tells us much about who we have been and who we are."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Cornel West\n  </strong>\n  , Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentz makes us think about Bob Dylanâ€™s half-century of work in new ways. Combining a scholarâ€™s depth with a sense of mischief appropriate to the subject, Wilentz hears new associations in famous songs and sends us back to listen to Dylanâ€™s less familiar music with fresh insights. By focusing on the parts of Dylanâ€™s canon that most move him, Wilentz gets\n  <br />\n  straight to the heart of the matter. If you thought there was nothing new to say about Bob Dylanâ€™s impact on America, this book will make you think twice."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Bill Flanagan\n  </strong>\n  , author of A&amp;R and EVENINGâ€™S EMPIRE\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  and Editorial Director, MTV Networks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentzâ€™s beautiful book sets a new standard for the cultural history of popular music in America. He loves the music and he loves America, but his loves do not blind him, they open his eyes. In Wilentzâ€™s erudite and lively account, Dylanâ€™s music, and folk music, and rock music, are all indelibly woven into the whole story of an entire country. This book is chocked with new contexts for old pleasures. There are surprises and illuminations on almost every page. A great historian has written a history of the culture that formed him. Like Dylan, Wilentz is a deep and probing American voice. Bob Dylanâ€™s America is Bob Dylanâ€™s good luck, and ours. It is an extraordinary affirmation of singing and strumming and feeling and learning and believing."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”Leon Wieseltier\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   One of Americaâ€™s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the countryâ€™s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovÂ­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylanâ€™s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentzâ€™s essays as â€œhistorian in residenceâ€ of Dylanâ€™s official website,\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinityâ€”a book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentzâ€™s approach places Dylanâ€™s music in the context of its time, including the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a songÂ­writer and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylanâ€™s story and that of such masterpieces as\n  <em>\n   Blonde on Blonde\n  </em>\n  with an unprecedented authenticity and richness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  â€”groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally absorbingâ€”is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1791'),
(5539, 'Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine', 'David Edmonds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion, Boris Spassky,and his American challenger, Bobby Fischer, met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown, played against the backdrop of superpower politics, held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, ultimatums, political intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to rival a Marx Brothers film. Thirty years later, David Edmonds and John Eidinow have set out to reexamine the story we recollect as the quintessential cold war clash between a lone American star and the Soviet chess machine. A mesmerizing narrative of brilliance and triumph, hubris and despair, Bobby Fischer Goes to War is a biting deconstruction of the Bobby Fischer myth, a nuanced study on the art of brinkmanship, and a revelatory cold war tragicomedy.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1793'),
(5540, 'The Bodies Left Behind', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, offduty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her husband and son at the dinner table and drives up to Lake Mondac to investigate. Was it a misdial or an aborted crime report?Brynn stumbles onto a scene of true horror and narrowly escapes from two professional criminals. She and a terrified visitor to the weekend house, Michelle, flee into the woods in a race for their lives. As different as night and day, and stripped of modern-day resources, Brynn, a tough deputy with a difficult past, and Michelle, a pampered city girl, must overcome their natural reluctance to trust each other and learn to use their wits and courage to survive the relentless pursuit. The deputy''s disappearance spurs both her troubled son and her new husband into action, while the incident sets in motion Brynn''s loyal fellow deputies and elements from Milwaukee''s underside. These various forces race along inexorably toward the novel''s gritty and stunning conclusion.The Bodies Left Behind is an epic cat-and-mouse chase, told nearly in real-time, and is filled with Deaver''s patented twists and turns, where nothing is what it seems, and death lingers just around the next curve on a deserted path deep in the midnight forest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3404'),
(5541, 'The Body Farm', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to North Carolina to investigate the murder of an eleven-year-old girl, but the evidence does not add up, and she must conduct a gruesome experiment at a remote research facility to find the answers, in a a new edition of the classic thriller, complete with a new introduction by the author. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3021'),
(5542, 'Body of Evidence', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This second commanding thriller by the Edgar Award-winning author of Postmortem and featuring forensic sleuth Dr. Kay Scarpetta was a Mystery Guild main selection as well as a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate in cloth. $250,000 ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of Virginia and heroine of Postmortem , gets involved in the case of a brutal stabbing death in Richmond of romance writer Beryl Madison. Now Madison''s greedy lawyer accuses Scarpetta of losing his client''s latest manuscript, an autobiographical expose of Beryl''s early life as protege of a legendary novelist. As more deaths occur and the killer closes in on her, Kay suffers palpitations over the sudden and devious reappearance of long-lost lover Mark but still finds time to provide forensic details. Despite its foregone conclusion, a swift-moving, thrilling, and provocative second novel.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3031'),
(5543, 'Body Work', 'Sara Paretsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The audacious new V. I. Warshawski novel from the New York Times-bestselling author.   The enigmatic performer known as the Body Artist takes the stage at Chicago''s Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their impromptu illustrations. V. I. Warshawski watches as people step forward, some meek, some bold, to make their mark.  The evening takes a strange turn when one woman''s sketch triggers a violent outburst from a man at a nearby table. Quickly subdued, the man-an Iraqi war vet-leaves the club. Days later, the woman is shot outside the club. She dies in V.I.''s arms, and the police move quickly to arrest the angry vet.  A shooting in Chicago is nothing new, certainly not to V.I., who is hired by the vet''s family to clear his name. As V.I. seeks answers, her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to the far reaches of the Gulf War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3331'),
(5544, 'Bold Spirit', 'Linda Hunt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "Desperate. Determined. Unwaveringly confident. In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant named Helga Estby dares to cross 3500 miles of the American continent to win a $10,000 wager. On foot." "A mother of eight living children, she attempts to save her family''s homestead in Eastern Washington after the 1893 depression had ravaged the American economy. Fearing homelessness and family poverty, Helga responds to a wager from a mysterious sponsor, casts off the cultural corsets of Victorian femininity and gambles her family''s future by striking out with her eldest daughter, Clara, to try to be the first women to travel unescorted across the country: independent, audacious, alert, and armed with a Smith-and-Wesson revolver." "Leaving with only five dollars each and dressed in full-length skirts, they follow the railroads east as newspapers chronicle their adventures. Using wits, savvy, and guns to survive snowstorms, hunger, mountain lions, and the occasional thief, they visit Indian reservations, Western boomtowns, governors, mining towns, remote ranchers, politicians, suffragettes, and even president-elect William McKinley." "Accomplishing what was assumed impossible for women, they arrive in New York heralded by the city''s popular newspapers for their astonishing achievement. But deep disappointment, betrayal, and heartbreaking news from home cause the remarkable story to become silenced among their family and friends." "Almost a century later, author Linda Hunt recreates Helga Estby''s story in Bold Spirit: her culture and time, her abiding love of America, her resilient faith, and her challenge to Victorian constraints as she lived on the transitional edge of a new century of possibilities and of changing beliefs about women." For many modern readers, enduring questions remain about what happens when stories go unspoken among us and what keeps family stories alive. Helga''s is a rag-tag history woven from discarded remnants and submerged details, a once-forgotten saga tha\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2182'),
(5545, 'Bomb Hunters: In Afghanistan With Britain?s Elite Bomb Disposal Unit', 'Sean Rayment', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n ''Afghanistan is just like Iraq â€“ hot, dusty and full of people who want to kill you'', SSgt Simon Fuller, Royal Engineer Search AdvisorBomb Hunters tells the story of the British army''s elite bomb disposal experts, men who face death every day in the most dangerous region of the most lethal country on earth â€“ Helmand Province, Afghanistan.Bomb Hunters are up against the Improvised Explosive Device â€“ the IED â€“ the deadly homemade bombs planted by the Taliban. Hard to detect and easy to trigger, an estimated 10 bombs for every one of the 10,000 British troops have been planted in the region. IEDs are now the main killer of British troops in Afghanistan and the ultimate psychological weapon.Bomb Hunters work in 50-degree heat as they take the ''long walk'' into the kill zone, defusing as many as 15 bombs a day. In the past year the casualty rate has soared as the troops have become locked into a deadly game of cat and mouse â€“ to locate and deactivate the deadly bombs before they maim and kill soldiers, police and civilians. Skill, cold courage and inevitably pure luck play a huge part in the survival of these men and as the British public have already seen â€“ a single lapse of concentration can result in instant death.Ex-paratrooper, now defence journalist, Sean Rayment, takes the reader on a journey into the heat and dust of Helmand Province as he meets these courageous soldiers while they put their lives at risk to prevent other British troops falling victim to the IED. He interviews the Bomb Hunters as they perform their duties on the frontline and paints a breathtaking picture of what life is like for the men who play poker with their own lives every day, who live knowing the enemy watches their every move, waiting for a weakness to show itself, a pattern in technique to be exploited, or an error to be made that triggers the device itself.This is as vivid and dramatic as war reporting gets, mixing ''close to the bone'' narrative and dead-pan black humour from the Bomb Hunters themselves, some of whom were subsequently killed in action. No punches will be pulled on what these men feel about the war, their place in it, the politicians and generals who send them there, and how they deal with the relentless pressure of the job itself in the heart of the world''s most hostile combat environment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2183'),
(5546, 'Bone Crossed', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Shapeshifter Mercy Thompson hit the #1 spot on the bestseller list with Iron Kissed...   And she''s planning a return trip.  Marsilia, the local vampire queen, has learned that Mercy crossed her by slaying a member of her clan. Now, she''s out for blood. But since Mercy is protected from direct reprisal by the werewolf pack-and her relationship with its sexy Alpha-it''s not Mercy''s blood Marsilia is after...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3504'),
(5547, 'BoneMan&#39;s Daughters', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n They call him BoneMan, a serial killer who''s abducted six young women. He''s the perfect father looking for the perfect daughter, and when his victims fail to meet his lofty expectations, he kills them by breaking their bones and leaving them to die. Intelligence officer Ryan Evans, on the other hand, has lost all hope of ever being the perfect father. His daughter and wife have written him out of their lives.Everything changes when BoneMan takes Ryan''s estranged daughter, Bethany, as his seventh victim. Ryan goes after BoneMan on his own.But the FBI sees it differently. New evidence points to the suspicion that Ryan is BoneMan. Now the hunter is the hunted, and in the end, only one father will stand.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3323'),
(5548, 'Bones', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n When it comes to writing deftly layered, tightly coiled novels of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman reigns supreme as ''master of the psychological thriller''  (People). Now, Kellerman has worked his magic again in this chilling new masterpiece.\n <br />\n <br />\n The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something ''real dead . . . buried in your marsh.''  The eco-volunteer on the other end of the phone thinks it''s a prank, but when a young woman''s body turns up in L.A.''s Bird Marsh preserve no one''s laughing. And when the bones of more victims surface, homicide detective Milo Sturgis realizes the city''s under siege to an insidious killer. Milo''s first move: calling in psychologist Alex Delaware.\n <br />\n <br />\n The murdered women are prostitutes-except the most recent victim; a brilliant young musician from the East Coast, employed by a wealthy family to tutor a musical prodigy, Selena Bass seems out of place in the marsh''s grim tableau.\n <br />\n <br />\n Conveniently-perhaps ominously-Selena''s blueblood employers are nowhere to be found, and their estate''s jittery caretaker raises hackles. But Milo''s instincts and Alex''s insight are too well-honed to settle for easy answers, even given the dark secrets in this troubled man''s past. Their investigation unearths disturbing layers-about victims, potential victims, and suspects alike-plunging even deeper into the murky marsh''s enigmatic depths.\n <br />\n <br />\n Bizarre details of the crimes suggest a devilish serial killer prowling L.A.''s gritty streets. But when a new murder deviates from the pattern, derailing a possible profile, Alex and Milo must look beyond the suspicion of madness and consider an even more sinister mind at work. Answers don''t come easy, but the darkest of drives and desires may fuel the most devious of foes.\n <br />\n <br />\n Bones is classic Kellerman-relentlessly peeling back the skin and psyches of its characters and revealing the shadows and sins of the souls beneath. With jolt after jolt of galvanizing suspense, it drives the reader through its twists and turns toward a climax as satisfying as it is shattering.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/748'),
(5549, 'Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy', 'Eric Metaxas', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas (Amazing Grace) offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research to unpack the confluence of circumstances and personalities that led Germany from the defeat of WWI to the atrocities of WWII. Abundant source documentation (sermons, letters, journal entries, lectures, the Barman Declaration) brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped Bonhoeffer: his highly intellectual, musical family; theologically liberal professors, pastoral colleagues and students; his extensive study, work, and travel abroad. Tracing Bonhoeffer''s developing call to be a Jeremiah-like prophet in his own time and a growing understanding that the church was called "to speak for those who could not speak," Metaxas details Bonhoeffer''s role in religious resistance to Nazism, and provides a compelling account of the faith journey that eventually involved the Lutheran pastor in unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler. Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history and theology.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''''In Hitler''s Germany, a Lutheran pastor chooses resistance and pays with his life. . . Eric Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer''s story with passion and theological sophistication, often challenging revisionist accounts that make Bonhoeffer out to be a ''humanist'' or ethicist for whom religious doctrine was easily disposable. . . Metaxas reminds us that there are forms of religion -- respectable, domesticated, timid -- that may end up doing the devil''s work for him. --_Wall Street Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural, and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research. . . Abundant source documentation brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped BonhoefferÃ¢â‚¬Â¦Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history, and theology.'''' --_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''A welcome new biography of one of the twentieth century''s leading lights. Metaxas magnificently captures the life of theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who ''thought it the plain duty of the Christian-and the privilege and honor-to suffer with those who suffered.'' In the finest treatment of the man since Eberhard Bethge''s\n  <em>\n   Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage\n  </em>\n  (1970), Metaxas presents a complete, accessible picture of this important figure, whose story is inspiring, instructive, and international in scope. . . Metaxas rightly focuses on his subject''s life, not his theology, though readers will learn plenty about his theology as well. The author makes liberal use of primary sources, which bring Bonhoeffer and other characters to vivid life. For the most part, Metaxas allows this epic story to play itself out, unhindered by commentary; where he does add his own voice, the conclusions are sage. A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the twenty-first century.'''' --_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1794'),
(5550, 'Bonnie', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Eve Duncan gave birth to her daughter, she experienced a love she never knew existed. Nothing would stand in the way of giving Bonnie a wonderful life---until the unthinkable happened and the seven-year-old vanished into thin air. Eve found herself in the throes of a nightmare from which there was no escape. But a new Eve emerged: a woman who would use her remarkable talent as a forensic sculptor to help others find closure in the face of tragedy. Now with the help of her beloved Joe Quinn and CIA agent Catherine Ling, Eve has come closer than ever to the truth. But the deeper she digs, the more she realizes that Bonnie''s father is a key player in solving this monstrous puzzle. And that Bonnie''s disappearance was not as random as everyone had always believed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3684'),
(5551, 'The Book of Lies', 'Mary Horlock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In the realm of Donna Tartt''s\n <i>\n  The Secret History\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n  The Book of Lies\n </i>\n is a poignant and darkly funny novel about the dark and difficult truths hidden within a family and on an island shadowed by war.\n</p>\n<p>\n When you live on an island as small as Guernsey, it''s hard to imagine that secrets can stay secret. But they can and they do. Fifteen-year-old Catherine Rozier wants people to know what happened the night her friend Nicolette disappeared on the cliffs. But the story she starts telling isn''t hers alone. There are other people on the island who have got away with murder. Her uncle Charlie, for one. Narrated by both Catherine and Charlie,\n <i>\n  The Book of Lies\n </i>\n moves between the 1980s and the wartime Occupation, introducing us to two original and compelling voices, and an unforgettable story.\n</p>\n<p>\n ''An unforgettable and brilliant debut.'' Hanif Kureishi\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/710'),
(5552, 'The Book of Spies', 'Gayle Lynds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For centuries, emperors, historians, and even the Vatican have tried to locate Ivan the Terribleâ€™s magnificent Library of Gold â€” a long-missing archive containing gold-covered, bejeweled books dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks.Â  Now one of the volumes, The Book of Spies, has surfaced, and along with it the highly secret book club that owns the Library of Gold.Â  They form a cabal of the globeâ€™s most powerful men â€“ men who will do anything to achieve their aims and protect their interests.Â  When the CIA discovers a connection between the legendary library and a bank account linked to terrorists, they turn to rare books curator Eva Blake for help. Â Soon an attempt is made on Evaâ€™s life. Determined not only to survive but to uncover the truth, Eva turns to the only person she can trustâ€”Judd Ryder, a former intelligence agent with his own agenda and a troubled past.Â  Together, Judd and Eva embark on an international adventure from London to Rome, Istanbul, and Athens.Â  Somehow they must do what no one else has been able to do â€“ find the library and stay alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3922'),
(5553, 'Book Of The Dead', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Cornwell''s 15th novel to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Predator\n  </em>\n  ) delivers her trademark grisly crime scenes, but lacks the coherence and emotional resonance of earlier books. Soon after relocating to Charleston, S.C., to launch a private forensics lab, Scarpetta is asked to consult on the murder of U.S. tennis star Drew Martin, whose mutilated body was found in Rome. Contradictory evidence leaves Scarpetta, the Italian carabinieri and Scarpetta''s lover, forensic psychologist Benton Wesley, stumped. But when she discovers unsettling connections between Martin''s murder, the body of an unidentified South Carolina boy and her old nemesis, the maniacal psychiatrist Dr. Marilyn Self, Scarpetta encounters a killer as deadly as any she''s ever faced. With her recent switch from first- to third-person narration, Cornwell loses what once made her series so compelling: a window into the mind of a strong, intelligent woman holding her own in a profession dominated by men. Here, the abrupt shifts in point of view slow the momentum, and the reader flounders in excessive forensic minutiae.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s hard to fault Cornwell for trying to redeem herself after missing the mark with her last few Kay Scarpetta novels, but this new one won''t do the trick. The frosty forensic pathologist and her entourage remain as annoyingly self-absored and screwed up as ever, and their emotional baggage once again gets in the way of the story. A lengthy, vivid scene during which a young tennis star is slowly and brutally tortured sets up the mystery, which unfolds in artless leaps, mostly through halting dialogue and occasional forays into the mind of the killer. Once again Cornwell trots out venal characters from previous Scarpetta books; prominent here is psycho-bitch teleshrink Dr. Self (Predator, 2005), who is hoarding information about what turns out to be a string of loosely related murders. Then there''s Scarpetta''s longtime investigator, Pete Marino, foulmouthed and crude but tolerated, who reveals true ugliness in what may be the best scene in the book. As to forensic detail, it seems right up to the minute, and Scarpetta uses it often in her search for the killer, all the while trying to preserve balance in her personal life. Only for diehard Cornwell fans, of whom there are still many, despite the author''s continued slump. Zvirin, Stephanie\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3032'),
(5554, 'The Book of the Dead', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestsellers Preston and Child have come up with another gripping, action-packed page-turner in this concluding volume to a trilogy pitting their Holmesian hero, FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast, against his Mycroft-turned-Moriartyâ€”his younger brother, Diogenes. Picking up shortly after the events of 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Dance of Death\n  </em>\n  , the book opens with the arrival of a package of fine dust at the Museum of Natural History; Diogenes has returned the diamonds he stole earlier. Meanwhile, Aloysius is in prison, having been framed for a number of murders. As his friends plot to spring him, his adversary lays the groundwork for a crowning criminal achievement. A mysterious benefactor funds the restoration of an ancient Egyptian tomb at the museum, but the work is beset by the mayhem Preston and Child''s readers have come to expectâ€”gory murders and suggestions of the supernatural. This entry, tying up many loose ends from its predecessors, is less likely to work as well for first-time readers, but followers of Aloysius Pendergast''s previous exploits will find it a satisfying read with a tantalizing, ominous twist at the end.\n  <em>\n   10-city author tour. (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Gale''s gravelly voice is ideal for the cinder-lunged Rebus, and he manages somehow to lubricate out some of the harshness for cleaner living characters. Meanwhile, Gale''s accents are superb , as he handles a spectrum ranging from overweening English toffee-nose to malicious Edinburgh corner boy. All in all, this narration adds another degree of atmosphere to a novel that is already redolent of the city it sprang from.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/613'),
(5555, 'Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World', 'Michael D. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a piÃ±ata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish. Michael Lewis''s investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2875'),
(5556, 'Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge.Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a piÃ±ata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish.Michael Lewis''s investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3371'),
(5557, 'Borderline', 'Nevada Barr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The killings on Isle Royale have left Anna Pigeon drained and haunted, her memories of her time with the wolf study group forever marred by the carnage on the island. Diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, she is on administrative leave. Anna wonders if the leave might not be permanent, either by her own choice or that of the National Park Service.The one bright spot in Anna''s life is Paul, her husband of less than a year. Hoping the warmth and the adventure of a raft trip in Big Bend National Park will lift her spirits, Paul takes Anna to southwest Texas, where the sun is hot and the Rio Grande is running high. The sheer beauty of the Chihuahuan Desert and the power of the river work their magic -- until the raft is lost in the rapids and a young college student falls overboard, resulting in an even more grisly discovery. Caught in a strainer between two boulders and more dead than alive, is a pregnant woman, hair and arms tangled in the downed branches. Instead of a soul-soothing experience, Anna and Paul find themselves sucked into a web of intrigue that leads from the Mexican desert to the steps of the Governor''s Mansion in Austin, Texas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3570'),
(5558, 'Born of Shadows', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a world where the League and its assassins rule, where betrayal and treachery are everywhere . . . the only survivors are those ones who are . . . BORN OF SHADOWSFor Caillen Dagan, a defiant soldier of fortune, survival isn''t a right, it''s a brutal daily battle. Moving through the Ichidaian universe like a wraith, his brushes with the law and death are legendary. But when an act of rare heroism reveals his hidden birthright, he''s forced into a world much more dangerous and cold-hearted than the bloody streets where he was raised-one of obscene wealth and lethal politics.Ferocious and determined, Desideria serves as an official bodyguard for her queen. Born of questionable genetics, she will do anything to prove herself worthy of the weapons she carries and the position she''s won by combat. But when she uncovers a ruthless plot to assassinate the queen and overthrow her country''s government, Desideria is caught in the crosshairs.With assassination contracts out on both of them, Caillen and Desideria must learn to fight together or die alone. And if they fail, their governments will fall into the hands of an unimaginable evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3660');
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(5559, 'Born to Be Riled', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jeremy Clarkson, it has to be said, sometimes finds the world a maddening place. And nowhere more so than from behind the wheel of a car, where you can see any number of people acting like lunatics while in control (or not) of a ton of metal. In Born to be Riled, Clarkson takes a look at the world through his windscreeen, shakes his head at what he sees and then puts the boot in. Among other things, he explains: why Surrey is worse than Wales how crossing your legs in America can lead to arrest the reason cable TV salesmen must be punched that divorce can be blamed on the birth of Jesus Raving politicians, pointless celebrities, ridiculous ''personalities'' and the Germans all get it in the neck, together with the stupid, the daft and ludicrous in a tour de force of comic writing guaranteed to have Clarkson''s postman wheezing under sackfuls of letters from the easily offended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1331'),
(5560, 'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen', 'Christopher McDougall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, *Born to Run *is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: *Why does my foot hurt? *In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world?s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico?s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. *Born to Run* is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2949'),
(5561, 'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen', 'Christopher McDougall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the worldâ€™s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexicoâ€™s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3801'),
(5562, 'Bossypants', 'Tina Fey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bossypants\n  </em>\n  is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on\n  <em>\n   Saturday Night Live\n  </em>\n  , Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funniest chapters feature the differences between male and female comedy writers ("men urinate in cups"), her cruise ship honeymoon ("itâ€™s very\n  <em>\n   Poseidon Adventure\n  </em>\n  "), and advice about breastfeeding ("I had an obligation to my child to pretend to try"). But the chaos of Feyâ€™s life is best detailed when sheâ€™s dividing her efforts equally between rehearsing her Sarah Palin impression, trying to get Oprah to appear on\n  <em>\n   30 Rock\n  </em>\n  , and planning her daughterâ€™s Peter Pan-themed birthday.\n  <em>\n   Bossypants\n  </em>\n  gets to the heart of why Tina Fey remains universally adored: she embodies the hectic, too-many-things-to-juggle lifestyle we all have, but instead of complaining about it, she can just laugh it off.\n  <em>\n   --Kevin Nguyen\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  PRAISE FOR TINA FEY:\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You''d be really pretty if you lost weight." (\n  <strong>\n   College Boyfriend, 1990\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, overrated troll." (\n  <strong>\n   The Internet\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mommy, where are my pretzels?" (\n  <strong>\n   Tracy Morgan\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n  <em>\n   BOSSYPANTS\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I hope that''s not really the cover. That''s really going to hurt sales." (\n  <strong>\n   Don Fey, Father of Tina Fey\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Absolutely delicious!" (\n  <strong>\n   A Guy Who Eats Books\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Totally worth it." (\n  <strong>\n   Trees\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Do not print this glowing recommendation of Tina Fey''s book until I''ve been dead a hundred years." (\n  <strong>\n   Mark Twain\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Hilarious and insightful. Laugh-out-loud funny -- oh no, a full moon. No! Arrgh! Get away from me! Save yourself!" (\n  <strong>\n   A Guy Turning into a Werewolf\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2876'),
(5563, 'The Bounty Hunters', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, and the Arizona Department Adjutant has selected two men to hunt him down. One -- Dave Flynn -- knows war, the land, and the nature of his prey. The other is a kid lieutenant named Bowers. But there''s a different kind of war happening in Soyopa. And if Flynn and his young associate choose the wrong allies -- and the wrong enemy -- they won''t be getting out alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3139'),
(5564, 'The Bourne Dominion', 'Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bourne''s enemies are gathering force. Severus Domna, a secret and ancient cabal, has called forth its members from around the globe, with one objective: to vanquish the last person capable of destroying their bid to de-stabilize the world economy - Jason Bourne. But how can they possibly succeed where so many others have failed? By turning Bourne''s most trusted friend into his greatest - and most deadly - enemy. Boris Karpov has reached the pinnacle of his career. He has taken over one of the most powerful security organisations in the world - but at a price. Karpov agreed to a devil''s pact with the former head, and now he has to deliver. But it''s far worse than anything Karpov could have imagined - he must kill his oldest friend, Jason Bourne. Now Bourne finds himself in a world where friend and foe go hand-in-hand. Bourne''s journey will lead him down a path of brutal murder and destruction - one from which there is no escape...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3206'),
(5565, 'The Bourne Identity', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his deliriumâ€” maybe code words. Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne. But now he is marked for death, caught in a maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of murderous conspiratorsâ€”led by Carlos, the world''s most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1102'),
(5566, 'The Bourne Objective', 'Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne''s impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ringÂ­Â­-an artifact of such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now he''s determined to find the ring''s owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he''ll discover he committed when he digs into the past. The trail will lead him through layers of conspiracy to a vicious Russian mercenary, Leonid Arkadin, who was also a graduate of the Central Intelligence training program Treadstone. A covert course designed to create ruthless assassins for C.I., it was shuttered by Congress for corruption. Yet before it was dismantled, it produced Bourne and Arkadin, giving them equal skills, equal force, and equal cunning.  As Bourne''s destiny circles closer to Arkadin''s, it becomes clear that the eventual collision of these men is not of their own making. Someone else has been watching and manipulating them. Someone who wants to know, Who is the more deadly agent?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3207'),
(5567, 'The Bourne Sanction', 'Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jason Bourne returns to Georgetown University and the world of his alter ego, David Webb. But after so many adrenaline-soaked years of risking his life, Bourne finds himself chafing under the quiet life of a linguistics professor. Aware of his frustrations, his academic mentor, Professor Specter, asks for help investigating the murder of a former student by a previously unknown Muslim extremist sect. The young man died carrying information about the group''s terrorist activities, including a plan to attack the United States. The organization, the Black Legion, and its plot have also popped up on the radar of Central Intelligence, where new director Veronica Hart is struggling to assert her authority. Sensing an opportunity to take control of CI by showing Hart''s incompetence, National Security Agency operatives plan to accomplish what CI never could - hunt down and kill Bourne. In Europe, Bourne''s investigation into the Black Legion turns into one of the deadliest and most tangled operations of his double life-the pursuit of the leader of a murderous terrorist group with roots in the days of World War II-all while an assassin as damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3514'),
(5568, 'The Bourne Supremacy', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this. A Peking leader of seemingly irreproachable reputation, secretly a Kuomintang fanatic, has masterminded a plot to take over Hong Kong via political assassination, the result of which would be civil war in China and possibly global disaster. His principal agent is an assassin-for-hire masquerading as the legendary "Jason Bourne," a one-time secret U.S. agent now, under his real name David Webb, struggling with the aid of a psychiatrist and his loving wife Marie to recover from amnesia. Only one man can destroy the conspiracy: Webb, who must be persuaded to re-assume his Bourne identity, track down the impostor and through him lay a trap for the vile Shengthe "persuasion" to be by way of his abducted wife. The action jolts from the back alleys of Hong Kong and Kowloon to a secret government complex in the Colorado mountains to the seats of power in Peking and even the interior of Mao''s tomb. Every chapter ends with a cliff-hanger; the story brims with assassination, torture, hand-to-hand combat, sudden surprise and intrigue within intrigue. It''s a sure-fire bestseller. 650,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo; BOMC selection; Franklin Library limited edition.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to The Bourne Identity , David Webb, still suffering flashbacks to his Jason Bourne persona, is forced to undertake a final, possibly fatal mission after his wife is kidnapped. He must find and capture an assassin who is posing as Bourne in Hong Kong. By so doing he''ll foil a plot that could plunge the Far East and then the world into war. Ludlum''s latest has a best seller quality that many imitate but few master. You can quibble about this being too long, too talky, too preposterously implausible, but you can''t quit reading. As often happens with sequels, this is not quite up to the standards of the original, but legions of Ludlum fans will send it soaring up the best seller list. BOMC main selection. Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1103'),
(5569, 'The Bourne Ultimatum', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The literary faults and stylistic excesses that characterized The Icarus Agenda , The Gemini Contenders and other of Ludlum''s works are present in his latest mammoth thriller, but fans will nonetheless cheer the return of his most popular character, David Webb, aka Jason Bourne, the assassin who never was. When the international terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal penetrates his civilian identity, Webb must again assume the Bourne persona to protect his wife and small children. In their renewed struggle, the two master assassins uncover the revived existence of Medusa, the sinister alliance that originally led to the establishment of the Bourne identity. In action that moves from the U.S. to Montserrat to Paris before concluding in Moscow, Bourne and his allies prove incredibly inept, barely escaping the Jackal''s traps and failing in their repeated attempts to ambush him. The Ludlum trademarks are present: improbable bloodbaths, repetitive action, stilted and off-the-point conversations and--most annoying--the use of italicized words or entire paragraphs to simulate passion. This is formula writing that delivers even less than its meager promise.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œVintage Ludlum.â€â€”\n <em>\n  The Plain Dealer\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1104'),
(5570, 'The Boy in the Moon: A Father&#39;s Search for His Disabled Son', 'Ian Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can''t speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can''t continually hit himself. ''Sometimes watching him,'' Brown writes, ''is like looking at the man in the moon - but you know there is actually no man there. But if Walker is so insubstantial, why does he feel so important? What is he trying to show me?''In The Boy in the Moon, Brown sets out to answer that question, a journey that takes him into deeply touching and troubling territory. ''All I really want to know is what goes on inside his off-shaped head,'' he writes, ''But every time I ask, he somehow persuades me to look into my own.''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2046'),
(5571, 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life Beyond This World', 'Kevin Malarkey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 2004, Kevin Malarkey and his six-year-old son, Alex, suffered a horrific car accident. The impact from the crash paralyzed Alex-and medically speaking, it was unlikely that he could survive. "I think Alex has gone to be with Jesus," a friend told the stricken dad. But two months later, Alex awoke from a coma with an incredible story to share - of events at the accident scene and in the hospital while he was unconscious, of the angels that took him through the gates of heaven itself, of the unearthly music that sounded just terrible to a six-year-old. But, most amazing of all . . . of meeting and talking to Jesus. The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven is the true story of an ordinary boy''s most extraordinary journey. As you see heaven and earth through Alex''s eyes, you''ll come away with new insights on miracles, life beyond this world, and the power of a father''s love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2048'),
(5572, 'The Boy With the Cuckoo-Clock Heart', 'Mathias Malzieu', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n FIRSTLY: don''t touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. SECONDLY: master your anger. THIRDLY: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more. Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleinewitch doctor, midwife, protector of orphanswho saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine. As Jack gets older, Dr. Madeleine warns him that his heart is too fragile for strong emotions: he must never, ever fall in love. And, of course, this is exactly what he does: on his tenth birthday and with head-over-heels abandon. The object of his ardor is Miss Acaciaa bespectacled young street performer with a soul-stirring voice. But now Jack''s life is doubly at riskhis heart is in danger and so is his safety after he injures the school bully in a fight for the affections of the beautiful singer. Now begins a journey of escape and pursuit, from Edinburgh to Paris to Miss Acacia''s home in Andalusia. Mathias Malzieu''sThe Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heartis a fantastical, wildly inventive tale of love and heartbreakby turns poignant and funnyin which Jack finally learns the great joys, and ultimately the greater costs, of owning a fully formed heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2789'),
(5573, 'Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War', 'Robert Coram', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Boyd (1927-1997) was a brilliant and blazingly eccentric person. He was a crackerjack jet fighter pilot, a visionary scholar and an innovative military strategist. Among other things, Boyd wrote the first manual on jet aerial combat, was primarily responsible for designing the F-15 and the F-16 jet fighters, was a leading voice in the post-Vietnam War military reform movement and shaped the smashingly successful U.S. military strategy in the Persian Gulf War. His writings and theories on military strategy remain influential today, particularly his concept of the "OODA (Observation, Orientation, Decision, Action) Loop," which all the military services-and many business strategists-use to this day. Boyd also was a brash, combative, iconoclastic man, not above insulting his superiors at the Pentagon (both military and civilian); he made enemies (and fiercely loyal acolytes) everywhere he went. His strange, mercurial personality did not mesh with a military career, making his 24 years in the Air Force (1951-1975) difficult professionally and causing serious emotional problems for Boyd''s wife and children. Coram''s worthy biography is deeply researched and detailed, down to describing the fine technical points of some of Boyd''s theories. A Boyd advocate (he "contributed as much to fighter aviation as any man in the history of the Air Force," Coram notes), Coram does not shy away from Boyd''s often self-defeating abrasiveness and the neglect and mistreatment of his long-suffering wife and children, and keeps the story of a unique life moving smoothly and engagingly.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The late Colonel John Boyd, United States Air Force, began his career as a supremely proficient fighter pilot in the Korean War, after which he went on to develop the concept of energy maneuvering that has been the basis for fighter tactics and designs for 30 years. He proceeded militantly to advocate simpler fighter designs and attracted a group of like-minded civilian and uniformed reformers, known as the Acolytes, who were mostly as unorthodox as he. After his retirement, he developed strategic concepts based on the velocity of attack, which, while they may not be as original as Coram claims, reminded the armed forces of velocity of attack at a time when they direly needed reminding. On the personal front, Boyd, the product of a dysfunctional family, generated another, which doesn''t make pretty reading. The sheer mass of information Coram pumps out requires some military knowledge, if only not to be taken in by all of Coram''s claims about Boyd, and such knowledgeable readers will most appreciate this study of an American military reformer.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1797'),
(5574, 'The Boys of Summer', 'Roger Kahn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "At a point in life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams." Sentimental because it holds such promise, and bittersweet because that promise is past, the first sentence of this masterpiece of sporting literature, first published in the early ''70s, sets its tone. What follows only gets better, deeper, more sentimental, and more bittersweet. The team, of course, is the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Robinson and Snyder and Hodges and Reese, a team of great triumph and historical import composed of men whose fragile lives were filled with dignity and pathos. Roger Kahn, who covered that team for the New York Herald Tribune, makes understandable humans of his heroes as he chronicles the dreams and exploits of their young lives, beautifully intertwining them with his own, then recounts how so many of those sweet dreams curdled as the body of these once shining stars grew rusty with age and battered by experience. It is the rare sports book that cannot be contained by the limitations of its genre; it is equal parts journalism, memoir, social history, and poetry.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "To writer Roger Kahn, the old Brooklyn Dodgers National League baseball team is a forever a priceless violin and he is the bow which must play upon it. This isn''t a book; it''s a love affair between a man, his team, and an era." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Christian Science Monitor_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A work of high purpose and poetic accomplishment. The finest American book on sports. I commend it without qualification." --\n <em>\n  James Michener\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kahn''s book is marvelous...a splendid historical work. It is about youthful dreams in small American towns and big cities decades ago, and how some of these dreams where fulfilled, and about what happened to those dreamers after reality and old age arrived. It is also a book about ourselves, those of us who shared and identified with the dreams and glories of our heroes." --\n <em>\n  Gay Talese\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Roger Kahn has achieved the near impossible in his\n <em>\n  The Boys of Summer\n </em>\n by writing two splendid books in one, neither of which, strangely enough, is a sports book although baseball is the central theme of both. To Mr. Kahn, ''people'' is the name of the game, and it''s a game he plays with brilliance, insight and thoughtfulness. To say that I ''enjoyed'' the book is to say that winning a World Championship is ''interesting'', owing a derby winner ''nice'', and starring in the Super Bowl ''fun''." --\n <em>\n  Bill Veeck\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "What most people look for in a book is a good story. Roger Kahn gives us about fifteen of them woven into one coherent narrative that is moving and funny and sentimental (about people and things that merit sentiment) and cynical (about those that don''t)." --\n <em>\n  Ring Lardner, Jr.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2050'),
(5575, 'Brain Droppings', 'George Carlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n George Carlin''s been working the crowd since "the counterculture" became "the over-the-counter culture" around 1967 or so; his new book,\n <em>\n  Brain Droppings\n </em>\n , surfs on three decades of touring-in-support. It''s the purest version of book-as-candy that one could imagine, serving up humor in convenient, bite-sized packages. Snack on chewy one-liners like "A meltdown sounds like fun. Like some kind of cheese sandwich." Or: "If you can''t beat them, arrange to have them beaten."\n <em>\n  Brain Droppings\n </em>\n also contains highlights from Carlin''s concert repertoire, and that more than makes up for the occasional spray of pointless nihilism. Tell us, George, what exactly were you going for with "Kill your pet" and "Satan is cool"? Quick--hide the paper before Daddy sees it! Still, if you''re a fan of this sarcastic semanticist who''s given Bad Attitude not necessarily a good name, but at least a comfy bank account, by all means rush out and snag\n <em>\n  Brain Droppings\n </em>\n . Carlin''s book melts in your mind, not in your hand.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a stand-up comedian writes a book, the audio version enjoys a clear advantage over the printed word. Timing, delivery and vocal expression are as important to humor as the actual joke itself. So it is with this very funny collection of essays, monologues, observations and jokes by 30-year comic veteran Carlin. A one-liner like "I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed," moderately amusing in print, is hilarious in Carlin''s bewildered tone. This audio contains "unabridged excerpts," which means that though it does not include everything from the book, the pieces that appear are performed in their entirety. The audio is paced nicely, alternating between long pieces (Carlin as a bureaucratic caveman calling a "staff meeting" to announce a new policy on human sacrifices), short observations and one-liners. Some of Carlin''s older routines are included, such as his classic comparison of warlike football and friendly baseball. One note: this audio, like most of Carlin''s humor, includes plenty of profanity, so parents may want to be cautious around the kiddies. Based on the 1997 Hyperion hardcover.(May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1184'),
(5576, 'Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me', 'Marlon Brando', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The publisher reportedly paid $5 million for this book but expects to recoup its investment; after all, this will be the only Brando autobiography available. Lindsey, who authored the prize-winning The Falcon and the Snowman, also helped Ronald Reagan when he faced writer''s block over his autobiography. A 500,000-copy first printing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Marlon Brando, playing Terry Malloy in\n  <em>\n   On the Waterfront\n  </em>\n  , bemoaned the fact that he "coulda been somebody," audiences hung onto his words, but according to Brando, the role "was actor-proof, a scene that demonstrated how audiences often do much of the acting themselves in an effectively told story. " Brando''s evaluation of his acting and that of other celebrated actors, e.g., Olivier in\n  <em>\n   Wuthering Heights\n  </em>\n  , mark this rumination on his life. In his analysis of his films, from\n  <em>\n   Streetcar\n  </em>\n  to\n  <em>\n   The Freshman\n  </em>\n  , the master tries hard to demonstrate hubris and to provide public lessons. At the same time, he claims that luck, physical desires, and the need to make money motivate him. The book, which the publisher would not release in galleys, strikes the reader as a confession, an attempt to set the record straight, to circumvent "a carrion press that has an insatiable appetite for salaciousness and abhors being denied access to anyone, from pimps to presidents." Is it coincidence that Manso''s unauthorized\n  <em>\n   Brando\n  </em>\n  and this book are being published a month apart? Whatever its raison d''{Ë†}etre,\n  <em>\n   Songs My Mother Taught Me\n  </em>\n  has much to offer. First, it''s beautifully illustrated, beginning before the text with 24 pages of photographs covering Brando''s early life, continuing with a number of well-placed photos documenting various film shoots, and concluding with 32 pages of photographs near the end. Brando''s account of his early years rings true as he records the frailties of his alcoholic parents. His anecdotes about work and play are entertaining and memorable, and he addresses the many social causes he has championed. It''s an interesting, albeit incomplete, work: according to coauthor Lindsey, Brando promised to "hide nothing . . . except his marriages and his children." (So many marriages, so many children.) Readers of Manso can''t come here to find Brando''s side of his marital troubles or the perplexing murder of his daughter''s husband at the hands of his son. But they will find insight into the life of a man who was definitely a contender.\n  <em>\n   Bonnie Smothers\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1799'),
(5577, 'The Brass Verdict', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent''s killer may be coming for him next.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent''s killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realize their only choice is to work together.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bringing together Michael Connelly''s two most popular characters, _The Brass Verdict\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  _is sure to be his biggest book yet.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/510'),
(5578, 'Brava, Valentine', 'Adriana Trigiani', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Adriana Trigiani''s bestselling novels are beloved by millions of readers around the world. From the Big Stone Gap series to Lucia, Lucia, each is a sumptuous treat as Trigiani tells hilarious and romantic stories that we want to return to again and again.   Very Valentine, an instant New York Times bestseller, introduced the contemporary family saga of the Roncalli and Angelini families, artisans of handcrafted wedding shoes in Greenwich Village since 1903.   As Brava, Valentine begins, snow falls like glitter over Tuscany at the wedding of her grandmother, Teodora, and longtime love, Dominic. Valentine''s dreams are dashed when Gram announces that Alfred, "the prince," Valentine''s only brother and nemesis, has been named her partner at Angelini Shoes. Devastated, Valentine falls into the arms of Gianluca, a sexy Tuscan tanner who made his romantic intentions known on the Isle of Capri. Despite their passion for one another and Gianluca''s heartfelt letters, a long-distance relationship seems impossible.   As Valentine turns away from romance and devotes herself to her work, mentor and pattern cutter June Lawton guides her through her power struggle with Alfred, while best friend and confidante Gabriel Biondi moves into 166 Perry Street, transforming her home and point of view. Savvy financier Bret Fitzpatrick, Valentine''s first love and former fiancÃ‰e who still carries a torch for her, encourages Valentine to exploit her full potential as a designer and a business woman with a plan that will bring her singular creations to the world.   A once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes Valentine from the winding streets of Greenwich Village to the sun-kissed cobblestones of Buenos Aires, where she finds a long-buried secret hidden deep within a family scandal. Once unearthed, the truth rocks the Roncallis and Valentine is determined to hold her family together. More so, she longs to create one of her own, but is torn between a past love that nurtured her, and a new one that promises to sustain her.   Brava, Valentine, Trigiani''s best novel yet, delivers a hilarious and poignant mix of colorful worlds and unforgettable characters as only she can create them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3438'),
(5579, 'Brave New World', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley''s utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let''s hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren''t yet to come.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Up-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a classic science fiction work that continues to be a significant warning to our society today. Tony Britton, the reader, does an excellent job of portraying clinical detachment as the true nature of the human incubators is revealed. The tone lightens during the vacation to the wilderness and the contrast is even more striking. Each character is given a separate personality by Britton''s voices. As the story moves from clinical detachment to the human interest of Bernard, the nonconformist, and John, the "Savage," listeners are drawn more deeply into the plot. Finally, the reasoned tones of the Controller explain away all of John''s arguments against the civilization, leading to John''s death as he cannot reconcile his beliefs to theirs.The abridgement is very well done, and the overall message of the novel is clearly presented. The advanced vocabulary and complex themes lend themselves to class discussion and further research. There is sure to be demand for this classic in schools and public libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pat Griffith, Schlow Memorial Library, State College, PA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1113'),
(5580, 'Breaking Dawn', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Great love stories thrive on sacrifice. Throughout The Twilight Saga (\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  New Moon\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Eclipse\n </em>\n ), Stephenie Meyer has emulated great love stories--\n <em>\n  Romeo and Juliet\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Wuthering Heights\n </em>\n --with the fated, yet perpetually doomed love of Bella (the human girl) and Edward (the vampire who feeds on animals instead of humans). In\n <em>\n  Breaking Dawn\n </em>\n , the fourth and final installment in the series, Bellaâ€™s story plays out in some unexpected ways. The ongoing conflicts that made this series so compelling--a human girl in love with a vampire, a werewolf in love with a human girl, the generations-long feud between werewolves and vampires--resolve pretty quickly, apparently so that Meyer could focus on Bellaâ€™s latest opportunity for self-sacrifice: giving her life for someone she loves even more than Edward. How close she comes to actually making that sacrifice is questionable, which is a big shift from the earlier books. Even though you knew Bella would make it through somehow, the threats to her life, and to her relationship with Edward, had previously always felt real. Itâ€™s as if Meyer was afraid of hurting her characters too much, which is unfortunate, because the pain Bella suffered at losing Edward in\n <em>\n  New Moon\n </em>\n , and the pain Jacob suffered at losing Bella again and again, are the fire and the heart that drive the whole series. Diehard fans will stick with Bella, Edward, and Jacob for as many twists and turns as possible, but after most of the characters get what they want with little sacrifice, some readers may have a harder time caring what happens next. (Ages 12 and up) --\n <em>\n  Heidi Broadhead\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n This Special Edition of the #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An exclusive\n   <em>\n    Breaking Dawn\n   </em>\n   concert series DVD, featuring a performance by Blue October''s Justin Furstenfeld and a conversation between Stephenie Meyer and Justin Furstenfeld.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A reproduction of the personal, handwritten lyrics for\n   <em>\n    My Never\n   </em>\n   by Justin Furstenfeld.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A limited-edition, full-color Bella &amp; Edward poster (on reverse side of book jacket).\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   And more!\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to The Twilight Saga,\n <em>\n  Breaking Dawn\n </em>\n , illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  More from Stephenie Meyer\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n <em>\n  New Moon\n </em>\n <em>\n  Eclipse\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/342'),
(5581, 'Breaking Night', 'Liz Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "*Breaking Night* reads more like an adventure story than an addiction-morality tale. It''s a white-knuckle account of survival. . . . By age 6, Murray knew how to mainline drugs (though she never took them) and how to care for her strung-out parents. She showed uncanny maturity, even as a child, and later managed to avoid that malady of teenagers and memoir writers, self-pity. . . . Murray''s stoicism has been hard-earned; it serves her well as a writer. *Breaking Night* itself is full of heart, without a sliver of ice, and deeply moving." (*The New York Times Book Review*)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Liz Murray shows us that the human spirit has infinite ability to grow and  can never be limited by circumstance. *Breaking Night* is a beautifully  written, heartfelt memoir that will change the way you look your community, the  obstacles in your own life and the American Dream. An inspiration, a must read."  (Robert Redford)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "[Liz Murray] reminds us that the greatest acts of love and failure can  occur side by side; that isolation and loss can give way to accomplishment and  promise. She offers the awesome hope that, regardless of its past, a life can go  beyond endurance and reach for triumph. She leave us with the memory of a child who  clung to and refused to surrender the dignity of her soul." (Andrew Bridge, author  of the *New York Times* bestseller *Hope''s Boy*)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "As much as it is a memoir, *Breaking Night* is a primer on how poverty and drug abuse create a heartbreaking underclass of children, one that goes largely unnoticed. By the truly uplifting ending, Liz Murray has shown us the worst, and the very best, of America." (Haven Kimmel, author of *A Girl Named Zippy* and *She Got Up Off the Couch*)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the vein of *The Glass Castle, Breaking Night* is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls'' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Liz''s mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a *New York Times* scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. *Breaking Night* is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman''s indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1801'),
(5582, 'Breaking Silence', 'Linda Castillo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œIn addition to creating exceptionally well drawn characters and crafting a gripping plot that takes some shocking turns to a heart-pounding conclusion, Castillo probes with keen sensitivity the emotional toll taken by police work. The third in this series of thrillers (after Sworn to Silence, 2009, and Pray for Silence, 2010) is another winner.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œKateâ€™s third offers plenty of violence, a surprise ending and some insight into the Amish way of life.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCastillo melds deeply flawed characters with a glimpse into a unique community in which isolation can hide a plethora of secrets.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCastillo has created a gripping series about police chief Kate Burkholder, who was raised in an Amish community but left during her teens, which creates a constant tension between herself and the community but also an understanding of the people involved. Life in the farming area is vividly portrayed and both the sociological background and the physical setting add greatly to the mystery. The mystery is complicated but clearly plotted with a heart-stopping ending.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   RT Book Review\n  </em>\n  (4 Â½ stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is the third in a stupendous series . . . Written at a thrilling pace, with haunting images,\n  <em>\n   Breaking Silence\n  </em>\n  is a novel worth staying up all night to reach the end.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   New York Journal of Books\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Linda Castillo\n  </strong>\n  is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of the Kate Burkholder novels, including\n  <em>\n   Sworn to Silence\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Pray for Silence\n  </em>\n  , crime thrillers set in Amish country. She is the recipient of awards including the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence, the Holt Medallion and a nomination for the RITA. Besides writing, Castilloâ€™s other passion is horses, particularly her Appaloosa, George. She lives in Texas with her husband.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3037'),
(5583, 'Breaking the Rules', 'Suzanne Brockmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Izzy Zanella wasnâ€™t looking for another reason to butt heads with his Navy SEAL teammate, and nemesis, Danny Gillman. But then he met Dannyâ€™s beautiful younger sister, Eden. When she needed it most, he offered her a place to stay, a shoulder to cry onâ€”and more. And when she got pregnant with another manâ€™s child, he offered her marriage. But Edenâ€™s devastating miscarriage shattered their life togetherâ€”and made the intense bad blood between Izzy and Danny even worse. Now Edenâ€™s back, and sheâ€™s on a mission to rescue her teen brother, Ben, from their abusive stepfather. Even if she and Izzy can prove that their broken marriage is still in one piece, winning legal custody of Ben is a long shot. But theyâ€™re not alone: Danny and his girlfriend, Jenn, offer to help, and he and Izzy agree to bury the past and fight for Benâ€™s future. As they plan their strategy, Izzy and Eden grapple with the raw passion that still crackles between themâ€”while Danny and Jenn confront new depths in their own rocky relationship. But events take a terrifying turn after Ben befriends a girl fleeing a child prostitution ring. When the young runaway seeks refuge with Eden and Izzy, her pursuers kidnap Benâ€”and a deadly standoff begins. Now they must all pull together like never before and strike back, swift and hard, to protect their unconventional little family and everything they hold most precious.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3664');
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(5584, 'Breathing Lessons', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Maggie Moran''s mission is to connect and unite people, whether they want to be united or not. Maggie is a meddler and as she and her husband, Ira, drive 90 miles to the funeral of an old friend, Ira contemplates his wasted life and the traffic, while Maggie hatches a plant to reunite her son Jesse with his long-estranged wife and baby. As Ira explains, "She thinks the people she loves are better than they really are, and so then she starts changing things around to suit her view of them." Though everyone criticizes her for being "ordinary," Maggie''s ability to see the beauty and potential in others ultimately proves that she is the only one fighting the resignation they all fear. The book captured the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1989.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In perhaps her most mainstream, accessible novel so far, Tyler spins a tale of marriage and middle-class lives, in an age when social standards and life expectations have gone askew. While she remains a brilliant observer of human nature, there is a subtle change here in Tyler''s focus. Where before her protagonists were eccentric, sometimes slightly fantastical characters who came at the end to a sense of peace, if not happiness, Maggie Moran and her husband Ira are average, unexceptional, even somewhat drab; and outside of some small epiphanies, little is changed between them at the story''s close. It''s this very realism that makes the story so effective and moving. Taking place on one summer day, when Maggie and Ira drive from Baltimore to Pennsylvania to a funeral, with an accidental detour involving an old black man they pass on the road and a side trip to see their former daughter-in-law and their seven-year-old grandchild, the novel reveals the basic incompatibility of their 28-year marriage and the love that binds them together nonetheless. This is another typical Tyler union of opposites: Maggie is impetuous, scatterbrained, klutzy, accident prone and garrulous; Ira is self-contained, precise, dignified, aloof with, however, an irritating (or endearing ) habit of whistling tunes that betray his inner thoughts. Both feel that their children are strangers, that the generations are "sliding downhill," and that somehow they have gone wrong in a society whose values they no longer recognize. With irresistibly funny passages you want to read out loud and poignant insights that illuminate the serious business of sharing lives in an unsettling world, this is Tyler''s best novel yet. 175,000 first printing ; BOMC main selection; Franklin Library signed first edition.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/963'),
(5585, 'Breathless', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Grady Adams, a craftsman, lives alone in the Colorado mountains, a strong gentle man whose experiences have left him alienated from the contemporary world. One day out walking he observes a pair of beautiful white-furred animals he has never seen before: as big as dogs, maybe sixty or seventy pounds, but they are not dogs. They seem to be at play ... Grady can find no animal like them in reference books. Then he comes face to face with the two animals: they are more beautiful than he could have imagined. They are unlike anything he can name! Soon they are taking food from him. A sudden wonder has come into his life, not to mention a deep mystery. Grady''s friend Cammy Rivers is a vet. She is stunned by the two creatures - and sends photos over the Internet to inquire of colleagues in far places if they can identify the animals. Before they know what is happening, Homeland Security has quarantined square miles of wildland surrounding Grady''s home and confined both Grady and Cammy there while biologists and assorted scientists capture, confine and run tests on the creatures. Angered and alarmed Grady and Cammy free the captives and go on the run. A pursuit of hair-raising suspense begins, with no happy ending in prospect ... BREATHLESS is a unique and riveting thriller from the master of suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3192'),
(5586, 'The Brethren', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Grisham''s novels have all been so systematically successful that it is easy to forget he is just one man toiling away silently with a pen, experimenting and improving with each book. While not as gifted a prose stylist as Scott Turow, Grisham is among the best plotters in the thriller business, and he infuses his books with a moral valence and creative vision that set them apart from their peers.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Brethren\n </em>\n is in many respects his most daring book yet. The novel grows from two separate subplots. In the first, three imprisoned ex-judges (the "brethren" in the title), frustrated by their loss of power and influence, concoct an elaborate blackmail scheme that preys on wealthy, closeted gay men. The second story traces the rise of presidential candidate Aaron Lake, a puppet essentially created by CIA director Teddy Maynard to fulfill Maynard''s plans for restoring the power of his beleaguered agency.\n</p>\n<p>\n Grisham''s tight control of the two meandering threads leaves the reader guessing through most of the opening chapters how and when these two worlds will collide. Also impressive is Grisham''s careful portraiture. Justice Hatlee Beech in particular is a fascinating, tragic anti-hero: a millionaire judge with an appointment for life who was rendered divorced, bankrupt, and friendless after his conviction for a drunk-driving homicide.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book''s cynical view of presidential politics and criminal justice casts a somewhat gloomy shadow over the tale. CIA director Teddy Maynard is an all-powerful demon with absolute knowledge and control of the public will and public funds. Even his candidate, Congressman Lake, is a pawn in Maynard''s egomaniacal game of ad campaigns, illicit contributions, and international intrigue. In the end,\n <em>\n  The Brethren\n </em>\n marks a transition in Grisham''s career toward a more thoughtful narrative style with less interest in the big-payoff blockbuster ending. But that''s not to say that the last 50 pages won''t keep your reading light turned on late.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Only a few megaselling authors of popular fiction deviate dramatically from formula--most notably Stephen King but recently Grisham, too. He''s serializing a literary novel, A Painted House, in the Oxford American; his last thriller (The Testament) emphasized spirituality as intensely as suspense; and his deeply absorbing new novel dispenses with a staple not only of his own work but of most commercial fiction: the hero. The novel does feature three antiheroes of a sort, the brethren of the title, judges serving time in a federal prison in Florida for white-collar offenses. They''re a hard bunch to root for, though, as their main activity behind bars is running a blackmail scheme in which they bait, hook and squeeze wealthy, closeted gay men through a magazine ad supposedly placed by "Ricky," a young incarcerated gay looking for companionship. Then there''s the two-bit alcoholic attorney who''s abetting them by running their mail and depositing their dirty profits in an overseas bank. Scarcely more appealing is the big fish the trio snare, Congressman Anthony Lake, who meanwhile is busy selling his lifelong integrity when the director of the CIA offers to lever him into the White House in exchange for a doubling of federal defense spending upon Lake''s inauguration. The expertly orchestrated and very complex plot follows these evildoers through their illicit enterprises, devoting considerable attention to the CIA''s staging of Lake''s presidential campaign and even more to that agency''s potentially lethal pursuit of the brethren once it learns that the three are threatening to out candidate Lake. Every personage in this novel lies, cheats, steals and/or kills, and while Grisham''s fans may miss the stalwart lawyer-heroes and David vs. Goliath slant of his earlier work, all will be captivated by this clever thriller that presents as crisp a cast as he''s yet devised, and as grippingly sardonic yet bitingly moral a scenario as he''s ever imagined. Agent, David Gernert. 2.8 million first printing. (Feb. 1)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1159'),
(5587, 'Bridal Jitters', 'Jayne Castle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3160'),
(5588, 'Bride Collector', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n FBI Special Agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he''s picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellbeing and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals who are extraordinarily gifted. It''s there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person''s life when she touches the dead body. In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise''s help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most ''sane people'' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls...or inside. As the Bride Collector increases the pace and volume of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector''s next target. The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it''s too late?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3309'),
(5589, 'The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama', 'David Remnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: No story has been more central to Americaâ€™s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that** **fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamaâ€™s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.** **Those familiar with Obamaâ€™s own best-selling memoir** **or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowâ€”from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance** **of unfolding events is without peerâ€”we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,** **nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,** **and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.*The Bridge* offers the most complete account yet of** **Obamaâ€™s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned** **his family and ended his life as a beaten man;** **of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,** **who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;** **and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama** **to the social tensions and intellectual currents** **that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,** **David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man** **created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an** **experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamaâ€™s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagoâ€™s history, Remnick shows us how that cityâ€™s complex racial legacy would make Obamaâ€™s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyâ€”from both sidesâ€”of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.** **By looking at Obamaâ€™s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,** **heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.*The Bridge* revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamaâ€™s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No story has been more central to Americaâ€™s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that** **fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamaâ€™s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.** **Those familiar with Obamaâ€™s own best-selling memoir** **or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowâ€”from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance** **of unfolding events is without peerâ€”we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,** **nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,** **and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.*The Bridge* offers the most complete account yet of** **Obamaâ€™s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned** **his family and ended his life as a beaten man;** **of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,** **who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;** **and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama** **to the social tensions and intellectual currents** **that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,** **David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man** **created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an** **experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamaâ€™s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagoâ€™s history, Remnick shows us how that cityâ€™s complex racial legacy would make Obamaâ€™s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyâ€”from both sidesâ€”of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.** **By looking at Obamaâ€™s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,** **heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.*The Bridge* revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamaâ€™s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2052'),
(5590, 'A Brief History of Time', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic\n  <em>\n   A Brief History of Time\n  </em>\n  to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we''re looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists'' search for a grand unifying theory. This is\n  <em>\n   deep\n  </em>\n  science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can''t help but marvel at Hawking''s ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God."\n  <em>\n   --Therese Littleton\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Hawking] can explain the complexities of cosmological physics with an engaging combination of clarity and wit. . . . His is a brain of extraordinary power.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   The New York Review of Books\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œThis book marries a childâ€™s wonder to a geniusâ€™s intellect. We journey into Hawkingâ€™s universe while marvelling at his mind.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   The Sunday Times\n  </em>\n  (London)\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œMasterful.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œCharming and lucid . . . [A book of] sunny brilliance.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLively and provocative . . . Mr. Hawking clearly possesses a natural teacherâ€™s giftsâ€”easy, good-natured humor and an ability to illustrate highly complex propositions with analogies plucked from daily life.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œEven as he sits helpless in his wheelchair, his mind seems to soar ever more brilliantly across the vastness of space and time to unlock the secrets of the universe.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1014'),
(5591, 'A Briefer History of Time', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In the 17 years since the publication of A Brief History of Time, Dr. Hawking''s bestselling exposition of physics, new data from particle physics and observational astronomy have shed light on efforts to find a Grand Unified Theory of Everything that Hawking and Mlodinow use to enhance and update their answers to basic questions about the universe: where it''s going and how it began. Discussed at length are the mysterious dark matter and dark energy-both of which can only be observed by their gravitational effects and are believed to make up 90 percent of the universe. Another area of research that has exploded in the past 20 years is string theory. Hawking and Mlodinow provide one of the most lucid discussions of this complex topic ever written for a general audience. Readers will come away with an excellent understanding of the apparent contradictions and conundrums at the forefront of contemporary physics. Recognizing that much of their audience will also be science fiction buffs, they include a chapter on the possibility of time travel. "Don''t bet on it," the authors advise. Throughout these discussions, the authors maintain the same wry, lively tone that made the original Brief History such a delight. They close with a discussion of where physics ends and philosophy begins, "Why does the universe exist at all?" They cannot provide the answer, but they do provide an immense amount of food for thought. Highly recommended.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Scientific American\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hawking''s A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a surprise best-seller but a tough read for most people who tackled it. Hawking received many requests for a version that would make his discussion of deep questions about the universe more accessible. This book does that. Hawking and Mlodinow, a physicist turned science writer, proceed by small and careful steps from the early history of astronomy to today''s efforts to construct a grand unified theory of the universe.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Editors of Scientific American\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1015'),
(5592, 'Brimstone', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of cerebral action adventure novels know that, outside of Michael Crichton, no one delivers the goods like the veteran writing team of Preston and Child (\n  <em>\n   Relic\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   Still Life with Crows\n  </em>\n  ; etc.). As if invigorated by their recent solo efforts (Child:\n  <em>\n   Utopia\n  </em>\n  , etc.; Preston:\n  <em>\n   The Codex\n  </em>\n  , etc.), the two now deliver their best novel ever, an extravagant tale of international intrigue. As their admirers know, one reason Preston and Child thrillers work is because most feature arguably the most charismatic detective in contemporary fiction: FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast, a wealthy, refined yet ruthless descendant of Holmes who''s very much his own character. Pendergast, as well as other Preston and Child semiregulars, notably rough-hewn former NYPD cop Vincent D''Agosta, Watson to Pendergast''s Sherlock, tread nearly every page of this vastly imagined, relentlessly enjoyable thriller. The body of a notorious art critic is found in his Hamptons, L.I., mansion, wholly burned, with a cloven hoofprint nearby: the devil''s work? [...] Erudite, swiftly paced, brimming (occasionally overbrimming) with memorable personae and tense set pieces, this is the perfect thriller to stuff into a beach bag.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€“As FBI Special Agent Pendergast immerses himself in the investigation of an art critic''s bizarre murder, he conjures up clues pointing to the Devil as the culprit. After several killings in the same ghastly manner, similar clues are found. Pendergast teams up with Police Officer Vincent D''Agosta, with whom he had worked in\n  <em>\n   The Relic\n  </em>\n  (St. Martin''s, 1996), and they begin a lengthy, intense, and time-driven search for the murderer. Along the way, D''Agosta becomes romantically and professionally attached to New York Police Captain Laura Hayward (\n  <em>\n   Reliquary\n  </em>\n  [Tor, 1998]). Their story runs parallel to the investigation and adds another layer of plot. The peculiar nature of Agent Pendergast, who always seems to get out of any kind of dire straits, complements and contrasts with down-to-earth, practical D''Agosta, and they act as catalysts for one another. The action moves from New York City to Italy and places in between. The authors are especially adept at creepy descriptions of eerily spooky castle ruins, crypts, and grave robberies. Readers who like ghost stories, hauntings, and other paranormal activities will find themselves eagerly engaged in this page-turner.\n  <em>\n   â€“Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/611'),
(5593, 'Bring Me Home for Christmas', 'Robyn Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This book is an utter delight." -RT Book Reviews on Moonlight Road\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Strong conflict, humor and well-written characters are Carr''s calling cards, and they''re all present here.... You won''t want to put this one down." -RT Book Reviews on Angel''s Peak\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This story has everything: a courageous, outspoken heroine; a to-die-for hero; and a plot that will touch readers'' hearts on several different levels. Truly excellent." -RT Book Reviews on Forbidden Falls\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An intensely satisfying read. By turns humorous and gut-wrenchingly emotional, it won''t soon be forgotten."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -RT Book Reviews on Paradise Valley\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Carr has hit her stride with this captivating series."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Library Journal on the Virgin River series\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The Virgin River books are so compelling-I connected instantly with the characters and just wanted more and more and more."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This year, Becca Timm knows the number one item on her Christmas wish listâ€”getting over Denny Cutler. Three years ago, Denny broke her heart before heading off to war. It''s time she got over her silly high-school relationship and moved on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So she takes matters into her own hands and heads up to Virgin River, the rugged little mountain town that Denny calls home, as an uninvited guest on her brother''s men-only hunting weekend. But when an accident turns her impromptu visit into an extended stay, Becca finds herself stranded in Virgin River. With Denny. In very close quarters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the power of Christmas envelops the little town, Becca discovers that the boy she once loved has become a strong and confident man. And the most delicious Christmas present she can imagine.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3043'),
(5594, 'Broken', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Karin Slaughterâ€™s internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Her latest offering features the return of her most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life . . .Â Â When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisonerâ€™s death. He doesnâ€™t understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him. He doesnâ€™t understand her role in the death of Grant Countyâ€™s popular police chief. He doesnâ€™t understand why that manâ€™s widow, Dr. Sara Linton, needs him now more than ever to help her crack this case.While the police force investigates the murder of a young woman pulled from a frigid lake, Trent investigates the police force, putting pressure on Adams just when sheâ€™s already about to crack. Caught between two complicated and determined women, trying to understand Lintonâ€™s passionate distrust of Adams, the facts surrounding Chief Tolliverâ€™s death, and the complexities of this insular town, Trent will unleash a case filled with explosive secretsâ€”and encounter a thin blue line that could be murderous if crossed.Spellbinding and keenly paced, Broken is Karin Slaughter at her best. Here is an unforgettable story of raw emotions, dangerous assumptions, the deadly and layered game of betrayal, and a manâ€™s determination to expose the most painful of human truthsâ€”no matter how deeply theyâ€™re hidden . . . or how devastating.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3563'),
(5595, 'Broken Harbour', 'Tana French', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  In BROKEN HARBOUR, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squadâ€™s star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Scorcherâ€™s personal life is tugging for his attention. Seeing the case on the news has sent his sister Dina off the rails again, and sheâ€™s resurrecting something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what happened to their family, one summer at Broken Harbour, back when they were children. The neat compartments of his life are breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3871'),
(5596, 'Broken Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sandford sends series hero Lucas Davenport''s family off to London to ensure that domestic concerns never slow the action in this sexy, bloody thriller. Davenport, a Minnesota State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator, had lately been doing political fix-it jobs for the governor, but this time he''s got a psychopathic serial killer on his hands. ("All major metro areas had them, sometimes two and three at a time. The public had the impression that they were rare. They weren''t.") The first victim, a young woman, was "scourged" with a wire whip; number two, a young man, had his penis cut off. Evidence first points to recently released sex offender Charlie Pope. Though Charlie is pretty dumb and the killer is extremely smart, it takes Davenport and his series partner, Detective Sloan, a while to realize they''re chasing the wrong guy. Sandford introduces some lighter moments, the most entertaining about Davenport''s new iPod and his quest to compile a list of the 100 best rock songs ever recorded, which every cop on the force gives him suggestions for. These moments allow readers to catch their breath amid the otherwise nonstop tension as the killer taunts the authorities while snaring more victims, and the cops race around the countryside always just a few minutes too late. For those who thought Davenport (and Sandford) were slowing down and showing signs of age and prosperity, this superlative entry will dispel all such notions. This is tough, unstoppable, white-knuckle fiction.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The first victim is a young woman, probably flayed alive and raped. Lucas Davenport, head of Minnesota''s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is assigned to the case by his boss, the governor, who fears political fallout if a serial killer is on the loose. A tip puts Davenport and his team on the trail of a recently paroled sexual offender. Charley Pope never killed anyone, but conventional wisdom indicates his rage may escalate. But the planning that went into the crimes seems to exceed Charley''s capabilities. Lucas also entertains the possibility that Charley was a "robot" for three Hannibal Lecter types in the asylum''s high-security section for the criminally insane. The seventeenth Prey thriller is a cut above recent entries in the series. For one, it''s a real whodunit, with the killer not revealed until the last couple chapters. Second, it contains supersized servings of all the elements readers have come to treasure in the series: Davenport''s quirky, self-deprecating, and ironic worldview; plenty of graveyard humor; and a dynamic sense of place, from the Minnesota countryside to bustling Minneapolis to the foreboding gothic architecture of the asylum. An extra treat is Davenport''s ongoing mental gyrations as he compiles a list of rock''s 100 greatest tunes for his new I-pod. His musical critiques are pure rock fan, and the final list is a hoot. Byzantine plot, memorable characters, and a subliminal soundtrack of classic rock ''n'' roll. What''s not to like?\n  <em>\n   Wes Lukowsky\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/679'),
(5597, 'The Broken Window', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver is back with a brand-new Lincoln Rhyme thriller.Lincoln Rhyme and partner/paramour Amelia Sachs return to face a criminal whose ingenious staging of crimes is enabled by a terrifying access to information....When Lincoln''s estranged cousin Arthur Rhyme is arrested on murder charges, the case is perfect -- too perfect. Forensic evidence from Arthur''s home is found all over the scene of the crime, and it looks like the fate of Lincoln''s relative is sealed.At the behest of Arthur''s wife, Judy, Lincoln grudgingly agrees to investigate the case. Soon Lincoln and Amelia uncover a string of similar murders and rapes with perpetrators claiming innocence and ignorance -- despite ironclad evidence at the scenes of the crime. Rhyme''s team realizes this "perfect" evidence may actually be the result of masterful identity theft and manipulation.An information service company -- the huge data miner Strategic Systems Datacorp -- seems to have all the answers but is reluctant to help the police. Still, Rhyme and Sachs and their assembled team begin uncovering a chilling pattern of vicious crimes and coverups, and their investigation points to one master criminal, whom they dub "522."When "522" learns the identities of the crime-fighting team, the hunters become the hunted. Full of Deaver''s trademark plot twists, The Broken Window will put the partnership of Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs to the ultimate test.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3626'),
(5598, 'The Broker', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open any door in Washington." That is, until he tried to broker a deal selling access to the world''s most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder. When caught, Backman accepted prison as the one option that would keep him safe and alive, since the interested parties (the Israelis, the Saudis, the Russians, and the Chinese) were all itching to get their hands on his secrets at any cost. Little does he know that his own government has designs on accessing that information--or at least letting it die with him. Now, six years after his incarceration, the director of the CIA convinces a lame duck president to pardon Backman, and the broker becomes a free man--and an open target.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Broker\n </em>\n marries the best of John Grisham''s many talents--his ability to immerse himself in the culture of small town life (in this case, Bologna, Italy), and his uncanny mastery of the chase. The first half of the book focuses on Backman''s transformation from infamous power broker to helpless victim in his own game. Upon his release from prison, Backman is taken into "protective custody" and whisked off to Italy where he is assigned a new identity, and a tutor to help him blend in. Sure he is on the run, but some readers may feel that Backman''s time spent in Bologna is a bit too leisurely--readers join him on an almost cinematic tour through the Italian town, complete with language and history lessons. Impatient readers will be happy to know that the final half of the novel is classic Grisham--a fast-paced, thrilling cat and mouse chase pitting Backman against the numerous agencies that want him dead--as the broker makes a move to take back his life.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Exclusive Video Interview with John Grisham\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   Watch the interview (high bandwith)\n  </em>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   Watch the interview (low bandwith)\n  </em>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Grisham: The Books\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   A Time to Kill\n  </em>\n  , 1989\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Firm\n  </em>\n  , 1991\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Pelican Brief\n  </em>\n  , 1992\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Client\n  </em>\n  , 1993\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Chamber\n  </em>\n  , 1994\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    The Rainmaker\n   </em>\n   , 1995\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    The Runaway Jury\n   </em>\n   , 1996\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Partner\n  </em>\n  , 1997\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Street Lawyer\n  </em>\n  , 1998\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Testament\n  </em>\n  , 1999\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Brethren\n  </em>\n  , 2000\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    A Painted House\n   </em>\n   , 2001\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    Skipping Christmas\n   </em>\n   , 2001\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Summons\n  </em>\n  , 2002\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The King of Torts\n  </em>\n  , 2003\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   Bleachers\n  </em>\n  , 2003\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Last Juror\n  </em>\n  , 2004\n </li>\n <li>\n  <em>\n   The Broker\n  </em>\n  , 2005\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Essential Grisham\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Amazon Editor Favorites\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Time to Kill\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Firm\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Painted House\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Client\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Rainmaker\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Pelican Brief\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bestselling Grisham\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Amazon Customer Favorites\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Last Juror\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Skipping Christmas\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bleachers\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Testament\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Partner\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The King of Torts\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  If You Like Grisham, You''ll Love...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  John Lescroart\n </li>\n <li>\n  Richard North Patterson\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   David Baldacci\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Lisa Scottoline\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  Robert Crais\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Michael Crichton\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Harlan Coben\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dennis Lehane\n </li>\n <li>\n  Ken Follett\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Best Grisham Books on DVD\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Time to Kill\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Pelican Brief\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Client\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Firm\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Rainmaker\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Chamber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers will find an amiable travelogue to Italy and its charms in Grisham''s latest. What they won''t find are the suspense and inspired plotting that have made the author (The Last Juror, etc.) one of the world''s bestselling writers. Yet Grisham remains a smooth storyteller, and few will fail to finish this oddball tale of what happens to ruined D.C. powerbroker Joel Blackman, 52, when he''s suddenly released from federal prison after six years. Teddy Maynard, legendary CIA director, has engineered the release in order to put Joel into a variant of the witness protection program and then see who kills him. Many want him deadâ€”the Saudis, the Israelis, especially the Chineseâ€”because of his role in trying to sell a global satellite spy system that would alter the world''s balance of power; that was what got Joel imprisoned, and the CIA hopes that whoever kills him will clue them in to who may have access to the satellites. Joel is relocated to Bologna, and much of the narrative consists of his touring that city, its historic sights and its many restaurants, and learning Italian ways from his male handler, Luigi, and his language tutor, Francescaâ€”a middle-aged woman with whom he falls in love. A major subplot concerns Joel''s secret dealings with his stateside son to prepare for escape from Bologna if necessary. Eventually, the CIA leaks Joel''s whereabouts to his enemies, who dispatch killing teams. Can Joel broker his way to safety? There''s some depth to the troubled relationship between Joel and his tutor, but otherwise the novel reads like a contented afterthought to a memorable Italian vacation, with little action or tension, plastic characters and plot turns that a tricycle could maneuver. Still, anyone wishing to learn how and why Bologna built its famed porticos, why to be wary of most Italian desserts and how to send an encrypted wireless message using a global cell phone will find that information cheerfully given here. (Jan. 11) Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1262'),
(5599, 'Brooklyn', 'Colm Toibin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best of the Month, May 2009\n  </strong>\n  : Committed to a quiet life in little Enniscorthy, Ireland, the industrious young Eilis Lacey reluctantly finds herself swept up in an unplanned adventure to America, engineered by the family priest and her glamorous, "ready for life" sister, Rose. Eilis''s determination to embrace the spirit of the journey despite her trepidation--especially on behalf of Rose, who has sacrificed her own chance of leaving--makes a bittersweet center for\n  <em>\n   Brooklyn\n  </em>\n  . Colm TÃ³ibÃ­n''s spare portrayal of this contemplative girl is achingly lovely, and every sentence rings with truth. Readers will find themselves swept across the Atlantic with Eilis to a boarding house in Brooklyn where she painstakingly adapts to a new life, reinventing herself and her surroundings in the letters she writes home. Just as she begins to settle in with the help of a new love, tragedy calls her home to Enniscorthy, and her separate lives suddenly and painfully merge into one. TÃ³ibÃ­n''s haunted heroine glows on the page, unforgettably and lovingly rendered, and her story reflects the lives of so many others exiled from home. --\n  <em>\n   Daphne Durham\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Signature\n  <em>\n   Reviewed by\n  </em>\n  Maureen HowardColm TÃ³ibÃ­n''s engaging new novel,\n  <em>\n   Brooklyn\n  </em>\n  , will not bring to mind the fashionable borough of recent years nor Bed-Stuy beleaguered with the troubles of a Saturday night. TÃ³ibÃ­n has revived the Brooklyn of an Irish-Catholic parish in the ''50s, a setting appropriate to the narrow life of Eilis Lacey. Before Eilis ships out for a decent job in America, her village life is sketched in detail. The shops, pub, the hoity-toity and plainspoken people of Enniscorthy have such appeal on the page, it does seem a shame to leave. But how will we share the girl''s longing for home, if home is not a gabby presence in her Ã©migrÃ© tale? TÃ³ibÃ­n''s maneuvers draw us to the bright girl with a gift for numbers. With a keen eye, Eilis surveys her lonely, steady-on life: her job in the dry goods store, the rules and regulations of her rooming houseâ€”ladies only. The competitive hustle at the parish dances are so like the ones back homeâ€”it''s something of a wonder I did not give up on the gentle tattle of her story, run a Netflix of the feline power struggle in Claire Booth Luce''s\n  <em>\n   The Women\n  </em>\n  . TÃ³ibÃ­n rescues his homesick shopgirl from narrow concerns, gives her a stop-by at Brooklyn College, a night course in commercial law. Her instructor is Joshua Rosenblum. Buying his book, the shopkeeper informs her, At least we did that, we got Rosenblum out.You mean in the war?His reply when she asks again: In the holocaust, in the\n  <em>\n   churben\n  </em>\n  .The scene is eerie, falsely naÃ¯ve. We may accept what a village girl from Ireland, which remained neutral during the war, may not have known, but TÃ³ibÃ­n''s delivery of the racial and ethnic discoveries of a clueless young woman are disconcerting. Eilis wonders if she should write home about the Jews, the Poles, the Italians she encounters, but shouldn''t the novelist in pursuing those postwar years in Brooklyn, in the Irish enclave of the generous Father Flood, take the mike? The Irish vets I knew when I came to New York in the early ''50s had been to that war; at least two I raised a glass with at the White Horse were from Brooklyn. When the stage is set for the love story, slowly and carefully as befits his serious girl, TÃ³ibÃ­n is splendidly in control of Eilis''s and Tony''s courtship. He''s Italian, you see, of a poor, caring family. I wanted to cast\n  <em>\n   Brooklyn\n  </em>\n  , with Rosalind Russell perfect for Rose, the sporty elder sister left to her career in Ireland. Can we get Philip Seymour Hoffman into that cassock again? J. Carol Naish, he played homeboy Italian, not the mob. I give away nothing in telling that the possibility of Eilis reclaiming an authentic and spirited life in Ireland turns\n  <em>\n   Brooklyn\n  </em>\n  into a stirring and satisfying moral tale. TÃ³ibÃ­n, author of\n  <em>\n   The Master\n  </em>\n  , a fine-tuned novel on the lonely last years of Henry James, revisits, diminuendo, the wrenching finale of\n  <em>\n   The Portrait of a Lady\n  </em>\n  . What the future holds for Eilis in America is nothing like Isabel Archer''s return to the morally corrupt Osmond. The decent fellow awaits. Will she be doomed to a tract house of the soul on Long Island? I hear John McCormick take the high noteâ€”\n  <em>\n   alone in the gloaming with the shadows of the past\n  </em>\n  â€”as TÃ³ibÃ­n''s good girl contemplates the lost promise of Brooklyn.\n  <strong>\n   Maureen Howard''s The Rags of Time\n  </strong>\n  , the last season of her quartet of novels based on the four seasons, will be published by Viking in October.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2854'),
(5600, 'Brother Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Odd Thomas meets his most fearsome enemy yet as he goes to stay in a monastery to recover after the death of Stormy, the love of his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1234');
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(5601, 'Brother, I&#39;m Dying', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In a single day in 2004, Danticat (_Breath, Eyes, Memory_;\n  <em>\n   The Farming of Bones\n  </em>\n  ) learns that she''s pregnant and that her father, AndrÃ©, is dyingâ€”a stirring constellation of events that frames this Haitian immigrant family''s story, rife with premature departures and painful silences. When Danticat was two, AndrÃ© left Haiti for the U.S., and her mother followed when Danticat was four. The author and her brother could not join their parents for eight years, during which AndrÃ©''s brother Joseph raised them. When Danticat was nine, Josephâ€”a pastor and gifted oratorâ€”lost his voice to throat cancer, making their eventual separation that much harder, as he wouldn''t be able to talk with the children on the phone. Both AndrÃ© and Joseph maintained a certain emotional distance through these transitions. Danticat writes of a Haitian adage, Ã‚Â ''When you bathe other people''s children, you should wash one side and leave the other side dirty.'' I suppose this saying cautions those who care for other people''s children not to give over their whole hearts. In the end, as Danticat prepares to lose her ailing father and give birth to her daughter, Joseph is threatened by a volatile sociopolitical clash and forced to flee Haiti. He''s then detained by U.S. Customs and neglected for days. He unexpectedly dies a prisoner while loved ones await news of his release. Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Edwidge Danticat''s father and uncle chose very different paths: the former struggled to make a new life for himself in America, while the latter remained in the homeland he paradoxically loved. In following their lives and their impact on future generations, Danticat''s powerful family memoir explores how the private and the political, the past and the present, intersect. The most poignant section focuses on Joseph''s tragic trip to the United States at age 81, but Danticat also tells a wider story about family and exile, the Haitian diaspora, the Duvalier regime, and post-9/11 immigration policy. Emotionally resonant and exceptionally clear-eyed,\n  <em>\n   Brother, I''m Dying\n  </em>\n  offers insight into a talented writer, her family history, and the injustices of the modern world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1803'),
(5602, 'Brute Force', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nick Stone''s eleventh adventure is McNab at his explosive best! A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain, loaded to the gunwales with enough arms and ammunition to start a war... Twenty years later, an unknown aggressor seems intent on eradicating those responsible for the treachery, one by one. And Nick Stone ex-SAS, tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained is next on the killer''s list... The fuse is lit... and Stone is catapulted into his most daunting mission yet a quest that takes him across two continents, and into the darker recesses of his own complex past. But first he must find a man who shared that past, and who may know more about the present threat than he is prepared to reveal. As the two find themselves pursued across sea and desert, they become ever more enmeshed in a deadly network of betrayal, to which Stone himself unwittingly holds the key. And in a final confrontation that echoes his worst nightmares, only he can stop the unthinkable and save the lives of those he holds most dear. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/343'),
(5603, 'Bullet', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The music came back up and the next group of little girls, slightly older, came out. There was a lot of that in the next hour and change. I liked dance, and it was no reflection on the kids, but my will to live began to seep away on about the fifth group of sequined children...   Anita Blake is back in St. Louis and trying to live a normal life-as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a U. S. Marshal. There are lovers, friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all the ordinary happiness a vampire from Anita''s past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, killed in an explosion, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, their dark creator. It''s hard to kill a god. This dark goddess has reached out to her here-in St. Louis, home of everyone Anita loves most. The Mother of All Darkness has decided she has to act now or never, to control Anita, and all the vampires in America.  The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with Anita and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to immigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken. Anita is about to learn a whole new meaning to sharing her body, one that has nothing to do with the bedroom. And if the Mother of All Darkness can''t succeed in taking over Anita''s body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again. Even Belle Morte, not always a friend to Anita, has sent word: "Run if you can..."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3470'),
(5604, 'The Bullet Trick', 'Louise Welsh', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n William Wilson''s stage magic career has tanked, girls sneer at him and he hits the bottle too often for someone whose livelihood depends on steady hands. Out of desperation, he makes two ruinous mistakes: he picks a policeman''s pocket and then picks up Sylvie, an American burlesque dancer in Berlin with dangerously intimate connections to the criminal underworld. The seriousness of these errors becomes slowly, agonizingly clear through a series of suspense-building flashbacksâ€”set in contemporary Berlin, London and Glasgowâ€”that show just how low a mostly decent man can sink, especially when a pretty woman is dragging him down and the glimmer of redemption always dances just ahead. In this successor to her debut (\n <em>\n  The Cutting Room\n </em>\n ), Welsh nails the dialogue perfectly, capturing the self-deprecating hope of washed-up men and women hunting for that one big break and the pity and scorn heaped upon them by those who are better off. It''s best to read this lurid tale in private, and wash your hands afterward.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In Louise Welsh crime fiction has one of its few real literary writers... Crime fiction may have its prize-winner at last." Independent "Brilliant... Every vignette, every minor character, every sight, sound and smell, has the ring of truth." Sunday Telegraph "Bold, imaginative, vibrant." Daily Telegraph "Welsh''s prose manages to be both tight and lyrical, suspenseful and poetic, compelling. Catapult[s] Welsh straight into the superstar league." The Times"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/511'),
(5605, 'Bulls Island', 'Dorothea Benton Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Elizabeth "Betts" McGee loved those lazy afternoons on pristine Bulls Island in the Carolina Lowcountry. But everything came crashing down when tragic fateâ€”coupled with nasty rumor and innuendoâ€”ended her engagement to Charleston golden boy J.D. Langley of the fabulously wealthy (and fabulously snooty) Langley clan. Betts left soon after, and she hasn''t been back in nearly twenty years.   Successfully reinventing herself in New York City, Betts is now a top banking executive and heading up the most important project of her career, but it''ll transform the untouched island she loved in her youth into something unrecognizable. And it''s forcing her to return to the bosom of her estranged family, where she may not be welcomed with open arms. Worse still, it''s uniting her with ex-flame J.D., who''s changed . . . but perhaps not enough.   And then there''s that crazy alligator . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3223'),
(5606, 'Buried Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Some secrets just can''t stay buried, in the brilliant new Lucas Davenport thriller from the number-one\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   - bestselling author.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of the best," said\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  of\n  <em>\n   Storm Prey\n  </em>\n  . "Razor-sharp dialogue, a tautly controlled pace and enough homicides for a miniseries. What more could fans want?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis-the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they''ve been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In 1985, Davenport was a young cop with a reputation for recklessness, and the girls'' disappearance was a big deal. His bosses ultimately declared the case closed, but he never agreed with that. Now that he has a chance to investigate it all over again, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: It wasn''t just the bodies that were buried. It was the truth.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John Sandford\n  </strong>\n  is the author of twenty-one Prey novels and ten other books of fiction, most recently the Virgil Flowers novel\n  <em>\n   Bad Blood\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Minnesota.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/680'),
(5607, 'Burn', 'Linda Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s true what they say: Money changes everything. And in Linda Howard''s red-hot novelBurn, the changes come fast, furious, and filled with the kind of sexy suspense, heart-stopping romance, beautiful people, and risky business guaranteed to give you the most bang for your buck. Money certainly changes Jenner Redwine''s life when she wins a lottery jackpot. But it also costs her plenty: Her father rips her off and disappears, her fortune-hunting boyfriend soon becomes her ex, and friends-turned-freeloaders give her the cold shoulder when she stops paying for everything. Flush with new money, Jenner can''t imagine ever finding a place in the world of the wealthy. Seven years later, though, she''s rubbing elbows with the rich, despite the fact she still feels like a party crasher. Luckily she finds an allyand a guide to the rarefied realm of privilegein shy, kind-hearted heiress Sydney Hazlett, who quickly becomes Jenner''s confidante and surrogate sister. When Sydney invites Jenner on a charity cruise aboard a luxury liner, Jenner reluctantly agrees. But while she''s expectingand dreadingtwo weeks of masquerade balls, art auctions, and preening glitterati, what she gets is more like a Hitchcock movie than a Love Boat episode. Taken hostage by a menacing stranger, Jenner must cooperate in a mysterious cloak-and-dagger schemeor else. With nowhere to run, and with Sydney''s life as well as her own at risk, Jenner is drawn into a game of dizzying intrigue and harrowing danger. But as her panic gives way to exhilaration, and fear of her captor turns to fascination, Jenner rediscovers feelings she hasn''t had in yearsand realizes she''s found a life worth living.If she survives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3479'),
(5608, 'Burn', 'Nevada Barr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nevada Barr brings her acclaimed New York Times bestselling Anna Pigeon series to Minotaur Books with one of her most compelling, complex novels yet!Â Anna Pigeon, a Ranger with the National Park Service, is newly married but on administrative leave from her job as she recovers from the traumas of the past couple of months. While the physical wounds have healed, the emotional ones are still healing. With her new husband back at work, Anna decides to go and stay with an old friend from the Park Service, Geneva, who works as a singer at the New Orleans Jazz NHP. She isnâ€™t in town long before she crosses paths with a tenant of Genevaâ€™s, a creepy guy named Jordan. She discovers what seems to be an attempt to place a curse on herâ€”a gruesomely killed pigeon marked with runic symbols; and begins to slowly find traces of very dark doings in the heart of post-Katrina New Orleans. Tied up in all of this is Jordan, who is not at all what he appears to be; a fugitive mother accused of killing her husband and daughters in a fire; and faint whispers of unpleasant goings-on in the heart of the slowly recovering city. Now it will take all of Annaâ€™s skills learned in the untamed outdoors to navigate the urban jungle in which she finds herself, to uncover the threads that connect these seemingly disparate people, and to rescue the most vulnerable of creatures from the most savage of animals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3716'),
(5609, 'Burning Angel', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  At the center of Burning Angel is Sonny Boy Marsallus, a fixer, a gambler, a lender of money to prostitutes who are trying to leave the life. But since Prohibition, the Giacano family has locked up the action in New Orleans and its surrounding parishes. When things get hot for Sonny Boy, he hightails it south of the border for parts unknown in El Salvador and Guatemala. When Sonny resurfaces in New Orleans, Detective Dave Robicheaux of the Iberia Parish sheriff''s office couldn''t be more surprised - that is, not until Sonny passes him a mysterious notebook for safekeeping that seems to contain dark secrets about his activities in Latin America. Robicheaux must wrestle with secrets closer to home as well when his help is enlisted by the Fontenot family, descendants of sharecroppers, whose claim to land they''ve lived on for almost one hundred years is jeopardized. Who wants the land so badly? And what of the longtime, clandestine affair between Moleen Bertrand, lord of the manor, and Ruthie Jean Fontenot, now reputed to be a local madam? As Dave determines to find out who''s honing in on the Bertrand spread, he puts himself in increasing peril at the hands of local mobsters and a hired assassin with a shady past that intersects with that of Sonny Boy Marsallus.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Ex-cop Dave Robicheaux: his wife has been murdered and now they''re after his little girl. From the Louisiana bayou to Montana''s tribal lands, he''s running from the bottle, a homicide rap, a professional killer . . . and the demons of his past. "The plot crackles with suspense."--Los Angeles Times Book Review.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/344'),
(5610, 'Burning Lamp', 'Amanda Quick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this second novel of the Dreamlight Trilogy from New York Times-bestselling author Amanda Quick, psychic power and passion collide as a legendary curse comes to a burn...  The Arcane Society was born in turmoil when the friendship of its two founders evolved into a fierce rivalry. Nicholas Winters''s efforts led to the creation of a device of unknown powers called the Burning Lamp. Each generation of male descendents who inherits it is destined to develop multiple talents-and the curse of madness.  Plagued by hallucinations and nightmares, notorious crime lord Griffin Winters is convinced he has been struck with the Winters Curse. But even has he arranges a meeting with the mysterious woman Adelaide Pyne, he has no idea how closely their fates are bound, for she holds the missing lamp in her possession.  But their dangerous psychic experiment makes them the target of forces both inside and outside of the Arcane Society. And though desire strengthens their power, their different lives will keep them apart-if death doesn''t take them together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3499'),
(5611, 'The Burning Land', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The latest in the bestselling series from number one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell. In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth.The Danes, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, smell opportunity. First comes Harald Bloodhair, a savage warrior leading a Vikinghorde, who is encouraged to cruelty by his woman, Skade. But Alfred still has the services of Uhtred, his unwilling warlord, who leads Harald into a trap and, at Farnham in Surrey, inflicts one of the greatest defeats the Vikings were ever to suffer. This novel, the fifth in the magnificent Saxon series of England''s history tells of the final assaults on Alfred''s Wessex, that Wessex survived to become England is because men like Uhtred defeated an enemy feared throughout Christendom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3252'),
(5612, 'The Burning Soul', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/631'),
(5613, 'The Burning Wire', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lincoln Rhyme is back, on the trail of a killer whose weapon of choice cripples New York City with fear. The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc flashes with voltage so high and heat so searing that steel melts and his victims are set afire. When the first explosion occurs in broad daylight, reducing a city bus to a pile of molten, shrapnel-riddled metal, officials fear terrorism. Rhyme, a world-class forensic criminologist known for his successful apprehension of the most devious criminals, is immediately tapped for the investigation. Long a quadriplegic, he assembles NYPD detective Amelia Sachs and officer Ron Pulaski as his eyes, ears and legs on crime sites, and FBI agent Fred Dellray as his undercover man on the street. As the attacks continue across the city at a sickening pace, and terrifying demand letters begin appearing, the team works desperately against time and with maddeningly little forensic evidence to try to find the killer. Or is it killers . . . ? Meanwhile, Rhyme is consulting on another high-profile investigation in Mexico with a most coveted quarry in his crosshairs: the hired killer known as the Watchmaker, one of the few criminals to have eluded Rhymeâ€™s net. Juggling two massive investigations against a cruel ticking clock takes a toll on Rhymeâ€™s health. Soon Rhyme is fighting on yet another frontâ€”and his determination to work despite his physical limitations threatens to drive away his closest allies when he needs them most . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3627'),
(5614, 'The Butcher&#39;s Theater', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div class="ff">\n  <div class="spacer">\n   Â \n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class="ff1">\n  <div class="ff">\n   <div class="blurb">\n    The first victim is a young Arab girl. Her obscenely mutilated corpse is found in some bushes on the slopes of Mount Scopus. She has been drugged with heroin, carved up with chilling care and skill. The mixture of calculation and frenzy sends a shockwave through a society where warfare and terrorism are everyday facts of life - but where sex murders and serial killers are virtually unknown. Chief Inspector Daniel Shalom Sharavi, himself a Yemenite Jew, takes charge of the case, bringing together a team as exotic and disparate as Jerusalem itself. Methodically and desperately slowly, they uncover a complex trail that leads to a point where private psychosis and public politics threaten to explode. The question is: will they be too late?Â \n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/749'),
(5615, 'By Order of the President', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a leased Boeing 727 is violently hijacked from Angola and flown to parts unknown, the President turns to an outsider--Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo--for answers. A pilot, West Point graduate, and veteran of Desert Storm, Castillo has a sharp eye for the facts--and the truth behind them. In Africa, he is helped and hindered by unexpected allies and ruthless enemies, and begins to untangle a plot of horrific dimensions--a plot that, unless Castillo acts quickly, will end very, very badly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/349'),
(5616, 'By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept of Forgiveness', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This first United States paperback of\n  <em>\n   By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept\n  </em>\n  comes after huge worldwide sales of the novel of faith, romance, miracles, and the importance of following the heart''s true path. The inspirational tale follows Pilar, a young woman from the Spanish countryside who, sparked by the teachings of a now-mysterious man she has known and loved since childhood, leaves her graduate studies and embarks on a spiritual pilgrimage through the Pyrenees Mountains and reevaluates her life and her future. Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, is considered to be one of the most widely-read Latin American writers in the world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Before James Redfield there was Coelho, whose fiction laden with spiritual messages has proved more popular overseas than here. (The Alchemist, first published in Brazil in 1988 and here in 1993, glanced PW''s paperback bestseller list but has sold two million copies in South America.) Though likely to please the author''s fans, this new novel, a didactic love story set in modern-day Spain, may not extend his reach. Its heroine is Pilar, 28, who, in the company of her former boyfriend, learns over the course of seven days that "the spiritual path is traveled by means of the daily experience of love." That may be music to Coelho devotees, but others will note the surrounding cacophony-the incessant lapsing from narrative into lecture; the stilted characters, who lack motive and verisimilitude (after 10 years of separation, the ex, a former seminarian, now an esteemed miracle worker, invites Pilar for coffee and declares his love for her). Coelho''s message, though, informed by his adherence to the Roman Catholic sect of the Order of Ram, is invariably heartfelt and challenging, emphasizing the feminine aspects of the divine and the charismatic aspects of worship. "Some day," Pilar learns, "people would realize... that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesize and understand." Whether that understanding will encompass Coelho''s reasons for sacrificing dramatic integrity to polemic, and for insisting on cloaking sermons in fictional trappings, remains to be seen. $75,000 ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1186'),
(5617, 'The Cabinet of Curiosities', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In seven bestselling novels (from Relic to The Ice Limit), Preston and Child have delivered a body of science-based thrillers that for high excitement and robust scientific imaginings rival those of Michael Crichton. Their eighth outing is another richly entertaining tale, about the hunt for a seemingly immortal serial killer at work in New York City. Preston and Child revive characters and settings from earlier novels, often a red flag that authorial imagination is tiring; but in this case, all comes together with zing. There''s FBI Special Agent Pendergast (from Relic), pale, refined and possessed of a Holmes-like brain; dogged New York Times reporter William Smithback Jr. and his fiery erstwhile girlfriend, Nora Kelly of the New York (read American, where Preston used to work) Museum of Natural History (both characters from Thunderhead with the museum the setting for Relic). The action begins when groundbreaking for an apartment tower in downtown Manhattan reveals a charnel house of murder victims from the late 19th century. Enter Pendergast, who for unexplained reasons taps Kelly to study the remains before the site is stripped by the building''s developer, a Donald Trump-type who, with the mayor''s backing, will accept no construction delays. As Kelly calls on Smithback for investigative help, the city is struck by killings that duplicate the earlier murders, with the victims'' spinal cords ripped away and clues pointing to a 19th-century scientist who sought the secret of immortality. Featuring fabulous locales, colorful characters, pointed riffs on city and museum politics, cool forensic and paleontological speculation and several gripping set pieces including an extended white-knuckle climax, this a great beach novel, at times gruesome, always fun: Preston-Child at the top of their game.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High School-FBI Special Agent Pendergast needs the talents of Nora Kelly, an archaeologist, and William Smithback, Jr., a researcher and reporter, to track down a serial killer whom he is sure has been stalking his prey since the late-19th century. When a real-estate developer demolishes a building and finds victims of a murderer who killed by tearing out their spinal columns, the three team up to pursue the evil behind the acts. Along the way, they nearly lose their lives as they relentlessly track the killer who, indeed, is still alive at the beginning of the 21st century. Pendergast stands out as a unique character, mysterious in his own right, with almost superhuman strength and endurance, and encyclopedic knowledge, and the human emotions and abilities of his two assistants intensifies interest in them. The authors again weave facts from New York City history with a thriller plot to produce an adventure filled with fast-moving events, gruesome scenes, and enough scary moments to keep the pages turning quickly. Fans of Preston and Child''s Relic (Tor, 1996) or Reliquary (Forge, 1997) will enjoy this title as well.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/609'),
(5618, 'Cadillac Jukebox', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of Burke''s series of crime stories set in the Louisiana bayou country, this story chronicles the difficult mission of Sheriff''s Deputy Dave Robicheaux to confirm the guilt of a redneck named Aaron Crown in the killing of a civil rights leader back in the 1960s, and to find out what Crown''s recent arrest has to do with an upcoming gubernatorial election. His task becomes mired in the history and inbred politics of New Iberia and thwarted by a ghoulish hit man who crawls out of the swamps to silence police informants. A wild story with enough oddball characters to make it interesting and worthwhile.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A ripeness of villains, the familiar good guys and some who travel the territory in between comprise the cast of the rich ninth Dave Robicheaux adventure, following Burning Angel. Nearly 30 years after the shooting death of a prominent black civil rights leader, Louisiana redneck Aaron Crown, age 68, is convicted of the crime. Crown, insisting he didn''t do it, asks Robicheaux, sheriff''s deputy of New Iberia, La., who once found his runaway daughter, to investigate. Meanwhile, others turn the story to their own advantage: Buford LaRose, a wealthy university professor running for Louisiana governor, hopes to ride the sales of his book, pointing to Crown''s guilt, to victory; and New York film interests come down to interview Crown. Then in New Orleans, a film writer is brutally executed. Despite a deep reluctance to be involved with the slick LaRose, whose wife he once slept with (and who tempts him still), Robicheaux is drawn into ensuing events. One of three mob-related figures whom Robicheaux suspects of backing LaRose warns him off; Crown escapes; LaRose wins the election; a huge psychopathic hired killer reappears; a mob figure is beaten to death; and a freethinker from the 1960s, now a LaRose family guru, is connected to a Mexican drug operation. Burke delivers more spectacular killings before clearing the 30-year-long thicket of revenge, ambition and blackmail and arriving at the Tara-like ending. The cast''s knotted relationships may not always be clear, but Robicheaux''s angst and stubborn do-right determination shine as bright as the plastic casing on the replica 1950''s Wurlitzer of the title. $250,000 ad/promo; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/352'),
(5619, 'Cage of Bones', 'Tania Carver', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keep the lights on for this one. Carver has delivered another utterly terrifying, yet believable chiller. The Mirror For lovers of a good thriller this is a must. Atmospheric and plain scary, you won''t be able to put it down Lizzie Hayes blog If you''re looking for an intelligent and well-presented novel, numerous twists and turns and great character representation then look no further Milo''s Rambles blog\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Workers demolishing a building in Colchester make a horrifying discovery in the basement: a cage made of human bones . . . with a feral child inside. As Phil Brennan and Marina Esposito investigate, they expose the trail of a serial killer who has been operating undetected for thirty years - a killer with a disturbing connection to Brennan''s father.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/732'),
(5620, 'The Caine Mutiny', 'Herman Wouk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  The Novel that Inspired the Now-Classic Film The Caine Mutiny and the Hit Broadway Play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Herman Wouk''s boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half century, The Caine Mutiny has become a perennial favorite of readers young and old, has sold millions of copies throughout the world, and has achieved the status of a modern classic.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Upon its original publication in 1951, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was immediately embraced as one of the first serious works of fiction to help readers grapple with the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half-century, Herman Wouk''s boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining story of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater has achieved the status of a modern classic.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3060'),
(5621, 'The Cairo Diary', 'Maxim Chattam', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n British-occupied Cairo, 1928: Several young children have disappeared and were then found, horribly mutilated, in the tombs just outside the city. Panic is spreading among the locals after a cloaked giant is sighted. Has a ghoul from One Thousand and One Nights been brought to life? British inspector Jeremy Matheson follows the trail of the monster, which takes him into the depths of underground Cairo as well as deep into his own tortured past. Mont-Saint-Michel, 2005: Marion has taken refuge in the wind-swept and remote monastery located on a spit of land on the west coast of France. In the wake of a scandal, caused by her own revelations, that is now reverberating through the French capital, she has been spirited away from Paris and brought here by the Secret Service for her own protection. When she finds a diary dating from 1928 in the monastery library, penned by Jeremy Matheson and hidden inside the jacket of an Edgar Allen Poe book, she is inexorably pulled into the past as she is being watched, and taunting notes and riddles urge her to give back what is not hers. . . â€˜One of the best contemporary thriller authorsâ€™ Le Monde\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3906'),
(5622, 'Caleb&#39;s Crossing', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A richly imagined new novel from the author of the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestseller,\n   <em>\n    People of the Book\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha''s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The narrator of\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island''s glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia''s minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe''s shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb''s crossing of cultures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like Brooks''s beloved narrator Anna in\n  <em>\n   Year of Wonders\n  </em>\n  , Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha''s Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing,\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  further establishes Brooks''s place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Geraldine Brooks\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the novels\n  <em>\n   People of the Book, March\n  </em>\n  (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) and\n  <em>\n   Year of Wonders\n  </em>\n  and the nonfiction works\n  <em>\n   Nine Parts of Desire\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Foreign Correspondence\n  </em>\n  . Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha''s Vineyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their two sons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Visit geraldinebrooks.com\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3251'),
(5623, 'Call Me Irresistible', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Call Me Irresistible   R.S.V.P. to the most riotous wedding of the year . . .   Lucy Jorik is the daughter of a former president of the United States.   Meg Koranda is the offspring of legends.   One of them is about to marry Mr. Irresistibleâ€”Ted Beaudineâ€”the favorite son of Wynette, Texas. The other is not happy about it and is determined to save her friend from a mess of heartache.   But even though Meg knows that breaking up her best friend''s wedding is the right thing to do, no one else seems to agree. Faster than Lucy can say "I don''t," Meg becomes the most hated woman in townâ€”a town she''s stuck in with a dead car, an empty wallet, and a very angry bridegroom. Broke, stranded, and without her famous parents at her back, Meg is sure she can survive on her own wits. What''s the worst that can happen? Lose her heart to the one and only Mr. Irresistible? Not likely. Not likely at all.   Call Me Irresistible is the book Susan Elizabeth Phillips''s readers have long awaited. Ted, better known as "little Teddy," the nine-year-old heartbreak kid from Phillips''s first bestseller, Fancy Pants, and as "young Teddy," the hunky new college graduate in Lady Be Good, is all grown up nowâ€”along with Lucy from First Lady and Meg from What I Did for Love. They''re ready to take center stage in a saucy, funny, and highly addictive tale fans will love.   "Crown Susan Elizabeth Phillips the queen of romantic comedy," raves the McClatchy-Tribune News Service, just one of numerous accolades the beloved New York Times bestselling author has earned in her remarkable career.   For more than three decades, this wise and witty writer has charmed hearts and won the devotion of legions of readers. Now she''s back with the book her fans have been demandingâ€”a sassy, sexy, downright irresistible tale of true love Texas-style, featuring gorgeous heartbreaker Ted Beaudine, now grown up and in a heap of romantic trouble all his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3224'),
(5624, 'Call Me Mrs. Miracle', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Christmas, Emily Merkle (call her Mrs. Miracle!) is working in the toy department at Finley''s, the last family-owned department store in New York City. And her boss is none other thanâ€¦Jake Finley, the owner''s son.For Jake, holiday memories of brightly wrapped gifts, decorated trees and family were destroyed in a Christmas Eve tragedy years before. Now Christmas means just one thing to himâ€”and to his father. Profit. Because they need a Christmas miracle to keep the business afloat.Holly Larson needs a miracle, too. She wants to give her eight-year-old nephew, Gabe, the holiday he deserves. Holly''s widowed brother is in the army and won''t be home for Christmas, but at least she can get Gabe that toy robot from Finley''s, the one gift he desperately wants. If she can figure out how to afford itâ€¦Fortunately, it''s Mrs. Miracle to the rescue. Next to making children happy, she likes nothing better than helping othersâ€”and that includes doing a bit of matchmaking!This Christmas will be different. For all of them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3233'),
(5625, 'The Camel Club', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the truth behind their country''s actions. One man leads this aging, ragtag crew. He has no known past and has taken the name Oliver Stone. Day and night, Stone and his friends study wild conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government, hoping to discover some truth that will hold America''s leaders accountable to its citizens. Yet never in Stone''s wildest nightmares could he imagine the conspiracy the Camel Club is about to uncover. After witnessing a shocking murder, the Club is slammed headfirst into a plot that threatens the very security of the nation, full of stunning twists, high-stakes intrigue, and global gamesmanship rocketing to the Oval Office and beyond. Soon the Club must join forces with veteran Secret Service agent Alex Ford, who becomes an unwilling participant in one of the most chilling spectacles to ever take place on American soil. It''s an event that may well be the catalyst for the long threatened Armageddon between two different worlds, and all that stands in the way of this apocalypse are five unexpected heroes. In The Camel Club, bestselling author David Baldacci paints a frighteningly vivid portrait of a world that could be our own very soon, and the few people who have a chance to stop the chaos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/57'),
(5626, 'Capital Crimes', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Internationally bestselling novelists each in their own right, husband and wife Jonathan and Faye Kellerman team up for a powerful one-two punch with Capital Crimes, a gripping pair of original crime thrillers set in two cities rich in atmosphere, and featuring appearances by the authors'' signature heroes: LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker and psychologist sleuth Dr. Alex Delaware.\n <br />\n <br />\n MY SISTER''S KEEPER: BERKELEY\n <br />\n <br />\n Progressive state representative Davida Grayson fits in well with her Berkeley constituents. But some of Davida''s views have made her unpopular elsewhere. Davida''s foes are numerous: politicians on the other side of the aisle, racist hatemongers, even dissenters in her own party. Still, no one suspects that any buttons Davida might push could evoke deadly force.\n <br />\n <br />\n But now Davida lies brutally murdered in her office, and Berkeley homicide detectives Will Barnes and Amanda Isis must unravel Davida''s complex, surprising life in order to find her killer. As they dig deeper, Will and Amanda realize that the real Davida Grayson was someone the public never knew. The investigation draws the detectives into a labyrinth of hidden sexuality, dark secrets, betrayal, and bloody vengeance that leads tortuously into madness. With time short and the suspect list long, Barnes and Isis must find the answers before the killer pulls off a repeat performance.\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n MUSIC CITY BREAKDOWN: NASHVILLE\n <br />\n <br />\n Baker Southerby, the son of musicians, was a child prodigy performer. But something Baker won''t talk about leads him to quit the honky-tonk circuit, become a Nashville cop, and never look back. His partner, Lamar Van Gundy, is a would-be studio bassist from up North who never quite made the cut in Music City, so instead earned himself a detective''s badge. Now both men are members of Nashville PD''s elite Murder Squad, with a solid record for solves. But when they catch a homicide that''s high-profile even for a city where musical celebrity is routine, their skills are tested: Jack Jeffries, a rock legend who cast aside personal demons and emerged from retirement to perform at a charity benefit, has been discovered in a ditch near the Cumberland River, his throat slashed.\n <br />\n <br />\n It''s a whodunit as heartbreaking as it is baffling. Southerby and Van Gundy understand the rhythms of the music biz as intimately as the streets they work - and know that both have their dark sides. What the detectives don''t realize is just how high the price of success can be. Long before the last notes of Jack Jeffries''s final song have faded, Southerby and Van Gundy will learn about the dangers of concealing a hidden past . . . the hard way. Capital Crimes\n <strong>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n </strong>\n is page-turning, psychologically resonant suspense - just what we''ve come to expect from two of the world''s most successful crime writers.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/750'),
(5627, 'Capital Crimes', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Will Lee, the courageous and uncompromising senator from Georgia, is back-now as President of the United States-in this fifth book of the New York Times bestselling series that began with Chiefs.  When a prominent conservative politician is killed inside his lakeside cabin, authorities have no suspect in sight. And two more seemingly different deaths might be linked to the same murderer. From a quiet D.C. suburb to the corridors of power to a deserted island hideaway in Maine, Will, his CIA director wife, Kate, and the FBI will track their man, set a trap-and await the most dangerous kind of quarry, a killer with a cause to die for...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2685'),
(5628, 'Capture', 'Roger Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a city where the lines between rich and poor are drawn in blood, the truth is just the lie you believe the most ...Capture tells the stories of three desperate people. A father who is broken by grief and guilt. A son still haunted by the ghosts of his past. And a mother, desperate to save her child.In Cape Town, these three are drawn into a spiral of manipulation and murder that leaves them fighting for their sanity and their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3857'),
(5629, 'The Cardinal of the Kremlin', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two men possess vital data on Russia''s Star Wars missile defense system. One of them is CARDINAL--America''s highest agent in the Kremlin--and he''s about to be terminated by the KGB. The other is the one American who can save CARDINAL and lead the world to the brink of peace--or war.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his fourth book, Clancy uses nuclear strategies to probe the ambiguities of fighting the good fightthe Americans vs. the Soviets. By the time familiar hero Jack Ryan steps in to investigate mysterious structures on the Soviet-Afghan border, the Soviets have struck again by zapping a satellite with a free electron laser. The title''s cardinal, an elite, well-placed source in the Kremlin, leaks details of this secret activity to the United States. In the backdrop of technological bravura, spiced by artful espionage and all-too-human mistakes, intelligence is transferred back and forth and there are attacks and counterattacks. It is a mark of Clancy''s growing maturity as a writer that he can bring these subtleties into highly entertaining form. Literary Guild Main. Barbara Conaty, Library of Congress\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1146'),
(5630, 'Careless in Red', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and rugged coastline. But no matter how far he walks, no matter how exhausting his days, the painful memories of Helen''s death do not diminish. On the forty-third day of his walk, at the base of a cliff, Lynley discovers the body of a young man who appears to have fallen to his death. The closest town, better known for its tourists and its surfing than its intrigue, seems an unlikely place for murder. However, it soon becomes apparent that a clever killer is indeed at work, and this time Lynley is not a detective but a witness and possibly a suspect. The head of the vastly understaffed local police department needs Lynley''s help, though, especially when it comes to the mysterious, secretive woman whose cottage lies not far from where the body was discovered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3374'),
(5631, 'Caribou Island', 'David Vann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska''s Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unravelling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following the outline of Gary''s old dream, they''re hauling logs out to Caribou Island in good weather and in terrible storms, in sickness and in health, to patch together the kind of cabin that drew them to Alaska in the first place. Across the water on the mainland, Irene and Gary''s grown daughter, Rhoda is starting her own life. She fantasizes about the perfect wedding day, whilst her betrothed, Jim the dentist, wonders about the possibility of an altogether different future. From the author of the massively-acclaimed Legend of a Suicide, comes a devastating novel about a marriage, a couple blighted by past shadows and the weight of expectation, of themselves and of each other. Brilliantly drawn and fiercely honest in its depiction of love and disappointment, David Vann''s first novel confirms him as one of America''s most dazzling writers of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/355');
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(5632, 'Carl Hiaasen Omnibus 2', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n NATIVE TONGUE: A hilarious black crime comedy starring PR man Joe Winder, who winds up on the trail of some butter-fingered thugs who''ve stolen his precious blue-tongued mango voles . . .  STRIP TEASE: When corrupt and lecherous congressman Dave Dilbeck throws himself at stripper Erin Grant on stage at the tastefully named Eager Beaver, little does he realise that he''s opening himself up to blackmail. Can Malcolm ''Moldy'' Moldowsky save Dilbeck''s face? Erin has other plans . . .  STORMY WEATHER: Nine-tenths of the population emerge unscathed from the hurricane that devastates Dade County in southern Florida. But who cares about them? For everyone else, the aftermath of the direct hit - homelessness, looting, destruction - is the second goldrush and the year''s hottest scam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/450'),
(5633, 'Carpe Corpus', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peaceâ€”until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. Heâ€™s kept a death grip on the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is brewing, and in order to contain it, Bishop must go to even greater lengths. He vows to obliterate the town and all its inhabitantsâ€”the living and the undead. Claire Danvers and her friends are the only ones who stand in his way. But even if they defeat Bishop, will the vampires ever be content to go back to the old rules, after having such a taste of power?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3166'),
(5634, 'Carrie', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In one way or another, everybody abused Carrie. This sixteen-year-old misfit was forbidden everything that was young and fun by her fanatical mother. She was teased and taunted by her classmates, misunderstood by her teachers, and given up as hopeless by almost everyone.But Carrie had a secret: She possessed terrifying telekinetic powers that could make inanimate objects move, a lighted candle fall, or a door lock. Carrie could make all kinds of startling bizarre, and malevolent things happen. And so she did one night, when feeling scorned and humiliated\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/827'),
(5635, 'Carte Blanche', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œThe face of war is changing.The other side doesn''t play by the rules much anymore.Thereâ€™s thinking, in some circles,that we need to play by a different set of rules too â€¦â€Â James Bond, in his early thirties and already a veteran of the Afghan war, has been recruited to a new organization. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of MI5, MI6 and the Ministry of Defense, its very existence deniable. Its aim: To protect the Realm, by any means necessary.A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week:Â Casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected.And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfill his mission . . .Â Â The new thriller by Master of the Mind GameJEFFERY DEAVERfeaturing JAMES BOND as youâ€™ve never seen him before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3537'),
(5636, 'Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization', 'Richard Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally succumbed and their capital city, history, and culture were almost utterly erased.\n</p>\n<p>\n Drawing on a wealth of new archaeological research, Richard Miles vividly brings to life this lost empire-from its origins among the Phoenician settlements of Lebanon to its apotheosis as the greatest seapower in the Mediterranean. And at the heart of the history of Carthage lies the extraordinary figure of Hannibal-the scourge of Rome and one of the greatest military leaders, but a man who also unwittingly led his people to catastrophe.\n</p>\n<p>\n The first full-scale history of Carthage in decades,\n <em>\n  Carthage Must Be Destroyed\n </em>\n reintroduces modern readers to the larger-than-life historical players and the ancient glory of this almost forgotten civilization.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2187'),
(5637, 'A Case of Conscience', 'James Blish', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The citizens of the planet Lithia are some of the most ethical sentient beings Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez has ever encountered. True, they have no literature, no fine arts, and don''t understand the concept of recreation, but neither do they understand the concepts of greed, envy, lust, or any of the sins and vices that plague humankind. Their world seems darned near perfect. And that is just what disturbs the good Father.\n</p>\n<p>\n First published in 1959, James Blish''s Hugo Award-winning\n <em>\n  A Case of Conscience\n </em>\n is science fiction at its very best: a fast-paced, intelligent story that offers plenty of action while at the same time explores complex questions of values and ethics. In this case, Blish has taken on the age-old battle of good vs. evil. Lithia poses a theological question that lies at the heart of this book: is God necessary for a moral society? The Lithians are nothing if not moral. Not only do they lack the seven deadly sins, they also lack original sin. And without any sort of religious framework, they have created the Christian ideal world, one that humans would be eager to study and emulate. But is it too perfect? Is it in fact, as Father Ruiz-Sanchez suspects, the work of The Adversary? And what role does Egtverchi, the young Lithian raised on Earth, play? Is he an innocent victim of circumstance, or will he bring about the Dies Irae, the day of the wrath of God, upon the earth? The fate of two worlds hinges on the answers to these questions, and will lead to an ancient earth heresy that shakes the Jesuit priest''s beliefs to their very core.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Case of Conscience\n </em>\n is a brilliant piece of storytelling, and it packs a lot into a scant 242 pages. Most readers will probably finish the book in one sitting, unable to stop until the spectacular denouement. But the questions posed by this little-known gem will stay with you for days afterward.\n <em>\n  --P.M. Atterberry\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confronted with a profound scientific riddle and ethical quandary, Father Ruiz-Sanchez soon finds himself torn between the teachings of his faith, the teachings of his science, and the inner promptings of his humanity. There is only one solution: He must accept an ancient and unforgivable heresy--and risk the futures of both worlds . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1016'),
(5638, 'A Case of Need', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I love anything Michael Crichton writes, but his early medical thrillers have been favorites of mine. (Stephen King)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park and Rising Sun, this national bestseller combines breathtaking suspense with a penetrating examination of America''s medical establishment. When a woman bleeds to death on the operating table, her physician is accused of murder--and another physician searches for the horrible truth. HC: Dutton.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/326'),
(5639, 'Casino Royale', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The allure of James Bond was best described by Raymond Chandler, who insisted that 007 is "what every man would like to be and what every woman would like to have between her sheets." Who can argue with that? This month marks the 40th anniversary of the film release of Dr. No, which was the first Bond adventure to make the big screen, and two big coffee-table books are being published to honor the occasion (LJ 10/1/02, p. 96). Shockingly, Fleming''s original novels have gone out of print, but Penguin here reproduces a trio of the British secret agent''s early outings, released in 1952, 1958, and 1959, respectively, sporting stylish cover art. These stories were racy for the nifty Fifties but are quite tame by today''s standards. Still, they can be fun.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bond is what every man would like to be and what every woman would like to have between her sheets. (Raymond Chandler)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1128'),
(5640, 'The Cassandra Compact', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Covert-One, the president''s personal, super-secret agency formed after some recent virus-driven chaos (\n  <em>\n   The Hades Factor\n  </em>\n  , cowritten with Gayle Lynds), is staffed by an unknown number of international covert operatives, including Dr. Jon Smith, late of the USAMRIID. And a good thing, too, because someone''s helped themselves to Russia''s share of the world''s last two stores of the smallpox virus, an eradicated yet hideously deadly bug with no ready vaccine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That the pox was nabbed and who nabbed it is clear enough early on. Why such a seemingly large and disparate cadre of global citizens (keeping the players straight puts one in mind of Abbott and Costello''s "Who''s on First" routine) chose to pinch the bug and for what end are the novel''s driving questions. Freelance Serbian uber-nasty, Ivan Beria, is among the apparent perpetrators as are Dylan Reed and Adam Treloar of NASA, Tony Price, the head of the super- secret NSA, and a bunch of Russians. The good-guys roster claims Smith; Covert- One''s head, Nathaniel Klein; Briton and ex-SAS man, Peter Howell; Smith''s deceased girlfriend''s sister and CIA operative, Randi Russell; the girlfriend''s best friend, backup shuttle astronaut Megan Olson; and another bunch of Russians. Suffice it to say that Smith and company trot the globe, cat-and- mousing after the pox and in so doing careen through a classically speedy and Ludlumesque (if coincidence dependent) plot leaving large numbers of efficiently dispatched corpses in their wake.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Most authors of international thriller-mysteries would give their right trench coat to make The New York TimesÂ® Best Sellers list. Of the late Robert Ludlum''s 21 novels, 21 have resided upon that list. Where\n  <em>\n   The Cassandra Compact\n  </em>\n  , written with bestselling thriller author Philip Shelby (\n  <em>\n   Gatekeeper\n  </em>\n  , etc.), winds up is anyone''s guess, but a few hundred thousand nightstands is a good place to start. And stay tuned for more installments--Ludlum may be dead, but he''s not done yet.\n  <em>\n   --Michael Hudson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ludlum continues to imitate his imitators in his second Covert-One biotech thriller (after The Hades Factor), this time with coauthor Shelby (Days of Drums, etc.). Medical researcher and sometime spy Lt. Col. Jonathan Smith aided by CIA agent Randi Russell, British operative Peter Howell and ultrasecret spymaster Nathaniel Klein faces another villainous plot to unleash a deadly disease on an unsuspecting populace. Retired from the Army Medical Research Unit for Infectious Diseases after the death of his fiancâ€še, Smith heads to Venice to meet a Russian scientist who is killed by Sicilian mercenaries before he can warn Smith that a sample of smallpox is about to be stolen from a Russian bioresearch facility. Up against a global military-corporate conspiracy with moles at NASA, the Pentagon and the KGB, Smith follows the smallpox across the Atlantic to Houston Mission Control and beyond. The cinematic chase through changing landscapes and mounting body count gives the book its rapid pace, while insider politics, tradecraft and technical wizardry lend an extra kick. Boilerplate dialogue ("The hit came down as arranged. But there was an unexpected development. I''m expecting an update shortly") and movie logic (after ordering the space shuttle to land in Nevada with the most virulent smallpox strain ever and several dead astronauts aboard, the president hops Air Force One to go meet it) show Ludlum may leverage his brand name, but no longer delivers the complex situations that earned him his reputation as a premier writer of international intrigue. National advertising. (May 15)Forecast: Ludlum died just last month, and word is he left a few books in the works. It''s been a while since he was in top form, but some readers are bound to overlook the telltale "Robert Ludlum''s" in the title.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1189'),
(5641, 'The Castaways', 'Elin Hilderbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the tiny island of Nantucket, everything is everyone''s business. So when Greg MacAvoy, the charming music teacher, shares a rainy Sunday night with April Peck, the beautiful high school senior, gossip abounds. Greg''s wife Tess is torn between the rumors, and an undeniable love for her husband -- and she has a secret of her own. A few months later, having put the unpleasantness behind them, the MacAvoys head out on their sailboat to celebrate their anniversary.Then comes the heartbreaking news: Greg and Tess have mysteriously drowned, leaving behind their two small children. Their closest friends are devastated. The four families have vacationed and celebrated everything together for as long as anyone can remember. But scandal and tragedy have a way of bringing emotions and truth to the surface: Delilah Drake''s love for Greg, Addison Wheeler''s disapproval of him, and Tess''s shocking secret. In a state of denial and grief, the friends now have one more question: What really happened to the MacAvoys?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3586'),
(5642, 'Cat &amp; Mouse', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Killer Gary Soneji is back, filled with hatred and gaining revenge on detective Alex Cross. Nothing, not even death itself, is going to stand in his way.\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/287'),
(5643, 'Cat Chaser', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The last time Florida motel owner George Moran was in the Dominican Republic he was in a uniform and people were shooting at him. Years later he''s back looking for a girl he lost - and finding one he''d be better off without. But that doesn''t matter to George while he''s sleeping with beautiful Mary de Boya - only when he discovers his lover is the wife of a former death squad general in exile with solid mob connections. Now George is bringing big trouble back with him to the Sunshine State - as his nostalgic trip down memory lane has tangled him up in a cat''s cradle of drug deals, swindles, vengeance and murder... and a love that''s not only blind but lethal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3120'),
(5644, 'Catch Me', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner''s latest D.D. Warren thriller, the relentless Boston investigator must solve a coldly calculated murder--before it happens. In four days, someone is going to kill me . . . Detective D. D. Warren is hard to surprise. But a lone woman outside D.D.''s latest crime scene shocks her with a remarkable proposition: Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant believes she will be murdered in four days. And she wants Boston''s top detective to handle the death investigation.It will be up close and personal. No evidence of forced entry, no sign of struggle. Charlie tells a chilling story: Each year at 8:00 p.m. on January 21st, a woman has died. The victims have been childhood best friends from a small town in New Hampshire; the motive remains unknown. Now only one friend, Charlie, remains to count down her final hours.But as D.D. quickly learns, Charlie Grant doesn''t plan on going down without a fight. By her own admission, the girl can outshoot, outfight, and outrun anyone in Boston. Which begs the question, is Charlie the next victim, or the perfect perpetrator? As D.D. tracks a vigilante gunman who is killing pedophiles in Boston, she must also delve into the murders of Charlie''s friends, racing to find answers before the next gruesome January 21 anniversary. Is Charlie truly in danger, or is she hiding a secret that may turn out to be the biggest threat of all?In four days, someone is going to kill me. But the son of a bitch has gotta catch me first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3180'),
(5645, 'Catch-22', 'Joseph Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n There was a time when reading Joseph Heller''s classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it''s impossible not to consider\n <em>\n  Catch-22\n </em>\n to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel''s undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller''s characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yossarian says, "You''re talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."\n <br />\n "Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"\n <br />\n "To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn''t make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who''s dead."\n <br />\n "I can''t think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."\n <br />\n "The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who''s going to get you killed, no matter which side he''s on."\n <br />\n Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It''s a good thing, too. As long as there''s a military, that engine of lethal authority,\n <em>\n  Catch-22\n </em>\n will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It''s an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n It would be difficult to imagine richer material for an audiobook reader, comedically speaking, than Joseph Heller''s classic novel of wartime madness. Sanders is the lucky actor chosen to read Heller''s masterpiece, and he does well by it, proceeding gamely through the novel''s staggering array of comic set pieces and deliriously woozy dialogue. Heller''s humor is straight-faced, requiring little more than a steady, sure voice, and Sanders offers just that. Line by line, joke by joke, Sanders reels through the marvelous phantasmagoria of Heller''s World War II, tongue planted firmly in cheek. Caedmon''s impressive package includes a 1970s-era recording of Heller reading selections from his book. Heller is a delightful contrast to Sanders, his slight lisp accentuating a marvelous Brooklyn accent. Heller reads as if with cigar perched on his lip and turns his novel into an extended borscht belt comic''s riff.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1034'),
(5646, 'The Catcher in the Rye', 'J. D. Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it''s relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the ''phony'' aspects of society, and the ''phonies'' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Lazy in style, full of slang and swear words, it''s a novel whose interest and appeal comes from its observations rather than its plot intrigues (in conventional terms, there is hardly any plot at all). Salinger''s style creates an effect of conversation, it is as though Holden is speaking to you personally, as though you too have seen through the pretences of the American Dream and are growing up unable to see the point of living in, or contributing to, the society around you. Written with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood, it deals with society, love, loss, and expectations without ever falling into the clutch of a cliche.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1083'),
(5647, 'Catching Fire', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Suzanne Collins continues the amazing story of Katniss Everdeen in the phenomenal Hunger Games trilogy.Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3730'),
(5648, 'Catching Fireflies', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When bullying threatens to destroy a teen''s life, painful memories resurface for dedicated high school teacher Laura Reed and pediatrician J. C. Fullerton. With the support of the Sweet Magnolias, they bring the town together to ensure that a promising student''s future isn''t ruined. And to establish once and for all that bullying has no place in Serenity, South Carolina. Both J.C.''s and Laura''s passion for the cause is deeply personal, and their growing feelings for each other are just as strong. But with so many secret hurts to overcome, can these two vulnerable lovers find the strength to believe in happily ever after?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3837'),
(5649, 'Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity', 'David Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.**  Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch''s  *Catching the Big Fish* provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker''s methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.  *Catching the Big Fish* comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch''s personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity.  **Catching Ideas**  * Ideas are like fish.  If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you''ve got to go deeper.  Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They''re huge and abstract. And they''re very beautiful.  I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything.  Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch.*  -from *Catching the Big Fish*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1804'),
(5650, 'Catherine the Great', 'Simon Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Catherine II of Russia (1729â€“96) might have been forgotten as a German-born Romanov brood mare but for her unscrupulous seizure of the Russian throne in 1762 and subsequent lengthy reign as the quintessential Enlightenment monarchâ€”achievements that have fascinated posterity ever since. For her remarkable story, British historian Dixon, steeped in Catherineâ€™s setting, positions his work between the scholarly and the salacious and accents courtier politics and the autocratâ€™s sensibilities. After recounting the palace coup that brought Catherine to power, Dixon develops her approach to wielding it through her interactions with builders, diplomats, generals, lackeys, and pen pals, such as Voltaire, on the receiving end of her reforming zeal. With the building boom in St. Petersburg, constitutional changes, and territorial expansion that accompanied her reign as backdrops to his portrait, Dixon sympathetically educes Catherineâ€™s personal life; that is, the train of swains caught up in herâ€”as one chapter title puts itâ€”â€œsearch for emotional stability.â€ An appreciation of the person Catherine the Great that is full of insightful perceptions. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThere is lots new in this superb biography . . . [Dixon] manages to be scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times.â€ (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Sashenka and Young Stalin )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLike Catherine herself, Simon Dixonâ€™s new biography is attractive, engaging, and very intelligent. It wears its scholarship lightly, too, but established fans of the Russian empress will find plenty of new material and those who are meeting her for the first time will be dazzled.â€ (Catherine Merridale, author of Ivan''s War and Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2189'),
(5651, 'Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman', 'Robert K. Massie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of\n  <em>\n   Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Romanovs\n  </em>\n  returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into Empress of Russia by sheer determination. Possessing a brilliant mind and an insatiable curiosity as a young woman, she devoured the works of Enlightenment philosophers and, when she reached the throne, attempted to use their principles to guide her rule of the vast and backward Russian empire. She knew or corresponded with the preeminent historical figures of her time: Voltaire, Diderot, Frederick the Great, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, Marie Antoinette, and, surprisingly, the American naval hero, John Paul Jones.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reaching the throne fired by Enlightenment philosophy and determined to become the embodiment of the â€œbenevolent despotâ€ idealized by Montesquieu, she found herself always contending with the deeply ingrained realities of Russian life, including serfdom. She persevered, and for thirty-four years the government, foreign policy, cultural development, and welfare of the Russian people were in her hands. She dealt with domestic rebellion, foreign wars, and the tidal wave of political change and violence churned up by the French Revolution that swept across Europe. Her reputation depended entirely on the perspective of the speaker. She was praised by Voltaire as the equal of the greatest of classical philosophers; she was condemned by her enemies, mostly foreign, as â€œthe Messalina of the north.â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Catherineâ€™s family, friends, ministers, generals, lovers, and enemiesâ€”all are here, vividly described. These included her ambitious, perpetually scheming mother; her weak, bullying husband, Peter (who left her lying untouched beside him for nine years after their marriage); her unhappy son and heir, Paul; her beloved grandchildren; and her â€œfavoritesâ€â€”the parade of young men from whom she sought companionship and the recapture of youth as well as sex. Here, too, is the giant figure of Gregory Potemkin, her most significant lover and possible husband, with whom she shared a passionate correspondence of love and separation, followed by seventeen years of unparalleled mutual achievement.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story is superbly told. All the special qualities that Robert K. Massie brought to\n  <em>\n   Nicholas and Alexandra\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Peter the Great\n  </em>\n  are present here: historical accuracy, depth of understanding, felicity of style, mastery of detail, ability to shatter myth, and a rare genius for finding and expressing the human drama in extraordinary lives.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  History offers few stories richer in drama than that of Catherine the Great. In this book, this eternally fascinating woman is returned to life.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2877'),
(5652, 'Caught', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Along with his Myron Bolitar series, Coben''s stand-alone novels have cemented his reputation as a solid writer and a relentless plotter of high-octane entertainment. "I''m pretty sure it all worked out in the end, with no loose ends, but I wouldn''t want to take a test," the\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n says of the "rococo plot" in\n <em>\n  Caught\n </em>\n . The author''s "family" novels address some important social issues and will resonate with anyone who has children, and the Internet angle is timely. With his latest effort--though, admittedly, a generally slower-paced effort with weaker characterization than in other novels--Coben delivers solid entertainment. Again.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The thrill-a-minute action zooms on sharp, slippery twists and turns in a white-knuckle race from start to finish."\n <br />\n -Nora Roberts\n</p>\n<p>\n "With\n <em>\n  Caught\n </em>\n , Harlan Coben knocked another one out of the park!"\n <br />\n -_New York Times_ bestselling author Lisa Jackson\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Caught_ is dark-hearted, quintessential Coben, and his character Wendy Tynes is completely driven to make things right. This novel is psychologically twisted, fascinating, and guaranteed to make you both look over your shoulder and sign up with the good guys."\n <br />\n -_New York Times_ bestselling author Luanne Rice\n</p>\n<p>\n "Quite simply, Harlan Coben is one of my favorite authors. His books have it all: nail-biting suspense, roller-coaster plots, relevant social issues, and pitch-perfect characters. Most important to me, his stories have a lot of heart. He writes about men-and women-you know, people who could be your neighbors, your friends, your family."\n <br />\n -_New York Times_ bestselling author Kristin Hannah\n</p>\n<p>\n "A Tilt-A-Whirl of a story....Buckle up and prepare for whiplash."\n <br />\n -Sandra Brown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/363'),
(5653, 'Cause of Death', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This New Year''s Eve marks the end of a life-and the beginning of a nightmare for Kay Scarpetta.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3033'),
(5654, 'A Cedar Cove Christmas', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mother-to-be Mary Jo Wyse arrives in Cedar Cove on Christmas Eve, searching for her baby''s father. David Rhodes had said he''d be in town. But he isn''t. Which leaves Mary Jo stranded, pregnant and alone. And there''s no room at the local inn.â€¦So Grace Harding brings Mary Jo home to her nearby ranch. She and her husband, Cliff, have a houseful of guests, but they offer her a room over their stable (currently sheltering the animalsâ€”including a donkey and a camelâ€”for Cedar Cove''s Nativity pageant!).When Mary Jo goes into labor that night, a young man named Mack McAfee, a paramedic, comes to her rescue, just as her brothersâ€”the three Wyse menâ€”show up in town. The people of Cedar Cove join them in celebrating the birth of baby Noel. But no one has more to celebrate than Mack. Because this Christmas brings him faith, hope and loveâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3370'),
(5655, 'Celestial Navigation', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/964'),
(5656, 'Cell', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Witness Stephen King''s triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous.\n <em>\n  Cell\n </em>\n , the king of horror''s homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George A. Romero) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most intensely paced. Casting aside his love of elaborate character and town histories and penchant for delayed gratification, King yanks readers off their feet within the first few pages; dragging them into the fray and offering no chance catch their breath until the very last page.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Cell\n </em>\n King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only aggressive and destructive impulses behind. Those without cell phones, like illustrator Clayton Riddell and his small band of "normies," must fight for survival, and their journey to find Clayton''s estranged wife and young son rockets the book toward resolution.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fans that have followed King from the beginning will recognize and appreciate\n <em>\n  Cell\n </em>\n as a departure--King''s writing has not been so pure of heart and free of hang-ups in years (wrapping up his phenomenal\n <em>\n  Dark Tower\n </em>\n series and receiving a medal from the National Book Foundation doesn''t hurt either). "Retirement" clearly suits King, and lucky for us, having nothing left to prove frees him up to write frenzied, juiced-up horror-thrillers like\n <em>\n  Cell\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n What if a pulse sent out through cell phones turned every person using one of them into a zombie-like killing machine? That''s what happens on page six of King''s latest, a glib, technophobic but compelling look at the end of civilizationâ€”or at what may turn into a new, extreme, telepathically enforced fascism. Those who are not on a call at the time of the pulse (and who don''t reach for their phones to find out what is going on) remain "normies." One such is Clayton Riddell, an illustrator from Kent Pond, Maine, who has just sold some work in Boston when the pulse hits. Clay''s single-minded attempt to get back to Maine, where his estranged wife, Sharon, and young son, Johnny-Gee, may or may not have been turned into "phoners" (as those who have had their brains wiped by the pulse come to be called) comprises the rest of the plot. King''s imagining of what is more or less post-Armageddon Boston is rich, and the sociological asides made by his characters along the wayâ€”Clay travels at first with two other refugeesâ€”are jaunty and witty. The novel''s three long set pieces are all pretty gory, but not gratuitously so, and the book holds together in signature King style. Fans will be satisfied and will look forward to the next King release,\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n , slated for October.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 24)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/828'),
(5657, 'Cemetery Dance', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestsellers Preston and Child kill off a regular supporting character at the outset of this suspenseful tale of urban terror, their ninth to feature FBI special agent Aloysius Pendergast (after\n  <em>\n   The Wheel of Darkness\n  </em>\n  ). William Smithback, a\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  reporter, and his wife, Nora Kelly, an anthropologist with the New York Museum of Natural History, are celebrating their first anniversary when Smithback is fatally stabbed in their Manhattan apartment, apparently by a creepy neighbor, Colin Fearing, an out-of-work British actor. Given eyewitness descriptions of the killer, including one from Kelly herself, as well as surveillance footage showing a blood-stained Fearing emerging from the apartment building right after the crime, the case appears to be open and shutâ€”until Pendergast and his NYPD ally, Lt. Vincent D''Agosta, learn that Fearing died almost two weeks earlier. This taut page-turner can only add to the authors'' growing fan base.\n  <em>\n   8-city author tour. (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It takes a certain amount of guts to start a novel by killing off a popular recurring character, but no one has ever accused this writing team of lacking guts. The latest Pendergast thriller begins with a murder that is apparently committed by a man who, 10 days earlier, wasÂ pronounced dead and then buried. But the eyewitness is sure itâ€™s the same man, and footage from a security camera appears to confirm it. How does a dead man commit murder? And why this particular victim? Pendergast, the FBI special agent who frequently takes on personal assignments on a freelance basis, teams up once again with New York police lieutenant Vincent Dâ€™Agosta to solve a crime that has ties to the supernatural. Individually, these two writers turn out books that are solid, competent, workmanlike. Together, they manage to kick it up several notches,Â producing novels that are elegantly written and feature unique characters and eerie, compelling stories. For fans of the Pendergast series, this is a must-read. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/615'),
(5658, 'Certain Girls', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life in the pages of a national magazine.  Now Cannie''s back. After her debut novel -- a fictionalized (and highly sexualized) version of her life -- became an overnight bestseller, she dropped out of the public eye and turned to writing science fiction under a pseudonym. She''s happily married to the tall, charming diet doctor Peter Krushelevansky and has settled into a life that she finds wonderfully predictable -- knitting in the front row of her daughter Joy''s drama rehearsals, volunteering at the library, and taking over-forty yoga classes with her best friend Samantha.  As preparations for Joy''s bat mitzvah begin, everything seems right in Cannie''s world. Then Joy discovers the novel Cannie wrote years before and suddenly finds herself faced with what she thinks is the truth about her own conception -- the story her mother hid from her all her life. When Peter surprises his wife by saying he wants to have a baby, the family is forced to reconsider its history, its future, and what it means to be truly happy.  Radiantly funny and disarmingly tender, with Weiner''s whip-smart dialogue and sharp observations of modern life, Certain Girls is an unforgettable story about love, loss, and the enduring bonds of family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3614'),
(5659, 'Certain Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the 10th installment of his popular\n  <em>\n   Prey\n  </em>\n  series, John Sandford (a.k.a. John Camp) pits his popular antihero, Lucas Davenport, against a pair of cunning killers unlike any he has encountered before.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Attorney Carmel Loan is preternaturally beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious. When she becomes infatuated with fellow barrister Hale Allen, she isn''t going to let a little thing like his being married get in her way. A quick meeting with an ex-client sets up the hit on Hale''s wife, Barbara. The professional killer, Clara Rinker, is one of the best in the business. Smart, attractive, with a gentle Southern drawl, no one would suspect her of being a top Mafia hit man... er, hit person. When she takes the Allen assignment, she figures it will be easy money for a day''s work. But things go wrong from the beginning. Loan''s ex-client made a tape of the meeting, and is shaking her down for money. Worse, the shooting of a witness--a cop--brings deputy inspector Lucas Davenport into the case. Somehow Davenport has not only linked Loan to the killing, but seems to have a lead on Rinker as well. Carmel and Clara team up to clean up the loose ends, which includes getting Davenport off their back by whatever means necessary.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like all of Sandford''s books,\n  <em>\n   Certain Prey\n  </em>\n  is a fast and furious ride. Fans of previous Prey books will find Davenport a little older, a little more wary, but no less sharp-witted and determined. Though parts of the plot may stretch the limits of credulity and the dialogue falls a little flat in places, this is still a wonderfully crafted thriller, possibly one of the best of 1999.\n  <em>\n   Certain Prey\n  </em>\n  cements Sandford''s standing among such luminaries as James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, and Thomas Harris.\n  <em>\n   --Perry Atterberry\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For all his brooding, Minneapolis cop Lucas Davenport lacks the charisma of, say, Robert B. Parker''s Spenser or James Patterson''s Alex Cross. The vast popularity of the Prey novels is probably due, then, not so much to this dependable hero as to Sandford''s clever plotting, sure pacing and fully rounded villainsAas well as his smart prose. As if acknowledging his series'' hero''s unflashy demeanor, Sandford, in his 10th Prey book (after Secret Prey), allows two gleefully unrecalcitrant female antagonists to steal the show from Davenport. Clara Rinker''s life as a murderer and mob hit woman begins when she is raped at age 16 and beats her assailant dead with a baseball bat. Years later, the other femme fatale, sociopathic Minneapolis defense lawyer Carmel Loan, hires Rinker to kill the wife of property attorney Hale Allen, whom Carmel desires; within days, she has Hale in bed. The storyline spools out as a cat-and-mouse among the women and Davenport, with the villainesses dominating the action, sometimes in tangential scenes. When the junkie who connected Carmel to Rinker blackmails the pair, for instance, Carmel tortures him with an electric drill as Rinker watches. The action doesn''t always wash: Davenport tumbles to Carmel''s involvement too easily, and Carmel''s ferocious response to being framed by Davenport redefines the term "over the top." The play between the two women, who bond like sisters, is as fascinating as the courtship of venomous lizards, and the novel''s background humAcomprised of various amatory rustlings, forensic and legal ploys, and maneuvers among cops, FBI agents, mobsters and the killersAis rich in authentic detail. While not the pseudonymous Sandford''s best, (he is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp) this is a swift, satisfying entry in a series with long, muscular legs. 300,000 first printing; $300,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection; author tour. (May) FYI: Mind Prey was adapted into a TV movie, John Sandford''s Mind Prey, which aired on ABC in March .\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/681'),
(5660, 'Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLeckie puts you in the foxhole.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œFast-paced and informative . . . Characters are very much alive on the printed page.â€â€”_Navy Times _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] stirring story of Americaâ€™s survival in its grimmest hour . . . as readable and gripping as a novel.â€â€”_Patriot Ledger_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n New York Times_ bestselling author of\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Helmet for My Pillow_, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Pacific_, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the Japanese soldiersâ€™ carefully calculatedâ€”and ultimately foiledâ€”attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemyâ€™s plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease.\n</p>\n<p>\n Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war.\n <em>\n  Challenge for the PacificÂ \n </em>\n is an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that foreverÂ changed our world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2192');
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(5661, 'The Chamber', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The decision to bomb the office of the radical Jew lawyer was reached with relative ease." So begins Grisham''s legal leviathan\n <em>\n  The Chamber\n </em>\n , a 676-page tome that scrutinizes the death penalty and all of its nuances--from racially motivated murder to the cruel and unusual effects of a malfunctioning gas chamber.\n</p>\n<p>\n Adam Hall is a 26-year-old attorney, fresh out of law school and working at the best firm in Chicago. He might have been humming Timbuk 3''s big hit, "The Future''s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades," if it wasn''t for his psychotic Southern grandfather, Sam Cayhall. Cayhall, a card-carrying member of the KKK, is on death row for killing two men. Knowing his uncle will surely die without his legal expertise, Hall comes to the rescue and puts his dazzling career at stake, while digging up a barnyard of skeletons from his family''s past. Grisham fans expecting the typical action-packed plot should ready themselves for a slower pace, well-fleshed-out characters, and heavy doses of sentimentalism.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The chamber in question is the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary--and for 69-year-old Sam Crayhall, the road thence has been many years long. Sam was twice tried and twice acquitted for murder after a 1967 Ku Klux Klan scare bombing accidentally killed the twin sons of the intended target; 14 years later he was tried a third time, convicted and sentenced to death. Now, in 1990, a young Chicago lawyer, employed by the firm that represented Sam but which he has just unceremoniously dumped, wants Sam as a client. Adam Hall, the 26-year-old rookie, is Sam Crayhall''s grandson. Adam''s efforts to save this splendid curmudgeon from death form the center of Grisham''s quietly compelling novel, a hub from which the far-reaching spokes of personal dramas extend. The despair of prison life has rarely been so grippingly evoked--no riots or dazzling escapes here, just a drab, pervasive dailiness. And the gradually revealed dysfunctions of the Crayhalls prove both surprising and affecting. This ranks as top-notch Grisham and reveals new dimensions to his talent: the focus on character, the credible emotion and the simple moments of human connection bear comparison to Grisham''s work in A Time to Kill . The prose, too, has more subtlety and texture than Grisham has previously exhibited. Though the countdown to an execution is a well-worn plot device, it has seldom been as effective, especially in the novel''s last 100 pages. Readers can almost hear the cogs of justice turning ever faster--or is that the sound of Grisham''s fans stampeding the bookstores for this riveting read? 2.5 million first printing; Literary Guild main selection; audio rights to BBD audio; major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1160'),
(5662, 'Change in Altitude', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Newlyweds Margaret and Patrick set off on a great adventure -- a year living in Kenya in a dizzying and sometimes dangerous city. Shuttling between expat suburbs and squalid shantytowns, Margaret realizes there is a great deal she doesn''t know about the complex culture of her new home, and about her husband. The newlyweds eagerly take part in a climbing expedition to the summit of Mount Kenya. But during their arduous ascent a horrific accident occurs. In its aftermath, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how it has transformed her and her marriage, perhaps for ever.When small actions have unintended, catastrophic consequences, where does responsibility lie, and can blame ever truly be laid to rest? With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy and the elusive nature of forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3303'),
(5663, 'Change of Heart', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Picoult bangs out another ripped-from-the-zeitgeist winner, this time examining a condemned inmate''s desire to be an organ donor. Freelance carpenter Shay Bourne was sentenced to death for killing a little girl, Elizabeth Nealon, and her cop stepfather. Eleven years after the murders, Elizabeth''s sister, Claire, needs a heart transplant, and Shay volunteers, which complicates the state''s execution plans. Meanwhile, death row has been the scene of some odd events since Shay''s arrivalâ€”an AIDS victim goes into remission, an inmate''s pet bird dies and is brought back to life, wine flows from the water faucets. The author brings other compelling elements to an already complex plot line: the priest who serves as Shay''s spiritual adviser was on the jury that sentenced him; Shay''s ACLU representative, Maggie Bloom, balances her professional moxie with her negative self-image and difficult relationship with her mother. Picoult moves the story along with lively debates about prisoner rights and religion, while plumbing the depths of mother-daughter relationships and examining the literal and metaphorical meanings of having heart. The point-of-view switches are abrupt, but this is a small flaw in an impressive book.\n  <em>\n   1,000,000-million copy first printing.\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Picoult is a rare writer who delivers book after book, a winning combination of the literary and the commercial." --\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1187'),
(5664, 'The Charlemagne Pursuit', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His fatherâ€™s sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission beneath the ice shelves of Antarctica. But Malone isnâ€™t the only one after the truth. Twin sisters Dorothea Lindauer and Christl Falk are fighting for the fortune their mother has promised to whichever of them discovers what really became of their fatherâ€“who died on the same submarine that Maloneâ€™s father captained.The sisters know something Malone doesnâ€™t: Inspired by strange clues discovered in Charlemagneâ€™s tomb, the Nazis explored Antarctica before the Americans, as long ago as 1938. Now Malone discovers that cryptic journals penned in â€œthe language of heaven,â€ inscrutable conundrums posed by an ancient historian, and the ill-fated voyage of his father are all tied to a revelation of immense consequence for humankind. In an effort to ensure that this explosive information never rises to the surface, Langford Ramsey, an ambitious navy admiral, has begun a brutal game of treachery, blackmail, and assassination. As Malone embarks on a dangerous quest with the sistersâ€“one that leads them from an ancient German cathedral to a snowy French citadel to the unforgiving ice of Antarcticaâ€“he will finally confront the shocking truth of his fatherâ€™s death and the distinct possibility of his own.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3405'),
(5665, 'Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life', 'Howard Sounes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Exhilarating, hilarious and often emotionally draining, this superb biography of the maverick, hard-bitten bard of the Los Angeles demimonde uncorks a potent brew of wild, antiheroic anecdotes. Sounes (Fred &amp; Rose) often corrects Bukowskis version of events, without deflating the writer or losing sympathy for his often depressing life, from his sad, twisted childhood (complete with regular beatings) in Los Angeles to his discovery of both alcohol and literature as a teen. Dropping out of L.A. City College in 1940, Bukowski was classified 4-F, went on the road and worked odd jobs, all the while mailing poems and stories to little magazines. At age 27, Bukowski (1920-1994) had his first relationship with a woman, the alcoholic and routinely unfaithful Jane Cooney Baker, who became a prototype for his female characters. He wrote his first novel, Post Office (1971), in only three weeks, and his autobiographical screenplay for Barbet Schroeders film Barfly (1987) brought him, improbably, into the Hollywood circle. Sounes spent two years interviewing more than 100 people, including women in Bukowskis tangled love life, who provide intimate details. Peering nonjudgmentally down every avenue of grief and despair, Sounes improves on previous books on Bukowski by Neeli Cherkovski, Steve Richmond and Russell Harrison. After reading Souness account, it is difficult to agree with his subjects self-assessment that, despite a prolific output of over a thousand poems, six novels and several collections of stories, I wont be leaving much. Something to read, maybe. A wild onion in the gutted road. Paris in the dark. More than 70 illustrations, including R. Crumb art and several previously unpublished photos of key people in the poets life.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bukowski has always had a cult following, but he is probably best known from Mickey Rourke''s portrayal of him in the Hollywood movie Barfly. Sounes, a British journalist, relies on interviews and correspondence with friends and lovers as well as material from Bukowski''s highly autobiographical works to create a lively portrait of American literature''s "Dirty Old Man." Sounes documents Bukowski''s joyless childhood (the result of an abusive father and a severe case of acne), his struggle to support himself at low-paying jobs (including a stultifying stretch at the Post Office), his lifelong battle with alcoholism, and his belated rise to celebrity. Much of the book reads like a history of sexual conquests as Bukowski makes a startling transformation from Quasimoto to Casanova along the road to fame and prosperity. Fans who enjoyed Neeli Cherkovski''s Hank (LJ 1/91) will welcome this fresh look at Bukowski''s life. Recommended for larger literature collections.AWilliam Gargan, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., CUNY\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1805'),
(5666, 'The Chase', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n April 1950 - The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-four years before. But it is not the engine or its grisly contents that interest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to come next. 1906 - For two years, the western states of America have been suffering an extraordinary crime spree - a string of bank robberies by a single man who cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses and then vanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of the ''Butcher Bandit'', the U.S. government brings in the best man they can find - a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell, who has caught thieves and killers coast to coast. But Bell has never had a challenge like this one. From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, he pursues what is quickly becoming clear to him is the sharpest criminal mind he has ever encountered, and the woman who seems to hold the key to the bandit''s identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3260'),
(5667, 'Chasing Darkness', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Elvis Cole is Back--In a Desperate Fight to Clear his Name...\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide. But the gunshot victim is less gruesome than what they find in his lap: a photo album of seven brutally murdered young women -- one per year, for seven years. And when the suicide victim is identified as a former suspect in one of the murders, the news turns Elvis Cole''s world upside down.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Three years earlier Lionel Byrd was brought to trial for the murder of a female prostitute named Yvonne Bennett. A taped confession coerced by the police inspired a prominent defense attorney to take Byrd''s case, and Elvis Cole was hired to investigate. It was Cole''s eleventh-hour discovery of an exculpatory videotape that allowed Lionel Byrd to walk free. Elvis was hailed as a hero.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the discovery of the death album in Byrd''s lap now brands Elvis as an unwitting accomplice to murder. Captured in photographs that could only have been taken by the murderer, Yvonne Bennett was the fifth of the seven victims -- two more young women were murdered after Lionel Byrd walked free. So Elvis can''t help but wonder -- did he, Elvis Cole, cost two more young women their lives?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shut out of the investigation by a special LAPD task force determined to close the case, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike desperately fight to uncover the truth about Lionel Byrd and his nightmare album of death -- a truth hidden by lies, politics, and corruption in a world where nothing is what it seems to be.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Chasing Darkness\n  </em>\n  is a blistering thriller from the bestselling author who sets the standard for intense, powerful crime writing.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/364'),
(5668, 'Chasing Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. This searing stand-alone from bestseller Roberts (The Search) celebrates the smoke jumpers of Missoula, Mont., who routinely risk life and limb to beat down raging forest fires. As close knit as any military combat unit, the "Zulies" include veteran Rowan Tripp, haunted by the loss of Jim Brayner, her onetime jump partner who was killed the previous season in a fall, and rookie Gulliver Curry, who soon earns the nickname "Fast Feet" for his speed and prowess. Threatening trouble is cook Dolly Brakeman, Jim''s girlfriend, who blames Rowan for his deathâ€”and whose new baby may well be Jim''s. Rowan and Gull grow closer as the team battles fires from Montana and Idaho to California and Alaska. Meanwhile, the Zulies are plagued by vandalism and sabotage as well as a killer with arson among his crimes. Roberts fans can expect another bestseller. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The number-one\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   -bestselling author delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline-men and women who wouldn''t know how to live life if it wasn''t on the edge.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  There''s little as thrilling as firefighting-at least to Rowan Tripp. The Missoula smoke jumpers are in Rowan''s blood: her father is a legend. She''s been fighting fires since her eighteenth birthday. At this point, returning to the wilds of Montana for the season feels like coming home-even with reminders of the partner she lost last season still lingering.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fortunately, this year''s rookie crop is one of the strongest ever-and Gulliver Curry''s one of the best. He''s also a walking contradiction, a hotshot firefighter with a big vocabulary and a winter job at a kids'' arcade.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Everything is thrown off balance when a dark presence lashes out against Rowan, looking to blame someone for last year''s tragedy. Rowan knows she can''t complicate things with Gull-any distractions in the air or on the ground could mean the end-but if she doesn''t find someone she can lean on, she may not make it through the summer. . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3717'),
(5669, 'Chasing Harry Winston', 'Lauren Weisberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing returns with the story of three best friends who vow to change their entire lives...and change them fast.Emmy is newly single, and not by choice. She was this close to the ring and the baby she''s wanted her whole life when her boyfriend left her for his twenty-three-year-old personal trainer -- whose fees are paid by Emmy. With her plans for the perfect white wedding in the trash, Emmy is now ordering takeout for one. Her friends insist an around-the-world sex-fueled adventure will solve all her problems -- could they be right?Leigh, a young star in the publishing business, is within striking distance of landing her dream job as senior editor and marrying her dream guy. And to top it all off, she has just purchased her dream apartment. Only when Leigh begins to edit the enfant terrible of the literary world, the brilliant and brooding Jesse Chapman, does she start to notice some cracks in her perfect life...Adriana is the drop-dead-gorgeous daughter of a famous supermodel. She possesses the kind of feminine wiles made only in Brazil, and she never hesitates to use them. But she''s about to turn thirty and -- as her mother keeps reminding her -- she won''t have her pick of the men forever. Everyone knows beauty is ephemeral and there''s always someone younger and prettier right around the corner. Suddenly she''s wondering...does Mother know best?These three very different girls have been best friends for a decade in the greatest city on earth. As they near thirty, they''re looking toward their future...but despite all they''ve earned -- first-class travel, career promotions, invites to all the right parties, and luxuries small and large -- they''re not quite sure they like what they see...One Saturday night at the Waverly Inn, Adriana and Emmy make a pact: within a single year, each will drastically change her life. Leigh watches from the sidelines, not making any promises, but she''ll soon discover she has the most to lose. Their friendship is forever, but everything else is on the table. Three best friends. Two resolutions. One year to pull it off.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3255'),
(5670, 'Chasing the Dime', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Henry Pierce is about to become very rich--as soon as his firm, Amedeo Technologies, gets an infusion of capital from a big backer. But the brilliant chemist''s workaholic habits are disrupted when his lover, the former intelligence officer of his company, breaks up with him. Lonely and dispirited, he moves into a new apartment and gets a new phone number that attracts a lot of callers, but not for him. His new telephone number seems to have previously belonged to one Lilly Quinlan, an escort whose Internet photo arouses Henry''s curiosity, especially when L.A. Darlings, whose Web page features the beautiful young woman, can''t tell Henry how to find her. With the same single-mindedness that made him a high-tech superstar, Pierce pursues his search for the missing girl, motivated by his guilt over the disappearance years earlier of his own sister, who, like Lilly, was also a prostitute (and ultimately the victim of the Dollmaker, a serial killer from Connelly''s 1994 novel\n <em>\n  The Concrete Blonde\n </em>\n .) But that motive is too thin to support Pierce''s sudden abandonment of his career at such a critical juncture, even if forces unknown to him are setting him up for a fall. Despite those holes in the plot and a less than compelling protagonist, the novel succeeds due to Connelly''s literary and expository gifts and his more interesting secondary characters.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chasing the Dime is a novel by American crime-writer Michael Connelly. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  In the article:\n </strong>\n Plot summary\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/368'),
(5671, 'Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World', 'Samantha Power', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The death of the charismatic Brazilian chief of the U.N. Mission to Iraq in a 2003 terrorist bombing symbolized both the U.N.''s haplessnessâ€”he died because rescuers lacked the training and equipment to free him from the rubbleâ€”and its idealism. In this sprawling biography, Vieira de Mello''s life symbolizes the tragic contradictions of coping with humanitarian crises. Journalist Power, author of the Pulitzer-winning\n <em>\n  The Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide\n </em>\n , follows Vieira de Mello through a U.N. career spent in hot spots like Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo. His tasks were many: implementing peace accords, settling refugees, overseeing elections, running the government of East Timor. In each posting, he confronts a hydra-headed monster of communal violence and poverty, plus difficulties compounded by U.N. red tape, miserly budgets and uncaring Western governments. Agonizing dilemmas abound. Should refugees be fed or sent home? Should U.N. peacekeepers observe or intervene? Should past atrocities be prosecuted or overlooked? Playing by ear, Vieira de Mello charts an erratic course through these conundrums. Sometimes he''s a human rights zealot, sometimes he cozies up to the Khmer Rouge; sometimes he negotiates with the Serbs, sometimes he wants to bomb them. Vieira de Mello comes off as a charming diplomat, a canny politician and an inspiring leader, and the author celebrates his flexibility and pragmatism (while criticizing his failures). Power wants to extract lasting lessons for the international community''s efforts to head off humanitarian catastrophes and mend failed states from his experience. Unfortunately, it''s hard to discern through his improvisations any systematic approach to nation building or to such vexed issues as humanitarian military intervention and regime change. The lack of perspective isn''t helped by the biographical format, as the peripatetic Vieira de Mello jets from one conflagration to the next, then on to a romantic getaway with a mistress or to give a murky speech on Kant. We get the impression that U.N. missions are inevitably a hopeless muddle unless Sergio, with his unique talents, parachutes in to fix things; the book may thus inadvertently encourage critics of the U.N.-style interventionism that Power supports. Readers will gain an appreciation of Vieira de Mello''s gifts, but not the method to his magic. B&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 6)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Samantha Power, a professor at Harvard, met Sergio Vieira de Mello when she was a journalist in Bosnia in 1994. Although he charmed her as he did everyone else, she has written a balanced biography of the flawed but dedicated and likable man. While Power impressed the critics with her research, she failed to convince all of them of her arguments. Several reviewers also noted that PowerÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s writing, laden with detail and subtle layering, doesnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t rise to the level of her Pulitzer PrizeÃ¢â‚¬"winning\n <em>\n  A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide\n </em>\n (2002) until the very end, when she recounts Vieira de MelloÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s last moments. As much a critique of the United Nations and its policies as the story of a man battling injustice,\n <em>\n  Chasing the Flame\n </em>\n , despite being cited as a somewhat slow read, is a significant contribution to our understanding of global affairs and the future of peacekeeping.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2194'),
(5672, 'Chasing the Night', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A CIA agentâ€™s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she canâ€™t. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help herâ€” and that person is Eve Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie. Now, Eve must take her talents as a forensic sculptor to another level, using age progression as a way to unite Catherine with her child. As Eve gets drawn deeper into Catherineâ€™s horror, she must face looming demons of her own. Bonnieâ€™s killer is still out there. And a new killer is taunting Eve and Catherine at every turn. Is Catherineâ€™s son alive, or not? These two women endure the worst fear any mother can imagine in Iris Johansenâ€™s latest thrill ride, a gut-wrenching journey into the darkest places of the soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3298'),
(5673, 'Cheever', 'Blake Bailey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cheever: A Life\n </em>\n , the author of\n <em>\n  Cheever\n </em>\n is rich with detail and chronicles the mournful arc of a lifetime struggling with a core duplicity that ached throughout his writing life--despite a 41-year marriage, Cheever was a closeted bisexual who simmered with self-loathing. Bailey covers the author''s childhood, his time in the army, his life as a writer and his literary rivals (Salinger, in particular, seemed to irritate him), his alcoholism (he would struggle against taking that first "scoop" of gin from the pantry every morning while he was writing), and his struggle to play the role of suburban family man. The book is peppered with literary cameos: Updike, Bellow, and Roth are there, along with his Iowa Writers'' Workshop students T.C. Boyle, Ron Hansen, and Allan Gurganus. (While at Iowa Cheever made it a weekly ritual to watch\n <em>\n  Monday Night Football\n </em>\n and eat homemade pasta with fellow instructor John Irving.) Bailey also edited two Library of America editions of Cheever''s\n <em>\n  --Brad Thomas Parsons\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rebellious Yankee son of a father who fell victim to the Depression and a doo-gooder-turned-businesswoman mother, father to three competitive children he rode mercilessly but adored, chronicler par excellence of the 1950s American suburban scene while deploring all forms of conformity: John Cheever (1912â€“1982) was a mass of contradictions. In this overlong but always entertaining biography, composed with a novelist''s eye, Bailey, biographer of Richard Yates and editor of two volumes of Cheever''s work for Library of America (also due in March), was given access to unpublished portions of Cheever''s famous journals and to family members and friends. Bailey''s book is fine in descriptions of Cheever''s reactions to other writers, such as his adored Bellow and detested Salinger. Bailey is also sensitive in describing the prickly dynamic of Cheever''s domestic life, lived through a haze of alcoholism and under the shadow of extramarital heterosexual and homosexual relationships. This Ovid in Ossining, who published 121 stories in the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n as well as several bestselling novels, has probably yet to find a definitive position in American letters among academicians. This thoroughly researched and heartfelt biography may help redress that situation. 24 pages of photos.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 12)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1808'),
(5674, 'Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Comedienne, talk show host and daring author Handler (Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea) indulges her fans with a new compilation of shockingly direct essays, from which she emerges as a scheming farceur with an expansive range of practical jokes and winning sarcasm, pulled off beautifully against (and with help from) her closest friends and family (including her boyfriend, the CEO of the E! television network that employs her). Handler spins a deliriously sticky web of running jokes while suckering the gullible, again and again, with made-up stories of her transgendered friend, a ludicrous movie deal, and her infamous personal pilot. Never shy, Handler finds room for even more irreverent honesty regarding sex-including her earliest encounters with male genitalia and with "the feeling"-and also lets readers in on her family life, including a family dinner that ends with her missing brother found intoxicated, naked, and celebrating on a dock in the early morning hours. Whether Handler is plotting to get her father committed or convincing her dog never to "shadoobie" in her presence, her essays are packed with enough laugh-out-loud moments to rival a first-rate stand-up act. B&amp;W photos.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Her cheeky candor is one of the things that makes her unique: She''s a hot blonde with a filthy mouth. (\n <strong>\n  Philadelphia Inquirer\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Chelsea Handler writes like Judy Blume, if Judy Blume were into vodka, Ecstasy, and sleeping with midgets and nineteen-year-olds. (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Jennifer Weiner\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Where have I been all of Chelsea Handler''s life? I had no idea how funny, how brilliant she is. She is too clever for words." (\n <strong>\n  New York Post\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Liz Smith\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Chelsea Handler is a terrific comedian and a hilarious writer. (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Jay Leno\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1297'),
(5675, 'Chiefs', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The compelling thriller that launched the career of best-selling novelist Stuart Woods in an anniversary hardcover edition.  In the bitter winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgia; the naked corpse of an unidentified teenager. There is no direct evidence of murder, but the body bears marks of what seems to be a ritual beating. The investigation falls to Will Henry Lee, a failed cotton farmer newly appointed as Delano''s first chief of police. Lee''s obsession with the crime begins a story that weaves through the decades, following the life of a small southern town and the role of three police chiefs in unraveling the crime. Chiefs is the best kind of thriller, where the investigation plays out against the drama beneath the surface of a seemingly placid community, seething with the pressures of race, love, hate, and; always; political power, extending from the town fathers all the way to Washington, DC. With a new foreword by the author, this volume will be a collector''s treasure for all fans of Stuart Woods. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2667'),
(5676, 'Child 44', 'Tom Rob Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **A propulsive, relentless page-turner.**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted.**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience.**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read.**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *"There is no crime."*\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Stalin''s Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its citizens live free from the fear of ordinary crime and criminals.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But in this society, millions do live in fear . . . of the State. Death is a whisper away. The mere suspicion of ideological disloyalty-owning a book from the decadent West, the wrong word at the wrong time-sends millions of innocents into the Gulags or to their executions. Defending the system from its citizens is the MGB, the State Security Force. And no MGB officer is more courageous, conscientious, or idealistic than Leo Demidov.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A war hero with a beautiful wife, Leo lives in relative luxury in Moscow, even providing a decent apartment for his parents. His only ambition has been to serve his country. For this greater good, he has arrested and interrogated.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Then the impossible happens. A different kind of criminal-a murderer-is on the loose, killing at will. At the same time, Leo finds himself demoted and denounced by his enemies, his world turned upside down, and every belief he''s ever held shattered. The only way to save his life and the lives of his family is to uncover this criminal. But in a society that is officially paradise, it''s a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer-much less a serial killer-is in their midst. Exiled from his home, with only his wife, Raisa, remaining at his side, Leo must confront the vast resources and reach of the MBG to find and stop a criminal that the State won''t admit even exists.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Tom Rob Smith graduated from Cambridge in 2001 and lives in London. Child 44 is his first novel.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3086'),
(5677, 'A Child Al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini&#39;s Italy', 'Eric Lamet', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Most accounts of Holocaust survival are centered on central or eastern Europe, in which the Nazi program of genocide was so explicit. Although Mussolini and his Fascist minions were not necessarily genocidal in intention, they were still virulently anti-Semitic as this engrossing and moving account reveals. Lamet was born in Vienna. When he was seven, his familyâ€™s middle-class existence was shattered by the Nazi seizure of Austria. His father fled to Poland, where he presumably perished in a death camp. Lamet and his mother made a harrowing escape to Italy, where they spent months seeking refuge in various isolated mountain villages. They resided in a southern rural hamlet east of Naples until the Allied liberation in 1943. Lamet recounts his motherâ€™s struggles to provide a secure home for her child while both attempt to adjust from their urban, relatively sophisticated background to life in what initially appears to be a bleak, primitive setting. This memoir will be an excellent addition to Holocaust collections. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna--and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marches, Eric Lamet and his parents flee for their lives. His father goes back to his native Poland--and never comes back. His mother hides out in Italy, on the run from place to place, taking her son deeper and deeper into the mountains to avoid capture.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this remarkable feat of memory and imagination, Lamet recreates the Italy he knew from the perspective of the scared and lonely child he once was. We not only see the hardships and terrors faced by foreign Jews in Fascist Italy, but also the friends Eric makes and his mother''s valiant efforts to make a home for him.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a style as original as his story, the author vividly recalls a dark time yet imbues his recollections with humor, humanity, and wit. Very few Holocaust memoirs address the plight of Jews sent into internal exile in Mussolini''s Italy. Lamet offers a rare and historically important portrait, one you will not soon forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1762'),
(5678, 'Childhood&#39;s End', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A FIRST-RATE TOUR DE FORCE."\n  <br />\n  --The New York Times\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A FRIGHTENINGLY LOGICAL, BELIEVABLE, AND GRIMLY PROPHETIC TALE . . . CLARKE IS A MASTER."\n  <br />\n  --Los Angeles Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  CHILDHOOD''S END and 3001: FINAL ODYSSEY\n  <br />\n  A couple of years ago, at the national television syndication convention, I was chatting with Stan Lee (of Marvel Comics). He was asking me what was up at Del Rey, and I mentioned 3001: FINAL ODYSSEY, as well as the new mass market edition we''d just done of CHILDHOOD''S END. Stan stated enthusiastically that, if there was one thing he most wanted to do in this world, it was make a movie of CHILDHOOD''S END, one of his favorite novels. He apparently loves Clarke''s work.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  So when I got back to the office, I dropped a copy of the two books into the mail. About a week later I was listening to my lunchtime voice mail messages, and there were Stan''s unmistakeable tones, sincerely thanking me for the books. This guy deals with the James Cameron''s of the world, yet a gift of Arthur C. Clarke causes him to make the time to express his gratitude.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Steve Saffel, Senior Editor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1035'),
(5679, 'Children of Dust of Pakistan', 'Ali Eteraz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eteraz, known for his blog Islamophere, opens his memoir with a vivid description of his father promising Allah that if God bestowed him with a son, that boy will become a great leader and servant of Islam. The rest of the book finds Eteraz, whose given name is Abir ul Islam (which translates as Perfume of Islam) trying to come to terms with his father''s\n <em>\n  mannat\n </em>\n , or covenant, and understand the role that Islam will play in his life as well as the role he will play for Islam. Born in Pakistan but raised in the U.S. from age 10, Eteraz moves easily between describing the holy history and tenets of his faith while exploring and explaining the differences between the Islamic world and Western society. As Eteraz''s feelings for Islam change to fit his evolving personal, political and religious views, readers get a glimpse of all aspects of this hot-topic religion, from fundamentalism to reformism, salafism and secularism. A gifted writer and scholar, Eteraz is able to create a true-life Islamic bildungsroman as he effortlessly conveys his coming-of-age tale while educating the reader. When his religious awakening finally occurs, his catharsis transcends the page.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA gifted writer and scholar, Eteraz is able to create a true-life Islamic bildungsroman as he effortlessly conveys his comingof- age tale while educating the reader. When his religious awakening finally occurs, his catharsis transcends the page.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWritten with vivid descriptions, a smattering of urdu words and a very strong sense of nationalism... Children of Dust is an apt description of a thinking muslim.â€ (TheFourthArticle.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n An astoundingly frightening, funny, and brave book. At a time when debate and reform in the larger landscape of the Muslim world, and in countries like Pakistan in particular, are virtually non-existent, Children of Dust is a call to thought. (Fatima Bhutto, poet and writer )\n</p>\n<p>\n A love letter to one manâ€™s fading faith, Children of Dust is a gift and a necessity, and should be read by believers and nonbelievers alike. Sure to deepen our collective conversation about religion and reason, loyalty and universality, and our geopolitical aims, itâ€™s also just plain fun to read. (Yael Goldstein Love, author of Overture: A Novel and The Passion of Tasha Darsky )\n</p>\n<p>\n Compelling. (Washington Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ...Not only for people who are interested in Pakistan or Islamic issues, but for anyone looking for a compellingpersonal story. Because ultimately, this memoir isnâ€™t about religion but about a fascinating quest for selffulfillment.â€ (PickledPolitics.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n This elegantly written memoir traces [Eterazâ€™s] relationship with the religion of his birth, fromhis childhood in Pakistan, where he feared beatings at the madrassa, to adulthood in the U.S. . . . Thoughtful and wry, he offers glimpses of a changing Pakistan and a U.S. immigrantâ€™s journey, too. (Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn Children of Dust . . . we follow the journey of a soul determined to reconcile the many worlds that live inside him. In a time rife with cultural misinterpretations and generalizations, sensitive accounts such as Children of Dust are invaluable assets.â€ (Laleh Khadivi, novelist, author of The Age of Orphans )\n</p>\n<p>\n The gripping story of a young man exposed to both the beauty and ugliness of religion. (Laila Lalami, author of Secret Son )\n</p>\n<p>\n Wildly entertaining, Children of Dust is memoir of the first order, as genuinely American as Muslim, unraveling the perilous mystery that is modern Pakistan as only memoir can. Unlike others, Eteraz has truly â€˜been there,â€™ and we are all the better for it. (Murad Kalam, author of Night Journey )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œChildren of Dust is a coming of age story, filled with warmth and humour, but it also explores some very serious questionsâ€¦ a powerful and marvellous personal memoir.â€ (EnterStageRight.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAliâ€™s story is long and heart-rending, sometimes funny, sometimes frustrating, and his willingness to share it makes us all better off in the telling and re-telling as we reflect on our covenants and baggage.â€ (Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA â€¦complex story of a young manâ€™s journey into the heart of his own faith.â€¦ Knowledgeable, humorous and personable, Eteraz is an engaging storyteller.â€ (San Jose Mercury News )\n</p>\n<p>\n [Eterazâ€™s] adventures are a heavenly read. (O, The Oprah Magazine )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEterazâ€™s memoir is a fascinating, elucidating account of Muslim mores and education. In these times when fears of Islam are high, it is well worth reading.â€ (The Providence Journal )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1811'),
(5680, 'The Children of Hurin', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The ''Great Tale'' of "The Children of HUrin," set during the legendary time before "The Lord of the Rings." Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and within the shadow of the fear of Angband, and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves, the fates of TUrin and his sister NiEnor will be tragically entwined. Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of HUrin, the man who dared to defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulates the fates of TUrin and NiEnor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1346'),
(5681, 'The Children of Men', 'P. D. James', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her 12th book, the British author of the two series featuring Adam Dalgleish and Cordelia Gray ( Devices and Desires and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman , respectively) poses a premise that chills and darkens its setting in the year 2021. Near the end of the 20th century, for reasons beyond the grasp of modern science, human sperm count went to zero. The last birth occurred in 1995, and in the space of a generation humanity has lost its future. In England, under the rule of an increasingly despotic Warden, the infirm are encouraged to commit group suicide, criminals are exiled and abandoned and immigrants are subjected to semi-legalized slavery. Divorced, middle-aged Oxford history professor Theo Faron, an emotionally constrained man of means and intelligence who is the Warden''s cousin, plods through an ordered, bleak existence. But a chance involvement with a group of dissidents moves him onto unexpected paths, leading him, in the novel''s compelling second half, toward risk, commitment and the joys and anguish of love. In this convincingly detailed world--where kittens are (illegally) christened, sex has lost its allure and the arts have been abandoned--James concretely explores an unthinkable prospect. Readers should persevere through the slow start, for the rewards of this story, including its reminder of the transforming power of hope, are many and lasting. 125,000 first printing; BOMC main selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A book of such accelerating tension that the pages seem to turn faster as one moves along." â€”\n  <em>\n   Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As scary and suspenseful as anything in Hitchcock." â€”\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Extraordinary. . . . Daring. . . . Frightening in its implications." â€”\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fascinating, suspenseful, and morally provocative. The characterizations are sharply etched and the narrative is compelling."â€”\n  <em>\n   Chicago Sun-Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œShe writes like an angel. Every character is closely drawn. Her atmosphere is unerringly, chillingly convincing. And she manages all this without for a moment slowing down the drive and tension of an exciting mystery.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1036');
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(5682, 'Children of the Mind', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Children of the Mind\n </em>\n , fourth in the Ender series, is the conclusion of the story begun in the third book,\n <em>\n  Xenocide\n </em>\n . The author unravels Ender''s life and reweaves the threads into unexpected new patterns, including an apparent reincarnation of his threatening older brother, Peter, not to mention another "sister" Valentine. Multiple storylines entwine, as the threat of the Lusitania-bound fleet looms ever nearer. The self-aware computer, Jane, who has always been more than she seemed, faces death at human hands even as she approaches godhood. At the same time, the characters hurry to investigate the origins of the descolada virus before they lose their ability to travel instantaneously between the stars. There is plenty of action and romance to season the text''s analyses of Japanese culture and the flux and ebb of civilizations. But does the author really mean to imply that Ender''s wife literally bores him to death?\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first two volumes of Card''s Ender saga, Ender''s Game and Speaker for the Dead, each won the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel. This adept fifth volume in the series (after Xenocide, 1991) continues the story of Ender Wiggin, hero, social conscience and unwitting mass murderer. Here, however, Ender, feeling the weight of his years, plays only a limited role in the desperate attempt to avert the destruction by the Starways Congress of the planet Lusitania and its three intelligent races. Foremost among those at center stage are Peter and Young Valentine, Ender''s "children of the mind," copies of his brother and sister whom he accidentally created on his trip Outside the universe in Xenocide. Also central is Jane, the prickly Artificial Intelligence whose unique ability to use the Outside to transcend the light-speed barrier is key to all attempts to save Ender''s adopted world. Peter, Val, Jane and their companions must criss-cross the galaxy to find new planets for Lusitania''s refugees while trying to influence the politicians and philosophers who have the power to stop the Congress''s approaching war fleet. Readers unfamiliar with earlier Ender novels may have trouble picking up some plot threads. But Card''s prose is powerful here, as is his consideration of mystical and quasi-religious themes, and his ability to write convincing, at times heartrending, scenes of intrafamily conflict is as strong as ever. Though billed as the final Ender novel, this story leaves enough mysteries unexplored to justify another sequel; and Card fans should find that possibility, like this novel, very welcome indeed. Major ad/promo; 200-copy limited leather-bound edition, $200, ISBN 0-312-86191-5.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1047'),
(5683, 'China Witness', 'Xinran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the acclaimed author of The Good Women of China and Sky Burial, traveled across China in 2005 and 2006, seeking out the nationâ€™s grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who have experienced, firsthand, the vast changes of the modern era. In cities and remote villages, Xinran spoke with members of these generations from all tiers of society, interviewing them for the first and perhaps the last time. Although many of them feared repercussions for speaking freely, they spoke to Xinran with stunning candor about their hopes, fears, and struggles, and about what they have witnessed: from the Long March to land reform, from Mao to marriage, from revolution to Westernization. While the West has commonly viewed the last one hundred years in China through the single narrative lens of Maoâ€™s rise and rule, the experience of this same period for the Chinese themselves has been infinitely more complex. In the same way that Studs Terkelâ€™s Working and Tom Brokawâ€™s The Greatest Generation gave us the essence of very particular times, China Witness gives us the essence of modern Chinaâ€“a portrait more intimate, nuanced, and revelatory than any we have had before.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2195'),
(5684, 'Chinaberry Sidewalks', 'Rodney Crowell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Singer-songwriter Crowell''s upbringing in Texas had all the prerequisite elements of a hardscrabble country music story--drinking, guns, fistfights, fierce spankings, infidelity, Pentecostal preachers, fishing, love, hate, laughter, tears, sex, drugs, and of course, music. But Crowell''s storytelling abilities and narrative flair elevate this book far above the average music memoir. Born in 1950 to a blue-collar, hard-drinking, country-singing father and religious mother, Crowell lived in Jacinto City, east of Houston, in a shoddily constructed house cursed with leaks, mosquitoes, and vermin. He recalls hurricanes, fishing trips, rock throwing fights, and bow-and-arrow mishaps, all with the enthusiasm of a hyper 10-year-old pedaling at full speed (something he and neighborhood kids did when following the "Mosquito Dope Truck," a DDT spraying vehicle that they chased on their bicycles). Crowell touches on his early musical influences, including a Hank Williams concert when he was only two, and an outdoor show by Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash in a thunderstorm, as well as his first time playing music with his father''s band. It''s not music that''s at the heart of this book, however, but his loving and turbulent relationships with his parents and their often strained but deep love for one another. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Crowell is among the best storytellers to emerge from Nashville. Up to now, he told his stories in song, but with this heartfelt memoir, he can now be called a writer of the first order. Houston, where Crowell grew up in the 1950s and early 1960s, was a city full of characters found in stereotypical country songs: hard-drinking fathers and long-suffering mothers singing along to the beer-soaked ballads of Hank Williams. But this is not fiction; Crowell actually lived the life, soaking up its exhilarating and disturbing atmosphere. Crowell is unsparingly honest, yet there is an admirable restraint here, too. He clearly loves his family, accepting their bountiful deficiencies even when he criticizes them or wishes them harm. He can now see the kind of lives his parents wanted to live, and how they fell woefully short. He calls his father an enigma and savant; he admires his mother, who suffered from double dyslexia and epilepsy, for her towering instinct for survival. But he also discusses lighter topics, such as his early days in a rock â€™nâ€™ roll band, making for an exceptional memoir. --June Sawyers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1812'),
(5685, 'The Chinese in America', 'Iris Chang', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people''s search for a better lifeÂ—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to find success. She chronicles the many accomplishments in America of Chinese immigrants and their descendents: building the infrastructure of their adopted country, fighting racist and exclusionary laws, walking the racial tightrope between black and white, contributing to major scientific and technological advances, expanding the literary canon, and influencing the way we think about racial and ethnic groups. Interweaving political, social, economic, and cultural history, as well as the stories of individuals, Chang offers a bracing view not only of what it means to be Chinese American, but also of what it is to be American.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2348'),
(5686, 'The Choice', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1 New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled talents to a new tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we''ll never have to make. Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life-- boating, swimming, and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies--he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite his attempts to be neighborly, the appealing redhead seems to have a chip on her shoulder about him . . . and the presence of her longtime boyfriend doesn''t help. Despite himself, Travis can''t stop trying to ingratiate himself with his new neighbor, and his persistent efforts lead them both to the doorstep of a journey that neither could have foreseen. Spanning the eventful years of young love, marriage and family, THE CHOICE ultimately confronts us with the most heartwrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3455'),
(5687, 'Choke', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Victor Mancini is a ruthless con artist. Victor Mancini is a med-school dropout who''s taken a job playing an Irish indentured servant in a colonial-era theme park in order to help care for his Alzheimer''s-afflicted mother. Victor Mancini is a sex addict. Victor Mancini is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ. All of these statements about the protagonist of\n <em>\n  Choke\n </em>\n are more or less true. Welcome, once again, to the world of Chuck Palahniuk.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Art never comes from happiness." So says Mancini''s mother only a few pages into the novel. Given her own dicey and melodramatic style of parenting, you would think that her son''s life would be chock-full of nothing but art. Alas, that''s not the case. In the fine tradition of Oedipus, Stephen Dedalus, and Anthony Soprano, Victor hasn''t quite reconciled his issues with his mother. Instead, he''s trawling sexual-addiction recovery meetings for dates and purposely choking in restaurants for a few moments of attention. Longing for a hug, in other words, he''s settling for the Heimlich.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thematically, this is pretty familiar Palahniuk territory. It would be a pity to disclose the surprises of the plot, but suffice it to say that what we have here is a little bit of Tom Robbins''s\n <em>\n  Another Roadside Attraction\n </em>\n , a little bit of Don DeLillo''s\n <em>\n  The Day Room\n </em>\n , and, well, a little bit of\n <em>\n  Fight Club\n </em>\n . Just as with\n <em>\n  Fight Club\n </em>\n and the other two novels under Palahniuk''s belt, we get a smattering of gloriously unflinching sound bites, including this skeptical bit on prayer chains: "A spiritual pyramid scheme. As if you can gang up on God. Bully him around."\n</p>\n<p>\n Whether this is the novel that will break Palahniuk into the mainstream is hard to say. For a fourth book, in fact, the ratio of iffy, "dude"-intensive dialogue to interesting and insightful passages is a little higher than we might wish. In the end, though, the author''s nerve and daring pull the whole thing off--just barely. And what''s next for Victor Mancini''s creator? Leave the last word to him, declaring as he does in the final pages: "Maybe it''s our job to invent something better.... What it''s going to be, I don''t know."\n <em>\n  --Bob Michaels\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palahniuk (Fight Club; Invisible Monsters) once again demonstrates his faith in the credo that before things get better, they must get much, much worse. Like previous Palahniuk protagonists, Victor Mancini is young and prematurely cynical, a med school dropout whose eerily detached narration of the banal horrors of everyday existence gives way to a numbed account of nihilistic carnage. Cruising sex-addict meetings for action, Victor enjoys bathroom trysts with nymphomaniacs on short prison furloughs, focused on maximizing his sexual highs. During the working day, he is trapped in a 1734 colonial theme park, where the entire self-medicated staff blearily endures abusive school tours while hiding out from the world. Victor supports his mother, who is in the hospital, stricken with Alzheimer''s; she is wasting away, and despite the misery she put him through in childhood (revealed in an increasingly horrific series of flashbacks), he wants to be a good boy and take care of her. This becomes challenging when Victor is seduced by a strange hospital worker calling herself Dr. Marshall, who shows him his mother''s diary; it describes her self-impregnation by a holy relic she believes to be the foreskin of Jesus. This has a profound effect on Victor, who is stunned by the possibility that there may be some good in him after all. Victor is even more pathetic than Palahniuk''s previous antiheroes, in that the world he creates for himself (a carnivalesque mâ€šlange of theme park, geriatric ward and asylum) is actually more horrific than the one he seeks to escape. Still, the novel showcases the author''s powers of description, character development and attention-getting dialogue handily enough to give this dark meditation on addiction a distinctive and humorous twist. Author tour.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1114'),
(5688, 'Choke', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chuck Chandler, a Key West tennis pro, tends to choke in his big matches, a tendency he must overcome when he meets Harry Carras and his beautiful wife Clare, and becomes a suspect in Harry''s death. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. Tour.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2686'),
(5689, 'Chords of Strength of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance', 'David Archuleta', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **Singing sensation and *American Idol* favorite David Archuleta tells his inspiring personal story. Includes full-color photos! **\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A runner-up on American Idol and successful music artist, David Archuleta was named one of the "breakout stars of 2008" by *Forbes* magazine and landed the number two spot on the Billboard charts.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In *Chords of Strength* David shares his unexpected and inspiring journey, including how he overcame vocal cord paralysis to achieve his dream of being a singer. He reveals insecurities he felt about his voice-before he realized that he loved the way singing made him feel more than he disliked the way he sounded. In this personal memoir, David opens up about the strength he draws from his unshakable faith and unyielding family. He pays tribute to those who continue to inspire him and through their example help him believe in himself, his talent, and his abilities.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Intimate and uplifting, *Chords of Strength* allows a unique glimpse of the man behind the music and offers hope to anyone with a passion and a dream.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1815'),
(5690, 'A Chosen Few', 'Mark Kurlansky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIRFifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish communities are revitalizing the ancient centers of Budapest, Prague, and Amsterdam. These brave, determined Jewish men and women have chosen to settleâ€“or remainâ€“in Europe after the devastation of the Holocaust, but they have paid a price. Among the unexpected dangers, they have had to cope with an alarming resurgence of Nazism in Europe, the spread of Arab terrorism, and the impact of the Jewish state on European life.Delving into the intimate stories of European Jews from all walks of life, Kurlansky weaves together a vivid tapestry of individuals sustaining their traditions, and flourishing, in the shadow of history. An inspiring story of a tenacious people who have rebuilt their lives in the face of incomprehensible horror, A Chosen Few is a testament to cultural survival and a celebration of the deep bonds that endure between Jews and European civilization.â€œConsistently absorbing . . . A Chosen Few investigates the relatively uncharted territory of an encouraging phenomenon.â€â€“Los Angeles Times â€œI can think of no book that portrays with such intelligence, historical understanding, and journalistic flair what life has been like for Jews determined to build lives in Europe.â€â€“SUSAN MIRON Forward\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2185'),
(5691, 'Chosen Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a spring thaw disinters the body of a young woman who''s been missing for over a year, Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport doesn''t have much to go on except the victim''s rumored connection with an unnamed man, who may be an artist and also, perhaps, a priest. But then the deserted property where her body was discovered turns out to be a killing field full of other young blondes last seen in the company of a man with a nasty habit of superimposing their faces on pornographic drawings. Davenport begins to close in on a serial killer whose perverted hobby provides the clues Davenport needs to stop him in his bloody tracks. James Qatar isn''t a priest, and he''s not really an artist, but he''s definitely a monster, one who''s met his match in Davenport.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Davenport is a smart, thoughtful cop whose girlfriend is pressuring him to make a commitment to parenthood and whose boss is about to lose her job in a political turnover. While the search for the killer is handled in author John Sandford''s usual, crisp, procedural style, it almost seems to be a pretext for exploring the evolution of Davenport''s relationship with Dr. Weather Karkinnen. This 12th adventure in the author''s popular Prey series will undoubtedly rocket to the top of the bestseller list, though it''s not a standout. The novel displays the solid craftsmanship and narrative drive Sandford''s known for, but his hero seems a little dispirited and out of sorts. Perhaps fatherhood will give Davenport a new lease on life. In the meantime, check out Sandford''s backlist featuring his other hero, Kidd (_The Fool''s Run_,\n  <em>\n   The Empress File\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Devil''s Code\n  </em>\n  ), who has a nice little walk-on here in which he begins a romance with Davenport''s partner Marcy Sherrill.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  HThe 13th title in the Prey series (Easy Prey, etc.) has wealthy Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief Lucas Davenport in up to his Porsche-driving fingertips. Lucas is trying to track an elusive serial killer while reuniting with former fiancâ€še Weather Karkinnen who after a couple of years'' estrangement following her narrow escape from a crazy biker in one of Lucas''s former cases has suddenly decided she wants to have his baby. Weather is a formidable distraction, but the killer revealed to readers from the beginning as James Qatar, a suave professor of art history with a yen for strangulation proves to require even more attention. Soon after the body of a young blonde is found in a partially excavated grave on a remote wilderness hillside, a deputy sheriff from backwater Wisconsin shows up with a file containing case histories of several women reported missing in Wisconsin and Minnesota over a nine-year period. Fearing the worst, Lucas orders the hillside surveyed; subsequent excavation uncovers seven more bodies. The art world connections of some of the victims and the discovery of pornographic drawings suggests a link to the art community around the local Catholic university. As the net tightens, the usually coolheaded Qatar, already plotting the fate of a daring fabric artist in cahoots with the police, gradually loses control. With Lucas and his team watching his every move, he eludes surveillance and carries out a final desperate attack. Sandford is in top form here, his wry humor and his development of Lucas''s combative, affectionate relationship with Weather lighting up the dark of another grisly investigation. Simultaneous audio. (May)Forecast: Sandford''s thrillers are reliably excellent, and his latest, a BOMC main selection backed by a national ad/ promo campaign and an author tour, marks a high point in the Prey series. The book should hit #1 its first week out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/682'),
(5692, 'Christine', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vintage King...breathtaking...awesome. Carries such momentum the reader musts force himself to slow down. (\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS and his non-fiction book ON WRITING. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/834'),
(5693, 'The Christmas Train', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Recently, Baldacci has ventured with success beyond the thrillers that made his reputation, first in 2000 with the historical melodrama Wish You Well, then earlier this year with the SF mystery novella The Mighty Johns. Here''s another stretch, one that he performs with good spirit, a lot of humor and only a bit of strain a Christmas charmer set aboard a cross-country train. Tom Langdon''s life hasn''t been the same since his all-time love, Eleanor Carter, left him years ago while the two were hotshot journalists, and since he''s quit serious reporting for writing fluff. Banned from flying for a year because of an air rage incident, he''s decided to write about riding the rails over the Christmas holidays, planning to link up with his erstwhile girlfriend, a Hollywood star, in L.A. Aboard the Capitol Limited, running from D.C. to Chicago, Tom meets a host of unusual fellow travelers, including rambunctious train personnel, lonely wanderers and a pair of elopers; he also runs into Eleanor, now a screenwriter for a legendary film director who''s on board researching a possible film about trains. Matters complicate further aboard the Southwest Chief, running from Chicago to L.A., as Tom''s Tinseltown girlfriend shows up and proposes marriage just as Tom and Eleanor are working their way back together; a sneak thief nabs valuables; and an avalanche traps the train in the midst of a historic blizzard. The narrative is loaded with cool train lore (Baldacci dedicates the book to "everyone who loves trains and holidays") and plenty of romance and good cheer, though suspense is low who can doubt how things will work out? and the author gets a bit preachy about the advantages of train travel and the lessons of Christmas. This is a more warmhearted and enjoyable novel than Grisham''s comparable holiday offering last year, Skipping Christmas, and Baldacci''s fans will snap it up as the Yuletide treat it is. Expect this to stuff plenty of stockings on December 25; all aboard!\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Baldacci''s latest offering--a sweet holiday tale--is a departure from his last thriller,\n <em>\n  Last Man Standing\n </em>\n (2001). Tom Langdon is a former war reporter who now writes feature articles for various magazines. Banned from flying on airplanes after a hostile incident at an airport security checkpoint, Langdon is forced to take a cross-country train from Washington, D.C., to L.A., where his girlfriend is waiting to spend Christmas with him. As he begins talking to the passengers and staff aboard the train, he meets an eccentric older woman who seems to be a regular rider, a young couple preparing to marry on the train, and a former Catholic priest. To Tom''s shock, the former love of his life, Eleanor, is also aboard the train. Sparks fly between them, bringing up old feelings along with the unresolved issues from their relationship. Tom realizes this might be his second chance with Eleanor, but a series of unexpected events may derail his plans. This latest Baldacci might not appeal to all of the fans who lap up his fast-paced thrillers, but the heartwarming holiday story might win him new fans who enjoy seasonal tales.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/143'),
(5694, 'The Christmas Wedding', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "If you enjoy family stories where the family seems as real as a your next door neighbors, and want to feel a bit of the magic of the holiday season then you''re going to want to pick this book up. Normally when I think of James Patterson I think of action packed thrillers, but he can certainly pull of a nice Christmas time family story as well. Highly recommended!" (\n  <strong>\n   Brenda Castro\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A heartwarming story of family and love with Christmas cheer as an added bonus. This is a quick storyline that will delight readers with bits of humor and tender moments. A good book to brighten any day." (\n  <strong>\n   Pamela Mason, MasonCanyon.blogspot.com.\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A touching and emotional read. James Patterson is mostly noted for his thrillers, but he knows the romance genre too. Not to mention that he throws in a few twists along the way. The characters feel like real people with real problems. They are people I truly came to care about. The storyline flowed beautifully from page to page. I couldn''t put this book down. I wanted to know what would happen next. It''s a fast-paced story with realistic characters. I can honestly say I will miss these characters very much." (\n  <strong>\n   Yvonne, SocratesBookReviews\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A heartwarming story about family, love, and second chances...I enjoyed The Christmas Wedding very much...If you equate his name with thrillers and Alex Cross novels, you are in for a surprise, too." (\n  <strong>\n   Dina, JustAnotherNewsBlog.com\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A story to get you in the Christmas mood with family, snow, weddings and of course love....I kept wondering who the groom was going to be and by the end I was glad she chose who she did...Patterson''s ability to weave a story that''s centered around true-to-life characters is, I''m sure, one of the reasons why he''s a bestselling romance (and suspense!) author." (\n  <strong>\n   Renee, SteelerGirl83.Blogspot.com\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Patterson has had more\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to\n  <em>\n   Guinness World Records\n  </em>\n  . Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson''s books have sold more than 210 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including\n  <em>\n   Kiss the Girls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Along Came a Spider\n  </em>\n  . Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women''s Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes fulltime and lives in Florida with his family.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Richard DiLallo is a former advertising creative director. He has had numerous articles published in major magazines. He lives in Manhattan with his wife.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2860'),
(5695, 'Chronic City', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The acclaimed author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies. Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan''s social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called "Martyr &amp; Pesty." Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancee, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in Earth''s stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties. Into Chase''s cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers, and a desperate ache for meaning. Perkus''s countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake, and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Along with Oona Laszlo, a self-loathing ghostwriter, and Richard Abneg, a hero of the Tompkins Square Park riot now working as a fixer for the billionaire mayor, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the answers to several mysteries that seem to offer that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought: Truth. Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem''s masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1817'),
(5696, 'The Chronicles of Narnia; The Magician&#39;s Nephew/The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe/The Horse and His Boy/Prince Caspian/The Voyage of the Dawn Trea', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Digory and Polly are tricked by Digory''s peculiar Uncle Andrew into becoming part of an experiment, they set off on the adventure of a lifetime. What happens to the children when they touch Uncle Andrew''s magic rings is far beyond anything even the old magician could have imagined.Hurtled into the Wood between the Worlds, the children soon find that they can enter many worlds through the mysterious pools there. In one world they encounter the evil Queen Jadis, who wreaks havoc in the streets of London when she is accidentally brought back with them. When they finally manage to pull her out of London, unintentionally taking along Uncle Andrew and a coachman with his horse, they find themselves in what will come to be known as the land of Narnia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1179'),
(5697, 'The Chronology of Water', 'Lidia Yuknavitch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n INTRODUCTION BY CHELSEA CAIN:: This is not your mother''s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the effect of extreme grief on a young woman''s developing sexuality that some define as untraditional because of her attraction to both men and women. Her emergence as a writer evolves at the same time and takes the narrator on a journey of addiction, self-destruction, and ultimately survival that finally comes in the shape of love and motherhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1883'),
(5698, 'Churchill', 'Paul Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **An elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of the inimitable leader. **\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Paul Johnson''s books are acknowledged as masterpieces of historical analysis. In *Churchill*, he offers a lively, succinct exploration of one of the most complex and fascinating personalities in history. Winston Churchill''s hold on contemporary readers has never slackened, and this exploration of his life casts new light on one of history''s most intriguing figures. Johnson illuminates the various phases of Churchill''s career-from his adventures as a young cavalry officer in the service of the empire to his role as an elder statesman prophesying the advent of the Cold War-and shows how Churchill''s immense adaptability and innate pugnacity made him a formidable leader for the better part of a century.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2196'),
(5699, 'The Circus Fire', 'Stewart O&#39;Nan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when the big top caught fire. The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline; in seconds it was burning out of control. More than 8,000 people were trapped inside, and the ensuing disaster would eventually take 167 lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stewart O''Nan brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, O''Nan skillfully re-creates the horrific events and illuminates the psychological oddities of human behavior under stress: the mad scramble for the exits; the perilous effort to maneuver animals out of danger; the hero who tossed dozens of children to safety before being trampled to death. Brilliantly constructed and exceptionally moving, The Circus Fire is history at its most compelling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2350'),
(5700, 'Cities of the Plain', 'Cormac Mccarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On a ranch in southeastern Texas, soon after World War II, a group of solitary, inarticulately lonely men gathers to work animals as the sun sets for good on the mythic American West. All of these men nurse losses both personal (siblings or wives) and collective (a shared lifestyle and philosophy). Among them is John Grady Cole, the adolescent hero of the first book in Cormac McCarthy''s Border trilogy,\n  <em>\n   All the Pretty Horses\n  </em>\n  . John Grady remains the magnificent horseman he always was, and he still dreams too much. On the ranch, he meets Billy Parham, whose own tragic sojourn through Mexico in\n  <em>\n   The Crossing\n  </em>\n  , the second book of the set, continues to quietly suffocate him. The two form a friendship that will nurture both but save neither from the destiny that McCarthy''s characters always sense lurching to meet them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soaked in storm-heavy atmosphere but brightened by the ranch-hands'' easy camaraderie and gentle humor,\n  <em>\n   Cities of the Plain\n  </em>\n  surprises with its sweetness. The awkward doomed-romance plot at the center of this tight, concise novel fails to convince, but, remarkably, does little to undercut the book''s impact. What lingers here, and what matters, are the brooding, eerie portraits of the plains and the riders, glimpsed mostly alone but occasionally leaning together, who slip across them, over the horizon into memory.\n  <em>\n   --Glen Hirshberg\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This volume concludes McCarthy''s Border Trilogy?the first two books being All the Pretty Horses, which won the National Book Award in 1992, and The Crossing, published to great acclaim in ''94. Devoted McCarthy readers will know not to expect any neat or dramatic resolution in Cities of the Plain, for the author is more of a poet than a novelist, more interested in wedding language to experience in successive moments than in building and setting afloat some narrative ark. Cities, like the other books, takes place sometime shortly after WWII along the Texas-Mexico border. John Grady Cole, the young, horse-savvy wanderer from All the Pretty Horses, and Billy Parham, who traveled in search of stolen horses with his younger brother in The Crossing, are now cowhands working outside El Paso. John Grady falls in love with Magdalena, a teenage prostitute working in Juarez, Mexico; determined to marry her, he runs afoul of her pimp, Eduardo. That is basically the narrative. Along the way, McCarthy treats the reader to the most fabulous descriptions of sunrises, sunsets, the ways of horses and wild dogs, how to patch an inner tube. The cowboys engage in almost mythically worldly-wise, laconic dialogues that are models of concision and logic. Although there is less of it here than in the earlier books, McCarthy does include a few of his familiar seers, old men and blind men who speak in prophetic voices. Their words serve as earnest if cryptic instructions to the younger lads and seem to unburden the novelist of his vision of America and its love affair with free will. If a philosophy of life were to be extracted from these tales, it would seem to be that we are fated to be whatever we are, that what we think are choices are really not; that betrayals of the heart are always avenged; and that following one''s heart is a guarantee of nothing. There is not much solace in McCarthy-land; there is only the triumph of prose, endlessly renewed, forever in search of a closure it will not find save in silence. 200,000 first printing; BOMC alternate; simultaneous audio, read by Brad Pitt.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1330'),
(5701, 'Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution', 'Simon Schama', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI''s France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n The author devotes his considerable narrative and scholarly gifts to the French revolution and to the transformation that permanently altered the face of Europe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2198'),
(5702, 'City of Bones', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since his first appearance in 1992''s Edgar-winning\n <em>\n  The Black Echo\n </em>\n , Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined Dennis Lehane''s Patrick and Angie, George Pelecanos''s Derek Strange, and Greg Rucka''s Atticus Kodiak in the pantheon of new-school hard-boiled detectives. Rather than giving Bosch a clever gimmick (like Jeffery Deaver''s Lincoln Rhyme, who is a quadriplegic), Michael Connelly embraces the noir archetype: Bosch, an L.A. homicide detective, is a chain-smoking loner who refuses to play by his superiors'' rules. Although he has quit smoking, Harry''s still the same tightlipped outsider, taking each crime as a personal affront as he tries to cleanse his beloved city of the darkness he sees engulfing it.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  City of Bones\n </em>\n , Connelly''s eighth Bosch title, Bosch and his well-dressed partner, Jerry Edgar, are working to identify a child''s skeleton, buried for 20 years in the forest off Hollywood''s Wonderland Drive, and to bring the killer to belated justice. For Bosch this is more than just another homicide, as the mystery child, beaten and abandoned, comes to represent much of what he sees as evil in his city. Add in a tragic love affair with a fellow cop, complications from overzealous media, and the growing feeling that he''s fighting a losing battle about which no one cares, and the usually stoic Bosch is pushed to his limits. This isn''t the strongest plot Connelly has concocted for Bosch, but it leads to an ending the whole series has been building toward. The conclusion may not shock longtime fans, but it will leave them wondering where the series will go from here.\n <em>\n  --Benjamin Reese\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n City of Bones is the twelfth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the eighth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. It was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  In the article:\n </strong>\n Plot summary\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/370'),
(5703, 'City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Clement Mansell knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The seriously crazed killer is already back on the Detroit streets -- thanks to some nifty courtroom moves by his crafty looker of a lawyer -- and he''s feeling invincible enough to execute a crooked Motown judge on a whim. Homicide Detective Raymond Cruz thinks the "Oklahoma Wildman" crossed the line long before this latest outrage, and he''s determined to see that the hayseed psycho does not slip through the legal system''s loopholes a second time. But that means a good cop is going to have to play somewhat fast and loose with the rules -- in order to maneuver Mansell into a wild Midwest showdown that he won''t be walking away from.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3122'),
(5704, 'Civilization: The West and the Rest', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ferguson is the most brilliant British historian of his generation ... he writes with splendid panache The Times  One of the world''s leading historians -- Hamish McRae Independent  [Praise for The Ascent of Money] Beautifully written... Breathtakingly clever -- Martin Van Weyer Sunday Telegraph  [Praise for The Ascent of Money] The tales he tells of boom and bust, of triumph and disaster, of bubbles that inflate... are the very essence of financial history -- Bill Emmott Financial Times  [Praise for The Ascent of Money]  An often enlightening and enjoyable tour through the underside of great events, a lesson in how the most successful great powers have always been underpinned by smart money\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2199'),
(5705, 'Clapton: The Autobiography', 'Eric Clapton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œI found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.â€With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, he is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys. Born illegitimate in 1945 and raised by his grandparents, Eric never knew his father and, until the age of nine, believed his actual mother to be his sister. In his early teens his solace was the guitar, and his incredible talent would make him a cult hero in the clubs of Britain and inspire devoted fans to scrawl â€œClapton is Godâ€ on the walls of Londonâ€™s Underground. With the formation of Cream, the world''s first supergroup, he became a worldwide superstar, but conflicting personalities tore the band apart within two years. His stints in Blind Faith, in Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, and in Derek and the Dominos were also short-lived but yielded some of the most enduring songs in history, including the classic â€œLayla.â€ During the late sixties he played as a guest with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, as well as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and longtime friend George Harrison. It was while working with the latter that he fell for Georgeâ€™s wife, Pattie Boyd, a seemingly unrequited love that led him to the depths of despair, self-imposed seclusion, and drug addiction. By the early seventies he had overcome his addiction and released the bestselling album 461 Ocean Boulevard, with its massive hit â€œI Shot the Sheriff.â€ He followed that with the platinum album Slowhand, which included â€œWonderful Tonight,â€ the touching love song to Pattie, whom he finally married at the end of 1979. A short time later, however, Eric had replaced heroin with alcohol as his preferred vice, following a pattern of behavior that not only was detrimental to his music but contributed to the eventual breakup of his marriage. In the eighties he would battle and begin his recovery from alcoholism and become a father. But just as his life was coming together, he was struck by a terrible blow: His beloved four-year-old son, Conor, died in a freak accident. At an earlier time Eric might have coped with this tragedy by fleeing into a world of addiction. But now a much stronger man, he took refuge in music, responding with the achingly beautiful â€œTears in Heaven.â€Clapton is the powerfully written story of a survivor, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success despite extraordinary demons. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1819'),
(5706, 'Clarkson on Cars', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Collected writing from the best and funniest motoring journalist in the country\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1332'),
(5707, 'A Clash of Kings', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.Here is the second volume in George R.R. Martin magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R.R. Martin stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.A CLASH OF KINGSA comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leadersâ€”Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheonâ€”who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3178'),
(5708, 'The Classical World: An Epic History From Homer to Hadrian', 'Robin Lane Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome once dominated the world, and they continue to fascinate and inspire us. Classical art and architecture, drama and epic, philosophy and politicsÂ—these are the foundations of Western civilization. In\n <em>\n  The Classical World\n </em>\n , eminent classicist Robin Lane Fox brilliantly chronicles this vast sweep of history from Homer to the reign of Augustus. From the Peloponnesian War through the creation of Athenian democracy, from the turbulent empire of Alexander the Great to the creation of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Christianity, Robin Lane Fox serves as our witty and trenchant guide. He introduces us to extraordinary heroes and horrific villains, great thinkers and blood-thirsty tyrants. Throughout this vivid tour of two of the greatest civilizations the world has ever known, we remain in the hands of a great master.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2356');
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(5709, 'Clear and Present Danger', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the end of the prologue to\n  <em>\n   Clear and Present Danger\n  </em>\n  , Clancy writes, "And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning--and, once decided, best unseen." In\n  <em>\n   Clear and Present Danger\n  </em>\n  nothing is as clear as it may seem.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The president, unsatisfied with the success of his "war on drugs," decides that he wants some immediate success. But after John Clark''s covert strike team is deployed to Colombia for Operation Showboat, the drug lords strike back taking several civilian casualties. The chief executive''s polls plummet. He orders Ritter to terminate their unofficial plan and leave no traces. Jack Ryan, who has just been named CIA deputy director of intelligence is enraged when he discovers that has been left out of the loop of Colombian operations. Several of America''s most highly trained soldiers are stranded in an unfinished mission that, according to all records, never existed. Ryan decides to get the men out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ultimately,\n  <em>\n   Clear and Present Danger\n  </em>\n  is about good conscience, law, and politics, with Jack Ryan and CIA agent John Clark as its dual heroes. Ryan relentlessly pursues what he knows is right and legal, even if it means confronting the president of the United States. Clark is the perfect soldier, but a man who finally holds his men higher than the orders of any careless commander.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along with the usual, stunning array of military hardware and the latest techno-gadgets,\n  <em>\n   Clear and Present Danger\n  </em>\n  further develops the relationships and characters that Clancy fans have grown to love. Admiral James Greer passes the CIA torch to his pupil, Ryan. Mr. Clark and Chavez meet for the first time. Other recurring characters like Robert Ritter and "the President" add continuity to Clancy''s believable, alternate reality. This is Clancy at his best.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a U.S. president decides that drug smuggling has become a "clear and present danger" to national security, the response is a complex and covert military campaign against the "Colombian Cartel." "The dean of techno-thrillers demonstrates once again his mastery of the genre," stated PW .\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1147'),
(5710, 'Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession', 'Julie Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child''s Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she''d ever do-- until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir, CLEAVING. Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer''s, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs--tough, physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts. The camaraderie at Fleischer''s leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world-- from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1820'),
(5711, 'Cleopatra: A Life', 'Stacy Schiff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cleopatras palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and she poisoned the second.Incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men.They happen, however to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a son with Caesar and - after his murder, three more with his prot_g_.Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way the supple personality has been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiffs is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2203'),
(5712, 'The Client', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mark Sway, age 11 but years wiser thanks to a drunken dad who abused his mom, is out in the woods behind his Memphis trailer park teaching his kid brother, Ricky, how to smoke Virginia Slims heisted from Mom''s purse. He''s a pretty upright kid--he''s determined to protect his brother from drugs, and he once defended his mom with a baseball bat.\n</p>\n<p>\n The dangers of smoking rapidly escalate when Mark glimpses a guy trying to commit suicide by carbon monoxide in his car nearby and tries to stop him. The guy is Jerome, a lawyer who tells Mark that his Mafia client has murdered Senator Boyd Boyette and buried him in the concrete under his garage in New Orleans. Then Jerome puts a bullet in his own head. Little Ricky flips out, and so does Barry the Blade Muldanno, who doesn''t want blustery U.S. attorney Reverend Roy Foltrigg to find the corpse and bust him. Caught in a ruthless game between the Mob and the amoral authorities, Mark''s family has no defense in the world except Reggie Love, a 50ish divorcÃ©e who has just turned her life around by becoming a lawyer. Does she have what it takes to help Mark beat the system? The life-or-death chase is on!\n</p>\n<p>\n Mark has seen a lot of movies, and he sees life in cinematic terms. So does Grisham. Even if this novel had never been filmed, it would still be a really good, fast-paced movie. Its literary limitation is also its filmlike virtue:\n <em>\n  The Client\n </em>\n is a rush.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of the bestselling Grisham will be pleased to note that he is once more on Firm ground: his latest legal thriller offers a clever, compelling plot coupled with two singular protagonists sure to elicit readers'' empathy. Eleven-year-old Mark Sway, taking his kid brother for a smoke behind their Memphis trailer park, witnesses the suicide of a lawyer "driven crazy" by a lethal secret. Before he dies, the man confides to Mark where the body of a recently murdered U.S. senator lies buried, and the game''s afoot. Trailed by the police, the FBI and assorted Mafia types (the deceased politico was the victim of "a successful New Orleans street thug"), Mark retains--for one dollar--the services of Reggie Love, a 50ish female lawyer. This uncommon attorney-client relationship adds an affecting, unusually humanistic layer to the novel''s tension-filled events. Mark, raised by a divorced mother and wise beyond his years, thinks chiefly in terms of movies and TV; Reggie, a street-smart survivor of an acrimonious divorce, is often unsure whether to hug or slug her precocious client. True to form, Grisham employs just enough foreshadowing to keep the suspense rolling ("Neither of them could know that . . . "), and propels his action at the requisite breakneck pace. Occasional plot improbabilities and stylistic quibbles--a few fuzzy characterizations; overstatement of already obvious points; Mark''s sporadic adult phraseology--will not deter readers from enjoying a rousing read. 950,000 first printing; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections; Reader''s Digest Condensed Book selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1161'),
(5713, 'The Clinic', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n She was found stabbed to death on a quiet, shaded street in one of Los Angeles'' safest neighbourhoods. For three months the police have found no clues to the murder of Hope Devane, psychology professor and controversial author of a pop-psych bestseller, and angry indictment of men. Now homicide detective Milo Sturgis, newly assigned to the case, turns to his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delaware, looking for insights into Devane''s life. To both men the cold stalking of Hope Devane suggests calculation fuelled by hate - an execution. They discover why as they unlock, one by one, the very private compartments of her life: her marriage, her shadowy work for a Beverly Hills clinic, the Conduct Committee she ran with an iron hand at the University, and her baffling link to another murder victim. But it is when Alex delves into her childhood that he begins to understand the formidable woman she was - and the ties that entangled her life until the horrifying act of betrayal that ended it.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/751'),
(5714, 'Clock Winder', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don''t have to be a perfect match to work.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Anne Tyler is a magical writer."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n LOS ANGELES TIMES\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n A compassionate tale of a fragmented family on the verge of destruction and the free-spirited young woman who drifts into their lifes. 2 cassettes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/965'),
(5715, 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Anthony Burgess', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language as Mr. Burgess has done here-the fact that this is also a very funny book may pass unnoticed. --\n <em>\n  William S. Burroughs\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Novel by Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. Set in a dismal dystopia, it is the first-person account of a juvenile delinquent who undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior. The novel satirizes extreme political systems that are based on opposing models of the perfectibility or incorrigibility of humanity. Written in a futuristic slang vocabulary invented by Burgess, in part by adaptation of Russian words, it was his most original and best-known work. Alex, the protagonist, has a passion for classical music and is a member of a vicious teenage gang that commits random acts of brutality. Captured and imprisoned, he is transformed through behavioral conditioning into a model citizen, but his taming also leaves him defenseless. He ultimately reverts to his former behavior. The final chapter of the original British edition, in which Alex renounces his amoral past, was removed when the novel was first published in the United States. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anthony Burgess\n </strong>\n is the author of many works, including\n <em>\n  The Wanting Seed\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Nothing Like the Sun\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Doctor Is Sick\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Long Day Wanes\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Honey for the Bears\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  ReJoyce\n </em>\n . He died in 1993.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1017'),
(5716, 'The Clone Wars', 'Karen Traviss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Across the galaxy, the Clone Wars are raging. The Separatists, led by Count Dooku, the onetime Jedi and now secret Sith Lord, continue to press forward, and more and more worlds are either falling, or seceding and joining the cause. Under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, the Republic heroically battles on, championed by its huge army of cloned soldiers and their Jedi generals. Anakin Skywalker, believed by some to be the prophesied "Chosen One" destined to bring balance to the Force, is now a Jedi Knight under the tutelage of his Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Death is a constant possibilityand his chances of survival aren''t improved by the unexpected arrival of an apprentice: Ahsoka, a brash, inexperienced fourteen-year-old Padawan apprenticed to Anakin. But there''s no time for Anakin to question his latest orders: He and Obi-Wan have been assigned a new mission, and failure is not an option. Jabba the Hutt''s precious infant son has been kidnapped, and when the frantic parent applies to the Jedi for help, it falls to Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, and their clone troops to track down the evidence and retrieve the missing Huttlet. And more is at stake: For a grateful Jabba just might allow the Republic access to the Hutt-controlled space lanes that the Grand Army desperately needs in order to beat the Separatists into submission. But the Republic is not the only power that craves access to those space lanes. Count Dooku, determined to win the prize for the Separatists, has set a trap for the Jedi. When they find the Huttlet, they will also find Dooku''s master assassin, Asajj Ventress, and countless legions of battle droids waiting to spring a trap. The blazing new animated feature film Star Wars: The Clone Wars takes place in the years preceding Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and sets the stage for the groundbreaking TV series. Both contain all original materialdirect from the brilliant imagination of legendaryStar Warscreator George Lucas. And these exciting new adventures and characters are being brought to life in book form by none other than#1 New York Times bestselling Star Wars author Karen Traviss.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3486'),
(5717, 'Close to Shore', 'Michael Capuzzo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, *Close to Shore\n  <strong>\n   *\n  </strong>\n  brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  During the summer before the United States entered World War I, when ocean swimming was just becoming popular and luxurious Jersey Shore resorts were thriving as a chic playland for an opulent yet still innocent era''s new leisure class, Americans were abruptly introduced to the terror of sharks. In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual deep-ocean habitat and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, near the towns of Beach Haven and Spring Lake-and, incredibly, a farming community\n  <em>\n   eleven miles inland\n  </em>\n  -the most ferocious and unpredictable of predators began a deadly rampage: the first shark attacks on swimmers in U.S. history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Americans celebrating an astoundingly prosperous epoch much like our own, fueled by the wizardry of revolutionary inventions, the arrival of this violent predator symbolized the limits of mankind''s power against nature.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Interweaving a vivid portrait of the era and meticulously drawn characters with chilling accounts of the shark''s five attacks and the frenzied hunt that ensued, Michael Capuzzo has created a nonfiction historical thriller with the texture of\n  <em>\n   Ragtime\n  </em>\n  and the tension of\n  <em>\n   Jaws\n  </em>\n  . From the unnerving inevitability of the first attack on the esteemed son of a prosperous Philadelphia physician to the spine-tingling moment when a farm boy swimming in Matawan Creek feels the sandpaper-like skin of the passing shark,\n  <em>\n   Close to Shore\n  </em>\n  is an undeniably gripping saga.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Heightening the drama are stories of the resulting panic in the citizenry, press and politicians, and of colorful personalities such as Herman Oelrichs, a flamboyant millionaire who made a bet that a shark was no match for a man (and set out to prove it); Museum of Natural History ichthyologist John Treadwell Nichols, faced with the challenge of stopping a mythic sea creature about which little was known; and, most memorable, the rogue Great White itself moving through a world that couldn''t conceive of either its destructive power or its moral right to destroy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Scrupulously researched and superbly written,\n  <em>\n   Close to Shore\n  </em>\n  brings to life a breathtaking, pivotal moment in American history. Masterfully written and suffused with fascinating period detail and insights into the science and behavior of sharks,* Close to Shore\n  <strong>\n   *\n  </strong>\n  recounts a breathtaking, pivotal moment in American history with startling immediacy.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers, which occured along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2204'),
(5718, 'The Closers', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n _ The Closers_ puts Harry Bosch back in the Los Angelese Police Department, where he was meant to be, and sets him to solving old cases, which is what he always did best, alongside Kiz Rider, who was always the best of the partners fate, and Connolly, gave him. They are working on the death of a bi-racial teenager back in the 1980s, abducted from her bedroom and shot dead. The racial tensions of the time are clearly a factor - the DNA of a known racist is trapped in blood on the gun - but in a Michael Connolly novel, things are never as simple as they seem. And Bosch finds, not to his especial surprise, that he has been asked back into the LAPD as someone''s weapon in the dance of departmental politics. The death of Backy Verloren was a tragedy - the investigation of her murder was a series of mistakes that left her father an alcoholic mess and her mother an obsessive trapped in the past, and someone profited by their misery. Connolly is always at his best when Harry is caught up in the problems of other people, rather than his own, and this excellent, twisty police procedural is a snappy return to form. --_Roz Kaveney_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/514'),
(5719, 'The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason', 'Charles Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine''s adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the Emperor Contstantine converted to Christianity in 368 AD, he changed the course of European history in ways that continue to have repercussions to the present day. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, he turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed authority, whether that of the Bible, or the writings of Ptolemy in astronomy and of Galen and Hippocrates in medicine. Only a thousand years later, with the advent of the Renaissance and the emergence of modern science, did Europe begin to free itself from the effects of Constantine''s decision, yet the effects of his establishment of Christianity as a state religion remain with us, in many respects, today. Brilliantly wide-ranging and ambitious, this is a major work of history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2358'),
(5720, 'Cloud Atlas', 'David Stephen Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Grantaâ€™s â€œBest of Young British Novelists 2003â€ issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope. A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reaganâ€™s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified â€œdinery serverâ€ on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each otherâ€™s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanityâ€™s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2751'),
(5721, 'The Coalwood Way', 'Homer Hickam', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this follow-up to his bestselling autobiography\n <em>\n  Rocket Boys\n </em>\n , Homer Hickam chronicles the eventful autumn of 1959 in his hometown, the West Virginia mining town of Coalwood. Sixteen-year-old Homer and his pals in the Big Creek Missile Agency are high school seniors, still building homemade rockets and hoping that science will provide them with a ticket into the wider world of college and white-collar jobs. Such dreams make them suspect in a conservative small town where "getting above yourself" is the ultimate sin and where Homer''s father, superintendent of the Coalwood mines, is stingy with praise and dubious about his son''s ambitions. Homer''s mother remains supportive, but bluntly reminds him, "You can''t expect everything to go your way. Sometimes life just has another plan." Indeed, Hickam''s unvarnished portrait of Coalwood covers class warfare (union miners battling with his authoritarian father), provincial narrow-mindedness (the local ladies scorn a young woman living outside wedlock with a man who abuses her), and endless gossiping along the picket "fence line." These sharp details make the unabashed sentiment of the book''s closing chapters feel earned rather than easy. Hickam can spin a gripping yarn and keep multiple underlying themes and metaphors going at the same time. His tender but gritty memoir will touch readers'' hearts and minds.\n <em>\n  --Wendy Smith\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his bestselling memoir, Rocket Boys (which became the 1999 movie October Sky), former NASA engineer Hickam looked back at the mining town of Coalwood, W.Va., when the 1957 ascent of Sputnik prompted Sonny and his teenage pals to launch their own rockets and aim at the stars. This sequel is set in 1959, when Sonny is a high school senior, still sending up rockets at "Cape Coalwood," at local launches that became full-scale social events with numerous spectators: "Even the Big Creek cheerleaders came, dressed in full uniform." Hickam digs deeper into his own family life, recalling an ambivalent relationship with his father, the superintendent of the local mine: "My dad was, in many ways, [a] general, plotting strategy and tactics against an unyielding foe, the mine itself." Hearing the constant miner''s cough in her own house, Hickam''s mother, Elsie, wants to leave the coal dust-covered community for the "fresh, clean air" of Myrtle Beach, since "she knew very well lung spots never got smaller, only bigger," but Homer Sr. is determined to stay and save the mine. Amid the resulting household tension, Sonny suffers from an inexplicable sadness, despite his growing relationship with a local girl and his various science and writing projects. His recollections are occasionally reminiscent of the youthful exploits in tales by Jean Shepherd and Ray Bradbury, but Hickam''s voice is his own. Recalling a lost eraDthe transition between small-town life and the dawning of the new technological ageDhe brings his American hometown to life with vivid images, appealing characters and considerable literary magic. (Oct.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1884'),
(5722, 'The Cobra', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An extraordinary cutting-edge thriller from the New York Times-bestselling grandmaster of international suspense.   Meticulous research, crisp narratives, plots as current as today''s headlines-Frederick Forsyth has helped define the international thriller as we know it. And now he does it again.  What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. No boundaries, no rules, no questions asked.  The war is on-though who the ultimate winner will be, no one can tell...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3318'),
(5723, 'The Cobweb', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From his triumphant debut with\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Snow Crash\n  </em>\n  to the stunning success of his latest novel,\n  <em>\n   Quicksilver,\n  </em>\n  Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voice of a generation. In this now-classic political thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a savagely witty, chillingly topical tale set in the tense moments of the Gulf War.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   When a foreign exchange student is found murdered at an Iowa University, Deputy Sheriff Clyde Banks finds that his investigation extends far beyond the small college townâ€”all the way to the Middle East. Shady events at the school reveal that a powerful department is using federal grant money for highly dubious research. And what itâ€™s producing is a very nasty bug.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Navigating a plot that leads from his own backyard to Washington, D.C., to the Gulf, where his Army Reservist wife has been called to duty, Banks realizes he may be the only person who can stop the wholesale slaughtering of thousands of Americans. Itâ€™s a lesson in foreign policy heâ€™ll never forget.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Neal Stephenson is the author of The Baroque Trilogy (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System Of The World). His other books include Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Zodiac, as well as Cobweb and Interface, written in collaboration with Frederick George. He lives in Seattle.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/722'),
(5724, 'Cocaine&#39;s Son', 'Dave Itzkoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dave Itzkoff on\n   <em>\n    Cocaine''s Son\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whatever the circumstances of our childhoods, we all grow up to become adults with questions about our parents and how they shaped the trajectories of our lives. What lessons were our mothers and fathers trying to impart to us? What pitfalls did they want us to avoid, and what mistakes of theirs did we end up repeating anyway? And how might we treat our parents differently if we were given a second chance with them?\n </p>\n <p>\n  These are all questions I confronted when I wrote about my relationship with my father, except that we were dealt a further challenge: for the first 25 years of my life, beginning in the 1970s, my father was addicted to cocaine. He was outwardly a successful man with a wife, two children, and a thriving business, but he struggled privatelyâ€“-and sometimes not-so-privately-â€“with his drug habit, attempting everything from psychotherapy to voluntary institutionalization to cold-turkey purges to kick his addiction. When he finally got clean, I was an almost full-grown man, desperate to know who my father had been in the time I had missed, and as fascinated to discover who he had since become as he was to learn the same about me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Cocaineâ€™s Son\n  </em>\n  is as much my story as it is my fatherâ€™s: my chronicle of growing up enthralled by a man I could not fully understand, of our sometimes painful efforts, after his drug problem was conquered, to remain in each otherâ€™s lives, and the unexpected twists and turns that invariably led us back to each other. Whether or not your life has been touched by addiction issues, I hope this is a story with something to say about your own experience as someoneâ€™s child or parent.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Itzkoffâ€™s distress and embarrassment at his fatherâ€™s behavior are tangible in this unflinching portrait of a troubled childhood. While the critics generally enjoyed this new addition to the genre, a few flaws hampered that enjoyment. Some thought that Itzkoffâ€™s story, with its rosy, upper-middle-class veneer, lacks the edge of similar memoirs, while others raised objections to Itzkoffâ€™s singular focus on his father, whose larger-than-life personality eclipses the other charactersâ€”including Itzkoff himself. He spends a considerable amount of time analyzing his fatherâ€™s actions in an attempt to understand them, and these frequent ruminations, according to\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  , can be intrusive and redundant. When a fellow journalist publishes a book, the critics often take it easy on him or her. That the reviews were not glowing means thereâ€™s less here than meets the eye.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1823'),
(5725, 'A Cold Heart', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Juliet Kipper, a gifted painter, is strangled in the LA gallery where her first solo show has opened to critical acclaim, and Milo Sturgis takes on the murder investigation as a favour to an old friend. He consults Alex Delaware, who, researching parallels with other deaths, looks for artists killed when on the verge of a breakthrough or comeback. And he finds two others. A few weeks earlier, blues player Edgar Michael ''Baby Boy'' Lee was stabbed just after finishing his set at The Snakepit. The remains of China Maranga, a punk singer, were found by the Hollywood sign a month after her disappearance three years ago. And Alex discovers both were clients of Robin Castagna, his ex-lover. The investigation points to a gruesome, sadistic pattern of death, taking Milo and Alex into the dark side of the art world, and Robin into terrible danger.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/744'),
(5726, 'Cold Paradise', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Palm Beach is the most glamorous scene-of-the-crime yet for cop-turned-investigator Stone Barrington, who becomes reacquainted with a case he thought was buried years ago-and must settle romantic entanglements that haunt him still...    "A delightful tale of sex and violence...''Sopranos''-style...slick, sophisticated fun." (*Washington Post*)    "Roller-coaster plotting." (*Denver Post*)    "Woods delivers his most riveting and glamorous Barrington novel yet." (*Press Journal*, Vero Beach, FL)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2671'),
(5727, 'Cold Vengeance', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife''s betrayers-a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York City and the darkest bayous of Louisiana-he is also forced to dig further into Helen''s past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own murder.Peeling back the layers of deception, Pendergast realizes that the conspiracy is deeper, goes back generations, and is more monstrous than he could have ever imagined-and everything he''s believed, everything he''s trusted, everything he''s understood . . . may be a horrific lie.COLD VENGEANCENothing is what it seems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/617'),
(5728, 'Cold Wind', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The extraordinary new Joe Pickett novel from the Edgar Award-winning author.   Nowhere to Run was "wonderful" (The Denver Post), "terrific" (Chicago Tribune), and "outstanding" (Publishers Weekly). The new novel from C. J. Box is all that, and more.  When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it''s his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in- law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn''t know what to do-especially when the early signs point to her being guilty as sin.  But then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl''s death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up? He has the county DA and sheriff on one side, his wife on the other, his estranged friend Nate on a lethal mission of his own, and some powerful interests breathing down his neck. Whichever way this goes . . . it''s not going to be good.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3429'),
(5729, 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed', 'Jared Diamond', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "A magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm. It''s also the deal of the year---the equivalent of a year''s college course by an engaging, brilliant professor, all for the price of a book."Who Hasn''t Gazed upon the abandoned temples of Angkor Wat or the jungle-choked cities of the Maya and wondered, could the same fate happen to us? In this riveting book, Jared Diamond---whose Guns, Germs, and Steel revolutionized our understanding of history---explores how humankind''s use and abuse of the environment reveal the truth behind the world''s great collapses, from the Anasazi of North America to the Vikings of Greenland to modern Montana. What emerges is a fundamental pattern of environmental catastrophe---one whose warning signs surround us today and that we ignore at our peril. Blending the most recent scientific advances and a vast historical perspective into a narrative that is impossible to put down, Collapse exposes the deepest mysteries of the past even as it offers hope for the future."Diamond''s most influential gift may be his ability to write about geopolitical and environmental systems in ways that don''t just educate and provoke, but entertain.""Extremely persuasive ... replete with fascinating stories, a treasure trove of historical anecdotes [and] haunting statistics.""Essential reading ... Collapse [shows] that resilient societies are nimble ones, capable of long-term planning and of abandoning deeply entrenched but ultimately destructive core values and beliefs.""There are hopeful messages in Collapse. With Diamond''s help, maybe we''ll learn to see our problems a little more clearly before we chop down that last palm tree.""Extraordinarily panoramic ...Diamond''s complex historical web of how human communities either master their environment or become victims of them ... takes a lifetime of research and, in normal English, leads the reader painstakingly where the media and intellectual journals have often refused to go."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2205'),
(5730, 'Collateral Damage', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Through all their adventures, the bond of the Sisterhood has remained steadfast and unshakeable. But for the first time, the Sisterhood verges on falling apart when the ladies have to choose between two difficult assignments. The first job guarantees a huge paycheck; the second offers a presidential pardon - and a chance to finally emerge from hiding.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3750'),
(5731, 'The Collectors', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In bestseller Baldacci''s entertaining if overly long sequel to\n  <em>\n   The Camel Club\n  </em>\n  (2005), renegade CIA agent Roger Seagraves has set himself up in the business of freelance assassination and selling our country''s secrets to the highest bidder. The Camel Club, a group of four dysfunctional crime solvers headed by ex-CIA assassin Caleb Shaw, becomes involved with Seagraves through a killing at the Library of Congress, where one of the club members works. Meanwhile, an enigmatic young woman, Annabelle Conroy, is assembling a team to engineer a "long con," a $33 million scam targeting Jerry Bagger, the sleazy owner of an Atlantic City casino. This time around, Baldacci wisely tones down the wackiness of the club members, focusing instead on bringing Seagraves to justice while Annabelle works her ingenious scam. The splicing of the two plots is problematic, but Baldacci sacrifices a bit of believability to cobble together a new cast of characters destined to continue fighting the forces of evil in the next installment.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The four disillusioned, aging gentlemen featured in Baldacci''s 2005 best-seller,\n  <em>\n   The Camel Club\n  </em>\n  , are back in this engaging offering. The ringleader of the eccentric Washington, D.C., group (comprising obsessive-compulsive computer-whiz Milton Farb, decorated Vietnam vet Rueben Rhodes, and slightly rumpled library-scholar Caleb Shaw) is an ex-CIA conspiracy theorist who goes by the pseudonym Oliver Stone. All are reunited when Shaw''s boss, the Library of Congress'' director of Rare Books and Special Collections, is found dead. (Might he have been killed for possession of a rare collection of Puritan psalms?) Meanwhile, a few hundred miles away, sexy scam artist Annabelle Conroy avenges her mother''s death with a fiendishly clever con pulled on a nefarious Atlantic City casino magnate. Though his two plots converge in a rather contrived way, Baldacci delivers crisp, economical prose and a cast of spies, misfits, and assassins that would make even the most patriotic citizen question the American political system. The best of the characters include gorgeous, gutsy newcomer Annabelle and the wonderfully idiosyncratic Stone, who spends many a day camped out on the lawn across from the White House with a sign that says, "I want the truth."\n  <em>\n   Allison Block\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/61'),
(5732, 'Colonel Roosevelt', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Morris completes his fully detailed, correlatively dynamic triptych of the restless, energetic, on-the-move first President Roosevelt, following The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979), the title self-explanatory in terms of its coverage of TRâ€™s life, and Theodore Rex (2001), about his presidency. Now the author presents Colonel Roosevelt, the title by which Roosevelt chose to be called during his postpresidential years (in reference, of course, to his military position during the Spanish-American War). This is the sad part of TRâ€™s life; this is the stage of his life story in which it is most difficult to accept his self-absorption, self-importance, and self-righteousness, but it is the talent of the author, who has shown an immaculate understanding of his subject, to make Roosevelt of continued fascination to his readers. In essence, this volume tells the story of TRâ€™s path of disenchantment with his chosen successor in the White House, William Taft, and his attempt to resecure the presidency for himself. The important theme of TRâ€™s concomitant decline in health is also a part of the narrative. We are made aware most of all that of all retired presidents, TR was the least likely to fade into the background. --Brad Hooper\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   _Praise for\n   <em>\n    Colonel Roosevelt\n   </em>\n   _\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Now with\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  , the magnum opus is complete. And it deserves to stand as the definitive study of its restless, mutable, ever-boyish, erudite and tirelessly energetic subject. Mr. Morris has addressed the toughest and most frustrating part of Rooseveltâ€™s life with the same care and precision that he brought to the two earlier installments. And if this story of a lifetime is his own lifeâ€™s work, he has reason to be immensely proud." â€“Janet Maslin, _The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Exemplaryâ€¦ Consistently rich and on point, with rapidly developing events providing a backdrop for the balanced examination [Morris] presents of his subjectâ€¦The TR trilogy is masterful, and can rightfully take its place among the truly outstanding biographies of the American presidency." â€“\n  </em>\n  LA Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Reading Edmund Morris on Teddy Roosevelt is like listening to Yo-Yo Ma play Bach: You know from the first note youâ€™re in inspired hands. In\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  â€”the final installment in a trilogy that began with\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  â€”Morris registers the Bull Mooseâ€™s last decade in handsome, sweeping prose that avoids the valedictory chord struck by biographers who, nearing the end of their prodigious labors, resort to swooning across the chapters, unwilling to let go of their muse." _â€“ The Washingtonian\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Colonel Roosevelt_, the third part of his three-volume biography of Roosevelt, is a worthy and extremely engaging culmination of Mr. Morris'' work. It is popular history at its best." â€“Claude R. Marx, _The Washington Times\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Praise for the classic biographies by Edmond Morris\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment.â€_â€”The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA towering biography.â€_â€”Time_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  Book Prize for Biography\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA masterpiece . . . A great president has finally found a great biographer.â€_â€”The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a literary work on Theodore Roosevelt, it is unlikely ever to be surpassed. It is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adamsâ€™s volumes on Jefferson and Madison.â€_â€”Times Literary Supplement_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œMagnificent . . .Â  a compulsively readable, beautifully measured and paced account.â€â€”Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2208'),
(5733, 'Colorado Kid', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n DeMunn offers an appropriately lighthearted reading of this surprisingly toothless mystery from King. The prerequisite is the ability to handle the pronounced Maine accent the book demands, as it features a pair of veteran newspaper reporters from an island off the state''s coast relating a story to an eager young intern. DeMunn handles the old men''s colloquialisms with consistency and ease while the two take turns spinning the tale of "the Colorado Kid," a man found dead on a local beach years ago without any identification or any feasible reason for being there. With its regional flavor and chummy protagonists, the book never lacks charm, and the story is intriguing. It hardly delivers the kind of noir tale that the first entry in the Hard Case Crime series would lead one to expect, but DeMunn does a more than adequate job of narrating this cozy mystery that will leave listeners not so much shocked as pleasantly perplexed.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thereâ€™s nothing like a good noir crime novel, and\n <em>\n  The Colorado Kid\n </em>\n is nothing like a good noir crime novel. Kingâ€™s refusal to play by the time-honored rules of the genre exasperated critics, who might have been more forgiving had King delivered a compelling story. The plot, related by two crusty newspapermen entirely in conversation, develops at a glacial pace, and the charactersâ€™ exaggerated Yankee accents bog down the dialogue. Granted, the storyâ€™s endearing protagonists won over a few reviewers, but even the most generous critics were forced to concede the bookâ€™s many flaws.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/840'),
(5734, 'A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers', 'Lawrence G. McDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ...gives the readers a visceral sense of what it was like to work at Lehman Brothers and the fateful decisions and events that led to the companyâ€™s death spiral...â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Michiko Kakutani,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHighly readableâ€¦\n  <em>\n   A Colossal Failure of Common Sense\n  </em>\n  Â largely rings true. It expresses the anger that many former Lehman employees still feel toward Mr. Fuld. And it convincingly characterizes the investment bank as a house divided against itself, between the bears who had foreseen bubbles and the bulls who wrongly believed that this time was different.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”The Economist\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ... describes a CEO Â­acting as if his firm was too big to fail.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ...poignantly told...from an insider [who] witnessed, often in amazement and disgust, the corporate dysfunction and hubristic leadership that led to [Lehmanâ€™s] demise.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”BusinessWeek\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ...engaging and even funny.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”Fortune\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  LAWRENCE G. McDONALD is a managing director of Pangea Capital Management LP. He was, until 2008, vice president of distressed debt and convertible securities trading at Lehman Brothers. He ran an extremely successful joint venture between the firmâ€™s fixed income and equity divisions and was one of Lehmanâ€™s most consistently profitable traders. McDonald is also cofounder of Convertbond.com, named by Forbes magazine as â€œBest of the Webâ€ from 2000 to 2003, specifically citing it as the Webâ€™s premier source for convertible securities information, valuation, and news.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  PATRICK ROBINSON wrote\n  <em>\n   Lone Survivor\n  </em>\n  with the U.S. Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1018');
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(5735, 'Columbine', 'Dave Cullen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine." When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat Mafia; we think of Cassie Bernall, the girl we thought professed her faith before she was shot; and we think of the boy pulling himself out of a school window -- the whole world was watching him. Now, in a riveting piece of journalism nearly ten years in the making, comes the story none of us knew. In this revelatory book, Dave Cullen has delivered a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. He lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris, and the quavering, suicidal Dylan Klebold, who went to prom three days earlier and obsessed about love in his journal. The result is an astonishing account of two good students with lots of friends, who came to stockpile a basement cache of weapons, to record their raging hatred, and to manipulate every adult who got in their way. They left signs everywhere, described by Cullen with a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boy''s tapes and diaries, he gives the first complete account of the Columbine tragedy. In the tradition of HELTER SKELTER and IN COLD BLOOD, COLUMBINE is destined to be a classic. A close-up portrait of hatred, a community rendered helpless, and the police blunders and cover-ups, it is a compelling and utterly human portrait of two killers-an unforgettable cautionary tale for our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2844'),
(5736, 'Columbus: The Four Voyages', 'Laurence Bergreen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Look Inside *Columbus: The Four Voyages\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n <strong>\n  (Click on Images to Enlarge)\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Description: Engraving of Christopher Columbus offering his services to King John (JoÃ£o) II of Portugal before winning the backing of Spain.\n</p>\n<p>\n Description: World map, c1489, of Henricus Martellus. A similar map is believed to have influenced Columbusâ€™s ideas about his first voyage.\n</p>\n<p>\n Description: Woodcut from 1493 of Native Americans fleeing in fear of Columbus as he sets foot on the Bahama island â€œGuanahani.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Description: A 1493 woodcut accompanying Columbusâ€™s â€œLetter on the First Voyage,â€ illustrating his arrival in the Indies.\n</p>\n<p>\n Description: World map, 1500, of Juan de la Cosa, cartographer and navigator on Christopher Columbus''s second voyage of 1493-94.\n</p>\n<p>\n Description: The first page of Columbusâ€™s 1492 manuscript The Book of Privileges.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From the author of the Magellan biography,\n  <em>\n   Over the Edge of the World,\n  </em>\n  a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Christopher Columbus''s 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous, but they revealed Columbus''s uncanny sense of the sea, his mingled brilliance and delusion, and his superb navigational skills. In all these exploits he almost never lost a sailor. By their conclusion, however, Columbus was broken in body and spirit. If the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, the latter voyages illustrate the tragic costs- political, moral, and economic.\n</p>\n<p>\n In rich detail Laurence Bergreen re-creates each of these adventures as well as the historical background of Columbus''s celebrated, controversial career. Written from the participants'' vivid perspectives, this breathtakingly dramatic account will be embraced by readers of Bergreen''s previous biographies of Marco Polo and Magellan and by fans of Nathaniel Philbrick, Simon Winchester, and Tony Horwitz.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2209'),
(5737, 'Come to the Edge', 'Christina Haag', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œJohn F. Kennedy Jr.â€™s former love offers glimpses into the last vestiges of Camelot. In actress Haag''s debut memoir, readers get a front-row seat to her on-again/off-again love affair with JFK Jr., President Kennedy''s eldest son. After nine years cloistered in Catholic school, the author was suddenly propelled into the glitzy world of upper-crust New York. Her sepia-toned recounting of evenings shared with an adolescent JFK Jr. are spellbinding, setting the stage for the romance soon to come. After a series of missed connections and serendipitous run-ins, the pair finally fell into sync, two young actors playing opposite one another in a play. In a revealing conversation, a young Haag informed JFK Jr. that if he forgot his lines, he need only, â€˜stop, take a breath, and look into my eyes. It will ground you.â€™ It was sound advice, particularly from the woman JFK Jr. would later call his compass. Haag provides minute details that manage to humanize JFK Jr. in a manner the media never attempted. She recalled the â€˜spaghetti he made with soy sauceâ€™ and â€˜leaping on the benches outside the Museum of Natural Historyâ€™â€”both seemingly innocuous details, yet they offer a new look at an old figure. Equally intriguing are the authorâ€™s romanticized depictions of Jackie Onassis, the widow who could often be spotted riding her bicycle along the trails of Martha''s Vineyard, â€˜her head kerchiefed,â€™ searching the fields for birds. Despite her intimate view, Haag is careful not to exploit the Kennedy clan; instead, she simply returns them to human form. An honest, heartfelt account of love, politics and tragedy.â€â€”_Kirkus Reviews\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œ_Come to the Edge_ perfectly captures what it feels like to be young and in love â€” the giddiness, the lunacy, the madcap swings between exhilaration and despairâ€¦Haag is a beautiful writer, and the book [is] full of wonderfully vivid descriptions.â€â€”_Entertainment Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA piercing portrait of a vibrant, reckless, tender young man so bursting with life that nothing could contain him.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWe know how the story ends, of course.Â  Girl loses boy.Â  Boy loses everything.Â  But in this finely-drawn, indelible portrait of a friendship and love affair, Christina Haag illuminates the private world of one of our nationâ€™s most legendary families.Â  Come to the Edge should be read not only for its fascinating insiderâ€™s view, but because itâ€™s a brave, human, beautiful, wrenching memoir.â€â€”Dani Shapiro, author of\n  <em>\n   Devotion\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith unfailing grace, sensitivity, and tact, Christina Haag recreates in poignant detail her prolonged romance with John F. Kennedy Jr., who struggled to fathom the meaning of his life. The author never stoops to tabloid sensationalism or cheapens this rare glimpse into Americaâ€™s royal family. However charming the hero or scenic the backdrop, the memoir is tinged with the tragic darkness that inevitably shadowed the Kennedy clan, with death and danger forever lurking just beyond camera range. Jackie Kennedy Onassis floats through the narrative as an enchanting presence who is appealing in her wisdom and bounty. This is a beautiful and, in the end, unutterably sad book about fleeting innocence, blighted hope, and the elusive nature of youthful love.â€â€”Ron Chernow, author of\n  <em>\n   Washington: A Life\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œSensual and full of longing, Come to the Edge is a haunting, timeless love letter, a universal tale of romance. Christina Haag has crafted a delicate memoir of love for a man we think we know and lay claim to, but, in truth, she is writing about all of us: our youth, our hopes, our own first kisses and dreams of romance. From the first word, my soul leapt at recognition. Gorgeous!â€â€”Erin Cressida Wilson, award-winning screenwriter ofÂ _Secretary_ and\n  <em>\n   Fur\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A tender tale of lost love that offers a discerning glimpse into the Kennedy family." â€”Fernanda Eberstadt, author of\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  Rat_ and\n  <em>\n   Little Money Street\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Love Story of JFK Jr. and Christina Haag\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An elegy to first love, a lost New York, and a young man who led his life with surprising and abundant grace\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mother and sister on Fifth Avenue and who happened to have a Secret Service detail following him at a discreet distance at all times. A decade later, after they had both graduated from Brown University and were living in New York City, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair. Glamorous and often in the public eye, but also passionate and deeply intimate, their relationship was transformative for both of them. With exquisite prose, Haag paints a portrait of a young man with an enormous capacity for love, and an adventurous spirit that drove him to live life to its fullest.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _A haunting book,\n  <em>\n   Come to the Edge\n  </em>\n  is a lasting evocation of a time and a placeâ€”of the indelible sting of the loss of young love, and of the people who shape you and remain with you, whether in person or in spirit. It is about being young and full of hope, with all the potential of your life as yet unfulfilled, and of coming of age at a moment in New Yorkâ€™s history when the city at once held danger, magic, and endless possibilities for self-discovery.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Rarely has a love story been told so beautifully.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1825'),
(5738, 'Comfort &amp; Joy', 'India Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n It''s December 23rd and Clara Dunphy is running around Oxford Street like a blue-arsed fly trying to buy presents. She wants to make Christmas perfect: it''s a lifelong ambition. And a challenging one at the best of times, even without taking her sixteen guests - sorry, "loved ones" - and their varying degrees of social dysfunction into account. Meanwhile, something weird has happened to her marriage, and the ho, ho, ho is thin on the ground.Why does Christmas have such an emotional hold over us? Why does family stuff hit the peak of its madness on December the 25th? And is it okay to want more than you have, when what you have seems so enviable from the outside?A blackly funny, tender dissection of the meaning of love -- family love, sibling love, children love -- Comfort and Joy will make you laugh and cry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/937'),
(5739, 'Comfort &amp; Joy', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s the last day before Christmas vacation, and Joy Faith Candellaro, a Bakersfield, Calif., high school librarian, is still fretting over finding her husband, Thom, in bed with her sister, Stacey. Although divorced nearly three monthsâ€”and urged by everyone to move on with her lifeâ€”Joy just isn''t joyful. She''s trying, though: she buys a Christmas tree and plans to get herself something spectacular to put under it. Too bad that Stacey''s waiting in her driveway with a wedding invitation and the news that she''s pregnant with Thom''s child. Enraged and betrayed, Joy drives offâ€”and ends up at the airport, holding a ticket to Hope, Canada. What will she do when she gets there? Who cares? All she knows is that life has to be better elsewhere. What happens next is Hannah''s version of a Christmas ghost story, as Joy encounters a father and son whose own misery gives her a new perspective. Hannah (\n <em>\n  The Things We Do for Love\n </em>\n ) fans will enjoy this fare, but from the subtle-as-a-50-pound-fruitcake irony of Joy Faith''s name to a plot twist that necessitates hanging disbelief on the mantel alongside the Christmas stockings, it may be a bit too much for the more skeptical to swallow.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œHappy, hopeful and\n <em>\n  trÃ¨s romantique\n </em>\n .â€â€”\n <em>\n  Hartford Courant\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œ[Kristin Hannahâ€™s] best book yet.â€â€”\n <em>\n  The Columbus Dispatch\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œHannah will touch the deepest corner of your heart.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Rendezvous\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œAn engaging holiday tale.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Seattle Post-Intelligencer\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œA heartwarming holiday tale [that] resonates with poignancy and deep emotion.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Romantic Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/986'),
(5740, 'Comfort Me With Apples: More Adventures at the Table', 'Ruth Reichl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Barnes &amp; Noble ReviewWhen Ruth Reichl got her first job as a restaurant critic, she was elated. Her parents, however, wanted her to do something worthwhile with her life (this wasn''t it); her husband, Doug, thought she should write a novel; and her colleagues at the communal house in Berkeley where she lived were frankly disappointed. "Let me get this straight," said one of them. "You''re going to spend your life telling spoiled rich people where to eat too much obscene food."Reichl, who chronicled her earlier years and encounters with food in the very popularTender at the Bone, tackles her coming-of-age as a food writer in a touching, involving, often humorous, memoir that reads like a novel. We follow breathlessly as Reichl''s first critic''s job at a California magazine makes her an eyewitness to a culinary revolution; the pivotal years when California began to trump Europe in food and wine (a period well chronicled in Patric Kuh''s The Last Days of Haute Cuisine). She covers the opening of Michael''s in Santa Monica, enjoys lunch with her hero M.F.K. Fisher, reports on Alice Waters''s garlic festival, and hangs out behind the scenes as Wolfgang Puck opens up Chinois. With these successes behind her, Reichl becomes the restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times just as Food (yes, with a capital "F") and the ''80s converged, which produced a crowd of food groupies who considered every trip to a four-star restaurant as a new notch in their belt. Her unorthodox style -- writing reviews that read like short stories and introducing the Reluctant Gourmet as a presence in the reviews, for example -- elicits both praise and criticism, but led to later positions as restaurant critic of The New York Times and then editor-in-chief of Gourmet.Not only does Reichl chronicle her apprenticeship as a critic (including travels to France, China, and Thailand); she also covers the major personal events in her life: the long, slow dissolution of her first marriage; the affair with her food editor boss; the death of her father; and the electrically charged meeting with the man who would become her second husband. Some of these moments are so personal you may feel like an unwitting voyeur. Most heartbreaking is the story of the baby that Reichl and her second husband adopt -- only to have the natural parents show up before the final papers are signed and take her back. As final proof that food cannot be separated from life, Reichl ends each chapter with one or two recipes from that time in her life, like the dacquoise she ate in Paris, the mushroom soup she made for her mother, the appetizer Wolfgang Puck served at the White House in 1983, and Danny Kaye''s lemon pasta.(Ginger Curwen)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1827'),
(5741, 'The Comfort of Saturdays', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she''d rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws Isabel into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice. Because for Isabel ethics are not theoretical at all, but an everyday matter of life and death. As she attempts to unravel the truth behind Dr Thompson''s disgrace, Isabel''s patient intelligence is also required to deal with challenges in her own life. There is her baby son Charlie; Cat''s deli to look after, not to mention her vulnerable assistant Eddie; and a mysterious and unlikeable composer who has latched on to Jamie, making Isabel fear for the future of her new family. Isabel treads a difficult path between trust and gullibility, philanthropy and interference, while keeping in her sights the small but certain comforts of family, philosophy and a fine Saturday morning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3271'),
(5742, 'Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The "Hot Kid" of the U.S. Marshals Service, Carl Webster maintains the law with a cool, showdown attitude. He''s one of the richest creations in Elmore Leonard''s half century of delivering the goods. From his appearances in the critically acclaimed novels The Hot Kid and Up in Honey''s Room, Carl returns to lay down the law in a novella that originally appeared as a serial in the  New York Times Sunday Magazine.   The title novellaâ€”plus two Carl Webster short storiesâ€”traces Carl''s career from his run-in with 1930''s gangsters to his investigation of a murder at a German POW camp in Oklahoma. This time it''s Carl against war-seasoned Afrika Korps Nazis. With its pitch-perfect dialogue, compelling characters, and classic charm,  Comfort to the Enemy is vintage Leonard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3119'),
(5743, 'The Coming of the Third Reich', 'Richard J. Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitlerâ€™s rise to   power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich,   Richard Evans, one of the worldâ€™s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account   for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new   research and interpretations, Evansâ€™s history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power   of Hitler and the Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a   takeover to occur. *The Coming of the Third Reich* is a masterwork of the historianâ€™s art   and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2359'),
(5744, 'Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who''d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous bad divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which-after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing-gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving into this topic completely, trying with all her might to discover through historical research, interviews, and much personal reflection what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. Told with Gilbert''s trademark wit, intelligence and compassion, Committedattempts to "turn on all the lights" when it comes to matrimony, frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, divorce risks and humbling responsibilities. Gilbert''s memoir is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1830'),
(5745, 'Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun', 'Rhoda Blumberg', '<div class="comments">\n<blockquote>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   In 1853, few Japanese people knew that a country called America even existed.\n   <br />\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  For centuries, Japan had isolated itself from the outside world by refusing to trade with other countries and even refusing to help shipwrecked sailors, foreign\n  <em>\n   or\n  </em>\n  Japanese. The country''s people still lived under a feudal system like that of Europe in the Middle Ages. But everything began to change when American Commodore Perry and his troops sailed to the Land of the Rising Sun, bringing with them new science and technology, and a new way of life.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Details Commodore Matthew Perry''s role in opening Japan''s closed society to world trade in the 1850s, one of history''s most significant diplomatic achievements.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2212'),
(5746, 'A Common Pornography', 'Kevin Sampsell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A memoir in collage form, this frank but fragmented narrative chronicles the author''s early life in the Pacific Northwest. Told in a series of small pieces, some less than a quarter of a page long, Sampsell follows a stream-of-consciousness series of memories centering loosely around a collection of family secrets unearthed after his father''s funeral. Replicating the effects of memory, Sampsell''s chronicle begins piecemeal and becomes more detailed as it goes, emphasizing the unfiltered honesty of the story and his efforts to tell it. Though it can be frustrating waiting for the pieces to add up, there''s enough bathos, dysfunctional family antics and coming-of-age adventures-naked photoshoots, psychiatric hospitalizations, late-night donut shops and the tri-city New Wave scene-to keep readers turning pages. Sampsell''s eye for detail and deadpan delivery envliven a dark personal history with bathos and a powerful desire for understanding.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Many coming-of-age memoirs depict a journey through hellish abuse. Sampsellâ€™s verbal snapshots capture the more peripheral scene of a kid along for the ride, under the watchful eye of a distant, resentful fatherâ€”â€œa humorless, God-fearing bore.â€ For many who grew up in the 1970s and â€™80s, the details of this American life will be familiar: the music, the sports teams, the Jaws-inspired aquaphobia, the release of the hostages from Iran, the mannerist rebellion of New Wave. Other aspects will resonate with males, from the naive cruelty of boys to elaborate strategies built around the acquisition and secretion of dirty magazines, to a candid account of obsession with girls and/or sex that recalls Jeffrey Brownâ€™s tell-all graphic novels. McSweeneyâ€™s readers may recall some of these pieces reworked and fleshed out from an earlier chapbook, and while some newer passages (such as those about the abuse and institutionalization of Sampsellâ€™s half-sister) feel arbitrarily chopped into vignettes, mostly the material perfectly fits the form, shards of memory fused into a compelling concretion of moments. A worthy addition to the work of such contemporary memoirists as Nick Flynn, Augusten Burroughs, Dave Eggers, and Stephen Elliott. --David Wright\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1766'),
(5747, 'A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia', 'Thomas Keneally', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keneally (_Schindler''s List_) offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard and administrators arrived in New South Wales. At the book''s center is the relationship between Arthur Phillip, the pragmatic first governor, and Woolawarre Bennelong, the Aborigine who eventually served as a liaison between the settlers and natives. Keneally describes their first meeting "as fateful and defining as that between CortÃ©s and Montezuma, or Pizarro and Atahualpa." Using their relationship as a prism, Keneally depicts the instances of tense commingling between the two communities. His historical narrative is so detailed as to at times feel dutiful. He''s most successful serving up some of the dozens of pithy mini-portraits of the lowborn settlers. Like Robert Hughes in his seminal\n <em>\n  The Fatal Shore\n </em>\n , Keneally seeks to correct some of the clichÃ©s that have arisen. He''s careful to point out that the few thousand convicts sent to the colony were hardly the worst of the worst. Keneally''s new consideration won''t replace Hughes''s definitive work, but with its colorful and eloquent prose, it makes for a compelling companion piece, one that credits Phillip for most of the colony''s success. Maps._ (Oct.)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The versatile Keneally commands a loyal readership no matter what topic he addresses. And here it''s Australia''s origin story of British settlement, which succeeds Robert Hughes''\n <em>\n  The Fatal Shore\n </em>\n (1986). Using the techniques of fiction, accomplished novelist Keneally strives to vivify scenes based on the historical record. From the several thousand convicts and officers who arrived in Australia in 1788-92, the period covered by the narrative, the author brings to the foreground the most interesting individuals. Prime among them, the colony''s enigmatic first governor, naval officer Arthur Phillip. More exuberant characters, such as subordinate officer Watkin Tench, provide Keneally with the means to explore the adjustments of newcomers and natives to their extraordinary situations. Meanwhile, the convicts, many of whose hardships Keneally summarizes, ranged from the incorrigible to the adaptable. Vibrant and fluent, Keneally''s latest will be in high demand.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2186'),
(5748, 'The Company We Keep: A Husband-And-Wife True-Life Spy Story', 'Robert Baer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Robert and Dayna Baer''s initial meeting was slightly unusualâ€”both were on a covert mission in Sarajevo for the CIA. In this intermittently intriguing memoir, they describe their careers in "the Company," their romance, and the difficulty they have in establishing a balanced life outside the world of secret agents. Their travels take them to interesting places in interesting timesâ€”from Bosnia and Lebanon during civil wars, to Syria under the Assads, the mansions of sheiks, and the safe houses of terrorist groups. As the Baers drift away from family and see friends die, they learn the costs of covert life. Told in chapters that alternate between each partner''s perspective, their story is best when discussing the minutiae of agency work. In understated prose, the couple effectively narrate the long bouts of tedium interspersed with moments of paranoia and fear that make up a CIA agent''s life. On most assignments, they never learn if their efforts have any positive resultâ€”often, they don''t even know their co-workers'' real names. When the personal becomes the subject, however, the understatement feels inadequate. The Baers give us so little insight into their mutual attraction that it feels like another state secret. After they leave the agency, they seem adrift, and the book loses focuses as well. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When they met in Croatia in the early 1990s, he didnâ€™t know her real name. His alias was Howard, but he introduced himself as Bob. By that time, he was a seasoned CIA spook, with 15 years of international intrigue under his belt. Dayna, a relatively new field agent, was expecting that her new friend''s veteranâ€™s counsel would increase her quickly growing knowledge of the spy game; she wasnâ€™t expecting to fall in love. This fascinating memoir, written by Bob and Dayna in alternating chapters, traces their lives from before they metâ€”she was carrying out security checks in L.A.; he was in Tajikistan, scoping out the former Soviet republicâ€”and follows them as they fell in love and began to build a life together. The book is full of insight into the world of international intelligence-gathering, and it contains some interesting surprises, too (at one point, after he resigned from the CIA, Bob came awfully close to taking a job in Kabul, working with the Taliban). An engaging narrative that should appeal to readers of spy-themed literature, factual or fictional. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Expect the publisher of this real-life spy and love story to take full advantage of the off-the-book-page human-interest angle. Comparisons to Mr. and Mrs. Smith and to Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson (and the recent biopic starring Sean Pean and Naomi Watts) wonâ€™t hurt a bit. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1887'),
(5749, 'Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea', 'John Micklethwait', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the worldâ€™s most powerful institution.Like all groundbreaking books, The Company fills a hole we didnâ€™t know existed, revealing that we cannot make sense of the past four hundred years until we place that seemingly humble Victorian innovation, the joint-stock company, in the center of the frame. With their trademark authority and wit, Economist editors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge reveal the company to be one of historyâ€™s great catalysts, for good and for ill, a mighty engine for sucking in, recombining, and pumping out money, goods, people, and culture to every corner of the globe. What other earthly invention has the power to grow to any size, and to live to any age? What else could have given us both the stock market and the British Empire? The company man, the company town, and company time? Disneyfication and McDonaldâ€™sization, to say nothing of Coca-colonialism? Through its many mutations, the company has always incited controversy, and governments have always fought to rein it in. Today, though Marx may spin in his grave and anarchists riot in the streets, the company exercises an unparalleled influence on the globe, and understanding what this creature is and where it comes from has never been a more pressing matter. To the rescue come these acclaimed authors, with a short volume of truly vast range and insight.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2213'),
(5750, 'The Complaints', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Complaints is a novel by acclaimed crime writer Ian Rankin. It was published in UK on 3 September 2009. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot Outline | Trivia\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of Rankin''s Det. Insp. John Rebus will be disappointed by this so-so police procedural, his second stand-alone since Rebus "retired" (after Doors Open). Malcolm Foxâ€”call him Rebus "Lite" (he doesn''t drink, he broods less, and he has none of Rebus''s wit)â€”works for the Scottish equivalent of Internal Affairs, "Complaints and Conduct" (aka "the Complaints"), which investigates corrupt cops. Fox looks into the case of Det. Sgt. Jamie Breck, who may be trading in child pornography over the Internet. Meanwhile, when Vince Faulkner, Fox''s sister''s lover and abuser, turns up dead, Fox becomes a murder suspect. A torturously complicated plot follows involving the suspicious suicide of a failing property developer, large-scale money laundering, and crookedness at every level of Scottish society, but nothing''s really at stake. As always with Rankin, Scotland itself is a main characterâ€”"the whole of Scotland''s in meltdown," says Foxâ€”and that may be this tepid novel''s main attraction. 10-city author tour. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/518'),
(5751, 'The Complete Histories of Polybius', 'Polybius', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Written in the 2nd century by the Greek historian Polybius, "The Histories" is a multi-volume work detailing many of the events, people, and ideas of the Hellenistic Period. While his focus is the space of time in which ancient Rome became a world power from 220 to 167 BC, Polybius also discusses his role as a ''pragmatic historian'', a discourse on fate (called tyche), and the superiority of the mixed constitution. Though all forty volumes have not survived to the present day, the complete books extant today cover the affairs of all the important nations of the time, including Egypt, Greece, and Spain, as well as the first and second Punic Wars. Polybius speaks at length on the government of the Romans, citing it as the reason for Rome''s success as a force of the world. Though it includes a couple of digressions concerning lesser issues of the time, "The Histories" has proven and continues to be a valuable text when studying the Hellenistic time period and manner of writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2362'),
(5752, 'The Complete Idiot&#39;s Guide to World History', 'Timothy C. Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Don''t know much about history?\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which societies are the most important? Which periods of time saw the most change? How have cultures differed and remained the same across this vast time and space? This guide gives readers the whole world, and then some! Including key ideas as well as lesser- known facts, salient quotes, and crucial terms defined, it prepares readers not only to excel in exams but to become 21st century citizens of the world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Timothy C. Hall, M.A.,\n  </strong>\n  developed, created, and teaches an online AP World History and Medieval Studies curriculum, and currently teaches AP European History, Sociology, and Civics/Economics at the Franklin Academy in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He earned his M.A. in History from East Carolina University and his B.A. in History from Elon University.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2363'),
(5753, 'The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America''s nineteenth-century western frontierâ€”elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue.   No author has ever written more evocatively of the dusty, gutsy heyday of the American West than Elmore Leonard. This complete collection of his thirty-one Western tales will thrill lovers of the genre, his die-hard fans, and everyone in between. From his very first story ever publishedâ€”"The Trail of the Apache"â€”through five decades of classic Western tales, The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard demonstrates the superb talent for language and gripping narrative that has made Leonard one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3110'),
(5754, 'Compulsion', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Once again, the depths of the criminal mind and the darkest side of a glittering city fuel #1\n <i>\n  New York Times\n </i>\n bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman''s brilliant storytelling. And no one conducts a more harrowing and suspenseful manhunt than the modern Sherlock Holmes of the psyche, Dr. Alex Delaware.\n <br />\n <br />\n A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and psychopathology are linked only by the killer''s use of luxury vehicles and a baffling lack of motive. The ultimate whodunits, these crimes demand the attention of LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his collaborator on the crime beat, psychologist Alex Delaware.\n <br />\n <br />\n What begins with a solitary bloodstain in a stolen sedan quickly spirals outward in odd and unexpected directions, leading Delaware and Sturgis from the well-heeled center of L.A. society to its desperate edges; across the paths of commodities brokers and transvestite hookers; and as far away as New York City, where the search thaws out a long-cold case and exposes a grotesque homicidal crusade. The killer proves to be a fleeting shape-shifter, defying identification, leaving behind dazed witnesses and death - and compelling Alex and Milo to confront the true face of murderous madness.\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/752'),
(5755, 'The Concrete Blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his female victims. Now with a single faultless shot, Detective Harry Bosch thinks he has ended the city''s nightmare.But the dead man''s widow is suing Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man-- an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker''s macabre signature.So for the second time, Harry must hunt down a death-dealer who is very much alive, before he strikes again. It''s a blood-tracked quest that will take Harry from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go-- the darkness of his own heart.With The Concrete Blonde, Edgar Award-winning author Michael Connelly has hit a whole new level in his career, creating a breathtaking thriller that thrusts you into a blistering courtroom battle-- and a desperate search for a sadistic killer. The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his female victims. Now with a single faultless shot, Detective Harry Bosch thinks he has ended the city''s nightmare.But the dead man''s widow is suing Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man-- an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker''s macabre signature.So for the second time, Harry must hunt down a death-dealer who is very much alive, before he strikes again. It''s a blood-tracked quest that will take Harry from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go-- the darkness of his own heart.With The Concrete Blonde, Edgar Award-winning author Michael Connelly has hit a whole new level in his career, creating a breathtaking thriller that thrusts you into a blistering courtroom battle-- and a desperate search for a sadistic killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/519'),
(5756, 'Confederates in the Attic', 'Tony Horwitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  National BestsellerÂ \n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he''s put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America''s greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance.\n</p>\n<p>\n In Virginia, Horwitz joins a band of ''hardcore'' reenactors who crash-diet to achieve the hollow-eyed look of starved Confederates; in Kentucky, he witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war sparked by the killing of a white man who brandishes a rebel flag; at Andersonville, he finds that the prison''s commander, executed as a war criminal, is now exalted as a martyr and hero; and in the book''s climax, Horwitz takes a marathon trek from Antietam to Gettysburg to Appomattox in the company of Robert Lee Hodge, an eccentric pilgrim who dubs their odyssey the ''Civil Wargasm.''\n</p>\n<p>\n Written with Horwitz''s signature blend of humor, history, and hard-nosed journalism, Confederates in the Attic brings alive old battlefields and new ones ''classrooms, courts, country bars'' where the past and the present collide, often in explosive ways. Poignant and picaresque, haunting and hilarious, it speaks to anyone who has ever felt drawn to the mythic South and to the dark romance of the Civil War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2217'),
(5757, 'The Confession', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn''t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn''t care. He just can''t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved when the verdict is guilty. He laughs when the police and prosecutors congratulate themselves. He is content to allow an innocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to be executed. Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Dont Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row. Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Dont is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what''s right and confess. But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that they''re about to execute an innocent man? From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3040'),
(5758, 'Confessions of a GP', 'Benjamin Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dave Weinstein is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled, and quite frequently, very funny. He is also a general practitioner. These are his confessions. A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80 year-old man who can''t remember why he''s come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to conceive for a while but now finds herself pregnant and isn''t sure she wants to go through with it. A 7-year-old boy with "tummy aches" that don''t really exist. These are his patients. A witty insight into the life of a family doctor, this funny and moving account will change the way you look at yourÂ doctor next time you pop in with the sniffles.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dr Benjamin Daniels is a GP. That is about as much as we can reveal about him.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1831'),
(5759, 'Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated', 'Alison Arngrim', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAlison Arngrim is a talented actress and an author who has patched together a meaningful life and created a book whose pagesâ€¦fly.â€ (Phyllis Diller)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a city bitch myself, I loved this book! Itâ€™s nice to see how the other half lives. Alison Arngrimâ€™s memoir is a hilarious, moving, and dishy Hollywood tale.â€ (Margaret Cho)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAlison Arngrim is a fine actress and a true comedienne. She has always been the kind of â€˜Bitchâ€™ who tells it like it is. So, readers beware, you are in for an eye-full of reality told with a remarkable sense of humor.â€ (Carol Channing)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhoa, Nellie! â€œConfessions of a Prairie Bitchâ€ is a book that you will keep stored under a haystack in the barn, to dip into whenever you need a shot of something that will keep you down on the farm.â€ (Bruce Vilanch)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCourage, moxie, chutzpah , cajones. Alison Arngrim has them all in spades. In â€œConfessions of a Prairie Bitch,â€ she bares her soul and manages to share her story with grace, dignity, and her inimitable humor. Simply put, I love this book and I love her. â€ (Melissa Gilbert)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on one of TV history''s most beloved series. Though millions of\n  <em>\n   Little House on the Prairie\n  </em>\n  viewers hated Nellie Oleson and her evil antics, Arngrim grew to love her characterâ€”and the freedom and confidence Nellie inspired in her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Confessions of a Prairie Bitch\n  </em>\n  , Arngrim describes growing up in Hollywood with her eccentric parents: Thor Arngrim, a talent manager to Liberace and others, whose appetite for publicity was insatiable, and legendary voice actress Norma MacMillan, who played both Gumby and Casper the Friendly Ghost. She recalls her most cherished and often wickedly funny moments behind the scenes of\n  <em>\n   Little House\n  </em>\n  : Michael Landon''s "unsaintly" habit of not wearing underwear; how she and Melissa Gilbert (who played her TV nemesis, Laura Ingalls) became best friends and accidentally got drunk on rum cakes at 7-Eleven; and the only time she and Katherine MacGregor (who played Nellie''s mom) appeared in public in costume, provoking a posse of elementary schoolgirls to attack them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Arngrim relays all this and more with biting wit, but she also bravely recounts her life''s challenges: her struggle to survive a history of traumatic abuse, depression, and paralyzing shyness; the "secret" her father kept from her for twenty years; and the devastating loss of her "_Little House_ husband" and best friend, Steve Tracy, to AIDS, which inspired her second career in social and political activism. Arngrim describes how Nellie Oleson taught her to be bold, daring, and determined, and how she is eternally grateful to have had the biggest little bitch on the prairie to show her the way.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1832');
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(5760, 'Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst', 'Dan Reingold', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="MsoPlainText">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n   DanielReingoldÂ \n  </span>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoPlainText">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n   Confessions Of A Wall Street AnalystÂ \n  </span>\n  Confessionsof a Wall Street Analyst provides a front-row seat at one of the most dramatic- and ultimately tragic - periods in financial history. Dan Reingold recountshis introduction to the world of Wall Street leaks and secret deal-making; hisexperiences with corporate fraud; and Wall Street''s alarming penchant forlavish spending and multimillion-dollar pay packages. Some of Reingold''sstories are outrageous, other hilarious, and many are simply absurd.\n </p>\n <p class="MsoPlainText">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n   But,together, they provide a sobering expose of Wall Street: a jungle of greed andego, a place brimming with conflicts and inside information, and a businessabsurdly out of touch with the\n   <street w:st="on">\n   </street>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <address w:st="on">\n  Main  Street\n </address>\n it claims to serve. This book is a no-holds-barredinsider''s account that will open the eyes of every investor.\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoPlainText">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n   Reingold,a prominent Wall Street analyst from 1989 to 2003, sets out to give afirst-person narrative about business fraud and scandal. Because the authorbegan his career at MCI, he opens the book with the trial of WorldCom (MCI)''sBernie Ebbers and the mid-2002 collapse of the company, caused by lies anddeception, which resulted in the $180-billion decline in shareholder value and30,000 employees fired. As a telecom analyst on Wall Street, it was his job tounderstand WorldCom''s numbers, and he missed the manipulation, as did manyothers. Turning his focus toward Wall Street, the author reveals how it reallyworks. Although there has been some cleanup, he contends there are still manyleaks, conflicts, and abuses of the law and investor trust. He claims that thebook''s contents are true, and unfair and often-illegal use of insideinformation continues. He believes that the average investor can never win thestock-market game, which belongs to the insiders.\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3172'),
(5761, 'Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market', 'Daniel Reingold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Here is the true story of a top Wall Street player''s transformation from a straight-arrow believer to a jaded cynic, who reveals how Wall Street''s insider game is really played. Dan Reingold was a top Wall Street analyst for fourteen years and Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman''s chief competitor in the red-hot sector of telecom. Reingold was part of the "Street" and believed in it. But in this action-packed, highly personal memoir written with accomplished Fast Company senior writer Jennifer Reingold the author describes how his enthusiasm gave way to disgust as he learned how deeply corrupted Wall Street and much of corporate America had become during the roaring stock market bubble of the 1990s. Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst provides a front-row seat at one of the most dramatic -- and ultimately tragic -- periods in financial history. Reingold recounts his introduction to the world of Wall Street leaks and secret deal-making; his experiences with corporate fraud; and Wall Street''s alarming penchant for lavish spending and multimillion-dollar pay packages. Reingold spars with arch rival Grubman; fends off intense pressures from Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs; and is wooed by Morgan Stanley''s CEO, John Mack, and CSFB''s Ã¼ber-banker Frank Quattrone. Reingold describes instances in which confidential deals are whispered days before their official announcement. He recalls the moment he learns that Bernie Ebbers''s WorldCom was massively cooking its books. And he is shocked to have been an unwitting catalyst for a series of sexually explicit e-mails that would rock Wall Street; bring Jack Grubman to his knees; and contribute to the stepping aside of Grubman''s boss, Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill. Some of Reingold''s stories are outrageous, others hilarious, and many are simply absurd. But, together, they provide a sobering exposÃ© of Wall Street: a jungle of greed and ego, a place brimming with conflicts and inside information, and a business absurdly out of touch with the Main Street it claims to serve. He shows how government investigators, headlines notwithstanding, never got to the heart of the ethical and legal transgressions of the era. And how they completely overlooked Wall Street''s pervasive use of inside information, leaving investors -- even sophisticated professionals -- cheated. The book ends with a series of important policy recommendations to clean up the investing business. In the tradition of Liar''s Poker and Den of Thieves, Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst is a no-holds-barred insider''s account that will open the eyes of every investor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1037'),
(5762, 'The Confessions of Nat Turner', 'William Styron', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region.The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat''s Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August. The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations--and hopes--which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who held his people in bondage.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3057'),
(5763, 'The Confessor', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Munich, a Jewish scholar is assassinated. In Venice, Mossad agent and art restorer Gabriel Allon receives the news, puts down his brushes, and leaves immediately. And at the Vatican, the new pope vows to uncover the truth about the church''s response to the Holocaust-while a powerful cardinal plots his next move.  Now, as Allon follows a trail of secrets and unthinkable deeds, the lives of millions are changed forever-and the life of one man becomes expendable...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3873'),
(5764, 'The Confusion', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The title of Stephenson''s vast, splendid and absorbing sequel to\n  <em>\n   Quicksilver\n  </em>\n  (2003) suggests the state of mind that even devoted fans may face on occasion as they follow the glorious and exceedingly complex parallel stories of Jack Shaftoe, amiable criminal mastermind, and Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, courageous secret agent and former prisoner in a Turkish harem. In 1689, Jack recovers his memory in Algiers, evades galley slavery and joins a quest for the lost treasure of a Spanish pirate named Carlos Olancho Macho y Macho. This leads to adventures at sea worthy of Patrick O''Brian, and hairbreadth escapes from the jaws of the Inquisition. Meanwhile, Eliza is captured by the historical (and distinguished) French privateer Jean Bart while trying to escape to England with her baby. She must then navigate the intrigues of the court of Louis XIV, which are less lethal than those of the Inquisition by a small margin, but still make for uneasy sleep for a friendless female spy. Her correspondence with such scientific minds as Wilhelm Leibniz helps propel the saga''s chronicling of the roots of modern science at a respectable clip. Of course, one can''t call anything about the Baroque Cycle "brisk," but the richness of detail and language lending verisimilitude t? the setting and depth to the characters should be reward enough for most readers.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This â€œcon-fusionâ€ of two distinct novels (\n  <em>\n   Juncto\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Bonanza\n  </em>\n  ), alternating between Jack and Elizaâ€™s stories, is a must-read for Stephenson fans. Though neither entry in the\n  <em>\n   Baroque Cycle\n  </em>\n  has impressed the critics as much as some of Stephensonâ€™s previous work,\n  <em>\n   The Confusion\n  </em>\n  proves his narrative skills are still in fine shape. Casual readers beware: many critics feel the lengthy scientific and historical digressions, however well researched and explicated, tend to hold up the story. If the book suffers from an information glut or stylistic terseness, then it is the cracking plot and rich milieu of the Baroque world that set the ship right.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/715'),
(5765, 'Congo', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you saw the 1995 film adaptation of this Crichton thriller, somebody owes you an apology. While you''re waiting for\n  <em>\n   that\n  </em>\n  to happen, try reading the vastly more intelligent novel on which the movie was based. The broad lines of the plot remain the same: A research team deep in the jungle disappears after a mysterious and grisly gorilla attack. A subsequent team, including a sign-language-speaking simian named Amy, follows the original team''s tracks only to be subjected to more mysterious and grisly gorilla attacks. If you can look past the breathless treatment of ''80s technology, like voice-recognition software and 256K RAM modules (the book was written in 1980), you''ll find the same smart use of science and edge-of-your-seat suspense shared by Crichton''s other work.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A group of scientists visits the Congo jungle in search of a lost city and a domestic apeâ€™s ancestors, only to find the jungle holds some strange primates who have killer instincts. High drama marks a vivid condensed audio version of a thriller. --\n  <em>\n   Midwest Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/327'),
(5766, 'Consent to Kill', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the front lines of the global war on terror, CIA superagent Mitch Rapp races to save one more life: his own.An eye for an eye: that''s what the powerful father of a dead terrorist demands in retribution -- and with his hate-filled plea, Mitch Rapp becomes the target of an explosive international conspiracy. The fearless operative has both killed with impunity and tortured to avert disaster, all in a battle to preserve freedom. But even among America''s allies, some believe the time has come to bring Rapp down. Now the hunter is the hunted, and Rapp must rely on his razor-sharp instincts for survival -- and justice -- as he unleashes his fury on those who have betrayed him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/375'),
(5767, 'The Conspiracy Club', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Dedicated young psychologist Dr. Jeremy Carrier is unschooled in the ways of violent crime and incalculable evil - until his life is irreversibly touched by both. When his romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, he is left emotionally devastated and being warily eyed by police seeking a prime suspect in the unsolved killing. To escape the pain, he buries himself in his work. But when more women turn up murdered in the same gruesome fashion as Jocelyn, the suspicion surrounding Jeremy intensifies and the only way for him to prove his innocence is to follow the trail of a cunning psychopath.\n <br />\n <br />\n Spurring on Jeremy''s investigation is Dr. Arthur Chess, an enigmatic pathologist who harbors a keen fascination with the darker deeds committed by the living. Arthur draws Jeremy into the confidence of a cryptic society devoted to matters unknown and unspoken. But when Arthur suddenly slips away, Jeremy is left to contend with an onslaught of anonymous clues - and the growing realization that a harrowing game of cat and mouse has been set in motion.Â \n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/753'),
(5768, 'Conviction', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Chief of State Natasi Daala has been overthrown, and the Jedi Order has taken control of the Galactic Alliance. But while the new governors dismantle Daalaâ€™s draconian regime, forces still loyal to the deposed official are mobilizing a counterstrike. And even the Jediâ€™s new authority may not be enough to save Tahiri Veila, the former Jedi Knight and onetime Sith apprentice convicted of treason for the killing of Galactic Alliance officer Gilad Pellaeon.Meanwhile, Luke and Ben Skywalker are relentlessly pursuing Abeloth, the powerful dark-side entity bent on ruling the galaxy. But as they corner their monstrous quarry on the planet Nam Chorios, the two lone Jedi must also face the fury of the Sith death squadron bearing down on them. And when Abeloth turns the tables with an insidious ambush, the Skywalkersâ€™ quest threatens to become a suicide mission.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3213'),
(5769, 'Coraline', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Grade 6-8â€“This adaptation of Neil Gaiman''s novel (HarperCollins, 2002) reads as though it were intended for the graphic novel format in the first place. Insatiably curious Coraline is an explorer dedicated to discovering everything she can about the area around her family''s new home. When she comes upon a door in their flat that seems to go nowhere, enters an alternate world that at first is full of interesting things and delicious foodsâ€“everything that she has longed for. However, the dangerous creature thereâ€“called the other motherâ€“ intends to keep her forever. After Coraline''s parents are kidnapped into the other world, she sets off on a mission to rescue them. Russell''s illustrations suit the tone of the story perfectly, from the horrific black button eyes of the people in the other world to Coraline''s very telling facial expressions. The style is realistic, which makes the moments when the other world loses its solidity even more eerie. The pacing never lags, and Coraline''s transformation into a girl who understands that having everything you want is the least interesting thing of all is natural. For readers who enjoyed the novel, Coraline is sure to complement their reading experience. Those who come to the book first as a graphic novel will be just as captivated.â€“\n  <em>\n   Alana Abbott, James Blackstone Memorial Library, Branford, CT\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Russell, a 35-year veteran of comics and frequent collaborator with Gaiman, offers an adaptation of Gaimanâ€™s 2002 novel Coraline (illustrated by Dave McKean), a tale of childhood nightmares. As in the original story, Coraline wanders around her new house and discovers a door leading into a mirror place, where she finds her button-eyed â€œother mother,â€ who is determined to secure Coralineâ€™s love one way or another. This version is a virtuoso adaptation, streamlining passages that function best in prose and visually highlighting parts that benefit most from the graphic form. A master of fantastical landscapes, Russell sharpens the realism of his imagery, preserving the humanity of the characters and heightening horror, even as Gaimanâ€™s concise storytelling ratchets up the eeriness. The adaptation loses none of Coralineâ€™s original character; sheâ€™s clever, resourceful, intrepid, and highly determined when it comes to doing what must be done. Comics fans will delight in this version, and readers familiar with the previous book will greatly appreciate the opportunity to explore the story in a successful new way. Grades 4-7. --Jesse Karp\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1298'),
(5770, 'Corduroy Mansions', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Alexander McCall Smith on *Corduroy Mansions\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  When I started writing serial novels in newspapers six years ago, I had no idea that the whole business would rapidly become addictive. My initial foray into this genre of fiction began after a conversation with Armistead Maupin, author of\n  <em>\n   Tales of the City\n  </em>\n  , which was a saga of life in San Francisco that ran to several volumes. The idea was implanted of starting a daily novel set in Edinburgh, and a few months later I embarked on\n  <em>\n   44 Scotland Street\n  </em>\n  . After five years of producing a chapter a day for six months of the year, I decided to give Edinburgh a rest for a while and start a tale set in London.\n  <em>\n   Corduroy Mansions\n  </em>\n  , published each day in the online edition of\n  <em>\n   The Daily Telegraph\n  </em>\n  , was the result.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like any saga, there is a story--but it is not a complicated one. These stories are character-based: what interests me is what makes the characters tick rather than intricate and potentially confusing plots.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are quite a lot of characters in the story, many of them occupying a rather run-down block of flats in Pimlico that gives its name to the series. We are introduced to William French, a wine merchant who has just turned fifty, but who is in denial about that. He is a widower with a dreadful son, Eddie, who sees no reason to leave a comfortable home and set up independently, in spite of every encouragement by his father. William is admired by Marcia, a caterer who would like to marry him--or anybody really.\n </p>\n <p>\n  William lives at the top of the building. On the floor below is a shared flat lived in by four young women. One of these, Dee, runs a vitamin and health food shop not far away and is a keen exponent of alternative medicine in its various guises, and in particular of colonic irrigation. Then there is Caroline, who is studying for a masterâ€™s degree in fine art at the Sothebyâ€™s Institute of Art.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Caroline is fond of James, who is doing the same course as she is. James is very artistic, with a particular interest in the work of the French artist, Nicolas Poussin. James likes Caroline a great deal, but is unsure as to what his real proclivities are. Caroline is optimistic that she can confirm him in the direction she would like him to take, that is as one who is interested in women, but will she succeed?\n </p>\n <p>\n  William, at least, is quite unambiguous in that department: he wants to find a woman. His long-time friend Marcia, however, thinks she just may be his match. In the meantime, William has for company a remarkable dog, Freddie de la Hay, a Pimlico Terrier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then there is Oedipus Snark, a Liberal Democrat MP. He is so unpleasant that his mother, Berthea Snark, is writing his unauthorized biography in which she has the intention of dishing every bit of dirt on her son that she can muster. Berthea is the sister of the mystically-inclined Terence Moongrove, an exponent of Bulgarian sacred dance and the unexpected driver of a Porsche.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That is probably all that one needs to know. But even if one cannot be bothered to absorb even those few facts, the story will, I hope, be abundantly clear. This is light social comedy, I suppose, but while I admit that the whole point of the exercise is for the reader to have fun, I hope in this story, nonetheless, to say something about how we live and about how finding love and meaning in the very small things of life may transform us, may make our ordinary lives more bearable.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set in present-day London, Smith''s charming first in a new series offers a variation on his 44 Scotland Street books, centering on the eccentric occupants of Corduroy Mansions and their offbeat doings. William French, a wine merchant, hopes to force his son, Eddie, who refuses to take his hints about sharing a flat with other 20-somethings, to leave the nest by getting a dog whose presence in their apartment he expects will drive Eddie out. William''s neighbors include Dee, who works at a vitamin shop and believes a coworker needs to purge his system of excess sodium, and her roommate, Jenny, who works for an odious MP, Oedipus Snark, who treats Jenny like dirt. Smith paints with broader strokes than in his subtle and often moving No. 1 Ladies'' Detective Agency series, and no one character is especially memorable, but the wry humor he elicits from the collisions of lives and their repercussions will bring smiles to the faces of many readers.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/938'),
(5771, 'The Corfu Trilogy', 'Gerald Durrell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentic English family who moved there. For Gerald, the budding zoologist, Corfu was a natural paradise, teeming with strange birds and beasts that he could collect, watch and care for. But life was not without its problems - his family often objected to his animal-collecting activities, especially when the beasts wound up in the villa or - even worse - the fridge.With hilarious yet endearing portraits of his family and their many unusual hangers-on, The Corfu Trilogy also captures the beginnings of the author''s lifelong love of animals. Recounted with immense humour and charm, this wonderful account of Corfu''s natural history reveals a rare, magical childhood.For the passionate zoologist, Corfu was a natural paradise, teeming with strange birds and beasts that he could collect, watch and care for. But life was not without its problems - Gerald''s family often objected to his animal-collecting activities, especially when the beasts wound up in the family''s villa or - even worse - the fridge.Gerald Durrell evokes his island paradise with passion and wonder.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1888'),
(5772, 'The Cornerstone', 'Nick Spalding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A great book will transport you to another worldâ€¦ literally, if you''re not careful.On a gloomy Thursday afternoon, Max Bloom enters his local library in a last ditch attempt to stave off an epic case of teenage boredom.Among the hushed stacks he discovers The Cornerstone - an ancient book tucked away on a dusty, forgotten shelf. Opening the cover, Max is torn from the library into an alternate dimension full of things intent on killing him â€“ thus avoiding boredom with remarkable success.He meets a beautiful girl called Merelie (brilliant), who tells him he''s the only one that can save both their worlds from the Dwellers - hideous mind sucking creatures from beyond the universe (not so brilliant).Merelie thinks Max could be a Wordsmith, a sorcerer able to craft magic from the written word itself â€“ one powerful enough to stop the Dwellers and their treacherous human allies.This all sounds completely unbelievable, of course. The kind of thing you''d read in a fantasy novelâ€¦ but The Cornerstone doesn''t lie - and the danger is very real.In a world threatened by monsters, where books are worshipped and magic exists, Max Bloom must make a choice: close The Cornerstone and run home - or trust Merelie, become a Wordsmith, and save two worlds from certain destructionâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3904'),
(5773, 'The Corrections', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the author of â€˜Freedomâ€™, a richly realistic and darkly hilarious masterpiece about a family breakdown in an age of easy fixes.After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity, and their children have long since fled for the catastrophes of their own lives. As Alfredâ€™s condition worsens and the Lamberts are forced to face their secrets and failures, Enid sets her heart on one last family Christmas.Bringing the old world of civic virtue and sexual inhibition into violent collision with the era of hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare and globalised greed, â€˜The Correctionsâ€™ confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of the most brilliant interpreters of the American soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3907'),
(5774, 'Corsair', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hired by the CIA to track down the U.S. secretary of state in the aftermath of a suspicious plane crash in Libya, rakish captain Juan Cabrillo uncovers a sinister plot by Libya''s new foreign minister, a scheme with links to a 200-year-old naval battle and centuries-old Islamic scrolls. Reprint. 725,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3654'),
(5775, 'Council of Dads', 'Bruce Feiler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters'' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would reach out to six men from all the passages in his life, and ask them to be present in the passages in his daughters'' lives. And he would call this group "The Council of Dads."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I believe my daughters will have plenty of opportunities in their lives," he wrote to these men. "They''ll have loving families. They''ll have each other. But they may not have me. They may not have their dad. Will you help be their dad?"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Council of Dads* is the inspiring story of what happened next. Feiler introduces the men in his Council and captures the life lesson he wants each to convey to his daughters--how to see, how to travel, how to question, how to dream. He mixes these with an intimate, highly personal chronicle of his experience battling cancer while raising young children, along with vivid portraits of his father, his two grandfathers, and various father figures in his life that explore the changing role of fathers in America.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is the work of a master storyteller confronting the most difficult experience of his life and emerging with wisdom and hope. *The Council of Dads* is a touching, funny, and ultimately deeply moving book on how to live life, how the human spirit can respond to adversity, and how to deepen and cherish the friendships that enrich our lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1890'),
(5776, 'Count to Ten', 'Karen House', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rose cranks up the heat in more ways than one for recurring heroine Det. Mia Mitchell, last seen in\n  <em>\n   You Can''t Hide\n  </em>\n  , to deliver another winning romantic mystery thriller. When a series of arsons turns out to hide a homicide, Mia teams up with Chicago Fire Department Lt. Reed Solliday to track down the firebug killer. Still reeling from her father''s death and her last case, which landed her partner, Abe, in the hospital, Mia''s not pleased to be teaming up with someone newâ€”especially with Abe''s assailant still on the loose. Reed has his doubts as well, suspecting that Mia isn''t ready to be back on assignment. As the investigation proceeds and the two divulge their troubled pasts, they find themselves warming to each otherâ€”just in time for Mia to become the next target for the flame-happy madman. Rose''s characters aren''t exactly freshâ€”she''s the tough-but-vulnerable cop''s daughter, he''s the gruff-but-lovable heavyâ€”but Rose gives them plenty of room to develop as the tense procedural escalates. Emotional subplots, engaging secondary characters and a string of red herrings will keep readers hooked.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In all his years in the Chicago Fire Department, Lieutenant Reed Solliday ahs never experienced anything like this recent outbreak of house fires - devastating, vicious and in one case, homicidal. He has another problem - his new partner, Detective Mia Mitchell. She''s brash, bossy, and taking the case in a direction he never imagined.\n  <br />\n  Mia''s instincts tell her the arsonist is making this personal. And as the infernos become more deadly, one look at the victims'' tortured faces convinces her and Reed that they must work closer to catch the killer. With each new blaze, the villain ups the ante, setting firetraps for the people Reed and Mia love. The truth is almost too hot to handle: This monster''s desire for death and destruction is unquenchable ... and for Mia he''s started the countdown to an early grave.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/379'),
(5777, 'Coup D&#39;Etat', 'Ben Coes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n BEN COESÂ is the author of critically acclaimed\n <em>\n  Power Down.\n </em>\n He is a former speechwriter for the George H.W. Bush White House, worked for Boone Pickens, was a fellow at the JFK School of Government at Harvard, the campaign manager for Mitt Romneyâ€™s run for governor in 2002, and is currently a partner in a private equity company out of Boston.Â  He lives in Wellsley, Mass.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/657'),
(5778, 'The Court of the Air', 'Stephen Hunt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two teenage orphans in an anemic fantasy analogue of Victorian London are baffled to find themselves on the run in this overeager effort from British author and blogger Hunt (\n <em>\n  For the Crown and the Dragon\n </em>\n ). Molly, pursued by determined assassins with mysterious masters, hides underground, while Oliver, framed for his uncle''s death, takes to the air to escape the fey-hunting Special Guard. They also draw the attention of the Court of the Air, a shadowy black-ops organization, and communityist revolutionaries seeking to resurrect ancient subterranean gods. An entire steampunk menagerie is pressed into lackluster service, but the pace leaves no time to focus on any single element. Only the steammen and their refreshingly tender machine culture are affecting and original. The historical and geographical parallels are overly frequent and mostly trite. Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks, but the end result is more overload than wonder.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Court of the Air\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicksâ€¦the â€˜steammenâ€™ and their refreshingly tender machine culture are affecting and original.â€--\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA curious part-future blend of aerostats, mechanical computers, psychic powers, self-willed steam-power robots, Elder gods, talking superweapons and moreâ€¦Harry Potter mugs H.P. Lovecraft and L. Ron Hubbard explains it all.â€--\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn ultra supersonic speed Dickens fantasy thrillerâ€¦put on your seatbelts for a frenetic cat and mouse encounter that includes some nasty paranormal adversaries as this is an exciting tale of two orphans trying to save the world from those who want Armageddon now.â€--\n <em>\n  SFRevu\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/913'),
(5779, 'The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World', 'Matthew Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n According to Nietzsche, "Every great philosophy is... a personal confession of its creator and a kind of involuntary and unperceived memoir.". Stewart affirms this maxim in his colorful reinterpretation of the lives and works of 17th-century philosophers Spinoza and Leibniz. In November 1676, the foppish courtier Leibniz, "the ultimate insider... an orthodox Lutheran from conservative Germany," journeyed to The Hague to visit the self-sufficient, freethinking Spinoza, "a double exile... an apostate Jew from licentious Holland." A prodigious polymath, Leibniz understood Spinoza''s insight that "science was in the process of rendering the God of revelation obsolete; that it had already undermined the special place of the human individual in nature." Spinoza embraced this new world. Seeing the orthodox God as a "prop for theocratic tyranny," he articulated the basic theory for the modern secular state. Leibniz, on the other hand, spent the rest of his life championing God and theocracy like a defense lawyer defending a client he knows is guilty. He elaborated a metaphysics that was, at bottom, a reaction to Spinoza and collapses into Spinozism, as Stewart deftly shows. For Stewart, Leibniz''s reaction to Spinoza and modernity set the tone for "the dominant form of modern philosophy"â€”a category that includes Kant, Hegel, Bergson, Heidegger and "the whole ''postmodern'' project of deconstructing the phallogocentric tradition of western thought." Readers of philosophy may find much to disagree with in these arguments, but Stewart''s wit and profluent prose make this book a fascinating read.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 2006)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A mere footnote for most historians, the meeting in 1676 between Leibniz and Spinoza opens to a discerning eye the intellectual forces destined to reshape the entire Western world. Stewart supplies that discerning eye as he chronicles the events and arguments linking the illustrious German polymath to the controversial Dutch lens grinder. In refreshingly lucid terms, he explains the controversies surrounding Spinoza as the consequence of the radical religious and political doctrines he articulated in works fiercely debated throughout Europe. By highlighting the way Spinoza''s metaphysics justified secular and democratic challenges to traditional regimes, Stewart also reveals the piquant irony in the way that metaphysics hypnotized the most brilliant of the status quo''s defenders--Gottfried Leibniz, who first eagerly absorbed Spinoza''s thought, then recognized in it a perilous threat to traditional beliefs in God and immortality. Because Spinoza''s doctrines have won acceptance from the architects of the modern world even as Leibniz''s traditional religious beliefs have persisted among many who inhabit that world, the drama Stewart recounts will rivet readers skeptical and devout alike.\n <em>\n  Bryce Christensen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1892'),
(5780, 'A Coyote&#39;s in the House', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The first ever children''s book from the New York Times bestselling master of contemporary fiction Buddy''s an aging movie star. Antwan''s a rough-and-tumble loner. And Miss Betty, the show girl, is a princess. Different in nearly every way, they share one thing: they''re all dogs...at heart. Though Antwan''s the leader of his pack and loves hanging in the hills, feasting from Hollywood''s chicest garbage cans, he''s too curious a coyote to turn down his new friend Buddy''s invitation to see how the other half lives. Convincing his new human family he''s a mysterious pooch named Timmy, Antwan quickly becomes part of the brood. But as Antwan''s star rises, Buddy''s spirits fall. Past his prime to humans, Buddy wants to chuck the luxury and live in the wild -- if Antwan will show him how. To cheer up their pal, Antwan and Miss Betty concoct a daring plan, setting off a chain of uproarious adventures that will teach them all a few new tricks about friendship, family, and life. Filled with the spot-on dialogue and clever plotting that have made Elmore Leonard top dog among writers of every breed, A Coyote''s in the House reveals the inner life of canines -- wild and domesticated -- in a fresh, funny tale for the young and the young at heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3143'),
(5781, 'Cradle and All', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n n Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant--even though she is still a virgin.\n <br />\n <br />\n In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition.\n <br />\n <br />\n And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse. It all feels like a sign that something awful is coming.\n <br />\n <br />\n Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate the immaculate conceptions. Even as she comes to care about and trust the young women, she realizes that both are in great danger. Terrifying forces of light and darkness are gathering. Stepping into uncharted territory where the unknown is just the beginning, Anne must discover the truth--to save the young women, to save herself, and to protect the future of all mankind.\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  "Cradle and All" is based on an earlier James Patterson novel, "Virgin",and includes scenes and characters from that book.\n </i>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/288'),
(5782, 'Crank', 'Ellen Hopkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ellen Hopkinshas been writing poetry for years. Her first novel, Crank, released in 2004 and quickly became a word-of-mouth sensation, garnering praise from teens and critics alike. Ellen''s other bestselling novels nclude Burned, Impulse, Glass, Identical, Tricks, and Fallout, the highly anticipated finale to the Crank trilogy. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada. Be sure to check out Ellen Hopkins online at ellenhopkins.com and myspace.com/ellenhopkins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3763'),
(5783, 'Crash', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  J. G. Ballard''s graphic, violent novel is controversial wherever it is read, even on Amazon.com''s own Web page! The book''s characters are obsessed with automobile accidents and are determined to narrate the horrors of the car crash as luridly as possible. In the words of the novel''s protagonist, the wounds caused by automobile collisions are "the keys to a new sexuality born from a perverse technology." Read this novel and learn why David Cronenberg, who had previously adapted\n  <em>\n   Dead Ringers\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Naked Lunch\n  </em>\n  for the screen, fought to turn it into his latest film.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A work of very powerful originality. Ballard is among our finest writers of fiction."â€”\n  <strong>\n   Anthony Burgess\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1319'),
(5784, 'Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All', 'Frank Schaeffer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Part autobiography, part parental tribute and part examination of how American evangelism got to where it is, versatile author Schaeffer tells a moving story of growing up and growing wise in his latest (after Baby Jack: A Novel). Raised in Switzerland in the utopian community and spiritual school his evangelical parents founded, Schaeffer was restless and aware even at a young age that "my life was being defined by my parent''s choices." Still, he took to "the family business" well, following his dad as he became one of the "best-known evangelical leaders in the U.S." on whirlwind speaking tours. While rubbing shoulders with such empire builders as Pat Robertson, James Dobson and Jerry Falwell, Schaeffer witnessed the birth of the Christian anti-abortion movement, and became an evangelical writer, speaker and star in his own right. His disillusionment, when it came, hit hard; while he would eventually achieve modest fame as a filmmaker and author (of novels and nonfiction), the initial stages of Schaeffer''s post-religious life were anything but glamorous; a particularly moving passage describes Schaeffer shoplifting pork chops rather than return to the evangelical fold. Schaeffer does not mince words, making his narrative honest, inflammatory and at times quite funny; despite its excess length and some confusing chronological leaps, this story of faith, fame and family in modern America is a worthy read.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  American Authorâ€™s Association website, December 2008\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œA story that needed to be toldâ€¦A very personal and brutally honest memoir, that opens up and exposes the underbelly of the evangelistic movementâ€¦Gives the reader a rare and different look at some of various leaders of the fundamentalist moment...The book may open some eyes and minds about the dangers of politics and religionâ€¦A must read book for serious seekers looking for their own authentic path to enlightenment, or at least some inner peace.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  De-conversion.com, 12/2/08\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œA must read for the de-convertingâ€¦It is brutally honest, eye-opening, at times laugh out loud funny, and heart breaking.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Princeton Packet\n </em>\n , 2/13/09\n <br />\n â€œMr. Schaeffer knows what heâ€™s talking about. He was there, and his book lays it all out, chapter and verse.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TCM Reviews\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[A] moving memoirâ€¦For those interested in a different perspective on Francis and Edith Schaeffer, l''Abri, and the fundamentalist right-wing evangelical movement, as well as the touching story of someone deeply involved in it all, this is a must-read.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Augusta Metro Spirit\n  </em>\n  , 4/15/09\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œIn a witty recollection that takes a different path from the average evangelical story, Frank Schaeffer offers an intimate portrait of a life within and without the spotlight of mass congregationsâ€¦Schaeffer is more than qualified to offer candid commentary concerning the religious right in these United Statesâ€¦Written with an intricate collection of detail, a smooth ability to turn elements of conflict into startling moments of realization, and a wonderful search for meaning.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Tallahassee Democrat\n  </em>\n  , 7/25/09\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œPart memoir, part biography, and part expose of a fundamentalist moment in U.S. religion and culture. As memoir it is at times funny, at times moving. As biograp...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1835'),
(5785, 'Cream Puff Murder', 'Joanne Fluke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Winter in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is the perfect time to curl up by a cozy fire with something - and someone - sweet. But while bakery owner Hannah Swensen can provide herself with the confections, cuddling will have to take a back seat to sleuthing when her sometime-squeeze becomes a murder suspect. With the launch party of her mother''s novel around the corner, Hannah has a dress to fit into and a date with her sister, Andrea, at Lake Eden''s new health club, Heavenly Bodies. Dragging herself out of bed on a frigid Minnesota morning for exercise, of all things, is bad enough. Discovering a dead body floating in the gym''s jacuzzi? Okay, that''s worse. Nor does it help that there''s a plate of The Cookie Jar''s very own cream puffs garnishing the murder scene. The fact that they were purchased by none other than Hannah''s part-time flame, Detective Mike Kingston, is simply the icing on what''s shaping up to be one very messy cake. Mike may be the prime suspect in the murder of man-eating bombshell Ronni Ward, but he''s by no means the only one. Ronni, a fitness instructor at both the Sheriff''s department and Heavenly Bodies, made a nasty habit of throwing her own heavenly body at every man, eligible or not, who crossed her path. Plenty of Lake Eden''s ladies won''t miss Ronni, including her ex-fiance''s former girlfriend, the angry mother of one of her would-be conquests, and even the mayor''s wife. Could any of them have wanted her gone badly enough to make it happen? Mike''s recruited Hannah to find out, and, as any suspended, suspected detective would, he''s micromanaging her every step of the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3467'),
(5786, 'Creation', 'Randal Keynes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Soon to be a major motion picture\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The moving, personal story of Charles Darwin and his revolutionary views on nature, evolution, and the human condition. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Darwin''s theories continue to shape much of our thinking about the roots of human nature, *Creation* (formerly *Darwin, His Daughters, and Human Evolution*) reveals the personal experiences from which he drew his most deeply held ideas.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes, a great-great-grandson of Darwin, found the writing case of Charles Darwin''s beloved daughter Annie, who died at the age of fifteen. Offering rare insight into the family''s private world, Keynes gives us a fuller picture of one of our most original thinkers, as well as a wealth of previously unseen material.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1837');
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(5787, 'Creep', 'Jennifer Hillier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Pulsing with the dark obsession of Radioheadâ€™s song â€œCreep,â€ this taut thrillerâ€”Jennifer Hillierâ€™s superb debutâ€”rockets from its seductive opening to a heartpounding climax not easily forgotten. If he canâ€™t have her . . . Dr. Sheila Tao is a professor of psychology. An expert in human behavior. And when she began an affair with sexy, charming graduate student Ethan Wolfe, she knew she was playing with fire. Consumed by lust when they were together, riddled with guilt when they werenâ€™t, she knows the three-month fling with her teaching assistant has to end. After all, sheâ€™s finally engaged to a kind and loving investment banker who adores her, and sheâ€™s taking control of her life. But when she attempts to end the affair, Ethan Wolfe wonâ€™t let her walk away. . . . no one else can. Ethan has plans for Sheila, plans that involve posting a sex video that would surely get her fired and destroy her prestigious career. Plans to make her pay for rejecting him. And as she attempts to counter his every threatening move without her colleagues or her fiancÃ© discovering her most intimate secrets, a shattering crime rocks Puget Sound State University: a female student, a star athlete, is found stabbed to death. Someone is raising the stakes of violence, sex, and blackmail . . . and before she knows it, Sheila is caught in a terrifying cat-and-mouse game with the lover she couldnâ€™t resistâ€”who is now the monster who wonâ€™t let her go.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/676'),
(5788, 'Crescent Dawn', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dirk Pitt returns, in the extraordinary new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.   In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together? NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire, and to the existence of a mysterious "manifest," lost long ago, which if discovered again...just may change the history of the world as we know it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3234'),
(5789, 'The Crime Writer', 'Gregg Hurwitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Drew Danner , an L.A.-based crime novelist, awakens in a hospital bed with a scar on his head, blood under his nails, and a cop by his side. Accused of murdering his ex-fiancÃ©e, Drew has no memory of the crime but reconstructs the story the only way he knows howâ€”as a novel. As he searches the dark corridors of his life and the city he loves, another young woman is similarly murdered and Drew must confront the very real possibility of his own guilt. A thrilling piece of contemporary L.A. noir, The Crime Writer is sure to boost Hurwitzâ€™s profile as one of the coming masters of the genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3101'),
(5790, 'The Crimean War: A History', 'Orlando Figes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. All most people know of the Crimean War is the charge of the Light Brigade, but this war was both global and modern, insists noted historian and University of London professor Figes (The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin''s Russia) in his magnificent account. It was fought with industrial technology, railways, and steamships; 750,000 soldiers and uncounted numbers of civilians died. After an 1853 religious dispute with Ottoman leaders, Russian armies invaded a disputed area in present-day Romania. Longstanding anti-Russian anger in both Britain and Turkey boiled over into war. French opinion was less enthusiastic, but Napoleon III yearned for military glory. Although Russia soon retreated, Britain''s cabinet wanted to inflict serious damage. The result was the massive 1854 British-French Crimean invasion. But the armies dawdled, resulting in a costly siege, bloody battles, and 18 months of legendary heroism and incompetence ending in a treaty that only temporarily restrained Russian advances and the Ottoman Empire''s decline. Using French, Russian, and Ottoman as well as British sources, Figes has written a lucid, thoroughly satisfying, definitive history. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos; 19 b&amp;w photos throughout; maps. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "\n</p>\n<p>\n "Engrossing . . . In a book densely packed with incident, Figes highlights the influence of the press and the brutal casualties that the war produced . . . Could make a hardened war correspondent''s blood run cold."â€”_The New Yorker_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Important and impressive . . . it is freshly informed by Russian sources, of which [Figes] is a master. . . . [_The Crimean War_] admirably narrates the saga in its international and religious setting."â€”Max Hastings,\n <em>\n  New York Review of Books\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Meticulously researched . . . Comprehensive and compelling . . . Using a startling array of sources, from government records, news articles, and memoirs, to the letters of barely-literate soldiers, Figes deftly balances political, military, and social history . . . The chapters on the war itself are as gripping as an adventure novel . . .Â _The Crimean War_ is an evisceration of war, a celebration of scholarship."â€”_Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fascinating . . . Narrative history at its best, with patient unfolding of events unknown and forgotten--but that have consequences even today. A thoroughly impressive book."â€”_Kirkus_, starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n "A lucid, thoroughly satisfying, definitive history."â€”_Publishers Weekly_, starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n "Narrated in fearsomely vivid detail and with analytical precision . . . Figes restores historical significance and human suffering to the conflict."â€”_Booklist_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise from the United Kingdom for\n <em>\n  The Crimean War\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA wonderful subject, on every level, and with Orlando Figes it has found the historian worthy of its width and depth.â€â€”Norman Stone,\n <em>\n  Standpoint\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFigesâ€™ new work will remind readers of his gifts, keen judgment and mastery of sources.â€â€”Max Hastings,\n <em>\n  The Sunday Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is the only book on the Crimean War anyone could need. It is lucid, well-written, alive and sensitive. Above all, it tells us why this neglected conflict and its forgotten victims deserve our remembrance.â€â€”Oliver Bullough,\n <em>\n  The Independent\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFiges is a first-class historian. . . an excellent guide to the vagaries of the battlefield and the suffering of the ordinary soldiers . . . and the extent to which this was a religious war.â€â€”Dominic Sandbrook,\n <em>\n  The Daily Telegraph\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fine, stirring account, expertly balancing analysis . . . with an impressive narrative across the vast panoramic sweep of the war.â€â€”Mark Bostridge,\n <em>\n  Financial Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExcellent. . . I could not help but marvel at the many parallels with the present.â€â€”Anne Applebaum,\n <em>\n  The Spectator\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA stellar historian. As ever, Figes mixes strong narrative pace, a grand canvas and compelling ideas about current geopolitical tensions."â€”Tristram Hunt,\n <em>\n  The Observer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __Â \n</p>\n<p>\n "Entertains as well as enlightensâ€¦ With its account of combat in the Balkans and conflict in Iran, Afghanistan and Jerusalem, [The Crimean War] makes the modern reader blink with recognition."â€”Angus Macqueen,\n <em>\n  The Guardian\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA complex tale, told vividly by Figes.â€â€”_The Economist_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2364'),
(5791, 'The Crimes of Jordan Wise', 'Bill Pronzini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jordan Wise is a mild-mannered accountant with a large San Francisco engineering firm in the late 1970s. By his own admission, the first thirty-four years of his life were dull, empty. But that all changes when he meets and falls in love with Annalise Bonner, an ambitious young woman who craves excitement, a life on the edge.With her as the catalyst, Wise concocts and executes a meticulous plan to steal more than half a million dollars from his firm. They escape to the Virgin Islands, but their plans to live a life of quiet luxury are beset by unexpected pitfalls -- and Wise is forced to carry out two more ingenious schemes as a result. All three of his crimes are perfect -- or are they?THE CRIMES OF JORDAN WISE is a classic tale of love, greed, betrayal, and violence told with Bill Pronzini''s characteristic twists and turns and his special brand of suspense. It is also a powerful psychological examination of a man, a woman, and the wages of sin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3883'),
(5792, 'Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection', 'Dorothy Hoobler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. But the City of Light was also a violent place. Criminals eagerly took advantage of the inventive nature of the age-the first getaway car, increasingly dangerous weapons, more creative disguises. The police battled back with a weapon of their own: Alphonse Bertillon, the world''s greatest detective, the inventor of the mug shot and the crime-scene photo, and a brilliant innovator who pioneered the new science of criminal investigation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then on August 21, 1911, came a crime like none other: Leonardo da Vinci''s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. It was assumed that Bertillon would quickly solve the mystery and retrieve the painting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It would not be so simple.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In The Crimes of Paris, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler tell the gripping story of the theft and the investigation that followed. Bertillon and his associates would pursue clues leading them into the world of avant-garde artists, cheap apartments in Montmartre and Montparnasse, cabarets, and from this first great mystery into yet others. Their suspects would be everyone from the poet Guillaume Apollinaire to J. P. Morgan to Pablo Picasso.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A vivid tapestry of Paris, daring thieves, and relentless investigators, The Crimes of Paris is a heart-pounding true-crime thriller of the highest order, as well as a brilliant account of the modern detective.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2218'),
(5793, 'Crisis Four', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n He was ordered to track down a rogue colleague. Now British Intelligence agent Nick Stone and "runner" (and former lover) Sarah Greenwood have become the hunted, racing deeper into a dark, deadly conspiracy that will change the course of world events - and the lives of millions.With seventeen years of active service in the elite SAS force, Andy McNab writes from his own harrowing experiences. Packed with authentic procedural details, as relentless as a fast-burning fuse, Crisis Four is a thriller so gritty and real that you won''t know where fact ends and fiction begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/381'),
(5794, 'Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. The killer was never found, and the case turned cold, filed among the unsolved drive-bys in D.C.''s rough neighborhoods.\n <br />\n <br />\n Years later, still haunted by his wife''s death, Cross is making a bold move in his life. Now a free agent from the police and the FBI, he''s set up practice as a psychologist once again. His life with Nana Mama, Damon, Jannie, and little Alex is finally getting in order. He even has a chance at a new love.\n <br />\n <br />\n Then Cross''s former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favor. He is tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown, one whose brutal modus operandi recalls a case Sampson and Cross worked together years earlier. When the case reveals a connection to Maria''s death, Cross latches on for the most urgent and terrifying ride of his life.\n <br />\n <br />\n From the man USA TODAY has called the "master of the genre," CROSS...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/289'),
(5795, 'Cross Country', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n When the home of Alex Cross''s oldest friend, Ellie Cox, is turned into the worst murder scene Alex has ever seen, the destruction leads him to believe that he''s chasing a horrible new breed of killer. As Alex and his girlfriend, Brianna Stone, become entangled in the deadly Nigerian underworld of Washington D.C., what they discover is shocking: a stunningly organized gang of lethal teenagers headed by a powerful, diabolical man--the African warlord known as the Tiger. Just when the detectives think they''re closing in on the elusive murderer, the Tiger disappears into thin air. Tracking him to Africa, Alex knows that he must follow. Alone.\n <br />\n <br />\n From the author\n <i>\n  Time\n </i>\n magazine has called "the man who can''t miss," CROSS COUNTRY is the most heart-stopping, speed-charged, electrifying Alex Cross thriller yet\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/290'),
(5796, 'Cross Fire', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <strong>\n  Wedding bells ring\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </strong>\n Detective Alex Cross and Bree''s wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.''s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories--is the marksman a hero or a vigilante?\n <br />\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A murderer returns\n </strong>\n <br />\n <br />\n The case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation. As Alex and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, the murders continue. It becomes clear that they are the work of a professional who has detailed knowledge of his victims'' movements--information that only a Washington insider could possess.\n <br />\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Caught in a lethal cross fire\n </strong>\n <br />\n <br />\n As Alex contends with the sniper, Siegel, and the wedding, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good. With a supercharged blend of action, deception, and suspense,\n <i>\n  Cross Fire\n </i>\n is James Patterson''s most visceral and exciting Alex Cross novel ever.\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/291'),
(5797, 'Cross Roads', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE SISTERHOOD WILL NOT BE BROKENIt''s been a year and a half since the women of the Sisterhood received their presidential pardons, but the freedom they craved has come at a high price. The impossibly lucrative positions handed out to them by the mysterious Global Securities company have turned out to be golden handcuffs-scattering them around the world, cutting off communication, and leaving them in miserable isolation. But a happy homecoming at the old Virginia farmhouse is marred by the hijacking of Nikki and Kathryn''s private jet. It seems their few fellow passengers are not ordinary travellers - they''re an elite group of Interpol agents who urgently need the Sisterhood''s help. Now the ladies face a stark choice: resume their vigilante status for one of their most hazardous assignments yet, or try to out wit a group of powerful adversaries willing to use truly desperate measures. This time, everything is in the balance-their lives, their friendship, and the freedom they fought so hard to gain.Praise for Fern Michaels and her Sisterhood novels . . . ''Revenge is a dish best served with cloth napkins and floral centerpieces . . . fast-paced . . . puts poetic justice first.''-Publishers Weekly on Payback''Delectable . . . deliver[s] revenge that''s creatively swift and sweet, Michaels-style.''-Publishers Weekly on Hokus Pokus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3757'),
(5798, 'Crossfire', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The breathtaking new thriller from the author of Bravo Two Zero. Body guarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone''s life is saved by a reporter''s swift action as a roadside bomb explodes. When the man later vanishes, Stone is asked to find him. The trail leads from Iraq to Bermuda, London and Kabul, the dark and brutal city where governments, terrorism and big business inexorably collide. Caught in the crossfire, his nightmare is only just beginning, for the hunter has suddenly become the hunted. . . From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/395'),
(5799, 'The Crossing', 'Cormac Mccarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The opening section of\n  <em>\n   The Crossing\n  </em>\n  , book two of the Border Trilogy, features perhaps the most perfectly realized storytelling of Cormac McCarthy''s celebrated career. Like\n  <em>\n   All the Pretty Horses\n  </em>\n  , this volume opens with a teenager''s decision to slip away from his family''s ranch into Mexico. In this case, the boy is Billy Parham, and the catalyst for his trip is a wolf he and his father have trapped, but that Billy finds himself unwilling to shoot. His plan is to set the animal loose down south instead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is a McCarthy novel, not\n  <em>\n   Old Yeller\n  </em>\n  , and so Billy''s trek inevitably becomes more ominous than sweet. It boasts some chilling meditations on the simple ferocity McCarthy sees as necessary for all creatures who aim to continue living. But Billy is McCarthy''s most loving--and therefore damageable--character, and his story has its own haunted melancholy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Billy eventually returns to his ranch. Then, finding himself and his world changed, he returns to Mexico with his younger brother, and the book begins meandering. Though full of hypnotically barren landscapes and McCarthy''s trademark western-gothic imagery (like the soldier who sucks eyes from sockets), these latter stages become tedious at times, thanks partly to the female characters, who exist solely as ghosts to haunt the men.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But that opening is glorious, and the whole book finally transcends its shortcomings to achieve a grim and poignant grandeur.\n  <em>\n   --Glen Hirshberg\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This second volume of McCarthy''s Border Trilogy-an 11-week PW bestseller-follows two teenage boys across the American Southwest and Mexico in the years before WWII.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1329'),
(5800, 'Crucible of War: The Seven Years&#39; War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766', 'Fred Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years'' War--long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution--takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain''s empire and to sow the seeds of its eventual dissolution.\n</p>\n<p>\n Beginning with a skirmish in the Pennsylvania backcountry involving an inexperienced George Washington, the Iroquois chief Tanaghrisson, and the ill-fated French emissary Jumonville, Anderson reveals a chain of events that would lead to world conflagration. Weaving together the military, economic, and political motives of the participants with unforgettable portraits of Washington, William Pitt, Montcalm, and many others, Anderson brings a fresh perspective to one of America''s most important wars, demonstrating how the forces unleashed there would irrevocably change the politics of empire in North America.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2219'),
(5801, 'Cruel and Unusual', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This fourth mystery to feature Virginia Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kay Scarpetta was a 12-week PW bestseller.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-In this fourth Kay Scarpetta mystery, the chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia is once again challenged by gruesome murder and confusing evidence. How could the fingerprints of Ronnie Joe Waddell appear at the scene of a murdered psychic after Waddell was executed in the electric chair? In the midst of many puzzling matters come other difficult issues to confront Kay as she tries to do her job. She becomes the object of hysterical media attention, and finds that she herself might be indicted for the very crimes she is trying to solve. Someone is sabotaging her efforts by hacking into her computer files and leaking information. Exasperated, she calls upon her niece, Lucy, a 17-year-old computer whiz, whom readers will remember from earlier "Scarpetta" novels. Along with FBI agent Benton Wesley and police chum Pete Marino, Lucy helps Kay solve the murders and ferret out the traitor in her office. YAs will enjoy the teen''s angst and the exciting twist at the book''s end.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Carolyn E. Gecan, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3034'),
(5802, 'Cruising Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama, and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet', 'Heather Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Flying the not-so-friendly skies...   In her more than fifteen years as an airline flight attendant, Heather Poole has seen it all. She''s witnessed all manner of bad behavior at 35,000 feet and knows what it takes for a traveler to become the most hated passenger onboard. She''s slept in flight attendant crashpads in "Crew Gardens," Queensâ€”sharing small bedrooms crammed with bunk beds with a parade of attractive women who come and go at all hours, prompting suspicious neighbors to jump to the very worst conclusions. She''s watched passengers and coworkers alike escorted off the planes by police. She can tell you why it''s a bad idea to fall for a pilot but can be a very good one (in her case) to date a business-class passenger. Heather knows everything about flying in a post-9/11 worldâ€”and she knows what goes on behind the scenes, things the passengers would never dream.   Heather''s true stories in Cruising Attitude are surprising, hilarious, sometimes outrageously incredibleâ€”the very juiciest of "galley gossip" delightfully intermingled with the eye-opening, unforgettable chronicle of her fascinating life in the sky.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3803'),
(5803, 'Crunch Time', 'Diane Mott Davidson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  Caterer and sleuth extraordinaire Goldy Schulz returns in another tasty and suspenseful adventure from\n  <i>\n   New York Times\n  </i>\n  bestselling author Diane Mott Davidson\n </blockquote>\n Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz cooks up big trouble as she tries to help her longtime friend and fellow chef Yolanda Garcia. When the rental house shared by Yolanda and her irrepressible aunt Ferdinanda is destroyed by arson, the pair move in with cop-turned-PI Ernest McLeod. But then Ernest is shot dead and his house is set on fire, nearly killing Goldy, Yolanda, Ferdinanda, and nine beagle puppies that Ernest had recently rescued from a puppy mill. Concerned for her friends, Goldy invites them to stay with her while the sheriff''s department investigates. Yet even Goldy''s house isn''t safe, and after a failed break-in by an unknown intruder a cop is sent to keep an eye on things. Then a second body is found. Swapping her chef''s hat for a sleuthing cap, the intrepid Goldy steps up the...\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3617'),
(5804, 'Crusader&#39;s Cross', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Superb writing and a throbbing pace lift two-time Edgar-winner Burke''s powerful, many-layered 14th Dave Robicheaux novel (after 2003''s\n  <em>\n   Last Car to Elysian Fields\n  </em>\n  ), which involves venal and arrogant members of a wealthy family that can trace its lineage to fifth-century France as well as the machinations of the New Orleans mafia. A conversation between Robicheaux and a dying childhood friend about Ida Durbin, a young prostitute that Robicheaux''s half-brother, Jimmie, loved and lost in the late 1950s, sets the ex-homicide detective on a path that eventually leads to several gruesome killings and his near downfall. Unemployed, his wife dead, his daughter in college, Robicheaux rejoins the New Iberia, La., sheriff''s department at the urging of Sheriff Helen Soileau, who needs an extra hand as the murders mount. While the tendrils of the sometimes rambling plot unfold, Robicheaux and his impulsive former police partner, PI Clete Purcell, seek retribution for injustices caused by a wide range of corrupt villains. Burke masterfully combines landscape and memory in a violent, complex story peopled by sharply defined characters who inhabit a lush, sensual, almost mythological world.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The aging Robicheaux has led a full lifeâ€”full of loss, violence, and evil. Critics agree that\n  <em>\n   Crusaderâ€™s Cross\n  </em>\n  is a worthy addition to the series. Itâ€™s all hereâ€”the violence, the power plays, the class and racial tensions, Robicheauxâ€™s stubbornness, the Louisiana landscape, and, of course, the references to crosses. As usual, Burke takes readers deep inside his protagonistâ€™s heart to show how one man deals with the worldâ€™s evils, and itâ€™s the lyrical writing and palpable scenes that make that possible. Some tangled subplots and a weak rendering of women (including Robicheauxâ€™s daughter) barely detract. If you believe "that beauty and horror go hand in hand," notes the\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  , Burke "can touch you in ways few writers can."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/398'),
(5805, 'The Cry of the Halidon', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Alex McAuliff has received an offer he can''t refuse: two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica''s dark interior.  All Dunstone, Limited,  requires is his time, his expertise, and his absolute secrecy.  No oneâ€”not  even McAuliff''s handpicked teamâ€”can know of Dunstone''s involvement.\n <br />\n <br />\n But British Intelligence is aware of the deal and they''ve let Alex in on a  secret of their own: the last survey team Dunstone dispatched to Jamaica vanished without a trace.  Now it''s too late to turn back.  Alex already knows about Dunstone...which means he knows too much.\n <br />\n <br />\n From the moment he lands in Jamaica, Alex is a marked man.  But who wants him  dead?  Dunstone?  A rival company?  Or British Intelligence?  Here in an island paradise where even a beautiful woman might be a spy, every move could  be his last, and his only clue to survival is a single mysterious word:  Halidon.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1263'),
(5806, 'Cryptonomicon', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Neal Stephenson enjoys cult status among science fiction fans and techie types thanks to\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n , which so completely redefined conventional notions of the high-tech future that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. But if his cyberpunk classic was big,\n <em>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </em>\n is huge... gargantuan... massive, not just in size (a hefty 918 pages including appendices) but in scope and appeal. It''s the hip, readable heir to\n <em>\n  Gravity''s Rainbow\n </em>\n and the Illuminatus trilogy. And it''s only the first of a proposed series--for more information, read our interview with Stephenson.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </em>\n zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods--World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, cryptanalyst extraordinaire, and gung ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They''re part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit''s strange workings to Waterhouse. "When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first.... Of course, to observe is not its\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n duty--we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n duty is\n <em>\n  to be observed\n </em>\n .... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious."\n</p>\n<p>\n All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes--inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe--team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the\n <em>\n  Societas Eruditorum\n </em>\n , pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </em>\n is vintage Stephenson from start to finish: short on plot, but long on detail so precise it''s exhausting. Every page has a math problem, a quotable in-joke, an amazing idea, or a bit of sharp prose.\n <em>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </em>\n is also packed with truly weird characters, funky tech, and crypto--all the crypto you''ll ever need, in fact, not to mention all the computer jargon of the moment. A word to the wise: if you read this book in one sitting, you may die of information overload (and starvation).\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Computer expert Randy Waterhouse spearheads a movement to create a safe haven for data in a world where information equals power and big business and government seek to control the flow of knowledge. His ambitions collide with a top-secret conspiracy with links to the encryption wars of World War II and his grandfather''s work in preventing the Nazis from discovering that the Allies had cracked their supposedly unbreakable Enigma code. The author of Snow Crash (LJ 4/1/92) focuses his eclectic vision on a story of epic proportions, encompassing both the beginnings of information technology in the 1940s and the blossoming of the present cybertech revolution. Stephenson''s freewheeling prose and ironic voice lend a sense of familiarity to a story that transcends the genre and demands a wide readership among fans of technothrillers as well as a general audience. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1038'),
(5807, 'Cuba Libre', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n War in Cuba isn''t Ben Tyler''s concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898--right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine--may not be the smartest thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyler''s sitting tight in a vermin-infested Cuban stockade waiting to face a firing squad. But he''s not dying until he gets the money he''s owed from a two-timing American sugar baron. And there''s one smart, pistol-hot lady at the rich man''s side who could help Ben get everything he''s got rightfully coming...even when the whole damn island''s going straight to hell.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3123'),
(5808, 'Cujo', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Cujo\n  </em>\n  is so well-paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted story in which that scene is embedded. This is definitely a novel that rewards re-reading. When you read it again, you can pay more attention to the theme of country folk vs. city folk; the parallel marriage conflicts of the Cambers vs. the Trentons; the poignancy of the amiable St. Bernard (yes, the breed choice is just right) infected by a brain-destroying virus that makes it into a monster; and the way the "daylight burial" of the failed ad campaign is reflected in the sunlit Pinto that becomes a coffin. And how significant it is that this horror tale is\n  <em>\n   not\n  </em>\n  supernatural: it''s as real as junk food, a failing marriage, a broken-down car, or a fatal virus.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Just when your blood pressure is back to normal, Stephen King is at it again."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <em>\n   Kansas City Star\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/843'),
(5809, 'Cure', 'Robin Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Number-one New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook returns with another heart-pounding story of medical intrigue. "Cook can write up a storm and spin a taut tale...a master." - Kirkus Reviews With her young son''s potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where she''s been employed for more than two decades. Worried about whether she still has what it takes after so much time away, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start-up bio-tech companies caught in a zero- sum game. Against the advice of her colleagues and her husband, fellow medical examiner Jack Stapleton, Laurie is determined to solve the mystery the case comes to represent. Satoshi Machita, a former Kyoto University researcher, is set to own a valuable patent controlling pluripotent stem cells, which are destined to spark a trillion-dollar industry of regenerative medicine. When he dies on a crowded New York subway platform, Laurie must decide whether his death was natural - or something more fiendish. Behind the scenes, there are people who would like to see Laurie as far away from the investigation as possible. Despite threats against her, Laurie presses on, until threats are carried out against the person she loves most in the world: her son, JJ. Suddenly Laurie must face solving the crime - and saving her son''s life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3258'),
(5810, 'The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea', 'Mary South', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A mid-life crisis and a latent sense of adventure caused book editor South to give up her life in publishing and take up residence on the Bossanova, a steel-hull trawler she bought before knowing how to captain it. The subtitle is largely hyperbolic-South''s time "at sea" was really a short, if perilous, sail from Florida to Sag Harbor, where the boat is now docked-but South makes an interesting memoir from her skillful observation of the sailing life: "Good seamanship isn''t the thoughtless instinct that salty dogs make it seem to be. It''s the good habit of always asking yourself the right questions in the right order and answering them thoughtfully." Sometimes, she seems to have forgotten landlubbers might pick up her book; a sentences like, "One danger is that your bow will slow and your stern will get kicked out to the side, causing you to be beam-to," is just one head-scratcher of many for the uninitiated. She can be clumsy when transitioning between sailing stories and other aspects of her life ("This sailing was happiness. For a time, happiness, too, had been Leslie."), but her clear-eyed perspective and involving stories keep the narrative moving. This small but well-observed memoir is a worthwhile read for anyone stuck in the workaday rut.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  South, a successful book editor with stints at Ballantine and Houghton Mifflin, turns 40 with "a complicated concoction of ennui and despair," an average midlife crisis. But her next step is far from ordinary: she abruptly walks away from her well-paying job, sells her recently acquired house in Pennsylvania and most of her belongings, and buys a used 40-foot, 30-ton trawler, planning to pilot it up the coast from Florida to Maine. South recounts the rigors of her nine-week course at the Chapman School of Seamanship, where her classmates include an aging executive, a pony-tailed trucker, an Alaskan fisherman, and a documentary filmmaker. She describes her sometimes harrowing, always challenging trip up the Atlantic coast, assisted by a fellow student and novice, a trip marked by sudden storms, tricky inlet currents, long, energy-sapping days, and incredibly gorgeous seascapes. Though not as daring as "climbing Everest or sailing solo around the world," for South the voyage was the most "intensely meaningful" thing she had ever done, and well worth relinquishing luxuries and security.\n  <em>\n   Deborah Donovan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1894'),
(5811, 'Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis', 'James Rickards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n How the worldwide currency war, already under way, will soon affect us all.  The debasement of the dollar, bailouts in Greece and Ireland, and Chinese currency manipulation are unmistakable signs that we are experiencing the start of a new currency war. Fought as a series of competitive devaluations of one country''s currency against others, currency wars are one of the most destructive and feared outcomes in international economics. Left unchecked, the new currency wars could lead to a crisis worse than the panic of 2008.  Drawing on a mix of economic history, network science, and sociology, Currency Wars provides a rich understanding of the increasing threats to U.S. national security, from dollar devaluation to collapse in the European periphery, failed states in Africa, Chinese neomercantilism, Russian adventurism, and the current scramble for gold.  James Rickards, an expert who has worked at the highest levels of both finance and national security, explains everything we need to know about this growing global standoff. He takes readers around the world and behind closed doors to explain complex financial and political currents with absorbing firsthand anecdotes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2878'),
(5812, 'Cursed', 'Carol Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Private Investigator Regan Reilly moved from Los Angeles to New York City when she married her husband, Jack "no relation" Reilly, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad. To help a friend she ends up taking on a case that calls her back to her old stomping ground...Cursed opens on a cold and gray January morning. Sleet and snow are swirling as Regan arrives at a warehouse in Long Island City with a trunk full of her old case files from Los Angeles. After carting all her boxes into a storage unit, she heads back out into the snow, and her cell phone rings.Abigail Feeney, a young woman who had lived across the hall from Regan in an apartment complex in the Hollywood Hills, is on the line. Abigail believes her life has been cursed since birth. She was born on Friday the 13th of January, and her parents gave her a name with 13 letters. A hairdresser on movie sets, Abigail was recently injured at work when a piece of scaffolding fell and knocked her over, and her arm was broken in two places. But that isn''t why she is calling. "Regan!" she exclaims. "The ''no good bum'' has been spotted in town. I desperately need the money he owes me. Can you please come out here and help me find him?"Regan immediately knows the identity of the "no good bum." From her L.A. apartment, Regan had often seen Abigail''s ex, Cody Castle, sitting by the pool, bent over his cell phone, text messaging nonstop. Before he disappeared three months ago, he borrowed $100,000 from Abigail. He promised to pay her back in three months."Find him?" Regan asks."Yes! My grandmother is flying here tomorrow. There''s a condo she wants to buy me. But we need that money. She can''t find out I don''t have it. Regan, can''t you spend a few days with me?"If Regan weren''t freezing, she might have made an excuse. But Jack was away at a seminar, Regan had never liked the "no good bum," and Abigail had brought her chicken soup when she''d had the flu last winter. Within hours Regan is on a flight to Los Angeles where her adventure with Abigail will take her from the beaches of Malibu, to the mountains north of the city, to the renovated lofts of downtown L.A.Regan starts to feel Abigail''s curse is contagious as she encounters a cast of characters who aren''t always welcoming. Some are downright dangerous. And there''s one who is the most dangerous of all...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3500'),
(5813, 'Cybill Disobedience', 'Cybill Shepherd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A riveting, candid, fresh and self-revealing book." --\n  <em>\n   -- Liz Smith\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gutsy." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Examiner\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nobody kisses and tells like Cybill Shepherd." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   New York Daily News\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aimee Lee Ball has coauthored several books including\n  <em>\n   No Time to Die\n  </em>\n  with Liz Tilberis. She has written about health, politics, business, and the arts for many national magazines including\n  <em>\n   New York, GQ, Harper''s Bazaar,\n  </em>\n  and the\n  <em>\n   New York Times.\n  </em>\n  She lives in New York City.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1838'),
(5814, 'Cycle of the Werewolf', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The isolated Maine village of Tarker Mills is terrorized by the horrifying bloodthirsty creature stalking its inhabitants at the time of the full moon\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/845'),
(5815, 'Cyclops', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Written in the bestselling style of Pacific Vortex! and Deep Six, and with the indestructible Dirk Pitt as its hero, this latest Cussler suspense caper features, and ingeniously connects, a maverick American colony on the Moon, a fabulous sunken treasure sought by an unscrupulous, blimp-owning financier, and two cunningly devised Soviet schemes, one to steal U.S. space secrets, the other to replace Fidel Castro with a Kremlin puppet, no matter what the cost in human lives. The nonstop action involves murder and torture as well as superpower politicking, and Pitt extricates himself from one desperate situation after another, even finding time for a little romance. The writing is brittle, but the reader is not likely to worry about that in a story whose plot resembles a box of exploding fireworks and poses some interesting questions regarding both Cuba and the militarization of space. Paperback rights to Pocket Books. February 7\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Clancy\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Anyone who can put CYCLOPS down has a stronger will than I have. Cussler at his best."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  United Press International\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Downright good adventure... A sure winner!"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  New York Daily News\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Get-to-the-next-page excitement... Dirk Pitt is a combination James Bond and Jacques Cousteau...."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stephen Coonts\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nobody does it better than Clive Cussler. Nobody."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1201'),
(5816, 'D-Day: The Battle for Normandy', 'Antony Beevor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beevor has established a solid reputation as a chronicler of WWII''s great eastern front battles: Stalingrad and Berlin. In addressing D-Day, he faces much wider competition with historians like Stephen Ambrose and Max Hastings, who also use his method of integrating personal experiences, tactical engagements, operational intentions and strategic plans. Beevor combines extensive archival research with a remarkable sense of the telling anecdote: he quotes, for example, an officer''s description of the bloody mass of arms and legs and heads, [and] cremated corpses created by artillery fire as the Germans tried to escape the Allied breakout. He is sharply critical of senior commanders on both sides: Bernard Montgomery''s conceit; Adolf Hitler''s self-delusion; Dwight Eisenhower''s mediocrity. His heroes are the men who took the invasion ashore and carried it forward into Normandy in the teeth of a German defense whose skill and determination deserved a better cause. The result was a battle of attrition: a bloody slog that tested British and American fighting power to the limitâ€”but not beyond. Beevor says that it wasn''t Allied forces'' material superiority but their successful use of combined arms and their high learning curve that were decisive in a victory that shaped postwar Europe. Maps, illus.\n <em>\n  (Oct. 13)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Glorious, horrifying...\n </em>\n <em>\n  D-Day\n </em>\n is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women"\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Antony Beevor-the man who "single-handedly transgormed the reputation of military history" (\n <em>\n  The Guardian\n </em>\n )-presents the first major account of the Normandy invasion and the liberation of Paris in more than twenty years.\n <em>\n  D-Day: The Battle for Normandy\n </em>\n is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian, and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French civilians caught up in the fighting. Beevor draws upon research in more than thirty archives in six countries, going back to original accounts and interviews to produce the consummate account of the invasion and the ferocious offensive that led to Paris''s liberation.\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2220'),
(5817, 'D. C. Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After a shocking loss, Stone Barrington is at loose ends, unsure if he wants to stay in New York and continue his work as a partner at Woodman &amp; Weld. It comes as a welcome relief when he''s summoned to Washington, D.C., by President Will Lee. The president has a special operation that calls for Stone''s unique skill set, and it''s a mission that will reunite him with his former partner in bed and in crime, Holly Barker.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3041');
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(5818, 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With\n  <em>\n   The Da Vinci Code,\n  </em>\n  Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his granddaughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Neveu''s grandfather''s murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England, and history itself. Brown (\n  <em>\n   Angels and Demons\n  </em>\n  ) has created a page-turning thriller that also provides an amazing interpretation of Western history. Brown''s hero and heroine embark on a lofty and intriguing exploration of some of Western culture''s greatest mysteries--from the nature of the Mona Lisa''s smile to the secret of the Holy Grail. Though some will quibble with the veracity of Brown''s conjectures, therein lies the fun.\n  <em>\n   The Da Vinci Code\n  </em>\n  is an enthralling read that provides rich food for thought.\n  <em>\n   --Jeremy Pugh\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brown''s latest thriller (after Angels and Demons)is an exhaustively researched page-turner about secret religious societies, ancient coverups and savage vengeance. The action kicks off in modern-day Paris with the murder of the Louvre''s chief curator, whose body is found laid out in symbolic repose at the foot of the Mona Lisa. Seizing control of the case are Sophie Neveu, a lovely French police cryptologist, and Harvard symbol expert Robert Langdon, reprising his role from Brown''s last book. The two find several puzzling codes at the murder scene, all of which form a treasure map to the fabled Holy Grail. As their search moves from France to England, Neveu and Langdon are confounded by two mysterious groups-the legendary Priory of Sion, a nearly 1,000-year-old secret society whose members have included Botticelli and Isaac Newton, and the conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei. Both have their own reasons for wanting to ensure that the Grail isn''t found. Brown sometimes ladles out too much religious history at the expense of pacing, and Langdon is a hero in desperate need of more chutzpah. Still, Brown has assembled a whopper of a plot that will please both conspiracy buffs and thriller addicts.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1111'),
(5819, 'Damage', 'John Lescroart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From New York Times bestseller John Lescroart comes an explosive look at the seductive power of revenge and the terrible costs of justice.   The Curtlees are the most powerful family in San Francisco, unscrupulous billionaires who ve lined every important pocket in the Bay Area in pursuit of their own ascent. So when the family''s heir, Ro Curtlee, was convicted of rape and murder a decade ago, the fallout for those who helped to bring him to justice was swift and uncompromising. The jury foreman was fired from his job and blacklisted in his industry. The lead prosecutor was pushed off the fast track, her dreams of becoming DA dashed. And head homicide detective Abe Glitsky was reassigned to the police department s payroll office. Eventually, all three were able to rebuild their fragile, damaged lives.  And then Ro Curtlee''s lawyers won him a retrial, and he was released from jail.  Within twenty-four hours, a fire destroys the home of the original trial''s star witness, her abused remains discovered in the ruins. When a second fire claims a participant in the case, Abe is convinced: Ro is out for revenge. But with no hard evidence and an on-the-take media eager to vilify anyone who challenges Ro, can Abe stop the violence before he finds himself in its crosshairs? How much more can he sacrifice to put Ro back behind bars? And just how far across the line is he prepared to go in pursuit of justice?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3237'),
(5820, 'Damage Control', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n At first glance, it appears to be an accident . . .   A car carrying an elderly couple goes off the side of a mountain and tumbles into oblivion on a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument. A note pulled from the twisted wreckage suggests the tragedy may have been a double suicideâ€”but an autopsy later suggests something different. A deadly fire and a fatal home invasion may or may not have some connection to the terrible crash. And miles away in the desert, a savage rain has revealed something grisly and terrifying: two trash bags filled with human remains.   It''s just another day in the life of Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady, who must somehow balance the rigors of police work with a newborn, a teenager, a writer-husband, and a difficult mother. But Joanna will not allow murder to go unpunished in her jurisdictionâ€”even if her path to the truth is twisting and dangerous . . . and leads to shocking revelations about those entrusted with caring for the helpless.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3468'),
(5821, 'Damned', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Think adolescence is hell? You have no idea... Welcome to Dante''s Inferno, by way of The Breakfast Club, from the mind of American fiction''s most brilliant troublemaker. "Death, like life, is what you make out of it." So says Madison, the whip-tongued 11-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk''s subversive homage to the young adult genre. Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off touting their new film projects and adopting more orphans. Over the holidays she dies of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she''s in Hell. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno inspired by both the most extreme and mundane of human evils, where The English Patient plays on repeat and roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb. However, underneath Madison''s sad teenager affect there is still a child struggling to accept not only the events of her dysfunctional life, but also the truth about her death. For Madison, though, a more immediate source of comfort lies in the motley crew of young sinners she meets during her first days in Hell. With the help of Archer, Babette, Leonard, and Patterson, she learns to navigate Hell--and discovers that she''d rather be mortal and deluded and stupid with those she loves than perfect and alone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3597'),
(5822, 'Dance of Death', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The always reliable team of Preston and Child revisit Special FBI Agent Aloysius Pendergast, last seen in 2004''s\n  <em>\n   Brimstone\n  </em>\n  , and others from past bestsellers (\n  <em>\n   Relic\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   The Cabinet of Curiosities\n  </em>\n  ) in this intriguing thriller set in and around New York City and the halls of the Museum of Natural History. Born a misanthropic loner but driven insane by seeing his parents burned alive when he was a teen, Aloysius''s madman brother, Diogenes, has begun murdering Aloysius''s friends. Aloysius begs old friend Lt. Vincent D''Agosta to help him defeat his brother, and Vincent does his best while the brothers spar and others die. There are a number of subplots, one involving an ATM robber and flasher known as the Dangler and another focusing on the museum''s exhibition of sacred masks, but these fade away as the deadly duel between the brothers takes center stage. Think Sherlock Holmes locked in a death struggle with his smarter brother, Mycroft. Like Brimstone, this novel doesn''t end so much as simply pause while the authors work on the next installment. While it''s not as good as some of their earlier efforts, it''s still pretty darn good.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Picking up two months after the events chronicled in\n  <em>\n   Brimstone\n  </em>\n  (2004), which saw the untimely demise of popular series hero FBI Special Agent Pendergast, this new novel by the Preston-Child team brings together characters from previous novels. The people closest to Pendergast are dying in horrible ways, and only one man can be responsible: Diogenes, Pendergast''s long-lost brother, who has supposedly been dead for years. Meanwhile, at the New York Museum of Natural History, an internal battle rages over the rightful ownership of some ancient relics. Will these two stories link up? Well, of course, no surprise there. It''s how they link up that packs the surprises. This is an ambitious novel with a gimmicky plot that could have landed with a resounding thud. Instead, the story soars; the cast of familiar characters--researcher Margo Green, journalist Bill Smithback, curator Nora Kelly--is given a chance to stretch, and the authors deliver an exhilarating finale. Good stuff, and there''s more to come, as the novel''s last lines make clear.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/612'),
(5823, 'A Dance With Dragons', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   PRAISE FOR GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhatâ€™s A Song of Ice and Fire? Itâ€™s the only fantasy series Iâ€™d put on a level with J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Lord of the Rings\n  </em>\n  . . . . Itâ€™s a fantasy series for hip, smart people, even those who donâ€™t read fantasy.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Â Â \n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A Game of Thrones\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReminiscent of T. H. Whiteâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Once and Future King,\n  </em>\n  this novel is an absorbing combination of the mythic, the sweepingly historical, and the intensely personal.â€_â€”Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Clash of Kings\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMartin amply fulfills the first volumeâ€™s promise and continues what seems destined to be one of the best fantasy series ever written.â€â€”_The Denver Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Storm of Swords\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œRiveting . . . a series whose brilliance continues to dazzle.â€â€”_Patriot News_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Feast for Crows\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOf those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best. In fact . . . this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien.â€â€”_Time _\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dubbed â€œthe American Tolkienâ€ by\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his spellbinding landmark series--as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again--beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has three times three thousand enemies, and many have set out to find her. Yet, as they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone--a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Nightâ€™s Watch, will face his greatest challenge yet. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And from all corners, bitter conflicts soon reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all. . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2863'),
(5824, 'Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa', 'Jason Stearns', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ""Dancing in the Glory of Monsters" is riveting and certain to become essential reading for anyone looking to understand Central Africa." --The Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2001\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "The best account [of the war] so far: more serious than several recent macho-war-correspondent travelogues, and more lucid and accessible than its nearest competitor." --Adam Hochschild, The New York Times, April 1, 2011\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , February 15, 2011\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œImpressively controlled account of the devastating Congo warâ€¦The bookâ€™s greatest strength is the eyewitness dialogue; Stearns discusses his encounters with everyone from major military figures to residents of remote villages (he was occasionally suspected of being a CIA spy)â€¦An important examination of a social disaster that seems both politically complex and cruelly senseless.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </strong>\n â€œCovering the devastating effects of these deadly contests on the Congolese infrastructure, Congolese institutions, and peopleâ€™s lives, Stearns informatively reports on affairs for students of African politics.â€\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  , April 3, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe best account [of the conflict in the Congo] so far; more serious than several recent macho-war-correspondent travelogues and more lucid and accessible than its nearest competitorâ€¦The task facing anyone who tires to tell this whole story is formidable, but Stearns by and large rises to it. He has lived in the country, and has done a raft of interviews with people who witnessed what happened before he got thereâ€¦his picture is clear, made painfully real by a series of close-up portraits.â€\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Wall Street Journal\n <em>\n  , March 2, 2011\n  <br />\n </em>\n *â€œHe is a cracking writer, with a wry sense of understatementâ€¦Mr. Stearns has spoken to everyoneâ€”villagers, child soldiers, Mobutu''s commanders, Kabila''s ministers, Rwandan intelligence officers. In these conversations he found gold, bringing clarityâ€”and humanityâ€”to a place that usually seems inexplicable and barbaric. â€˜Dancing in the Glory of Monstersâ€™ is riveting and certain to become essential reading for anyone looking to understand Central Africa.â€Â \n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Foreign Affairs\n  </em>\n  , May/June 2011\n  <br />\n </strong>\n â€œStearns is more concerned with the perceptions, motivations, an actions of an eclectic mix of actors in the conflictâ€”from a Tutsi warlord who engaged in massive human rights violations to a Hutu activist turned refugee living in the camps and forests of eastern Congo.Â  He tells their stories with a judicious mix of empathy and distance, linking them to a broader narrative of a two-decade-long conflict that has involved a dozen countries and claimed six million victims.â€\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Washington\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Post\n  </em>\n  , April 24, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEnter Jason Stearns. One of Congoâ€™s most intrepid observers, he describes the war from the point of view of its perpetrators. He has tracked down and interviewed a rogueâ€™s gallery of them. The resulting book, â€œDancing in the Glory of Monsters,â€ is a tour de force, though not for the squeamish."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Economist\n  </em>\n  , April 28, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Stearns] is probably the most widely travelled and the most meticulous and empathetic observer of the war there. This is a serious book about the social and political forces behind one of the most violent clashes of modern timesâ€”as well as a damn good read.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Global Post\n  </em>\n  , April 26, 2011\n  <br />\n </strong>\n â€œStearns is a leading authority on the region, having lived there for years working for the United Nations and the International Crisis Group. He has built up a superb knowledge of Congo and how it articulates with its neighbours, particularly Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. He frequently imparts his understanding to journalists far less well-informed than he. And now he has produced a book where he makes the whole convoluted and confusing war in Congo a little more comprehensible, which is quite a feat. If you want to understand modern Congo then Stearnsâ€™ book should be required reading.â€\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Telegraph,\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  May 13, 2011\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œA brave and accessible take on the leviathan at the heart of so many of Africaâ€™s problemsâ€¦ Stearnsâ€™s eye for detail, culled from countless interviews, brings this book aliveâ€¦ I once wrote that the Congo suffers from â€˜a lack of institutional memoryâ€™, meaning that its atrocities well so inexorably that nobody bothers to keep an account of them. Stearnsâ€™s book goes a long way to putting that right.â€\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n The Spectator,\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   May 8, 2011\n  </em>\n  *\n  <br />\n  â€œ(t)his courageous book is a plea for more nuanced understanding and the silencing of the analysis-free â€˜the horror, the horrorâ€™ exclamation that Congo still routinely wrings from Western lips.â€Â \n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Sunday Times\n <em>\n  , May 1, 2011\n </em>\n *\n <br />\n â€œStearns has done a fine job of amassing vast amounts (of material), much of it based directly on interviews with the participants and victims, to bring to light details of a scandalously under-reported warâ€¦ (T)his book succeeds in providing a vivid chronicles of this rolling conflict involving 20 rival rebel groups.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Shepherd Express\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </strong>\n â€œa vivid chronicle of the carnage that helps illuminate a tragedy too enormous to comprehendâ€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Financial Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , June, 24, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA serious, admirably balanced account of the crisis and the political and social forces behind it, providing vivid portraits of both victims and perpetrators and eyewitness accounts of the main eventsâ€¦ perhaps the most accessible, meticulously researched and comprehensive overview of the Congo crisis yet.â€\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this deeply reported book, Jason Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it. He depicts village pastors who survived massacres, the child soldier assassin of President Kabila, a female Hutu activist who relives the hunting and methodical extermination of fellow refugees, and key architects of the war that became as great a disaster as--and was a direct consequence of--the genocide in neighboring Rwanda. Through their stories, he tries to understand why such mass violence made sense, and why stability has been so elusive.\n</p>\n<p>\n Through their voices, and an astonishing wealth of knowledge and research, Stearns chronicles the political, social, and moral decay of the Congolese State.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2227'),
(5825, 'Dangerous', 'Diana Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tall, lean and headstrong, FBI agent Kilraven lives by his own rules. And one of those rules includes keeping his hands off Jacobsville''s resident sweetheart, Winnie Sinclair, no matter the temptation. Shy and innocent, Winnie couldn''t handle a man like himâ€”a merciless man with a haunted past. And this small town may hold not only the woman he fights to resist, but the answers to a cold case that is very personal to Kilravenâ€¦.Winnie has had her own share of sorrow and senses Kilraven''s pain. Even though she tries to deny it, the gentle 911 operator feels a connection with the darkly handsome agent. When he makes the disturbing discovery that her family''s unsavory past might have a bearing on his case, Winnie is determined to help him crack itâ€¦and the ice around his heart.As they combine forces in a dangerous investigation, the stakes rise ever higher. Winnie''s life is on the line, and she''ll need Kilraven more than ever. But if they are to have a future together, her ruthless Texan will need to confront his past and risk it all for their love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3256'),
(5826, 'The Dangerous Book for Dogs: A Parody by Rex and Sparky', 'Joe Garden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This gentle parody of the bestselling Dangerous Book for Boys-identical in look and tone to its source material-offers an often funny, surprisingly insightful take on dog behavior that''s sure to resonate with the Spot set. With the "assistance" of their human companions, canine authors Rex and Sparky relate practical and authoritative information on topics simple (baths, fleas, bones, poop, "things you can chase") and complex: the rules of fetch (it''s not officially over until a player earns 17,572 points), tips on crotch sniffing (under the heading "How to Make Your Owner Look Like an Idiot") and a critical guide to frequently ingested items (vomit and poop receive top marks; rocks and keys rank considerably lower). Among more than 50 short entries, the authors seem to have thought of everything, including escape tips for humiliating costumes, stirring true stories ("Great Dog Battles-Part Two: Pepper vs. A Patch of Light") and even a report on Pavlov (written by his two dogs). Though it occasionally pushes the envelope of good taste ("mounting a bitch is never as simple as it seems"), this goofy, gleeful guide to the dog life will tickle anyone with a soft spot for canines.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/916'),
(5827, 'The Dangerous Days of Daniel X', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Yes, it''s true: Daniel X is special.\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    X-traordinarily\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  special.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He may be just a kid, but Daniel is strong enough to fight anything in the world. And it''s a good thing, because not many guys you meet have a host of deadly criminals hunting them to the ends of the Earth. And none of them are\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    extraterrestrials\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Daniel is the only one who might be able to eliminate every last intergalactic evil on the List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma. Because the greatest superpower isn''t to be part spider and part man, or to cast magic spells -\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    the ultimate gift is the power to create.\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/520'),
(5828, 'Danse MacAbre', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the fall of 1978 (between\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Dead Zone\n </em>\n ), Stephen King taught a course at the University of Maine on "Themes in Supernatural Literature." As he writes in the foreword to this book, he was nervous at the prospect of "spending a lot of time in front of a lot of people talking about a subject in which I had previously only felt my way instinctively, like a blind man." The course apparently went well, and as with most teaching experiences, it was as instructive, if not more so, to the teacher as it was to the students. Thanks to a suggestion from his former editor at Doubleday, King decided to write\n <em>\n  Danse Macabre\n </em>\n as a personal record of the thoughts about horror that he developed and refined as a result of that course.\n</p>\n<p>\n The outcome is an utterly charming book that reads as if King were sitting right there with you, shooting the breeze. He starts on October 4, 1957, when he was 10 years old, watching a Saturday matinee of\n <em>\n  Earth vs. the Flying Saucers\n </em>\n . Just as the saucers were mounting their attack on "Our Nation''s Capital," the movie was suddenly turned off. The manager of the theater walked out onto the stage and announced, "The Russians have put a space satellite into orbit around the earth. They call it ...\n <em>\n  Spootnik\n </em>\n ."\n</p>\n<p>\n That''s how the whole book goes: one simple, yet surprisingly pertinent, anecdote or observation after another. King covers the gamut of horror as he''d experienced it at that point in 1978 (a period of about 30 years): folk tales, literature, radio, good movies, junk movies, and the "glass teat". It''s colorful, funny, and nostalgic--and also strikingly intelligent.\n <em>\n  --Fiona Webster\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n King''s 1987 disquisition on the nature, quality, and substance of the horror genre from 1950 to 1980 gains new life as an audiobook, and listeners will enjoy (and enjoy disagreeing with) King''s conclusions and seeing which ones have held up. A new introduction features King revisiting his book and recent horror narratives. William Dufris narrates with a clear, easygoing tone that works well with King''s playful and enthusiastic prose. Dufris keeps up with King''s shifting tone and even attempts the occasional goofy impersonation when King''s writing suggests it, such as the devious laugh of the Crypt Keeper. Though its breadth can be overwhelming, the book becomes a delight to listen to in the hands of Dufris''s skillful performanceâ€”and listeners will leave with an extensive list of must-see and must-read material.\n <em>\n  A Berkley paperback. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/849'),
(5829, 'Dark Curse', 'Christine Feehan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lara Calladine is haunted by childhood memories of being held prisoner in an ice cave and kept sane by the whispered stories told to her by her imprisoned aunts. They instilled Carpathian magic deep within her and then helped her escape. She has spent years searching for the cave in hope of finding the answers to the riddle of her past, as well as finding her aunts who may have given their lives saving her.Nicolas De La Cruz has returned to the Carpathian Mountains - his homeland - on orders from his eldest brother, Zacarias, to bring news of a conspiracy to the prince of their people. He is weary of his long existence and plans to end it away from his brothers, where they will be unable to stop him once he has fulfilled his duty. Lara and Nicolas paths collide in an explosive adventure that rocks the Carpathian world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3665'),
(5830, 'The Dark Half', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to write\n <em>\n  The Regulators\n </em>\n .) At the beginning of\n <em>\n  The Dark Half\n </em>\n (1989), 39-year-old writer Thad Beaumont announces in public that his own pseudonym, George Stark, is dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, King didn''t want to jettison the Bachman novel, titled\n <em>\n  Machine Dreams\n </em>\n , that was he working on. So he incorporated it in\n <em>\n  The Dark Half\n </em>\n as the crime oeuvre of George Stark, whose recurring hero/alter ego is an evil character named Alexis Machine.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thad Beaumont''s pseudonym is not so docile as Stephen King''s, though, and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about Beaumont''s struggle to catch up with his doppelganger and kill him dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is not the first time that Stephen King has written a dark allegory about the fiction writer''s situation. As the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n writes, "\n <em>\n  Misery\n </em>\n (1987) is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer''s relation to his audience, which holds him prisoner and dictates what he writes, on pain of death.\n <em>\n  The Dark Half\n </em>\n is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer''s relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies ''the womblike dungeon'' of his imagination."\n <em>\n  --Fiona Webster\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The protagonist of King''s "top-notch" novel is literary novelist Thad Beaumont, whose greatest success has come with three gory thrillers written under the pseudonym George Stark. Beaumont is threatened by a blackmailer who may reveal Stark''s identity; Beaumont kills off Stark instead; and Stark goes on a murderous rampage. "Wondrously frightening . . . among the best of his voluminous work," maintained PW.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/850'),
(5831, 'Dark Harbor', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Stone Barrington investigates the secrets of a CIA officer''s suicide in this next thriller in the bestselling series.    Stuart Woods''s newest bestseller, *Dark Harbor*, brings us the perfect mix of sexy intrigue and swift suspense that have earned him legions of fans over the years. In this latest thriller, Stone enters the picturesque town Dark Harbor off the coast of Maine, where the shocking deaths of three people have cast a long shadow over this island haven-a locale as mysterious as it is exclusive.    Stone Barrington hasn''t heard from his cousin, Dick Stone, in years-though  he has fond memories of a teenage summer spent at his house in Maine. Then,  Lance Cabot of the CIA interrupts an otherwise pleasant meal at Elaine''s with news of Dick''s death-apparently by his own hands. It seems that Dick Stone, a quiet family man who doubled as a CIA agent, methodically executed his wife, daughter, and then himself-or did he? What would cause a loving father and husband to murder his family as they slept? Before his death, Dick had appointed Stone executor of his will, giving him full control of the disposition of a sizable family estate. Was Dick preparing for his suicide, or forewarning Stone of his murder?    With the help of his ex-partner, Dino, and his friend Holly Barker, Stone must settle the estate and piece together the elusive facts of his cousin''s life and death as a CIA operative. At every step Stone knows he is being watched by Dick''s family-and one of them just may be a killer.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2673'),
(5832, 'Dark Lands', 'Autumn Dawn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Fallon: You can bring them in from the wild, but you can''t always tame them.. Would you date a killer? Fallon is a man with a bloody past and a rough and ready way with justice. Rain is a woman on the run, and now she''s under his command. She''s outsmarted men before, but is she woman enough to handle him? Homecoming: She can feel it in the air.they''re coming for her. She fears the wolf in her blood--and the man hunting her is the king of them all. Can a woman who fights her inner beast let the master of the hunt rule her, too? Rating: Contains graphic sexual content and mild violence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3726'),
(5833, 'Dark of the Moon', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Virgil Flowers is sent to Bluestem, a small town where everyone knows everyone else, to investigate the murders of a man burned to death in his home and a doctor and his wife, unaware that he is tracking a murderer who may be targeting Virgil as his next victim.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/737'),
(5834, 'Dark Peril', 'Christine Feehan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A new Carpathian novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.   Dominic of the Dragonseeker Carpathians is on a desperate mission, in the very heart of enemy territory. Solange Sangria is one of the last of the jaguar people. She has long been fighting to save women who are able to shift from the hands of the man who slaughtered her family and everyone she loved-her own father. They are two warriors who have lived their lives alone. Now, a the end of their time, they find each other, a complication neither saw coming.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3200'),
(5835, 'Dark Predator', 'Christine Feehan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n All New from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.    As brutal as the undead he hunted, Zacarias De La Cruz was a master executioner. Now his stark and savage journey has ended. For his brothers, Zacarias had walked to the edge of madness, but with centuries as a killing machine now left to the past and without a hunt to define him, Zacarias wonders, for the first time in his life, who he really is.  The answer awaits him back home, in Peru, in the betrayal of a woman who is readying her trap, in the vengeance of an old enemy, in the inevitable consequences of a bloody family legacy-and in the deliverance of a lifemate he never could have imagined...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3235'),
(5836, 'Dark Summer', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Devon Brady is a devoted veterinarian working in a makeshift hospital on a remote search and rescue mission. When a man arrives with his wounded black Lab named Ned, Devon has no idea that sheâ€™s about to be plunged into a whirlwind of terror and destructionâ€¦Jude Marrock is out for revengeâ€”and he has no choice but to involve Devon in a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with an escalating body count. She doesnâ€™t trust Jude one bitâ€¦ but when the shots start flying and friends start falling, Devon finds herself with nowhere else to run. And there are innocent lives, both human and animal, at stake, including Ned and his mysterious pack. Is Jude her salvation or her damnation? Are the secrets heâ€™s protecting worth killing forâ€”or dying for?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3300'),
(5837, 'Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919', 'Stephen Puleo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this volume, Puleo, a contributor to American History magazine, sets out to determine whether the collapse of a molasses tank that sent a tidal wave of 2.3 million gallons of the sticky liquid through Boston''s North End and killed 21 people was the work of Italian anarchists or due to negligence by the tank''s owner, United States Industrial Alcohol. Getting into the minds of the major players in the disaster-USIA suits, victims, witnesses, North End residents, politicians-he re-creates not only the scene but also the social, political and economic environments of the time that made the disaster more than just an industrial accident. While the collapse''s aftermath is tragic, the story itself is not exactly gripping. More interesting are the tidbits of Boston''s and America''s history, such as the importance of molasses to all U.S. war efforts up to and including WWI, which Puleo uses to put the tank collapse in the context of a very complex time in U.S. history. The most striking aspect of this tale is the timeliness of the topics it touches on. Describing Americans being persecuted because of their ethnicity, a sagging economy boosted by war, and terrorism on U.S. soil that results in anti-immigration laws and deportations, Puleo could just as easily be writing about current events as about events in 1919. Overall, this is another piece in the jigsaw puzzle that is Boston''s long and rich history. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In January, 1919, a fifty-foot tank filled with molasses exploded, sending waves of viscous goo through waterfront Boston and killing twenty-one people. Were Italian anarchists to blame or was it negligence by the tank''s owner, the United States Industrial Alcohol company? Such matters form the crux of Puleo''s account, which is narrated with gusto (and sometimes too much gusto: one victim has molasses "clinging to his private parts, like an army of insects that just keep coming"). Molasses was a vital commodity at the time, used in rum manufacture (the tank was full to the brim to cash in on pre-Prohibition demand), and it had been important in the production of First World War munitions. Puleo overreaches in claiming the story of the flood as a "microcosm of America"â€”an almost obligatory conclusion in this sort of historyâ€”but his enthusiasm for a little-known catastrophe is infectious.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2228'),
(5838, 'Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919', 'Stephen Puleo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Dark Tide is the definitive account of Americaâ€™s most fascinating and surreal disaster.â€ â€”John Marr, San Francisco Bay GuardianShortly after noon on January 15, 1919, a fifty-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Bostonâ€™s waterfront, disgorging its contents as a fifteen-foot-high wave of molasses that briefly traveled at thirty-five miles an hour. Dark Tide tells the compelling story of this man-made disaster that claimed the lives of twenty-one people and scores of animals and caused widespread destruction. Dark Tide has been selected as a "town-wide reading book" for five Massachusetts communities including Holliston, Mass.â€œNarrated with gusto . . . [Puleoâ€™s] enthusiasm for a little-known catastrophe is infectious.â€ â€”The New Yorkerâ€œCompelling . . . Puleo has done justice to a gripping historical story.â€ â€”Ralph Ranalli, Boston Globeâ€œThoroughly researched, the volume weaves together the stories of the people and families affected by the disaster . . . The cleanup lasted months, the lawsuits years, the fearful memories a lifetime.â€ â€”Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Pressâ€œGiving a human face to tragedy is part of the brilliance of Stephen Puleoâ€™s Dark Tide . . . Until they were given voice in this book, the characters who drove the story were forgotten.â€ â€”Caroline Leavitt, Boston Sunday Globe\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2757'),
(5839, 'The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "All good things must come to an end, Constant Reader, and not even Stephen King can make a story that goes on forever. The tale of Roland Deschain''s relentless quest for the Dark Tower has, the author fears, sorely tried the patience of those who have followed it from its earliest chapters. But attend to it a while longer, if it pleases you, for this volume is the last, and often the last things are best. Roland''s ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room -- really a chamber of horrors -- in Thunderclap''s Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the restaurant on Lex and Sixty-first with weapons drawn, little knowing how numerous and noxious are their foes. Roland and Eddie are with John Cullum in Maine, in 1977, looking for the site on Turtleback Lane where ""walk-ins"" have been often seen. They want desperately to get back to the others, to Susannah especially, and yet they have come to realize that the world they need to escape is the only one that matters. Thus the book opens, like a door to\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/866'),
(5840, 'Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - the Little Sister of Eluria', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Peter David is a prolific author whose career, and continued popularity, spans nearly two decades. He has worked in every conceivable media: Television (Babylon 5), film (Trancers), books (Star Trek: New Frontier series), and comic books (Incredible Hulk, X-Factor, Dark Tower).\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/902'),
(5841, 'Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces', 'Robert Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This dramatic, beautifully written account of the flood that ravaged Florence, Italy, in 1966 weaves heartbreaking tales of the disaster and stories of the heroic global efforts to save the city''s treasures against the historic background of Florence''s glorious art. On November 4, 1966, Florence, one of the world''s most historic cities and the repository of perhaps its greatest art, was struck by a monumental calamity. A low-pressure system had been stalled over Italy for six weeks and on the previous day it had begun to rain again. Nineteen inches fell in twenty-four hours, more than half of the annual total. By two o''clock in the morning twenty-thousand cubic feet of water per second was moving towards Florence. Soon manhole covers in Santa Croce were exploding into the air as jets of water began shooting out of the now overwhelmed sewer system. Cellars, vaults, and strong-rooms were filling with water. Night watchmen on the Ponte Vecchio alerted the bridge''s jewelers and goldsmiths to come quickly to rescue their wares. By then the water was moving at forty miles per hour at a height of twenty-four feet. At 7:26 a.m. all of Florence''s electric civic clocks came to a stop. The Piazza Santa Croce was under twenty-two feet of water. Beneath the surface, twelve feet of mud, sewage, debris, and oil sludge were starting to ooze and settle into the cellars and crypts and room after room above them. Six-hundred-thousand tons of it would smother, clot, and encrust the city. Dark Water brings the flood and its aftermath to life through the voices of witnesses past and present. Two young American artists wade heedlessly through the inundated city carrying their baby in order to witness its devastated beauty: the Ponte Vecchio buried in debris and Ghiberti''s panels from the doors of the Florence Baptistery, lying heaped in yard-deep mud; the swamped Uffizi Gallery; and, in the city libraries, one billion pages of Renaissance and antique books, soaked in mire. A Life magazine photographer, stowing away on an army helicopter, arrives to capture a drama that, he felt, "could only be told by Dante" amid the flooded tombs of Machiavelli and Michelangelo in Giotto and Vasari''s Santa Croce. A British student, one of thousands of "mud angels" who rushed to Florence to save its art, spends a month scraping mud and mold from Cimabue''s magnificent and neglected Crocifisso as intrigues and infighting among international art experts and connoisseurs swirl around him. And during the fortieth anniversary commemorations of 2006 the author asks himself why art matters so very much to us, and how beauty seems to somehow save the world even in the face of overwhelming disaster.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2230'),
(5842, 'Dark Winter', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When maverick agent Nick Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a shadowy biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Osama Bin Laden''s network of terror. But there are complications not least the attractive woman who he is working alongside. Target neutralized, Stone returns to the USA and a maelstrom of personal problems. Kelly, the fourteen-year-old orphan to whom he is joint guardian, cannot escape the ghosts of her traumatic past; she has a prescription drug habit that''s spiralling out of control, and Stone knows he is the only one who can help her. He takes her to recuperate in England, but the terrible consequences of what happened in Penang are never far behind. Before very long, the conspiracy he has uncovered unravels to reveal a doomsday threat against the populations of New York, London and Berlin. And Stone finds himself facing the ultimate trade-off: the life of someone he loves, against those of millions he doesn''t even know...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/402'),
(5843, 'Darker Place', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Disillusioned with the Putin Government, famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper Alexander Kurbsky decides he wants to disappear into the West. However he is under no illusions about how the news will be greeted at home - he has seen too many of his countrymen die mysteriously at the hands of the thuggish Russian security services, so he makes elaborate plans with Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon and the rest of the group known informally as the "Prime Minister''s private army" for his escape and concealment. It''s a real coup for the West...except for one thing. Kurbsky is still working for the Russians. The plan is to infiltrate British and American intelligence at the highest levels, and he has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible. He does not care what he has to do or where he has to go... or whom he has to kill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3225');
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(5844, 'The Darkest Evening of the Year', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With each of his #1New York Timesbestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats. Now he delivers a heart-gripping tour de force he''s been waiting years to write, at once a love story, a thrilling adventure, and a masterwork of suspense that redefines the boundaries of primal fearand of enduring devotion. Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Among dog lovers, she''s a legend for the risks she''ll take to save an animal from abuse. Among her friends, Amy''s heedless devotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she can''t allow herself to return, Amy''s behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret. No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion. And the unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amy''s every move and that, whoever it is, he''s not alone. Someone has come back to turn Amy into the desperate, hunted creature she''s always been there to save. But now there''s no one to save Amy and those she loves. From its breathtaking opening scene to its shocking climax,The Darkest Evening of the Yearis Dean Koontz at his finest, a transcendent thriller certain to have readers turning pages until dawn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3531'),
(5845, 'Darkest Fear', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Myron Bolitar''s father''s recent heart attack brings Myron smack into a midlife encounter with issues of adulthood and mortality. And if that''s not enough to turn his life upside down, the reappearance of his first serious girlfriend is. The basketball star turned sports agent, who does a little detecting when business is slow, is saddened by the news that Emily Downing''s 13-year-old son is dying and desperately needs a bone marrow transplant; even if she did leave him for the man who destroyed his basketball career, he wouldn''t wish tsuris like that on anyone. And he''s not at all interested in getting involved with Emily again, not even to track down the one mysterious donor who may be able to save the boy. But when Myron learns that Jeremy Downing is his\n <em>\n  own\n </em>\n son, conceived the night before Emily and Greg Downing married, he embarks on a search for someone who disappeared a lifetime ago. And what he finds leads him to a powerful family determined to keep an old secret, a disgraced reporter who may have plagiarized a novel to create a serial killer, a very interested FBI agent, and a missing child.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the seventh outing in a series that''s been gaining in popularity since Bolitar''s first appearance, in Harlan Coben''s\n <em>\n  Deal Breaker\n </em>\n . Myron''s a bit of a baby, but he''s not afraid to get rough when the situation calls for it, he''s eminently likable, and his heart''s in the right place. The fireworks are supplied by his friend and partner, Win, who really deserves a series of his own, and Esperanza, the lesbian wrestler-lawyer who has finally talked Myron into making her a partner in the business. Like Coben''s other Bolitar novels, she''s worth every penny.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Book seven in Coben''s wonderfully rich series (after 1999''s The Final Detail), which features sports agent Myron Bolitar, former basketball player and totally believable human being, is all about fathers, sons and the intricate and often painful chains that link them together. Myron, who has just moved out of his parents'' house at the age of 34, is worried about his father''s health after a heart attack, but it''s hard for either of them to talk about the older man''s condition. Myron tends to have long relationships with women that end in tears. ("You''re in your mid-thirties, single, sensitive, and you like show tunes," says his current lover, a troubled television star. "If you were a better dresser, I''d say you were gay.") Emily, his college girlfriend from Duke who dumped him for a more successful basketball rival, re-enters the picture to tell him that her critically ill 13-year-old son needs a bone marrow transplant, but the only suitable registered donor has disappeared. Can Myron find him? And, by the way--Myron is the boy''s real father. The search takes Myron deep into some decades-old unsolved crimes involving another father and son--a sadistic deranged killer and a conflicted newspaper columnist. Myron''s deadly preppy friend, Win, is on hand to supply his own frightening brand of violence, and the gorgeous Esperanza Diaz, the former wrestler who''s now a full partner in MB SportsReps, supplies wisdom as well as glamour. But the heart of the novel is, as always, the fallible but infinitely appealing, accessible figure of Myron Bolitar--a modern Don Quixote complete with knee brace and cell phone, ready to take on the world''s problems. (June)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/403'),
(5846, 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Meet Dexter Morgan. He''s a highly respected lab technician specializing in blood spatter for the Miami Dade Police Department. He''s a handsome, though reluctant, ladies'' man. He''s polite, says all the right things, and rarely calls attention to himself. He''s also a sociopathic serial killer whose "Dark Passenger" drives him to commit the occasional dismemberment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mind you, Dexter''s the good guy in this story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Adopted at the age of four after an unnamed tragedy left him orphaned, Dexter''s learned, with help from his pragmatic policeman father, to channel his "gift," killing only those who deal in death themselves. But when a new serial killer starts working in Miami, staging elaborately grisly scenes that are, to Dexter, an obvious attempt at communication from one monster to another, the eponymous protagonist finds himself at a loss. Should he help his policewoman sister Deborah earn a promotion to the Homicide desk by finding the fiend? Or should he locate this new killer himself, so he can express his admiration for the other''s "art?" Or is it possible that psycho Dexter himself, admittedly not the most balanced of fellows, is finally going completely insane and committing these messy crimes himself?\n</p>\n<p>\n Despite his penchant for vivisection, it''s hard not to like Dexter as his coldly logical personality struggles to emulate emotions he doesn''t feel and to keep up his appearance as a caring, unremarkable human being. Breakout author Jeff Lindsay''s plot is tense and absorbing, but it''s the voice of Dexter and his reactions to the other characters that will keep readers glued to\n <em>\n  Darkly Dreaming Dexter\n </em>\n , as well as making it one of the most original and highly recommended serial killer stories in a long time.\n <em>\n  --Benjamin Reese\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s been years since there''s been a thriller debut as original as this one by Lindsay, who takes a tired subgenre-the serial-killer novel-and makes it as fresh as dawn. Lindsay''s premise alone is worthy: narrator Dexter Morgan, a blood-spatter specialist for the Miami cops, is also a serial killer. But all his life, Dexter has followed the rules set down by his cop foster father (who knew of Dexter''s proclivities), to indulge his passion only by slaying other serial killers. What makes this novel zing, though, is the narration-humorous, self-deprecating, smart and sometimes lyrical, it''s a macabre fun ride ("I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best-dressed monster in Dade County"). The story opens with Dexter at play, kidnapping and killing a priest who has murdered a number of children, then moves on to the main plot, a series of gruesome killings of prostitutes by an unknown madman. Dexter''s foster sister is a Miami Vice Squad cop working on the killings, so Dexter decides to help her solve the case. This puts him in conflict with a dumb but ambitious female homicide detective as well as, soon enough, the killer himself, whose approach to serial killing mirrors Dexter''s own, uncomfortably so. Might Dexter himself be the culprit? The answer feels a bit contrived, but will surprise most readers, and it''s a minor flaw in a gripping, deliciously offbeat novel that announces the arrival of a notable new talent.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1106'),
(5847, 'A Darkness More Than Night', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a sheriff''s detective shows up on former FBI man Terry McCaleb''s Catalina Island doorstep and requests his help in analyzing photographs of a crime scene, McCaleb at first demurs. He''s newly married (to Graciela, who herself dragged him from retirement into a case in\n  <em>\n   Blood Work\n  </em>\n  ), has a new baby daughter, and is finally strong again after a heart transplant. But once a bloodhound, always a bloodhound. One look at the video of Edward Gunn''s trussed and strangled body puts McCaleb back on the investigative trail, hooked by two details: the small statue of an owl that watches over the murder scene and the Latin words "Cave Cave Dus Videt," meaning "Beware, beware, God sees," on the tape binding the victim''s mouth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gunn was a small-time criminal who had been questioned repeatedly by LAPD Detective Harry Bosch in the unsolved murder of a prostitute, most recently on the night he was killed. McCaleb knows the tense, cranky Bosch (Michael Connelly''s series star--see\n  <em>\n   The Black Echo\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Black Ice\n  </em>\n  , et al.) and decides to start by talking to him. But Bosch has time only for a brief chat. He''s a prosecution witness in the high-profile trial of David Storey, a film director accused of killing a young actress during rough sex. By chance, however, McCaleb discovers an abstruse but concrete link between the scene of Gunn''s murder and Harry Bosch''s name:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   "This last guy''s work is supposedly replete with owls all over the place. I can''t pronounce his first name. It''s spelled H-I-E-R-O-N-Y-M-U-S. He was Netherlandish, part of the northern renaissance. I guess owls were big up there."\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   McCaleb looked at the paper in front of him. The name she had just spelled seemed familiar to him.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "You forgot his last name. What''s his last name?"\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "Oh, sorry. It''s Bosch. Like the spark plugs."\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Bosch fits McCaleb''s profile of the killer, and McCaleb is both thunderstruck and afraid--thunderstruck that a cop he respects might have committed a horrendous murder and afraid that Bosch may just be good enough to get away with it. And when Bosch finds out (via a mysterious leak to tabloid reporter Jack McEvoy, late of Connelly''s\n  <em>\n   The Poet\n  </em>\n  ) that he''s being investigated for murder, he''s furious, knowing that Storey''s defense attorney may use the information to help get his extravagantly guilty client off scot-free.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s the kind of plot that used to make great Westerns: two old gunslingers circling each other warily, each of them wondering if the other''s gone bad. But there''s more than one black hat in them thar hills, and Connelly masterfully joins the plot lines in a climax and denouement that will leave readers gasping but satisfied.\n  <em>\n   --Barrie Trinkle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Darkness More Than Night is the tenth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly; it is the seventh featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, and the second featuring FBI profiler Terry McCaleb, with reporter Jack McEvoy (The Poet) also making an appearance in a supporting role. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/400'),
(5848, 'Darkness, My Old Friend', 'Lisa Unger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   Darkness, My Old Friend\n  </em>\n  Â is deeply plotted and complex and carries an undeniable momentum. Lisa Unger''s enthralling cast of characters pulled me right in and locked me down tight. This is one book that will have you racing to the last page, only to have you wishing the ride wasn''t over."\n  <strong>\n   â€”Michael Connelly\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Lisa Unger is one of my favorite authors.Â  She gets better and better with each book."\n  <strong>\n   â€”Karin Slaughter\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  Bestselling author ofÂ \n  <em>\n   Fallen\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A satisfying story with an eclectic and interesting cast of characters and believable dialogue. Unger shows her usual deftness at intricate plotting and explores the mother-child relationship from multiple angles...Sure to be another hit with Unger fans."\n  <strong>\n   â€”*Kirkus Reviews\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The beauty of this unconventional crime novel is that focus is not on whodunit but the darkness that drives us."\n  <strong>\n   â€”*Family Circle\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Verdict...one of Unger''s best thrillers yet."\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n   <em>\n    Library Journal\n   </em>\n   , starred review\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  TheÂ \n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  Â bestselling author ofÂ \n  <em>\n   Beautiful Lies\n  </em>\n  Â andÂ \n  <em>\n   Fragile\n  </em>\n  Â returns to The Hollows, delivering a thriller that explores matters of faith, memory, and sacrifice.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  After giving up his post at the Hollows Police Department, Jones Cooper is at loose ends. He is having trouble facing a horrible event from his past and finding a second act. He''s in therapy. Then, on a brisk October morning, he has a visitor.Â Eloise Montgomery, the psychic who plays a key role inÂ \n  <em>\n   Fragile,\n  </em>\n  Â comes to him with predictions about his future, some of them dire.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Michael Holt, a young man who grew up in The Hollows, has returned looking for answers about his mother, who went missing many years earlier. He has hired local PI Ray Muldune and psychic Eloise Montgomery to help him solve the mystery that has haunted him. What he finds might be his undoing.Â \n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fifteen-year-old Willow Graves is exiled to The Hollows from Manhattan when six months earlier she moved to the quiet town with her novelist mother after a bitter divorce.Â  Willow is acting out, spending time with kids that bring out the worst in her. And when things get hard, she has a tendency to run away--a predilection that might lead her to dark places.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Set in The Hollows, the backdrop forÂ \n  <em>\n   Fragile,\n  </em>\n  Â this is the riveting story of lives set on a collision course with devastating consequences. The result is Lisa Unger''s most compelling fiction to date.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/605'),
(5849, 'Darwin&#39;s Blade', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Genre-jumping novelist Dan Simmons makes a splash no matter where he leaps. His 1985 horror debut,\n <em>\n  The Song of Kali\n </em>\n , garnered the World Fantasy Award; the vampiric\n <em>\n  Carrion Comfort\n </em>\n took the Bram Stoker Award;\n <em>\n  Hyperion\n </em>\n , the opening volume of his Hyperion saga, snagged the Hugo. In 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Crook Factory\n </em>\n , Simmons spun fact, fiction, and Ernest Hemingway into a ripe WWII spy thriller, and with\n <em>\n  Darwin''s Blade\n </em>\n , Simmons dives headlong into the suspense pool.\n</p>\n<p>\n The country''s foremost accident investigator, Dr. Darwin Minor, reconstructs automobile accidents for his friends, Lawrence and Trudy Stewart, whose firm specializes in uncovering lucrative, yet unremarkable, insurance fraud. Odd, then, that two Russian hit men in a souped-up Mercedes E 340 attempt to murder Dar in a 160 mph car chase that results in an airborne Mercedes and two dead Russians.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sydney Olson, the California state''s attorney''s chief investigator, who''s investigating an accomplice-murdering fraud ring, plans to release a story highlighting the Russian mafia''s involvement and Dar''s name, and then to spend a lot of bodyguard-time with Dar.\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Dar returned her challenging gaze. Suddenly she did not look like Stockard Channing to him anymore. "You''re staking me out like that goat in the dinosaur movie...\n  <em>\n   Jurassic Park\n  </em>\n  ."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Exactly," said Sydney Olson, smiling openly at Dar now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lawrence raised his hand like a schoolboy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I just don''t want to find my friend Dar''s bloody leg on my moon roof someday, okay?"\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n As the bond between Dar and Sydney grows, so grow the assassination attempts, a gruesome body count, and the realization that a state-wide charitable organization funded by the country''s most famous defense attorney is behind the murderous ring.\n</p>\n<p>\n With its tight plot, memorable and likable cast, and brisk, intelligent narrative,\n <em>\n  Darwin''s Blade\n </em>\n has "series" written all over it. Better make room on the Edgar dais now.\n <em>\n  --Michael Hudson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n H"Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely." Simmons, who has moved effortlessly from horror (Children of the Night) to science fiction (Hyperion; Endymion) to thrillers (The Crook Factory) obviously had a lot of fun writing this gripping suspense thriller about automobile insurance fraud rackets in Southern California. Former NTSB investigator Dr. Darwin Minor (Ph.D., physics) is the best at what he does. As the country''s leading "accident reconstruction specialist," Darwin has saved the insurance industry millions, as well as solving the most confounding cases of vehicular stupidity. But suddenly, he finds himself the target of assassins, resulting in a wild car chase that is only the first of many spellbinding set pieces. Is Darwin being targeted for business reasons, or is the attack somehow tied to the ongoing federal investigation of the Alliance, a Russian mafia-type group that specializes in staging accidents to perpetrate insurance fraud? A delightfully bizarre inside joke concerns the "Darwin Awards," which celebrate those who improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it, like the young man who attempts to break the land speed record by attaching a couple of rockets to his ''82 El Camino and ends up splattered on a cliff face hundreds of feet above the highway. In the course of the novel, Darwin investigates several accident scenes that duplicate either Darwin Award-winning demises or urban legends. A breezy writing style, rollicking humor and ingenious descriptions of weird accidents make this action-packed thriller a real winner. (Nov.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/573'),
(5850, 'David Crockett: The Lion of the West', 'Michael Wallis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wallisâ€™ examination of the man behind the myth is both well written and engrossing. (_Booklist_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael Wallis is the master frontier story teller, having chronicled everything from Billy the Kid to Highway 66. Now heâ€™s told the tale of the real David Crockett as distinguished from the mostly mythical one. Davy (with a show biz â€œyâ€) Crockett did, in fact, die at The Alamo but he did not kill a bear when he was only three or wear a coonskin cap except in publicity photographs. Thatâ€™s just for starters. But the truth has a way of being more interesting than the made-up, most particularly when in the talented writing mind and hands of Michael Wallis. (Jim Lehrer )\n</p>\n<p>\n Like Crockett himself [Wallis] is a storyteller. The man who emerges from these pages is vivid, comprehensible, and, in the main, historically reliable. On a subject that has come to be dominated by acrimonious debate and posturing, such serenity has a lot to recommend it. (_Texas Monthly_ )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Steeped in legend, shrouded in folklore, the real David Crockett, American frontiersman and cultural icon, finally emerges in this engrossing biography.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n His name was David Crockett. He never signed his name any other way, but popular culture transformed his memory into "Davy Crockett," and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. Best-selling historian Michael Wallis casts a fresh look at the frontiersman, storyteller, and politician behind these legendary stories. Born into a humble Tennessee family in 1786, Crockett never "killed him a b''ar" when he was only three. But he did cut a huge swath across early-nineteenth-century Americaâ€”as a bear hunter, a frontier explorer, a soldier serving under Andrew Jackson, an unlikely congressman, and, finally, a martyr in his now-controversial death at the Alamo. Wallis''s\n <em>\n  David Crockett\n </em>\n is more than a riveting story. It is a revelatory, authoritative biography that separates fact from fiction, providing us with an extraordinary evocation of a true American hero and the rough-and-tumble times in which he lived. 60 black-and-white illustrations\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2233'),
(5851, 'The Day It Rained Forever', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div class="tiny" style="margin-bottom:0.5em;">\n  <b>\n   <span class="h3color tiny">\n    This review is from:\n   </span>\n   The Day it Rained Forever (Hardcover)\n  </b>\n </div>\n PS Publishing reissued this book and gave me an opportunity to read this collection, which is a very good one. This is classic old Bradbury and has many stories that have been adapted to television, chapbooks, comics and many other areas. Since the stories have been converted so many times I ended up have read a lot of these stories in other areas. But rereading them was a pleasure as many are classics.\n <br />\n <br />\n Here There be Tygers, The Wonderful Ice-Cream Suit, Fever Dream, The Dragon, and The Smile are some standouts, and they are all different. One is a typical sf space story, another is a fantastical urban tale, a couple have horror elements, and one is a sf "what if?" possible future history.\n <br />\n <br />\n This collection borders more on the science fiction and fantasy side of Bradbury over his dark tales, and is an easily recommend collection: classic stuff here.\n <br />\n <br />\n Also I can''t believe the only way you can get this book is through a small press, which is a shame. This book contains some of Bradbury''s best work and should still be in print! Â  Â  Â Â \n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1287'),
(5852, 'Day of the Triffids', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Bill Masen wakes up to a catastrophe, he is glad that bandages covered his eyes the night before. He finds a population rendered helpless by the green lights; now blind, they are at the mercy of the Triffids. Once, with their ability to move and their carnivorous habits, the Triffids were just botanical curiosities. But now, with vulnerable human flesh to feast upon, these homicidal plants are set to turn town and country alike into a killing ground, and, perhaps, replace humanity at the top of the food chain... John Wyndham''s most famous book, this unsettlingly vivid and thrillingly realized tale of ecological apocalypse is a classic in its genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2790'),
(5853, 'The Day We Lost the H-Bomb: Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History', 'Barbara Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In\n <strong>\n  The Day We Lost the H-Bomb\n </strong>\n , science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War''s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish farming village of Palomares during a routine airborne refueling. The explosion killed seven airmen and scattered the bomber''s payload--four unarmed thermonuclear bombs--across miles of coastline. Three of the rogue H-bombs were recovered quickly. Tracking down the fourth required the largest search-and-salvage operation in U.S. military history.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moran traces the roots of the Palomares incident, giving a brief yet in-depth history of the Strategic Air Command and its eccentric, larger-than-life commander, General Curtis LeMay, whose massive deterrence strategy kept armed U.S. bombers aloft at all times. Back on the ground, Moran recounts the myriad social and environmental effects of an accident that spread radioactive debris over hundreds of acres of Spanish farmland, alarmed America''s strategic allies, and damaged Spanish-American diplomatic relations.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the American military floundered in its attempt to keep the story secret, the events in Spain sometimes took on farcical overtones. Constant global media hype was fueled by the hit James Bond movie Thunderball, with its plot about an atomic weapon lost at sea. In addition, there were the unwanted attentions of a rusty- hulled Soviet surveillance ship and even awkward public relations stunts, complete with American diplomats in swim trunks.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Day We Lost the H-Bomb\n </strong>\n is a singular work of military history that effortlessly and dramatically captures Cold War hysteria, high-stakes negotiations, and the race to clean up a disaster of unprecedented scope. At once epic and intimate, this book recounts in stunning detail the fragile peace Americans had made with nuclear weapons--and how the specter of imminent doom forced the United States to consider not only what had happened over Palomares but what could have happened. This forgotten chapter of Cold War history will grip readers with the tension of that time and reawaken the fears and hopes of that dangerous era.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2367'),
(5854, 'Dead and Gone', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vamps - and nothing about weres. Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie works - and she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it. But there''s a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beings - older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves - is preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3452'),
(5855, 'Dead Eyes', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An actress, a rising star, has an accident that leaves her blind. At the same time she starts receiving notes from a dangerous stalker.Blind ObsessionFirst there were roses and the notes in her mailbox signed simply, "Admirer." Then, the accident. One minute Chris Callaway was one of HollywoodÄs brightest rising stars, starting a new picture that could send her career skyrocketing; the next, she was falling from the unfinished deck of her beautiful new Malibu beach house...waking up blind, uncertain whether she would ever see again.An optimist and a fighter, Chris is determined not to let anyone know she can barely see. But neither Danny Devere, her hairdresser and confidant, nor Jon Larsen, the handsome young detective form LAPDÄs special stalker squad, can stop the notes that escalate into a chilling obsession. And as Stuart WoodsÄ mesmerizing new page-turner races to its shocking climax, only a clever trap can stop the madman from stalking her - with beautiful Chris Callaway as the deadly bait.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2674'),
(5856, 'The Dead Girls&#39; Dance', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls'' Dance, hell is really going to break loose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3162'),
(5857, 'The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy', 'David Emanuel Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œA tour de force of investigative history.â€ -Steve Coll The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union-a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today. The Cold War was an epoch of massive overkill. In the last half of the twentieth century the two superpowers had perfected the science of mass destruction and possessed nuclear weapons with the combined power of a million Hiroshimas. What''s more, a Soviet biological warfare machine was ready to produce bacteria and viruses to sicken and kill millions. In The Dead Hand, a thrilling narrative history drawing on new archives and original research and interviews, David E. Hoffman reveals how presidents, scientists, diplomats, soldiers, and spies confronted the danger and changed the course of history. The Dead Hand captures the inside story in both the United States and the Soviet Union, giving us an urgent and intimate account of the last decade of the arms race. With access to secret Kremlin documents, Hoffman chronicles Soviet internal deliberations that have long been hidden. He reveals that weapons designers in 1985 laid a massive â€œStar Warsâ€ program on the desk of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to compete with President Reagan, but Gorbachev refused to build it. He unmasks the cover-up of the Soviet biological weapons program. He tells the exclusive story of one Soviet microbiologist''s quest to build a genetically engineered super-germ-it would cause a mild illness, a deceptive recovery, then a second, fatal attack. And he details the frightening history of the Doomsday Machine, known as the Dead Hand, which would launch a retaliatory nuclear strike if the Soviet leaders were wiped out. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the dangers remained. Soon rickety trains were hauling unsecured nuclear warheads across the Russian steppe; tons of highly-enriched uranium and plutonium lay unguarded in warehouses; and microbiologists and bomb designers were scavenging for food to feed their families. The Dead Hand offers fresh and startling insights into Reagan and Gorbachev, the two key figures of the end of the Cold War, and draws colorful, unforgettable portraits of many others who struggled, often valiantly, to save the world from the most terrifying weapons known to man. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2368'),
(5858, 'Dead in the Family', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven''t seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric''s vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric''s ''brother'' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie''s tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3718'),
(5859, 'Dead in the Water', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stuart Woods has created no better known or loved character than the ex-cop, Manhattan attorney, and investigator, Stone Barrington, whose work treads the thin line between the respectable practice of law and the dark side of humanity.  In "Dead in the Water, " Stone has barely arrived in St. Marks, a lovely Caribbean island nation, on a sailing vacation when something very strange happens: A beautiful young woman sails into the harbor, entirely alone on a large yacht. Before long she is under the intense scrutiny of local authorities in the very considerable person of Sir Winston Sutherland, the minister of Justice. The problem is, though she arrived alone, she had departed the other side of the Atlantic in the company of her husband, a well-known writer, who is no longer in evidence.  Evidence is what fascinates Stone Barrington, and before many pages have been turned, he is all that stands between the apparently innocent Allison Manning and the patently evil intent of Sir Winston, whose motives are unclear. What is clear is that the St. Marks'' system of justice bears little resemblance to the American courts to which Stone is accustomed and that his smallest error could prove fatal to his client  Inextricably caught in a swirling storm of island madness and murder, made worse by a hurricane of sensational press coverage, Stone can hardly find the time to indulge his usual romantic inclinations, but he learns that, even under the intense illumination of a Caribbean sun, nothing is what it seems to be, and no one can be trusted.  "Dead in the Water" is a roller-coaster ride teeming with plot twists, which have made the novels of Stuart Woods "New York Times" bestsellersand international hits.  DIRT  "Blackmail, murder, suspense, love -- what else could you want in a book?"  -- "Cosmopolitan"  "This slickly entertaining suspense displays Woods at the top of his game...Subtly reminiscent of the waggish P.G. Wodehouse, Woods delivers a marvelously sophisticated, thoroughly modern, old-fashioned read."  -- "Publishers Weekly, " starred review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2663'),
(5860, 'Dead or Alive', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n TOM CLANCY''S GREATEST CHARACTERS FACE THEIR DEADLIEST CHALLENGE  After almost a decade, Tom Clancy--the acknowledged master of international intrigue and non-stop military action-returns to the world he knows better than anyone: a world of chaos, caught in the crossfire of politics and power, placed on the edge of annihilation by evil men.  But there are other men who are honor-bound to stop the bloodshed and protect their homeland-by any means necessary...  It is called the Campus. Secretly created under the administration of President Jack Ryan, its sole purpose is to hunt down, locate, and eliminate terrorists and those who protect them at will, without sanction or oversight. A self- sufficient entity, it has no official connection to the American government-a necessity in a time when those in power consider themselves above such arcane ideals as loyalty, justice, and right or wrong.  Covert intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. and his compatriots at the Campus have waged this silent war in every corner of the world. Now joined by two of his father''s closest allies-black ops warriors John Clark and "Ding" Chavez, as well as Brian and Dominic Caruso and Mary Pat Foley-the Campus has come up against its greatest foe: a sadistic killer known as the Emir.  The mastermind of countless horrific attacks, the Emir has eluded capture by every law enforcement agency in the world-a fact which the Campus is determined to change. But his greatest devastation is yet to be unleashed, as he plans a monumental single strike that will destroy the heart of America, unless the Campus can take him "Dead or Alive."  On the trail of the Emir, Jack Ryan Jr. will find himself following in his legendary father''s footsteps on a deadly manhunt that will take him and his allies across the globe, into the shadowy arenas of political gamesmanship, and back onto U.S. soil-in a battle to prevent the fall of the West...  Together for the first time, an all-star cast of Tom Clancy''s characters race to ensure the nation''s survival and to complete their mission: the desperate search for a madman who may be hiding in plain sight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/408'),
(5861, 'Dead Reckoning', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "With her knack for being in trouble''s way, Sookie Stackhouse witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte''s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover, Eric Northman, and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot--which is much more complicated than she knows. Caught up once again in the politics of the vampire world, Sookie will learn that she is as much of a pawn as any ordinary human--and that there is a new queen on the board..."--\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3644'),
(5862, 'Dead Silence', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When his U.S. senator girlfriend is kidnapped during an assassination attempt outside the Explorers Club in New York City, Doc Ford sets out on a rescue mission in the Florida Keys with his friend Tomlinson, an effort that is further complicated by the kidnapper''s claims that the senator has been buried alive. Reprint. A best-selling novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3353'),
(5863, 'Dead Souls', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When an author as successful as Rankin has been with his tough and idiomatic Scottish thrillers, a problem sets in after several books: how to keep the formula fresh.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rankin has delivered a powerful series of books featuring his beleaguered Detective Inspector John Rebus, and while never less than gripping, a certain tiredness seemed to be setting in. Thankfully,\n  <em>\n   Dead Souls\n  </em>\n  is a resounding return to form, with a plot as enjoyably labyrinthine as any Rankin enthusiast could wish for, and pithy dialogue that fairly leaps off the page. Stalking the streets of Edinburgh on the trail of a poisoner, Rebus hits upon a freed pedophile and his subsequent outing of the man leaves him with very mixed feelings. But another problem develops for Rebus: a convicted murderer has him in his sights for some lethal games. And the tabloid press lionizing of Rebus won''t help him in this situation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As always, Rankin is perfectly ready to tackle contentious issues--precisely the thing that gives his books their powerful sense of veracity. And Rebus, no longer in danger of having a soap opera-like accumulation of personal problems, seems as fresh and well-observed a character as in those first exhilarating books. Rankin has caught his form again, with even more assurance.\n  <em>\n   --Barry Forshaw, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dead Souls is a 1999 crime novel by Ian Rankin. It is the tenth of the Inspector Rebus novels. It was the third episode in the Rebus television series starring John Hannah, airing in 2001. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary | Title | Television adaptation\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/410'),
(5864, 'Dead Watch', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Summoned by the White House chief of staff to investigate a series of elected official disappearances, Army intelligence veteran Jacob Winter finds the situation worsening when one of the missing victims is found brutally murdered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/683'),
(5865, 'Dead Zero', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter comes a thriller that plunges deep into the world of high-tech national security, the hearts and minds of those who kill for duty, and the latest mission for veteran sniper Bob Lee Swaggerâ€” who may have finally met the only man who can outshoot him. Who killed Whiskey 2-2? And why wonâ€™t it stay dead? A marine sniper team on a mission in tribal territories on the Afghan-Pakistan border, Whiskey 2-2 is ambushed by professionals using the latest high-tech shooting gear. Badly wounded, the teamâ€™s sole survivor, Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz, aka â€œthe Cruise Missile,â€ is determined to finish his job. He almost succeeds when a mystery blast terminates his enterprise, leaving a thirty-foot crater where a building used to beâ€”and where Sergeant Cruz was meant to be hiding. Months pass. Rayâ€™s target, an Afghan warlord named Ibrahim Zarzi, sometimes called â€œThe Beheader,â€ becomes an American asset in the region and beyond, beloved by State, the Administration, and the Agency. He arrives in Washington for consecration as Our Man in Kabul. But so does a mysterious radio transmission, in last yearâ€™s code. Itâ€™s from Whiskey 2-2. MISSION WILL BE COMPLETED.CONFIDENCE IS HIGH. Is Ray Cruz back? Has he gone rogue, is he insane, or just insanely angry? Will he succeed, though his antagonists now include the CIA, the FBI, and the same crew of bad boys that nearly killed him in Zabol province? Not to mention Bob Lee Swagger and a beautiful CIA agent named Susan Okada who gives Swagger more than just a patriotic reason to take the case. Swagger, the legendary hero of seven of Hunterâ€™s novels from Point of Impact to last yearâ€™s bestselling I, Sniper, is recruited by the FBI to stop the Cruise Missile from reaching his target. The problem is that the more Swagger learns about what happened in Zabol, the more he questions the U.S. governmentâ€™s support of Zarzi and the more he identifies with Cruz as hunter instead of prey. With its hallmark accuracy on modern killing technologies, Dead Zero features an older, more contemplative Swagger, but never lets up on the razor-sharp dialogue, vivid characterizations, extraordinary action scenes, and dazzling prose that define Hunterâ€™s landmark series. And with this installment, the stunning revelationsâ€” both political and privateâ€”will leave readers begging for more long after the last bullet finds its way home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3683'),
(5866, 'The Dead Zone', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Awake in the dead zone and awake to a nightmare. Recoil in horror as you are touched by a young man cursed with the power to perceive the evil in men''s souls. And whose ability to see into the future forces him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and infinitely dangerous man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/869'),
(5867, 'Deadliest Sea', 'Kalee Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Soon after 2:00 A.M. on Easter morning, March 23, 2008, the fishing trawler Alaska Ranger began taking on water in the middle of the frigid Bering Sea. While the first mate broadcast Mayday calls to a remote Coast Guard station more than eight hundred miles away, the men on the ship''s icy deck scrambled to inflate life rafts and activate the beacon lights, which would guide rescuers to them in the water. By 4:30 A.M., the wheelhouse of the Ranger was just barely visible above the sea''s surface, and most of the forty-seven crew members were in the water, wearing the red survival suitsâ€”a number of them torn or inadequately sizedâ€”that were supposed to keep them from freezing to death. Every minute in the twenty-foot swells was a fight for survival. Many knew that if they weren''t rescued soon, they would drown or freeze to death.   Two Coast Guard helicopter rescue teams were woken up in the middle of the night to save the crew of the Alaska Ranger. Many of the men thought the mission would be routine. They were wrong. The helicopter teams battled snow squalls, enormous swells, and gale-force winds as they tried to fulfill one guiding principle: save as many as they could. Again and again, the helicopters lowered a rescue swimmer to the ocean''s surface to bring the shipwrecked men, some delirious with hypothermia, some almost frozen to death, back to the helicopter and to safety. Before the break of dawn, the Coast Guard had lifted more than twenty men from the freezing wavesâ€”more than any other cold-water Coast Guard rescue in history.   Deadliest Sea is a daring and mesmerizing adventure tale that chronicles the power of nature against man, and explores the essence of the fear each man and woman must face when confronted with catastrophe. It also investigates the shocking negligence that leads to the sinking of dozens of ships each year, which could be prevented and makes commercial fishing one of the most dangerous occupations in the world.   With deft writing and technical knowledge, veteran journalist Kalee Thompson recounts the harrowing stories of both the rescuers and the rescued who survived the deadly ordeal in the Bering Sea. Along the way, she pays tribute to the courage, tenacity, and skill of dedicated service people who risk their own lives for the lives of others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2235'),
(5868, 'Deadline', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Life Starts Now\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p>\n  No sooner have Toots Loudenberry and her three best friends--Sophie, Ida, and Mavis--returned from Sacramento, where Sophie provided some much-needed psychic advice to the First Lady of California, when another situation demands their attention. . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Laura Leigh, a Hollywood starlet whose main talent seems to be landing in trouble, is missing. Toots'' daughter, Abby, has both a personal and professional stake in the story. Not only is she editor-in-chief at gossip magazine\n  <i>\n   The Informer,\n  </i>\n  but entertainment attorney Chris Clay, Abby''s would-be beau, was the last person seen with Laura. And now he''s missing, too.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the help of friends in high--and low--places, the Godmothers will navigate Hollywood''s glittering inner circles and seedy underbelly to discover the truth. Along the way, they''ll uncover unexpected secrets that not even one of Sophie''s sÃ©ances could have predicted. . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   Praise for Fern Michaels and The Godmothers...\n  </b>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3786');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(5869, 'Deadlock', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Emily Hudson is a renowned archaeologist who travels the world to save priceless artifacts from theft or destruction. Her best friend and partner, Joel Levy, is always at her sideâ€”until one day, when her entire crew comes under attack. Joel and Emily are held hostage by a sadistic captor who is determined to find the missing link to a legendary treasure. For weeks they struggle to survive against terrifying odds, pushed to their limitsâ€”and beyondâ€¦John Garrett has worked for the CIA, British intelligence, and whoever else was willing to pay for his services.Â This time, a Washington operative hands him what at first appears to be just another assignment: to track down, and save, Emily and Joel.Â But it quickly becomes much more, especially when Garrett finds himself drawn to someone as dauntless and bent on revenge as Emily. Soon, theyâ€™re catapulted into an astonishing adventure in which nothingâ€”and no oneâ€”is what it seems. And lives hang in the balance as one man and one woman unravel the explosive truth behind a conspiracy hidden for generations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3236'),
(5870, 'Deadly Deals', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s an unseasonably cold Thanksgiving at the mountaintop retreat where the Sisterhood has gathered. They are ready to face their next challenge-- dismantling a highly successful illegal baby selling ring.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3755'),
(5871, 'Deadly Promises', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THESE HEROES ARE 100 PERCENT RAW, DANGEROUS, AND . . . UNDENIABLY SEXY.New York Times bestselling authors Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love, and Cindy Gerard and rising romance star Laura Griffin mix seduction and suspense in three irresistible romantic adventures. From sultry international jungles to the rugged terrain of the American Southwest, join the larger-than-life, scorching-hot alpha heroes of the Bureau of American Defense, Black Ops, Inc., and the U.S. Navy SEALs for all the pulse-pounding, heart-racing, toe-curling excitement. They''re cool under pressure, steamy under the sheets, and when the enemy strikes, there''s not a lethal mission these gorgeous men can''t handle. . . . Just Bad EnoughSherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna LoveLeave No TraceCindy GerardUnstoppableLlaura Griffin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3469'),
(5872, 'Deal Breaker', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron''s prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Trying to unravel the truth about a family''s tragedy, a woman''s secret, and a man''s lies, Myron is up against the dark side of his businessâ€”where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.\n</p>\n<p>\n In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fictionâ€”Myron Bolitarâ€”a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Hardball negotiating is paying off for Myron Bolitar. His newest client, Christian Steele, is about to become The Giants'' new superstar. But when Christian''s girlfriend disappears and her nude photo surfaces in a porno magazine, Myron gets entangled with a group of sleazy players--and a killer. From the author of Miracle Cure. Targeted ads/media. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/415'),
(5873, 'Dean and Me: A Love Story', 'Jerry Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The No1 New York Times Bestseller Before the string of hit songs, the Rat Pack, and the stellar movie career, Dean Martin spent ten years partnering Jerry Lewis in one of the most successful double acts of show business history. In this wise-cracking yet candid memoir, Lewis recalls with crystal clarity the highs and lows of his relationship with Dean: remembering their first meeting on a New York street corner one spring afternoon, the early improvised performances in mob owned nightclubs, and the giddy days of Hollywood super-stardom, when it seemed the couples high-rolling lifestyle would last for ever. It didnâ€™t. On July 24th 1956, Dean and Jerry split and the two men werenâ€™t to speak to one another for twenty years. Jerry Lewis is one of the few surviving Hollywood legends from the period and he is a wonderful raconteur whose tales reveal much about Dean Martin''s craftsmanship and enigmatic charm. In his own unique voice he evokes all the glamour of the era â€“ the casinos, the endless pranks, the cocktails, the mobsters, and the women. He writes movingly too of the thrill of the youthful duoâ€™s sudden, startling success, and the slow sad erosion of the fun that followed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1841'),
(5874, 'Dear John', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love--and face the hardest decision of his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Go Behind the Scenes of the Motion Picture\n  <em>\n   Dear John\n  </em>\n  (Sony Pictures, 2010)\n </strong>\n <br />\n Starring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum\n <br />\n (Click on each image below to see a larger view)\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hot on the heels of\n <em>\n  True Believer\n </em>\n and sequel\n <em>\n  At First Sight\n </em>\n , Sparks returns with the story of ne''er-do-well-turned-army-enlistee John Tyree, 23, and well-to-do University of North Carolina special education major Savannah Lynn Curtis. John, who narrates, has been raised by a socially backward single postal-worker dad obsessed with coin collecting (he has Asperger''s syndrome). John bypasses college for the overseas infantry; Savannah spends her college summers volunteering. When they meet, he''s on leave, and she''s working with Habitat for Humanity (he rescues her sinking purse at the beach). John has a history of one-night stands; Savannah''s a virgin. He''s an on-and-off drinker; she''s a teetotaler. Attraction and values conflict the rest of the summer, but the deal does not close. Savannah longs for John to come home; her friend Tim longs to have a relationship with her. On the brink of John and Savannah''s finally getting together, 9/11 happens, and John re-ups. Savannah''s letters come less and less frequently, and before you know it, he receives the expected "Dear John" letter. Sparks''s novel brims with longing.\n <em>\n  (Oct. 30)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1299'),
(5875, 'Dearly Devoted Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dexter the Demon, Dexter the Avengerâ€”whatever he chooses to call himself, the hero of this intelligent, darkly humorous series knows he''s a monster who loves slicing people into little pieces. That Dexter limits his killing to "acceptable" victimsâ€”usually other serial killersâ€”is designed to keep the reader from having to worry too much about the morality of his avocation. Dexter''s just added his 40th victim, a homicidal pedophile, and is eagerly looking ahead to number 41 when he becomes involved in a case through his job as a blood spatter analyst at the Miami-Dade police forensics lab. A man is found with "everything on [his] body cut off, absolutely everything"â€”a piece of work that makes Dexter''s own tidy killings look like child''s play. This madman, nicknamed Danco, spends weeks surgically removing his victims'' ears, lips, nose, arms, legs, etc., while keeping them alive to watch their own mutilation. Despite a certain professional admiration for Danco''s dexterity, Dexter decides to take on the case. It''s the contradictions in Dexter''s character that make it all workâ€”he''s smart, he''s funny, he cares for children, and yet he has no normal human responses or emotions. The first book in the series,\n <em>\n  Darkly Dreaming Dexter\n </em>\n , was very well received; this one should be as well, and deservedly so.\n <em>\n  (July 19)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Dexter, your friendly neighborhood serial killer, is a police department blood-spatter expert who, in his spare time, kills people. Not just anyone, you understand--he only kills other killers, people whom he believes deserve it. Is this because Dexter really has a heart of gold? No, he''s a monster (he is the first to admit it), but at least he tries to steer his evil into productive channels. In the second of Lindsay''s alliteratively titled thrillers (following last year''s\n <em>\n  Darkly Dreaming Dexter\n </em>\n ), Dexter''s nemesis, Sergeant Doakes, is getting a little too close for comfort, and there is also the matter of a psychopath on the loose. When Dexter''s two problems eventually link up . . . well, what''s a well-meaning homicidal maniac to do? Dexter, the cheerfully sociopathic crime fighter, is one of mystery fiction''s most original, compelling, and oddly endearing heroes. Lindsay digs a little deeper under Dexter''s surface this time, showing us a little more about what makes him tick, but readers shouldn''t worry. There are volumes still to be written about this gruesomely fascinating character.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1107'),
(5876, 'Death and Honor', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The crackling new novel in the bestselling Honor Bound series by the #1 New York Timesâ€“ bestselling master of the military thriller. W.E. B. Griffinâ€™s Honor Bound saga of World War II espionage in Germany and Argentina has long been immensely popular: â€œEnough derring-do, romance and action to satisfy Griffinâ€™s legion of fans and bring him new onesâ€ (Rocky Mountain News); â€œCletus Fradeâ€™s services to his countries, his fealty to honor and his courage in the face of danger lift this thriller right off the bookshelf and onto the nightstandâ€ (The Star-Ledger). The year is 1943, and Argentina is officially neutral, but crawling with every kind of spy, sympathizer, and military official imaginable. The hero is Cletus Frade, a Marine pilot recruited by the OSS, with strong family ties to Argentina, and in Death and Honorâ€”Griffinâ€™s fourth book in the series and the first since 1999â€”heâ€™s got a lot on his hands. OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan has asked him to set up his own official-but-really-OSS airline in Argentina, using â€œloanedâ€ Lockheed Lodestars and Constellations. Of even more concern are two interwoven German operations. The first is a government scheme for Jews outside the Fatherland to purchase the freedom of their relatives in concentration camps, who will then be transported to Argentina and Uruguay. The second has to do with where that money is going: a plan called Operation Phoenix, which will establish safe havens for senior Nazi officials in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Needless to say, the OSS is very interested in both of them, and if Frade can somehow find out a little more . . . without getting killed, that is. Which, as Frade is about to find out, is easier said than done. Rich with the special flair that Griffinâ€™s fans have long come to expect from him, Death and Honor is another â€œimmensely entertaining adventureâ€ (Kirkus Reviews) from one of our finest storytellers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3650'),
(5877, 'Death Angel', 'Linda Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Linda Howardâ€™s gifted hands, second chances, unexpected romance, and unrelenting action combine into a riveting new novel of suspense. In Death Angel, bad girls can wake up and trust their hearts, bad guys can fight for whatâ€™s right . . . and dying just might be the only way to change oneâ€™s life.A striking beauty with a taste for diamonds and dangerous men, Drea Rousseau is more than content to be arm candy for Rafael Salinas, a notorious crime lord who deals with betrayal through quick and treacherous means: a bullet to the back of the head, a blade across the neck, an incendiary device beneath a car. Eager to break with Rafael, Drea makes a fateful decision and a desperate move, stealing a mountain of cash from the malicious killer. After all, an escape needs to be financed.Though Drea runs, Salinas knows she canâ€™t hideâ€“and he dispatches a cold-blooded assassin in hot pursuit, resulting in a tragic turn of events. Or does it?Left for dead, Drea miraculously returns to the realm of the living a changed woman. Sheâ€™s no longer shallow and selfish, no longer steals or cheats or sells herself short. Both humbled and thrilled with this unexpected second chance, Drea embraces her new life. But in order to feel safe and soundâ€“and stop nervously looking over her shoulderâ€“she will need to take down those who marked her for death.Joining forces with the FBI, supplying vital inside information that only she can provide, Drea finds herself working with the most dangerous man sheâ€™s ever known. Yet the closer they get to danger, the more intense their feelings for each other become, and the more Drea realizes that the cost of her new life may be her life itselfâ€“as well as her heart.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3571'),
(5878, 'Death Clutch: My Story of Determination, Domination, and Survival', 'Brock Lesnar', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  He is the biggest pay-per-view attraction in the world.\n  <br />\n  He is "the Baddest Dude on the Planet."\n  <br />\n  He is Brock Lesnar.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For countless fans of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts, Brock Lesnar has long been known for his freakish athleticism, mind-blowing speed, and meteoric rise to the top. Yet despite the fame and fortune that have come with his enormous success, Brock has shunned the media, choosing instead to remain intensely private about his life and his accomplishments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, for the first time, he tells his remarkable story in his own words, describing the journey from his South Dakota farmboy roots to becoming the most popular pay-per-view attraction in the world. From the small-town amateur wrestling where he honed his skills to taking on The Rock at\n  <em>\n   SummerSlam\n  </em>\n  , Brock discusses how his natural athletic talent combined with the dark side of the wrestling business to make him the youngest-ever WWE World Champion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Epic as it was, Brock''s overnight rise to fame came with a price, as he saw firsthand the toll that life on the road and in the ring could take on a pro wrestler''s body and mind. Weary of the punishing lifestyle and backstabbing politics, he chose to do the unthinkable: walk away from professional wrestling at the peak of his career and break all ties with the organization that made him a star on the global stage. It was a move that stunned WWE executives and fans alike, and one that Brock himself has never fully explainedâ€”until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not one to stay quiet for long, Brock was soon back in the spotlight: this time in the UFCâ€”home of the most dangerous mixed martial arts fighters in the world. Here he offers a behind-the-scenes look at his shocking decision to leave the wrestling entertainment business for a legitimate combat sport. From training to be a real fighter, to immediately being thrown into the Octagon against the UFC''s best heavyweights, to the psychology behind his legendary trash-talking, Brock opens up about what it takes not only to succeed in the world''s fastest-growing sport but to become the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World. He also speaks candidly about the illness that nearly killed him, how it changed him as a fighter and a man, and how it shaped his will to survive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the end, Brock holds nothing back. A revealing, raw, and ultimately redemptive tale of Brock''s determination and domination,\n  <em>\n   DeathClutch\n  </em>\n  is the untold true story of becoming one of life''s true champions.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brock Lesnar is the only athlete in history to win the NCAA Division I Heavyweight Wrestling Championship, and the WWE and UFC World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship Titles. He lives in Minnesota with his wife, Rena, his daughter, Mya, and his sons, Turk and Duke.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Paul Heyman is Brock Lesnar''s longtime confidant, having worked with him both on-camera and behind the scenes in WWE. He lives in New York with his wife, Marla, daughter, Azalea, and son, Jacob.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1843'),
(5879, 'Death Comes to Pemberley', 'P. D. James', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  P. D. James is the author of twenty previous books, most of which have been filmed for television and broadcast in the United States and other countries. She spent thirty years in various departments of the British Civil Service, including the Police and Criminal Policy departments of Great Britainâ€™s Home Office, and has served as a magistrate and as a governor of the BBC. The recipient of many honors and prizes, she was created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991 and was inducted into the International Crime Writing Hall of Fame in 2008. She divides her time between London and Oxford.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  AUTHOR''S NOTE\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  I owe an apology to the shade of Jane Austen for involving her beloved Elizabeth in the trauma of a murder investigation, especially as in the fi nal chapter of Mansfield Park Miss Austen made her views plain: â€œLet other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.â€ No doubt she would have replied to my apology by saying that, had she wished to dwell on such odious subjects, she would have written this story herself, and done it better.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  P. D. James, 2011\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  PROLOGUE\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   The Bennets of Longbourn\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was generally agreed by the female residents of Meryton that Mr. and Mrs. Bennet of Longbourn had been fortunate in the disposal in marriage of four of their fi ve daughters. Meryton, a small market town in Hertfordshire, is not on the route of any tours of pleasure, having neither beauty of setting nor a distinguished history, while its only great house, Netherfi eld Park, although impressive, is not mentioned in books about the countyâ€™s notable architecture. The town has an assembly room where dances are regularly held but no theatre, and the chief entertainment takes place in private houses where the boredom of dinner parties and whist tables, always with the same company, is relieved by gossip.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A family of five unmarried daughters is sure of attracting the sympathetic concern of all their neighbours, particularly where other diversions are few, and the situation of the Bennets was especially unfortunate. In the absence of a male heir, Mr. Bennetâ€™s estate was entailed on his nephew, the Reverend William Collins, who, as Mrs. Bennet was fond of loudly lamenting, could turn her and her daughters out of the house before her husband was cold in his grave. Admittedly, Mr. Collins had attempted to make such redress as lay in his power. At some inconvenience to himself, but with the approval of his formidable patroness Lady Catherine de Bourgh, he had left his parish at Hunsford in Kent to visit the Bennets with the charitable intention of selecting a bride from the fi ve daughters. This intention was received by Mrs. Bennet with enthusiastic approval but she warned him that Miss Bennet, the eldest, was likely to be shortly engaged. His choice of Elizabeth, the second in seniority and beauty, had met with a resolute rejection and he had been obliged to seek a more sympathetic response to his pleading from Elizabethâ€™s friend Miss Charlotte Lucas. Miss Lucas had accepted his proposal with gratifying alacrity and the future which Mrs. Bennet and her daughters could expect was settled, not altogether to the general regret of their neighbours. On Mr. Bennetâ€™s death, Mr. Collins would install them in one of the larger cottages on the estate where they would receive spiritual comfort from his administrations and bodily sustenance from the leftovers from Mrs. Collinsâ€™s kitchen augmented by the occasional gift of game or a side of bacon.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But from these benefi ts the Bennet family had a fortunate escape. By the end of 1799 Mrs. Bennet could congratulate herself on being the mother of four married daughters. Admittedly the marriage of Lydia, the youngest, aged only sixteen, was not propitious. She had eloped with Lieutenant George Wickham, an offi cer in the militia which had been stationed at Meryton, an escapade which was confidently expected to end, as all such adventures deserve, in her desertion by Wickham, banishment from her home, rejection from society and the fi nal degradation which decency forbade the ladies to mention. The marriage had, however, taken place, the first news being brought by a neighbour, William Goulding, when he rode past the Longbourn coach and the newly married Mrs. Wickham placed her hand on the open window so that he could see the ring. Mrs. Bennetâ€™s sister, Mrs. Philips, was assiduous in circulating her version of the elopement, that the couple had been on their way to Gretna Green but had made a short stop in London to enable Wickham to inform a godmother of his forthcoming nuptials, and, on the arrival of Mr. Bennet in search of his daughter, the couple had accepted the familyâ€™s suggestion that the intended marriage could more conveniently take place in London. No one believed this fabrication, but it was acknowledged that Mrs. Philipsâ€™s ingenuity in devising it deserved at least a show of credulity. George Wickham, of course, could never be accepted in Meryton again to rob the female servants of their virtue and the shopkeepers of their profit, but it was agreed that, should his wife come among them, Mrs. Wickham should be afforded the tolerant forbearance previously accorded to Miss Lydia Bennet.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  There was much speculation about how the belated marriage had been achieved. Mr. Bennetâ€™s estate was hardly worth two thousand pounds a year, and it was commonly felt that Mr. Wickham would have held out for at least fi ve hundred and all his Meryton and other bills being paid before consenting to the marriage. Mrs. Bennetâ€™s brother, Mr. Gardiner, must have come up with the money. He was known to be a warm man, but he had a family and no doubt would expect repayment from Mr. Bennet. There was considerable anxiety in Lucas Lodge that their son- in- lawâ€™s inheritance might be much diminished by this necessity, but when no trees were felled, no land sold, no servants put off and the butcher showed no disinclination to provide Mrs. Bennet with her customary weekly order, it was assumed that Mr. Collins and dear Charlotte had nothing to fear and that, as soon as Mr. Bennet was decently buried, Mr. Collins could take possession of the Longbourn estate with every confidence that it had remained intact.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the engagement which followed shortly after Lydiaâ€™s marriage, that of Miss Bennet and Mr. Bingley of Netherfi eld Park, was received with approbation. It was hardly unexpected; Mr. Bingleyâ€™s admiration for Jane had been apparent from their fi rst meeting at an assembly ball. Miss Bennetâ€™s beauty, gentleness and the naive optimism about human nature which inclined her never to speak ill of anyone made her a general favourite. But within days of the engagement of her eldest to Mr. Bingley being announced, an even greater triumph for Mrs. Bennet was noised abroad and was at first received with incredulity. Miss Elizabeth Bennet, the second daughter, was to marry Mr. Darcy, the owner of Pemberley, one of the greatest houses in Derbyshire and, it was rumoured, with an income of ten thousand pounds a year.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was common knowledge in Meryton that Miss Lizzy hated Mr. Darcy, an emotion in general held by those ladies and gentlemen who had attended the first assembly ball at which Mr. Darcy had been present with Mr. Bingley and his two sisters, and at which he had given adequate evidence of his pride and arrogant disdain of the company, making it clear, despite the prompting of his friend\n  <br />\n  Mr. Bingley, that no woman present was worthy to be his partner. Indeed, when Sir William Lucas had introduced Elizabeth to him,\n  <br />\n  Mr. Darcy had declined to dance with her, later telling Mr. Bingley that she was not pretty enough to tempt him. It was taken for granted that no woman could be happy as Mrs. Darcy for, as Maria Lucas pointed out, â€œWho would want to have that disagreeable face opposite you at the breakfast table for the rest of your life?â€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  But there was no cause to blame Miss Elizabeth Bennet for taking a more prudent and optimistic view. One cannot have everything in life and any young lady in Meryton would have endured more than a disagreeable face at the breakfast table to marry ten thousand a year and to be mistress of Pemberley. The ladies of Meryton, as in duty bound, were happy to sympathise with the afflicted and to congratulate the fortunate but there should be moderation in all things, and Miss Elizabethâ€™s triumph was on much too grand a scale. Although they conceded that she was pretty enough and had fine eyes, she had nothing else to recommend her to a man with ten thousand a year and it was not long before a coterie of the most influential gossips concocted an explanation: Miss Lizzy had been determined to capture Mr. Darcy from the moment of their first meeting. And when the extent of her strategy had become apparent it was agreed that she had played her cards skilfully from the very beginning. Although Mr. Darcy had declined to dance with her at the assembly ball, his eyes had been frequently on her and her friend Charlotte who, after years of husband-seeking, was extremely adroit at identifying any sign of a possible attachment, and had warned Elizabeth against allowing her obvious partiality for the attractive and popular Lieutenant George Wickham to cause her to offend a man of ten times his consequence.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then there was the incident of Miss Bennetâ€™s dinner engagement at Netherfield when, due to her motherâ€™s insistence on her riding rather than taking the family coach, Jane had caught a very convenient cold and, as Mrs. Bennet had planned, was forced to stay for several nights at Netherfi eld. Elizabeth, of course, had set out on foot to visit her, and Miss Bingleyâ€™s good manners had impelled her to offer hospitality to the unwelcome visitor until Miss Bennet recovered. Nearly a week spent in the company of Mr. Darcy must have enhanced Elizabethâ€™s hopes of success and she would have made the best of this enforced intimacy.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Subsequently, at the urging of the youngest Bennet girls, Mr. Bingley had himself held a ball at Netherfi eld, and on this occasion Mr. Darcy had indeed danced with Elizabeth. The chaperones, ranged in their chairs against the wall, had raised their lorgnettes and, like the rest of the company, studied the pair carefully as they made their way down the line. Certainly there had been little conversation between them but the very fact that Mr. Darcy had actually asked Miss Elizabeth to dance and had not been refused was a mat...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2942'),
(5880, 'Death Echo', 'Elizabeth Lowell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell cuts a new edge in suspense with this thrilling tale of passion, danger, and international intrigue in which a pair of former operatives must stop a deadly plot that threatens a major American cityâ€”and ultimately the world   When she joined St. Kilda''s, the elite security consulting firm, Emma Cross thought she''d left behind the blood, the guilt, and the tribal wars that defined her life at the CIA. Yet, trading spying for investigating yacht thefts didn''t alleviate the dangerâ€”or melt away her professional paranoia. Now, the same good instincts that got her into trouble at the agency might be what will help her survive her latest case.   With some arm-twisting, St. Kilda and Emma are tracking a yacht named Blackbird, a dead ringer for another ship that went missing somewhere between Vladivostok and Portland a year earlier. Emma knows the boat''s intended cargo is lethal. What she needs to find out is whether it''s biological, chemical, or fissionable. And she''s only got seven days to uncover the truth . . . or a major American city will be lost.   Fortunately, she''s working with a new partner as menacing and distrustful as the worst enemy she''s ever facedâ€”and as deadly. A honed killer, MacKenzie Durand led a special ops team that was deployed to some of the world''s nastiest places. But five years ago everything went to hell in Afghanistan, when bad intel hung his team out to dry. The only survivor, Mac walked away and never looked back, preferring to make money sailing high-end boats like Blackbird.   But Emma and Mac aren''t the only eyes watching Blackbird. Taras Demidov, an expert in extortion and execution in the pay of the oligarchs running the former Soviet Union, is also waiting in the shadows, determined to intercept a fearsomely powerful arms dealer with the money, weaponry, and connections to alter the geopolitical balance.   Thrown together by an organization of enemies with global ties more dangerous than either of them realize, Mac and Emma must put aside their growing attraction for each other to save more than just their own lives. In a deadly game where the rules change without warning and the line between friend and foe is blurred, the pair must find answers fastâ€”or watch as innocent civilians are sacrificed in a cold-blooded grab for power and supremacy. And even Mac and Emma aren''t sure just who will get to the finish line alive. . . .   A breathtaking tale of passion and danger, Death Echo is superb entertainment from the queen of suspense, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3229'),
(5881, 'A Death in Summer', 'Benjamin Black', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When word got about that Richard Jewell had been found with the greater part of his head blown off and clutching a shotgun in his bloodless hands, few outside the family circle and few inside it, either, considered his demise a cause for sorrow. Jewell, known to the jauntier among his detractors as Diamond Dick, had been a wealthy man. The bulk of his money he had inherited from his father, the notorious Francis T.â€”Francieâ€”Jewell, sometime Lord Mayor and proprietor of a highly successful newspaper chain that included the scurrilous and much-feared\n  <em>\n   Daily Clarion,\n  </em>\n  the city''s top-selling paper. The older Jewell had been something of an uncut stone, given to violent vendettas and a loathing of trades unions, but his son, though no less unscrupulous and vengeful, had sought to polish the family name to a high luster by means of well-publicized acts of philanthropy. Richard Jewell was known for his sponsorship of orphanages and schools for the handicapped, while the recently opened Jewell Wing of the Hospital of the Holy Family was in the vanguard of the fight against tuberculosis. These and other initiatives should have made Dick Jewell a hero in a city beset by poverty and chronic ill health, but now that he was dead many among the citizenry declared themselves ready to dance on his grave.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His corpse was discovered that Sunday afternoon in his office above the stables at Brooklands, the place in County Kildare jointly owned by him and his wife. Maguire, the yard manager, had come up by the outside stairs to give him a report of a stallion that was lame and unlikely to run the following Thursday in an evening fixture at Leopardstown. The door to the office was ajar but Maguire had known better than to walk in without knocking. Right away, though, he had the feeling that something was seriously amiss. When asked later to describe this feeling he could not; only the hair, he said, had stood up on the back of his neck, and he distinctly remembered hearing Blue Lightning sending up a whinny in the quiet below in the yard; Blue Lightning was Dick Jewell''s darling, a three-year-old with the highest potential.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The shotgun blast had lifted Jewell out of his chair and flung him backwards at a crooked angle across the desk, where he lay with a bit of jawbone and a few teeth and a bloodied stump of spine, all that was left of what had been his head, dangling down on the far side. On the big picture window in front of the desk there was a great splatter of blood and brains, like a giant peony blossom, with a gaping hole in the middle of it giving a view of rolling grasslands stretching off to the horizon. Maguire at first could hardly take in what had happened. It looked as if the man had shot himself, but Diamond Dick Jewell was the last person Maguire or anyone else would have expected to blow his own head off.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rumors and speculation started up at once. It added to the shock of the event that it had taken place on a drowsy Sunday afternoon in summer, while the beeches along the drive at Brooklands sweltered in the sun and the mingled smell of hay and horses lay heavy on the summer air. Not that many were privy to the details of what had happened. Who knew better than the Jewells how to hush up a scandal? And a suicide, in these days, in this place, was a very grave scandal indeed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the\n  <em>\n   Clarion\n  </em>\n  offices on Eden Quay the atmosphere was a combination of pandemonium and wondering disbelief. The staff, from copyboys to editorial, felt as if they were moving underwater, or through a medium heavier and more hindering than water, and yet at the same time everything seemed to be racing along like a river in spate and carrying all before it. The editor, Harry Clancy, had come in from Portmarnock, where a caddy had been sent on a bicycle to intercept him at the twelfth hole, and he was still in golfing gear, the studs in his shoes rattling out a tattoo on the lino as he marched back and forth in front of his desk dictating a eulogy which his secretary, the no longer young and faintly mustached Miss Somers, was taking down in longhand on a pad of copy paper.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ". . . should have been struck down in the prime of life," Clancy was intoning, "by a cerebral hemorrhageâ€”" He broke off and looked at Miss Somers, who had stopped writing and sat motionless with her pencil suspended over the sheaf of paper on her knee. "What''s the matter?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Miss Somers seemed not to have heard him, and began writing again.\n  <em>\n   ". . . in the prime of life . . ."\n  </em>\n  she murmured, scoring the words laboriously into the cheap gray paper.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What am I supposed to say?" Clancy demanded. "That the boss blew his brains out?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ". . . by a cer-e-bral hem-orrh-age . . ."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "All right, all right, cut that." Clancy had been pleased with himself for having hit on such an acceptable-sounding cause of death. It\n  <em>\n   had\n  </em>\n  been a kind of hemorrhage, had it not? There was bound to have been plenty of blood, anyway, seeing it was a shotgun Jewell had used on himself. The\n  <em>\n   Clarion\n  </em>\n  would not say it was suicide, nor would any of its rivals; suicides never got reported in the pressâ€”it was an unspoken convention, to spare the feelings of the relatives and make sure the insurance companies would not seize on it as an excuse to renege on paying out to the family. All the same, Clancy thought, better not to print an outright lie. It would get around soon enough that the boss had topped himselfâ€”Jesus, there was an apt phrase!â€”no matter what convenient lies were told. "Just say\n  <em>\n   at the tragically early age of forty-five and at the pinnacle of his professional career\n  </em>\n  and leave it at that."\n </p>\n <p>\n  He thrust his hands into his pockets and crossed clatteringly to the window and stood looking down at the river. Did no one ever clean this glass? He was hardly able to see out. Everything was shimmering in the heat out there and he could almost taste the cindery dust in the air, and the river had a bilious stink that no thickness of grimed glass could shut out. "Read it over to me so far," he growled. He had been on fine form on the course today, with three bogeys and a birdie at the ninth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His secretary risked a sideways glance at him. That pink pullover might be all right on the golf course, she thought, but here in the office it made him look like a superannuated nancy boy. He was a stout man with a head of auburn curls, graying now, and a cross-hatching of livid veins over his cheekbones that was the legacy of a lifetime''s hard drinking. He should beware a brain hemorrhage himself, Miss Somers considered. He was the fourth editor she had worked for in the forty years of her employment at the\n  <em>\n   Clarion,\n  </em>\n  not counting Eddie Randall, who broke down after a fortnight in the job and was sacked. She remembered old man Jewell, the well-named Francie; over a hot port in Mooney''s one Christmas he had made an indecent proposal to her that she had pretended not to understand. All the same, he was a real man, not like the fellows going about now, calling themselves journalistsâ€”what ever happened to\n  <em>\n   reporters\n  </em>\n  ?â€”and spending half the working week playing golf and the other half in the pub.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clancy was off again, pacing and prating: ". . . scion of a great Dublin family and aâ€”" He stopped again, checked as Miss Somers delicately but unignorably cleared her throat. "What is it now?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Pardon me, Mr. Clancyâ€”but what was that word?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What?" He was baffled.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Do you mean\n  <em>\n   scion\n  </em>\n  ?" Miss Somers asked. "I believe that''s how it''s pronounced, not\n  <em>\n   skion.\n  </em>\n  "\n </p>\n <p>\n  She would not raise her eyes to his, and he stood in the middle of the floor breathing hard and gazing at the white parting down the center of her silver hair with an expression of angry helplessness. Bloody, impossible, dried-up old maid! "Oh, do forgive my ignorance, please," he said with weary sarcasm, "\n  <em>\n   â€”scion\n  </em>\n  of a great Dublin family . . ." And a ruthless bastard, he was thinking, who would tear out your heart as quick as look at you. He waved a hand impatiently and went and sat down behind his desk. "We''ll finish it later," he said, "there''s plenty of time. Ask the switch to get me Hackett over at Pearse Street, will you?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€¢â€¢â€¢\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Inspector Hackett, of course, was out at Brooklands. Like Clancy, he was not in a good mood. He had just finished his Sunday dinnerâ€”a nice leg of lambâ€”and was getting ready to go down to Wicklow for a bit of fishing when the phone rang. A phone call on a Sunday afternoon had to be either from his sister-in-law, threatening a visit with her brood, or from the station. Today, somehow, just by listening to the bell shrilling, he had known which one it was, and that the matter was going to be a weighty one. The new fellow, Jenkins, had picked him up in a squad car; he had heard the yowling of the siren from three streets away. His wife had made him a sandwich from the leftover lambâ€”May''s main task in life nowadays seemed to be to keep him fedâ€”and the warmish wad of bread and meat wrapped in greaseproof paper and making his jacket pocket sag was an annoyance to him. He would have thrown it out of the window of the squad car when they got into the country except that he would have felt disloyal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jenkins was in a state of high excitement. This was the first serious job he had taken part in since he had been assigned to work with Detective Inspector Hackett, and serious it certainly promised to be. Although initial reports from Brooklands had suggested that Richard Jewell had killed himself, Hackett was skeptical, and suspected foul play. Jenkins did not understand how the Inspector was managing to be so calmâ€”even with all his years of service he could not have dealt with more than a handful of murder cases, and certainly not with one as sensational as this, if murder it was. All he seemed concerned about, however, was the fact that his fishing trip had to be canceled. When he had come out of the house, his missus hovering behind him in the shadow of the doorway, he had been scowling, and the f...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/659'),
(5882, 'A Death In The Family', 'James Agee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Forty years after its original publication, James Agee''s last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man''s death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed. On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay''s wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose."An utterly individual and original book...one of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling that I have ever read."--Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review"It is, in the full sense, poetry....The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet...remains in the mind."--New Republic"People I know who read A Death in the Family forty years ago still talk about it. So do I. It is a great book, and I''m happy to see it done anew."--Andre Dubus, author of Dancing After Hours and Meditations From A Moveable Chair\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3061'),
(5883, 'A Death in Vienna', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The sins of the past reverberate into the present, in an extraordinary novel by the new master of international suspense. It was an ordinary-looking photograph. Just the portrait of a man. But the very sight of it chilled Allon to the bone. Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of his search becomes something else entirely: to find out the truth about the photograph that has turned his world upside down. It is the face of the unnamed man who brutalized his mother in the last days of World War II, during the Death March from Auschwitz. But is it really the same one? If so, who is he? How did he escape punishment? Where is he now? Fueled by an intensity he has not felt in years, Allon cautiously begins to investigate; but with each layer that is stripped away, the greater the evil that is revealed, a web stretching across sixty years and thousands of lives. Soon, the quest for one monster becomes the quest for many. And the monsters are stirring... Rich with sharply etched characters and prose, and a plot of astonishing intricacy, this is an uncommonly intelligent thriller by one of our very best writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3838');
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(5884, 'Death Is Not the Endla', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Inspector John Rebus of Edinburgh''s finest has been knocking readers'' socks off for years, in 10 full-length police procedurals by Ian Rankin that star the thoughtful, intelligent Scot. In this neat little novella, he does in 73 pages what many of his peers take three times as long to do--set an interesting scene, solve a crime, develop a character, and allow him to grow and change without sacrificing either pace or plot. Agreeing to track down the missing son of his high school sweetheart and her husband, a friend of his youth, Rebus takes the reader into the gritty back streets and criminal byways of Edinburgh, following Damon Mee from the nightclub where he was last seen through gambling casinos, football matches, and face-to-face encounters with the mobsters who may have been involved in his disappearance. Along the way Rebus confronts his own mortality, the choices he''s made, and the obligations he owes his past. The theme of vanishing was spun off from\n  <em>\n   Dead Souls\n  </em>\n  , a full- length novel; according to Rankin, he wrote this brief but fully-realized piece first, then cannibalized part of it as a sub-plot for\n  <em>\n   Dead Souls\n  </em>\n  , "while altering the histories of the characters involved so that both can be read independently." Which is why American fans who haven''t yet read\n  <em>\n   Dead Souls\n  </em>\n  will pick it up right after this one.\n  <em>\n   Death Is Not the End\n  </em>\n  is short enough to read on a shuttle flight and still have time for a nap. But like Rankin''s other solid Rebus stories, it will stay with you even after you wake up.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Using a subplot from his last Inspector Rebus novel (1999''s Dead Souls), Gold Dagger Award-winner Rankin demonstrates at novella length why his Edinburgh policeman stands at the forefront of contemporary detectives. When 23-year-old Damon Mee vanishes from Gaitanos, a popular Kirkcaldy nightclub, the young man''s parents naturally ask Insp. John Rebus for help. The father went to school with Rebus, while the mother turns out to be the inspector''s old flame Janis, "the only girl in his long and trouble-strewn life who''d ever managed to knock him unconscious." Locating a missing person suddenly becomes personal, as Rebus broods over the past, wondering what might have happened had he and Janis stayed together. Might the recently engaged Damon be having his own doubts about love and marriage? A stakeout of Gaitanos leads Rebus to Richard Mandelson, a shady casino manager who drives a gold Rolls-Royce. Meanwhile, Matty Paine, a croupier in Mandelson''s employ, is under pressure from his boss to approach his friend Stevie Scoular, the star of the Edinburgh Rangers football team, about throwing their next game. When Rebus also asks Matty (whom he once got off a drunk-driving charge) for a favor, he finds his investigation taking an unexpected twist. Taut exposition, wry dialogue and deft plotting, together with an insider''s view of the seedy underside of Edinburgh, combine to make a superior thriller, well deserving its status as part of the Criminal Records series of novellas, edited by Otto Penzler. (June)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/416'),
(5885, 'Death of Kings', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The fate of a new nation rests in the hands of a reluctant warrior in this thrilling sixth volume in the acclaimed "New York Times" bestselling Saxon Tales series. As the ninth century wanes, Alfred the Great lies dying, his dream of a unified England in danger and his kingdom on the brink of chaos. While his son, Edward, has been named his successor, there are other Saxon claimants to the throne--as well as ambitious pagan Vikings to the north. Uhtred, the Saxon-born, Viking-raised warrior, whose life seems to shadow the making of England itself, is torn between his vows to Alfred and his desire to reclaim his long-lost ancestral lands and castle in the north. As the king''s warrior, he is duty-bound, but Alfred''s reign is nearing its end, and Uhtred has sworn no oath to the crown prince. Despite his long years of service, Uhtred is still loath to commit to the old king''s Saxon cause of a united and Christian England. Now he must make a momentous decision, one that will forever transform his life . . . and the course of history: take up arms--and Alfred''s mantle--or lay down his sword and allow the dream of a unified kingdom to fall into oblivion. A harrowing story of the power of tribal commitment and the dilemma of divided loyalties, "Death of Kings" is the latest chapter in the epic saga of the making of England, magnificently brought to life by "the reigning king of historical fiction" ("USA Today").\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3080'),
(5886, 'Death on the D-List', 'Nancy Grace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The brutal slayings of a string of her patients in New York and a horrific attempt on her own life leave Hailey Dean down, but not defeated. After a yearlong respite back home in the Southland, former violent crimes prosecutor Hailey Dean finally returns to her apartment in the sky overlooking Manhattan. Hailey''s determined to rebuild a normal life and settle back into her growing practice as a therapist. But in a twist of fate, Hailey agrees to follow her heart and fight crime once again, this time in a new arena, in front of a camera! Under the hot lights of a TV studio, Hailey learns the TV industry''s not so glamorous. In fact, it''s downright deadly! Waning celebrities, all stunning actresses, each one a shining star turned has-been now struggling to get off the D-List and back into the limelight, meet with a bloody stage exit... murder! Hailey''s archenemy, Lieutenant Ethan Kolker, the NYPD cop who hunted Hailey down for the murders of her own patients, now wants the past forgotten and reaches out for Hailey''s help to solve the murders. In a race against the clock, Hailey has no idea that TV can be murder! In best-selling author, attorney, and TV personality Nancy Grace''s second Hailey Dean thriller, life on television is no less dangerous than life in the courtroom!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3360'),
(5887, 'Death Valley: The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969', 'Keith Nolan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Author of the well received\n <em>\n  Battle for Hue\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Into Laos\n </em>\n , Nolan once again captures the stark reality of combat in Vietnam.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keith William Nolan is one of the foremost historians on the Vietnam War and the author of the highly-regarded Battle for Hue, The Magnificent Bastards, Into Cambodia and, with Dwight W. Birdwell, A Hundred Miles of Bad Road.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2236'),
(5888, 'Death&#39;s Excellent Vacation', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It really can be an endless summer - if youâ€™re immortal. Though a vampire would be ill-advised to take a cruise to Bermuda, the possibilities for getting away from it all - and maybe snacking on some unsuspecting tourist - are many. Sookie Stackhouse and her vampire friend Pam take a weekend getaway to Mississippi in author Charlaine Harrisâ€™s ''Two Blondes.'' And when they end up in a shady gentlemanâ€™s club, to escape in one piece they need to do something that wasnâ€™t on their itinerary - something involving a stage, a pole, and very little clothing. Author Katie MacAlisterâ€™s ''The Perils of Effrijim'' follows a demon whose vacation in Paris is disrupted when heâ€™s banished to another plane, thus kicking off a crazy dimension-hopping road trip across Europe. Protecting an heiress from supernatural hit men isnâ€™t Cat and Bonesâ€™s idea of a relaxing vacation in author Jeaniene Frostâ€™s ''One for the Money'', but it could get worse. And it does - when Catâ€™s mother shows up. Editors Harris and Kelner bring together a collection of tour guides who offer vacations frightening, funny, and touching - for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3719'),
(5889, 'Debt of Honor', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Razio Yamata is one of Japan''s most influential industrialists, and part of a relatively small group of authority who wield tremendous authority in the Pacific Rim''s economic powerhouse. He has devised a plan to cripple the American greatness, humble the U.S. military, and elevate Japan to a position of dominance on the world stage. Yamata''s motivation lies in his desire to pay off a\n  <em>\n   Debt of Honor\n  </em>\n  to his parents and to the country he feels is responsible for their deaths: America. All he needs is a catalyst to set his plan in motion. When the faulty gas tank on one Tennessee family''s car leads to their fiery death, an opportunistic U.S. congressman uses the occasion to rush a new trade law through the system. The law is designed to squeeze Japan economically. Instead, it provides Yamata with the leverage he needs to put his plan into action. As Yamata''s plan begins to unfold, it becomes clear to the world that someone is launching a fully integrated operation against the United States. There''s only one man to find out who the culprit is: Jack Ryan, the new president''s National Security Advisor.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jack Ryan, now the President''s National Security Adviser, finds himself embroiled in the buildup to a new world war-one in which the stock market and national economic policy are as critical as advanced weaponry. A power-hungry Japanese financier, still blaming America for his parents'' deaths in WWII, plans to use his immense wealth to purchase his revenge. A fatal auto accident in the U.S., caused by faulty gas tanks in two Japanese cars, leads to the breakdown of U.S.-Japanese trade agreements. Spies track each other; nuclear weapons are built and hidden; Ryan and an assortment of his old colleagues maneuver ships, planes and spies into harm''s way. As always, the author of Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger spins out story threads in a rich but bewildering tangle of plot and setting, then vigorously weaves them together. Here, the heart-stopping climax is unexpected, but oddly appropriate. As always, Clancy instructs (sometimes didactically) as he entertains, teaching us about currency trading, Asian business etiquette and the daily life of an American politician. Without taking up Japan-bashing, as Michael Crichton did in Rising Sun, or partisan politics, Clancy warns that recent downsizing in the defense establishment has so depleted our military resources that the country is vulnerable to aggression that can arise anywhere, anytime. 2 million first printing; BOMC selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1149'),
(5890, 'Deception', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Her name is Elise Freeman, and her chilling cry for help comes too late to save her. On a DVD found near her lifeless body, the emotionally and physically battered woman chronicles a long ordeal of abuse at the hands of three sadistic tormentors. But even more shocking is the revelation that the offenders, like their victim, are teachers at one of L.A.''s most prestigious prep schools. Homicide detective Milo Sturgis is assigned to probe the hallowed halls of Windsor Prep Academy, and if ever he could use Dr. Alex Delaware''s psychological prowess, it''s now. As the scandal-conscious elite close ranks around Windsor Prep, Alex and Milo push to expose the dirty secrets festering among society''s manor-born. But while searching for predators among the privileged, Alex and Milo may be walking into a highly polished death trap.\n <br />\n <br />\n Don''t miss the sneak peek of Jonathan Kellerman''s new novel,\n <i>\n  Mystery\n </i>\n , inside.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/754'),
(5891, 'Deception Point', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Penzler Pick, December 2001:\n  </strong>\n  In the world of page-turning thrillers, Dan Brown holds a special place in the hearts of many of us. After his first book,\n  <em>\n   Digital Fortress\n  </em>\n  , almost passed me by, he wrote\n  <em>\n   Angels and Demons\n  </em>\n  , which was probably one of the half-dozen most exciting thrillers of last year. It is a pleasure to report that his new book lives up to his reputation as a writer whose research and talent make his stories exciting, believable, and just plain unputdownable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The time is now and President Zachary Herney is facing a very tough reelection. His opponent, Senator Sedgwick Sexton, is a powerful man with powerful friends and a mission: to reduce NASA''s spending and move space exploration into the private sector. He has numerous supporters, including many beyond the businesses who will profit from this because of the embarrassment of 1996, when the Clinton administration was informed by NASA that proof existed of life on other planets. That information turned out to be premature, if not incorrect. (This story is true; I repeat, Dan Brown''s research is very, very good.) The embattled president is assured that a rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice will prove to have far-reaching implications on America''s space program. The find, however, needs to be verified.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Enter Rachel Sexton, a gister for the National Reconnaissance Office. Gisters reduce complex reports into single-page briefs, and in this case the president needs that confirmation before he broadcasts to the nation, probably ensuring his reelection. It''s tricky because Rachel is the daughter of his opponent. Rachel is thrilled to be on the team traveling to the Arctic circle. She is a realist about her father''s politics and has little respect for his stand on NASA, but Senator Sexton cannot help but have a problem with her involvement.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Adventure, romance, murder, skullduggery, and nail-biting tension ensue. By the end of\n  <em>\n   Deception Point\n  </em>\n  , the reader will be much better informed about how our space program works and how our politicians react to new information. Bring on the next Dan Brown thriller!\n  <em>\n   --Otto Penzler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Struggling to rebound from a series of embarrassing blunders that have jeopardized its political life at the start of this lively thriller, NASA makes an astounding discovery: there is a meteor embedded deep within the arctic ice. And it isn''t just any meteor. Inside the huge rock, which crashed to earth in 1716, are fossils of giant insects proof of extraterrestrial life. Yet, given NASA''s slipping reputation, the question arises: Is the meteor real or a fake? That uncertainty dogs NASA and its supporters in Brown''s latest page-flipper, a finely polished amalgam of action and intrigue. Trying to determine the truth are intelligence agent Rachel Sexton and popular oceanographer Michael Tolland, both among the first to suspect something is amiss when the meteor is pulled from the ice. Their doubts quickly make them the targets of a mysterious death squad controlled by someone or something that doesn''t want the public to hear the meteor may be a fraud. Together, Sexton and Tolland scramble across arctic glaciers, take refuge on ice floes, are rescued by a nuclear submarine, then find themselves trapped aboard a small research vessel off the coast of New Jersey. All the while, the nation''s capital is buzzing as to whether NASA has engaged in deception. Or is NASA just a dupe for aerospace companies that have long wanted a bigger share of space contracts? Brown (Angels &amp; Demons) moves into new territory with his latest. It''s an excellent thriller a big yet believable story unfolding at breakneck pace, with convincing settings and just the right blend of likable and hateful characters. He''s also done his research, folding in sophisticated scientific and military details that make his plot far more fulfilling than the norm.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1105'),
(5892, 'Decision Points', 'George W. Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.\n</p>\n<p>\n George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we live._\n</p>\n<p>\n Decision Points_ brings readers inside the Texas governor''s mansion on the night of the 2000 election, aboard Air Force One during the harrowing hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, into the Situation Room moments before the start of the war in Iraq, and behind the scenes at the White House for many other historic presidential decisions.\n</p>\n<p>\n For the first time, we learn President Bush''s perspective and insights on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  His decision to quit drinking and the journey that led him to his Christian faith\n </li>\n <li>\n  The selection of the vice president, secretary of defense, secretary of state, Supreme Court justices, and other key officials\n </li>\n <li>\n  His relationships with his wife, daughters, and parents, including heartfelt letters between the president and his father on the eve of the Iraq War\n </li>\n <li>\n  His administration''s counterterrorism programs, including the CIA''s enhanced interrogations and the Terrorist Surveillance Program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the worst moment of the presidency was hearing accusations that race played a role in the federal governmentâ€™s response to Hurricane Katrina, and a critical assessment of what he would have done differently during the crisis\n </li>\n <li>\n  His deep concern that Iraq could turn into a defeat costlier than Vietnam, and how he decided to defy public opinion by ordering the troop surge\n </li>\n <li>\n  His legislative achievements, including tax cuts and reforming education and Medicare, as well as his setbacks, including Social Security and immigration reform\n </li>\n <li>\n  The relationships he forged with other world leaders, including an honest assessment of those he did and didnâ€™t trust\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the failure to bring Osama bin Laden to justice ranks as his biggest disappointment and why his success in denying the terrorists their fondest wishâ€”attacking America againâ€”is among his proudest achievements\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A groundbreaking new brand of presidential memoir,\n <em>\n  Decision Points\n </em>\n will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on eight remarkable years in American historyâ€”and on the man at the center of events.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since leaving office, President George W. Bush has led the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The center includes an active policy institute working to advance initiatives in the fields of education reform, global health, economic growth, and human freedom, with a special emphasis on promoting social entrepreneurship and creating opportunities for women around the world. It will also house an official government archive and a state-of-the-art museum that will open in 2013.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1845'),
(5893, 'The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997', 'Piers Brendon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The title, taken from Gibbonâ€™s immortal work on imperial Rome, was chosen since British imperialists consciously compared their empire to the Roman imperium. Despite theÂ title, this is no dreary tale of imperial decay and collapse. Instead, Brendon, a fellow atÂ Churchill College, Cambridge,Â has written a colorful and often brilliant examination of the imperial experience from the American Revolution to the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty. He combines the genres of narrative history, travelogue, and biographical sketch to capture the richness, majesty, squalor, and injustice that created and maintained a vast edifice that has left an indelible imprint on the contemporary world. The narrative ranges across imperial settings in a successful effort to illustrate how both ordinary and extraordinary people lived, thrived, and often suffered under the British flag. Of course, decline and ultimate fall is part of the story. As a liberal empire based (in spirit if not always in practice) on the ideals of political liberty and even equality, it was an empire that contained the seeds of its own destruction, as citizens from America to India took those ideals to heart. The breadth, diversity, greatness, and failures of the British Empire have rarely been portrayed as well. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œSplendid . . . Graphically narrated . . . [Brendonâ€™s] book is history with the nasty bits left in . . . Provides a cautionary text for a new administration that will inherit autocratic allies, penal colonies, reliance on coercive power, and pervasive cynicism about Americaâ€™s declared global arms.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Karl E. Meyer, _Washington Post Book World\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œComplex . . . Lucid . . . Every page is consistently readable and stimulating.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Geoffrey Wheatcroft, _The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œThe author is such a lively writer that Iâ€™d be hard pressed to find dull patches in this whooper of a book . . . Brendonâ€™s narrative is wonderfully stocked with generals, politicians, rugged adventurers, consuls, eccentrics, administrators, and famous imperial hands.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Matthew Price,\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA richly detailed, lucid account of how the British Empire grew and grewâ€“and then, not quite inexorably, fell apart.â€\n  <br />\n  --_Kirkus\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "A book of enormous range and complexity and leavened with a splendid sense of wit and irony. It takes courage to emulate the great Gibbon, but Brendon succeeds magnificently. And while there may be many books on the British Empire, this is undoubtedly the most entertaining and the best."\n  <br />\n  --Dominic Sandbrook, _The Evening Standard\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "A masterpiece of a historical narrative. No review can hope to do justice to the depth of Brendon''s research, the balance and originality of his conclusions, or the quality and humor of his prose. Our imperial story has been crying out for a top-flight historian who can write. Now it has one."\n  <br />\n  --Saul David,\n  <em>\n   Literary Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Brilliant . . . An enthralling mini-series of colonial adventure . . . [Brendon''s] book is stuffed with a myriad spectacular examples of human vanity, folly, depravity and greed--and is all the better for it."\n  <br />\n  --Robert McCrum,\n  <em>\n   The Observer\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] sumptuous chronicle of the British empire. . . . A compelling and spectacularly detailed retelling of imperial "rise" as well as fall . . . A glittering panoply of decadence, folly, farce and devastation."\n  <br />\n  --Maya Jasanoff,\n  <em>\n   Saturday Guardian\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A narrative masterpiece. The settings are exotic, the cast of thousands full of the most eccentric, egotistical, paranoid, swashbuckling players you are likely to meet in any history.... An endlessly engrossing and disturbing stream of anecdotes and vignettes that Brendon tells with extraordinary flair and sympathy, warts and all." --Richard Overy,\n  <em>\n   Sunday Telegraph\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2371'),
(5894, 'Decoded', 'Jay-Z', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is many things at once. At its core,\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is an eloquent and candid memoir detailing the story of a man who was born in a Brooklyn housing project, spent his teen years dealing drugs on the streets of Trenton, New Jersey, and grew up to be one of his generationâ€™s most successful artists and businessmen. But\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is much more than a memoir: it is an intensely personal homage to hip-hop, as written by a man who so clearly adores the art form; it is a rare glimpse of the unexpectedly deep meanings behind the most recognizable rap lyrics of the last decade; and it is a truly moving collection of essays on topics ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the decline of the music industry. Unconventional type design, line drawings, and photographs visually emphasize the authorâ€™s message that rap is a form that transcends and defies easy categorization. Thereâ€™s not much in the way of celebrity gossip here, but what we get, instead, is a gritty and enormously compelling look inside the cultural phenomenon of rap, from one of the men who contributed so much to its shape.\n <em>\n  --Juliet Disparte\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jay-Z on\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When you''re famous and say you''re writing a book, people assume that it''s an autobiography--I was born here, raised there, suffered this, loved that, lost it all, got it back, the end. But that''s not what this is. I''ve never been a linear thinker, which is something you can see in my rhymes. They follow the jumpy logic of poetry and emotion, not the straight line of careful prose. My book is like that, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is first and foremost, a book of rhymes, which is ironic because I don''t actually write my rhymes--they come to me in my head and I record them. The book is packed with the stories from my life that are the foundation of my lyrics--stories about coming up in the streets of Brooklyn in the 80''s and 90''s, stories about becoming an artist and entrepreneur and discovering worlds that I never dreamed existed when I was a kid. But it always comes back to the rhymes. There''s poetry in hip-hop lyrics--not just mine, but in the work of all the great hip-hop artists, from KRS-One and Rakim to Biggie and Pac to a hundred emcees on a hundred corners all over the world that you''ve never heard of. The magic of rap is in the way it can take the most specific experience, from individual lives in unlikely places, and turn them into art that can be embraced by the whole world.\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book about one of those specific lives--mine--and will show you how the things I''ve experienced and observed have made their way into the art I''ve created. It''s also about how my work is sometimes not about my life at all, but about pushing the boundaries of what I can express through the poetry of rap--trying to use words to find fresh angles into emotions that we all share, which is the hidden mission in even the hardest hip-hop.\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book about some of my favorite songs--songs that I unpack and explain and surround with narratives about what inspired them--but behind the rhymes is the truest story of my life.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1847'),
(5895, 'Deep Black', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This unforgettable story proves Andy McNab is, yet again, the master of the modern thriller. Nick Stone''s future has never looked so bleak. The only person he''s ever loved is dead. The only people who might give him a reason not to join her have turned their backs. Until a chance encounter with a man whose life he saved ten years ago. A simple quest in Baghdad takes Stone into the heart of a chilling conspiracy; too late, he realizes that he is being used as bait to lure into the open a man he believes can offer some salvation but whom the darker forces of the West will stop at nothing to destroy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/421'),
(5896, 'Deep Lie', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The classic techno-thriller of superpower espionage from New York Times bestselling master of suspense Stuart Woods! Sifting through reams of seemingly unrelated intelligence, CIA analyst Katherine Rule discovers a chilling pattern: an ultrasecret Baltic submarine base...a crafty Russian spy-master in command...a carefully planned invasion about to be launched from dark waters. Her suspicions, however, are dismissed by those higher up; her theory, they say, is too crazy to be true. But to Katherine, it''s just crazy enough to succeed--unless she can stop it. If she''s right, an attack sub has already penetrated friendly waters. Worse yet, the enemy has penetrated deep into her own life, so deep she can touch him. And in this game, one wrong touch can mean Armageddon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2653'),
(5897, 'Deep Shadow', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Many dangers lurk in the deep-the worst of them are human. Thirty minutes into what should have been an easy, beginner-level dive in a remote Florida lake, the rim of a cave collapses, trapping two of Doc Ford''s friends. Ford himself manages to escape and quickly surfaces to find help-but that''s when his troubles only begin. Two men are waiting for him on the shore, and they are not the kind of men you want to meet at any time. Murderers and ex-cons, they''re intent on diving to the bottom of the very deep lake and uncovering the remains of a legendary plane wreck there, supposedly loaded with Cuban treasury gold. Ford''s expertise is just what they need. And if he doesn''t want to help? He can die. His friends? They can die, too. In fact, they can die right now. . . . As the hours tick away, two mortal struggles unfold simultaneously, one above and one below. Neither outcome is certain, no man is safe . . . and in the deep shadow, only death awaits." -- from publisher''s website.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3477'),
(5898, 'Deep Six', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A ghost ship drifts across the northern Pacific....A Soviet luxury liner burns like a funeral pyre....And the U.S. President''s yacht is heading for disaster....Somewhere off the coast of Alaska, a sunken cargo poses a threat of unthinkable proportions. Potentially, the lost shipment of chemicals could destroy all life in the ocean -- and perhaps the world -- unless DIRK PITTÂ® can find it first. But time is running out for the NUMA agent and his team. Pitt''s main target is just one deadly component of a vast international conspiracy fueled by hijacking, bribery, and murder. And at the center of it all is a powerful Korean shipping empire with a chilling political agenda -- to kidnap the President of the United States....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1200'),
(5899, 'Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why', 'Laurence Gonzales', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference?Examining such stories of miraculous endurance and tragic death--how people get into trouble and how they get out again (or not)--Deep Survival takes us from the tops of snowy mountains and the depths of oceans to the workings of the brain that control our behavior. Through close analysis of case studies, Laurence Gonzales describes the "stages of survival" and reveals the essence of a survivor--truths that apply not only to surviving in the wild but also to surviving life-threatening illness, relationships, the death of a loved one, running a business during uncertain times, even war.Fascinating for any reader, and absolutely essential for anyone who takes a hike in the woods, this book will change the way we understand ourselves and the great outdoors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/939'),
(5900, 'Deeper Than the Dead', 'Tami Hoag', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n California, 1985-Four children and young teacher Anne Navarre make a gruesome discovery: a partially buried female body, her eyes and mouth glued shut. A serial killer is at large, and the very bonds that hold their idyllic town together are about to be tested. Tasked with finding the killer, FBI investigator Vince Leone employs a new and controversial FBI technique called "profiling", which plunges him into the lives of the four children-and the young teacher whose need to uncover the truth is as intense as his own. But as new victims are found, Vince and Anne find themselves circling the same small group of local suspects, blissfully unaware that someone very near to them is a murderous psychopath...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3307'),
(5901, 'The Defector', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A New York Times Bestseller Six months after the events of Moscow Rules, Gabriel Allon is in Umbria resuming his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, when he receives shocking news. The man who saved Allons life in Moscow and was resettled in England has vanished. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent, and they blame Allon for planting him. To discover the truth and clear his name, Allon goes to London -- a decision that will prove to be the most fateful of his career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3368'),
(5902, 'Defending Jacob', 'William Landay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is innocent, and Andy believes him. Andy must. Heâ€™s his father. But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies, as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his ownâ€”between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past heâ€™s tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisisâ€”a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3176'),
(5903, 'Deja Vu', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3758'),
(5904, 'Deliver Us From Evil', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Baldacci''s sequel to\n <em>\n  The Whole Truth\n </em>\n (2008) lacks the creative plotting and masterful handling of suspense that marked his earlier thrillers. Evan Waller, outwardly a respectable Canadian businessman but secretly a human trafficker who sells children into prostitution, has expanded into arranging nuclear weapons deals with Islamic fundamentalists. Shaw, the lead of\n <em>\n  The Whole Truth\n </em>\n , sets out to stop Evan, as does Regina Reggie Campion, a British femme fatale, who works for a clandestine group that tracks down and executes war criminals. Reggie and Shaw, both of whom intend to make their move while Evan is on vacation in Provence, cross paths while maintaining their cover stories. Shaw becomes attracted to Reggie, even as he fears that Evan, who''s in fact a sadistic Ukrainian who served the Soviets, will abduct her. Crucial developments come across as contrived rather than clever. The ultimate resolution will surprise few.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ostensibly, Baldacciâ€™s latest is another novel (after The Whole Truth, 2008) about Shaw, the enigmatic agent working for an enigmatic organization. But it feels a lot more like the launch of a brand-new series, as though Baldacci is using a familiar character, Shaw, to segue to a new series lead: Regina â€œReggieâ€ Campion, a beautiful and deadly woman who works for an even-more-enigmatic group dedicated to ridding the world of evil. Both Shaw and Reggie are after the same man, Evan Waller, although each of them is unaware of it. To Shaw, Waller is a dealer in black-market nuclear materials; to Reggie, heâ€™s the former Fedir Kuchin, a Ukrainian mass murderer. Reggie and Shaw both arrive in Provence, where Waller/Kuchin is vacationing. This is a very clever novel, and full marks go to Baldacci for pulling off an especially difficult type of storyâ€”one in which neither of the central characters knows entirely whatâ€™s going on, while the reader is omniscient. Itâ€™s a lot of fun watching the two scope each other out, trying to determine whether the other is a threat (even as their mutual attraction grows). We become intensely involved in the story, wishing we could step inside the book and clue its two protagonists into whatâ€™s going on. The only problemâ€”for fans of Shaw, anywayâ€”is that, in Reggie, Baldacci has created such an interesting and engaging character that he might have made Shaw redundant. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/136'),
(5905, 'The Delta', 'Colin Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2780'),
(5906, 'Demolition Angel', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Penzler Pick, May 2000:\n  </strong>\n  Like many authors with ongoing characters, Robert Crais has taken a break from his famous private eye. After eight novels featuring Elvis Cole and his loyal sidekick Joe Pike, Crais has created Carol Starkey, a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD''s Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol''s partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can''t bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn''t been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a bomb call takes the life of another colleague, Carol begins to investigate a series of explosions that seem to be designed to exterminate bomb technicians. She soon realizes that she''s "the one that got away." With the help of an FBI agent whom she loathes professionally for interfering with her job but finds attractive anyway, Carol must track down one of the most frighteningly brilliant killers of the modern age.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This edgy thriller''s protagonist is one that the reader at first may have difficulty liking, but she''s got a background and history that make her truly three-dimensional. One hopes that Crais, one of the handful of young crime writers capable of writing consistently luminous prose, will continue to give us characters like Carol Starkey to star in his always powerful portraits of modern-day Los Angeles.\n  <em>\n   --Otto Penzler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Acclaimed for his Elvis Cole mystery series (L.A. Requiem, etc.), Crais deserves further garlands for this stand-alone crime novel. The book features one of the most complex heroines to grace a thriller since Clarice Starling locked eyes with Hannibal Lecter, a deliciously spooky villain in the person of a mad bomber known as Mr. Red, and an aggressively involving plot. Carol Starkey was a rising light in the LAPD Bomb Squad until, two years back, a bomb blew up in her face, maiming her and killing her lover/partner. Now Carol''s a bitter, chain-smoking alcoholic with the LAPD''s Criminal Conspiracy Section, who gets drawn into a literally explosive conspiracy when a bomb kills Charlie Riggio, one of her former bomb squad colleagues. Forensic evidence points toward the bomb being the work of John Michael Fowles, aka Mr. Red, a coldhearted young bomber-assassin-for-hire and master of disguise. Much of the narrative concerns Carol''s pursuit of him, most excitingly on the Net through a secret mad-bombers'' site, aided by a saturnine federal (ATF) agent, Jack Pell. Intercut are scenes of Mr. Red''s various mad plottings, which take a hairpin turn when he learns that the cops think he killed Riggio: for in fact he didn''t. That murder pans out as a copycat crime for personal gain, and now Carol must pursue both Riggio''s killer and Mr. Red, who in turn has taken an intimate interest in this bomb-savvy female cop. The subsequent pas de deux between Carol and Mr. Red is too reminiscent of the dance between Starling and Lecter, but otherwise this novel gets high marks for originality, and even higher ones for suspense and, above all, for multidimensional, wounded characters who give all the excitement a rare depth. BOMC and Literary Guild featured selection; Mystery Guild main selection; author tour; film rights sold to Columbia/Tri-Star. (May)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/426'),
(5907, 'Demons and Druids', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Since his parents'' tragic murder when he was three years old, Daniel X has been forced to fend for himself. But he has a unique ability that has helped him along the way--the secret power to create objects out of thin air.\n <br />\n <br />\n Now, twelve years after that fateful day, Daniel finds himself one step closer to bringing his parents'' brutal killer to justice. Following his father''s List of deadly assassins to find the culprit, Daniel has tracked another criminal across the ocean, to London. But this is no vacation. With the help of his five closest friends, Daniel will take on his most explosively powerful villain yet, and it will take all of his abilities to stay alive--including some that he doesn''t yet know he possesses...\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/293'),
(5908, 'Deniable Death', 'Gerald Seymour', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Gerald Seymour is the grand-master of the contemporary thriller and Deniable Death is his greatest work yet. Gripping, revealing and meticulously researched, this is a page-turning masterpiece that will literally leave you breathless.'' -- Major Chris Hunter, author of Extreme Risk ''Picking up a novel by Gerald Seymour is like taking a deep breath of fresh air ... his subject here is the Middle East, presented with a vividness and veracity that makes most of his rivals look footling ... As always with Seymour, the sense of a minatory foreign landscape is acutely rendered ... never have the badlands of Iraq been evoked with such oppressive rigour. And how many other writers would have fleshed out the bomb-maker, who would simply represent "evil" in most thrillers? Seymour allows us into the life and consciousness of this man, movingly describing his marriage to a mortally ill woman. When readers get to the nailbiting climax, involving an agonising wait for airborne rescue, they may be wondering why they should bother with any other thriller writer.'' -- Independent ''The novel exemplifies Seymour''s ability to create and control a large, vividly drawn ensemble who are unwittingly connected (in this case via two fed-up soldiers) even though they may be as far apart as Helmand and Wootton Bassett. Also characteristic is a Hitchcockian skewing of the reader''s sympathies, with the ostensible good guys in Whitehall shown as coldly ready to sacrifice lives, and the bomb-maker seen in the round as both killer and devoted husband.'' -- The Sunday Times ''Seymour is a master of the thriller set on the murky edges of modern war ... As ever he juggles action, context and suspense with a special-forces level of expertise. How long before he turns to Libya?'' -- i ''After 28 novels, Seymour''s empathy for those he ensnares in his moral minefields remains movingly even-handed.'' -- Daily Telegraph ''gripping thriller'' -- Sun ''Mr Seymour is ... on form ... The tradecraft of silent watching and the discomfort, thirst and increasing claustrophobia of the hideout are brought very much to life ... the grim landscape of the border region and the harsh lives of its inhabitants are skilfully evoked'' -- The Economist (Australia) ''Great storytelling ... You just have to read this novel as it is absolutely gripping.'' -- Eurocrime ''Seymour is not one to cut corners. He does his research, thinks hard about his story and gives us richly imagined novels that bristle with authenticity.'' -- Washington Post on THE COLLABORATOR Seymour [is] incapable of creating a two-dimensional character'' -- The Times 20100718 ''Discerning thriller readers can safely say that the best practitioner currently working in the UK is the veteran Seymour. He is, quite simply, the most intelligent and accomplished in the current field ... Here, we have a typically compromised Seymour anti-hero, a masterfully organised globe-spanning narrative and a mass of highly persuasive detail. The Dealer and the Dead is Seymour firing on all cylinders, and his rivals need, once again, to look to their laurels. -- Barry Forshaw 20100718 ''With Seymour, not only do you get a cracking story deftly told, but you also feel you are learning something.'' -- Birmingham Press 20100718 ''In a class of his own'' -- The Times on THE WAITING TIME 20100718 ''one of the modern masters of the craft'' -- Daily Mail on THE COLLABORATOR 20100718 ''Gerald Seymour is considered the dabbest hand in the industry ... still a master who executes his spy tales of murderous and political intrigue with rigour and flair. Seymour is a master at evoking the seemingly unchartable terrain of foreign landscapes - as a former reporter covering wars in Vietnam, Northern Ireland and Borneo, he brings to bear some every pertinent experience. His research into the espionage world is meticulous. Splendid stuff.'' -- City AM 20100718\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gerald Seymour was a reporter at ITN for fifteen years. He covered events in Vietnam, Borneo, Aden, the Munich Olympics, Israel and Northern Ireland. He has been a full-time writer since 1978. Seymour''s first novel was the acclaimed thriller Harry''s Game, set in Belfast, and since then six of his thrillers have been filmed for television in the UK and US. A Deniable Death is Seymour''s twenty-eighth novel.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/672');
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(5909, 'A Descent Into Hell', 'Kathryn Casey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Bright, attractive, and both from good families, University of Texas college student Colton Pitonyak and vibrant redhead Jennifer Cave had the world at their beckoning. Cave, an ex-cheerleader, had just landed an exciting new job, while a big-money scholarship to UT''s prestigious business school lured Pitonyak to Austin. Yet the former altar boy had a dark, unpredictable streak, one that ensnared him in the perilous underworld of drugs and guns. When Jennifer failed to show up for work on August 18, 2005, her mother became frightened. Sharon Cave''s search led to Colton''s West Campus apartment, where Jennifer''s family discovered a scene worthy of the grisliest horror movie. Meanwhile, Colton Pitonyak was nowhere to be found.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   A Descent Into Hell\n  </i>\n  is the gripping true story of one of the most brutal slayings in UT historyâ€”and the wild "Bonnie and Clyde-like" flight from justice of a cold-blooded young killer and his would-be girlfriend, who claimed that her unquestioning...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2837'),
(5910, 'The Desert of Souls', 'Howard Andrew Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The glittering tradition of sword-and-sorcery sweeps into the sands of ancient Arabia with the heart-stopping speed of a whirling dervish in this thrilling debut novel from new talent Howard Andrew JonesIn 8th century Baghdad, a stranger pleads with the vizier to safeguard the bejeweled tablet he carries, but he is murdered before he can explain. Charged with solving the puzzle, the scholar Dabir soon realizes that the tablet may unlock secrets hidden within the lost city of Ubar, the Atlantis of the sands. When the tablet is stolen from his care, Dabir and Captain Asim are sent after it, and into a life and death chase through the ancient Middle East.Stopping the thievesâ€”a cunning Greek spy and a fire wizard of the Magiâ€”requires a desperate journey into the desert, but first Dabir and Asim must find the lost ruins of Ubar and contend with a mythic, sorcerous being that has traded wisdom for the souls of men since the dawn of time.Â  But against all these hazards there is one more that may be too great even for Dabir to overcome...Advance Praise for THE DESERT OF SOULS:"The Desert of Souls is filled with adventure, magic, compelling characters and twists that are twisty. This is seriously cool stuff." -- Steven Brust, New York Times bestselling author of the Vlad Taltos seriesâ€œA grand and wonderful adventure filled with exotic magic and colorful places â€” like a cross between Sinbad and Indiana Jones.â€ -- Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of The Map of All Thingsâ€œLike the genie of the lamp, Howard Jones has granted this reader''s wish for a fresh, exciting take on the venerable genre of sword-and-sorcery!â€ -- Richard A. Knaak, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Legends of the Dragonrealm"Howard Andrew Jones spins an exciting and suspenseful tale in his historical fantasy debut. A rich, detailed tapestry -- part Arthur Conan Doyle, part Robert E. Howard, and part Omar Khayyam, woven in the magical thread of One Thousand And One Nights." -- E.E. Knight, Author of the bestselling Vampire Earthâ€œAn entertaining and enjoyable journey into a world of djinns and magic far darker than expected, yet one that ends with hope, both for the characters... and that there will be yet another book.â€Â  -- L. E. Modesitt, Jr,Â  author of the Recluse Saga, the Imager Portfolio, and the Corean Chronicles"A modern iteration of old school storytelling. Highly recommended to anyone in search of a fun run through strange lands and times." -- Glen Cook, author of The Black Company Series"Howard Jones wields magic like a subtle blade and action like a mighty cleaver in his scimitars and sorcery tale, weaving together Arabian myth, history, and some honest-to-gosh surprises to create a unique story that youâ€™ll not soon forget."Â  -- Monte Cook, author of The Dungeon Masters Guide, 3rd Edition"A rousing tale of swords against sorcery. Howard Jones writes with wit and flair. His world is involving, authentic and skilfully evoked. The best fantasy novel I have read all year." -- William King, Author of the Space Wolf trilogy and creator of Gotrek and Felix"A whirlwind tale of deserts, djinn and doors to other worlds, told in a voice perfectly pitched for the style and setting." -- Nathan Long, authorÂ of Bloodborn and Shamanslayerâ€œAn Arabian Nights adventure as written by Robert E Howard. It is exciting, inventive, and most of all fun.â€ -- Dave Drake, author of The Legion of Fire\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2791'),
(5911, 'Desert Queen', 'Janet Wallach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A biography of the woman who, indirectly, was the catalyst for many of the troubles in the Middle East, including the Gulf War. In 1918, Gertrude Bell drew the region''s proposed boundaries on a piece of tracing paper. Her qualifications for doing so were her extensive travel, her fluency in both Persian and Arabic, and her relationships with sheiks and tribal and religious leaders. She also possessed an ability to understand the subtle and indirect politeness of the culture, something many of her colonialist comrades were oblivious to. As a self-made statesman her sex was an asset, enabling her to bypass the ladder of protocol and dive into the business of building an Empire.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n To Sir Mark Sykes, the pre-WWI British Foreign Office Arabist, "that damned fool," Miss Bell, created an "uproar" wherever she went in the Middle East and was "the terror of the desert." Three social seasons were all a young lady of good family was allotted to snare a husband. Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) had thrice failed and received the consolation prize, a trip to Teheran to visit her uncle, the British envoy there. After that, she could not be kept close to the dank family manse in Northumbria but was drawn to the sun-drenched Middle East. Dominated even there by her Victorian father, head of a family-owned ironworks, she was denied permission to marry a moneyless diplomat. She refused?to her later regret?a married lover in the military and assuaged her disappointment by pressing British interests in Arab lands east of Suez, becoming in effect the maker of postwar Iraq. The first woman to earn a first-class degree in modern history at Oxford, she wrote seven influential books on the Middle East and, following WWI, was named oriental secretary to the British High Commission in Iraq. Not just another book about an eccentric lady traveler, this colorful, romantic biography tells of a woman with an inexhaustible passion for place that did not always substitute successfully for continuing heartbreak. Despite some maudlin passages, Wallach, coauthor with her husband, John Wallach, of Arafat, vividly evokes a memorable personality.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2239'),
(5912, 'The Desert', 'Colin Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Earth''s new lords are huge, intelligent spiders that keep humans for food. Mankind''s only hope lies in the free people hidden in the desert--and in young warrior Nial, who sets out on a desperate mission to discover the Spiders'' secrets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2777'),
(5913, 'Desperation', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A notice to those who feel that Stephen King has lost his magic touch:\n <em>\n  Desperation\n </em>\n is the genuine goods. The ensemble cast of ordinary Americans thrown together by chance, including a disgruntled alcoholic writer and a child who is wise beyond his years, may be a bit too familiar. But the nearly deserted Nevada mining town with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theatre where the survivors hang out makes for a striking battleground, and the grisly action rarely flags. Best of all, though, are the characters of Tak, the ancient body-hopping evil who emerges from the mine, and of "God"--whom the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n describes as "the edgiest creation in\n <em>\n  Desperation.\n </em>\n Remote, isolated, ironic, shrouded behind disguises, perhaps ''another legendary shadow,'' this deity forms a sly foil, and an icy mirror, to Tak."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. From the vault of horror master King comes a terrifying tale of Desperation, Nev., a place ruled by a maniacal man in uniform and haunted by deadly secrets. In true King fashion, the story features a small cast of likable yet deeply flawed protagonists that may or may not make it to the final page in one piece. Narrator Kathy Bates, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in the film adaptation of King''s\n <em>\n  Misery\n </em>\n , takes the reins and holds listeners rapt from start to finish. Bates has the inherent ability to make anything, no matter how over the top, sound realistic and immediate.\n <em>\n  A Signet paperback. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/870'),
(5914, 'Destiny Disrupted', 'Tamim Ansary', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  General Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (Ret)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tamim Ansary has written a truely superb history of the Islamic world.Â  His excellent analysis provides the reader with an insightful understanding of how that world and its people were shaped by events.Â  This is a must read for all those who want to understand the evolution of a significant global society and how it has interacted with the rest of the worl\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Khaled Hosseini, author of\n  <em>\n   The Kite Runner\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Thousand Splendid Suns\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œAnsary has written an informative and thoroughly engaging look at the past, present and future of Islam. With his seamless and charming prose, he challenges conventional wisdom and appeals for a fuller understanding of how Islam and the world at large have shaped each other. And that makes this book, in this uneasy, contentious post 9/11 world, a must-read.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Shelf Awareness\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œA lively, thorough and accessible survey of the history of Islam (both the religion and its political dimension) that explores many of the disconnects between Islam and the West.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Chronicle\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n "A must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world. But the book is more than just a litany of past events. It is also an indispensable guide to understanding the political debates and conflicts of today, from 9/11 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, from the Somali pirates to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. As Ansary writes in his conclusion, "The conflict wracking the modern world is not, I think, best understood as a ''clash of civilizations.'' ... It''s better understood as the friction generated by two mismatched world histories intersecting."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Portland Oregonian\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œNever apologist in tone, meticulously researched and balanced, often amusing but never glib,\n <em>\n  Destiny Disrupted\n </em>\n is ultimately a gripping drama that pulls the reader into great, seminal events of world history, a book which offers a wealth of knowledge and insight to any reader who wants to understand the movements and events behind the modern-day hostilities wracking Western and Islamic societies.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œIf you want to put today''s headlines about jihadist suicide bombings into the much larger context of history, you''d be well advised to settle in with\n <em>\n  Destiny Disrupted\n </em>\n . It''s the story of a civilization that suddenly found itself upended by strangers and now wants to put itself right. And if author Ansary stops short of calling the result a clash of civilizations, he feels free to call it two one-sided views of world history. His book is a valuable tool for opening up a view of the other side.â€\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Destiny Disrupted\n </em>\n , Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. He clarifies why our civilizations grew up oblivious to each other, what happened when they intersected, and how the Islamic world was affected by its slow recognition that Europeâ€”a place it long perceived as primitive and disorganizedâ€”had somehow hijacked destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2240'),
(5915, 'Destiny of the Republic', 'Candice Millard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back. But the shot didnâ€™t kill Garfield. The drama of what hapÂ­pened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in turÂ­moil. The unhinged assassinâ€™s half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter behind-the-scenes struggle for powerâ€”over his administration, over the nationâ€™s future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. As his conÂ­dition worsened, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, worked around the clock to invent a new device capable of finding the bullet. Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic will stand alongside The Devil in the White City and The Professor and the Madman as a classic of narrative history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2241'),
(5916, 'The Devil and Miss Prym of Temptation', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n New to the U.S. but first published in Europe in 1992, Coelho''s latest (following the bestselling\n <em>\n  The Zahir\n </em>\n ) is an old school parable of good and evil. When a stranger enters the isolated mountain town of Viscos with the devil literally by his side, the widow Berta knows (because her deceased husband, with whom she communicates daily, tells her) that a battle for the town''s souls has begun. The stranger, a former arms dealer, calls himself Carlos and proposes a wager to the town: if someone turns up murdered within a week, he''ll give the town enough gold to make everyone wealthy. Carlos ensures people believe him by choosing the town bartender, the orphan Chantal Prym, as his instrument: he shows her where the gold is, confides that his wife and children have been executed by kidnapper terrorists (remember: 1992), and that he is hoping his belief that people are basically evil will be vindicated. Chantal would like nothing better than to disappear with the gold herself and thus faces her own dilemmas. Add in corrupt townspeople (including a priest), sometimes biting social commentary and, distastefully, a very heavily stereotyped recurring town legend about an Arab named Ahab, and you''ve got quite a little Garden of Eden potboiler. But the unsatisfying ending lets everyone off the hook and leaves questions hanging like ripe apples.\n <em>\n  (July 3)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Internationally acclaimed author and contemporary fabulist Coelho concludes his excellent And on the Seventh Day trilogy with another provocative morality tale centered on a "week in the life of ordinary people, all of whom find themselves suddenly confronted by love, death, and power." As in\n <em>\n  By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept\n </em>\n (1996) and\n <em>\n  Veronika Decides to Die\n </em>\n (2001), the characters who populate the author''s fictional village, a moribund community struggling to maintain its ever-elusive spiritual identity, are immediately thrust into the center of the timeless conflict between right and wrong when a stranger bearing 11 bars of gold and accompanied by the devil arrives in Viscos prepared to challenge the citizens of the town with an intriguing moral dilemma. Will the townsfolk succumb to temptation, confirming that man is inherently evil; or will goodness triumph over evil, proving that every human being has the capacity to make his own choices and decide his or her own destiny? These and other philosophical questions are posed by Coehlo in the same mesmerizing, lyrical style he employed in\n <em>\n  The Alchemist\n </em>\n (1993). A natural choice for book clubs and discussion groups.\n <em>\n  Margaret Flanagan\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1264'),
(5917, 'Devil at My Heels', 'Louis Zamperini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The "inspirational" and "extraordinary" memoir of one of the most courageous of the greatest generation, Louis Zamperini: Olympian, WWII Japanese POW and survivor.  A juvenile delinquent, a world class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a WWII bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a fuller than most, when it changed in an instant. On May 27, 1943, his Bâ€“24 crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Louis and two other survivors found a raft amid the flaming wreckage and waited for rescue. Instead, they drifted two thousand miles for fortyâ€“seven days. Their only food: two shark livers and three raw albatross. Their only water: sporadic rainfall. Their only companions: hope and faithâ€“and the everâ€“present sharks. On the fortyâ€“seventh day, mere skeletons close to death, Zamperini and pilot Russell Phillips spotted landâ€“and were captured by the Japanese. Thus began more than two years of torture and humiliation as a prisoner of war. Zamperini was threatened with beheading, subject to medical experiments, routinely beaten, hidden in a secret interrogation facility, starved and forced into slave labour, and was the constant victim of a brutal prison guard nicknamed the Birdâ€“a man so vicious that the other guards feared him and called him a psychopath. Meanwhile, the Army Air Corps declared Zamperini dead and President Roosevelt sends official condolences to his family, who never gave up hope that he was alive. Somehow, Zamperini survived and he returned home a hero. The celebration was shortâ€“lived. He plunged into drinking and brawling and the depths of rage and despair. Nightly, the Bird''s face leered at him in his dreams. It would take years, but with the love of his wife and the power of faith, he was able to stop the nightmares and the drinking.  A stirring memoir from one of the greatest of the "Greatest Generation," DEVIL AT MY HEELS is a living document about the brutality of war, the tenacity of the human spirit, and the power of forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2245'),
(5918, 'Devil Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Following her most successful book to date, Kathy Reichs -- international number one bestselling author, forensic anthropologist, and producer of the Fox television hitBones-- returns to Charlotte, North Carolina, where Temperance Brennan encounters a deadly mix of voodoo, Santeria, and devil worship in her quest to identify two young victims.In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather grisly discovery -- a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In the center of the shrine, there is the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, the headless body of a teenage boy is found by a man walking his dog.Nothing is clear -- neither when the deaths occurred, nor where. Was the skull brought to the cellar or was the girl murdered there? Why is the boy''s body remarkably well preserved? Led by a preacher turned politician, citizen vigilantes blame devil worshippers and Wiccans. They begin a witch hunt, intent on seeking revenge.Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan -- "five-five, feisty, and forty-plus" -- is called in to investigate, and a complex and gripping tale unfolds in this, Kathy Reichs''s eleventh taut, always surprising, scientifically fascinating mystery.With a popular series on Fox -- now in its third season and in full syndication -- Kathy Reichs has established herself as the dominant talent in forensic mystery writing.Devil Bonesfeatures Reichs''s signature blend of forensic descriptions that "chill to the bone" (Entertainment Weekly) and the surprising plot twists that have made her books phenomenal bestsellers in the United States and around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3427'),
(5919, 'The Devil Colony', 'James Rollins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a novel of boundless imagination and meticulous research, a book that dares to answer a frightening question at the heart of America: Could the founding of the United States be based on a fundamental lie? The shocking truth lies hidden within the ruins of an impossibility, a lost colony of the Americas vanished in time and cursed into oblivion. A place known only as The Devil Colony   Deep in the Rocky Mountains, a gruesome discoveryâ€”hundreds of mummified bodiesâ€”stirs international attention and fervent controversy. Despite doubts about the bodies'' origins, the local Native American Heritage Commission lays claim to the prehistoric remains, along with the strange artifacts found in the same cavern: gold plates inscribed with an unfathomable script.   During a riot at the dig site, an anthropologist dies horribly, burned to ashes in a fiery explosion in plain view of television cameras. All evidence points to a radical group of Native Americans, including one agitator, a teenage firebrand who escapes with a vital clue to the murder and calls on the one person who might helpâ€”her uncle, Painter Crowe, Director of Sigma Force.   To protect his niece and uncover the truth, Painter will ignite a war among the nation''s most powerful intelligence agencies. Yet an even greater threat looms as events in the Rocky Mountains have set in motion a frightening chain reaction, a geological meltdown that threatens the entire western half of the U.S.   From the volcanic peaks of Iceland to the blistering deserts of the American Southwest, from the gold vaults of Fort Knox to the bubbling geysers of Yellowstone, Painter Crowe joins forces with Commander Gray Pierce to penetrate the shadowy heart of a dark cabal, one that has been manipulating American history since the founding of the thirteen colonies.   But can Painter discover the truthâ€”one that could topple governmentsâ€”before it destroys all he holds dear?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3482'),
(5920, 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americaâ€™s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fairâ€™s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the countryâ€™s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his â€œWorldâ€™s Fair Hotelâ€ just west of the fairgroundsâ€”a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.Erik Larsonâ€™s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/11'),
(5921, 'Devil May Care', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bond is back. With a vengeance. M has summoned agent 007 to London. It''s the swinging Sixties and a flood of narcotics is pouring into Britain. Sinister industrialist Dr Julius Gorner is identified as the source and James Bond is dispatched to investigate. The trail takes Bond to Paris and then Persia - where the beautiful and enigmatic twins Scarlett and Poppy lead him to Gorner''s secret desert headquarters. Here, Bond uncovers Gorner''s cold-blooded plans for world domination. Only by playing Gorner''s twisted game can Bond stop him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3632'),
(5922, 'The Devil&#39;s Code', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "I''m into something a little weird here. I don''t want to worry you, but if anything unusual should happen, get in touch with Kidd, okay?" When the writer of this letter dies suddenly, allegedly burglarising a software company, his sister turns to Kidd - artist, computer whiz and professional criminal - to find out what really happened. Before long, Kidd and his sometime partner/lover, LuEllen, are up to their necks in trouble...the sort of trouble that leads to flowers on a grave. Computer hackers, scientists and crooked businessmen all play their parts as Kidd gets ever closer to discovering the truth behind his friend''s death.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/738'),
(5923, 'Devil&#39;s Food Cake Murder', 'Joanne Fluke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n These days, everyone in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is buzzing with activity, and Hannah Swensen is no exception. But no matter how busy she may be, Hannah can always find time to help a friend in need--especially when he''s been murdered... Hannah Swensen has to admit that her life is pretty sweet. Things are going well in the romance department, and her bakery''s delectable confections are selling almost as fast as she can bake them. Even her good friend Claire is on Cloud Nine, head over heels with her new husband, Reverend Bob Knudson. If only they could find time to take their honeymoon! When Bob''s childhood friend, Matthew Walters, comes to town, it seems like divine intervention. Matthew, like Bob, is a Lutheran minister with a stubborn sweet tooth. Since he''s on sabbatical, Matthew is happy to fill in for Bob while he and Claire take that long-awaited honeymoon. It sounds like the perfect plan--until Hannah finds Matthew in the rectory, face-down in a plate full of Devil''s Food Cake, a single bullet in his head. Determined to find out who killed Matthew, Hannah starts asking questions--and discovers that the good Reverend wasn''t quite the saintly fellow he appeared to be. But could the gold Sacagawea coins in Sunday''s collection plate hold the key to solving the crime? Or is the murder connected to that big jewel heist out in Minneapolis? Is it possible that Matthew''s love of chocolate somehow led to his downfall? It will take some more digging to find out, but Hannah is sure of one thing: even the most half-baked murder plot can be oh so deadly...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3518'),
(5924, 'Devil&#39;s Gate', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster-when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world?\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world''s major nations. The penalty for refusal? The destruction of their greatest cities. Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention unique to Cussler,\n  <em>\n   Devil''s Gate\n  </em>\n  is one of the most thrilling novels yet from the grand master of adventure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  AUTHOR BIOS:\n  <strong>\n   Clive Cussler\n  </strong>\n  is the author of many\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers, most recently\n  <em>\n   The Kingdom\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Race\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Arizona. To learn more about Clive Cussler, please visit www.cusslerbooks.com.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Graham Brown\n  </strong>\n  is the author of\n  <em>\n   Black Rain\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Black Sun\n  </em>\n  . A pilot and an attorney, he lives in Arizona.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2905'),
(5925, 'The Devil&#39;s Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century', 'Harold Schechter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n True-crime historian Schechter (co-author,\n <em>\n  The A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers\n </em>\n ) delivers a thrilling account of a murder case that rocked Manhattan at the turn of the 20th century. Roland Molineux, a socially ambitious chemist,was a proud member of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club, where he was considered a talented but snooty sportsman, repeatedly instigating spats with the club''s athletic director, Harry Cornish. Pursuing women with the same determination he brought to sports, Roland doggedly wooed Blanche Chesebrough, an equally ambitious young woman with operatic aspirations. But when one of Molineux''s romantic competitors, Henry Barnet, died, Cornish was poisoned (he survived) and his landlady died, Roland topped the list of suspects. The ensuing investigation and sensational trial became one of the costliest in New York State history. Schechter expertly weaves a rich historical tapestryâ€”exploring everything from the birth of yellow journalism to the history of poison as a murder weaponâ€”without sacrificing a novelistic sense of character, pacing and suspense. The result is a riveting tale of murder, seduction and tabloid journalism run rampant in a New York not so different from today''s. B&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Oct)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Advance praise for The Devilâ€™s Gentleman\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA thrilling account of a murder case that rocked Manhattan at the turn of the 20th century . . . Schechter expertly weaves a rich historical tapestryâ€“exploring everything from the birth of â€˜yellowâ€™ journalism to the history of poison as a murder weaponâ€“without sacrificing a novelistic sense of character, pacing and suspense. The result is a riveting tale of murder, seduction and tabloid journalism run rampant in a New York not so different from todayâ€™s.â€\n <br />\n â€“Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for the true-crime books of Harold Schechter\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe scholarship is both genuine and fascinating.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Boston Book Review, on The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTop-drawer true-crime.â€\n <br />\n â€“Booklist, on Deviant\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReads like fiction but itâ€™s chillingly real.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Philadelphia Inquirer, on Deranged\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRiveting . . . brilliantly detailed . . . Schechter has done his usual sterling job in resurrecting this amazing tale.â€\n <br />\n â€“Caleb Carr, on Depraved\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2372'),
(5926, 'The Devil&#39;s Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square', 'James Traub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first part of Traub''s learned cultural history focuses on Times Square (originally Longacre Square before it was renamed in 1904) when it was the center of New York''sÃ¢â‚¬"and the nation''sÃ¢â‚¬"entertainment industry. Evoking the Runyonesque worlds of vaudeville, burlesque, speakeasies, gangsters and molls, the author provides lots of glamorous information about old Times Square and its most recognizable inventionÃ¢â‚¬"oversized electronic signs or "spectaculars." Part two opens in the 1970s after Hollywood, suburbanization and television had marginalized live entertainment and its capital, turning Times Square into a haven for drug dealers and prostitutes, "a disease to be cured." This section, on the rebirth of Times Square, is particularly valuable for showing how private interests and the public sector joined forces to create a capital for corporatized fun. In part three, some readers may become impatient with Traub''s tortured indecision about whether to enjoy this weird, overblown world, as his 11-year-old son does, or to decry it as a plot by global capitalism, as well as with his tendency to obsessively analyze the place (he visits Madame Tussaud''s Wax Museum with a professor who''s "a deconstructionist, or perhaps a postdeconstructionist"). Despite the sometimes overly intellectual approach, this book should appeal to those looking for some of the joy and excitement that even the new "sanitized" Times Square has to offer.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Traub has made a career out of writing about New York and its institutions. He has the right: he lives and breathes the city, and his prose tumbles out sparkling and effortless. His history of Times Square--its name was changed from Longacre Square in the spring of 1904 for the newspaper headquartered there--is a vivid and remarkably nonjudgmental tale. The "iron law" of Times Square, he writes, is "real estate turned to its most profitable use," and he carries that idea from rooftop gardens, vaudeville, and the magical year of 1927 through the speakeasies and nightclubs of the 1930s to the sinkhole of the 1970s and the square''s current incarnation as the site of a family carnival. He doesn''t miss a character--what made Times Square happen were personalities from reporter Walter Winchell and nightclub queen Texas Guinan to designer Tibor Kalman and the real estate Dursts. He segues smoothly from the assignations of boxer Primo Carnera at the Forrest Hotel to the effect of crowds on MTV''s\n <em>\n  Total Request Live\n </em>\n . He pauses in his archaeological reconstruction long enough to marvel at the length and depth of Irving Berlin''s career and to admire the Ferris wheel inside the Toys R Us store. A fabulous read that quite nearly captures the "gorgeous disarray" and "epic higgedly piggedly" of the world''s gathering place. For other slices of New York life, see Donna Seaman''s Read-alike column, "Walkabout, New York Style," in the February 1, 2004,\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  GraceAnne DeCandido\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2373'),
(5927, 'The Devil&#39;s Punchbowl', 'Greg Iles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n FromNew York Timesbestselling author Greg Iles comes his most electrifying thriller yet.The Devil''s Punchbowlreveals a world of depravity, sex, violence, and the corruption of a Southern town.As a prosecuting attorney in Houston, Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown -- Natchez, Mississippi -- that Penn will face his most dangerous threat. Urged by old friends to try to restore this fading jewel of the Old South, Penn has ridden into office on a tide of support for change. But in its quest for new jobs and fresh money, Natchez, like other Mississippi towns, has turned to casino gambling, and now five fantastical steamboats float on the river beside the old slave market at Natchez like props fromGone With the Wind.But one boat isn''t like the others.Rumor has it that the Magnolia Queen has found a way to pull the big players from Las Vegas to its Mississippi backwater. And with them -- on sleek private jets that slip in and out of town like whispers in the night -- come pro football players, rap stars, and international gamblers, all sharing an unquenchable taste for one thing: blood sport -- and the dark vices that go with it. When a childhood friend of Penn''s who brings him evidence of these crimes is brutally murdered, the full weight of Penn''s failure to protect his city hits home. So begins his quest to find the men responsible. But it''s a hunt he begins alone, for the local authorities have been corrupted by the money and power of his hidden enemy. With his family''s lives at stake, Penn realizes his only allies in his one-man war are those bound to him by blood or honor: Caitlin Masters, the lover Penn found inThe Quiet Can Gameand lost inTurning Angel Danny McDavitt, the heroic helicopter pilot fromThird Degree Tom Cage, Penn''s father and legendary local family physician Walt Garrity, a retired Texas Ranger who served with Penn''s father during the Korean WarTogether they must defeat a sophisticated killer who has an almost preternatural ability to anticipate -- and counter -- their every move. Ultimately, victory will depend on a bold stroke that will leave one of Penn''s allies dead -- and Natchez changed forever.After appearing in two of Iles''s most popular novels, Penn Cage makes his triumphant return as a brilliant, honorable, and courageous hero. Rich with Southern atmosphere and marked by one jaw-dropping plot turn after another,The Devil''s Punchbowlconfirms that Greg Iles is America''s master of suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3366'),
(5928, 'Devil&#39;s Waltz', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kellerman''s psychologist/sleuth Alex Delaware nimbly executes tricky steps of his own when called in to consult on the mysterious ailments afflicting a baby being seen at his training hospital in Los Angeles. In his seventh appearance (after Private Eyes ), Delaware is in top form, carefully pursuing the possibility that 21-month-old Cassie Jones may be the victim of Munchausen''s Disease by Proxy, a complex syndrome in which a parent, usually the mother, secretly causes the symptoms that endanger the child. That Cassie is the only grandchild of the hospital''s new CEO, a corporate hotshot who has demoralized the staff with cutbacks and a new administration of "paramilitary types," adds political twists to the case''s knotty psychological aspects. After a doctor involved in computer research is murdered in the hospital parking lot, Delaware calls on his friend Milo, a gay LAPD homicide cop currently serving as an input clerk. They link an earlier murder to the hospital and then key into a secret federal investigation, all the while trying to keep Cassie safe. With familiar characters, including Delaware''s woodworking girlfriend Robin, and some well-developed new ones, notably the hospital''s thuggish security head and an uptight pediatric nurse, Kellerman steadily turns up the suspense, reserving some surprises to spring near the end of this intricate tale, the best of recent Alex Delaware stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/755'),
(5929, 'Dexter by Design', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n The macabre, witty\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling series (and inspiration for the #1 Showtime series,\n <em>\n  Dexter\n </em>\n ) continues as our darkly lovable killer matches wits with a sadistic artiste--who is creating bizarre murder tableaux of his own all over Miami.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n After his surprisingly glorious honeymoon in Paris, life is almost normal for Dexter Morgan. Married life seems to agree with him: heâ€™s devoted to his bride, his stomach is full, and his homicidal hobbies are nicely under control. But old habits die hard--and Dexterâ€™s work as a blood spatter analyst never fails to offer new temptations that appeal to his offbeat sense of justice...and his Dark Passenger still waits to hunt with him in the moonlight.\n</p>\n<p>\n The discovery of a corpse (artfully displayed as a sunbather relaxing on a Miami beach chair) naturally piques Dexterâ€™s curiosity and Miamiâ€™s finest realize theyâ€™ve got a terrifying new serial killer on the loose. And Dexter, of course, is back in business.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An Essay by Jeff Lindsay: "Dexter and Me"\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n My mother called me one night two years ago. "Well," she said. "Now I know youâ€™ve really made it."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Oh, really?" I said. "What do you mean?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Iâ€™m watching\n <em>\n  Jeopardy\n </em>\n ," she said. "The answer to the last question was, â€˜Who is Dexter?â€™"\n</p>\n<p>\n A few nights later, my sister called. "You were just on\n <em>\n  Nancy Grace\n </em>\n ," she said.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I was?" I said, very surprised. It didnâ€™t seem like the kind of thing I would forget. "You mean me?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "No, not you," she snorted, as if I should have known better that someone like me would never be on\n <em>\n  Nancy Grace\n </em>\n . "Dexter. Somebodyâ€™s foot washed up on a beach, and she called it a real-life Dexter moment."\n</p>\n<p>\n And then a few weeks later my agent called. "Did you hear what they named the new robot arm for the space shuttle?" he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Let me guess," I said.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Itâ€™s iconic," my agent said. "Thatâ€™s a good thing."\n</p>\n<p>\n And it is. Dexter is iconic. But as my sister was smart enough to pick up on, I am not. I think this is a good thing. I worked in Hollywood for a dozen years, and all I can say about it is that the primitive tribes who think the camera steals your soul were really on to something. So I donâ€™t want to be instantly recognizable--not Tom Cruise famous, not even Stephen King famous.\n</p>\n<p>\n On the other hand, if Dexter wants fame, thatâ€™s fine with me. He deserves it: heâ€™s a fine, upstanding, hardworking guy who is good with kids, thoughtful to co-workers, and helpful around the house. And if he slips away now and then for a little bit of human vivisection--well, nobodyâ€™s perfect.\n</p>\n<p>\n I will admit, though, that lately Iâ€™ve begun to suffer what may be the worldâ€™s first Edgar Rice Burroughs Complex. Like Burroughsâ€™s Tarzan, my character is known all over the world, and I am still anonymous. That takes some getting used to, even though there are perks. It has given me some wonderful moments--like riding into Times Square in a taxi and seeing Dexter 60 feet tall on the side of the building. "Have you seen that program?" the driver asked me.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I donâ€™t watch much TV," I said, even though I was staring like a school boy at a peep show.\n</p>\n<p>\n "There are books, too," he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n And there are. I hope you will like them. They make wonderful gifts, too. Even better, Nancy Grace and Alex Trebek will never have to see me sweat.\n <em>\n  --Jeff Lindsay\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Hilary Hemingway)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lindsay doesn''t always maintain the balance between farce and something more serious in his fourth thriller to feature Dexter Morgan (after\n <em>\n  Dexter in the Dark\n </em>\n ). As fans of the hit Showtime TV series know, Dexter is a blood-splatter analyst for the Miami PD as well as a serial killer who targets killers who''ve evaded justice. When two eviscerated corpses turn up on a beach, Dexter investigates, as does his sister, Deborah, a sergeant with his department, who suffers serious injury after she''s stabbed by a suspect, Alex Doncevic. Convinced Deborah''s assailant is the person also responsible for the bodies on the beach, Dexter eliminates Doncevic, only to find that he''s taken an innocent life. To Dexter''s further dismay, someone begins posting videos of Doncevic''s murder on YouTube. While the darkly witty Lindsay deserves credit for continuing to make imaginative use of his original concept, a contrived resolution disappoints.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1109'),
(5930, 'Dexter in the Dark', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Lindsay''s third novel to feature endearing Miami cop and serial killer Dexter Morgan (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  Darkly Devoted Dexter\n </em>\n ), the Dark Passenger, the voice inside Dexter''s head that from time to time drives him to the Theme Park of the Unthinkable, inexplicably disappears while Morgan is investigating a gruesome double murder on the University of Miami campus. The crime scene, at which two co-eds were ritualistically burned and beheaded, gives even the human vivisectionâ€“loving vigilante the creeps. As the burned and beheaded body count continues to mount, Morgan realizes that the force behind the killings is something even more evil than his Dark Passenger. Though the macabre wit that powered the first two installments of this delightfully dark series (also a hit on TV''s Showtime) is still evident, this third entry takes a decidedly deep introspective turn as Dexter is forced to contemplate not only life without his enigmatic companion but also whoâ€”or whatâ€”he truly is.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeff Lindsay has created a fascinating antihero in Dexter, now the star of a popular Showtime television series. Critics were relieved to find that Dexterâ€™s small-screen success has had no effect on Lindsayâ€™s fast-paced plotting, absorbing characters, and delicious black humor.\n <em>\n  Dexter in the Dark\n </em>\n , the third in the series, is longer than its predecessors, which allows Lindsay to delve deeper into Dexterâ€™s psyche. Some critics were pleased, while others felt that Dexterâ€™s longwinded self-analyses detracted from the storyline. According to the\n <em>\n  Denver Post\n </em>\n , "readers who have not yet met Dexter can enjoy reading the latest without starting at the beginning." Returning admirers of this original, offbeat series will be happy to know that a fourth installment is in the works.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1108');
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(5931, 'Dexter Is Delicious', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The â€œDexterâ€ phenomenonâ€”in bookstores, on TV screens, and in the hearts of millions of fans worldwideâ€”continues with his most delectable dish to date.Â Dexter Morganâ€™s neatly organized life as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police, devoted husband and father, and killer of only those who deserve it is turned upside down by the arrival of his new daughter, Lily Anne.Â  Feeling surprisingly sunny and loving, heâ€™s trying to suppress the influence of his Dark Passengerâ€”the voice inside who guides his homicidal urges.Â  But Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires. As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to the missing girl, he realizes they are not really vampires, but cannibals.Â  And most disturbing, Â these people have their eyes on Dexter . . . and their mouths are watering.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2969'),
(5932, 'The Diamond Age', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Decades into our future, a stone''s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the\n <br />\n rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neoVictorians.  He''s made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called\n <i>\n  A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer\n </i>\n Commissioned by an eccentric duke for his grandchild, stolen for Hackworth''s own daughter, the\n <i>\n  Primer''s\n </i>\n purpose is to educate and raise a girl capable of thinking for herself.  It performs its function superbly.  Unfortunately for Hackworth, his smuggled copy has fallen into the wrong hands.\n <br />\n <br />\n Young Nell and her brother Harv are thetes--members of the poor, tribeless class.  Neglected by their mother, Harv looks after Nell.  When he and his gang waylay a certain neo-Victorian--John Percival Hackworth--  in the seamy streets of their neighborhood, Harv brings Nell something special: the Primer.\n <br />\n <br />\n Following the discovery of his...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/723'),
(5933, 'Diamonds Are Forever', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde, stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa to London to the United States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Agent 007 is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice maiden herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1131'),
(5934, 'Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years', 'Michael Palin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n â€œMichael Palin is not just one of Britainâ€™s foremost comedy character actors, he also talks a lot. Yap, yap, yap he goes, all day long and through the night . . . then, some nights, when everyone else has gone to bed, he goes home and writes up a diary.â€ â€”John Cleese\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor Palin it has been one hell of a ride, but he seems to have maintained equilibrium all along the way. . . . In sum, itâ€™s tempting to call him a Renaissance Man. But that, as any Pythonite would be quick to tell you, would be silly.â€ â€”Jonathan Yardley,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael Palin has kept a diary since he was newly married in the late 1960s, when he was beginning to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter, and Monty Python was just around the corner.\n</p>\n<p>\n This volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the two Terrysâ€”Jones and Gilliamâ€”and Eric Idle came together and changed the face of British comedy. But this is but only part of Palinâ€™s story. Here too is his growing family, his home in a north London Victorian terrace, his solo effort as an actor_,_ and his writing endeavours (often in partnership with Terry Jones) that produce\n <em>\n  Ripping Yarns\n </em>\n and even a pantomime.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, Monty Python refuses to go away: his account of the making of both\n <em>\n  The Holy Grail\n </em>\n and the\n <em>\n  Life of Brian\n </em>\n movies are page-turners, and the sometimes extraordinary goings-on of the many powerful personalities who coalesced to form the Python team makes for funny and riveting reading.\n</p>\n<p>\n A perceptive and witty chronicle, the diaries are a rich portrait of a fascinating period.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[C]harming and at times revelatory . . . A voice of (relative sanity) in the eye of a comedic storm, Palin paints so vivid a picture that the reader becomes a Python by proxy.â€ â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is terrifically good: funny, astute, and wonderfully written. . . . â€â€”_The Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis combination of niceness, with his natural volubility, creates Palinâ€™s expansiveness.â€ Â—-David Baddiel,\n <em>\n  The Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA real delight to read.â€ Â—-_Saga _Magazine (UK)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHis showbiz observations are so absorbing. . . . Palin is an elegant and engaging writer.â€ Â—-William Cook,\n <em>\n  The Guardian\n </em>\n (UK)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA wealth of fascinating stuff about Monty Python.â€ Â—-_The Independent_ (UK)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOur favourite TV explorer shows us the workings of an unstoppable machine.â€ Â—-_Daily Express_ (UK)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA riveting commentary to a remarkably creative decade.â€ Â—-_Academy_ (UK)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1849'),
(5935, 'Diary', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With a first page that captures the reader hook, line and sinker, Palahniuk (Choke; Lullaby) plunges into the odd predicament of Waytansea Island resident and ex-art student Misty Marie Kleinman, whose husband, Peter, lies comatose in a hospital bed after a suicide attempt. Rooms in summer houses on the mainland that Peter has remodeled start to mysteriously disappear-"The man calling from Long Beach, he says his bathroom is missing"-and Misty, with the help of graphologist Angel Delaporte, discovers that crude and prophetic messages are scrawled across the walls and furniture of the blocked-off chambers. In her new world, where every day is "another longest day of the year," Misty suffers from mysterious physical ailments, which only go away while she is drawing or painting. Her doctor, 12-year-old daughter and mother-in-law, instead of worrying about her health, press her to paint more and more, hinting that her art will save exclusive Waytansea Island from being overrun by tourists. In the meantime, Misty is finding secret messages written under tables and in library books from past island artists issuing bold but vague warnings. With new and changing versions of reality at every turn, the theme of the "tortured artist" is taken to a new level and "everything is important. Every detail. We just don''t know why, yet." The novel is something of a departure for Palahniuk, who eschews his blighted urban settings for a sinister resort island, but his catchy, jarring prose, cryptic pronouncements and baroque flights of imagination are instantly recognizable, and his sharp, bizarre meditations on the artistic process make this twisted tale one of his most memorable works to date.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Palahniuk''s sixth novel takes the form of a so-called coma diary written for Peter Wilmot, who is comatose after a running-car-in-garage suicide attempt (he started with the gas tank half-empty, proving his inability to do anything well). While Peter wastes away in a hospital, his family and friends waste away on Waytansea Island ("Everyone''s in their own personal coma," Palahniuk writes with his trademark optimism). Peter''s art-school-prodigy-turned-bitter-waitress wife, Misty, can''t afford the family mansion anymore. Tourists have overrun the whole island, and the old-money families have spent all of their old money. But no one on the island seems to care about their community-wide coma. They just want Misty to\n  <em>\n   paint\n  </em>\n  . She refuses--until she begins to suffer tortuous headaches that only abate when she paints. The islanders seem suspiciously keen on seeing Misty''s work continue, and the only way to keep her painting is to keep her miserable. Palahniuk''s fans haven''t seen plot twists this good since\n  <em>\n   Fight Club\n  </em>\n  , but this book lacks the manic humor that makes his better novels so engrossing. The fantastically grotesque premise propels the story, but the writing lacks the satirical precision that made Palahniuk a hero to young nihilists everywhere (see his take on the travel book, reviewed on p.1858). Instead, it often reads like a self-indulgent complaint about the terrible suffering of artists. Still, excellent plotting and a compelling allegory will satisfy the majority of Palahniukites.\n  <em>\n   John Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1115'),
(5936, 'The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red', 'Ellen Rimbauer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A mysterious and haunting spirit lurks within the walls of Rose Red, the setting for Stephen King''s upcoming ABC miniseries tie-in by the same name. Built on a Native American burial ground in early 20th-century Seattle, the mansion which is constantly under construction sets the scene for a multitude of inexplicable disappearances and ghastly deaths. While moody oil tycoon John Rimbauer refuses to acknowledge that the house has a mind of its own, his young wife, Ellen, dramatizes these eerie events with great detail in her diary, often personifying the house as if it were a living being. (Or, perhaps, a non-living being?) While the evolution of Ellen''s character from innocent and submissive to frighteningly powerful is a slow process, the language and questioning nature of her entries entice the reader as the mystery of Rose Red is brought into full bloom. Ellen also reveals frustration and disappointment with her marriage namely her husband''s unfaithfulness and alarmingly frequent involvement in voyeuristic activities as well as a growing confusion about her sexual identity and attachment to her friend and African handmaid, Sukeena. In addition to extensive dialogue that makes the diary seem a tad more like a novel than someone''s personal confessions, Ellen''s entries are accompanied by a handful of explanatory notes put in by the "editor" and supposed professor of paranormal studies, Joyce Reardon. The people mentioned in the diary, as well as Reardon, are all characters in Rose Red, which was created directly for television by the bestselling author. As to who penned the actual text of the diary? That remains as much of a mystery as Rose Red herself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A clever, beautifully detailed fiction." --\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/871'),
(5937, 'Die for Me', 'Karen Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  No one does twisted killers better than the awe-inspiring Rose. Her ability to ratchet up the creepy factor within an exciting procedural thriller makes her tops in her field. The real trick, however, is balancing out a great villain with strong heroes and heroines, which is exactly the case in this fear-inducing novel. --Romantic Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tavia Gilbert''s well-paced narration of Karen Rose''s latest suspense keeps things hopping. . . . the love scenes fairly sizzle. Rose is a master of the romantic mystery, and listeners won''t be disappointed. --AudioFile\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   COME TO ME\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first victim is found in a snow-covered Philadelphia field. Detective Vito Ciccotelli enlists the aid of archaeologist Sophie Johannsen to determine exactly what lies beneath the frozen ground. Despite years of unearthing things long buried, nothing can prepare Sophie for the matrix of graves dug with chilling precision. The victims buried there haunt her. But the empty graves terrify her-the killer isn''t done yet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   SCREAM FOR ME\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  He is cold and calculating, the master of a twisted game. Even with Vito and Sophie hot on his trail, he will not stop. One more empty grave must be filled, and one last scream must be heard-the scream of an archaeologist who is too close for comfort and too near to resist...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    DIE FOR ME\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/431'),
(5938, 'Die Trying', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his office parking lot by three men and ordered into the trunk of his Lexus. On a downtown sidewalk, Jack Reacher and an unknown woman are abducted in broad daylight by two men - practiced and confident - who stop them at gunpoint and hustle them into the same sedan. Then Reacher and the woman are switched into a second vehicle and hauled away, leaving the dentist bound and gagged inside his car with the woman''s abandoned possessions, two gallons of gasoline. . . and a burning match.The FBI is desperate to rescue the woman, a Special Agent from the Chicago office, because the FBI always - always - takes care of its own, and because this woman is not just another agent. Reacher and the woman join forces, against seemingly hopeless odds, to outwit their captors and escape. But the FBI thinks Jack is one of the kidnappers - and when they close in, the Bureau snipers will be shooting to kill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2545'),
(5939, 'Different Seasons', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Different Seasons\n </em>\n (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy''s corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity.\n</p>\n<p>\n These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont''s 1994\n <em>\n  The Shawshank Redemption\n </em>\n (available as a screenplay, a DVD film, and an audiocassette), "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer''s 1998 film\n <em>\n  Apt Pupil\n </em>\n (also released in 1998 on audiocassette), and "The Body" into Rob Reiner''s\n <em>\n  Stand by Me\n </em>\n (1986).\n</p>\n<p>\n The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive under extraordinary circumstances. It''s the tightest, most polished tale in the collection.\n <em>\n  --Fiona Webster\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. Since publication of his first novel CARRIE he has become perhaps the bestselling author in the world today.Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. Since publication of his first novel CARRIE he has become perhaps the bestselling author in the world today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/872'),
(5940, 'Digging to America', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tyler (\n <em>\n  Breathing Lessons\n </em>\n ) encompasses the collision of cultures without losing her sharp focus on the daily dramas of modern family life in her 17th novel. When Bitsy and Brad Donaldson and Sami and Ziba Yazdan both adopt Korean infant girls, their chance encounter at the Baltimore airport the day their daughters arrive marks the start of a long, intense if sometimes awkward friendship. Sami''s mother, Maryam Yazdan, who carefully preserves her exotic "outsiderness" despite having emigrated from Iran almost 40 years earlier, is frequently perplexed by her son and daughter-in-law''s ongoing relationship with the loud, opinionated, unapologetically American Donaldsons. When Bitsy''s recently widowed father, Dave, endearingly falls in love with Maryam, she must come to terms with what it means to be part of a culture and a country. Stretching from the babies'' arrival in 1997 until 2004, the novel is punctuated by each year''s Arrival Party, a tradition manufactured and comically upheld by Bitsy; the annual festivities gradually reveal the families'' evolving connections. Though the novel''s perspective shifts among characters, Maryam is at the narrative and emotional heart of the touching, humorous story, as she reluctantly realizes that there may be a place in her heart for new friends, new loves and her new country after all.\n <em>\n  (May 9)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Two families arrive at the Baltimore/Washington International Airport in August 1997 to claim the Korean infants they have adopted. Strangers until that evening, they are destined to begin a friendship that will span their adoptive daughters'' childhoods. Bitsy and Brad Donaldson are the quintessential middle-class, white American couple. Sami and Ziba Yazdan are Iranian Americans. From the beginning, the differences in the ways they will raise their daughters are obvious: Bitsy''s well-meaning but overzealous efforts to retain her child''s Korean heritage are evident in the chosen nameâ€“Jin-Hoâ€“and in the Korean costumes that she dresses the girl in every year as they mark the anniversary of the adoption date. The Yazdans are comfortable with their daughter Susan''s assimilation into their own Iranian-American culture. When Bitsy''s widowed father begins to show romantic interest in Susan''s grandmother, cultural differences are brought to a head. Tyler weaves a story that speaks to how we come to terms with our identity in multicultural America, and how we form friendships that move beyond the unease of differences. She does not dwell on the September 11 attacks, but subtly portrays the distrust that the Yazdans have to endure in the following months. Tyler''s gift, as in her other novels, is her ability to infuse the commonplace with meaning and grace, and teens will appreciate her perceptiveness in exploring relationships within and between families across the cultural spectrum.\n <em>\n  â€“Kim Dare, Chantilly Regional Library, Fairfax County, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/966'),
(5941, 'Digital Fortress', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In most thrillers, "hardware" consists of big guns, airplanes, military vehicles, and weapons that make things explode. Dan Brown has written a thriller for those of us who like our hardware with disc drives and who rate our heroes by big brainpower rather than big firepower. It''s an Internet user''s spy novel where the good guys and bad guys struggle over secrets somewhat more intellectual than just where the secret formula is hidden--they have to gain understanding of what the secret formula actually is.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this case, the secret formula is a new means of encryption, capable of changing the balance of international power. Part of the fun is that the book takes the reader along into an understanding of encryption technologies. You''ll find yourself better understanding the political battles over such real-life technologies as the Clipper Chip and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) software even though the book looks at the issues through the eyes of fiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although there''s enough globehopping in this book for James Bond, the real battleground is cyberspace, because that''s where the "bomb" (or rather, the new encryption algorithm) will explode. Yes, there are a few flaws in the plot if you look too closely, but the cleverness and the sheer fun of it all more than make up for them. There are enough twists and turns to keep you guessing and a lot of high, gee-whiz-level information about encryption, code breaking, and the role they play in international politics. Set aside the whole afternoon and evening for it and have finger food on hand for supper--you may want to read this one straight through.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The National Security Agency (NSA) is one setting for this exciting thriller; the other is Seville, where on page 1 the protagonist, lately dismissed from NSA, drops dead of a supposed heart attack. Though dead, he enjoys a dramaturgical afterlife in the form of his computer program. Digital Fortress creates unbreakable codes, which could render useless NSA''s code-cracking supercomputer called TRANSLTR, but the deceased programmer slyly embossed a decryption key on a ring he wore. Pursuit of this ring is the engine of the plot. NSA cryptology boss Trevor Strathmore dispatches linguist Dave Becker to recover the ring, while he and Becker''s lover, senior code-cracker Susan Fletcher, ponder the vulnerability of TRANSLTR. In Seville, over-the-top chase scenes abound; meanwhile, the critical events unfold at NSA. In a crescendo of murder, infernos, and explosions, it emerges that Strathmore has as agenda that goes beyond breaching Digital Fortress, and Brown''s skill at hinting and concealing Strathmore''s deceit will rivet cyber-minded readers.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1110'),
(5942, 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBeautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . Superb entertainment.â€\n <br />\n *â€“The New York Times\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.â€\n  <br />\n </em>\n â€“The Boston Globe\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œA novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“\n </em>\n Newsweek\n <em>\n  *\n  <br />\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œAnne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€“Chicago Tribune\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œIn her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“JOHN UPDIKE, *The New Yorker\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n *\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n I first read this book back in 1984, long before I was in the publishing business. I was traveling through Greece with a friend and our hotel had shelves of books that other guests had left behind and were free for the taking.. I picked up Dinner.... knowing absolutely nothing about it. What a wonderful surprise and discovery!. I felt I had never read anything quite like it.The characters were so real, so familiar that I felt I did actually know them. In fact, for weeks after I finished the book, I had dreams about Ezra, one of the characters in the book and the owner of the Homesick Restaurant. In the dreams, he was my brother and he was just as sweet and vulnerable as he was in the book. I never re-read books because I''m usually disappointed the second time around because the sense of newness and discovery is gone. But I did read Dinner.... again and loved it as much, and even found new things I hadn''t noticed before. This novel is truly a classic.\n <br />\n --Maureen O''Neal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/967'),
(5943, 'Dirk Gently&#39;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Douglas Adams Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, England in 1952. He has written for radio, television and theater and has worked as a hospital reporter, barn builder, radio producer, and script editor. His bestsellers include\n  <em>\n   The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, Dirk Gently''s Holistic Detective Agency\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1039'),
(5944, 'Dirt', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  On the heels of his * New York Times * bestseller * Choke,* Stuart Woods brings back one of his best-loved characters, Stone Barrington, in a glittering roller-coaster ride through the murderous world of high-profile celebrity gossip.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Feared and disliked for both her poison pen and ice-queen persona, gossip columnist Amanda Dart finds the tables have turned. When an anonymous gossipmonger begins faxing the scathing details of Amanda''s sexual indiscretions to national opinion makers, she turns to Stone Barrington for help. But as the faxes also expose other members of the gossip "community," it becomes apparent that the most respected of the social scene will stop at nothing--even murder--to clear their names. Set against a backdrop of glitzy Manhattan society, *Dirt*is a sexy, fast-paced and witty thriller--Stuart Woods at his best.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2648'),
(5945, 'Dirty Little Secrets: Breaking the Silence on Teenage Girls and Promiscuity', 'Kerry Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n They have sex too early and for the wrong reasons. They get STDs. They get pregnant too young. They have "friends with benefits" but with no benefit to themselves. They don''t get called. They get dumped. They hate themselves for being unlovable for being needy. They are loose girls they are everywhere and they need our help. In the provocative hit memoir Loose Girl, Kerry Cohen explored her own promiscuity with brutal candor and stunning clarity. Dirty Little Secrets is the eye-opening follow-up readers have been clamoring for, a riveting look at today''s adolescent girls who use sex as a means to prove their worth. Cohen lays bare the hard truths about this dangerous life that reveals itself in girls you wouldn''t expect and in ways you might not see-and that can seriously damage and hurt these girls. Featuring stories from self-admitted loose girls across the country, Dirty Little Secrets is an unforgettable wake-up call for our culture, ourselves, and our vulnerable daughters. "Very few people can write about teen girls'' sexual promiscuity with the candor, empathy, and intelligence Kerry Cohen does...I think any girl who reads this will recognize at least one girl she knows-and that girl may be looking back at her in the mirror." -Rosalind Wiseman, new york times bestselling author of QUEEN BEES AND WANNABES and BOYS, GIRLS, AND OTHER HAZARDOUS MATERIALS "As compassionate as it is enlightening, Kerry Cohen''s Dirty Little Secrets argues for female safety and desire, and provides a road map for authentically healthy, vital sexuality." -Jennifer Baumgardner, author of Look Both Ways, F ''Em, and Manifesta "A must-read, for it sheds light on the truth behind the secrets and lies teens tell themselves... Women of all ages can relate and benefit from this book-I can''t recommend it enough. Dirty Little Secrets is urgently needed." -Amber Smith, model and star of Dr. Drew Pinsky''s Celebrity Rehab and Celebrity Sex Rehab "Kerry Cohen has ''been there''-and it shows in her empathy, her insight, and her remarkable ability to draw out the truth...Dirty Little Secrets busts the myths, breaks down walls, and takes us where we need to go to understand the private lives of so many young women today." -Hugo Schwyzer, PhD, Pasadena City College, Coauthor, Beauty, Disrupted: the CarrÃ© Otis Story (20110530)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1850'),
(5946, 'Dirty Sexy Politics', 'Meghan McCain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meghan McCain came to prominence as the straight-talking, progressive daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. And her profile has only risen since the election ended in favor of the other guy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n makes Meghan so appealing? As a new role model for young, creative, and vocal members of the GOP, she''s unafraid to mix it up and speak her mind. In *Dirty Sexy Politics* she takes a hard look at the future of her party. She doesn''t shy away from serious issues and her raucous humor and down-to-earth style keep her positions accessible.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this witty, candid, and boisterous book, Meghan takes us deep behind the scenes of the campaign trail. She steals campaign signs in New Hampshire, tastes the nightlife in Nashville, and has a strange encounter with Laura and Jenna Bush at the White House. Along the way, she falls in love with America--while seeing how far the Republican Party has veered from its core values of freedom, honesty, and individuality. In *Dirty Sexy Politics*, Meghan McCain gives us a true insider''s account of life on a campaign trail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1852'),
(5947, 'Dirty Work', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hired to prove infidelity in an heiress''s marriage, Stone Barrington goes undercover. But the work turns dirty-and catastrophic-when the errant husband is found dead and the other woman disappears without a trace. Now, Stone must clear his own good name and find a killer hiding among the glitterati of New York''s high society. Enter Carpenter-the beautiful British intelligence agent first encountered in The Short Forever-who has arrived in New York to begin an investigation of her own. Stone suspects that her case is strangely connected to the dead husband. And he and Dino, his former NYPD partner, are set to face the most bizarre and challenging assignment of their very colorful careers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2670'),
(5948, 'The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements', 'Sam Kean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Periodic Table is one of man''s crowning scientific achievements. But it''s also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.We learn that Marie Curie used to provoke jealousy in colleagues'' wives when she''d invite them into closets to see her glow-in-the-dark experiments. And that Lewis and Clark swallowed mercury capsules across the country and their campsites are still detectable by the poison in the ground. Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history?From the Big Bang to the end of time, it''s all in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2792'),
(5949, 'Disclosure', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry; a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse; an accusation of sexual harassment that threatens to derail a brilliant career...this is the electrifying core of Michael Crichton''s new novel, the first since Rising Sun.At the center: Tom Sanders, an up-and-coming executive with DigiCom in Seattle, a man whose corporate future is certain. Until: after a closed-door meeting with his new boss -- a woman who was his lover ten years before, a woman who has been promoted to the position he expected to have -- he is accused of sexually harassing her. Now he finds himself trapped between what he knows to be true and what he knows others will assume to be the truth. And, as he uncovers an electronic trail into the company''s secrets, he begins to grasp just how cynical and manipulative an abuse of truth has actually occurred...Tackling one of the most divisive issues of our time, Disclosure compels us to see beyond our traditional responses. It is Michael Crichton at his best.Michael Crichton''s novels include The Terminal Man, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, and Rising Sun.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/328'),
(5950, 'A Discovery of Witches', 'Deborah Harkness', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together.   Deep in the stacks of Oxford''s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell.  Debut novelist Deborah Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense. Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. This smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but it is as contemporary and sensual as the Twilight series-with an extra serving of historical realism.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3517'),
(5951, 'A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century', 'Barbara W. Tuchman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." â€”_Commentary_\n</p>\n<p>\n The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear and the Plague.\n <strong>\n  Barbara Tuchman\n </strong>\n anatomizes the century, revealing both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2190'),
(5952, 'Distant Shores', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her remarkable New York Times bestseller, Summer Island, Kristin Hannah struck a chord in readers and critics alike with her portrayal of the bittersweet reunion between an errant mother and her unforgiving daughter. Now Hannah once again reveals the fragile ties that bind a family in transition, as two people choose to escape the limits of their ordinary lives and reach for the extraordinary promise that lies on Distant Shores.Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a future together. But after the children leave home, they quietly drift apart. When Jack accepts a wonderful new job offer, Elizabeth puts her needs aside to follow him across the country. Until the sudden death of her father changes everything.Grieving and alone, she retreats to an isolated beach house where she packs away the last remnants of her parentsâ€™ lives. There, the pieces of a past she never knew unfold to reveal a tender story of lasting devotion, the kind of steadfast commitment that Elizabeth admits is missing from her own marriage. Faced with her own disillusionment, she makes a terrifying decision, risking everything she has for a second chance at happiness. Enriched by soul-stirring emotion and an appreciation for the simple joy of everyday miracles, Distant Shores is an exquisite reminder of the most precious gifts in life: friends and family, children and lovers, the strength to change, and the courage to forgiveâ€“all flawlessly captured by the graceful hands of Kristin Hannah.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/987'),
(5953, 'Distraction', 'Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s the year 2044, and America has gone to hell. A disenfranchised U.S. Air Force base has turned to highway robbery in order to pay the bills. Vast chunks of the population live nomadic lives fueled by cheap transportation and even cheaper computer power. Warfare has shifted from the battlefield to the global networks, and China holds the information edge over all comers. Global warming is raising sea level, which in turn is drowning coastal cities. And the U.S. government has become nearly meaningless. This is the world that Oscar Valparaiso would have been born into, if he''d actually been born instead of being grown in vitro by black market baby dealers. Oscar''s bizarre genetic history (even he''s not sure how much of him is actually human) hasn''t prevented him from running one of the most successful senatorial races in history, getting his man elected by a whopping majority. But Oscar has put himself out of a job, since he''d only be a liability to his boss in Washington due to his problematic background. Instead, Oscar finds himself shuffled off to the Collaboratory, a Big Science pork barrel project that''s run half by corruption and half by scientific breakthroughs. At first it seems to be a lose-lose proposition for Oscar, but soon he has his "krewe" whipped into shape and ready to take control of events. Now if only he can straighten out his love life and solve a worldwide crisis that no one else knows exists. --Craig E. Engler\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3902'),
(5954, 'Divine Justice', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Near the start of bestseller Baldacci''s less than compelling fourth Camel Club thriller (after\n  <em>\n   Stone Cold\n  </em>\n  ), former CIA assassin Oliver Stone (aka John Carr) boards a New Orleansâ€“bound train at Washington''s Union Station after shooting to death a well-known U.S. senator and the nation''s intelligence chief, the two men responsible for his wife''s murder. Ever the Good Samaritan, Stone intervenes in a fight on the train, but when the Amtrak conductor asks to see his ID, he gets off at the next station, knowing his fake ID won''t withstand scrutiny. So much for Stone''s vaunted ability as a resourceful planner. This sudden detour takes Stone to Divine, Va., a mining town where he becomes enmeshed in corruption and intrigueâ€”and falls, in just one of several clichÃ©d situations, for an attractive if beleaguered widow. Series fans should be satisfied, but this effort lacks the imagination that distinguished Baldacci''s debut,\n  <em>\n   Absolute Power\n  </em>\n  (1996).\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Readers who have been holding their breath since the end of Stone Cold (2007), the previous Camel Club novel, can inhale: Oliver Stone did survive his plunge into the water. For the uninitiated, Baldacciâ€™s Oliver Stone isnâ€™t the noted film director; heâ€™s a former government assassin who has made a risky living foiling government conspiracies. Now, having eluded capture after committing a pair of necessary assassinations, Stone (or John Carr, if you prefer to use his real name) is on the run, hiding out in rural America, where he discovers that small-town intrigue is at least as intricate and dangerous as anything heâ€™s come up against previously. Combining the Camel Club seriesâ€™ wit and fast pace with a Fugitive-like story (casting Stone as Richard Kimble, the man on the run who risks his life to protect the lives of strangers), Baldacci shows once again that he is a sort of thriller Renaissance man: a master of plot, dialogue, and character. Itâ€™s fascinating to observe how Stone operates when heâ€™s entirely on his own, too. Not only is he evading his pursuers, especially Macklin Hayes, whose obsessive determination to capture Stone may be based more on personal reasons than professional ones,Â butÂ heâ€™s also cast himself adrift from his comrades, who are working feverishly behind the scenes to find him and keep him safe. A rousing success, although this should come as no surprise to faithful Baldacci readers. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/240'),
(5955, 'Divine Misdemeanors', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kinâ€™s treachery and malevolence, and honored my duty to conceive a royal heirâ€”all for the right to claim the throne. But I turned my back on court and crown, choosing exile in the human worldâ€”and in the arms of my beloved Frost and Darkness. While I may have rejected the monarchy, I cannot abandon my people. Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. My kind are not easily captured or killed. At least not by mortals. I must get to the bottom of these horrendous murders, even if that means going up against Gilda, the Fairy Godmother, my rival for fey loyalties in Los Angeles.But even stranger things are happening. Mortals I once healed with magic are suddenly performing miracles, a shocking phenomenon wreaking havoc on human/faerie relations. Though I am innocent, dark suspicions of banned magical activities swirl around me.I thought Iâ€™d left the blood and politics behind in my own turbulent realm. I had dreamed of an idyllic life in sunny L.A. with my beloved ones beside me. But it becomes time to wake up and realize that evil knows no borders, and that nobody lives foreverâ€”even if theyâ€™re magical.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3640'),
(5956, 'Dixie City Jam', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After his dreamy sojourn into Civil War history in In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead , former New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux comes up against the residue of Nazism in his action-packed, somewhat rambling seventh adventure. When Batist, who helps Dave run his bait shop, is arrested for the latest in a series of murders of New Orleans drug dealers, Dave must raise money for his bail. For a $10,000 finder''s fee, he agrees to search for a Nazi submarine sunk in 1942 off the coast of New Iberia, where he is now deputy sheriff. While the sub search draws the attention of a neo-Nazi sadist who threatens Dave''s wife, Bootsie, Dave is distracted by the antics of his former partner, Clete Purcel, who has decided to take on mob interests and, in one instance, destroys a crime boss''s mansion with an earth mover. Before a dramatic resolution at sea draws the threads of the plots loosely together, Dave traces an intricate course marked by ritual killings, bouts of torture, Bootsie''s anxiety (from which she seeks relief in drink) and racial and gender politics within the New Orleans police force, drawing Dave into the lives of a feisty black woman cop and her teenage son. A standout in the diverting supporting cast is doom-predicting Brother Oswald, who employs a maddeningly roundabout manner of discourse. In this physically demanding, fast moving plot, Dave is less ruminative than when last seen, though he holds on to his trademark melancholy-tinged sensitivity. $200,000 ad/promo; 20-city author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Louisiana sleuth Dave Robicheaux (who made it big in the Edgar Award-winning Black Cherry Blues , LJ 8/89) confronts his nastiest villain yet: neo-Nazi Will Buchalter.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/436'),
(5957, 'Djibouti', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Elmore Leonard, New York Times bestselling author and "the hippest, funniest national treasure in sight" (Washington Post), brings his trademark wit and inimitable style to this twisting, grippingâ€”and sometimes playfulâ€”tale of modern-day piracy   Dara Barr, documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game. She''s covered the rape of Bosnian women, neo-Nazi white supremacists, and post-Katrina New Orleans, and has won awards for all three. Now, looking for a bigger challenge, Dara and her right-hand-man, Xavier LeBo, a six-foot-six, seventy-two-year-old African American seafarer, head to Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, to film modern-day pirates hijacking merchant ships.   They learn soon enough that almost no one in the Middle East is who he seems to be. The most successful pirate, driving his Mercedes around Djibouti, appears to be a good guy, but his pal, a cultured Saudi diplomat, has dubious connections. Billy Wynn, a Texas billionaire, plays mysterious roles as the mood strikes him. He''s promised his girlfriend, Helene, a nifty fashion model, that he''ll marry her if she doesn''t become seasick or bored while circling the world on his yacht. And there''s Jama Raisuli, a black al Qaeda terrorist from Miami, who''s vowed to blow up something big.   What Dara and Xavier have to decide, besides the best way to stay alive: Should they shoot the action as a documentary or turn it into a Hollywood feature film?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3093'),
(5958, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."\n <br />\n --John Brunner\n <br />\n THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .\n <br />\n Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.\n <br />\n By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn''t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . .\n <br />\n They even built humans.\n <br />\n Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn''t want to be identified, they just blended in.\n <br />\n Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.\n <br />\n "[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from."\n <br />\n --Paul Williams\n <br />\n Rolling Stone\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jennifer Bassett is Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, for which she has written original stories One-Way Ticket and The President''s Murderer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1041');
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(5959, 'Do No Harm', 'Gregg Hurwitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The doors to the UCLA Medical Center Emergency Room burst open and a young nurse stumbles in -- blinded, her once-beautiful face hideously blistered and burning from a savage attack by an unknown assailant. A dedicated physician, E.R. Chief Dr. David Spier is no stranger to the terrible ravages of senseless violence. But this tragedy hits too close to home; the victim is a colleague. A second violent assault suggests the unthinkable: a disturbed man is stalking the Medical Center, and specifically the women who work there. It''s up to Dr. Spier to keep the emergency room running smoothly and efficiently, even as his terrified co-workers wonder who might be next. But destiny is about to place him at the very center of a media frenzy that erupts in the wake of the attacks -- when the brutal assailant himself is dragged into the E.R. in handcuffs and placed under Dr. Spier''s careâ€¦as a patient. Hindered by a mutinous staff that refuses to administer to the damaged man,up against angry L.A. cops who would rather see the criminal dead than imprisoned, and alarmed media hungry for a lead story at any cost -- David Spier must now make the most difficult ethical decision of his career. But by doing so, he underestimates the power and cunning of the man he is sworn to heal, and inadvertently unleashes a bloody wave of horror that threatens to engulf everyone and everything he cares about. A single act of humanity has made him a pariah in the eyes of the city -- and the target of a twisted, tormented madman''s hope and vengeance. David Spier''s most sacred oath as a healer has become his death sentence. To save a city under siege and himself, he must descend into the blackest depths of a twisted and vicious mindâ€¦to unlock an unspeakable secret that has been hidden away for decades behind closed hospital doors. A breakneck-paced novel that coils and turns, surprises, chills, and mesmerizes, Do No Harm is a stunningly accomplished work by a powerful new talent. For any true lover of nerve-jangling psychological suspense who has yet to make the acquaintance of Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, the time is now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3089'),
(5960, 'Doctor No', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The allure of James Bond was best described by Raymond Chandler, who insisted that 007 is "what every man would like to be and what every woman would like to have between her sheets." Who can argue with that? This month marks the 40th anniversary of the film release of Dr. No, which was the first Bond adventure to make the big screen, and two big coffee-table books are being published to honor the occasion (LJ 10/1/02, p. 96). Shockingly, Fleming''s original novels have gone out of print, but Penguin here reproduces a trio of the British secret agent''s early outings, released in 1952, 1958, and 1959, respectively, sporting stylish cover art. These stories were racy for the nifty Fifties but are quite tame by today''s standards. Still, they can be fun.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ian Fleming (1908-1964), creator of the world''s best-known secret agent, is the author of fourteen James Bond books. Born in London in 1908 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he became the Reuters Moscow correspondent in 1929. In the spring of 1939, Fleming went back to Moscow as a special correspondent for the London Times. In June of that same year, he joined Naval Intelligence and served throughout World War II, finally earning the rank of Commander, RNVSR (Sp.). Much of the James Bond material was drawn directly from Fleming''s experiences as an intelligence officer. Later, Fleming became a consultant on foreign affairs for the London\n <em>\n  Sunday Times\n </em>\n , by which time he had become far better known as the creator of James Bond.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Mr. Fleming died August 12, 1964, at the age of fifty-six.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1133'),
(5961, 'Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock &#39;N&#39; Roll Memoir', 'Steven Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRoll â€˜em: Tylerâ€™s memoir is a wild ride. Explicit and filled with expletives, it reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling â€œLife.â€ Tyler, 63, settles back and tells story after story about life in the â€œmost decadent, lecherous, sexiest, nastiest band in the land.â€â€ (Associated Press )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExplicit and filled with expletives, the memoir -- titled Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? -- reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling Life.â€ (The Oregonian (Portland) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, whoâ€™s been influential for a whole generation of Rock-n-Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!â€ (Sir Paul McCartney )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is an unalloyed geniusâ€ (New York Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSex, drugs, and rock â€˜nâ€™ rollâ€¦gets a booster shot of head-spinning authenticity in Steven Tylerâ€™s brash memoir Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?...a frank, full, and colorful accounting of the bandâ€™s tumultuous history.â€ (USA Today )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I''ve been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I''ve been Cole-Portered and farmer''s-daughtered, I''ve been Led Zepped and 12-stepped. I''m a rhyming fool and so cool that me, Fritz the Cat, and Mohair Sam are the baddest cats that am. I have so many outrageous stories, too many, and I''m gonna tell ''em all. All the unexpurgated, brain-jangling tales of debauchery, sex &amp; drugs, transcendence &amp; chemical dependence you will ever want to hear."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The son of a classical pianist straight out of the Bronx of old Archie comics, Steven Tyler was born to be a rock star. Weaned on Cole Porter, Nat King Cole, Mickâ€”and his beloved Janis Joplinâ€”Tyler began tearing up the streets and the stage as a teenager before finally meeting his "mutant twin" and legendary partner Joe Perry. In this addictively readable memoir, told in the playful, poetic voice that is uniquely his own, Tyler unabashedly recounts the meteoric rise, fall, and rise of Aerosmith over the last three decades and riffs on the music that gives it all meaning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tyler tells what it''s like to be a living legend and the frontman of one of the world''s most revered and infamous bandsâ€”the debauchery, the money, the notoriety, the fights, the motels and hotels, the elevators, limos, buses and jets, the rehab. He reveals the spiritual side that "gets lost behind the stereotype of the Sex Guy, the Drug Guy, the Demon of Screamin'', the Terror of the Tropicana." And he talks about his epic romantic life and his relationship with his four children. As dazzling, bold, and out-on-the-edge as the man himself,\n  <em>\n   Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?\n  </em>\n  is an all-access backstage pass into this extraordinary showman''s life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1855'),
(5962, 'Dog on It', 'Spencer Quinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Meet Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of Dog on It, who works alongside Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator. Chet might have flunked out of police school ("I''d been the best leaper in K-9 class, which had led to all the trouble in a way I couldn''t remember exactly, although blood was involved"), but he''s a detective through and through.In this, their first adventure, Chet and Bernie investigate the disappearance of Madison, a teenage girl who may or may not have been kidnapped, but who has definitely gotten mixed up with some very unsavory characters. A well-behaved, gifted student, she didn''t arrive home after school and her divorced mother is frantic. Bernie is quick to take the case -- something about a cash flow problem that Chet''s not all that clear about -- and he''s relieved, if vaguely suspicious, when Madison turns up unharmed with a story that doesn''t add up. But when she disappears for a second time in a week, Bernie and Chet aren''t taking any chances; they launch a full-blown investigation. Without a ransom demand, they''re not convinced it''s a kidnapping, but they are sure of one thing: something smells funny.Their search for clues takes them into the desert to biker bars and other exotic locals, with Chet''s highly trained nose leading the way. Both Chet and Bernie bring their own special skills to the hunt, one that puts each of them in peril. But even as the bad guys try to turn the tables, this duo is nothing if not resourceful, and the result is an uncommonly satisfying adventure.With his doggy ways and his endearingly hardboiled voice, Chet is full of heart and occasionally prone to mischief. He is intensely loyal to Bernie, who, though distracted by issues that Chet has difficulty understanding -- like divorce, child custody, and other peculiar human concerns -- is enormously likable himself, in his flawed, all-too-human way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3633'),
(5963, 'Dogs Don&#39;t Lie', 'Clea Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Clea Simon''s\n  <em>\n   Cries and Whiskers\n  </em>\n  (Theda Krakow series):\n </strong>\n <br />\n ''''Readers will thrill to Theda''s engaging adventures in amateur sleuthing.'''' --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n ''''Simon has written a fast-moving story full of lively characters, both two- and four-legged. This series is highly recommended for mystery fans who love cats but who prefer to leave the crime-solving to humans.'''' --\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Animal psychic Pru Marlowe isn''t your ordinary animal psychic. A tough girl on theÂ  run from her own gift, Pru left the big city to return to her Â  picturesque Berkshires hometown looking for a little peace. Too bad Â  that her training as an animal behaviorist got her mixed up withÂ  Lily, a rescue dog, and Charles, her person. Now Charles is dead, and Â  Lily looks good for it. Listening to the animals, Pru picks up clues--and learns there are secrets in theÂ  pretty little town that make murder look simple.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/940'),
(5964, 'Dolores Claiborne', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  More of a mystery than a horror novel,\n  <em>\n   Dolores Claiborne\n  </em>\n  contains only the briefest glances at the supernatural. The novel presents Stephen King as a writer experimenting with style and narrative, time and perspective. Fans looking for a skin-crawling, page-turning fright or an undead bloodbath will be disappointed, but a patient reader willing to savor King''s leisurely study of character and island life will find many rewards. And all of this is not to say that the book is without suspense.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story unfolds in one continuous chapter, told in the first person by the cranky, 65-year-old housekeeper, Dolores, who is explaining to police officers and a stenographer how and why she killed her husband, Joe, 30 years ago. At the same time, in her rambling monologue, she insists that she did\n  <em>\n   not\n  </em>\n  kill her longtime employer, Vera Donovan--notwithstanding what the residents of Little Tall Island may be whispering. Joe was a drinker, and, as Dolores gradually argues, he deserved to die for the horrifying crimes he committed against his family. But Vera, despite her cantankerous disposition as a lady governing her decaying estate with her precise rules about even the most mundane household chore ("Six pins! Remember to use six pins! Don''t you let the wind blow my good sheets down to the corner of the yard!"), was a good woman--or at least not an evil one. She was the woman who hired the young Dolores and kept her on even after Dolores got pregnant again. Dolores cleaned and cared for her even as the old matron faded into senility.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dolores Claiborne\n  </em>\n  is a rich novel that recalls the regionalist writing of the turn of the century. It is a fine place for a skeptical newcomer--put off by King''s reputation for outright terror--to start. And for fans, it is a book that offers new insights into an author who''s an old favorite.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  King''s portrait of a Maine housekeeper accused of her employer''s murder--a nine-week PW bestseller--shows him to be a magnificent storyteller.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/904'),
(5965, 'Don&#39;t Blink', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n New York''s Lombardo''s Steak House is famous for three reasons--the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police''s fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit.\n <br />\n <br />\n Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. Shocked and shaken, he doesn''t realize that he''s accidentally captured a key piece of evidence. Ensnared in the city''s most sensational crime in years, Nick investigates for a story of his own. Back off--\n <i>\n  or die--\n </i>\n is the clear message as he closes in on the facts. Heedless, and perhaps in love, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/294'),
(5966, 'Don&#39;t Let&#39;s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood', 'Alexandra Fuller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the ship veered into the Cape of Good Hope, Mum caught the spicy, heady scent of Africa on the changing wind. She smelled the people: raw onions and salt, the smell of people who are not afraid to eat meat, and who smoke fish over open fires on the beach and who pound maize into meal and who work out-of-doors. She held me up to face the earthy air, so that the fingers of warmth pushed back my black curls of hair, and her pale green eyes went clear-glassy. â€œSmell that,â€ she whispered, â€œthatâ€™s home.â€ Vanessa was running up and down the deck, unaccountably wild for a child usually so placid. Intoxicated already. I took in a faceful of African air and fell instantly into a fever. In Donâ€™t Letâ€™s Go to the Dogs Tonight , Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with visceral authenticity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fullerâ€™s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fullerâ€™s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time. From 1972 to 1990, Alexandra Fullerâ€“known to friends and family as Boboâ€“grew up on several farms in southern and central Africa. Her father joined up on the side of the white government in the Rhodesian civil war, and was often away fighting against the powerful black guerilla factions. Her mother, in turn, flung herself at their African life and its rugged farm work with the same passion and maniacal energy she brought to everything else. Though she loved her children, she was no hand-holder and had little tolerance for neediness. She nurtured her daughters in other ways: She taught them, by example, to be resilient and self-sufficient, to have strong wills and strong opinions, and to embrace life wholeheartedly, despite and because of difficult circumstances. And she instilled in Bobo, particularly, a love of reading and of storytelling that proved to be her salvation. A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller writes poignantly about a girl becoming a woman and a writer against a backdrop of unrest, not just in her country but in her home. But Donâ€™t Letâ€™s Go to the Dogs Tonight is more than a survivorâ€™s story. It is the story of one womanâ€™s unbreakable bond with a continent and the people who inhabit it, a portrait lovingly realized and deeply felt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1857'),
(5967, 'Don&#39;t Stop Me Now', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeremy Clarkson began his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser. Since then he has written for the Sun, the Sunday Times, the Rochdale Observer, the Wolverhampton Express and Star, all of the associated Kent Newspapers, and Lincolnshire Life. Today he is the tallest person working in British television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1333'),
(5968, 'Don&#39;t Tell', 'Karen Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Since escaping her abusive cop husband and moving to Chicago seven years earlier, Mary Grace Winters has reinvented herself. With the help of a safe house for battered women, she changed her name to Caroline Stewart and her son''s to Tom and secured a secretarial position at Carrington College. But unbeknownst to Caroline, her husband is on her trail, determined to reclaim his son and kill anyone who stands in his way. Meanwhile, Caroline struggles to live a normal life and open her heart to the love of a good man, Max Hunter. A handsome history professor and former NBA star, Max still bears physical and emotional scars from a long-ago car crash. But as their whirlwind romance progresses, enhanced by generous doses of steamy sex, Max realizes that Caroline''s reluctance to commit stems from her past fears, not repulsion over his injury. Despite one stormy scene, in which Caroline and Max fling insults at each other and compare scars, first-time author Rose handles her subject matter well. She informs without preaching and allows her characters to sort through their emotions in a mature manner. As gripping as a cold hand on the back of one''s neck, but tempered by lovable characters and a moving romance, this assured debut bodes well for Rose''s future books.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   It was a desperate plan. But Mary Grace Winters knew the only way to save herself and her child from her abusive cop husband was to stage their own death. Now all that remains of their former life is at the bottom of a lake. Armed with a new identity in a new town, she and her son have found refuge hundreds of miles away. As Caroline Stewart, she has almost forgotten the nightmare she left behind nine years ago. She is even taking a chance on love with Max Hunter, a man with wounds of his own. But her past is about to collide with the present when her husband uncovers her trail and threatens her hard-won peace. Step by step, he''s closing in on her- and everything and everyone she loves.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/442'),
(5969, 'Doomsday Book', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity''s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.\n</p>\n<p>\n But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin Â— barely of age herself Â— finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history''s darkest hours.\n</p>\n<p>\n Five years in the writing by one of science fiction''s most honored authors, Doomsday Book is a storytelling triumph. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n For nearly a decade, Willis has dazzled readers with her short fiction. Her first novel, Lincoln''s Dreams, received unanimous high praise and won the John W. Campbell Award. Now she pens a sensational work about human struggle and redemption set in the time of the Black Plague.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2851'),
(5970, 'The Doomsday Key', 'James Rollins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n James Rollins, the New York Times bestselling master of nail-biting suspense and historical mystery, combines cutting-edge biotechnology with a centuries-old secret in an apocalyptic story that reveals where humankind is truly headed   The Doomsday Key   At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peter''s Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator''s son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. The three murders on three continents bear a horrifying connection: all the victims are marked by a Druidic pagan cross burned into their flesh.   The bizarre murders thrust Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force into a race against time to solve a riddle going back centuries, to a ghastly crime against humanity hidden within a cryptic medieval codex. The first clue is discovered inside a mummified corpse buried in an English peat bogâ€”a gruesome secret that threatens America and the world.   Aided by two women from his pastâ€”one his exlover, the other his new partnerâ€”Gray must piece together the horrifying truth. But the revelations come at a high cost, and to save the future, Gray will have to sacrifice one of the women at his side. That alone might not be enough, as the true path to salvation is revealed in a dark prophecy of doom.   Sigma Force confronts humankind''s greatest threat in an adventure that races from the Roman Coliseum to the icy peaks of Norway, from the ruins of medieval abbeys to the lost tombs of Celtic kings. The ultimate nightmare is locked within a talisman buried by a dead saintâ€”an ancient artifact known as the Doomsday Key.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3659'),
(5971, 'Doors Open', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n Doors Open is a 2008 novel by crime writer Ian Rankin. It is his first stand alone thriller in over 10 years. The story was originally published as a serial novel in The New York Times Magazine. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  In the article:\n </strong>\n Plot outline | Related works\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Scottish author Rankin''s intricately plotted heist thriller, software millionaire Mike Mackenzie, high-end banker Allan Cruikshank, and college art professor Robert Gissing devise a plan to liberate forgotten works of art from a warehouse storing the overflow from Edinburgh''s museum collections. The trio commissions an art student nursing an antiestablishment grudge to paint fakes to swap for the originals, and Mackenzie''s chance meeting with schoolmate Charlie Chib Calloway, now one of the city''s most notorious gangsters, allows the group access to muscle and weapons. But cracks soon appear in the plan, with an inquisitive detective inspector, who''s been on Calloway''s trail for months, getting too close for comfort. Using the smalltown feel of Edinburgh to advantage, Rankin (_Exit Music_) gives his caper novel a claustrophobic edge while injecting enough twists, turns, and triple crosses that even the most astute reader will be surprised at the outcome.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/444'),
(5972, 'Double Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There''s only one thing Alex knows: the killer adores an audience. As victims are made into gruesome spectacles citywide, inducing a media hysteria, it becomes clear to Alex that the man he''s after is a genius of terror--and he''s after fame. The killer has the whole city by its strings--and he''ll stop at nothing to become the most terrifying star that Washington D.C. has ever seen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/302'),
(5973, 'Double Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œLike a breath of fresh air blowing across all crime-novel conventions, there is Dexter.â€ â€”Time Dexter Morgan is not your average serial killer. He enjoys his day job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department . . . but he lives for his nighttime hobby of hunting other killers. Dexter is therefore not pleased to discover that someone is shadowing him, observÂ­ing him, and copying his methods. Dexter is not one to tolÂ­erate displeasure . . . in fact, he has a knack for extricating himself from trouble in his own pleasurable way.  Like the previous five best-selling novels in the Dexter series, Double Dexter showcases the witty, macabre origiÂ­nality that has propelled Jeff Lindsay to international sucÂ­cess. Double Dexter is raucously entertaining . . . full of smart suspense and dark laughs.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2961'),
(5974, 'Double Homicide', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two masters of the thriller genre break new ground with their first collaboration, introducing two different sets of cops in two different cities, faced with two very different murders. In Santa Fe, Darrel Two Moons and Steve Katz are working the 4pm-2am Special Investigation shift when they''re called to the scene of a blunt-force homicide. The victim: a wealthy art dealer with a shady reputation, very few friends and an awful lot of enemies who''re not sorry to see him dead. Did he stumble on a burglar stealing a priceless painting, or did someone whose life he''d ruined finally seek revenge? Dorothy Breton and her partner McCain are called to downtown Boston the same night Dorothy found a revolver in her teenage son''s backpack. Now her elder son is a witness to the killing of a promising athlete in a shoot-out. At least the evidence is stacked against the obvious culprit - until the autopsy shows the young man didn''t die of gunshot wounds, and Dorothy has to dig a lot deeper to find the shocking truth.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/756'),
(5975, 'Double Whammy', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A Miami Herald reporter who struck a blow against corrupt entrepreneurs in Tourist Season, Hiaasen follows through with this acid satire, a real double whammy. Private detective R. J. Decker is hired to prove that TV host Dickie Lockhart cheats to win fortunes in Florida bass-fishing tournaments. The investigation makes Decker a prey to hired killers who have murdered other "snoops," but the detective also finds a strong if weird ally in a hermit who calls himself Skink. Along with two honest cops, Skink goes with Decker to the lake where a big tournament is under way and the four make a tremendous splash, to the dismay of the assembly. Hardest hit is Reverend Weeb, Lockhart''s sponsor on the Outdoor Christian Network, whose generous supporters don''t know that he''s addicted to prostitutes, profanity and land-grabbing. The cast of bizarre characters and the suspenseful events confirm Hiaasen''s reputation for creating singular villains and heroes. While he''s probably unpopular among some fellow citizens in his home state, he will certainly please readers who appreciate the Swiftian wit in his cautionary tales.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The "double whammy" is a special lure used in the competitive bass fishing underlying the plot of this thriller by Miami journalist Hiaasen ( The Tourist Season ). Someone is cheating at bass fishing competitions, and people are getting killed. Enter R.J. Decker, former photojournalist and ex-con. Decker teams up with Skink, an unbelievable character who lives in a forest shack, eats road-killed animals, and reads Dostoyevsky (and turns out to be the ex-governor of Florida). Decker''s an unlikely hero, always a step behind. Other characters include the usual corrupt TV evangelists, rednecks, smart black policemen, and betrayingly beautiful women. The action is swift, and there are some very funny scenes. Louise A. Merriam, L.E. Phillips Memorial P.L., Eau Claire, Wis.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/448'),
(5976, 'The Dovekeepers', 'Alice Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011:\n  </strong>\n  Yael was born of a dead mother and father who knows how to become invisible. Revka learned silence when her grandsons lost their voices after witnessing their motherâ€™s brutal murder. Aziza became a boy to protect herself, and hates being forced to turn back into a woman. And Shirah will do anything to protect those she loves from the horrors of the world. The power and violence of these women is evident in every word of\n  <em>\n   The Dovekeepers\n  </em>\n  . Hoffmanâ€™s prose is vivid and unforgettable, scorching like the desert heat, and will stay with you long after you finish the last page. A story of sacrifice, endurance, and above all, survival,\n  <em>\n   The Dovekeepers\n  </em>\n  is homage to anyone whoâ€™s ever held fast to their beliefs in the face of nearly insurmountable adversity.\n  <em>\n   --Malissa Kent\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    USA Today\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Alice Hoffman weaves fiction and fact inÂ \n  <em>\n   The Dovekeepers, a thrilling, passionate saga of four women who come together to tend the doves in Masada.Â \n   <br />\n   Hoffman''s fiction is always compelling, but the history withinÂ \n  </em>\n  The Dovekeepers\n  <em>\n   Â makes this novel haunting.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Boston Globe\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alice Hoffman''s "The Dovekeepers'''' is a splendid entertainment, a harrowing, thrilling, feminist historical novel fueled to fever pitch by a rich imagination... a combination of good writing, affecting themes, and dramatic storytelling. It''s an enthralling tale that lingers in the mind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    St. Louis Dispatch\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <hr />\n <p>\n  If a world of strong women and their complex relationships with one another doesn''t draw you into Alice Hoffman''s brilliant new novel, "The Dovekeepers," read it for Hoffman''s fine sense of narrative, history and detail as she shares the story of four women who come by various paths to Masada.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Entertainment Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The women inÂ \n  <strong>\n   The Dovekeepers\n  </strong>\n  Â are physically and spiritually strong, they have elemental female desires when it comes to love, sex, and children...the author grounds her expansive, intricately woven and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose that may surprise even her most constant fans.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Beautiful, harrowing, a major contribution to twenty\n  <strong>\n   -\n  </strong>\n  first century literature."\n  <strong>\n   â€”Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate in Literature\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I am still reeling from\n  <em>\n   The Dovekeepers\n  </em>\n  --from the history Alice Hoffman illuminates, from the language she uses to bring these women to life. This novel is a testament to the human spirit and to love rising from the ashes of war. But most of all, this novel is one that will never be forgotten by a reader."\n  <em>\n   --\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Jodi Picoult, author of\n  </em>\n  Sing You Home\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  â€œIn her remarkable new novel, Alice Hoffman holds a mirror to our ancient past as she explores the contemporary themes of sexual desire, women''s solidarity in the face of strife, and the magic that''s quietly present in our day-to-day living. Put\n  <em>\n   The Dovekeepers\n  </em>\n  at the pinnacle of Hoffman''s extraordinary body of work. I was blown away.â€ â€”\n  <strong>\n   Wally Lamb, author of\n   <em>\n    The Hour I First Believed\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2862'),
(5977, 'Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician', 'Michelle Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A 30-year-old British woman, bored with her National Health Service job, applies on a whim for a position as a trainee at a hospital mortuary. This entertaining memoir chronicles the authorâ€™s first year on the job, which sees her learning how to perform a postmortem, determine cause of death, and deal with grieving relatives and shady undertakers (among a lot of other things). She tells her story in a straightforward manner, not pulling any punches when it comes to describing her working environment (â€œHe tugged at the guts and began to unwind them . . . .â€), although this means there are occasional gruesome and shivery moments (â€œit was infested with maggots that were having a huge feast on human fleshâ€). Her colleagues are portrayed as ordinary men and women, not as a collection of comic stereotypes: one of the bookâ€™s key themes is that itâ€™s an unusual job, but the people who do it are just regular folk. Not your run-of-the-mill occupational memoir, but definitely an interesting one. --David Pitt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy social life . . . and an unusual occupation. When she impulsively applies to be a mortuary technician and is offered the position, she has no idea that her decision to accept will be one of the most momentous of her life. â€œWhat I didnâ€™t realize then,â€ she writes, â€œwas that I was about to start one of the most amazing jobs you can do.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n To Williams, life in the mortuary is neither grim nor frightening. She introduces readers to a host of unique characters: pathologists (many eccentric, some utterly crazy), undertakers, and the man from the coronerâ€™s office who sings to her every morning. No two days are alike, and while Williamsâ€™s sensitivity to the dead never wavers, her tales from the crypt range from mischievous to downright shocking. Readers wonâ€™t forget the fitness fanatic run over while doing nighttime push-ups on the road, the man so large he had to be carted in via refrigerated truck, or the guide dog who led his owner onto railway tracksâ€”and left him there. The indomitable Williams never bats an eye, even as she is confrontedâ€”dailyâ€”with situations that would leave the rest of us speechless.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2161'),
(5978, 'Down the Darkest Road', 'Tami Hoag', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Hoag''s book...is not just a stroll down memory lane; it is a world where dangers lurked and some people were left to their own devices to protect themselves and those they loved. It is a world Hoag describes perfectly."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A mesmerizing psychological drama on loss, guilt, frustration and implacable, unexplainable evil."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I believe the rating system is up to five stars, but I''m going [to] ...rate this book at least an eight. If you have time to read only one book, you really should make it this one."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Old-school thrills that pack a punch and will leave fans breathless."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of the most intense suspense writers around."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Hoag''s cliff-hanger scene endings and jump cuts leave the reader panting and turning pages as fast as possible."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Hoag''s highly entertaining thrillers with complex characters and realistic angst have earned a spot on the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  Best Sellers List since 1995.\n  <em>\n   Down the Darkest Road\n  </em>\n  is sure to follow that tradition."\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Tami Hoag\n  </strong>\n  is the #1 international bestselling author of more than thirty books. Renowned for combining thrilling plots with character-driven suspense, Hoag first hit the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller list in 1995 with\n  <em>\n   Night Sins\n  </em>\n  , and each subsequent novel has repeated that performance. Hoag lives in Florida.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2943'),
(5979, 'Dr. Death', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n People are voluntarily dying before their time in California. Some call it assisted suicide when cancer or heart disease or painful old age make the quality of life unbearable. Others say it is murder, that no-one has the right to help others take their own life.\n <br />\n <br />\n As the debate rages over whether euthanasia should be legalised or not the man at the centre of the row, nick-named Doctor Death, continues his work. Dr Alex Delaware joins in the argument, but when Detective Milo Sturgis comes to him with the suspicion that some of Doctor Death''s patients are not willing collaborators, Delaware finds himself on the front line of the affair, and increasingly believes that euthanasia is not the prime motivation. So what is driving Doctor Death to kill so many?Â \n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/757'),
(5980, 'Dragon', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dirk Pitt returns for his ninth and most improbable adventure as Cussler ( Treasure ) offers a page-turning romp that achieves a level of fast-paced action and derring-do that Robert Ludlum and other practitioners of modern pulp fiction might well envy. Less admirably, Cussler seasons his tale for the contemporary audience with a substantial dose of Japan-bashing in the tradition of the Yellow Peril of times past. The scenario posits that in 1945, a third atomic bomb directed at Japan disappeared into the sea when its B-29 transport was shot down. Half a century later, that long-forgotten weapon is the key to a tale in which wealthy Japanese nationalists have planted nuclear devices in major cities around the world as part of a grand scheme to create a new Japanese empire through international blackmail. A writer of the "kitchen sink" school, Cussler throws in wild automobile chases, pitched gun battles that apparently go unnoticed by the populace at large, a classic hunt with a human as prey, a newly discovered underground Nazi treasure trove, and even the author himself (as a bit player in an antique auto race). Solidly entertaining, this thriller is perfect beach reading. Literary Guild alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Japanese businessmen have created a diabolical plot to control world economy, and all is going well until a radiation leak occurs on board the auto carrier Divine Star . Dirk Pitt is almost killed in the tremors from the explosion aboard the carrier, and the plot weaves suspensefully as he begins to solve the puzzles around him. Nuclear holocaust, secret underwater stations, Japanese art discovered in an old Nazi underground vault, and the kidnapping of two U. S. Congressmen carry readers through an exciting story of power and insatiable greed. Humor pervades the story; Cussler places himself in one scene, suggests in another that the yen become the currency of the United States, and dresses Pitt''s Uncle Percy in a lavender sport coat and lizard-skin boots. An attention-holding novel set in 1993. --Linda Vretos, West Springfield High School, VA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1203'),
(5981, 'The Drawing of the Three', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Elaborating at great length on Robert Browning''s cryptic narrative poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," the second volume of King''s post-Armageddon epic fantasy presents the equally enigmatic quest of Roland, the world''s last gunslinger, who moves through an apocalyptic wasteland toward the Dark Tower, "the linchpin that holds all of existence together." Although these minor but revealing books (which King began while still in college) are full of such adolescent portentousness, this is livelier than the first. Roland enters three lives in the alternate world of New York City: junkie and drug runner Eddie Dean, schizophrenic heiress Odetta Holmes and serial murder Jack Mort. If King tells us too little about Roland, he gives us too much about these misfits who are variously healed or punished exactly as expected. Typically, King is much better at the minutiae and sensations of a specific physical world, and several such bravura sequences (from an attack by mutant lobsters to a gun store robbery) are standouts amid the characteristic headlong storytelling. BOMC alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Join the quest before it''s too late'' -- Independent on Sunday on THE SONG OF SUSANNAH ''Pulse-poundingly engaging'' -- Sunday Express on THE SONG OF SUSANNAH ''Classic King, fine characters, compellingly written in a gripping, well-honed plot'' -- Daily Express on WOLVES OF THE CALLA ''Superbly energetic, it''s King at his best'' -- Mail on Sunday on WIZARD AND GLASS King''s magnificent uberstory is finally complete... King''s achievement is startling; his characters fresh... his plot sharply drawn... It is magic. -- Daily Express on The Dark Tower\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/906'),
(5982, 'Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke', 'Peter Guralnick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  There''s no real substitute for the sound of Sam Cooke''s music, but the detailed descriptions of his recordings throughout this masterful biography are the next best thing to wearing headphones while you read. Guralnick''s first book after a two-volume bio of Elvis honors Cooke''s (1931â€“1964) musical genius, especially his ability to grasp the changing music scene of the late 1950s and early ''60s. For those who only know the singer through his pop hitsâ€”"You Send Me"; "Twistin'' the Night Away"â€”the extensive account of his childhood background in gospel music will prove fascinating, and the evocation of the harsh realities faced by African-American musicians touring the South a powerful reminder of just how explosive this music could be. Yet wide-ranging interviews reveal that behind Cooke''s talent and energetic vocal style, many of his peers in the music biz saw a more troubling personality. The biography does not judge, but neither does it hold back on recounting Cooke''s ruthless interactions with record companies or the deep rifts in his marriage to his former childhood sweetheart. Guralnick''s revelation of the complicated man behind the music ultimately enables readers to rediscover songs like "A Change Is Gonna Come" as even more remarkable than before. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Oct. 18)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Until Sam Cooke was shot dead in a Los Angeles motel, in 1964, at the age of thirty-three, his life had been an ascending series of crossover moves: he conquered the postwar gospel-music scene, scored bigger hits by moving into secular rhythm and blues, and then, after signing with R.C.A., in 1960, proceeded to go pop, and released a string of smooth, catchy singles that placed him on the cusp of mainstream superstar status. Guralnick, as in his biography of Elvis Presley, displays a feel for the culture that gave rise to the musician, and his account is a revelatory portrait of the rough-and-tumble yet familial world of black show business before and during the civil-rights era. In darker corners lurk the antecedents of today''s gangster-rap subcultureâ€”racketeers who funded black record labels and tour packages, and performers like Johnny (Guitar) Watson, who made more as a pimp than he did singing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© 2006\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2073');
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(5983, 'Dreamcatcher', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen King fans, rejoice! The bodysnatching-aliens tale\n  <em>\n   Dreamcatcher\n  </em>\n  is his first book in years that slakes our hunger for horror the way he used to. A throwback to\n  <em>\n   It\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Stand\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Tommyknockers\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Dreamcatcher\n  </em>\n  is also an interesting new wrinkle in his fiction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Four boyhood pals in Derry, Maine, get together for a pilgrimage to their favorite deep-woods cabin, Hole in the Wall. The four have been telepathically linked since childhood, thanks to a searing experience involving a Down syndrome neighbor--a human dreamcatcher. They''ve all got midlife crises: clownish Beav has love problems; the intellectual shrink, Henry, is slowly succumbing to the siren song of suicide; Pete is losing a war with beer; Jonesy has had weird premonitions ever since he got hit by a car.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then comes worse trouble: an old man named McCarthy (a nod to the star of the 1956 film\n  <em>\n   Invasion of the Body Snatchers\n  </em>\n  ) turns up at Hole in the Wall. His body is erupting with space aliens resembling furry moray eels: their mouths open to reveal nests of hatpin-like teeth. Poor Pete tries to remove one that just bit his ankle: "Blood flew in splattery fans as Pete tried to shake it off, stippling the snow and the sawdusty tarp and the dead woman''s parka. Droplets flew into the fire and hissed like fat in a hot skillet."\n </p>\n <p>\n  For all its nicely described mayhem,\n  <em>\n   Dreamcatcher\n  </em>\n  is mostly a psychological drama. Typically, body snatchers turn humans into zombies, but these aliens must share their host''s mind, fighting for control. Jonesy is especially vulnerable to invasion, thanks to his hospital bed near-death transformation, but he''s also great at messing with the alien''s head. While his invading alien, Mr. Gray, is distracted by puppeteering Jonesy''s body as he''s driving an Arctic Cat through a Maine snowstorm, Jonesy constructs a mental warehouse along the lines of\n  <em>\n   The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci\n  </em>\n  . Jonesy physically feels as if he''s inside a warehouse, locked behind a door with the alien rattling the doorknob and trying to trick him into letting him in. It''s creepy from the alien''s view, too. As he infiltrates Jonesy, experiencing sugar buzz, endorphins, and emotions for the first time, Jonesy''s influence is seeping into the alien: "A terrible thought occurred to Mr. Gray: what if it was\n  <em>\n   his\n  </em>\n  concepts that had no meaning?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  King renders the mental fight marvelously, and telepathy is a handy way to make cutting back and forth between the campers'' various alien battlefronts crisp and cinematic. The physical naturalism of the Maine setting is matched by the psychological realism of the interior struggle. Deftly, King incorporates the real-life mental horrors of his own near-fatal accident and dramatizes the way drugs tug at your consciousness. Like the Tommyknockers, the aliens are partly symbols of King''s (vanquished) cocaine and alcohol addiction. Mainly, though, they''re just plain scary.\n  <em>\n   Dreamcatcher\n  </em>\n  is a comeback and an infusion of rich new blood into King''s body of work.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In an author''s note to this novel, the first he''s written since his near-fatal accident, King allows that he wrote the first draft of the book by hand. So much for the theory that it''s word-processing alone that leads to logorrhea. Yet despite its excessive length, the novel one of the most complex thematically and structurally in King''s vast output dazzles and grips, if fitfully. In its suspenseful depiction of an alien invasion, it superficially harkens back to King''s early work (e.g., the 1980 novella "The Mist"), but it also features the psychological penetration, word-magic and ripe imagination of his recent stuff (particularly Bag of Bones). The action shuttles between present and past, following primarily the tribulations of a band of five males four regular guys from Derry, Maine (setting of King''s It and Insomnia), and their special friend, Duddits, a Down''s child (then man) with telepathic abilities. The first chunk of the text offers a tour de force of terror bound in darkest humor, depicting the arrival at the four guys'' remote hunting cabin of a man who''s fatally ill because he harbors in his bowels an alien invader. Yet the ferocious needle-toothed "shit-weasel" that escapes from him is only one of three varieties of invader the protagonists, and eventually a black-ops containment force, face: the others are Grays, classic humanoid aliens, and byrus, a parasitical growth that threatens to overtake life on Earth. The presence of the aliens makes humans telepathic, which leads to various inspired plot complications, but also to an occasional, perhaps necessary, vagueness of narration is there anything more difficult to dramatize than mind-to-mind communication? Numerous flashbacks reveal the roots of the connections among the four guys (one of whom is hit by a car and nearly dies), Duddits and even the aliens, while the last part of the book details a race/chase to save the world a chase that goes on and on and that''s further marred by the cartoonlike presence of the head of the black ops force, who''s as close to a caricature as King has strayed in several novels. The book has flaws, then, and each of them cries "runaway author." Is anyone editing King these days? But, then, who edited, say, Mahler at his most excessive? The genius shines through in any case, in the images and conceits that blind with brilliance, in the magnificent architecture, in the wide swaths of flat-out riveting reading and, most of all, in the wellsprings of emotions King taps as he plumbs the ties that bind his characters and, by extension, all of us to one another. (One-day laydown, Mar. 20) Forecast: As King''s first book-length fiction since the accident, this novel originally titled Cancer will generate particular interest commercially and critically. It may be nominated for awards; it certainly will top the charts. Film rights optioned by Castle Rock.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/782'),
(5984, 'Dreamfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Masterâ€™s spell.â€¦In New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moningâ€™s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublinâ€™s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkestâ€”and most erotically chargedâ€”adventure of her life.He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sisterâ€™s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted sidhe-seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Macâ€™s every thoughtâ€”and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust. As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince Vâ€™lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sisterâ€™s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Macâ€™s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge.â€¦Itâ€™s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truthâ€”about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barronsâ€¦and about the world she thought she knew.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3512'),
(5985, 'Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir', 'Ngugi Wa Thiong&#39;o', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Celebrated African author and activist Thiong''o tells no ordinary coming-of-age tale. The fifth child of his father''s third wifeâ€”one of an extended family whose collective experiences range from rural farming and carpentry to WWII riflemanâ€”Ngugi skillfully recounts the challenges and calamities of growing up in British-occupied Kenya. Born in 1938, he recalls a boyhood framed by his pursuit of education (he had a unspoken pact with his mother to always do his best) and by his developing awareness of nationalist politics. Through teachers and local storytellers he hears of such world figures as Winston Churchill, Jomo Kenyatta, and Jesse Owens; at home he eventually discovers that within his own family there are both Mau Mau rebels and colonial sympathizers. Tensions between tradition and modernity, a theme Ngugi explored in his first novel, 1964''s\n <em>\n  Weep Not Child\n </em>\n ), become apparent in his fascination with the Old Testament and Christianity, and his fear when he is interrogated by military authorities. For readers, sequential time surrenders to a sense of narrative and an engaging humanity.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Ngugi is accepted into an elite high school in Kenya, worried about where to get a pair of shoes, his brother is a Mau Mau guerrilla in the mountains. The world-renowned Kenyan writer looks back at his growing up in the 1950s in this crisp, clearly told memoir, which evokes the rising African nationalism of the era in all its conflict and complexity. The many fans of Ngugiâ€™s fiction will feel the truth of the young manâ€™s viewpoint and applaud his blasting of stereotypes about the country the whites had â€œdiscovered.â€ Marcus Garvey is Ngugiâ€™s inspiration, both for his sense of self-reliance and for his ideas about nationalism versus the missionary and colonial projects, â€œwhich always assumed the fragility of the African mind.â€ He remembers â€œsettler newspapersâ€ that portray terrorist massacre â€œwithout rhyme or reasonâ€ while the freedom fighters have no media to voice their side. A fascinating look at twentieth-century African history, but also a moving intellectual odyssey in which Ngugi learns to revere both modernity and tradition but to reserve a healthy skepticism of both. --Hazel Rochman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2246'),
(5986, 'Dreams of Joy', 'Lisa See', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In her beloved New York Times bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and, most recently, Shanghai Girls, Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the potent bonds of mother love, romantic love, and love of country. Now, in her most powerful novel yet, she returns to these timeless themes, continuing the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearlâ€™s strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy.Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, and anger at her mother and aunt for keeping them from her, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth fatherâ€”the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the communist regime. Devastated by Joyâ€™s flight and terrified for her safety, Pearl is determined to save her daughter, no matter the personal cost. From the crowded city to remote villages, Pearl confronts old demons and almost insurmountable challenges as she follows Joy, hoping for reconciliation. Yet even as Joyâ€™s and Pearlâ€™s separate journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in Chinaâ€™s history threatens their very lives.Acclaimed for her richly drawn characters and vivid storytelling, Lisa See once again renders a family challenged by tragedy and time, yet ultimately united by the resilience of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3720'),
(5987, 'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Whether by nature or by nurture, Ma and Pa Sedaris certainly knew something about raising funny kids. Amy Sedaris has built a cult following for her Comedy Central character Jerri Blank, and David, the more famous of the two siblings, continues to spin his personal history into comedic gold. A good chunk of the material in\n <em>\n  Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim\n </em>\n debuted in other media outlets, such as\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n , but Sedaris''s brilliantly written essays deserve repeat reads.\n</p>\n<p>\n Based on the author''s descriptions, nearly every member of his family is funny, although some (like sister Tiffany, perhaps) in a tragic way. In "The Change in Me," Sedaris remembers that his mother was good at imitating people when it helped drive home her point. High-voiced, lovably plain-spoken brother Paul (aka The Rooster, Silly P) has long been a favorite character for Sedaris readers, though Paul''s story takes on a serious note when his wife has a difficult pregnancy. The author doesn''t shy away from embarrassing moments in his own life, either, including a childhood poker game that strays into strange, psychological territory.\n <em>\n  Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim\n </em>\n provides more evidence that he is a great humorist, memoirist, and raconteur, and readers are lucky to have the opportunity to know him (and his clan) so well. His funny family feels like our own. Perhaps they are luckier still not to know him personally.\n <em>\n  --Leah Weathersby\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his latest collection, Sedaris has found his heart. This is not to suggest that the author of\n <em>\n  Me Talk Pretty One Day\n </em>\n and other bestselling books has lost his edge. The 27 essays here (many previously published in\n <em>\n  Esquire\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  G.Q\n </em>\n . or the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n , or broadcast on PRI''s\n <em>\n  This American Life\n </em>\n ) include his best and funniest writing yet. Here is Sedaris''s family in all its odd glory. Here is his father dragging his mortified son over to the home of one of the most popular boys in school, a boy possessed of "an uncanny ability to please people," demanding that the boy''s parents pay for the root canal that Sedaris underwent after the boy hit him in the mouth with a rock. Here is his oldest sister, Lisa, imploring him to keep her beloved Amazon parrot out of a proposed movie based on his writing. ("''Will I have to be fat in the movie?'' she asked.") Here is his mother, his muse, locking the kids out of the house after one snow day too many, playing the wry, brilliant commentator on his life until her untimely death from cancer. His mother emerges as one of the most poignant and original female characters in contemporary literature. She balances bitter and sweet, tart and richâ€”and so does Sedaris, because this is what life is like. "You should look at yourself," his mother says in one piece, as young Sedaris crams Halloween candy into his mouth rather than share it. He does what she says and then some, and what emerges is the deepest kind of humor, the human comedy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1334'),
(5988, 'The Dressmaker of Khair Khana', 'Gayle Tzemach Lemmon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil warâ€”a rare achievement for any Afghan womanâ€”Kamila was subsequently banned from school and confined to her home. When her father and brother were forced to flee the city, Kamila became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and determination, she picked up a needle and thread and created a thriving business of her own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  tells the incredible true story of this unlikely entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the Taliban. Former ABC News reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon spent years on the ground reporting Kamila''s story, and the result is an unusually intimate and unsanitized look at the daily lives of women in Afghanistan. These women are not victims; they are the glue that holds families together; they are the backbone and the heart of their nation. Afghanistan''s future remains uncertain as debates over withdrawal timelines dominate the news.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  moves beyond the headlines to transport you to an Afghanistan you have never seen before. This is a story of war, but it is also a story of sisterhood and resilience in the face of despair. Kamila Sidiqi''s journey will inspire you, but it will also change the way you think about one of the most important political and humanitarian issues of our time.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Greg Mortenson Interviews Gayle Tzemach Lemmon\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Since a 1993 climb of Pakistan''s K2,\n   <em>\n    The New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestsellers\n  </strong>\n  .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Greg Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  , Kamila and her sisters sew a collection of wedding dresses overnight for a wedding party they later find out is connected to the Taliban. How did writing this book affect your view of the Taliban period?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Gayle Tzemach Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  That scene in the book captures precisely the extraordinary complexity of the period. Reporting on the Taliban period I quickly learned there were many different views of what those years were like, depending on who you were, what you did, and where you lived. A lot of women I knew, including, of course, Kamila, told me stories about local Talibs who knew of their work and even helped them to keep it going. And they said that many of the Taliban in their neighborhood were men they had known for years who simply needed to support their families.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What I kept coming back toâ€”and what moved me deeply during so many conversations with young women , some of them tearfulâ€”was the raw loss they felt at having been deprived of five and a half years of education. And yet even amid all that despair they found ways to come together to build a community for the sake of their families. We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected. I really hope\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  does its small part to change that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  How has your work at Harvard Business School informed your view of Afghanistanâ€™s predicament?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  My experience at HBS has made me even more keenly aware of the constellation of obstacles facing entrepreneurs in some of the toughest parts of the world. Thatâ€™s perhaps why I am so taken by stories of entrepreneurs like Kamila who succeed every day despite all the obstacles (and sometimes even because of them).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Economic growth strengthens families and communities. More attention must be paid by Afghanistanâ€™s leaders and the international community to the importance of making business easier for entrepreneurs, so they can spend time making money to support their families and less time fighting red tape, corruption and security obstacles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  In many ways,\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  reads like a novel, and yet it is all true. How much energy did you focus on the craft of storytelling vs. the reporting itself?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  I believe in the power of stories to shape and change our world. The Dressmaker happens to be set in Afghanistan during the Taliban, but it could just as easily have been the US during the Civil War or the UK during World War II. Storytelling allows us to see just how similar our struggles really are. My hope was that my godmother and my aunt, who will never go to Afghanistan, could pick up this book and see themselves in this universal story of family and faith.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For me, the reporting is where the joy isâ€”itâ€™s a privilege to be allowed to take a step into peopleâ€™s lives and to be entrusted with telling their story. In this case the reporting was much more physically difficult than the storytellingâ€”the fall of 2008 in particular was a time during which kidnappings and bombings became regular occurrences in Kabul; both Afghans and foreigners I visited with constantly swapped stories of terrifying incidents which involved their friends and relatives. I knew a lot of people who were affected by the violence, and all the insecurity made it much harder to convince young women to speak with me about their experiences.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  Youâ€™ve spent a lot of time on the ground in Afghanistan. What is it like to travel there as a young woman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  I love going to Afghanistan, though the trip from California is nearly 40 hours. It is a beautiful country with incredibly generous people who will give you anything they have even if it is all they have. (And I highly recommend the food!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Being a young woman actually made my work easier. I could meet women of all ages and spend time with them at their homes hearing their stories and sharing my own. This is a world many foreign men will never have access to, for cultural reasons. I also could meet Afghan men because, as a foreign woman, you sort of fit a third categoryâ€”not male, but not exactly female, either. I worked hard to build trust with those women and men who entrusted me with their storiesâ€”I tried to learn Dari and to draw as little attention to my â€˜foreign-nessâ€™ as possible: I often was the frumpiest woman I saw all day in my uniform of black pants, black socks, black shoes, black t-shirt, and a dark jacket and head scarf. I think those I wrote about respected the fact that I kept coming back to Afghanistan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  You''ve worked and studied in conflict and post-conflict regions such as Rwanda, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Women are rarely involved in the high level decision making that affects conflict negotiations or even consulted about their own creative ideas for resolution. How can we help and empower women to play a much larger role in resolving conflicts?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  This is a question I think about all the time. We are used to women pulling families through war, but having no say in the peace which follows. This must change for the world to be a safer, more stable place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A great example has been set by the women of Liberia, who insisted their voices be heeded when it came time for UN negotiations to end their nationâ€™s civil war. (There is a great film about their push to be heard called â€œPray the Devil Back to Hell.â€) Afghan women, too, are speaking up to make sure that no peace negotiations happen without their real and substantive representation. Each one of us can help advance their cause and this effort by insisting that our own elected officials donâ€™t take part in any talks in which women donâ€™t take part. Holding our own leaders accountable is a great place to start.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 2005, Lemmon went to Afghanistan on assignment for the Financial Times to write about women entrepreneurs. When she met a dressmaker named Kamila Sediqi, Lemmon (once a producer for This Week with George Stephanopolos) knew she had her story. It''s an exciting, engrossing one that reads like a novel, complete with moments of tension and triumph, plus well-researched detail on daily life in Kabul under Taliban rule. When that regime descended in 1996, it brought fear, violence, and restrictions: women must stay home, may not work, and must wear the chadriâ€”a cloak, also known as a burqa, that covers the face and bodyâ€”in public. After Sediqi''s parents left the city to avoid being pressed into service, or worse, by the Taliban, it fell to her to support the family. Her story is at once familiar (she came up with an idea, procured clients, hired student workers, and learned as she went) and wholly different (she couldn''t go anywhere without a male escort, had to use an assumed name with customers due to the threat of being found out and punished, and could fit in work on the sewing machine only when there was electricity). It''s a fascinating story that touches on family, gender, business, and politics and offers inspiration through the resourceful, determined woman at its heart. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2377'),
(5989, 'A Drinking Life', 'Pete Hamill', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hamill''s autobiography entails his long odyssey to sobriety. This is not a jeremiad condemning drink, however, but a thoughtful, funny, street-smart reflection on its consequences. To understand Hamill ( Loving Women ), one must know his immigrant parents: Anne, gentle and fair; Billy, one-legged and alcoholic. The first offspring of this union--Republicans in Belfast, Democrats in Brooklyn--Hamill has a special gift for relating the events of his childhood. He recreates a time extinct, a Brooklyn of trolley cars, Dodgers, pails of beer and pals like No Toes Nocera. He recalls such adventures as the Dodgers'' 1941 pennant and viewing the liner Normandie lying on its side in the Hudson River. We partake in the glory of V-J day and learn what life in Hamill''s neighborhood was centered on: "Part of being a man was to drink." Puberty hits him and booze helps him to overcome his sexual shyness. But Hamill''s childhood ended early. After dropping out of high school he lived on his own, working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and drinking with his workmates. Wanting more, he studied art, soon meeting a nude model named Laura who was a lot different from the neighborhood girls, those "noble defenders of the holy hymen." And escape was always on Hamill''s mind. First it was the Navy, then Mexico, but it was always the same--drinking nights which today he can''t remember. There were fist-fights and jail time in Mexico and he learned that "drinking could be a huge fuck you to Authority." Back home with a job at the New York Post , he mastered his trade at the Page One bar every morning, drinking with other reporters. Much time was spent in saloons away from his wife and two daughters and he remembers the taunts of his childhood, "Your old man''s an Irish drunk!" Then one New Year''s Eve 20 years ago he noticed all the drunkenness and had his last vodka. When asked why, he said, "I have no talent for it." It may be the only talent Hamill lacks. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers expecting a gossipy "How I became a newspaper man" autobiography won''t find it in reporter-novelist Hamill''s first nonfiction book. The title notwithstanding, this is also no powerful Days of Wine and Roses memoir. Hamill devotes many pages to an almost year-by-year account of his Depression and World War II Brooklyn childhood. The son of Irish immigrants, Hamill soon learns about the "culture of drinking" from his alcoholic father. Hamill at first seeks escape through pulp fiction and comic books (he longs to be a cartoonist), but as a teenager he gets drunk with his street pals and becomes sexually confident under booze''s liberating influence. The rest of Hamill''s book is a sketchy overview of his Navy years, his turbulent first marriage, his early career at the New York Post , and of course his "drinking life." While a skillful writer, Hamill strangely fails to convey the true horror of alcoholism. Recommended for libraries where his novels are popular. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/93-- Wilda Wil liams, "Library Journal"\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2074'),
(5990, 'Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us', 'Daniel H. Pink', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It''s wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today''s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it''s precisely the wrongway to motivate people for today''s challenges. In Drive, he reveals the three elements of true motivation: * Autonomy- the desire to direct our own lives * Mastery- the urge to get better and better at something that matters * Purpose- the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward. Driveis bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1042'),
(5991, 'Driving Blind', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reading Ray Bradbury is like going through a door into a nostalgic, odd America that never existed, a universe of strange possibility that brings to mind the haunting memories of childhood. The short stories in\n <em>\n  Driving Blind\n </em>\n are vintage Bradbury, with a pleasant smattering of ideas: dark fantasy, boyhood sense of wonder,\n <em>\n  Twilight Zone\n </em>\n -esque twist. These 21 stories (4 are reprints) were inspired by a dream Bradbury had in which his muse, blindfolded, drove him to destinations unknown. We''re glad he went along for the ride. Spare word portraits will transport you to a world of scratchy phonograph records and cuckoo clocks, evil garbage disposals and Mexican border-town circuses. Bradbury fans will enjoy revisiting the worlds of his imagination, while those new to the master will find themselves in need of another shot of Bradbury... quick.\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n " A preeminent storyteller... An icon in American literature." --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Virginian Pilot\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A must...Bradbury returns in top form... He paints vivid word pictures." --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Remarkable...intensely told...The easiest book this year to read. --\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Miami Herald\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1300'),
(5992, 'Drood', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Bestseller Simmons (\n  <em>\n   The Terror\n  </em>\n  ) brilliantly imagines a terrifying sequence of events as the inspiration for Dickens''s last, uncompleted novel,\n  <em>\n   The Mystery of Edwin Drood\n  </em>\n  , in this unsettling and complex thriller. In the course of narrowly escaping death in an 1865 train wreck and trying to rescue fellow passengers, Dickens encounters a ghoulish figure named Drood, who had apparently been traveling in a coffin. Along with his real-life novelist friend Wilkie Collins, who narrates the tale, Dickens pursues the elusive Drood, an effort that leads the pair to a nightmarish world beneath London''s streets. Collins begins to wonder whether the object of their quest, if indeed the man exists, is merely a cover for his colleague''s own murderous inclinations. Despite the book''s length, readers will race through the pages, drawn by the intricate plot and the proliferation of intriguing psychological puzzles, which will remind many of the work of Charles Palliser and Michael Cox.\n  <em>\n   4-city author tour. (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From The New Yorker\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this creepy intertextual tale of professional jealousy and possible madness, Wilkie Collins tells of his friendship and rivalry with Charles Dickens, and of the mysterious phantasm named Edwin Drood, who pursues them both. Drood, cadaverous and pale, first appears at the scene of a railway accident in which Dickens was one of the few survivors; later, Dickens and Collins descend into London''s sewer in search of his lair. Meanwhile, a retired police detective warns Collins that Drood is responsible for more than three hundred murders, and that he will destroy Dickens in his quest for immortality. Collins is peevish, vain, and cruel, and the most unreliable of narrators: an opium addict, prone to nightmarish visions. The narrative is overlong, with discarded subplots and red herrings, but Simmons, a master of otherworldly suspense, cleverly explores envy''s corrosive effects.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â©2008\n  <em>\n   Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/578'),
(5993, 'Drop Shot', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A fast-paced plot, witty dialogue, more than a few surprises, and a you''ll-never-guess-whodunit denouement."â€”_Armchair Detective_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Superb writing...Harlan Coben serves up an ace with\n  <strong>\n   Drop Shot\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   .\n  </em>\n  "â€”John Lutz, author of\n  <em>\n   Death by Jury\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Valerie Simpson is a young female tennis star with a troubled past who''s now on the verge of a comeback and wants Myron as her agent. Myron, who''s also got the hottest young male tennis star, Duane Richwood, primed to take his first grand slam tournament, couldn''t be happier. That is, until Valerie is murdered in broad daylight at the U.S. Open and Myron''s number one client becomes the number one suspect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clearing Duane''s name should be easy enough. Duane was playing in a match at the time of Valerie''s death. But why is his phone number in Valerie''s black book when he claims only to have known her in passing? Why was she calling him from a phone booth on the street? The police stop caring once they pin the murder on a man known for having stalked Valerie and seen talking to her moments before the murder. But Myron isn''t satisfied. It seems too clean for him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Myron pries a bit and finds himself prying open the past where six years before, Valerie''s fiancee, the son of a senator, was brutally murdered by a juvenile delinquent and a straight-A student was subsequently gunned down on the street in retaliation, his death squandered in bureaucratic files. And everyone from the Senator to the mob want Myron to stop digging.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The truth beneath the truth is not only dangerous, it''s deadly. And Myron may be the next victim.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fictionâ€”Myron Bolitarâ€”a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/451'),
(5994, 'The Drop', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He''s been put on the DROP - Deferred Retirement Option Plan - and given three years before his retirement is enforced. Seeing the end of the mission coming, he''s anxious for cases. He doesn''t have to wait long. First a cold case gets a DNA hit for a rape and murder which points the finger at a 29-year-old convicted rapist who was only eight at the time of the murder. Then a city councilman''s son is found dead - fallen or pushed from a hotel window - and he insists on Bosch taking the case despite the two men''s history of enmity. The cases are unrelated but they twist around each other like the double helix of a DNA strand. One leads to the discovery of a killer operating in the city for as many as three decades; the other to a deep political conspiracy that reached back into the dark history of the police department.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/575'),
(5995, 'The Duke Is Mine', 'Eloisa James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n He is a duke in search of a perfect bride. She is a ladyâ€”but a long way from perfect. Tarquin, the powerful Duke of Sconce, knows perfectly well that the decorous and fashionably slender Georgiana Lytton will make him a proper duchess. So why canâ€™t he stop thinking about her twin sister, the curvy, headstrong, and altogether unconventional Olivia? Not only is Olivia betrothed to another man, but their improper, albeit intoxicating, flirtation makes her unsuitability all the more clear. Determined to make a perfect match, he methodically cuts Olivia from his thoughts, allowing logic and duty to triumph over passionâ€¦Until, in his darkest hour, Tarquin begins to question whether perfection has anything to do with love. To win Olivia''s hand he would have to give up all the beliefs he holds most dear, and surrender heart, body and soulâ€¦ Unless itâ€™s already too late This sexy, witty version of The Princess and the Pea turns the classic fairy tale into an enticing, funny, and moving romance -\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3047'),
(5996, 'Duma Key', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008\n  </strong>\n  : It would be impossible to convey the wonder and the horror of Stephen King''s latest novel in just a few words. Suffice it to say that\n  <em>\n   Duma Key\n  </em>\n  , the story of Edgar Freemantle and his recovery from the terrible nightmare-inducing accident that stole his arm and ended his marriage, is Stephen King''s most brilliant novel to date (outside of the\n  <em>\n   Dark Tower\n  </em>\n  novels, in which case\n  <em>\n   each\n  </em>\n  is arguably his best work).\n  <em>\n   Duma Key\n  </em>\n  is as rich and rewarding as\n  <em>\n   Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption\n  </em>\n  (yes,\n  <em>\n   that\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Shawshank Redemption\n  </em>\n  ), and as truly scary as anything King has written (and that''s saying a lot). Readers who have "always wanted to try Stephen King" but never known where to start should try a few pages of\n  <em>\n   Duma Key\n  </em>\n  --the frankness with which Edgar reveals his desperate, sputtering rages and thoughts of suicide is King at the top of his game. And that''s just the first thirty pages...\n  <em>\n   --Daphne Durham\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Duma Key\n   </em>\n   : Where It All Began\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A Note from Chuck Verrill, the Longtime Editor of Stephen King\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  In the spring of 2006 Stephen King told me he was working on a Florida story that was beginning to grow on him. "I''m thinking of calling it\n  <em>\n   Duma Key\n  </em>\n  ," he offered. I liked the sound of that--the title was like a drumbeat of dread. "You know how\n  <em>\n   Lisey''s Story\n  </em>\n  is a story about marriage?" he said. "Sure," I answered. The novel hadn''t yet been published, but I knew its story well: Lisey and Scott Landon--what a marriage that was. Then he dropped the other shoe: "I think\n  <em>\n   Duma Key\n  </em>\n  might be my story of divorce."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pretty soon I received a slim package from a familiar address in Maine. Inside was a short story titled "Memory"--a story of divorce, all right, but set in Minnesota. By the end of the summer, when\n  <em>\n   Tin House\n  </em>\n  published "Memory," Stephen had completed a draft of\n  <em>\n   Duma Key\n  </em>\n  , and it became clear to me how "Memory" and its narrator, Edgar Freemantle, had moved from Minnesota to Florida, and how a story of divorce had turned into something more complex, more strange, and much more terrifying.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you read the following two texts side by side--"Memory" as it was published by\n  <em>\n   Tin House\n  </em>\n  and the opening chapter of\n  <em>\n   Duma Key\n  </em>\n  in final form--you''ll see a writer at work, and how stories can both contract and expand. Whether\n  <em>\n   Duma Key\n  </em>\n  is an expansion of "Memory" or "Memory" a contraction of\n  <em>\n   Duma Key\n  </em>\n  , I can''t really say. Can you?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Chuck Verrill\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "Memory"\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own. That''s what Kamen says. I tell him I never chased the memory of my accident. Some things, I say, are better forgotten.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maybe, but that doesnâ€™t matter, either. That''s what Kamen says.\n </p>\n <p>\n  My name is Edgar Freemantle. I used to be a big deal in building and construction. This was in Minnesota, in my other life. I was a genuine American-boy success in that life, worked my way up like a motherf---er, and for me, everything worked out. When Minneapolisâ€“St. Paul boomed, The Freemantle Company boomed. When things tightened up, I never tried to force things. But I played my hunches, and most of them played out well. By the time I was fifty, Pam and I were worth about forty million dollars. And what we had together still worked. I looked at other women from time to time but never strayed. At the end of our particular Golden Age, one of our girls was at Brown and the other was teaching in a foreign exchange program. Just before things went wrong, my wife and I were planning to go and visit her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I had an accident at a job site. That''s what happened. I was in my pickup truck. The right side of my skull was crushed. My ribs were broken. My right hip was shattered. And although I retained sixty percent of the sight in my right eye (more, on a good day), I lost almost all of my right arm.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I was supposed to lose my life, but I didnâ€™t. Then I was supposed to become one of the Vegetable Simpsons, a Coma Homer, but that didn''t happen, either. I was one confused American when I came around, but the worst of that passed. By the time it did, my wife had passed, too. She''s remarried to a fellow who owns bowling alleys. My older daughter likes him. My younger daughter thinks heâ€™s a yank-off. My wife says sheâ€™ll come around.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maybe\n  <em>\n   sÃ­\n  </em>\n  , maybe\n  <em>\n   no\n  </em>\n  . That''s what Kamen says.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When I say I was confused, I mean that at first I didnâ€™t know who people were, or what had happened, or why I was in such awful pain. I can''t remember the quality and pitch of that pain now. I know it was excruciating, but it''s all pretty academic. Like a picture of a mountain in\n  <em>\n   National Geographic\n  </em>\n  magazine. It wasnâ€™t academic at the time. At the time it was more like climbing a mountain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Continue Reading "Memory"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Duma Key\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   How to Draw a Picture\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Start with a blank surface. It doesn''t have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can''t remember.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   How do we remember to remember? That''s a question I''ve asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so Iâ€™ve come to believe.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Imagine a little girl, hardly more than a baby. She fell from a carriage almost ninety years ago, struck her head on a stone, and forgot everything. Not just her name; everything! And then one day she recalled just enough to pick up a pencil and make that first hesitant mark across the white. A horizon-line, sure. But also a slot for blackness to pour through.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Still, imagine that small hand lifting the pencil... hesitating... and then marking the white. Imagine the courage of that first effort to re-establish the world by picturing it. I will always love that little girl, in spite of all she has cost me. I must. I have no choice. Pictures are magic, as you know.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   My Other Life\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  My name is Edgar Freemantle. I used to be a big deal in the building and contracting business. This was in Minnesota, in my other life. I learned that my-other-life thing from Wireman. I want to tell you about Wireman, but first let''s get through the Minnesota part.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gotta say it: I was a genuine American-boy success there. Worked my way up in the company where I started, and when I couldnâ€™t work my way any higher there, I went out and started my own. The boss of the company I left laughed at me, said I''d be broke in a year. I think that''s what most bosses say when some hot young pocket-rocket goes off on his own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For me, everything worked out. When Minneapolisâ€“St. Paul boomed, The Freemantle Company boomed. When things tightened up, I never tried to play big. But I did play my hunches, and most played out well. By the time I was fifty, Pam and I were worth forty million dollars. And we were still tight. We had two girls, and at the end of our particular Golden Age, Ilse was at Brown and Melinda was teaching in France, as part of a foreign exchange program. At the time things went wrong, my wife and I were planning to go and visit her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Continue Reading\n  <em>\n   Duma Key\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. King''s latest novel is a fantastically eerie tale in line with his best psychological thrillers. John Slattery offers a triumphal performanceâ€”his firm, gripping tone perfectly suits this story of the darker side of human memory and creativity. The characters are each so different and complicated, creating a challenge for even the most seasoned narrator. But Slattery does the near-impossible and physically becomes Edgar Freemantle. In fact, the two become so inseparable the listener almost feels guilty listening to his heartfelt confessions. King''s vision of Freemantle''s fictional personal memoir demands a narrator so believable and solid in his delivery that it seems almost impossible. But Slattery creates a truly moving experience, commanding and truthful.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/783');
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(5997, 'Dune Road', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Set in Connecticut''s tony Gold Coast town of Highfield, Dune Road tells the story of Kit Hargrove, whose divorce has granted her a new lease on life. No longer a Wall Street widow with the requisite diamond studs and Persian rugs, Kit revels in her clapboard Cape with the sea green shutters and sprawling impatiens. Her kids are content, her ex cooperative, her friends steadfast, and each morning she wakes up unable to believe how lucky she is to have landed the job of her dreams: assisting the blockbuster novelist Robert McClore. A mysterious tragedy drove this famous writer into seclusion decades ago, and few besides Kit are granted access to his house at the top of Dune Road, with its breathtaking views of Long Island Sound. But all that is about to change. At a rare appearance at the local bookstore, McClore meets Kit''s new friend Tracy, whose weakness for older men rivals her powers of self-reinvention. Are the secret visits of her boss''s new muse as innocent as Kit would like to believe? When a figure from her mother''s past emerges with equally cryptic intentions just as the bear financial market is upending her best friend''s life, Kit discovers that her blissfully constructed Idyll--and the gorgeous man who has walked into it with creamy white roses--isn''t as perfect as she''d thought. Ties to friends and family are further reaching than she has realized--and more crucial than ever before. Warm, witty, and gloriously observed, Dune Road is Jane Green at her best, full of brilliant insights into the challenges that come with forging a new life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3190'),
(5998, 'Dust Tracks on a Road', 'Zora Neale Hurston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity,\n  <em>\n   Dust Tracks on a Road\n  </em>\n  is Zora Neale Hurston''s candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. As compelling as her acclaimed fiction, Hurston''s very personal literary self-portrait offers a revealing, often audacious glimpse into the life -- public and private -- of an extraordinary artist, anthropologist, chronicler, and champion of the black experience in America. Full of the wit and wisdom of a proud, spirited woman who started off low and climbed high,\n  <em>\n   Dust Tracks on a Road\n  </em>\n  is a rare treasure from one of literature''s most cherished voices.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist whose fictional and factual accounts of black heritage remain unparalleled. Her many books include\n  <em>\n   Dust Tracks on a Road\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   Their Eyes Were Watching God\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   Jonah''s Gourd Vine\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   Moses, Man of the Mountain\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   Mules and Men\n  </em>\n  ; and\n  <em>\n   Every Tongue Got to Confess\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2078'),
(5999, 'Earthly Possessions', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n PEOPLE\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte''s life into an entirely different direction when a restless young man in a nylon jacket takes her hostage during the robbery--and soon the two are heading south into an unknown future, and a most unexpected fate....\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her 11th novel Breathing Lessons, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and her latest novel Digging to America was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2007. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/961'),
(6000, 'Easy Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Penzler Pick, June 2000:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Easy Prey\n  </em>\n  is the 11th mystery to feature Lucas Davenport, who began his career back in\n  <em>\n   Rules of Prey\n  </em>\n  as a maverick homicide detective reminiscent of "Dirty Harry" Callahan. He did things his way and was often at odds with his superiors in the Minneapolis Police Department. Since those early days, Davenport has mellowed a little, and his background as a computer game-designing, Porsche-driving womanizer has been somewhat reduced. Possibly age has become a factor, or it may be the fact that Davenport has been deputy chief since the sixth book in the series,\n  <em>\n   Night Prey\n  </em>\n  . The character may have changed, but the writing has remained consistently taut: the bad guys creepy, the mysteries suspenseful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this newest episode, Davenport is called to a house after an A-list party has taken place there. Alie''e Maison, a top model, has been found strangled, and evidence shows that she ingested drugs and recently made love--most probably to a woman. Before Lucas leaves the house, things get even more complicated: a second body is found stuffed in a closet with a deep dent in the skull. In addition, one of Lucas''s own men had been at the party and is now a suspect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As always, Lucas''s own life is not exempt from complications. An ex-lover comes back into his world--a woman he has never been able to forget--and she has secrets of her own. Also making an appearance this time out is a childhood friend to whom he turns for advice about women and life. Sister Mary Joseph, born Elle Kruger, is a professor of psychology and one of the computer brains who helps Lucas design his software. He calls her Nun the Wiser, and he often turns to her for spiritual as well as more concrete advice. Lucas is going to need all the help he can get to unravel his case as secrets pile upon secrets and the ground constantly shifts under his feet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Easy Prey\n  </em>\n  is another powerful link in this chain of muscular, exciting thrillers by one of the most distinguished practitioners in the field.\n  <em>\n   --Otto Penzler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The 12th entry in Sandford''s ever-entertaining Prey series (Certain Prey, etc.) finds Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief Lucas Davenport again rambling through a murky case with his unique combination of gutsy intelligence and aw-shucks attitude. Fashion model Alie''e Maison has been found dead in a back bedroom, seemingly strangled at a chic party. Then--typical of Davenport''s luck--the body of a second woman tumbles out of a closet just as the investigating cops get ready to leave the scene. There''s no shortage of suspects who could have killed Alie''e: her boyfriend, for instance, recently dropped in favor of a lesbian lover, or her brother, a backwoods holy man who disapproved of his sister''s lifestyle. There are Alie''e''s parents, who could be trying to cover up a history of sexual abuse; the local drug dealer who supplied Alie''e with heroin; and the oily banker who appears to be the money behind the drug dealer. As many of these suspects get murdered, one by one, including those connected to the second victim in the closet, it''s clear that the killer remains at large. That makes Davenport and his colleagues look foolish in the eyes of the media horde descending on the case. To make matters worse, Davenport''s having women trouble again, torn among three beauties who want to bed him. As always, it''s a joy to follow this rare cop who gets led more often by his gut instinct than by clues. His humor, understated and perverse, can be wildly funny, and the people he runs across are shrewdly conceived originals, cut from fabric way at the back of the bin. BOMC main selection; simultaneous Putnam Berkley Audio; author tour. (May)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/684'),
(6001, 'Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman&#39;s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A celebrated writerâ€™s irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly   pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis.   She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to wantâ€”a   husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was   consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression,   another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to   find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her   job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the worldâ€”all alone. *Eat, Pray, Love* is the   absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one   aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one   thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the   twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a   native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted   months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment   and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love   the best wayâ€”unexpectedly.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, *Eat, Pray, Love* is about what   can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in   imitation of societyâ€™s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the   unrelenting need for change.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2080'),
(6002, 'Eaters of the Dead', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Crichton takes the listener on a one-thousand-year-old journey in his adventure novel\n  <em>\n   Eaters Of The Dead\n  </em>\n  . This remarkable true story originated from actual journal entries of an Arab man who traveled with a group of Vikings throughout northern Europe. In 922 A.D, Ibn Fadlan, a devout Muslim, left his home in Baghdad on a mission to the King of Saqaliba. During his journey, he meets various groups of "barbarians" who have poor hygiene and gorge themselves on food, alcohol and sex. For Fadlan, his new traveling companions are a far stretch from society in the sophisticated "City of Peace." The conservative and slightly critical man describes the Vikings as "tall as palm trees with florid and ruddy complexions." Fadlan is astonished by their lustful aggression and their apathy towards death. He witnesses everything from group orgies to violent funeral ceremonies. Despite the language and cultural barriers, Ibn Fadlan is welcomed into the clan. The leader of the group, Buliwyf (who can communicate in Latin) takes Fadlan under his wing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Without warning, the chieftain is ordered to haul his warriors back to Scandinavia to save his people from the "monsters of the mist." Ibn Fadlan follows the clan and must rise to the occasion in the battle of his life._--Gina Kaysen_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Bagdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs -- the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues them -- a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/329'),
(6003, 'Ecce Homo (The Autobiography of Friedrich Nietzsche)', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Written in 1888 just before the final years of insanity that would plague Friedrich Nietzsche until his death in 1900, "Ecce Homo" is an insightful reflection by the author upon his own life and his impact on the world of philosophy. In "Ecce Homo" Nietzsche offers his personal perspective on his various philosophical works including: "The Birth of Tragedy", "Thoughts out of Season", "Human, All-Too-Human", "The Dawn of Day", "The Gay Science", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Beyond Good and Evil", "The Genealogy of Morals", "The Twilight of the Idols", and "The Case of Wagner". In this revealing little work we gain great insight into what Nietzsche was as he saw himself and a final reiteration of his core philosophy, a rejection of the Christian ideal that asserts suffering as a noble necessity of life and of Christianity as the bastion of supreme morality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2081'),
(6004, 'Echo Burning', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Loner Jack Reacher returns, thumbing his way through the west Texas desert. He''s picked up by Carmen Greer, a troubled beauty with a story to tell and a plan Reacher soon becomes a part of.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2546'),
(6005, 'An Echo in the Bone', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this epic of imagination, time travel, and adventure, Diana Gabaldon continues the riveting story begun in Outlander.Â Jamie Fraser is an eighteenth-century Highlander, an ex-Jacobite traitor, and a reluctant rebel in the American Revolution. His wife, Claire Randall Fraser, is a surgeonâ€”from the twentieth century. What she knows of the future compels him to fight. What she doesnâ€™t know may kill them both.With one foot in America and one foot in Scotland, Jamie and Claireâ€™s adventure spans the Revolution, from sea battles to printshops, as their paths cross with historical figures from Benjamin Franklin to Benedict Arnold. Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, their daughter, Brianna, and her husband experience the unfolding drama of the Revolutionary War through Claireâ€™s letters. But the letters canâ€™t warn them of the threat thatâ€™s rising out of the past to overshadow their family.Diana Gabaldonâ€™s sweeping Outlander saga reaches new heights in An Echo in the Bone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3699'),
(6006, 'Echo Park', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Detective Harry Bosch reopens one of his own unsolved cases and comes face to face with a psychotic killer he has been seeking for years. A thrilling new novel by the author of the #1 bestseller The Lincoln Lawyer. In 1995 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn''t crack it, and the 22-year-old woman was never found. Now Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the Gesto file on his desk, when the DA calls. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean about several others, including the murder of Marie Gesto. Bosch must now take the confession of the man he has sought--and hated--for eleven years. But when Bosch learns that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1995 that could have led them to Gesto''s killer--and stopped nine murders that followed--his whole being as a cop begins to crack. Michael Connelly''s enthralling new novel pits the detective People magazine calls "one of the most complex crime fighters around" against one of the most sadistic killers he has ever confronted. It confirms that Michael Connelly "is the best writer of suspense fiction working today"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/454'),
(6007, 'Eclipse', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The legions of readers who are hooked on the romantic struggles of Bella and the vampire Edward will ecstatically devour this third installment of the story begun in\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n , but it''s unlikely to win over any newcomers. Jake, the werewolf met in New Moon, pursues Bella with renewed vigilance. However, when repercussions from an episode in\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n place Bella in the mortal danger that series fans have come to expect, Jake and Edward forge an uneasy alliance. The plot patterns have begun to show here, but Meyer''s other strengths remain intact. The supernatural elements accentuate the ordinary human dramas of growing up. Jake and Edward''s competition for Bella feels particularly authentic, especially in their apparent desire to best each other as much as to win Bella. Once again the author presents teenage love as an almost inhuman force: "[He] would have been my soul mate still," says Bella, "if his claim had not been overshadowed by something stronger, something so strong that it could not exist in a rational world." According to Meyer, the fourth book should tie up at least the Edward story, if not the whole shebang. Ages 12-up. (Aug.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The third episode of Meyerâ€™s vampire-romance series finds heroine Bella Swan anxious to become a vampire and live forever with handsome vampire Edward. Obstacles arise when Edward demands marriage and werewolf Jacob declares his love for Bella. Eventually, the Cullen vampires and the Quileute werewolves unite to face off against a pack of uncontrollable vampires seeking revenge on Bella. Kadushin portrays kindly Edward in soft, warm tones and voices teenager Jacob in more brash, edgy speech patterns. She captures Bellaâ€™s uncertainty as she wavers between her love for Edward and her intrigue with Jacob. Kadushinâ€™s performance is particularly stellar in passages where Bella is cold and her words come out in a chattering fashion or when she is upset, causing her to sob and hiccup. Matt Weathers reads the epilogue, which indicates a follow-up title is likely, news that should please fans of the popular series. Grades 9-12. --Pam Spencer Holley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/555'),
(6008, 'The Eden Express of Insanity', 'Mark Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegutâ€™s experience in the late â€™60s and early â€™70sâ€”a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous and doting father, cherished dog, and prized jalopyâ€”and then the nervous breakdowns in all their slow-motion intimacy, the taste of mortality and opportunity for humor they provided, and the grim despair they afforded as well. That he emerged to write this funny and true book and then moved on to find the meaningful life that for a while had seemed beyond reach is what ultimately happens in The Eden Express. But the real story here is that throughout his harrowing experience his sense of humor let him see the humanity of what he was going through, and his gift of language let him describe it in such a moving way that others could begin to imagine both its utter ordinariness as well as the madness we all share.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1896'),
(6009, 'Edge', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Behind the well-known U.S. security organizations the FBI and CIA among themlies a heavily guarded, anonymous government agency dedicated to intelligence surveillance and to a highly specialized brand of citizen protection. Shock waves of alarm ripple through the clandestine agency when Washington, D.C., police detective Ryan Kessler inexplicably becomes the target of Henry Loving, a seasoned, ruthless "lifter" hired to obtain information using whatever means necessary. While Loving is deft at torture, his expertise lies in getting an "edge" on his victimleverageusually by kidnapping or threatening family until the "primary" caves under pressure. The job of keeping the Kessler family alive falls to a man named Corte, a senior federal protection officer known as a "shepherd." Uncompromising, relentlessly devoted to protecting those in his care and a passionate board game aficionado, he applies brilliant gaming strategy to his work. For Corte, the reappearance of Lovingthe man who, six years earlier, had tortured and killed someone close to himis also an opportunity to avenge his friend''s death. The assignment soon escalates into a fast-paced duel between Corte and Loving, a dangerous volley of wits and calculated risks. As he shepherds the Kesslers to a concealed safe house, Corte must anticipate Loving''s every step as the lifter moves in on his prey, and with the help of razor-sharp investigator Claire DuBois and his longtime ally, FBI agent Paul Fredericks, pinpoint which of Kessler''s seemingly insignificant cases has triggered Loving''s return. As the team digs deeper, each of the Kesslers comes under close scrutiny, and in captivity their family bonds are stretched to the breaking pointas the lifter draws near, Corte must ultimately choose between protecting his charges and exposing them to a killer in the name of long-awaited revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3538'),
(6010, 'Edge of Midnight', 'Leslie Tentler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The writer becomes the story when crime reporter Mia Hale is discovered on a Jacksonville beach - bloodied and disoriented, but alive. She remembers nothing, but her wounds bear the signature of a sadistic serial killer. After years lying dormant, The Collector has resumed his grim hobby: abducting women and taking gruesome souvenirs before dumping their bodies. But none of his victims has ever escaped - and he wants Mia back, more than he ever wanted any of the others. FBI agent Eric MacFarlane has pursued The Collector for a long time. The case runs deep in his veins, bordering on obsession[unknown-8230]and Mia holds the key. She''ll risk everything to recover her memory and bring the madman to justice, and Eric swears to protect this fierce, fragile survivor. But The Collector will not be denied. In his mind, he knows just how their story ends.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3789'),
(6011, 'Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death', 'Mark Essig', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Thomas Edison stunned America in 1879 by unveiling a world-changing inventionâ€”the light bulbâ€”and then launching the electrification of America''s cities. A decade later, despite having been an avowed opponent of the death penalty, Edison threw his laboratory resources and reputation behind the creation of a very different sort of deviceâ€”the electric chair. Deftly exploring this startling chapter in American history, Edison &amp; the Electric Chair delivers both a vivid portrait of a nation on the cusp of modernity and a provocative new examination of Edison himself. Edison championed the electric chair for reasons that remain controversial to this day. Was Edison genuinely concerned about the suffering of the condemned? Was he waging a campaign to smear his rival George Westinghouse''s alternating current and boost his own system? Or was he warning the public of real dangers posed by the high-voltage alternating wires that looped above hundreds of America''s streets? Plumbing the fascinating history of electricity, Mark Essig explores America''s love of technology and its fascination with violent death, capturing an era when the public was mesmerized and terrified by an invisible force that produced blazing light, powered streetcars, carried telephone conversationsâ€”and killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2249'),
(6012, 'An Education', 'Lynn Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Barberâ€™s] a suburban girl whoâ€™s frightened that sheâ€™s going to get cut out of everything good that happens in the city. That, to me, is a big story in popular culture. Itâ€™s the story of pretty much every rock â€˜nâ€™ roll band. (Nick Hornby, author of the screenplay adaptation of\n <em>\n  An Education\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The inspiration for the award-winning motion picture: "Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout."â€”ZoÃ« Heller\n </strong>\n When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was on her way home from school and offered her a ride. It was the beginning of a long journey from innocence to precocious experienceâ€”an affair with an older man that would change her life. Barberâ€™s seducer left her with a taste for luxury hotels and posh restaurants and trips abroad, expensive habits that she managed to support in later life as a successful London journalist whose barbed interviews at once terrorized and fascinated her smart-set subjects.\n</p>\n<p>\n A poignant, shockingly candid account of the stages in a literary lifeâ€”from promiscuity at Oxford to a stint at\n <em>\n  Penthouse\n </em>\n to a complex marriage that enduredâ€”_An Education_ is a classic of English memoir.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1833'),
(6013, 'Eight Days to Live', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Number-oneNew York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen delivers a thriller that will chill you to the core: Eve Duncan''s adopted daughter Jane has been targeted by a mysterious cult who has decided that she has only eight days to liveEve Duncan and her adopted daughter, Jane Macguire, are pitted against the members of a secretive cult who have targeted Jane and have decided that she will be their ultimate sacrifice. In eight days they will come for her. In eight days, what Jane fears the most will become a reality. In eight days, she will die. It all begins with a painting that Jane, an artist, displays in her Parisian gallery. The painting is called "Guilt" and Jane has no idea how or why she painted the portrait of the chilling face. But the members of a cult that dates back to the time of Christ believe that Jane''s blasphemy means she must die. But first, she will lead them to an ancient treasure whose value is beyond price. This elusive treasure, and Jane''s death, are all that they need for their power to come to ultimate fruition. With Eve''s help, can Jane escape before the clock stops ticking?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3238'),
(6014, 'Einstein', 'Walter Isaacson &amp; Celso Nogueira', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''Einstein - Sua vida, seu universo'', biografia de Albert Einstein, baseia-se numa coleÃ§Ã£o de cartas divulgadas em 2006, vinte anos depois da morte de sua enteada, conforme ela determinara em testamento. Escrita pelo jornalista Walter Isaacson, que jÃ¡ presidiu os grupos Time e cnn, e amplamente elogiada pela crÃ­tica, revela um Einstein avesso a qualquer tipo de dogma. Foi esse espÃ­rito rebelde que permitiu o nascimento da teoria que revolucionaria a fÃ­sica. O conteÃºdo das cartas desnuda a vida Ã­ntima de uma mente genial. Um homem simples e afÃ¡vel, mas ao mesmo tempo impertinente e distante, Einstein mantinha relacionamentos pessoais difÃ­ceis, segredos e casos extraconjugais, alÃ©m de desprezar a guerra e se divertir com a aura de celebridade. Livre de amarras, Einstein podia explorar sua curiosidade, traÃ§o fundamental de sua personalidade e, em suas prÃ³prias palavras, essencial para seu brilhantismo; ''Einstein - Sua vida, seu universo'' nos revela o menino curioso, o estudante genial e insolente que se apaixona pela colega de curso, o funcionÃ¡rio do escritÃ³rio de patentes que revoluciona a fÃ­sica, o homem atormentado por problemas conjugais, o pai muitas vezes ausente, o fÃ­sico por fim reconhecido no mundo todo, o militante pacifista e sua busca frustrada pela ''teoria do campo unificado'' - uma soluÃ§Ã£o matemÃ¡tica que explicasse as idiossincrasias da recÃ©m-nascida mecÃ¢nica quÃ¢ntica, fruto de uma idÃ©ia sua.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3828'),
(6015, 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog', 'Muriel Barbery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. RenÃ©e, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, RenÃ©e is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With humor and intelligence she scrutinizes the lives of the building''s tenants, who for their part are barely aware of her existence.  Then there''s Paloma, a twelve-year-old genius. She is the daughter of a tedious parliamentarian, a talented and startlingly lucid child who has decided to end her life on the sixteenth of June, her thirteenth birthday. Until then she will continue behaving as everyone expects her to behave: a mediocre pre-teen high on adolescent subculture, a good but not an outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter.  Paloma and RenÃ©e hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building. Only he is able to gain Paloma''s trust and to see through RenÃ©e''s timeworn disguise to the secret that haunts her. This is a moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2793'),
(6016, 'The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory', 'Brian Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is an ill-concealed skeleton in the closet of physics: "As they are currently formulated, general relativity and quantum mechanics\n  <em>\n   cannot both be right\n  </em>\n  ." Each is exceedingly accurate in its field: general relativity explains the behavior of the universe at large scales, while quantum mechanics describes the behavior of subatomic particles. Yet the theories collide horribly under extreme conditions such as black holes or times close to the big bang. Brian Greene, a specialist in quantum field theory, believes that the two pillars of physics can be reconciled in superstring theory, a theory of everything.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Superstring theory has been called "a part of 21st-century physics that fell by chance into the 20th century." In other words, it isn''t all worked out yet. Despite the uncertainties--"string theorists work to find approximate solutions to approximate equations"--Greene gives a tour of string theory solid enough to satisfy the scientifically literate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though Ed Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study is in many ways the human hero of\n  <em>\n   The Elegant Universe\n  </em>\n  , it is not a human-side-of-physics story. Greene''s focus throughout is the science, and he gives the nonspecialist at least an illusion of understanding--or the sense of knowing what it is that you don''t know. And that is traditionally the first step on the road to knowledge.\n  <em>\n   --Mary Ellen Curtin\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the more compelling scientific (cum-theological) questions in the Middle Ages was: "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" Today''s version in cutting-edge science is, "How many strings... ?" As posited by s tring theory physics, strings are furiously vibrating loops of stuff. The concept of strings was devised to help scientists describe simultaneously both energy and matter. The frequency and resonance of strings'' vibration, just like those of strings on an instrument, determine charge, spin and other familiar properties of energy?and eventually the structure of the universe: a true music of the spheres. There''s a chance that strings are themselves made up of something still smaller. But scientists can prove their existence only on the blackboard and computer, because they are much too tiny?a hundred billion billion times smaller than the nucleus of an atom?to be observed experimentally. Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Cornell and Columbia universities, makes the terribly complex theory of strings accessible to all. He possesses a remarkable gift for using the everyday to illustrate what may be going on in dimensions beyond our feeble human perception. Just when we might be tempted to dismiss strings as grist for the publish-or-perish mill, Greene explains how they have demonstrated connections between mathematics and physics that have helped solve age-old conundrums in each field. This book will appeal to astronomy as well as math and physics fans because it probes the important insights string theory gives into hotly debated issues in cosmology. Later chapters require careful attention to Greene''s explications, but the effort will prepare readers to follow the scientific advances likely to be made in the next millennium through application of string theory. Author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1084'),
(6017, 'Elegy for April', 'Benjamin Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Quirkeâ€”the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologistâ€”is back, and he''s determined to find his daughter''s best friend, a well-connected young doctorApril Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Though her family is one of the most respected in the city, she is known for being independent-minded; her taste in men, for instance, is decidedly unconventional.Now April has disappeared, and her friend Phoebe Griffin suspects the worst. Frantic, Phoebe seeks out Quirke, her brilliant but erratic father, and asks him for help. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman. In their separate ways the two men follow April''s trail through some of the darker byways of the city to uncover crucial information on her whereabouts. And as Quirke becomes deeply involved in April''s murky story, he encounters complicated and ugly truths about family savagery, Catholic ruthlessness, and race hatred.Both an absorbing crime novel and a brilliant portrait of the difficult and relentless love between a father and his daughter, this is Benjamin Black at his sparkling best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/658'),
(6018, 'Elephant Man', 'Christine Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Merrick had lived for more than twenty years imprisoned in a body that condemned him to a miserable life in the workhouse and to humiliation as a circus sideshow freak. But beneath that tragic exterior, within that enormous and deformed head, thrived the soul of a poet, the heart of a dreamer, the longings of a man. Based on the extraordinary motion picture that captured the heart of America.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Merrick had lived for more than twenty years imprisoned in a body that condemned him to a miserable life in the workhouse and to humiliation as a circus sideshow freak. But beneath that tragic exterior, within that enormous and deformed head, thrived the soul of a poet, the heart of a dreamer, the longings of a man. Based on the extraordinary motion picture that captured the heart of America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2082'),
(6019, 'The Elephant to Hollywood', 'Michael Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ. . . Caine has known, befriended, worked or partied with everyone from John Huston to Heath Ledger, and has the kind of life where a Rolling Stone waits patiently while he gives James Bond advice on how to become a knight. As such, this breezy, name-droppy salute to old, un-PC Hollywood is a lighthearted hoot.â€ â€“ New York Post\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider''s view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really disappointed, he called the producer to complain about the part. The producer said, "No, no, we don''t want you for the lover, we want you for the father." Salvation came in the unlikely form of his old friend Jack Nicholson, who convinced him to give acting one more shot. What followed was not only an incredible personal transformation but also one of the most radical comebacks in film history. Learning to accept his new role both on camera and in his own life, Caine went on to win his second Oscar, be knighted by the queen, and deliver some of his best performances to date. Now he shares the spectacular story of his life, from his humble upbringing in London''s poverty-stricken Elephant and Castle, his military service, touching marriage and family life, and lively adventures with friends, to legendary meetings with fellow stars, forays as a restaurateur, and hilarious off-screen encounters from his glittering five-decade career. Caine brings his gift for storytelling and his insider''s view to a tale that is funny, warm, and deeply honest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1897'),
(6020, 'Eleven Minutes', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria"-thus begins Coelho''s latest novel, a book that cannot decide whether it wants to be fairy tale or saga of sexual discovery, so ends up satisfying the demands of neither. In his dedication, bestselling Brazilian novelist Coelho (\n <em>\n  The Alchemist\n </em>\n ) tells readers that his book will deal with issues that are "harsh, difficult, shocking," but neither his tame forays into S&amp;M nor his rather technical observations about female anatomy and the sad but hardly new fact that many women are dissatisfied with their sex lives will do much to shock American readers. In Maria, however, the author has created a strong, sensual young woman who grabs our sympathy from the first, as she suffers unrequited love as a child, learns a bit about sex as a teenager and, at 19, makes the ill-advised decision to leave Rio on a Swedish stranger''s promise of fame and fortune. Maria''s trials and triumphs-she goes from restaurant dancer to high-class prostitute-would make for an entertaining if rather prosaic novel, but Coelho, unfortunately, does not leave it there. Instead, he embarks on a philosophical exploration of sexual love, using Maria''s increasingly ponderous and pseudo-philosophical diary entries as a means for expounding on the nature of sexual desire, passion and love. At the end, the story boils down to a rather predictable romance tarted up with a few sexy trappings.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Coelho, author of the best-selling\n <em>\n  The Alchemist\n </em>\n (1993), opens this compelling tale with the classic phrase, "Once upon a time," then halts and ironically addresses the reader regarding the appropriateness of using these words in connection with a prostitute. But the narrator proceeds nonetheless, alternating between third-person narration about the heroine and first-person excerpts from her diaries. Maria has been refused many things while growing up in a Brazilian village, so she readily agrees to travel to Geneva, where promised stardom as a South American dancer awaits. Once there, however, she is duped into a year''s work to repay her passage. She manages to wrangle free, and chooses prostitution as a "temporary" solution, all the while equating love with suffering, and using the local library for self-education and her journal for self-expression. As she records her thoughts, she ponders the meaning of 11 minutes: the time it takes to have sex. Coelho tells us sex is civilization''s core problem, and that it''s far more serious and worrisome than waning rain forests or the hole in the ozone layer. A gripping exploration of the potentially sacred nature of sex within the context of love, this\n <em>\n </em>\n may well become Coelho''s next international best-seller.\n <em>\n  Whitney Scott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1212'),
(6021, 'The Eleventh Victim', 'Nancy Grace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nancy Grace has already made a name for herself as a New York Times bestselling author and the host of CNN''s popular show, Nancy Grace. Now she draws from her own life in her debut novel, and the start of an exciting new thriller series with The Eleventh Victim. Hailey Dean is a young and tremendously successful criminal prosecutor in Georgia, equally proud of her career and her adoring fiance. But just a few weeks before the wedding, her fiance''s murder and its aftermath send her into a tailspin. Grief-stricken and disillusioned with her profession, Hailey decides to leave Georgia for New York City; she hopes the change of pace and surroundings will help her heal. Transplanted to a lively, vibrant city where she has no ties and no painful reminders, Hailey embarks on a new career as a therapist. But just when she''s beginning to feel settled in her new life, another tidal wave of turmoil engulfs her: Someone is murdering her patients, one by one. And the killer operates in the same way as the victims of the last case Hailey prosecuted. Clearly, Hailey hasn''t left her past behind quite as well as she thought--and unless she returns to her true calling and solves the case, still more innocent people will die. Inspired by lawyer and television personality Nancy Grace''s own beginnings as a prosecutor and the tragic death of her fiance, The Eleventh Victim is a compelling mystery full of intrigue that thrills from start to finish.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3372'),
(6022, 'Elizabeth Street', 'Laurie Fabiano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description:\n </strong>\n In\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century. Culled from her own family history, Fabiano paints an entrancing portrait of Giovanna Costa, who, reeling from personal tragedies, tries to make a new life in a new world. Shot through with the smells and sights of Scilla, Italy, and New Yorkâ€™s burgeoning Little Italy, this intoxicating story follows Giovanna as she finds companionship, celebrates the birth of a baby girl, takes pride in a growing business, and feels a sense of belonging on a family outing to Coney Island.\n</p>\n<p>\n However, these modest successes are rewarded with the attention of the notorious Black Hand, a gang of brutal extortionists led by Lupo the Wolf. As the stakes grow higher and higher, readers share with Giovanna her desperate struggle to remain outside the fray, and then to fight forâ€”and finally to saveâ€”that which is important above all other: family.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Maria Laurino Reviews\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Nation\n  </em>\n  , and her essays have been widely anthologized. Read her exclusive guest review of\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When readers first meet Giovanna Costa, the protagonist of\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , she is a young woman about to get married in the small Italian fishing village of Scilla, situated between the Calabrian coast and Sicilyâ€™s Aeolian Islands. The town is home to the ancient story of Scylla, the once beautiful nymph turned mythical monster that devoured sailors trying to navigate the Straits of Messina. Midway through\n</p>\n<p>\n Supporting herself in New York first as a midwife, Giovanna teams up with a woman doctor from northern Italy. The two become close friends and the doctor shares medical knowledge that Giovanna will combine with her holistic midwifery skills. But Giovannaâ€™s fate changes after deciding to open a small fruit and vegetable market with her new husband. The store is an easy source of potential revenue for criminals offering "protection services," and soon Giovannaâ€™s family becomes their prey. With the same mix of disciplined study and the pinch of southern Italian mysticism that she applied to midwifery, Giovanna will take on the ruthless organized crime syndicate that has kidnapped her daughter and murdered the police lieutenant assigned to protect the neighborhood.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mario Puzo once claimed, years after writing\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n a southern Italian heroine fighting those criminal forces that have long victimized poor and vulnerable immigrants. In this multigenerational, well-researched tale, the reader also learns interesting details of the common struggles facing southern Europeans coming to America--how, for instance, Ellis Island inspectors were instructed to mark northern and southern Italians as two separate races; and how the wages for common laborers in parts of the country were divided into three categories, the highest salary paid to "whites," the middle scale for "coloreds," and the lowest amount to "Italians."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n is both a fascinating immigrant story and an intimate portrait of how a first-generation American--and the authorâ€™s own great-grandmother--outwits one of the most brutal crime organizations of the early 20th century.\n <em>\n  --Maria Laurino\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n First novelist Fabiano is dead-on in her portrait of the Italian-American immigrant experience. This engrossing cross-generational saga centers on the experiences of Giovanna Costa, from the small Italian fishing village where she is born to the bustling streets of New York''s Lower East Side where she struggles to raise her family and make a living as a midwife after the death of her first husband. In America, the resourceful Giovanna and her second husband eventually open a fruit and vegetable stand, attracting the unwanted attentions of the notorious â€œBlack Handâ€ crime organization. When Giovanni refuses to meet their demands, her daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom. Basing this storyâ€”including the kidnappingâ€”on her own family''s immigrant experiences, Fabiano provides a wealth of period detail, infusing the compulsively readable narrative with an authentic sense of time, place, and community. --Margaret Flanagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2250');
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(6023, 'Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch', 'Sally Bedell Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In this magisterial new biography,\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the worldâ€™s most fascinating and enigmatic women: Queen Elizabeth II.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip, how well do we really know the worldâ€™s most famous monarch? Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in intimate detail the public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II, who has led her country and Commonwealth through the wars and upheavals of the last sixty years with unparalleled composure, intelligence, and grace.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  In\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth the Queen,\n  </em>\n  we meet the young girl who suddenly becomes â€œheiress presumptiveâ€ when her uncle abdicates the throne. We meet the thirteen-year-old Lilibet as she falls in love with a young navy cadet named Philip and becomes determined to marry him, even though her parents prefer wealthier English aristocrats. We see the teenage Lilibet repairing army trucks during World War II and standing with Winston Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on V-E Day. We see the young Queen struggling to balance the demands of her job with her role as the mother of two young children. Sally Bedell Smith brings us inside the palace doors and into the Queenâ€™s daily routinesâ€”the â€œred boxesâ€ of documents she reviews each day, the weekly meetings she has had with twelve prime ministers, her physically demanding tours abroad, and the constant scrutiny of the pressâ€”as well as her personal relationships: with Prince Philip, her husband of sixty-four years and the love of her life; her children and their often-disastrous marriages; her grandchildren and friends.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Compulsively readable and scrupulously researched,\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth the Queen\n  </em>\n  is a close-up view of a woman weâ€™ve known only from a distance, illuminating the lively personality, sense of humor, and canny intelligence with which she meets the most demanding work and family obligations. It is also a fascinating window into life at the center of the last great monarchy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3081'),
(6024, 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer', 'Siddhartha Mukherjee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n illustrates how modern treatments--multi-pronged chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, as well as preventative care--came into existence thanks to a century''s worth of research, trials, and small, essential breakthroughs around the globe. While\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n is rich with the science and history behind the fight against cancer, it is also a meditation on illness, medical ethics, and the complex, intertwining lives of doctors and patients. Mukherjee''s profound compassion--for cancer patients, their families, as well as the oncologists who, all too often, can offer little hope--makes this book a very human history of an elusive and complicated disease.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Mukherjee''s debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee shapes a massive amount of history into a coherent story with a roller-coaster trajectory: the discovery of a new treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy--followed by the notion that if a little is good, more must be better, ending in disfiguring radical mastectomy and multidrug chemo so toxic the treatment ended up being almost worse than the disease. The first part of the book is driven by the obsession of Sidney Farber and philanthropist Mary Lasker to find a unitary cure for all cancers. (Farber developed the first successful chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.) The last and most exciting part is driven by the race of brilliant, maverick scientists to understand how cells become cancerous. Each new discovery was small, but as Mukherjee, a Columbia professor of medicine, writes, "Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes." Mukherjee''s formidable intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account of the effort to disrobe the "emperor of maladies." (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2378'),
(6025, 'The Emperor&#39;s Code', 'Gordon Korman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n JOIN ANYTIME TO PLAY FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN!  As the race to find the 39 Clues builds to its explosive finish, Amy and Dan must explore an ancient culture and steal a Clue guarded by thousands of the world''s best-trained soldiers. It''s the most dangerous Clue search yet. As their enemies crowd in, Amy and Dan find themselves separated for the first time ever. The choice lies before them â€“ find the next Clue, or find their way back to each other.  Be the first to find out where the next Clue is! There are three messages hidden on the cover of Book 8: The Emperorâ€™s Code. Go to www.the39clues.com/theemperorscode for a blow up of the cover, enter the secret messages you find, and unlock a page from The Emperorâ€™s Code that reveals the whereabouts of the next Clue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2983'),
(6026, 'The Emperor&#39;s Tomb', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An Interview with Cotton Malone by Steve Berry\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Magellan Billet\n  <br />\n  De-Briefing Report\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Agent Interviewed: Harold Earl â€œCottonâ€ Malone\n </p>\n <p>\n  Status: Retired (on special assignment here)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Interview Location: CafÃ© Norden, Copenhagen, Denmark\n </p>\n <p>\n  Subject: Recent incursion into the Peopleâ€™s Republic of China\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question 1: Your impressions of China?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Amazing. Hereâ€™s a culture that has been around for over 4,000 years yet is still struggling to identify itself. An ancient place, and that old-world feel is still there, especially in the areas I visited. I learned that well over 50% of the worldâ€™s great inventions and innovations originated in China--things like printing, the zero, the compass, the stirrup, the abacus, the seismograph, the rudder, the parachute, and masts and sails. The list is long. But, because of the countryâ€™s isolation, and the tendency of one emperor to eradicate all vestiges of those who came before him, the Chinese literally forgot what they had accomplished. Can you imagine?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The country is incredibly varied in geography and culture, it stretches more than 3,000 miles east to west, and it contains two of the worldâ€™s great deserts, the Gobi and Taklamakan, which I skirted. Some of the highest mountains on the planet rise from the Tibetan plateau in the south, which I visited. Maybe most impressively, 1.3 billion people live in China, so itâ€™s the most populous place on the planet. But despite all that, the country remains tremendously fragile, its political culture is volatile and unpredictable, bound together only by force and fear. It would not take much to send it over the edge.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question 2: Who was there, on the ground, with you?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stephanie Nelle, head of the Magellan Billet, authorized the incursion, facilitated by a cooperating Russian agent known only as Ivan. Cassiopeia Vitt accompanied me, along with Viktor Tomas, a freelance agent Iâ€™d dealt with previously in a file titled\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question 3: Are you able to offer any insight into the epidemic of child trafficking in China?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is truly a major problem, which Lev Sokolov experienced firsthand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Some estimate that as many as 70,000 children are stolen in China every year. Its one-child policy and a cultural preference for boys has fostered a vicious trafficking industry. Sons traditionally care for their parents and, of course, carry on the family name, so female fetuses are many times either aborted or abandoned. Incredibly, itâ€™s illegal to abandon, steal, or sell a child in China, but not illegal to buy one. I learned that a young boy costs around $900 U.S. Thatâ€™s a lot of money considering the average Chinese worker earns only about $1,700 U.S. annually. But people pay it. The government is doing something, but not nearly enough to stop it. Lev Sokolov was fighting an uphill battle, and thatâ€™s why he called Cassiopeia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question 4: What observations, if any, can you offer on Qin Shiâ€™s tomb?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The tomb mound itself has stood in central China for over 2,200 years. It was once the size of the pyramid at Giza in Egypt. It took thousands of men over 12 years to complete the underground palace complex where Qin Shi is buried. His body still rests beneath the mound. The tomb itself is the size of a football field, topped by a jeweled ceiling representative of stars and a floor that depicts Qin Shiâ€™s empire in three dimensions including mountains, villages, roads, and rivers, lakes, and oceans fashioned of mercury. It has remained unexplored, as no Chinese emperor or government has ever allowed anyone inside. The only written account of the interior was penned 2,000 years ago. A kilometer away stands the terra cotta army--an amazing collection of 8,000 unique soldiers, 130 chariots, and 670 horses, all arrayed in tight battle formation. That area is open to the public and its museum complex is extensively visited. Interestingly, when the terra cotta warriors were discovered in 1974, no one had any idea that they ever existed. Remember that practice of purging memories? The same thing happened here. The emperors who came after Qin Shi made sure that every detail of his existence was forgotten. Only in the past few decades has interest in the First Emperor been rekindled.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question 5: What are your future plans?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  To return to my bookshop and earn a living. But you never know what will happen next. I had a dream the other night that I was drawn back home, to the United States, for some reason. Odd Iâ€™d imagine that.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cotton Malone teams with old heartthrob Cassiopeia Vitt on a dangerous mission to retrieve a priceless Chinese lamp from the third century B.C.E. in Berry''s rousing fifth thriller to feature the ex-federal agent (after The Paris Vendetta). Two high-ranking Chinese government ministers, hard-liner Karl Tang and more liberal Ni Yong, both of whom are vying to be China''s next premier, covet the lamp. Tang, in particular, has left a trail of bodies in his own quest for the lamp, which, unbeknownst to Malone and Vitt, contains the secret to how the country will surmount its biggest obstacle to future economic growth, its dependence on foreign oil. Berry layers his narrative with well-chosen, if sometimes overly detailed, doses of Chinese history. His action sequences, particularly a shootout inside the vast network of an underground tomb, often take too long to resolve, though the payoff in the end--a goose-pimpleâ€“raising showdown in a remote monastery--is worth the wait. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3721'),
(6027, 'Empire Lost', 'Andrew Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This fascinating book explores British imperial unity at the outbreak of the Second World War and how this ultimately led to its own dissolution in post-war years. In September 1939, four of the five dominions took the decision to support Neville Chamberlain''s London-based government and declare war on Nazi Germany. This was to be the last great outpouring of British imperial unity. Entering the fray as ''self-autonomous'' they finished it as fledgling states whose long-held political, military, economic and cultural ties with the Mother Country were now uncertain. The Second World War brought military triumphs and catastrophes for the Imperial Coalition. More importantly, it also brought political awareness and a weakening of central power. The war that defeated the Nazi Reich also helped destroy the historically accepted unity of the British Empire.Using government records, private letters and diaries and contemporary media sources, this book examines the key themes affecting the relationship between Britain and the Dominions during the Second World War, the Empire''s last great conflict. It asks why this political and military coalition was ultimately successful in overcoming the challenge of the Axis powers but, in the process, proved unable to preserve itself. Although these changes were inevitable the manner of the evolution was sometimes painful, as Britain''s wartime economic decline left its political position exposed in a changing post-war international system.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2251'),
(6028, 'Empire of Blue Water', 'Stephan Talty', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegadesâ€”and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean.Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English became legendary. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and at sea determined the fates of kings and queens, and his victories helped shape the destiny of the New World.Morgan gathered disaffected European sailors and soldiers, hard-bitten adventurers, runaway slaves, and vicious cutthroats, and turned them into the most feared army in the Western Hemisphere. Sailing out from the English stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, â€œthe wickedest city in the New World,â€ Morgan and his men terrorized Spanish merchant ships and devastated the cities where great riches in silver, gold, and gems lay waiting. His last raid, a daring assault on the fabled city of Panama, helped break Spainâ€™s hold on the Americas forever. Awash with bloody battles, political intrigues, natural disaster, and a cast of characters more compelling, bizarre, and memorable than any found in a Hollywood swashbucklerâ€”including the notorious pirate Lâ€™Ollonais, the soul-tortured King Philip IV of Spain, and Thomas Modyford, the crafty English governor of Jamaicaâ€”Empire of Blue Water brilliantly re-creates the passions and the violence of the age of exploration and empire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2255'),
(6029, 'Empire of the Summer Moon', 'S. C. Gwynne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In the tradition of\n  <em>\n   Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,\n  </em>\n  a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n S. C. Gwynneâ€™s\n <em>\n  Empire of the Summer Moon\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled\n <em>\n  backward\n </em>\n by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. So effective were the Comanches that they forced the creation of the Texas Rangers and account for the advent of the new weapon specifically designed to fight them: the six-gun.\n</p>\n<p>\n The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynneâ€™s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroadsâ€”a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being.\n</p>\n<p>\n Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a lovely nine-year-old girl with cornflower-blue eyes who was kidnapped by Comanches from the far Texas frontier in 1836. She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the "White Squaw" who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was her son Quanah, a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legend.\n</p>\n<p>\n S. C. Gwynneâ€™s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told.\n <em>\n  Empire of the Summer Moon\n </em>\n announces him as a major new writer of American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2256'),
(6030, 'The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970', 'John Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, ''has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire'' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was above all a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the ''white dominions''; the commercial empire of the City of London; and ''Greater India'' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2381'),
(6031, 'Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830', 'John Huxtable Elliott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In a masterful account, Oxford don Elliott explores the simultaneous development of Spanish and English colonies in the so-called New World. Though colonists tried to recreate traditional institutions on American soil, there were inevitable differences between colonial life and life in the mother countries: familial roles, for example, were reconfigured across the ocean. In addition to differing from Europe, Spanish and British settlements differed from one another, says Elliott. Whereas Spain determined to prevent Jews and Moors from entering its territories, Britain''s grudging acceptance of religious diversity was evidenced in the Crown''s allowing, and in some cases encouraging, persecuted minorities to join colonial ventures. The English colonies'' fractious Protestantism made Spain''s Catholic colonies look homogeneous by contrast. Yet the "pigmentocratic" social order of Spanish colonies proved to be exceedingly complex. English colonies, with their adoption of racial slavery, came to be organized around the deceptively simple categories of black and white, while Spanish America was home to varied ethnic groups that readily produced "mixed-blood" offspring. Ultimately, British colonies would privilege innovation and entrepreneurship, while Spanish-speaking society held on more firmly to "the old hierarchies." Elliott''s synthesis represents some of the finest fruits of the study of the Atlantic world. Illus., maps._ (May)_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Richly illustrated and based on a thorough an (Carla Rahn Phillips\n  <em>\n   Eighteenth-Century Studies\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2257'),
(6032, 'The Empress File', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One stifling summer night in Longstreet, Mississippi, talented fourteen-year-old Darrell Clark ran home and was shot by cops, who had mistaken him for a purse snatcher. When the predictable cover-up starts, a group of black activists decide that the time has come for action against a corrupt city government. Marvel Atkins, their leader, links up with Kidd, the man with the plan to bring the city tumbling like the pack of Tarot cards he likes to consult. All he has to do is watch out for the Empress. The Tarot has warned him she is dangerous, but first he must find out who she is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/739'),
(6033, 'The End of Normal', 'Stephanie Madoff Mack', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An explosive, heartbreaking memoir from the widow of Mark Madoff and daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff, the first genuine inside story from a family member who has lived through- and survived-both the public crisis and her own deeply personal tragedy.   When the news of Bernard Madoff ''s Ponzi scheme broke, Americans were shocked and outraged, perhaps none more so than the unsuspecting members of his own family. After learning that their father''s legendarily successful wealth management company was "all just one big lie," Mark and Andrew Madoff turned their father in and cut off all communication with both parents. Mark and his wife, Stephanie, strove to make a fresh start for the sake of their two young children, but Mark could not overcome his sense of betrayal and shame-he and other family members were sued for $200 million in October of 2009. He hung himself on the two-year anniversary of his father''s arrest. Left to raise her children as a single mother, Stephanie wrote this memoir to give them a sense of who their father really was, defend his innocence, and put her personal statement on record once and for all. In this candid insider account, she talks about her idyllic wedding to Mark on Nantucket, what it was really like to be a part of the Madoff family, the build-up to Bernard''s confession, and the media frenzy that followed. It is about the loss of the fairytale life she knew, adjusting to life with a man she hardly recognized anymore, and the tragic and final loss of her husband.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3695'),
(6034, 'Ender in Exile', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic Ender''s Game. In Ender''s Game, the world''s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training school. At Battle School, they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life. After the life-changing events of those years, these childrennow teenagersmust leave the school and readapt to life in the outside world. Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for yearswhere do they go now? What can they do? Ender fought for humanity, but he is now reviled as a ruthless assassin. No longer allowed to live on Earth, he enters into exile. With his sister Valentine, he chooses to leave the only home he''s ever known to begin a relativisticand revelatoryjourney beyond the stars. What happened during the years between Ender''s Gameand Speaker for the Dead? What did Ender go through from the ages of 12 through 35? The story of those years has never been told. Taking place 3000 years before Ender finally receives his chance at redemption in Speaker for the Dead, this is the long-lost story of Ender. For twenty-three years, millions of readers have wondered and now they will receive the answers. Ender in Exileis Orson Scott Card''s moving return to all the action and the adventure, the profound exploration of war and society, and the characters one never forgot. On one of these ships, there is a baby that just may share the same special gifts as Ender''s old friend Bean ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3269'),
(6035, 'Ender&#39;s Game', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Winner of the Hugo and Nebula AwardsIn order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cutâ€”young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. Born in Richland, Washington, in 1951, Orson Scott Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church and received degrees from Brigham Young University (1975) and the University of Utah (1981). The author of numerous books, Card was the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, first for Ender''s Game and then for the sequel Speaker for the Dead. He lives with his wife and children in North Carolina. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula AwardsIn order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cutâ€”young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? And what if Ender is merely the brilliant result of genetic experiments? The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.An increasingly popular and relevant novel that risks and achieves and delivers more than most anything else within the science fiction genre, Ender''s Game is a contemporary classicâ€”a work, as Gene Wolf has written, that "will still be finding new readers when 99 percent of the books published this year are completely forgotten." "''Intense'' is the word for Ender''s Game."â€”The New York Times"An affecting novel full of surprises that seem inevitable once they are explained. The key, of course, is Ender Wiggin himself. Mr. Card never makes the mistake of patronizing or sentimentalizing his hero. Alternately likable and insufferable, his is a convincing little Napoleon in short pants."â€”Gerald Jonas, The New York Times Book Review"A gripping tale of adventure in space and a scathing indictment of the military mind."â€”Library Journal"This twenty-five-year-old science fiction classic [is] unlike many hardcore SF titles [in that it] is particularly appropriate for a younger audience, for its protagonist, Ender Wiggin, is just six years old at the novel''s beginning and still a pre-teen at its end. Ender''s parents have received a special dispensation to have a third child in spite of strict population control laws. [Ender''s] brilliant older siblings, Peter and Valentine, have each showed great promise, but each falls just short of having ''the right stuff.'' The International Fleet (I.F.) believes that Ender may be the commander they need to lead great armies against invasion by alien ''buggers.'' When Ender does exhibit the desired combination of compassion and cruelty, the I.F. takes him to the distant Battle School, where brilliant children are trained in military strategy and tactics. The centerpiece of their education is a simulated battle game at which Ender quickly excels, eventually becoming the youngest commander in history. Life at Battle School, especially [its many] battle games, is richly described. Ender is portrayed as just a pawn in the larger game being played by the I.F., and readers will alternately sympathize with his exploitation and cheer when he is able to make friends in spite of the tremendous forces working to isolate and dehumanize him . . . For the most part, this novel will deservedly reach a new generation."â€”Norah Piehl, Children''s Literature"Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superman and interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization, pacing, and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power. This is Card at the height of his very considerable powersâ€”a major SF novel by any reasonable standards."â€”Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1044'),
(6036, 'Ender&#39;s Shadow', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Ender''s Shadow\n </em>\n is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card''s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n . By "parallel," Card means that\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n begins and ends at roughly the same time as\n <em>\n  Game\n </em>\n , and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books tell an almost identical story of brilliant children being trained in the orbiting Battle School to lead humanity''s fleets in the final war against alien invaders known as the Buggers. The most brilliant of these young recruits is Ender Wiggin, an unparalleled commander and tactician who can surely defeat the Buggers if only he can overcome his own inner turmoil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Second among the children is Bean, who becomes Ender''s lieutenant despite the fact that he is the smallest and youngest of the Battle School students. Bean is the central character of\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n , and we pick up his story when he is just a 2-year-old starving on the streets of a future Rotterdam that has become a hell on earth. Bean is unnaturally intelligent for his age, which is the only thing that allows him to escape--though not unscathed--the streets and eventually end up in Battle School. Despite his brilliance, however, Bean is doomed to live his life as an also-ran to the more famous and in many ways more brilliant Ender. Nonetheless, Bean learns things that Ender cannot or will not understand, and it falls to this once pathetic street urchin to carry the weight of a terrible burden that Ender must not be allowed to know.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although it may seem like\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n is merely an attempt by Card to cash in on the success of his justly famous\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n , that suspicion will dissipate once you turn the first few pages of this engrossing novel. It''s clear that Bean has a story worth telling, and that Card (who started the project with a cowriter but later decided he wanted it all to himself) is driven to tell it. And though much of\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n hinges on a surprise ending that Card fans are likely well acquainted with,\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n manages to capitalize on that same surprise and even turn the table on readers. In the end, it seems a shame that\n <em>\n  Shadow\n </em>\n , like Bean himself, will forever be eclipsed by the myth of Ender, because this is a novel that can easily stand on its own. Luckily for readers, Card has left plenty of room for a sequel, so we may well be seeing more of Bean in the near future.\n <em>\n  --Craig E. Engler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n You can''t step into the same river twice, but Card has gracefully dipped twice into the same inkwellAonce for Ender''s Game and again for this stand-alone "parallel novel." The course readers will follow this time is of the superhuman child Bean. Raised on streets ruled by starving children''s gangs, he was too weak, at age four, to hold peanuts in his hand, but ingenious enough to trick the other children into civilizing themselvesAand to keep himself alive. When his genius and uncanny understanding of individuals'' motivations are discovered, he is sent to Battle School, where children learn to command fleets for the war with the alien BuggersAthe smallest kid ever to do so. Bean is not as perfect as Ender WigginAhero of the Ender Quartet, begun with Ender''s Game and concluded with Children of the MindAbut he becomes Ender''s ally. Though Bean is cold at first, the kind of child who weighs the costs of hugging the nun who saved him from the streets, he wants to understand the respect and love that Ender wields. Thus, Bean''s story is twofold: he learns to be a soldier, and to be human. Devotees of the Ender saga will delight in the revelations about the formation of Ender''s Dragon army and about the last of Ender''s games. Though newcomers to the series may miss many of the novel''s points, the wonders of Battle School and flashsuits and children''s armies should keep them turning pages. As always, everyone will be struck by the power of Card''s children, always more and less than human, perfect yet struggling, tragic yet hopeful, wondrous and strange. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1048'),
(6037, 'Endgame: Bobby Fischer&#39;s Remarkable Rise and Fall - From America&#39;s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness', 'Frank Brady', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Profile of a Prodigy\n </em>\n (originally published in 1969) chronicled the chess icon''s early years, a selection of 90 games, and (in later editions) his 1972 World Championship match with Boris Spassky. With\n <em>\n  Endgame\n </em>\n , published two years after Fischer''s death, Brady''s on-and-off proximity to Fischer lends new depth to the latter''s full and twisted life story. Though Fischer''s pinnacle artistry on the chessboard may often be discussed in the same breath with his eventual paranoia and outspoken anti-Semitism, the particular turns and travels of his post-World Championship years (half his life) lend his story most of its vexing oddity: the niggling insistence on seemingly arbitrary conditions for his matches, the years on the lam after flagrantly disregarding U.S. economic sanctions, his incarceration in Japan, his eventual citizenship and quiet demise in Iceland. All told, Fischer''s life was like none other, and told through the lens of Brady''s personal familiarity and access to new source material, results in an utterly engaging read. --_Jason Kirk_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Dick Cavett\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dick Cavett\n </strong>\n is the host of â€œThe Dick Cavett Showâ€---which aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on public television from 1977 to 1982---Dick Cavett is the author, most recently, of\n <em>\n  Otherwise Engaged\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Into the Woods,\n </em>\n and as narrator in\n <em>\n  The Rocky Horror Show\n </em>\n , and has made guest appearances in movies and on TV shows including\n <em>\n  Forrest Gump\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Simpsons\n </em>\n . His column appears in the Opinionator blog on\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n website. Mr. Cavett lives in New York City and Montauk, N.Y.\n</p>\n<p>\n Even if you donâ€™t give a damn about chess, or Bobby Fischer, youâ€™ll find yourself engrossed by Frank Bradyâ€˜s book about Fischer, which reads like a novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n The facts of Bobbyâ€™s life (I knew him from several memorable appearances on â€œThe Dick Cavett Showâ€ on both sides of the Big Tournament) are presented in page-turner fashion. Poor Bobby was blessed and cursed by his genius, and his story has the arc of a Greek tragedy---with a grim touch of mad King Lear at the end.\n</p>\n<p>\n The brain power and concentrated days and nights Bobby spent studying the game left much of him undeveloped, unable to join conversations on other subjects. Later in his life, unhappy with his limited knowledge of things beyond the chess board, he compensated with massive study---applying that same hard-butt dedication to other fields: politics, classics, religion, philosophy and more. He found a hide-away nook in a Reykjavic bookstore---barred from his homeland, Iceland had welcomed him back---where he read in marathon sessions. (After he was recognized, he never went back to his cozy cul de sac.)\n</p>\n<p>\n In Bradyâ€™s telling the high drama of the Spassky match quickens the pulse; the contest that made America a chess-crazed land was seen by more people than the Superbowl. People skipped school and played sick in vast numbers, glued to watching Shelby Lyman explain what was happening. The fanaticism was worldwide. The match was seen as a Cold War event, with the time out of mind chess-ruling Russian bear vanquished.\n</p>\n<p>\n Arguably the best known man on the planet at his triumphant peak, Bobby is later seen in this account riding buses in Los Angeles, able to pay his rent in a dump of an apartment only because his mother sent him her social-security checks. The details of all this are stranger than fiction, as is nearly everything in the life of this much-rewarded, much-tortured genius.\n</p>\n<p>\n I liked him immensely, knowing only the tall, broad-shouldered, athletically strong and handsome six-foot-something articulate and yes, witty, youth that Bobby was before the evil times set in, with deranged anti-Semitic outbursts and other mental strangeness preceding his too early end at age 64.\n</p>\n<p>\n I canâ€™t ever forget the moment on the show when in amiable conversation I asked him what, in chess, corresponded to the thrill in another sort of event; like, say, hitting a homer in baseball. He said it was the moment when you â€œbreak the other guyâ€™s ego.â€ There was a shocked murmur from the audience and the quote went around the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Frank Bradyâ€™s\n <em>\n  Endgame\n </em>\n is one of those books that makes you want your dinner guests to go the hell home so you can get back to it.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bradyâ€™s insightful biography of the legendary chess player focuses more on Fischerâ€™s life as a chess champion than on his much-publicized legal troubles and alleged psychological breakdowns. Brady first became friends with Fischer at a chess tournament when they were both children, and he combines a traditional biography with a personal memoir. Fischer began playing chess at age six and was soon playing games by himself, unable to find worthy competition. He seems to have had a lifelong battle with himself, and his biggest challenge may have been conquering not his competitors but his own intellect. Brady is uniquely qualified to write this book. Not only is he a seasoned biographer and someone who knew Fischer on a personal level; heâ€™s also an accomplished chess player himself, able to convey the gameâ€™s intricacies to the reader in a clear, uncomplicated manner. The book should appeal to a broad audience, from hard-core chess fans to casual players to those who are simply interested in what is a compelling personal story. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2085'),
(6038, 'The Endurance: Shackleton&#39;s Legendary Antarctic Expedition', 'Caroline Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Melding superb research and the extraordinary expedition photography of Frank Hurley,\n  <em>\n   The Endurance\n  </em>\n  by Caroline Alexander is a stunning work of history, adventure, and art which chronicles "one of the greatest epics of survival in the annals of exploration." Setting sail as World War I broke out in Europe, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by renowned polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, hoped to become the first to cross the Antarctic continent. But their ship,\n  <em>\n   Endurance,\n  </em>\n  was trapped in the drifting pack ice, eventually to splinter, leaving the expedition stranded on floes--a situation that seemed "not merely desperate but impossible."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Most skillfully Alexander constructs the expedition''s character through its personalities--the cast of veteran explorers, scientists, and crew--with aid from many previously unavailable journals and documents. We learn, for instance, that carpenter and shipwright Henry McNish, or "Chippy," was "neither sweet-tempered nor tolerant," and that Mrs. Chippy, his cat, was "full of character." Such firsthand descriptions, paired with 170 of Frank Hurley''s intimate photographs, which are comprehensively assembled here for the first time, penetrate the hulls of the\n  <em>\n   Endurance\n  </em>\n  and these tough men. The account successfully reveals the seldom-seen domestic world of expedition life--the singsongs, feasts, lectures, camaraderie--so that when the hardships set in, we know these people beyond the stereotypical guise of mere explorers and long for their safety.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alexander reveals Shackleton as an inspiring optimist, "a leader who put his men first." Throughout the grueling ordeal, Shackleton and his men show what endurance and greatness are all about.\n  <em>\n   The Endurance\n  </em>\n  is a most intimate portrait of an expedition and of survival. Readers will possess a newfound respect for these daring souls, know better their unthinkable toil and half-forgotten realm of glory.\n  <em>\n   --Byron Ricks\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The unparalleled adventure and ordeal of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew, stranded on the Antarctic ice for 20 months beginning January 20, 1915, then forced to row a 22-foot boat 850 miles across storm-ravaged seas, has inspired at least three marvelous books: Shackleton''s own memoir, South; Alfred Lansing''s bestselling Endurance; and this stirring account by Alexander (The Way to Xanadu). In 1914, Shackleton sailed to Antarctica with 27 men in hopes of being the first human to transverse the continent. But his ship, the Endurance, was trapped, then crushed, by ice in the Weddell Sea, propelling the party into a nightmare of cold and near starvation. Alexander, relying extensively on journals by crew members, some never published, as well as on myriad other sources, delivers a spellbinding story of human courage (and occasional venality) in the face of daunting odds. She succinctly and boldly captures the character of the men and of the terrible land- and seascape they crossed toward salvation. What makes this book especially exciting, however, are the 170 previously unpublished photos by the expedition''s photographer, Frank Hurley: stark, artfully composed tributes to the savage beauty of the ice and to the fortitude of the men and their dogs. Not one of the men died during their sojourn in a freezing hell; as Alexander makes clear in her gripping, emotionally resonant book, this incredible fact bears witness not only to Shackleton''s leadership but to the strength of the human spirit. Agent, Anthony Sheil. Author tour. (Nov.) FYI: The Endurance is being published in association with the American Museum of Natural History, which in March 1999 will open an exhibit, curated by Alexander, chronicling Shackleton''s voyage. A feature-length IMAX film on the subject will be released then, as well.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2382'),
(6039, 'The Enemy', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldierâ€™s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the armyâ€™s brightest stars. But in every copâ€™s life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case. New Yearâ€™s Day, 1990. In a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. Within hours the generalâ€™s wife is murdered. Then the dominoes really start to fall.Somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Reacher is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have. But Reacher wonâ€™t quit. Heâ€™s fighting a new kind of warâ€”against an enemy he didnâ€™t know he had. And against a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2553'),
(6040, 'Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America', 'Henry Petroski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America''s great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St. Louis, the George Washington, and the Golden Gate bridges, drawing not only on their mastery of numbers but on their gifts for persuasion and self-promotion. It is an account of triumphs and ignominious disasters (including the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which literally twisted itself apart in a high wind). And throughout this grandly engaging book, Petroski lets us see how bridges became the "symbols and souls" of our civilization, as well as testaments to their builders'' vision, ingenuity, and perseverance. "Seamlessly linked...With astonishing scope and generosity of view, Mr. Petroski places the tradition of American bridge-building in perspective."--New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2258');
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(6041, 'The English Assassin', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is asked to visit Zurich, to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker. But when he gets there he finds the corpse of his client in a pool of blood beneath the masterpiece, and discovers that a secret collection of priceless paintings â€“ stolen by Nazis in the war â€“ is missing. With the Swiss authorities trying to pin the murder on Allon and a powerful cabal determined to make sure this wartime secret remains buried, the art restorer must use all his former spy skills to find out the truth. And with an assassin that he helped to train also on the loose, Allon will need all his wits just to stay alive â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3909'),
(6042, 'Escape', 'Carolyn Jessop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one womanâ€™s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolynâ€™s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husbandâ€™s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Carolynâ€™s every move was dictated by her husbandâ€™s whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuseâ€”at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wifeâ€™s compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessopâ€™s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2087'),
(6043, 'Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War', 'John D. Lukacs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On April 4, 1943, ten American prisoners of war and two Filipino convicts executed a daring escape from one of Japanâ€™s most notorious prison camps. The prisoners were survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March and the Fall of Corregidor, and the prison from which they escaped was surrounded by an impenetrable swamp and reputedly escape-proof. Theirs was the only successful group escape from a Japanese POW camp during the Pacific war. Escape from Davao is the story of one of the most remarkable incidents in the Second World War and of what happened when the Americans returned home to tell the world what they had witnessed. Â Davao Penal Colony, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, was a prison plantation where thousands of American POWs toiled alongside Filipino criminals and suffered from tropical diseases and malnutrition, as well as the cruelty of their captors. The American servicemen were rotting in a hellhole from which escape was considered impossible, but ten of them, realizing that inaction meant certain death, planned to escape. Their bold plan succeeded with the help of Filipino allies, both patriots and the guerrillas who fought the Japanese sent to recapture them. Their trek to freedom repeatedly put the Americans in jeopardy, yet they eventually succeeded in returning home to the United States to fulfill their self-appointed mission: to tell Americans about Japanese atrocities and to rally the country to the plight of their comrades still in captivity. But the government and the military had a different timetable for the liberation of the Philippines and ordered the men to remain silent. Their testimony, when it finally emerged, galvanized the nation behind the Pacific war effort and made the men celebrities. Â Over the decades this remarkable story, called the â€œgreatest story of the war in the Pacificâ€ by the War Department in 1944, has faded away. Because of wartime censorship, the full story has never been told until now. John D. Lukacs spent years researching this heroic event, interviewing survivors, reading their letters, searching archival documents, and traveling to the decaying prison camp and its surroundings. His dramatic, gripping account of the escape brings this remarkable tale back to life, where a new generation can admire the resourcefulness and patriotism of the men who fought the Pacific war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2764'),
(6044, 'Escape From Five Shadows', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n No one breaks out of the brutal convict labor camp at Five Shadowsâ€”but Corey Bowen is ready to die trying. They framed him to put him in there, and beat him bloody and nearly dead after his last escape attempt. He''ll have help this timeâ€”from a lady with murder on her mind and a debt to pay back. Because freedom isn''t enough for primed dynamite like Bowen. And he won''t leave the corrupt desert hell behind him until a few scores are settled...permanently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3094'),
(6045, 'Escape From Saddam: The Incredible True Story of One Man&#39;s Journey to Freedom', 'Lewis Alsamari', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For Alsamari, an Iraqi-born first-time author best known for playing the lead 9/11 hijacker in the movie\n <em>\n  United 93\n </em>\n , real life had already proved dramatic and terrifying, as this gripping memoir wastes no time in conveying. Raised for several years in Manchester, England, Alsamari was unexpectedly sent back to Baghdad by his father a few years before the first Gulf War and he spends the next 10 years dreaming of a way out. Induction in the army in 1994â€”a punishing experience that the author describes in characteristically straightforward and persuasive proseâ€”leads to a lifelong sentence: recruitment into Saddam''s military intelligence apparatus. With the help of his beloved uncle Saad, Alsamari begins the long and perilous journey to political asylum in England, where he eventually engineers the rescue of his family, now gravely endangered by his desertion. The increasingly breathless accountâ€”filled with the best and worst of human actionsâ€”comes across in vivid and telling scenes spanning Iraq, Jordan, Malaysia and the U.K. Alsamari''s moving personal story is representative of a more general plight, which, as broached in an eloquent and thoughtful epilogue, has only grown more complex after 9/11.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alsamari is a London-based actor who played one of the hijackers in the docudrama United 93. He was born in Iraq but raised in Britain. At the age of 12, he temporarily returned to Iraq with his father and wound up trapped there. At 18, after a harrowing period as a military conscript, he deserted, escaped to Jordan, and returned to Britain. When he discovered that family members were enduring prison and torture by Saddamâ€™s henchmen to pay for his treason, he launched a complicated scheme to rescue them. Alsamariâ€™s recounting of his experiences reads like a fast-paced international thriller, but this is a real-life saga that magnifies the tension, danger, and poignancy of the story. Almasariâ€™s experience in the Iraqi military is a study in the deliberate practice of brutality and sadism; his anecdotes about coping with the Baathist bureaucracy combine elements of farce and frustration; and, finally, his efforts to rescue his loved ones move across vast expanses of territory and include forgeries, smuggling, and constant fear. A well-written, frequently exciting, and ultimately satisfying true story. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2259'),
(6046, 'Europe: A History', 'Norman Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the Ice Age to the Cold War and beyond, from Reykjavik to Riga, from Archimedes to Einstein, Alexander to Yeltsin, here between the covers of a single volume Norman Davies tells the story of Europe, East and West, from prehistory to the present day. The book''s absorbing narrative lays down the chronological and geographical grid on which the dramas of European history have been played out. It zooms in from the distant focus of Chapter One, which explores the first five million years of the continent''s evolution, to the close focus of the lasttwo chapters, which cover the twentieth century at roughly one page per year. In between, Norman Davies presents a huge and sweeping canvas packed with fascinating detail, analysis, and anecdote. Alongside Europe''s better-known stories - human, national, and continental - he brings into focus areasoften ignored or misunderstood, remembering the stateless nation as well as the nation-state. Minority communities, from heretics and lepers to Jews, Romanies, and Muslims have not been forgotten. This masterly history reveals not only the rich variety of Europe''s past but also the many and rewarding prisms through which it can be viewed. Each chapter contains a selection of telephoto ''capsules'', illustrating narrower themes and topics that cut across the chronological flow. Davies thenconcludes with a wide-angle ''snapshot'' of the whole continent as seen from one particular vantage point. The overall effect is stunning: a kind of historical picture album, with panoramic tableaux interspersed by detailed insets and close-ups. Never before has such an ambitious history of Europe been attempted. In range and ambition, the originality of its structure and glittering style, Norman Davies''s Europe represents one of the most important and illuminating history books to be published by Oxford. Time Capsules 201 fascinating articles interspersed throughout the narrative focus on incidents or topics as various as The Iceman of the Alps, Erotic Graffiti at Pompeii, Stradivarius, and Psychoanalysing Hitler. Each capsule can be tasted as a separate self-contained morsel; or can be read in conjunction withthe narrative into which it is inserted. Snapshots 12 panoramic overviews across the changing map of Europe freeze the frames of the chronological narrative at moments of symbolic importance, such as Knossos 1628 BC, Constantinople AD 330, and Nuremberg 1945. A fully illustrated history Incorporates over 100 superbly detailed maps and diagrams, and 32 pages of black and white plates.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2261'),
(6047, 'Europe&#39;s Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War', 'Peter H. Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from Russia were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting rapidly spiralled out of control, with great battles giving way to marauding bands of starving soldiers spreading plague and murder. The war was both a religious and a political one and it was this tangle of motives that made it impossible to stop. Whether motivated by idealism or cynicism, everyone drawn into the conflict was destroyed by it. At its end a recognizably modern Europe had been created but at a terrible price.\n</p>\n<p>\n Peter Wilson''s book is a major work, the first new history of the war in a generation, and a fascinating, brilliantly written attempt to explain a compelling series of events. Wilson''s great strength is in allowing the reader to understand the tragedy of mixed motives that allowed rulers to gamble their countries'' future with such horrifying results. The principal actors in the drama (Wallenstein, Ferdinand II, Gustavus Adolphus, Richelieu) are all here, but so is the experience of the ordinary soldiers and civilians, desperately trying to stay alive under impossible circumstances.\n</p>\n<p>\n The extraordinary narrative of the war haunted Europe''s leaders into the twentieth century (comparisons with 1939''45 were entirely appropriate) and modern Europe cannot be understood without reference to this dreadful conflict.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2260'),
(6048, 'Evangeline', 'D. W. Buffa', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Blending the dramatic intensity and action of a shipwreck with a compelling courtroom drama, this is a gripping tale of a moral dilemma none of us would ever want to face.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3918'),
(6049, 'Eve', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Johansen''s gripping 11th Eve Duncan novel (after Chasing the Night), the first of a trilogy, the forensic sculptor zeros in on the kidnapper and serial killer who years earlier abducted and murdered her seven-year-old daughter, Bonnie. Eve''s obsession with the case draws in her good friend, CIA agent Catherine Ling, as well as her lover and would-be protector, police detective Joe Quinn. In spite of their problematic relationships due to Eve''s protracted and intense search, Ling and Quinn work together to call in favors and pursue every possible lead. Their joint efforts uncover a cadre of sharply drawn malefactors who may be deeply involved, notably emotionally unstable John Gallo, Eve''s former lover and Bonnie''s father, who spent six years as a prisoner in North Korea. The explosive finale set in the Wisconsin woods leads to an emotional cliffhanger, as Johansen deftly baits the hook for the next volume. 400,000 first printing. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n After searching for years over the course of Johansen''s popular, long-running series, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is finally close to solving the mystery of daughter Bonnie''s murder. With the help of her CIA friend Catherine Ling, Eve narrows the field of suspects down to either Paul Black or John Gallo, both of whom work for a corrupt military intelligence officer. Paul has a history of killing children, and John is mentally unstable after a stint in a North Korean prison. The specter of Gallo forces Eve to relive her tumultuous past, growing up in the projects of Atlanta, intent on staying out of trouble until she meets John. He was about to join the army to become a Ranger, but first they had a brief yet highly charged affair, which left Eve pregnant with Bonnie. Now nothing will stop Eve from learning the truth about her daughter''s fate as Johansen launches a trilogy that takes the reader on an action-packed journey filled with killers and heroes, leaving readers on tenterhooks for Quinn (July 2011) and Bonnie (October 2011). HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: With a seven-figure marketing campaign and 400,000-copy print runs for each title, Johansen''s next three titles will be hot. --Patty Engelmann\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/621'),
(6050, 'Even Money', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ned Talbot is a small-time bookmaker on the edge of giving it all up when his world is turned upside down by a man who claims to be his father, long thought dead. And when the mysterious stranger is murdered, Ned feels compelled to find out exactly what is going on. But the more he discovers, the longer the odds become for his survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3605'),
(6051, 'Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle', 'Ingrid Betancourt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing powerful teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in BogotÄ¯, raised in France, Ingrid Betancourt at the age of thirty-two gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and a pervasive sense of hopelessness. In 2002, while campaigning as a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, she was abducted by the FARC. Nothing could have prepared her for what came next. She would spend the next six and a half years in the depths of the jungle as a prisoner of the FARC. Even Silence Has an Endis her deeply personal and moving account of that time. Chained day and night for much of her captivity, she never stopped dreaming of escape and, in fact, succeeded in getting away several times, always to be recaptured. In her most successful effort she and a fellow captive survived a week away, but were caught when her companion became desperately ill; she learned later that they had been mere miles from freedom. The facts of her story are astounding, but it is Betancourt''s indomitable spirit that drives this very special account, bringing life, nuance, and profundity to the narrative. Attending as intimately to the landscape of her mind as she does to the events of her capture and captivity, Even Silence Has an Endis a meditation on the very stuff of life-fear and freedom, hope and what inspires it. Betancourt tracks her metamorphosis, sharing how in the routines she established for herself-listening to her mother and two children broadcast to her over the radio, daily prayer-she was able to do the unthinkable: to move through the pain of the moment and find a place of serenity. Freed in 2008 by the Colombian army, today Betancourt is determined to draw attention to the plight of hostages and victims of terrorism throughout the world and it is that passion that motivates Even Silence Has an End. The lessons she offers here-in courage, resilience, and humanity-are gifts to treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2089'),
(6052, 'Event', 'David Lynn Golemon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the summer of 1947, an unidentified objectÂ crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. There were no survivors. Now it''s happened again. But this time, two creatures have emerged from the wreckage alive . . . Â One is a small being that is kind and benevolent, brimming with intense emotion and intelligence. The other, however, is an animal of remarkable strength and power. It has been brought clandestinely to our world with one sole purpose: the total extinction of all life on Earth. It is called the Destroyer of Worlds.Â Only the Event Group, the most secret agency in the history of the U.S. government, is prepared to wage battle against such a creature. The Event Group is a dedicated collection of the nation''s most brilliant men and women of science, philosophy and the military. Their difficult task: solving the mysteries of the past and uncovering the hidden truths behind the myths and legends propagated throughout world history. In doing so they protect America from past mistakes---and ensure that history''s errors will never be repeated.Â An act of war that started in New Mexico decades ago, and was covered up by another far darker organization, has been discovered by the Group at the same time as the new and seemingly identical incident threatens to wipe out the Earth''s population. In the desert wastelands of the American Southwest, a battle is about to commence as the two creatures set out to fulfill their own destinies among the human race.Â Led by the valiant Major Jack Collins, the Event Group wages total war in the heat-soaked sands of the desert landscape. Using the benevolent creature as an ally and resource, they combine forces with the powerful might of the U.S. military and prepare themselves for an epic battle against the most dangerous threat against human existence that history has ever seen.Â Event tells of an epic struggle between two worlds. Author David Lynn Golemon has written a classic supernatural thriller, each page bringing human civilization closer to extinction, that proves a blistering roller-coaster ride of thrills and adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3924'),
(6053, 'Every Day by the Sun of the Faulkners of Mississippi', 'Dean Faulkner Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Nobody could have written this book except Dean Faulkner Wells. It is not only charming, poignant and witty, it is a priceless contribution to America''s rich literary history."\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n Winston Groom, author, _Forrest Gump\n</p>\n<p>\n _"Dean Faulkner Wells has written a memorable family story, full of the intimacies of place and cherished connections, that not incidentally sheds unexpected, humanizing light on herÂ august uncle,Â William Faulkner."--Thomas McGuane\n</p>\n<p>\n "A funny, extremely readable, incredibly likable memoir of what it was like to grow up with the great manâ€¦.A wonderful book."--Mark Childress, author of\n <em>\n  Crazy in Alabama\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Read Every Day by the Sun_, then read\n <em>\n  Go Down Moses\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Hamlet\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Town\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Mansion\n </em>\n , and you will feel you have been on an archaeological dig with a master. Dean Faulkner Wells knows where the gold is buried, where the heart strings sang, where the understanding and love were engenderedâ€¦.Burn the deconstructionistsâ€™ texts.\n <em>\n  Every day By The Sun\n </em>\n is all you need."â€”Ellen Gilchrist\n</p>\n<p>\n "I can''t recall the last time I enjoyed a book as much as\n <em>\n  Every Day By The Sun\n </em>\n . Dean Faulkner Wells has performed a miracle: Sheâ€™s brought a great man back to life, and in doing so sheâ€™s summoned a time and a place that now seem too far gone. I love her clean, sharp, unpretentious prose, the well-hewn stories piled one on top of the other, the intimate revelations about a family that belongs to all of us but belonged to her first. William Faulkner is a fascinating character indeed, but it is Wells herself whom I found most captivating. Sheâ€™s somebody to fall in love with and never get over."--John Ed Bradley, author,\n <em>\n  Tupelo Nights\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A fresh, affectionate view of ''Pappy,'' the great and difficult writer."--Roy Blount, Jr.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Part biography, part memoir, Wells'' work does much to humanize the man who is often remembered only for his words. A must-read for Faulkner-philes."--_Kirkus _\n</p>\n<p>\n "Marvelously evocative, intimate, and deeply moving."\n <br />\n --John Berendt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Every Day by the Sun,\n </em>\n Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted murÂ­derers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers), and a Nobel Prize winner, arguably the most important AmeriÂ­can novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her familyâ€”in particular her uncle William, or â€œPappy,â€ with whom she shared colorÂ­ful, sometimes utterly frank, sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences.\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  This deeply felt memoir explores the close reÂ­lationship between Deanâ€™s uncle and her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty-eight during an air show four months beÂ­fore she was born. It was William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after Deanâ€™s tragic death, William helped to raise his niece. He paid for her education, gave her away when she was married, and maintained a unique relationship with her throughout his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  From the 1920s to the early civil rights era, from Faulknerâ€™s winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature to his death in 1962,\n <em>\n  Every Day by the Sun\n </em>\n explores the changing culture and society of Oxford, MisÂ­sissippi, while offering a rare glimpse of a notoriÂ­ously private family and an indelible portrait of a national treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2090'),
(6054, 'Every Last One', 'Anna Quindlen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this breathtaking and beautiful novel, the #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen creates an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a father, a family, and the explosive, violent consequences of what seem like inconsequential actions.Â Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor.Â  Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount.Â  And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence. What happens afterwards is a testament to the power of a womanâ€™s love and determination, and to the invisible line of hope and healing that connects one human being with another. Ultimately, in the hands of Anna Quindlenâ€™s mesmerizing prose, Every Last One is a novel about facing every last one of the the things we fear most, about finding ways to navigate a road we never intended to travel, to live a life we never dreamed weâ€™d have to live but must be brave enough to try.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3461'),
(6055, 'Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War', 'Megan K. Stack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An American reporter takes in one Middle East cataclysm after another in this searing memoir.\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n correspondent Stack covered the war in Afghanistan after Sept. 11, then bounced around to other hot-spot postings, including Israel during the second Intifada, occupied Baghdad, and southern Lebanon during the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Stack offers gripping accounts of the sorrows of war, especially of the traumas Afghan and Lebanese civilians endured under American and Israeli bombing, but she also writes evocatively of quieter pathologies: Libya''s jovially sinister totalitarian regime, corruption under Egypt''s quasi-dictatorship, and lyric anti-Semitism at a Yemeni poetry slam. Dropping journalistic detachment in favor of a novelistic style, she enters the story as a protagonist whose travailsâ€”fending off a lecherous Afghan warlord, seething under the humiliating restrictions of Saudi Arabia''s gender apartheid systemâ€”illuminate the societies she encounters. The big-picture lessons Stack drawsâ€”The Middle East goes crazy and we go along with itâ€”are none too cogent, but her vivid, atmospheric prose and keen empathy make her a superb observer of the region''s horrific particulars.\n <em>\n  (Jun.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Society assigns war to the military, not the media, yet journalists venture into combat zones ahead of, alongside, and well after the troops whose stories they tell. As a 25-year-old correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, Stack covered Afghanistan in the days immediately following 9/11, then traveled to other outposts in the war on terror, from Iraq to Iran, Libya, and Lebanon. In a disquieting series of essays, Stack now takes readers deep into the carnage where she was exposed to the insanity, innocence, and inhumanity of wars with no beginning, middle, or end. Her soaring imagery sears itself into the brain, in acute and accurate tales that should never be forgotten by the wider world, and yet always are. Stack grew increasingly demoralized with each new outburst of hostilities, and clearly covering the violence took its emotional toll: the uncomfortable hypocrisy of Abu Ghraib, the unconscionable confusion over womenâ€™s subjugation, the unfathomable intricacies of tribal allegiances. Anyone wishing to understand the Middle East need only look into the faces of war that Stack renders with exceptional humanityâ€”the bombers as well as the bureaucrats, the rebels and the refugees, the victors and the victims. --Carol Haggas\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2093'),
(6056, 'Everything&#39;s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his introduction to\n <em>\n  Everything''s Eventual\n </em>\n , horror author extraordinaire Stephen King describes how he used a deck of playing cards to select the order in which these 14 tales of the macabre would appear. Judging by the impact of these stories, from the first words of the darkly fascinating "Autopsy Room Four" to the haunting final pages of "Luckey Quarter," one can almost believe King truly is guided by forces from beyond.\n</p>\n<p>\n His first collection of short stories since the release of\n <em>\n  Nightmares &amp; Dreamscapes\n </em>\n in 1993,\n <em>\n  Everything''s Eventual\n </em>\n represents King at his most undiluted. The short story format showcases King''s ability to spook readers using the most mundane settings (a yard sale) and comfortable memories (a boyhood fishing excursion). The dark tales collected here are some of King''s finest, including an O. Henry Prize winner and "Riding the Bullet," published originally as an e-book and at one time expected by some to be the death knell of the physical publishing world. True to form, each of these stories draws the reader into King''s slightly off-center world from the first page, developing characters and atmosphere more fully in the span of 50 pages than many authors can in a full novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n For most rabid King fans, chief among the tales in this volume will be "The Little Sisters of Eluria," a novella that first appeared in the fantasy collection\n <em>\n  Legends\n </em>\n , set in King''s ever-expanding Dark Tower universe. In this story, set prior to the first Dark Tower volume, the reader finds Gunslinger Roland of Gilead wounded and under the care of nurses with very dubious intentions. Also included in this collection are "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French," the story of a woman''s personal hell; "1408," in which a writer of haunted tour guides finally encounters the real thing; "Everything''s Eventual," the title story, about a boy with a dream job that turns out to be more of a nightmare; and "L.T.''s Theory of Pets," a story of divorce with a bloody surprise ending.\n</p>\n<p>\n King also includes an introductory essay on the lost art of short fiction and brief explanatory notes that give the reader background on his intentions and inspirations for each story. As with any occasion when King directly addresses his dear Constant Readers, his tone is that of a camp counselor who''s almost apologetic for the scare his fireside tales are about to throw into his charges, yet unwilling to soften the blow. And any campers gathered around this author''s fire would be wise to heed his warnings, for when King goes bump in the night, it''s never just a branch on the window.\n <em>\n  --Benjamin Reese\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eyebrows arched in literary circles when, in 1995, the New Yorker published Stephen King''s "The Man in the Black Suit," a scorchingly atmospheric tale of a boy''s encounter with the Devil in backwoods Maine. The story went on to win the 1996 O. Henry Award for Best Short Story, confirming what King fans have known for years that the author is not only immensely popular but immensely talented, a modern-day counterpart to Twain, Hawthorne, Dickens. "The Man in the Black Suit" appears in this hefty collection, King''s first since Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993), along with three other extraordinary New Yorker tales: "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away," an intensely moving story of a suicidal traveling salesman who collects graffiti; "The Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French," about a woman caught in a fatal loop of deja vu; and "The Death of Jack Hamilton," a gritty, witty tale of Dillinger''s gang on the lam. Together, they make up what King, in one of many author asides, calls his "literary stories," which he contrasts to the "all-out screamers" though most of the stories here seem a mix of the two, with the distinction as real as a line on a map. "Autopsy Room Four," a black-humor horror about a man who wakes up paralyzed in a morgue and about to be autopsied, displays a mastery of craft, and "1408," a haunted hotel-room story that first surfaced on the audio book Blood and Smoke, engenders a sense of profound unease, of dread, as surely as do the elegant work of Blackwood or Machen or, if one prefers, Baudelaire or Sartre. King''s talent doesn''t always burn at peak, of course, and there are lesser tales here, too, but none that most writers wouldn''t be proud to claim, like the slight but affecting "Luckey," about a poor cleaning woman given a "luckey" coin as a tip, or "L.T.''s Theory of Pets," which King cites as his favorite of the collection, but whose shift from humor to horror comes off as arbitrary, at least on the page (the story first appeared in audiobook form).Then there''s "Riding the Bullet," the novella that put King on the cover of Time and rattled the publishing community not for its content a suspenseful encounter with the dead but for its mode of delivery, as an e-book, and "The Little Sisters of Eleuria," another resonant entry in King''s self-proclaimed "magnus opus" about Roland the Gunslinger (Roland will return, King lets on, in a now-finished 900-page Dark Tower novel, Wolves of the Calla). Fourteen stories, most of them gems, featuring an array of literary approaches, plus an opinionated intro from King about the "(Almost) Lost Art" of the short story: this will be the biggest selling story collection of the year, and why not? No one does it better.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/784'),
(6057, 'Evicted From Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome', 'Michael Herzfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation.Michael Herzfeld focuses on Romeâ€™s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social change. Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the gentrification of Montiâ€”once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt officials, dithering politicians, deceptive clerics, and shady thugs. As Herzfeld picks apart the messy story of Montiâ€™s transformation, he ranges widely over many aspects of life there and in the rest of the city, richly depicting the uniquely local landscape of globalization in Rome.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2446'),
(6058, 'Evidence', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n #1\n <i>\n  New York Times\n </i>\n bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman writes unforgettable tales of crime and detection that expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles. And in\n <strong>\n  Evidence\n </strong>\n , readers are once again in the dexterous grip of a master storyteller and stylist equally skilled at teasing your brain and taking your breath away.\n <br />\n <br />\n In the half-built skeleton of a monstrously vulgar mansion in one of L.A.''s toniest\n <i>\n </i>\n neighborhoods, a watchman stumbles on the bodies of a young couple-murdered in flagrante and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace. Though he''s cracked some of the city''s worst slayings, veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis is still shocked at the grisly sight: a twisted crime that only Milo''s killer instincts-and psychologist Alex Delaware''s keen insights-can hope to solve.\n <br />\n <br />\n While the female victim''s identity remains a question mark, her companion is ID''d as eco-friendly architect Desmond Backer, who disdains the sort of grandiose superstructure he''s found dead in. And the late Mr. Backer, it''s revealed was also notorious for his power to seduce women.\n <br />\n <br />\n The rare exception is his ex-boss, Helga Gemein, who''s as indifferent to Desmond''s death as she apparently was to his advances. Though Milo and Alex place her on their short list of suspects, the deeper they dig for clues the longer the list grows. An elusive prince who appears to harbor decidedly American appetites, an eccentric blueblood with an ax to grind, one of Desmond''s restless ex-lovers and her cuckolded husband-all are in the homicidal mix spiced with eco-terrorism, arson, blackmail, conspiracy, and a vendetta that runs deep. But when the investigation veers suddenly in a startling direction, it''s the investigators who may wind up on the wrong end of a cornered predator''s final fury\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/758'),
(6059, 'An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination', 'Elizabeth McCracken', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  "This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of France, working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child. This book is about what happened next. In her ninth month of pregnancy, she learned that her baby boy had died. How do you deal with and recover from this kind of loss? Of course you don''t--but you go on. And if you have ever experienced loss or love someone who has, the company of this remarkable book will help you go on. With humor and warmth and unfailing generosity, McCracken considers the nature of love and grief. She opens her heart and leaves all of ours the richer for it.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. McCracken tells her own story in this touching and often unexpectedly funny memoir about her life before and after losing her first child in the ninth month of pregnancy. As difficult as it must have been to read aloud, McCrackens delivery is courageous and never self-pitying. McCracken is forthright about the tragedy, telling the listener early on that a baby dies in this book, but that another one is born. McCrackens reading is enthralling and deeply moving, as if she is relating this intimate journey directly to each listener individually from a dark, candle-lit room, in an unforgettable performance.\n  <em>\n   A Little, Brown hardcover (reviewed online). (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Elizabeth McCrackenâ€™s heartrending memoirâ€”a love letter to the child she lost and the devoted husband who suffered alongside herâ€”McCracken displays her many talents. Her warmth, candor, crystalline prose, lovely imagery, and attention to detail bring her painful story to life. McCrackenâ€™s dark sense of humor ensnares unwitting readers, belying the sadness with which she writes, and she shows very little patience for self-pity and sentimentality. Critics praised her clear-eyed account in a genre replete with syrupy, self-aggrandizing books, though some expressed doubts that its subject matter would have wide appeal. â€œIâ€™m not ready for my first child to fade into history,â€ explains McCracken. With this heartbreaking account of his life, thereâ€™s little chance of that.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1834'),
(6060, 'Execution Dock', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Readers of Anne Perry''s bestselling William Monk novels feel as if they''ve experienced the many shades of Victorian London, from Belgravia to Limehouse, from drawing room to brothel. InExecution Dock, Perry''s first Monk novel in three years, we find ourselves on the bustling docks along the River Thames. Here the empire''s great merchant ships unload the treasures of the world. And here, in dank and sinister alleys, sex merchants ply their lucrative trade. The dreaded kingpin of this dark realm is Jericho Phillips. On his floating brothel, sex slaves are forced to endure unspeakable acts. Now one such soul, thirteen-year-old Fig, is found with his throat cut, his tortured body tossed into the river. Commander William Monk of the River Police swears that Phillips will hang for this abomination. But the miscreant is as wily as he is monstrous, and his wealthy clients seem far beyond the reach of the law. Monk''s attempt to bring about justice becomes the first electrifying episode in a nightmare that will test his courage and integrity. However, reinforcements are on the way. Monk''s wife, Hester, who runs a free clinic for abused women, draws a highly unusual guerrilla force to her husband''s causea canny ratcatcher, a retired brothel keeper, a fearless street urchin, and a rebellious society lady. To one as criminally minded as Phillips, these folks are mere mosquitoes, to be sure. But as he will soon discover, some mosquitoes can have a deadly sting. This gripping, terrifying story hurtles toward to a denouement that will leave the reader breathless but cheering.Execution Dockis Anne Perry at her incomparable, magnificent best. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3392'),
(6061, 'Executive Orders', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Clancy goes to the White House in this thriller of political terror and global disaster. The American political situation takes a disturbing turn as the President, Congress, and Supreme Court are obliterated when a Japanese terrorist lands a 747 on the Capitol. Meanwhile the Iranians are unleashing an Ebola virus threat on the country. Jack Ryan, CIA agent, is cast in the middle of this maelstrom. Because of a recent sex scandal, Ryan was appointed vice president, a slot he doesn''t hold for long when he lands in the Chief Executive''s chair. He goes after the Iranians and then tries to piece together the country and his life the only way he knows how--with a fury that we''ve grown accustomed to in Clancy''s intricate, detailed, and accurate stories of warfare and intrigue.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jack Ryan, Clancy''s amazing upwardly mobile series hero, must put together a government from the wreckage left at the end of Debt of Honor (Putnam, 1994). While Jack, who assumed the U.S. presidency after the shocking deaths of the president and many congresspeople, attends to affairs of state, selecting a new Cabinet and arranging for special Congressional elections, enemies far and near continue to create nefarious plots against the United States. Political enemies prove themselves equally relentless, attacking the very legitimacy of Ryan''s presidential role. While Clancy is, as always, chillingly up-to-date, he telegraphs too many plotlines here. Worse, Ryan has become something of a whiner, complaining at length about the miseries of living a political life. At almost 900 pages, the book includes too much minutiae and dwells overlong on Ryan''s earlier adventures. However, with a two-million-copy first printing, Ryan''s presence?at least for now?is assured in most public libraries.?Elsa Pendleton, Boeing Information Services, Inc., Ridgecrest, Cal.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1150'),
(6062, 'Executive Power', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "CIA superagent Mitch Rapp battles global terrorism in a high-octane follow-up to The New York Times bestselling Separation of Power -- another chillingly authentic adventure from the master of the political thriller. Mitch Rapp''s cover has been blown. After leading a team of commandos deep into Iraq to prevent Saddam Hussein from joining the nuclear arms race, he was publicly hailed by the president as the single most important person in the fight against terrorism. But after years of working covertly behind the scenes, Rapp now lives in the glare of the public spotlight, lauded by the nation and an easy target for virtually every terrorist from Jakarta to London. As special advisor on counterterrorism to CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy, Rapp is ready to fight the war on terrorism from CIA headquarters rather than the front line. That is, until a platoon of Navy SEALs, sent to the Philippines to save an American family kidnapped by radical Islamic terrorists, is caught in a deadly ambush. The mission had been top secret -- so who told the enemy? All evidence points to the State Department and the Philippine embassy. But a greater thre\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/457');
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(6063, 'Exit Music', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Exit Music is the seventeenth and final crime novel in the internationally bestselling Inspector Rebus series, written by Ian Rankin. It was published on 6 September 2007. The title was released simultaneously by Rankin himself at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and by a special promotion featured on internet music networking site last.fm, arranged by the publisher to celebrate the theme of music which has run throughout the series. The cover was also revealed on the site. Rankin has mentioned that his DS character Siobhan Clarke may in some way continue the franchise. The book is named after the Radiohead song Exit Music (For a Film). Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary | Awards\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Insp. John Rebus has just 10 days to solve the apparently motiveless murder of Alexander Todorov, an expatriate Russian poet, before he reaches 60 and mandatory retirement in Edgar-winner Rankin''s rewarding 17th novel to feature the Edinburgh detective (after\n  <em>\n   The Naming of the Dead\n  </em>\n  ). When the dogged Rebus and Det. Sgt. Siobhan Clarke look into the crime, they find an array of baffling conspiracies involving Russian businessmen, Scottish bankers and local politicians pushing for an independent Scotland. A second murder, of a man who''d taped one of Todorov''s poetry readings, ensures the case gets extra resources, and Rebus''s own interest is whetted by the possible involvement of Edinburgh crime boss Big Ger Cafferty. Clever, insightful prose more than compensates for the byzantine plot. There''s an appropriately wistful tone to this final entry in the series. Fans will miss Rebus and wonder what on earth he''ll do in retirement.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/466'),
(6064, 'Exit Wound', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The breathtaking new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author ofBravo Two Zero. Three tons of Saddam Hussein''s gold sit in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai. For two of Nick Stone''s closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they''re double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends'' killer and track him down. As one harrowing piece of the complex and sinister jigsaw slots into another, Stone''s quest for vengeance becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy. Ticking like a time-bomb, brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab''s latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption, cover-up and blistering suspense - the master thriller writer at his electrifying, unputdownable best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/469'),
(6065, 'The Expats', 'Chris Pavone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The international thriller that Patricia Cornwell says is â€œbristling with suspenseâ€ about an American abroad who finds herself in complex web of intrigue.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Â \n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Can We Ever Escape Our Secrets?\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage . . . and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life, to start anew.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â  She begins to reinvent herself as an expat, finding her way in a language she doesnâ€™t speak, doing the housewifely things sheâ€™s never before doneâ€”playdates and coffee mornings, daily cooking and never-ending laundry. Meanwhile, her husband works incessantly, at a job Kate has never understood, for a banking client sheâ€™s not allowed to know. Heâ€™s becoming distant and evasive; sheâ€™s getting lonely and bored.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â  Then another American couple arrives. Kate soon becomes suspicious that these people are not who they say they are, and sheâ€™s terrified that her own past is catching up to her. So Kate begins to dig, to peel back the layers of deception that surround her. She discovers fake offices and shell corporations and a hidden gun, a mysterious farmhouse and numbered accounts with bewildering sums of money, and finally unravels the mind-boggling long-play con that threatens her family, her marriage, and her life.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â  Stylish and sophisticated, fiercely intelligent and expertly crafted,\n  <em>\n   The Expats\n  </em>\n  proves Chris Pavone to be a writer of tremendous talent.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œHard to put down. . . .\n  <em>\n   The Expats\n  </em>\n  is as much a novel about a woman trying to balance a job, a husband and kids as it is a spy thriller. . . . It works. Put it on the spring list.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Bay Guardian\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA thoroughly enjoyable thriller with just the right amount of twists. . . . Pavone masterfully layers all the action and deceit, the head games and plot twists, keeping the reader guessing. . . . Highly recommended.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Suspense\n  </em>\n  Magazine\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA stunningly assured first novel. . . . An intricate, suspenseful plot that is only resolved in the final pages.Â  The juxtaposition of marital deceptions and espionage is brilliantly employed. . . .Â  A must for espionage fans.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBrilliant, insanely clever, and delectably readable, this debut thriller breaks the espionage genre bounds with its American-as-apple-pie heroine. . . . Pavone displays the best characteristics of the form and will earn a faithful and yearning readership.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFans of John le Carre and Robert Ludlum will welcome [this] meticulously plotted, psychologically complex spy thriller. . . . The sheer amount of bombshell plot twists are nothing short of extraordinary, but itâ€™s Pavoneâ€™s portrayal of Kate and her quest to find meaning in her charade of an existence that makes this book such a powerful read.â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn impressive thriller by first-time novelist Pavone, with almost more double-crosses than a body can stand. . . . An enjoyable thriller with unanticipated twists that will keep readers guessing till the end.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Kirkus\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œI often thought I was reading the early works of Ken Follett, Frederick Forsyth, and Robert Ludlum.Â Smart, clever suspense, skillfully plotted.â€ â€”John Grisham\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œOne of the best-written spy thrillers I''ve ever read. . . . A riveting story of great-game deceptions wrapped inside the smaller deceptions of marriage. At moments horrifying, hilarious, and very wise,\n  <em>\n   The Expats\n  </em>\n  has given Chris Pavone a permanent place on my short list of must-read authors.â€ â€”Olen Steinhauer\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œAÂ gem. Clever, suspenseful with a jet fueled story that rockets from one corner of the globe to another, it is never less than a thrill a minute. . . . An absolute winner!â€ â€”Christopher Reich\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Bristling with suspense and elegantly crafted, THE EXPATS introduces a compelling and powerful female protagonist you won''t soon forget. Well done!" â€”Patricia Cornwell\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSpy stories need to budge over to make space for Kate Mooreâ€”mother, wife, expat and far more than she appears. I loved her.â€ â€”Rosamund Lupton\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œRiveting.Â  One of the most accomplished debuts of recent years.â€ â€”John Connolly\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chris Pavone\n  </strong>\n  grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from Cornell. For nearly two decades he was a book editor and ghostwriter; he is also the author of\n  <em>\n   The Wine Log.\n  </em>\n  Chris and his family have lived in Luxembourg, but recently returned to New York City.\n  <em>\n   The Expats\n  </em>\n  is his first novel.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3733'),
(6066, 'The Explorer&#39;s Code', 'Kitty Pilgrim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The secrets of an explorerâ€™s journal lead a beautiful oceanographer and a dashing archaeologist on a heart-pounding quest. . . .When renowned young oceanographer Cordelia Stapleton accepts an award on behalf of her greatgreat- grandfatherâ€”a famous Victorian polar explorerâ€”at the dazzling Oceanographic Institute Ball in Monaco, she has no idea of the dramatic changes the night will bring. After the banquet, wealthy archaeologist John Sinclair presents her with a long-lost family heirloomâ€”an Arctic exploration journal from 1908 holding the clue to a valuable land deed. The multi-million-dollar legacy is hers to claim, if she can find the deed. She and John team up for an explosive hunt that sweeps from the glamorous Queen Victoria ocean liner to a dig site in Turkey, from a beautiful old Parisian home to a lavish estate in the British countryside, culminating in the high Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Behind them every step of the way are a consortium of Russian underworld criminals, Texan religious fanatics, a sinister botanist, and a sexy American spy, all hunting for the deed . . . and all pursuing Cordelia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3913'),
(6067, 'Explosive Eighteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Bounty hunter Stephanie Plumâ€™s life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home, in this dynamite novel by Janet Evanovich.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Â \n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   B\n  </strong>\n  efore Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 Hawaii to Newark, sheâ€™s knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, and sheâ€™s flying back to New Jersey solo. Worse still, her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now heâ€™s dead, in a garbage can, waiting for curbside pickup. His killer could be anyone. And a ragtag collection of thugs and psychos, not to mention the FBI, are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Â \n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   O\n  </strong>\n  nly one other person has seen the missing photoâ€”Stephanie Plum. Now sheâ€™s the target, and she doesnâ€™t intend to end up in a garbage can. With the help of an FBI sketch artist Stephanie re-creates the person in the photo. Unfortunately the first sketch turns out to look like Tom Cruise, and the second sketch like Ashton Kutcher. Until Stephanie can improve her descriptive skills, sheâ€™ll need to watch her back.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Â \n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   O\n  </strong>\n  ver at the bail bonds agency things are going from bad to worse. The bonds bus serving as Vinnieâ€™s temporary HQ goes up in smoke. Stephanieâ€™s wheelman, Lula, falls in love with their largest skip yet. Lifetime arch nemesis Joyce Barnhardt moves into Stephanieâ€™s apartment. And everyone wants to know\n  <em>\n   what happened in Hawaii?\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   M\n  </strong>\n  orelli, Trentonâ€™s hottest cop, isnâ€™t talking about Hawaii. Ranger, the man of mystery, isnâ€™t talking about Hawaii.Â  And all Stephanie is willing to say about her Hawaiian vacation is . . . Itâ€™s complicated.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The hardcover edition of\n   <em>\n    Explosive Eighteen\n   </em>\n   contains a tear-out calendar inside!\n  </strong>\n  Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2896'),
(6068, 'Extreme Measures', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the newest devastatingly intense thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn, his deadly and charismatic hero Mitch Rapp wages a war against a new enemy with the help of a fellow soldier as dedicated -- and as lethal -- as they come.Vince Flynn''s thrillers, featuring counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, dominate the imagination of readers everywhere. In them, Flynn captures the secretive world of the fearless men and women, who, bound by duty, risk their lives in a covert war they must hide from even their own political leaders.Now, Rapp and his protÃ©gÃ©, Mike Nash, may have met their match. The CIA has detected and intercepted two terrorist cells, but a third is feared to be on the loose. Led by a dangerous mastermind obsessed with becoming the leader of al-Qaeda, this determined and terrifying group is about to descend on America.Rapp needs the best on this assignment, and Nash, who has served his government honorably for sixteen years -- first as an officer in the Marine Corps and then as an operative in an elite counterterrorism team run by Rapp -- is his choice. Together, they have made careers out of meeting violence with extreme violence and have never wavered in the fight against the jihads and their culture of death. Both have fought the war on terrorism in secret without accolades or acknowledgement of their personal sacrifices. Both have been forced to lie to virtually every single person they care about, and both have soldiered on with the knowledge that their hard work and lethal tactics have saved thousands of lives.But the political winds have changed in America, and certain leaders on Capitol Hill are pushing to have men like Rapp and Nash put back on a short leash. And then one spring afternoon in Washington, DC, everything changes.Using his insider knowledge of intelligence agencies and the military, Flynn once again delivers an all-too-real portrayal of a war that is waged every day by a handful of brave, devoted souls. Smart, fast-paced, and jaw-droppingly realistic, Extreme Measures is the political thriller of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/470'),
(6069, 'Extreme Measures', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the newest devastatingly intense thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn, his deadly and charismatic hero Mitch Rapp wages a war against a new enemy with the help of a fellow soldier as dedicated -- and as lethal -- as they come.Vince Flynn''s thrillers, featuring counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, dominate the imagination of readers everywhere. In them, Flynn captures the secretive world of the fearless men and women, who, bound by duty, risk their lives in a covert war they must hide from even their own political leaders.Now, Rapp and his protÃ©gÃ©, Mike Nash, may have met their match. The CIA has detected and intercepted two terrorist cells, but a third is feared to be on the loose. Led by a dangerous mastermind obsessed with becoming the leader of al-Qaeda, this determined and terrifying group is about to descend on America.Rapp needs the best on this assignment, and Nash, who has served his government honorably for sixteen years -- first as an officer in the Marine Corps and then as an operative in an elite counterterrorism team run by Rapp -- is his choice. Together, they have made careers out of meeting violence with extreme violence and have never wavered in the fight against the jihads and their culture of death. Both have fought the war on terrorism in secret without accolades or acknowledgement of their personal sacrifices. Both have been forced to lie to virtually every single person they care about, and both have soldiered on with the knowledge that their hard work and lethal tactics have saved thousands of lives.But the political winds have changed in America, and certain leaders on Capitol Hill are pushing to have men like Rapp and Nash put back on a short leash. And then one spring afternoon in Washington, DC, everything changes.Using his insider knowledge of intelligence agencies and the military, Flynn once again delivers an all-too-real portrayal of a war that is waged every day by a handful of brave, devoted souls. Smart, fast-paced, and jaw-droppingly realistic, Extreme Measures is the political thriller of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3678'),
(6070, 'Extremely Loud &amp; Incredibly Close', 'Jonathan Safran Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine - year - old Oskar discovers a key . . . The key belonged to his father, he''s sure of that. But which of New York''s 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter - writer and amateur detective - across New York''s five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2931'),
(6071, 'Eyes of Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ...[_Eyes of Prey_ has] one of the most horrible villains this side of Hannibal. --\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  Richmond Times-Dispatch_\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the best hard-case cops on the crime scene today. --\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  Houston Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Relentlessly swift. Genuinely suspenseful...Excellent. --\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author John Sandford pits Lieutenant Lucas Davenport against two killers, men as different as night and day-except in the method of their madness. It''s all in the eyes...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/685'),
(6072, 'The Eyes of the Dragon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A kingdom is in turmoil as the old king dies and his successor must do battle for the throne. Pitted against an evil wizard and a would-be rival, Prince Peter makes a daring escape and rallies the forces of Good to fight for what is rightfully his. This is a masterpiece of classic dragons-and-magic fantasy that only Stephen King could have written!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Advance publicity hails this "story" (not labeled a novel) by the popular writer as appealing to "readers of all ages," although its genesis was in a story King told to his children. King''s legion of fans are likely to find that a restrained maturity marks the differences between this stylish, successful effort at fantasy (illustrated by 21 half-tones) and his earlier, sometimes overwrought writings. Eyes details the crusade of Peter and Thomas, two princely brothers, to destroy the 400-year-old Flagg, the evil magician who threatens to control the kingdom of Delain after the death of their father, King Roland, who remained unwed until he was past 50. Flagg has imprisoned Peter, the heir apparent, on suspicion of murdering the king (actually it was Flagg who did it) and installed the profligate second son, an easier mark, on the throne. Surprisingly, Eyes is a gentle story, despite violence, gore and his standard vulgarity, because King has ingeniously interposed himself between reader and narrative as if he were telling the tale aloud, with a soothing cadence practically audible in the evocative prose. This heartwarming chronicle of brotherly love may be enjoyed by young adults and their parents. 1,000,000 first printing; $300,000 ad/promo; BOMC selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/787'),
(6073, 'Eyes Wide Open', 'Andrew Gross', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Lisa Gardner Interviews Andrew Gross\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling crime novelist  Lisa Gardner began her career in food service, but after catching her hair on fire numerous times, she took the hint and focused on writing instead. A self-described research junkie, she has parlayed her interest in police procedure, cutting edge forensics and twisted plots into a streak of eleven bestselling suspense novels, including her most recent release, _ Love You More_.Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lisa Gardner:\n  </strong>\n  First, the question Iâ€™ve always wanted to ask another author: Where do you get your ideas?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Andrew Gross:\n  </strong>\n  It''s just that if I told you Iâ€™d have to kill you Lisa, and you''re so niceâ€¦ Actually, as we both know, that process varies, and every author has his or her own path. You just pray like hell they come when you need them!\n </p>\n <p>\n  For me, this is the hardest and most stressful hurdle in what I do. The writing comes easy! For my last three books, I took conspiratorial headlines from the newsâ€”Iraq War scandals; people who used 9/11 to disappear from their life; the Wall Street financial meltdownâ€”and wrapped them around more local and personal stories: a harrowing home invasion gone tragically wrong or a wife who wakes up one day to find her dead husband wasn''t at all the person she thought she knew. Stories that I thought could achieve the emotional resonance I strive for in my books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Eyes Wide Open\n  </em>\n  took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! Youâ€™ll have to read it to see how these stories link.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blind Curve\n  </em>\n  , the book Iâ€™m working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violationâ€”an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn''t get off as easily as I did.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As long as events like these keep happening to me, Iâ€™ll be in good shape!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LG:\n  </strong>\n  Your last novel,\n  <em>\n   Reckless\n  </em>\n  , was a â€œripped from the headlinesâ€ sort of novel, whereas\n  <em>\n   Eyes Wide Open\n  </em>\n  draws from events in your life. What prompted you to pull from your personal experiences this time around, and how hard was that to write?\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   AG:\n  </strong>\n  It''s much, much, much harder to write a story from your own life that affects real people, and some of them people you care forâ€”especially those who have suffered tragedy, like me brother. On the other hand, drawing from personal experience makes for a much more enriching and rewarding story, one that is filled with the detail and resonance of real life. I wanted to write a poignant, personal testament to my nephew that was also a thriller, using a theme I seem to carry from book to bookâ€”a family hiding a secret past; in this case, revolving around teenage suicide, sons fighting against their fathers, the L.A. music scene in the â€™60s, and an encounter with that Manson-like figure. Hopefully what came out is a chilling, rich, autobiographical, and satisfying tale filled with the kind of richness and family lore that you usually find in a memoir. While writing\n  <em>\n   Eyes Wide Open\n  </em>\n  from events in my own life was tough, and awkwardâ€”and you know you may not please everyoneâ€”to me, it became more rewarding in the end.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LG:\n  </strong>\n  OK, so you mentioned that as a child you had a passing encounter with Charles Manson, which helped inspire\n  <em>\n   Eyes Wide Open\n  </em>\n  . Say what?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   AG:\n  </strong>\n  Okay. I go back and forth on this.\n  <em>\n   Eyes Wide Open\n  </em>\n  isn''t a book about Manson, or even a Manson-like character, though a cultish figure is a chilling detail in the book. My dad moved out to L.A. in the â€™60s and my older brother, a wayward spirit trying to become a musician, was out there as well, and, uh, took up residence on the Spahn Ranch, where Manson lived. At that time, Charlie was also trying to get his music produced. The two of them came up to my father''s place one day and tried to sell him on anteing up for a demo. Manson was gaunt, quiet, creepyâ€”and yes, he had those dark eyes. Though, at that time, Charlie Manson hadn''t become the infamous â€œCharles Mansonâ€ yet! The scene eventually turned uglyâ€”which I describe in the bookâ€”and they left, humiliated and angry. For years, my dad always insisted that the clan went up into the canyons that night looking to pay him back for what took place, but got lost in the L.A. hills and ended up at Sharon Tateâ€™s. Truth was, by that time my brother was long gone and, of course, there were other reasons the Manson clan ended up at Sharon Tateâ€™s house. But it makes a chilling scene!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LG:\n  </strong>\n  Having followed your novels since\n  <em>\n   The Dark Tide\n  </em>\n  , Iâ€™ve noticed that youâ€™re drawn to stories involving complex family dynamics. What is it about this theme that resonates so strongly for you, and how has your own experience as a father influenced your writing?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   AG:\n  </strong>\n  I don''t like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and dangerâ€”soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies. These are the â€œreal lifeâ€ stories that intrigue me and provide the basis for the emotional complexity Iâ€™m looking for. As for being a dad, it makes you know exactly what you would doâ€”basically anythingâ€”to save your own family. And how creepy and evil one has to be to betray theirs!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LG:\n  </strong>\n  One thriller writer to another, what draws you to suspenseâ€”and whatâ€™s your favorite thing about thrillers?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   AG:\n  </strong>\n  You know what, Lisa, you can make a strong case that thriller writing is the single most relevant genre of fiction being written today, because it reflects the conflicts and crises and stories that we read every day in the news and that shape our world. The people who come to our craft arenâ€™t just graduate students, or MFA candidates or teachers, but CIA agents and journalists and doctors and lawyers whose experiences in life inform their work. As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the heroâ€™s plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for somethingâ€”a belief, a family member, the truth. Iâ€™m actually more into heroism than evilâ€”but it''s hard to have one without the other and when their arcs meet and they clash... well, there''s suspense!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LG:\n  </strong>\n  Without giving too much away, whatâ€™s your favorite scene in\n  <em>\n   Eyes Wide Open?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   AG:\n  </strong>\n  Well, there are many, because the characters are based on people I know. But without doubt, one of the best involves my everyman hero, Jay Erlich, a doctor from Westchester who puts his successful life on hold and his life on the line to find the truth behind his nephew''s suicide. Erlich goes to the super-max Pelican Bay Prison to see the long incarcerated Manson-like murderer, Russell Hovnanian. And the thing that makes that scene really creepy, and made hard to write, was that to be credible, this character, Hovnanian, had to be smarter than my hero, smarter than the very smart detective who accompanies him, even smarter than the reader! Oh yeah, the author too. But when it''s pulled off, as I hope I did, it''s a killer scene.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LG:\n  </strong>\n  You wrote six\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers with James Patterson. Dish. What was it like to work with Jim, and how much more fun is it to control everything yourself?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   AG:\n  </strong>\n  Such good questions. Are you a writer, too? Oh, wait. Never mind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ha! Jim and I got along fine; he''s an amazing idea guy, his instincts for plot are finely honed, and I think he might even say himself that he''s a sharper editor than a writer. I always describe working with him as an MFA and MBA course in thriller management rolled into one. I learned a lot of things about how to craft a thriller that would have taken years to learn on my ownâ€”and how to put them in my own style. Iâ€™m honestly proud of the six books we did together, all of which went to number one. But yes, Iâ€™m kind of a control guyâ€”how did you know?\n </p>\n <p>\n  To his credit, Jim let me have a substantial share of control on the books we didâ€”probably a lot more than I would have. Heâ€™s a much more evolved manager than me! And all these books later, I still kind of miss him, calling him up, running a plot idea by him. I mean, is there a better person in the world to bounce an idea off of? But I also like it when the checks are made out solely to me!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LG:\n  </strong>\n  Now tell me the truth. What is your least favorite part of writingâ€”and you can only choose one.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   AG:\n  </strong>\n  Easyâ€”this is becoming a bit of a running theme hereâ€”loss of control! You shape your baby from the initial birth of an idea, live with it daily, watch it grow like a child into a fully dimensional being. You feel you know it better than anybody. Then you turn it over and put it out into the world and between the cover, the marketing, the presentation at retail and the sales, it all takes place without you being able to control its destiny a single lick! And by that time, you''re already halfway into the next one anyway!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LG:\n  </strong>\n  Finally, what do you want readers to take away from reading\n  <em>\n   Eyes Wide Open\n  </em>\n  â€”and congrats on another great novel!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   AG:\n  </strong>\n  Thanks, Lisa. What I would have them take away is that\n  <em>\n   Eyes Wide Open\n  </em>\n  is not only a thrilling read, it''s also an engrossing, emotional family storyâ€”about a family with a dark history and the lengths it will go to protect that secret. Itâ€™s also about two brothers, one wayward, the other successful, and how they try to bridge the gap that tore them apart. It reads like a personal memoir chock-full of thrills. And itâ€™s my family story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So great to be with you today! I was a big fan of\n  <em>\n   Love You More\n  </em>\n  . Itâ€™s been a lot of fun!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A horrible family tragedy that may not be what it seems . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  A past encounter with an infamous killer turns deadly today . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  An ordinary man must risk his own family to find the truth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jay Erlich''s nephew has been found at the bottom of a cliff at Morrow Bay. It''s all just a tragic suicide, until secrets from the past begin to rear up again. Did a notorious killer, jailed for many decades, have his hand in this?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Years ago, Jay Erlich''s older brother, Charlie, a wayward child of the sixties, set out for California, where he fell under the sway of a charismatic but deeply disturbed cultlike figure. Tragedy ensued and lives were destroyed, but as the decades passed, Charlie married and raised a family and lived a quiet, secluded life under the radar. Yet the demons that nearly destroyed him never completely disappeared.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Jay heads out west to help his grieving brother, he is pulled back into Charlie''s pastâ€”and begins to suspect that his nephew''s suicide may not have been that at all. With eyes wide open, Jay puts his own life at risk to uncover the truth, a quest that goes beyond the edge of madness and a family haunted by a secret past . . . and into the depths of evil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing on two real-life experiences from his own past, Gross has crafted a richly personal, yet utterly terrifying tale of two brothers, one successful, one wayward, trying to bridge the gap of what tore them apart.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2853'),
(6074, 'Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney', 'Howard Sounes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Sounes has earned a well-deserved reputation for writing thoroughly researched, intricately detailed biographies. This comprehensive biography of McCartney is no exception. Sounes seems to have spoken to every living person with any connection to the former Beatle, from the singerâ€™s neighbors near his Kintyre, Scotland, farm to the family veterinarian. Divided into two equally large sectionsâ€”â€œWith the Beatlesâ€ and â€œAfter the Beatlesâ€â€”Fab covers all the highlights of McCartneyâ€™s life and long career: his early days in Liverpool; his meeting with John Lennon; the craziness of Beatlemania; his solo albums; the creation and collapse of his post-Beatles band, Wings; his marriage to Linda Eastman; his last meetings with Lennon; his drug bust in Japan; his forays into classical music; his disastrous second marriage to Heather Mills. This is by no means a hagiography. On the contrary, Sounes gives criticism when warranted, remarking on McCartneyâ€™s flaws both as a musician (settling for the ordinary, or, worse, mediocre rather then putting in the extra effort to create something exceptional) and as a man (a streak of selfishness that could turn callous). Indeed, Sounes is often brutally honest, offering a full portraitâ€”warts and allâ€”of one of the most famous men of the modern era. A must for Beatles and McCartney fans. HIGH-DEMAND BACK STORY: In spite of his persistent mega-fame, this is the first comprehensive, candid, and up-to-date portrait of Sir Paul McCartney, making it a magnet for boomers and serious music lovers. --June Sawyers\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , July 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œEveryone knows who Paul McCartney is. And everyone can imagine how much in demand this biography will be.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus,\n  </em>\n  9/15/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[A] solid addition to the ever-expanding library of books about the Beatle named Paulâ€¦More than 200 interviewsâ€”and no-nonsense attention to detailâ€¦The graceful prose and superb storytelling create a riveting narrative.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , 10/15/10 (starred review)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSounes has earned a well-deserved reputation for writing thoroughly researched, intricately detailed biographies. This comprehensive biography of McCartney is no exception. Sounes seems to have spoken to every living person with any connection to the former Beatleâ€¦Fab covers all the highlights of McCartneyâ€™s life and long careerâ€¦This is by no means a hagiography. On the contrary, Sounes gives criticism when warranted, remarking on McCartneyâ€™s flaws both as a musician and as a man. Indeed, Sounes is often brutally honest, offering a full portraitâ€”warts and allâ€”of one of the most famous men of the modern era. A must for Beatles and McCartney fansâ€¦In spite of his persistent mega-fame, this is the first comprehensive, candid, and up-to-date portrait of Sir Paul McCartney, making it a magnet for boomers and serious music lovers.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  , 10/15/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA probing work that examines McCartneyâ€™s foibles to a much greater extent than, for example, Barry Milesâ€™s authorized_Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now_â€¦There is a ton of engrossing, well-documented material hereâ€¦A worthwhile read for McCartney fans; recommended for all public libraries.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Independent\n  </em>\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  9/24/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExceedingly thoroughâ€¦A good read for those seeking a Pauline perspective on the Beatles plus a look at his solo career.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Stuff.co.nz â€œBlog on Tracks\n <strong>\n  ,â€\n </strong>\n 9/14/10â€œ\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n A fantastic tomeâ€¦Sounes adds a lot to the story and his methodical, meticulous research style means that he''s actually bringing new things outâ€¦Sounes has, through hundreds of interviews, built a book about McCartney that addresses the myth, understands the legend and is balanced; never getting anywhere near the all too common hagiography that is the bane of reading the Â modern music biography/ghost-written-autobiographyâ€¦I found it the perfect balance of entertainment and education/researchâ€”and, as such, it''s\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  one of the best biographies I''ve ever read\n </strong>\n .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Blurt\n </em>\n Online, 10/18/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe portrait painted in Howard Sounesâ€™_FabÂ _is of a man with more to him than meets the eye or earâ€¦Sounes'' treatment of Paul is fairly even-handed though. He doesn''t shy away from the bad and doesn''t overstate the goodâ€¦There''s still a hunger for all things Beatle and Sounes'' book has its place.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Word,\n </em>\n November 2010\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ[T]he first major unauthorized biographyâ€¦. Howard Sounes brings to the task the same solid journalistic values he employed in writing his Dylan biography_Down the Highway_,which succeeded in unearthing troves of new information through the simple expedient of diligent legwork, hunting down the right people, and asking them the right questions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Rolling Stone\n </em>\n , 11/11/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œFew Beatle biographies are as exhaustive as this 634-page epic: Sounes paints an unsparing portrait of McCartneyâ€¦For fans willing to ponder their heroâ€™s flaws,_Fab_delivers all you need to knowâ€”and a lot more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journa\n  </em>\n  l, 10/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œProvide[s] sound background on Mr. McCartney''s working-class roots, the environs of Liverpool, and the bonding of two song-writing youths (Mr. McCartney and John Lennon) who both lost their mothers while still in their teens. The author turns up new details on these early topics.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   San Antonio\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Express-News\n  </em>\n  , 10/24/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] massive, exhaustively researched biography.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Journal of Books\n  </em>\n  , 10/26/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDelivers on every promise it even thinks about makingâ€¦McCartney fans will enjoy hearing some of the never-before-told stories about his familyâ€¦The author handles the rougher topics with a professionalism that attempts to be as unbiased as possibleâ€¦Sounesâ€™ narrative writing style is easy to read. Instead of feeling like a dry, academic work, the book reads almost like a novelâ€¦The 500+ pages do not necessarily fly by, but the tale told is worth the time it takes to tell it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Independent\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 9/24/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œExceedingly thoroughâ€¦A good read for those seeking a Pauline perspective on the Beatles plus a look at his solo career.â€\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Blogcritics.org, 10/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA compelling readâ€¦Since Sounes has dug so deep into McCartney lore, there is bound to be a surprise or two for even for the staunchest admirerâ€¦Hard to put down. Sounes'' writing style is breezy without being slight. His admiration for his subject is evident, even when he is at his most candid, all of which makes_Fab_a worthwhile read.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Desert News_, 10/31/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[The] first exhaustive biography of James Paul McCartney.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Bookviews.com, November 2010\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWill more than satisfy any one of his fans.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n National Post_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  (Canada), 11/1/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMassiveâ€¦Full of intriguing snapshots.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n CBC News_(Canada), 11/4/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA compelling biography.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Record Collector_(UK), December 2010\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMacca examined in high-def accuracyâ€¦Where Sounes scoresâ€¦is in scything through the wild undergrowth of facts, misinformation and myths to present a level-headed portrait of a musician who, obviously, is still held in fascination by the publicâ€¦The definitive take on an extraordinary careerâ€¦Sounes is also admirably responsible in his dissection of the Heather Mills years, sifting through the tabloid salaciousness to outline chains of events with the confident, dispassionate eye of a seasoned and reliable journalist.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Onion\n  </em>\n  , 11/11/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Fab_does a credible job of outlining McCartneyâ€™s life and habits. So much has been written about The Beatlesâ€”and by contrast, so little about McCartneyâ€™s far longer (and during the â€™70s, nearly as popular) solo careerâ€”that Sounesâ€™ equal treatment of the eras is welcome.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Tucson Citizen_, 11/8/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA 634-page epic about Paul McCartney that covers almost every aspect of his lifeâ€¦Sounes has done his homework, his research detailed and meticulousâ€¦The result is a rather unsettling portrait of an incredibly creative, complex man who could be petty and nasty, generous and charitableâ€¦Revealing, well-crafted, and utterly fascinating.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Toronto_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Star\n  </em>\n  , 11/5/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[An] unauthorized biography of the famous and unimaginably wealthy bassist and composerâ€¦A minutely detailed and comprehensive account of the famous musicianâ€™s life up to nowâ€¦On the whole, Sounes renders his subject sympathetically, as a gifted but flawed character.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Montreal_\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Gazette\n </em>\n â€™s â€œWords &amp; Musicâ€ Blog, 11/11/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe first book to properly deal with McCartney''s career after the Beatles.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   BookPage,\n  </em>\n  December 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImpressively thorough and up-to-date.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Kirkus Reviews_website, 10/26/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReveal[s] a side of the â€˜niceâ€™ Beatle most people never knew existed.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n San Francisco_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Book Review,\n  </em>\n  November 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fascinating and nostalgic trip back to when the Beatles changed the course of music forever.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n InfoDad.com, 11/18/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExhaustively researchedâ€¦Name-packed, gossipy, interpretative but not judgmental, and very detail-orientedâ€¦Fans of McCartney will surely find [it] intriguing if they receive it as a gift.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  BlogTalkRadioâ€™s â€œMr. Mediaâ€, 11/18/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHoward Sounes wonâ€™t deny that there have been an awful lot of books about the Beatles and Paul McCartney. But that didnâ€™t give him pause; he just researched and wrote one of the best.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 12/5/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ_Fab_lifts offâ€¦in 1967, with the introduction of its most interesting characterâ€”the rock photographer Linda Eastman, who set her sights on Paul and determined to marry him even before they had metâ€¦Sounesâ€™s portrayal of her is complicated, fascinating in its contradictions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Miami Herald\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 11/28/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe first serious biographical attempt to pay as much attention to the 40-year span that followed McCartneyâ€™s run in the Beatles as it does to his decade within the Fab Fourâ€¦Sounesâ€™ reach is commendable.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  (web-exclusive), 11/22/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œAn engaging, set-the-record-straight biographyâ€¦Sounes writes knowledgeably of the Beatles'' close relationship with their tortured manager, Brian ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2094'),
(6075, 'A Fable', 'William Faulkner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as one of his major works and an essential part of the Faulkner "oeuvre." Faulkner himself fought in the war, and his descriptions of it "rise to magnificence," according to "The New York Times," and include, in Malcolm Cowley''s words, "some of the most powerful scenes he ever conceived."\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3062');
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(6076, 'The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington&#39;s Times', 'Charles Royster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company\n </em>\n begins, appropriately, amidst a time of\n</p>\n<p>\n Fortunately, Royster, an accomplished historian and author of the Francis Parkman Prize-winning __, had more luck getting something valuable out of the Dismal Swamp than his Colonial predecessors. His richly detailed, circuitous saga makes for dense, satisfying reading.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The swamp featured in this book is a vast marshy region in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. In 1763, a small group of investorsAincluding George WashingtonApurchased a huge chunk of this terrain. With the help of slave labor, they hoped to drain parts of the land to make room for farms for tobacco and other crops. They also planned to sell timber and wood shingles from the area''s dense forests and to profit from roads and canals built through the land to transport commerce. The Dismal Swamp Company was largely a failure, not turning any profits until a decade after Washington''s death. More than tracing the unhappy history of one business enterprise, this impressively annotated book by distinguished historian Royster (Louisiana State Univ.) provides a fascinating panorama of colorful characters (including numerous shady entrepreneurs), interesting glimpses into master-slave relations, and expert analyses of both American and British economic developments. Recommended for university and large public libraries.AThomas J. Schaeper, St. Bonaventure Univ., NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2385'),
(6077, 'Face of a Killer', 'Robin Burcell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this strong first in a new series from Burcell (\n <em>\n  Cold Case\n </em>\n ), San Francisco FBI forensic artist Sydney Fitzpatrick races to unravel the 20-year-old mystery of her father''s murder before the upcoming execution of his convicted killer, Johnnie Wheeler. When Sydney interviews Wheeler in San Quentin against her mother''s and stepfather''s wishes, Wheeler''s claims of innocence have a ring of truth. As Sydney begins to investigate her father''s past, she uncovers unsavory secrets linking him and some old army buddies, including one who''s now a high-powered U.S. senator, to a bank engaged in illegal activities. Sydney''s dogged persistence and willingness to bend FBI rules endangers her family, but an 11th-hour meeting with Wheeler for a new forensic sketch points to the answers she''s been seeking. Burcell, herself a former FBI-trained forensic artist, keeps her appealing heroine hopping just a step ahead of mortal peril in this intricately plotted page-turner.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n FBI forensic artist Sydney Fitzpatrick is deeply affected by the anniversary of her fatherâ€™s murder. Days before the execution of Johnnie Wheeler, the man convicted of the crime, Sydney, against her motherâ€™s wishes, goes to visit him to find out why he killed her father. Wheeler, who always maintained his innocence, tells her details of what happened the night of the crime that make Sydney believe the real murderer is still free, prompting her to reopen the investigation on her own, outside the auspices of the FBI. As she delves into her fatherâ€™s past, she finds he wasnâ€™t the saint she believed him to be and learns that he worked for a clandestine government agency. A principled, likable character who has always â€œgone by the book,â€ Sydney learns that sometimes you have to work outside the system to obtain justice. Burcell, an FBI-trained forensic artist herself, frames the story with fascinating insider information on her craft and on the workings of the FBI. She is alsoÂ the author of theÂ Kate Gillespie mysteries. --Sue O''Brien\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/942'),
(6078, 'Fade Away', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wisecracking sports agent Myron Bolitar returns with style in his third mystery (after Deal Breaker and Dropshot). This time, Myron is given a chance to return to professional basketball after being sidelined by a heartbreaking injury 10 years ago. No, the owner of the New Jersey Dragons doesn''t want Myron to play. He wants him to use his skills as a onetime FBI undercover agent ("the worst kept secret in the continental United States") to find a missing player and former rival. The hunt for the absent player turns up an ugly web of complications that include a dead body, blackmail, a nasty custody suit, out-of-control gambling and thugs intent on revenge. Myron finds himself dragged in deeper than expected as the case stirs unresolved issues from his own past. With the help of his lethally loyal pal Win, he untangles the mess with bravado and not a little personal pain. Coben writes a fast-moving narrative in a style witty enough to keep pace without straining too hard.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Brilliant! Perfect for fans of Sue Grafton, Robert B. Parker, and everyone else!"â€”Nancy Pickard, author of\n <em>\n  I.O.U.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fast action, snappy dialogue...[An] enjoyable read."â€”_Toronto Star_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/472'),
(6079, 'Fade Out', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedom, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again...Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the local theatre company. But when one of Eve''s castmates goes missing after starting work on a short documentary, Eve suspects the worst. Claire and Eve soon realise that this film project, whose subject is the vampires themselves, is a whole lot bigger - and way more dangerous - than anyone suspected.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3167'),
(6080, 'Faefever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New York Times bestselling author of Darkfever and Bloodfever returns to Dublinâ€™s Fae-infested shores in a bold, sensual new novel. Hurtling us into a realm of seduction and shadows, Karen Marie Moning tells the enthralling tale of a woman who explores the limits of her mysterious powers as she enters a world of ancient sorceryâ€”and confronts an enemy more insidious than she could ever have imagined.He calls me his Queen of the Night. Iâ€™d die for him. Iâ€™d kill for him, too. When MacKayla Lane receives a torn page from her dead sisterâ€™s journal, she is stunned by Alinaâ€™s desperate words. And now MacKayla knows that her sisterâ€™s killer is close. But evil is closer. And suddenly the sidhe-seer is on the hunt: For answers. For revenge. And for an ancient book of dark magic so evil, it corrupts anyone who touches it.Macâ€™s quest for the Sinsar Dubh takes her into the mean, shape-shifting streets of Dublin, with a suspicious cop on her tail. Forced into a dangerous triangle of alliance with Vâ€™lane, an insatiable Fae prince of lethally erotic tastes, and Jericho Barrons, a man of primal desires and untold secrets, Mac is soon locked in a battle for her body, mind, and soul. As All Hallowsâ€™ Eve approaches and the city descends into chaos, as a shocking truth about the Dark Book is uncovered, not even Mac can prevent a deadly race of immortals from shattering the walls between worldsâ€”with devastating consequences.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3346'),
(6081, 'Fahrenheit 451', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Fahrenheit 451\n  </em>\n  , Ray Bradbury''s classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don''t put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury''s vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don''t give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including\n  <em>\n   The Martian Chronicles\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Illustrated Man\n  </em>\n  --is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of\n  <em>\n   Fahrenheit 451\n  </em>\n  , and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide.\n  <em>\n   --Neil Roseman\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. After years of working as a fireman--one who burns books and enjoys his work--Guy Montag meets a young girl who makes him question his profession and the values of the society in which he lives. Stephan Hoye''s narration is perfectly matched to the subject matter: his tone is low and ominous, and his cadence shifts with the prose to ratchet up tension and suspense. He produces spot-on voices, and his versions of the gruff Captain Beatty, the playful Clarisse, and the fearful professor Faber are especially impressive. A Ballantine paperback. (Aug.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1050'),
(6082, 'Fair Game', 'Valerie Plame Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson''s now historic op-ed, "What I Didn''t Find in Africa," appeared in\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  . A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassador Wilson''s wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA operative. The public disclosure of that secret information spurred a federal investigation and led to the trial and conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney''s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, and the Wilsons'' civil suit against top officials of the Bush administration. Much has been written about the "Valerie Plame" story, but Valerie herself has been silent, until now. Some of what has been reported about her has been frighteningly accurate, serving as a pungent reminder to the Wilsons that their lives are no longer private. And some has been completely false--distorted characterizations of Valerie and her husband and their shared integrity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Valerie Wilson retired from the CIA in January 2006, and now, not only as a citizen but as a wife and mother, the daughter of an Air Force colonel, and the sister of a U.S. marine, she sets the record straight, providing an extraordinary account of her training and experiences, and answers many questions that have been asked about her covert status, her responsibilities, and her life. As readers will see, the CIA still deems much of the detail of Valerie''s story to be classified. As a service to readers, an afterword by national security reporter Laura Rozen provides a context for Valerie''s own story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Fair Game\n  </em>\n  is the historic and unvarnished account of the personal and international consequences of speaking truth to power.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Read the First Chapter from\n   <em>\n    Fair Game\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Joining the CIA\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Our group of five--three men and two women--trekked through an empty tract of wooded land and swamp, known in CIA terms as the "Farm." It was 4 a.m. and we had been on the move all night. Having practiced escape and evasion from an ostensible hostile force--our instructors--we were close to meeting up with our other classmates. Together we would attack the enemy, then board a helicopter to safety. This exercise, called the final assault, was the climax of our paramilitary training. Each of us carried eighty-pound backpacks, filled with essential survival gear: tents, freeze-dried food, tablets to purify drinking water, and 5.56 mm ammunition for our M-16s. The late fall weather was bitter, and slimy water sloshed in our combat boots. A blister on my heel radiated little jabs of stinging pain. My friend Pete, a former Army officer, usually ready with a wisecrack and a smirk, hadn''t spoken in hours, while John, our resident beer guzzler, carried not only his backpack but at least fifty extra pounds of body weight. His round face was covered with mud and sweat.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read the Publisher''s Note and First Chapter from\n  <em>\n   Fair Game\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The government redacted much of the significant information in the first section of Wilson''s memoir, which concerns her career in the CIA. In print, a black bar omitted the words and passages; on audio, a tone does the deleting. Once the novelty of the beeps wears off, the incompleteness of Wilson''s narrative, at first tantalizing, becomes frustrating. The constant interruptions make it difficult for a listener to assemble a coherent story. Once Wilson''s identity is leaked by White House insiders, the memoir''s redactions cease for the most part. Unfortunately, her distress over the attempted destruction of her and her husband''s professional reputations is considerably less riveting than her spy career. Whiles neither a prose stylist or an actress, Wilson reads clearly, with immediacy and sincerity and a note of barely suppressed anger. Laura Rozen''s afterword (occupying the last two CDs) fills in the gaps removed by the CIA. It''s intriguing and considerably more polished. The two narratives create an interesting, if not entirely satisfying, account of a disturbing contemporary scandal.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2095'),
(6083, 'Faithful Place', 'Tana French', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2010\n </strong>\n : The past haunts in Tana French novels. That which was buried is brought to light and wreaks hell--on no one moreso than Frank Mackey, beloved undercover guru and burly hero first mentioned in French''s second book about the Undercover Squad,\n <em>\n  The Likeness\n </em>\n . Faithful Place is Frank''s old neighborhood, the town he fled twenty-two years ago, abandoning an abusive alcoholic father, harpy mother, and two brothers and sisters who never made it out. They say going home is never easy, but for Frank, investigating the cold case of the just-discovered body of his teenage girlfriend, it is a tangled, dangerous journey, fraught with mean motivations, black secrets, and tenuous alliances. Because he is too close to the case, and because the Place (including his family) harbors a deep-rooted distrust of cops, Frank must undergo his investigation furtively, using all the skills picked up from years of undercover work to trace the killer and the events of the night that changed his life.\n <em>\n  Faithful Place\n </em>\n is Tana French''s best book yet (readers familiar with\n <em>\n  In the Woods\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Likeness\n </em>\n will recognize this as an incredible feat), a compelling and cutting mystery with the hardscrabble, savage Mackey clan at its heart. --*Daphne Durham\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie Hannah and Tana French: Author One-on-One\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie:\n </strong>\n Someone said to me recently that they found it strange we openly say we like each other''s work, when we should surely regard each other as "the competition." I found this idea really weird. As far as I''m concerned, the only competition any writer ought to be interested in is the competition between good writing and bad writing. So, while I get very cross and resentful when a book that I think is terrible does well, I love it when books I think are great do well--I feel that the right side, i.e. good writing, is winning the competition, which I feel benefits me as much as anyone else, because I want to live in a world where brilliant books are valued. Also, if I think a book is better than anything I could write, then I want it to do better than my books in order to reflect that. I suppose what I''m saying is that I want there to be a meritocracy of literature. Would you agree or disagree?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tana:\n </strong>\n I''d definitely love a meritocracy of literature--both for reasons of principle (same as you, I get jumping-up-and-down outraged if I see a good book sidelined in favor of what I consider a crap one) and for very practical reasons. It sort of ties in with why I''ve never seen you as "the competition." I love what you write. I think it''s good. If someone picks up one of your books and reads it and likes it, I think it''ll whet their appetite for good books--and, specifically, for good psychological crime. That makes them more likely, not less, to go looking for more and wind up reading something of mine.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sophie, is there anything you wouldnâ€™t write about for ethical reasons? I think mysteryâ€™s one of the most moral genres--itâ€™s all about exploring right and wrong, finding truth, achieving justice, how these things are never black and white. We spend a lot of our time thinking about the more dangerous far reaches of morality and immorality. Any ethical lines you wouldnâ€™t cross as a writer?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie:\n </strong>\n There are no subjects that I think writers shouldn''t write about--anything is a valid subject for fiction, and it''s possible to handle any subject sensitively or insensitively. I think the ethics are in the way a writer treats a subject, not inherent in the subject itself. Having said that, there are things I don''t think I could write about because I find them too horrible--the main one that springs to mind is state-sanctioned execution. If a film or book contains legal execution, I can''t watch/read it. I find it too upsetting. The other subject I find too upsetting is fatal illness, especially when the terminally ill person is the loved one of the narrator--so, I guess since I wouldn''t read about those things, I wouldn''t write about them either! How about you, is there anything you wouldn''t write about?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tana:\n </strong>\n The one huge ethical issue, for me, is making sure that I give murder and murder victims the weight they deserve. I don''t ever want to write something where the victim is simply a prop that''s necessary in order for the story to get under way. Murder, taking another human being''s life, is so earth-shatteringly huge: it doesn''t just take one life, it affects everyone who comes into contact with it--families, friends, detectives working on the case, people who knew the killer.... I feel like using something so immense as a throwaway plot point would be unethical and cheap. I''ve got a responsibility to show that immensity, as far as possible.\n</p>\n<p>\n I can''t see myself ever writing about child abuse, but that''s partly because it became so common in mystery books for a while there--either child abuse was the big secret that was revealed at the end, or else it was the killer''s reason/excuse for murder. It got cheap. Apart from that, though, I''m not sure I can see myself avoiding a subject (not permanently, anyway) simply because it wrecks my head too badly. One of the reasons I write crime is in a attempt to understand things that I simply can''t get my head around--how one human being can kill another, or deliberately damage another (like the sociopath in one of the books). So I tend to come back to the things that horrify me most, trying to understand them by writing about them.\n</p>\n<p>\n People ask me a lot where I get the ideas for my plots, but someone recently asked me for the first time where I get the ideas for my characters. I thought that was a very cool question, so Iâ€™m passing it on. Where do yours come from?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie:\n </strong>\n I agree with you absolutely about giving the crime the weight it deserves. Which is why I write books that some readers find upsetting. People should be upset about crime! The good thing about crime fiction (usually!) is that it attempts to deal with the worst things that can happen in a way that is uplifting--either because justice is done in the end, or because the light of understanding is shed upon the darkest corners of the human psyche. Even if all you do is understand why a monster behaves monstrously, it helps. I almost think understanding something does more good than fighting against it.\n</p>\n<p>\n To answer your question, my characters come from the plot idea, always. I always start with an intriguing or mysterious situation, and then I work out how that plot starting point could develop. Usually, in order for it to develop as well as it can, it requires a certain kind of character. For example, in my novel\n <em>\n  The Dead Lie Down\n </em>\n (published as\n <em>\n  The Other Half Lives\n </em>\n in the UK), the opening mystery is that a man appears to be confessing to the murder of a woman who isn''t dead. His girlfriend, to whom he confesses, knows that this woman isn''t dead--and she''s the one who keeps pursuing this until she finds out the truth. I needed her, therefore, to be the sort of person who wouldn''t say, "Hang on a minute, you''re a nutter, I''m off to find a sane boyfriend." So I thought, "What sort of woman would stay with a man she believed to be deluded?" And that was how the character of Ruth, the heroine, came into being--I gave her a past trauma that explained why she would cling to this man that loves her, even though he''s driving her crazy and talking apparent nonsense. So I suppose what I''m saying is, plot comes first for me, and character follows shortly afterwards. Which comes first for you?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tana:\n </strong>\n I''m with you on understanding it--I don''t think it''s possible to fight against evil unless you understand it or at least work to understand it. Otherwise, you''re shooting in the dark. There''s also the fact that I think the root of all real evil is lack of empathy--the inability to believe at any deep level that other people, people who are different from you, are still real. If I don''t accept that people who do evil are real, if I see them as two-dimensional and don''t at least accept the possibility of empathizing (not sympathizing, obviously) with their motivations and drives, then I take a step towards evil myself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Plot and character--I work the other way around: I start with the character of the narrator and with a very basic premise, and then I dive in and hope to God there''s a plot in there somewhere. With\n <em>\n  Faithful Place\n </em>\n (my third book) I started out with the image of a battered old suitcase I''d seen thrown away outside a Georgian house that was being gutted--it made me start wondering where it had been found, and what if someone had hidden it there and meant to come back for it and never got the chance.... I had that, and the character of Frank Mackey--he showed up in\n <em>\n  The Likeness\n </em>\n , as Cassie''s undercover boss, the guy who''ll do absolutely anything, to himself or anyone else, to get his man. I started thinking about the two things together--what if it was Frank''s first love who had hidden that suitcase, what if they had been about to run away together, what if he always thought she had dumped him, and what if the suitcase resurfaced...\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie:\n </strong>\n I read a really interesting book recently about human evil. It''s called\n <em>\n  People of the Lie\n </em>\n , and it''s by M. Scott Peck. Its subtitle is "Towards an Understanding of Human Evil." It''s a superb book, and Peck''s theory is that evil people are not necessarily those who do great harm, but those who cannot face the reality of their own faults, who have to lie to themselves and pretend they are always good, always in the right--thus making everyone wrong and worse. Peck believes that it''s those who constantly lie to themselves about their own undiluted goodness, and sweep all the evidence of their moral flaws under the carpet of their own consciousness, who are truly evil. He sees the lying as a crucial part of the evil. So he would see someone who says, "Yeah, so I killed her? So what?" as less evil than the person who says, "I killed her because she''s bad and I''m good, and so it was right to kill her." A lot of "baddies" do harm and don''t care--which is obviously terrible, but Peck would say the people who do harm and believe it''s good are worse--so people like Hitler, Saddam Hussein. Gordon Brown...just kidding!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tana:\n </strong>\n Ooh. Interesting. The idea that evil isn''t only in the action itself, but in the distortion of the surrounding reality, the destruction not just of people but of truth. ("We just sexed up the dossier...") That definitely ties in with mystery writing, where everything spins around the deep human impulse towards truth--the whole arc of the books is the movement towards truth, through various obstacles.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie:\n </strong>\n Do you have a favorite of your books, and, if so, is that the same one as the one you think is the best? I can never decide which of mine I like best--I like them all in different ways, and I think they''re all best and worst in different ways!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tana:\n </strong>\n I''ll probably always have a soft spot for\n <em>\n  In the Woods\n </em>\n , simply because that was the first one and that was the one where, in some ways, I was taking the biggest risk--I put so much time and work and heart into it, I actually turned down acting work to finish it (if you know any actors, you know that turning down work is a HUGE deal, actors are the only people who always want to be working more)--and it was all just on hope, without any reason to think that this book would ever go anywhere except under my bed. I can''t be objective enough to have any clue which one''s the best, though. I don''t think it helps that (maybe because of the different narrators) they''re all very different in stuff like pace and tone. Apples and oranges. With the first two, by the time I''d finished all the copy-edits and proof-reads etc, I never wanted to see the bloody book again. That lasted till I saw the advance copies and was so stunned by the fact that this was a real book that I stopped hating the sight of it very fast! With\n <em>\n  Faithful Place\n </em>\n , though, I''ve finished the proof-reads, haven''t seen advance copies yet, and I still don''t hate it. I''m hoping this is a good sign. Are there stages in the process when you like/hate yours?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie:\n </strong>\n My favorite of yours would have to be\n <em>\n  In the Woods\n </em>\n , but I think the best one is\n <em>\n  Faithful Place\n </em>\n . Which means I should like it best, right? But there was one particular thing in In the Woods that I loved--Rob and Cassie''s relationship and the way he ended up behaving. I''ve never come across such a good analysis in any other book of the way commitment-phobic men behave! I love my books when I have the idea, when I write the first hundred pages, and then again when they''re in book form with their nice covers on! I hate them between page 100 and when they''re finished--because that''s when I''m laboring over them, and wondering whether I can make them fulfill the promise of the initial idea--and the end isn''t in sight yet, so I feel weary. How important are titles to you? I can''t start writing until I''ve got the title--it''s a central part of the inspiration. My American titles are generally different, but I love them--I love all my titles. I hate thriller titles that just sound generic, like\n <em>\n  Dead Kill\n </em>\n or something like that!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tana:\n </strong>\n My favorite of yours is probably\n <em>\n  Hurting Distance\n </em>\n because I love the fact that it doesn''t focus on a murder. When rape comes up in mystery books, it''s usually as an adjunct to the "real" crime of murder, rather than being the crime itself. I also think, without giving away too much, the angle on evil in that one is different from anything I''ve ever seen explored anywhere else. My favorite of your titles is\n <em>\n  A Room Swept White\n </em>\n , though. I''m truly awful at titles--\n <em>\n  Faithful Place\n </em>\n is the only one I came up with myself, I''m not even going to tell you what the first two books were called when they were living on my computer. I hate the generic wordplay-type titles too, but what I come up with if I''m left to my own devices isn''t much better.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tana French\n </strong>\n is the bestselling author of\n <em>\n  In the Woods\n </em>\n , which won the Edgar, Barry, Macavity, and Anthony awards, and of\n <em>\n  The Likeness\n </em>\n . She grew up in Ireland, Italy, Malawi, and the United States, and trained as an actor at Trinity College, Dublin. She lives in Dublin with her husband and daughter.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sophie Hannah\n </strong>\n is an award-winning poet and crime fiction writer whose novels are international bestsellers.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. French''s emotionally searing third novel of the Dublin murder squad (after The Likeness) shows the Irish author getting better with each book. In 1985, 19-yearold Frank Mackey and his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, made secret plans to elope to England and start a new life together far away from their families, particularly the hard-drinking Mackeys. But when Rosie doesn''t meet Frank the night they''re meant to leave and he finds a note, Frank assumes she''s left him behind. For 22 years, Frank, who becomes an undercover cop, stays away from Faithful Place, his childhood Dublin neighborhood. When his younger sister, Jackie, calls to tell him that someone found Rosie''s suitcase hidden in an abandoned house, Frank reluctantly returns. Now everything he thought he knew is turned upside down: did Rosie really leave that night, or did someone stop her before she could? French, who briefly introduced Mackey in The Likeness, is adept at seamlessly blending suspenseful whodunit elements with Frank''s familial demons.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/943'),
(6084, 'Fall of Giants', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself."  -The Denver Post on World Without End   Ken Follett''s World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics as "well-researched, beautifully detailed [with] a terrifically compelling plot" (The Washington Post) and "wonderful history wrapped around a gripping story" (St. Louis Post- Dispatch)  Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women''s suffrage.  Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man''s world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson''s White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy''s sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London...  These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.  In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3201'),
(6085, 'Fall to Pieces of Drugs, Rock &#39;N&#39; Roll, and Mental Illness', 'Mary Forsberg Weiland', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Weiland''s lively, vernacular memoir tells the sadly wasted but ultimately self-directed tale of her meteoric rise as a model from impoverished, half-Mexican roots to a precipitous plunge into drug addiction. Growing up in a broken Southern California home in the 1980s, where she lived mostly with her working Mexican mother in near poverty, the author, nÃ©e Forsberg, found autonomy and financial independence early on in modeling; by age 14 she was a finalist for a\n  <em>\n   Seventeen\n  </em>\n  magazine modeling contest and traveling to New York; by 16, she had quit school, been legally emancipated and booked overseas jobs. She also became infatuated with aspiring rock and roller Scott Weiland, who was briefly her driver, and as he became hugely successful with his band, Stone Temple Pilots, he slid into heroin addiction and dragged her along with him. He was also involved with another woman, and the author''s account is a painful re-enactment of her youthful abasement. From partying scene to junkie desperation to psychiatrist''s office, jail and rehab, Forsberg Weiland battled her demons, learning with some surprise that she suffered from bipolar disorder. Having two children with Scott turned her around, though her marriage crumbled when he didn''t change. Weiland''s forthright, resilient can-do spirit injects this sad story with a healthy moral.\n  <em>\n   (Dec.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œFor all the death and devastation detailed in its pages, this book is surprisingly funny.â€ (Reuters )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA brutally honest and compelling account of Mary Weilandâ€™s struggles with addiction and mental illness. Brave, bold and unfiltered, Maryâ€™s writing injects humor and levity in a way that is both entertaining and necessary. I have no doubt that this important book will help save many lives.â€ (Dave Navarro )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMary Weiland describes the depths of madness and addiction with surprising clarity. Fall to Pieces is a wild, gripping story, told with intense emotional honesty.â€ (Terri Cheney, New York Times bestselling author of Manic )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA worthy addition to the rock canon.â€ (New York Post )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA harrowing story of addiction and mental illness.â€ (People )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWeilandâ€™s lively, vernacular memoir tells the sadly wasted but ultimately self-directed tale of her meteoric rise as a model from impoverished, half-Mexican roots to a precipitous plunge into drug addiction....Weilandâ€™s forthright, resilient can-do spirit injects this sad story with a healthy moral.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMary Weilandâ€™s beautifully crafted memoir takes the reader through the journey that is so very common today, the slow drift into addiction and mental illness. Honest, clear, and accurate, Fall to Pieces is perhaps the most vivid rendition of this experience I have ever come across.â€ (Dr. Drew Pinsky, host of Loveline and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, author of The Mirror Effect and Cracked )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2099'),
(6086, 'The Fall', 'Guillermo Del Toro', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  The vampiric virus unleashed in\n  <em>\n   The Strain\n  </em>\n  has taken over New York City. It is spreading across the country and soon, the world. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweatherâ€”head of the Center for Disease Controlâ€™s teamâ€”leads a small band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ignited by the Masterâ€™s horrific plan, a war erupts between Old and New World vampires, each vying for total control. Caught between these warring forces, humansâ€”powerless and vulnerableâ€”are no longer the consumers, but the consumed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though Eph understands the vampiric plague better than anyone, even he cannot protect those he loves from the invading evil. His ex-wife, Kelly, has been turned by the Master, and now she stalks the city, in the darkness, looking for her chance to reclaim Zack, Ephâ€™s young son.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the future of the world in the balance, Eph and his courageous team, guided by the brilliant former professor and Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian and exterminator Vasiliy Fet, must combat a terror whose ultimate plan is more terrible than anyone first imaginedâ€”a fate worse than annihilation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Academy AwardÂ®-winner Guillermo Del Toro\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Youâ€™ve written screenplays and directed numerous movies, to name a few of your many accomplishments. What motivated you to write a novel?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Del Toro:\n  </strong>\n  Well, itâ€™s a different challenge, but I''ve always written short stories and then, in my film work, storylines for movies (the storyline is a slightly "freer" form than screenplay writing) I have published some of my short stories in the past and it is my secret dream to write shivery tales for young readers. My favorite author in that sense is  Roald Dahl  who mixed it free-style between the grotesque and the magical. I love the short story form as a reader but if a novel has a terse structure I find it far more immersive and fulfilling. Nevertheless some of my favorite authors, Borges,  Quiroga,  Saki, etc. are masters of the short story form. The novel grew out of appetite and scope.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  You are one of the most extraordinarily imaginative and creative thinkers working in the arts today. What were some of the influences that have contributed to your success? Do you have any kind of a muse?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Del Toro:\n  </strong>\n  Curiously enough I regularly draw more inspiration from painters and books than I do from other films. Painters like Carlos Schwabe, Odilon Redon, Fliecien Rops, Bocklin, Freud, Bacon, Thomas Cole and many others, never fail to excite me and in the book front there are just as many authors...  Dickens, does the trick every time as does  Wilde,  Rulfo,  Quiroga, etc.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Q:\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Many of your movies have centered on fantastical characters. Why did you choose to write your first novel about vampires?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Del Toro:\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   All of my life Iâ€™ve been fascinated by them but always from a Naturalist''s point of view.\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Cronos\n  </em>\n  , my first movie, wanted to be a rephrasing of the genreâ€”I love the rephrasing of an old myth. When I tackled\n  <em>\n   Blade II\n  </em>\n  , I approached it with a myriad of ideas about Vampire Biology but only a few of those made it into the film. Tonally, the movie needed to be an action film and some of the biological stuff was too disturbing already... I love the idea of the biological, the divine and the evolutionary angles to explain the origin and function of the Vampire genus. Some of my favorite books about Vampirism are treatises on Vampiric "factâ€--books by Bernard J Hurwood, Augustin Camet, and Montague Summers.\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  <hr />\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Q:\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   There are many stories, movies, and even a television show involving vampires. The Strain Trilogy uses the idea that vampires are a plague, and that the lead hunter is a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control. What was your inspiration for this twist?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Del Toro:\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   When I was a kid I loved\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Night Stalker\n  </em>\n  and I fell in love with the idea Matheson and Rice posited, of exploring a creature of such powerful stature through the point of view of a common worker, a man used to deal with things in a procedural way. "Just another day at the job...".\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  <hr />\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Q:\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   How did you and Chuck Hogan come together to write The Strain Trilogy? How does your collaboration work?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  <hr />\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Del Toro:\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   It was a true collaboration. I had created a "bible" for the book. It contained most of the structural ideas and characters and Chuck then took his pass on it and invented new characters and ideas. Fet (one of my favorite characters) was completely invented by him. And then I did my pass, writing new chapters or heavily editing his pass, and then he did a pass on my pass and so on and so forth. This is the way I have co-written in the past. I loved Chuck''s style and ideas from reading his books and I specifically wanted him as a partner because he had a strong sense of reality and had NEVER written a horror book. I knew we would complete each other in the creation of this book. What surprised me is that he came up with some gruesome moments all on his own! He revealed himself to be a rather disturbed man!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   A Q&amp;A with Hammett Award-winner Chuck Hogan\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  <hr />\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Q:\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   What most surprised you about working with Guillermo Del Toro? Has working with him impacted your own work? In your former career as a video store clerk, did you ever in your wildest dreams imagine working on a project like thisâ€”with a legend like Del Toro?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Hogan:\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   I''d never co-authored anything, nor had I published a true work of horror before, and here I was embarking on an epic trilogy with a master of the genre. I probably should have been more intimidated--yet I felt an immediate kinship with the material, as well as true excitement at the challenge of bringing the story to life, both of which carried me through. Guillermo is a daunting first audience, and yet an incredibly generous collaborator. Not to mention an amazing resource: it''s just fun to have to ask him a questionâ€”say, about why the vampires run hot instead of coldâ€”know that, not only will he take me through their intricate biology, but he will embroider the account with corroborating examples from the field of entomology, marine life, and some arcane fact about the function of human blood platelets.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Q:\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    The Town\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   , * Devils in Exile\n   <em>\n    , and\n   </em>\n   The Killing Moon*, probe the dark side of human nature. What draws you to this theme, and to the genre of suspense?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <em>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Hogan:\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Crime and horror are both genres of existentialism, and I am drawn to stories of man at his extremes, of people who find themselves tested, haunted, threatened. I believe a writer should challenge himself in his work just as he challenges the characters in his storyâ€”that anything less would be inauthentic and dishonest. What I love about\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Strain\n  </em>\n  is that the journey of the story takes this maxim and multiplies it by one thousand.\n </p>\n <em>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </em>\n <em>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Set over the course of three intense weeks, Del Toro and Hogan''s gripping second volume in their near-future vampire trilogy picks up where The Strain, the first volume, left off, as the undead, aided by elderly Eldritch Palmer, one of the world''s three richest men, tighten their hold on the planet. Epidemiologists Ephraim Goodweather and Nora Martinez, Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian, and Vasiliy Fet, "New York City Bureau of Pest Control Services worker and independent exterminator," oppose the vampires (or strigoi), as they did in the first book. Setrakian pins his hopes for stopping the vampires on tracking down a 17th-century grimoire that describes the origins of their leaders, the Seven Original Ancients. Despite the story''s essential grimness, the authors manage to inject some sardonic humor, even as the plot developments will leave readers wondering how the concluding book can possibly end well.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/576');
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(6087, 'Fallen', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the blazing heat of an Atlanta summer, Special Agent Faith Mitchell of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation returns home to a nightmare. Expecting to find her mother minding her new baby daughter Emma, she is horrified to discover Emma locked in the shed, her mother''s safe open and her gun missing and a bloody handprint on the front door frame. Without waiting for back-up, she enters the house to a scene of carnage. It has been turned over and a man lies dead in a pool of blood. She discovers two others upstairs. Within minutes they have been shot dead. And when the Atlanta police force turns up, Faith has some difficult questions to answer. Why didn''t she wait for back-up? Did she really kill them in self-defence? And what did the men want with her mother? Ex-Atlanta police chief, Evelyn Mitchell was once under investigation by Faith''s partner Will Trent. Is she directly involved this time, and where is she? There is evidence she might have been tied up but what was she doing with a renowned drug baron - whose body has been found in the trunk of her car? Suddenly things have become a whole lot more complicated for Will. He must go back to his previous, deeply unpopular case and unpick all the threads, risking the police force closing ranks on him to protect one of their own. And all the while he is conscious that his partner is right at the centre of it all, and he must tread very carefully indeed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3339'),
(6088, 'The Fallen Angel', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After narrowly surviving his last operation, Gabriel Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, has taken refuge behind the walls of the Vatican, where he is restoring one of Caravaggio''s greatest masterpieces. But early one morning he is summoned to St. Peter''s Basilica by Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private secretary to His Holiness Pope Paul VII. The body of a beautiful woman lies broken beneath Michelangelo''s magnificent dome. The Vatican police suspect suicide, though Gabriel believes otherwise. So, it seems, does Donati. But the monsignor is fearful that a public inquiry might inflict yet another scandal on the Church, and so he calls upon Gabriel to quietly pursue the truthâ€”with one caveat.   "Rule number one at the Vatican," Donati said. "Don''t ask too many questions."   Gabriel learns that the dead woman had uncovered a dangerous secretâ€”a secret that threatens a global criminal enterprise that is looting timeless treasures of antiquity and selling them to the highest bidder. But there is more to this network than just greed. A mysterious operative is plotting an act of sabotage that will plunge the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3859'),
(6089, 'Fallout', 'Ellen Hopkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hunter, Autumn, and Summerthree of Kristina Snow''s five childrenlive in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years. Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. He''s struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. When her aunt gets married, and the only family she''s ever known crumbles, Autumn''s compulsive habits lead her to drink. And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there''s more of Kristina in her than she''d like to believe. Summer doesn''t know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father''s girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother''s notorious legacy. As each searches for real love and true family, they find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them togetherKristina, Bree, mother, addict. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle. Told in three voices and punctuated by news articles chronicling the family''s story, FALLOUT is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy begun by CRANK and GLASS, and a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one person''s problem.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3762'),
(6090, 'The Falls', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Edinburgh police detective John Rebus, Ian Rankin''s popular series detective, is a brilliantly realized character, as moody, dark, and melancholy as Edinburgh itself. In\n  <em>\n   The Falls\n  </em>\n  , he''s almost certain that missing university student Philippa Balfour is dead, but he''s less sure how she died or what her misadventure has to do with the tiny doll in a hand-sized coffin that turns up near a waterfall on the Balfour family estate. It''s not the first coffin found near the scene of a crime; could Philippa be the victim of a serial killer? The only other lead the police have is a cryptic e-mail from someone called Quiz Master, inviting Philippa--and then constable Siobhan Clarke, who responds using Philippa''s screen name--to join him in a bizarre scavenger hunt that might lead Clarke to Philippa''s body, her killer, or her own death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This time out Rebus has a new boss, who''s no happier with his unorthodox style or impolitic attitude toward the Edinburgh establishment than his last one was. But even under department suspension, Rebus manages to tie a number of seemingly disparate and unconnected clues together and deliver a killer in a scene that even the most discerning reader may not see coming until it jumps off the page. A bestseller in the U.K.,\n  <em>\n   The Falls\n  </em>\n  is Rankin''s best yet.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Falls is a 2001 crime novel by Ian Rankin. It is the twelfth of the Inspector Rebus novels. It was the first episode in the second Rebus television series starring Ken Stott, airing in 2006, substantially changed from the novel and somewhat resembling the plot of the film Chinatown. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/521'),
(6091, 'Family Album', 'Penelope Lively', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''Ridiculously readable. Lively displays an economy and elegance that put younger writers to shame'' Sunday Telegraph Allersmead is a big shabby Victorian suburban house. The perfect place to grow up for elegant Sandra, difficult Gina, destructive Paul, considerate Katie, clever Roger and flighty Clare. But was it? As adults, the children return to Allersmead one by one. To their home-making mother and aloof writer father, and a house that for years has played silent witness to a family''s secrets. And one devastating secret of which no one speaks . . . ''Lively''s saga of a middle-class household in the 1970s and 1980s holds in balance the ideal of family life and its messy reality. Registering dark family secrets, it depicts warm nostalgia as well as bitter regret. In the end Lively gives us a forgiving fable in which something positive comes out of muddle and bad faith.'' Lindsay Duguid, The Sunday Times ''Lively at her best, sharp-eyed but sympathetic. Should delight her regular readers and ensnare new ones'' Evening Standard ''Terrific . . .'' Daily Telegraph ''Lively succeeds brilliantly in getting a hold on the climate of family life. Simply devastating'' The Times ''A pleasure to read, hugely enjoyable, consistently absorbing, hilarious'' Independent ''Any time spent with Penelope Lively is a joy'' Observer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/952'),
(6092, 'Family Ties', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her handâ€”until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sisterâ€™s three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.Now, at forty-two, as independent as ever, with a satisfying career and a family that means everything to her, Annie is comfortable being single and staying that way. She appears to have no time for anything else. With her nephew and nieces now young adults and confronting major challenges of their own, Annie is navigating a parentâ€™s difficult passage between lending them a hand and letting go, and suddenly facing an empty nest. The eldest, twenty-eight-year-old Liz, an overworked, struggling editor in a high-powered job at Vogue, has never allowed any man to come close enough to hurt her. Ted, at twenty-four a serious and hardworking law student, is captivated by a much older, much more experienced woman with children, who is leading him much further than he wants to go. And the youngest, twenty-one-year-old Katieâ€”impulsive, artistic, rebelliousâ€”is an art student about to make a choice that will lead her to an entirely different world she is in no way prepared for but determined to embrace.Then, just when least expected, a chance encounter changes Annieâ€™s life yet again in the most unexpected direction of all.Â  From Manhattan to Paris and all the way to Tehran, Family Ties is a novel that reminds us how challenging and unpredictable life can be, and that the powerful bonds of family are the strongest of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3474'),
(6093, 'Fang', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; ">\n   Gr 6-10â€“On a goodwill mission in Africa, Max and the flock meet Dr. Hans Gunther-Hagen, a scientific researcher and billionaire purporting to be a philanthropist in this episode (Little Brown, 2010) in James Patterson''s series. He introduces Max to Dylan, a hunky heartthrob bird-kid secretly created to woo 15-year-old Max as a future mate. Skeptical of Dylan''s motives and Dr. Hackjob-Wackjob''s humanitarian efforts to use adaptive genetics to improve survival among the less fortunate, Max learns toxic chemicals have been used on orphans in Chad. Angel upsets the flock with a prediction of Fang''s death and, seemingly brainwashed by Dr. Hans, challenges Max as flock leader. Action passages are fewer than in previous installments as Angel goes off to help Dr. Hans, Dylan moves into the safe house, and Fang follows Max to Las Vegas to contemplate their future. In a fast-paced ending, Fang is captured and rendered lifeless and Angel telepathically calls the flock to help. Jill Apple adeptly captures Max''s softer side as she anguishes about Fang and the new flock dynamic, while retaining familiar acerbic tones unleashed on Dr. Hunka-Munka. Almost all of the voices are spot-on, and it is only a minor irritation that Fang seems persistently hoarse. Subtle music and sound effects punctuate the action. Fans of the series will eagerly await the next installment._Vicki Reutter, Cazenovia Jr./Sr. High School, NY_\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Maximum Ride series'' flock of winged children is off to Africa for a photo op while providing humanitarian aid. Then Max''s rival, Angel, prophesies that best-friend Fang will be the first to die and it will happen soon. When Dr. Gunther-Hagen introduces Max to Dylan, a gorgeous new bird kid who has been designed to be Max''s perfect mate, Max''s voices tell her Dylan is perfect for her. But how does this affect her commitment to Fang? This will excite the legions of fans waiting for this installment in the flock''s story.Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/303'),
(6094, 'Fannie&#39;s Last Supper: Re-Creating One Amazing Meal From Fannie Farmer&#39;s 1896 Cookbook', 'Christopher Kimball', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Kimball, founder of Cook''s Illustrated and host of the PBS series America''s Test Kitchen, spent more than two years of "research, recipe testing, and intense planning" in order to host a Victorian dinner based on the recipes of Fannie Farmer, author of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, which was first published in 1896. Kimball is as exhaustive in his research as he is in one of his own test recipes for Cook''s Illustrated, and fans of his work will appreciate his attention to even the smallest morsel of information. Kimball is off on a culinary and historical adventure as he literally traces Fannie Farmer''s steps around Boston at the turn of the century, regaling the reader with a history of Boston, observations of the Victorian character, manner of dress, and cooking implements and appliances available. In the meantime, his own team has been assembled and they are methodically testing recipes and ingredients in Kimball''s 1859 red-brick Boston bowfront. All this work culminates in a foodie''s dream dinner party, complete with Victorian plate settings, an all-star guest list, and 12 courses you won''t find in any restaurant today. A must-read for history buffs, home cooks, and professional chefs alike.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the mid-1990s, Chris Kimball moved into an 1859 Victorian townhouse on the South End of Boston and, as he became accustomed to the quirks and peculiarities of the house and neighborhood, he began to wonder what it was like to live and cook in that era. In particular, he became fascinated with Fannie Farmer''s\n <em>\n  Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n . Published in 1896, it was the best-selling cookbook of its age--full of odd, long-forgotten ingredients, fascinating details about how the recipes were concocted, and some truly amazing dishes (as well as some awful ones).\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Fannie''s Last Supper\n </em>\n , Kimball describes the experience of re-creating one of Fannie Farmer''s amazing menus: a twelve-course Christmas dinner that she served at the end of the century. Kimball immersed himself in composing twenty different recipes--including rissoles, Lobster Ã  l''AmÃ©ricaine, Roast Goose with Chestnut Stuffing and Jus, and Mandarin Cake--with all the inherent difficulties of sourcing unusual animal parts and mastering many now-forgotten techniques, including regulating the heat on a coal cookstove and boiling a calf''s head without its turning to mush, all sans food processor or oven thermometer. Kimball''s research leads to many hilarious scenes, bizarre tastings, and an incredible armchair experience for any reader interested in food and the Victorian era.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fannie''s Last Supper\n </em>\n includes the dishes from the dinner and revised and updated recipes from\n <em>\n  The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n . A culinary thriller. it offers a fresh look at something that most of us take for granted--the American table.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Fannie''s Last Supper\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Chris''s `Fannie'' project is the most ambitious cooking undertaking I''ve ever witnessed outside of a restaurant opening. And as one of the devourers of the ultimate meal, I can tell you it was worth it, at least for me. (I would travel 200 miles for the jellies alone.) But the account of the making of the meal, told here in winning style, is just as impressive: part history and part contemporary journalism, it''s a fascinating story, and absolutely unique."\n <br />\n --Mark Bittman, author of\n <em>\n  How to Cook Everything\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "What a piece of work Christopher Kimball has pulled off. Read this book and join the escapade into what Chris calls the most progressive era in the history of the world. No, it wasn''t ten years ago, it was 110 years ago--the world of Victorian America and Fanny Farmer. Not an iota of dreamy pseudo-food history survives here. Instead, Chris challenges, provokes, entertains, and maybe even outrages our sensibilities. One thing is sure, if he gets his way, you will be rethinking some of today''s accepted political culinary wisdom."\n <br />\n --Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of\n <em>\n  The Splendid Table\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Fannie''s Last Supper_ is a splendid book with recipes and narrative that is based on a twelve-course dinner right out of the back pages of the original 1896\n <em>\n  Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n written by Fannie Farmer. How fantastic is that--traveling back in time to rethink the cooking of the future. A great, informative read with tempting recipes. Bravo!"\n <br />\n --Lidia Bastianich, author of\n <em>\n  Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A dynamic and entertaining book for chefs and home cooks alike. Christopher Kimball delves into the life, times, and recipes of Fannie Farmer, and creates an educational and delicious twelve-course menu that any food lover can sink their teeth into."\n <br />\n --Daniel Humm, Executive Chef, Eleven Madison Park\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2449'),
(6095, 'Fantasy in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the latest novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author J.D. Robb, it is game over for the criminals pursued by NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas.  Bart Minnock, founder of the computer-gaming giant U-Play, enters his private playroom, and eagerly can''t wait to lose himself in an imaginary world, to play the role of a sword-wielding warrior king, in his company''s latest top-secret project, Fantastical.  The next morning, he is found in the same locked room, in a pool of blood, his head separated from his body. It is the most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced, and it is not a game. . . .  NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is having as much trouble figuring out how Bart Minnock was murdered as who did the murdering. The victim''s girlfriend seems sincerely grief-stricken, and his quirky-but-brilliant partners at U-Play appear equally shocked. No one seemed to have a probÂ­lem with the enthusiastic, high-spirited millionaire. Of course, success can attract jealousy, and gaming, like any business, has its fierce rivalries and dirty tricks-as Eve''s husband, Roarke, one of U- Play''s competitors, knows well. But Minnock was not naive, and quite capable of fighting back in the real world as well as the virtual one.  Eve and her team are about to enter the next level of police work, in a world where fantasy is the ultimate seduction-and the price of defeat is death. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3484'),
(6096, 'A Farewell to Arms', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As a youth of 18, Ernest Hemingway was eager to fight in the Great War. Poor vision kept him out of the army, so he joined the ambulance corps instead and was sent to France. Then he transferred to Italy where he became the first American wounded in that country during World War I. Hemingway came out of the European battlefields with a medal for valor and a wealth of experience that he would, 10 years later, spin into literary gold with\n <em>\n  A Farewell to Arms\n </em>\n . This is the story of Lieutenant Henry, an American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. The two meet in Italy, and almost immediately Hemingway sets up the central tension of the novel: the tenuous nature of love in a time of war. During their first encounter, Catherine tells Henry about her fiancÃ© of eight years who had been killed the year before in the Somme. Explaining why she hadn''t married him, she says she was afraid marriage would be bad for him, then admits:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I wanted to do something for him. You see, I didn''t care about the other thing and he could have had it all. He could have had anything he wanted if I would have known. I would have married him or anything. I know all about it now. But then he wanted to go to war and I didn''t know.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n The two begin an affair, with Henry quite convinced that he "did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards." Soon enough, however, the game turns serious for both of them and ultimately Henry ends up deserting to be with Catherine.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hemingway was not known for either unbridled optimism or happy endings, and\n <em>\n  A Farewell to Arms\n </em>\n , like his other novels (\n <em>\n  For Whom the Bell Tolls\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Sun Also Rises\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  To Have and Have Not\n </em>\n ), offers neither. What it\n <em>\n  does\n </em>\n provide is an unblinking portrayal of men and women behaving with grace under pressure, both physical and psychological, and somehow finding the courage to go on in the face of certain loss.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n These dual Hemingways are the latest volumes in the Scribner Paperback Fiction series (Classic Returns, February 15, p. 187). They offer quality trade size editions, featuring attractive covers and easily readable type size. Two of the greats.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1019'),
(6097, 'Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer', 'Novella Carpenter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This upbeat account of raising poultry, rabbits, pigs and bees in the middle of a rundown neighborhood in Oakland, Calif., will make listeners either run out to reclaim some vacant lots or cringe at the thought that they might one day live next door to and downwind from such a menagerie. Karen White vividly individualizes the colorful locals, including Bobby (who lives in abandoned cars), the Buddhist monks across the way, the skeptical neighbors, the Chinese landlord and the random foragers who help themselves to Carpenter''s bounty. Narrated with cheerful verve, White''s performance will charm even those readers without the slightest inclination to get up close and personal with their future meals.\n <em>\n  A Penguin Press hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 20). (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Audio Review] Highways roared in the distance. Gunshots could be heard a few blocks away. And a homeless man slept in an abandoned car down the street. Among these modern-day urban scenes, author Novella Carpenter put down roots literally turning a vacant lot in Oakland, California, into a working mini-farm, complete with vegetables, herbs, chickens, ducks, and bees. Karen White reads these lively accounts of missteps and delicious victories, including recipes, with the author''s intelligence, humor, and devotion to the American ideal of hard work and self-sufficiency. Farming is about food, and food is always about people. Carpenter''s encounters with third-world neighbors, block parties, and the boy who came to buy a rabbit are beguiling and inspiring. B.P. Ã‚Â© AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine --AudioFile\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2101'),
(6098, 'Fast Track', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s been years since the members of the Sisterhood first banded together, with the help of their mentor Charles Martin, to exact their own form of justice on those whose crimes had gone unpunished by the legal system. Now, back in the United States after an enforced exile, and ensconced in a new home on Big Pine Mountain in North Carolina, Myra, Kathryn, Annie, Alexis, Isabelle, Yoko, and Nikki are breathing easy at last - but not for long. One dark night, under cover of a vicious storm, a helicopter lands on their mountain. The Sisters arenÃ­t about to wait to be ambushed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3749'),
(6099, 'Fatal Error', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance delivers another pulse-pounding tale of suspense where no one is safe from a . . ."FATAL ERROR." Ali Reynolds begins the summer thinking her most difficult challenge will be surviving a six-week- long course as the lone forty-something female at the Arizona Police Academy--not to mention taking over the 6:00 AM shift at her family''s restaurant while her parents enjoy a long overdue Caribbean cruise. However, when Brenda Riley, a colleague from Ali''s old news broadcasting days in California, shows up in town with an alcohol problem and an unlikely story about a missing fiance, Ali reluctantly agrees to help. The man posing as Brenda''s fiance is revealed to be Richard Lowensdale, a cyber-sociopath who has left a trail of broken hearts in his virtual wake. When he is viciously murdered, the women he once victimized are considered suspects. The police soon focus their investigation on Brenda, who is already known to have broken into Richard''s home and computer before vanishing without a trace. Attempting to clear her friend''s name, Ali is quickly drawn into a web of online intrigue that may lead to a real-world "fatal error."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3471'),
(6100, 'The Fatal Shore', 'Robert Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Amazon.com  An extraordinary volume--even a masterpiece--about the early history of   Australia that reads like the finest of novels. Hughes captures everything  in this complex tableau with narrative finesse that drives the reader  ever-deeper into specific facts and greater understanding. He presents  compassionate understanding of the plights of colonists--both freemen  and convicts--and the Aboriginal peoples they displaced. One of the  very best works of history I have ever read.          From Library Journal  For 80 years between 1788 and 1868 England transported its convicts to Australia. This punishment provided the first immigrants and the work force to build the colony. Using diariesï¼Œ lettersï¼Œ and original sourcesï¼Œ Hughes meticulously documents this history. All sides of the story are told: the political and social reasoning behind the Transportation Systemï¼Œ the viewpoint of the captains who had the difficult job of governing and developing the coloniesï¼Œ and of course the dilemma of the prisoners. This is a very thorough and accurate history of Australian colonization written by the author of the book and BBC/Time-Life TV series The Shock of the New . A definitive work that is an essential purchase for both public and academic libraries. BOMC and History Book Club main selections. Judith Nixonï¼Œ Purdue Univ. Libs.ï¼Œ W. Lafayetteï¼Œ Ind.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Informationï¼Œ Inc.   See all Editorial Reviews\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2386'),
(6101, 'Fatally Flaky', 'Diane Mott Davidson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz doesn''t have a moment to spare as she frantically tries to pull everything together for two upcoming wedding receptions, including last-minute venue and menu changes from a spoiled bridezilla, in bestseller Davidson''s entertaining 15th culinary suspense novel (after\n  <em>\n   Sweet Revenge\n  </em>\n  ). When Harold Doc Finn, Aspen Meadow''s beloved retired doctor, dies under mysterious circumstances on his way to the first wedding ceremony, Goldy wonders if it was an accident or murder. When her godfather and Doc Finn''s good friend, Jack Carmichael, is also attacked, it''s obvious that Goldy will have to venture out of the kitchen and put her detecting skills to use once again. Stir in a slimy spa owner, rumors of a malpractice suit and the usual cast of supporting charactersâ€”including Goldy''s patient cop husband, Tom, and her capable culinary assistant, Julian Tellerâ€”and you''ve got another winning entry in Davidson''s mouthwatering series.\n  <em>\n   6-city author tour. (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Another winning entry in Davidson''s mouthwatering series." (Publishers Weekly )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3618'),
(6102, 'Fate&#39;s Edge', 'Ilona Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Audrey Callahan left behind her life in the Edge, and she''s determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But when her brother gets into hot water, the former thief takes on one last heist and finds herself matching wits with a jack of all trades...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kaldar Mar-a gambler, lawyer, thief, and spy-expects his latest assignment tracking down a stolen item to be a piece of cake, until Audrey shows up. But when the item falls into the hands of a lethal criminal, Kaldar realizes that in order to finish the job, he''s going to need Audrey''s help...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ilona Andrews is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team. Ilona Gordon is a native-born Russian, and Andrew Gordon is a former communications sergeant in the U.S. Army. They met in college, in English Composition 101. Gordon and Ilona currently reside in Georgia with their two children and two dogs, and are currently working on Kate Daniels''s next adventure. Renee Raudman is a multi-award-winning audiobook narrator. She has earned a number of AudioFile Earphones Awards, including for The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris and Wesley the Owl by Stacey O''Brien, as well as a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award for Joe Schreiber''s Chasing the Dead. She has also performed on film, TV, radio, and stage, including the recurring roles of Jordon on ABC''s One Life To Live, Phyllis on NBC''s Passions, and guest-starring roles on prime-time TV. She has been heard in cartoons (The Simpsons, Billy &amp; Mandy), videogames, and on the E! channel. Her narration of Homer''s Odyssey by Gwen Cooper was selected by Library Journal as one of the best audiobooks of 2009, and her reading of Marthe Jocelyn''s Would You was selected by the ALA as one of the best young adult audiobooks of 2009.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2908'),
(6103, 'Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam', 'Tom Bissell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In April 1975, as Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army, John Bissell, a former Marine officer living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, was glued to his television. Struggling to save his marriage, raise his sons, and live with his memories of the war in Vietnam, Bissell found himself racked with anguish and horror as his country abandoned a cause for which so many of his friends had died.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Opening with a gripping account of the chaotic and brutal last month of the war,\n  <em>\n   The Father of All Things\n  </em>\n  is Tom Bissellâ€™s powerful reckoning with the Vietnam War and its impact on his father, his country, and Vietnam itself. Through him we learn what it was like to grow up with a gruff but oddly tender veteran father who would wake his children in the middle of the night when the memories got too painful. Bissell also explores the many debates about the war, from whether it was winnable to Ho Chi Minhâ€™s motivations to why Americaâ€™s leaders lied so often. Above all, he shows how the war has continued to influence American views on foreign policy more than thirty years later.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the heart of this book is John and Tom Bissellâ€™s unforgettable journey back to Vietnam. As they travel the country and talk to Vietnamese veterans, we relive the war as John Bissell experienced it, visit the site of his near-fatal wounding, and hear him explain how Vietnam shaped him and so many of his generation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is the first major book about the war by an author who grew up after the fall of Saigon. It is a fascinating, all-too-relevant work about the American characterâ€“and about war itself. It is also a wise and moving book about fathers, sons, and the universal desire to understand who our parents were before they became our parents.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2450'),
(6104, 'FDR', 'Jean Edward Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Independent biographer Smith (1996''s\n <em>\n  John Marshall: Definer of a Nation\n </em>\n and 2001''s\n <em>\n  Grant\n </em>\n ) crafts a magisterial biography of our most important modern president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Scores of books have been written about Roosevelt, exploring every nook and cranny of his experience, so Smith breaks no "news" and offers no previously undisclosed revelations concerning the man from Hyde Park. But the author''s eloquent synthesis of FDR''s complex and compelling life is remarkably executed and a joy to read. Drawing on the papers of the Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library as well as Columbia University''s oral history collection and other repositories, Smith minutely explores the arc of FDR''s intertwined political and private lives. With regard to the political, the biographer seamlessly traces Roosevelt''s evolution from gawky, aristocratic, political newcomer nibbling at the edges of the rough-and-tumble Dutchess County, N.Y., Democratic machine to the consummate though physically crippled political insiderâ€”a man without pretensions who acquired and performed the jobs of New York governor and then United States president with shrewd, and always joyous, efficiency. As is appropriate, more than half of Smith''s narrative deals with FDR as president: the four terms (from 1933 until his death in 1945) during which he waged war, in turn, on the Depression and the Axis powers. As for the private Roosevelt, Smith reveals him as a devoted son; an unhappy husband who eventually settled into an uneasy peace and working partnership with his wife and cousin Eleanor; an emotionally absent father; and a man who for years devotedly loved two women other than his wifeâ€”Lucy Mercer Rutherford and Missy LeHand, the latter his secretary. This erudite but graceful volume illuminates FDR''s life for scholars, history buffs and casual readers alike. Photos not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From The New Yorker\n</h3>\n<p>\n As Franklin Roosevelt approached the stage at the 1936 Democratic Convention, the steel braces on his useless legs and the support of his sonâ€™s arm allowing him, in great pain, to simulate walking, he was jostled, and he crashed to the ground, scattering the pages of his speech. "Clean me up," he said, "and keep your feet off those damned sheets." Minutes later, utterly poised, he told an audience and a nation ravaged by the Depression that they had "a rendezvous with destiny." Smith, in this remarkable, sympathetic biography, doesnâ€™t flinch at Rooseveltâ€™s mistakes; the sections on the court-packing scheme and the internment of Japanese-Americans are painful to read. Smith also does a fine job with a complex marriage, avoiding the F.D.R. biographerâ€™s trap of being either annoyed or enraptured by Eleanor. The Roosevelt who emerges hereâ€”neither a stranger nor a painted iconâ€”is flawed and magnificent.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2007\n <em>\n  Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2454'),
(6105, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Heralded as the "best book on the dope decade" by the\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  , Hunter S. Thompson''s documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the "Great Red Shark." In its trunk, they stow "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls," which they manage to consume during their short tour.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On assignment from a sports magazine to cover "the fabulous Mint 400"--a free-for-all biker''s race in the heart of the Nevada desert--the drug-a-delic duo stumbles through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the American dream (two truck-stop waitresses tell them it''s nearby, but can''t remember if it''s on the right or the left). They of course never get the story, but they do commit the only sins in Vegas: "burning the locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help." For Thompson to remember and pen his experiences with such clarity and wit is nothing short of a miracle; an impressive feat no matter how one feels about the subject matter. A first-rate sensibility twinger,\n  <em>\n   Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas\n  </em>\n  is a pop-culture classic, an icon of an era past, and a nugget of pure comedic genius.\n  <em>\n   --Rebekah Warren\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a scorching epochal sensation. There are only two adjectives writers care about any more! "brilliant" and "outrageous"! and Hunter Thompson has a freehold on both of them.'' Tom Wolfe ''What goes on in these pages makes Lenny Bruce seem angelic! the whole book boils down to a mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer''s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out.'' New York Times\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1051'),
(6106, 'The Fear Index', 'Robert Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich Dr Alex Hoffmann is a legend - a visionary scientist whose computer software turns everything it touches into gold.   Together with his partner, an investment banker, Hoffmann has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that tracks human emotions, enabling it to predict movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions.   But then in the early hours of the morning, while he lies asleep with his wife, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of their lakeside house. So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts, with increasing desperation, to discover who is trying to destroy him.  His quest forces him to confront the deepest questions of what it is to be human. By the time night falls over Geneva, the financial markets will be in turmoil and Hoffmann''s world - and ours - transformed forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/577'),
(6107, 'Fear the Worst', 'Linwood Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tim Blake is an average guy. He sells cars. He has an ex-wife whoâ€™s moved in with another man. Itâ€™s not a life without hassles, but nothing will prepare him for when his daughter, Sydney, vanishes into thin air. At the hotel where she supposedly worked, no one has ever heard of her. Even her closest friends seem to be at a loss. As he retraces Sydneyâ€™s steps, Tim discovers that the suburban Connecticut town he always thought of as idyllic is anything but. What he doesnâ€™t know is that his every move is being watched. There are others who want to find Sydney as much as Tim does. And the closer Tim comes to the truth, the closer he comes to every parentâ€™s worst nightmareâ€”and the kind of evil only a parentâ€™s love has a chance in hell of stopping.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3154'),
(6108, 'Fearless Fourteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey named Carl will send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most explosive adventure yet.The Crime:Â  Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollarsDom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldnâ€™t be more proud. He always was the smart one.Â  The Cousin:Â  Joe MorelliJoe Morelli, Dom Rizzi, and Domâ€™s sister, Loretta, are cousins. Morelli is a cop, Rizzi robs banks, and Loretta is a single mother waiting tables at the firehouse. The all-American family.The Complications:Â  Murder, kidnapping, destruction of personal property, and acid refluxLess than a week after Domâ€™s release from prison, Joe Morelli has shadowy figures breaking into his house and dying in his basement. Heâ€™s getting threatening messages, Loretta is kidnapped, and Dom is missing.The Catastrophe:Â  MoonmanMorelli hires Walter â€œMoonerâ€ Dunphy, stoner and â€œinventorâ€ turned crime fighter, to protect his house. Morelli canâ€™t afford a lot on a copâ€™s salary, and Mooner will work for potatoes.The Cupcake:Â  Stephanie PlumStephanie and Morelli have a long-standing relationship that involves sex, affection, and driving each other nuts. Sheâ€™s a bond enforcement agent with more luck than talent, and sheâ€™s involved in this bank-robbery-gone-bad disaster from day one. The Crisis:Â  A favor for RangerSecurity expert Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, has a job for Stephanie that will involve night work. Morelli has his own ideas regarding Stephanieâ€™s evening activities.The Conclusion:Â  Only the fearless should read Fourteen.Thrills, chills, and incontinence may result.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3458'),
(6109, 'Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown', 'Eric Blehm', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of its most legendary operators.Â When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didnâ€™t know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistanâ€”but he was ready: In a letter to his children, not meant to be seen unless the worst happened, he wrote, â€œIâ€™m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.â€Â Long before Adam Brown became a member of the elite SEAL Team SIXâ€”the counterterrorism unit that took down Osama bin Ladenâ€”he was a fun-loving country boy from Hot Springs, Arkansas, whose greatest goal had been to wear his high schoolâ€™s football jersey. An undersized daredevil, prone to jumping off roofs into trees and off bridges into lakes, Adam was a kid who broke his own bones but would never break apromise to his parents.Â But after high school, Adam fell in with the wrong crowd, and his family watched as his appetite for risk dragged him into a downward spiral that eventually landed him in jail. Battling his inner demons on a last-chance road to redemption, Adam had one goal: to become the best of the bestâ€”a U.S. Navy SEAL.Â An absorbing chronicle of heroism and humanity, Fearless presents an indelible portrait of a highly trained warrior who would enter a village with weapons in hand to hunt terrorists, only to come back the next day with an armload of shoes and meals for local children. It is a deeply personal, revealing glimpse inside the SEAL Team SIX brotherhood that also shows how these elite operators live out the rest of their lives, away from danger, as husbands, fathers, and friends.Â Fearless is the story of a man of extremes, whose courage and determination was fueled by faith, family, and the love of a woman. Itâ€™s about a man who waged a war against his own worst impulses and persevered to reach the top tier of the U.S. military. Always the first to volunteer for the most dangerous assignments, Adamâ€™s final act of bravery led to the ultimate sacrifice.Â Adam Brown was a devoted man who was an unlikely hero but a true warrior, described by all who knew him as fearless.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3809'),
(6110, 'Feast Day of Fools', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town with a deep and abiding respect for the citizens in his care. Still mourning the loss of his cherished wife and locked in a perilous almost-romance with his deputy, Pam Tibbs, a woman many decades his junior, Hackberry feeds off the deeds of evil men to keep his own demons at bay. When alcoholic ex-boxer Danny Boy Lorca witnesses a man tortured to death in the desert and reports it, Hack''s investigation leads to the home of Anton Ling, a regal, mysterious Chinese woman whom the locals refer to as La Magdalena and who is known for sheltering illegals. Ling denies having seen the victim or the perpetrators, but there is something in her steely demeanor and aristocratic beauty that compels Hackberry to return to her home again and again as the investigation unfolds. Could it be that the sheriff is so taken in by this creature who reminds him of his deceased wife that he would ignore the possibility that she is just as dangerous as the men she harbors? The danger in the desert increases tenfold with the return of serial murderer Preacher Jack Collins, whom "The New York Times "called "one of Burke''s most inspired villains." Presumed dead at the close of "Rain Gods," Preacher Jack has reemerged with a calm, single-minded zeal for killing that is more terrifying than the muzzle flash of his signature machine gun. But this time he and Sheriff Holland have a common enemy. Praised by Joyce Carol Oates for "the luminosity of his writerly voice," James Lee Burke returns with his most allegorical novel to date, illuminating vital issues of our time--immigration, energy, religious freedom--with the rich atmosphere and devastatingly flawed, authentic characters that readers have come to celebrate during the five decades of his brilliant career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3344'),
(6111, 'Feast of Fools', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the town of Morganville, vampires and humans live in relative peace. Claire Danvers has never been convinced, though-especially with the arrival of Mr. Bishop, an ancient, old-school vampire who cares nothing about harmony. What he wants from the town''s living and its dead is unthinkably sinister. It''s only at a formal ball, attended by vampires and their human dates, that Claire realizes the elaborately evil trap he''s set for Morganville.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3164');
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(6112, 'Federalist', 'Alexander Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Federalist\n  </em>\n  , by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, is part of the\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Biographies of the authors\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Footnotes and endnotes\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Comments by other famous authors\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Bibliographies for further reading\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.\n  <em>\n   Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n  </em>\n  pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A classic of American political thought,\n  <em>\n   The Federalist\n  </em>\n  is a series of eighty-five essays by three authorsâ€”Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jayâ€”the purpose of which was to gain support for the proposed new Constitution of the United States, a document that many considered too radical. Most of the â€œpapersâ€ were published in periodicals as the vote on approving it drew near. Without the support of these powerfully persuasive essays, the Constitution most likely would not have been ratified and America might not have survived as a nation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beginning with an assault upon the countryâ€™s first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, the authors of\n  <em>\n   The Federalist\n  </em>\n  present a masterly defense of the new system. Hamilton, Madison, and Jayâ€”three of our most influential foundersâ€”comment brilliantly on issue after issue, whether it be the proper size and scope of government, taxation, or impeachment. Today lawmakers and politicians frequently invoke these commentaries, more than 200 years after they first appeared.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written in haste and during a time of great crisis in the new American government, the articles were not expected to achieve immortality. Today, however, many historians consider\n  <em>\n   The Federalist\n  </em>\n  as the third most important political document in American history, just behind the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution itself. They have become the benchmark of American political philosophy, and the best explanation of what the Founding Fathers were trying to achieve.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Robert A. Ferguson is George Edward Woodberry Professor in Law, Literature, and Criticism at Columbia University; he teaches in both the Law School and the English Department. His books include\n  <em>\n   Law and Letters in American Culture\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The American Enlightenment, 1750â€“1820\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Reading the Early Republic\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2455'),
(6113, 'Feels Like Family', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Life can be full of surprisesâ€¦Helen Decatur spent a lifetime setting goalsâ€”getting through college and law school, opening her own practice, becoming financially secure and establishing herself as one of the most highly respected matrimonial attorneys in the state of South Carolina. Achieving those goals was a breeze compared to the one she''s faced with now.The most drivenâ€”and cynicalâ€”of the Sweet Magnolias, Helen is forty-two, single and suddenly ready for the family she''s put on the back burner for all these years. Unfortunately, having a child at her age comes with lots of complications, not the least of which is the absence of a serious relationship in her life.But Helen''s not the type of woman to wait around for fate to step in. Taking charge of her own destiny puts her at odds with her two best friends, sets sparks flying with a man who doesn''t want a family, and leads her straight into the most unexpected complication of allâ€¦love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3865'),
(6114, 'Fever Dream', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Preston and Child up the emotional ante considerably in their 10th thriller featuring brilliant and eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast (after\n  <em>\n   Cemetery Dance\n  </em>\n  ), one of the best in the series. For 12 years, Pendergast has believed that the death of his wife, Helen, in the jaws of a ferocious red-maned lion in Zambia was just a tragedy, but his chance examination of the gun she carried on the fateful day reveals that someone loaded it with blanks. Pendergast drags his longtime NYPD ally, Lt. Vincent D''Agosta, into a leave of absence that includes travel to Africa as well as the American South. The motive for Helen''s murder appears to be linked to her fascination with John James Audubon and her quest for a mysterious lost Audubon painting. Once again, the bestselling authors show they have few peers at creating taut scenes of suspense. Their restraint in the book''s early sections make the payoffs all the more compelling.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "RenÃ© Auberjonois...lends the proper air of gravitas to his performance. With the underlying story featuring zombies and the undead, it takes the sober Auberjonois to help maintain the credibility of the plot. His sincere delivery is perfect for a strange story that is more than a little creepy." (\n  <strong>\n   AudioFile Magazine on CEMETERY DANCE\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] suspenseful tale of urban terror...this taut page-turner can only add to the authors'' growing fan base." (\n  <strong>\n   Publishers Weekly on CEMETERY DANCE\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Narrator As Pendergast discovers that his beloved wife kept a myriad of secrets, Auberjonois''s characterization dramatizes the special agent''s confusion over his wife''s loyalty." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    AudioFile\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/616'),
(6115, 'Fever Pitch', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain he is revered for his status as a fanatical football writer (sorry, fanatical soccer writer), owing to\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n --which is both an autobiography and a footballing Bible rolled into one. Hornby pinpoints 1968 as his formative year--the year he turned 11, the year his parents separated, and the year his father first took him to watch Arsenal play. The author quickly moved "way beyond fandom" into an extreme obsession that has dominated his life, loves, and relationships. His father had initially hoped that Saturday afternoon matches would draw the two closer together, but instead Hornby became completely besotted with the game at the expense of any conversation: "Football may have provided us with a new medium through which we could communicate, but that was not to say that we used it, or what we chose to say was necessarily positive." Girlfriends also played second fiddle to one ball and 11 men. He fantasizes that even if a girlfriend "went into labor at an impossible moment" he would not be able to help out until after the final whistle.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n is not a typical memoir--there are no chapters, just a series of match reports falling into three time frames (childhood, young adulthood, manhood). While watching the May 2, 1972, Reading v. Arsenal match, it became embarrassingly obvious to the then 15-year-old that his white, suburban, middle-class roots made him a wimp with no sense of identity: "Yorkshire men, Lancastrians, Scots, the Irish, blacks, the rich, the poor, even Americans and Australians have something they can sit in pubs and bars and weep about." But a boy from Maidenhead could only dream of coming from a place with "its own tube station and West Indian community and terrible, insoluble social problems."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n reveals the very special intricacies of British football, which readers new to the game will find astonishing, and which Hornby presents with remarkable humor and honesty--the "unique" chants sung at matches, the cold rain-soaked terraces, giant cans of warm beer, the trains known as football specials carrying fans to and from matches in prisonlike conditions, bottles smashing on the tracks, thousands of policemen waiting in anticipation for the cargo of hooligans. The sport and one team in particular have crept into every aspect of Hornby''s life--making him see the world through Arsenal-tinted spectacles.\n <em>\n  --Naomi Gesinger\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brought to print to take advantage of America''s presumed fascination with the ''94 World Cup (the first ever held here), Fever Pitch is a 24-year obsessional diary of English club football (soccer, to us Americans) games Hornby has witnessed and the way these games have become inextricable from his personal life. Hornby is the kind of fanatic who merely shrugs about the "tyranny" the sport exerts over his life--the mumbled excuses he must give at every missed christening or birthday party as a result of a schedule conflict. "Sometimes hurting someone," he writes, "is unavoidable." These occasions tend to bring out "disappointment and tired impatience" in his friends and family, but it is when he is exposed as a "worthless, shallow worm" that the similarly stricken reader can relate to the high costs of caring deeply about a game that means nothing to one''s more well-adjusted friends. These moments are fleeting, however. The book has not been tailored for American audiences, so readers lacking a knowledge of English club football''s rules, traditions, history and players will be left completely in the dark by Hornby''s obscure references. Unfortunately, he has neither Roger Angell''s ability to take us inside the game nor the pathos of Frederick Exley''s brilliantly disturbed autobiographical trilogy. Though Hornby does show flashes of real humor, Fever Pitch features mainly pedestrian insights on life and sport, and then it''s on to the next game--the equivalent, for an American reader, of a nil-nil tie. Author appearances.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2103'),
(6116, 'A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon', 'Neil Sheehan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prizeâ€”winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed historyâ€“and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schrieverâ€™s quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger.Sheehan melds biography and history, politics and science, to create a sweeping narrative that transports the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. The narrative takes us from Schrieverâ€™s boyhood in Texas as a six-year-old immigrant from Germany in 1917 through his apprenticeship in the open-cockpit biplanes of the Army Air Corps in the 1930s and his participation in battles against the Japanese in the South Pacific during the Second World War. On his return, he finds a new postwar bipolar universe dominated by the antagonism between the United States and the Soviet Union.Inspired by his technological vision, Schriever sets out in 1954 to create the one class of weapons that can enforce peace with the Russiansâ€“intercontinental ballistic missiles that are unstoppable and can destroy the Soviet Union in thirty minutes. In the course of his crusade, he encounters allies and enemies among some of the most intriguing figures of the century: John von Neumann, the Hungarian-born mathematician and mathematical physicist, who was second in genius only to Einstein; Colonel Edward Hall, who created the ultimate ICBM in the Minuteman missile, and his brother, Theodore Hall, who spied for the Russians at Los Alamos and hastened their acquisition of the atomic bomb; Curtis LeMay, the bomber general who tried to exile Schriever and who lost his grip on reality, amassing enough nuclear weapons in his Strategic Air Command to destroy the entire Northern Hemisphere; and Hitlerâ€™s former rocket maker, Wernher von Braun, who along with a colorful, riding-crop-wielding Army general named John Medaris tried to steal the ICBM program.The most powerful men on earth are also put into astonishing relief: Joseph Stalin, the cruel, paranoid Soviet dictator who spurred his own scientists to build him the atomic bomb with threats of death; Dwight Eisenhower, who backed the ICBM program just in time to save it from the bureaucrats; Nikita Khrushchev, who brought the world to the edge of nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and John Kennedy, who saved it.Schriever and his comrades endured the heartbreak of watching missiles explode on the launching pads at Cape Canaveral and savored the triumph of seeing them soar into space. In the end, they accomplished more than achieving a fiery peace in a cold war. Their missiles became the vehicles that opened space for America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2191'),
(6117, 'Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany&#39;s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman', 'Sam Wasson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audreyâ€”dainty, immaculateâ€”is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complete account of the making of *Breakfast at Tiffany''s*, *Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.* reveals little-known facts about the cinema classic: Truman Capote desperately wanted Marilyn Monroe for the leading role; director Blake Edwards filmed multiple endings; Hepburn herself felt very conflicted about balancing the roles of mother and movie star. With a colorful cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head, Givenchy, "Moon River" composer Henry Mancini, and, of course, Hepburn herself, Wasson immerses us in the America of the late fifties before Woodstock and birth control, when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the country, changing fashion, film, and sex for good. Indeed, cultural touchstones like *Sex and the City* owe a debt of gratitude to *Breakfast at Tiffany''s*.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this meticulously researched gem of a book, Wasson delivers us from the penthouses of the Upper East Side to the pools of Beverly Hills, presenting *Breakfast at Tiffany''s* as we have never seen it beforeâ€”through the eyes of those who made it. Written with delicious prose and considerable wit, *Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.* shines new light on a beloved film and its incomparable star.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2105'),
(6118, 'The Fifth Mountain', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  The Fifth Mountain\n </em>\n , Paulo Coelho turns his talent for spiritual fiction to the story of the Biblical prophet Elijah. Like a blossoming flower, Coelho opens up the brief account of Elijah''s flight from Gilead and his time in Zarephath. He deepens the prophet''s character by revealing the thoughts, doubts, and discoveries that Elijah must have experienced as he struggled to find his course in life amidst the confusion of war and political turmoil. When being a prophet of the God of the Israelites is like a warrant for your death, concerns about your chosen path are sure to arise. Perhaps it is this believability in Coelho''s retelling that makes it so evocative, or it may be the bit of Old Testament wisdom he brings to popular literature of the 20th century: "the words of the lord are written in the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fascinating retelling of the biblical story of the prophet Elijah by Brazilian novelist Coelho is smoothly translated to read like a modern novel. The fleshed-out tale follows Elijah as he flees his homeland of Israel, where Jezebel, Phoenician wife of the king, had ordered the murder of all who reject the pagan god Baal, to Zarephath (Akbar). Elijah''s spiritual crises continue after he is taken in by a widow and her son, following his direction from an angel, and ultimately falls in love with the widow. The movement of the novel comes from Elijah''s introspective struggle with faith as he confronts his troubles, but the result is neither dull nor preachy and should find a niche among readers of popular fiction.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1265'),
(6119, 'The Fifth Witness', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n  <div class="emptyClear">\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  From\n  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000027801">\n   Booklist\n  </a>\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  <p>\n   *Starred Review* Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/643'),
(6120, 'Fifty Shades Darker', 'E L James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Daunted by the singular sexual tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, AnastasiaÂ  cannot resist. They rekindle theirÂ  searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven, and demanding Fifty Shades. While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront her anger and envy of the women who came before her and make the most important decision of her life.Erotic, sparkling andÂ  suspenseful, Fifty Shades Darker is the irresistibly addictive second part of the Fifty Shades trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3736'),
(6121, 'Fifty Shades Freed', 'E L James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and ultimately repelled by Christian''s singular erotic tastes, Ana demanded a deeper commitment. Determined to keep her, Christian agreed. Now, Ana and Christian have it all--love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world of possibilities for their future. But Ana knows that loving her Fifty Shades will not be easy, and that being together will pose challenges that neither of them would anticipate. Ana must somehow learn to share Christian''s opulent lifestyle without sacrificing her own integrity, identity, or independence. And Christian must overcome his compulsion to control as he wrestles with the demons of a tormented past. Just when it seems that their strength together will eclipse any obstacle, misfortune, malice, and fate conspire to make Ana''s deepest fears turn to reality. Alone and desperate, Ana ultimately finds herself face to face with the darkest secrets of Christian''s past, and finally confronts the poisoned legacy of the man she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3735'),
(6122, 'Fifty Shades of Grey', 'E L James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind - until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time. Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3175'),
(6123, 'Fight Club', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Featuring soap made from human fat, waiters at high-class restaurants who do unmentionable things to soup and an underground organization dedicated to inflicting a violent anarchy upon the land, Palahniuk''s apocalyptic first novel is clearly not for the faint of heart. The unnamed (and extremely unreliable) narrator, who makes his living investigating accidents for a car company in order to assess their liability, is combating insomnia and a general sense of anomie by attending a steady series of support-group meetings for the grievously ill, at one of which (testicular cancer) he meets a young woman named Marla. She and the narrator get into a love triangle of sorts with Tyler Durden, a mysterious and gleefully destructive young man with whom the narrator starts a fight club, a secret society that offers young professionals the chance to beat one another to a bloody pulp. Mayhem ensues, beginning with the narrator''s condo exploding and culminating with a terrorist attack on the world''s tallest building. Writing in an ironic deadpan and including something to offend everyone, Palahniuk is a risky writer who takes chances galore, especially with a particularly bizarre plot twist he throws in late in the book. Caustic, outrageous, bleakly funny, violent and always unsettling, Palahniuk''s utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice. Movie rights to Fox 2000.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the world of Fight Club, healthy young people go to meetings of cancer support groups because only there can they find human warmth and compassion. It''s a world where young men gather in the basements of bars to fight strangers "just as long as they have to." And it''s a world where "nobody cared if he lived or died, and the feeling was fucking mutual." Messianic nihilist Tyler Durden is the inventor of Fight Club. Soon thousands of young men across the country are reporting to their work cubes with flattened noses, blackened eyes, and shattered teeth, looking forward to their next bare-knuckle maiming. The oracular, increasingly mysterious Durden then begins to harness the despair, alienation, and violence he sees so clearly into complete anarchy. Every generation frightens and unnerves its parents, and Palahniuk''s first novel is gen X''s most articulate assault yet on baby-boomer sensibilities. This is a dark and disturbing book that dials directly into youthful angst and will likely horrify the parents of teens and twentysomethings. It''s also a powerful, and possibly brilliant, first novel.\n  <em>\n   Thomas Gaughan\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1052'),
(6124, 'Final Detail', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the award-winning author of One False Move comes Harlan Coben''s most mesmerizing and emotionally charged novel to date.Myron Bolitar, sports agent and reluctant sleuth, is happily basking in the sun of the Caribbean, clearing his head with a woman he hardly knows, when Win, his loyal but morally questionable sidekick, arrives to tell him that Esperanza, Myron''s partner at MB SportsReps and best friend, has been arrested for the murder of Clu Haid, a fallen baseball star and Bolitar client.Myron returns to the city immediately to prove Esperanza''s innocence. But she isn''t speaking. And neither is her lawyer, except to say that Myron and Win should keep their distance lest they hurt her case. But he is determined to help her, even against her own wishes--because, for Myron, this one is personal.As he plunges into his most difficult and bizarre case yet, Myron finds himself scouring the strangest angles: a transsexual nightclub, a Yankee owner with a long-lost daughter, a dubious drug test, an impossible murder scene, and a computer disk with the image of a disintegrating girl. And as he tries to unearth a killer amid a tangled trail of lies, Myron''s own investigation points to only one other suspect: himself . . . as this spellbinding novel twists, jolts, and careens toward its dazzling finish.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/475'),
(6125, 'Final Justice', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Sisterhood - Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle - have risked everything in the name of justice, including their own freedom. Their most recent mission promised to reward them with the ultimate prize - a presidential pardon and a chance to leave their enforced exile. But as they''ve learned too many times before, life doesn''t always turn out as planned. Business titan Ruben Rumson has turned his attention to politics. By throwing the weight of his vast media empire behind on of the presidential candidates, Ruben hopes to gain influence over the highest office in the land.But his chosen candidate is Martine Connor''s opponent, and if her bid for the White House fails, the Sisterhood can kiss their promised pardon goodbye. The only solution: travel to Washington and go tow-to-toe with the world''s most powerful and ruthless media mogul. Armed with Annie''s sizeable chequebook, Alexis'' red bag of tricks, and Maggie''s top secret folder of dynamite information, the Ladies of Pinewood have a daring plan to pull off their most important job yet - and this time, failure is not an option.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3751'),
(6126, 'The Final Storm', 'Jeff Shaara', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Final Storm opens a new front in Jeff Shaaraâ€™s gripping chronicle of World War II as soldiers, sailors, and marines sacrifice all for one final push toward decisive victory in the fierce maelstrom of the Pacific theater. As the war in Europe winds down in the wake of the Normandy invasion, the United States has turned its vast military resources toward an all-out effort against the Japanese. In the spring of 1945, Japanâ€™s empire has been pressed slowly back toward its home islands, and the Americans mount a furious assault on the last great stepping-stone to Japan itselfâ€”the heavily fortified island of Okinawa. The three-month battle will feature some of the most vicious combat of the entire war, as American troops confront an enemy that would rather be slaughtered than experience the shame of surrender.  With a narrative dexterity befitting his status as a master storyteller, Shaara relates the story of the struggle for Okinawa through the eyes of combatants on both sides: Private Clay Adams, a young marine whose brother Jesse has already earned his share of glory as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne in Europe; Admiral Chester Nimitz, who must unite rival army and marine commanders into a cooperative effort; General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., the American ground commander trying to live up to the legacy of his father, who led Confederate troops during the Civil War; and General Mitsura Ushijima, the Japanese general in charge of defending the island, who understands what Tokyo will not believe: that his own fight to the death will only delay the inevitableâ€”as the Americans continue their advance toward the home islands and ultimate victory. With the fights raging across the Pacific, a different kind of campaign is being waged in extraordinary secrecy: the development of a weapon so powerful, not even the scientists who build it know just what they are about to unleash. Colonel Paul Tibbets, one of the finest bomber pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps, is selected to lead the mission to drop the horrific new weapon on a Japanese city. As the new president, Harry S Truman, mulls his options, and a Japanese physician named Okiro Hamishita cares for patients at a clinic near the city of Hiroshima, citizens on the home front await the day of reckoning that everyone knows is coming. A fitting conclusion to one of the most riveting sagas in military fiction, The Final Storm illuminates the heroism and sacrifice that defined the war in the Pacific, bringing the conflict to life as only Jeff Shaara can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3248'),
(6127, 'Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season', 'Peter Nichols', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the summer of 1871, thirty-two whaling ships, carrying 12-year-old William Fish Williams, son of a whaling captain, and 1,218 other men, women, and children, were destroyed in an Arctic ice storm. In a rescue operation of unparalleled daring and heroism, not a single life was lost, but the impact on America''s first oil industry was fateful and catastrophic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The harvesting of whale oil, which grew from occasional beachcombing into a multi-million dollar industry, made New Bedford, Massachusetts, the wealthiest town in the world. Quaker brothers George and Matthew Howland, the town''s leading whaling merchants, believed they were toiling in a pact with God. As whale oil lubricated the industrial revolution and turned New Bedford into the Saudi Arabia of its day, this belief only grew stronger. But as their whaleships pushed ever farther into uncharted seas in putsuit of a fast-diminishing resource, this oil business was overtaken by new paradigms. When the search for cheaper energy sources produced a new and apparently inexhaustible resource--petroleum oil--the Howlands and many others did not see the change coming, or the devastating effect it would have on an industry that has flourished for two centuries. Almost overnight, it seemed, the world changed. Business and financial institutions collapsed. The Howland brothers saw their fortune vanish and ended their lives as paupers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Willie Fish Williams, and the whalers and their families in the Arctic who watched as their floating community was crushed by the ice closing around them, that change came more swiftly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing on previously unpublished material,\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  splices together two compelling narratives: the Howland brothers'' unprecedented rise and sudden fall with the fortunes of America''s first oil industry--which eerily prefigures today''s modern economic collapse-- and a 12-year-old boy''s vivid observation of a maritime disaster set against the world''s harshest seascape.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Peter Nichols on the Collapse of the World''s First Oil Industry\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As I was completing\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  in the fall of 2008, the domino effect of the world''s collapsing economies had begun. It was startling to read daily accounts of financial disasters, of the sudden impoverishment of wealthy institutions and financiers, while writing of the same process taking place one hundred and thirty years earlier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  is in part about the collapse of the world''s first oil industry - the whale oil business - and the fall from staggering wealth of the Howland brothers, Matthew and George Jr, of New Bedford, Massachusetts. For much of the 19th century, New Bedford was the Houston of the oil world, and the Howlands were its pre-eminent whaleship owners and oil merchants. At a time when the President of the United States'' salary was $25,000, the Howlands were netting around $200,000 annually, with no income tax to pay.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like many, then and now, they didn''t see what was coming. They wouldn''t admit or recognize the inherent instability in their market or its resources, and when the collapse came, they were unprepared.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After the fall of Lehman Brothers, in September of last year, it was impossible for me not to hear exactly the tone behind the words Matthew Howland wrote in letters to his family: "Hastings has failed." Hastings and Company was a New Bedford whale oil and candle manufacturer, one of the long-term bedrock commercial institutions of the town and its industry. The Howlands, along with many others, were deeply involved in its business and financial health, and they were devastated when Hastings went under. The failure sent shockwaves through their community, yet still the Howlands held fast and continued whaling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The business of America is business" said President Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. This was as true in the 1880s, the Howlands'' time, as it is now. To men like Matthew and George Jr, who defined themselves and their lives by business, failure, insolvency, and finally the complete ruin that overtook them in the space of a decade, was accompanied by a shame akin to moral transgression. Both died paupers, bankrupt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Matthew''s son, William Howland, made a good start as a textile manufacturer, but when his business also failed, he committed suicide. His son, Llewellyn Howland, had to leave Harvard after a single semester. A lifetime later, Llewellyn described to his grandson - Matthew''s great-great grandson, Llewellyn Howland III - how he felt on being forced to withdraw from college because there was no more money for his education: "It was a nasty April day, raining, grey, bitter. I looked out of the train window and saw the old men picking through garbage in South Boston, and the ragged children playing in the streets. God! how it frightened me. The squalor of it, the hopelessness of being poor." The sight held a spectral terror for a Howland that was passed down through generations. "Don''t ever forget," Llewellyn told his grandson, "how hard it is to rise, when you''re really, truly down."\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Chronicling the downfall of the vast whaling industry developed in New England over the 18th and 19th centuries, author Nichols (A Voyage for Madmen) presents both an illuminating portrait of Quaker life and industry, and a heart-pounding tale of danger on the open sea. Nichols has a rich understanding of the whale oil ("oyl") industry, and recreates the atmosphere of whaling voyages and villages, particularly wealthy New Bedford, Mass., in sensuous detail: "Emissions of greasy particulate settled over the town like a glaze and gave it the permanent odor of burnt flesh and fat." A collection of ships'' logbooks and letters from whaling captains give character to the phenomenal victories and challenges the seamen-and their family-faced. There is a lot to admire in the whalers; their captains "were master mariners and navigators, among the canniest and most skillful in human history," and their task enormous. Although death and loss were common in the hunt, the 1871 season recounted here marked the beginning of the end for the oyl industry, a major disaster in which an entire fleet was caught in a diabolical arctic weather system.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2458'),
(6128, 'The Final Warning', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <b>\n  "Three cheers!  Max is one of the smartest, strongest, funniest heroines around." - Diane Garrett, Diane''s Books\n </b>\n <br />\n <br />\n In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her-and maybe save the planet while she''s at it.\n <br />\n <br />\n Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to\n <i>\n  fly\n </i>\n , the result of an out-of-control government experiment.  Max and the other members of the Flock-six kids who share her remarkable ability-have been asked to aid a group of environmental scientists studying the causes of global warming.  The expedition seems like a perfect combination of adventure, activism-and escaping government forces who watch the Flock like a hawk.\n <br />\n <br />\n But even in\n <place w:st="on">\n  Antarctica\n </place>\n , trapped in the harshest weather on our planet, Maximum Ride is an irresistible target in constant danger.  For whoever controls her powers cou...\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/304'),
(6129, 'Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer', 'David Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Finding Everett Ruess\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer,\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted cult following. More than 75 years after his vanishing, Ruess stirs the kinds of passion and speculation accorded such legendary doomed American adventurers as\n  <em>\n   Into the Wildâ€™s\n  </em>\n  Chris McCandless and Amelia Earhart.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€œI have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the street car and the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.â€Â \n  </em>\n  So Everett Ruess wrote in his last letter to his brother. And earlier, in a valedictory poem,\n  <em>\n   â€Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary; That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases; Lonely and wet and cold . . . but that I kept my dream!"Â \n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Wandering alone with burros and pack horses through California and the Southwest for five years in the early 1930s, on voyages lasting as long as ten months, Ruess also became friends with photographers Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange, swapped prints with Ansel Adams, took part in a Hopi ceremony, learned to speak Navajo, and was among the first "outsiders" to venture deeply into what was then (and to some extent still is) largely a little-known wilderness.Â Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  When he vanished without a trace in November 1934, Ruess left behind thousands of pages of journals, letters, and poems, as well as more than a hundred watercolor paintings and blockprint engravings. A Ruess mystique, initiated by his parents but soon enlarged by readers and critics who, struck by his remarkable connection to the wild, likened him to a fledgling John Muir. Today, the Ruess cult has more adherentsâ€”and more passionate onesâ€”than at any time in the seven-plus decades since his disappearance. By now, Everett Ruess is hailed as a paragon of solo exploration, while the mystery of his death remains one of the greatest riddles in the annals of American adventure. David Roberts began probing the life and death of Everett Ruess for\n  <em>\n   National Geographic Adventure\n  </em>\n  magazine in 1998.Â \n  <em>\n   Finding Everett Ruess\n  </em>\n  is the result of his personal journeys into the remote areas explored by Ruess, his interviews with oldtimers who encountered the young vagabond and with Ruessâ€™s closest living relatives, and his deep immersion in Ruessâ€™s writings and artwork.Â  It is an epic narrative of a driven and acutely perceptive young adventurerâ€™s expeditions into the wildernesses of landscape and self-discovery, as well as an absorbing investigation of the continuing mystery of his disappearance.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  In this definitive account of Ruess''s extraordinary life and the enigma of his vanishing, David Roberts eloquently captures Ruess''s tragic genius and ongoing fascination.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2107'),
(6130, 'Finding Sky', 'Joss Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n You have half our gifts, I have the other . . .When English girl Sky catches a glimpse of bad boy Zed in her new American high school, she can''t get him out of her head. He talks to her with his thoughts. He reads her mind. He is the boy she will love for ever. Shadows stalk her past but a new evil threatens her future. She must face the dark even if it means losing her heart. Will Sky have the strength to embrace her power and be brave enough to control her own destiny, or will the demons of her past prevent her from realizing her true potential?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/704'),
(6131, 'Finger Lickin&#39; Fifteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Unbuckle you belt and pull up a chair. It''s the spiciest, sauciest, most rib-sticking Plum yet..."RECIPE FOR DISASTERCelebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton to participate in a barbecue cook-off and loses his head--literally.THROW IN SOME SPICEBail bonds office worker Lula is witness to the crime, and the only one she''ll talk to is Trenton cop Joe Morelli.PUMP UP THE HEATThe reward for capturing Chipotle''s killers: One million dollars. STIR THE POTLula recruits bounty hunter Stephanie Plum to help her find the killers and collect the moolah.ADD A SECRET INGREDIENTStephanie''s Grandma Mazure. Enough said.BRING TO A BOILStephanie''s working overtime tracking felons for the bonds office at night and snooping for security expert Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, during the day. Can she hunt down two killers, a traitor, and five skips, keep her grandmother out of the sauce, and solve Ranger''s problems and not jump his bones?WARNINGHabanero hot. So good you''ll want seconds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3459'),
(6132, 'Fire and Ice', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont is working a series of murders in which six young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. A breakthrough in his case leads him directly to the Southwest and into Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady''s jurisdiction, where she is investigating a homicide. As the threads of their two seemingly separate cases wind together, Beaumont and Brady must put aside echoes of their shared past as they are once again drawn into an orbit of deception. Except this time it''s not just their own lives that are in danger but those of the people closest to them as well.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3544'),
(6133, 'Fire Ice', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA''s (National Underwater and Marine Agency''s) Assignments Team and the protagonist-hero of Serpent (1999) and Blue Gold (2000), returns to take on a mining tycoon who has proclaimed himself the czar of Russia. The U.S. opposes this move, fearing that, with the country''s economy at an all-time low and the power of organized crime at an all-time high, Russia''s legally elected president will be ousted from office.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1226'),
(6134, 'Fired Up', 'Jayne Ann Krentz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New York Times-bestselling author presents her latest Arcane Society novel and introduces the first book in the Dreamlight Trilogy-the story of a curse that spans generations, and the love that can heal it. . . . More than three centuries ago, Nicholas Winters irrevocably altered his genetic makeup in an obsessionfueled competition with alchemist and Arcane Society founder Sylvester Jones. Driven to control their psychic abilities, each man''s decision has reverberated throughout the family line, rewarding some with powers beyond their wildest dreams, and cursing others to a life filled with madness and hallucinations. Jack Winters, descendant of Nicholas, has been experiencing nightmares and blackouts-just the beginning, he believes-of the manifestation of the Winters family curse. The legend says that he must find the Burning Lamp or risk turning into a monster. But he can''t do it alone; he needs the help of a woman with the gift to read the lamp''s dreamlight. Jack is convinced that private investigator Chloe Harper is that woman. Her talents for finding objects and accessing dream energy are what will save him, but their sudden and powerful sexual pull threatens to overwhelm them both. Danger surrounds them, and it doesn''t take long for Chloe to pick up the trail of the missing lamp. And as they draw closer to the lamp, the raw power that dwells within it threatens to sweep them into a hurricane of psychic force.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3693');
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(6135, 'Firefly Lane', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Conversation with Kristin Hannah\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Why did you choose Seattle as the backdrop for\n <em>\n  Firefly Lane\n </em>\n ? Is there something unique about growing up in the Northwest that helped you to define the kind of women Kate and Tully become?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin Hannah:\n </strong>\n Quite simply, I chose Seattle as the backdrop for\n <em>\n  Firefly Lane\n </em>\n because it''s so much a part of who I am. I''ve lived in the Northwest for most of my life, and obviously, in all those years, I''ve seen this part of the country evolve from an undiscovered gem into the Emerald City. So many of the places from my youth are gone, or changed, or moved, and I guess I wanted to remember the physical reminders of those bygone days. And while Kate and Tully are absolutely Northwest girls, I like to think their story will speak to women who grew up in vastly different, more populated areas. After all, it''s ultimately about friendship, and those seeds can be planted anywhere.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n While you were writing, at any point did you find yourself feeling more sympathetic to Kate or to Tully? How did you keep the weight of the plot balanced between them as their stories evolved?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  KH:\n </strong>\n There''s no way to avoid the truth that Kate is more than a little like me. Thus, I identified with her from the very beginning--she was the small town girl who had to get up in the pre-dawn hours to feed her horses, and read\n <em>\n  The Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n during every family vacation, and felt lost in the first few months at the sprawling University of Washington. All of that was me, so naturally, the problem was not in feeling sympathetic toward Katie; it was much more about holding her at arm''s length, seeing her not as an extension of myself, but as a completely fictional woman. Tully was a different story entirely. While many readers might be surprised by this, I really fell in love with Tully. In the final analysis, she''s one of my favorite characters of all time. I know she''s bold and selfish and myopic and ambitious to a fault, but she''s also terribly broken, wounded by her parents, unable to believe in love, and ultimately very real. I think all of us know a "Tully" in our lives, and they bring a lot of drama...and a lot of fire and sparkle.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n You have a beautiful way of showing both the tension and tenderness between mothers and daughters. Was it a challenge to write Tully''s painful history with her own mother, and later, the conflict that builds between Kate and her own daughter?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  KH:\n </strong>\n Honestly, I believe that the mother-daughter relationship is magical, complex, potentially dangerous, profoundly powerful, and deeply transformative. To put it simply, all of us have this relationship, and in a very real way, "none of us comes out alive." We are all formed first as daughters and then tested as mothers. There''s nothing like motherhood to make us reassess how we were as daughters. One of my favorite parts of\n <em>\n  Firefly Lane\n </em>\n was the circle of Kateâ€™s relationship with her mom. First we see her as an angry teen, slamming the door on her mother...and then later her own daughter does the same thing to her. There''s a real symmetry in that, a truth that many of us have learned. I have often wished in the past few years that my mom were here to help me as I raised my own teenage son. As a girl, with my own mom, I thought I knew it all; now I know better. Somewhere, I know my mom is smiling.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Throughout the novel, both Kate and Tully question the reliability of love. Is it that question that creates the rift between them and, ultimately, reunites them in friendship?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  KH:\n </strong>\n You''re right, they each do continually question the reliability of love. For Kate, it''s a self-esteem issue. She absolutely believes in love--she''s grown up surrounded by it--but she constantly questions Johnny''s commitment to her. I always felt that was largely because she felt like a moon to Tully''s bright and shining sun. For Tully, she honestly doesnâ€™t believe that true romantic love exists, and for all of her overblown ambition and belief in herself, she has been wounded by her mother''s repeated abandonment. The result is that she feels she''s unlovable.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Kate and Tully are each big personalities in their own way. Was it hard to create male characters who really understand them?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  KH:\n </strong>\n The challenge with regard to male characters was not so much creating men who understood Kate and Tully, it was rather to create love stories that equaled the power and emotional intensity of the friendship. After all, the men in the story were important--Johnny particularly--but it was really a story about the women.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n When Wally Lamb''s\n <em>\n  She''s Come Undone\n </em>\n first came out, many readers were shocked that a man could write such an intimate portrait of a woman. Do you think women are in fact the best writers of women''s fiction? Would you ever consider writing a novel where men take center stage?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  KH:\n </strong>\n One of the great things about being a writer is that we get the chance to inhabit the minds and souls of a variety of individuals. I really don''t think male/female is the central question in terms of the viability of a voice and/or vision. We writers can "become" murderers, animals, psychopaths, vampires, lawyers, doctors, wizards, children. In short, our storytelling skills and character-building abilities are limited only by our own imaginations. Until recently, most of my novels--while female-centric in vision--were equally narrated by male characters, and one--\n <em>\n  Angel Falls\n </em>\n â€”was primarily narrated by men. I didn''t see the writing of that any different than anything else.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Do you see yourself as a writer of romance or women''s fiction? What do you see as the differences in these two genres--is one an evolution of the other, or is the label unimportant?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  KH:\n </strong>\n I began as a romance author and moved into women''s fiction about ten years ago. While many definitions abound, mine is this: romance is a subsection of the broad, all-inclusive women''s commercial fiction market. Women''s fiction in general is not an evolution of romance; much of women''s fiction is completely unrelated to any romantic elements. However, it is true that many current commercial women''s fiction authors began in romance.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Many women read fictional romance to escape the stress of everyday life and find inspiration in a happy ending. Is there a primary experience that you hope your readers will have after reading\n <em>\n  Firefly Lane\n </em>\n ?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  KH:\n </strong>\n I am a sucker for a happy ending myself. In fact, my husband and I often go round and round about movies in which I hate the ending and he loves it. He always says I''m only comfortable with happy ever after, but that''s not true. What I want is an emotionally satisfying, organic ending. I want to be totally engaged until the last page, and I want to believe every moment up until I close the book. Sometimes I want to laugh, sometimes I want to cry, and sometimes I want to scream that it canâ€™t really be over. (\n <em>\n  Harry Potter\n </em>\n comes to mind on this one). The point is, I want to be moved deeply. That''s what I look for in other books and what I hope to deliver in my own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just FYI, here are some of my favorite endings:\n <em>\n  Gone With the Wind\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Middlemarch\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Prince of Tides\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  An Inconvenient Wife\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Harry Potter\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  To Kill a Mockingbird\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  It\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Shadow of the Wind\n </em>\n . Some are happy, some are sad, some are bittersweet. All are memorable.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n If you could meet any writer, living or dead, who would it be, and what would you ask them?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  KH:\n </strong>\n There are, of course, dozens of choices here, and I could certainly go through the classics and come up with many names and questions, but the truth is that I would love to sit down with Stephen King and listen to some rock and roll, and ask him how in the world he has stayed so good for so long.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hannah (On Mystic Lake) goes a little too far into Lifetime movie territory in her latest, an epic exploration of the complicated terrain between best friendsâ€”one who chooses marriage and motherhood while the other opts for career and celebrity. The adventures of poor, ambitious Tully Hart and middle-class romantic Kate Mularkey begin in the 1970s, but don''t really get moving until about halfway into the book, when Tully, who claws her way to the heights of broadcast journalism, discovers it''s lonely at the top, and Katie, a stay-at-home Seattle housewife, forgets what it''s like to be a rebellious teen. What holds the overlong narrative together is the appealing nature of Tully and Katie''s devotion to one another even as they are repeatedly tested by jealousy and ambition. Katie''s husband, Johnny, is smitten with Tully, and Tully, who is abandoned by her own booze-and-drug-addled mother, relishes the adoration from Katie''s daughter, Marah. Hannah takes the easy way out with an over-the-top tear-jerker ending, though her upbeat message of the power of friendship and family will, for some readers, trump even the most contrived plot twists.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/993'),
(6136, 'Firestarter', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n FIRESTARTER is the mesmerising and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift. The power of pyrokinesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/788'),
(6137, 'Firewall', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his third outing (following\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  ), Nick Stone, Andy McNab''s series SAS agent, is off the Firm''s regular payroll owing to a major screwup in his last assignment that left his best friend''s family slaughtered--except for the one child who survived. Little Kelly needs expensive treatment for the post-traumatic stress that''s turned her nearly catatonic, so Nick takes on a freelance assignment that gets him mixed up with Russian organized crime--in particular, with an enigmatic mob boss who has designs on some Finnish cybertechnology. When Nick realizes it''s not industrial espionage that he''s involved with but military secrets, he''s caught between warring factions of the Russian Mafia and the Anglo-American alliance of intelligence agencies. The Westerners will do anything to keep the Echelon program out of the hands of Valentin Lebed--the Chechnyan Mafioso who makes Nick an offer he can''t refuse--and the Maliskia, a gang of rival Russian criminals who want to derail Lebed''s plans and take over Echelon themselves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The action ranges from Helsinki to St. Petersburg to London, the weaponry is fully detailed, and the techniques of infiltration and retrieval carefully outlined; McNab, a former SAS commando who, according to the author''s note "is still wanted by a number of terrorist organizations and is therefore forbidden to reveal his face or current location," obviously remembers every ache, pain, bruise, and injury he suffered in his life of derring-do, since they''re all completely and graphically described here, too.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is McNab''s third Nick Stone novel, and when you factor in all the times that Stone is stalked, betrayed, mugged, drugged, beaten, frozen to within an inch of his life and nearly blown to bits, it''s a wonder the stoic British ex-SAS (special forces) operative is still alive. In many ways, Stone is the perfect thriller hero: someone strong enough to absorb punishment, smart enough to game plan the details of the job and just enough of a line soldier not to ask too many questions about his assignment. Just to make sure, McNab (himself a former SAS agent) gives Stone the perfect reason not to be inquisitive: his ward, Kelly, is catatonic with post-traumatic stress disorder, and since her treatment is wildly expensive, Stone finds himself in the middle of a totally unprofessional kidnapping of Russian mafia kingpin Valentin Lebed in Helsinki. When it all goes violently wrong, Stone lets Lebed go for a price, and leaps at the chance to earn even more money when Lebed''s attractive assistant, Liv, gives him another assignment: break into a Finnish safe house for a little software theft. It will come as no surprise that the theft puts Stone in the gunsights of the NSA and the Russian mob. Most of the novel is a record of Stone bouncing between a rock and a hard place, trying to complete his mission, avoid capture and stay alive, with McNab''s real-life adventures the source for Stone''s. In this genre, all plans are made to fail, except perhaps McNab''s plan to take the thriller world by storm. (July)Forecast: Because of his work for SAS, McNab cannot appear in public, so author tours are a no-go, but extensive advertising and promotion plans back up this solid thriller and will increase sales.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/479'),
(6138, 'The Firm', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hard to believe, but there was a time when the word "lawyer" wasn''t synonymous with "criminal," and the idea of a law firm controlled by the Mafia was an outlandish proposition. This intelligent, ensnaring story came out of nowhere--Oxford, Mississippi, where Grisham was a small-town lawyer--and quickly catapulted to the top of the bestseller list, with good reason. Mitch McDeere, the appealing hero, is a poor kid whose only assets are a first-class mind, a Harvard law degree, and a beautiful, loving wife. When a Memphis law firm makes him an offer he really can''t refuse, he trades his old Nissan for a new BMW, his cramped apartment for a house in the best part of town, and puts in long hours finding tax shelters for Texans who''d rather pay a lawyer than the IRS. Nothing criminal about that. He''d be set for life, if only associates at the firm didn''t have a funny habit of dying, and the FBI wasn''t trying to get Mitch to turn his colleagues in. The tempo and pacing are brilliant, the thrills keep coming, and the finish has a wonderful ironic flourish. It''s not hard to see why Grisham changed the genre permanently with this one, and few of his colleagues in a very crowded field come close to equaling him.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grisham''s gripping fiction debut describes the inner workings of a law firm set up by the Mafia to launder money and concoct tax evasions. Mitchell McDeere, third in his class at Harvard Law, is wooed relentlessly by the prestigious Memphis tax firm of Bendini, Lambert and Locke. Succumbing to the firm''s high-powered salesmanship, he rejects some of the country''s best-known firms to join the group, where he is awed by the opulent lifestyle pressed upon him. But the company has ruthless, underhanded methods of gathering information (they wire the homes of all associates) and ensuring loyalty (social situations are severely monitored). The firm''s mania for security and secrecy, combined with the fact that the only lawyers who have ever left did so in coffins--five in 15 years--arouse Mitch and wife Abby''s curiosity, and they rapidly find themselves in a labyrinth of intrigue and danger. Grisham, a criminal defense attorney, lucidly describes law office procedures at the highest levels, smoothly meshing them with the criminal events of the narrative. Mitch and Abby are appealing characters, though a suspension of disbelief may be required to accept their super-cool behavior while they are on the run from both the FBI and the Mafia. Nonetheless, readers will be totally hooked by this unusual and absorbing story. 50,000 first printing; Literary Guild main selection; movie rights to Paramount.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1266'),
(6139, 'The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin', 'H.W. Brands', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  National Bestseller\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n He was the foremost American of his day, yet today he is little more than a mythic caricature in the public imagination. Benjamin Franklin, perhaps\n <em>\n  the\n </em>\n pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography.\n</p>\n<p>\n Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin was in every respect America''s first Renaissance man. From penniless runaway to highly successful printer, from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an alliance with France that ensured America''s independence, Franklin went from obscurity to become one of the world''s most admired figures, whose circle included the likes of Voltaire, Hume, Burke, and Kant. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and a host of other sources, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has written a thoroughly engaging biography of the eighteenth-century genius. A much needed reminder of Franklin''s greatness and humanity,\n <strong>\n  The First American\n </strong>\n _ _is a work of meticulous scholarship that provides a magnificent tour of a legendary historical figure, a vital era in American life, and the countless arenas in which the protean Franklin left his legacy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2389'),
(6140, 'The First Battle', 'Otto J. Lehrack', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The First Battle is a graphic account of the first major clash of the Viet Nam War. On August 18, 1965, regiment fought regiment on the Van Tuong Peninsula near the new Marine base at Chu Lai. On the American side were three battalions of Marines under the command of Colonel Oscar Peatross, a hero of two previous wars. His opponent was the 1st Viet Cong Regiment commanded by Nguyen Dinh Trong, a veteran of many fights against the French and the South Vietnamese. Codenamed Operation Starlite, this action was a resounding success for the Marines and its result was cause for great optimism about America''s future in Viet Nam. Those expecting a book about Americans in battle will not be disappointed by the detailed descriptions of how the fight unfolded. Marine participants from private to colonel were interviewed during the book''s research phase. The battle is seen from the mud level, by those who were at the point of the spear. But this is not just another war story told exclusively from the American side. In researching the book, the author talked with and walked the battlefield with men who fought with the 1st Viet Cong Regiment. All were accomplished combat veterans years before the U.S. entry into the war. The reader is planted squarely in America in1965, the year that truly began the long American involvement. Operation Starlite sent the Viet Nam War into the headlines across the nation and into the minds of Americans, where it took up residence for more than a decade. Starlite was the first step in Viet Nam''s becoming America''s tar baby. The subtitle of the book is: Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Viet Nam. Blood debt, han tu in Vietnamese, can mean revenge, debt of honor, or blood owed for blood spilled. The Blood Debt came into Vietnamese usage early in the war with the United States. With this battle, the Johnson Administration began compiling its own Blood Debt, this one to the American people. The book also looks at the ongoing conflict between the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marines about the methodology of the Viet Nam War. With decades of experience with insurrection and rebellion, the Marines were institutionally oriented to base the struggle on pacification of the population. The Army, on the other hand, having largely trained to meet the Soviet Army on the plains of Germany, opted for search-and-destroy missions against Communist main force units. The history of the Viet Nam War is littered with many "what ifs." This may be the biggest of them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2390'),
(6141, 'The First Commandment', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A master assassin. A vendetta years in the making. And a counterterrorism operative who will risk everything -- even treason -- to keep the people he loves alive.  Brad Thor, the New York Times bestselling author of Takedown, delivers an explosive international thriller featuring Navy SEAL turned Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath, who somewhere, somehow, has left the wrong person alive.  "Thou shalt not negotiate with terrorists..."  Six months ago: In the dead of the night, five of the most dangerous detainees in the war on terror are pulled from their isolation cells in Guantanamo Bay, held at gunpoint, and told to strip off their orange jumpsuits. Issued civilian clothes and driven to the base airfield, they are loaded aboard a Boeing 727 and set free.  Present day: Covert counterterrorism agent Scot Harvath awakens to discover that his world has changed violently -- and forever. A sadistic assassin with a personal vendetta is wreaking havoc of biblical proportions. Unleashing nightmarish horrors on those closest to Harvath, the attacker thrusts everything Harvath holds dear -- including his life -- into absolute peril.  Ordered by the president to stay out of the investigation, Harvath is forced to mount his own operation to uncover the conspiracy and to exact revenge. When he discovers a connection between the attacks and a group of prisoners secretly released from Guantanamo, Harvath must ask himself previously unthinkable questions about the organizations and the nation he has spent his life serving.  A renegade from his own government, Harvath will place his life on the line as his search for the truth draws him into a showdown with one of the most dangerous men on the face of the earth.  Brad Thor roars through this nonstop adventure full of international intrigue, twisted betrayals, and ultimate revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3850'),
(6142, 'First Daughter', 'Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sometimes the weakness we fear most can become our greatest strength . . .  Jack McClure has had a troubled life.  His dyslexia always made him feel like an outsider.  He escaped from an abusive home as a teenager and lived by his wits on the streets of Washington D.C.  It wasnâ€™t until he realized that dyslexia gave him the ability to see the world in unique ways that he found success, using this newfound strength to become a top ATF agent. When a terrible accident takes the life of his only daughter, Emma, and his marriage falls apart, Jack blames himself, numbing the pain by submerging himself in work.  Then he receives a call from his old friend Edward Carson.  Carson is just weeks from taking the reins as President of the United States when his daughter, Alli, is kidnapped.  Because Emma McClure was once Alliâ€™s best friend, Carson turns to Jack, the one man he can trust to go to any lengths to find his daughter and bring her home safely. The search for Alli leads Jack on a road toward reconciliation . . . and into the path of a dangerous and calculating man.  Someone whose actions are as cold as they are brilliant.  Whose power and reach are seemingly infinite. Faith, redemption, and political intrigue play off one another as McClure uses his unique abilities to journey into the twisted mind of a stone cold genius who is constantly one step ahead of him.  Jack will soon discover that this man has affected his life and his country in more ways than he could ever imagine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/669'),
(6143, 'First Family', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1 New York Times bestsellingauthor David Baldacci follows the instant success of Divine Justice with another unstoppable thriller. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, back from their harrowing and near-fatal adventure in the blockbuster #1 bestseller Simple Genius, return in a mesmerizing new thriller. A daring kidnapping turns a children''s birthday party at Camp David into a national security nightmare, but the hostage is not who anyone would expect. The First Lady enlists the services of King and Maxwell to bring the child back safely. Years ago, King saved her then-senator husband from an assassin''s bullet; whether they shared anything else is their secret. With Michelle still recovering from her own demons the pair are pushed to the limit, with forces aligned on all sides against them, and the line between friend and foe impossible to define...or defend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/125'),
(6144, 'First Family: Abigail and John Adams', 'Joseph J. Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of "Founding Brothers" and "His Excellency "brings America''s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic''s tenuous early years.John and Abigail Adams left an indelible and remarkably preserved portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both Adamses were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was clearly the more gifted of the two), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. Joseph J. Ellis distills this unprecedented and unsurpassed record to give us an account both intimate and panoramic; part biography, part political history, and part love story. Ellis describes the first meeting between the two as inauspicious--John was twenty-four, Abigail just fifteen, and each was entirely unimpressed with the other. But they soon began a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later. Over the next decades, the couple were separated nearly as much as they were together. John''s political career took him first to Philadelphia, where he became the boldest advocate for the measures that would lead to the Declaration of Independence. Yet in order to attend the Second Continental Congress, he left his wife and children in the middle of the war zone that had by then engulfed Massachusetts. Later he was sent to Paris, where he served as a minister to the court of France alongside Benjamin Franklin. These years apart stressed the Adamses'' union almost beyond what it could bear: Abigail grew lonely, while the Adams children suffered from their father''s absence. John was elected the nation''s first vice president, but by the time of his reelection, Abigail''s health prevented her from joining him in Philadelphia, the interim capital. She no doubt had further reservations about moving to the swamp on the Potomac when John became president, although this time he persuaded her. President Adams inherited a weak and bitterly divided country from George Washington. The political situation was perilous at best, and he needed his closest advisor by his side: "I can do nothing," John told Abigail after his election, "without you." In Ellis''s rich and striking new history, John and Abigail''s relationship unfolds in the context of America''s birth as a nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2460'),
(6145, 'First Lord&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The next book in the thrilling New York Timesbestselling series. For years he has endured the endless trials and triumphs of a man whose skill and power could not be restrained. Battling ancient enemies, forging new alliances, and confronting the corruption within his own land, Gaius Octavian became a legendary man of war-and the rightful First Lord of Alera. But now, the savage Vord are on the march, and Gaius must lead his legions to the Calderon Valley to stand against them-using all of his intelligence, ingenuity, and furycraft to save their world from eternal darkness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3430'),
(6146, 'The First Patient', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were once Naval Academy roommates. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States. One day, while the United States is embroiled in a bitter presidential election campaign, Marine One lands on Gabeâ€™s Wyoming ranch, and President Stoddard announces that his personal physician has suddenly and mysteriously disappearedâ€”and he desperately needs Gabe to take the manâ€™s place.Now ensconced in the White House medical office, Gabe comes to a disturbing realization: The President is not fit to run the country. Worse, Gabe uncovers evidence that his friendâ€™s illness may not be due to natural causes. Who could have administered such a blow? And why? The Presidentâ€™s life is at stake, the safety of the world is in jeopardy, and itâ€™s up to Gabe to find the answers while time is running outâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3205'),
(6147, 'The First Rule', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  T. Jefferson Parker and Robert Crais: Author One-on-One\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In this Amazon exclusive, we brought together blockbuster authors T. Jefferson Parker and Robert Crais and asked them to interview each other.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  T. Jefferson Parker\n </strong>\n is one of only three writers to be awarded the Edgar Award for Best Novel more than once and the bestselling author of numerous novels, including\n <em>\n  Iron River\n </em>\n . Parker lives with his family in Southern California.\n</p>\n<p>\n Read on to see T. Jefferson Parker''s questions for Robert Crais, or turn the tables to see what Crais asked Parker.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Parker:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™ve got a new novel coming out in January of 2011. I havenâ€™t read it yet, so can you tell me a bit about it?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crais:\n </strong>\n It''s a Joe Pike novel. Wasn''t supposed to be, so I was taken by surprise, but that''s the way Pike is. I planned to follow my last book,\n <em>\n  The First Rule\n </em>\n , with an Elvis Cole novel, but I saw Pike meet a woman in Venice, California, a few moments after Pike saved her uncle from a robbery. Ideas for books come to me that way--I''ll see an image. The way Pike looked at her, I knew right away I had to follow their story. So it''s a love story, but not your usual love story--it''s a Joe Pike love story. As the Kirkus review said, "Prepare the body bags."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Parker:\n </strong>\n Did you have any surprises as you wrote the book?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crais:\n </strong>\n A character named Daniel. Daniel is a hit man who is after the woman Pike is falling for. He is not your typical hit man. Daniel is very strange dude, and the creepiest character I''ve ever created. When I wrote his first scene, I sat back, and said, whoa, where did this guy come from?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Parker:\n </strong>\n You write terrific heroes and terrific villains. How do you get inside their heads, learn their methods and tricks?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crais:\n </strong>\n The answer would scare you. Really.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Parker:\n </strong>\n Can you describe a typical work day?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crais:\n </strong>\n It''s pretty boring. I get up, go for a hike or work out because I like to get the exercise out of the way, then I sit down to work. The work requires discipline because there are so many distractions. Though, honestly, I can''t think of a better way to spend my time than hanging out with Joe Pike and Elvis Cole and even strange and dangerous characters like Daniel.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Parker:\n </strong>\n Okay, when all the work is done (is it ever?) what do you do for plain-old, flat-out fun?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crais:\n </strong>\n Anything outside. Hiking, scuba diving, flying. As a writer, I spend most of my time inside, staring at my computer. When the work is finished, I want OUT. It''s like being paroled.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo of T. Jefferson Parker Â© Rebecca Lawson)\n <br />\n (Photo of Robert Crais Â© exleyfotoinc)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When garment importer Frank Meyer and his family are executed in their Los Angeles home at the start of bestseller Crais''s adrenaline-fueled second thriller to feature PI Joe Pike (after\n <em>\n  The Watchman\n </em>\n ), LAPD detectives soon connect Meyer to Pike, who knew each other from their days as military contractors. Pike is convinced that Meyer, who left soldiering to start a family, wasn''t dirty, even though his murder is the seventh in a series of violent robberies where the victims were all professional criminals. Determined to clear his friend''s name, Pike discovers that Frank''s nanny and her family have ties to Eastern European organized crime. With the help of PI partner Elvis Cole (the lead in\n <em>\n  Chasing Darkness\n </em>\n and eight other books), Pike engages in a dangerousâ€”and not always legalâ€”game of cat and mouse with some of the city''s most dangerous crooks. Pike emerges as an enigmatically appealing hero, whose lethal skills never overshadow his unflappable sense of morality.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/347'),
(6148, 'First Salute', 'Barbara Wertheim Tuchman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Narrative history in the great tradition . . ." Chicago TribuneTwo-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and bestselling author Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in a brilliantly original way, placing the war in the historical context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland. This compellingly written history paints a magnificent portrait of General George Washington and recounts in riveting detail the events responsible for the birth of our nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2461'),
(6149, 'First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers', 'Loung Ung', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Written in the present tense,\n <em>\n  First They Killed My Father\n </em>\n will put you right in the midst of the action--action you''ll wish had never happened. It''s a tough read, but definitely a worthwhile one, and the author''s personality and strength shine through on every page. Covering the years from 1975 to 1979, the story moves from the deaths of multiple family members to the forced separation of the survivors, leading ultimately to the reuniting of much of the family, followed by marriages and immigrations. The brutality seems unending--beatings, starvation, attempted rape, mental cruelty--and yet the narrator (a young girl) never stops fighting for escape and survival. Sad and courageous, her life and the lives of her young siblings provide quite a powerful example of how war can so deeply affect children--especially a war in which they are trained to be an integral part of the armed forces. For anyone interested in Cambodia''s recent history, this book shares a valuable personal view of events.\n <em>\n  --Jill Lightner\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1975, Ung, now the national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World, was the five-year-old child of a large, affluent family living in Phnom Penh, the cosmopolitan Cambodian capital. As extraordinarily well-educated Chinese-Cambodians, with the father a government agent, her family was in great danger when the Khmer Rouge took over the country and throughout Pol Pot''s barbaric regime. Her parents'' strength and her father''s knowledge of Khmer Rouge ideology enabled the family to survive together for a while, posing as illiterate peasants, moving first between villages, and then from one work camp to another. The father was honest with the children, explaining dangers and how to avoid them, and this, along with clear sight, intelligence and the pragmatism of a young child, helped Ung to survive the war. Her restrained, unsentimental account of the four years she spent surviving the regime before escaping with a brother to Thailand and eventually the United States is astonishing--not just because of the tragedies, but also because of the immense love for her family that Ung holds onto, no matter how she is brutalized. She describes the physical devastation she is surrounded by but always returns to her memories and hopes for those she loves. Her joyful memories of life in Phnom Penh are close even as she is being trained as a child soldier, and as, one after another, both parents and two of her six siblings are murdered in the camps. Skillfully constructed, this account also stands as an eyewitness history of the period, because as a child Ung was so aware of her surroundings, and because as an adult writer she adds details to clarify the family''s moves and separations. Twenty-five years after the rise of the Khmer Rouge, this powerful account is a triumph. 8 pages b&amp;w photos.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2109'),
(6150, 'First Thrills', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Child, the creator of the Jack Reacher series (\n  <em>\n   Gone Tomorrow\n  </em>\n  , etc.), offers a mixed bag in this anthology of 25 original stories by members of ITW (International Thriller Writers), divided between fledgling authors and established names such as Gregg Hurwitz, Stephen Coonts, and Heather Graham. Daniel James Palmer and Michael Palmer''s The Dead Club, in which a greedy doctor joins a betting club that gambles on when unidentified patients will expire, does the best job at making the genre work in short form. Child, by contrast, misses the mark with the less than gripping The Bodyguard, an account of how the narrator became an ex-bodyguard. Of the newcomers, Rip Gerber''s Last Supper, about a grieving widower''s plot for revenge, is well-paced and compelling, while Ryan Brown''s supernaturally tinged Suspended isn''t. Other contributors include Ken Bruen, John Lescroart, and Karin Slaughter. Steve Berry, ITW''s current president, provides an afterword.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  This is hands down one of the best short story collections you''re ever likely to read. The brainchild of the (relatively new) International Thrillers Writers organization, the book features never-before-published stories by such notables as Jeffery Deaver, Michael Palmer, Gregg Hurwitz, Stephen Coonts, John Lescroart, Karin Slaughter, and Lee Child (who also serves as the book''s editor). Alongside them, you''ll find top-notch short fiction from names that might be less familiarâ€”J. T. Ellison, CJ Lyons, Sean Michael Baileyâ€”but they are writers who certainly won''t remain unfamiliar for long. The stories fit under the most inclusive of thriller umbrellas, but many contain elements of mysteries, science fiction, and horror as well. They feature an equally diverse cast of characters, too, ranging from con men and killers to aliens, ghosts, and zombies. In many short story collections, there are a few standouts. Here, nearly the entire lineup stands out. Lescroart''s â€œThe Gato Conundrum,â€ for example, is a fine spy thriller that moves through Italy, England, Russia, France, and the U.S., all in 20 pages. Heather Graham''s â€œWhen Johnny Comes Marching Homeâ€ combines grisly horror with a historical setting. Theo Gangi''s â€œEddy Mayâ€ is a seemingly straightforward story about a pair of con artists that turns out to be not straightforward at all; in an anthology full of plot twists, Gangi''s definitely out twists them all. A masterful collection. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/590');
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(6151, 'The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt', 'T. J. Stiles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.\n</p>\n<p>\n Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius â€œCommodoreâ€ Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washingtonâ€™s presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nationâ€™s largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. Lincoln consulted him on steamship strategy during the Civil War; Jay Gould was first his uneasy ally and then sworn enemy; and Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States, was his spiritual counselor. We see Vanderbilt help to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporationâ€”in fact, as T. J. Stiles elegantly argues, Vanderbilt did more than perhaps any other individual to create the economic world we live in today.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n , Stiles offers the first complete, authoritative biography of this titan, and the first comprehensive account of the Commodoreâ€™s personal life. It is a sweeping, fast-moving epic, and a complex portrait of the great man. Vanderbilt, Stiles shows, embraced the philosophy of the Jacksonian Democrats and withstood attacks by his conservative enemies for being too competitive. He was a visionary who pioneered business models. He was an unschooled fistfighter who came to command the respect of New Yorkâ€™s social elite. And he was a father who struggled with a gambling-addicted son, a husband who was loving yet abusive, and, finally, an old man who was obsessed with contacting the dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n is the exhilarating story of a man and a nation maturing together: the powerful account of a man whose life was as epic and complex as American history itself.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Excerpts from an Interview with T.J. Stiles\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Your last book was a\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  T.J. Stiles:\n </strong>\n I was drawn by who he was as a person, the lack of writing about him, and the historical themes that defined his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like Jesse James, Vanderbilt was man of action--decisive, dramatic, and always interesting. He courted physical danger, fought high-stakes financial battles, and always set the terms of his existence. Like Jesse James, Vanderbilt has not been the subject of much serious research. And like Jesse James, Vanderbilt opened a window on the making of modern America. Vanderbilt was central to the rise of the corporation, the emergence of Wall Street, and the birth of big business. His was a dramatic life played out on an enormous stage.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How long have you been working on this book and what kind of research went into it?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n I worked on it for more than six years. My research was challenging because Vanderbilt kept no diary, preserved no letters, and left behind no collection of papers. Second, the last serious biography about him was written in 1942. The increasing digitization of newspapers and Congressional documents helped, but I did most of my work the old-fashioned way, digging through archives and sitting in front of microfilm readers. My biggest discovery came when I stumbled upon the Old Records Division of the New York County Clerkâ€™s Office; I spent months there going through original lawsuit papers from as early as 1816. I uncovered entire episodes of Vanderbiltâ€™s life that no one ever suspected--fistfights, steamboats ramming each other, inside trading and noncompetition agreements, details about his physical office and epic tales of betrayal. I also focused on Vanderbiltâ€™s associates and rivals, and found priceless letters about him in their papers. Of course, I spent months more going through the papers of his various railroad corporations at the New York Public Library. I found so much new material that I decided to include a lengthy bibliographical essay.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Throughout the book, you highlight Vanderbilt''s role in the making of the modern idea of economic regulation. You also write, "The Commodoreâ€™s life left its mark on Americansâ€™ most basic beliefs about equality and opportunity." Where in our modern institutions do you think his legacy is most apparent?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n Vanderbilt early on voiced a political philosophy rooted in radical Jacksonianism. He believed in individual equality, in the right to compete freely. He denounced monopolies and corporations. This strain of thought remains a key part of American values. Yet he ended his life at the pinnacle of an incredibly unequal society, the master of a giant corporation that overshadowed almost every other business in America. That late-life transformation strongly influenced the new acceptance of government regulation that arose after the Civil War. I donâ€™t think so much that Vanderbiltâ€™s legacy can be seen in our institutions as much as our economic culture--the rise of the modern idea that government should intervene to regulate large businesses, and redress the balance of wealth and power in society.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What do you think Vanderbilt would have to say about our current economic climate; its root causes as well as the ever increasing bail-outs of giant corporations?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n When the Panic of 1873 hit, Vanderbilt gave an immediate analysis to a newspaper reporter that virtually describes the current situation. The problem was asset inflation: a speculative bubble (in his case, railroads, in our case, real estate) that tamped down skepticism about the value of securities issued by overvalued companies (or, in our case, mortgage-backed securities based on shaky home loans). Eager to ride the rising wave, banks in New York marketed the securities abroad, giving a stamp of approval, much as they have done with mortgage-backed securities today. In other words, Vanderbilt would have understood the root causes of our crisis, despite the great differences in the economy between then and now. And, though he usually looked askance at government intervention, the seriousness of the situation might have led him to approve of strong action. Itâ€™s hard to say, because he denounced subsidies, yet after the Panic of 1873 he also urged the federal government to pump new money into the economy. In any case, he would have had a sophisticated grasp of our conundrum.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Your own family history recently made national news when it was discovered, at The Smithsonian in Washington, DC, that one of President Lincoln''s watches contained a secret inscription from your great-great grandfather. That must have been pretty exciting for you, not only as a family member but as a historian who has written extensively about the Civil War. How do you feel about this news and what do you make of all the attention it received?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n The news accounts floored me. I never expected this favorite family story, one I never quite believed, to enter national mythology. My great-great-grandfather, Jonathan Dillon, was an Irish immigrant who was working in a Washington, D.C., watch repair shop when Fort Sumter was fired on. He happened to be holding Lincoln''s watch in his hand. He made an inscription on the back of the dial, closed it up, and said nothing to Lincoln about it. My second cousin, Douglas Stiles, tracked the watch to the Smithsonian''s Museum of American History, and convinced the director to open the watch up and check. The message was there--a little different from my great-great-grandfather''s memory, but it was there.\n</p>\n<p>\n I think it struck a chord with the nation at the moment of Lincoln''s bicentennial. Here was a plucky, immigrant watchmaker who left a silent message of encouragement in Lincoln''s pocket. No fanfare, nothing attention grabbing, just a patriotic, very human little act. I grew up with this story, and named my own son Dillon, in a kind of chain tribute to Jonathan Dillon, the watchmaker. (My father''s middle name is Dillon, and of course it was my great-grandmother Isabella Dillon''s maiden name.) When he was born in 2007, I often told the story about Lincoln''s watch. If I had my doubts about it, I figured that no one would dare tear open Lincoln''s watch to check. Glad they did.\n</p>\n<p>\n As a historian, I found it particularly startling to be brought so close to perhaps the most important American of any era. I wrote about Lincoln in\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n . Now I know that, as he held an urgent conference with Cornelius Vanderbilt over how best to deal with the Confederate ironclad Merrimack, he might have had in his pocket a secret message from my great-great-grandfather. The story adds an immediacy to the past, showing how close any one of us is to great historical events.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Joanne Chan)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the panic of 1869, Cornelius Vanderbilt â€œappeared in the role of a hero,â€ Stiles writes, praised for steadying the markets with his confidence and his cash. In reality, Vanderbiltâ€™s own machinations had helped push the markets to the brink. He gambled not only his fortune but, with it, the â€œhealth of the national economy,â€ and â€œthe only thing more remarkable than his recklessness was his success.â€ Vanderbilt started out running a ferry off Staten Island and went on to control shipping lines and railroads; he built Grand Central with his own money. The canvas of his life is so large that giants like Jay Gould appear as bit characters. (Thereâ€™s also Tennessee Claflin, a â€œmagnetic physicianâ€ and clairvoyant turned stockbroker; Stiles thinks that she and Vanderbilt had an affair but discounts some of the more vivid stories about their relationship.) Mark Twain described Vanderbilt as something like the Grinch, the â€œidol of . . . a crawling swarm of small soulsâ€â€”a cartoon that Stiles does a good job of redrawing.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2392'),
(6152, 'The First World War', 'Hew Strachan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It will soon be close to a century since the outbreak of the First World War, yet as   military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative one-volume   history, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. Written in crisp,   compelling prose and enlivened with vivid photographsâ€”including early color   photographsâ€”*The First World War* re-creates this world-altering conflict both on   and off the battlefield. Strachan offers a fresh and truly global perspective on how the   Great War not only redrew the map of the world but also set in motion the most   dangerous conflicts of today, especially in such hot spots as the Middle East and the   Balkans. Deeply learned and powerfully written, *The First World War* is a   landmark work of contemporary history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2393'),
(6153, 'The Fixer Upper', 'Mary Kay Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The delightful New York Times bestselling author returns with a hilarious novel about one woman''s quest to redo an old house . . . and her life. After her boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left almost broke, unemployed, and homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father''s offer to help refurbish Birdsong, the old family place he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia. All it will take, he tells her, is a little paint and some TLC to turn the fading Victorian mansion into a real-estate cash cow. But, oh, is Dempsey in for a surprise when she arrives in Guthrie. "Bird Droppings" would more aptly describe the moldering Pepto Bismol-pink dump with duct-taped windows and a driveway full of junk. There''s also a murderously grumpy old lady, one of Dempsey''s distant relations, who has claimed squatter''s rights and isn''t moving out. Ever. Furthermore, everyone in Guthrie seems to know Dempsey''s business, from a smooth-talking real-estate agent to a cute lawyer who owns the local newspaper. It wouldn''t be so bad if it weren''t for the pesky FBI agents who show up on Dempsey''s doorstep, hoping to pry information about her ex-boss from her. All Dempsey can do is roll up her sleeves and get to work. And before long, what started as a job of necessity somehow becomes a labor of love and, ultimately, a journey that takes her to a place she never expected-back home again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3208'),
(6154, 'The Fixer', 'Bernard Malamud', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Set in Czarist Russia, The Fixer is the story of the strains and anxieties that beset a man who finds himself a stranger in his community and a victim of irrational prejudice as a wave of anti-Semitic hysteria engulfs a town after the murder of a boy.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Brilliant [and] harrowing . . . Historical reality combined with fictional skill and beauty of a high order make [it] a novel of startling importance." ---Elizabeth Hardwick, Vogue\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  "What makes it a great book, above and beyond its glowing goodness, has to do with something else altogether: its necessity...This novel, like all great novels reminds us that we must do something." -- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of_ Everything Is Illuminated _\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  "The Fixer deserves to rank alongside the great Jewish-American novels of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth." --_The Independent (London)_\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  "A literary event in any season." --Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3058'),
(6155, 'Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist&#39;s Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions', 'Susan R. Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she took an unforgettable trip to Manhattan. As she emerged from the dim light of the subway into the sunshine, she saw a view of the city that she had witnessed many times in the past but now saw in an astonishingly new way. Skyscrapers on street corners appeared to loom out toward her like the bows of giant ships. Tree branches projected upward and outward, enclosing and commanding palpable volumes of space. Leaves created intricate mosaics in 3D. With each glance, she experienced the deliriously novel sense of immersion in a three dimensional world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Barry had been cross-eyed and stereoblind since early infancy. After half a century of perceiving her surroundings as flat and compressed, on that day she was seeing Manhattan in stereo depth for first time in her life. As a neuroscientist, she understood just how extraordinary this transformation was, not only for herself but for the scientific understanding of the human brain. Scientists have long believed that the brain is malleable only during a â€œcritical periodâ€ in early childhood. According to this theory, Barryâ€™s brain had organized itself when she was a baby to avoid double vision â€“ and there was no way to rewire it as an adult. But Barry found an optometrist who prescribed a little-known program of vision therapy; after intensive training, Barry was ultimately able to accomplish what other scientists and even she herself had once considered impossible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A revelatory account of the brainâ€™s capacity for change,\n  <em>\n   Fixing My Gaze\n  </em>\n  describes Barryâ€™s remarkable journey and celebrates the joyous pleasure of our senses.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2111'),
(6156, 'Flannery: A Life of Flannery O&#39;Connor', 'Brad Gooch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gooch (_City Poet:__The Life and Times of Frank O''Hara_) offers a surprisingly bloodless biography of Flannery O''Connor (1925â€“1964), who, despite the author''s diligent scholarship, remains enigmatic. She emerges only in her excerpted letters, speeches and fiction, where she is as sharp-tongued, censorious, piteously observant and mordantly funny as her beloved short stories. There is little genuinely interesting new material, but there are small gemsâ€”the full story of O''Connor''s friendship with the mysterious A. of her letters, for instance. Perhaps mindful of the writer''s dislike of being exposed in print, Gooch errs on the side of delicacy; he does not sufficiently explore her attitudes toward blacks and how the early onset of lupus left her sequestered on her mother''s Georgia farm, without the male companionship she craved. Instead, he plumbs O''Connor''s fiction for buried fragments of her daily life, and the revelations are hardly astonishing. Readers looking for more startling tidbits will be disappointed by this account that brims with the quiet satisfactions the author took in her industry (I sit all day typing and grinning like the Cheshire cat), her faith, friends and stoic approach to a debilitating disease. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Feb. 25)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drawing on recently unsealed letters and an impressive array of interviews, Gooch provides the first major biography of Flannery Oï¿½Connor since she died in 1964, at the age of thirty-nine. He presents a writer influenced by the early death of her father and the retreat from city life to country; an Irish Catholic upbringing that evolved into an adult fascination with theology; and a Southern small-town culture whose matrons, including Oï¿½Connorï¿½s mother, were happy for her success but put off by the unladylike nature of her workï¿½ï¿½Everybody here shakes my hand but nobody reads my stories.ï¿½ Though she spent time in both the Midwest and the Northeast, lupus narrowed the circle of her life to a dairy farm in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she collected exotic birds. Goochï¿½s account is meticulous, but Oï¿½Connorï¿½s sedate, chaste life is pale in comparison with her fantastic fictionï¿½a contrast that underscores her inscrutable genius.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2113'),
(6157, 'Flash and Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kathy Reichs--#1 "New York Times "bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit "Bones"--returns with a riveting new novel set in Charlotte, North Carolina, featuring America''s favorite forensic anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan. Just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The next day, a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance Brennan''s office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story. Twelve years earlier, Wayne Gamble''s sister, Cindi, then a high school senior and aspiring racer, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right-wing extremists known as the Patriot Posse. Could the body be Cindi''s? Or Cale''s? At the time of their disappearance, the FBI joined the investigation, only to terminate it weeks later. Was there a cover-up? As Tempe juggles multiple theories, the discovery of a strange, deadly substance in the barrel alongside the body throws everything into question. Then an employee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention goes missing during Race Week. Tempe can''t overlook the coincidence. Was this man using his lab chemicals for murder? Or is the explanation even more sinister? What other secrets lurk behind the festive veneer of Race Week? A turbocharged story of secrets and murder unfolds in this, the fourteenth thrilling novel in Reichs''s "cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series" ("The New York Times Book Review"). With the smash hit "Bones "about to enter its seventh season and in full syndication--and her most recent novel, "Spider Bones, "an instant "New York Times "bestseller--Kathy Reichs is at the top of her game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3419'),
(6158, 'Flashback', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn''t care: they''re addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective Nick Bottom''s wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be with her; he''s lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Nick may be a lost soul but he''s still a good cop, so he is hired to investigate the murder of a top governmental advisor''s son. This flashback-addict becomes the one man who may be able to change the course of an entire nation turning away from the future to live in the past.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n A provocative novel set in a future that seems scarily possible, FLASHBACK proves why Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dan Simmons is the award-winning author of several novels, including the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellers\n <em>\n  Olympos\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Terror\n </em>\n . He lives in Colorado.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/585'),
(6159, 'Flawless', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the exclusive town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, where the sweetest smiles hide the darkest secrets, four pretty little liarsâ€”Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hannaâ€”have been very bad girls. . . .   Spencer stole her sister''s boyfriend. Aria is brokenhearted over her English teacher. Emily likes her new friend Maya . . . as much more than a friend. And Hanna''s obsession with looking flawless is literally making her sick. But the most horrible secret of all is something so scandalous it could destroy their perfect little lives.   And someone named "A" is threatening to do just that.   At first they thought A was Alison, their friend who vanished three years ago . . . but then Alison turned up dead. So could A be Melissa, Spencer''s ultracompetitive sister? Or Maya, who wants Emily all to herself? What about Toby, the mysterious guy who left town right after Alison went missing?   One thing''s for certain: A''s got the dirt to bury them all alive, and with every crumpled note, wicked IM, and vindictive text message A sends, the girls get a little closer to losing it all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3769'),
(6160, 'Flesh and Blood', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When Alex Delaware first saw Lauren Teague she was a sullen teenager with the usual problems: bad grades at school, moody, uncommunicative with her parents - which is why they thought she needed to see a psychologist. Then years later, a shock: at a batchelor party for a fellow doctor, Delaware finds himself uncomfortably watching two strippers going through a degrading display - and one of them is Lauren Teague. And now her mother is pleading for help once again. Lauren has disappeared - and she thinks Delaware can find her. He''s not so sure - but when her disappearance turns into a murder investigation, he knows he owes it to the dead girl to find out what demons drove her to such a horrifying end.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/759'),
(6161, 'Fleshmarket Alley', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. This abridgement of Rankin''s 15th novel about Edinburgh police investigator John Rebus ends with an interview in which the author says he prefers to ignore abridgments. He should make an exception in this case. It''s a particularly well-conceived adaptation that discards many of the book''s more verbose passages and moves Rebus and his associate investigator Siobhan Clarke quickly into action. It also clarifies an overly complex plot that interweaves the possibly racist murder of an asylum-seeking Kurd; the disappearance of a young woman into the city''s red light district; and the appearance of two skeletons uncovered during a pub renovation. Crucial series elements are not only retained but highlighted, such as Rebus''s realization that, with his forced retirement approaching, his feeling for Clarke is taking a less platonic turn. Adding to the production''s overall appeal is reader MacPherson, whose Scottish burr, though pronounced enough to make Sean Connery sound like a pommy Brit, complements Rankin''s well-etched cast of Edinburgh denizens. In a display of vocal versatility, he easily segues from male to female, from members of the upper crust to bottom feeders, from guttural Kurds of varying ages to an Asian lawyer with a Far Eastern lilt. His bravura performance, added to the canny editing, results in satisfying proof that less can be more.\n  <em>\n   Simultaneous release with the Little, Brown hardcover (Forecasts, Jan. 10). (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Fleshmarket Alley\n  </em>\n  (after 2004â€™s\n  <em>\n   A Question of Blood\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   1/2 May/June 2004, and the Edgar Award-winning\n  </em>\n  Resurrection Men*), Rankin deals with horrific subjects: illegal immigration, racism, political asylum, bureaucracy, detention housing, and a networked criminal underworld. Described as "the Dickens of Edinburgh," Rankin explores the cityâ€™s fleshmarketâ€”the trade in humans and plight of asylum seekers. His expertly plotted crimes come together as usual, and their confluence provides some of the bookâ€™s memorable moments. A great ear for dialogue and a deep look into the psychology of everyone from cops to murderers illuminate Edinburgh society. Even some formulaic elements barely dampened critical response to Rebusâ€™s latest adventure.\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/348'),
(6162, 'Flirt', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New in the #1 New York Times bestselling series   When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows, though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced, is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn''t the miracle he thinks he needs. The creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington''s grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3694'),
(6163, 'The Flock', 'James Robert Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A remote Florida swamp has been targeted for theme-park development, and the swampâ€™s inhabitants are none too happy. It doesnâ€™t help that the residents are a colony of intelligent, prehistoric, dinosaur-like birds. This flock of beasts has escaped the mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs, relying on stealth, cunning, and killer instinct. The creatures have been living in secret, just outside our developed world. As the developers push to have the recently-discovered animals exterminated, a billionaire rogue environmentalist step in to protect these rare, predatory creatures. A naÃ¯ve young Fish and Wildlife officer finds himself caught in between these two incredibly powerful forces, and may find out the hard way that man is the most dangerous predator of them all . . .Â  The Flock is a contemporary eco-thriller about what can happen when man violates nature, and when nature fights back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2794'),
(6164, 'Flood Tide', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a hero whose name never appears in print without a registered trademark symbol beside it sets out on a new adventure, readers should know what to expect: a great deal of derring-do, outlandish adventures, and fantastical scenarios. For Dirk Pitt, reality is an inconsequential construct. What matters is the U.S. National Underwater and Maritime Agency (NUMA) superhero''s unflagging energy, wit, strength, sex appeal, and patriotism. In this tale of a Chinese billionaire who plans to divert the mighty Mississippi in order to expand his illegal smuggling ring, find a treasure lost at sea nearly half a century ago, and, incidentally, split the U.S. into three countries controlled by China, Cussler''s American version of James Bond struggles to save the day. All his trusty sidekicks are here, including Al Giordino, a regular partner in Pitt''s underwater adventures, and Admiral Sandecker, the NUMA commander. This time there''s a beautiful Chinese American INS agent as the love interest, and a mendacious American president, too.\n  <em>\n   Flood Tide\n  </em>\n  is a romp that will tickle Pitt and Cussler''s many fans, as well as readers new to this author who may find themselves stranded on the tarmac or tanning on Caribbean beaches.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA. Once again, the indestructible Dirk Pitt saves the country from possible economic collapse, while at the same time destroying an evil villain, finding a lost treasure, and saving a woman''s life. The vividly described action takes readers from the ports of Hong Kong to picturesque Washington State and to the final showdown on the Mississippi River in Louisiana. As each problem seems to be solved, larger and more dangerous events occur, such as the seemingly unexplainable smuggling of thousands of illegal Chinese immigrants. Our hero finds himself trapped with these poor, abused refugees who are about to be murdered. Each turn and twist continues to build anxiety and heighten suspense. The eye-catching cover of this novel should entice readers to open its pages, where they will soon find themselves engrossed in this enthralling adventure.?Anita Short, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1207'),
(6165, 'Flowers for Algernon', 'Daniel Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Daniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic,\n  <em>\n   Flowers for Algernon\n  </em>\n  . As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation\n  <em>\n   Charly\n  </em>\n  (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Following his doctor''s instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can''t even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   I dint know mice were so smart.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration, the effects begin to show and the reports steadily improve: "Punctuation, is? fun!" But getting smarter brings cruel shocks, as Charlie realizes that his merry "friends" at the bakery where he sweeps the floor have all along been laughing at him, never with him. The IQ rise continues, taking him steadily past the human average to genius level and beyond, until he''s as intellectually alone as the old, foolish Charlie ever was--and now painfully aware of it. Then, ominously, the smart mouse Algernon begins to deteriorate...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Flowers for Algernon\n  </em>\n  is a timeless tear-jerker with a terrific emotional impact.\n  <em>\n   --David Langford\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PRAISE FOR FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON\n  <br />\n  "A tale that is convincing, suspenseful and touching."--_The New York Times _\n  <br />\n  "An ingeniously touching story . . . Moving . . . Intensely real."--_The Baltimore Sun_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2770'),
(6166, 'Fly Away Home', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sometimes all you can do is fly away home . . . When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politicianâ€™s wifeâ€”her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored knit suits. At fifty-seven, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was in her twenties and tending to her husband, the senator. Lizzie, the Woodruffsâ€™ younger daughter, is at twenty-four a recovering addict, whose mantra HALT (Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired?) helps her keep her life under control. Still, trouble always seems to find her. Her older sister, Diana, an emergency room physician, has everything Lizzie failed to achieveâ€”a husband, a young son, the perfect homeâ€”and yet sheâ€™s trapped in a loveless marriage. With temptation waiting in one of the ERâ€™s exam rooms, she finds herself craving more. After Richardâ€™s extramarital affair makes headlines, the three women are drawn into the painful glare of the national spotlight. Once the press conference is over, each is forced to reconsider her life, who she is and who she is meant to be.  Written with an irresistible blend of heartbreak and hilarity, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who after a lifetime of distance finally learn to find refuge in one another.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3657'),
(6167, 'Flynn&#39;s In', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a series of unexplained deaths and international hostilities occurs in the wake of a breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming, NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children investigate a mysterious silvery mineral with links to a fabled northwest passage expedition. Reprint. A best-selling novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3705'),
(6168, 'Folly Beach: A Lowcountry Tale', 'Dorothea Benton Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Experience the wild beauty and sultry magic of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank''s Carolina Lowcountryâ€”where the pull of family is as powerful as the ocean tides and love can strike faster than lightning in summer. . . .   Folly Beach   Home is the place that knows us best. . . .   A woman returns to the past to find her future in this enchanting new tale of loss, acceptance, family, and love.   With its sandy beaches and bohemian charms, surfers and suits alike consider Folly Beach to be one of South Carolina''s most historic and romantic spots. It is also the land of Cate Cooper''s childhood, the place where all the ghosts of her past roam freely. Cate never thought she''d wind up in this tiny cottage named the Porgy House on this breathtakingly lovely strip of coast. But circumstances have changed, thanks to her newly dead husband whose financialâ€”and emotionalâ€”bull and mendacity have left Cate homeless, broke, and unmoored.   Yet Folly Beach holds more than just memories. Once upon a time another woman found unexpected bliss and comfort within its welcoming arms. An artist, writer, and colleague of the revered George Gershwin, Dorothy Heyward enjoyed the greatest moments of her life at Folly with her beloved husband, DuBose. And though the Heywards are long gone, their passion and spirit lingers in every mango sunset and gentle ocean breeze.   And for Cate, Folly, too, holds the promise of unexpected fulfillment when she is forced to look at her life and the zany characters that are her family anew. To her surprise, she will discover that you can go home again. Folly Beach doesn''t just hold the girl she once was . . . it also holds the promise of the woman she''s always wantedâ€”and is finally readyâ€”to become.   Folly Beach, filled with the irresistible charm, saucy wit, and lush atmosphere that have won her the devotion of fans and propelled her books to bestsellerdom, is vintage Dorothea Benton Frank.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3193'),
(6169, 'Fool', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Verily speaks Christopher Moore, much-beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, who hath writteneth much that is of grand wit and belly-busting mirth, including such laureled bestsellers of the Times of Olde Newe Yorke as Lamb, A Dirty Job, and You Suck: A Love Story. Now he takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) in a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughtersâ€”a rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust . . . and a ghost (there''s always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3332'),
(6170, 'The Fool&#39;s Run', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kidd is a computer whiz, artist, and professional criminal. LuEllen is his lover, and his favorite partner in crime. Their playing field in on the cutting edge of high-tech corporate warfare. This time theyÃ­ve been hired by a defense industry corporation to destroy its business rival through computer sabotage. If Kidd and LuEllen can pull it off, theyÃ­ll reap millions. ItÃ­s the sting of a lifetime. One false move and itÃ­s a lifetime sentence. As the takedown unfolds, everything goes according to plan.But their string of successes turns into a noose when the ultimate con artists find themselves on the wrong end of the ultimate con.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/740'),
(6171, 'For Crying Out Loud: The World According to Clarkson', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeremy Clarkson began his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser. Since then he has written for the Sun, the Sunday Times, the Rochdale Observer, the Wolverhampton Express &amp; Star, all of the associated Kent Newspapers, and Lincolnshire Life. Today he is the tallest person working in British television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1335'),
(6172, 'For One More Day', 'Mitch Albom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''For one more day'' is the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question - What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one? As a child, Charley ''Chick'' Benetto was told by his father, ''You can be a mama''s boy or a daddy''s boy, but you can''t be both''. So he chooses his father, only to see the man disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence. Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been crumbled by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits bottom after discovering his only daughter has shut him out of her wedding. And he decides to take his own life. He makes a midnight ride to his small hometown, with plans to do himself in. But upon failing even to do that, he staggers back to his old house, only to make an astonishing discovery. His mother - who died eight years earlier - is still living there, and welcomes him home as if nothing ever happened. What follows is the one ''ordinary'' day so many of us yearn for, a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets, and to seek forgiveness. Somewhere between this life and the next, Charley learns the astonishing things he never knew about his mother and her sacrifices. And he tries, with her tender guidance, to put the crumbled pieces of his life back together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3389'),
(6173, 'For Your Eyes Only', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in 1908 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst, Fleming joined Reuters News Agency in 1931. During WW2 he was Personal Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty, rising from the rank of Lieutenant to Commander. He built his house, Goldeneye (where he wrote his first Bond novel), in Jamaica when he became Foreign Manager of Kemsley Newspapers. By the time of his death in 1964, he had sold over forty million books, and the cult of Bond was internationally established.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From AudioFile\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five short stories find James Bond facing danger from a variety of sources, all of which he escapes through fast thinking and even faster action. The suave, cultured British accent of Rintoul captures both the sophistication and complexity of Bond''s personality, in addition to defining his nationality. His dramatizations convey the moods, nuances and personal traits of all the characters, whether they''re Canadian, American, Italian or British. By softening his voice, changing his pace and mellowing his vocal tones, Rintoul realistically performs female voices, as well. Rintoul''s expert performance enlivens the story and helps guarantee that Fleming''s writings will remain popular with listeners. P.A.J. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1135'),
(6174, 'Ford Country: Stories', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <b>\n  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </b>\n <i>\n  New York Times\n </i>\n bestselling author John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill\n <i>\n  .\n </i>\n This riveting collection of short stories features an unforgettable cast of characters: Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons embark on a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit Inezâ€™s youngest son, Raymondâ€”on death row. A hard-drinking, low-grossing divorce lawyer fed up with his wife, his life, and the law plans a drastic escape after an unexpected phone call. A quiet, unassuming data collector sets out to bring down a flashy casino owner with his skill at blackjackâ€”as payback for the theft of his wife. A stalker hunts victims in a retirement home, a lawyer confronts a vengeful adversary from the past, and a young man from a prominent family is driven off by scandal and fearâ€”but finds unexpected redemption on the wrong side of the tracks. Often hilarious, frequently moving, and always entertaining, this collection makes it abundantly clear why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1213'),
(6175, 'Foreign Body', 'Robin Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends Jennifer Hernandez, an idealistic UCLA medical student, on a desperate search for answers about her grandmother''s sudden death. With the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery, who has her own deep connection to Jennifer''s grandmother.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3623'),
(6176, 'Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal&#39;s Journey From Down Under to All Over', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The leap between dreamy child living in a provincial Australian neighborhood and journalist hopscotching through war zones is massive. In\n <em>\n  Foreign Correspondence\n </em>\n , Geraldine Brooks (_chador_, much less a bulletproof vest," she says. Preserved in the cellar of her parents'' home in Sydney were letters Brooks had received as a teenager from several international pen pals, around whom she spun a romantic view of the world. Wondering about the reality of their lives and the progression of her own, she tracks them down in France, Japan, the Middle East, and New York. En route, Brooks delivers a wonderful meditation on childhood and adolescence lashed with rich details and quirky humor. Speaking of a current pen pal, she notes: "Raed, from the West Bank, stoned my car in 1987; now he writes to tell me how he''s faring in college."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Bored with her insular life in a suburb of Sydney, Australia, 11-year-old Geraldine Brooks turned to pen pals as an antidote. Her correspondence began across town with the daughter of a favorite journalist whose cosmopolitan life was a striking contrast to that of her own working-class family. Other pen pals included Joanie from New Jersey; Mishal, an Israeli Christian Arab; Cohen, an Israeli Jew; and Janine, a farmer''s daughter who wrote from a tiny French village. Geraldine''s global correspondence is enlightening, entertaining, myth shattering, and heartbreaking. In Joanie, she found a true and rare soulmate; however, the girl suffered a hidden anguish, hints of which were dismissed by her Australian friend. When Joanie died from anorexia, Geraldine''s grief and regret moved her to greater knowledge and deeper compassion. The author grew up to become a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, living the life she sought vicariously from her pen pals. Her return home upon her father''s death and the rediscovery of the letters prompted her to find out what happened to those individuals. Her efforts were met with enthusiasm by all except Mishal, and the subsequent meetings with the reluctant Israeli as well as with Joanie''s mother provided satisfying closure. The last pages of the memoir find the mature adventurer coming full circle to an appreciation for the small-town life she had once so derided. The desire to explore the lives of others and to express one''s individuality is strong in most young adults, who will readily identify with this intriguing memoir.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Jackie Gropman, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2115');
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(6177, 'Foreign Influence', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Navy SEAL turned covert operative Scot Harvath is called to action once again in Brad Thor''s hottest political thriller yet. Buried within the black ops budgets of the Department of Defense, a new spy agency has been created. Unfettered by the oversight of self-serving politicians, it reports only to a secret panel of military insiders. Its job is to target America''s enemies - both foreign and domestic - under a charter of three simple words: Find, Fix, and Finish. Recruited as a field operative, Scot Harvath has just returned from his first assignment abroad when a bombing in Rome kills a group of American college students. The evidence points to a dangerous colleague from Harvath''s past and a plan for further attacks on an unimaginable scale. Harvath is tasked with leveraging his relationship to lure the man out of hiding and kill him on the spot. But what if it is the wrong man? Simultaneously, a young woman is struck by a taxi in a hit-and-run in Chicago. With only two intoxicated witnesses and over five thousand cabs in the city, the Chicago Police have given up on their investigation. But when the family''s attorney digs deeper, he will uncover a shocking connection to the bombing in Rome and the perpetrators'' plans for America. As the story rockets to its conclusion, the plots intersect in a race to prevent one of the most audacious and unthinkable acts of war in the history of mankind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3240'),
(6178, 'Forever and a Day', 'Jill Shalvis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  LOVE CAN HAPPEN IN A HEARTBEAT\n  <br />\n  Grace never thought she''d be starting her life over from scratch. Losing everything has landed her in Lucky Harbor, working as a dog walker for overwhelmed ER doctor Josh Scott. But the day his nanny fails to show up, Grace goes from caring for Josh''s lovable mutt to caring for his rambunctious son. Soon Grace is playing house with the sexy single dad . . .\n  <br />\n  With so many people depending on him, Josh has no time for anything outside of his clinic and family-until Grace arrives in town. Now this brainy blonde is turning his life inside out and giving a whole new meaning to the phrase "good bedside manner." Josh and Grace don''t know if what they have can last. But in a town like Lucky Harbor, a lifetime of love starts with just one day . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Shalvis makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me sigh with pure pleasure." (\n  <strong>\n   Susan Andersen,\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author of *Playing Dirty\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Top Pick! 4 1/2 Stars! Laughter is served in doses as generous as the chocolate the heroine relies on to get through the day. Readers will treasure each turn of the page and be sorry when this one is over." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    RT Book Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story." (\n  <strong>\n   Robyn Carr,\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author of *Harvest Moon\n  </strong>\n  * )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Heartwarming and sexy...an abundance of chemistry, smoldering romance, and hilarious sisterly antics." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n   <em>\n    on\n   </em>\n   Simply Irresistible\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Jill Shalvis is a total original! It doesn''t get any better." (\n  <strong>\n   Suzanne Forster,\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Shalvis writes with humor, heart, and sizzling heat!" (\n  <strong>\n   Carly Phillips,\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   Bestselling Author\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill''s bestselling, award-winning books wherever romances are sold and visit her website for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  You can learn more at:\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  JillShalvis.com\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Twitter @jillshalvis\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Facebook.com/jillshalvis\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3818'),
(6179, 'Forever Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Besides having an unusual moniker, 21-year-old Odd Thomas (whom readers first met in Koontz''s 2003 novel of the same name) has some very unusual powers, chief among them his ability to see the dead. He can see, feel and talk to them, too (though they don''t talk back: "Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them"). These days Odd is still hosting the ghost of a morose Elvis Presley, still grieving for his dead girlfriend, Stormy, and still worrying about his very fat friend P. Oswald Boone, whose cat, Terrible Chester, likes to pee on his shoes. Late one night, Odd is summoned by the ghost of Dr. Wilbur Jessup to the Jessup home, the site of a gruesome murder. Dr. Jessup is the father of Odd''s best friend, Danny, who is afflicted with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bones. Odd finds Dr. Jessup''s body, but Danny is missing. Since Odd has what he describes as "psychic magnetism," he can follow an invisible mental trail, which in this case leads him to his endangered friend. After he finds Danny in a spooky, burned-out Indian casino, it is Odd who becomes the quarry. The beautiful and stunningly evil Datura, aided by two frightening minions, wants to use Odd for his supernatural abilitiesâ€”and then kill him. Odd''s strange gifts, coupled with his intelligence and self-effacing humor, make him one of the most quietly authoritative characters in recent popular fiction.\n <em>\n  (Nov. 29)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grieving the loss of his fiancee, killed during the climax of his eponymous debut despite anything he and his supernatural intuition could do, Odd Thomas returns in a more suspenseful but less piquant adventure. Only a year older (21), he feels almost ancient and more rueful than ever about his gift for seeing ghosts, Dr. Wilbur Jessup''s in particular. The loving stepfather of Odd''s brittle-boned friend Danny was alive yesterday, so Odd investigates, as the "psychic magnetism" that attends his ghost-seeing compels him to, and finds the physician brutally murdered and Danny missing. Odd tracks Danny and his abductors to an abandoned casino-hotel, closed by an earthquake that killed dozens five years ago. It''s a trap. Danny is bait to draw Odd to Datura, a spookily self-absorbed, wealthy porn entrepreneur and New Age nut, who, obsessed with violent death, wants Odd to make ghosts visible to her. He can''t, but there are eight ghosts in the casino, one of whom comes in handy when Odd escapes Datura and her two gorillas, rescues and hides Danny, and engages in the protracted, lethal game of cat-and-mouse that makes the novel good-to-the-last-page enthralling. Quite apart from Odd''s moroseness (understandable given his circumstances and endearing youthfulness), the tale''s stranglehold suspense allows for less of the offbeat humor that lightened\n <em>\n  Odd Thomas\n </em>\n (2003). Datura is a creation that allows Koontz some sledgehammer polemicizing against alternative religion and spirituality, which additionally darkens things. Not to complain, though. This is only slightly less than top-drawer Koontz.\n <em>\n  Ray Olson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1233'),
(6180, 'The Forever War', 'Dexter Filkins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Filkins, a\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  prizeâ€“winning reporter, is widely regarded as among the finest war correspondents of this generation. His richly textured book is based on his work in Afghanistan and Iraq since 1998. It begins with a Taliban-staged execution in Kabul. It ends with Filkins musing on the names in a WWI British cemetery in Baghdad. In between, the work is a vivid kaleidoscope of vig-nettes. Individually, the strength of each story is its immediacy; together they portray a theater of the absurd, in which Filkins, an extraordinarily brave man, moves as both participant and observer. Filkins does not editorializeâ€”a welcome change from the punditry that shapes most writing from these war zones. This book also differs essentially from traditional war correspondence because of its universal empathy, feelings enhanced by Filkins''s spare prose. Saudi women in Kabul airport, clad in burqas and stylish shoes, bemoan their husbands'' devotion to jihad. An Iraqi casually says to his friend, Let''s go kill some Americans. A marine is shot dead escorting Filkins on a photo opportunity. Iraqi soldiers are disconcerted when he appears in running shorts (They looked at [my legs] in horror, as if I were naked). Carl von Clausewitz said war is a chameleon. In vividly illustrating the varied ways people in Afghanistan and iraq have been affected by ongoing war, Filkins demonstrates that truth in prose. 5 photos.\n  <em>\n   (Sept. 17)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Filkins, foreign correspondent for theÂ New York Times,Â has covered the struggle against Islamic extremism in Afghanistan, Pakistan, andÂ Iran. HeÂ marshals his broad experience to present a wide-ranging view of this struggle, told through a series of intense, vivid, and startling vignettes. Embedded with marines during the struggle for Fallujah, Filkins describes an almost surreal scene of confusion and unvarnished violence. In Kabul, Filkins witnesses theÂ amputation of a pickpocketâ€™s hand, followed by the execution of an accused murderer under the Taliban regime. At a press briefing,Â a Taliban â€œminister of informationâ€ recites a litany of forbidden activities that is both absurd and terrifying. An interview with Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir, who bravely fought both the Soviets and the Taliban, is particularly poignant, since he would eventually be assassinated by al-Qaeda operatives.Â Filkins accompanies Americans searching a Sunni village for insurgents, where their insensitivity probably creates more enemies than they capture.Â A portrait of the difficulty, complexity, and savagery of a conflict that will be with us for some time. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2396'),
(6181, 'The Forge of Christendom', 'Tom Holland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In AD 900, few would have guessed that the splintering kingdoms of Christendom were candidates for future greatness. Hemmed in by implacable enemies on three sides, and by ocean on the fourth, it seemed that the Christian people had nowhere to turn. Indeed, there were many who fearedcast in the Millennium''s shadowthat they were nearing the time when the Antichrist would appear, drowning the world in blood and heralding its end. But the Antichrist did not appear, and Christendom did not collapse. Instead, forged from the convulsions of those terrible times, there emerged a new civilization as the Christian people set to the heroic task of building a Jerusalem on earth themselves. With an epic sweep that transports us from the crucifixion to the First Crusade, and from the glitter of Constantinople to the bleak shores of Canada, Tom Holland''s The Forge of Christendomis a brilliant study of a truly fateful revolution: the emergence of Western Europe for the first time as a distinctive and expansionist power. It was the age of Otto the Great and William the Conqueror, of Caliphs and Viking sea-kings, of hermits, monks, and serfs. It witnessed the spread of castles, the invention of knighthood, and the founding of a papal monarchy. Above all, it brought people to fear that the end days might be at hand, and yet alsowith an effort so prodigious that it has the power to move us stillto invent themselves anew. A momentous achievement: for this was nothing less than the founding of the modern West. It is an epic story that Tom Holland renders with the narrative skill and wide-angled scope of a novelist and the careful scholarship a historian. It will transform its readers'' conception of the origins of the Modern West.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2397'),
(6182, 'The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster&#39;s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture', 'Joshua Kendall', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1828 Noah Webster published the groundbreaking American Dictionary of the English Language and secured his niche as an avatar of a distinct American culture. Kendall (The Man Who Made Lists) honors Webster''s crucial contributions to early American nationalism, which extended far beyond his primary obsession, the written word. Kendall paints a complex portrait of Webster (1758â€“1843), a man he claims "housed a host of contradictory identities: revolutionary, reactionary, fighter, peacemaker, intellectual, commonsense philosopher, ladies'' man, prig, slick networker and loner." In spite of his flaws, Webster, Kendall argues not wholly successfully, belongs among the ranks of America''s notable founders, associating with George Washington and Ben Franklin, among others, to craft an early American identity rooted in national pride and a distinctly American lexicon. Citing frequent references to Webster''s nervous afflictions, Kendall ventures the somewhat shaky diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The book includes the politics of the "forgotten" founder, for example, noting that Webster "detested Andrew Jackson as the second coming of Jefferson," and a wide range of his activities, including helping found Amherst College. Kendall provides an intriguing look at one of America''s earliest men of letters that is sure to appeal to lovers of both words and history. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Mr. Kendall is a careful writer, and a gifted storyteller . . . [\n <em>\n  The Forgotten Founding Father\n </em>\n is] an engaging, almost novel-like read."\n <br />\n -Barton Swaim,\n <em>\n  The Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A gracefully told story that commands attention and confers on Webster deserved honor too long deferred."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Kirkus\n </em>\n (starred review)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] poignant look into the life of a figure who played a central role in the historical development of the American language. Kendell capably delves beyond the realm of words and into Webster''s social and intellectual worlds."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is by far the best, and best written, life of Webster. Kendall makes a convincing case that Webster invented American nationalism long before the American nation came into existence."\n <br />\n -Joseph J. Ellis, author of\n <em>\n  Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  His Excellency: George Washington\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "[\n <em>\n  The Forgotten Founding Father\n </em>\n ] paints a rich portrait of an American original, a man who was determined to shape a new American culture as an educator, political advocate, newspaper publisher, and path-breaking lexicographer. So obsessive that he counted the houses in every town he visited, Webster''s difficult personality was uniquely suited to creating a seminal dictionary almost entirely by himself."\n <br />\n -David O. Stewart, author of\n <em>\n  Impeached\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Summer of 1787\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2400'),
(6183, 'The Forgotten Highlander', 'Alistair Urquhart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious "Death Railway" and building the Bridge on the River Kwai. Subsequently, he moved to work on a Japanese "hell-ship," his ship was torpedoed, and nearly everyone on board the ship died. Not Urquhart. After five days adrift on a raft in the South China Sea, he was rescued by a Japanese whaling ship.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His luck would only get worse as he was taken to Japan and forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later, he was just ten miles from ground zero when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. In late August 1945, he was freed by the American Navyâ€”a living skeletonâ€”and had his first wash in three and a half years.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen, who survived not just one, but three encounters with death, any of which...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2401'),
(6184, 'The Forgotten Man', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Forgotten Man is a 2005 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the tenth in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole. It was nominated for the Shamus Award. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Crais''s latest L.A.-based crime novel featuring super-sleuth Elvis Cole blends high-powered action, a commanding cast and a touch of dark humor to excellent dramatic effect. One morning at four, Cole gets a call from the LAPD informing him that a murdered John Doe has claimed, with his dying breath, to be Cole''s father, a man Cole has never met. Cole immediately gets to work gathering evidence on the dead man - Herbert Faustina, aka George Reinnike - while cramping the style of the assigned detective, Jeff Pardy. Though Cole finds Reinnike''s motel room key at the crime scene, the puzzle pieces are tough to put together, even with the unfailing help of partner Joe Pike and feisty ex-Bomb Squad techie Carol Starkey, who''s so smitten with Cole that she can''t think of him without smiling. Days of smart sleuthing work take the self-proclaimed "World''s Greatest Detective" from a Venice Beach escort service to the California desert, then a hospital in San Diego, where doubts about Reinnike''s true heritage begin to dissipate. Meanwhile, a delusional psychopath named Frederick Conrad, who is convinced that his partner in crime was killed by Cole, stalks and schemes to even the score. There''s lots to digest, but this character-driven series continues to be strong in plot, action and pacing, and Crais (_The Last Detective_) boasts a distinctive knack for a sucker-punch element of surprise.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/524'),
(6185, 'The Forgotten Soldier', 'Guy Sajer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  This book recountsthe horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajerâ€™s war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a simple, desperate struggle for survival against cold, hunger, and above all the terrifying Soviet artillery. As a member of the elite Gross Deutschland Division, he fought in all the great battles from Kursk to Kharkov.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His German footsoldierâ€™s perspective makes\n  <em>\n   The Forgotten Soldier\n  </em>\n  a unique war memoir, the book that the\n  <em>\n   Christian Science Monitor\n  </em>\n  said "may well be the book about World War II which has been so long awaited." Now it has been handsomely republished as a hardcover containing fifty rare German combat photos of life and death at the eastern front. The photos of troops battling through snow, mud, burned villages, and rubble-strewn cities depict the hardships and destructiveness of war. Many are originally from the private collections of German soldiers and have never been published before. This volume is a deluxe edition of a true classic.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2402'),
(6186, 'Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia', 'Christopher Bayly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Combining breathtaking, evocative narrative with razor-sharp historical analysis, Bayly and Harper provide a dramatic account of independent Asia''s baptism of fire in the turbulent aftermath of the Second World War. They capture in vivid detail the euphoria and trauma that swept the crescent stretching from Calcutta to Singapore as Britain''s Asian empire unraveled. This brilliant book is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the history of Britain, Asia and empire.\n  <br />\n  --Sugata Bose, author of\n  <em>\n   A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire\n  </em>\n  (20070701)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like their earlier collaborative volume,\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies\n  </em>\n  , Bayly and Harper''s new book presents a fascinating story of Britain''s Asian empire in transition. Europeans, Americans, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Burmese, Malays, Indonesians, and many others interacted as they sought to define anew the nature of empire, territory, and citizenship. There is no better way to understand the region''s survival and emergence as a center of economic development and prosperity than to revisit the immediate postwar years under the expert guidance provided by Bayly and Harper.\n  <br />\n  --Akira Iriye, Professor of History Emeritus, Harvard University (20070813)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  is an insightful and original look at the fate of Britain''s Asian Empire in the wake of World War II. Engaging and provocative, the masterful discussion of the Malayan Emergency will be of interest to all concerned with the dilemmas presented by insurgencies in our contemporary world.\n  <br />\n  --Ronald Spector, author of\n  <em>\n   In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Struggle for a Postwar Asia\n  </em>\n  (20070809)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Historians Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper chronicle the ensuing struggles for Britain''s Southeast Asian colonies in\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia\n  </em>\n  , the sequel to their much-praised history of Britain''s Asian empire during World War II,\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941â€“1945\n  </em>\n  . Primarily a diplomatic and political history rather than a military history, the new book focuses on the causes of armed conflict. After Japan''s capitulation, Messrs. Bayly and Harper contend, Southeast Asia remained in a state of war for the same reasons it had entered into such a state: poverty, imperialism, and ethnic, religious, and ideological conflict. The authors have mined a very large number of sources. Most of their new historical unearthing can be found in the intricacies of Southeast Asian politics, which they describe in great detail and with careful nuance. Those deeply interested in the politics of Burma or Malaysia or other Southeast Asian countries will find much to delight them here.\n  <br />\n  --Mark Moyar (_New York Sun_ 20070901)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two years after their brilliant and vivid\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-45\n  </em>\n  , the Cambridge historians Bayly and Harper produce a sequel that examines Britain''s conflicts in Southeast Asia in the four years after the Second World War. While adroitly analyzing Britain''s hard-fought battle against insurrectionary forces in Malaya, the authors explore lesser-known episodes: Bengalese and Burmese skirmishes seldom highlighted in accounts of the Raj''s end, and the British interregnums between the ends of the Japanese occupations of Indonesia and Vietnam and the restorations of the respective former colonial administrations. (_The Atlantic_ 20080401)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Authoritative.\n  <br />\n  --Pankaj Mishra (_New Yorker_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  [A] compelling book...An extraordinary cast of characters populate\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  ...The authors write that "the end of empire is not a pretty thing if examined too closely," but when examined so ably it is certainly fascinating.\n  <br />\n  --Philip Delves Broughton (_Wall Street Journal_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  The authors are particularly good in their analysis of the problems of state building, on the one hand, and nation building, on the other. (_Foreign Affairs_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  movingly brings out the travails of ordinary people who got caught up within a vicious cycle of political turmoil, economic deprivation, and violence. This is a â€œmust readâ€ for those interested in histories of British imperialism and decolonization in Asia and those who would like an introduction to the comparative regional histories of nation-states in Southeast Asia after 1945.\n  <br />\n  --Haimanti Roy (_Journal of British Studies_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is neither an old-fashioned â€œtop downâ€ history of imperial politics in the region, nor a regional â€œbottom upâ€ account of nationalist resistance to European rule. Rather, it shows how British illusions about the nature of Britainâ€™s power in Southeast Asia collided with Asian national movements. This book addresses an important phase of that tragic history, for which, as the authors show, Britain bore considerable responsibility.\n  <br />\n  --A. Martin Wainwright (_American Historical Review_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In September 1945, after the fall of the atomic bomb--and with it, the Japanese empire--Asia was dominated by the British. Governing a vast crescent of land that stretched from India through Burma and down to Singapore, and with troops occupying the French and Dutch colonies in southern Vietnam and Indonesia, Britain''s imperial might had never seemed stronger.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet within a few violent years, British power in the region would crumble, and myriad independent nations would struggle into existence. Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper show how World War II never really ended in these ravaged Asian lands but instead continued in bloody civil wars, anti-colonial insurrections, and inter-communal massacres. These years became the most formative in modern Asian history, as Western imperialism vied with nascent nationalist and communist revolutionaries for political control.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  , a sequel to the authors'' acclaimed\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies\n  </em>\n  , is a panoramic account of the bitter wars of the end of empire, seen not only through the eyes of the fighters, but also through the personal stories of ordinary people: the poor and bewildered caught up in India''s Hindu-Muslim massacres; the peasant farmers ravaged by warfare between British forces and revolutionaries in Malaya; the Burmese minorities devastated by separatist revolt. Throughout, we are given a stunning portrait of societies poised between the hope of independence and the fear of strife.\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  vividly brings to life the inescapable conflicts and manifold dramas that shaped today''s Asia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (20070425)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2463'),
(6187, 'Fort Sumter to Perryville', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1954, Shelby Foote was a young novelist with a contract to write a short history of the Civil War. It soon became clear, however, that he had undertaken a long-term project. Twenty years later Foote finally completed his massive and essential trilogy on the War Between the States. His three books are prose masterpieces with lively characterizations and gripping action. Although Foote never sacrifices the truth of what happened to his penchant for artistry, his skills as a novelist serve him well. Reading all three of these books will take some time, but they are worth the investment--especially if you, like Foote, have a touch of sympathy for the South''s lost cause.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Civil War:\n </p>\n <p>\n  A Narrative\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fredericksburg to Meridian\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Walter Millis\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2351'),
(6188, 'The Fortunate Pilgrim', 'Mario Puzo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Puzo has called this 1965 pre-Godfather novel his personal favorite of his oeuvre. It recounts the life of Lucia Santa Angeluzzi-Corbo, a Southern Italian immigrant who settles in New York in the 1920s. This "very colorful and perceptive novel" remains "highly readable" for today''s audience (LJ 3/15/65).\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  efore The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo''s classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell''s Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant, comic and violent, and with a new preface by the author, The Fortunate Pilgrim is Italian-American fiction at its very best.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1900'),
(6189, 'Forty Lashes Less One', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it''s worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, and they''ll stay behind bars until they''re dead and rotting. But even in the worst place on Earth, there''s hope. And for two hard and hated inmates -- first enemies, then allies by necessity -- it waits at the end of a mad and violent contest ... on a bloody trail that winds toward Arizona''s five most dangerous men.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3144'),
(6190, 'Forward the Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The late Grand Master of science fiction brings his most famous work, the epic Foundation series, to a posthumous close in this volume. Returning to the format of earlier books in the saga, he presents the story in discrete, novella-length segments, finally grappling with the figure at the center of the entire series: the adult Hari Seldon, creator of psychohistory and father of the Foundation itself (the young Seldon was featured in the previous series novel, Prelude to Foundation ). Here, Seldon confronts various threats to the Empire or to the psychohistory project, thwarting them for the most part by his characteristic brand of informed intuition. In part I, Seldon recognizes the rise of a dangerous anti-Imperial movement led by the charismatic Jo-Jo Joranum, and defuses it while simultaneously backing into the post of First Minister. In the second segment (of five), Seldon narrowly avoids an attempt on his life but cannot prevent the assassination of the Emperor Cleon I. Seldon faces personal as well as political setbacks while civilization crumbles. This volume neatly sews up the series, though it offers few real surprises. Most interesting is the glimpse it affords of Asimov himself, obviously personified in Seldon. The psychohistorian''s vast intellectual interest, his concern for the future of learning in a time of decline, and his frustration in the face of mortality, ring true with special poignance. Asimov''s fans should savor this final taste of his unique persona.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-This prequel to the "Foundation" series chronicles the life of Hari Sheldon as he struggles with his developing science of psychohistory in order to secure humanity''s survival. It works best when read in conjunction with the previous six titles. However, Asimov has left readers with a fascinating portrayal of a man set against the backdrop of the "rise and fall of the galactic empire." It is well written and peopled with believable characters. Essential for all science-fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1144'),
(6191, 'Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Foundation\n </em>\n marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn''t look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (\n <em>\n  Foundation\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Foundation and Empire\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Second Foundation\n </em>\n ) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for "Best All-Time Series." It''s science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field.\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind''s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1053'),
(6192, 'Foundation and Earth', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man''s fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1142'),
(6193, 'Foundation and Empire', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Led by its founding father, the great psycho-historian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire--still the mightiest force in the Galaxy, even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire''s glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon. But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called the Mule-a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleets. . .a power that could turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n The\n <strong>\n  Foundation\n </strong>\n novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanity?s light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire?still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire?s glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called The Mule?a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleets?a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1054'),
(6194, 'Foundation&#39;s Edge', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1141'),
(6195, 'Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation', 'Joseph J. Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.\n</p>\n<p>\n During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation''s history, the greatest statesmen of their generation--and perhaps any--came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries. Ellis focuses on six discrete moments that exemplify the most crucial issues facing the fragile new nation: Burr and Hamilton''s deadly duel, and what may have really happened; Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison''s secret dinner, during which the seat of the permanent capital was determined in exchange for passage of Hamilton''s financial plan; Franklin''s petition to end the "peculiar institution" of slavery--his last public act--and Madison''s efforts to quash it; Washington''s precedent-setting Farewell Address, announcing his retirement from public office and offering his country some final advice; Adams''s difficult term as Washington''s successor and his alleged scheme to pass the presidency on to his son; and finally, Adams and Jefferson''s renewed correspondence at the end of their lives, in which they compared their different views of the Revolution and its legacy.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever-combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time; Hamilton, whose audacious manner and deep economic savvy masked his humble origins; Jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive and taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public; Madison, small, sickly, and paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation; and the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger-than-life, and America''s only truly indispensable figure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ellis argues that the checks and balances that permitted the infant American republic to endure were not primarily legal, constitutional, or institutional, but intensely personal, rooted in the dynamic interaction of leaders with quite different visions and values. Revisiting the old-fashioned idea that character matters,\n <strong>\n  Founding Brothers\n </strong>\n informs our understanding of American politics--then and now--and gives us a new perspective on the unpredictable forces that shape history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2464'),
(6196, 'The Fountainhead', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Fountainhead\n  </em>\n  has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand''s writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ayn Rand is a writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly. --\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review, Lorine Pruette\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1085'),
(6197, 'Four Blind Mice', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With his resignation from the Washington Police interrupted by a case involving a friend who has been framed for murder, Alex Cross and partner John Sampson journey across military lines to confront the most brutal killer of their careers. Alex Cross is plunged into a case where military codes of honor conceal dark currents of revenge and ambition, and the men controlling the moves have the best weapons and training the world can offer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/305'),
(6198, 'Four Past Midnight', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jet passengers are stuck in a time-slip, a psychopath accuses a writer of plagiarism, a man with an overdue book encounters a demonic librarian and a boy''s camera snaps photos of a huge and nasty dog in these four horror novellas. According to PW , "None is wildly scary, and only "The Library Policeman" offers King''s typical, colloquial, hard-driving conversational style with its compulsive readability."\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- Like some denizen of the dark, King weaves a spell evoking terror and shivers as he takes readers on a nightmarish journey in this quartet of novellas. In "Longoliers" a group of airline passengers awake to an empty plane, and an empty world. They have become stuck in time, out of sync with the present at 20,000 feet. "Secret Window, Secret Garden" finds novelist Mort Rainey confronted by an eerie character who accuses him of plagiarism, and has come to settle up. In "Sun Dog," Kevin Delevan gets exactly what he wanted for his 15th birthday, a Polaroid "Sun 660" camera, but every picture he takes shows a salivating "hell hound" getting closer and closer. In "Library Policeman," the best of the four, Sam Peebles borrows two books from the library late one night, and the librarian warns him not to be late returning them. What Sam doesn''t know is that she was a child murderer who committed suicide in 1960, and when he loses the books, her library policeman pays him a visit. Four Past Midnight is one of King''s best recent works. It is hard to put down, truly chilling, and sure to be enjoyed by YA horror aficionados everywhere.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/789');
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(6199, 'Fractured', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œBreathless tension!â€ raved the San Francisco Chronicle. â€œOne of [the yearâ€™s] most remarkable achievements,â€ crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer. Karin Slaughter dazzled readers and critics alike with Triptych, her New York Times bestselling suspense novel set in metropolitan Atlanta. Now the #1 internationally bestselling author returns to the damaged landscape she knows so well in a bold new novelâ€”at once a powder keg of suspense, a gritty portrait of a copâ€™s life, and a searing exploration of a shocking crime and its aftermathâ€¦ With its gracious homes and tree-lined streets, Ansley Park is one of Atlantaâ€™s most desirable neighborhoods. But in one gleaming mansion, in a teenagerâ€™s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her horrified mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughterâ€™s attacker with her bare hands. Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is here only to do a political favor; the murder site belongs to the Atlanta police. But Trent soon sees something that the cops are missing, something in the trail of blood, in a matrix of forensic evidence, and in the eyes of the shell-shocked mother. Within minutes, Trent is taking over the caseâ€”and adding another one to it. He is sure that another teenage girl is missing, and that a killer is on the loose.Armed with only fleeting clues, teamed with a female cop who has her own personal reasons for hating him, Trent has enemies all around himâ€”and a gnawing feeling that this case, which started in the best of homes, is cutting quick and deep through the ruins of perfect lives broken wide-open: where human demons emerge with a vengeance.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3340'),
(6200, 'Fragile', 'Lisa Unger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set in the Hollows, a secluded town about 100 miles outside New York City, Unger''s contemporary thriller offers solid entertainment, but lacks the tension of her 2008 stand-alone, Black Out. Psychologist Maggie Cooper and her husband, Det. Jones Cooper, disagree on how to handle their rebellious son, 17-year-old Rick, who prefers to spend time with his band or holed up with his girlfriend, Charlene Murray. When Charlene disappears one night after a fight with her mother, Maggie and Jones wonder if she ran off to Manhattan, but are reminded of the disappearance 20 years earlier of Sarah Meyers, whose mutilated body was found after she vanished on her way home from school. Though the alleged killer confessed, there are still unanswered questions, and Maggie and Jones find themselves forced to revisit the past as suspicion falls on Rick. Since the Hollows is so small, characters continually rehash secrets--and rumors--so that Unger relies too heavily on the community''s interconnectedness to bolster her plot.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  History repeats itself in the cozy suburban enclave of the Hollows when a teenage girl goes missing. Charleneâ€™s disappearance strikes uncomfortably close to home for psychiatrist Maggie and her policeman husband, Jones, opening wounds that go back 20 years to when they, and Charleneâ€™s mother, Melody, were high-school classmates and Maggieâ€™s best friend, Sarah, was found brutally murdered. Jones and Melody carry a secret from that time, one that involves school bully turned town cop Travis Crosby. Now both Maggie and Jonesâ€™ son, Ricky, and Travisâ€™ son, Marshall, are prime suspects in Charleneâ€™s disappearance; and while Jones harbors unsettling opinions about Ricky, Maggie knows other disturbing facts about Marshall. As tensions mount with each passing hour that Charlene is gone, the parents must face the truth about the teenagers they were if they are to help the children they themselves have raised. Ungerâ€™s taut and edgy tale stealthily plumbs the depths of desperation that grow more dangerous with the passage of time. --Carol Haggas\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/591'),
(6201, 'Frank: The Voice', 'James Kaplan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Peter Bogdanovich Reviews\n   <em>\n    Frank: The Voice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Peter Bogdanovich is an acclaimed director, producer, writer, actor, film critic, and author. He has directed over 25 feature films, including international award winners\n   <em>\n    Frank: The Voice\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  There has never been a book of this kind or quality about Frank Sinatra. Like the formidable novelist he is, James Kaplan has somehow managed to get inside the man and the legend, to such a degree that you feel you are living Sinatraâ€™s life with him, almost day by day. Yet it is the fastest read.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From his violent, deforming, traumatic birth, through his Hoboken childhood with a super-dominating mother and a weak father, through the heady, unprecedented bobby-sox years, his young marriage to the virtually saint-like Nancy, their three kids, his numerous--almost serial--infidelities, through the tumultuous affair with Ava Gardner--detailed as never before--through the much-frowned-on divorce, the suicide attempts, rivetingly onward through the near total collapse of his career, and right up through the miraculous comeback with the Oscar for\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sinatra the musician has never been taken as seriously or chronicled with such sensitivity and depth; it has never been as clear how very much the singer had to do with all aspects of his recordings and performances. This is a warts-and-all work, with a staggering amount of research to back everything up, revealing Nancy Sr. in all her grace, and Frank in all his moods, but it is never salacious or malicious, only honest, forthright and civilized. Nobody can be prepared for the life of a phenomenon--which Sinatra was--the first show business phenomenon of the 20th century, long before Elvis or the Beatles, and far more complicated and multi-layered. Being very human, Frank did the best he could with it all, and James Kaplan has done a magnificently resonant chronicle of the first half of an incredible journey. It leaves you hungering for the second volume!\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In this riveting and fast-paced biography, Kaplan, coauthor with Jerry Lewis of Dean and Me, chronicles Sinatra''s somewhat unlikely meteoric ascent to success, his failures, and his rebirth as a star of song and screen. With exhaustive, and sometimes exhausting, detail, Kaplan engagingly re-creates the young Sinatra''s childhood in Hoboken, N.J., where young Frank was born, in 1915. By the time he was 12, Sinatra was singing for quarters on top of the piano in the bar in his father''s tavern. At 21, Frankie joined a group that became known as the Hoboken Four, and everyone soon recognized Sinatra''s great vocal gift. Kaplan expertly conducts us on a journey through Sinatra''s early years with Tommy Dorsey and his long solo career; Sinatra''s first marriage to Nancy Barbato and his more famous marriage to Ava Gardner; and through Sinatra''s movie career and his rebirth in the early 1950s. Although Sinatra''s career often faltered in the late 1940s, his partnership with Nelson Riddle and the release of the song "Young at Heart" in 1953 began Sinatra''s comeback. Kaplan''s enthralling tale of an American icon serves as an introduction of "old blue eyes" to a new generation of listeners while winning the hearts of Sinatra''s diehard fans. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2117'),
(6202, 'Frankenstein: Lost Souls', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings his fertile imagination and unparalleled storytelling abilities to one of the most timelessâ€”and terrifyingâ€”creations in all of fiction: the legend of Frankenstein. In Lost Souls, Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong and forges a new legend uniquely suited to our timesâ€”a story of revenge, redemption, and the razor-thin line that separates humanity from inhumanity as we consider a new invitation to apocalypse.Â Â The work of creation has begun again. Only now things will be different. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the futureâ€”heâ€™s ready to populate it. Using stem cells, â€œorganicâ€ silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumansâ€”the perfect melding of flesh and machine. With a powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and a secret location where the enemies of progress canâ€™t find him, Victor is certain that this time, nothing and no one can stop him.It is up to five people to prove him wrong. In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself. They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson Oâ€™Connor and Michael Maddison; Victorâ€™s engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victorâ€™s first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewedâ€”and testedâ€”by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom, and joy, and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they could not have imagined. They will need all these resources, and more. For a monumental battle is about to commence that will require all their ingenuity and courage, as it defines what we are to be . . . and if we are to be at all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3396'),
(6203, 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything', 'Steven D. Levitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday life-from cheating and crime to parenting and sports-and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head. Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives-how people get what they want or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. Book jacket.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1056'),
(6204, 'Freaky Deaky', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A pair of former 1960s student activists who learned how to blow things up as part of their political education have teamed up after a prison stint and are on the loose in Detroit, out for a revenge against a former comrade who they now suspect of being a\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3124'),
(6205, 'Free Fall', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Elvis Cole is just a detective who can''''t say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies: Her fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer''''s sure he''''s in trouble - the kind of serious trouble that only Elvis Cole can help him out of.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Five minutes after his new client leaves his office, Elvis and his partner, the enigmatic Joe Pike, are hip-deep in a deadly situation as they plummet into a world of South Central gangs, corrupt cops, and conspiracies of silence. And before the case is through, every cop in the LAPD will be gunning for a pair of escaped armed-and-dangerous killers - Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Elvis lives . . . Elvis Cole, that is, the hottest, hippest L.A. gumshoe detective from award-winning author Robert Crais. In a roller-coaster of excitement and mystery, a dirty cop''s girlfriend hires Cole to get the goods on the cop. However, the cop swears he''s clean--merely cheating on the girlfriend. Crais''s smart-mouthing detective rivals the best in the genre.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/354'),
(6206, 'Free Fall', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Elvis Cole is just a detective who can''t say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies; Her fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer''s sure he''s in trouble - the kind of serious trouble that only Elvis Cole can help him out of. Five minutes after his new client leaves his office, Elvis and his partner, the enigmatic Joe Pike, are hip-deep in a deadly situation as they plummet into a world of South Central gangs, corrupt cops, and conspiracies of silence. And before the case is through, every cop in the LAPD will be gunning for a pair of escaped armed-and-dangerous killers - Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3760'),
(6207, 'Freedom', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the National Book Award-winning author ofÂ The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about familyPatty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paulâ€”the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walterâ€™s dreams. Together with Walterâ€”environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family manâ€”she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katzâ€”outrÃ© rocker and Walterâ€™s college best friend and rivalâ€”still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become â€œa very different kind of neighbor,â€ an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the streetâ€™s attentive eyes? In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedomâ€™s intensely realized characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3261'),
(6208, 'Freedom Summer', 'Bruce W. Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A majestic history of the summer of ''64, which forever changed race relations in America In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers'' shacks. But by the time their first night in the state had ended, three volunteers were dead, black churches had burned, and America had a new definition of freedom. This remarkable chapter in American history, the basis for the controversial film Mississippi Burning, is now the subject of Bruce Watson''s thoughtful and riveting historical narrative. Using in- depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi and the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state. Freedom Summer presents finely rendered portraits of the courageous black citizens-and Northern volunteers-who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life. Few books have provided such an intimate look at race relations during the deadliest days of the Civil Rights movement, and Freedom Summer will appeal to readers of Taylor Branch and Doug Blackmon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2465'),
(6209, 'The Freedom Writers Diary', 'Erin Gruwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Gruwell was a first-year high school teacher in Long Beach, CA, teaching the "unteachables" (kids that no other teacher wanted to deal with), she discovered that most of her students had not heard of the Holocaust. Shocked, she introduced them to books about toleranceAfirst-person accounts by the likes of Anne Frank and Zlata Filopvic, who chronicled her life in war-torn Sarajevo. The students were inspired to start keeping diaries of their lives that showed the violence, homelessness, racism, illness, and abuse that surrounded them. These student diaries form the basis of this book, which is cut from the same mold as Dangerous Minds: the outsider teacher, who isn''t supposed to last a month, comes in and rebuilds a class with tough love and hard work. Most readers will be proud to see how these students have succeeded; at the end of their four-year experience, the Freedom WritersAas they called themselves, in honor of the Freedom Riders of the 1960sAhad all graduated; Grunwell now works at the college level, instructing teachers on how to provide more interactive classes for their students. Recommended for youth, education, and urban studies collections.ADanna C. Bell-Russel, Lib. of Congress, Washington, DC\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these studentsâ€“whose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of abuseâ€“Gruwell was the first person to treat them with dignity, to believe in their potential and help them see it themselves. Soon, their loyalty towards their teacher and burning enthusiasm to help end violence and intolerance became a force of its own. Inspired by reading\n  <em>\n   The Diary of Anne Frank\n  </em>\n  and meeting Zlata Filipovic (the eleven-year old girl who wrote of her life in Sarajevo during the civil war), the students began a joint diary of their inner-city upbringings. Told through anonymous entries to protect their identities and allow for complete candor,\n  <em>\n   The Freedom Writers Diary\n  </em>\n  is filled with astounding vignettes from 150 students who, like civil rights activist Rosa Parks and the Freedom Riders, heard society tell them where to goâ€“and refused to listen.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Proceeds from this book benefit the Freedom Writers Foundation, an organization set up to provide scholarships for underprivieged youth and to train teachers\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1901'),
(6210, 'Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism', 'Susan Jacoby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of â€œfierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imaginationâ€ (The New York Times)At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason.In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby paints a striking portrait of more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution. Moving from nineteenth-century abolitionism and suffragism through the twentieth centuryâ€™s civil liberties, civil rights, and feminist movements, Freethinkers illuminates the neglected accomplishments of secularists who, allied with liberal and tolerant religious believers, have stood at the forefront of the battle for reforms opposed by reactionary forces in the past and today.Rich with such iconic figures as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Clarence Darrowâ€”as well as once-famous secularists such as Robert Green Ingersoll, â€œthe Great Agnosticâ€â€”Freethinkers restores to history generations of dedicated humanists. It is they, Jacoby shows, who have led the struggle to uphold the combination of secular government and religious liberty that is the glory of the American system. Susan Jacoby, an award-winning independent scholar, is the author of six previous books, including Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge, a New York Times Notable Book and Pulitzer Prize finalist. A contributor to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsday, Harper''s, Vogue, and The New Republic, among other publications, she lives in New York City. A Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2004At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers celebrates the noble and essential secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason.In impassioned, elegant prose, Susan Jacoby offers a powerful defense of more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution. Moving from nineteenth-century abolitionism and suffragism through the twentieth-century''s civil liberties, civil rights, and feminist movements, Freethinkers illuminates the neglected accomplishments of secularists who, allied with tolerant and liberal religious believers, have stood at the forefront of the battle for social reforms opposed by reactionaries in the past and today.Rich with such iconic figures as Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Clarence Darrowâ€”as well as once-famous secularists such as Robert Green Ingersoll, "the Great Agnostic"â€”Freethinkers restores to history generations of dedicated humanist champions. It is they, Jacoby shows, who have led the struggle to uphold the unique combination of secular government and religious liberty that is and always has been the glory of the American system.  A Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2004"In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic, it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all, the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution."â€”Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "Ardent and insightful, Ms. Jacoby seeks to rescue a proud tradition [of secularism in America] from the indifference of posterity. Her title was shrewdly chosen. ''Freethinker'' is what rebels against spiritual authority once called themselves, and it ennobles the breed with, if she''ll excuse the term, the holiest adjective in the lexicon of American politics. Her pantheon of skeptics includes names like Jefferson, Paine, Darrow, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, author of The Woman''s Bible that ridiculed the sexism of the apostles. And she rediscovers such figures as Robert Ingersoll, the Gilded Age orator who drew huge audiences with calls for ''a religion of humanity'' that would venerate only ''inquiry, investigation, and thought'' . . . Ms. Jacoby is no polemicist. She appreciates the pull of religionâ€”as community and creedâ€”while criticizing her own side for taking refuge in rational disdain. Beliefs, she knows, cannot promote themselves."â€”Michael Kazin, The New York Times"A gutsy, passionate, intelligent book . . . [Jacoby''s] discussion of Abraham Lincoln''s . . . confusion over religious belief is a forceful, unexpectedly poignant one. She reminds us that now largely forgotten heroes such as the agnostic Robert Green Ingersoll, more passionate and persevering in his beliefs than most, show us how to maintain a mutual respect for opponents . . . Invaluable . . . A must read for those interested in the ways our nation''s most cherished traditions of freedom evolvedâ€”and as a reminder of what is at stake in protecting that legacy."â€”Laura Claridge, Boston Globe"In lucid and witty prose, Jacoby has uncovered the hidden history of secular America."â€”Christopher Hitchens, The Washington Post Book World"Lively . . . A readable chronicle of the ebb and flow of American commitment to the divorce between political and religious authority."â€”Scott McLemee, Newsday"[Jacoby] accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion."â€”Edward Lazarus, The Los Angeles Times"In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic, it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all, the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution."â€”Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "In the best of all possible Americas every college freshman would be required to take a course called ''The History of American Secularism.'' The text would be Susan Jacoby''s Freethinkers, as necessary a book as could be published in the fourth year of the ministry of George W. Bush."â€”Philip Roth "This book is fresh air for those who defend the separation of church and state. Here, clearly written and without apologetics, is the noble record of the struggle to retain America''s precious freedom of conscience, her pride for two centuries, now under threat from the political Right as never before."â€”Arthur Miller"Freethinkers is not only a good book, it is also a necessary one. This dramatic study offers a welcome reminder that the Founding Fathers were intent on keeping church and state firmly separated. Lively, impassioned, and impartial, Susan Jacoby''s argument deserves more than respect; it deserves support."â€”Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University"At a time when a U.S. president divides the world into good and evil and claims God''s approval for his foreign adventures, we need Susan Jacoby''s lively history of the remarkable tradition of American freethought more than ever."â€”Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold''s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa "This thoroughly informed and gripping narrative reveals the moral and political importance of the secular tradition to a free people. In light of recent events, the book arrives at an opportune time for humanists and the religious alike."â€”Norman Dorsen, president, American Civil Liberties Union (1976-1991)"Susan Jacoby reminds us of one of our finest American traditions. With this striking and meticulous work, she has rescued the historic force of freethinking from political oblivion. Let us hope that this book points to a more rational future."â€”Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape"[This book] reclaims a key facet of American culture, secularism, or freethinking, the belief that public good is ''based on human reason and human rights rather than divine authority,'' a concept codified in the Constitution''s separation of church and state. Veteran author Jacoby feels that now is the perfect time for a thorough reexamination of America''s secular tradition because, as she documents, it is being severely eroded by the politics of the Christian Right. Her cogent and engaging narrative presents myriad neglected yet significant historical episodes and compelling profiles of such clarion freethinkers as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Paine, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucretia Mott, Walt Whitman, and John F. Kennedy. Jacoby reveals how the abolitionist and women''s rights movements, archetypal freethinking efforts, challenged orthodox religious institutions as obstacles to social reform, and she dissects the church''s role in organized censorship and negative impact on public education, especially its opposition to the teaching of evolution. As Jacoby critiques the rise of religious correctness and tracks President Bush''s assault on the line between church and state, she reminds readers that humanist values are the bedrock of democracy. Enlightening, invigorating, and responsibly yet passionately argued, Jacoby''s unparalleled history of American secularism offers a much needed perspective on today''s most urgent social issues."â€”Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)"Is America really one nation under God? Not according to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Susan Jacoby, who argues that it is America''s secularist ''freethinkers'' who formed the bedrock upon which our nation was built. Jacoby contends that it''s one of the ''great unresolved paradoxes'' that religion occupies such an important place in a nation founded on separation of church and state. She traces the role of ''freethinkers,'' a term first coined in the 17th century, in the formation of America from the writing of the Constitution to some of our greatest social revolutions, including abolition, feminism, labor, civil rights, and the dawning of Darwin''s theory of evolution. Jacoby has clearly spent much time in the library, and the result is an impressive literary achievement filled with an array of both major and minor figures from American history, like revolutionary propagandist Thomas Paine, presidents Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Robert Green Ingersoll. Her historical work is further flanked by current examplesâ€”the Bush White House in an introduction and the views of conservative Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia in the final chapterâ€”that crystallize her concern over secularism''s waning influence . . . Jacoby has done yeoman''s work in crafting her message that the values of America''s freethinkers belong ''at the center, not the margins'' of American life."â€”Publishers Weekly"A lively history of American antispiritualism, with a stellar cast. ''The first six presidents of the United States did not invoke the blessings of the deity as frequently in their entire public careers as President Bush does each month,'' writes freelance journalist Jacoby. Bless their innocent souls, those six presidents took the constitutional separation of church and state seriously, even as a couple of themâ€”Jefferson and Madisonâ€”harbored deistic notions (God may not be dead, but he''s probably not well) that weighed against their invoking the divinity. Jacoby hails Thomas Paine as our exemplary ''revolutionary secularist,'' omitting God whenever he could as certain compatriots in the new U.S. worried that unless the chief executive took an oath to some organized Protestant church, ''a Turk, a Jew, a Roman Catholic, and what is worse than all, a Universalist, may be President of the United States,'' as one speaker at the Massachusetts constitutional convention put it. Jacoby examines the opaque religious beliefs of the Founders, recalling that Jefferson excited opposition in the 1800 presidential campaign for his apparent indifference to religion, as well as his remark that ''it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.'' She enlists Abe Lincoln in the secularist roll, although some scholars will object. She traces the origins of state mottos like ''In God We Trust'' and ''one nation under God,'' the one a sop to clerics during the Civil War, the other one of ''a new, bland, and compulsory set of quasi-religious rituals'' meant to serve as a Cold War repudiation of Soviet atheism. Jacoby closes by remarking that although the line between church and state now seems to be fading, most Americans regard that separation as desirable and ''oppose the religious right''s attempts to sacralize decisions on such matters as biomedical research.'' Balm for doubting Thomasesâ€”and a welcome addition to American cultural history."â€”Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2468'),
(6211, 'Fresh Disasters', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  With *Dark Harbor*, Stuart Woods proved yet again that he is the master of the popular crime novel. Now he outdoes himself with the newest addition to the series.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Stone Barrington embarks on his most dangerous adventure yet when he takes on a job as a lawyer for a sleazy and clueless con man-and ends up getting embroiled in the underworld of the New York mafia. It started out as just another late night at Elaine''s, where Stone was eating a porterhouse steak and enjoying the company of his friends. But when Herbie Fisher, a notoriously not-so-sharp swindler, walked in, the pleasant atmosphere turned to ice.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Herbie convinces Bill Eggers, the managing partner of Woodman &amp; Weld, to sign him on as a client-with the goal of taking down the infamous mafia boss Carmine Datilla. And even though Stone doesn''t want to have anything to do with Herbie-or the mafia, for that matter-he is soon coerced into being Herbie''s lawyer.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  With the help of his ex-partner, Dino, Stone investigates "Datilla the Hun," and the rest of the mob family, encountering intrigue and danger at every turn. Will Stone finally take a stand, or will he end up at the bottom of Sheepshead Bay?\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  With the swift action, razor-sharp characters, and crackling dialogue that are Stuart Woods''s hallmarks, *Fresh Disasters* is Woods at the very height of his storytelling powers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2676'),
(6212, 'Friends Forever', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Five children meet on the first day of kindergarten. In the years that follow, they become friends and more than friends. Together, they will find strength, meet challenges, face lifeâ€™s adventures, endure loss, face stark realities, and open their hearts. In this moving novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel traces their unforgettable journeyâ€”full of tests and trialsâ€”as three boys and two girls discover the vital bonds that will last a lifetime. Â  FRIENDS FOREVER Â  Gabby, Billy, Izzie, Andy, and Seanâ€”each bursting with their own personality, strikingly different looks and talents, in sports, science, and the arts. Each drawn by the magical spark of connection that happens to the young. At the exclusive Atwood School, on a bright September day, starting in kindergarten they become an inseparable group known to outsiders as the Big Five. In this rarefied world, five families grow closer, and five children bloom beside one another, unaware of the storms gathering around them. Â  As they turn from grade-schoolers to teenagers, seemingly perfect lives are buffeted by unraveling families, unfortunate missteps, and losses and victories great and small. And, one by one, they turn back to the Big Five to regain their footing and their steady course. But as they emerge from Atwood and enter the college years, the way forward is neither safe nor clear. As their lives separate and diverge, the challenges and risks become greater, the losses sharper, and the right paths harder to choose, in a journey of friendship, survival, and love. Â  In what may be her most intricate and emotionally powerful novel yet, Danielle Steel tells a heart-wrenching, ultimately triumphant story that spans decades, weaves together a vivid cast of characters, and captures the challenges we face in lifeâ€”sometimes, if weâ€™re lucky, with a friend forever by our side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3878'),
(6213, 'Fries Alive!', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "A master crafter of thrills, bestselling novelist David Baldacci shows his tremendous talent for side-splitting storytelling in this hilarious adventure about fame, friends, and family. Here is the story where readers first met Theodore, Wally, Curly, Ziggy, Si, and Meese (French fries so lovable you won''t want to eat them!). But shoestring, waffle, wedge, curly, and crinkle-cut potatoes were never more irresistible than in this zany adventure about five giant fries that come to life--well, six if you count heads. It all begins when Freddy Funkhauser, an offbeat nine-year-old with a knack for science, embarks on an ambitious plan to win new customers for the family business, The Burger Castle. But when his secret invention ends up working better than he''d ever dreamed, his plans go wildly awry as his kooky companions wreak havoc in every corner of Freddy''s world!"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/241'),
(6214, 'From a Buick 8', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen King, an evil car, and a teenage boy coming to terms with the fragility and randomness of life.... Wait, haven''t we read this before? Diehard King fans, worry not. Aside from the titular car playing a main role in the story,\n <em>\n  From a Buick 8\n </em>\n could not be less like King''s 1983 masterpiece,\n <em>\n  Christine\n </em>\n . If anything, this story resembles King''s serial novel\n <em>\n  The Green Mile\n </em>\n , with reminiscing police characters flashing back on bizarre events that took place decades earlier.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book''s intriguing plot revolves around the troopers of Pennsylvania State Patrol Troop D, who come into possession of what at first appears to be a vintage automobile. Closer inspection and experimentation conducted by the troopers reveal that this car''s doors (and trunk) sometimes open to another dimension populated by gross-out creatures straight out of ... well, a Stephen King novel. As the plot progresses, the veteran troopers'' tales of these visits from interdimensional nasties, and the occasional "lightquakes" put on by the car, are passed on to the son of a fallen comrade whose fascination with the car bordered on dangerous obsession.\n</p>\n<p>\n Unlike earlier King works, there is no active threat here; no monster is stalking the heroes of the story, unless you count the characters'' own curiosity. In past books, King has terrorized readers with vampires, werewolves, a killer clown, ghosts, and aliens, but this time around, the bogeyman is a more passive, cerebral threat, and one for which they don''t make a ready-to-wear Halloween costume--man''s fascination with and fear of the unknown. While some readers may find this tale less exciting than the horror master''s earlier works,\n <em>\n  From a Buick 8\n </em>\n is a wonderful example of how much King''s plotting skills and literary finesse have matured over his long career. And, most of all, it''s a darn creepy book.\n <em>\n  --Benjamin Reese\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n King, we learn in an author''s note, hashed out the plot of this gripper while driving from western Pennsylvania to New York. The first draft took two months to write. That''s quick work, and it''s reflected in the book''s simplicity of plot and theme; unlike King''s chewy last novel, Dreamcatcher, this one goes down like a shot of moonshine, hot and clean, much like Cujo, say, or Gerald''s Game. In 1979, an odd man drives what at first glance looks like a 1954 mint-quality Buick Roadmaster up to a service station in rural Pennsylvania, then vanishes, leaving behind the car. The state police of Troop D deposit the vehicle in a shed near their barracks, where, up to the present, it remains a secret from all but cop colleagues for the car isn''t exactly a car; it may be alive, and it certainly serves as a doorway between our world and... what? Another dimension? Another galaxy? The troopers never find out, despite their amateurish scientific investigations of it and of the weird beings that occasionally emerge from the vehicle''s trunk: freaky fish, creepy flowers and more. Moreover, the "car" is dangerous: the day it appears, a state trooper disappears, and experiments over the years with cockroaches, etc., indicate that just as the car can spew things out, it will ingest them. While the book''s relative brevity and simplicity does lend comparison to earlier King, and King has relied on a nasty car before (Christine), the author''s stylistic maturity manifests in his sophisticated handling of the round robin of narrators (both first and third-person), the sharp portrayal of police ways and mores and the novel''s compelling subthemes (loyalty, generational bondings) and primary theme: that life is filled with Buick 8s, phenomena that blindside us and that we can never understand. This novel isn''t major King, but it''s nearly flawless and one terrific entertainment.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/793'),
(6215, 'From Dead to Worse', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit, Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed, yearning for things to get back to normal. But her boyfriend Quinn is among the missing. And things are changing, whether the weres and vamps in her corner of Louisiana like it or not. In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, deathÃ½and once more, betrayal by someone she loves. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood ceases flowing, her world will be forever altered.Ã½WithÃ½an audacious wink of her eye, Harris creates a world that is both a weird possibility and a wild ride.Ã½ Ã½ANNISTON (AL) STARÃ½[An] increasingly riotous series.Ã½Ã½DALLAS MORNING NEWS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3579'),
(6216, 'From Eternity to Here', 'Sean Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward?** Time moves forward, not backward-everyone knows you can''t unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today''s hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and other universes, too. In *From Eternity to Here*, Sean Carroll argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely from the past to the future, owes its existence to conditions *before* the Big Bang itself-a period modern cosmology of which Einstein never dreamed. Increasingly, though, physicists are going out into realms that make the theory of relativity seem like child''s play. Carroll''s scenario is not only elegant, it''s laid out in the same easy-to- understand language that has made his group blog, Cosmic Variance, the most popular physics blog on the Net. *From Eternity to Here* uses ideas at the cutting edge of theoretical physics to explore how properties of spacetime before the Big Bang can explain the flow of time we experience in our everyday lives. Carroll suggests that we live in a baby universe, part of a large family of universes in which many of our siblings experience an arrow of time running in the opposite direction. It''s an ambitious, fascinating picture of the universe on an ultra-large scale, one that will captivate fans of popular physics blockbusters like *Elegant Universe* and *A Brief History of Time*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2773'),
(6217, 'From Potter&#39;s Field', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Kay Scarpetta immediately recognizes the grisly work of Temple Gault, a bold and brilliant killer from her past. Now she must hunt down a psychopath whose string of horrible murders is leading inexorably to his ultimate prey: Scarpetta herself. Even with the help of the FBI, Scarpetta knows the endgame is hers alone to play -- and it will be played on Gault''s home turf, the subway tunnels beneath New York City.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta plays a tense cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer, an old enemy, in her sixth outing (following The Body Farm), and he has her badly rattled. The story begins as a rotten Christmas for Scarpetta: Temple Gault has struck again, leaving a naked, apparently homeless girl shot in Central Park on Christmas Eve; Scarpetta, as the FBI''s consulting pathologist, is called in. Later, a transit cop is found shot in a subway tunnel, and, back home in Richmond, Va., the body of a crooked local sheriff is delivered to Scarpetta''s own morgue by the elusive, brilliant Gault. The normally unflappable Scarpetta finds herself hyperventilating and nearly shooting her own niece. In the end, some ingenious forensic detective work and a visit to the killer''s agonized family set up a high-tech climax back in the New York subway, which Gault treats as the Phantom of the Opera did the sewers of Paris. There''s something faintly unconvincing about Gault (in a competitive field, it''s tough to create a really horrific serial killer), and Scarpetta, stuck with her own family troubles and involved in a rather glum affair with a colleague, seems to be running low on energy. Still, this is a compelling, fast-moving tale, written in a highly compressed style, and only readers who know that Cornwell can do better are likely to complain. Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club and Mystery Guild selections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3035'),
(6218, 'From Russia With Love', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Every major foreign government organization has a file on British secret agent James Bond. Now, Russia''s lethal SMERSH organization has targeted him for elimination. SMERSH has the perfect bait in the irresistible Tatiana Romanova, who lures 007 to Istanbul promising the top-secret Spektor cipher machine. But when Bond walks willingly into the trap, a game of cross and double-cross ensues, with Bond both the stakes and the prize.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1132'),
(6219, 'From This Moment On', 'Shania Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From bestselling and award-winning country/pop star Shania Twain, an in-depth look at her hard-scrabble childhood and her rise to worldwide fame.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2119');
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(6220, 'From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front-Line Dispatches From the Advertising War', 'Jerry Della Femina', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œBrilliant. . .Best enjoyed after a three-martini lunch.â€ â€“GQ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhen there was some debate about whether something was accurate or not, Jerry said ''You''re not even close. It was so much worse than what you''re seeing on the show.''"\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Matthew Weiner, creator and executive producer of\n  <em>\n   Mad Men (GQ)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReads like the transcript of a tape made at a bar or cocktail party with the recorder propped up next to the raconteur at the center of the crowd.â€ â€“_Salon_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe ''Mad Men'' of this book were not mad at all. They were clever and articulate proponents of the American Dream. The book evokes a long-lost era of American self-confidence and optimism, and helps explain how America became a cultural icon.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Maurice Saatchi, co-founder of Saatchi &amp; Saatchi and M&amp;C Saatchi\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vividly reminiscent of the goings-on at Sterling Cooper\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  the late nights, the three-martini lunches, the sex on couches, and, of course, the actual work of plugging products\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  this is the story of what Madison Avenue was really like in the â€™60s. A worldwide bestseller when first published in 1970, this frank, irreverent, and hilarious memoir is a one-of-a-kind cult classic.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2121'),
(6221, 'The Front', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Cornwell''s latest mystery thriller, the celebrated author''s At Risk team pairs up once again to tackle a loose association of police departments known as the Front. With a powerful stage presence and a voice that captivates for hours, Kate Reading delivers a home-run performance that captures the essence and authority of Cornwell''s prose. Reading, whose name tells us exactly what she''s best at, leaps into character in this understated yet creatively nuanced reading that is both honest and entertaining. She understands just how to bring Cornwell''s words to life and does so with great passion.\n  <em>\n   A Putnam hardcover (reviewed online). (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "[A] classically written crime novel...sure to please."\n  <br />\n  -_USA Today_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3022'),
(6222, 'Frost/Nixon', 'David Frost', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following the resounding success of the eponymous West End and Broadway hit play,\n <em>\n  Frost/Nixon\n </em>\n tells the extraordinary story of how Sir David Frost pursued and landed the biggest fish of his career--and how the series drew larger audiences than any news interview ever had in the United States, before being shown all over the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is Frost''s absorbing story of his pursuit of Richard Nixon, and is no less revealing of his own toughness and pertinacity than of the ex-President''s elusiveness. Frost''s encounters with such figures as Swifty Lazar, Ron Ziegler, potential sponsors, and Nixon as negotiator are nothing short of hilarious, and his insight into the taping of the programs themselves is fascinating.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Frost/Nixon\n </em>\n provides the authoritative account of the only public trial that Nixon would ever have, and a revelation of the man''s character as it appeared in the stress of eleven grueling sessions before the cameras. Including historical perspective and transcripts of the edited interviews, this is the story of Sir David Frost''s quest to produce one of the most dramatic pieces of television ever broadcast, described by commentators at the time as "a catharsis" for the American people.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Questions for Sir David Frost\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n It must have been an extraordinary experience when you went to see\n <em>\n  Frost/Nixon\n </em>\n the play for the first time. How did it feel?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Frost:\n </strong>\n It was indeed a unique experience. But after about 20 minutes, I stopped thinking of Michael Sheen as "me" and more as "the Frost character." That was because I know and care about the underlying material so much and was concerned to see how that was depicted.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I interviewed Michael in December 2006, shortly after the Broadway production and the film had been announced, Michael said, "Do you realise? I''m going to be playing David Frost for the next year?" "That''s a coincidence," I said, "so am I!"\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n When the producers of\n <em>\n  Frost/Nixon\n </em>\n came to you for permission to adapt these events from your life into a play, they asked for complete editorial control over the story, which you say you hesitated before granting. That same control, of course, was one of the crucial agreements with Richard Nixon that gave your interviews such drama and importance. What was it like to grant the producers the same open-ended permission that Nixon had once given you?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Frost:\n </strong>\n You are quite right--the editorial control that we had during the Nixon Interviews was absolutely essential. Essential for ensuring that the most important material was all included, and essential for the credibility of the interviews. As I describe in the book, the moment that Nixon''s agent, Swifty Lazar, told me that his client had no problem with my having editorial control, that was a great relief, and indeed an extremely pleasant surprise. Swifty Lazar explained that Nixon was also aware of the need for the interviews to have complete credibility. Indeed during the interviews he went further and said that he regarded himself to be speaking under oath throughout the interviews.\n</p>\n<p>\n I suppose that the editorial control that I granted to Peter Morgan and Matthew Byam-Shaw for the play was somewhat different. I was in a sense giving them the right to fictionalise certain scenes--hopefully as few as possible--in the course of producing the play. There could never be any fictionalising in editing the Nixon Interviews because we were dealing solely with Nixon''s own words, spoken by him.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Why do you think Nixon thought it was in his interest to participate in a public interrogation he had little control over?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Frost:\n </strong>\n Richard Nixon often referred to "the power of television." When Jimmy Carter, who was President at the time the interviews were being taped, announced a fireside chat from the Oval Office, Nixon approved and said, "It''s the tube. That''s what matters. It''s the tube." I think he hoped in this case that "the tube" would, in some way, exonerate him.\n</p>\n<p>\n The fact that I had not been on the nightly news every night of his Watergate ordeal may have made him think that I would be more independent or open-minded, and he may not have been wholly aware of some of the heavyweight interviews I had conducted in America and the UK.\n</p>\n<p>\n I think he was also in a state of some financial insecurity, not knowing for example how many of the people who were serving prison sentences for following his instructions might sue him when they were released.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Much of the drama of the interviews comes from this strange relationship at the heart of it: on one hand, you and Nixon were partners in producing this piece of televised theater, on the other you were adversaries, nearly prosecutor and defendant at times. Can you describe what it was like to negotiate that relationship in real time, once the interviews began?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Frost:\n </strong>\n The tone of the relationship was affected by whatever the current topic of that dayâ€™s interview. On the first day of Watergate, we were indeed prosecutor and defendant, but when we were discussing the breakthrough to China, we were more like Johnson and Boswell. Once the arrangements were made and the interviews were underway, the arrangements faded into the background.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n What role do you think the interviews played in America''s experience of Nixon and Watergate? Americans like trials--was it the trial of the president that we never had?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Frost:\n </strong>\n Yes, I think it was. Many commentators wrote that they felt the interviews--and particularly Watergate--were the catharsis that Americans needed after the traumatic events of 1973 and 1974.\n</p>\n<p>\n A few months after the interviews, Richard Nixon would probably have said that he regretted undertaking them because he admitted so much more in his mea culpa than he had planned to. However, even for Nixon, there was probably a longer term benefit, namely that he could not have returned to New York and "polite society" if he had never faced up to these issues in a forum which he did not control.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n You''ve interviewed President Bush, as you have every president since Nixon. Could you imagine that he (and Vice President Cheney) would consider sitting down for such a series of retrospective interviews once they are out of office? If they sat down with you, what questions would you most want to ask them?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Frost:\n </strong>\n I made a firm point with Nixon that he would not know any of the questions in advance, so Iâ€™m scarcely likely to reveal the questions I would ask President Bush and Vice President Cheney more than a year ahead!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Is there one moment over any others that you particularly recall from the interviews?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Frost:\n </strong>\n On the first day of the Watergate interviews, Nixon had admitted nothing--not even mistakes. That session was a disaster for him. On the second day, we made progress and he admitted to mistakes. However, he had to go a lot further. I said to him, "Coming to the sheer substance--would you go further than ''mistakes''? The word that seems not enough for people to understand."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Well, what word would you express?"\n</p>\n<p>\n It was the most heart-stopping response I have ever had in my life. I had spent hours cross-examining Richard Nixon. Now he wanted me to testify for him as well. Yet, unless I was able to frame with precision what it was we wanted to hear form him, the moment would be lost, never to be recaptured. As a symbolic gesture, I picked up my clipboard from my lap, and tossed it onto the floor beside my chair...\n</p>\n<p>\n As I tell in the book, I made my ad-lib statement of the three things that I felt the American people needed to hear, and the ensuing 20 minutes were the most intense I can ever remember as he addressed all three points in turn.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following the resounding success of the eponymous West End and Broadway hit play,\n <em>\n  Frost/Nixon\n </em>\n tells the extraordinary story of how Sir David Frost pursued and landed the biggest fish of his careerâ€”and how the series drew larger audiences than any news interview ever had in the United States, before being shown all over the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is Frost''s absorbing story of his pursuit of Richard Nixon, and is no less revealing of his own toughness and pertinacity than of the ex-President''s elusiveness. Frost''s encounters with such figures as Swifty Lazar, Ron Ziegler, potential sponsors, and Nixon as negotiator are nothing short of hilarious, and his insight into the taping of the programs themselves is fascinating.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Frost/Nixon\n </em>\n provides the authoritative account of the only public trial that Nixon would ever have, and a revelation of the man''s character as it appeared in the stress of eleven grueling sessions before the cameras. Including historical perspective and transcripts of the edited interviews, this is the story of Sir David Frost''s quest to produce one of the most dramatic pieces of television ever broadcast, described by commentators at the time as â€œa catharsisâ€ for the American people.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2470'),
(6223, 'The Fry Chronicles', 'Stephen Fry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry''s autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Now he is not just a multi-award-winning comedian and actor, but also an author, director and presenter. In January 2010, he was awarded the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards. Much loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. This dazzling memoir promises to be a courageously frank, honest and poignant read. It will detail some of the most turbulent and least well known years of his life with writing that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you and, above all, surprise you.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2123'),
(6224, 'Full Black', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor brings readers his darkest and most intriguing thriller yetâ€”a terrifying story of espionage and betrayalâ€”brilliantly paced with superb nonstop action.Born in the shadows and kept from heads of state, there are some missions so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply donâ€™t exist. When one such mission goes horribly wrong, a wave of dramatic terrorist attacks is set in motion. Their goal: the complete and total collapse of the United States.With the CIAâ€™s intelligence abilities hobbled, former Navy SEAL Team 6 member turned covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath launches an audacious plan to infiltrate the terroristsâ€™ network and prevent one of the biggest threats the United States has ever faced. Simultaneously, a foreign wet work team has been sent to California. Their target: one of Hollywoodâ€™s most famous filmmakers. While working on a secret documentary project, movie producer Larry Salomon has unknowingly exposed one of the worldâ€™s wealthiest and most politically connected powerbrokersâ€”a man with a radical anti-American agenda poised to plunge the nation into deadly, irreversible chaos.As the plots rocket to their pulse-pounding conclusion and the identities of the perpetrators are laid stunningly bare, Harvath will be left with only one means to save America. Unable to trust anyone, he will be forced to go Full Black.Intense and frighteningly realistic, FULL BLACK is, hands down, Brad Thorâ€™s most riveting thriller to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3697'),
(6225, 'Full Dark, No Stars', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2010\n </strong>\n : When a master of horror and heebie-jeebies like Stephen King calls his book\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars\n </em>\n , you know youâ€™re in for a treat--that is, if your idea of a good time is spent curled up in a ball wondering why-oh-why you started reading after dark. King fans (and those who have always wanted to give him a shot) will devour this collection of campfire tales where marriages sway under the weight of pitch-black secrets, greed and guilt poison and fester, and the only thing you can count on is that "there are always worse things waiting."\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars\n </em>\n features four one-sitting yarns showcasing King at his gritty, gruesome, giddy best, so be sure to check under the bed before getting started.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Justin Cronin, Suzanne Collins, Margaret Atwood, and T.C. Boyle Review Stephen King''s *Full Dark, No Stars\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "King is Poe''s modern heir, and no writer has a richer sense of the dark rooms in the human psyche and fiction''s singular power to capture them."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Read more of Justin Cronin''s\n <br />\n review of "1922""Fast-paced and beautifully plotted, ''Big Driver'' pulls you into Tess''s fragmented mind and holds you hostage until the story concludes."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Read more of Suzanne Collins''s\n <br />\n review of "Big Driver""It wouldn''t be Stephen King if somebody''s messily bleeding neck did not sprout a huge white knob. As it were."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Read more of Margaret Atwood''s review\n <br />\n of "A Good Marriage""[King''s] very ordinary-looking devil has no use for human souls, which, in these enervated times, ''have become poor and transparent things.''"\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Read more of T.C. Boyle''s review\n <br />\n of "Fair Extension"\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Eerie twists of fate drive the four longish stories in King''s first collection since Just After Sunset (2008). In "1922," a farmer murders his wife to retain the family land she hopes to sell, then watches his life unravel hideously as the consequences of the killing suggest a near-supernatural revenge. "Big Driver" tells of an otherwise ordinary woman who discovers her extraordinary capacity for retribution after she is raped and left for dead. "A Good Marriage" explores the aftermath of a wife''s discovery of her milquetoast husband''s sinister secret life, while "Fair Extension," the book''s most disturbing story, follows the relationship between a man and the best friend on whom he preternaturally shifts all his bad luck and misfortune. As in Different Seasons (1982), King takes a mostly nonfantastic approach to grim themes. Now, as then, these tales show how a skilled storyteller with a good tale to tell can make unsettling fiction compulsively readable. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/794'),
(6226, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned', 'Michael J. Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Michael J. Fox abandoned high school to pursue an acting career, but went on to receive honorary degrees from several universities and garner the highest accolades for his acting, as well as for his writing. In his new book, he inspires and motivates graduates to recognize opportunities, maximize their abilities, and roll with the punchesÂ—all with his trademark optimism, warmth, and humor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future\n  </em>\n  , Michael draws on his own life experiences to make a case that real learning happens when "life goes skidding sideways." He writes of coming to Los Angeles from Canada at age eighteen and attempting to make his way as an actor. Fox offers up a comically skewed take on how, in his own way, he fulfilled the requirements of a college syllabus. He learned Economics as a starving artist; an unexpected turn as a neophyte activist schooled him in Political Science; and his approach to Comparative Literature involved stacking books up against their movie versions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Replete with personal stories and hilarious anecdotes, Michael J. Fox''s new book is the perfect gift for graduates.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1767'),
(6227, 'Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century', 'Sam Kashner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The definitive story of Hollywood''s most famous couple   He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romanceâ€”often called "the marriage of the century"â€”was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love affair of its day.   For the first time, Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kashner and acclaimed biographer Nancy Schoenberger tell the complete story of this larger-than-life couple, showing how their romance and two marriages commanded the attention of the world. Also for the first time, in exclusive access given to the authors, Elizabeth Taylor herself gives never-revealed details and firsthand accounts of her life with Burton.   Drawing upon brand-new information and interviewsâ€”and on Burton''s private, passionate, and heartbreaking letters to Taylorâ€”Furious Love sheds new light on the movies, the sex, the scandal, the fame, the brawls, the booze, the bitter separations, and, of course, the fabled jewels. It offers an intimate glimpse into Elizabeth and Richard''s privileged world and their elite circle of friends, among them Princess Grace, Montgomery Clift, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Peter O''Toole, Michael Caine, Marlon Brando, Rex Harrison, Mike Nichols, Laurence Olivier, Robert Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, NoÃ‹l Coward, John Huston, Ava Gardner, the Rothschilds, Maria Callas, and Aristotle Onassis. It provides an entertaining, eye-opening look at their films, their wildly lucrative reign in Europe and in Hollywoodâ€”and the price they paid for their extravagant lives.   Shocking and unsparing in its honesty, Furious Love explores the very public marriage of "Liz and Dick" as well as the private struggles of Elizabeth and Richard, including Le Scandale, their affair on the set of the notorious epic Cleopatra that earned them condemnation from the Vatican; Burton''s hardscrabble youth in Wales; the crippling alcoholism that nearly destroyed his career and contributed to his early death; the medical issues that plagued both him and Elizabeth; and the failed aspirations and shame that haunted him throughout their relationship. As Kashner and Schoenberger illuminate the events and choices that shaped this illustrious couple''s story, they demonstrate how the legendary pair presaged America''s changing attitudes toward sex, marriage, morality, and celebrity. Yet ultimately, as the authors show, Elizabeth and Richard shared something priceless beyond the drama: enduring love.   Addictive and entertaining, Furious Love is more than a celebrity biography; it''s an honest yet sympathetic portrait of a man, a woman, and a passion that shocked and mesmerized the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2125'),
(6228, 'Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope', 'Gabrielle Giffords', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n AS INDIVIDUALS, CONGRESSWOMAN GABRIELLE GIFFORDS and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, showed Americans how optimism, an adventurous spirit, and a call to service can help change the world. As a couple, they became a national example of the healing power to be found in deeply shared love and courage. Their arrival in the world spotlight came under the worst of circumstances. On January 8, 2011, while meeting with her constituents in Tucson, Arizona, Gabby was the victim of an assassination attempt that left six people dead and thirteen wounded. Gabby was shot in the head; doctors called her survival â€œmiraculous.â€ As the nation grieved and sought to understand the attack, Gabby remained in private, focused on her against-all-odds recovery. Mark spent every possible moment by her side, as he also prepared for his final mission as commander of space shuttle Endeavour. Now, as Gabbyâ€™s health continues to improve, the couple is sharing their remarkable untold story. Intimate, inspiring, and unforgettably moving, Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope provides an unflinching look at the overwhelming challenges of brain injury, the painstaking process of learning to communicate again, and the responsibilities that fall to a loving spouse who wants the best possible treatment for his wife. Told in Markâ€™s voice and from Gabbyâ€™s heart, the book also chronicles the lives that brought these two extraordinary people togetherâ€”their humor, their ambitions, their sense of duty, their long-distance marriage, and their desire for family. Gabby and Mark made a pledge to tell their account as honestly as possible, and they have done so in riveting detail. Both Gabby and Mark have lived large public lives, but this book takes readers behind many closed doorsâ€”from the flight deck of the space shuttle to the cloakrooms of Congress to the hospital wards where Gabby struggled to reclaim herself with the help of formidable medical teams and devoted family and friends. Questions are answered with unvarnished candor. How do Gabby and Mark feel about the angry political discourse that was swirling in America at the time of the shooting, and that remains prevalent today? How do they see government living up to the highest possible ideals? And how do they understand and mourn the loss of the people who did not survive that day? Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope is a reminder of the power of true grit, the patience needed to overcome unimaginable obstacles, and the transcendence of love. In the story of Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly, we all can see the best in ourselves. As Mark and Gabbyâ€™s friends have said: â€œThe two of them are America as we dream it can be.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2910'),
(6229, 'Galileo&#39;s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love', 'Dava Sobel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief--that the earth revolved around the sun. But did you know he had a daughter? In\n <em>\n  Galileo''s Daughter\n </em>\n , Dava Sobel (author of the bestselling\n <em>\n  Longitude\n </em>\n ) tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste. Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly attached to me." Their loving correspondence revealed much about their world: the agonies of the bubonic plague, the hardships of monastic life, even Galileo''s occasional forgetfulness ("The little basket, which I sent you recently with several pastries, is not mine, and therefore I wish you to return it to me").\n</p>\n<p>\n While Galileo tangled with the Church, Maria Celeste--whose adopted name was a tribute to her father''s fascination with the heavens--provided moral and emotional support with her frequent letters, approving of his work because she knew the depth of his faith. As Sobel notes, "It is difficult today ... to see the Earth at the center of the Universe. Yet that is where Galileo found it." With her fluid prose and graceful turn of phrase, Sobel breathes life into Galileo, his daughter, and the earth-centered world in which they lived.\n <em>\n  --Sunny Delaney\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite its title, this impressive book proves to be less the story of Galileo''s elder daughter, the oldest of his three illegitimate children, and more the story of Galileo himself and his trial before the Inquisition for arguing that Earth moves around the Sun. That familiar tale is given a new slant by Sobel''s translationAfor the first time into EnglishAof the 124 surviving letters to Galileo by his daughter, Suor Maria Celeste, a Clarisse nun who died at age 33; his letters to her are lost, presumably destroyed by Maria Celeste''s convent after her death. Her letters may not in themselves justify a book; they are devout, full of pious love for the father she addresses as "Sire," only rarely offering information or insight. But Sobel uses them as the accompaniment to, rather than the core of, her story, sounding the element of faith and piety so often missing in other retellings of Galileo''s story. For Sobel shows that, in renouncing his discoveries, Galileo acted not just to save his skin but also out of a genuine need to align himself with his church. With impressive skill and economy, she portrays the social and psychological forces at work in Galileo''s trial, particularly the political pressures of the Thirty Years'' War, and the passage of the plague through Italy, which cut off travel between Florence, where Galileo lived, and Rome, the seat of the Pope and the Inquisition, delaying Galileo''s appearance there and giving his enemies time to conspire. In a particularly memorable way, Sobel vivifies the hard life of the "Poor Clares," who lived in such abject poverty and seclusion that many were driven mad by their confinement. It''s a wholly involving tale, a worthy follow-up (after four years) to Sobel''s surprise bestseller, Longitude. (Oct.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2472'),
(6230, 'A Game of Thrones', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin'' s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin'' s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. A Game of Thrones Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom'' s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win thatdeadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2864'),
(6231, 'Game Over', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Sisterhood Believes In Promises Kept With yet another successful assignment behind them, the ladies of the Sisterhood have enjoyed a relaxing break together and celebrated the wedding of Myra and Charles on Big Pine Mountain. But as soon as the newlyweds return from their shortened honeymoon, they are hit with some exciting yet unsettling news. . . It seems their dear ally Lizzie Fox, recently ensconced as Chief White House Counsel, is rumored to be near the top of the short list for a soon to be vacated seat on the Supreme Court. While the Sisters are thrilled for Lizzie, they are concerned about her being ripped to shreds in the approval process, partly due to her connections with the Sisterhood. They also fear it will delay or even derail their long-awaited pardon promised to them by President Martine Connor. It will take a masterful plan, and loyal friends aiding them at every turn, for the Sisters to succeed in protecting Lizzie while securing their own freedom at last. Praise for Fern Michaels and her Sisterhood novels. . . "Revenge is a dish best served with cloth napkins and floral centerpieces. . .fast-paced. . .puts poetic justice first."-- Publishers Weekly on Payback "Delectable. . .deliver[s] revenge that''s creatively swift and sweet, Michaels-style." -- Publishers Weekly on Hokus Pokus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3756'),
(6232, 'Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets', 'Sudhir Venkatesh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **First introduced in *Freakonomics*, here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of Chicago''s most notorious gangs**  The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world''s attention when it was first described in *Freakonomics*. *Gang Leader for a Day* is the fascinating full story of how  Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrÅ½e into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.  When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago''s most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty. A first-year grad student hoping to impress his professors with his boldness, he never imagined that as a result of the assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT''s protection, documenting what he saw there.  Over the next seven years, Venkatesh got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his privileged position of unprecedented access, he observed JT and the rest of the gang as they operated their crack-selling business, conducted PR within their community, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang''s complex organizational structure.  In Hollywood-speak, *Gang Leader for a Day* is *The Wire* meets Harvard University. It''s a brazen, page turning, and fundamentally honest view into the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in what is tantamount to an urban war zone. It is also the story of a complicated friendship between Sudhir and JT-two young and ambitious men a universe apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2126'),
(6233, 'The Gang That Wouldn&#39;t Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution', 'Marc Weingarten', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Advance Praise for\n  <em>\n   The Gang That Wouldnâ€™t Write Straight\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œItâ€™s always complicated to write about writing (and about writers), but Marc Weingarten does it effortlessly. Every character in\n <em>\n  The Gang That Wouldnâ€™t Write Straight\n </em>\n is compelling and necessary. If this book doesnâ€™t make you want to be a journalist, nothing will.â€ â€”Chuck Klosterman, author of\n <em>\n  Killing Yourself to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWell-researched, beautifully wroughtâ€”this is an addictively readable history of the revolution in American journalism.â€ â€”T. C. Boyle, author of\n <em>\n  Drop City\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWeingarten is a strong, fresh voice in contemporary cultural criticism.â€ â€”Alvin Toffler, author of\n <em>\n  Future Shock\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  . . . In Cold Blood, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Armies of the Night . . .\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Starting in 1965 and spanning a ten-year period, a group of writers including Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, John Sack, and Michael Herr emerged and joined a few of their pioneering elders, including Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, to remake American letters. The perfect chroniclers of an age of frenzied cultural change, they were blessed with the insight that traditional tools of reporting would prove inadequate to tell the story of a nation manically hopscotching from hope to doom and back againâ€”from war to rock, assassination to drugs, hippies to Yippies, Kennedy to the dark lord Nixon. Traditional just-the-facts reporting simply couldnâ€™t provide a neat and symmetrical order to this chaos.\n</p>\n<p>\n Marc Weingarten has interviewed many of the major players to provide a startling behind-the-scenes account of the rise and fall of the most revolutionary literary outpouring of the postwar era, set against the backdrop of some of the most turbulentâ€”and significantâ€”years in contemporary American life. These are the stories behind those stories, from Tom Wolfeâ€™s white-suited adventures in the counterculture to Hunter S. Thompsonâ€™s drug-addled invention of gonzo to Michael Herrâ€™s redefinition of war reporting in the hell of Vietnam. Weingarten also tells the deeper backstory, recounting the rich and surprising history of the editors and the magazines who made the movement possible, notably the three greatest editors of the eraâ€”Harold Hayes at\n <em>\n  Esquire\n </em>\n , Clay Felker at\n <em>\n  New York\n </em>\n , and Jann Wenner at\n <em>\n  Rolling Stone\n </em>\n . And finally Weingarten takes us through the demise of the New Journalists, a tragedy of hubris, miscalculation, and corporate menacing.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the story of perhaps the last great good time in American journalism, a time when writers didnâ€™t just cover stories but immersed themselves in them, and when journalism didnâ€™t just report America but reshaped it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWithin a seven-year period,\n </em>\n a group of writers emerged, seemingly out of nowhereâ€”Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, John Sack, Michael Herrâ€”to impose some order on all of this American mayhem, each in his or her own distinctive manner (a few old hands, like Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, chipped in, as well). They came to tell us stories about ourselves in ways that we couldnâ€™t, stories about the way life was being lived in the sixties and seventies and what it all meant to us. The stakes were high; deep fissures were rending the social fabric, the world was out of order. So they became our master explainers, our town criers, even our moral conscienceâ€”the New Journalists.â€\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€”from the Introduction\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1903'),
(6234, 'A Gate at the Stairs', 'Lorrie Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In her best-selling story collection, "Birds of America" ("[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability" --James McManus, front page of "The New York Times Book Review"), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss. Now, in her dazzling new novel--her first in more than a decade--Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love. As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwesterndaughter of a gentleman hill farmer--his "Keltjin potatoes" are justifiably famous--has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own. As the year unfolds and she is drawn deeper into each of these lives, her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her: her parents are frailer; her brother, aimless and lost in high school, contemplates joining the military. Tassie finds herself becoming more and more the stranger she felt herself to be, and as life and love unravel dramatically, even shockingly, she is forever changed. This long-awaited new novel by one of the most heralded writers of the past twodecades is lyrical, funny, moving, and devastating; Lorrie Moore''s most ambitious book to date--textured, beguiling, and wise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3447'),
(6235, 'The Gate House', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1New York Timesbestselling author Nelson DeMille delivers the long-awaited follow-up to his classic novelThe Gold Coast. When John Sutter''s aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence in the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living only a quarter of a mile from Susan who has also returned to Long Island. But Susan isn''t the only person from John''s past who has reemerged: Though Frank Bellarosa, infamous Mafia don and Susan''s ex-lover, is long dead, his son, Anthony, is alive and well, and intent on two missions: Drawing John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa family, and exacting revenge on his father''s murderer--Susan Sutter. At the same time, John and Susan''s mutual attraction resurfaces and old passions begin to reignite, and John finds himself pulled deeper into a familiar web of seduction and betrayal. In THE GATE HOUSE, acclaimed author Nelson Demille brings us back to that fabled spot on the North Shore -- a place where past, present, and future collides with often unexpected results.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3393'),
(6236, 'Gather Together in My Name', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A heroic and beautiful book." --\n  <em>\n   Cleveland Plain Dealer\n  </em>\n  .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is the story of a great heroine who knows the meaning of a struggle and never loses her pride or dignity. Indeed, her story makes me proud of the human race." -- John Oliver Killens\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this incredible second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2128'),
(6237, 'The Gathering Storm', 'Winston Churchill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  None\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The first volume of Churchill''s Noble-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. THE GATHERING STORM depicts the rise of Hitler and the indifference of the leaders of the European democracies to the clouds of the gathering storm. Churchill incorporate contemporary documentation and his own reminiscence in this opening memoir.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2405'),
(6238, 'Gauntlgrym: Neverwinter', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Drizzt joins Bruenor on his quest for the fabled dwarven kingdom of Gauntlgrym: ruins said to be rich with ancient treasure and arcane lore. But before they even get close, another drow and dwarf pair stumbles across it first: Jarlaxle and Athrogate.Â  In their search for treasure and magic, Jarlaxle and Athrogate inadvertently set into motion a catastrophe that could spell disaster for the unsuspecting people of the city of Neverwinterâ€”a catastrophe big enough to lure even the mercenary Jarlaxle into risking his own coin and skin to stop it. Unfortunately, the more they uncover about the secret of Gauntlgrym, the more it looks like they canâ€™t stop it on their own. Theyâ€™ll need help, and from the last people they ever thought to fight alongside again: Drizzt and Bruenor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3651'),
(6239, 'The Genesis Secret', 'Tom Knox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Sinister, macabre, relentless and rich...the ideal blend of both The Da Vinci Code and Raiders of the Lost Ark."  -Bill Loehfelm, author of Fresh Kills   War-reporter Rob Luttrell is expecting a soft assignment when he''s sent to Kurdistan to cover the excavation of the world''s oldest human civilization. But, soon after he arrives, the site is violated, first by sabotage-and then by death. Meanwhile, a Scotland Yard detective investigating a series of spectacularly grisly murders discovers a link between the victims and what is happening in Kurdistan. As the two men race to prevent more deaths, they close in on a biblical era secret that will shake the foundations of the modern world.  The Genesis Secret and its audacious blend of science, history, and suspense burst onto the scene, becoming a sleeper hardcover hit. The paperback publication of this wonderfully atmospheric, fast-paced thriller is sure to find an even broader audience and catapult debut novelist Tom Knox into the ranks of bestselling authors like Raymond Khoury, Kate Mosse, and Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/734');
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(6240, 'Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World', 'Jack Weatherford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Apart from its inapt title, Genghis Khan dies rather early on in this account and many of the battles are led by his numerous offspring. This book is a successful account of the century of turmoil brought to the world by a then little-known nation of itinerant hunters. In researching this book, Weatherford (Savages and Civilization), a professor of anthropology at Macalaster College, traveled thousands of miles, many on horseback, tracing Genghis Khan''s steps into places unseen by Westerners since the khan''s death and employing what he calls an "archeology of movement." Weatherford knows the story of the medieval Mongol conquests is gripping enough not to need superfluous embellishmentsÃ¢â‚¬"the personalities and the wars they waged provide plenty of color and suspense. In just 25 years, in a manner that inspired the blitzkrieg, the Mongols conquered more lands and people than the Romans had in over 400 years. Without pausing for too many digressions, Weatherford''s brisk description of the Mongol military campaign and its revolutionary aspects analyzes the rout of imperial China, a siege of Baghdad and the razing of numerous European castles. On a smaller scale, Weatherford also devotes much attention to dismantling our notions of Genghis Khan as a brute. By his telling, the great general was a secular but faithful Christian, a progressive free trader, a regretful failed parent and a loving if polygamous husband. With appreciative descriptions of the sometimes tender tyrant, this chronicle supplies just enough personal and world history to satisfy any reader.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“An interesting, thought-provoking account of the conqueror''s life and legacy. From his early years as the son of a widow abandoned by her clan, he showed remarkable ability as a charismatic leader and unifier. In 25 years, his army amassed a greater empire than the Romans had been able to achieve in 400. Whether judged on population or land area, it was twice as large as that of any other individual in history. This colorful retelling discusses many of the innovations that marked Khan''s rule and contributed to his success. Although his name is now erroneously associated with terror and slaughter, he showed surprising restraint during a time when few others in power did. He allowed freedom of religion, encouraged free trade, developed a paper currency, and observed diplomatic immunity. As he encountered new cultures, he adopted or adapted their best practices, and constantly updated his military strategies. Although Khan''s death occurs at the midpoint of this book, the tales of his survivors'' exploits and the gradual fall of the Mongol dynasties are engaging and informative. Weatherford''s efforts to credit Genghis Khan and his descendants with the ideas and innovations that created the Renaissance are a bit bewildering, but readers will be left with a new appreciation of a maligned culture, and a desire to learn more.\n <em>\n  â€“Kathy Tewell, Chantilly Regional Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2475'),
(6241, 'Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman', 'James Gleick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A genius, a great mathematician once said, performs magic, does things that nobody else could do. To his scientific colleagues, Richard Feynman was a magician of the highest caliber. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic critic of the space shuttle commission, Nobel Prize winner for work that gave physicists a new way of describing and calculating the interactions of subatomic particles, Richard Feynman left his mark on virtually every area of modern physics. Originality was his obsession. Never content with what he knew or with what others knew, Feynman ceaselessly questioned scientific truths. But there was also another side to him, one which made him a legendary figure among scientists. His curiosity moved well beyond things scientific: he taught himself how to play drums, to give massages, to write Chinese, to crack safes. In Genius, James Gleick, author of the acclaimed best-seller Chaos, shows us a Feynman few have seen. He penetrates beyond the gleeful showman depicted in Feynman''s own memoirs and reveals a darker Feynman: his ambition, his periods of despair and uncertainty, his intense emotional nature. From his childhood on the beaches and backlots of Far Rockaway and his first tinkering with radios and differential equations to the machine shops at MIT and the early theoretical work at Princeton - work that foreshadowed his famous notion of antiparticles traveling backward in time - to the tragic death of his wife while he was working at Los Alamos, Genius shows how one scientist''s vision was formed. As that vision crystallized in work that reinvented quantum mechanics, we see Feynman''s impact on the elite particle-physicscommunity, and how Feynman grew to be at odds with the very community that idolized him. Finally, Gleick explores the nature of genius, our obsession with it and why the very idea may belong to another time. Genius records the life of a scientist who has forever changed science - and changed what it means to know something in this uncertain century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2130'),
(6242, 'George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I', 'Miranda Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The slippery slope into horrific armed conflict is a tale often told about World War I, but this authorâ€™s take on the antecedents of the European war of 1914â€“18 is distinct. Carter views the shifting alliance entanglements of the Great Powers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and especially the growing animosity and rivalry between Britain and Germany, with particular focus on the attitudes and actions of three royal first cousins: Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, and King George V of Great Britain (who also reigned as emperor of India, hence the bookâ€™s title reference to three emperors). Rich in concrete detail, elegant in style, and wise, fresh, and knowledgeable in interpretation, the authorâ€™s account observes a profound anachronism at play: that these three monarchs, in what they didnâ€™t realize were the waning days of the institution of monarchy, handled foreign diplomacy as if it were a family business. Despite the reality of growing fissures separating their countries, â€œeach emperor continued to paper over the cracks with cousinly gestures, each increasingly irrelevant.â€ Europe plunged over the precipice of war in August 1914, revealing in stark terms the inability of royal familial ties to control and contain national disagreements; as the author has it, the fact that Wilhelm, Nicholas, and George were out of touch with actual politics could not have been more apparent. An irresistible narrative for history buffs. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Miranda Carter''s George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm:\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œMiranda Carter has written an engrossing and important book. While keeping her focus on the three cousins and their extended families, she skillfully interweaves and summarizes all important elements of how the war came aboutâ€¦Carter has given us an original book, highly recommended.â€ ---_The Dallas Morning News_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Masterfully crafted. . . Carter has presented one of the most cohesive explorations of the dying days of European royalty and the coming of political modernity. . . Carter has delivered another gem." --_Bookpage_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ms. Carter writes incisively about the overlapping events that led to the Great War and changed the world. . . George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm is an impressive book. Ms. Carter has clearly not bitten off more than she can chew for she -- as John Updike once wrote of Gunter Grass -- ''chews it enthusiasticallyÂ before our eyes.''" --The New York TimesÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "An irresistably entertaining and illuminating chronicle . . . Readers with fond memories of Robert Massie and Barbara Tuchman can expect similar pleasures in this witty, shrewd examination of the twilight of the great European monarchies." â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully fresh and beautifully choreographed work of history." â€”Craig Brown,\n <em>\n  Mail on Sunday\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A hauntingly tempting proposition for a book . . . The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V, and Nicholas II are . . . a prism though which to tell the march to the first World War, the creation of the modern industrial world and the follies of hereditary courts and the eccentricities of their royal trans-European cousinhood . . . An entertaining and accessible study of power and personality." â€”Simon Sebag Montefiore, _Financial Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Carter draws masterful portraits of her subjects and tells the complicated story of Europeâ€™s failing international relations well . . . A highly readable and well-documented account." â€”Margaret MacMillan, _The Spectator\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œI couldnâ€™t put this book down. The whole thing really lives and breathes â€“ and itâ€™s very funny. That these three absurd men could ever have held the fate of Europe in their hands is a fact as hilarious as it is terrifying.â€ â€“ Zadie Smith\n</p>\n<p>\n "[An] enterprising history of imperial vicissitudes and royal reversals." --The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2476'),
(6243, 'Gerald&#39;s Game', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While this is one of the best-written stories King has ever published, it will offend many through sheer bad taste. Jessie and Gerald Burlingame have been married for 20 years. Kinky sex is Gerald''s game; lately he has taken to handcuffing his wife to the bedposts. During one such session, via a series of bizarre circumstances, Jessie accidentally kills her husband, and for the next 28 hours she is trapped. King effectively uses this tragicomic conceit to take us deep into the mind of "Goodwife Burlingame."sic For the first third of the book he is at the top of his form, creating in Jessie one of his most intense character studies. Then, Jessie''s ruminations lead her to remember a long-repressed episode of incest that is startling not because it becomes a central element of the plot, but because the details of the sexual relationship between father and daughter are salaciously--and lengthily--described. The gory stuff--how Jessie escapes her handcuffs, for example--is prime King, but this is subsumed in the book''s general tastelessness. A lame wrap-up to what might have been a thrilling short story only further compromises the enjoyment readers might have found in this surprisingly exploitative work. 1.5 million first printing; $750,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n King takes it over the top, way over the top, in an exquisitely horrifying frightfest about a woman forced to face her deepest fears--and then some. Jessie Burlingame, 39, is getting plenty tired of being handcuffed to the bed of her Maine summerhouse by her attorney- husband, Gerald, so that he can play his silly sex games. So when Gerald refuses to uncuff her, she kicks him in the family jewels, accidentally smashing them to kingdom come--and the terror begins. Each hand cuffed to a bedpost, the keys out of reach, Jessie howls for help--and is answered by a feral dog that proceeds to chow down on Gerald''s face in lavishly described, muscle-shredding detail. As the long hours pass, cramps bite like iron jaws into Jessie''s own flesh; but they''re nothing compared to the thirst raging through her. Can she somehow reach the glass of water on the shelf above her head? It takes the most tightly controlled writing King''s ever done to find out, but soon even the thirst pales beside the guilt- gargoyles that Jessie''s mind begins to throw up, all pointing at the sun-eclipsed day so long ago when she became much more to Daddy than just his little girl. The minutes tick by, each an agony--and King''s just warming up. Night falls: What''s that shadow in the corner? The one with the smirking face of Death? And how can Jessie, growing into a heartbreakingly brave heroine, escape? She tugs and tugs at her wrists but can''t slip them past the cuffs. Is there a hot, sticky lubricant at hand? He''s not really going to describe that, is he? But, with a ferocious gleam in his eye, King does, out-splatterpunking everyone else on the planet in a tour de force that--even given some overindulgent psychologizing, awfully strong echoes of Cujo and Misery, and a long, peculiar anticlimax--is his most wrenching novel to date. This one is really scary. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/796'),
(6244, 'Get Shorty', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Loan shark Chili Palmer didn''t say anything when Ray Bones stole his leather jacket from Vesuvio''s in Miami. He just went to Ray''s house, broke his nose, took the jacket, and left. Twelve years later, on account of his boss getting whacked, Chili finds himself working for Bones and ordered to collect on a bad debt from Leo Devoe, a guy who died in a plane crash. But it turns out Leo isn''t dead; he''s in Las Vegas with the $300,000 the airline paid to his wife. So Chili follows him to Vegas and then on to Hollywood, where he hooks up with movie producers, actors, and studio execs. Getting Leo becomes a movie pitch unfolding in a city where every move you make is a potential scene, and making it big isn''t all that different from making your bones: You gotta know who to pitch, who to hit, and how to knock ''em dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3121'),
(6245, 'Ghost in her Heart', 'Autumn Dawn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Return to the Dark Lands.... Every man has a little beast inside ... every woman longs to tame him. Where will you be when the beast roars for you? The quintessential geek, Vana had never had a lover. The ultimate warrior, Dagon had never had a wife. Thanks to a rift in space, she''s about to become both.Â \n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3727'),
(6246, 'Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World&#39;s Most Wanted Hacker', 'Kevin Mitnick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Intriguing, insightful and extremely educational into the mind of one who truly mastered the art of social engineering with the use of a computer and modern day technologies. I strongly believe that one can learn a great deal about protecting themselves once they understand how another one perpetrates the crime." (_\n  <strong>\n   Frank W. Abagnale, author of Catch Me if You Can\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world''s biggest companies--and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks. He spent years skipping through cyberspace, always three steps ahead and labeled unstoppable. But for Kevin, hacking wasn''t just about technological feats-it was an old fashioned confidence game that required guile and deception to trick the unwitting out of valuable information.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Driven by a powerful urge to accomplish the impossible, Mitnick bypassed security systems and blazed into major organizations including Motorola, Sun Microsystems, and Pacific Bell. But as the FBI''s net began to tighten, Kevin went on the run, engaging in an increasingly sophisticated cat and mouse game that led through false identities, a host of cities, plenty of close shaves, and an ultimate showdown with the Feds, who would stop at nothing to bring him down.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Ghost in the Wires\n  </em>\n  is a thrilling true story of intrigue, suspense, and unbelievable escape, and a portrait of a visionary whose creativity, skills, and persistence forced the authorities to rethink the way they pursued him, inspiring ripples that brought permanent changes in the way people and companies protect their most sensitive information.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2131'),
(6247, 'The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battle to Save Victorian London', 'Steven Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London-and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow''s solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world. From the dynamic thinker routinely compared to Malcolm Gladwell, E. O. Wilson, and James Gleick, The Ghost Map is a riveting page-turner with a real-life historical hero that brilliantly illuminates the intertwined histories of the spread of viruses, rise of cities, and the nature of scientific inquiry. These are topics that have long obsessed Steven Johnson, and The Ghost Map is a true triumph of the kind of multidisciplinary thinking for which he''s become famous-a book that, like the work of Jared Diamond, presents both vivid history and a powerful and provocative explanation of what it means for the world we live in. The Ghost Map takes place in the summer of 1854. A devastating cholera outbreak seizes London just as it is emerging as a modern city: more than 2 million people packed into a ten-mile circumference, a hub of travel and commerce, teeming with people from all over the world, continually pushing the limits of infrastructure that''s outdated as soon as it''s updated. Dr. John Snow-whose ideas about contagion had been dismissed by the scientific community-is spurred to intense action when the people in his neighborhood begin dying. With enthralling suspense, Johnson chronicles Snow''s day-by-day efforts, as he risks his own life to prove how the epidemic is being spread. When he creates the map that traces the pattern of outbreak back to its source, Dr. Snow didn''t just solve the most pressing medical riddle of his time. He ultimately established a precedent for the way modern city-dwellers, city planners, physicians, and public officials think about the spread of disease and the development of the modern urban environment. The Ghost Map is an endlessly compelling and utterly gripping account of that London summer of 1854, from the microbial level to the macrourban-theory level-including, most important, the human level.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2406'),
(6248, 'The Ghost Mountain Boys', 'James E. Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world''s largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep valleys, and fetid swamps. Coveted by the Japanese for its strategic position, New Guinea became the site of one of the South Pacific''s most savage campaigns. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division''s Ghost Mountain Boys were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campaign: to march 130 miles over the rugged Owen Stanley Mountains and to protect the right flank of the Australian army as they fought to push the Japanese back to the village of Buna on New Guinea''s north coast.\n</p>\n<p>\n Comprised of National Guardsmen from Michigan and Wisconsin, reserve officers, and draftees from across the country, the 32nd Division lacked more than training--they were without even the basics necessary for survival. The men were not issued the specialized clothing that later became standard issue for soldiers fighting in the South Pacific; they fought in hastily dyed combat fatigues that bled in the intense humidity and left them with festering sores. They waded through brush and vines without the aid of machetes. They did not have insect repellent. Without waterproof containers, their matches were useless and the quinine and vitamin pills they carried, as well as salt and chlorination tablets, crumbled in their pockets. Exhausted and pushed to the brink of human endurance, the Ghost Mountain Boys fell victim to malnutrition and disease. Forty-two days after they set out, they arrived two miles south of Buna, nearly shattered by the experience.\n</p>\n<p>\n Arrival in Buna provided no respite. The 32nd Division was ordered to launch an immediate assault on the Japanese position. After two months of furious--sometimes hand-to-hand--combat, the decimated division finally achieved victory. The ferocity of the struggle for Buna was summed up in Time magazine on December 28, 1942, three weeks before the Japanese army was defeated: "Nowhere in the world today are American soldiers engaged in fighting so desperate, so merciless, so bitter, or so bloody."\n</p>\n<p>\n Reminiscent of classics like\n <em>\n  Band of Brothers\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Things They Carried\n </em>\n , this harrowing portrait of a largely overlooked campaign is part war diary, part extreme adventure tale, and (through letters, journals, and interviews) part biography of a group of men who fought to survive in an environment every bit as fierce as the enemy they faced.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2409'),
(6249, 'Ghost on the Throne', 'James S. Romm', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity.The story of Alexanderâ€™s conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic and consequential saga of the empireâ€™s collapse remains virtually untold. It is a tale of loss that begins with the greatest loss of all, the death of the Macedonian king who had held the empire together. With his demise, it was as if the sun had disappeared from the solar system, as if planets and moons began to spin crazily in new directions, crashing into one another with unimaginable force.Alexander bequeathed his power, legend has it, â€œto the strongest,â€ leaving behind a mentally damaged half brother and a posthumously born son as his only heirs. In a strange compromise, both figuresâ€”Philip III and Alexander IVâ€”were elevated to the kingship, quickly becoming prizes, pawns, fought over by a half-dozen Macedonian generals. Each successor could confer legitimacy on whichever general controlled him.At the bookâ€™s center is the monarchâ€™s most vigorous defender; Alexanderâ€™s former Greek secretary, now transformed into a general himself. He was a man both fascinating and entertaining, a man full of tricks and connivances, like the enthroned ghost of Alexander that gives the book its title, and becomes the determining factor in the precarious fortunes of the royal family.James Romm, brilliant classicist and storyteller, tells the galvanizing saga of the men who followed Alexander and found themselves incapable of preserving his empire. The result was the undoing of a world, formerly united in a single empire, now ripped apart into a nightmare of warring nation-states struggling for domination, the template of our own times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2479'),
(6250, 'Ghost Story', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "In his life, Harry''s been shot, stabbed, sliced, beaten, burned, crushed, and tortured. And after someone puts a bullet through his chest and leaves him to die in the waters of Lake Michigan, things really start going downhill. But even trapped in the realm between life and death, Harry can''t catch a break. He learns that three of his friends are destined to experience unbearable torment and agony. Only by bringing his murderer to justice can he save his friends and move on to what comes next--a feat that would be a lot easier if he had a body and access to his powers. Instead, Harry must work as a ghost, unable to interact with the physical world, invisible and inaudible to almost everyone. Unfortunately he''s not the only specter roaming Chicago. Thereare malevolent shadows who haven''t forgotten Harry''s predilection for putting evil in its place while he was alive. And now that Harry''s on their turf, they are looking for some serious payback. So the late Harry Dresden will have to pull off the ultimate trick without using any magic--or face an eternity as just another lost soul"--\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3525'),
(6251, 'Ghost Town', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Get ready for "non-stop vampire action" (Darque Reviews) in the latest Morganville Vampire novel from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine.   While developing a new system to maintain Morganville''s defenses, student Claire Danvers discovers a way to amplify vampire mental powers. Through this, she''s able to re-establish the field around this vampire-infested Texas college town that protects it from outsiders.  But the new upgrades have an unexpected consequence: people inside the town begin to slowly forget who they are-even the vampires. Soon, the town''s little memory problem has turned into a full-on epidemic. Now Claire needs to figure out a way to pull the plug on her experiment- before she forgets how to save Morganville...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3169'),
(6252, 'Ghost Wars', 'Steve Coll', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Steve Coll''s\n  <em>\n   Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001\n  </em>\n  offers revealing details of the CIA''s involvement in the evolution of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the years before the September 11 attacks. From the beginning, Coll shows how the CIA''s on-again, off-again engagement with Afghanistan after the end of the Soviet war left officials at Langley with inadequate resources and intelligence to appreciate the emerging power of the Taliban. He also demonstrates how Afghanistan became a deadly playing field for international politics where Soviet, Pakistani, and U.S. agents armed and trained a succession of warring factions. At the same time, the book, though opinionated, is not solely a critique of the agency. Coll balances accounts of CIA failures with the success stories, like the capture of Mir Amal Kasi. Coll, managing editor for the\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  , covered Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992. He demonstrates unprecedented access to records of White House meetings and to formerly classified material, and his command of Saudi, Pakistani, and Afghani politics is impressive. He also provides a seeming insider''s perspective on personalities like George Tenet, William Casey, and anti-terrorism czar, Richard Clarke ("who seemed to wield enormous power precisely because hardly anyone knew who he was or what exactly he did for a living"). Coll manages to weave his research into a narrative that sometimes has the feel of a Tom Clancy novel yet never crosses into excess. While comprehensive, Coll''s book may be hard going for those looking for a direct account of the events leading to the 9-11 attacks. The CIA''s 1998 engagement with bin Laden as a target for capture begins a full two-thirds of the way into\n  <em>\n   Ghost Wars\n  </em>\n  , only after a lengthy march through developments during the Carter, Reagan, and early Clinton Presidencies. But this is not a critique of Coll''s efforts; just a warning that some stamina is required to keep up.\n  <em>\n   Ghost Wars\n  </em>\n  is a complex study of intelligence operations and an invaluable resource for those seeking a nuanced understanding of how a small band of extremists rose to inflict incalculable damage on American soil.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ghost Wars...is a welcome antidote to the fevered partisan bickering that accompanied the release of Clarke''s book. --\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2481'),
(6253, 'The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic', 'Robert L. O&#39;Connell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Military historian O''Connell (_Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression_) has established the new standard for studies of the second conflict between Rome and Carthage. In dramatic and comprehensive fashion, he describes the rivalry, based on temperament and territory, that led to the slaughter at Cannae in 216 B.C.E. and beyond. Focusing chiefly on Hannibal and his Roman nemesis Scipio Africanus, he also awards proper consideration to Fabius Maximus, whose strategy of attrition and delay could have saved countless Roman lives. Differences in Roman and Carthaginian tactics, armament, and philosophy are explained, as is the importance of religious belief to both cultures. O''Connell shatters the popular myth of the invincibility of the Carthaginians'' fabled elephants, the panzer pachyderms. The ghosts of the title are the Roman survivors of Cannae, who were unwanted reminders of defeat. They were banished to Sicily until Scipio Africanus incorporated them into the army that achieved the final Roman victory at Zama. Unfortunately, a lack of sources restricts O''Connell''s ability to provide much information on the Carthaginian home front, but ample attention is given to the political maneuvers that shaped Roman policy. 6 maps.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Second Punic War began over Roman and Carthaginian competing claims in Spain and quickly escalated into a life-and-death struggle for control of the western Mediterranean. At the center of the struggle was Hannibal''s invasion and ravaging of Italy over a span of 15 years, during which he inflicted a series of devastating defeats upon successive Roman armies, climaxed by the slaughter of an estimated 50,000 Romans at Cannae in southern Italy in 216 B.C. This outstanding account of the background of the Italian campaign and of the battle itself is primarily a military history, but O''Connell avoids excessive use of military jargon and explains the tactics and strategies in terms nonspecialists can easily comprehend. He also pays ample attention to the political aspects of the war and shows how the ability of the Roman Senate to persevere and change strategy was critical to Rome''s survival and eventual triumph. This is a superb chronicle of events that shaped the fate of Western civilization. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2411'),
(6254, 'Gideon&#39;s Corpse', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff. A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before.Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: in ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack.Ten days. And Gideon Crew, tracking the mysterious terrorist cell from the suburbs of New York to the mountains of New Mexico, learns the end may be something worse--far worse--than mere Armageddon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2964'),
(6255, 'Gideon&#39;s Sword', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As a child, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father; a scientist wrongly framed by the US government, and shot down by police during a dramatic hostage crisis. More than twenty years after his father''s assassination, Gideon finally gets his revenge and fulfils the promise that he made to his mother on her death bed: to bring down the powerful and corrupt man who destroyed his father.The Crew family name is finally cleared, but Gideon''s story is only just beginning. His daredevil act of revenge has not gone unnoticed and he is soon approached by a shadowy figure who offers him the chance of a lifetime. The only catch? He might not have that much lifetime left and the clock is now ticking...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3198'),
(6256, 'The Gift', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   with Ned Rust\n  </span>\n </font>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    When Whit &amp; Wisty were imprisoned by the wicked forces of the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, they were barely able to escape with their lives. Now part of a hidden community of teens like themselves, Whit and Wisty have established themselves as leaders of the Resistance, willing to sacrifice anything to save kids kidnapped and brutally imprisoned by the New Order.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    But the One has other plans in store for them: He needs Wisty, for she is "The One Who Has the Gift." While trying to figure out what that means, Whit and Wisty''s suspenseful adventures through Overworld and Shadowland lead to a jaw-dropping climax and conclusion: the highly-anticipated fulfillment of the heart-pounding opening prologue of book one...\n    <i>\n     The Execution of the Allgoods.\n    </i>\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/306'),
(6257, 'Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day', 'Jack Boulware', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An oral history of the modern punk-revival''s West Coast Birthplace\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Outside of New York and London, California''s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world.\n  <em>\n   Gimme Something Better\n  </em>\n  brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra''s bid for mayor, the rise of\n  <em>\n   Maximum RocknRoll\n  </em>\n  magazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco''s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley''s Gilman Street. Compiled by longtime Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor,\n  <em>\n   Gimme Something Better\n  </em>\n  chronicles more than two decades of punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence, told by the people who made it happen.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jack Boulware\n  </strong>\n  is the author of\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Bizarro\n  </em>\n  , and was a columnist at\n  <em>\n   SF Weekly\n  </em>\n  throughout the 1990s. His writing has appeared in many publications including\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Playboy\n  </em>\n  and _ Mojo_.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Silke Tudor\n  </strong>\n  was born in the Bay Area and reared on punk. She was a columnist at\n  <em>\n   SF Weekly\n  </em>\n  and the\n  <em>\n   Village Voice\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2133'),
(6258, 'The Girl in the Green Raincoat', 'Laura Lippman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Originally serialized in the New York Times Magazine, Lippman''s Tess Monaghan novella turns the intrepid Baltimore PI''s at-risk late-pregnancy bed rest into a compellingly edgy riff on Hitchcock''s Rear Window. Lovingly tucked up on her winterized sun porch, Tess marshals her forces--doting artist boyfriend Crow, best friend Whitney Talbot, middle-aged assistant gumshoe Mrs. Blossom, and researcher Dorie Starnes--to probe the disappearance of a chic blonde green-raincoated dog walker she''d been watching from her comfy prison. Tess also takes in the missing woman''s abandoned green-slickered Italian greyhound from hell, a miniature canine terrorist whose anti-housebreaking vendetta offers comic relief from Tess''s threatened pre-eclampsia, her obsessive unraveling of a complex scam, and her last-trimester spats with Crow about their future. Though postpartum Tess turns alternately weepy and shrill, that condition won''t last, and this entertaining romp leaves plenty of hints of detective-mother exploits to come. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Rear Window, Jimmy Stewart played a photographer who spies on his neighbors while recuperating from a broken leg. In Lippmanâ€™s latest entry in her long-running series featuring Tess Monaghan, a hugely pregnant Tess, suffering from preeclampsia, is ordered to spend the last two months of her pregnancy on bed rest. And, shades of Rear Window, it doesnâ€™t take long for the curious and incredibly bored investigator to procure a pair of binoculars and start spying on the dog walkers in the park across the street. Sheâ€™s especially interested in the girl in the green raincoat and her prancing little greyhound. When, later in the week, she spots the dog running through the park alone, she determines to track down the petâ€™s missing mistress. And what she finds is a guilty-looking husband with two dead wives and a dead girlfriend in his past. In addition to the central mystery, Lippman provides witty writing and a running theme on the meaning of family, and there are also welcome appearances by Tessâ€™ independent-minded best friend, Whitney; her long-suffering boyfriend, Crow; and her ace employee, Mrs. Blossom. Another winning entry in the series. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Itâ€™s always an event when Laura Lippman, who has won every major crime-fiction award going, delivers a new Tess Monaghan story. This novella first appeared in serial format in the New York Times Magazine. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/917'),
(6259, 'Girl in Translation', 'Jean Kwok', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. This audiobook is the perfect match of narrator and material. Grayce Wey''s performance as immigrant Kimberly Chang feels absolutely authentic. As the adult Kimberly looking back at her life, Wey has just a touch of a Chinese accent (appropriate for a character who''s lived in America for two decades), and her tone conveys bittersweet regret even while knowing she made the right choice. But when speaking as the younger, newly arrived Kimberly, Wey''s Chinese accent is much heavier, and we can hear Kimberly''s confusion, anxiety, and struggle to adjust to this new culture. Wey perfectly evokes Kimberly''s growing assertiveness and determination, her teenage longing, joy, and pain when falling in love for the first time, and her conflicted feelings when making difficult decisions about her path in life. A moving and memorable listen. A Riverhead hardcover (Reviews, Mar. 15).\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "In this moving story of hardship and triumph, a woman must live a double life as a scholar and a sweatshop worker after she emigrates from Hong Kong to America with her mother."\n  <br />\n  -_San Francisco Chronicle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "At age 5, Kwok moved with her family from Hong Kong to a New York City slum. . . . She has spun some of her experiences into this involving debut. . . . Kwok drops you right inside Kimberly''s head, adding Chinese idioms to crisp dialogue. And the book''s lesson-that every choice comes at the expense of something else- hits home in any language."\n  <br />\n  -_People_ (3 1/2 stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Writing in first-person from Kim''s point of view, Kwok cleverly employs phonetic spellings to illustrate her protagonist''s growing understanding of English and wide-eyed view of American teen culture. The author draws upon her own experience as a child laborer in New York, which adds a poignant layer to\n  <em>\n   Girl in Translation\n  </em>\n  ."\n  <br />\n  -_USA Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Though the plot may sound mundane - a Chinese girl and her mother immigrate to this country and succeed despite formidable odds - this coming-of-age tale is anything but. Whether Ah-Kim (or Kimberly, as she''s called) is doing piecework on the factory floor with her mother, or suffering through a cold New York winter in a condemned, roach-infested apartment, or getting that acceptance letter from Yale, her story seems fresh and new."\n  <br />\n  -_Entertainment Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The astonishing - and semi-autobiographical - tale of a girl from Hong Kong who, at age eleven, shoulders the weight of her mother''s American dream all the way from Chinatown sweatshop to the Ivy League."\n  <br />\n  -_Vogue_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Part fairy tale, part autobiography... what puts this debut novel toward the top of the pile is its buoyant voice and its slightly subversive ending that suggests "happily ever after" may have more to do with love of self and of family than with any old Prince Charming."\n  <br />\n  -_O, The Oprah Magazine_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Dazzling fiction debut."\n  <br />\n  -_Marie Claire _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "In Kimberly Chang, Jean Kwok has created a gentle and unassuming character. But Kimberly is also very clever, and as she struggles to escape the brutal trap of poverty she proves indomitable. With her keen intelligence and her reservoir of compassion, she''s irresistibly admirable, as is the whole of this gripping, luminous novel."\n  <br />\n  -Joanna Scott, author of\n  <em>\n   Follow Me\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I love how this book allowed me to see my own country, with all its cruelty and kindness, from a perspective so different from my own. I love how it invited me into the heart and mind of Kimberly Chang, whose hard choices will resonate with anyone who has sacrificed for a dream. Powerful storytelling kept me turning the pages quickly, but Kimberly''s voice-so smart and clear-will stay with me for a long time."\n  <br />\n  -Laura Moriarty, author of\n  <em>\n   While I''m Falling\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2852'),
(6260, 'The Girl Who Chased the Moon', 'Sarah Addison Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n BONUS: This edition contains a "The Girl Who Chased the Moon "discussion guide and an excerpt from Sarah Addison Allen''s "The Peach Keeper." Emily Benedict hascome to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother''s life. But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she neverknew, she realizes that mysteries aren''t solved in Mullaby, they''re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. Anda neighbor, Julia Winterson, bakes hope in the form of cakes, not only wishing to satisfy the town''s sweet tooth but also dreaming of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Can a hummingbird cakereally bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily''s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits, the unexpected fits rightin. Look for special features inside.Join the Circle for author chats and more.RandomHouseReadersCircle.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3611'),
(6261, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larssonâ€™s internationally best-selling trilogy**Lisbeth Salanderâ€”the heart of Larssonâ€™s two previous novelsâ€”lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Sheâ€™s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, sheâ€™ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revengeâ€”against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/12');
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(6262, 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a convincing mix of youthful optimism and world-weary resignation, reader Anne Heche adds resonance to this unabridged recording. Heche is especially effective as the 9-year-old heroine, Trisha McFarland, who makes a fateful decision during an afternoon hike with her dysfunctional family. "The paths had forked in a ''Y.'' She would simply walk across the gap and rejoin the main trail. Piece of cake. There was no chance of getting lost." As one might suspect, there is every chance she''ll get lost--or worse--and taking the shortcut turns out to be a very bad choice indeed. At times Heche''s reading may be too measured, but her narration is generally quite good and her steady portrayal of a young girl lost renders this tale all the more frightening. (Running time: 6.5 hours, 6 cassettes)\n <em>\n  --George Laney\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted." King''s new novelAwhich begins with that sentenceAhas teeth, too, and it bites hard. Readers will bite right back. Always one to go for the throat, King crafts a story that concerns not just anyone lost in the Maine-New Hampshire woods, but a plucky nine-year-old girl, and from a broken home, no less. This stacked deck is flush with aces, however. King has always excelled at writing about children, and Trisha McFarland, dressed in jeans and a Red Sox jersey and cap when she wanders off the forest path, away from her mother and brother and toward tremendous danger, is his strongest kid character yet, wholly believable and achingly empathetic in her vulnerability and resourcefulness. Trisha spends nine days (eight nights) in the forest, ravaged by wasps, thirst, hunger, illness, loneliness and terror. Her knapsack with a little food and water helps, but not as much as the Walkman that allows her to listen to Sox games, a crucial link to the outside world. Love of baseball suffuses the novel, from the chapter headings (e.g., "Bottom of the Ninth") to Trisha''s reliance, through fevered imagined conversations with him, on (real life) Boston pitcher Tom Gordon and his grace under pressure. King renders the woods as an eerie wonderland, one harboring a something stalking Trisha but also, just perhaps, God: he explicitly explores questions of faith here (as he has before, as in Desperation) but without impeding the rush of the narrative. Despite its brevity, the novel ripples with ideas, striking images, pop culture allusions and recurring themes, plus an unnecessary smattering of scatology. It''s classic King, brutal, intensely suspenseful, an exhilarating affirmation of the human spirit. 1,250,000 first printing; major ad/promo; BOMC and QPB featured alternates; simultaneous audiocassette and CD, read by Anne Heche.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/797'),
(6263, 'The Girl Who Played With Fire', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" â€“The Washington Post), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Mikael Blomkvistâ€”crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millenniumâ€”has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander. Now, as Blomkvistâ€”alone in his belief in her innocenceâ€”plunges into his own investigation of the slayings, Salander is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <br />\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <em>\n   The Girl Who Played with Fire\n  </em>\n  is a break-out-in-a-cold-sweat thriller that crackles with stunning twists and dismisses any talk of a sophomore slump. Fans of Larsson''s prior work will find even more to love here, and readers who do not find their hearts racing within the first five pages may want to confirm they still have a pulse. Expect healthy doses of murder, betrayal, and deceit, as well as enough espresso drinks to fuel downtown Seattle for months. â€”_Dave Callanan_\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <br />\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Fans of intelligent page-turners will be more than satisfied by Larsson''s second thriller, even though it falls short of the high standard set by its predecessor,\n  <em>\n   The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\n  </em>\n  , which introduced crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist and punk hacker savant Lisbeth Salander. A few weeks before Dag Svensson, a freelance journalist, plans to publish a story that exposes important people involved in Sweden''s sex trafficking business based on research conducted by his girlfriend, Mia Johansson, a criminologist and gender studies scholar, the couple are shot to death in their Stockholm apartment. Salander, who has a history of violent tendencies, becomes the prime suspect after the police find her fingerprints on the murder weapon. While Blomkvist strives to clear Salander of the crime, some far-fetched twists help ensure her survival. Powerful prose and intriguing lead characters will carry most readers along.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/16'),
(6264, 'The Girl Who Stopped Swimming', 'Joshilyn Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she''s helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties. While Laurel''s life seems neatly on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne. The ghost leads Laurel to the real Molly floating lifelessly in the Hawthorne''s backyard pool. Molly''s death is inexplicable--an unseemly mystery Laurel knows no one in her whitewashed neighborhood is up to solving. Only her wayward, unpredictable sister is right for the task, but calling in a favor from Thalia is like walking straight into a frying pan protected only by Crisco. Enlisting Thalia''s help, Laurel sets out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations about her family''s guarded past, the true state of her marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2795'),
(6265, 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A sensation across Europemillions of copies sold A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue. It''s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It''s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet''s disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her ageand a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with itwho assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialismand an unexpected connection between themselves. It''s a contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/15'),
(6266, 'The Girls From Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship', 'Jeffrey Zaslow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **From the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller *The Last Lecture* comes a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of eleven girls and the ten women they became.**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Meet the Ames Girls: eleven childhood friends who formed a special bond growing up in Ames, Iowa.  As young women, they moved to eight different states, yet managed to maintain an enduring friendship that would carry them through college and careers, marriage and motherhood, dating and divorce, a child''s illness and the mysterious death of one member of their group.  Capturing their remarkable story, *The Girls from Ames* is a testament to the deep bonds of women as they experience life''s joys and challenges -- and the power of friendship to triumph over heartbreak and unexpected tragedy.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The girls, now in their forties, have a lifetime of memories in common, some evocative of their generation and some that will resonate with any woman who has ever had a friend.  Photograph by photograph, recollection by recollection, occasionally with tears and often with great laughter, their sweeping and moving story is shared by Jeffrey Zaslow, *Wall Street Journal* columnist, as he attempts to define the matchless bonds of female friendship.  It demonstrates how close female relationships can shape every aspect of women''s lives - their sense of themselves, their choice of men, their need for validation, their relationships with their mothers, their dreams for their daughters - and reveals how such friendships thrive, rewarding those who have committed to them.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *The Girls from Ames* is the story of a group of ordinary women who built an extraordinary friendship.  With both universal insights and deeply personal moments, it is a book that every woman will relate to and be inspired by.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1907'),
(6267, 'The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt', 'Hannelore Brenner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brenner, a Berlin-based journalist, focuses on 10 former child survivors, women in their late 70s, who went through the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust. She notes that 12,000 children entered the camp from 1942 to 1944, but only a few hundred survived to war''s end, and a handful of women of Room 28 in the camp''s Girls'' Home, now scattered around the world, reunited for the first time in 1991. The insights of the survivors and stories of the camp''s victims are unforgettable and full of poignant humanity, conveyed through letters, photos, diaries and remembrances. Forced into exile and almost certain death under the Nazi regime, the children confronted hunger, cold, terror and the soul''s endurance as many of the girls of Room 28 were slowly eliminated; the small band of survivors is committed to keeping their memory alive. Well-detailed and inspiring, Brenner''s book, especially her heartfelt epilogue, pays glowing tribute to these heroic survivors. B&amp;w photos.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This beautiful evocation of heartwarming friendship in the darkest of times is unforgettable."\n  <br />\n  â€”Elie Wiesel\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The insights of the survivors and stories of the camp''s victims are unforgettable and full of poignant humanity, conveyed through letters, photos, diaries, and remembrances. . . . Well detailed and inspiring, Brenner''s book, especially her heartfelt epilogue, pays glowing tribute to these heroic survivors."\n  <br />\n  â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBrenner chronicles the remarkable artistic experiments undertaken by the girls, especially their enthusiastic production of the childrenâ€™s opera BrundibÃ¡r. An inspiring story of courage rendered through impressive personal and historical detail.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Kirkus Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The story of this children''s home in Theresienstadt takes us to the limit of the bearable, to the place where compassion, fear, and the temptation to simply turn away all lie in wait. To resist that temptation--isn''t that what the historical record must achieve?\n  <br />\n  â€”_DIE ZEIT\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"This handful of girls wanted their memories of their dead friends and their time in Theresienstadt not to be forgotten. They wanted to make the story of their survival, and the love and friendship that their caretakers showerd them, unforgettable. Together with the author, they have succeeded. In Hannelore Brenner, these women have found someone who listened to them, who read their albums of poetry, their diaries, and their chronicles, and who has written a wonderful book."\n  <br />\n  â€”_PRAGER ZEITUNG\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Brenner has gathered together these stories with great sensitivity. She makes the past spring to life and gracefully places the personal memories of these girls into a historical context, while at the same time offering solid research and background information regarding life in Theresienstadt and the political situation of the time."\n  <br />\n  â€”_SÃ„CHSISCHE ZEITUNG_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1909'),
(6268, 'The Given Day', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, this story captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, ''The Given Day'' tells the story of two families - one black, one white - swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power. Beat cop Danny Coughlin, the son of one of the city''s most beloved and powerful police captains, joins a burgeoning union movement and the hunt for violent radicals. Luther Laurence, on the run after a deadly confrontation with a crime boss in Tulsa, works for the Coughlin family and tries desperately to find his way home to his pregnant wife.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3445'),
(6269, 'The Giver', 'Lois Lowry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community''s Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of\n <em>\n  Brave New World\n </em>\n , in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create a more stable society. Gradually Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and pain-free society can be, and boldly decides he cannot pay the price.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the "ideal" world into which Jonas was born, everybody has sensibly agreed that well-matched married couples will raise exactly two offspring, one boy and one girl. These children''s adolescent sexual impulses will be stifled with specially prescribed drugs; at age 12 they will receive an appropriate career assignment, sensibly chosen by the community''s Elders. This is a world in which the old live in group homes and are "released"--to great celebration--at the proper time; the few infants who do not develop according to schedule are also "released," but with no fanfare. Lowry''s development of this civilization is so deft that her readers, like the community''s citizens, will be easily seduced by the chimera of this ordered, pain-free society. Until the time that Jonah begins training for his job assignment--the rigorous and prestigious position of Receiver of Memory--he, too, is a complacent model citizen. But as his near-mystical training progresses, and he is weighed down and enriched with society''s collective memories of a world as stimulating as it was flawed, Jonas grows increasingly aware of the hypocrisy that rules his world. With a storyline that hints at Christian allegory and an eerie futuristic setting, this intriguing novel calls to mind John Christopher''s Tripods trilogy and Hans Christian Andersen''s The Little Match Girl. Lowry is once again in top form--raising many questions while answering few, and unwinding a tale fit for the most adventurous readers. Ages 12-14.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1086'),
(6270, 'The Glass Castle', 'Jeannette Walls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children''s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn''t stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents'' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home. What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms. For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story. A regular contributor to MSNBC.com, she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1911'),
(6271, 'The Glass Castle: A Memoir', 'Jeannette Walls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children''s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn''t stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents'' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home. What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms. For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story. A regular contributor to MSNBC.com, she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2886'),
(6272, 'Glass Houses', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the author of the popular Weather Warden series. Welcome to Morganville, Texas.  Just don''t stay out after dark.  College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school''s social scene: somewhere less than zero.  When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don''t show many signs of life. But they''ll have Claire''s back when the town''s deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3161'),
(6273, 'The Glass Rainbow', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n James Lee Burkeâ€™s eagerly awaited new novel finds Detective Dave Robicheaux back in New Iberia, Louisiana, and embroiled in the most harrowing and dangerous case of his career. Seven young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes have all the telltale signs of a serial killer, the death of Bernadette Latiolais, a high school honor student, doesnâ€™t fit: she is not the kind of hapless and marginalized victim psychopaths usually prey upon. Robicheaux and his best friend, Clete Purcel, confront Herman Stanga, a notorious pimp and crack dealer whom both men despise. When Stanga turns up dead shortly after a fierce beating by Purcel, in front of numerous witnesses, the case takes a nasty turn, and Cleteâ€™s career and life are hanging by threads over the abyss. Adding to Robicheauxâ€™s troubles is the matter of his daughter, Alafair, on leave from Stanford Law to put the finishing touches on her novel. Her literary pursuit has led her into the arms of Kermit Abelard, celebrated novelist and scion of a once prominent Louisiana family whose fortunes are slowly sinking into the corruption of Louisianaâ€™s subculture. Abelardâ€™s association with bestselling ex-convict author Robert Weingart, a man who uses and discards people like Kleenex, causes Robicheaux to fear that Alafair might be destroyed by the man she loves. As his daughter seems to drift away from him, he wonders if he has become a victim of his own paranoia. But as usual, Robicheauxâ€™s instincts are proven correct and he finds himself dealing with a level of evil that is greater than any enemy he has confronted in the past. Set against the backdrop of an Edenic paradise threatened by pernicious forces, James Lee Burkeâ€™s The Glass Rainbow is already being hailed as perhaps the best novel in the Robicheaux series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3232'),
(6274, 'Glitz', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Psycho mama''s boy Teddy Magyk has a serious jones for the Miami cop who put him away for raping a senior citizen -- but he wants to hit Vincent Mora where it really hurts before killing him. So when a beautiful Puerto Rican hooker takes a swan dive from an Atlantic City high-rise and Vincent naturally shows up to investigate the questionable death of his "special friend," Teddy figures he''s got his prey just where he wants him. But the A.C. dazzle is blinding the Magic Man to a couple of very hard truths: Vincent Mora doesn''t forgive and forget ... and he doesn''t die easy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3095'),
(6275, 'The God Delusion', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The antireligion wars started by Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris will heat up even more with this salvo from celebrated Oxford biologist Dawkins. For a scientist who criticizes religion for its intolerance, Dawkins has written a surprisingly intolerant book, full of scorn for religion and those who believe. But Dawkins, who gave us the selfish gene, anticipates this criticism. He says it''s the scientist and humanist in him that makes him hostile to religionsâ€”fundamentalist Christianity and Islam come in for the most opprobriumâ€”that close people''s minds to scientific truth, oppress women and abuse children psychologically with the notion of eternal damnation. While Dawkins can be witty, even confirmed atheists who agree with his advocacy of science and vigorous rationalism may have trouble stomaching some of the rhetoric: the biblical Yahweh is "psychotic," Aquinas''s proofs of God''s existence are "fatuous" and religion generally is "nonsense." The most effective chapters are those in which Dawkins calms down, for instance, drawing on evolution to disprove the ideas behind intelligent design. In other chapters, he attempts to construct a scientific scaffolding for atheism, such as using evolution again to rebut the notion that without God there can be no morality. He insists that religion is a divisive and oppressive force, but he is less convincing in arguing that the world would be better and more peaceful without it.\n  <em>\n   (Oct. 18)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Scientific American\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richard Dawkins, in The God Delusion, tells of his exasperation with colleagues who try to play both sides of the street: looking to science for justification of their religious convictions while evading the most difficult implicationsâ€”the existence of a prime mover sophisticated enough to create and run the universe, "to say nothing of mind reading millions of humans simultaneously." Such an entity, he argues, would have to be extremely complex, raising the question of how it came into existence, how it communicates â€”through spiritons!â€”and where it resides. Dawkins is frequently dismissed as a bully, but he is only putting theological doctrines to the same kind of scrutiny that any scientific theory must withstand. No one who has witnessed the merciless dissection of a new paper in physics would describe the atmosphere as overly polite.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   George Johnson is author of Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order and six other books. He resides on the Web at talaya.net\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/528'),
(6276, 'A God in Ruins', 'Leon Uris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran bestselling author Leon Uris (\n <em>\n  Exodus\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Trinity\n </em>\n ) stays true to form with\n <em>\n  A God in Ruins\n </em>\n , delivering yet another vast and vigorous novel about politics and history, right and wrong, love and loss. This time his country of choice is the United States, on the eve of the 2008 presidential election.\n</p>\n<p>\n The incumbent, Thornton Tomtree, is running against the Catholic governor of Colorado, Quinn Patrick O''Connell. Thornton, who grew up playing in his daddy''s Providence junkyard, made billions on a computer invention before becoming president. Brainy, calculating, and stiff, he lacks both charm and scruples--qualities that the honest and open Quinn, an ex-Marine, has in spades. Though set in 2008,\n <em>\n  A God in Ruins\n </em>\n has its roots firmly in the past. In order to flesh out his characters, Uris casts his net all the way back to World War II, highlighting some of the more dramatic moments in Thornton and Quinn''s lives as they move inexorably from youth towards a run for the White House. In the process, Uris takes up some of the attention-grabbing political issues in America from the second half of the 20th century: gun control, terrorist attacks, and Clinton''s sex scandals.\n</p>\n<p>\n Uris can always be counted on to inject the political with the personal, and Quinn is the perfect vehicle for this when his presidential bid is threatened at the eleventh hour by potentially damning information about his past. A lively supporting cast of characters--from Quinn''s delicious wife Rita to Thornton''s conflicted right-hand man Darnell--adds spark to this emotional story. At one point, when the campaign has reached a fever pitch, Thornton says about Quinn, "Our jingle-jangle rope-a-dope cowboy is going to be a handful." So is Uris''s engaging book, which positively spills over with simple heroism and hot-button political issues.\n <em>\n  --Katherine Anderson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran writer Uris (Exodus; Redemption) begins his 12th novel with a compelling premise: Quinn O''Connell is certain to become America''s second Roman Catholic president, except that he discovers, a week before the 2008 election, that he was actually born Jewish. Adopted 60 years ago by a Catholic couple, and newly informed by his long-lost Jewish half-brother of his heritage, O''Connell now asks a difficult question: Is America ready to elect a Jewish president? This initial introduction of the issue of anti-Semitism seems promising. Uris obviously is aiming to put the religion of a world leader in perspective: what does it matter if he''s at heart a good and honest man? But then he virtually ignores the theme for the next 300 pages. Even when the national reaction to O''Connell''s identity results in epidemic violence against Jewish people across the country, an event compared to Kristallnacht, the national issue that gets the most play in O''Connell''s presidential race is gun control. His opponent in the election is Republican incumbent Thornton Tomtree, whose administration is struggling to repair his reputation in the wake of violent national tragedies like the Four Corners Massacre, in which 400 Eagle Scouts and their troop leaders are killed in a catastrophic explosion set off by a drugged-out militia group. O''Connell goes up against the gun lobby and calls for repeal of the Second Amendment as part of his presidential campaign. This issue dominates the bulk of the novel, making the opening and closing sections feel like a cut-and-paste job on a totally different story. Years are dismissed in sentences and events are outlined instead of described. Gun lobbies, neo-Nazi militias and tensions between black and Jewish communities eventually get worked into the plot, as does O''Connell''s family history, but Uris''s apocalyptic tale is too stylistically scattered to generate much suspense. In fact, readers may think they are reading a miniseries teleplay that hasn''t been fully fleshed out. Author tour; 15-city TV satellite tour. (June)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1020'),
(6277, 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christopher Hitchens, described in theLondon Observeras "one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time" takes on his biggest subject yetthe increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell''sWhy I Am Not a Christianand Sam Harris''s recent bestseller,The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope''s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3044'),
(6278, 'God&#39;s Fury, England&#39;s Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars', 'Michael J. Braddick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were killed in the civil wars than in the First World War. This sense of overwhelming trauma gives this major new history its title: "God''s Fury, England''s Fire". The name of a pamphlet written after the king''s surrender, it sums up the widespread feeling within England that the seemingly endless nightmare that had destroyed families, towns and livelihoods was ordained by a vengeful God - that the people of England had sinned and were now being punished.As with all civil wars, however, "God''s Fury" could support or destroy either side in the conflict. Was God angry at Charles I for failing to support the true, protestant, religion and refusing to work with Parliament? Or was God angry with those who had dared challenge His anointed Sovereign? Michael Braddick''s remarkable book gives the reader a vivid and enduring sense both of what it was like to live through events of uncontrollable violence and what really animated the different sides.The killing of Charles I and the declaration of a republic - events which even now seem in an English context utterly astounding - were by no means the only outcomes, and Braddick brilliantly describes the twists and turns that led to the most radical solutions of all to the country''s political implosion. He also describes very effectively the influence of events in Scotland, Ireland and the European mainland on the conflict in England. "God''s Fury, England''s Fire" allows readers to understand once more the events that have so fundamentally marked this country and which still resonate centuries after their bloody ending.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Braddick is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558--1700 and State Formation in Early Modern England, c.1500--1700.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2483'),
(6279, 'Goddess of Vengeance', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jackie Collinsâ€™ fierce and wildly beautiful heroine Lucky Santangelo is back with a vengeanceâ€”in a novel full of power, passion, revenge, and the raging family dynamics of the Santangelo clanâ€”and, as always, Lucky comes out on top. Lucky runs a high profile casino and hotel complex, The Keys in Vegas. Lennie, her movie star husband, is still writing and directing successful independent movies, while Max, her stubborn and gorgeous teenage daughter is about to celebrate her 18th birthday, and her son, Bobby, owns a string of hot clubs. Lucky has everything. Family. Love. Life. And everything is exactly what billionaire businessman Armand Jordan is determined to take from her one way or the other. Born a Prince in the small but affluent Middle Eastern country of Akramshar, Armand comes to America with his American mother at an early age, and rises to become a real estate business titan. Armand regards women as nothing more than breeding mares or sexual playthings, so when his people inform him that the one property he covets more than anything, The Keys, is not for sale, he is shocked. That a mere woman would dare to turn down his offer to buy The Keys is unthinkable, and Armand vows to force Luckyâ€™s hand whatever it takes. And so the battle for power begins . . . Meanwhile Bobby is dealing with shady Russian investors, while his girlfriendâ€”smart and independent Denver Jonesâ€”is becoming a Deputy D.A. in the L.A. drug unit.And Max, Bobbyâ€™s seventeen year old sister, is busy embarking on a forbidden affair with a sexy young movie star. An affair they have to keep on the down-low lest Lucky finds out.The word is that â€œwhat happens in Vegas stays in Vegasâ€ and what happens in Goddess of Vengeance will blow your mind!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3453'),
(6280, 'The Godfather', 'Mario Puzo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo''s\n  <em>\n   The Godfather\n  </em>\n  that Corleone first appears. As Corleone''s desperate struggle to control the Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. Filled with the requisite valor, love, and rancor of a great epic,\n  <em>\n   The Godfather\n  </em>\n  is the definitive gangster novel.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though not out of print, this 1969 gangster potboiler here makes the leap to trade paperback. Thanks to Francis Coppola''s brilliant film adaptation, this story has achieved cult status with millions of fans, who continue to read it. In addition to its larger size, this incarnation offers a new introduction and afterword. How could you refuse?\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/529'),
(6281, 'The Gods of Atlantis', 'David Gibbons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n A thrilling standalone sequel to ATLANTIS, David Gibbins'' international bestseller of high-action adventure, marine archaeology and the exploration of one of history''s most fascinating and enduring mysteries.\n <br />\n <br />\n A lost Nazi bunker in a forest in Germany contains a dreadful secret. But is there a horrifying new dimension - another ingredient in the Nazi''s rule of terror? Marine archaeologist Jack Howard returns to the lost island of Atlantis in the Black Sea to answer questions about the Atlantis priests that have plagued him. Then by tracking down the 1930s expeditions of Himmler''s Ahnenerbe - the Nazi''s Department of Cultural Heritage - and its link with Atlantis, Jack realises he is not just on the trail of the greatest lost relics from the past. Could there possibly be a terrifying new version of ''Atlantis'', a priesthood of evil? Jack must uncover the truth before it is too late.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/579'),
(6282, 'Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland&#39;s Glory', 'Lisa Jardine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  England''s almost bloodless Glorious Revolution of 1688, in which the Dutch king William of Orange overthrew James II, began as a hostile takeover but rapidly turned into a friendly merger, according to British historian Jardine (_The Awful End of Prince William the Silent_). She explores the fascinating Anglo-Dutch relationship to answer how and why two sworn foes became friends so seamlessly. Jardine focuses mainly on the subterranean intellectual, cultural and scientific intersections between the two countries and finds that contacts were continuous and mutually advantageous for decades before William''s invasion. Cross-border fertilization resulted in two of the greatest painters of the ageâ€”Peter Paul Rubens and Anton van Dyckâ€”working for English patrons while esteemed members of the Royal Society (such as Isaac Newton) corresponded with their Netherlandish counterparts (such as Christian Huygens). By looking so closely at elite opinion, however, Jardine too lightly dismisses the virility of petty nationalism lower down the scale and too easily glosses over the very real military tensions between the two powers. Nevertheless, this is a highly original work that will appeal to fans of Simon Schama''s groundbreaking\n  <em>\n   The Embarrassment of Riches.\n  </em>\n  Color and b&amp;w illus.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Exploring the cultural interchange between England and the Netherlands in the mid-1600s, historian Jardine focuses on the royal and courtier circles that cultivated the arts and sciences blossoming in that period. Her effusively illustrated book reproduces nearly 100 contemporary images of paintings and prints, each of whichÂ leads into theÂ text,Â which discusses their connective role between the two countries. Jardine also traces the connections between the House of Stuart and the House of Orange, whose political interactions culminated in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the drama of which historically overshadows their rich web of cultural relationships, Jardineâ€™s inquiry suggests. Indeed the antagonists James II and William of Orange are instantly recognizable to history readers, whereas Jardineâ€™s protagonist is hardly known. He is Constantijn Huygens (1596â€“1687), a Dutch diplomat and connoisseur of painting, architecture, and garden design, and father ofÂ Christian, the renowned astronomer, and Constantijn, who was Williamâ€™s secretary during the invasion of England. Weaving the fortunes of the Huygens clan into dynastic dynamics, Jardine richly displays the society in which Rubens and van Dyck flourished. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2487'),
(6283, 'Gold Coast', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When he kicked off, Florida mob boss Frank DiCilia left his gorgeous widow Karen everything, but with strings attached. She loses the millions, the cars, the palatial Gold Coast mansion if she ever gets involved with another man. And there''s a crazy cowboy-wannabe thug named Roland who''s acting as Frank''s eyes beyond the grave, making sure Karen doesn''t dally, with serious muscle, if necessary. But now Cal Maguire''s come into the picture. A sexy, street-smart Detroit ex-con, Cal''s got a line and a scam for every occasion. And he''s got the perfect plan for getting Karen DiCilia her money and her freedom ... if it doesn''t get them both killed first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3125'),
(6284, 'The Golden Compass', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman''s heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel,\n  <em>\n   The Golden Compass\n  </em>\n  , a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra''s Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal\n  <em>\n   daemon\n  </em>\n  , the manifestation of their souls in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had daemons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra''s carefree existence changes forever when she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey daemon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Golden Compass\n  </em>\n  , Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children''s book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn''t speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel,\n  <em>\n   The Subtle Knife\n  </em>\n  , will help put off that inevitability for a while longer.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Philip Pullman''s His Dark Materials trilogy now appears in sophisticated trade paperback editions, each title embossed within a runic emblem of antiqued gold. The backdrop of The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, Book I sports a midnight blue map of the cosmos with the zodiacal ram at its center. The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass carry similarly intriguing cover art, and all three titles offer details not seen in the originals: in Compass and Knife, for example, Pullman''s stamp-size b&amp;w art introduces each chapter; Spyglass chapters open with literary quotes from Blake, the Bible, Dickinson and more.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1310');
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(6285, 'Golden Lies', 'Barbara Freethy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The reappearance of a long-lost Zhou dynasty dragon is the catalyst that reunites three mismatched families in this lively romp from Freethy (Summer Secrets, etc.). When security expert Riley McAllister helps his grandmother haul a wagonload of old junk to the Antiques on the Road show, he doesn''t think she''ll get more than five dollars for the lot. But the moment the dragon hits TV screens, collectors are on them like a pack of hungry wolves, especially the owner of the House of Hathaway, San Francisco''s most prestigious antiques emporium. Against his better judgment, Riley entrusts the dragon to Paige Hathaway for appraisal, which turns out to be a big mistake when the dragon goes missing. Paige and Riley''s search for the object d''art takes them on a fast-paced adventure through the streets of San Francisco, from fashionable Union Square to funky Chinatown, where Paige discovers the existence of her half-sister Alyssa Chen. A WWII pact between the protagonists'' fathers, a 1,000-year-old legend and romance between Riley and Paige and between Alyssa and an old love add depth and richness to the story. Those charms, combined with Freethy''s smooth prose, spirited storytelling and engaging characters, are sure to send readers on a treasure hunt for the author''s backlist books.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Riley McAllister reluctantly agrees to escort his grandmother to a televised traveling antique show. Much to his surprise, the ugly bronze dragon they found in her attic turns out to be a rare artifact worth a fortune. Suddenly, it seems as though every antique dealer around wants to appraise the dragon, including Paige Hathaway. Paige, daughter of David Hathaway, owner of the prestigious House of Hathaway, knows that a find of this magnitude would be a real coup for their company. Riley''s grandmother picks the House of Hathaway because they''re renowned in San Francisco, and because they offer new clients an incredible tea ceremony. But Paige''s father disappears, and so does the dragon. Riley and Paige then embark on a treacherous search that reveals some startling family scandals. Freethy, author of\n  <em>\n   Summer Secrets\n  </em>\n  [BKL My 1 03], is a master at conveying emotion, and readers who enjoy the lyrical voices of Patricia Gaffney, Kathryn Shay, and Mary Alice Monroe will add her to their list of favorites.\n  <em>\n   Shelley Mosley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2930'),
(6286, 'Goldfinger', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The allure of James Bond was best described by Raymond Chandler, who insisted that 007 is "what every man would like to be and what every woman would like to have between her sheets." Who can argue with that? This month marks the 40th anniversary of the film release of Dr. No, which was the first Bond adventure to make the big screen, and two big coffee-table books are being published to honor the occasion (LJ 10/1/02, p. 96). Shockingly, Fleming''s original novels have gone out of print, but Penguin here reproduces a trio of the British secret agent''s early outings, released in 1952, 1958, and 1959, respectively, sporting stylish cover art. These stories were racy for the nifty Fifties but are quite tame by today''s standards. Still, they can be fun.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ian Fleming (1908-1964), creator of the world''s best-known secret agent, is the author of fourteen James Bond books. Born in London in 1908 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he became the Reuters Moscow correspondent in 1929. In the spring of 1939, Fleming went back to Moscow as a special correspondent for the London Times. In June of that same year, he joined Naval Intelligence and served throughout World War II, finally earning the rank of Commander, RNVSR (Sp.). Much of the James Bond material was drawn directly from Fleming''s experiences as an intelligence officer. Later, Fleming became a consultant on foreign affairs for the London\n <em>\n  Sunday Times\n </em>\n , by which time he had become far better known as the creator of James Bond.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Mr. Fleming died August 12, 1964, at the age of fifty-six.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1134'),
(6287, 'Goliath', 'Steve Alten', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Alten''s (Meg; Domain; etc.) latest near-future techno-thriller opens with a riveting burst of action an attack on an American aircraft carrier and its escorts by a rogue U.S. super-sub called Goliath ("the equivalent of an underwater Stealth bomber big, fast, and near impossible to detect"), which has been commandeered by Russian-born Simon Covah, a brilliant computer scientist who''s bent on saving humanity by destroying nuclear stockpiles everywhere. If this scenario sounds improbable, the author''s suspenseful, information-laden style makes it otherwise. Covah and his fanatical crew soon start making threats with the nuclear weapons that they retrieve from the remains of the U.S. fleet sunk by Goliath. Complications ensue when a lightning bolt jolts the sub''s immensely powerful bio-engineered computer, Sorceress, into self-awareness â€¦ la Frankenstein''s monster. Luckily, a couple of good guys are aboard to oppose the Nemo-ish Covah and the HAL-like Sorceress: U.S. Army Capt. Gunnar Wolfe, who served time in prison for trying to sabotage Goliath''s production, and Gunnar''s onetime sweetheart, gutsy Navy commander Rochelle "Rocky" Jackson. Tom Clancy fans will lap up the endless, repetitive heroics seasoned with jargon and acronym-filled dialogue, while others will appreciate the many blatant borrowings from classic SF novels and films. More seriously, Alten offers readers, particularly young adults, much to think about, morally and politically, in a world haunted by weapons capable of universal destruction.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Captain Nemo marries the\n <em>\n  Bride of Frankenstein\n </em>\n in this knockoff of Jules Verne''s classic adventure tale,\n <em>\n  20,000 Leagues under the Sea\n </em>\n . In 1998, a Department of Defense secret project code-named Goliath, concerned with building a nuclear-powered stealth submarine with a biochemical brain, is sabotaged and its research stolen. Ten years later, a lone manta ray-shaped sub attacks the U.S. Navy''s most powerful aircraft carrier, the\n <em>\n  USS Ronald Reagan\n </em>\n , sending the supercarrier and all her escort ships to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It''s the\n <em>\n  Goliath\n </em>\n , armed with nuclear weapons and under the control of a DNA-based computer named Sorceress, determined to destroy humanity and re-create it in her own image. A technothriller departure for Alten, whose earlier books featured rampaging prehistoric sharks (\n <em>\n  Meg,\n </em>\n 1997, and\n <em>\n  The Trench,\n </em>\n 1999) and psychic alien invaders (\n <em>\n  Domain,\n </em>\n 2001), this book is full of exotic weapons systems, bloody gore, military acronyms, and scientific jargon that Tom Clancy fans will devour. A somewhat derivative "crazy computer" story that is, nevertheless, an exciting read.\n <em>\n  Michael Gannon\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/730'),
(6288, 'Gone', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A terrifying woman-in-jeopardy plot propels Gardner''s latest thriller, in which child advocate and PI Lorraine "Rainie" Conner''s fate hangs in the balance. Rainie, a recovering alcoholic with a painful past (who previously appeared in Gardner''s\n <em>\n  The Third Victim\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Next Accident\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Killing Hour\n </em>\n ) is kidnapped from her parked car one night in coastal Oregon. The key players converge on the town of Bakersville to solve the mystery of her disappearance: Rainie''s husband, Quincy, a semiretired FBI profiler whose anguish over Rainie undercuts his high-level experience with kidnappers; Quincy''s daughter, Kimberley, a rising star in the FBI who flies in from Atlanta; Oregon State Police Sgt. Det. Carlton Kincaid; local sheriff Shelly Atkins; and abrasive federal agent Candi Rodriguez, who specializes in hostage negotiation. Gardner suspensefully intercuts the complicated maneuvering of this bickering team with graphic scenes of Rainie bravely struggling with her violent, sadistic captor. When the rescuers make a misstep, he raises the stakes by snatching a troubled seven-year-old foster child named Dougie, who''s one of Rainie''s cases. The cat-and-mouse intensifies, as does the mystery of the kidnapper''s identity. Sympathetic characters, a strong sense of place and terrific plotting distinguish Gardner''s new thriller.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the center of this mix of police procedural and psychological thriller is Lorraine "Rainie" Conner, an ex-cop with a drinking problem whose car is found abandoned on a country road in Oregon on a particularly rainy November night. Leading the missing-person search is Carlton Kincaid, a no-nonsense state cop who''d rather be home with his wife and infant son. The search team calls in Pierce Quincy not because he''s a former FBI profiler but because Rainie is his estranged wife, their marriage having come to a halt when her drinking resumed after 15 years of sobriety. Next on the scene is Quincy''s daughter, Kimberly, who--you guessed it--is an FBI agent (or "feebie") working out of the Atlanta office. All these great minds converge to try to solve the mysterious disappearance of Rainie. Could she have been so depressed over her failed sobriety and marriage that she turned a standard-issue Glock on herself? As friendships build and mysteries unfold, Gardner keeps the suspense cranked high. Recommend this to fans of Lee Child.\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/622'),
(6289, 'Gone for Good', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies." So says Will Klein, whose search for his missing and allegedly murderous brother, Ken, leaves him doubting the actions of everybody he''s ever loved.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eleven years ago, Ken fled his family''s suburban New Jersey neighborhood after Will''s ex-girlfriend, Julie Miller, was raped and strangled. The Kleins eventually convinced themselves that Ken perished on the lam. But as Will discovers, the facts are not so simple. On her deathbed, his mother tells him that Ken is still alive. Then Will''s girlfriend and "soul mate" disappears too, only to have her fingerprints turn up at a New Mexico homicide scene. How are these tragedies connected? And what''s their relationship to the recent appearance of a contract killer known as the Ghost? With help from an abused ex-hooker, a former white supremacist turned yoga guru, and Julie''s younger sister, Will finds himself in a tightly twisted plot that turns on double identities and misplaced trust and that forces him to dig for the courage he was always sure he lacked.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although the premise sounds much like that of Harlan Coben''s last book, the acclaimed\n <em>\n  Tell No One\n </em>\n , and the books'' ingenuous protagonists are nearly interchangeable,\n <em>\n  Gone for Good\n </em>\n quickly establishes its separate but equally suspenseful identity. This is a tale of manifold deceptions guaranteed to show its readers up as suckers, and to make them love every moment of the experience.\n <em>\n  --J. Kingston Pierce\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gone for Good is a novel by American crime writer Harlan Coben, published in 2002. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  In the article:\n </strong>\n Plot summary\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/356'),
(6290, 'Gone Tomorrow', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isnâ€™t. In the next few tense seconds Reacher will make a choiceâ€“and trigger an electrifying chain of events in this gritty, gripping masterwork of suspense by #1 New York Times bestseller Lee Child. Susan Mark was the fifth passenger. She had a lonely heart, an estranged son, and a big secret. Reacher, working with a woman cop and a host of shadowy feds, wants to know just how big a hole Susan Mark was in, how many lives had already been twisted before hers, and what danger is looming around him now. Because a race has begun through the streets of Manhattan in a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. Susan Markâ€™s plain little life was critical to dozens of others in Washington, California, Afghanistan . . . from a former Delta Force operator now running for the U.S. Senate, to a beautiful young woman with a fantastic story to tellâ€“and to a host of others who have just one thing in common: Theyâ€™re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or maybe just enough to get him killed. In a novel that slams through one hairpin surprise after another, Lee Child unleashes a thriller that spans three decades and gnaws at the heart of America . . . and for Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, itâ€™s a mystery with only one answerâ€“the kind that comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2547'),
(6291, 'Gone with the Wind', 'Margaret Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   SUMMARY:\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   Margaret Mitchell''s epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives. In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet.\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3064'),
(6292, 'Good as Dead', 'Mark Billingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Hostage. Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent''s on her way to work. Little does she know that this simple daily ritual will change her life forever. It''s the last place she expects to be met with violence, but as she waits innocently at the till, she comes face to face with a gunman. The Demand. The crazed hostage-taker is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody. By holding a police officer at gunpoint, he will force the one man who knows more about the case than any other to re-investigate his son''s death. That man is DI Tom Thorne. The Twist. While Helen fights to stay alive and the body-count rises,Thorne must race against time if he is to bring a killer to justice and save a young mother''s life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/709'),
(6293, 'The Good Earth', 'Pearl S. Buck', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n Summary:\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   Pearl S. Buck''s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition.\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century.\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. Her brilliant novel -- beloved by millions of readers -- is a universal tale of the destiny of man.\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3071'),
(6294, 'Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett''s wackiness collaborates with Gaiman''s morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they''ve long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This zany tale of the bungling of Armageddon features an angel, a demon, an 11-year-old Antichrist and a doomsaying witch; unmistakably British humor is in abundance.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1277'),
(6295, 'A Good Woman', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, but everything changed on an April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her world forever. Finding strength within her grief, Annabelle pours herself into volunteer work, igniting a passion for medicine that would shape the course of her life. But for Annabelle, first love, and a seemingly idyllic marriage, will soon bring grief caused by the secrets of her husband. Betrayed, and pursued by undeserved scandal, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to lose herself in a life of service. There, in the heart of the First World War, in a groundbreaking field hospital run by women, Annabelle finds her true calling, studying medicine and saving lives. When the war ends, Annabelle begins a new life in Parisâ€”now a doctor, a mother, her past almost forgottenâ€¦until a fateful meeting opens her heart to the world she had left behind. Filled with breathtaking images and historical detail, Danielle Steelâ€™s new novel introduces one of her most unique and fascinating characters: Annabelle Worthington, a remarkable womanâ€”a good womanâ€”who triumphs against overwhelming odds. More than compelling fiction, her story is a powerful celebration of life, dignity, and courageâ€”and a testament to the human will to survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3327'),
(6296, 'Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War', 'William Manchester', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-weary youth (himself), "angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms." To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young Marine he fought the Japanese, and in this book examines his experiences in the line with his fellow soldiers (his "brothers"). He gives us an honest and unabashedly emotional account of his part in the war in the Pacific. "The most moving memoir of combat on WW II that I have ever read. A testimony to the fortitude of man...a gripping, haunting, book." --William L. Shirer\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2489'),
(6297, 'Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898', 'Edwin G. Burrows', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like the city it celebrates,\n  <em>\n   Gotham\n  </em>\n  is massive and endlessly fascinating. This narrative of well over 1,000 pages, written after more than two decades of collaborative research by history professors Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, copiously chronicles New York City from the primeval days of the Lenape Indians to the era when, with Teddy Roosevelt as police commissioner, the great American city became regarded as "Capital of the World." The sheer bulk of the book may be off- putting, but the reader can use a typically New York approach: Those who don''t settle in for the entire history can easily "commute" in and out to read individual chapters, which stand alone nicely and cover the major themes of particular eras very well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While\n  <em>\n   Gotham\n  </em>\n  is fact-laden (with a critical apparatus that includes a bibliography and two indices--one for names, another for subjects), the prose admirably achieves both clarity and style. "What is our take, our angle, our\n  <em>\n   schtick\n  </em>\n  ?" ask the authors, setting a distinctly New York tone in their introduction. No matter what it''s called, their method of weaving together countless stories works wonderfully. The startlingly detailed research and lively writing bring innumerable characters (from Peter Minuit to Boss Tweed) to life, and even those who think they know the history of New York City will no doubt find surprises on nearly every page.\n  <em>\n   Gotham\n  </em>\n  is a rarity, reigning as both authoritative history and page-turning story.\n  <em>\n   --Robert McNamara\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A tome matching the size of its subject, this doorstopper (the first of a two-volume history) more than justifies the 20 years Burrows and Wallace spent on itAnot to mention the space it will take on the nightstands of New Yorkers actual, former, future and presumptive. Its massive size permits the inclusion of details, minor characters and anecdotes of everyday life that vibrantly communicate the city''s genesis and evolution. The authors have synthesized histories from various perspectivesAcultural, economic, political, etc.Ainto a novelistic narrative, providing the context for stories of the diverse denizens who shaped the city. Both New York academics (Brooklyn College and CUNY, respectively), Burrows and Wallace have produced a historical work that merits the term "definitive" yet still manages to entertain. Underneath reasoned academic prose lies a populist bent, unflinching in relating ugly events and describing the unsavory behavior of prominent figures; in its original sense, "Gotham" denotes a town of tricksters and fools, and this book is full of both. Vague documentation may, on occasion, frustrate the academic reader, but such quibbles should be left to professional historians. The rest will read with pleasure and await the companion volume''s promised appearance in the year 2000. 160 photos and linecuts and 15 maps not seen by PW. 40,000 copy first printing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2491'),
(6298, 'The Grand Design', 'Stephen Hawking &amp; Leonard Mlodinow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE FIRST MAJOR WORK IN NEARLY A DECADE BY ONE OF THE WORLDâ€™S GREAT THINKERSâ€”A MARVELOUSLY CONCISE BOOK WITH NEW ANSWERS TO THE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS OF LIFEÂ When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the nature of reality? Why are the laws of nature so finely tuned as to allow for the existence of beings like ourselves? And, finally, is the apparent â€œgrand designâ€ of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motionâ€”or does science offer another explanation? The most fundamental questions about the origins of the universe and of life itself, once the province of philosophy, now occupy the territory where scientists, philosophers, and theologians meetâ€”if only to disagree. In their new book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by both brilliance and simplicity. In The Grand Design they explain that according to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence or history, but rather that every possible history of the universe exists simultaneously. When applied to the universe as a whole, this idea calls into question the very notion of cause and effect. But the â€œtop-downâ€ approach to cosmology that Hawking and Mlodinow describe would say that the fact that the past takes no definite form means that we create history by observing it, rather than that history creates us. The authors further explain that we ourselves are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe, and show how quantum theory predicts the â€œmultiverseâ€â€”the idea that ours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with different laws of nature.Along the way Hawking and Mlodinow question the conventional concept of reality, posing a â€œmodel-dependentâ€ theory of reality as the best we can hope to find. And they conclude with a riveting assessment of M-theory, an explanation of the laws governing us and our universe that is currently the only viable candidate for a complete â€œtheory of everything.â€ If confirmed, they write, it will be the unified theory that Einstein was looking for, and the ultimate triumph of human reason.A succinct, startling, and lavishly illustrated guide to discoveries that are altering our understanding and threatening some of our most cherished belief systems, The Grand Design is a book that will informâ€”and provokeâ€”like no other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3807'),
(6299, 'Grand Expectations', 'James T. Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <b>\n   <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n    James T.PattersonÂ \n   </span>\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <b>\n   <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n    Grand Expectations:Â \n   </span>\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <b>\n   <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n    The United States, 1945-1974\n   </span>\n  </b>\n </p>\n <b>\n </b>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n   <br style="mso-special-character:line-break" />\n   <br style="mso-special-character:line-break" />\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n   Beginningin 1945,\n   <country-region w:st="on">\n    <place w:st="on">\n     America\n    </place>\n   </country-region>\n   rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth,experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s.At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of theplanet''s steel, 62 percent of the oil, 80 percent of the automobiles. The\n   <country-region w:st="on">\n    <place w:st="on">\n     U.S.\n    </place>\n   </country-region>\n   then hadthree-fourths of the world''s gold supplies. English Prime Minister Edward Heathlater said that the\n   <place w:st="on">\n    <country-region w:st="on">\n     United  States\n    </country-region>\n   </place>\n   in the post-War era enjoyed "thegreatest prosperity the world has ever known." It was a boom that produceda national euphoria, a buoyant time of grand expectations and an unprecedentedfaith in our government, in our leaders, and in the American dream--anoptimistic spirit which would be shaken by events in the ''60s and ''70s, andparticularly by the Vietnam War.\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n   <br />\n   Now, in Grand Expectations, James T. Patterson has written a highly readableand balanced work that weaves the major political, cultural, and economicevents of the period into a superb portrait of\n   <place w:st="on">\n    <country-region w:st="on">\n     America\n    </country-region>\n   </place>\n   from 1945 throughWatergate. Here is an era teeming with memorable events--from the bloodycampaigns in\n   <country-region w:st="on">\n    <place w:st="on">\n     Korea\n    </place>\n   </country-region>\n   and the bitterness surrounding McCarthyism to the assassinations of theKennedys and Martin Luther King, to the Vietnam War, Watergate, and Nixon''sresignation. Patterson excels at portraying the amazing growth after World WarII--the great building boom epitomized by Levittown (the largest suchdevelopment in history) and the baby boom (which exploded literally nine monthsafter V-J Day)--as well as the resultant buoyancy of spirit reflected ineverything from streamlined toasters, to big, flashy cars, to the soaring,butterfly roof of TWA''s airline terminal in New York. And he shows how thisupbeat, can-do mood spurred grander and grander expectations as the eraprogressed.\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n   <br />\n   Of course, not all Americans shared in this economic growth, and an importantthread running through the book is an informed and gripping depiction of thecivil rights movement--from the electrifying Brown v. Board of Educationdecision, to the violent confrontations in\n   <city w:st="on">\n    Little Rock\n   </city>\n   ,\n   <city w:st="on">\n    Birmingham\n   </city>\n   , and\n   <place w:st="on">\n    <city w:st="on">\n     Selma\n    </city>\n   </place>\n   , to the landmark civil rights acts of1964 and 1965. Patterson also shows how the Vietnam War--which provoked LBJ''sgrowing credibility gap, vast defence spending that dangerously unsettled theeconomy, and increasingly angry protests--and a growing rights revolution(including demands by women, Hispanics, the poor, Native Americans, and gays)triggered a backlash that widened hidden rifts in our society, rifts thatdivided along racial, class, and generational lines. And by Nixon''sresignation, we find a national mood in stark contrast to the grandexpectations of ten years earlier, one in which faith in our leaders and in theattainability of the American dream was becoming shaken.\n   <br />\n   The\n   <city w:st="on">\n    Oxford\n   </city>\n   History of the\n   <country-region w:st="on">\n    <place w:st="on">\n     United States\n    </place>\n   </country-region>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n   <br />\n   The Oxford History of the\n   <country-region w:st="on">\n    <place w:st="on">\n     United  States\n    </place>\n   </country-region>\n   is the most respected multi-volumehistory of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, a NewYork Times bestseller, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. TheAtlantic Monthly has praised it as "the most distinguished series inAmerican historical scholarship," a series that "synthesizes ageneration''s worth of historical inquiry and knowledge into one literallystate-of-the-art book." Conceived under the general editorship of C. VannWoodward and Richard Hofstadter, and now under the editorship of David M.Kennedy, this renowned series blends social, political, economic, cultural,diplomatic, and military history into coherent and vividly written narrative.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Part of the multivolume Oxford History of the United States, Grand Expectationsspotlights the\n   <country-region w:st="on">\n    <place w:st="on">\n     United States\n    </place>\n   </country-region>\n   at the centre of the international stage during the post World War II years.The book opens on country very different from the\n   <country-region w:st="on">\n    <place w:st="on">\n     U.S.\n    </place>\n   </country-region>\n   of today--racial segregationwas law and more than half the nation''s farm dwellings had no electricity. With\n   <country-region w:st="on">\n    England\n   </country-region>\n   ,\n   <country-region w:st="on">\n    Germany\n   </country-region>\n   , and\n   <country-region w:st="on">\n    Japan\n   </country-region>\n   ravaged by war, the\n   <country-region w:st="on">\n    <place w:st="on">\n     U.S.\n    </place>\n   </country-region>\n   entered a period of prosperity that soared to unimaginable heights in the1960s. Though Patterson ends his book with the downfall of Nixon and thebeginnings of a troubled economy, he concludes that the\n   <place w:st="on">\n    <country-region w:st="on">\n     U.S.\n    </country-region>\n   </place>\n   in 1974, "remained one ofthe most stable societies in the world."\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2918'),
(6300, 'The Grapes of Wrath', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Summary:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Of this initial group of six titles, *The Grapes of Wrath* is in a new edition with a completely revised introduction and, for the first time, detailed notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersâ€”and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3068'),
(6301, 'Grass Roots', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Will Lee has returned to his roots to kick off his campaign for the Senate. A prominent lawyer, he has come back to his hometown of Delano, Georgia, to plan his strategies, and to argue an explosively controversial case that could seriously damage his fledgling political career. For Delano is a town with a dark secret -- a smoldering hotbed of racial hatred and moral outrage, held in the thrall of a sinister group called The Elect. Its violent, evil forces will stop at nothing to keep the candidate out of office. But Will Lee isn''t about to back down, even though it may cost him his career -- and his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2691'),
(6302, 'Grave Secret', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New in the series from New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as sisters. But, as always happens when they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface.  To make matters worse, Tolliver learns from his older brother that their father is out of jail and trying to reestablish contact with other family members. Tolliver wants no part of the man- but he may not have a choice in the matter.  Soon, family secrets ensnare them both, as Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister, Cameron, so many years before. And what she finds out will change her world forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3210'),
(6303, 'The Graveyard Book', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Graveyard Book\n  </em>\n  , Neil Gaiman has created a charming allegory of childhood. Although the book opens with a scary scene--a family is stabbed to death by "a man named Jackâ€ --the story quickly moves into more child-friendly storytelling. The sole survivor of the attack--an 18-month-old baby--escapes his crib and his house, and toddles to a nearby graveyard. Quickly recognizing that the baby is orphaned, the graveyard''s ghostly residents adopt him, name him Nobody ("Bod"), and allow him to live in their tomb. Taking inspiration from Kiplingâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Jungle Book\n  </em>\n  , Gaiman describes how the toddler navigates among the headstones, asking a lot of questions and picking up the tricks of the living and the dead. In serial-like episodes, the story follows Bod''s progress as he grows from baby to teen, learning lifeâ€™s lessons amid a cadre of the long-dead, ghouls, witches, intermittent human interlopers. A pallid, nocturnal guardian named Silas ensures that Bod receives food, books, and anything else he might need from the human world. Whenever the boy strays from his usual play among the headstones, he finds new dangers, learns his limitations and strengths, and acquires the skills he needs to survive within the confines of the graveyard and in wider world beyond. (ages 10 and up) -â€“\n  <em>\n   Heidi Broadhead\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5â€“8â€”Somewhere in contemporary Britain, "the man Jack" uses his razor-sharp knife to murder a family, but the youngest, a toddler, slips away. The boy ends up in a graveyard, where the ghostly inhabitants adopt him to keep him safe. Nobody Owens, so named because he "looks like nobody but himself," grows up among a multigenerational cast of characters from different historical periods that includes matronly Mistress Owens; ancient Roman Caius Pompeius; an opinionated young witch; a melodramatic hack poet; and Bod''s beloved mentor and guardian, Silas, who is neither living nor dead and has secrets of his own. As he grows up, Bod has a series of adventures, both in and out of the graveyard, and the threat of the man Jack who continues to hunt for him is ever present. Bod''s love for his graveyard family and vice versa provide the emotional center, amid suspense, spot-on humor, and delightful scene-setting. The child Bod''s behavior is occasionally too precocious to be believed, and a series of puns on the name Jack render the villain a bit less frightening than he should be, though only momentarily. Aside from these small flaws, however, Gaiman has created a rich, surprising, and sometimes disturbing tale of dreams, ghouls, murderers, trickery, and family.â€”\n  <em>\n   Megan Honig, New York Public Library\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1288'),
(6304, 'A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hollywood, Halloween night, 1954. At a midnight party in a graveyard adjacent to the studio where he works, the sci-fi screenwriter/narrator glimpses the dangling papier-mache corpse (or real body?) of a film magnate presumed killed exactly 20 years earlier. Then a prop man (or his effigy) is hanged, or else is on the run, and another studio hand is murdered. A Beast is loose, attempting to instill panic on the set, perhaps to cover up what really happened two decades ago. Bradbury eventually ties up the loose ends in a loopy funhouse of a novel peopled with a monocled, imperious Austrian-Chinese director; Lenin''s ex-makeup man, from the Kremlin; a gaunt, sermonizing actor named Jesus Christ; a feisty ex-movie queen who demands that "J.C." bless her; and other oddballs. Madness, blackmail, murder and mayhem spell tricks and treats as Bradbury toes the fine line between reality and illusion.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- A multilevel story about a man for whom the movies have been a childhood obsession, an adult vocation, and ultimately a horrible, mysterious collision of past and present. Set in a Hollywood film studio back lot, the book presents an interweaving of real film stars of the past and of current productions. Vivid descriptions of the studio world and the real world take readers on a fascinating tour of reality and illusion, both superbly drawn. Film buffs will revel in the inside atmosphere, and mystery fans will enjoy the complicated kaleidoscopic plot. Once again, Bradbury combines the real and the imaginary in a fascinating tale. --Peggy Hecklinger, R. E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1292'),
(6305, 'The Great American Steamboat Race', 'Benton Rain Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Running from New Orleans to St. Louis in the summer of 1870, the race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez remains the world''s most famous steamboat race. This book tells the story of the dramatic contest, which was won by the stripped-down, cargoless Robert E. Lee after three days, 18 hours, and 14 minutes of steaming through day, night and fog. The Natchez finished the race only hours later, having been delayed by carrying her normal load and tying up overnight because of the intense fog. Providing details on not only the race narrative but also on the boats themselves, the book gives an intimate look at the majestic vessels that conquered the country''s greatest waterway and defined the bravado of 19th-century America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2412'),
(6306, 'The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge', 'David Mccullough', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. Winning acclaim for its comprehensive look at the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, this book helped cement David McCullough''s reputation as America''s preeminent social historian. Now, The Great Bridge is reissued as a Simon &amp; Schuster Classic Edition with a new introduction by the author. This monumental book brings back for American readers the heroic vision of the America we once had. It is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our nation''s history during the Age of Optimism Â— a period when Americans were convinced in their hearts that all great things were possible. In the years around 1870, when the project was first undertaken, the concept of building a great bridge to span the East River between the great cities of Manhattan and Brooklyn required a vision and determination comparable to that which went into the building of the pyramids. Throughout the fourteen years of its construction, the odds against the successful completion of the bridge seemed staggering. Bodies were crushed and broken, lives lost, political empires fell, and surges of public emotion constantly threatened the project. But this is not merely the saga of an engineering miracle: it is a sweeping narrative of the social climate of the time and of the heroes and rascals who had a hand in either constructing or obstructing the great enterprise. Amid the flood of praise for the book when it was originally published, Newsday said succinctly "This is the definitive book on the event. Do not wait for a better try: there won''t be any."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2413'),
(6307, 'The Great Democracies', 'Winston Churchill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Great Democracies\n </em>\n , Winston Churchill makes his case for the unique and fundamental role the English-speaking people played in bringing economic progress and political freedom to the world at large. As a work of history, this volume covers the period from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 to the end of the South African or Boer War in 1902. Churchill had a first-person view on some of these events having participated in the charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman and reporting on the Boer War for the\n <em>\n  Morning Post.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2417'),
(6308, 'The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941', 'Robert S. McElvaine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  AÂ _New York Times_Â Notable Book\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt would be hard to find a fairer or more balanced account of how the American people and their leaders learned to grapple with their greatest economic crisis.â€ â€”_New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA thorough work of scholarship, a lively story, and a highly original feat of analysis.â€â€”_Business WeekÂ _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is essential reading.â€ â€”Studs Terkel\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaineâ€™s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed insight into the machinations of politicians and economists who struggled to revive the battered economy, personal stories from the average people who were hardest hit by an economic crisis beyond their control, and an evocative depiction of the popular culture of the decade, McElvaine paints an epic picture of an America brought to its kneesâ€”but also brought together by peopleâ€™s widely shared plight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a new introduction, McElvaine draws striking parallels between the roots of the Great Depression and the economic meltdown that followed in the wake of the credit crisis of 2008. He also examines the resurgence of anti-regulation free market ideology, beginning in the Reagan era, and argues that some economists and politicians revised history and ignored the lessons of the Depression era.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2418');
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(6309, 'Great House', 'Nicole Krauss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010\n </strong>\n : In each of the short stories that nest like rooms in Nicole Krauss''s\n <em>\n  Great House\n </em>\n looms a tremendous desk. It may have belonged to Federico GarcÃ­a Lorca, the great poet and dramatist who was one of thousands executed by Fascists in 1936, when the Spanish Civil War began. We know that the desk stood in Weisz''s father''s study in Budapest on a night in 1944, when the first stone shattered their window. After the war, Weisz hunts furniture looted from Jewish homes by the Nazis. He scours the world for the fragments to reassemble that study''s every element, but the desk eludes him, and he and his children live at the edges of its absence. Meanwhile, it spends a few decades in an attic in England, where a woman exhumes the memories she can''t speak except through violent stories. She gives the desk to the young Chilean-Jewish poet Daniel Varsky, who takes it to New York and passes it on (before he returns to Chile and disappears under Pinochet) to Nadia, who writes seven novels on it before Varsky''s daughter calls to claim it. Crossing decades and continents, the stories of\n <em>\n  Great House\n </em>\n narrate feeling more than fact. Krauss''s characters inhabit "a state of perpetual regret and longing for a place we only know existed because we remember a keyhole, a tile, the way the threshold was worn under an open door," and a desk whose multitude of drawers becomes a mausoleum of memory.\n <em>\n  --Mari Malcolm\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This stunning work showcases Krauss''s consistent talent. The novel consists of four stories divided among eight chapters, all touching on themes of loss and recovery, and anchored to a massive writing desk that resurfaces among numerous households, much to the bewilderment and existential tension of those in its orbit, among them a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis. Much like in Krauss''s The History of Love, the sharply etched characters seem at first arbitrarily linked across time and space, but Krauss pulls together the disparate elements, settings, characters, and fragile connective tissue to form a formidable and haunting mosaic of loss and profound sorrow.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/948'),
(6310, 'Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India', 'Joseph Lelyveld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brilliantly illuminating book on Mahatma Gandhi that enriches our understanding of his means, his accomplishments, and his failures.Gandhi has long been considered a visionary and a martyr. And certainly, he was that rare leader wholly devoted to his people. But in this ambitious, stirring, original study, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winner Joseph Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhiâ€™s accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtroddenâ€”against Gandhiâ€™s own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.Lelyveld traces the roots of Gandhiâ€™s philosophy of reform to South Africa, exploring in unmatched depth the campaigns for social justice he undertook there, and chronicling his continued efforts when he returned to India. We see why he became known as Mahatmaâ€”Great Soulâ€”but we also see clearly that he was unable to achieve all the goals he set for himself and his country, suffering bitter disappointment at this shortfall, most profoundly in 1947 when India was partitioned.Here is a profoundly intelligent, vital reconsideration of Gandhiâ€™s extraordinary accomplishments, of his fierce but finally unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2492'),
(6311, 'Great Tales From English History', 'Robert Lacey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England''s past, highlighting the spread of the English language, the rejection of both a religion and a traditional view of kingly authority, and an unstoppable movement toward intellectual and political freedom from 1387 to 1689. Opening with Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales and culminating in William and Mary''s "Glorious Revolution," Lacey revisits some of the truly classic stories of English history: the Battle of Agincourt, where Henry V''s skilled archers defeated a French army three times as large; the tragic tale of the two young princes locked in the Tower of London (and almost certainly murdered) by their usurping uncle, Richard III; Henry VIII''s schismatic divorce, not just from his wife but from the authority of the Catholic Church; "Bloody Mary" and the burning of religious dissidents; Sir Francis Drake''s dramatic, if questionable, part in the defeat of the Spanish Armada; and the terrible and transformative Great Fire of London, to name but a few. Here Anglophiles will find their favorite English kings and queens, villains and victims, authors and architects - from Richard II to Anne Boleyn, the Virgin Queen to Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Pepys to Christopher Wren, and many more. Continuing the "eminently readable, highly enjoyable" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) history he began in volume I of Great Tales from English History, Robert Lacey has drawn on the most up-to-date research to present a taut and riveting narrative, breathing life into the most pivotal characters and exciting landmarks in England''s history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2496'),
(6312, 'Great Tales From English History, Book 2', 'Robert Lacey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England''s past, highlighting the spread of the English language, the rejection of both a religion and a traditional view of kingly authority, and an unstoppable movement toward intellectual and political freedom from 1387 to 1689. Opening with Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales and culminating in William and Mary''s "Glorious Revolution," Lacey revisits some of the truly classic stories of English history: the Battle of Agincourt, where Henry V''s skilled archers defeated a French army three times as large; the tragic tale of the two young princes locked in the Tower of London (and almost certainly murdered) by their usurping uncle, Richard III; Henry VIII''s schismatic divorce, not just from his wife but fr...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2498'),
(6313, 'The Great Train Robbery', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A nineteenth-century version of The Sting...Crichton fascinates us."-- The New, York Times Book Review --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London -- and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city''s most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century -- the daring theft of a fortune in gold.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England''s industrial era: the mighty steam locomotive. Based on remarkable fact, and alive with the gripping suspense, surprise, and authenticity that are his trademark, Michael Crichton''s classic adventure is a breathtaking thrill-ride that races along tracks of steel at breakneck speed.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/330'),
(6314, 'Great Transformation', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n From one of the worldâ€™s leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling\n <strong>\n  A History of God\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  The Battle for God\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  The Spiral Staircase\n </strong>\n , comes a major new work: a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual revolutions in world history and its relevance to our own time.\n</p>\n<p>\n In one astonishing, short period â€“ the ninth century BCE â€“ the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity into the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in China; Hinduism and Buddhism in India; monotheism in Israel; and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Historians call this the Axial Age because of its central importance to humanityâ€™s spiritual development. Now, Karen Armstrong traces the rise and development of this\n <br />\n transformative moment in history, examining the brilliant contributions to these traditions made by such figures as the Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Ezekiel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Armstrong makes clear that despite some differences of emphasis, there was remarkable consensus among these religions and philosophies: each insisted on the primacy of compassion over hatred and violence. She illuminates what this â€œfamilyâ€ resemblance reveals about the religious impulse and quest of humankind. And she goes beyond spiritual archaeology, delving into the ways in which these Axial Age beliefs can present an instructive and thought-provoking challenge to the ways we think about and practice religion today.\n</p>\n<p>\n A revelation of humankindâ€™s early shared imperatives, yearnings and inspired solutions â€“ as salutary as it\n <br />\n is fascinating.\n</p>\n<p>\n Excerpt from\n <strong>\n  The Great Transformation\n </strong>\n :\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n In our global world, we can no longer afford a parochial or exclusive vision. We must learn to live and behave as though people in remote parts of the globe were as important as ourselves. The sages of the Axial Age did not create their compassionate ethic in idyllic circumstances. Each tradition developed in societies like our own that were torn apart by violence and warfare as never before; indeed, the first catalyst of religious change was usually a visceral rejection of the aggression that the sages witnessed all around them. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n All the great traditions that were created at this time are in agreement about the supreme importance of charity and benevolence, and this tells us something important about our humanity._\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2501'),
(6315, 'The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris', 'David Mccullough', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2011\n </strong>\n : At first glance,\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris\n </em>\n might seem to be foreign territory for David McCullough, whose other books have mostly remained in the Western Hemisphere. But\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey\n </em>\n is still a quintessentially American history. Between 1830 and 1900, hundreds of Americans--many of them future household names like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Samuel Morse, and Harriet Beecher Stowe--migrated to Paris. McCullough shows first how the City of Light affected each of them in turn, and how they helped shape American art, medicine, writing, science, and politics in profound ways when they came back to the United States. McCullough''s histories have always managed to combine meticulous research with sheer enthusiasm for his subjects, and it''s hard not to come away with a sense that you''ve learned something new and important about whatever he''s tackled.\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey is\n </em>\n , like each of McCullough''s previous histories, a dazzling and kaleidoscopic foray into American history by one of its greatest living chroniclers. --_Darryl Campbell_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "An epic of ideas, as well as an exhilirating book of spells . . . This is history to be savored."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Stacy Schiff,\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn ambitious, wide-ranging study of how being in Paris helped spark generations of American genius. . . . A gorgeously rich, sparkling patchwork, eliciting stories from diaries and memoirs to create the human drama McCullough depicts so well.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€”Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA lively and entertaining panorama. . . . By the time he shows us the triumphant Exposition Universelle in 1889, witnessed through the eyes of such characters as painters John Singer Sargent and Robert Henri, we share McCullough''s enthusiasm for the city and his affection for the many Americans who improved their lives, their talent and their nation by drinking at the fountain that was Paris.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Michael Sims,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "From a dazzling beginning that captures the thrill of arriving in Paris in 1830 to the dawn of the 20th century, McCullough chronicles the generations that came, saw and were conquered by Paris. . . .\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey\n </em>\n will satisfy McCullough''s legion of loyal fans . . . it will entice a whole new generation of Francophiles, armchair travelers and those Americans lucky enough to go to Paris before they die."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Bruce Watson,\n <em>\n  The San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "McCullough''s skill as a storyteller is on full display. . . . The idea of telling the story of the French cultural contribution to America through the eyes of a generation of aspiring artists, writers and doctors is inspired. . . a compelling and largely untold story in American history."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Kevin J. Hamilton,\n <em>\n  The Seattle Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "There is not an uninteresting page here as one fascinating character after another is explored at a crucial stage of his development. . . . Wonderful, engaging writing full of delighting detail."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”John Barron,\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMcCulloughâ€™s research is staggering to perceive, and the interpretation he lends to his material is impressive to behold. . . . Expect his latest book to ascend the best-seller lists and be given a place on the year-end best lists.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€”Booklist\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA highly readable and entertaining travelogue of a special sort, an interdisciplinary treat from a tremendously popular Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. . . . Highly recommended.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€”Library Journal\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor more than 40 years, David McCullough has brought the past to life in books distinguished by vigorous storytelling and vivid characterizations. . . . . McCullough again finds a slighted subject in\n <em>\n  The Greater Journey\n </em>\n , which chronicles the adventures of Americans in Paris. . . . Wonderfully atmospheric.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Wendy Smith,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMcCullough has hit the historical jackpot. . . . A colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€”Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2421'),
(6316, 'The Green Mile', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary''s death-row facility,The Green Mileis the riveting and tragic story of John Coffey, a giant, preternaturally gentle inmate condemned to death for the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls. It is a story narrated years later by Paul Edgecomb, the ward superintendent compelled to help every prisoner spend his last days peacefully and every man walk the green mile to execution with his humanity intact.Edgecomb has sent seventy-eight inmates to their date with "old sparky," but he''s never encountered one like Coffey -- a man who wants to die, yet has the power to heal. And in this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecomb discovers the terrible truth about Coffey''s gift, a truth that challenges his most cherished beliefs -- and ours.Originally published in 1996 in six self-contained monthly installments,The Green Mileis an astonishingly rich and complex novel that delivers over and over again. Each individual volume became a huge success when first published, and all six were on theNew York Timesbestseller list simultaneously. Three years later, when Frank Darabont madeThe Green Mileinto an award-winning movie starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, the book returned to the bestseller list -- and stayed there for months.And now -- with a new introduction by King''s foreign agent Ralph Vicinanza, as well as the author''s own foreword -- we have the first hardcover edition of this magnificent novel in which "King surpasses our expectations, leaves us spellbound and hungry for the next twist of plot"(The Boston Globe).With illustrations and a new frontispiece for this edition by Mark Geyer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/803'),
(6317, 'Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny', 'Marlo Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some know her as the star of the 1960s TV show That Girl, or creator of Free to Be... You and Me, or perhaps major fund-raiser for St. Jude Children''s Research Hospital. Thomas, author of five bestselling books, here focuses on a role she''s had her entire life: daughter. Laughter was the soundtrack for Thomas''s formative years in 1950s Beverly Hills. Her father, comedian Danny Thomas, regularly had funny friends--including Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, and George Burns--over to the family home. The author, actress, feminist, and philanthropist shares fond memories of enjoying and learning from these comedy luminaries, and of being a Hollywood kid long before game-changers like the Internet and cable TV. She chronicles her path from childhood to adulthood; particularly interesting tidbits include her meeting and marrying Phil Donahue, becoming friends with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug, and, with her siblings, "producing" her father''s funeral. But this book is more than a well-written memoir. Thomas also includes interviews with comedy powerhouses galore, from Tina Fey to Alan Alda, Chris Rock to Ben and Jerry Stiller. On the whole, this book offers a delightful firsthand look at how comedy has become integral to American culture--and the way it''s shaped one woman''s colorful life.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thomas, star of the classic sitcom That Girl and daughter of comedy legend Danny Thomas, has taken an interesting approach to the usual Hollywood memoir. Chapters exploring her life as the daughter of comedy royalty, and her struggles to establish an independent identity for herself, alternate with profiles of contemporary comedians (Seinfeld, Leno, Stiller, Rock, Crystal, Rivers, Williams, Fey, Wright, and Colbert, among others). We see how her father inspired her, and we also see how he inspired the professionals who came after him. Thomasâ€™ personal stories are heartwarming and entertaining. Her father, who came by his legendary status by dint of hard work and perfect delivery, comes across as a driven man who always made time for his family and who never made any secret of the fact that he loved his little girl. It was a privileged childhood, to be sure, and you canâ€™t help being a little envious of someone who grew up around the likes of Milton Berle, George Burns, and Sid Caesar. The profiles of other comedians allow us to see Danny Thomas through othersâ€™ eyes, too, offering a different perspective on the man and his legacy. An engaging, highly informative memoirâ€”definitely not the routine show-biz autobiography. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2136'),
(6318, 'Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq', 'John C. McManus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Grunts, renowned historian John C. McManus demonstrates that, from the invasion beaches of the Second World War to the deserts of the Middle East, the foot soldier has been the most indispensible-and most overlooked-factor in wartime victory.  Advances in weaponry have threatened to render the infantryman obsolete for centuries. Even today, precision-guided munitions, nuclear bombs, aerial drones, computers, and satellites have made victory in modern warfare seem like a simple matter of superior hardware, negating the need for ground soldiers. In truth, even as technology advanced at a dizzying pace throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, ground soldiers, especially infantry "grunts," did almost all of the fighting and dying in America''s wars.  Examining ten critical battles, McManus covers six decades of warfare-from the 1944 fight on the island of Guam to today''s counterinsurgency combat in Iraq-in which the skills and courage of American troops proved the crucial difference between victory and defeat. Penetrating the flowery rhetoric of headlines and standard battle narratives, McManus exposes the shocking brutal realities of modern ground combat.  Based on years of archival research and personal interviews with veterans, this powerful history reveals the ugly face of war in a way that few books have. Grunts demonstrates the vital, and too often forgotten, importance of the human element in protecting the American nation, and advances a passionate plea for fundamental change in our understanding of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2502'),
(6319, 'The Guardian', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n At 29, Julie Barenson is too young to give up on love. Four years after her husband''s tragic death, she is finally ready to risk giving her heart to someone again. But to whom? Should it be Richard Franklin, who is handsome and sophisticated and treats her like a queen, or Mike Harris, who is Julie''s best friend in the world, though not as debonair? Now, with a decision that should bring her more happiness than she''s had in years, Julie''s life is about to become a living nightmare, as one man''s jealousy spins into a deadly obsession.- Upon its release, Nicholas Sparks'' most recent novel, Nights in Rodanthe (Warner, 9/02), immediately hit #1 on the New York Times, USA TODAY, and Publisher''s Weekly besteseller lists. It has 827,000 copies in print to date. Film rights have been optioned by Warner Bros.A Bend in the Road (Warner, 9/01) rocketed to #2 on the New York Times bestseller list and has 780,000 hardcover copies in print to date. In mass market (Warner, 7/02) it hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and has over 1.5 million copies in print to date. Film rights have been sold to Warner Bros.A Walk To Remember (Warner, 9/00), with nearly four million copies in combined print, was an instant New York Times bestseller. The feature film (1/02) was produced by Denise DiNovi (Message in a Bottle, Heathers) of Warner Bros. Message in a Bottle (Warner, 1999), with three million copies in combined print, was a New York Times bestseller.The Notebook (Warner, 1996) was a New York Times bestseller for over one year and will soon be a New Line feature film.Also available as a Time Warner AudioBook(TM) and in a Large Print Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3738'),
(6320, 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society', 'Mary Ann Shaffer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n January 1946 - London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she''s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb. Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends - and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is.'' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'' - born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island - boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all. Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society''s members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3478'),
(6321, 'Gulag: A History', 'Anne Applebaum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nearly 30 million prisoners passed through the Soviet Union''s labor camps in their more than 60 years of operation. This remarkable volume, the first fully documented history of the gulag, describes how, largely under Stalin''s watch, a regulated, centralized system of prison labor-unprecedented in scope-gradually arose out of the chaos of the Russian Revolution. Fueled by waves of capricious arrests, this prison labor came to underpin the Soviet economy. Applebaum, a former Warsaw correspondent for the Economist and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, draws on newly accessible Soviet archives as well as scores of camp memoirs and interviews with survivors to trace the gulag''s origins and expansion. By the gulag''s peak years in the early 1950s, there were camps in every part of the country, and slave labor was used not only for mining and heavy industries but for producing every kind of consumer product (chairs, lamps, toys, those ubiquitous fur hats) and some of the country''s most important science and engineering (Sergei Korolev, the architect of the Soviet space program, began his work in a special prison laboratory). Applebaum details camp life, including strategies for survival; the experiences of women and children in the camps; sexual relationships and marriages between prisoners; and rebellions, strikes and escapes. There is almost too much dark irony to bear in this tragic, gripping account. Applebaum''s lucid prose and painstaking consideration of the competing theories about aspects of camp life and policy are always compelling. She includes an appendix in which she discusses the various ways of calculating how many died in the camps, and throughout the book she thoughtfully reflects on why the gulag does not loom as large in the Western imagination as, for instance, the Holocaust.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n More than a full-scale history of the Soviet Gulag, this work by the Spectator''s deputy editor asks why it is so little remembered in both Russia and the West.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2505'),
(6322, 'The Gun', 'C. J. Chivers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This superior history of the AK family of assault rifles begins with the invention of the machine gun by Hiram Maxim and traces automatic weapons through WWII. In 1947, Russian army officer Mikhail Kalashnikov adapted a German design of automatic infantry rifle to become the AK (for Avtomat Kalashnikov). It first attracted world attention in Vietnam by proving superior to the American M-16. Since then it has developed several relatives and been produced in many other countries, the total running into the hundreds of millions. It has armed regular armies, irregular armies, police forces, terrorists, common criminals, and ordinary householders in the majority of the worldâ€™s countries, creating a proliferation problem that has to date killed far more people than the nuclear kind. The author is a former U.S. Marine officer and prizewinning journalist who has written incisively and researched exhaustively. It lends force to his arguments that some of his informants have been assassinated with assault rifles for talking. --Roland Green\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Advance Praise for\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC. J. Chiversâ€™\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  does exactly what the best art history or music writing doesâ€”it opens our eyes to see anew the familiar. Chivers'' reach and scope is syncretic, omnivorousâ€”he is dazzling in his research and reporting. This is a book about connections between people and culture, people and history, nations with nations. Chivers pulls together vast threads of an expanding portrait and what emerges is startling.\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  is filled with a sense of discovery in the way that John McPheeâ€™s work is filled with delight, tribulation, and surprise.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Doug Stanton, author of\n  <em>\n   Horse Soldiers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€œThe Gun\n  </em>\n  is for those who wonder how we fight today and why we fight that way. C. J. Chivers has given us a seminal work that will be respected by future generations trying to understand us.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --James Bradley, author of\n  <em>\n   Flags of Our Fathers, Fly Boys,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Imperial Cruise\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œ_The Gun_ is a model of research, historical writing, military expertise, and a soldierâ€™s ungrudging respect for a weapon that really works.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Thomas Powers, author of\n  <em>\n   Intelligence Wars\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC. J. Chilvers tells a remarkable story of how this one, superbly reliable firearm became the most abundant ever produced, and was to exceed the consequences even of Soviet nuclear know-how in the Cold War, and beyond.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Alistair Horne, author of\n  <em>\n   The Price of Glory\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Savage War of Peace\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œThanks to C. J. Chivers, every G.I. and Marine in Vietnam who threw down his jammed M-16 in despair can trace the development of the better weapon he envied.\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  is part a biography of Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47, part grim social history and, in all its parts, entirely absorbing.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --A. J. Langguth,\n  <em>\n   Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC.J. Chivers, a brilliant war correspondent, is an equally capable military historian. By telling the story of a gun--well, not just any gun but arguably â€˜theâ€™ gun--he reveals much about crime, war, and terror, and he does so in convincing and compelling fashion.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Evan Thomas, author of\n  <em>\n   The War Lovers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2422'),
(6323, 'The Guns of August', 'Barbara Wertheim Tuchman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFascinating . . . One of the finest works of history written . . . A splendid and glittering performance.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The New York Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œMORE DRAMATIC THAN FICTION . . . A MAGNIFICENT NARRATIVE . . . elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained . . . The product of painstaking and sophisticated research.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Chicago Tribune_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA BRILLIANT PIECE OF MILITARY HISTORY which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchillâ€™s statement that the first month of World War I was â€˜a drama never surpassed.â€™ A writer with an impeccable sense of telling detail, Mrs. Tuchman is able to evoke both the enormous pattern of the tragedy and the minutiae which make it human.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Newsweek_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] BEAUTIFULLY ORGANIZED, COMPELLING NARRATIVE.â€\n <br />\n â€“_San Francisco Chronicle\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œAN EPIC NEVER FLAGGING IN SUSPENSE . . . It seemed hardly possible that anything new of significance could be said about the prelude to and the first month of World War I. But this is exactly what Mrs. Tuchman has succeeded in doing . . . by transforming the dramaâ€™s protagonists as well as its immense supporting cast, from half-legendary and half shadowy figures into full-dimensional, believable persons.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Christian Science Monitor_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEXCELLENT . . . [_The Guns of August_] has a vitality that transcends its narrative virtues.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Wall Street Journal_\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."\n <br />\n CHICAGO TRIBUNE\n <br />\n Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn''t. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2425'),
(6324, 'Guns Up!', 'Johnnie M. Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  THIS GUT-WRENCHING FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IS A CLASSIC IN THE ANNALS OF VIETNAM LITERATURE.\n  <em>\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   "Guns up!"\n  </em>\n  was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn''t the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard that the life expectancy of a machine gunner in Vietnam was seven to ten seconds after a firefight began. Johnnie was only eighteen when he got there, at the height of the bloody Tet Offensive at Hue, and he quickly realized the grim statistic held a chilling truth.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Marines who fought and bled and died were ordinary men, many still teenagers, but the selfless bravery they showed day after day in a nightmarish jungle war made them true heroes. This new edition of\n  <em>\n   Guns Up!\n  </em>\n  , filled with photographs and updated information about those harrowing battles, also contains the real names of these extraordinary warriors and details of their lives after the war. The book''s continuing success is a tribute to the raw courage and sacrifice of the United States Marines.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Johnnie M. Clark\n  </strong>\n  is a disabled veteran who lives with his wife and two children in St. Petersburg, Florida. After joining the Marine Corps at age seventeen, he served as a machine gunner with the famous 5th Marine Regiment in 1968 and was wounded three times. He was awarded the Silver Star for bravery. While recuperating in Okinawa, Mr. Clark studied karate as part of his rehabilitation program, and after his discharge, he taught martial arts at the University of South Florida. He is now a 6th Dan Master of tae kwan do and operates a tae kwan do school in St. Petersburg. Clark is also the author of\n  <em>\n   Semper Fidelis\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Old Corps\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   No Better Way to Die\n  </em>\n  , and the forthcoming\n  <em>\n   Harlot''s Cup\n  </em>\n  . He is the recipient of the Brig. Gen. Robert L. Denig Memorial Distinguished Service Award for writing.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2506'),
(6325, 'Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies', 'Jared M. Diamond', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren''t native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1057'),
(6326, 'Gunsights', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Brendan Early and Dana Moon have tracked renegade Apaches together and gunned down scalp hunters to become Arizona legends. But now they face each other from opposite sides of what newspapers are calling The Rincon Mountain War. Brendan and a gang of mining company gun thugs are dead set on running Dana and "the People of the Mountain" from their land. The characters are unforgettable, the plot packed with action and gunfights from beginning to end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3096'),
(6327, 'The Gunslinger', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thirty-three years, a horrific and life-altering accident, and thousands of desperately rabid fans in the making, Stephen King''s quest to complete his magnum opus rivals the quest of Roland and his band of gunslingers who inhabit the Dark Tower series. Loyal DT fans and new readers alike will appreciate this revised edition of\n <em>\n  The Gunslinger\n </em>\n , which breathes new life into Roland of Gilead, and offers readers a "clearer start and slightly easier entry into Roland''s world."\n</p>\n<p>\n King writes both a new introduction and foreword to this revised edition, and the ever-patient, ever-loyal "constant reader" is rewarded with secrets to the series''s inception. That a "magic" ream of green paper and a Robert Browning poem, came together to reveal to King his "ka" is no real surprise (this is King after all), but who would have thought that the squinty-eyed trio of Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach would set the author on his true path to the Tower? While King credits Tolkien for inspiring the "quest and magic" that pervades the series, it was Sergio Leone''s\n <em>\n  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly\n </em>\n that helped create the epic proportions and "almost absurdly majestic western backdrop" of Roland''s world.\n</p>\n<p>\n To King,\n <em>\n  The Gunslinger\n </em>\n demanded revision because once the series was complete it became obvious that "the beginning was out of sync with the ending." While the revision adds only 35 pages, Dark Tower purists will notice the changes to Allie''s fate and Roland''s interaction with Cort, Jake, and the Man in Black--all stellar scenes that will reignite the hunger for the rest of the series. Newcomers will appreciate the details and insight into Roland''s life. The revised Roland of Gilead (nee Deschain) is embodied with more humanity--he loves, he pities, he regrets. What DT fans might miss is the same ambiguity and mystery of the original that gave the original its pulpy underground feel (back when King himself awaited word from Roland''s world).\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n King''s (Pet Sematary, Audio Reviews, LJ 11/1/98) fantastical and allegorical "Dark Tower" series commenced in 1982 with the publication of The Gunslinger. Subsequent volumes have appeared about every five years thereafter. The Gunslinger introduces protagonist Roland as he pursues the Man in Black through bleak and tired landscapes in a world that has "moved on." Roland believes that the Man in Black knows and can be made to reveal the secrets of the Dark Tower, which is the ultimate goal of Roland''s quest. The Waste Lands sees Roland and his fellow travelers continuing the quest for the Dark Tower. They journey through imaginative landscapes, over astounding obstacles, and meet with and confront a unique and fully drawn cast of characters, both human and nonhuman. Reader Frank Muller gives voice to the characters with a thoroughly engaging precision, accuracy, and great humanity and with an edge that drives the story onward and seems to amplify King''s skill as an author. Highly recommended for all fiction collections.?Kristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/854'),
(6328, 'The Hades Factor', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With an unbroken string of bestsellers dating from the early ''70s (beginning with 1971''s\n  <em>\n   The Scarlatti Inheritance\n  </em>\n  ) and over 200 million books sold, Robert Ludlum is an acknowledged superstar of the political thriller. Gayle Lynds, who was compared to Ludlum after her 1996 debut,\n  <em>\n   Masquerade\n  </em>\n  , has two successful novels and a slew of pseudonymous pulp fiction titles to her credit. Together--after a fashion--they serve up book 1 of Ludlum''s new Covert-One series of trade paperback originals,\n  <em>\n   Robert Ludlum''s the Hades Factor\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  After three disparate Americans succumb to a hitherto unknown Ebola-like virus, the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) is pressed into service. Since the USAMRIID''s top doc (and former military intelligence operative) Lt. Col. Jon Smith has yet to return from an overseas conference, the job of heading the medical research team falls to Smith''s colleague and fiancÃ©e, Dr. Sophia Russell.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Upon Smith''s return, he is sequentially treated to a life-or-death warning from a childhood friend (and rogue FBI agent), several nasty near-death experiences, and the viscerally graphic demise of his wife-to-be, an apparent virus victim. Enraged and bereaved, Smith flies into investigatory action only to discover doctored files, expunged records, and the distinct likelihood that he''s dealing with cases of murder-by-virus. As more questions are asked, more deaths occur, official channels slam shut, and Smith finds himself a wanted man, battling his best friend, an evil-genius gazillionaire scientist, corrupt politicians, and Third World terrorists. In other words, it''s Smith versus all the usual suspects.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ludlum and Lynds cover no new ground here (and their prose is less than sterling). In fact,\n  <em>\n   The Hades Factor\n  </em>\n  owes as much to Tom Clancy''s Op-Center series--cocreated by Clancy and Steve Pieczenik--and Richard Preston''s\n  <em>\n   The Hot Zone\n  </em>\n  as it does to Ludlum''s own considerable body of work. That said,\n  <em>\n   The Hades Factor\n  </em>\n  still delivers a respectable level of intrigue and suspense, will likely be snapped up by output-starved Ludlum fanciers, and will be right at home on the bed stands of Preston fans.\n  <em>\n   --Michael Hudson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his first book since 1997''s The Matarese Countdown, onetime thriller superstar Ludlum teams up with Lynds (Masquerade; Mosaic) for a lackluster trade paperback original, the first volume in a Tom Clancy-like series called "Covert-One." The novel stars ace doctor (and former military spook) Lt. Col. Jonathan Smith, who now works for the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Md. We first meet Dr. Smith in London, where a childhood friend and rogue FBI agent warns him not to get involved in USAMRIID''s latest investigation; the institute is looking into the baffling deaths from an unknown killer virus of three people in three widely separated states. But Smith''s colleague and wife-to-be, Dr. Sophia Russell, is already trying to link the virus with a mysterious disease that decimated the Monkey Blood tribe she had worked with during her student days in Peru. What she doesn''t know is that the slickly evil scientist who investigated the virus then is now the head of a giant chemical company with links to Third World terrorism. When Russell herself falls victim to the virus early on, Smith must forge ahead with the assistance of her sister, Randi, a CIA agent in Baghdad. Ludlum and Lynds keep things moving at a capable pace, but the familiar plot and uninspired writing (Smith "wore his restlessness like another man wore his skin") do little to foment interest in future installments on the series. (June)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1188'),
(6329, 'Half Broke Horses', 'Jeannette Walls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls''s no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier townriding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane. And, with her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one who is Jeannette''s memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle. Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kindsagainst women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn''t fit the mold. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen''s Out of Africa or Beryl Markham''s West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3475');
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(6330, 'Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories With Recipes', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers familiar with Angelou''s\n <em>\n  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\n </em>\n will find what may be the secret ingredient of her success in this collection of tear- and laughter-provoking vignettes with 73 savory recipes. Here''s Angelou''s grandmother''s Chicken and Dumplings, Crackling Corn Bread and Caramel Cake. Big brother Bailey makes a mean batch of Smothered Pork Chops and knows how to stretch them for a week''s worth of meals. Mother, who "cooked wonderful meals and was very poignant about how to present them," can make a Roasted Capon play second fiddle to Red Rice. As the wider world beckons, Angelou dines. Sometimes she''s the worker; having passed herself off as an experienced Creole cook, she becomes one with her Braised Short Ribs. Other times, she''s the hostess serving what M.F.K. Fisher pronounces "the first honest cassoulet I have eaten in years." A batch of spoon bread nets Angelou a job and compliment: "If you can write half as good as you can cook, you are going to be famous." She does, and the food world widens (tamales, patÃ©, minestrone, chachouka), and the fellow diners often have famous names (Oprah, Jessica Mitford, Rosa Guy). The food remains delectable and comfortable, and Angelou''s directions are minimal but clear enough for experienced cooks. Color photos not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Angelou has feasted at both ends of the food spectrum and everywhere in between. Her appreciation of good food has given her stamina and has enriched the texture of her days. In this memoir of significant meals, the poet recalls her grandmother''s ironic discovery that rich folks relished wilted lettuce while she was investing in ice to keep her greens crisp. In another recollection, Angelou recalls her brother Bailey''s advice on how to stretch a pork chop or two into enough different meals to please even her ravenous young son. As Angelou''s renown swells, so does her purse, and before long she''s sitting down to tables where nothing is impossible. Humble beef stew becomes beef Wellington and lemon meringue pie elegant eclairs. But Angelou''s savoring of well-made food is a single continuum. Her recipes for favorite dishes derive from traditions as diverse as the origins of menudo, minestrone, spoon bread, tomato souffle, and hog head cheese. Angelou''s fans curious about their hero''s appetites will find tasty satisfaction here.\n <em>\n  Mark Knoblauch\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2138'),
(6331, 'The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors', 'Michele Young-Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Damaged people inhabit this debut novel: people who have been struck by lightning as well as those who have lost loved ones from death, divorce, drinking, or duplicity. Young-Stone tells parallel stories that hurdle storm after storm headlong into one another. One follows the bullied Buckley R. Pitank, who watches as his beloved mother''s life is buffeted by her mean-spirited mother and a fraud of an evangelical preacher. Just when she escapes and finds love, and Buckley sees the possibility of happiness, she is fatally struck by lightning. The other is the story of Becca Burke, a lightning strike survivor whose drunk mother and philandering father have a hard time believing that she has been repeatedly hit by lightning. As Buckley and Becca grow up, Buckley writes\n  <em>\n   The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors\n  </em>\n  , excerpts of which begin each chapter, and Becca becomes a painter. What happens when they do finally meet is inevitable. Young-Stone is a very fine writer who has created a host of endearing losersâ€”young, old, literate, and simple, all full of longing. What she does best is portray the incredulousness of the unlucky.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Young-Stoneâ€™s luminescent debut follows the lives of two people who are forever changed by lightning strikes. In North Carolina, Becca is struck at the age of eight on her driveway and walks away changed but mostly unharmed. Buckley, 13, flees Arkansas with his mother, Abigail, to start over, but their newfound happiness is torn asunder when Abigail is killed by lightning. Haunted by his motherâ€™s death, Buckley is obsessed with lightning strikes and becomes an expert on the phenomenon in hope of understanding why the lightning chose his mother and not him. Becca eventually flees North Carolina and her parentsâ€™ broken marriage for New York City, where she is able to focus on her art and even secure a gallery show. Becca and Buckleyâ€™s parallel stories, as well as curiosity about how their paths finally converge, will keep the pages turning, while the complex, colorful characters, and the deep bonds that form between them in spite of and even because of the tragedies they survive, will live on in readersâ€™ minds long after they reach the end of this powerful, beautiful novel. --Kristine Huntley\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/919'),
(6332, 'Handle With Care', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Perennial bestseller Picoult (\n  <em>\n   Change of Heart\n  </em>\n  ) delivers another engrossing family drama, spiced with her trademark blend of medicine, law and love. Charlotte and Sean O''Keefe''s daughter, Willow, was born with brittle bone disease, a condition that requires Charlotte to act as full-time caregiver and has strained their emotional and financial limits. Willow''s teenaged half-sister, Amelia, suffers as well, overshadowed by Willow''s needs and lost in her own adolescent turmoil. When Charlotte decides to sue for wrongful birth in order to obtain a settlement to ensure Willow''s future, the already strained family begins to implode. Not only is the defendant Charlotte''s longtime friend, but the case requires Charlotte and Sean to claim that had they known of Willow''s condition, they would have terminated the pregnancy, a statement that strikes at the core of their faith and family. Picoult individualizes the alternating voices of the narrators more believably than she has previously, and weaves in subplots to underscore the themes of hope, regret, identity and family, leading up to her signature closing twists.\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sure, Jodi Picoult can be formulaic, but few critics seemed to mind her well-researched, domestic-and-legal-drama-told-through-multiple-viewpoints framework for\n  <em>\n   Handle With Care\n  </em>\n  . Except for the\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n  , which noted that "the construct feels a little tired and trepid, creating more distance than illumination," reviewers embraced Picoult''s latest offering. Told primarily through the voices of Willow''s mother, her father, her adolescent sister, the obstetrician, and a lawyer, the novel wrenched readers'' hearts as it examines motherhood, family, and disability. The bonus? Charlotte, a renowned pastry chef, adds a little sweetness to the family tragedy by interspersing her dessert recipes throughout the novel.Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1214'),
(6333, 'Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love', 'Myron Uhlberg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  : With touching simplicity, author Myron Uhlberg recounts his complex childhood spent bridging the gap between sign language and the spoken word. As the hearing son of deaf parents, young Myron served as their emissary to the audible world while enduring the painful ignorance of a society that dismissed the hearing-impaired as "dummies." Yet eliciting pity is not the aim of this memoir.\n  <em>\n   Hands of My Father\n  </em>\n  is less about the challenges Uhlberg faced, and more about the love that bound his family together. Amid each tale of hardship, he describes moments so profoundly tender that you are immediately excused for the lump forming in the back of your throat. "All that I needed, in order to understand how much my father loved me," he explains, "was the feel of his arms around me." Though there may have been much to struggle against, Uhlberg''s stories reveal that he had even more to be thankful for. -\n  <em>\n   Dave Callanan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this memoir about growing up the son of deaf parents in 1940s Brooklyn, Uhlberg recalls the time his uncle told him he saw his nephew as cleaved into two parts, half hearing, half deaf, forever joined together. These worlds come together in this work, his first for adults, as Uhlberg, who has written several children''s books (including\n  <em>\n   Dad, Jackie, and Me\n  </em>\n  , which won a 2006 Patterson Prize) effortlessly weaves his way through a childhood of trying to interpret the speaking world for his parents while trying to learn the lessons of life from the richly executed Technicolor language of his father''s hands. With the interconnection of two different worlds, there is bound to be humor, and Uhlberg is able to laugh at himself and his family''s situation. He recounts unsuccessfully trying to reinterpret his teacher''s constructive criticism for his parents and finding himself pressed into duty interpreting the Joe Louis prize fights for his dad. There are, of course, more poignant moments, as Uhlberg tries to explain the sound of waves for his curious father or when he finds himself in charge of caring for his epileptic baby brother because his parents can''t hear the seizures. As Uhlberg grows up through the polio epidemic, WWII and Jackie Robinson''s arrival in Brooklyn, he also grows out of his insecurities about his family and the way they are viewed as outsiders. Instead, looking back, he gives readers a well-crafted, heartwarming tale of family love and understanding.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2140'),
(6334, 'The Hanged Man&#39;s Song', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Just about everybody knows John Sandford for his long and successful Prey series. But just as well written and maybe more fun are his Kidd books, of which this is the fourth. Kidd is a professional thief for the Internet age: a cyberprowler, a hacker extraordinaire. In\n  <em>\n   The Hanged Man''s Song\n  </em>\n  , he gets word that one of his key contacts--a superhacker known only as Bobby, whom Kidd has never met but has relied on many times--has disappeared. Kidd and an old buddy, both of whom could be compromised by data in Bobby''s files, go looking for him. Finding his brutally murdered body draws them into a Hitchcock-esque intrigue that eventually involves stolen government secrets, crooked politicians, and a rogue CIA agent who''s as crafty as he is creepy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While filling his tale with fascinating and authentic-sounding lore about the hacker subculture, identity theft, and security cracking, Sandford keeps the action brisk with plenty of white-knuckle chases, tense stakeouts, and hairsbreadth escapes. Couple that with a smart, agreeable narrator and a cast of vivid characters evoked with an old pro''s ease, and you''ve got one winning thriller.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This series of techno-suspense novels featuring artist, computer wizard and professional criminal Kidd (The Fool''s Run; The Empress File; The Devil''s Code) and his sometime girlfriend, cat-burglar LuEllen, are far fewer in number and less well-known than Sandford''s bestselling Prey books. In this entry, Bobby, Kidd''s genius hacker friend ("Bobby is the deus ex machina for the hacking community, the fount of all knowledge, the keeper of secrets, the source of critical phone numbers, a guide through the darkness of IBM mainframes"), goes offline for good when he is hammered to death by an intruder. Bobby''s laptop is stolen, which is bad news for Kidd as several of his more illegal transactions may be catalogued on the hard drive. Kidd needs to find the computer, break the encryption and revenge Bobby''s death. The trail leads from Kidd''s St. Paul, Minn., art studio to heat-stricken rural Mississippi and on to Washington, D.C., where Kidd uncovers a government conspiracy that threatens the reputations and livelihood of most of the nation''s elected representatives. One of the joys of the series is learning the tricks of computer hacking and basic burglary as Kidd and LuEllen take us to Radio Shack, Target, Home Depot and an all-night supermarket to buy ordinary gear, including a can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew, to use in clever, illegal ways. The action is as hot and twisted as a Mississippi back road, but the indefatigable Kidd eventually straightens it all out and exacts a sort of rough justice that matches his flexible moral code. The early entries in this series have aged badly because of the advances in technology, but this latest intelligent and exciting thriller proves a worthy addition to Sandford''s overall body of work.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/688'),
(6335, 'Hanging Garden', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Detective Inspector Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a suspected war criminal. But an escalating dispute between the upstart Tommy Telford and Big Ger Cafferty''s gang gives Rebus an escape clause.Telford is known to have close links with a Newcastle gangster nicknamed Mr Pink Eyes - a Chechen bringing refugees into Britain as prostitutes. When Rebus takes under his wing a distraught Bosnian call girl, it gives him a personal reason to make sure Telford takes the high road back to Paisley and pronto.Then Rebus''s daughter is the victim of an all too professional hit-and-run and Rebus knows that now there is nothing he wouldn''t do to bring down prime suspect Tommy Telford - even if it means cutting a deal with the devil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/530'),
(6336, 'The Hanging Shed', 'Gordon Ferris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Writing in the great Scottish tradition of mystery and adventure, Gordon Ferris is the natural heir of Stevenson and Buchan - great feel of authenticity, and a terrific narrative drive.'' VAL McDERMID\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Glasgow 1946. The last time Brodie came home it was 1942 and he was a proud young man in a paratrooper''s uniform. Now, the war is over but victory''s wine has soured and Brodie''s back in Scotland to try and save childhood friend Shug Donovan from the gallows. Everyone thought Donovan was dead, shot down in the war. Perhaps it would have been kinder if he had been killed. The man who returns from the war is unrecognisable: mutilated, horribly burned. Donovan keeps his own company, only venturing out for heroin to deaden the pain of his wounds. When a local boy is found raped and murdered, there is only one suspect. Donovan claims he''s innocent but a mountain of evidence says otherwise. Despite the hideousness of the crime, ex-policeman Brodie feels compelled to try and help his one time friend. Working with advocate Samantha Campbell, Brodie trawls the mean streets of the Gorbals and the green hills of western Scotland in their search for the truth. What they find is an unholy alliance of troublesome priests, corrupt coppers and Glasgow''s deadliest razor gang, happy to slaughter to protect their dark and dirty secrets. As time runs out for the condemned man, the murder tally of innocents starts to climb. When Sam Campbell disappears, it''s the last straw for Brodie, and he reverts to his wartime role as a trained killer. It''s them or him -\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/531'),
(6337, 'Hank Williams: The Biography', 'Colin Escott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Hank Williams died in the backseat of a car at age 29, he left behind grieving fans, friends and family, as well as eight guns, eight pairs of boots, 11 hats and a saddle. Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway by Colin Escott and Kira Florita gathers together just about every last piece of paper having anything do to with country music''s greatest and most tragic star (hence the postmortem inventory). Much of the material is new: included in this volume are the handwritten lyrics to 30 songs never recorded or published, private family correspondence and some 150 previously unpublished photographs, including Hank''s first baby photo.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Although he never made it to 30 and died nearly a half-century ago, singer/songwriter Hank Williams continues to exert tremendous influence on all spheres of popular music. The country crooner also continues to invite biographical treatment. In 1998, music historian Escott (Hank Williams: A Biography) and Florita, former marketer of the Hank Williams catalog for Mercury Records Nashville, produced the Grammy-winning, ten-CD set The Complete Hank Williams. While working on that project, they amassed a huge number of photographs, documents, and published and unpublished song lyrics. That iconography forms the basis of Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway, an appealing coffee-table book that is being cross-promoted with the tribute album, Timeless. Composed of captions by the authors and excerpts of interviews with Williams and his family and friends, the text is somewhat sparse but to the point and well written. Rick Bragg also contributes an elegant foreword. Koon''s Hank Williams, So Lonesome was first published as Hank Williams: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1993). This second take features expanded biographical coverage and important discussions of Williams''s songs. Also significant are the author''s attempts to separate the facts of Williams''s life and work from the mythology of the musician and his thoughtful assessment of sources. In eliminating the reference-book qualities of the earlier Greenwood volume, Koons has made a significant contribution to Williams literature for fans and scholars. As a pair, these books nearly perfectly complement each other, but, unfortunately, neither contains a discography. In addition, the Escott and Florita volume lacks a bibliography (perfectly acceptable for a work of this kind), and the Koons book contains only a scaled-back one. Despite these shortcomings, both books avoid sensationalizing their complex subject and are highly recommended for public libraries and academic libraries with a popular culture focus. James E. Perone, Mount Union Coll., Alliance, OH\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2142'),
(6338, 'Hannah&#39;s List', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the anniversary of his beloved wife''s death, Dr. Michael Everett receives a letter Hannah had written him. In it, she reminds him of her love and makes one final request. An impossible request. "I want you to marry again." She tells him he shouldn''t spend the years he has left grieving. And to that end, she''s chosen three women she asks him to consider-a chef who owns Blossom Street''s French Cafe, a compassionate oncology nurse, and an artistic eccentric who rescues strays (animal and human). And so begins beloved author Debbie Macomber''s book, Hannah''s List, the newest addition to her popular Blossom Street series of novels. Knit Along with Debbie Macomber: Hannah''s List, the Knit Along companion book to the novel, includes 15 knitted projects inspired by the lives and projects of the characters from Debbie''s compelling book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3380'),
(6339, 'Hannibal Rising', 'Thomas Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERSIN ALL OF LITERATURE.AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVILIS REVEALED.Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.Hannibalâ€™s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncleâ€™s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki.Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to heal. With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France.But Hannibalâ€™s demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn.He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes deathâ€™s prodigy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1301'),
(6340, 'Happy Birthday', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this beguiling new novel, Danielle Steel tells the story of three very different people, each of whom, on the same day, reaches a crucial turning point in lifeâ€”a rite both bittersweet and full of hope, a time to blow out the candles, say goodbye to the past, and make a wish for the future.Â Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious living and the arbiter of taste. Since her long-ago divorce, sheâ€™s worked hard to reach the pinnacle of her profession and to create a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue penthouse. So why is she so depressed? All the hours with her personal trainer, the careful work of New Yorkâ€™s best hairdressers, cosmetic surgeons, and her own God-given bone structure and great looks canâ€™t fudge the truth or her lies about it: Valerie is turning sixty. Valerieâ€™s daughter, April, has no love life, no rest, and no prospect of that changing in the foreseeable future. Her popular one-of-a-kind restaurant in downtown New York, where she is chef and owner, consumes every ounce of her attention and energy. Ready or not, though, Aprilâ€™s life is about to change, in a tumultuous transformation that begins the morning it hits her: Sheâ€™s thirty. And what does she have to show for it? A restaurant, no man, no kids.Jack Adams once threw a football like a guided missile. Twelve years after retiring from the NFL, he is the most charismatic sports analyst on TV, a man who has his pick of the most desirable twentysomething women. But after a particularly memorable Halloween party, Jack wakes up on his fiftieth birthday, his back thrown out of whack, feeling every year his age. A terrifying act of violence, an out-of-the-blue blessing, and two extremely unlikely love affairs soon turn lives inside out and upside down. In a novel brimming with warmth and insight, beginning on one birthday and ending on another, Valerie, April, and Jack discover that life itself can be a celebrationâ€”and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3541'),
(6341, 'Happy Chaos', 'Soleil Moon Frye', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From Punky to parenting, Soleil Moon Frye shares insightful, realistic, in-the-trenches parenting advice, inspiration, and fun.\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Enthusiastic, spunky, and positive, Punky Brewster was the quintessential eighties kid. Nearly thirty years later, Soleil Moon Frye-the adorable girl who played her on TV-is all grown up. Now she''s a married mom of two, an entrepreneur who parlayed her successful kids'' clothing line into a partnership with Target, and a social media whiz with millions of followers. Many of the same girls who watched Soleil on television are now grown up with children of their own, too, and they look to her as a go-to source for realistic, in-the-trenches parenting advice, inspiration, and fun.\n <em>\n  Happy Chaos\n </em>\n invites those women into Soleil''s world, and makes them revel in the chaos of their own lives, too.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Soleil believes that happy chaos" is the sign of a family operating at its best-when parents accept that they''ll make mistakes, that there will be messes, tears and skinned knees. She learned to love a jumbled life during her own childhood, when her own mom created an atmosphere that was thoroughly unconventional. Their house in Los Angeles was a haven for many young stars of Soleil''s generation, often far from home and looking for a safe place to hang out. In this book, she shows how her happy but chaotic childhood informed her parenting: Each chapter begins with a telling reminiscence before moving into insightful advice and fun stories about life with her husband and two adorable daughters.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Soleil Moon Frye\n </strong>\n was the star of the 1980s sitcom\n <em>\n  Punky Brewster\n </em>\n ; today she is better known as an entrepreneur and social media maven. The co-owner of Little Seed, a green children''s boutique that just launched a line with Target, she lives in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2144'),
(6342, 'Happy Ever After', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the public face of Vows wedding planning company, Parker Brown has an uncanny knack for fulfilling every bride''s vision. She just can''t see where her own life is headed. Mechanic Malcomb Kavanaugh loves figuring out how things work, and Parker is no exception. Both know that moving from minor flirtation to major hook-up is a serious step. Parker''s business risks have always paid off, but now she''ll have to take the chance of a lifetime with her heart...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3333'),
(6343, 'The Hard Way', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money because Edward Lane, the man who paid it, would do anything to get his family back.Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And Jack Reacher is the best manhunter in the world.On the trail of vicious kidnappers, Reacher learns the chilling secrets of his employerâ€™s pastâ€”and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He knows that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: Heâ€™s already in way too deep to stop now. And if he has to do it the hard way, he will.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2554'),
(6344, 'Hardball', 'Sara Paretsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Chicago politicsâ€”past, present, and futureâ€”take center stage in New York Timesâ€“bestselling author Sara Paretskyâ€™s brilliant new V. I. Warshawski novel.Chicagoâ€™s unique brand of ball is sixteen-inch slow pitch, played in leagues all over the city for more than a century. But in politics, in business, and in law enforcement, the game is hardball. When V. I. Warshawski is asked to find a man whoâ€™s been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile becomes lethal. Old skeletons from the cityâ€™s racially charged history, as well as haunting family secretsâ€”her own and those of the elderly sisters who hired herâ€”rise up to brush her back from the plate with a vengeance. A young cousin whom sheâ€™s never met arrives from Kansas City to work on a political campaign; a nun who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. dies without revealing crucial evidence; and on the cityâ€™s South Side, people spit when she shows up. Afraid to learn that her adored father might have been a bent cop, V. I. still takes the investigation all the way to its frightening end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3608'),
(6345, 'The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family&#39;s Century of Art and Loss', 'Edmund de Waal', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best of the Month, September 2010\n </strong>\n : At the heart of Edmund de Waal''s strange and graceful family memoir,\n <em>\n  The Hare with Amber Eyes\n </em>\n , is a one-of-a-kind inherited collection of ornamental Japanese carvings known as netsuke. The netsuke are tiny and tactile--they sit in the palm of your hand--and de Waal is drawn to them as "small, tough explosions of exactitude." He''s also drawn to the story behind them, and for years he put aside his own work as a world-renowned potter and curator to uncover the rich and tragic family history of which the carvings are one of the few concrete legacies. De Waal''s family was the Ephrussis, wealthy Jewish grain traders who branched out from Russia across the capitals of Europe before seeing their empire destroyed by the Nazis. Beginning with his art connoisseur ancestor Charles (a model for Proust''s Swann), who acquired the netsuke during the European rage for Japonisme, de Waal traces the collection from Japan to Europe--where they were saved from the brutal bureaucracy of the Nazi Anschluss in the pockets of a family servant--and back to Japan and Europe again. Throughout, he writes with a tough, funny, and elegant attention to detail and personality that does full justice to the exactitude of the little carvings that first roused his curiosity.\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this family history, de Waal, a potter and curator of ceramics at the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, describes the experiences of his family, the Ephrussis, during the turmoil of the 20th century. Grain merchants in Odessa, various family members migrated to Vienna and Paris, becoming successful bankers. Secular Jews, they sought assimilation in a period of virulent anti-Semitism. In Paris, Charles Ephrussi purchased a large collection of Japanese netsuke, tiny hand-carved figures including a hare with amber eyes. The collection passed to Viktor Ephrussi in Vienna and became the family''s greatest legacy. Loyal citizens of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Vienna Ephrussis were devastated by the outcome of WWI and were later driven from their home by the imposition of Nazi rule over Austria. After WWII, they discovered that their maid, Anna, had preserved the netsuke collection, which Ignace Ephrussi inherited, and he settled in postwar Japan. Today, the netsuke reside with de Waal (descended from the family''s Vienna branch) and serve as the embodiment of his family history. A somewhat rambling narrative with special appeal to art historians, this account is nonetheless rich in drama and valuable anecdote. 20 b&amp;w illus.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1915'),
(6346, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s hard to fall in love with an earnest, appealing young hero like Harry Potter and then to watch helplessly as he steps into terrible danger! And in J.K. Rowling''s\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\n </em>\n , the much anticipated sequel to the award-winning\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone\n </em>\n , he is in terrible danger indeed. As if it''s not bad enough that after a long summer with the horrid Dursleys he is thwarted in his attempts to hop the train to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his second year. But when his only transportation option is a magical flying car, it is just his luck to crash into a valuable (but clearly vexed) Whomping Willow. Still, all this seems like a day in the park compared to what happens that fall within the haunted halls of Hogwarts.\n</p>\n<p>\n Chilling, malevolent voices whisper from the walls only to Harry, and it seems certain that his classmate Draco Malfoy is out to get him. Soon it''s not just Harry who is worried about survival, as dreadful things begin to happen at Hogwarts. The mysteriously gleaming, foot-high words on the wall proclaim, "The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened. Enemies of the Heir, Beware." But what exactly does it mean? Harry, Hermione, and Ron do everything that is wizardly possible--including risking their own lives--to solve this 50-year-old, seemingly deadly mystery. This deliciously suspenseful novel is every bit as gripping, imaginative, and creepy as the first; familiar student concerns--fierce rivalry, blush-inducing crushes, pedantic professors--seamlessly intertwine with the bizarre, horrific, fantastical, or just plain funny. Once again, Rowling writes with a combination of wit, whimsy, and a touch of the macabre that will leave readers young and old desperate for the next installment. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 3-8-Fans of the phenomenally popular Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone (Scholastic, 1998) won''t be disappointed when they rejoin Harry, now on break after finishing his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Reluctantly spending the summer with the Dursleys, his mean relatives who fear and detest magic, Harry is soon whisked away by his friends Ron, Fred, and George Weasley, who appear at his window in a flying Ford Anglia to take him away to enjoy the rest of the holidays with their very wizardly family. Things don''t go as well, though, when the school term begins. Someone, or something, is (literally) petrifying Hogwarts'' residents one by one and leaving threatening messages referring to a Chamber of Secrets and an heir of Slytherin. Somehow, Harry is often around when the attacks happen and he is soon suspected of being the perpetrator. The climax has Harry looking very much like Indiana Jones, battling a giant serpent in the depths of the awesome and terrible Chamber of Secrets. Along with most of the teachers and students introduced in the previous book, Draco Malfoy has returned for his second year and is more despicable than ever. The novel is marked throughout by the same sly and sophisticated humor found in the first book, along with inventive, new, matter-of-fact uses of magic that will once again have readers longing to emulate Harry and his wizard friends.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1059');
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(6347, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Readers beware. The brilliant, breathtaking conclusion to J.K. Rowling''s spellbinding series is not for the faint of heart--such revelations, battles, and betrayals await in\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\n  </em>\n  that no fan will make it to the end unscathed. Luckily, Rowling has prepped loyal readers for the end of her series by doling out increasingly dark and dangerous tales of magic and mystery, shot through with lessons about honor and contempt, love and loss, and right and wrong. Fear not, you will find no spoilers in our review--to tell the plot would ruin the journey, and\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\n  </em>\n  is an odyssey the likes of which Rowling''s fans have not yet seen, and are not likely to forget. But we would be remiss if we did not offer one small suggestion before you embark on your final adventure with Harry--bring plenty of tissues.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The heart of Book 7 is a hero''s mission--not just in Harry''s quest for the Horcruxes, but in his journey from boy to man--and Harry faces more danger than that found in all six books combined, from the direct threat of the Death Eaters and you-know-who, to the subtle perils of losing faith in himself. Attentive readers would do well to remember Dumbledore''s warning about making the choice between "what is right and what is easy," and know that Rowling applies the same difficult principle to the conclusion of her series. While fans will find the answers to hotly speculated questions about Dumbledore, Snape, and you-know-who, it is a testament to Rowling''s skill as a storyteller that even the most astute and careful reader will be taken by surprise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A spectacular finish to a phenomenal series,\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\n  </em>\n  is a bittersweet read for fans. The journey is hard, filled with events both tragic and triumphant, the battlefield littered with the bodies of the dearest and despised, but the final chapter is as brilliant and blinding as a phoenix''s flame, and fans and skeptics alike will emerge from the confines of the story with full but heavy hearts, giddy and grateful for the experience.\n  <em>\n   --Daphne Durham\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Visit the\n   <em>\n    Harry Potter\n   </em>\n   Store\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Our\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter\n  </em>\n  Store features all things\n  <em>\n   Harry\n  </em>\n  , including books, audio CDs and cassettes, DVDs, soundtracks, games, and more.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Begin at the Beginning\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hardcover\n  <br />\n  Paperback\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hardcover\n  <br />\n  Paperback\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hardcover\n  <br />\n  Paperback\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hardcover\n  <br />\n  Paperback\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hardcover\n  <br />\n  Paperback\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hardcover\n  <br />\n  Paperback\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Why We Love Harry\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Favorite Moments from the Series\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  There are plenty of reasons to love Rowling''s wildly popular series--no doubt you have several dozen of your own. Our list features favorite moments, characters, and artifacts from the first five books. Keep in mind that this list is by no means exhaustive (what we love about Harry could fill ten books!) and does not include any of the spectacular revelatory moments that would spoil the books for those (few) who have not read them. Enjoy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Harry''s first trip to the zoo with the Dursleys, when a boa constrictor winks at him.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   When the Dursleys'' house is suddenly besieged by letters for Harry from Hogwarts. Readers learn how much the Dursleys have been keeping from Harry. Rowling does a wonderful job in displaying the lengths to which Uncle Vernon will go to deny that magic exists.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harry''s first visit to Diagon Alley with Hagrid. Full of curiosities and rich with magic and marvel, Harry''s first trip includes a trip to Gringotts and Ollivanders, where Harry gets his wand (holly and phoenix feather) and discovers yet another connection to He-Who-Must-No-Be-Named. This moment is the reader''s first full introduction to Rowling''s world of witchcraft and wizards.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harry''s experience with the Sorting Hat.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   The de-gnoming of the Weasleys'' garden. Harry discovers that even wizards have chores--gnomes must be grabbed (ignoring angry protests "Gerroff me! Gerroff me!"), swung about (to make them too dizzy to come back), and tossed out of the garden--this delightful scene highlights Rowling''s clever and witty genius.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harry''s first experience with a Howler, sent to Ron by his mother.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Dueling Club battle between Harry and Malfoy. Gilderoy Lockhart starts the Dueling Club to help students practice spells on each other, but he is not prepared for the intensity of the animosity between Harry and Draco. Since they are still young, their minibattle is innocent enough, including tickling and dancing charms.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Ron''s attempt to use a telephone to call Harry at the Dursleys''.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harry''s first encounter with a Dementor on the train (and just about any other encounter with Dementors). Harry''s brush with the Dementors is terrifying and prepares Potter fans for a darker, scarier book.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harry, Ron, and Hermione''s behavior in Professor Trelawney''s Divination class. Some of the best moments in Rowling''s books occur when she reminds us that the wizards-in-training at Hogwarts are, after all, just children. Clearly, even at a school of witchcraft and wizardry, classes can be boring and seem pointless to children.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The Boggart lesson in Professor Lupin''s classroom.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harry, Ron, and Hermione''s knock-down confrontation with Snape.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Hermione''s disgust at the reception for the veela (Bulgarian National Team Mascots) at the Quidditch World Cup. Rowling''s fourth book addresses issues about growing up--the dynamic between the boys and girls at Hogwarts starts to change. Nowhere is this more plain than the hilarious scene in which magical cheerleaders nearly convince Harry and Ron to jump from the stands to impress them.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Viktor Krum''s crush on Hermione--and Ron''s objection to it.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Malfoy''s "Potter Stinks" badge.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Hermione''s creation of S.P.E.W., the intolerant bigotry of the Death Eaters, and the danger of the Triwizard Tournament. Add in the changing dynamics between girls and boys at Hogwarts, and suddenly Rowling''s fourth book has a weight and seriousness not as present in early books in the series. Candy and tickle spells are left behind as the students tackle darker, more serious issues and take on larger responsibilities, including the knowledge of illegal curses.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Harry''s outburst to his friends at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. A combination of frustration over being kept in the dark and fear that he will be expelled fuels much of Harry''s anger, and it all comes out at once, directly aimed at Ron and Hermione. Rowling perfectly portrays Harry''s frustration at being too old to shirk responsibility, but too young to be accepted as part of the fight that he knows is coming.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harry''s detention with Professor Umbridge. Rowling shows her darker side, leading readers to believe that Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven for young wizards. Dolores represents a bureaucratic tyrant capable of real evil, and Harry is forced to endure their private battle of wills alone.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harry and Cho''s painfully awkward interactions. Rowling clearly remembers what it was like to be a teenager.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harry''s Occlumency lessons with Snape.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Dumbledore''s confession to Harry.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   The introduction of the Horcrux.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Molly Weasley asking Arthur Weasley about his "dearest ambition." Rowling has always been great at revealing little intriguing bits about her characters at a time, and Arthurâ€™s answer "to find out how airplanes stay up" reminds us about his obsession with Muggles.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harry''s private lessons with Dumbledore, and more time spent with the fascinating and dangerous pensieve, arguably one of Rowlingâ€™s most ingenious inventions.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Fred and George Weasleyâ€™s Joke Shop, and the slogan: "Why Are You Worrying About You-Know-Who? You Should Be Worrying About U-NO-POO--the Constipation Sensation That''s Gripping the Nation!"\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Luna''s Quidditch commentary. Rowling created scores of Luna Lovegood fans with hilarious and bizarre commentary from the most unlikely Quidditch commentator.\n   <br />\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   The effects of Felix Felicis.\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Magic, Mystery, and Mayhem: A Conversation with J.K. Rowling\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I am an extraordinarily lucky person, doing what I love best in the world. Iâ€™m sure that I will always be a writer. It was wonderful enough just to be published. The greatest reward is the enthusiasm of the readers."\n  <em>\n   --J.K. Rowling\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Find out more about Harry''s creator in our exclusive interview with J.K. Rowling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Did You Know?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Little White Horse\n  </em>\n  was J.K. Rowling''s favorite book as a child. Jane Austen is Rowling''s favorite author. Roddy Doyle is Rowling''s favorite living writer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Few Words from Mary GrandPrÃ©\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that''s how I see my responsibility as an illustrator. J.K. Rowling is very descriptive in her writing--she gives an illustrator a lot to work with. Each story is packed full of rich visual descriptions of the atmosphere, the mood, the setting, and all the different creatures and people. She makes it easy for me. The images just develop as I sketch and retrace until it feels right and matches her vision." Check out more\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter\n  </em>\n  art from illustrator Mary GrandPrÃ©.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Potter fans, relaxâ€”this review packs no spoilers. Instead, we''re taking advantage of our public platform to praise Rowling for the excellence of her plotting. We can''t think of anyone else who has sustained such an intricate, endlessly inventive plot over seven thick volumes and so constantly surprised us with twists, well-laid traps and\n  <em>\n   Purloined Letter\n  </em>\n  -style tricks.\n  <em>\n   Hallows\n  </em>\n  continues the tradition, both with sly feats of legerdemain and with several altogether new, unexpected elements. Perhaps some of the surprises in\n  <em>\n   Hallows\n  </em>\n  don''t have quite the punch as those of earlier books, but that may be because of the thoroughness and consistency with which Rowling has created her magical universe, and because we''ve so raptly absorbed its rules.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We''re also seizing the occasion to wish out loud that her editors had done their jobs more actively. It''s hard to escape the notion that the first three volumes were more carefully edited than the last four.\n  <em>\n   Hallows\n  </em>\n  doesn''t contain the extraneous scenes found in, say,\n  <em>\n   Goblet of Fire\n  </em>\n  , but the momentum is uneven. Rowling is much better at comedy than at fight scenes, and no reader of the sixth book will be startled to hear that\n  <em>\n   Hallows\n  </em>\n  has little humor or that its characters engage in more than a few fights. Surely her editors could have helped her find other methods of building suspense besides the use of ellipses and dashes? And craft fight dialogue that sounds a bit less like it belongs in a comic book? Okay, we''re quibbling. We know these minor nuisances won''t dent readers'' enjoyment, at least not this generation of readers; we couldn''t put\n  <em>\n   Hallows\n  </em>\n  down ourselves. But we believe Rowling, and future readers, deserved even better. Ages 9-12.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1064'),
(6348, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\n  </em>\n  , J.K. Rowling offers up equal parts danger and delight--and any number of dragons, house-elves, and death-defying challenges. Now 14, her orphan hero has only two more weeks with his Muggle relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yet one night a vision harrowing enough to make his lightning-bolt-shaped scar burn has Harry on edge and contacting his godfather-in-hiding, Sirius Black. Happily, the prospect of attending the season''s premier sporting event, the Quidditch World Cup, is enough to make Harry momentarily forget that Lord Voldemort and his sinister familiars--the Death Eaters--are out for murder.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers, we will cast a giant invisibility cloak over any more plot and reveal only that You-Know-Who is very much after Harry and that this year there will be no Quidditch matches between Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Instead, Hogwarts will vie with two other magicians'' schools, the stylish Beauxbatons and the icy Durmstrang, in a Triwizard Tournament. Those chosen to compete will undergo three supreme tests. Could Harry be one of the lucky contenders?\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Quidditch buffs need not go into mourning: we get our share of this great game at the World Cup. Attempting to go incognito as Muggles, 100,000 witches and wizards converge on a "nice deserted moor." As ever, Rowling magicks up the details that make her world so vivid, and so comic. Several spectators'' tents, for instance, are entirely unquotidian. One is a minipalace, complete with live peacocks; another has three floors and multiple turrets. And the sports paraphernalia on offer includes rosettes "squealing the names of the players" as well as "tiny models of Firebolts that really flew, and collectible figures of famous players, which strolled across the palm of your hand, preening themselves." Needless to say, the two teams are decidedly different, down to their mascots. Bulgaria is supported by the beautiful veela, who instantly enchant everyone--including Ireland''s supporters--over to their side. Until, that is, thousands of tiny cheerleaders engage in some pyrotechnics of their own: "The leprechauns had risen into the air again, and this time, they formed a giant hand, which was making a very rude sign indeed at the veela across the field."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Long before her fourth installment appeared, Rowling warned that it would be darker, and it''s true that every exhilaration is equaled by a moment that has us fearing for Harry''s life, the book''s emotions running as deep as its dangers. Along the way, though, she conjures up such new characters as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, a Dark Wizard catcher who may or may not be getting paranoid in his old age, and Rita Skeeter, who beetles around Hogwarts in search of stories. (This\n  <em>\n   Daily Prophet\n  </em>\n  scoop artist has a Quick-Quotes Quill that turns even the most innocent assertion into tabloid innuendo.) And at her bedazzling close, Rowling leaves several plot strands open, awaiting book 5. This fan is ready to wager that the author herself is part veela--her pen her wand, her commitment to her world complete. (Ages 9 and older)\n  <em>\n   --Kerry Fried\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In our Best Books citation, PW wrote, "The fourth Harry Potter adventure, centering on an inter-school competition, boasts details that are as ingenious and original as ever. A spectacular climax will leave readers breathless." Ages 8-12. (July)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1061'),
(6349, 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The long-awaited, eagerly anticipated, arguably over-hyped\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\n </em>\n has arrived, and the question on the minds of kids, adults, fans, and skeptics alike is, "Is it worth the hype?" The answer, luckily, is simple: yep. A magnificent spectacle more than worth the price of admission,\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\n </em>\n will blow you away. However, given that so much has gone into protecting the secrets of the book (including armored trucks and injunctions), don''t expect any spoilers in this review. It''s much more fun not knowing what''s coming--and in the case of Rowling''s delicious sixth book, you don''t want to know. Just sit tight, despite the earth-shattering revelations that will have your head in your hands as you hope the words will rearrange themselves into a different story. But take one warning to heart: do not open\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\n </em>\n until you have first found a secluded spot, safe from curious eyes, where you can tuck in for a good long read. Because once you start, you won''t stop until you reach the very last page.\n</p>\n<p>\n A darker book than any in the series thus far with a level of sophistication belying its genre,\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\n </em>\n moves the series into murkier waters and marks the arrival of Rowling onto the adult literary scene. While she has long been praised for her cleverness and wit, the strength of Book 6 lies in her subtle development of key characters, as well as her carefully nuanced depiction of a community at war. In\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\n </em>\n , no one and nothing is safe, including preconceived notions of good and evil and of right and wrong. With each book in her increasingly remarkable series, fans have nervously watched J.K. Rowling raise the stakes; gone are the simple delights of butterbeer and enchanted candy, and days when the worst ailment could be cured by a bite of chocolate. A series that began as a colorful lark full of magic and discovery has become a dark and deadly war zone. But this should not come as a shock to loyal readers. Rowling readied fans with\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\n </em>\n by killing off popular characters and engaging the young students in battle. Still, there is an unexpected bleakness from the start of Book 6 that casts a mean shadow over Quidditch games, silly flirtations, and mountains of homework. Ready or not, the tremendous ending of\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\n </em>\n will leave stunned fans wondering what great and terrible events await in Book 7 if this sinister darkness is meant to light the way.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Visit the\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter\n  </em>\n  Store\n </strong>\n <br />\n Our\n <em>\n  Harry Potter\n </em>\n Store features all things Harry, including books (box sets and collector''s editions), audio CDs and cassettes, DVDs, soundtracks, games, and more.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Begin at the Beginning\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Hardcover\n <br />\n Paperback\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Hardcover\n <br />\n Paperback\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Hardcover\n <br />\n Paperback\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Hardcover\n <br />\n Paperback\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Hardcover\n <br />\n Paperback\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Why We Love Harry\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Favorite Moments from the Series\n </em>\n <br />\n There are plenty of reasons to love Rowling''s wildly popular series--no doubt you have several dozen of your own. Our list features favorite moments, characters, and artifacts from the first five books. Keep in mind that this list is by no means exhaustive (what we love about Harry could fill ten books!) and does not include any of the spectacular revelatory moments that would spoil the books for those (few) who have not read them. Enjoy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Harry''s first trip to the zoo with the Dursleys, when a boa constrictor winks at him.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  When the Dursleys'' house is suddenly besieged by letters for Harry from Hogwarts. Readers learn how much the Dursleys have been keeping from Harry. Rowling does a wonderful job in displaying the lengths to which Uncle Vernon will go to deny that magic exists.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s first visit to Diagon Alley with Hagrid. Full of curiosities and rich with magic and marvel, Harry''s first trip includes a trip to Gringotts and Ollivanders, where Harry gets his wand (holly and phoenix feather) and discovers yet another connection to He-Who-Must-No-Be-Named. This moment is the reader''s first full introduction to Rowling''s world of witchcraft and wizards.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s experience with the Sorting Hat.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The de-gnoming of the Weasleys'' garden. Harry discovers that even wizards have chores--gnomes must be grabbed (ignoring angry protests "Gerroff me! Gerroff me!"), swung about (to make them too dizzy to come back), and tossed out of the garden--this delightful scene highlights Rowling''s clever and witty genius.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s first experience with a Howler, sent to Ron by his mother.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Dueling Club battle between Harry and Malfoy. Gilderoy Lockhart starts the Dueling Club to help students practice spells on each other, but he is not prepared for the intensity of the animosity between Harry and Draco. Since they are still young, their minibattle is innocent enough, including tickling and dancing charms.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Ron''s attempt to use a telephone to call Harry at the Dursleys''.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s first encounter with a Dementor on the train (and just about any other encounter with Dementors). Harry''s brush with the Dementors is terrifying and prepares Potter fans for a darker, scarier book.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry, Ron, and Hermione''s behavior in Professor Trelawney''s Divination class. Some of the best moments in Rowling''s books occur when she reminds us that the wizards-in-training at Hogwarts are, after all, just children. Clearly, even at a school of witchcraft and wizardry, classes can be boring and seem pointless to children.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Boggart lesson in Professor Lupin''s classroom.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry, Ron, and Hermione''s knock-down confrontation with Snape.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Hermione''s disgust at the reception for the veela (Bulgarian National Team Mascots) at the Quidditch World Cup. Rowling''s fourth book addresses issues about growing up--the dynamic between the boys and girls at Hogwarts starts to change. Nowhere is this more plain than the hilarious scene in which magical cheerleaders nearly convince Harry and Ron to jump from the stands to impress them.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Viktor Krum''s crush on Hermione--and Ron''s objection to it.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Malfoy''s "Potter Stinks" badge.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Hermione''s creation of S.P.E.W., the intolerant bigotry of the Death Eaters, and the danger of the Triwizard Tournament. Add in the changing dynamics between girls and boys at Hogwarts, and suddenly Rowling''s fourth book has a weight and seriousness not as present in early books in the series. Candy and tickle spells are left behind as the students tackle darker, more serious issues and take on larger responsibilities, including the knowledge of illegal curses.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Harry''s outburst to his friends at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. A combination of frustration over being kept in the dark and fear that he will be expelled fuels much of Harry''s anger, and it all comes out at once, directly aimed at Ron and Hermione. Rowling perfectly portrays Harry''s frustration at being too old to shirk responsibility, but too young to be accepted as part of the fight that he knows is coming.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s detention with Professor Umbridge. Rowling shows her darker side, leading readers to believe that Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven for young wizards. Dolores represents a bureaucratic tyrant capable of real evil, and Harry is forced to endure their private battle of wills alone.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry and Cho''s painfully awkward interactions. Rowling clearly remembers what it was like to be a teenager.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Harry''s Occlumency lessons with Snape.\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  Dumbledore''s confession to Harry.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Magic, Mystery, and Mayhem: A Conversation with J.K. Rowling\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "I am an extraordinarily lucky person, doing what I love best in the world. Iâ€™m sure that I will always be a writer. It was wonderful enough just to be published. The greatest reward is the enthusiasm of the readers."\n <em>\n  --J.K. Rowling\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Find out more about Harry''s creator in our exclusive interview with J.K. Rowling.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Did You Know?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Little White Horse\n </em>\n was J.K. Rowling''s favorite book as a child. Jane Austen is Rowling''s favorite author. Roddy Doyle is Rowling''s favorite living writer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Few Words from Mary GrandPrÃ©\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that''s how I see my responsibility as an illustrator. J.K. Rowling is very descriptive in her writing--she gives an illustrator a lot to work with. Each story is packed full of rich visual descriptions of the atmosphere, the mood, the setting, and all the different creatures and people. She makes it easy for me. The images just develop as I sketch and retrace until it feels right and matches her vision." Check out more Harry Potter art from illustrator Mary GrandPrÃ©.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5 Upâ€“Opening just a few weeks after the previous book left off, the penultimate entry in the series is, as the author foretold, the darkest and most unsettling yet. The deeds of Voldemort''s Death Eaters are spreading even to the Muggle world, which is enshrouded in a mist caused by Dementors draining hope and happiness. Harry, turning 16, leaves for Hogwarts with the promise of private lessons with Dumbledore. No longer a fearful boy living under the stairs, he is clearly a leader and increasingly isolated as rumors spread that he is the Chosen One, the only individual capable of defeating Voldemort. Two attempts on students'' lives, Harry''s conviction that Draco Malfoy has become a Death Eater, and Snape''s usual slimy behavior add to the increasing tension. Yet through it all, Harry and his friends are typical teens, sharing homework and messy rooms, rushing to classes and sports practices, and flirting. Ron and Hermione realize their attraction, as do Harry and Ginny. Dozens of plot strands are pulled together as the author positions Harry for the final book. Much information is cleverly conveyed through Dumbledore''s use of a Pensieve, a device that allows bottled memories to be shared by Harry and his beloved professor as they apparate to various locations that help explain Voldemort''s past. The ending is heart wrenching. Once again, Rowling capably blends literature, mythology, folklore, and religion into a delectable stew. This sixth book may be darker and more difficult, but Potter fans will devour it and begin the long and bittersweet wait for the final installment.\n <em>\n  â€“Connie Tyrrell Burns, Mahoney Middle School, South Portland, ME\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1063'),
(6350, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. It''s been yet another infuriating and boring summer with the despicable Dursleys, this time with minimal contact from our hero''s non-Muggle friends from school. Harry is feeling especially edgy at the lack of news from the magic world, wondering when the freshly revived evil Lord Voldemort will strike. Returning to Hogwarts will be a relief... or will it?\n</p>\n<p>\n The fifth book in J.K. Rowling''s Harry Potter series follows the darkest year yet for our young wizard, who finds himself knocked down a peg or three after the events of last year. Somehow, over the summer, gossip (usually traced back to the magic world''s newspaper, the\n <em>\n  Daily Prophet\n </em>\n ) has turned Harry''s tragic and heroic encounter with Voldemort at the Triwizard Tournament into an excuse to ridicule and discount the teen. Even Professor Dumbledore, headmaster of the school, has come under scrutiny by the Ministry of Magic, which refuses to officially acknowledge the terrifying truth that Voldemort is back. Enter a particularly loathsome new character: the toadlike and simpering ("\n <em>\n  hem, hem\n </em>\n ") Dolores Umbridge, senior undersecretary to the Minister of Magic, who takes over the vacant position of Defense Against Dark Arts teacher--and in no time manages to become the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts, as well. Life isn''t getting any easier for Harry Potter. With an overwhelming course load as the fifth years prepare for their Ordinary Wizarding Levels examinations (O.W.Ls), devastating changes in the Gryffindor Quidditch team lineup, vivid dreams about long hallways and closed doors, and increasing pain in his lightning-shaped scar, Harry''s resilience is sorely tested.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\n </em>\n , more than any of the four previous novels in the series, is a coming-of-age story. Harry faces the thorny transition into adulthood, when adult heroes are revealed to be fallible, and matters that seemed black-and-white suddenly come out in shades of gray. Gone is the wide-eyed innocent, the whiz kid of\n <em>\n  Sorcerer''s Stone\n </em>\n . Here we have an adolescent who''s sometimes sullen, often confused (especially about girls), and always self-questioning. Confronting death again, as well as a startling prophecy, Harry ends his year at Hogwarts exhausted and pensive. Readers, on the other hand, will be energized as they enter yet again the long waiting period for the next title in the marvelous, magical series. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4 Up-Harry has just returned to Hogwarts after a lonely summer. Dumbledore is uncommunicative and most of the students seem to think Harry is either conceited or crazy for insisting that Voldemort is back and as evil as ever. Angry, scared, and unable to confide in his godfather, Sirius, the teen wizard lashes out at his friends and enemies alike. The head of the Ministry of Magic is determined to discredit Dumbledore and undermine his leadership of Hogwarts, and he appoints nasty, pink-cardigan-clad Professor Umbridge as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and High Inquisitor of the school, bringing misery upon staff and students alike. This bureaucratic nightmare, added to Harry''s certain knowledge that Voldemort is becoming more powerful, creates a desperate, Kafkaesque feeling during Harry''s fifth year at Hogwarts. The adults all seem evil, misguided, or simply powerless, so the students must take matters into their own hands. Harry''s confusion about his godfather and father, and his apparent rejection by Dumbledore make him question his own motives and the condition of his soul. Also, Harry is now 15, and the hormones are beginning to kick in. There are a lot of secret doings, a little romance, and very little Quidditch or Hagrid (more reasons for Harry''s gloom), but the power of this book comes from the young magician''s struggles with his emotions and identity. Particularly moving is the unveiling, after a final devastating tragedy, of Dumbledore''s very strong feelings of attachment and responsibility toward Harry. Children will enjoy the magic and the Hogwarts mystique, and young adult readers will find a rich and compelling coming-of-age story as well.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1062'),
(6351, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who''s forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling''s Harry Potter series catapults into action when the young wizard "accidentally" causes the Dursleys'' dreadful visitor Aunt Marge to inflate like a monstrous balloon and drift up to the ceiling. Fearing punishment from Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon (and from officials at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who strictly forbid students to cast spells in the nonmagic world of Muggles), Harry lunges out into the darkness with his heavy trunk and his owl Hedwig.\n</p>\n<p>\n As it turns out, Harry isn''t punished at all for his errant wizardry. Instead he is mysteriously rescued from his Muggle neighborhood and whisked off in a triple-decker, violently purple bus to spend the remaining weeks of summer in a friendly inn called the Leaky Cauldron. What Harry has to face as he begins his third year at Hogwarts explains why the officials let him off easily. It seems that Sirius Black--an escaped convict from the prison of Azkaban--is on the loose. Not only that, but he''s after Harry Potter. But why? And why do the Dementors, the guards hired to protect him, chill Harry''s very heart when others are unaffected? Once again, Rowling has created a mystery that will have children and adults cheering, not to mention standing in line for her next book. Fortunately, there are four more in the works. (Ages 9 and older)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rowling proves that she has plenty of tricks left up her sleeve in this third Harry Potter adventure, set once again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Right before the start of term, a supremely dangerous criminal breaks out of a supposedly impregnable wizards'' prison; it will come as no surprise to Potter fans that the villain, a henchman of Harry''s old enemy Lord Voldemort, appears to have targeted Harry. In many ways this installment seems to serve a transitional role in the seven-volume series: while many of the adventures are breathlessly relayed, they appear to be laying groundwork for even more exciting adventures to come. The beauty here lies in the genius of Rowling''s plotting. Seemingly minor details established in books one and two unfold to take on unforeseen significance, and the finale, while not airtight in its internal logic, is utterly thrilling. Rowling''s wit never flags, whether constructing the workings of the wizard world (Just how would a magician be made to stay behind bars?) or tossing off quick jokes (a grandmother wears a hat decorated with a stuffed vulture; the divination classroom looks like a tawdry tea shop). The Potter spell is holding strong. All ages.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1060'),
(6352, 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#39;s Stone', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Say you''ve spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that come in every flavor, including strawberry, curry, grass, and sardine. Not only that, but you discover that you are a wizard yourself! This is exactly what happens to young Harry Potter in J.K. Rowling''s enchanting, funny debut novel,\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone\n </em>\n . In the nonmagic human world--the world of "Muggles"--Harry is a nobody, treated like dirt by the aunt and uncle who begrudgingly inherited him when his parents were killed by the evil Voldemort. But in the world of wizards, small, skinny Harry is famous as a survivor of the wizard who tried to kill him. He is left only with a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead, curiously refined sensibilities, and a host of mysterious powers to remind him that he''s quite, yes, altogether different from his aunt, uncle, and spoiled, piglike cousin Dudley.\n</p>\n<p>\n A mysterious letter, delivered by the friendly giant Hagrid, wrenches Harry from his dreary, Muggle-ridden existence: "We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." Of course, Uncle Vernon yells most unpleasantly, "I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" Soon enough, however, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts with his owl Hedwig... and that''s where the real adventure--humorous, haunting, and suspenseful--begins.\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone\n </em>\n , first published in England as\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Philosopher''s Stone\n </em>\n , continues to win major awards in England. So far it has won the National Book Award, the Smarties Prize, the Children''s Book Award, and is short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, the U.K. version of the Newbery Medal. This magical, gripping, brilliant book--a future classic to be sure--will leave kids clamoring for\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\n </em>\n . (Ages 8 to 13)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The breakaway bestseller is now in paperback. In a starred review, PW said, "Readers are in for a delightful romp with this debut from a British author who dances in the footsteps of P.L. Travers and Roald Dahl." Ages 8-12.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1058'),
(6353, 'Haunted', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n What elevates Palahniuk''s best novels (e.g.,\n <em>\n  Fight Club\n </em>\n ) above their shocking premises is his ability to find humanity in deeply grotesque characters. But such generosity of spirit is not evident in his latest, which charts the trials of a group of aspiring writers brought together for a three-month writer''s retreat in an abandoned theater. The novel intersperses the writers'' poems and short stories with tales of the indignities they heap upon themselves after deciding to turn their lives into a "true-life horror story with a happy ending." They lock themselves in the theater, reasoning that once they''re found, they''ll all become rich and famous. They raise the stakes of their story by first depriving themselves of phones, and then of food and electricity; eventually they cut off their own fingers, toes and unmentionables before they start dying off and eating each other. Palahniuk tells his story with such blithe disregard for these characters that it''s hard not to wish he had dispensed with the novel altogether and published, instead, the 23 short stories that pop up throughout the book. For instance, "Obsolete," about a young girl about to commit state-mandated suicide, and "Slumming," about rich couples who pretend to be homeless, play so deftly with expectations and have an emotional core so surprising that they consistently, powerfully transcend their macabre premises to showcase the heart beating beneath the horrors.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n It shouldnâ€™t surprise that Chuck Palahniukâ€™s latest novel is a gross out. All of his books, including\n <em>\n  Fight Club\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Choke\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n , have required various degrees of intestinal fortitude. Some critics note that heâ€™s turned the corner with\n <em>\n  Haunted\n </em>\n , a book that has "plenty of guts, but little glory" (\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n ). Though the Portland-based proponent of Dangerous Writing continues to deliver his imaginative stories in an appealing, deadpan prose, the flat characters, questions about his intent, and the overall gross-out factor diminish this "ad-hoc diet book" as just another workshop failure (\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n ).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1116'),
(6354, 'Have a Little Faith: A True Story', 'Mitch Albom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''Will you do my eulogy?'' With those words, Mitch Albom begins his return to non-fiction. In this book he gravitates to an inner-city pastor of a church that houses the homeless. As his own cleric slowly lets go, Albom writes his farewell, having learned that a faithful heart comes in many forms and places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2145'),
(6355, 'Have You Seen Her?', 'Karen Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Widowed special agent Stephen Thatcher meets his teenage son''s teacher, Jenna Marshall. Soon, they are falling in love while on the the twisted path of a serial killer. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/357'),
(6356, 'Head Over Heels', 'Jill Shalvis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Breaking rules and breaking heartsFree-spirited Chloe lives life on the edge. Unlike her soon-to-be married sisters, she isn''t ready to settle into a quiet life running their family''s newly renovated inn. But soon her love of trouble--and trouble with love-draws the attention of the very stern, very sexy sheriff who''d like nothing better than to tame her wild ways. Suddenly Chloe can''t take a misstep without the sheriff hot on her heels. His rugged swagger and his enigmatic smile are enough to make a girl beg to be handcuffed. For the first time, instead of avoiding the law, Chloe dreams of surrender. Can this rebel find a way to keep the peace with the straitlaced sheriff? Or will Chloe''s colorful past keep her from a love that lasts . . . and the safe haven she truly wants in a town called Lucky Harbor?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3791');
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(6357, 'Headhunters', 'Jo Nesbo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThis stand-alone gives us a brilliant array of variously flawed human beings involved in a tale of intricate plotting, excellent characterization, made-for-the-movies effects and images, and a multifaceted surprise ending. . . . A true thriller from start to finish.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œA twisty, plot-driven Hitchcockian thriller. . . . Nesbo delivers one shock after the other, culminating with a doozy of a switcheroo at the finish. Itâ€™s gripping reading.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œNesbÃ¸ takes a break from his Harry Hole detective series . . . with this stellar stand-alone caper.. . . . The dizzying reversals of fortune and situations that would be over-the-top in lesser hands make for a delightful roller-coaster ride. Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard fans will be delighted.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf you donâ€™t know NesbÃ¸, itâ€™s time to get with it.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLike [Stieg] Larsson, NesbÃ¸ explores the darkest criminal minds with grim delight and puts his killers where you least expect to find them. . . . [and] his novels are maddeningly addictive.â€ â€”*Vanity Fair\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œChances are youâ€™ll be hooked . . . as NesbÃ¸ lays down a trail rich in Nordic atmosphere and in character-driven development . . . Ultimately, though, what sets NesbÃ¸ apart is his ability to keep the pages turning with such intellectual dexterity.â€\n  </em>\n  â€”Newsday\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œNesbÃ¸ has a horrormeisterâ€™s flair for transforming natural scenes into ominous situations.â€ â€”\n  </em>\n  The New York Times\n  <em>\n   Book Review\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€œIrresistibly addictive. . . . This is reading as you experienced it in childhood, without any gap between eye and mind, but with the added pleasures that adult plots and adult characters can bring. . . . Brilliantly conceived, carefully worked out, and complicatedly satisfying.â€ â€”\n  </em>\n  Slate\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€œNesbÃ¸â€™s books have a serious, socially significant heft, as well as a confident (even cocky) narrative stride that is unmatched.â€ â€”\n  </em>\n  Richmond Times-Dispatch\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n   <br />\n   â€œNesbÃ¸â€™s pace is unerring, and the way he builds up suspense will incite Pavlovian page-turning.â€ â€”\n  </em>\n  Time Out New York\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n   <br />\n   â€œWith Henning Mankell having written his last Wallander novel and Stieg Larsson no longer with us, I have had to make the decision on whom to confer the title of best current Nordic writer of crime fiction. . . . I hesitate no longer. [NesbÃ¸] wins. . . . This is crime writing of the highest order.â€ â€”\n  </em>\n  The Times\n  <em>\n   (London)\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€œA mind-blowing story that captivates the reader from the very first page. â€¦ [NesbÃ¸] has found a delightfully laconic, hard-boiled tone in Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammettâ€™s tracks, which triumphs exactly where it should: when circumstances are the worst, the bullets zing by and the corpses pile up. . . . Entertaining, sharp and suspenseful.â€ â€”\n  </em>\n  Dagens Nyheter* (Sweden)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis book is one you absolutely have to read. . . . The outrageous storytelling is so stimulating, it makes James Ellroy look like a Boy Scout and Bret Easton Ellis like a Sunday-school boy.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Helsingin Sanomat\n  </em>\n  (Finland)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA highly entertaining, first-rate crime novel, where NesbÃ¸ uses his entire register of narrative techniques and tricks to tell a story that is wilder and more zany than anything he has ever written before.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Dagbladet\n  </em>\n  (Norway)\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œNesbÃ¸ can out-write most of his Scandinavian colleagues. . . . Cleverly written and effectively composed, and you can easily devour it in one ravishing read.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Nordjyske Stiftstidende\n  </em>\n  (Denmark)\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œ\n  <em>\n   Headhunters\n  </em>\n  has everything that makes a good crime novel: Strange murders, inventive disappearing acts and above all brilliant fraud for all youâ€™re worth.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Bogrummet\n  </em>\n  (Denmark)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe reader is glued to the pages like gum to the street. . . . With\n  <em>\n   Headhunters\n  </em>\n  , NesbÃ¸ has accomplished [a] . . . brilliant and elegant thriller.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Dagsavisen\n  </em>\n  (Norway)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jo NesbÃ¸ is a musician, songwriter, economist, and author. The first crime novel in his Inspector Harry Hole series was published in Norway in 1997, an instant hit, winning the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel (an accolade shared with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell). He also established the Harry Hole Foundation, a charity to reduce illiteracy among children in the third world. He lives in Oslo.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/677'),
(6358, 'Heart and Soul', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With the insight, humor, and compassion we have come to expect from her, Maeve Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new Ireland.Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate alreadyâ€”two difficult adult daughters and the unwanted attentions of her ex-husbandâ€”but she assembles a wonderfully diverse staff devoted to helping their demanding, often difficult patients.Before long the clinic is established as an essential part of the community, and Clara must decide whether or not to leave a place where lives are saved, courage is rewarded, and humor and optimism triumph over greed and self-pity. Heart and Soul is Maeve Binchy at her storytelling best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3450'),
(6359, 'The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL', 'Eric Greitens', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  THE HEART AND THE FIST shares one man''s story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior. In a life lived at the raw edges of the human experience, Greitens has seen what can be accomplished when compassion and courage come together in meaningful service.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a Rhodes Scholar and Navy SEAL, Greitens worked alongside volunteers who taught art to street children in Bolivia and led US Marines who hunted terrorists in Iraq. He''s learned from nuns who fed the destitute in one of Mother Teresa''s homes for the dying in India, from aid workers who healed orphaned children in Rwanda, and from Navy SEALs who fought in Afghanistan. He excelled at the hardest military training in the world, and today he works with severely wounded and disabled veterans who are rebuilding their lives as community leaders at home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Greitens offers each of us a new way of thinking about living a meaningful life. We learn that to win any war, even those we wage against ourselves; to create and obtain lasting peace; to save a life; and even, simply to live with purpose requires usâ€”every one of usâ€”to be both good and strong.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2426'),
(6360, 'The Heart of a Woman', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Oprah Book ClubÂ® Selection, May 1997:\n  </strong>\n  Maya Angelou has had more lives than the proverbial cat, and in\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman\n  </em>\n  she continues the account of her remarkable life begun in\n  <em>\n   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\n  </em>\n  . In the first book of her bestselling autobiographical series, she describes her traumatic childhood in the small, segregated town of Stamps, Arkansas, during the 1930s.\n  <em>\n   Gather Together in My Name\n  </em>\n  picks up the story in the postwar years, when Maya, a single teenager with an infant son becomes, in short order, a cook, a madam, a dancer, and a prostitute. Next comes\n  <em>\n   Singin'' and Swingin'' and Gettin'' Merry Like Christmas,\n  </em>\n  an account of her twenties and her unsuccessful first marriage to a white man.\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman,\n  </em>\n  the fourth in the series, takes us through one of the most exciting and formative periods of Angelou''s amazing life: her beginnings as a writer and an activist in New York.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Angelou has a happy knack of attracting the best and the brightest into her orbit, and\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman\n  </em>\n  offers a veritable cornucopia of black luminaries in its pages. Singer Billie Holiday, writers John Ellins and Paule Marshall, jazz musicians Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, and actors Godfrey Cambridge and James Earl Jones--Maya meets and learns from them all. Political activism soon follows as Ms. Angelou first organizes a theatrical benefit for the Reverend Martin Luther King and then becomes the director of the New York Southern Christian Leadership Conference office. Her involvement in the civil rights movement eventually brings her into contact with African freedom fighters Oliver Tambo and the charming Vusumzi Make, whom she marries and follows to Africa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman\n  </em>\n  is as honest, painful, funny, outraged, and outrageous as Angelou herself. From her debut at the Apollo Theatre to her meeting with Malcolm X, Maya Angelou gives us something to cheer about and plenty to ponder as well.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRemarkable . . . a great lady moving right on through a great memoir.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMaya Angelou has . . . achieved a kind of literary breakthrough which few writers of any time, place, or race achieve. . . . What makes [her] writing unique is . . . a melding of unconcerned honesty, consummate craft, and perfect descriptive pitch, yielding a rare compound of great emotional force and authenticity.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _â€“The Washington Post Book World\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œTo say that Angelou is a living legend is in no way an exaggeration. [She is] one of the great voices of contemporary literature.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“The Voice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAngelou is one of the geniuses of the Afro-American serial autobiography.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“The New York Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA uniquely gifted wordsmith and storyteller.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“The San Diego Union-Tribune\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1916'),
(6361, 'A Heartbeat Away', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palmer (The Last Surgeon) offers a nifty plot premise in this high-concept medical thriller, but a plethora of subplots distracts from the more interesting primary issue. As the U.S. president, James Allaire, is beginning his State of the Union address, a number of small containers of a viral agent explode and infect the more than 700 people, including every important member of the government except the director of homeland security, who have gathered in the House chamber. The Capitol must be sealed off and the infected audience held inside until a cure for the disease can be found. The plotters behind the attack, a group of domestic terrorists known as Genesis, demand, among other things, that the government abolish the Patriot Act and cease unchecked spying on ordinary Americans. Overblown prose does little to make the implausible scenario more believable. Readers with a low tolerance for the hyperbolic are advised to give this one a pass. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palmerâ€™s early novels were smoothly written, tightly plotted, and memorable. Lately heâ€™s had his ups and downsâ€”more downs than ups, unfortunatelyâ€”and his latest medical thriller sort of straddles the two. On the upside, itâ€™s got a wicked cool story. Terrorists have let loose a highly virulent virus in the Capitol building on the night of the State of the Union address, forcing the president to lock down the building, trapping inside most of the hierarchy of the American government. Only Griffin Rhodes, a virologist whoâ€™s been in prison for allegedly trying to steal the same virus from a research lab, can save the day. On the downside, the writing is, at best, mediocre. The characters are thinly drawn, and the dialogue is wooden and clumsy. This could have been a first-rate thriller; instead, itâ€™s a novel that depends on our loyalty to the author and our interest in its plot, not its characters, to keep us reading. Palmer continues to command an audience, but this is not his best work. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Palmerâ€™s track record (15 medical thrillers, 15 international best-sellers) assures a full-court press on the promotional front, and his latest, though disappointing, will get it, from national print and radio ads to an electronic avalanche. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/565'),
(6362, 'Heartless', 'Diana Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Secrets abound on a Texas ranchâ€¦As a teenager, Gracie worshipped her stepbrother, Jason, a strong, silent cowboy who left home early to seek his fortune. Now the wealthy owner of Comanche Wells ranch, Jason has finally come back home and discovered that the little girl he knew is all grown up.In a moment of unbridled passion, Jason realizes that he''s falling for Gracie. But Gracie harbors a shameful secret that makes her deeply afraid to love. Stung by her rejection, Jason leaves, ready to put the pastâ€”and the one woman he can''t haveâ€”behind him once more.Gracie thinks she''s lost Jason forever. But when danger threatens her she can only hope that her long, tall Texan will come blazing home to save her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3524'),
(6363, 'Heartless', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In picturesque Rosewood, Pennsylvania, neighbors gossip over picket fences, and gleaming SUVs sit in every crushed-granite driveway. But recently, friendly smiles have been replaced with suspicious glares and accusatory whispersâ€”and it''s all because Hanna, Aria, Emily, and Spencer just can''t keep their mouths shut. . . .   First they claimed they found a dead body in the woods behind Spencer''s house, only to have it vanish without a trace. Then when the same woods went up in flames, they swore they saw someone who''s supposed to be dead rise from the ashes. And even after all that, the pretty little liars are still playing with fire.   Hanna''s trading in her Dior trench for a straitjacket. Aria''s trying to contact the dead. Emily''s dumped her boyfriend and is skipping town . . . again. And Spencer thinks someone in her family has gotten away with murder.   The friends insist they''re telling the truth about what they saw, but all of Rosewood thinks they''re simply out for attentionâ€”and nobody likes a girl who cries wolf. So when the big bad killer comes after the girls, will anyone believe them . . . or will they be the next to disappear?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3774'),
(6364, 'Hearts in Atlantis', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With his idiosyncratic blend of patrician airs and boyish charm, narrator William Hurt provides a wonderful complement to this wildly imaginative collection of short stories by author Stephen King. Hurt carefully weaves the disparate elements into a cohesive whole, embracing the subtle complexities of each character; one moment a wizened sadness leaks into his voice as a haunted old man, pursued by demons, asks his 11-year-old lookout, "You know everyone on this street, on this block of this street anyway? And you''d know strangers? Sojourners? Faces of those unknown?" Then, in a profound yet almost imperceptible switch, he exposes the boy''s naive enthusiasm, "I think so." Right about here your neck hairs will stand at attention. Hurt''s peculiar vocal style is in perfect pitch to King''s dark, surreal vision of growing up amid the monsters of post-Vietnam America. (Running time: 21 hours, 20 CDs)\n  <em>\n   --George Laney\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This collection of five thematically linked short stories dwells on the legacy of the 1960s. They share a collective moodiness, a feeling of depressed hangover coming after youth has been lost and the nation has suffered troubled times. Read aloud, this pungent atmosphere is especially strong. A-list actor Hurt stylishly performs the lengthy opener, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," in which 11-year-old Bobby Garfield falls under the spell of an older man his mother has taken in as a boarder (a father figure who introduces him first to literatureALord of the FliesAthen to supernatural phenomena). Hurt skillfully evokes pathos from the story''s fine detailing: its sense of small-town place and Bobby''s child''s-eye-view of the evil characters around him. King reads the title story, "Hearts in Atlantis," about Maine college students who mindlessly play cards instead of studying while the Vietnam War rages in the background. The author''s modest, reedy voice rings with autobiographical truthAas the protagonist is a young would-be writer, na?ve to the ways of the world. Taken together, at 21 hours'' listening, however, King''s shining moments too often give way to fatigue: the stories are repetitious, full of plot rehashings and meaningless asides. Also available on CD. Simultaneous release with the Scribner hardcover. (Sept.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/814'),
(6365, 'Heat', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ex-DEA agent Jesse Warden has seen enough of the inside of a solitary confinement cell to last him a lifetime. Or two lifetimes, which is the sentence he''s serving after being convicted of a plan he was planning to commit, but never did. So when an old buddy shows up with a deal that could spring him from his hell behind bars, he''s ready to listen.   To gain his freedom, Jesse must infiltrate a dangerous and reclusive religious cult that has been stockpiling weapons and eliminating those sent to investigate. From the moment he arrives in the Idaho mountain town where the cult is centered, Jesse finds every aspect of life dictated by the group''s eerie, imposing leader. Pitted against not only the cult, but also the feds who sent him, Jesse feels control of his own life slipping away, and must make a final,desperate attempt to regain it -- or die trying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2683'),
(6366, 'Heat Lightning', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <b>\n  Fresh from his ''spectacular''  (Cleveland\n  <i>\n   Plain Dealer\n  </i>\n  ) debut in\n  <i>\n   Dark of the Moon\n  </i>\n  , investigator Virgil Flowers takes on a puzzling - and most alarming - case, in the new book from the #1 bestselling author\n </b>\n .\n <br />\n <br />\n John Sandford''s introduction of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers was an immediate critical and popular success: ''laser-sharp characters and a plot that''s fast and surprising''  (Cleveland\n <i>\n  Plain Dealer\n </i>\n ); ''an idiosyncratic, thoroughly ingratiating hero''  (\n <i>\n  Booklist\n </i>\n ). Flowers is only in his late thirties, but he''s been around the block a few times, and he doesn''t think much can surprise him anymore. He''s wrong.\n <br />\n <br />\n It''s a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, and Flowers is in bed with one of his ex-wives (the second one, if you''re keeping count), when the phone rings. It''s Lucas Davenport. There''s a body in Stillwater - two shots to the head, found near a veteran''s memorial. And the victim has a lemon in his mouth.\n <br />\n <br />\n Exactly like the body they found last week.\n <br />\n <br />\n The more Flowers works the murders, the more convinced he is that someone''s keeping a list, and that the list could have a lot more names on it. If he could only find out what connects them all . . . and then he does, and he''s almost sorry he did.\n <br />\n <br />\n Because if it''s true, then this whole thing leads down a lot more trails than he thought - and every one of them is booby-trapped.\n <br />\n <br />\n Filled with the audacious plotting, rich characters, and brilliant suspense that have always made his books ''compulsively readable''  (\n <i>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </i>\n ), this is vintage Sandford.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/741'),
(6367, 'Heat Rises', 'Richard Castle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Richard Castle proves as adept at writing thrillers as he is at solving crimes. HEAT rises to the occasion." Dennis Lehane, bestsellingauthorFast-paced and full of intrigue, Heat Rises pairs the tough and sexy NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook inNew York Times bestselling author Richard Castle''s most thrilling mystery yet.The bizarremurder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat''s most thrilling and dangerous case so far, pitting her against New York''s most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and ashadowy death squad out to gun her down. And that is just the tip of an iceberg that leads to a dark conspiracy reaching all the way to the highest level of the NYPD.But when she gets too close to thetruth, Nikki finds herself disgraced, stripped of her badge, and out on her own as a target for killers, with nobody she can trust. Except maybe the one man in her life who''s not a cop: reporter JamesonRook.In the midst of New York''s coldest winter in a hundred years, there''s one thing Nikki is determined to prove: Heat Rises.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3196'),
(6368, 'Heat Wave', 'Richard Castle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes another shocking murder and a sharp turn in a tense journey into the dirty little secrets of the wealthy. Secrets that prove to be fatal. Secrets that lay hidden in the dark until one NYPD detective shines a light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3324'),
(6369, 'Heat: An Amateur&#39;s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany', 'Bill Buford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bill Buford''s funny and engaging book\n  <em>\n   Heat\n  </em>\n  offers readers a rare glimpse behind the scenes in Mario Batali''s kitchen. Who better to review the book for Amazon.com, than Anthony Bourdain, the man who first introduced readers to the wide array of lusty and colorful characters in the restaurant business? We asked Anthony Bourdain to read\n  <em>\n   Heat\n  </em>\n  and give us his take. We loved it. So did he. Check out his review below.\n  <em>\n   --Daphne Durham\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anthony Bourdain is host of the Discovery Channel''s\n   <em>\n    No Reservations\n   </em>\n   , executive chef at Les Halles in Manhattan, and author of the bestselling and groundbreaking\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Heat\n  </em>\n  is a remarkable work on a number of fronts--and for a number of reasons. First, watching the author, an untrained, inexperienced and middle-aged desk jockey slowly transform into not just a useful line cook--but an extraordinarily knowledgable one is pure pleasure. That he chooses to do so primarily in the notoriously difficult, cramped kitchens of New York''s three star\n </p>\n <p>\n  Secondly, the book is a long overdue portrait of the real\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thirdly,\n  <em>\n   Heat\n  </em>\n  reveals a dead-on understanding--rare among non-chef writers--of the pleasures of "making" food; the real human cost, the real requirements and the real adrenelin-rush-inducing pleasures of cranking out hundreds of high quality meals. One is left with a truly unique appreciation of not only what is truly good about food--but as importantly, who cooks--and why. I can''t think of another book which takes such an unsparing, uncompromising and ultimately thrilling look at the quest for culinary excellence.\n  <em>\n   Heat\n  </em>\n  brims with fascinating observations on cooking, incredible characters, useful discourse and argument-ending arcania. I read my copy and immediately started reading it again. It''s going right in between Orwell''s\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Buford''s voice echoes the rhythms of his own writing style. Writing about his break from working as a\n  <em>\n   New Yorker\n  </em>\n  editor and learning firsthand about the world of food, Buford guns his reading into hyperspeed when he is jazzed about a particularly tangy anecdote, and plays with his vocal tone and pitch when mimicking others'' voices. At its base, Buford''s voice is tinged with a jovial lilt, as if he is amused by his life as a "kitchen slave" and by the outsize personalities of the people he meets along the way. Less authoritative than blissfully confused, Buford speaks the way he writes, as a well-informed but never entirely knowledgeable outsider to the world of food love. Listening to his imitation of star chef Mario Batali''s kinetic squeal, Buford ably conveys his abiding love for the teachers and companions of his brief, eventful life as a cook.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2147'),
(6370, 'Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy&#39;s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back', 'Todd Burpo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Heaven Is for Real\n  </em>\n  is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn''t know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Told by the father, but often in Colton''s own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan, a wrestling coach, a volunteer fireman, and he operates a garage door company with his wife, Sonja, who is also a childrenâ€™s minister, busy pastorâ€™s wife, and mom. Colton, now an active 11-year-old, has an older sister Cassie and a younger brother Colby. The family lives in Imperial, Nebraska.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lynn Vincent is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  best-selling writer of\n  <em>\n   Same Kind of Different as Me\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Going Rogue: An American Life\n  </em>\n  . The author or co-author of nine books, Vincent is a senior writer for\n  <em>\n   WORLD\n  </em>\n  magazine and a lecturer in writing at the Kingâ€™s College in New York City. She lives in San Diego, California.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2879'),
(6371, 'Heaven&#39;s Prisoners', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First met in Burke''s excellent mystery, The Neon Rain, Dave Robicheaux is a driven mandriven by his constant battle with alcoholism; by memories of his past as a detective on the New Orleans police force; by his need for order; by his obsession with the seedy, aberrant side of New Orleans life. Trying to put his own life together again, Dave has married Annie and now runs a small fishing rental business in the Louisiana bayou. When he and Annie witness the crash of a small plane, in which four peopleobviously illegal aliensdie, and only a little girl survives, Robicheaux is drawn to the trail of a network of crimes that suggests a Central American dope-running ring operated with the connivance of federal agents. Violence ensues, and Robicheaux, no stranger to tragedy, must confront it again when Annie becomes a victim. Haunted by guilt, deeply depressed, in constant danger, Robicheaux trusts no one, including the cops, for he knows that they too, are capable of skirting the law. Burke beautifully evokes New Orleans and the mysterious bayous, and he skillfully depicts the different lifestyles that distinguish the Gulf region. Robicheaux is a complex character whose integrity and high principles are always in conflict with the darker side of human nature. This is a mystery fans will savor for its ruminating intelligence and graceful prose as well as for its heart-stopping suspense.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Cajun hero of The Neon Rain returns in a very intense and atmospheric, if not obsessive, story of personal revenge. Former homicide cop Dave Robicheaux, now proprietor of a bait and boat rental business on the Louisiana bayou, rescues a terrified illegal immigrant girl from a small plane that crashes into the Gulf. The other four passengers die, but when newspapers report only three, Dave decides to investigate. His first-person narrative provides character insight, immediacy, and authentic glimpses into a disappearing way of life. For most collections. REK\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/358'),
(6372, 'Hell Gate', 'Linda A. Fairstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Head of the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney''s office in Manhattan for decades, Linda Fairstein is America''s most visible legal expert on sexual assault and domestic violence-which is why she writes some of the most compelling crime thrillers ofour time and why her Alexandra Cooper series has been topping bestseller list for more than a decade. Fans turn to Fairstein for ripped-from-the-headline crimes, cutting-edge investigations, and vindication for victims. Linda Fairstein brings readers inside a world of which they can''t get enough, but one they hope to never see in real life. And for her twelfth novel, Fairstein takes Alexandra Cooper inside a world she''d rather not see. New York City politics have always been filled with intrigue and behind-the-scenes deals. In Hell Gate, Alex finds her attention torn between investigating a shipwreck that has contraband cargo-human cargo-and the political sex scandal of a promising New York congressman now fallen from grace. When Alex discovers that a woman from the wreck and the congressman''s lover have the same rose tattoo-the brand of a "snakehead", a master of a human trafficking operation-it dawns on her that these cases aren''t as unrelated as they seem and that the entire political landscape of NewYork City could hang in the balance of her investigation. As Alex looks on at the nameless victims in the morgue, she realizes she''s looking at the present-day face of New York''s long, dark tradition of human trafficking-a tradition that began hundreds of years ago with slave trade from Africa, now a multimillion-dollar industry that will stop at no cost, even if that cost is Alex''s life." -- from publisher''s website.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3526'),
(6373, 'Hell&#39;s Corner', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Baldacci''s implausible fifth Camel Club novel (after Divine Justice) disappoints with cartoonish plotting and characterization. The night after the U.S. president persuades former assassin Oliver Stone (aka John Carr) to re-enter government employment to tackle the growing threat of Russian drug gangs, Stone finds himself in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, when gunfire breaks out and a bomb explodes. Apparently, the intended target was the visiting British prime minister, who was scheduled to walk across the park before an ankle injury modified his plans. Taken off his original mission, Stone seeks to identify the forces behind the assassination attempt. Stone''s old Camel Club allies involve themselves in his search, which includes the de rigueur mole hunt and the McGuffin of choice these days, a lead on Osama bin Laden''s whereabouts. Those who prefer intelligence in their political thrillers will have to look elsewhere. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Shortly after the events related in Divine Justice (2008), Oliver Stone, former CIA assassin and now the leader of the shadowy group known as the Camel Club, is whisked away to a top-secret meeting with the president of the U.S. Russian drug cartels are operating on American soil, possibly with the approvalâ€”if not the direct supervisionâ€”of the Russian government. Stoneâ€™s mission is to go to the drugsâ€™ point of entry, Latin America, and find a way to shut the cartels down. But before he can even begin his mission training, Stone finds himself in the middle of what appears to be a terrorist attack on the life of the British prime minister. Teaming up with a British intelligence agent, Stone attempts to determine if the attack is connected to the Russian drug-smuggling operation. The latest Camel Club novel is, as usual, skillfully constructed and very difficult to put down. Baldacci keeps peeling back layers of Stoneâ€™s psyche, revealing him to be a man full of unresolved conflicts and a potentially self-destructive amount of guilt over his past actions. Another winner. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Since Baldacciâ€™s first novel, Absolute Power, appeared in 1996, he has owned a place on most best-seller lists. His latest Camel Club novel wonâ€™t break the string. Author tours and all the attendant hoopla will get the ball rolling. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/82'),
(6374, 'Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his odyssey, from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the warâ€™s fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifices of war, painting an unvarnished portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defense of their country.Â Â Â Â  From the live-for-today rowdiness of marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Woven throughout are Leckieâ€™s hard-won, eloquent, and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, Helmet for My Pillow will leave no reader untouched. This is a book that brings you as close to the mud, the blood, and the experience of war as it is safe to come.Now producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman, the men behind Band of Brothers, have adapted material from Helmet for My Pillow for HBOâ€™s epic miniseries The Pacific, which will thrill and edify a whole new generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2693'),
(6375, 'The Help', 'Kathryn Stockett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  \\tMinny, Aibileenâ€™s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobodyâ€™s business, but she canâ€™t mind her tongue, so sheâ€™s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  \\tSeemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way womenâ€”mothers, daughters, caregivers, friendsâ€”view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, *The Help* is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we donâ€™t.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2859'),
(6376, 'Hemingway&#39;s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961', 'Paul Hendrickson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, a brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood.Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961â€”from Hemingwayâ€™s pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicideâ€”Paul Hendrickson traces the writerâ€™s exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar.We follow him from Key West to Paris, to New York, Africa, Cuba, and finally Idaho, as he wrestles with his best angels and worst demons. Whenever he could, he returned to his beloved fishing cruiser, to exult in the sea, to fight the biggest fish he could find, to drink, to entertain celebrities and friends and seduce women, to be with his children. But as he began to succumb to the diseases of fame, we see that Pilar was also where he cursed his critics, saw marriages and friendships dissolve, and tried, in vain, to escape his increasingly diminished capacities.Generally thought of as a great writer and an unappealing human being, Hemingway emerges here in a far more benevolent light. Drawing on previously unpublished material, including interviews with Hemingwayâ€™s sons, Hendrickson shows that for all the writerâ€™s boorishness, depression, and alcoholism, and despite his choleric anger, he was capable of remarkable generosityâ€”to struggling writers, to lost souls, to the dying son of a friend.We see most poignantly his relationship with his youngest son, Gigi, a doctor who lived his adult life mostly as a cross-dresser, and died squalidly and alone in a Miami womenâ€™s jail. He was the son Hemingway forsook the least, yet the one who disappointed him the most, as Gigi acted out for nearly his whole life so many of the tortured, ambiguous tensions his father felt. Hendricksonâ€™s bold and beautiful book strikingly makes the case that both men were braver than we know, struggling all their lives against the complicated, powerful emotions swirling around them. As Hendrickson writes, â€œAmid so much ruin, still the beauty.â€Hemingwayâ€™s Boat is both stunningly original and deeply gripping, an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this great American writer, published fifty years after his death.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3652'),
(6377, 'Henry Clay: The Essential American', 'David S. Heidler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Why Henry Clay? An Essay by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Many Americans do not know this extraordinary person, which is a pity. Many years ago, a conference gave us the opportunity to visit his grave and his home. A friend accompanied us to the cemetery where we stood before the large vault with its imposing column topped by a statue of Clay, his right arm partially extended, entreating during one of his famous orations. The day was raw, and a dirty cotton sky sent down a misty drizzle that glossed the marble with a wet patina. In the back portion of the vault, a marble slab held one of Clayâ€™s most famous quotes: â€œI had rather be right than be President.â€ Our friend, who inclines to the acerbic, muttered, â€œNothing about a corrupt bargain?â€ We laughed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet later as we walked through the house named Ashland, we paused over the twin legacies of Clayâ€™s fateful decision in 1825 and of his unstinting labor to improve and sustain his country. His behavior in 1825 fastened upon him--presumably forever, if our companionâ€™s remark was any evidence--the infamy of the â€œCorrupt Bargain.â€ His work for the country revealed the great poignancy of his generation, the futility of practical politics clashing with grave moral imperatives. He sought the presidency and was labeled a schemer; he compromised for the Union and was lauded as a statesman. Which one was the real Henry Clay? In this book we try to answer that question.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His personal life, for instance, presents intriguing clues. Clay married what many described as an ugly girl, possibly only for the status and influence her family imparted, but there is no evidence that he ever strayed from her bed and considerable proof (they had eleven children) that he found it congenial. He early found slavery morally troubling and ultimately regarded it as incompatible with American ideals of liberty. But he died owning slaves. He gained fame as the master of political compromise, which by definition is the bending of principles to achieve functional agreements. But in 1825, he was reviled as crooked, even though he did not violate a single personal scruple or run counter to his own conscience.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All lives are marked by such inconsistencies. We strive to reveal Clay to a new generation of readers by showing how he was both exemplary and unique, how he was both mired in the customs of his time and a prophet for ideas that would not gain acceptance until our own. He believed in ideas with passion, but he leavened everything with humor, a novelty among public figures of his time and obviously one of the facets that Abraham Lincoln found appealing enough to imitate. Most of all, we found that there has never been anyone like Clay in American political history. He transformed the post of Speaker of the House into its modern role, he proposed and doggedly advocated a plan to expand American prosperity, and he was a crucial leader in every matter great and small bearing upon American politics for almost fifty years.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When our friend made that crack about the â€œCorrupt Bargain,â€ we all laughed, but we shouldnâ€™t have. In a way, this book is our penance for having done so, because Henry Clay was a patriot, a statesman, and a gentleman. Not without flaws, he was nevertheless about as good as it gets in public life, and we hope that readers will find him as fascinating as we have.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Yet another hulking biography of an early American political giant, this one, unnecessarily clogged with detail, is still a fitting, up-to-date, and highly readable account of Henry Clay''s life (1777â€“1852) and achievements. In vigorous prose, the Heidlers (coauthors,\n  <em>\n   The War of 1812\n  </em>\n  ), experienced scholars of preâ€“Civil War America, relate the emergence of the Kentuckian who served in the House (as Speaker) and Senate, as secretary of state, and as repeatedly failed presidential candidate. A man of enormous giftsâ€”the beloved mirror of his country and its aspirationsâ€”Clay bestrode Washington and the Senate as member of the Great Triumvirate with John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster and did his best as the Great Compromiser to hold the nation together as it splintered over slavery. That he failed, as the authors show, was not his fault: even great congressional leadership couldn''t save the Union. The authors bring verve and clarity to Clay''s struggles, even if they add little to what''s known. They also make one yearn for more statesmen and stateswomen, who, like Clay, could say, I had rather be right than be president. 32 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2509');
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(6378, 'Her Daughter&#39;s Dream', 'Francine Rivers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the dramatic conclusion to the New York Timesbest seller Her Mother''s Hope, Francine Rivers delivers a rich and deeply moving story about the silent sorrows that can tear a family apart and the grace and forgiveness that can heal even the deepest wounds. Growing up isn''t easy for little Carolyn Arundel. With her mother, Hildemara, quarantined to her room with tuberculosis, Carolyn forms a special bond with her oma Marta, who moves in to care for the household. But as tensions between Hildie and Marta escalate, Carolyn believes she is to blame. When Hildie returns to work and Marta leaves, Carolyn and her brother grow up as latchkey kids in a world gripped by the fear of the Cold War. College offers Carolyn the chance to find herself, but a family tragedy shatters her newfound independence. Rather than return home, she cuts all ties and disappears into the heady counterculture of San Francisco. When she reemerges two years later, more lost than ever, she reluctantly turns to her family to help rebuild a life for her and her own daughter, May Flower Dawn. Just like Carolyn, May Flower Dawn develops a closer bond with her grandmother, Hildie, than with her mother, causing yet another rift between generations. But as Dawn struggles to avoid the mistakes of those who went before her, she vows that somehow she will be a bridge between the women in her family rather than the wall that separates them forever. Spanning from the 1950s to present day, Her Daughter''s Dreamis the emotional final chapter of an unforgettable family saga about the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughterâ€”and the very nature of unconditional love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3645'),
(6379, 'Her Mother&#39;s Hope', 'Francine Rivers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 2011 Retailers Choice Award winner!The first in an epic two-book saga by beloved author Francine Rivers, this sweeping story explores the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters over several generations. Near the turn of the 20th century, fiery Marta leaves Switzerland determined to find life on her own terms. Her journey takes her through Europe and finally lands her with children and husband in tow in the central valley of California. Marta''s experiences convince her that only the strong survive. Hildie, Marta''s oldest daughter, has a heart to serve others, and her calling as a nurse gives her independence, if not the respect of her mother. Amid the drama of WWII, Hildie marries and begins a family of her own. She wants her daughter never to doubt her loveâ€”but the challenges of life conspire against her vow. Each woman is forced to confront her faulty but well-meaning desire to help her daughter find her God-given place in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3584'),
(6380, 'Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life', 'Michael Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn''t understand, like a foreign language, or a salad."\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael Moore-Oscar-winning filmmaker, bestselling author, the nation''s unofficial provocateur laureate-is back, this time taking on an entirely new role, that of his own meta-\n <em>\n  Forrest Gump\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Breaking the autobiographical mode, he presents twenty-four far-ranging, irreverent, and stranger-than-fiction vignettes from his own early life. One moment he''s an eleven-year-old boy lost in the Senate and found by Bobby Kennedy; and in the next, he''s inside the Bitburg cemetery with a dazed and confused Ronald Reagan. Fast-forwarding to 2003, he stuns the world by uttering the words "We live in fictitious times... with a fictitious president" in place of the expected "I''d like to thank the Academy."\n</p>\n<p>\n And none of that even comes close to the night the friendly priest at the seminary decides to show him how to perform his own exorcism.\n</p>\n<p>\n Capturing the zeitgeist of the past fifty years, yet deeply personal and unflinchingly honest, HERE COMES TROUBLE takes readers on an unforgettable, take-no-prisoners ride through the life and times of Michael Moore. No one will come away from this book without a sense of surprise about the Michael Moore most of us didn''t know. Alternately funny, eye-opening, and moving, it''s a book he has been writing-and living-his entire life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Moore is a filmmaker and author. He was born in Flint, Michigan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2149'),
(6381, 'Here&#39;s the Deal: Don&#39;t Touch Me', 'Howie Mandel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal hostâ€™s ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHDâ€“and how it has shaped his life and career. Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainmentâ€“respected by his peers and beloved by audiences as the host of the enormously popular prime-time game show Deal or No Deal. With a career that spans three decades and many different show-business platformsâ€“heâ€™s a renowned stand-up comedian who continues to perform more than 150 sold-out shows a year, he created the award-winning TV show Bobbyâ€™s World, heâ€™s starred in feature films and the hit TV series St. Elsewhere, and heâ€™s also hosted his own daytime talk showâ€“heâ€™s one of the most versatile performers anywhere. But there are aspects of his personal and professional life heâ€™s never talked about publiclyâ€“until now.Eleven years ago, Mandel first told the world about his â€œgermophobia.â€ Heâ€™s recently started discussing his adult ADHD as well. Now, for the first time, he reveals the details of his struggle with these challenging disorders. He catalogs his numerous fears and neuroses and shares entertaining stories about how he has tried to integrate them into his act. â€œIf Iâ€™m making myself laugh,â€ he writes, â€œthen Iâ€™m distracted from all the other things going on in my head that are, at times, torturous.â€ And he speaks frankly and honestly about the ways his condition has affected his personal lifeâ€“as a son, husband, and father of three.Fans whoâ€™ve been dying to know â€œthe dealâ€ behind Mandelâ€™s remarkable rise through the show-business ranks will be rewarded with many never-before-told anecdotes, each one generously leavened with Mandelâ€™s trademark humor. There are tales from every phase of his colorful careerâ€“from his early days as a teenage carpet salesman and aspiring stand-up comic to his stint opening for Diana Ross, his six years on St. Elsewhere, and beyond. As heartfelt as it is hilarious, Hereâ€™s the Deal: Donâ€™t Touch Me is the story of one manâ€™s effort to draw comic inspiration out of his darkest, most vulnerable places. Itâ€™s sure to please Howie Mandelâ€™s legion of fansâ€“and provide hope to the millions who strive to succeed in spite of OCD and ADHD.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2151'),
(6382, 'Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings', 'Italo Calvino', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new volume of autobiographical writings (never before translated into English) by Calvino, whose short stories and novels gave him international acclaim as one of the 20th century''s most important Italian fiction writers, is a welcome addition to his extensive works as well as to The Road to San Giovanni, a posthumous collection of autobiographical essays published more than a decade ago. This volume includes a series of articles and interviews that builds on the understanding of Calvino''s life after World War II when he returned to Italy from the Communist resistance in the Alps, a period when Calvino felt a "moment of uncertainty" and a "perplexity about" his vocation as a writer before producing his first novel, The Cloven Viscount. The articles also feature Calvino''s views on some of his most popular novels: "In the United States... the book of mine that became a hit was the one that you would have said was the furthest from American reading habits: Invisible Cities." But it is Calvino''s lifelong fascination with America that makes this collection remarkable: more than half the book is given to an "American Diary 1959-1960," written during Calvino''s two years traveling in the U.S., as he explores New York''s thriving Greenwich Village and Actors Studio; a "violent, tough" Chicago; San Francisco''s "squalid and filthy" beatnik scene; and Montgomery, Ala., where Calvino (who died in 1985) finds himself "in the middle" of "crucial days of struggle" of the Civil Rights movement. His diary reveals an obsession with what he later says most interests him as a writer: "daily life as the constant nourishment for writing."\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Posthumous writings from Calvino.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2152'),
(6383, 'Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia', 'Michael Korda', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Michael Korda''s Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale, a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile - including his sun-burnished blonde looks and flowing white robes - made him an object of intense fascination, known the world over as "Lawrence of Arabia". However, unlike other biographers, Korda does not seek to burnish or destroy the legend; rather he aims to demystify and reveal the real man - T.E. Lawrence - as he truly was.An Oxford Scholar and archaeologist, one of the five illegitimate sons of a British aristocrat who ran away with his daughters'' governess, Lawrence was sent to Cairo as an intelligence officer in 1916, vanished into the desert in 1917, and re-emerged as the greatest and most colourful figure of WW1. A foreigner, he united and led the Arab tribes to defeat the Turks and eventually capture Damascus. Yet as he illuminates Lawrence''s achievements, Korda digs further to expose the flesh-and-blood man and his contradictory nature: a born leader utterly fearless and seemingly impervious to pain, thirst, fatigue and danger who remained shy, modest, and retiring; a scholar and an aesthete who was also a bold and cold-blooded warrior. As Korda shows, Lawrence was not only a man of his times, but a visionary whose achievements - as a farsighted diplomat, brilliant military strategist, the first media celebrity, and acclaimed writer - transcended them.Korda analyses Lawrence''s vision for the modern Middle East, plans that, if they had been carried through, might have prevented the hatred and bloodshed that have become ubiquitous in the region. Ultimately, as this magisterial work demonstrates, Lawrence remains the paradigm of the hero in modern times, the arch-heroic type whose life was at once a triumph and a sacrifice, and whose capacity to astonish remains undimmed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2153'),
(6384, 'The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star', 'Nikki Sixx &amp; Ian Gittins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e''s Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself.When MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e was at the height of its fame, there wasn''t any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn''t do. He spent days -- sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers -- in a coke and heroin-fueled daze. The highs were high, and Nikki''s journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions.Here, Nikki shares those diary entries -- some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre -- and reflects on that time. Joining him are Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Slash, Rick Nielsen, Bob Rock, and a host of ex-managers, ex-lovers, and more.Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and shockingly moving, The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom -- and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3940'),
(6385, 'Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America&#39;s First Female Tycoon', 'Charles Slack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hetty Green (1835-1916) was the only woman to make her mark in the financial markets during the Guilded Age of the late 1800s. She parlayed an inheritance of $500,000 into $100 million ($2.5 billion in current money), amassing fortunes in U.S. bonds and real estate through impeccable timing. Immortalized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "world''s greatest miser," she kept her family living in modest tenements, dressed in drab clothes, and was a notorious penny-pincher. Dubbed the "Witch of Wall Street," she was widely believed to live an unhappy existence despite her riches. Slack''s account reveals a much more multidimensional character than Green was popularly believed to be; yes, she was eccentric, but her wry wit and colorful personality bring humor and pathos to this story. She was unfairly vilified because of her sex, and readers cannot help from cheering for her at every turn.\n <em>\n  David Siegfried\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[An] instructive accountâ€¦. Slack offers an exemplary retelling for a new generation.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fascinating book.â€ (New York Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFascinating.â€ (Tucson Citizen )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] nuanced portrait.â€ (Newsweek )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] page-turning portrait of an important and complicated woman.â€ (Richmond Times-Dispatch )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA wonderfully detailed new biography.â€ (Forbes )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSlack concentrates on telling a good story and telling it well.... [An] entertaining biography.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2510'),
(6386, 'Hidden Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Det. Lucas Davenport has battled some real demons over the past 15 Prey novels and drifted in and out of lust and love with a host of women. But now he''s happily married to the lovely Weather; has a nine-month-old son, Sam; and takes care of his 12-year-old ward, Letty West. Sure, he''s got a measure of the old angst, but he''s growing accustomed to the good life, spending quality time alone on the couch drinking beer and watching TV golf. His new job is running the Office of Regional Research at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension where he looks into various crimes and "fixes shit" for the governor. So when a dead Russian shows up on the docks in Duluth, Lucas is assigned to shepherd the lady investigator, Nadya Kalin, being sent by the Russian government. From the very first pages, the reader knows it''s teenager Carl Walther who has killed the Russian. What makes the book intriguing is the manner in which the sagacious Davenport goes about uncovering the rest of the co-conspirators-a gang of Minnesota-based Communist spies headed by Carl''s grandpa, 92-year-old ex-KGB colonel Burt Walther. That Sandford makes this unlikely plot believable is a mark of his mastery of the technical aspects of the mystery form and a testament to his overall writing skills. Readers will be pleased with this relaxed version of the moody Minneapolis investigator. In past novels, the womanizing Davenport would have romanced the good-looking Russian lady, but the new Davenport is content to play the part of friend and protector and go back to his cozy family with an unstained and remarkably contented soul.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Russian sailor is the victim of a professional assassination on the docks of Duluth. Wary of international implications, the governor of Minnesota asks Lucas Davenport, the chief investigator for the state''s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, to investigate. Major Nadezhda Kalin, a representative of Russian law enforcement, assists Davenport. The murder may be linked to the remnants of a dormant Soviet Union network established between the world wars but forgotten by the motherland. The descendants of the original network members have all melded into the American mainstream. Davenport and Kalin pursue the case through the rural mining towns of northern Minnesota even as they become the targets of the shadowy assassin. The sixteenth\n  <em>\n   Prey\n  </em>\n  novel is less harrowing and not as dark as many of its predecessors. It''s also more humorous--even the suicide of a key character is accompanied by a sly, graveyard one-liner--with deft Davenport observations on the curious behavior of the opposite sex in general and on Russian women in particular. Similarities to previous\n  <em>\n   Prey\n  </em>\n  thrillers: high entertainment value; deftly rendered characterizations; and clever, believable dialogue. Expect another best-seller and stock up accordingly.\n  <em>\n   Wes Lukowsky\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/686'),
(6387, 'Hidden Summit', 'Robyn Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This book is an utter delight." -RT Book Reviews on Moonlight Road\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Strong conflict, humor and well-written characters are Carr''s calling cards, and they''re all present here.... You won''t want to put this one down." -RT Book Reviews on Angel''s Peak\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This story has everything: a courageous, outspoken heroine; a to-die-for hero; and a plot that will touch readers'' hearts on several different levels. Truly excellent." -RT Book Reviews on Forbidden Falls\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An intensely satisfying read. By turns humorous and gut-wrenchingly emotional, it won''t soon be forgotten."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -RT Book Reviews on Paradise Valley\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Carr has hit her stride with this captivating series."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Library Journal on the Virgin River series\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The Virgin River books are so compelling-I connected instantly with the characters and just wanted more and more and more."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sick of running into her cheery ex-husband and his new wife, Leslie Petruso accepts a job at the Virgin River branch of Haggerty Construction and takes the high road right out of town. Now she''s got Paul Haggerty''s business running like a well-oiled machine. In fact, things are so busy Paul jumps at the chance to hire an extra set of hands.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Just like Leslie, Conner Danson has been burned by love. But if Leslie was disappointed by her relationship going bad, Conner was decimated. He''s got no time for womenâ€¦although he spends an awful lot of time pretending not to notice Leslie. And she''s pretty busy "ignoring" the chemistry between them.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  According to Conner and Leslie, they have only one thing in commonâ€”they''re done with love. But everyone in Virgin River can see that things are heating up at Haggerty Construction. And as far as Paul Haggerty can tell, the best thing he can do is hang on to his hard hat and watch the sparks fly!\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2940'),
(6388, 'The Hidden', 'Bill Pronzini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A series of seemingly random murders along a fifty-mile stretch of the rugged northern California coast, committed by an unknown dubbed by the media the Coastline Killer. A young couple with marital problems, Shelby and Jay Macklin, who decide to spend the week between Christmas and New Year''s at a friend''s remote coastal cottage. Two couples in a neighboring home whose relationships are thick with festering menace. A fierce winter storm that leads to a night of unrelenting terror. These are the main ingredients in Bill Pronzini''s chilling and twist-filled tale about the hidden nature of crime and its motives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3923'),
(6389, 'Hide', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In bestseller Gardner''s first-rate follow-up to\n  <em>\n   Alone\n  </em>\n  (2005), Bobby Dodge, once a sniper for the Massachusetts State Police and now a police detective, gets called to a horrific crime scene in the middle of the night by fellow detective and ex-lover D.D. Warren. An underground chamber has been discovered on the property of a former Boston mental hospital containing six small naked mummified female bodies in clear garbage bags. A silver locket with one of the corpses, which may be decades old, bears the name Annabelle Granger. Later, a woman shows up at the Boston Homicide offices claiming to be Annabelle Granger. Her resemblance to Catherine Gagnon (whose life Bobby saved in\n  <em>\n   Alone\n  </em>\n  ) helps stoke a romance between her and Bobby both subtle and sizzling. The suspense builds as the police uncover links between patients at the hospital and long-ago criminal activities. Through expert use of red herrings, Gardner takes the reader on a nail-biting ride to the thrilling climax.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Gardner fans look out: this one will take your breath away. Near the grounds of an abandoned mental hospital, a buried chamber is discovered. Inside are six bodies, one of which may be that of a girl who has been missing for two decades--the best friend of a woman, Annabelle, who has spent her childhood moving from city to city, from identity to identity, hiding from someone or something totally unknown to her. She''s been safe for several years now, but a single act of bravery plunges her right back into a life of fear. This is a rich, complex tale that juggles a handful of mysteries at once. Who is the killer, and could it be someone connected with a notorious child murderer? Who or what was Annabelle''s family running from? How did her father, a mathematician, know how to set up foolproof new identities? And why does an old sketch of a murder suspect look unsettlingly like Annabelle''s father? Head and shoulders above anything else Gardner''s written, this riveting novel represents the author at the height of her powers.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/629'),
(6390, 'Hide and Seek', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Maggie Bradford is one of the most beloved singer/songwriters anywhere. She''s also the devoted mother of two children. She seems to have it all. And so, how could she have murdered not just one, but two of her husbands? With unrelenting suspense, James Patterson answers that question.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/307'),
(6391, 'Hide and Seek', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One stormy night years ago, the members of the Sisterhood gathered at Myra Rutledge''s Virginia estate to plan a mission that would avenge one of their own. Since then, Myra, Annie, Yoko, Alexis, Isabelle, Kathryn, and Nikki have meted out justice to many more villains who believed themselves above the law, and they''ve become national heroines in the process. Still, payback has its price, and the Sisterhood''s last assignment brought them perilously close to losing everything. Now the women are fugitives with a price on their heads, but they''re not planning on hiding out for long--not when good friends need the kind of help only they can give. Mitch Riley, the ruthless assistant director of the FBI, has targeted Cornelia "Nellie" Easter, the judge who helped the Sisterhood evade prison, and their lawyer, Lizzie Fox. Since the Sisterhood''s escape, the Bureau has become a laughingstock, and Riley intends to frame Nellie and Lizzie to save his own career. He''s created a special task force to hunt the Sisterhood down, and to make matters even trickier, their old nemeses, reporters Maggie Spritzer and Ted Robinson, are also hot on their heels. If the Sisterhood is caught, there''ll be no one to protect them this time. Mitch Riley has the entire FBI behind him, but the Sisterhood intends to prove that he''s no match for a group of formidable women with an unbreakable bond and a wickedly cunning plan to bring the fight right to his door.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3759'),
(6392, 'Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme', 'Tracy Daugherty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This sprawling first biography of the writer Donald Barthelme (1931â€“1989) complements an exemplary account of the man and his milieu with a history of 20th-century architecture, film, philosophy, visual art and political activismâ€”not to mention a stunning exegesis of Barthelme''s work and a surfeit of vignettes from New York literary life in the 1960s and ''70s. Daugherty, a professor of English and creative writing at Oregon State and former student of Barthelme, renders the writer of\n <em>\n  The Dead Father\n </em>\n in all his complexity: the experimental iconoclast, the establishment figure without a university degree who published more than 100 stories in the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n , the citizen-activist, admitted alcoholic, the devoted if distant father and the prankster on the page. While Daugherty firmly takes Barthelme''s side in his four troubled marriages, he assesses the writer''s legacy, his champions and detractors (e.g., Joyce Carol Oates, John Gardner and the hundreds of readers who canceled their\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n subscriptions in 1968 to protest the publication of his catty\n <em>\n  Snow White\n </em>\n ). Like Barthelme''s best stories, this unapologetically literary and ambitious book is cultural and artistic bricolage at its finest. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics unanimously applaud Daugherty for the first comprehensive, analytical biography of his former teacher.\n <em>\n  The Oregonian\n </em>\n calls\n <em>\n  Hiding Man\n </em>\n a "remarkably tender, sympathetic treatment" of Barthelme, and while Daugherty may have given Barthelme a glowing biography, he doesn''t downplay his more negative traits. The book also does an excellent job of connecting the writer to his literary and social context. The Oregonian notes that while Barthelme can be difficult to read, "in Daugherty''s hands the stories seem not nearly as challenging as they are inviting," a point echoed by the\n <em>\n  Washington Post.\n </em>\n Readers interested in Barthelme will find an informative, entertaining biography; readers unacquainted with this postmodern giant may wish to start with one of his short story collections.Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2154'),
(6393, 'The High King of Montival', 'S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New York Times bestselling author continues his post- apocalyptic series chronicling a modern world without technology.   With The Sword of the Lady, Rudi Mackenzie''s destiny was determined. Now he returns to Montival in the Pacific Northwest, where he will face the legions of the Prophet. To achieve victory, Rudi must assemble a coalition of those who had been his enemies a few months before and forge them into an army that will rescue his homeland.  Only then will Rudi be able to come to terms with how the Sword has changed him, as well as the world, and assume his place as Artos, High King of Montival...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3317'),
(6394, 'High on Arrival', 'Mackenzie Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Not long before her fiftieth birthday, Mackenzie Phillips walked into Los Angeles International Airport. She was on her way to a reunion for *One Day at a Time*, the hugely popular 70s sitcom on which she once starred as the lovable rebel Julie Cooper. Within minutes of entering the security checkpoint, Mackenzie was in handcuffs, arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies with her father''s friends at eleven, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippie freedom and heroin cool. It was a kingdom over which her father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas &amp; the Papas, presided, often in absentia, as a spellbinding, visionary phantom.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When Mackenzie was a teenager, Hollywood and the world took notice of the charming, talented, precocious child actor after her star-making turn in *American Graffiti*. As a young woman she joinedthe nonstop party in the hedonistic pleasure dome her father created for himself and his fellow revelers, and a rapt TV audience watched as Julie Cooper wasted away before their eyes. By the time Mackenzie discovered how deep and dark her father''s trip was going, it was too late. And as an adult, she has paid dearly for a lifetime of excess, working tirelessly to reconcile a wonderful, terrible past in which she succumbed to the power of addiction and the pull of her magnetic father.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  As her astounding, outrageous, and often tender life story unfolds, the actor-musician-mother shares her lifelong battle with personal demons and near-fatal addictions. She overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles again and again and journeys toward redemption and peace. By exposing the shadows and secrets of the past to the light of day, the star who turned up *High on Arrival* has finally come back down to earth -- to stay.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2155'),
(6395, 'Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City', 'Neal Bascomb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 1920s "race" to build the world''s tallest building has been extensively chronicled. A former literary agent and former St. Martin''s editor, Bascomb centers his narrative on two architects, William Van Alen and Craig Severance, who schemed to outdo each other in the race to pierce New York City''s skies with, respectively, the Manhattan Company Building at 40 Wall Street and the Chrysler Building on East 42nd Street-only to be beaten by a third team hired to construct the Empire State Building (at Fifth Avenue and 34th). While this story is most often told as a sentimental paean to "progress" rather than a bitter corporate feud, Bascomb gives his tale a fresh sense of capitalist drama in his evocation of the nascent worlds of skyscraper engineering, architecture and construction-and real estate speculation with returns projected at 10%. He imbues the former three with some terrific detail (including a 22-item list of how many trades, including mail chute installers and asbestos insulators, it took to build a skyscraper) that gives context to the players and incidental characters, including the five Starrett brothers (builders raised in Lawrence, Kans., who built 40 Wall Street), General Motors'' financier John Jacob Raskob (the man behind the ESB), Walter Chrysler, New Yorker reviewer "T-Square," former governor Al Smith and many others. The occasionally intrusive cliches (the Starrett brothers "had building in their blood"), hyperbole (the ''20s were "a decade gone mad") and familiar generalizations (the U.S. "finally came into its own" in that same decade) are excusable in a debut book, especially one chronicling an obsession with height and speed.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though the desire to spike the landscape with ever-higher structures dates back millennia, skyscraper one-upmanship accelerated in the twentieth century. And while it continues today, never was the race so neck-and-neck as at the end of the Roaring Twenties in New York. Architect William Van Alen, commissioned by Walter Chrysler, found himself in direct competition with partner-turned-rival Craig Severance, architect for the Manhattan Company Building (now the Trump Building). Though the Chrysler was begun first, the Manhattan moved faster, and both groups soon were secretly revising plans--with construction underway. With its cloud-piercing spire, the Chrysler won the height race (although the Manhattan claimed the highest usable floor). The real winner was a late entrant: the Empire State Building. Bascomb''s book is nicely rounded, exploring the finances and logistics of skyscraper building, from acquiring the land to riveting the steel; the benefits and drawbacks of height; and the personalities of the builders--all as he ratchets up the tension of the race.\n <em>\n  Keir Graff\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2513'),
(6396, 'The Hijack', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "\n </em>\n His novels contain even more bangs than rival Andy McNab''s."Â  â€”\n <em>\n  The Mirror\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two hundred miles south of the Devon coastline, Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar and twenty men prepare for their most daring mission yet - the hijack of a supertanker, a five-storey superstructure laden with oil. Meanwhile, in an Elizabethan country house, SBS operative Stratton has been seconded to bodyguard work and is bored by the lack of challenge. Not for long.With the helter-skelter pace that defined Duncan Falconer''s brilliant debut THE HOSTAGE, Stratton has been whisked away by helicopter to assist in a daring rescue. THE HIJACK ranges from London to the Gaza Strip, from Riga in Latvia to Jerusalem.With a rich cast of characters from Russian secret service operatives to Al Qaeda terrorists and the Israeli military, the authentic detail and heartstopping narrative will propel Duncan Falconer to the highest class of adventure writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/532'),
(6397, 'Hiroshima: The World&#39;s Bomb', 'Andrew J. Rotter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The US decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima remains one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century. But as this fascinating new history shows, the bomb dropped by an American pilot that hot August morning was in many ways the world''s bomb, in both a technological and a moral sense. And it was the world that would have to face its consequences, strategically, diplomatically, and culturally, in the years ahead. In this fast-paced and insightful narrative, Andrew J. Rotter tells the international story behind the development of the atom bomb, ranging from the global crises that led to the Second World War to the largely unavailing attempts to control the spread of nuclear weapons and the evolution of the nuclear arms race after the war had ended. He details the growth in the 1930s and ''40s of a world-wide community of scientists dedicated to developing a weapon that could undo the evil in Nazi Germany, and he describes the harnessing of their efforts by the US wartime government. Rotter also sheds light on the political and strategic decisions that led to the bombing itself, the impact of the bomb on Hiroshima and the endgame of the Pacific War, the effects of the bombing and the bomb on society and culture, and the state of all things nuclear in the early 21st-century world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2514'),
(6398, 'His Family', 'Ernest Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  1916. Poole worked as a journalist campaigning for social reforms including an end to child labor. On the outbreak of the First World War he worked as a war correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post. His Family won the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1918. His Family, a portrait of a New York family, begins: He was thinking of the town he had known. Not of old New York-he had heard of that from old, old men when he himself had still been young and had smiled at their garrulity. He was thinking of a young New York, the mighty throbbing city to which he had come long ago as a lad from the New Hampshire mountains. A place of turbulent thoroughfares, of shouting drivers, hurrying crowds, the crack of whips and the clatter of wheels; an uproarious, thrilling town of enterprise, adventure, youth; a city of pulsing energies, the center of a boundless land; a port of commerce with all the world, of stately ships with snowy sails; a fascinating pleasure town, with throngs of eager travelers hurrying from the ferryboats and rolling off in hansom cabs to the huge hotels on Madison Square. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3078'),
(6399, 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra', 'Kitty Kelley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the expose that Sinatra went to court to prevent. It''s all herethe tumultuous marriages, the countless affairs, the Mafia ties, the arrogance, the drunken brawls, the sudden violence, the adulation of powerful figures, whether Mafia or presidential. This is obviously a one-sided portrait, and there are no real surprises, but Kelley has documented her facts with such thorough detail that the total effect is numbing. Barely mentioned are Sinatra''s devotion to his parents and his children, and his unquestioned musical talent. This is unpleasant but compulsive reading, which most public libraries will need in order to fill demand. Marcia L. Perry, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The most eye-opening celebrity biography of ourÂ Â time." -William Safire,\n  <em>\n   The New YorkÂ Â Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "AÂ Â compelling page-turner...Kitty Kelley''s book has made allÂ Â future Sinatra biographies virtually redundant."Â Â --_Los Angeles Herald-Examiner_ --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2156'),
(6400, 'A History of Scotland', 'Neil Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Scotland''s history has been badly served over the years. Defined by its relationship to England, Scotland''s popular history is full of near-mythical figures and tragic events, her past littered with defeat, failure and thwarted ambition. The martyrdom of William Wallace, the tragedy of Mary Queen of Scots and the forlorn cause of Bonnie Prince Charlie all give the impression of ''poor'' Scotland; a victim of misfortune, leading to the country''s inevitable submission to the Auld Enemy. After the Union in 1707, Scotland''s increasing reliance on England culminated in a crisis of confidence and identity that tortures the country to this day. But how accurate is this version of events? Using the very latest in historical research and by placing Scotland''s story in the wider context of British, European and global history, some of the myths that pervade the past will be exploded to reveal a Scotland which forged its own destiny, often with success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/404'),
(6401, 'A History of Zionism', 'Walter Laqueur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This text offers a definitive account of Zionism. The term "Zionism" was first coined at the end of the 19th century, but the idea long reflected the misery of Jewish existence in central and eastern Europe, and the longing for the ancient homeland. Updated, and with a new preface, Walter Laqueur''s comprehensive history begins with a discussion of the background of Zionism since the French Revolution, covers the many decades of Zionist activities worldwide, and ends with the establishment of the state of Israel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2193'),
(6402, 'Hit List', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The #1 New York Times bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series continues!   A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect "monsters" are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, U.S. Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch the killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3493'),
(6403, 'Hitch-22', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Christopher Hitchens stands alone among 20th- and 21st-century pundits for his enthusiastic enmity and political flip-flopping, but while he makes no apologies for his beliefs, he does acknowledge their intrinsic contradictions. Critics praised Hitchens''s frankness in sharing the details of his mother''s suicide and of his breezy bisexuality, but they simultaneously balked at his decision to omit significant people and events (i.e., his wives, his children, and his role in Bill Clinton''s impeachment). They also objected to his relentless name-dropping and some overly dense prose, and a few were appalled that Hitchens would continue to insist that Saddam Hussein did indeed possess WMDs. Despite these complaints,\n <em>\n  Hitch-22\n </em>\n is a sharp, rebellious, and sometimes bawdy account of the making of a modern mastermind.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Hitchens, who, in his earlier books, has expressed contempt for both God and Mother Teresa (although not in that order), is often described as a contrarian. In fact, in his book Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001), he himself noted that he â€œcan appear insufferable and annoying,â€ albeit without intending to. This memoir, bracing, droll, and very revealing, gives him yet another description: storyteller. He writes with a voice you can hear clearly, warmed by smoke and whiskey, and draws readers into his story, which proves as personal as it is political. As with many memoirs, it is not the public moments that are so fascinating, though there are plenty of those. Hitchens takes readers with him to Havana and Prague, Afghanistan and Iraq; tests himself by being waterboarded (he was disappointed in his early capitulation); and hobnobs with politicians and poets. He almost gets himself beaten up by defacing a poster in Iraq with a Hitler mustache. But the most intriguing stories are the personal ones, both from his early days, at home and at boarding school, and from his later life, when he learns that his mother was Jewish, which, if only technically, makes him Jewish as well. This revelation leads Hitchens on a quest to learn the story of his family, many of whom died in the Holocaust. How this new identity squares with his oft-proclaimed atheism sheds a different light on the meaning of religious identity. (He struggles mightily with his political identity as well.) Few authors can rile as easily as Hitchens does, but even his detractors might find it difficult to put down a book so witty, so piercing, so spoiling for a fight. He makes you want to be as good a reader as he is a writer. --Ilene Cooper\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2157'),
(6404, 'Hitler', 'Ian Kershaw', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''... this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.'' History\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hitler''...this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.'' History Adolf Hitler has left a lasting mark on the twentieth-century, as the dictator of Germany and instigator of a genocidal war, culminating in the ruin of much of Europe and the globe. This innovative best-seller explores the nature and mechanics of Hitler''s power, and how he used it. On the face of it, Adolf Hitler was an unlikely candidate for dictatorial power. Why, of all the fanatics in Germany after the First World War, was it Hitler who found such mass appeal?How did such an unimpressive figure come to take control of the machinery of a complex modern state?Why - contrary to all expectations - was his authority not curtailed by the traditional ruling classes and constitutional constraints?What did his personal role in the shaping of policy amount to?Was he personally taking the key decisions, right to the very end? Professor Kershaw answers these questions to provide a lucid introduction to the character and exercise of Hitler''s dictatorial power. Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield.He has written widely on Hitler and the Third Reich and is author of the now definitive comprehensive biography Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (1998) and a second volume due in 2000. In addition to his publications, he was consultant to the BAFTA-winning BBC-TV series The Nazis: A Warning from History, to the BBC2 programme War of the Century, to ZDF''s Hitler: eine Bilanz and to ZDF''s series in preparation on the Holocaust.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2517'),
(6405, 'Hitler&#39;s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks That Revolutionized Warfare', 'Dennis Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A fascinating account of Nazi Germany''s armored forces by the author of *Patton and Rommel*. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Determined to secure a quick, decisive victory on the World War II battlefields, Adolf Hitler adopted an attack plan that combined tools with technique- the formidable Panzer divisions. Self-contained armored units able to operate independently, the Panzers became the German army''s fighting core as well as its moral focus, establishing an entirely new military doctrine.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Hitler''s Panzers*, renowned World War II scholar Dennis Showalter presents a comprehensive and unbiased study of Nazi Germany''s armored forces. By delving deeply into a detailed history of the theory, strategy, myths, and realities of Germany''s technologically innovative approach to warfare, Showalter provides a look at the military lessons of the past, and a speculation on how the Panzer ethos may be implemented in the future of international conflict.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2518');
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(6406, 'Hitler&#39;s U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942', 'Clay Blair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A former infantryman, Adolf Hitler had little use for the German navy, which he considered inept and politically suspect. Still, through the skillful maneuverings of a young, up-and-coming naval officer named Karl DÃ¶nitz, Hitler eventually endorsed a costly program of shipbuilding. As a result, DÃ¶nitz was able to field a vast fleet of U-boats when Germany went to war against France and England in 1939. Although his enemies were initially better equipped, DÃ¶nitz was the craftier fighter, launching daring raids on shipping convoys and Allied harbors, and for a time, controlling the chief Atlantic sealanes.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this monumental history, Clay Blair analyzes the German U-boat campaigns from 1939 to 1942 (a companion volume continues his narrative to 1945), which, he writes, fall into three phases: one against England alone, another against the newly arrived American navy, and a furious third against the combined Allied forces. Blair argues, against other historians, that the "U-boat peril" has been overestimated. He holds that the American submarine campaign against Japan in the Pacific was far more effective, and observes that 99 percent of Allied merchant ships on transatlantic convoys reached their destinations. Even so, the U-boats introduced a powerful element of terror into an already horrific war, diverting Allied effort into antisubmarine campaigns and delaying the transport of much-needed materiel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Blair''s outstanding work adds much to the naval history of World War II. Packed with detail, it is sure to become a standard work on the Battle of the Atlantic.\n <em>\n  --Gregory McNamee\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything about this book is big: its page count, its thesis?and its shortcomings. Blair is a respected authority on submarine warfare whose Silent Victory, a history of the U.S. submarine service, remains a widely cited work. He is also a master of operational narrative, a writer who can put readers in a destroyer''s bridge or a U-boat''s conning tower as convincingly as many novelists. Here, in the first of two projected volumes, Blair employs a comprehensive mix of German, British and U.S. sources to argue that the German U-boats have been mythologized, their successes overstated and their threat to the Allied war effort exaggerated. While U-boats delayed and diminished the arrival of supplies to Europe, 99% of all ships in transatlantic convoys reached their destinations. For Blair, that is a sizable margin of acceptable loss. He even stands foursquare behind Admiral Ernest King''s reluctance to organize merchant convoys after Pearl Harbor. German U-boats operating off the Atlantic Coast and in the Caribbean accounted for about a quarter of all tonnage sunk during the war, but even these losses could be replaced. Blair compares by implication German failures in the U-boat war to the U.S. submarine campaign in the Pacific, which succeeded in strangling Japan by mid-1945. But to assert, as he does, that the U-boats never had a chance seems to fly in the face of an overwhelming body of evidence that cannot be dismissed as retrospective mythmaking. Even before the climactic convoy battles of 1943, the Allied navies were morally and materially stretched to near breaking point. Though richly informed and a pleasure to read, this volume ultimately provokes without convincing. Photos and maps not seen by PW. History Book Club selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2521'),
(6407, 'The Hobbit', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit''s doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The dwarves'' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien''s masterwork,\n  <em>\n   The Lord of the Rings\n  </em>\n  , would eventually spring. Though\n  <em>\n   The Hobbit\n  </em>\n  is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don''t be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Noted artist Hague provides 48 dazzling paintings for this first-ever version of the timeless fantasy classic. All ages.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1347'),
(6408, 'Hokus Pokus', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Not even an ocean can keep the Sisterhood from helping a friend in need... There is no match for the Sisterhood - the seven friends who have taken vigilante justice to a new level - not even the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Although the women foiled former FBI director Mitch Riley''s plot to frame their friends Judge Nellie Easter and lawyer Lizzie Fox, now they must remain in exile or risk capture. They can''t complain about their opulent digs on a remote, luxurious mountaintop, but the ladies desperately miss home. Their wish to return might come true sooner than they expect when they receive a panicked call from Supreme Court Chief Justice Pearl Barnes, who faces blackmail for her own illegal brand of justice. Now the women must remain undetected as they investigate. But how do you make seven women disappear? With a nosy reporter on the brink of exposing them, the clock is ticking as the Sisterhood tries to create a little magic - and save the day...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3748'),
(6409, 'Hold Tight', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hold Tight is a Harlan Coben 2008 stand-alone thriller. The story is about Tia and Mike Baye (pronounced "bye"), who are parents and professionals. Tia is a lawyer and Mike, a transplant surgeon at New York-Presbyterian hospital. They find evidence of a mysterious conversation between their son, Adam, and an unknown correspondent. The mystery guides Tia and Mike through secrets of other families who are their neighbors. The book follows many different characters who are going through seemingly very different situations of stress, but as the novel progresses the storylines start intertwining and are linked to a few single events that cause the whole action of the plot. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot | Characters\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Parents will find this compulsive page-turner from Edgar-winner Coben (_The Woods_) particularly unnerving. A sadistic killer is at play in suburban Glen Rock, N.J., outside New York City, but somehow he''s less frightening than the more mundane problems that send ordinary lives into chaos. How do you weigh a child''s privacy against a parent''s right to know? How do you differentiate normal teenage rebelliousness from out-of-control behavior? When and how do you intervene if suicidal signs appear? Other issues include single parenting; career versus family; marital honesty; and how much information you should share with a child at what age. Coben plucks each of these strings like a virtuoso as Mike and Tia Baye try to deal with the increasing withdrawal of their 16-year-old son, Adam, after a friend''s suicide. A pair of brutal, seemingly senseless killings, punctuate the unfolding domestic troubles that ratchet up the tension and engulf the Baye family, their friends and neighbors in a web of increasing tragedy. The this could be me factor lends poignancy to the thrills and chills.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/372'),
(6410, 'Hollywood Crows', 'Joseph Wambaugh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they''re just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What Nate and Bix don''t know is that Margot''s no helpless victim: the femme fatale is setting them both up. But Ms. Aziz isn''t the only one with a deadly plan. In HOLLYWOOD CROWS, Wambaugh returns once again to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a tightly plotted and darkly funny ride-along through Los Angeles with a cast of flawed cops and eccentric lowlifes they won''t soon forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3501'),
(6411, 'Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades', 'Jonathan Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many playersâ€”knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline, and conclusion of the Crusades and comments on their contemporary echoesâ€”from the mysteries of the Templars to the grim reality of al-Qaeda. Holy Warriors puts the past in a new perspective and brilliantly sheds light on the origins of todayâ€™s wars.Starting with Pope Urban IIâ€™s emotive, groundbreaking speech in November 1095, in which he called for the recovery of Jerusalem from Islam by the First Crusade, Phillips traces the centuries-long conflict between two of the worldâ€™s great faiths. Using songs, sermons, narratives, and letters of the period, he reveals how the success of the First Crusade inspired generations of kings to campaign for their own vainglory and set down a marker for the knights of Europe, men who increasingly blurred the boundaries between chivalry and crusading. In the Muslim world, early attempts to call a jihad fell upon deaf ears until the charisma of the Sultan Saladin brought the struggle to a climax. Yet the story that emerges has other dimensionsâ€”as never before, Phillips incorporates the holy wars within the story of medieval Christendom and Islam and shines new light on many truces, alliances, and diplomatic efforts that have been forgotten over the centuries.Holy Warriors also discusses how the term â€œcrusadeâ€ survived into the modern era and how its redefinition through romantic literature and the drive for colonial empires during the nineteenth century gave it an energy and a resonance that persisted down to the alliance between Franco and the Church during the Spanish Civil War and right up to George W. Bushâ€™s pious â€œwar on terror.â€Elegantly written, compulsively readable, and full of stunning new portraits of unforgettable real-life figuresâ€”from Richard the Lionhearted to Melisende, the formidable crusader queen of Jerusalemâ€”Holy Warriors is a must-read for anyone interested in medieval Europe, as well as for those seeking to understand the history of religious conflict.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2695'),
(6412, 'Hombre', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he''s on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him -- until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell''s guns and his ability to lead them out of the desert. He can''t ride with them, but they must walk with him or die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3126'),
(6413, 'Home Again', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the center of Home Again is Madelaine, a brilliant cardiologist, a loving mother, a tender friend, a woman full of self-doubt. It is the story of her daughter, Lina, a confused and angry rebel and of the two very different men Madelaine loves: Francis, a priest searching for his faith, and Angel, a talented, but cynical man. When tragedy brings them together again, they must learn to forgive the betrayals of the past and find the courage to love again. Touching and inspiring, it is also a story of modern-day miracles, medical, and, perhaps, those not of this world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/988'),
(6414, 'Home Front', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In her bestselling novels Kristin Hannah has plumbed the depths of friendship, the loyalty of sisters, and the secrets mothers keep. Now, in her most emotionally powerful story yet, she explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war.Â All marriages have a breaking point. All families have wounds. All wars have a cost. . . .Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the pressures of everyday life---children, careers, bills, chores---even as their twelve-year marriage is falling apart. Then an unexpected deployment sends Jolene deep into harmâ€™s way and leaves defense attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls. As a mother, it agonizes Jolene to leave her family, but as a solider she has always understood the true meaning of duty. In her letters home, she paints a rose-colored version of her life on the front lines, shielding her family from the truth. But war will change Jolene in ways that none of them could have foreseen. When tragedy strikes, Michael must face his darkest fear and fight a battle of his own---for everything that matters to his family.At once a profoundly honest look at modern marriage and a dramatic exploration of the toll war takes on an ordinary American family, Home Front is a story of love, loss, heroism, honor, and ultimately, hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3177'),
(6415, 'Home in Carolina', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There''s no place like home, especially if it''s Serenity, South Carolina. For Annie Sullivan, though, the homecoming is bittersweet. She''d always envisioned a life there with her childhood best friend, Tyler Townsend. But Ty''s betrayal has cost her the family and the future they''d once planned. For Ty, losing Annie was heartbreaking. Still, he can''t imagine life without the three-year-old son whose mother left him for Ty to raise. Ty wants it allâ€”Annie, his child and the future he''d dreamed aboutâ€”and he''s back home in Serenity to fight for it. But getting Annie to forgive and  forget may be the hardest challenge he''s ever faced. With the stakes so high, this is one game he can''t afford to lose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3795'),
(6416, 'Home Safe', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this new novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Amesrecently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained heris beginning to depend far too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helen''s problems are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. The Ameses had painstakingly saved for a happy retirement, but that money disappeared in several large withdrawals made by Helen''s husband before he died. In order to support herself and garner a measure of much needed independence, Helen takes an unusual job that ends up offering far more than she had anticipated. And then a phone call from a stranger sets Helen on a surprising path of discovery that causes both mother and daughter to reassess what they thought they knew about each other, themselves, and what really makes a home and a family. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3274'),
(6417, 'Homecoming', 'Autumn Dawn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Prequel to the Darklands Series:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  She can feel it in the air--they''re coming for her. She fears the wolf in her blood--he is the king of them all. Can a woman who fights her inner beast let the master of the hunt rule her, too?Â \n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3725'),
(6418, 'Homer and Langley', 'E. L. Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From Ragtimeand Billy Bathgateto The Book of Daniel, World''s Fair,and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer &amp; Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work. Homer and Langley Collyer are brothersthe one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley''s proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brotherswars, political movements, technological advancesand even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves. Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously written, this mesmerizing narrative, a free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York''s fabled Collyer brothers, is a family story with the resonance of myth, an astonishing masterwork unlike any that have come before from this great writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3280'),
(6419, 'Honeymoon', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   Howard Roughan\n  </span>\n </font>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    The honeymoon is over--now the murders can begin. America*s #1 thriller writer returns with his sexiest, scariest novel ever. Hotter than The Beach House and scarier than Kiss the Girls, James Patterson*s explosive new thriller introduces a bride who is beautiful, talented, devoted--and deadly.  When a young investment banker dies of baffling causes, FBI agent John O*Hara immediately suspects the only witness, the banker*s alluring and mysterious fianc*e. Nora Sinclair is a beautiful decorator who expects the best, and will do anything to get it. Agent O*Hara keeps closing in, but the stronger his case, the less he knows whether he*s pursuing justice or his own fatal obsession. In a novel so compelling it reads like a collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock, James Patterson unveils surprise after surprise that will keep readers guessing until the last deadly kiss.\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/308'),
(6420, 'Honeysuckle Summer', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Her devastating marriage behind her, Raylene Hammond is truly thankful for her best friends, the Sweet Magnolias. They''ve taken her in, shielding her from the world. Then she meets sheriff''s deputy Carter Rollins, and suddenly Raylene''s haven no longer feels quite so safe.Carter understands why Raylene is trapped inside. He''s even taken to bringing the outside world to her. But with two kid sisters to raise, just how much time can he devote to this woman who''s stolen his heart?Raylene knows Carter is a man worth loving, but she may never be strong enough to accept what he''s offering. How long can she ask him to wait? Maybe they''ll never have more than this one sweet summer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3821'),
(6421, 'The Honor of Spies', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Publishers Weekly Review Set in 1943, the tedious fifth entry in bestseller Griffin''s sprawling Honor Bound series, coauthored with son Butterworth, picks up where Death and Honor (2008) left off, with Don Cletus Frade, a U.S. Marine Corps major, still trying to expose two Nazi secret missions: Operation Phoenix, which concerns large sums of money being smuggled into Argentina to be used by high-ranking Nazis who plan to flee the Reich if Germany loses the war, and another program that ransoms rich Jews out of Germany. Most of the many characters continue to scheme against one another and endlessly discuss their plots, coups, and assassination attempts. Brief, violent altercations occasionally interrupt the talk. As usual, the plot abruptly stops, presumably scheduled to resume in the next installment. Newcomers are advised to start with the first of the series. Those who prefer action in their WWII fiction should go elsewhere. (Jan.) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information Library Journal Review From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information Booklist Review The Honor Bound series, set during World War II, rolls steadily along. In this installment, OSS officer Cletus Frade has a tricky assignment: to help a German lieutenant escape a Mississippi internment camp so that Frade can use the man to make sure a German plot to assassinate Hitler succeeds. Frade also wants to find out what the man''s parents are up to in South America, where, rumor has it, the Germans are preparing for the arrival of senior Nazi officials, who will live there after the war. This is an extremely complex novel, with a large cast and, unfortunately, a lot of clutter, especially in the opening scenes. The story takes quite a while to get moving, and when it finally does, it''s frequently interrupted by lengthy chunks of expository dialogue. Still, the authors'' many fans will likely embrace the novel with open arms (even if casual readers may be a little less forgiving).--Pitt, David Copyright 2010 Booklist From: Syndetics Solutions, Inc. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3221'),
(6422, 'Honor Thyself', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Carole Barber has come to Paris to work on her novel and to find herself. A legend of film and stage, Carole has set a standard of grace, devoting herself to her family and causes around the world. But one fiery instant of terror shatters hundreds of livesâ€”and leaves Carole alone, unconscious and unidentified.  In the days that follow, as the truth emerges, the paparazzi swarm. A mysterious stranger quietly visits the hospital to see the woman he once loved and never forgot. Caroleâ€™s grown children rush to her bedside, waiting and prayingâ€”until the miraculous begins to happen. But as a woman whom the whole world knows slowly awakens, she knows nothing of herself. Every detail must be pieced back togetherâ€”from a childhood in rural Mississippi to the early days of her career, from the unintentional hurt inflicted on her daughter to a fifteen-year-old secret love affair that went tragically wrong. Carole has been given a second chance to count her blessings, heal wounded hearts, recapture lost love...and to live a life that will truly honor othersâ€”beginning with herself.  A tale of survival and dignity, of small miracles and big surprises, Honor Thyself creates an unforgettable portrait of a public figure whose hopes, fears, and heartbreaks are as real as our own. Her courageous journey inspires us all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3220'),
(6423, 'Horns', 'Joe Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Joe Hill has been hailed as "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction" (Washington Post); "a new master in the field of suspense" (James Rollins); "one of the most confident and assured new voices in horror and dark fantasy to emerge in recent years (Publishers Weekly); a writer who "builds character invitingly and plants an otherworldly surprise around every corner" (New York Times).   This gifted and brilliantly imaginative author catapulted to bestsellerdom with the chilling Heart-Shaped Box and cemented his reputation with the prizewinning volume of short fiction 20th Century Ghosts. At last, the New York Times bestselling author returns with a relentless supernatural thriller that runs like Hell on wheels. . . .   Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.   At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.   Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and moreâ€”he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.   But Merrin''s death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside. . . .   Now Ig is possessed of a terrible new power to go with his terrible new lookâ€”a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. It''s time for a little revenge. . . . It''s time the devil had his due. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3641'),
(6424, 'The Horse and His Boy', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 4-7-British narrator Alex Jennings does a smashing job with C. S. Lewis'' delightful classic (HarperCollins Children''s, 1994), the third story in the Narnia series. The tale begins with a poor slave boy named Shasta escaping from his adopted fisherman father who plans to sell him to a brutish stranger. A dignified talking war horse named Bree helps Shasta flee. Jennings plays Shasta with refreshing gentleness-listeners get a sense of the boy''s sensitivity and fear as he embarks on the adventure of his life. The talented narrator plays Bree with the right amount of dignity and haughtiness. This horse amuses with his witty observations about human behavior, and sense of equine superiority. The horse and his boy hope to travel north to Narnia, and encounter numerous adventures and strange characters, all beautifully portrayed by Jennings. The most memorable supporting characters are another escaped child, a tough girl named Aravis, and her talking mare called Hwin. Jennings brings these two adventure seekers to life with his crystal clear narration. Thanks to his skills as a storyteller, the action moves rapidly from one exciting episode to the next. Evocative music plays at the beginning and end of each side of the tape. This presentation will enchant young listeners and encourage them to read the other titles in the series. It is helpful for students to have read The Magician''s Nephew and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe before enjoying this, but The Horse and the Boy stands alone as enthralling, self-contained entertainment.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Brian E. Wilson, Evanston Public Library, IL\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is an all-cast dramatization of the third book in Lewis''s "Narnia" series. Those who have read all seven books will be better able to put this performance in context, but the uninitiated will enjoy this adventure tale in which, once again, intrepid children outwit nefarious grown-ups. Shasta is a young boy living in Calormene with a cruel man who claims to be his father. One night he overhears his "father" offering to sell him as a slave, so Shasta makes a break and sets out for the North. He meets Bree, a talking horse who becomes his companion. On their way they encounter Aravis, a high-born girl escaping an arranged marriage, and her talking horse. Despite their differences the children and horses learn to work together to reach the freedom they long for. In the meantime, they uncover a Calormene plot to conquer Narnia. The performances are energetic, and the characters easily distinguishable. This recording should not replace the book but rather should serve as an introduction to it. For family listening.ANann Blaine Hilyard, Lake Villa Dist. Lib., IL\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1178'),
(6425, 'The Host', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Now in the trade paperback edition: New Bonus Chapter and Reading Group Guide, including Stephenie Meyer''s Annotated Playlist for the book. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie''s body, didn''t expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. As Melanie fills Wanderer''s thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she''s never met. Reluctant allies, Wanderer and Melanie set off to search for the man they both love. Featuring one of the most unusual love triangles in literature, THE HOSTis a riveting and unforgettable novel about the persistence of love and the essence of what it means to be human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3516'),
(6426, 'Hostage', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Crais is the real thing: a writer who keeps topping himself. Last year, after eight popular books featuring private eye Elvis Cole (including\n <em>\n  L.A. Requiem\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Voodoo River\n </em>\n ), he produced\n <em>\n  Demolition Angel\n </em>\n , his first standalone suspense novel. Its complex, multidimensional hero was a damaged cop haunted by her past failures. It worked in that book, and it works even better in this one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jeff Talley, the police chief in a small Southern California town, still has nightmares about the young hostage who died when he made the wrong call in his previous job as a negotiator for an LAPD SWAT team. Now, three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store robbery and killing in Talley''s town. Soon his deputies have surrounded the house where the inept robbers have taken Walter Smith and his two children hostage, and Talley''s back in his worst dream again: until the county sheriff''s full-fledged SWAT team arrives and takes over, he has to negotiate for their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n Crais keeps the point of view moving from Talley to the punks to the hostages as the situation unfolds in the house and on the ground. Then he ratchets up the dramatic tension: there''s something in Walter Smith''s house that a ruthless Mob boss wants, and he''ll sacrifice anyone to get it--which puts Talley''s own family in danger. The action speeds to its climax with the velocity of a heat-seeking missile, which makes it almost criminal to slow down long enough to savor the great writing. Take this passage, from a scene when Talley''s face-to-face with the man who''s holding his own wife and daughter hostage:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Talley ... had stepped into the Zone. It was a place of white noise where emotions reigned and reason was meager. Anger and rage were nonstop tickets; panic was an express. He had been all day coming to this, and here he was: the SWAT guys used to talk about it. You went to the Zone, you lost your edge. You''d lose your career; you''d get yourself killed, or, worse, somebody else.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Crais belongs in that tier of writers whose novelistic gifts transcend the thriller category--writers like Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and James Lee Burke.\n <em>\n  Hostage\n </em>\n is a breakout.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The title of Crais''s fiery third thriller (after L.A. Requiem and Demolition Angel) can refer not just to the two sets of innocents held at gunpoint in the story but to the reader, who will be wired tight to the book. The novel launches with a familiar (as familiar as Demolition Angel) premise: a soul-scarred cop here, former L.A. SWAT hostage negotiator Jeff Talley, now chief of police of smalltown Bristo Bay, Calif. plunges into an assignment that forces him to confront his demons. The devil clawing Talley''s brain is the dying gaze of a young hostage he failed to save in L.A. Now three outlaws two lowlife brothers and a homicidal maniac have, after botching a robbery-homicide, taken refuge in a swank house in Bristo Bay. At their mercy are the family''s dad, whom they''ve knocked unconscious, and his teen daughter and preteen son. The whopper of a complication is that the dad serves as bookkeeper for Sonny Benza, West Coast mob kingpin, and Benza will do whatever''s necessary to retrieve the incriminatory records secreted in the house before the cops storm the place. The narrative ticks with suspense as Talley negotiates with the three outlaws, and as they and the kids they''re holding respond with panic, fear and courage to the escalating tension. It snaps into overdrive as Benza and his goons snatch Talley''s wife and daughter, holding them ransom for the records; the flow is marred only by a couple of cheap turns obviously devised for the silver screen. Thriller vets will have seen a lot of this before, but every virtuoso is allowed variations on a theme, and Crais, with his record and with the smart suspense offered here, has proven himself nothing less. (On-sale date: Aug. 7)Forecast: Crais sells more with each title, and this will prove no exception. A 15-city author tour will enhance his visibility, as will forthcoming film versions of Demolition Angel and of Hostage, which has already been bought for Bruce Willis and MGM; Crais is writing the screenplays for both films.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/377'),
(6427, 'The Hostage', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/534'),
(6428, 'The Hot Kid', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Carl Webster, the hot kid of the marshals service, is polite, respects his elders, and can shoot a man driving away in an Essex at four hundred yards. Carl works out of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, federal courthouse during the 1930s, the period of America''s most notorious bank robbers - Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson - those guys. Carl wants to be America''s most famous lawman. He shot his first felon when he was fifteen years old. With a Winchester. Louly Brown loves Carl but wants the world to think she is Pretty Boy Floyd''s girlfriend. Tony Antonelli of ''True Detective'' magazine wants to write like Richard Harding Davis and wishes cute little Elodie wasn''t a whore. She and Heidi and the girls work at Teddy''s in Kansas City, where anything goes and the girls wear - what else - teddies. Jack Belmont wants to rob banks, become public enemy number one, and show his dad, an oil millionaire, he can make it on his own. With tommy guns, hot cars, speakeasies, cops and robbers, and a former lawman who believes in vigilante justice, all played out against the flapper period of gun molls and Prohibition, ''The Hot Kid'' is Elmore Leonard - a true master - at his best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3114'),
(6429, 'Hot Mahogany', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One night at Elaineâ€™s, Stone Barringtonâ€”back in Manhattan after chasing down the bad guys in the Caribbeanâ€”meets Barton Cabot, older brother of his sometime ally, CIA boss Lance Cabot. Bartonâ€™s career in army intelligence is even more top secret than his brotherâ€™s, but heâ€™s suffering from amnesia following a random act of violence. Amnesia is a dangerous thing in a man whose memory is chockfull of state secrets, so Lance hires Stone to watch Bartonâ€™s back. As Stone discovers, Barton is a spy with a rather unusual hobby: building and restoring antique furniture. The genteel world of antiques and coin dealers at first seems a far cry from Stoneâ€™s usual underworld of mobsters, murderers, and spies. But Barton also is a man with a past, and one event in particularâ€” in the jungles of Vietnam more than thirty years earlierâ€” is coming back to haunt his present in ways heâ€™d never expected. Stone soon finds out that Barton, and some shady characters of his acquaintance, may be hiding a lot more than just a few forged antiques.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2647'),
(6430, 'Hot Time in the Old Town', 'Edward Kohn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and the upstart Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who arrived in New York City at the height of the catastrophe. As historian Edward P. Kohn shows, Bryanâ€™s hopes for the presidency began to flag amidst the abhorrent heat just as a bright young police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt was scrambling to mitigate the dangerously high temperatures by hosing down streets and handing out ice to the poor. A vivid narrative that captures the birth of the progressive era, Hot Time in the Old Town revives the forgotten disaster that almost destroyed a great American city.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2522'),
(6431, 'Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet', 'Jamie Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Sentimental, heartfeltâ€¦.the exploration of Henryâ€™s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we donâ€™t repeat those injustices."-- Kirkus Reviewsâ€œA tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war--not the sweeping damage of the battlefield, but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. Especially relevant in today''s world, this is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more importantly, it will make you feel." -- Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rainâ€œJamie Ford''s first novel explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle area during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love. An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut.â€-- Lisa See, bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret FanIn the opening pages of Jamie Fordâ€™s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattleâ€™s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol.This simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s, at the height of the war, when young Henryâ€™s world is a jumble of confusion and excitement, and to his father, who is obsessed with the war in China and having Henry grow up American. While â€œscholarshippingâ€ at the exclusive Rainier Elementary, where the white kids ignore him, Henry meets Keiko Okabe, a young Japanese American student. Amid the chaos of blackouts, curfews, and FBI raids, Henry and Keiko forge a bond of friendshipâ€“and innocent loveâ€“that transcends the long-standing prejudices of their Old World ancestors. And after Keiko and her family are swept up in the evacuations to the internment camps, she and Henry are left only with the hope that the war will end, and that their promise to each other will be kept.Forty years later, Henry Lee is certain that the parasol belonged to Keiko. In the hotelâ€™s dark dusty basement he begins looking for signs of the Okabe familyâ€™s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot begin to measure. Now a widower, Henry is still trying to find his voiceâ€“words that might explain the actions of his nationalistic father; words that might bridge the gap between him and his modern, Chinese American son; words that might help him confront the choices he made many years ago. Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko, Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness and the human heart.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3673'),
(6432, 'Hothouse Orchid', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **A brand-new page-turning Holly Barker novel from the perennially entertaining *New York Times*-bestselling author Stuart Woods.**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  After Special Agent Holly Barker lets international terrorist Teddy Fay slip through her fingers for a second time, the CIA thinks she might want a long vacation, at least until Teddy is captured and the bad publicity has blown over. So Holly returns to her hometown of Orchid Beach, Florida, where she had been police chief for many years. But a very unpleasant surprise awaits her. Many years earlier, Holly and another female army officer had brought charges against their commanding officer for sexual harassment, attempted rape, and rape. Holly had managed to fight him off, but the other woman, a young lieutenant, had not. The officer in question was acquitted of all charges, and has also left the army-for a job as Orchid Beach''s new police chief.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Will Holly return to the CIA? Or will she challenge her old nemesis for control of the Orchid Beach Police Department?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2675');
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(6433, 'Hour Game', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two disgraced former Secret Service officers team up to solve a series of copy-cat crimes in this exciting new thriller by a master of the game. Sean King was momentarily distracted when a presidential candidate he''d been guarding was assassinated a few feet from where he stood, and Michelle Maxwell left the Service under a similar cloud when she lost a "protectee" to an ingenious kidnapping scheme, events told in Baldacci''s typical terse, fast-paced style in\n  <em>\n   Split Second\n  </em>\n  . Now partners in a private investigation firm in a small Virginia town, they''re hired to investigate a burglary at the home of a wealthy local family. But even before the chief suspect in the break-in meets his death in a gruesome slaying reminiscent of a serial killer long since caught and punished, King and Maxwell get caught up in a string of other murders, each of which copies the techniques of another madman, from San Francisco''s Zodiac Killer to Chicago''s infamous John Wayne Gacy. While the two protagonists aren''t especially complex or well-developed, the action never stops, and Baldacci''s trademark pacing keeps the reader turning pages until the denouement, which unfortunately isn''t quite as satisfying as the rest of the novel.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Why Hour Game\n   </em>\n   : An Exclusive Essay by David Baldacci\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s hard not to notice that the majority of fictional serial killers are cut from the same mold. When David Baldacci wrote\n  <em>\n   Hour Game\n  </em>\n  , he went out of his way to create a murderous original. Read this Amazon.com exclusive essay to learn how and why he did it.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Baldacci''s last book,\n  <em>\n   Split Second\n  </em>\n  , was a relatively weak offering from this bestselling author, sunk by a cartoonish villain and absurd plot. But it did introduce two of Baldacci''s (\n  <em>\n   Absolute Power\n  </em>\n  , etc.) most memorable characters, former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, in business together as private investigators in smalltown Wrightsburg, Va. Baldacci is back in form, and King and Maxwell reappear in this utterly absorbing, complex mystery-thriller that spins in unexpected directions. The novel starts as a serial-killer thriller, for there''s a murderer at work in Wrightsburg whose selection of victims appears random but whose modus operandi, differing from kill to kill, mimics the work of a notorious serial killerâ€”the Zodiac killer, John Wayne Gacy, etc. The fifth victim is local resident and international tycoon Robert E. Lee Battle. King and Maxwell have already been tangling with the gothic horror show of a dysfunctional Southern family that is the Battles, as they''ve been hired to help prove the innocence of a Battle handyman accused of stealing from the family. Then that handyman is murdered, and the duo (along with a clueless local sheriff and an obnoxious FBI agent) must race to figure out if the same killer is behind all the murders and, if so, why. There are terrific action sequences sprinkled throughout, and plenty of suspense, and the King/Maxwell relationship, while not romantic, emits sparks. It''s Baldacci''s portrayal of smalltown Southern life, however, and his sharp characterizations of the Battles, from the bombastic Bobby and his regal widow to his weird extended family, that give the novel texture and depth: this is Baldacci''s most accomplished tale since his nonthriller\n  <em>\n   Wish You Well\n  </em>\n  , and it rivals that novel in its social commentary. Despite fair clues, few if any readers will ID the villain (villains?) before they''re revealed, and a snappy surprise ending will have Baldacci''s many fans remembering why they love this author so much.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/107'),
(6434, 'The Hour I First Believed', 'Wally Lamb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When 47-year-old teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife Maureen, a nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Maureen finds herself in the school library, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed, as two vengeful students go on a carefully premeditated, murderous rampage. Miraculously, she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. While Maureen fights to regain her sanity, Caelum discovers a cache of old diaries, letters and newspaper clippings in an upstairs bedroom of his family''s house. The intriguing story they recount spans five generations of Quirk ancestors, from the time of the Civil War to Caelum''s own troubled childhood. Piece by piece, Caelum reconstructs the lives of the women and men whose legacy he bears. Unimaginable secrets emerge; long buried fear, anger, guilt and grief rise to the surface. As Caelum grapples with unexpected and confounding revelations from the past, he also struggles to fashion a future out of the ashes of tragedy. THE HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED is a profound and compelling work of fiction. And Wally Lamb proves himself a virtuoso storyteller, assembling a variety of voices and an ensemble of characters rich enough to evoke all of humanity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2967'),
(6435, 'A House for Mr. Biswas', 'V.S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaulâ€™s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul''s father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century''s finest novels.In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduousâ€“and endlessâ€“struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. A heartrending, dark comedy of manners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a manâ€™s quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1771'),
(6436, 'The House of Rothschild: Money&#39;s Prophets, 1798-1848', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The first authoritative and compulsively readable history of the rise of this legendary banking dynastyIn his rich and nuanced portrait of the remark- able, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family''s phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the family''s vast political network, which gave it access to and influence over many of the greatest statesmen of the age. And he tells a family saga, tracing the importance of family unity and the profound role of Judaism in the lives of a dynasty that rose from the confines of the Frankfurt ghetto and later used its influence to assist oppressed Jews throughout Europe. A definitive work of impeccable scholarship with a thoroughly engaging narrative, *The House of Rothschild* is a biography of the rarest kind, in which mysterious and fascinating historical figures finally spring to life. "A great biography." --*Time magazine*"Absorbing. . . .Their enthralling story has been told before, but never in such authoritative detail." --*The New York Times Book Review*"Niall Ferguson''s rich and compelling new book . . . is a feast." --*The Wall Street Journal** Chosen by *Business Week* as one of the Best Business Books of 1998* A finalist for the National Jewish Book Award\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2429'),
(6437, 'The House of Rothschild: The World&#39;s Banker, 1849-1999', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Niall Ferguson''s House of Rothschild: Money''s Prophets 1798-1848 was hailed as "definitive" by the New York Times, a "great biography" by Time magazine, and was named one of the Ten Best Books of 1998 by Business Week. Now, Ferguson concludes his myth-breaking portrait of one of the most powerful families of modern times at the zenith of its power.From Crimea to World War II, wars repeatedly threatened the stability of the Rothschild''s worldwide empire. Despite these upheavals, theirs remained the biggest bank in the world up until the First World War. Yet the Rothschild''s failure to establish themselves successfully in the United States proved fateful, and as financial power shifted from London to New York after 1914, their power waned. At once a classic family saga and major work of economic, social and political history, The House of Rothschild is the riveting story of an unparalleled dynasty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2431'),
(6438, 'The House of Silk', 'Anthony Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''A lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan, Anthony Horowitz is the perfect choice to pen the first new official mystery and what a triumph it is. While retaining faithfully the style of the originals, Horowitz''s lively prose makes this exciting story just right for a new generation of fans'' -- Sarah Clarke, Bookseller''s Choice THE BOOKSELLER ''For fans of the original tales, the game is afoot once more!'' -- Ruth Hunter, Bookseller''s Choice THE BOOKSELLER ''Orion has pulled a winner out of the bag by inviting Anthony Horowitz to pen a Sherlock Holmes novel. It has the feel of a Conan Doyle tale and only the jealous will fault this superb thriller'' -- Patrick Neale, Bookseller''s Choice THE BOOKSELLER ''a brilliant new Sherlock Holmes novel. The tone of voice is pitch perfect, the send of place and time spot on. I don''t want to give too much away about the plot but there are clever twist and plenty of trademark Holmesian moments. I thoroughly enjoyed this'' -- Sue Scholes, Bookseller''s Choice THE BOOKSELLER ''a fantastic new Holmes mystery'' -- Emma Giacon, Bookseller''s Choice THE BOOKSELLER As far as I can see, Anthony Horowitz has done a thoroughly professional job and reading the novel felt to me like being in the company of an old and distinguished friend - or should that be two old friends?'' -- Mike Ripley SHOTS ''Brimming with informed enthusiasm, this skillfully crafted homage to Conan Doyle is so enjoyable that you''re sorry when it fades away to the strains of Holmes playing his Stradivarius'' -- Peter Kemp SUNDAY TIMES ''an exciting, well-crafted novel'' -- Andrew Lycett SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ''Horowitz infuses the novel with a superb eye for the detail of Victorian London but also a touching sense of melancholy, the book functioning as a subtle final coda to Holmes''s adventures. Crucially, it also has a cracking plot and is a labyrinthine but eminently lucid page-turner. It is ultimately a homage and you wouldn''t want Horowitz to start churning Holmes novels out but as a stand-alone this is very satisfying'' METRO ''It''s immediately clear how he got the full endorsement of the Conan Doyle estate. Horowitz''s grasp of the creator''s prose style and intricate plotting, coupled with his understanding of the dynamic between Holmes and Watson, is extraordinary'' -- Henry Sutton DAILY MIRROR - 4-star review ''Horowitz plays a perfectly straight bat. This is a no-shit Sherlock'' -- Ian Sansom THE GUARDIAN ''Looks set to entertain Holmes traditionalists and Sherlock newcomers alike. November 1890 is the time, 221B Baker Street the place, and Holmes and his faithful companion Dr Watson receive an unannounced visit from an agitated gentleman. Let the fun - and there is plenty of it - begin'' SPORT ''Giving none of the twists away, this is one for Holmesians who aren''t sated by the new film and series'' WE LOVE THIS BOOK ''Sherlock Holmes has popped his clogs (and so has Conan Doyle for that matter), but that doesn''t mean there''s not a hauntingly good new Sherlocky story to be told. This reworking gives old Dr Watson a chance to tell his side. Finally!'' THE SUN ''a fresh take on the Sherlock Holmes tales, swirling with all the suspense of the originals'' -- Must Read SUNDAY TIMES\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Anthony Horowitz may have committed more (fictional) murders than any other living author. As a TV screenwriter he created both MIDSOMER MURDERS and the BAFTA-winning FOYLE''S WAR. Other TV work includes POIROT and the widely acclaimed mini-series COLLISION and INJUSTICE. He is also the author of a string of bestselling children''s books, including the Alex Rider series which has sold 13 million copies worldwide. He has often claimed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be an inspiration for his work ever since encountering the Holmes canon, aged sixteen. He currently lives in Clerkenwell.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/932'),
(6439, 'The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War', 'Alexander Waugh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The modern obsession with celebrity began with the Bright Young People, a voraciously pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites who romped through the gossip columns of 1920s London. Drawing on the virtuosic and often wrenching writings of the Bright Young People themselves, the biographer and novelist D. J. Taylor has produced an enthralling account of an age of fleeting brilliance. "The laziest way to put someone down is to call him or her an egomaniac. It''s what we say when we loathe someone but can''t think of anything more precise. That label was often and too easily applied, in London in the late 1920s and early ''30s, to members of the so-called Bright Young People: a small, carefully circumscribed circle of elite 20-somethings who seemed to glide, as D. J. Taylor puts it in his nimble new book, on ''a compound of cocktails, jazz, license, abandon and flagrantly improper behavior.'' The Bright Young People were the most glamorous, influential, self-absorbed, quasi-bohemian and overeducated creatures in existence. During their flickering moment they were adored and despised in almost equal measure. Good parties are enemy-making machines--You weren''t asked? Surely your invitation was lost in the mail--and no one orchestrated them like the Bright Young ones. Nearly every event was an eye-popping spectacle, fully played out in the era''s gossip columns. In his novel "Vile Bodies," published in 1930 (and still hilarious), Evelyn Waugh gave an overview of the Champagne-fueled social carnage: ''Masked parties, savage parties, Victorian parties, Greek parties, Russian parties, circus parties, parties where one had to dress as somebody else, almost naked parties in St. John''s Wood, parties in flats and studios and houses and ships and hotels and nightclubs, in windmills and swimming baths . . . all the succession and repetition of massed humanity. . . . Those vile bodies.'' Waugh, of course, was a Bright Young Thing himself, or at the least he existed at the group''s margins. So did others who would go on to become well-known artists: John Betjeman, Nancy Mitford, Anthony Powell, Cecil Beaton and Henry Green among them. These bold-face names were among the lucky survivors. More than a few burned out, got lost or threw their promise away. Other would-be Bright Young People, Lytton Strachey snarked, seemed to have ''just a few feathers where brains should be.'' Mr. Taylor, the British author of "Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London''s Jazz Age," is a biographer (he has written lives of Thackeray and Orwell) and literary critic, and he tells this story with a good deal of essayistic flair, precision and flyaway wit. Just as important, he relates this ultimately elegiac narrative with a surprising amount of intellectual and emotional sympathy. He plainly wants to be bothered by the Bright Young People''s antics, too. ''One of the great consolations of English literary life, '' Mr. Taylor observes, wonderfully, is the idea that ''seriousness is automatically the preserve of people with cheery, proletarian values and prosaic lifestyles--that a barfly with a private income and a web of well-connected friends has already damned himself beyond redemption.''"--Dwight Garner, "The New York Times ""The saga of Beaton, Evelyn Waugh and the less famous social butterflies that everyone called the Bright Young People may be the ideal escapist fantasy for these sober economic times. Theirs was a life of glittering frivolity, of scavenger hunts that stopped traffic in Sloane Square, cocktails and dancing until dawn, notorious gatherings like the Bath and Bottle Party at a swimming pool (''bring a Bath towel and a Bottle'' the invitation said), sprees that envious mortals read about in gossip columns. To make the fantasy complete, the story even offers a satisfying touch of schadenfreude. As D. J. Taylor emphasizes in this incisive social history, these flighty creatures crashed with a thud louder than you''d imagine butterflies could make. Taylor compares the Mozart party photo to a ''medieval morality play'' capturing how the Bright Young People got their comeuppance: their zaniness became more self-conscious and attenuated; they tried to ignore the fragile postwar economy and the crumbling aristocracy, but those changes were ready to bite them. It was fun while it lasted, though, for much of the 1920s . . . Lightened by the book''s beautiful design, laced with mordant period quotations and delicious satiric cartoons from newspapers and magazines. Taylor''s richly detailed work also calls attention to two breezy, auspicious first novels about the Bright Young People that are unfortunately out of print: Nancy Mitford''s "Highland Fling" and Anthony Powell''s "Afternoon Men.""--Caryn James, "The New York Times Book Review" "Combining diaries, biographies, news reports and novels to paint the social life of 1920s London, D.J. Taylor has created that rarest of books--one you can safely recommend both to scholars of Evelyn Waugh and the entourage of Paris Hilton. The engaging "Bright Young People," written by a critic and novelist best known for his biography of George Orwell, reads like a case study in youth culture, trendsetting, log-rolling and cultivated bohemianism. It examines the symbiotic relationship between a loose-knit group of partygoers and a media that, in gossip columns and mocking denunciations, made them the first celebrities who were famous, in our contemporary sense, for being famous. By the most generous estimate, there were never more than 2,000 souls among the ranks popularly known at the time as the Bright Young People. By most accounts, those souls were self-absorbed, self-mythologizing and terribly jaded. Their defining exploits included boisterous scavenger hunts, extravagant hoaxes and the ''stylized debauchery'' of more fancy-dress balls than you can shake an engraved 16-inch-high invitation at--including the Bath and Bottle Party, the Circus Party, the Hermaphrodite Party, the Great Urban Dionysia and the Mozart Party, where the menu came from a cookbook owned by Louis XVI. They excited the public imagination--and incited a moderate moral panic--with their fast living and reflexive flippancy. The greatest talents associated with the movement were Waugh and the photographer Cecil Beaton. Taylor deftly traces how the former drew on his friends'' exploits for the hysterical satire of "Vile Bodies" and "Decline and Fall," and how the latter--an Edmund Hilary among social climbers--used his to further his career. Lesser accomplishments detailed here include "Singing Out of Tune," a novel by brewery heir Bryan Guinness that documented the Bright Young Person''s daily routine: ''waking up late, meeting people for lunch, bringing the lunch party home for tea, moving on to cocktails and dinner . . . and ending up with a communal trek around the fashionable restaurants of the West End.'' But in this realm any accomplishment was an exception, and the non-career of the occasional poet Brian Howard proved emblematic of this wasted youth revolt. ''The books Brian Howard never wrote would fill a decent-sized shelf, '' Taylor writes, elsewhere noting that the man lived out his frustrating life ''in that exotic never-never land where the Ritz bar meets the out-of-season Continental resort.'' The fun ended soon enough; by 1931, England was in financial crisis and a 10-hour-long Red and White Ball rang down the era. But Taylor''s skillful reconstruction of the whole hazy time feels like a lasting party favor."--Troy Patterson, NPR"A poignant study of the elusive relationship between art and the social world from whence it springs . . . D. J. Taylor, author of a first-rate life of George Orwell, shows the sharp instincts of an expert biographer in his approach to a 1920s English youth culture."--Damian Da Costa, "The New York Observer ""In "Bright Young People" Taylor is writing splendid social history, not fiction, and he brings a more tempered and rueful approach, showing the sadness beneath an entire generation''s compulsion to waste its promise and dance in the spotlight. Scott Fitzgerald, a writer admired by Waugh (who was no soft touch), called his own ''lost'' contemporaries ''the beautiful and damned''; here, Taylor makes us feel the full force of the reckoning implied in that sad conjunction . . . Taylor has a nice way with a one-liner--''The books Brian Howard never wrote would fill a decent-sized shelf''--and is excellent on the evolution of BYP argot . . . By placing generational tensions and tenderness center-stage, Taylor gives his book a beating emotional heart."--Richard Rayner, "Los Angeles"" Times ""Jam-packed and delicious, crammed with a cast of selfish, feckless, darling, talented, almost terminally eccentric, good-looking men and women, "Bright Young People" chronicles the doings of London''s gilded youth in the Roaring Twenties. Even if you think you know a lot (or enough) about them; even if you''ve read the acerbic novels of the early Evelyn Waugh or plowed your way through Anthony Powell''s "A Dance to the Music of Time," there''s bound to be material here you haven''t seen or heard of."--Carolyn See, "The Washington Post ""If the flappers of the 1920s epitomized the Jazz Age on this side of the Atlantic, in England it was the Bright Young People. The British milieu of society scions flinging themselves into the nonstop pursuit of fun in the aftermath of World War I was immortalized--and hilariously flayed--by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 with his novel "Vile Bodies," but the real-life major players who made up this set are long gone. Thanks are due, then, to English critic D.J. Taylor, who brings them back to life in "Bright Young People." Some were distinguished, others once famous only for being famous and now pretty much forgotten--but they were almost invariably fascinating . . . Mr. Taylor also reminds us of lesser-known characters, such as Beverly Nichols and Bryan Guinness, up-and-coming writers whose work fed on this scene and who were celebrated in London at the time . . . "Bright Young People" was published last year in Britain. It arrives on these shores with a new resonance as we contemplate a world in its worst financial straits since the Depression, with many troubling political and military signs on the horizon as well. Then as now, parties everywhere ended as a more sober age dawned."--Martin Rubin, "The Wall Street Journal" " ""Absorbing . . . The book really takes hold when Taylor seizes on the actual trajectory of the lives of individual members, most . . . poignantly that of Elizabeth Ponsonby . . . The pages devoted to her, enriched by Taylor''s access to the Ponsonby family papers, are all the biography her lack of accomplishments and frittered-away youth warrant; yet they greatly deepen this study of a social phenomenon."--Katherine A. Powers, "The Boston Globe ""Waugh was at once an enamored occasional participant in the Bright Young People''s decadence and a revolted critic of it. In his novels that memorialize the age, "Vile Bodies" especially, the tone Waugh takes toward his generation is ambivalent. In his captivating new history of the age, "Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London''s Jazz Age," D.J. Taylor takes his sense of 1920s London from Waugh: Mr. Taylor''s book is at once elegy and critique. And this is just as it should be, because it is hard not to be by turns enthralled by the splendor of this brief age and, in turn, dismayed by its selfishness and frivolity . . . The Bright Young People''s decadence, their frivolity, their refusal of moral seriousness for a shared escapist devotion to pleasure is, as it should be--thanks to Mr. Taylor''s deft managing of tone--both enticing and repulsive."--Emily Wilkinson, "The Washington Times" "Holroyd is an accomplished accumulator of facts and anecdotes; and he writes easily and fluently."--Richard Jenkyns, "The New Republic" "[Conveys] precisely the aspect of the Bright Young People that is most difficult to give expression to on paper: not books or parties, but ''an atmosphere . . . An outlook, a gesture, an essence.''"--Mark Bostridge, "The Independent on Sunday ""Compelling and ultimately touching . . . A witty and sensitive account of the pathos and the glamour of the generation fated to ''sorrow in sunlight.'' "--Rosemary Hill, "The Guardian ""Excellent . . . the brightest of the Bright Young People [make] their fictional counterparts in Waugh pale into insignificance . . . [Taylor] lays bare their cavortings with an archeological eye."--Philip Hoare, "The Independent ""Taylor, for years a journalist, is fascinated by--and authoritative on--the lucrative relationship forged between the shrewdest of the Bright Young People and the glamour-hunting press . . . Shrewd and absorbing in his analysis of the way Waugh and Nancy Mitford . . . promoted the world they would soon skewer in fiction."--Miranda Seymour, "The Sunday Times" (London) "Moving and always entertaining."--Jane Stevenson, "The Daily Telegraph ""Fascinating . . . A complex study of family, fear and breakdown . . . Taylor''s achievement is to remind us that there are few periods of recent history more culturally interesting than the years between the wars."--Frances Wilson, "New Statesman ""A goldmine . . . If I had to choose one book as a summing up of the BYP, it would be Taylor''s."--Bevis Hillier, "The Spectator ""An engrossing social history of the blue bloods, bohos, and bobos who constituted the ''lost generation'' of post-World War I England."--Michael Moynihan, "Wilson Quarterly" "One yearns to have been a fly on the wall at the ''fancy dress ball . . . featuring a gang of fashionable debutantes dressed as the Eton rowing eight, '' or the notorious Bruno Hat exhibition of faked modernist paintings. Taylor expertly connects this shrill game-playing to memorable depictions of it in Waugh''s "Vile Bodies," Powell''s "Afternoon Men" and Henry Green''s "Party Going," while never neglecting the actual achievements of their lesser peers (e.g., Beverley Nichols''s forgotten novel "Singing Out of Tune"). A note of genuine pathos is struck in his description of how the increasingly straitened economic and political circumstances of the ''30s began rendering this gaudy subculture obsolete. Immensely readable, and of real value as a sharply pointed cautionary tale."--"Kirkus Reviews ""There are . . . plenty of juicy anecdotes to go around . . . The text is enlivened by several "Punch" cartoons from the period, vividly depicting the hold these rich young partygoers once held on the public''s imagination."--"Publishers Weekly" SUMMARY: From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward and rebellious youth, returned to his native Vienna to make a fortune in the iron and steel industries. He bought factories and paintings and palaces, but the domineering and overbearing influence he exerted over his eight children resulted in a generation of siblings fraught by inner antagonisms and nervous tension. Three of his sons committed suicide; Paul, the fourth, became a world-famous concert pianist, using only his left hand and playing compositions commissioned from Ravel and Prokofiev; while Ludwig, the youngest, is now regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. In this dramatic historical and psychological epic, Alexander Waugh traces the triumphs and vicissitudes of a family held together by a fanatical love of music yet torn apart by money, madness, conflicts of loyalty, and the cataclysmic upheaval of two world wars. Through the bleak despair of a Siberian prison camp and the terror of a Gestapo interrogation room, one courageous and unlikely hero emerges from the rubble of the house of Wittgenstein in the figure of Paul, an extraordinary testament to the indomitable spirit of human survival. Alexander Waugh tells this saga of baroque family unhappiness and perseverance against incredible odds with a novelistic richness to rival Thomas Mannâ€™s Buddenbrooks.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward and rebellious youth, returned to his native Vienna to make a fortune in the iron and steel industries. He bought factories and paintings and palaces, but the domineering and overbearing influence he exerted over his eight children resulted in a generation of siblings fraught by inner antagonisms and nervous tension. Three of his sons committed suicide; Paul, the fourth, became a world-famous concert pianist, using only his left hand and playing compositions commissioned from Ravel and Prokofiev; while Ludwig, the youngest, is now regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. In this dramatic historical and psychological epic, Alexander Waugh traces the triumphs and vicissitudes of a family held together by a fanatical love of music yet torn apart by money, madness, conflicts of loyalty, and the cataclysmic upheaval of two world wars. Through the bleak despair of a Siberian prison camp and the terror of a Gestapo interrogation room, one courageous and unlikely hero emerges from the rubble of the house of Wittgenstein in the figure of Paul, an extraordinary testament to the indomitable spirit of human survival. Alexander Waugh tells this saga of baroque family unhappiness and perseverance against incredible odds with a novelistic richness to rival Thomas Mannâ€™s Buddenbrooks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1919'),
(6440, 'The House on Hope Street', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Married legal team Liz and Jack Sutherland have a successful family law practice and a house on Hope Street near San Francisco, where they live with their five happy children (one with special needs). Liz and her children''s lives are changed forever when Jack is murdered on Christmas Day. In the year following the murder, Liz struggles to come to terms with the loss of her husband, both personally and professionally, and is dealt another devastating blow when her eldest son has a near-fatal accident. Divorced doctor Bill Webster saves her son and becomes close to Liz, much to the chagrin of her daughters, who accuse her of betraying their dead father. Can Liz move on with her life and be happy again without betraying Jack? The House on Hope Street is the latest short novel by best-selling author Steel and is loaded with the elements her millions of devoted fans expectDcrisis, romance, breakup, and reconciliation. This is a tearjerker with an unbelievable amount of crisis for a story that takes place over one year, which makes for great escapist reading. Recommended for all public libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -DSamantha J. Gust, Niagara Univ. Lib., NY\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n A wife and mother puts the pieces back together after her husband is murdered.Liz and Jack Sutherland are successful divorce lawyers who live in Marin County, California, with their five children. On Christmas morning, the enraged husband of a client shoots Jack dead. In her typical singsong style, Steel (\n <em>\n  Granny Dan\n </em>\n , 1999, etc.) takes Liz and her kids into the unthinkable horror of losing the person they love most in the world and then leads them pretty quickly out. Liz is helped through the following year by her best friend Victoria, her secretary Jean, and her housekeeper Carole. Nonetheless, in true soap-opera fashion, she shoulders most of the burden herself. Although she''s grown to dislike dealing with people''s nasty divorces, she stoically takes on a double caseload. She helps all her kids--especially her youngest child Jamie, a learning-delayed boy whose brain was damaged at birth--deal with the death of their father. When it comes time for the Special Olympics, an annual occasion for Jamie, Liz takes over Jack''s job as trainer, coaching Jamie to his first winning medals ever. After an agonizing nine months of learning to sleep alone, Liz meets Dr. Bill Webster, the trauma doctor who helps her teenaged son Peter recover from a diving accident that left him with a head injury. Though Bill has always avoided long-term commitment, he can''t help but be impressed by Liz''s grit and her love for her family. Her daughter''s resistance to him temporarily scares Bill off, but another Christmas finds him ready to take on carpooling with the manliest of them.This time out, Steel makes an intelligent choice of subject matter--and only occasionally threatens to treacle it to death. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1267'),
(6441, 'The House on Tradd Street', 'Karen White', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this engaging novel from Southern novelist White (\n  <em>\n   The Memory of Water\n  </em>\n  ), buttoned-up real estate agent Melanie Middleton, lover of order and all things modern, inherits an old house in Charleston, S.C., from a virtual stranger. Melanie can''t help seeing the house as a big white elephant, especially regarding the terms; according to the will, Melanie''s required to live in the house for a year, restoring it to its former glory, before she can sell so much as a piece of china. But as the house draws the attention (and ulterior motives) of a colorful group of locals, particularly\n  <em>\n   GQ\n  </em>\n  -handsome journalist Jack Trenholm, Melanie finds she has plenty of volunteers to help out. White skillfully balances her tale at the meeting point of romance, mystery and ghost story. The supernatural elements are not played for scares, but instead refine and reveal Melanie''s true character; Melanie and Jack flirt with sparkling, snarky energy, but White also digs deeper, giving Melanie a tragic past that''s handled with compassion and realism. A fun and satisfying read, this series kickoff should hook a wide audience.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Karen White, author of ten award-winning novels, is a graduate of Tulane University and the American School in London. She currently lives in Georgia with her husband and two children. When not writing, she spends her time reading, singing, scrapbooking, carpooling children and avoiding cooking. AimÃƒÂ©e Bruneau is an actor, director, professor and student of theater. She earned her MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater. AimÃƒÂ©e has been telling tales in Seattle, Washington for more than a decade. Additionally, she has worked for theaters in Chicago, San Francisco, Savannah, and in southern France.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/960'),
(6442, 'House Rules', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The astonishing new novel from #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a family torn apart by an accusation of murder.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  They tell me I''m lucky to have a son who''s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there''s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn''t know how.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger''s syndrome. He''s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject--in his case, forensic analysis. He''s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do...and he''s usually right. But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for a change, the police come to Jacob with questions. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger''s--not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, flat affect--can look a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel. Suddenly, Jacob and his family, who only want to fit in, feel the spotlight shining directly on them. For his mother, Emma, it''s a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it''s another indication of why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And over this small family the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder?\n</p>\n<p>\n Emotionally powerful from beginning to end, House Rules looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way--and fails those who don''t.\n</p>\n<p>\n Explore the reading group guide for\n <em>\n  House Rules\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<hr />\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1215'),
(6443, 'How Firm a Foundation', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don''t know even now, however, is how much more it''s fighting for. Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, Merlin Athrawes, and their innermost circle of most trusted advisers do know. And because they do, they know the penalty if they lose will be far worse than their own deaths and the destruction of all they know and love. For five years, Charis has survived all the Church of God Awaiting and the corrupt men who control it have thrown at the island empire. The price has been high and paid in blood. Despite its chain of hard-fought naval victories, Charis is still on the defensive. It can hold its own at sea, but if it is to survive, it must defeat the Church upon its own ground. Yet how does it invade the mainland and take the war to a foe whose population outnumbers its own fifteen to one? How does it prevent that massive opponent from rebuilding its fleets and attacking yet again? Charis has no answer to those questions, but needs to find one...quickly. The Inquisition''s brutal torture and hideous executions are claiming more and more innocent lives. Its agents are fomenting rebellion against the only mainland realms sympathetic to Charis. Religious terrorists have been dispatched to wreak havoc against the Empire''s subjects. Assassins stalk the Emperor and Empress, their allies and advisers, and an innocent young boy, not yet eleven years old, whose father has already been murdered. And Merlin Athrawes, the cybernetic avatar of a young woman a thousand years dead, has finally learned what sleeps beneath the far-off Temple in the Church of God Awaiting''s city of Zion. The men and women fighting for human freedom and tolerance have built a foundation for their struggle in the Empire of Charis with their own blood, but will that foundation be firm enough to survive?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3615'),
(6444, 'How I Got This Way', 'Regis Philbin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sure, heâ€™s an excitable guy.\n  <br />\n  Sure, he loves to complain.\n  <br />\n  But Regis Philbin loves life . . . and with the wildly unpredictable one heâ€™s led so far, who wouldnâ€™t? After five decades in show businessâ€”and nearly 17,000 unforgettable hours on televisionâ€”he has a lifetimeâ€™s worth of stories to share.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this entertaining memoir, the irrepressible Reegeâ€”consummate talk-show host, man-about-town, loving husband, father, and yes, obsessive sports fanâ€”looks back at his years in show business.\n  <em>\n   How I Got This Way\n  </em>\n  is filled with stories of lessons learnedâ€”and elbows rubbedâ€”with extraordinary, and often unsuspecting, teachers: David Letterman; Donald Trump; George Clooney; Howard Stern; Jack Nicholson; legendary Notre Dame coaches Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, and Lou Holtz; and, of course, longtime cohosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Kelly â€œPippaâ€ Ripa; as well as his own lovely wife, Joyâ€”to name just a few.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether heâ€™s revealing what really drove him â€œbonkersâ€ on the set of\n  <em>\n   Seinfeld\n  </em>\n  , how he survived the first known bomb scare on live TV, what Jack Nicholson said about his beautiful leading ladies during their guysâ€™ night out together, or poignant memories of his last moments with his idol and dear friend, Jack Paar, Regis packs every page with his signature heart, wit, dynamic energy, and gratitude for everything life has brought him.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Regis Philbin has been entertaining television audiences for more than fifty years, in daytime reigning as a beloved morning-show host, in nighttime as an Ãœber game-show host, and also as a fixture on national and local late-night shows. He is most widely known for\n  <em>\n   Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee\n  </em>\n  and its subsequent incarnation\n  <em>\n   Live! With Regis and Kelly\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   Who Wants to Be a Millionaire\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   Million Dollar Password\n  </em>\n  ; and the first season of\n  <em>\n   Americaâ€™s Got Talent\n  </em>\n  . Regis is the proud recipient of five Emmy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a Broadcasting &amp; Cable Lifetime Achievement Award, the Walter Camp Distinguished American Award at Yale University, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2006 Regis was inducted into both the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and the Television Academyâ€™s Hall of Fame. Regis lives in New York and Connecticut with his lovely wife, Joy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2916'),
(6445, 'How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines', 'Mark Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Booklist\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Steinâ€™s\n <em>\n  How the States Got Their Shapes\n </em>\n (2008) described why the American states look the way they doâ€”how their borders landed where they did. This equally informative follow-up puts the spotlight on the people responsible for shaping those borders. People like Roger Williams, the Puritan minister who was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for advocating against the Church of England and established the township of Providence at the tip of the bay, and Anne Hutchinson, also banished, who secured the rights to a small island called Aquidneck by the Indians and Rhode Island by the British. Orâ€”and this is a curious oneâ€”Robert Jenkins, the sea captain whose severed ear played a key role in establishing the boundary between Florida and Georgia. Stein, a playwright and screenwriter, writes history the way it should be written, as an entertaining story and not merely a tedious list of names, dates, and places. This is a very interesting follow-up to the earlier book, but it works equally well as a stand-alone.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€” David Pitt\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n KIRKUS REVIEWS\n <br />\n A fun sequel offers more recondite tidbits of American history.\n</p>\n<p>\n With 50 states, there are plenty of details about border controversies for this mildly titillating follow-up to screenwriter Steinâ€™sÂ \n <em>\n  How the States Got Their Shapes\n </em>\n (2008), which in turn inspired the History Channelâ€™s eponymous documentary. The personalities behind the disputes take center stage: Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, who were actually a pair of highly accomplished English surveyors of the Royal Society possibly hired by Benjamin Franklin to establish impartially the disputed 300-mile Pennsylvania-Maryland-Delaware boundary. â€œAsking Mason and Dixon to survey a boundary in America,â€ writes the author, â€œwasâ€¦ akin to asking Mozart to play at a prom.â€ Thanks to Ethan Allen (â€œnot a furniture ma...\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island?Â  Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware?Â  How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado?Â  All this and more is explained in Mark Stein''s new book.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n How the States Got Their Shapes Too follows How the States Got Their Shapes looks at American history through the lens of its borders, but, while How The States Got Their Shapes told us why, this book tells us who.Â  This personal element in the boundary stories reveals how we today are like those who came before us, and how we differ, and most significantly: how their collective stories reveal not only an historical arc but, as importantly, the often overlooked human dimension in that arc that leads to the nation we are today.\n <br />\n The people featured in How the States Got Their Shapes Too lived from the colonial era right up to the present.Â  They include African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, women, and of course, white men.Â  Some are famous, such as Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, and Daniel Webster.Â  Some are not, such as Bernard Berry, Clarina Nichols, and Robert Steele.Â Â  And some are names many of us know but don''t really know exactly what they did, such as Ethan Allen (who never made furniture, though he burned a good deal of it).\n <br />\n In addition, How the States Got Their Shapes Too tells of individuals involved in the Almost States of America, places we sought to include but ultimately did not: Canada, the rest of Mexico (we did get half), Cuba, and, still an issue, Puerto Rico.Â \n <br />\n Each chapter is largely driven by voices from the time, in the form of excerpts from congressional debates, newspapers, magazines, personal letters, and diaries.Â \n <br />\n Told in Mark Stein''s humorous voice, How the States Got Their Shapes Too is a historical journey unlike any other you''ve taken.Â  The strangers you meet here had more on their minds than simple state lines, and this book makes for a great new way of seeing and understanding the United States.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2523');
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(6446, 'How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer', 'Sarah Bakewell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  In a wide-ranging intellectual career, Michel de Montaigne found no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well. By casting her biography of the writer as 20 chapters, each focused on a different answer to the question How to live? Bakewell limns Montaigneâ€™s ceaseless pursuit of this most elusive knowledge. Embedded in the 20 life-knowledge responses, readers will find essential factsâ€”when and where Montaigne was born, how and whom he married, how he became mayor of Bordeaux, how he managed a public life in a time of lethal religious and political passions. But Bakewell keeps the focus on the inner evolution of the acute mind informing Montaigneâ€™s charmingly digressive and tolerantly skeptical essays. Flexible and curious, this was a mind at home contemplating the morality of cannibals, the meaning of his own near-death experience, and the puzzlingly human behavior of animals. And though Montaigne has identified his own personality as his overarching topic, Bakewell marvels at the way Montaigneâ€™s prose has enchanted diverse readersâ€”Hazlitt and Sterne, Woolf and Gideâ€”with their own reflections. Because Montaigneâ€™s capacious mirror still captivates many, this insightful life study will win high praise from both scholars and general readers. --Bryce Christensen\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThis charming biography shuffles incidents from Montaigneâ€™s life and essays into twenty thematic chaptersâ€¦Bakewell clearly relishes the anthropological anecdotes that enliven Montaigneâ€™s work, but she handles equally well both his philosophical influences and the readers and interpretersÂ who have guided the reception of the essays.â€ â€”_The New Yorker\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œSerious, engaging, and so infectiously in love with its subject that I found myself racing to finish so I could start rereading the Essays themselvesâ€¦It is hard to imagine a better introductionâ€”or reintroductionâ€”to Montaigne than Bakewellâ€™s book.â€ â€”Lorin Stein,\n  </em>\n  Harperâ€™s Magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œMs. Bakewellâ€™s new book,\n  <em>\n   How to Live\n  </em>\n  , is a biography, but in the form of a delightful conversation across the centuries.â€ â€”_The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œSo artful is Bakewellâ€™s account of [Montaigne] that even skeptical readers may well come to share her admiration.â€\n  </em>\n  â€”The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  Â _\n  <br />\n  â€œExtraordinaryâ€¦a miracle of complex, revelatory organization, for as Bakewell moves along she provides a brilliant demonstration of the alchemy of historical viewpoint.â€ â€”_Boston Globe\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œWell,\n  <em>\n   How to Live\n  </em>\n  is a superb book, original, engaging, thorough, ambitious, and wise.â€ â€”Nick Hornby, in the November/December 2010 issue of The _Believer\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œIn\n  <em>\n   How to Live\n  </em>\n  , an affectionate introduction to the author, Bakewell argues that, far from being a dusty old philosopher, Montaigne has never been more relevantâ€”a 16th-century blogger, as she would have itâ€”and so must be read, quite simply, â€˜in order to liveâ€™â€¦Bakewell is a wry and intelligent guide.â€ â€”_The Daily Beast\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œWitty, unorthodoxâ€¦_How to Live_ is a history of ideas told entirely on the ground, never divorced from the people thinking them. It hews close to Montaigneâ€™s own preoccupations, especially his playful uncertainty â€“ Bakewell is a stickler for what we canâ€™t know. â€¦_How to Live\n  <em>\n   is a delightâ€¦â€ â€”\n  </em>\n  The Plain Dealer\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œThis book will have new readers excited to be acquainted to Montaigneâ€™s life and ideas, and may even stir their curiosity to read more about the ancient Greek philosophers who influenced his writing.\n  <em>\n   How to Live\n  </em>\n  Â is a great companion to Montaigneâ€™s essays, and even a great stand-alone.â€ â€”_San Francisco Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA bright, genial, and generous introduction to the masterâ€™s methods.â€ _â€”Kirkus Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œ[Bakewell reveals] one of literature''s enduring figures as an idiosyncratic, humane, and surprisingly modern force.â€ â€”\n  </em>\n  Publisherâ€™s Weekly (starred)_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs described by Sarah Bakewell in her suavely enlightening\n  <em>\n   How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer\n  </em>\n  Montaigne is, with Walt Whitman, among the most congenial of literary giants, inclined to shrug over the inevitability of human failings and the last man to accuse anyone of self-absorption. His great subject, after all, was himself.â€ â€”Laura Miller, Salon.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLively and fascinating . . .\n  <em>\n   How To Live\n  </em>\n  takes its place as the most enjoyable introduction to Montaigne in the English language.â€ _â€”The Times Literary Supplement\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œSplendidly conceived and exquisitely written . . . enormously absorbing.â€\n  </em>\n  â€”Sunday Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œ\n  </em>\n  How to Live_ will delight and illuminate.â€_ â€”The Independent\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œIt is ultimately [Montaigneâ€™s] life-loving vivacity that Bakewell succeeds in communicating to her readers.â€\n  </em>\n  â€”The Observer\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œThis subtle and surprising book manages the trick of conversing in a frank and friendly manner with its centuries-old literary giant, as with a contemporary, while helpfully placing Montaigne in a historical context.Â  The affection of the author for her subject is palpable and infectious.â€ â€”Phillip Lopate, author of\n  </em>\n  The Art of the Personal Essay\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œAn intellectually lively treatment of a Renaissance giant and his world.â€\n  </em>\n  â€”Saturday Telegraph\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œLike recent books on Proust, Joyce, and Austen,\n  <em>\n   How to Live\n  </em>\n  skillfully plucks a life-guide from the incessant flux of Montaigneâ€™s prose . . . A superb, spirited introduction to the master.â€ _â€”The Guardian\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2158'),
(6447, 'How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less', 'Nicholas Boothman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The average person''s attention span lasts about 30 seconds. That means first and immediate impressions count, and big. In this modern-day update of Dale Carnegie''s classic\n  <em>\n   How to Win Friends and Influence People\n  </em>\n  , former fashion photographer Nicholas Boothman instructs you in how to mold those 30 seconds to your greatest advantage and connect with others at business and social functions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Boothman, now a lecturer and licensed master practitioner of neurolinguistic programming (the art and science of how the brain affects human connections), says that the key to making others like you quickly lies in establishing a rapport: you have to find out what you have in common or, if you seemingly have nothing in common, purposely try to become like the other person for a short time. He then goes on to offer simple techniques for getting a rapport going: adopt a positive attitude; make sure your words, tone, and gestures are all saying the same thing; synchronize your attitude and body movements to those of another person''s (which makes the person feel comfortable with you--although he or she may not know why); and ask lots of open-ended questions. Boothman also describes how to figure out a stranger''s favored sense for receiving information about the world--some rely on visual cues, others on auditory or kinesthetic (touch) input--and use it to your best advantage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If discovering how to connect with others is the secret to business and life success, as Boothman contends, then employing the strategies in this book will make you instantly likeable\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  give you a leg up on the competition.\n  <em>\n   --Nancy Monson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Blessed with an irresistible premise and title, this well-packaged self-help book draws its advice from neuro-linguistic programming and a study of interpersonal communication conducted by two UCLA doctors. While its clearly presented techniques may help readers clear communications hurdles in social and professional interactions, this upbeat volume will probably appeal most to readers interested in dating and nurturing romantic attachments. A former fashion photographer who gives "Positive Connection" seminars, Boothman breaks down the process of connecting with people into discrete stepsAmeeting, establishing rapport and opening up communicationAand provides simple examples, self-assessments, exercises and sample dialogue. He contends that a key to establishing rapport lies in synchronizing behavior or mimicking the other person''s pose, facial expression, gestures, body language and tone of voice. According to the principles of neuro-linguistic programming, Boothman recommends categorizing people according to how they take in information (e.g., visually, aurally or by feel) and responding in kind. Though the book reads like an adapted seminar or puffed-up magazine article, Workman''s ambitious promotional campaign and usual canny marketing may well make this little book one of the season''s most popular impulse purchases. 20-city author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1070'),
(6448, 'How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships', 'Leil Lowndes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Leil Lowndes'' How to Talk to Anyone offers 101 time-tested hints, tips, and techniques for confidently communicating with others. A bestselling author and renowned communications consultant, Lowndes focuses on ice-breaking skills and communication techniques that are proven successful when making a positive first impression, establishing instant rapport and credibility, and more. Packeed with basic, no-nonsense advice and solid research evidence about which techniques work best in which areas, How to Talk to Anyone show readers how to:\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n "You''ll not only break the ice, you''ll melt it away with your new skills."\n <br />\n --Larry King\n</p>\n<p>\n "The ultimate guide to the thinking person . . . an invaluable tool for conversations."\n <br />\n --Sally Jesse Raphael\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Become a master communicator and succeed in life, love, and business\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Have you ever admired those successful people who seem to have it all? You see them chatting confidently at parties and being listened to in business meetings. They''re the ones with the best jobs, nicest parties, and most interesting friends.\n</p>\n<p>\n But wait a minute. They''re not necessarily smarter than you or even better looking. What it comes down to is their more skillful way of communicating with other people. Now\n <em>\n  How to Talk to Anyone\n </em>\n reveals the secrets of successful communication. With Leil Lowndes''s ninety-two easy and effective techniques, you will discover how to become a master communicator in life, love, and business.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combining the latest research with Leil''s trademark wit and warm-hearted observations of human foibles,\n <em>\n  How to Talk to Anyone\n </em>\n shows you how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Make an unforgettable entrance and meet the people you want to meet\n </li>\n <li>\n  Sound like an insider in any crowd, no matter how little you have in common\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use body language to captivate audiences of all sizes\n </li>\n <li>\n  Work a party the way a politician works a room\n </li>\n <li>\n  Always come across confident, credible, and charismatic wherever you are\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   How to Talk to Anyone\n  </em>\n  , which is an update of her popular book,\n  <em>\n   Talking the Winner''s Way\n  </em>\n  (see the 5-star reviews of the latter) is based on solid research about techniques that work!\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1071'),
(6449, 'Huesped', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Meyer''s brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading ''''soul'''' who has been given Melanie''s body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn''t expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. Melanie fills Wanderer''s thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves-Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body''s desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she''s never met. Wanderer and Melanie, now unwilling allies, set off to search for the man they both love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/533'),
(6450, 'The Hunger Games', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister''s place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before - and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love"--Cover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3729'),
(6451, 'The Hunt for Red October', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision: the Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on....\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Hunt for Red October\n  </em>\n  is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy''s phenomenal career. A military thriller so accurate and convincing that the author was rumored to have been debriefed by the White House. Its theme: the greatest espionage coup in history. Its story: the chase for a runaway top secret Russian missile sub.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the reviews of The Hunt for Red October: ''Flawless authenticity! frighteningly genuine.'' Wall Street Journal ''Absolutely terrific: entertaining, suspenseful and masterfully written! superlative.'' Washington Times\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1171'),
(6452, 'The Hunted', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Al Rosen was doing just fine, hiding out in Israel -- until he decided to play Good Samaritan and rescue some elderly tourists from a hotel fire. Now his picture''s been carried in the stateside press, and the guys he''s been hiding from know exactly where he is. And they''re coming to get him -- crooked lawyers, men with guns and money, and assorted members of the Detroit mob who are harboring a serious grudge. Playtime in paradise is officially over; Rosen''s a million miles from home with a bull''s eye on his back. And his only ally is a U.S. Embassy marine who''s been looking for a war . . . and who''s damn well found one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3115'),
(6453, 'The Hunter', 'John Lescroart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller John Lescroart delivers a dark, intimate thriller about the price we put on family and the terrible costs of seeking the truth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Raised by loving adoptive parents, San Francisco private investigator Wyatt Hunt never had an interest in finding his birth family-until he gets a chilling text message from an unknown number: How did ur mother die?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  The answer is murder, and urged on by curiosity and the mysterious texter, Hunt takes on a case he never knew existed, one that has lain unsolved for decades. His family''s dark past unfurls in dead ends. Child Protective Services, who suspected but could never prove that Hunt was being neglected, is uninformed; his birth father, twice tried but never convicted of the murder, is in hiding; Evie, his mother''s drug-addicted religious fanatic of a friend, is untraceable. And who is the texter, and how are they connected to Hunt?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet in the present, time is running out. The texter, who insists the killer is out there, refuses to be identified. The cat-and-mouse game leads Hunt across the country and eventually to places far more exotic-and far more dangerous. As the chase escalates, so does the threat, for the killer has a secret that can only be trusted to the grave. Thriller master John Lescroart weaves a shocking, suspenseful tale about the skeletons inside family closets . . . and the mortal danger outside the front door.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2934'),
(6454, 'The Hunters', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Delta Force Major Charley Castillo returns in the third crackling adventure in Griffin''s #1 *New York Times*-bestselling series.    The first two novels in W. E. B. Griffin''s exciting new Presidential Agent series, *By Order of the President* and *The Hostage*, immediately raced up the bestseller lists-*The Hostage* debuting at #1.    *The Hunters* picks up right where *The Hostage* left off. Two brutal murders and millions of missing dollars in the growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal have lead Castillo and his team to an estancia in Uruguay, where, to his shock, the man they are seeking is himself murdered right before their eyes. Who is responsible? Most likely, the people higher up in the money chain, those willing to risk anything to keep their secrets from being revealed. They''ve left just enough of a trail, though, for Castillo to pick up the scent, and, with carte blanche from the president, to follow it wherever it takes him, he ends up . . . well, not exactly where he expected . . .    Brimming with rich characters, strong action, and cutting-edge drama, this is Griffin writing at the height of his powers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/535'),
(6455, 'The Hypnotist', 'Lars Kepler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tumba, Sweden. A triple homicide, all of the victims from the same family, captivates Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the grisly murders -- against the wishes of the national police. The killer is at large, and it appears that the elder sister of the family escaped the carnage; it seems only a matter of time until she, too, is murdered. But where can Linna begin? The only surviving witness is an intended victim -- the boy whose mother, father, and little sister were killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes intended for this boy to die: he has suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and Lapsed into a state of shock. He''s in no condition to be questioned. Desperate for information, Linna sees one mode of recourse: hypnotism. He enlists Dr. Erik Maria Bark to mesmerize the boy, hoping to discover the killer through his eyes. It''s the sort of work that Bark had sworn he would never do again-ethically dubious and psychically scarring. When he breaks his promise and hypnotizes the victim, a Long and terrifying chain of events begins to unfurl. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3279'),
(6456, 'I Am God', 'Giorgio Faletti', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A serial killer holds New York in his grip. He does not choose his victims. Nor does he watch them die. But then there are too many of them for that. The explosion of a twenty-two storey building, followed by the casual discovery of a letter, lead the police to face up to a dreadful reality: some of New York''s buildings were mined at the time of their construction. But which ones? And how many? A young female detective hiding her personal demons behind a tough appearance, and a former press photographer with a past he''d rather forget, and for which he still seeks forgiveness, are the only hope of stopping this psychopath. A man who does not even claim responsibility for his actions. A man who believes himself to be God.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/673'),
(6457, 'I Am Legend', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century,\n  <em>\n   I Am Legend\n  </em>\n  regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson''s third novel, it was first marketed as science fiction (for although written in 1954, the story takes place in a future 1976). A terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive have been transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Except, that is, for Robert Neville. He alone appears to be immune to this disease, but the grim irony is that now he is the outsider. He is the legendary monster who must be destroyed because he is different from everyone else. Employing a stark, almost documentary style, Richard Matheson was one of the first writers to convince us that the undead can lurk in a local supermarket freezer as well as a remote Gothic castle. His influence on a generation of bestselling authors--including Stephen King and Dean Koontz--who first read him in their youth is, well, legendary.\n  <em>\n   --Stanley Wiater\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Robert Neville has witnessed the end of the world. The world''s population has been obliterated by a vampire virus, though Neville has somehow survived. As he toils to make sense of it all and protect himself against the hounding vampires who seek out his life force, Neville embarks on a series of projects to discover the source of the plague and hopefully put an end to the vampires. In a tale that plays with the slippery slope of sanity, Dean makes the perfect choice for a narrator. His powerful performance proves chilling and haunting. As Neville teeters on the edge of sanity, Dean manipulates his tone, speed, emphasis and projection accordingly, making listeners tremble with his narration. While some might rebuke his narration for being too dramatic or providing too much interpretation, Dean''s intensity adds to the book in a way that benefits listeners over readers. The visceral nature of his performance evokes the image of a foamy-mouthed Dean growling at a microphone with spittle flying.\n  <em>\n   A Tor paperback. (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1117'),
(6458, 'I Am Ozzy', 'Ozzy Osbourne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "They''ve said some crazy things about me over the years.  I mean, okay: ''He bit the head off a bat.''  Yes.  ''He bit the head off a dove.''  Yes.  But then you hear things like, ''Ozzy went to the show last night, but he wouldn''t perform until he''d killed fifteen puppies . . .''  Now *me*, kill fifteen puppies?  I love puppies. I''ve got eighteen of the f**king things at home.  I''ve killed a few cows in my time, mind you.  And the chickens.  I shot the chickens in my house that night. It haunts me, all this crazy stuff.  Every day of my life has been an event.  I took lethal combinations of booze and drugs for thirty f**king years.  I survived a direct hit by a plane, suicidal overdoses, STDs.  I''ve been accused of attempted murder.  Then I almost died while riding over a bump on a quad bike at f**king two miles per hour. People ask me how come I''m still alive, and I don''t know what to say.  When I was growing up, if you''d have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, which one of us would end up with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and Beverly Hills, I wouldn''t have put money on me, no f**king way.  But here I am: ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time. A lot of it ain''t gonna be pretty.  I''ve done some bad things in my time.  I''ve always been drawn to the dark side, me.  But I ain''t the *devil*.  I''m just John Osbourne: a working-class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2159'),
(6459, 'I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to the Blind Side, and Beyond', 'Michael Oher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I''d understand if some people out there felt like another re-telling of the Oher story was flogging a dead horse, but personally, I feel like there''s a need for Oher''s own opus."\n  <br />\n  -Yahoo Sports\n </p>\n <p>\n  "In a development I actually think is really great, Michael Oher will be publishing his own memoir now that his parents'' story,\n  <em>\n   The Blind Side\n  </em>\n  , has been so thoroughly covered. It''s long been my position that some of the uncomfortable things about the way that story gets covered are the simple result of the fact that he hasn''t chosen to talk very much -- as this article points out, he contributed little in the way of interviews to either the book or the movie -- and I''ll be happy to hear what the guy''s got to say."\n  <br />\n  -Linda Holmes, NPR blogger.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The football star made famous in the hit film\n   <em>\n    The Blind Side\n   </em>\n   reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Michael Oher is the young man at the center of the true story depicted in\n  <em>\n   The Blind Side\n  </em>\n  movie (and book) that swept up awards and accolades. Though the odds were heavily stacked against him, Michael had a burning desire deep within his soul to break out of the Memphis inner-city ghetto and into a world of opportunity. While many people are now familiar with Oher''s amazing journey, this is the first time he shares his account of his story in his own words, revealing his thoughts and feelings with details that only he knows, and offering his point of view on how anyone can achieve a better life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Looking back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, Michael talks about the goals he had for himself in order to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness that trapped his family for so long. He recounts poignant stories growing up in the projects and running from child services and foster care over and over again in search of some familiarity. Eventually he grasped onto football as his ticket out of the madness and worked hard to make his dream into a reality. But Oher also knew he would not be successful alone. With his adoptive family, the Touhys, and other influential people in mind, he describes the absolute necessity of seeking out positive role models and good friends who share the same values to achieve one''s dreams.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sharing untold stories of heartache, determination, courage, and love,\n  <em>\n   I Beat the Odds\n  </em>\n  is an incredibly rousing tale of one young man''s quest to achieve the American dream.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2160'),
(6460, 'I Can See You', 'Karen Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Evie Wilson was the victim of the villain in DON''T TELL, an assault which resulted in paralysis on one side of her face. After her injury, Evie retreated into the virtual realm, seeking refuge from the public eye by interacting with online friends. Now, with the help of a surgeon, Evie''s face is restored and she is ready to return to the real world. However, she remains connected to the Internet for her graduate thesis on using the virtual world as therapy to improve self-esteem. She has become an online shopkeeper who sells faces and bodies to users interested in building a new avatar on a website called "Shadowland." In her new role, Evie maintains "surveillance" over her test subjects to ensure they don''t become too caught up in the intoxicating virtual realm.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, homicide detective Noah Webster has been investigating a string of suspicious suicides that he believes are connected murders. Noah''s investigation leads him to Evie when one of her online test subjects is found dead of apparent suicide, but Evie believes otherwise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Evie is shocked to find herself drawn to someone for the first time in many years and she''s reluctant to trust Noah. However, he''s the only one who believes her story about the suspicious death of her test subject, and he soon discovers that many of the apparent suicides in his case had avatars in "Shadowland."\n </p>\n <p>\n  As murder victims connected to the website begin to appear more frequently, Noah asks Evie to be his virtual guide in the investigation. However, they don''t realize that the killer is closer than they think--and that he holds a special grudge against Evie.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/380'),
(6461, 'I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me', 'Joan Rivers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œHow do I love thee? Let me count the ways.â€\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  â€”Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œHow do I hate thee? How much time do you have?â€\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Joan Rivers, today, about two-ish\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Joan Rivers is a groundbreaking, award-winning, internationally renowned entertainment goddess. Sheâ€™s also opinionatedâ€”especially when it comes toÂ people she hates. Like people who think giving birth is a unique achievement. Or well-adjusted, a.k.a. boring, ex-child stars who donâ€™t even haveÂ a decent addiction.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  With all of her diverse experiences, it stands to reason that Joan hasÂ seen, done, said, and heardÂ a lot of hateful things. Thank god, she took notes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hereâ€”uncensored and totally uninhibitedâ€”she give the best of her worst to First Ladies, closet cases, hypocrites, Hollywood, feminists,Â and overratedÂ historical figures. And even when letting herself have it, Joan doesnâ€™t hold back in this honest, unabashedly hilarious love letter to the hater in all of us.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAn encyclopedia of kvetches by Joan Rivers, with more punch lines per paragraph than any book Iâ€™ve read in years.â€â€”The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOften hilarious, often shocking, totally politically incorrect.â€â€”Liz Smith, The Huffington Post (I think if this content was exclusive to huffpo we should mention them; if itâ€™s syndicated we can just use her name if you prefer.)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn entertaining rant on how she hates nearly everything and everyone, especially herselfâ€¦.The only thing missing is the sound of a drum roll and cymbals to feel as though one is sitting in a nightclub watching a live comedy marathon.â€â€”Kirkus Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Joan Rivers is extraordinary, but she''s not for the easily offended-or for anyone who gets offended at all.â€--People\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   JOAN RIVERS\n  </strong>\n  is a force of nature and one of the hardest-working celebrities in the world.Â An entertainment legend, sheâ€™s an internationally renowned comedienne, Tony-nominated actress,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author, Emmy Award-winning television talk show host, playwright, screenwriter, motion picture director, columnist, lecturer, syndicated radio host, jewelry designer and cosmetic company entrepreneur, red carpet fashion laureate, businesswoman and a proud mother and grandmother.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3802'),
(6462, 'I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith, and Family', 'Kate Gosselin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 9.8 million viewers of TLC''s Jon and Kate Plus Eight recognize Kate Gosselin as the practical mom of eight who has come into their homes for over 100 episodes of her family''s hit reality show. In I Just Want You to Know, Kate reveals a grateful and faith-filled mother who only wants the best for her children and is willing to sacrifice to make that happen. The book covers the three years her family lived in their Elizabethtown home, a period Kate considers one of the happiest of her life. In it she discusses the individuality of eight kids (all under the age of six) transitioning from the chaos of caring for infants to the structured days of a home filled with budding preschoolers, as well as her thoughts on communication, everyday miracles, and providing a safe home. During that time, Kate discusses her family''s unique challenges from daily schedules to traveling, her need for control to learning how to be flexible, the individuality of all eight kids, how God provided every day, and her faith that held it all together.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 9.8 million viewers of TLC''s Jon and Kate Plus Eight recognize Kate Gosselin as the practical mom of eight who has come into their homes for over 100 episodes of her family''s hit reality show. In I Just Want You to Know, Kate reveals a grateful and faith-filled mother who only wants the best for her children and is willing to sacrifice to make that happen. The book covers the three years her family lived in their Elizabethtown home, a period Kate considers one of the happiest of her life. In it she discusses the individuality of eight kids (all under the age of six) transitioning from the chaos of caring for infants to the structured days of a home filled with budding preschoolers, as well as her thoughts on communication, everyday miracles, and providing a safe home. During that time, Kate discusses her family''s unique challenges from daily schedules to traveling, her need for control to learning how to be flexible, the individuality of all eight kids, how God provided every day, and her faith that held it all together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2060'),
(6463, 'I Kill', 'Giorgio Faletti', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Personal tragedies affect almost everyone involved in Faletti''s well-constructed serial killer novel set in glitzy Monte Carlo. FBI agent Frank Ottobre is recovering in Monaco from his wife''s death by visiting his friend police commissioner Nicolas Hulot when the first deaths occur, of an American race car driver and the celebrated driver''s chess champion girlfriend. Ottobre is soon drawn into a baffling case where the killer goads police with untraceable phone calls to Jean-Loup Verdier, the principality''s most popular radio host, before each murder. As the victim count mounts, so does the suspense in this fine cat-and-mouse game of skill and subtlety. A smooth translation and several intriguing subplots, one of which features a powerful American general intent on vigilante justice, keep the pace moving briskly, despite the unusual length. First published in Italy in 2002, this winning novel marks Milan-based publisher Baldini Castoldi Dalai''s entry into the U.S. market.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n A best-seller across Europe, Italian author Falettiâ€™s first novel is a top-notch thriller. Monte Carlo, in Monaco, is supposed to be one of the safest places on earth, with a police force more concerned with paparazzi than with homicide, but that all changes when a mystery man calls a popular radio show. The next day two faceless bodies are discovered, along with I kill written in blood. The substantial cast of characters that assembles to find the killer is led by Frank, a former FBI agent; Frankâ€™s best friend, Nicholas, the police commissioner; and the charismatic DJ Jean-Loup Verdier. All the characters are fully fleshed and three-dimensional, which makes the use of multiple viewpoints particularly enjoyable. The dialogue and narration could have been a little tighter, but Faletti manages to pull it off, maintaining a good pace and masterfully building tension through 600 pages, a clear sign of a major new talent. This one will appeal not only to devotees of European crime fiction but also to thriller fans in general. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/674'),
(6464, 'I Know This Much Is True', 'Wally Lamb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dominick Birdsey''s entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother''s watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother''s gentle "bunny". From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness - and ultimately self-protection - in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. But Dominick''s talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick''s lives. Through his grandfather''s life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors'' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2966'),
(6465, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou''s "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 10 Up. Two slender volumes that present critical information about popular classic titles. Bloom''s introduction is followed by a short biographical sketch of each author and then a detailed thematic and structural analysis that summarizes the novel in question, chapter by chapter. Excerpts from critical essays constitute the major portion of each book. Some of the essays on The Sun center around character analysis, especially of the main female character, Brett Ashley. Other entries include comparisons to other works of literature including F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby, and discussions of the symbolism, morality, and the work''s historical context. Hemingway''s own interpretation of the book and a letter from Fitzgerald to Hemingway about its flaws are excerpted. In the second book, the writings explore Angelou''s use of language, her narrative technique, unique qualities of Caged Bird, comparisons with other works, and opposition to it. Motherhood, racial pride and self-hatred, rape, and honesty are among the issues explored. While similar material may be found in many other places, these series titles will be useful resources.?Lois McCulley, Wichita Falls High School, TX\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2063'),
(6466, 'I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Humoristiske artikler om Clarks forhold til transportmidler af alle slags.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1337'),
(6467, 'I Love a Broad Margin to My Life', 'Maxine Hong Kingston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Told in free verse reminiscent of one of Kingston''s idols, Walt Whitman, this uncommon memoir of the artist at 65 is informed by the wide margins on the pages of the Chinese editions of her works (margins her father used to write in). Kingston revisits characters, like Wittman Ah Sing, the monkey from her first novel, and themes from her books: her pacifist, feminist activism; the challenge of stereotypes; East and West. Though this homage to aging, with wisdom gained through a freewheeling reflection on family, the past, fate (karma, we''re reminded, means "work," not "doom"), and self-reliance (which is a translation of Kingston''s Chinese name, Ting Ting), often rambles, it also has the cohesion and intricate logic of a musical composition. The artist is a mental traveler, presenting her life as a dreamlike journey that culminates in a listing of "my dead," some 50 names, which both pulls Kingston toward oblivion ("Each one who dies, I want to go with you") and inspires seven reasons to live. The desire to create recedes ("I regret always writing, writing") as the memoirist sees herself becoming "reader of the world," a "surprise world" that frees her from the need to create it with words. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The title is from Thoreau, and it is the perfect credo for Kingston, a gentle advocate for justice and peace, an innovative creator of unconventional, mythic, and captivating tales. The very structure of her affecting memoir involves broad margins as Kingston channels musings and memories into one long, streaming poem. Some may quail at the prospect of a narrative-in-verse, but Kingstonâ€™s language is so natural, lucid, and subtly rhythmic, reading it is as effortless as breathing. Revered for the candor of her groundbreaking creative nonfiction, beginning with The Woman Warrior (1976), and her playful and profound fiction, Kingston gracefully entwines both genres as she reflects on turning 65, shares piquant stories of family, and catches up with her characters, especially Wittman Ah Sung, who first appeared in Tripmaster Monkey (1989). Kingstonâ€™s descriptions of the timeless beauty and evolving struggle of village life in China are mystical and incisive, while wry humor shapes her account of being arrested during a 2003 peace demonstration at the White House. Looking back to her California childhood as the daughter of immigrants, Kingston remembers wanting to ask others, â€œHow do you feel being you?â€ That is the writerâ€™s great question, and the wellspring of Kingstonâ€™s artistry and deep compassion. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2064'),
(6468, 'I Met the Walrus: How One Day With John Lennon Changed My Life Forever', 'Jerry Levitan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Imagine you''re the world''s biggest Beatles fan and you''ve just snuck into John Lennon''s hotel room. But instead of being thrown out, inexplicably you''re invited to spend the day with your idol. That''s exactly what happened to fourteen-year-old Jerry Levitan in 1969. After hearing John was in Toronto for a "bed in," Jerry tracked him down at the King Edward Hotel and convinced the world''s biggest rock star to sit down for an exclusive forty-minute interview. John talked candidly about war, politics, the scandalous\n <em>\n  Two Virgins\n </em>\n album, and the supposed subliminal messages in his music.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, forty years later, it''s all here: Jerry''s once-in-a-lifetime adventure, illustrated by acclaimed artist James Braithwaite and featuring never before seen photographs of John and Yoko. Also included in the book is Jerry''s memorabilia from that day--notes from John and Yoko, the secret code to contact him, drawings, John''s doodles, and much more. Complete with an audio and video DVD of the interview that inspired the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name,\n <em>\n  I Met the Walrus\n </em>\n is an immortalized one-on-one moment with John--a must-have for Lennon fans around the world, as well as anyone who has ever dreamed of meeting a hero.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jerry Levitan is a musician, actor, filmmaker, writer, and lawyer living in Toronto. Under the persona Sir Jerry (www.sir-jerry.com), he has been described as "one of Canada''s most innovative children''s performers" and has produced two critically acclaimed children''s albums,\n <em>\n  Bees, Butterflies &amp; Bugs\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Sir Jerry''s World\n </em>\n . As a litigation lawyer, he has set precedents in the fields of constitutional, human rights, and administrative law. And as an actor, he has appeared in film and television including an appearance on\n <em>\n  The West Wing\n </em>\n . He produced and starred in the 2008 Academy Award-nominated film\n <em>\n  I Met The Walrus\n </em>\n , winning acclaim and festival awards from around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2065'),
(6469, 'I Still Dream About You', 'Fannie Flagg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Real estate agent Maggie Fortenberry works at Red Mountain Reality, that has been going downhill since the death of its founder, comes up with a plan to save the business. The rival of their company Babs is unscrupulous real estate agent who hates Maggie and is determined to put her out of business.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3431');
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(6470, 'I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly &amp; the Family Stone', 'Jeff Kaliss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kaliss traces the former Sylvester Stewart from Denton, Texas, beginnings through fame as Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone to the present. After the bandâ€™s fourth album, Stand! yielded monster hits in the title song, Everyday People, and the Aquarian party anthem I Want to Take You Higher, Sly rivaled James Brown and George Clinton as a progenitor of funk. Unlike the Godfather of Soulâ€™s and Dr. Funkensteinâ€™s, Slyâ€™s career fizzled in the mid-1970s as substance abuse and other problems facilitated a huge reputation for missing gigs and heightened tensions within the band. Recently, Stone granted Kaliss his first face-to-face interview in 20 years, spawning this book. Kaliss finds Stone enigmatic but planning a comeback. He never quit making musicâ€”or being mysterious. At one point, he deserts Kaliss mid-chat. Mindful of Slyâ€™s tendency to disappear . . . on whim, Kaliss just picks up the conversation later. A psychedelic ethereality infuses the book and, given Stoneâ€™s internal workings, rather confirms Kalissâ€™ veracity. Good, if vague in places; an important piece of pop-music history. --Mike Tribby\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Finally, the definitive and story of the life and times of Sly Stone is here.... Kaliss delivers a vivid tale of funky love, music and drugs that nails the tale of Sly Stone." --\n  <em>\n   Rickey Vincent, author of Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  [HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]"It''s amazing, although not exactly surprising, that Sly and the Family Stone''s volatile story has never fully been told. But now it has, and the tellers include the elusive and elliptical Sly Stone himself. Whatever else he is, he''s a stone genius; a major influence on R&amp;B, funk, pop and rock musicians since he emerged in 1968. Through Sly and his band, this book offers additional lessons, about traversing life as well as about making music." --\n  <em>\n   Ben Fong-Torres, author of Not Fade Away:\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock &amp; Roll and Becoming Almost Famous: My Back Pages in Music, Writing and Life[HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Jeff Kaliss gives his readers a fascinating tour of the life of an errant, irreverent, and iridescent musical legend." --\n  <em>\n   David Kapralik, former manager, Sly &amp; the Family Stone\n  </em>\n  [HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Jeff Kaliss''s wonderful work captures the group, the times and its relevance." --\n  <em>\n   Dennis Watlington author of Chasing America: Notes from a Rock ''n'' Soul Integrationist\n  </em>\n  [HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]\n </p>\n <p>\n  An account as upbeat as those early hits... it s a great tale. --\n  <em>\n   Mojo\n  </em>\n  --Various\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meticulously reported. --_Vibe_[HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]Essential reading for anyone interested in a musician who reshaped popular music. --_SF Weekly_[HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Various[HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]Jeff Kaliss''s wonderful work captures the group, the times and its relevance." --\n  <em>\n   Dennis Watlington author of Chasing America: Notes from a Rock ''n'' Soul Integrationist\n  </em>\n  [HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]An account as upbeat as those early hits... it s a great tale. --\n  <em>\n   Mojo\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Meticulously reported. --_Vibe_[HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]Essential reading for anyone interested in a musician who reshaped popular music. --_SF Weekly_[HTML_REMOVED][HTML_REMOVED]Finally, the definitive and story of the life and times of Sly Stone is here.... Kaliss delivers a vivid tale of funky love, music and drugs that nails the tale of Sly Stone. -- Rickey Vincent, author of Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One. It''s amazing, although not exactly surprising, that Sly and the Family Stone''s volatile story has never fully been told. But now it has, and the tellers include the elusive and elliptical Sly Stone himself. Whatever else he is, he''s a stone genius; a major influence on R&amp;B, funk, pop and rock musicians since he emerged in 1968. Through Sly and his band, this book offers additional lessons, about traversing life as well as about making music. --Ben Fong-Torres, author of Not Fade Away: A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock &amp; Roll and Becoming Almost Famous: My Back Pages in Music, Writing and Life --Various\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jeff Kaliss gives his readers a fascinating tour of the life of an errant, irreverent, and iridescent musical legend. -- David Kapralik, former manager, Sly &amp; the Family Stone Jeff Kaliss''s wonderful work captures the group, the times and its relevance. -- Dennis Watlington author of Chasing America: Notes from a Rock ''n'' Soul Integrationist An account as upbeat as those early hits... it s a great tale. -- Mojo Meticulously reported. -- Vibe Essential reading for anyone interested in a musician who reshaped popular music. --SF Weekly Finally, the definitive and story of the life and times of Sly Stone is here.... Kaliss delivers a vivid tale of funky love, music and drugs that nails the tale of Sly Stone. -- Rickey Vincent, author of Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One --Various\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2066'),
(6471, 'I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century&#39;s Greatest Forger', 'Frank Wynne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Wynne''s remarkable book tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a paranoid, drug-addicted, second-rate painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a secret superstar of the art world--and along the way, it reveals the collusion and ego that, even today, allow art forgery to thrive. During van Meegeren''s heyday as a forger of Vermeers, he earned 50 million dollars, the acclamation of the world''s press, and the satisfaction of swindling the Nazis. His canvases were so nearly authentic that they would almost certainly be prized among the catalogue of Vermeers if he had not confessed. And, no doubt, he never would have confessed at all if he hadn''t been trapped in a catch-22: he had thrived so noticably during the war that when it ended, he was quickly arrested as a Nazi collaborator. His only defense was to admit that he himself had painted the remarkable "Vermeers" that had passed through his hands--a confession the public refused to believe, until, in a huge media event, the courts staged the public painting of what would be van Meegeren''s last "Vermeer." "I Was Vermeer "is an utterly gripping real-life mystery, capturing both the life of the consummate art forger, phenomenally skilled and yet necessarily unrecognized, and the equally fascinating work of the experts who identify forgeries and track down their perpetrators. Wry, amoral, irreverent, and plotted like a thriller, it is the first major book in forty years on this astonishing episode in history. Frank Wynne is a writer and award-winning literary translator. Born in Ireland, he has lived and worked in Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Buenos Aires and currently lives in San Jose, Costa Rica. He has translated more than a dozen major novels, among them the works of Michel Houellebecq, Frederic Beigbeder, Pierre Merot and the Ivorian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma. A journalist and broadcaster, he has written for the "Sunday Times," the "Independent," the "Irish Times," "Melody Maker," and "Time Out." Frank Wynne''s book tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a paranoid, drug-addicted, second-rate painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a secret star of the art world. Along the way, it reveals the collusion and ego that, even today, allow art forgery to thrive. During van Meegeren''s heyday as a forger of Vermeer, he earned fifty million dollars, the acclamation of the world''s press, and the satisfaction of swindling the Nazis. His canvases were so nearly authentic that they would almost certainly be prized among the catalogue of Vermeer''s if he had not confessed. And, no doubt, he never would have confessed at all if he hadn''t been trapped in a catch-22: he had thrived so noticably during the war that when it ended, he was quickly arrested as a Nazi collaborator. His only defense was to admit that he himself had painted the remarkable "Vermeers" that had passed through his hands--a confession the public refused to believe until, in a huge media event, the courts staged the public painting of what would be van Meegeren''s final "Vermeer." "I Was Vermeer "is an utterly gripping real-life mystery, capturing both the life of the consummate art forger, phenomenally skilled and yet necessarily unrecognized, and the equally fascinating work of the experts who identify forgeries and track down their perpetrators. Wry, amoral, irreverent, and plotted like a thriller, it is the first major book in forty years on this astonishing episode in history. "Wynne blends reportorial skill with a love of irony to tell van Meegeren''s life story . . . Crime thriller or forgery primer, this intriguing read also proves another epigram: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."--"Bookpage" "A spectacular story of vengeance and fraud told with verve and style by British journalist Wynne . . . The incredible story of how Dutch painter Han van Meegeren avenged himself on supercilious art critics by becoming an expert forger of Vermeer and fooling the Nazis conveys a valuable lesson in how we see, notes Wynne in this methodical, suspenseful tale . . . The forger''s trajectory from wealthy charlatan to national hero makes for delicious reading. Wynne employs all the devices of an expert "roman" "policier.""--"Kirkus Reviews""" "Some real-life stories are more fantastic than anything Hollywood can invent. That a mid-20th-century artist could create forgeries that fooled the entire art world is the extraordinary story of Dutch art forger Han van Meegeren. Recognizing that very few Johannes Vermeer paintings were known in his time and that there were no known early Vermeers, Meergeren realized he could create works that could not be compared to any authenticated Vermeer. Those fakes fooled everyone: art scholars, museum curators, and Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goring included. Meegeren''s deception was only discovered when he confessed it in court to save himself. London-based journalist and literary translator Wynne uses his journalistic skills to present a remarkable story that is part mystery, part adventure, part biography, and part courtroom drama. His thorough research and accomplished writing style bring this unique event in art history to the general public. Highly recommended."--Eugene C. Burt, "Library Journal" "In this intriguing . . . biography, Wynne recounts how Dutch forger Han van Meegeren successfully passed off more than a dozen bogus works--including, most famously, The Supper at Emmaus in 1937--as authentic Vermeers, Halses and de Hooches. Van Meegeren, who favored the style of the old Dutch masters just as modernism was hitting its stride, decided to embarrass his forward-looking critics by creating and selling his own ''Vermeer.'' He continued his charade until he was forced to admit his crimes in 1947 while defending himself against a separate charge of treason. Wynne takes great care in explaining just how the increasingly paranoid and drug-addicted van Meegeren managed to fool the international art community, including a technical breakdown of how van Meegeren employed plastic to create the antique look of cracked craquelure in his canvases. Wynne also ruminates on how the arrogance of the art world--of critics like Abraham Bredius who were so confident in their ability to spot fakes that they brushed aside X-rays and other modern tests, as well as collectors desperate for authenticity--fuels the market for forgeries."--"Publishers Weekly"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2067'),
(6472, 'I, Alex Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Alex Cross''s niece is found brutally murdered. Overcome with grief, Alex vows to take down her killer before he strikes again. But shortly after he begins the investigation, Alex discovers that his niece had gotten mixed up with some very important, very dangerous people. And she''s not the only one who has disappeared.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The hunt for the murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to Washington''s most infamous club--a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. The killer could be one of their patrons, one of Washington''s elite who will do anything to keep their secrets buried.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  With astonishing plot twists and electrifying revelations that will keep readers on the edge of their seat, I, ALEX CROSS is James Patterson''s most suspenseful Alex Cross novel yet.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/309'),
(6473, 'I, Michael Bennett', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Detective Michael Bennett arrests an infamous South American crime lord in a deadly chase that leaves Bennett''s lifelong friend Hughie McDonough dead. From jail, the prisoner vows to rain epic violence down upon New York City - and to get revenge on Michael Bennett.  To escape the chaos, Bennett takes his ten kids and their beautiful nanny, Mary Catherine, on a much-needed vacation to his family''s cabin near Newburgh, New York. But instead of the calm and happy town he remembers growing up in, they step into a nightmare. Newburgh is an inferno of warring gangs, and there''s little the police - or Bennett - can do to keep the children safe.  As violence overwhelms the state, Bennett is torn between protecting his hometown and saving New York City. A partner in his investigations, federal prosecutor Tara McLellan, brings him new weapons for the battle - and an attraction that endangers his relationship with Mary Catherine.  A no-holds-barred, pedal-to-the-floor, action-packed novel, I, Michael Bennett is James Patterson at his most personal and most thrilling best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3884'),
(6474, 'I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan', 'Alan Partridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder -- Alan Partridge -- a man with a fascinating past and an amazing future. Gregarious and popular, yet Alan''s never happier than when relaxing in his own five-bedroom, south-built house with three acres of land and access to a private stream. But who is this mysterious enigma? Alan Gordon Partridge is the best -- and best-loved -- radio presenter in the region. Born into a changing world of rationing, Teddy Boys, apes in space and the launch of ITV, Alan''s broadcasting career began as chief DJ of Radio Smile at St. Luke''s Hospital in Norwich. After replacing Peter Flint as the presenter of Scout About, he entered the top 8 of BBC sports presenters. But Alan''s big break came with his primetime BBC chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You. Sadly, the show battled against poor scheduling, having been put up against News at Ten, then in its heyday. Due to declining ratings, a single catastrophic hitch (the killing of a guest on air) and the dumbing down of network TV, Alan''s show was cancelled. Not to be dissuaded, he embraced this opportunity to wind up his production company, leave London and fulfil a lifelong ambition to return to his roots in local radio. Now single, Alan is an intensely private man but he opens up, for the second time, in this candid, entertaining, often deeply emotional -- and of course compelling -- memoir, written entirely in his own words. (Alan quickly dispelled the idea of using a ghost writer. With a grade B English Language O-Level, he knew he was up to the task.) He speaks touchingly about his tragic Toblerone addiction, and the painful moment when unsold copies of his first autobiography, Bouncing Back, were pulped like ''word porridge''. He reveals all about his relationship with his ex-Ukrainian girlfriend, Sonja, with whom he had sex at least twice a day, and the truth about the thick people who make key decisions at the BBC. A literary tour de force, I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan charts the incredible journey of one of our greatest broadcasters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2069'),
(6475, 'I, Sniper', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Four famed ''60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. Under enormous media scrutiny, the FBI quickly concludes that Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock, whose ninety-three kills were considered the leading body count tally among American marksman in Vietnam, was the shooter. But as the Bureau, led by Special Agent Nick Memphis, bears down, Hitchcock commits suicide. In closing out the investigation, Nick discovers a case made in heaven: everything fits, from timeline, ballistics, and forensics to motive, means, and opportunity. Maybe it''s a little too perfect. Nick asks his friend, the retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, to examine the data. Using a skill set no other man on earth possesses, Swagger soon discovers unseen anomalies and gradually begins to unravel a sophisticated conspiracy -- one that would require the highest level of warcraft by the most superb special operations professionals. As Swagger penetrates the deepest secrets of the sniper world and its new technology, Nick stands firm in the face of hardball PR initiatives and an inflamed media calling for his ouster. Swagger soon closes in, and those responsible will stop at nothing to take him out. But these heavily armed men make the mistake of thinking they are hunting Bob, when he is, in fact, hunting them. I, Sniperwill satisfy Stephen Hunter''s legions of fans and win him droves of new ones with its signature blend of brilliant plotting, vivid characters, razor-sharp dialogue, and extraordinary gunfights. And when Swagger and the last of his antagonists finally face each other, reenacting a classic ritual of arms, it is clear that at times there''s nothing more necessary than a good man with a gun and the guts to use it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3257'),
(6476, 'I&#39;d Kill for That', 'Marcia Talley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   I''d Kill for That\n  </em>\n  , a dead body is discovered on the sixth hole of the Gryphon''s Gate golf course after three people are mysteriously called to the exclusive gated community course one spring evening. Vanessa, a ruthless real-estate developer, quickly figures out that she is a suspect, given her many enemies, one of whom is obviously trying to set her up. Jerry, a down-on-his-luck trader, chalks the crusty academic''s death up to bad luck--or so he hopes. And Toni, well, she has so much to live for, what with being a single parent and all; how could she get mixed up in this? But someone has the goods on all three and is playing them like puppets. The 13 contributors to this playful mystery include such popular and talented female mystery writers as Linda Fairstein and Rita Mae Brown. A thoroughly enjoyable tale.\n  <em>\n   Mary Frances Wilkens\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Each chapter flows smoothly into the next so that it feels like one author wrote this tale. Marcia Talley and her dozen cohorts deserve kudos for this successful project." --\n  <em>\n   Midwest Book Review\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A thoroughly enjoyable tale." --\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A diverting tale of murder among the social elite..." --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Each contributor plants the seeds of skullduggery and suspicion so generously and harvests the earlier copr so conscientiously that the story miraculously avoids the besetting sin of such productions: contradiction and incoherence." --\n  <em>\n   Kirkus\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A spicy, witty whodunit. --\n  <em>\n   Baltimore Sun\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/630'),
(6477, 'I&#39;d Know You Anywhere', 'Laura Lippman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An edgy, utterly gripping tale of psychological manipulation that will leave readers racing to the final page, "I''d Know You Anywhere" is a virtuoso performance from acclaimed, award-winning author Lippman that is sure to be her biggest hit yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3598'),
(6478, 'I&#39;ll Walk Alone', 'Mary Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE QUEEN OF SUSPENSE IS BACK! Mary Higgins Clarkâ€™s new novelâ€”the thirtieth and most spine-chilling of her long career as Americaâ€™s most beloved author of suspense fictionâ€” is about the newest and most up-to-date of crimes: identity theft. Who has not read aboutâ€”or experiencedâ€”with a sinking feeling the fear that someone else out there may be using your credit cards, accessing your bank account, even stealing your identity. In I ll Walk Alone, Alexandra â€œZanâ€ Moreland, a gifted, beautiful interior designer on the threshold of a successful Manhattan career, is terrified to discover that somebody is not only using her credit cards and manipulating her financial accounts to bankrupt her and destroy her reputation, but may also be impersonating her in a scheme that may involve the much more brutal crimes of kidnapping and murder. Zan is already haunted by the disappearance of her own son, Matthew, kidnapped in broad daylight two years ago in Central Parkâ€”a tragedy that has left her torn between hope and despair. Now, on what would be Matthewâ€™s fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Zan kidnapping her own child, followed by a chain of events that suggests somebodyâ€”but who? Zan asks herself desperately, and why?â€”has stolen her identity. Hounded by the press, under investigation by the police, attacked by both her angry ex-husband and a vindictive business rival, Zan, wracked by fear and pain and sustained only by her belief, which nobody else shares, that Matthew is still alive, sets out to discover who is behind this cruel hoax. What she does not realize is that with every step she takes toward the truth, she is putting herselfâ€” and those she loves mostâ€”in mortal danger from the person who has ingeniously plotted out her destruction. Even Zanâ€™s supporters, who include Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner and amateur detective, and Father Aiden Oâ€™Brien, who thinks that Zan may have confessed to him a secret he cannot reveal, believe she may have kidnapped little Matthew. Zan herself begins to doubt her own sanity, until, in the kind of fast-paced explosive ending that is Mary Higgins Clarkâ€™s trademark, the pieces of the puzzle fall into place with an unexpected and shocking revelation. Deeply satisfying, Iâ€™ll Walk Alone is Mary Higgins Clark at the top of her form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3685'),
(6479, 'I&#39;m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World', 'Jag Bhalla', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Iâ€™m not hanging noodles from your ear." In Moscow, this curious, engagingly colorful assertion is common parlance, but unless youâ€™re Russian your reaction is probably "Say what?" The same idea in English is equally odd: "Iâ€™m not pulling your leg." Both mean: Believe me.As author Jag Bhalla demonstrates, these amusing, often hilarious phrases provide a unique perspective on how different cultures perceive and describe the world. Organized by themeâ€”food, love, romance, and many moreâ€”they embody cultural traditions and attitudes, capture linguistic nuance, and shed fascinating light on "the whole ball of wax." For example, when English-speakers are hard at work, weâ€™re "nose to the grindstone," but industrious Chinese toil "with liver and brains spilled on the ground" and busy Indians have "no time to die."If youâ€™re already fluent in 10 languages, you probably wonâ€™t need this book, but youâ€™ll "get a kick out of it" anyhow; for the rest of us, itâ€™s a must. Either way, this surprising, often thought-provoking little tome is gift-friendly in appearance, a perfect impulse buy for word lovers, travelers, and anyone else who enjoys looking at life in a riotous, unusual way. And weâ€™re not hanging noodles from your ear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2713'),
(6480, 'I&#39;m Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog', 'Diana Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Meet the men in Diana Joseph''s life: "The boy," Diana''s fourteen-year-old son, who supports the NRA and dreams of living in a house with wall-to-wall carpeting; Diana''s father, who''s called her on the telephone twice, ever, and who sat her down when she was twelve to caution her against becoming a slut (she didn''t listen); Diana''s brothers, or, as her father calls them, "the two assholes"; Diana''s ex-husband, a lumberjack with three ex-wives, yet he''s still the first one she calls when she''s in a jam; and Diana''s common-law husband, Al, an English professor who''s been mistakenly called mentally challenged. Ostensibly organized around the various men in Diana''s life, this is really a memoir about what it''s like to be a modern, smart woman making her way in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2068'),
(6481, 'I&#39;m Watching You', 'Karen Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A dark secret keeps Chicago assistant state''s attorney Kristen Mayhew as tightly wound as the springy red curls she works to pin down. Meals at the nearby diner, sleepless nights renovating her empty house and days in court where the bad guy more often than not doesn''t face justice make up her lifeâ€”until she finds the bodies of three criminals she failed to convict in the trunk of her car. Each dead body comes accompanied by a sinister letter, the writer informing "Dearest Kristen" that justice has been done on her behalf. An unusual twist for a suspense novel, to be sure, but because the murderer preys on rapists, gang members and pedophiles, Rose''strademark tentacles of fear never fully extend (as they did in her earlier books, _Don''t Tell\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  Have You Seen Her_). Instead, this book''s greatest strength lies in the romance between Kristen and handsome detective Abe Reagan, who''s still reeling from the death of his wife. Abundant side characters, including Abe''s entire jovial clan, clutter the plot and diminish the story''s tension, especially when minor players suddenly step forward to play major roles. But readers will appreciate Rose''s sensitive portrayal of Kristen''s hesitancy to trust and Abe''s gentle perseverance in uncoiling the vibrant woman within.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''As gripping as a cold hand on the back of one''s neck...and tempered by lovable characters and a moving romance'' -Publishers Weekly on Don''t Tell ''Rose delivers the kind of high-wire suspense that keeps you riveted to the edge of your seat'' -New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/384'),
(6482, 'I&#39;m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie', 'Pamela Des Barres &amp; Dave Navarro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s is back in print in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author''s last 15 years of adventures. As soon as she graduated from high school, Pamela Des Barres headed for the Sunset Strip, where she knocked on rock stars'' backstage doors and immersed herself in the drugs, danger, and ecstasy of the freewheeling 1960s. Over the next 10 years she had affairs with Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Waylon Jennings, Chris Hillman, Noel Redding, and Jim Morrison, among others. She traveled with Led Zeppelin; lived in sin with Don Johnson; turned down a date with Elvis Presley; and was close friends with Robert Plant, Gram Parsons, Ray Davies, and Frank Zappa. As a member of the GTO''s, a girl group masterminded by Frank Zappa, she was in the thick of the most revolutionary renaissance in the history of modern popular music. Warm, witty, and sexy, this kiss-and-tellâ€“all stands out as the perfect chronicle of one of rock ''n'' roll''s most thrilling eras.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3939'),
(6483, 'I&#39;ve Got Your Number', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n I''ve lost it. :( The only thing in the world I wasn''t supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It''s been in Magnus''s family for three generations. And now the very same day his parents are coming, I''ve lost it. The very same day! Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive :) !! Â  Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her â€œhappily ever afterâ€ begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect! Â  Well, perfect except that the phone''s owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesn''t agree. He wants his phone back and doesn''t appreciate Poppy reading his messages and wading into his personal life. Â  What ensues is a hilarious and unpredictable turn of events as Poppy and Sam increasingly upend each other''s lives through emails and text messages. As Poppy juggles wedding preparations, mysterious phone calls, and hiding her left hand from Magnus and his parents . . . she soon realizes that she is in for the biggest surprise of her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3182'),
(6484, 'The Icarus Agenda', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ludlum''s 14th suspense caper has the earmarks of all his others: the mysterious cabal involved in global conspiracy; the surges of sudden violence; the careful veneer of local color to provide authenticity; and the rather graceless prose punctuated with breathless italicizing to keep the suspense going. The protagonist this time is Congressman Evan Kendrick, who secretly goes to Oman to rescue a large group of Americans held hostage there. Disguised as a terrorist and aided by the young sultan and a beautiful American-Arab agent, Kendrick succeeds so well that his anonymity is betrayed, and he becomes an instant hero back home, as well as a reluctant presidential candidate. After his cover is blown, however, he also becomes the target for terrorist assassination. Behind all the evildoing is a cabal headed by a man who calls himself the Mahdi, its purpose to acquire the power that money brings by selling arms to religious fanatics. And on this side of the ocean there are other secret forces at work, with awesome power at their command. While violence piles on violence, Ludlum does some high-flown moralizing. The story''s underlying philosophy can be found, or at least sought, in the characteristically fuzzy statement: "The arrogance of blind belief led all the mendacities of human thought." Hardcore fans will have fun with this one, but it''s not Ludlum''s best by a long shot. 500,000 first printing; BOMC main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The American embassy in Oman is seized by terrorists who threaten to execute their hostages. Evan Kendrick, a Colorado congressman who had made a fortune as a builder in that part of the world, offers to help free the captives, but asks that his role be kept secret. His mission to Masqat alone would have been a thrilling novel for another writer, but for Ludlum it is only the start of this long, intricate, exciting story of conspiracies within conspiracies. A year after the rescue, Kendrick finds himself famous as the hero of Masqat. The secret group Inver Brass (from Ludlum''s The Chancellor Manuscript ) has determined to propel him into the highest offices. Is Inver Brass behind the murders of people close to Kendrick? Are the terrorists, assisted by top government figures, seeking revenge? Once you start reading you just can''t stop. BOMC main selection. Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1268'),
(6485, 'Ice', 'Linda Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gabriel McQueen has just arrived home on holiday leave from the service when his county-sheriff father sends him back out again with new marching orders. He enlists Gabriel to trek to the middle of nowhere to ensure their neighbour Lolly Helton is safe and sound. It''s a trip the younger McQueen would rather not make given the bitter winter weather - and the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly - but there''s no talking back when your dad''s the town''s top cop.Despite the treacherous weather, Gabriel gets to the house but spots strangers in Lolly''s home - one of them carrying a weapon. His stealth training is all he needs to extract Lolly from the house without alerting her captors. But when the escape is discovered, the heat - and the hunt - is on. And the winter woods are not a place to be once the ice storm touches down, dropping trees, blocking roads, and trapping the fleeing pair in the freezing dark.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3572'),
(6486, 'Ice Cold', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsenâ€™s relentless, inventive novels take readers on pulse-racing thrill rides that are as satisfying as they are heart-stopping. Now, in this edge-of-your-seat suspense novel, a mysteriously isolated town stands abandoned as a silent watcher waits.In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles joins a group of friends on a spur-of-the-moment ski trip. But when their SUV stalls on a snow-choked mountain road, theyâ€™re stranded with no help in sight.As night falls, the group seeks refuge from the blizzard in the remote village of Kingdom Come, where twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Something terrible has happened in Kingdom Come: Meals sit untouched on tables, cars are still parked in garages. The townâ€™s previous residents seem to have vanished into thin air, but footprints in the snow betray the presence of someone who still lurks in the cold darknessâ€”someone who is watching Maura and her friends.Days later, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news that Mauraâ€™s charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow. As horrifying revelations come to light, Jane closes in on an enemy both powerful and mercilessâ€”and the chilling truth about Mauraâ€™s fate.Â Published in the UK as THE KILLING PLACE.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3259'),
(6487, 'Iceberg', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New York Daily News\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Get-to-the-next-page excitement... Dirk Pitt is a combination James Bond and Jacques Cousteau...." --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A BIZARRE OCEAN VESSEL WITH A CREW OF CORPSES...\n  <br />\n  A DEADLY ARCTIC CONFRONTATION...\n  <br />\n  A VICIOUS INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY TO\n  <br />\n  HIJACK A CONTINENT!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Frozen inside a million-ton mass of ice -- the charred remains of a long-missing luxury yacht, vanished en route to a secret White House rendezvous. The only clues to the ship''s priceless -- and missing -- cargo: ornately carved rings and the horribly burned bodies of its crew.\n </p>\n <p>\n  DIRK PITT, intrepid hero of Clive Cussler''s smash bestsellsers Dragon, Sahara, and Inca Gold, confronts the most lethal network of intrigue and murder in his war against international crime. Only his strength, skill and daring can thwart a supercharged scheme that could blow every fuse on earth!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1194'),
(6488, 'Idea Man by the Cofounder of Microsoft', 'Paul Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The virtual world he imagined is now as real as concrete...the very fabric of a twenty-first century that he and a tiny club of others literally invented. Shy, humble, brilliant...Paul Allen''s intellect and generosity of spirit are there on every page."\n  <br />\n  -Bono\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Here is the tale of one of the most restlessly curious and broadly imaginative people of our times, which in simple and eloquent language tells how he changed those times forever."\n  <br />\n  -Jann S. Wenner, edtior and publisher,\n  <em>\n   Rolling Stone\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Paul''s natural curiosity will always guide him into uncharted waters. Whether it''s a newfangled device called the personal computer; exploring the bottom of the sea or deep space; music, movies, and museums; or perhaps his most significant adventure so far-the human brain-two things are certain: It won''t be the same afterward, and it will be an extraordinary journey."\n  <br />\n  -Peter Gabriel\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Whenever you are given the opportunity to get behind the scenes with one of the greatest creative minds in the world of technology and innovation, you have to jump on it. Paul Allen has shown a unique ability and desire to contribute to and powerfully influence a broad spectrum of interests, including technology, science, medicine, the arts, and philanthropic endeavors."\n  <br />\n  -Pete Carroll, head coach of the Seattle Seahawks and author of\n  <em>\n   Win Forever\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A rare glimpse into the mind of a great innovator; a chance to see Paul as only his friends have. The fascinating tale of an ordinary American boy''s rise to being one of the richest men in history."\n  <br />\n  -Carrie Fisher\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Paul is a true adventurer in every sense of the word and, as a friend, he is both loyal and generous of spirit. His ideas have helped shaped the world we live in, and witnessing the way his mind works is like watching a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo: you have no idea how he does it, but it blows your mind."\n  <br />\n  -Dave Stewart\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This son of Oklahoma, by way of Seattle, electrocuted a classmate, soldered his skin, gassed the family pet, purposely crashed systems, dove in dumpsters for coffee-stained printouts, and went on to create the engine that changed the world."\n  <br />\n  -Dan Aykroyd\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The entire conversation took five minutes. When it was over, Bill and I looked at each other. It was one thing to talk about writing a language for a microprocessor and another to get the job done . . . If we''d been older or known better, Bill and I might have been put off by the task in front of us. But we were young and green enough to believe that we just might pull it off."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Paul Allen, best known as the cofounder of Microsoft, has left his mark on numerous fields, from aviation and science to rock ''n'' roll, professional sports, and philanthropy. His passions and curiosity have transformed the way we live. In 2007 and again in 2008,\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It all started on a snowy day in December 1974, when he was twenty-one years old. After buying the new issue of\n  <em>\n   Popular Electronics\n  </em>\n  in Harvard Square, Allen ran to show it to his best friend from Seattle, Bill Gates, then a Harvard undergrad. The magazine''s cover story featured the Altair 8800, the first true personal computer; Allen knew that he and Gates had the skills to code a programming language for it. When Gates agreed to collaborate on BASIC for the Altair, one of the most influential partnerships of the digital era was up and running.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While much has been written about Microsoft''s early years, Allen has never before told the story from his point of view. Nor has he previously talked about the details of his complex relationship with Gates or his behind-closed- doors perspective on how a struggling startup became the most powerful technology company in the world.\n  <em>\n   Idea Man\n  </em>\n  is the candid and long-awaited memoir of an intensely private person, a tale of triumphant highs and terrifying lows.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After becoming seriously ill with Hodgkin''s lymphoma in 1982, Allen began scaling back his involvement with Microsoft. He recovered and started using his fortune-and his ideas-for a life of adventure and discovery, from the first privately funded spacecraft (SpaceShipOne) to a landmark breakthrough in neuroscience (the Allen Brain Atlas). His eclectic ventures all start with the same simple question: What\n  <em>\n   should\n  </em>\n  exist? As Allen has written:\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   To me, that''s the most exciting question imaginable. . . . From technology to science to music to art, I''m inspired by those who''ve blurred the boundaries, who''ve looked at the possibilities, and said, "What if...?" In my own work, I''ve tried to anticipate what''s coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people''s lives in a meaningful way. . . . The varied possibilities of the universe have dazzled me since I was a child, and they continue to drive my work, my investments, and my philanthropy.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Idea Man\n  </em>\n  is an astonishing true story of ideas made real.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2071'),
(6489, 'The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States', 'Gordon S. Wood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. For this reason, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American Revolution is the most important event in our history, bar none. Since American identity is so fluid and not based on any universally shared heritage, we have had to continually return to our nation''s founding to understand who we are. In\n <em>\n  The Idea of America\n </em>\n , Wood reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the revolution remains so essential.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution-from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment-and the founders'' attempts to forge an American democracy. As Wood reveals, while the founders hoped to create a virtuous republic of yeoman farmers and uninterested leaders, they instead gave birth to a sprawling, licentious, and materialistic popular democracy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Wood also traces the origins of American exceptionalism to this period, revealing how the revolutionary generation, despite living in a distant, sparsely populated country, believed itself to be the most enlightened people on earth. The revolution gave Americans their messianic sense of purpose-and perhaps our continued propensity to promote democracy around the world-because the founders believed their colonial rebellion had universal significance for oppressed peoples everywhere. Yet what may seem like audacity in retrospect reflected the fact that in the eighteenth century republicanism was a truly radical ideology-as radical as Marxism would be in the nineteenth-and one that indeed inspired revolutionaries the world over.\n</p>\n<p>\n Today there exists what Wood calls a terrifying gap between us and the founders, such that it requires almost an act of imagination to fully recapture their era. Because we now take our democracy for granted, it is nearly impossible for us to appreciate how deeply the founders feared their grand experiment in liberty could evolve into monarchy or dissolve into licentiousness. Gracefully written and filled with insight,\n <em>\n  The Idea of America\n </em>\n helps us to recapture the fears and hopes of the revolutionary generation and its attempts to translate those ideals into a working democracy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2432'),
(6490, 'The Ideal Man', 'Julie Garwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood delivers a contemporary romance that''s pulse-pounding in every sense of the word.   Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby, she witnesses the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The only person to see the shooter''s face, Ellie is suddenly at the center of a criminal investigation.  Agent Max Daniels takes over the Landry case. A no-nonsense lawman, he''s definitely not the ideal man that Ellie has always imagined, yet she''s attracted to him in a way she can''t explain.  Ellie heads home to Winston Falls, South Carolina, to attend her sister''s wedding. Shortly after she arrives, though, she receives a surprise visitor: Max Daniels. The Landrys have been captured, and she''ll be called to testify. But they''ve been captured before, and each time the witnesses are scared into silence-or disappear before they can take the stand. Max vows to be Ellie''s shadow until the trial, and it isn''t long before sparks fly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3402'),
(6491, 'If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer', 'Goldman Family', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With an audacity that vilifies O.J. Simpson more than any other author could, Simpson himself provides a fictional tell-all account of the murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown. Simpson seems to be more concerned about how the press poorly portrayed the factsâ€”not about his murderous acts but of his personal life and relationship with Nicole. When he''s not lamenting about how he is misunderstood, he''s playing arm-chair therapist for Nicole (claiming she was involved with drugs, constantly erratic and still hopelessly longing for him). Simpson insists it was Nicole''s actions that ultimately forced him to murder her. With an exclusive commentary read by Kim Goldman (Ron Goldman''s sister), an account of writing the book with Simpson by ghostwriter Pablo F. Fenjves and an afterword by Dominick Dunne, listeners get an interesting balancing act of interests and motives for the publication of this story. G. Valmont Thomas eerily embraces Simpson''s sound and speech patterns, making the audiobook more disturbing than the book. Hearing Simpson''s words at his most enraged, listeners will be impressed and possibly frightened with how well Thomas delivers this first-person narrative.\n  <em>\n   A Beaufort Books hardcover. (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fred and Kim Goldman are the father and sister of Ron Goldman, who was brutally murdered along with Nicole Brown Simpson in Brentwood, CA on June 12th, 1994. Although O.J. Simpson was acquitted by a jury in the criminal case, he was found responsible for the crimes in a civil case which awarded the Goldmans a judgment of $19 million.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1338');
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(6492, 'If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home', 'Tim O&#39;Brien', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Over time, Tim O''Brien has used both art and artifice to shape his fictional accounts of Vietnam. Award-winning novels such as\n <em>\n  Going After Cacciato\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Things They Carried\n </em>\n offer up a surreal view of the war: a soldier who decides to walk to Paris, leaving only a trail of M&amp;M''s in his wake; a young man who imports his high-school girlfriend to his base camp high in the jungled mountains, only to lose her to a shadowy squad of Special Forces Green Berets and to "that mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure" that was Vietnam. O''Brien''s first account of the war, however, was written in the raw, unfiltered months following his return from Southeast Asia in 1969.\n <em>\n  If I Die in a Combat Zone\n </em>\n has all of the eloquence and attention to language and detail that are a mark of the author''s work; what is different about it is its straightforward, unembellished depiction of his personal experience of hell.\n</p>\n<p>\n "When you are ordered to march through areas such as Pinkville--GI slang for Song My, parent village of My Lai ... you do some thinking. You hallucinate. You look ahead a few paces and wonder what your legs will resemble if there is more to the earth in that spot than silicates and nitrogen. Will the pain be unbearable? Will you scream or fall silent? Will you be afraid to look at your own body, afraid of the sight of your own red flesh and white bone? You wonder if the medic remembered his morphine."\n</p>\n<p>\n O''Brien paints an unvarnished portrait of the infantry soldier''s life that is at once mundane and terrifying--the endless days of patrolling punctuated by firefights that end as suddenly and inconclusively as they begin; the mind-numbing brutality of burned villages and trampled rice patties; the terror of tunnels, minefields, and the ever-present threat of death. Powerful as these scenes are, perhaps the most memorable chapter in the book concerns his decision to desert just a few weeks before he was sent to Vietnam. "The AWOL bag was ready to go, but I wasn''t.... I burned the letters to my family. I read the others and burned them, too. It was over. I simply couldn''t bring myself to flee. Family, the home town, friends, history, tradition, fear, confusion, exile: I could not run." Tim O''Brien went into the war opposing it and came out knowing exactly why.\n <em>\n  If I Die in a Combat Zone\n </em>\n is more than just a memoir of a disastrous war; it is also a meditation on heroism and cowardice, on the mutability of truth and morality in a war zone and, most of all, on the simple, human capacity to endure the unendurable.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "O''Brien brilliantly and quietly evokes the foot soldier''s daily life in the paddies and foxholes, evokes a blind, blundering war. . . . Tim O''Brien writes with the care and eloquence of someone for whom communication is still a vital possibility. . . . A personal document of aching clarity. . . . A beautiful, painful book."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Minneapolis Star and Tribune\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2527'),
(6493, 'If I Stay', 'Gayle Forman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall what happened afterwards, watching her own damaged body being taken from the wreck. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces - to figure out what she has lost, what she has left, and the very difficult choice she must make. Heart-wrenchingly beautiful, Mia''s story will stay with you for a long, long time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2857'),
(6494, 'If Morning Ever Comes', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A touchingly funny tale from the Pultizer Prize-winning author of Saint Maybe. Ben Joe Hawkes comes from a large, cheerful family of women. But when one of his sisters takes her baby and leaves her husband, everything--including his perceptions of the past--changes. "Phenomenal".--The New York Times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/968'),
(6495, 'If You Ask Me:', 'Betty White', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everything in between.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White''s wit and wisdom take center stage as she tackles topics like friendship, romantic love, aging, television, fans, love for animals, and the brave new world of celebrity.\n  <em>\n   If You Ask Me\n  </em>\n  mixes her thoughtful observations with humorous stories from a seven- decade career in Hollywood. Longtime fans and new fans alike will relish Betty''s candid take on everything from her rumored crush on Robert Redford (true) to her beauty regimen ("I have no idea what color my hair is and I never intend to find out") to the Facebook campaign that helped persuade her to host\n  <em>\n   Saturday Night Live\n  </em>\n  despite her having declined the hosting job three times already.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring all-new material, with a focus on the past fifteen years of her life,\n  <em>\n   If You Ask Me\n  </em>\n  is funny, sweet, and to the point-just like Betty White.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Betty White\n  </strong>\n  ''s award-winning career in television and film has spanned an impressive seven decades and has included iconic roles on\n  <em>\n   The Mary Tyler Moore Show\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Golden Girls\n  </em>\n  . Widely recognized for her lifelong work for animal welfare, she lives in Brentwood, California, with her golden retriever, Pontiac.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2072'),
(6496, 'If You Were Here', 'Jen Lancaster', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The fiction debut of the "New York Times" bestselling author of "My Fair Lazy."  Told in the uproariously entertaining voice readers have come to expect from Jen Lancaster, "If You Were Here" follows Amish-zombie-teen- romance author Mia and her husband Mac (and their pets) through the alternately frustrating, exciting, terrifying-but always funny-process of buying and renovating their first home in the Chicago suburbs that John hughes''s movies made famous. Along their harrowing renovation journey, Mia and Mac get caught up in various wars with the homeowners'' association, meet some less-than-friendly neighbors, and are joined by a hilarious cast of supporting characters, including a celebutard ex- landlady. As they struggle to adapt to their new surroundings- with Mac taking on the renovations himself- Mia and Mac will discover if their marriage is strong enough to survive months of DIY renovations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3390'),
(6497, 'Ill Fares the Land', 'Tony Judt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A gift to the next generation of engaged citizens, from one of our most celebrated intellectuals.\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear, the social contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America-the guarantee of security, stability, and fairness-is no longer guaranteed; in fact, it''s no longer part of the common discourse. Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far Right and the debunked socialism of the past. In reintroducing alternatives to the status quo, Judt invigorates our political conversation, furnishing the tools necessary to imagine a new form of governance and a better way of life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tony Judt\n </strong>\n was born in London in 1948. He was educated at King''s College, Cambridge and the Ã‰cole Normale SupÃ©rieure, Paris, and has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, Berkeley and New York University, where he is currently the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies and Director of the Remarque Institute, which is dedicated to the study of Europe and which he founded in 1995. The author or editor of twelve books, he is a frequent contributor to\n <em>\n  The New York Review of Books\n </em>\n , the\n <em>\n  Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, The New York Times\n </em>\n and many other journals in Europe and the US. Professor Judt is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Permanent Fellow of the Institut fÃ¼r die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna). He is the author of\n <em>\n  Reappraisals: Reflections On The Forgotten Twentieth Century\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945\n </em>\n , which was one of the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n â€™s Ten Best Books of 2005, the winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2075'),
(6498, 'The Illustrated Man', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could bear the voiced murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades--from The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 to Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes. The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury --a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind''s destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist''s needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness ... the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere ... the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father''s clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Ray Bradbury''s The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster''s premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world. He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades--from The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 to Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN is classic Bradbury--a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind''s destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist''s needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness...the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere...the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father''s clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Ray Bradbury''s THE ILLUSTRATEDMAN is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster''s premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1289'),
(6499, 'Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Stephen Hawking is widely believed to be one of the worldâ€™s greatest minds, a brilliant theoretical physicist whose work helped reconfigure models of the universe and define whatâ€™s in it. Imagine sitting in a room listening to Hawking discuss these achievements and place them in historical context; it would be like hearing Christopher Columbus on the New World.  Hawking presents a series of seven lecturesâ€”covering everything from big bang to black holes to string theoryâ€”that capture not only the brilliance of Hawkingâ€™s mind but his characteristic wit as well. Of his research on black holes, which absorbed him for more than a decade, he says, â€œIt might seem a bit like looking for a black cat in a coal cellar.â€   Hawking begins with a history of ideas about the universe, from Aristotleâ€™s determination that the Earth is round to Hubbleâ€™s discovery, more than 2,000 years later, that the universe is expanding. Using that as a launching pad, he explores the reaches of modern physics, including theories on the origin of the universe (e.g., the Big Bang), the nature of black holes, and space-time. Finally, he poses the questions left unanswered by modern physics, especially how to combine all the partial theories into a â€œunified theory of everything.â€ â€œIf we find the answer to that,â€ he claims, â€œit would be the ultimate triumph of human reason.â€  A great popularizer of science as well as a brilliant scientist, Hawking believes that advances in theoretical science should be â€œunderstandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists.â€ In this book, he offers a fascinating voyage of discovery about the cosmos and our place in it. It is a book for anyone who has ever gazed at the night sky and wondered what was up there and how it came to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1096'),
(6500, 'The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria', 'Bill Shore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n With over 25 years at the helm of Share Our Strength, an organization dedicated to eliminating childhood hunger, Shore can be considered something of an expert on social entrepreneurs. Defined as people determined to make nonprofit organizations self-sustaining by creating markets for their goods and services, social entrepreneurs are resetting the boundaries of what once were thought of as charities. Like their business counterparts, social entrepreneurs possess great imagination plus the indomitable, never-say-die spirit necessary to achieve what heretofore had been unattainable. Shoreâ€™s prime example is scientist/physician/researcher/visionary Stephen Hoffman, who bears every mark of someone who can succeed where no one else has. Hoffman, honcho at Sanaria Laboratory in Rockville, Maryland, is this close to perfecting a vaccine that promises to virtually eliminate malaria, a disease that infects an estimated 500 million people per year, and kills upwards of 3,000 children a day. Shore spares no superlatives in describing Hoffman, his work, and that of his counterparts in this worthy chronicle. --Donna Chavez\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Richard Russo,Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of\n  <em>\n   Empire Falls\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œBill Shoreâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men\n </em>\n isÂ all aboutÂ links, oftenÂ invisible, between science and compassion,Â imagination and reason,Â philanthropy and markets, competition and cooperation.Â Itâ€™s also about solving some of the worldâ€™s mostÂ intractable problemsâ€”intractable,Â Shore argues passionately and convincingly,Â becauseÂ all but a few of us tooÂ readily accept theÂ conventional wisdomÂ that they areÂ unsolvable.Â It is, in other words, a necessary book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n David Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvardâ€™s Kennedy School of Government\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œBill Shore provides fascinating insights into the journeys of two wonderful men trying to change the worldâ€”one a scientist and the other the author himself. Both lives show that character, ambition, imagination, and the stubborn conviction that good is not good enough are indispensable to every leader seeking higher ground.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  , November 20, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œAn upbeat account of several American scientists researching malaria prevention.. Mr. Shore tells his story well.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1920'),
(6501, 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks', 'Rebecca Skloot', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n </em>\n a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta''s family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells'' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories? --_Tom Nissley\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Jad Abumrad Reviews\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jad Abumrad is host and creator of the public radio hit\n  <em>\n   Radiolab\n  </em>\n  , now in its seventh season and reaching over a million people monthly.\n  <em>\n   Radiolab\n  </em>\n  combines cutting-edge production with a philosophical approach to big ideas in science and beyond, and an inventive method of storytelling. Abumrad has won numerous awards, including a National Headliner Award in Radio and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Journalism Award. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Honestly, I can''t imagine a better tale.\n</p>\n<p>\n A detective story that''s at once mythically large and painfully intimate.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just the simple facts are hard to believe: that in 1951, a poor black woman named Henrietta Lacks dies of cervical cancer, but pieces of the tumor that killed her--taken without her knowledge or consent--live on, first in one lab, then in hundreds, then thousands, then in giant factories churning out polio vaccines, then aboard rocket ships launched into space. The cells from this one tumor would spawn a multi-billion dollar industry and become a foundation of modern science--leading to breakthroughs in gene mapping, cloning and fertility and helping to discover how viruses work and how cancer develops (among a million other things). All of which is to say: the science end of this story is enough to blow one''s mind right out of one''s face.\n</p>\n<p>\n But what''s truly remarkable about\n</p>\n<p>\n The book ultimately channels its journey of discovery though Henrietta''s youngest daughter, Deborah, who never knew her mother, and who dreamt of one day being a scientist.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Deborah Lacks and Skloot search for answers, we''re bounced effortlessly from the tiny tobacco-farming Virginia hamlet of Henrietta''s childhood to modern-day Baltimore, where Henrietta''s family remains. Along the way, a series of unforgettable juxtapositions: cell culturing bumps into faith healings, cutting edge medicine collides with the dark truth that Henrietta''s family can''t afford the health insurance to care for diseases their mother''s cells have helped to cure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebecca Skloot tells the story with great sensitivity, urgency and, in the end, damn fine writing. I highly recommend this book.\n <em>\n  --Jad Abumrad\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Look Inside\n  <em>\n   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Click on thumbnails for larger images\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Henrietta and David Lacks, circa 1945.   Elsie Lacks, Henriettaâ€™s older daughter, about five years before she was committed to Crownsville State Hospital, with a diagnosis of â€œidiocy.â€   Deborah Lacks at about age four.   The home-house where Henrietta was raised, a four-room log cabin in Clover, Virginia, that once served as slave quarters. (1999)   Main Street in downtown Clover, Virginia, where Henrietta was raised, circa 1930s.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Margaret Gey and Minnie, a lab technician, in the Gey lab at Hopkins, circa 1951.   Deborah with her children, LaTonya and Alfred, and her second husband, James Pullum, in the mid-1980s.   In 2001, Deborah developed a severe case of hives after learning upsetting new information about her mother and sister.   Deborah and her cousin Gary Lacks standing in front of drying tobacco, 2001.   The Lacks family in 2009.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Science journalist Skloot makes a remarkable debut with this multilayered story about faith, science, journalism, and grace. It is also a tale of medical wonders and medical arrogance, racism, poverty and the bond that grows, sometimes painfully, between two very different womenâ€”Skloot and Deborah Lacksâ€”sharing an obsession to learn about Deborah''s mother, Henrietta, and her magical, immortal cells. Henrietta Lacks was a 31-year-old black mother of five in Baltimore when she died of cervical cancer in 1951. Without her knowledge, doctors treating her at Johns Hopkins took tissue samples from her cervix for research. They spawned the first viable, indeed miraculously productive, cell lineâ€”known as HeLa. These cells have aided in medical discoveries from the polio vaccine to AIDS treatments. What Skloot so poignantly portrays is the devastating impact Henrietta''s death and the eventual importance of her cells had on her husband and children. Skloot''s portraits of Deborah, her father and brothers are so vibrant and immediate they recall Adrian Nicole LeBlanc''s\n <em>\n  Random Family.\n </em>\n Writing in plain, clear prose, Skloot avoids melodrama and makes no judgments. Letting people and events speak for themselves, Skloot tells a rich, resonant tale of modern science, the wonders it can perform and how easily it can exploit society''s most vulnerable people.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1922'),
(6502, 'Impact', 'Douglas Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia... to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world. A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast... and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater. A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the data missing. High resolution NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars... and it appears to have been activated. Sixty hours and counting.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3399'),
(6503, 'Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony', 'Jeff Ashton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Filled with explosive new information, this is the definitive inside story of the case that captivated the nation and the verdict that no one saw comingIt was the trial that stunned America, the verdict that shocked us all. On July 5, 2011, nearly three years after her initial arrest, Casey Anthony walked away, virtually scot-free, from one of the most sensational murder trials of all time. She''d been accused of killing her daughter, Caylee, but the trial only left behind more questions: Was she actually innocent? What really happened to Caylee? Was this what justice really looked like?In "Imperfect Justice," prosecutor Jeff Ashton, one of the principal players in the case''s drama, sheds light on those questions and much more, telling the behind-the-scenes story of the investigation, the trial, and the now-infamous verdict. Providing an inside account of the case, Ashton, a career prosecutor for the state of Florida, goes where the press and pundits have only speculated, detailing what really happened during the investigation, showing how the prosecution built their case, and explaining how a woman so shrouded in suspicion was proclaimed innocent.Moving beyond the simple explanations, Ashton offers an in-depth look at the complex figure of Casey Anthony, a woman whose lies he spent three years trying to understand. And yet this focus on Casey came with its own risks; here he details how this widespread fixation on Casey--both in the media and in the trial--may have undermined the case itself. As everyone got caught up in the quest to understand the supposed villain, somehow the victim, Caylee, was all but forgotten--not just to the public, but more important, to the jury.Complete with never-before-revealed information about the case and the accused, Ashton examines what the prosecution got right, what they got wrong, and why he remains completely convinced of Casey Anthony''s guilt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2880'),
(6504, 'Imperfect Strangers', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Step one: The perfect murder\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Sandy Kinsolving''s once-glittering life hangs by a thread; his future depends on his wife''s inheritance and whether or not she''s about to throw him out on his ear. What he wouldn''t give for a solution to his money and marriage problems.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  If this were an Alfred Hitchcock movie, the solution would be obvious. Enter a stranger with wife problems of his own, who offers a violentâ€”and mutually advantageousâ€”proposal.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Then in the time it takes to whisper a word, Kinsolving''s normal life ends. What radiates like a mirage before him is wealth, security, and freedom. But lurking in the shadows are a brutal murder he cannot prevent and a madman who stalks his every waking moment.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2649'),
(6505, 'Imperial Bedrooms', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Twenty-five years have passed since the events chronicled in ''Less Than Zero'', and Clay Easton, now a successful screenwriter, has returned from a brief stint in New York City to Los Angeles, where he''s helping to cast his newest movie, The Listeners. But the more things have changed, the more they stay the same, and Clay is soon drifting around in his familiar old circle. There''s his vulnerable former girlfriend, Blair, and her husband, Trent, now a high-powered agent but still a bisexual philanderer; and the parties they host at their Beverly Hills mansion are filled with Hollywood types of various levels of fame and fortune and power. There''s his childhood friend Julian, a recovering addict running an ultra-discreet, high-class escort service, and their old dealer Rip Millar, reconstructed and face-lifted nearly beyond recognition, who nowadays is involved in activities far more sinister than those of his notorious past. But Clay has demons of his own, and they threaten to destroy him once he becomes involved with Rain Turner, a gorgeous, much younger actress whom he has promised a role in his movie, exploiting her as best he can until he grows emotionally attached. Before long he realizes she has mysterious connections to not only Julian and Rip but also Kelly Montrose, a producer whose gruesomely violent death is suddenly very much the talk of the town. And as Clay''s life spirals out of control, he is forced to plumb the dark recesses of his character and fully come to terms with his capacity for betrayal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3291'),
(6506, 'The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War', 'James Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the success of his two bestselling books about World War II, James Bradley began to wonder what the real catalyst was for the Pacific War. What he discovered shocked him. In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his daughter Alice, and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea with the intent of forging an agreement to divide up Asia. This clandestine pact lit the fuse that would-decades later-result in a number of devastating wars: WWII, the Korean War, and the communist revolution in China. In 2005, James Bradley retraced that epic voyage and discovered the remarkable truth about America''s vast imperial past. Full of fascinating characters brought brilliantly to life,The Imperial Cruisewill powerfully revise the way we understand U.S. history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2435'),
(6507, 'In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir', 'Dick Cheney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this eagerly anticipated memoir, former Vice President Dick Cheney delivers an unyielding portrait of American politics over nearly forty years and shares personal reflections on his role as one of the most steadfast and influential statesmen in the history of our country.The public perception of Dick Cheney has long been something of a contradiction. He has been viewed as one of the most powerful vice presidents--secretive, even mysterious, and at the same time opinionated and unflinchingly outspoken. He has been both praised and attacked by his peers, the press, and the public. Through it all, courting only the ideals that define him, he has remained true to himself, his principles, his family, and his country. Now in an enlightening and provocative memoir, a stately page-turner with flashes of surprising humor and remarkable candor, Dick Cheney takes readers through his experiences as family man, policymaker, businessman, and politician during years that shaped our collective history.Born into a family of New Deal Democrats in Lincoln, Nebraska, Cheney was the son of a father at war and a high-spirited and resilient mother. He came of age in Casper, Wyoming, playing baseball and football and, as senior class president, courting homecoming queen Lynne Vincent, whom he later married. This all-American story took an abrupt turn when he flunked out of Yale University, signed on to build power line in the West, and started living as hard as he worked. Cheney tells the story of how he got himself back on track and began an extraordinary ascent to the heights of American public life, where he would remain for nearly four decades: * He was the youngest White House Chief of Staff, working for President Gerald Ford--the first of four chief executives he would come to know well. * He became Congressman from Wyoming and was soon a member of the congressional leadership working closely with President Ronald Reagan.* He became secretary of defense in the George H. W. Bush administration, overseeing America''s military during Operation Desert Storm and in the historic transition at the end of the Cold War.* He was CEO of Halliburton, a Fortune 500 company with projects and personnel around the globe. * He became the first vice president of the United States to serve out his term of office in the twenty-first century. Working with George W. Bush from the beginning of the global war on terror, he was--and remains--an outspoken defender of taking every step necessary to defend the nation. Eyewitness to history at the highest levels, Cheney brings to life scenes from past and present. He describes driving through the White House gates on August 9, 1974, just hours after Richard Nixon resigned, to begin work on the Ford transition; and he portrays a time of national crisis a quarter century later when, on September 11, 2001, he was in the White House bunker and conveyed orders to shoot down a hijacked airliner if it would not divert. With its unique perspective on a remarkable span of American history, "In My Time" will enlighten. As an intimate and personal chronicle, it will surprise, move, and inspire. Dick Cheney''s is an enduring political vision to be reckoned with and admired for its honesty, its wisdom, and its resonance. "In My Time" is truly the last word about an incredible political era, by a man who lived it and helped define it--with courage and without compromise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2076'),
(6508, 'In Pharaoh&#39;s Army: Memories of the Lost War', 'Tobias Wolff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In This Boy''s Life Tobias Wolf created an unforgettable memoir of an American childhood. Now he gives us a precisely and sometimes pitilessly remembered account of his young manhood - a young manhood that become entangled in the tragic adventure that was Vietnam. Mordantly funny, searingly honest,\n <strong>\n  In Pharoah''s Army\n </strong>\n is a war memoir in the tradition of George Orwell and Michael Herr.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wolff''s memoir of his disillusioning experience as a soldier in Vietnam was a finalist for the NBA.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2529'),
(6509, 'In the Company of Others', 'Jan Karon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A stirring page-turner from the bestselling author of the Mitford Series.   Jan Karon''s new series, launched with her New York Times bestselling Home to Holly Springs, thrilled legions of Mitford devotees, and also attracted a whole new set of readers. "Lovely," said USA Today. "Rejoice!" said The Washington Post.  In this second novel, Father Tim and Cynthia arrive in the west of Ireland, intent on researching his Kavanagh ancestry from the comfort of a charming fishing lodge. The charm, however, is broken entirely when Cynthia startles a burglar and sprains her already-injured ankle. Then a cherished and valuable painting is stolen from the lodge owners, and Cynthia''s pain pales in comparison to the wound at the center of this bitterly estranged Irish family.  In the Company of Others is a moving testament to the desperate struggle to hide the truth at any cost and the powerful need to confess. Of all her winning novels, Jan Karon says this "dark-haired child" is her favorite-a sentiment readers everywhere are certain to share.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3527'),
(6510, 'In the Dark of the Night', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Summer vacation becomes a season in hell for an ordinary family who unwittingly stir something invisible, insidious, and insatiable from its secret slumberâ€“unleashing a wave of horror only the darkest evil could create, that only a master of spine-tingling terror like John Saul could orchestrate. For deep in the shadows in the dark of the night lurks something as big as life . . . and as real as death.It has waited seven years for someone to come back to the rambling lakeside house called Pinecrest, which has stood empty since its last owner went missing. For upscale Chicago couple Dan and Merrill Brewster, the old midwestern manse is an ideal retreat, and for their kids, Eric and Marci, itâ€™s the perfect place to spend a lazy summer exploring. Which is how Eric and his teenage friends discover the curious cache of discarded objects stowed in a hidden room of Pinecrestâ€™s carriage house. The bladeless hacksaws, shadeless lamps, tables with missing legs, headless axe handle, and other unremarkable items add up to a pile of junk. Yet someone took the trouble to inventory each worthless relic in a cryptic ledger. It has all the makings of a great mysteryâ€“whispering, coaxing, demanding to be solved.But the more the boys devote themselves to restoring the forgotten possessions and piecing together the puzzle behind them, the more their fascination deepens into obsession. Soon their days are consumed with tending the strange, secret collectionâ€“while their nights become plagued by ever more ghastly dreams, nightmares that soon seep into reality. And when a horrifying discovery surfaces, so does the chilling truthâ€“about the terrifying events that rocked the town seven years before, the mysterious disappearance of Pinecrestâ€™s last resident, and a twisted legacy with a malevolent life of its own . . . and a bottomless hunger for new victims.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3811'),
(6511, 'In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Now in a premium edition, the sixth Dave Robicheaux novel by acclaimed\n  <strong>\n   New York Times\n  </strong>\n  bestselling novelist and Edgar-winner James Lee Burke.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The image of the dead girlâ€™s body lingered in detective Dave Robicheauxâ€™s mind as he drove home. After seeing the young victimâ€™s corpse, the last thing he needed to come across was a drunk driver. But when he saw the Cadillac fishtail across the road, Robicheaux knew the driver was in trouble. What Dave didnâ€™t realize, was that by pulling the car over, he was opening his murder case wider than he could ever imagine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The driver, Elrod Sykes, in New Iberia to star in a movie, leads Dave to the skeletal remains of a black man that had washed up in the Atchafalaya swamp. So begins a mystery that takes Dave back to an unsolved murderâ€”a murder that he witnessed in 1957. Haunted by the past as he confronts the gruesome present-day rape and murder of young prostitutes, Robicheaux must also contend with a new partner from the F.B.I., and the local criminal gentry. But for Dave, the answers he seeks lie somewhere in the bayou mist with the ghosts of soldiers long since forgotten...\n </p>\n <p>\n  A masterwork of detective fiction,\n  <strong>\n   In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead\n  </strong>\n  is James Lee Burkeâ€™s most suspenseful work to date.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Edgar Award-winner James Lee Burke returns with another riveting Dave Robicheaux novel. Robicheaux has his hands full in New Iberia, Louisiana, what with a film crew shooting a Civil War movie, the return of a local mobster, and the brutal murder of a young woman. With the help of a supposedly psychic actor, Robicheaux tracks a twisted killer. Author signings.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/385'),
(6512, 'In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler&#39;s Berlin', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œLarson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.â€â€”New York Times Book ReviewÂ Â Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitlerâ€™s rise to power.Â The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes Americaâ€™s first ambassador to Hitlerâ€™s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.Â A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the â€œNew Germany,â€ she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romanceâ€”and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitlerâ€™s true character and ruthless ambition.Â Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre GÃ¶ring and the expectedly charming--yet wholly sinister--Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2531'),
(6513, 'In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex', 'Nathaniel Philbrick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The appeal of Dava Sobel''s\n <em>\n  Longitude\n </em>\n was, in part, that it illuminated a little-known piece of history through a series of captivating incidents and engaging personalities. Nathaniel Philbrick''s\n <em>\n  In the Heart of the Sea\n </em>\n is certainly cast from the same mold, examining the 19th-century Pacific whaling industry through the arc of the sinking of the whaleship\n <em>\n  Essex\n </em>\n by a boisterous sperm whale. The story that inspired Herman Melville''s classic\n <em>\n  Moby-Dick\n </em>\n has a lot going for it--derring-do, cannibalism, rescue--and Philbrick proves an amiable and well-informed narrator, providing both context and detail. We learn about the importance and mechanics of blubber production--a vital source of oil--and we get the nuts and bolts of harpooning and life aboard whalers. We are spared neither the nitty-gritty of open boats nor the sucking of human bones dry.\n</p>\n<p>\n By sticking to the tried and tested\n <em>\n  Longitude\n </em>\n formula, Philbrick has missed a slight trick or two. The epicenter of the whaling industry was Nantucket, a small island off Cape Cod; most of the whales were in the Pacific, necessitating a huge journey around the southernmost tip of South America. We never learn why no one ever tried to create an alternative whaling capital somewhere nearer. Similarly, Philbrick tells us that the story of the\n <em>\n  Essex\n </em>\n was well known to Americans for decades, but he never explores how such legends fade from our consciousness. Philbrick would no doubt reply that such questions were beyond his remit, and you can''t exactly accuse him of skimping on his research. By any standard, 50 pages of footnotes impress, though he wears his learning lightly. He doesn''t get bogged down in turgid detail, and his narrative rattles along at a nice pace. When the storyline is as good as this, you can''t really ask for more.\n <em>\n  --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With woody intonation and a suitably somber cadence, Tony Award-winning actor Herrmann reads this chilling tale of the Essex, a whaling ship that was sunk in the middle of the Pacific by an 80-foot sperm whale in 1820. The story would come to mark the mythology of the 19th century as the Titanic did the 20thAHerman Melville, for one, based Moby Dick on certain key elements of the tragedy. In Philbrick''s spare, well-paced version, we learn much about how Nantucket''s culture was affected by the whaling industry boom, from its economy to its social habits. But the horrific heart of the narrative details the fate of the 20 sailors who attempted to sail several thousand miles back to Chile using only three pathetic open boats. Reaching home 93 days later, only eight sailors survived the ordeal of thirst, starvation and despair. Near the tape''s end, Herrmann delivers one of the finest funereal orations ever offered on behalf of seamen. Simultaneous release with the Viking hardcover (Forecasts, Apr. 10). (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2532'),
(6514, 'In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor&#39;s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom', 'Qanta Ahmed', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This memoir is a journey into a complex world readers will find fascinating and at times repugnant. After being denied a visa to remain in the U.S., British-born Ahmed, a Muslim woman of Pakistani origin, takes advantage of an opportunity, before 9/11, to practice medicine in Saudi Arabia. She discovers her new environment is defined by schizophrenic contrasts that create an absurd clamorous clash of modern and medieval.... It never became less arresting to behold. Ahmed''s introduction to her new environment is shocking. Her first patient is an elderly Bedouin woman. Though naked on the operating table, she still is required by custom to have her face concealed with a veil under which numerous hoses snake their way to hissing machines. Everyday life is laced with bizarre situations created by the rabid puritanical orthodoxy that among other requirements forbids women to wear seat belts because it results in their breasts being more defined, and oppresses Saudi men as much as women by its archaic rules. At times the narrative is burdened with Ahmed''s descriptions of the physical characteristics of individuals and the luxurious adornments of their homes but this minor flaw is easily overlooked in exchange for the intimate introduction to a world most readers will never know.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Denied visa renewal in America, British-born Pakistani physician Ahmed, 31, leaves New York for a job in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she celebrates her Muslim faith on an exciting Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca even as she encounters rabid oppression from the state-sanctioned religious extremist police. She is licensed to operate ICU machines in the emergency ward, but as a woman, she is forbidden to drive, and she must veil every inch of herself. Her witty insider-outsider commentary as a Muslim and feminist, both reverent and highly critical, provides rare insight into the upper-class Saudi scene today, including the roles of women and men in romance, weddings, parenting, divorce, work, and friendship. After 9/11, she is shocked at the widespread anti-Americanism. The details of consumerism, complete with Western brand names, get a bit tiresome, but they are centralÂ  to this honest memoir about connections and conflicts, and especially the clamorous clash of â€œmodern and medieval, . . . Cadillac and camel.â€ --Hazel Rochman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2077');
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(6515, 'In the Name of Honor', 'Richard North Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Home from Iraq, a lieutenant kills his commanding officer--was it self-defense or premeditated murder? An enthralling novel of suspense about the high cost of war and secrets The McCarrans and the Gallaghers, two military families, have been close for decades, ever since Anthony McCarran--now one of the army''s most distinguished generals--became best friends with Jack Gallagher, a fellow West Pointer who was later killed in Vietnam. Now a new generation of soldiers faces combat, and Lt. Brian McCarran, the general''s son, has returned from a harrowing tour in Iraq. Traumatized by wartime experiences he will not reveal, Brian depends on his lifelong friendship with Kate Gallagher, Jack''s daughter, who is married to Brian''s commanding officer in Iraq, Capt. Joe D''Abruzzo. But since coming home, D''Abruzzo also seems changed by the experiences he and Brian shared--he''s become secretive and remote. Tragedy strikes when Brian shoots and kills D''Abruzzo on their army post in Virginia. Brian pleads self-defense, claiming that D''Abruzzo, a black-belt martial artist, came to his quarters, accused him of interfering with his marriage, and attacked him. Kate supports Brian and says that her husband had become violent and abusive. But Brian and Kate have secrets of their own, and now Capt. Paul Terry, one of the army''s most accomplished young lawyers, will defend Brian in a high-profile court-martial. Terry''s co-counsel is Meg McCarran, Brian''s sister, a brilliant and beautiful attorney who insists on leaving her practice in San Francisco to help save her brother. Before the case is over, Terry will become deeply entwined with Meg and the McCarrans--and learn that families, like war, can break the sturdiest of souls.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3634'),
(6516, 'In the Place of Justice', 'Wilbert Rideau', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1961, at the age of nineteen, young, black, eighth-grade dropout, Wilbert Rideau, despaired of the dead-end and small-town future his life held for him. He set out to rob the local bank and in an ill-concieved out and bungled robbery he murdered the bank teller a young, white female. He was arrested and gave a full confession at the local police station while angry mobs chanted kill that nigger outside. From this beginning, where we meet Rideau, newly sentenced to death row, he starts on an extraordinary journey. One that begins in the most violent prison in America, where brutality, years spent in solitary confinement, sexual slavery and local politics govern and confine many in ways that bars alone cannot.The ending to this compelling book is like nothing you will have read before, full of breathtaking suspense and gripping, gritty realism, a heartbreaking, emotionally wrought and magical ending to Rideaus prison life is skilfully and vigorously evoked.This is a powerful and inspirational memoir unlike any other, one that is sure to question our expectations of prisoners and the role of jails in rehabilitating them .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2079'),
(6517, 'In the President&#39;s Secret Service', 'Ronald Kessler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time.Secret Service agents, acting as human surveillance cameras, observe everything that goes on behind the scenes in the presidentâ€™s inner circle. Kessler reveals what they have seen, providing startling, previously untold stories about the presidents, from John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as about their families, Cabinet officers, and White House aides. Kessler portrays the dangers that agents face and how they carry out their missionsâ€“from how they are trained to how they spot and assess potential threats. With fly-on-the-wall perspective, he captures the drama and tension that characterize agentsâ€™ lives.In this headline-grabbing book, Kessler discloses assassination attempts that have never before been revealed. He shares inside accounts of past assaults that have put the Secret Service to the test, including a heroic gun battle that took down the would-be assassins of Harry S. Truman, the devastating day that John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas, and the swift actions that saved Ronald Reagan after he was shot.While Secret Service agents are brave and dedicated, Kessler exposes how Secret Service management in recent years has betrayed its mission by cutting corners, risking the assassination of President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and their families. Given the lax standards, â€œItâ€™s a miracle we have not had a successful assassination,â€ a current agent says.Since an assassination jeopardizes democracy itself, few agencies are as important as the Secret Serviceâ€“nor is any other subject as tantalizing as the inner sanctum of the White House. Only tight-lipped Secret Service agents know the real story, and Ronald Kessler is the only journalist to have won their trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2535'),
(6518, 'In the Sanctuary of Outcasts', 'Neil White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following conviction for bank fraud, White spent a year in a minimum-security prison in Carville, La., housed in the last leper colony in mainland America. His fascinating memoir reflects on the sizable group of lepers living alongside the prisoners, social outcasts among the motley inmate crew of drug dealers, mob types and killers. Narrating in colorful, entertaining snapshots, White introduces the reader to an excellent supporting cast in his imprisonment: Father Reynolds, the peerless spiritual monk; Mr. Flowers, the no-nonsense case manager; Anne, the sorrowful mother with leprosy whose baby was taken from her arms; and Ella the Earth Mother, with wisdom to spare. Brisk, ironic and perceptive, White''s introspective memoir puts a magnifying glass to a flawed life, revealing that all of life is to be savored and respected.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n White was a successful magazine publisher in 1993 when he was convicted of fraud and check kiting and sentenced to prison inÂ Carville, Louisiana. He knew he was facing 18 months without his wife and two young children; he knew his enormous ego and ambition had landed him in prison; he knew he had to figure out a way to save his marriage and somehow rebound financially. What he didnâ€™t know was that the isolated 100-year-old facility at Carville was home to a leper colony of 130 patients. He learned that the patients (some severely disfigured and disabled) and the 250 inmates eyed each other suspiciously across the corridors and breezeway, each thinking the other was the scourge of the earth. Because his work detail brought him into frequent contact with the patients, White developed strong relationships with them. His favorite was Ella, a dignified and beatific elderly black woman, who had lived at Carville for more than 50 years. Among the inmates, White encountered counterfeiters and tax evaders along with drug traffickers and carjackers. When the Bureau of Prisons decided to evict the leprosy patients, tensions built on both sides. White, near the end of his sentence and struggling to come to grips with the consequences of his crime, is caught in the middle. He offers a memoir of personal transformation and a thoroughly engaging look at the social, economic, racial, and other barriers that separate individuals that harden, dissolve, and reconfigure themselves when people are involuntarily thrust together over long periods. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2083'),
(6519, 'In the Shadow of Evil', 'Robin Caroll', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Romantic suspense writer Caroll (Fear No Evil) combines detective work ethics with construction site surroundings to build suspense and tension between two unlikely love interests. Homicide detective Maddox Bishop is an emotionally scarred man after entering a crime scene in his own home some 18 years earlier and finding his mother''s dead body. Set on never opening his heart to a woman, Maddox can''t seem to fight the growing bond developing between himself and a potential wrongdoer, Layla Taylor, a contractor and recent victim of heartbreak. Strong wills clash as the two discover they have to work together to unravel the escalating crimes of violence involving every one of Layla''s personal and professional contacts. It takes loss of lives and relinquishment of everything, including significant past grievances toward parents, to move Maddox and Layla beyond bitterness before either can embrace a hopeful future. Caroll''s work unfortunately does more telling than showing, and the result is a rather clumsily done wannabe love story that gives readers the facts but no feelings for the characters'' plights. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Robin Caroll\n  </strong>\n  has authored eleven previous books including the critically acclaimed Deliver Us From Evil. She gives back to the writing community by serving as conference director for American Christian Fiction Writers. A proud southerner, Robin lives with her husband, three daughters, and one precious grandson in Arkansas.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/727'),
(6520, 'In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun&#39;s Tomb', 'Daniel Meyerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1922, the British archaeologist Henry Carter opened King Tutankhamunâ€™s tomb, illuminating the glories of an ancient civilization. And while the world celebrated the extraordinary revelation that gave Carter international renown and an indelible place in history, by the time of his death, the discovery had nearly destroyed him. Now, in a stunning feat of narrative nonfiction, Daniel Meyerson has written a thrilling and evocative account of this remarkable man and his times.Carter began his career inauspiciously. At the age of seventeenâ€“unknown, untrained, untriedâ€“he was hired as a copyist of tomb art by the brash, brilliant, and boldly unkempt father of modern archaeology, W. F. Petrie. Carter struck out on his own a few years later, sensing that something amazing lay buried beneath his feet, waiting for him to uncover it.But others had the same idea: The ancient cities of Egypt were crawling with European adventurers and their wealthy sponsors, each hoping to outdo the others with glittering discoveriesâ€“even as growing nationalist resentment against foreigners plundering the countryâ€™s most treasured antiquities simmered dangerously in the background.Not until Carter met up with the risk-taking, adventure-loving occultist Lord Carnarvon did his fortunes change. There were stark differences in personality and temperament between the cantankerous Carter and his gregarious patron, but together they faced down endless ridicule from the most respected explorers of the day. Seven dusty and dispiriting years after their first meeting, their dream came to astonishing life. But there would be a price to pay for this partnership, their discovery, and the glory and fame it brought both menâ€“and the chain of events that transpired in the wake of their success remains fascinating and shocking to this day.An enthralling story told with unprecedented verve, **In the Valley of the Kings** is a tale of mania and greed, of fame and lost fortune, of history and its damnations. As he did in **The Linguist and the Emperor,** Daniel Meyerson puts his exciting storytelling powers on full display, revealing an almost forgotten time when past and present came crashing together with the power to changeâ€“or curseâ€“menâ€™s lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2536'),
(6521, 'In the Woods', 'Tana French', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddoxâ€”his partner and closest friendâ€”find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past. Richly atmospheric, stunning in its complexity, and utterly convincing and surprising to the end, In the Woods is sure to enthrall fans of Mystic River and The Lovely Bones.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3858'),
(6522, 'In the Words of Ronald Reagan: The Wit, Wisdom, and Eternal Optimism of America&#39;s 40th President', 'Michael Reagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As one of the greatest presidents of the twentieth century, Ronald Wilson Reagan succeeded in renewing pride in America, strengthening the principles of family, faith, and freedom on which this nation was founded, and restoring our hope for the future. President Reagan endeared himself even to his political opponents with his self-effacing wit and irrepressible optimism. Inspiring, thoughtful, and at times downright funny, he had an amazing gift for stirring emotion, sparking debate, and calling a nation to action.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In In The Words of Ronald Reagan, his oldest son Michael Reagan has gathered a wonderful collection of his father''s public and private words, providing a close-up portrait of our fortieth president. From hilarious one-liners to eloquent letters to intimate family moments, these selections depict Ronald Reagan in all his many roles--as world leader, conservative icon, orator, actor, and father. Complemented by Michael Reagan''s personal and insightful commentary on his father''s life, In The Words of Ronald Reagan will delight you, inspire you, and motivate you to finish the job Ronald Reagan began--the job of rebuilding the American dream.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2084'),
(6523, 'In Too Deep', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Are some secrets better left buried? As Amy and Dan track the next clue to a remote corner of the world, they make shocking discoveries about the source of the Cahills'' power and the mystery of their parents'' deaths. And as the threat of the mysterious Madrigals grows real, one of the clue-hunters makes the ultimate sacrifice. Amy and Dan have to decide how much they''re willing to risk, and what they are fighting for. Can they avenge their parents--or are they following their fatal path?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2981'),
(6524, 'Inca Gold', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A chance rescue of two divers trapped in a Peruvian sinkhole leads series hero Dirk Pitt ( Raise the Titanic! ; Deep Six ) into a search for lost treasure that involves grave robbers, art thieves and ancient curses. Cussler''s latest adventure novel features terrorists who aren '' t really terrorists and a respected archeologist who is not what he seems; it all boils down to a race between Pitt and some unscrupulous crooks for a cache of Inca gold hidden away from the Spanish and lost since the 16th century. The villains, a society of art and antiquity smugglers called the Solpemachaco , want to get their hands on the Golden Body Suit of Tiapollo, which contains in its hieroglyphics a description of the Inca treasure''s hidden burial place. Pitt ends up searching for a jade box containing a quipu , an Inca silver-and-gold metalwork map to the treasure. The box was stolen from the Indians by the Spanish, stolen from the Spanish by Francis Drake and then lost in the South American jungle, but readers who know Pitt know that that a 400-year-old missing clue is only a minor obstacle. Master storyteller Cussler keeps the action spinning as he weaves a number of incredible plotlines and coincidences into a believable and gripping story. It''s pure escapist adventure, with a wry touch of humor and a certain self-referential glee (Cussler himself makes a cameo appearance), but the entertainment value meets the gold standard. 550,000 first printing; Literary Guild super release and Doubleday Book Club super release.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dirk Pitt is back in fine form as he rescues two archaeologists from certain death in a Peruvian sinkhole. Before Pitt climbs out of the hole he runs afoul of the Solpemachace, a group of three brothers who steal and sell Indian artifacts. Pitt finds a rope sculpture, a quipu, that points the way to a huge Inca treasure. Meanwhile, the Solpemachace steal the Golden Body Suit of Tiapollo, which leads them to the same treasure inside a mountain in Baja, Mexico. As both sides race to the treasure, the Solpemachace capture Pitt''s girlfriend, Congresswoman Loren Smith. With his lifelong, wisecracking friend, Al Giordino, Pitt braves an uncharted underground river to rescue Loren and stop the Solpemachace. Cussler weaves Inca legends and lore in a spellbinding tale featuring enduring hero Pitt, a skin-diving Indiana Jones with a James Bond attitude. Cussler fans will demand this one. For all fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1205'),
(6525, 'An Incomplete Revenge', 'Jacqueline Winspear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggest a darker criminal element at work. A peculiar secrecy shrouds the village, and ultimately Maisie must draw on her finely-honed skills of detection to solve one of her most intriguing cases yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3515'),
(6526, 'The Indian Ocean', 'Michael Pearson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ''This is a fine achievement that by a very wide margin displaces such general accounts of the Indian Ocean as are available. It is commedably comprehensive, covering an immensely long span of time, from the ancient world to the present, with an enviable aura of authority throughout.'' -\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Peter Marshall, King''s College London\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ''In this stimulating and comprehensive volume, Michael Pearson traces out the history of the Indian Ocean from ancient times to the present, and shows how the ocean has knitted together its diverse communities. Whether in his evocations of ship board life, or descriptions of pilgrims and traders, Pearson makes of the Indian Ocean, for the first time in historical scholarship, a vital and lively arena of study.'' -\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Thomas Metcalf, University of California, Berkeley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ''This is a book that maritime archaeologist should find useful.''\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   - Nautical Archaeology\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ''\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   For the reader new to the subject they will provide stimulating and informative introductions ... [and] will easily win a place onÂ the few reading lists around the world that feature Indian Ocean studies.''\n  </strong>\n  -\n  <em>\n   The Round Table\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ''[Pearson''s] impressive\n   <em>\n    tour de force\n   </em>\n   through human history ... covers a remarkably wide range of topics, he also writes very well ... The book will certainly become the standard account for this history of the Indian Ocean for some time.''\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   -\n  </strong>\n  Social Anthropology Journal_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this stimulating and authoritative overview, Michael Pearson reverses the traditional angle of maritime history and looks from the sea to its shores - its impact on the land through trade, naval power, travel and scientific exploration. This vast ocean, both connecting and separating nations, has shaped many countries'' cultures and ideologies through the movement of goods, people, ideas and religions across the sea.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Indian Ocean\n  </em>\n  moves from a discussion of physical elements, its shape, winds, currents and boundaries, to a history from pre-Islamic times to the modern period of European dominance. Going far beyond pure maritime history, this compelling survey is an invaluable addition to political, cultural and economic world history.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2437'),
(6527, 'Indignation', 'Philip Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 1951, a studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio''s Winesburg College. He leaves his mad father and desperately harassed mother to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3435'),
(6528, 'Indigo Slam', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Readers who complain that there''s too much wisecracking and cute icon worship in Robert Crais''s books about Los Angeles private eye Elvis Cole will be glad to find these traits downplayed (but not totally disappeared) in this story about Cole''s search for a missing printer whose specialty is funny money. The book is centered by the presence of the printer''s three children--especially the motherly 15-year-old Teri and the obnoxious 12-year-old Charles--who hire Elvis from the phone book. Cole, hoping to become the stepfather of the son of his own lady love, gets sucked in by the children''s combination of need and family unity, and soon finds himself in the middle of a shooting war between Russian gangsters, Vietnamese patriots, and ambiguous Federal agents. Previous Elvis outings in paperback:\n  <em>\n   Sunset Express\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Free Fall\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Lullaby Town\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Monkey''s Raincoat\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stalking the Angel\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Voodoo River\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Indigo Slam is a 1997 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the seventh in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole. It was nominated for the Shamus Award. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/387'),
(6529, 'Indulgence in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An indulgence for readers: the new Eve Dallas novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.   First it was a limo driver shot through the neck with a crossbow. Then it was a high-priced escort found stabbed through the heart with a bayonet.  Random hits, thrill kills, murderers with a taste for the finer things in life-and death-are making NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas angry. And an angry Eve can be just as an efficient and dangerous predator as the killer.  As time runs out on another innocent victim''s life, Eve''s investigation will take her into the rarefied circle that her husband, Roarke, travels in-and into the perverted heart of madness...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3316'),
(6530, 'Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam', 'Andrew Wheatcroft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam. In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account, Andrew Wheatcroft tracks a deep fault line of animosity between civilizations. He begins with a stunning account of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, then turns to the main zones of conflict: Spain, from which the descendants of the Moors were eventually expelled; the Middle East, where Crusaders and Muslims clashed for years; and the Balkans, where distant memories spurred atrocities even into the twentieth century. Throughout, Wheatcroft delves beneath stereotypes, looking incisively at how images, ideas, language, and technology (from the printing press to the Internet), as well as politics, religion, and conquest, have allowed each side to demonize the other, revive old grievances, and fuel across centuries a seemingly unquenchable enmity. Finally, Wheatcroft tells how this fraught history led to our present maelstrom. We cannot, he argues, come to terms with today''s perplexing animosities without confronting this dark past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2538'),
(6531, 'Inherent Vice', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon u private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog. It''s been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. It''s the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that ''love'' is another of those words going around at the moment, like ''trip'' or ''groovy'', except that this one usually leads to trouble. Despite which he soon finds himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren''t there...or...if you were there, then you...or, wait, is it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3489'),
(6532, 'The Inner Circle', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There are stories no one knows. Hidden stories. I love those stories. And since I work in the National Archives, I find those stories for a living. Beecher White, a young archivist, spends his days working with the most important documents of the U.S. government. He has always been the keeper of other people''s stories, never a part of the story himself... Until now. When Clementine Kaye, Beecher''s first childhood crush, shows up at the National Archives asking for his help tracking down her long-lost father, Beecher tries to impress her by showing her the secret vault where the President of the United States privately reviews classified documents. After they accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact - a 200 hundred-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington, hidden underneath a desk chair, Beecher and Clementine find themselves suddenly entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder. Soon a man is dead, and Beecher is on the run as he races to learn the truth behind this mysterious national treasure. His search will lead him to discover a coded and ingenious puzzle that conceals a disturbing secret from the founding of our nation. It is a secret, Beecher soon discovers, that some believe is worth killing for. Gripping, fast-paced, and filled with the fascinating historical detail for which he is famous, THE INNER CIRCLE is a thrilling novel that showcases a brilliant author writing at the height of his craft.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3701'),
(6533, 'Innocent', 'Scott Turow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a follow-up to his #1 best-seller Presumed Innocent, the author presents the continuing story of Rusty Sabich, who now, 20 years after the events of the first novel, is a judge on an appellate court and must again try to exonerate himself when his wife is found dead. 750,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3653'),
(6534, 'The Innocent Man', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Grisham tackles nonfiction for the first time with\n <em>\n  The Innocent Man\n </em>\n , a true tale about murder and injustice in a small town (that reads like one of his own bestselling novels).\n <em>\n  The Innocent Man\n </em>\n chronicles the story of Ron Williamson, how he was arrested and charged with a crime he did not commit, how his case was (mis)handled and how an innocent man was sent to death row. Grisham''s first work of nonfiction is shocking, disturbing, and enthralling--a must read for fiction and nonfiction fans. We had the opportunity to talk with John Grisham about the case and the book, read his responses below.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  20 Second Interview: A Few Words with John Grisham\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n After almost two decades of writing fiction, what compelled you to write non-fiction, particularly investigative journalism?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I was never tempted to write non-fiction, primarily because it''s too much work. However, obviously, I love a good legal thriller, and the story of Ron Williamson has all the elements of a great suspenseful story.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Why this case?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Ron Williamson and I are about the same age and we both grew up in small towns in the south. We both dreamed of being major league baseball players. Ron had the talent, I did not. When he left a small town in 1971 to pursue his dreams of major league glory, many thought he would be the next Mickey Mantle, the next great one from the state of Oklahoma. The story of Ron ending up on Death Row and almost being executed for a murder he did not commit was simply too good to pass up.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How did you go about your research?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I started with his family. Ron is survived by two sisters who took care of him for most of his life. They gave me complete access to the family records, photographs, Ron''s mental health records, and so on. There was also a truckload of trial transcripts, depositions, appeals, etc., that took about 18 months to organize and review. Many of the characters in the story are still alive and I traveled to Oklahoma countless times to interview them.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Did your training as a lawyer help you?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Very much so. It enabled me to understand the legal issues involved in Ron''s trial and his appeals. It also allowed me, as it always does, to be able to speak the language with lawyers and judges.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Throughout your book you mention,\n <em>\n  The Dreams of Ada: A True Story of Murder, Obsession, and a Small Town\n </em>\n . How did you come across that book, and how did it impact your writing\n <em>\n  The Innocent Man\n </em>\n ?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Several of the people in Oklahoma I met mentioned\n <em>\n  The Dreams of Ada\n </em>\n to me, and I read it early on in the process. It is an astounding book, a great example of true crime writing, and I relied upon it heavily during my research. Robert Mayer, the author, was completely cooperative, and kept meticulous notes from his research 20 years earlier. Many of the same characters are involved in his story and mine.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You take on some pretty controversial and heated topics in your book--the death penalty, prisonerâ€™s rights, DNA analysis, police conduct, and more--were any of your own beliefs challenged by this story and its outcome?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n None were challenged, but my eyes were open to the world of wrongful convictions. Even as a former criminal defense attorney, I had never spent much time worrying about wrongful convictions. But, unfortunately, they happen all the time in this country, and with increasing frequency.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n So many of the key players in this case are either still in office or practicing attorneys. Many family members and friends still live in the same small town. How do you think\n <em>\n  The Innocent Man\n </em>\n will impact this community and other small rural towns as they struggle with the realities of the justice system?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Exonerations seem to be happening weekly. And with each one of them, the question is asked--how can an innocent man be convicted and kept in prison for 20 years? My book is the story of only one man, but it is a good example of how things can go terribly wrong with our judicial system. I have no idea how the book will be received in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma, or any other town.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What do you hope your readers will take away from\n <em>\n  The Innocent Man\n </em>\n ?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n A better understanding of how innocent people can be convicted, and a greater concern for the need to reimburse and rehabilitate innocent men after they have been released.\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grisham''s first work of nonfiction focuses on the tragedy of Ron Williamson, a baseball hero from a small town in Oklahoma who winds up a dissolute, mentally unstable Major League washout railroaded onto death row for a hometown rape and murder he did not commit. Judging by this author-approved abridgment, Grisham has chosen to present Williamson''s painful story (and that of his equally innocent "co-conspirator," Dennis Fritz) as straightforward journalism, eschewing the more familiar "nonfiction novel" approach with its reconstructed dialogues and other adjustments for dramatic purpose. This has resulted in a book that, while it includes such intriguing elements as murder, rape, detection and judicial injustice, consists primarily of objective reportage, albeit shaded by the now-proven fact of Williamson''s innocence. The absence of dialogue or character point of view could make for a rather bland audio. Boutsikaris avoids that by reverting to what might be called old-fashioned round-the-campfire storytelling, treating the lengthy exposition to vocal interpretations, subtle and substantial. He narrates the events leading up to the 1982 rape and murder of a young cocktail waitress with a mixture of suspicion and curiosity, moving on to astonishment at the prosecution''s use of deceit and false testimony to convict Williamson and Fritz and, eventually, elation at the exoneration of the two innocent men. Throughout, he maintains an appealing conversational tone, an effect made all the more remarkable by the book''s nearly total absence of conversation.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1162'),
(6535, 'The Innocent', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Matt Hunter made a mistake when he was 20 years old and paid for it with a four-year stint in prison that left him with a determination never to be locked up again. Finally, his life is back on the promising track he was taking before he accidentally killed a man: He has a good job, a newly pregnant wife he adores, and is about to close on the home of their dreams. Then he gets a couple of bizarre photos on his cell phone that seem to show his wife in a compromising position with a black-haired stranger. But before he can sort out who sent the anonymous pictures and why, he''s running from the law--especially from the cop who was his best friend in grade school, and a sharp young detective who''s stepped right into the middle of an FBI investigation spurred by the discovery that a dead nun who wasn''t who she claimed to be is somehow mixed up in Matt and Olivia Hunter''s life. Coben deftly wields a complicated plot involving a missing stripper, a dead gangster, an incriminating videotape, and a couple of agents who aren''t quite who they seem to be, while Hunter manages to hold onto his faith in Olivia despite her clouded past and uncertain future. Like all Coben''s protagonists, (including the hero of his popular series starring sports agent turned detective Myron Bolitar) Hunter is a nice, middle-class New Jersey boy who''s still the innocent of the title, despite the miscarriage of justice that sent him to prison. Or was it? That''s the moral question at the heart of this tightly constructed thriller, which will no doubt shoot directly to the top of the bestseller list, and deservedly so.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   A Bit of Bolitar\n  </em>\n  : An Exclusive Essay by Harlan Coben\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Beloved series character Myron Bolitar appears in a new short story included with Harlan Coben''s latest thriller,\n <em>\n  The Innocent\n </em>\n . In this Amazon.com exclusive essay, Coben shares his thoughts on Bolitar''s return.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once listeners get past an awkward prologue told in second person, present tense ("Your name is Matt Hunter. You are 20 years old..."), this twisty thriller reverts to the more familiar objective point of view, and the combination of Coben''s yarn spinning and Brick''s crisp, thoughtful narration mesmerizes. Listeners are drawn into the nightmare world of Matt Hunter who, in that off-putting prologue, is attacked by a gang of drunken frat boys, accidentally kills one of them, is found guilty of murder, serves four years of hard time, picks up the pieces of his life, marries a loving woman and is on the cusp of fatherhood when he receives an ominous phone call. And that''s just for openers. A master manipulator, Coben keeps the story in constant motion, shifting from Hunter''s travails to those of homicide detective Loren Muse, a lapsed Catholic who''s investigating the murder of a nun with breast implants. The pace is fast and furious as Hunter and Muse race along their collision course, but Brick''s cool, calculated delivery helps listeners hang on through the hairpin turns. From an African-American hooker and an aging mother superior to a hard-boiled ex-con and a sexy private eye, Brick conjures a proper vocal match for every character. Indeed, the combined efforts of author and narrator make for such an electrifying listen that an epilogue reverting to that second-person point of view barely dilutes this overall satisfying experience. Simultaneous release with the Dutton hardcover (Reviews, Mar. 7).\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/536'),
(6536, 'Insomnia', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Celestial forces of good and evil wage an apocalyptic war in a small Maine town in this 14-week PW bestseller.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Ralph Roberts has been waking earlier and earlier every night for weeks, and the forgetfulness and weariness caused by sleep deprivation are starting to affect him. When he begins to see brilliant auras around people and objects, his concern grows. As his nights become shorter, his visions become more terrifying, and yet more real. Strange forces are maneuvering for power in Derry, Maine, and somehow Ralph is a part of the conflict. Well-read students will note references to Greek mythology, the Bible, and to Tolkien''s Lord of the Rings (Houghton, 1967) interspersed with modern cultural allusions. King''s forte, however, is characterization, and there is no shortage of it here. Good guys and evil are well developed, with a depth that makes them believable. Although Ralph is clearly identified as a septuagenarian, he is never stodgy or prudish, and will appeal to teens. Some of King''s more recent novels, such as Gerald''s Game (1992), have been disappointing, but Insomnia is closer to It (1987) and Needful Things (1992, all Viking) in its suspense and entertainment potential. A good return trip to Derry, Maine.?Robin Deffendall, Bull Run Regional Library, Manassas, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/826'),
(6537, 'Interface', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''A Manchurian Candidate for the computer age'' Seattle Weekly\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From his triumphant debut with\n </em>\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n to the stunning success of his latest novel,\n <em>\n  Quicksilver,\n </em>\n Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voice of a generation. In this now-classic thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a shocking tale with an all-too plausible premise.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  There''s no way William A. Cozzano can lose the upcoming presidential election. He''s a likable midwestern governor with one insidious advantageâ€”an advantage provided by a shadowy group of backers. A biochip implanted in his head hardwires him to a computerized polling system. The mood of the electorate is channeled directly into his brain. Forget issues. Forget policy. Cozzano is more than the perfect candidate. He''s a special effect.\n  <br />\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œComplex, entertaining, frequently funny."\n <em>\n  â€”Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œQualifies as the sleeper of the year, the rare kind of science-fiction thriller that evokes genuine laughter while simultaneously keeping the level of suspense cranked to the max."\n <em>\n  â€” San Diego Union-Tribune\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n </em>\n â€œA\n <em>\n  Manchurian Candidate\n </em>\n for the computer age.â€\n <em>\n  â€”Seattle Weekly\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/718'),
(6538, 'Intervention', 'Robin Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After performing a post-mortem on a young college student who''d been recently treated by a chiropractor, Jack Stapleton, a New York City medical examiner, decides to explore alternative medicine. What makes people seek help from Eastern philosophies or even faith healers to cure their illnesses? Meanwhile his old college friend, Shawn Doherty, a renowned archaeologist involved in a dig at St Peter''s in Rome has made a startling discovery with huge ecclesiastical and medical implications. When Kevin Murray, another old college, and now Roman Catholic Bishop of New York, gets wind of Shawn''s findings he''s desperate to keep them from the public and to disassociate himself from Shawn. Kevin turns to his old friend Jack to help protect this explosive secret - one with the power to change lives forever\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3472'),
(6539, 'Into the Gauntlet', 'Margaret Peterson Haddix', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Throughout the hunt for the 39 clues, Amy and Dan Cahill have uncovered history''s greatest mysteries and their family''s deadliest secrets. But are they ready to face the truth about the Cahills and the key to their unmatched power? After a whirlwind race that''s taken them across five continents, Amy and Dan face the most the difficult challenge yet-a task no Cahill dared to imagine. When faced with a choice that could change the future of the world, can two kids succeed where 500 years worth of famous ancestors failed?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2985'),
(6540, 'Into the Wild', 'Jon Krakauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter.Â Â How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir.Â Â In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of hisÂ Â cash.Â Â He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and , unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented.Â Â Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away.Â Â Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless''s short life.Â Â Admitting an interst that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the dries and desires that propelled McCandless.Â Â Digging deeply, he takes an inherently compelling mystery and unravels the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination; the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind; the complex, charged bond between fathers and sons.When McCandless''s innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naivetÃ©, pretensions, and hubris.Â Â He is saidÂ Â to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless''s uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity , and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding--and not an ounce of sentimentality. Mesmerizing, heartbreaking, Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer''s stoytelling blaze through every page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2086');
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(6541, 'Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster', 'Jon Krakauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn''t slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.Â Â No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning, he learned that six of his fellow climbers hadn''t made it back to their camp and were desperately struggling for their lives. When the storm finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to be amputated.Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of the bestseller Into the Wild. On assignment for Outside Magazine to report on the growing commercialization of the mountain, Krakauer, an accomplished climber, went to the Himalayas as a client of Rob Hall, the most respected high-altitude guide in the world.Â Â A rangy, thirty-five-year-old New Zealander, Hall had summited Everest four times between 1990 and 1995 and had led thirty-nine climbers to the top. Ascending the mountain in close proximity to Hall''s team was a guided expedition led by Scott Fischer, a forty-year-old American with legendary strength and drive who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen in 1994. But neither Hall nor Fischer survived the rogue storm that struck in May 1996.Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people -- including himself -- to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer''s eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.Into the Wild is available on audio, read by actor Campbell Scott.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3944'),
(6542, 'Invisible Monsters', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the plot of your first novel partially hinges on anarchist overthrows funded by soap sales, and the narrative hook of your second work is the black box recorder of a jet moments away from slamming into the Australian outback, it stands to reason that your audience is going to be ready for anything. Which, to an author like Chuck Palahniuk, must sound like a challenge. Palahniuk''s third identity crisis (that''s "novel" to you),\n  <em>\n   Invisible Monsters\n  </em>\n  , more than ably responds to this call to arms. Set once again in an all-too-familiar modern wasteland where social disease and self-hatred can do more damage than any potboiler-fiction bad guy, the tale focuses particularly on a group of drag queens and fashion models trekking cross-country to find themselves, looking everywhere from the bottom of a vial of Demerol to the end of a shotgun barrel. It''s a sort of\n  <em>\n   Drugstore Cowboy\n  </em>\n  -meets-\n  <em>\n   Yentl\n  </em>\n  affair, or a Hope-Crosby road movie with a skin graft and hormone-pill obsession, if you know what I mean.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Um, yeah. Anyway, the Hollywood vibe doesn''t stop these comparisons. As with\n  <em>\n   Fight Club\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Survivor\n  </em>\n  , the book is invested with a cinematic sweep, from the opening set piece, which takes off like a house afire (literally), to a host of filmic tics sprayed throughout the text: "Flash," "Jump back," "Jump way ahead," "Flash," "Flash," "Flash." You get the idea. It''s as if Palahniuk didn''t write the thing but yanked it directly out of the Cineplex of his mind''s eye. Does it succeed? Mostly. Still working on measuring out the proper dosages of his many writerly talents (equal parts potent imagery, nihilistic coolspeak, and doped-out craziness), Palahniuk every now and then loosens his grip on the story line, which at points becomes as hard to decipher as your local pill addict''s medicine cabinet. However\n  <em>\n   Invisible Monsters\n  </em>\n  works best on a roller-coaster level. You don''t stop and count each slot on the track as you''re going down the big hill. You throw up your hands and yell,\n  <em>\n   "Whee!"\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   --Bob Michaels\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Palahniuk''s grotesque romp aims to skewer the ruthless superficiality of the fashion world and winds up with a tale as savagely glib as what it derides. Narrator Shannon McFarland, once a gorgeous fashion model, has been hideously disfigured in a mysterious drive-by shooting. Her jaw has been shot off, leaving her not only bereft of a career and boyfriend, but suddenly invisible to the world. Along comes no-nonsense, pill-popping diva Brandy Alexander, a resplendent, sassy, transgendered chick, who has modeled her body rearrangement--the breast implants, the hair, the figure--on what Shannon used to look like. Brandy suggests veils, high camp and no self-pity. Shannon wants revenge[...] Adding to the plot''s contrivances are the relentless flashbacks, heralded at the beginning of almost every paragraph with "Jump back to..." and the author''s pretentious device of using a fashion photographer''s commands ("Flash. Give me adoration. Flash. Give me a break") to signpost the narrator''s epiphanies. Palahniuk writes like he''s overdosed on Details magazine. Though the absurd surprise ending may incite groans of disbelief, this book does have fun moments when campy banter tops the heroine''s flat, whiny bathos. (Sept.) FYI: The film of Palahniuk''s novel Fight Club will star Brad Pitt.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1118'),
(6543, 'Invisible Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Sandford opts for a contemplative procedural rather than a high-octane nail-biter for his 17th novel to feature Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Broken Prey\n  </em>\n  ). The brave and intelligent Davenport, one of contemporary crime fiction''s more congenial sleuths, is working a politically sensitive caseâ€”state senator Burt Kline is on the edge of being arrested for having sex with a minorâ€”when he''s called in to investigate the beating death of wealthy widow Constance Bucher and her maid. Bucher lived in a mansion stuffed with antiques, though it''s unclear if robbery was the motive for the murders. Several run-of-the-mill suspects are dealt with before the reader learns the identity of the two killers, who continue to murder a string of folks all variously connected to the Bucher slaying. Eventually, the Bucher and Kline cases come together in an unexpected way. Interesting and unusual supporting characters, good and bad guys alike, enhance an intriguing puzzle.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Constance Bucher is in her eighties, wealthy, and lives in a lovely Twin Cities home brimming with antiques. Bucher and her maid slip into past tense when intruders bludgeon them to death and trash the house. The victim''s social standing is enough for the governor to assign his top investigator, Lucas Davenport, to investigate. The easy solution would be to label the crime a junkie killing, but when a painting stored in the attic (and worth a cool half-million) turns up missing, it''s clear that this was no random attack. Aided by an imaginative intern, Davenport uncovers a series of similar crimes across the Midwest in which the victims were all old, wealthy art collectors. Concurrently, Davenport is working on a politically sensitive case in which a local politician has been accused of having sexual relations with a 15-year-old. And maybe her mother. Or maybe they''re angling for a civil payday as opposed to criminal justice. The latest in the Prey__series is more thriller than mystery; the villains are revealed early, and the plot is advanced through the bad guys'' point of view. Davenport unravels their scheme by pulling on a small thread, and it''s his immersion into the murky world of art, antiques, museums, and donors that gives this one its cachet. As always for Sandford, entertaining and intelligent reading.\n  <em>\n   Wes Lukowsky\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/687'),
(6544, 'An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting With Destiny', 'Laura Schroff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I thought I knew what\n  <em>\n   An Invisible Thread\n  </em>\n  was going to be. I thought it would be a simple and hopeful story about a woman who saved a boy. I was wrong. It''s a complex and unswervingly honest story about a woman and a boy who saved each other. By its raw honesty and lack of excess sentimentality, it is even more inspirational. This is a book capable of restoring our faith in each other and in the very idea that maybe everything is going to be okay after all."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of\n  <em>\n   Pay It Forward\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Jumpstart the World\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   An Invisible Thread\n  </em>\n  â€”a remarkable story, told so beautifully and honestlyâ€”shows us what''s possible when we are not afraid to connect with another human being and tap into our compassion. It is a story about the power each of us has to elevate someone else''s life and how our own life is enriched in the process. This special book reminds us that damaging cycles can be broken and not to neglect the humanity of the strangers we brush up against every day."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Chris Gardner, bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Pursuit of Happyness\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Start Where You Are\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A straightforward tale of kindness and paying it forward in 1980s New York . . . For readers seeking an uplifting reminder that small gestures matter."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Kirkus Reviews\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "According to an old Chinese proverb, there''s an invisible thread that connects two people who are destined to meet and influence each other''s lives. . . . As Schroff relates Maurice''s story, she tells of her own father''s alcoholism and abuse, and readers see how desperately these two need each other in this feel-good story about the far-reaching benefits of kindness."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   An Invisible Thread\n  </em>\n  is like\n  <em>\n   The Blind Side\n  </em>\n  , but instead of football, itâ€™s food. These are two people who were brought together by one simple meal, and it literally changed the course of both of their lives. This is a must-read . . . you can read it in a day because itâ€™s impossible to put down. If you read it and find it as moving as I did, pay it forward: buy a copy and give it to a friend.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Rachael Ray, host of\n  <em>\n   The Rachael Ray Show\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When advertising executive Laura Schroff was approached by 11-year-old panhandler Maurice, at first, she ignored him: ''His words were part of the clatter, like a car horn or someone yelling for a cab. They were, you could say, just noiseâ€”the kind of nuisance New Yorkers learn to tune out.'' A moment later, when she came to, she returned and invited her new acquaintance to lunch at McDonald''s, the beginning of a human connection that would change both their lives.\n  <em>\n   An Invisible Thread\n  </em>\n  picks up the progress of two very different people with strangely parallel stories of ''complicated pasts and fragile dreams.'' Uplifting, without an ounce of pretension."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”BarnesandNoble.com\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis book is a game-changer . . . each chapter touches your heart.\n  <em>\n   An Invisible Thread\n  </em>\n  is a gift to us all. America needs this book now more than ever.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”â€œCoachâ€ Ron Tunick, national radio show host, â€œThe Business of Lifeâ€\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn incredible story . . . I would encourage everyone to pick up this book.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Clayton Morris, host, Fox &amp; Friends\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Laura Schroff\n  </strong>\n  is a former advertising executive who has worked with several major media companies, including Time Inc. and Conde Nast. Born and raised on Long Island, Laura was part of the advertising team that made\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n  a successful national newspaper. Before helping launch three of the most successful start-ups in Time Inc. historyâ€”\n  <em>\n   InStyle,\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Teen People,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   People StyleWatch\n  </em>\n  â€”she was also the New York Division Manager at\n  <em>\n   People\n  </em>\n  magazine. Laura has also been the New York Ad Manager at\n  <em>\n   Ms.\n  </em>\n  magazine and Associate PublisherÂ at\n  <em>\n   Brides\n  </em>\n  . Laura loves spending time at her condo on Long Island and visiting with her family in New York and Florida. She lives in New York City with her feisty poodle Coco.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Alex Tresniowski\n  </strong>\n  is a writer living and working in New York City. He has been a senior writer forÂ \n  <em>\n   People\n  </em>\n  Magazine since 1998, writing numerous cover stories and focusing on human interest, crime, and sports. He is also the author of six books, including 2005â€™s\n  <em>\n   The Vendetta\n  </em>\n  , a true crime story that was purchased by Universal Pictures and used as a basis for the 2009 Johnny Depp movie\n  <em>\n   Public Enemies\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2945'),
(6545, 'Iron House', 'John Hart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An old man is dying. When the old man is dead they will come for him. And they will come for her, to make him hurt. Â John Hart has written three New York Times bestsellers and won an unprecedented two back-to-back Edgar Awards. His books have been called â€œmasterfulâ€ (Jeffery Deaver) and â€œgrippingâ€ (People) with â€œGrisham-style intrigue and Turow-style broodingâ€ (The New York Times). Now he delivers his fourth novelâ€”a gut-wrenching, heart-stopping thriller no reader will soon forget.Â HE WOULD GO TO HELLAt the Iron Mountain Home for Boys, there was nothing but time. Time to burn and time to kill, time for two young orphans to learn that life isnâ€™t won without a fight. Julian survives only because his older brother, Michael, is fearless and fiercely protective. When tensions boil over and a boy is brutally killed, there is only one sacrifice left for Michael to make: He flees the orphanage and takes the blame with him.Â TO KEEP HER SAFEFor two decades, Michael has been an enforcer in New Yorkâ€™s world of organized crime, a prince of the streets so widely feared he rarely has to kill anymore. But the life heâ€™s fought to build unravels when he meets Elena, a beautiful innocent who teaches him the meaning and power of love. He wants a fresh start with her, the chance to start a family like the one he and Julian never had. But someone else is holding the strings. And escape is not that easy. . . .Â GO TO HELL, AND COME BACK BURNINGThe mob boss who gave Michael his blessing to begin anew is dying, and his son is intent on making Michael pay for his betrayal. Determined to protect the ones he loves, Michael spirits Elenaâ€”who knows nothing of his past crimes, or the peril heâ€™s laid at her doorâ€” back to North Carolina, to the place he was born and the brother he lost so long ago. There, he will encounter a whole new level of danger, a thicket of deceit and violence that leads inexorably to the one place heâ€™s been running from his whole life: Iron House.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3358'),
(6546, 'Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947', 'Christopher M. Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The story of Prussia is one that has been told many times, but seldom as intelligently, elegantly and interestingly as it is here. Christopher Clark has written a monumental history of a state that started from small beginnings as the Mark of Brandenburg, grew in size, violence and pretensions, and ended up being destroyed forever in 1947, when the victorious Allies decided they had had enough of this troublesome phenomenon...The bulk of a fascinating text, littered with intriguing detail and wry observation, focuses on this transformation in the 200 years from the bloody Thirty Years War in the 17th century (which cost Prussia half its population) to the creation by the Prussian nobleman Otto von Bismarck of a German Empire in 1871...Clark has written a masterly synthesis of [the] many disparate strands in a long and ultimately forlorn history. (Richard Overy\n  <em>\n   Daily Telegraph\n  </em>\n  20060806)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Iron Kingdom\n  </em>\n  , is a triumph of scholarship and imagination. This is a big book in every sense--at almost 800 pages, it''s not one to slip in your briefcase for the train--but it zips along in a manner that belies its weight. In part this is because Clark writes so elegantly. This is history in its "grand sweep," but his vivid sketches of characters, places and events lighten the narrative. Yet for all its entertainment value,\n  <em>\n   Iron Kingdom\n  </em>\n  is at heart an unflinching engagement with one of Europe''s most complex and far-reaching political and cultural entities, spanning four centuries of history and, he suggests at the end, even beyond. (Richard Aldous\n  <em>\n   Irish Times\n  </em>\n  20060818)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clark''s book, a survey of Prussian history from 1600 to 1947, is well-written, even sometimes sprightly, although it is hard to make easy reading of matters such as Pietism or the administrative reforms of the Baron Stein.\n  <em>\n   Iron Kingdom\n  </em>\n  ''s triumph lies in a narrative structure that is even more impressive than the mass of detail that forms it; and one feels secure in the hands not only of a scholar but of a humane and fair interpreter of history. (Max Egremont\n  <em>\n   The Spectator\n  </em>\n  20060903)\n </p>\n <p>\n  To account for the rise and tumultuous extinction of Prussia is to explain how contemporary Europe came to assume its current form. It is a vast, Zeppelin-sized historical challenge; but it is also one to which Christopher Clark rises triumphantly, piloting his enormous subject through the best part of four centuries, traversing en route most of the continent of Europe, and carrying the reader with him on a bracing and exhilarating ride...For sheer range and intellectual horsepower, this book ranks as the best history of Prussia currently available in any language. However, more than that (and here it beats its German rivals hands-down), it is written with a literary finesse and narrative elan that establish its author as one of the finest writers of history at work in Britain today. It is a virtuoso performance. (John Adamson\n  <em>\n   Sunday Times\n  </em>\n  20060927)\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is only by contrary example that this book may remind us how miserable some hastily written products of the recent "history boom" have been. Clark is not one to swagger over the dead, secure in the knowledge that they cannot answer back. Instead, this is a well-informed and fair-minded historical investigation, written by a man who is plainly fascinated by the changing circumstances under which lives are lived and decisions made. One of the pleasures of this book is to watch Clark weighing the undeniable otherness of the past and resisting any tendency to convert it into a costume drama. (Patrick Wright\n  <em>\n   The Guardian\n  </em>\n  20060927)\n </p>\n <p>\n  You couldn''t have the triumph and the tragedy of Prussia better told. Christopher Clark has a voracious appetite for detail and a tart turn of phrase. His study of Prussia, from beginning to end, vividly paints one of the big pictures of European history. (Peter Preston\n  <em>\n   The Observer\n  </em>\n  20061209)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Iron Kingdom\n  </em>\n  is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be. The research is scholarly but never obtrusive, the prose sprightly but never flippant, the judgements bold but always sound...The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely the best history of Prussia in any language. (Daniel Johnson\n  <em>\n   Sunday Telegraph\n  </em>\n  20061206)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Many states have been conquered, partitioned, occupied, "ended" and even destroyed. Prussia is unique in that it was formally abolished by decree of the British, American, French and Soviet victors in February 1947, after it ceased to exist in any meaningful sense...Christopher Clark begins\n  <em>\n   Iron Kingdom\n  </em>\n  , his history of "the rise and downfall of Prussia," with this famous decree, but his remarkable book is not another exorcism, nor an uncritical celebration. He provides a sophisticated yet accessible account of how a middling German dynasty manoeuvred its way into the European pentarchy of powers. (Brendan Simms\n  <em>\n   The Independent\n  </em>\n  20070927)\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book ranks as the best history of Prussia currently available in any language... It is a virtuoso performance. (John Adamson\n  <em>\n   Sunday Times\n  </em>\n  20070801)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Iron Kingdom\n  </em>\n  , Christopher Clark''s stately, authoritative history of Prussia from its humble beginnings to its ignominious end, presents a much more complicated and compelling picture of the German state, which is too often reduced to a caricature of spiked helmets and polished boots. Prussia and its army were inseparable, but Prussia was also renowned for its efficient, incorruptible civil service; its innovative system of social services; its religious tolerance; and its unrivaled education system, a model for the rest of Germany and the world. This too was Prussia--a tormented kingdom that, like a tragic hero, was brought down by the very qualities that raised it up. Mr. Clark, a senior lecturer in modern European history at Cambridge University, does an exemplary job. A lively writer, he organizes masses of material in orderly fashion, clearly establishing his main themes and pausing at crucial junctures to recapitulate and reconsider. Prussia, a self-invented artifact right down to its name, demands the kind of careful demythologizing that it receives from Mr. Clark, who gently but insistently exposes the flaws in most of the received wisdom about his subject. A result is an illuminating, profoundly satisfying work of history, brightened by vivid character sketches of the principals in his drama. (William Grimes\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  20080312)\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book can...be read for sheer pleasure...It is the pleasure of discovery that Christopher Clark offers in this account of the rise and fall of Prussia...Prussia was much more than its wars, but without its wars it would not have been Prussia, and they and their protagonists (Mr. Clark''s Bismarck is priceless), origins, conduct, and consequences occupy a large part of this excellent book, which scholars of Germany and Prussia will want to ponder very carefully, and which many an unencumbered reader will simply enjoy. (Edward N. Luttwak\n  <em>\n   New York Sun\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  A massively impressive history of Prussia that surely takes its place as the definitive history of this much-maligned state. Elegant, entertaining, nicely illustrated and full of arresting characters, this is a terrific book. (Dominic Sandbrook\n  <em>\n   Daily Telegraph\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the military and agricultural innovations of Frederick the Great to nineteenth-century high academic politics to Bismarck''s social-security system, this magisterial and remarkably well-written history of Prussia traces back to the eighteenth century the region''s surprisingly tolerant and intellectually rich culture. Clark, a Cambridge historian, suggests that the world is poorer for Prussia''s absence. (Benjamin Healy\n  <em>\n   The Atlantic\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  [An] enthralling, shrewd, and sparkling narrative...Clark''s immensely learned, judicious, and entertaining book provides a definitive general narrative of its subject for our times...Clark''s achievement is substantial. (R. J. W. Evans\n  <em>\n   New York Review of Books\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  This beautifully written and brilliantly argued longer study will reward scholars, students, and educated laypeople who invest the time to read it...[A] riveting narrative. (C. Ingrao\n  <em>\n   Choice\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  [A] valuable book...[Clark] shows how complicated the history of Prussia really was, and how exciting were the contrasts in its history between religious tolerance and intolerance, enlightenment and obscurantism, centralized power and regional particularism, the rule of law and ruthless authoritarianism...Prussia and its army were full of contradictions, and Clark analyzes them astutely in his book, which is certainly the best recent history of Prussia...[A] masterpiece in which charming anecdotes and serious intellectual analyses mix comfortably with political and military history and descriptions of cultural and social phenomena...Clark''s book seldom becomes dull, owing to the elegance of its style and the colorfulness of some of its powerful characters. (Istvan Deak\n  <em>\n   New Republic\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chris Clark''s new history of Prussia trumps all existing accounts. It commands four centuries of complicated history with extraordinary assurance. Its clear and confident argumentation, illuminating concreteness of detail, and sheer richness of texture make it the ideal general history. (Geoff Eley, author of\n  <em>\n   A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society\n  </em>\n  20060826)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2540'),
(6547, 'The Iron Man', 'Robert E. Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Iron Man has fought since time immemorial -- with but one thought in mind -- to get to his foe and crush him. The centuries, the costumes, the weapons are different. The object is the same. The gore and savagery of Howard''s tales of the ring is little removed from those exploits of Conan and Kull and Bran Mak Morn.It is common knowledge that Robert E. Howard was a boxing enthusiast, and his fellow author H. P. Lovecraft tied Howard''s interest in sports directly to his "love of primitive conflict and strength ..".In The Iron Man are three of Howard''s best tales of the ring -- certainly tales of primitive conflict and strength which are collected in book form for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1087'),
(6548, 'Iron Orchid', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Holly Barker, the small-town cop turned CIA agent, tracks a master of disguise-and a consummate killer.     *Iron Orchid*, Stuart Woods''s latest in the Holly Barker series, pits the no-nonsense cop against a very elusive killer-Teddy Fay, a villain first introduced in Capital Crimes-and the sparks fly.    Authorities thought they had seen the last of Teddy Fay-the ex-CIA tech wizard who kills his political targets for sport-when his plane exploded off the coast of Maine. But they underestimated him once, and they''re in danger of doing so again. Now they''ve found irrefutable evidence that he is alive and on his way to hit a group who will never see him coming.    Holly, having resigned her position as the Orchid Beach Chief of Police to work for the CIA, joins the elite task force tracking Fay in New York City. There, she begins to suspect that there are boulders being left unturned in the investigation. Fay seems privy to too many secrets-and employs tricks only an insider would know. He begins to pick off America''s enemies one by one-and no one seems the wiser. Can Holly trail her quarry and beat him at his own game? Can she get close enough to find him, and still keep her cover? A chance meeting between Holly and Fay kick-starts a high-speed chase through the canyons of midtown Manhattan, the Metropolitan Opera house, Central Park, and the United Nations Plaza, all to prevent another assassination before Fay disappears again-maybe this time for good.    With the signature mix of slick repartee and rapid-fire action that has won Stuart Woods many fans over the years, *Iron Orchid* confirms just why he is a master of the popular crime novel.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2664'),
(6549, 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)', 'Mindy Kaling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleckâ€“impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence â€œCan I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear Iâ€™ll shut up about it?â€\n <br />\n <br />\n Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great best friend (someone who will fill your prescription in the middle of the night), or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all elderly people in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or what is the perfect amount of fame (so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law), or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so, youâ€™ve come to the right book, mostly!\n <br />\n <br />\n In\n <em>\n  Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?,\n </em>\n Mindy invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood, with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. Mindy Kaling really is just a Girl Next Doorâ€”not so much literally anywhere in the continental United States, but definitely if you live in India or Sri Lanka.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2881'),
(6550, 'Is It Just Me?: Or Is It Nuts Out There?', 'Whoopi Goldberg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Have you noticed that things aren''t as civil as they once were? Or that rudeness is no longer an exception but a lifestyle? Sure you have. All you need to do is set foot outside your door to see that bad manners are taking over everywhere. People are yakking on cell phones in restaurants, even at church. Folks in carpools wear enough cologne to make our eyes bleed. Complete strangers think it''s OK to rub a pregnant lady''s belly. Passengers abuse flight attendants, family outings to the ball park are ruined by rowdy drunks . . . a congressman heckled the President of the United States.\n</p>\n<p>\n Well, Whoopi Goldberg has noticed all this and more and asked herself, "Is it just me?" Unleashing her trademark irreverence and humor, her new book of observations takes a funny and excruciatingly honest look at how a loss of civility is messing with the quality of life for all of us.\n</p>\n<p>\n So if your pet peeve is folks who talk in movie theaters like it was their living room, or if you get bugged by people clipping their nails and performing other personal hygiene next to you on the bus, or if you cringe when "please" and "thank you" get replaced by "gimme" and "huh?" . . . you have found a kindred spirit. Because Whoopi has witnessed the growing disrespect and rudeness in our lives and realized she is not alone. And, as you''ll discover in these pages, neither are you.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Whoopi Goldberg\n </strong>\n is the premier comedic actress of our day. She has won a Tony, an Emmy, an Oscar, and a Grammy, as well as two Golden Globes. In 2001 she was awarded the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Whoopi Goldberg has appeared in scores of films, and is a host on ABC''s\n <em>\n  The View\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2088'),
(6551, 'Island Beneath the Sea', 'Isabel Allende', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Born on the island of Saint-Domingue, ZaritÃ‰â€”known as TÃ‰tÃ‰â€”is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, TÃ‰tÃ‰ finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the voodoo loa she discovers through her fellow slaves.   When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, itâ€™s with powdered wigs in his trunks and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his fatherâ€™s plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. Although Valmorain purchases young TÃ‰tÃ‰ for his bride, it is he who will become dependent on the services of his teenaged slave.   Against the merciless backdrop of sugarcane fields, the lives of TÃ‰tÃ‰ and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. When the bloody revolution of Toussaint Louverture arrives at the gates of Saint Lazare, they flee the brutal conditions of the French colony, soon to become Haiti, for the raucous, free-wheeling enterprise of New Orleans. There TÃ‰tÃ‰ finally forges a new life, but her connection to Valmorain is deeper than anyone knows and not easily severed. With an impressive richness of detail, and a narrative wit and brio second to none, Allende crafts the riveting story of one womanâ€™s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been so battered, and to forge a new identity in the cruelest of circumstances.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3379'),
(6552, 'Island of Lost Girls', 'Jennifer McMahon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n One summer day, at a gas station in a small Vermont town, six-year-old Ernestine Florucci is abducted by a person wearing a rabbit suit while her mother is buying lottery tickets. Twenty-three year old Rhonda Farr is the only witness, and she does nothing as she watches the scene unfold â€“ little Ernie goes with the rabbit so casually, confidently getting into the rabbitâ€™s Volkswagen bug, smiling while the rabbit carefully fastens her seatbelt. The police are skeptical of Rhondaâ€™s story and Ernieâ€™s mother blames her outright. The kidnapping forces Rhonda to face another disappearance, that of her best friend from childhood â€“ Lizzy Shale, whose brother, Peter just so happens to be a prime suspect in Ernieâ€™s abduction. Unraveling the present mystery plunges Rhonda headlong down the rabbit hole of her past. She must struggle to makes sense of the loss of the two girls, and to ask herself if the Peter she grew up with - and has secretly loved all her life - could have a much darker side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2938'),
(6553, 'It', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name. What was it? Read\n  <strong>\n   It\n  </strong>\n  and find out...if you dare!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The amazingly prolific King returns to pure horror, pitting good against evil as in The Stand and The Shining. Moving back and forth between 1958 and 1985, the story tells of seven children in a small Maine town who discover the source of a series of horrifying murders. Having conquered the evil force once, they are summoned together 27 years later when the cycle begins again. As usual, the requisite thrills are in abundance, and King''s depiction of youngsters is extraordinarily accurate and sympathetic. But there is enough material in this epic for several novels and stories, and the excessive length and numerous interrelated flashbacks eventually become wearying and annoying. Nevertheless, King is a born storyteller, and It will undoubtedly be in high demand among his fans. BOMC main selection. Eric W. Johnson, Univ. of Bridgeport Lib., Ct.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/831'),
(6554, 'It&#39;s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life', 'Lance Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong--a world-class athlete nearly struck down by cancer, only to recover and win the Tour de France, the multiday bicycle race famous for its grueling intensity. Armstrong is a thoroughgoing Texan jock, and the changes brought to his life by his illness are startling and powerful, but he''s just not interested in wearing a hero suit. While his vocabulary is a bit on the he-man side (highest compliment to his wife: "she''s a stud"), his actions will melt the most hard-bitten souls: a cancer foundation and benefit bike ride, his astonishing commitment to training that got him past countless hurdles, loyalty to the people and corporations that never gave up on him. There''s serious medical detail here, which may not be for the faint of heart; from chemo to surgical procedures to his wife''s in vitro fertilization, you won''t be spared a single x-ray, IV drip, or unfortunate side effect. Athletes and coaches everywhere will benefit from the same extraordinary detail provided about his training sessions--every aching tendon, every rainy afternoon, and every small triumph during his long recovery is here in living color.\n  <em>\n   It''s Not About the Bike\n  </em>\n  is the perfect title for this book about life, death, illness, family, setbacks, and triumphs, but not especially about the bike.\n  <em>\n   --Jill Lightner\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1996, young cycling phenom Armstrong discovered he had testicular cancer. In 1999, he won the Tour de France. Now he''s a grateful husband, a new fatherAand a memoirist: with pluck, humility and verve, this volume covers his early life, his rise through the endurance sport world and his medical difficulties. Cancer "was like being run off the road by a truck, and I''ve got the scars to prove it," Armstrong declares. Earlier scars, he explains, came from a stepfather he casts as unworthy; early rewards, from his hardworking mother and from the triathlons and national bike races Armstrong won as a Texas teen. "The real racing action was over in Europe": after covering that, Armstrong and Jenkins (Men Will Be Boys, with Pat Summit, etc.) ascend to the scarier challenges of diagnoses and surgeries. As he gets worse, then better, Armstrong describes the affections of his racing friends and of the professionals who cared for him. Armstrong is honest and delightful on his relationship to wife Kristin (Kik), and goes into surprising detail about the technology that let them have a child. The memoir concludes with Armstrong''s French victory and the birth of their son. The book features a disarming and spotless prose style, one far above par for sports memoirs. Bicycle-racing fans will enjoy the troves of inside information and the accounts of competitions, but Armstrong has set his sights on a wider meaning and readership: "When I was sick I saw more beauty and triumph and truth in a single day than I ever did in a bike race." Agent, Esther Newberg. First serial to Vanity Fair; BOMC main selection; foreign rights sold in the U.K., Australia, France, Germany, Holland and Japan. (May 22)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1119'),
(6555, 'It&#39;s So Easy: And Other Lies', 'Duff Mckagan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A founding member of Guns Nâ€™ Roses and Velvet Revolver shares the story of his rise to the pinnacle of fame and fortune, his struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, his personal crash and burn, and his phoenix-like transformation via a unique path to sobriety.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1984, at the age of twenty, Duff McKagan left his native Seattleâ€”partly to pursue music but mainly to get away from a host of heroin overdoses then decimating his closest group of friends in the local punk scene. In L.A. only a few weeks and still living in his car, he answered a want ad for a bass player placed by someone who identified himself only as â€œSlash.â€ Soon after, the most dangerous band in the world was born. Guns Nâ€™ Roses went on to sell more than 100 million albums worldwide.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  It''s So Easy\n </em>\n , Duff recounts GNâ€™Râ€™s unlikely trajectory to a string of multiplatinum albums, sold-out stadium concerts, and global acclaim. But that kind of glory can take its toll, and it didâ€”ultimatelyâ€”on Duff, as well as on the band itself. As GNâ€™R began to splinter, Duff felt that he himself was done, too. But his near death as a direct result of alcoholism proved to be his watershed, the turning point that led to his unique path to sobriety and the unexpected choices he has made for himself since. In a voice that is as honest as it is indelibly his own, Duffâ€”one of rockâ€™s smartest and most articulate personalitiesâ€”takes readers on his harrowing journey through the dark heart of one of the most notorious bands in rock-and-roll history and out the other side.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Duff McKagan is the former bass player for and founding member of Guns Nâ€™ Roses.Â  Duff was in GNR for 13 years and subsequentlyÂ foundedÂ the band Velvet Revolver along with fellow GNR member Slash in addition to his ownÂ band, Loaded.Â  Duff writes a weekly column for\n <em>\n  Seattle Weekly,\n </em>\n ESPN.com,Â and the "Duffonomics" financial column on Playboy.com.Â  He lives with his wife--supermodel Susan Holmes McKagan--and daughters in Seattle, Washington.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2091'),
(6556, 'iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It', 'Steve Wozniak', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Every engineerâ€”and certainly every engineering studentâ€”should read this bookâ€¦.It is, in a nutshell, the engineer''s manifesto. -- _Guy Kawasaki, author of\n  <em>\n   _The Macintosh Way\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Everyone should enjoy Woz''s very personal and engaging storyâ€¦.What a wild ride! -- _Ray Kurzweil, inventor and author of\n  <em>\n   _Singularity Is Near\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Worth waiting forâ€¦adds intriguing new information to the history of the origins of the personal computer revolution. -- _Alan Deutschman, author of\n  <em>\n   _The Second Coming of Steve Jobs\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I, a widely affordable machine that anyone could understand and figure out how to use.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wozniak''s lifeâ€”before and after Appleâ€”is a "home-brew" mix of brilliant discovery and adventure, as an engineer, a concert promoter, a fifth-grade teacher, a philanthropist, and an irrepressible prankster. From the invention of the first personal computer to the rise of Apple as an industry giant,\n  <em>\n   iWoz\n  </em>\n  presents a no-holds-barred, rollicking, firsthand account of the humanist inventor who ignited the computer revolution. 16 pages of illustrations.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2092');
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(6557, 'J. D. Salinger: A Life', 'Kenneth Slawenski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Salinger: A Life\n  </em>\n  avoids such scandalmongering in order to deliver a sensitive (but not fawning) portrait of Salinger the writer. Slawenski looks not only at Salinger''s most famous works, but also finds a wealth of psychological insights in places like rejection letters and biographical statements. Not surprisingly, Salinger''s life, and especially his service in World War II, provided much of the raw material for his stories. But Slawenski does much more than compare Salinger''s biography to his literary output: he also shows how compromises, conflicts, and editorial intrigues shaped Salinger''s works, even when he was at the peak of his career. The book has much less to say about Salinger''s post-1960 retirement and self-seclusion, apart from the author''s occasional foray into the public eye by way of a rare interview or court case. But Slawenski does this for good reason:\n  <em>\n   Salinger: A Life\n  </em>\n  seeks only to explain Salinger as most of us knew him, through his writing. As a result, both die-hard fans and those who last picked up\n  <em>\n   --Darryl Campbell\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Look Inside\n   <em>\n    J.D. Salinger: A Life\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© PS 166\n  <br />\n  Until he was thirteen, Sonny attended public school on the Upper West Side. This is a class photo of Salinger and his schoolmates on the steps of P.S. 166, circa 1929.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© Valley Forge Military Academy\n  <br />\n  Cadet Corporal Salinger in 1936. Salingerâ€™s yearbook photo from Valley Forge Military Academy. Salinger used his own boarding school as the inspiration for Holden Caulfieldâ€™s Pency Prep when writing\n  <em>\n   The Catcher in the Rye\n  </em>\n  . Unlike Holden, Salinger excelled at Valley Forge.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â© Dorothy Nollman/Peter Imbres\n  <br />\n  Jerry in 1939. A photo taken by his friend Dorothy Nollman while on break from Columbia University. Within a year, Salingerâ€™s first short story would be published and his career launched.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Between boot camp and combat. Air Corps photo taken in 1943 while Salinger was assigned to the Public Relations Department of the Air Service Command. A year later he would be fighting in Europe.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. After nearly a decadeâ„¢s research and Slawenskiâ„¢s obvious empathy with his reclusive subjectâ„¢s search for emotional and philosophical equilibrium, this exemplary biography will be released on the first anniversary of J.D. Salingerâ„¢s death. Itâ„¢s a highly informative effort to assess the arc of Salingerâ„¢s career, the themes of his fiction, and his influence on 20th-century American literature. Born in 1919, indulged by his mother while growing up on Park Avenue, Salinger was a bored and indifferent student. He eventually found a mentor in legendary Columbia professor Whit Burnett, who encouraged him to work on the pieces that became The Catcher in the Rye even while Salinger was serving in WWII Europe. Slawenski emphasizes that Salingerâ„¢s wartime experience, from D-Day to the liberation of Dachau, Å“was the traumatic turning point in his life,Â influencing the sense of futility that permeates his early work. Salingerâ„¢s salvation, Slawenski demonstrates, came through his acceptance of Vedatic Buddhism, and he argues persuasively that Salinger came to consider writing an aspect of meditation, a task that demanded solitude and perfect control over the presentation of his fiction. The celebrity surrounding the publication of Catcher in the Rye in 1951 activated the split between his striving for asceticism and the demands of the outside world. Slawenski describes Salingerâ„¢s three marriages, records his contentious relationships with his publishers, his special relationship with the New Yorker, and Slawenskiâ„¢s assiduous research allows him to identify and assess many obscure and unpublished stories. In total, an invaluable work that sheds fascinating light on the willfully elusive author. B&amp;w photos. (Jan. 25)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2096'),
(6558, 'Jack &amp; Jill', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n A child killer is stalking the inner city of Washington, D.C., his latest victim Shanelle Green, an adorable first grader from Sojourner Truth School. This killing is especially unsettling to Detective Alex Cross. Sojourner Truth is the school his son Damon attends, just four blocks from his home.\n <p>\n  While the death of an inner-city black child doesn''t garner much media attention, another murder is making big headlines. The same day that Shanelle was beaten to death, Senator Daniel Fitzpatrick was found handcuffed to a bed and shot execution style. The only clue the police have to go on is a bizarre rhyme, signed "Jack and Jill," promising more high-profile executions, ultimately targeting the president of the United States. When Cross is called in to help protect the president, he begins to suspect that the two cases are somehow related. As he races to put all the pieces together, the killers continue their bloody rampage, paralyzing the city.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like\n  <i>\n   Along Came a Spider\n  </i>\n  and\n  <i>\n   Cat &amp; Mouse\n  </i>\n  ,\n  <i>\n   Jack &amp; Jill\n  </i>\n  is a rapid-fire thriller from start to finish, with enough plot twists to satisfy even the most jaded mystery fan.Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/310'),
(6559, 'Jack Kennedy', 'Chris Matthews', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œWhat was he like?â€\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. With the verve of a novelist, Chris Matthews gives us just that. We see this most beloved president in the company of friends. We see and feel him close-up, having fun and giving off that restlessness of his. We watch him navigate his life from privileged, rebellious youth to gutsy American president. We witness his bravery in war and selfless rescue of his PT boat crew. We watch JFK as a young politician learning to play hardball and watch him grow into the leader who averts a nuclear war.What was he like, this person whose own wife called him â€œthat elusive, unforgettable manâ€? The Jack Kennedy you discover here wanted never to be alone, never to be bored. He loved courage, hated war, lived each day as if it were his last.Chris Matthewsâ€™s extraordinary biography is based on personal interviews with those closest to JFK, oral histories by top political aide Kenneth Oâ€™Donnell and others, documents from his years as a student at Choate, and notes from Jacqueline Kennedyâ€™s first interview after Dallas. Youâ€™ll learn the origins of his inaugural call to â€œAsk what you can do for your country.â€ Youâ€™ll discover his role in the genesis of the Peace Corps, his stand on civil rights, his push to put a man on the moon, his ban on nuclear arms testing. Youâ€™ll get, more than ever before, to the root of the man, including the unsettling aspects of his personal life. As Matthews writes, â€œI found a fighting prince never free of pain, never far from trouble, never accepting the world he found, never wanting to be his fatherâ€™s son. He was a far greater hero than he ever wished us to know.â€\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2915'),
(6560, 'Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero', 'Chris Matthews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œWhat was he like?â€Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. With the verve of a novelist, Chris Matthews gives us just that. We see this most beloved president in the company of friends. We see and feel him close-up, having fun and giving off that restlessness of his. We watch him navigate his life from privileged, rebellious youth to gutsy American president. We witness his bravery in war and selfless rescue of his PT boat crew. We watch JFK as a young politician learning to play hardball and watch him grow into the leader who averts a nuclear war.What was he like, this person whose own wife called him â€œthat elusive, unforgettable manâ€? The Jack Kennedy you discover here wanted never to be alone, never to be bored. He loved courage, hated war, lived each day as if it were his last.Chris Matthewsâ€™s extraordinary biography is based on personal interviews with those closest to JFK, oral histories by top political aide Kenneth Oâ€™Donnell and others, documents from his years as a student at Choate, and notes from Jacqueline Kennedyâ€™s first interview after Dallas. Youâ€™ll learn the origins of his inaugural call to â€œAsk what you can do for your country.â€ Youâ€™ll discover his role in the genesis of the Peace Corps, his stand on civil rights, his push to put a man on the moon, his ban on nuclear arms testing. Youâ€™ll get, more than ever before, to the root of the man, including the unsettling aspects of his personal life. As Matthews writes, â€œI found a fighting prince never free of pain, never far from trouble, never accepting the world he found, never wanting to be his fatherâ€™s son. He was a far greater hero than he ever wished us to know.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2560'),
(6561, 'Jackie Brown', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Pretty working-girl Jackie Burke is in a tight spot. She''s just been picked up at Palm Beach International with fifty grand and some blow stashed in her flight bag. Lucky for her, the Feds want something Jackie''s got: the inside track to Ordell Robbie, the notoriusly slick arms dealer. And they''re ready to deal--Ordell in exchange for her freedom. But Jackie''s got another ace up her sleeve. . .Enter Max Cherry, bail bondsman. Big, tough, basically decent Max is on the verge of divorce and tired of the same old grind. That''s where Jackie comes in. The fifty big ones are peanuts compared to what Ordell''s got locked away in Freeport. But when a blowsy blond blowhead and a none-too-bright ex con try to muscle in on the action, it''s time to pull and old bait and switch--where the good guys are played off against the bad guys--and where Jackie and Max hope to walk off into the Florida sunset with a hot half million in cold cash.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3128'),
(6562, 'Jacqueline Kennedy', 'Michael R. Beschloss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded seven historic interviews about her life with John F. Kennedy. Now, for the first time, they can be heard and read in this deluxe, illustrated book and 8-CD set.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shortly after President John F. Kennedy s assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband s legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late President as well as the recollections of those closest to him throughout his extraordinary political career. For the rest of her life, the famously private Jacqueline Kennedy steadfastly refused to discuss her memories of those years, but beginning that March, she fulfilled her obligation to future generations of Americans by sitting down with historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and recording an astonishingly detailed and unvarnished account of her experiences and impressions as the wife and confidante of John F. Kennedy. The tapes of those sessions were then sealed and later deposited in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum upon its completion, in accordance with Mrs. Kennedy s wishes. The resulting eight and a half hours of material comprises a unique and compelling record of a tumultuous era, providing fresh insights on the many significant people and events that shaped JFK s presidency but also shedding new light on the man behind the momentous decisions. Here are JFK s unscripted opinions on a host of revealing subjects, including his thoughts and feelings about his brothers Robert and Ted, and his take on world leaders past and present, giving us perhaps the most informed, genuine, and immediate portrait of John Fitzgerald Kennedy we shall ever have. Mrs. Kennedy s urbane perspective, her candor, and her flashes of wit also give us our clearest glimpse into the active mind of a remarkable First Lady.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of President Kennedy s Inauguration, Caroline Kennedy and the Kennedy family are now releasing these beautifully restored recordings on CDs with accompanying transcripts. Introduced and annotated by renowned presidential historian Michael Beschloss, these interviews will add an exciting new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of President Kennedy and his time and make the past come alive through the words and voice of an eloquent eyewitness to history.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2882'),
(6563, 'James Madison', 'Richard Brookhiser', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Joseph J. Ellis, author of *First Family: Abigail and John Adams\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n â€œBrookhiser brings his succinct style to bear on the only founder more elusive than Jefferson.Â  The result is a distinctive portrait of Madison as America''s original man for all seasons.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Akhil Reed Amar, author of *America\n </strong>\n â€™s Constitution: A Biography\n <em>\n  *\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExactly what one would expect from Rick Brookhiser: another witty, wise, and elegant account of another American icon. The most vivid portrait of Madison to date, with a keen eye for the Virginian''s achievements as a politico and a frank assessment of the slavery questionâ€”a topic on which previous Madison biographers have disappointed almost as much as did Madison himself.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Karl Rove\n  <br />\n </strong>\n â€œRichard Brookhiser has written a lively, deeply informed, and penetrating look at the small man who played such a big role in Americaâ€™s founding.Â  Father of the Constitution, prime mover behind approval of the Bill of Rights, trusted advisor and confidant to the young nationâ€™s first president, and its fourth chief executive himself, James Madison is also our countryâ€™s first practical politician.Â  He founded not just the first American political party, but also the American system of party politics itself. Â For James Madison had comeâ€”after long study and extended practical experienceâ€”to believe deeply in majority rule, public opinion, and a government of, by and for the people.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </strong>\n â€œThough he came of age under the influence and tutelage of luminaries like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Brookhiserâ€™s portrayal of Madison grounds him in the backbiting, often inglorious machinations of his contemporary political system; this approach is both significant and refreshing in presenting Madison as a flawed man, rather than a godlike â€˜founding father.â€™â€¦ A useful introduction to a man who is often out shone by his presidential predecessors but who nevertheless was instrumental in creating our modern political system.â€\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Publishers Weekly\n <br />\n <em>\n  *â€œAn astute, witty biographyâ€¦. [Brookhiserâ€™s] concise account deserves high marks.â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </strong>\n â€œHaving previously examined the â€˜Holy Trinityâ€™ of the Federalist Party (Washington, Hamilton, and Adams), Brookhiser turns his relaxed and accessible writing style to the oracle of American constitutionalism and â€˜father of modern politics.â€™â€¦ He has produced an exceptional synopsis of the essential founderâ€™s political lifeâ€¦. Brookhiser gives fans of the Revolutionary generation and those interested in the origins of American politics an engaging and succinct narrative.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   National Review\n  </em>\n  online\n  <br />\n </strong>\n â€œIf you want to read an engaging account of the life of the Father of the Constitution, this is the book for youâ€¦ The prose is clear and reader-friendly.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn opportune and cogent estimation of the life and times of the physically small but politically sizable Madisonâ€¦A worthy addition for early-republic American history collections.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Washington\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Times\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </strong>\n â€œ[Brookhiserâ€™s] prose is concise and readableâ€¦. Mr. Brookhiserâ€™s\n <em>\n  James Madison\n </em>\n captures the delicate, complex and important ideas Madison formed and the lengths he went to to see to fruition the events that have contributed to the success of the experiment of a republic.â€\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n History Wire\n <em>\n  *\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrookhiser presents a prodigiously researched, warts-and-all study of Madison, as he interacted not only with the â€˜Virginia dynastyâ€™ but with such major players as Albert Gallatin, Aaron Burr, and Alexander Hamilton.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Washington Independent Review of Books\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </strong>\n â€œRichard Brookhiserâ€™s new biography of Madison shares [John] Adamsâ€™s deeper insight into Madisonâ€™s achievements. It is a short, readable account of Madisonâ€™s remarkable political career from a good and perceptive writer.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Newark\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Star-Ledger\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Brookhiser] offers a new perspective on Madison as the father of American politics, an often overlooked part of his legacy. Brookhiserâ€™s Madison is more than just constitutional scribe and protectorate of liberty. Heâ€™s the alchemist behind, if not the inventor of, the sometimes ugly business of politics.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMadison is remembered today as one of the key framers of the Constitution and the drafter of the Bill of Rights; as the husband of the vivacious Dolley Madison; and as the president who barely escaped capture by the British punitive expedition that raided Washington during the War of 1812. But he deserves to be remembered for a great deal more. Richard Brookhiser, in the latest in his series of concise and highly readable books about the Founding Fathers, conveys the man in full and files a strong paternity suit pointing to Madison as the father of American politics.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The American Spectator\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is a challenging and important task to recognize and understand the founderâ€™s faults without losing sight of their greatness while illuminating their enduring significance along the way. No historian does this better than Richard Brookhiserâ€¦.\n <em>\n  James Madison\n </em>\n is a small, unvarnished monument to its diminutive namesake. Drawing from and explicating Madisonâ€™s own public and personal writings, Brookhiser, employing equal doses of his customary acumen and wit, walks readers through the manâ€™s eight decades in little more than 200 pages. It is an honest and at times unflattering rendering, but one that reaffirms Madisonâ€™s genius, and proves authoritatively that his fingerprints remain all over our institutions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   National Review\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </strong>\n â€œWhen walking the halls of the Revolutionary and early Federal periods, Brookhiser is a writer of the Plutarchan stamp, capable of reducing his subjects to their essence without resort to the gross simplifications of the reductionist. He tells us what we should know, not â€“ exhaustively â€“ what we might know. His books have a light touch, and the characters who emerge from his pages take on the reality they deserve. They donâ€™t gather dust; they cast shadowsâ€¦. Brookhiser simply shines pinpoints of light, penetratingly, into the more obscure corners of Madisonâ€™s life and work, raises his achievements into higher relief, and elevates this founder to a proper, merited place among his brethren. And that is much.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Brookhiserâ€™s] sprightly narrative will serve as an entertaining introduction for those who are making their first acquaintance with Madisonâ€¦. As an avid observer of the hyperpartisan political environment of our own age, Brookhiser uses Madisonâ€™s often tumultuous career to remind us that day-to-day politics have never been very pretty. Anyone involved in the political wars as long and as relentlessly as Madison was surely bound to make a few missteps, and a few enemies, along the way. But Brookhiser effectively argues that Madison, by melding his knowledge of political theory with shrewd political instincts, deserves a place close to the top of the list of Americaâ€™s most successful politicians.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn this congenial biography, the fourth President does indeed shineâ€¦.[Brookhiserâ€™s] descriptions of Madisonâ€™s friendships combine sentiment and anecdote in irresistible proportion.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thomas S. Kidd, *Books &amp; Culture\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRichard Brookhiserâ€™s\n <em>\n  James Madison\n </em>\n â€¦is a welcome addition to the literature on Madison. His lively biography helps us understand Madisonâ€™s political brilliance and its lessons for todayâ€¦. [Brookhiser] is the rare author who grasps the complexities both of history and of contemporary politics.â€\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Richard Brookhiser\n </strong>\n is Senior Editor of the\n <em>\n  National Review\n </em>\n and the author of nine books, including\n <em>\n  Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington; Alexander Hamilton, American; Americaâ€™s First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735â€“1918\n </em>\n ; and\n <em>\n  Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution\n </em>\n . Brookhiser also wrote and hosted the PBS documentary\n <em>\n  Rediscovering George Washington\n </em>\n . He lives in New York City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2445'),
(6564, 'A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter', 'William Deresiewicz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An eloquent memoir of a young man''s life transformed by literature.   In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author''s novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen''s teachings. Progressing from his days as an immature student to a happily married man, Deresiewicz''s A Jane Austen Education is the story of one man''s discovery of the world outside himself.  A self-styled intellectual rebel dedicated to writers such as James Joyce and Joseph Conrad, Deresiewicz never thought Austen''s novels would have anything to offer him. But when he was assigned to read Emma as a graduate student at Columbia, something extraordinary happened. Austen''s devotion to the everyday, and her belief in the value of ordinary lives, ignited something in Deresiewicz. He began viewing the world through Austen''s eyes and treating those around him as generously as Austen treated her characters. Along the way, Deresiewicz was amazed to discover that the people in his life developed the depth and richness of literary characters-that his own life had suddenly acquired all the fascination of a novel. His real education had finally begun.  Weaving his own story-and Austen''s-around the ones her novels tell, Deresiewicz shows how her books are both about education and themselves an education. Her heroines learn about friendship and feeling, staying young and being good, and, of course, love. As they grow up, they learn lessons that are imparted to Austen''s reader, who learns and grows by their sides.  A Jane Austen Education is a testament to the transformative power of literature, a celebration of Austen''s mastery, and a joy to read. Whether for a newcomer to Austen or a lifelong devotee, Deresiewicz brings fresh insights to the novelist and her beloved works. Ultimately, Austen''s world becomes indelibly entwined with our own, showing the relevance of her message and the triumph of her vision.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1773'),
(6565, 'The Janson Directive', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even after death, Robert Ludlum remains the master of the international spy caper, and whether this posthumously published new thriller was cobbled together by a real ghost or already completed before Ludlum died doesn''t matter. All the trademarked Ludlum gifts of plotting, pacing, and suspense are on full display in this engrossing mystery about a former covert operative turned private security executive who''s stranded, abandoned, and marked for murder by his old colleagues when he manages to survive an unsurvivable mission. Rescuing renowned philanthropist and statesman-without-portfolio Peter Novak from the clutches of the terrorist who murdered his wife and unborn child, Paul Janson watches, unbelieving, as the plane carrying Novak back to freedom explodes before his eyes. Soon after the first post-mission attempt on his life, Janson begins to put the pieces of the puzzle together, but Ludlum keeps the reader from seeing it whole until the last thrilling chapter. A page-turner that doesn''t let up, this one will leave Ludlum''s fans hoping there are more unpublished manuscripts where this one came from, a not unlikely possibility.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ludlum died in March 2001, but here he is again, back with yet another posthumous thriller. Such books rarely live up to the author''s standards, but this one is different: it''s vintage Ludlum-big, brawny and loaded with surprises. The hero is Paul Janson, a private security consultant who retired a few years ago after a notorious career as the U.S. government''s go-to guy for nasty jobs no one else was willing to take. Against his better judgment, Janson accepts an assignment to rescue Peter Novak, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning philanthropist and international troubleshooter held captive by Islamic extremists on an island in the Indian Ocean. Janson pulls off the stunning rescue, but as they make their escape, Novak dies in a fiery explosion-or does he? Janson has his doubts; within hours, he finds himself targeted by separate groups of assassins for reasons that baffle him. As he zigzags his way across Europe, leaving piles of bodies at each stop, he begins to wonder who Novak really is. The answer he eventually discovers provides readers with one of Ludlum''s most outrageous plot twists in years. Extremely engaging and agonizingly suspenseful, Ludlum''s plot bolts from scene to scene and locale to locale-Hungary, Amsterdam, London, New York City-never settling for one bombshell when it can drop four or five. If this wild, unpredictable and colorfully cast novel is Ludlum''s swan song (he supposedly left behind notes for several thrillers), it''s a memorable one indeed.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1269'),
(6566, 'The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions', 'Robert Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Rankin''s far-fetched steampunk sequel to The War of the Worlds! It''s 1895; nearly a decade since Mars invaded Earth, chronicled by H.G. Wells in The War of the Worlds. Wrecked Martian spaceships, back-engineered by Charles Babbage and Nikola Tesla, have carried the Queen''s Own Electric Fusiliers to the red planet, and Mars is now part of the ever-expanding British Empire. Professor Coffin has a problem: the pickled Martian''s tentacles are fraying at the ends, and his Most Meritorious Unnatural Attraction (the remains of the original alien autopsy, performed by Sir Frederick Treves at the London Hospital) is no longer drawing the crowds. The less-than-scrupulous sideshow proprietor likes Off-worlders'' cash, so he needs a sensational new attraction. Word has reached him of the Japanese Devil Fish Girl; nothing quite like her has ever existed before. But Professor Coffin''s quest to possess the ultimate showman''s exhibit is about to cause considerable friction among the folk of other planets. Sufficient, in fact, to spark off Worlds War Two.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2798'),
(6567, 'The Jefferson Key', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Four United States presidents have been assassinatedâ€”in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963â€”each murder seemingly unrelated and separated by time.  But what if those presidents were all killed for the same reason: a clause in the United States Constitutionâ€”contained within Article 1, Section 8â€”that would shock Americans?  Â  This question is what faces former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone in his latest adventure. Â When a bold assassination attempt is made against President Danny Daniels in the heart of Manhattan, Malone risks his life to foil the killingâ€”only to find himself at dangerous odds with the Commonwealth, a secret society of pirates first assembled during the American Revolution. In their most perilous exploit yet, Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt race across the nation and take to the high seas. Along the way they break a secret cipher originally possessed by Thomas Jefferson, unravel a mystery concocted by Andrew Jackson, and unearth a centuries-old document forged by the Founding Fathers themselves, one powerful enoughâ€”thanks to that clause in the Constitutionâ€”to make the Commonwealth unstoppable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3593'),
(6568, 'Jefferson&#39;s War: America&#39;s First War on Terror 1801-1805', 'Joseph Wheelan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Author Joseph Wheelan has marvelously captured the story of Americaâ€™s war against the Barbary pirates, our first war against terror and the nations that supported it. Two centuries ago, without congressional or public debate, the ostensibly pacifist President Thomas Jefferson launched Americaâ€™s first war on foreign soil. The Barbary pirates, a Muslim enemy from Tripoli, attacked European and American merchant shipping with impunity. With telling illustrations, Jeffersonâ€™s War traces the events surrounding the evolution of the third presidentâ€™s resolute belief that peace with the Barbary States, and respect from Europe, could be achieved only through the â€œmedium of war.â€ Jefferson ordered the U.S. Navy to Tripoli in 1801 to repel â€œforce with force.â€ The Barbary War was also a proving ground for such young officers as William Bainbridge, Stephen Decatur, Isaac Hull, and David Porterâ€”key players in the impending War of 1812 against Great Britain. Readers who enjoy military and naval history, presidential biographies and accounts of the early American republic, will find that Joseph Wheelanâ€™s spirited narrative of Jeffersonâ€™s war provides an important new perspective on Americaâ€™s struggles with terrorâ€”then and now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2447'),
(6569, 'Jerusalem: The Biography', 'Simon Sebag Montefiore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of todayâ€™s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence.\n <br />\n <br />\n How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the â€œcenter of the worldâ€ and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalemâ€™s biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and womenâ€”kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whoresâ€”who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan.\n <br />\n <br />\n Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetimeâ€™s study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twiceâ€”in heaven and on earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2448'),
(6570, 'The Jester', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh discovers that his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted by knights in search of a relic worth more than any throne in Europe. Only by taking on the role of a jester is he able to infiltrate his enemy''s castle, where he thinks his wife is captive. With the unstoppable pace and plot of a page-turning Alex Cross novel, THE JESTER is a breathtakingly romantic, pulse-pounding adventure-one that could only be conjured by the mind of James Patterson. Everyone who has ever hoped for good to defeat evil or for love to conquer all will not be able to stop turning the pages of this masterful novel of virtue, laughter-yes, laughter-and suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/537'),
(6571, 'John Adams', 'David Mccullough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the most moving love stories in American history.  This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2451'),
(6572, 'John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth', 'Michael Munn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n According to this congenial biography by film journalist Munn, movie legend Wayne (1907â€“1979) was a hard worker who held tight to his beliefs and what he thought he should show on screen. Wayne''s career did have its share of controversy (although he starred in cutthroat war films, Wayne didn''t sign up for military service in WWII; he rejected communism, which made him the object of Stalinist threats; and the actor''s given name is still debated), and Munn deftly addresses those hullabaloos while providing an overview of the actor''s accomplishments. After playing football at USC, Wayne worked as a studio prop man, coming into early contact with director John Ford, who would direct Wayne in some of his most memorable performances, including 1952''s The Quiet Man. Throughout their association, Ford treated Wayne erratically, disparaging his talents and lashing out at him for accepting a lead role from rival director Raoul Walsh (The Big Trail, 1930). Yet Ford and Wayne collaborated on 1939''s Stagecoach, which gave birth to the serious western and the Ford-Wayne movie subgenre. Other highlights include Wayne''s emergence as a heavy in 1948''s Red River and his ferocious performance in 1956''s The Searchers. Munn portrays the actor in his personal life as a man''s man, who sustained friendships with tough cohorts like stuntman Yakima Canutt but failed in romance. Although the book takes an odd turn toward the end, when Munn links Wayne''s patriotism and heroic persona to the heroic actions after September 11, overall, it''s a fine tribute.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A fine tribute."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n (_Publisher''s Weekly_ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2098'),
(6573, 'Joker One: A Marine Platoon&#39;s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood', 'Donovan Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Campbell decided as a junior at Princeton that attending Marine Corps Officer Candidate School would look good on his rÃ©sumÃ©. Three years later, in the spring of 2004, he was in Iraq commanding a platoon known by its radio call sign, Joker One. Campbell tells its story, and his, in an outstanding narrative of the Iraq War. Joker One counted around 40 dudes: country boys and smalltown jocks; a few Hispanics and a single black. Some were college men with futures; some had pasts they preferred to forget. The battalion was assigned to one of Iraq''s worst hot spots: the city of Ramadi, where faceless enemies found shelter among 350,000 Iraqi civilians. Joker One fought from street to street, house to house and ambush to ambush for seven straight months. By the end of the tour, even the Gunny''s hands had started ceaselessly shaking, Campbell writes. Faced with urgent life-and-death decisions, Campbell had learned that there are no great options... you live with the results and shut up about the whole thing. For all his constant self-questioning, Lt. Campbell brought Joker One home with only one KIAâ€”a record as impressive as his account.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 17)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics praised Campbell as a gifted and deft writer who retells his Iraq tour in â€œpowerful, exacting detailâ€ (Dallas Morning News). While Campbell avoids much analysis of the war overall, or even his platoonâ€™s specific mission, most critics found this to be a virtue. As the New York Times noted, Campbell â€œnever quite puts his finger on the meaning, if any, of the extraordinary violence,â€ but he does â€œ[lay] it all out for anyone else who wants to have a try.â€ Only the Denver Post found Campbellâ€™s unreflective style trying, citing that the author â€œseems awkwardly obtuse when it comes to ascertaining the needs of other people.â€ Most reviewers, however, admired the bookâ€™s honest day-to-day look at attempting to quell the Iraqi insurgency.\n <br />\n Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2452'),
(6574, 'Jolie Blon&#39;s Bounce', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  James Lee Burke, acclaimed by critics as "America''s best novelist," "the Graham Greene of the bayou," and "a poet of the mystery novel," returns with his popular character, Dave Robicheaux, in a novel rich with atmosphere, ripe with menace, and filled with the kind of crackling dialogue that has made Burke a consistent\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  best-selling author.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, the victim of a particularly savage rape, New Iberia, Louisiana, police detective Dave Robicheaux senses from the very start of the investigation that the most likely suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the actual killer. Though a drug addict and general ne''er-do-well, Hulin just doesn''t fit the profile for this kind of brutal crime.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when another murder occurs -- this victim a drugged-out prostitute who happens to be the daughter of one of the local mafia bigwigs -- all clues once again point to Tee Bobby Hulin, and the cries for arrest become too loud to ignore. The dead girl''s father, however, prefers to take matters in his own hands and sets out to find -- and punish -- the killer himself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But before Robicheaux can solve these crimes and bring the killer or killers to justice, he is forced to battle his own inner demons, including a painkiller addiction, a habit that begins as the result of a brutal and humiliating beating he suffers at the hands of the mysterious and diabolical character known as Legion. A fixture in the area for years, Legion was once the overseer on a local sugarcane plantation and now gets by doing odd jobs. In temperament, however, he''s still the malicious and malevolent bully he always was, a man defined by evil and seemingly possessed with supernatural skills of survival.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Added to the mix, and on the good guy side of the balance sheet, is Clete Purcel, a longtime buddy of Robicheaux''s and a confirmed boozer and womanizer. Clete comes to New Iberia for a visit and is quickly drawn into the struggle between the various forces of evil in the town, including Jimmy Dean Styles, a black man intent on maintaining his empire of corruption; Joe Zeroski, a trailer park mafioso with palatial aspirations -- and of course, Legion Guidry, the devil incarnate, in whom Robicheaux finds himself facing a challenge and an enemy unlike any he has ever known. And soon, what began as a duel of wits has turned into a dance of death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gothic, dense, brutal, touching, and always compelling,\n  <em>\n   Jolie Blon''s Bounce\n  </em>\n  is classic storytelling from a writer who has been dubbed "the Faulkner of crime fiction."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/392'),
(6575, 'Journals of Ayn Rand', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Rarely has a writer and thinker of the stature of Ayn Rand afforded us access to her most intimate thoughts and feelings. From *Journals of Ayn Rand*, we gain an invaluable new understanding and appreciation of the woman, the artist, and the philosopher, and of the enduring legacy she has left us.   Rand comes vibrantly to life as an untried screenwriter in Hollywood, creating stories that reflect her youthful vision of the world. We see her painful memories of communist Russia and her struggles to conveyy them in *We the Living*. Most fascinating is the intricate, step-by-step process through which she created the plots and characters of her two masterworks, *The Fountainhead* and *Atlas Shrugged*, and the years of painstaking research that imbued the novels with their powerful authenticity.   Complete with reflections on her legendary screenplay concerning the making of the atomic bomb and tantalizing descriptions of projects cut short by her death, *Journals of Ayn Rand* illuminates the mind and heart of an extraordinary woman as no biography or memoir ever could. On these vivid pages, Ayn Rand lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2100'),
(6576, 'The Journals of Spalding Gray', 'Spalding Gray', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe publication of\n  <em>\n   The Journals of Spalding Gray\n  </em>\n  is a significant event in American arts and letters. If Walt Whitman was our great chronicler of American life toward the end of the 19th century, Gray was his ironic, darkly funny counterpart.Â He did more than anyone else to record what it was like to be humanâ€”achingly humanâ€”in the urban America of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This is not only a great book, itâ€™s an important book.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of\n  <em>\n   The Hours\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   By Nightfall\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œ\n  <em>\n   The Journals of Spalding Gray\n  </em>\n  tell an important story that is painful to read but hard to put down. They bring you into a mind that is original and uncensoring even as it careens off the rails into destruction. Grayâ€™s complex moods, dark imagination and wit are often disturbing and deeply moving.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Kay Redfield Jamison, author of\n  <em>\n   An Unquiet Mind\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Riveting, funny, heartbreaking, at once raw and lyrical: these journals reveal the complexity of the actor/writer who invented the autobiographical monologue and perfected the form in such celebrated works as *Swimming to Cambodia.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  *Here is the first intimate portrait we have of the man behind the charismatic performer who ended his life in 2004: evolving artist, conflicted celebrity, a man struggling for years with depression before finally succumbing to its most desperate impulse. Begun when he was twenty-five, the journals give us Grayâ€™s reflections on his childhood; his craving for success; the downtown New York arts scene of the 1970s; his love affairs, marriages and fatherhood; his travels in Europe and Asia; and throughout, his passion for the theater, where he worked to balance his compulsion to tell all with his terror of having his deepest secrets exposed.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Culled from more than five thousand pages and including interviews with friends, colleagues, lovers, and family,\n  <em>\n   The Journals of Spalding Gray\n  </em>\n  gives us a haunting portrait of a creative genius who we thought had told us everything about himselfâ€”until now.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1924');
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(6577, 'A Journey: My Political Life', 'Tony Blair', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short years, he had transformed his party and rallied the country behind him, becoming prime minister in 1997 with the biggest victory in Labourâ€™s history, and bringing to an end eighteen years of Conservative government. He took Labour to a historic three terms in office as Britainâ€™s dominant political figure of the last two decades.*A Journey* is Tony Blairâ€™s firsthand account of his years in office and beyond. Here he describes for the first time his role in shaping our recent history, from the aftermath of Princess Dianaâ€™s death to the war on terror. He reveals the leadership decisions that were necessary to reinvent his party, the relationships with colleagues including Gordon Brown, the grueling negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland, the implementation of the biggest reforms to public services in Britain since 1945, and his relationships with leaders on the world stageâ€”Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush. He analyzes the belief in ethical intervention that led to his decisions to go to war in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and, most controversially of all, in Iraq. *A Journey* is a book about the nature and uses of political power. In frank, unflinching, often wry detail, Tony Blair charts the ups and downs of his career to provide insight into the man as well as the politician and statesman. He explores the challenges of leadership, and the ramifications of standing up, clearly and forcefully, for what one believes in. He also looks ahead, to emerging power relationships and economies, addressing the vital issues and complexities of our global world.Few British prime ministers have shaped the nationâ€™s course as profoundly as Tony Blair, and his achievements and his legacy will be debated for years to come. Here, uniquely, we have his own journey, in his own words.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1774'),
(6578, 'Joy for Beginners', 'Erica Bauermeister', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Moving, touching, wonderfully written, inspiring to read." -Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain\n </p>\n <p>\n  At an intimate, festive dinner party in Seattle, six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate''s recovery from cancer. Wineglass in hand, Kate strikes a bargain with them. To celebrate her new lease on life, she''ll do the one thing that''s always terrified her: white-water rafting. But if she goes, all of them will also do something they always swore they''d never do-and Kate is going to choose their adventures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shimmering with warmth, wit, and insight, Joy for Beginners is a celebration of life: unexpected, lyrical, and deeply satisfying.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/949'),
(6579, 'The Judas Gate', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Treachery has a price in the mesmerizing new thriller from the New York Times-bestselling writer.   A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan, but not all of them-the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a massacre is appalling, and Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting down the traitor. But Dillon has his own way of doing things and, he will eventually discover, so does his quarry. Dillon will not only be going to war-the war will be coming to him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3367'),
(6580, 'Judge &amp; Jury', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   Â with Andrew Gross\n  </span>\n </font>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   </span>\n  </font>\n  <br />\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n    <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n     Bestselling author James Patterson returns with the #1 blockbuster thriller of the summer, an unstoppable novel of law and revenge. Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante is closing in on the notorious mob boss "The Electrician," when the scheduled sting goes spectacularly awry. Two FBI agents are dead, the boss is wounded, and Pellisante vows the Electrician''s next move will be from a jail cell.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     Andie Echeverra, a part-time actress and a single, full-time mom, is assigned her next role as Juror #11 in the landmark trial against Mafia Don Dominic Cavello. Everybody is on edge. No one has ever crossed the man whose orders have made entire families disappear.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     Though Cavello''s influence extends across blue uniforms and black robes, the case should be open-and-shut. But the legal system fails with devastating results, and Nick and Andie are the only ones left to seek justice. To stop the Electrician, they must take matters into their own hands. They are the judge and jury now.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     James Patterson spins an all-out heart-pounding legal thriller that pits two people against the most vicious and powerful mobster since John Gotti.Â \n    </span>\n   </font>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/312'),
(6581, 'Judgment Call', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance brings back acclaimed sheriff Joanna Brady in an exciting and twisting mystery set against the beauty and isolation of the Arizona desert   Judgment Call   When Joanna Brady''s daughter, Jenny, stumbles across the body of her high school principal, Debra Highsmith, in the desert, the Cochise County sheriff''s personal and professional worlds collide, forcing her to tread the difficult middle ground between being an officer of the law and a mother. While investigating murders has always meant discovering unpleasant facts and disquieting truths, the experienced Joanna isn''t prepared for the knowledge she''s about to uncover. Though she''s tried to protect her children from the dangers of the grown-up world, the search for justice leads straight to her own door and forces her to face the possibility that her beloved daughter may be less perfect than she seemsâ€”especially when a photo from the crime scene ends up on Facebook. A photo only one person close to the crime scene could have taken.   The gruesome picture is just the tip of the iceberg. Even a small, close-knit town like Bisbee has its secrets. Navigating her way through the unfamiliar world of social media, Joanna discovers shockingâ€”and incriminatingâ€”information. The details build, from a hushed-up suspension, to a group of teenagers with a grudge against the late Ms. Highsmith, to a hateful video calling for the principal''s death. The video evidence points to one particular privileged boy, who''s already lawyered up thanks to his father, a well-to-do doctor determined to protect his son''s reputation. Yet the deeper Joanna digs, the more complications she uncovers. It seems the quiet, upstanding principal had a hidden past, full of mysterious secrets she''d successfully kept buried for years.   As the seasoned sheriff juggles professional constraints and personal demandsâ€”budget cuts, new team members, an arrogant coroner, a confused teenager, a precocious toddler, and a high-maintenance motherâ€”she finds herself walking a fine line between justice and family that has never been so blurred.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3903'),
(6582, 'The Judgment', 'D. W. Buffa', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  When Judge Calvin Jeffries becomes the first judge to be murdered while serving in office, charismatic criminal defense attorney Joseph Antonelli finds himself smack in the middle of a riveting case.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Calvin Jeffries''s body is found in the courthouse parking garage, eyes widen and horrified tongues wag. The fact that Jeffries was a thoroughly reprehensible human being doesn''t detract from the notoriety of the first murder of a sitting Oregon judge. Defense attorney extraordinaire Joe Antonelli has a long history with Jeffries. Years ago the judge threw him into jail for contempt in a vain attempt to deter Antonelli from winning yet another case. But one of Antonelli''s colleagues suffered even more. As the curious Antonelli pieces together fragments of the legendary judge''s past, he discovers that Jeffries apparently drove Elliott Winston insane, had him committed, and married his wife. If only Elliott weren''t still securely in the psychiatric hospital, what a sterling suspect he''d make!\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the police find the killer, a homeless man with the murder weapon and a willingness to confess, who promptly commits suicide after being taken into custody. The legal community breathes a sigh of relief--until a second judge is murdered in the same manner. When another homeless man is arrested, Antonelli''s "bizarre coincidence" antennae start to quiver, and he offers his services to the defendant. So convinced is he of Danny''s innocence that he plunges undercover into the vagrant''s world, searching for evidence of a setup. But his discoveries seem to point directly to the impossible--for how could Elliott Winston, safely tucked behind bars, be the murderer?\n </p>\n <p>\n  At some point during\n  <em>\n   The Judgment\n  </em>\n  (the exact moment will vary according to individual tolerance), you may find yourself putting the book aside and picking up an Elmore Leonard for an emergency infusion of quality dialogue. Along with everyone with whom he comes in contact, Antonelli suffers from an apparent speech impediment that usually makes him sound like a particularly pompous 19th-century pundit.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When author D.W. Buffa lets his courtroom savvy take center stage, the novel moves along briskly (even though Antonelli takes some rather remarkable legal liberties, it''s all in good fun). The subplot involving the return of Antonelli''s high-school sweetheart, however, feels less integral than afterthought-ish. Though Buffa tries to tie everything together at the end with a heavily contrived twist that probably set O. Henry yawning in his grave, the novel''s final note isn''t one of ringing irony. It''s more like a dull thud.\n  <em>\n   --Kelly Flynn\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Inventing a perfectly odious victim and an obvious killer with the perfect alibi, Buffa cooks up a convoluted legal thriller littered with plot-twist land mines that explode when least expected. Toss in a poignant midlife romance and an innocent, put-upon defendant, and you have a novel with wide appeal. So few people grieve when loathsome circuit judge Calvin Jeffries is stabbed to death and gutted in the courthouse parking garage that it comes as a shock when the confessed killer is revealed to be a homeless man with no apparent ties to the victim. When a second sharp-tongued judge is killed the same way in the same spot, the cops call it a copycat killing and arrest a retarded homeless man on an anonymous tip, finding him with the murder weapon. Seasoned defense attorney Joseph Antonelli, himself a particularly maligned target of the venomous Jeffries, is persuaded to take the case and becomes convinced that both murders were planned by the same brilliant criminal one Antonelli is particularly familiar with, since the man once shot him. Antonelli''s investigator, disbarred lawyer and recovering alcoholic Howard Flynn, sees his own dead son in the retarded defendant and throws himself wholeheartedly into the case. Unfortunately, Antonelli''s suspect has been in the state home for the criminally insane for the past 12 years and could not possibly have committed the crimes. Meanwhile, bachelor Antonelli''s high school sweetheart re-enters his life after a bout with manic depression and a rough divorce. Buffa (The Prosecution) once again produces a fast-spinning tale that jolts and veers enticingly off-track, but always stays comfortably in sight of the main objective. Well-developed characters and the rich Portland, Ore., milieu add depth to this excellent thriller. Agent, Wendy Sherman. Major ad/ promo; author tour; audio.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3860'),
(6583, 'Julia Child: A Life', 'Laura Shapiro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Shapiro''s biography of Julia Childâ€”one of America''s most beloved personalitiesâ€”is a short but comprehensive book, and the newest in the Penguin Lives series. Born Julia McWilliams in Pasadena, Calif., in 1912, Child attended college and worked for the OSS in Asia during WWII, where she met her future husband. After marrying, they moved to Paris, which led her to cooking classes at the Cordon Bleu. Child had an appetite for learning as well as eating, one that soon developed into a desire to pass on the knowledge and skillsâ€”the loveâ€”she was acquiring. And in her late 30s, she found her calling. With two women who later coauthored her first book, she started her own cooking school; her class notes led to the cookbook, which eventually led to the television show. Her husband provided steady support, and Child learned of the value of trial and error and an ability to laugh at her mistakes. She was also patient: the cookbook was nearly a decade from conception to publication and the television show started equally shakily. In this wonderful short bio, Shapiro doesn''t skimp on less-flattering aspects of her subject''s life and personality (Child found homosexuality to be "a rude disruption in the natural order of things").\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Shows enormous grace and food savvy...Reading Shapiro reminds us how Julia Child taught us not just how to cook but how to think about food."\n <br />\n --\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Laura Shapiro''s biography of Julia Child is as bright, smart, funny, charming, and companionable as Julia herself."\n <br />\n -Dorie Greenspan, author of\n <em>\n  Baking with Julia\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Shapiro''s graceful little book should be seen as the definitive analysis of Julia Child''s long career."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Pittsburgh Post- Gazette\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2102'),
(6584, 'Juliet', 'Anne Fortier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julieâ€™s twin sister. The only thing Julie receives is a keyâ€”one carried by her mother on the day she herself diedâ€”to a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy.Â Â Â  This key sends Julie on a journey that will change her life foreverâ€”a journey into the troubled past of her ancestor Giulietta Tolomei. In 1340, still reeling from the slaughter of her parents, Giulietta was smuggled into Siena, where she met a young man named Romeo. Their ill-fated love turned medieval Siena upside-down and went on to inspire generations of poets and artists, the story reaching its pinnacle in Shakespeareâ€™s famous tragedy.Â Â Â Â  But six centuries have a way of catching up to the present, and Julie gradually begins to discover that here, in this ancient city, the past and present are hard to tell apart. The deeper she delves into the history of Romeo and Giulietta, and the closer she gets to the treasure they allegedly left behind, the greater the danger surrounding herâ€”superstitions, ancient hostilities, and personal vendettas. As Julie crosses paths with the descendants of the families involved in the unforgettable blood feud, she begins to fear that the notorious curseâ€”â€œA plague on both your houses!â€â€”is still at work, and that she is destined to be its next target. Only someone like Romeo, it seems, could save her from this dreaded fate, but his story ended long ago. Or did it?Â Â Â  From Anne Fortier comes a sweeping, beautifully written novel of intrigue and identity, of love and legacy, as a young woman discovers that her own fate is irrevocably tiedâ€”for better or worseâ€”to literatureâ€™s greatest star-crossed lovers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3202'),
(6585, 'Juliet, Naked', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nick Hornby returns to his roots - music and messy relationships - in this funny and touching new novel which thoughtfully and sympathetically looks at how lives can be wasted but how they are never beyond redemption. Annie lives in a dull town on England''s bleak east coast and is in a relationship with Duncan which mirrors the place; Tucker was once a brilliant songwriter and performer, who''s gone into seclusion in rural America - or at least that''s what his fans think. Duncan is obsessed with Tucker''s work, to the point of derangement, and when Annie dares to go public on her dislike of his latest album, there are quite unexpected, life-changing consequences for all three.Nick Hornby uses this intriguing canvas to explore why it is we so often let the early promise of relationships, ambition and indeed life evaporate. And he comes to some surprisingly optimistic conclusions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3432'),
(6586, 'Jumper', 'Steven Gould', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Written In The 1990S By American Author Steven Gould, Jumper Is The Inspiration For The Film Of The Same Name To Be Released In Feb 08 And Starring Samuel L Jackson. It Tells The Story Of Davy Rice, Played By Hayden Christensen, As He Escapes His Tortured Childhood To Explore The World Via Teleportation And Find His Long Lost Mother. At Seventeen The World Is At Your Feet&amp; Especially If You Can Teleport. David Rice Barely Remembers His Mother. She Left His Alcoholic Father When Davy Was Very Young. She Left Davy Too, And Since Then All Of William Rice''S Abusive Anger Has Been Focused On His Young Teenage Son. One Evening, As He Is About To Receive Another Brutal Beating, Davy Shuts His Eyes And Wishes To Be Safe. When He Opens Them Again, He Finds Himself In His Small Town''S Library. Slowly, He Realises He Is Very Special, He Can Teleport. Armed With His New Power, Davy Sets Out With New Purpose: He Will Leave His Abusive Home And Find His Long Lost Mother. Davy''S Confidence Grows As His Skills Do, But They Also Draw Unwanted Attention And Soon Davy Finds That He Too Is Hunted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1302'),
(6587, 'Jumper: Griffin&#39;s Story', 'Steven Gould', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fleshing out backstory for the upcoming motion picture\n <em>\n  Jumper\n </em>\n (based on Gould''s 1992 debut novel of the same name), this breakneck-paced SF adventure revolves around a character created specifically for the film. Griffin O''Conner, a precocious nine-year-old jumper (a person with the power to self-teleport), becomes the target of a ruthless cabal hell-bent on killing him. After assassins murder his parents in their San Diego home, Griffin barely escapes with his life by jumping to a location hundreds of miles away. But every time Griffin relocates, the mysterious operatives somehow track him down and kill those close to him. As the once naÃ¯ve Griffin grows older, he learns to use his abilities in ingenious ways and ultimately embarks on a quest to avenge the deaths of his parents and others who died just because they befriended him. While series fans will almost literally be jumping for joy, newcomers may not fully appreciate the saga''s thematic scope and history without first reading\n <em>\n  Jumper\n </em>\n and its sequel,\n <em>\n  Reflex\n </em>\n (2004).\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The theme of Steven Gould''sÂ \n <em>\n  Jumper\n </em>\n is, quite literally, escape. The first half ofÂ \n <em>\n  JumperÂ \n </em>\n has a charm and bounce that carry the reader past the implausibilities inherent in the premise--imagine a Holden Caulfield with the power of life or death over the jerks and phonies." --\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n "Gould proves once again that in the hands of a wonderful, perceptive writer, there is no such thing as an old idea. What setsÂ \n <em>\n  Jumper\n </em>\n apart from other novels that dip back into the well of the masters is that Gould brings his own keen empathy and rigorous intelligence to the story.....This is a book that you won''t want to miss.Â  It reminded me of why I first came to love science fiction, and yet I didn''t have to be twelve again to have a great time reading it." --Orson Scott Card\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1304'),
(6588, 'The Jungle', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The extraordinary new adventure from the #1 New York Times- bestselling author.   Jungles come in many forms. There are the steamy rain forests of the Burmese highlands. There are the lies and betrayals of the world of covert operations. And there are the dark and twisted thoughts of a man bent on near-global domination. To pull off their latest mission, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must survive them all.  A devastating new weapon unleashed in thirteenth-century China...a daring rescue in the snowbound mountains along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border...a woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand and Myanmar...for Cabrillo and his crew, all of these events will come together-leading to the greatest threat against U.S. security that the world has ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3264'),
(6589, 'Jurassic Park', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Unless your species evolved sometime after 1993 when\n  <em>\n   Jurassic Park\n  </em>\n  hit theaters, you''re no doubt familiar with this dinosaur-bites-man disaster tale set on an island theme park gone terribly wrong. But if Speilberg''s amped-up CGI creation left you longing for more scientific background and ... well, character development, check out the original Michael Crichton novel. Although not his best book (get ahold of sci-fi classic\n  <em>\n   The Andromeda Strain\n  </em>\n  for that),\n  <em>\n   Jurassic Park\n  </em>\n  fills out the film version''s kinetic story line with additional scenes, dialogue, and explanations while still maintaining Crichton''s trademark thrills-''n''-chills pacing. As ever, the book really is better than the movie.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bioengineers clone 15 species of dinosaurs and establish an island preserve where tourists can view the large reptiles; chaos ensues when a rival genetics firm attempts to steal frozen dinosaur embryos, and it''s up to two kids, a safari guide and a paleontologist to set things right. PW called this, "A scary, creepy, mesmerizing technothriller with teeth."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/331'),
(6590, 'The Jury', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tea. Sympathy. Revenge. The Sisterhood Has Their Own Style Of Justice.The women of the Sisterhood know life isn''t fair, but that doesn''t mean they have to like it--or let it pass. Instead, these best friends share their joys, troubles, triumphs, heartaches and one collective mission: to right wrongs and bring justice where it is desperately needed. Even reeling from loss of one of their own, the Sisterhood is always prepared to rally behind a new friend. For years, Paula Woodley has suffered the broken bones and shattered self-esteem caused by an abusive marriage. But what can she do? Her high-profile, Washington powerbroker husband is not a man to be crossed. Or so he thinks. The Sisterhood may not be an organization found in any of his memos, but he''s about to take a meeting with them--and they''ll be setting the agenda. . .Praise for Fern Michaels''s Sisterhood NovelsPayback "Revenge is a dish best served with cloth napkins and floral centerpieces. . .fast-paced. . .puts poetic justice first."--"Publishers Weekly "Weekend Warriors"Readers who grow weary of seeing the bad guys get away with their crimes will enjoy seeing what happens when well-funded, very angry women take the law into their own hands." --"Booklist""An unforgettable story."--"Rendezvous "\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3745'),
(6591, 'Just After Sunset: Stories', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In the introduction to his first collection of short fiction since\n <em>\n  Everything''s Eventual\n </em>\n (2002), King credits editing\n <em>\n  Best American Short Stories\n </em>\n (2007) with reigniting his interest in the short form and inducing some of this volume''s contents. Most of these 13 tales show him at the top of his game, molding the themes and set pieces of horror and suspense fiction into richly nuanced blends of fantasy and psychological realism. The Things They Left Behind, a powerful study of survivor guilt, is one of several supernatural disaster stories that evoke the horrors of 9/11. Like the crime thrillers The Gingerbread Girl and A Very Tight Place, both of which feature protagonists struggling with apparently insuperable threats to life, it is laced with moving ruminations on mortality that King attributes to his own well-publicized near-death experience. Even the smattering of genre-oriented works shows King trying out provocative new vehicles for his trademark thrills, notably N., a creepy character study of an obsessive-compulsive that subtly blossoms into a tale of cosmic terror in the tradition of Arthur Machen and H.P. Lovecraft. Culled almost entirely from leading mainstream periodicals, these stories are a testament to the literary merits of the well-told macabre tale.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In King''s latest collection of short stories (following 2002''s\n <em>\n  Everything''s Eventual\n </em>\n ), he presents 14 tales that range from the philosophically themed, to one in which the author gleefully admits to playing with the gross-out factor ("A Very Tight Place"), to "The Cat from Hell," which makes its hardcover debut some 30 years after its original publication as part of a contest in\n <em>\n  Cavalier\n </em>\n , one of the gentleman''s magazines that put food on the table in King''s early years as a writer. In his introduction, King cites his recent stint as guest editor for the 2007 edition of\n <em>\n  Best American Short Stories\n </em>\n as an impetus to return to the form in his own writing. Several of the works included here were written following that experience. Finally, as King has done previously in his collections, at the end of the volume he provides the reader with brief insights into the inspirations for each tale. Recommended for all popular fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 7/08.]â€”Nancy McNicol, Hamden P.L., CT\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/835'),
(6592, 'Just After Sunset: Stories', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Stephen King -- who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies -- delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since Everything''s Eventual six years ago. As guest editor of the bestselling Best American Short Stories 2007, King spent over a year reading hundreds of stories. His renewed passion for the form is evident on every page of Just After Sunset. The stories in this collection have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, McSweeney''s, The Paris Review, Esquire, and other publications.Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating -- and then terrifying -- journey. Set on a remote key in Florida, "The Gingerbread Girl" is a riveting tale featuring a young woman as vulnerable -- and resourceful -- as Audrey Hepburn''s character in Wait Until Dark. In "Ayana," a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. For King, the line between the living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. In one of the longer stories here, "N.," which recently broke new ground when it was adapted as a graphic digital entertainment, a psychiatric patient''s irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside...or keep the world from falling victim to it.Just After Sunset -- call it dusk, call it twilight, it''s a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It''s the perfect time for Stephen King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3624'),
(6593, 'Just Kids', 'Patti Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2010\n  </strong>\n  : Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe weren''t always famous, but they always thought they would be. They found each other, adrift but determined, on the streets of New York City in the late ''60s and made a pact to keep each other afloat until they found their voices--or the world was ready to hear them. Lovers first and then friends as Mapplethorpe discovered he was gay, they divided their dimes between art supplies and Coney Island hot dogs. Mapplethorpe was quicker to find his metier, with a Polaroid and then a Hasselblad, but Smith was the first to fame, transformed, to her friend''s delight, from a poet into a rock star. (Mapplethorpe soon became famous too--and notorious--before his death from AIDS in 1989.) Smith''s memoir of their friendship,\n  <em>\n   Just Kids\n  </em>\n  , is tender and artful, open-eyed but surprisingly decorous, with the oracular style familiar from her anthems like "Because the Night," "Gloria," and "Dancing Barefoot" balanced by her powers of observation and memory for everyday details like the price of automat sandwiches and the shabby, welcoming fellow bohemians of the Chelsea Hotel, among whose ranks these baby Rimbauds found their way.\n  <em>\n   --Tom Nissley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In 1967, 21-year-old singerâ€“song writer Smith, determined to make art her life and dissatisfied with the lack of opportunities in Philadelphia to live this life, left her family behind for a new life in Brooklyn. When she discovered that the friends with whom she was to have lived had moved, she soon found herself homeless, jobless, and hungry. Through a series of events, she met a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe who changed her lifeâ€”and in her typically lyrical and poignant manner Smith describes the start of a romance and lifelong friendship with this man: It was the summer Coltrane died. Flower children raised their arms... and Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames in Monterey. It was the summer of\n  <em>\n   Elvira Madigan\n  </em>\n  , and the summer of love.... This beautifully crafted love letter to her friend (who died in 1989) functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by a passion for art and writing. Smith transports readers to what seemed like halcyon days for art and artists in New York as she shares tales of the denizens of Max''s Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner''s, Brentano''s, and Strand bookstores. In the lobby of the Chelsea, where she and Mapplethorpe lived for many years, she got to know William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Johnny Winter. Most affecting in this tender and tough memoir, however, is her deep love for Mapplethorpe and her abiding belief in his genius. Smith''s elegant eulogy helps to explain the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe''s life and work.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2104'),
(6594, 'Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So', 'Mark Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mark Vonnegut on\n  <em>\n   Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n I wrote\n <em>\n  Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So\n </em>\n because I was increasingly annoyed with my younger self, who had wrapped up everything with a bow. You can try but you donâ€™t just get to get over mental illness at age twenty-five, go to medical school, write a book, get married and call it a wrap.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the seventies I was in so in love with the medical model I almost thought I had invented it. "No shame. No blame." I was thrilled to not have my health be dependent on the sanity of society or the wellness of those around me. I was magnanimous about not wanting to credit insight or hard work or circumstances like the kindness of others. Now, the medical model has morphed into "Shut up and take your pills." What passes for care is medication, medication, and more medication, the purpose of which is only incidentally and occasionally to help the patient get a life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Much of mental illness is genetic, but Iâ€™m now quite sure there are people with more or less the same genetics I have who never go crazy and others who never get well. As a kid who wrote a little and painted a little and played a little music, I certainly didnâ€™t want my mental health riding on anything as flimsy as my creative abilities but, among other things, Iâ€™ve come to see that a willingness to write, paint and play music is more than a little important to progress and just trying to keep my feet under me.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was the feeling that good things had happened to me in spite of myself, that I had a rich life that showed itself in my house and how I practiced pediatrics and how we lived as a family that made me want to write\n <em>\n  Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So\n </em>\n . Iâ€™m grateful to the gritty clench-jawed kid who wrote\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two not unrelated challenges--being novelist Kurt Vonnegut''s son and suffering episodes of schizophrenia--shape, but don''t confine, this mordantly witty, slightly subversive memoir. Vonnegut (The Eden Express) weathered a scruffy childhood with his as yet obscure dad ("I''ll always remember my father as the world''s worst car salesman") and was hospitalized for three bouts of psychosis in his 20s. He recovered and went on to Harvard Medical School and a successful career in pediatrics--then a fourth psychotic break upended him 14 years after the first one. (Taken to the hospital where he worked, he found himself greeting colleagues while tied to a gurney.) Vonnegut vividly conveys the bizarre logic of the voices and delusions that occasionally plagued him, which he finds not much nuttier than what passes for normalcy. (He''s especially incensed by the insurance bureaucracies he thinks are ruining medicine.) His father''s son, he writes with a matter-of-fact absurdism--"The patient who just died lies there quietly and everyone else stops rushing around trying to do something about it"--champions misfits, and attacks the system. All his own are Vonnegut''s hard-won insights into the value of a humble, useful life picked up from pieces. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2106'),
(6595, 'Just One Look', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n Just One Look is a 2004 novel by Harlan Coben. It is a stand-alone novel but does contain at least one reference to his Myron Bolitar novels. The plot centers around a woman whose whole life changes one day upon taking home a roll of pictures and finding one that does not belong. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Coben''s latest thriller (after\n <em>\n  No Second Chance\n </em>\n ) is a riveting, albeit perplexing, nightmare that finds hapless New Jersey wife and mother Grace Lawson dealing with an assortment of fearful developments, including a missing spouse, a terrifyingly adaptable hit man, deceitful friends, hidden agendas and ghosts from the past. Reader MacDuffie wisely takes her cues from Coben''s prose. When he describes a policeman as "patronizing," she lends just the right vocal inflection to his lines, then quickly switches to the sarcastic tones of feisty Grace. And for the novel''s most ingratiating character, Charlene Swain, MacDuffie''s voice subtly shifts from vague to vital as the Percodan-popping, bored-to-tears housewife rises above her ennui to give Grace a helping hand in combating the wicked hit man Wu. Coben fills his thriller with unoriginal characters (including a murderer on death row, a rock-and-roller in comeback mode and a gentrified mobster with revenge on his mind), but MacDuffie''s skillful interpretation brings the characters and action into sharp focus.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/399'),
(6596, 'Just Take My Heart', 'Mary Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Natalie Raines, famous Broadway star, is found in her home in Closter, New Jersey, dying from a gunshot wound, her former husband, Gregg Aldrich, whom she was in the process of divorcing, is the chief suspect. What no one knows is that, only days before she was murdered, Natalie accidentally came face to face with the man who killed her former roommate, Jamie Evans. Two years later, career criminal Jimmy Easton, comes forward to claim that Aldrich hired him to kill his wife, but he turned the job down. Based on Easton''s testimony, Gregg is charged with the murder of his wife. Handling the case is Emily Wallace, an attractive thirty-two-year-old widowed assistant prosecutor. As Aldrich''s trial is making headlines, Emily''s boss, Ted Wesley, warns her that this high-profile case will reveal personal matters about her, such as the fact that she had a heart transplant. And, during the trial, Emily experiences sentiments which defy all reason and continue after Gregg Aldrich''s fate is decided by the jury.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3674'),
(6597, 'Just Too Good to Be True', 'E. Lynn Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Brady Bledsoe and his mother, Carmyn, have a strong relationship. A single mother, faithful churchgoer, and the owner of several successful Atlanta beauty salons, Carmyn has devoted herself to her son and his dream of becoming a professional football player. Brady has always followed her lead, including becoming a member of the church''s "Celibacy Circle." Now in his senior year at college, the smart, and very handsome, Brady is a lead contender for the Heisman Trophy and a spot in the NFL. As sports agents hover around Brady, Barrett, a beautiful and charming cheerleader, sets her mind on tempting the celibate Brady and getting a piece of his multimillion-dollar future--but is that all she wants from him, and is she acting alone?  Carmyn is determined to protect her son. She''s also determined to protect the secret she''s kept from Brady his whole life. As things heat up on campus and Carmyn and Brady''s idyllic relationship starts to crumble mother and son start to wonder about the other--are you just too good to be true? A sweeping novel about mothers and sons, football and beauty shops, secrets and lies, JUST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE has all the ingredients that have made E. Lynn Harris a bestselling author: family, friendship, faith, and love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3679'),
(6598, 'Justice', 'Karen Robards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards is back with an exhilarating romantic thriller that will leave readers breathless. Feisty criminal attorney Jessica Ford has done her best to comply with the orders of the Secret Serviceâ€™s unofficial witness protection program ever since she became the lone witness to the First Ladyâ€™s murder. She changed her name, dyed her dark hair blonde, and traded her sturdy black-rimmed glasses for contact lenses. Unfortunately, winning her first high-profile case for prestigious Washington, D.C., law firm Ellis Hayes, and subsequently landing her face all over the news, is not exactly â€œkeeping a low profile.â€ Or so says hunky Secret Service agent Mark Ryan, whose newest assignmentâ€”despite Jessâ€™s stubborn protestsâ€”is keeping her safe at all costs. It just so happens heâ€™s also her ex-boyfriend. The trial earns Jess a permanent spot on the firmâ€™s elite legal defense team, replacing an associate who eloped suddenly and never came back. Itâ€™s the chance of a lifetime. But Jessâ€™s mind has raced with questions from the moment the prosecutionâ€™s star witness shocked the courtroom with an electrifying revelation involving the handsome son of a powerful U.S. senator. Was the pretty, young mother intimidated into changing her story on the stand? Why will she not return Jessâ€™s calls? Did Jessâ€™s ambitious predecessor on the case really just abandon her successful career? Or did both women mysteriously disappear? After Mark rescues Jess from an attacker outside her apartment, she begins to consider the possibility that she is a target. Maybe itâ€™s not so bad to have her irresistibly charming and hard-bodied former lover around for protection. Maybe. The question is, which of the many inadvertent enemies Jess has made recently is he protecting her from? The investigation leads her to some startling coincidencesâ€”and to a teenage runaway who may just hold the missing link . . . if Jess can find her. As Jess hurtles closer to the truthâ€”and the sexual tension between her and Mark grows hotter than everâ€”she finds herself in a race against the clock to find the answers before what she doesnâ€™t know gets them both killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/603'),
(6599, 'Kaleidoscope', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The World War II love affair between lovely Frenchwoman Solange Bertrand and American GI-turned-actor Sam Walker burned too brightly and ended in tragedy, leaving their three young daughters orphaned. Megan, the youngest, adopted by a loving family, grows up to be a doctor in Appalachia. Alexandra, adopted by a wealthy family, marries a powerful man with an impeccable pedigree. Hilary, the oldest (and the only one who remembers her sisters), enters the sordid world of foster care before going out on her own to work her way up to being a New York news producer. In the pursuit of success and stability, Hilary foregoes building a personal life, especially when her efforts to locate her sisters hit a dead end. But when high-priced private investigator John Chapman is hired to reunite the three sisters, the secrets and lies that kept the women apart--and bound them together--are revealed and the love only sisters can share blossoms again. A heartwarming tale by master storyteller Danielle Steel.\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The pages of Steel''s newest novel are packed with an assortment of one-dimensional characters, each one more broadly sketched than the last. Sam Walker and Arthur Patterson, American soldiers in war-torn Paris, fall in love with Solange, a proud young Frenchwoman. Having won her, Sam brings his beautiful war bride to New York, where he instantly sets Broadway agog at his acting talent, mercurial temper and restless love affairs. Tragedy strikes when he kills Solange during an argument, and later himself, orphaning their three pampered daughters. Arthur cravenly arranges adoptions for the youngest two, but nine-year-old Hilary is dealt a life of utter misery. Determined to reunite her little family, she grimly survives only to find that the man responsible for her torment has lost all traces of her sisters. Years later, John Chapman is hired by a dying, penitent Arthur to find the sisters and bring them together. As he follows their trails, Chapman becomes obsessed by his quarryone the wife of a French baron, one a doctor in Appalachia and the third a cold, ambitious network executiveand his search for a happy ending that will wipe away the awful past. The book gets off to a slow, overly sweet start, but by the midway mark Steel has given these tired characters a fresh look and a vibrant momentum all their own. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1216'),
(6600, 'Kate: Kate Middleton: Princess in Waiting', 'Claudia Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kate Middleton is the girl everyone wants to be. Catherine Elizabeth "Kate" Middleton is living a perfect Cinderella fairy tale. She is the woman who won the heart of Britain''s most desirable bachelor. Academically gifted and sophisticated beyond her years, this dark-haired beauty possesses the natural poise and impeccable breeding necessary for the wife-to-be of the heir to the throne. She has charmed Prince William and his circle and captivated the entire House of Windsor. Yet there is a history behind her polished veneer that would surprise any royal court observerâ€”an extraordinary, inspiring, and deeply moving tale of an impoverished working-class family that overcame deprivation and adversity to rise to the upper echelons of British society. Based on exclusive and intimate interviews with Kate''s closest friends and relatives, and containing photographs, many published here for the very first time, Claudia Joseph''s Kate is a fascinating portrait of the extraordinary young woman who may be queenâ€”and the story of a family''s remarkable journey from the mining villages of Durham to an apartment in the royal residence of Clarence House.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2108');
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(6601, 'Keeper: One House, Three Generations, and a Journey Into Alzheimer&#39;s', 'Andrea Gillies', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Five years ago, Andrea Gilliesâ€” writer, wife, and mother of threeâ€”seeing that her husband''s parents were struggling to cope, invited them to move in.  She and her newly extended family relocated to a big Victorian house on a remote, windswept peninsula in the far north of Scotland, leaving behind their friends and all that was familiar;  hoping to find a new life, and new inspiration for work. Her mother-in-law Nancy was in the middle stages of Alzheimer''s Disease, and Keeper charts her journey into dementia, its impact on her personality and her family, and the author''s researches into what dementia is.   As the grip of her disease tightens, Nancy''s grasp on everything we think of as ordinary unravels before our eyes. Diary entries and accounts of conversations with Nancy track the slow unravelling.  The journey is marked by frustration, isolation, exhaustion, and unexpected black comedy. For the author, who knew little about dementia at the outset, the learning curve was steeper than she could have imagined. The most pernicious quality of Alzheimerâ€™s, Gillies suggests, is that the loss of memory is, in effect, the loss of oneâ€™s self, and Alzheimerâ€™s, because it robs us of our intrinsic self-knowledge, our ability to connect with others, and our capacity for self-expression, is perhaps the most terrible and most dehumanizing illness. Moreover, as Gillies reminds us, the effects of Alzheimerâ€™s are far-reaching, impacting the lives of caregivers and their loved ones in every way imaginable.Keeper is a fiercely honest â€œglimpse into the dementia abyssâ€â€”an endlessly engrossing meditation on memory and the mind, on family, and on a society that is largely indifferent to the far-reaching ravages of this baffling disease.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2110'),
(6602, 'Keeping Faith', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the marriage of Mariah White and her cheating husband, Colin, turns ugly and disintegrates, their seven-year-old daughter, Faith, is there to witness it all. In the aftermath of a rapid divorce, Mariah falls into a deep depressionâ€”and suddenly Faith, a child with no religious background whatsoever, hears divine voices, starts reciting biblical passages, and develops stigmata. And when the miraculous healings begin, mother and daughter are thrust into the volatile center of controversy and into the heat of a custody battleâ€”trapped in a mad media circus that threatens what little stability the family has left. In Keeping Faith, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoultâ€”one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fictionâ€”brilliantly examines belief, miracles, and the complex core of family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1217'),
(6603, 'Keeping the Feast: One Couple&#39;s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy', 'Paula Butturini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** A story of food and love, injury and healing, *Keeping the Feast* is the triumphant memoir of one couple''s nourishment and restoration in Italy after a period of tragedy, and the extraordinary sustaining powers of food, family, and friendship. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four years later, married in Rome. But less than a month after the wedding, tragedy struck. They had transferred from their Italian paradise to Warsaw and while reporting on an uprising in Romania, John was shot and nearly killed by sniper fire. Although he recovered from his physical wounds in less than a year, the process of healing had just begun. Unable to regain his equilibrium, he sank into a deep sadness that reverberated throughout their relationship. It was the abrupt end of what they''d known together, and the beginning of a new phase of life neither had planned for. All of a sudden, Paula was forced to reexamine her marriage, her husband, and herself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Paula began to reconsider all of her previous assumptions about healing. She discovered that sometimes patience can be a vice, anger a virtue. That sometimes it is vital to make demands of the sick, that they show signs of getting better. And she rediscovered the importance of the most fundamental of human rituals: the daily sharing of food around the family table.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A universal story of hope and healing, *Keeping the Feast* is an account of one couple''s triumph over tragedy and illness, and a celebration of the simple rituals of life, even during the worst life crises. Beautifully written and tremendously moving, Paula''s story is a testament to the extraordinary sustaining powers of food and love, and to the stubborn belief that there is always an afterward, there is always hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2112'),
(6604, 'The Keepsake', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen knows how to expertly dissect a brilliantly suspenseful story, all the while keeping fascinated readers riveted to her side. By turns darkly enthralling and relentlessly surprising, The Keepsake showcases an author at the peak of her storytelling powers. For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Bostonâ€™s Crispin Museum. Now its sudden rediscovery by museum staff is both a major coup and an attention-grabbing mystery. Dubbed â€œMadam X,â€ the mummyâ€“to all appearances, an ancient Egyptian artifactâ€“seems a ghoulish godsend for the financially struggling institution. But medical examiner Maura Isles soon discovers a macabre message hidden within the corpseâ€“horrifying proof that this â€œcenturies-oldâ€ relic is instead a modern-day murder victim.To Maura and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, the forensic evidence is unmistakable, its implications terrifying. And when the grisly remains of yet another woman are found in the hidden recesses of the museum, it becomes chillingly clear that a maniac is at largeâ€“and is now taunting them.Archaeologist Josephine Pulcilloâ€™s blood runs cold when the killerâ€™s cryptic missives are discovered, and her darkest dread becomes real when the carefully preserved corpse of yet a third victim is left in her car like a gruesome offeringâ€“or perhaps a ghastly promise of whatâ€™s to come.The twisted killerâ€™s familiarity with post-mortem rituals suggests to Maura and Jane that he may have scientific expertise in common with Josephine. Only Josephine knows that her stalker shares a knowledge even more personally terrifying: details of a dark secret she had thought forever buried.Now Maura must summon her own dusty knowledge of ancient death traditions to unravel his twisted endgame. And when Josephine vanishes, Maura and Jane have precious little time to derail the Archaeology Killer before he adds another chilling piece to his monstrous collection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3568'),
(6605, 'Keith Haring Journals', 'Keith Haring', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n During his lifetime, Keith Haring''s spontaneous, archetypal creations won both a street audience and the respect of the art establishment. Kept from his teens until his death from AIDS in 1990, these illuminating journals reveal Haring''s conscious, committed drive to extend the boundaries of art. Photos and drawings throughout. Radio news feature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2114'),
(6606, 'The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963', 'Laurence Leamer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Journalist Leamer (The Kennedy Women) provides a stirring narrative of the Kennedy men but comes up short as regards analysis of the byzantine motivations, complex psychology and persistent moral failures that lie behind the events he otherwise describes so well. Putting his own spin on well-known anecdotes (including all the most popular tales from so many other books that document Joe Sr.''s rise in business and politics, his failure to recognize the menace of Hitler and his sponsorship of his children''s careers). Leamer steadfastly refuses to shed a critical light on the proclivities of Kennedy pÃ¨re. The author soft-pedals, for example, the Kennedy partriarch''s well-documented anti-Semitism. The same lack of critical analysis despite Leamer''s access to never-before available materials constitutes a considerable flaw throughout the book. Although offering engaging and fast-moving accounts of such events as Joe Jr.''s death and Jack''s rise in politics through means both fair and foul, Leamer consistently refrains from considering the ethical implications of his stories, or the evident shortcomings in the character of more than one Kennedy. He seems, for example, to step back in awe when considering the brilliance and audacity of the Kennedys'' stealing Cook County and therefore the election during the 1960 presidential race. In the final analysis, Leamer is a fan, idealizing his subjects. The result is a good read, though not necessarily a balanced history. Leamer''s book is the first of a projected two-volume set.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n While this is a work of political and family history, as any Kennedy book must be, it is best described as an extended character study of Joseph Kennedy and his sons, Joseph Jr., John, Robert, and Edward. It is not a celebration of triumphs or an undraping of frailties but instead offers much of both in an evenhanded narrative of courage, meanness, ambition, hypocrisy, patriotism, anti-Semitism, duty, and wantonness. Few tales can be more familiar, yet the writing is always tight and often graceful. How the men of this family lived their lives both publicly and privately is the real subject of this book, even as the cinema of Leamer''s plot projects scenes featuring the likes of Roosevelt, King, Monroe, Castro, and Nixon. Although Leamer aims primarily at a general audience, scholars will take note of his considerable primary research, in printed and recorded material, and dozens of his own interviews. Worthy of being placed on the same shelf with Doris Kearns Goodwin''s The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, this book follows Leamer''s The Kennedy Women and precedes a planned second volume. For all libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Robert F. Nardini, Chichester, NH\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1927'),
(6607, 'Kennedy: The Classic Biography', 'Ted Sorensen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ted Sorensen knew Kennedy the man, the senator, the candidate, and the president as no other associate did. From his hiring as a legislative assistant to Kennedy''s death in 1963, Sorensen was with him during the key crises and turning pointsâ€”including the spectacular race for the vice presidency at the 1956 convention, the launching of Kennedy''s presidential candidacy, the TV debates with Nixon, and election night at Hyannis Port. The first appointment made by the new president was to name Ted Sorensen his Special Counsel.   In Kennedy, Sorensen recounts failures as well as successes with surprising candor and objectivity. He reveals Kennedy''s errors on the Bay of Pigs, and his attitudes toward the press, Congress, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Sorensen saw firsthand Kennedy''s actions in the Cuban missile crises, and the evolution of his beliefs on civil rights and arms control. First published in 1965 and reissued here with a new preface, Kennedy is an intimate biography of an extraordinary man, and one of the most important historical accounts of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2116'),
(6608, 'Kick Ass: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "You just cover a lot of territory and you do it aggressively and you do it fairly and you don''t play favorite sand you don''t take any prisoners. It''s the old school of slash-and-burn metropolitan column writing. You just kick ass. That''s what you do. And that''s what they pay you to do.--Carl Hiaasen   Praise for Kick Ass   "Readers who know Hiaasen only from his bestselling crime novels will find that this collection of columns from the Miami Herald showcases the same voice singing in a different key . . . He writes with an old-time columnist''s sense of righteous rage and an utterly current and biting wit."--Publishers Weekly   "Reveals an angry, alert civic muckraker in the pugilistic vein of Mencken or Royko. . . . Hiaasen cut his teeth as an investigative reporter, and this spirit is strong in both his chosen subjects and his wry attention to unforgiving evidentiary detail. . . . Deeply satisfying."--Kirkus Reviews   "Reminiscent of the snarky, opinionated newspaper articles of the great Mark Twain, Hiaasen''s columns are finely crafted little gems."--Booklist   "Shows you that Hiaasen''s seemingly implausible fictional premises aren''t really far-fetched at all. He just knows Florida."--Playboy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/401'),
(6609, 'Kill Alex Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n The President''s son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark.\n <br />\n <br />\n A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced.\n <br />\n <br />\n As his window for solving both crimes narrows, Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes--one that may alter the fate of the entire country.\n <em>\n  KILL\n </em>\n ALEX\n <em>\n  CROSS\n </em>\n is faster, more exciting, and more tightly wound than any Alex Cross thriller James Patterson has ever written!\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/313'),
(6610, 'The Kill Artist', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''The kill artist'' is a novel about a reluctant hero and his mission to destroy an old enemy and preserve international peace. Gabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job - he tracked down and eliminated Israel''s terrorists enemies. But when his wife and son fell victim to the danger that accompanied him everywhere, Gabriel quit and devoted himself to the work of art restoration, an occupation that had previously been a cover for his secret assignments. Niow Ari Shamron, the head of Israeli intelligence, needs Gabriel particular kind of experience to thwart a Palestinian plot to destroy the peace negotiations in the Middle East. the architect of this plot, a Palestinian zealot named Tariq, is a lethal part of Gabriel''s past, so as the two begin an intercontinental game of hide-and-seek, with life and death as the prizes, the motives are as personal as they are political.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3886'),
(6611, 'The Kill Clause', 'Gregg Hurwitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A riveting and explosive novel, The Kill Clause is a brilliantly inventive tour de force by a powerful new master of suspense. Tim Rackley is a dangerous man of honor, a deputy U.S. marshal who is very good at his jobâ€”until everything he believes in is shattered by the brutal murder of his own daughter. Betrayed by an imperfect judicial system, Rackley watches helplessly as the killer walks free on a legal technicality. Devastated, furious, and burning with a righteous need for vengeance, he is suddenly forced to explore his own deadly optionsâ€”a quest that leads him into a shadowy no-man''s-land between justice and the law . . . and into the welcoming fold of "the Commission." A vigilante group made up of people like himâ€”relentless streetwise operators who have each lost a loved one to violent crimeâ€”the Commission confronts the failings of a system that sets predators loose to hunt again, cleaning up society''s "mistakes" covertly, efficiently, and permanently. But as he is dragged deeper into a deadly morass of hidden agendas and murderous justice, Tim Rackley discovers that playing God is an excruciating and fearsome task. When his new secret life starts coming unwound at an alarming speed, he is suddenly caught in the most terrifying struggle he has ever facedâ€”a desperate battle to save his marriage, his career, his life, his soul . . . and everything left that''s worth fighting for.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3091'),
(6612, 'Kill for Me', 'Karen Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Rose concludes her thriller trilogy that began with\n <em>\n  Scream for Me\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Die for Me\n </em>\n with a bang. In Dutton, Ga., where 13 years earlier a secret rape club flourished among the bratty sons of the towns elite, an elderly monster known only as Charles and his depraved minions steal teenage girls to sell to perverts in a lucrative human trafficking scheme. Hot on their trail are the Georgia Bureau of Investigations special agent Daniel Vartanian; his partner, special agent Luke Papadopoulos; and his long-suffering sister, Susannah Vartanian, a New York City ADA. A botched raid spurs the murders of five girls and the removal of abused assets to another hiding place. Two courageous teen survivors provide the GBI with help, but a mole in the GBI working for Charles complicates the takedown. Rose juggles a large cast, a huge body count and a complex plot with terrifying ease. The sweet romance between Luke and Susannah provides welcome relief from the many scenes of brutality.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Susannah Vartanian, the troubled heroine of Die for Me (2007) and Scream for Me (2008), returns in another gripping thriller. Again teaming up with Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agent Luke Papadopoulos, her best friend, Susannah puts her own life in danger to catch the people who are kidnapping teenage girls and selling them to the highest bidder. Readers familiar with the first two Vartanian novels are well aware of Susannahâ€™s deeply troubled past, and here the author explores in even greater detail Susannahâ€™s family history and the incidents that scarred her for life. This is a gritty, unsettling novel in which Susannah confronts not only some especially nasty villains but also her own inner demons. The novel appears to bring the Vartanian trilogy to a close, but there are many nooks and crannies of Susannahâ€™s life left to be explored. High reader demand could easily lead to more volumes in the series. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/405'),
(6613, 'Kill Me if You Can', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New York City, finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his gorgeous girlfriend Katherine fill his thoughts--until he realizes that he is being hunted, and that whoever is after him won''t stop until they have reclaimed the diamonds and exacted their revenge.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Trailing him is the Ghost, the world''s greatest assassin, who has just pulled off his most high-profile hit: killing Walter Zelvas, a top member of the international Diamond Syndicate. There''s only one small problem: the diamonds he was supposed to retrieve from Zelvas are missing. Now, the Ghost is on Bannon''s trail--but so is a rival assassin who would like nothing more than to make the Ghost disappear forever. From "America''s #1 storyteller" (\n  <em>\n   Forbes\n  </em>\n  ) comes a high-speed, high-stakes, winner-take-all thrill ride of adrenaline-fueled suspense.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Patterson has had more\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to\n  <em>\n   Guinness World Records\n  </em>\n  . Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson''s books have sold more than 205 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including\n  <em>\n   Kiss the Girls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Along Came a Spider\n  </em>\n  . Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women''s Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Marshall Karp has written and produced numerous TV shows, plays and movies. He is the author of the Lomax and Biggs book series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(6614, 'Kill Shot', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1 internationally bestselling author Vince Flynn delivers the young, hungry, and lethal Mitch Rapp at the onset of his career as a CIA superagent.In the year since the CIA trained and then unleashed him, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each swift and untraceable kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians in the Pan Am Lockerbie attack become increasingly aware that someone is hunting them. Rapp is given his next target, and finds the man asleep in his bed in Paris. In the split second it takes the bullet to leave Rapp''s silenced pistol, the trap is sprung and he finds himself in the fight of his life. The next morning, nine bodies are discovered in one of Paris''s finest hotels--among them the Libyan oil minister. Back in Washington the finger-pointing begins in earnest as no one wants any part in what has become an international crisis and potential embarrassment for the CIA. Rapp''s handlers have only one choice--deny any responsibility for the incident and pray that their newest secret weapon stays that way. Rapp must avoid capture or die quietly. One person in the group, however, is not prone to leaving such important things to chance. Rapp has become a liability, and Stan Hurley will not allow Rapp to be taken alive by the French authorities, even if it means killing him. Operating on his own and outside the control of his handlers, it will soon become clear that nothing is more dangerous than a wounded and cornered Mitch Rapp. In Flynn''s newest page-turner, the stakes are higher than they''ve ever been as Mitch Rapp embarks on the journey that will turn him into America''s most deadly asset. The nonstop action in this shockingly realistic political thriller will keep your pulse pounding till the very end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3183'),
(6615, 'Killer', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In picture-perfect Rosewood, Pennsylvania, ash-blond highlights gleam in the winter sun and frozen lakes sparkle like Swarovski crystals. But pictures often lieâ€”and so do Rosewood''s four prettiest girls.   Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily have been lying ever since they became friends with beautiful Alison DiLaurentis. Ali made them do terrible thingsâ€”things they had to keep secret for years. And even though Ali was killed at the end of seventh grade, their bad-girl ways didn''t die with her.   Hanna''s on a mission to corrupt Rosewood''s youth, starting with a very attractive sophomore. Aria''s snooping into her boyfriend''s past. Spencer''s stealingâ€”from her family. And pure little Emily''s abstaining from abstinence.   The girls should be careful, though. They thought they were safe when Ali''s killer was arrested and A''s true identity was finally revealed. But now there''s a new A in town turning up the heat. And this time Rosewood is going to burn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3773'),
(6616, 'The Killer Angels', 'Michael Shaara', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "MY FAVORITE HISTORICAL NOVEL . . . A superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant."--James M. McPherson, Author of Battle Cry of FreedomIn the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation''s history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life.Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields. Shattered futures, forgotten innocence, and crippled beauty were also the casualties of war.The Killer Angels is unique, sweeping, unforgettable--a dramatic re-creation of the battleground for America''s destiny."REMARKABLE. . . A BOOK THAT CHANGED MY LIFE . . . I had never visited Gettysburg, knew almost nothing about that battle before I read the book, but here it all came alive."--Ken Burns, Filmmaker, The Civil War\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2438'),
(6617, 'Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend', 'Harold Schechter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Noted historical true-crime expert Schechter (The Devil''s Gentleman) traces the divergent paths of the Colt brothers in a saga that falls short of the author''s usual high standards. Samuel Colt, born to a prosperous Connecticut family in 1814, was fascinated by weaponry from an early age and was determined to make a mark in the field. His older brother, John, drifted, until finally he settled in Manhattan as an accountant. Sam, who allegedly whittled his prototype of a revolving firearm while at sea, received foreign patents though American success was slower. But his life was shattered when, on September 24, 1841, John was arrested for the murder of Samuel Adams, whose decomposing body was found stuffed into a box in the hold of a ship bound for New Orleans. In a high-profile trial--witnesses testified that the financially pressed John bludgeoned Adams over a debt--John was convicted and sentences to hang, but in 1842 he was found in his cell with a knife in his chest. Despite the lively material and fascinating characters, Schechter fails to adequately explore the tragic irony of the situation wherein one brother revolutionizes a handheld killing machine and the other becomes a killer. 7 b&amp;w illus.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The nineteenth-century murder trial and subsequent sordid demise of John Colt would have been little noticed, except that Colt happened to be the older brother of Samuel Colt. Six years before the trial, Samuel had invented the revolver, and the use of â€œJudge Coltâ€ became the stuff of western lore and legend. John had also been moderately successful as a writer and accountant, but he tended to be volatile and irresponsible. He was accused of bashing in the head of a Mr. Adams during an argument over a debt and then concealing the corpse in a shipping crate. The trial attracted great attention in New York. Despite an admirable effort by his defense attorney that suggeted self-defense, Colt was convicted. Hours before his scheduled execution, he was found dead in his cell, an apparent suicide. Schechter, a literature professor, has specialized in true-crime writing, and here he captures the early form of â€œmedia circusâ€ that surrounded the trial, providing interesting and sometimes tantalizing tidbits concerning relations between the brothers. This is a well-done account of a â€œsensationalâ€ trial and its sad aftermath. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2453'),
(6618, 'Killer Heat', 'Linda Fairstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s August in New York, and the only thing that''s hotter than the pavement is Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper''s professional and personal life. Just as she''s claiming an especially gratifying victory in a rape case, she gets the call: the body of a young woman has been found in an abandoned building. The brutality of the murder is disturbing enough, but when a second body, beaten and disposed of in exactly same manner, is found off the Belt Parkway, the city''s top brass want the killer found fast, before the tabloids can start churning out ghoulish serial killer headlines. Between dodging the bullets of the gang members who are infuriated by Alex''s most recent courtroom victory and keeping a rendezvous with a charming restaurateur, a serial killer on the loose is the last thing she needs on her plate right now. Then a third victim is found, and it becomes clear to Alex and her team that time is not on their side. Through Alex''s peerless interrogation skillsand one big breakthe search becomes focused on someone who has a twisted obsession with the military, and things grow increasingly dangerous when the chase leads to a chain of small, abandoned islands around New York harbor. Once again Linda Fairstein brilliantly orchestrates a page-turning mix of cutting-edgelegal issuesand forensics,New York City history, and spine-tingling suspense. And at the center of it all is Alex Cooperstunning, single-minded, accomplished, and not to be trifled with whether she''s in or out of a courtroom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3606'),
(6619, 'Killer View', 'Ridley Pearson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A dead search-and-rescue team member, a missing friend, an unexplained illness at a local water-bottling plant that sends workers to the hospital and sets off biohazard warnings may have something in common as Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming follows threads of questionable evidence through the glitter of Sun Valley to expose a masterfully planned domestic terrorist attack.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3241'),
(6620, 'Killing Floor', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The sleepy, forgotten town of Margrave, Georgia, hasn''t seen a crime in decades, but within the span of three days it witnesses events that leave everyone stunned. An unidentified man is found beaten and shot to death on a lonely country road. The police chief and his wife are butchered on a quiet Sunday morning. Then a bank executive disappears from his home, leaving his keys on the table and his wife frozen with fear. The easiest suspect is Jack Reacher - an outsider, a man just passing through. But Reacher is a tough ex-military policeman, trained to think fast and act faster. When authorities learn the first victim was someone from Reacher''s past, and he cannot convince them of his innocence, his patient self-defense becomes a raging crusade of revenge. With two cops who believe in him - a thoughtful black detective and a woman named Roscoe - he closes in on a ruthless conspiracy hiding behind Margrave''s rural charm. But closing in on him is a team of killers. Step by step, the two teams circle - waiting to see which will be the first to walk onto the killing floor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2548'),
(6621, 'The Killing Ground', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After almost two score books, many of them bestsellers, Higgins (_Without Mercy_) knows how to fire up a thriller. In the first half-dozen pages, he establishes his London locale; reintroduces recurring lead Sean Dillon, the colorful former IRA man turned British intelligence antiterrorism op; has Sean shoot a smalltime hood''s ear off; and intimates there are much bigger fish to fry beyond the hood''s Russian employer. The real villain is a Muslim extremist of the al-Qaeda variety: Hussein Rashid, aka the Hammer of God, and one of the most successful assassins alive, with 27 certified kills of American and British soldiers and Iraqi politicians. Hussein has his sights set on Charles Ferguson, head of British intelligence. It''s a longstanding grudge, complicated by the recent kidnapping of Hussein''s promised bride, his 13-year-old cousin Sara, who was earlier kidnapped by Hussein himself. The proceedings are complicated; it helps if the reader is a veteran of this long-running series. But it''s all pure Higgins: almost every shot hits square between the eyes, and all the characters are hard lads indeed.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The master of suspense returns, with a chilling novel of modern terrorism and revenge.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it begins with a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The man he stops at Heathrow Airport is Caspar Rashid, born and bred in England but with family ties to a Bedouin tribe fiercely wedded to the old ways, as Rashid has just found out to his pain. His thirteen-year-old daughter, Sara, has been kidnapped by Rashid''s own father and taken to Iraq to be married to a man known as the Hammer of God, one of the Middle East''s most feared terrorists. Dillon has had his own run-ins with that clan, and when the distraught man begs Dillon for help, he sees a chance to settle some old scores-but he has no idea of the terrible chain of events he is about to unleash, nor of the implacable enemies he is about to gain. Before his journey is done, many men will die-and Dillon may be one of them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Filled with dark suspense, driven by characters of complexity and passion, this novel once again proves that in the words of the\n  <em>\n   St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n  </em>\n  "Jack Higgins is the dean of intrigue novelists. He has no equal."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3703'),
(6622, 'The Killing Hour', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Summertime and the killing is easy... For three summers, the residents of Atlanta have been gripped by terror when the temperature creeps up to a hundred. For with the relentless heat comes a vicious killer. Each time, he takes two girls. Each day, he waits for the first body to be discovered, a body that contains all the clues investigators need to find the second victim, who waits, prey to a slow but certain death. The police are never in time; the bodies always found months later in remote and dangerous places. As a heatwave of epic proportions descends, the game begins again. Two girls disappear and the clock is ticking. Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy stumbles across the first body in the grounds of the FBI training facility at Quantico. She''s been face to face with a serial killer before and knows only too well why the killer has chosen Quantico to start the chase. This time he''s raising the stakes; he wants the FBI''s finest to come out and play... Chilling and mesmerising by turns, THE KILLING HOUR is Lisa Gardner''s finest thriller to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/644'),
(6623, 'Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot', 'Bill O&#39;Reilly &amp; Martin Dugard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill O''Reilly''s Killing LincolnMore than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O''Reilly''s Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of nonfiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The O''Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedyâ€”and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude, and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and Alan Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency.Â  In addition, powerful elements of organized crime have begun to talk about targeting the president and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.In the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, Kennedy is gunned down by an erratic young drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes the scene, only to be caught and shot dead while in police custody.The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and deceit of Camelot, bringing history to life in ways that will profoundly move the reader.Â  This may well be the most talked about book of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3943'),
(6624, 'Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever', 'Bill O&#39;Reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "As a history major, I wish my required reading had been as well written as this truly vivid and emotionally engaging account of Lincoln''s assassination.Â And as a former combat infantry officer, I found myself running for cover at the Civil War battle scenes. This is the story of an American tragedy that changed the course of history.Â  If you think you know this story, you don''t until youâ€™ve read\n  <em>\n   Killing Lincoln\n  </em>\n  .Â  Add historian to Bill Oâ€™Reillyâ€™s already impressive rÃ©sumÃ©."â€”Nelson DeMille, author of\n  <em>\n   The Lion\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Gold Coast\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   Killing Lincoln\n  </em>\n  Â is a must read historical thriller. Â Bill O''Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington, DC, on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. Â This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read."â€”Vince Flynn, author of\n  <em>\n   American Assassin\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  "If Grisham wrote a novel about April 1865â€¦it might well read like\n  <em>\n   Killing Lincoln\n  </em>\n  ."â€”Peter J. Boyer,\n  <em>\n   Newsweek\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O''Reilly\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The anchor of\n  <em>\n   The O''Reilly Factor\n  </em>\n  recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American historyâ€”how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America''s Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of increasingly harrowing battles. President Abraham Lincoln''s generous terms for Robert E. Lee''s surrender are devised to fulfill Lincoln''s dream of healing a divided nation, with the former Confederates allowed to reintegrate into American society. But one man and his band of murderous accomplices, perhaps reaching into the highest ranks of the U.S. government, are not appeased.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the midst of the patriotic celebrations in Washington D.C., John Wilkes Boothâ€”charismatic ladies'' man and impenitent racistâ€”murders Abraham Lincoln at Ford''s Theatre. A furious manhunt ensues and Booth immediately becomes the country''s most wanted fugitive. Lafayette C. Baker, a smart but shifty New York detective and former Union spy, unravels the string of clues leading to Booth, while federal forces track his accomplices. The thrilling chase ends in a fiery shootout and a series of court-ordered executionsâ€”including that of the first woman ever executed by the U.S. government, Mary Surratt. Featuring some of history''s most remarkable figures, vivid detail, and page-turning action,\n  <em>\n   Killing Lincoln\n  </em>\n  is history that reads like a thriller.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2'),
(6625, 'The Killing of Crazy Horse', 'Thomas Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Powers (The Man Who Kept the Secrets) details the rise and untimely fall of the Lakota''s most famous warrior in this richly detailed, sensitive, and evenhanded portrayal. Little known before his stunning surprise victory over Custer''s 7th Infantry at Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse (ca. 1840â€“1877) became the strongest opponent of white incursion on Indian land in the Black Hills, revered for his strategic brilliance and bravery. Opposed to any concessions that would remove his people from their land, Crazy Horse terrified the American military as well as those Indian leaders who considered cooperating with the U.S. government''s demands. Drawing on firsthand accounts by soldiers and officers, settlers and Lakota, the author assembles a savvy analysis of the conflicting interests and worldviews at play, highlighting the cultural and political misunderstandings that led to the (most likely) accidental slaying of the Lakota leader as he surrendered to U.S. forces at Camp Robinson. Numerous conflicting versions of what happened in Crazy Horse''s final minutes are handled with aplomb by the author, as is the warrior''s shifting legacy in the decades after his death. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Despite the title, this beautifully written and absorbing work is less about the death of Crazy Horse and more about the personality and life of the Native American icon. It is also an insightful and scrupulously fair examination of the culture of Plains Indian bands and their interaction with advancing white civilization in the nineteenth century. Crazy Horse, from the Ogalala Lakota (Sioux) band, remains one the most revered but mysterious Native American leaders. As Powers reveals, even those who claimed to be his close friends found him to be a distant, enigmatic figure. To his credit, Powers does not attempt to unravel any mysteries of his subjectâ€™s persona. He explains Crazy Horse through his actions, and those actions seemed to constantly revolve around the incessant warfare that raged across the Great Plains during his lifetime. It seemed that he was most comfortable fighting, either against whites or against neighboring bands. As for his death at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, Powers accepts that it was the result of an inadvertent struggle, but he asserts that the U.S. Army had targeted him due to his apparent recalcitrance. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2439'),
(6626, 'A Killing Tide', 'P. J. Alderman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Kaz Jorgensen returns to Astoria, fire breaks out on her brother''s fishing trawler, implicating him in arson and murder. Complicating Kaz''s investigation is the handsome, enigmatic fire chief, Michael Chapman, who can destroy the last remnants of the family sheâ€™s struggling to hold together. As the real killer stalks Kaz, she and Michael must learn to work together to uncover the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2559'),
(6627, 'Killshot', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ironworker Wayne Colson has come to the real estate office where his wife, Carmen, worksâ€”at the worst possible time for both of them. Armand Degas, an Ojibway Indian hit man, and loose cannon Richie Nix are here to shake down Carmen''s boss. And Wayne steps in the way.   He sends the two off bleeding, and now the shooter for hire and Richie the ex-con have sworn to get the Colsons. There''s little the state police and local law enforcement can do to help them, and the best the Feds can offer is the Witness Security Program. It comes down to Wayne and Carmenâ€”and finally Carmen on her surprising ownâ€”to deal with the rough-trade misfits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3130'),
(6628, 'Kindred in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The NYPSD''s recently promoted captain returns home from a much-needed holiday only to discover his daughter, Deena, has been brutally murdered. The crime scene is so horrific that even New York''s toughest cop, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, struggles to stomach the carnage. Determined to bring Deena''s killer to justice, Dallas takes to the streets, only to find that the culprit is unmatchably clever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3295');
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(6629, 'The King of Torts', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grisham continues to impress with his daring, venturing out of legal thrillers entirely for A Painted House and Skipping Christmas (the re-release of which this past fall was itself a bold move) and, within the genre, working major variations. Here''s his most unusual legal thriller yet--a story whose hero and villain are the same, a young man with the tragic flaw of greed; a story whose suspense arises not from physical threat but moral turmoil, and one that launches a devastating assault on a group of the author''s colleagues within the law. Mass tort lawyers are Grisham''s target, the men (they''re all men here, at least) who win billion-dollar class-action settlements from corporations selling bad products, then rake fantastic fees off the top, with far smaller payouts going to the people harmed by the products. Clay Carter is a burning-out lawyer at the Office of the Public Defender (OPD) in Washington, D.C., when he catches the case of a teen who, for no apparent reason, has gunned down an acquaintance. Clay is approached by a mysterious stranger, the enigmatic Max Pace, who says he represents a megacorporation whose bad drug caused the teen--and others--to kill. The corporation will pay Clay $10 million to settle with all the murder victims at $5 million per, if all is accomplished on the hush-hush; that way, the corporation avoids trial and possibly much higher jury awards. After briefly examining his conscience, Clay bites. He quits the OPD, sets up his own firm and settles the cases. In reward, Pace gives him a present--a mass tort case based on stolen evidence but worth tens of millions in fees. Clay lunges again, eventually winning over a hundred million in fees. He is crowned by the press the new King of Torts, with enough money to hobnob with the other, venal-hearted tort royalty, to buy a Porsche, a Georgetown townhouse and a private jet, but not enough to forget his heartache over the woman he loves, who dumped him as a loser right before his career took off. Clay''s financial/legal hubris knows few bounds, and soon he''s overextended, his future hanging on the results of one product liability trial. The tension is considerable throughout, and readers will like the gentle ending, but Grisham''s aim here clearly is to educate as he entertains. He can be didactic ("\n <code>\n  Nobody earns ten million dollars in six months, Clay,'' " a friend warns. "\n </code>\n You might win it, steal it, or have it drop out of the sky, but nobody earns money like that. It''s ridiculous and obscene'' "), but readers will applaud Grisham''s fierce moral stance (while perhaps wondering what sort of advance he got for this book) as they cling to his words every step along the way of this powerful and gripping morality tale.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œRousing . . . Another pedal-to-the-metal crowd-pleaser.â€â€”\n <em>\n  People\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOffers everything one expects from Grisham . . . delivers with a vengeance.â€\n <em>\n  â€”The Seattle Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSatisfying . . . a lot of fun . . . When you finish it, youâ€™re ready to dash on to the next Grisham.â€\n <em>\n  â€”Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œA thrill ride of twists and turns.â€\n <em>\n  â€”The Philadelphia Inquirer\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1163'),
(6630, 'The King&#39;s Last Song', 'Geoff Ryman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "[Ryman] has not so much created as revealed a world in which the promise of redemption takes seed even in horror."- The Boston Globe "Sweeping and beautiful. . . . The complex story tears the veil from a hidden world."- The Sunday Times "Inordinately readable . . . extraordinary in its detail, color and brutality."- The Independent "Ryman has crafted a solid historical novel with an authentic feel for both ancient and modern Cambodia." - Washington DC City Paper "Another masterpiece by one of the greatest fiction writers of our time."-Kim Stanley Robinson "Ryman''s knack for depicting characters; his ability to tell multiple, interrelated stories; and his knowledge of Cambodian history create a rich narrative that looks at Cambodia''s "killing fields" both recent and ancient and Buddhist belief with its desire for transcendence. Recommended for all literary fiction collections." - Library Journal Archeologist Luc Andrade discovers an ancient Cambodian manuscript inscribed on gold leaves but is kidnapped-and the manuscript stolen-by a faction still loyal to the ideals of the brutal Pol Pot regime. Andrade''s friends, an ex-Khmer Rouge agent and a young motoboy, embark on a trek across Cambodia to rescue him. Meanwhile, Andrade, bargaining for his life, translates the lost manuscript for his captors. The result is a glimpse into the tremendous and heart-wrenching story of King Jayavarman VII: his childhood, rise to power, marriage, interest in Buddhism, and the initiation of Cambodia''s golden age. As Andrade and Jayavarman''s stories interweave, the question becomes whether the tale of ancient wisdom can bring hope to a nation still suffering from the violent legacy of the last century. Geoff Rymanis the author of the novels Air(winner of Arthur C Clarke and James Tiptree awards) and The Unconquered Country(a World Fantasy Award winner). Canadian by birth, he has lived in Cambodia and Brazil and now teaches creative writing at the University of Manchester in England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2799'),
(6631, 'A King&#39;s Ransom', 'Jude Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Amy and Dan are in a race for their lives . . . and the enemy may be even closer than they think.When seven members of their family were kidnapped by a sinister organization known as the Vespers, thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, vowed they''d stop at nothing to bring the hostages home. But then the ransom comes in and the Vespers demand the impossible. Amy and Dan have just days to track down and steal an ancient map. The only catch? No one has seen the map for half a century.Now Amy and Dan are on a desperate search that will lead them to the Nazis, spies, a mad king and some of history''s dirtiest secrets. It''s the race of their lives . . . and one misstep will mean certain death for the hostages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2988'),
(6632, 'The King&#39;s Speech', 'Mark Logue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The subject of a major motion picture starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed _The Quack who saved a King_. Logue wasn''t a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the famously nervous, tongue-tied, Duke of York into the man who was capable of becoming King. Had Logue not saved Bertie (as the man who was to become King George VI was always known) from his debilitating stammer, and pathological nervousness in front of a crowd or microphone, then it is almost certain that the House of Windsor would have collapsed. The King''s Speech is the previously untold story of the extraordinary relationship between Logue and the haunted young man who became King George VI, drawn from Logue''s unpublished personal diaries. They throw extraordinary light on the intimacy of the two men and the vital role the King''s wife, the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, played in bringing them together to save her husband''s reputation and his career as King. The King''s Speech is an intimate portrait of the British monarchy at a time of its greatest crisis, seen through the eyes of an Australian commoner who was proud to serve, and save, his King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2263'),
(6633, 'The Kingdom', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sam and Remi Fargo return for the thrilling third adventure in the acclaimed new series.   In Spartan Gold and Lost Empire, Clive Cussler brought readers into the world of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo, whose passion and instinct for treasure-hunting has led to extraordinary discoveries-and perilous journeys.  Their next adventure, however, might be their most astonishing yet.  The Fargos are used to hunting for treasure, not people. But then a Texas oil baron contacts them with a personal plea: an investigator friend of the Fargos'' was on a mission to find the oil baron''s missing father-and now the investigator is missing, too. Would Sam and Remi be willing to look for them both? Though something about the situation doesn''t quite add up, the Fargos agree to go on the search.  What they find will be beyond anything they could have imagined. On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India, and China, the Fargos will find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils, a centuries-old puzzle chest, the ancient Tibetan kingdom of Mustang, a balloon aircraft from a century before its time . . . and a skeleton that could turn the history of human evolution on its head.  Packed with the endless imagination and breathtaking suspense that are his hallmarks, The Kingdom once again proves that Clive Cussler is "just about the best storyteller in the business" (New York Post).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3231'),
(6634, 'Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground', 'Kevin Poulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative-and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century''s signature form of organized crime. The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: Someone-some brilliant, audacious crook-had just staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from the US economy. The FBI rushed to launch an ambitious undercover operation aimed at tracking down this new kingpin; other agencies around the world deployed dozens of moles and double agents. Together, the cybercops lured numerous unsuspecting hackers into their clutches. . . . Yet at every turn, their main quarry displayed an uncanny ability to sniff out their snitches and see through their plots. The culprit they sought was the most unlikely of criminals: a brilliant programmer with a hippie ethic and a supervillain''s double identity. As prominent white-hat hacker Max Vision Butler, he was a celebrity throughout the programming world, even serving as a consultant to the FBI. But as the black-hat Iceman, he found in the world of data theft an irresistible opportunity to test his outsized abilities. He infiltrated thousands of computers around the country, sucking down millions of credit card numbers at will. He effortlessly hacked his fellow hackers, stealing their ill-gotten gains from under their noses. Together with a smooth-talking con artist, he ran a massive real-world crime ring. And for years, he did it all with seeming impunity, even as countless rivals ran afoul of police. Yet as he watched the fraudsters around him squabble, their ranks riddled with infiltrators, their methods inefficient, he began to see in their dysfunction the ultimate challenge: He would stage his coup and fix what was broken, run things as they should be run-even if it meant painting a bull''s-eye on his forehead. Through the story of this criminal''s remarkable rise, and of law enforcement''s quest to track him down, Kingpin lays bare the workings of a silent crime wave still affecting millions of Americans. In these pages, we are ushered into vast online-fraud supermarkets stocked with credit card numbers, counterfeit checks, hacked bank accounts, dead drops, and fake passports. We learn the workings of the numerous hacks-browser exploits, phishing attacks, Trojan horses, and much more-these fraudsters use to ply their trade, and trace the complex routes by which they turn stolen data into millions of dollars. And thanks to Poulsen''s remarkable access to both cops and criminals, we step inside the quiet, desperate arms race that law enforcement continues to fight with these scammers today. Ultimately, Kingpin is a journey into an underworld of startling scope and power, one in which ordinary American teenagers work hand in hand with murderous Russian mobsters and where a simple Wi-Fi connection can unleash a torrent of gold worth millions. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2118'),
(6635, 'Kiss of Death', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  A new chapter in the New York Times bestselling Morganville Vampires saga.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Vampire musician Michael Glass has attracted the attention of a big- time producer who wants to cut a demo and play some gigs-which means Michael will have to enter the human world. For this, he''s been assigned escorts that include both a dangerous immortal as well as Michael''s all-too-human friends. And with that mix of personalities, this is going to be a road trip from hell...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3168'),
(6636, 'Kiss of Snow', 'Nalini Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Since the moment of her defection from the PsyNet and into the SnowDancer wolf pack, Sienna Lauren has had one weakness. Hawke. Alpha and dangerous, he compels her to madness. Hawke is used to walking alone, having lost the woman who would''ve been his mate long ago. But Sienna fascinates the primal heart of him, even as he tells himself she is far too young to handle the wild fury of the wolf. Then Sienna changes the rules-and suddenly, there is no more distance, only the most intimate of battles between two people who were never meant to meet. Yet as they strip away each other''s secrets in a storm of raw emotion, they must also ready themselves for a far more vicious fight. A deadly enemy is out to destroy SnowDancer, striking at everything they hold dear, but it is Sienna''s darkest secret that may yet savage the pack that is her home-and the alpha who is its heartbeat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3361'),
(6637, 'Kiss the Girls', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n As two serial killers terrorize different regions of America, the FBI begins to suspect that the two are competing with each other, and Washington, D.C. police detective Alex Cross embarks on a personal quest to find the perpetrators.\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/314'),
(6638, 'Kisser', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stone Barrington is back in this thrilling new page-turner from the perennially entertaining New York Times-bestselling author.  Stone Barrington is back in New York, and after a rather harrowing sojourn in Key West, he''s looking to stay closer to home and work on some simple divorce and custody cases for Woodman &amp; Weld. But when he crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress-and sometime lip model- Stone gets a little more deeply involved with business than he''d expected. When his new lady love turns out to be a lady with a shady past, Stone and downtown cop Dino Bacchetti realize that her beauty may have an unusually high price\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2658'),
(6639, 'Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don''t Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one''s appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable shocking banquet that lays out his 25 years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.From his first oyster in the Gironde to the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, from the restaurants of Tokyo to the drug dealers of the East Village, from the mobsters to the rats, Bourdain''s brilliantly written, wild-but-true tales make the belly ache with laughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2120'),
(6640, 'Klee Wyck', 'Emily Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I did not write Klee Wyck, as the reviewers said, long ago when I went to the West Coast Villages painting. I was too busy then painting from dawn till dusk. I wrote Klee Wyck...in hospital. They said I would not be able to go about painting here and there any more, lugging and tramping. I was sore about it, so, as I lay there, I relived the villages of Klee Wyck. It was easy for my mind to go back to the lovely places. After fifty years they were as fresh in my mind as they were then, because while I painted I had lived them deep. I could sail out of hospital and forget about everything."\n </p>\n <p>\n  When asked to write about the "struggle story" of her work out West in collaboration with a biographer, Emily replied:\n </p>\n <h2>\n  --- "Nobody could write my hodge-podge life but me. Biographers can only write up big, important people who have done great deeds to which the public can attach dates. I could not be bothered with collaborators, nor would they be bothered with the little drab nothings that have made up my life."\n </h2>\n <p>\n  Her first book, Klee Wyck won a Governor General''s award for general literature, the year that it was published.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The title of artist, writer, and rebel Emily Carr''s first book means "Laughing One," the nickname given her by the Native people of Canada''s west coast. She returned the favor with\n  <em>\n   Klee Wyck,\n  </em>\n  a collection of 21 "word portraits" of their lives and ways. The memoir describes in witty, vivid detail Carr''s visits and travels as she painted their totem poles and villages and got to know a people whose "quiet strength healed my heart." The book is reissued here with restored text and features the original introduction by Ira Dilworth and a new introduction by Carr scholar Kathryn Bridge.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2122'),
(6641, 'KnockOut', 'Catherine Coulter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are back in this electrifying thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Seven-year-old Autumn Backman has a gift: She can communicate telepathically with others. Not everyone, mind you, but with a select few with whom she shares a special kinship. When Autumn and her mother, Joanna, take her father''s ashes to be buried in the family plot in Brickers Bowl, Georgia, the child witnesses a horrifying sight: her grandmother and two uncles, burying a pile of dead bodies in the middle of the night. They head to Titusville, Virginia, to seek the help of an old family friend, but Autumn senses they need assistance on a grand scale. Using her telepathic powers, Autumn calls a man she''d seen only on television: FBI agent Dillon Savich. But before Savich and his wife and partner, Agent Lacey Sherlock, can get on the scene, Autumn and Joanna flee, fearing the retribution of her uncle Blessed. A huge manhunt ensues, with Titusville Sheriff Ethan Merriweather racing to reach the girl before Blessed can get his hands on her. Blessed''s got big things planned for Autumn and her gift, and he''ll stop at nothing to force her into his growing army of exploited children. Savich, Sherlock, and Merriweather face their most elusive foes to keep Autumn out of harm''s way-before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3350'),
(6642, 'Knots and Crosses', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n ''And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you...?'' ''That sort of thing'' is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife, is one of many policemen hunting the killer. And then the messages begin to arrive: knotted string and matchstick crosses - taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/413'),
(6643, 'The Know-It-All: One Man&#39;s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World', 'A. J. Jacobs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 33,000 pages 44 million words 10 billion years of history 1 obsessed man Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs''s hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His wife, Julie, tells him it''s a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his father, a brilliant attorney who had once attempted the same feat and quit somewhere around Borneo, is encouraging but, shall we say, unconvinced. With self-deprecating wit and a disarming frankness, The Know-It-All recounts the unexpected and comically disruptive effects Operation Encyclopedia has on every part of Jacobs''s life -- from his newly minted marriage to his complicated relationship with his father and the rest of his charmingly eccentric New York family to his day job as an editor at Esquire. Jacobs''s project tests the outer limits of his stamina and forces him to explore the real meaning of intelligence as he endeavors to join Mensa, win a spot on Jeopardy!, and absorb 33,000 pages of learning. On his journey he stumbles upon some of the strangest, funniest, and most profound facts about every topic under the sun, all while battling fatigue, ridicule, and the paralyzing fear that attends his first real-life responsibility -- the impending birth of his first child. The Know-It-All is an ingenious, mightily entertaining memoir of one man''s intellect, neuroses, and obsessions and a soul-searching, ultimately touching struggle between the all-consuming quest for factual knowledge and the undeniable gift of hard-won wisdom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1928'),
(6644, 'Known and Unknown', 'Donald Rumsfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Like Donald Rumsfeld,\n  <i>\n   Known and Unknown\n  </i>\n  pulls no punches.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld''s memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld''s unique and often surprising observations on eight decades of history: his experiences growing up during the Depression and World War II, his time as a Naval aviator; his service in Congress starting at age 30; his cabinet level positions in the Nixon and Ford White Houses; his assignments in the Reagan administration; and his years as a successful business executive in the private sector.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rumsfeld addresses the challenges and controversies of his illustrious career, from the unseating of the entrenched House Republican leader in 1965, to helping the Ford administration steer the country away from Watergate and Vietnam, to bruising battles over transforming the...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2124'),
(6645, 'The Known World', 'Edward P. Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in Manchester County, Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Edward P. Jones''s debut novel,\n <em>\n  The Known World\n </em>\n , is a masterpiece of overlapping plot lines, time shifts, and heartbreaking details of life under slavery. Caldonia Townsend is an educated black slaveowner, the widow of a well-loved young farmer named Henry, whose parents had bought their own freedom, and then freed their son, only to watch him buy himself a slave as soon as he had saved enough money. Although a fair and gentle master by the standards of the day, Henry Townsend had learned from former master about the proper distance to keep from one''s property. After his death, his slaves wonder if Caldonia will free them. When she fails to do so, but instead breaches the code that keeps them separate from her, a little piece of Manchester County begins to unravel. Impossible to rush through,\n <em>\n  The Known World\n </em>\n is a complex, beautifully written novel with a large cast of characters, rewarding the patient reader with unexpected connections, some reaching into the present day.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a crabbed, powerful follow-up to his National Book Award-nominated short story collection (Lost in the City), Jones explores an oft-neglected chapter of American history, the world of blacks who owned blacks in the antebellum South. His fictional examination of this unusual phenomenon starts with the dying 31-year-old Henry Townsend, a former slave-now master of 33 slaves of his own and more than 50 acres of land in Manchester County, Va.-worried about the fate of his holdings upon his early death. As a slave in his youth, Henry makes himself indispensable to his master, William Robbins. Even after Henry''s parents purchase the family''s freedom, Henry retains his allegiance to Robbins, who patronizes him when he sets up shop as a shoemaker and helps him buy his first slaves and his plantation. Jones''s thorough knowledge of the legal and social intricacies of slaveholding allows him to paint a complex, often startling picture of life in the region. His richest characterizations-of Robbins and Henry-are particularly revealing. Though he is a cruel master to his slaves, Robbins is desperately in love with a black woman and feels as much fondness for Henry as for his own children; Henry, meanwhile, reads Milton, but beats his slaves as readily as Robbins does. Henry''s wife, Caldonia, is not as disciplined as her husband, and when he dies, his worst fears are realized: the plantation falls into chaos. Jones''s prose can be rather static and his phrasings ponderous, but his narrative achieves crushing momentum through sheer accumulation of detail, unusual historical insight and generous character writing.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2267'),
(6646, 'L. A. Requiem', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A reckoning has come to the City of Angels... Karen Garcia is missing and her father doesn''t trust the cops - he wants someone he knows on the case - so he enlists the help of Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. It seems that Karen is the latest victim of a distinctive serial killer and the police are determined to pin her death, and four others, on the witness who found her body. Cole doesn''t believe the man has the guts to murder, and with his partner and the police at each other''s throats, it''s down to him to find the connection that will reveal the killer. But nailing the murderer means choosing between the two people he cares most about...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/419'),
(6647, 'L.A. Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cop-turned-lawyer-and-investigator Stone Barrington ventures out to the West Coast -- and out on a limb -- in this scintillating tale of romance and murder from the bestselling author of The Run and Worst Fears Realized.No Stone Unturned...Trouble finds Stone smack in the middle of a romantic Mediterranean holiday. His trip to Venice -- with the fiery Mafia princess Dolce -- is cut short by a frantic phone call from half a world away. A celebrity murder has Los Angeles in an uproar and mysteriously threatens a former flame, Arrington Calder. And once he arrives there, amid Hollywood''s sun and sin, he must plumb the depths of film society to find the killer -- before a court trial rips away his last chance at a life he once desperately wanted....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2679'),
(6648, 'L.A. Times', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  Prolific crime writer Woods is back in form with a propulsive thriller featuring a movie mogul embroiled in multiple murders. While his last effort, the disappointing Santa Fe Rules , had a similar plot trajectory, Woods succeeds here with the help of a dynamic protagonist whose ambitions fuel a wild ride and an explosive ending. Vincente Michaele Callabrese works as a shake-down artist for the mob in New York City''s Little Italy, but moviegoing is his passion. Early in the story, he changes his name to Michael Vincent and makes a break for L.A., where with the help of powerful studio head Leo Goldman he fufills his dream of becoming a big-time producer. Vincent''s cosa nostra connections keep in touch, particularly old pal Tommy Provenzano, whose rise to power in New York parallels Vincent''s in Hollywood. Eventually, Vincent''s desire to bring a gentle turn-of-the-century novel to the screen leads him to employ the sorts of techniques and friends that served him in his mafia days. Cinematic triumph follows, but so does trouble. After so much absorbing Hollywood intrigue, the mob-style violence of the novel''s last chapters seems almost anti-climactic. Readers will have few complaints, however, having been eminently entertained by the abundant suspense Woods creates as he depicts this licentious, adulterous and violent milieu. 100,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; author tour. (May) .\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  <div class="emptyClear">\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  Woods--an off-again (Santa Fe Rules, etc.), on-again (New  York Dead, etc.) writer--is very much on here, turning his big  weakness- -stagnant characters--into a strength. In this  enjoyably high- sleaze potboiler about a mafioso who conquers  Hollywood, there''s no need for character growth: Every member of  the cast is a blackhearted villain, and the great fun is watching  them claw each other as the author spins out one unexpected  twist, loop, and climax after another.  ``You have the single most important quality that a  successful producer can possess...you are a complete sociopath.''''  When his sexy assistant says that to Michael Vincent, she isn''t  kidding. Born Vincente Michaele Callabrese in N.Y.C., Michael is  a mob- connected hustler who parlays his passion for movies into  fame and fortune when he bankrolls a superior indie feature that  lands him a producing deal at a top studio--and never mind that  he has to kill two fellow mafiosi to get the funds for the film.  In L.A., the comer wallows in the lavish life, investing his  money with a loan- shark. When the rights-holder on the novel he  plans to film next refuses to sell, Michael calls on his old  mob-pal Tommy Pro for help, leading to the release of the  rights--but only through a murder that leaves Michael''s  fingerprints at the scene. A nosy cop realizes that Michael''s  guilt, so the producer simply buys him out- -and kills him after  a second blackmail attempt. And so Michael leaps up the  ladder--conning actors and writers, ruining lives, cuckolding and  then killing his boss--but always making good films (and winning  a Best Picture Oscar for one), until his greed gets him in  trouble with Tommy Pro, who''s now a Mafia don--and who arranges  the harsh yet poetically just fate that closes the book on  Michael.  With a villain as charismatically coldblooded as this one,  who needs a hero? Not Woods--and not readers of this devilishly  entertaining thriller. (First printing of 100,000) --\n  <i>\n   Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </i>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2681'),
(6649, 'The Lacuna', 'Barbara Kingsolver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico-from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City-Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who put him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. He discovers a passion for Aztec history and meets the exotic, imperious artist Frida Kahlo, who will become his lifelong friend. When he goes to work for Lev Trotsky, an exiled political leader fighting for his life, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, newspaper headlines and howling gossip, and a risk of terrible violence. Meanwhile, to the north, the United States will soon be caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. There in the land of his birth, Shepherd believes he might remake himself in America''s hopeful image and claim a voice of his own. He finds support from an unlikely kindred soul, his stenographer, Mrs. Brown, who will be far more valuable to her employer than he could ever know. Through darkening years, political winds continue to toss him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach-the lacuna-between truth and public presumption. With deeply compelling characters, a vivid sense of place, and a clear grasp of how history and public opinion can shape a life, Barbara Kingsolver has created an unforgettable portrait of the artist-and of art itself. The Lacuna is a rich and daring work of literature, establishing its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3242'),
(6650, 'Ladder of Years', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who feels like a tiny gnat buzzing around her family''s edges, "walking away from it all" is not a premeditated act, but an impulse that will lead her into a new, exciting, and unimagined life . . . . "TYLER DETAILS DELIA''S ADVENTURE WITH GREAT SKILL . . . As so often in her earlier fiction--Celestial Navigation, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and her nine other novels--[she] creates distinct characters caught in poignantly funny situations. . . .Tyler writes with a clarity that makes the commonplace seem fresh and the pathetic touching."--The New York Times"UTTERLY COMPELLING. . .WONDERFULLY SATISFYING. . .Ladder of Years is virtually flawless."--Chicago Tribune"A ''PAGE-TURNER'' IN THE BEST SENSE . . . One wants to lightly caress the pages of the story because one cares for Ms. Tyler''s touchingly flawed characters. . . . Both madcap and genteel, Anne Tyler knows as well as anyone that ''human beings lead many lives.'' Casually, delightfully, Ladder of Years will tell you just how we humans manage this trick."--The Baltimore Sun "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/969'),
(6651, 'The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China&#39;s Most Exotic Animal', 'Vicki Croke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains. In The Lady and the Panda, Vicki Constantine Croke gives us the remarkable account of Ruth Harkness and her extraordinary journey, and restores Harkness to her rightful place along with Sacajawea, Nellie Bly, and Amelia Earhart as one of the great woman adventurers of all time.Ruth was the toast of 1930s New York, a dress designer newly married to a wealthy adventurer, Bill Harkness. Just weeks after their wedding, however, Bill decamped for China in hopes of becoming the first Westerner to capture a giant pandaâ€“an expedition on which many had embarked and failed miserably. Bill was also to fail in his quest, dying horribly alone in China and leaving his widow heartbroken and adrift. And so Ruth made the fateful decision to adopt her husbandâ€™s dream as her own and set off on the adventure of a lifetime.It was not easy. Indeed, everything was against Ruth Harkness. In decadent Shanghai, the exclusive fraternity of white male explorers patronized her, scorned her, and joked about her softness, her lack of experience and money. But Ruth ignored them, organizing, outfitting, and leading a bare-bones campaign into the majestic but treacherous hinterlands where China borders Tibet. As her partner she chose Quentin Young, a twenty-two-year-old Chinese explorer as unconventional as she was, who would join her in a romance as torrid as it was taboo.Traveling across some of the toughest terrain in the worldâ€“nearly impenetrable bamboo forests, slick and perilous mountain slopes, and boulder-strewn passagesâ€“the team raced against a traitorous rival, and was constantly threatened by hordes of bandits and hostile natives. The voyage took months to complete and cost Ruth everything she had. But when, almost miraculously, she returned from her journey with a baby panda named Su Lin in her arms, the story became an international sensation and made the front pages of newspapers around the world. No animal in history had gotten such attention. And Ruth Harkness became a hero. Drawing extensively on American and Chinese sources, including diaries, scores of interviews, and previously unseen intimate letters from Ruth Harkness, Vicki Constantine Croke has fashioned a captivating and richly textured narrative about a woman ahead of her time. Part Myrna Loy, part Jane Goodall, by turns wisecracking and poetic, practical and spiritual, Ruth Harkness is a trailblazing figure. And her story makes for an unforgettable, deeply moving adventure.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1930'),
(6652, 'Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank', 'Barbara Sinatra', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The widow of Frank Sinatra delivers the goods in this intimate memoir of their years together, filled with parties, recordings, career hurdles, concerts, travels, and triumphs. Barbara Blakeley was "just a farm girl from Missouri," who became a model, a Vegas showgirl, and the wife of Zeppo Marx, and mingled with celebrities in L.A., Vegas, and Palm Springs. At a Sinatra dinner party for the first time, she felt "there was definitely a frisson between us." With her own marriage crumbling, she made plans to meet Sinatra in Monaco: "Was I about to be seduced by one of the world''s greatest romantics?" That idyllic summer "turned into night after glorious night of romance in some of the most glamorous venues in Europe." After "five years of flirting and courting," Barbara and Frank Sinatra married in 1976, and it was the longest of his four marriages. They stayed together for 22 years, until his death in 1998. Probing Sinatra''s personality, she contrasts his polite manners and loyalty to friends with his feuds and booze-induced rants. Yet in the end, as she sees it, "Frank was, without doubt, the most romantic man I had ever met," and that feeling permeates the pages throughout. (Mar. 1)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this detailed autobiography, Frank Sinatraâ€™s widow traces her journey from a hardscrabble, Depression-era childhood to jet-setting wife of one of the most popular and successful entertainers of all time. Thanks to her strong-willed mother, Barbaraâ€™s family pulled up stakes in Missouri while she was a teenager and headed to California. Barbara was soon modeling for local department stores and shortly thereafter married aspiring big-band singer Bob Oliver. After the birth of a son, the marriage fell apart; another marriage and a career as a Vegas showgirl followed. Then she took up with the much older and wealthier Zeppo Marx, and Barbara quickly fell into her new glamorous life.She eventually tired of Zeppo and began an affair with her neighbor, Frank Sinatra, hoping he would marry her, which he eventually did. Sinatra spins an interesting tale of a life lived amongst celebrity and provides an insider glimpse into a bygone era. Readers will either enjoy or be annoyed by the incessant name-dropping. --Kathleen Hughes\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2129'),
(6653, 'The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nearly five hundred years after her violent death, Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII, remains one of the world''s most fascinating, controversial, and tragic heroines. Now acclaimed historian and bestselling author Alison Weir has drawn on myriad sources from the Tudor era to give us the first book that examines, in unprecedented depth, the gripping, dark, and chilling story of Anne Boleyn''s final days.The tempestuous love affair between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn scandalized Christendom and altered forever the religious landscape of England. Anne''s ascent from private gentlewoman to queen was astonishing, but equally compelling was her shockingly swift downfall. Charged with high treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London in May 1536, Anne met her terrible end all the while protesting her innocence. There remains, however, much mystery surrounding the queen''s arrest and the events leading up to it: Were charges against her fabricated because she stood in the way of Henry VIII making a third marriage and siring an heir, or was she the victim of a more complex plot fueled by court politics and deadly rivalry?    The Lady in the Tower examines in engrossing detail the motives and intrigues of those who helped to seal the queen''s fate. Weir unravels the tragic tale of Anne''s fall, from her miscarriage of the son who would have saved her to the horrors of her incarceration and that final, dramatic scene on the scaffold. What emerges is an extraordinary portrayal of a woman of great courage whose enemies were bent on utterly destroying her, and who was tested to the extreme by the terrible plight in which she found herself.     Richly researched and utterly captivating, The Lady in the Tower presents the full array of evidence of Anne Boleyn''s guiltâ€”or innocence. Only in Alison Weir''s capable hands can readers learn the truth about the fate of one of the most influential and important women in English history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2268'),
(6654, 'Lady Killer', 'Lisa Scottoline', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Philadelphia attorney Mary DiNunzio, last seen in\n <em>\n  Killer Smile\n </em>\n (2004), agrees to help her high school nemesis, Trish Gambone, at the start of this less than convincing thriller from bestseller Scottoline. Trish, whom Mary used to regard as the quintessential Mean Girl, has turned in desperation to the lawyer, the all-around Most Likely to Achieve Sainthood at St. Maria Goretti High School, because she wants to escape from her abusive, and possibly Mafia-connected boyfriend, Bobby Mancuso. Trish rejects Mary''s practical suggestions for dealing with Bobby, but once Trish disappears, Mary finds herself under pressure from other high school classmates as well as people from her old neighborhood who blame her for not doing enough. Mary unwisely hides a connection with Bobby from the Feds, who then shut her out of the search for Trish when they learn of it. Scottoline fans will cheer Mary as she stumbles toward the solution, but others may have trouble suspending disbelief.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mary DiNunzio has become a big-time business-getter at Rosato &amp; Associates. But the last person she expects to walk into her office one morningâ€”in mile-high stilettosâ€”is super-sexy Trish Gambone, her high-school rival. Back when Mary was becoming the straight-A president of the Latin Club and Most Likely to Achieve Sainthood, Trish was the head Mean Girl, who flunked religion and excelled at smoking in the bathroom.\n</p>\n<p>\n These days, however, Trish needs help. She is terrified of her live-in boyfriend, an abusive, gun-toting drug dealer for the South Philly mob. Mary remembers the guy from high school, too. She had a major crush on him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then Trish vanishes, a dead body turns up in an alley, and Mary is plunged into a nightmare that threatens her job, her family, and even her life. She goes on a one-woman crusade to unmask the killer, and on the way finds new love in a very unexpected place.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3686'),
(6655, 'The Lady of the Rivers', 'Philippa Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory weaves witchcraft, passion, and adventure into the story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, a woman who navigated a treacherous path through the battle lines in the War of the Roses. Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta has always had the gift of second sight. As a child visiting her uncle, she meets his prisoner, Joan of Arc, and recognizes her own power in the young woman accused of witchcraft. They share the mystery of the tarot card of the "wheel of fortune" before Joan is taken to a horrific death at the hands of the English rulers of France. Jacquetta understands the danger for a woman who dares to dream.  Married to the Duke of Bedford, English Regent of France, Jacquetta is introduced by him to a mysterious world of learning and alchemy. Her only friend in the great household is the Duke''s squire Richard Woodville, who is at her side when the Duke''s death leaves her a wealthy young widow. The two become lovers and marry in secret, returning to England to serve at the court of the young King Henry VI, where Jacquetta becomes a close and loyal friend to his new queen.  Drawing on years of research, Philippa Gregory tells the story of the Woodvilles who achieve a place at the very heart of the Lancaster court, though Jacquetta can sense the threat from the people of England and the danger of royal rivals. Not even their courage and loyalty can keep the House of Lancaster on the throne. Henry the king slides into a mysterious sleep; Margaret the queen turns to untrustworthy favorites for help; and Richard, Duke of York threatens to overturn the whole kingdom for his rival dynasty of the House of York.  Jacquetta fights for her King, her Queen, and for her daughter Elizabeth Woodville, a young woman married to a neighbor for whom Jacquetta can sense an extraordinary and unexpected future: a change of fortune, the throne of England, and the white rose of York.  A sweeping, powerful story based on history and rich in passion and legend, The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of the real-life mother to the White Queen. Philippa Gregory is writing at the height of her talent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3355');
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(6656, 'The Lake House', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Lake House is a 2003 novel by James Patterson, a sequel to When the Wind Blows. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  In the article:\n </strong>\n Plot | Characters | Pseudosequels | Synopsis | "Maximum Ride" vs. When the Wind Blows/The Lake House\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the Wind Blows (1998), to which this is a sequel, has been Patterson''s "most successful novel around the world," according to an author''s note. That novel, about children genetically engineered to fly, also thrilled most critics. This one won''t, despite some charms, and the reason manifests itself in the three paragraphs-paragraphs, mind-that begin chapter 41: "They were elated to be together again-the flock! The tribe! The family!" Patterson tends toward shorthand writing, and generally it works in his favor, but the problem here is that exclamation points do not engender deep emotions within readers! Nor do italics. And the novel is strewn with both, as well as with too much dumbed-down prose. The plot isn''t much to boast about, either. In the original, Max the flying bird-girl and her "siblings" were menaced by the mad scientists who ran the vile laboratory known as "the School," but were helped in escaping by erstwhile narrator Frannie O''Neill, a veterinarian, and Kit Brennan, an FBI agent. Here, Max and her five siblings are menaced by the mad scientist who runs the vile laboratory known as "the Hospital" but are helped by erstwhile narrator Frannie and Kit. So what''s new? Not much, other than a few neat touches (for instance, the villain, Dr. Ethan Kane, is addicted to M&amp;Ms) and-in by far the best section of the novel, not coincidentally one in which Patterson slows down-a truly moving description of how Max and the oldest male bird-child mate. The rest is an extended hunt and chase, as Kane goes after Max and her siblings in a medical conspiracy so outrageously unbelievable that readers will blink in wonder. The pages move like the wind that lifts Max''s wings, of course, but Patterson can, and has, done far better than this.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/538'),
(6657, 'The Land of Painted Caves', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The highly anticipated sixth book of Jean Auel''s Earth''s ChildrenÂ® series, The Land of Painted Caves, is the culmination fans have been waiting for. Continuing the story of Ayla and Jondalar, Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived more than 25,000 years ago.Â The Land ofÂ Painted CavesÂ is an exquisite achievement by one of the world''s most beloved authors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3589'),
(6658, 'The Language of Bees', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husbandâ€™s storied pastâ€”a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to stingâ€¦this time fatally.For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast after seven months abroad was especially sweet. There was even a mystery to solveâ€”the unexplained disappearance of an entire colony of bees from one of Holmesâ€™s beloved hives.But the anticipated sweetness of their homecoming is quickly tempered by a galling memory from her husbandâ€™s past. Mary had met Damian Adler only once before, when the promising surrealist painter had been charged withâ€”and exonerated fromâ€”murder. Now the talented and troubled young man was enlisting their help again, this time in a desperate search for his missing wife and child.When it comes to communal behavior, Russell has often observed that there are many kinds of madness. And before this case yields its shattering solution, sheâ€™ll come into dangerous contact with a fair number of them. From suicides at Stonehenge to a bizarre religious cult, from the demimonde of the CafÃ© Royal at the heart of Bohemian London to the dark secrets of a young womanâ€™s past on the streets of Shanghai, Russell will find herself on the trail of a killer more dangerous than any sheâ€™s ever facedâ€”a killer Sherlock Holmes himself may be protecting for reasons near and dear to his heart.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3195'),
(6659, 'The Language of Flowers', 'Vanessa Diffenbaugh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, "The Language of Flowers" beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past. The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it''s been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system, Victoria has nowhere to go and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own. Soon a local florist discovers her talents, and Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But a mysterious vendor at the flower market has her questioning what''s been missing in her life, and when she''s forced to confront a painful secret from her past, she must decide whether it''s worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3275'),
(6660, 'Larry&#39;s Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China With My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--And Save His Life', 'Daniel Asa Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Larry Feldman desperately needed a kidney. After two god-awful years on dialysis, watching his life ebb away while waiting on a transplant list behind 74,000 other Americans, the gun-toting couch potato decided to risk everything and travel to China, the controversial kingdom of organ transplants. He was confident he could shake out a single, pre-loved kidney from the country''s 1.3 billion people. But Larry urgently needed his cousin Daniel''s help . . . even though they had been on the outs with each other for years. But wait: Larry was never one to "not" get his money''s worth. Since he was already shelling out for a trip to China, he decided to make it a twofer: he arranged to pick up an (e-)mail-order bride while he was at it. After a tireless search of the Internet, he already knew the woman he wanted. An unforgettable adventure, "Larry''s Kidney" is the funniest yet most heartwarming book of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2132'),
(6661, 'The Last Battle', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The last battle is the greatest of all battles Narnia ... where lies breed fear ... where loyalty is tested ... where all hope seems lost. During the last days of Narnia, the land faces its fiercest challenge -- not an invader from without but an enemy from within. Lies and treachery have taken root, and only the king and a small band of loyal followers can prevent the destruction of all they hold dear in this, the magnificent ending to The Chronicles of Narnia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1180'),
(6662, 'The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America&#39;s Childhood', 'Jane Leavy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Jane Leavy, the acclaimed author of the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Meticulously reported and elegantly written,\n   <em>\n    The Last Boy\n   </em>\n   is a baseball tapestry that weaves together episodes from the author''s weekend with The Mick in Atlantic City, where she interviewed her hero in 1983, after he was banned from baseball, with reminiscences from friends and family of the boy from Commerce, Oklahoma, who would lead the Yankees to seven world championships, be voted the American League''s Most Valuable Player three times, win the Triple Crown in 1956, and duel teammate Roger Maris for Babe Ruth''s home run crown in the summer of 1961â€”the same boy who would never grow up.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   As she did so memorably in her biography of Sandy Koufax, Jane Leavy transcends the hyperbole of hero worship to reveal the man behind the coast-to-coast smile, who grappled with a wrenching childhood, crippling injuries, and a genetic predisposition to alcoholism. In\n   <em>\n    The Last Boy\n   </em>\n   she chronicles her search to find out more about the person he was and, given what she discovers, to explain his mystifying hold on a generation of baseball fans, who were seduced by that lopsided, gap-toothed grin. It is an uncommon biography, with literary overtones: not only a portrait of an icon, but an investigation of memory itself. How long was the Tape Measure Home Run? Did Mantle swing the same way right-handed and left-handed? What really happened to his knee in the 1951 World Series? What happened to the red-haired, freckle-faced boy known back home as Mickey Charles?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "I believe in memory, not memorabilia," Leavy writes in her preface. But in\n   <em>\n    The Last Boy\n   </em>\n   , she discovers that what we remember of our heroesâ€”and even what they remember of themselvesâ€”is only where the story begins.\n  </p>\n  <span>\n   <strong>\n    Amazon Q&amp;A: Bill Madden Interviews Jane Leavy\n   </strong>\n  </span>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   For more than 30 years\n   <em>\n    New York Daily News\n   </em>\n   . The author of several books about the Yankees, including\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <span>\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </span>\n  <img />\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Madden:\n   </strong>\n   Your best-selling biography of Sandy Koufax was a tour de force, partly because Koufax was a very private man whose life story had never really been told before. Mickey Mantleâ€™s life is quite the opposite, itâ€™s been in the subject of a spate of different â€œautobiographies,â€ some of which he even wrote. Under those circumstances, what made you want to take up another book about him?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Leavy:\n   </strong>\n   Originally, I wanted to write about Willie, Mickey and The Duke in New York in the Fifties. The publisher said, â€œDo The Mick. Everybody loves The Mick.â€ I was wary because so much had been written about himâ€”he left a paper trail as long as the drive from Commerce, Oklahoma to the Bronx, so I didnâ€™t expect to learn that heâ€™d been raised by a den of Alaskan she-wolves. My challenge was to strip away all the layers of myth that had accumulated and let Mickey breathe. And he, of all people, was my worst source. For example: the knee surgery he said he had after tripping over a drain in the 1951 World Series trying not to run into Joe DiMaggio in centerfield. In fact, he didnâ€™t have surgery until two years later. I only learned that because I went through every day of the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   from October 1951 to November 1953 looking for the date the knife fell! Thatâ€™s why this book took five years and nearly 600 interviews. I wanted to try to understand why after all these years, and all these revelations, Mickey Mantle still means so much to so many peopleâ€”including meâ€”and the first step was to get the basic facts straight.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Madden:\n   </strong>\n   You make the point early on in the book that Mickey was a childhood hero, but you also have a recurring sequence in the book of your first interview with him in Atlantic City in 1983, whereâ€”at one pointâ€”he drunkenly makes a pass at you. What lingering effect did this have on how you ultimately approached your book?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Leavy:\n   </strong>\n   I was plenty nervous when I met him. Mickey was my hero. But, he was also a very particular kind of role model. I was born two months prematurely (in a hospital a mile from Yankee Stadium) and came with some of the flaws that afflict those who donâ€™t incubate as long as weâ€™re supposed to. Mickey taught me how to function with pain and without complaintâ€”his triumphs were mine. I was devastated with how he acted. After Iâ€™d taken his hand from my knee, I called the only person I could think of still awake at that hour, a new mother, who basically told me to grow up.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   The next morning, over breakfast, I vented my anger and disappointment, railing at him for, among other things, greeting my youthful autograph request with flatulence. He was stunned and remorseful, albeit in a hilariously idiosyncratic manner. He gave me an 8 x 10 glossy that said, â€œSorry, I farted, your friend, Mick.â€ For a moment, I felt I saw behind his crude faÃ§ade. I decided the only way I could write this book was to acknowledge my lack of dispassion and scrutinize him completely. Thatâ€™s what happened that weekend in Atlantic City. It forced me to see the world as it was, not how I wanted it to be.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Madden:\n   </strong>\n   One of the people I wish I''d been able to interview for my Steinbrenner book was Mantle, if only because I detected a very strained relationship between the two of them. Steinbrenner made a point to deify DiMaggio and had memorial services for Joe, Billy Martin, Roger Maris and Mel Allen, but did nothing for Mickey when he died. In your conversations with Mickey did he ever talk about Steinbrenner and anything that might have led to ill feelings toward each other?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Leavy:\n   </strong>\n   When I told Mantle Iâ€™d heard the Boss was thinking of turning Monument Park in centerfield into a water park for the disadvantaged youth of the South Bronx, Mantle was completely incredulous. He told me, â€œIt was 480 in centerfield when I played. Itâ€™s 420 now and heâ€™s talking about bringing them in farther,â€ and shook his head. â€œI was at a banquet one time and I said to him, â€˜they ought to let those boys throw the ball up and hit it.â€™ That pissed him off.â€\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Mantle was interested in Yankee historyâ€”he grilled a friend who saw Babe Ruth lying in state in the rotunda at the Stadium about what it was like to be there that day. But I donâ€™t think he had a whole lot of patience with â€œYankeeography.â€ It was a quick disillusionment. When he signed with the Yankees, reporters asked which Yankee had been his childhood hero. He said, â€œStan Musial.â€ George Weiss, the general manager, immediately â€œcorrectedâ€ his memory and from then on Joe D. was his hero. Furthermore, I think he was deeply disappointed with the baseball communityâ€™s responseâ€”or lack of responseâ€”when commissioner Bowie Kuhn banned him in 1983 because of his affiliation with the Claridge Hotel and Casino, a job he had taken to pay for his son Billyâ€™s treatment for non-Hodgkinâ€™s Lymphoma. He told me, â€œI feel really kind of bad no one took up for me.â€ By â€œno oneâ€ I was pretty sure he meant Steinbrenner. The Yankees did little more than observe a moment of silence when Mantle died.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Madden:\n   </strong>\n   It would seem that most everybody pertinent to the book cooperated with you, especially the Mantle family. I was grateful for the cooperation I had from George Steinbrennerâ€™s friends and associates when I wrote\n   <em>\n    Steinbrenner\n   </em>\n   , but I had an advantage that you didnâ€™t in that most of them knew me personally and, I suppose, trusted me. As a stranger, did you meet any significant resistance?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Leavy:\n   </strong>\n   Danny and David Mantleâ€”Mickeyâ€™s sonsâ€”and their late mother, Merlynâ€”were extremely generous with their recollections and insights. Their openness about their lives and their relationship with their father was extraordinary. Like him, they are extremely honest. Thereâ€™s no put on, as folks in Commerce, Oklahoma like to say. I hope theyâ€™ll come away from the book with a deeper understanding of the forces that formed him and contributed to his downfall, but I donâ€™t know how theyâ€™ll react.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Madden:\n   </strong>\n   This is the definitive â€œwarts and allâ€ biography of Mickey, with heavy emphasis on all of his demons. How do you think Mickey himself would feel about the book?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <strong>\n    Leavy:\n   </strong>\n   I think itâ€™s an honest book and Mantle was a very honest man. I donâ€™t see this is as a dark book. I hope itâ€™s enlightening in the most literal sense of the word and I hope that criticsâ€”and readers at largeâ€”will agree. I think the tragedy of Mantle is that he had so little time, at the beginning of his baseball career, and at the beginning of his sober life, to be his best self. He was a decent man who was genetically pre-disposed to alcoholism and enabled his whole life by the trappings of his celebrity. Thatâ€™s his story. As Billy Crystal told me about his movie,\n   <em>\n    61*\n   </em>\n   , Mickey wouldnâ€™t have wanted the sugar coat.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   His late wife, Merlyn, wrote about the sexual abuse he suffered as a young boy in the family memoir, â€œA Hero All His Lifeâ€ and she elaborated on it when we spoke, as did several of his close friends. It turned out that his half sister wasnâ€™t his only abuser and experts tell me that many of the destructive behaviors he manifested are seen in victims of childhood sexual abuse. So, I came away with enormous compassion for him and, I hope, with an answer to the question posed by one of his minor league teammates: â€œMickey, what happened?â€\n  </p>\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Starred Review. Bob Costas eulogized the Yankee great as "a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic." The "we" in Costas''s remarks--with author Leavy (Koufax: A Lefty''s Legacy) as stand-in--is as much the subject of this fascinating biography as the ballplayer himself. Mantle, who succumbed to cancer in 1995 at age 63, was justly famous for his baseball exploits, but what Costas described as Mantle''s "paradoxical grip" on a certain generation of baseball fans is exactly what Leavy tackles in this book. She should know. She spent much time in her childhood in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, a tomboyish "Mickey guy" listening to the roar of the crowd from across the Grand Concourse. While a sportswriter for the Washington Post, she won a 1983 assignment to interview Mantle for his upcoming golf tournament in Atlantic City. What happened that day and night between the fading, embittered Mantle and the former fan girl trying to do her job is the drama that structures Leavy''s narrative--she has never reported the truth till now, and she does so without judgment. Instead, she proceeds with steely determination to understand what brought this onetime golden boy from the zinc mines of Oklahoma to center stage at Yankee Stadium and made him into America''s quintessential tragic hero, a freakily gifted athlete haunted by a deadly genetic inheritance, including alcoholism. With storytelling bravado and fresh research, Leavy weaves around her own story the milestone dates in "the Mick''s" career, which as often burnishes the legend as tarnishes it. Leavy concludes that Mantle cavorted in a more innocent time, when people believed in sports heroes and would not hear otherwise. That''s hardly a new idea, but no matter: by the end of this book, readers will know what made Mantle rise, fall, and survive into recovery for his last 18 months. In Leavy''s hands, the life of Mantle no longer defies logic: it seems inevitable. She''s hit a long home run. 8 pages of color and 8 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1932'),
(6663, 'Last Breath', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With her boss preoccupied researching the Founder Houses in Morganville, student Claire Danvers is left to her own devices when she learns that three vampires have vanished without a trace. She soon discovers that the last person seen with one of the missing vampires is someone new to town-a mysterious individual named Magnus. After an uneasy encounter with Morganville''s latest resident, Claire is certain Magnus isn''t merely human. But is he a vampire-or something else entirely?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3171'),
(6664, 'Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition', 'Daniel Okrent', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Daniel Okrent has proven to be one of our most interesting and eclectic writers of nonfiction over the past 25 years, producing books about the history of Rockefeller Center and New England, baseball, and his experience as the first public editor for the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n . Now he has taken on a more formidable subject: the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. The result may not be as scintillating as the perfect gin gimlet, but it comes mighty close, an assiduously researched, well-written, and continually eye-opening work on what has actually been a neglected subject.There has been, of course, quite a lot of writing that has touched on the 14 years, 1919â€“1933, when the United States tried to legislate drinking out of existence, but the great bulk of it has been as background to one mobster tale or another. Okrent covers the gangland explosion that Prohibition triggeredâ€”and rightly deromanticizes itâ€”but he has a wider agenda that addresses the entire effect enforced temperance had on our social, political, and legal conventions. Above all, Okrent explores the politics of Prohibition; how the 18th Amendment, banning the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating beverages, was pushed through after one of the most sustained and brilliant pressure-group campaigns in our history; how the fight over booze served as a surrogate for many of the deeper social and ethnic antagonisms dividing the country, and how it all collapsed, almost overnight, essentially nullified by the people.Okrent occasionally stumbles in this story, bogging down here and there in some of the backroom intricacies of the politics, and misconstruing an address by Warren Harding on race as one of the boldest speeches ever delivered by an American president (it was more nearly the opposite). But overall he provides a fascinating look at a fantastically complex battle that was fought out over decadesâ€”no easy feat. Among other delights, Okrent passes along any number of amusing tidbits about how Americans coped without alcohol, such as sending away for the Vino Sano Grape Brick, a block of dehydrated grape juice, complete with stems, skins, and pulp and instructions warning buyers not to add yeast or sugar, or leave it in a dark place, or let it sit too long, lest it become wine. He unearths many sadly forgotten characters from the war over drinkâ€”and readers will be surprised to learn how that fight cut across today''s ideological lines. Progressives and suffragists made common cause with the Ku Klux Klanâ€”which in turn supported a woman''s right to voteâ€”to pass Prohibition. Champions of the people, such as the liberal Democrat Al Smith, fought side-by-side with conservative plutocrats like Pierre du Pont for its repeal.In the end, as Okrent makes clear, Prohibition did make a dent in American drinkingâ€”at the cost of hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries from bad bootleg alcohol; the making of organized crime in this country; and a corrosive soaking in hypocrisy. A valuable lesson, for anyone willing to hear it._Kevin Baker is the coauthor, most recently, of_ Luna Park_, a graphic novel published last month by DC Comics._\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Okrent, who has rescued an important, relevant, and colorful chapter of American history, explores Americans'' relationship with the bottle dating back to the colonial era and analyzes the long-term effects of Prohibition on everything--from the rise of the Mafia and the Ku Klux Klan to language, art, and literature. Fast-paced and fascinating, his narrative assembles a wide collection of comical stories and outrageous personalities, such as the hatchet-wielding Carrie Nation. He explodes clichÃ©s and bypasses widely known tales of bootlegging and bathtub gin in favor of more unfamiliar accounts. Critics praised Okrent''s elegant writing and careful research--even in all its details--and agreed with the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n that this remarkably fresh take on a forgotten era is "a narrative delight."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2457'),
(6665, 'Last Car to Elysian Fields', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. So to return there -- as he does in\n <em>\n  Last Car to Elysian Fields\n </em>\n -- means visiting old ghosts, exposing old wounds, opening himself up to new, yet familiar, dangers.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Robicheaux, now a police officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest always at the center of controversy, has been the victim of a particularly brutal assault, he knows he has to return to New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially. What he doesn''t realize is that in doing so he is inviting into his life -- and into the lives of those around him -- an ancestral evil that could destroy them all.\n</p>\n<p>\n The investigation begins innocently enough. Assisted by good friend and P.I. Clete Purcel, Robicheaux confronts the man they believe to be responsible for Dolan''s beating, a drug dealer and porno star named Gunner Ardoin. The confrontation, however, turns into a standoff as Clete ends up in jail and Robicheaux receives an ominous warning to keep out of New Orleans'' affairs.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, back in New Iberia, more trouble is brewing: Three local teenage girls are killed in a drunk-driving accident, the driver being the seventeen-year-old daughter of a prominent physician. Robicheaux traces the source of the liquor to one of New Iberia''s "daiquiri windows," places that sell mixed drinks from drive-by windows. When the owner of the drive-through operation is brutally murdered, Robicheaux immediately suspects the grief-crazed father of the dead teen driver. But his assumption is challenged when the murder weapon turns up belonging to someone else.\n</p>\n<p>\n The trouble continues when Father Jimmie asks Robicheaux to help investigate the presence of a toxic landfill near St. James Parish in New Orleans, which in turn leads to a search for the truth behind the disappearance many years before of a legendary blues musician and composer. Tying together all these seemingly disparate threads of crime is a maniacal killer named Max Coll, a brutal, brilliant, and deeply haunted hit man sent to New Orleans to finish the job on Father Dolan. Once Coll shows up, it becomes clear that Dave Robicheaux will be forced to ignore the warning to stay out of New Orleans, and he soon finds himself drawn deeper into a viper''s nest of sordid secrets and escalating violence that sets him up for a confrontation that echoes down the lonely corridors of his own unresolved past.\n</p>\n<p>\n A masterful exploration of the troubled side of human nature and the darkest corners of the heart, and filled with the kinds of unforgettable characters that are the hallmarks of his novels,\n <em>\n  Last Car to Elysian Fields\n </em>\n is James Lee Burke in top form in the kind of lush, atmospheric thriller that his fans have come to expect from the master of crime fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/423'),
(6666, 'The Last Child', 'John Hart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel John Hart''s New York Times bestselling debut, The King of Lies, announced the arrival of a major talent. With Down River, he surpassed his earlier success, transcending the barrier between thriller and literature and winning the 2008 Edgar Award for best novel. Now, with The Last Child, he achieves his most significant work to date, an intricate, powerful story of loss, hope, and courage in the face of evil. Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he''d been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is---confident in a way that he can never fully explain. Determined to find his sister, Johnny risks everything to explore the dark side of his hometown. It is a desperate, terrifying search, but Johnny is not as alone as he might think. Detective Clyde Hunt has never stopped looking for Alyssa either, and he has a soft spot for Johnny. He watches over the boy and tries to keep him safe, but when Johnny uncovers a dangerous lead and vows to follow it, Hunt has no choice but to intervene. Then a second child goes missing . . . Undeterred by Hunt''s threats or his mother''s pleas, Johnny enlists the help of his last friend, and together they plunge into the wild, to a forgotten place with a history of violence that goes back more than a hundred years. There, they meet a giant of a man, an escaped convict on his own tragic quest. What they learn from him will shatter every notion Johnny had about the fate of his sister; it will lead them to another far place, to a truth that will test both boys to the limit. Traveling the wilderness between innocence and hard wisdom, between hopelessness and faith, The Last Child leaves all categories behind and establishes John Hart as a writer of unique power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2850'),
(6667, 'The Last Coyote', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens up the thirty-year-old file on the case and is irresistibly drawn into a past he has always avoided. It''s clear that the case was fumbled and the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable. Someone powerful was able to divert justice and Harry vows to uncover the truth. As he relentlessly follows the broken pieces of the case, the stirred interest causes new murders and pushes Harry to the edge of his job... and his life.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n The bestselling author of The Concrete Blonde delivers another Harry Bosch book, one that delves more psychologically into Bosch''s past. In 1961, 12-year-old Harry lost his murder in a brutal murder. As he begins his relentless investigation, Harry uncovers a trail that leads upward, toward prominent people who want to protect their reputation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/539'),
(6668, 'Last Detective', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Don''t start reading\n <em>\n  The Last Detective\n </em>\n with much on your calendar. This tense, satisfying thriller will glue you to your chair, as private eye Elvis Cole--the star of eight previous Robert Crais novels, prior to the Cole-less\n <em>\n  Demolition Angel\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Hostage\n </em>\n --faces his toughest case: the abduction of his girlfriend''s son, 10-year-old Ben Chenier, who was staying with Elvis when he was snatched.\n</p>\n<p>\n Panic at Ben''s disappearance turns to terror when the kidnapper phones to reveal his apparent motive, a dark secret from Elvis''s past. But the plot thickens and twists, and then twists again, as Elvis and his longtime buddy, tough guy Joe Pike, race the clock against a group of villains as sinister as they are capable. The author mixes Elvis''s first-person narration with third-person sections that describe other points of view--a risky technique, but Crais makes it work. He also does a fine job resurrecting the wisecracking Elvis of earlier books while imbuing him with a new depth and darkness.\n</p>\n<p>\n This dazzlingly plotted, crisply told story is threaded with real detection (what a rarity!) and peopled by characters you can''t help but care about--including Carol Starkey, the haunted bomb-squad cop from\n <em>\n  Demolition Angel\n </em>\n , who''s now a juvenile-abduction detective. Crais has long been getting better with each book, and\n <em>\n  The Last Detective\n </em>\n continues the pattern.\n <em>\n  --Nicholas H. Allison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Last Detective is a 2003 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the ninth in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole. It was a finalist for the Audie award. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/540'),
(6669, 'The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber', 'Scott Christianson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Investigative journalist Christianson, author of the award-winning\n <em>\n  With Liberty for Some,\n </em>\n charts the 75-year history of gas chamber execution as well as its intersection with eugenics, the Holocaust, and America''s ongoing capital punishment debate. Christianson is clear that his focus is the United States, underscoring that the chamber''s operation can hardly be described as painless or kind. After the Germans launched the first gas attack during WWI, American scientists and chemical companiesâ€”particularly DuPont, which had ties to the German manufacturers that later supplied concentration campsâ€”scrambled to produce their own lethal concoctions. From their earliest incarnations, gas chambers employed various forms of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) pumped into a sealed room where the condemned was strapped to a chair. Despite being developed as a swifter and more painless alternative to death than hanging or electrocution, Christianson describes in graphic detail the numerous botched executions during which death took over 10 agonizing minutes. Though the gas chamber hasn''t been used in America since 1999, Christianson makes a chilling argument for itsâ€”and the death penalty''sâ€”abolition. 8 b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Christianson makes a chilling argument for its [the gas chamber''s]--and the death penalty''s--abolition." STARRED REVIEW--_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "This sobering work is recommended to all readers interested in exploring the topic."--_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n "First full-scale history of gas chamber connects murky (and sure-to-be controversial) dots, including Hitler''s adoption of American technology and joint American-German research and development."--_American History_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Christianson has written the definitive (actually, the only) history of the gas chamber. It is a history so complicated and convoluted that it reads almost like something out of Thomas Pynchon''s Gravity''s Rainbow."--_California Lawyer_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2271'),
(6670, 'The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron', 'Howard Bryant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry Aaron''s reputation has only grown in magnitude: he broke existing records (RBIs, total bases, extra-base hits) and set new ones (hitting at least thirty home runs per season fifteen times, becoming the first player in history to hammer five hundred home runs and three thousand hits). But his influence extends beyond statistics, and at long last here is the first definitive biography of one of baseball''s immortal figures. Based on meticulous research and interviews with former teammates, family, two former presidents, and Aaron himself, The Last Hero chronicles Aaron''s childhood in segregated Alabama, his brief stardom in the Negro Leagues, his complicated relationship with celebrity, and his historic rivalry with Willie Mays---all culminating in the defining event of his life: his shattering of Babe Ruth''s all-time home-run record. Bryant also examines Aaron''s more complex second act: his quest to become an important voice beyond the ball field when his playing days had ended, his rediscovery by a public disillusioned with today''s tainted heroes, and his disappointment that his career home-run record was finally broken by Barry Bonds during the steroid era, baseball''s greatest scandal. Bryant reveals how Aaron navigated the upheavals of his time-fighting against racism while at the same time benefiting from racial progress-and how he achieved his goal of continuing Jackie Robinson''s mission to obtain full equality for African-Americans, both in baseball and society, while he lived uncomfortably in the public spotlight. Eloquently written, detailed and penetrating, this is a revelatory portrait of a complicated, private man who through sports became an enduring American icon. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1934'),
(6671, 'The Last Juror', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1970, small town newspaper\n <em>\n  The Clanton Times\n </em>\n went belly up. With financial assistance from a rich relative, it''s purchased by 23-year-old Willie Traynor, formerly the paper''s cub reporter. Soon afterward, his new business receives the readership boost it needs thanks to his editorial efforts and coverage of a particularly brutal rape and murder committed by the scion of the town''s reclusive bootlegger family. Rather than shy from reporting on the subsequent open-and-shut trial (those who oppose the Padgitt family tend to turn up dead in the area''s swampland), Traynor launches a crusade to ensure the unrepentant murderer is brought to justice. When a guilty verdict is returned, the town is relieved to find the Padgitt family''s grip on the town did not sway the jury, though Danny Padgitt is sentenced to life in prison rather than death. But, when Padgitt is released after serving less than a decade in jail and members of the jury are murdered, Clanton once again finds itself at the mercy of its renegade family.\n</p>\n<p>\n When it comes, the dÃ©nouement is no surprise;\n <em>\n  The Last Juror\n </em>\n is less a story of suspense than a study of the often idyllic southern town of Clanton, Mississippi (the setting for Grisham''s first novel,\n <em>\n  A Time to Kill\n </em>\n ). Throughout the nine years between Padgitt''s trial and release, Traynor finds acceptance in Clanton, where the people "don''t really trust you unless they trusted your grandfather." He grows from a long-haired idealist into another of the town''s colorful characters--renovating an old house, sporting a bowtie, beloved on both sides of the color line, and the only person to have attended each of the town''s 88 churches at least once.\n <em>\n  The Last Juror\n </em>\n returns Grisham to the courtroom where he made his name, but those who enjoyed the warm sentiment of his recent novels (\n <em>\n  Bleachers\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  A Painted House\n </em>\n ) will still find much to love here.\n <em>\n  --Benjamin Reese\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grisham has spent the last few years stretching his creative muscles through a number of genres: his usual legal thrillers (The Summons, The King of Torts, etc.), a literary novel (The Painted House), a Christmas book (Skipping Christmas) and a high school football elegy (Bleachers). This experimentation seems to have imbued his writing with a new strength, giving exuberant life to this compassionate, compulsively readable story of a young man''s growth from callowness to something approaching wisdom. Willie Traynor, 23 and a college dropout, is working as a reporter on a small-town newspaper, the Ford County Times, in Clanton, Miss. When the paper goes bankrupt, Willie turns to his wealthy grandmother, who loans him $50,000 to buy it. Backed by a stalwart staff, Willie labors to bring the newspaper back to health. A month after his first issue, he gets the story of a lifetime, the murder of beautiful young widow Rhoda Kasselaw. After being raped and knifed, the nude Rhoda staggered next door and whispered to her neighbor as she was dying, "Danny Padgitt. It was Danny Padgitt." The killer belongs to an infamous clan of crooked highway contractors, killers and drug smugglers who live on impregnable Padgitt Island. Willie splashes the murder all over the Times, making him both an instant success and a marked man. The town is up in arms, demanding Danny''s head. After a near miss (the Padgitts are known for buying themselves out of trouble), Danny is convicted and sentenced to life in prison. As he''s dragged out of the courtroom, he vows revenge on the jurors. Willie finds, to his consternation, that in Mississippi life doesn''t necessarily mean life, so in nine years Danny is back outÃ¢â‚¬"and jurors begin to die. Around and through this plot Grisham tells the sad, heroic, moving stories of the eccentric inhabitants of Clanton, a small town balanced between the pleasures and perils of the old and the new South. The novel is heartfelt, wise, suspenseful and funny, one of the best Grishams ever.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1270'),
(6672, 'The Last Lecture', 'Randy Pausch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."  --Randy Pausch**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture."  Professors are asked to consider   their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them.  And while they speak,   audiences can''t help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the   world if we knew it was our last chance?  If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we   want as our legacy?\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn''t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer.  But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn''t about dying.  It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think").  It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe.  It was about *living*.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form.  It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1936'),
(6673, 'Last Light', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Former SAS commando Andy McNab returns in electrifying form with his newest international bestselling novel Last Light Top-secret operative Nick Stone has just aborted a sanctioned assassination attempt at the Houses of Parliament -- and now he''s in a world of trouble. His bosses have handed him an ultimatum: fly to Panama and finish the contract -- or Kelly, the young orphan in his guardianship, will die. With no way out, Stone travels to the sweltering jungles of Central America, landing up to his neck in high-stakes action as he closes in on the key players in a global conspiracy of death involving Colombian guerrillas, the U.S. government, and Chinese corporate powers. With countless lives hanging in the balance, and time running short, Stone is forced to make the toughest decision of all: Who lives, and who dies?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/425');
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(6674, 'Last Man Standing', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Last Man Standing\n </em>\n has the essential elements of a terrific David Baldacci novel: a tough but tender-hearted hero, dirty dealings in the nation''s bureaucracy, and a roller-coaster plot. Web London, a member of the FBI''s Hostage Rescue Team, froze up on a drug raid and thus became the sole survivor of a remote-controlled ambush that killed six of his compatriots. Now the only witness has disappeared and the inside man on the botched raid has gone underground.\n</p>\n<p>\n As a pretty psychiatrist puzzles over the corners of Web''s brain that kept him alive, Web himself stays on the move. He''s certain that the ambush is connected to the prison escape of a neofascist leader, Ernest B. Free, whom he helped arrest five years earlier, and a series of new murders leads him to a Virginia horse farm and the driving force behind all the carnage. It may seem as though Baldacci gives away the mastermind too soon, but both the bad guys and the good guys are complex enough that there''s plenty of punch all the way to the last page.\n <em>\n  --Barrie Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Last year''s Wish You Well, a historical family drama set in rural Virginia, proved that Baldacci, previously known for his thrillers (particularly his debut, Absolute Power), can do much more than supply maximum suspense. His latest is another exciting thriller, but one that hasn''t forsaken the ambitions of Wish You Well, plumbing the emotions and exploring the shadings of human nature in an impressive way. And for the first time, Baldacci has created characters that readers will demand to see back in a sequel. He has chosen an immensely interesting subject: the (real-life) FBI Hostage Rescue Team, a force so elite that many of the Seals, Delta Force grads and other special ops who apply to it don''t make the cut. Baldacci''s hero is hostage rescue team superstar Web London, who inexplicably (to himself and others) freezes during an operation that leaves the rest of his team dead; hence, the book''s title. Web''s investigation into the massacre involves him with several bands of criminals, most notably a white supremacist terrorist cell, a gang of D.C. drug peddlers headed by a charismatic giant, and a secret group involved in both terror and drug activities. At the same time, Web''s exploration into why he froze leads him to psychoanalysis and hypnosis, to budding romance and, ultimately, to revelations that tie together all the strands and questions of the immensely complicated plot. This is Baldacci''s most accomplished thriller. The action, conspiratorial and overt, shifting from urban to rural and back, is nearly nonstop and expertly drawn; heroes and villains alike are believable and equally flawed; and there''s a newfound maturity of tone here, a somber acceptance of the suffering that necessarily attends human life. (On-sale Nov. 6)Forecast: The American flag waving on the book''s cover will draw readers'' eyes; the strong title and the Baldacci name will carry them to the cash register. Expect hefty sales. Simultaneous audio cassette (abridged and unabridged), audio CD (abridged) and large-print editions.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/142'),
(6675, 'The Last Manchu', 'Henry Pu Yi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n â€œImportant and fascinating.â€ â€”The New York Times In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for thirteen years in Pekingâ€™s Forbidden City, but with none of the power his birth afforded him. The remainder of Pu Yiâ€™s life was lived out in a topsy-turvy fashion: fleeing from a Chinese warlord, becoming head of a Japanese puppet state, being confined to a Russian prison in Siberia, and enduring taxing labor. The Last Manchu is a unique, enthralling record of Chinaâ€™s most turbulent, dramatic years. 16 b&amp;w illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2272'),
(6676, 'Last Night at Chateau Marmont', 'Lauren Weisberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Brooke loved reading the dishy celebrity gossip rag Last Night. That is, until her marriage became a weekly headline.Brooke was drawn to the soulful, enigmatic Julian Alter the very first time she heard him perform "Hallelujah" at a dark East Village dive bar.Now five years married, Brooke balances two jobsas a nutritionist at NYU Hospital and as a consultant to an Upper East Side girls'' school, where privilege gone wrong and disordered eating run rampantin order to help support her husband''s dream of making it in the music world.Things are looking up when after years of playing Manhattan clubs and toiling as an A&amp;R intern, Julian finally gets signed by Sony. Although no one''s promising that the album will ever hit the airwaves, Julian is still dedicated to logging in long hours at the recording studio. All that changes after Julian is asked to perform on the Tonight Show with Jay Lenoand is catapulted to stardom, literally overnight. Amazing opportunities begin popping up almost dailya new designer wardrobe, a tour with Maroon 5, even a Grammy performance.At first the newfound fame is funwho wouldn''t want to stay at the Chateau Marmont or visit the set of one of television''s hottest shows? Yet it seems that Brooke''s sweet husbandthe man who can''t handle hot showers and wears socks to bedis increasingly absent, even on those rare nights they''re home together. When rumors about Brooke and Julian swirl in the tabloid magazines, she begins to question the truth of her marriage and is forced to finally come to terms with what she thinks she wantsand what she actually needs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3401'),
(6677, 'Last Night in Twisted River', 'John Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constableâ€™s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos Countyâ€“to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Torontoâ€“pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted Riverâ€“John Irvingâ€™s twelfth novelâ€“depicts the recent half-century in the United States as â€œa living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.â€ From the novelâ€™s taut opening sentenceâ€“â€œThe young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too longâ€â€“to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irvingâ€™s breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp.What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the authorâ€™s unmistakable voiceâ€“the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: â€œWe donâ€™t always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanlyâ€“as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earthâ€“the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.â€From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3567'),
(6678, 'The Last Olympian', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n AllÂ year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos''s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan''s power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus standsÂ virtually unguarded.Â  Now it''s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.Â In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy''s sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1158'),
(6679, 'The Last Oracle', 'James Rollins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Washington, D.C., a homeless man takes an assassin''s bullet and dies in Commander Gray Pierce''s arms. A bloody coin clutched in the dead man''s handâ€”an ancient relic that can be traced back to the Greek Oracle of Delphiâ€”is the key to a conspiracy that dates back to the Cold War and threatens the very foundation of humanity. For what if it were possible to bioengineer the next great prophetâ€”a new Buddha, Muhammad, or even Jesus? Would this Second Coming be a boon . . . or would it initiate a chain reaction that would result in the extinction of humankind?   Vital seconds are ticking rapidly away as Pierce races across the globe in search of answers, one step ahead of ruthless killers determined to reclaim the priceless artifact. Suddenly the future of all things is balanced on the brink between heaven and hellâ€”and salvation or destruction rests in the hands of remarkable children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3696'),
(6680, 'The Last Patriot', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 632 AD. Deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat, the prophet Mohammed shares with his closest companions a final and startling revelation. Within days, he is assassinated. September, 1789. US minister to France, Thomas Jefferson, charged with forging a truce with the violent Muslim pirates of the Barbary Coast, makes a shocking discovery: one that could forever impact the world''s relationship with Islam. Present day. When a car bomb explodes outside a Parisian cafe, Scot Harvath is thrust back into the life he has tried so desperately to leave behind. Saving the intended victim of the attack, Harvath becomes party to an amazing and perilous race to uncover a secret so powerful that militant Islam could be defeated once and for all without firing another shot or dropping another bomb. But, as desperate as the US government is to have the information brought to light, there are powerful forces just as determined that Mohammed''s mysterious final revelation remain hidden forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3557'),
(6681, 'The Last Precinct', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Patricia Cornwell''s legendary crime fiction creation, Virginia''s Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, has logged a host of fans among mystery readers and, within the bounds of her fictional world, an equally impressive tally of individuals intent on causing her grievous physical or psychological harm.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The 11th Scarpetta novel,\n  <em>\n   The Last Precinct\n  </em>\n  , doesn''t add any new names to the second roster. Instead, in a sweeping narrative gesture toward retrospection (less-than-fervent fans might whisper "or stagnation"), the novel depends largely on ground already covered in its predecessors,\n  <em>\n   Black Notice\n  </em>\n  and, to a lesser extent,\n  <em>\n   Point of Origin\n  </em>\n  . All the familiar faces--friend and foe--are here: police captain Marino, Kay''s niece Lucy, the so-called Werewolf murderer, and (in memoriam) Kay''s lover Benton Wesley and his killer, Carrie Grethen. Kay, who nearly killed the Werewolf in self-defense as\n  <em>\n   Black Notice\n  </em>\n  came to a close, now finds herself the target of a corrupt police investigation that will dredge her darkest secrets from the deepest corners of her past.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Torn between a desire to clear her name and the instinct of a wounded animal to turn against even its would-be rescuers, Kay sifts through the forensic evidence that seems to link Chandonne to other horrific events in her past, up to and including Wesley''s murder. Physical analysis, however, will not be enough to right her up-ended world. Instead, Kay must rely on the strategic support of her niece, cofounder of the Last Precinct (an odd, ill-defined organization that is, in the words of its motto, "where you go when there is nowhere left"), and on her willingness to examine her own fears, misconceptions, and anything-but-altruistic motives. The most important setting in this novel is not the morgue--it''s the living room where Kay''s therapist forces her to address (you guessed it) "unresolved issues."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The novel''s focus on Kay''s emotional evolution does not, unfortunately, mask the leaps of illogic that pepper the plot''s murky stew. More disturbing than these occasional lapses, however, is the feeling that Cornwell has written herself into a corner. The Scarpetta of\n  <em>\n   The Last Precinct\n  </em>\n  is a far cry from the irritably independent woman of previous books. Her often over-inflated musings are more tiresome than tantalizing. Cornwell''s impressive track record makes this excursion a bit disappointing, but that same record means that loyal fans will race to acquire the book anyway and that the odds of her returning to her usual stellar form next time are (hurrah!) favorable.\n  <em>\n   --Kelly Flynn\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "My central nervous system spikes and surges, my pulse pounds. I am sweating.... " If only readers would share this response with Cornwell''s immensely popular Kay Scarpetta, Virginia''s chief medical examiner. But most won''t. Kay has plenty of reason to be upset. She''s standing in a room in a shabby motel where a body has been found, severely tortured. She''s under official suspicion of having murdered maleficent ?ber-cop Diane Bray (in Kay''s last outing, Black Notice). She''s suspected of trumping up charges against accused serial killer Jean-Baptiste Chandonne, also introduced in Black Notice. She''s reeling from the aftershock of Chandonne''s murderous attack on her; she mightily misses her slain FBI agent/lover Dan Belson; she''s learned that her gay niece, Lucy, is quitting law enforcement for a private PI firm called the Last PrecinctAand it''s Christmas time. Kay has a lot of support in the midst of this law-and-disorder soap opera, from, among others, Lucy, tough cop/sidekick Pete Marino and Kay''s aged friend, psychiatrist Anna ZennerAand that''s part of the problem with this novel. Excessive emoting and way too much talk (including long therapeutic sessions between Kay and Anna) derail momentum time and again; the pages feel soggy with tears. Cornwell does provide intense intrigue, but it''s a strain to follow as she connects events and loose ends from several novels. Within this narrative swamp, there''s one new and very memorable gator, thoughANew York prosecutor Jaime Berger, obviously modeled on real-life ADA (and novelist) Linda Fairstein, to whom Cornwell dedicates the novel; she''s sharply drawn and charismatic. Cornwell will win few if any new fans with this overlong, sluggish offering, but her giant readership is so hardcore and so enamored of Kay that the publisher''s first printing of one million seems, if anything, conservative. $800,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections; national satellite tour; foreign rights sold in the U.K., Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Japan, Finland, Turkey and Spain. (One-day laydown, Oct. 16)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3023'),
(6682, 'Last Shot', 'Gregg Hurwitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A seemingly impossible prison escape. A powerful and corrupt company. And a little boy''s life hanging in the balance. Three startling plot threads come together as deputy U.S. marshal Tim Rackley faces the most deadly adversary of his careerâ€”a man whose lethal skills, cunning, and single-minded determination make him a mirror image of Rackley himself.   Walker Jameson, dishonored Recon Marine, has pulled off an impossible break from California''s Terminal Island Penitentiary. After starting a riot, he literally vanishes from his cell, leaving behind only a cup of mouthwash, a strand of dental floss tied to one cell bar, and the body of a sadistic killer.   Tim Rackley, elite man hunter, must solve the riddle and track Walker down. But uncertainty begins to color the mission as Rackley learns more about his quarry and the death of the escaped prisoner''s sister, a suicide that looks increasingly like a murder. Walker, too, has begun a bloody investigation of his own, a mission that propels him through the dark underworld of a big pharmaceutical company and its cutting-edge therapeutic viruses. But the life of Walker''s nephew, a young boy suffering from a fatal disorder, hangs in the balance, and if Rackley hopes to stop the bloodshed, he must put the pieces together, even if it means battling a lethal opponent every inch his equal.   A riveting thriller, a shocking look behind the scenes of one of America''s most corrupt corporate sectors, and an exploration of the depths of a mother''s love, Last Shot is a white-knuckled, complex drama, full of razor-sharp action and startling twists and turns, written by one of the finest suspense novelists working today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3100'),
(6683, 'Last Snow', 'Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Lustbader''s wordy sequel to\n <em>\n  First Daughter\n </em>\n takes dyslexic Jack McClure, former ATF agent and now adviser to recently elected U.S. president Edward Carson, to Moscow, where Carson is negotiating an important treaty with Russian president Yukin. When minority whip Sen. Lloyd Berns dies in a mysterious hit-and-run accident on Capri, the president asks Jack to investigate. Accompanied by Annika, a beautiful Federal Security Bureau agent who''s part of a complicated Russian trap, and Alli, Carson''s 22-year-old daughter whom Jack saved from a bad guy in the previous book, Jack travels to Ukraine, where Berns was supposed to be on a fact-finding tour. In Kiev, Jack finds a secret agency called\n <em>\n  Trinadtsat\n </em>\n , a shadowy group of Russian oligarchs, and plenty of trouble, including a retired American general out to have him killed. Lustbader fritters away many pages with Jack''s navel-gazing, time that could have been better spent in gunfights and derring-do.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lustbaderâ€™s second in the Jack McClure series is a definite step up from its predecessor (First Daughter, 2008). After saving the daughter of the president of the U.S., McClure now has a role as a special advisor to the president. When heâ€™s asked by his new boss to investigate the mysterious death of a U.S. senator on a diplomatic mission to Ukraine, McClure canâ€™t say no. His comrades on the investigation include a rogue Russian agent and the presidentâ€™s daughter. Meanwhile, stateside, both McClureâ€™s home life and new job are in danger of falling apart. In the previous book, McClure never emerged as more than a stock action hero, but this time he shows signs of multidimensionality. The story line seems oddly out of sequence in a couple of places, but the main plot will hold readersâ€™ attention. Lustbaderâ€™s last several books have found the formerly best-selling author spinning his wheels, but this time he shows some renewed spark. --Jeff Ayers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/670'),
(6684, 'The Last Song', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks''s new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love. Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller''s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone''s best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie''s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3490'),
(6685, 'Last Stand at Saber River', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A quiet, haunted man, Paul Cable walked away from a lost cause hoping to pick up where he left off. But things have changed in Arizona since he first rode out to go fight for the Confederacy. Two brothersâ€”Union menâ€”have claimed his spread and they''re not about to give it back, leaving Cable and his family no place to settle in peace. It seems this war is not yet over for Paul Cable. But no one''s going to take away his land and his futureâ€”not with their laws, their lies, or their guns.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3108'),
(6686, 'The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn', 'Nathaniel Philbrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''The whites want war and we will give it to them.'' Sitting Bull * This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossible odds or of insane arrogance receiving its rightful comeuppance, Custer''s Last Stand continues to captivate the imagination. * Nathaniel Philbrick brilliantly reconstructs the build-up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn through to the final eruption of violence. Two legendary figures dominate the events: George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull. No longer the fresh-faced ''Boy-General'' of the Civil War, Custer was now mired in financial, professional and political problems. A clear and just cause had been replaced by ambiguity and frustration u by ill-fated efforts at peace treaties, treachery and compromises on both sides. * Forced to take to the plains to feed themselves, and increasingly outraged by the government''s policies towards them, the Sioux and Cheyenne became infused with a new sense of collective identity and purpose. Between six and eight thousand people came together in the largest ever gathering of Native Americans. If the government should be foolish enough to pursue them, they would stand and fight. Sitting Bull was in his mid-forties, His charisma and political savvy had enabled him to emerge as their leader. A vision he received during a Sun Dance u of soldiers falling from the sky u was widely understood to presage a great victory. * Nathaniel Philbrick brings vividly to life all those involved u from the Oglala Sioux warrior Crazy Horse and Major Marcus Reno who led the first attack, to Libby Custer waiting with the other army wives at Fort Lincoln. He evokes too the history, geography and haunting beauty of the Great Plains and provides the finest account to date of what happened there u and why u at the end of June 1876.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2275'),
(6687, 'The Last Surgeon', 'Michael Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New York Times bestselling author and master of medical suspense delivers another shocker of a thriller filled with insider details and a terrifying psychopath Four murders. Three accidents. Two suicides. One leftâ€¦ THE LAST SURGEON Michael Palmerâ€™s latest novel pits a flawed doctor against a ruthless psychopath, who has made murder his art form. Dr. Nick Garrity, a vet suffering from PTSDâ€”post traumatic stress disorderâ€”spends his days and nights dispensing medical treatment from a mobile clinic to the homeless and disenfranchised in D.C. and Baltimore. In addition, he is constantly on the lookout for his war buddy Umberto Vasquez, who was plucked from the streets by the military four years ago for a secret mission and has not been seen since. Psych nurse Gillian Coates wants to find her sisterâ€™s killer. She does not believe that Belle Coates, an ICU nurse, took her own life, even though every bit of evidence indicates that she didâ€”every bit save one. Belle has left Gillian a subtle clue that connects her with Nick Garrity. Together, Nick and Gillian determine that one-by-one, each of those in the operating room for a fatally botched case is dying. Their discoveries pit them against genius Franz Koller--the highly-paid master of the â€œnon-killâ€â€”the art of murder that does not look like murder. As Doctor and nurse move closer to finding the terrifying secret behind these killings, Koller has been given a new directive: his mission will not be complete until Gillian Coates and Garrity, the last surgeon, are dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3662'),
(6688, 'Lavender Morning', 'Jude Deveraux', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jocelyn Minton is a woman torn between two worlds. Her mother grew up attending private schools and afternoon teas, but she married the local handyman. After her mother died when Joce was only five years old, her father remarried into his own class, and Joce became an outsider -- until she met Edilean Harcourt. Although she was sixty years Joce''s senior, Miss Edi was a kindred soul who understood her like no one else ever had.When Miss Edi passes away, she leaves Joce all her worldly possessions, including an eighteenth-century house and a letter with clues to a mystery that began in 1941. In the letter, Miss Edi also mentions that she has found the perfect man for Joce -- a handsome young lawyer. Joce is shocked to learn that the mystery, the house, and the future love of her life are all in Edilean, a small town in Virginia that Miss Edi never told her about. Hurt that the woman who meant so much to her kept so many secrets, Jocelyn moves to this tight-knit village in an attempt to understand the legacy that has been left to her. As she begins to dig into Miss Edi''s mystery, she soon discovers some shocking surprises about her family''s history and her own future -- and she meets a man with his own mysterious past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3276'),
(6689, 'The Law at Randado', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Phil Sundeen thinks Deputy Sheriff Kirby Frye is just a green local kid with a tin badge. And when the wealthy cattle baron''s men drag two prisoners from Frye''s jail and hang them from a high tree, there''s nothing the untried young lawman can do about it. But Kirby''s got more grit than Sundeen and his hired muscles bargained for. They can beat the boy and humilate him, but they can''t make him forget the jog he has sworn to do. The cattleman has money, fear, and guns on his side, but Kirby Frye''s the law in this godforsaken corner of the Arizona Territories. And he''ll drag Sundeen and his killers straight to hell himself to prove it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3088'),
(6690, 'The Law of Nines', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A publishing event- #1 New York Times-bestselling author Terry Goodkind turns in a new direction and delivers a stunningly original thriller. Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the midwestern United States, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved, has suddenly made him-and everyone he loves-into a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence . . . In Alex, Terry Goodkind brings to life a modern hero in a whole new kind of high-octane thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3352'),
(6691, 'The Lazarus Vendetta', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics, the once grassroots anti-globalisation movement has been slowly taken over by the underground radical anti-technology group fronted by a mysterious figure known only as Lazarus. All attempts to infiltrate the group have failed and the intelligence agents involved have all disappeared without a trace. Now Lazarus is preparing to make his boldest move yet.Lt. Col. Jon Smith is activated by Covert-One to bring his skills to bear in uncovering the truth behind the terrorists. For, unbeknownst to the world at large, the Lazarus Movement is on the brink of setting in motion a deadly scheme that will risk the lives of billions and forever change the nature of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1192'),
(6692, 'Leap of Faith', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel''s usual verve is all but absent from her 52nd novel, a hasty Cinderella story that begins when heroine Marie-Ange Hawkins goes from an idyllic French childhood to a loveless upbringing in Iowa after her parents and brother are killed in a terrible accident. Only 11, she''s sent off to be raised by her sole relative, cold and callous great-aunt Carole. The only bright spot in her life is her intimate friendship with Billy Parker, a solid American farmboy who loves and respects her from the time they are children; she loves him, too, but thinks of him as a brother. When Marie-Ange turns 18 and wins a scholarship to go to college, her aunt does not help, but Billy buys her a car and she is able to attend. Then a stranger turns up and informs her that she is in fact a very rich woman; her aunt sells the farm, and Marie-Ange decides to return to France. There she meets the current owner of her old home, 40-year-old widower Comte de Beauchamp charming, handsome and so very polite. They fall for one another quickly (though she knows nothing about him, as Billy points out), marry within months of their first meeting and have two children. But cracks start to show in the comte''s smooth, convincing exterior: it turns out that her prince charming who never pays his bills, but doesn''t mind spending her money excessively may be a murderer. She refuses to believe this, but when she finally must face the truth, can she save herself and her children? Disappointingly slight, the book rushes toward its pat ending and may frustrate even Steel''s devoted fans. (On-sale: June 5)\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Entertaining fluff, perfect when the book report is due tomorrow. At age 11, Marie-Ange''s idyllic, rich, sheltered life in rural France is shattered when her adoring parents are killed in a car accident. She''s sent off to gruff great-aunt Carol to live on an Iowa farm, and Marie becomes Carol''s "slave" and wears clothes from the Goodwill store. Her only moments of happiness are with her friend Billy at school. When Marie comes of age, she learns that she is wealthy; her aunt did not use any of her large trust fund. On a return trip to the family chateau in France she meets and falls in love with Bernard, a widower. But what are his motives? Who should Marie trust? This heart-wrenching, soap-opera romance will grab the attention of teens who want a fast read. Steel quickly and efficiently develops the characters as the action unfolds. Much of the plot would be considered predictable, but there are a few surprises.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Claudia Moore, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1218'),
(6693, 'The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier', 'Jim Davidson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: James M. Tabor\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   *James M. Tabor\n  </strong>\n  earned an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and is a former Contributing Editor to\n  <em>\n   Outside\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   SKI Magazines\n  </em>\n  . His writing has also appeared in\n  <em>\n   TIME\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Smithsonian\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Barron''s\n  </em>\n  , and many other national magazines. He was the writer and host of the national PBS series,\n  <em>\n   The Great Outdoors\n  </em>\n  and in 2007 was the co-creator and Executive Producer for the History Channel Special,\n  <em>\n   Journey to the Center of the World\n  </em>\n  . His first book was the international-award-winning\n  <em>\n   Forever on the Mountain\n  </em>\n  (2007) and his most recent was\n  <em>\n   Blind Descent.\n  </em>\n  A former Washington, DC police officer, Tabor now lives in Vermont where he is at work on his first novel, *The Deep Zone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On June 21, 1992, Jim Davidson, 29, and his best friend and climbing partner, Mike Price, 34, summited 14,410-foot Mt. Rainier via the challenging Liberty Ridge route. While descending, Davidson plunged into an 80-foot-deep crevasse and pulled his rope-partner Price in, too. Price died, Davidson survived, and\n  <em>\n   The Ledge\n  </em>\n  is Davidsonâ€™s painstakingly detailed account of their accident, written 19 years\n  <em>\n   post facto\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hundreds of books have described climbing tragedies in such detail. Two things set the best apart. One is the attempt to look beyond obvious vagaries of gear, weather, and happenstance to discover tragedyâ€™s true, dark roots. The other is an equally strong determination to bring something of value back from the brink. These are much harder quests and, to his credit, Davidson tackles both.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That detail, first. Davidson recreates the fatal fall and aftermath as though they happened yesterday, thanks to hours of recollections tape-recorded shortly after the event. Thatâ€™s important, because on one level, such the success of such narratives depends on details as sharp as ice shards. An example will suffice. After he hit bottom, buried beneath and completely immobilized by cascading snow and ice, Davidson could not breathe.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   I suck in hard, trying to grab a breath, but my mouth is half-filled with crunchy snow, so I pull in only a small gulp of air. I try chewing the snow to clear it away, but it is too much, as if someone has stuffed a Popsicle into my mouth. I work my jaw and tongue, struggling to push out the rapidly hardening snow clump. But it turns into a dense lump the size of a plum. When I rest for a second, the snowball settles back in my throat and gags me.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Having had no chance to save his friend, Davidson had to save himself by climbing out of the crevasse, and the odds against him were long. Davidson was injured, exhausted, and probably in shock. He lacked both the requisite technical aid-climbing experience and most of the proper gear. But he drew strength from recollections of Joe Simpsonâ€™s against-all-odds self-rescue in\n  <em>\n   Touching the Void\n  </em>\n  . After many hours of struggle, Davidson finally climbed back to the surface. Even then, the ordeal was far from over. It was late and getting dark. He was hurt and had no gear and was alone on a glacier riddled with more crevasses. â€œIâ€™m out, but Iâ€™m not safe,â€ Davidson acknowledged.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That turned out to be true in more ways than one. Though he survived and eventually recovered physically, Davidson continued to suffer from psychic injuries, survivorâ€™s guilt chief among them. In his journal, he wrote, â€œHow am I to carry this load alone--the self-doubt, the endless questioning? How can I hope to carry it alone?â€ Mike Price haunted his thoughts and dreams and, laudably, Davidson eschewed the more common rites of exorcism: chemical, alcohol, and compensatory self-sacrifice. Instead, over the months, he went\n  <em>\n   mano a mano\n  </em>\n  with every painful â€œwhat ifâ€ and found his measure of solace:\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Each decision, action, and bit of luck is a fork leading to different outcomes, different branches. Some are sturdy and hold fast, some creak under your weight, some fracture and drop you into unexpected turmoil.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not perfect, perhaps, but certainly good enough to live with.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Making personal peace with the tragedy was good, but left missing one last arc in the circle of healing. Could something of value be distilled from all the loss and agony? As it turned out, yes. â€œWhile I was in the crevasse, Joe Simpsonâ€™s survival tale convinced me that there was a remote chance to escape, and that belief helped spur me to action. Perhaps I have an obligation to share my story...â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  After securing permission from Mike Priceâ€™s parents, Davidson spoke to his first live audience in September, 2003 at the annual Rainier Mountain Festival. Afterward, among the many grateful listeners was a middle-aged mother with two daughters. â€œI wanted them to hear it,â€ she told Davidson. â€œNow if theyâ€™re in an accident...theyâ€™ll know how much people can do, that we can do incredible things if we try our hardest.â€ And with that, the circle was complete. Since then, according to his publisher, Davidson has delivered his message to more than 30,000 people.\n  <em>\n   The Ledge\n  </em>\n  is part of his ongoing commitment to Mike Price--and to himself--to find meaning in the heart of tragedy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Someone once said that for true value, â€œa book must be about more than it is about.â€ Jim Davidsonâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Ledge\n  </em>\n  is. You can read it as a thrilling, chilling tale of adventure and death in the mountains, but it is, ultimately, about more than that. As, come to think of it, are climbing and mountains themselves.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Advance praise for *The Ledge\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    <br />\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  Â \n  <em>\n   <br />\n   â€œThrough spare, vivid, and honest storytelling,\n  </em>\n  The Ledge\n  <em>\n   plunges readers into a dark, icy chasm from which escape seems impossible. Then it reveals the strength it takes to look up, and to start climbing.â€â€”Jim Sheeler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the National Book Award finalist\n  </em>\n  Final Salute\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€œFew can imagine the terror of falling eighty feet into a bottomless abyss or the horror of losing a climbing partner in the process; even fewer could survive. Jim Davidson not only survives, he lives to tell the tale and to honor his fallen friend.â€â€”Jennifer Jordan, author\n  </em>\n  The Last Man on the Mountain\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  Savage Summit\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€œA\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   deeply personal account of friendship, adventure, and epic tragedy, of struggling for life against the toughest of mountaineering odds imaginable.â€â€”Mike Gauthier, author of\n  </em>\n  Mount Rainier: A Climbing Guide*\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1941'),
(6694, 'The Leftovers', 'Tom Perrotta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What if the Rapture happened and you got left behind? Or maybe it wasn''t the Rapture at all, but random disappearances that shattered the world in a single moment, dividing history into Before and After?This is the question confronting the bewildered citizens of Mapleton, a formerly comfortable suburban community that lost over a hundred people in the "Sudden Departure." Kevin Garvey, the new mayor, wants to speed up the healing process, even while his own family falls apart. Through the prism of a single family, Tom Perrotta illuminates a familiar America made strange by grief and apocalyptic anxiety.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3548'),
(6695, 'Legacy', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This compelling, centuries-spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two womenâ€”a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.At the age of thirty-eight, Brigitte Nicholson has a job she likes, a man she loves, and a book on the womenâ€™s suffrage movement that she will finishâ€”someday. Someday is Brigitteâ€™s watchword. Someday she and Ted, a rising star in the field of archaeology, will clarify their relationship. Someday she will have children. Someday she will stop playing it so safe. Then, on a snowy day in Boston, Brigitteâ€™s life is jolted. Suddenly everything she counted on has changed and she finds herself questioning every choice she has made along the way. As she struggles to regain her balance and plot a new course, Brigitte agrees to help her mother on a family genealogy project. In Salt Lake City at the Family History Library, she makes a stunning discoveryâ€”reaching back to the French aristocracy. How did Brigitteâ€™s mysterious ancestor Wachiwi, a Dakota Sioux, travel from the Great Plains to the French court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinetteâ€”and into the arms of a French marquis? How did she come to marry into Brigitteâ€™s family? What is the truth behind the tantalizing clues in the fragmented, centuries-old records?Â Following the threads of Wachiwiâ€™s life, Brigitte travels to South Dakota, then on to Paris, irresistibly drawn to this brave young woman who lived so long ago. And as she comes closer to solving the puzzle of Wachiwiâ€™s journey, her previously safe, quiet life becomes an adventure of its own. A chance meeting with a writer of historical fiction, a new opportunity, and a difficult choice put Brigitte at last in the forefront of her own story. With a complex and powerful family legacy coming to life around her, someday is no longer in the future. Instead, in Danielle Steelâ€™s mesmerizing new novel, someday is now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3546'),
(6696, 'Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA', 'Tim Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President Eisenhower, â€œa legacy of ashes.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author Tim Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIAâ€”and everything is on the record. LEGACY OF ASHES is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence. It takes the CIA from its creation after World War II, through its battles in the cold war and the war on terror, to its near-collapse after 9/ll.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tim Weinerâ€™s past work on the CIA and American intelligence was hailed as â€œimpressively reportedâ€ and â€œimmensely entertainingâ€ in The New York Times.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Wall Street Journal called it â€œtruly extraordinary . . . the best book ever written on a case of espionage.â€ Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2459'),
(6697, 'Legacy: An Event Group Thriller', 'David L. Golemon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œFans of Clive Cussler, Verne, X-Files, and military tactical thrillers will find much to enjoy in this increasingly clever series.â€ â€“Booklist on LeviathanThe New York Times bestselling author of Leviathan and Primeval is back at full throttle with an adrenaline-pumping addition to the Event Group Thriller Series.The United States is ready to make a triumphant return to the moon, striking out boldly into the solar system in an attempt to regain the confidence of the heady days of the Apollo program.Â  The first of what are to be many missions to the lunar surface was designed to find the frozen water needed to prepare to build a base to launch an assault on Mars. But a shocking discovery at Shackleton Crater brings the first Prometheus mission to an abrupt halt. Remote robots uncover human skeletal remains and a base that had been destroyed countless millennia ago. The information is sent back to earth where forensic analysis at NASA reveals the corpse to be over seven hundred million years old. A secret this devastating cannot be kept forever, and the news is leaked to the world.Â  Soon nations are thrown into a head-long collision, pitting governments against their own citizens as the flames of fundamentalism start a conflagration that threatens to engulf the world as a race to return the moon is on.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  The Event Group is tasked to unravel the mystery and to offer something that can either explain our ancient visitor or, at least, keep the world from descending into chaos. Colonel Jack Collins once again leads a team of the world''s greatest scientists and philosophers on a journey that will take the Event Group to the airless world of space. But while a battle rages over the truth of our heritage, the Event Group realizes that this may not be humanityâ€™s war alone. Could something elseâ€”someone elseâ€”be coming to finish a war that they started almost a billion years ago?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3912'),
(6698, 'Legend', 'David L. Golemon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Event Group is comprised of the nationâ€™s most brilliant men and women in the fields of science, philosophy, and the military. Led by Major Jack Collins, their job is to find the truth behind the worldâ€™s greatest unsolved myths. And this time, Collins and his crew will dare to Â uncover a terrifying secretâ€”about the long-vanished tribe of the Incasâ€”thatâ€™s buried deep within the Amazon Basin.The last expedition into the depths and darkness of the Amazon claimed the lives of a female professor and her team. Now the Event Group, using cutting-edge technology exclusively designed by the U.S. military, will travel to the ends of the earthâ€”from Brazil to the Little Bighorn to the Arlington National Cemeteryâ€”to bring new meaning to an ancient disasterâ€¦or bury the legend foreverâ€¦or die trying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3874');
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(6699, 'The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and GudrÃºn.Â In the Lay of the VÃ¶lsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of FÃ¡fnir, most celebrated of dragons; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood. Â In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy, and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and GudrÃºn his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of GudrÃºn. Â The Lay of GudrÃºn recounts her fate after the death of Sigurd, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers, and her hideous revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3287'),
(6700, 'The Lemonade Stand', 'J. T. Warren', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The virus is spreading across the world and mankind''s days are numbered, but for one little girl, this is the perfect time to sell her lemonade. The man she encounters reminds her of her father, but this man may not be all he appears to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/950'),
(6701, 'Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - the Definitive Life', 'Tim Riley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame. Riley portrays Lennonâ€™s rise from Hamburgâ€™s red light district to Britainâ€™s Royal Variety Show; from the charmed naivetÃ‰ of â€œLove Me Doâ€ to the soaring ambivalence of â€œDonâ€™t Let Me Downâ€; from his shotgun marriage to Cynthia Powell in 1962 to his epic media romance with Yoko Ono. Written with the critical insight and stylistic mastery readers have come to expect from Riley, this richly textured narrative draws on numerous new and exclusive interviews with Lennonâ€™s friends, enemies, confidantes, and associates; lost memoirs written by relatives and friends; as well as previously undiscovered City of Liverpool records. Riley explores Lennon in all of his contradictions: the British art student who universalized an American style, the anarchic rock â€™nâ€™ roller with the moral spine, the anti-jazz snob who posed naked with his avant-garde lover, and the misogynist who became a househusband. What emerges is the enormous, seductive, and confounding personality that made Lennon a cultural touchstone.In Lennon, Riley casts Lennon as a modernist hero in a sweeping epic, dramatizing rock history anew as Lennon himself might have experienced it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3938'),
(6702, 'A Lesson in Secrets', 'Jacqueline Winspear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Maisie Dobbs'' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professorâ€”and leads to the investigation of a web of activities being conducted by the emerging Nazi Party.   In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs'' career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard''s Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior lecturer, she is sent to a private college in Cambridge to monitor any activities "not in the inter-ests of His Majesty''s government."   When the college''s controversial pacifist founder and principal, Greville Liddicote, is murdered, Maisie is directed to stand back as Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane and Detective Chief Inspector Richard Stratton spearhead the investigation. She soon discovers, however, that the circumstances of Liddicote''s death appear inextricably linked to the suspicious comings and goings of faculty and students under her surveillance.   To unravel this web, Maisie must overcome a reluctant Secret Service, discover shameful hidden truths about Britain''s conduct during the Great War, and face off against the rising powers of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterparteiâ€”the Nazi Partyâ€”in Britain.   As the storm clouds of World War II gather on the horizon, this pivotal chapter in the life of Maisie Dobbs foreshadows new challenges and powerful enemies facing the psychologist and investigatorâ€”and will engage new readers and loyal fans of this "outstanding" series (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3691'),
(6703, 'Let It Bleed', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Detective Inspector John Rebus is not a man easily intimidated, so when political heavyweights start to lean on the dour, moralistic Edinburgh detective to stop an investigation, Rebus doggedly digs in and follows the case as it moves from embezzlement to murder and finally to conspiracy at the highest level of government.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Let it Bleed is a 1995 crime novel by Ian Rankin. It is the seventh of the Inspector Rebus novels. The US edition has a final chapter which the UK edition does not have, as the author''s ''Introduction'' explains. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/427'),
(6704, 'Let the Dead Lie', 'Malla Nunn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. With this gripping sequel set in South Africa in 1953, Nunn, who is also a screenwriter, proves that her impressive debut novel,\n  <em>\n   A Beautiful Place to Die\n  </em>\n  , was no fluke. A former police detective sergeant, Emmanuel Cooper is now working undercover on the docks of Durban Harbor to document police corruption for his old boss, Major van Niekerk. When Emmanuel comes across the body of a white slum kid, who ran errands in the port area, with his throat slit, he observes that the notebook the 11-year-old boy used to record orders is missing. The authorities regard Emmanuel as the prime suspect in this crime as well as in the subsequent murders of a landlady and her black maid, whose throats are also cut. Van Niekerk manages to get Emmanuel out of jail, but with a strict two-day deadline to find the real killer. Nunn deftly balances suspense and deduction as she offers a revealing glimpse into South African society under the segregation laws promulgated by the ruling National Party.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Malla Nunn was born in Swaziland, South Africa, and currently lives in Sydney, Australia. She is a filmmaker with three award-winning films to her credit and is currently at work on her second novel.Â Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/632'),
(6705, 'Let&#39;s Take the Long Way Home of Friendship', 'Gail Caldwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œItâ€™s an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.â€ So begins this gorgeous memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell, a testament to the power of friendship, a story of how an extraordinary bond between two women can illuminate the loneliest, funniest, hardest moments in life, including the final and ultimate challenge.They met over their dogs. Both writers, Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp became best friends, talking about everything from their shared struggle with alcohol to their love of books. They walked the woods of New England and rowed on the Charles River, and the miles they logged on land and water became a measure of the interior ground they covered. From disparate backgrounds but with striking emotional similarities, these two private, fiercely self-reliant women created an attachment more profound than either of them could ever have foreseen.  Rich with the joys of raising dogs and the rivalries of competitive sports, their friendship helped them define the ordinary moments of life as the ones worth cherishing. Then, several years into this remarkable connection, Knapp was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. With her signature exquisite prose, Caldwell mines the deepest levels of devotion and grief in this  moving memoir about treasuring and losing a best friend, and about coming of age in midlife. Letâ€™s Take the Long Way Home is a celebration of life and of the transformation that comes from intimate connectionâ€”and it affirms, once again, why Gail Caldwell is recognized as one of our bravest and most honest literary voices.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2134'),
(6706, 'Lethal', 'Sandra Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A relentless pace and clever plot\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n twists keep the pages turning." (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that "sick" man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won''t be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n But Honor soon discovers that even those close to her can''t be trusted. Coburn claims that her beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Coburn is there to retrieve it -- at any cost. From FBI offices in Washington, D.C., to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, Coburn and Honor run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them, and unravel a web of corruption and depravity that threatens not only them, but the fabric of our society\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/9'),
(6707, 'Lethal Justice', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Smart Women...Brilliant ChoicesThe women of the Sisterhood are fun, smart, sassy, and determined to get their way every time. But most of all, they are the best friends a woman wants by her side in good times and bad. Meeting once again in Myra Rutledge''s beautiful Virginia home, they''re ready to face a new challenge and right a vicious wrong...Alexis Thorn, once a successful securities broker, spent a hellish year behind bars for a crime she never committed. Now she has her freedom, but she''s left with haunting memories of being hauled from her office in handcuffs...of the cell door clanging shut behind her...of her pleas going unheard. Meanwhile the real criminals-her former employers, Roland Sullivan and his lover Arden Gillespie-continue to make millions by conning the innocent, especially preying on the elderly and taking their life savings. Alexis dreams of getting even. The legal system failed her, but the Sisterhood won''t. They have a delicious plan that can give Sullivan and Gillespie a taste of their own bitter medicine...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3747'),
(6708, 'Lethal Legacy', 'Linda Fairstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr''s apartment on Manhattan''s Upper East Side, she finds a neighbor convinced that the young woman was assaulted. But the terrified victim, a conservator of rare books and maps, refuses to cooperate with investigators. Then another woman is found murdered in that same apartment with an extremely valuable book, believed to have been stolen. As Alex pursues the murderer, she is drawn into the strange and privileged world of the Hunt family, major benefactors of the New York Public Library and passionate rare book collectors. Eventually Alex connects their internal family rivalries to a priceless edition of Alice in Wonderland, which also contains the world''s oldest map. Would one of the well-bred Hunts be willing to kill for the treasures? The search for the answer takes Alex and her team on a breathtaking chase from Manhattan''s grandest apartments to the secret tunnels and chambers of the New York Public Library and finally to a nineteenth-century underground vault. There, in the pitch-black darkness, Alex comes face-to-face with the killer who values money more than life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3262'),
(6709, 'Letter to My Daughter', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the mellifluous voice of a venerable American icon comes her first original collection of writing to be published in ten years, anecdotal vignettes drawn from a compelling life and written in Angelou''s erudite prose. Beginning with her childhood, Angelou acknowledges her own inauguration into daughterhood in "Philanthropy," recalling the first time her mother called her "my daughter." Angelou becomes a mother herself at an early age, after a meaningless first sexual experience: "Nine months later I had a beautiful baby boy. The birth of my son caused me to develop enough courage to invent my life." Fearlessly sharing amusing, if somewhat embarrassing, moments in "Senegal," the mature Angelou is cosmopolitan but still capable of making a mistake: invited to a dinner party while visiting the African nation, Angelou becomes irritated that none of the guests will step on a lovely carpet laid out in the center of the room, so she takes it upon herself to cross the carpet, only to discover the carpet is a table cloth that had been laid out in honor of her visit. The wisdom in this slight volume feels light and familiar, but it''s also earnest and offered with warmth.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œItâ€™s a book to give to oneâ€™s daughter, mother, son or father, but definitely one to be read and savored.â€â€”_Baltimore Sun\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œSound advice, vivid memory and strong opinion . . . What is clear is that [Maya] Angelou is, all these years later, still a charmer, still speaking her mind.â€â€”\n </em>\n Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œA slim volume packed with nourishing nuggets of wisdom . . . Overarching each brief chapter is the vital energy of a woman taking lifeâ€™s measure with every step.â€â€”\n </em>\n Kirkus Reviews\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œWritten in Angelouâ€™s beautiful, poetic style, the essays feel like warm advice from a beloved aunt or grandmother, whose wisdom you know was earned.â€â€”_Fredericksburg Free Lance_â€”Star\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSpellbinding . . . Angelou delivers with her signature passion and fire. . . . Each [essay] delivers a powerful message.â€â€”_Rocky Mountain News\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2135'),
(6710, 'Letters to Jackie: Condolences From a Grieving Nation', 'Ellen Fitzpatrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is perhaps the most memorable event of the twentieth century, a moment that left a family and a nation mourning, one that many Americans recall as their first historical memoryâ€”the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Within seven weeks of the President''s death, Jacqueline Kennedy received more than 800,000 condolence letters. Two years later, the volume of correspondence would exceed 1.5 million letters. For the next forty-six years, the letters would remain essentially untouched.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now historian Ellen Fitzpatrick has selected approximately 250 of these letters for inclusion in *Letters to Jackie*, a remarkable human record that perfectly preserves the heart-wrenching grief and soul searching of the nation in a time of crisis. Capturing the extraordinary eloquence of so-called ordinary Americans across generations, regions, race, political leanings, and religionâ€”in messages written on elegant stationery, scraps of paper, in pencil, type, ink smudged by tears, and in barely legible handwritingâ€”the letters capture what John F. Kennedy meant to the country, and how his death for some divided American history into Before and After.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Letters to Jackie*, Fitzpatrick allows Americans to write their own history of these tumultuous times. "The coffin was very small," as one sixteen-year-old girl observed, "to contain so much of so many Americans." In reflecting on their sense of loss, their fears, and their striving, the authors of these letters wrote an American elegy as poignant and as compelling as their shattered and cherished dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2137'),
(6711, 'Leviathan', 'David Lynn Golemon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The ships of the world are under attack, attacks so sudden and vicious that many ships are lost without a single distress call. The navies of the world start a frenzied search, but even these ships disappear without a trace. Enter the Event Group, the most secret organization in U.S. history. Armed with proof that history is repeating itself, the Group finds themselves in the grasp of an insane genius straight out of the pages of Jules Verne. They are up against the descendent of the man who was the inspiration for the captain of a vessel known to the world as Nautilus. Legend comes to life in the form of Leviathan, the most advanced undersea vessel in history. She will stop at nothing to save the seas and to render justice to humankind for a world that has long been dying, a world Leviathan plans to alter forever, unless the Event Group can stop her!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3881'),
(6712, 'Liberation Day', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Former British SAS agent Nick Stone sets his sights on al-Qaida in his fifth adventure (after Last Light), a search-and-capture mission weighed down by excessive detail and a numbing lack of action. Stone, now working for a special antiterrorist U.S. strike team, is assigned to the south of France to choke off al-Qaida''s money line. Stone has taken the job reluctantly. He wants to retire, but the CIA has promised him U.S. citizenship and a new life with the woman he loves if he completes the task. On arrival in Cannes, Stone hooks up with two Egyptian sidekicks, and the trio begin tracking down the so-called hawalla, the secret network of underground bankers who finance terrorist operations and compensate the families of those who die in the cause. Specifically, Stone''s job is to kidnap three of the bankers and whisk them to a U.S. warship just off the French coast, where they will be interrogated and forced to reveal the origin and destination of their money. As is his custom, Stone takes the beating of his life, but perseveres in the face of overwhelming odds. McNab, a British special forces member for more than a decade, is at his best when the action gets hairy, as it finally does toward the end. Too much of his latest, however, is spent following Stone through the mundane details of mission preparation-staking out locations, following suspects, ruminating about possible scenarios. Instead of biting their nails, readers will be staring at them absently, bored by the colorless plot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/428'),
(6713, 'Liberty and Tyranny', 'Mark R. Levin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Mark R. LevinÂ \n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Liberty and Tyranny\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Overview:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Conservative talk radioâ€™s fastest-growing superstar is also a New York Times bestselling phenomenon: the author of the groundbreaking critique of the Supreme Court, Men in Black, and the deeply personal dog loverâ€™s memoir Rescuing Sprite, Mark R. Levin now delivers the book that characterizes both his devotion to his more than 5 million listeners and his love of our country and the legacy of our Founding Fathers: Liberty and Tyranny is Mark R. Levinâ€™s clarion call to conservative America, a new manifesto for the conservative movement for the 21st century.\n </div>\n <div>\n  In the face of the modern liberal assault on Constitution-based values, an attack that has steadily snowballed since President Rooseveltâ€™s New Deal of the 1930s and resulted in a federal government that is a massive, unaccountable conglomerate, the time for re-enforcing the intellectual and practical case for conservatism is now. Conservative beliefs in individual freedoms do in the end stand for liberty for all Americans, while liberal dictates lead to the breakdown of civilized society â€” in short, tyranny. Looking back to look to the future, Levin writes â€œconservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are our founding principles.â€ And in a series of powerful essays, Levin lays out how conservatives can counter the liberal corrosion that has filtered into every timely issue affecting our daily lives, from the economy to health care, global warming, immigration, and more â€” and illustrates how change, as seen through the conservative lens, is always prudent, and always an enhancement to individual freedom.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2963'),
(6714, 'Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom', 'Ron Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Liberty Defined, congressman and #1 "New York Times "bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date. The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere clich . But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our daily lives? And most importantly, can we recognize tyranny when it is sold to us disguised as a form of liberty? Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It permits people to work out their problems for themselves, build lives for themselves, take risks and accept responsibility for the results, and make their own decisions. It is the seed of America. This is a comprehensive guide to Dr. Paul''s position on fifty of the most important issues of our times, from Abortion to Zionism. Accessible, easy to digest, and fearless in its discussion of controversial topics, LIBERTY DEFINED sheds new light on a word that is losing its shape.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3173'),
(6715, 'Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong', 'James W. Loewen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For years textbooks have taught children to root for the heroic ''discoverers'' of America and to ignore the perspectives of the people who were here first. The Truth about Columbus puts these textbooks on trial, and convicts them of systematically distorting and even lying about history. Every teacher in America could benefit by reading this fine work. --\n <em>\n  Bill Bigelow, coeditor, Rethinking Columbus\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Truth About Columbus is a perfect antidote for the nonsense about Columbus conveyed to our children for generations. It is also delightfully readable, and maintains its good humor while it carefully dissects myth after myth about the Columbus story. Further, it suggests ways of thinking critically about other subjects of history, and so should prove ideal for classroom use. --\n <em>\n  Howard Zinn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  James W. Loewen\n </strong>\n is the bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Sundown Towns\n </em>\n , all available from The New Press, among many other books and articles. He is a regular contributor to the History Channel''s\n <em>\n  History\n </em>\n magazine. Loewen is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, D.C.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1072'),
(6716, 'Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them : A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right', 'Al Franken', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Al Franken, one of our savviest satirists (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of slander,bias, and even treason.He has examined the Bush administration''s policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the world. He''s even watched Fox News. A lot.  And, in this fair and balanced report, Al bravely and candidly exposes them all for what they are: liars. Lying, lying liars. Al destroys the liberal media bias myth by doing what his targets seem incapable of: getting his facts straight. Using the Right''s own words against them, he takes on the pundits, the politicians, and the issues, in the most talked about book of the year.  Timely, provocative, unfailingly honest, and always funny, Lies sticks it to the most right-wing administration in memory, and to the right-wing media hacks who do its bidding.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2989'),
(6717, 'Life', 'Keith Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <strong>\n   The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and gentlemen: Keith Richards.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones''s first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Keith Richards was born in London in 1943. A guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and cofounder of the Rolling Stones, he has also released solo albums with his band, The X-Pensive Winos. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Patti Hansen.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  James Fox was born in Washington, D.C., in 1945 and has known Keith Richards since the early 1970''s when he was a journalist for the Sunday Times in London. His books include the international bestseller\n  <i>\n   White Mischief\n  </i>\n  . He lives in London with his wife and sons.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2139'),
(6718, 'Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion', 'Alan Segal', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This monumental study combines history, geography, mythology, archaeology and anthropology with biblical text analysis. Segal, a professor of Jewish studies at Barnard College, spent 10 years on this project, but the erudition he displays is undoubtedly the result of a lifetime of scholarship. In every culture, people ask the same fundamental questions about their existence, including "what happens after we die?" Although Segal maintains that answers to that question lie "beyond confirmation or disconfirmation in the scientific sense," he offers a comprehensive overview of how the afterlife is understood in the three main Western religions. He thoroughly examines early influences from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Canaan, Iran and Greece, then analyzes Jewish views as expressed in the first and second temple periods, the book of Daniel, the Dead Sea scrolls and writings from and about New Testament times, the early rabbis, mysticism and fundamentalism. For Christianity, systematic attention is given to Paul, the Gospels, the pseudepigraphic literature and the Church Fathers. Segal also scans Muslim beliefs as they appear in the Qur''an and the writings of Shi''a mystics and modern fundamentalists. The introductory and concluding chapters provide the essence of the presentation, enlivened by quotations from Shakespeare. Impatient readers may begin with these two chapters as a guide to determining which other sections of the book warrant further scrutiny. Careful readers, however, will take the trouble and the time to pore over this impressive contribution to our understanding of human belief and behavior.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Alan F. Segalâ€™s\n <em>\n  Paul the Convert\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBold and imaginative.â€ â€”Paula Fredriksen,\n <em>\n  Books &amp; Religion\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlan Segalâ€™s new book challenges Jewish and Christian scholars alike to take a fresh look at this well-educated man, arguing not only that it is impossible to understand Paulâ€™s Christian writings without understanding first-century Judaism but that early Hellenistic Judaism is itself illuminated by Paul, since he was one of only two Pharisees to have left any personal writings at all.â€ â€”*The Washington Post Book World\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œThis is a thoughtful, demanding book that the serious student of Paul will find well worth the effort.â€ â€”\n </em>\n Bible Today\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œSegalâ€™s work abounds in fresh insights for students of Paul.â€ â€”F. F. Bruce,\n </em>\n American Historical Review\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œA brilliantly argued book. . . . Paul is neither hero nor villain for Segal but a fascinating historical and religious character, from whom we can learn much about both Judaism and Christianity. . . . I found myself thoroughly sympathetic to Segalâ€™s portrayal of Paul. More than that, I found myself convinced.â€ â€”J. Christian Wilson,\n </em>\n The Christian Century\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œElegantly produced. . . . Segal considers Paulâ€™s Pharisaic education and training as well as the Jewish context of his religious struggle after he became a Christian. He treats Paul as a Jew, a convert, and an apostle, and places his conversion from Pharisaism to Christianity in the context of his society and his mission to the Gentiles.â€ â€”\n </em>\n America\n <br />\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2462'),
(6719, 'Life and Laughing: My Story', 'Michael McIntyre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Michael McIntyre is Britain''s biggest comedy star. He has released two record-breaking DVDs, Live and Laughing and Hello Wembley; hosts his own BAFTA-nominated BBC1 series, Michael McIntyre''s Comedy Roadshow; and has picked up British Comedy Awards for Best Live Stand-Up and Best Male TV Comic. Last year he became the youngest ever host of the Royal Variety Performance, and now in 2011 he takes the hot seat as a judge in the hit ITV show Britain''s Got Talent. How did he get there? Michael reveals all in his remarkably honest and hilarious autobiography, Life &amp; Laughing. His showbiz roots, his appalling attempts to attract the opposite sex, his fish-out-of-water move from public to state school and his astonishing journey from selling just one ticket at the Edinburgh Festival to selling half a million tickets on his last tour. Michael''s story is riveting, poignant, romantic and above all very, very funny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2141'),
(6720, 'Life in a Medieval City', 'Frances Gies', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For students, researchers, and history lovers, a look at day-to-day life in a rarely explored era. "About life and death, midwives and funerals, business, books and authors, and town government."-- "Choice" "An excellently written account of what is known of the life of medieval burghers....a delightful introduction to the subject." "--Library Journal"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2466'),
(6721, 'Life in a Medieval Village', 'Frances Gies', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  According to the authors of Life in a Medieval City , the vast majority of medieval Europeans lived in villages--"permanent communities organized for agricultural production." This earnest but dry distillation of period documents and archeological records focuses on Elton, an extant village located 70 miles north of London. The Gieses examine the dynamics of Elton''s open-field type of agriculture; the division of the villagers into free and unfree, rich and poor; and the relationship between peasants and their ecclesiastical lord. Also discussed are the peasants'' simple dress; meager diet; primitive housing; quarrels and lawsuits; sexual mores; rites of marriage, death and inheritance; and penchant for ale. Coroners'' rolls reveal that parents frequently neglected infants; court accounts demonstrate that witnesses of crimes were obligated to come to the rescue of the victim. While valuable to history students, the barrage of facts presented here won''t come alive for lay readers. Illustrations not seen by PW. BOMC, History Book Club and QPB alternates.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Using the English village of Elton, the Gies vividly detail the everyday lives of people during the Middle Ages. The development and difficult-to-define concept of the village is traced, and examples of daily occurrences in the village hierarchy, the inhabitants, marriage and family, work, and in the judicial system are given. The decline of the village as a major social system concludes the study. The book will be a challenge for most high-school students. Many aspects of village life are discussed; because of the brevity of the text, most concepts are not fully developed. Middle Age terminology is used extensively, and often it is not defined until after the term has been introduced. Reproductions and illustrations give glimpses of medieval life, but do not relate directly to the text. However, records of fines, sales transactions, marriages, etc. are quoted to emphasize a point, providing primary-source information, and the book is a good example of history as a living, changing form, for it outlines some new interpretations of life during this period. --Stuart A. MacCaffray, Jr., Lake Braddock Secondary School, Burke, VA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2467'),
(6722, 'Life Itself', 'Roger Ebert', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the\n  <em>\n   Chicago Sun-Times\n  </em>\n  since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. He has appeared on television for four decades, including twenty-three years as cohost of\n  <em>\n   Siskel &amp; Ebert at the Movies\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  In 2006, complications from thyroid cancer treatment resulted in the loss of his ability to eat, drink, or speak. But with the loss of his voice, Ebert has only become a more prolific and influential writer. And now, for the first time, he tells the full, dramatic story of his life and career.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Roger Ebert''s journalism carried him on a path far from his nearly idyllic childhood in Urbana, Illinois. It is a journey that began as a reporter for his local daily, and took him to Chicago, where he was unexpectedly given the job of film critic for the\n  <em>\n   Sun-Times\n  </em>\n  , launching a lifetime''s adventures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this candid, personal history, Ebert chronicles it all: his loves, losses, and obsessions; his struggle and recovery from alcoholism; his marriage; his politics; and his spiritual beliefs. He writes about his years at the\n  <em>\n   Sun-Times\n  </em>\n  , his colorful newspaper friends, and his life-changing collaboration with Gene Siskel. He remembers his friendships with Studs Terkel, Mike Royko, Oprah Winfrey, and Russ Meyer (for whom he wrote\n  <em>\n   Beyond the Valley of the Dolls\n  </em>\n  and an ill-fated Sex Pistols movie). He shares his insights into movie stars and directors like John Wayne, Werner Herzog, and Martin Scorsese.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is a story that only Roger Ebert could tell. Filled with the same deep insight, dry wit, and sharp observations that his readers have long cherished, this is more than a memoir-it is a singular, warm-hearted, inspiring look at life itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn''t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out."\n  <br />\n  -from\n  <em>\n   LIFE ITSELF\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2143'),
(6723, 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "HYSTERICAL!"--The Philadelphia InquirerThe unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresident of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it--and don''t know it!"ADAMS IS ONE OF THOSE RARE TREASURES: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading."--The Arizona Daily StarFrom the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1067'),
(6724, 'Life... With No Breaks', 'Nick Spalding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nick Spalding tried to write a book in 24 hours. Turns out that''s impossible... it took 30!Life... With No Breaks is a unique, hilarious and heartfelt look at the modern world we live in, told by a master story-teller with much to say - and only a weekend to say it in.You''ll laugh out loud reading Nick''s odyssey of non-stop writing in a collection of anecdotes, asides and stories - all dredged up from an over-stimulated brain functioning on caffeine, nicotine and the occasional chocolate biscuit.The book is a conversation with you, and with Nick you''ll venture into the thorny topics of love, life, sex, horribly timed bowel movements and a deathly fear of sponges (among many other things).After you''ve read Life... With No Breaks, you may never look at the world the same way again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3905'),
(6725, 'Lifeguard', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<strong>\n <div>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">\n  </span>\n </div>\n</strong>\n<strong>\n <div>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">\n   with Andrew Gross\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The danger isn''t in the water.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Working as a lifeguard at a Florida resort, Ned Kelly meets a woman he is wild about, the woman of his dreams. It feels perfect in every way - except that she is used to caviar and Manolo Blahniks, and he is used to burgers and flip-flops. She is a guest at the luxurious hotel - he lives above a garage.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   So when Ned''s cousin offers to cut him in on a rich deal he''s been commissioned to execute, Ned can''t turn him down. The plan is simple, just a fast break-and-enter. The risk is high, and the reward is even greater--$5 million. But on the night of the heist, something goes devastatingly wrong. Who will save the lifeguard?\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Ned walks away from his job, his town, and the woman he''s fallen in love with. Runs away, actually, knowing that only velocity and secrecy can save his life. But who is pursuing him? The FBI? Whoever sabotaged the heist? Or is it all somehow tied into his new love - and his oldest enemies?\n  </span>\n </div>\n</strong>\n</div>', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/316'),
(6726, 'The Light Between Oceans', 'M.L. Stedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The debut of a stunning new voice in fictionâ€” a novel both heartbreaking and transcendent After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a dayâ€™s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a babyâ€™s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tomâ€™s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them. M. L. Stedmanâ€™s mesmerizing, beautifully written novel seduces us into accommodating Isabelâ€™s decision to keep this â€œgift from God.â€ And we are swept into a story about extraordinarily compelling characters seeking to find their North Star in a world where there is no right answer, where justice for one person is anotherâ€™s tragic loss. The Light Between Oceans is exquisite and unforgettable, a deeply moving novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3897'),
(6727, 'Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse', 'Kenneth Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The New York Herald may have eulogized the inventor of the telegraph in 1872 as "perhaps the most illustrious American of his age," but Samuel Morse may have concluded otherwise: he thought his life a failure. Hence the subtitle of this painstakingly researched, gracefully and soberly told life. Silverman, who won the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes for his 1984 biography of Cotton Mather, presents us with a fool''s progress of sorts. Morse seems to have fallen into inventing by way of a mediocre painting career. He was a disappointment to his pious Protestant parents, who envisioned a respectable career for their son but got a dreamer instead. By the age of 41, Morse was still dreaming of a commission from Congress to be hung in the Capitol dome and still undecided as to his calling in life. He dabbled in inventing, considered a career as a minister, became an art teacher at New York University, ran unsuccessful candidacies for mayor and for Congress on anti-immigration platforms and wrote screeds against Catholic conspiracies to undermine the American republic. He dabbled in a new technology, photography, and of course, promoted his electromagnetic telegraph, battling domestic and foreign competitors and, after finally achieving commercial success, a tide of lawsuits. Silverman''s vivid portrait is of a naive, restless man who stays a dreamer all his life and dies disappointed. The author writes in a narrative style as staid and temperate as the Protestant bourgeoisie he writes about. This should appeal as both history of science and stolid biography. 49 photos and illus.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Silverman has proved himself a masterful biographer in his books on Cotton Mather and Edgar Allan Poe and continues the tradition with this biography of the putative inventor of the electric telegraph. Silverman homes in on Morse''s sui generis claim that he produced the telegraph on his own in 1832. This assertion was disputed by a gallery of litigious sharpers thirsting for wealth from telegraphy. It is also a question that Silverman sensibly consigns to the category of the insoluble. Indeed Silverman''s great talent lies in the way he refrains from expostulating directly, allowing Morse''s habits and actions to speak through his own words. Even the author''s use of the acidic adjective\n <em>\n  accursed\n </em>\n in his subtitle leaves readers unsure about whether bad luck or odium is implied. Morse''s letters to his children, whom he dumped on relatives, indicate he neglected them to pursue his lifelong dream to become a painter. On the other hand, Silverman portrays Morse as easily depressed, vexed by the business disputes to which his artistic, pious, and overly trusting nature was ill suited. Set in his times, the man in full arises in Silverman''s exemplary biography.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2469');
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(6728, 'The Lightning Thief', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that''s the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy''s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he''s angered a few of them. Zeus''s master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus''s stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  This first installment of Rick Riordan''s best-selling series is a non-stop thrill-ride and a classicÂ of mythic proportions.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Interview: Rick Riordan on *The Lightning Thief\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  In our exclusive Q&amp;A with Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, learn about his inspiration for the character Percy Jackson, his long-time interest in Greek mythology, and more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com:\n  </strong>\n  Since\n  <em>\n   The Lightning Thief\n  </em>\n  was published in 2005 itâ€™s sold more than a million copies, and the four subsequent books in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series have been blockbuster bestsellers among kids and adult readers alike. When you were writing the first story starring Percy Jackson, did you ever imagine it would become such a phenomenon? How has the success of the series affected your life?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Rick Riordan:\n  </strong>\n  I had no expectations other than to make a good story for my older son, Haley. I had no idea it would become a book, much less a series, until he encouraged me to write down the story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I hoped the stories would get kids reading, but I never anticipated such exponential growth. It was not an overnight success, nor was it heavily marketed at the beginning.\n  <em>\n   The Lightning Thief\n  </em>\n  was passed around from kid to kid, teacher to teacher, parent to parent, and the series got bigger with each book. It really was a grassroots phenomenon. Still, I have trouble thinking in terms of millions. I measure success by anecdotes--the kid who told me he never liked books until he found\n  <em>\n   The Lightning Thief\n  </em>\n  , the parent who thanked me for turning her daughter into a reader, the teacher who said I turned her class around because they bonded over reading Percy Jackson every day. That''s what it''s all about for me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It hasn''t changed our life much other than making me busier, but doing something I love! I still drive the same car. My kids go to the same schools. We try our best to keep things simple at home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com:\n  </strong>\n  Youâ€™ve said that you wrote this series for your son, Haley, who, like the bookâ€™s hero Percy, has been diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. How does Haley feel about being the inspiration for a bestselling series?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Riordan:\n  </strong>\n  Both my sons are always my first audience. I read the manuscripts to them aloud to make sure they work for young readers. Both are proud, though being teenagers they are also embarrassed by the attention they get sometimes. They donâ€™t like it when classmates ask them to get my autograph. Haley likes to play down his importance in the genesis of the series, but I think he''s enjoyed growing up with Percy, and I know it has increased his interest in writing. Recently he came into my office and announced the manuscript he is working on now has a bigger word count than mine!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com:\n  </strong>\n  Percyâ€™s stories are based on Greek mythology--classic tales that have been passed down for thousands of years. What lessons can kids today learn from the ancient myths?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Riordan:\n  </strong>\n  The stories have everything--romance, magic, mystery, action, and great characters. The Greek gods are our first superheroes. They have amazing powers, but they are also very human and subject to jealousy, envy, anger, etc. Kids especially respond to them because they are both powerful and accessible. Who wouldn''t want to be the son or daughter of a Greek god? By reading about the struggles of gods and heroes, we learn a lot about being human, and that''s something that hasn''t changed over the millennia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com:\n  </strong>\n  Have you ever visited Greece? What was it like?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Riordan:\n  </strong>\n  Iâ€™ve been to both Italy and Greece, but only after I finished the Percy Jackson series, which is ironic. One doesnâ€™t need to travel there, however, to appreciate the stories from mythology. Those are quite universal. Greece actually reminded me quite a bit of my home in Texas--hot, green, hilly, somewhat arid, except the ocean is much better in Greece.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com:\n  </strong>\n  Percyâ€™s guardian satyr, Grover, is strongly connected to the Earth, the well-being of animals, and humansâ€™ emotions. Moreover, Percyâ€™s life is relatively free of technology, in contrast to many people today. Is there a message about the natural world that youâ€™re hoping to convey through Percy and Grover?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Riordan:\n  </strong>\n  I donâ€™t consciously put messages in the books, because my job is telling a good story, not preaching. However, I do pick up on themes from Greek mythology that still resonate in the modern world, and certainly manâ€™s relationship to nature is one of those. Iâ€™ve always been fascinated by the god Pan, and his reported death in ancient times. It seemed a very relevant theme for modern readers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com:\n  </strong>\n  Percy encounters many dangers throughout his adventures--some that could be considered beyond the abilities of a normal 12-year-old. Though we know Percy is no normal kid, where does he find the find the strength to overcome all the challenges that he encounters?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Riordan:\n  </strong>\n  None of us knows what we''re capable of until we are called to action. Percy may have demigod abilities, but he''s a very normal kid in a lot of ways. He goes from a 12-year-old who is unsure of himself and his relationship with his friends and family, to a 16-year-old young man who steps up and leads a war to save Olympus. Most heroes are born out of dire circumstances, and Percy is no exception. He''s afraid, unsure, doubtful, angry--all the things we would be if we were called to deal with a crisis. But he does the job anyway, and that is the definition of courage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com:\n  </strong>\n  Itâ€™s often said that writers write about what they know. Were you interested in the ancient world when you were Percyâ€™s age? What kinds of books were your favorites when you were a kid?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Riordan:\n  </strong>\n  I''ve always loved mythology. I had a great English teacher who showed me that\n  <em>\n   The Lord of the Rings\n  </em>\n  (the only series I would read at age thirteen) was based on Norse myths, and from then on, I was a mythology buff. I taught mythology in my own classroom when I became a teacher, and it was consistently my students'' favorite unit.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com:\n  </strong>\n  If you discovered, like Percy, that you were the son of a Greek god, who would you want your immortal parent to be?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Riordan:\n  </strong>\n  I''d like Poseidon or Athena, but with my luck, I''d end up with Dionysus.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1154'),
(6729, 'The Likeness', 'Tana French', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The haunting follow up to the Edgar Award-winning debut "In the Woods"  Tana French astonished critics and readers alike with her mesmerizing debut novel, "In the Woods." Now both French and Detective Cassie Maddox return to unravel a case even more sinister and enigmatic than the first. Six months after the events of "In the Woods," an urgent telephone call beckons Cassie to a grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used. Suddenly, Cassie must discover not only who killed this girl, but, more importantly, who is this girl? A disturbing tale of shifting identities, "The Likeness" firmly establishes Tana French as an important voice in suspense fiction. And look for French''s new mystery, "Broken Harbor, " for more of the Dublin Murder Squad. The "expertly rendered, gripping new novel" (Janet Maslin, "The New York Times")-from the bestselling author of "In the Woods "and "The Likeness."Tana French''s "In the Woods" and "The Likeness "captivated readers by introducing them to her unique, character-driven style and her new mystery, "Broken Harbor, " is eagerly anticipated. Her singular skill at creating richly drawn, complex worlds makes her novels not mere whodunits but brilliant and satisfying novels about memory, identity, loss, and what defines us as humans. With "Faithful Place," the highly praised third novel about the Dublin Murder squad, French takes readers into the mind of Frank Mackey, the hotheaded mastermind of "The Likeness," as he wrestles with his own past and the family, the lover, and the neighborhood he thought he''d left behind for good.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3879'),
(6730, 'The Lincoln Lawyer', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This #1 bestselling legal thriller from Michael Connelly is a stunning display of novelistic mastery - as human, as gripping, and as whiplash-surprising as any novel yet from the writer\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n has called "today''s Dostoevsky of crime literature."\n</p>\n<p>\n Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers - they''re all on Mickey Haller''s client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it''s about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it''s even about justice.\n</p>\n<p>\n A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a defense attorney''s dream, what they call a franchise case. And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career. Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. To escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal - this time to save his own life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q&amp;A with Michael Connelly\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n <em>\n  The Lincoln Lawyer\n </em>\n is your second book to be made into a movie. How does that feel?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I am very fortunate to have this experience even once. I wish every writer got a chance to see the written work translated to the visual. It is quite thrilling.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™ve said that Matthew McConaughey nails the character of Mickey Haller. In what ways?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I would say it is in many subtle ways that add up to a big performance. Mickey is a guy who is always looking for an angle. He is a bit cynical and cocky. At different times in the movie McConaughey seems to convey these character aspects without dialogue. Then when it comes to dialogue and action he delivers flawlessly. The story is about a cool, calm man being put into a desperate situation. McConaughey makes that leap convincingly.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What was your involvement in the making of the movie?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Almost none. I looked at the first and last versions of the script, took a few phone calls from producers and location scouts, and that was about it. I think my biggest contribution outside of writing the book was giving my trust to Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi, the producers. They promised me six years ago that they would keep the gritty realism of the story â€“ the-law-in-the-trenches aspect of it. I trusted them to do that and with Brad Furman, the director, they came through.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What were your immediate thoughts when you first read the script? When you heard about each cast member?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Depends on which script. It was a long-running work in progress. I went from not liking the first effort to being blown away by the last version. I am a huge believer in rewriting in my own work so I knew that the more time they spent with the script, the better it would become. As far as casting goes, I don''t write with anybody in mind. But I saw\n <em>\n  Tropic Thunder\n </em>\n with Matthew McConaughey in it and immediately thought he would be good at being Mickey Haller. A year later he was cast, so I was happy from the start. The rest of the cast is just fantastic. As each was announced, I became more and more excited. John Leguizamo was in Brad Furman''s previous film and was just excellent. When I heard he was aboard, it was a great day. Same with all the rest. Bryan Cranston happens to be the star of my favorite show,\n <em>\n  Breaking Bad\n </em>\n . So I couldn''t be happier with him in the cast.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What was your inspiration for\n <em>\n  The Lincoln Lawyer\n </em>\n ? Is Mickey Haller based on someone you know?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I met an attorney who worked out of his car, not because he was not doing well but because he believed it was the best way to do the job in L.A. That was the spark, and it went from there.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Are there any scenes in the film that you wish were in the book?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n There are definitely a few lines I wish were in the book. There is a scene where Mickey drops his sleeping daughter off at his ex-wife''s home. It is a poignant scene that I really love and could have used in the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Did you visit the set while they were filming the movie? What was that experience like?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I went four different times and scheduled the visits to coincide with the shooting of some significant scenes. I loved what I was seeing on both sides of the camera: a lot of dedication to the project. Everyone on the crew felt like they were making something good. It was great to witness.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Lincoln Lawyer is a 2005 novel, and it is the 16th novel written by American crime writer Michael Connelly. It is the first featuring Los Angeles attorney Mickey Haller, half-brother of Connelly''s mainstay detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  In the article:\n </strong>\n Plot summary | Characters | Film adaptation\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/541'),
(6731, 'A Lion Among Men', 'Gregory Maguire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Since the publication of Wicked, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire''s fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion.   At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire''s A Lion Among Men is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3672'),
(6732, 'The Lion', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''Have a safe jump, Mr Corey.'' Detective John Corey is floating to earth, his skydiver''s parachute billowing above him. His wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, is mere metres away, beneath a chute of her own. And clinging to Kate in midair, aiming a knife at her throat and a Glock at Corey, is the most dangerous man alive: Asad Khalik, code name The Lion ? infamous terrorist, ice-blooded assassin, and Corey''s greatest nemesis. ''I promised you I would return, Corey...'' It''s been three years since Corey last traded words ? and bullets ? with The Lion, who vanished after a devastating attack on American soil. But with Khalil''s spectacular return, the threat of a terrorist apocalypse now darkens the globe. The Lion wants revenge. And with Kate''s life in the balance, so does Corey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3386'),
(6733, 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr 3-6-This classic tale celebrates its 50th anniversary with a delightful audio rendition. Actor Michael York''s reading is a perfect match for this story. The narration is clear and distinct, and York''s soft and soothing British accent adds the right touch. Listeners will fall under the spell of this master storyteller as they join Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan on their travels. Beginning with Chapter One when Lucy looks into the wardrobe and discovers Narnia and the faun, readers will find that this timeless story can still work the magic that C.S. Lewis intended. In this action packed tale, the four children take part in several adventures as they travel through Narnia on their quest to rid the country of the Witch and her followers. Narnia fans will want to listen to this story over and over again, and new fans will be created as they listen for the first time.-Ginny Harrell, William McGarrah Elementary School, Morrow, GA\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The magic of C. S. Lewis''s parallel universe never fades." The\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1174'),
(6734, 'A Lion&#39;s Tale: Around the World in Spandex', 'Chris Jericho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chris Jericho worked his way into the big time of wrestling after training in Canada. He had his first pro fight at just 19, but it wasn''t until he was 25 that he made the big time, joining the WCW. Within a year he had won his first title. Finally, in August 1999 he moved to the WWF (now WWE) where he would eventually become one of the biggest names on their books, and bedcome the undisputed Heavyweight Champion.In this fascinating account, he relives his early days in the sport in Mexico and Japan, and working his way up alongside Chris Benoit and Lance Storm. He also recalls his rivalries with The Rock, Steve Austin and Triple H among others. He retired from the sport in August 2005, but there have been many rumours since then of a comeback. A Lion''s Tale is as honest, outspoken and direct as the man himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1776'),
(6735, 'Lionheart', 'Sharon Kay Penman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the New York Times-bestselling novelist, a stunning story of a great medieval warrior-king, the accomplished and controversial son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine: Richard, Coeur de Lion.  They were called "The Devil''s Brood," though never to their faces. They were the four surviving sons of Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine. With two such extraordinary parents, much was expected of them.  But the eldest-charming yet mercurial-would turn on his father and, like his brother Geoffrey, meet an early death. When Henry died, Richard would take the throne and, almost immediately, set off for the Holy Land. This was the Third Crusade, and it would be characterized by internecine warfare among the Christians and extraordinary campaigns against the Saracens. And, back in England, by the conniving of Richard''s youngest brother, John, to steal his crown.  In Lionheart, Sharon Kay Penman displays her remarkable mastery of historical detail and her acute understanding of human foibles. The result is a powerful story of intrigue, war, and- surprisingly-effective diplomacy, played out against the roiling conflicts of love and loyalty, passion and treachery, all set against the rich textures of the Holy Land.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3194'),
(6736, 'Lions of Kandahar', 'Rusty Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  One of the most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed as never before.\n  <em>\n   Lions of Kandahar\n  </em>\n  is an inside account from the unique perspective of an active-duty U.S. Army Special Forces commander, an unparalled warrior with multiple deployments to the theater who has only recently returned from combat there.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Southern Afghanistan was slipping away. That was clear to then-Captain Rusty Bradley as he began his third tour of duty there in 2006. The Taliban and their allies were infiltrating everywhere, poised to reclaim Kandahar Province, their strategically vital onetime capital. To stop them, the NATO coalition launched Operation Medusa, the largest offensive in its history. The battlefield was the Panjwayi Valley, a densely packed warren of walled compounds that doubled neatly as enemy bunkers, lush orchards, and towering marijuana stands, all laced with treacherous irrigation ditches. A mass exodus of civilians heralded the carnage to come.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dispatched as a diversionary force in support of the main coalition attack, Bradleyâ€™s Special Forces A-team and two others, along with their longtime Afghan Army allies, watched from across the valley as the NATO force was quickly engulfed in a vicious counterattack. Key to relieving it and calling in effective air strikes was possession of a modest patch of high ground called Sperwan Ghar. Bradleyâ€™s small detachment assaulted the hill and, in the midst of a savage and unforgettable firefight, soon learned they were facing nearly a thousand seasoned fightersâ€”from whom they seized an impossible victory.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Bradley recounts the whole remarkable story as it actually happened. The blistering trek across Afghanistanâ€™s infamous Red Desert. The eerie traces of the elusive Taliban. The close relations with the Afghan people and army, a primary mission focus. Sperwan Ghar itself: unremitting waves of fire from machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades; a targeted truck turned into an inferno; the death trap of a cut-off compound. Most important: the men, Americans and Afghans alikeâ€”the â€œshakyâ€ medic with nerves of steel and a surgeonâ€™s hands in battle; the tireless sergeant who seems to be everywhere at once; the soft-spoken intelligence officer with laser-sharp insight; the diminutive Afghan commander with a Goliath-sized heart; the cool maverick who risks all to rescue a grievously wounded comradeâ€”each unique, all indelible in their everyday exercise of extraordinary heroism.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2473'),
(6737, 'The Lions of Lucerne', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the President of the United States has been kidnapped and his Secret Service detail massacred. Only one agent has survived -- ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath. He doesn''t buy the official line that Middle Eastern terrorists are behind the attack and begins his own campaign to find the truth and exact revenge. But now, framed for murder by a sinister cabal, Harvath takes his fight to the towering mountains of Switzerland -- and joins forces with beautiful Claudia Mueller of the Swiss Federal Attorney''s Office. Together they must brave the subzero temperatures and sheer heights of treacherous Mount Pilatus -- where their only chance for survival lies inside the den of the most lethal team of professional killers the world has ever known....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3852'),
(6738, 'Lips Unsealed: A Memoir', 'Belinda Carlisle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The women of the iconic eighties band the Go-Goâ€™s will always be remembered as they appeared on the back of their debut record: sunny, smiling, each soaking in her own private bubble bath with chocolates and champagne. The photo is a perfect tribute to the fun, irreverent brand of pop music that the Go-Goâ€™s created, but it also conceals the trials and secret demons that the members of the groupâ€”and, in particular, its lead singer, Belinda Carlisleâ€”struggled with on their rise to stardom. Leaving her unstable childhood home at the age of eighteen, Belinda battled serious weight issues, having been teased for her pudginess throughout grade school, and grappled with her confusion about being deserted by her biological father as a child. This talented but misguided teen found solace in the punk rock world that so openly welcomed misfitsâ€”even though acceptance had its price. Not long after forming, the Go-Goâ€™s became queens of the L.A. punk sceneâ€”they sold out venues, attracted a fiercely loyal fan base, and outpartied almost every male band they toured withâ€”and in the process kicked down the doors to the all-boysâ€™ club of eighties rock and roll. With a chart-topping debut album, Belinda found herself launched to international superstardomâ€”and with that fame came more access to A-list parties, and even more alcohol and drugs to fuel Go-Goâ€™s mania. Inevitably, Belinda began to self-destruct. Lips Unsealed is filled with the wild stories that Belinda Carlisle fans are dying to hearâ€”stories about the bandâ€™s crazy days on tour with acts like the Police and Madness and the fabulous parties and people to whom the Go-Goâ€™s had exclusive access. But more than that, this candid memoir reveals the gritty flip side to the glitz, as Belinda shares her private struggles with abusive relationships, weight, and self-esteem, and a thirty-year battle with drug and alcohol addiction. This spellbinding and shocking look at her rise, fall, and eventual rebirth as a wife, mother, and sober artist will leave you wistfully fantasizing about the eighties decadence she epitomized, but also cringing at the dark despair hidden behind her charming smile. One of the rare adventures through rock stardom told by a woman, Lips Unsealed is ultimately a love letter to musicâ€”to the members of the Go-Goâ€™s, whoâ€™ve maintained lifelong friendships, and to the beloved husband and son who led Belinda to sobrietyâ€”and the story of a life that, though deeply flawed, was, and is still, fully lived.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3937'),
(6739, 'Lisey&#39;s Story', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since his first novel was published in 1974, Stephen King has stretched the boundaries of the written word, not only bringing horror to new heights, but trying his hand at nearly every possible genre, including children''s books, graphic novels, serial novels, literary fiction, nonfiction, westerns, fantasy, and even e-books (remember The Plant?). With\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n , once again King is trying something different.\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n is as much a romance as it is a supernatural thriller--but don''t let us convince you. Who better to tell readers if King has written a romantic thriller than Nora Roberts? We asked Nora to read\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n and give us her take. Check out her review below.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Nora Roberts\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Nora Roberts, who also writes under the pseudonym J.D. Robb, is the author of way too many bestselling books to name here (over 150!), but some of our favorites include:\n  <em>\n   Angels Fall\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Born in Death\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Blue Smoke\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Reef\n  </em>\n  .\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Stephen King hooked me about three decades ago with that sharply faceted, blood-stained jewel,\n <em>\n  The Shining\n </em>\n . Through the years he''s bumped my gooses with kiddie vampires, tingled my spine with beloved pets gone rabid, justified my personal fear of clowns and made me think twice about my cell phone. I''ve always considered\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n --a long-time favorite--a towering tour de force, and have owed its author a debt as this was the first novel I could convince my older son to read from cover to cover.\n</p>\n<p>\n But with\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n , King has accomplished one more feat. He broke my heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n is, at its core, a love story--heart-wrenching, passionate, terrifying and tender. It is the multi-layered and expertly crafted tale of a twenty-five year marriage, and a widow''s journey through grief, through discovery and--this is King, after all--through a nightmare scape of the ordinary and extraordinary. Through Lisey''s mind and heart, the reader is pulled into the intimacies of her marriage to bestselling novelist Scott Landon, and through her we come to know this complicated, troubled and heroic man.\n</p>\n<p>\n Two years after his death, Lisey sorts through her husband''s papers and her own shrouded memories. Following the clues Scott left her and her own instincts, she embarks on a journey that risks both her life and her sanity. She will face Scott''s demons as well as her own, traveling into the past and into Boo''ya Moon, the seductive and terrifying world he''d shown her. There lives the power to heal, and the power to destroy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lisey Landon is a richly wrought character of charm and complexity, of realized inner strength and redoubtable humor. As the central figure she drives the story, and the story is so vividly textured, the reader will draw in the perfumed air of Boo''ya Moon, will see the sunlight flood through the windows of the Scott''s studio--or the night press against them. Her voice will be clear in your ear as you experience the fear and the wonder. If your heart doesn''t hitch at the demons she faces in this world and the other, if it doesn''t thrill at her courage and endurance, you''re going to need to check with a cardiologist, first chance.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n is bright and brilliant. It''s dark and desperate. While I''ll always consider\n <em>\n  The Shining\n </em>\n , my first ride on King''s wild Tilt-A-Whirl, a gorgeous, bloody jewel, I found, on this latest ride, a treasure box heaped with dazzling gems.\n</p>\n<p>\n A few of them have sharp, hungry teeth.\n <em>\n  --Nora Roberts\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Following King''s triumphant return to the world of gory horror in\n <em>\n  Cell\n </em>\n , the bestselling author proves he''s still the master of supernatural suspense in this minimally bloody but disturbing and sorrowful love story set in rural Maine. Lisey''s husband, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author Scott Landon, has been dead for two years at the book''s start, but his presence is felt on every page. Lisey hears him so often in her head that when her catatonic sister, Amanda, begins speaking to her with Scott''s voice, she finds it not so much unbelievable as inevitable. Soon she''s following a trail of clues that lead her to Scott''s horrifying childhood and the eerie world called Boo''ya Moon, all while trying to help Amanda and avoid a murderous stalker. Both a metaphor for coming to terms with grief and a self-referencing parable of the writer''s craft, this novel answers the question King posed 25 years ago in his tale "The Reach": yes, the dead do love.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/846'),
(6740, 'Lit', 'Mary Karr', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Liars'' Club\n  </em>\n  brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr''s hardscrabble Texas childhood.\n  <em>\n   Cherry\n  </em>\n  , her account of her adolescence, "continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal" (\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  ). Now\n  <em>\n   Lit\n  </em>\n  follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner''s descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness--and to her astonishing resurrection.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Karr''s longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore. But she can''t outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in "The Mental Marriott," with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors, awakens her to the possibility of joy and leads her to an unlikely faith. Not since Saint Augustine cried, "Give me chastity, Lord-but not yet!" has a conversion story rung with such dark hilarity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Lit\n  </em>\n  is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karr''s relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up--as only Mary Karr can tell it.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Photos from Mary Karr\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   (Click to Enlarge)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mary''s much adored oil-worker DaddyMary''s artist mother, Charlie KarrMary, at 22, meeting poet Howard NemerovMary one month before visiting the "Mental Marriott"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mary, age 17, with sister Lecia, age 19Mary and young son DevMary with family before her Leitchfield\n  <em>\n   Liars'' Club\n  </em>\n  readingMary celebrating the holidays with son DevMary''s son, Dev Milburn, in 2009\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Reviewers agreed that while Karr''s memoir could have succumbed to the pitfalls of the addiction-recovery memoir, it rises above the genre. Juicy, evocative, confessional, poetic, and often darkly humorous,\n  <em>\n   Lit\n  </em>\n  recounts Karr''s dark past in an intimate, easy style. While critics considered\n  <em>\n   Lit\n  </em>\n  a seamless addition to her previous memoirs, some expressed surprise that it takes a religious turn. A few also commented that the memoir is tamer and less dramatic than\n  <em>\n   Liar''s Club\n  </em>\n  and that it contains some abstract sections about Karr''s relationships. But in the end, Karrâ€”one of our finest memoiristsâ€”remains "unswerving in her determination to face the past and, if possible, transcend it" (\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Chronicle\n  </em>\n  ).\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2146'),
(6741, 'The Litigators', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The partners at Finley &amp; Figgâ€”all two of themâ€”often refer to themselves as â€œa boutique law firm.â€ Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers whoâ€™ve been in the trenches much too long making way too little. Their specialties, so to speak, are quickie divorces and DUIs, with the occasional jackpot of an actual car wreck thrown in. After twenty plus years together, Oscar Finley and Wally Figg bicker like an old married couple but somehow continue to scratch out a half-decent living from their seedy bungalow offices in southwest Chicago.And then change comes their way. More accurately, it stumbles in. David Zinc, a young but already burned-out attorney, walks away from his fast-track career at a fancy downtown firm, goes on a serious bender, and finds himself literally at the doorstep of our boutique firm. Once David sobers up and comes to grips with the fact that heâ€™s suddenly unemployed, any jobâ€”even one with Finley &amp; Figgâ€”looks okay to him. With their new associate on board, F&amp;F is ready to tackle a really big case, a case that could make the partners rich without requiring them to actually practice much law. An extremely popular drug, Krayoxx, the number one cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced by Varrick Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with annual sales of $25 billion, has recently come under fire after several patients taking it have suffered heart attacks. Wally smells money.A little online research confirms Wallyâ€™s suspicionsâ€”a huge plaintiffsâ€™ firm in Florida is putting together a class action suit against Varrick. All Finley &amp; Figg has to do is find a handful of people who have had heart attacks while taking Krayoxx, convince them to become clients, join the class action, and ride along to fame and fortune. With any luck, they wonâ€™t even have to enter a courtroom! It almost seems too good to be true. And it is.The Litigators is a tremendously entertaining romp, filled with the kind of courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense that have made John Grisham Americaâ€™s favorite storyteller.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/580'),
(6742, 'The Little Prisoner', 'Jane Elliott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The charts are full of stories of childhood abuse now, Elliott writes, and speculates that fans of childhood abuse literature want to be shocked at the start of the book, crying in the middle and exultant at the end. Her account (Jane Elliott is a pseudonym) adds little that is fresh to the genre beyond that her [s]eventeen years was an astonishingly long time to have been systematically abused. A good part of this true story of a four-year-old girl who fell into the power of a man for whom evil was a relentless daily activity is devoted to the shockâ€”graphic detail of her stepfather''s physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Some readers will feel for Elliott as she continues to be victimized by a thoroughly amoral lunatic head of an incredibly dysfunctional family; others may find that the explicit detail teeters perilously close to the pornography of violence and of sexual degradation. While Elliott''s stepfather is eventually sentenced to 15 years, little exultancy follows until Elliott decides to tell her story and achieves British bestsellerdom. Elliott''s account, written with Crofts, makes fascinating reading as one wonders, in page-turner fashion, whether anyone will stop this man from terrorizing his stepdaughter, her mother, her siblings and the entire neighborhood. The vagueness of time and place, however, raise disquieting questions about reality.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''An inspirational page-turner.'' Heat''The devastating and moving true life story of Jane''s life. A powerful read.'' Best''A tragic tale, yet filled with hope.'' Womanâ€˜This true story of an escape from a miserable childhood makes inspiring reading.'' Woman &amp; Home\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1942'),
(6743, 'Live and Let Die', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Containing passages which for sheer excitement have not been surpassed by any modern writer of this kind."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  The Times Literary Supplement\n </em>\n (\n <em>\n  Times Literary Supplement\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in London in 1908, Ian Fleming worked as a banker and journalist before serving in the British Naval Intelligence during World War II. He published his first novel Casino Royale in 1953 and thus started the astoundingly successful James Bond novels and films. Fleming died in 1964.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1129'),
(6744, '&quot;Live From Cape Canaveral&quot;', 'Jay Barbree', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n NBC TV reporter Barbree will be a familiar figure to many readers for his frequent appearances on the\n <em>\n  Today\n </em>\n show and his decadeslong coverage of the space program. As a cub radio announcer in Georgia in the late 1950s, Barbree (coauthor of\n <em>\n  Moon Shot\n </em>\n ) realized the next big story was taking place on the rocket launch pad in Florida. He began a string of scoops early on when, hiding in a men''s room stall, he heard that a satellite launch would carry the first broadcast from space, a recorded message from President Eisenhower. Barbree''s inside access allows him to give pungent details: in 1961, [t]he astronauts'' crew quarters... were smelly, military, uncomfortable and too damn close to the chimpanzees'' colony (a chimp having preceded man into space). While recounting the exploits of the early cowboy astronauts, he gives equal time to the tragedies of\n <em>\n  Apollo 1\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Challenger\n </em>\n (he broke the story on the cause of the shuttle''s disaster) and the near-tragedy of\n <em>\n  Apollo 13\n </em>\n . Barbree writes with infectious enthusiasm about the glory days of space exploration, and his book will be an enjoyable introduction for a new generation and a fond remembrance for boomers.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Barbree got his first taste of covering the space race in 1957 when he did a cursory radio report on the launch of Russia''s Sputnik 1 launch, the satellite that finally lit a match under the lagging efforts of U.S. space exploration. In this engrossing memoir, he retraces the politicsâ€”domestic and internationalâ€”as well as the science and technology behind the U.S. space program. Barbree has covered every mission flown by astronauts from Sputnik to the failed U.S. Vanguard, later triumphs and the tragedies of Challenger and Columbia, and the drama of Apollo 13. He includes firsthand details on the personalities behind the missions: Werner von Braun, the German-born scientist who pushed to start the U.S. program, and astronauts Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and others. With obvious love of his work, Barbree offers dramatic descriptions of the launches and revealing looks at the camaraderie among the astronauts and the reporters who covered the beat. A fascinating look at the people behind the U.S. space program. Bush, Vanessa\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2335');
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(6745, 'Live to Tell', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lisa Gardner Interviews Detective D.D. Warren\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lisa Gardner:\n </strong>\n D.D.--What do you find most fascinating/frustrating about working with the new guy, crime scene expert Alex Wilson?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n Alex seems sharp. Knows his blood spatter--I respect that in a guy. â€˜Course, heâ€™s been teaching at the Academy, which is one thing, while weâ€™re now standing in a Dorchester home with five dead and carnage in every room. I donâ€™t want lectures, I want results. This was a family--according the neighbors, even a nice family who seemed to actually like one another. Until, of course, the father snapped and killed them all. Or did he? These are the kinds of questions I gotta ask, and Prof Alex better be ready to answer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LG:\n </strong>\n When did you know you were going to have your own novel?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n First time I walked on scene in\n <em>\n  Alone\n </em>\n . Please, Iâ€™m five times tougher than fellow detective Bobby Dodge and twenty times smarter. Plus, I look damn good in Jimmy Choos. Letâ€™s see the former sniper do my job in my heels, then weâ€™ll talk.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LG:\n </strong>\n What''s the most difficult case you''ve ever had to handle? Why?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n These past two family homicides. For one thing, any crime involving kids wrecks you a little. For another...I donâ€™t believe in coincidence. Here are two families, totally different neighborhoods, socioeconomics, lifestyles, etc., yet they both wind up the same way, dead. Now, what are the odds of two totally different fathers going whacko in exactly the same way? I donâ€™t believe it, but my boss isnâ€™t into gut feel. All comes down to evidence. I would like some. Really, it would be nice right about now. Yo, Alex...\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LG:\n </strong>\n What is the thing you love most about being a Boston P.D. Sergeant?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n Being in charge, calling all the shots, being the boss. Did I mention being in charge?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LG:\n </strong>\n What''s on your nightstand? What''s in the drawer?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n On my nightstand--back issue of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin I keep meaning to read. In the drawer--emergency stash of chocolate, couple of condoms (donâ€™t I wish), and a Kindle loaded up with the latest J.R. Ward steamy hot, seriously action-packed vampire novel. Tell anyone, and they will never find your body.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LG:\n </strong>\n Favorite food?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n Iâ€™ve always been partial to Italian. Which my squadmate Phil, told Alex all about. Now, Alex claims to be a serious Italian cook--apparently his mother is a Capozzoli and they know their Bolognese. A little wine, a little homemade pasta, a little tiramisu. All I gotta do is pick up the phone, tell him a time and date...one phone call. How hard can that be? One little call.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LG:\n </strong>\n You drive that butch police car all day. What''s your idea of a dream ride?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n Walking on a beach. No car, no pager, no shoes. Just me, the wind, the waves and the cry of the gulls. Iâ€™d probably go nuts within minutes, but it would be nice to give peace a chance.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LG:\n </strong>\n Can you ever see yourself partnering successfully with another cop? Or are you the quintessential lone wolf?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n Excuse me, I love my squad and my squad loves me. Neil is one of the finest detectives around, plus better him than me viewing all the autopsies. And Phil--hey, family man, great wife, four kids, works in homicide to escape the violence. Gotta love Phil. They have my back and I have theirs. Life is good.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LG:\n </strong>\n I''m a woman traveling alone, staying in a hotel. What are your top three tips to keep me safe from psychos?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n Most hotel crimes have to do with property theft. Unfortunately, a guest walking in on a burglary, or a thief breaking in assuming the roomâ€™s vacant only to find a guest present, can lead to violence. Thus, your best defense is to always use the deadbolt, and always advertise when youâ€™re â€œhome,â€ so to speak.\n</p>\n<ol>\n <li>\n  Bolt all locks anytime youâ€™re in the room and hang out the Do Not Disturb Sign\n </li>\n <li>\n  Double-check door is closed and latched (failures happen more than you think)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Try to avoid staying in rooms closest to the elevators and/or stairs--these rooms are more frequently targeted by thieves as the location allows for quick getaways.\n </li>\n</ol>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LG:\n </strong>\n Do you have any scars?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n Maybe, but you should see the other guy. Give as good as you get, thatâ€™s always been my motto.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LG:\n </strong>\n What''s the most you''ve ever spent on a pair of shoes? Describe!\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n Silver sequined Jimmy Choos, on sale $500. Should never have bought them, but theyâ€™re really pretty and when I wear them, I donâ€™t look like a cop, walk like a cop, or think like a cop. How does that commercial go...? Oh yeah, priceless.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LG:\n </strong>\n If you had to: dog or cat?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n No! Never! Donâ€™t even think it!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LG:\n </strong>\n Tell me something I don''t know about you.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n I like mobiles. Donâ€™t ask me why. But thereâ€™s something cool about looking up and watching the various shapes and colors slowly twist around. Sometimes, after a really bad day, I go home, close my eyes and create mobiles in my head--maybe one with bright origami animals, or another with silver geometric shapes. I let them go round and round, til finally I can sleep. Then when I wake up, Iâ€™ll know something critical about the crime--a piece of the puzzle I missed the day before, a clue Iâ€™d overlooked. I think itâ€™s from focusing on patterns. Thatâ€™s what crimes are, really--very violent patterns that a good detective must deconstruct, then rebuild in her head.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LG:\n </strong>\n Worst crime scene?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n The mummified remains of six girls on the grounds of the abandoned mental institute in Mattapan. Never saw anything like it, never want to again. Funny, that was Bobby Dodgeâ€™s first case as a detective (\n <em>\n  Hide\n </em>\n )--got him a wife, and now a baby girl. But he never talks about it, and neither do I. Sometimes, finding justice for the victims isnâ€™t enough, but itâ€™s all we got. So a good detective walls it up, puts a Do Not Disturb Sign on that section of memory and walks away. Gotta in this job, or youâ€™ll go mad.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LG:\n </strong>\n What do you wish you knew five years ago?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  D.D.:\n </strong>\n Can a working woman have it all? Five years ago, I sweated my job. I worried I wasnâ€™t working smart enough, closing cases fast enough. Now, I sweat my entire life. Am I working too hard? Missing out on other parts of life? Maybe I should take Alex up on his offer of homemade alfredo, except can I really be the detective I need to be, while trying to be the girlfriend Iâ€™d like to be? Canâ€™t figure it out. So I wish that Iâ€™d realized five years ago, how good I had it. That focusing only on my policing career was a luxury Iâ€™d never have again. Spoken like a true workaholic, huh?\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. At the heart of Gardner''s outstanding fourth novel featuring Boston PD detective Warren (after The Neighbor) are some very sick kids, notably Lucy, a nine-year-old feral girl who self-mutilates when any attention is given to her, and Evan, an eight-year-old boy who during fits threatens to kill his mother. D.D gets involved after two grisly family annihilations lead to the locked-down pediatric psych ward in Cambridge that specializes in Lucy''s and Evan''s types of hard case. When a child is too sick and the parent can no longer handle care, the child ends up in the acute care facility under the tutelage of pediatric psych nurse Danielle, the lone survivor of her own family bloodbath. Coincidence? That''s for D.D. to figure out--in the midst of a budding romance with police academy professor Alex Wilson and infuriating encounters with Andrew Lightfoot, resident "woo-woo expert" (that''s cop talk for psychic), who works in tandem with the hospital. Plenty of red herrings keep readers guessing, but Gardner always plays fair in this tight and consistently engaging page-turner.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/634'),
(6746, 'Live Wire', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <b>\n   The #1\n   <i>\n    New York Times\n   </i>\n   bestseller Harlan Coben returns, with a Myron Bolitar thriller unlike any other.\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Harlan Coben has risen to the top of bestseller lists worldwide, attracting voracious audiences for his peerless novels of domestic suspense as well as those featuring his fan-favorite sports agent, Myron Bolitar. Now, in\n  <i>\n   Live Wire\n  </i>\n  , he offers a knock-your-socks- off novel that will electrify all his fans: Myron''s family takes center stage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Myron Bolitar has always dreamed about the voluptuous femme fatale walking into his office and asking for help. The woman standing in his doorway has killer curves, all right: She''s eight months pregnant, which kind of ruins the fantasy. Former tennis star Suzze T and her rock star husband, Lex, are both clients, and over the years Myron has negotiated his share of contracts for the power pair. But now Lex has disappeared and a very pregnant Suzze is in tears, fearing the online rumors questioning the baby''s...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/601'),
(6747, 'Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales &amp; Oral Histories', 'Anton Treuer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This substantial volume presents a rich and varied collection of tales from the Ojibwe (Chippewa) tradition while also integrating material from associated Algonquian tribes who migrated westward for centuries before European contact. Ten Indian elders from the northwestern United States and Canada provide narratives in their native language, with English translations appearing on the facing pages. Each participant is profiled, and his contributions (assembled over several years) follow in numbered paragraphs. These contributions present various aspects of Ojibwe daily life, including fishing, maple sugaring, ricing, devilish childhood tricks, religious ceremonies, and more. Drawn from both printed and oral sources, the stories are meticulously and sensitively translated and annotated, giving shape, form, and nuance to a fragile, almost extinct civilization. This preservation project will be a vital addition to Native American lore and is certain to be treasured by comprehensive collections in special and academic libraries. Richard K. Burns, MSLS, Hatboro, PA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A language carries a people''s memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people. Based on interviews Treuer conducted with ten elders this anthol-ogy presents the elders'' stories transcribed in Ojibwe with English translation on facing pages. These stories contain a wealth of information, including oral histories of the Anishinaabe people and personal reminiscences, educational tales, and humorous anecdotes. Treuer''s translations of these stories preserve the speakers'' personalities, allowing their voices to emerge from the page. Treuer introduces each speaker, offering a brief biography and noting important details concerning dialect or themes; he then allows the stories to speak for themselves. This dual-language text will prove instructive for those interested in Ojibwe language and culture, while the stories themselves offer the gift of a living language and the history of a people.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2474'),
(6748, 'Locked On', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tom Clancy''s All-Star lineup is back. Jack Ryan, his son, Jack Jr., John Clark Ding Chavez and the rest of the Campus team are facing their greatest challenge ever. Jack Ryan, Sr. has made a momentous choice. He''s running for President of the United States again and thus giving up a peaceful retirement to help his country in its darkest hour. But he doesn''t anticipate the treachery of his opponent, who uses trumped up charges to attack one of Ryan''s closest comrades, John Clark. Now, Clark is in a race against time and must travel the world, staying one step ahead of his adversaries, including a shadowy organization tasked to bring him in, all while trying to find who is behind this. Meanwhile, Jack Ryan, Jr., Ding Chavez, Dominick Caruso and other members of the Campus-the top secret off-the-books intelligence agency founded by Jack Ryan during his first term in the White House-deal with a question of their own: Why is a Pakistani military officer meeting with Dagestani terrorists? The answer will ultimately lead to a desperate struggle, with nothing short of the fate of the world at stake.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2941'),
(6749, 'The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street', 'Charles Nicholl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminsterand it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. In The Lodger Shakespeare, Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but little-known episode in the Bards life. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of sources, Nicholl creates a compellingly detailed account of the circumstances in which Shakespeare lived and worked amid the bustle of early seventeenth-century London. This elegant, often unexpected exploration presents a new and original look at Shakespeare as he was writing such masterpieces as Othello, Measure for Measure, and King Lear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2276'),
(6750, 'Loitering With Intent', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The newest addition to the *New York Times*- bestselling Stone Barrington series.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dumped by his glamorous Russian girlfriend during dinner at Elaine''s, and running low on cash, Stone Barrington is having a bad week. So his luck seems to be improving when he''s hired to locate the missing son of a very wealthy man-lucky because the job pays well, and because the son is hiding in the tropical paradise of Key West. But when Stone and his sometime running buddy Dino Bacchetti arrive in the sunny Keys, it appears that someone has been lying in wait. When Stone very nearly loses his life after being blindsided at a local bar, he realizes that the young man he''s been hired to track may have good reason for not wanting to be found. Suddenly Key West is looking less like Margaritaville and more like the mean streets of New York. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2644'),
(6751, 'London Bridges', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A bomb goes off in a small town in the west of America and FBI agent Alex Cross is summoned in to help investigate. Calls from an anonymous villain do little to explain the violence as reports come in of similar bombings across the globe.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/317'),
(6752, 'London: A Biography', 'Peter Ackroyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here are two thousand years of London''s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar''s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all times of day and night, and in allkinds of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, keen observations, and the words of hundreds of its citizens and visitors, Ackroyd reveals the ingenuity and grit and vitality of London. Through a unique thematic tour of thephysical city and its inimitable soul, the city comes alive. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2477'),
(6753, 'Lone Eagle', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Danielle Steel''s fifty-first bestselling novel tells the story of an extraordinary man, the woman who loved him, and a bond so powerful it could never be broken. It is about finding the courage to let someone you love fly free....The phone call came on a snowy December afternoon. Kate was certain it was Joe, the brilliant, visionary man who had been her soulmate, her driving force since the night they met, almost thirty-four years before. What she got was the one call she had never wanted, and didn''t expect. As the snow continued to fall, Kate''s mind drifted back, to the moment when she and Joe first met. She had been just seventeen and he was young, powerful, dazzling, and different from any man she''d ever known.It was just days before Christmas, 1940. The war is raging in Europe when Kate Jamison makes her debut in New York City. In a room filled with the scions of East Coast society and the leading political figures of the day, it is Joe Allbright who catches Kate''s eye. At twenty-nine, Joe is the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, and already a legend in flying circles for his record-breaking speed and state-of-the-art airplane designs. All Kate sees is a tall, strikingly handsome man who seems at once awkward and larger-than-life, like a shining star -- just out of reach. Joe, too, is caught off balance by his response to Kate, seeing in this beautiful young woman vitality and youth, the lifelong soulmate he never expected to find. As the months pass, they will meet again, forging a bond that will set the course of both their lives. Kate will go off to study at Radcliffe. Joe will skyrocket to fame in modern aviation. Joe''s planes are his life, his passion. But irresistibly drawn to her, like moth to flame, he always comes back to Kate. Even after the long, dark years of World War II, when Kate was sure she had finally lost him completely, Joe returns. Never willing to stay, always needing to fly away. As planes are for him, Joe is the passion in her life.When the war is over, at twenty-four Kate wants marriage and a family. Joe wants the world, his limitless horizons, and the unique aviation empire he is building. Unwilling to wait any longer, Kate moves on with her life. But when a chance encounter brings them together again, the time has finally come to make a choice, one that will have profound consequences for them both for the rest of their lives.Against a vivid backdrop of war and thrilling innovation, Danielle Steel breathes life into history, weaving an intensely human story that spans three decades, of two intensely different people who, in spite of themselves, are irrevocably woven into the fabric of each other''s lives. With rare insight and emotional power, she brings to life a tale of unconditional love, sacrifice, and compromise--the joining of two remarkable halves into a single, far more powerful whole. It is a novel of extraordinary grace and compassion from a master storyteller, perhaps the best story she has told.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1219'),
(6754, 'Lone Wolf', 'Linwood Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Newspaper writer, family man, and reluctant hero Zack Walker has stumbled onto some dicey stories before, but nothing like what heâ€™s about to uncover when a mutilated corpse is found at his fatherâ€™s lakeside fishing camp. As always, Zack fears the worst. And this time, his paranoid worldview is dead-on.While the locals attribute the death to a bear attack, Zack suspects something far more ominousâ€”a predator whose weapons include arson, assault, and enough wacko beliefs to fuel a dozen hate groups. Then another body is discovered and a large supply of fertilizer goes missing, evoking memories of the Oklahoma City bombing. But itâ€™s when he learns that his neighbor is a classic Lone Wolfâ€”FBI parlance for a solo fanatic hell-bent on using high body counts to make political statementsâ€”that Zack realizes the idyllic town of his childhood is under siege. The fuse is lit to a catastrophe of unimaginable terror. And with time running out, Zack must face off with a madman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3159'),
(6755, 'The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The British author of the Hitchhiker trilogy and other immensely popular lunacies, Adams permits no whiff of common sense to spoil his new novel, which combines fantasy, hilarity and creeping horrors," remarked PW . Here, sleuth Dirk Gently investigates a lawyer and an advertiser who possess the soul of the god Odin. "The plot''s ramifications are marvelous, bloody and irresistible."\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a passenger check-in desk at London''s Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently? What god would be hanging around Heathrow trying to catch the 3:37 to Oslo? And what has this to do with Dirk''s latest--and late-- client, found only this morning with his head revolving atop the hit record "Hot Potato"? Amid the hostile attentions of a stray eagle and the trauma of a very dirty refrigerator, super-sleuth Dirk Gently will once again solve the mysteries of the universe...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1040'),
(6756, 'Long Lost', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Long Lost is a novel by American writer Harlan Coben. It is the ninth novel in his series of a crime solver and sports agent named Myron Bolitar. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot | Characters\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Myron Bolitar takes on international terrorists in bestseller Coben''s fast-paced ninth thriller to feature the sports and entertainment agent (after\n  <em>\n   Promise Me\n  </em>\n  ). With his romantic relationship with 9/11 widow Ali Wilder on the rocks, Myron is free at a moment''s notice to accept the invitation of his former lover, Terese Collins, a TV newswoman who dropped out of his life years earlier, to join her in Paris. There Terese tells Myron her investigative reporter ex-husband, Rick, whom Myron never knew about, recently got back in touch with her and hinted at an earthshaking revelation. Rick''s murder plunges Bolitar into a frenzied, often violent chase across Europe in an effort to learn Rick''s secret. Aided by his upper-class sidekick and bodyguard, Win, Bolitar builds up an impressive body count as he attempts to prove he didn''t kill Rickâ€”and foil a terrorist plot that''s as imaginative as it is preposterous. Bolitar fans will cheer their hero every step of the way.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/439'),
(6757, 'A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead', 'Dennis McNally', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicistâ€“a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960sâ€™ counterculture.From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever grace American culture. The creative synchronicity among Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Ron â€œPigpenâ€ McKernan exploded out of the artistic ferment of the early sixtiesâ€™ roots and folk scene, providing the soundtrack for the Dionysian revels of the counterculture. To those in the know, the Dead was an ongoing tour de force: a band whose constant commitment to exploring new realms lay at the center of a thirty-year journey through an ever-shifting array of musical, cultural, and mental landscapes.Dennis McNally, the bandâ€™s historian and publicist for more than twenty years, takes readers back through the Deadâ€™s history in A Long Strange Trip. In a kaleidoscopic narrative, McNally not only chronicles their experiences in a fascinatingly detailed fashion, but veers off into side trips on the bandâ€™s intricate stage setup, the magic of the Grateful Dead concert experience, or metaphysical musings excerpted from a conversation among band members. He brings to vivid life the Deadâ€™s early days in late-sixties San Franciscoâ€“an era of astounding creativity and change that reverberates to this day. Here we see the group at its most raw and powerful, playing as the house band at Ken Keseyâ€™s acid tests, mingling with such legendary psychonauts as Neal Cassady and Owsley â€œBearâ€ Stanley, and performing the alchemical experiments, both live and in the studio, that produced some of their most searing and evocative music. But McNally carries the Deadâ€™s saga through the seventies and into the more recent years of constant touring and incessant musical exploration, which have cemented a unique bond between performers and audience, and created the business enterprise that is much more a family than a corporation.Written with the same zeal and spirit that the Grateful Dead brought to its music for more than thirty years, the book takes readers on a personal tour through the bandâ€™s inner circle, highlighting its frenetic and very human faces. A Long Strange Trip is not only a wide-ranging cultural history, it is a definitive musical biography.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3936'),
(6758, 'Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela', 'Nelson Mandela', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Long Walk to Freedom is a brilliant autobiography of Nelson Mandela, capturing his generosity, patience and fortitude as he relentlessly fought against the inhuman system of apartheid. Providing a riveting insider''s view into the political cauldron that is South Africa, Mandela''s memoirs highlight his historic achievement in 1990 when he walked out of jail to liberty and leadership.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1944'),
(6759, 'The Long Walk', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ray Garraty--along with 99 other teen boys--has entered the Long Walk, a grueling march at four miles per hour that continues until only one person is standing. The losers receive bullets to the head. As the march progresses, the numbers dwindle, the challenges of continued marching increase, and the senselessness wears on the participants'' state of mind. King (writing as his alter ego, Richard Bachman) delivers another psychologically dark tale with commentary on society, teenage life, and cultural entertainment that is still poignant decades after its original publication. Kirby Heyborne''s skills shine in the narrative passages, which he executes with a good mixture of rhythm and emphasis. Heyborne''s light and youthful-sounding voice exudes the needed attitude of the mostly male adolescent characters. However, some of his character voices for the teens feel created just for the sole purpose of clearly distinguishing them, rather than matching voice organically to personality. His female voices lack substance, but since there are so few of them, listeners will not be too distracted. A Signet paperback.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A master storyteller. (\n  <em>\n   Houston Chronicle\n  </em>\n  ) An illusionist extraordinaire. (\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/903');
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(6760, 'A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier', 'Ishmael Beah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n My new friends have begun to suspect I havenâ€™t told them the full story of my life.â€œWhy did you leave Sierra Leone?â€â€œBecause there is a war.â€â€œYou mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?â€â€œYes, all the time.â€â€œCool.â€I smile a little.â€œYou should tell us about it sometime.â€â€œYes, sometime.â€This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, heâ€™d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.Â This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty. Ishmael BeahÂ was born in Sierra Leone in 1980. He movedÂ to the United States in 1998 and finished his last two years of high school at the United Nations International School in New York and then graduated from Oberlin College in 2004. He is a member of Human Rights Watch Children''s Division Advisory Committee and has spoken before the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities (CETO) at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, and many other NGO panels on children affected by war. He has also spoken before the United Nations on several occasions. His work has appeared in VespertinePress and LIT magazine. He lives in New York City. A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Time Magazine Best Book of the YearA Newsweek Favorite Book of the YearA Quill Book Award FinalistA Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the YearA YALSA Best Book for Young AdultsWinner of the Alex AwardÂ My new friends have begun to suspect I haven''t told them the full story of my life."Why did you leave Sierra Leone?""Because there is a war.""You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?""Yes, all the time.""Cool."I smile a little."You should tell us about it sometime.""Yes, sometime."Â This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become the soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he had been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at his rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himself, to regain his humanity, and finally, to heal. Â Also available on CD as an unabridged audiobook, read by the author.Â  Please email academic@macmillan.com for more information. "What is it about African wars that is so disturbing? Why do they unsettle us so? . . . The great benefit of Ishmael Beah''s memoir, A Long Way Gone, is that it may help us arrive at an understanding of this situation. Beah''s autobiography is almost unique, as far as I can determineâ€”perhaps the first time that a child soldier has been able to give literary voice to one of the most distressing phenomena of the late 20th century: the rise of the pubescent (or even prepubescent) warrior-killer . . . A Long Way Gone is his first, remarkable book . . . Beah''s memoir joins an elite class of writing: Africans witnessing African wars . . . A Long Way Gone makes you wonder how anyone comes through such unrelenting ghastliness and horror with his humanity and sanity intact. Unusually, the smiling, open face of the author on the book jacket provides welcome and timely reassurance. Ishmael Beah seems to prove it can happen."â€”William Boyd, The New York Times Book Review "What is it about African wars that is so disturbing? Why do they unsettle us so? . . . The great benefit of Ishmael Beah''s memoir, A Long Way Gone, is that it may help us arrive at an understanding of this situation. Beah''s autobiography is almost unique, as far as I can determineâ€”perhaps the first time that a child soldier has been able to give literary voice to one of the most distressing phenomena of the late 20th century: the rise of the pubescent (or even prepubescent) warrior-killer . . . A Long Way Gone is his first, remarkable book . . . Beah''s memoir joins an elite class of writing: Africans witnessing African wars . . . A Long Way Gone makes you wonder how anyone comes through such unrelenting ghastliness and horror with his humanity and sanity intact. Unusually, the smiling, open face of the author on the book jacket provides welcome and timely reassurance. Ishmael Beah seems to prove it can happen."â€”William Boyd, The New York Times Book ReviewÂ "Everyone in the world should read this book. Not just because it contains an amazing story, or because it''s our moral, bleeding-heart duty, or because it''s clearly written. We should read it to learn about the world and about what it means to be human . . . I don''t think it''s possible to ''understand'' this book. A Long Way Gone says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore. Humans can be murderous, and that doesn''t pertain in any way to religion or politics or ideology. These boys, on either side, didn''t have the foggiest idea of the reasons for their war. The proselytizers, colonists, foreign entrepreneurs, politicians, even cheesy moviemakers all played a part in itâ€”committing murder by proxy. The murder itself is ubiquitous. The faint good news in these pages is that if we''re lucky, very lucky, we may be able to sneak out of this life without being either murderer or victim. But it''s nothing to count on."â€”Carolyn See, The Washington Post Book WorldÂ "[Beah''s] honesty is exacting, and a testament to the ability of children ''to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.''"â€”The New YorkerÂ "What Beah saw and did during [the war] has haunted him ever since, and if you read his stunning and unflinching memoir, you''ll be haunted, too . . . It would have been enough if Ishmael Beah had merely survived the horrors described in A Long Way Gone. That he has written this unforgettable firsthand account of his odyssey is harder still to grasp. Those seeking to understand the human consequences of war, its brutal and brutalizing costs, would be wise to reflect on Ishmael Beah''s story."â€”Chuck Leddy, The Philadelphia InquirerÂ "Beah''s is a story of loss and redemptionâ€”from orphan to fighter to international participant in human-rights conferences on child soldiers. While his account of loss is painful to read . . . it is his account of rehabilitation that most occupies the reader''s mindâ€”how these children who become addicted to drugs and violence are able to re-enter the world of civil society."â€”Jeff Rice, Chicago TribuneÂ "Mr. Beah, now 26, speaks in a distinctive voice, and he tells an important story. Hundreds of thousands of child soldiers fight in dozens of nasty conflicts in Africa and elsewhere, and while journalists and the occasional novelist may write about them, A Long Way Gone is a first-person account."â€”John Corry, The Wall Street JournalÂ "Beah''s story is a wrenching survivor''s tale, but there''s no self-pity or political digression to be found. Raw and honest, A Long Way Gone is an important account of the ravages of war, and it''s most disturbing as a reminder of how easy it would be for any of us to break, to become unrecognizable in such extreme circumstances . . . Beah''s uncompromising voice is a potent elegy for their suffering, a powerful reminder of the innocent casualties of war."â€”The Miami HeraldÂ "Beah tells his amazing and agonizing story in a new memoir, A Long Way Gone. It is a story that pulls no punches as it describes a depravity that, until recently, has gone largely unnoticed . . . If you can read A Long Way Gone without being touched somewhere deep inside, you might need to think about changing the ice water in your veins."â€”The Denver PostÂ "With a clear eye and a steady cadence, [Beah] recounts how civil war punctured his rural boyhood and mutated him into a 13-year-old killer. Despite the carnage, few readers will be able to look away . . . Unlike Beasts of No Nation, last year''s acclaimed novel about child soldiers, Beah''s book stands on the power of witness. At the United Nations, he tells us, ''I had a speech that had been written for me in Freetown, but I decided to speak from my heart, instead.'' So he has. And every reader of A Long Way Gone will be appalled and grateful."â€”The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)Â "That Beah survived at all, let alone survived with any capacity for hope and joy at all, is stunning, and testament to incredible courageâ€”both his and that of the millions of men and women who fight against wars with eerie grace and grim patience. That Beah could then craft a memoir like this, in his second language no less, is astounding and even thrilling, for A Long Way Gone is a taut prose arrow against the twisted lies of wars. Whatever excuses and defenses and rationalizations we offer for war, whenever we say that war is any sort of rational act, Beah''s voice is now forever raised to call war what it is: madness."â€”The Oregonian (Portland) Â "Beah writes to recount, not to relive the ghastly memories, or to shock or guilt-trip his readers. His language is simple and his tone somewhat detached, as though to delimit the frightening reach of that world. Often, he relies on the distanced perspective of a storyteller. But when Beah is finally approached about the possibility of serving as a spokesperson on the issue of child soldiers, he knows exactly what he wants to tell the world: ''"We can be rehabilitated," I would emphasize, and point to myself as an example. I would always tell people that I believe children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance." Others may make the same assertions, but Beah has the advantage of stating them in the first person. That makes A Long Way Gone all the more gripping."â€”Carol Huang, The Christian Science MonitorÂ â€œBeah is an eloquent writer who paints clear and poignant pictures of each circumstances he encountered on his journey as a boy who went from fearing the violence of the civil war in his country at age 12 too reveling in the torture of other human beings after being recruited by the government army at age 13 . . . Beahâ€™s memoir is a must-read for anyone who wants an education in the psychological impact of war on children.â€â€”Anita Jackson-Hall, US Catholic Â â€œA Long Way Gone, Beahâ€™s harrowing account of the civil war in his native Sierra Leone, provides the fullest picture of just how inexorable the plunge into war is for many children . . . If Beahâ€™s memoir depicts how easily children are lured into combat, it also examines how difficult it is for them to emerge from it.â€â€”Fatin Abbas, The NationÂ  "Ishmael Beah knows that former child soldiers in war-ravaged African countries can reclaim their lives because thatâ€™s just what he did. In 1993, rebels in Sierra Leone killed 13-year-old Beahâ€™s parents and two brothers, forcing him to join their bloody campaign for two years. Upon his release, he stayed at a rehabilitation center for six months with other formerly abducted children. Beah now lives in the United States, and he wrote a 2007 book about his transition from child soldier to college graduate. His inspiring story illustrates the resilience of children forced into committing unthinkable acts, especially if they receive treatment that blends with their cultures, as well as acceptance back into their home communities."â€”Bruce Bower, Science NewsÂ "A fascinating theme in A Long Way Gone is the cultural mishmash that informs Beah''s memories. Readers even vaguely familiar with hip-hop and reggae will be both amused and shocked by the ways they shaped the author''s vision of war . . . Amid the war''s blood, filth and hunger, Beah also inserts . . . powerful fragments of traditional African folklore. His willingness to share the comfort that things like tall tales, the face of the moon, or the smell of traditional foods bring him is sobering. It is also evident how painful it is to record them . . . Scenes the author witnessed and participated in are described in gruesome detail . . . In place of a text that has every right to be a diatribe against Sierra Leone, globalization or even himself, Beah has produced a book of such self-effacing humanity that refugees, political fronts and even death squads resolve themselves back into the faces of mothers, father and siblings. A Long Way Gone transports us into the lives of thousands of children whose lives have been altered by war, and it does so with a genuine and disarmingly emotional force."â€”Richard Thompson, The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)Â "Terrifying, often graphic in portraying the violence he both witnessed and carried out as a barely adolescent soldier in Sierra Leone, 26-year-old Beah''s story is also deeply moving, even uplifting . . . Reports about child soldiers and the crises in Africa proliferate, but Beah''s story, with its clear-eyed reporting and literate particularityâ€”whether he''s dancing to rap, eating a coconut or running toward the burning village where his family is trappedâ€”demands to be read."â€”PeopleÂ "Beah''s memoir, A Long Way Gone, is unforgettable testimony that Africa''s childrenâ€”millions of them dying and orphaned by preventable diseases, hundreds of thousands of them forced into battleâ€”have eyes to see and voices to tell what has happened. And what voices! How is it possible that 26-year-old Beah, a nonnative English speaker, separated from his family at age 12, taught to maim and to kill at 13, can sound such notes of family happiness, of friendship under duress, of quiet horror? No outsider could have written this book, and it''s hard to imagine that many insiders could do so with such acute vision, stark language, and tenderness. It is a heart-rending achievement."â€”Melissa Fay Greene, ElleÂ â€œMost of A Long Way Gone describes Ishmaelâ€™s life before and after he is forced to fight. He takes only 25 pages to describe the horrors and habits of his life as a guerilla. This brevity and the relative lack of interior dialogue or emotion throughout the book are as telling as the narrative. It is astounding that Ishmael survived at all, let alone that he is able to remember, sane enough to recount his experiences, and intelligent enough to do so in a foreign tongue, English. The sparse prose gives the sense that he wrote this memoir as much to mark his passage out of hell, in case he should again have to wonder there, as he did to enlighten us.â€â€”Lucas Lund, HippoÂ "A beautifully written book about a shocking war and the children who were forced to fight it. Beah describes the unthinkable in calm, unforgettable language; his memoir is an important testament to the children elsewhere who continue to be conscripted into armies and militias."â€”Steve Coll, author of Ghost WarsÂ "One of the most important war stories of our generation. The arming of children is among the greatest evils of the modern world, and yet we know so little about it because the children themselves are swallowed up by the very wars they are forced to wage. Beah has not only emerged intact from this chaos, he has become one of its most eloquent chroniclers."â€”Sebastian Junger, author of A Death in Belmont and A Perfect StormÂ "This is a wrenching, beautiful, and mesmerizing tale. Beah''s amazing saga provides a haunting lesson about how gentle folks can be capable of great brutalities as well goodness and courage. It will leave you breathless."â€”Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American LifeÂ "To emerge from Sierra Leone''s malignant civil conflict and eventually graduate from college in the U.S. marks Beah as very unusual, if not unique. His memoir seeks to illuminate the process that created, and continues to create, one of the most pitiable yet universally feared products of modern warfare: the boy soldier. It illustrates how, in African nations under the stress of open civil war, youthful males cluster in packs for self-protection, fleeing the military forces of all sides, distrusted and persecuted by strangers they encounter, until they are killed or commandeered as recruits. Nearly half the text deals with Beah''s life as a fugitive after marauding rebel troops ravaged his home village. He fled with several other boys, but they were separated during another attack and he was forced to spend several weeks alone in the bush; the loneliness there instilled a craving for human companionship of any type. The regular military finally snared Beah and some new companions, telling them they must train as soldiers or die. The rebels, they were assured, were responsible for killing their families and destroying their homes; as soldiers, they would exact manly revenge and serve the nation. Cocaine, marijuana and painkillers became the boys'' mind-numbing daily diet. They were indoctrinated by practicing mayhem on tethered prisoners and became willing experts at lying in ambush with their aging AK-47 rifles. For them, killing human beings had replaced ordinary child''s play . . . [A] halting narrative . . . [that is] hideously effective in conveying the essential horror of his experiences."â€”Kirkus ReviewsÂ "Rarely does one encounter anything but outrage, sadness, and pain when reading about the exploitation of child soldiers, but Beah''s account also offers hope, humanity, bravery, and, yes, peace . . . The brutality of war is brought out early in this narrative, and just to have survived is amazing. Beah writes with frankness and honesty about his experiences but also with other people in mind; his account of the healing process after the horrors he saw is remarkable. His book [is] especially relevant in today''s world."â€”Library JournalÂ "This remarkable firsthand account shows how civil strife destroys lives . . . The horrors [Ishmael Beah] saw or perpetrated still haunt him and will be difficult for the reader to forget . . . Beah writes his story with painful honesty, horrifying detail, and touches of remarkable lyricism. This young writers has a bright future . . . As children fight on in dreadful wars around the globe, Beah''s story is a must."â€”Rayna Patton, VOYAÂ "Gripping . . . Told in a conversational, accessible style, this powerful record of war ends as a beacon to all teens by showing them that there are other ways to survive than by adding to the chaos."â€”Matthew L. Moffett, Pohick Regional Library, Burke, Virginia, School Library JournalÂ "This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone''s civil war goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare . . . Told in clear, accessible language by a young writer with a gifted literary voice, this memoir seems destined to become a classic firsthand account of war and the ongoing plight of child soldiers in conflicts worldwide."â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2197'),
(6761, 'Look Again', 'Lisa Scottoline', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n High-octane thriller from New York Times top ten bestseller writer. Ellen is a single mother, and a feature writer for a local Philadelphia newspaper, recently taken over by a new hot editor, Marcelo, who though gorgeous, has not been short in letting staff go. Ellen knows that, like others, her job may be on the line, and she is more vulnerable than most, for she has a three-year old adopted son, Will, who is the love of her life. As she goes to collect her post one morning, she picks up a Missing Child card, and is struck by the uncanny resemblance between Will and the little boy, Timothy Braverman, who was kidnapped from his home in Miami two years ago. Timothy''s parents have a website for their child, and the story is grim: not only was Timothy kidnapped, but his childminder was killed. The ransom was paid, the child never returned to his home. For Ellen, the story is heartfelt: she first got to know Timothy as a small baby, when he was in hospital undergoing heart surgery; his adoption was hard won. As she searches further, something niggles at Ellen, and she begins to delve into the story of Will''s birth mother, and uncover a horrendous story that, as the novel goes on, has far-reaching consequences...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3687'),
(6762, 'The Looming Tower', 'Lawrence Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Wright, a\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n writer, brings exhaustive research and delightful prose to one of the best books yet on the history of terrorism. He begins with the observation that, despite an impressive record of terror and assassination, postâ€“WWarII, Islamic militants failed to establish theocracies in any Arab country. Many helped Afghanistan resist the Russian invasion of 1979 before their unemployed warriors stepped up efforts at home. Al-Qaeda, formed in Afghanistan in 1988 and led by Osama bin Laden, pursued a different agenda, blaming America for Islam''s problems. Less wealthy than believed, bin Laden''s talents lay in organization and PR, Wright asserts. Ten years later, bin Laden blew up U.S. embassies in Africa and the destroyer\n <em>\n  Cole\n </em>\n , opening the floodgates of money and recruits. Wright''s step-by-step description of these attacks reveals that planning terror is a sloppy business, leaving a trail of clues that, in the case of 9/11, raised many suspicions among individuals in the FBI, CIA and NSA. Wright shows that 9/11 could have been prevented if those agencies had worked together. As a fugitive, bin Ladin''s days as a terror mastermind may be past, but his success has spawned swarms of imitators. This is an important, gripping and profoundly disheartening book.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n _The Looming Tower\n <em>\n  may be the most riveting, informative, and "heart-stopping account" yet of the men who shaped 9/11 (\n </em>\n New York Times Book Review_). The focus on individuals gives the book its emotional punch, but it is also a narrative bold in conception and historical sweep. Lawrence Wright conducted more than 500 interviews, from bin Laden''s best friend in college to Richard A. Clarke, Saudi royalty, Afghan mujahideen, and reporters for\n <em>\n  Al Jazeera\n </em>\n . The result, while evenhanded in its analysis of the complex motives, ideals, and power plays that led to 9/11, leaves few nefarious details uncovered. An abrupt ending did little to sway critics that _Looming Tower\n <em>\n  is nothing less than "indispensable" reading (\n </em>\n Cleveland Plain Dealer_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2278'),
(6763, 'Lord of Misrule', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the college town of Morganville, Texas, vampires and humans coexist in harmony until the arrival of a master vampire, forcing Claire Danvers and her friends to prepare for battle against both natural and unnatural elements. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3165'),
(6764, 'Lord of the Flies', 'William Golding', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  William Golding''s classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph''s chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island''s wild pig population. Soon Ralph''s rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding''s gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition.\n  <em>\n   --Jennifer Hubert\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Harold Bloom is the world''s leading Literary critic" - The Times 28.11.00" --Review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1073'),
(6765, 'The Lord of the Rings', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Christian can almost be forgiven for not reading the Bible, but there''s no salvation for a fantasy fan who hasn''t read the gospel of the genre, J.R.R. Tolkien''s definitive three-book epic, the Lord of the Rings (encompassing\n  <em>\n   The Fellowship of the Ring\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Two Towers\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Return of the King\n  </em>\n  ), and its charming precursor,\n  <em>\n   The Hobbit\n  </em>\n  . That many (if not most) fantasy works are in some way derivative of Tolkien is understood, but the influence of the Lord of the Rings is so universal that everybody from George Lucas to Led Zeppelin has appropriated it for one purpose or another.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not just revolutionary because it was groundbreaking, the Lord of the Rings is timeless because it''s the product of a truly top-shelf mind. Tolkien was a distinguished linguist and Oxford scholar of dead languages, with strong ideas about the importance of myth and story and a deep appreciation of nature. His epic, 10 years in the making, recounts the Great War of the Ring and the closing of Middle-Earth''s Third Age, a time when magic begins to fade from the world and men rise to dominance. Tolkien carefully details this transition with tremendous skill and love, creating in the Lord of the Rings a universal and all-embracing tale, a justly celebrated classic.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The official movie tie-in volume with cover art of a Nazg?l perched upon its black steed offers the complete story in a single volume, as the author intended.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1089'),
(6766, 'Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy', 'John R. Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Historian and archeologist Hale brings both skill sets to bear in this account of an Athens whose golden age and democratic institutions depended on its navy. Between 489 and 322 B.C., Athens built, ruled and lost an empire extending from the Aegean to the Black Sea. The sea permeated every sphere of Athenian life, and most well-known Athenians were identified with sea power: Thucydides and Sophocles commanded fleets. The fleets were based on triremes, reflecting a doctrine favoring the craft and cunning of the steersman and rowers over brute force. Those skills were a product of the commitment and cooperation of free men who played an increasing role in Athenian politics at the expense of those better off and higher born. In times of crisis, all free adult males were expected to board the triremes. Athens''s rule of the sea came to an end when a cabal of aristocrats betrayed the fleet to the Macedonians. And that was possible only because the mysterious spiritual essence sustaining Athenian effort and sacrifice had been lost as well.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hale has enjoyed a career as an archaeologist, including underwater searches for ancient warships. Here he examines the origins, growth, and campaigns of the great Athenian fleet, which helped make Athens the most powerful polis in Greece for most of the fifth century BC. After the defeat of the Persian army at Marathon in 490 BC., the Archon Themistocles urged his fellow citizens to build a large fleet to counter further Persian invasions. Financed by the windfall of silver from the nearby mines at Laurium, the Athenians soon constructed a fleet of over 300 triremes, the most advanced naval vessels in the eastern Mediterranean. Athenian naval supremacy held the Persians at bay and formed the basis for the Delian League, used by Athens to build a maritime empire. Hale follows the campaigns of the fleet through the Peloponnesian War and the supremacy of the Macedonians under Alexander the Great. His efforts to link Athenian naval growth to the growth of democratic institutions will be disputed by many historians. Still, this is a well-written, stirring chronicle. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2478'),
(6767, 'Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner&#39;s Daughter', 'Loretta Lynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The Queen of country music." --_The New York Times_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Loretta Lynnâ€™s classic memoir tells the story of her early life in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and her amazing rise to the top of the music industry.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Born into deep poverty, married at thirteen, mother of six, and a grandmother by the time she was twenty-nine, Loretta Lynn went on to become one of the most prolific and influential songwriters and singers in modern country music. Here we see the determination and talent that led to her trailblazing career and made her the first woman to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association and the first woman to receive a gold record in country music.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2148'),
(6768, 'The Loss of the Titanic', 'Lawrence Beesley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The history of the R.M.S. Titanic, of the White Star Line, is one of the most tragically short it is possible to conceive. The world had waited expectantly for its launching and again for its sailing; had read accounts of its tremendous size and its unexampled completeness and luxury; had felt it a matter of the greatest satisfaction that such a comfortable, and above all such a safe boat had been designed and built - the unsinkable lifeboat; - and then in a moment to hear that it had gone to the bottom as if it had been the veriest tramp steamer of a few hundred tons; and with it fifteen hundred passengers, some of them known the world over! The improbability of such a thing ever happening was what staggered humanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2282'),
(6769, 'Lost', 'Gregory Maguire', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before he broke onto the adult bestseller lists with his irreverent interpretations of the Cinderella story (Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister) and the Wizard of Oz (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West), Maguire wrote children''s books with titles like Six Haunted Hairdos, Seven Spiders Spinning and Four Stupid Cupids. His latest is a virtual literary paella of adult and children''s fantasies: Jack the Ripper, A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Exorcist even a wafting glimpse of Dracula. The result is a deftly written, compulsively readable modern-day ghost story that easily elicits suspension of disbelief. American writer Winifred Rudge, whose mass market book about astrology has been far more successful than her fiction, is in London to research a novel linking Jack the Ripper to the house in Hampstead where her own great-great-grandfather rumored to be the model for Ebenezer Scrooge lived. But as Winifred discovers, there is no evidence that the Ripper ever visited Hampstead, let alone buried one of his victims inside the chimney of a house there, and his presence in the story is a red herring. Much more interesting is the mysterious disappearance of Winnie''s cousin, John Comestor, the latest resident of the family house. Moreover, something is making an infernal racket inside the chimney, and soon there are other bizarre manifestations of some unseen force. A Dickensian assortment of neighbors (one dotty lady is called Mrs. Maddingly) variously obfuscate and hint at strange events. Maguire''s prose is both jaunty and scary; he knows how to mix spooky ingredients with contemporary situations. By the time a spirit called Gervasa begins to speak through Winnie, readers will be hooked.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Children''s novelist Winifred Rudge flies from her Boston-area home to London to pay a visit to her distant cousin and old friend John. Instead of receiving his guest open-armed, John is nowhere to be found. His office staff is evasive in fielding Winnie''s calls, and Mac and Jenkins, a pair of superstitious home remodelers hired by John to work on the kitchen in his absence, begin behaving strangely, as eerie symbols appear on the wall and inexplicable noises issue from the walled-up chimney space. That Winnie is not alone in her victimization by an otherworldly spirit is a good sign she''s not having a breakdown. Maguire, who already has two best sellers to his credit (e.g., Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister) makes the supernatural chillingly real. Setting the story in Winnie and John''s ancestral home and filling the neighboring house with John''s intimidating new inamorata, Allegra, makes us root for the self-destructive Winnie, a most unlikely heroine. An essential purchase and a substantial Halloween treat. Margee Smith, Grace A. Dow Memorial Lib., Midland, MI\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1339'),
(6770, 'Lost and Found in Russia: Encounters in the Deep Heartland', 'Susan Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''A work of great thoughtfulness and enterprise, it sheds a uniquely intimate light behind the facade of the new Russia.'' - Colin Thubron;''A uniquely personal chronicle, and a testament to friendship. Susan Richards''s political fact-finding is set ablaze by her intimacy with the discomforts and dangers of life in these remote regions, where the magic of the natural world challenges urban degradation, and where physical deprivation coexists with a richness of belief-systems as strange as the mountains of the moon.'' - Victoria Glendinning;''Susan Richards has long been one of the very best writers on Russia. Her new book is a remarkable blend of travel and reflection, as she introduces us to the vivid gallery of people she meets in the provinces. The result is a brilliant, poignant evocation of a society in transition.'' - Robert Service;''Once again, Susan Richards gives a rare and wonderful evocation of ordinary lives in Russia. People fall in love, fall ill, make money, lose money; some are nobly defeated, some shamelessly successful. Each one tells us more about the lethal tides of recent Russian history than years of newspaper reports.'' - Philip Marsden;''Russia exerts a peculiar pull for English travellers...Susan Richards''s version shines because she knows her subjects very well. These are stories of friendships across the miles, not just brief encounters plundered for material...This traveller''s tale, with all the absorption and detail of the genre, is also the story of an entire country.'' - Anne McElvoy, Evening Standard;''Lost and Found in Russia is intense reading...bursting with good material...For a rich portrait of the new Russia, grab this off the shelf and skip all those biographies of Vladimir Putin.'' - Thomas de Waal, Sunday Times;''wonderful...Lost and Found in Russia is beautifully written, with arresting images on almost every page... It is a travelogue as rich and compelling as a novel'' - Lesley Chamberlain, Independent\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2480'),
(6771, 'Lost Angel', 'Mandasue Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mandasue Heller''s brilliant new novel is set in the murky world where crime is almost respectable - until passion ignites a disaster. Things start going wrong the day Johnny Conroy meets Ruth Hynes. He just wants to show his mates that he can pull hard-man Frankie Hynes'' daughter, but before he knows it he is part of the Hynes family. And the Hynes family business, which is stealing cars. And there is no way he is ever going to get out of the marriage or the business alive . . . The only good thing in their hellhole of a marriage is his daughter Angel, as nice as her name and as innocent. And the only thing keeping Johnny sane is his secret life. But then Angel grows up and meets Johnny''s new employee Ryan. He loves Angel - but the family secrets involve him, too. And they are about to explode.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3835'),
(6772, 'The Lost Art of Gratitude', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Isabel''s son, Charlie, is now of an age - eighteen months - to have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabel''s surprise, she encounters an old adversary, Minty Auchterlonie, now a high-flying financier. Minty had seemed to Isabel a woman of ruthless ambition, but the question of her integrity had never been answered. Now, when Minty takes Isabel into her confidence about a personal matter, Isabel finds herself going another round: Is Minty to be trusted? Or is she the perpetrator of an enormous financial fraud? And what should Isabel make of the rumors of shady financial transactions at Minty''s investment bank?Not that this is the only dilemma facing Isabel: she also crosses swords again with her nemesis, Professor Dove, in an argument over plagiarism. Of course her niece, Cat, has a new, problematic man (a tightrope walker!) in her life. And there remains the open question of marriage to Jamie - doting father of Charlie.As always, there is no end to the delight in accompanying Isabel as she makes her way toward the heart of every problem: philosophizing, sleuthing, and downright snooping in her inimitable - and inimitably charming - fashion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3423'),
(6773, 'The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece', 'Vernon Silver', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A pulse-pounding real-life chase for an ancient masterpiece of immeasurable value...\n</p>\n<p>\n Sotheby''s. New York City. June 19, 1990.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nothing of its kind had been sold to the public in more than a century. On a warm June evening on Manhattan''s Upper East Side, with the auction-house showroom crammed with the wealthy, the curious, and the press, history was made when an anonymous man in a green golf sweater paid an unprecedented three quarters of a million dollars to win the twenty-five-hundred-year-old chalice. After that night, this historical artifact disappeared, its whereabouts a mystery. Until now.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is among the most prized of antiquities: the Greek artist Euphronios''s wine cup depicting the death of Zeus''s son Sarpedon at Troy. Lost for more than two millennia, the chaliceâ€”one of only six of its kind found intactâ€”mysteriously surfaced in the collection of a Hollywood producer, who then sold it to a Texas billionaire. Coveted by obsessed private collectors, dealers, and museum curators, it was also of intense interest to the Italian police, who believed it belonged to their country, where it had first been dug up earlier in the twentieth century.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this breathtaking tale of history, adventure, and intrigue, archaeologist and journalist Vernon Silver pieces together the extraordinary tale of the lost cup and offers a portrait of the modern antiquities trade: a world of tomb raiders, smugglers, wealthy collectors, ambitious archaeol-ogists, rapacious dealers, corrupt curators, and international law enforcement. Spanning twenty-five hundred years, The Lost Chalice moves from the mythic battlefield of the Trojan War to the countryside of twentieth-century Tuscany, the dusty libraries of Oxford University to the exhibition halls of New York''s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the cramped law-enforcement offices of the Carabinieri to the tony rooms of New York''s auction houses to solve the mystery of the world''s rarest masterpiece.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Silver learns, the discovery of the chalice exposes another riddleâ€”and an even greater missing treasure. Epic and thrilling, The Lost Chalice is a driving true-life detective story that illuminates a big-money, high-stakes, double-dealing world, which is as fascinating as it is unforgettable. Silver''s thrilling tale opens a window onto Italian history, culture, and life rarely seen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2283'),
(6774, 'Lost City', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kurt Austin, leader of the National Underwater and Marine Agency''s Special Assignments Team, battles international evildoers again in the fifth installment of this excellent series. There are several parallel plots: a mysterious aviator has been found frozen in a massive glacier; a mutant seaweed is threatening to choke the world''s oceans; a giant submarine is roaming the thermal vents of the deep sea area known as the Lost City; and the secretive, arms-dealing Fauchard family, run by ruthless black-widow Racine and her homicidal son, Emil, is up to no good. Also there''s a mysterious 16th-century helmet, a search for the philosopher''s stone and an island of filthy, mutant cannibals. Austin''s love interest is lush, sensual Skye Labelle, an archeologist specializing in arms and armor ("She had a good body, but it would never make the cover of\n  <em>\n   Sports Illustrated\n  </em>\n  "). Kidnappings, hair''s-breadth escapes, fierce battles, strange science, beautiful women and plenty of action add up to vintage Cussler. Of course, one of the secrets of the genre is to waste no time on ancillary details: "Before long, a cigar-shaped object came into view"; "Before long, they were stepping out of the cockpit onto the deck." Readers will find that, before long, they''re racing through the pages as Austin and his band of merry men fight to stop the Fauchards from reaching the ultimate evildoer''s goal: world domination.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€“The Fauchards, successful developers and sellers of weapons, keep their place as a major power in the industry through many centuries. Kurt Austin and his crew of trained scientists and elite fighters from the National Underwater and Marine Agency begin investigating nefarious activities of the powerful Racine Fauchard and her son. Their dastardly project involves scientific experiments on humans in order to find an elixir of eternal youth. They are also leading a team of mercenaries who are melting down a massive glacier containing the remains of a Fauchard ancestor and a metal helmet on which is recorded the formula for the elixir. At the same time, the oceans of the world are under siege from a mutant strain of algae, one of the vile spin-off plots by the devilish Racine. Myriad subplots weave together until they form the ending. Along the way, the action fluctuates from a steady pace to racing forward when they intertwine. The story is set in the present, and historical events are added to help explain elements of the complex plot. Settings range from under the Atlantic Ocean to the French Alps and Greece. The Fauchards'' creepy castle, complete with dungeon and torture chamber, increases the feeling of science fiction that often accompanies Cussler''s stories. Interesting and entertaining reading.\n  <em>\n   â€“Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1228');
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(6775, 'The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon', 'David Grann', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: John Grisham Reviews *The Lost City of Z\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Since first publishing\n   <em>\n    A Time to Kill\n   </em>\n   in 1988, John Grisham has written twenty novels and one work of nonfiction,\n   <em>\n    The Innocent Man\n   </em>\n   . His second novel,\n   <em>\n    The Firm\n   </em>\n   , spent 47 weeks on the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestseller list, becoming the bestselling novel of 1991. The success of\n   <em>\n    The Pelican Brief\n   </em>\n   , which hit number one on the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestseller list, and\n   <em>\n    The Client\n   </em>\n   , which debuted at number one, confirmed Grisham''s reputation as the master of the legal thriller. His most recent novel,\n   <em>\n    The Associate\n   </em>\n   , was published in January 2009. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of\n   <em>\n    The Lost City of Z\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In April of 1925, a legendary British explorer named Percy Fawcett launched his final expedition into the depths of the Amazon in Brazil. His destination was the lost city of El Dorado, the â€œCity of Gold,â€ an ancient kingdom of great sophistication, architecture, and culture that, for some reason, had vanished. The idea of El Dorado had captivated anthropologists, adventurers, and scientists for 400 years, though there was no evidence it ever existed. Hundreds of expeditions had gone looking for it. Thousands of men had perished in the jungles searching for it. Fawcett himself had barely survived several previous expeditions and was more determined than ever to find the lost city with its streets and temples of gold.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The world was watching. Fawcett, the last of the great Victorian adventurers, was financed by the Royal Geographical Society in London, the worldâ€™s foremost repository of research gathered by explorers. Fawcett, then age 57, had proclaimed for decades his belief in the City of Z, as he had nicknamed it. His writings, speeches, and exploits had captured the imagination of millions, and reports of his last expedition were front page news.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His expeditionary force consisted of three men--himself, his 21-year-old son Jack, and one of Jackâ€™s friends. Fawcett believed that only a small group had any chance of surviving the horrors of the Amazon. He had seen large forces decimated by malaria, insects, snakes, poison darts, starvation, and insanity. He knew better. He and his two companions would travel light, carry their own supplies, eat off the land, pose no threat to the natives, and endure months of hardship in their search for the Lost City of Z.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They were never seen again. Fawcettâ€™s daily dispatches trickled to a stop. Months passed with no word. Because he had survived several similar forays into the Amazon, his family and friends considered him to be near super-human. As before, they expected Fawcett to stumble out of the jungle, bearded and emaciated and announcing some fantastic discovery. It did not happen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Over the years, the search for Fawcett became more alluring than the search for El Dorado itself. Rescue efforts, from the serious to the farcical, materialized in the years that followed, and hundreds of others lost their lives in the search. Rewards were posted. Psychics were brought in by the family. Articles and books were written. For decades the legend of Percy Fawcett refused to die.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The great mystery of what happened to Fawcett has never been solved, perhaps until now. In 2004, author David Grann discovered the story while researching another one. Soon, like hundreds before him, he became obsessed with the legend of the colorful adventurer and his baffling disappearance. Grann, a lifelong New Yorker with an admitted aversion to camping and mountain climbing, a lousy sense of direction, and an affinity for take-out food and air conditioning, soon found himself in the jungles of the Amazon. What he found there, some 80 years after Fawcettâ€™s disappearance, is a startling conclusion to this absorbing narrative.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Lost City of Z\n  </em>\n  is a riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Maki Galimberti)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Author David Grann\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  When did you first stumble upon the story of Percy Fawcett and his search for an ancient civilization in the Amazonâ€”and when did you realize this particular story had you in â€œthe gripâ€?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Grann:\n  </strong>\n  While I was researching a story on the mysterious death of the worldâ€™s greatest Sherlock Holmes expert, I came upon a reference to Fawcettâ€™s role in inspiring Arthur Conan Doyleâ€™s novel\n  <em>\n   The Lost World\n  </em>\n  . Curious, I plugged Fawcettâ€™s name into a newspaper database and was amazed by the headlines that appeared, including â€œTHREE MEN FACE CANNIBALS IN RELIC QUESTâ€ and tribesmen â€œSeize Movie Actor Seeking to Rescue Fawcett.â€ As I read each story, I became more and more curious--about how Fawcettâ€™s quest for a lost city and his disappearance had captivated the world; how for decades hundreds of scientists and explorers had tried to find evidence of Fawcettâ€™s missing party and the City of Z; and how countless seekers had disappeared or died from starvation, diseases, attacks by wild animals, or poisonous arrows. What intrigued me most, though, was the notion of Z. For years most scientists had considered the brutal conditions in the largest jungle in the world inimical to humankind, but more recently some archeologists had begun to question this longstanding view and believed that a sophisticated civilization like Z might have existed. Such a discovery would challenge virtually everything that was believed about the nature of the Amazon and what the Americas looked liked before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Suddenly, the story had every tantalizing element--mystery, obsession, death, madness--as well as great intellectual stakes. Still, I probably didnâ€™t realize I was fully in the storyâ€™s â€œgripâ€ until I told my wife that I planned to take out an extra life insurance policy and follow Fawcettâ€™s trail into the Amazon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Tell us about the discovery of Fawcettâ€™s previously unpublished diaries and logbooks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   DG:\n  </strong>\n  Researching the book often felt like a kind of treasure hunt and nothing was more exciting than coming across these materials in an old chest in the house of one of Fawcettâ€™s grandchildren. Fawcett, who had been a British spy, was extremely secretive about his search for Z--in part because he didnâ€™t want his rivals to discover the lost city before he did and in part because he feared that too many people would die if they tried to follow in his wake. These old, crumbling diaries and logbooks held incredible clues to both Fawcettâ€™s life and death; whatâ€™s more, they revealed a key to his clandestine route to the Lost City of Z.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  In an attempt to retrace Fawcettâ€™s journey, many scientists and explorers have faced madness, kidnapping, and death. Did you ever hesitate to go to the Amazon?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   DG:\n  </strong>\n  I probably should have been more hesitant, especially after reading some of the diaries of members of other parties that had scoured the Amazon for a lost city. One seeker of El Dorado described reaching a state of â€œprivation so great that we were eating nothing but leather, belts and soles of shoes, cooked with certain herbs, with the result that so great was our weakness that we could not remain standing.â€ In that expedition alone, some four thousand men perished. Other explorers resorted to cannibalism. One searcher went so mad he stabbed his own child, whispering, â€œCommend thyself to God, my daughter, for I am about to kill thee.â€ But to be honest, even after reading these accounts, I was so consumed by the story that I did not think much about the consequences--and one of the themes I try to explore in the book is the lethal nature of obsession.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  When you were separated from your guide Paolo on the way to the Kuikuro village and seemingly lost and alone in the jungle, what was going through your mind?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   DG:\n  </strong>\n  Besides fear, I kept wondering what the hell I was doing on such a mad quest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Paolo and you made a game of imagining what happened to Fawcett in the Amazon. Without giving anything away about\n  <em>\n   The Lost City of Z\n  </em>\n  , I was wondering if you came away with any final conclusions?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   DG:\n  </strong>\n  I donâ€™t want to give too much away; but, after poring over Fawcettâ€™s final letters and dispatches from the expedition and after interviewing many of the tribes that Fawcett himself had encountered, I felt as if I had come as close as possible to knowing why Fawcett and his party vanished.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  In his praise for your book, Malcolm Gladwell asks a â€œcentral question of our ageâ€: â€œIn the battle between man and a hostile environment, who wins?â€ Obviously, the jungle has won many times, but it seems man may be gaining. What are your thoughts on the deforestation taking place in the Amazon?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   DG:\n  </strong>\n  It is a great tragedy. Over the last four decades in Brazil alone, the Amazon has lost some two hundred and seventy thousand square miles of its original forest cover--an area bigger than France. Many tribes, including some I visited, are being threatened with extinction. Countless animals and plants, many of them with potential medicinal purposes, are also vanishing. One of the things that the book explores is how early Native American societies were often able to overcome their hostile environment without destroying it. Unfortunately, that has not been the case with the latest wave of trespassers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  You began this journey as a man who doesnâ€™t like to camp and has â€œa terrible sense of direction and tend[s] to forget where [you are] on the subway and miss[es] [your] stop in Brooklyn.â€ Are you now an avid outdoorsman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   DG:\n  </strong>\n  No. Once was enough for me!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Early in the book, you write, â€œEver since I was young, Iâ€™ve been drawn to mystery and adventure tales.â€ What have been some of your favorite books--past and present--that fall into this category?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   DG:\n  </strong>\n  Iâ€™m a huge Sherlock Holmes fan, and every few years go back and read the stories again. I do the same with many of Joseph Conradâ€™s novels, including\n  <em>\n   Lord Jim\n  </em>\n  . Iâ€™m always amazed at how he produced quest novels that reflected the Victorian era and yet seem to have been written with the wisdom of a historian looking back in time. As for more contemporary authors, I read a lot of crime fiction, especially the works of George Pelecanos and Michael Connelly. I also relish books, such as Jonathan Lethemâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Motherless Brooklyn\n  </em>\n  , that cleverly play with this genre. Finally, there are the gripping yarns written by authors like Jon Krakauer and Nathaniel Philbrick-â€”stories that are all the more spellbinding because they are true.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Brad Pitt and Paramount optioned\n  <em>\n   The Lost City of Z\n  </em>\n  in the spring. Any updates?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   DG:\n  </strong>\n  They have hired a screenwriter and director and seem to be moving forward at a good clip.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What are you working on now?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   DG:\n  </strong>\n  I recently finished a couple of crime stories for\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , including one about a Polish author who allegedly committed murder and then left clues about the real crime in his novel. Meanwhile, Iâ€™m hoping to find a tantalizing story, like\n  <em>\n   The Lost City of Z\n  </em>\n  , that will lead to a new book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Anything else youâ€™d like to add?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   DG:\n  </strong>\n  Just that I hope that readers will enjoy\n  <em>\n   The Lost City of Z\n  </em>\n  and find the story of Fawcett and his quest as captivating as I did.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Matt Richman)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Look Inside *The Lost City of Z\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Click on thumbnails for larger images\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Percy Harrison Fawcett was considered â€œthe last of the individualist explorersâ€â€”those who ventured into blank spots on the map with little more than a machete, a compass, and an almost divine sense of purpose. He is seen here in 1911, the year of his fourth major Amazon expedition.\n  <em>\n   (Copyright Â© R. de Montet-Guerin)\n  </em>\n  Fawcett mapping the frontier between Brazil and Bolivia in 1908.\n  <em>\n   (Courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society)\n  </em>\n  Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, Fawcettâ€™s main rival, was a multimillionaire â€œas much at home in the elegant swirl of Newport society as in the steaming jungles of Brazil.â€\n  <em>\n   (Courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society)\n  </em>\n  A member of Dr. Riceâ€™s 1919-20 expedition deploys a wireless telegraphy setâ€”an early radioâ€”allowing the party to receive news from the outside world.\n  <em>\n   (Courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In 1925, renowned British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett embarked on a much publicized search to find the city of Z, site of an ancient Amazonian civilization that may or may not have existed. Fawcett, along with his grown son Jack, never returned, but that didn''t stop countless others, including actors, college professors and well-funded explorers from venturing into the jungle to find Fawcett or the city. Among the wannabe explorers is Grann, a staff writer for the\n  <em>\n   New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , who has bad eyes and a worse sense of direction. He became interested in Fawcett while researching another story, eventually venturing into the Amazon to satisfy his all-consuming curiosity about the explorer and his fatal mission. Largely about Fawcett, the book examines the stranglehold of passion as Grann''s vigorous research mirrors Fawcett''s obsession with uncovering the mysteries of the jungle. By interweaving the great story of Fawcett with his own investigative escapades in South America and Britain, Grann provides an in-depth, captivating character study that has the relentless energy of a classic adventure tale.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1947'),
(6776, 'Lost Empire', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo, the heroes of Spartan Gold, return in the thrilling new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author  While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo discover a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship named the Shenandoah. An anomaly about the relic sets them off chasing a mystery, and a rumored second artifact-but, unknown to them, a much more powerful force is engaged in the same chase. A fast-rising Mexican political party, whose members boast direct descent from Aztec royalty, is intent on finding that artifact as well, because it contains a secret that could destroy them utterly.  Through Africa, England, the rain forests of New Guinea, the windswept Kuril Islands, the site of the legendary 1883 Krakatoa explosion, and the heart of the Mexican jungles, the Fargos and their ruthless opponents pursue the hunt-but only one can win. And the penalty for failure is death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3244'),
(6777, 'The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught', 'Jack Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Admiral Geary''s victory has earned him the adoration of the people--and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. The war may be over, but Geary and his newly christened First Fleet have been ordered back into action to investigate the aliens occupying the far side of Syndic space and to determinehow much of a threat they represent to the Alliance. And while the Syndic Worlds are no longer united, individually they may be more dangerous than ever before. Geary knows that members of the military high command and the government question his loyaltyto the Alliance and fear his staging a coup--so he can''t help but wonder if the fleet is being deliberately sent on a suicide mission.."--\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3411'),
(6778, 'The Lost Highway', 'David Adams Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What had happened, from those days until now? And why had it? And how had his life gone? And who was to blame? Or why did he think he had to blame anyone? Certainly he couldnâ€™t even blame Mr. Roach, caught in the same turmoil as everyone believing half-truths in order to blame other people. (p. 141)These are the forlorn thoughts of Alex Chapman, the tragic anti-hero of David Adams Richardsâ€™ masterful novel The Lost Highway. An exploration of the philosophical contortions of which man is capable, the novel tracks the desperate journey of an eternally lost and orphaned child/man who has nearly squandered his frail birthright but might yet earn some degree of redemption.Alex spent a stunted childhood watching his gentle mother defiled by rough-handed men including Roach, his biological father. Upon his motherâ€™s death Alex is passed into the care of his hard-nosed great-uncle Jim Chapman, nicknamed â€œThe Tyrantâ€ by their Miramichi community. Alexâ€™s uncle becomes a symbol of all that he loathes. Alex distinguishes himself from this brutal masculinity that stole his mother from himby becoming a self-imposed ascetic, entering the local seminary and rehearsing his own version of piousness. But when he is tempted by the Monsignorâ€™s request to deliver charitable funds to the bank, Alex pockets the money and flees to the home of Minnie, whom he worships and who he has learned is now pregnant by Sam Patch, a good man, but too rough in Alexâ€™s eyes. He attempts to talk Minnie into using the money for an abortion, and it is only her refusal that sends him back to the seminary to return the money. â€œDo you remember if the phone rang in the booth along the highway that night?â€ (p. 87) asks MacIlvoy, a fellow seminarian who had gotten wind of the theft and tried to detour Alex from this path. But of course Alex had ignored the rings, as he would ignore many warnings in his tragic life.Caught red-handed and forced to return as a prodigal son-that-never-was to his uncleâ€™s house, Alex again flees to yet another refuge, this time to the safe moral relativism of academia, where he becomes an expert at reducing meaning to ethical dust. However, he finds himself unable to navigate the easy duplicity in which his peers are fluent, and takes an isolated and idealistic stand which causes him to be drummed out of the facultyas a figure of ridicule. A bitter and alienated Alex once again returns defeated to a shack on his uncleâ€™s property, spending his days in the family scrapyard forging dreadful humanoid creatures out of junked metal, a modern-day Prometheus. One day he is asked by MacIlvoy, now the local priest, to create a Virgin for the church grotto. Some part of him still influenced by divinity guides his hand to create a beautiful Madonna, her face inspired by a lovely young girl he spots one day in the market. Two days later he finds out that the girl is Amy Patch, the child he urged his childhood sweetheart to abort fifteen years earlier. He will also find out that it is once again the fate of this innocent girl, at his own hands, that will determine whether he will ever experience the grace he so dearly craves.Trudging the lost highway while mulling over his grievances as usual, Alex runs into Burton Tucker, whose own mind and body have been stunted by the brutality of his birth mother. The generally pliant Burton runs the local garage, offering lotto tickets as a bonus for oil changes. He is on his way to deliver some good news: Jim Chapman is a winner, to the tune of $13 million. Alex realizes that he could have been the one to bring Jimâ€™s truck to Burton and receive the winning ticket, but he had refused because of the grudge he held against Jim. Once again, Alex has been thwarted by an ironic twist of fate and it is too much to bear. He decides at that moment that his uncle must never see the money, and begins a treacherous intrigue, which he justifies through the tortured ethical logic with which he has become so skilled. He unwittingly aligns himself with a very dangerous partner, Leo Bourque, the childhood bully who made his schooldays such hell, and whose days of playing cat-and-mouse with the weak Alex are not over. Their twinned descent will become deadly, marked by murder both actual and intended. How far would any of us go to avenge a terrible wrong done to us at birth? To whom shall we assign blame? And can we achieve redemption, no matter how grievous our sins? David Adams Richardsâ€™ The Lost Highway is a taut psychological thriller that goes far beyond the genre into the worlds of Leo Tolstoy, and Emily BrontÃ«â€™s Wuthering Heights, as well as classical Greek mythology, testing the very limits of humankindâ€™s all too tenuous grasp on morality.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/951'),
(6779, 'Lost in the Funhouse: The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman', 'Bill Zehme', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bill Zehme''s biography of comic actor/performance artist Andy Kaufman (subject of the feature film\n <em>\n  Man in the Moon\n </em>\n ) is a meticulously researched, eminently readable, and very strange book--this last being perhaps no surprise given its subject. Written over a six-year period,\n <em>\n  Lost in the Funhouse\n </em>\n is crammed with details gleaned from interviews with the actor''s family, friends, teachers, coworkers, and unwitting participants in Kaufman''s pranks. In particular, the book provides great insight into Kaufman''s early life in Great Neck, NY, his relationship with transcendental meditation, and his first forays into nightclubs in the early ''70s. Zehme, author of\n <em>\n  The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin''\n </em>\n , weaves together multiple narratives from varying perspectives, including passages in which the author appears to have entered his subject''s brain. Zehme did have access to unpublished letters and manuscripts (which fans would certainly like to see published on their own one day), but the only person who could legitimately verify the accuracy of these passages is no longer with us.\n</p>\n<p>\n At its best, the book approaches that apex of artful celebrity bi-fiction, Nick Tosches''s\n <em>\n  Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams\n </em>\n . The transitions from one perspective to the next are a bit jarring at first, but once the reader gives in to Zehmes''s collage of multiple personalities, one is considerably closer to understanding the book''s subject. Kaufman was nothing if not a collection of various intense personalities: the young boy continually mourning his grandfather''s death; the likable and naive Foreign Man; the talentless and irascible lounge singer Tony Clifton; the bliss-seeking student of TM; the devoted and loving son who never had anything to do with his own child; and world champion of inter-gender wrestling.\n <em>\n  Lost in the Funhouse\n </em>\n is the one Kaufman tome that will please neophytes as well as those with their own Andy Kaufman Web sites.\n <em>\n  --Mike McGonigal\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Already the subject of Bob Zmuda''s recent memoir, Andy Kaufman Revealed, the avant-garde comedian receives more straightforward treatment at the hands of journalist Zehme (The Way You Wear Your Hat). Yet while Kaufman''s life may be open to scrutiny, cracking the weird intricacies of his personality and motives is another matter. Growing up in Great Neck, N.Y., the young Andy honed his performance skills by hosting children''s birthday parties before striking gold on the New York comedy scene with his creation of Foreign Man, a sweet, bumbling immigrant who would bomb with a series of unfunny jokes ("Tenk you veddy much"), only to veer into an uncanny impersonation of Elvis Presley. The character landed Kaufman a recurring guest spot on Saturday Night Live and a benchmark role as Latka Gravas on the sitcom Taxi. Eventually, his obnoxious alter ego, lounge singer Tony Clifton, and Kaufman''s obsession with taunting and wrestling women audience members spurred Saturday Night Live viewers to vote by a wide margin to kick Kaufman off the show in 1982. A year and a half later, he was dead at the age of 35, the victim of lung cancer. Through the entertaining recollections of numerous friends, colleagues and family members, Kaufman comes across as either a genius or a lunatic, most likely a bit of both. Unfortunately, Zehme''s mannered writing style (on Kaufman''s part-time busboy job: "Plus, he could do funny things in the course of a shift not to be funny no really") detracts considerably from what is otherwise a balanced portrayal of his tumultuous career. 36 b&amp;w photos not seen by PW. Agent, Chris Calhoun, Sterling Lord Literistic. (Dec.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2150'),
(6780, 'Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever', 'Walter Kirn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Percentile is destiny in America.â€So says Walter Kirn, a peerless observer and interpreter of American life, in this whip-smart memoir of his own long strange trip through American education. Working his way up the ladder of standardized tests, extracurricular activities, and class rankings, Kirn launched himself eastward from his rural Minnesota hometown to the ivy-covered campus of Princeton University. There he found himself not in a temple of higher learning so much as an arena for gamesmanship, snobbery, social climbing, ass-kissing, and recreational drug use, where the point of literature classes was to mirror the instructor''s critical theories and actual reading of the books under consideration was optional. Just on the other side of the â€œbell curve''s leading edgeâ€ loomed a complete psychic collapse.LOST IN THE MERITOCRACY* *reckons up the costs of a system where the point is simply to keep accumulating points and never to look backâ€”or within. It''s a remarkable book that suggests the first step toward intellectual fulfillment is getting off the treadmill that is the American meritocracy. Every American who has spent years of his or her life there will experience many shocks of recognition while reading Walter Kirnâ€™s sharp, rueful, and often funny bookâ€”and likely a sense of liberation at its end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2162'),
(6781, 'Lost Light', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lost Light is the ninth novel in Michael Connelly''s Harry Bosch series. It is the first Bosch novel to be narrated in first person; all prior Bosch novels had utilized an omniscient third-person style. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  In the article:\n </strong>\n Plot summary | CD\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Award-winning former crime reporter Connelly (The Black Echo; City of Bones) hits all the right notes with this latest in his Edgar-winning mystery series featuring L.A. detective Harry Bosch. Even though this marks the ninth outing for Harry, the principled, incorruptible investigator shows little sign of slowing in his unrelenting pursuit of justice for all. Disillusioned by his constant battle with police hypocrisy and bureaucracy, Harry quits the department after 28 years on the job. Like so many ex-cops before him, he finds retirement boring: "I was staying up late, staring at the walls and drinking too much red wine." He decides to take advantage of his newly minted private-eye license and get back to work. The case he chooses-one that he had been briefly involved in four years before-is the puzzling unsolved murder of 24-year-old Angella Benton. Angella''s death is linked to the theft of $2 million from a film company foolishly employing real cash as a prop on an action-movie set. Harry patiently follows the bloody trail from Angella''s violated body through the Hollywood heist to the disappearance of an FBI computer expert and the shooting of two LAPD cops. His investigation eventually leads him to the elite terrorist hunters of the new Department of Homeland Security. Few will follow every twist and turn of the labyrinthine plot, but no matter. The fun comes in watching Harry slowly and brilliantly separate the seemingly impossibly knotted strands and then knit them back into whole cloth. This exciting procedural is as good as any in the series, and Connelly''s concluding coda has a kicker about Harry''s private life that will draw gasps of astonishment from longtime readers.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/443'),
(6782, 'The Lost Quilter', 'Jennifer Chiaverini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson treasures an antique quilt called by three names -- Birds in the Air, after its pattern; the Runaway Quilt, after the woman who sewed it; and the Elm Creek Quilt, after the place to which its maker longed to return. That quilter was Joanna, a fugitive slave who traveled by the Underground Railroad to reach safe haven in 1859 at Elm Creek Farm.  Though Joanna''s freedom proved short-lived -- she was forcibly returned by slave catchers to Josiah Chester''s plantation in Virginia -- she left the Bergstrom family a most precious gift, her son. Hans and Anneke Bergstrom, along with maiden aunt Gerda, raised the boy as their own, and the secret of his identity died with their generation. Now it falls to Sylvia -- drawing upon Gerda''s diary and Joanna''s quilt -- to connect Joanna''s past to present-day Elm Creek Manor.  Just as Joanna could not have foreseen that, generations later, her quilt would become the subject of so much speculation and wonder, Sylvia and her friends never could have imagined the events Joanna witnessed in her lifetime. Punished for her escape by being sold off to her master''s brother in Edisto Island, South Carolina, Joanna grieves over the loss of her son and resolves to run again, to reunite with him someday in the free North. Farther south than she has ever been, she nevertheless finds allies, friends, and even love in the slave quarter of Oak Grove, a cotton plantation where her skill with needle and thread soon becomes highly prized.  Through hardship and deprivation, Joanna dreams of freedom and returning to Elm Creek Farm. Determined to remember each landmark on the route north, Joanna pieces a quilt of scraps left over from the household sewing, concealing clues within the meticulous stitches. Later, in service as a seamstress to the new bride of a Confederate officer, Joanna moves on to Charleston, where secrets she keeps will affect the fate of a nation, and her abilities and courage enable her to aid the country and the people she loves most.  The knowledge that scraps can be pieced and sewn into simple lines -- beautiful both in and of themselves and also for what they represent and what they can accomplish -- carries Joanna through dark days. Sustaining herself and her family through ingenuity and art during the Civil War and into Reconstruction, Joanna leaves behind a remarkable artistic legacy that, at last, allows Sylvia to discover the fate of the long-lost quilter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3480'),
(6783, 'The Lost Symbol', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Let''s start with the question every Dan Brown fan wants answered: Is\n <em>\n  The Lost Symbol\n </em>\n as good as\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n ? Simply put, yes. Brown has mastered the art of blending nail-biting suspense with random arcana (from pop science to religion), and\n <em>\n  The Lost Symbol\n </em>\n is an enthralling mix. And what a dazzling accomplishment that is, considering that rabid fans and skeptics alike are scrutinizing every word. *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n The Lost Symbol\n <em>\n  begins with an ancient ritual, a shadowy enclave, and of course, a secret. Readers know they are in Dan Brown territory when, by the end of the first chapter, a secret within a secret is revealed. To tell too much would ruin the fun of reading this delicious thriller, so you will find no spoilers here. Suffice it to say that as with many series featuring a recurring character, there is a bit of a formula at work (one that fans will love). Again, brilliant Harvard professor Robert Langdon finds himself in a predicament that requires his vast knowledge of symbology and superior problem-solving skills to save the day. The setting, unlike other Robert Langdon novels, is stateside, and in Brown''s hands Washington D.C. is as fascinating as Paris or Vatican City (note to the D.C. tourism board: get your "Lost Symbol" tour in order). And, as with other Dan Brown books, the pace is relentless, the revelations many, and there is an endless parade of intriguing factoids that will make you feel like you are spending the afternoon with Robert Langdon and the guys from\n </em>\n Mythbusters*.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Nothing is as it seems in a Robert Langdon novel, and\n <em>\n  The Lost Symbol\n </em>\n itself is no exception--a page-turner to be sure, but Brown also challenges his fans to open their minds to new information. Skeptical? Imagine how many other thrillers would spawn millions of Google searches for noetic science, superstring theory, and\n <em>\n  Apotheosis of Washington\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  The Lost Symbol\n </em>\n is brain candy of the best sort--just make sure to set aside time to enjoy your meal.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <br />\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  More from Dan Brown\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n <em>\n  Angels &amp; Demons\n </em>\n <em>\n  Deception Point\n </em>\n <em>\n  Digital Fortress\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. After scores of Da Vinci Code knockoffs, spinoffs, copies and caricatures, Brown has had the stroke of brilliance to set his breakneck new thriller not in some far-off exotic locale, but right here in our own backyard. Everyone off the bus, and welcome to a Washington, D.C., they never told you about on your school trip when you were a kid, a place steeped in Masonic history that, once revealed, points to a dark, ancient conspiracy that threatens not only America but the world itself. Returning hero Robert Langdon comes to Washington to give a lecture at the behest of his old mentor, Peter Solomon. When he arrives at the U.S. Capitol for his lecture, he finds, instead of an audience, Peter''s severed hand mounted on a wooden base, fingers pointing skyward to the Rotunda ceiling fresco of George Washington dressed in white robes, ascending to heaven. Langdon teases out a plethora of clues from the tattooed hand that point toward a secret portal through which an intrepid seeker will find the wisdom known as the Ancient Mysteries, or the lost wisdom of the ages. A villain known as Mal''akh, a steroid-swollen, fantastically tattooed, muscle-bodied madman, wants to locate the wisdom so he can rule the world. Mal''akh has captured Peter and promises to kill him if Langdon doesn''t agree to help find the portal. Joining Langdon in his search is Peter''s younger sister, Kathleen, who has been conducting experiments in a secret museum. This is just the kickoff for a deadly chase that careens back and forth, across, above and below the nation''s capital, darting from revelation to revelation, pausing only to explain some piece of wondrous, historical esoterica. Jealous thriller writers will despair, doubters and nay-sayers will be proved wrong, and readers will rejoice: Dan Brown has done it again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1091'),
(6784, 'Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization', 'Lars Brownworth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In AD 476 the Roman Empire fellâ€“or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entire duration of the empireâ€™s existence. Indeed, so did its neighbors, allies, and enemies: When the Turkish Sultan Mehmet II conquered Constantinople in 1453, he took the title Caesar of Rome, placing himself in a direct line that led back to Augustus.For far too many otherwise historically savvy people today, the story of the Byzantine civilization is something of a void. Yet for more than a millennium, Byzantium reigned as the glittering seat of Christian civilization. When Europe fell into the Dark Ages, Byzantium held fast against Muslim expansion, keeping Christianity alive. When literacy all but vanished in the West, Byzantium made primary education available to both sexes. Students debated the merits of Plato and Aristotle and commonly committed the entirety of Homerâ€™s Iliad to memory. Streams of wealth flowed into Constantinople, making possible unprecedented wonders of art and architecture, from fabulous jeweled mosaics and other iconography to the great church known as the Hagia Sophia that was a vision of heaven on earth. The dome of the Great Palace stood nearly two hundred feet high and stretched over four acres, and the cityâ€™s population was more than twenty times that of Londonâ€™s.From Constantine, who founded his eponymous city in the year 330, to Constantine XI, who valiantly fought the empireâ€™s final battle more than a thousand years later, the emperors who ruled Byzantium enacted a saga of political intrigue and conquest as astonishing as anything in recorded history. *Lost to the West* is replete with stories of assassination, mass mutilation and execution, sexual scheming, ruthless grasping for power, and clashing armies that soaked battlefields with the blood of slain warriors numbering in the tens of thousands.Still, it was Byzantium that preserved for us today the great gifts of the classical world. Of the 55,000 ancient Greek texts in existence today, some 40,000 were transmitted to us by Byzantine scribes. And it was the Byzantine Empire that shielded Western Europe from invasion until it was ready to take its own place at the center of the world stage. Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, *Lost to the West* reveals how much we owe to this empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2482'),
(6785, 'Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization', 'Lars Brownworth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In AD 476 the Roman Empire fellâ€“or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entire duration of the empireâ€™s existence. Indeed, so did its neighbors, allies, and enemies: When the Turkish Sultan Mehmet II conquered Constantinople in 1453, he took the title Caesar of Rome, placing himself in a direct line that led back to Augustus.For far too many otherwise historically savvy people today, the story of the Byzantine civilization is something of a void. Yet for more than a millennium, Byzantium reigned as the glittering seat of Christian civilization. When Europe fell into the Dark Ages, Byzantium held fast against Muslim expansion, keeping Christianity alive. When literacy all but vanished in the West, Byzantium made primary education available to both sexes. Students debated the merits of Plato and Aristotle and commonly committed the entirety of Homerâ€™s Iliad to memory. Streams of wealth flowed into Constantinople, making possible unprecedented wonders of art and architecture, from fabulous jeweled mosaics and other iconography to the great church known as the Hagia Sophia that was a vision of heaven on earth. The dome of the Great Palace stood nearly two hundred feet high and stretched over four acres, and the cityâ€™s population was more than twenty times that of Londonâ€™s.From Constantine, who founded his eponymous city in the year 330, to Constantine XI, who valiantly fought the empireâ€™s final battle more than a thousand years later, the emperors who ruled Byzantium enacted a saga of political intrigue and conquest as astonishing as anything in recorded history. Lost to the West is replete with stories of assassination, mass mutilation and execution, sexual scheming, ruthless grasping for power, and clashing armies that soaked battlefields with the blood of slain warriors numbering in the tens of thousands.Still, it was Byzantium that preserved for us today the great gifts of the classical world. Of the 55,000 ancient Greek texts in existence today, some 40,000 were transmitted to us by Byzantine scribes. And it was the Byzantine Empire that shielded Western Europe from invasion until it was ready to take its own place at the center of the world stage. Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to this empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2737'),
(6786, 'The Lost World', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING." --People It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived. . . . "ACTION-PACKED." --New York Daily News "FAST AND GRIPPING." --The Washington Post Book World "A VERY SCARY READ." --Entertainment Weekly "AN EDGE-OF-THE-SEAT TALE." --St. Petersburg Times From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/339'),
(6787, 'Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King', 'Antonia Fraser', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prolific royal biographer Fraser (_Marie Antoinette_) has assiduously researched her measured yet engrossing study, shedding welcome light on the galaxy of influential women who orbited the dazzling Sun King. The most important woman in Louis XIV''s life, in Fraser''s telling, was probably the firstâ€”his mother, Anne of Austria. The voluptuous, pleasure-loving but pious and dignified queen regent inculcated Louis with the notion that he was a godlike miracle who was nevertheless accountable to the deity for his sins. As this narrowly focused history suggests, Louis was constantly trying to reconcile his gargantuan sexual appetite with his duty to his people and his God. Louis gave up his first love, the bold and amusing Marie Mancini, to marry his graceless first cousin, the Spanish princess Maria Teresa. A serious flirtation with his charming sister-in-law Henriette-Anne, sister of England''s Charles II, ended when Louis fell for Charles and Henriette''s decoy, the timid virgin Louise de La ValliÃ¨re. In sexual thrall to the intelligent, magnetic AthÃ©naÃ¯s, the Marquise de Montespan, the king intriguingly threw her over for FranÃ§oise Scarron, the puritanical governess to their bastards. Lastly, Louis gave his heart to his spirited granddaughter-in-law AdÃ©laÃ¯de, who died of measles within days of her husband, the Dauphin.\n <em>\n  (Oct. 17)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adelaide of Savoy, a favorite companion of Louis XIV during his dotage, remarked, "Under a king, a country is really ruled by women." Fraser''s history of the court of the Sun King, seen through the lens of the women closest to him, is a highly readable confection, and unfolds as a sequence of cameos. There is Queen Anne of Austria, Louis''s steely moth"r and regent, who carefully molded the infant King into an Apollo adored by the court; and his wife, Marie-Therese of Spain, who gave him no trouble except by dying. Then comes a trio of mistresses: Louise de La Valliere, who became a nun as recompense for her sins; Athenais, voluptuous and fecund; and Madame de Maintenon, the discreet and redoubtable confidante of his later years. With vivid wit, Fraser demonstrates that within the edifice of the monarchy there were deep crannies of ordinary affection.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2006\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2485');
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(6788, 'Love in a Nutshell', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Number one bestselling author Janet Evanovich teams up with award-winning author Dorien Kelly to deliver a sparkling novel of romantic suspense, small-town antics, secretive sabotage, and lots and lots of beer\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, sheâ€™s been fired from her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go is to her parentsâ€™ summer house, The Nutshell, in Keeneâ€™s Harbor, Michigan. Kateâ€™s plan is to turn The Nutshell into a Bed and Breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than savory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his company, and Kate is just new enough in town that she can insert herself into Culhaneâ€™s business and snoop around for him. If Kate finds the culprit, Matt will pay her a $20,000 bonus. Needless to say, Kate is highly motivated. But several problems present themselves. Kate despises beer. No one seems to trust her. And she is falling hard for her boss.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Can these two smoke out a saboteur, save Kateâ€™s family home, and keep a killer from closing inâ€¦all while resisting their undeniable attraction to one another? Filled with humor, heart, and loveable characters,\n  <em>\n   Love in a Nutshell\n  </em>\n  is delicious fun.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Janet Evanovich is the #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plums novels, Between the Number novels,\n  <em>\n   Wicked Appetite\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   How I Write.\n  </em>\n  She lives in Florida.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dorien Kelly, President of Romance Writers of America, lives in Michigan with one or more of her three children, two very spoiled West Highland White Terriers, and a handicapped Coonhound named Bubba.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2937'),
(6789, 'Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time', 'Rob Sheffield', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Music critic Sheffield''s touching and poignant memoir of love and death will strike a chord in anyone who has used a hand-selected set of songs to try to express something that can''t be put into words. A socially awkward adolescent, Sheffield finds true love as a college student in the late ''80s with RenÃ©e, a "hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock girl." They''re brought together by their love of music, get married and spend eight years together before RenÃ©e suddenly dies of a pulmonary embolism. Sheffield''s delivery is not that of the typical actor/ reader. We come to know Rob as this geeky, lanky guy, and his reading is characteristically a little bit uncoordinated, yet it is tender and heartfelt enough to win us over. Each chapter opens with a song list from a mix tape made at the time. Listeners may wish that, as with Nick Hornby''s essay collection\n <em>\n  Songbook\n </em>\n , there had been an audio component that would allow the music to take us back or would introduce us to new songs that helped Sheffield press on into an uncertain but hopeful future.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sheffield was a "shy, skinny, Irish Catholic geek from Boston" when he first met Renee. Southern born and bred, "she was warm and loud and impulsive." They had nothing in common except a love of music. Since he made music tapes for all occasions, he and Renee listened together, shared tapes, and though never formally planning to, married. On May 11, 1997, everything changed. He was in the kitchen making lunch. Suddenly, she collapsed, dying instantly of a pulmonary embolism. Devastated, he quickly realized that he couldn''t listen to certain songs again, and that life as he knew it would never be the same. Fun and funny, moving and unbearably sad, Sheffield''s account at its quirkiest, and because of his penchant for lists, is reminiscent of Nick Hornby''s novel\n <em>\n  High Fidelity\n </em>\n (1995). Anyone who loves music and appreciates the unspoken ways that music can bring people together will respond warmly to this gentle, bittersweet reflection on love won and love irrevocably lost.\n <em>\n  June Sawyers\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1975'),
(6790, 'Love the One You&#39;re With', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and Baby Proof delivers another captivating novel about women and the choices that define them. This is the story for anyone who has ever wondered: How can I truly love the one Iâ€™m with when I canâ€™t forget the one who got away? Ellen and Andyâ€™s first year of marriage doesnâ€™t just seem perfect, it is perfect. There is no question how deep their devotion is, and how naturally they bring out the best in each other. But one fateful afternoon, Ellen runs into Leo for the first time in eight years. Leo, the one who brought out the worst in her. Leo, the one who left her heartbroken with no explanation. Leo, the one she could never quite forget. When his reappearance ignites long-dormant emotions, Ellen begins to question whether the life sheâ€™s living is the one sheâ€™s meant to live. Love the One Youâ€™re With is a powerful story about one woman at the crossroads of true love and real life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3463'),
(6791, 'Love You More', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WHO DO YOU LOVE?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  One question, a split-second decision, and Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defense, and bears the bruises to back up her tale. For veteran detective D. D. Warren it should be an open-and-shut case. But where is their six-year-old daughter?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   AND HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the homicide investigation ratchets into a frantic statewide search for a missing child, D. D. Warren must partner with former lover Bobby Dodge to break through the blue wall of police brotherhood, seeking to understand the inner workings of a trooperâ€™s mind while also unearthing family secrets. Would a trained police officer truly shoot her own husband? And would a mother harm her own child?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   . . . TO SAVE HER?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Tessa Leoni, the worst has not yet happened. She is walking a tightrope, with nowhere to turn, no one to trust, as the clock ticks down to a terrifying deadline. She has one goal in sight, and she will use every ounce of her training, every trick at her disposal, to do what must be done. No sacrifice is too great, no action unthinkable. A mother knows who she loves. And all others will be made to pay.\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Love you more . . .\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Author Lisa Gardner\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  True confession time: for a woman who makes her living writing extremely diabolical suspense novels, I have no stomach for gore. Scary movies? Canâ€™t watch them. Most of the crime shows on prime time? Egads, no way! Haunted houses? My husband has had to carry me out. Itâ€™s embarrassing but true.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So when I first received the invitation to conduct research at the famed Body Farm at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, I didnâ€™t know what to do with myself. As a forensics aficionado and thriller author, I just had to visit. A chance to learn first-hand how to search for buried remains? Or how to establish time of death for skeletal remains? Or the amount of forensic evidence that can still be retrieved from cremated bones? Sign me up!\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the other hand, this would involve walking the fabled Deathâ€™s Acre, which generally features several hundred decomposing bodies. I had to consider not just what I was going to see, but what I was going to smell, touch, feel. The squeamish mom in me worried I wouldnâ€™t be able to take it. And no one wants to be the one who barfs in front of trained professionals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whatâ€™s a girl gonna do? Of course I went.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Anthropological Research Facility, aka the Body Farm, was founded in the early â€˜80s by Dr. William Bass. Up until then, the discovery of decomposed remains often led to a time of death plus or minus several years. Obviously, this complicated the homicide investigation. Dr. Bassâ€™s solution: bury a body, see how long it took to skelatonize, and scientifically establish a rate of decomp.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Of course, many variables immediately came into play: buried or unburied, clothed or clothed, hot humid conditions, cold frosty conditions, animal activity, insect activity, etc., etc. In the end, Dr. Bass couldnâ€™t bury one body, he needed hundreds. Some donations were unclaimed remains from the MEâ€™s office. Hundreds of others are directed donations from people who wanted to contribute to the advancement of science after their death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This kind of generosity makes Deathâ€™s Acre less a macabre wooded plot and more like hallowed ground. Instead of listening to anthropologists merely analyze body parts, I heard stories of people and families, of victims and criminal prosecutions, of crafty murderers and even craftier forensics experts. I learned of stories told in bone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Interestingly enough, the more the head anthropologist Dr. Lee Jantz humanized the remains we studied, the more bearable I found the sights and smells to be. When I cradled the feather-light cranial plate of a newborn infant in my hand, I could both marvel as its rose petal size and feel the weight of one parentâ€™s heart-breaking contribution. I was both mesmerized by the skeleton collection, which took up endless rows of metal shelves, and amazed by how a scientist such as Dr. Jantz could pick up a single piece of cremated bone and tell you the personâ€™s gender, approximate age, chronic health conditions and probable occupation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bones, I learned, arenâ€™t just body parts, but an organic record of who we are, what we did, where we lived, and often, how we died. And in the right hands, bones allow the dead to speak. Think a murderer can cover his tracks with a burn barrel and lighter fluid? Think again. Think you can thwart time of death by freezing remains? Nope. Think you can get away with murder? Thanks to forensic anthropologists such as Dr. Jantz, not likely.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I came to the Body Farm expecting to be immersed in death, and instead, found a new appreciation for life. And while my family still refuses to let me tell stories about my research over dinner, I had a great time working with the anthropologists on my March 2011 release Love You More. Just remember, when you come to the key scene in the snowy woodsâ€”youâ€™ll know which one Iâ€™m talking aboutâ€”I worked for that scene.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I walked Deathâ€™s Acre, and I never threw up.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Near the start of Thriller Awardâ€“winner Gardner''s gripping fifth novel featuring Boston PD Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren (after Live to Tell), D.D.''s former partner and one-time lover, Det. Bobby Dodge, of the Massachusetts State Police, asks her to look into what appears to be a clear-cut homicide case. The evidence suggests that Tessa Leoni, a state trooper colleague of Bobby''s, shot and killed her abusive husband, Brian Darby, who may have kidnapped her six-year-old daughter, Sophie. But Tessa won''t talk about her bruises, her husband, or what might have happened to her child. D.D. examines every detail about the family, while Tessa uses her skills to manipulate the investigation. From Tessa''s point of view, we learn about her and Brian''s courtship, his affection for Sophie, and how the marriage began to disintegrate. Gardner sprinkles plenty of clues and inventive twists to keep readers off-kilter as the suspense builds to a realistic, jaw-dropping finale. Author tour. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/636'),
(6792, 'Love, Lust &amp; Faking It: The Naked Truth About Sex, Lies, and True Romance', 'Jenny McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Comedienne McCarthy, who has written more serious books on raising a child with autism in recent years, returns to lighter fare in this fun and funny guide to dating and relationships. McCarthy tackles everything from first loves to STDs, boob jobs to bootie calls, masturbation to abusive relationships. Some chapters are just for laughs, like when McCarthy recounts suiting up in a trash bag to help a roommate confirm she has come down with crabs, while others are more serious in tone, such as when McCarthy interviews author Byron Katie about living a fulfilling life or details the warning signs of an abusive relationship. She shares some personal anecdotes as well, from her experience the first time she posed for Playboy to dating a man who reminded her of a Teletubby because she thought heâ€™d treat her well. Even those who wouldnâ€™t usually pick up a relationship-advice book will find plenty to enjoy in this laugh-out-loud guide to the pitfalls of modern dating. --Kristine Huntley\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author Jenny McCarthy returns to her comic roots in this candid, wise, and witty look at women, men, sex, romance, heartbreak, love, and how (not) to fake it.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Belly Laughs\n  </em>\n  , Jenny McCarthy told you what you could really expect when you''re expecting. In\n  <em>\n   Baby Laughs\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Life Laughs\n  </em>\n  , she gave you the unfiltered ups and downs of motherhood and marriage. Now, in Love,\n  <em>\n   Lust &amp; Faking It\n  </em>\n  , the inveterate truth teller turns the lights on for a funny, often poignant, and no-holds-barred look at the essence of relationships: love and sex.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jenny explores the intensity of first love, introducing us to Tony, the boy of her teenage dreams, and Tubby, her dirty, sexy stuffed teddy bear. She takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world of aphrodisiacs and fetishes, explains the importance of playing doctor and other nice and naughty fantasies, and gives thanks for the pleasures of chocolate. And she sets the story straight on STDs, man junk and lady bits, why we\n  <em>\n   really\n  </em>\n  cheat, why women are master manipulators, the virtues of sex with the lights off, the power of a "loving no," the satisfaction of the perfect booty call, and so much more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Filled with humorous stories about her own out-rageous exploitsâ€”from becoming a\n  <em>\n   Playboy\n  </em>\n  Miss October to the pain of getting a discount boob job to meeting Brad Pittâ€”as well as the lessons she''s learned from family, friends, and fans,\n  <em>\n   Love, Lust &amp; Faking It\n  </em>\n  takes on a subject the sex symbol, mother, television star, comedian, and divorcÃ‰e can be trusted to examine with nothing but unvarnished honesty and earthy humor. Throughout, Jenny reminds us to aim higher, believe in true love, and, most of all, be kind to ourselves. And to have lots of fun and sexâ€”without faking it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1978'),
(6793, 'Love... From Both Sides', 'Nick Spalding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sometimes, the hardest part of finding love is keeping a straight face...For Jamie Newman, being a single guy isn''t proving to be much fun, especially when confronted with a sexually belligerent divorcee and a goddess so far out of his league she might as well be a different species. Mind you, being a girl in search of love isn''t a bowl of cherries either. Just ask Laura McIntyre, who''s recently contended with a horny estate agent on a quest for light relief and a rabid mountain bike enthusiast with a penchant for displaying his genitals. When Jamie and Laura bump into one another (quite literally) it looks like their luck may have changed - but sometimes finding the right person is only the start of your problems... Based on real-life tales of dating disaster and relationship blunders, Love... From Both Sides is a warts-and-all romantic comedy for everyone who knows how tricky (and occasionally ridiculous) the quest for love can be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3876'),
(6794, 'The Lovely Bones', 'Alice Sebold', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alice Sebold''s haunting and heartbreaking debut novel,\n  <em>\n   The Lovely Bones\n  </em>\n  , unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie''s resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams," where "there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were\n  <em>\n   Seventeen\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Glamour\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Vogue\n  </em>\n  ."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Lovely Bones\n  </em>\n  works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family''s dramas over the years like an episode of\n  <em>\n   My So-Called Afterlife\n  </em>\n  . Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times,\n  <em>\n   The Lovely Bones\n  </em>\n  is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish, and though things tend to wrap up a little\n  <em>\n   too\n  </em>\n  well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings.\n  <em>\n   --Brad Thomas Parsons\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Look Inside the Motion Picture\n   <em>\n    The Lovely Bones\n   </em>\n   (Paramount, 2010)\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  (Click on each image below to see a larger view)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mark Wahlberg as Jack Salmon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon and Director Peter Jackson\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sebold''s first novel after her memoir, Lucky is a small but far from minor miracle. Sebold has taken a grim, media-exploited subject and fashioned from it a story that is both tragic and full of light and grace. The novel begins swiftly. In the second sentence, Sebold''s narrator, Susie Salmon, announces, "I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." Susie is taking a shortcut through a cornfield when a neighbor lures her to his hideaway. The description of the crime is chilling, but never vulgar, and Sebold maintains this delicate balance between homely and horrid as she depicts the progress of grief for Susie''s family and friends. She captures the odd alliances forged and the relationships ruined: the shattered father who buries his sadness trying to gather evidence, the mother who escapes "her ruined heart, in merciful adultery." At the same time, Sebold brings to life an entire suburban community, from the mortician''s son to the handsome biker dropout who quietly helps investigate Susie''s murder. Much as this novel is about "the lovely bones" growing around Susie''s absence, it is also full of suspense and written in lithe, resilient prose that by itself delights. Sebold''s most dazzling stroke, among many bold ones, is to narrate the story from Susie''s heaven (a place where wishing is having), providing the warmth of a first-person narration and the freedom of an omniscient one. It might be this that gives Sebold''s novel its special flavor, for in Susie''s every observation and memory of the smell of skunk or the touch of spider webs is the reminder that life is sweet and funny and surprising.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1312'),
(6795, 'Lover Avenged', 'J. R. Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Rehvenge is used to living in the shadows and dealing with the roughest night walkers around-including the Black Dagger Brotherhood. As his secret identity as a sympath is threatened, he turns to the only light in his ever darkening world- a female vampire untouched by corruption, who''s the only thing standing between him and eternal damnation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3297'),
(6796, 'Lover Mine', 'J. R. Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there''s a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other - vampire warriors, defenders of their race...John Matthew has been through his vampire transition and taken to the life of the Brotherhood with a vengeance, but he still can''t shake the nightmare of his past and is unsure of his future as a warrior hero. He''s made a promise to honour the Brotherhood and their fight with the slayers atall costs, until the love of his life is kidnapped and he is forced to make a choice that could change his life and the Brotherhood''s forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3296'),
(6797, 'Lover Unleashed', 'J. R. Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Payne, twin sister of Vishous, is cut from the same dark, seductive cloth as her brother. Imprisoned for eons by their mother, the Scribe Virgin, she finally frees herself - only to face a devastating injury. Manuel Manello, MD, is drafted by the Brotherhood to save her as only he can - but when the human surgeon and the vampire warrior meet, their two worlds collide in the face of their undeniable passion. With so much working against them, can love prove stronger than the birth right and the biology that separate them?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3272'),
(6798, 'LT&#39;s Theory of Pets', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n King''s fans will likely snap up this audio-only recording of King reading an unpublished short story to an audience at London''s Royal Festival Hall. King warms up the audience, humorously warning them to beware of possible murderers lurking in the back seat of their cars as they drive home, adding, "I don''t want to scare you.... " The story itself is mostly a comical one: a man tells how he gave his wife a cat for a present, and his wife gave him a dog, but each ended up with the other''s pet. The antipathy each felt for their own pet (with anecdotes of the dog throwing up in the husband''s shoes, the cat clawing at the wife''s drapes, etc.) reflected the disharmony in the marriage itself, until the wife walked out. In typical King fashion, the humor turns to horror at the end. King has narrated many of his novels for audio and has an easy, relaxed style that works well here. He easily assumes the roles of both the man and his best friend, who tell different parts of the story, and makes his voice slightly higher for the woman''s dialogue. King loyalists should be pleased to add this mid-range item to their collections, but those on the fringes might wonder if the story would perhaps be a better money value as part of a collection.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Stephen King\n </strong>\n is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are\n <em>\n  Full Dark No Stars\n </em>\n ,Â \n <em>\n  Blockade Billy\n </em>\n ,Â \n <em>\n  Under the Dome\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Just After Sunset\n </em>\n ,Â the Dark Tower novels,\n <em>\n  Cell, From a Buick 8, Everything''s Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Bag of Bones\n </em>\n . His acclaimed nonfiction book,\n <em>\n  On Writing\n </em>\n , was recently re-released in a tenth anniversary edition. King was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007 he was inducted as a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America.Â Â He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/847'),
(6799, 'Lucia', 'Andrea Di Robilant', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q&amp;A with Andrea di Robilant\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q. A discovery of letters between a young beauty, Giustiniana Wynne, and your ancestor, the Venetian nobleman Andrea Memmo, inspired your first work,\n  <em>\n   A Venetian Affair\n  </em>\n  . What lead to the discovery of Luciaâ€™s letters and what inspired you to tell her story in your new book, *Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon?\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n It was only after finishing\n <em>\n  A Venetian Affair\n </em>\n that I realized there was another box of letters among my father''s papers which I had not yet opened. They turned out to be by Andrea Memmo''s daughter, Lucia, to her future husband, Alvise Mocenigo. These letters, written when Lucia was only sixteen, were so vivid and immediate and provided such a fascinating insight into the complex negotiations leading to an arranged marriage in Venice in the late 18th century, that they seemed to be the perfect starting point for a narrative on that period. In the course of researching Lucia''s life I was lucky to find several more collections of her correspondence in the archives in Venice and other cities of northern Italy, which, taken together, covered her entire life time. The sheer quality of her correspondence throughout her life--her observations, her descriptions, her wonderful habit of transcribing dialogues, the precise information about her personal life and the world around her--compelled me to write her story.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q. How did the experience of writing Lucia differ from that of\n  <em>\n   A Venetian Affair\n  </em>\n  ?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In writing\n <em>\n  A Venetian Affair\n </em>\n I was entirely absorbed by the intensity of the love story between Andrea and Giustiniana. Lucia, instead, is more like a rich family saga. Whereas I had something of a crush on Giustiniana, the relationship I developed with Lucia was at once deeper and more complex. I grew to love and admire her. She was a strong, courageous, passionate woman. But she also irritated me at times, and disappointed me and even exasperated me.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q. Who was Colonel Plunkett and what role did he play in Lucia''s life?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n After the fall of the Venetian Republic, Colonel Plunkett, a dashing officer with the occupying Austrian troops, became Lucia''s secret lover. He fathered her only surviving child, Alvisetto, before being killed in action while fighting the French in Switzerland. All traces of this love affair were carefully erased by Lucia. Alvisetto was passed off as Alvise''s son, thereby ensuring the survival of the Mocenigo line.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n See the entire Q&amp;A with Andrea di Robilant\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From The New Yorker\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drawing on the letters of his great-great-great-great-grandmother Lucia Mocenigo, a Venetian aristocrat, di Robilant paints a vivacious picture of the Napoleonic age. The fifteen-year-old Luciaâ€™s correspondence with her new fiancÃ©, the nobleman Alvise Mocenigo, includes a glissando from formality to rapture that gives an idea of the narrativeâ€™s pitch: "My most esteemed spouse, my good father having informed me of your favourable disposition towards me, and having told me of your worthy qualities . . . I felt such agitation in my heart that for a brief moment I even lost consciousness." Over the years, as Lucia travelled throughout Europe, this girlish enthusiasm was whittled away by a selfish, neglectful, and manipulative husband; on discovering, after Alviseâ€™s death, letters from an impressive array of lovers, she filed them alphabetically by author. Back in Venice, living in an apartment where, she complained, rats were her only reliable company, Lucia became Byronâ€™s landlady.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2008 * Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2486'),
(6800, 'Lucid Intervals', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It seems like just another quiet night at Elaine''s. Stone Barrington and his former cop partner, Dino, take on client Herbie Fisher who claims to have won $14 millon on a lucky lotto ticket. Herbie says he needs a lawyer--but a single gunshot aimed at Herbie convinces Stone and Dino that Herbie might need a bodyguard and a private investigator, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2655'),
(6801, 'A Lucky Child of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy', 'Thomas Buergenthal', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Thomas Buergenthal was not quite six years old when he and his parents were forced into a Jewish ghetto in Poland. Four years later, they were placed on a train bound for Auschwitz, where Thomas was separated from his family. Alone, ten-year-old Thomas managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive Auschwitz and the infamous death march.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Filled with the stirring and true insights of a child, this acclaimed memoir conveys the sheer force of will and determination that even the youngest victims of the Holocaust evinced. From teaching himself to ride a bike belonging to an SS officer to sneaking a heavenly sip of milk, Buergenthal demonstrates that beauty can abide in the face of the greatest adversity. A Lucky Child is a compelling reminder of the power of grace and the resilience of the human spirit.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1980'),
(6802, 'Lucky in Love', 'Jill Shalvis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mallory Quinn has had enough of playing it safe. As a nurse and devoted daughter, she takes care of everyone but herself. And as the local good girl, she''s expected to date Mr. Right. But for once, she''d like to take a risk on Mr. Wrong. And who could be more wrong than Ty Garrison? The mysterious new guy in town has made it clear that he''s only passing through, which suits Mallory just fine. Besides, his lean, hard body and sexy smile will give her plenty to remember once he''s gone . . . For the first time in his life, Ty can''t bear to leave. Helping this sexy seductress-in-training walk on the wild side is making him desire things he shouldn?t?including leaving the military for good. As their just-for-fun fling becomes something more, Mallory and Ty wonder if they could really be this lucky in love. After all . . . anything can happen in a town called Lucky Harbor. (95,000 words)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3817'),
(6803, 'The Lucky One', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  U.S. Marine Logan Thibault carries a picture of a woman he''snever met because it brings him good luck. But when he sets out to find the woman, he is met with unexpected circumstances surrounding his new love and his shrouded past. Though not Sparkss most original tale, the story flows well and narrator John Bedford Lloyd delivers a solid performance. Lloyds deep bass tone is perfectly suited for Thibault, a manly man if ever there was one. Lloyds supporting characters are rich and interesting in their own right, some speaking in comical Southern drawls, others with a raw reality. The final result is quite touching without much over-the-top sentimentality on Lloyds part.\n  <em>\n   A Grand Central hardcover. (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his 14th book, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks tells the unforgettable story of a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks''s new novel believes he''s found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he''s never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories only a master such as Sparks can write.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3050'),
(6804, 'Lucky You', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/445'),
(6805, 'Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy', 'Sarah Bradford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lucrezia Borgia is legendary as the archetypal villainess who carried out the poisoning plotted by her scheming fatherâ€”Pope Alexander VI, aka Rodrigo Borgiaâ€”and by her ruthlessly ambitious brother Cesare. The facts of Lucrezia''s case are sorted out from fiction by Bradford''s humanizing biography, which presents Lucrezia as an intelligent noblewoman, powerless to defy her family''s patriarchal order, yet an enlightened ruler in her own right as Duchess of Ferrara. Drawing on extensive archival evidence, Bradford (_Disraeli_;\n <em>\n  Princess Grace\n </em>\n ) explains how Lucrezia''s first husband, after their marriage was annulled, vengefully tarnished her name with accusations of incest. Bradford discredits the popular belief that Lucrezia helped Cesare assassinate her second husband. Lucrezia emerges as a political realist who participated with her father and brother in a campaign to marry into the powerful Este family, winning the affections of her new husband, Alfonso d''Este, later Duke of Ferrara. Bradford portrays Lucrezia''s extramarital affairs as daring and passionate romances of the heart and describes her cultivated court life and her kindness to artists and poets. Although Bradford''s portrait is not immune to a fictionalizing style, especially when ascribing emotional states to its subject, as a project designed to distinguish the historical Lucrezia Borgia from the legend, Bradford''s readable biography resoundingly succeeds. Maps and illus. not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Historians who have attempted to rescue Lucrezia Borgia from her legend as a poisoner who slept with both her father, Pope Alexander VI, and her brother, Cesare Borgia, have mostly described her as a pawn. Indeed, before she was twenty-one she was twice married off to men who were disposed of once their political usefulness expired. (The first had to declare himself impotent and grant her a divorce; the second was strangled in his bed.) Bradford sees Lucrezia neither as a helpless victim nor a femme fatale but as a resourceful individualâ€”an able administrator, a genuinely religious woman, and the equal in political skill, if not in brutality, of her notorious male relatives. When the family of her third husband balked at alliance with a woman described as the "greatest whore there ever was in Rome," she used all her craft and charm to win them overâ€”by, among other things, making her pious prospective father-in-law a gift of several nuns.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2488'),
(6806, 'Lullaby', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The consequences of media saturation are the basis for an urban nightmare in\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n , Chuck Palahniuk''s darkly comic and often dazzling thriller. Assigned to write a series of feature articles investigating SIDS, troubled newspaper reporter Carl Streator begins to notice a pattern among the cases he encounters: each child was read the same poem prior to his or her death. His research and a tip from a necrophilic paramedic lead him to Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent who sells "distressed" (demonized) homes, assured of their instant turnover. Boyle and Streator have both lost children to "crib death," and she confirms Streator''s suspicions: the poem is an ancient lullaby or "culling song" that is lethal if spoken--or even thought--in a victim''s direction. The misanthropic Streator, now armed with a deadly and uncontrollably catchy tune, goes on a minor killing spree until he recognizes his crimes and the song''s devastating potential.\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n then turns into something of a road trip narrative, with Streator, Boyle, her empty-headed Wiccan secretary Mona, and Mona''s vigilante boyfriend Oyster setting out across the U.S. to track down and destroy all copies of the poem.\n</p>\n<p>\n In his previous works, including the cult favorite\n <em>\n  Fight Club\n </em>\n , Palahniuk has demonstrated a fondness for making statements about the condition of humanity, and he uses\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n like a blunt object to repeatedly overstate his generally dim view. Such dogmatic venom undermines the persuasiveness of his thesis about mass communication and free will, but thankfully, Palahniuk offers some respite here by allowing for sympathy and love, as well as through his razor-sharp humor, such as his mock listings for Helen''s possessed properties: "six bedrooms, four baths, pine-paneled entryway, and blood running down the kitchen walls...." At such moments,\n <em>\n  Lullaby\n </em>\n casts a powerful spell.\n <em>\n  --Ross Doll\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I need to rebel against myself. It''s the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear." Beleaguered reporter Carl Streator is stuck writing about SIDS and grieving for his dead wife and child; he copes by building perfect model homes and smashing them with a bare foot. But things only get worse: Carl accidentally memorizes an ancient African "culling song" that kills anyone he focuses on while mentally reciting it, until killing "gets to be a bad habit." His only friend, Nash, a creepy necrophiliac coroner, amuses himself with Carl''s victims. Salvation of a sort comes in the form of Helen Hoover Boyle, a witch making a tidy living as a real estate broker selling-and quickly reselling-haunted houses. She, too, knows the culling song and finances her diamond addiction by freelancing as a telepathic assassin. Carl and Helen hit the road with Helen''s Wiccan assistant, Mona, and her blackmailing boyfriend, Oyster, on a search-and-destroy mission for all outstanding copies of the culling song, as well as an all-powerful master tome of spells, a grimoire. Hilarious satire, both supernatural and scatological, ensues, the subtext of which seems to be Palahniuk''s conviction that information has become a weapon ("Imagine a plague you catch through your ears"), and the bizarre love affair between Helen and Carl offers the lone linear thread in a field of narrative flak bursts. But the chief significance of this novel is Palahniuk''s decision to commit himself to a genre, and this horror tale of both magic and mundane modernity plants him firmly in a category where previously he existed as a genre of one.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1120'),
(6807, 'Lullaby Town', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lullaby Town is a 1992 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the third in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole. It was nominated for both the Anthony Award and the Shamus Award. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lullaby Town is Chelam, Connecticut, where L.A. shamus Elvis Cole (The Monkey''s Raincoat, 1987--not reviewed) goes in search of Karen Shipley, divorced ten years earlier by boyish filmmaker Peter Alan Nelsen, who''s since developed deep pockets (courtesy of a string of action hits beginning with Chainsaw) and a conscience of sorts. Just when it looks like Elvis has found Karen and her son, Toby, all too easily, Karen turns out to be laundering money for the Mafia, and the story takes off like a two-stage rocket. It''ll take all of Elvis''s wise-guy savvy to pry Karen loose from those other wise-guys without condemning her to the witness-protection program or the East River. Elvis is as sharp as a West Coast Spenser, but without Spenser''s nasty/noble attitudinizing--and this story is pure pleasure from the very first page. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/447'),
(6808, 'Luring a Lady', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nothing in Sydney Hayward''s background of wealth and privilege prepared her to take the helm of her family''s corporation. And her new responsibilities left no room for complications. Earthly and entirely masculine, Mikahil came from a world entirely different from her own but the way she felt when he put his strong, work-hardened hands on her was wreaking havoc with Sydney''s resolve...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3042'),
(6809, 'Lush Life', 'Richard Price', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''So, what do you do?'' Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter . . . But now he''s thirty-five years old and he''s still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving the people he wanted to be. What does Eric do? He manages. Not like Ike Marcus. Ike was young, good-looking, people liked him. Ask him what he did, he wouldn''t say tending bar. He was going places-until two street kids stepped up to him and Eric one night and pulled a gun. At least, that''s Eric''s version. InLush Life, Richard Price tears the shiny veneer off the ''new'' New York to show us the hidden cracks, the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour.Lush Lifeis an X-ray of the street in the age of no broken windows and ''quality of life'' squads, from a writer whose "tough, gritty brand of social realism . . . reads like a movie in prose'' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3245'),
(6810, 'The Lying Game', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n I had a life anyone would kill for.  Then someone did.  The worst part of being dead is that thereâ€™s nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more secrets. No more gossip. Itâ€™s enough to kill a girl all over again. But Iâ€™m about to get something no one else doesâ€”an encore performance, thanks to Emma, the long-lost twin sister I never even got to meet.  Now Emmaâ€™s desperate to know what happened to me. And the only way to figure it out is to be meâ€”to slip into my old life and piece it all together. But can she laugh at inside jokes with my best friends? Convince my boyfriend sheâ€™s the girl he fell in love with? Pretend to be a happy, carefree daughter when she hugs my parents good night? And can she keep up the charade, even after she realizes my murderer is watching her every move?  From Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars books, comes a riveting new series about secrets, lies, and killer consequences. Let the lying game begin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3776'),
(6811, 'Madeleine: Our Daughter&#39;s Disappearance and the Continuing Search for Her', 'Kate McCann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''The decision to publish this book has been very difficult, and taken with heavy hearts ... My reason for writing it is simple: to give an account of the truth ... Writing this memoir has entailed recording some very personal, intimate and emotional aspects of our lives. Sharing these with strangers does not come easily to me, but if I hadn''t done so I would not have felt the book gave as full a picture as it is possible for me to give. As with every action we have taken over the last four years, it ultimately boils down to whether what we are doing could help us to find Madeleine. When the answer to that question is yes, or even possibly, our family can cope with anything ...  What follows is an intensely personal account, and I make no apology for that ... Nothing is more important to us than finding our little girl.'' Kate McCann, May 2011   ''It is a sad fact that not a single police force anywhere is proactively looking for Madeleine (as is the case for many other missing children). I am sure this book will re-energize the search for our daughter and the public will get behind the Find Madeleine campaign once again. It is simply not acceptable that the authorities have given up on Madeleine - especially when no comprehensive review of the case has been undertaken. Our daughter, and whoever took her, are out there. We need your help to find them.'' Gerry McCann, May 2011\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/449');
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(6812, 'Magical Thinking', 'Augusten Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 11px; ">\n  <h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(176, 163, 119); ">\n   Synopsis\n  </h3>\n </span>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  Praise for Augusten Burroughs\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "A wrenching, edifying journey...with the added benefit of being really entertaining."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Dry\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "Beneath the quick-flowing, funny-sad surface of Burroughs''s prose lurks considerable complexity."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Time\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Dry\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "A great read."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Chicago Sun-Times\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Dry\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "\n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Dry\n  </i>\n  Â is more than a heartbreaking tale; it''s a heroic one."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   People\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Dry\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "Laughter on the road to sobriety...for aficionados of outrageous black comedy."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   The New York Times\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Dry\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "Bawdy, outrageous...insanely funny (quite literally)...a William Burroughs situation comedy."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   The New York Times\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Running with Scissors\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "Running with Scissors, as a memoir in the current conventional sense, makes a good run at blowing every other contender out of the water."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   The Washington Post\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Running with Scissors\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "Outrageously amusing...wait until you get a load of this guy''s material.... He can consider this a fan letter. Grade A."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </i>\n  Â onÂ \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Running with Scissors\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  "As funny as it is twisted."\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  -Â \n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   GQ\n  </i>\n  Â on\n  <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n   Â Running with Scissors\n  </i>\n </p>\n <h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(176, 163, 119); ">\n  Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  It would be tempting to call these highly personal and uninhibited essays painfully honest, except that Burroughs (Running with Scissors; Dry) is so forthright about his egocentricity that the revelations don''t appear to cause him much pain. He approaches his material with a blithe tone that oozes sarcasm and crocodile tears. But the palpable humor of the writing itself endears listeners to him enough that they won''t be completely repelled by even Burroughs''s ugliest moments (which include his less than gallant reaction to accidentally stepping on a toddler''s fingers in a store). His performance is off the cuff, but even when he''s at his least humane, he still comes across as all too human. He adopts the same openness that made his previous memoirs-dealing with his bizarre upbringing and battle with addiction-so successful; now, however, he''s focusing on less serious subject matter and displaying failings that are more vain. Burroughs excels in his personifications of others, whether portraying a domineering cleaning woman or an overbearing boss. While some may secretly wish for the death of such a boss, though, Burroughs admits openly and proudly that he believes he can will it to happen. That attitude, which is accentuated by his reading, makes this audiobook a true guilty pleasure. Simultaneous release with the St. Martin''s hardcover (Forecasts, July 12). (Oct.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1983'),
(6813, 'The Magician King', 'Lev Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to The New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon of 2009--The Magicians.   The Magicians was praised as a triumph by readers and critics of both mainstream and fantasy literature. Now Grossman takes us back to Fillory, where the Brakebills graduates have fled the sorrows of the mundane world, only to face terrifying new challenges.   Quentin and his friends are now the kings and queens of Fillory, but the days and nights of royal luxury are starting to pall. After a morning hunt takes a sinister turn, Quentin and his old friend Julia charter a magical sailing ship and set out on an errand to the wild outer reaches of their kingdom. Their pleasure cruise becomes an adventure when the two are unceremoniously dumped back into the last place Quentin ever wants to see: his parent''s house in Chesterton, Massachusetts. And only the black, twisted magic that Julia learned on the streets can save them.  The Magician King is a grand voyage into the dark, glittering heart of magic, an epic quest for the Harry Potter generation. It also introduces a powerful new voice, that of Julia, whose angry genius is thrilling. Once again Grossman proves that he is the modern heir to C.S. Lewis, and the cutting edge of literary fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3338'),
(6814, 'The Magicians', 'Lev Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Intellectually precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater escapes the boredom of his daily life by reading and re-reading a series of beloved fantasy novels set in an enchanted land called Fillory. Like everybody else'' he assumes that ma\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3214'),
(6815, 'The Magnificent Ambersons', 'Booth Tarkington', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Set in Midwest America in the early twentieth century, this bestselling novel introduces the extravagantly rich Ambersons, whose only real problem is that George Amberson Minafer-the spoiled grandson of the family patriarch-refuses to acknowledge the "new money" and rising prestige of business tycoons, industrialists, and real-estate developers. Rather than join the modern age, George insists on remaining a "gentleman." But his town soon becomes a city, and the family palace becomes surrounded by industry, destroying the elegant, privileged lifestyle the family enjoyed in days gone by. This brilliant portrayal of social change is a timeless literary masterpiece. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3077'),
(6816, 'The Magnificent Bastards: The Joint Army-Marine Defense of Dong Ha, 1968', 'Keith William Nolan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nolan augments his reputation as a Vietnam combat chronicler with the story of the two weeks of intense fighting near Dong Ha in 1968. Involving a marine battalion, an army infantry battalion, and their supporting units, the fighting was the most basic and bloody sort of ground combat. For their deeds in it, two men won Medals of Honor, but scores of others won no more than body bags. Nolan has thoroughly researched the battle, largely through primary source documents and interviews with participants, and has produced a book that, though it requires some background knowledge of the Vietnam war in order to be fully appreciated, for serious readers will stand very high among accounts of the infantryman''s war.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n On April 29, 1968, the North Vietnamese Army is spotted less than four miles from the U.S. Marinesâ€™ Dong Ha Combat Base. Intense fighting develops in nearby Dai Do as the 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, known as â€œthe Magnificent Bastards,â€ struggles to eject NVA forces from this strategic position.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet the BLT 2/4\n <strong>\n </strong>\n Marines defy the brutal onslaught. Pressing forward, Americaâ€™s finest warriors rout the NVA from their fortress-hamletsâ€“often in deadly hand-to-hand combat.\n <strong>\n </strong>\n At the end of two weeks of desperate, grinding battles, the Marines and the infantry battalion supporting them are torn to shreds. But against all odds, they beat back their savage adversary.\n <em>\n  The Magnificent Bastards\n </em>\n captures that gripping conflict in all its horror, hell, and heroism.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSuperb . . . among the best writing on the Vietnam War . . . Nolan has skillfully woven operational records and oral history into a fascinating narrative that puts the reader in the thick of the action.â€\n <br />\n â€“Jon T. Hoffman, author of\n <em>\n  Chesty\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReal and gripping . . . combat with all the warts on.â€\n <br />\n â€“Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret.)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2284'),
(6817, 'The Magnolia League', 'Katie Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When her free-spirited mother dies in a tragic accident, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Lee is forced to leave her West Coast home and move in with a wealthy grandmother she''s never known in Savannah, Georgia. By birth, Alex is a rightful if unwilling member of the Magnolia League-Savannah''s long-standing debutante society. But white gloves and silk gowns are a far cry from the vintage t-shirts and torn jeans shorts she''s used to.\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n Alex is the first in decades to question the Magnolia League''s intentions, yet even she becomes entangled in their seductive world. The members enjoy youth, beauty and power...but at what cost? As Alex discovers a pact between the Magnolias and the Buzzards, a legendary hoodoo family, she discovers secrets-some deadly-hidden beneath the glossy Southern veneer.\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  New York Times\n </i>\n bestselling author Katie Crouch''s poignant and humorous voice shines in this enchanting and mysterious story about girls growing up...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/908'),
(6818, 'Maine', 'J. Courtney Sullivan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Laura Dave on *Maine\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  *Laura Dave\n </strong>\n is the author of the acclaimed novels\n <em>\n  The Divorce Party, London Is the Best City in America\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The First Husband\n </em>\n . Her writing has appeared in\n <em>\n  The New York Times, Glamour, Redbook\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The New York Observer\n </em>\n . Dave graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and was recently named as a "Fun and Fearless Phenom" of the year by\n <em>\n  Cosmopolitan\n </em>\n . She lives in California.*\n</p>\n<p>\n Having spent my favorite childhood summers in Maine, I was so excited for J. Courtney Sullivanâ€™s new novel,\n <em>\n  Maine\n </em>\n . Would her story of three generations of Kelleher women who find themselves back at their summer home--all facing their own secret hardships and challenges--deliver? It certainly did.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is the final summer in Maine for the Kelleher family, and its four strong-willed women are dreaming of bare feet, cocktails at sunset, and that magical ocean air. Alice is the matriarch, a regular fixture at morning mass, and an equally regular fixture in the wicker chair on the sun porch where she spends all afternoon drinking manhattans and smoking cigarettes. Maggie is Aliceâ€™s granddaughter, a thirty-two-year-old writer who has just realized she''s pregnant, a fact she has yet to tell her off-again boyfriend. Maggieâ€™s mother, Kathleen, is the prodigal daughter, camped out in California, wishing desperately to avoid the annual Kelleher showdown. And Ann Marie, Aliceâ€™s daughter-in-law, is the long-suffering martyr and avid dollhouse collector who is determined to keep this chaotic household in order.\n</p>\n<p>\n Over the course of this summer, long-held secrets are revealed, embarrassing crushes bloom, and gallons of vodka are consumed. While Alice must face reminders of a devastating tragedy, Maggie has to decide what to do about Gabe and the baby, Kathleen comes face to face with the woman she most fears, and Ann Marie desperately tries to maintain the image of a perfect family.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sullivan spins an unhurried and thoughtful tale that delves into familial love, romantic heartaches, tightly-held longings, and a lot of hope. I\n <em>\n  loved\n </em>\n these women and felt grateful to join them as they returned to Maine--just in time to figure out where they needed to go next.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "You donâ€™t want the novel to end in July. You want to stay with the Kellehers straight through to the end of August, until the sand cools, the sailboats disappear from their moorings, and every last secret has been pried up." â€”Lily King, *The New York Times Book Review\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "I have never stayed at this cottage in Maine, or any cottage in Maine, but no matter: I now feel I know what it''s like being in a family that comes to the same place summer after summer, unpacking their familiar longings, slights, shorthand conversation, and ways of being together.Â J. Courtney Sullivan''sÂ \n </em>\n Maine\n <em>\n  Â is evocative, funny, close-quartered, and highly appealing." â€“Meg Wolitzer, author of\n </em>\n The Uncoupling\n <br />\n <em>\n  <br />\n  â€œAn ideal summer read. . . . Gives us . . . characters we can care about, despite their sometimes too-familiar flaws.â€ â€”\n </em>\n USA Today\n <em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œAttentive to class distinctions and hierarchies, as well as historic pressures and family dynamics, Sullivan presents women who may be stubborn and difficult, but she does so with such compassion and humor that we, too, end up rooting for them. Even if\n </em>\n Maine\n <em>\n  weren''t set on a beach, it would be a perfect beach book.â€ â€”\n </em>\n Chicago Tribune*\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sullivanâ€™s smarts shed light on topics all families deal with, but her tasteful approach on the tough ones (particularly modern-day religious issues) shine through. The cast of quirky characters will have you laughing out loud and aching for their regrets in the same chapter, pining for more pages when it comes to an end." â€”MarieClaire.com\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  Maine\n </em>\n â€™s brisk storytelling, and the unfurling of its central mystery . . . sweep readers along with gratifying sink-into-your-deck-chair ease." â€”*Entertainment Weekly\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Curl up with this wry, absorbing novel and eavesdrop on a summerâ€™s worth of secrets, feuds, and misunderstandings." â€”\n </em>\n Parade *magazine\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ms. Sullivanâ€™s follow-up to her best-selling novel,\n <em>\n  Commencement\n </em>\n . . . follows adult children who gather at their beach cottage in Maine to sip that familial cocktail of misery and love. . . . Once the women are together, the fuse is lighted. Ms. Sullivan locks the doors and waits for the explosion." â€”\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Sullivan] validates the old adage that you can pick your friends, but you are stuck with your relatives. This is a powerful, evocative story, beautifully written to reveal raw human emotions. . . . Fresh and lively. . . . This is a well-crafted story about destructive family relationships and shameful behavior, loaded with tension, secrets, booze, marital conflict, stinging arguments, and some very funny scenes." â€”\n <em>\n  The New Maine Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  Maine\n </em>\n by J. Courtney Sullivan is a powerful novel about the ties that bind families tight, no matter how dysfunctional. Sullivan has created in the Kelleher women a cast of flawed but lovable characters so real, with their shared history of guilt and heartache and secret resentments, that Iâ€™m sure Iâ€™ll be thinking about them for a long time to come." â€“Amy Greene, author of *Bloodroot\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Everyone has dark secrets. Itâ€™s why God invented confession and booze, two balms frequently employed in Sullivanâ€™s well-wrought sophomore effort. Alice Brennan is Irish American through and through, the daughter of a cop, a good Catholic girl so outwardly pure that sheâ€™s a candidate for the papacy. . . . As Sullivanâ€™s tale unfolds, there are plenty of reasons that Alice might wish to avoid taking too close a look at her life: Thereâ€™s tragedy and heartbreak around every corner, as there is in every life. . . .Â Sullivan spins a leisurely yarn that looks into why people do the things they doâ€”particularly when it comes to drinking and churchgoingâ€”and why the best-laid plans are always the ones the devil monkeys with the most thoroughly. The story will be particularly meaningful to Catholic women, though there are no barriers to entry for those who are not of that faith. Mature, thoughtful, even meditative at timesâ€”but also quite entertaining." â€“\n </em>\n Kirkus*\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "At the heart of this compelling novel of three generations of women emotionally stunted by fate and willful stubbornness is the family vacation property in Cape Neddick, ME, where the Kellehers have convened for six decades. . . . In her second novel (after\n <em>\n  Commencement\n </em>\n ), Sullivan brilliantly lays out the case for the nearly futile task of these three generations of badly damaged Irish Catholic women seeking acceptance from one another." â€“\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sullivan creates deeply observed and believable [characters]. . . . Moody matriarch Alice, her uninvolved hippie daughter Kathleen, brown-nosing daughter-in-law Mary Ann, and newly-single, thirtysomething granddaughter Maggie each has a simmering-below-the surface inner-monologue that lights a spark, and Sullivan makes sure we can only anticipate an explosion. Sullivan gracefully meets the challenge of crafting a cast clearly pulled from the same DNA soup, without a clunk or hitch in the machinery." â€“\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/606'),
(6819, 'Major Pettigrew&#39;s Last Stand', 'Helen Simonson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson''s wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, Major Pettigrew is one of the most indelible characters in contemporary fiction, and from the very first page of this remarkable novel he will steal your heart.The Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea. But then his brother''s death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as the permanent foreigner. Can their relationship survive the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of culture and tradition?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3666'),
(6820, 'Making Haste From Babylon', 'Nick Bunker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the\n <em>\n  Mayflower\n </em>\n , the atmosphere remained charged with fear and expectation. Men and women readied themselves for war, pestilence, or divine retribution. Against this background, and amid deep economic depression, the Pilgrims conceived their enterprise of exile.\n</p>\n<p>\n Within a decade, despite crisis and catastrophe, they built a thriving settlement at New Plymouth, based on beaver fur, corn, and cattle. In doing so, they laid the foundations for Massachusetts, New England, and a new nation. Using a wealth of new evidence from landscape, archaeology, and hundreds of overlooked or neglected documents, Nick Bunker gives a vivid and strikingly original account of the\n <em>\n  Mayflower\n </em>\n project and the first decade of the Plymouth Colony. From mercantile London and the rural England of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I to the mountains and rivers of Maine, he weaves a rich narrative that combines religion, politics, money, science, and the sea.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Pilgrims were entrepreneurs as well as evangelicals, political radicals as well as Christian idealists.\n <em>\n  Making Haste from Babylon\n </em>\n tells their story in unrivaled depth, from their roots in religious conflict and village strife at home to their final creation of a permanent foothold in America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2490'),
(6821, 'Maktub', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1220'),
(6822, 'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention', 'Manning Marable', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins'' bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-actualized, independent African American man. In death he became a broad symbol of both resistance and reconciliation for millions around the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Manning Marable''s new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement. Filled with new information and shocking revelations that go beyond the\n <em>\n  Autobiography, Malcolm X\n </em>\n unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America, from the rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties. Reaching into Malcolm''s troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents'' activism through his own engagement with the Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the never-before-told true story of his assassination.\n <em>\n  Malcolm X\n </em>\n will stand as the definitive work on one of the most singular forces for social change, capturing with revelatory clarity a man who constantly strove, in the great American tradition, to remake himself anew.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Manning Marable\n </strong>\n is M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies and professor of history and public affairs at Columbia University. He was founding director of African American Studies at Columbia from 1993 to 2003. Since 2002, he has directed Columbia''s Center for Contemporary Black History. The author of fifteen books, Marable is also the editor of the quarterly journal\n <em>\n  Souls\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2493'),
(6823, 'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention', 'Manning Marable', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist.   Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins'' bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-actualized, independent African American man. In death he became a broad symbol of both resistance and reconciliation for millions around the world.  Manning Marable''s new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement. Filled with new information and shocking revelations that go beyond the Autobiography, Malcolm X unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America, from the rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties. Reaching into Malcolm''s troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents'' activism through his own engagement with the Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the never-before-told true story of his assassination. Malcolm X will stand as the definitive work on one of the most singular forces for social change, capturing with revelatory clarity a man who constantly strove, in the great American tradition, to remake himself anew.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3843'),
(6824, 'Malice', 'Lisa Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The scent is gardenias, the same perfume that Rick Bentz''s beautiful first wife, Jennifer, always wore. Opening his eyes in the hospital room where he''s recovering from an accident, New Orleans detective Rick Bentz sees her standing in the doorway. Then Jennifer blows him a kiss and disappears. But it couldn''t have been Jennifer. She died twelve years ago. Once out of the hospital, Bentz begins to see Jennifer everywhere. Could she still be alive? But it was Bentz who identified Jennifer''s body after her horrible car wreck, and there had been no question in his mind that it was her crumpled form behind the wheel, her clothes, her wedding ring. He''s never doubted it - until now. He can''t tell his new wife, Olivia, about the sightings or his secret fear that he''s losing his mind. But Olivia is also hiding a secret. When a copy of Jennifer''s death certificate arrives in the mail, emblazoned with a red question mark, Bentz follows the postmark trail to Los Angeles, returning to the painful memories he''s tried so hard to forget, and straight into a killer''s web. Someone''s been waiting patiently, silently. Someone who knows exactly what happened that night twelve years ago and has been anticipating Bentz''s every move. Soon it will be Bentz''s turn to suffer for his sins. But he won''t be the only one made to pay the ultimate price. For a diabolical killer has now made Olivia the prime target.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3625'),
(6825, 'Mama Dearest', 'E. Lynn Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Diva supreme Yancey Harrington Braxton is working her way back to Broadway and beyondand stirring up drama in and out of the spotlightin the acclaimed New York Timesbestseller from E. Lynn Harris.After being out on tour, the ambitious singer and actress is fired up to move past her recent setbacksincluding an explosive romance with NFL tight end John Basil Hendersonand prove her talents are stronger than ever. What Yancey reallywants is to star in her own reality TV series, and she''s even found a rich and well-connected lover to make it happen. There are, however, two women fierce enough to derail Yancey''s comeback dreams: Madison B., a hot new bombshell taking the music industry by storm, and Ava Middlebrooks, who happens to be Yancey''s own mama dearest.Not even a stint in prison for attempted murder has curbed Ava''s competitive nature. Now she will bring down her #1 rivalher own daughterby using Madison B. to turn Yancey''s world upside-down. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3680'),
(6826, 'The Man From Beijing', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries comes an extraordinary stand-alone novel - both a mystery and a sweeping drama - that traces the legacy of the nineteenth-century slave trade between China and America. January 2006. In the small Swedish hamlet of Hesj vallen, a horrific scene is discovered: nineteen people have been tortured and massacred an the only clue is a red silk ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has a particular reason to be shocked by the crime: her mother''s adoptive parents, the Andr ns, are among the victims. Investigating further, she learns that an Andr n family living in Nevada has also been murdered. Travelling to Hesj vallen, she finds a diary, kept by a gangmaster on the railway built across America in the 1860s, full of vivid descriptions of the brutality with which the Chinese and other slave workers were treated. She discovers that the red silk ribbon found at the crime scene came from a local Chinese restaurant, and she learns that a Chinese man, a stranger to the town, was staying at a local boarding house at the time of the atrocity. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed such a horrific crime, but Birgitta suspects that there is much more to it, and she is determined to uncover the truth. Her search takes her from Sweden to Beijing and back, but Mankell''s narrative also takes us 150 years into the past: to China and America when the hatred that fuelled the massacre was born, a hatred transformed and complicated over time and that will catch up to Birgitta as she draws ever closer to discovering who is behind the Hesj vallen murders. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3329'),
(6827, 'Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times', 'Ralph Stanley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A legend looks back on his six decades in music.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ralph Stanley was born in 1927 in a corner of Virginia known as Big Spraddle Creek, a place where music echoed from the ridge tops, was belted out by workers in the fields, and resonated in the one-room country church where Ralph first found his voice. For his eleventh birthday, Ralph was given five dollars, and had to chose between buying a sow or a banjo. He chose the banjo, which his mother taught him to play in the clawhammer style. In 1946, he combined his banjo with his brother Carter''s guitar, and the two blended their voices into one as the Stanley Brothers. For twenty years the Stanleys chased the dream through good times and hard times, until the hard times caught up to Carter and he succumbed to liver disease at age 41. In the four decades since his brother''s passing, Ralph has brought his music from the hills and hollows of southwest Virginia to the wide world.\n  <br />\n  Now in his eighties and still touring, Ralph has at last grown into his voice and is ready to tell his story. In\n  <em>\n   Man of Constant Sorrow\n  </em>\n  , Ralph looks back on his career in what most call bluegrass but what he prefers to call "old time mountain music." He recounts the creation of hundreds of classic tracks, including "White Dove," "Rank Stranger," and his signature song, "Man of Constant Sorrow." He tells tales from a life spent on road with his band the Clinch Mountain Boys, explains his distinctive "Stanley style" of banjo-playing, crosses paths with everyone from Bill Monroe to Bob Dylan, and reflects on his late-career resurgence sparked by an unlikely Grammy win in 2002 for his song "O Death." He also raises a dirge for Appalachia, his mountain home that is quickly disappearing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Harmonized with equal measures of tragedy and triumph,\n  <em>\n   Man of Constant Sorrow\n  </em>\n  is the stirring testament of a giant of American music.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1984'),
(6828, 'The Man Who Loved China', 'Simon Winchester', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Professor and the Madman\n  </em>\n  ("Elegant and scrupulous"Â—\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  ) and\n  <em>\n   Krakatoa\n  </em>\n  ("A mesmerizing page-turner"Â—\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  ) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the world''s most technologically advanced country.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  No cloistered don, this tall, married Englishman was a freethinking intellectual, who practiced nudism and was devoted to a quirky brand of folk dancing. In 1937, while working as a biochemist at Cambridge University, he instantly fell in love with a visiting Chinese student, with whom he began a lifelong affair.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  He soon became fascinated with China, and his mistress swiftly persuaded the ever-enthusiastic Needham to travel to her home country, where he embarked on a series of extraordinary expeditions to the farthest frontiers of this ancient empire. He searched everywhere for evidence to bolster his conviction that the Chinese were responsible for hundreds of mankind''s most familiar innovationsÂ—including printing, the compass, explosives, suspension bridges, even toilet paperÂ—often centuries before the rest of the world. His thrilling and dangerous journeys, vividly recreated by Winchester, took him across war-torn China to far-flung outposts, consolidating his deep admiration for the Chinese people.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  After the war, Needham was determined to tell the world what he had discovered, and began writing his majestic\n  <em>\n   Science and Civilisation in China\n  </em>\n  , describing the country''s long and astonishing history of invention and technology. By the time he died, he had produced, essentially single-handedly, seventeen immense volumes, marking him as the greatest one-man encyclopedist ever.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Both epic and intimate,\n  <em>\n   The Man Who Loved China\n  </em>\n  tells the sweeping story of China through Needham''s remarkable life. Here is an unforgettable tale of what makes men, nations, and, indeed, mankind itself greatÂ—related by one of the world''s inimitable storytellers.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2287'),
(6829, 'The Man With the Golden Gun', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A brainwashed James Bond has tried--and failed--to assassinate M, his boss. Now Bond has to prove he is back on form and can be trusted again. All 007 has to do is kill one of the most deadly freelance hit men in the world: Paco "Pistols" Scaramanga, the Man with the Golden Gun. But despite his license to kill, 007 is no assassin, and on finding Scaramanga in the sultry heat of Jamaica, he decides to infiltrate the killer''s criminal cooperative--and realizes that he will have to take him out as swiftly as possible. Otherwise 007 might just be the next on a long list of British Secret Service numbers retired by the Man with the Golden Gun . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1140'),
(6830, 'A Man Without a Country', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his first book since 1999, it''s just like old times as Vonnegut (now 82) makes with the deeply black humor in this collection of articles written over the last five years, many from the alternative magazine\n <em>\n  In These Times\n </em>\n . But the pessimistic wisecracks may be wearing thin; the conversational tone of the pieces is like Garrison Keillor with a savage undercurrent. Still, the schtick works fine most of the time, underscored by hand-lettered aphorisms between chapters. Some essays suffer from authorial self-indulgence, however, like taking a dull story about mailing a manuscript and stretching it to interminable lengths. Vonnegut reserves special bile for the "psychopathic personalities" (i.e., "smart, personable people who have no consciences") in the Bush administration, which he accuses of invading Iraq so America can score more of the oil to which we have become addicted. People, he says, are just "chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power." Of course, that''s exactly the sort of misanthropy hardcore Vonnegut fans will lap upâ€”the online versions of these pieces are already described as the most popular Web pages in the history of\n <em>\n  In These Times. (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Man Without a Country\n </em>\n is Kurt Vonnegutâ€™s hilarious and razor-sharp look at life (â€œIf I dieâ€”God forbidâ€”I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, â€˜Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?â€™â€), art (â€œTo practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.â€), politics (â€œI asked former Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton what he thought of our great victory over Iraq and he said, â€˜Mohammed Ali versus Mr. Rogers.â€™â€), and the condition of the soul of America today (â€œWhat has happened to us?â€). Gleaned from short essays and speeches composed over the last five years and plentifully illustrated with artwork by the author throughout,\n <em>\n  A Man Without a Country\n </em>\n gives us Vonnegut both speaking out with indignation and writing tenderly to his fellow Americans, sometimes joking, at other times hopeless, always searching.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kurt Vonnegut\n </strong>\n is among the very few grandmasters of contemporary American letters, without whom the very term â€œAmerican literatureâ€ would mean less than it does. His novels include\n <em>\n  Catâ€™s Cradle\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Slaughterhouse Five\n </em>\n , among so many others. Projects with Seven Stories Press in recent years include\n <em>\n  God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian\n </em>\n and, with Lee Stringer,\n <em>\n  Like Shaking Hands with God\n </em>\n , a book about writing. His most recent novel is\n <em>\n  Timequake\n </em>\n (1997). In addition to his writing, Vonnegut is a visual artist of note. His paintings and prints can be seen at\n <em>\n  www.vonnegut.com\n </em>\n . He lives with his wife, photographer Jill Krementz, in New York City.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Daniel Simon\n </strong>\n is the founder and publisher of Seven Stories Press and served as editor on two previous books by Kurt Vonnegut,\n <em>\n  God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian\n </em>\n and, with Lee Stringer,\n <em>\n  Like Shaking Hands God\n </em>\n . Simon is also co-author of a biography of Abbie Hoffman,\n <em>\n  Run, Run, Run: The Lives of Abbie Hoffman\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1778'),
(6831, 'Manual of the Warrior of Light', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''The Manual of the Warrior of Light'' is a handbook that shows human beings how to live as spiritual beings in the material world. This exciting new edition includes exclusive content, such as an interview with the author, in-depth background information on the book, recommended books if you liked this one, and much more.''The Manual of the Warrior of Light'' is an invitation to each of us to live our dream, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to meet our own unique destiny. In his inimitable style, Paulo Coelho helps us to discover the warrior of light within each of us.With inspiring short passages, we are invited to embark upon the way of the warrior: the one who appreciates the miracle of being alive, the one who accepts failure and the one whose quest leads him to become the person he wants to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1271'),
(6832, 'Mao&#39;s Great Famine: The History of China&#39;s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962', 'Frank Dikotter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank DikÃ¶tter''s riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that "fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era." DikÃ¶tter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world''s superpowers and prove the power of Communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of "one of the most deadly mass killings of human history,"Â—at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to deathÂ—but also of "the greatest demolition of real estate in human history," as up to one-third of all housing was turned into rubble). The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. In a powerful mesghing of exhaustive research in Chinese archives and narrative drive, DikÃ¶tter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power-the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders-with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People''s Republic of China.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2494');
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(6833, 'The Mapping of Love and Death', 'Jacqueline Winspear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the latest mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and deathâ€”an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.   August 1914. Michael Clifton is mapping the land he has just purchased in California''s beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, certain that oil lies beneath its surface. But as the young cartographer prepares to return home to Boston, war is declared in Europe. Michaelâ€”the youngest son of an expatriate Englishmanâ€”puts duty first and sails for his father''s native country to serve in the British army. Three years later, he is listed among those missing in action.   April 1932. London psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs is retained by Michael''s parents, who have recently learned that their son''s remains have been unearthed in France. They want Maisie to find the unnamed nurse whose love letters were among Michael''s belongingsâ€”a quest that takes Maisie back to her own bittersweet wartime love. Her inquiries, and the stunning discovery that Michael Clifton was murdered in his trench, unleash a web of intrigue and violence that threatens to engulf the soldier''s family and even Maisie herself. Over the course of her investigation, Maisie must cope with the approaching loss of her mentor, Maurice Blanche, and her growing awareness that she is once again falling in love.   Following the critically acclaimed bestseller Among the Mad, The Mapping of Love and Death delivers the most gripping and satisfying chapter yet in the life of Maisie Dobbs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3628'),
(6834, 'March', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Brooks''s luminous second novel, after 2001''s acclaimed\n <em>\n  Year of Wonders\n </em>\n , imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott''s\n <em>\n  Little Women\n </em>\n . An idealistic Concord cleric, March becomes a Union chaplain and later finds himself assigned to be a teacher on a cotton plantation that employs freed slaves, or "contraband." His narrative begins with cheerful letters home, but March gradually reveals to the reader what he does not to his family: the cruelty and racism of Northern and Southern soldiers, the violence and suffering he is powerless to prevent and his reunion with Grace, a beautiful, educated slave whom he met years earlier as a Connecticut peddler to the plantations. In between, we learn of March''s earlier life: his whirlwind courtship of quick-tempered Marmee, his friendship with Emerson and Thoreau and the surprising cause of his family''s genteel poverty. When a Confederate attack on the contraband farm lands March in a Washington hospital, sick with fever and guilt, the first-person narrative switches to Marmee, who describes a different version of the years past and an agonized reaction to the truth she uncovers about her husband''s life. Brooks, who based the character of March on Alcott''s transcendentalist father, Bronson, relies heavily on primary sources for both the Concord and wartime scenes; her characters speak with a convincing 19th-century formality, yet the narrative is always accessible. Through the shattered dreamer March, the passion and rage of Marmee and a host of achingly human minor characters, Brooks''s affecting, beautifully written novel drives home the intimate horrors and ironies of the Civil War and the difficulty of living honestly with the knowledge of human suffering.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-In Brooks''s well-researched interpretation of Louisa May Alcott''s\n <em>\n  Little Women\n </em>\n , Mr. March also remains a shadowy figure for the girls who wait patiently for his letters. They keep a stiff upper lip, answering his stiff, evasive, flowery letters with cheering accounts of the plays they perform and the charity they provide, hiding their own civilian privations. Readers, however, are treated to the real March, based loosely upon the character of Alcott''s own father. March is a clergyman influenced by Thoreau, Emerson, and especially John Brown (to whom he loses a fortune). His high-minded ideals are continually thwarted not only by the culture of the times, but by his own ineptitude as well. A staunch abolitionist, he is amazingly naive about human nature. He joins the Union army and soon becomes attached to a hospital unit. His radical politics are an embarrassment to the less ideological men, and he is appalled by their lack of abolitionist sentiments and their cruelty. When it appears that he has committed a sexual indiscretion with a nurse, a former slave and an old acquaintance, March is sent to a plantation where the recently freed slaves earn wages but continue to experience cruelty and indignities. Here his faith in himself and in his religious and political convictions are tested. Sick and discouraged, he returns to his little women, who have grown strong in his absence. March, on the other hand, has experienced the horrors of war, serious illness, guilt, regret, and utter disillusionment.\n <em>\n  -Jackie Gropman, Chantilly Regional Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/945'),
(6835, 'The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam', 'Barbara Wertheim Tuchman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interersts, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance Popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain''s George III, and the United States'' persistent folly in Vietnam. THE MARCH OF FOLLY brings the people, places, and events of history magnificently alive for today''s reader.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2290'),
(6836, 'Marco Polo', 'Laurence Bergreen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drawing on original writings and walking in the footsteps of Marco Polo himself, Laurence Bergreen''s\n <em>\n  Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu\n </em>\n is the most definitive biography of the legendary traveler to date, separating the man from his considerable myth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Look inside\n <em>\n  Marco Polo\n </em>\n (Click on thumbnails to see a larger image):\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Marco Polo: a traditional portrait; GrangerFrontispiece of an early published edition of Marco Poloâ€™s Travels, Nuremberg, Germany, 1477; GrangerKublai Khan, emperor of the worldâ€™s largest land-based empire; Granger\n</p>\n<p>\n Marco Polo commanded a Venetian galley similar to this in the Battle of Curzola; GrangerStone carving on the Marco Polo bridge; Laurence BergreenMarco Poloâ€™s vivid and occasionally misinterpreted descriptions of his travels inspired this medieval artist to depict dragons in China; Granger\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Marco Polo timeline (All dates given in the Julian calendar):\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1215\n </strong>\n - Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan and Marco Polo''s mentor, is born.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1254\n </strong>\n - Marco Polo born in Venice, although one tradition locates his birthplace in the Venetian colony of Dalmatia.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1260\n </strong>\n - Kublai Khan becomes leader of the Mongols and in 1271 founds the Yuan ("Origin") Dynasty.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1271\n </strong>\n - Young Marco Polo leaves Venice with his father Niccolo and uncle Maffeo, bound for the court of Kublai Khan.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1274\n </strong>\n - Kublai Khan oversees a failed Mongol invasion of Japan, as the Mongols, masters of the Steppe, meet their match at sea.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1275\n </strong>\n - The three Polos arrive in Shang-du, Kublai Khan''s summer palace immortalized by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as Xanadu; Marco begins his years in the service of the Khan.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1276 - 1293\n </strong>\n - Marco travels throughout Asia, reaching the coast of India, and possibly Zanzibar, gathering intelligence for Kublai Khan and serving as a tax collector for the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1281\n </strong>\n - Kublai Khan''s second failed invasion of Japan, a serious blow to his prestige.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1292\n </strong>\n - The Polos escort Princess Kokachin to Persia to marry, their last formal service to Kublai Khan before departing.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1294\n </strong>\n - Kublai Khan dies, freeing the Polo family, who undertake a dangerous return voyage by sea.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1295\n </strong>\n - Marco, his father, and uncle, arrive in Venice after their 24-year absence. They have been away for so long that their fellow Venetians do not recognize them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1298\n </strong>\n - Marco is captured by the Genoese in the Battle of Curzola, according to some accounts, and confined to a cell in Genoa with a romance writer, Rustichello of Pisa, to whom he dictates his adventures in China, his reminiscences of Kublai Khan, his life among the Mongols.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1300\n </strong>\n - Safely back in Venice, Marco Polo marries Donata Badoer; the couple has three daughters.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1324\n </strong>\n - As manuscript versions of his exploits spread throughout Europe, Marco Polo dies in Venice, claiming that he did not reveal the half of his experiences in his remarkable\n <em>\n  Travels\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even in his own day, the famed 13th-century travel writer Marco Polo was mocked as a purveyor of tall talesâ€”gem-encrusted clothes, nude temple dancing girls, screaming tarantulasâ€”in his narrative of his journey to the Chinese court of the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan. In this engrossing biography, Bergreen (\n <em>\n  James Agee: A Life\n </em>\n ), while allowing that mere facts... were never enough for Marco, finds him a roughly accurate and perceptive witness (aside from the romantic embellishments and outright fabrications concocted with his collaborator Rustichello of Pisa) who painted an influential and unusually sympathetic portrait of the much-feared Mongols. Bergreen follows Polo''s disjointed commentary on everything from Chinese tax policy to asbestos manufacturing, crocodile hunting and Asian sexual moresâ€”Polo was especially taken with the practice of sharing one''s wife with passing travelersâ€”while deftly glossing it with scholarship. Less convincing is Bergreen''s attempt to add depth to Polo''s lurid taste and over-heated imagination by portraying him as both a prophet of globalization and a pilgrim and explorer of the spirit. Polo''s spiritual trek didn''t take him very far, since he ended his days back in Venice as a greedy, litigious merchant. Still, the result is a long, strange, illuminating trip. 16 pages of photos, 3 maps.\n <em>\n  (Oct. 25)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2495'),
(6837, 'The Marks of Cain', 'Tom Knox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The gripping new high-concept thriller from the author of The Genesis Secret, perfect for fans of Dan Brown and Sam Bourne.In America a young man inherits a million dollars, from a grandfather he thought was poor. Meanwhile, across Europe old men and women are being killed, in the most barbaric and elaborate of ways. And a brilliant scientist has disappeared from his laboratory in London, taking his extraordinary experiments with him.Tying these strange events together is an ancient Biblical curse, a medieval French tribe of pariahs, and a momentous and terrible revelation: something that will alter the world forever. One couple is intent on discovering this darkest of secrets, others will kill, and kill again, to stop them.Shifting from the forgotten churches of the Pyrenees, to the mysterious castles of the SS, to the arid and frightening wastes of Namibia, Tom Knox weaves together astonishing truths from ancient scripture and contemporary science to create an unputdownable thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/735'),
(6838, 'The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World', 'Holger H. Herwig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chapter OneWar: "Now or Never"War is . . . an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.â€”carl von clausewitzSince i have been at the foreign office," arthur nicolson noted at Whitehall in May 1914, "I have not seen such calm waters."1 Europe had, in fact, refused to tear itself to pieces over troubles in faraway lands: Morocco in 1905-06 and in 1911; Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908-09; Libya in 1911-12; and the Balkans in 1912-13. The Anglo- German naval arms race had subsided, as had the fears about the Berlin- to-Baghdad Railway, since Berlin had run out of money for such gargantuan enterprises. Russia had overcome its war with Japan (1904-05), albeit at a heavy price in terms of men and ships lost and domestic discontent. Few desolate strips of African or Asian lands remained to be contested, and Berlin and London were preparing to negotiate a "settlement" of the Portuguese colonies. France and Germany had not been at war for forty-three years and Britain and Russia for fifty-eight.Partition of the Continent by 1907 into two nearly equal camps-the Triple Alliance of Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy, and the Triple Entente of Britain, France, and Russia-seemed to militate against metropolitan Europe being dragged into petty wars on its periphery. Kurt Riezler, foreign-policy adviser to German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, cagily argued that given this model of great-power balance, future wars "would no longer be fought but calculated."2 Guns would no longer fire, "but have a voice in the negotiations." In other words, no power would risk escalating minor conflicts into a continental war; instead, each would "bluff" the adversary up the escalatory ladder, stopping just short of war in favor of diplomatic settlement. Peace seemed assured.Domestically, for most well-off and law-abiding Europeans, the period prior to 1914 was a golden age of prosperity and decency. The "red specter" of Socialism had lost much of its threat. Real wages had shot up almost 50 percent between 1890 and 1913. Trade unions had largely won the right to collective bargaining, if not to striking, and their leaders sat in parliaments. Many workers had embraced social imperialism, believing that overseas trade and naval building translated into high-paying jobs at home. Germany had paved the path toward social welfare with state-sponsored health insurance, accident insurance, and old-age pensions. Others followed. Women were on the march for the vote. To be sure, there was trouble over Ireland, but then official London hardly viewed Ireland as a European matter.Paris, as usual, was the exception. The capital had been seething with political excitement since January 1914, when Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro, had launched a public campaign to discredit Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux-ostensibly over a new taxation bill.3 When Calmette published several letters from Caillaux''s personal correspondence, Henriette Caillaux became alarmed. First, that correspondence could make public her husband''s pacifist stance vis-Ã - vis Germany during the Second Moroccan Crisis in 1911; second, she knew that it included love letters from her to Joseph that showed she had conducted an affair with him at a time when he was still married. The elegant Madame Caillaux took matters into her own hands: On 16 March she walked into Calmette''s office, drew a revolver from her muff, and shot the editor four times at point-blank range. Her trial on charges of murder dominated Paris in the summer of 1914. Two shots fired by a Serbian youth at Sarajevo on 28 June paled in comparison.Gavrilo Princip''s murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Habsburg throne, and his morganatic wife, Sophie Chotek, caused no immediate crisis in the major capitals. The dog days of summer were upon Europe. There ensued a mad rush to escape urban heat for cooler climes.4 French president Raymond PoincarÃ© and prime minister RenÃ© Viviani were preparing to board the battleship France for a leisurely cruise through the Baltic Sea to meet Tsar Nicholas II at St. Petersburg. Kaiser Franz Joseph took the waters at Bad Ischl. Wilhelm II was about to board the royal yacht Hohenzollern for his annual cruise of the Norwegian fjords. Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg was off to the family estate at Hohenfinow to play Beethoven on the grand piano and to read Plato (in the original Greek). Foreign Minister Gottlieb von Jagow saw no need to curtail his honeymoon at Lucerne.Nor were military men much concerned. German chief of the General Staff Helmuth von Moltke struck out for Karlsbad, Bohemia, to meet his Austro-Hungarian counterpart, Franz Conrad von HÃ¶tzendorf. War Minister Erich von Falkenhayn was off to vacation in the East Frisian Islands. Navy Secretary Alfred von Tirpitz left Berlin for St. Blasien, in the Black Forest. Habsburg war minister Alexander von Krobatin took the cure at Bad Gastein.Even the less prominent escaped the July heat. Sigmund and Martha Freud, like Moltke and Conrad, vacationed at Karlsbad. V. I. Lenin left Cracow to hike in the Tatra Mountains. Leon Trotsky took solace in a small apartment in the Vienna Woods. Adolf Hitler was back in Munich after a military court-martial at Salzburg had found the draft dodger unfit for military service ("too weak; incapable of bearing arms").5But had the exodus of European leaders been all that innocent? Or had some deeper design lain at its root? The first move in what is popularly called the July Crisis rested with Vienna. Few in power lamented the passing of Franz Ferdinand. He was too Catholic; he detested the Czechs, Magyars, and Poles within the empire; and he distrusted the ally in Rome. But the spilling of royal blood demanded an official response.for more than half a dozen years prior to 1914, Conrad von HÃ¶tzendorf had pressed war on his government as the only solution to the perceived decline of the multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire. Daily, the frail, thin, crew-cut chief of the General Staff had stood at his desk and drafted contingency war plans against "Austria''s congenital foes" Italy and Serbia as well as against Albania, Montenegro, and Russia, or against combinations of these states. Each year, he had submitted them to Kaiser Franz Joseph and to Foreign Minister Aloys Lexa Count Aehrenthal. And each year, these two had steadfastly refused to act.Why, then, was July 1914 different?6 Conrad saw the murders at Sarajevo as a Serbian declaration of war. He cared little about the high school lads who had carried out the plot and about the secret organization "Union or Death," or the "Black Hand," that had planned it; his real enemy was Belgrade. He was determined not to let the last opportunity pass by "to settle accounts" with Serbia. He was haunted by the empire''s failure to use the annexationist crisis over Bosnia- Herzegovina in 1908-09 to crush Serbian annexationist aspirations. There was also a personal motive: He informed his mistress Virginie "Gina" von Reininghaus that he was anxious to return from a war "crowned with success" so that he could "claim" her "as my dearest wife." Honor was at stake as well. While the war might be a "hopeless struggle" against overwhelming odds, Conrad informed Gina on the day of the Sarajevo killings, it had to be fought "because such an ancient monarchy and such an ancient army cannot perish ingloriously."7 In a nutshell, Conrad''s position in July 1914, in the words of the new foreign minister, Leopold Count Berchtold, was simply: "War, war, war."8By 1914, Franz Joseph shared Conrad''s "war at any price" mind-set. Serbian arrogance had to be rooted out, by force if necessary. The kaiser was plagued by nightmares-of Solferino, where in 1859 he had led Austrian armies to defeat at the hands of France and Piedmont- Sardinia; and of KÃ¶niggrÃ¤tz, where in 1866 his forces had been routed by those of King Wilhelm I of Prussia. Thus in July 1914, Franz Joseph was prepared to draw the sword. Honor demanded no less. "If we must go under," he confided to Conrad, "we better go under decently."9That left the foreign minister. In the past, Berchtold, like Aehrenthal, had resisted Conrad''s demands for war. But diplomacy had brought no security. Thus, Berchtold, emboldened by the hard-line stance of a small cohort of hawks at the Foreign Office, endorsed military measures. Just two days after the Sarajevo murders, he spoke of the need for a "final and fundamental reckoning" with Serbia.10 And he worked out a set of assumptions to underpin his decision: Early and decisive action by Berlin would deter possible Russian intervention and "localize" the war in the Balkans.But would Berlin play the role of gallant second? During past Balkan crises, Wilhelm II and his advisers had refused to back Habsburg initiatives with military force. Would July 1914 confirm that pattern? Berchtold, knowing that he needed diplomatic and military backing from Berlin, on 4 July dispatched Alexander Count Hoyos, his chef de cabinet, to sound out what the German position would be in the event that Vienna took actions to "eliminate" Serbia as a "political power factor in the Balkans."11 It was a clever move, given the kaiser''s well-known propensity for personal diplomacy. In meetings the next two days with Wilhelm II, Bethmann Hollweg, Falkenhayn, and Undersecretary of the Foreign Office Arthur Zimmermann, Hoyos and Habsburg ambassador LÃ¡szlÃ³ Count SzÃ¶gyÃ©ny-Marich obtained promises of "full German backing" for whatever action Vienna took against Belgrade. There was no time to lose. "The present situation," the kaiser noted, "is so favorable to us." Diplomats and soldiers "considered the question of Russian intervention and accepted the risk of a general war."12 Austria-Hungary could count on "Germany''s full support" even if "serious European complications"-war-resulted. And in the apparent interest of "localizing the war" in the Balkans, Berlin was ready to point to the soon-to-be-vacationing Wilhelm II, Moltke, and Falkenhayn as "evidence" that Germany would be "as surprised as the other powers" by any aggressive Austro-Hungarian action against Serbia.13Having obtained what is often referred to as a blank check from Germany, Austria-Hungary was free to plot its actions. On 7 July, Berchtold convened a Common Council of Ministers at Vienna and apprised those present of Berlin''s staunch support, "even though our operations against Serbia should bring about the great war."14 War Minister von Krobatin favored war "now better than later." Austrian premier Karl Count StÃ¼rgkh demanded "a military reckoning with Serbia." Conrad von HÃ¶tzendorf as always was set on war. Only Hungarian premier IstvÃ¡n Tisza demurred. He desired no more Slavic subjects, given that his Magyars were already a minority within their half of the empire. And he feared that an attack on Serbia would bring on "the dreadful calamity of a European war." But within a week he joined the majority view-on condition that Belgrade be handed a stringent ultimatum that would allow Habsburg officials to enter Serbia to hunt down the assassins.The final decision for war was made at a special Common Council of Ministers convened at Berchtold''s residence on 19 July. It was quickly decided to hand the ultimatum, carefully crafted by the foreign minister''s staff to assure rejection, to Belgrade on 23 July and to demand acceptance within forty-eight hours. The day after the Common Council, Berchtold advised Conrad and Krobatin to begin their planned summer holidays "to preserve the appearance that nothing is being planned."15 Tisza''s countryman IstvÃ¡n Count BuriÃ¡n laconically noted: "The wheel of history rolls."16 Serbia rejected the ultimatum on 25 July. Sir Maurice de Bunsen, Britain''s envoy to Vienna, informed Whitehall: "Vienna bursts into a frenzy of delight, vast crowds parading the streets and singing patriotic songs till the small hours of the morning."17Berchtold visited Franz Joseph at Bad Ischl. He informed the kaiser that Serbian gunboats had fired on Habsburg troops near Temes-Kubin (Kovin). It was a lie, but it served its purpose. "Hollow eyed," the aged Franz Joseph signed the order for mobilization. His only recorded comment, delivered "in a muffled, choked voice," was "Also, doch!" ("So, after all!") Was it said in conviction? Or in relief? The next day, mobilization began and civil liberties were suspended. Vienna, in the words of historian Samuel R. Williamson Jr., "clearly initiated the violence in July 1914" and "plunged Europe into war."18 It had set the tempo, defined the moves, and closed off all other options. In doing so, it was motivated by fear-of Pan-Slavic nationalism, of losing the military advantage to Serbia (and Russia), and of forfeiting Germany''s promised support.why war in 1914? Why had Germany not drawn the sword during crises in 1905, 1908, 1911, 1912, or 1913? What made 1914 different? The answer lies in the seriousness of the Austro-Hungarian request for backing and in the changed mind-set at Berlin. First, a few myths need to be dispelled. Germany did not go to war in 1914 as part of a "grab for world power" as historian Fritz Fischer19 argued in 1961, but rather to defend (and expand) the borders of 1871. Second, the decision for war was made in late July 1914 and not at a much-publicized "war council" at Potsdam on 8 December 1912.20 Third, no one planned for a European war before 1914; the absence of financial or economic blueprints for such an eventuality speaks for itself. And Germany did not go to war with plans for continental hegemony; its infamous shopping list of war aims was not drawn up by Bethmann Hollweg21 until 9 September, when French and German forces had squared off for their titanic encounter at the Marne River.This having been said, Berlin issued Vienna the famous blank check on 5 July. Why? Neither treaty obligations nor military algebra demanded this offer. But civilian as well as military planners were dominated by a strike-now-better-than-later mentality. Time seemed to be running against them. Russia was launching its Big Program of rearmament, scheduled to be completed by 1917. Could one wait until then? Wilhelm II mused on the eve of the Sarajevo murders.22 The Anglo-French- Russian Entente Cordiale encircled Germany with what it perceived to be an iron ring of enemies. More, there circulated in public and official circles dire prognostications of what Bethmann Hollweg summarized for the Reichstag in April 1913 as the "inevitable struggle" between Slavs and Teutons-what historian Wolfgang J. Mommsen called the classical rhetoric of "inevitable war."23On 3 July, when Ambassador Heinrich von Tschirschky cabledVienna''s decision to avenge the Sarajevo killings, Wilhelm II noted "now or never" on the report.24 Three days later, the kaiser promised Austria-Hungary "Germany''s full support" even if "serious European complications" resulted from this-and advised Vienna not to "delay the action" against Belgrade. Pilloried in the press for having been too "timid" and for having postured like a "valiant chicken" during past crises, Wilhelm on 6 July three times assured his dinner guest, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, that this time he would not "cave in."From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2291'),
(6839, 'The Marriage Plot', 'Jeffrey Eugenides', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011:\n  </strong>\n  Even among authors, Jeffrey Eugenides possesses a rare talent for being able to inhabit his characters. In\n  <em>\n   The Marriage Plot\n  </em>\n  , his third novel and first in ten years (following the Pulitzer Prize-winning\n  <em>\n   Middlesex\n  </em>\n  ), Eugenides describes a year or so in the lives of three college seniors at Brown in the early 80s. There is Madeleine, a self-described â€œincurable romanticâ€ who is slightly embarrassed at being so normal. There is Leonard, a brilliant, temperamental student from the Pacific Northwest. And completing the triangle is Mitchell, a Religious Studies major from Eugenidesâ€™ own Detroit. What follows is a book delivered in sincere and genuine prose, tracing the end of the studentsâ€™ college days and continuing into those first, tentative steps toward true adulthood. This is a thoughtful and at times disarming novel about life, love, and discovery, set during a time when so much of life seems filled with deep portent.\n  <em>\n   --Chris Schluep\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   The Marriage Plot\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEugenides''s first novel since 2002''s Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning\n  <em>\n   Middlesex\n  </em>\n  so impressively, ambitiously breaks the mold of its predecessor that it calls for the founding of a new prize to recognize its success both as a novelâ€”and as a Jeffrey Eugenides novel. Importantly but unobtrusively set in the early 1980s, this is the tale of Madeleine Hanna, recent Brown University English grad, and her admirer Mitchell Grammaticus, who opts out of Divinity School to walk the earth as an ersatz pilgrim. Madeleine is equally caught up, both with the postmodern vogue (Derrida, Barthes)â€”conflicting with her love of James, Austen, and Salingerâ€”and with the brilliant Leonard Bankhead, whom she met in semiotics class and whose fits of manic depression jeopardize his suitability as a marriage prospect. Meanwhile, Mitchell winds up in Calcutta working with Mother Theresa''s volunteers, still dreaming of Madeleine. In capturing the heady spirit of youthful intellect on the verge, Eugenides revives the coming-of-age novel for a new generation The book''s fidelity to its young heroes and to a superb supporting cast of enigmatic professors, feminist theorists, neo-Victorians, and concerned mothers, and all of their evolving investment in ideas and ideals is such that the central argument of the book is also its solution: the old stories may be best after all, but there are always new ways to complicate them.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Publisherâ€™s Weekly\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€œIn Eugenidesâ€™ first novel since the Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning\n  <em>\n   Middlesex\n  </em>\n  (2002), English major and devotee of classic literature Madeleine Hanna is a senior at Reagan-era Brown University. Only when curiosity gets the best of her does she belly up to Semiotics 211, a bastion of postmodern liberalism, and meet handsome, brilliant, mysterious Leonard Bankhead. Completing a triangle is Madeleineâ€™s friend Mitchell, a clear-eyed religious-studies student who believes himself her true intended. Eugenidesâ€™ drama unfolds over the next year or so. His characteristically deliberate, researched realization of place and personality serve him well, and he strikes perfectly tuned chords by referring to works ranging from Barthesâ€™\n  <em>\n   Loversâ€™ Discourse\n  </em>\n  to Bemelmansâ€™\n  <em>\n   Madeline\n  </em>\n  books for children. The remarkably Ã  propos title refers to the subject of Madeleineâ€™s honors thesis, which is the Western novelâ€™s doing and undoing, in that, upon the demise, circa 1900, of the marriage plot, the novel â€˜didnâ€™t mean much anymore,â€™ according to Madeleineâ€™s professor and, perhaps, Eugenides. With this tightly, immaculately self-contained tale set upon pillars at once imposing and of dollhouse scale, namely, academia (â€˜College wasnâ€™t like the real world,â€™ Madeleine notes) and the emotions of the youngest of twentysomethings, Eugenides realizes the novel whose dismantling his characters examine.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”\n  </em>\n  Annie Bostrom,\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA stunning novelâ€”erudite, compassionate and penetrating in its analysis of love relationships. Eugenides focuses primarily on three characters, who all graduate from Brown in 1982. One of the pieces of this triangle is Madeleine Hanna, who finds herself somewhat embarrassed to have emerged from a â€œnormalâ€ household in New Jersey (though we later find out the normality of her upbringing is only relative). She becomes enamored with Leonard, a brilliant but moody student, in their Semiotics course, one of the texts being, ironically, Roland Barthesâ€™Â \n  <em>\n   A Loverâ€™s Discourse\n  </em>\n  , which Madeleine finds disturbingly problematic in helping her figure out her own love relationship. We discover that Leonard had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder during his first year at Brown, and his struggle with mood swings throughout the novel is both titanic and tender. The third major player is Mitchell, a Religious Studies major who is also attracted to Madeleine but whose reticence she finds both disturbing and incomprehensible. On graduation day, Leonard has a breakdown and is hospitalized in a mental-health ward, and Madeleine shows her commitment by skipping the festivities and seeking him out. After graduation, Leonard and Madeleine live together when Leonard gets an internship at a biology lab on Cape Cod, and the spring after graduation they marry, when Leonard is able to get his mood swings under temporary control. Meanwhile Mitchell, who takes his major seriously, travels to India seeking a pathâ€”and briefly finds one when he volunteers to work with the dying in Calcutta. But Mitchellâ€™s road to self-discovery eventually returns him to the Statesâ€”and opens another opportunity for love that complicates Madeleineâ€™s life. Dazzling workâ€”Eugenides continues to show that he is one of the finest of contemporary novelists.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Kirkus\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œâ€˜The way of true love never works out, except at the end of an English novel.â€™ So says Trollope in Barchester Towers, one of those English novels where â€˜the marriage plotâ€™ thrived until it was swept aside by 20th-century reality. Now Roland Barthesâ€™s contention that â€˜the loverâ€™s discourse is today of an extreme solitudeâ€™ better sums up the situation. Or so English literatureâ€“besotted Madeleine, 1980s Brown graduating senior, comes to discover. Giving in to the zeitgeist, Madeleine takes a course on semiotics and meets Leonard, whoâ€™s brilliant, charismatic, and unstable. Theyâ€™ve broken up, which makes moody spiritual seeker Mitchell Grammaticus happy, since he pines for Madeleine. But on graduation day, Madeleine discovers that Leonard is in the hospitalâ€”in fact, he is a manic depressive with an on-again, off-again relationship with his medicationsâ€”and leaps to his side. So begins the story of their love (but does it work out?), as Mitchell heads to Europe and beyond for his own epiphanies. VERDICT Your standard love triangle? Absolutely not. This extraordinary, liquidly written evocation of loveâ€™s mad rush and inevitable failures will feed your mind as you rapidly turn the pages. Highly recommended.â€ â€”Barbara Hoffert,\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Middlesex\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œImpressive . . . A deeply affecting portrait of one familyâ€™s tumultuous engagement with the American twentieth century.â€ â€”Michiko Ka kutani,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA towering achievement . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being.â€ â€”Jeff Turrentine,\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ\n  <em>\n   Middlesex\n  </em>\n  [is] deliriously American . . . A colossal act of curiosity, of imagination and of love.â€ â€”Laura Miller,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn epic . . . This feast of a novel is thrilling in the scope of its imagination and surprising in its tenderness.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   People\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA spirited, high-energy comic epic. At once remarkably readable, intelligent and moving,\n  <em>\n   Middlesex\n  </em>\n  becomes that rare cultural hybrid, a page-turner that wows the critics.â€ â€”Dan Cryer,\n  <em>\n   Newsday\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAt last Detroit has its great novel. What Dublin got from James Joyceâ€”a sprawling, ambitious, loving, exasperated and playful chronicle of all its good and bad partsâ€”Detroit has from native son Eugenides.â€ â€”Marta Salij,\n  <em>\n   Detroit Free Press\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2861'),
(6840, 'Mary Mary', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Alex Cross travels to Los Angeles to hunt for a killer more brutal and ambitious than he''s ever encountered-- a woman who has it in for Hollywood''s hottest players.\n <br />\n <br />\n FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family at Disneyland when he gets a call from the Director. A well-known actress was shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Shortly afterward, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail describing the murder in vivid detail. Alex quickly learns that this is not an isolated incident. The killer, known as Mary Smith, has done this before and plans to kill again.\n <br />\n <br />\n Right from the beginning, this case is like nothing Alex has ever confronted. Is this the plan of an obsessed fan or a spurned actor, or is it part of something much more frightening? And particularly baffling, how could a woman be capable of these vicious crimes? Members of Hollywood''s A-list fear they''re next on Mary''s list, and the case grows by blockbuster proportions as the LAPD and FBI scramble to find a pattern before Mary can send one more chilling update. Filled with the ruthless and shocking twists that make his fans hunger for more, MARY, MARY is James Patterson''s most sophisticated thrille\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/318'),
(6841, 'Mary Tudor', 'Anna Whitelock', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  She was the first woman to inherit the throne of England, a key player in one of Britainâ€™s stormiest eras, and a leader whose unwavering faith and swift retribution earned her the nickname â€œBloody Mary.â€ Now, in this impassioned and absorbing debut, historian Anna Whitelock offers a modern perspective on Mary Tudor and sets the record straight once and for all on one of historyâ€™s most compelling and maligned rulers.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Though often overshadowed by her long-reigning sister, Elizabeth I, Mary lived a life full of defiance, despair, and triumph. Born the daughter of the notorious King Henry VIII and the Spanish Katherine of Aragon, young Mary was a princess in every sense of the wordâ€”schooled in regal customs, educated by the best scholars, coveted by European royalty, and betrothed before she had reached the age of three. Yet in a decadeâ€™s time, in the wake of King Henryâ€™s break with the pope, she was declared a bastard, disinherited, and demoted from â€œprincessâ€ to â€œlady.â€ Ever her deeply devout motherâ€™s daughter, Mary refused to accept her new status or to recognize Henryâ€™s new wife, Anne Boleyn, as queen. The fallout with her father and his counselors nearly destroyed the teenage Mary, who faced imprisonment and even death.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  It would be an outright battle for Mary to work herself back into the kingâ€™s favor, claim her rightful place in the Tudor line, and ultimately become queen of England, but her coronation would not end her struggles. She flouted the opposition and married Philip of Spain, sought to restore Catholicism to the nation, and fiercely punished the resistance. But beneath her brave and regal exterior was a dependent woman prone to anxiety, whose private traumas of phantom pregnancies, debilitating illnesses, and unrequited love played out in the public glare of the fickle court.Â \n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Anna Whitelock, an acclaimed young British historian, chronicles this unique womanâ€™s life from her beginnings as a heralded princess to her rivalry with her sister to her ascent as ruler. In brilliant detail, Whitelock reveals that Mary Tudor was not the weak-willed failure as so often rendered by traditional narratives but a complex figure of immense courage, determination, and humanity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2497'),
(6842, 'Mass Casualties: A Young Medic&#39;s True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq', 'Michael Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the Introduction: ""Look around," the drill sergeant said. "In a few years, or even a few months, several of you will be dead. Some of you will be severely wounded or so badly mutilated that your own mother can''t stand the sight of you. And for the real unlucky ones, you will come home so emotionally disfigured that you wish you had died over there."It was Week 7 of Basic Training . . . 18 years old and I was preparing myself to die."They say the Army makes a man out of you--but for 18-year-old SPC Michael Anthony, that fabled rite of passage proved a very dark journey. After soliciting his parents'' approval to enlist at only 17, Anthony began his journey with an unshakeable faith in the military born of his family''s long tradition of service. But when thrust into a medical unit of misfits as lost as he was, SPC Anthony not only witnessed the unspeakable horror of war--but the undeniable misconduct of the military--firsthand. Everything he ever believed in dissolved, forcing Anthony to rethink his loyalties, and ultimately risk his career--and his freedom--to challenge the military he had so firmly believed in.This searing memoir chronicles the iconic experiences that changed one young soldier forever. A seasoned veteran before the age of twenty-one, he faced the truth about the war--and himself--in this shocking and unprecedented eyewitness account.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2499'),
(6843, 'The Master and Margarita', 'Mikhail Bulgakov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Written during the darkest, most repressive period of Stalin''s reign, this novel gives substance to the notion of artistic and religious freedom. Although Bulgakov completed his masterpiece in 1940, it was not published until 1966, twenty-six years after his death, when the first section appeared in the magazine Moskva, which sold out within hours. Despite its devastating satire of Soviet life and its audacious portrayals of Christ and Satan, the manuscript had somehow eluded Russian censors, and the enthusiasm of its readers assured the novel immediate and enduring success.A brilliant blend of magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations, and major ethical issues, The Master and Margarita combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem. Brimming with historical references, religious imagery, storms, witchcraft, and romance, Bulgakov''s novel is impossible to categorize: Its story lies between parable and reality; its tone varies from satire to unguarded vulnerability. Its publication represents the triumph of imagination over politics. This new translation has been made from the complete and unabridged Russian text.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2801');
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(6844, 'Master of the Crossroads', 'Madison Smartt Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1995 Madison Smartt Bell published __, earning both critical plaudits and a National Book Award nomination for this fictional account of Haiti''s 18th-century slave rebellion. Now he continues the saga with\n  <em>\n   Master of the Crossroads\n  </em>\n  , the second volume of a projected trilogy. Even in his earlier narratives of contemporary America, the author has always been attuned to the byzantine politics of color. But by focusing on the figure of Toussaint Louverture--the black general who led the Haitians to independence only to be jailed for treason against the French Republic--Bell allows the politics of race to point him in unexpected and rewarding narrative directions. This is a big, muscular book, which derives much of its strength from the author''s willingness to paint his tumultuous political and physical landscapes with broadly sweeping strokes. But it is also a work of surprising delicacy, whose finely drawn characters come to life with the minutest gesture or softly whispered word.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The crossroads herein are not merely literal but metaphorical. Yes, the former slaves and their courageous leader are pinned down in the island''s remote interior, caught between the English forces and the Spanish army (their nominal yet treacherous ally). But more to the point, Haiti''s intricate progress from slavery to freedom brings each of the characters to a crucial, defining moment of energy or introspection. And finally, swirling through the book like an island mist, is the voodoo figure of MÃ¢it'' Kalfou, or the "Master of the Crossroads." Straddling the worlds of the dead and the living, this ecstatic spirit may at any time inhabit the body of a believer:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Between Legba and Kalfou the crossroads stood open now, and now Guiaou could feel that opened pathway rushing up his spine--passage from the Island Below Sea inhabited by\n   <em>\n    les Morts et les MystÃ¨res\n   </em>\n   . His hips melted into the movement of the drums, and the tails of the red coat swirled around his legs like feathers of a bird. With the other dancers he closed the small, tight circle around Legba and Kalfou, who faced each other as in a mirror: the shining surface of the waters, which divides the living from the dead.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Throughout, Bell''s captivating vision of the battlefield bears witness to his rigorous research. Still, the voodoo celebrations, and the author''s sly evocation of their unexpected resonance, remain the novel''s strongest moments. Why? They speak, perhaps, to the apocalyptic nature of the Haitian rebellion. And more intriguingly, they permit Bell to play with the deceptive nature of belief and reality--a move that, in an avowedly historical novel, hints at the ironic fluidity of history itself.\n  <em>\n   --Kelly Flynn\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bell manages the bravura feat of bringing coherence and novelistic focus to the intrinsically complex history of Haiti''s national liberator in this second installment in his brutal, sweeping trilogy. The first volume, All Souls'' Rising, a National Book Award finalist, took the slave revolt in Haiti up to 1793, when the great leader Toussaint Louverture was consolidating power. Continuing his stunning historical fresco, Bell traces the intricate weave of Toussaint''s campaigns with an intelligence and verve reminiscent of Shelby Foote''s classic military histories, braiding his rich character studies into the larger scheme. Racial classification was a science in Haiti in the 18th century, and the subtlest variations in skin color determined the treatment each person received. Riau, Toussaint''s godson, is an ex-slave. For him, the desire of the white planters to reintroduce slavery, and their fundamental racism, is evident, but Riau''s hatred doesn''t vitiate his humanity. Riau does trust Toussaint''s secretary, a white doctor, Antoine H bert. A subplot running like a silver thread in the shadow of the war is H bert''s quest for his mulatto mistress, Nanon, after she runs away from H bert''s plantation with Choufleur, a sadistic mulatto planter and Nanon''s former lover, who exploits the psychodynamics of slavery in a frightening erotic context. The faltering planter aristocracy is represented by Michel Arnaud, who returns to the island although his house and lands were torched in the first phase of the revolt. Arnaud''s past is one of murderous cruelty. Now, he is slowly rehabilitating himself, thanks to Claudine, his wife, who suffers from possession by the darkest Vodou spirit, Baron Samedi. Bell continually integrates his history with the sacred Vodou landscape, and as events channel between crossroads, trances, dreams and bloodshed, this mesmerizing, disturbing saga of a half-forgotten war takes on the ominous outlines and biblical proportions of a prophetic vision. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2500'),
(6845, 'Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson', 'Robert A. Caro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Caro''s\n <em>\n  Master of the Senate\n </em>\n examines in meticulous detail Lyndon Johnson''s career in that body, from his arrival in 1950 (after 12 years in the House of Representatives) until his election as JFK''s vice president in 1960. This, the third in a projected four-volume series, studies not only the pragmatic, ruthless, ambitious Johnson, who wielded influence with both consummate skill and "raw, elemental brutality," but also the Senate itself, which Caro describes (pre-1957) as a "cruel joke" and an "impregnable stronghold" against social change. The milestone of Johnson''s Senate years was the 1957 Civil Rights Act, whose passage he single-handedly engineered. As important as the bill was--both in and of itself and as a precursor to wider-reaching civil rights legislation--it was only close to Johnson''s Southern "anti-civil rights" heart as a means to his dream: the presidency. Caro writes that not only does power corrupt, it "reveals," and that''s exactly what this massive, scrupulously researched book does. A model of social, psychological, and political insight, it is not just masterful; it is a masterpiece.\n <em>\n  --H. O''Billovich\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As a genre, Senate biography tends not to excite. The Senate is a genteel establishment engaged in a legislative process that often appears arcane to outsiders. Nevertheless, there is something uniquely mesmerizing about the wily, combative Lyndon Johnson as portrayed by Caro. In this, the third installment of his projected four-volume life of Johnson (following The Path to Power and Means of Ascent), Caro traces the Texan''s career from his days as a newly elected junior senator in 1949 up to his fight for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960. In 1953, Johnson became the youngest minority leader in Senate history, and the following year, when the Democrats won control, the youngest majority leader. Throughout the book, Caro portrays an uncompromisingly ambitious man at the height of his political and rhetorical powers: a furtive, relentless operator who routinely played both sides of the street to his advantage in a range of disputes. "He would tell us [segregationists]," recalled Herman Talmadge, "I''m one of you, but I can help you more if I don''t meet with you." At the same time, Johnson worked behind the scenes to cultivate NAACP leaders. Though it emerges here that he was perhaps not instinctively on the side of the angels in this or other controversies, the pragmatic Senator Johnson nevertheless understood the drift of history well, and invariably chose to swim with the tide, rather than against. The same would not be said later of the Johnson who dwelled so glumly in the White House, expanding a war that even he, eventually, came to loathe. But that is another volume: one that we shall await eagerly. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2503'),
(6846, 'Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945', 'Andrew Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Roberts offers an outstanding example of a joint biography in this study of the actions and interactions of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, George Marshall and Alan Brooke. The president, the prime minister and their respective army chiefs of staff were the vital nexus of the Anglo-American alliance in WWII. The path was anything but smooth. London-based historian Roberts (_A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900_) demonstrates his usual mastery of archival and printed sources to show how the tensions and differences among these four strong-willed men shaped policy within a general context of consensus. The politicians had to master strategy; the soldiers had to become political. The result was a complicated minuet. The increasing shift of power in America''s direction coincided with the achievement of the central war aims agreed on for the Mediterranean and with the viability of a cross-channel attack. Last-minute compromises continued to shape grand strategy, a good example being the choice of Dwight Eisenhower over Brooke to command Operation Overlord. Flexibility and honesty, Roberts concludes, enabled focus on a common purpose and established the matrix of the postwar Atlantic world. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos, 7 maps.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the post-war battle of the memoirs revealed, the World War II Anglo-American alliance wasnâ€™t one of unbroken harmony. Its acrimony over grand strategy bursts forth in this history of the four men responsible for final decisions: FDR, Churchill, and their top military advisors, George Marshall and Alan Brooke, respectively. Both to humanize the pressure on figures now memorialized in bronze and to serve as Clioâ€™s arbiter of impassioned disagreements over the optimal strategy to defeat Nazi Germany, Roberts examines how arguments played out amongst the quartet and those in their orbit. Suspicious that the British werenâ€™t dedicated to launching a cross-channel attack, the Americans had no appreciation, felt the British, for the risk of a premature D-Day. Assessing the strategic correctness of what ensuedâ€”the campaigns in North Africa and Italy, followed by Operation Overlordâ€”Roberts splits the difference by validating both Mediterranean operations up to fall 1943 and American resistance to them thereafter. Roberts reinforces his reputation for high-quality military history with this comprehensive synthesis of primary sources about the fundamental strategic decisions of WWII. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2504'),
(6847, 'The Matarese Countdown', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n CIA case officer Cameron Pryce thought he''d crushed the deadly cabal of powerbrokers and assassins. But like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the Matarese dynasty is back. Now the countdown begins -- and Pryce is already running out of time. "The Matarese Circle, " Robert Ludlum''s multimillion-copy spellbinder, introduced a treacherous international cabal of powerbrokers and their hired assassins. More than 20 years ago, the top CIA and KGB agents joined together to insure that, in an explosive act, the Matarese conspiracy went up in flames. But now Robert Ludlum, the unsurpassed master of suspense, returns with a stunning thriller for the 21st century. . .Secret deals are in the making, massive mysterious transactions steeped in corruption and murder. The players stand at the highest pinnacles of global finance and government. It is an unprecedented consolidation of money, power, and ruthlessness. Their ultimate aim: worldwide economic domination and all it entails. . . by whatever means necessary. The Matarese dynasty is back in all its glory and evil. And the one man with enough knowledge to stop it, CIA case officer Cameron Pryce, may not have enough time. The Matarese countdown has begun and Pryce''s only chance to cut it off is to follow the trail of blood money and stone-cold killers to the heart of this deadliest conspiracy.From the Hamptons to Monte Carlo to London''s Belgrave Square, Matarese assassins have already struck with brutal efficiency, eliminating all who stand in their way. But on Spain''s Costa del Sol, one victim survived long enough to breathe these dying words: ''"Find Beowulf Agate'' --words that reverberate all the way to CIA headquarters in Langley,Virginia. Beowulf Agate is the code name for legendary retired agent Brandon Scofield, the only man ever to penetrate the Matarese and survive. Now Cameron Pryce has to draw Scofield and his wife, Antonia, out of their Caribbean paradise hideaway and back to a place they thought they''d never have to go again -- back into the Matarese circle of death. For from the oil fields of the Persian Gulf to the boardrooms of Manhattan, from the hills of Corsica to the halls of power in Washington, the circle is closing, the noose is tightening, the panic is spreading. And Pryce has made a chilling discovery: the Matarese have broken new ground. . . deep inside the CIA. "The Matarese Countdown" is Robert Ludlum at his best, as he delivers a terrifying and persuasive vision of worldwide financial mastery that could only happen today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1272'),
(6848, 'Matterhorn', 'Karl Marlantes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Matterhorn\n  </em>\n  is a marvel--a living, breathing book with Lieutenant Waino Mellas and the men of Bravo Company at its raw and battered heart. Karl Marlantes doesn''t introduce you to Vietnam in his brilliant war epic--he unceremoniously drops you into the jungle, disoriented and dripping with leeches, with only the newbie lieutenant as your guide. Mellas is a bundle of anxiety and ambition, a college kid who never imagined being part of a "war that none of his friends thought was worth fighting," who realized too late that "because of his desire to look good coming home from a war, he might never come home at all." A highly decorated Vietnam veteran himself, Marlantes brings the horrors and heroism of war to life with the finesse of a seasoned writer, exposing not just the things they carry, but the fears they bury, the friends they lose, and the men they follow.\n  <em>\n   Matterhorn\n  </em>\n  is as much about the development of Mellas from boy to man, from the kind of man you fight beside to the man you fight\n  <em>\n   for\n  </em>\n  , as it is about the war itself. Through his untrained eyes, readers gain a new perspective on the ravages of war, the politics and bureaucracy of the military, and the peculiar beauty of brotherhood.\n  <em>\n   --Daphne Durham\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Mark Bowden Reviews\n   <em>\n    Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Philadelphia Inquirer\n  </em>\n  for twenty years and now writes for\n  <em>\n   Vanity Fair\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Atlantic\n  </em>\n  , and other magazines. He lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Matterhorn\n  </em>\n  is a great novel. There have been some very good novels about the Vietnam War, but this is the first great one, and I doubt it will ever be surpassed. Karl Marlantes overlooks no part of the experience, large or small, from a terrified soldier pondering the nature of good and evil, to the feel and smell of wet earth against scorched skin as a man tries to press himself into the ground to escape withering fire. Here is story-telling so authentic, so moving and so intense, so relentlessly dramatic, that there were times I wasnâ€™t sure I could stand to turn the page. As with the best fiction, I was sad to reach the end.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The wrenching combat in\n  <em>\n   Matterhorn\n  </em>\n  is ultimately pointless; the marines know they are fighting a losing battle in the long run. Bravo Company carves out a fortress on the top of the hill so named, one of countless low, jungle-coated mountains near the border of Laos, only to be ordered to abandon it when they are done. After the enemy claims the hillâ€™s deep bunkers and carefully constructed fields of fire, the company is ordered to take it back, to assault their own fortifications. They do so with devastating consequences, only to be ordered in the end to abandon Matterhorn once again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Against this backdrop of murderous futility, Marlantesâ€™ memorable collection of marines is pushed to its limits and beyond. As the deaths and casualties mount, the men display bravery and cowardice, ferocity and timidity, conviction and doubt, hatred and love, intelligence and stupidity. Often these opposites are contained in the same person, especially in the bookâ€™s compelling main character, Second Lt. Waino Mellas. As Mellas and his men struggle to overcome impossible barriers of landscape, they struggle to overcome similarly impossible barriers between each other, barriers of race and class and rank. Survival forces them to cling to each other and trust each other and ultimately love each other. There has never been a more realistic portrait or eloquent tribute to the nobility of men under fire, and never a more damning portrait of a war that ground them cruelly underfoot for no good reason.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Marlantes brilliantly captures the way combat morphs into clean abstraction as fateful decisions move up the chain of command, further and further away from the actual killing and dying. But he is too good a novelist to paint easy villains. His commanders make brave decisions and stupid ones. High and low there is the same mix of cowardice and bravery, ambition and selflessness, ineptitude and competence.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are passages in this book that are as good as anything I have ever read. This one comes late in the story, when the main character, Mellas, has endured much, has killed and also confronted the immediate likelihood of his own death, and has digested the absurdity of his mission: "He asked for nothing now, nor did he wonder if he had been good or bad. Such concepts were all part of the joke heâ€™d just discovered. He cursed God directly for the savage joke that had been played on him. And in that cursing Mellas for the first time really talked with his God. Then he cried, tears and snot mixing together as they streamed down his face, but his cries were the rage and hurt of a newborn child, at last, however roughly, being taken from the womb."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vladimir Nabokov once said that the greatest books are those you read not just with your heart or your mind, but with your spine. This is one for the spine.\n  <em>\n   --Mark Bowden\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Thirty years in the making, Marlantes''s epic debut is a dense, vivid narrative spanning many months in the lives of American troops in Vietnam as they trudge across enemy lines, encountering danger from opposing forces as well as on their home turf. Marine lieutenant and platoon commander Waino Mellas is braving a 13-month tour in Quang-Tri province, where he is assigned to a fire-support base and befriends Hawke, older at 22; both learn about life, loss, and the horrors of war. Jungle rot, leeches dropping from tree branches, malnourishment, drenching monsoons, mudslides, exposure to Agent Orange, and wild animals wreak havoc as brigade members face punishing combat and grapple with bitterness, rage, disease, alcoholism, and hubris. A decorated Vietnam veteran, the author clearly understands his playing field (including military jargon that can get lost in translation), and by examining both the internal and external struggles of the battalion, he brings a long, torturous war back to life with realistic characters and authentic, thrilling combat sequences. Marlantes''s debut may be daunting in length, but it remains a grand, distinctive accomplishment.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3711'),
(6849, 'Matters of the Heart', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, Danielle Steel tells a powerful and unusual story of one womanâ€™s journey from darkness into light, as she fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrallâ€¦.Hope Dunne has carved out a name for herself as a top photographer, known the joys of marriage and motherhood, and the heartbreak of loss. In her chic SoHo loft, Hope is content with her life, finding serenity and beauty through the lens of her camera. She isnâ€™t looking for a man or excitement. But these things find her when she accepts a last- minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph one of the worldâ€™s most celebrated writersâ€”an Irish-American author known for novels of thrilling literary darkness. To Hopeâ€™s surprise, Finn Oâ€™Neill exudes warmth and a boyish charm. Enormously successful, he is a perfect counterpoint to Hopeâ€™s quiet, steady graceâ€”and heâ€™s taken instantly by her. He courts her as no one ever has before, whisking her away to his palatial, isolated Irish estate.Hope finds it all, and him, irresistible. Finnâ€™s magnetism and brilliance are undeniable. But soon cracks begin to appear in his stories: gaps in his history, a few innocent lies, and bouts of jealousy unnerve her. Suddenly Hope is both in love and suspicious, caring and deeply in doubt, and ultimately frightened of the man she loves. Alone, thousands of miles from home, her mind is reeling. Is she just being paranoid? How many lies has he told? Are there more secrets to come? Is it possible that this adoring, attentive manâ€”like the characters in his novelsâ€”is hiding something even worse? The spell cast by a brilliant sociopath has her trapped in his web, too confused and dazzled to escape as he continues to tighten his grip on her. With razor-sharp insight, Danielle Steel delivers an unforgettable tale of danger and obsessive love. Fearlessly telling the truth, refusing to look away, Steel proves once again that as an American storyteller she has no peer when she explores the dark secrets that sometimes lurk just below the surface of ordinary lives, writing about men and women and their courage to prevail, in this case, even in the face of evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3197'),
(6850, 'Max', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock have barely recovered from their last arctic adventure, when they are confronted by the most frightening catastrophe yet. Millions of fish are dying off the coast of\n <state w:st="on">\n  <place w:st="on">\n   Hawaii\n  </place>\n </state>\n and someone--or\n <i>\n  something\n </i>\n --is destroying hundreds of ships. Unable to discover the cause, the government enlists the Flock to help them get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.\n <br />\n <br />\n While Max and her team are exploring the depths of the ocean, their every move is being carefully tracked by Mr. Chu--a criminal mastermind with his own plans for the Flock. Can they protect themselves from Mr. Chu''s army of mercenaries and save the ocean from utter destruction?\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  A James Patterson Pageturner\n </i>\n <br />\n <br />\n In the spirit of the most enduring hit movies and books, James Patterson has written this story for readers from ten to a hundred and ten. Special care has been taken with the language and content of MAXIMUM RIDE 5.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/319'),
(6851, 'Maximum Bob', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hard-ass Palm Beach County judge Bob Isom Gibbs enjoys sending even petty offenders away to do hard time -- which has made the list of miscreants who want him dead longer than a fully grown Florida gator''s tail. And a good number of his illwishers are probation officer Kathy Baker''s clients, including young Dale Crowe and his psycho uncle Elvin. Now, Kathy''s got an even more daunting task than keeping BIG''s horny hands off her: keeping "Maximum Bob" alive. Because Gibbs''s many enemies seem to be willing to go to any lengths -- be it death by amphibian or some more tried-and-true method -- to permanently end the career of an oversexed, racist jurist who''s more interested in scoring than in saving his own red neck.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3133'),
(6852, 'Maximum Ride: School&#39;s Out Forever', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Angel Experiment was just a test drive... Now, brace yourself for the MAXIMUM ride! James Patterson shifts high action into overdrive in this eagerly awaited follow-up to his #1 New York Times bestseller. Brave bird-kid Max and her flock fly south on a perilous quest to find their parents, after having rescued Angel and recovered secret documents about their origins. But just when they think they''ve finally escaped the hungry claws of evil Erasers, they''re discovered by an FBI agent and forced to face perhaps an even worse nightmare: going to school. There''s no such thing as an ordinary day when Max''s "homework" includes decoding documents, deciphering when (and how) she''s supposed to save the world, and learning to face what may her greatest enemy: herself. A clone. Max II.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/269'),
(6853, 'The Mayan Conspiracy', 'Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A coveted treasure. A perilous mission. A dangerous secret that could change the world... Former CIA-agent Hawker has been black flagged by his own government andInterpol and the State department have issued a warrant for his arrest. All Hawker wants to do is find a way back home that doesn''t involve a prison sentence or a body bag. Government operative Danielle Laidlaw is his way out. She needs a pilot and a security consultant for her mission to discover the lost Mayan city of Tulan Zuyu. In return for his services, she promises Hawker his life back. But as an unseen enemy stalks the rainforests, leaving battered corpses in its wake, they are about to discover that they are not the first â€“ and they are not the only people looking for Tulan Zuyu and the secrets it may hold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/581'),
(6854, 'Maybe This Time', 'Jennifer Crusie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New York Times bestselling author of Bet Me, Tell Me Lies and Welcome to Temptation delivers her long-awaited novel Andie Miller is ready to move on in life. She wants to marry her fiancÃ© and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her before they go their separate ways forever. A very distant cousin of his has died and left North as the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already, and things are getting worse. He needs a very special person to take care of the situation and he knows Andie can handle anything. When Andie meets the two children she quickly realizes things are much worse than she feared. The place is a mess, the children, Carter and Alice, aren''t your average delinquents, and the creepy old house where they live is being run by the worst housekeeper since Mrs. Danvers. What''s worse, Andie''s fiancÃ© thinks this is all a plan by North to get Andie back, and he may be right. Andie''s dreams have been haunted by North since she arrived at the old house. And that''s not the only haunting. What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-inlaw, and, of course, her jealous fiancÃ©. And just when she thinks things couldn''t get more complicated, North shows up on the doorstep making her wonder if maybe this time things could be different between them. If Andie can just get rid of all the guests and ghosts, she''s pretty sure she can save the kids, and herself, from the past. But fate might just have another thing in mindâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3345'),
(6855, 'Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War', 'Nathaniel Philbrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a fifty-five-year epic that is at once tragic, heroic, exhilarating, and profound. The Mayflower''s religious refugees arrived in Plymouth Harbor during a period of crisis for Native Americans as disease spread by European fishermen devastated their populations. Initially the two groups - the Wampanoags, under the charismatic and calculating chief Massasoit, and the Pilgrims, whose pugnacious military officer Miles Standish was barely five feet tall - maintained a fragile working relationship. But within decades, New England would erupt into King Philip''s War, a savagely bloody conflict that nearly wiped out English colonists and natives alike and forever altered the face of the fledgling colonies and the country that would grow from them. With towering figures like William Bradford and the distinctly American hero Benjamin Church at the center of his narrative, Philbrick has fashioned a fresh and compelling portrait of the dawn of American history-a history dominated right from the start by issues of race, violence, and religion. For sixty-five days, the Mayflower had blundered her way through storms and headwinds, her bottom a shaggy pelt of seaweed and barnacles, her leaky decks spewing salt walter onto her passengers'' devoted heads. There were 102 of them - 104 if you counted the two dogs; a spaniel and a giant, slobbery mastiff . They were a most unusual group of colonists. Instead of noblemen, craftsmen, and servants - the types of people who had founded Jamestown in Virginia - these were, for the most part, families; men, women, and children who were willing to endure almost anything if it meant they could worship as they pleased . It was a stunningly audacious proposition. With the exception of Jamestown, all other attempts to establish a permanent English settlement on the North American continent had so far failed. And Jamestown, founded in 1607, could hardly be counted a success . Between 1619 and 1622, the Virginia Company would send close to 3,600 settlers to the colony; over that three-year period, 3,000 would die. In addition to starvation and disease, there was the threat of Indian attack. At the university library in Leiden [the town in Holland where the Puritans had lived] were sensational accounts left by earlier explorers and settlers, telling how the Indians "delight to torment men in the most bloody manner that may be; flaying some alive with the shells of fishes, cutting off the members and joints of others by piecemeal and broiling on the coals." How could parents willingly subject their children to the risk of such a fate? In the end, all arguments for and against emigrating to America ended with the conviction that God wanted them to go.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2507'),
(6856, 'The Maze of Bones', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What would happen if you discovered that your family was one of the most powerful in human history? What if you were told that the source of the family''s power was hidden around the world, in the form of 39 clues? What if you were given a choice - take a million dollars and walk away ... or get the first clue? If you''re Amy and Dan Cahill, you take the clue - and begin a very dangerous race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2976'),
(6857, 'Me', 'Ricky Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the process of revealing the human being behind the artist, Ricky Martin offers us a testimony of exemplary honesty and greatness of soul. While I was reading, I remembered a verse from the Persian poet Hafez, ''Not even seven thousand years of joy can justify seven years of repression.'' Paulo Coelho Ricky Martin has written an extraordinary memoir, the story of a tortured soul who healedhimself by returning to the state of innocence and authenticity. His story will speak to you,because it is, in a sense, the story of humanity-of the sacred and the profane, of forbidden lust and unconditional love. It takes courage to be so ruthlessly honest and transparent, but it is only this kind of courage and this kind of love that can heal the world. Bravo! Deepak Chopra, M.D.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  International superstar, Ricky Martin, who has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, opens up for the first time about memories of his early childhood, experiences in the famed boy band Menudo, struggles with his identity during the Livin'' la Vida Loca phenomenon, reflections on coming to terms with his sexuality, relationships that allowed him to embrace love, and life-changing decisions like devoting himself to helping children around the world and becoming a father.\n  <em>\n   Me\n  </em>\n  is an intimate memoir about the very liberating and spiritual journey of one of the most iconic pop-stars of our time.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1986'),
(6858, 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of "SantaLand Diaries," a scathing, hilarious account of his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy''s. (It''s in two separate collections, both worth owning,\n <em>\n  Barrel Fever\n </em>\n and the Christmas-themed\n <em>\n  Holidays on Ice\n </em>\n .) Sedaris''s caustic gift has not deserted him in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path, and his move with his lover to France. Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate. The title is his rendition in transliterated English of how he and his fellow students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic language. In the essay "Jesus Shaves," he and his classmates from many nations try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. "It is a party for the little boy of God," says one. "Then he be die one day on two... morsels of... lumber," says another. Sedaris muses on the disputes between his Protestant mother and his father, a Greek Orthodox guy whose Easter fell on a different day. Other essays explicate his deep kinship with his eccentric mom and absurd alienation from his IBM-exec dad: "To me, the greatest mystery of science continues to be that a man could father six children who shared absolutely none of his interests."\n</p>\n<p>\n Every glimpse we get of Sedaris''s family and acquaintances delivers laughs and insights. He thwarts his North Carolina speech therapist ("for whom the word\n <em>\n  pen\n </em>\n had two syllables") by cleverly avoiding all words with\n <em>\n  s\n </em>\n sounds, which reveal the lisp she sought to correct. His midget guitar teacher, Mister Mancini, is unaware that Sedaris doesn''t share his obsession with breasts, and sings "Light My Fire" all wrong--"as if he were a Webelo scout demanding a match." As a remarkably unqualified teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sedaris had his class watch soap operas and assign "guessays" on what would happen in the next day''s episode.\n</p>\n<p>\n It all adds up to the most distinctively skewed autobiography since Spalding Gray''s\n <em>\n  Swimming to Cambodia\n </em>\n . The only possible reason not to read this book is if you''d rather hear the author''s intrinsically funny speaking voice narrating his story. In that case, get\n <em>\n  Me Talk Pretty One Day\n </em>\n on audio.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sedaris is Garrison Keillor''s evil twin: like the Minnesota humorist, Sedaris (Naked) focuses on the icy patches that mar life''s sidewalk, though the ice in his work is much more slippery and the falls much more spectacularly funny than in Keillor''s. Many of the 27 short essays collected here (which appeared originally in the New Yorker, Esquire and elsewhere) deal with his father, Lou, to whom the book is dedicated. Lou is a micromanager who tries to get his uninterested children to form a jazz combo and, when that fails, insists on boosting David''s career as a performance artist by heckling him from the audience. Sedaris suggests that his father''s punishment for being overly involved in his kids'' artistic lives is David''s brother Paul, otherwise known as "The Rooster," a half-literate miscreant whose language is outrageously profane. Sedaris also writes here about the time he spent in France and the difficulty of learning another language. After several extended stays in a little Norman village and in Paris, Sedaris had progressed, he observes, "from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. ''Is thems the thoughts of cows?'' I''d ask the butcher, pointing to the calves'' brains displayed in the front window." But in English, Sedaris is nothing if not nimble: in one essay he goes from his cat''s cremation to his mother''s in a way that somehow manages to remain reverent to both of the departed. "Reliable sources" have told Sedaris that he has "tended to exhaust people," and true to form, he will exhaust readers of this new book, tooDwith helpless laughter. 16-city author tour. (June)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1340'),
(6859, 'The Measure of the Magic', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After more than three decades of captivating epic fantasy readers, the storytelling magic of "New York Times" bestselling author Terry Brooks''s Shannara saga continues to enthrall. Now the fascinating chronicle of Shannara''s prehistory reaches a thrilling new peak in the sequel to "Bearers of the Black Staff." For five hundred years, the survivors of the Great Wars lived peacefully in a valley sanctuary shielded by powerful magic from the blighted and dangerous outside world. But the enchanted barriers have crumbled, the borders have been breached by predators, and the threat of annihilation looms large once more. Sider Ament, bearer of the last black staff and its profound power, devoted his life to protecting the valley and its inhabitants--and, in his final moments, gave stewardship of the black staff to the young tracker Panterra Qu. Now the newly anointed Knight of the Word must take up the battle against evil wherever it threatens: from without, where an army of bloodthirsty trolls is massing for invasion; and from within, where the Elf king of Arborlon has been murdered, his daughter, Princess Phryne Amarantyne, stands accused, and a heinous conspiracy is poised to subjugate the kingdom. But even these will pale beside the most harrowing menace Panterra is destined to confront--a nameless, merciless figure who wanders the devastated land on a relentless mission: to claim the last black staff . . . and the life of he who wields it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3330'),
(6860, 'Medicus', 'Ruth Downie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œThe highest praise I can offer this wonderfully entertaining portrait of the Roman Empire at its most far-flung is that I hope Downie is planning a series. Ruso is too good a character for just one book.â€â€”Malcolm Jones, Newsweek Divorced and down on his luck, Gaius Petreius Ruso has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. In a moment of weakness, after a straight thirtysix- hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to compassion and rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from the hands of her abusive owner. Now he has a new problem: a slave who wonâ€™t talk and canâ€™t cook, and drags trouble in her wake. Before he knows it, Ruso is caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar. Now Ruso must summon all his forensic knowledge to find a killer who may be after him next.With a gift for comic timing and historical detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an ancient world as raucous and real as our own. Â Published in the UK as Medicus (Ruso) and the Disappearing Dancing Girls.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2740'),
(6861, 'The Mediterranean Caper', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Clancy\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A new Clive Cussler novel is like a visit from your best friend."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Richmond Times-Dispatch\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Cussler is a master of building suspense and tension."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  United Press International\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Cussler can keep anyone on the edge of their chair with his gripping descriptions of action...."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  New York Daily News\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Get-to-the-next-page excitement... Dirk Pitt is a combination James Bond and Jacques Cousteau...."\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern U.S. Air Force base...a mysterious saboteur preys on an American scientific expedition...and Dirk plays a deadly game of hunter and hunted with the elusive head of an international smuggling ring.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dirk Pitt, intrepid hero of Clive Cussler''s smash bestsellers Dragon, Sahara, and Inca Gold, is hot on the trail of a mammoth drug conspiracy controlled by a missing Nazi war criminal. On land and in the depths of the Aegean, Pitt troubleshoots his way through desperate adventures!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1196'),
(6862, 'Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential- for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant businessand for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author''s bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts what he''s seen and what he''s seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. And always he returns to the question: ''Why cook?'' Or the harder one to answer: ''Why cook well?'' Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs he compares to a Mafia summit, Bourdain, in his distinctive, no-holds-barred style, cuts to the bone on every subject he tackles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1987'),
(6863, 'Medusa', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the prologue to the winning eighth Kurt Austin adventure from bestseller Cussler and Shamus-winner Kemprecos (after\n  <em>\n   The Navigator\n  </em>\n  ), 18-year-old Caleb Nye, a farm boy on his first sea voyage in 1848, finds himself a modern-day Jonah after being swallowed by a whale and then cut from the stomach, alive but forever changed. In the present, a Russian captain sees his Typhoon-class submarine sold to an unknown buyer, and in China, Dr. Song Lee, who''s been banished to the countryside, gets orders to return to Beijing to fight a deadly SARS epidemic. Meanwhile, off Bermuda, Kurt Austin and the stalwart crew of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) lower a bathysphere to the ocean depths, where something big snaps the cables connecting the vessel to the mother ship. Soon enough, the disparate plot lines converge in an action-packed tale that snags readers and drags them racing through heavy seas and high drama.\n  <em>\n   600,000 first printing.\n   <br />\n   Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kurt Austin must stop a deadly virus from decimating the world in the latest NUMA Files novel. Research using a newly discovered jellyfish shows promising results, but before the tests even start, scientists studying these Blue Medusas start dying. As the pandemic threatens to spread through China, the NUMA team realizes that a Chinese triad is behind the outbreak. Now in their eighth adventure, Austin and partner Zavala are becoming almost as entertaining as Dirk Pitt and his gang. Some clunky dialogue and an ending right out of a Scooby Doo cartoon hurt aÂ bit, but Cussler fans will stick around for the action. --Jeff Ayers\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1231'),
(6864, 'The Medusa Plot', 'Gordon Korman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Are you ready to save the world? The bestselling series returns with an adventure spanning 6 explosive books, 2 secret-filled card packs, and a website that places readers right in the action.Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, thought they belonged to the world''s most powerful family. They thought the hunt for 39 Clues leading to the source of that power was over. They even thought they''d won. But Amy and Dan were wrong.One by one, distress calls start coming in from around the globe. Cahills are being kidnapped by a shadowy group known only as the Vespers. Now Amy and Dan have only days to fulfill a bizarre ransom request or their captured friends will start dying. Amy and Dan don''t know what the Vespers want or how to stop them. Only one thing is clear. The Vespers are playing to win, and if they get their hands on the Clues . . . the world will be their next hostage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2987'),
(6865, 'Memorial Day', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When a spike in CIA intelligence suggests a major terrorist attack planned for Memorial Day, the president orders Mitch Rapp, his top counterterrorism operative, to pull out all the stops. Rapp immediately leaves for Afghanistan where he leads the ultra secret counterterrorism Special Forces unit on a daring commando raid across the border into Northern Pakistan. Their target: an al-Qaeda stronghold. Within a subterranean room, Rapp and his team discover a treasure trove of maps, computers, files and bills of lading for multiple freighters heading to US ports - all pointing to plans for a catastrophic attack on Washington DC. Information is quickly relayed back to CIA headquarters, and a nuclear emergency search team scrambles to the scene. In a few hours, the freighters have been located and the danger averted. Or has it? To Mitch Rapp, the whole operation seemed just a bit too easy. Following his instincts on a quest to unearth the whole truth, Rapp makes a truly terrifying discovery - and with Memorial Day closing fast, he must find a way to prevent a disaster of unimaginable proportions ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/461');
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(6866, 'The Memory Chalet', 'Tony Judt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2010\n </strong>\n : In 2008 Tony Judt, the historian and essayist whose book\n <em>\n  Postwar\n </em>\n was quickly recognized as one of the landmark works of our time, was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig''s disease. He was soon almost fully paralyzed, but before his death in the summer of 2010 he managed to produce not only two works of political and intellectual history,\n <em>\n  Ill Fares the Land\n </em>\n and the upcoming\n <em>\n  Thinking the Twentieth Century\n </em>\n , but also a series of short essays that had a breathtaking reception when they appeared, a few at a time, in the\n <em>\n  New York Review of Books\n </em>\n . The pieces were remarkable both for their content and their method of composition: isolated at night in the prison of his paralysis, Judt would sort through his memories, arranging them, to better remember them, in the "rooms" of a Swiss chalet he recalled from an idyllic childhood visit, before dictating them in the morning to be published. The essays are at times political but always personal, calling up memories of food, youth, sex, education, train travel, and other subjects with a clarity and intensity born of both his historian''s skills of observation and judgment and the heightened awareness of time''s passage imposed by his undeniable mortality. Collected now in\n <em>\n  The Memory Chalet\n </em>\n , these reflections make up a memoir that evokes, with clear-eyed passion, the life of the mind, as well as the body.\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLoss is loss,â€ Judt writes, â€œand nothing is gained by calling it a nicer name.â€ Many of these chronological essays written while Judt struggled with ALS first appeared in the\n <em>\n  New York Review of Books\n </em>\n , but taken together, they offer an astute portrait of a life cut shortâ€”but one also fully, richly lived. Judt writes with the same incisive intellectual clarity and polished writing of his other books, here evoking specific experiences formative to his childhood and intellectual growth. Yet, as critics point out,\n <em>\n  The Memory Chalet\n </em>\n is no typical memoir. Instead, it goes well beyond personal, self-driven recollections to ruminate on the larger importance of Judtâ€™s experiences. In the end, â€œperhaps\n <em>\n  The Memory Chalet\n </em>\n isnâ€™t an uplifting work,â€ concludes the\n <em>\n  Denver Post\n </em>\n . â€œIt is better than that: It is a sustaining one.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1948'),
(6867, 'The Memory of Running', 'Ron Mclarty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Every decade seems to produce a novel that captures the publicÃ‚''s imagination with a story that sweeps readers up and takes them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. Ron McLartyÃ‚''s The Memory of Running is this decadeÃ‚''s novel. By all accounts, especially his own, Smithson Ã‚â€œSmithyÃ‚â€ Ide is a loser. An overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk, SmithyÃ‚''s life becomes completely unhinged when he loses his parents and long-lost sister within the span of one week. Rolling down the driveway of his parentsÃ‚'' house in Rhode Island on his old Raleigh bicycle to escape his grief, the emotionally bereft Smithy embarks on an epic, hilarious, luminous, and extraordinary journey of discovery and redemption.  Ã‚â€œSmithy is an American original, worthy of a place on the shelf just below your Hucks, your Holdens, your Yossarians.Ã‚â€ Ã‚â€”Stephen King  Ã‚â€œEndearing . . . itÃ‚''s a ride worth taking.Ã‚â€ Ã‚â€”USA Today  Ã‚â€œIn The Memory of Running, professional actor and long aspiring novelist Ron McLarty has invented a character so fully and elegantly defined that the book soars with originality and life.Ã‚â€ Ã‚â€”San Francisco Chronicle  Ã‚â€œCaptivating . . . McLarty unspools passage after passage of devastating grace and melancholy, and his taciturn hero hooks himself to your heart.Ã‚â€ Ã‚â€”Entertainment Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1092'),
(6868, 'Mentally Incontinent', 'Joe Peacock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n You need a description of Mentally Incontinent? Well, here you go: In this book, Joe Peacock screws over a major department store (really badly, too), witnesses an armed robbery gone awry, grabs a log of poo poo from a toilet while simultaneously insulting Scientologists, has a dolphin throw up on him in front of his 6th grade class, has animal rights protesters dressed as cows steal his dinner off of his plate, gets vomited upon during his first ever sexual experience, has nipple piercings ripped from his chest, suffers through multiple laptop malfunctions (including one explosion) and deals with outsourced technical support, and has a girl attempt suicide over him. Oh, and he also orders seppuku in a sushi restaurant and his wife gets arrested for stealing meat from a grocery store. The 21 stories in this book were chosen by the more than 500,000 readers of the website by the same name (MentallyIncontinent.com) over the course of three years, producing the world''s first internet-based reader edited book. Joe The Peacock''s stories have been featured on websites and in magazines ranging from CNN, MSNBC, Fark, the Village Voice, the Mad Pundit, Zug and a host of others, where they (and the Mentally Incontinent project itself) were met with massive critical acclaim.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1989'),
(6869, 'The Mercedes Coffin', 'Faye Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Billionaire genius Genoa Greeves never got over the shocking death of her favorite teacher, Bennett "Dr. Ben" Alston Little, murdered execution-style and stuffed into the trunk of his Mercedes-Benz. No arrests were ever made, no killer charged for the brutal crime. Fifteen years later, the high-tech CEO reads about another execution-style murder; this time the victim is a Hollywood music producer named Primo Ekerling. There is no obvious connection, but the case is eerily similar to Little''s and Genoa feels the time is right to close Dr. Ben''s case once and for all-offering the L.A.P.D. a substantial financial "incentive" if justice is finally served for Little.Lieutenant Peter Decker resents having to commit valuable manpower to a fifteen-year-old open case simply because a rich woman says "Jump!" Still, the recent murder of Primo Ekerling does bear a disturbing resemblance to Little''s case, even though two thug suspects are currently behind bars for the Ekerling murder. Decker can''t help but wonder about a connection. His first phone calls are to the two primary investigators in the Little case, retired detectives Calvin Vitton and Arnie Lamar. Lamar is cooperative, but Vitton is not only reluctant to talk, he winds up dead of a suspicious suicide twelve hours later. Plunging into this long-buried murder, Decker discovers that even though the two slayings are separated by a decade and a half, there is still plenty of greed, lust, and evil to connect the dots.Decker''s team of top investigators not only includes his favorite homicide detectives, Scott Oliver and Marge Dunn, but also his newly minted Hollywood detective daughter, Cindy Kutiel, whose help proves to be invaluable. His wife, Rina Lazarus, continues to be his backbone of support, offering a cool, rational outlook despite her growing concern for her husband''s welfare and safety. Rina''s worries and fears begin to build at a fevered pitch as past and present collide with a vengeance, catapulting an unsuspecting Peter Decker closer and closer to the edge of an infinite dark abyss.A relentlessly gripping tale spun by a master, Faye Kellerman''s The Mercedes Coffin races through a dangerous urban world of fleeting fame and false dreams, making heart-pumping hairpin turns at each step of a terrifying journey, where truth and justice are fine lines between life and death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3689'),
(6870, 'Mercenary', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stratton carries out a small task in Central America as a favour to a CIA officer, but it leads him to become embroiled in a national rebellion. Against his own principles, the special operative becomes emotionally involved and decides to join the popular uprising. However, he is unaware that the fight is not just against the local government - the CIA are very much involved. As events spiral disastrously out of control, Stratton must face up to his biggest and most treacherous challenge yet.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n A former member of the elite Special Boat Service of the Royal Marines, Duncan Falconer left afterÂ more thanÂ a decade of operational service to work inÂ private security.Â His SBS exploits were documented in the bestselling\n <em>\n  First into Action\n </em>\n . His other titles include\n <em>\n  First Into Action\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Hostage\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Protector\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Undersea Prison\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/465'),
(6871, 'A Mercy', 'Toni Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prizeâ€“winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root.Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh north. Despite his distaste for dealing in â€œflesh,â€ he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, â€œwith the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady.â€ Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new masterâ€™s house, but later from a handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved.There are other voices: Lina, whose tribe was decimated by smallpox; their mistress, Rebekka, herself a victim of religious intolerance back in England; Sorrow, a strange girl whoâ€™s spent her early years at sea; and finally the devastating voice of Florensâ€™ mother. These are all men and women inventing themselves in the wilderness.A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and of a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.Acts of mercy may have unforeseen consequences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3466'),
(6872, 'Mere Christianity', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1943 Great Britain, when hope and the moral fabric of society were threatened by the relentless inhumanity of global war, an Oxford don was invited to give a series of radio lectures addressing the central issues of Christianity. Over half a century after the original lectures, the topic retains it urgency. Expanded into book form,\n  <em>\n   Mere Christianity\n  </em>\n  never flinches as it sets out a rational basis for Christianity and builds an edifice of compassionate morality atop this foundation. As Mr. Lewis clearly demonstrates, Christianity is not a religion of flitting angels and blind faith, but of free will, an innate sense of justice and the grace of God.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The late Lewis, Oxford professor, scholar, author, and Christian apologist, presents the listener with a case for orthodox Christianity. This is definitely not the shouting, stomping, sweating, spitting televangelist fare so often parodied; Lewis employs logical arguments that are eloquently expressed. He describes those doctrines that the four major denominations in Britain (Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic) would have in common, e.g., original sin, the transcendent Creator God, and the divinity of Jesus as well as his atonement and bodily resurrection. Geoffrey Howard reads both works, and his performance is superb; he is clear and unhurried, giving just the right emphasis and/or inflection. The volume on the Blackstone edition is recorded at a higher level than HarperAudio''s. Otherwise there were no perceived differences in the recordings. If your institution can afford it, the Blackstone production would be preferred because of its sturdy case and the announcement of side changes. Whether or not one agrees with Lewis''s arguments, it is a pleasure to hear such a skillful reading of an eloquent work. Public libraries as well as institutions that teach religion/theology or speech should consider. Michael T. Fein, Central Virginia Community Coll., Lynchburg\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1173'),
(6873, 'Message in a Bottle', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you thought\n <em>\n  The Notebook\n </em>\n was a tearjerker, get out the hankies, pull up a chair, and get ready to have your heart monkey-wrenched by Nicholas Sparks''s second star-crossed love story,\n <em>\n  Message in a Bottle\n </em>\n . When Theresa Osborne takes a much-needed summer holiday at Cape Cod, she finds a lot more than a break from the hustle and bustle. On an early-morning jog along Cape Cod Bay, she comes across a corked bottle with a scrolled-up message inside that reads, "My Dearest Catherine, I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together..." It bobbles around in the same vein for several more paragraphs and ends with "...am alone on the pier and I do not care what others think as I bow my head and cry and cry and cry. Garret."\n</p>\n<p>\n Garret may eat quiche, but no bother--before you can say "Look! I found two more letters!" Theresa is hot on his trail and determined to find this mysterious yet sensitive message-in-a-bottle man. She finds him at a sleepy North Carolina port, working on his beloved sailboat,\n <em>\n  The Happenstance\n </em>\n . From there, a romance buds and blossoms into a colorful bouquet of emotional baggage. Theresa has problems with her past--or, more accurately, her past is a problem. She is so scarred from her "I''m a super churchgoing guy now that I''ve run out on my wife" ex-husband that she hasn''t tried to date since her divorce some three or four years before. And who is Catherine? And what''s Garret''s bag, anyway? When Theresa finds out, she plunges to the depths of her soul and uncorks a whopper of a secret about herself, bringing Garret to terms with who he really is.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Message in a Bottle\n </em>\n has the earmarks of sentimental tongue-wagging at its finest and should please romantics and cynics alike--it''s sure to bring romantics to their knees, while cynics will be slapping theirs in laughter.\n <em>\n  --Rebekah Warren\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Avoiding a sophomore slump, Sparks follows The Notebook with another sentimental candidate for the bestseller lists. Boston parenting columnist Theresa Osborne has lost faith in the dream of everlasting love. Three years after divorcing her cheating husband, the single mother is vacationing on Cape Cod when she finds a bottle washed up on the shore. Inside, a message begins: "My Dearest Catherine, I miss you." Subsequent publication of the poignant missive in her column turns up two more letters, found by others, from the same mysterious writer, Garrett Blake. Piqued by his epistolary constancy, Theresa follows the trail to North Carolina, where she discovers that Garrett has been mourning his late wife for three years; writing the sea-borne messages is his only solace. Theresa also finds that Garrett just might be ready to love again... and that she might be the woman for him. There are few surprises here as we watch the couple learn to love in Catherine''s slowly waning shadow. By the time they do, Sparks has proved that a man who romantically (and manually) pens missives to his lost lady love in the era of e-mail is a welcome hero in this fin-de-millennium fax-happy world. (Knowing that Kevin Costner has been slated to play Garrett on screen doesn''t hurt, either.) Film rights to Warner Bros.; simultaneous Time Warner audio; Literary Guild main selection and Reader''s Digest select edition; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1278'),
(6874, 'The Messenger', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Allon is recovering from his grueling showdown with a Palestinian master terrorist, when terrorism comes to find him once again. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer - photographs that lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning one of its most audacious attacks ever, straight at the heart of the Vatican. Allon warns his old friend Monsignor Luigi Donati, the pope''s private secretary, and rushes to Rome to assist in security, but what neither he nor Donati knows is that the Vatican has been thoroughly penetrated. An extraordinary enemy walks among them...and he''s just getting started. In the days and weeks to come, Allon and his colleagues will find themselves in a deadly duel of wits against one of the most dangerous men in the world - a hunt that will take them across Europe to the Caribbean and back. But for them, there may simply not be enough of anything - enough time, enough facts, enough luck.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3841'),
(6875, 'Michael Jackson', 'J. Randy Taraborrelli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A top 10 bestseller, this definitive biography of Michael Jackson is now completely updated to include the events leading to the untimely death of the star. J. Randy Taraborrelli is "the" expert on Michael Jackson, having known him since they were both teenagers and having interviewed the singer and his family many times. So much has been written about the life and career of Michael Jackson that it has become almost impossible to disentangle the man from the myth. J. Randy Taraborrelli cuts through the tabloid rumours and innuendo, the conflicting stories and lurid accusations, to reveal the real man. From his drilling as a child star through the blooming of his talent, from his ever-changing personal appearance to his marriages, from his addictions to his love for his children, we see what motivated one of the greatest performers of all time. Objective and revealing, this book combines impeccable research, brilliant story-telling and a clear-sighted understanding of the forces that shaped Michael''s life and his death. ''The most authoritative book ever written about Michael Jackson'' "Daily Mail " " " ''A superbly researched investigation'' "heat"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1992'),
(6876, 'Michael Jackson: The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story, 1958-2009', 'J. Randy Taraborrelli', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  J. Randy Taraborrelli is a respected journalist, a recognizable entertainment personality, and in-demand guest on many television programs. He is the bestselling author of eight books. Taraborrelli is a reporter for the\n  <em>\n   Times\n  </em>\n  (London),\n  <em>\n   Paris Match,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Daily Mail\n  </em>\n  (UK) and a contributor to\n  <em>\n   Redbook,\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   McCall''s\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Good Housekeeping\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From The Washington Post\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From The Washington Post''s Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Justin Moyer Did the great flood of words unleashed in the 40 days and 40 nights since the passing of the King of Pop offer new insight into this legend, this plastic surgery disaster, this voice of a generation, this drug-addled man-child? Or was the eulogizing without point or purpose, a rehash of the same stale gossip and well-known stories just to fill airtime and column inches? Michael Jackson, dead at 50, demands a new vocabulary. If Greil Marcus can make Bob Dylan the standard-bearer of American myth in "Invisible Republic" and Nick Tosches can make Jerry Lee Lewis a Gothic antihero in his unforgettable "Hellfire," the rock bio can transcend mere reportage. What writer will now sit down, set aside armchair psychobabble and offer up a real Michael Jackson? Certainly not J. Randy Taraborrelli, who offers this quickly updated version of his 1991 biography as a stand-in for a fresh look at one of the 20th century''s greatest entertainers. (The book was updated in 2003 and again in 2004.) A young R&amp;B fanatic who blossomed into a serial celebrity biographer, Taraborrelli met MJ in 1970 when the Jackson 5 was still brushing the dust of Gary, Ind., from the lapels of its matching "lime green vest suits." "The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story" takes us through the ABCs of Jackson''s life that, after last month''s orgy of remembrance, are as familiar as "1-2-3": abuse at the hands of a domineering father; fame and fortune at age 10; first rhinoplasty; "Off the Wall"; second rhinoplasty; "Thriller"; Bubbles the chimp; Brooke Shields and Emmanuel Lewis; rumors of homosexuality; "Bad"; Neverland; Lisa Marie; Debbie Rowe; Prince Michael I; rumors of pedophilia; dwindling record sales; arrest for pedophilia; and fatal slide into prescription drug addiction and general quadrillionaire weirdness including, but not limited to, wearing surgical masks in public and consenting to eighth months of interviews with British journalist Martin Bashir. Taraborrelli plays Virgil on the Gloved One''s Dantean descent, armed with an enthusiasm for all things Jackson but ill-served by clunky prose. "It is obviously a tragic turn of events if Michael Jackson is being targeted with untrue allegations of child-molestation," he writes in the present tense about the world''s most famous dead man. If a publisher slaps 20 pages on to the end of an 18-year-old book and rushes out an "updated edition" less than six weeks after its subject expires, can''t a reader expect . . . well . . . the edition to be updated? Still, one can fault Taraborrelli''s prose and his publisher''s motives, but not his access. As trusted by the mercurial Jackson clan as a reporter can be, the author covered the family from the Nixon to the George W. Bush administrations, documenting every startling triumph and tawdry personal misstep. Taraborrelli relies on lesser, often unnamed players -- music producers, Neverland employees and older brother Jermaine -- to dish dirt, but his own innumerable interviews with Motown''s first family lend "Magic" credibility. "I clearly remember the day I wrote ''Michael Jackson Turns 21,'' " Taraborrelli boasts. "Then, there was ''Michael Jackson Turns 25'' . . . ''Michael Jackson Turns 30.'' " If this is hubris, at least it offers relief from watching every reporter who''d ever talked to someone who''d heard of someone who''d interviewed Michael Jackson jockey for five minutes on CNN. But what good is access to an icon if that icon brazenly manipulates the media, and what good are exclusive interviews that provide no real insight? Jackson''s otherworldly sexual energy, more than his singing, dancing and songwriting, propelled him to stardom. Fairly or unfairly, what went on under the sheets he shared with pre-adolescent pals overshadows the cultural touchstones of "Motown 25" and "Beat It." If a four-decade media frenzy and a Santa Barbara district attorney can''t tell us why Jackson toyed with gender and slept with young boys, can we really know anything about him? Competent reporting at the borders of this mystery isn''t enough -- Taraborrelli needs a scoop, a thesis or some hook to hang his narrative on. Anything less is a failure of imagination, and imagination is exactly what this slightly updated biography lacks. Jackson "never seems able to connect the dots of unfolding misery back to his own impulsive actions and questionable judgment," Taraborrelli realizes -- too late to turn it into a theme. By the time the author enters Neverland after Jackson''s death to stare into the "Man in the Mirror''s" mirror and find only himself -- a mawkish attempt to understand "poor Michael Jackson" -- it''s hard to care what lesson he''s supposed to be learning. Don DeLillo looked at the Kennedy assassination and gave us "Libra," a nuanced masterpiece that shunned mere protagonists and antagonists to portray conspiracy as incompetence; Curtis Sittenfeld looked at Laura Bush and gave us "American Wife," an unexpectedly gentle depiction of a flawed woman married to a flawed man who had history thrust upon him. These are fictions, but maybe fiction is what the oft-told, unbelievable, unforgettable story of Michael Jackson demands. On his own, he remains shrouded, moonwalking in silhouette.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2009, The Washington Post. All Rights Reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3935'),
(6877, 'Micro', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: â€œ\n   <em>\n    Micro\n   </em>\n   is Anything But Smallâ€ by James Rollins\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An avid spelunker and scuba enthusiast,  James Rollins holds a doctorate in veterinary medicine and is the author of the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   best-selling Sigma Force series, the most recent of which is\n   <em>\n    The Devil Colony\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  First I have to admit, Michael Crichton is why I write. In fact, if not for his books, Iâ€™d probably still be a practicing veterinarian in Northern California, dealing with flea allergies, ear infections, and all manner of medical maladies. It was Crichtonâ€™s stories of wild adventures, his explorations into the strange frontiers of science, and his truly ripped-from-the-headlines plotting that inspired me to set down my own scalpel and stethoscope and pick up pen and paper.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But his influence went beyond mere heady inspiration. His books also served as a tutorial into the practicalities of storytelling. When I tackled my first novel (a deep-earth adventure titled\n  <em>\n   Subterranean\n  </em>\n  ), I continually kept a copy of\n  <em>\n   Jurassic Park\n  </em>\n  on the shelf above my desk. That book became my roadmap on how to build a storyâ€™s structure: who dies first and when, at what point do we see the first dinosaur, how do you fold science into a novel without stagnating the flow? That old copy of\n  <em>\n   Jurassic Park\n  </em>\n  remains dog-eared and heavily highlighted, and it still holds a cherished place on my bookshelf.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So I dove into Crichtonâ€™s latest novel,\n  <em>\n   Micro\n  </em>\n  , with some trepidation, fearing how a collaborative effort might tarnish his great body of work. Now, to be fair, Iâ€™d also read Richard Prestonâ€™s nonfiction masterpiece of scientific horror and intrigue,\n  <em>\n   The Hot Zone\n  </em>\n  . That book was as brilliant as it was terrifying. But still I wondered, could Preston take Crichtonâ€™s story and truly do it justice?\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a word:\n  <em>\n   YES\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  In two words,\n  <em>\n   HELL YES.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Micro\n  </em>\n  is pure Crichton. Dare I say,\n  <em>\n   vintage\n  </em>\n  Crichton, harkening back to the scientific intrigue of\n  <em>\n   Andromeda Strain\n  </em>\n  , to the exploration of the natural world covered in\n  <em>\n   Congo\n  </em>\n  , and to the adventure and thrills of\n  <em>\n   The Lost World\n  </em>\n  . As only Crichton can, he has taken a scientific concept as wild as the one he tackled in\n  <em>\n   Timeline\n  </em>\n  and exceeded in making it chillingly real. It took a clever quirk of genetics and cloning to give rise to the dinosaurs in\n  <em>\n   Jurassic Park\n  </em>\n  . Likewise, a twist of science in Micro calls forth a new horror out of the natural worldâ€”but not just one line of threat. In this book, the entire biosphere becomes a vast and deadly playground. Its depiction is both darkly beautiful and stunningly dreadful. It is a terrain as foreign as any hostile planet, yet as close as our own backyard. To tell more would ruin a great adventure that will have you looking out your window with new eyes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Similarly, this lethal and toxic terrain must be traversed by a band of gutsy heroes. But in typical Crichton style, these are not elite commandos or a highly trained black ops team. Theyâ€™re simply a group of graduate studentsâ€”each uniquely talented and flawedâ€”gathered from various scientific disciplines: entomology, toxicology, botany, biochemistry. They must learn to combine resources and ingenuities to survive and ultimately thwart a danger threatening to break free into the world at large, all the while pursued by a sociopath as cunning as he is sadistic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the end,\n  <em>\n   Micro\n  </em>\n  has everything youâ€™d expect in a Crichton novelâ€”and so much more. But the greatest achievement here is a simple and profound one: with this novel, the legacy of a true master continues to shine forth in all its multifaceted glory. And someone somewhere will read this novel, turn the last page, and in a great aura of awe and inspiration, come to a realization:\n  <em>\n   I want to try to write stories like that.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  And they will.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for Prey:''One of the most ingenious, inventive thriller writers around â€¦ Prey sees him doing what he does best â€“ taking the very latest scientific advances and showing us their potentially terrifying underbelly. Another high-concept treat â€¦ written in consummate page-turning style'' Observer''This is Crichton on top form, preying on our fears about new technology and convincing us that we aren''t half as afraid as we should be'' The Times''Mixing cutting-edge science with thrills and spills, this is classic Crichton'' Daily MirrorPraise for Next:''A wonderful farrago, energetically stirring up a lot of scientific, medical, business and legal issuesâ€¦ marvellous'' Evening Standard''A satirical black-comedy thrillerâ€¦ Crichton writes likes Tom Wolfe on speedâ€¦ completely brilliantâ€¦ Crichton''s treatise on how breakthroughs in genetic science have been hijacked by science is anything but dullâ€¦ top form'' Daily Mail''One of the most reliable purveyors of brain-engaged fiction at work todayâ€¦ he is too good a writer not to nail usâ€¦ diverting stuff'' Daily Express''Crichton has certainly done his researchâ€¦ his alarm is hard to disputeâ€¦ compellingâ€¦ extremely funny'' Sunday Times''Be very afraidâ€¦ expertly blending science fact with fiction, Crichton sets up mind-boggling scenarios where doctors, lawyers, scientists and big business play Godâ€¦ the pace and intrigue last to the final page'' News of the World''A satiric polemicâ€¦ a convincing and scary warning from Crichton'' Sunday TimesPraise for State of Fear:''The pages whip by. Does exactly what you want the prose in a thriller to do'' Telegraph''Crichton''s new novel is an environmental adventure of truly global proportions. Intelligent, readable and guaranteed to get the grey matter going'' Mirror''A page-turnerâ€¦this is an action-packed read concerning a Machiavellian global-warming scam'' Daily Mail\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2897'),
(6878, 'The Midas Code', 'Boyd Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tyler Locke is on board a Washington State ferry when he receives an anonymous call informing him that a bomb is set to detonate on deck in ten minutes - long before the boat reaches port. When a frantic Locke races to the location, he finds classics professor Stacey Benedict has received the very same tip; in order to disarm the bomb, the two must work together to solve an engineering puzzle, a puzzle written in ancient Greek. But the entire setup is merely a test created by a terrorist cell intent on using them to undertake an incredible mission: uncovering the legendary lost riches of King Midas. The cell is using Tylerâ€™s father as their bait, holding him hostage and giving Tyler just ten days to track down the gold. Armed only with an illuminated manuscript penned by ancient inventor Archimedes, Tyler and Stacey begin their quest to solve a mystery whose answer is hidden within the workings of a famous Ancient Greek artifact...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/582'),
(6879, 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he''s got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off: With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school''s oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class-5,000 points! Running in the hallway-10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm-50,000 points! But when Rafe''s game starts to catch up with him, he''ll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he''s finally ready to face the rules, bullies, and truths he''s been avoiding.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Blockbuster author James Patterson delivers a genuinely hilarious-and surprisingly poignant-story of a wildly imaginative, one-of-kind kid that you won''t soon forget.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/320'),
(6880, 'Midnight Alley', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Claire Danvers learned that her college town was run by vampires, she did what any intelligent, self-preserving freshman would do: She applied for a transfer and stocked up on garlic. The transfer is no longer an option, but that garlic may come in handy.Now Claire has pledged herself to Amelie, the most powerful vampire in town. The protection her contract secures does little to reassure those closest to Claire. All of a sudden, people are turning up dead, a stalker resurfaces from her past, and an ancient bloodsucker extends a chilling invitation for private lessons in his secluded home. To what end, Claire will soon discover-and it will give a terrifying new meaning to night school.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3163'),
(6881, 'Midnight and the Meaning of Love', 'Sister Souljah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sister Souljah, the New York Times bestselling author of The Coldest Winter Ever and Midnight, delivers her most compelling and enlightening story yet. With Midnight and The Meaning of Love, Souljah brings to her millions of fans an adventure about young, deep love, the ways in which people across the world express their love, and the lengths that they will go to have it. Powerful and sensual, Midnight is an intelligent, fierce fighter and Ninjutsu-trained ninja warrior. He attracts attention wherever he goes but remains unmoved by it and focuses on protecting his mother and sister and regaining his familyâ€™s fortunes. When Midnight, a devout Muslim, takes sixteen-year-old Akemi from Japan as his wife, they look forward to building a life together, but their tumultuous teenage marriage is interrupted when Akemi is kidnapped and taken back to Japan by her own father, even though the marriage was consummated and well underway. â€œThereâ€™s not one drop of inferiority in my blood,â€ Midnight says as he first secures his mother, Umma, and sister, Naja, before setting off on a global journey to reclaim his wife. Midnight must travel across three countries and numerous cultures in his attempt to defeat his opponent. Along this magnificent journey he meets people who change him forever, even as he changes them. He encounters temptations he never would have imagined and takes risks that many a lesser man would say no to, all for the women he loves and is sworn to protect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3661'),
(6882, 'Midnight Caller', 'Leslie Tentler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A smooth prose style and an authentic Big Easy vibe distinguish Tentler''s debut. Dr. Rain Sommers, the host of Midnight Confessions, a New Orleans late-night radio talk show, was two years old in 1981 when Gavin Firth, Rain''s British guitarist father, murdered her mother, Desiree Sommers, a popular goth singer, then killed himself. Special agent Trevor Rivette of the FBI''s Violent Crimes Unit has been hunting a serial killer dubbed "the Vampire" (aka Dante), who''s slain five women across the U.S. and is now in New Orleans. The sadistic Dante slashes his victims'' throats and leaves a signature rosary just like one Rain''s mother wore in some publicity photos. After killing three goth scene teens, Dante targets Rain. While thriller fans will find much that''s familiar, from the vampire-like killings to the dependable FBI guy falling for the pretty woman in jeopardy, the shivers are worthy of a Lisa Jackson. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "A smooth prose style and an authentic Big Easy vibe distinguish Tentler''s debut...the shivers are worthy of a Lisa Jackson." Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  --Publisher''s Weekly\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3787'),
(6883, 'The Midnight Club', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n John Stefanovuitch is one tough New York cop. Nobody knows the city like he does. Stef is out to get Alexandre St Germain, a powerful member of the Midnight Club - a secret international society whose membership is limited to an elite group of crime czars, all of whom are respectable business men.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/542'),
(6884, 'Midnight Fear', 'Leslie Tentler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A smooth prose style and an authentic Big Easy vibe distinguish Tentler''s debut...the shivers are worthy of a Lisa Jackson."-Publishers Weekly on Midnight Caller\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...filled with suspense and mystery, and centered around a compelling plot with a terrifying villain...This is one riveting read." Â  -Romantic Times Book Review on Midnight Caller\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A romantic thriller that continually keeps you on the edge of your seat."-Fresh Fiction on Midnight Caller\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Leslie Tentler shows what she is capable of...producing a first-class suspense/mystery novel."-Manic Readers on Midnight Caller\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...this refreshing new talent proves she''s got a promising future in this genre." -Suspense Magazine on Midnight Caller\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I trusted you, Caity"\n </p>\n <p>\n  The still of the night is once again shattered by Caitlyn Cahill[HTML_REMOVED]s recurring nightmareâ€”her brother standing before her, gripping a butcher knife, his eyes black with hatred. Two years ago, the former Washington, D.C., socialite defied her powerful senator father and risked the ruin of her family by helping the FBI link her troubled brother to a string of horrific murders. "The Capital Killer" was sent to prison for lifeâ€¦and Caitlyn[HTML_REMOVED]s entire world fell apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, FBI agent Reid Novak is forced to rend the peace Caitlyn has found on a rural Virginia horse farm. A copycat killer is on the loose and slowly toying with Caitlynâ€”his ultimate targetâ€”in a terrorizing catâ€“andâ€“mouse game. Almost destroyed two years ago by Caitlyn[HTML_REMOVED]s family, not to mention the Capital Killer[HTML_REMOVED]s haunting final murder, Reid vows to save the woman he[HTML_REMOVED]s never forgotten or die trying.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3788'),
(6885, 'The Midnight House', 'Alex Berenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n CIA agent John Wells returns in a cutting-edge novel of modern suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling writer.  Early one morning, a former CIA agent is shot to death in the street. That night, an army vet is gunned down in his doorway. The next day, John Wells gets a phone call. Come to Langley. Now.  The two victims were part of an eleven-member interrogation team that operated out of a secret base in Poland called the MidÂ­night House. For two years, they put the screws to the toughest jihadis, men thought to have knowledge of imminent threats. The interrogators used whatever means necessary. When they were disbanded in the wake of public controversy, they were given medals for their heroism, Prozac for their nightmares. Now Wells must find out who is killing them. Islamic terrorists are the likeliest explanation, and Wells is uniquely qualified to go undercover after them. But the trail of blood he discovers will lead him and his boss, Ellis Shafer, to a place they wouldn''t have imagined-and leave Wells facing the hardest of questions about the men of the Midnight House.  Berenson''s work has been called "superior entertainment" (The Washington Post), "heart-stopping adventure" (USA Today), and "a superb yarn reflecting the myriad dangers confronting our country today" (The Providence Journal). He is one of the world''s best new thriller writers-and he is just getting started.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3440'),
(6886, 'Midnight Promises', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Sherryl Woods draws you into the\n <br />\n emotional journey of a marriage worth saving When Elliott Cruz first courted struggling single\n <br />\n mom Karen Ames, it was a romance worthy of any Sweet Magnolia fantasy. The sexy personal\n <br />\n trainer made it his mission to restore Karen''s strength - physical and emotional - and to\n <br />\n charm her children. Now, a few years into the marriage, colliding dreams threaten to tear them\n <br />\n apart. Elliott''s desire to finance the business opportunity of a lifetime with their\n <br />\n hard-earned "baby money" stirs Karen''s deep-rooted financial insecurities. It''s the discovery\n <br />\n that their brother-in-law is cheating on Elliott''s sister - and thinks it''s justified - that\n <br />\n puts their irreconcilable differences into perspective. Will their own loving fidelity be a\n <br />\n bond so strong they can triumph against all odds?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3885'),
(6887, 'Midnight: A Gangster Love Story', 'Sister Souljah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A fierce fighter with heart and a powerful mind, Midnight is willing to do anything to defend his family, the women he loves, and his business and property. In this riveting prequel to her urban classic, "The Coldest Winter Ever, "Sister Souljah reintroduces readers to Ricky Santiago''s strong, humble, and dangerously attractive lieutenant. The intricate storytelling in this passionate tale of love, loyalty, strength, and survival will sweep readers from the wealthy North African estate of Midnight''s father to the complicated challenges and confrontations of the Brooklyn projects where Midnight lands with his beautiful mother. This story will move your heart and soul and change your life forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3246'),
(6888, 'Might as Well Laugh About It Now', 'Marie Osmond', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **Recollections, wisdom, and advice from the beloved entertainer, American icon, mother of eight children, and *New York Times* bestselling author.**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When the *Donny and Marie* show ended its award-winning run on ABC in 1979, 19-year-old Marie was ready to leave the stage lights for a secretaryâ€™s lifeâ€”she had prepared to say â€œgoodbyeâ€ to fleeting fame by studying shorthand and typing! Clearly, life took a different turn.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now, decades later and still a beloved superstar, Marie opens the door to her thoughts on many of her milestones and missteps, both the public and the personal. In a life brimming with a mixture of charm and chaos, blessings and hilarious bungles, victory and vulnerability, Marie recounts for her â€œfamily of fansâ€ her greatest successes as well as her most crushing disappointments, career pressures and expectations, marriage and divorce, depression, weight issues, tough choices, honors and awards, and the incredible joys and challenges of raising children. Through it all, Marie has bounced back time and again with unstoppable enthusiasm, resilience, and an unbeatably healthy and positive outlook on life.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In *Might as Well Laugh About It Now*, she imparts her insights on surviving all of lifeâ€™s roadblocks and detours in a collection of friendly musings and heartening advice about learning to surviveâ€” and moving forwardâ€”with humor and optimism.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1993'),
(6889, 'Mile 81', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  MILE 81\n  <br />\n  A Stephen King e-book original,\n  <br />\n  coming from Scribner on September 1, 2011\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the heart of\n  <em>\n   Stand By Me\n  </em>\n  and the genius horror of\n  <em>\n   Christine\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mile 81\n  </em>\n  is Stephen King unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road signs...\n </p>\n <p>\n  At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop on a highway in Maine. It''s a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It''s the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who''s supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play "paratroopers over the side." Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn''t been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services." The driver''s door opens but nobody gets out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls "the ultimate insurance manual," but it isn''t going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton''s cracked cell phone near the wagon door Â— and gets too close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids Â— Rachel and Blake Lussier Â— and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2692');
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(6890, 'The Mill River Recluse', 'Darcie Chan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Chan''s sweet novel displays her talent." ~ _\n <strong>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n "...a real page-turner." ~ _\n <strong>\n  IndieReader.com\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Now a New York Times and USA Today bestseller!\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Disfigured by the blow of an abusive husband, and suffering her entire life with severe social anxiety disorder, the widow Mary McAllister spends almost sixty years secluded in a white marble mansion overlooking the town of Mill River, Vermont. Her links to the outside world are few: the mail, the media, an elderly priest with a guilty habit of pilfering spoons, and a bedroom window with a view of the town below.\n</p>\n<p>\n Most longtime residents of Mill River consider the marble house and its occupant peculiar, though insignificant, fixtures. An arsonist, a covetous nurse, and the endearing village idiot are among the few who have ever seen Mary. Newcomers to Mill River--a police officer and his daughter and a new fourth grade teacher--are also curious about the reclusive old woman. But only Father Michael O''Brien knows Mary and the secret she keeps--one that, once revealed, will change all of their lives forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Mill River Recluse\n </strong>\n _ is a story of triumph over tragedy, one that reminds us of the value of friendship and the ability of love to come from the most unexpected of places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2865'),
(6891, 'A Million Little Pieces', 'James Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  At the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his front teeth knocked out and his nose broken. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor any recollection of the past two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, he checked into a treatment facility shortly after landing. There he was told he could either stop using or die before he reached age 24. This is Freyâ€™s acclaimed account of his six weeks in rehab.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  The electrifying opening of James Frey''s debut memoir,\n  <em>\n   A Million Little Pieces\n  </em>\n  , smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox confronting "The Fury" head on:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  One of the more harrowing sections is when Frey submits to major dental surgery without the benefit of anesthesia or painkillers (he fights the mind-blowing waves of "bayonet" pain by digging his fingers into two old tennis balls until his nails crack). His fellow patients include a damaged crack addict with whom Frey wades into an ill-fated relationship, a federal judge, a former championship boxer, and a mobster (who, upon his release, throws a hilarious surf-and-turf bacchanal, complete with pay-per-view boxing). In the book''s epilogue, when Frey ticks off a terse update on everyone, you can almost hear the Jim Carroll Band''s brutal survivor''s lament "People Who Died" kicking in on the soundtrack of the inevitable film adaptation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The rage-fueled memoir is kept in check by Frey''s cool, minimalist style. Like his steady mantra, "I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal," Frey''s use of repetition takes on a crisp, lyrical quality which lends itself to the surreal experience. The book could have benefited from being a bit leaner. Nearly 400 pages is a long time to spend under Frey''s influence, and the stylistic acrobatics (no quotation marks, random capitalization, left-aligned text, wild paragraph breaks) may seem too self-conscious for some readers, but beyond the literary fireworks lurks a fierce debut.\n  <em>\n   --Brad Thomas Parsons\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Frey is pretender to the throne of the aggressive, digressive, cocky Kings David: Eggers and Foster Wallace. Pre-pub comparisons to those writers spring not from Frey''s writing but from his attitude: as a recent advance profile put it, the 33-year-old former drug dealer and screenwriter "wants to be the greatest literary writer of his generation." While the Davids have their faults, their work is unquestionably literary. Frey''s work is more mirrored surface than depth, but this superficiality has its attractions. With a combination of upper-middle-class entitlement, street credibility garnered by astronomical drug intake and PowerPoint-like sentence fragments and clipped dialogue, Frey proffers a book that is deeply flawed, too long, a trial of even the most naâ€¹ve reader''s credulousness-yet its posturings hit a nerve. This is not a new story: boy from a nice, if a little chilly, family gets into trouble early with alcohol and drugs and stays there. Pieces begins as Frey arrives at Hazelden, which claims to be the most successful treatment center in the world, though its success rate is a mere 17%. There are flashbacks to the binges that led to rehab and digressions into the history of other patients: a mobster, a boxer, a former college administrator, and Lilly, his forbidden love interest, a classic fallen princess, former prostitute and crack addict. What sets Pieces apart from other memoirs about 12-stepping is Frey''s resistance to the concept of a higher power. The book is sure to draw criticism from the recovery community, which is, in a sense, Frey''s great gimmick. He is someone whose problems seem to stem from being uncomfortable with authority, and who resists it to the end, surviving despite the odds against him. The prose is repetitive to the point of being exasperating, but the story, with its forays into the consciousness of an addict, is correspondingly difficult to put down.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1780'),
(6892, 'Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance', 'Janet Gleeson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the wake of Louis XIV''s death, France''s government teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. Enter the reformer in the unlikely guise of John Law -- a supremely charming and attractive Scot whose brilliant financial mind had thus far served only to make himself rich at the gaming tables. In one of the great image makeovers of all time, John Law recharged a devastated French economy, making him one of the most successful men in Europe. When Law founded a New World trading company, the synergistic combination of faith in his ideas and wild reports of the riches to be made in France''s vast holdings in America sent the price of its shares through the roof. Investors drunk on dreams of instant wealth gave birth to the first boom-and-bust cycle -- one that created such vast wealth for shareholders that a new term was coined to describe them...millionaires.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2508'),
(6893, 'Mind Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n From the bestselling author of night prey and winter prey...an all-new Lucas Davenport thriller. Run for it... It was raining when psychiatrist Andi Manette left the parent-teacher conference with her two young daughters, and she was distracted. She barely noticed the red van parked beside her, barely noticed the van door slide open as they dashed up to the car. The last thing she did notice was the hand reaching out for her and the voice from out of the past -- and then the three of them were gone. Hours later, deputy chief Lucas Davenport stood in the parking lot, a blood-stained shoe in his hand, the ground stained pink around him, and knew that this would be one of the worst cases he''d ever been on. With an urgency born of dread, he presses the attack, while in an isolated farmhouse, Andi Manette does the same, summoning all her skills to battle an obsessed captor. She knows the man who has taken her and her daughters, knows there is a chink in his armor, if only she can find it. But for both her and Davenport, time is already running out. John Sandford''s novels have always been extraordinary for their harrowing twists, unforgettable characters, and crackling prose. But Mind Prey tops them all. It is the work of a true master.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/690'),
(6894, 'Minding Frankie', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Maeve Binchy is back with a tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community.When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once sheâ€™s born. But as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel canâ€™t do it alone. Fortunately, he has a competent, caring network of friends, family and neighbors: Lisa, his unlucky-in-love classmate, who moves in with him to help him care for little Frankie around the clock; his American cousin, Emily, always there with a pep talk; the newly retired Dr. Hat, with more time on his hands than he knows what to do with; Dr. Declan and Fiona and their baby son, Frankieâ€™s first friend; and many eager babysitters, including old friends Signora and Aidan and Frankieâ€™s doting grandparents, Josie and Charles. But not everyone is pleased with the unconventional arrangement, especially a nosy social worker, Moira, who is convinced that Frankie would be better off in a foster home. Now itâ€™s up to Noel to persuade her that everyone in town has something special to offer when it comes to minding Frankie.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3708'),
(6895, 'Mini Shopaholic', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sophie Kinsella has dazzled readers with her irresistible Shopaholic novelsâ€”sensational international bestsellers that have garnered millions of devoted fans and catapulted her into the first rank of contemporary storytellers. Now her beloved heroine Becky Brandon (nÃ©e Bloomwood) returns in a hilarious tale of married life, toddlerhood, and the perils of trying to give a fabulous surprise partyâ€”on a budget!Becky Brandon thought motherhood would be a breeze and that having a daughter was a dream come true: a shopping friend for life! But itâ€™s trickier than she thought. Two-year-old Minnie has a quite different approach to shopping.Minnie creates havoc everywhere she goes, from Harrods to her own christening. Her favorite word is â€œMine!â€ and sheâ€™s even trying to get into eBay! On top of everything else, Becky and Luke are still living with her parents (the deal on house #4 has fallen through), when suddenly thereâ€™s a huge financial crisis. With people having to â€œcut back,â€ Becky decides to throw a surprise party for Luke to cheer everyone up. But when costs start to spiral out of control, she must decide whether to accept help from an unexpected sourceâ€”and therefore run the risk of hurting the person she loves. Will Becky be able to pull off the celebration of the year? Will she and Luke ever find a home of their own? Will Minnie ever learn to behave? And . . . most important . . . will Beckyâ€™s secret wishes ever come true?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3414'),
(6896, 'Minority Report and Other Classic Stories', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of crime. He is the originator of the Precrime System, which uses "precogs" - people with the power to see into the future - to identify criminals before they can do any harm. Unfortunately for Anderton, his precogs perceive him as the next criminal. But Anderton knows he has never contemplated such a thing, and this knowledge proves the precogs are fallible. Now, whichever way he turns, Anderton is doomed - unless he can find the precogs''s "minority report" - the dissenting voice that represents his one hope of getting at the truth in time to save himself from his own system.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1093'),
(6897, 'Minutes to Burn', 'Gregg Hurwitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the year 2007 the world is not what it was...Powerful earthquakes and hurricanes have left most of South America in ruins--and solar rays pouring down through holes in the depleted ozone layer can burn human flesh to a crisp in minutes. An impending global eco-catastrophe has brought a crack scientific team to a desolate island in the GalÃ¡paos--along with a ragtag squad of U.S. Navy SEALs entrusted with their protection--to position critical seismic equipment before the next wave of earthquakes hits. But there is something waiting for them all in the jungles of Sangre de Dios. A scientific phenomenon the likes of which has never been seen has evolved in the devastating heat of a killing sun. And with the world''s future hanging in the balance, a desperate search for answers has suddenly turned into a terrifying war for survival--transforming scientists and soldiers alike into something they never dreamed possible: prey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3090'),
(6898, 'Miracle Cure', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Publisher''s Weekly\n </strong>\n <br />\n Coben ( Play Dead ) adroitly applies the fundamental rules of thrillerdom (offer a raft of potential villains; keep the action moving at breakneck speed) in this highly entertaining novel about a conspiracy apparently designed to prevent the development of a cure for AIDS. When one of a trio of research scientists on the brink of coming up with an AIDS antidote dies, it looks like suicide, but TV journalist Sara Lowell and her husband, NBA star Michael Silverman, who are friends of the clinic''s founder, think otherwise. Their suspicions are confirmed when several clinic patients, including the son of a U.S. senator, are murdered. A televangelist with his own agenda, Sara''s prominent physician father, and a high-ranking government official all seem intent upon derailing the AIDS research, a situation that becomes most personal when Michael is diagnosed with the disease. Police lieutenant ''''Twitch'''' Bernstein, a closet homosexual, ultimately comes face-to-face with the person responsible for the killings. The final revelation of the identity of the master conspirator comes as a real surprise. This page-turner also raises some interesting questions about medical research and its funding.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Library Journal\n </strong>\n <br />\n Coben is the author of one previous novel, Play Dead ( LJ 4/1/90). His new effort is an uneasy stew of contemporary American types: beautiful good girl who is a TV news celebrity; her sister, beautiful bad girl with a heart of gold; handsome basketball star stricken with AIDS; selfless doctor who may have discovered that disease''s cure; totally evil contract killer; and hypocritical TV evangelist. These types and others are stirred into a pretty unbelievable story that ranges from New York City to Washington, D.C. to Bang kok and amasses an impressive body count. Despite such drawbacks, Coben keeps the reader''s interest by fleshing out the stereotypes a little bit and moving the plot fast enough to overcome the more incredible aspects. A marginal purchase for public libraries.-- A.J. Wright, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  School Library Journal\n </strong>\n <br />\n YA-- Coben casts a dynamic, beautiful, and successful woman, Sara Lowell, and her handsome and famous sports figure, Michael Silverman, as his main characters. Their friend, Dr. Harvey Riker, takes them into his confidence when he tells them that his medical clinic has discovered a cure for AIDS. To his horror, his cured patients are being murdered by a serial killer dubbed the Gay Slasher by the media. Sara''s father is in stiff competition with Riker for funding of his cancer clinic and her sister, Cassandra, is romantically involved with the doctor. When Michael collapses on the basketball court and is diagnosed as HIV positive, tracking down the murderer and supporting Riker''s clinic take on new dimensions for Sara. This is a fast moving mystery that''s sure to capture YAs'' attention, especially in light of today''s headlines.-- Katherine Fitch, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Burke, VA\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/468'),
(6899, 'Miracle on the 17th Green', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Â with Peter de Jonge\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Travis McKinley is an ordinary man living an ordinary life - he has a job that he despises, a marriage that has lost its passion, children from whom he feels disconnected, and at age fifty, a sense that he has accomplished nothing of consequence with his life. But on Christmas Day, he goes out to play a round of golf, and for the first time, he finds himself in the "zone." He sees the putting line that has eluded him for years. Always a fairly good golfer, he finds himself playing like a pro and is so caught up in his excitement that he continues to play, sinking putt after putt, missing Christmas dinner with his wife and family. It is too much for his already troubled marriage. His family collapses - but Travis is soon too busy living his dream to notice. His amazing new golf skills catapult him into the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach, where he advances to the final round with two of his heroes, Jack Nicklaus and Raymond Floyd. And with his wife, children, and a live television audience watching, a miracle takes place on the 17th green that will change Travis, and his family, forever.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/322'),
(6900, 'Mirror Mirror', 'Gregory Maguire', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Maguire has a lock on clever, elaborate retellings of fairy tales, turning them inside out and couching them in tongue-in-cheek baroque prose. After his revisionist takes on Oz''s Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked) and Cinderella''s ugly stepsisters (Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister), he now tackles Snow White. The notorious Borgia habit of poisoning rivals inspired him to transplant the classic tale to 16th-century Tuscany, where Vicente de Nevada is an expatriate Spanish widower who lives with his daughter, the fair Bianca. Beholden to sinister Cesare Borgia and Cesare''s sister (and perhaps lover) Lucrezia, Vicente is sent on what appears to be a fool''s errand, to discover and steal from a Middle East monastery a branch of the Tree of Knowledge complete with three apples. When Bianca is 11, Cesare''s attraction to her causes the envious Lucrezia to order a young hunter to murder her and deliver her heart in a casket. Bianca, of course, is spared and taken in by seven dwarfs. But this is not Disney; the dwarfs are boulders, stirred to life by Bianca''s arrival ("a clothed, bearded obstinacy became slowly apparent"). Several years pass in surreal, dreamlike fashion, with Bianca tending to the dwarfs, who cavort stiffly and philosophize collectively. When Vicente returns successful, Lucrezia poisons an apple for her rival. Innocent Bianca''s fate is gentle, but that of the corrupt Lucrezia, in brilliant Venice, is appropriately grotesque. Fairy tales in their original form are often brutal and disturbing; with his rich, idiosyncratic storytelling, Maguire restores the edge to an oft-told tale and imbues it with a strange, unsettling beauty.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School--A dark and vivid retelling of Snow White transposed to the Italy of the Borgias. Lucrezia is the evil stepmother and five-year-old Bianca de Nevada grows into the role of Snow White. Vicente, a minor landlord beholden to Lucrezia and her brother/lover Cesare, unwillingly leaves his motherless daughter to go on a seemingly futile errand for Cesare. Journeying to Greece to seek out a branch of the holy Tree of Knowledge, Vicente languishes for years in the dungeon of the very monks who possess the relic. While her father is gone, Bianca develops into a lovely young woman, attracting Cesare''s attention. Seeing this, Lucrezia orders her killed and sends a young hunter into the woods with the familiar instructions. Adding much historical flavor and returning to the edgy eroticism of the fairy tale, Maguire invests the journeys of the Borgias, Bianca, and Vicente with a compelling urgency. Readers will be intrigued by the new story and yet curious as to how the familiar elements are brought in. Sometimes seven, sometimes eight, the dwarves, slowly awakening to their possibilities, are droll and great fun to listen to. The language has an old-fashioned quality and the point of view shifts frequently, but teens who continue to the end will learn much of medieval Italy and a little of human nature, and have a new respect for the old tale. This is a great addition to the Maguire shelf.\n <em>\n  --Susan H. Woodcock, Fairfax County Public Library, Chantilly, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1341'),
(6901, 'Mission of Honor', 'David Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven have been enemies for Honor Harrington''s entire life, and she has paid a price for the victories she''s achieved in that conflict. And now the unstoppable juggernaut of the mighty Solarian League is on a collision course with Manticore. The millions who have already died may have been only a foretaste of the billions of casualties just over the horizon, and Honor sees it coming. She''s prepared to do anything, risk anything, to stop it, and she has a plan that may finally bring an end to the Havenite Wars and give even the Solarian League pause. But there are things not even Honor knows about. There are forces in play, hidden enemies in motion, all converging on the Star Kingdom of Manticore to crush the very life out of it, and Honor''s worst nightmares fall short of the oncoming reality. But Manticore''s enemies may not have thought of everything after all. Because if everything Honor Harrington loves is going down to destruction, it won''t be going alone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3580'),
(6902, 'The Mist', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sound so visual you''re literally engulfed by its bonechilling terror! Stephen King''s sinister imagination and the miracle of 3-D sound transport you to a sleepy all-American town. It''s a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a violent storm sweeps across the lake and ends as abruptly and unexpectedly as it had begun. Then comes the mist...creeping slowly, inexorably into town, where it settles and waits, trapping you in the supermarket with dozens of others, cut off from your families and the world. The mist is alive, seething with unearthly sounds and movements. What unleashed this terror? Was it the Arrowhead Project---the top secret government operation that everyone has noticed but no one quite understands? And what happens when the provisions have run out and you''re forced to make your escape, edging blindly through the dim light?\n  <em>\n   The Mist\n  </em>\n  has you in it grip, and this masterpiece of 3-D sound engineering surrounds you with horror so real that you''ll be grabbing your own arm for reassurance. To one side---and whipping around your chair, a slither of tentacles. Swooping down upon you, a rush grotesque, prehistoric wings. In the impenetrable mist, hearing is seeing---and believing. And what you''re about to hear, you''ll never forget.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Stephen King\n  </strong>\n  is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are\n  <em>\n   Full Dark No Stars\n  </em>\n  ,Â \n  <em>\n   Blockade Billy\n  </em>\n  ,Â \n  <em>\n   Under the Dome\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Just After Sunset\n  </em>\n  ,Â the Dark Tower novels,\n  <em>\n   Cell, From a Buick 8, Everything''s Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Lisey''s Story\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Bag of Bones\n  </em>\n  . His acclaimed nonfiction book,\n  <em>\n   On Writing\n  </em>\n  , was recently re-released in a tenth anniversary edition. King was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007 he was inducted as a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America.Â Â He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/776'),
(6903, 'Misterioso', 'Arne Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The first novel in the gripping Intercrime trilogy. Â Following a complicated but successful dismantling of a hostage situation, Detective Paul Hjelm is facing the prospect of a potentially career-ending investigation by Internal Affairs. Instead, he finds himself dropped into a new elite team of officers selected from across the country, whose mission is to find an elusive killer who has been targeting Swedenâ€™s business leaders. The killerâ€™s modus operandi: two distinctive shots straight through the head, bullets carefully pulled from the wallâ€”a nighttime ritual enacted with TheloÂ­nius Monkâ€™s jazz classic Misterioso playing in the background. Â As Hjelm, his young partner Jorge Chavez, and the rest of the team follow one lead after another in a frantic search for the killerâ€”navigating the murky world of the Russian Mafia and the secret societies of Swedenâ€™s wealthiestÂ  citizensâ€”they must also face one of Swedenâ€™s most persistent ills: aÂ  deep-rooted xenoÂ­phobia that affects both police and perpetrator. Â Written with great energy, penetrating candor, and dark wit, and populated with characters whose motivations are as nuanced as they are unexpected, Misterioso is an utterly absorbing novelâ€”an arresting introduction to this acclaimed author.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/654'),
(6904, 'Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti', 'Gene Mustain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n -- Jerry Capeci''s The Complete Idiot''s Guide "RM" to the Mafia has already netted close to 12,000 copies since its publication in December 2001, making it one of Alpha''s strongest new titles.-- Jerry Capeci is one of America''s most respected experts on the Mafia and organized crime. His Web site, Ganglandnews.com, gets more than 5,000 hits per day. He has appeared twice on Fox-TV promoting The Complete Idiot''s Guide "RM" to the Mafia and is much in demand on local TV and radio shows. He has been profiled in People magazine, the New York Daily News (for which he was a longtime columnist), and dozens of other magazines and newspapers.-- John Gotti is terminally ill; when he passes on to that great Mafia in the sky, co-author Capeci will be in great demand for interviews and will the plug the book.As he battles terminal cancer in a federal prison in Illinois, John Gotti, still the acting head of the Gambino Mafia family, is constantly in the news. Once Mr. Gotti ascends to Mafia heaven, he will be worldwide news-and Alpha will have the most up-to-date and comprehensive book on the subject.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1995'),
(6905, 'Mockingjay', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she''s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she''s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what''s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss''s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins''s groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3731'),
(6906, 'Moment of Vengeance and Other Stories', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, the incomparable Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America''s nineteenth-century western frontierâ€”elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue.   There is a moment when obsession, rage, and destiny come together at the end of a shotgun barrelâ€”when wrongs, actual or perceived, are addressed with violence, and the awesome power of life or death rests in a trigger finger. In seven magnificent stories of sins, crimes, conscience, and savage retribution, the New York Times-bestselling master carries us back to an untamed time and place where a simple transgression most often proved fatal . . . and the only true justice lived in the hands of the gunman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3146'),
(6907, 'Moneyball', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Billy Beane, general manager of MLB''s Oakland A''s and protagonist of Michael Lewis''s\n  <em>\n   Moneyball\n  </em>\n  , had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that''s smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lewis was in the room with the A''s top management as they spent the summer of 2002 adding and subtracting players and he provides outstanding play-by-play. In the June player draft, Beane acquired nearly every prospect he coveted (few of whom were coveted by other teams) and at the July trading deadline he engaged in a tense battle of nerves to acquire a lefty reliever. Besides being one of the most insider accounts ever written about baseball,\n  <em>\n   Moneyball\n  </em>\n  is populated with fascinating characters. We meet Jeremy Brown, an overweight college catcher who most teams project to be a 15th round draft pick (Beane takes him in the first). Sidearm pitcher Chad Bradford is plucked from the White Sox triple-A club to be a key set-up man and catcher Scott Hatteberg is rebuilt as a first baseman. But the most interesting character is Beane himself. A speedy athletic can''t-miss prospect who somehow missed, Beane reinvents himself as a front-office guru, relying on players completely unlike, say, Billy Beane. Lewis, one of the top nonfiction writers of his era (\n  <em>\n   Liar''s Poker\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The New New Thing\n  </em>\n  ), offers highly accessible explanations of baseball stats and his roadmap of Beane''s economic approach makes\n  <em>\n   Moneyball\n  </em>\n  an appealing reading experience for business people and sports fans alike.\n  <em>\n   --John Moe\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lewis (Liar''s Poker; The New New Thing) examines how in 2002 the Oakland Athletics achieved a spectacular winning record while having the smallest player payroll of any major league baseball team. Given the heavily publicized salaries of players for teams like the Boston Red Sox or New York Yankees, baseball insiders and fans assume that the biggest talents deserve and get the biggest salaries. However, argues Lewis, little-known numbers and statistics matter more. Lewis discusses Bill James and his annual stats newsletter, Baseball Abstract, along with other mathematical analysis of the game. Surprisingly, though, most managers have not paid attention to this research, except for Billy Beane, general manager of the A''s and a former player; according to Lewis, "[B]y the beginning of the 2002 season, the Oakland A''s, by winning so much with so little, had become something of an embarrassment to Bud Selig and, by extension, Major League Baseball." The team''s success is actually a shrewd combination of luck, careful player choices and Beane''s first-rate negotiating skills. Beane knows which players are likely to be traded by other teams, and he manages to involve himself even when the trade is unconnected to the A''s. " `Trawling'' is what he called this activity," writes Lewis. "His constant chatter was a way of keeping tabs on the body of information critical to his trading success." Lewis chronicles Beane''s life, focusing on his uncanny ability to find and sign the right players. His descriptive writing allows Beane and the others in the lively cast of baseball characters to come alive.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2948'),
(6908, 'Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can''t buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the front offices of major league teams and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. Lewis mines all these possibilities - his intimate and original portraits of big league ballplayers are alone worth the price of admission - but the real jackpot is a cache of numbers - numbers! - collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors." "What these geek numbers show - no, prove - is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base on balls. This information has been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics." Billy paid attention to those numbers - with the second-lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to - and this book records his astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. Moneyball is a roller coaster ride : before the 2002 season opens, Oakland must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players, is written off by just about everyone, and comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/7'),
(6909, 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: 10th Anniversary Edition', 'Robin Sharma', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ten years ago, a book was published that has since changed millions of lives around the world. Now published in 42 languages, this #1 bestseller that launched a bestselling series continues to inspire and enlighten business people, parents, teachers and all those who strive to become great in all they do. Reissued in a commemorative edition, with a new introduction from the author and an attractive new look, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: 10th Anniversary Edition celebrates the story of Julian Mantle, a successful but misguided lawyer whose physical and emotional collapse propels him to confront his life. The result is an engaging odyssey about how to release your potential and live with passion, purpose and peace. A brilliant blend of timeless Eastern spiritual wisdom and cutting-edge Western success principles, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is now, more than ever, a guide for the times, as countless Canadians dedicate themselves to living a life where family, work and personal fulfillment find harmonious balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/909'),
(6910, 'The Monkey&#39;s Raincoat', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Monkey''s Raincoat is a 1987 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the first in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike. Cole is a tough, wisecracking ex-Ranger with an irresistible urge to do what is morally right. The novel won the 1988 Anthony Award for "Best First Novel" and the 1988 Mystery Readers International Macavity Award for "Best Paperback Original" at Bouchercon XVIV and has since been named one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Explanation of the novel''s title | Plot summary | Trivia | Awards and nominations | Release details | Footnotes | Main character histories\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Taking the mystery community by storm, this Elvis Cole novel was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards and won both the Anthony and Macavity for Best Novel of the Year.Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/543'),
(6911, 'The Monks of War', 'Desmond Seward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Templars, the Hospitallers, the Tuetonic Knights and the Knights of the Spanish and Portuguese orders were ''noblemen vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, living a monastic life in convents which were at the same time barracks, waging war on the enemies of the Cross''. These military religious orders emerged during the Crusades as Christendom''s storm troopers in the savage conflict with Islam. Some of them still exist today, now devoted to charitable works. "The Monks of War" is the first general history of these orders to have appeared since the eighteenth century. Writing in "The Times Literary Supplement", Professor David Knowles described it as, ''Undeniably the work of someone who knows and accepts the standards of critical history, but ...who sees the past also as an epic or a colourful spectacle''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2292'),
(6912, 'Monster', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two murder victims have been discovered in the boots of their cars. The first was would-be actor, Richard Dada; the second Dr Claire Argent, a psychiatrist at a maximum security hospital. Milo Sturgis tends to think there will be plenty of suspects amongst her clientele, but as his friend Alex Delaware remarks, none of his patients ever killed anyone and as they investigate the backgrounds of both victims it appears that Milo needs to look elsewhere, because neither of them are who they made themselves out to be.  As they slowly unravel the strands of their lies another, truly monstrous, character emerges: a man who gains his pleasure not from mere mutilattion and murder but from making his victims watch their own forthcoming death on film. And somehow he has control over some of the Claire Argent''s patients, apparently securely behind bars.  In one of the most complex plots he has yet devised, Jonathan Kellerman has created a devastating mystery thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/760'),
(6913, 'The Monsters of Templeton', 'Lauren Groff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass."So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl''s search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story, this spellbinding novel is at its core a tale of how one town holds the secrets of a family.In the wake of a wildly disastrous affair with her married archaeology professor, Willie Upton arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York, where her hippie-turned-born-again-Baptist mom, Vi, still lives. Willie expects to be able to hide in the place that has been home to her family for generations, but the monster''s death changes the fabric of the quiet, picture-perfect town her ancestors founded. Even further, Willie learns that the story her mother had always told her about her father has all been a lie: he wasn''t the random man from a free-love commune that Vi had led her to imagine, but someone else entirely. Someone from this very town.As Willie puts her archaeological skills to work digging for the truth about her lineage, she discovers that the secrets of her family run deep. Through letters, editorials, and journal entries, the dead rise up to tell their sides of the story as dark mysteries come to light, past and present blur, old stories are finally put to rest, and the shocking truth about more than one monster is revealed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3464'),
(6914, 'Moon Tiger', 'Penelope Lively', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension, she is plotting her greatest work: ''a history of the world ... and in the process, my own''. Gradually she re-creates the rich mosaic of her life and times, conjuring up those she has known. There is Gordon, her adored brother; Jasper, the charming, untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool, conventional daughter; and Tom, her one great love, both found and lost in wartime Egypt. Penelope Lively''s Booker Prize-winning novel weaves an exquisite mesh of memories, flashbacks and shifting voices, in a haunting story of loss and desire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/953'),
(6915, 'Moonlight Mile', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Ti ricordi di me?" CosÃ¬ la voce al telefono si rivolge al detective Patrick Kenzie svegliandolo nel cuore della notte. Una voce di donna. Nessuna presentazione, nessun giro di parole. Solo un imperativo, che suona come una minaccia: "L''hai trovata una volta. Trovala di nuovo. Me lo devi". Forse un incubo, si dice il detective al risveglio. Se ne scorderÃ  presto, pensa. Invece il mattino dopo lei Ã¨ lÃ¬, sulle scale della metropolitana, ad aspettarlo. Un volto segnato dal tempo e dalla mano dura del destino. Un volto che Kenzie aveva sperato di non vedere piÃ¹. PerchÃ©, dodici anni prima, la stessa donna gli aveva chiesto di trovare sua nipote: una bambina di nome Amanda, scomparsa nel nulla. Lui e la sua partner, Angie Gennaro, l''avevano ritrovata restituendola alla madre, che beveva e la trascurava, e sbattendo in carcere i rapitori: persone che non volevano farle del male, bensÃ¬ darle una famiglia stabile e serena. Un caso strano, in cui i colpevoli non coincidevano con i cattivi, e la cui soluzione non era stata un lieto fine. Un caso che Kenzie si era sempre portato dentro con angoscia. Per questo ora che Amanda, ormai diciassettenne, pare essere scomparsa di nuovo, il detective non puÃ² tirarsi indietro. La sua ricerca sarÃ  per lui e Angie l''inizio di un viaggio nel cuore di un mercato squallido, dove adozioni, identitÃ  e raccolte di fondi sono oggetto di traffici illeciti. Un mondo dove il bene puÃ² assumere i contorni del male, e il male quelli del bene.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3670'),
(6916, 'The Moonlit Mind', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In this chilling original stand-alone novella, available exclusively as an eBook, #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author Dean Koontz offers a taste of whatâ€™s to come in his new novel,\n   <em>\n    77 Shadow Street\n   </em>\n   , with a mesmerizing tale of a homeless boy at large in a city fraught with threats . . . both human and otherwise.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Twelve-year-old Crispin has lived on the streets since he was nineâ€”with only his wits and his daring to sustain him, and only his silent dog, Harley, to call his friend. He is always on the move, never lingering in any one place long enough to risk being discovered. Still, there are certain places he returns to. In the midst of the tumultuous city, they are havens of solitude: like the hushed environs of St. Mary Salome Cemetery, a place where Crispin can feel at peaceâ€”safe, at least for a while, from the fearsome memories that plague him . . . and seep into his darkest nightmares. But not only his dreams are haunted. The city he roams with Harley has secrets and mysteries, things unexplainable and maybe unimaginable. Crispin has seen ghosts in the dead of night, and sensed dimensions beyond reason in broad daylight. Hints of things disturbing and strange nibble at the edges of his existence, even as dangers wholly natural and earthbound cast their shadows across his path. Alone, drifting, and scavenging to survive is no life for a boy. But the life Crispin has left behind, and is still running scared from, is an unspeakable alternative . . . that may yet catch up with him.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   There is more to Crispinâ€™s world, and its darkest corners yet to be encountered, in this eBookâ€™s special bonus: a spine-tingling excerpt from Dean Koontzâ€™s forthcoming novel,\n   <em>\n    77 Shadow Street\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3051'),
(6917, 'Moonraker', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Moonraker, Britain''s new ICBM-based national defense system, is ready for testing, but something''s not quite right. At M''s request, Bond begins his investigation with Sir Hugo Drax, the leading card shark at M''s club, who is also the head of the Moonraker project. But once Bond delves deeper into the goings-on at the Moonraker base, he discovers that both the project and its leader are something other than they appear to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1130'),
(6918, 'Morgan&#39;s Passing', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "An almost flawless story of love...Morgan emerges as a true hero."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n LOS ANGELES TIMES\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Morgan Gower works at Cullen''s hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area of middle age, he finds his household growing tedious. Then Morgan meets two lovely young newlyweds under some rather extreme circumstances--and all three discover that no one''s heart is safe....\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her 11th novel Breathing Lessons, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and her latest novel Digging to America was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/970');
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(6919, 'A Morning for Flamingos', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a muddy, weed-filled coulee, Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux begs an escaped convict for his life and is left more troubled by his lack of courage than by his gunshot wounds. Burke ( Half of Paradise ) proceeds to balance the resulting self-doubts of his tough, sympathetic hero with a complex, credible plot in his latest Cajun mystery. Robicheaux, a widower, leaves his small town for New Orleans, where he used to be a cop, to run a sting operation for the DEA. He engineers drug buys aimed at incriminating the local drug lord, an ex-Marine with nightmares and a habit from Vietnam, while trying to ferret out Jimmie Lee Boggs, the killer responsible for the coulee incident. Vivid supporting characters include Robicheaux''s former NOPD partner Clete Purcel; an old true love now the widow of a Mafia figure; Gros Mama Goula, a juju woman; and Tony Cardo, the jumpy dealer whose inner struggles reflect Robicheaux''s. Attentive to language and atmosphere, Burke delivers action on churning Gulf waters, in city streets, in deserted fields and within the souls of his memorable characters--and a fully satisfying resolution.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A nifty, gritty thriller that takes a double dip into crime New Orleans style" --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  _ Boston Sunday Herald_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/406'),
(6920, 'Mortal Causes', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ian Rankin\n </strong>\n is the worldwide #1 bestselling writer of the Inspector Rebus mysteries, including\n <em>\n  Knots and Crosses\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Hide and Seek\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Let It Bleed\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Black and Blue\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Set in Darkness\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Resurrection Men\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  A Question of Blood\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Falls\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Exit Music\n </em>\n . He has won an Edgar Award, a Gold Dagger for fiction, a Diamond Dagger for career excellence, and the Chandler-Fulbright Award.Â He has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his contributions to literature. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.Â \n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n CHAPTER 1\n</p>\n<p>\n PROBABLY the worst Saturday night of the year, which was why Inspector John Rebus had landed the shift. God was in his heaven, just making sure. There had been a derby match in the afternoon, Hibs versus Hearts at Easter Road. Fans making their way back to the west end and beyond had stopped in the city centre to drink to excess and take in some of the sights and sounds of the Festival.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Edinburgh Festival was the bane of Rebusâ€™s life. Heâ€™d spent years confronting it, trying to avoid it, cursing it, being caught up in it. There were those who said that it was somehow atypical of Edinburgh, a city which for most of the year seemed sleepy, moderate, bridled. But that was nonsense; Edinburghâ€™s history was full of licence and riotous behaviour. But the Festival, especially the Festival Fringe, was different. Tourism was its lifeblood, and where there were tourists there was trouble. Pickpockets and house-breakers came to town as to a convention, while those football supporters who normally steered clear of the city centre suddenly became its passionate defenders, challenging the foreign invaders who could be found at tables outside short-lease cafes up and down the High Street.\n</p>\n<p>\n To night the two might clash in a big way.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Itâ€™s hell out there,â€™ one constable had already commented as he paused for rest in the canteen. Rebus believed him all too readily. The cells were filling nicely along with the CID in-trays. A woman had pushed her drunken husbandâ€™s fingers into the kitchen mincer. Someone was applying superglue to cashpoint machines then chiselling the flap open later to get at the money. Several bags had been snatched around Princes Street. And the Can Gang were on the go again.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Can Gang had a simple recipe. They stood at bus stops and offered a drink from their can. They were imposing figures, and the victim would take the proferred drink, not knowing that the beer or cola contained crushed up Mogadon tablets, or similar fast-acting tranquillisers. When the victim passed out, the gang would strip them of cash and valuables. You woke up with a gummy head, or in one severe case with your stomach pumped dry. And you woke up poor.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meantime, there had been another bomb threat, this time phoned to the newspaper rather than Lowland Radio. Rebus had gone to the newspaper offices to take a statement from the journalist whoâ€™d taken the call. The place was a mad house of Festival and Fringe critics filing their reviews. The journalist read from his notes.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜He just said, if we didnâ€™t shut the Festival down, weâ€™d be sorry.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Did he sound serious?â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Oh, yes, definitely.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜And he had an Irish accent?â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Sounded like it.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Not just a fake?â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n The reporter shrugged. He was keen to file his story, so Rebus let him go. That made three calls in the past week, each one threatening to bomb or otherwise disrupt the Festival. The police were taking the threat seriously. How could they afford not to? So far, the tourists hadnâ€™t been scared off, but venues were being urged to make security checks before and after each performance.\n</p>\n<p>\n Back at St Leonardâ€™s, Rebus reported to his Chief Superintendent, then tried to finish another piece of paperwork. Masochist that he was, he quite liked the Saturday back-shift. You saw the city in its many guises. It allowed a salutory peek into Edinburghâ€™s grey soul. Sin and evil werenâ€™t blackâ€” heâ€™d argued the point with a priestâ€” but were greyly anonymous. You saw them all night long, the grey peering faces of the wrongdoers and malcontents, the wife beaters and the knife boys. Unfocused eyes, drained of all concern save for themselves. And you prayed, if you were John Rebus, prayed that as few people as possible ever had to get as close as this to the massive grey nonentity.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then you went to the canteen and had a joke with the lads, fixing a smile to your face whether you were listening or not.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Here, Inspector, have you heard the one about the squid with the moustache? He goes into a restaurant andâ€”â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebus turned away from the DCâ€™s story towards his ringing phone.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜DI Rebus.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n He listened for a moment, the smile melting from his face. Then he put down the receiver and lifted his jacket from the back of his chair.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Bad news?â€™ asked the DC.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Youâ€™re not joking, son.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n THE HIGH Street was packed with people, most of them just browsing. Young people bobbed up and down trying to instil enthusiasm in the Fringe productions they were supporting. Supporting them? They were probably the leads in them. They busily thrust flyers into hands already full of similar sheets.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Only two quid, best value on the Fringe!â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜You wonâ€™t see another show like it!â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n There were jugglers and people with painted faces, and a cacophony of musical disharmonies. Where else in the world would bagpipes, banjos and kazoos meet to join in a busking battle from hell?\n</p>\n<p>\n Locals said this Festival was quieter than the last. Theyâ€™d been saying it for years. Rebus wondered if the thing had ever had a heyday. It was plenty busy enough for him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though it was a warm night, he kept his car windows shut. Even so, as he crawled along the setts flyers would be pushed beneath his windscreen wipers, all but blocking his vision. His scowl met impregnable drama student smiles. It was ten oâ€™clock, not long dark; that was the beauty of a Scottish summer. He tried to imagine himself on a deserted beach, or crouched atop a mountain, alone with his thoughts. Who was he trying to kid? John Rebus was always alone with his thoughts. And just now he was thinking of drink. Another hour or two and the bars would sluice themselves out, unless theyâ€™d applied for (and been granted) the very late licences available at Festival time.\n</p>\n<p>\n He was heading for the City Chambers, across the street from St Gilesâ€™ Cathedral. You turned off the High Street and through one of two stone arches into a small parking area in front of the Chambers themselves. A uniformed constable was standing guard beneath one of the arches. He recognised Rebus and nodded, stepping out of the way. Rebus parked his own car beside a marked patrol car, stopped the engine and got out.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Evening, sir.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Where is it?â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n The constable nodded towards a door near one of the arches, attached to the side wall of the Chambers. They walked towards it. A young woman was standing next to the door.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Inspector,â€™ she said.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Hello, Mairie.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Iâ€™ve told her to move on, sir,â€™ the constable apologised.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mairie Henderson ignored him. Her eyes were on Rebusâ€™s. â€˜Whatâ€™s going on?â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebus winked at her. â€˜The Lodge, Mairie. We always meet in secret, like.â€™ She scowled. â€˜Well then, give me a chance. Off to a show, are you?â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜I was till I saw the commotion.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Saturdayâ€™s your day off, isnâ€™t it?â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Journalists donâ€™t get days off, Inspector. Whatâ€™s behind the door?â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Itâ€™s got glass panels, Mairie. Take a keek for yourself.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n But all you could see through the panels was a narrow landing with doors off. One door was open, allowing a glimpse of stairs leading down. Rebus turned to the constable.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Letâ€™s get a proper cordon set up, son. Something across the arches to fend off the tourists before the show starts. Radio in for assistance if you need it. Excuse me, Mairie.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Then there is going to be a show?â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebus stepped past her and opened the door, closing it again behind him. He made for the stairs down, which were lit by a naked lightbulb. Ahead of him he could hear voices. At the bottom of this first flight he turned a corner and came upon the group. There were two teenage girls and a boy, all of them seated or crouching, the girls shaking and crying. Over them stood a uniformed constable and a man Rebus recognised as a local doctor. They all looked up at his approach.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜This is the Inspector,â€™ the constable told the teenagers. â€˜Right, weâ€™re going back down there. You three stay here.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebus, squeezing past the teenagers, saw the doctor give them a worried glance. He gave the doctor a wink, telling him theyâ€™d get over it. The doctor didnâ€™t seem so sure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Together the three men set off down the next flight of stairs. The constable was carrying a torch.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Thereâ€™s electricity,â€™ he said. â€˜But a couple of the bulbs have gone.â€™ They walked along a narrow passage, its low ceiling further reduced by air- and heating-ducts and other pipes. Tubes of scaffolding lay on the floor ready for assembly. There were more steps down.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜You know where we are?â€™ the constable asked.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Mary Kingâ€™s Close,â€™ said Rebus.\n</p>\n<p>\n Not that heâ€™d ever been down here, not exactly. But heâ€™d been in similar old buried streets beneath the High Street. He knew of Mary Kingâ€™s Close.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Story goes,â€™ said the constable, â€˜there was a plague in the 1600s, people died or moved out, never really moved back. Then there was a fire. They blocked off the ends of the street. When they rebuilt, they built over the top of the close.â€™ He shone his torch towards the ceiling, which was now three or four storeys above them. â€˜See that marble slab? Thatâ€™s the floor of the City Chambers.â€™ He smiled. â€˜I came on the tour last year.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Incredible,â€™ the doctor said. Then to Rebus: â€˜Iâ€™m Dr Galloway.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Inspector Rebus. Thanks for getting here so quickly.â€™\n</p>\n<p>\n The doctor ignored this. â€˜Youâ€™r...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/471'),
(6921, 'Mortal Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lucas Davenport''s boss is about to lose her job as chief of police, his fiancÃ©e is distracted with wedding plans, and his house-remodeling project is at a standstill. So when the FBI and DEA draft the Minneapolis cop to head off hit woman Clara Rinker''s bloody murder spree, he''s glad to oblige. The lady killer and the killer lady have tangled before in Sandford''s Prey series, and their personal history seasons this fast-paced story of mayhem, murder, and revenge. After Rinker barely survives an assassination attempt that destroys her unborn baby and kills her lover, the son of a Mexican drug lord, she sets out to destroy the mobsters who ordered the hit, a journey that brings her into Davenport''s sights again and also puts him back in action alongside a woman agent with whom he was once involved. But it''s the grudging respect and even affection Sandford hints at between Rinker and Lucas that takes this crisp, confident thriller beyond the limitations of the genre and makes the characters flesh-and-blood human beings. A standout in a terrific series!\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s the little things about Lucas Davenport that make him such a kick to follow his ruminations about why a public bus smells like urine, his fear that a cell phone won''t work in the bathroom "with all the tile." Davenport is, of course, a marvelous if unorthodox cop from Minneapolis, starring here in his 13th Prey offering, which finds creator Sandford operating at top efficiency and in high style. Clara Rinker, the hit woman extraordinaire who slipped out of Davenport''s grasp in 1999''s Certain Prey, is now back on the prowl, looking for revenge against old enemies from Kansas City who killed her fiance and shot her in the gut. The bullet spared her life, but not that of her baby. The FBI, knowing she''s headed to Missouri, assembles a huge team of shirt-and-tie, laptop-carrying agents, but also taps Davenport to make the trip. Sure enough, Rinker starts knocking off old business partners in creative ways, making the tech-minded FBI look foolish. It''s only Davenport and his feet-on-the-street savvy that finally rope Rinker into a furious pursuit and showdown. Sandford''s eye for the tell-all character quirk remains finely tuned, as does his deadpan humor, rivaled by few in the crime-drama ranks. Longtime fans should take note that changes are ahead for Davenport. He''s marrying his sweetie, Dr. Weather Karkinnen, and they''re having a kid. He''s also about to leave the city police force, following his boss, Rose Marie Roux, to a job with the state police.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/691'),
(6922, 'Moscow Rules', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The extraordinary new Gabriel Allon novel from the gold standard (The Dallas Morning News) of thriller writers. Over the course of ten previous novels, Daniel Silva has established himself as one of the worlds finest writers of international intrigue and espionage a worthy successor to such legends as Frederick Forsyth and John le CarrÃ© (Chicago Sun-Times)and Gabriel Allon as one of the most intriguing heroes of any thriller series (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Now the death of a journalist leads Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. Hes playing by Moscow rules now. This is not the grim, gray Moscow of Soviet times but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and choked with bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where power resides once more behind the walls of the Kremlin and where critics of the ruling class are ruthlessly silenced. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost and to challenge the global dominance of its old enemy, the United States. One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hidden within that empire, however, is a more lucrative and deadly business: Kharkov is an arms dealerand he is about to deliver Russias most sophisticated weapons to al- Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11and the clock is ticking fast. Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, Moscow Rules is at once superior entertainment and a searing cautionary tale about the new threats rising to the Eastand Silvas finest novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3216'),
(6923, 'Moscow Sting', 'Alex Dryden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Finn, a former British spy, is poisoned by a Russian assassin, his ex-boss Adrian, the chief of MI6, wants vengeance. He also wants answersâ€”information that only Finn''s widow knows. But Anna, a former KGB colonel who betrayed her country for love, vanished with her child shortly after Finn''s death.   Adrian isn''t the only one eager to find Anna. Finn accessed intelligence so sensitive that the KGB killed to protect itâ€”and now Anna is in the KGB''s crosshairs, as the only person who knows the true identity of the Kremlin insider, superspy, and double agent called Mikhail. The CIA and Cougar, a giant American private intelligence company, are also hunting her. With the Kremlin still in the grasp of all-powerful Vladimir Putin, Mikhail is the West''s best hope for revealing Russia''s obscure intentions for its newfound oil wealth.   Anna holds the key to the secrets of her motherland, and now the former Russian agent faces her greatest test. To secure her freedom and protect her child, she must uncover the full truth before anyone else doesâ€”even as friend and foe set her in their sights.   Moving from Paris to New York, from the Kremlin to the American Southwest, Moscow Sting is an absorbing and timely tale of intrigue, betrayal, fatal lies, and complex truths, told with the authentic detail and chilling insight of an experienced insider.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/652'),
(6924, 'The Most Dangerous Thing', 'Laura Lippman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n Some secrets canâ€™t be keptâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n Years ago, they were all the best of friends. But as time passed and circumstances changed, they grew apart, became adults with families of their own, and began to forget about the pastâ€”and the terrible lie they all shared. But now Gordon, the youngest and wildest of the five, has died and the others are thrown together for the first time in years.\n</p>\n<p>\n And then the revelations start.\n</p>\n<p>\n Could their long-ago lie be the reason for their troubles today? Is it more dangerous to admit to what theyâ€™ve done or is it the strain of keeping the secret that is beginning to wear on them and everyone close to them? Each one of these old friends has to wonder if their secret has been discoveredâ€”and if someone within the circle is out to destroy them.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Kate Atkinson Interviews Laura Lippman\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kate Atkinsonâ€˜s first novel,\n  <em>\n   Behind the Scenes at the Museum\n  </em>\n  , was named Whitbread Book of the Year in the U.K. in 1995, and was followed by\n  <em>\n   Human Croquet\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Emotionally Weird\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Not the End of the World\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Case Histories\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   One Good Turn\n  </em>\n  .\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kate Atkinson:\n </strong>\n You employ the first person plural in parts of the new novel. Itâ€™s quite a startling device (I loved it in Joshua Ferrisâ€™s\n <em>\n  Then We Came to the End\n </em>\n ). Why did you use it in\n <em>\n  The Most Dangerous Thing\n </em>\n ?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Laura Lippman:\n </strong>\n The decision was intuitive at firstâ€”that is, I knew it was right, without knowing why it was right. When I finished the book, I realized that these passages are a consensual version of what happened in the past, that the survivors have agreed on what happened and thatâ€™s why the story is, at turns, unflattering to each of them. They are working out their level of culpability in several tragedies and they just canâ€™t face this alone. And that voice allowed me to include a subtext of gloom and forebodingâ€”the story is being told by people who know how badly it ends.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  KA:\n </strong>\n Do you think you write better now than you did when you first began to write novels? (I only ask because I think Iâ€™m a much better writer than I used to be but no one else seems to have noticed.) Do you feel you can trust your â€œinner criticâ€ or are you plagued by doubts the whole time you are writing?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LL:\n </strong>\n At the risk of sounding obsequious, I have to say that you set the bar awfully high for yourself with\n <em>\n  Behind the Scenes at the Museum\n </em>\n , but Iâ€™ve noticed how your work has changed, although I think the word that comes to mind isnâ€™t better, but bolder. You take such big risks and yet you manage them with aplomb. The frustration of being a fan of your work is that thereâ€™s nothing quite like it. There are lots of wonderful writers in crime and literary fiction, but thereâ€™s only person who can write a Kate Atkinson novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n I didnâ€™t start out on the same level. Thatâ€™s not poor-mouthing, as my Southern relatives would have it, but a fact on which everyone agrees. People tell me all the timeâ€”really, all the timeâ€”how far Iâ€™ve come since my first book. But, whether one writes a great first novel or simply a decent one, what are the choices? One can get better, worse, or stay the same. I shoot for better and I accept that there may be some dips, but theyâ€™ll come from trying new things at least, not doing the same things over and over. I do trust my inner critic, but I''m happy to have a circle of external critics that I trust as well.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  KA:\n </strong>\n You â€œhonorâ€ the dead in your novels rather than exploit them for sadistic effect. Do you think thatâ€™s due to your background as a reporter butting up against real lives rather than fictional ones? Or because youâ€™re a woman? Or just a decent human being?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LL:\n </strong>\n All of the above? At least, I hope Iâ€™m a decent person. I do think crime writers need to take a moment for introspection about the stories weâ€™re telling and the bodies that are piling up around us. Itâ€™s somber stuff. There should be an agenda beyond sensation.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  KA:\n </strong>\n How many novels do you have on the back burner at any one time? Have you ever sat down to write and not had any idea what you were going to do?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LL:\n </strong>\n Onceâ€”just onceâ€”I managed to have two projects going on simultaneously, a novel and a novella. I do best with one thing in front of me. And, increasingly, I have no idea what Iâ€™m going to write next. But thatâ€™s part of the job and, for me, part of the fun. I know a book is finished when Iâ€™m ready to sit down and ask myself, â€œWhat next, what interests me right now?â€ With\n <em>\n  The Most Dangerous Thing\n </em>\n , I was interested in the way life becomes a kind of horror film at middle age. About two months after I started this book, my father-in-law died after a long decline. About the same time, one of my husbandâ€™s oldest friends, dating back to his days on the college newspaper, had a stroke at the age of 48, and died within hours. Yesterday, I picked up\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n and happened on a first-person piece by a former colleague, who wrote about having ALS and his intention to commit suicide while he was still able-bodied. He''s only 66.\n</p>\n<p>\n But I also became a parent for the first time last year, which isnâ€™t one of the typical milestones of middle-age, yet there it was. And it had a huge impact on the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  KA:\n </strong>\n Do you feel guilty when youâ€™re not writing, even when the other thing youâ€™re doing is totally fulfilling or completely altruistic or utterly well deserved?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LL:\n </strong>\n If Iâ€™ve been disciplinedâ€”gone to my desk every weekday morning, written at least 1,000 wordsâ€”I seldom feel guilty. I feel much more guilt-ridden about not reading enough.\n</p>\n<p>\n But I will steal a line from Anne Lamott, who once said if people knew how good she felt writing they would set her on fire. Just this morning I was working and it wasnâ€™t an on-fire moment, but it wasnâ€™t a bad day either. Just an average one, the kind of days one has in the dead middle of books. I took a sip of my latte, looked at the clock on my computer and thought: It is 10:10 a.m. and my job is to sit here and make things up. I am a very lucky person.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  KA:\n </strong>\n â€œI''ve never wanted people to feel good at the end of my novels,â€ you said in a\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n interview. But do you feel good when you finish?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  LL:\n </strong>\n I feel fabulous. It''s the best day of the year. But even on a book-a-year schedule, that means I feel fabulous only one day a year. As someone who takes great pride in completing things, Iâ€™ve chosen an interesting little hell for myself.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n LAURA LIPPMAN has been awarded every major prize in crime fiction. The recipient of the first Mayorâ€™s Prize, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and New Orleans, Louisiana, with her husband, David Simon, and their family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/583'),
(6925, 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention', 'William Rosen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line--until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolutionwould cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress. In The Most Powerful Idea in the World, William Rosentells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it--the steam engine. In the process he tackles the question that has obsessed historians ever since: What madeeighteenth-century Britain such fertile soil for inventors? Rosen''s answer focuses on a simple notion that had become enshrined in British law the century before: that people had the right to own and profit fromtheir ideas. The result was a period of frantic innovation revolving particularly around the promise of steam power. Rosen traces the steam engine''s history fromits early days as a clumsy but sturdy machine, to its coming-of-age driving the wheels of mills and factories, to its maturity as a transporter for people and freight by rail and by sea. Along the way we enter the minds ofsuch inventors as Thomas Newcomen and James Watt, scientists including Robert Boyle and Joseph Black, and philosophers John Locke and Adam Smith--all of whose insights, tenacity, and ideas transformed first anation and then the world. William Rosen is a masterly storyteller with a keen eye for the "aha!" moments of invention and a gift for clear and entertaining explanations ofscience. The Most Powerful Idea in the World will appeal to readers fascinated with history, science, and the hows and whys of innovationitself. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2294'),
(6926, 'Most Talkative: Stories From the Front Lines of Pop Culture', 'Andy Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The man behind the Real Housewives writes about his lifelong love affair with pop culture that brought him from the suburbs of St. Louis to his own television showFrom a young age, Andy Cohen knew one thing: He loved television. Not in the way that most kids do, but in an irrepressible, all-consuming, I-want-to-climb-inside-the-tube kind of way. And climb inside he did. Now presiding over Bravo''s reality TV empire, he started out as an overly talkative pop culture obsessive, devoted to Charlie''s Angels and All My Children and to his mother, who received daily letters from AndyÂ at summer camp, usually reminding her to tape the soaps. In retrospect, it''s hard to believe that everyone didn''t know that Andy was gay; still, he remained in the closet until college. Finally out, he embarked on making a career out of his passion for television. The journey begins with Andy interviewing his all-time idol Susan Lucci for his college newspaper and ends with him in a job where he has a hand in creating today''s celebrity icons. In the witty, no-holds-barred style of his show Watch What Happens Live, Andy tells tales of absurd mishaps during his ten years at CBS News, hilarious encounters with the heroes and heroines of his youth, and the real stories behind The Real Housewives. Dishy, funny, and full of heart, Most Talkative provides a one-of-a-kind glimpse into the world of television, from a fan who grew up watching the screen and is now inside it, both making shows and hosting his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3864'),
(6927, 'A Most Wanted Man', 'John le Carre', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When boxer Melik Oktay and his mother, both Turkish Muslims living in Hamburg, take in a street person calling himself Issa at the start of this morally complex thriller from le CarrÃ© (_The Mission Song_), they set off a chain of events implicating intelligence agencies from three countries. Issa, who claims to be a Muslim medical student, is, in fact, a wanted terrorist and the son of Grigori Karpov, a Red Army colonel whose considerable assets are concealed in a mysterious portfolio at a Hamburg bank. Tommy Brue, a stereotypical flawed everyman caught up in the machinations of spies and counterspies, enters the plot when Issa''s attorney seeks to claim these assets. The book works best in its depiction of the rivalries besetting even post-9/11 intelligence agencies that should be allies, but none of the characters is as memorable as George Smiley or Magnus Pym. Still, even a lesser le CarrÃ© effort is far above the common run of thrillers.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While this novel may be le Carre''s first take on espionage in Europe after the Cold War, critics could not be more divided over its quality. Alan Furst, himself one of the greats of the genre, opines that\n  <em>\n   A Most Wanted Man\n  </em>\n  might be one of the author''s best, not for its content so much as for its technical brilliance. But other reviewers panned the work, arguing that le Carre''s outrage over recent American intelligence practices distorts the plot and renders many of the characters as mere cliches. Perhaps the consensus is that\n  <em>\n   A Most Wanted Man\n  </em>\n  is an enjoyable le Carre novel (and therefore much better than most thrillers)â€”but far from his best.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3267'),
(6928, 'Mostly Harmless', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit-and immediately all hell breaks loose. Hell takes a number of forms: there''s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhikerâ€™s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn''t even know he had one. Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you? "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1069'),
(6929, 'Motorworld', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jeremy Clarkson gets under the skin of 12 countries by looking at the cars people drive and how they drive them. Hilarious travel writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1342'),
(6930, 'Mounting Fears', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Timesâ€“ bestselling author Stuart Woods returns with another page-turning thriller. President Will Lee is having a rough week. His vice president just died during surgery. Confirmation hearings for the new vice president are under way, but the squeaky-clean governor whom Will has nominated may have a few previously unnoticed skeletons in his closet. And Teddy Fay, the rogue CIA agent last seen in Shoot Him If He Runs, is plotting his revenge on CIA director Kate Rule Leeâ€”the president''s wife. Plus there are some loose nukes in Pakistan that might just trigger World War III if Will''s diplomatic efforts fall short. It''s up to President Leeâ€”with some help from Holly Barker, Lance Cabot, and a few other Stuart Woods series regularsâ€”to save the world, and the upcoming election.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2672'),
(6931, 'Mr. Majestyk', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Vincent Majestyk saw too much death in the jungles of Southeast Asia. All he wants to do now is farm his melons and forget. But peace can be an elusive commodity, even in the Arizona hinterlands -- and especially when the local mob is calling all the shots. And one quiet, proud man''s refusal to be strong-armed by a powerful hood is about to start a violent chain reaction that will leave Mr. Majestyk ruined, in shackles, and without a friend in the world -- except for one tough and beautiful woman. But his tormentors never realized something about their mark: this is not his first war. Vince Majestyk knows more than they''ll ever know about survival . . . and everything about revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3147'),
(6932, 'Mr. Nice: An Autobiography', 'Howard Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A racy yarn with plenty of globe trotting colour. The Independent Frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal GQ A man who makes Peter Pan look like a geriatric with sleeping sickness Loaded A folk legend-Howard Marks has huge charisma. He sounds like Richard Burton and looks like a Rolling Stone Daily Mail Marks weaves a fascinating story spiced with brilliant detail, far stronger than fiction FHM Magazine\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n During the mid-''80s Howard Marks had forty-three aliases and eighty-nine phone lines, and he owned twenty-five companies trading throughout the world. Bars, recording studios, offshore banks -- all were money-laundering vehicles serving the core business: dope dealing. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuana and had contact with organizations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA, and the Mafia. Following a worldwide operation by the DEA, he was busted and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana. He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence. With pages of photographs, and told with humor, charm, and candor, Mr Nice is his own extraordinary story. Mr Nice has been one of the biggest-selling memoirs in Britain in recent memory, topping both the Sunday Times hardcover and paperback best-seller lists. Also translated into eight languages, this edition offers American readers the first-ever opportunity to read this riveting book. "Frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal." -- GQ "Only the Welsh could have produced ... Howard Marks.... In or out of handcuffs, he is always welcome in my home." -- Robert Sabbag, author of Snowblind "A folk legend ... Howard Marks has huge charisma. He sounds like Richard Burton and looks like a Rolling Stone." -- Daily Mail (London) "Marks weaves a fascinating story spiced with brilliant detail, far stronger than fiction." -- FHM\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1998'),
(6933, 'Mr. Paradise', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Roommates Kelly and Chloe are enjoying their lives and their downtown Detroit loft just fine. Kelly is a Victoria''s Secret catalog model. Chloe is an escort, until she decides to ditch her varied clientele in favor of a steady gig as girlfriend to eighty-four-year-old retired lawyer Tony Paradiso, a.k.a. Mr. Paradise." "Evenings at Mr. Paradise''s house, there''s always an old Michigan football game on TV. And when Chloe''s around, there''s a cheerleader, too, complete with pleated skirt and blue-and-gold pompoms. One night Chloe convinces Kelly to join in the fun, along with Montez Taylor, Tony''s smooth-talking right-hand man." "But things go awry and before the end of the evening there will be two corpses, two angry hit men, one switch of identity, a safe-deposit box full of loot up for grabs, and, fast on the scene, detective Frank Delsa, who now has a double homicide - and a beautiful, willful witness - to add to his already heavy caseload."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3134'),
(6934, 'Mr. Strangelove', 'Ed Sikov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n How do you write the biography of a cipher? That''s the daunting challenge veteran Hollywood biographer Ed Sikov tackles in exploring the life of one of the 20th century''s most acclaimed comic actors. Peter Sellers'' uncanny talents as a mimic would inform everything from English radio''s\n <em>\n  Goon Show\n </em>\n and the highly profitable--if increasingly broad--cycle of Inspector Clouseau\n <em>\n  Pink Panther\n </em>\n films to his brilliant turn as Chauncey Gardiner in\n <em>\n  Being There\n </em>\n , a role that had all too many discomforting parallels to Sellers'' own cryptic personality. Sikov reveals that the man long hailed as comedy''s greatest chameleon was in fact a tragic, troubled personal vacuum, the only child of a literal stage mother who indulged his every whim, yet left him a distinct void for a soul. Sikov interviews many of the relatives, intimates, and survivors of Sellers that filled his alternately strange and spectacular life, while thoroughly chronicling every professional triumph and more than a few missteps. Sikov''s straightforward reporting, seasoned by his own dry wit, details the parts that made up the man, but the sum remains an ever compelling enigma. As\n <em>\n  Lolita\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Dr. Strangelove\n </em>\n director Stanley Kubrick, no slouch in the personal riddle sweepstakes himself, once said of Sellers: "There is no such person."\n <em>\n  --Jerry McCulley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sellers was undoubtedly one of the 20th century''s funniest people. From his first star-making turns in Lolita and Dr. Strangelove (in which he played three different characters), to the bumbling but strangely dignified Inspector Clouseau of the Pink Panther movies, Sellers never failed to send audiences rolling in the aisles. But as Sikov shows in this hip, unblinking biography, there was a downside to his genius. Sellers abused drugs, beat his wives and neglected his children. On set, he was a nightmare prima donna, insisting on special treatment and embroiling himself in ridiculous feuds with costars and directors. Moreover, his compulsive need to do impressions verged at times on multiple personality disorder (his first wife said, "It''s like being married to the United Nations"). Sikov shows that no one, not even his friends, really knew Sellers. The actor was, in Sikov''s estimation, a comic tabula rasa on which he could inscribe any character or personality. This mutability gave Sellers his first break, as he bluffed his way onto radio by impersonating a BBC star on the telephone. He later became the star of the hugely influential radio program The Goon Show, whose eccentric, Dadaist humor predated Monty Python by a decade. An avid party-goer (jet-setting friends included Roman Polanski and the Beatles), Sellers enjoyed a go-go lifestyle finally that caught up with him in 1980, when he suffered a massive heart attack. Sikov, whose previous work includes a Billy Wilder biography, treats Sellers with just the right mix of awe, irritation and sympathy, giving readers a clear-headed, respectful tribute to a disturbed genius.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1999'),
(6935, 'The Murder Book', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When L.A. psychologist Alex Delaware receives an elaborate album filled with gruesome crime-scene police photos of a series of apparently unconnected killings, he''s stymied. He''s also in the midst of a personal crisis--Robin, his long-suffering partner, has made it clear that it''s up to Alex to heal the breach in their relationship that''s been caused by his over-involvement in criminal investigations. The pictures mean nothing to him, but one image gets his policeman pal Milo Sturgis''s immediate attention--the victim was one of his rookie cases, and her murder was never solved, perhaps because someone much higher up in the department didn''t want it to be. Was the anonymous mailer attempting to reach Milo through Alex? If so, the package has the desired effect, as the two men team up to find the connection between the cases highlighted in the murder book and whoever sent it. The trail leads to a retired cop, an old mentor of Alex''s, and a wealthy, powerful family that will stop at nothing to keep its secrets and its victims buried forever. Kellerman pays more attention to Alex''s midlife blues than he needs to, but his focus on Milo''s experiences as a gay cop in a homophobic department fits seamlessly into both plot and narrative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/761'),
(6936, 'The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie MAnsfield: A Tragedy of the Gilded Age', 'H. W. Brands', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for H. W. Brands\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œH. W. Brands is a master at finding the essence of an important American life, telling its story grippingly and showing us why it is important to our own generation.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Michael Beschloss\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBrands will change the way you see history.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_The Austin American-Statesman_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA wonderfully skilled narrative historian.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBrands is masterly.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_The Economist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFew historians can tell a tale better.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_The Dallas Morning News_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James â€œJubilee Jimâ€ Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the geographically crucial Erie Railroad, Fisk was a flamboyant exemplar of a new financial era marked by volatile fortunes and unprecedented greed and corruption. But it was his scandalously open affair with a showgirl named Josie Mansfield that ultimately led to his demise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this riveting short historyâ€”the first in his American Portraits seriesâ€”H. W. Brands traces Fiskâ€™s extraordinary downfall, bringing to life New Yorkâ€™s Gilded Age and some of its legendary players, including Boss William Tweed, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the railroad tycoon Jay Gould.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2297'),
(6937, 'The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King : A Nonfiction Thriller', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  A secret buried for centuries\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Thrust onto Egypt''s most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut''s reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace''s veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among the Boy King''s most trusted advisors, and after only nine years, King Tut suddenly perished, his name purged from Egyptian history. To this day, his death remains shrouded in controversy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The keys to an unsolved mystery\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Enchanted by the ruler''s tragic story and hoping to unlock the answers to the 3,000 year-old mystery, Howard Carter made it his life''s mission to uncover the pharaoh''s hidden tomb. He began his search in 1907, but encountered countless setbacks and dead-ends before he finally, uncovered the long-lost crypt.\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The clues point to murder\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, in\n  <em>\n   The Murder of King Tut\n  </em>\n  , James Patterson and Martin Dugard dig through stacks of evidence--X-rays, Carter''s files, forensic clues, and stories told through the ages--to arrive at their own account of King Tut''s life and death. The result is an exhilarating true crime tale of intrigue, passion, and betrayal that casts fresh light on the oldest mystery of all.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/544');
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(6938, 'Must You Go?', 'Antonia Fraser', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fraser is a highly regarded British biographer, and the late Harold Pinter, her husband, was a Nobel-winning British playwright. So, the circle they generally traveled in was made up of not only fellow writers but also, because of their individual and combined celebrity, fellow celebrities. Fraserâ€™s latest book is both joyous and sad. The former because she shares diary entries concerning her relationship with Pinter (they lived together from August 1975 until Christmas 2008), and it was obviously a stimulating love-match. And sad because the book ends when it does because of Pinterâ€™s death from cancer; his struggle with the disease had been years-long. As expected, given their fame and the fame of their associates, lots of name-dropping goes on here. This is not, of course, the story of two starving artists trying to scratch together a living in some cold-water flat. But privileged as they were, they nevertheless experienced the normal highs and lows together, and the result is a poignant read. Serious readers will generate demand for this title, and they will respond with gratitude to Fraserâ€™s intimacy. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGlowing. . . . Thereâ€™s hardly a dull page.â€Â \n <br />\n â€”Dwight Garner, _The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n _"Entertaining and ultimately touching in its determination to recapture lost time, to portray a younger, more carefree self and to bring back a lost loved one, if only on the page."\n <br />\n â€”Francine Prose, _New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n _"A stirring celebration of what Fraser, reflecting near the end of Pinter''s life, observed as a union ''to the infinite degree happy beyond all possible expectations.''"\n <br />\n â€”_The New Yorker_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Bold, intimate, madly entertaining. . . . Fraser simultaneously creates a tender portrait of an exciting marriage, and a deliciously detailed account of living in the thick of creativity and fame.\n <strong>\n  A"\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€”_Entertainment Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n _"An engrossing, anecdote-rich feat for theater lovers whose tastes extend beyond the glitter of Broadway. . . . The book ultimately sheds humanizing new light on a writer with a public reputation for his stern sense of ethics and the clammy, unsettling spell cast by his plays."\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”\n </em>\n Charles Isherwood,_ The New York Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "It takes a daring biographer to turn her sharp eye on her own life as Antonia Fraser does so movingly and beautifully in her memoir\n <em>\n  Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter\n </em>\n . It''s a compelling diary of a passionate love affair, marriage, and 40-year conversation of two soul mates in the milieu of London''s chattering classes."\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”\n </em>\n Tina Brown,_ The Daily Beast\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Written with a very English, very literate brand of grace and restraint, Fraser''s account of their life together (culled from her diaries) is fond and touching. But it''s also a crisp, clear-eyed portrait of a shared life of creative work, political activism, wide-ranging travels, family â€” not always smooth going, sometimes rocky and controversial, but remarkable and fascinating nonetheless. In short, theirs was a fine romance, and Fraser shares that with us."\n <br />\n _â€”The Seattle Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œFraser has used more than three decadesâ€™ worth of pithy, clever and frequent diary entries as the backbone of this tremendously engaging account. . . . The book works beautifully â€“ as both a rare love story and a sharp portrait of life in the upper echelons of British literary society.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Obit Magazine\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œAÂ lovely, intimate portrayal of a marriage . . . A wonderful testament to romance, love, shared humor, and true partnership."\n <br />\n â€”_Library Journal_, starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n "A moving compilation of diary entries written during the course of an artistically fruitful three-decade partnership . . . A devoted, respectful tribute."\n <br />\n â€”_Kirkus\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œ_Must You Go?_ is a love story (with a dash of scandal for spice), but it succeeds on many other levels as well. It is aÂ window into British high society, a glimpse of the inspiration behind some of Pinterâ€™s finest achievements and a kaleidoscope of historical and personal events. Most significantly, it is a testament to the ''private happiness'' possible in a supportive marriage between two dynamic and ambitious people.â€\n <br />\n â€”_BookPage_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise from the UK:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book â€” full of funny and tender things â€” satisfies on more than one level. It is an intimate account of the life and habits of a major artist; it is a pencil sketch of British high society in the second half of the 20th century; and it is, more than either of these things, and much more unusually, a wonderfully full description of the deep pleasures and comforts of married love.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Spectator_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Must You Go?_ is extraordinary by any standards. Based on the diaries she kept during her 33-year relationship with the dramatist, it is simultaneously a love story, an intimate portrait of a great writer and an exercise in self-revelation.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Guardian_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œNeither autobiography nor biography but a love story, romantic, poignant and very funny, illuminating her husband''s character and creativity.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Writing] with exemplary clarity and courage . . . Fraser keeps her gaze steady and her heart open.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Independent _Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUnremittingly delicious: strange, rarefied, frequently hilarious.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The_\n <em>\n  Observer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Must You Go?_ is] told from a privileged backstage perspective, and observed with a sharp eye for social and behavioural detail . . . This book works, just as it appears their lives worked, as the most touching and enduring of love stories . . . The ending, brutal and unsentimentally presented yet filled with a Tolstoyan directness of feeling, is almost unbearably moving. The whole of this lovely book fills you with a gratitude that happenstance can, once in a while, not screw up and find the right girl for the right boy.â€\n <br />\n â€”_FinancialÂ  Times_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2003'),
(6939, 'My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N&#39; Roses', 'Steven Adler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGreat for the die-hard GNR fanâ€¦This is a cautionary tale, all the way.â€ (Penthouse )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  No secret is too dark.\n  <br />\n  No revelation too sick. But you must have the appetite for it.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n After forty years, twenty-eight ODs, three botched suicides, two heart attacks, a couple of jail stints, and a debilitating stroke, Steven Adler, the most self-destructive rock star ever, is ready to share the shattering untold truth in\n <em>\n  My Appetite for Destruction\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n When Adler was eleven years old he told his two closest friends he was going to be a rock star in the world''s greatest band. Along with four uniquely talentedâ€”but very complicated and demandingâ€”musicians, Adler helped form Guns N'' Roses. They rose from the streetsâ€”primal rockers who obliterated glam rock and its big hair to resurrect rock''s truer blues roots.\n</p>\n<p>\n They were relentless rock stars, onstage and off, taking "sex, drugs, and rock ''n'' roll" to obscene levels of reckless abandon. By the late 1980s, GNR was the biggest rock band in the world, demanding headlines, awards, and sold-out shows, with one of the greatest rock albums of all time:\n <em>\n  Appetite for Destruction\n </em>\n . But there was a price to pay. For Adler, it was his health and his sanity, culminating in a brutal banishment by his once-beloved musical brothers. Adler digs deep, revealing the last secrets, not only his own but GNR''s as well: Slash''s betrayal, Axl''s unpredictable temper, and Duff''s revenge. He bares it all with this shocking fuck-the-fates exposÃ‰ that charts his meteoric rise and devastating collapse.\n</p>\n<p>\n Adler was humiliated and disgraced when Axl Rose kicked him out of GNR in front of an MTV audience of millions. Adler plunged into the dark side, spending most of the next twenty years in a drug-fueled hell. But he finally beat his epic addiction to crack and heroin under the care of Dr. Drew Pinsky.\n</p>\n<p>\n With Adler''s newfound clarity comes a fierce determination to tell it all. Revelatory, heartbreaking, hilarious, and ultimately inspirational, you will never read anything more jaw-droppingly honest than\n <em>\n  My Appetite for Destruction\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2006'),
(6940, 'My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Opening with a cute story from when she was seven and photographed her parents having sex, stand-up comedian Handler goes on to discuss the virtues of the one-night stand, which amount to having sex early enough so you''re not months into a relationship before you discover he''s into "anal beads and duct tape." She discusses her quest for sex with a "black man," which doesn''t work out because the date she finds on ChocolateSingles.com has a penis so large, she "would have had to be the size of the Lincoln Tunnel to accommodate that thing." After him, there''s a "little midget," but she sobers up before sleeping with him. Next come a number of would-be partners with penises too small to consider. Finally, there''s a guy Handler\n <em>\n  does\n </em>\n sleep with, only an embarrassing incident involving a "giant skid mark" prevents her from seeing him again. By the end, Handler considers settling down with one man, which might actually net her more sex than these mostly unconsummated one-night stands. Anyone who laughs at the mere mention of vaginas and penises may find Handler''s book almost as much fun as getting drunk and waking up in some stranger''s bed.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chelsea Handler was born in Livingston, New Jersey, and has toured the country doing stand-up. Now settled in Los Angeles, she can be seen at the Comedy Store and the Laugh Factory, and as one of the stars on Oxygen''s Girls Behaving Badly. Chelsea has guest-starred on programs such as Spy TV, My Wife and Kids, The Bernie Mac Show, and The Practice. Her stand-up will soon be televised on VH1''s Love Lounge, Comedy Central''s Premium Blend, and HBO''s broadcast of the Aspen Comedy Festival.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1279'),
(6941, 'My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store', 'Ben Ryder Howe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It all starts when Ben Ryder Howeâ€™s wife, whose parents emigrated from Korea, decides to repay her debt to them by buying them a deli to run. Howe, an editor at The Paris Review, reluctantly agrees to help in the venture. By day, Howe commutes to The Paris Review offices in George Plimptonâ€™s apartment overlooking the East River, and at night heads to Brooklyn to slice cold cuts, peddle lottery tickets and Colt 45, and sell coffee in 8-ounce blue and gold cups bearing the logo â€œWe are happy to serve you!â€The book follows the storeâ€™s lifespan, starting a few months before the purchase and ending with the familyâ€™s agonized decision to get out. Along the way, Howe allows digressions into the past, painting a cacophonous group portrait of two families â€” from the Brooklyn ghetto to Seoul to Brahmin New England. The deli is where these cultures meet as Howe juxtaposes the two groups, outsiders versus insiders, new talent versus old money, the deli with The Paris Review. Owning the deli becomes a transformative experience for everyone involved as they struggle to keep the deli â€” and themselves â€” from bankruptcy while sorting out issues of class, intermarriage values, work and personal identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2007'),
(6942, 'My Life in France', 'Julia Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook\n  <em>\n   Mastering the Art of French Cooking\n  </em>\n  and her television show\n  <em>\n   The French Chef\n  </em>\n  , but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn''t know the first thing about cooking when she landed in France.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Indeed, when she first arrived in 1948 with her husband, Paul, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever. Julia''s unforgettable story unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as a cook and teacher and writer, brilliantly capturing one of the most endearing American personalities of the last fifty years.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Julie &amp; Julia\n  </em>\n  is now a major motion picture (releasing in August 2009) starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child. It is partially based on her memoir,\n  <em>\n   My Life in France\n  </em>\n  . Enjoy these images from the film, and click the thumbnails to see larger images.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  With Julia Child''s death in 2004 at age 91, her grandnephew Prud''homme (_The Cell Game_) completed this playful memoir of the famous chef''s first, formative sojourn in France with her new husband, Paul Child, in 1949. The couple met during WWII in Ceylon, working for the OSS, and soon after moved to Paris, where Paul worked for the U.S. Information Service. Child describes herself as a "rather loud and unserious Californian," 36, six-foot-two and without a word of French, while Paul was 10 years older, an urbane, well-traveled Bostonian. Startled to find the French amenable and the food delicious, Child enrolled at the Cordon Bleu and toiled with increasing zeal under the rigorous tutelage of Ã©minence grise Chef Bugnard. "Jackdaw Julie," as Paul called her, collected every manner of culinary tool and perfected the recipes in her little kitchen on rue de l''UniversitÃ© ("Roo de Loo"). She went on to start an informal school with sister gourmandes Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, who were already at work on a French cookbook for American readers, although it took Child''s know-how to transform the tomeâ€”after nine years, many title changes and three publishersâ€”into the bestselling\n  <em>\n   Mastering the Art of French Cooking\n  </em>\n  (1961). This is a valuable record of gorgeous meals in bygone Parisian restaurants, and the secret arts of a culinary genius. Photos.\n  <em>\n   First serial in the New York Times Magazine and Bon AppÃ©tit. (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2009'),
(6943, 'My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business', 'Dick Van Dyke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dick Van Dyke, indisputably one of the greats of the golden age of television, is admired and beloved by audiences the world over for his beaming smile, his physical dexterity, his impeccable comic timing, his ridiculous stunts, and his unforgettable screen roles.  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  His trailblazing television program, The Dick Van Dyke Show (produced by Carl Reiner, who has written the foreword to this memoir), was one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1960s and introduced another major television star, Mary Tyler Moore. But Dick Van Dyke was also an enormously engaging movie star whose films, including Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, have been discovered by a new generation of fans and are as beloved today as they were when they first appeared. Who doesnâ€™t know the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  A colorful, loving, richly detailed look at the decades of a multilayered life, My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business, will enthrall every generation of reader, from baby-boomers who recall when Rob Petrie became a household name, to all those still enchanted by Bertâ€™s â€œChim Chim Cher-ee.â€ This is a lively, heartwarming memoir of a performer who still thinks of himself as a â€œsimple song-and-dance man,â€ but who is, in every sense of the word, a classic entertainer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2012'),
(6944, 'My Shit Life So Far', 'Frankie Boyle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''If you like Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Code, why are you even looking at this, you retard?'' Jimmy Carr ''If you are suffocating in cosy Christmas cheer, this abrasively cynical, relentlessly misanthropic book might feel like a welcome faceful of ice-cold water straight out of the Clyde.'' The Sunday Times ''Quite triumphantly, this is the most abusive, obscene, insulting memoir yet published!Many, many funny lines here. A difficult book to read sedately in public.'' The Evening Standard ''He has a shocking, acid-tongued wit and his sharp observations make this one of the funniest autobiographies I''ve read.'' The Sun ''an original mix of confession and stand-up monologue ! it''s rather gratifying that it''s outselling most of the books by more famous figures.'' The Guardian ''a refreshing antidote to the usual feelgood books by TV stars.'' The Independent ''My Shit Life So Far, showcases that cruel and unusual comedy that''s become Frankie''s trademark, and should probably be enjoyed far away from hot liquids! bizarre, intelligent and abusively hilarious.''\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  The List ''frequently funny.'' Heat ''biting wit.'' Independent on Sunday ''Fans of Boyle''s dark style will hope this book provides laughs-a-plenty and an antidote to the play-it-safe, sickly sweet autobiographies of other so-called celebrities. They will not be disappointed.'' Dave TV ''Only read this book in public if you have no qualms about blowing coffee through your nose in spurts of guilty laughter ! Punchier than a cage fighter, with more disclosures than an episode of Parky ! Addictive and expertly brutal.'' Hotline\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Frankie''s outrageous, laugh-out loud, cynical rant on life as he knows it is presented here in all its outrageous glory. From growing up in Pollockshaws, Glasgowâ€”â€œit was an aching cement void, a slap in the face to childhood, and for the family it was a step upâ€â€”to his rampant teenage sex driveâ€”â€œin those days if you glimpsed a nipple on T.V. it was like porn Christmasâ€â€”and first job working in a mental hospital, nothing is out of bounds. Outspoken, cynical, and always outrageous, Frankie Boyle, the dark heart of\n  <em>\n   Mock the Week\n  </em>\n  , says the unsayable as only he can. From the TV programs he would like to see made (â€œ_Celebrities On Acid On Ice_â€”just like\n  <em>\n   Celebrities Dancing On Ice\n  </em>\n  , but with an opening sequence where Graham Norton hoses the celebrities down with liquid LSDâ€), to his native Scotland and the Mayor of London, nothing and no one is safe from Frankie''s fearless, sharp-tongued assault. Sharply observed and full of taboo-busting, we-really-shouldn''t-be-laughing-at-this humor,\n  <em>\n   My Shit Life So Far\n  </em>\n  shows why Frankie Boyle really is the blackest man in show business.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/473'),
(6945, 'My Sister&#39;s Keeper', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The difficult choices a family must make when a child is diagnosed with a serious disease are explored with pathos and understanding in this 11th novel by Picoult (Second Glance, etc.). The author, who has taken on such controversial subjects as euthanasia (Mercy), teen suicide (The Pact) and sterilization laws (Second Glance), turns her gaze on genetic planning, the prospect of creating babies for health purposes and the ethical and moral fallout that results. Kate Fitzgerald has a rare form of leukemia. Her sister, Anna, was conceived to provide a donor match for procedures that become increasingly invasive. At 13, Anna hires a lawyer so that she can sue her parents for the right to make her own decisions about how her body is used when a kidney transplant is planned. Meanwhile, Jesse, the neglected oldest child of the family, is out setting fires, which his firefighter father, Brian, inevitably puts out. Picoult uses multiple viewpoints to reveal each character''s intentions and observations, but she doesn''t manage her transitions as gracefully as usual; a series of flashbacks are abrupt. Nor is Sara, the children''s mother, as well developed and three-dimensional as previous Picoult protagonists. Her devotion to Kate is understandable, but her complete lack of sympathy for Anna''s predicament until the trial does not ring true, nor can we buy that Sara would dust off her law degree and represent herself in such a complicated case. Nevertheless, Picoult ably explores a complex subject with bravado and clarity, and comes up with a heart-wrenching, unexpected plot twist at the book''s conclusion.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School - Anna was genetically engineered to be a perfect match for her cancer-ridden older sister. Since birth, the 13-year-old has donated platelets, blood, her umbilical cord, and bone marrow as part of her family''s struggle to lengthen Kate''s life. Anna is now being considered as a kidney donor in a last-ditch attempt to save her 16-year-old sister. As this compelling story opens, Anna has hired a lawyer to represent her in a medical emancipation suit to allow her to have control over her own body. Picoult skillfully relates the ensuing drama from the points of view of the parents; Anna; Cambell, the self-absorbed lawyer; Julia, the court-appointed guardian ad litem; and Jesse, the troubled oldest child in the family. Everyone''s quandary is explicated and each of the characters is fully developed. There seems to be no easy answer, and readers are likely to be sympathetic to all sides of the case. This is a real page-turner and frighteningly thought-provoking. The story shows evidence of thorough research and the unexpected twist at the end will surprise almost everyone. The novel does not answer many questions, but it sure raises some and will have teens thinking about possible answers long after they have finished the book.\n <em>\n  - Susan H. Woodcock, Fairfax County Public Library, Chantilly, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1221'),
(6946, 'My Word Is My Bond', 'Roger Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like his James Bond movies, Roger Mooreâ€™s autobiography is full of unbelievable scenes, corny dialogue and a lead character who doesnâ€™t take himself too seriously...full of humor, in praise of many and offensive to few (New York Post )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   From the saint to maverick to James Bond, Roger Mooreâ€™s story is one of the last of the classic Hollywood lives as yet untold.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Until now.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  One of the most recognizable big-screen stars of the past half century, Sir Roger Moore played the role of James Bond longer than any other actor. Still, Bond was only one in a lifetime of roles stretching back to Hollywoodâ€™s studio era. Moore has seen and heard it all. He has hobnobbed with the glamorous and powerful, counting Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Seymour, and Cary Grant among his contemporaries and friends. He has outrageous stories about foulmouthed Milton Berle, surly Richard Burton, and kindhearted Richard Kiel, infamous as Bond enemy Jaws. The stories in\n  <em>\n   My Word Is My Bond\n  </em>\n  are priceless, a treasure trove of Hollywood history. Sir Roger Moore has left nothing outâ€”especially the naughty bits.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2013'),
(6947, 'My Year Inside Radical Islam', 'Daveed Gartenstein-Ross', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born into a spiritually ambiguous family (his parents are nonpracticing Jews who follow the "Infinite Way"), Gartenstein-Ross grew up in the 1980s, in Ashland, Ore., a bucolic, posthippie paradise with a live-and-let-live ethic. Spiritually adrift through his teens, he discovers Islam through a classmate at Wake Forest University. Gartenstein-Rossâ€”young and searching, like so many Americans of his socioeconomic classâ€”quickly falls under the spell of fiercely committed Muslims. He begins working for al Harman, a radical Islamic charity that would eventually be linked to al-Qaeda, and soon starts a simultaneous process of being drawn deeper into the world of radical Islam and being repulsed by its brutal realities. Gartenstein-Ross fights an inner battle between his idealism, shaped by his socially conscious if somewhat scattered liberal upbringing, and his sense of the growing gap between his personal notion of Islam and the mounting list of rules and limitations its practice entails. This would seem compelling stuff, but throughout the story seems blunted. Even the chapters near the end that deal with Gartenstein-Ross''s role as an informer for the FBI after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, lack tension and real insight into the dilemma faced by so many cut adrift in Western secular culture.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gartenstein-Ross reveals how widening doctrinal tensions are dividing twenty-first-century expressions of Islam in this memoir of his journey into and out of the faith. Raised by freethinking Jewish parents in a world of former hippies, Gartenstein-Ross finds himself pondering ultimate questions after two brushes with death. Friendship with a progressive Shiite Muslim offers answers. Gartenstein-Ross therefore converts. But both he and his Shiite friend subsequently encounter--and then cross over--the chasm separating moderates from radical orthodoxy. Gartenstein-Ross even works for a Muslim charity diverting funds to terrorists. After eventually turning away from the group hatreds and anti-intellectualism of radical Islam, Gartenstein-Ross embraces Christianity--and becomes an FBI informant. To his great joy, he subsequently discovers that his Shiite friend has likewise turned away from radicalism and has returned to moderate Islam. For readers trying to understand Muslims on both sides of the radical-moderate divide, Gartenstein-Ross'' story will be an eye-opener.\n <em>\n  Bryce Christensen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2015'),
(6948, 'Mystery', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div class="ff">\n  <div class="spacer">\n   Â Few know the city of Los Angeles the way #1 bestselling author and acclaimed suspense master Jonathan Kellerman does. His thrilling novels of psychological drama and criminal detection make the capital of dreams a living, breathing character in all its glamour and infamy. That storied history of fame, seduction, scandal, and murder looms large in\n   <i>\n    Mystery\n   </i>\n   , as Alex Delaware finds himself drawn into a twisting, shadowy whodunit that''s pure L.A. noir - and vintage Kellerman.\n  </div>\n  <br />\n  The closing of their favorite romantic rendezvous, the Fauborg Hotel in Beverly Hills, is a sad occasion for longtime patrons Alex Delaware and Robin Castagna. And gathering one last time with their fellow faithful habituÃ©s for cocktails in the gracious old venue makes for a bittersweet evening. But even more poignant is a striking young woman - alone and enigmatic among the revelers - waiting in vain in elegant attire and dark glasses that do nothing to conceal her melancholy. Alex can''t help wondering what her story is, and whether she''s connected to the silent, black-suited bodyguard lingering outside the hotel.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Two days later, Alex has even more to contemplate when police detective Milo Sturgis comes seeking his psychologist comrade''s insights about a grisly homicide. To Alex''s shock, the brutalized victim is the same beautiful woman whose lonely hours sipping champagne at the Fauborg may have been her last.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  But with a mutilated body and no DNA match, she remains as mysterious in death as she seemed in life. And even when a tipster''s sordid revelation finally cracks the case open, the dark secrets that spill out could make Alex and Milo''s best efforts to close this horrific crime not just impossible but fatal.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/762'),
(6949, 'The Mystery of Silas Finklebean', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this sequel to "Fries Alive!," Freddy Funkhauser discovers the lab of long-lost scientist Silas Finklebean, along with instructions on how to build a time machine. With Finklebean''s help, Freddie is determined to prove himself to bully Adam Spanker.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(6950, 'Naked', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hip radio comedy fans and theater folks who belong to the cult of Obie-winning playwright/performer David Sedaris must kill to get this book. These would be fans of the scaldingly snide Sedaris''s hilariously described personal misadventures like\n <em>\n  The Santaland Diaries\n </em>\n (a monologue about his work as an elf to a department store Santa) seen off-Broadway in 1997. In a series of similarly textured essays, Sedaris takes us along on his catastrophic detours through a nudist colony, a fruit-packing plant, his own childhood, and a dozen more of the world''s little purgatories.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sedaris (Barrel Fever, LJ 5/1/94) has fashioned a funny memoir of his wonderfully offbeat life. To call his family "dysfunctional" would be enormous understatement and beside the point; Sedaris''s relatives and other companions become vital characters on the page. We see his mother serving drinks to the string of teachers who want to discuss her son''s compulsions to lick light switches and make high-pitched noises. We travel with Sedaris and his quadriplegic hitchhiking companion, listen to his foul-mouthed seat mate on a long bus trip, and accompany the author on a hilariously self-conscious visit to a nudist colony. Sedaris''s humor is wickedly irreverent but not mean. Traveling with him is well worth it for the laughs and his generous human sensibility. Highly recommended.?Mary Paumier Jones, Rochester P.L., N.Y.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1343'),
(6951, 'Naked Came the Manatee', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A story of suspense written serially by thirteen of Florida''s most talented writers--including Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen, and Elmore Leonard--features a riot in Coconut Grove, an appearance by Fidel Castro, and other strange happenings. 80,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/474'),
(6952, 'Naked Heat', 'Richard Castle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When New York''s most vicious gossip columnist, Cassidy Towne, is found dead, NYPD Homicide Detective Heat uncovers a gallery of high profile suspects, all with compelling motives for killing the most feared muckraker in Manhattan. Heat''s murder investigation is complicated by her surprise reunion with superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3391'),
(6953, 'Naked Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When twelve-year-old muskrat trapper Letty West stumbles on the naked bodies of Jane Warr and Deon Cash, deep in the snowy woods of northern Minnesota, it''s more than another bizarre episode in her already unusual life, as Lucas Davenport discovers in this new outing in Sandford''s popular series featuring the midwestern lawman who moonlights as a computer game designer. Lucas has a new wife, a new baby, and a new job as a political troubleshooter for his old boss Rose Marie Roux, but the blunt-spoken Davenport''s instructions to hush the racially charged implications of what looks suspiciously like a lynching won''t deter him from whomever left Warr and Cash twisting in the wind. The well-peopled plot, involving a hot car ring, an ex-nun who smuggles cancer drugs over the Canadian border, and the usual internecine wranglings between the FBI, the local cops, and Davenport, races to a satisfying denouement, but this time it''s a little girl with a difficult past and an uncertain future who lingers in the reader''s mind. Fortunately, Sandford comes up with an ending that makes it all but certain that his fans will meet her again. Meanwhile, all the author''s usual trademarks are on display--excellent writing, an interesting scenario, and terrific pacing.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sandford gets back to basics in this stellar 14th installment of his hugely popular Prey series, focusing on the long-standing duo of Davenport and Capslock. As the novel begins, the indomitable Lucas Davenport (now happily married, a contented father and bored out of his mind) is slogging through the northern tundra of Broderick, Minn., to inspect the naked dangling corpses of a white woman and black man ("They were frozen. Like Popsicles.") that have shocked the locals as well as Minnesota''s governor with the ugly specter of a lynching. Davenport, now more or less a free agent for the state''s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension ("I kick people''s asses"), is unleashed by the governor, giving Davenport and his scruffy sidekick, Del Capslock, a chance to escape their square city lives and catch the villain(s) while staving off the media vultures, Sandford''s trademark subplot. As in previous novels, the original crime (rendered in a truly horrific opening sequence) is merely the gateway to a deeper, more insidious criminal enterprise, this one an international labyrinth of stolen cars, drugs, gambling and kidnapping. Some truly vicious familial machinations in the small town contrast well with Davenport''s staid and stable home life. Another pleasant surprise is the precocious Letty West, whose awakening teenage sensibilities make an impression on Davenport. Sandford''s usual background details (readers will learn how to run a muskrat trapline and how an Indian casino operates) are deftly woven into the fabric. This latest installment in a series now a decade and a half old is vintage Sandford.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/692'),
(6954, 'The Naked Sun', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots--unthinkable under the laws of Robotics--or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history:Â Â the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.Â Â On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants.Â Â To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations.Â Â The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection.Â Â Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on.Â Â Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities:Â Â Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots--unthinkable under the laws of Robotics--or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1127'),
(6955, 'The Naming of the Dead', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Naming of the Dead is a crime novel by Ian Rankin. It is the sixteenth of the Inspector Rebus novels. It is set in Edinburgh in July 2005, in the week of the G8 summit in Gleneagles. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary | Literary significance and criticism\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of Rankin''s overly complex 18th book to feature Edinburgh''s Insp. John Rebus (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Fleshmarket Alley\n  </em>\n  ), Ben Webster, a Scottish delegate to the Group of Eight summit, dies suspiciously a couple of days before the world''s leaders gather in Scotland in 2005. While his colleagues are preoccupied by ensuring security at the conference, Rebus is devoting his energy to the murder of Cyril Colliar, a recently released violent sex offender. No one really cares about the case except for Rebus, and that''s mainly because Colliar was muscle for Edinburgh''s crime boss "Big Ger" Cafferty, with whom Rebus has tangled in earlier novels. Rebus is more than willing to flout authority in his dogged pursuit of Colliar''s killer, who may be a vigilante intent on punishing rapists. Webster''s death, never wholly resolved, does connect with Rebus''s investigation, but the link is tenuous at best. Rankin deftly captures the mad circusâ€”the media, the security, the demonstratorsâ€”of the G8 summit, but this background muddies the narrative waters. He''s at his best when he focuses on Rebus and the city of Edinburgh itself.\n  <em>\n   6-city author tour. (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/545'),
(6956, 'Napalm &amp; Silly Putty', 'George Carlin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Standup comic George Carlin follows up his dark-horse smash bestseller\n  <em>\n   Brain Droppings\n  </em>\n  with another compendium of cranky meditations, cinching his reputation as the Andy Rooney of boomer hepcats. "Road rage, air rage," Carlin rails. "Why should I be forced to divide my rage into separate categories? To me, it''s just one big, all-around, everyday rage. I don''t have time for fine distinctions." Carlin is not into the lengthy essay--he''s a sprinter of the mind. Most sentences in the book could be lifted out to stand alone and provoke deep thought: "How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it''s a spy satellite?" Good question. "Why do they bother saying ''Raw sewage''? Do some people cook that stuff?" Yuck, but yes, Carlin''s got a point.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He can do an extended bit too, most memorably the transcript of Jesus on a talk show plugging his new tell-all memoir about the Trinity,\n  <em>\n   Three''s a Crowd\n  </em>\n  . Carlin is funny, but genuinely angry and poignant at times: "You live 80 years and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic," he says. Sad, but about right.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And how did Carlin get into his line of business, "thinking up goofy s---," as he puts it? There''s a clue in one entry in this book: "As of 1995 the number of people who had lived on earth was 105,472,380,169 ... it means that at this point there have been almost 1 quadrillion human bowel movements and most of them occurred before people had anything to read. These are the kind of thoughts that kept me from moving quickly up the corporate ladder."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thank god Carlin stayed low on the corporate food chain and high on his own utterly idiosyncratic ideas!\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Politically incorrect comic and Grammy winner Carlin has shown no signs of burnout during a four-decade career arc as solo stand-up, TV writer and sitcom actor (That Girl; The George Carlin Show), with 18 hit recordings and 10 solo HBO specials, plus film roles (Dogma; The Prince of Tides). Living in L.A. and Vegas, he continues to take his act to stages across the country. Four years ago, Carlin''s huge fan following kept his Brain Droppings on the New York Times bestseller list for 40 weeks, so it''s no surprise he''s back for another round of acrid and oblique observations on modern mores. He covers a wide range of issues from rape and religion to the homeless: "There''s no war on homelessness... it''s because there''s no money in it." And any topic is fair game: abortion, airport security, cars, funerals, language, organ donors, sports, technology, TV and war. On the latter, he says, "Men, insecure about the size of their penises, choose to kill one another." Over 100 scintillating short pieces are interrupted by loony lists and hundreds of clever one-liners. The fragmented format and colloquial style of writing suggest that much of this laugh-out-loud book is drawn directly from Carlin''s stage act. Several satires here ("A day in the life of Henry VIII," a nine-page interview with Jesus, an avant-garde play program) indicate a different direction Carlin might consider for future books. (May 1)Forecast: HighBridge''s abridged audiocassette and CD might lead some to peruse the book, which splashes in the wake of a massive Carlin retrospective ("From Class Clown to Social Critic") two months ago at the Museum of Television &amp; Radio (N.Y./L.A.). With a 10-city author tour and national publicity, sales could equal those of Brain Droppings (700,000 copies).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2970'),
(6957, 'Napoleon&#39;s Wars: An International History, 1803-1815', 'Charles Esdaile', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Historians of NapolÃ©on Bonaparte must assess his role in causing the warsÂ named after him.Â Esdaile assigns heavy responsibility to the first consul and self-crowned emperor yetÂ declines to analyze the period in exclusively personal terms. Rather, he develops the intersection between NapolÃ©onâ€™s militaristic proclivities and the international relations on which he dreamed of hammering his name into history. Much of Esdaileâ€™s narrative recounts conflicting agendas of the European powers and dwells particularly on suspicions of Britain by Austria, Prussia, and Russia. In degrees, these powers all pursued their traditional foreign objectives, sparking several wars entirely unrelated to Franceâ€™s territorial expansion. In consequence, France, spurred by its leaderâ€™s lack of political restraint and thirst for conquest, was able to war advantageously against one or two powers at a time until the formation in 1813â€“15 of the alliance that finally defeated NapolÃ©on. Recapturing the flux of international diplomacy and NapolÃ©onâ€™s congenital rejection of compromise, Esdaile persuasively places the diplomatic foundation to popular military histories about the Napoleonic wars. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "[A] masterly account of the Napoleonic wars . . . Makes the familiar story fresh."\n <br />\n -_The Economist_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A joy to read . . . Attractive, well written and, on occasion, pleasantly idiosyncratic . . . A splendid book."\n <br />\n -_Literary Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Deft, authoritative, often strikingly counterintuitive, this is the definitive word on the subject."\n <br />\n -_Telegraph_ (UK), Books of the Year\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2511'),
(6958, 'The Narrows', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she''s dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimesÂ—and apparently he has not forgotten her.\n <br />\n Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, tooÂ—from the widow of an old friend. Her husband''s death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep. Arriving at a derelict spot in the California desert where the feds are unearthing bodies, Bosch joins forces with Rachel. Now the two are at odds with the FBI...and squarely in the path of the Poet, who will lead them on a wicked ride out of the heat, through the narrows of evil, and into a darkness all his own...\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/546'),
(6959, 'Native Tongue', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now reissued--one of the most beloved novels by the "New York Times" bestselling author in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/359'),
(6960, 'Nature Girl', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Honey Santana ''self-proclaimed queen of lost causes '' has a Plan. She''s working on a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference and dinner-time telemarketers. She''s also taking part-time telephonist Boyd Shreve and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress to Dismal Key '' one of the Everglades'' Ten ThousandIslands '' for a gentle lesson in civility. What Honey doesn''t know is that lurking in the island''s undergrowth is Sammy Tigertail, half-blood Seminole Indian and wholly failed alligator wrestler, with death on his mind; and Honey''s deranged co-worker, Louis Piejack, now with most of his fingers surgically mis-attached to the wrong knuckles, and intent on revenge. A holiday to die for? In Hiaasen''s extraordinary universe, anything can happen ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/360');
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(6961, 'The Navigator', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of action-hero Kurt Austin of the National Underwater and Maritime Agency expect imaginative plotting, but it never comes down the chute in this seventh NUMA Files novel from bestseller Cussler and Shamus-winner Kemprecos (after\n  <em>\n   Polar Shift\n  </em>\n  ). Austin and his team are hunting icebergs when they chance upon a pirate raid aimed at stealing a priceless Phoenician antiquity launched by a stereotypical megalomaniacal villain, Viktor Baltazar, who believes he''s a descendant of King Solomon. Baltazar and Austin joust continually (once, literally!) over the antique, which may be connected to the lost ark of the covenant, Thomas Jefferson and the suspicious death of Meriwether Lewis. Sequences including the attempted human sacrifice of the requisite gorgeous female U.N. investigator are all too predictable, and the writing ("The Filipino''s lips curved like slices of liverwurst in a frying pan") is often less than Cussler''s best.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Calculations seem to point to this being popular adventure novelist Cussler''s thirty-fourth book, the seventh one written in collaboration with Kemprecos and the seventh one to chronicle the adventures of the NUMA Special Assignments Team. In his latest romp, Cussler is concerned with an ancient Phoenician statue called the Navigator, which was stolen from a Baghdad museum in 900 BCE. The compelling, well-organized plot--taken from a template that works--includes such disparate but ultimately workable elements as a foiled hijacking, a secret scientific project, pirates, a beautiful woman ("Her gown''s scooped neckline displayed a decolletage that hovered between proper and sexy"), and the heroic machinations of the NUMA sleuths. Without exactly revealing the ending, suffice it to say--or, actually, suffice it to pose the question, Has the NUMA team ever failed in its quest for justice? Read it to make certain you''ve answered the question correctly. Cussler''s multitude of fans will undoubtedly eat up this new novel just as they have previous ones.\n  <em>\n   George Cohen\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1230'),
(6962, 'Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well', 'Billy Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "I never thought I would live to be this old."\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In this moving narrative, Billy Graham once again takes up the pen not only to share his personal experience of growing older but also teach us some important lessons on how to view our time here on Earth. He says that the Bible makes it clear that God has a specific reason for keeping us here. So what is His purpose for these years, and how can we align our lives with it? How can we not only learn to cope with the fears and struggles and growing limitations we face but actually grow stronger inwardly in the midst of these difficulties?\n</p>\n<p>\n In what may be his most powerful message of the last decade, Billy Graham speaks to all on this side of Heaven as he covers the importance of four key areas:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Building strong foundations and understanding the gift of years\n </li>\n <li>\n  Facing life''s transitions, including the passing of years, retirement, and when loved ones die\n </li>\n <li>\n  Making wise decisions\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understanding our glorious hope\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n "In this book I invite you to explore with me not only the realities of life as we grow older but the hope and fulfillment and even joy that can be ours once we learn to look at these years from God''s point of view and discover His strength to sustain us every day. I pray that you and I may learn what it means not only to grow older, but, with God''s help, to grow older with grace."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2017'),
(6963, 'Needful Things', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the "Last Castle Rock Story" King bids a magnificent farewell to the fictional Maine town where much of his previous work has been set. Of grand proportion, the novel ranks with King''s best, in both plot and characterization. A new store, Needful Things, opens in town, and its proprietor, Leland Gaunt, offers seemingly unbeatable (read: Faustian) bargains to Castle Rock''s troubled citizens. Among them are Polly Chalmers, lonely seamstress whose arthritis is only one of the physical and psychic pains she must bear; Brian Rusk, the 11-year-old boy whose mother is not precisely attentive; and Alan Pangborn, the new sheriff whose wife and son have recently died. These are only three of the half-dozen or so brilliantly drawn people met in the novel''s one-month time span. As the dreams of each strikingly memorable character, major and minor, inexorably turn to nightmare, individuals and soon the community are overwhelmed, while the precise nature of Gaunt''s evil thrillingly stays just out of focus. King, like Leland Gaunt, knows just what his customers want. 1.5 million first printing; BOMC main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n The old horrormaster in top form, this time with a demonic dealer in magic and spells selling his wares to the folks of Castle Rock, scene of several King novels including The Dead Zone, Cujo--and how many others? King locates his hokey Our Town in Maine, but as ever it''s really Consumerville, USA, with everyone''s life festooned with brand names. The cast is huge and largely grotesque, since King--wearing a tremendous cat''s-smile--means to close the book on Castle Rock and blow it off the map in one of his best climaxes since Salem''s Lot. Editing here is supreme. King braids perhaps a dozen storylines--with hardly a drop of blood spilled for the first 250 or so pages--into ever briefer takes that climax in a hurtling, storm-ripped holocaust whose symphonic energies fill the novel''s last third. Perhaps only five characters stand out: Leland Gaunt, a gentlemanly stranger who opens the Needful Things curiosity shop; his first customer, Brian Rusk, 11, who sells his soul for a rare Sandy Koufax baseball card; practical Polly Chalmers, who runs the You Sew `n'' Sew shop, welcomes Gaunt with a devil''s-food cake, and buys an amulet to relieve her arthritis; her lover, Sheriff Alan Pangborn, who buys nothing but is haunted by the driving deaths of his wife and son; and Ace Merrill, coke dealer in a bind, who becomes Gaunt''s handydevil and gets to drive Gaunt''s Tucker, a car that''s faster than radar and uses no gas. As he has for hundreds of years, Gaunt sells citizens whatever pricks and satisfies their inmost desires. But the price dehumanizes them, and soon all the townsfolk vent their barest aggressions on each other with cleaver, knife, and gun: Gaunt even opens a sideline of automatic weapons. By novel''s end, the whole town is on a hysterical, psychotic mass rampage that floods morgue and hospital with the delimbed and obliterated. Then comes the big bang. Mmmmmmmmmmmm! Leland King''s glee, or Steven Gaunt''s, or rather--well, the author''s--as he rubs his palms over his let''s-blow-''em-away superclimax is wonderfully catching. (Book-of-the-Month Main Selection for Fall) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/856'),
(6964, 'The Neighbor', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  From a master of suspense comes a chilling new novel that explores the dangers lurking closer than you think. Because even in the perfect family, you never know what is going on behind closed doors...\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   This is what happened...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a case guaranteed to spark a media feeding frenzy--a young mother, blond and pretty, disappears without a trace from her South Boston home, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter as the only witness and her handsome, secretive husband as the prime suspect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In the last six hours...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  But from the moment Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren arrives at the Jonesesâ€™ snug little bungalow, she senses something off about the picture of wholesome normality the couple worked so hard to create. On the surface, Jason and Sandra Jones are like any other hardworking young couple raising a four-year-old child. But it is just under the surface that things grew murky.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Of the world as I knew it...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the clock ticking on the life of a missing woman and the media firestorm building, Jason Jones seems more intent on destroying evidence and isolating his daughter than on searching for his â€œbelovedâ€ wife. Is the perfect husband trying to hide his guilt--or just trying to hide? And will the only witness to the crime be the killerâ€™s next victim?\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Lisa Gardner on the Making of *The Neighbor\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  A dozen suspense novels later, it still amazes me how little control I have over the writing process. Iâ€™m a plotter. That means each time I start a novel, I feel compelled to map out the road ahead. Iâ€™m going to write a very scary book where lots of people die, and this is how Iâ€™m gonna do it. Sounds good. And yet, each and every time, by page five or so, that plan is blown out of the water. The plot veers off in a different direction. A character throws me for a loop. I donâ€™t know. You go to write a book and apparently, things happen.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  My latest release,\n  <em>\n   The Neighbor\n  </em>\n  is no exception. I started the book with a simple premise: I wanted a love interest for one of my favorite characters, hard-nosed Boston detective, D.D. Warren. How much fun would it be, I wondered, if D.D. fell for a guy suspected of murdering his own wife? Better yet, Iâ€™ll make the guy a father of a four-year-old girl, because surely workaholic Sergeant Warren deserves a sexy, dark-haired man who also knows how to fashion pigtails and make Mickey Mouse pancakes. Perfect!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Of course, I wanted a twisted storyline with lots of shocking turns. Not a problem. Most of my novels have been inspired by true crimes, and letâ€™s face it, there are no shortages of husbands currently resolving their marital woes by killing off their wives. Research cases were numerous and easy to find. If I now sleep with one eye open, well thatâ€™s what happens when you spend six months immersed in the study of spousal homicide.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Next, I needed some other suspects to stir the pot. What about a registered sex offender living on the same block as the missing woman? And what if the missing woman happens to also be a beautiful blonde schoolteacher, perhaps a natural favorite with her male students? See, now weâ€™re having some fun. Add half a dozen deep dark secrets and weâ€™re off to the races.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This also led to more interesting research. I thought I knew what I needed to know about sex offenders. As wife and mother, Iâ€™ve been very comfortable with the notion of shooting first and questioning later. Iâ€™ve also had zero respect for female schoolteachers who engage in sexual relations with their students. A sex offender is a sex offender, even the ones who are pretty and female. Then again, sometimes during the research phase, I learn things that totally change the course of the novel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I started\n  <em>\n   The Neighbor\n  </em>\n  with a plan, and quickly ended up with a puzzle. At a certain point, I was writing the book simply so I could find out what was going to happen next. Did Jason Jones actually kill his wife? What was he doing on the computer night after night? And what about poor four-year old Ree, the last known person to have seen her mother alive?\n </p>\n <p>\n  I thought D.D. Warren needed to a love interest. But maybe, what she really needs is to save a scared little girl, caught in the middle of a deadly game.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Itâ€™s possible thereâ€™s a bit more to the story than Iâ€™ve mentioned so far. Some other key characters that appear along the way, some rather unexpected developments. Because when you go to write a book, apparently, things happen.\n  <em>\n   --Lisa Gardner\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© John Earle)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In bestseller Gardner''s gripping 11th thriller, Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren, last seen in 2007''s\n  <em>\n   Hide\n  </em>\n  , looks into the curious disappearance of Sandra Jones, a sixth-grade social studies teacher, from her South Boston home: Sandra''s keys and purse were on the kitchen counter, nothing was disturbed, and her four-year-old daughter, Ree, to whom she was devoted, was asleep upstairs. The missing woman''s reporter husband, Jason, becomes an immediate suspect because he refuses to answer questions and appears to have destroyed evidence. As a media frenzy envelopes the case, Warren''s investigation reveals the couple''s life as anything but perfect or normal. Full of inventive twists, this highly entertaining novel delivers a shocking solution as well as a perfectly realized sense of justice. Fans will appreciate the deft way Gardner weaves in a key character from 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Say Goodbye\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/637'),
(6965, 'Neil Young: Long May You Run', 'Gary Graff &amp; Daniel Durchholz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Neil Young has been described as brilliant, cantankerous, enigmatic, and vexing. Regardless, his generation-spanning fan base and his profound musical influence cannot be denied. While a number of narrative titles have chronicled Neil Young in one manner or another, this is the first illustrated history to span his 41 studio albums, 6 live releases, and 40-plus years as a recording and touring musician. From Young''s earliest days in the Canadian rock scene through his tenures with Buffalo Springfield and CSNY and on to his varied solo career, each aspect of the musician''s career is covered. Photography from rock photographers of the 1960s to the present, as well as concert posters and memorabilia from around the world, are complemented by commentary from notable musicians around the world and a discography.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3934'),
(6966, 'Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History', 'Daniel Durchholz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Neil Young has been described as brilliant, cantankerous, enigmatic, and vexing. Regardless, his generation-spanning fan base and his profound musical influence cannot be denied. While a number of narrative titles have chronicled Neil Young in one manner or another, this is the first illustrated history to span his 41 studio albums, 6 live releases, and 40-plus years as a recording and touring musician. From Young''s earliest days in the Canadian rock scene through his tenures with Buffalo Springfield and CSNY and on to his varied solo career, each aspect of the musician''s career is covered. Photography from rock photographers of the 1960s to the present, as well as concert posters and memorabilia from around the world, are complemented by commentary from notable musicians around the world and a discography.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2019'),
(6967, 'Nemesis', 'Jo Nesbo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is a nail-biting thriller from one of the biggest stars in crime fiction. Grainy closed-circuit television footage shows a man walking into an Oslo bank and putting a gun to a cashier''s head. He tells the young woman to count to twenty-five. When the robber doesn''t get his money in time, the cashier is executed, and two million Norwegian kroner disappear without a trace. Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. While Hole''s girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame decides to get in touch. Former girlfriend and struggling artist Anna Bethsen invites Hole to dinner, and he can''t resist a visit. But the evening ends in an all too familiar way as Hole awakens with a thundering headache, a missing cell phone, and no memory of the past twelve hours. That same morning, Anna is found shot dead in her bed. Hole begins to receive threatening e-mails. Is someone trying to frame him for this unexplained death? Meanwhile, the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery. As the death toll continues to mount, Hole becomes a prime suspect in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary Tom Waaler and Waaler''s vigilante police force. Racing from the cool, autumnal streets of Oslo to the steaming villages of Brazil, Hole is determined to absolve himself of suspicion by uncovering all the information needed to crack both cases. But the ever-threatening Waaler is not finished with his old archenemy quite yet. *Edgar Nominee for Best Novel of the Year\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2847'),
(6968, 'Neon Angel of a Runaway', 'Cherie Currie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œDetails the bandâ€™s short, messy history and the struggle with addiction that nearly claimed her life.â€ (Entertainment Weekly )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe striking thing about The Runaways, is how authentic it feelsâ€¦ One reason may be that the movie is partly based on Neon Angel, a newly revamped autobiography by the groupâ€™s lead singer Cherie Currie, whose chillingly quick self-destruction is relived through Dakota Fanning.â€ (New York Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[NEON ANGEL] reveals how the liberated life of a 16-year-old rock star in Los Angeles included many dark moments.â€ (Spin )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œRaw and riveting.â€ (LA Weekly )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œUnflinchingly honest.â€ (Boston Globe )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhat truly amazes me is what a fine, honest, introspective author Cherie is, with an incredible tale about an incredible life, and a fascinating personal odyssey.â€ (Joan Jett )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI donâ€™t think a lot of people know the story of Cherie Currie. Itâ€™s an amazing story and sheâ€™s an amazing woman and performer. â€ (Dakota Fanning on The Tonight Show )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCurrie is looking forward to giving Neon Angel its second lifeâ€¦the new version, with a foreword by [Joan] Jett, adds the sex, drugs and darkness that were missing from the first edition.â€ (Reuters )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the tender age of fifteen, groundbreaking lead singer Cherie Currie joined a group of talented girlsâ€”Joan Jett and Lita Ford on guitar, Jackie Fox on bass, and Sandy West on drumsâ€”who could rock like no one else.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Arriving on the Los Angeles music scene in 1975, The Runaways catapulted from playing small clubs to selling out major stadiumsâ€”headlining shows with opening acts like the Ramones, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, and Blondie while riding a wave of hit songs and platinum albums, and touring the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A shocking, funny, and touching re-creation of a bygone era of rock and roll that chronicles the Runaways'' rise to fame and ultimate demise,\n  <em>\n   Neon Angel\n  </em>\n  is also an intensely personal account of Currie''s struggles with drugs, sexual abuse, and violence in a decadent, high-pressure music sceneâ€”a world of uncontrolled excess where she and her unsupervised bandmates had to grow up fast and experience things that no teenage girls should.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2020'),
(6969, 'The Neon Rain', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  NEW YORK TIMES\n </em>\n BESTSELLING AUTHOR JAMES LEE BURKE\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  THE NEON RAIN\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife''s love, Robicheaux''s haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans'' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/547'),
(6970, 'Neptune&#39;s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal', 'James D. Hornfischer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Hornfischerâ€™s third outstanding book on the U.S. Navyâ€™s surface forces in WWII will have a ready-made audience because its subject is the naval side of the Guadalcanal campaign of 1942. The campaign began when marines landed on that deservedly unfrequented island to halt the creation of a Japanese airbase that might threaten U.S. communications with Australia. The Japanese riposte inflicted a disaster on the U.S. Navy second only to Pearl Harbor, called the Battle of Savo Island. Over the next few months, the two navies went at each other hammer and tongs in what was probably the most intense naval campaign of the war. The Japanese had an ace up their sleeve in the Long Lance torpedo, the best in the world. The U.S. eventually counterbalanced the Japanese by learning (all too slowly) to use radar-directed gunfire to take back the night seas. The author offers balanced assessments of the leaders on both sides, but the real heroes are the American bluejackets, who too often paid with suffering and death for those leadersâ€™ slowness to learn. And as in his first two books, the authorâ€™s narrative gifts and excellent choice of detail give an almost Homeric quality to the men who met on the sea in steel titans. --Roland Green\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Advance praise for\n  <em>\n   Neptuneâ€™s Inferno\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Boston Globe bestseller\n</p>\n<p>\n A main selection of the History Book Club and the Military Book Club\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith the publication of\n <em>\n  Neptune''s Inferno\n </em>\n , a masterpiece of 20th century naval history, it''s time to declare James Hornfischer a national treasure, a member of the distinguished band of brothers--Stephen Ambrose, Shelby Foote, Ken Burns, Spielberg and Hanks--whose sacred mission has been vital to America''s journey, preserving the stories of our fathers and grandfathers for future generations, before those stories fade forever out of our consciousness into the shadows of time.â€\n <br />\n Bob Shacochis, National Book Award winner, author of\n <em>\n  The Immaculate Invasion\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hornfischer has produced an account that is visceral, yet technical; sweeping, yet personal. Itâ€™s a terrific read, and an important new addition to the literature on this most important naval campaign in the Pacific."\n <br />\n â€”Jonathan Parshall, co-author of _Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Hornfischerâ€™s accounts of naval combat in the Pacific are simply the best in the business."\n <br />\n â€”Ian W. Toll, author of\n <em>\n  Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "With this grand, sweeping, history-correcting book, James Hornfischer takes his place among the elite historians of the United States war in the Pacific during World War II. Like a Curtiss Helldiver,\n <em>\n  Neptuneâ€™s Inferno\n </em>\n catapults the reader high into the skies for a clear perspective on the vast oceanic conflict, then dives relentlessly to propel us right into the smoke and fire and human valor of the brutal inferno known as Guadalcanal. Along the way, and drawing on newly available papers, Hornfischer clears up lingering misconceptions about this battle, including the full extent of the U.S. Navyâ€™s role in victory. And in his character portraits of the brilliant, quirky top admirals and generals of the fractious Army-Navy command, Hornfischer offers a worthy counterpart to Doris Kearns Goodwinâ€™s\n <em>\n  Team of Rivals\n </em>\n ."\n <br />\n â€”Ron Powers, author of\n <em>\n  Mark Twain: A Life\n </em>\n and co-writer, _Flags of Our Fathers\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n "_Neptuneâ€™s Inferno_ is a superb portrait of the U.S. Navyâ€™s critical role in the Guadalcanal campaign, both the surface and aerial combat. Comprehensive with much that is new, yet immensely readable, it covers not only the admirals, but the junior officers and bluejackets as well. Highly recommended."\n <br />\n â€•John B. Lundstrom, author of _The First Team\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œAn epic workâ€¦In Neptune''s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, Hornfischer deftly captures the essence of the most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific warâ€¦Compiling interviews with survivors, unpublished eyewitness accounts, and previously unavailable documents, [he] skillfully re-creates the bravery displayed by sailors who opposed the Japanese in what could be called America''s finest hour of the Pacific campaign. The book is richly supported by meticulous source notes, a concise bibliography, rare photos and campaign mapsâ€¦With Neptune''s Inferno, Hornfischerâ€¦has earned his place among the hallowed ranks of military historians. [It] is a literary tour de force that is destined to become one of the most definitive works about the battle for Guadalcanal. It deserves a place of honor on every military bookshelf.â€ â€“ San Antonio Express-News\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAmbitiousâ€¦entertainingâ€¦insightfulâ€¦judiciousâ€¦A vivid and engaging accountâ€¦of war at sea in 1942.â€ â€”Ronald Spector, The Wall Street Journal\n <br />\n â€œNeptuneâ€™s Inferno is well written, packed with scene-setting details and clearly the product of extensive research, including interviews with some of the battleâ€™s now-aged survivorsâ€¦ The authorâ€™s two previous WWII books, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, thrust him into the major leagues of American military history writers. Neptuneâ€™s Inferno is solid proof he deserves to be there.â€ â€“Dallas Morning News\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHornfischer (Ship of Ghosts) understands the human dynamics of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific warâ€¦[he] gives an empathetic but balanced accountâ€¦[reconstructing] the fighting in a masterful synthesis of technical analysis, operational narrative, and tales of courage.â€ â€“Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOutstandingâ€¦ The author offers balanced assessments of the leaders on both sides, but the real heroes are the American bluejackets, who too often paid with suffering and death for those leadersâ€™ slowness to learn. And as in his first two books, the authorâ€™s narrative gifts and excellent choice of detail give an almost Homeric quality to the men who met on the sea in steel titans.â€ â€“Booklist (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis work''s major strengths are its careful organization, readable prose, and...well-reasoned conclusions. Depictions of battles and ships are enlivened with...apt comments from participants and relevant character sketches of the key figures.â€ â€“Proceedings Magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNeptuneâ€™s Inferno is an exceptional piece of military history. Hornfischer has broadened and deepened our understanding of the U.S. Navyâ€™s role in the Solomons campaign in this eminently readable account of the bloody naval battles of attrition in the fall of 1942 that doomed the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat and irrevocably shifted the strategic initiative in the Pacific War.â€ â€”Dr. Peter R. Mansoor, colonel, U.S. Army (ret.), Gen. Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History, The Ohio State University\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2515'),
(6971, 'Never Have I Ever', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n My perfect life was a lie.\n <br />\n <br />\n Now I''d do anything to uncover the truth.\n <br />\n <br />\n Not long ago, I had everything a girl could wish for: amazing friends, an adorable boyfriend, a loving family. But none of them know that I''m gone - that I''m\n <i>\n  dead\n </i>\n . To solve my murder, my long-lost twin sister, Emma, has taken my place. She sleeps in my room, wears my clothes, and calls my parents Mom and Dad.\n <br />\n <br />\n And my killer is watching her every move.\n <br />\n <br />\n I remember little from my life, just flashes and flickers, so all I can do is follow along as Emma tries to solve the mystery of my disappearance. But the deeper she digs, the more suspects she uncovers. It turns out my friends and I played a lot of games - games that ruined people''s lives. Anyone could want revenge . . . anyone could want me - and now Emma - dead.\n <br />\n <br />\n From Sara Shepard, the #1\n <i>\n  New York Times\n </i>\n bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars books, comes a riveting series about secrets, lies, and killer consequences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3777'),
(6972, 'Never Let Me Go', 'Kazuo Ishiguro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2843'),
(6973, 'Never Look Away', 'Linwood Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Linwood Barclay is back with more unexpected twists and superb characters in a spine-tingling, mesmerizing thriller about a husband whose wife disappears, along with everything he thought he knew about their life together. David Harwood, a reporter in Promise Falls, New York, is stressed out. The newspaper he works for is outsourcing jobs to India, he can''t get a solid lead on the corrupt for-profit prison moving to town, and his wife, Jan, is struggling with a bout of depression. As a much-needed break, David and Jan decide to take their four-year-old son, Ethan, to a local amusement park for a day of ice cream, rollercoasters, and carefree fun. But revelry is quickly replaced by panic when, within an hour of arriving at the park, Ethan goes missing. Though he is soon found, panic escalates to full-blown terror when Jan suddenly disappears. Confused and worried, David finds himself desperately searching for any clue that could lead him to his wife - even if it means unraveling a tangle of lies and deception that become more complicated at every turn. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3155'),
(6974, 'Never Tell a Lie', 'Hallie Ephron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It all started with the yard sale. Ivy was eight months and one week pregnant when she insisted that she and her husband, David, clean out the junk they''d inherited with the old Victorian house they''d bought three years before. Call it nesting, call it nerves--she just wanted it all gone: the old electrical fixtures, the boxes of "National Geographics" from the 1960s, the four black wool greatcoats.  Neither she nor David recognized the woman at first. But it turned out that the customer asking about the lime-green glass swan dish--the woman who looks just about as pregnant as Ivy--was none other than Melinda White, a former high school classmate of David and Ivy''s. When Melinda was a child she used to play in their new house, she explained. It looked like they''d been doing some work. Would it be all right if she took a look around? David took Melinda inside. And she never came out.  Now David''s under police suspicion, and Ivy finds herself digging deep into the past to clear his name. But David''s history, she begins to discover, is not necessarily the history she remembers, and before long Ivy has uncovered a twisted web of deceit, betrayal, and lies, both the ones we tell those we love and the ones we tell ourselves. . . .  Relentlessly fast-paced and disturbingly creepy, "Never Tell a Lie" is a page-turning thrill ride about how well we know the people we love, and how far we are willing to go to protect the secrets of our past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2849'),
(6975, 'The Neverending Story', 'Michael Ende', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Shy, awkward Bastian is amazed to discover that he has become a character in the mysterious book he is reading and that he has an important mission to fulfill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2804'),
(6976, 'Neverwhere', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Neverwhere\n </em>\n ''s protagonist, Richard Mayhew, learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. He ceases to exist in the ordinary world of London Above, and joins a quest through the dark and dangerous London Below, a shadow city of lost and forgotten people, places, and times. His companions are Door, who is trying to find out who hired the assassins who murdered her family and why; the Marquis of Carabas, a trickster who trades services for very big favors; and Hunter, a mysterious lady who guards bodies and hunts only the biggest game. London Below is a wonderfully realized shadow world, and the story plunges through it like an express passing local stations, with plenty of action and a satisfying conclusion. The story is reminiscent of Douglas Adams''s\n <em>\n  The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy\n </em>\n , but Neil Gaiman''s humor is much darker and his images sometimes truly horrific. Puns and allusions to everything from\n <em>\n  Paradise Lost\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\n </em>\n abound, but you can enjoy the book without getting all of them. Gaiman is definitely not just for graphic-novel fans anymore.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Gaiman assumes the role of narrator for his latest book, offering an intimate reading that steals one''s attention almost immediately and keeps the listener involved throughout. As the story is based in the United Kingdom, Gaiman is a quintessential raconteur for the tale, with his charming Scottish brogue instilling life and spirit into the central character of Richard Mayhew. Pitch perfect, with clear pronunciation, Gaiman invites listeners into his living room for a fireside chat, offering a private and personal experience that transcends the limitations of traditional narration. The author knows his story through and through, capturing the desired emotion and audience reaction in each and every scene. His characters are unique, with diverse personalities and narrative approaches, and Gaiman offers a variety of dialects and tones. The reading sounds more like a private conversation among friends with Gaiman providing the convincing and likable performance the writing deserves.\n <em>\n  A Harper Perennial paperback (Reviews, May 19, 1997). (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1280'),
(6977, 'Neverwinter', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "With the last of his trusted companions having fallen, Drizzt is alone--and free--for the first time in almost a hundred years. Guilt mingles with relief, leaving Drizzt uniquely vulnerable to the persuasions of his newest companion--Dahlia, a darkly alluring elf and the only other member of their party to survive the cataclysm at Mount Hotenow. But traveling with Dahlia is challenging in more ways than one. As the two companions seek revenge on the one responsible for leveling Neverwinter--and nearly Luskan as well--Drizzt finds his usual moral certainty swept away by her unconventional views. Forced to see the dark deeds that the common man may be driven to by circumstance, Drizzt begins to find himself on the wrong side of the law in an effort to protect those the law has failed. Making new enemies, as his old enemies acquire deadly allies, Drizzt and Dahlia quickly find themselves embroiled in battle--a state he''s coming to enjoy a little too much"--\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3609'),
(6978, 'The New Confessions', 'William Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this extraordinary novel, William Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exhilarating life as one of the most unappreciated geniuses of the twentieth century is equal parts Laurence Stern, Charles Dickens, Robertson Davies, and Saul Bellow, and a hundred percent William Boyd.Â Â From his birth in 1899, Todd was doomed. Emerging from his angst-filled childhood, he rushes into the throes of the twentieth century on the Western Front during the Great War, and quickly changes his role on the battlefield from cannon fodder to cameraman. When he becomes a prisoner of war, he discovers Rousseau''s Confessions, and dedicates his life to bringing the memoir to the silver screen. Plagued by bad luck and blind ambition, Todd becomes a celebrated London upstart, a Weimar luminary, and finally a disgruntled director of cowboy movies and the eleventh member of the Hollywood Ten. Ambitious and entertaining, Boyd has invented a most irresistible hero.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3851'),
(6979, 'A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life&#39;s Purpose', 'Eckhart Tolle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 copy bestselling inspirational book, The Power of Now  With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived Ã‚â€œin the now.Ã‚â€ In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.  The Power of Now was a question-and-answer handbook. A New Earth has been written as a traditional narrative, offering anecdotes and philosophies in a way that is accessible to all. Illuminating, enlightening, and uplifting, A New Earth is a profoundly spiritual manifesto for a better way of lifeÃ‚â€”and for building a better world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1021'),
(6980, 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness', 'Michelle Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Contrary to the rosy picture of race embodied in Barack Obama''s political success and Oprah Winfrey''s financial success, legal scholar Alexander argues vigorously and persuasively that [w]e have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as a system of social control (More African Americans are under correctional control today... than were enslaved in 1850). Alexander reviews American racial history from the colonies to the Clinton administration, delineating its transformation into the war on drugs. She offers an acute analysis of the effect of this mass incarceration upon former inmates who will be discriminated against, legally, for the rest of their lives, denied employment, housing, education, and public benefits. Most provocatively, she reveals how both the move toward colorblindness and affirmative action may blur our vision of injustice: most Americans know and don''t know the truth about mass incarcerationâ€”but her carefully researched, deeply engaging, and thoroughly readable book should change that.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œExplosive debutâ€¦alarming, provocative and convincing.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMichelle Alexanderâ€™s brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow.â€œ\n <br />\n â€”Lani Guinier, professor at Harvard Law School and author of\n <em>\n  Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Miner''s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor every century there is a crisis in our democracy, the response to which defines how future generations view those who were alive at the time. In the 18th century it was the transatlantic slave trade, in the 19th century it was slavery, in the 20th century it was Jim Crow. Today it is mass incarceration. Alexander''s book offers a timely and original framework for understanding mass incarceration, its roots to Jim Crow, our modern caste system, and what must be done to eliminate it. This book is a call to action.â€\n <br />\n â€”Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO, NAACP\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith imprisonment now the principal instrument of our social policy directed toward poorly educated black men, Michelle Alexander argues convincingly that the huge racial disparity of punishment in America is not the mere result of neutral state action. She sees the rise of mass incarceration as opening up a new front in the historic struggle for racial justice. And, sheâ€™s right. If you care about justice in America, you need to read this book!â€\n <br />\n â€”Glenn C. Loury, economist at Brown University and author of\n <em>\n  The Anatomy of Racial Inequality and Race, Incarceration and American Values\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAfter reading\n <em>\n  The New Jim Crow\n </em>\n , Michelle Alexander''s stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union''s gulag---the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.â€\n <br />\n â€”David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer-prize winning historian at NYU and author of\n <em>\n  W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "We need to pay attention to Michelle Alexander''s contention that mass imprisonment in the U.S. constitutes a racial caste system. Her analysis reflects the passion of an advocate and the intellect of a scholar."\n <br />\n â€”Marc Mauer, Executive Director, The Sentencing Project, author of\n <em>\n  Race to Incarcerate\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA powerful analysis of why and how mass incarceration is happening in America,\n <em>\n  The New Jim Crow\n </em>\n should be required reading for anyone working for real change in the criminal justice system.â€\n <br />\n â€”Ronald E. Hampton, Executive Director, National Black Police Association\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2302'),
(6981, 'New Moon', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9 Upâ€“Recovered from the vampire attack that hospitalized her in the conclusion of\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n (Little, Brown, 2005), Bella celebrates her birthday with her boyfriend Edward and his family, a unique clan of vampires that has sworn off human blood. But the celebration abruptly ends when the teen accidentally cuts her arm on broken glass. The sight and smell of her blood trickling away forces the Cullen family to retreat lest they be tempted to make a meal of her. After all is mended, Edward, realizing the danger that he and his family create for Bella, sees no option for her safety but to leave. Mourning his departure, she slips into a downward spiral of depression that penetrates and lingers over her every step. Vampire fans will appreciate the subsequently dour mood that permeates the novel, and it''s not until Bella befriends Jacob, a sophomore from her school with a penchant for motorcycles, that both the pace and her disposition begin to take off. Their adventures are wild, dare-devilish, and teeter on the brink of romance, but memories of Edward pervade Bella''s emotions, and soon their fun quickly morphs into danger, especially when she uncovers the true identities of Jacob and his pack of friends. Less streamlined than\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n yet just as exciting,\n <em>\n  New Moon\n </em>\n will more than feed the bloodthirsty hankerings of fans of the first volume and leave them breathless for the third.\n <em>\n  â€“Hillias J. Martin, New York Public Library\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 8-11. "Which is tempting you more, my blood or my body?" Things are heating up between Bella Swan and her vampire boyfriend, Edward Cullen, in this sequel to the immensely popular\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n (2005). Then Bella is injured at her birthday party, and the Cullens'' reaction to her blood sends Edward''s family packing. Bella is inconsolable until she discovers that reckless behavior allows her to hear Edward''s warning voice in her head. To keep him close, she decides to live as dangerously as possible, acquiring two motorcycles and developing a close friendship with Jacob, who helps her rebuild them. Romantics will miss Edward''s presence, but the suspense created by a pack of werewolves bent on protecting Bella from a vindictive vampire will keep them occupied until the lovers can be reunited. The writing is a bit melodramatic, but readers won''t care. Bella''s dismay at being ordinary (after all, she''s only human) will strike a chord even among girls who have no desire to be immortal, and like the vampires who watch Bella bleed with "fevered eyes," teens will relish this new adventure and hunger for more.\n <em>\n  Cindy Dobrez\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/554');
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(6982, 'New York', 'Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city''s founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America''s greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he illuminates cultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of a remarkably diverse set of families. As he recounts the intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, Rutherfurd brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the ''90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center. Sprinkled throughout are captivating cameo appearances by historical figures ranging from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Babe Ruth.New York is the book that millions of Rutherfurd''s American fans have been waiting for. A brilliant mix of romance, war, family drama, and personal triumphs, it gloriously captures the search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of our nation''s history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3365'),
(6983, 'New York Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** It Was Just Luck**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he''s too smart to be a cop, but it''s pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Suddenly he is on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his life is hopelessly entwined in the increasingly shocking life (and perhaps death) of Sasha Nijinsky, the country''s hottest and most beautiful television anchorwoman.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No matter where he turns, the case is waiting for him, haunting his nights and turning his days into a living hell. Stone finds himself caught in a perilous web of unspeakable crimes, dangerous friends, and sexual depravity that has throughout it one common thread: Sasha.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2668'),
(6984, 'New York to Dallas', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, which takes readers deeper into the mind of Eve Dallas than ever before.  The number-one New York Times-bestselling author J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying new case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas, one that will take her all the way to the city that gave her her name-and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood.  When a monster named Isaac McQueen-taken down by Eve back in her uniform days-escapes from Rikers, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3319'),
(6985, 'Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World&#39;s Greatest Scientist', 'Thomas Levenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n In 1695, Isaac Newton--already renowned as the greatest mind of his age--made a surprising career change. He left quiet Cambridge, where he had lived for thirty years and made his earth-shattering discoveries, and moved to London to take up the post of Warden of His Majesty''s Mint. Newton was preceded to the city by a genius of another kind, the budding criminal William Chaloner. Thanks to his preternatural skills as a counterfeiter, Chaloner was rapidly rising in London''s highly competitive underworld, at a time when organized law enforcement was all but unknown and money in the modern sense was just coming into being. Then he crossed paths with the formidable new warden. In the courts and streets of London--and amid the tremors of a world being transformed by the ideas Newton himself had set in motion--the two played out an epic game of cat and mouse.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with Thomas Levenson, Author of\n  <em>\n   Newton and the Counterfeiter\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Why did you decide to write\n <em>\n  Newton and the Counterfeiter\n </em>\n ?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I first encountered the connection at the heart of\n <em>\n  Newton and the Counterfeiter\n </em>\n when I was working on a very different project in the mid ''90s. A long out of print book quoted from one of the few letters between my counterfeiter, William Chaloner, and Isaac Newton--and on reading it I wondered: what on earth was such a scoundrel doing in correspondence with the greatest mind of the age? The question stuck with me for a decade, and finally I made the time to dig a little deeper. Once I did, I discovered two things that made this book both possible, and from a writer''s point of view, inescapable. The first was a trove of original documents that chronicled Newton''s involvement in the pursuit and prosecution of not just Chaloner, but dozens of other currency criminals. The second was the insight this one story gives into Newton himself--and of the real extent and impact of the revolutions (plural deliberate) which he so prominently led. Isaac Newton is best remembered, of course, as the man at the vanguard of the scientific revolution--a status established by his discoveries: the laws of motion, gravity, the calculus, and much more. But I found that this story gave me a sense of what it was like to live through that revolution at street level. It provided an example of Newton''s mind at work, for one, and for another, it involved Newton in the second of the great 17th century transformations, the financial revolution that occurred in conjunction, and with some connection to the scientific one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Newton, I found, was a bureaucrat, a man with a job running England''s money supply at a time with surprising parallels to our own: new, poorly understood financial engineering to deal with what was a national currency and economic crisis. He was asked to think about money, and he did--and at the same time, he was given the job of Warden of the Mint, which among other duties put him charge of policing those who would fake or undermine the King''s coins. So there I had it: a gripping true crime story, with life-and-death stakes and enough information to follow my leading characters through the bad streets and worse jails of London--and one that at the same time let me explore some of critical moves in the making of the world we inhabit through the mind and feelings of perhaps the greatest scientific thinker who ever lived. How could I resist that?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Are there comparisons to be made to the financial times we are living in today in this country?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n When I started writing this book, (c. 2005) the American and the global economy was seemingly in robust health. The American housing market was booming; financial markets the world over were trading happily back and forth, the Dow in June, when I started working in earnest on the project, stood comfortably over 10,000, with a 40% rise to come through the first and second drafts of the work. And then, of course, things changed--and by that time (too late to do my own financial situation any good) I realized that in the story of Newton''s confrontation with Chaloner I could see many of the pathologies that define our current predicament. England''s currency and its system of high finance--the big loans and big banks behind them needed to fund government--were both under increasing strain when Newton arrived at the Mint.\n</p>\n<p>\n Part of the damage was being done through imbalances of trade, as silver flowed out of England to the European continent and ultimately to India and China. (Sound familiar?) That loss of metal had huge economic consequences when you remember that money itself was made of silver back then. No silver, no coins. No coins--and how are you going to buy a loaf of bread, a pound of beef, a barrel of beer (which was a staple, and not a luxury given the state of Londonâ€™s drinking (sic) water). At the same time, England was waging a war it could not pay for. (Sound familiar?) The Treasury was broke. Financial engineering got its start in the ever more desperate attempts by the government to raise the money it needed to keep its army in the field against France. Newton and his counterfeiting nemesis William Chaloner both found themselves operating on unfamiliar territory, with paper abstractions standing in for what used to be literally hard cash. This was when bank notes were invented--and Chaloner forged some. This was when the government began to issue what were in essence bonds--and Chaloner forged some of those too. Personal cheques were coming in, and--you guessed it--Chaloner passed a couple of duds. Most significantly, the Bank of England invented fractional reserve lending--lending out a multiple of the actual cash reserves it held at any one time. This was the birth of leverage. Put it all together and you have most of the crucial ideas in modern finance appearing at almost the same instant. These are fantastically useful tools; the enormous expansion of wealth, of material comfort, of human well being that weâ€™ve seen over the last three centuries, derives in part from the fact that the English and their trading counterparties were so impressively inventive in those decades. But at the same time, as we know now all too well, each and every one of those financial ideas are capable of abuse. Now add to the usual temptations to financial sin the besetting danger of ignorance, of the sheer unfamiliarity of the new instruments, and you have the makings of an almost inevitable disaster.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 2009, we are dealing with that double trouble: deliberate frauds combining with the larger problem that the complexity and sheer deep strangeness of new financial products allowed a lot of so-called smart money to make big bets they didnâ€™t understand. Exactly the same kinds of pressures were building in Newton''s day, and the financial crisis that Newton helped resolve in the 1690s kept spawning sequels, until in the 1720s, Newton himself got caught up in a disaster that in many ways eerily anticipates the one we are living through now. The South Sea Bubble of 1720 was born of a good idea--what we would now call a debt-for-equity swap--but rapidly turned into a fraud and then at the last a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme. What I found most striking is that Newton, who of all men had the mathematical chops to figure out that the South Sea promises couldn''t possibly be met, still got sucked in by the promise of outsize returns. Avarice, desire, or perhaps in Newton''s case just the agony of the thought that others were getting richer while he was not, propelled him into investing in the bubble at its very peak. According to his niece, he lost 20,000 pounds in a matter of months--which in todayâ€™s money would be roughly three million pounds, or close to five million dollars. The moral, at least the lesson I took from this personally? No one, not even Newton, and certainly not me, is smart enough to be smarter than one''s own emotions. And that grim fact, as much as any specific financial innovation, lies behind our current economic woes, and surely caught that great thinker Isaac Newton in its grip as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Tell us about your research.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I was fortunate in this project--in fact, I only took on the book--because there was a rich lode of little-known documents that told the story of the clash between Newton and Chaloner. Five large folders survive of Newton''s own notes, drafts and memos covering his official duties at the Mint. Examining them, especially drafts of replies to some of Chaloner''s most audacious attacks on him at Parliamentary hearings, it is possible to see across time to Newton''s mounting frustration and anger at his antagonist: his handwriting gets worse, more cramped, swift, and in general ticked off as he works through his responses. I was also able to find the handful of documents that can be unequivocally attributed to Chaloner: a couple of pamphlets he had printed to display his expertise in the making and manipulation of coin, and to allege incompetence, or worse at Newton''s Mint. To that I added a marvelous, if not entirely reliable, moralizing biography of Chaloner, hastily written and published within days of his execution. That was one of the early examples of what became a staple pulp genre--edifying and titillating accounts of the wicked, in which any admiration for the rascals being chronicled were carefully wrapped up through the appropriate bad ends to which all the subjects of such works were doomed.\n</p>\n<p>\n But of all the wellsprings of this book, none were more important than the file it took me over a year to find. I knew that some of the records Isaac Newton''s criminal interrogations survived, because I found reference to them in a couple of the older biographies and other secondary sources. But in the reorganization of British official records that took place in the decades after World War II, the cataloguing systems for Mint files had undergone enough changes that this crucial set of documents had slipped out of sight of the contemporary Newton scholarly community. I managed to track it down to its current location in the Public Records Office, and then I had writer''s gold: more than four hundred separate documents, most countersigned by Newton himself, that allowed me to retrace his steps as a criminal investigator informer by informer. Most fortunately--Newtonâ€™s nephew-in-law reported that he helped his wife''s uncle burn many of his Mint interrogation records. But the entire Chaloner case remained in the one surviving folder, and it made for fascinating, gripping reading. Once Newton realized how formidable an opponent he had in Chaloner, he proved relentless in reconstructing not just particular crimes, but the whole architecture of counterfeiting and coining as it was practiced in London in the 1690s. You get to see, smell, hear how the bad guys worked, in their own words, as elicited by a man who (surprise!) proved to be exceptionally good at extracting the evidence he needed to solve a problem.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Joel Benjamin)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Levenson reveals the remarkable and true tale of the only criminal investigator who was far, far brainier than even Sherlock Holmes: Sir Isaac Newton during his tenure as Warden of the Royal Mint. What a fascinating saga! It allows us to see the human side of Newton and how his amazing mind worked when dealing with practical rather than theoretical questions.â€\n <br />\n â€”Walter Isaacson, author of _Einstein, His Life and Universe and Benjamin Franklin: An American Life\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n Newton and the Counterfeiter_ is a wonderful read that reveals a whole new side to a giant of science. Through a page-turning narrative, we witness Isaac Newton''s genius grappling with the darker sides of human nature, an all too human journey reflecting his deepest beliefs about the cosmic order. This is a gripping story that enriches our sense of the man who forever changed our view of the universe.â€\n <br />\n â€”Brian Greene, author of _The Fabric of the Cosmos\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n As the great Newton recedes from us in time, he comes increasingly into focus as a man rather than a mythâ€”thanks in no small measure to this learned and lively new study from the estimable Thomas Levinson.â€\n <br />\n --Timothy Ferris, author of _Seeing in the Dark\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œ_Newton and the Counterfeiter_ is both a fascinating read and a meticulously researched historical document: a combination difficult to achieve and rarely seen . . . Recommended for anyone who wants to know the real story behind this astonishing but largely overlooked chapter of scientific history.â€\n <br />\n --Neal Stephenson, author of _Cryptonomicon and Anathem\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "I absolutely loved Newton and the Counterfeiter. Deft, witty and exhaustively researched, Levenson''s tale illuminates a near-forgotten chapter of Newton''s extraordinary life--the cat-and-mouse game that pitted him against a criminal mastermind--and manages not only to add to our knowledge of the great mathematician but to make a page turner out of it. This book rocks."\n <br />\n --Junot DÃ­az, author of _The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œ_Newton and the Counterfeiter_ is a delicious read, featuring brilliant detective work and a captivating story . . . a virtuoso performance.â€\n <br />\n --Sylvia Nasar, author of _A Beautiful Mind\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "I loved Levenson''s book. It''s a rollicking account of the fascinating underbelly of seventeenth-century London--and reveals an aspect of Newton I''d scarcely known of before, yet which shaped the world we know. A tour de force."\n <br />\n --David Bodanis, author of_ E=MC2\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Levenson''s account of this world of criminality, collusion and denunciation is meticulously researched and highly readable...the tale of Newton the economist is one worth telling." -- _New Scientist\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Levenson demonstrates a surpassing felicity in his brisk treatment of this late-17th-century true-crime adventure...Swift, agile treatment of a little known but highly entertaining episode in a legendary life."\n <br />\n -- _Kirkus Reviews\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Highly Reccommended." -- _Library Journal\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "_Newton and the Counterfeiter_ packs a wonderful punch in its thoroughly surprising revelation of that other Isaac Newton, and in its vivid re-creation of 17th-century London and its fascinating criminal\n <br />\n haunts." -- _Providence Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Newton and the Counterfeiter is as finely struck as one of Newton''s shillings." --\n </em>\n The Oregonian\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Levenson transforms inflation and metallurgy into a suspenseful detective story bolstered by an eloquent summary of Newtonian physics and stomach-turning descriptions of prison life in the Tower of London..._Newton and the Counterfeiter _humanizes a legend, transforming him into a Sherlock Holmes in pursuit of his own private Moriarity." --\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n (20090501)\n</p>\n<p>\n "Levenson''''s account of this world of criminality, collusion and denunciation is meticulously researched and highly readable...the tale of Newton the economist is one worth telling."\n</p>\n<p>\n (_New Scientist_ 20090501)\n</p>\n<p>\n "Levenson demonstrates a surpassing felicity in his brisk treatment of this late-17th-century true-crime adventure...Swift, agile treatment of a little known but highly entertaining episode in a legendary life."\n</p>\n<p>\n (_Kirkus Reviews_ 20090614)\n</p>\n<p>\n "Highly Reccommended."\n</p>\n<p>\n (_Library Journal_ 20090709)\n</p>\n<p>\n "Newton and the Counterfeiter packs a wonderful punch in its thoroughly surprising revelation of that other Isaac Newton, and in its vivid re-creation of 17th-century London and its fascinating criminal haunts."\n</p>\n<p>\n (_Providence Journal_ 20090719)\n</p>\n<p>\n "Newton and the CounterfeiterÂ is as finely struck as one of Newton''''s shillings."\n</p>\n<p>\n (_The Oregonian_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Levenson transforms inflation and metallurgy into a suspenseful detective story bolstered by an eloquent summary of Newtonian physics and stomach-turning descriptions of prison life in the Tower of London...Newton and the Counterfeiter humanizes a legend, transforming him into a Sherlock Holmes in pursuit of his own private Moriarity."\n</p>\n<p>\n (_The Washington Post_ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2516'),
(6986, 'Next', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There''s a new genetic cure for drug addiction--is it worse than the disease?\n </p>\n <p>\n  What''s coming\n  <em>\n   Next\n  </em>\n  ? Get a hint of what Michael Crichton sees on the horizon in this short video clip: high bandwidth or low bandwidth\n </p>\n <p>\n  We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it''s possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Devilishly clever,\n  <em>\n   Next\n  </em>\n  blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Next\n  </em>\n  challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and the bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing,\n  <em>\n   Next\n  </em>\n  shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The future is closer than you think.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Crichton (Jurassic Park) once again focuses on genetic engineering in his cerebral new thriller, though the science involved is a lot less far-fetched than creating dinosaurs from DNA. In an ambitious effort to show what''s wrong with the U.S.''s current handling of gene patents and with the laws governing human tissues, the author interweaves many plot strands, one involving a California researcher, Henry Kendall, who has mixed human and chimp DNA while working at NIH. Kendall produces an intelligent hybrid whom he rescues from the government and tries to pass off as a fully human child. Some readers may be disappointed by the relative lack of action, the lame attempts to lighten the mood with humor (especially centering on an unusually bright parrot named Gerard), and the contrived convergence of the main characters toward the end. Still, few can match Crichton in crafting page-turners with intellectual substance, and his opinions this time are less likely to create a firestorm than his controversial take on global warming in 2004''s State of Fear.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/332'),
(6987, 'The Next Accident', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gardner brings back the quirky team of FBI supervisory special agent Pierce Quincy and Portland private eye Rainie Conner in a fiendishly well choreographed dance of death. The reader knows from the outset (a seduction scene ending in vehicular homicide) that someone has set out to systematically murder FBI profiler Quincy''s loved ones. The question is not why, since Quincy has tracked down many killers, but who. Specifically, who would have the resources of time, money, and psychological acumen to devise and carry out such a sadistic campaign? After the first death, Quincy calls upon Conner to investigate; the plot moves to the clock of the killer''s agenda. The weak points of Gardner''s writing are his dialogue and characterization: Conner''s overly snappy banter and her hardbitten personality are both overdone. But Gardner knows procedure, FBI behavioral science, and the details of such newly minted crimes as identity theft. Not deep but harrowing.\n <em>\n  Connie Fletcher\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA suspense-laden, twist-filled tale that easily equals the best of Sue Grafton and Kathy Reichs.â€â€”*Providence Sunday Journal\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œThe suspense is constant!â€â€”\n </em>\n Plain Dealer\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/645'),
(6988, 'The Next Always', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "America''s favorite writer" (\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  ) begins an all-new trilogy-inspired by the inn she owns and the town she loves.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The historic hotel in BoonsBoro, Maryland, has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it''s getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. As the architect of the family, Beckett''s social life consists mostly of talking shop over pizza and beer. But there''s another project he''s got his eye on: the girl he''s been waiting to kiss since he was fifteen...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2866'),
(6989, 'Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America', 'Barbara Ehrenreich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The bestselling, landmark work of undercover reportage, now updatedAcclaimed as an instant classic upon publication, Nickel and Dimed has sold more than 1.5 million copies and become a staple of classroom reading. Chosen for â€œone bookâ€ initiatives across the country, it has fueled nationwide campaigns for a living wage. Funny, poignant, and passionate, this revelatory firsthand account of life in low-wage Americaâ€”the story of Barbara Ehrenreichâ€™s attempts to eke out a living while working as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart associateâ€”has become an essential part of the nationâ€™s political discourse.Now, in a new afterword, Ehrenreich shows that the plight of the underpaid has in no way eased: with fewer jobs available, deteriorating work conditions, and no pay increase in sight, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3844'),
(6990, 'Night and Day', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone confronts a townâ€™s darkest secrets in the shocking new novel from the New York Timesâ€“bestselling author and â€œAmericaâ€™s greatest mystery writerâ€ (The New York Sun). Things are getting strange in Paradise, Massachusetts. Police Chief Jesse Stone is called to the junior high school when reports of lewd conduct by the schoolâ€™s principal, Betsy Ingersoll, filter into the station. Ingersoll claims she was protecting the propriety of her students when she inspected each girlâ€™s undergarments in the locker room. Jesse would like nothing more than to see Ingersoll punished, but her high-powered attorney husband stands in the way. At the same time, the women of Paradise are faced with a threat to their sense of security with the emergence of a tormented voyeur, dubbed â€œThe Night Hawk.â€ Initially, heâ€™s content to peer through windows, but as times goes on, he becomes more reckless, forcing his victims to strip at gunpoint, then photographing them at their most vulnerable. And according to the notes heâ€™s sending to Jesse, heâ€™s not satisfied to stop there. Itâ€™s up to Jesse to catch the Night Hawk, before itâ€™s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3547'),
(6991, 'The Night Circus', 'Erin Morgenstern', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2011\n  </strong>\n  : Erin Morgensternâ€™s dark, enchanting debut takes us to the black and white tents of\n  <em>\n   Le Cirque des Reves\n  </em>\n  , a circus that arrives without warning, simply appearing when yesterday it was not there. Young Celia and Marco have been cast into a rivalry at\n  <em>\n   The Night Circus\n  </em>\n  , one arranged long ago by powers they do not fully understand. Over time, their lives become more intricately enmeshed in a dance of love, joy, deceit, heartbreak, and magic. Author Morgenstern knows her world inside and out, and she guides the reader with a confident hand. The setting and tone are never less than mesmerizing. The characters are well-realized and memorable. But it is the Night Circus itself that might be the most memorable of all. --\n  <em>\n   Chris Schluep\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for THE NIGHT CIRCUS:\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   The Night Circus\n  </em>\n  made me happy. Playful and intensely imaginative, Erin Morgenstern has created the circus I have always longed for and she has populated it with dueling love-struck magicians, precocious kittens, hyper-elegant displays of beauty and complicated clocks. This is a marvelous book."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   -- Audrey Niffenegger, author of *The Time Travelerâ€™s Wife\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A Romeo and Juliet tale drenched in magic realism,\n  <em>\n   The Night Circus\n  </em>\n  defies both genres and expectations. In short, it''s a showstopper."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   *--The Boston Globe\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n  <hr />\n </em>\n <p>\n  â€œErin Morgenstern''s debut novel,\n  <em>\n   The Night Circus\n  </em>\n  , is quietly, enchantingly perfectâ€¦reading this novel is like having a marvelous dream, in which you are asleep enough to believe everything that is happening, but awake enough to relish the experience and understand that it is magical.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    --Newsday\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] dark and extravagantly imagined debutâ€¦The plot follows the separate and then intertwining lives of Celia and Marco, both forced to spend their lives pitting their unusual talents against each other in a cruel competition. But their world is Morgensternâ€™s most vivid creation, a fantastical circus featuring illusionists whose powers transcend mere sleight of hand; like those performers, the author entices her audience to suspend disbelief and rewards its members with captivating pleasure.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   --\n   <em>\n    People\n   </em>\n   magazine\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Morgenstern''s exquisitely realized world will have the reader wishing to run off and join this circus."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    --USA Today\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Morgensternâ€™s Circus is the stuff that dreams are made of, and nothing short of a wild ride."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   --\n   <em>\n    Elle\n   </em>\n   magazine\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "[A] few pages into this story of a mysterious circus and its two stars, a young man and a woman who are both capable of real magic, and you know you are in the presence of an extraordinary storyteller."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   *--The Daily Beast\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n  <hr />\n </em>\n <p>\n  â€œMorgensternâ€™s novel feels crafted from the fabric of a dream, and the circus itself never fails to astound. For me, the only real disappointment was that I couldnâ€™t buy a ticket.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    --The Christian Science Monitor\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[T]he world of The Night Circus is elaborately designed, fantastically imagined and instantly intoxicating -- as if the reader had downed a glass of absinthe and leapt into a hallucination."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   --Rachel Syme for NPR.org\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "Debut author Morgenstern doesn''t miss a beat in this smashing tale of greed, fate, and love...a giant, magical story destined for bestsellerdom. This is an electric debut on par with\n  <em>\n   Special Topics in Calamity Physics\n  </em>\n  ."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    --Publishers Weekly,\n   </em>\n   <em>\n    starred review\n    <br />\n   </em>\n   *\n   <br />\n   "Self-assured, entertaining debut that blends genres and crosses continents in quest of magicâ€¦ Generous in its vision and fun to read. Likely to be a big bookâ€”and, soon, a big movie, with all the franchise trimmings."\n   <br />\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  Kirkus* Reviews, starred review\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œTo enter the black-and-white-striped tents of Le Cirque des RÃªves is to enter a world where objects really do turn into birds and people really do disappearâ€¦Debut novelist Morgenstern has written a 19th-century flight of fancy that is, nevertheless, completely believable. The smells, textures, sounds, and sights are almost palpable. A literary\n   <em>\n    Mr. Toadâ€™s Wild Ride\n   </em>\n   , this read is completely magical.â€\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  , starred review\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "This big and compelling first novel ushers in a menacing tone with its first sentence: "The circus arrives without warning."...With appeal for readers not particularly geared to fantasy but who plainly enjoy an unusual and well-drawn story, this one will make a good crossover suggestion."\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Booklist,\n  </em>\n  starred review\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n   â€œâ€˜Dark as soot and bright as sparks,â€™\n   <em>\n    The Night Circus\n   </em>\n   still holds me willingly captive in a world of almost unbearable beauty. This is a love story on a grand scale: it creates, it destroys, it ultimately transcends. Take a bow, Erin Morgenstern. This is one of the best books I have ever read.â€\n   <br />\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  Brunonia Barry, author of\n  <em>\n   The Lace Reader\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€œA riveting debut.\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Night Circus\n  </em>\n  pulls you into a world as dark as it is dazzling, fully-realized but still something out of a dream. You will not want to leave it.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   TÃ©a Obreht, author of *The Tigerâ€™s Wife\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell.\n  </em>\n  The Night Circus\n  <em>\n   is one of these rarities -- engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it."\n   <br />\n   â€”\n   <strong>\n    Danielle Trussoni, author of *Angelology\n   </strong>\n   <strong>\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Pure pleasure...Erin Morgenstern is a gifted, classic storyteller, a tale-teller, a spinner of the charmed and mesmerizing -- I had many other things I was supposed to be doing, but the book kept drawing me back in and I tore through it.Â You can be certain this riveting debut will create a group of rÃªveurs all its own."\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   â€”Aimee Bender, author of *The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Â \n   <strong>\n    <br />\n    â€œ\n   </strong>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Night Circus\n  </em>\n  is a gorgeously imagined fable poised in the high latitudes of Hans Christian Anderson and Oscar Wilde, with a few degrees toward Hesseâ€™s â€œSteppenwolfâ€ for dangerous spice. The tale is masterfully written and invites allegorical interpretations even as its leisurely but persistent suspense gives it compelling charm. An enchanting read.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  Katherine Dunn, author of\n  Geek Love\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  <hr />\n </em>\n <p>\n  "Puts me in mind of Ray Bradbury''s\n  <em>\n   Something Wicked This Way Comes\n  </em>\n  lightened up by\n  <em>\n   Harry Potter\n  </em>\n  . This will be big."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   --*Library Journal\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This dueling-sorcerers premise brings to mind Susanna Clarke''s magnificent 2004 novel,\n  <em>\n   Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell\n  </em>\n  ...[Morgenstern] employs her supple prose to conjure up a series of wonders: A maze made of clouds, a ship of books floating on a sea of ink, a tent that seems to contain a vast desert."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   *--Salon.com\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    "Erin Morgenstern''s\n   </em>\n   <em>\n    The Night Circus\n   </em>\n   is a standout. With echoes of Alice Hoffman (fairy tale magic), Audrey Niffenegger (teleporting) and J.K. Rowling (young wizards, here magicians), Morgenstern''s debut is lifted by its poetic writing, winking literary allusions and thematic cohesion."\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  --The Kansas City Star\n  <em>\n   *\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  "Erin Morgenstern has crafted a debut that is original and surprising and fitted it with a wonderful conclusion. She''s revealed herself as a writer worthy of notice."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   *--The Denver Post\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    "If the preamble -- so aptly titled ''Anticipation'' -- doesn''t make you sit right down on the floor of your library or bookstore to see what Morgenstern conjures up next, you may not be the right reader for this novel. I''ll wager, however, that you will fall quickly under her spell."\n    <br />\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  --Star Tribune\n  <em>\n   *\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2867'),
(6992, 'The Night Crew', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Anna Batory''s evening starts with a frenzied animal rights raid and then moves quickly to the site of a suicide jump. It''s all in a normal night''s work for Anna, who leads the Night Crew, a freelance video team out to make a quick buck on sensational footage they can sell to L.A. news stations. But this night is different: the jumper is a teenager named Jacob Harper, and Anna''s cameraman Jason beats a strangely hasty exit after filming the jump. A few hours later, Jason too is dead: shot and knifed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jacob Harper''s father is an attractive former cop who works out the connection between his son''s death and Jason''s. The two young men share a drug dealer--and when Harper finds said dealer dead as well, he calls Anna to the scene and shows her a creepy knife wound on the dealer''s body: the name "Anna" carved into his chest. From that moment on, Anna knows she''s chasing down a killer who''s got a thing for her--but who is it? A series of heart-thumping encounters between Anna and her shadowy stalker keep this thriller moving at the dizzying clip that Sandford''s fans expect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Those who love the Prey series for the quirks and contradictions of its antihero, Lucas Davenport, will find a kindred creation in Anna: an attractive loner, taciturn and tough-minded, a classical pianist with the fighting reflexes of a wild animal. Will Sandford keep bringing her back? Time will tell.\n  <em>\n   --Barrie Trinkle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The author of eight previous thrillers in his "Prey" series (e.g., Sudden Prey, LJ 4/1/96), Sandford here provides an action-packed novel. Anna Batory, deceptively thin and small for a woman who is both emotionally and physically tough, heads an L.A. unit of video freelancers who search for news by night. The story begins in medias res with the crew covering first an animal rights protest and then a young man''s jumping from a building to his death. That night, Jason O''Brien, Anna''s back-up cameraman, is viciously slain. It soon becomes apparent that the violence is connected to and aimed at Anna. Jake Harper, a former policeman and father of the jumper, becomes Anna''s bodyguard and lover. This thriller has an appealing heroine and well-developed secondary characters. The dialog is clever and hard-edged, black humor abounds, and the romance factor is handled deftly. Unfortunately, while the villain is sufficiently vicious and his crimes grisly, he ultimately comes across as pathetic rather than menacing. Still, Sanford fans will not be disappointed; this is an exciting thriller. Recommended for general readers.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   -?Jacqueline Seewald, Red Bank Regional H.S., Little Silver, N.J.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/701'),
(6993, 'The Night Eternal', 'Guillermo Del Toro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The nail-biting vampire thriller from the world-famous director of Panâ€™s Labyrinth and Hellboy.The night belongs to them, and it will be a night eternal...After the blasts, it was all over. Nuclear Winter has settled upon the earth. Except for one hour of sunlight a day, the whole world is plunged into darkness. It is a near-perfect environment for vampires. They have won. It is their time.Almost every single man, woman and child has been enslaved in vast camps across the globe. Like animals, they are farmed, harvested for the sick pleasure of the Master Race.Almost, but not all. Somewhere out there, hiding for their lives, is a desperate network of free humans, continue the seemingly hopeless resistance. Everyday people, with no other options â€“ among them Dr Ephraim Goodweather, his son Zack, the veteran exterminator Vassily, and former gangbanger Gus.To be free, they need a miracle, they need divine intervention. But Salvation can be a twisted game â€“ one in which they may be played like pawns in a battle of Good and Evil. And at what cost...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3539'),
(6994, 'Night Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The pseudonymous Sandford (he''s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp) keeps turning out better and better thrillers. In this sixth entry in his Prey series, streetwise Minneapolis deputy police chief Lucas Davenport is beleaguered by perplexing females. Charged with saving the political life of Rose Marie Roux, the ambitious police chief who has her eye on a Senate seat, he''s given the assignment of tracking to ground the sex-crazed perpetrator of a series of murders of young women. Davenport''s unwelcome colleague in this case is feminist Meagan Connell, an abrasive State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator who''s obsessed with catching the killer before she dies of cancer. Also bedeviled by the ill-timed assignment of a new partner, a yuppie who was formerly assigned to the grade schools as "Officer Friendly" and who happens to be the husband of the mayor''s niece, Davenport is additionally saddled with the mystifying death of an elderly woman who died rather conveniently, freeing some local hoods to profit from a real-estate scam. Juxtaposing the dark consciousness of the sex-fixated murderer against the narrative perspective of Davenport, Sandford builds a compelling counter-rhythm of suspense. The narrative is sensitively embued with Davenport''s humaneness as, in awe, he watches Connell courageously fight to postpone her impending death. Yet, credibly flawed, the cop also displays a roving eye when he''s momentarily distracted from his deep commitment to the lovely physician Weather Karkinnen by a beautiful and seductive TV anchor. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selection; Mystery Guild alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This novel is sixth in the "Prey" series, written by journalist John Camp under the Sandford pseudonym and featuring Porsche-driving Minneapolis police detective Lucas Davenport. Here Davenport, who has just returned to duty after recovering from a serious gunshot wound, must face a serial killer named Koop, who is dropping bodies all over the metropolitan area. Koop makes the mistake of becoming a little too obsessed with a potential victim and thus leaves a trail that Davenport and his fellow officers finally discover. Despite its length, Night Prey is a tight, fast-moving thriller with appealing good guys and a suitably evil villain. Especially fascinating among the characters is Policewoman Connell, who is dying of cancer and whose fate becomes linked to Koop''s in the spectacular climax. Buy wherever thrillers are read.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --A.J. Wright, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/693'),
(6995, 'Night Probe!', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Cussler''s most dazzling bestseller.Dirk Pitt''s most dangerous adventure.Dirk Pitt proved invincible in Raise the Titanic! Now, with the future of virtually every person in the world at stake, he is enlisted to spearhead his most daring mission yetâ€”the rescue of a vital document for the United States. To an energy-starved, economically devastated America, possession of this document is worth billions. But to Great Britain, itâ€™s worth a war. Pittâ€™s quest plunges him into a head-to-head confrontation with Britianâ€™s most cunning secret agentâ€”and into the throes of a torrid love triangle. As time runs out for a desperate America, Dirk Pitt races toward an underwater clash more terrifying than anything Clive Cussler has ever createdâ€”the breathtaking climax of Night Probe!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1199'),
(6996, 'Night Road', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\n  Jude Farraday is a happily married, stay-at-home mom who puts everyoneâ€™s needs above her own. Her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill enters their lives, no one is more supportive than Jude. A former foster child with a dark past, Lexi quickly becomes Miaâ€™s best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. But senior year of high school brings unexpected dangers and one night, Judeâ€™s worst fears are confirmed: there is an accident.Â \n </p>\n <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\n  In an instant, her idyllic life is shattered and her close-knit community is torn apart. Peopleâ€”and Judeâ€”demand justice, and when the finger of blame is pointed, it lands solely on eighteen-year-old Lexi Baill.Â \n </p>\n <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\n  In a heartbeat, their love for each other will be shattered, the family broken. Lexi gives up everything that matters to herâ€”the boy she loves, her place in the family, the best friend she ever hadâ€”while Jude loses even more.When Lexi returns, older and wiser, she demands a reckoning. Long buried feelings will rise again, and Jude will finally have to face the woman she has become. She must decide whether to remain broken or try to forgive both Lexiâ€¦and herself.Â \n </p>\n <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\n  Night Road is a vivid, emotionally complex novel that raises profound questions about motherhood, loss, identity, and forgiveness. It is an exquisite, heartbreaking novel that speaks to women everywhere about the things that matter most.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/989');
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(6997, 'Night Shift', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Unbearable suspense (\n <em>\n  Dallas Times-Herald\n </em>\n ) Eerie...ought to chill the cockles of many a heart. (\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars; Under the Dome; Just After Sunset;\n </em>\n <em>\n  Duma Key; Liseyâ€™s Story;\n </em>\n <em>\n  Cell;\n </em>\n and the concluding novels in\n <em>\n </em>\n the Dark Tower saga:\n <em>\n  Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Dark Tower.\n </em>\n His acclaimed nonfiction book\n <em>\n  On Writing\n </em>\n is also a bestseller. In 2003, he was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007 he received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/857'),
(6998, 'Night Vision', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Doc Ford is on a collision course with death in this extraordinary new novel from the New York Times bestselling author.   Alot is going on in the trailer park known as Little Guadalajara, inhabited principally by illegal laborers. The park manager is the hired gun of a financial syndicate that wants to develop the property, and he''s prepared to do whatever it takes-but he can''t figure out what to do about the teenage girl, the one the laborers believe has some sort of gift.  When she witnesses him killing a man, though, and runs, there''s nothing left to figure: He''s got to find her fast and shut her up good. Her only hope for survival: a marine biologist (and sometimes more) named Doc Ford, who along with his friend Tomlinson, must undertake a search through an underground, invisible nation...and just hope he reaches her first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3491'),
(6999, 'Nightfall', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This collaboration by two masters of the genre expands on Asimov''s classic short story first published in 1941. Kalgash is a planet with six suns, a world where darkness is unnatural. Scientists realize that an eclipse--an event that occurs only every 2049 years--is imminent, and that a society completely unfamiliar with darkness will be plunged into madness and chaos. The novel traces events leading to this discovery, and the fates of the main characters immediately following the apocalypse. While the premise is convincing in the context of a short story, this longer version brings up too many unresolved questions. The original tale was tightly written, succinct and stunning, but the novelization seems flabby and drawn-out--the reader recognizes the significance and consequences of the impending events long before the characters do. An abrupt and simplistic ending further mars a hallowed SF tale. 100,000 first printing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- Because of its six suns, the planet Kalgash is bathed in perpetual sunlight. However, once every 2,049 years all six suns are eclipsed, plunging the planet into total darkness and causing widespread madness that results in the civilization''s complete destruction, thus allowing the cycle to begin again. Night fall , expanded from Asimov''s 1941 award-winning short story, lets readers experience the cataclysmic event through the eyes and biases of a newspaperman, an astronomer, an archaeologist, a psychologist, and a religious fanatic. This novel improves upon the original through the use of better developed characters and an expanded, more textured story that results in an absorbing, richer tale.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, Fairfax,\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1145'),
(7000, 'Nightmares &amp; Dreamscapes', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Many people who write about horror literature maintain that mood is its most important element. Stephen King disagrees: "My deeply held conviction is that\n  <em>\n   story\n  </em>\n  must be paramount.... All other considerations are secondary--theme, mood, even characterization and language."\n </p>\n <p>\n  These fine stories, each written in what King calls "a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism," prove his point. The theme, mood, characters, and language vary, but throughout, a sense of story reigns supreme.\n  <em>\n   Nightmares &amp; Dreamscapes\n  </em>\n  contains 20 short tales--including several never before published--plus one teleplay, one poem, and one nonfiction piece about kids and baseball that appeared in the\n  <em>\n   New Yorker\n  </em>\n  . The subjects include vampires, zombies, an evil toy, man-eating frogs, the burial of a Cadillac, a disembodied finger, and a wicked stepfather. The style ranges from King''s well-honed horror to a Ray Bradbury-like fantasy voice to an ambitious pastiche of Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald. And like a compact disc with a bonus track, the book ends with a charming little tale not listed in the table of contents--a parable called "The Beggar and the Diamond."\n  <em>\n   --Fiona Webster\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  King''s cornucopia of short tales, each accompanied by an introduction from the author, was a 15-week PW bestseller.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/858'),
(7001, 'Nights in Rodanthe', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sparks (A Bend in the Road, etc.) logs more miles on the winding high road of romance with the story of two middle-aged people who meet by chance in the small North Carolina coastal town of Rodanthe. The impassioned but doomed romance seems to owe much to Robert James Waller''s The Bridges of Madison County. Once again, a housewife who has focused on everyone but herself indulges in a brief, intense, secret affair with a stranger who changes her life forever. As the story begins, Adrienne Willis is 60, the divorced mother of three grown children. To help her troubled daughter cope with the untimely recent death of her husband, Adrienne tells her the tale of her love affair, which took place 15 years before. At the time, Adrienne was an uptight matron whose ex-husband had just left her for a younger woman. This rejection colors her entire life, and Sparks realistically portrays a vulnerable and isolated woman who throws herself into raising her children to escape her despair. Paul Flanner, her paramour, is a surgeon and an obsessive workaholic with no genuine connection to his wife or son, whose world completely falls apart when one of his patients inexplicably dies. Sparks builds a taut, plausible relationship between his protagonists, but even fans may be irked by the obviousness of their story and the inevitability of their fate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sparks, popular author of several romantically themed best-sellers, including\n  <em>\n   Message in a Bottle\n  </em>\n  (1998), is back at it with his latest mix of love story and pathos. He doesn''t disappoint, whipping up plenty of melodrama in the story of two shattered people, both badly scarred by past experiences, who find each other late in life and realize they are soul mates. Adrienne Willis is a 45-year-old mother of three whose husband recently abandoned her for a younger woman. When she visits the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina, seeking a bit of respite from her problems, she meets Paul Flanner, a 54-year-old doctor who has sold his thriving medical practice and come to Rodanthe to escape his own tortured past. Despite their short courtship, the two find themselves falling madly and passionately in love and vow to spend their lives together. Unfortunately, Paul needs to make amends with the son he has long neglected and so embarks on an ill-fated trip, which leads to heartbreak. Sparks has a very solid fan base, and they will be clamoring for his latest.\n  <em>\n   Kathleen Hughes\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1281'),
(7002, 'Nightwoods', 'Charles Frazier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011:\n </strong>\n A woman living in an abandoned rural lodge is suddenly forced to raise her dead sister''s two wild young children. Neither of them has spoken a word since witnessing their mother''s brutal murder, and they?ve developed a fondness for breaking things and starting fires. These mute, trouble-making kids are among Charles Frazier?s finest characters. And when their ne''er-do-well father is acquitted and released from jail, the action in this lush and lively novel flares. With sharp dialogue, unexpected humor, and a powerful ability to depict the scents and sounds of loamy Carolina backwoods, while toying with fire and water as his themes, Frazier has crafted an impressive story, proving that\n <em>\n  Cold Mountain\n </em>\n was no fluke.\n <em>\n  --Neal Thompson\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author Charles Frazier\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Lost in the woods. A dangerous phrase, but also with a resonance of folktale. Hansel and Gretel with their bread crumbs. Jack alone, roaming the lovely, dark, and deep southern mountains. So, young people and old people being lost in the woods has always been interesting to me for those reasons. And also because it happens all the time still.\n</p>\n<p>\n Back when I was a kid, eight or ten, my friends and I lived with a mountain in our backyards. We stayed off it in summer. Too hot and snaky. But in the cool seasons, we roamed freely. We carried bb guns in the fall and rode our sleds down old logging roads in winter. We often got lost. But we knew that downhill was the way out, the way home. When I grew up and went into bigger mountains, you couldn?t always be so sure. I remember being lost in Bolivia. Or let?s say that I grew increasingly uncertain whether I was still on the trail or not. That?s the point where you ought to sit down and drink some water and consult your maps and compass very carefully and calmly. I kept walking. At some point, it became a matter of rigging ropes to swing a heavy pack over a scary white watercourse. I ended up at a dropoff. Down far below, upper reaches of the Amazon basin stretched hazy green into the distance. Downhill did not at all seem like the way home.\n</p>\n<p>\n You?ll just have to trust me that this has something to do with my new novel, but to go into it much would risk spoilers. I?ll just say that early on in the writing of Nightwoods, Luce and the children were meant to be fairly minor characters, but I kept finding myself coming back to them, wanting to know more about them until they became the heart of the story. Some of my wanting to focus on them was surely influenced by several cases of kids lost in the woods in areas where I?m typically jogging and mountain biking alone at least a hundred days a year. It?s part of my writing process, though I hardly ever think about work while I?m in the woods. But I do keep obsessive count of how many miles a day I go and how many words I write, lots of numbers on 3x5 notecards. All those days watching the micro changes of seasons can?t help but become part of the texture of what I write, and those lost kids, too.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Nightwoods\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "Nightwoods is no typical thriller\n </strong>\n â€¦.its dazzling sentences are so meticulously constructed that you find yourself rereading them, trying to unpack their magic...the unhurried, poetic suspense is both difficult to bear and\n <strong>\n  IMPOSSIBLE TO SHAKE\n </strong>\n ."--\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  FANTASTIC\n </strong>\n ... an Appalachian Gothic with a low-level fever that runs alternately warm and chilling.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  No writer today crafts more exquisite sentences than Charles Frazier.\n </strong>\n â€ â€”\n <em>\n  USA Today\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  ASTUTE AND COMPASSIONATE\n </strong>\n Â  . . .a virtuoso construction . . . with wickedly wry dialogue reminiscent of the best of Charles Portis, Larry Brown, and Cormac McCarthy.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  The Boston Glob\n </em>\n e\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  HIS BEST BOOK TO DATE\n </strong>\n . Frazierâ€™s exquisitely efficient style is matched by some finely tuned suspense.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  The Times (London)\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  Frazier has taken a fast-paced genre and subverted it at every turn\n </strong>\n , offering a closer look at the nature of good and evil and how those forces ebb and flow over time.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Atlanta Journal Constitution\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "...[A] taut narrative of love and suspense, told against a gritty background of bootlegging and violence. The characters are rich and unforgettable, and the prose almost lyrical.\n <strong>\n  This is Charles Frazier at his best\n </strong>\n . ...Just mention a new novel by the\n <em>\n  Cold Mountain\n </em>\n author, and a line will start forming."\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "...[\n <strong>\n  T]hink Thunder Road meets Night of the Hunter meets old murder ballads.\n </strong>\n This is a suspenseful noir nightmare, complete with bootleggers and switchblades."\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  The Daily Beast\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <br />\n </strong>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  The story makes the book more than worthwhile\n </strong>\n , and the writing is as good as anything Frazier has created so far. â€¦[G]ripping stor...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/662'),
(7003, 'Nikon DSLR: The Ultimate Photographer&#39;s Guide', 'Tony Sweet', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Whilst camera-specific guides provide the how-to, manual style information on how to use your particular model of camera, this manufacturer-specific guide provides you with all the information you need as a Nikon DSLR photographer to optimise your workflow and capture great images. Jim White and Tony Sweet show you how to increase the quality of your photos, save time and work smarter, starting with the most pressing questions: Which camera should you use? Which lens is best? Which accessories are must-haves? How can you get the most out of Nikon''s Capture NX Software? In-depth, specific features of the newest Nikon DSLRs are also covered, helping you to make your camera really work for you. Complete with practical advice, key workflow solutions and detailed images that display multiple camera functions, this book is a must have for every Nikon photographer. Part of Focal''s Digital Workflow series, this is the Nikon version of the popular Canon DSLR: The Ultimate Photographer''s Guide. * A manufacturer-specific guide to DSLR photography using equipment from one of the industry''s leading brands, by a Nikon ''Legend Behind the Lens'' * Shows digital photographers how to use their Nikon gear creatively and effectively to optimize workflow, save time and improve results * Showcases the work of professional photographers from the worlds of wedding photography, fine art, travel and nature, with top tips and insights to inspire and inform\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/558'),
(7004, 'Nine Dragons', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store''s owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li''s family that he''ll find the killer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The world Bosch steps into next is unknown territory. He brings in a detective from the Asian Gang Unit for help with translationÂ—not just of languages but also of the cultural norms and expectations that guided Li''s life. He uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad, a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And instantly his world explodes. The one good thing in Bosch''s life, the person he holds most dear, is taken from him and Bosch travels to Hong Kong in an all-or-nothing bid to regain what he''s lost. In a place known as Nine Dragons, as the city''s Hungry Ghosts festival burns around him, Bosch puts aside everything he knows and risks everything he has in a desperate bid to outmatch the triad''s ferocity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/396'),
(7005, 'Nineteen Eighty', 'David Peace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Continuing the narrative begun with Nineteen Seventy-Four and Nineteen Seventy-Seven, this electrifying third installment of David Peaceâ€™s Red Riding Quartet demonstrates a skill that goes above and beyond the limits of the genre.While Yorkshire is terrorized by the Ripper, the corrupt police continue to prosper. To give the case some new life, Peter Hunter, a â€œcleanâ€ cop from nearby Manchester, is brought in to offer a fresh perspective. As he goes about setting up a new case under the radar, he suffers the same fate as those who previously attempted to get in the way of the Ripper: his house is burned down, his wife threatened. But he soldiers on. And as he comes face to face with unthinkable evil, Hunter struggles to maintain his reputation, his sanity, and his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/978'),
(7006, 'Nineteen Eighty Three', 'David Peace', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA major achievement. . . . Peaceâ€™s voice is powerful and unique.Â  This is compelling stuff.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  The Guardian\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRarely has the crime novel managed to say something more serious and enduring than in Peace''s masterful quartet.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  New Statesman\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMagnificent. . . .\n <strong>\n  Nineteen Eighty-Three\n </strong>\n is Peaceâ€™s best yet.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Yorkshire Post\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œFiction that comes with a sense of moral gravity. . . . A fierce indictment of the era.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  The Independent\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPeace is a manic James Joyce of the crime novel . . . invoking the horror of grim lives, grim crimes, and grim times.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Sleazenation\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œ[Peace] exposes a side of life which most of us would prefer to ignore.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Daily Mail\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œDavid Peace is the future of crime fiction. . . . A fantastic talent.â€ â€”Ian Rankin\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œBritish crime fictionâ€™s most exciting new voice in decades.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  GQ\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œ[David Peace is] transforming the genre with passion and style.â€ â€”George Pelecanos\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œPeace has single-handedly established the genre of Yorkshire Noir, and mightily satisfying it is.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Yorkshire Post\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œA compelling and devastating body of work that pushes Peace to the forefront of British writing.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Time Out\n </em>\n (London)\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œA writer of immense talent and power. . . . If Northern Noir is the crime fashion of the moment, Peace is its most brilliant designer.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  The Times\n </em>\n (London)\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œPeace has found his own voiceâ€”-full of dazzling, intense poetry and visceral violence.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Uncut\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n â€œA tour de force of crime fiction which confirms David Peaceâ€™s reputation as one of the most important names in contemporary crime literature.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Crime Tim\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Peace is the author of The Red Riding Quartet,\n <em>\n  GB84, The Damned Utd., Tokyo Year Zero,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Occupied City\n </em>\n .Â \n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n He was chosen as one of\n <em>\n  Granta\n </em>\n â€™s 2003 Best Young British Novelists, and has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the German Crime Fiction Award, and the French Grand Prix de Roman Noir for Best Foreign Novel. He lives in Yorkshire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/979'),
(7007, 'Nineteen Minutes', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best known for tackling controversial issues through richly told fictional accounts, Jodi Picoult''s 14th novel,\n <em>\n  Nineteen Minutes\n </em>\n , deals with the truth and consequences of a smalltown high-school shooting. Set in Sterling, New Hampshire, Picoult offers reads a glimpse of what would cause a 17-year-old to wake up one day, load his backpack with four guns, and kill nine students and one teacher in the span of nineteen minutes. As with any Picoult novel, the answers are never black and white, and it is her exceptional ability to blur the lines between right and wrong that make this author such a captivating storyteller.\n</p>\n<p>\n On Peter Houghton''s first day of kindergarten, he watched helplessly as an older boy ripped his lunch box out of his hands and threw it out the window. From that day on, his life was a series of humiliations, from having his pants pulled down in the cafeteria, to being called a freak at every turn. But can endless bullying justify murder? As Picoult attempts to answer this question, she shows us all sides of the equation, from the ruthless jock who loses his ability to speak after being shot in the head, to the mother who both blames and pities herself for producing what most would call a monster. Surrounding Peter''s story is that of Josie Cormier, a former friend whose acceptance into the popular crowd hangs on a string that makes it impossible for her to reconcile her beliefs with her actions.\n</p>\n<p>\n At times,\n <em>\n  Nineteen Minutes\n </em>\n can seem tediously stereotypical-- jocks versus nerds, parent versus child, teacher versus student. Part of Picoult''s gift is showing us the subtleties of these common dynamics, and the startling effects they often have on the moral landscape. As Peter''s mother says at the end of this spellbinding novel, "Everyone would remember Peter for nineteen minutes of his life, but what about the other nine million?" --\n <em>\n  Gisele Toueg\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Bestseller Picoult (\n <em>\n  My Sister''s Keeper\n </em>\n ) takes on another contemporary hot-button issue in her brilliantly told new thriller, about a high school shooting. Peter Houghton, an alienated teen who has been bullied for years by the popular crowd, brings weapons to his high school in Sterling, N.H., one day and opens fire, killing 10 people. Flashbacks reveal how bullying caused Peter to retreat into a world of violent computer games. Alex Cormier, the judge assigned to Peter''s case, tries to maintain her objectivity as she struggles to understand her daughter, Josie, one of the surviving witnesses of the shooting. The author''s insights into her characters'' deep-seated emotions brings this ripped-from-the-headlines read chillingly alive.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1223'),
(7008, 'Nineteen Seventy-Four', 'David Peace', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the very first page of David Peace''s first novel,\n <em>\n  1974\n </em>\n , it soon becomes clear that something is rotten in the state of Yorkshire: a young girl is missing. The\n <em>\n  Yorkshire Post\n </em>\n ''s young but disillusioned crime correspondent, Edward Dunford, is assigned to the story, while also coping with the recent death of his father and his return to his native Yorkshire after a brief and unsuccessful stint in Fleet Street. For the jaded Dunford, it''s just another story; the only intrigue is whether the girl will be found dead or alive before Christmas--that is, until she is discovered brutally murdered, face down in a ditch with a pair of swan''s wings sewn into her back. As Dunford follows the case, he begins to make a series of terrifying connections with a string of child murders, plunging him into a gut-wrenching nightmare of corruption, violence, sadism, blackmail, and sexual obsession--from the upper echelons of local government to the tacky heart of Yorkshire darkness.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Peace''s tale of corruption and conspiracy unravels, it becomes clear that\n <em>\n  1974\n </em>\n is as influenced by Orwell''s own bleak vision of Britain in\n <em>\n  1984\n </em>\n as it is by the wonderfully evoked atmosphere of the mid ''70s.\n <em>\n  The Bay City Rollers\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Leeds United\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  It Ain''t Half Hot Mum\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Vauxhall Viva''s\n </em>\n all make an appearance. The novel works at several levels, from the brilliantly unsentimental homecoming of the gifted, alienated northern son to a terrifyingly accurate portrayal of an insular, tribal community. The plot is complex and frenetic, and Peace often neglects loose ends, especially as he builds to an extremely powerful climax. Yet the dialogue is fast, witty, and violent; a must-read for fans of Yorkshire Gothic.\n <em>\n  --Jerry Brotton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The first volume in Peace''s Red Riding Quartet, a grim whodunit noir, will remind many of the bleak, violent work of James Ellroy. In 1974, Eddie Dunford has just been named crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Post. His first major assignment coincides with the death of his father, but his professional ambitions trump his family obligations. The case he''s covering involves the disappearance of 10-year-old Clare Kemplay. When Dunford''s digging unearths some similar unsolved cases, neither his editor nor the police welcome his efforts. After Kemplay''s strangled and mutilated corpse turns up, an unknown source supplies Dunford with leads suggesting that some prominent officials and businessmen may be implicated in the crime. The staccato, choppy prose is a perfect mechanism for conveying Dunford''s frenetic approach to his life and work. Peace (Tokyo Year Zero) doesn''t pull any punches, and his uncompromising portrayal of his dark and conflicted protagonist will appeal to those who like their mean streets to be really mean.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/980'),
(7009, 'Nineteen Seventy-Seven', 'David Peace', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œDavid Peace is transforming the genre with passion and style.â€â€”George Pelecanosâ€œThis is the future of British crime fiction. . . . Extraordinary and original.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Time Out\n </em>\n â€œSimply superb. . . . Peace is a masterful storyteller, and\n <strong>\n  Nineteen Seventy-Seven\n </strong>\n is impossible to put down. . . . A must-read thriller.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Yorkshire Post\n </em>\n â€œPeace''s powerful novel exposes a side of life which most of us would prefer to ignore.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Daily Mail\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Peace is the author of\n <strong>\n  The Red Riding Quartet\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  GB84\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  The Damned Utd\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Tokyo Year Zero\n </strong>\n . He was chosen as one of Granta''s 2003 Best Young British Novelists, and has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the German Crime Fiction Award, and the French Grand Prix de Roman Noir for Best Foreign Novel. Born and raised in Yorkshire, he has lived in Tokyo since 1994.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/981'),
(7010, 'No Choice but Seduction', 'Johanna Lindsey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hot-headed American sea captain Boyd Anderson runs to the aid of his brother-in-law''s kidnapped daughter, only to lock horns with a fellow rescuer, the adventure-seeking Katey Tyler.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3560'),
(7011, 'No Country for Old Men', 'Cormac Mccarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Seven years after\n <em>\n  Cities of the Plain\n </em>\n brought his acclaimed Border Trilogy to a close, McCarthy returns with a mesmerizing modern-day western. In 1980 southwest Texas, Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles across several dead men, a bunch of heroin and $2.4 million in cash. The bulk of the novel is a gripping man-on-the-run sequence relayed in terse, masterful prose as Moss, who''s taken the money, tries to evade Wells, an exâ€“Special Forces agent employed by a powerful cartel, and Chigurh, an icy psychopathic murderer armed with a cattle gun and a dangerous philosophy of justice. Also concerned about Moss''s whereabouts is Sheriff Bell, an aging lawman struggling with his sense that there''s a new breed of man (embodied in Chigurh) whose destructive power he simply cannot match. In a series of thoughtful first-person passages interspersed throughout, Sheriff Bell laments the changing world, wrestles with an uncomfortable memory from his service in WWII andâ€”a soft ray of light in a book so steeped in bloodshedâ€”rejoices in the great good fortune of his marriage. While the action of the novel thrills, it''s the sensitivity and wisdom of Sheriff Bell that makes the book a profound meditation on the battle between good and evil and the roles choice and chance play in the shaping of a life.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n McCarthyâ€™s\n <em>\n  Border Trilogy\n </em>\n , distinguished by the award-winning\n <em>\n  All the Pretty Horses\n </em>\n (1992), contains dark Westerns set against beautiful, bleak landscapes. His newest novel updates his character-driven plots and themes of violence and moral ambiguity. Perhaps the true sign of a master is one whose work raises debateâ€”and this is what\n <em>\n  No Country\n </em>\n has done. Most critics praised McCarthyâ€™s clean, simple prose, though a few thought it too spare for such a graceful stylist. ("The man looked at Chigurhâ€™s eyes for the first time. Blue as lapis. At once glistening and opaque. Like wet stones.") Compelling characters (even women) abound, but Sheriff Bell came off as either smart or too long winded. Finally, the violence seemed gratuitous to some. Even if\n <em>\n  No Country\n </em>\n may be a more minor McCarthy novel, itâ€™s still a terrifying page-turner in the vein of the\n <em>\n  Trilogy\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1344'),
(7012, 'No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden', 'Mark Owen &amp; Kevin Maurer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Ladenâ€™s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group â€” commonly known as SEAL Team Six â€” has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history, as well as countless missions that never made headlines.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  No Easy Day puts readers alongside Owen and the other handpicked members of the twenty-four-man team as they train for the biggest mission of their lives. The blow-by-blow narrative of the assault, beginning with the helicopter crash that could have ended Owenâ€™s life straight through to the radio call confirming Bin Ladenâ€™s death, is an essential piece of modern history.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <span style="font-style: italic; ">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">\n    In No Easy Day, Owen also takes readers onto the field of battle in Americaâ€™s ongoing War on Terror and details the selection and training process for one of the most elite units in the military. Owenâ€™s story draws on his youth in Alaska and describes the SEALsâ€™ quest to challenge themselves at the highest levels of physical and mental endurance. With boots-on-the-ground detail, Owen describes numerous previously unreported missions that illustrate the life and work of a SEAL and the evolution of the team after the events of September 11. In telling the true story of the SEALs whose talents, skills, experiences, and exceptional sacrifices led to one of the greatest victories in the War on Terror, Mark Owen honors the men who risk everything for our country, and he leaves readers with a deep understanding of the warriors who keep America safe.\n   </span>\n   <br />\n  </span>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   About the Authors\n  </em>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Mark Owen\n   </strong>\n   a former member of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group, commonly known as SEAL Team Six. In his many years as a Navy SEAL, he has participated in hundreds of missions around the globe, including the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean in 2009. Owen was a team leader on Operation Neptune Spear in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 1, 2011, which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Owen was one of the first men through the door on the third floor of the terrorist mastermindâ€™s hideout, where he witnessed Bin Ladenâ€™s death. Mark Owenâ€™s name and the names of the other SEALs mentioned in No Easy Day have been changed for their security.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <strong>\n    Kevin Maurer\n   </strong>\n   has covered special operations forces for nine years. He has been embedded with the Special Forces in Afghanistan six times, spent a month in 2006 with special operations units in east Africa, and has embedded with U.S. forces in Iraq and Haiti. He is the author of four books, including several about special operations.\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3945'),
(7013, 'No Higher Honor', 'Condoleezza Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  From one of the worldâ€™s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Riceâ€™s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government.Â  In her position as Americaâ€™s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes bitter enemies, forging agreement on divisive issues, and compiling a remarkable record of achievement.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  A native of Birmingham, Alabama who overcame the racism of the Civil Rights era to become a brilliant academic and expert on foreign affairs, Rice distinguished herself as an advisor to George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign.Â  Once Bush was elected, she served as his chief adviser on national-security issues â€“ a job whose duties included harmonizing the relationship between the Secretaries of State and Defense.Â  It was a role that deepened her bond with the President and ultimately made her one of his closest confidantes.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  With the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Rice found herself at the center of the Administrationâ€™s intense efforts to keep America safe.Â  Here, Rice describes the events of that harrowing day â€“ and the tumultuous days after.Â  No day was ever the same.Â  Additionally, Rice also reveals new details of the debates that led to the war in Afghanistan and then Iraq.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  The eyes of the nation were once again focused on Rice in 2004 when she appeared before the 9-11 Commission to answer tough questions regarding the countryâ€™s preparedness for â€“ and immediate response to â€“ the 9-11 attacks.Â  Her responses, it was generally conceded, would shape the nationâ€™s perception of the Administrationâ€™s competence during the crisis.Â  Rice conveys just how pressure-filled that appearance was and her surprised gratitude when, in succeeding days, she was broadly saluted for her grace and forthrightness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From that point forward, Rice was aggressively sought after by the media and regarded by some as the Administrationâ€™s most effective champion.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  In 2005 Rice was entrusted with even more responsibility when she was charged with helping to shape and carry forward the Presidentâ€™s foreign policy as Secretary of State.Â  As such, she proved herself a deft crafter of tactics and negotiation aimed to contain or reduce the threat posed by Americaâ€™s enemies.Â  Here, she reveals the behind-the-scenes maneuvers that kept the worldâ€™s relationships with Iran, North Korea and Libya from collapsing into chaos.Â  She also talks about her role as a crisis manager, showing that at any hour Â— and at a momentâ€™s notice Â— she was willing to bring all parties to the bargaining table anywhere in the world.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    No Higher Honor\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   *takes the reader into secret negotiating rooms where the fates of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Lebanon often hung in the balance, and it draws back the curtain on how frighteningly close all-out war loomed in clashes involving Pakistan-India and Russia-Georgia, and in East Africa.Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Surprisingly candid in her appraisals of various Administration colleagues and the hundreds of foreign leaders with whom she dealt, Rice also offers here keen insight into how history actually proceeds.Â  In\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   No Higher Honor\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   she delivers\n  </em>\n  *a master class in statecraftÂ  Â— but always in a way that reveals her essential warmth and humility, and her deep reverence for the ideals on which America was founded.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2883'),
(7014, 'No Less Than Victory', 'Jeff Shaara', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n No Less Than Victory is the crowning achievement in master storyteller Jeff Shaara''s soaring World War II trilogy, revealing the European war''s unforgettable and harrowing final act. After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of weeks, that Hitler and his battered army have no other option than surrender. But despite the advice of his best military minds, Hitler will hear no talk of defeat. In mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless counteroffensive in the Ardennes forest, utterly surprising the unprepared Americans who stand in their way. Through the frigid snows of the mountainous terrain, German tanks and infantry struggle to realize Hitler''s goal: divide the Allied armies and capture the vital port at Antwerp. The attack succeeds in opening up a wide gap in the American lines, and for days chaos reigns in the Allied command. Thus begins the Battle of the Bulge, the last gasp by Hitler''s forces that becomes a horrific slugging match, some of the most brutal fighting of the war. As American commanders respond to the stunning challenge, the German spear is finally blunted. Though some in the Nazi inner circle continue the fight to secure Germany''s postwar future, the Fuhrer makes it clear that he is fighting to the end. He will spare nothingnot even German livesto preserve his twisted vision of a "Thousand Year Reich." But in May 1945, the German army collapses, and with Russian troops closing in, Hitler commits suicide. As the Americans sweep through the German countryside, they unexpectedly encounter the worst of Hitler''s crimes, the concentration camps, and young GIs find themselves absorbing firsthand the horrors of the Holocaust. Presenting his riveting account through the eyes of Eisenhower and Patton and the young GIs who struggle face-to-face with their enemy, and through the eyes of Germany''s old soldier, Gerd von Rundstedt, and Hitler''s golden boy, Albert Speer, Jeff Shaara carries the reader on a journey that defines the spirit of the soldier and the horror of a madman''s dreams. No Less Than Victory further solidifies Shaara''s reputation as this era''s most accomplished author of historical military fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3585'),
(7015, 'No Mercy', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Live fast, fight hard and if you have to die then take as many of your enemies with you as you can. That is the Amazon credo and it was one Samia lived and died by. Now in contemporary New Orleans, the immortal Amazon warrior is about to learn that thereâ€™s a worse evil coming to slaughter mankind than sheâ€™s ever faced before.Shapeshifter Dev Peltier has stood guard at the front of Sanctuary for almost two hundred years and in that time, heâ€™s seen it all. Or so he thought. Now their enemies have discovered a new source of power- one that makes a mockery of anything faced to date.The war is on and Dev and Sam are guarding ground zero. But in order to win, they will have to break the most cardinal of all rules and pray it doesnâ€™t unravel the universe as we know it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3529'),
(7016, 'No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf', 'Carolyn Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Introduced here as ''one of the greatest vocalists of the twentieth century,'' iconic French singer Edith Piaf is accorded a perceptive, supportive, even definitive biography by seasoned biographer Burke (Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy, 1996; Lee Miller, 2005), who had access to previously untapped Piaf documents. For the singer''s fans, it''s a generally well-known fact that Piaf grew up, and grew up singing, on the streets of the shady side of Paris. With a natural, raw technique (which, as she gained both fame and new friends with experience in this regard, underwent definite degrees of refinement) and an equally natural, ingrained empathy with the habits and plights of ordinary working-class folks, Piaf gradually moved her act off the streets and into bigger and more noticed performance venues, a chronicle of events documented here with an emphasis on separating truth from legend. Piaf certainly made some unfortunate love and lifestyle choices, but Burke refuses to see her as self-destructive. Piaf was a fighter and a learner, two qualitities that make for a compelling life story. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBurkeâ€™s terrific biography of Edith Piaf shucks the simplistic arc of self-destructive urchin to a more complex portrait that includes the singerâ€™s heroics in the French Resistance and roles as mentor, lyricist, and enduring icon.â€\n <br />\n â€”Kimberly Cutter,\n <em>\n  Marie Claire\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA definitive, thoroughly researched biography. . . . [Burke] fell under the spell of [Piafâ€™s] raw emotional power, which she conveys so well in this biography. [She] deftly depicts the destiny of Piaf from her birth to her tragic death at age 47. Piafâ€™s early years have engendered many legends and half-truths, and Burke uncovers facts starting with Piafâ€™s birth. . . . Burke draws a vivid portrait of Piafâ€™s impoverished and often difficult childhood, including her picaresque travels with her father . . . Burke explores what inspired many of Piafâ€™s songs and their lyrics, as well as who helped her compose them and where she first performed them. . . .\n <em>\n  No Regrets\n </em>\n is exhaustively comprehensive; Burke spoke with just about everyone who knew, admired or loved Piaf.â€\n <br />\n â€”Susan Miron,\n <em>\n  The Miami Herald\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œConcise and gracefully written\n <em>\n  . . .\n </em>\n [Burke] surveys all [Piafâ€™s] mayhem with thoughtfulness and respect. . . . A sound overview of Piafâ€™s life.â€\n <br />\n â€”James Gavin,\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n Â \n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCaptivating . . . [Burke is] highly effective in evoking the routine horrors of Piafâ€™s life as a street singer . . . Her research into the popular press is impressively broad, and she quotes hundreds of reviews of Piafâ€™s performances.â€\n <br />\n â€”Graham Robb,\n <em>\n  The New York Review of Books\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[An] eloquent embrace of the famed French singer-songwriter . . . Tracing her rise to international fame, Burke details her tragedies and her triumphs, her marriages and her music, and her conquest of America from Carnegie...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2023'),
(7017, 'No Second Chance', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n No Second Chance was written by Harlan Coben, and published in 2003 as a stand-alone thriller. No Second Chance was the first international Book of the Month Club pick in 2003 due to its global appeal Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Supercharged by a father''s fierce drive to rescue his kidnapped daughter, Coben''s third stand-alone thriller proves far more gripping than his second, Tell No One. Marc Seidman, a plastic surgeon near New York City, wakes up in a hospital to learn that he has been gravely wounded, his wife shot dead and his infant daughter, Tara, snatched. The ensuing narrative, which shuttles between third person and Marc''s first person, covers more than a year in Marc''s hunt for Tara and climaxes twice with his fumbling of payments in response to ransom demands, plunging him into despair. A smartly drawn supporting cast supports Marc in his quest, including an old girlfriend-an ex-FBI agent-who reappears in his life; Marc''s lawyer, who''s also his best friend; a cop/FBI duo who for a while suspect Marc of engineering the snatch and ransom demands; and a working-class hero who joins forces with Marc near the end of his hunt and steals every scene he''s in. On the villain''s side lurk several shady folk, including a psychopathic former child star and her hulking boyfriend. The plot is overly complicated, and there''s a revelation at book''s end that veteran thriller readers will have sussed out long before. Those flaws matter little, though, in the face of the emotional onslaught of Marc''s gut-wrenching, self-questioning, relentless narration, which will carry readers like a tidal wave through the novel''s twists and turns. What Coben''s thriller lacks in originality, it makes up for in sheer vigor; few browsers or dippers will put this down.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/362'),
(7018, 'No Time for Goodbye', 'Linwood Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Cynthia is happily married with a young daughter, a new family. But the story of her old family isnæ„’ over. A strange car in the neighborhood, untraceable phone calls, ominous '' gifts'' - some - one has returned to her hometown to finish what was started twenty - five years ago. And no oneæ„€ innocence is guaranteed, not even her own. By the time Cynthia discovers her killeræ„€ shocking identity, it will again be too late, even for goodbye.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3156');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(7019, 'Noah&#39;s Compass', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesnâ€™t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged.His effort to recover the moments of his life that have been stolen from him leads him on an unexpected detour. What he needs is someone who can do the remembering for him. What he gets isâ€”well, something quite different.We all know a Liam. In fact, there may be a little of Liam in each of us. Which is why Anne Tylerâ€™s lovely novel resonates so deeply.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/971'),
(7020, 'Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda', 'Sean Naylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reviewers lauded Naylorâ€™s "meticulously reported" account (\n <em>\n  Oregonian\n </em>\n ). It includes in-person observations during the operation (Naylor was imbedded with the 101st Airborne Division troops who fought in the battle), and scores of after-the-fact interviews, many with sources who wouldnâ€™t allow themselves to be identified. His two-year undertaking to bring those 17 days to life yields an extraordinarily detailed account of the fateful mission. While a few critics felt that some aspects of the book were unbalanced, all agreed that Naylor did a good job in portraying the drama, heroism, and blunders that defined Anaconda while raising broader issues of warfare and its ultimate purpose.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n In March 2002, U.S. forces moved into the Shahikot Mountains, hoping to trap and eliminate a substantial number of Al Qaeda fighters. They were handicapped almost fatally by their own lack of numbers, substandard logistics support, the highest altitudes at which Americans had ever fought, and the frigid weather of the mountains. Victory eluded them, although considerable damage was done to the enemy; and disaster may have been averted by the actions of special operations teams drawn from Delta Force and Seal Team 6. These operatives put on a very convincing demonstration of how much of the future of warfare may lie in the hands of small bands of experts engaging the enemy by stealth, with heavy firepower on call, firepower that wasn''t always available in Operation Anaconda. Prizewinning\n <em>\n  Army Times\n </em>\n reporter Naylor has written the best full-scale history of Operation Anaconda to date.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2519'),
(7021, 'Not My Daughter', 'Barbara Delinsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers'' love to the ultimate test in this explosive new novel from Barbara Delinsky, â€œa first-rate storyteller who creates characters as familiar as your neighbors.â€ (Boston Globe) Â When Susan Tate''s seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She sees the pregnancy as an unimaginable tragedy for both Lily and herself.Â Then comes word of two more pregnancies among high school juniors who happen to be Lily''s best friends-and the town turns to talk of a pact. As fingers start pointing, the most ardent criticism is directed at Susan. As principal of the high school, she has always been held up as a role model of hard work and core values. Now her detractors accuse her of being a lax mother, perhaps not worthy of the job of shepherding impressionable students. As Susan struggles with the implications of her daughter''s pregnancy, her job, financial independence, and long-fought-for dreams are all at risk.Â The emotional ties between mothers and daughters are stretched to breaking in this emotionally wrenching story of love and forgiveness. Once again, Barbara Delinsky has given us a powerful novel, one that asks a central question: What does it take to be a good mother?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3681'),
(7022, 'The Notebook', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love."\n <em>\n  The Notebook\n </em>\n , a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she choose Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1932, two North Carolina teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love. Spending one idyllic summer together in the small town of New Bern, Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson do not meet again for 14 years. Noah has returned from WWII to restore the house of his dreams, having inherited a large sum of money. Allie, programmed by family and the "caste system of the South" to marry an ambitious, prosperous man, has become engaged to powerful attorney Lon Hammond. When she reads a newspaper story about Noah''s restoration project, she shows up on his porch step, re-entering his life for two days. Will Allie leave Lon for Noah? The book''s slim dimensions and cliche-ridden prose will make comparisons to The Bridges of Madison County inevitable. What renders Sparks''s (Wokini: A Lakota Journey of Happiness and Self-Understanding) sentimental story somewhat distinctive are two chapters, which take place in a nursing home in the ''90s, that frame the central story. The first sets the stage for the reading of the eponymous notebook, while the later one takes the characters into the land beyond happily ever after, a future rarely examined in books of this nature. Early on, Noah claims that theirs may be either a tragedy or a love story, depending on the perspective. Ultimately, the judgment is up to readers?be they cynics or romantics. For the latter, this will be a weeper. Major ad/promo; first serial to Good Housekeeping; movie rights to New Line Cinema; Warner Audio; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1290'),
(7023, 'Notes From a Small Island', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reacting to an itch common to Midwesterners since there''s been a Midwest from which to escape, writer Bill Bryson moved from Iowa to Britain in 1973. Working for such places as\n <em>\n  Times\n </em>\n of London, among others, he has lived quite happily there ever since. Now Bryson has decided his native country needs him--but first, he''s going on a roundabout jaunt on the island he loves.\n</p>\n<p>\n Britain fascinates Americans: it''s familiar, yet alien; the same in some ways, yet so different. Bryson does an excellent job of showing his adopted home to a Yank audience, but you never get the feeling that Bryson is too much of an outsider to know the true nature of the country.\n <em>\n  Notes from a Small Island\n </em>\n strikes a nice balance: the writing is American-silly with a British range of vocabulary. Bryson''s marvelous ear is also in evidence: "... I noted the names of the little villages we passed through--Pinhead, West Stuttering, Bakelite, Ham Hocks, Sheepshanks ..." If you''re an Anglophile, you''ll devour\n <em>\n  Notes from a Small Island\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before his return to the U.S. after a 20-year residence in England, journalist Bryson (Made in America) embarked on a farewell tour of his adopted homeland. His trenchant, witty and detailed observations of life in a variety of towns and villages will delight Anglophiles. Traveling only on public transportation and hiking whenever possible, Bryson wandered along the coast through Bournemouth and neighboring villages that reinforced his image of Britons as a people who rarely complain and are delighted by such small pleasures as a good tea. In Liverpool, the author''s favorite English city, he visited the Merseyside Maritime Museum to experience its past as a great port. Interweaving descriptions of landscapes and everyday encounters with shopkeepers, pub customers and fellow travelers, Bryson shares what he loves best about the idiosyncrasies of everyday English life in this immensely entertaining travel memoir. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1282'),
(7024, 'Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage, which recounted the explorations of the West by Lewis and Clark. Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks.The Union had won the Civil War and slavery had been abolished, but Abraham Lincoln, who was an early and constant champion of railroads, would not live to see the great achievement. In Ambrose''s hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes to life.The U.S. government pitted two companies -- the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads -- against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomo-tives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West or lugged across the country to the Plains. This was the last great building project to be done mostly by hand: excavating dirt, cutting through ridges, filling gorges, blasting tunnels through mountains.At its peak, the workforce -- primarily Chinese on the Central Pacific, Irish on the Union Pacific -- approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as fifteen thousand workers on each line. The Union Pacific was led by Thomas "Doc" Durant, Oakes Ames, and Oliver Ames, with Grenville Dodge -- America''s greatest railroad builder -- as chief engineer. The Central Pacific was led by California''s "Big Four": Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, were latter-day Lewis and Clark types who led the way through the wilderness, living off buffalo, deer, elk, and antelope.In building a railroad, there is only one decisive spot -- the end of the track. Nothing like this great work had been seen in the world when the last spike, a golden one, was driven in at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were joined.Ambrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men -- the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary -- who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2520'),
(7025, 'Nothing to Be Frightened Of', 'Julian Barnes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this virtuosic memoir, Barnes (_Arthur &amp; George_) makes little mention of his personal or professional life, allowing his audience very limited ingress into his philosophical musings on mortality. But like Alice tumbling through the rabbit hole, readers will find themselves granted access to an unexpectedly large world, populated with Barnes''s daily companions and his chosen ancestors (most of them dead, and quite a few of them French, like Jules Renard, Flaubert, Zola). This is not ''my autobiography,'' Barnes emphasizes in this hilariously unsentimental portrait of his family and childhood. Part of what I''m doingâ€”which may seem unnecessaryâ€”is trying to work out how dead they are. And in this exploration of what remains, the author sifts through unreliable memory to summon up how his ancestorsâ€”real and assumedâ€”contemplated death and grappled with the perils and pleasures of pit-gazing. If Barnes''s self-professed amateur philosophical rambling feels occasionally self-indulgent, his vivid description delights.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Most critics strongly recommended Julian Barnes''s reflections on mortality. However, perhaps reluctant to embrace his disbelief, they seemed more impressed by his descriptive skill in depicting his familyâ€”in particular, his emotionally remote brotherâ€”even though a few critics cited the author himself as emotionally closed in his personal writing. Reviewers also praised the scope of Barnes''s literary erudition more than any actual insight into the subject of death. A few reviewers felt that this dance around the subject makes\n <em>\n  Nothing to Be Frightened Of\n </em>\n weaker than Barnes''s other books. But most embraced the book''s novelistic ambiguity, enjoying the story even if the author himself does not know how it will end.\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2025'),
(7026, 'Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea', 'Barbara Demick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens Nothing to Envy" "follows the lives ofsix North Koreans over fifteen years--a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth ofthe population. Taking us into a landscape most of us have never before seen, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarianregime today--an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, in which radio and television dials are welded to the one government station, and where displays of affection are punished; apolice state where informants are rewarded and where an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life.  Demick takes us deep inside the country, beyondthe reach of government censors. Through meticulous and sensitive reporting, we see her six subjects--average North Korean citizens--fall in love, raise families, nurture ambitions, and struggle forsurvival. One by one, we experience the moments when they realize that their government has betrayed them. Nothing to Envy is a groundbreaking addition to the literature oftotalitarianism and an eye-opening look at a closed world that is of increasing global importance.  "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2746'),
(7027, 'Nothing to Fear', 'Karen Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A caring womenâ€™s advocate heroine, a determined, gritty hero, and a diabolical villain drive the plot of Roseâ€™s riveting story." --\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "NOTHING TO FEAR is a tense chilling suspense that readers will appreciate from start to finish." --\n  <em>\n   Harriet Klausner\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Roseâ€™s well-crafted story sets pulses pounding and pages turning." --\n  <em>\n   Bookpage\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   As director of an inner-city woman''s shelter, Dana Dupinsky safeguards many secrets. Some are new identities; some are new addresses; and some are even hidden truths about herself. Passionately dedicated to Hanover House and the women she protects, Dana has always been reluctant to look for love. But now, just as a case puts her and a child in mortal danger, it seems that love has come looking for her.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Security expert Ethan Buchanan learned to stalk men in the Afghan desert. Now he vows to track down the ruthless woman who kidnapped his godson-and falling for Dana is not in the plan. Yet her very presence seems to chase away the ghosts that haunt him, and her skillful evasion of personal questions raises his hunting instincts. For there''s a deadly new secret at Hanover House. A brutal killer is weaving a web of revenge with a stolen boy at its center. And Dana is the next victim on the list...\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/367'),
(7028, 'Nothing to Lose', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <div style="text-align: center; ">\n   <b>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Jack Reacher CVÂ \n    </font>\n   </b>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <b>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Name:\n    </font>\n   </b>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â Jack Reacher (no middle name)Â \n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <b>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Nationality:\n    </font>\n   </b>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â USAÂ \n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <b>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Born:\n    </font>\n   </b>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â 29 October 1960Â \n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <b>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Vital statistics:\n    </font>\n   </b>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â 6 foot 5 inches; 220â€“250 lbs, 50-inch chestÂ \n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <b>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Clothes:\n    </font>\n   </b>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â 3XLT coat, 95 cm inside legÂ \n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <b>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Education:\n    </font>\n   </b>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â US Army base schools in Europe and the Far East; West Point Military AcademyÂ \n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <b>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Service:\n    </font>\n   </b>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â 13 years in US Military Police; demoted from Major to Captain in 1990, mustered out with rank of Major in 1997Â \n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <b>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Service awards:\n    </font>\n   </b>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â \n   </font>\n   <i>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Top row:\n    </font>\n   </i>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â Silver Star, Defence Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit;Â \n   </font>\n   <i>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Middle row:\n    </font>\n   </i>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â Soldierâ€™s Medal, Bronze Star, Purple Heart;\n   </font>\n   <i>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Bottom row:\n    </font>\n   </i>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â Junk awards\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <b>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Mother:\n    </font>\n   </b>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â Josephine Moutier Reacher, b.1930 in France, d.1990Â \n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <b>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Father:\n    </font>\n   </b>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â Career US Marine, served in Korea and VietnamÂ \n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <b>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Brother:\n    </font>\n   </b>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â Joe, b.1958, d. 1997; 5 years in US Military Intelligence; Treasury Deptartment\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <b>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     Last known address:\n    </font>\n   </b>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â UnknownÂ \n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <b>\n    <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n     What he doesnâ€™t have:\n    </font>\n   </b>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n    Â Driverâ€™s licence; Federal benefits; tax returns; dependentsÂ \n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8817A0">\n   </font>\n   <b>\n    SUMMARY:\n   </b>\n  </div>\n  <p class="description">\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   Two small towns in the middle of nowhere Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher canâ€™t find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four hostile locals, a vagrancy charge and an order to move on.Â \n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   Theyâ€™re picking on the wrong guy.Â \n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   Reacher is a hard man. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing at all, except hardheaded curiosity. What are the secrets that Despair seems so desperate to hide?Â \n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   With just one allyâ€”a mysterious woman cop from Hopeâ€”and many enemies, Reacher goes up against a whole town, hunting the rich man at its core, cracking open his terrifying agenda, asking the question: Who has the edgeâ€”a man with everything to gain, or a man with nothing to lose?Â \n  </p>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2549'),
(7029, 'Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went From Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur', 'Ryan Blair', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "Long before I became a millionaire entrepreneur, I was a punk with a juvenile criminal record, street gang experience, and a lot of emotional scarring...My teenage years were hardly the typical starting point for a normal, productive life, let alone a successful business career. Turns out, that didn''t matter."\n</p>\n<p>\n Ryan Blair knows about building a business from the ground up. Like many entrepreneurs he had no formal business education. But he had great survival instincts, tenacity, and above all, a "nothing to lose" mindset.\n</p>\n<p>\n Blair''s middle-class childhood came to an abrupt end when his abusive father succumbed to drug addiction and abandoned the family. Blair and his mother moved to a dangerous neighborhood, and soon he was in and out of juvenile detention, joining a gang just to survive.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then his mother fell in love with a successful entrepreneur who took Ryan under his wing. With his mentor''s help, Blair turned himself into a wildly successful businessman. He started his first company, 24/7 Tech, at the age of 21, and since then has started and sold several companies for hundreds of millions of dollars.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Blair shows readers how to start and grow their own profitable businesses by following his often contrarian philosophies:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ In juvenile detention, if you let someone take your milk the first day, they''ll start taking it every day. The same is true in business.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ When you''re dealing with an investor''s money, you have to act as if God himself wrote you the check.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Most business plans aren''t worth the paper they''re written on.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Efforts don''t pay the rent. Have no sympathy for employees who talk about how hard they''re trying.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Entrepreneurship is great because you can set your own hours -- any 17 hours of the day, 7 days a week. But if you''re doing what you love, it doesn''t drain you as much as the 9 to 5 death cycle.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book is an inspirational guide for people who are willing to put in the hard work, time, and dedication needed to see their vision through to the end. Blair shares lessons from his mentors and advice from his own life- changing experiences, and provides readers with a road map for entrepreneurial success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2028'),
(7030, 'Nothing Was the Same', 'Kay Redfield Jamison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the internationally acclaimed author of *An Unquiet Mind,* an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamisonâ€”who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passionâ€”could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In direct, straightforward, and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled debilitating dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic honesty, candor, wit, and simplicity, she describes his death, her own long, difficult struggle with grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression.But she also recalls the great joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together. Wryly humorous anecdotes mingle with bittersweet memories of a relationship that was passionate and lovingâ€”if troubled on occasion by her manic-depressive (bipolar) illnessâ€”as Jamison reveals the ways in which her husband encouraged her to write openly about her mental illness and, through his courage and grace taught her to live fully.A penetrating psychological study of grief viewed from deep inside the experience itself, *Nothing Was the Same* is also a deeply moving memoir by a superb writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2029'),
(7031, 'Now You See Her', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <strong>\n  The perfect life\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </strong>\n A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she''s built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can''t let him pay for the real killer''s crimes.\n <br />\n <br />\n <strong>\n  The perfect lie\n </strong>\n <br />\n <br />\n Nina''s secret life began 18 years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, and a carefree life in Key West. When she learned she was pregnant with their first child, her happiness was almost overwhelming. But Nina''s world is shattered when she unearths a terrible secret that causes her to run for her life and change her identity.\n <br />\n <br />\n <strong>\n  The perfect way to die\n </strong>\n <br />\n <br />\n Now, years later, Nina risks everything she''s earned to return to Florida and confront the murderous evil she fled. In a story of wrenching suspense, James Patterson gives us his most head-spinning, action filled story yet--a Hitchcock-like blend of unquenchable drama and pleasure.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/249'),
(7032, 'The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family', 'P. L. Firstbrook', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The most famous family in Kenyaâ€”and, indeed, the worldâ€”provides the context for exploring the broader history of that nation as documentary filmmaker Firstbrook explores the Obama family legacy. He draws on academic historical research as well as oral history and interviews to trace Barack Obamaâ€™s family history back 23 generations. Part of the Luo, the second largest tribe in Kenya (following the Kikuyu), the Obama family traversed through several ancestral lands before religion (some were Seventh-Day Adventists, and others were Muslims) and distance separated them into the towns of Kendu Bay and Kâ€™ogelo. He highlights Obamaâ€™s paternal grandfather, Onyango, who traveled beyond the ancestral lands, prospered, fought in two world wars, and witnessed bloody revolt against British colonialism as well as Kenyan independence. His son, Barack, similarly restless and ambitious, was educated in Hawaii (where he met President Obamaâ€™s mother) and the continental U.S. before returning home to continue straddling tribal tradition and the demands of modern Western culture. Obama senior was critical of the government and friendly with Tom Mboya, an activist, who was killed during the Jomo Kenyatta administration, adding to suspicion later when Obama was killed in a car accident. Enhanced with maps and photographs, this is an epic look at the history of a nation and a family. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The story of Barack Obamaâ€™s Kenyan roots, this title is the product of dozens of interviews with Obamaâ€™s African relatives, presented by the first person to trace Obamaâ€™s family history back 400 years and 23 generations. --Vanessa Bush\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On January 20, 2009, a few hundred men, women, and children gathered under trees in the twilight at Kâ€™obama, a village on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. Barack Obamaâ€™s rise to the American presidency had captivated people around the world, but members of this gathering took a special pride in the swearing in of Americaâ€™s first black president, for they were all Obamas, all the presidentâ€™s direct African family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the first in-depth history of the Obama family, Peter Firstbrook recounts a journey that starts in a mud hut by the White Nile and ends seven centuries later in the White House. Interweaving oral history and tribal lore, interviews with Obama family members and other Kenyans, the writings of Kenyan historians, and original genealogical research, Firstbrook sets the fascinating story of the presidentâ€™s family against the background of Kenyaâ€™s rich culture and complex history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He tells the story of farmers and fishermen, of healers and hunters, of families lost and found, establishing for the first time the early ancestry of the Obamas. From the tribeâ€™s cradleland in southern Sudan, he follows the family generation by generation, tracing the paths of the famous Luo warriorsâ€”Obamaâ€™s direct ancestorsâ€”and vividly illuminating Luo politics, society, and traditions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Firstbrook also brings to life the impact of English colonization in Africa through the eyes of President Obamaâ€™s grandfather Onyango. An ambitious and disciplined man who fought in two world wars, witnessed the bloody Mau Mau insurrection, and saw his country gain independence from white rule, Onyango was also hot-tempered and autocratic: family lore has it that President Obamaâ€™s grandmother abandoned the family after Onyango attempted to murder her. And Firstbrook delves into the troubled life of Obamaâ€™s father, a promising young man whose aspirations were stymied by post-independence tribal politics and a rash tendency toward self-destructionâ€”two factors that his family believes contributed to his death in 1982. They say it was no accident, as described in the presidentâ€™s memoirs, but rather a politically motivated hit job.\n </p>\n <p>\n  More than a tale of love and war, hardship and hard-won success,\n  <em>\n   The Obamas\n  </em>\n  reveals a family historyâ€”epic in scope yet intimate in feelâ€”that is truly without precedent.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1950'),
(7033, 'An Object of Beauty', 'Steve Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby''s and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallel the soaring heights--and, at times, the dark lows--of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3189'),
(7034, 'Objects of Our Affection: Uncovering My Family&#39;s Past, One Chair, Pistol, and Pickle Fork at a Time', 'Lisa Tracy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lisa Tracy on\n  <em>\n   Objects of Our Affection\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Objects of Our Affection\n </em>\n is about one family, and itâ€™s also about why we Americans have so much stuff, and why we hang onto it. There are thousands of storage bins out there, not to mention unexamined attics, which attest to our love of our things... to the nervousness we feel about getting rid of Aunt Marthaâ€™s soup tureen... to the sadness we feel if we even think of selling the antique chair that Grandpa always sat in... and to the stories we are even now attaching to that mug we just picked up at the flea market.\n</p>\n<p>\n My sister and I were in the process of trying to deal with a couple of storage bins of family possessions when I began thinking about it all: WHY was this so hard? We each already had a house full of furniture, and we sure didnâ€™t need any more. But this stuff had been in the family for many years, and it seemed sort of, well, disrespectful to get rid of it.\n</p>\n<p>\n And yet we did--or a lot of it, anyway--after a good deal of soul-searching.\n <em>\n  Objects of Our Affection\n </em>\n is the story of that odyssey from the attic to the storage bins to the auction house... and beyond.\n</p>\n<p>\n What I learned in the process was that the family was\n <em>\n  in\n </em>\n the furniture. Our family was military, for generations, and that made us the essential American nomads. I believe that is part of why my parents, grandparents, and the generations before them had held onto the things they brought with them as they traveled the globe. Their things had become their home, which made those possessions all the dearer to them. But we are a nation of nomads, and I think that sense of finding home in our things is why all of us hold onto them so tightly, whether we realize it or not.\n</p>\n<p>\n I also learned that, even if your family isnâ€™t loaded with things, anytime you acquire an object, a story starts around it. Once you realize that the stories are what you really cherish, that makes it a little easier to accept the idea of letting go. Our own stories included traces of an 1870s childhood in Apache territory; battles in China, France, the Philippines, and South Dakota; a Down syndrome son who died young but left an indelible impression; my grandmotherâ€™s secret marriage and subsequent annulment, which had never been mentioned in the family; a silent tug-of-war with a mother-in-law. The stories lived on in horsehair chairs and carved chests, in a silver locket, and yes, in that pickle fork--but also in a simple salt shaker.\n</p>\n<p>\n So... the objects: We can keep them, we can give them up. The stories remain. They are the heart of the matter.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Objects of Our Affection\n </em>\n is my fifth book. During a life as a journalist, I edited the Home &amp; Design pages of the\n <em>\n  Philadelphia Inquirer\n </em>\n , wrote press releases about Jacques Cousteau, traveled 13,000 miles around the country in 14 weeks, and became passionate about what makes us tick, as Americans. Iâ€™m convinced our stuff holds a big piece of the answer to that question.\n <em>\n  --Lisa Tracy\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Fran Fevrier)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Do we own our possessions, or do they own us? Thatâ€™s one of the questions pondered in Tracyâ€™s memoir. Following their motherâ€™s death, Tracy and her sister were faced with the daunting task of sifting through her belongings. A military family whose history dated back to the American Revolution, the Tracys had acres of heirlooms, from an elegant, satin-bottomed chair that might have once been occupied by George Washington to a pair of dueling pistols purportedly owned by Aaron Burr. But while these items made for tantalizing stories to be told by the fire, what was their worth if one couldnâ€™t establish provenance? When the sisters decide to put selected pieces up for auction, they are both soberedâ€”and occasionally surprisedâ€”by the prices they fetch. What they didnâ€™t account for was the remorse they would feel after the auction was completed, and the deals were done. Had they sold their familyâ€™s soul? Tracy weaves engaging nuggets of military and social history into her tale, but the copious details about her family can grow tedious. Still, this will definitely attract the Antiques Roadshow crowd. --Allison Block\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2031'),
(7035, 'Obsession', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Where there is life there is devotion. Where there is death there is obsession. Patty Bigelow thought she''d finally figured life out. Then her wayward sister Leila abandons her child, Tanya, on her doorstep. The aunt and troubled niece slowly learn to live together, with the help of Dr Alex Delaware''s counselling. Now, fifteen years later, Tanya is back in Alex''s office, a self-possessed Harvard student, about to enter graduate school in clinical psychology. Patty - the only real mother she''s ever known - has died and left Tanya with a chilling legacy: a deathbed confession that her aunt murdered a man years earlier. Tanya has tried to let go of the confession. But it soon becomes clear that nothing short of finding out the truth will do. And she needs Alex''s help ...Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/763'),
(7036, 'Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation', 'Mitch Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n It touched lives as disparate as those of Frederick Douglass, Franklin Roosevelt, and Mary Todd Lincolnâ€”who once convinced her husband, Abe, to host a sÃ©ance in the White House. Americans all, they were among the famous figures whose paths intertwined with the mystical and esoteric movement broadly known as the occult. Brought over from the Old World and spread throughout the New by some of the most obscure but gifted men and women of early U.S. history, this â€œhidden wisdomâ€ transformed the spiritual life of the still-young nation and, through it, much of the Western world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet the story of the American occult has remained largely untold. Now a leading writer on the subject of alternative spirituality brings it out of the shadows. Here is a rich, fascinating, and colorful history of a religious revolution and an epic of offbeat history.\n <strong>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n From the meaning of the symbols on the one-dollar bill to the origins of the Ouija board_,_\n <strong>\n  Occult America\n </strong>\n briskly sweeps from the nationâ€™s earliest days to the birth of the New Age era and traces many people and episodes, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢The spirit medium who became Americaâ€™s first female religious leader in 1776\n <br />\n â€¢The supernatural passions that marked the career of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith\n <br />\n â€¢The rural Sunday-school teacher whose clairvoyant visions instigated the dawn of the New Age\n <br />\n â€¢The prominence of mind-power mysticism in the black-nationalist politics of Marcus Garvey\n <br />\n â€¢The Idaho druggist whose mail-order mystical religion ranked as the eighth-largest faith in the world during the Great Depression\n</p>\n<p>\n Here, too, are Americaâ€™s homegrown religious movements, from transcendentalism to spiritualism to Christian Science to the positive-thinking philosophy that continues to exert such a powerful pull on the public today. A feast for believers in alternative spirituality, an eye-opener for anyone curious about the unknown byroads of American history,\n <strong>\n  Occult America\n </strong>\n is an engaging, long-overdue portrait of one nation, under many gods, whose revolutionary influence is still being felt in every corner of the globe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2524'),
(7037, 'Occupied City', 'David Peace', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Set in 1948 and based on a Japanese murder case, Peace''s second novel in his Tokyo trilogy (after\n <em>\n  Tokyo Year Zero\n </em>\n ) is a tour de force. One afternoon, just after closing, a man posing as a health official arrives at a Tokyo bank. He gets the bank''s employees to ingest poison by pretending to inoculate them against dysentery, then escapes with the bank''s money. In\n <em>\n  Roshomon\n </em>\n fashion, a number of disparate characters, including Murray Thompson, an American army doctor who''s convinced the Japanese are lying about bioweapons experimentation, offer dramatically different perspectives on a horrific crime that claims 12 lives. By presenting these points of view through newspaper articles, police reports, and letters to a faraway spouse, Peace humanizes his characters and provides subtle insights into how they interpret the facts of the mass murder. This literary thriller will more than satisfy readers with a taste for ambiguity.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In January 1948, in occupied Tokyo, a bizarre bank robbery accomplished by convincing every bank employee to take a preventive medication against dysentery left 12 dead and 4 gravely ill. The crime is the impetus for a Rashomon-like retelling of the event by deceased victims, survivors, police, a journalist, a member of the American occupation force, a Japanese soldier turned war criminal turned gangster turned businessman, and others. Their stories comprise tales of war, war crimes, government treacheries, suffering, despair, and madness. A survivor feels terribly guilt for having survived both the poisoning and the war, which killed almost everyone she knew. A journalist, anxious to scoop competitors, poses as a doctor to get to a survivor and ultimately falls in love with her. A police detective goes mad from his hatred of the American occupiers. The reality of a massive city literally reduced to ashes by fire bombing, the barbarities of Japanese biological warfare experiments that went unpunished in war-crimes tribunals, and the simple idea that all men are guilty, are guilty of something, underlies every tale. Occupied City is a stunningâ€”and stunningly challengingâ€”novel, a product of extensive historical research, remarkable imagination, and deep insight. It is certainly among the best books of the new year. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/982'),
(7038, 'October Sky', 'Homer Hickam', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood, West Virginia, a mining town that everyone knew was dying--everyone except Sonny''s father, the mine superintendent and a company man so dedicated that his family rarely saw him. Hickam''s smart, iconoclastic mother wanted her son to become something more than a miner and, along with a female science teacher, encouraged the efforts of his grandiosely named Big Creek Missile Agency. He grew up to be a NASA engineer and his memoir of the bumpy ride toward a gold medal at the National Science Fair in 1960--an unprecedented honor for a miner''s kid--is rich in humor as well as warm sentiment. Hickam vividly evokes a world of close communal ties in which a storekeeper who sold him saltpeter warned, "Listen, rocket boy. This stuff can blow you to kingdom come." Hickam is candid about the deep disagreements and tensions in his parents'' marriage, even as he movingly depicts their quiet loyalty to each other. The portrait of his ultimately successful campaign to win his aloof father''s respect is equally affecting.\n <em>\n  --Wendy Smith\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Great memoirs must balance the universal and the particular. Too much of the former makes it overly familiar; too much of the latter makes readers ask what the story has to do with them. In his debut, Hickam, a retired NASA engineer, walks that line beautifully. On one level, it''s the story of a teenage boy who learns about dedication, responsibility, thermodynamics and girls. On the other hand, it''s about a dying way of life in a coal town where the days are determined by the rhythms of the mine and the company that controls everything and everybody. Hickam''s father is Coalwood, W.Va.''s mine superintendent, whose devotion to the mine is matched only by his wife''s loathing for it. When Sputnik inspires "Sonny" with an interest in rockets, she sees it not as a hobby but as a way to escape the mines. After an initial, destructive try involving 12 cherry bombs, Sonny and his cronies set up the Big Creek Missile Agency (BCMA). From Auk I (top altitude, six feet), through Auk XXXI (top altitude, 31,000 feet), the boys experiment with nozzles, fins and, most of all, fuel, graduating from a basic black powder to "rocket candy" (melted potassium chlorate and sugar) to "Zincoshine" (zinc, sulfur, moonshine). But Coalwood is the real star, here. Teachers, clergy, machinists, town gossips, union, management, everyone become co-conspirators in the BCMA''s explosive three-year project. Hickam admits to taking poetic license in combining characters and with the sequence of events, and if there is any flaw, it''s that the people and the narrative seem a little too perfect. But no matter how jaded readers have become by the onslaught of memoirs, none will want to miss the fantastic voyage of BCMA, Auk and Coalwood. First serial to Life. 10-city author tour. (Sept.) FYI: Rocket Boys is currently in production at Universal, which plans to release it later this year.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1973');
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(7039, 'Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street&#39;s Wildest Con', 'Guy Lawson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of an audacious hedge fund fraud and the wild search, by a colorful cast of rogues and schemers, for a â€œsecret marketâ€ beneath the financial market we all know.Â Sam Israel was a man who seemed to have it all â€“ until the hedge fund he ran, Bayou, imploded and he became the target of a nationwide manhunt.Â  Born into one of Americaâ€™s most illustrious trading families, Israel was determined to strike out on his own.Â  So after apprenticing with one of the greatest hedge fund traders of the 1980â€™s, Sam founded his own fund and promised his investors guaranteed profits.Â  With the proprietary computer program heâ€™d created, he claimed to be able to predict the future. Â But his future was already beginning to unravel.Â After suffering devastating losses and fabricating fake returns, Israel knew it was only a matter of time before his real performance would be discovered, so when a former black-ops intelligence operative told him about a â€œsecret marketâ€ run by the Fed, Israel bet his last $150 million on a chance to make billions. Thus began his year-long adventure in â€œthe Upperworldâ€ -- a society populated by clandestine bankers, shady European nobility, and spooks issuing cryptic warnings about a mysterious cabal known as the Octopus. Â Whether the â€œsecret marketâ€ was real or a con, Israel was all in â€“ and as the pressures mounted and increasingly sinister violence crept into his life, he struggled to break free of the Octopusâ€™ tentacles.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3812'),
(7040, 'Odd Apocalypse', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  The stallion reared over me, silently slashing the air with the hooves of its forelegs, a creature of such immense power that I stumbled backward even though I knew that it was as immaterial as a dream. . . .\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n The woman astride the ghostly mount reaches out desperately, the latest spirit to enlist the aid of Odd Thomas, the unassuming young fry cook whose giftâ€”or curseâ€”it is to see the shades of the restless dead, and to help them when he can. This mission of mercy will lead Odd through realms of darkness he has never before encountered, as he probes the long-held secrets of a sinister estate and those who inhabit it.\n <br />\n <br />\n <strong>\n  ODD APOCALYPSE\n </strong>\n <br />\n <br />\n Once presided over by a flamboyant Hollywood mogul during the Roaring â€™20s, the magnificent West Coast property known as Roseland is now home to a reclusive billionaire financier and his faithful servants. And, at least for the moment, itâ€™s also a port in the storm for Odd Thomas and his traveling companion, the inscrutably charming Annamaria, the Lady of the Bell. In the wake of Oddâ€™s most recent clash with lethal adversaries, the opulent manorâ€™s comforts should be welcome. But thereâ€™s far more to Roseland than meets even the extraordinary eye of Odd, who soon suspects it may be more hell than haven.\n <br />\n <br />\n A harrowing taste of Roselandâ€™s terrors convinces Odd that itâ€™s time to hit the road again. Still, the prescient Annamaria insists that theyâ€™ve been led there for a reason, and heâ€™s promised to do his best for the ghost on horseback. Just how deep and dreadful are the mysteries Roseland and her masters have kept for nearly a century? And what consequences await whoever is brave, or mad, enough to confront the most profound breed of evil? Odd only knows. Like his acclaimed creator, the irresistible Odd Thomas is in top-notch formâ€”as he takes on what may well be the most terrifying challenge yet in his curious career.\n <br />\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€œThis is Koontz working at his pinnacle, providing terrific entertainment that deals seriously with some of the deepest themes of human existence: the nature of evil, the grip of fate and the power of love.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  (starred review), on *Odd Thomas\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œSupernatural thrills with a side of laughs.â€\n </em>\n <em>\n  â€”The Denver Post,\n </em>\n on *Brother Odd\n <em>\n  <br />\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <strong>\n  <br />\n </strong>\n â€œThe nice young fry cook with the occult powers is Koontzâ€™s most likable creation . . . candid, upright, amusing and sometimes withering.â€\n <em>\n  â€”The New York Times\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3816'),
(7041, 'Odd Hours', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive Essay: Destiny and *Odd Hours\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  Odd Thomas came to me as a gift, the entire first chapter of his first book having poured out of me as I was in the middle of writing\n  <em>\n   The Face\n  </em>\n  . I wrote it by hand, though I never work that way, and I never hesitated to think what should come next. He was fully-realized in my mind from the moment I began to write in that lined legal tablet. With other stories and characters, I can identify the source of the inspiration, but not with Oddie and his books. He just suddenly was. When I write about him, his narrative voice is so clear to me that I almost hear him in my head.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For those among you who long have thought that I should be institutionalized, just relax: I said I almost hear him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Many times over the years, I said I would never write an open-ended series. Then along came Oddie, and he proved me wrong. Or so I thought. As I wrote the first chapter of\n  <em>\n   Odd Hours\n  </em>\n  , the fourth featuring my fry-cook hero, I realized that this was not an open-ended series, after all, but that it would conclude with six or seven novels. I now think seven.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I suddenly saw the end point of his journey, the arc of it to the final book, and I was stunned. Beginning with this fourth story, the stakes were being raised dramatically; Oddie was going to face far more physical and moral danger than previously; and he was going to mature toward the fulfillment of a destiny that I had not seen coming until that moment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Initially, I tried to argue myself out of the direction that\n  <em>\n   Odd Hours\n  </em>\n  was taking. I didn''t believe that the first three books had put down a sufficient foundation to support the formidable architecture that I saw rising from it in the next three or four novels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When I began to reread the first three books, however, I quickly discovered that I had unconsciously paved the road that the series was now taking. I had thought I was writing a series with an overall theme about the power and beauty of humility. Indeed I was, but it was also something more than that; and Oddie''s ultimate destiny will not be merely purification to a state of absolute humility, but will be that and something else I find quite wonderful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What lies ahead will be a challenge to write--or perhaps not. The character of Odd Thomas was a gift to me, and now I see that the entire architecture of a seven-book series was another gift that came to me complete on the same day Oddie arrived, although I needed time to recognize it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This world is a place of wonder, and life is a mysterious enterprise; but nothing in all my years has been more mysterious than Odd Thomas''s origins and my compulsion to write about him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   -- Dean Koontz\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fourth adventure of Odd Thomas, the young man haunted by theÂ deceased who can also foresee potential murderous disaster, may not be the bestâ€”his eponymous initial outing isâ€”but darned if it isnâ€™t the most purely entertaining. Observing Koontzâ€™s SOP, it starts with a bang and goes like a house afire straight through to the penultimate chapter (the last chapter cleans up). Odd goes out for a walk on the boardwalk to find the Lady of the Bell, a pregnant girl roughly his own age (21), who has appeared to him in a troubling dream. He succeeds, but then a blond gorilla and two skinny redheaded guys packing heat show up. When Odd touches the gorilla, he gets a flash of the dream. So does the gorilla, who is immediately, murderously suspicious, so Odd, after sending the girl packing, takes a header off the boardwalk. For most of the rest of the book, Odd flees the three baddies, discovering that the local police chief and a liberal minister are in cahoots with them, until he reverses the procedure to prevent very serious destruction, indeed, aimed at regime change in America. Choosing so grandiose an objective for Odd, Koontz forges the kind of sweeping melodrama, complete with screwball laughs, nail-biting moments, and surprises, that is the bedrock of American narrative entertainment. --Ray Olson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1232'),
(7042, 'Odd Hours', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive Essay: Destiny and *Odd Hours\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Odd Thomas came to me as a gift, the entire first chapter of his first book having poured out of me as I was in the middle of writing\n <em>\n  The Face\n </em>\n . I wrote it by hand, though I never work that way, and I never hesitated to think what should come next. He was fully-realized in my mind from the moment I began to write in that lined legal tablet. With other stories and characters, I can identify the source of the inspiration, but not with Oddie and his books. He just suddenly was. When I write about him, his narrative voice is so clear to me that I almost hear him in my head.\n</p>\n<p>\n For those among you who long have thought that I should be institutionalized, just relax: I said I almost hear him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Many times over the years, I said I would never write an open-ended series. Then along came Oddie, and he proved me wrong. Or so I thought. As I wrote the first chapter of\n <em>\n  Odd Hours\n </em>\n , the fourth featuring my fry-cook hero, I realized that this was not an open-ended series, after all, but that it would conclude with six or seven novels. I now think seven.\n</p>\n<p>\n I suddenly saw the end point of his journey, the arc of it to the final book, and I was stunned. Beginning with this fourth story, the stakes were being raised dramatically; Oddie was going to face far more physical and moral danger than previously; and he was going to mature toward the fulfillment of a destiny that I had not seen coming until that moment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Initially, I tried to argue myself out of the direction that\n <em>\n  Odd Hours\n </em>\n was taking. I didn''t believe that the first three books had put down a sufficient foundation to support the formidable architecture that I saw rising from it in the next three or four novels.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I began to reread the first three books, however, I quickly discovered that I had unconsciously paved the road that the series was now taking. I had thought I was writing a series with an overall theme about the power and beauty of humility. Indeed I was, but it was also something more than that; and Oddie''s ultimate destiny will not be merely purification to a state of absolute humility, but will be that and something else I find quite wonderful.\n</p>\n<p>\n What lies ahead will be a challenge to write--or perhaps not. The character of Odd Thomas was a gift to me, and now I see that the entire architecture of a seven-book series was another gift that came to me complete on the same day Oddie arrived, although I needed time to recognize it.\n</p>\n<p>\n This world is a place of wonder, and life is a mysterious enterprise; but nothing in all my years has been more mysterious than Odd Thomas''s origins and my compulsion to write about him.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  -- Dean Koontz\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fourth adventure of Odd Thomas, the young man haunted by theÂ deceased who can also foresee potential murderous disaster, may not be the bestâ€”his eponymous initial outing isâ€”but darned if it isnâ€™t the most purely entertaining. Observing Koontzâ€™s SOP, it starts with a bang and goes like a house afire straight through to the penultimate chapter (the last chapter cleans up). Odd goes out for a walk on the boardwalk to find the Lady of the Bell, a pregnant girl roughly his own age (21), who has appeared to him in a troubling dream. He succeeds, but then a blond gorilla and two skinny redheaded guys packing heat show up. When Odd touches the gorilla, he gets a flash of the dream. So does the gorilla, who is immediately, murderously suspicious, so Odd, after sending the girl packing, takes a header off the boardwalk. For most of the rest of the book, Odd flees the three baddies, discovering that the local police chief and a liberal minister are in cahoots with them, until he reverses the procedure to prevent very serious destruction, indeed, aimed at regime change in America. Choosing so grandiose an objective for Odd, Koontz forges the kind of sweeping melodrama, complete with screwball laughs, nail-biting moments, and surprises, that is the bedrock of American narrative entertainment. --Ray Olson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1235'),
(7043, 'Off Season', 'Anne Rivers Siddons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Acclaimed novelist Anne Rivers Siddons''s new novel is a stunning tale of love and loss. For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly--happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does...in loss. After Cam''s death, Lilly takes a lone road trip to her and Cam''s favorite spot on the remote coast of Maine, the place where they fell in love over and over again, where their ghosts still dance. There, she looks hard to her past--to a first love that ended in tragedy; to falling in love with Cam; to a marriage filled with exuberance, sheer life, and safety-- to try to figure out her future.It is a journey begun with tender memories and culminating in a revelation that will make Lilly re-evaluate everything she thought was true about her husband and her marriage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3385'),
(7044, 'Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Marine and Pacific war veteran Robert Leckie retells the epic story of the battle of Okinawa from both sides. Strikingly intimate portraits of the Japanese generals, the American soldiers, and their commanding officers brilliantly illuminate those individuals who fought in this bloody confrontation. of photos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/340'),
(7045, 'The Old Man and the Sea', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  This short novel was written in 1952 and describes a history of an old fisherman, named Santiago. He fishes with a boy called Manolin who wants to lern fishing. Unfortunetly Santiago has a bad luck and since 40 days can''t catch any fish.Parents forbid Manolin to go with the old fisherman and order him to findanother boat.The following day Santiago sails out alone. It is a turning-point for him.At first, he catches a small tunny, which he uses as a bait.After a short time, Santiago feels that a biggerfish nibbles. He doesn''t know that it is a huge marline.He only has a feeling that it''s areal giant, because he can''t pull it nearer to the boat. The fish resists him. The killing fight between Santiago and the marline begins.The fish pullshis boat to the ocean. The fisherman misses the boy, because he knows that his helpwould be involuable. He calls to his mind their common journeys, talksto birds and even to the marline. Santiago does all those things just to kill the loneliness.The fight takesfor him an unfavourable turn. At first,a rope ofa fishing-rod buries into Santiagos''hand whenthe fish draws harder. Finally he falls over and cuts his superciliary,but he still hasthe marline o his fishing-rod.These are not all Santiagos'' physical diseases. After hurting his hand,the fisherman has a painful contraction. He still has the fish on the rope and a consolation for him are his memories from youth. Santiago remembers wrestling withNegro for hole day. Many years ago Satniago won and the memory about that eventmakes him stronger. He believes he can whip the fish, although he still doesn''t know the size of the marline. Santiago perceives that whenthe fish protrudes.It turns out that it''s bigger than the boat.The fisherman is very excited. Santiago starts to win when the fish begins to go round.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3063'),
(7046, 'Omen', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Jedi Order is in crisis. The late Jacen Solo''s shocking transformation into murderous Sith Lord Darth Caedus has cast a damning pall over those who wield the Force for good: Two Jedi Knights have succumbed to an inexplicable and dangerous psychosis, criminal charges have driven Luke Skywalker into self-imposed exile, and power-hungry Chief of State Natasi Daala is exploiting anti-Jedi sentiment to undermine the Order''s influence within the Galactic Alliance.Forbidden to intervene in Jedi affairs, Luke is on a desperate mission to uncover the truth behind Jacen''s fall to the dark side - and to learn what''s turning peaceful Jedi into raving lunatics. But finding answers will mean venturing into the mind-bending space of the Kathol Rift and bargaining with an alien species as likely to destroy outsiders as deal with them. Still, there is no other choice and no time to lose, as the catastrophic events on Coruscant continue to escalate. Stricken by the same violent dementia that infected her brother, Valin, Jedi Knight Jysella Horn faces an equally grim fate after her capture by Natasi Daala''s police. And when Han and Leia Solo narrowly foil another deranged Jedi bent on deadly destruction, even acting Jedi Grand Master Kenth Hamner appears willing to bow to Daala''s iron will - at the expense of the Jedi Order.But an even greater threat is looming. Millennia in the past, a Sith starship crashed on an unknown low-tech planet, leaving the survivors stranded. Over the generations, their numbers have grown, the ways of the dark side have been nurtured, and the time is fast approaching when this lost tribe of Sith will once more take to the stars to reclaim their legendary destiny as rulers of the galaxy. Only one thing stands in their way, a name whispered to them through the Force: Skywalker.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3667'),
(7047, 'The Omen Machine', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  Hannis Arc, working on the tapestry of lines linking constellations of elements that constituted the language of Creation recorded on the ancient Cerulean scroll spread out among the clutter on his desk, was not surprised to see the seven etherial forms billow into the room like acrid smoke driven on a breath of bitter breeze. Like an otherworldly collection of spectral shapes seemingly carried on random eddies of air, they wandered in a loose clutch among the still and silent mounted bears and beasts rising up on their stands, the small forest of stone pedestals holding massive books of recorded prophecy, and the evenly spaced display cases of oddities, their glass reflecting the firelight from the massive hearth at the side of the room.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Since the seven rarely used doors, the shutters on theÂ windows down on the ground level several stories belowÂ stood open as a fearless show of invitation. Though they frequently chose to use windows, they didnâ€™t actually need the windows any more than they needed the doors. They could seep through any opening, any crack, like vapor rising in the early morning from the stretches of stagnant water that lay in dark swaths through the peat barrens.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The open shutters were meant to be a declaration for all to see, including the seven, that Hannis Arc feared nothing.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h1>\n 1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n -bestselling author Terry Goodkind returns to the lives of Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnellâ€”in a compelling tale of a new and sinister threat to their world.\n</h1>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2868'),
(7048, 'On Beulah Height', 'Reginald Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cascading imagery and sinuous plot lines are utilized to stunning effect in Hill''s latest Dalziel/Pascoe novel (The Wood Beyond, 1996, etc.), a flawless blend of mystery, ghost story and psychological thriller. Fifteen years ago, the remote Yorkshire village of Dendale was purposefully flooded in the creation of a reservoir. As most of the villagers moved to the next town, three young Dendale girls vanished, their disappearance never solved. Also vanished, presumably into the nearby moors, was Benny Lightfoot, a troubled loner and most likely suspect of rotund copper Andy Dalziel. Now, as the village is literally reappearing in a summer-long drought, Benny''s return is proclaimed in graffiti, and a young girl disappears. Detective Superintendent Dalziel and his erudite partner, Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, follow the current case. Pascoe''s daughter, in the grip of a sometimes fatal disease, has nightmares about a demonic water monster who steals children. A classical concert is planned in the next village to celebrate the return of Elizabeth Wulfstan, an impressive young singer from Dendale whose translations of Mahler songs focus on dead children. This is merely the bare bones of Hill''s multilayered masterpiece, in which he balances the droll interplay between the detectives, the gentle resonating of local legends and the slowly unfolding stories of numerous families shattered by secrets and sadness. From its ominous beginning to the wrenching conclusion, this, the 15th Dalziel/Pascoe tale, shows Hill at the top of his form.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Yorkshire detective team of Dalziel and Pascoe is back in another riveting procedural. Fifteen years earlier, the quaint British village of Dendale suffered double tragedies: three children were kidnapped, never to be found, while a fourth barely escaped with her life. Then the government forced the villagers to evacuate Dendale so they could flood its homes and shops to create a new reservoir. A decade and a half later, seven-year-old Lorraine Dacre disappears from Danby, the village where most of the Dendale''s inhabitants retreated. Dalziel and Pascoe are caught in a painful nightmare. They failed to solve the earlier case; can they solve this one? Theories, speculation, and suspects abound. Villagers report seeing Benny Lightfoot, a crazy recluse who was the prime suspect in the Dendale case. Betsy Allgood, the victim who escaped 15 years ago, is full of dark secrets she won''t reveal. This is a stunning mystery that is at once touching, funny, provocative, suspenseful, and moving. More popular than ever, thanks to the TV series based on the Dalziel and Pascoe novels, Hill remains one of the finest crime writers of this era, and his latest deserves a place in every mystery collection.\n  <em>\n   Emily Melton\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/725'),
(7049, 'On Her Majesty&#39;s Secret Service', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Lancia Spyder with its hood down tore past him, cut in cheekily across his bonnet and pulled away, the sexy boom of its twin exhausts echoing back at him. It was a girl driving, a girl with a shocking pink scarf tied round her hair. And if there was one thing that set James Bond really moving, it was being passed at speed by a pretty girl. When Bond rescues a beautiful, reckless girl from self-destruction, he finds himself with a lead on one of the most dangerous men in the world - Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. In the snow-bound fastness of his Alpine base, Blofeld is conducting research that could threaten the safety of the world. To thwart the evil genius, Bond must get himself and the vital information he has gathered out of the base and keep away from SPECTRE''s agents.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1138'),
(7050, 'On Mystic Lake', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Kristin Hannah makes her hardcover debut with this poignant, tender, and true story of love, loss, passion, and the fragile threads that bind families together.Annie Colwater''s only child has just left home for school abroad. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he''s in love with a younger woman. Alone in the house that is no longer a home, Annie comes to the painful realization that for years she has been slowly disappearing. Lonely and afraid, she retreats to Mystic, the small Washington town where she grew up, hoping that there she can reclaim the woman she once was--the woman she is now desperate to become again.In Mystic, she is reunited with her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower unable to cope with his grieving, too-silent six-year-old daughter, Izzie. Together, the three of them begin to heal, and, at last, Annie learns that she can love without losing herself. But just when she has found a second chance at happiness, her life is turned upside down again, and Annie must make a choice no woman should have to make. . . .**On Mystic Lake** is the story of one seemingly ordinary woman, but the novel speaks to all of us, to anyone who has ever had to choose between what is . . . and what could be.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/990'),
(7051, 'On the Brink', 'Henry M. Paulson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fast-paced and dramatic re-telling of the financial crisis that nearly bought the developed world to its knees. Hank Paulson was at the absolute epicentre of the recent economic storm, and his account of how he dealt with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression makes for absolutely fascinating reading. The book contains all the decisive moments in the economic crisis, including the pivotal meetings with mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as Paulson''s personal recollections of and conversations with President Bush, President Obama, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. As well as detailing the major decisions taken during the crisis, Paulson also puts forth the policies he believes need to be implemented to take us securely into the future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2034'),
(7052, 'On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey Into South Asia', 'Steve Coll', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Available for the first time in paperback, Steve Coll''s trek across a socially and politically damaged South Asia\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Bestselling author Steve Coll is one of the preeminent journalists of the twenty-first century. His last two books, the Pulitzer Prize-winning\n <em>\n  Ghost Wars\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller\n <em>\n  The Bin Ladens\n </em>\n , have been praised for their creative insight and complex yet compelling narratives-and have put him on par with journalists such as the legendary Bob Woodward. Now, for the first time ever, the paperback edition of\n <em>\n  On the Grand Trunk Road\n </em>\n is finally available, revised and updated with new material. Focusing on Coll''s journeys in conflict-ridden India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan as a bureau chief for\n <em>\n  The Washington Post, On the Grand Trunk Road\n </em>\n reveals a little-seen area of the world where violence, corruption, and greed have had devastating effects on South Asians from all walks of life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Steve Coll\n </strong>\n is the author of\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller\n <em>\n  Ghost Wars\n </em>\n . He is a former editor of\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2035'),
(7053, 'On the Road', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   On The Road\n  </em>\n  , the most famous of Jack Kerouac''s works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac''s writing,\n  <em>\n   On The Road\n  </em>\n  is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac''s real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac''s alter-egos,\n  <em>\n   On the Road\n  </em>\n  is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of Kerouac get the whole beautiful, groovy deal with this new recording of the radically hip novel that many consider the heart of the Beat movement. Poetic, open and raw, Kerouac''s prose lays out a cross-country adventure as experienced by Sal Paradise, an autobiographical character. A writer holed up in a room at his aunt''s house, Paradise gets inspired by Dean Moriarty (a character based on Kerouac''s friend Neal Cassady) to hit the road and see America. From the moment he gets on the seven train out of New York City, he takes the reader through the highs and lows of hitchhiking, bonding with fellow explorers and opting for beer before food. First published in 1957, Kerouac''s perennially hot story continues to express the restless energy and desire for freedom that makes people rush out to see the world. The tale is only improved by Dillon''s well-paced, articulate reading as he voices the flow of images and graveled reality of Paradise''s search for the edge.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1121'),
(7054, 'On Writing of the Craft', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "If you don''t have the time to read, you don''t have the time or the tools to write."In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever.Rarely has a book on writing been so clear, so useful, and so revealing. On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King''s childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. A series of vivid memories from adolescence, college, and the struggling years that led up to his first novel, Carrie, will afford readers a fresh and often very funny perspective on the formation of a writer. King next turns to the basic tools of his trade -- how to sharpen and multiply them through use, and how the writer must always have them close at hand. He takes the reader through crucial aspects of the writer''s art and life, offering practical and inspiring advice on everything from plot and character development to work habits and rejection. Serialized in the New Yorker to vivid acclaim, On Writing culminates with a profoundly moving account of how King''s overwhelming need to write spurred him toward recovery, and brought him back to his life.Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower -- and entertain -- everyone who reads it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/862'),
(7055, 'One Bullet Away', 'Nathaniel Fick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Barnes &amp; Noble Review from Discover Great New WritersTo meet Nate Fick is to walk away encouraged about the future of America. For in this young man, one finds an uncommon mixture of thoughtfulness, intelligence, and drive -- all of which come shining through in his first book, One Bullet Away. In the mid-1990s, Fick was a Dartmouth student with plans for grad school -- big plans that would cost big money. So when he made a calculation and entered the Marine Corps'' Officer Candidates School to fund his further education, he was tested within an ounce of his strength in order to stay the course. But several years later, the catastrophic events of 9/11 would send Fick to Afghanistan and later to Iraq, where his hard-core training came in handy, and the throwaway lines he''d heard from instructors, like "There''s a fine line between aggressive and foolish," "Don''t be in a hurry to get your Marines killed," and "Deal with it," held a new weight -- that of the lives of his fellow soldiers and of the civilians they encountered. Fick is a man with a conscience, too -- one that was tried while he was serving overseas, and one that plagues him still. Reflecting on his experiences as a soldier, he writes, "Philosophical debates were a luxury I could not enjoy. War was what I had. We didn''t vote for it, authorize it, or declare it. We just had to fight it." Fight it, he did. (Holiday 2005 Selection)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2525'),
(7056, 'One Day', 'David Nicholls', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  â€˜I can imagine you at forty,â€™ she said, a hint of malice in her voice. â€˜I can picture it right now.â€™ He smiled without opening his eyes. â€˜Go on then.â€™ 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY. From the author of the massive bestseller STARTER FOR TEN.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Hollywood-ready latest from Nicholls (_The Understudy_) makes a brief pit stop in book form before its inevitable film adaptation. (It''s already in development.) The episodic story takes place during a single day each year for two decades in the lives of Dex and Em. Dexter, the louche public school boy, and Emma, the brainy Yorkshire lass, meet the day they graduate from university in 1988 and run circles around one another for the next 20 years. Dex becomes a TV presenter whose life of sex, booze, and drugs spins out of control, while Em dully slogs her way through awful jobs before becoming the author of young adult books. They each take other lovers and spouses, but they cannot really live without each other. Nicholls is a glib, clever writer, and while the formulaic feel and maudlin ending aren''t ideal for a book, they''ll play in the multiplex.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most hilarious and emotionally riveting love stories youâ€™ll ever encounter." â€”_People_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBig, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable." â€”Nick Hornby, from his blog\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[Nicholls] has a gift for zeitgeist description and emotional empathy that''s wholly his own. . . . [A] light but surprisingly deep romance so thoroughly satisfying." â€”_Entertainment Weekly\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œNicholls offers sharp dialogue and wry insight that sounds like Nick Hornby at his best.â€ â€”_The Daily Beast_ (A Best Book of the Summer)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Fluid, expertly paced, highly observed, and at times, both funny and moving." â€”_Boston Globe\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Those of us susceptible to nostalgic reveries of youthful heartache and self-invention (which is to say, all of us) longed to get our hands on Nichollsâ€™s new novel. . . . And if you do, you may want to take care where you lay this book down. You may not be the only one who wants in on the answers." â€”\n  </em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Who doesnâ€™t relish a love story with the right amount of heart-melting romance, disappointment, regret, and huge doses of disenchantment about growing up and growing old between quarreling meant-to-be lovers?" â€”\n  </em>\n  Elle, _Top 10 Summer Books for 2010\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA great, funny, and heart-breaking read.â€ â€”_The Early Show_ [CBS]\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Funny, sweet and completely engrossing . . . The friendship at the heart of this novel is best expressed within the pitch-perfect dialogue/banter between the two." â€”_Very Short List\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œA wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive, compassionate and often unbearably sad . . . the best British social novel since Jonathan Coeâ€™s\n  <em>\n   What a Carve Up!\n  </em>\n  . . . . Nichollsâ€™s witty prose has a transparency that brings Nick Hornby to mind: it melts as you read it so that you donâ€™t notice all the hard work that itâ€™s doing.â€ â€”_The Times_ (London)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJust as Nicholls has made full use of his central concept, so he has drawn on all his comic and literary gifts to produce a novel that is not only roaringly funny but also memorable, moving and, in its own unassuming, unpretentious way, rather profound.â€ â€”_The_\n  <em>\n   Guardian\n  </em>\n  (London)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/369'),
(7057, 'One Day at a Time', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Danielle Steel celebrates families of every stripe in her compelling new novelâ€”a tale of three very different couples who struggle and survive, love, laugh, and learn to take lifeâ€¦Coco Barrington was born into a legendary Hollywood family, her last name loaded with expectations. Her mother is a mega-bestselling author who writes under the name of Florence Flowersâ€”and her sister, Jane, is one of Hollywoodâ€™s top producers. Theyâ€™re not your typical family by any means.â€¦Jane has lived with her partner, Liz, for ten years, in a solid, loving relationship. Florence, widowed but still radiant, has just begun a secret romance with a man twenty-four years her junior. And Coco, a law school dropout and the family black sheep, works as a dog walker, having fled life in the spotlight for the artsy northern California beach town of Bolinas.But when Coco reluctantly agrees to dog-sit in Janeâ€™s luxurious home, she soon discovers how much things can change in just a matter of days.â€¦It turns out Janeâ€™s house comes complete with an unexpected houseguest: Leslie Baxter, a dashing but down-to-earth British actor whoâ€™s fleeing a psycho ex-girlfriend. Their worlds couldnâ€™t be more different. The attraction couldnâ€™t be more immediate. Suddenly Coco is seeing things differently: Leslie is not just a celebrity, heâ€™s a single dad to an adorable six-year-old girl. Her mother is not just a self-centered walking advertisement for great cosmetic surgery, sheâ€™s a woman in love, with vulnerability and new insight. And Jane and Liz are about to take the bravest plunge of allâ€”into parenthood. As Coco contemplates a future with one of Hollywoodâ€™s hottest stars, as her mother and sister settle into their lives, old wounds are healed and new familes are formedâ€”some traditional, some not so traditional, but all bonded by love.With wit and intelligence, Danielle Steelâ€™s new novel explores love in all its guises, taking us into the lives of three unusual but wonderfully real couples. Funny, sexy, and wise, One Day at a Time is at once moving, thought provoking, and utterly impossible to put down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3199'),
(7058, 'One False Move', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As readers who have enjoyed his appearances in original paperbacks already know, Harlan Coben''s former professional basketball star Myron Bolitar is not your everyday testosterone-enriched jock. Myron is a mild-mannered guy who drinks chocolate soda and until very recently lived at home with his parents in suburban New Jersey. In his hardcover debut, we find Myron sharing a New York apartment with his longtime lady friend, writer Jessica Culver, and still running MB SportsReps, where he ostensibly manages the careers of other athletes, but really spends most of his time playing private eye. The arrival in Myron''s life of rising pro basketball star Brenda Slaughter seriously tests his commitment to Jessica, who is in Hollywood working on a movie. It seems that Brenda''s father Horace--Myron''s old coach--has disappeared, and Brenda is receiving death threats that might involve a gangster family''s plans for a new female professional basketball league. Or the threats might have something to do with Brenda''s mother''s connection to a wealthy New Jersey political family. Myron and his banker friend Win, a preppy with a penchant for violence, are more than enough to double-team the bad guys. Previous Myron Bolitar games in paperback include\n  <em>\n   Backspin\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Deal Breaker\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Drop Shot\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Fade Away\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Series sports agent Myron Bolitar handles everything with panache: his relationships, his clients, and this search for two missing people. When a sports store mogul asks him to "watch over" basketball star Brenda Slaughter, Myron winds up looking for her father, who disappeared a week ago, and her mother, who deserted the family some 20 years earlier. Myron not only discovers mob interest in female basketball but also a connected suspicious death in a high-profile political family. Standard plotting, then, but authentic conversation, colorful characters, and exciting New York and New Jersey surrounds more than compensate. Strongly recommended.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/373'),
(7059, 'One False Note', 'Gordon Korman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THIS JUST IN! Amy and Dan Cahill were spotted on a train, hot on the trail of one of 39 Clues hidden around the world. BUT WAIT! Police report a break-in at an elite hotel, and the suspects ALSO sound suspiciously like Amy and Dan. UPDATE! Amy and Dan have been seen in a car . . . no, in a speedboat chase . . . and HOLD EVERYTHING! They''re being chased by an angry mob?!?  When there''s a Clue on the line, anything can happen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2977'),
(7060, 'One Fifth Avenue', 'Candace Bushnell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "One Fifth Avenue is a modern comedy of manners -- a landmark novel, if you like. Its observations about money, the Internet, the function of art in society as well as sex romps, social climbing and snobbery enhance Bushnell''s reputation as an astute observer of modern life....Carrie Bradshaw wannabes as well as women (and men) near Bushnell''s age -- she turns 50 this year -- will be pulled into this refreshing and highly entertaining novel about the power of money, sex and celebrity." --USA TODAY "Bushnell...broadens her scope in her latest ode to New York strivers and sophisticates...The fun lies in the author''s acute observations about everything from real estate envy to midlife crises." --More"Where [Bushnell] goes, her army of stilletoed fans follow. You gotta love it: the conflict, the secrets-telling, the peek into the world of the rich and valueless. It all adds up to a juicy summer read." --"New York Post"""One Fifth Avenue" is all things an escapist read should be: quick and wicked and wry. There''s a blown-out bitch to root against, a star-crossed couple to root for, and a Tim Gunn-style best friend who deserves his own book. Great, guiltless fun." --"Entertainment Weekly"From one of the most consistently astute and engaging social commentators of our day comes another look at the tough and tender women of New York City--this time, through the lens of where they live. One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of Manhattan''s oldest and most historically hip neighborhoods, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into--one way or another. For the women in Candace Bushnell''s new novel, "One Fifth Avenue," this edifice is essential to the lives they''ve carefully established--or hope to establish. From the hedge fund king''s wife to the aging gossip columnist to the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), each person''s game plan for a rich life comes together under the soaring roof of this landmark building. Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, "One Fifth Avenue" is a modern-day story of old and new money, that same combustible mix that Edith Wharton mastered in her novels about New York''s Gilded Age and F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminated in his Jazz Age tales. Many decades later, Bushnell''s New Yorkers suffer the same passions as those fictional Manhattanites from eras past: They thirst for power, for social prominence, and for marriages that are successful--at least to the public eye. But Bushnell is an original, and "One Fifth Avenue" is so fresh that it reads as if sexual politics, real estate theft, and fortunes lost in a day have never happened before. From "Sex and the City" through four successive novels, Bushnell has revealed a gift for tapping into the zeitgeist of any New York minute and, as one critic put it, staying uncannily "just the slightest bit ahead of the curve." And with each book, she has deepened her range, but with a light touch that makes her complex literary accomplishments look easy. Her stories progress so nimbly and ring so true that it can seem as if anyone might write them--when, in fact, no one writes novels quite like Candace Bushnell. Fortunately for us, with "One Fifth Avenue," she has done it again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3292'),
(7061, 'One for the Money', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Watch out, world. Here comes Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie''s opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey.  She''s a product of the "burg," a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at six.  Now Stephanie''s all grown up and out on her own, living five miles from Mom and Dad''s, doing her best to sever the world''s longest umbilical cord. Her mother is a meddler, and her grandmother is a few cans short of a case.  Out of work and out of money, with her Miata repossessed and her refrigerator empty, Stephanie blackmails her bail bondsman cousin, Vinnie, into giving her a try as an apprehension agent. Stephanie knows zilch about the job requirements, but she figures her new pal, fearless bounty hunter Ranger, can teach her what it takes to catch a crook.  Her first assignment: nail Joe Morelli, a former vice cop on the run from a charge of murder one. Morelli is also the irresistible macho pig who took Stephanie''s virginity at age sixteen and then wrote the details on the bathroom wall of Mario''s Sub Shop. There''s still powerful chemistry between these two, so the chase should be interesting.  It could also be extremely dangerous, especially when Stephanie encounters a heavyweight title contender who likes to play rough. Benito Ramirez is known for his brutality to women. At the very least, his obsession with Stephanie complicates her manhunt and brings terror and uncertainty into her life. At worst, it could lead to murder.  Witty, fresh, and full of surprises, "One for the Money" is among the most eagerly awaited crime novels of the season.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2936');
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(7062, 'One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War', 'Michael Dobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review.\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n reporter Dobbs (_Saboteurs_) is a master at telling stories as they unfold and from a variety of perspectives. In this re-examination of the 1963 Bay of Pigs face-off between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., Dobbs combines visits to Cuba, discussions with Russian participants and fingertip command of archival and printed U.S. sources to describe a wild ride thatâ€”contrary to the myth of Kennedy''s steel-nerved crisis managementâ€”was shaped by improvisation, guesswork and blind luck. Dobbs''s protagonists act not out of malevolence, incompetence or machismo. Kennedy, Khrushchev and their advisers emerge as men desperately seeking a handle on a situation no one wanted and no one could resolve. In a densely packed, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative, Dobbs presents the crisis from its early stages through the decision to blockade Cuba and Kennedy''s ordering of DEFCON 2, the last step before an attack, to the final resolution on October 27 and 28. The work''s climax is a detailed reconstruction of the dry-mouthed, sweaty-armpits environment of those final hours before both sides backed down. From first to last, this sustains Dobbs''s case that crisis management is a contradiction in terms.\n <em>\n  (June 5)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 1962 Cuban missile crisis is probably the single most analyzed episode of the cold war. In the past decade, declassified American and Russian documents have proved that a nuclear exchange was even closer than most scholars had previously realized. Dobbs, a reporter for the Washington Post, has used those sources as well as numerous new ones gleaned from two years of research in the U.S., Cuba, and Russia. Although nothing presented here will change the overall view of the crisis, Dobbs presents new and often startling information that again confirms that the thirteen days in October brought the world to the edge of an unprecedented cataclysm. Dobbs spends little time describing the characters of the key players, but he does convey a sense of men under immense stress as events threaten to outstrip their ability to cope with them. This is a well-written effort to explain and understand our closest brush with nuclear war. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2526'),
(7063, 'One of Our Thursdays Is Missing', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The newest tour de force from "The New York Times" bestselling author of "Thursday Next" and "Shades of Grey."  Jasper Fforde''s exuberant return to the fantastical BookWorld opens during a time of great unrest. All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the Realworld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday.  The Council wants her to pretend to be the real Thursday and travel as a peacekeeping emissary to the warring factions. A trip up the mighty Metaphoric River beckons-a trip that will reveal a fiendish plot that threatens the very fabric of the BookWorld itself.  Once again "New York Times" bestselling author Jasper Fforde has a field day gleefully blending satire, romance, and thriller with literary allusions galore in a fantastic adventure through the landscape of a frisky and fertile imagination. Fans will rejoice that their favorite character in the Fforde universe is back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3325'),
(7064, 'One of Ours', 'Willa Cather', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Willa Cather''s Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier; Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It is only when his country enters the First World War that Claude finds what he has been searching for all his life.In One of Ours Willa Cather explores the destiny of a grandchild of the pioneers, a young Nebraskan whose yearnings impel him toward a frontier bloodier and more distant than the one that vanished before his birth. In doing so, she creates a canny and extraordinarily vital portrait of an American psyche at once skeptical and romantic, restless and heroic.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3074'),
(7065, 'One Second After', 'William R. Forstchen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in whichÂ oneÂ man strugglesÂ toÂ saveÂ his family and his small North Carolina townÂ after America loses a war, in one second, a warÂ that will send America back to theÂ Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP).Â  A weapon that mayÂ already be in the hands of our enemies.Â Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns couldÂ shatter America.Â In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future...and our end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3600'),
(7066, 'One Shot', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div style="text-align: center; ">\n  <b>\n   SUMMARY:\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <div>\n    A lone gunman unleashes pandemonium when he shoots into a crowd of people in a public plaza in Indiana.Â \n   </div>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div>\n    Five people are killed in cold blood, shot through the head. But he leaves a perfect trail of evidence behind him, and soon the local police chief tracks him down.Â \n   </div>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div>\n    After his arrest, the shooterâ€™s only words are, â€œGet Jack Reacher for me.â€Â \n   </div>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div>\n    What could possibly connect this psychopath and the wandering dropout ex-army cop?\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2550'),
(7067, 'One Summer', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n From #1\n <i>\n  New York Times\n </i>\n bestselling author David Baldacci comes a moving family drama about learning to love again after heartbreak and loss.\n <br />\n <br />\n <b>\n  ONE SUMMER\n </b>\n <br />\n <br />\n It''s almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just when all seems lost, Jack begins to recover in a miraculous turn of events. He rises from what should have been his deathbed, determined to bring his fractured family back together. Struggling to rebuild their lives after Lizzie''s death, he reunites everyone at Lizzie''s childhood home on the oceanfront in South Carolina. And there, over one...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(7068, 'Only Time Will Tell', 'Jeffrey Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer''s most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton''s life begins in 1920, with the chilling words, ''I was told that my father was killed in the war''. But it will be another twenty years before Harry discovers how his father really died, which will only lead him to question: who was his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who worked in Bristol docks, or the first born son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? Only Time will Tellcovers the years from 1920 to 1940, and includes a cast of memorable characters that The Timeshas compared to The Forsyte Saga. Volume one takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford, or join the navy and go to war with Hitler''s Germany. In Jeffrey Archer''s masterful hands, the reader is taken on a journey that they won''t want to end, and when you turn the last page of this unforgettable yarn, you will be faced with a dilemma that neither you, nor Harry Clifton could have anticipated.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3294'),
(7069, 'Operation Mincemeat', 'Ben Macintyre', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Ben Macintyreâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Agent Zigzag\n  </em>\n  was hailed as â€œrollicking, spellbindingâ€ (\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  ), â€œwildly improbable but entirely trueâ€ (\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  ), and, quite simply, â€œthe best book ever writtenâ€ (\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n  ). In his new book,\n  <em>\n   Operation Mincemeat\n  </em>\n  , he tells an extraordinary story that will delight his legions of fans.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicatedâ€” Operation Mincemeat. The purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Charles Cholmondeley of MI5 and the British naval intelligence officer Ewen Montagu could not have been more different. Cholmondeley was a dreamer seeking adventure. Montagu was an aristocratic, detail-oriented barrister. But together they were the perfect team and created an ingenious plan: Get a corpse, equip it with secret (but false and misleading) papers concerning the invasion, then drop it off the coast of Spain where German spies would, they hoped, take the bait. The idea was approved by British intelligence officials, including Ian Fleming (creator of James Bond). Winston Churchill believed it might ring true to the Axis and help bring victory to the Allies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Filled with spies, double agents, rogues, fearless heroes, and one very important corpse, the story of Operation Mincemeat reads like an international thriller.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unveiling never-before-released material, Ben Macintyre brings the reader right into the minds of intelligence officers, their moles and spies, and the German Abwehr agents who suffered the â€œtwin frailties of wishfulness and yesmanship.â€ He weaves together the eccentric personalities of Cholmondeley and Montagu and their near-impossible feats into a riveting adventure that not only saved thousands of lives but paved the way for a pivotal battle in Sicily and, ultimately, Allied success in the war.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2528'),
(7070, 'Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory', 'Ben Macintyre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ben Macintyreâ€™s Agent Zigzag was hailed as â€œrollicking, spellbindingâ€ (New York Times), â€œwildly improbable but entirely trueâ€ (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, â€œthe best book ever writtenâ€ (Boston Globe). In his new book, Operation Mincemeat, he tells an extraordinary story that will delight his legions of fans.In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicatedâ€” Operation Mincemeat. The purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose.Â Charles Cholmondeley of MI5 and the British naval intelligence officer Ewen Montagu could not have been more different. Cholmondeley was a dreamer seeking adventure. Montagu was an aristocratic, detail-oriented barrister. But together they were the perfect team and created an ingenious plan: Get a corpse, equip it with secret (but false and misleading) papers concerning the invasion, then drop it off the coast of Spain where German spies would, they hoped, take the bait. The idea was approved by British intelligence officials, including Ian Fleming (creator of James Bond). Winston Churchill believed it might ring true to the Axis and help bring victory to the Allies.Filled with spies, double agents, rogues, fearless heroes, and one very important corpse, the story of Operation Mincemeat reads like an international thriller.Unveiling never-before-released material, Ben Macintyre brings the reader right into the minds of intelligence officers, their moles and spies, and the German Abwehr agents who suffered the â€œtwin frailties of wishfulness and yesmanship.â€ He weaves together the eccentric personalities of Cholmondeley and Montagu and their near-impossible feats into a riveting adventure that not only saved thousands of lives but paved the way for a pivotal battle in Sicily and, ultimately, Allied success in the war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2749'),
(7071, 'The Operative', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In war-torn Iraq, Strattonâ€™s closest friend is killed whilst on operation, leaving behind a grieving wife and child â€“ Strattonâ€™s godson. When the widow moves to Los Angeles she is brutally murdered and her child placed in state custody. Stratton, rocked to his foundations by the killing, uncovers a FBI plot to hide the crime and sets off on a private operation of revenge that eventually pits him against one of the most powerful East European crime syndicates in America. Hunted by the CIA and FBI as well as a brutal army of Albanian mobsters and armed only with his wits and an extraordinary skill with explosives, Stratton relentlessly pursues his private war; a fight he suspects could be his last. Yet another enjoyable Falconer weave of thrill and action wrapped in the rich authenticity that defined his previous novels, taking the reader on a rollerâ€“coaster ride across half the globe to a nailâ€“biting climax.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/548'),
(7072, 'Oprah: A Biography', 'Kitty Kelley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influæž¸ntial show in television history, she has gotten her guests--often the biggest celebrities in the world--to bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures, and explore their demons. In turn, Oprah has repeatedly allowed her audience to share in her own life story, opening up about the sexual abuse in her past and discussing her romantic relationships, her weight problems, her spiritual beliefs, her charitable donations, and her strongly held views on the state of the world. After a quarter of a century of the Oprah-ization of America, can there be any more secrets left to reveal? Yes. Because Oprah has met her match. Kitty Kelley has, over the same period of time, fearæŸessly and relentlessly investigated and written about the world''s most revered icons: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, England''s Royal Family, and the Bush dynasty. In her #1 bestselling biographies, she has exposed truths and exploded myths to uncover the real human beings that exist behind their manufacæ°Ÿured facades. Turning her reportorial sights on Oprah, Kelley has now given us an unvarnished look at the stories Oprah''s told and the life she''s led. Kelley has talked to Oprah''s closest family members and business associates. She has obtained court records, birth certificates, financial and tax records, and even copies of Oprah''s legendary (and punishing) confidentiality agreements. She has probed every aspect of Oprah Winfrey''s life, and it is as if she''s written the most extraordinary segment of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" ever filmed--one in which Oprah herself is finally and fully revealed. There is a case to be made, and it is certainly made in this book, that Oprah Winfrey is an important, and even great, figure of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But there is also a case to be made that even greatness needs to be examined and put under a microscope. Fact must be separated from myth, truth from hype. Kitty Kelley has made that separation, showing both sides of Oprah as they have never been shown before. In doing so she has written a psychologically perceptive and meticulously researched book that will surprise and thrill everyone who reads it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2037'),
(7073, 'Orchid Beach', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *New York Times* bestselling author Stuart Woods has entertained and engrossed readers with hisfast-paced, suspenseful novels including *Swimming to Catalina, Dead in the Water, Dirt,* and*Chiefs.* Now from this master storyteller comes a riveting thriller introducing an exciting addition tothe pantheon of fictional sleuths.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Smart, attractive, and fiercely independent, Major Holly Barker, thearmy-brat daughter of a master sergeant, has been forced into early retirement at the age of thirty-sevenas the result of a scandalous sexual harassment case. With the help of her dad she makes the move tocivilian life, becoming deputy chief of police in Orchid Beach, Florida.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But below the calm, sunnysurface of this sleepy, well-to-do coastal island town lies a web of evil and deceit that escalates when acolleague and another associate are brutally gunned down. Alone, an outsider with no clues to go on, findingthe killers won''t be easy for Holly, and her seemingly low-key new career soon thrusts her into adangerous game of cat and mouse. Surrounded by a staff of officers she neither knows nor trusts, Hollyfinds help in a most unexpected source--Daisy, a Doberman of exceptional intelligence and loyalty whoquickly becomes her inseparable companion and protector. The closer she gets to unraveling the mystery ofOrchid Beach, however, the nearer Holly comes to danger darker and more deadly than any she could everhave anticipated.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Filled with the dazzling twists and sizzling turns that have made his novels nationalbestsellers and international hits, *Orchid Beach* ranks as one of Stuart Woods''s most inventive andbrilliantly drawn works--an entertaining, nonstop tale that will keep readers on the edge of their seats asis races from the first page to its exhilarating conclusion.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2669'),
(7074, 'Orchid Blues', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Holly''s wedding festivities are shattered-by murder-and Holly vows to find the culprits. With nothing to go on but the corpse of an innocent bystander, Holly discovers evidence that leads her into the midst of a clan whose members are as mysterious as they are zealous. Holly''s father, Ham, a retired Army chief master sergeant, is her ticket into their strange world. What he finds there boggles the mind-and draws Holly, Ham, and Holly''s Doberman Daisy into a whirlpool of crazed criminality from which even the FBI can''t save them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2677'),
(7075, 'An Ordinary Man', 'Paul Rusesabagina', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  For former hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, words are the most powerful weapon in the human arsenal. For good and for evil, as was the case in the spring of 1994 in Rwanda. Over 100 days, some 800,000 people were slaughtered, most hacked to death by machete. RusesabaginaÃ¢â‚¬â€inspiration for the movie\n  <em>\n   Hotel Rwanda\n  </em>\n  Ã¢â‚¬â€used his facility with words and persuasion to save 1,268 of his fellow countrymen, turning the Belgian luxury hotel under his charge into a sanctuary from madness. Through negotiation, favor, flattery and deception, Rusesabagina managed to keep his "guests" alive another day despite the homicidal gangs just beyond the fence and the world''s failure to act. Narrator Hoffman delivers those words in a stirring audio performance. With a crisp African accent, Hoffman renders each sentence with heartfelt conviction and flat-out becomes Rusesabagina. The humble hotel manager not only illuminates the machinery behind the genocide but delves into Rwanda''s complex and colorful cultural history as well as his own childhood, the son of a Hutu father and Tutsi mother. Hoffman successfully draws out the understated elegance of Rusesabagina''s simple and straightforward prose, lending the story added vividness. This tale of good, evil and moral responsibility winds down with Rusesabagina visiting a church outside Kigali where thousands were massacred and where a multilingual sign-cloth now pledges, "Never Again." He once more stops to consider words, the ones he worries lack true convictionÃ¢â‚¬â€like those at the churchÃ¢â‚¬â€as well as the ones with the power to heal. For the listener, the words of Paul Rusesabagina won''t soon be forgotten.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Ã‚Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An extraordinary cautionary tale. --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Extraordinaryâ€”horrific and tragic, but also inspiring, because Rusesabagina refuses to give up his belief in the basic decency of humanity. --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n  , London\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Read this book. It will humble and inspire you. --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Sunday Telegraph\n  </em>\n  , London\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Rusesabagina . . . weaves his countryâ€™s history with his personal history into a rich narrative that attempts to explain the unexplainable. . . . The bookâ€™s emotional power comes from his understatement and humility. --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Boston Globe\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Rusesabaginaâ€™s story of survival amid manic slaughter is as awful as it is gripping. --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Rusesabagina . . . weaves his countryâ€™s history with his personal history into a rich narrative that attempts to explain the unexplainable. . . . The bookâ€™s emotional power comes from his understatement and humility. (\n  <em>\n   The Boston Globe\n  </em>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  An extraordinary cautionary tale. (\n  <em>\n   The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\n  </em>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rusesabaginaâ€™s story of survival amid manic slaughter is as awful as it is gripping. (\n  <em>\n   St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n  </em>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read this book. It will humble and inspire you. (\n  <em>\n   Sunday Telegraph\n  </em>\n  , London)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Extraordinaryâ€”horrific and tragic, but also inspiring, because Rusesabagina refuses to give up his belief in the basic decency of humanity. (\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n  , London)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1839'),
(7076, 'The Other Daughter', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her newest, Gardner (The Perfect Husband) indulges her fascination with the dark side of family life, where the ties that bind also gag, choke and strangle. Professional event planner Melanie Stokes does not suspect that the death of a serial killer in a Texas electric chair 20 years before could have any relevance to her neatly ordered existence. But as it becomes clear that the life she''s known (as the adopted daughter of Boston cardiologist Harper Stokes and his trophy wife, Patricia) is based on ugly secrets and bloody lies, her world unravels. With the help of FBI Agent David Riggs, who makes up for his lack of physical agilityAthe result of ankylosing spondylitis (bad back problems)Awith finely honed reflexes, street smarts and pure sex appeal, Melanie unearths what an intricately planned 25-year-old cover-up can''t hide: the gruesome truth about her parentage. Once again, Gardner serves up suspense at a furious pace. (July)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œJust when you thought Lisa Gardner couldnâ€™t get any better . . . she does.â€â€”Lee Child\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A dark, powerful tale of nerve-shattering suspense."â€”Tami Hoag\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Readers get loads of angst, great procedural stuff, some hair-raising action scenes, and a villain to keep you awake at night. What more can any thriller reader want?"â€”\n <em>\n  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Gardner delivers a streamlined bang-up addition to the oeuvre of Tami Hoag, Karen Robards, Elizabeth Lowell and, these days, even Nora Roberts."â€”\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Scary, gritty, terrifying. Lock the door, leave on a light."â€”\n <em>\n  Oakland Press\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A page-turner."â€”\n <em>\n  Rocky Mountain News\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] suspenseful, engrossing page-turnerâ€¦Totally absorbing, itâ€™s one of those books that keeps you up late, enslaved by the â€˜just one more chapterâ€™ syndrome.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Mystery News\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSheer terrorâ€¦a great read.â€â€“\n <em>\n  Iris Johansen\n </em>\n â€œSheer terrorâ€¦a great read.â€â€”Iris Johansen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/646'),
(7077, 'The Other Queen', 'Philippa Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two women competing for a man''s heartTwo queens fighting to the death for dominanceThe untold story of Mary, Queen of ScotsThis dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history''s most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth''s promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the "guest" of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick.The newly married couple welcome the doomed queen into their home, certain that serving as her hosts and jailers will bring them an advantage in the cutthroat world of the Elizabethan court. To their horror, they find that the task will bankrupt them, and as their home becomes the epicenter of intrigue and rebellion against Elizabeth, their loyalty to each other and to their sovereign comes into question. If Mary succeeds in seducing the earl into her own web of treachery and treason, or if the great spymaster William Cecil links them to the growing conspiracy to free Mary from her illegal imprisonment, they will all face the headsman.Philippa Gregory uses new research and her passion for historical accuracy to place a well-known heroine in a completely new tale full of suspense, passion, and political intrigue. For years, readers have clamored for Gregory to tell Mary''s story, and The Other Queen is the result of her determination to present a novel worthy of this extraordinary heroine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3283'),
(7078, 'The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates', 'Wes Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Wes Moore is a Rhodes Scholar and a combat veteran of Afghanistan. As a White House Fellow, he worked as a special assistant to Secretary Condoleezza Rice at the State Department. He was a featured speaker at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, was named one of Ebony magazine''s Top 30 Leaders Under 30 (2007), and, most recently, was dubbed one of the top young business leaders in New York by Crain''s New York Business." "He works in New York City. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1951'),
(7079, 'Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril', 'King Abdullah II', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest challenge in the world today. When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime crown prince, to be the next king of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special Operations, who discovered his life was in for a major upheaval. This is the inspirational story of a young prince who went to boarding school in America and military academy in Britain and grew up believing he would be a soldier. Back home, he hunted down terrorists and modernized Jordan''s Special Forces. Then, suddenly, he found himself king. Together with his wife, Queen Rania, he transformed what it meant to be a monarch, going undercover to escape the bubble of the court while she became the Muslim world''s most passionate advocate of women''s rights. In this exceptionally candid memoir, King Abdullah tackles the single toughest issue he faces head-on- how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian standoff- and reveals himself to be an invaluable intermediary between America and the Arab world. He writes about the impact of the Iraq war on his neighborhood and how best to tackle Iran''s nuclear ambitions. Why would a sitting head of state choose to write about the most explosive issues he faces? King Abdullah does so now because he believes we face a moment of truth: a last chance for peace in the Middle East. The prize is enormous, the cost of failure far greater than we dare imagine.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest challenge in the world today. When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime crown prince, to be the next king of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special Operations, who discovered his life was in for a major upheaval. This is the inspirational story of a young prince who went to boarding school in America and military academy in Britain and grew up believing he would be a soldier. Back home, he hunted down terrorists and modernized Jordan''s Special Forces. Then, suddenly, he found himself king. Together with his wife, Queen Rania, he transformed what it meant to be a monarch, going undercover to escape the bubble of the court while she became the Muslim world''s most passionate advocate of women''s rights. In this exceptionally candid memoir, King Abdullah tackles the single toughest issue he faces head-on- how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian standoff- and reveals himself to be an invaluable intermediary between America and the Arab world. He writes about the impact of the Iraq war on his neighborhood and how best to tackle Iran''s nuclear ambitions. Why would a sitting head of state choose to write about the most explosive issues he faces? King Abdullah does so now because he believes we face a moment of truth: a last chance for peace in the Middle East. The prize is enormous, the cost of failure far greater than we dare imagine.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2530'),
(7080, 'Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words', 'Albert Einstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An inspiring collection of essays, in which Albert Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a scientist, philosopher, and humanitarianDivided by subject matterâ€”â€œScience,â€ â€œConvictions and Beliefs,â€ â€œPublic Affairs,â€ etc.â€”these essays consider everything from the need for a â€œsupranationalâ€ governing body to control war in the atomic age, to freedom in research and education, to Jewish history and Zionism, to explanations of the physics and scientific thought that brought him world recognition. Throughout, Einsteinâ€™s clear, eloquent voice presents an idealistâ€™s vision and relays complex theories to the layperson.Â Einsteinâ€™s essays share his philosophical beliefs, scientific reasoning, and hopes for a brighter future, and show how one of the greatest minds of all time fully engaged with the changing world around him.Â This authorized Philosophical Library ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3045'),
(7081, 'Out of Sight', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n World-class gentleman felon Jack Foley is busting out of Florida''s Glades Prison when he runs head on into a shotgun-wielding Karen Sisco. Suddenly he''s sharing a cramped car trunk with the classy, disarmed federal marshal and the chemistry is working overtimeâ€”and as soon as she escapes, he''s already missing her. But there are bad men and a major score waiting for Jack in Motown. And the next time his path crosses Karen''s, chances are she''s going to be there for business, not pleasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3127'),
(7082, 'Out of the Silent Planet', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The first book in C. S. Lewis''s acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice, and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Once on the planet, however, Ransom eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to Earth, becoming a stranger in a land that is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity. First published in 1943, Out of the Silent Planet remains a mysterious and suspenseful tour de force.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1181'),
(7083, 'Outcast', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE NEXT CHAPTER IN THE EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY OF THE STAR WARS GALAXY BEGINS HERE. . . .  After a violent civil war and the devastation wrought by the now-fallen Darth Caedus, the Galactic Alliance is in crisisâ€“and in need. From all corners, politicians, power brokers, and military leaders converge on Coruscant for a crucial summit to restore order, negotiate differences, and determine the future of their unified worlds. But even more critical, and far more uncertain, is the future of the Jedi.  In a shocking move, Chief of State Natasi Daala orders the arrest of Luke Skywalker for failing to prevent Jacen Soloâ€™s turn to the dark side and his subsequent reign of terror as a Sith Lord. But itâ€™s only the first blow in an anti-Jedi backlash fueled by a hostile government and suspicious public. When Jedi Knight Valin Horn, scion of a politically influential family, suffers a mysterious psychotic break and becomes a dangerous fugitive, the Jedi become the target of a media-driven witch hunt. Facing conviction on the damning charges, Luke must strike a bargain with the calculating Daala: his freedom in exchange for his exile from Coruscant and from the Jedi Order.  Though forbidden to intervene in Jedi affairs, Luke is determined to keep history from being repeated. With his son, Ben, at his side, Luke sets out to unravel the shocking truth behind Jacen Soloâ€™s corruption and downfall. But the secrets he uncovers among the enigmatic Force mystics of the distant world Dorin may bring his questâ€“and life as he knows itâ€“to a sudden end. And all the while, another Jedi Knight, consumed by the same madness as Valin Horn, is headed for Coruscant on a fearsome mission that could doom the Jedi Order . . . and devastate the entire galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3485'),
(7084, 'Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town', 'Warren St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town\n</p>\n<p>\n Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the worldâ€™s war zonesâ€”from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkstonâ€™s streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colors playing soccer in any open space they could find. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to unify Clarkstonâ€™s refugee children and keep them off the streets. These kids named themselves the Fugees.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set against the backdrop of an American town that without its consent had become a vast social experiment, Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees and their charismatic coach. Warren St. John documents the lives of a diverse group of young people as they miraculously coalesce into a band of brothers, while also drawing a fascinating portrait of a fading American town struggling to accommodate its new arrivals. At the center of the story is fiery Coach Luma, who relentlessly drives her players to success on the soccer field while holding together their livesâ€”and the lives of their familiesâ€”in the face of a series of daunting challenges.\n</p>\n<p>\n This fast-paced chronicle of a single season is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town becoming a global communityâ€”and an account of the ingenious and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2040'),
(7085, 'The Outfit: The Role of Chicago&#39;s Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America', 'Gus Russo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Perhaps the most compelling gangster tale is one that has been, until now, surprisingly well hidden. This is the story of the Outfit: the secret organised crime cartel that began its reign in prohibition era Chicago before becoming the puppet master of Hollywood, Las Vegas and Washington DC. Moving with purpose and panache, the Outfit blended effortlessly with underworld corporate heads, Hollywood moguls, and national political icons. It was only after a fifty-year run that their world started to crumble in the 1970s. With extensive research including recently released FBI files, original interviews with Outfit associates and members of the Fourth Estate (who pursued the Outfit for over forty years) and first ever access to the journals of Humphreys'' long-in-hiding widow, veteran investigative journalist Gus Russo uncovers sixty years of corruption and influence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2303'),
(7086, 'The Outlaw Demon Wails', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n To save the lives of her friends, Rachel did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. And now her sins are coming home to haunt her.   As Rachel searches for the truth behind a terrifying murder, an even greater menace threatens, for the demon Algaliarept will stop at nothing to claim her, and the discovery of a shocking family secret throws Rachel''s entire life into question. If she is ever to live free, Rachel must first walk willingly into the demonic ever-after in search of long-lost ancient knowledge.   But when you dance with demons, you lay your soul on the line . . . and there are some lines that should never be crossed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3441'),
(7087, 'The Outlaws', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Griffin and Butterworth''s long and exceedingly detailed sixth presidential agent thriller (after Black Ops), the U.S. president has ordered Lt. Col. Carlos "Charley" Castillo to disband his secret organization, the Office of Organizational Analysis, and to "fall off the face of the earth." When the president dies of a ruptured aorta, Charley elects instead to reorganize his outfit. He soon becomes entangled in intrigue involving several barrels of virulent biological weaponry and a demand from Vladimir Putin to return the two Russian spies who defected in Black Ops. The new U.S. president, who hates Charley''s guts, wants to turn him over to Putin along with the two defectors. Charley and his intrepid gang engage in meticulous planning, fill in the backstory, banter among themselves, and fly around in exotic planes. Series fans who love these characters will find the novel fulfilling; newcomers and those expecting a big payoff will be disappointed. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Charlie Castillo is going through a bit of a professional shake-up. His top-secret government unit, the mildly named Office of Organizational Analysis, has been disbanded. Charlie and his team have been expelled from government. And the new president (taking over after the former president dropped dead unexpectedly) is distinctly antagonistic toward Charlie and the work he did for the government (something about all those bodies he left behind). It seems like Charlie is down and out, but when several kilograms of Congo-Xâ€”a very nasty, fatal bioweapon that Charlie supposedly destroyedâ€”show up in the U.S., Castillo and his former colleagues race to find out who sent the stuff and what they intend to do with the rest of it. Oh, and the Russians are after Charlie; so is the American government but for (mostly) different reasons. Some action-hungry readers might find the book a bit dialogue-heavy, but fans of Griffinâ€™s military thrillers will be eager to have a go at his latest. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/549'),
(7088, 'Outliers: The Story of Success', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.  Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1075'),
(7089, 'Over the Edge', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The third novel to feature child psychologist Alex Delaware begins with a desperate, garbled phone call from former patient Jamey Cadmus, genius of record and heir to a construction fortune. The next day, Jamey is accused of the Lavender Slashings, a series of grisly homosexual murders that have rocked Los Angeles. The teenager''s lawyer asks Alex to examine Jamey''s recent history with the hope that a plea of diminished capacity will protect Jamey from a prison sentence. Though soon fired, Alex continues his investigation, motivated by the compassion and intelligence previously demonstrated in When the Bough Breaks and Blood Test. Tracing the rocky road of Jamey''s emotional development, Alex crisscrosses L.A., moving from Beverly Hills mansions to biker cabins, from the old Haight district to mountain canyons, with stops at the U.C.L.A. medical library, the high-security section of the L.A.P.D. jail and some exquisitely appointed legal offices. Aided by his friend, homicide detective Milo Sturgis, Alex ignores warnings to stay away from the case and begins to discern an ominous pattern in Jamey''s family history, connecting esoteric South American hallucinogens, a massively irresponsible real-estate scam and the ageless human motivations of revenge and greed. The first two Alex Delaware books were very good indeed. This one, more complexly plotted, more richly psychological and filled with convincing financial and pharmacological details, is the best yet.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/764'),
(7090, 'The Overlook', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In his first case since he left the LAPD''s Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly before the doctor''s death. With the cesium in unknown hands, Harry fears the murder could be part of a terrorist plot to poison a major American city.\n <br />\n Soon, Bosch is in a race against time, not only against the culprits, but also against the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI (in the form of Harry''s one-time lover Rachel Walling), who are convinced that this case is too important for the likes of the LAPD. It is Bosch''s job to prove all of them wrong.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/550');
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(7091, 'The Overton Window', 'Glenn Beck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed . . . can it be stopped? There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future. It works by manipulating public perception so that ideas previously thought of as radical begin to seem acceptable over time. Move the Window and you change the debate. Change the debate and you change the country. For Noah Gardner, a twentysomething public relations executive, itâ€™s safe to say that political theory is the furthest thing from his mind. Smart, single, handsome, and insulated from the worldâ€™s problems by the wealth and power of his father, Noah is far more concerned about the future of his social life than the future of his country. But all of that changes when Noah meets Molly Ross, a woman who is consumed by the knowledge that the America we know is about to be lost forever. She and her group of patriots have vowed to remember the past and fight for the futureâ€”but Noah, convinced theyâ€™re just misguided conspiracy-theorists, isnâ€™t interested in lending his considerable skills to their cause. And then the world changes. An unprecedented attack on U.S. soil shakes the country to the core and puts into motion a frightening plan, decades in the making, to transform America and demonize all those who stand in the way. Amidst the chaos, many donâ€™t know the difference between conspiracy theory and conspiracy factâ€”or, more important, which side to fight for. But for Noah, the choice is clear: Exposing the plan, and revealing the conspirators behind it, is the only way to save both the woman he loves and the individual freedoms he once took for granted. After five back-to-back #1 New York Times bestsellers, national radio and Fox News television host Glenn Beck has delivered a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that seamlessly weaves together American history, frightening facts about our present condition, and a heart-stopping plot. The Overton Window will educate, enlighten, and, most important, entertainâ€”with twists and revelations no one will see coming.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3564'),
(7092, 'Pacific Vortex', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dirk Pitt''s first, most terrific adventure! Dirk Pitt, death-defying adventurer and deep-sea expert, is out to the ultimate test as he plunges into the perilous waters of the Pacific Vortex -- a fog-shrouded sea zone where dozens of ships have vanished without a trace. The latest victim is the awesome superb Starbuck, America''s deep-diving nuclear arsenal. Its loss poses an unthinkable threat to national defense. Pitt''s job is to find it, salvage it, before the sea explodes. In a furious race against time, Pitt''s mission swirls him into a battle with underwater assassins-and traps him in the arms of Summer Moran, the most stunningly exotic and dangerous toward disaster, Clive Cussler plummets his hero onto an ancient sunken island-the astonishing setting for the explosive climax of Pacific Vortex!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1195'),
(7093, 'Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void', 'Mary Roach', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can''t walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk? Is it possible for the human body to survive a bailout at 17,000 miles per hour? To answer these questions, space agencies set up all manner of quizzical and startlingly bizarre space simulations. As Mary Roach discovers, it''s possible to preview space without ever leaving Earth. From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA''s new space capsule (cadaver filling in for astronaut), Roach takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2750'),
(7094, 'The Pact: A Love Story', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Teenage suicide is the provocative topic that Picoult plumbs, with mixed results, in her fifth novel. Popular high-school swimming star Chris Harte and talented artist Em Gold bonded as infants; their parents have been next-door neighbors and best friends for 18 years. When they fall in love, everyone is ecstatic. Everyone, it turns out, except for Em, who finds that sex with Chris feels almost incestuous. Her emotional turmoil, compounded by pregnancy, which she keeps secret, leads to depression, despair and a desire for suicide, and she insists that Chris prove his love by pulling the trigger. The gun is fired in the first paragraph, and so the book opens with a jolt of adrenaline. But Picoult stumbles in delineating both sets of parents'' responses to the tragedy. Unconvincing behavior and dialogue inappropriate to the situation (plus, most importantly, the fact that the parents fail to discuss crucial topics) never touch the essence of bereavement and thus destroy credibility. Picoult redeems herself in flashbacks that reveal the two marital relationships and the personalities of both couples; and she sensitively explores the question of how well parents can ever know their children. After Chris is accused of murder and jailed, the narrative acquires impressive authenticity and suspense, with even the minor characters evoked with Picoult''s keen eye for telling detail. The courtroom scenes (reminiscent of Picoult''s 1996 novel, Mercy), are taut and well paced. Readers may remain unconvinced, however, that an intelligent young man like Chris would not have sought some help rather than respond to his lover''s desperate request. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections; foreign rights sold in Germany, France, Poland and Norway.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Picoult is a writer of high energy and conviction who has, in her fifth novel, brought to life a cast of subtly drawn characters caught up in a tragedy as timeless and resonant as those of the Greeks or Shakespeare. That is not to say that Picoult is anything but accessible; in fact, this psychologically shrewd tale is as suspenseful as any best-selling legal thriller. The Hartes and the Golds, professional folk living next door in an affluent New Hampshire town, are close friends, and their children, the Hartes'' son, Chris, and Emily Gold, were born just weeks apart. Inseparable all through childhood, they slipped from the haven of intimate friendship into the tempestuous realm of love in high school, a transition their parents fully expected and welcomed. But Emily is secretly appalled by the incestuous nature of her relationship with Chris, and when she discovers that she is pregnant, she can imagine only one solution: suicide. Chris is with her when she dies and is consequently charged with her murder. As Picoult takes us through the nightmare that follows, examining each character''s struggle with guilt and sorrow, she forges a finely honed, commanding, and cathartic drama.\n <em>\n  Donna Seaman\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1273'),
(7095, 'The Pact: A Love Story', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From Jodi Picoult, one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction, comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish -- and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence. Until the phone calls came at 3:00 A.M. on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily has been shot to death by her beloved and devoted Chris as part of an apparent suicide pact -- leaving two devastated families stranded in the dark and dense predawn, desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the children they never really knew.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3181'),
(7096, 'Pagan Babies', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Father Terry Dunn thought he''d seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to evade a tax-fraud indictment. Now the whiskey-drinking, Nine Inch Nails T-shirt-wearing padre is back trying to hustle up a score to help the little orphans of Rwanda. But the fund-raising gets complicated when a former tattletale cohort pops up on Terry''s tail. And then there''s the lovely Debbie Dewey. A freshly sprung ex-con turned stand-up comic, Debbie needs some fast cash, too, to settle an old score. Now they''re in together for a bigger payoff than either could finagle alone. After all, it makes sense . . . unless Father Terry is working a con of his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3135'),
(7097, 'A Painted House', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ever since he published\n <em>\n  The Firm\n </em>\n in 1991, John Grisham has remained the undisputed champ of the legal thriller. With\n <em>\n  A Painted House\n </em>\n , however, he strikes out in a new direction. As the author is quick to note, this novel includes "not a single lawyer, dead or alive," and readers will search in vain for the kind of lowlife machinations that have been his stock-in-trade. Instead, Grisham has delivered a quieter, more contemplative story, set in rural Arkansas in 1952. It''s harvest time on the Chandler farm, and the family has hired a crew of migrant Mexicans and "hill people" to pick 80 acres of cotton. A certain camaraderie pervades this bucolic dream team. But it''s backbreaking work, particularly for the 7-year-old narrator, Luke: "I would pick cotton, tearing the fluffy bolls from the stalks at a steady pace, stuffing them into the heavy sack, afraid to look down the row and be reminded of how endless it was, afraid to slow down because someone would notice."\n</p>\n<p>\n What''s more, tensions begin to simmer between the Mexicans and the hill people, one of whom has a penchant for bare-knuckles brawling. This leads to a brutal murder, which young Luke has the bad luck to witness. At this point--with secrets, lies, and at least one knife fight in the offing--the plot begins to take on that familiar, Grisham-style momentum. Still, such matters ultimately take a back seat in\n <em>\n  A Painted House\n </em>\n to the author''s evocation of time and place. This is, after all, the scene of his boyhood, and Grisham waxes nostalgic without ever succumbing to deep-fried sentimentality. Meanwhile, his account of Luke''s Baptist upbringing occasions some sly (and telling) humor:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I''d been taught in Sunday school from the day I could walk that lying would send you straight to hell. No detours. No second chances. Straight into the fiery pit, where Satan was waiting with the likes of Hitler and Judas Iscariot and General Grant. Thou shalt not bear false witness, which, of course, didn''t sound exactly like a strict prohibition against lying, but that was the way the Baptists interpreted it.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Whether Grisham will continue along these lines, or revert to the judicial shark tank for his next book, is anybody''s guess. But\n <em>\n  A Painted House\n </em>\n suggests that he''s perfectly capable of telling an involving story with nary a subpoena in sight.\n <em>\n  --James Marcus\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Who needs lawyers? Not Grisham, in his captivating new novel, now between hardcovers after serialization in the Oxford American. Here there are hardscrabble farmers instead, and dirt-poor itinerant workers and a seven-year-old boy who grows up fast in a story as rich in conflict and incident as any previous Grisham and as nuanced as his very best. It''s September 1952 in rural Arkansas when young narrator Luke Chandler notes that "the hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day." These folk are in Black Oak for the annual harvest of the cotton grown on the 80 acres that the Chandlers rent. The three generations of the Chandler family treat their workers more kindly than most farmers do, including engaging in the local obsession--playing baseball--with them, but serious trouble arises among the harvesters nonetheless. Most of it centers around Hank Spruill, a giant hillbilly with an equally massive temper, who one night in town beats a man dead and who throughout the book rubs up against a knife-wielding Mexican who is dating Hank''s 17-year-old sister on the sly, leading to another murder. In fact, there''s a mess of trouble in Luke''s life, from worries about his uncle Ricky fighting in Korea to concerns about the nearby Latcher family and its illegitimate newborn baby, who may be Ricky''s son. And then there are the constant fears about the weather, as much a character in this novel as any human, from the tornado that storms past the farm to the downpours that eventually flood the fields, ruining the crop and washing Luke and his family into a new life.Grisham admirers know that this author''s writing has evolved with nearly every book, from the simple mechanics that made The Firm click to the manifestations of grace that made The Testament such a fine novel of spiritual reckoning. The mechanics are still visible here--as a nosy, spying boy, Luke serves as a nearly omnipresent eye to spur the novel along its course--but so, too, are characters that no reader will forget, prose as clean and strong as any Grisham has yet laid down and a drop-dead evocation of a time and place that mark this novel as a classic slice of Americana. Agent, David Gernert. (One-day laydown, Feb. 6)FORECAST: Will Grisham''s fans miss the lawyers? Not hardly. This is a Grisham novel all the way, despite its surface departures from the legal thrillers, and it will be received as such, justifying the 2.8-million first printing. (For more on Grisham, see Book News, p. 178)\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1166'),
(7098, 'Painted Ladies', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The brilliant new Spenser novel from the beloved New York Times-bestselling author Robert B. Parker.   Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting.  The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen. Convinced that Ashton Prince played a bigger role than just ransom delivery boy, Spenser enters into a daring game of cat-and-mouse with the thieves. But this is a game he might not come out of alive...  Completed the year before he passed away, Painted Ladies is Spenser and Robert B. Parker at their electrifying best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3494'),
(7099, 'Pakistan: A Hard Country', 'Anatol Lieven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lieven (Chechnya), who has reported on Pakistan off and on for 20 years, offers a compelling argument for reorienting Western interests (and investments) in its wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Given its enormous population (six times that of Afghanistan), the key role Pakistani intelligence plays in Western efforts against terrorism, the strong ties between Pakistan and Western countries (especially Britain), and the fact that Pakistan''s army is one of Asia''s strongest (complete with nuclear weapons), Lieven writes, "Pakistan is quite simply far more important to the region, the West and the world than is Afghanistan: a statement which is a matter not of sentiment but of mathematics." His extensive history and cartography of the country comes equipped with solid policy prescriptionsâ€”for drone attacks to be ceased and for the U.S. to acknowledge how powerfully the bungled invasion of Afghanistan contributed to instability in the regionâ€”and particularly the growth of the Taliban. Though his language can occasionally be patronizing, Lieven''s writing is generally excellent. He wrestles huge amounts of material into a coherent whole, cogently explaining the intricate and interconnected roles played by kinship, regional allegiances, religion, and the military, shedding light on the country "in all its complex patchwork of light and shadow." (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , February 15, 2011\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œLieven breaks down his study by specific region; considers the structures of justice, religion, the military and politics in turn; and, finally, in a skillful, insightful synthesis, addresses the history of and issues concerning the Taliban, both Pakistani and Afghani. A well-reasoned, welcome resource for Western "experts" and lay readers alike.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Edward Luce\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </strong>\n â€œEverybody nowadays seems to take a view on Pakistan. Very few know what they''re talking about. Anatol Lieven is that rare observer - a scholar who writes like the best kind of foreign correspondent about a country that he takes and measures on its own terms.\n <em>\n  Pakistan, a Hard Country\n </em>\n offers an intimate and compellingly relevant portrait of an increasingly pivotal nation to the future of the world, for better or for worse. It fills a large gap in our understanding.â€\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Huffington Post\n  </em>\n  , April 3, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOver the last decade, Lieven has been one of the smartest and most fair-minded commentators on the global situation, and in this important, very timely book, he explains the regions, classes, history, and prospects of Pakistan with equal value for both the neophyte and the expert. Based on Lieven''s first-hand knowledge of the country for the past 20 years.â€\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Economist\n <em>\n  , April 7, 2011\n  <br />\n </em>\n *"Yet for drama, colour and complexity, [Pakistan] is hard to beat; and Anatol Lieven captures the richness of the place wonderfully. His book has the virtues of both journalism and scholarship..."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Foreign Policyâ€™s The AfPak Channel blog\n  </em>\n  , April 11, 2011\n  <br />\n </strong>\n â€œThe release of Anatol Lieven''s latest book, Pakistan: A Hard Country, could not be timelier. This insightful, comprehensive portrait of Pakistan is the perfect antidote to stereotypical descriptions of the country as the most dangerous place in the worldâ€¦ Pakistan: A Hard Country has the power to dampen the paranoia about Pakistan''s security complex, put terrorism in perspective, and humanize Pakistanis.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Foreign Affairs\n  </em>\n  , May/June 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œChallenging the notion that Pakistan is fragile, Lieven presents in exquisite detail how things actually work, for better or for worse, in that â€˜hard country.â€™â€\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n Evening Standard\n <em>\n  , April 21, 2011\n  <br />\n </em>\n *â€œThe gulf betweenâ€¦the multiple realities most Pakistanis know - and how outsiders perceive their country is wide and deep. Lieven''s book is an ambitious and much-needed attempt to bridge it. The most striking thing about the book is its informed and consistently sensible tone. This tone is not heard much in discussions about Pakistan, and it is refreshing. Lieven writes in an affable, conversational voice, but not a casual one. His observations are precise and judicious.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Financial Times\n  </em>\n  , April 22, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPakistan, as Anatol Lieven explains in this thorough analysis of the internal sources of this resilience, will not disintegrate easilyâ€¦He deftly tackles the misperception in the west that Islamist groups might easily sweep through Pakistan.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Nation\n  </em>\n  , April 13, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book could hardly be timelier. Lucid and well informed, he deals carefully with Pakistanâ€™s well-known problems. He raises hope, avoiding the hysteria and partial judgment that disfigure much contemporary writing on the subject. Above all, he emanates a deep affection bordering on love for the unfortunate, beleaguered, magical Pakistan.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The New Republic\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , May 5, 2011\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œhis book may be described as the most informed Gazetteer on contemporary Pakistan. Instead of the too often repeated narrative of Pakistanâ€™s history and ills, he offers a broader sweep into the condition of the provinces, the climate, the political parties and their personalitiesâ€”and, in his best chapter, an important discussion of how todayâ€™s Taliban represent a continuation of similar uprisings a century ago.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Dallas Morning News\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , May 9, 2011\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œSince the death of Osama bin LadenÂ in Pakistan last week, itâ€™s become increasingly clear that anyone hoping to follow international affairs should perhaps have begun watching that country some time ago. Fortunately, Pakistan: A Hard Country serves as an outstanding primer â€” even reading just the introduction is supremely usefulâ€¦ Lieven crafts a lucid and thoroughly fascinating whole from a wealth of informationâ€¦ Lievenâ€™s writing is excellent, especially crucial in a book tackling a topic with which many readers are entirely unfamiliar. Moreover, he clearly loves the place and its people.\n <em>\n  Pakistan\n </em>\n <em>\n  : A Hard Country\n </em>\n is the work of one of those rare writers able to see his subject in all its complexity, without either turning away or becoming a partisan of one perspective or the other.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   IBN Live,\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  May 19, 2011\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œIf I had to review the book ''Pakistan: A Hard Country'' in one line I would say it is brilliant. The book is well researched, informative, insightful, but most of all for a country that finds itself often in headline news for the wrong reasons, empathetic.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Age\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , May 20, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn his fine new book Pakistan. A Hard Country, Lieven argues that while the state is weak, Pakistani society is immensely strong.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New Statesman\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , May 12, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œdoes much to counter lazy assumptions about the country that proliferate elsewhere"\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Spectator,\n  </em>\n  May 13, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHis analysis of networks and systems is precise; his accounts of his travels illuminating as well as entertaining.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Guardian,\n  </em>\n  May 1, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLieven''s Pakistan: A Hard Country is one such blow for clarity and sobrietyâ€¦ Lieven overturns many prejudices, and gives general readers plenty of fresh concepts with which to think about a routinely misrepresented country.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Independent,\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  May 5, 2011\n  <br />\n </strong>\n â€œLieven''s feat lies in his remarkable, flesh-and-blood portrait of the nation, ranging across demographic swathes and including a chorus of voices from farmers to intelligence officers. The picture is one of a semi-anarchic nation mired in police savagery, institutional corruption, population bulges, water shortages and the risk of catastrophic environmental disaster following last year''s floods.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  , June 26, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAmbitiousâ€¦a sweeping and insightful narrative.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Newsline Magazine\n  </em>\n  , June, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <em>\n  Pakistan: A Hard Country\n </em>\n manages to be clear-headed and realistic, a welcome respite from the scare-mongering that taints so many western accounts of Pakistan.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Organiser (India)\n  </em>\n  , June 26, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is about the best that has been published in recent times about Pakistan.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   MoneyLife (India)\n  </em>\n  , June 18, 2011\n  <br />\n </strong>\n â€œ\n <em>\n  Pakistan-A Hard Country\n </em>\n is one of the most detailed accounts of a country which often seems like it is held together by chewing gum (or willpower, if you like)â€”but what still makes it tick? Anatol Lieven knows, and it shows in this work.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , June 27, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Lieven] brings an infectious enthusiasm to his task of summarizing the workings of the world''s sixth most populous country. In this quest, he ranges effortlessly from a police station in Peshawar to a politician''s mansion in the Punjab to the mean streets of Karachi. He dishes up pithy observations while delving deep into the nation''s history, politics, culture and institutionsâ€¦ Mr. Lieven''s eye for detail, command of subcontinental history and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting make this in many ways an excellent primer on Pakistan.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Nation\n  </em>\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  July 18, 2011\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLieven has written a sensible and thorough exploration of Pakistanâ€™s political sphereâ€¦ Pakistan is a large subject, and an unforgivingly complicated one at that, yet Lieven manages to tackle some of its most obscure problems without losing his cool... Lieven has written a very measured book, no easy task when writing about such a hard country.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   TotalPolitics.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  summer reading guide, June 28, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œcounter-intuitiveâ€¦ [Lieven] argues that the question should be not why Islamist political movements are so strong in Pakistan today, but why they are so weak. Provocative.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Irish Times,\n  </em>\n  June 4, 2011\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn insightful book that is part anthropological study, part reportage. Threaded throughout are the voices of ordinary Pakistanis farmers, politicians, spooks, landowners, businessmen, soldiers, judges, clerics and jihadis whose contributions in the form of direct quotes enliven and illuminate this complex yet affectionate portrait of their country. Published just before bin Laden s death, the book does not read as if it has been overtaken by events. Indeed, its textured, penetrating survey of the dynamics shaping contemporary Pakistan could hardly be more timely, given the relative dearth of literature on the subject. Lieven makes a com...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2533'),
(7100, 'Pale Demon', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Condemned and shunned for black magic, Rachel Morgan has three days to get to the annual witchesâ€™ conference and clear her name, or be trapped in the demonic ever-after . . . forever after.  But a witch, an elf, a living vampire, and a pixy in one car going across the country? Talk about a recipe for certain disaster, even without being the targets for assassination.  For after centuries of torment, a fearsome demon walks in the sunlightâ€”freed at last to slay the innocent and devour their souls. But his ultimate goal is Rachel Morgan, and in the fight for survival that follows, even embracing her own demonic nature may not be enough to save her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3682'),
(7101, 'The Pale King', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace''s death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions--questions of life''s meaning and of the value of work and society--through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace''s unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3602'),
(7102, 'Palimpsest', 'Catherynne M. Valente', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **In the Cities of Coin and Spice** and **In the Night Garden** introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a strangerâ€™s kiss.â€¦\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ****Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curseâ€”a voyage permitted only to those whoâ€™ve always believed thereâ€™s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November; Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named Sei. Theyâ€™ve each lost something importantâ€”a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in lifeâ€”and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/936'),
(7103, 'Palindrome', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When both your past and future spell fear. Award-winning author Stuart Woods has crafted a masterful novel no reader will soon forget. For years, Liz Barwick has been battered by her brutal husband, a famous pro football player. This time it takes an emergency room to keep her from death. Now, the beautiful and talented photographer retreats to an island paradise off Georgia''s coast to find solitude--and herself. As she becomes increasingly involved with the strange and handsome twin scions of the powerful Drummond family, she feels her traumatic memories begin to fade. But when a killer launches a series of gruesome murders, Liz discovers that there is no place to hide--not even in her lover''s arms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2654'),
(7104, 'Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Palm Sunday is a self-portrait by an American genius. Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too human journey through life. It is a work that resonates with Vonnegut''s singular voice: the magic sound of a born-story teller mesmerizing us with truth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2041'),
(7105, 'Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949', 'Antony Beevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Early postwar France saw the trials of collaborationist leaders, de Gaulle''s reestablishment of the republic and his abrupt resignation in 1946, widespread panic at the prospect of a Communist or right-wing coup and the arrival of Marshall Plan aid, which rescued the country from economic collapse. This engaging chronicle set in Paris--a magnet for Picasso, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, Wright, Orwell, Hemingway, Breton, Koestler, Philby--captures the desperation and exhilaration of those years through a blend of history, eyewitness accounts, interviews, telling incident and gossip. Beevor ( The Spanish Civil War ) and Cooper ( Cairo in the War: 1939-1945 ) illuminate the blind Stalinism of France''s "progressive" intelligentsia, protracted enmity between resisters and collaborators, early years of the Cold War and France''s love-hate relationship with the U.S.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Husband-and-wife team of Beevor and Cooper have produced a thorough, fascinating account of postwar Paris. The authors focus on three themes: the bitter struggle of Resistance supporters against the collaborators of the Vichy government; the city''s emergence as the intellectual and cultural mecca of the world; and the development of a love-hate relationship between France and the country that did the most to liberate it-the United States. Beevor and Cooper benefited from access to private manuscripts, including the papers of Duff Cooper, the British ambassador to France immediately after the war and grandfather of Artemis. The book is filled with sound, balanced insights and witty observations. It should prove enjoyable and valuable both for specialists and general readers. Readers will also value it because it was one of the last projects on which Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis worked as an editor at Doubleday.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   T.J. Schaeper, St. Bonaventure Univ., N.Y.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2534'),
(7106, 'The Paris Option', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A fiery explosion shatters a laboratory building in Paris. Among the dead is Emile Chambord, one of the leaders in the global race to create a molecular - or DNA - computer. Unfortunately, Professor Chambord kept the details of his work secret, and his notes were apparently destroyed in the fire. Then suddenly US fighter jets disappear from radar screens for a full five minutes and there''s no explanation; utilities cease to function; and all telecommunications abruptly stop, with devastating consequences. This is not the work of a clever hacker - only the enormous power and speed of a DNA computer could have caused such havoc.Covert-One agent Jon Smith flies to Paris to investigate. Following a trail that leads him across two continents, he uncovers a web of deception that threatens to re-shape the world for ever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1190'),
(7107, 'The Paris Vendetta', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile in 1821, he took to the grave a powerful secret. As general and emperor, he had stolen immeasurable riches from palaces, national treasuries, and even the Knights of Malta and the Vatican. In his final days, his British captors hoped to learn where the loot lay hidden. But he told them nothing, and in his will he made no mention of the treasure. Or did he? Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone isn''t looking for trouble when it comes knocking at his Copenhagen bookshop. Actually, it breaks and enters in the form of an American Secret Service agent with a pair of assassins on his heels. Malone has his doubts about the anxious young man, but narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight convinces him to follow his unexpected new ally. Their first stop is the secluded estate of Malone''s good friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen. The wily Danish tycoon has uncovered the insidious plans of the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. Only by matching wits with a terrorist-for-hire, foiling a catastrophic attack, and plunging into a desperate hunt for Napoleon''s legendary lost treasure can Malone hope to avert international financial anarchy. But Thorvaldsen''s real objective is much more personal: to avenge the murder of his son by the larcenous aristocrat at the heart of the conspiracy. Thorvaldsen''s vendetta places Malone in an impossible quandary-one that forces him to choose between friend and country, past and present. Starting in Denmark, moving to England, and ending up in the storied streets and cathedrals of Paris, Malone plays a breathless game of duplicity and death, all to claim a prize of untold value. But at what cost?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3362'),
(7108, 'The Paris Wife', 'Paula McLain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happinessâ€”until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile groupâ€”the fabled â€œLost Generationâ€â€”that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.  Though deeply in love, the Hemingways are ill prepared for the hard-drinking and fast-living life of Jazz Age Paris, which hardly values traditional notions of family and monogamy. Surrounded by beautiful women and competing egos, Ernest struggles to find the voice that will earn him a place in history, pouring all the richness and intensity of his life with Hadley and their circle of friends into the novel that will become The Sun Also Rises. Hadley, meanwhile, strives to hold on to her sense of self as the demands of life with Ernest grow costly and her roles as wife, friend, and muse become more challenging. Despite their extraordinary bond, they eventually find themselves facing the ultimate crisis of their marriageâ€”a deception that will lead to the unraveling of everything they''ve fought so hard for. A heartbreaking portrayal of love and torn loyalty, The Paris Wife is all the more poignant because we know that, in the end, Hemingway wrote that he would rather have died than fallen in love with anyone but Hadley.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3281'),
(7109, 'The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake', 'Aimee Bender', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parentsâ€™ attention, bites into her motherâ€™s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her motherâ€™s emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her motherâ€”her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do motherâ€”tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose. The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hiddenâ€”her motherâ€™s life outside the home, her fatherâ€™s detachment, her brotherâ€™s clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them. It is heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad, and confirms Aimee Benderâ€™s place as â€œa writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of languageâ€ (San Francisco Chronicle).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3335'),
(7110, 'The Partner', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well.But Danilo had a past with many chapters. Four years earlier he had been Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent Biloxi law firm. He had a pretty wife, a new daughter, and a bright future. Then one cold winter night Patrick was trapped in a burning car and died a horrible death. When he was buried his casket held nothing more than his ashes.From a short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial. Then he fled. Six weeks later, a fortune was stolen from his ex-law firm''s offshore account. And Patrick fled some more.But they found him.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1274'),
(7111, 'Party Girl', 'Anna David', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n David, who has written about celebrities for glossy mags, delivers the saga of Amelia Stone, who writes about celebrities for a trashy gossip magazine. Amelia''s on the L.A. merry-go-round of sex, booze and drugs, and she likes the ride and the A-list company. The patter is bubbly and witty, whether Amelia is getting in trouble at work, getting tangled up in another sexual exploit, snorting lines or puking on herself. Then her parents send her to a luxe rehab clinic after she ODs and gets fired, and on her last day there she learns she''s been tapped, on the basis of her wild reputation, to write a column for a major magazine. The hitch? She''s now sober, something she''s afraid to admit to her employer. Amelia''s deliberation on this point is drawn out, though David finds a steady supply of material in Amelia''s closet sobriety. Between fake vodka shots and interest from HBO to turn her column into a series (yes, really), Amelia finds her way to a happy, sober ending. There will be inevitable comparisons to Sex and the City (Amelia is certainly cast in the Carrie Bradshaw mold), but pink book jacket connoisseurs will likely prefer the original.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Candace Bushnell and Jane Green will lap up David''s debut novel, based on her real-life experiences as a cocaine-snorting Hollywood socialite. Billed as this summer''s beach read, Party Girl is the tale of twentysomething Amelia Stone, lowly staff writer at Absolutely Fabulous, a celebrity gossip sheet. Amelia''s round-the-clock revelry (and frequent visits to the office bathroom for a fix) get her fired from her job. There are the obligatory stint at rehab (the book''s best moments, by far) and the chance at a new beginning as a society columnist for a leading magazine. But can Amelia banter about the decadent lifestyle without actually indulging in it? If journalist and television commentator David has done even half the drugs of her fictional creation, it''s a wonder she''s aliveâ€”and coherent enough to write about it. It''s hard to muster much sympathy for Amelia, who lacks the self-deprecation of Sex and the City narrator Carrie Bradshaw. This is mildly engaging stuff, most valuable, perhaps, as a cautionary tale (Paris Hilton, take note). Block, Allison\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2042'),
(7112, 'The Passage', 'Justin Cronin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Andromeda Strainmeets The Standin this startling and stunning thriller that brings to life a unique vision of the apocalypse and plays brilliantly with vampire mythology, revealing what becomes of human society when a top-secret government experiment spins wildly out of control. At an army research station in Colorado, an experiment is being conducted by the U.S. Government: twelve men are exposed to a virus meant to weaponize the human form by super-charging the immune system. But when the experiment goes terribly wrong, terror is unleashed. Amy, a young girl abandoned by her mother and set to be the thirteenth test subject, is rescued by Brad Wolgast, the FBI agent who has been tasked with handing her over, and together they escape to the mountains of Oregon. As civilization crumbles around them, Brad and Amy struggle to keep each other alive, clinging to hope and unable to comprehend the nightmare that approaches with great speed and no mercy. . . From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3326');
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(7113, 'The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes and Stories of My Life', 'Pat Conroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n chapter oneNathalie DupreeThe first actual cooking teacher who took both my money and my grief for imparting culinary secrets to me was the inimitable, unclassifiable queen of the Southern kitchen, Nathalie Dupree. Though Nathalie does not know this, she is one of the few people in my life who seems more like a fictional character than a flesh-and-blood person.When my novel Beach Music came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book, and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome. Several journalists who write about food for newspapers interviewed me about the food angle in the novel, curious about the fact that the book''s protagonist, Jack McCall, wrote cookbooks and restaurant reviews. A woman from the Washington Post conducted a delightful interview over the phone, and during our conversation, I mentioned that I had taken Nathalie''s course in the cooking school she ran in the old Rich''s department store in downtown Atlanta. The woman called Nathalie after our interview, and Nathalie tracked me down to report on the nature of their conversation.Nathalie''s voice is deep and musical and seductive. She possesses the rare ability to be both maddening and hilarious in the course of a single sentence. Her character is a shifting, ever-changing thing, and she reinvents herself all over again every couple of years. In one way, she seems the same, yet you are aware she is in the process of a complete transformation. When she tells about her life, you could swear she was speaking of a hundred women, not just one."Pat, darling," Nathalie said on the phone, "all my working life I''ve been scheming and plotting and dreaming of ways to get an interview with the food editor of the Washington Post. You can imagine my joy when I heard that the food editor of the Post had left a message on my answering machine. And I thought, Yes, it''s finally happening; your prayers have been answered, Nathalie.""That''s great, Nathalie," I said, not quite knowing where she was going with this. You never know where Nathalie is going with a train of thought; you simply know that the train will not be on time, will carry many passengers, and will eventually collide with a food truck stalled somewhere down the line on damaged tracks."Can you imagine my disappointment when I found out that they wanted to interview me about you, instead of about me. I admit, Pat, that after I got over the initial shock, it turned suddenly to bitterness. After all, what do I possibly get out of talking about you when I could be talking about my own cookbooks? Naturally, I did not let on a word about what I was really thinking, but I did suggest, very subtly I might add, that she might want to do a feature on me and my work sometime in the future. When were you in my class, Pat?""In 1980," I said."I don''t remember that. Did you really take my class? Who else was in it?""My wife Lenore. Jim Landon. George Lanier. A nice woman who lived on the same floor as my dad in the Darlington Apartments.""It doesn''t ring a bell for me," she said. "Was I good?""You were wonderful," I said."All my ex-students say that. It must be a gift.""You were a great teacher.""And sexy. I won''t be happy until you tell me I was also extraordinarily sexy.""I could barely cook I was so aroused. All the other men in the class felt the same way. It''s hard to make a perfect souffle when you''re rutting.""Pat, you know the way to a young girl''s heart," Nathalie said. "But I want you to know that I''ll always be perfectly furious at you for getting into the Washington Post food world before I did. That''s my bailiwick, not yours.""It will never happen again, Nathalie," I promised. "All your bailiwicks will be safe from poor Conroy."When Nathalie taught her cooking class at Rich''s, I learned new lessons about insouciance, style, and lack of preparation. Always, at the last minute, Nathalie''s worthy assistant, Kate Almand, would move in to provide a missing utensil or bag of flour or loin of veal that Nathalie had misplaced or left in her car. The joy of watching Nathalie''s cooking shows on television has always come from her artless displays of confusion and disorganization, and her sheer bravado when she actually makes a mistake. Unlike Martha Stewart, Nathalie often looks beaten up when she completes a segment of her show. She can be covered with flour up to her elbows after baking a loaf of bread, can drop her perfectly roasted capon on the kitchen floor, or can garnish her pumpkin pie with cooked rice that she meant to put in her delicious cream of carrot soup. On her television show, Nathalie has turned the culinary mistake or misstep into her signature moment.Nathalie is always worth the price of admission and I love cooking with her. Disorder follows her around like a spaniel. There is no hum of quiet efficiency in her kitchen to intimidate me as I caramelize the onions or beat the egg whites to a stiff peak. She prides herself on being a hands-on cook, and I have seen her hands dripping with batter, red with blood, and crimson from handling baby beets. Like most good cooks, she is absolutely fearless, taking on each task with gusto. And her conversation mixes well with the mouthwatering aromas rising out of her kitchen as the meal takes shape around us. I personally do not believe Nathalie has ever enjoyed a quiet meal at home with her equally hospitable husband, the writer Jack Bass. When I knew her in Atlanta, the whole city in all its shapes, races, and classes seemed to pass by her dining room table. She attracts friends like a magnet does iron filings. Her desire to entertain and feed people seems insatiable to me, a mark of her character as striking as her beautiful almond-shaped eyes.On the night our class made a crown roast of pork, orange and fennel salad, turnip greens and grits, and crÃ¨me brÃ»lÃ©e for dessert, she told a story in fits and starts that ended only after she poured the dessert wine. I soon found myself looking forward to Nathalie''s stories as much as I did her recipes. They ranged the world and involved famous chefs, cookbook writers of note, lovers and husbands and boyfriends of both the charming and monstrous varieties. I preferred the stories of her lovers because her voice could turn smoky and catlike as we, her students, chopped and shredded and prepared our meals according to her instructions. The story and the food comingled and exchanged properties.I can taste neither fennel nor crÃ¨me brÃ»lÃ©e without thinking of the story she told that night. I tell it from memory, but I will try to use Nathalie''s ineffable voice. She could say the word "lover" and infuse it with all the savor and forbiddenness of a Frenchwoman recalling an affair with an Italian count. "I was living in Greenwich Village in New York," she told us. "I had taken up with a dashing, utterly charming man. He turned out to be a perfect cad, but didn''t they all in those days, darling? Jim, I''d slice that fennel a little thinner. It looks too much like celery when you slice it that way. Yes, perfect. He was, by far, the most sophisticated, demanding lover I had ever been involved with up to that time. He was the consummate gourmet who had eaten in the finest restaurants in the world since he was a child. Well. I decided I was going to cook him a meal that he would never forget, one that would prove my love for him, yet honor his amazing sophistication."I went next door to get advice from the two gay men who lived in the most spectacular apartment. They knew everybody and everything, but they were of no help that day. Greenwich Village was astir, at least the gay portion of the Village--no small share, I assure you--with the news of a gay serial killer who would not only murder his poor victims, but would then mutilate them in ghastly ways. My neighbors'' hysteria rendered them useless and I heard them turn all six locks in their door as soon as I left their apartment and began the search for the most unusual meal for my lover."There was a little butcher shop in the East Village that sold specialty meats and could usually come up with a surprise. Pat, use a whisk to beat your eggs for the crÃ¨me brÃ»lÃ©e. You''re not scrambling eggs for a country brunch. This is a French dish, dearie. Oh, where was I? Yes. The butcher had a surprise for me. He had two things in his shop he had never carried before: live escargots and testicles freshly cut from yearling calves in upper New York State. ''Mountain oysters!'' I shouted in triumph, and I was sure that every snail my lover had eaten had come from a can. I paid cash for everything. I spent a fortune. But that''s what you do when you''re in love. You''re never yourself. You are possessed. You''ll do anything. George, you need to get your pork into the oven. Less fanaticism with the presentation. It''s lovely, but it''s still pork. And trichinosis is a fact of life. I took the mountain oysters and snails back to my apartment, then left them in the sink and ran down to buy the wine for the meal. I threw some ice on the calves'' testicles because organ meat is very perishable. But I got delayed when I asked the French chef who ran a restaurant on my street about the preparation of the escargots. He had a certain dark frisson and I soon realized he was flirting with me. This made me late in my return. My lover would be arriving with roses in a few hours. I opened the door of my apartment and I''ll never forget what I saw there! I''ve had nightmares about it more than once. The snails had conspired to effect a vast breakout. They were everywhere. On the walls, on the ceiling, trailing their slimy bodies across my copper pans, and my cookbooks. My screams of repulsion and terror resounded throughout my apartment building."The two dear gay men next door were the first neighbors to arrive. But the escargots did not interest them. They were transfixed by the sight of a whole bucket of male genitalia in my sink. You could not blame them. They had never seen mountain oysters, nor did they know that anyone would cook and eat them. They thought they had stumbled into the lair of the serial killer who was preying on and mutilating gay males. The snails on the walls simply added a note of horror to it all. They fled screaming down the stairs and out into the streets. The police were called. It was an affair to remember. Pat, are you burning your greens? Good; it''s sinful to burn greens. There''s always a point of no return, you know."Did I fix my lover dinner that night? But of course. All the commotion simply made the evening more special. I served the escargots in their own shells with garlic, butter, and parsley--after I boiled and cleaned them, of course. I fried the mountain oysters, and they were superb. After dinner and cognac, my lover and I--ah, but that is personal, part of the night''s mystery. There are parts of some stories that should never be told. Ah. Class, take a deep breath. Dinner is almost ready. Smell it. Breathe deeply. Now. Now."Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators. Either was good alone, but in communion with each other, they could rise to the level of ecstasy.Three of Nathalie''s recipes.MELON RING WITH MINT AND HONEY-LIME DRESSINGThe last time Nathalie Dupree invited me to dinner, she met me at the front door and told me with her most theatrical flourish that she felt "worse than a rabid dog or the parakeet that the proverbial cat dragged in." She is a woman of great entrances and exits, and said to me, "Pat, you must play the part of the gentleman and rescue this damsel in distress. You were my student, and you must cook the meal and save this night for me. If my guests realized I was about to begin projectile vomiting across the room, they''d just die.""I will fix the meal gladly, Nathalie," I said, moving toward the kitchen as she moved out to the living room and the sounds of her guests in conversation. I made the meal: a standing rib roast, a simple green salad, steamed asparagus, and fresh peaches with cream and a scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream. To begin the meal, Nathalie asked, "I got a call from our good mutual friend from Atlanta, the one who''s been married six times. Do you have any theories about why all her husbands have turned out to be gay?"â€¢ Serves 6 to 82 envelopes unflavored gelatin2 cups freshly squeezed orange juice1/2 cup sugar1/2 cup fresh lemon juice1/4 cup finely chopped mint leaves1 cup melon balls (preferably a mix of cantaloupe, honeydew, and/or similar kinds), plus additional (optional)For the dressing1 cup yogurt1/4 cup honey1/4 cup fresh lime juice1. Place the gelatin, 1 cup of the orange juice, and the sugar in a small pan and heat until the gelatin and sugar are dissolved. Do not let the mixture come to a boil.2. Remove the gelatin mixture from the heat and add the lemon juice, the remaining 1 cup orange juice, and the mint.3. Put the pan over a bowl of ice water and stir for a few minutes until the gelatin begins to thicken. Fold in the melon balls. Pour into a 4-cup ring mold and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.4. Unmold and fill the center with additional melon balls, if desired. To make the dressing: Mix all the ingredients together and serve with the ring and melon balls.*****From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1953'),
(7114, 'A Patchwork Planet', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Barnaby Gaitlin is one of Anne Tyler''s most promising unpromising characters. At 30, he has yet to graduate from college, is already divorced, and is used to defeat. His mother thrives on reminding him of his adolescent delinquency and debt to his family, and even his daughter is fed up with his fecklessness. Still, attuned as he is to "the normal quota for misfortune," Barney is one of the star employees of Baltimore''s Rent-a-Back, Inc., which pays him an hourly wage to help old people (and one young agoraphobe) run errands and sort out their basements and attics. Anne Tyler makes you admire most of these mothball eccentrics (though they''re far from idealized) and hope that they can stave off nursing homes and death. There is, for example, "the unstoppable little black grandma whose children phoned us on an emergency basis whenever she threatened to overdo." And then there''s Barnaby''s new girlfriend''s aunt, who will eventually accuse him of theft--"Over her forearm she carried a Yorkshire terrier, neatly folded like a waiter''s napkin. ''This is my doorbell,'' she said, thrusting him toward me. ''I''d never have known you were out here if not for Tatters.''" These people are wonderful creations, but their lives are more brittle than cuddly, Barnaby knows better than to think of them as friends, because they''ll only die on him. Yet his job offers at least glimpses of roots and affection. Helping an old lady set up her Christmas tree (on New Year''s Eve!) gives him the chance to hang a singular ornament--a snowflake "pancake-sized, slightly crumpled, snipped from gift wrap so old that the Santas were smoking cigarettes." And Barnaby himself is sharp and impatient at painful--and painfully funny--family dinners, apparently unable to keep his finger off the auto-self-destruct button every time his life improves. As much as his superb creator, he is a poet of disappointment, resignation, and minute transformation.\n  <em>\n   --Kerry Fried\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Morse''s reading in a calm, even tone reflects the unruffled attitude of the central character in this story. After getting into trouble early in his young adult life, and subsequently paying for his crime, Barney Gaitlin has achieved a level of fulfillment working with senior citizens. Unfortunately, he is perceived by most of his family and friends as a failure, not having attained a college education nor a high-paying position in a high-profile profession. In a relationship with Sophia Maynard, he tries to find a greater level of stability, partly to create a more suitable atmosphere in which to establish closer ties with his young daughter. Tyler''s (The Ladder of Years, Audio Reviews, LJ 8/96) characters are real people recognizable in one''s own circle of acquaintances. The bonds and tensions arising among family members are readily understandable. A definite recommendation for academic and public library fiction collections.?Catherine Swenson, Norwich Univ., VT\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/972'),
(7115, 'Path of the Assassin', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After rescuing the President from kidnappers in Brad Thorâ€™s roaring national bestselling debut, Navy SEAL turned Secret Service Agent Scot Harvath shifts his attentions to rooting out, capturing, or killing all those responsible for the plot. As he prepares to close out his list, a bloody and twisted trail of clues points toward one manâ€”the worldâ€™s most ruthless terrorist. One problem remains: Harvath and his CIA-led team have no idea what the man looks like. With no alternative, they are forced to recruit a civilianâ€”a woman who has survived a brutal hijacking and is now the only person who can positively identify their quarry. From the burning deserts of North Africa to the winding streets of Rome, Harvath must brave a maelstrom of bloodshed and deception before a madmanâ€™s twisted vision engulfs the world in the fires of all-out war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3929'),
(7116, 'Paths of Glory', 'Jeffrey Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary, Neil Armstrong, and Lewis and Clark are among such individuals. But what if one man had such a dream, and once he''d fulfilled it, there was no proof that he had achieved his ambition? Jeffrey Archer''s latest book, Paths of Glory, is the story of such a man---George Mallory. Mallory once told an American reporter that he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, "because it''s there." On his third attempt in 1924, at age thirty-seven, he was last seen six hundred feet from the top. His body was found in 1999, and it still remains a mystery whether he ever reached the summit. But only after you''ve turned the last page of this extraordinary novel, inspired by a true story, will you be able to decide if George Mallory''s name should be added to the list of legends, in which case another name would have to be removed. Paths of Glory is truly a triumph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3308'),
(7117, 'Patriot Games', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Red Storm Rising\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Sum of All Fears\n  </em>\n  brings Jack Ryan back in his to fight his deadliest battle yet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From England to Ireland to America, an explosive wave of violence sweeps a CIA analyst and his family into the deadliest game of our time: international terrorism. An ultra-left-wing faction fo the IRA has targeted the CIA man for his act of salvation in an assasination attempt. And now he must pay ... with his life.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Introduced in The Hunt for Red October, Jack Ryan, the naval historian who freelances for the CIA, returns in this novel, in which Clancy demonstrates once again that he is a master of a genre he seems to have createdthe technico-military thriller. On a visit with his wife and daughter in London, Ryan stumbles onto an attempt by a new Irish revolutionary group to kidnap the Prince and Princess of Wales and their eldest son. Using his Marine Corps training, Ryan saves the royals (which leads to several visits between the Ryans and the residents of Buckingham Palace), but Ryan becomes the target of the surviving terrorists. Many familiar elements of the Clancy style are evident here: a fascination with machines and systems and procedures; thin characters; idealization of the soldier''s life ("the discipline and the essential toughness that makes them different"); sarcastic humor; and a discordant sentimentality about family life. There are also some unintended ironies, particularly Clancy''s praise of the CIA and the Marines, considering recent news from Washington and Moscow. Nonetheless, Clancy spins a marvelously tense yarn that will appeal to his legion of fans. First serial rights to Penthouse; Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Military Book Club, Reader''s Digest Condensed Books selections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1169'),
(7118, 'Paul of Dune', 'Brian Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Frank Herbert''s Dune ended with Paul Muad''Dib in control of the planet Dune. Herbert''s next Dune book, Dune Messiah, picked up the story several years later after Paul''s armies had conquered the galaxy. But what happened between Dune and Dune Messiah? How did Paul create his empire and become the Messiah? Following in the footsteps of Frank Herbert, New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson are answering these questions in Paul of Dune. The Muad''Dib''s jihad is in full swing. His warrior legions march from victory to victory. But beneath the joy of victory there are dangerous undercurrents. Paul, like nearly every great conqueror, has enemies--those who would betray him to steal the awesome power he commands. . . . And Paul himself begins to have doubts: Is the jihad getting out of his control? Has he created anarchy? Has he been betrayed by those he loves and trusts the most? And most of all, he wonders: Am I going mad? Paul of Dune is a novel everyone will want to read and no one will be able to forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3534'),
(7119, 'Paulo Coelho: A Warrior&#39;s Life', 'Fernando Morais', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Paulo Coelho is a worldwide phenomenon. At a time when he is coming up to the fantastic achievement of 100 million copies sold worldwide across all his books, his fans will be delighted with the first ever official biography of Paulo, an in-depth look at his life and work, and what makes him the much-loved author he is today.Paulo''s first official biographer, Fernando Morais, provides an exhaustive look at Paulo''s fascinating and varied life, taking several years to research his subject, and interviewing everyone who knows Paulo. He weaves together the strands of Paulo''s life, revealing the man behind the world-famous writer.Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 1947. Before he became internationally known and a worldwide bestseller, he had to overcome many obstacles. As a teenager, he was subjected to the brutality of electric shock treatment in the psychiatric hospital where his parents, who took his rebelliousness as a sign of madness, interned him three times. As a member of the esoteric underworld, he was put in prison for alleged subversive activities against the Brazilian dictatorship and subjected to physical torture.Later, Paulo joined forces with rock star Raul Seixas and together they composed songs that revolutionized Brazilian rock music. Hippie, journalist, rock star, actor, playwright, theatre director and producer of television programs, this whirlwind life came to an end in 1982, during a trip to Europe. In Dachau and later in Amsterdam, Paulo had a mystical meeting with "J", his new mentor, who persuaded him to walk the Road to Santiago de Compostela, a medieval pilgrim''s route between France and Spain.In 1986 Paulo walked the Road to Santiago, and it was there that he reconverted to Christianity and found again the faith bequeathed to him by the Jesuit fathers of his school years. He would later describe this experience in his first book, The Pilgrimage. The following year, The Alchemist, established his worldwide reputation. The novel has already achieved the status of a universally admired modern classic. Now, for the first time, discover the true story of the man behind some of the world''s most loved books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1795'),
(7120, 'Payback', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Some Women Get Angry. . . The Sisterhood Gets Even. Meet the Sisterhood--seven very different women who found one another in their darkest days and formed an indelible friendship, strong enough to heal their pasts and bring laughter and joy back into their lives. In Myra Rutledge''s beautiful, Virginia home, amid hugs and fresh iced tea, shrimp fritters and shell-pink tulips, the friends have gathered to embark on their second mission of sweet revenge for one of their own. Julia Webster''s husband, a U.S. Senator, has used his wife''s graciousness and elegance to advance his career even as he''s abused her trust at every turn and left her dreams for the future in tatters. Now, on the eve of his greatest political victory, he''s about to learn a serious lesson in payback. Because the senator crossed the wrong woman. . .and there are six more where she came from. . . Revenge is a dish best served with cloth napkins and floral centerpieces . . .fast-paced. . .puts poetic justice first. --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3743'),
(7121, 'The Peach Keeper', 'Sarah Addison Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the townâ€™s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be. Itâ€™s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madamâ€”built by Willaâ€™s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Waterâ€™s heyday, and once the townâ€™s grandest homeâ€”has stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. No easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots.  But Willa has lately learned that an old classmateâ€”socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgoodâ€”of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. Maybe, at last, the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes. But what rises instead is a skeleton, found buried beneath the propertyâ€™s lone peach tree, and certain to drag up dire consequences along with it. For the bonesâ€”those of charismatic traveling salesman Tucker Devlin, who worked his dark charms on Walls of Water seventy-five years agoâ€”are not all that lay hidden out of sight and mind. Long-kept secrets surrounding the troubling remains have also come to light, seemingly heralded by a spate of sudden strange occurrences throughout the town. Now, thrust together in an unlikely friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their familiesâ€”and uncover truths of the long-dead that have transcended time and defied the grave to touch the hearts and souls of the living. Resonant with insight into the deep and lasting power of friendship, love, and tradition, The Peach Keeper is a portrait of the unshakable bonds thatâ€”in good times and bad, from one generation to the nextâ€”endure forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3424'),
(7122, 'Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II. This gripping account of it by acclaimed author Stephen Ambrose brings to life a daring mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed. Ambrose traces each step of the preparations over many months to the minute-by-minute excitement of the hand-to-hand confrontations on the bridge. This is a story of heroism and cowardice, kindness and brutality -- the stuff of all great adventures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2537'),
(7123, 'Pegasus Descending', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing the most painful and dangerous case of his career. A troubled young woman breezes into his hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to be the daughter of Robicheaux''s onetime best friend -- a friend he witnessed gunned down in a bank robbery, a tragedy that forever changed Robicheaux''s life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Pegasus Descending,\n  </em>\n  James Lee Burke again explores psyches as much as evidence, and tries to make sense of human behavior as well as of his characters'' crimes. Richly atmospheric, frightening in its sudden violence, and replete with the sort of puzzles only the best crime fiction creates, Burke''s latest novel is an unforgettable roller coaster of passion, surprise, and regret.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The twists begin when Trish Klein -- the only offspring of Robicheaux''s Vietnam-era buddy -- starts passing marked hundred-dollar bills in local casinos. Is she a good kid gone bad? A victim''s child seeking revenge? A promiscuous beauty seducing everyone good within her grasp? And how does her behavior relate to the apparent suicide of another "good" girl, an ace student named Yvonne Darbonne, who apparently participated in a college frat orgy before her death?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Can Robicheaux make his peace with the demons that have haunted him since his friend''s murder so many years ago? Can he figure out how a local mobster fits into all the schemes and deaths? Can Robicheaux''s life be whole again when it has been shattered by so much tragedy?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once again, Burke proves why he is the virtual poet laureate of southern Louisiana, and why his novels, especially those featuring Dave Robicheaux, stand as brilliant literature and entertainment for our time.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/374'),
(7124, 'The Pelican Brief', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Grisham''s head was full of movies when he wrote\n <em>\n  The Pelican Brief\n </em>\n , which is such a brisk page-turner you could use it to dry your hair. He had Julia Roberts in mind for the heroine, Darby Shaw, a brilliant Tulane law student who comes up with an ingenious theory to explain the baffling assassinations of two Supreme Court justices in one day. They were shot and strangled by ace international terrorist Khamel, who loves the film\n <em>\n  Three Days of the Condor\n </em>\n , but government gumshoes don''t get what connects the deaths. Silly government guys! They died so the conservative president, who just wants to be left alone to play golf, will appoint new, conservative justices who will help out a case involving an industrialist who is the enemy of pelicans and other living things. It''s all spelled out for them in Darby''s brief. She likes to do legal feats to impress her boyfriend, her boyish law prof Thomas (who, like Grisham, prefers to shave at most once a week, and is cool, smart, and antiauthoritarian). The prof likes to paint her toes red, in homage to Susan Sarandon in\n <em>\n  Bull Durham\n </em>\n . (Sarandon also starred in the film version of Grisham''s\n <em>\n  The Client\n </em>\n .)\n</p>\n<p>\n But when Thomas gets splattered by a car bomb meant for Darby, she escapes the hospital and hooks up with a\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n reporter, Gray Grantham, who sleuths like the guys in\n <em>\n  All the President''s Men\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Grisham wishes he hadn''t written\n <em>\n  The Pelican Brief\n </em>\n quite so quickly (his first novel,\n <em>\n  A Time to Kill\n </em>\n , went through dozens of drafts), but\n <em>\n  Pelican\n </em>\n ''s very breathlessness contributes to its dreamy, cinematic chase-o-rama atmosphere.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this tale of the aftermath of the assassinations of two Supreme Court justices, Grisham delivers a suspenseful plot at a breakneck pace, although his characters are stereotypes. The hardcover was on the PW bestseller list 48 weeks and the mass market was No. 1 last week.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1164'),
(7125, 'People of the Book', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Amazon Best of the Month, January 2008: One of the earliest Jewish religious volumes to be illuminated with images, the Sarajevo Haggadah survived centuries of purges and wars thanks to people of all faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Geraldine Brooks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, has turned the intriguing but sparely detailed history of this precious volume into an emotionally rich, thrilling fictionalization that retraces its turbulent journey. In the hands of Hanna Heath, an impassioned rare-book expert restoring the manuscript in 1996 Sarajevo, it yields clues to its guardians and whereabouts: an insect wing, a wine stain, salt crystals, and a white hair. While readers experience crucial moments in the book''s history through a series of fascinating, fleshed-out short stories, Hanna pursues its secrets scientifically, and finds that some interests will still risk everything in the name of protecting this treasure. A complex love story, thrilling mystery, vivid history lesson, and celebration of the enduring power of ideas,\n <em>\n  People of the Book\n </em>\n will surely be hailed as one of the best of 2008.\n <em>\n  --Mari Malcolm\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reading Geraldine Brooks''s remarkable debut novel, Year of Wonders, or more recently March, which won the Pulitzer Prize, it would be easy to forget that she grew up in Australia and worked as a journalist. Now in her dazzling new novel, People of the Book, Brooks allows both her native land and current events to play a larger role while still continuing to mine the historical material that speaks so ardently to her imagination. Late one night in the city of Sydney, Hanna Heath, a rare book conservator, gets a phone call. The Sarajevo Haggadah, which disappeared during the siege in 1992, has been found, and Hanna has been invited by the U.N. to report on its condition. Missing documents and art works (as Dan Brown and Lev Grossman, among others, have demonstrated) are endlessly appealing, and from this inviting premise Brooks spins her story in two directions. In the present, we follow the resolutely independent Hanna through her thrilling first encounter with the beautifully illustrated codex and her discovery of the tiny signs-a white hair, an insect wing, missing clasps, a drop of salt, a wine stain-that will help her to discover its provenance. Along with the book she also meets its savior, a Muslim librarian named Karaman. Their romance offers both predictable pleasures and genuine surprises, as does the other main relationship in Hanna''s life: her fraught connection with her mother. In the other strand of the narrative we learn, moving backward through time, how the codex came to be lost and found, and made. From the opening section, set in Sarajevo in 1940, to the final section, set in Seville in 1480, these narratives show Brooks writing at her very best. With equal authority she depicts the struggles of a young girl to escape the Nazis, a duel of wits between an inquisitor and a rabbi living in the Venice ghetto, and a girl''s passionate relationship with her mistress in a harem. Like the illustrations in the Haggadah, each of these sections transports the reader to a fully realized, vividly peopled world. And each gives a glimpse of both the long history of anti-Semitism and of the struggle of women toward the independence that Hanna, despite her mother''s lectures, tends to take for granted. Brooks is too good a novelist to belabor her political messages, but her depiction of the Haggadah bringing together Jews, Christians and Muslims could not be more timely. Her gift for storytelling, happily, is timeless. Copyright 2007 Publishers Weekly.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/946'),
(7126, 'A People&#39;s History of the United States: 1492-Present', 'Howard Zinn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n According to this classic of revisionist American history, narratives of national unity and progress are a smoke screen disguising the ceaseless conflict between elites and the masses whom they oppress and exploit. Historian Zinn sides with the latter group in chronicling Indians'' struggle against Europeans, blacks'' struggle against racism, women''s struggle against patriarchy, and workers'' struggle against capitalists. First published in 1980, the volume sums up decades of post-war scholarship into a definitive statement of leftist, multicultural, anti-imperialist historiography. This edition updates that project with new chapters on the Clinton and Bush presidencies, which deplore Clinton''s pro-business agenda, celebrate the 1999 Seattle anti-globalization protests and apologize for previous editions'' slighting of the struggles of Latinos and gays. Zinn''s work is an vital corrective to triumphalist accounts, but his uncompromising radicalism shades, at times, into cynicism. Zinn views the Bill of Rights, universal suffrage, affirmative action and collective bargaining not as fundamental (albeit imperfect) extensions of freedom, but as tactical concessions by monied elites to defuse and contain more revolutionary impulses; voting, in fact, is but the most insidious of the "controls." It''s too bad that Zinn dismisses two centuries of talk about "patriotism, democracy, national interest" as mere "slogans" and "pretense," because the history he recounts is in large part the effort of downtrodden people to claim these ideals for their own.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was a historian, playwright, and social activist. His many books include\n <em>\n  A People''s History of the United States\n </em>\n , which has sold more than two million copies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1022'),
(7127, 'Perelandra', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The second book in C. S. Lewis''s acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil on a new planet -- Perelandra -- when it is invaded by a dark force. Will Perelandra succumb to this malevolent being, who strives to create a new world order and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so? Or will it throw off the yoke of corruption and achieve a spiritual perfection as yet unknown to man? The outcome of Dr. Ransom''s mighty struggle alone will determine the fate of this peace-loving planet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1182'),
(7128, 'Perfect', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four perfect-looking girls aren''t nearly as perfect as they seem.   Aria can''t resist her forbidden ex. Hanna is on the verge of losing her BFF. Emily is freaking out over a simple kiss. And Spencer can''t keep her hands off anything that belongs to her sister.   Lucky me. I know these pretty little liars better than they know themselves. But it''s hard keeping all of their secrets to myself. They better do as I say . . . or else!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3770'),
(7129, 'The Perfect Christmas', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n For Cassie Beaumont, itâ€™s meeting her perfect match. Cassie, at thirty-three, wants a husband and kids, and so far, nothingâ€™s worked. Not blind dates, not the Internet and certainly not leaving love to chance. Whatâ€™s left? A professional matchmaker. Heâ€™s Simon Dodson, and heâ€™s very choosy about the clients he takes on. Cassie finds Simon a difficult, acerbic know-it-all, and sheâ€™s astonished when he accepts her as a client.Claiming he has her perfect mate in mind, Simon assigns her three tasks to complete before she meets him. Three tasks that are all about Christmas: being a charity bell ringer, dressing up as Santaâ€™s elf at a childrenâ€™s party and preparing a traditional turkey dinner for her neighbors (whom she happens to dislike). Despite a number of comical mishaps, Cassie does it allâ€”and sheâ€™s finally ready to meet her match.But just like the perfect Christmas gift, he turns out to be a wonderful surprise!What would the holidays be without a Christmas story from Debbie Macomber?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2869'),
(7130, 'The Perfect Husband', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jim Beckett was everything Tess had ever dreamed of... But 2 years after Tess married Jim and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering 10 women. Even lockedup in a max security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay. Now the killer has escaped, and Tess has got to learn to fight back. With the help of a burned out ex marine, Tess learns how to protect herself and her daughter as a gigantic manhunt , crossing 4 states, counts down to this terrifying reunion between husband and wife. A real page turne r, centring on the nightmare of discovering that the person you love and trust more than anyone else in the world is out to hunt you down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/647'),
(7131, 'Perfect Match', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n One plot elementÂ¢a case of child molestation involving a Catholic priestÂ¢in Picoult''s latest novel (after Salem Falls) now seems eerily prescient, but that''s only part of the saga she weaves, which is primarily an indictment of the current criminal justice system. Nina Frost, an assistant district attorney in Maine, knows how hard it is to obtain a conviction for a sex crime when the victim is a juvenile, so when her five-year-old son, Nathaniel, identifies their priest as being the man who raped him, Nina''s grievances with the system become personal. Frustrated by the threat of an unsatisfactory legal outcome, she takes the law into her own hands, killing the priest in open court. Awaiting her own trial, a startling fact emerges from the DNA: the priest was innocent. Will Nina be able to prove to a jury that her actions were justified, particularly since she killed the wrong man? Picoult adeptly renders Nina''s feelingsÂ¢impotence, guilt, the drive for retributionÂ¢but Nina is herself an unsympathetic heroine, from her initial accusation of her husband to her arrogant vigilante stance, which does little to persuade the reader that an act of premeditation should be recast as maternal instinct. While the argument that the current system is flawed is solid, the only alternative offered is an iffy form of frontier justice that many readers may find unpalatable.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As an assistant district attorney in Maine, Nina Frost knows all too well that the legal system often fails to protect children from sexual predators. So when her five-year-old son, Nathaniel, suddenly refuses to speak and begins misbehaving in school, Nina and her husband, Caleb, consult a psychiatrist and learn that their son has been sexually abused. But by whom? Although Father Szyszynski strenuously denies the accusations, DNA evidence says otherwise. At the priest''s arraignment, Nina shoots and kills him, only to find out later that he was innocent. Nina is found guilty of manslaughter, given probation, and loses her license to practice law. With this ripped-from-the-headlines plot, the usually reliable Picoult (Salem Falls, etc.) fails to deliver; major flaws include a cast of one-dimensional characters and an awkward mixture of first and third person that confuses rather than enlightens. In addition, Nina is a truly dislikable heroine (her justifications for the murder are both laughable and frightening), and the meaningless subplots distract from, rather than add to, the main story. Buy only for demand and then conservatively. Nancy Pearl, Washington Ctr. for the Book, Seattle\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1249'),
(7132, 'Perilous Fight: America&#39;s Intrepid War With Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815', 'Stephen Budiansky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The deservedly overshadowed War of 1812 was redeemed by heroics at sea, according to this rousing military history. Journalist and military historian Budiansky (The Bloody Shirt) follows the tiny United States Navy, led by a handful of superfrigates, including the U.S.S. Constitution, in its oceanic struggle against the vastly larger, stronger, and haughtier British fleet, whose bullying practice of seizing American merchant ships and sailors provoked the war. Budiansky makes it a classic David and Goliath story, as the plucky Yanks, with better ships, sailing, and gunnery, win a string of resounding victories that wipe the smirks from their adversaries'' faces. The author''s colorful narrative is full of gory sea battles, chivalrous flourishes, mutinous tars, and charismatic performances by Stephen Decatur, David Porter, and other American naval legends; it becomes grayer and grimmer as the British blockade tightens and the Americans turn from pitched battles to prosaic commerce raiding. Budiansky''s well-researched and skillfully written account extracts a gripping true-life naval saga from an otherwise inglorious conflict. 8 pages of color and 8 pages of b&amp;w photos; 11 photos in text; 8 maps. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bedeviled on land, U.S. forces were more effective at sea in the War of 1812. Continuing a venerable tradition of historians (Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Adams, Alfred Mahan) drawn to this topic, Budiansky narrates events and ventures explanations for successes of the U.S. Navy against Britainâ€™s Royal Navy. The prerequisite was the pre-existence of an American navy, whose establishment Ian Toll recounted in Six Frigates (2006). Those frigates scored initial victories in warship-on-warship combat (the Constitutionâ€™s sinking of the Guerriere) that exhilarated Americans and made U.S. captains (e.g., Stephen Decatur) famous. But naval war in the chivalric style did not strike the historically unsung William Jones as a sensible strategy. Secretary of the navy during the war, Jones is the most important character in Budianskyâ€™s account. Jones thought that attacking Britainâ€™s merchant marine would hamper her superior fleet far more than would destruction of her warships, and so it turned out, as Budianskyâ€™s analysis of the forces tied to convoy and blockade duties verifies. Conversant in nautical technicalities of the age of sail, Budiansky will absorb the avid naval history audience. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2541');
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(7133, 'Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West', 'Tom Holland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victoryrapid, spectacular victoryhad seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming famous cities, putting together an empire which stretched from India to the shores of the Aegean. As a result of those conquests, Xerxes ruled as the most powerful man on the planet. Yet somehow, astonishingly, against the largest expeditionary force ever assembled, the Greeks of the mainland managed to hold out. The Persians were turned back. Greece remained free. Had the Greeks been defeated in the epochal naval battle at Salamis, not only would the West have lost its first struggle for independence and survival, but it is unlikely that there would ever have been such an entity as the West at all. Tom Holland''s brilliant new book describes the very first "clash of Empires" between East and West. As he did in the critically praisedRubicon, he has found extraordinary parallels between the ancient world and our own. There is no other popular history that takes in the entire sweep of the Persian Wars, and no other classical historian, academic or popular, who combines scholarly rigor with novelistic depth with a worldly irony in quite the fashion that Tom Holland does.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2753'),
(7134, 'Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant', 'Ulysses S. Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  After three deadly years of fighting, President Abraham Lincoln had seen a little progress in the West against the Confederacy, but in the main theater of operations, Virginia, the lines were almost exactly where they had been when the American Civil War started. The war was at a stalemate with northern public support rapidly fading. Then, Lincoln summoned General Ulysses S. Grant, victor of the Vicksburg campaign, to come East. In little over a year, America?s most catastrophic armed conflict ended, the Union was preserved, and slavery was abolished. This book details how these triumphs were achieved and in the telling earned international acclaim as a superb example of an English-language personal chronicle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   About the Author:\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Ulysses S. Grant remains one of the giants in American history, revered and respected by his contemporaries, but viewed ever after as one of the country?s most controversial figures. He graduated from West Point in 1843 and went on to have a successful military career before becoming the 18th President of the United States for two terms. These grand accomplishments stand in stark contrast with his failures. He became an alcoholic, a failed businessman, and the administration during his presidency is regarded as one of the most corrupt in U.S. history. While other prominent Americans look to publishing their recollections as a crowning event undertaken in the leisure of retirement, Grant had to write his 1885 memoir as a means to pay his debts and support his family.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2349'),
(7135, 'Persuader', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jack Reacher.The ultimate loner.An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, heâ€™s moved from place to placeâ€¦without familyâ€¦without possessionsâ€¦without commitments.And without fear. Which is good, because troubleâ€”big, violent, complicated troubleâ€”finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not onceâ€¦not ever.But some unfinished business has now found Reacher. And Reacher is a man who hates unfinished business.Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now a chance encounter brings it all back. Now Reacher sees his one last shot. Some would call it vengeance. Some would call it redemption. Reacher would call itâ€¦justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2551'),
(7136, 'Pet Sematary', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Renowned for its superior productions, BBC radio may have outdone itself by adapting Stephen King''s\n <em>\n  Pet Sematary\n </em>\n to audio. A clamorous cacophony of talking, whining, whistling, and howling, Pet Sematary is a quick, entertaining earful for those who don''t have other auditory distractions to contend with, such as a car full of talking whining, whistling, howling children. However, the melodramatic prose marries well with the acting; such is the case when one reader--whose voice bears an uncanny resemblance to Kramer''s from\n <em>\n  Seinfeld\n </em>\n --tells another about the effects of the Pet Sematary: "Heroin makes junkies feel good when they put it in their arms, but all the time it''s poisoning their mind and body--this place can be like that and don''t you ever forget it!" (Running time: three hours, two cassettes)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this BBC dramatization of King''s (Wizard and Glass, Audio Reviews, LJ 2/15/98) 1983 best seller, Dr. Louis Creed moves his ideal family from congested, urban Chicago to the rural simplicity of Ludlow, ME. His property sits near a long-established pet burial ground and a mysterious Indian burial ground from which the dead can be raised. The program effectively draws us into the characters'' world: marriage and family, then shock, grief and madness as we explore the nature and mystery of death. Presenting a multivoiced dramatization rather than a reading of the novel, the actors work together, with added music and sound effects, to create King''s macabre world. Recommended.?Kristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/864'),
(7137, 'Phantom Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In bestseller Sandford''s solid 18th Prey novel (after\n  <em>\n   Invisible Prey\n  </em>\n  ), Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Lucas Davenport, who''s received numerous promotions in the course of the series, ought to be taking the desk aspects of his job more seriously. But the man remains more comfortable working a stakeout, interviewing suspects and taking down bad guys than he is filling out personnel evaluation forms on his staffâ€”which explains why he''s still getting shot at, peeping at a cocaine dealer''s wife hoping for a glimpse of her husband and, at his wife''s behest, looking into the unsolved kidnapping and presumed murder of a wealthy young woman into the goth scene. It becomes clear that a serial killer is targeting goths as well as anyone, including Lucas, who gets in the way. While some pretty murky psychology encumbers the plot, Sandford delivers the kind of riveting action that keeps thriller fans turning the pages.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Frances Austin is a missing heiress. Traces of blood in her well-connected mother Alyssaâ€™s home lead Lucas Davenport, head of Minnesotaâ€™s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, to assume the worst, but without a body, he canâ€™t be sure. The investigation centers on Francesâ€™ involvement in the Twin Citiesâ€™ goth community. The gothsâ€™ collective obsession with death andÂ darkness makesÂ them an obvious starting point, but Davenport believes itâ€™s a form of youthful angst rather than an inherently evil social trend. But when other young goths connected to Frances are murdered, Davenport is forced to rethink his theory. Like all good investigators, he follows the money, in this case, a $50,000 withdrawal from Francesâ€™ account and its subsequent disbursementÂ over a 20-day period preceding Francesâ€™ disappearance. When Davenport is wounded coming out of a goth club after conducting a series of background interviews, he realizes heâ€™s closing in on the killer but has no idea who or why. The eighteenth entry in the best-selling Prey series is Sandfordâ€™s usual mix of clever plotting, gallows humor, and explosive action, but this time he mixes in a bit of the seemingly supernatural. Davenport doesnâ€™t realize itâ€”and neither will readersâ€”but heâ€™s actually working on two cases. The solution to one is mundanely tragic; the second genuinely disturbing. Expect another trip to the best-seller lists for one of the most consistently entertaining crime writers working today. --Wes Lukowsky\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/694'),
(7138, 'The Photograph', 'Penelope Lively', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lively likes historians. Her most famous novel on this side of the Atlantic, the Booker Prize-winning Moon Tiger, told the story of a popular historian; her latest narrates the quest of a "landscape historian" in search of what Proust called "lost time": the living past of his dead wife. Glyn Peters, a famous British archeologist, discovers a compromising photograph of his wife, Katherine Targett, sealed in an envelope in a closet at home. Peters specializes in excavating the long defunct gardens, buried fields and covered-over roads of the British landscape. Reverting to professional habits, he treats Kath''s infidelity as a sort of archeological dig. The photo depicts Kath and Nick Hammond, the husband of Kath''s sister, Elaine, surreptitiously holding hands on some outing, with Elaine and Mary Packard, Kath''s best friend, in the background. Glyn decides to interview this cloud of witnesses, beginning with Elaine. Elaine is a successful, and somewhat cold, landscaper; Nick, her polar opposite, is a man one degree away from being a Wodehouse dilettante. Lively, who is never shy of letting us know her opinion of her characters (like Trollope), makes her disapprobation of Nick plain. Elaine, after learning of the affair, kicks Nick out. He takes refuge with Polly, their daughter, in London, and goes rapidly downhill. Glyn, meanwhile, has searched out Nick''s ex-business partner, Oliver Watson, who took the photograph, and Mary Packard. Lively is always a discerning, keenly intelligent writer. This, for instance, is how she describes, in three irrevocable words, Elaine''s pregnancy: "She is pregnant: heavy, hampered, irritable." Unfortunately, Kath, a demon-haunted beauty with little depth, remains unconjurable. Her insubstantiality and the much-foreshadowed nature of her death, not revealed until late in the novel, drains this story of its full emotional impact.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From The New Yorker\n</h3>\n<p>\n Scrounging around in a cupboard stuffed with three decades'' worth of papers and academic debris, Glyn Peters, a recently widowed landscape historian, discovers an envelope marked "Don''t Openâ€”Destroy" in his late wife''s handwriting. Is there anyone on earth who would obey such an injunction? Certainly not Glyn, who opens the envelope to find a photograph of his beautiful, feckless wife hand in hand with her sister''s husband. Determined to understand his wife''s affair, he delves into her past with a historian''s tenacity and a good deal more interest in her than he managed to muster while she was alive. This search branches out to encompass a small circle of friends, all of whom have a share in the narration. But Lively doesn''t stop there, and her characters'' questions about the dead woman provoke questions about themselves and the roles they played in her life.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/954'),
(7139, 'The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane', 'Katherine Howe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "A fresh present-day story infused with an original take on popular history. Forget broomsticks and pointy hats; here are witches that could well be walking among us today. This debut novel flows with poetic charm and eloquence that achieves high literary merit while concocting a gripping supernatural puzzler. Katherine Howe''s talent is spellbinding." --Matthew Pearl, author of "The Poe Shadow" and "The Dante Club" A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history-the Salem witch trials. Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie''s grandmother''s abandoned home near Salem, she can''t refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest--to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge. As the pieces of Deliverance''s harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem''s dark past then she could have ever imagined. Written with astonishing conviction and grace, "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane" travels seamlessly between the witch trials of the 1690s and a modern woman''s story of mystery, intrigue, and revelation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3713'),
(7140, 'The Physics of Star Trek', 'Lawrence M. Krauss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  What warps when you''re traveling at warp speed? What''s the difference between the holodeck and a hologram? What happens when you get beamed up? What is the difference between a Wormhole and a Black Hole? What is antimatter and why does the Enterprise need it?\n  <br />\n  Discover the answers to these and many other fascinating questions as a renowned physicist and deicated Trekker explores The Physics of Star Trek.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Even those who have never watched an episode of Star Trek will be entertained and enlightened by theoretical physicist Krauss''s adventurous investigation of interstellar flight, time travel, teleportation of objects and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Case Western Reserve professor Krauss maintains that Star Trek''s writers were sometimes far ahead of scientists?and famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking''s foreword, endorsing the possibilities of faster-than-light travel and journeying back in time, supports that notion. On the other hand, Krauss also argues that the show is riddled with bloopers and huge improbabilities, as when the Voyager''s crew escapes from a black hole''s interior. This informal manual for Trekkers offers a porthole on the wonders of the universe as it ponders the potential existence of aliens, "wormholes" that allow astronauts to tunnel through space, other dimensions and myriad baby universes. $75,000 ad/promo; BOMC and QPB alternates; Astronomy Book Club dual main selection; Library of Science, Natural Science Book Club and Newbridge Computer Book Club alternates.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1094'),
(7141, 'The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man&#39;s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945', 'Wladyslaw Szpilman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Written immediately after the end of World War II, this morally complex Holocaust memoir is notable for its exact depiction of the grim details of life in Warsaw under the Nazi occupation. "Things you hardly noticed before took on enormous significance: a comfortable, solid armchair, the soothing look of a white-tiled stove," writes Wladyslaw Szpilman, a pianist for Polish radio when the Germans invaded. His mother''s insistence on laying the table with clean linen for their midday meal, even as conditions for Jews worsened daily, makes palpable the Holocaust''s abstract horror. Arbitrarily removed from the transport that took his family to certain death, Szpilman does not deny the "animal fear" that led him to seize this chance for escape, nor does he cheapen his emotions by belaboring them. Yet his cool prose contains plenty of biting rage, mostly buried in scathing asides (a Jewish doctor spared consignment to "the most wonderful of all gas chambers," for example). Szpilman found compassion in unlikely people, including a German officer who brought food and warm clothing to his hiding place during the war''s last days. Extracts from the officer''s wartime diary (added to this new edition), with their expressions of outrage at his fellow soldiers'' behavior, remind us to be wary of general condemnation of any group.\n  <em>\n   --Wendy Smith\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Originally published in Poland in 1945 but then suppressed by the Communist authorities, this memoir of survival in the Warsaw Ghetto joins the ranks of Holocaust memoirs notable as much for their literary value as for their historical significance. Szpilman, a Jewish classical pianist, played the last live music broadcast from Warsaw before Polish Radio went off the air in September 1939 because of the German invasion. In a tone that is at once dispassionate and immediate, Szpilman relates the horrors of life inside the ghetto. But his book is distinguished by the dazzling clarity he brings to the banalities of ghetto life, especially the eerie normalcy of some social relations amid catastrophic upheaval. He shows how Jewish residents of the Polish capital adjusted to life under the occupation: "The armbands branding us as Jews did not bother us, because we were all wearing them, and after some time living in the ghetto I realized that I had become thoroughly used to them." Using a reporter''s powers of description, Szpilman, who is still alive at the age of 88, records the chilling conversations that took place as Jews waited to be transported to their deaths. "We''re not heroes!" he recalls his father saying. "We''re perfectly ordinary people, which is why we prefer to risk hoping for that 10 per cent chance of living." In a twist that exemplifies how this book will make readers look again at a history they thought they knew, he details how a German captain saved his life. Employing language that has more in common with the understatement of Primo Levi than with the moral urgency of Elie Wiesel, Szpilman is a remarkably lucid observer and chronicler of how, while his family perished, he survived thanks to a combination of resourcefulness and chance. (Sept.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3931'),
(7142, 'The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier', 'Thaddeus Carhart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Pairs neighborhood that seemed to want to hide rather than advertise its wares. Like Alice in Wonderland, he found his attempts to gain entry rebuffed at every turn. An accidental introduction finally opened the door to the quartier''s oddest hangout, where locals -- from university professors to pipefitters -- gather on Friday evenings to discuss music, love, and life over a glass of wine.\n</p>\n<p>\n Luc, the atelier''s master, proves an excellent guide to the history of this most gloriously impractical of instruments. A bewildering variety passes through his restorer''s hands: delicate ancient pianofortes, one perhaps the onetime possession of Beethoven. Great hulking beasts of thunderous voice. And the modest piano "with the heart of a lion" that was to become Thad''s own.\n</p>\n<p>\n What emerges is a warm and intuitive portrait of the secret Paris -- one closed to all but a knowing few.\n <strong>\n  The Piano Shop on the Left Bank\n </strong>\n is the perfect book for music lovers, or for anyone who longs to recapture a lost passion.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2045'),
(7143, 'The Piano Teacher', 'Janice Y. K. Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s 1952 and 32-year-old newlywed Claire Pendleton has just arrived in Hong Kong with her civil-servant husband Martin. Thrust into a new and international world, the once provincial Claire takes a position as piano teacher to Locket Chen, the daughter of wealthy socialite Chinese parents, and quickly becomes intrigued by the family''s unconventional English driver, the enigmatic Will Truesdale. The past cannot remain hidden for long and as her involvement with Will grows, Claire finds herself at the centre of a web of secrets, lies and murder, in which both her lover and the Chens are irretrievably entangled.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3505'),
(7144, 'Pieces of My Heart', 'Robert J. Wagner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Actor and producer Wagner begins this engaging memoir by recalling his childhood fascination with movies and the Hollywood community. Determined to become a part of that world, in 1942, at age 12, he worked as a golf caddy, struggling to make contact with those who could help him. As an 18-year-old Fox contract player, he got a foothold with minor roles: I wasn''t very good in this period, but I was diligent. Soon he scored with\n  <em>\n   Prince Valiant\n  </em>\n  in 1954, and\n  <em>\n   A Kiss Before Dying\n  </em>\n  , thus beginning a six-decade career in theater, television series and more than 100 movies. His rule of thumb: Find smart people and listen to them. Along the way, he realized friends and family were equally as important as show business, and he writes with fondness and humor about his close friendships with David Niven and others while painting a backdrop of Hollywood in transition. As for the women in Wagner''s life, he details one-night stands, his four-year affair with Barbara Stanwyck (who was twice his age) and his four marriages (twice to Natalie Wood). His love for Wood threads throughout, and his memory of her last night is chilling as he leads the reader step-by-step through her 1981 disappearance from their boat and the search for her body.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œPieces of My Heart is a treasure. . . . Wagnerâ€™s portrait of [Natalie] Wood is adoring and poignant. . . . With admirable strength and honest self-awareness, Wagner makes plain that thereâ€™s much more to him than his handsome face.â€ (Washington Post )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEngagingâ€ (Publishers Weekly )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMesmerizingâ€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2047'),
(7145, 'The Pilgrimage', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coehlo''s international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In many ways, these two volumes are companionsâ€”to truly comprehend one, you must read the other. Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coehlo''s pilgrimage along the road to Santiago. This fascinating parable explores the need to find one''s own path. In the end, we discover that the extraordinary is always found in the ordinary and simple ways of everyday people. Part adventure story, part guide to self-discovery, this compelling tale delivers the perfect combination of enchantment and insight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1275'),
(7146, 'Pill Head: The Secret Life of a Painkiller Addict', 'Joshua Lyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Joshua Lyon preferred opiates, America''s fastest growing addiction, and in this enlightening and harrowing pill by pill tour, he maps the secret trades that are taking place in every workplace, gym, bar, and neighborhood. With Pill Head, he demonstrates a crafty addict''s ability to rationalize illicit pleasure, and a shrewd journalist''s sense to doubt the long-term prospects of artificial narcotic happiness." --Michael Stein, author of The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year "Pill Head is the perfect combination of informative and deeply personal; alarming and even sad. I wanted to hug Joshua Lyon after reading this. Anyone who has ever taken prescription medication recreationally should read this book. It''s an eye-opener and it''s not pretty, and it will speak to every single person who picks it up." --Lesley Arfin, author of Dear Diary "If we were smart about combating addiction in this country--and, sadly, we aren''t--we would chill out about marijuana and freak out about prescription drugs. We are a nation of pill heads, and Joshua Lyon, a pill-head extraordinaire, wants us to step slowly away from the medicine cabinet. Read this much-needed book, and you''ll understand why." --Benoit Denizet Lewis, author of America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life "Lyon writes powerfully about his own experiences as a young, troubled gay man in New York City, and it''s this human story that stays with the reader." --Publisher''s Weekly "As real as it gets." --Kirkus "Journalist Joshua Lyon synthesizes cultural analysis with his own addiction experience to explore the fascinating world of prescription pain killers and their powerful grip. Part investigative journalism, part memoir, Lyon''s book illuminates the difficulties of being hooked on legal drugs and how this problem has swept wildly across various demographics." --Library Journal The daring and honest PILL HEAD digs far deeper than the average memoir about addiction. With precision and uncommon empathy, Joshua Lyon exposes the facts about painkillers and those who abuse them; he also fearlessly reveals his own intense, often frightening story. PILL HEAD is a terrific book. --Scott Heim, author of We Disappear and Mysterious Skin This compelling, honest book investigates the growing epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse among today''s Generation Rx. Through gripping profiles and heartbreaking confessions, this memoir dares to uncover the reality--the addiction, the withdrawal, and the recovery--of this newest generation of pill poppers. Joshua Lyon was no stranger to substance abuse. By the time he was seventeen, he had already found sanctuary in pot, cocaine, Ecstasy, and mushrooms--just to name a few. Ten years later, on assignment for Jane magazine, he found himself with a two-inch-thick bottle of Vicodin in his hands and only one decision to make: dispose of the bottle or give in to his curiosity. He chose the latter. In a matter of weeks he''d found his perfect drug. In the early half of this decade, purchasing painkillers without a doctor was as easy as going online and checking the spam filter in your inbox. The accessibility of these drugs--paired with a false perception of their safety--contributed to their epidemic-like spread throughout America''s twenty-something youth, a group dubbed Generation Rx. Pill Head is Joshua Lyon''s harrowing and bold account of this generation, and it''s also a memoir about his own struggle to recover from his addiction to painkillers. The story of so many who have shared this experience--from discovery to addiction to rehabilitation--Pill Head follows the lives of several young people much like Joshua and dares to blow open the cultural phenomena of America''s newest pill-popping generation. Marrying the journalist''s eye with the addict''s mind, Joshua takes readers through the shocking and often painful profiles of recreational users and suffering addicts as they fight to recover. Pill Head is not only a memoir of descent, but of endurance and of determination. Ultimately, it is a story of encouragement for anyone who is wrestling to overcome addiction, and anyone who is looking for the strength to heal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2049'),
(7147, 'The Pillars of the Earth', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tom Builder''s dream is to build a cathedral, but in the meantime, he must scrounge about to find a lord that will hire him. His search pulls him and his family into the politics of 12th-century England, as different lords vie to gain control of the throne in the wake of the recently deceased king. Prior Phillip, a man raised in the monastery since childhood, also finds himself drafted into the brewing storm as he must protect the interests of a declining church. Richard E. Grant seduces readers early on with a soft and deliberate voice that is like a loud whisper. However, his full range quickly reveals itself as he delves into characters with animated voices that exert their true essence. Even throughout the narrative, Grant musters a lively voice that imbues energy into the story. The only shortcoming is that the abridgment of Follett''s 1989 novel proves to be too choppy. Though the story appears complete, there still remain abrupt moments throughout the tale. Penguin Audio''s unabridged version is read by John Lee and runs 41 hours. *(Dec.) *\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A radical departure from Follett''s novels of international suspense and intrigue, this chronicles the vicissitudes of a prior, his master builder, and their community as they struggle to build a cathedral and protect themselves during the tumultuous 12th century, when the empress Maud and Stephen are fighting for the crown of England after the death of Henry I. The plot is less tightly controlled than those in Follett''s contemporary works, and despite the wealth of historical detail, especially concerning architecture and construction, much of the language as well as the psychology of the characters and their relationships remains firmly rooted in the 20th century. This will appeal more to lovers of exciting adventure stories than true devotees of historical fiction. Literary Guild dual main selection.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Cynthia Johnson Whealler, Cary Memorial Lib., Lexington, Mass.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1313'),
(7148, 'Pink Boots and a MacHete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer', 'Mireya Mayor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   From *Pink Boots and a Machete\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n  Click on the images below to open larger versions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "My big, small discovery in 2001. The mouse lemur of northeastern Madagascar is the world''s smallest primate. If he looks a little spacey, it''s due to the tranquilizer, not my squeezing.""My little newborn monkey, Emma. It was love at first sight.""My grin atop Mount Roraima comes from having survived the climb and near starvation. We found a spectacular landscape up there--black, forbidding, primeval.""A seemingly magical force drew me to the edge of Guyana''s spectacular Kaieteur waterfall and made me want to spread my wings and fly."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Game day was the pay-off for hours of grueling cheerleading practice. Nothing beat standing on the field listening to thousands of screaming fans--or hearing the National Anthem performed.""Leopards can be killing machines, but this one is a like a large house cat.""Coming full circle: 1978 ... and 2010"\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Mireya is a charming, hilarious, and wonderful storyteller, and though she''s been charged and chased by wild animals in exotic locales and survived illnesses that would''ve killed a lesser person, she is also one of usâ€”keenly and savagely aware of the importance of good hair and lip gloss."â€”Julie Klam, best-selling author ofÂ \n  <em>\n   You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We don''t often hear stories of NFL cheerleaders who go on to become a Fulbright Scholar and a Ph.D., but Mireya''s story is exactly that and more. Pink Boots is the spirited and colorful story of a little Cuban-American girl who refused to let culture and others'' expectations of her hold her back. Her passion for the sciences and her adventurous spirit are deeply inspiring and incredibly invigorating. Mireya is beauty and brains personified--and a badass at that. It is a memoir of survival."â€”Lisa Ling, journalist and best-selling author ofÂ *Somewhere Inside\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Mayor never gave up her trademark stylishness, even when the going got tough. [Her]Â gutsy grittiness and wicked sense of humor allowed her to survive danger, disease and sexism. Entertaining reading for the intrepid at heart."â€”\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   KIRKUS REVIEWS\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Written in a breezy style that will be welcome to reality television aficionados, this National Geographic Wild co-host knows her audience and has crafted an appealing memoir that will be particularly welcome to outdoor wannabes."\n  </em>\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   BOOKLIST\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "[Pink Boots]Â fills an important gap; it ought to inspire young people, especially young women, to follow in Mayorâ€™s footsteps. Armchair adventurers and readers interested in nature will enjoy the journey."\n  </em>\n  â€”*LIBRARY JOURNAL\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n  <ul>\n   <li>\n    "Pink Boots and a Machete*Â is an empowering autobiography detailing how one humble, tree-climbing, bug-collecting tomboy evolved into one of the most recognizable prima...\n   </li>\n  </ul>\n </em>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2051'),
(7149, 'Pirate', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Falconer, a former Special Forces man himself, knows his stuff and if you like action, this is for you Catholic Herald\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When elite operative John Stratton is sent to Yemen by the Secret Intelligence Service to track down a suspected al-Qaeda cell, he thinks he knows what he is dealing with. But when he and his colleagues get captured by Somali pirates, all bets are off. Stratton discovers what it is like to be held hostage by ruthless men who have a deadly agenda â€“ men for whom Stratton and his colleagues are just bargaining chips. And this is no ordinary hostage situation: Stratton has stepped right into the middle of a massive and sickening jihadist operation. Fighting trained warriors who know no fear, Strattonâ€™s skill and ingenuity will be tested as never before as he battles for his life and for the values he holds dear...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/667'),
(7150, 'Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean', 'David Cordingly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n From David Cordingly, one of the worldâ€™s foremost experts on pirate history, and author of the perennial favorite\n <em>\n  Under the Black Flag\n </em>\n , comes the thrilling story of the man who fought the real pirates of the Caribbean. Sea captain, privateer, and colonial governor, Woodes Rogers was one of the early eighteenth centuryâ€™s boldest and most colorful characters.\n <em>\n  Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean\n </em>\n is the definitive account of his incredible life.\n</p>\n<p>\n At a time when Europeâ€™s maritime nations fought over islands and territories, and pirates and other scoundrels were flourishing, Rogers sailed into the center of the action. In 1708, in the midst of Britainâ€™s war with Spain, Rogers was hired to lead a mission against Spanish targets in the Pacific. A fearless adventurer who lost his fortune as often as his temper, he battled scurvy and hurricanes and mutiniesâ€”and along the way captured a treasure galleon and rescued the shipwrecked Alexander Selkirk, whose four-year ordeal on a remote Pacific island inspired Daniel Defoe to write\n <em>\n  Robinson Crusoe\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n When the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 led to an explosion of piracy in the Caribbean, King George I appointed Rogers governor of the Bahamas. There he found himself in charge of a string of islands being plundered by raucous felons, from the notorious â€œBlackbeard,â€ who kept lit matches under his hat to give himself a hellish cast, to Charles Vane, a particularly brutal pirate captain, to Anne Bonny and Mary Read, rare female pirates who escaped the hangmanâ€™s noose only by revealing their pregnancies.\n</p>\n<p>\n With rich and vivid details and plenty of action, David Cordingly chronicles a rollicking adventure that is as fascinating and gripping as any seafaring legend.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2352'),
(7151, 'Pirate King', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this latest adventure featuring the intrepid Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King takes readers into the frenetic world of silent filmsâ€”where the pirates are real and the shooting isnâ€™t all done with cameras.Â In Englandâ€™s young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. Nevertheless, at the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell is dispatched to investigate rumors of criminal activities that swirl around Fflytteâ€™s popular movie studio. So Russell is traveling undercover to Portugal, along with the film crew that is gearing up to shoot a cinematic extravaganza, Pirate King. Based on Gilbert and Sullivanâ€™s The Pirates of Penzance, the project will either set the standard for moviemaking for a generation . . . or sink a boatload of careers.Nothing seems amiss until the enormous company starts rehearsals in Lisbon, where theÂ thirteenÂ blond-haired, blue-eyed actresses whom Mary is bemusedly chaperoning meet the swarm of real buccaneers Fflytte has recruitedÂ to provide authenticity. But when the crew embarks for Morocco and the actual filming, Russell feels a building storm of trouble: a derelict boat, a film crew with secrets, ominous currents between the pirates, decks awash with budding romanceâ€”and now the pirates are ignoringÂ Fflytte and answering only to their dangerous outlaw leader. Plus, thereâ€™s a spy on board. Where can Sherlock Holmes be? As movie make-believe becomes true terror, Russell and Holmes themselves may experience a final fadeout.Pirate King is a Laurie King treasure chestâ€”thrilling, intelligent, romantic, a swiftly unreeling masterpiece of suspense.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3550'),
(7152, 'Pirate Latitudes', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Crichton, who died in 2008, was known primarily for such high-tech thrillers as Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain. This new novel, found in manuscript form among his papers, will come as a bit of a surprise to many of his fans. It is, of all things, a pirate novel. Set in 1665, it tells the story of Captain Charles Hunter, a privateer whoâ€™s hired by the governor of Jamaicaâ€™s Port Royal to steal a Spanish galleon and its cargo of gold treasure. Donâ€™t expect to see Jack Sparrow in this story of pirates of the Caribbean, though: Crichton doesnâ€™t play his pirates for laughs. And this is no typical pirate adventure, either: itâ€™s actually a caper novel posing as a high-seas adventure. All the key caper-novel elements are here: the target, the mastermind, the plan, the motley crew, the ruthless villain, the gadgets, the twist, and the turncoat. Crichton keeps us in a constant state of suspense, never revealing quite what his hero, Captain Hunter, has up his sleeve, and the novel ends most unexpectedly. Pirate fans will love the book for its flashy characters and historical authenticity. Crime fans will enjoy the caper-novel structure and the way the author keeps them on their toes. If this really is Crichtonâ€™s final book, itâ€™s a splendid send-off: something new, different, and daring. --David Pitt\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œItâ€™s not an ironic pirate novel. Itâ€™s not a pirate novel with a secret gimmick. Itâ€™s simply an entertaining tale filled with crafty privateers, despicable villains, treasure hoards, double crosses and a sea monster. Go figure.â€ (Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œUnabashed fun.â€ (Cameron Martin, New York Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe plot sucks you in like the giant kraken monster that nearly sinks our heroâ€™s galleon.â€ (Benjamin Svetsky, Entertainment Weekly )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOffers unexpected turns and plenty of yo ho hoâ€™s.â€ (Richard Eisenberg, People (3 out of 4 stars) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, actionâ€¦. A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventureâ€¦. History as entertainmentâ€¦. Crichton has done his homework.â€ (Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/333'),
(7153, 'Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean', 'Adrian Tinniswood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forget the pirates of the Caribbean: their Old World brethren were an altogether more colorful and fearsome lot, according to this swashbuckling study. Historian Tinniswood (The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England) revisits the kleptocratic heyday of the Barbary states--Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, bits of Morocco--which offered fortified harbors to pirates and in turn built their economies around the sale of stolen cargoes and captives. The buccaneers, who kidnapped whole villages as far north as Ireland and Iceland, were denounced as the scourge of Christendom. Yet most of the "Turkish" pirates Tinniswood highlights were British, Dutch, or Italian renegades who sometimes bought pardons and obtained naval commands from their native countries. The million Christians sold into bondage often converted to Islam and became pillars of the North African economy. The author makes this story an entertaining picaresque of crime, combat, and moral compromise; fierce sea battles and daring escapes alternate with corrupt hagglings as European governments vacillate between gunboat diplomacy and offering tribute for the release of their enslaved countrymen. Tinniswood gives us both a rollicking narrative and a rich brew of early modern maritime history. Illus., map. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n For those who think of pirates as one-eyed rogues proclaiming â€œshiver me timbersâ€ while flying the Jolly Roger, this interesting and exciting work will be full of surprises. Tinniswood has concentrated this account on the seventeenth century, when pirates based on the shores of North Africa consistently plundered European ships and seized captives, either enslaving or holding them for ransom. But these pirates were far from the freewheeling mold of Long John Silver or Jack Sparrow. They operated with the full support of the so-called Barbary States of North Africaâ€”Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers. Those states owed nominal allegiance to the Sultan in Istanbul, and the government there saw piracy as a useful tool against the Christian West. Surprisingly, some of the most prominent pirates were English-born sailors who â€œturned Turkâ€ and converted to Islam. Tinniswood shows a certain admiration for the dash and raw courage of these men, but he doesnâ€™t minimize their ruthlessness or the suffering of their victims. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2355'),
(7154, 'A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "A room of one''s own: is there anybody who hasn''t at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn''t turned those soft words over until they''d assumed a habitable shape?" When writer Michael Pollan decided to plant a garden, the result was an award-winning treatise on the borders between nature and contemporary life, the acclaimed bestseller Second Nature. Now Pollan turns his sharp insight to the craft of building, as he recounts the process of designing and constructing a small one-room structure on his rural Connecticut property--a place in which he hoped to read, write and daydream, built with his two own unhandy hands. Invoking the titans of architecture, literature and philosophy, from Vitrivius to Thoreau, from the Chinese masters of feng shui to the revolutionary Frank Lloyd Wright, Pollan brilliantly chronicles a realm of blueprints, joints and trusses as he peers into the ephemeral nature of "houseness" itself. From the spark of an idea to the search for a perfect site to the raising of a ridgepole, Pollan revels in the infinitely detailed, complex process of creating a finished structure. At once superbly written, informative and enormously entertaining, A Place of My Own is for anyone who has ever wondered how the walls around us take shape--and how we might shape them ourselves. A Place of My Own recounts his two-and-a-half-year journey of discovery in an absorbing narrative that deftly weaves the day-to-day work of design and building--from siting to blueprint, from the pouring of foundations to finish carpentry--with reflections on everything form the power of place to shape our lives to the question of what constitutes "real work" in a technologicalsociety. A book about craft that is itself beautifully crafted, linking the world of the body and material things with the realm of mind, heart, and spirit, "A Place of My Own has received extraordinary praise: --&gt; "From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1783'),
(7155, 'A Plague of Secrets', 'John Lescroart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wyatt Hunt return  When high-grade marijuana is found on a coffee-shop manager murdered in San Francisco, it suggests that the shop''s owner, Maya Townshend, may be behind more than a caffeine fix. But when another murder exposes a drug-buying A-list celebrity and political clientele, a tabloid-fueled controversy takes the investigation into the realms of conspiracy and cover up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3219'),
(7156, 'Plague Ship', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the exploits of the Oregon, a covert ship completely dilapidated on the outside, but on the inside packed with sophisticated weaponry and intelligence-gathering equipment. Captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, it is a private enterprise, available to any government agency that can afford it - and now Cussler sends the Oregon on its most extraordinary mission yet. The crew has just completed a top-secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift at sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner''s sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate - and as perilous - as any he has ever known, and pitted against a cult with monstrously lethal plans for the human race... plans he may already be too late to stop. Plague Ship is a high-stakes, high-seas journey that proves once again that Cussler is the Grandmaster of adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3561');
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(7157, 'Plain Truth', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though it begins as the quietly electrifying story of an unmarried Amish teenager who gives birth to a baby she is accused of then smothering, Picoult''s latest (after Keeping Faith) settles into an ordinary trial epic, albeit one centered intriguingly on an Amish dairy farm near Lancaster, Pa. Katie Fisher, 18, denies not only having committed the murder but even having borne the baby, whose body is found in the Fishers'' calving pen, and she sticks to her story, even when she is quizzed by Ellie Hathaway, the high-powered Philadelphia attorney who undertakes Katie''s defense as a favor to Leda, an aunt she and the young woman share. Ellie, who has retreated to Leda''s farm in Paradise to reconsider her life--she successfully defends guilty clients--embarks on the case reluctantly: at 39, she wants nothing more than to have a child. However, to meet bail stipulations, she volunteers as Katie''s guardian (since Kate''s strict parents reject her) and moves in with the Fishers. Living with the Amish necessitates some adjustments for both parties, but Katie and Ellie become fast friends in spite of their differences. Very little action occurs beyond the initial setup, though the questions remain: Who was the father of Katie''s child? And did she smother the newborn? Told from both third-person omniscient and first-person (Ellie''s) vantages, the story rolls leisurely through the trial preparations, the results of which are repeated, tediously, in the courtroom. Perhaps the story''s quietude is appropriate, given its magnificently painted backdrop and distinctive characters, but one can''t help wishing that the spark igniting the book''s opening pages had built into a full-fledged blaze. (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Philadelphia defense lawyer Ellie Hathaway retreats to her great Aunt Leda''s home in Paradise, PA, to get a break from her high-pressure job. Almost at the same time that she arrives, a dead baby is discovered in the barn of an Amish farmer. A police investigation reveals that the mother is an 18-year-old unmarried Amish girl, Katie Fisher, and that the infant apparently did not die of natural causes. Even in the face of medical proof that she recently gave birth, Katie denies the murder charge. Ellie reluctantly agrees to defend her, even though she does not want to be defended. To better understand her client, Ellie moves into the farmhouse with the Fisher family where she begins to see firsthand the pressures and sacrifices of those who live "plain." As she searches for evidence in this case, she calls upon a friend from her past, Dr. John Cooper, a psychiatrist. As Coop and Ellie work together to unravel fact and fiction, they also work to resolve issues in their relationship. Readers will experience a psychological drama as well as a suspenseful courtroom trial. The contrast between the Amish culture and the "English" provides an interesting tension. This study of opposites details much information about a way of life based on faith, humility, duty, and hon-esty.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Carol Clark, formerly at Fairfax County Public Schools, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1250'),
(7158, 'Play Dead', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Publisher''s Weekly\n </strong>\n <br />\n Terrible secrets lead basketball star David Baskin to fake his death while honeymooning in the tropics in this manipulative but otherwise engaging first novel. His bereaved bride, supermodel Laura Ayars, not sure that David''s drowning was accidental, starts sleuthing--which proves dangerous when somebody begins killing people who may have the answers she wants. Meanwhile, David, fitted out with a new identity and appearance, tries out for his original team, the Boston Celtics, and ''''replaces'''' himself at his former position. Why he has faked his death is explained in the story''s penultimate surprise. But why he risks playing in front of fans who know his style is never addressed. Crucial coincidences abound, such as the love affair of David''s brother and Laura''s sister--adults who, as kids 30 years before, just happen to have witnessed their parents'' worst sins. Coben manufactures tension primarily by keeping key details out of his narrative, a method that eventually wears thin. The resolution comes as a relief, with less of a bang than its buildup promises.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Library Journal\n </strong>\n <br />\n Despite its fundamental implausibility, this is an engrossing suspense novel. A star pro basketball player, David Baskin, disappears on his honeymoon, and a mutilated, drowned body is assumed to be his. But strange things are happening to his beautiful widow. And a few months later, a total unknown startles the basketball world with a highly professional style of play exactly like Baskin''s. The mystery has its origins in a murder 30 years earlier. The reader''s suspicions about what actually happened to Baskin, and about the identity of the murderer, shift as layers of lies are stripped away. Despite the basketball, this is primarily great romantic suspense.-- Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ. Lib., Davenport, Ia.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  School Library Journal\n </strong>\n <br />\n When Laura Ayers and David Baskin secretly marry, it is a match made in heaven. She is a former model turned entrepreneur, while he is the Boston Celtics basketball sensation. But tragedy strikes on their Australian honeymoon when David never returns from a swim in treacherous waters. As Laura struggles with her grief, events unfold to make her question David''s mysterious disappearance. She begins to uncover a conspiracy of past and present that slowly destroys all those involved. Coben weaves a delicate web of intrigue that throws alternating suspicion on each person Laura trusts. A fast-moving thriller with a rapidly twisting plot that keeps readers in suspense until the final page. --Katherine Fitch, Jefferson Sci-Tech, Alexandria, VA\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/378'),
(7159, 'Playbook 2012: The Right Fights Back (Politico Inside Election 2012)', 'Mike Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Two of America''s most perceptive political reporters join forces for an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the race for the White House in POLITICO''s Playbook 2012, a series of four instant digital books on the 2012 presidential election. The first edition, The Right Fights Back, follows the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination promises to be one of the most hotly contested and closely fought in recent memory, as establishment Republicans, Tea Party favorites, and dark horse insurgents vie to take on President Obama in the November election. In The Right Fights Back, Mike Allen, chief White House correspondent for POLITICO, and Evan Thomas, the award-winning journalist and author of Robert F. Kennedy and The War Lovers, chronicle the dramatic events of this historic campaign as it unfolds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With exclusive real-time reporting from the campaign trail, The Right Fights Back provides detail, color, and in-depth analysis that take readers beyond the hourly headlines and commentary. From the role of Super PACS and conservative interest groups to the clashes of personality and policy that will define the race to capture the GOP nomination, this is a history-as-it-happens account of the resurgent American right at the crossroads.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2912'),
(7160, 'Playing for Pizza', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the deciding game at the climax of the season, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughing stock and, of course, was immediately dropped by the Browns and shunned by all other teams. But all Rick knows is football, and he insists that his agent, Arnie, finds a team that needs him. Against enormous odds, Arnie finally locates just such a team and informs Rick that, miraculously, he can in fact now be a starting quarterback. Great says Rick '' for which team? The mighty Panthers of Parma, Italy. Yes, Italians do play American football, to one degree or another, and the Parma Panthers desperately want a player from the home of American footballat their helm. So Rick reluctantly agrees to play for the Panthers '' at least until a better offer comes along '' and heads off to Italy. He knows nothing about Parma (not even where it is), has never been to Europe, and doesn''t speak or understand a word of Italian. To say that Italy - the land of opera, fine wines, extremely small cars, romance and football americano - holds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of an understatement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1251'),
(7161, 'Please Look After Mom', 'Kyung-Sook Shin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A million-plus-copy best seller in South Korea and poised to become an international sensationâ€”Please Look After Mom is the stunning, deeply moving story of a familyâ€™s search for their mother, and of the desires, heartaches, and secrets they discover she harbored within.On a family visit to the city, Mom is right behind her husband when the train pulls out of Seoul Station without her, and she is lost, possibly forever. As her children argue over how to find her and her husband returns to their countryside home to wait for her, they each recall their lives with her, their memories often more surprising than comforting. Have they lived up to her expectations? Was she happy? Through the piercing voices of daughter, son, and husband, and through Momâ€™s own words in the novelâ€™s shattering conclusion, we learn what happened that day, and explore an even deeper mysteryâ€”of motherhood itself.At once steeped in the beauty and complexities of the East and rich with a universal tenderness, Please Look After Mom has a revelatory emotional power. You will never think of your mother the same way again after youâ€™ve read this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3417'),
(7162, 'The Pledge: A History of the Pledge of Allegiance', 'Jeffrey Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The late producer, journalist, and teacher Jeffrey Jones partnered with former Life magazine news editor Peter Myer for this well-rounded view of the pledge of allegiance. Beginning with its 1892 composition by clergyman Francis Bellamy, the pledge is understood by Meyer and Jones as a product of unstable times, years shaken by Civil War, changing demographic makeup, and increasing economic disparities. Initially a prayer for "intelligent patriotism," the pledge has worked both to unite and divide Americans, and it is this capricious nature that so interests Jones and Meyer-from its original celebratory use as a flag salute at a Columbus Day commemorative hosted by Youth''s Companion magazine to its position as a tool to emphasize the principle separation of church and state to its usage as a bulwark against the presumed threat of communism under the Eisenhower administration. Myers and Jones effortlessly pull from their trade, an impressive array of newspapers, magazines and other literature-sewing together a book that succeeds admirably in portraying the pledge as a living oath capable of maturing with and reflecting the attitudes of an ever-evolving nation.\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   The Pledge\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  "AÂ concise and often entertaining history."--_The Wall Street Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A lively, highly readable account that documents not just the beginning of the Pledge but some of the controversies it triggered."--_Tucson Citizen_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "AÂ worthwhile read for anyone interested in the evolution of the American system and American popular culture."--_NYMAS Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The story of the pledge is a part of American history that is often overlooked. Thanks to Jones and Meyer, that story is now told."--_Roll Call_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  "Jones (who died before he finished the book) and Meyer do a thorough job tracing the Pledge''s history from the germ in Bellamy''s brain to the cultural icon it has become."--_Richmond Times-Dispatch_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2304'),
(7163, 'Plugged', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Dan, an Irishman who''s ended up in New Jersey, finds himself embroiled in a world of murder, kidnapping and corrupt cops.Danworks as aÂ bouncerÂ in a seedy club, half in love with hostess Connie. When Connie is murdered on the premises, a vengeful Dan finds himself embroiled in an increasingly deadly sequence of events in which his doctor friend Zeb goes mysteriously missing, a cop-killing female copÂ becomes his only ally, and he makes an enemy of ruthless drug-dealer Mike Madden. Written with the warmth and wit that make the Artemis Fowl novels so irresistible, though with additional torture and violence, PLUGGED is a brilliant crime debut from a naturally gifted writer with a huge fanbase.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/668'),
(7164, 'Plum Lucky', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In bestseller Evanovich''s breezy third holiday novella (after Plum Lovin''), Stephanie Plum''s kooky Grandma Mazur finds a duffle full of money on the street and hightails it to Atlantic City. When Stephanie learns that the money was stolen from Delvina, a notorious Trenton mobster, she and her friend Lula head off in pursuit. In Atlantic City, the Jersey bounty hunter discovers she''s not the only one after Grandma after meeting Snuggy, an ex-jockey who originally stole the money and is convinced he''s a leprechaun. With her on-again off-again boyfriend Morelli tied up with a murder case and the sexy Ranger otherwise occupied, Stephanie turns to the mysterious Diesel for help. As she tries to keep Grandma safe and fend off the advances of Diesel amid the slot machines and craps tables, Stephanie realizes she may be in over her head. With her trademark wit, cast of eccentric side characters and hilariously absurd plot twists, Evanovich treats her fans to a delightful miniadventure sure to whet their appetites for the next full-length Plum escapade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3723'),
(7165, 'Plum Spooky', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Klutzy bounty hunter Stephanie Plum teams up with mysterious Diesel and the monkey left on her doorstep to track down a nerdy genius and his sinister business partner in the depths of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Lorelei King does her usual superlative job for the Evanovich oeuvre, adding juice and dimension to each wacky character. She deftly handles everyone, from bail bond receptionist Connie''s classic New Jersey accent and outrageous sidekick Lula''s brash outbursts to Ranger''s smooth purr (it''s amazing how he, as voiced by King, can make the word babe mean so many different things). The structures of Plum novels tend to be similar; it''s the laughs that keep readers coming back. King enhances the humor of this series, so much so that Evanovich fans should consider putting down that book and plugging in the CD player instead.\n  <em>\n   A St. Martin''s Press hardcover (reviewed online). (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Those who know and love Stephanie, Ranger, Morelli, Lula, Bob the dog, Rex the hamster, and the rest of that wacky crew in Evanovichâ€™s Trenton-set series, have also clasped Diesel, who appears only in these â€œbetween-the-numbersâ€ tales, to their collective hearts. Big, blond, dimpled, and paranormal, he flits into Stephâ€™s bail-bondswoman life with unnerving irregularity, and he has special powers that extend well beyond bounty hunting. This time Diesel has a cousin named Wulf, pale, black-clad, and dead-eyed, who has hidden a nerdy scientist and a lot of equipment in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. The repartee sparkles and shimmies from razor wit to toilet humor (and back again), and the plot involves mud, food tossing, explosive farts, occasional kissing, and hilarious (and true-to-life, alas) allergic reactions (that would be from Lula). A group of monkeys, and one in particular named Carl, figure mightily in the plot, in one instance actually making the stoic, understated Ranger burst into laughter. Donâ€™t miss Morelliâ€™s brother-in-law, the sly Star Trek and vampire tropes, and the Jersey Devil. Incredible amounts of fun. --GraceAnne A. DeCandido\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3724'),
(7166, 'Poe: A Life Cut Short', 'Peter Ackroyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Peter Ackroyd''s life of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) opens with his end, his final days. No one knows what happened between the moment when friends saw him off on the steamboat to Baltimore and his discovery, raving in a tavern, six days later, by which time he was already dying. This mystery sets the scene for a short life packed with drama and tragedy (drink and poverty) combined with extraordinary brilliance. Tennyson described him as ''the most original genius that America has produced''." "Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron. Soon he was trying out his ''prose tales'' - often horror melodramas such as ''The Fall of the House of Usher''. He wrote for and edited a number of literary magazines, and was influential among critics and writers of the American South. His versatile writings - including for example ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'' and ''The Raven'' -continue to resonate down the centuries." "Poe has been claimed as the forerunner of modern fantasy, and credited with the invention of psychological dramas (before Freud), science fiction (before H. G. Wells and Jules Verne) and the detective story (before Arthur Conan Doyle). He influenced European romanticism and was the harbinger of both Symbolism and Surrealism. Peter Ackroyd, who places significance on Poe''s childhood (his travelling actor parents were miserably poor, his mother had TB and he was orphaned), claims that Poe found his family among writers - writers not only of his time but of the future generations who were influenced by the power of his imagination. Poe''s life was Gothic, theatrical, fatally flawed, dark, dazzling, destructive, satirical and inventive."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2053'),
(7167, 'The Poet', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A special promotional edition of The Poet including a first chapter of the new Michael Connelly thriller, The Narrows to be published in May 2004. With a new introduction by Stephen King."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/484'),
(7168, 'Point of Origin', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  From the\n  <i>\n   New York Times\n  </i>\n  #1 bestselling author of\n  <i>\n   Unnatural Exposure\n  </i>\n  and\n  <i>\n   Cause of Death\n  </i>\n  comes a white-hot new Kay Scarpetta novel that pits Virginia''s Chief Medical Examiner against an audacious and wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes.\n </h3>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  Virginia''s chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is getting ready for a romantic holiday with her retired-FBI-profiler boyfriend, Benton Wesley, when she receives a cryptic and foreboding letter: "Hey DOC, Tick Tock, Sawed bone and fire," it begins. Even more creepy, the taunting note has been signed by Carrie Grethen, the psychotic killer Kay helped send to a psychiatric facility for going on a murder spree with Temple Gault in Cornwell''s earlier book\n  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0425147622/%24%7B0%7D">\n   <i>\n    Body Farm\n   </i>\n  </a>\n  . Benton believes that Grethen--who also happens to be the former lover of Scarpetta''s niece Lucy--has big plans for a comeback. And before Kay and Benton can leave for their trip and discuss it further, Scarpetta is called upon to don yet another professional hat, that of a "consulting forensic pathologist" for the federal government. Someone has burned a highfalutin horse ranch and all of its contents, including a human being, to the ground. Worse, Grethen has escaped and is on the loose and closer to Kay and her beloved than she knows.\n  <i>\n   Point of Origin\n  </i>\n  , the ninth Scarpetta thriller, is classic Cornwell: rich with detail and strong dialogue, and doused with harrowing twists.\n  <em>\n   --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n  </em>\n  <div class="emptyClear">\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  Cornwell fans who relish her Kay Scarpetta stories for the postmortem findings will welcome this tale of twisted minds and the gory havoc they cause. Acronym fans will also be pleased. This tale opens with the complete destruction by fire of a Virginia horse farm, the owner of which was said to be in London. As consultant to the FBI and the ATF''s NRT (that''s the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms'' National Response Team), Scarpetta joins the investigation on site and discovers some remains of a young woman in the master bath. Although the origin of the fire remains a mystery, research turns up two similar unsolved incidents from years earlier, female victims who were dead before the accompanying conflagration. Another fire disguising another murder, and the escape of Carrie Grethen, evil woman partner of Scarpetta''s now dead archenemy Temple Gault, from a New York City hospital for the criminally insane, ups Scarpetta''s anxiety level about both her beloved, brilliant niece, Lucy, who was seduced by Grethen in The Body Farm, and her lover, psychological profiler Benton Wesley. A third fire covers a third personally devastating death before Scarpetta is able to finger Grethen''s new diabolical partner and survive a harrowing finale in a helicopter. Although Cornwell repeatedly tells us how anxious, strung out or devastated Scarpetta feels in the face of Grethen''s evil threats, there''s very little dramatization of these powerfully emotional conditions. The author is convincing mainly in the delivery of chilling forensic details. One million first printing; $750,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club and Mystery Guild main selections; simultaneous Putnam Berkley audio.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  <em>\n   --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n  </em>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3014'),
(7169, 'The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome&#39;s Deadliest Enemy', 'Adrienne Mayor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n I can say without reservation that it''s a wonderful reading experience, as bracing as a tonic, the perfect holiday gift for adventure-loving men and women. A finalist for [the 2009] National Book Award, it''s drenched in imaginative violence and disaster, but it also wears the blameless vestments of culture and antiquity. You can have all the fun of reading about a greedy villain being put to death by being made to ''drink'' molten gold, but still hide safe behind the excuse that you''re just brushing up on your classics. -- Carolyn See, Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n Mayor gives us a more nuanced view of the so-called Poison King, placing him in his proper context as a Greco-Persian ruler following in the footsteps of his purported ancestor Alexander the Great. The most compelling aspect of this story is Mayor''s engaging style. A true storyteller, she makes Mithradates''s world come alive. This distinctive and compelling book is sure to fascinate all readers interested in the ancient world or in understanding the historical politics of the Caucasus region. -- Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n Thanks be to Adrienne Mayor for a definitive biography, blazing with color, presenting a magnificent cast headed by a hero who caused Rome to tremble for a quarter-century. . . . [H]is splendidly produced book is a cavalcade of intrigue, action, and slaughter. Danger, hope, fear, and love and lust are never absent. -- ForeWord Reviews\n</p>\n<p>\n Mayor has specialized in writing well-researched, readable scholarship in the history of ancient science and technology, including the pre-eminent work on ancient chemical and biological warfare. It is fitting, therefore, that her first major biography tackles the life of Mithridates VI of Pontus, known for his knowledge of poisons. It is difficult to weave personal anecdotes (the lifeblood of good biography) with the technical tidbits of science, but Mayor carries it off brilliantly, as evidenced by sections describing Mithridates'' youth and early scientific education in Sinope, and his extraordinary chemical knowledge at the peark of his reign. . . . The work is a marvel: part biography, part campaign history, and part scientific exploration, written in a style that makes the book a true page-turner. -- Choice\n</p>\n<p>\n Mayor has done an extraordinary job of filling many gaps in the history of this contentious and foggy period. Rightly so,\n <em>\n  The Poison King\n </em>\n was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Award and is an effort worthy of any student of history. -- Lee Scott, Florida Times--Union\n</p>\n<p>\n Mayor has solid research credentials, and her command of the ancient and modern sources is extensive and impressive. The digressions offered in footnotes are enjoyable and valuable, as are the appendices offering a modern checklist for evaluating Mithradates'' psychological condition. Good maps at key points in the narrative are very helpful, and the text is well written and organized chronologically. The author''s interest in ancient poisons, chemicals, explosives technology, geography and regional flora and fauna allow her to expound on these subjects while telling her story. . . . Mayor''s approach to the material blurs the line between history and historical fiction; one can easily imagine the narrative being turned into a television or movie script. -- Richard Gabriel, Military History\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a highly coloured portrait and a very readable account of a complex individual with whom Mayor plainly has considerable empathy. The book therefore should find a wide audience and serve as an attractive introduction to its subject. . . . [Mayor] herself says, ''Mithridates'' incredible saga is a rollicking good story'' and she has narrated it with verve, panache and scholarly skill. -- Arthur Keaveney, Bryn Mawr Classical Review\n</p>\n<p>\n Newcomers to the field will fall in love with Mayor''s\n <em>\n  Mithradates\n </em>\n . For more sober-if less compelling-accounts, they will turn to the recent studies listed in the very good, up-to-date bibliography included in\n <em>\n  The Poison King\n </em>\n . -- Laurence Totelin, Isis\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Mithradates should be a household name alongside his fellow rebels Hannibal, Cleopatra, Spartacus, and Attila. This detailed, juicy, entertaining, yet painstaking work of superb scholarship should finally give Mithradates the recognition he deserves."--Margaret George, author of\n <em>\n  Helen of Troy: A Novel\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Meticulous in its research, exciting in its narration, ambitious in its conception,\n <em>\n  The Poison King\n </em>\n re-creates an era when much of the Mediterranean world rebelled against Rome. At the center of it all is the fascinating and frightening king who rallied the resistance: Mithradates. Mayor has written a terrific book."--Barry Strauss, author of\n <em>\n  The Spartacus War\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A fascination with the byways of ancient science, a wonderful eye for the telling detail, and a relish for floating theories that is almost buccaneering: these have always been the trademarks of Adrienne Mayor. Now, with this stirring biography of the toxicologist''s favorite tyrant, she parades her gift for narrative as well. Thanks to Mayor, Mithradates has emerged from the shadows at last as one of Rome''s most potent and remarkable enemies."--Tom Holland, author of\n <em>\n  Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "''He died old''--so A. E. Housman refers to the subject of Adrienne Mayor''s latest enthralling book, Mithradates VI, king of Pontus. Pursuing her interest in deadly chemical and biological substances, she focuses here on the life and times of the hammer of the mighty Romans in the last century of the Republic, the hellenized oriental ruler finally nailed by Pompey the Great. Ruthless, aggressive, charming, manipulative, callous--was Mithradates a textbook sociopath? Read this exhilarating and penetrating biography to find out."--Paul Cartledge, author of\n <em>\n  Alexander the Great\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Adrienne Mayor''s\n <em>\n  The Poison King\n </em>\n is an intriguing and highly readable new biography of one of the most controversial figures of antiquity, Mithradates--ruthless Hellenistic king, genocidaire, terrorist, alchemist, implacable enemy of Rome. It is an important contribution to our understanding of the desperate measures some rulers were prepared to take to resist Rome''s iron-fisted pursuit of empire."--R. Bruce Hitchner, Tufts University\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1955'),
(7170, 'Polar Shift', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is Cussler''s and Kemprecos'' sixth novel starring Kurt Austin and his NUMA Files National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) Files Special Assignments Team. This one concerns a polar shift, a phenomenon that can trigger huge eruptions, earthquakes, and climate changes. Sixty years ago, a Hungarian scientist discovered how to artificially set off such a shift, and now an antiglobalization group plans to strike the world''s industrialized countries. The water in the world''s oceans and lakes will be jerked in a different direction, pounding the coastline, causing massive floods. All electrical devices will fail, and there will be hurricanes and tornadoes of unheard-of force. Radiation sickness from solar rays penetrating the earth''s magnetic field will kill millions. The earth''s crust will break open, causing volcanic eruptions and lava flows. But fear not; Austin and his cohorts are coming to the rescue. The plot is inconceivable, but Cussler''s loyal fans won''t care.\n  <em>\n   George Cohen\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An excellent series."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  (\n  <em>\n   Publisher''s Weekly\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1229'),
(7171, 'Poor Little Bitch Girl', 'Jackie Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Three twenty-something women, one hot rich guy, two mega movie stars, and a devastating murder: Poor Little Bitch Girl has it all.Denver Jones is a hotshot twenty-something attorney working in L.A. Carolyn Henderson is personal assistant to a powerful and very married Senator in Washington with whom she is having an affair. And Annabelle Maestroâ€”daughter of two movie starsâ€”has carved out a career for herself in New York as the madame of choice for discerning famous men. The three of them went to high school together in Beverly Hillsâ€”and although Denver and Carolyn have kept in touch, Annabelle is out on her own with her cocaine addicted boyfriend, Frankie.Â Â Â Â Â  Then there is Bobby Santangelo Stanislopolous, the Kennedyesque son of Lucky Santangelo and deceased Greek shipping billionaire, Dimitri Stanislopolous. Bobby owns Mood, the hottest club in New York.Â  Back in the day he went to high school with Denver, Carolyn and Annabelle. And he connected with all three of them. Frankie is his best friend.Â Â Â Â Â Â When Annabelleâ€™s beautiful movie star mother is found shot to death in the bedroom of her Beverly Hills mansion, the five of them find themselves thrown together . . . and secrets from the past have a way of coming back to haunt everyone. . . . Â Â Â Â Â  A new, sexy, and explosive novel from perennial bestseller Jackie Collins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3354'),
(7172, 'Pop Goes the Weasel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Likened to a "young Muhammad Ali," Alex Cross, the Porsche-driving profiler, doctor, detective, and father of two has seen his fair share of vicious killers. From a bloodthirsty butcher who came after his family (Cat and Mouse) to a devilish duo working cross-country (Kiss the Girls), Cross has managed to outmaneuver all of his enemies. Until he meets the Weasel. A series of killings in the forgotten, crime-infested ghettos of southeast D.C. has sent Cross and his 6''9" 250-pound partner, John Sampson, in search of the "Jane Doe" killer. However, their racist, tyrannical boss George Pitman orders them to stay out of the southeast and investigate the high-profile murder of a wealthy white man. Cross already has suspicions that the murders are linked, but when Sampson''s ex turns up in an abandoned southeast warehouse kicked to death, the two detectives carry on with their original investigation. Meanwhile, Cross''s longtime love, Christine (Cat and Mouse), has taken prominence in his life, and it looks as if the two will finally get hitched--with one glitch: Cross puts everything he loves in jeopardy as he obsessively goes after the Weasel. Akin to a slick Hollywood action flick, Pop Goes the Weasel doesn''t have time for meaningful character development or thoughtful moral analysis. And it doesn''t need to. Its winning formula is based on short scenes (chapters average about 3 pages), addictive plot progression, and mean dialogue: "Sampson sighed and said, ''I think her tongue is stapled inside the other girl. I''m pretty sure that''s it, Alex. The Weasel stapled them together.'' I looked at the two girls and shook my head. ''I don''t think so. A staple, even a surgical one, would come apart on the tongue''s surface.... Crazy glue would work." --Rebekah Warren\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/250'),
(7173, 'Pope Joan', 'Donna Woolfolk Cross', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the most controversial women of history is brought to brilliant life in Donn Woolfolk Cross''s tale of Pope Joan, a girl whose origins should have kept her in squalid domesticity. Instead, through her intelligence, indomitability and courage, she ascended to the throne of Rome as Pope John Anglicus.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The time is 814, the place is Ingelheim, a Frankland village. It is the harshest winter in living memory when Joan is born to an English father and a Saxon mother. Her father is a canon, filled with holy zeal and capable of unconscionable cruelty. His piety does not extend to his family members, especially the females. His wife, Gudrun, is a young beauty to whom he was attracted beyond his will--and he hates her for showing him his weakness. Gudrun teaches Joan about her gods, and is repeatedly punished for it by the canon. Joan grows to young womanhood with the combined knowledge of the warlike Saxon gods and the teachings of the Church as her heritage. Both realities inform her life forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When her brother John, not a scholarly type, is sent away to school, Joan, who was supposed to be the one sent to school, runs away and joins him in Dorstadt, at Villaris, the home of Gerold, who is central to Joan''s story. She falls in love with Gerold and their lives interesect repeatedly even through her Papacy. She is looked upon by all who know that she is a woman as a "lusus naturae," a freak of nature. "She was... male in intellect, female in body, she fit in nowhere; it was as if she belonged to a third amorphous sex." Cross makes the case over and over again that the status of women in the Dark Ages was little better than cattle. They were judged inferior in every way, and necessary evils in the bargain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After John is killed in a Viking attack, Joan sees her opportunity to escape the fate of all her gender. She cuts her hair, dons her dead brother''s clothes and goes into the world as a young boy. Gerold is away from Villaris at the time of the attack and comes home to find his home in ruins, his family killed and Joan among the missing. After the attack, Joan goes to a Benedictine monastery, is accepted as a young man of great learning, and eventually makes her way to Rome.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The author is at pains to tell the reader in an Epilogue that she has written the story as fiction because it is impossible to document Joan''s accesion to the Papacy. The Catholic Church has done everything possible to deny this embarrassment. Whether or not one believes in Joan as Pope, this is a compelling story, filled with all kinds of lore: the brutishness of the Dark Ages, Vatican intrigue, politics and favoritism and most of all, the place of women in the Church and in the world.\n  <em>\n   --Valerie Ryan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cross makes an excellent, entertaining case in her work of historical fiction that, in the Dark Ages, a woman sat on the papal throne for two years. Born in Ingelheim in A.D. 814 to a tyrannical English canon and the once-heathen Saxon he made his wife, Joan shows intelligence and persistence from an early age. One of her two older brothers teaches her to read and write, and her education is furthered by a Greek scholar who instructs her in languages and the classics. Her mother, however, sings her the songs of her pagan gods, creating a dichotomy within her daughter that will last throughout her life. The Greek scholar arranges for the continuation of her education at the palace school of the Lord Bishop of Dorstadt, where she meets the red-haired knight Gerold, who is to become the love of her life. After a savage attack by Norsemen destroys the village, Joan adopts the identity of her older brother, slain in the raid, and makes her way to Fulda, to become the learned scholar and healer Brother John Anglicus. After surviving the plague, Joan goes to Rome, where her wisdom and medical skills gain her entrance into papal circles. Lavishly plotted, the book brims with fairs, weddings and stupendous banquets, famine, plague and brutal battles. Joan is always central to the vivid action as she wars with the two sides of herself, "mind and heart, faith and doubt, will and desire." Ultimately, though she leads a man''s life, Joan dies a woman''s death, losing her life in childbirth. In this colorful, richly imagined novel, Cross ably inspires a suspension of disbelief, pulling off the improbable feat of writing a romance starring a pregnant pope.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/955'),
(7174, 'Pope Joan', 'Donna Woolfolk Cross', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the most controversial women of history is brought to brilliant life in Donn Woolfolk Cross''s tale of Pope Joan, a girl whose origins should have kept her in squalid domesticity. Instead, through her intelligence, indomitability and courage, she ascended to the throne of Rome as Pope John Anglicus.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The time is 814, the place is Ingelheim, a Frankland village. It is the harshest winter in living memory when Joan is born to an English father and a Saxon mother. Her father is a canon, filled with holy zeal and capable of unconscionable cruelty. His piety does not extend to his family members, especially the females. His wife, Gudrun, is a young beauty to whom he was attracted beyond his will--and he hates her for showing him his weakness. Gudrun teaches Joan about her gods, and is repeatedly punished for it by the canon. Joan grows to young womanhood with the combined knowledge of the warlike Saxon gods and the teachings of the Church as her heritage. Both realities inform her life forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When her brother John, not a scholarly type, is sent away to school, Joan, who was supposed to be the one sent to school, runs away and joins him in Dorstadt, at Villaris, the home of Gerold, who is central to Joan''s story. She falls in love with Gerold and their lives interesect repeatedly even through her Papacy. She is looked upon by all who know that she is a woman as a "lusus naturae," a freak of nature. "She was... male in intellect, female in body, she fit in nowhere; it was as if she belonged to a third amorphous sex." Cross makes the case over and over again that the status of women in the Dark Ages was little better than cattle. They were judged inferior in every way, and necessary evils in the bargain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After John is killed in a Viking attack, Joan sees her opportunity to escape the fate of all her gender. She cuts her hair, dons her dead brother''s clothes and goes into the world as a young boy. Gerold is away from Villaris at the time of the attack and comes home to find his home in ruins, his family killed and Joan among the missing. After the attack, Joan goes to a Benedictine monastery, is accepted as a young man of great learning, and eventually makes her way to Rome.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The author is at pains to tell the reader in an Epilogue that she has written the story as fiction because it is impossible to document Joan''s accesion to the Papacy. The Catholic Church has done everything possible to deny this embarrassment. Whether or not one believes in Joan as Pope, this is a compelling story, filled with all kinds of lore: the brutishness of the Dark Ages, Vatican intrigue, politics and favoritism and most of all, the place of women in the Church and in the world.\n  <em>\n   --Valerie Ryan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cross makes an excellent, entertaining case in her work of historical fiction that, in the Dark Ages, a woman sat on the papal throne for two years. Born in Ingelheim in A.D. 814 to a tyrannical English canon and the once-heathen Saxon he made his wife, Joan shows intelligence and persistence from an early age. One of her two older brothers teaches her to read and write, and her education is furthered by a Greek scholar who instructs her in languages and the classics. Her mother, however, sings her the songs of her pagan gods, creating a dichotomy within her daughter that will last throughout her life. The Greek scholar arranges for the continuation of her education at the palace school of the Lord Bishop of Dorstadt, where she meets the red-haired knight Gerold, who is to become the love of her life. After a savage attack by Norsemen destroys the village, Joan adopts the identity of her older brother, slain in the raid, and makes her way to Fulda, to become the learned scholar and healer Brother John Anglicus. After surviving the plague, Joan goes to Rome, where her wisdom and medical skills gain her entrance into papal circles. Lavishly plotted, the book brims with fairs, weddings and stupendous banquets, famine, plague and brutal battles. Joan is always central to the vivid action as she wars with the two sides of herself, "mind and heart, faith and doubt, will and desire." Ultimately, though she leads a man''s life, Joan dies a woman''s death, losing her life in childbirth. In this colorful, richly imagined novel, Cross ably inspires a suspension of disbelief, pulling off the improbable feat of writing a romance starring a pregnant pope.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2357'),
(7175, 'Port Mortuary', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell''s 18th Scarpetta novel, is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced story, a treacherous path from Scarpetta''s past merges with the high tech highway she now finds herself on. We travel back to the beginning of her professional career, when she enlisted in the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt and found herself ensnared in a gruesome case of what seemed to be vicious, racially motivated hate crimes against two Americans in South Africa. Now, more than twenty years and many career successes later, her secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base, where she has been immersed in a training fellowship to master the art of CT-assisted virtual autopsy--a procedure the White House has mandated that she introduce in the private sector. As the chief of the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts, a joint venture of the state and federal governments and MIT, Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility and ruin her personally and professionally. A young man drops dead, apparently from a cardiac arrhythmia, eerily close to Scarpetta''s new Cambridge home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked insider the Center''s cooler. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties. She realizes that she is fighting a cunning and cruel enemy that is invisible as she races against time to discover who and why before more people die. In Port Mortuary, Patricia Cornwell brings Scarpetta together with Marino, Benton, and Lucy in an intimate way that is reminiscent of the early novels, and we welcome a voice we haven''t heard in years. The point of view is Scarpetta''s, and this is her story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3015');
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(7176, 'Portrait of a Killer', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jack the Ripper was renowned artist Walter Sickert (1860-1942) according to Cornwell, in case anyone hasn''t yet heard. The evidence Cornwell accumulates toward that conclusion in this brilliant, personal, gripping book is very strong, and will persuade many. In May 2001, Cornwell took a tour of Scotland Yard that interested her in the Ripper case, and in Sickert as a suspect. A look at Sickert''s "violent" paintings sealed her interest, and she became determined to apply, for the first time ever, modern investigatory and forensic techniques to the crimes that horrified London more than 100 years ago. The book''s narrative is complex, as Cornwell details her emotional involvement in the case; re-creates life in Victorian times, particularly in the late 1880s, and especially the cruel existence of the London poor; offers expertly observed scenarios of how, based on the evidence, the killings occurred and the subsequent investigations were conducted; explains what was found by the team of experts she hired; and gives a psycho-biography of Sickert. The book is filled with newsworthy revelations, including the successful use of DNA analysis to establish a link between an envelope mailed by the Ripper and two envelopes used by Sickert. There are also powerful comparisons made between Sickert''s drawing style and that of the Ripper; between words and turns of phrases used by both men; and much other circumstantial evidence. Also newsworthy is Cornwell''s conclusion that Sickert continued to kill long after the Ripper supposedly lay down his blade, reaping dozens of victims over his long life. Compassionate, intense, superbly argued, fluidly written and impossible to put down, this is the finest and most important true-crime book to date of the 21st century. Main selection of the BOMC, Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Can truth be stranger than Cornwell''s fiction? Here, the best-selling novelist claims to uncover the identity of Jack the Ripper.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3016'),
(7177, 'Portrait of a Spy', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in a spellbinding new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author For Gabriel and his beautiful Venetian-born wife, Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London â€a visit to an art gallery in St. James "s to authenticate a newly discovered painting by Titian, followed by a quiet lunch at an Italian restaurant along the Strand. But a pair of deadly bombings in Paris and Hamburg has already marred this sparkling autumn day. And while walking along Wellington Street, the ever-vigilant Gabriel notices a man whom he believes is about to carry out a third attack. The man is exhibiting several traits common to suicide bombers â€traits that Gabriel, one of the world "s most experienced counterterrorism officers, knows all too well. Armed with a concealed Beretta pistol, he follows the man into the crowded Covent Garden market, determined to prevent the massacre of innocents he fears is about to take place. But before Gabriel can draw his weapon, he is knocked to the pavement by two undercover London police officers. A moment later he looks up to find a scene from his nightmares. Bodies and blood, Baghdad on the Thames\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3519'),
(7178, 'Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford', 'Donald Spoto', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Joan Crawford was one of the most incandescent film stars of all time, yet she was also one of the most misunderstood. In this brilliantly researched, thoughtful, and intimate biography, bestselling author Donald Spoto goes beyond the popular caricatureÂ—the abusive, unstable mother of her adopted daughter Christina Crawfords memoir,\n <em>\n  Mommie Dearest\n </em>\n Â—to give us a three-dimensional portrait of a very human woman, her dazzling career, and her extraordinarily dramatic life and times. Illuminating and entertaining,\n <em>\n  Possessed\n </em>\n is the definitive biography of this remarkable woman and true legend of film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2054'),
(7179, 'The Postcard Killers', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Paris is stunning in the summer\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe''s most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren''t what draw him--he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter''s killer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The killing is simply marvelous\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Kanon''s daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wish you were here\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm--and they think they know where the next victims will be. With relentless logic and unstoppable action,\n <em>\n  The Postcard Killers\n </em>\n may be James Patterson''s most vivid and compelling thriller yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/486'),
(7180, 'The Postmistress', 'Sarah Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Those who carry the truth sometimes bear a terrible weight...  It is 1940. France has fallen. Bombs are dropping on London. And President Roosevelt is promising he won''t send our boys to fight in "foreign wars."  But American radio gal Frankie Bard, the first woman to report from the Blitz in London, wants nothing more than to bring the war home. Frankie''s radio dispatches crackle across the Atlantic ocean, imploring listeners to pay attention--as the Nazis bomb London nightly, and Jewish refugees stream across Europe. Frankie is convinced that if she can just get the right story, it will wake Americans to action and they will join the fight.  Meanwhile, in Franklin, Massachusetts, a small town on Cape Cod, Iris James hears Frankie''s broadcasts and knows that it is only a matter of time before the war arrives on Franklin''s shores. In charge of the town''s mail, Iris believes that her job is to deliver and keep people''s secrets, passing along the news that letters carry. And one secret she keeps are her feelings for Harry Vale, the town mechanic, who inspects the ocean daily, searching in vain for German U-boats he is certain will come. Two single people in midlife, Iris and Harry long ago gave up hope of ever being in love, yet they find themselves unexpectedly drawn toward each other.  Listening to Frankie as well are Will and Emma Fitch, the town''s doctor and his new wife, both trying to escape a fragile childhood and forge a brighter future. When Will follow''s Frankie''s siren call into the war, Emma''s worst fears are realized. Promising to return in six months, Will goes to London to offer his help, and the lives of the three women entwine.  Alternating between an America still cocooned in its inability to grasp the danger at hand and a Europe being torn apart by war, The Postmistress gives us two women who find themselves unable to deliver the news, and a third woman desperately waiting for news yet afraid to hear it.  Sarah Blake''s The Postmistress shows how we bear the fact that war goes on around us while ordinary lives continue. Filled with stunning parallels to today, it is a remarkable novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3442'),
(7181, 'The Postmortal', 'Drew Magary', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An exciting page turner. . . . Drew Magary is an excellent writer. This is his first novel but he tells the story masterfully. . . . The most frightening thing about\n  <em>\n   The Postmortal\n  </em>\n  is that this could really happen-it''s not a supernatural story, but it''s even more terrifying than zombie apocalypse."\n  <br />\n  -Mark Frauenfelder,\n  <em>\n   BoingBoing\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s nearly impossible not to read this smart speculative novel and imagine how your own little chunk of the world might fall to pieces given the chance to live forever."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The first novel from a popular sports blogger and humorist puts a darkly comic spin on a science fiction premise and hits the sweet spot between Margaret Atwood and Kurt Vonnegut. . . . [Magary] understands that satire is most effective when it gives the real world a gently absurd nudge, then lets its characters react much as we ourselves might under the same circumstances."\n  <br />\n  -Ron Hogan,\n  <em>\n   Shelf Awareness\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Immortality has figured in a number of sf novels prior to this one, but never, to my experience, in this way. . . . A very clear-eyed picture, one I don''t think has been drawn before. . . .\n  <em>\n   The Postmortal\n  </em>\n  surprised me in a good way."\n  <br />\n  -Michelle West,\n  <em>\n   Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction\n  </em>\n  magazine\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Magary has created a smartly realized vision of a planet that''s hit the skids. . . . Magary is blogger for the sports sites Deadspin and Kissing Suzy Kolber, and the blog format serves him well in the early sections of the novel: It allows him to integrate newspaper articles that set the scene, and he gives [narrator John Farrell] an engaging, quick-witted voice."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   The Postmortal\n  </em>\n  is a punchy, fast-paced and endearing story. . . . As the novel progresses, it turns from a snappy morality tale, to a noir- ish revenge fable, to an action movie; complete with guns, rogue religious cults and government-sanctioned hit men. The narrative comes to us through John''s blog entries and collections of news bytes and pundit commentary. Through his sixty years as a 29-year-old, he experiences all the love, pain, grief, and terror of a standard lifetime and is still in good enough shape to kick some ass at the end. Like much good dystopian fiction,\n  <em>\n   The Postmortal\n  </em>\n  is an at-times unflattering commentary on human beings, present, past and future, that hits the mark in many ways. . . . For anyone intrigued with Life Extension science, it''s a fun examination of our fears and expectations."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <em>\n   The Nervous Breakdown\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Drew Magary''s haunting first novel imagines a postmodern dystopia that would seem far-fetched if it didn''t seem so possible.\n  <em>\n   The Postmortal\n  </em>\n  will make you regret ever wondering, even secretly, what it would be like to live forever."\n  <br />\n  -Stefan Fatsis, author of\n  <em>\n   Word Freak\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Few Seconds of Panic\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A darkly comic, totally gonzo, and effectively frightening population- bomb dystopia in the spirit of\n  <em>\n   Logan''s Run, Soylent Green\n  </em>\n  , and the best episodes of\n  <em>\n   The Twilight Zone\n  </em>\n  ."\n  <br />\n  -Neal Pollack, author of\n  <em>\n   Alternadad\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Stretch\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A startling leap forward.\n  <em>\n   The Postmortal\n  </em>\n  is dark, funny, and terrifying. This book draws such a vivid, convincing picture of immortality that it, quite literally, made me want to die."\n  <br />\n  -Will Leitch, author of\n  <em>\n   Are We Winning?\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   God Save The Fan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As insanely entertaining as it is ambitious,\n  <em>\n   The Postmortal\n  </em>\n  takes us into an America set in the next few years and coming apart under the onslaught of a dreadful new plague--that of human immortality. Magary possesses an explosive imagination and let loose in\n  <em>\n   The Postmartal\n  </em>\n  , he creates an alternate history of the near future that feels real and is probably inevitable. Read\n  <em>\n   The Postmorta\n  </em>\n  l if you want to find out what happened to the human race in our last violent and absurd few years in New York."\n  <br />\n  -Evan Wright, author of\n  <em>\n   Generation Kill\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I suppose you could wait for the inevitable\n  <em>\n   Postmortal\n  </em>\n  movie. But then you might miss Magary''s rendering, his word play, his singular sense of humor. A book that is, at once bracingly funny and-get this, Deadspin Nation-unmistakably poignant."\n  <br />\n  -L. Jon Wertheim, co-author of\n  <em>\n   Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind Sports\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As someone who is totally freaked out by the thought of dying,\n  <em>\n   The Postmortal\n  </em>\n  really stood on top of me and peed on my face. It''s depiction of the future isn''t filled with crappy robots fighting Will Smith. It''s filled with eerily realistic portrayals of what the future could look like and does it all in an incredibly entertaining story."\n  <br />\n  -Justin Halpern, author of\n  <em>\n   Sh\n  </em>\n  t My Dad Says*\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Farrell is about to get "The Cure."\n  <br />\n  Old age can never kill him now.\n  <br />\n  The only problem is, everything else still can . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Imagine a near future where a cure for aging is discovered and-after much political and moral debate-made available to people worldwide. Immortality, however, comes with its own unique problems-including evil green people, government euthanasia programs, a disturbing new religious cult, and other horrors. Witty, eerie, and full of humanity,\n  <em>\n   The Postmortal\n  </em>\n  is an unforgettable thriller that envisions a pre-apocalyptic world so real that it is completely terrifying.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3737'),
(7182, 'Postmortem', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cornwell, a former reporter who has worked in a medical examiner''s office, sets her first mystery in Richmond, Va. Chief medical officer for the commonwealth of Virginia, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the narrator, dwells on her efforts to identify "Mr. Nobody," the strangler of young women. The doctor devotes days and nights to gathering computer data and forensic clues to the killer, although she''s hampered by male officials anxious to prove themselves superior to a woman. Predictably, Scarpetta''s toil pays off, but not before the strangler attacks her; a reformed male chauvinist, conveniently nearby, saves her. Although readers may be naturally disposed to admire Scarpetta and find the novel''s scientific aspect interesting, they are likely to be put off by her self-aggrandizement and interminable complaints, annoying flaws in an otherwise promising debut.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This award-winning novel based on Richmond''s real-life "South Side Strangler" case introduced Virginia''s chief medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta, and launched Cornwell''s career. Narrator Lorelei King generally has a pleasant reading voice and uses good pacing to build suspense. However, this is not a successful merger of book and reader for American ears. Listeners may be confused to hear that Kay wears "cocky" (khaki), for instance, and accenting the second syllable of such words as modem and condom distract the listener from the story. Furthermore, the voices of supporting characters (such as Marino, a "stoopid" New Jersey cop, and Lucy, a fussy Southern child) are stereotypical. Fortunately, an unabridged version of Postmortem is available from several other producers, including Recorded Books (Audio Reviews, LJ 2/15/94). Not recommended.?Juleigh Muirhead Clark, Williamsburg, Va.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3017'),
(7183, 'Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945', 'Tony Judt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  World War II may have ended in 1945, but according to historian Tony Judt, the conflict''s epilogue lasted for nearly the rest of the century. Calling 1945-1989 "an interim age," Judt examines what happened on each side of the Iron Curtain, with the West nervously inching forward while the East endured the "peace of the prison yard" until the fall of Communism in 1989 signaled their chance to progress. Though he proposes no grand, overarching theory of the postwar period, Judt''s massive work covers the broad strokes as well as the fine details of the years 1945 to 2005. No one book (even at nearly a thousand pages) could fully encompass this complex period, but\n  <em>\n   Postwar\n  </em>\n  comes close, and is impressive for its scope, synthesis, clarity, and narrative cohesion.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Judt treats the entire continent as a whole, providing equal coverage of social changes, economic forces, and cultural shifts in western and eastern Europe. He offers a county-by-county analysis of how each Eastern nation shed Communism and traces the rise of the European Union, looking at what it represents both economically and ideologically. Along with the dealings between European nations, he also covers Europe''s conflicted relationship with the United States, which learned much different lessons from World War II than did Europe. In particular, he studies the success of the Marshall Plan and the way the West both appreciated and resented the help, for acceptance of it reminded them of their diminished place in the world. No impartial observer, Judt offers his judgments and opinions throughout the book in an attempt to instruct as well as inform. If a moral lesson is to come from World War II, Judt writes, "then it will have to be\n  <em>\n   taught\n  </em>\n  afresh with each passing generation. ''European Union'' may be an answer to history, but it can never be a substitute." This book would be an excellent place to start that lesson. --_Shawn Carkonen_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  This is the best history we have of Europe in the postwar period and not likely to be surpassed for many years. Judt, director of New York University''s Remarque Institute, is an academic historian of repute and, more recently, a keen observer of European affairs whose powerfully written articles have appeared in the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  , the\n  <em>\n   New York Review of Books\n  </em>\n  and elsewhere. Here he combines deep knowledge with a sharply honed style and an eye for the expressive detail.\n  <em>\n   Postwar\n  </em>\n  is a hefty volume, and there are places where the details might overwhelm some readers. But the reward is always there: after pages on cabinet shuffles in some small country, or endless diplomatic negotiations concerning the fate of Germany or moves toward the European Union, the reader is snapped back to attention by insightful analysis and excellent writing. Judt shows that the dire human and economic costs of WWII shadowed Europe for a very long time afterward. Europeans and Americans recall the economic miracle, but it didn''t really transform people''s lives until the late 1950s, when a new, more individualized, consumer-oriented society began to appear in the West. But\n  <em>\n   Postwar\n  </em>\n  is not just a history of Western Europe. One of its great virtues is that it fully integrates the history of Eastern and Western Europe, and covers the small countries as well as the large and powerful ones. Judt is judicious, even a bit uncritical, in his appraisal of American involvement in Europe in the early postwar years, and he''s scathing about Western intellectuals'' accommodation to communism. His book focuses on cultural and intellectual life rather than the social experiences of factory workers or peasants, but it would probably be impossible to encompass all of it in one volume. Overall, this is history writing at its very best.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2360'),
(7184, 'Power Down', 'Ben Coes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Coes pumps new heat, blood, and flat-out action into a well-worn premise--terrorists are out to break America by attacking its energy resources--in his frighteningly plausible thriller debut. One target is Capitana, an American oil rig located in the Pacific off the coast of Colombia. Rigger gang chief Dewey Andreas, a former Delta officer, fights back and succeeds in saving many lives, but the oil platform is destroyed. At the same time, Canada''s Savage Island Project, the largest hydroelectric dam in North America, is blown up, killing hundreds and destroying a vital link in the U.S.''s energy production. Behind these schemes and with many more to come is Manhattan billionaire Alexander Fortuna, who will stop at nothing to destroy America, a country he was taught as a child to loath. Abetting Fortuna is a despicable traitor, Vic Buck, director of the CIA''s National Clandestine Service. Readers will eagerly await Coes''s next effort and hope for Dewey Andreas''s return.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "\n  <em>\n   Power Down\n  </em>\n  is terrific!\n </strong>\n With a gripping story, compelling characters, a relentless pace and nerve-wracking suspense,\n <em>\n  Power Down\n </em>\n is\n <strong>\n  one of the must-read thrillers of the year\n </strong>\n .Â  Don''t miss this debut of novelist Ben Coes and the introduction of Dewey Andreas--\n <strong>\n  you''ll devour this one\n </strong>\n and wait anxiously for their return."â€”Vince Flynn,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Pursuit of Honor\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A ripping thriller from an exciting new novelist.Â \n <em>\n  Power Down\n </em>\n kept me glued, turning the pages.Â  Lots of action, a terrific hero, and a slimy villain--thrillers don''t get any better."â€”Stephen Coonts,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Disciple\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/655'),
(7185, 'The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business', 'Charles Duhigg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.Â Marketers at Procter &amp; Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly imperceptible patternâ€”and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year.Â An untested CEO takes over one of the largest companies in America. His first order of business is attacking a single pattern among his employeesâ€”how they approach worker safetyâ€”and soon the firm, Alcoa, becomes the top performer in the Dow Jones.Â What do all these people have in common? They achieved success by focusing on the patterns that shape every aspect of our lives. Â They succeeded by transforming habits.Â In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation. Â Along the way we learn why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. We visit laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains. We discover how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. We go inside Procter &amp; Gamble, Target superstores, Rick Warrenâ€™s Saddleback Church, NFL locker rooms, and the nationâ€™s largest hospitals and see how implementing so-called keystone habits can earn billions and mean the difference between failure and success, life and death.Â At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. Â Habits arenâ€™t destiny. As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3842'),
(7186, 'The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment', 'Eckhart Tolle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s no wonder that The Power of Now has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 foreign languages. Much more than simple principles and platitudes, the book takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the discovery of truth and light. In the first chapter, Tolle introduces readers to enlightenment and its natural enemy, the mind. He awakens readers to their role as a creator of pain and shows them how to have a pain-free identity by living fully in the present. The journey is thrilling, and along the way, the author shows how to connect to the indestructible essence of our Being, "the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death." Featuring a new preface by the author, this paperback shows that only after regaining awareness of Being, liberated from Mind and intensely in the Now, is there Enlightenment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1095'),
(7187, 'Pox: An American History', 'Michael Willrich', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Today''s controversies over vaccinations pale beside the pitched battles fought at the turn of the 20th century, to judge by this probing work. Historian Willrich (City of Courts) revisits the smallpox epidemic that ravaged the United States from 1898 to 1904 and sparked a showdown between the burgeoning Progressive-era regulatory regime and Americans fearful of the new Leviathan state and the specter of "state medicine." Anxious to stamp out the contagion, public health officials in the South quarantined African-Americans in detention camps if they were suspected of carrying the disease and vaccinated others at gunpoint; in New York "paramilitary vaccination squads" raided immigrant tenements, forcibly inoculating residents and dragging infected children off to pesthouses; their coercive methods sparked occasional riots and lawsuits that helped remake constitutional law. Willrich sees merit on both sides: draconian public health measures saved thousands of lives, but resisters did have legitimate concerns about vaccine safety and side effects, racial targeting and bodily integrity. He does tend to romanticize anti-vaccine activists, whose movement he associates with feminism, free speech, and abolitionism, styling them as "libertarian radicals" engaging in "intimate acts of civil disobedience." Still, his lucid, well-written, empathetic study of a fascinating episode shows why the vaccine issue still pricks the American conscience. Photos. (Apr. 4)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The untold story of how America''s Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the turn of the last century, a powerful smallpox epidemic swept the United States from coast to coast. The age-old disease spread swiftly through an increasingly interconnected American landscape: from southern tobacco plantations to the dense immigrant neighborhoods of northern cities to far-flung villages on the edges of the nascent American empire. In\n  <em>\n   Pox\n  </em>\n  , award-winning historian Michael Willrich offers a gripping chronicle of how the nation''s continentwide fight against smallpox launched one of the most important civil liberties struggles of the twentieth century.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the dawn of the activist Progressive era and during a moment of great optimism about modern medicine, the government responded to the deadly epidemic by calling for universal compulsory vaccination. To enforce the law, public health authorities relied on quarantines, pesthouses, and "virus squads"-corps of doctors and club-wielding police. Though these measures eventually contained the disease, they also sparked a wave of popular resistance among Americans who perceived them as a threat to their health and to their rights.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the time, anti-vaccinationists were often dismissed as misguided cranks, but Willrich argues that they belonged to a wider legacy of American dissent that attended the rise of an increasingly powerful government. While a well-organized anti-vaccination movement sprang up during these years, many Americans resisted in subtler ways-by concealing sick family members or forging immunization certificates.\n  <em>\n   Pox\n  </em>\n  introduces us to memorable characters on both sides of the debate, from Henning Jacobson, a Swedish Lutheran minister whose battle against vaccination went all the way to the Supreme Court, to C. P. Wertenbaker, a federal surgeon who saw himself as a medical missionary combating a deadly-and preventable-disease.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Willrich suggests, many of the questions first raised by the Progressive-era antivaccination movement are still with us: How far should the government go to protect us from peril? What happens when the interests of public health collide with religious beliefs and personal conscience? In\n  <em>\n   Pox\n  </em>\n  , Willrich delivers a riveting tale about the clash of modern medicine, civil liberties, and government power at the turn of the last century that resonates powerfully today.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2361'),
(7188, 'Practicing History: Selected Essays', 'Barbara W. Tuchman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Persuades and Enthralls...I can think of no better primer for the nonexpert who wishes to learn history." -- Chicago Sun-Times\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Provocative, Consistent, and Beautifully Readable, an event not to be missed by history buffs." -- The Baltimore Sun\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From thoughtful pieces on the historian''s role to striking insights into America''s past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent "practicing history."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2365'),
(7189, 'The Prague Cemetery', 'Umberto Eco', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The highly anticipated, controversial novel, sold in more than forty countries  Nineteenth-century Europeâ€”from Turin to Prague to Parisâ€”abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies both real and imagined, lay one lone man? What if that evil genius created its most infamous document?  Eco takes his readers on an unforgettable journey through the underbelly of world-shattering events. Eco at his most exciting, a book immediately hailed as a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3460'),
(7190, 'Pray for Silence', 'Linda Castillo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo delivers an electrifying thriller in which Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil to solve the mysterious murders of an entire Amish family.The Plank family moved fromÂ Lancaster,Â Pennsylvania, to join the small Amish community of Painters Mill less than a year ago and seemed the model of the Plain Life--until on a cold October night, the entire family of seven was found slaughtered on their farm.Â  Police Chief Kate Burkholder and her small force have few clues, no motive, and no suspect.Â  Formerly Amish herself, Kate is no stranger to the secrets the Amish keep from the English--and each other--but this crime is horribly out of the ordinary.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  State agent John Tomasetti arrives on the scene to assist.Â  He and Kate worked together on a previous case during which they began a volatile relationship.Â  They soon realize the disturbing details of this case will test their emotional limits and force them to face demons from their own troubled pasts--and for Kate, a personal connection that is particularly hard to bear.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  When she discovers a diary that belonged to one of the teenaged daughters, Kate is shocked to learn the girl kept some very dark secrets and may have been living a lurid double life.Â  Who is the charismatic stranger who stole the young Amish girl''s heart? Could the brother--a man with a violent past, rejected and shunned by his family and the Amish community, have come to seek out revenge?Â  As Kate''s outrage grows so does her resolve to find the killer and bring him to justice--even if it means putting herself in the line of fire.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Topping her own bestselling debut, Linda Castillo once again immerses us in the world of the Amish with a chilling story that is both a fast-paced thriller and intriguing psychological puzzle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3038'),
(7191, 'Prayers for Bobby', 'Leroy Aarons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy ...and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict-for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was " wrong" -Bobby chose to take his own life.  "Prayers for Bobby", nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion. But it is also the story of Bobby''s mother, a fearful churchgoer who first prayed that her son would be " healed, " then anguished over hi suicide, and ultimately transformed herself into a national crusader for gay and lesbian youth.  As told through Bobby''s poignant journal entries and his mother''s reminiscences, "Prayers for Bobby" is at once a moving personal story, a true profile in courage, and a call to arms to parents everywhere.  " The value of the Griffith story ...is undeniable. [It] should be required reading for every parent, every school teacher, and anyone who has ever doubted that words can kill." - "The" "Washington Post"  " This book will become an instant classic. And it will save lives of countless young people..." -- "The Advocate"  " ...A heartrending story of two journeys: Bobby''s spiral toward death and Mary''s toward personal responsibility. Aarons has performed a major public service, as has the entire Griffith family-especially Bobby, whose death will surely save many others." "--Los Angeles Times"  " The book is not a tragedy. Because of Mary Griffith''s gutsy sensibility and her tireless efforts to help others "...Prayers for Bobby" is a book about hope." -- "San Francisco Chronicle"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2055'),
(7192, 'Predator', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this book, Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, digs into a case more bizarre than any she has ever faced, one that has produced not only unusual physical evidence but tantalizing clues about the inner workings of an extremely cunning and criminal mind. She and her team - Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and her niece, Lucy - track the odd connections between several horrific crimes and the people who are the likely suspects. As one psychopath, safely behind bars and the subject of a classified scientific study at a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital, teases Scarpetta with tips that could be fact - or fantasy - the number of killers on the loose seems to multiply. Are these events related or merely random? And what can the study of one man''s brain tell them about the methods of a psychopath still lurking in the shadows?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3018'),
(7193, 'Prelude to Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  To Emperor Cleon I, the science of psychohistory seems to offer the opportunity to predict and direct the course of his Galactic Empire. To Hari Seldon, discoverer of the still theoretical science, it becomes a nightmare as the young historian becomes the most wanted man in the colonized universe. An intricately twisted plot, uncomplicated but amiable characters, and an abundance of leisurely explication mark Asimov''s latest addition to his classic Foundation novels. While familiarity with earlier titles is not necessary, series followers will particularly enjoy this prequel. Recommended.JC\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Isaac Asimov began his Foundation Series at the age of twenty-one, not realizing that it would one day be considered a cornerstone of science fiction. During his legendary career, Asimov penned over 470 books on subjects ranging from science to Shakespeare to history, though he was most loved for his award-winning science fiction sagas, which include the Robot, Empire, and Foundation series. Named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Asimov entertained and educated readers of all ages for close to five decasdes. He died, at age of seventy-two, in April 1992.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1143'),
(7194, 'The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century', 'Scott Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with Author Scott Miller\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  What inspired you to write this book?\n </strong>\n <br />\n I began looking for a book idea several years ago with two requirements in mind. First, I wanted to find a good story--something with fascinating characters, a bit of tension, and a compelling narrative. Second, I was looking for a story of some significance. That led me instinctively to the turn of the century. Everything about the United States--its economy, its politics, the way people played and worked -- were all rapidly changing. It was a turning point in the nationâ€™s history. McKinley and his assassin Leon Czolgosz, I quickly discovered, offered a fascinating story in their own right, but also spoke to broader issues.\n</p>\n<p>\n McKinley tends to be overshadowed by his successor, Theodore Roosevelt. Is that fair? There is no question that McKinley gets less space in the history books. Roosevelt ranks as perhaps the most charismatic president in U.S. history and accomplished great things. But McKinleyâ€™s five years in office were, if anything, more action packed. He led the nation into war with Spain, he annexed the Philippines, and he sent troops to China to help put down the Boxer Rebellion. Many of his decisions would have long-lasting consequences. U.S. troops would remain in the Philippines for decades. Puerto Rico and Guam would be brought under--the Open Door-- that would guide presidents right up to Pearl Harbor. McKinley, however, was the type of man who preferred to work behind the scenes and was not one for bombastic speech making. This modesty has certainly hurt his profile, undeservedly so.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Do you see parallels between McKinleyâ€™s presidency and what the United States faces now?\n </strong>\n <br />\n Yes. Many of the issues about Americaâ€™s role in the world can be traced back to his years in office. McKinley and his team were at various times torn over whether the United States, as a former colony itself, should avoid interfering in the affairs of other governments, or whether to use its power to correct what it considered to be problems in other countries. Overlaying that conflict was the pursuit of American economic interests, which demanded a strong U.S. presence abroad. Ultimately, I think, McKinley decided in many cases that there existed a happy union of interests--what was good for the United States was also probably good for others.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  And what of the anarchist philosophy that Czolgosz said he subscribed to?\n </strong>\n <br />\n There are a number of similarities between the anarchist movement in the 1880s and 1890s and whatâ€™s happening in some parts of the world today. Radical anarchists of that time saw in terror--what they called the â€œpropaganda of the deedâ€--an opportunity to draw attention to their cause. Some also felt they were justified in using violence because, in their view, government and society was using violence against them--aggressive police tactics and an unjust legal system. Finally, and this really struck me, was the power of imitation. It seemed like every time the police, in the United States or in Europe, captured and punished an anarchist, it only inspired others to take up the fight themselves, even to the point of hoping to die in the same manner that their heroes had.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  What surprised you about your research?\n </strong>\n <br />\n What struck me the most was the richness of those who became secondary characters in the book. There is the adventure-loving Frederick Funston, the army officer who--passing himself off as a prisoner of war--led a secret raid on the camp of the leader of the Filipino resistance. There is Admiral Dewey, a desk-bound naval officer who worried over a forgettable career until he was given the opportunity to attack the Spanish fleet at Manila. There is Emma Goldman, â€œRed Emma,â€ who loved anarchism, and the men who shared her views. And there is even McKinleyâ€™s wife, a demanding and sickly woman, who would have tested most men, but found in McKinley an ever faithful and loving companion. Getting to know these people--as well as McKinley and Czolgosz--was one of the great joys of the book and Iâ€™ll miss spending time with them.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œScott Miller has written a\n <strong>\n  vivid and insightful\n </strong>\n story about a nation rich in energy and contradiction on the verge of greatness.\n <strong>\n  A fast-paced read about an astonishing time\n </strong>\n .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Evan Thomas, author of_ The War Lovers\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œWilliam McKinleyâ€™s presidency, and the era it spanned, tend to be forgotten, yet it was in those years that the modern American nation, economy, and presidency were forged. Scott Miller describes these years through a joint portrait of the world of McKinley and the man who assassinated him.\n <strong>\n  The result is a marvelous work of history, wonderfully written\n </strong>\n , told from the top down and the bottom up.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Fareed Zakaria, author of_ The Post-American World\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œMiller''s\n <strong>\n  polished and vivid narrative\n </strong>\n of these complex, dissimilar men makes this piece of Americana appear\n <strong>\n  fresh and unexpected\n </strong>\n . . . . [_The President and the Assassin_] faithfully captures the turbulent time at the turn of the twentieth century when America faced discord from within and without, and war and an assassin altered America''s history.â€ Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_Publishers Weekly\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2306'),
(7195, 'The Prestige', 'Christopher Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent sÃ©ance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another.Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences. In the course of pursuing each other''s ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magicians'' craft can command--the highest misdirection and the darkest science.Blood will be spilled, but it will not be enough. In the end, their legacy will pass on for generations...to descendants who must, for their sanity''s sake, untangle the puzzle left to them.Â Soon to be a major motion picture starring HUGH JACKMAN, SCARLETT JOHANSSON, CHRISTIAN BALE, DAVID BOWIE, MICHAEL CAINE, ANDY SERKIS and directed by CHRISTOPHER NOLAN!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1314'),
(7196, 'Pretty Little Liars', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Among the mega mansions and perfectly manicured hedges of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, everyone has something to hideâ€”especially four very pretty little liars.  High school juniors Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily have been keeping secrets ever since their best friend, Alison DiLaurentis, disappeared three years ago. But when the girls begin receiving threatening notes from someone named â€œA,â€ their secretsâ€”the big ones, the little ones, even the long-buried onesâ€”no longer seem so safe. Unravel the Pretty Little Liarsâ€™ wildest mysteries in this special box set. But remember, nothing is as it seems in Rosewood . . .   Pretty Little Liars Box Set includes books 1 to 4\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3775'),
(7197, 'Pretty Little Secrets', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Rewind to junior year in Rosewood, Pennsylvania, to a winter break no one has ever heard about. . . .   Fat snowflakes fall onto manicured lawns, quilted stockings hang over marble fireplaces, and everyone is at peace, especially Hanna, Emily, Aria, and Spencer. Now that Alisonâ€™s murderer is in jail and A is dead, they can finally relax. Little do they know thereâ€™s a new A in town. . . .   Rule number one of being an effective stalker: Get to know your prey. So I watch these liars day and night, keeping an eye on the trouble they get into, the messes they make, and the secrets they keep. Hannaâ€™s desperate for a very personal session with her gym trainer. Emily is number one on Santaâ€™s naughty list. Ariaâ€™s old flame from Iceland is about to land her in hot water. And Spencerâ€™s resorting to some backhanded tactics to get what she wants.   What happens on holiday break stays on holiday breakâ€”right? But guess what. I saw. And now Iâ€™m telling.   Taking place between Unbelievable and Wicked, Pretty Little Secrets is a very special Pretty Little Liars tale revealing the liarsâ€™ never-before-seen misadventures over their junior-year winter break.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3778');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(7198, 'Prey', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Prey, bestselling author Michael Crichton introduces bad guys that are too small to be seen with the naked eye but no less deadly or intriguing than the runaway dinosaurs that made 1990''s Jurassic Park such a blockbuster success. High-tech whistle-blower Jack Forman used to specialize in programming computers to solve problems by mimicking the behavior of efficient wild animals--swarming bees or hunting hyena packs, for example. Now he''s unemployed and is finally starting to enjoy his new role as stay-at-home dad. All would be domestic bliss if it were not for Jack''s suspicions that his wife, who''s been behaving strangely and working long hours at the top-secret research labs of Xymos Technology, is having an affair. When he''s called in to help with her hush-hush project, it seems like the perfect opportunity to see what his wife''s been doing, but Jack quickly finds there''s a lot more going on in the lab than an illicit affair. Within hours of his arrival at the remote testing center, Jack discovers his wife''s firm has created self-replicating nanotechnology--a literal swarm of microscopic machines. Originally meant to serve as a military eye in the sky, the swarm has now escaped into the environment and is seemingly intent on killing the scientists trapped in the facility. The reader realizes early, however, that Jack, his wife, and fellow scientists have more to fear from the hidden dangers within the lab than from the predators without. The monsters may be smaller in this book, but Crichton''s skill for suspense has grown, making Prey a scary read that''s hard to set aside, though not without its minor flaws. The science in this novel requires more explanation than did the cloning of dinosaurs, leading to lengthy and sometimes dry academic lessons. And while the coincidence of Xymos''s new technology running on the same program Jack created at his previous job keeps the plot moving, it may be more than some readers can swallow. But, thanks in part to a sobering foreword in which Crichton warns of the real dangers of technology that continues to evolve more quickly than common sense, Prey succeeds in gripping readers with a tense and frightening tale of scientific suspense. --Benjamin Reese\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/334'),
(7199, 'Priceless', 'Nicole Richie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A spoiled brat finds her backbone when fate kicks her to the curb in tabloid staple Richie''s decent follow-up to The Truth About Diamonds. Charlotte Williams goes from pampered princess to outcast after her adored father pleads guilty to a massive Wall Street fraud. To escape the wrath of cheated investors, an Internet smear campaign, and a creepy stalker, Charlotte heads to the New Orleans home of Millie, her beloved former nanny and the only mom she''s known. What Charlotte finds, however, is far more than a safe harbor: a best friend in fashion maven Kat (their friendship may give readers Simple Life flashbacks); a handsome love interest in Millie''s musician son, Jackson; and a chance to unleash the sensational singing voice inherited from a mom she only knows from a heartbreaking home movie. Richie, no stranger to celebrity and tabloid gossip, proves she''s been there/done that in this celeb-savvy and disarmingly charming defense of the power of love and good genes.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The protagonist of celebrity author Richieâ€™s follow-up to The Truth about Diamonds (2006) is New York socialite Charlotte Williams, whose life is ruined when her father is sent to federal prison for embezzlement. She escapes the media and publicâ€™s prying eyes in New Orleans, where Miss Millie, the woman who raised her after her motherâ€™s death, takes her in. Charlotte then meets Kat, the daughter of an influential New Orleans family, takes a job in her fatherâ€™s restaurant, and learns to live under the radar. She even finds romance with Miss Millieâ€™s son Jackson, and fulfillment singing in his jazz band. But her sweet new life is disrupted by a stalker who has set up a disturbing Web site about her. Things soon take a dangerous turn when Charlotte lets her stalker get too close. What skills Richie lacks in her attempt at suspense is balanced by her fluency in romance and fashion. --Aleksandra Walker\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2056'),
(7200, 'Priceless Memories', 'Bob Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After 50 years in television, recently retired game show host Barker (_The Price Is Right_) recalls peak moments of his long career in this engaging memoir. Born in 1923 of Native American heritage (he is one-eighth Sioux), Barker grew up in South Dakota. When WWII interrupted his college education, he became a naval fighter pilot, but the war ended before he got a seagoing squadron assignment: When the enemy heard that I was headed for the Pacific, they surrendered. In the postwar years, as he made a smooth transition from radio to television, audience participation shows became his specialty, and fame followed after an invitation from Ralph Edwards to host\n  <em>\n   Truth or Consequences\n  </em>\n  . Giving away millions, Barker stayed with\n  <em>\n   The Price Is Right\n  </em>\n  for 6,500 shows: The first time I interviewed an attractive young lady and I realized that her tongue was pierced, I knew that time had passed me by. He also writes at length about how his concern for animal rights created professional career problems, notably in hosting beauty pageants where furs were worn. The team of Barker and Diehl doesn''t measure up to Diehl''s memorable high-dive collaboration with Esther Williams (_The Million Dollar Mermaid_). However, there are plenty of backstage anecdotes, so Barker''s fans are certain to grab this from bookstore shelves. Two 16-page color photo inserts.\n  <em>\n   (Apr. 6)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Bob''s writing is just like his hosting--smooth and professional. I''m sure his many fans will be thoroughly entertained and delighted by these recollections of his life and his long and very successful career. I can only imagine what more he might have accomplished if only he could sing." (\n  <strong>\n   Alex Trebek, host, ''Jeopardy!''\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The readers of this book will be happy to find, as I was, that Bob Barker did more than host _The Price Is Right\n  <em>\n   for thirty-five years. A lot more, as it turns out. What a career! God bless you, Bob Barker. And I''ll try not to wreck the car." (\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   Drew Carey, host of ''The Price Is Right''\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "From hanging pianos to flying elephants, Bob Barker''s love of people and animals and his remarkable ability to play the game furnishes a book full of prizes for the reader.\n  <em>\n   Priceless Memories\n  </em>\n  provides a fascinating insight into his career during the heydey of television and his tenacious determination to alleviate the suffering of animals. The book is a conversation with Bob Barker, full of humorous anecdotes about himself and the millions of contestants, friends, fans, family, celebrities and animals who have made his life a compelling story." (_\n  <strong>\n   Pat Derby, founder of the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2057'),
(7201, 'The Priest&#39;s Graveyard', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two abandoned souls are on the hunt for one powerful man. Soon, their paths will cross and lead to one twisted fate.Danny Hansen is a Bosnian immigrant who came to America with hopes of escaping haunted memories of a tragic war that took his mother''s life. Now he''s a priest who lives by a law of love and compassion. It is powerful men and hypocrites who abide by legal law but eschew the law of love that most incense Danny. As an avenging angel, he believes it is his duty to show them the error of their ways, at any cost. Renee Gilmore is the frail and helpless victim of one such powerful man. Having escaped his clutches, she now lives only to satisfy justice by destroying him, regardless of whom she must become in that pursuit.But when Danny and Renee''s paths become inexorably entangled things go very, very badly and neither of them may make it out of this hunt alive.Judge not, or you too will be judged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3616'),
(7202, 'Primeval', 'David L. Golemon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New York Times bestselling author of Ancients and Leviathan returns with another adrenaline rushâ€”the latest thriller in the Event Group Series Twenty thousand years ago, when man crossed the land bridge to North America, creatures called They Who Follow made the great trek as well. But once in the new continent, the giant beasts disappeared, whether into hiding or extinction, no one knew. Centuries later, a battered journalâ€”the only evidence left from the night of the Romanovsâ€™ executionâ€”turns up in a rare bookstore. As the U.S. and Russians vie for the truth, and the lost Romanov treasure, they collide with a prehistoric predator thought long-extinct. Itâ€™s up to the Event Group to lay to rest the legends. On an expedition into the wilds of British Columbia, Colonel Jack Collins and his team make a horrifying discovery in the continentâ€™s last deep wilderness, where men have been vanishing for centuries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3894'),
(7203, 'Prince Caspian', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-8-Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensey, the heroes and heroines from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, return in this fourth installment of C.S. Lewis'' Chronicles of Narnia series. The four children are transported from an English train station to an island in the world of Narnia. Though Narnia has been at peace since the children left, it is now under the control of Wicked King Mirax. The youngsters, along with Aslan the great lion, must help young Prince Caspian restore Narnia''s glorious past. This full-cast dramatization adheres closely to the book''s text. Actor Paul Scofield is the "storyteller," and other British actors read the character parts. The production features sound effects and background music, and is a more complete version of the story than the BBC audio production (Bantam Doubleday, 1998). Children familiar with the series will enjoy this impressive production.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Shauna Yusko, King County Library System, Bellevue, WA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The magic of C.S. Lewis''s parallel universe never fades." The Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1175'),
(7204, 'The Prince of Beverly Hills', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Hollywood''s Golden Age, brash detective Rick Barron enters the Hollywood fast lane-jammed with the sort of wealth, glamour, and blackmail that made this town famous-in this new thriller by the bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2661'),
(7205, 'Prince of Fire', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gabriel Allon is back in Venice, when a terrible explosion in Rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation - the existence of a dossier in terrorist hands that strips away his secrets, lays bare his history. Hastily recalled home to Israel, drawn once more into the heart of a service he had once forsaken, Allon finds himself stalking an elusive master terrorist across a landscape drenched with generations of blood, the trail turning on itself until, finally, he can no longer be certain who is stalking whom. And when at last the showdown comes, it will not be Gabriel alone who is threatened with destruction - for it is not his history alone that has been laid bare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3887'),
(7206, 'The Prince of Frogtown', 'Rick Bragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began withAll Over but the Shoutin''and continued withAva''s Man,Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson. He learns, right from the start, that a man who chases a woman with a child is like a dog who chases a car and wins. He discovers that he is unsuited to fatherhood, unsuited to fathering this boy in particular, a boy who does not know how to throw a punch and doesn''t need to; a boy accustomed to love and affection rather than violence and neglect; in short, a boy wholly unlike the child Rick once was, and who longs for a relationship with Rick that Rick hasn''t the first inkling of how to embark on. With the weight of this new boy tugging at his clothes, Rick sets out to understand his father, his son, and himself. The Prince of Frogtowndocuments a mesmerizing journey back in time to the lush Alabama landscape of Rick''s youth, to Jacksonville''s one-hundred-year-old mill, the town''s blight and salvation; and to a troubled, charismatic hustler coming of age in its shadow, Rick''s father, a man bound to bring harm even to those he truly loves. And the book documents the unexpected corollary to it, the marvelous journey of Rick''s later life: a journey into fatherhood, and toward a child for whom he comes to feel a devotion that staggers him. With candor, insight, tremendous humor, and the remarkable gift for descriptive storytelling on which he made his name, Rick Bragg delivers a brilliant and moving rumination on the lives of boys and men, a poignant reflection on what it means to be a father and a son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1956'),
(7207, 'Princeps&#39; Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the New York Timesbestselling author of Captain''s Furyand the Dresden Files novels. Tavi of Calderon, now recognized as Princeps Gaius Octavian and heir to the crown, has achieved a fragile alliance with Alera''s oldest foes, the savage Canim. But when Tavi and his legions guide the Canim safely to their lands, his worst fears are realized. The dreaded Vordâ€”the enemy of Aleran and Cane alikeâ€”have spent the last three years laying waste to the Canim homeland. And when the Alerans are cut off from their ships, they find themselves with no choice but to fight shoulder to shoulder if they are to survive. For a thousand years, Alera and her furies have withstood every enemy, and survived every foe. The thousand years are over&amp;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3551'),
(7208, 'A Princess of Landover', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After fourteen years, New York Times bestselling fantasy master Terry Brooks has returned to the magic kingdom of Landover. The remarkable realm of dragons, demons, wizards, and wonders that wove an irresistible spell in five classic novels throws open its gates at long last for a brand-new adventure featuring a dazzling cast of characters and creatures.Ben Holiday, Chicago lawyer and mere mortal turned monarch of enchanted Landover, has grappled with scheming barons, fire-breathing beasts, diabolical conjurers, and extremely wicked witches. None of whom have prepared him for the most daunting of challengersâ€“a teenage daughter. Sent by Ben and his beloved sylph bride, Willow, to an exclusive girlsâ€™ prep school, headstrong (and half-magical) Mistaya Holiday has found life in the natural world a less than perfect fit. And when her latest rebellious antics get her indefinitely suspended, sheâ€™s determined to resume her real educationâ€“learning sorcery from court wizard Questor Thewsâ€“whether her parents like it or not. But back home in Landover, Mistayaâ€™s frustrated father is just as determined that the precocious princess learn some responsibility, and he declares her grounded until she successfully refurbishes the long-forsaken royal library. Mortified by the prospect of salvaging a kingâ€™s ransom in moldy booksâ€“and horrified by word that repulsive local nobleman Lord Laphroig seeks to marry herâ€“Mistaya decides that the only way to run her own life is to run away from home. So begins an eventful odyssey peppered with a formidable dragon, recalcitrant gnomes, an inscrutable magic cat, a handsome librarian, a sinister sorcerer, and more than a few narrow escapes as fate draws Landoverâ€™s intrepid princess to the last place she expected to go, and into the thick of a mystery that will put her mettle to the testâ€“and might bring the kingdom to its knees.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3320'),
(7209, 'A Prisoner of Birth', 'Jeffrey Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n International bestseller and master storyteller Jeffrey Archer is at the top of his game in this story of fate and fortune, redemption and revengeâ€¦â€œArcher plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages.â€Â â€”The Boston GlobeÂ If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson on any other day, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the prosecution witnesses happen to be a group of four upper-crust college friendsâ€”a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firmâ€™s historyâ€”who is going to believe Dannyâ€™s side of the story?â€œThoroughly enjoyable.â€â€”Publishers WeeklyDanny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped. But Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Dannyâ€™s determination to seek revengeâ€”and the extent to which his fiancÃ©e Beth will go in pursuit of justice.â€œDynamiteâ€¦plot twists and a slam-bang finale.â€â€”The Washington Post\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3381'),
(7210, 'Private', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Former Marine and CIA agent Jack Morgan inherits his father''s renowned security and detective business--along with a case load that tests him to the breaking point. Getting to the bottom of an NFL gambling scandal and an unsolved LAPD investigation into 18 school girl slayings would be enough.  On top of all that, Morgan takes on solving the horrific murder of his best friend''s wife.\n <br />\n <br />\n As Morgan fights the urge to exact brutal revenge on that killer, he has to navigate a workplace imbroglio that could blow the roof off his elite agency. And it''s an especially explosive situation . . . because the love affair is\n <em>\n  his own.\n </em>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/252'),
(7211, 'Private Eyes', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Psychologist Dr Alex Delaware has always looked on Melissa Dickinson as one of his greatest triumphs. A terrified, tormented seven-year-old when she first appeared in his Los Angeles surgery, Melissa after two years seemed totally recovered. But nine years later Melissa contacts Alex again, anxious this time for her mother. As Alex recalls, weatlthy widow Gina Dickinson has problems of her own. For two decades she has hidden herself away from the eyes of the world â€“ ever since a vicious acid attack destroyed the face of Hollywood actress Gina Prince. Then the reclusive Gina climbs into her car â€“ and totally disappears. And as Alex and Detective Milo Sturgis lead the search for her, they find their quest taking them out of the here and now and into a grotesque, labyrinthine private history as violent and sinister as any bad dreamâ€¦ How well did Alex ever understand his star patient Melissa? How could he have ''cured'' her when he never even guessed at the evil and hatred that formed her inheritance?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/765'),
(7212, 'Private Games', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n July 2012: The Games have arrived in London. Preparations have gone flawlessly and the stage is set for one of the greatest ever showcases of sporting excellence. But one man has a devastating plan. Having waited years for this chance, he is now ready for vengeance.  When Sir Denton Marshall, a key member of the London Olympic organising committee, is found decapitated in his garden, Peter Knight, head of Private London, is called to the scene. Private are working with the organising committee on the security for the Games, so Denton Marshall was a valuable client. But there is a more personal link: Marshall was also the fiancÃ© of Knight''s mother.  Having only recently lost close friends and colleagues at Private London in a fatal plane crash, this is another torturous blow for Knight and threatens to push him over the edge. But it soon becomes clear that Denton Marshall''s murder is no isolated incident, and that the killer''s number one target is the Games itself.  As the most talented athletes in the world gather in London, Knight knows he must find Sir Denton''s killer. Thousands of lives are at stake...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2952'),
(7213, 'Private London', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;">\n    Dan Carter is the head of the London office of Private, the world''s largest and most technologically advanced investigation agency. Jack Morgan, Private''s owner and CEO, put his faith in Carter, and has entrusted him with some of their most important cases. None more important than Hannah Shapiro. The daughter of one of Private''s wealthiest and most valuable clients, Hannah and her mother were kidnapped when she was thirteen years old. Hannah survived; her mother didn''t. Hannah is now in London studying at one of the most prestigious universities in England, and it is Carter''s job to protect her. But the unthinkable happens as Hannah is kidnapped for the second time in her young life. Carter has all of Private''s extensive global resources at his disposal to use in the investigation of this kidnapping. But as time progresses and no word is received from the kidnappers, fears for Hannah''s safety mount. Recently there has been a string of unsolved murders involving young women. Carter is praying that Hannah is not another link in this particular chain.\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/262'),
(7214, 'The Private Patient', 'P. D. James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation and a pleasant week recuperating.Two days later she was dead, the victim of murder.To Commander Adam Dalgliesh, who with his team is called in to investigate the case, the mystery at first seems absolute. Few things about it make sense. Yet as the detectives begin probing the lives and backgrounds of those connected with the dead womanâ€”the surgeon, members of the manor staff, close acquaintancesâ€”suspects multiply all too rapidly. New confusions arise, including strange historical overtones of madness and a lynching 350 years in the past. Then there is a second murder, and Dalgliesh finds himself confronted by issues even more challenging than innocence or guilt.P. D. James has gained an enviable reputation for creating detective stories of uncommon depth and intricacy, combined with the sort of humanity and perceptiveness found only in the finest novelists. The Private Patient ranks among her very best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3612'),
(7215, 'Private: #1 Suspect', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Acclaim for *Private\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   Private\n  </em>\n  will grab you from page one and force you to sit there until you turn the very last page. A great start to new a series from the master of fast-paced thrill rides." (\n  <strong>\n   lorisreadingcorner.com\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Slick and suspenseful." (\n  <strong>\n   BookLoons.com\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "PRIVATE mixes action, mystery and personal drama...Patterson and Paetro may well be on their way to rivaling--and possibly surpassing--the popularity of their\n  <em>\n   Women''s Murder Club\n  </em>\n  series." (\n  <strong>\n   BookReporter.com\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Patterson has had more\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to\n  <em>\n   Guinness World Records\n  </em>\n  . Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson''s books have sold more than 230 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including\n  <em>\n   Kiss the Girls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Along Came a Spider\n  </em>\n  . Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women''s Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maxine Paetro is the author of three novels, two works of nonfiction, and the coauthor of seven books with James Patterson. She lives in New York with her husband.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2895'),
(7216, 'The Profession', 'Steven Pressfield', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Steven Pressfield, in "The Profession", has written a novel of the near future that is as good and in some cases better than anything Tom Clancy ever wrote in his day."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   -Mark Whittington, Yahoo!\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Pressfieldâ€™s military thriller stands out from the crowd by speculating on what the next generation of warfare will be like and then dropping the reader right into the action. Clancy fans should give this a shot."\n  <strong>\n   -*Booklist\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When I read a novel, I want to go someplace, with somebody who''s been there. Â In THE PROFESSION, Pressfield takes us into the heart of combatâ€”and even deeper than heat of the action: he takes us into the soul of the warrior. This is all the more remarkable because the world he leads us into hasn''t happened yetâ€”though we see its possibilities, its unfolding reality, all around us. To give us this book, Pressfield went to the places were soldiers and ideologies are colliding, and he sifted the thoughts, motives and skills of the men at the cutting edge of those conflicts. But best of all, for me, is that he seems to have looked into my heart too."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€“Randall Wallace,\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   screenwriter of the Academy Award winner *Braveheart\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n  <hr />\n </em>\n <p>\n  â€œFrom owner-operated Apache gunships toÂ \n  <em>\n   The New York Google Times\n  </em>\n  , THE PROFESSION is chilling because it rhymes just enough with today to make us wonder whether this futureÂ \n  <em>\n   will\n  </em>\n  Â be, or onlyÂ \n  <em>\n   might\n  </em>\n  Â be. Pressfield''s trademark lessons in honor and loyalty are here, woven into the classical tradition of the warrior''s way. It''s a ripping read.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Nathaniel Fick, author of the NYT bestseller ONE BULLET AWAY, and CEO of the Center for a New American Security\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPressfield imagines a world in which private military forces have all the powerâ€¦When the commander of the largest force around decides to take control of the United states, his top commandoâ€”Gilber...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The â€œmaster storytellerâ€ (\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n   ) and bestselling author of\n   <em>\n    Gates of Fire, The Afghan Campaign\n   </em>\n   , and\n   <em>\n    Killing Rommel\n   </em>\n   returns with a stunning, chillingly\n   <em>\n   </em>\n   plausible near-future thriller about the rise of a privately financed and global military industrial complex.\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  The year is 2032. The third Iran-Iraq war is over; the 11/11 dirty bomb attack on the port of Long Beach, California is receding into memory; Saudi Arabia has recently quelled a coup; Russians and Turks are clashing in the Caspian Basin; Iranian armored units, supported by the satellite and drone power of their Chinese allies, have emerged from their enclaves in Tehran and are sweeping south attempting to recapture the resource rich territory that had been stolen from them, in their view, by Lukoil, BP, and ExxonMobil and their privately-funded armies. Everywhere military force is for hire. Â Oil companies, multi-national corporations and banks employ powerful, cutting-edge mercenary armies to control global chaos and protect their riches.Â  Even nation states enlist mercenary forces to suppress internal insurrections, hunt terrorists, and do the black bag jobs necessary to maintain the\n  <em>\n   new\n  </em>\n  New World Order.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Force Insertion is the world''s merc monopoly. Its leader is the disgraced former United States Marine General James Salter, stripped of his command by the president for nuclear saber-rattling with the Chinese and banished to the Far East.Â  A grandmaster military and political strategist, Salter deftly seizes huge oil and gas fields, ultimately making himself the most powerful man in the world.Â  Salter''s endgame is to take vengeance on those responsible for his exile and then come home...as Commander in Chief. The only man who can stop him is the novel''s narrator, Gilbert "Gent" Gentilhomme, Salter''s most loyal foot soldier and as close to him as the son Salter lost. As this action-jammed, lightning fast, and brutally realistic novel builds to its heart-stopping climax Gent launches his personally and professionally most desperate mission: to take out his mentor and save the United States from self destruction.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Infused by a staggering breadth of research in military tactics and steeped in the timeless themes of the honor and valor of men at war that distinguish all of Pressfieldâ€™s fiction,\n  <em>\n   The Profession\n  </em>\n  is that rare novel that informs and challenges the reader almost as much as it entertains.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/731'),
(7217, 'Professional', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Spenser has never had any difficulty handling women. But when four stunningly beautiful trophy wives hire him to protect them against a blackmailer threatening to expose their infidelities, even he must admit that they look like trouble.For a private eye of Spensers abilities and contacts, tracking down Gary Eisenhower, the blackmailer and serial adulterer, isnt too difficult but almost in spite of himself Spenser finds that he quite likes the guy. Certainly the women, with their loose purse-strings and looser morals, and their loveless marriages to rich, powerful, corrupt men, are hard to feel sorry for.But a killing soon changes the complexion of the case, and draws Spenser into the world of Bostons monied aristocracy: a world of corruption, vice and murder. As the bodies start to pile up, Spenser must decide which of his friends he can trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3266'),
(7218, 'The Program', 'Gregg Hurwitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller The Kill Clause, Gregg Hurwitz, the new maestro of pulse-pounding suspense, ratchets up the excitement with another sensational page-turner featuring Tim Rackley, a driven lawman motivated by honor, morality, and a deep sense of justice.   Called back into the fold of the U.S. Marshals Service, Tim is tasked with retrieving Leah Henning, the daughter of a powerful Hollywood producer, from a mind-control cult. As Tim wends his way deep undercover into an insidious operation called The Program, he confronts a brand of mind-warping manipulation beyond his worst expectations.   Tim becomes enmeshed with a diverse band of charactersâ€”from the charismatic, messianic leader T. D. Betters to a cult reject burnout to the intelligent yet highly vulnerable Leah herselfâ€”and finds himself caught in a shadowy landscape of lies, manipulation, and terror. At stake: innocent mindsâ€”maybe even his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3092'),
(7219, 'Prom Nights From Hell', 'Lauren Myracle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 9 Upâ€”This exciting collection of short stories by popular teen authorsâ€”Meg Cabot, Kim Harrison, Michele Jaffe, Stephenie Meyer, and Lauren Myracleâ€”embraces the dark side of a revered tradition. It starts with vampire-hunting Mary, who takes her mission of revenge on Dracula seriously enough to evoke his wrath by killing his son at her high school prom, and ends with the horned demon Sheba, who tries to wreak havoc at her prom. With edgy writing designed to hook and captivate even the most reluctant of readers, each story is filled with strong, appealing characters who work their magic on the senses by appearing to be strong, daring, and passionate. Readers are taken on an exhilarating ride through the terrifying side of an otherwise common event, and the mood is cleverly sustained with an aura of fast-paced yet somber writing. One distinct highlight of the collection is the well-orchestrated balance between the different aspects of horror that each writer addresses. Sure to have appeal for older teens, this book will undoubtedly make the circuit of fans of demons, ghosts, vampires, and gothic love stories.â€”\n  <em>\n   Caryl Soriano, New York Public Library\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Far from gauzy, rose-colored clichÃ©s, the prom nights depicted in this anthology are surreal, scary, and often populated with monsters and zombies. A well-known author for young adults contributes each of the five long stories. In Meg Cabot''s, "The Exterminator''s Daughter," a high-school student chases down a vampire before he can claim his next victim on prom night. In Stephenie Meyer''s "Hell on Earth," a prom is nearly destroyed by warring biblical demons; then dreamy half-angel Gabe comes to the rescue. The tone in each story wavers between glib camp and chilling terror, just like a teen horror movie. Several stories include some sexy innuendo; in Michelle Jaffe''s "Kiss and Tell," the narrator reads about "Tantric tongue tricks" and imagines a handsome older man "without his shirt but with a pitcher of maple syrup and a big . . . stack of pancakes." Like many anthologies, this one is uneven, but there is plenty here to amuse older horror fans, particularly those with a cynical view of prom night. Ed: add price to imprint. Engberg, Gillian\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/382'),
(7220, 'Promise Me', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Whether you discovered him with his New York Times bestselling stand-alone novels or you fell in love with the award-winning books that preceded themâ€”or youâ€™ve never read him at allâ€”anyone who loves a thriller will love international literary superstar Harlan Cobenâ€™s latest, Promise Me. It has been six years since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played superhero. In six years he hasnâ€™t thrown a punch. He hasnâ€™t held, much less fired, a gun. He hasnâ€™t threatened or been threatened. He hasnâ€™t called his friend Win, still the scariest man he knows, to back him up or get him out of trouble. In the past six years, none of his clients have been murderedâ€”a real positive for his business. But all that is about to change. Because of the simple urge to protect two neighborhood high-school girls from the all-too-dangerous and all-too-common mistake of getting in a car with a drunk driver, Myron has them make him a promise: If they are ever in a bind but are afraid to call their parents, they should call him rather than get in a car with someone whoâ€™s been drinking. Several nights later, the call comes at 2:00 am, and true to his word, Myron picks up one of the girls in midtown Manhattan and drives her to a quiet cul-de-sac in New Jersey where she says her friend lives. The next day, the girlâ€™s parents discover that their daughter is missing. And that Myron was the last person to see her. Now, in a desperate attempt to fulfill a well-intentioned promise gone nightmarishly wrong, Myron must become a hero again to save a young girlâ€™s life. BACKCOVER: â€œEvery time you think Harlan Coben couldnâ€™t get any better at uncoiling a whipsnake of a page-turner, he comes along with a new novel that somehow surpasses its predecessor.â€ â€”San Francisco Chronicle â€œJust as Alfred Hitchcock carved out a niche with films about a seemingly innocent person caught in machinations beyond comprehension, Harlan Coben is earning the literary equivalent. . . . Hitchcock would be envious.â€ â€”Sun-Sentinel (Florida) â€œVery few writers can induce in their readers the kind of trancelike state, punctuated by frequent â€˜wows,â€™ that most of us associate with much-loved books from childhood. Coben can.â€ â€”Booklist â€œCoben chisels his characters quickly, convincingly, unforgettably . . . non- stereotypically.â€ â€”Forbes â€œSwift pacing, strong lead characters. . . . Coben can write thrillers that lift readers off their seats.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly â€œThe maestro of mystery.â€ â€”Life\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/383'),
(7221, 'Promises in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1 New York Timesâ€“ bestselling author J. D. Robb takes us to the New York City of 2060, where Lieutenant Eve Dallas faces down a cop killer.A Amarylis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but sheâ€™s been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When sheâ€™s taken down just steps away from her apartment, killed with her own weapon, for Eve the victim isnâ€™t just â€œone of us.â€ Dallasâ€™s friend Chief Medical Examiner Morris and Coltraine had started a serious relationship, and from all accounts the two were headed for a happy future together. But someone has put an end to all that. After breaking the news to Morris, Eve starts questioning everyone from Coltraineâ€™s squad, informants, and neighbors, while Eveâ€™s husband, Roarke, digs into computer data on Coltraineâ€™s life back in Atlanta. To their shock, they discover a connection between this case and their own painful, shadowy pasts. The truth will need to be uncovered one layer at a time, starting with the box that arrives at Cop Central addressed to Eve containing Coltraineâ€™s guns, badge, and a note from her killer: â€œYou can have them back. Maybe someday soon, Iâ€™ll be sending yours to somebody else.â€ But Eve Dallas doesnâ€™t take too kindly to personal threats, and she is going to break this case, whatever it takes. And thatâ€™s a promise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3299'),
(7222, 'Pronto', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  In the world of Elmore Leonard novels, cops and criminals get by with a grudging respect for each other''s capabilities:Â Harry had been arrested by Buck Torres a half-dozen times or so; they knew each other pretty well and were friends. Not socially, Harry had never met Buck''s wife, but friends in the way they trusted one another and always had time to talk about other things than what they did for a living.\n  <br />\n  Right now, 66-year-old Harry Arno''s in trouble. In order to get at his boss, Jimmy Cap, the feds told Jimmy that Harry''s skimming off the sports book he runs, the idea being that Harry will testify in exchange for protection from Tommy Bucks (a.k.a. the Zip), Jimmy''s enforcer. But Harry''s got a few tricks up his sleeve. Then when a straight-shooting U.S. Marshall decides to spend his vacation tracking Harry down, all hell breaks loose. Set in Miami, Florida, and Rapallo, Italy,\n  <i>\n   Pronto\n  </i>\n  is another brilliantly executed combination of suspense and black humor from the master of crime fiction.\n  <i>\n   --Ron Hogan\n  </i>\n  <em>\n   --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n  </em>\n  <div class="emptyClear">\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  From sly title through breath-stopping climax to funny wrap-up, readers will relish Leonard''s ( Maximum Bob ) latest roller coaster ride. South Miami Beach bookie Harry Arno has been skimming from his mafia bosses for years. After a ruthless FBI man spreads a rumor to that effect, in an attempt to get Harry to testify against his boss, "Jimmy Cap," the 66-year-old bookie splits early on his long-planned retirement in Rapallo, Italy. Rapallo is soon mobbed, so to speak, as Harry is joined by his girlfriend, his new bodyguard, Jimmy Cap''s Italian-born enforcer "the Zip," a handful of Italian thugs and a deputy U.S. Marshal, Raylan Givens. All engage in a deadly dance before Raylan manages to get most of the good guys back to Miami, where the dance begins again. Leonard''s spare language and propulsive plotting still leave room for expositions of Sicilian slang, gamblers'' lingo and Ezra Pound''s private life. His colorful characters work together splendidly, especially the top trio: Harry, whose drinking, posturing and willfulness endanger everybody; the lethal Zip, who models himself, literally, on Frank Costello; and Raylan, whose Stetson and apparent goofiness mask a hard past in bloody Harlan County, Ky. The only problem with the book is that it ends. BOMC and QPB selection; major ad/promo; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  <em>\n   --This text refers to the\n   <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385308469/ref=dp_proddesc_2?ie=UTF8&amp;n=283155" class="product">\n    Hardcover\n   </a>\n   edition.\n  </em>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3136'),
(7223, 'Protect and Defend: A Thriller', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn returns with his most explosive political thriller yet. A tour de force of action-packed suspense, Protect and Defend delivers an all-too-realistic and utterly compelling vision of nations navigating the minefield of international intrigue. A true heavyweight in the political thriller arena (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Vince Flynn has created a flesh-and-blood hero that readers can cheer for and a finger-blistering page-turner they won t dare put down.In Protect and Defend, the action begins in the heart of Iran, where billions of dollars are being spent on the development of a nuclear program. No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its neighboring enemy, Israel launches one of the most creative and daring espionage operations ever conceived. The attack leaves a radioactive tomb and environmental disaster in the middle of Iran s second largest city. An outraged Iranian government publicly blames both Israel and the United States for the attack and demands retribution. Privately, Iran s bombastic president wants much more. He wants America and Israel to pay for their aggression with blood.Enter Mitch Rapp, America s top counterterrorism operative. Used to employing deception, Rapp sees an opportunity where others see only Iranian reprisals that could leave thousands of Americans dead. Rapp convinces President Josh Alexander to sign off on a risky operation that will further embarrass the Iranian government and push their country to the brink of revolution. As part of the plan, CIA director Irene Kennedy is dispatched to the region for a clandestine meeting with Azad Ashani, her Iranian counterpart.But Rapp isn t the only one hatching plans. Iranian President Amatullah, has recruited Hezbollah master terrorist Imad Mukhtar to do his dirty work. For decades Mukhtar has acted as a surrogate for Iran, blazing a trail of death and destruction across the Middle East and beyond. When Kennedy s meeting with Ashani goes disastrously wrong, Rapp and Mukhtar are set on a collision course that threatens to engulf the entire region in war. With the clock ticking, Rapp is given twenty-four hours, no questions asked, to do whatever it takes to stop Mukhtar, and avert an unthinkable catastrophe.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/386');
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(7224, 'Proud Tower', 'Barbara W. Tuchman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it."\n <br />\n --Barbara W. Tuchman\n <br />\n The fateful quarter-century leading up to the World War I was a time when the world of Privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of Protest was heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate. The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change in history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny.\n <br />\n In The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. With an artist''s selectivity, Tuchman bings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years leading up to the Great War: the Edwardian aristocracy and the end of their reign; the Anarchists of Europe and America, who voiced the protest of the oppressed; Germany, as portrayed through the figure of the self-depicted Hero, Richard Strauss; the sudden gorgeous blaze of Diaghilev''s Russian Ballet and Stravinsky''s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the two Peace Conferences at the Hague; and, finally, the youth, ideals, enthusiasm, and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized in the moment when the heroic Jean JaurÃ¨s was shot to death on the night the War began and an epoch ended.\n <br />\n "Tuchman [was] a distinguished historian who [wrote] her books with a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish. . . . It would be impossible to read The Proud Tower without pleasure and admiration."\n <br />\n --The New York Times\n <br />\n "Tuchman proved in The Guns of August that she could write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding, eschewing both the sweeping generalizations of a Toynbee and the minute-by-minute simplicisms of a Walter Lord."\n <br />\n --Time\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n THE PROUD TOWER by Barbara Tuchman examines the Western World of approximately 100 years ago. Technologically the world was a very different from today, but the strifes between economic groups and among nations bears many similarities to our own time. Tuchman examines the economic, social, political, and technological world of the period 1890-1914. By this period, the United States had become an important player in world affairs. The Haymarket Affair in Chicago fueled the development of international anarchism which led to the assasinations of political figures in Russia, Italy, France and lastly President McKinley in the United States. Tuchman''s unraveling of the the Dreyfus Affair is, in itself, worth the price of the book. In THE PROUD TOWER Tuchman describes the western world that exploded into The Great War (which she describes in THE GUNS OF AUGUST).\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Randy Hickernell, Ballantine Sales Rep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2366'),
(7225, 'Proust&#39;s Overcoat: The True Story of One Man&#39;s Passion for All Things Proust', 'Lorenza Foschini', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œI read it in two sittings and just loved it.â€ (AndrÃ© Aciman, author of EIGHT WHITE NIGHTS )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA rare and wonderfully written book of literary detection, that is heartbreaking as well as thrilling, about the â€˜afterlifeâ€™ of a writerâ€™s manuscripts and the things he carried.â€ (Michael Ondaatje )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFoschini does a superb job of driving the intrigue and depicting how and why GuÃ©rin fell into such an infatuation. The Prousts and GuÃ©rin are characters not soon forgotten.â€ (Sacramento Book Review )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe translation by Karpeles... is seamless. VERDICT: This reviewer belonged to a group that read only Proust; we called ourselves the Proustitutes. Proustâ€™s Overcoat is urgently recommended to Proustitutes wherever you are.â€ (Library Journal )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Foschini], elegantly teasing out the relationship between family dynamics and property... highlights the role of objects and spaces in Proustâ€™s work, allowing us to see In Search of Lost Time through a different lens.â€ (BookForum )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLorenza Foschiniâ€™s portrait of GuÃ©rin and his Proust obsession is delightful, and the objects themselves take on a life of their own and do a jig in this little volume.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLorenza Foschiniâ€™s delightful portrait of Guerin and his Proust obsession (translated from the Italian by Eric Karpeles). The objects themselves take on a life of their own and do a jig in this little volume.â€ (Newsday )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA fascinating, quick read about Jacques GuÃ©rin, a guy whose obsession with Marcel Proust makes Justin Bieber fans look calm (slight exaggeration).â€ (Nylon Magazine )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReaders pondering what manner of person created the masterpiece In Search of Lost Time will gobble up this tale of family tensions, revenge and collecting as they reflect on a literary legacy that was almost lost.â€ (Shelf Awareness )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis book is just my style. In the spirit of La BohÃ¨me, a brilliant aria to the coat.â€ (Patti Smith )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis sparkling, elegant piece of reportage addresses not only these particular facts and their historical ambience but also, more indirectly, larger questions of our fascination with celebrity and our passion for relics, however humble, gilded by the charisma of fame.â€ (Boston Globe )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCharmingly narrated.â€ (San Francisco Chronicle )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œItâ€™s exquisite, delicate, fascinating. I put PROUSTâ€™S OVERCOAT on the same shelf as Serena Vitaleâ€™s PUSHKINâ€™S BUTTON and Umberto Ecoâ€™s FOUCAULTâ€™S PENDULUM.â€ (Edmund White, author of HOTEL DE DREAM and MY LIVES )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jacques GuÃ‰rin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family''s successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in search of lost, forgotten treasures. The ultimate prize? Anything from the hands of Marcel Proust.\n </p>\n <p>\n  GuÃ‰rin identified with Proust more deeply than with any other writer, and when illness brought him by chance under the care of Marcel''s brother, Dr. Robert Proust, he saw it as a remarkable opportunity. Shamed by Marcel''s extravagant writings, embarrassed by his homosexuality, and offended by his disregard for bourgeois respectability, his family had begun to deliberately destroy and sell their inheritance of his notebooks, letters, manuscripts, furni-ture, and personal effects. Horrified by the destruction, and consumed with desire, GuÃ‰rin ingratiated himself with Marcel''s heirs, placating them with cash and kindness in exchange for the writer''s priceless, rare material remains. After years of relentless persuasion, GuÃ‰rin was at last rewarded with a highly personal prize, one he had never dreamed of possessing, a relic he treasured to the end of his long life: Proust''s overcoat.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Proust''s Overcoat\n  </em>\n  introduces a cast of intriguing and unforgettable characters, each inspired and tormented by Marcel, his writing, and his orphaned objects. Together they reveal a curious and compelling tale of lost and found, of common things and uncommon desires.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2059'),
(7226, 'The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century', 'Alan Brinkley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.As the founder of *Time*, *Fortune, *and *Life *magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries, Henry Luce spent his childhood in rural China, yet he glimpsed a milieu of power altogether different at Hotchkiss and later at Yale. While working at a Baltimore newspaper, he and Brit Hadden conceived the idea of *Time*: a â€œnews-magazineâ€ that would condense the weekâ€™s events in a format accessible to increasingly busy members of the middle class. They launched it in 1923, and young Luce quickly became a publishing titan. In 1936, after *Time*â€™s unexpected successâ€”and Haddenâ€™s early deathâ€”Luce published the first issue of *Life,* to which millions soon subscribed.Brinkley shows how Luce reinvented the magazine industry in just a decade. The appeal of *Life* seemingly cut across the lines of race, class, and gender. Luce himself wielded influence hitherto unknown among journalists. By the early 1940s, he had come to see his magazines as vehicles to advocate for Americaâ€™s involvement in the escalating international crisis, in the process popularizing the phrase â€œWorld War II.â€ In spite of Luceâ€™s great success, happiness eluded him. His second marriageâ€”to the glamorous playwright, politician, and diplomat Clare Bootheâ€”was a shambles. Luce spent his later years in isolation, consumed at times with conspiracy theories and peculiar vendettas. *The Publisher* tells a great American story of spectacular achievementâ€”yet it never loses sight of the public and private costs at which that achievement came.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2307'),
(7227, 'Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power', 'James McGrath Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Journalist and biographer Morris sums up the range of this biography in an authorâ€™s note: â€œIn the nineteenth century, when America became an industrialized nation and Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads, Joseph Pulitzer was the midwife to the birth of the modern mass media.â€ Such a scope could leave the reader reeling in references, but Morris deftly outlines the transformations of this era by focusing on Pulitzerâ€™s own story. He avoids the trap of leaving the meaning for the man, as he interweaves social and political history with Pulitzerâ€™s life. Pulitzer emigrated from Hungary at the age of 17, enlisted in the U.S. Civil War as a cavalryman shortly thereafter, and then found himself working for a St. Louis newspaper after the war. Pulitzerâ€™s rise has everything to do with his recognition of the power of the press to forward progressive causes and his genius for amalgamating power. The most fascinating part of the biography, though, is Morrisâ€™ depiction of the blindness that beset Pulizer at the height of his fame. Blindness in 1890 was, according to Morris, virtually a death sentence, and Pulitzerâ€™s life became one long stay in shaded rooms in between increasingly desperate cures. Morris gives a fascinating portrayal of the man, his era, and his long-ranging impact. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œJames McGrath Morris has given us everything we could have asked for in his new biography of Joseph Pulitzer. Gracefully written and thoroughly researched, his biography is easily the best we have on this remarkable man who so profoundly influenced the worlds of politics and publishing.â€ (David Nasaw, author of\n <em>\n  Andrew Carnegie\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn accomplished new biography. . . .\n <em>\n  Pulitzer\n </em>\n is not its subjectâ€™s first biography. But it is by far the best at explaining Pulitzerâ€™s St. Louis years.â€ (_The St. Louis Post-Dispatch_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œan attractive, superbly illustrated, and gracefully written account of his subject that might well catch the attention of the Pulitzer Prize trustees.â€ (_The Washington Times_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBefore there was Murdoch, Berlusconi, Bloomberg, or Hearst, there was Joseph Pulitzer. This epic biography, with its remarkable new research and vivid, fast-paced writing, will delight anyone who wants to understand the tangled history of politics and the press in modern America.â€ (Debby Applegate, author of\n <em>\n  The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe name Pulitzer sheds its radiance over many celebrated writers and newspapers; now James McGrath Morris has made the famous name into a living, loving, thrusting, tumultuousâ€”and luridâ€”innovator. The story has everythingâ€”murder, corruption, scandal, and high achievement. Morrisâ€™s meticulous biography takes full advantage of new material. â€ (Harold Evans, author of\n <em>\n  The American Century\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn excellent book. . . . There have been other biographies of Pulitzer, most notably W.A. Swanbergâ€™s published in 1967, but James McGrath Morrisâ€™s is the best. It is authoritative, lucid and fair to its complicated subject.â€ (Jonathan Yardley,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWell-researched. . . . Reads like a novel. . . . Morris paints a vivid picture, portraying his subject as an ambitious, hotheaded, at times violent, often charitable man; a perfectionist, shrewd in matters of business yet cold in matters of the heart.â€ (_The New York Times Book Review_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJames McGrath Morris masterfully demonstrates the power of biography to reveal our past and inform our future. Deeply researched and beautifully written, Morris has written the definitive\n <em>\n  Pulitzer\n </em>\n .â€ (Kai Bird, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning\n <em>\n  American Prometheus\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEveryone knows the prize, fewer the man. Hereâ€™s an antidote to the hand-wringing about the future of the newspaper, a full-scale, full-blooded biography of a penniless immigrant from Hungary who showed what newspapers could do. Seriously good history.â€ (Harold Evans,\n <em>\n  The Daily Beast\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn important new biography about the early days of American newspapering in all its violent, vital, swashbuckling glory. . . . A tour de force of suspence and historical narrative. . . . Mr. Morris is a diligent sleuth.â€ (_The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA major biographical success . . . . A thrilling toboggan-ride tour of history. . . .\n <em>\n  Pulitzer\n </em>\n presents a flood of diary entries, statistics, edotirals, memoranda, and cables from its subjectâ€™s many ocean voyages. In this cavalcade of American life and letters, the pages fly by.â€ (_The San Francisco Chronicle_ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2061'),
(7228, 'Purple Cane Road', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In New Iberia, Louisiana, memories are long and dangerous, and the past and present are seldom easy to untangle. Homicide investigator Dave Robicheaux is trying to help Letty Labiche, a New Iberia girl on death row for killing the man who molested her and her sister as children, when chance brings him to Zipper Clum, a pimp and pornographer who recognizes Robicheaux secondhand through a 30-year haze:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "Robicheaux, your mama''s name was Mae.... Wait, it was Guillory before she married. That was the name she went by ... Mae Guillory. But she was your mama," he said.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What?" I said.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He wet his lips uncertainly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "She dealt cards and still hooked a little bit. Behind a club in Lafourche Parish. This was maybe 1966 or ''67," he said.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clete''s eyes were fixed on my face. "You''re in a dangerous area, sperm breath," he said to Zipper.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "They held her down in a mud puddle. They drowned her," Zipper said.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n To Robicheaux, whose memories of the fun-loving Mae are few and bittersweet, the news comes like a bolt of lightning. Though she abandoned him to the uncertain mercies of a violent, alcoholic father, he loved her, and his desire to find her killers--cops in the pay of the Giacano crime family, according to Clum--is instantaneous and deeply felt. Unfortunately, Zipper Clum meets the wrong end of a .25 automatic soon after his electrifying announcement, but his conversation with his killer is recorded--and Mae Guillory''s name comes up again.\n</p>\n<p>\n The winding trail of evidence connected to both Letty Labiche and Mae Guillory leads Robicheaux almost immediately to Jim Gable, the New Orleans Police Department''s liaison with city hall, whose position has afforded him a number of less-than-legal advantages. Gable also happens to be an ex-lover of Robicheaux''s wife, Bootsie--formerly the widow of Ralph Giacano. From there the web of connections grows ever wider, and (not surprisingly) incriminates those in high places. These include the state attorney general, a woman who, if photographic evidence is to be trusted, was once friendly with the Labiches'' parents, who were known procurers.\n</p>\n<p>\n But if\n <em>\n  Purple Cane Road\n </em>\n has its share of corrupt powermongers, it''s also filled with beautifully rounded characters, like piano-playing governor Belmont Pugh and hit man Johnny Remeta, whose personality slowly begins to unravel as he gets closer to Robicheaux''s daughter. The plot converges seamlessly to its climax--the true story of what happened to Mae Robicheaux--as James Lee Burke''s trademark of uncompromising justice is brought to fruition. Like Burke''s other Robicheaux novels,\n <em>\n  Purple Cane Road\n </em>\n offers a solidly satisfying piece in the picture of a complex hero.\n <em>\n  --Barrie Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n HAfter the relatively lightweight Sunset Limited (1998), Cajun cop Dave Robicheaux returns in a powerhouse of a thriller that shows Burke writing near the peak of his form. Robicheaux faces his most personal case yet, when a pimp puts him on the trail of the truth behind his mother''s long-ago disappearance. Meanwhile, he uncovers new evidence in the case of death-row inmate Letty Labiche, who took a mattock to the man who molested her as a child, state executioner Vachel Carmouche. Burke parades the usual cast of grotesques: feckless Louisiana governor Belmont Pugh; cold-blooded attorney general Connie Deshotel; sleazy police liaison officer Jim Gable, who "keeps the head of a Vietnamese soldier in a jar of chemicals"; and psychopathic hit man Johnny Remata, who acts as all-around avenging angel. Wife Bootsie''s having had a fling with Gable drives Robicheaux into a jealous fury more than once, while daughter Alafair''s flirtation with Johnny raises the temperature even higher. Old buddy Clete Purcell doesn''t have a lot to do, other than to contribute to the general mayhem. Once Robicheaux learns that his mother fell afoul of a couple of New Orleans cops in the pay of the Giacano crime family, it''s a simple matter of identifying the guilty pair and bringing them to justiceDor is it? Burke winds up an often convoluted and gratuitously violent plot with a dynamite ending that will leave readers feeling truly satisfied, if a bit shell-shocked. Major ad/promo; author tour. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/389'),
(7229, 'The Purrfect Murder', 'Rita Mae Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Itâ€™s autumn in cozy, idyllic Crozet, Virginiaâ€”a time for golden days, crisp nightsâ€¦and murder. Mrs. Carla Paulson is one of the diamond-encrusted â€œcome-hereâ€ set who has descended on Crozet with plenty of wealth and no feeling for country ways. Sheâ€™s determined to make her new house the envy of all her well-heeled friendsâ€”and enemies â€”and sheâ€™s hired architect Tazio Chappers to build it. From the start, the projectâ€”and Mrs. Paulsonâ€”are a major headache for all involved. But no one could foresee that it would end with Mrs. Paulson stabbed to death at a gala fund-raiser with Harryâ€™s friend Tazio standing over her, holding the knife. Now Harry must solve what seems to everyone else an open-and-shut case. Her four-legged partners â€”sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and corgi Tee Tuckerâ€”see it Harryâ€™s way. But will they have to choose between catching the purrfect killer and saving Harry?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3487'),
(7230, 'Pursuit', 'Karen Robards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When rookie lawyer Jessica Ford gets the call from her boss, John Davenport, the senior partner at the illustrious law firm for which she works, she can tell he is well on his way to being drunk. He needs Jess to meet First Lady Annette Cooper, for whom Davenport is a personal lawyer, at a Washington, D.C., hotel. Jess is thrilled - this high-profile assignment must mean that she''s earned her boss''s trust and she''s on her way to bigger things. But unfortunately, bigger isn''t always better. Jess doesn''t remember much - only that in the course of the late-night meeting with Annette Cooper, she ended up in the backseat of a car, speeding off into the darkness. All Jess knows is that the car crashed en route, and the other three passengers were killed, including the First Lady. Badly injured, Jess is the only survivor of what is trumpeted around the world as a tragic accident. Although she has no memory about the events leading up to the accident, Jess is still bothered by one question - Was it really an accident? The Secret Service agent on the case, Mark Ryan, gets the feeling that Jess is hiding something. As his suspicions grow, Jess''s world starts falling apart. In fact, everyone who might possibly know the details about the First Lady''s last few hours starts turning up dead. And then Jess understands - If she remembers that night, she''ll be dead too. Terrified and certain that the First Lady''s death was no accident, Jess has only Mark Ryan to turn to.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/618'),
(7231, 'Pursuit of Honor', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR VINCE FLYNNâ€™S MOST EXHILARATING POLITICAL THRILLERWhen Washington, D.C.â€™s National Counterterrorism Center is struck by a series of devastating explosions, the results are catastrophicâ€”185 killed, including public officials and CIA employees. Such an act of extreme violence calls for extreme measuresâ€”and elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, joining forces with trusted team member Mike Nash, finds himself in the frustrating position of having to illustrate the realities of national security to government officials up in arms over the agents who rushed in to save countless American lives. Meanwhile, with three al Qaeda terrorists still at large and Nash traumatized by the horrors he witnessed during the attack, Rapp must help his friend while threading his way through the naysayers on Capitol Hillâ€”and silently, swiftly, do what he must for the sake of his country and the pursuit of honor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/390'),
(7232, 'Putin&#39;s Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia', 'Steve Levine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The new Russia is marching in an alarming direction. Emboldened by escalating oil wealth and newfound prominence as a world power, Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has veered back toward the authoritarian roots planted in Imperial/Czarist times and firmly established during the Soviet era. Though Russia has a new president, Dmitri Medvedev, Putin remains in control, rendering the democratic reforms of the post-Soviet order irrelevant. Now, in Putinâ€™s Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived in and reported from the former Soviet Union for more than a decade, provides a penetrating account of modern Russia under the repressive rule of an all-powerful autocrat. LeVine portrays the growth of a â€œculture of deathâ€â€“from targeted assassinations of the stateâ€™s enemies to the Kremlinâ€™s indifference when innocent hostages are slaughtered.Drawing on new interviews with eyewitnesses and the families of victims, LeVine documents the bloodshed that has stained Putinâ€™s two terms as president. Among the incidents chronicled in these pages: The 2002 terrorist takeover of a crowded Moscow theaterâ€“which led to the government gassing the building, and the deaths of more than a hundred terrified hostagesâ€“seen here from new angles, through the riveting words of those who survived; and the murder of courageous investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, shot in the elevator of her apartment building on Putinâ€™s birthday, purportedly as a malicious â€œgiftâ€ for the president from supporters. Finally, a shocking story that made international headlinesâ€“the 2006 death of defector Alexander Litvinenko in Londonâ€“is dramatized as never before. LeVine traces the steps of this KGB-spy-turned-dissident on his way to being poisoned with polonium-210, a radioactive isotope. And in doing so, LeVine is granted a rare series of interviews with a KGB defector who was nearly killed in strangely similar circumstances fifty years earlier. Through LeVineâ€™s exhaustive research, we come to know the victims as real people, not just names in brief news accounts of how they died.Putinâ€™s Labyrinth is more than an immensely readable exposÃ©. It is highly personal, with the flavor of a memoir. It is a thoughtful book that examines the perplexing question of how Russians manage to negotiate their way around the ever-present danger of violence. It calculates the emotional toll that this lethal maze is exacting on ordinary people, even as they enjoy a dramatically heightened standard of living. Most ominously, it assesses the reopening of hostilities with the West, and the forces that are driving this major new confrontation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3804'),
(7233, 'Pygmy', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Manchurian Candidate meets South ParkChuck Palahniuk''s finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club. "Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc." Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates us with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified. For Pygmy and his fellow operatives are cooking up something big, something truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees. It''s a comedy. And a romance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3328'),
(7234, 'A Question of Blood', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Given his contempt for authority, his tendency to pursue investigative avenues of his own choosing, and his habitually ornery manner, it''s a wonder that John Rebus hasn''t been booted unceremoniously from his job as an Edinburgh cop. He certainly tempts that fate again in\n  <em>\n   A Question of Blood\n  </em>\n  , which finds him and his younger partner, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke, trying to close the case of a withdrawn ex-soldier named Lee Herdman, who apparently shot three teenage boys at a Scottish private school, leaving two of them dead, before turning the pistol on himself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thereâ€™s no mystery," Siobhan insists at the start of this 14th Rebus novel (following\n  <em>\n   Resurrection Men\n  </em>\n  ). "Herdman lost his marbles, thatâ€™s all." However, the hard-drinking, chain-smoking Rebus, who''d once sought entry into the same elite regiment in which Herdman served (but ultimately cracked under psychological interrogation), thinks there''s more motive than mania behind this classroom slaughter. Perhaps something to do with the gunman''s role in a 1995 mission to salvage a downed military helicopter, or with Teri Cotter, a 15-year-old "Goth" who broadcasts her bedroom life over the Internet, yet keeps private her relationship with the haunted Herdman. Rebus''s doubts about the murder-suicide theory are deepened with the appearance of two tight-lipped army investigators, and by the peculiar behavior of James Bell, the boy who was only wounded during Herdman''s firing spree and whose politician father hopes to use that tragedy as ammo in the campaign against widespread gun ownership. But the detective inspector''s focus on this inquiry is susceptible to diversion, both by an internal police probe into his role in the burning death of a small-time crook who''d been stalking Siobhan, and by the fact that Rebus--who shies away from any family contacts--was related to one of Herdmanâ€™s victims.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now middle-aged and on the downward slope of his pugnacity (the high point may have come in 1997''s\n  <em>\n   Black and Blue\n  </em>\n  ), Rebus has become the engine of his own obsolescence. Overexposure to criminals has left him better at understanding them than his colleagues, and he only worsens his career standing by fighting other people''s battles for them, especially Siobhan, who risks learning too many lessons from her mentor. To watch Rebus subvert police conventions and fend of personal demons (that latter struggle mirrored in\n  <em>\n   A Question of Blood\n  </em>\n  by Herdman''s own) is worth the admission to this consistently ambitious series.\n  <em>\n   --J. Kingston Pierce\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Question of Blood is a 2003 crime novel by Ian Rankin. It is the fourteenth of the Inspector Rebus novels. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/411'),
(7235, 'Quicker Than the Eye', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the sentimental to the spooky, this grab bag of 21 recent tales from the seemingly ageless imagination of Bradbury whimsically explores themes of love, nostalgia, magic, literature and mortality. In his first collection since The Toynbee Connector (1988), Bradbury, who''s 76, displays a particular fascination with evading the strictures of time through science, history, literature, the supernatural or simple reminiscence. The realistic "The Other Highway" describes a family''s drive down an old, unused highway to an almost forgotten world. "At the End of the Ninth Year" develops the idea that the human body fully remakes itself at the molecular level every nine years. In "Last Rites," an inventor uses his time machine to reassure his literary heroes?Melville, Poe, Wilde?on their deathbeds that they will be cherished by future generations. Ghost stories like "That Woman on the Lawn," "Another Fine Mess" and "The Witch Door" transport characters across lifetimes or centuries, while "Dorian in Excelsus," a creepy homage to Wilde, blends the supernatural with the fitness craze. Some of these pieces wax maudlin, but Bradbury stirs in a healthy measure of wit with his wide-eyed wonder. Fans won''t be disappointed with this hopeful, introspective, addition to his oeuvre.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The venerable author of such classic fantasy novels as Something Wicked This Way Comes (1963) offers a new collection of short stories that is slated for a 50,000-copy first printing.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1283'),
(7236, 'The Quickie', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Lauren Stillwell is not your average damsel in distress. When the NYPD cop discovers her husband leaving a hotel with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But her revenge goes dangerously awry, and she finds her world spiraling into a hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a further twist of fate, Lauren must take on a job that threatens everything she stands for. Now, she''s paralyzed by a deadly secret that could tear her life apart. With her job and marriage on the line, Lauren''s desire for retribution becomes a lethal inferno as she fights to save her livelihood--and her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Patterson takes us on a twisting roller-coaster ride of thrills in his most gripping novel yet. This story of love, lust and dangerous secrets will have reader''s hearts pounding to the very last page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/488'),
(7237, 'Quicksand', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Returning from Johansenâ€™s New York Times bestselling thriller, Stalemate, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is still reeling from the disappearance of her daughter, Bonnie.Â  Deciding to take matters into her own hands, she enlists the clairvoyant skills of Dr. Megan Blair to help find her.Â No strangers to looking for clues where there seem to be none, the two women use their highly specialized talents to hunt down Bonnieâ€™s elusive kidnapper and return her to her motherâ€™s arms.Â But is Bonnie still alive?Â Will the two women find her in time?Â  Iris Johansen strikes again with this non-stop, action packed thriller, keeping readers turning pages well into the night.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3668'),
(7238, 'Quicksilver', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A plethora of e-book extras, not found in any print edition, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n 1) INTERVIEW: Neal Stephenson shares intimate details and insight behind the making of Quicksilver;\n</p>\n<p>\n 2) QUICKSILVER METAWEB INTRODUCTION: Stephenson''s take on his creation of a web-based network that may someday rival the internet;\n</p>\n<p>\n 3) QUICKSILVER DRAMATIS PERSONAE BY TYPE: a complete and concise list of characters grouped by character type\n</p>\n<p>\n The long-awaited first volume of The Baroque Cycle comes to e-book at last (with loads of extras to boot)!\n</p>\n<p>\n Neal Stephenson''s\n <i>\n  Quicksilver\n </i>\n is here. A monumental literary feat that follows the author''s critically acclaimed\n <i>\n  New York Times\n </i>\n bestseller\n <i>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </i>\n , it is history, adventure, science, truth, invention, sex, absurdity, piracy, madness, death, and alchemy. It sweeps across continents and decades with the power of a roaring tornado, upending kings, armies, religious beliefs, and all expectations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/714'),
(7239, 'The Quiet World: Saving Alaska&#39;s Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960', 'Douglas Brinkley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n When legendary naturalist John Muir began exploring Glacier Bay in 1879, he was unprepared for ''the sheer poetic depth of the Alaskan wilderness.'' Twenty years later, Muir joined the Harriman Expedition, which found Alaska to be ''a unique, untrammeled, sui generis wilderness in need of preservation.'' Indeed, as soon as the U.S. acquired this magnificent and bountiful land, the war began between those who would recklessly exploit Alaska''s natural wealth for profit and those who believed that this was a sacred place to be cherished and protected. Brinkley''s scrupulous, dramatic chronicle of the complex struggle to protect Alaska''s glorious wilderness and wildlife in the years before it became a state is the second book in what he describes as his lifework, a multivolume history of conservation in America that began with his unique portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, The Wilderness Warrior (2009). Here Roosevelt is one of many colorful visionaries Brinkley vividly portrays, from explorers and scientists (Charles Sheldon, William T. Hornaday) to artists and writers (Rockwell Kent, Walt Disney, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder) to heroes Olaus and Mardy Murie, who campaigned tirelessly for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Essential to understanding today''s environmental challenges, Brinkley''s Alaskan history and pantheon of valiant conservationists is boldly original, enlightening, enthralling, and profoundly moving. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Brinkley is an award-winning, highly visible (frequent TV appearances) public historian, and a robust, multifront publicity campaign is planned for this major work. --Donna Seaman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In Brinkley''s hands, the still-raging battle to save Alaska''s wild character is riveting."\n</p>\n<p>\n --The Christian Science Monitor\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Forceful storytelling...engrossing...\n <em>\n  The Quiet Worl\n </em>\n d brims over with information and insight, passion, and insistence...In fact, it''s a bit like Alaska itself: large, formidable, raw, and ultimately unforgettable. --Washington Post\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEngrossing. . . .\n <em>\n  The Quiet World\n </em>\n brims over with information and insight, passion and insistence. . . . A bit like Alaska itself: large, formidable, raw and ultimately unforgettable.â€ (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA poignant cautionary tale for policymakers considering quick get-rich fixes to long-term problems with ecological implications. . . . In Brinkleyâ€™s hands, the still-raging battle to save Alaskaâ€™s wild character is riveting.â€ (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Christian Science Monitor\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrinkley carves well-known figures with the tools of a skilled biographer. . . . This volume is required reading for anyone even mildly interested in the antecedents to U.S. environmental policy in the 21st century.â€ (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA richly detailed, passionate and partisan account. . . . In lush prose, [Brinkley] captures Alaskaâ€™s pristine beauty.â€ (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Minneapolis Star Tribune\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn important book.â€ (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Houston Chronicle\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA very readable history of the preservationist movement across the nation.â€ (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Seattle Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2309'),
(7240, 'Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can&#39;t Stop Talking', 'Susan Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society--from van Goghâ€™s sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer.Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. Taking the reader on a journey from Dale Carnegieâ€™s birthplace to Harvard Business School, from a Tony Robbins seminar to an evangelical megachurch, Susan Cain charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal in the twentieth century and explores its far-reaching effects. She talks to Asian-American students who feel alienated from the brash, backslapping atmosphere of American schools. She questions the dominant values of American business culture, where forced collaboration can stand in the way of innovation, and where the leadership potential of introverts is often overlooked. And she draws on cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience to reveal the surprising differences between extroverts and introverts.Perhaps most inspiring, she introduces us to successful introverts--from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Finally, she offers invaluable advice on everything from how to better negotiate differences in introvert-extrovert relationships to how to empower an introverted child to when it makes sense to be a "pretend extrovert."This extraordinary book has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3845'),
(7241, 'Quinn', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe suspense and action will entertain all, even those new to the series.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n (starred review)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohansen launches a trilogy that takes the reader on an action-packed journey filled with killers and heroes, leaving readers on tenterhooks.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n Â \n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRead\n <em>\n  Eve\n </em>\n and be hooked.â€â€”\n <em>\n  RT Book Reviews\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGrippingâ€¦Johansen deftly baits the hook for the next volume.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohansenâ€™s stories keep getting better with each installment.Â  You will find yourself drawn to Eve and caring about what happens to her.â€\n <em>\n  â€”Night Owl Reviews\n </em>\n (A Top Pick)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA superb kick off ..an excellent presentation to this fantastic series that is a one sitting read.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Reader to Reader Reviews\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for the novels of Iris Johansen\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed!â€â€”\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an imaginative plot and gut-wrenching actionâ€¦this novel packs a wallop and is impossible to put down.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Tucson Citizen\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™ll want to keep the lights on while reading!â€â€”\n <em>\n  Romantic Times BOOKreviews\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohansen is becoming a master of the macabre and paranormal thriller, and her latest riveting Eve Duncan tale has it all, from ghosts and secret cults to supernatural avengers.â€\n <em>\n  â€”Booklist\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders wonâ€™t soon forget either the enigmatic hero or the monstrous villain. This oneâ€™s chilling to the bone!â€â€”\n <em>\n  Romantic Times BOOKreviews\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Deadlock\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohansenâ€™s knack for delivering robust action and commanding characters kicks into high gear.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Dark Summer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed, adrenaline-fueledâ€¦will keep [you] eagerly turning the pages.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeeping the tension high and the pace relentless, prolific and compelling Johansen adds depth to her popular characters as she continues this suspenseful series.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBestselling author Johansen captivates readers with her latest suspense thrillerâ€¦the suspense escalates toward an explosive conclusion.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exhilarating thrillerâ€¦suspense that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Iris Johansen explores the darkest corners of the human heart as forensic sculptor Eve Duncan closes in on the killer who stole her daughter so many years ago.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n As a former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil and knows just how deadly it can be. When he first met Eve, he never expected to fall in love with a woman whose life would be defined by her dual desires to bring home her missing daughter and discover the truth behind her disappearanceâ€”no matter how devastating. With the help of CIA agent Catherine Ling, Quinn makes a shocking discovery that sheds new light on young Bonnieâ€™s abduction and puts him squarely in the crosshairs of danger. Eveâ€™s first love, John Gallo, a soldier supposedly killed in the line of duty, is very much aliveâ€”and very much a threat. Now, as\n</p>\n<p>\n their search takes them deeper and deeper into a web of murder and madness, Joe and Eve must confront their most primal fearsâ€¦and test their resolve to uncover the ultimate bone-chilling truth.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for *Eve\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œExplosive.â€â€”\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œRead it and be hooked.â€â€”*RT Book Reviews\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œAction-packed.â€â€”*Publishers Weekly\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/639');
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(7242, 'The Race Beat', 'Gene Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities and injustices of racial segregation in the Southâ€”and the brutality used to enforce it. It is the story of how the nationâ€™s press, after decades of ignoring the problem, came to recognize the importance of the civil rights struggle and turn it into the most significant domestic news event of the twentieth century.Drawing on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews, veteran journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff go behind the headlines and datelines to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmenâ€”first black reporters, then liberal southern editors, then reporters and photographers from the national press and the broadcast mediaâ€”revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings and propelled its citizens to act. We watch the black press move bravely into the front row of the confrontation, only to be attacked and kept away from the action. Following the Supreme Courtâ€™s 1954 decision striking down school segregation and the Southâ€™s mobilization against it, we see a growing number of white reporters venture South to cover the Emmett Till murder trial, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the integration of the University of Alabama. We witness some southern editors joining the call for massive resistance and working with segregationist organizations to thwart compliance. But we also see a handful of other southern editors write forcefully and daringly for obedience to federal mandates, signaling to the nation that moderate forces were prepared to push the region into the mainstream.The pace quickens in Little Rock, where reporters test the boundaries of journalistic integrity, then gain momentum as they cover shuttered schools in Virginia, sit-ins in North Carolina, mob-led riots in Mississippi, Freedom Ride buses being set afire, fire hoses and dogs in Birmingham, and long, tense marches through the rural South. For many journalists, the conditions they found, the fear they felt, and the violence they saw were transforming. Their growing disgust matched the mounting countrywide outrage as The New York Times, Newsweek, NBC News, and other major news organizations, many of them headed by southerners, turned a regional story into a national drama.Meticulously researched and vividly rendered, The Race Beat is an unprecedented account of one of the most volatile periods in our nationâ€™s history, as told by those who covered it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2312'),
(7243, 'The Race', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Detective Isaac Bell returns, in the remarkable new adventure from the #1\n <i>\n  New York Times\n </i>\n -bestselling author.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates-an intrepid woman named Josephine Frost-and that''s where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in.\n</p>\n<p>\n Frost''s violent-tempered husband has just killed her lover and tried to kill her, and he is bound to make another attempt. Bell has tangled with Harry Frost before; he knows that the man has made his millions leading gangs of thieves, murderers, and thugs in every city across the country. He also knows that Frost won''t be only after his wife, but after Whiteway as well. And if Bell takes the case . . . Frost will be after him, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/664'),
(7244, 'Rafa', 'Rafael Nadal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n What makes a champion? What does it take to be the best in the world at your sport? Rafael Nadal, one of the greatest players in the history of tennis, has the answers. In his memoir, written with award-winning journalist John Carlin, he reveals the secrets of his game and shares the inspiring personal story behind his success. It begins in Mallorca, a small island on the Mediterranean Sea, where the tight-knit Nadal family has lived for generations. Coached by his uncle Toni from the age of four, taught humility and respect by his parents, cherished by his exceptionally close extended family, Nadal has managed the uncommon feat of becoming an acclaimed global celebrity while remaining an unfailingly gracious, relentlessly hardworking role model for people in all walks of life.Since he embarked on his tennis career ten years ago, the twenty-five-year-old Nadal has had a meteoric rise, becoming the youngest professional tennis player ever to win all four Grand Slam titles. He collected his first one, the French Open, in 2005 at age nineteen, and from there went on to win Wimbledon, the Australian Open, and, most difficult of all, the U.S. Open in 2010. His memoir takes us behind the scenes, sharing the highs and lows of his career, from winning the Wimbledon 2008 final, described by John McEnroe as â€œ the greatest game of tennisâ€ he had ever seen, to the family problems that brought him low in 2009 and the numerous injuries that have threatened his career.With candor, heart, and intelligence, Rafael Nadal takes readers on his lifeâ€™ s dramatic and triumphant journey, never losing sight along the way of the prize he values above all others: the unity and love of his family. From RAFA:"During a match, you are in a permanent battle to fight back your everyday vulnerabilities, bottle up your human feelings. The more bottled up they are, the greater your chances of winning, so long as youâ€™ ve trained as hard as you play and the gap in talent is not too wide between you and your rival. The gap in talent with Federer existed, but it was not impossibly wide. It was narrow enough, even on his favorite surface in the tournament he played best, for me to know that if I silenced the doubts and fears, and exaggerated hopes, inside my head better than he did, I could beat him. You have to cage yourself in protective armor, turn yourself into a bloodless warrior. Itâ€™ s a kind of self-hypnosis, a game you play, with deadly seriousness, to disguise your own weaknesses from yourself, as well as from your rival."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2062'),
(7245, 'Rage', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div class="ff">\n  <div class="spacer">\n   Â \n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class="ff1">\n  <div class="ff">\n   <div class="blurb">\n    In a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr. Alex Delaware-and with excursions through the raw underside of L.A. and the coldest alleys of the criminal mind.\n    <i>\n    </i>\n    Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis revisit a horrifying crime from the past that has taken on shocking and deadly new dimensions.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he''s emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk-once again-with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comes to a brutal end, that conversation never takes place.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    Has karma caught up with Rand? Or has someone waited for eight patient years to dine on ice-cold revenge? Both seem strong possibilities to Sturgis, but Delaware''s suspicions run deeper . . . and darker. Because fear in the voice of the grownup Rand Duchay-and his eerie final words to Alex: "I''m not a bad person"\n    <i>\n     -\n    </i>\n    betray untold secrets. Buried revelations so horrendous, and so damning, they''re worth killing for.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    As Delaware and Sturgis retrace their steps through a grisly murder case that devastated a community, they discover a chilling legacy of madness, suicide, and multiple killings left in its wake-and even uglier truths waiting to be unearthed. And the nearer they come to understanding an unspeakable crime, the more harrowingly close they get to unmasking a monster hiding in plain sight.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    Rage finds Jonathan Kellerman in phenomenal form-orchestrating a relentlessly suspenseful, devilishly unpredictable plot to a finale as stunning and thought-provoking as it is satisfying.\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/766'),
(7246, 'Rage', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Written by Richard Bachman. In quiet Placerville, Maine, a slightly twisted boy named Charles Decker holds the 24 other students of his algebra class at gunpoint after shooting 2 teachers. Abused by his father as a child, he describes the important parts of his life, and in the process, lets a lot of the students he holds hostage tell the rest of the class their "Dirty Secrets". Things almost come to an early end when Charles is shot by a sniper, but the bullet hits a padlock he had placed in his pocket earlier. As things progress, the students become more and more responsive to their captor, all except Ted Jones. The students get their own back, and play one last nasty trick on another student before being released unharmed. But Charles is out of luck... This was initially titled "Getting it On" (After Deckers favourite saying) but was later renamed Rage, and released under Bachman''s name. It has not been reprinted in the last few years as Stephen King thought it too violent, and similar to many killings in some American Schools. This is a pity as it is an excellent insight into the mind of someone that it walking the thin edge of sanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/905'),
(7247, 'Rain Gods', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Hackberry Holland became sheriff of a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border, he''d hoped to leave certain things behind: his checkered reputation, his haunted dreams, and his obsessive memories of the good life with his late wife, Rie. But the discovery of the bodies of nine illegal aliens, machine-gunned to death and buried in a shallow grave behind a church, soon makes it clear that he won''t escape so easily. As Hack and Deputy Sheriff Pam Tibbs attempt to untangle the threads of this complex and grisly case, a damaged young Iraq veteran, Pete Flores, and his girlfriend, Vikki Gaddis, are running for their lives, hoping to outwit the bloodthirsty criminals who want to kill Pete for his involvement in the murders. The only trouble is, Pete doesn''t know who he''s running from: drunk and terrified, he fled the scene of the crime when the shooting began. And there''s a long list of people who want Pete and Vikki dead: crime boss Hugo Cistranos, who hired Pete for the operation; Nick Dolan, a strip club owner and small-time gangster with revenge on his mind; and a mysterious God-fearing serial-killer-for-hire known as Preacher Jack Collins, with enigmatic motives of his own. With the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and a host of cold-blooded killers on Pete and Vikki''s trail, it''s up to Sheriff Holland to find them first and figure out who''s behind the mass murder before anyone else ends up dead. In this thrilling and intricate work, James Lee Burke has once again proven himself a master storyteller and a perceptive chronicler of the darkest corners of the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3700'),
(7248, 'Rainbow Six', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  No one would have blamed David Dukes if he had declined reading for Tom Clancy''s\n  <em>\n   Rainbow Six\n  </em>\n  . Not only is "Rainbow" a melting pot of secret-agent patois, but the 700-page-plus book version runs at a rampant pace--this despite the usual wealth of Clancy detail. But actor and audio pro Dukes (and the editor responsible for condensing the script onto six hours of tape) handles this daunting task admirably, applying a steady--but not urgent--Everyman''s tone and imparting a sense that we''re hearing the\n  <em>\n   whole\n  </em>\n  story. Listeners may want more, but will be satiated with this abridged rendition.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dukes also bounces seamlessly among dialects, giving distinct but easy-to-understand voices to Rainbow, a colorful cast of international good guys assembled to save the world from terrorism. The group is led by a sometimes violent but justice-minded ex-CIA agent, John Clark, who is proof that Clancy can paint a dark protagonist as vividly as his good knight, Jack Ryan. But\n  <em>\n   Rainbow Six\n  </em>\n  is an equally bright showcase for reader Dukes, who, like Clark, is bent on providing justice. Dukes''s reading gives justice to the abridged form. (Running time: six hours, four cassettes)\n  <em>\n   --Rob McDonald\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two years ago, Executive Orders, which thrust Jack Ryan into the Oval Office, raised the bar for its immensely popular author. This first Clancy hardcover since then, though a ripping read, matches its predecessor neither in complexity nor intensity nor even, at 752 pages, length, despite a strong premise and some world-class action sequences. Instead of everyman Ryan, its lead is the more shadowed John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL vigilante of Without Remorse who has appeared in several Ryan adventures. Clark now heads Rainbow Six, an international special-ops anti-terrorist strike force?and, despite the novelty of the conceit, that''s a problem, as the profusion of protagonists, though sharply drawn (including, most notably, "Ding" Chavez, Clark''s longtime protege), deprives the book of the sort of strong central character that has given Clancy''s previous novels such heart. The story opens vigorously if arbitrarily, with an attempted airline hijacking foiled by Clark and Chavez, who happen to be on the plane. After that action sequence, the duo and others train at Rainbow Headquarters outside London, then leap into the fray against terrorists who have seized a bank in Bern, Switzerland. And so the pattern of the narrative is set: action sequence, interlude, action sequence, interlude, etc., giving it the structure and pace of a computer game. A major subplot involving bioterrorism that evolves into an overarching plotline syncopates that pattern, though Clancy''s choice of environmentalists as his prime villains will strike some readers as odd. All of Clancy''s fans, however, will revel in the writer''s continued mastery at action writing; Rainbow''s engagements, which occupy the bulk of the novel, are immensely suspenseful, breathtaking combos of expertly detailed combat and primal emotion. While not Clancy''s best, then, his 10th hardcover will catapult to the top of bestseller lists?and for good reason. Two million first printing; $1 million ad/promo; simultaneous Random Audio and Red Storm Entertainment computer game; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1151'),
(7249, 'The Rainmaker', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rudy Baylor, a new law school graduate, once dreamed of the good life as a corporate attorney. Now he faces joblessness and bankruptcy--unless he can win an insurance case against a heavyweight team of lawyers, a case that starts small but mushrooms into a frightening war of nerve and legal skill that could cost Rudy not only his future, but also his life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grisham''s intricate, spellbinding sixth novel differs from his last few?it''s his only book with first-person narration and his first since his debut to be set in a courtroom?but the trademark Grisham touches are in place. Rookie attorney Rudy Baylor is the customary David fighting a legal Goliath (here a multibillion-dollar insurance company), and the suspense builds with impeccable pacing despite workaday prose. When the modestly sized law firm that contracted for his future services unexpectedly merges with a tony Ivy League firm, Rudy finds himself without a job and bankrupt. Filing a $10 million lawsuit takes away some of the sting, as does a lonely elderly woman''s offer of low rent on a small apartment in exchange for rewriting her will. To make a living, Rudy finds himself chasing ambulances for a racketeering shyster, leading to his becoming enthralled with a beautiful young woman hospitalized by her husband''s murderous attack. When Rudy agrees to represent the parents of a dying 22-year-old denied insurance coverage for a bone-marrow transplant, he finds that he is up against the firm that broke contract with him. Melding the courtroom savvy of A Time to Kill with the psychological nuance of The Chamber, imbued with wry humor and rich characters, this bittersweet tale, the author''s quietest and most thoughtful, shows that Grisham''s imagination can hold its own in a courtroom as well as on the violent streets outside. Major ad/promo; large-print edition, ISBN 0-385-47512-8; audio rights to BDD Audio.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1165'),
(7250, 'Raise the Titanic!', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ingeniously crafted...a ripping good story. (\n  <em>\n   Minneapolis Tribune\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The President''s secret task force develops the ultimate defensive weapon. At its core: byzanium, a radioactive element so rare sufficient quantities have never been found. But a frozen American corpse on a desolate Soviet mountainside, a bizarre mining accident in Colorado, and a madman''s dying message lead DlRK PITT~ to a secret cache of byzanium. Now he begins his most thrilling, daunting mission -- to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century!\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a daring gamble, DIRK PITT locates the Titanic -- and suddenly his crew is in deadly jeopardy. Sabotaged by Russian spies and savage storms, Pitt must stop a diabolical plan for Soviet world supremacy -- or see the mighty Titanic blasted out of existence!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1197'),
(7251, 'The Raising', 'Laura Kasischke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kasischke (In a Perfect World) delivers a satisfying if predictable campus novel that''s both gothic romance and coming-of-age tale. A year after sorority girl Nicole Werner died in a car accident, Nicole''s boyfriend, Craig Clements-Rabbitt, who was driving, is trying to put his life together. When snobbish sophisticate Craig had arrived from New Hampshire at Godwin Honors Hallâ€”a selective college within a huge Midwestern universityâ€”he soon got on the nerves of his more down-to-earth roommate, Perry Edwards, and Perry''s childhood schoolmate, the beautiful Nicole. Now, Craig is a sober soul, but Nicole''s former sorority sisters are unwilling to let her "murderer" be. Meanwhile, Shelly Lockes, the first witness at the accident scene, is hounded out of town, and Mira Polson, a professor of anthropology who looks too closely at Nicole''s death, is forced to resign. Students commit suicide or are "accidentally" shot dead. If the narrative is convoluted, so is the diabolical, if improbable, scheme hatched by the sisters of Omega Theta Tau. Big Sister, apparently, watches over us all. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set in and around the campus of a fictional midwestern university, Kasischkeâ€™s eighth novel centers on a tragic car accident that has taken the life of beautiful, straight-A student Nicole. A year later, her sorority sisters are still up in arms and lay the blame for Nicoleâ€™s death on her boyfriend, Craig, who, they claim, is an irresponsible rich kid. But Craigâ€™s roommate, Philip, who grew up with Nicole, has begun to think that she is not really dead and approaches his sociology professor, who is teaching a class on death, for help. Meanwhile, a witness to the accident has given up trying to straighten out the many erroneous newspaper accounts stating that Nicole was found covered in blood, for the girl she saw was not bleeding and not dead. Kasischke excels at depicting the psychology of the young and the traumatized even as she delivers a scathing indictment of the siege mentality of college administrators. In this literary page-turner, reminiscent of Donna Tarttâ€™s Secret History (1992), the talented author inlays her academic novel with a touch of the supernatural and a deep sense of foreboding. --Joanne Wilkinson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/707'),
(7252, 'Rangers 1872: The Gallant Pioneers', 'Gary Ralston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gary Ralston, 39, works with the Daily Record in Glasgow and has covered sport extensively for the paper, including the Beijing Olympics, World Cup final, Champions League final, Six Nations and Super Bowl. A journalist for 20 years, he has reported on Scottish football extensively at home and abroad at club and international level for papers including the Daily Express and The Sun. He started his full-time career at the Rangers News, the official club publication. He lives in Stirling with wife Laura, son Lewis and daughter Jennifer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/526'),
(7253, 'Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Buster Casey, destined to live fast, die young and murder as many people as he can, is the rotten seed at the core of Palahniuk''s comically nasty eighth novel (after\n  <em>\n   Haunted\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   Lullaby\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   Diary\n  </em>\n  ; etc.). Set in a future where urbanites are segregated by strict curfews into Daytimers and Nighttimers, the narrative unfolds as an oral history comprising contradictory accounts from people who knew Buster. These include childhood friends horrified by the boy''s macabre behavior (getting snakes, scorpions and spiders to bite him and induce instant erections; repeatedly infecting himself with rabies), policemen and doctors who had dealings with the rabies "superspreader"; and Party Crashers, thrill-seeking Nighttimers who turn city streets into demolition derby arenas. After liberally infecting his hometown peers with rabies, Buster hits the big city and takes up with the Party Crashers. A series of deaths lead to a police investigation of Buster (long-since known as "Rant"â€”the sound children make while vomiting) that peaks just as Buster apparently commits suicide in a blaze of car-crash glory. This dark religious parable (there''s even a resurrection) from the master of grotesque excess may not attract new readers, but it will delight old ones.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Zombies, government conspiracies, religious epiphanies, time travel, a postmodern Typhoid Mary, and a woman who mixes thumbtacks into her cookie doughâ€”all are fair game in\n  <em>\n   Rant\n  </em>\n  , Chuck Palahniuk''s eighth novel. Critics agreed that\n  <em>\n   Rant\n  </em>\n  is vintage Palahniuk, a grim thriller ride filled with his signature black humor, withering social commentary, and stomach-churning details. Some grumbled, however, that the ideas in\n  <em>\n   Rant\n  </em>\n  have been recycled from previous novels, particularly\n  <em>\n   Fight Club\n  </em>\n  . They were also disappointed with the novel''s lack of depth, distracting structure (a succession of hundreds of brief eyewitness testimonies), and underlying glorification of violence. The truth is that Palahniuk is an acquired taste. Readers either love him or leave him alone, and will judge\n  <em>\n   Rant\n  </em>\n  accordingly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1122'),
(7254, 'The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II', 'Iris Chang', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In December 1937, in what was then the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking (Nanjing) and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocityâ€”one of the worst in world historyâ€”continues to be denied by the Japanese government.Based on extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents in four different languages (many never before published), Iris Chang, whose own grandparents barely escaped the massacre, has written what will surely be the definitive, English-language history of this horrifying episodeâ€”one that the Japanese have tried for years to erase from public consciousness.The Rape of Nanking tells the story from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers who performed it; of the Chinese civilians who endured it; and finally of a group of Europeans and Americans who refused to abandon the city and were able to create a safety zone that saved almost 300,000 Chinese. It was Chang who discovered the diaries of the German leader of this rescue effort, John Rabe, whom she calls the â€œOskar Schindler of China.â€ A loyal supporter of Adolf Hitler but far from the terror planned in his Nazi-controlled homeland, he worked tirelessly to save the innocent from slaughter.But this book does more than just narrate details of an orgy of violence; it attempts to analyze the degree to which the Japanese imperial government and its militaristic culture fostered in the Japanese soldier a total disregard for human life.Finally, it tells one more shocking story: Despite the fact that the death toll at Nanking exceeded the immediate deaths from the atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined (and even the total wartime casualty count of entire European countries), the Cold War led to a concerted effort on the part of the West and even the Chinese to court the loyalty of Japan and stifle open discussion of this atrocity. Indeed, Chang characterized this conspiracy of silence, which persists to this day, as â€œa second rape.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/490'),
(7255, 'Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan', 'Del Quentin Wilber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   For the first time, a minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  On March 30, 1981, President Reagan walked out of a hotel in Washington, D.C., and was shot by a would-be assassin. For years, few people knew the truth about how close the president came to dying, and no one has ever written a detailed narrative of that harrowing day. Now, drawing on exclusive new interviews, Del Quentin Wilber tells the electrifying story of a moment when the nation faced a terrifying crisis. With cinematic clarity, we see the Secret Service agent whose fast reflexes saved the president''s life; the brilliant surgeons who operated on Reagan as he was losing half his blood; and the small group of White House officials frantically trying to determine whether the country was under attack. Most especially, we encounter the man code-named Rawhide, a leader of uncommon grace who inspired affection and awe in everyone who worked with him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ronald Reagan was the only serving U.S. president to survive being shot in an assassination attempt. In\n  <em>\n   Rawhide Down\n  </em>\n  , the story of that perilous dayâ€”a day of chaos, crisis, prayer, heroism, and hopeâ€”is brought to life as never before.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Bill O''Reilly Reviews\n   <em>\n    Rawhide Down\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   For more than 13 years,\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Rawhide Down\n  </em>\n  is enthralling because of the tremendous detail that Del Quentin Wilber provides to the reader. We learn about President Ronald Reagan''s daily habits, his grooming, his demeanor on the job, as well as how he reacted after being shot. We also see how the would-be assassin, John Hinckley, conducted himself in the days leading up to the shooting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is fascinating stuff and, as a history buff, I couldn''t get enough of it. Most Americans have nearly forgotten that Mr. Reagan was on the verge of death after being shot by the unstable Hinckley, and the drama of how the president''s life was saved is intense.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is a page-turner from beginning to end and I believe you will learn a lot about an event that came razor-close to changing America forever and certainly altered the presidency of Mr. Reagan. Rich in detail with reporting I have never heard before,\n  <em>\n   Rawhide Down\n  </em>\n  rewards the reader on just about every page. Trust me on this.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The chapters that detail the assassination attempt and its immediate aftermath read like a thriller. In clear prose, we learn that Reagan was far closer to death than was previously thought."â€”David Baldacci,\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A page-turner from beginning to endâ€¦ You will learn a lot about an event that came razor-close to changing America forever."â€”Bill Oâ€™Reilly, author of the forthcoming\n  <em>\n   Killing Lincoln: The Assassination that Changed America Forever\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Newly revealingâ€¦ A fast-paced book that captures many points of view."â€”Janet Maslin,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A harrowing story, more so than it seemed at the time, and Wilber, a reporter for the\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  , has tracked down virtually everyone who had anything to do with protecting the President or with saving his life at the hospital."â€”_The New Yorker_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "In this eye-opening book of solid journalism, we learn just how close Ronald Reagan, code-named ''Rawhide'' by the Secret Service, came to being the president with the second shortest time in office."â€”Bob Hoover,\n  <em>\n   Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A tense, riveting account of that day."â€”\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Dallas Morning News\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Detailed and dramaticâ€¦ Mr. Wilber, a\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  crime reporter who writes clear, crisp prose, fleshes out his gripping narrative with a number of well-told side stories."â€”_The Washington Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A riveting minute-by-minute account of the shooting and reveals that Reagan came closer to death than the public knew."â€”_New York Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This intensely researched account yields an almost moment-by-moment account of the crisis."â€”_New York Daily News_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A fast-paced read that draws well-crafted characters and gives a vivid sense of the history that brought the storyâ€™s heroes and Hinckley together that day."â€”_The Washingtonian_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gripping â€¦ A fascinating glimpse of a pivotal moment in history."â€”_Publishers Weekly_ (Starred Review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This mesmerizing rendition of the event can be read in one sitting, as Wilberâ€™s accuracy and craft provoke rapt interest."â€”_Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Del Quentin Wilber has written a compelling and multi-layered examination of the near-assassination of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. As a biographer of Reagan who was at the Washington Hilton Hotel that fateful day, I was fascinated by Wilberâ€™s meticulous reconstruction. He properly credits the valor and judgment of the Secret Service agents who saved Reaganâ€™s life but also analyzes the security deficiencies that made the assassination attempt possible. Wilber reminds us of how close we were to losing Reagan little more than two months into his presidency. His detailed and readable accounts of the surgeries performed on Reagan and Press Secretary James Brady are of particular historical value."â€”Lou Cannon, author of\n  <em>\n   President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Rawhide Down_ is full of spectacular, original reporting."â€”Bob Woodward\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The 96 months of Ronald Reaganâ€™s presidency changed the nation and the world. Del Quentin Wilberâ€™s gripping account of the â€˜near assassinationâ€™ of the 40th president shows how close the countryâ€”and the worldâ€”came to missing more than 93 of those months."â€”George F. Will\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Rawhide Down_ is a stunning work. Del Quentin Wilber, with the world-class reporting skills he honed on the police beat and a fine sense of narrative, has taken a story we thought we knew and rendered it wholly fresh, vibrant, and revealing."â€”David Maraniss, author of\n  <em>\n   When Pride Still Mattered\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2163'),
(7256, 'Raylan', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The revered "New York Times" bestselling author, recognized as "America''s greatest crime writer" ("Newsweek"), brings back U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the mesmerizing hero of "Pronto," "Riding the Rap," and the hit FX series "Justified." With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mines, marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred pounds of it can gross $300,000, but that''s chump change compared to the quarter million a human body can get you--especially when it''s sold off piece by piece. So when Dickie and Coover Crowe, dope-dealing brothers known for sampling their own supply, decide to branch out into the body business, it''s up to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens to stop them. But Raylan isn''t your average marshal; he''s the laconic, Stetson-wearing, fast-drawing lawman who juggles dozens of cases at a time and always shoots to kill. But by the time Raylan finds out who''s making the cuts, he''s lying naked in a bathtub, with Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys.The bad guys are mostly gals this time around: Layla, the nurse who collects kidneys and sells them for ten grand a piece; Carol Conlan, a hard-charging coal-mine executive not above ordering a cohort to shoot point-blank a man who''s standing in her way; and Jackie Nevada, a beautiful sometime college student who can outplay anyone at the poker table and who suddenly finds herself being tracked by a handsome U.S. marshal. Dark and droll, "Raylan" is pure Elmore Leonard--a page-turner filled with the sparkling dialogue and sly suspense that are the hallmarks of this modern master.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3084'),
(7257, 'Razor Sharp', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When it comes to repaying a debt, the women of the Sisterhood - Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle - never forget. And now one of their allies needs help only they can give. A powerful attorney with a cut-throat reputation, Lizzie Fox has just taken on a high-profile new client - Lily Flowers, the Madam of a high-end bordello operating under the guise of a summer camp. The chips are stacked against Lily and her girls. But one phone call to the Sisterhood might just swing the vote. And soon, even the highest courts in the land will prove no match for seven fearless friends determined to ensure that real justice is served, Sisterhood style.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3753'),
(7258, 'The Reach of a Chef: Beyond the Kitchen', 'Michael Ruhlman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Michael Ruhlman has long enjoyed a love affair with cooking, food, and the work of the chef. His previous exploration of the restaurant kitchen and the men and women who call it home led Anthony Bourdain to call him "the greatest living writer on the subject of chefs - and on the business of preparing food." But even his broad experience couldn''t have prepared him for the profound shift in American culture that has raised restaurant cooking to the level of performance art and the status of the chef to celebrity CEO." "Beginning at Per Se, one of the most recent, exclusive, and expensive of Manhattan''s four-star restaurants, Ruhlman takes readers into some of America''s most illustrious - and most frenetic - kitchens. Throughout his travels, he seeks out and explains new trends and phenomena, like Las Vegas''s recent elevation to the country''s food Gomorrah, and returns to previous haunts to see what''s changed. A dispatch from a new world where chefs are stars and culinary school classes are burgeoning, The Reach of a Chef looks at the state of professional cooking in the post-Child, Food Network era via the heavy hitters in the industry such as Thomas Keller and Masa Takayama, Grant Achatz and Melissa Kelly, Emeril Lagasse and a new breed of cooking celebrity: girl next door Rachael Ray." "In the end, readers get an in-the-trenches look at professionals whose very life''s work had once been to feed us in order to feed themselves - but is now increasingly a type of work that delivers them to corporate boardrooms and television studios."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1957'),
(7259, 'Read My Pins: Stories From a Diplomat&#39;s Jewel Box', 'Madeleine Albright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Before long, and without intending it, I found that jewelry had become part of my personal diplomatic arsenal. Former president George H. W. Bush had been known for saying "Read my lips." I began urging colleagues and reporters to "Read my pins."\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  It would never have happened if not for Saddam Hussein. When U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright criticized the dictator, his poet in residence responded by calling her "an unparalleled serpent." Shortly thereafter, while preparing to meet with Iraqi officials, Albright pondered:\n  <em>\n   What to wear?\n  </em>\n  She decided to make a diplomatic statement by choosing a snake pin. Although her method of communication was new, her message was as old as the American Revolutionâ€”Don''t Tread on Me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From that day forward, pins became part of Albright''s diplomatic signature. International leaders were pleased to see her with a shimmering sun on her jacket or a cheerful ladybug; less so with a crab or a menacing wasp. Albright used pins to emphasize the importance of a negotiation, signify high hopes, protest the absence of progress, and show pride in representing America, among other purposes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Part illustrated memoir, part social history,\n  <em>\n   Read My Pins\n  </em>\n  provides an intimate look at Albright''s life through the brooches she wore. Her collection is both international and democraticâ€”dime-store pins share pride of place with designer creations and family heirlooms. Included are the antique eagle purchased to celebrate Albright''s appointment as secretary of state, the zebra pin she wore when meeting Nelson Mandela, and the Valentine''s Day heart forged by Albright''s five-year-old daughter.\n  <em>\n   Read My Pins\n  </em>\n  features more than 200 photographs, along with compelling and often humorous stories about jewelry, global politics, and the life of one of America''s most accomplished and fascinating diplomats.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Madeleine Albright served as U.S. secretary of state from 1997 to 2001 and as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997. She is the author of three\n  <strong>\n   New York Times\n  </strong>\n  bestselling books:\n  <em>\n   Madam Secretary\n  </em>\n  ;\n  <em>\n   The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs\n  </em>\n  ; and\n  <em>\n   Memo to the President: How We Can Restore America''s Reputation and Leadership\n  </em>\n  . She is founder of The Albright Group LLC and Albright Capital Management LLC.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1962'),
(7260, 'Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books', 'William M. Kuhn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Look Inside\n   <em>\n    Reading Jackie\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jackie and ICP director Cornell Capa\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Courtesy of the International Center of Photography\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  JFK and Jackie at their wedding\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Courtesy of Toni Frissell--Sidney Frissell Stafford\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jacqueline Kennedy, 1957. She told her Doubleday colleague Ray Roberts that she remembered the picture being taken at â€œ10 a.m. in full evening dress and he scared me to death!â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Courtesy of Yousuf Karsh\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  During the last two decades of her life, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis worked on nearly 100 books with varying degrees of responsibility as an editor, first at Viking--she resigned after being castigated by the New York Times about a Viking thriller with a Ted Kennedyâ€“like protagonist as an assassination target--and then at Doubleday, which promised to avoid any similar embarrassments. Her love of dance led to Onassis publishing a biography of Fred Astaire and autobiographies of Martha Graham, Judith Jamison, and Gelsey Kirkland. Kuhn (The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli) is particularly dismissive of Kirkland and her then-husband/collaborator Greg Lawrence''s bestselling tell-all accusing George Balanchine of cruelties; not coincidentally, Lawrence is the author of a competing book, Jackie as Editor. With biographies of Clara Bow and Jean Harlow, the quietly feminist Onassis insisted on getting beyond publicity photo images to tell a woman''s true story, says Kuhn. Being seen as royalty herself as the widow of JFK, the often imperious Onassis commissioned more than a dozen books on the royalty of India, ancient Egypt, Versailles, and Romanov Russia. Although this lucid, amply detailed catalogue of Onassis''s publishing projects offers a window into her passions and opaque personality, it is far from what Kuhn dubs "the only autobiography she ever wrote"--most readers will not find it revelatory. (Dec.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1964'),
(7261, 'Reality Check', 'Peter Abrahams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n QB of the varsity football team. Passing grades in all his classes. Dating the hottestâ€”and smartestâ€”girl at school. Summer job paying more than minimum wage. Things in Cody''s world seem to be going pretty well. Until, that is, his girlfriend, Clea, is sent off to boarding school across the country, and a torn ACL ends his high school football career. But bad things come in threesâ€”or in Cody''s case, sixes and twelvesâ€”and the worst is yet to come. While limping through town one day, Cody sees a newspaper heading: "Local Girl Missing." Clea, now his ex, has disappeared from her boarding school in Vermont, and the only clue is a letter she sent to Cody the morning of her disappearance. With that as his guide, Cody sets out to find out what happened. Once in Vermont, he unearths the town''s secretsâ€”and finds out that football isn''t the only thing he''s good at.   Reality Check is another edge-of-your-seat suspense novel by the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author of Down the Rabbit Hole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2845');
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(7262, 'Reamde', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2011\n  </strong>\n  : Neal Stephenson is quite rightly known as a writer of ideas, but don''t put it past him to pen a straightforward thriller. True, the plot of said thriller hinges on a massively multiplayer online game that''s a step beyond what''s actually available on the Internet circa 2011, but that''s as far as the sci-fi goes. Enter "REAMDE," an online virus that brings together a super-rich CEO, a Chinese hacker, a rogue Russian mafioso, an assimilated East African beauty, an itinerant Hungarian software programmer, two insanely prolific fantasy writers, and guns, guns, guns. (The book features so much firepower that Stephenson enlisted what he calls a "ballistics copy editor.") It takes a veritable master of pacing to make a thousand pages feel like barely a third of that, but Stephenson is that master; his breakneck narrative starts fast and never, ever lets up. As such,\n  <em>\n   Reamde\n  </em>\n  is as likely to turn off fans of his more cerebral fiction as it is to gain him scads of new devotees. Regardless, it marks an inimitable highlight of this year''s thriller roster. --\n  <em>\n   Jason Kirk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œNoir futurist Stephenson returns to cyberia with this fast-moving though sprawling techno-thriller...Whoâ€™ll prevail? We donâ€™t know till the very end, thanks to Stephensonâ€™s knife-sharp skills as a stopryteller. An intriguing yarnâ€”most geeky, and full of staisfying mayhem.â€ (Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on REAMDE )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExpertly crafted and often gorgeously written.â€ (Boston Globe )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Stephenson] makes reading so much fun it feels like a deadly sin.â€ (International Herald Tribune on REAMDE )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œStephensonâ€™s REAMDE: perfectly executed, mammoth, ambitious technothriller...a triumph, all 980 pages of it.â€ (Cory Doctorow, boingboing.com )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œItâ€™s hard to sum up a 1,000 page tome in a short review, so if you donâ€™t feel like reading this rather long one, Iâ€™ll boil it down to three words: I loved it.â€ (Tor.com )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAfter a decade of novels set in 18th century Europe and in alternate universes, Neal Stephenson triumphantly returns as a bestselling author to contemporary America.â€ (www.fantasyliterature.com )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œStephenson, best-known for his genre-hopping novels, tackles tech-terrorism in Reamde.â€ (OakPark.Patch.com )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEven at a thousand pages, Reamde is sprightly enough to jump between 9 or 10 plot threads without getting tangled up in itself, and, refreshingly, it does so without employing the annoying modern thriller trend of rat-a-tat sprays of two-page chapters.â€ (Stranger magazine )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA story that, despite its gargantuan heft, speeds along like a bullet train....The depth of the story, the attention to detail, the interlocking narratives and fine characterizations mark REAMDE as an immersive literary experience.â€ (Pittsburgh Tribune )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThereâ€™s an intellectual pill buried deep in Mr. Stephensonâ€™s narrative candy, one powerful enough that he deserves to be classified as a major national and international resource.â€ (Wall Street Journal on REAMDE )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œREAMDE is...one big, carefully choreographed, jet-set square-dance of mayhem.â€ (Bloomberg News )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNobody else writes like Stephensonâ€ (Press Association (England) on REAMDE )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNeal Stephenson has guts, a killer story, andâ€”for the first time since\n  <em>\n   Cryptonomicon\n  </em>\n  â€”a thriller I can thoroughly recommend to any reader....With REAMDE we have a very smart page-turnerâ€”a global chess game expertly played.â€ (Mental_Floss on REAMDE )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œREAMDE combines meticulous observation of the stranger socioeconomic effects wrought by technology with rousing fusillades of adventure.â€ (The Guardian )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn less masterful hands, this pile-up of implausible coincidences, madcap romance, technological mayhem and nail-biting suspense might have been a train wreck, but Stephenson pulls it off. REAMDE has one of the most satisfyingly over-the-top endings of anything Iâ€™ve read in years. â€ (Washington Post Book World )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSometimes when youâ€™re reading Neal Stepheson, he doesnâ€™t just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the &lt;\n  <em>\n   only\n  </em>\n  one.â€ (Lev Grossman, Time magazine )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ\n  <em>\n   Reamde\n  </em>\n  is an entertainment, an emormous, giddily complex one. Thereâ€™s no telling what Stephenson might be planning for his next novel, but nowâ€™s the time to dive into a first-rate intellectual thriller without fear of being overwhelmed by its virtuosity.â€ (San Francisco Chronicle )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œStephenson...delivers a sprawling thriller that shows him in complete control of his story.â€ (Publishers Weekly on REAMDE )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/719'),
(7263, 'Rebus: The Early Years', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n KNOTS &amp; CROSSES: Two girls have been abducted and brutally murdered. Now a third is missing. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife, is one of the policemen hunting the killer. And then the messages begin to arrive: knotted string and matchstick crosses - taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve ... HIDE &amp; SEEK: A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat. Just another addict, until Inspector Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurk behind the facade of the city familiar to tourists. And only Rebus seems to care about a death that looks more like murder every day, a death that appeals to the darkest corners of his mind. TOOTH &amp; NAIL: Drafted down to the Big Smoke thanks to a supposed expertise in the modus operandi of serial killers, Inspector Rebus is on the trail of a man who, due to his penchant for taking a bite from each of his victims, is known as the Wolfman. When Rebus is offered a profile of the Wolfman by an attractive lady psychologist, it seems too good an opportunity to turn down. But in finding an ally, he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/366'),
(7264, 'Reckless Abandon', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington tracks a mobster hiding deep inside the witness protection program in this next thriller in the New York Times-bestselling series. Stone Barrington is, once again, right at home in New York City; but this time he is joined by the tenacious Holly Barker from Orchid Blues, the lady police chief of Orchid Island, Florida. In Reckless Abandon, Holly finally makes it to Manhattan, hot on the trail of an evil fugitive from her jurisdiction. Stone is, well, glad to see her, right up until the moment when her presence creates a great danger to both of them-and to their surprise, she becomes the pursued, not the pursuer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2646'),
(7265, 'Recoil', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMcNabâ€™s great asset is that the heart of his fiction is not fiction: other thriller writers do their research, but he has actually been there.â€\n <br />\n â€”*Sunday Times\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œA terrific, first rate thriller by the man who was once the British Armyâ€™s most highly decorated soldier.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n </em>\n Daily Mail\n <br />\n <em>\n  <br />\n  â€œMcNab is a terrific novelist. When it comes to thrills, heâ€™s Forsyth class.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n </em>\n Mail on Sunday\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œAddictive.â€¦ Packed with wild action and revealing tradecraft.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”\n </em>\n Daily Telegraph*\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n As a member of 22 SAS Regiment since 1984, Andy McNab was involved in special operations worldwide. He was the British Armyâ€™s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in 1993. He wrote about his experiences in two phenomenal bestsellers,\n <strong>\n  Bravo Two Zero\n </strong>\n , which was filmed in 1998, starring Sean Bean, and\n <strong>\n  Immediate Action\n </strong>\n . He is the author of the bestsellers\n <strong>\n  Remote Control\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  Crisis Four\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  Firewall\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  Last Light\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  Liberation Day\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Dark Winter\n </strong>\n .\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/391'),
(7266, 'Red Alert', 'Peter Bryant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Red Alert is a 1958 novel by Peter George about nuclear war. The book was the basis for Stanley Kubrick''s film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Kubrick''s film differs significantly from the novel in that it is a comedy. Originally published in the UK as Two Hours to Doom - with George using the pseudonym ''Peter Bryant'' - the novel deals with the apocalyptic threat of nuclear war and the almost absurd ease with which it can be triggered."--Wikipedia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2759'),
(7267, 'Red Dragon', 'Thomas Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas''s\n <em>\n  Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine\n </em>\n open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel,\n <em>\n  The Silence of the Lambs\n </em>\n . As in\n <em>\n  Silence\n </em>\n , the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.\n</p>\n<p>\n The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn''t what bugs him about crime busting. It''s just too creepy to get inside a killer''s twisted mind. But he comes back to stop a madman who''s been butchering entire families. The FBI needs Graham''s insight, and Graham needs Lecter''s genius. But Lecter is a clever fiend, and he manipulates both Graham and the killer at large from his cell.\n</p>\n<p>\n That killer, Francis Dolarhyde, works in a film lab, where he picks his victims by studying their home movies. He''s obsessed with William Blake''s bizarre painting\n <em>\n  The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun\n </em>\n , believing there''s a red dragon within him, the personification of his demonic drives. Flashbacks to Dolarhyde''s terrifying childhood and superb stream-of-consciousness prose get us right there inside his head. When Dolarhyde does weird things, we understand why. We\n <em>\n  sympathize\n </em>\n when the voice of the cruel dead grandma who raised and crazed him urges him to mayhem--she''s way scarier than that old bat in\n <em>\n  Psycho\n </em>\n . When he falls in love with a blind girl at the lab, we hope he doesn''t give in to Grandma''s violent advice.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book is awesomely detailed, ingeniously plotted, judiciously gory, and fantastically imagined. If you haven''t read it, you''ve never had the creeps.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Acclaim for the novels of Thomas Harris:\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n For\n <strong>\n  Black Sunday\n </strong>\n :\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Frighteningly believable."â€”\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Suspenseful, nightmarish."â€”\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Breathtaking. All forces converge with an apocalyptic bang!"â€”\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fast-paced, all too realistic... with a shattering climax."â€”\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n "A spellbinder... The race to save the Super Bowl is hair-raising, one that will keep you rooted to your chair."â€”\n <em>\n  Hartford Courant\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n For\n <strong>\n  Red Dragon\n </strong>\n :\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  Red Dragon\n </strong>\n is an engine designed for one purposeâ€”to make the pulse pound, the heart palpitate, the fear glands secrete."â€”\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A gruesome, graphic, gripping thriller... Extraordinarily harrowing."â€”\n <em>\n  Plain Dealer\n </em>\n , Cleveland\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Want to faint with fright? Want to have your hair stand on end? Want to read an unforgettable thriller with equal parts of horror and suspense? Harris was obviously only warming up with his best seller\n <strong>\n  Black Sunday\n </strong>\n ."â€”\n <em>\n  Daily News,\n </em>\n New York\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Irresistible... A shattering thriller... Readers should buckle themselves in for a long night''s read because from the first pages... Harris grabs hold."â€”\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n "The scariest book of the season."â€”\n <em>\n  Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Easily the crime novel of the year."â€”\n <em>\n  Newsday\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1307'),
(7268, 'The Red Garden', 'Alice Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives.Â Â Â Â  In exquisite prose, Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption in a web of tales where characters'' lives are intertwined by fate and by their own actions.Â Â Â Â  From the town''s founder, a brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or bears, to the young man who runs away to New York City with only his dog for company, the characters in The Red Garden are extraordinary and vivid: a young wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman who meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet who falls in love with a blind man, a mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year when summer never arrives.Â Â Â Â  At the center of everyoneâ€™s life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.Â Â Â Â  Beautifully crafted, shimmering with magic, The Red Garden is as unforgettable as it is moving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3502'),
(7269, 'A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia De Luce Mystery', 'Alan Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of Bishopâ€™s Laceyâ€”mysteries involving a missing tot, a fortune-teller, and a corpse in Flaviaâ€™s own backyard.  Flavia had asked the old Gypsy woman to tell her fortune, but never expected to stumble across the poor soul, bludgeoned in the wee hours in her own caravan. Was this an act of retribution by those convinced that the soothsayer had abducted a local child years ago? Certainly Flavia understands the bliss of settling scores; revenge is a delightful pastime when one has two odious older sisters. But how could this crime be connected to the missing baby? Had it something to do with the weird sect who met at the river to practice their secret rites? While still pondering the possibilities, Flavia stumbles upon another corpseâ€”that of a notorious layabout who had been caught prowling about the de Luceâ€™s drawing room. Pedaling Gladys, her faithful bicycle, across the countryside in search of clues to both crimes, Flavia uncovers some odd new twists. Most intriguing is her introduction to an elegant artist with a very special object in her possessionâ€”a portrait that sheds light on the biggest mystery of all: Who is Flavia? As the red herrings pile up, Flavia must sort through clues fishy and foul to untangle dark deeds and dangerous secrets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3410'),
(7270, 'Red Mist', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer.Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings, including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. She can see a pattern to these killings, but who is behind them and why?As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Patricia Cornwell is one of the world''s major international best-selling authors, translated into thirty-six languages across more than fifty countries. She is a founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine, a founding member of the National Forensic Academy, a member of the New York OCME Forensic Sciences Training Program''s Advisory Board, and a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital''s National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research. In 2008 Cornwell won the Galaxy British Book Awards'' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the first American ever to win this prestigious award. Her most recent bestsellers include Scarpetta, Book of the Dead and The Front. Her earlier works include Postmortem - the only novel to win five major crime awards in a single year - and Cruel and Unusual, which won the coveted Gold Dagger award in 1993. Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for the best detective created by an American writer.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2939'),
(7271, 'The Red Queen', 'Phillippa Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The second book in Philippa''s stunning new series, The Cousins War, brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort, a shadowy and mysterious character in the first book of the series - The White Queen - but who now takes centre stage in the bitter struggle of The War of the Roses. The Red Queen tells the story of the child-bride of Edmund Tudor, who, although widowed in her early teens, uses her determination of character and wily plotting to infiltrate the house of York under the guise of loyal friend and servant, undermine the support for Richard III and ultimately ensure that her only son, Henry Tudor, triumphs as King of England. Through collaboration with the dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret agrees a betrothal between Henry and Elizabeth''s daughter, thereby uniting the families and resolving the Cousins War once and for all by founding of the Tudor dynasty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3620'),
(7272, 'Red Rabbit', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There''s not a shot fired until page 602 in Clancy''s lumbering new thriller, and readers up on their history will know the outcome of that shot on page 17. What comes in between is a slow-moving but, given Clancy''s astonishing flair for fly-on-the-wall writing, steadily absorbing imagining of the back story behind Mehmet Ali Agca''s (real-life) failed attempt on the life of Pope John II in 1981. By going back 21 years, Clancy provides a fresh adventure for a young Jack Ryan, but Ryan fans (and presumably Ben Affleck) may be surprised to learn that Ryan is, until the final scenes, only a supporting player here. The book''s main heroes are the husband-and-wife team of Ed Foley, CIA station chief in Moscow, and his agent-wife, Mary Pat, and Oleg Zaitzev (code-named Rabbit), the mid-level employee in the KGB communications department who for conscience''s sake decides to defect to America when he''s asked to encrypt messages that reveal a plot, under the auspices of then-KGB chief Yuri Andropov, to kill the pope in response to the pontiff''s secret letter threatening to resign the papacy and to return to Poland to resist Soviet domination. In real life, the pope wrote such a letter, and analysts have long speculated that the Soviets, via Bulgarian controllers, dispatched Agca to kill him. It''s utterly fascinating to read Clancy''s playing out of that likely scenario is there a writer in the world who brings so much verisimilitude to scenes both high (Politburo meetings) and low (details of spy craft and everyday Soviet life)? But while Clancy delivers a believable and encyclopedic version of real-life events, the suspense is minimal a disappointment when other writers (Forsyth in Day of the Jackal, for one) have shown that there can be enough tension in a fated-to-fail assassination plot to give a stroke to a yoga master.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clancy returns to Jack Ryan''s first days in the CIA, when the fate of the free world hung in the balance as Ryan discovered a heinous plot to assassinate the Pope. Clancy is so big that this new novel merits a special limited edition (ISBN 0-399-14914-7. $150).\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1170'),
(7273, 'Red River to Appomattox', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Civil War:\n </p>\n <p>\n  A Narrative\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fredericksburg to Meridian\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Walter Millis --_Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Civil War:\n </p>\n <p>\n  A Narrative\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fredericksburg to Meridian\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Walter Millis\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant''s and Lee''s armies.... Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject.... It stands alongside the work of the best of them."--_New Republic_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2353'),
(7274, 'Red to Black', 'Alex Dryden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The explosive spy thriller of the new Russia. Set in Vladimir Putin''s new, enriched Russia, where democracy has been hijacked by the neo-KGB, RED TO BLACK is both a thriller and a love story that unfolds in the dimly lit worlds of the Russian and British secret services and a truly frightening portrait of the new, aggressive Russian state dominated by the KGB''s successors; powerful, modern, technocratic and free from political control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/656'),
(7275, 'Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock', 'Sammy Hagar', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  Loud rock, fast cars, and Cabo.\n  <p>\n   This is the life of Sammy Hagar.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  For almost forty years, Sammy Hagar has been a fixture in rock music. From breaking into the industry with the band Montrose to his multiplatinum solo career to his ride as the front man of Van Halen, Sammy''s powerful and unforgettable voice has set the tone for some of the greatest rock anthems ever writtenâ€”songs like "I Can''t Drive 55," "Right Now," and "Why Can''t This Be Love."\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <i>\n   Red\n  </i>\n  , Sammy tells the outrageous story of his tear through rock ''n'' roll, detailing the backstage antics and nonstop touring that have made his voice instantly recognizable. Beginning with his musical coming-of-age in the blue-collar towns of California, Sammy traces his rough and determined rise to fame, working harder than anyone else out there and writing songs about the things he lovedâ€”fast cars, loud parties, and\n  <i>\n   lots\n  </i>\n  of good times.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But solo success was just the start,...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1966'),
(7276, 'Reflected in You', 'Sylvia Day', '<div class="comments">\n<span id="freeText1212543462610437274" style="">\n Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn''t stay away. I didn''t want to. He was my addiction... my every desire...\n <em>\n  mine.\n </em>\n <br />\n <br />\n My past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. Weâ€™d never work. It was too hard, too painful... except when it was perfect. Those moments when the driving hunger and desperate love were the most exquisite insanity.Â We were bound by our need. And our passion would take us beyond our limits to the sweetest, sharpest edge of obsession...\n <a class="actionLinkLite" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13596809-reflected-in-you#">\n </a>\n</span>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3790'),
(7277, 'Reflex', 'Steven Gould', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In this delightful SF thriller, the long-anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed\n  <em>\n   Jumper\n  </em>\n  (1992), Gould puts a fresh spin on the classic plot device of human teleportation. Once a teen struggling to escape an abusive father, Davy Rice is now a covert operative for the National Security Agency and happily married to Oklahoma psychologist Millie Harrison-Rice. Enter sudden marital discord over starting a family, and Davy, eager to avoid the issue, jumps from their remote West Texas hideaway to a meeting in Washington, D.C., only to be snatched by an evil organization intent upon forcing "the asset" to work for them. The baffled Millie keeps waiting for her husband to return, until she discovers that she, too, can teleport through space. While Davy spends much of the book a defiant prisoner, Millie learns the joy of jumping. In her effort to rescue her husband, she goes to ground and hides her dangerous new ability from the NSA and Davy''s captors. The author''s savvy decision to have the couple share this unique ability gives the sequel a rush of new energy, creating dazzling future possibilities for the duo. Though Gould continues to exuberantly press the boundaries of scientific credibility, his gift for placing ordinary people in extraordinary situations against a backdrop of international concerns makes this fast-paced adventure sizzle. At the end, the inevitable question arises: will the next jumper do it in diapers?\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gould takes up Davy, the teenage hero of\n  <em>\n   Jumper\n  </em>\n  (1992), about as many years later in his life as this readable sequel follows its predecessor. Davy is in trouble because of leaks from the secret governmental organization that employs him. Someone has figured out how to abduct, imprison, and brainwash a teleporter, and that teleporter, as\n  <em>\n   Jumper\n  </em>\n  readers might expect, is Davy. Davy''s wife has learned to jump (i.e., teleport), too, though, and in the same way that he learned it, when her life was threatened. She is searching for him, of course, but isn''t sure whom she can trust, either inside or outside the agency. In fact, she isn''t even really sure where to start looking for him. Gould''s style is rather pedestrian, though no more so than one would allow from a second-book author. Despite stylistic lapses, this is a near-future thriller with quite-respectable page-turning impetus.\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1303'),
(7278, 'The Regulators', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An evil creature called Tak uses the imagination of an autistic boy to shift a residential street in small-town Ohio into a world so bizarre and brutal that only a child could think it up. It''s as two-dimensional and gaudy as a kid''s comic book, but for this reviewer,\n  <em>\n   The Regulators\n  </em>\n  is a gripping adventure tale about what happens when a mind fixated on TV (especially old Westerns and a cartoon called\n  <em>\n   MotoKops 2200\n  </em>\n  ) runs amok. As Michael Collins writes in\n  <em>\n   Necrofile,\n  </em>\n  "[Stephen] King offers his readers a glimpse of the true evil of popular culture ... which has no design or intent, only an empty need to sustain itself. King is, I think, about the canniest observer of what America is, and that he generally writes horror ought to give us pause from time to time."\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Why revive the Bachman byline more than a decade after Stephen King was found lurking behind it? Not for thematic reasons. This devilishly entertaining yarn of occult mayhem married to mordant social commentary is pure King and resembles little the four nonsupernatural (if science-fictional) pre-Thinner Bachmans. The theme is the horror of TV, played out through the terrors visited upon quiet Poplar Street in the postcard-perfect suburban town of Wentworth, Ohio, when a discorporeal psychic vampire settles inside an autistic boy obsessed with TV westerns and kiddie action shows and brings screen images to demented, lethal life. The long opening scene, in which characters and vehicles from the TV show Motokops 2200 (think Power Rangers) sweep down the street, spewing death by firearm, is a paragon of action-horror. The story rarely flags after that, evoking powerful tension and, at times, emotion. The premise owes a big unacknowledged debt to the classic Twilight Zone episode "It''s a Good Life"; echoes of earlier Kings resound often as well?the psychic boy (The Shining), a writer-hero (Misery, The Dark Half), etc. But King makes hay in this story in which anything can happen, and does, including the warping of space-time and the savage deaths of much of his large cast. The narrative itself warps fantastically, from prose set in classic typeface to handwritten journals to drawings to typewritten playscript and so on. So why the Bachman byline? Probably for fear that yet another new King in 1996 in addition to six volumes of The Green Mile and Viking''s forthcoming Desperation might glut the market. Maybe, maybe not. But one thing is certain: call him Bachman or call him King, the bard of Bangor is going to hit the charts hard and vast with this white-knuckler knockout. Main selection of the Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Mystery Guild and Science Fiction Book Club.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/874'),
(7279, 'The Reivers', 'William Faulkner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  This grand misadventure is the story of three unlikely thieves, or reivers: 11-year-old Lucius Priest and two of his family''s retainers. In 1905, these three set out from Mississippi for Memphis in a stolen motorcar. The astonishing and complicated results reveal Faulkner as a master of the picaresque.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3059'),
(7280, 'Relentless', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1New York Timesbestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz delivers a mesmerizing new thriller that explores the razor-thin line between the best and worst of human natureand the anarchy simmering just beneath society''s surfaceas a likeable, successful family man is drawn into a confrontation with a foe of unimaginable malice.... Bestselling novelist Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich is a lucky man and he knows it. He makes a handsome living doing what he enjoys. His wife, Penny, a children''s book author and illustrator, is the love of his life. Together they have a brilliant six-year-old, Milo, affectionately dubbed "Spooky," and a non-collie named Lassie, who''s all but part of the family. So Cubby knows he shouldn''t let one bad review of his otherwise triumphant new book get to himeven if it does appear in the nation''s premier newspaper and is penned by the much-feared, seldom-seen critic, Shearman Waxx. Cubby knows the best thing to do is ignore the gratuitously vicious, insulting, and inaccurate comments. Penny knows it, even little Milo knows it. If Lassie could talk, she''d tell Cubby to ignore them, too. Ignore Shearman Waxx and his poison pen is just what Cubby intends to do. Until he happens to learn where the great man is taking his lunch. Cubby just wants to get a look at the mysterious recluse whose mere opinion can make or break a careeror a life. But Shearman Waxx isn''t what Cubby expects; and neither is the escalating terror that follows what seemed to be an innocent encounter. For Waxx gives criticism; he doesn''t take it. He has ways of dealing with those who cross him that Cubby is only beginning to fathom. Soon Cubby finds himself in a desperate struggle with a relentless sociopath, facing an inexorable assault on far more than his life. Fearless, funny, utterly compelling,Relentlessis Dean Koontz at his riveting best, an unforgettable tale of the fragile bonds that hold together all that we most cherishand of those who would tear those bonds asunder. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3528'),
(7281, 'The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism', 'Joyce Appleby', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Arguing that capitalism is a culturalâ€”rather than purely economicâ€”phenomenon, Appleby (_Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination_) traces its trajectory through European, American, and Asian successes and setbacks, its unhappy experiments in colonization, the world wars, and into contemporary India and China. She narrates the rise of capitalism as a process of accretion, starting with Dutch agricultural innovations that were adopted and improved upon by the British. This set England on the path to controlling famine and, ultimately, freed capital and labor for trade. Appleby turns Marxism on its head as she proposes that the new social relations introduced in England as a result of converting common land into freeholds were the consequence, not the cause, of the transformation in English farming. If this sounds like breathless global time travel, it is still a laudable effort at demonstrating that there was nothing inevitable about the rise of capitalism. Both scholarly and accessible, this book unpacks a complex web of seemingly unrelated events; its dazzling achievements are tarnished only by multiple misnomers: there is no city called Calico in India (there''s a Calicut) and no language called Hindu (it''s Hindi).\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Historian Appleby traces capitalism (a system based on individual investments in the production of marketable goods) from early industrialization to the present global economy. She explores the benchmarks in capitalismâ€™s ascent, looking at how this system transformed politics while churning up practices, thoughts, values and ideals that had long prevailed within the cocoon of custom. It changed the way people thought and planned, and the author shows how different societies respond to its challenges up to the twenty-first century and the world recession of 2008â€“09. She explains that the 2008 financial crisis was caused by the era of deregulation from the late 1970s to 1999, while vast sums of money circulated through global markets and the growth in financial assets outpaced real economic activity. Appleby concludes that since capitalism is a set of practices and institutions that permits billions of people to pursue their interests in the marketplace, it is highly likely that panics and bubbles will occur again. This is an excellent book. --Mary Whaley\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2313'),
(7282, 'Relic', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A series of bizarre and brutal murders is taking place in the halls of the New York Museum of Natural History, only days before a massive exhibition is set to open. Margo Green knows that the killer is something not human, something that''s not even supposed to exist. Where did it come from, how did it get into the museum, and how can it be stopped?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A monster on the loose in New York City''s American Museum of Natural History provides the hook for this high-concept, high-energy thriller. A statue of the mad god Mbwun, a monstrous mix of man and reptile, was discovered by a Museum expedition to South America in 1987. Now, it is about to become part of the new Superstition Exhibition at the museum (here renamed the "New York Museum of Natural History"). But as the exhibition''s opening night approaches, the museum may have to be shut down due to a series of savage murders that seem to be the work of a maniac-or a living version of Mbwun. When the museum''s director pulls strings to ensure that the gala affair takes place, it''s up to a small band of believers, led by graduate student Margo Green, her controversial adviser and an FBI agent who investigated similar killings in New Orleans, to stop the monster-if the culprit is indeed a monster-from going on a rampage. Less horror then action-adventure, the narrative builds to a superbly exciting climax, and then offers a final twist to boot. With its close-up view of museum life and politics, plausible scientific background, sharply drawn characters and a plot line that''s blissfully free of gratuitous romance, this well-crafted novel offers first-rate thrills and chills. Film rights optioned by Kennedy-Marshall Productions; audio rights to Brilliance Corp.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/607'),
(7283, 'Reliquary', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The netherworld of New York City?its subways, aqueducts, sewers and the homeless who inhabit them?proves as shuddery a setting for the authors'' latest scientific monster mash as the American Museum of Natural History did for their bestselling Relic, to which this is the sequel. In the earlier novel, Mbwun, a ferocious creature that seemed part reptile, part human, rampaged through the museum killing people. The sequel, set 18 months after Mbwun was destroyed, opens with a police diver finding the headless bodies of two people apparently killed by underground cannibals. The corpses are sent to the museum''s lab for analysis, which brings a number of returnees from Relic?burly homicide cop Vincent D''Agosta, anthropologist Margo Green, New York Post crime reporter Bill Smithback?to the case. They''re soon joined by the novels'' Sherlock Holmes figure, the irresistibly cool Special Agent Pendergast of the FBI. Forays by these principals into the kingdom of the Mole People (underground homeless), plus some forensic breakthroughs, point to a race of mini-Mbwun at work in an escalating series of savage killings that incite the city''s upper crust to civil disobedience. The city''s answer, to flood its nether vaults, turns out to threaten a global catastrophe that only Pendergast and company, aided by Navy SEALS, can avert. The story''s "surprise" ending makes as much sense as ketchup on popcorn, and the entire novel has a desperate air about it as the authors stuff it with complications and, by pitting the homeless against the swells, try to create a kind of Decapitation of the Vanities. It''s high on suspense and tremendous fun in parts, though, especially when exploring the city''s nightmare underbelly. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate selections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The curator of the Natural History Museum rejoins police and the FBI as they attempt to solve horrific murders. A frightening sequel to The Relic, it''s a terrific read on its own.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/608'),
(7284, 'The Remains of the Day', 'Kazuo Ishiguro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2694'),
(7285, 'The Rembrandt Affair', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Of those writing spy novels today, Daniel Silva is quite simply the best."   -The Kansas City Star "The perfect book for fans of well-crafted thrillers ... the kind of page- turner that captures the reader from the opening chapter and doesn''t let go."   -The Associated Press  Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in a spellbinding new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.   Over the course of a brilliant career, Daniel Silva has established himself as "the gold standard" of thriller writers (Dallas Morning News) who "has hit upon the perfect formula to keep espionage-friendly fans'' fingers glued to his books, turning pages in nearly breathless anticipation" (BookPage). But now, having reached "the pinnacle of world-class spy thriller writing" (The Denver Post), Silva has produced his most extraordinary novel to date-a tale of greed, passion, and murder spanning more than half a century, centered on an object of haunting beauty.  Two families, one terrible secret, and a painting to die for ...   Determined to sever his ties with the Office, Gabriel Allon has retreated to the windswept cliffs of Cornwall with his beautiful Venetian-born wife Chiara. But once again his seclusion is interrupted by a visitor from his tangled past: the endearingly eccentric London art dealer, Julian Isherwood. As usual, Isherwood has a problem. And it is one only Gabriel can solve.  In the ancient English city of Glastonbury, an art restorer has been brutally murdered and a long-lost portrait by Rembrandt mysteriously stolen. Despite his reluctance, Gabriel is persuaded to use his unique skills to search for the painting and those responsible for the crime. But as he painstakingly follows a trail of clues leading from Amsterdam to Buenos Aires and, finally, to a villa on the graceful shores of Lake Geneva, Gabriel discovers there are deadly secrets connected to the painting. And evil men behind them.  Before he is done, Gabriel will once again be drawn into a world he thought he had left behind forever, and will come face to face with a remarkable cast of characters: a glamorous London journalist who is determined to undo the worst mistake of her career, an elusive master art thief who is burdened by a conscience, and a powerful Swiss billionaire who is known for his good deeds but may just be behind one of the greatest threats facing the world.  Filled with remarkable twists and turns of plot, and told with seductive prose, The Rembrandt Affair is more than just summer entertainment of the highest order. It is a timely reminder that there are men in the world who will do anything for money.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3498'),
(7286, 'Remember Me?', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, sheâ€™s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accidentâ€”in a Mercedes no lessâ€”Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and sheâ€™s about to find out just how much things have changed. Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husbandâ€”who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person sheâ€¦well, seems to be. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all. Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3630');
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(7287, 'Remote Control', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Remote Control is the fictional story of an SAS agent named Nick Stone, who is on the case of two Irish terrorists. He follows them across the Atlantic to Washington, D.C., but is suddenly ordered back home on the next available flight. His old mate Kevin Brown, now with the Drug Enforcement Agency, lives near the airport, so Nick decides to drop in. He finds a slaughterhouse: Kev, his wife, and youngest daughter have been battered to death, but daughter Kelly has survived in a special hideout. Prying information from the shocked child, Nick links the killers to either the CIA, the DEA, or his own organizationâ€”which means that he and Kelly are virtually on their own. As Nick trundles the spunky youngster from one seedy motel to another, stuffs her with junk food, and teaches her the rudiments of spy craft, he also begins to piece together a picture of why Kevin and his family were killed. There is a connection between a terrorist bomb scare in Gibraltar in 1988, the Colombian drug cartel, and high-level intelligence-agency skullduggery. McNab keeps dropping those shiny nuggets of believability along the trail and winds up holding our attention until the predictable but satisfying end.\n  <em>\n   â€”Dick Adler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p class="description">\n  A rogue Special Air Service agent on the lam in suburban America with the seven-year-old daughter of a murdered colleague. Sounds like the latest Bruce Willis vehicle, costarring that little girl from the Pepsi commercials. But McNab, a former SAS agent himself and author of two nonfiction books on the subject, manages to balance the clich?s and cuteness with large doses of tradecraft taken from his 17 years of undercover experience. When Nick Stone describes how to maintain a fictitious address or reveals the secrets of tracing a call made from a public telephone, the details ring trueAand help get us over some of the more ludicrous speed bumps in his story. Stone, tracking two Irish terrorists from London to Washington, is suddenly ordered back home on the next available flight. His old mate Kevin Brown, now with the Drug Enforcement Agency, lives nearby, so Nick decides to drop in. He finds a slaughterhouse: Kev, his wife, and youngest daughter have been murdered, but daughter Kelly has survived in a special hideout. Prying information from the shocked child, Stone links the killers to either the CIA, the DEA or his own organizationAwhich means that he and Kelly are on the run from everybody. As Nick trundles the spunky youngster from one seedy motel to another, stuffs her with junk food and teaches her the rudiments of espionage, he puts together a picture of why Kevin and his family were killedAa connection between a terrorist bomb scare in Gibraltar in 1988, the Colombian drug cartel and high-level intelligence agency skullduggery. The vast network of sinister collaborations isn''t startling, but McNab reliably delivers the believable, real-life details and keeps readers'' attention with steady, careful prose until the predictable but satisfying end.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/393'),
(7288, 'Report From Engine Co. 82', 'Dennis Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1972, Emergency, a show about the Los Angeles Fire Department, debuted on network TV. That same year, Smith, a New York City fireman, published this book about life in what was the busiest fire station in the country. It is the diary of a fireman in a station with over 700 calls per month. From the life and death heroics of firefighting to the frustration of false alarms and garbage fires, Smith ably shares his life at Engine Co. 82. Written during a period of civil unrest, the work captures the spirit of that time and shows how the social problems of the era affected the lives of the firemen whose duty was to protect all the citizens in their district. The author paints a portrait of the fire house: the drills, the off-color jokes, the male-bonding that occurs when men know their lives will often be in the hands of their buddies. Adam Henderson does a great job with the various New York City accents. Highly recommended for all public libraries.-Theresa Connors, Arkansas Tech Univ., Russellville (_Library Journal_ )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising yet rewarding profession.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1968'),
(7289, 'The Rescue', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Taylor McAden is a volunteer fireman who is always the first to plunge into danger. But there is one risk he can''t bring himself to take: falling in love. Then he meets Denise Holden, a single mother who has moved to the small town of Edenton, North Carolina, to build a new life. A near fatal car crash will bring these two together, but before that can happen, Taylor must look into his past and see if it''s not too late to take a chance on the future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3740'),
(7290, 'Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life&#39;s Adversities', 'Elizabeth Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The bestselling author of *Saving Graces* shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity.**Sheâ€™s one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family. Thriving career. Supportive friendship. Loving marriage. But sheâ€™s no stranger to adversity. Many know of the strength she had shown after her son, Wade, was killed in a freak car accident when he was only sixteen years old. She would exhibit this remarkable grace and courage again when the very private matter of her husband''s infidelity became public fodder. And her own life has been on the line. Days before the 2004 presidential electionâ€”when her husband John was running for vice presidentâ€”she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After rounds of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation the cancer went awayâ€”only to reoccur in 2007. While on the campaign trail, Elizabeth met many others who have had to contend with serious adversity in their lives, and in *Resilience*, she draws on their experiences as well as her own, crafting an unsentimental and ultimately inspirational meditation on the gifts we can find among lifeâ€™s biggest challenges. This short, powerful, pocket-sized inspirational book makes an ideal gift for anyone dealing with difficulties in their life, who can find peace in knowing they are not alone, and promise that things can get better.***From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1969'),
(7291, 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Warning! This second volume in the "Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy" series is definitely not a standalone book. Enjoying, or even understanding, the continuing adventures of Earthling Arthur Dent, his strange pal Ford Prefect, and the very, very odd Zaphod Beeblebrox requires previous study and preparation. Confusion and possible insanity awaits the poor soul who tries to figure out the second title without having read the first. Arthur and Ford, having survived the destruction of Earth by surreptitiously hitching a ride on a Vogon constructor ship, have been kicked off that ship by its commander. Now they find themselves aboard a stolen Improbability Drive ship commanded by Beeblebrox, ex-president of the Imperial Galactic Government and full-time thief. Narrated by Adams, this production is a treat for fans of the late author and others who enjoy British comedy. Be sure to buy all five parts of the "Hitchhiker" series or your patrons will storm your office. One caveat: this audiobook will need to be repackaged for library circulation.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Barbara Rhodes, Northeast Texas Lib. Syst., Garland\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œDouglas Adams is a terrific satirist.â€â€”*Washington Post Book World\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWhatâ€™s such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adamsâ€™s sardonically silly eyes.â€â€”\n </em>\n Detroit Free Press\n <br />\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1066'),
(7292, 'Restless Giant', 'James T. Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <b>\n   <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n    James T.Patterson\n    <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">\n     Â \n    </span>\n   </span>\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <b>\n   <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n    <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">\n    </span>\n    Restless Giant:Â \n   </span>\n  </b>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <b>\n   <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n    The\n    <place w:st="on">\n     <country-region w:st="on">\n      United States\n     </country-region>\n    </place>\n    from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore\n   </span>\n  </b>\n </p>\n <b>\n </b>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n   <br />\n   James Patterson''s Bancroft Prize-winning Grand Expectations, the penultimatevolume in the Oxford History of the United States, was hailed by The New YorkTimes as "a spirited, sprawling narrative of American life" and byThe Wall Street Journal as "a tour de force." Now, in the finalchronological volume of this acclaimed series, Patterson again offers anauthoritative and vibrant history of a turbulent period in American life.\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n   RestlessGiant provides a crisp, concise assessment of the twenty-seven years betweenthe resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush, in asweeping narrative that seamlessly weaves together social, cultural, political,economic, and international developments. We meet the era''s many memorablefigures--most notably, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton--and explore the"culture wars" where liberals and conservatives, including aresurgent Religious Right, appeared to cut the country in two.\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n   Indeed,Reagan helped to usher in a widespread conservative revolution, but even as theRight was ascendant politically, it did not succeed in reversing more liberaltrends. Patterson describes how, when the Cold War finally ended, Americansfaced bewildering new developments around the world and discovered--in Panama,Somalia, Bosnia, and Iraq--that it was far from easy to direct the outcome ofglobal events. In exploring a wide range of cultural, social, and economicconcerns, Patterson shows how the persistence of racial tensions, high divorcerates, alarm over crime, and urban decay all led many writers to portray thisera as one of decline. But Restless Giant offers a more positive perspective,arguing that our often unmet expectations caused many of us to view the eranegatively, when in fact we were in many ways better off than we thought.\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p class="MsoNormal">\n  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">\n   By 2000,most Americans lived more comfortably than they had in the 1970s, and thoughbigotry and discrimination were far from extinct, a powerful rightsconsciousness insured that these were less pervasive in American life than atany time in the past. With insightful analyses and engaging prose, RestlessGiant captures this period of American history in a way that no other book has,illuminating the road that the\n   <country-region w:st="on">\n    <place w:st="on">\n     United  States\n    </place>\n   </country-region>\n   travelled from the dismal days of themid-1970s through the hotly contested election of 2000.\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2917'),
(7293, 'Resurrecting Midnight', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n International assassin Gideon spilled blood for the first time when he was seven years old, with a single shot to the head of a man who was attempting to kill the woman Gideon had known as his mother. The victim was none other than his own father, a man of unspeakable evil. This pivotal event shaped Gideon throughout his life, made him who he is, one of the fiercest, most feared hired guns in the world. And one of the most hunted.  After nearly losing his life in Antigua during a mission that went terribly wrong, Gideon trusts no one. But when a former lover and grifter, Arizona, resurfaces in need of his skills, she reminds him he was indebted to a man who had once saved his life: the son of the legendary con-man Scamz. Gideon is forced to take on an assignment which will lead him to Argentina in pursuit of a briefcase containing one part of a larger puzzle. The "package" contains material that another group of assassins the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will kill to obtain and protect. One of the leaders of the Four Horsemen has a connection to Gideon that neither man is aware of -- a connection that will be exposed when they meet face-to-face and gun-to-gun. Each member of The Four Horsemen is a world-class killer, each with a dark and dangerous past, and nothing will stop that team of renegades from completing their mission.  As Gideon struggles to keep promises and uncover information about his past, he finds himself at the center of the ultimate double-cross and he is forced to do what he must to protect himself and those closest to him. Set amidst the exotic and vibrant streets of Miami and Buenos Aires, Resurrecting Midnight is an action-filled, pulse- pounding thriller from bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3268'),
(7294, 'Resurrecting Pompeii', 'Estelle Lazer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time.Pompeii has been continuously excavated and studied since 1748. Early scholars working in Pompeii and other sites associated with the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius were seduced by the wealth of artefacts and wall paintings yielded by the site. This meant that the less visually attractive evidence, such as human skeletal remains, were largely ignored.Recognizing the important contribution of the human skeletal evidence to the archaeology of Pompeii, Resurrecting Pompeii remedies that misdemeanour, and provides students of archaeology and history with an essential resource in the study of this fascinating historical event.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2369'),
(7295, 'Resurrection Men', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Inspector John Rebus has done it again. A few days into a murder inquiry following the brutal death of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at his superior, DCS Gill Templer, and is sent into exile: the remote Scottish Police College, where Rebus must undergo "retraining." And he is not alone. At the college, he joins a group of cops equally troubled by authority - the so-called Resurrection Men, granted one last chance to redeem themselves and save their careers. To learn the merits of teamwork, they''re supposed to investigate a long-unsolved case.But there are those on the team who have their own secrets - secrets connected to the very case they''ve been given - and they''ll stop at nothing to protect them. As if that''s not enough, the Scottish Crime Squad has a favor to ask of Rebus. They think they''ve found someone who can help them nail a notorious gangster who has controlled the Edinburgh criminal underground for years. All they need is someone to act as go-between - and they''ve decided on Rebus, whether he likes it or not.Back in Edinburgh, with only a bumbling rookie at her side instead of her longtime mentor Rebus, newly promoted Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke works the case of the murdered art dealer, a case that takes a surprising turn toward the very gangster Rebus is pursuing. Soon Siobhan and Rebus find themselves in the thick of a scandal with conspirators in every corner of Scotland, men who have no problem spilling blood to get what they want.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/394'),
(7296, 'Retribution', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon comes the next thrilling installment in her blockbuster Dark-HunterÂ® series Harm no humanâ€¦ A hired gunslinger, William Jessup Brady lived his life with one foot in the grave. He believed that every life had a price. Until the day when he finally found a reason to live. In one single act of brutal betrayal, he lost everything, including his life. Brought back by a Greek goddess to be one of her Dark-Hunters, he gave his immortal soul for vengeance and swore heâ€™d spend eternity protecting the humans heâ€™d once considered prey. Â Orphaned as a toddler, Abigail Yager was taken in by a family of vampires and raised on one beliefâ€”Dark-Hunters are the evil who prey on both their people and mankind, and they must all be destroyed. While protecting her adoptive race, she has spent her life eliminating the Dark-Hunters and training for the day when she meeting the man who killed her family: Jess Brady. A gun in the hand is worth two in the holsterâ€¦ Jess has been charged with finding and terminating the creature whoâ€™s assassinating Dark-Hunters. The last thing he expects to find is a human face behind the killings, but when that face bears a striking resemblance to the one who murdered him centuries ago, he knows something evil is going on. He also knows heâ€™s not the one who killed her parents. But Abigail refuses to believe the truth and is determined to see him dead once and for all. Brought together by an angry god and chased by ancient enemies out to kill them both, they must find a way to overcome their mutual hatred or watch as one of the darkest of powers rises and kills both the races theyâ€™ve sworn to protect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3535'),
(7297, 'Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45', 'Max Hastings', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Hastings is a military historian in the grand tradition . . . He is equally adept at analyzing the broad sweep of strategy and creating thrilling set pieces that put the reader in the cockpit of a fighter plane or the conning tower of a submarine."\n <br />\n --Evan Thomas, _The New York Times Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Compelling . . . To the broad sweep of military events Mr. Hastings adds myriad human stories . . . and he does not hesitate to offer his own keen analysis along the way."\n <br />\n --Peter R. Kann,\n <em>\n  The Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The great merit of Max Hastings''s many books on war is his skill at bringing the numbers, as it were, down to earth. Through the imaginative power of his writing, we get an inkling . . . of what it must have been like to slog one''s way up a cliff at Iwo Jima, or be firebombed in Tokyo."\n <br />\n --Ian Buruma, _New York Review of Books\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Hastings has another winner . . . This book is first-rate popular history, stiffened with a strongly stated point of view . . . A close-up and personal look at war as it affected real people, and how it felt to them at the time."--Harry Levins,\n <em>\n  St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Explosive, argumentative, intensely researched . . . Demands to be read. A book of stunning disclosures."--Tom Mackin,\n <em>\n  Sunday Star-Ledger\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] masterful interpretive narrative . . . Hastings is both comprehensive and finely acute."\n <br />\n --_Booklist_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Spectacular . . . Searingly powerful. Hastings makes important points about the war in the East that have been all too rarely heard."\n <br />\n --Andrew Roberts,\n <em>\n  The Sunday Telegraph\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A triumph . . . The key to the book''s success lies not in its accessibility, nor in its vivid portraits of the key figures in the drama--although it has both--but in something else entirely: the author''s supremely confident ambition."\n <br />\n --Laurence Rees, _The Sunday Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Extraordinary . . . Anyone who believes that we''re all living through a uniquely troubled time should read this . . . book."\n <br />\n --Georgie Rose, _The Sunday Herald\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "This is a book not only for military history buffs but for anyone who wants to understand what happened in half the world during one of the bloodiest periods of the blood-soaked 20th century."\n <br />\n --_The Spectator\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Highly readable . . . An admirably balanced re-examination of the last phases of a conflict that it is not fashionable to remember."\n <br />\n --Dan van der Vat, _The Guardian\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Engrossing . . . Its originality lies in the meticulousness of the author''s research and the amazing witnesses he has found."\n <br />\n --Murray Sayle, _The Evening Standard\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Hastings is . . . a master of the sort of detail that illuminates the human cost. It is the way he leaps so adeptly to and fro between the vast panorama and the tiny snapshot pictures that makes him such a readable historian."--_Mail on Sunday\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hailed in Britain as â€œSpectacular . . . Searingly powerfulâ€ (Andrew Roberts,\n <em>\n  The Sunday Telegraph\n </em>\n ), a riveting, impeccably informed chronicle of the final year of the Pacific war. In his critically acclaimed\n <em>\n  Armageddon\n </em>\n , Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle for Germany. Here, in what can be considered a companion volume, he covers the horrific story of the war against Japan.\n</p>\n<p>\n By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japanâ€™s defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained to be seen. The ensuing dramaâ€”that ended in Japanâ€™s utter devastationâ€”was acted out across the vast stage of Asia, with massive clashes of naval and air forces, fighting through jungles, and barbarities by an apparently incomprehensible foe. In recounting the saga of this time and place, Max Hastings gives us incisive portraits of the theaterâ€™s key figuresâ€”MacArthur, Nimitz, Mountbatten, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. But he is equally adept in his portrayals of the ordinary soldiers and sailorsâ€”American, British, Russian, Chinese, and Japaneseâ€”caught in some of the warâ€™s bloodiest campaigns.\n</p>\n<p>\n With unprecedented insight, Hastings discusses Japanâ€™s war against China, now all but forgotten in the West, MacArthurâ€™s follies in the Philippines, the Marines at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and the Soviet blitzkrieg in Manchuria. He analyzes the decision-making process that led to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasakiâ€”which, he convincingly argues, ultimately saved lives. Finally, he delves into the Japanese wartime mind-set, which caused an otherwise civilized society to carry out atrocities that haunt the nation to this day.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Retribution\n </em>\n is a brilliant telling of an epic conflict from a master military historian at the height of his powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2370'),
(7298, 'The Return of the King', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIG OF OUR TIMEWhile the evil might of the Dark Lord Sauron swarmed out to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggled deep into Mordor, seat of Sauron''s power. To defeat the Dark Lord, the accursed Ring of Power had to be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. But the way was impossibly hard, and Frodo was weakening. Weighed down by the compulsion of the Ring, he began finally to despair.THE AWESOME CONCLUSION OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN''S THE LORD OF THE RINGS, BELOVED BY MILLIONS OF READERS AROUND THE WORLD.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1090'),
(7299, 'Return to Sullivans Island', 'Dorothea Benton Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Beloved New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank returns to the enchanted landscape of South Carolina''s Lowcountry to tell the story of the next generation of Hamiltons and Hayeses.   Newly graduated from college, Beth Hayes must put all her grand ambitions on hold when the family elders elect her to house-sit the Island Gamble, ghosts and all. Instead of conquering new worlds, Beth will rest and rejuvenate while basking in memory and the magic of white clapboards and shimmering blue waters. But there is much about life and her family''s past that she does not yet understandâ€”and her simple plans begin unraveling with the intrusion of developer Max Mitchell. Still, everything here happens for a reasonâ€”and disappointment, betrayal, even tragedy are more easily handled when surrounded by loving family and loyal friends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3418'),
(7300, 'The Reversal', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch.\n <br />\n Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years.\n <br />\n With the odds and the evidence against them, Bosch and Haller must nail a sadistic killer once and for all. If Bosch is sure of anything, it is that Jason Jessup plans to kill again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/648'),
(7301, 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!', 'Robert T. Kiyosaki', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his "poor dad" (whose weekly paychecks, while respectable, were never quite sufficient to meet family needs) pounded home the counterpoint communicated by his "rich dad" (that "the poor and the middle class work for money," but "the rich have money work for them"). Taking that message to heart, Kiyosaki was able to retire at 47. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, written with consultant and CPA Sharon L. Lechter, lays out his the philosophy behind his relationship with money. Although Kiyosaki can take a frustratingly long time to make his points, his book nonetheless compellingly advocates for the type of "financial literacy" that''s never taught in schools. Based on the principle that income-generating assets always provide healthier bottom-line results than even the best of traditional jobs, it explains how those assets might be acquired so that the jobs can eventually be shed. --Howard Rothman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1076'),
(7302, 'Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers', 'Alan Grafen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With the publication of the international bestseller The Selfish Gene some thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of understanding evolution--a gene''s eye view. Dawkins went on to publish five more bestselling books, including The Blind Watchmaker and Unweaving the Rainbow. He is one of the most high profile public intellectuals today and any attempt to understand the scientific view of the world must grapple with his ideas. Now, in this exciting collection of original essays, some of the world''s leading thinkers offer their take on how Dawkins has changed the way we think. Readers will find stimulating pieces by Daniel Dennett, the renowned philosopher of mind and author of Darwin''s Dangerous Idea; Steven Pinker, the brilliant Harvard linguist who wrote The Language Instinct and The Blank Slate; Matt Ridley, author of the bestselling Genome; and James Watson, who with Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, arguably the greatest scientific discovery of the last century. Dawkins'' widely admired literary style forms the subject of several pieces, including one from novelist Philip Pullman (author of the bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy). As one of the world''s best known rationalists, Dawkins'' stance on religion is another theme in this collection, explored by Simon Blackburn, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, and the Bishop of Oxford. Numbering twenty in all, these articles are not simply rosy tributes, but explore how Dawkins'' ideas have shaped thinking and public debate, and include elements of criticism as well as thoughtful praise.  Richard Dawkins'' work has had the rare distinction of generating as much excitement outside the scientific community as within it. This stimulating volume is a superb summation of the depth and range of his influence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1970'),
(7303, 'Riding the Bullet', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n E-publishing takes a giant step with the release of this grandly entertaining ghost story. Not only is it the first original e-publication by a megaselling author, but it may be the most accomplished work ever to appear only in cyberspace--and it''s available through an unprecedented number of vendors and platforms. The story is vintage King. Narrator Alan Parker, 21, learns that his beloved mother has had a stroke and hitchhikes through rural Maine to see her. On the way he''s picked up first by a horrid old man, then by someone far more awful: a dead young man who offers him a terrible choice. The simple, potent prose skims along spurred by high suspense. The atmospherics roil like a classic nightmare: a moonlit graveyard, howling wind, rising mist; but King spins them with a wicked modern touch--the dead man drives a Mustang, and as the corpse pulls on a cigarette, Alan sees "little trickles of smoke escape from the stitched incision on his neck." When Alan makes his choice, the story deepens as King taps horror fiction''s particular ability to illuminate the terror of the human condition. Anyone concerned about King''s writing abilities after his near-fatal accident can relax. This genuinely chilling, haunting tale finds his talent--and the state of e-publishing--in the pink.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/876'),
(7304, 'Riding the Rap', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Now that his mom''s gravy train has derailed, gambling, debt-ridden Palm Beach playboy Warren "Chip" Ganz has decided to take somebody rich hostageâ€”with the help of a Bahamian ex-con, a psycho gardener/enforcer, and the beautiful, if underfed, psychic Reverend Dawn. The trouble is they choose bookmaker Harry Arno as their victim, and Harry can scam with the best. The BIG trouble is ace manhunter U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is sleeping with Harry''s ex-exotic dancer ex-girlfriend, and Joyce wants Harry found. And since nearly everyone has guns, locating and springing the captive bookie most probably can''t happen without some measure of lethal difficulty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3137'),
(7305, 'Rifles', 'Mark Urban', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''If you like Sharpe, then this book is a must, your Christmas present solved.'' Bernard Cornwell, Daily Mail ''A brilliant warts-and-all depiction of Wellington''s famous riflemen.'' Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington''s army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting, thieving and raping their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets, to take cover when being shot at, to move tactically by fire and manoeuvre. And by the end of the six-year campaign they have not only proved themselves the toughest fighters in the army, they have also - at huge personal cost - created the modern notion of the infantryman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2374'),
(7306, 'Rip Tide', 'Stella Rimington', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Whenpirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found tobe a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London''s ThamesHouse. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how andwhy a young British Muslim could go missing from his well-to-do family inBirmingham and end up onboard a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean, armed with aKalashnikov.After an undercover operativeconnected to the case turns up dead in the shipping office of an NGO in Athens itlooks like piracy may be the least of the Service''s problems. Liz and herteam must unravel the connections between Pakistan, Greece and Somalia,relying on their wits - and the judicious use of force - to get to the truth.And they don''t have long, as trouble is brewing closer to home: the kind ofexplosive trouble that MI5 could do without ...StellaRimington, former Director General of MI5, returns with a tense andheart-stopping spy thriller where the secrets are deep, the stakes are...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/729'),
(7307, 'Ripper', 'David L. Golemon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The real Jack the Ripper is loose, and this time heâ€™s brought friends to the darkness of the deep desert in the newest adrenaline rush from David Golemon,Â The New York Times bestselling author of Legacy.Â In the tradition of works by James Rollins, Preston and Child and Matthew Reilly, Ripper is the latest in an action-packed series about the nationâ€™s most secret agencyâ€”The Event Group. In 1887, the British Empire contracted brilliant American professor Lawrence Ambrose to create a mutant gene to turn an ordinary person into an aggressive fighting machine. But all too quickly, Ambrose was found to be behind a streak of vicious murders, and Â in a cover-up of massive proportions, Queen Victoria ordered the project, and Ambrose, terminated. Thus the legend of Jack the Ripper was born. Â The killings stopped as suddenly as they had begunâ€”but not because Ambrose was caught. Instead, he escaped and returned home to America where he and his formula faded into history. But in 2012, a raid against a Mexican drug lord uncovers a small cache of antiquated notebooks containing long-buried instructions to create blind killers out of normal men. Enter the Event Group and Col. Jack Collins, who are desperate to stop one of their most feared enemies. When the formula is loosed in the underground halls and vaults of the Event Group complex itself, brother will battle brother, and for the first time in many menâ€™s brave lives they will understand the true meaning of fear. Â The next heart-stopping chapter in the New York Times bestselling Event Group series, Ripper takes readers to new levels of suspense, where death could be hiding around any corner on this non-stop thrill ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3834'),
(7308, 'The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt', 'Toby A. H. Wilkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Cambridge University Egyptologist Wilkinson (Lives of the Ancient Egyptians) offers a revisionist view of the ugly life hidden by the splendors and dazzling treasures of pharaonic Egypt. He shows in rich detail that it was a brutal society where life was cheap, royal power absolute and established through fear and coercion. Wilkinson finds unequivocal evidence in royal tombs like that of First Dynasty king Djer (c. 2900 B.C.E.), surrounded by 318 buried retainers, probably victims of human sacrifice. Even if construction workers for Khufu''s Great Pyramid at Giza ("the ultimate projection of absolute power") were reasonably fed and housed, they were virtual, if not literal, slaves, drafted to perform the perilous work. Later the fanatical, heretic king Akhenaten built a new model city with grand temples where mountains of food were offered to a sun god while his people were starving and severely overworked. The Ptolemies'' punitive economic policies unleashed a peasants'' revolt that fatally weakened their empire. This is a penetrating and authoritative overview of a violent ancient civilization often revered by contemporary scholars and enthusiasts. 24 pages of color photos; 44 b&amp;w photos; 12 maps. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Egyptologists constitute a relatively small subspecialty among professional historians. Perhaps that is why many express an almost fanatical devotion to and admiration for the culture of ancient Egypt. Wilkinson, an award-winning Egyptologist who teaches at Oxford, provides a fine single-volume history of ancient Egypt that covers more than 3,000 years, from prehistory to the Roman conquest. He uses a conventional chronological approach that inevitably uses archaeological sources to provide examples. Like his colleagues, Wilkinson expresses admiration for the continuity, stability, and relative harmony of pharaonic Egypt. Yet he is strikingly at odds with other Egyptologists in his efforts to present the darker side of Egyptian life. Egyptian rulers created and maintained the first true nation-state. As Wilkinson shows, however, the price of this stability was regimes based on fear, coercion, and, when deemed necessary, violent military suppression. This superbly written survey is ideal for general readers and likely to engender controversy among specialists. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2315'),
(7309, 'The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000', 'Paul M. Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2316'),
(7310, 'The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Review\n  </h3>\n </div>\n <p>\n  Praise for the rise of\n  <strong>\n   Theodore Roosevelt\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?Magnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character. . . . It is one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. There should be a queue awaiting the next volume.?\n  <br />\n  -W. A. Swanberg,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?Theodore Roosevelt, in this meticulously researched and beautifully written biography, has a claim on being the most interesting man ever to be President of this country.?\n  <br />\n  -Robert Kirsch,\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?Spectacles glittering, teeth and temper flashing, high-pitched voice rasping and crackling, Roosevelt surges out of these pages with the force of a physical presence.?\n  <br />\n  -_The Atlantic Monthly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?Morris?s book is beautifully written as well as thoroughly scholarly-clearly a masterpiece of American biography. . . . Hundreds of thousands will soon be reading this book . . . and will look forward, as I do, to Morris?s second volume.?\n  <br />\n  -Kenneth S. Davis,\n  <em>\n   Worcester Sunday Telegram\n  </em>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Described by the\n  <em>\n   Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n  as "a classic,"\n  <strong>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </strong>\n  stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of\n  <strong>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </strong>\n  on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt becoming president.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2320'),
(7311, 'Rising Sun', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A young American model is murdered in the corporate boardroom of Los Angeles''s Nakomoto Tower on the new skyscraper''s gala opening night. Murdered, that is, unless she was strangled while enjoying sadomasochistic sex that went too far. Nakomoto, a Japanese electronics giant, tries to hush up the embarrassing incident, setting in motion a murder investigation that serves Crichton ( Jurassic Park ) as the platform for a clever, tough-talking harangue on the dangers of Japanese economic competition and influence-peddling in the U.S. Divorced LAPD lieutenant Peter Smith, who has custody of his two-year-old daughter, and hard-boiled detective John Connor, who says things like "For a Japanese, consistent behavior is not possible," pursue the killer in a winding plot involving Japan''s attempt to gain control of the U.S. computer industry. Although Crichton''s didactic aims are often at cross-purposes with his storytelling, his entertaining, well-researched thriller cannot be easily dismissed as Japan-bashing because it raises important questions about that country''s adversarial trade strategy and our inadequate response to it. He also provides a fascinating perspective on how he thinks the Japanese view Americans--as illiterate, childish, lazy people obsessed with TV, violence and aggressive litigation. 225,000 first printing; BOMC main selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- The celebrity-studded opening of a huge Japanese office building is marred by the murder of a beautiful American woman. Lt. Peter Smith is called in to investigate and is requested to bring along John Connor, an expert on Japanese culture and fluent in the language. So begins a riveting tale that combines suspense, technology, and a full-scale economic battle for survival. YAs will have no problem following the complex corporate business schemes described by Crichton, whose loyalties are obviously with America. Readers who fear that the Japanese are taking over the U. S. economy will not be reassured.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Katherine Fitch, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Burke, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/335'),
(7312, 'Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America', 'John M. Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Mother Nature rages, the physical results are never subtle. Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by tabulating the damage in dollar amounts, estimating the number of people left homeless, and laying the plans for rebuilding. But as John M. Barry expertly details in\n <em>\n  Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America,\n </em>\n some calamities transform much more than the landscape.\n</p>\n<p>\n While tracing the history of the nation''s most destructive natural disaster, Barry explains how ineptitude and greed helped cause the flood, and how the policies created to deal with the disaster changed the culture of the Mississippi Delta. Existing racial rifts expanded, helping to launch Herbert Hoover into the White House and shifting the political alliances of many blacks in the process. An absorbing account of a little-known, yet monumental event in American history,\n <em>\n  Rising Tide\n </em>\n reveals how human behavior proved more destructive than the swollen river itself.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the spring of 1927, America witnessed perhaps its greatest natural disaster: a flood that profoundly changed race relations, government, and society in the Mississippi River valley region. Barry (The Transformed Cell, LJ 9/1/92) presents here a fascinating social history of the effects of the massive flood. More than 30 feet of water stood over land inhabited by nearly one million people. Almost 300,000 African Americans were forced to live in refugee camps for months. Many people, both black and white, left the land and never returned. Using an impressive array of primary and secondary sources, Barry clearly traces and analyzes how the changes produced by the flood in the lower South came into conflict and ultimately destroyed the old planter aristocracy, accelerated black migration to the North, and foreshadowed federal government intervention in the region''s social and economic life during the New Deal. His well-written work supplants Pete Daniel''s Deep''n as It Come: The 1927 Mississippi Flood (1977) as the standard work on the subject. Recommended for public and academic libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Charles C. Hay III, Eastern Kentucky Univ. Libs., Richmond\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2375');
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(7313, 'Rival Rails: The Race to Build America&#39;s Greatest Transcontinental Railroad', 'Walter R. Borneman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Railroads might seem outmoded today, but they were originally dynamic, cutthroat enterprises, according to this byzantine business history of track laying in the American West. Independent historian Borneman (Polk) chronicles the postâ€“Civil War scramble to build a web of transcontinental railroads, lavish land grants, and government subsidies. Dozens of railroads and their executives are featured, but the melee eventually gels into a showdown between the Southern Pacific, intent on monopolizing the routes into California, and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, determined to reach the Pacific by a prized snow-free southerly route. The regionÃ–s rugged topography forces railroads to compete for a handful of one-track-wide mountain passes and river crossings; rivals throw down miles of track per day to reach strategic junctions and occasionally send armed gangs to seize choke points. BornemanÃ–s evocations of railroad culture--the construction feats, boom-and-bust railhead towns, train robbers, and luxury cars--add color but are skimpy. He centers the story instead on boardroom maneuverings, and while railroad tycoons are a colorful lot, their deal-making begins to blur. As empire-building bequeaths corporate consolidation, BornemanÃ–s narrative runs out of steam before reaching the terminal. 16 pages of photos, 30 maps.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before the Civil War, the most logical route for the planned transcontinental railroad was across the southern plains and the deserts of the southwest. Instead, for reasons more political than economic, the more northerly route was selected, and the two strands were joined at Promontory Point, Utah, in 1868. Almost immediately, the competition began for the rights to build a web of lines across the southern route. Borneman, a historian and attorney, has written an interesting, if uneven, chronicle of the political as well as physical struggles to complete these tasks. He profiles numerous competing companies and their sponsors, and he describes their often cutthroat tactics and greed. Eventually, two large companies, the Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, squeezed out or absorbed other competitors. When he sticks to the actual process of construction, Bornemanâ€™s narrative is brisk, colorful, and exciting. It drags and confuses when it deals with the machinations in corporate board rooms. Still, this is a worthy look at a less-publicized aspect of railroad construction. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2376'),
(7314, 'A River in the Sky', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 1910. Having brought Egypt firmly under her thumb, Amelia Peabody turns her attention to a harder challenge: Palestine, a province of the crumbling, corrupt Ottoman Empire and the Holy Land of three religions. Hearing that Morley, an English adventurer, has raised money to mount an expedition to search for the vanished treasures of the Temple in Jerusalem, Emerson and Amelia are persuaded to go after him in order to prevent a catastrophically inept excavation and the possibility of armed protest by the infuriated members of all three religions who view the Dome of the Rock as sacred. The War Office is concerned about increasing German influence in Palestine and insists that Morley is secretly working for German intelligence. Emerson doesnt believe it, but could he be mistaken?In the meantime, their son Ramses has been working on a dig at Samaria, north of Jerusalem, where he encounters an unusual party of travellers. One is a female German archaeologist, and the other a mysterious man of unknown nationality and unknown past. Ramsess insatiable curiosity leads him to a startling discovery about the pair. He must now pass the information on to his parents in Jerusalem but only if he can get there alivePraise for the Amelia Peabody series:I cant wait for the next Peabody story I really do think [Elizabeth Peters] books are great entertainment. Angela RipponA writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key. Washington Post Book WorldThe most potent female force to hit Egypt since Cleopatra. Philadelphia EnquirerThink Miss Marple with early feminist gloss crossed with Indiana Jones accomplished entertainment Guardian\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3599'),
(7315, 'River Marked', 'Patricia Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Car mechanic Mercy Thompson has always known there was something different about her, and not just the way she can make a VW engine sit up and beg. Mercy is a shapeshifter, a talent she inherited from her long-gone father. She''s never known any others of her kind. Until now.  An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River-one that her father''s people may know something about. And to have any hope of surviving, Mercy and her mate, the Alpha werewolf Adam, will need their help...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3642'),
(7316, 'River of Gods', 'Ian Mcdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n August 15th, 2047. Happy Hundredth Birthday, India...On the eve of Mother India''s hundredth birthday, ten people are doing ten very different things. In the next few weeks, all these people will be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. From gangsters to government advisors, from superstitious street-boys to scientists to computer-generated soap stars, River of Gods shows a civilization in flux - a river of gods.RIVER OF GODS is an epic SF novel as sprawling, vibrant and colourful as the sub-continent it describes. This is an SF novel that blew apart the narrow anglo and US-centric concerns of the genre and ushered in a new global consciousness for the genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2707'),
(7317, 'Rivethead: Tales From the Assembly Line', 'Ben Hamper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a voice often as powerful as the riveting gun he wielded in the 1970s and ''80s in a Flint, Mich., General Motors assembly plant, Hamper nails down the excruciating boredom of a shoprat''s life on the line. These roughly chronological essays, many published in the local press, bare the rage and humor that, with booze and drugs, friendships and enmities, served to speed along the timeclock''s "suffocating minute hand." A fourth-generation factory worker, raised on hard music, hard liquor and soft drugs, given a parochial school education, Hamper was the eldest of eight children deserted by their father, supported by their mother. He was determined not to be an auto worker but soon after high school, married and a father, he needed the steady work GM offered. With free-ranging intelligence and a sharply anarchic sensibility, he tries to figure out and establish some control over his place in GM''s massive corporate system. While these essays might best satisfy in small doses, Hamper, no longer a GM employee, writes with unrelenting energy. BOMC and QPB selections; film rights to Warner Bros.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hamper, a son, a grandson, and a great-grandson of General Motors'' "shoprats," chronicles ten years spent in an abusive marriage with GM in Flint, Michigan. Despite exploitative management policies, arrogant and/or incompetent supervisors, and mind-numbing working conditions, Hamper, like the abused spouse who keeps returning to the abuser, becomes de pressed during layoffs and revives when recalled to the assembly line. Hamper copes with his perceived limited options by consuming impressive quantities of alcohol and writing an irreverent, cynically humorous column about shoprat life for an alternative newspaper. How much of Hamper''s alienation and later panic disorder are the result of his ten years at GM and how much are due to genetics and choices is unexplored. Another weakness is Hamper''s graceless style and his overuse of four-letter words. Despite these shortcomings, blue-collar voices are rarely heard, and therefore this is recommended for public libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Andrea C. Dragon, Coll. of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, N.J.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1971'),
(7318, 'Road Dogs', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gentleman/banker-robber Jack Foley is back in prison doing a thirty-year sentence after a week-long escape. Brought in by Karen Sisco, US marshall, who got her man after being abducted with the escapees, Jack and Karen have a thing for each other, and Karen arrests him only after a meaningful ''time''out'' together. Jack is resigning himself to doing time, lots of it, and he seems to have a friendly and easy control over the hardened criminals he is imprisoned with. This easiness is enhanced in the minds of others by his fame as a bank robber. It is this ease which impresses Cuando Rey, a Cuban refugee and criminal who is doing time for murder. Cuando arranges to have Foley''s sentence hugely reduced, but has favors aplenty to ask when they''re both released. Cuando''s wife, Dawn, is pretending to be saintly all the while (whilst quite the opposite) under the negligent eye of The Monk, a gay accountant similarly in thrall to Cuando. Foley is freed, and, as he fears, Cuando wants to use him on a job, just as his every move is being scrutinised by FBI detective Lou Adams. In an instant, though, Dawn has seduced him, and she has an agenda all of her own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3097'),
(7319, 'The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854', 'William W. Freehling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling''s words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller''s dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, where the egalitarian spirit sweeping the North seeped down through border states already uncertain about slavery, where even sections of the same state (for instance, coastal and mountain Virginia) divided bitterly on key issues. It was the world of Jefferson Davis, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, and Thomas Jefferson, and also of Gullah Jack, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass.\n <br />\n Now, in the first volume of his long awaited, monumental study of the South''s road to disunion, historian William Freehling offers a sweeping political and social history of the antebellum South from 1776 to 1854. All the dramatic events leading to secession are here: the Missouri Compromise, the Nullification Controversy, the Gag Rule ("the Pearl Harbor of the slavery controversy"), the Annexation of Texas, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Freehling vividly recounts each crisis, illuminating complex issues and sketching colorful portraits of major figures. Along the way, he reveals the surprising extent to which slavery influenced national politics before 1850, and he provides important reinterpretations of American republicanism, Jeffersonian states'' rights, Jacksonian democracy, and the causes of the American Civil War.\n <br />\n But for all Freehling''s brilliant insight into American antebellum politics,\n <strong>\n  Secessionists at Bay\n </strong>\n is at bottom the saga of the rich social tapestry of the pre-war South. He takes us to old Charleston, Natchez, and Nashville, to the big house of a typical plantation, and we feel anew the tensions between the slaveowner and his family, the poor whites and the planters, the established South and the newer South, and especially between the slave and his master, "Cuffee" and "Massa." Freehling brings the Old South back to life in all its color, cruelty, and diversity. It is a memorable portrait, certain to be a key analysis of this crucial era in American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2321'),
(7320, 'The Road to Disunion: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861', 'William W. Freehling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Synopsis:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It is one of the great questions of American historyÂ—why did the Southern states bolt from the Union and help precipitate the Civil War? Now, acclaimed historian William W. Freehling offers a new answer, in the final volume of his monumental history\n <strong>\n  The Road to Disunion\n </strong>\n .\n <br />\n Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens of memorable portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston Brooks''s beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate chambers, the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown''s raid on Harper''s Ferry, and much more. As Freehling shows, the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked a political crisis, but at first most Southerners took a cautious approach, willing to wait and see what Lincoln would doÂ—especially, whether he would take any antagonistic measures against the South. But at this moment, the extreme fringe in the South took charge, first in South Carolina and Mississippi, but then throughout the lower South, sounding the drum roll for secession. Indeed,\n <strong>\n  The Road to Disunion\n </strong>\n is the first book to fully document how this decided minority of Southern hotspurs took hold of the secessionist issue and, aided by a series of fortuitous events, drove the South out of the Union. Freehling provides compelling profiles of the leaders of this movementÂ—many of them members of the South Carolina elite. Throughout the narrative, he evokes a world of fascinating characters and places as he captures the drama of one of America''s most importantÂ—and least understoodÂ—stories.\n <br />\n The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning\n <strong>\n  Secessionists at Bay\n </strong>\n , which was hailed as "the most important history of the Old South ever published," this volume concludes a major contribution to our understanding of the Civil War. A compelling, vivid portrait of the final years of the antebellum South,\n <strong>\n  The Road to Disunion\n </strong>\n will stand as an important history of its subject.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Washington Post - Jon Meecham:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The strength of Freehling''s new book, as well as of its predecessor,\n <em>\n  Prelude to Civil War\n </em>\n , lies in how meticulously he recovers the complexities and shades of (non-Confederate) gray that complicate this short account of what Shelby Foote called "the crossroads of our being." As Freehling notes, most Northerners were not fond of abolitionists and did not vote for Lincoln in 1860 as an emancipator, while most Southerners were not fond of fire-eaters and did not regard slavery as a "permanent blessing."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Biography:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  William W. Freehling\n </strong>\n is one of the most distinguished American historians of the Civil War era. He is Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky and Senior Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. He is the author of\n <strong>\n  Prelude to Civil War\n </strong>\n , which won a Bancroft Prize,\n <strong>\n  The Road to Disunion, Volume I: Secessionists at Bay\n </strong>\n , and\n <strong>\n  The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War\n </strong>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2322'),
(7321, 'The Road to Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This companion volume to Frank Herbert''s 1965 science fiction classic collects manuscript material, correspondence and cut chapters related to Dune as well as previously published Dune-related short stories coauthored by his son Brian and Kevin J. Anderson. Particularly interesting are texts related to Dune''s publication, including letters, reviews and press releases that acknowledge the dizzying scope of the ambitious novel. Its length meant that Herbert had a hard time placing it, and he ended up selling it to automotive-guide publisher Chilton, but its publication-and the awards it won-ushered in a new era for science fiction publishing. The sheer novelty of Dune stands in contrast to B. Herbert and Anderson''s Spice Planet, an alternate Dune novelette constructed from Herbert''s original notes and a by-the-numbers action-adventure of interest only in contrast to the book Herbert ultimately wrote. Three of B. Herbert and Anderson''s short stories bridge some of the events in their coauthored novel prequels; the fourth takes place during one of the battles in Dune and provides an interesting point-of-view switch. Although this miscellany of material fails to cohere, the glimpse it provides into Herbert''s thoughts and the difficulty of writing and publishing illuminate one of the most important SF novels ever published.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This collection of essays, stories, and selections from Herbert''s papers will certainly be high-priority reading for\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  fans. It includes two versions of\n  <em>\n   Spice Planet,\n  </em>\n  an unpublished novel containing many elements that later appeared in\n  <em>\n   Dune,\n  </em>\n  but that is a separate story. Of particular interest are the communications between Herbert, John Campbell, and others during and after the release of\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  and unpublished sequences from\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Dune Messiah.\n  </em>\n  The collection also includes four short stories laid in the Butlerian Jihad era.\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  was a social and publishing phenomenon; it moved sf into general publishing (and marketing) awareness and spurred a wide public awareness of ecological balance. This account of its genesis should interest fans and students of popular culture.\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1043'),
(7322, 'The Road to Woodstock', 'Michael Lang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For three days in August 1969, half a million music lovers happily braved torrential rains, endured lack of food and clean water, and grooved to the cosmic blues of the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin, danced all night to the funky soul of Sly and the Family Stone and witnessed the birth of a new band called Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Held at Max Yasgur''s dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y., the first Aquarian Exposition, or the Woodstock Music &amp; Art Fair, grew far beyond the expectations of its creators. In this lively memoir, Lang, one of the festival''s cocreators, retells the storyâ€”some of it already well-knownâ€”of the halting steps that he and his partners took to develop the greatest rock concert of all time. After a stint at NYU, Lang moved to Coconut Grove, where he opened a head shop and, with the help of some of his friends, organized Miami Pop in 1968, one of the first outdoor music festivals drawing major acts. Burned out on Miami, Lang headed to Woodstock, N.Y., to settle into the bohemian community of artists and craftsmen, and opened a recording studio. With a storyteller''s verve and energy, Lang regales us with the tales of struggles with smalltown political leaders who opposed the festival, the kindness of Max Yasgur and the gargantuan task of feeding and taking care of a community the size of a large city. With the gritty insights of the ultimate insider, Lang weaves interviews with performers and others into his memoir, providing a glimpse of the madness, frustration, happiness and sheer euphoria that turned Woodstock into a memorable music festival.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThere are plenty of juicy tidbits in â€œThe Road to Woodstock,â€ starting with the compelling opening of Lang sharing his backstage view of Hendrixâ€™s sizzling performance at the rain-soaked end of the festival.â€ (Richmond Times-Dispatch )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReading this inimitable account of how Woodstock really came to passmakes the Manhattan Project seem like whippinâ€™ up one of my momâ€™s custard pies....[This book] he and Holly George-Warrenwill knock you out and once again make you wish that you were there.â€ (Terry Stewart, President of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAt Woodstock I saw a collective adventure representing something that still holds true today. When the Berlin Wall came down, Woodstock was there. When Mandela was liberated, Woodstock was in there. When we celebrated the year 2000, Woodstock was in there. Woodstock is still every day.â€ (Carlos Santana )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œInvaluableâ€¦[Lang] wraps up his cinematic reminiscing by taking a seminal thread from Woodstockâ€™s historyâ€”Jimi Hendrixâ€™s breathtaking interpretation of The Star Spangled Bannerâ€”and linking its poignancy to what some have called the 21st century Woodstock moment: the day Barack Obama became the first black president.â€ (USA Today )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTotally rocking...what elevates this book above the level of most rock memoirs is the inclusion of voices other than Langâ€™sâ€”including scenesters and key Woodstock players like Jimi Hendrix, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Jerry Garciaâ€¦.Well-written, informative and tons of fun.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLang, one of Woodstockâ€™s organizers, provides details about how the production was put together and kept running. His account is interspersed with interviews with performers and others, including, perhaps most interestingly, Hugh Romney, aka Wavy Gravy, of the Hog Farm, whose group provided order, reassurance and, as we know, granola.â€ (New York Times Book Review, Paperback Row )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe shelf of books about Woodstock is groaning, but Langâ€™s is the best fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a backstage pass to an iconic event.â€ (New York Post )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3933'),
(7323, 'The Road', 'Cormac Mccarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as "an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century," Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including the bestselling\n <em>\n  No Country for Old Men\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Road\n </em>\n . Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose,\n <em>\n  The Road\n </em>\n is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we''ve read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked Dennis Lehane, author of equally rich, occasionally bleak and brutal novels, to read it and give us his take. Read his glowing review below.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Dennis Lehane\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dennis Lehane, master of the hard-boiled thriller, generated a cult following with his series about private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, wowed readers with the intense and gut-wrenching\n  <em>\n   Mystic River\n  </em>\n  , blew fans all away with the mind-bending\n  <em>\n   Shutter Island\n  </em>\n  , and switches gears with\n  <em>\n   Coronado\n  </em>\n  , his new collection of gritty short stories (and one play).\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel,\n <em>\n  The Road\n </em>\n , in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, it''s not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the corner. Stealing across this horrific (and that''s the only word for it) landscape are an unnamed man and his emaciated son, a boy probably around the age of ten. It is the love the father feels for his son, a love as deep and acute as his grief, that could surprise readers of McCarthy''s previous work. McCarthy''s Gnostic impressions of mankind have left very little place for love. In fact that greatest love affair in any of his novels, I would argue, occurs between the Billy Parham and the wolf in\n <em>\n  The Crossing\n </em>\n . But here the love of a desperate father for his sickly son transcends all else. McCarthy has always written about the battle between light and darkness; the darkness usually comprises 99.9% of the world, while any illumination is the weak shaft thrown by a penlight running low on batteries. In\n <em>\n  The Road\n </em>\n , those batteries are almost out--the entire world is, quite literally, dying--so the final affirmation of hope in the novel''s closing pages is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of his father''s (and McCarthy''s) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down, lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things: faith.\n <em>\n  --Dennis Lehane\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Violence, in McCarthy''s postapocalyptic tour de force, has been visited worldwide in the form of a "long shear of light and then a series of low concussions" that leaves cities and forests burned, birds and fish dead and the earth shrouded in gray clouds of ash. In this landscape, an unnamed man and his young son journey down a road to get to the sea. (The man''s wife, who gave birth to the boy after calamity struck, has killed herself.) They carry blankets and scavenged food in a shopping cart, and the man is armed with a revolver loaded with his last two bullets. Beyond the ever-present possibility of starvation lies the threat of roving bands of cannibalistic thugs. The man assures the boy that the two of them are "good guys," but from the way his father treats other stray survivors the boy sees that his father has turned into an amoral survivalist, tenuously attached to the morality of the past by his fierce love for his son. McCarthy establishes himself here as the closest thing in American literature to an Old Testament prophet, trolling the blackest registers of human emotion to create a haunting and grim novel about civilization''s slow death after the power goes out.\n <em>\n  250,000 announced first printing; BOMC main selection.\n </em>\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1320'),
(7324, 'Roadside Crosses', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The latest Kathryn Dance thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sleeping Doll!The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways -- not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they''ve carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites.The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigations foremost body language expert. She and Deputy Michael O''Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report. As the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes. Using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in multiplayer online role-playing games, he easily eludes his pursuers and continues to track his victims. Among the obstacles Kathryn must hurdle are politicians from Sacramento, paranoid parents and the blogger himself, James Chilton, whose belief in the importance of blogging and the new media threatens to derail the case and potentially Dance''s career. It is this threat that causes Dance to take desperate and risky measures...In signature Jeffery Deaver style, Roadside Crosses is filled with dozens of plot twists, cliff-hangers and heartrending personal subplots. It is also a searing look at the accountability of blogging and life in the online world. Roadside Crosses is the third in Deaver''s bestselling High-Tech Thriller Trilogy, along with The Blue Nowhere and The Broken Window.Unabridged Compact Disk Includes a Bonus MP3 Cd of Jeffery Deaver''s The Blue Nowhere!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3211'),
(7325, 'Roadwork', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman. In this gritty narrative, a lone man takes on the wheels of progress in a showdown of cataclysmic proportions. When a highway project puts him out of work and threatens to destroy his home, he has more than enough time on his hands to plot his revenge. Driving his wife and friends away with his obstinate refusal to give in, he pushes the powers-that-be to the limit, taking a stand against what he sees as a criminal act in progress. Building to a shattering climax, ''''Roadwork'''' is a suspenseful tale you won''t soon forget!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/877'),
(7326, 'Robert B. Parker&#39;s Killing the Blues', 'Michael Brandman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone returns in a brilliant new addition to the New York Times-bestselling series.  Paradise, Massachusetts, is preparing for the summer tourist season when a string of car thefts disturbs what is usually a quiet time in town. In a sudden escalation of violence, the thefts become murder, and chief of police Jesse Stone finds himself facing one of the toughest cases of his career. Pressure from the town politicians only increases when another crime wave puts residents on edge. Jesse confronts a personal dilemma as well: a burgeoning relationship with a young PR executive, whose plans to turn Paradise into a summertime concert destination may have her running afoul of the law.  When a mysterious figure from Jesse''s past arrives in town, memories of his last troubled days as a cop in L.A. threaten his ability to keep order in Paradise-especially when it appears that the stranger is out for revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3336'),
(7327, 'Robert Redford: The Biography', 'Michael Feeney Callan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The long-anticipated biography of Robert Redford.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among the most widely admired Hollywood stars of his generation, Redford has appeared onstage and on-screen, in front of and behind the camera, earning Academy, Golden Globe, and a multitude of other awards and nominations for acting, directing, and producing, and for his contributions to the arts. His Sundance Film Festival transformed the world of filmmaking; his films defined a generation. America has come to know him as the Sundance Kid, Bob Woodward, Johnny Hooker, Jay Gatsby, and Roy Hobbs. But only now, with this revelatory biography, do we see the surprising and complex man beneath the Hollywood faÃ§ade.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From Redford''s personal papers--journals, script notes, correspondence--and hundreds of hours of taped interviews, Michael Feeney Callan brings the legendary star into focus. Here is his scattered family background and restless childhood, his rocky start in acting, the death of his son, his star-making relationship with director Sydney Pollack, the creation of Sundance, his political activism, his artistic successes and failures, his friendships and romances. This is a candid, surprising portrait of a man whose iconic roles on-screen\n  <em>\n   (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President''s Men, The Natural)\n  </em>\n  and directorial brilliance_ (Ordinary People, Quiz Show)_ have both defined and obscured one of the most celebrated, and, until now, least understood, public figures of our time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1972'),
(7328, 'Robopocalypse', 'Daniel H. Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies...Now they''re coming for you.\n </b>\n <br />\n <br />\n <b>\n  In the near future,\n </b>\n at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as\n <b>\n  Archos\n </b>\n comes online and\n <b>\n  assumes control\n </b>\n over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication. In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans -- a single mother disconcerted by her daughter''s menacing "smart" toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a ''pacification unit'' go haywire -- but\n <b>\n  most are unaware\n </b>\n of the growing rebellion until it is too late.\n <br />\n <br />\n When the Robot War ignites -- at a moment known...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/628'),
(7329, 'Rogue', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Meet Maxine Williams, a dedicated doctor with three great kids, a challenging career, and the perfect new man in her life. Her only problem? Her irresistibly charming, utterly infuriating ex-husband, aka the . . .  Rogue  Being married to Blake had been an amazing adventure for Maxine. Brilliant, charismatic, and wholly unpredictable, Blake Williams made millions and grabbed headlines as a dot-com entrepreneur. His only shortcoming was as a husbandâ€”first his work and then his never-ending quest for fun kept him constantly on the move, far away from Maxine and his family. For five years Blake and Maxine have worked out an odd but amicable divorce, with friendly though infrequent visits, a yacht he lends her every summer, and three children they both adore. Blake enjoys his globe-trotting lifestyleâ€”dating a succession of beautiful, famous, and very young womenâ€”while Maxine raises their kids in Manhattan and pursues her passion, working as a psychiatrist, a world-renowned expert on childhood trauma and adolescent suicide. Then everything changesâ€¦.  For Maxine it starts when she falls in love with Dr. Charles West, a man who is everything Blake is notâ€”mature, grounded, and present. For Blake it begins when a devastating earthquake strikes near one of his palatial foreign homes and he sees hundreds of orphaned children in need of shelter. Now Blake wants Maxine in his life againâ€”as a partner in a humanitarian project that could change countless lives. For Maxine the choice is clear. But Blakeâ€™ s sudden transformationâ€”from carefree playboy to compassionate, responsible grown-upâ€”raises questions sheâ€™s never managed to answer . . . and some sheâ€™s afraid to ask. After all, Maxine is on the cusp of a new life, about to marry Charles, and almost certain that Blake Williams, aka the Rogue, is a man capable of doing anythingâ€”except changeâ€¦.  An unforgettable story of two people pursuing happiness from opposite directions, Rogue is a journey of choices and the amazing opportunities that come togetherâ€”just when life seems to have been successfully rearranged at last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3416'),
(7330, 'Rome', 'Robert Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome--as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking.\n <br />\n <br />\n Starting on a personal note, Hughes takes us to the Rome he first encountered as a hungry twenty-one-year-old fresh from Australia in 1959. From that exhilarating portrait, he takes us back more than two thousand years to the city''s foundation, one mired in mythologies and superstitions that would inform Rome''s development for centuries.\n <br />\n <br />\n From the beginning, Rome was a hotbed of power, overweening ambition, desire, political genius, and corruption. Hughes details the turbulent years that saw the formation of empire and the establishment of the sociopolitical system, along the way providing colorful portraits of all the major figures, both political (Julius Caesar,...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2379'),
(7331, 'Rome&#39;s Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric', 'Michael Kulikowski', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From the Prologue:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Before the Gates of Rome\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Late in august 410, a large troop of soldiers bore down on the city of Rome. At their head rode the general Alaric, in the full insignia of a magister militum. It was the highest command in the Roman army, won after years of politicking and military success. But Alaric was more than a Roman general. He was also a Gothic chieftain, some might have said a king. As far as contemporaries were concerned, the soldiers who followed him were Goths. Sometimes, to be sure, Alaric had put his followers at the service of the Roman emperor. When he did so, they became a unit in the Roman army. But their loyalty was to Alaric, not to the emperor or the empire, and everyone knew it. Alaric might be a Roman general, but no one ever mistook his followers for Roman soldiers. They were the Goths, and Alaric had led them against regular imperial armies more than once. In the early fifth century, the line between Roman regiment and barbarian horde was a fine one, and Alaric straddled it as best he could. But no one was quite taken in by appearances, and Alaric never succeeded in turning himself into the legitimate Roman commander he so desperately wanted to be.\n</p>\n<p>\n Want more? Read the prologue in its entirety.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œKulikowski offers a novel, exhilarating and convincing interpretation . . . straight to the heart of a major historical debate.â€\n <br />\n John F. Drinkwater, author of Fifth-Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity?\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ...a lively and important new study . . . engaging and sophisticated narrative of events.â€\n <br />\n Guy Halsall, author of Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIntriguing, comprehensive, and up-to-date history... The reader gets a sense of who the Goths were and why they had such a tremendous effect on Rome, defeating the Roman emperor Valens in 378, the greatest military defeat in Roman imperial history, and plundering the city of Rome in 410. In the process Kulikowski de-mystifies the nationalist mythologies surrounding the Goths while telling a fascinating story.â€\n <br />\n Paul Freedman, Department of History, Yale University\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn extraordinary window back into the life-and-death struggles of the late Roman Empire. Kulikowski brings an epic conflict, rich in character and detail, to life. A great book.â€\n <br />\n Robert Gardner, Producer/Director Barbarians Three-time Emmy winner and Academy Award Nominee\n</p>\n<p>\n "Rome''s Gothic Wars is a breezy and animated, yet authoritative, look at this remarkable time in history and it''s sure to be of interest to anybody with a taste for character-driven history. Kulikowski approaches his subject with both an admirable zeal and a level-headed coolness that makes this book both informative and fun."\n <br />\n Military History Online\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kulikowski does an excellent job in putting together such a confused history into this brief but effective narrative."\n <br />\n Divi Filius, UNRV History - Roman Empire\n</p>\n<p>\n "The book is easy to read, the narrative flows well and there are many subheadings within the chapters that keep the pace moving at an appropriate rate for an introductory text. In such a short space of 184 pages the author does an exceptional job of introducing the key debates of this complex and sometimes volatile topic, while still presenting a solid contemporary analysis of the most recent sources.\n <br />\n -BMCR\n</p>\n<p>\n "Rome''s Gothic Wars is likely to surprise even experienced students of the period with its fresh perspective."\n <br />\n The NYMAS Review\n</p>\n<p>\n "A stimulating new interpretation of Gothic origins and of such storied figures as Alaric, the sacker of Rome, and Theodosius, the exiled Roman commander who revived Roman fortunes after Adrianople. Worthwhile, too, is the accompanying narrative that gives a crisp and readable account of events from the Gothic arrival in the empire to Alaric''s sack of Rome...Germanic origins have long been concealed in forest mists, but Kulikowski''s study of the Goths brings much to light and is not to be missed."\n <br />\n Lawrence A. Tritle, Loyola Marymount University, Military History\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2380'),
(7332, 'Ron Jeremy : The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz', 'Ron Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  He''s the porn world''s Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he''s starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of them, and over the last twenty years has become porn''s biggest ambassador to the mainstream. He''s appeared in 60 regular films, 14 music videos, and VH1''s *Surreal Life*, starred in the critically acclaimed *Porn star* (a movie about his life), and in *Being Ron Jeremy* (a take off on *Being John Malkovich*), co-starring Andy Dick. And that''s just the tip of the iceberg. . . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Ron Jeremy is a born storyteller (funny, considering he doesn''t do a lot of talking in his films). He knows where all the bodies are buried, and in this outrageous autobiography he not only shows you the grave but also gives you the back story on the tombstone. Get ready for *Ron Jeremy*â€”a scandalously entertaining deep insider''s view of the porn industry and its emergence into popular culture, and a delectable self-portrait of the amazingly endowed Everyman every man wanted to be.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1912'),
(7333, 'Ronnie &amp; Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911 to 1980', 'Bob Colacello', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Six years in the making--with unprecedented access to Nancy Reagan and the couple''s closest friends--here is the first volume in the definitive portrait of the remarkable, career-building partnership between Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis. 16-page photo insert.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1974'),
(7334, 'Room', 'Emma Donoghue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s Jack''s birthday, and he''s excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there''s a world outside . . . Told in Jack''s voice, Roomis the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Roomis a novel like no other. ''Emma Donoghue''s writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness. Roomis a book to read in one sitting. When it''s over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days'' Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveller''s Wifeand Her Fearful Symmetry\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3293'),
(7335, 'The Rope', 'Nevada Barr', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Anna Pigeon''s first caseâ€”this is the story her fans have been clamoring for...this is where it all starts.Â In The Rope, the latest in Nevada Barrâ€™s bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, Nevada Barr gathers together the many strings of Annaâ€™s past and finally reveals the story that her many fans have been long asking for. In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from New York City and nursing a broken heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, Anna goes hiking into the park never to return. Her co-workers think sheâ€™s simply moved onâ€”her cabin is cleaned out and her things gone. But Anna herself wakes up, trapped at the bottom of a dry natural well, naked, without supplies and no clear memory of how she found herself in this situation.As she slowly pieces together her memory, it soon becomes clear that someone has trapped her there, in an inescapable prison, and no one knows that she is even missing. Plunged into a landscape and a plot she is unfit and untrained to handle, Anna Pigeon must muster the courage, determination and will to live that she didnâ€™t even know she still possessed to survive, outwit and triumph.For those legions of readers who have been entranced over the years by Park Ranger Anna Pigeonâ€™s strength and determination and those who are new to Nevada Barrâ€™s captivating, compelling novels, this is where it all starts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3083'),
(7336, 'Rose Madder', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n After 14 years of being beaten, Rose Daniels wakes up one morning and leaves her husband -- but she keeps looking over her shoulder, because Norman has the instincts of a predator. And what is the strange work of art that has Rose in a kind of spell? In this brilliant dark-hued fable of the gender wars, Stephen King has fashioned yet another suspense thriller to keep readers right at the edge.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated, this cat-and-mouse game of a novel is one of King''s most engrossing and topical horror stories. At the center of the action is heroine Rose McClendon, a battered wife who starts life anew by leaving her police officer husband, a consummately cruel man depicted by King as a paragon of evil. Crowded with character and incident, the novel builds to a nearly apocalyptic conclusion that combines the best of King''s long novels?the breadth of vision of The Stand, for example?with the focused plot and careful psychological portraiture of Dolores Claiborne. The story of Rose''s joyous growth from tortured wife (her persecution gruesomely but realistically portrayed) to independent woman alternates with the terrifying details of her husband''s deliberate pursuit to create unflagging tension. The book is a phantasmagorical roller-coaster ride, peopled by a broad array of indelibly characterized men and women and fueled by an air of danger that is immediate and overwhelming. 1.75 million first printing; BOMC main selection; simultaneous Penguin Audio; paperback sale to Signet.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/878');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(7337, 'Roses', 'Leila Meacham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions of the town''s founding families. Cotton tycoon Mary Toliver and timber magnate Percy Warwick should have married but unwisely did not, and now must deal with the deceit, secrets, and tragedies of their choice and the loss of what might have been--not just for themselves but for their children, and children''s children. With expert, unabashed, big-canvas storytelling, Roses covers a hundred years, three generations of Texans and the explosive combination of passion for work and longing for love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3669'),
(7338, 'Roses Are Red', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n The Mastermind is a deadly criminal who orchestrates a series of bank robberies that are notable for their precise demands - and their explosive violence when the demands are not met exactly. Detective Alex Cross takes on the case, promptly getting under The Mastermind''s skin, who makes it his personal goal to take revenge on Cross and his entire team. The team, which includes an attractive FBI agent named Betsy Cavalierre, faces pressure on every front right up to the shocking and explosive climax. Patterson, author of seven national bestsellers, is a past winner of the prestigious Edgar Award.\n <br />\n <br />\n "Patterson keeps the pages turning al\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/264'),
(7339, 'Rough Country', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n It''s a joy to announce that John Sandford is still doing everything right,''  wrote the Cleveland Plain Dealer about the second adventure of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers. ''Virgil acts like the best series protagonists - becoming someone we just enjoy spending time with.''\n <br />\n <br />\n Virgil''s always been known for having a somewhat active, er, social life, but he''s probably not going to be getting too many opportunities for that during his new case. While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, he gets a call from Lucas Davenport to investigate a murder at a nearby resort, where a woman has been shot while kayaking. The resort is for women only, a place to relax, get fit, recover from plastic surgery, commune with nature, and while it didn''t start out to be a place mostly for those with Sapphic inclinations, that''s pretty much what it is today.\n <br />\n <br />\n Which makes things all the more complicated for Virgil, because as he begins investigating, he finds a web of connections between the people at the resort, the victim, and some local women, notably a talented country singer. The more he digs, the more he discovers the arrows of suspicion that point in many directions, encompassing a multitude of motivations: jealousy, blackmail, greed, anger, fear. Then he finds that this is not the first murder, that there was a second, seemingly unrelated one, the year before. And that there''s about to be a third, definitely related one, any time now. And as for the fourth . . . well, Virgil better hope he can catch the killer before that happens. Because it could be his own.\n <br />\n <br />\n Rich with the brilliant plotting and compulsively readable prose that are his hallmarks,\n <i>\n  Rough Country\n </i>\n is another immensely satisfying tale by one of our very best suspense writers.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/743'),
(7340, 'Rough Justice', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, who has the same task from the British Prime Minister. They band together just in time to stop a Russian officer from torching a mosque--or rather, Miller stops him, with a bullet to the forehead. This action will have considerable consequences, not only for Miller and Johnson and their associates, including Britain''s Sean Dillon, but for a great many people, all the way to the top of the governments of the United States, Britain, and Russia.--From publisher description.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3476'),
(7341, 'Rough Weather', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful, and well connected and she needs Spenser''s help. In a most unlikely request, Heidi, a notorious gold digger recently separated from her latest husband, recruits the Boston P.I. to accompany her to her private island, Tashtego. The reason? To attend her daughter''s wedding as a sort of stand-in husband and protector. Spenser consents, but only after it is established that his beloved Susan Silverman will also be in attendance. It should be a straightforward job for Spenser - show up for appearances, have some drinks, and spend some quality time with Susan. But when Spenser''s old nemesis Rugar the Gray Man arrives, Spenser realizes that something is amiss. A storm, a kidnapping, and murder tear apart what should be a joyous occasion, and Rugar is seemingly at the center of it all. The only thing is that the sloppy kidnapping is not Rugar''s style as Spenser knows from past encounters. With six dead bodies and more questions than he can process, Spenser begins a search for answers and the Gray Man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3495'),
(7342, 'The Royals', 'Kitty Kelley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The killer quill of Kitty Kelley, who skewered Jackie Onassis, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Reagan, goes for royal blood in her latest tell-all biography,\n <em>\n  The Royals\n </em>\n . Fans of the 1992 book Diana used to bash her in-laws--\n</p>\n<p>\n Here are a few of the nasty allegations Kelley collects in a history of Britain''s top dogs: though the royals may love their corgis more than their children and spouses, they pinch the poor pooches'' posteriors to make them bark into the phone to amuse the royals at the other end of the line. Also, the Queen Mother may have been born out of wedlock, and her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, may have been conceived by artificial insemination.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are dozens of other stinky zingers in Kelley''s book, mostly from anonymous sources. The late Princess Diana comes off the best, even though Kelley suggests that she may have shoved her 58-year-old stepmother down the stairs. Diana met her last lover, Dodi, after\n <em>\n  The Royals\n </em>\n went to press, so there''s nothing in it about them--though Kelley does relate previous 100 m.p.h. chases and press encounters ending in gore. It was a long, sad story leading up to the last crash, and Kelley tells the family''s worst enemies'' account of it in a tone colder than the royals themselves.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gossipmonger Kelly narrates her latest unauthorized biography, this time targeting Britain''s royal family. She has included some interesting factual information about the royals, describing the early-20th-century history of the family and its ties to Germany. But the biography is a mix of fact and tawdry, unsubstantiated innuendo (Phillip may be bisexual, one son may not be his, etc.). Wherever possible, Kelley''s inflections as narrator make events seem naughtier still. There are two obvious flaws: not once are sources cited clearly, and most of the slurs are based on what someone says without scrutiny of motives. Of the family, the Queen comes out of the fray best, and Charles definitely gets the worst of it. Throughout, schlock rules over scholarship. Not recommended.?Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, N.C.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1958'),
(7343, 'Rubicon', 'Tom Holland', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Holland has the rare gift of making deep scholarship accessible and exciting. A brilliant and completely absorbing study'' A. N. Wilson, author of The Victorians ''This is the best one-volume narrative history of the Rome between King Tarquin and Emperor Augustus I have ever read. The story of Rome''s experiment with republicanism - peopled by such giants as Caesar, Pompey, Cato and Cicero - is told with perfect freshness, fine wit and true scholarship'' Andrew Roberts\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall. It is a story of incomparable drama. This was the century of Julius Caesar, the gambler whose addiction to glory led him to the banks of the Rubicon, and beyond; of Cicero, whose defence of freedom would make him a byword for eloquence; of Spartacus, the slave who dared to challenge a superpower; of Cleopatra, the queen who did the same. Tom Holland brings to life this strange and unsettling civilization, with its extremes of ambition and self-sacrifice, bloodshed and desire. Yet alien as it was, the Republic still holds up a mirror to us. Its citizens were obsessed by celebrity chefs, all-night dancing and exotic pets; they fought elections in law courts and were addicted to spin; they toppled foreign tyrants in the name of self-defence. Two thousand years may have passed, but we remain the Romans'' heirs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2383'),
(7344, 'Ruby Red', 'Kerstin Gier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œHumorous, romantic and suspenseful, the plot is fast-paced and impossible to put down . . . . The final romantic cliffhanger will leave you thirsty for the next book in this â€˜jewelâ€™ of a series.â€ â€“\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Justine\n  </em>\n  magazine\n  <br />\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  "Gier succeeds on her own terms, keeping the reader moving along, forward and backward in time, and ending with a revelation and a cliffhanger. Both will leave readers anticipating the publication of the next installment, â€˜Sapphire Blue.â€™"\n  <em>\n   â€“*The New York Times Book Review\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   *â€œWhat makes this such a standout is the intriguingly drawn cast, stars and supporting players both, beginning with Gwen, whose key feature is her utter normalityâ€¦ Adventure, humor, and mystery all have satisfying roles here.â€\n  </strong>\n  â€“Starred, *Booklist\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€œThe characters in Kerstin Gier''s stellar story come fully to life, and veteran translator Anthea Bell (who translated Cornelia Funke''s Inkheart books) preserves the book''s abundant humor . . . . Thereâ€™s something here for everyone.â€\n  <strong>\n   -*Shelf Awareness\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTeen readers will be eager to find out what happens to Gwen and Gideon in their next adventures, to be revealed in the second book of the trilogy,\n  <em>\n   Sapphire Blue\n  </em>\n  , followed by\n  <em>\n   Emerald Green\n  </em>\n  .â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   *BookPage\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   *â€œAs she narrates this fast-paced puzzler, Gwen convincingly conveys the bewilderment, fear and excitement of a teen rooted in the present but catapulted from her school-girl routine into the past. Bellâ€™s deft translation captures an engaging heroine with a cell phone and a sense of humor, an emerging romance and a complex, unresolved time-travel mystery spanning four centuries.â€\n  </strong>\n  â€“*Kirkus Reviews\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€œThis first installment of a trilogy will soon find a new crop of fans in the United States. Itâ€™s a fun, engaging read that will be an easy sell for teens wanting to time travel with a delightful narrator.â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   *School Library Journal\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   *â€œThe first in a trilogy, Ruby Red offers romance, adventure, small details of various eras, and the complications that families can bring. It will mostly appeal to teenage girls who have a preference for reading romance.â€\n  </strong>\n  â€“*VOYA\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€œâ€¦Gier''s characters and plotting are first-rate, creating an adventure that should leave readers eager for the rest of the trilogy.â€ â€“\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  Publishers Weekly\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€œA smart, entertaining read . . . Gwen, an outsider in her own family, is the perfect spunky, skeptical heroine.â€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   *Bulletin of the Center for Childrenâ€™s Books\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Praise for Ruby Red, first published in Germany:\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€œAn extremely appetizing mix of mystery thriller, science fiction and romantic adventure that readers will most likely devour in one sitting.â€â€”\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung\n  <em>\n   *\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  â€œThrilling and witty.â€â€”\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Radio Bremen\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGuaranteed to be addictive.â€â€”\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Badische Neueste Nachrichten\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs soon as you have managed to open this wonderful book, you wonâ€™t want to close it anymore! Superbly romantic, witty andâ€”thank Godâ€”only the first part of this emotional time travel trilogy.â€â€”\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Daisuki\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA sophisticated and adventurous fantasy story with a sense of humor.â€ â€”\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Nordbayerischer Kurier\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBestselling author Kerstin Gier has written a romantic and funny story that will captivate readers until the very end. Truly mesmerizing.â€ â€”\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    KÃ¶lnische Rundschau\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExciting fantasy with lots of wordplay and a pinch of romance. Now the impatient waiting for Volume Two will start.â€ â€”\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    WestfÃ¤lische Nachrichten\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe very finest reading stuff.â€ â€”\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Buchmarkt\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kerstin Gier is the bestselling author of the Ruby Red trilogy, as well as several popular novels for adults.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Anthea Bell is the foremost translator of German literature in the world. And she thinks\n  <em>\n   Ruby Red\n  </em>\n  is just "charming"!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/941'),
(7345, 'The Rule of Nine', 'Steve Martini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Still reeling from the trauma of a near nuclear explosion at the naval base in Coronado, San Diego defense attorney Paul Madriani now finds he''s been linked to the murder of a Washington, D.C., political staffer. Authorities believe the bloodthirsty assassin Liquida Muerteâ€”aka "the Mexicutioner"â€”may be responsible, and that Madriani is the ultimate target of the killer''s twisted vengeance.   But the danger pales before an even more terrible unfolding scenario. Evidence is mounting that the elusive maniac and a domestic terrorist who calls himself the Old Weatherman have joined forces, intending to strike at the very seat of the United States government, pulling the capital cityâ€”and the countryâ€”into a vortex of terror . . . unless Paul Madriani and weapons control expert Joselyn Cole can somehow unravel the enigma of . . . The Rule of Nine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3395'),
(7346, 'Rule of Two', 'Drew Karpyshyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the Sith Wars were over, the Jedi thought the Sith had been destroyed. But one remained: Darth Bane, the most powerful Sith Lord ever. And now, in secret, he is setting out to build his new Sith Order, with which he intends to rule the galaxy, with his new apprentice by his side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3552'),
(7347, 'Rules of Civility', 'Amor Towles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A sophisticated and entertaining debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose.   Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year- old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of New York society in search of a brighter future.  The story opens on New Year''s Eve in a Greenwich Village jazz bar, where Katey and her boardinghouse roommate Eve happen to meet Tinker Grey, a handsome banker with royal blue eyes and a ready smile. This chance encounter and its startling consequences cast Katey off her current course, but end up providing her unexpected access to the rarified offices of Conde Nast and a glittering new social circle. Befriended in turn by a shy, principled multimillionaire, an Upper East Side ne''er-do-well, and a single-minded widow who is ahead of her times, Katey has the chance to experience first hand the poise secured by wealth and station, but also the aspirations, envy, disloyalty, and desires that reside just below the surface. Even as she waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her orbit, she will learn how individual choices become the means by which life crystallizes loss.  Elegant and captivating, Rules of Civility turns a Jamesian eye on how spur of the moment decisions define life for decades to come. A love letter to a great American city at the end of the Depression, readers will quickly fall under its spell of crisp writing, sparkling atmosphere and breathtaking revelations, as Towles evokes the ghosts of Fitzgerald, Capote, and McCarthy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3226'),
(7348, 'Rules of Deception', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is climbing in the Swiss Alps with his beautiful wife, Emma, when a blizzard sets in. In their bid to escape the storm, Emma is killed when she falls into a hidden crevasse. Twenty-four hours later, Jonathan receives an envelope addressed to his wife containing two baggage-claim tickets. Puzzled, he journeys to a remote railway station only to find himself in a life-and-death struggle for his wife''s possessions. In the aftermath of the assault, he discovers that his attackersone dead, the other mortally woundedwere, in fact, Swiss police officers. More frightening still is evidence of an extraordinary act of betrayal that leaves Jonathan stunned. Suddenly the subject of an international manhunt and the target of a master assassin, Jonathan is forced on the run. His only chance at survival lies in uncovering the devastating truth behind the secret his wife kept from him and in stopping the terrifying conspiracy that threatens to bring the world to the brink of annihilation. Step by step, he is drawn deeper into a world of spies, high-tech weaponry, and global terrorisma world where no one is whom they appear to be and where the end always justifies the means. Rules of Deceptionis a brilliantly conceived, twisting tale of intrigue and deceit written by the master of the espionage thriller for the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3421'),
(7349, 'Rules of Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Making his fiction debut, "Sandford," a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist using a pseudonym, has taken a stock suspense plot--a dedicated cop pursuing an ingenious serial killer--and dressed it up into the kind of pulse-quickening, irresistibly readable thriller that many of the genre''s best-known authors would be proud to call their own. A killer who calls himself the "maddog" has been murdering Minneapolis women, seemingly without pattern or motive. The crimes are linked only by their brutality and by the slayer''s "signature": at each scene, he leaves a written rule of crime, such as "Never kill anyone you know," or "Never carry a weapon after it has been used." Into the case comes Lucas Davenport, a policeman with five kills in the line of duty, a surefire sense of how to handle the thirsty media and strong instincts about the killer''s psyche. Sandford offers no mystery here; the killer''s identity is revealed in the first pages, and the suspense comes in waiting for him or Davenport to slip up. Despite one or two beginner''s mistakes (an overly obvious red herring, a character inconsistency), the author knows his territory well; the result is a police procedural as effective as it is brutal. The author''s second thriller under his own name (John Camp) will be issued by Holt in September. BOMC featured selection; Mysterious Book Club alternate.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, highly touted killer detective, invents intricate video games that he sells for cash. Called in to aid the Minneapolis team scrambling to stop a psychopathic serial woman-slayer, Lucas almost meets his match. The self-styled "mad dog" murderer views his rape/stabbings as a game as well, setting up obstacles for the police, carefully selecting his victims, and priding himself on clever moves. Despite his largely deja vu plot, debut novelist Sandford ( also the author of The Fools Run due from Holt in September under the name John Camp; see Prepub Alert, LJ 4/1/89) delivers tense action, chilling excitement, and thrilling suspense. Fast-moving prose and romantic sidelines add a little zest, too. BOMC featured selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/695'),
(7350, 'Run Before the Wind', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Will Lee ran from a life of Southern wealth and privilege to spend a peaceful summer on the coast of Ireland. But there is no peace in this beautiful, troubled land. Restless and dissatisfied, Will dreams of shipbuilding and sailing on crystal-blue waters. But an explosion of senseless violence is dragging the young American drifter into a lethal game of terror and revenge. For the fires of hatred rage unchecked in this place of lush, rolling hills and deadly secrets. Now Will Lee must run for his life from a bloody past that is not his own-and he will find no sanctuary on the rolling waves of the Irish Sea.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2657'),
(7351, 'Run for Your Life', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on\n  <place w:st="on">\n   <city w:st="on">\n    New York City\n   </city>\n  </place>\n  , killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences! For some, it seems that the rich are finally getting what they deserve. For\n  <place w:st="on">\n   <state w:st="on">\n    New York\n   </state>\n  </place>\n  ''s elite, it is a call to terror.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Only one man can tackle such a high-profile case: Detective Mike Bennett. The pressure is enough for anyone, but Mike also has to care for his 10 children-all of whom have come down with virulent flu at once!\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Discovering a secret pattern in The Teacher''s lessons, Detective Bennett realizes he has just hours to save\n  <state w:st="on">\n   <place w:st="on">\n    New York\n   </place>\n  </state>\n  from the greatest disaster in its history. From the #1 bestselling author comes BE AFRAID, the continuation of his newest, electrifying series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/265'),
(7352, 'The Run', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A respected senator from Georgia, Will Lee has aspirations of more.But a cruel stroke of fate thrusts him onto the national stage well before he expects, and long before he''s ready, for a national campaign.The road to the White House, however, will be more treacherous -- and deadly -- than Will and his intelligent, strikingly beautiful wife, Kate, an associate director in the Central Intelligence Agency, can imagine.A courageous and principled man, Will soon learns he has more than one opponent who wants him out of the race. Thrust into the spotlight as never before, he''s become the target of clandestine enemies from the past who will use all their money and influence to stop him -- dead. Now Will isn''t just running for president -- he''s running for his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2651'),
(7353, 'The Runaway Jury', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Millions of dollars are at stake in a huge tobacco-company case in Biloxi, and the jury''s packed with people who have dirty little secrets. A mysterious young man takes subtle control of the jury as the defense watches helplessly, but they soon realize that he in turn is controlled by an even more mysterious young woman. Lives careen off course as they bend everyone in the case to their will.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grisham is either remarkably prescient or just plain lucky; because with public concerns about the tobacco companies heating up, and two major nonfiction books currently garnering a lot of attention, he has come up with a tobacco-suit novel that lights up the courtroom. In a Mississippi Gulf Coast town, the widow of a lifelong smoker who died prematurely of lung cancer is suing Big Tobacco. Enter Rankin Fitch, a dark genius of jury fixing, who has won many such trials for the tobacco companies and who foresees no special problems here. Enter also a mysterious juror, Nicholas Easter, whom Fitch''s army of jury investigators and manipulators can''t quite seem to track-and his equally mysterious girlfriend Marlee, who soon shows Fitch she knows even more about what''s happening in the jury room than he does. The details of jury selection are fascinating and the armies of lawyerly hangers-on and overpaid consultants that surround such potentially profitable (to either side) cases are horribly convincing. The cat-and-mouse game played between Nicholas, Marlee and Fitch over the direction of the jury quickly becomes hair-raising as the stakes inch ever higher. As usual with Grisham, the writing is no more than workmanlike, the characterizations are alternatively thin and too broad, but all is redeemed by his patented combination of expertise and narrative drive. What makes The Runaway Jury his most rewarding novel to date is that it is fully enlisted in an issue of substance, in which arguments of genuine pith are hammered out and resolved in a manner that is both intellectually and emotionally satisfying. It''s a thriller for people who think, and Jesse Helms won''t like it one bit. First printing of 2.8 million; major ad/promo; Literary Guild main selection. (May) ~ Mystery\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1252'),
(7354, 'The Running Man', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) crafted\n  <em>\n   The Running Man\n  </em>\n  early in his career, though after such mega-hits as\n  <em>\n   Carrie\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Shining\n  </em>\n  . A bit of a departure from the supernatural horror that is most frequently associated with his work, the novel describes a science fiction dystopia where market capitalism and television game shows have spiraled out of control, and the separation between the haves and the have-nots has been formalized with separate currencies. King establishes characters quickly, creating sympathy in the first few pages for Ben Richards--whose 18-month-old baby girl is suffering from a horrible cough, perhaps pneumonia. Not able to afford medicine, Richards enters himself in the last-chance money-making scheme of the Free-Vee games. The games include\n  <em>\n   Treadmill to Bucks\n  </em>\n  , in which heart-attack prone contestants struggle to outlast a progressively demanding treadmill, or the accurately named\n  <em>\n   Swim the Crocodiles\n  </em>\n  . After a rigorous battery of physical and mental examinations, Richards is assigned "Elevator Six"--the path of a chosen few--that leads to\n  <em>\n   The Running Man\n  </em>\n  game. In this game, the stakes and the prizes are raised. Success means a life of luxury. Failure means death. Unfortunately, few ever win the game; in fact, as the producer tells Richards, in six years no one has survived.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Running Man\n  </em>\n  is a short book, tightly written to be read and enjoyed quickly. The future world it depicts is vividly captured with a few essential details. The action is also fast paced and, though the novel differs from much of King''s other work, the sardonic social commentary reveals a pleasing glimmer of King''s characteristically twisted sense of humor.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Merely by tickling the keys of his word-processor King can make the flesh creep half a world away'' -- The Times ''Stephen King is one of those natural storytellers...getting hooked is easy'' -- Frances Fyfield, Express ''An incredibly gifted writer, whose writing, like Truman Capote''s, is so fluid that you often forget that you''re reading'' -- Guardian\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/879'),
(7355, 'Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian', 'Avi Steinberg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this captivating memoir, Steinberg, a Harvard grad and struggling obituary writer, spends two years as a librarian and writing instructor at a Boston prison that''s an irrepressibly literary place. True, his patrons turn books into weapons (and one robs him while out on parole), but he''s beguiled by the rough poetry of inmate essays and "kites"--contraband notes secreted in library books--and entranced by the "skywriting" with which they semaphore messages letter-by-letter across the courtyard. And there''s always an informal colloquium of prostitutes, thieves, and drug dealers convened at the checkout desk, discussing everything from Steinberg''s love life to the "gangsta" subculture of Hasidic Jews. Gradually, the prison pulls him in and undermines his bemused neutrality. He helps a forlorn female prisoner communicate with her inmate son, develops a dangerous beef with a guard, and finds himself collaborating on the memoir of a charismatic pimp whose seductive rap disguises a nasty rap sheet; he has to choose sides, make queasy compromises, and decide between rules and loyalty. Steinberg writes a stylish prose that blends deadpan wit with an acute moral seriousness. The result is a fine portrait of prison life and the thwarted humanity that courses through it. (Oct. 26) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Steinberg graduated from Harvard, he expected to become a rabbi, but neither his faith nor his chosen lifestyle made that a suitable career choice. As a stopgap, he applied to work in a Boston jail library. There he was responsible not only for the day-to-day functioning of the library but also for teaching inmates creative writing. A dedicated intellectual and instinctively diffident, he was almost too easy prey for tough, aggressive, streetwise, ever-conniving criminals. To his chagrin, the hard-bitten prison staff equally tested his presuppositions about humanityâ€™s benevolence. Caroming instantaneously from profane comedy to abysmal tragedy, Steinberg recounts his struggles to relate humanely to people at the edge of society. Prison librarianship offers some of the professionâ€™s greatest challenges, and Steinberg tells just what itâ€™s like to suddenly recognize that the mugger attacking him in the park was the same guy he had checked out some books to a few months earlier. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1976'),
(7356, 'Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace', 'Dominic Lieven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Lieven, professor of history at the London School of Economics, uses Russian archives as the basis for this seminal reinterpretation of Napoleon''s defeat in 1812-1814. Russia''s leaders cleverly engaged Napoleon in a kind of drawn-out campaign the French system was least able to wage. Russia''s armies outfought Napoleon''s, thanks in good part to the courage, endurance, and loyalty of soldiers led by officers whose central virtues were honor and courage. Russian staffs and administrators kept the troops supplied despite the long and increasing distances between bases and theaters of operations. And coordinating the effort was Tsar Alexander II, whose courage, skill, and intelligenceheld together the final alliance against Napoleon all the way from Moscow to Paris. Lieven weaves these threads together with flair and offers insight into the specifics of everything from infantry tactics to diplomatic negotiations. He concludes that Russian and European security were mutually dependent, and that Russia''s war was seen by Europeans a one of liberation from Napoleon''s exactions and ambitions. While debatable, neither point can be dismissed. Illus., maps.\n <em>\n  (Apr. 19)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dominic Lieven\n </strong>\n is professor of Russian history at the London School of Economics. His previous books include\n <em>\n  Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Nicholas II: Twilight of the Empire\n </em>\n . Three of his direct ancestors were generals in the Battle of Leipzig.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2384'),
(7357, 'Ruthless', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  For years scandal has rocked Rosewood, Pennsylvania - and high school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer have always been at the center of the drama. They''ve lost friends, been targeted by a ruthless stalker named A, and narrowly escaped death. And it''s not over yet.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Aria''s love life is on the fritz. Emily''s exploring her wild side. Hanna''s kissing the enemy. And someone from Spencer''s past - someone she never thought she''d see again - is back to haunt her.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  But none of that compares to what happened last spring break. It''s their darkest secret yet and guess who found out? Now A is determined to make them pay for their crime, and the only thing scarier than A is the fear that maybe, just maybe, they deserve what''s coming to them.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3781'),
(7358, 'Safe Haven', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family.But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo''s empathic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3688'),
(7359, 'The Safety of Secrets', 'Delaune Michel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michelâ€™s follow-up to Aftermath of Dreaming (2006) is the tale of two childhood best friends whoÂ fled their Louisiana roots for Los Angeles. Fiona is a moderately successful, married actress who has just learned she is expecting a child. Patricia is the one with the superstar career: as the host of a sports reality show, she is a high-profile celebrity, as is her new husband, Zane, a dashing but shallow movie star. Fiona feels a disconnect with Patricia after Patriciaâ€™s impulsive marriage to Zane in Las Vegas, and itâ€™s further emphasized by her mixed feelings upon learning the sex of her baby, feelings she feels she canâ€™t share with Patricia. When Patricia commits a startling betrayal and reveals a secret the two have been keeping since their teens, Fiona realizes their longtime friendship is at a crossroads and may not survive. Michel is deeply attuned to the subtleties in womenâ€™s friendships, the little nuances that indicate a slight or an attempt at making up for one, and she pays tribute to them with this layered, fluid novel. --Kristine Huntley\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "At once funny, moving, and richly evocative of contemporary Los Angeles, The Safety of Secrets more than confirms its promise." --\n  <em>\n   Peter Biskind, best-selling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ''N'' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "DeLaunÃ© Michel has written a terrifically funny book with a very tender heart. It manages to be wonderfully confessional and psychologically mysterious. The Safety of Secrets is the perfect curl-up-on-the-couch-and-read-all-day-long kind of book. It stays with you." --\n  <em>\n   Jill A. Davis, Author of Ask Again Later &amp; Girls'' Poker Night\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The Safety of Secrets is a funny, keenly observed, deeply moving story of coming of age too soon. DeLaunÃ© Michelâ€™s elegantly structured novel jumps back and forth between an imperfect childhood in Louisiana, and a complicated adulthood in Los Angeles. ." --\n  <em>\n   Warren Leight, Tony-award winning playwright of Side Man\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "a beautifully written book that takes you into the mind of a woman attempting the impossible; trying to make marriage, motherhood, friendship and a career as an actress all work in the gladiatorial ring of Los Angeles. DeLaunÃ© Michel writes with the precision and insight of an x-ray." --\n  <em>\n   Merrill Markoe, New York Times best-selling author\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Funny and touching, this is a tale of childhood--and how it never ends. --\n  <em>\n   Cathleen Schine, New York Times bestselling author of THE NEW YORKERS\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written with tremendous narrative velocity, The Safety of Secrets is almost impossible to put down. --\n  <em>\n   Dani Shapiro, award-winning, best-selling writer\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "At once funny, moving, and richly evocative of contemporary Los Angeles, The Safety of Secrets more than confirms its promise." (Peter Biskind, best-selling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ''N'' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written with tremendous narrative velocity, The Safety of Secrets is almost impossible to put down. (Dani Shapiro, award-winning, best-selling writer )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "a beautifully written book that takes you into the mind of a woman attempting the impossible; trying to make marriage, motherhood, friendship and a career as an actress all work in the gladiatorial ring of Los Angeles. DeLaun Michel writes with the precision and insight of an x-ray." (Merrill Markoe, New York Times best-selling author )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The Safety of Secrets is a funny, keenly observed, deeply moving story of coming of age too soon. DeLaun Michel''s elegantly structured novel jumps back and forth between an imperfect childhood in Louisiana, and a complicated adulthood in Los Angeles. ." (Warren Leight, Tony-award winning playwright of Side Man )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "DeLaun Michel has written a terrifically funny book with a very tender heart. It manages to be wonderfully confessional and psychologically mysterious. The Safety of Secrets is the perfect curl-up-on-the-couch-and-read-all-day-long kind of book. It stays with you." (Jill A. Davis, Author of Ask Again Later &amp; Girls'' Poker Night )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Funny and touching, this is a tale of childhood--and how it never ends. (Cathleen Schine, New York Times bestselling author of THE NEW YORKERS )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/911'),
(7360, 'Sahara', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cussler''s ( Raise the Titanic ) durable hero Dirk Pitt returns with Al Giordino, his amiable hulk of a sidekick, to save mankind from a greedy industrialist in cahoots with a despot and to solve a few historical riddles along the way. Dirk meets beautiful Eva Rojas, a World Health Organization team member inspecting a mysterious epidemic that has struck in the Sahara, when he interrupts an attempt on her life. Then the National Underwater and Marine Agency sends Pitt and Giordino up the Niger on a gunboat to find the source of a toxin that causes red tide organisms to reproduce out of control, threatening to poison the oceans and deplete the earth''s oxygen supply. The pairalso in next sentence is captured by evil billionaire Yves Massarde and Mali''s tyrannical despot Gen. Kazim, but they escape to find the source of the pollution at Fort Foreau, Massarde''s desert toxic waste factory that receives--but doesn''t dispose of--nuclear and chemical wastes. Recaptured, Pitt and Giordino are sent to Kazim''s desert slave camp, where they find Eva and her team--marked for death. A deadly trek across the Sahara is their only hope. Cussler champions ecological issues with verve, and continues his love affair with history by tossing in a Confederate ironside stranded in the Sahara near the remains of an aviatrix lost during the ''30s. Some judicious cutting might have improved the narrative, but it''s great fun nonetheless, putting Beau Geste swashbucklers against the vilest of villains. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild super release; Doubleday Book Club alternate; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Not since Treasure (1988), when Dirk Pitt discovered Cleopatra''s barge in Texas (or was it on the Mississippi Delta?), has Cussler come up with so far-fetched a story as this herein, the tenth Pitt novel. The plot begins with a Confederate ironclad, the Texas, outrunning a Union blockade while carrying on board not only the South''s treasury but also the North''s kidnapped president. Then, in 1931, world-famed aviatrix Kitty Mannock (an Amelia Earhart clone) vanishes on a flight over the Sahara, her plane or body never seen again. Then comes Dirk Pitt''s 1996 search through the Nile bottom (via image-making computerized sonar) for the lost barge of a pharaoh dead some 2500 years. Dirk locates the barge under many meters of silt; but before he can even make the Egyptian authorities aware of the find, he''s reassigned by the National Underwater and Marine Agency to investigate the source of poisons that are killing coral and creating a red tide on such a massive scale that the world''s oxygen supply will soon shrink to an unlivable level if the horror can''t be reversed. Dirk rescues from assassination and falls for beautiful Eva Rojas of the World Health Organization, who is in Africa to find the source of the fatal plague now turning thousands of natives into bands of frenzied cannibals who''ll eat anything human and are fearless of gunfire. Whence this malignancy? As Pitt discovers, the country of Mali- -backed by a ruthless French industrialist--is in the solar nuclear waste disposal business, but the bad guys have poisoned the water table with their inept methods and befouling of the Niger. How does this tie in with Kitty Mannock''s desert crash and her discovery of the Texas buried in the Sahara sands? And whose well-preserved, noble-featured body does Pitt find seated in a rocking chair in the ironclad? His initials are A.L.... For the faithful. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1204'),
(7361, 'Sail', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way.  In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again.  But only an hour out of port, everything is going wrong.  The teenage daughter, Carrie, is planning to drown herself.  The teenage son, Mark, is high on drugs and ten-year-old Ernie is nearly catatonic.  This is the worst vacation ever.\n <br />\n Anne manages to pull things together bit by bit, but just as they begin feeling like a family again, something catastrophic happens.  Survival may be the least of their concerns.\n <br />\n <br />\n Written with the blistering pace and shocking twists that only James Patterson can master, SAIL takes "Lost" and "Survivor" to a new level of terror.\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/266');
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(7362, 'Saint Maybe', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tyler makes things look so easy that she never gets enough credit, yet she portrays everyday Americans with such humor, grace and, ultimately, emotional force that her books are always deeply satisfying. In\n <strong>\n  Saint Maybe\n </strong>\n her protagonist Ian Bedloe, stricken with guilt over the death of his older brother, raises three children unrelated to him by blood. He is strengthened in this Herculean task by the storefront Church of the Second Chance, to which he devotes himself with equal fervor. Someone once said all great writers are comic writers. Among living Americans, Tyler is exhibit A.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although Tyler ( Breathing Lessons ; Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant ) is again writing about families--the way they cleave together in times of trouble and muddle through with stoic courage--her eminently satisfying new novel breaks her familiar mold, giving us ordinary, not eccentric characters who are shaped by disastrous events into quietly heroic behavior. The Bedloes are cheerful and count their blessings, even if they are far from rich and live on a slightly seedy street in Baltimore. But when 17-year-old Ian rashly informs his older brother Dan that the latter''s wife was undoubtedly pregnant before their marriage, Dan commits suicide, and Ian is left with profound guilt--especially since Dan''s wife dies soon after. Asking God''s forgiveness, he receives spiritual guidance at the endearingly shabby Church of the Second Chance. He drops out of college, becomes a carpenter and helps his parents care for the three orphaned children; as the years pass, that burden falls primarily on Ian''s shoulders. Wondering when God will signal that his atonement can end, Ian has an epiphany: "You could never call it a penance, to have to care for those three." Ian eventually does construct a life for himself, in one of Tyler''s most appealing endings. The narrative also enjoys her whimsical humor (although the group role of the "foreigners" who live in the neighborhood verges on caricature). Since her characters'' foibles never overwhelm their homespun simplicity, the reader is emotionally involved and touched as never before. 250,000 first printing; BOMC main selection; first serial to the New Yorker.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/973'),
(7363, 'Salem Falls', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Picoult''s new novel (following the acclaimed Plain Truth) is a story about rape and reputation, loosely based on The Crucible. Jack St. Bride comes to Salem Falls, N.H., after his release from prison. The former teacher and soccer coach wants to start a new life following a wrongful conviction for statutory rape. Unfortunately, Salem Falls turns out to be the wrong place to do it. He has no trouble landing a job at the local diner and winning the trust of the diner''s eccentric owner, Addie, but the rest of the town is suspicious. Things get dangerous when manipulative 17-year-old Gillian Duncan, whose father owns half the town, gets interested in Jack and tries to seduce him with Wiccan love spells. Then Gillian is assaulted in the woods, and Jack is accused of the crime. As the courtroom battle unfolds, many secrets are revealed, and Picoult''s characters are forced to confront the difference between who people are and who they say they are. The difference is considerable: despite the townspeople''s aura of virtue, by the end of the book we''re hard pressed to find any women who have never been raped or threatened, or any men who are really innocent of violence. While Picoult seems ambivalent about the power of Wiccan spells, she has no doubts about the power of sex and violence to change lives. Some of her characters, though, can be almost disturbingly forgiving. Genuinely suspenseful and at times remarkably original, this romance-mystery-morality play will gain Picoult new readers although her treatment of the aftermath of rape may also make her a few enemies. Agent, Laura Gross. 10-city author tour. (Apr. 10) Forecast: Picoult tastefully tackled touchy subject matter in Plain Truth, but she tips toward sensationalism here. That may gain her readers in the short run, but could undermine her reputation over time.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Jack St. Bride arrives in the small town of Salem Falls, all he wants is to escape his past. He''s spent the last eight months in jail, after being falsely accused of having an affair with an underage student at the school where he taught. In Salem Falls, he gets a job as a dishwasher at a local diner and tentatively begins a romance with the diner''s owner, Addie, who is still mourning the death of her young daughter, born after Addie was raped in high school by three drunk boys. As she and Jack fall in love, they both see hope for the future. But their newfound love is threatened when the residents of Salem Falls learn of Jack''s conviction and begin harassing him. When, predictably, a teenage girl accuses Jack of raping her, he finds himself back in jail, fighting a serious charge and the town''s prejudice. Addie wrestles with her doubts and memories of her own rape, but she believes in Jack and goes on a quest of her own to find out the truth about Jack''s initial conviction, even as the Salem Falls trial opens. Unfortunately, the novel spirals down into cliche, toward an all-too-predictable ending. There are some interesting elements here (such as Addie''s inability to accept the death of her daughter), but the novel doesn''t rise above its formulaic plot. Still, Picoult''s previous novels, including\n <em>\n  Keeping Faith\n </em>\n (1999) and\n <em>\n  The\n </em>\n Pact (1998), have garnered a large audience, especially in book-discussion groups. Expect her latest to generate some demand, but buy cautiously.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1254'),
(7364, 'Salem&#39;s Lot', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen King''s second book,\n <em>\n  ''Salem''s Lot\n </em>\n (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem''s Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker''s Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel,\n <em>\n  ''Salem''s Lot\n </em>\n is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it''s also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In\n <em>\n  ''Salem''s Lot\n </em>\n , the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, ''What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?'' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets,\n <em>\n  Bag of Bones\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Fiona Webster\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Grand Rapids Press\n </em>\n Spine-tingling fiction at its best.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Chattanooga Times\n </em>\n A novel of chilling, unspeakable evil.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n A super exorcism...tremendous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/880'),
(7365, 'Salvation City', 'Sigrid Nunez', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Things come undone with shocking rapidity when a flu pandemic ravages America. Cole, the son of liberal atheists and a smart, self-contained boy who loves to draw and counts explorer among his favorite words, narrates NuÃ±ezâ€™s sixth gripping novel, one of many recent literary postapocalyptic tales. Adept at matching psychological intricacy with edge-of-your-seat plots, the versatile NuÃ±ez gracefully entwines a classic coming-of-age story with a terrifying medical catastrophe and a profound battle between secular and religious viewpoints. The pandemic orphans and nearly kills Cole, who ends up living with a kindhearted Evangelical pastor and his wife in Salvation City, a community preparing for the Rapture. Itâ€™s all bible studies, guns, rapture children, and saved adults, including fiercely tattooed, one-eyed Mason. As Cole emerges from a thicket of grief and the confusion of sexual awakening and recognizes and trusts his hunger for education and the larger world, however damaged and dangerous, NuÃ±ez brilliantly contrasts epic social failure and tragedy with the unfurling of one promising life, reminding us that even in the worst of times, we seek coherence, discovery, and connection. --Donna Seaman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Nunez''s writing is gorgeously spare, and she gets the life and the lingo of a teenage boy just right... In this gorgeously strange and apocalyptic coming-of- age novel, Nunez shows that the end of the world can offer a powerful possibility for a new beginning."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  The Boston Globe\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s the near future, and Evangelicals have flocked to the rural Indiana town of the title, a post-apocalyptic haven in a world ravaged by a flu pandemic. Among these sheltered souls is Cole Vining, 13, an orphan who has been taken in by a preacher and his ditzy wife. Brought up by atheist parents in Chicago, Cole is disoriented by small-town life. . . . In this highly recognizable portrait of adolescent angst, Cole learns to define faith and freedom on his own terms as Nunez offers a candid look at both the comforts of religion and the glaring hypocrisy of some of its mosst ardent practicioners."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  More\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nunez tells a fine tale, avoiding clichÃ©s and providing powerful insights. To our surprise, we are equally draw to the Wyatt family and to Cole''s dead parents: being fallible is what they have in common. Through Cole''s eyes, the redemption offered by religion is offset by its hypocrisy; he finds his enlightenment not from dogma but from his own painful experiences. By the end of this satisfying, provocative and very plausible novel, Cole doesn''t believe that the world is about to end. Instead ''he saw himself living a long time and going many places and doing many different things. ''Your whole life ahead of you''- never more than just an expressing before-now came to him with the ring of blessing."\n <br />\n -Abraham Verghese,\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cole Vining is one of the fortunate few. After a flu pandemic kills tens of thousands, including his parents, he''s taken in by Pastor Wyatt, an evangelical leader in the Indiana town that gives the novel its title... With a cool, evenhanded tone, Nunez conjures a near future dark around the edges."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A flu pandemic kills millions and leaves surviviors to a chaos of shortages, looting, and violence-and that''s just the beginning of Sigrid Nunez''s wise and richly humane coming-of-age novel."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  O, the Oprah Magazine\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Atheists, a flu pandemic and a coming-of-age story collide in Nunez''s sixth-and perhaps best-novel,\n <em>\n  Salvation City\n </em>\n ."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Time Out New York\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  Salvation City\n </em>\n is not only timely and thought-provoking but also generous in its understanding of human nature. When apocalypse comes, I want Nunez in my lifeboat."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Vanity Fair\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Things come undone with shocking rapidity when a flu pandemic ravages America. Cole, the son of liberal atheists and a smart, self-contained boy who loves to draw and counts explorer among his favorite words, narrates Nunez''s sixth gripping novel, one of many recent literary postapocalyptic tales. Adept at matching psychological intricacy with edge-of-your-seat plots, the versatile Nunez gracefully entwines a classic coming-of-age story with a terrifying medical catastrophe and a profound battle between secular and religious viewpoints. . . . Nunez brilliantly contrasts epic social failure and tragedy with the unfurling of one promising life, reminding us that even in the worst of times, we seek coherence, discovery, and connection."\n <br />\n -\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <em>\n  Salvation City\n </em>\n is a wonderful, great-hearted novel that finds love and hope in the unlikeliest of circumstances. Cole Vining is a latter-day Huck Finn, and we grieve and cheer for him as he makes his journey, both physical and spiritual, through a devastated world."\n <br />\n -Ron Rash, author of\n <em>\n  Serena\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sigrid Nunez has long been one of my favorite authors because she writes with the deepest intelligence, the truest heart and the most surprising sense of humor. Salvation City is a tale of an American near-apocalypse that brings out the best of all these qualities. It reads beautifully, at time joyously, and it makes one reconsider the ordering of our world."\n <br />\n -Gary Shteyngart, author of\n <em>\n  Super Sad True Love Story\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/956'),
(7366, 'Salvation in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas confirms that the consecrated wine contained potassium cyanide, she''s determined to solve the murder of Father Miguel Flores, despite her discomfort with her surroundings. ItÃ­s not the bodegas and pawnshops of East Harlem that bother her, though the neighborhood is a long way from the stone mansion she shares with her billionaire husband, Roarke. ItÃ­s all that holiness flying around at St. Christobal''s that makes her uneasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3312'),
(7367, 'Sam&#39;s Letters to Jennifer', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n - The million-plus readers who laughed and wept through James Patterson''s first love story, "Suzanne''s Diary for Nicholas (7/2001), will be avid readers of this new one.- The movie based on the first novel in the Women''s Murder Club series, "1st to Die (3/2001), had the fourth-highest rating of any television movie in 2002! NBC has plans to produce "2nd Chance (3/2002) and "3rd Degree (3/2004) as well.- Patterson''s recent novel, "The Lake House, debuted at #1 on the "New York Times bestseller list in June 2003 and has sold close to a million copies to date, and the next Alex Cross novel, "Big Bad Wolf, debuts in November 2003 with a first printing of 1.1 million copies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/267'),
(7368, 'Samuel Pepys', 'Claire Tomalin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The seventeenth century saw a revolution in manâ€™s thought, as Isaac Newton and others began the scientific study of the universe around them. At the same time a shrewd young civil servant in London began to observe, with something of the same dispassionate curiosity, the strange object around which, for him, the universe revolvedâ€“himself. For ten years, beginning in 1660, Samuel Pepys secretly kept one of the most remarkable records ever made of a human life. With astounding candor and perceptiveness he described his ambitions and peculations, his professional successes and failures, his pettinesses and meannesses, his tenderness toward his wife and the irritations and jealousies she provoked, his extramarital longings and fumblings, his coolly critical attitude toward the king he served and his watchful adaptation to the corrupt and treacherous life of the court. Pepysâ€™s diary is a magnificent creation.But there is more to Samuel Pepys than his diary, as Claire Tomalin makes clear in this profoundly original biography. Buttressing it with less familiar sources and other contemporary material, she is able to illuminate his entire lifeâ€“as a poor London tailorâ€™s son, as a schoolboy rejoicing at the execution of Charles I, as an aspiring clerk with good connections who transforms himself into a royalist, escorting Charles II to England for the Restoration. Then there is the bureaucrat heroically working against the odds to create a modern navy, finding his way through the dangerous years of political and religious conflict (even, at one point, being charged with treason and jailed), peacefully retiring at last with his books and his music and his friends. It is Claire Tomalinâ€™s unique skill as a biographer to achieve extraordinary intimacy with her subject, and Pepys is no exception. To the endlessly fascinating question of his relations with women, for example, she brings the same insight and freshness of approach that distinguished such highly praised books as Jane Austen and The Invisible Woman. At the same time, the historical context is never less than brilliantly evoked. The result is exemplary, by far the most revealingâ€“and readableâ€“portrait of the greatest diarist in the English language, a man of unmatched interest and importance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2387'),
(7369, 'The Sand Fish From Dubai', 'Maha Gargash', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dubai native Gargash weaves an enticing tale of a fiery, independent woman struggling to live the life she has been assigned in the 1950s in the area outside modern Dubai. Noora Al-Salmi is 17. Her mother has died, her father has since gone mad, and her brother, Sager, is trying to provide for her. When Sager hears of a rich pearl merchant looking for a new wife, Noora, unhappy with this plan, escapes to a nearby village where she quickly becomes involved with a man who, unbeknownst to her, is promised to another woman. She returns home to find that Sager has married her off to the merchant. With intimate, well-paced prose, Gargash takes us along with Noora to her new life: competing with her husband''s two other wives and enduring the nightly ritual in hopes of a child for the household. But when Noora begins an illicit affair, she becomes mistress of her fate. Does she choose the confines of security or the potential happiness of freedom? An exciting, passion-filled read that illuminates an intriguing culture through the eyes and experience of a feisty heroine.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œUnadorned, poetic language, filled with well-integrated cultural detail. . . . [A] terrific choice for bookclub discussions. . . . This may find appeal with fans of The Kite Runner.â€ (Booklist )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGargashâ€™s poignant plot will appeal to diehard fans of world literature.â€ (Library Journal )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGargash weaves an enticing tale of a fiery, independent woman. . . . Intimate, well-paced prose. . . . An exciting, passion-filled read that illuminates an intriguing culture through the eyes and experience of a fiesty heroine.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA young womanâ€™s story opens a window into Dubai on the verge of modernity. . . . Seaside and desert locales, along with the transitional time period, give a fresh twist to this standard tradition-versus-modernity plotline. . . . Her setting is original.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/914'),
(7370, 'Santa Fe Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n OUR FAVORITE LEGAL EAGLE LANDS IN NEW MEXICOAttorney Ed Eagle thinks heâ€™s safe from his black widow ex-wife, who is now in police custody. But when she escapes, she spins a new web that just might trap himâ€”and everyone he loves.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n OUR FAVORITE LEGAL EAGLE LANDS IN NEW MEXICOAttorney Ed Eagle thinks heâ€™s safe from his black widow ex-wife, who is now in police custody. But when she escapes, she spins a new web that just might trap himâ€”and everyone he loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2665'),
(7371, 'Santa Fe Edge', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n If you run into trouble in Santa Fe, Ed Eagle is the man to see.   Ed Eagle, the six-feet-six, take-no-prisoners Santa Fe attorney, has recovered from his encounters with Mexican organized crime and-more treacherously-his ex-wife, Barbara. Now a mysterious new client has come his way, one who may shed light into some dark corners of Ed''s past...and put him in danger once more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2656'),
(7372, 'Santa Fe Rules', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brutal triple homicide has just gone down at a lavish estate in one of Santa Feâ€™s most exclusive enclaves.The crime sends shock waves through the city and reverberates in the life of Wolf Willet. A wealthy Hollywood producer, Wolf was in New York at the time of the murdersâ€”thousands of miles away from the grisly scene.But the house in New Mexico belongs to him, and it isnâ€™t long before the police finger him as the prime suspect.As the cops build a powerful circumstantial case against him, Wolf turns to Ed Eagle, one of the nationâ€™s premier defense attorneys. But even the renowned lawyer is powerless in the face of such damning evidence, and Wolf is arrested. When another gruesome slaying rocks Santa Fe, Wolf - determined to uncover the truth behind this vendetta of escalating violence - enlists the aid of two unlikely allies: a sociopathic biker and a beautiful ex-con. But justice will be a long time coming, as he goes up against a system as venal and corrupt as the criminals it puts away. Now Wolf Willet is embroiled in the fight of his life in a desert town primed and ready to explode. A town where killers rule. A non-stop action ride filled with astonishing curves you never see coming\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2659'),
(7373, 'Santaland Diaries', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n The holidays bring out something truly special in David Sedaris, making this more a "best of" than a mere holiday book.  It''s simply  brilliant and, as many reviewers have experienced, one of those rare books  that may cause you to laugh out loud in spite of yourself.  Its only flaw  is that it''s a short book, but in content it''s a giant.\n <p>\n  Avid NPR  listeners will instantly recognize the first essay in this book,  "Santaland Diaries"; the author''s reading of that story is their  single most requested encore.  His description of becoming a Christmas Elf  at Macy''s is a true guilty pleasure; scathingly unkind and screamingly  funny.  If you ever held an undignified job, this is somehow your story -  even if you never (pardon the pun) stooped so low as to play an  elf.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sedaris writes like a post-modern Mark Twain, with a dry and  piercing wit that drips with charm and cynicism in equal measure.  His is  the kind of writing that makes me go back to re-read a sentence, a  paragraph, even a whole story hoping to savor some particular gem I only  wish I''d written.  His tone is often dark, even bleak, but there''s a wry  quality in his stories that lets you know he''s really doing it all for  effect - setting you up for an even bigger laugh because you know he''s  enjoying every minute of telling his sad, hilarious stories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Get in on  his story now so you can savor the feeling of waiting impatiently for his  next book - and there''s no better way to start than to read Holidays on  Ice. Â  Â  Â Â \n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1345'),
(7374, 'Sarah Thornhill', 'Kate Grenville', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  This is the story of Sarah Thornhill, youngest child of the family at the heart of Kate Grenville''s multi-award-winning novel\n  <i>\n   The Secret River\n  </i>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her stepmother calls her wilful, but handsome Jack Langland loves her and she loves him. Me and Jack, she thinks, what could go wrong?\n </p>\n <p>\n  But there''s an ugly secret in Sarah''s family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That secret takes her into the darkness of the past, and across the ocean to the wild coasts of New Zealand. Among the strangers of that other place, she can begin to understand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   Sarah Thornhill\n  </i>\n  , a novel by one of our greatest writers, is about love lost and found, tangled histories, and how it matters to keep stories alive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''Grenville inhabits characters with a rare completeness...She writes with a poet''s sense of rhythm and imagery.''\n  <i>\n   Guardian\n  </i>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/705'),
(7375, 'Sarah&#39;s Key', 'Tatiana de Rosnay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel'' d''Hiv'' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family''s apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel'' d''Hiv''s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France''s past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her toSarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl''s ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d''Hiv'', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah''s past, she begins toquestion her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life. Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2904'),
(7376, 'The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The twelfth installment in the beloved, best-selling series is once again a beautiful blend of wit and wisdom, and a proÂ­foundly touching tale of the human heart. Â Precious Ramotswe is haunted by a dream in which she is driving her dear old white van. Grace Makutsi dreams that her 97 percent on the Botswana SecreÂ­tarial College exam was a mistake. When Mma RaÂ­motswe discovers that her van is actually still in use (and, of course, sets out to retrieve it), Mma Makutsi wonders whether her dream will turn out to be proÂ­phetic as well. They can only wait and see, but, in the meantime, one of Phuti Radiphutiâ€™s apprentices has gotten a girl pregnant and, under pressure to marry her, has run away. Naturally, it is up to Precious and Grace to help the couple work things out. In other developments, Mma Ramotswe investigates a case of rural jealousy in which cattle are being poisoned. Add to the mix Violet Sephothoâ€™s newly begun, already unstoppable run for the Botswana Parliament and the possibility that wedding bells may finally ring for Phuti RaÂ­diphuti and Grace Makutsiâ€”whose love for each other is as great as their love for Botswanaâ€”and we have a charming and delightful tale in the inimitable style of Alexander McCall Smith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3603'),
(7377, 'Saul Bellow: Letters', 'Saul Bellow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Best of 2010 Lists\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  , Michiko Kakutani''s Top Ten of 2010\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n  </em>\n  , John Yardley''s Best of 2010\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Minneapolis Star Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It comes as no surprise to find that the great novelist was a great correspondent as well. I hungrily read the book through in three nights, as though I''d stumbled upon a lost Bellow masterpiece only recently unearthed."\n  <br />\n  ?Philip Roth\n </p>\n <p>\n  "In the\n  <em>\n   Letters\n  </em>\n  , as in everything he wrote, Saul Bellow never dipped below a certain level?and that level is stratospheric."\n  <br />\n  ?Martin Amis\n </p>\n <p>\n  "These aren''t dashed-off notes, but letters that required considerable care and meant much to the author, as he expresses affection and support for other writers (Ellison, Roth, Malamud, Cheever, Amis et al.), takes critics and journalists to task with well-formed arguments and offers critical commentary on the culture that provides the context for his work (a culture that no longer values the art of writing letters)."\n  <br />\n  ?_Kirkus Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Feisty, smart, but most of all thrillingly intimate, these letters ripen and mature as they go along, just as some people do."\n  <br />\n  ?_Chicago Tribune_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Benjamin Taylor has done a superb job in both his selection and his introduction to these salient letters from a gone world when literature was all the rage."\n  <br />\n  ?_Tablet Magazine_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Benjamin Taylor''s introduction and frequent brief indentifying notes are models of elegant scholarly restraint."\n  <br />\n  ?_Boston Globe_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Collected and annotated by Benjamin Taylor, these letters reveal in Saul Bellow a rare consistency: From the first letter in 1932 to the last in 2005, Bellow''s ex-wives accrue, his fortunes rise and fall, but his character-as a man generous and preoccupied by literature-remains fixed."\n  <br />\n  ?_Time Out New York_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Vibrant, witty, and revealing, the collection is truly captivating."\n  <br />\n  -Kiara, Bookseller, Booksmith\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A never-before-published collection of letters-an intimate self- portrait as well as the portrait of a century.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness and complexity. Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages. Some of the finest letters are to Bellow''s fellow writers-William Faulkner, John Cheever, Philip Roth, Martin Amis, Ralph Ellison, Cynthia Ozick, and Wright Morris. Intimate, ironical, richly observant, and funny, these letters reveal the influcences at work in the man, and illuminate his enduring legacy-the novels that earned him a Nobel Prize and the admiration of the world over.\n  <em>\n   Saul Bellow: Letters\n  </em>\n  is a major literary event and an important edition to Bellow''s incomparable body of work.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1977'),
(7378, 'Savages', 'Don Winslow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Interpreting Winslow''s two Southern California beach-bum marijuana dealers--thoughtful philanthropist-environmentalist Ben and his ex-navy SEAL pal Chon--narrator Michael Kramer develops a laid-back, unruffled persona for the former and a harder-edge, restless attitude for the latter. He even manages an acceptably feminine, spacey voice for their mutual girlfriend, Ophelia. Kramer focuses on keeping a moderately fast pace for the trio''s witty dialogue, but when the Baja Mexico drug cartel led by its beautiful but vulnerable leader, Elena, demands a piece of their action, things speed up. And when the cartel kidnaps Ophelia and demands a million-dollar ransom, Kramer barely breathes in following the twists and turns devised by Winslow''s antiheroes, and matches the novel''s mood as it turns from wittily hip to dark and disturbingly violent. A Simon &amp; Schuster hardcover (Reviews, May 31). (July) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Ben and Chon are two Americans running a lucrative marijuana operation out of ritzy Laguna Beach, California. Their business is buzzing along nicely until members of the Mexican Baja Cartel decide they want a piece of the action. Ben, a charitable, environmentally conscious Berkeley grad, doesnâ€™t want any trouble. Former Navy Seal Chon prefers peace as well but not if it means giving up primo weed. When Ben and Chon resist the Mexicansâ€™ demands, the cartel kidnaps â€œOâ€ (short for Ophelia), the boysâ€™ close confidante and frequent bedroom playmate. Ben and Chon conjure clever schemes to outwit their adversaries and win back O, using everything from improvised explosive devices to Letterman and Leno masks. Edgar nominee and Shamus winner Winslow, who first evoked the violent world of the Mexican drug cartels in the best-selling narco-thriller Power of the Dog (2005), dispenses short chapters that drive his plot breathlessly forward. He also serves up plenty of savage wit. After Ben dons a Gerald Ford disguise for one of the pairâ€™s heists, he smacks his head against the car door, quipping, â€œIâ€™m a method hijacker.â€ Riddled with bullets and splattered with blood, Savages is not for the squeamish, but itâ€™s a must for Winslow fans. --Allison Block\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/666'),
(7379, 'Save Me', 'Lisa Scottoline', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the New York Times bestselling author of Think Twice and Look Again comes an emotionally powerful novel about a split-second choice, agonizing consequences, and the need for justice Rose McKenna volunteers as a lunch mom in her daughter Melly''s school in order to keep an eye on Amanda, a mean girl who''s been bullying her daughter. Her fears come true when the bullying begins, sending Melly to the bathroom in tears. Just asÂ Rose is about to follow after her daughter, a massive explosion goes off in the kitchen, sending the room into chaos.Â Rose finds herself faced with the horrifying decision of whether or not to run to the bathroom to rescue her daughter or usher Amanda to safety. She believes she has accomplished both, only to discover that Amanda, for an unknown reason, ran back into the school once out ofÂ Rose''s sight. In an instance,Â Rose goes from hero to villain as the small community blames Amanda''s injuries on her. In the days that follow,Â Rose''s life starts to fall to pieces, Amanda''s mother decides to sue, her marriage is put to the test, and worse, when her daughter returns to school, the bullying only intensifies.Â Rose must take matters into her own hands and get down to the truth of what really happened that fateful day in order to save herself, her marriage and her family. In the way that Look Again had readers questioning everything they thought they knew about family, Save Me will have readers wondering just how far they would go to save the ones they love. Lisa Scottoline is writing about real issues that resonate with real women, and the results are emotional, heartbreaking and honest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3377'),
(7380, 'Saving Faith', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It sounds like a movie pitch: "The story is like Tom Clancy crossed with John Grisham set in the Washington D.C. political world." But David Baldacci''s\n <em>\n  Saving Faith\n </em>\n successfully fuses elements from both of these chart-busters in this political thriller spiced with techno-wizardry.\n</p>\n<p>\n The villain is a classic spy caricature: cold-war CIA super-patriot Robert Thornhill wants to reclaim the glory days of the Central Intelligence Agency--when money flowed like the Mississippi during a flood, and the FBI watched helplessly from the sidelines. Working from his secret underground bunker, he blackmails Danny Buchanan, one of the great Washington lobbyists, to front an enormous bribery scheme that will force Congress to bend to the CIA''s whims. But Thornhill''s plan springs a leak: Buchanan''s assistant Faith Lockhart discovers her boss''s dirty dealings, and she intends to expose the whole mess to Thornhill''s nemesis, the FBI. Thornhill''s associates attempt to assassinate Faith, but their bullet kills her FBI escort instead. Faith finds herself on the run with Lee Adams, a fit-and-trim PI who had been shadowing her at the behest of Buchanan.\n</p>\n<p>\n If all this sounds a bit confusing, it is at times. Baldacci works hard to keep the tension steadily rising, but it is sometimes difficult to remember why Faith and Lee can''t just stop running and go for help. Nevertheless, they are very likable heroes, and Baldacci''s depiction of the world of lobbyists and the internecine warfare of the FBI and CIA (complete with state-of-the-art spy gadgets and transmission-proof chambers) elevates the novel with details that can come only from careful research.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Baldacci''s fifth high-concept premise in as many novels (The Simple Truth; Absolute Power; etc.) propels his hard-working new thriller: a renegade CIA faction attempts to reassert the agency''s primacy over the FBI by manipulating members of Congress who fund both outfits. To do so, the CIA conspirators aim to take over a bribery scheme they''ve discovered. The scam was concocted by legendary lobbyist Danny Buchanan, who has been greasing the palms of lawmakers to gain their support of bills aiding the poor and hungry overseas. The spooks plan to assassinate Buchanan and his prot?g?, the lovely Faith Lockhart, and force the legislators, under threat of exposure, to support the CIA over the FBI. First, however, they''ll have to kill the FBI person guarding Faith, for she has confessed everything to the bureau in hopes of working a deal for herself and Buchanan. But the CIA villains haven''t reckoned on the resilience of the two lobbyists, nor on the grit of FBI agent Brooke Reynolds, nor on the skill of PI Lee Adams, who gets caught up in the attempted hit on Faith and her guardianA and who then goes on the run with the lobbyist. The novel evolves into a frantic, exciting chase, FBI after CIA after Lee/Faith, with a few nifty twists. Baldacci''s characters continue to grow in complexityAthere''s an exceptionally fine scene in which Lee, drunk, nearly rapes FaithAbut, alas, so does his plotting. This novel is overdone, with too many heroes and subplots and enough data withheld from readers to generate confusion. Baldacci''s prose can still break the jaws of subvocalizers, too. The novel moves fast, though, and its players and suspense are strongAas should be sales. Main selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club; simultaneous audiobook.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/141'),
(7381, 'Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports is the third book in the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. It was released in the UK and the US on May 29, 2007. The series is set in the near future, and centers around the ''flock'', a group of human-avian hybrids on the run from the scientists who created them. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot | Main Characters | Reception\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The end is near . . . or is it? So reads the tagline of Book 3 of the Maximum Ride series, suggesting that Patterson''s best-selling series for YAs may expand beyond the trilogy originally plannedâ€”news that will be greeted enthusiastically by fans of its 14-year-old heroine. Slated for extermination by their scientist creators, rebel-mutant Max and other members of her flock, all of whom possess bird DNA and functioning wings, are on the lam again, their mission to save the world from a eugenics plot. Affection for the dauntless characters and misadventures that build on universal yearnings about sprouting wings and taking flight will hold readers. Mattson, Jennifer\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/407'),
(7382, 'Say Goodbye', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the latest Kimberly Quincy thriller, the FBI special agent is five months pregnant. Most women might be thinking about taking things a bit easy, but not Quincy: not only is she still working full time but she also stumbles into what might be the biggest case of her career (and, as regular readers know, she has already tackled a few big ones). A serial killer is targeting young women. This in itself isnâ€™t so unusual, but hereâ€™s the twist: he is, or so it appears, using spiders as murder weapons. Kimberly is convinced she is on the trail of a psychopath, but without any bodies or hard evidence, she is having a difficult time convincing her superiors she isnâ€™t on a wild-goose chase. In her last few novels, especially Gone (2006) and the excellent Hide (2007), Gardner has really hit her stride, and this one, if not her best, will surely be a surefire hit for her fansâ€”and, in fact, for all readers who likes their thrillers suspenseful, fast paced, and just a little creepy (OK, a lot creepy). --David Pitt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Just when you thought Lisa Gardner couldn''t get any better ... she does.\n <strong>\n  Say Goodbye\n </strong>\n is a stunning, chilling, up-all-night thriller that will leave you shaken."â€”Lee Child\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA spider-obsessed killer is hunting Atlanta prostitutesâ€¦. Heâ€™s seriously scary and the flashbacks to his abusive past achieve a ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n " Haunting.... Gardner has consistently delivered entertaining and suspenseful novels in recent years, but she''s gone one better with\n <strong>\n  Say Goodbye\n </strong>\n , perhaps her best book yet."â€”\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShould have a warning label: â€˜Read only in a well-lit room that has first been thoroughly checked for spiderwebs.â€™ Then, you can settle back and get caught up in a story that is truly a stunner of a suspense novel.â€â€“\n <em>\n  Tulsa World\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGardner continue[s] to write fascinating, dark charactersâ€¦. [She] surprises you right up until the end.â€â€“\n <em>\n  Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor all readers who likes their thrillers suspenseful, fast paced, and just a little creepy (OK, a lot creepy).â€â€”\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Lock the doors before you open this book, and hope that the only web being woven around you is Lisa Gardnerâ€™s mesmerizing story."â€”Tess Gerritsen\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEngaging if highly disturbing.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/640'),
(7383, 'A Scanner Darkly', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick''s hugely influential SF stories.\n  <em>\n   A Scanner Darkly\n  </em>\n  cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick''s own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. Nevertheless, it''s blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the time when as a boy he discovered masturbation.) The antihero Bob Arctor is forced by his double life into warring double personalities: as futuristic narcotics agent "Fred," face blurred by a high-tech scrambler, he must spy on and entrap suspected drug dealer Bob Arctor. His disintegration under the influence of the insidious Substance D is genuine tragicomedy. For Arctor there''s no way off the addict''s downward escalator, but what awaits at the bottom is a kind of redemption--there are more wheels within wheels than we suspected, and his life is not entirely wasted.\n  <em>\n   --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Described as being "like a graphic novel come to life," the 2006 film version of Dick''s classic 1977 novel\n  <em>\n   A Scanner Darkly\n  </em>\n  is a full-length animated feature directed by Richard Linklater using rotoscope visual technique. In rotoscoping, filmed actors are digitally transformed into drawings. The graphic novel version of the film consists mostly of direct screen grabs from the animated version. Harvey Pekar has added some narration that has been adapted from the novel. The books and film tell the story of a futuristic Southern California in which drugs are rampant and identity mutable. Keanu Reeves plays an undercover cop who has to spy on and understand the druggy circles around him. The film looks intriguing, but the graphic novel version falls asleep instead of coming to life. Simply arranging film stills on a page to resemble comic book panels does not a narrative make. And while the dialogue seems mostly drawn from the film, the narration, intended to bridge the gap between watching action unfold and reading it, is incongruous and sometimes nonsensical in this setting. This bizarre hybrid is no substitute for Dick''s original and will serve best as a reminder of the film.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1023');
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(7384, 'The Scarecrow', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paper to write the definitive murder story of his career.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder. But as he delves into the story, Jack realizes that Winslow''s so-called confession is bogus. The kid might actually be innocent.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jack is soon running with his biggest story since The Poet made his career years ago. He is tracking a killer who operates completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him. Including Jack''s.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Michael Connelly and Janet Evanovich: Author One-to-One\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  In this Amazon exclusive, we brought together blockbuster authors Michael Connelly and Janet Evanovich and asked them to interview each other. Find out what two of the top authors of their genres have to say about their characters, writing process, and more. Janet Evanovich is the bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, including\n  <em>\n   Finger Lickin'' Fifteen\n  </em>\n  , twelve romance novels, the Alexandra Barnaby novels, and\n  <em>\n   How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author\n  </em>\n  . Read on to see Janet Evanovich''s questions for Michael Connelly, or turn the tables to see what Connelly asked Evanovich.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  : So dude,... Okay, you''re back in Florida. Do you ever get to the beach? And when and if you get to the beach...is Harry Bosch with you? And what kind of beachwear are you guys sporting? Flip-flops? Crocs? Speedo? Board shorts?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Connelly\n  </strong>\n  : I go to the beach often on weekends. Board shorts are required and I wear flip-flops with the built in bottle opener. Comes in handy. In Florida we rarely have waves, unless there is a hurricane in the Gulf. So I have taken up paddle-boarding, which essentially involves a big surfboard that you stand on and paddle. Still a balancing act, but easier than surfing, and you don''t need waves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  : What will a bookstore look like in 2020? Will we all be downloading?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Connelly\n  </strong>\n  : Good question. Since it is only eleven years from now, I think there will still be a solid population of "old school" readers who need the book in their hands. The question is, will they get it at a bookstore or will we have a Kindle 9.0 device that manufactures a book for you at home, complete with photo of author in a bomber jacket.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  : If everybody is downloading in 2020 what the heck will we be signing on book tour? Body parts? Kindle cases?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Connelly\n  </strong>\n  : I signed two Kindles yesterday. One person asked me to leave room for signatures from you and Dennis Lehane. So next time you''re in Seattle she''ll be in your line.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  : Do you eat when you write? Beer nuts? M&amp;Ms? Just coffee? What keeps you from falling out of the chair in a narcoleptic stupor?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Connelly\n  </strong>\n  : Have you ever seen what eating Cheetos can do to a keyboard? I have to say I am addicted to Coke. I always have a glass of it nearby. I eat a lot of candy, too. Keeps me going. Smarties are a great writing tool. I often need to raid my daughter''s stash and then there is trouble on the home front.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  : Are you a messy guy or a neat guy? Do you keep clutter on your desk? In your head? Are there soda cans and crumpled fast food wrappers rolling around on the floor of your car?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Connelly\n  </strong>\n  : I keep a clean car but a desk that gets progressively messier as I write a book. When I am finished with the book, I clean up the deskâ€”and eat all the stray Smarties found under the paperwork. The clean desk then promotes the start of the next book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  : The new book,\n  <em>\n   The Scarecrow\n  </em>\n  sounds terrific, and I know it''s followed by Harry Bosch in\n  <em>\n   Nine Dragons\n  </em>\n  in the fall. Does your publisher prefer one series over another? And do you find one series to be more commercially viable than another?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Connelly\n  </strong>\n  : They let me do what I want. I like writing about Harry Bosch and he''s pretty popular, but usually when I write a standalone it widens the audience a bit.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Evanovich\n  </strong>\n  : Want to meet me in a bar in Ft. Myers? Is that halfway?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Connelly\n  </strong>\n  : Name the place.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Scarecrow is a 2009 novel written by award-winning American author Michael Connelly. It was Connelly''s 21st book (20th novel) and the second featuring as the main character Jack McEvoy, a reporter now living in Los Angeles, and FBI agent Rachel Walling. As a result, it is a sequel to the events in Connelly''s 1996 novel The Poet, although another Connelly novel, The Narrows, was published in 2004 as the "official" sequel to The Poet. The book was released in the UK and Ireland on May 12, 2009 and in the US and Canada on May 26, 2009. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot | Related material | Footnotes\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/491'),
(7385, 'Scarlet Nights', 'Jude Deveraux', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What if you learned that your fiance was not who he claimed to be? Engaged to the charming and seductive Greg Anders, Sara Shaw is happily anticipating her wedding in Edilean, Virginia. The date has been set, the flowers ordered, even her heirloom dress is ready. But just three weeks before the wedding, Greg gets a telephone call during the night and leaves without explanation. Two days later, a man climbs up through a trapdoor in the floor of Sara''s apartment, claiming that he is the brother of her best friend and that he''s moving in. While Mike Newland is indeed telling the truth about his identity, his reason for being there reaches far deeper. He''s an undercover detective, and his assignment is to use Sara to track down a woman who is one of the most notorious criminals in the United Statesand also happens to be the mother of the man Sara plans to marry. Mike thinks the job will be easyif he can figure out how to make a "good" girl like Sara trust him, that is. But Mike has no idea what this mission has in store for him. He''s worked hard to keep private his connections to Edilean, which date back to his grandmother''s time there in 1941. But as Mike and Sara get to know each other, he can''t help but share secrets about himself that he''s told no one else. And in return, Sara opens up to Mike about things she could never reveal to Greg. As the pair work together to solve two mysteries, their growing love begins to heal each of them in ways they never could have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3406'),
(7386, 'The Scarletti Inheritance', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Her weapons: Money and Power. Her target: The  most dangerous man in the worldâ€”her son. Elizabeht  Wyckman Scarlatti has a planâ€”a desperate,  last-minute gambleâ€”designed to save the world from her  own son, Ulster, an incalculably dangerous man who  is working under the name of Heinrich Kroeger:  Unless she can stop him, he is about to give  Hitler''s Third Reich the most powerful triumph on earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1276'),
(7387, 'Scarpetta', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of bestseller Cornwell''s plodding 16th thriller to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after\n  <em>\n   Book of the Dead\n  </em>\n  ), the forensic pathologistâ€”who recently relocated to Belmont, Mass., with her forensic psychologist husbandâ€”is called to Manhattan''s Bellevue Hospital for reasons that don''t become clear until she gets there. Oscar Bane, who voluntarily committed himself to Bellevue while denying he brutally murdered his girlfriend, refuses to speak to anyone except the high-profile Scarpetta. Bane, Scarpetta discovers, is obsessed with her. Meanwhile, someone masquerading as Scarpetta is lurking in cyberspace and supplying an online gossip site with dirty secrets about the doctor. For help on the murder case, Scarpetta turns to her computer whiz niece and a macho former colleague whose shocking actions in\n  <em>\n   Book of the Dead\n  </em>\n  severely damaged his relationship with Scarpetta. With a plot full of holes and frustrating red herrings, this entry falls short of the high standard set by earlier volumes in this iconic series.\n  <em>\n   (Dec.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Critics agreed that readers familiar with Cornwell''s series will find\n  <em>\n   Scarpetta\n  </em>\n  a weak addition; novice audiences will certainly want to skip over this one and start with\n  <em>\n   Postmortem\n  </em>\n  (1990), Cornwell''s award-winning debut. Although\n  <em>\n   Scarpetta\n  </em>\n  is not one of the better entries to date, the thriller contains Cornwell''s meticulous attention to detail (from autopsies to investigations) and edge-of-your-seat plotting. However, reviewers cited too much backstory, overly complex twists, and only mediocre characterization. The\n  <em>\n   Rocky Mountain News\n  </em>\n  even accused Scarpetta of becoming "something of a cipher," while the\n  <em>\n   Guardian\n  </em>\n  found nothing to like at all. The bright spot? A thrilling, unpredictable ending.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3019'),
(7388, 'The Scarpetta Factor', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patricia Cornwell and James Patterson: Author One-on-One\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  In this Amazon exclusive, we brought together blockbuster authors Patricia Cornwell and James Patterson and asked them to interview each other. Find out what two of the top authors of their genres have to say about their characters, writing process, and more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patterson\n  </strong>\n  : Here''s a chance to say all the great things the critics would about\n  <em>\n   The Scarpetta Factor\n  </em>\n  , if there were any newspapers left that still reviewed books. Or, as they say in the TV interviews: Tell us about this one, Patricia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cornwell\n  </strong>\n  : As was true in the last book (\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Patterson\n  <strong>\n   : This book is set in New York againâ€”what do you like about the Big City? What don''t you like?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cornwell\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  : Certainly New York City is the ultimate Big City. By placing Scarpetta in the midst of NYC within its medical examiner''s office, I''ve positioned her on an international stage where anything can and does happen. The machinery is huge (NYPD and the FBI field office, for example), yet the private lives of the characters remain intimate and small. Not only is this a big story about a big-city case that captivates the world, it''s also a very close look at the characters and who and what they are to one another in contemporary times. In terms of what I like and don''t like about NYC? The only thing I don''t like about it is driving there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Patterson\n  </strong>\n  : I often get asked what I have in common with Alex Cross. What would you say you have in common with Kay Scarpetta?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Cornwell\n  <strong>\n   : Scarpetta and I share the same values and sensibilities. We approach cases the same way (which should be rather obvious, since I work the cases by taking on her persona). Beyond that, there are many differences. I''m not Catholic or Italian or married to Benton Wesley. I''m not a forensic pathologist with a law degree. I don''t have her emotional discipline or inhibitions, nor do I have her professional dazzle. (I always remind people I was an English major who started working at age eleven, first as a babysitter, then in food service!) I don''t have Scarpetta''s pedigree. But then, she isn''t a writer, unless she''s writing professional journal articles or autopsy reports.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Patterson\n  <strong>\n   : What''s your routine like when it comes to writing? Do you do write every day? On the road? Do you need vacations from your writing?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cornwell\n  <strong>\n   : I wish I had more of a routine. I begin each book with research that continues up to the very end of the process. But gradually, as I approach the deadline, I sink deeper into seclusion until eventually I donâ€™t even answer e-mails or the phone anymore (unless it''s my partner, Staci). I just write morning, noon, and night. The pulling together and completion of a novel is so intense, I''m almost living out of body by the time I''m done. It''s the most wonderful and miserable experience imaginable. I would love a vacation but never seem to have time, and I doubt I''d know what to do if you made me "do nothing." In fact, Staci and I have a strange habit of going to foreign lands and visiting their police departments and morgues instead of just hanging out at the beach. I don''t write every day because I do so much research, and currently, I have many other responsibilities that keep me busier than ever (filming, involvement with forensic institutesâ€”just the business of life, for example).\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Patterson\n  <strong>\n   : What''s the best feedback you''ve had from a reader? Orâ€”what was the best piece of writing advice you''ve had?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cornwell\n  <strong>\n   : Frankly, the best feedback was when a reader complained some years ago that he wasnâ€™t sure I liked my characters anymore. And I thought about this and realized I wasnâ€™t sure I did, either. A horrible thing to realize. It was because the series had gone on for so long that it was time to reinvent the characters and their relationships with one another and the world they inhabit. I think this remake is most apparent in the last book,\n   <em>\n    Scarpetta\n   </em>\n   , and I am on a wonderful and invigorating new course that is even more evident in the new one,\n   <em>\n    The Scarpetta Factor\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Patterson\n  <strong>\n   : Bonus question: How do you feel about the Hollywood adaptations of your work? Don''t be afraidâ€”let it all hang out.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cornwell\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  : In the past, very disappointed, because the projects went nowhere. Now, so far so good. The first films (_Lifetime _movies of\n  <em>\n   At Risk\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Front\n  </em>\n  , which are non-Scarpetta novellas) air this spring. I had a magnificent experience from beginning to end with the producers, actorsâ€”everyone. It''s way too early to talk about the 20th Century Fox project with Angelina Jolie, although who wouldn''t be excited about her?\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Cornwell''s solid 17th thriller to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after\n  <em>\n   Scarpetta\n  </em>\n  ) finds Scarpettaâ€”who''s the senior forensic analyst for CNNâ€”probing the murder of a Central Park jogger as well as looking into the disappearance of Hannah Starr, a wealthy financial planner. Quizzed on-air about previously undisclosed details of the perplexing Starr case, Scarpetta realizes that the tentacles of the case reach further than she imagined. Her niece, forensic computer whiz Lucy Farinelli, has her own reasons for digging into Starr''s disappearance, along with Lucy''s girlfriend, New York County ADA Jaime Berger. NYPD Det. Pete Marino, another series staple, is also in the loop as a member of Berger''s task force. But it''s the dark past of Scarpetta''s psychologist husband, Benton Wesleyâ€”particularly his presumed death in\n  <em>\n   Point of Origin\n  </em>\n  and shocking reappearance five years later in\n  <em>\n   Blow Fly\n  </em>\n  â€”that binds the disparate pieces together and make this one of Cornwell''s stronger recent efforts.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3024'),
(7389, 'Scarpetta&#39;s Winter Table', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Not intended for serious cooks, but ideal for fastidious fans of Ms. Cornwell,\n  <em>\n   Scarpetta''s Winter Table\n  </em>\n  is perfect for the thrillerphile who has everything. This offbeat, 81-page novella takes you behind the scenes to Dr. Kay Scarpetta''s kitchen, where you''ll learn how to make her "Bad Mood Pasta Primavera," "Holiday Pizza," and "Childhood Key Lime Pie"--just to name a few. Along for the culinary festivities are the doctor''s trusty cohorts, Pete Marino, captain of the Richmond police department, and Scarpetta''s niece, Lucy. Both add their favorite concoctions, such as Marino''s "Cause-of-Death Eggnog" and Lucy''s "Friendly Grill." Those who have read Cornwell''s\n  <em>\n   Winter Table\n  </em>\n  , as it''s amply stuffed with references from the bestselling thriller. However, recipe readers be warned: there are no measurements, exact lists of ingredients, or detailed cooking instructions. It reads like a short story, with vague descriptions of what each dish contains--the intent being that each person will make a slightly different version. This may be frustrating for a by-the-book cook, but flexible, freestyle chefs may find it''s just what the doctor ordered.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this bonbon, billed as a "special gift" from the author to her readers, popular Cornwell protagonist Dr. Kay Scarpetta is joined by Detective Peter Marino and niece Lucy Farinelli as they cook their way through a memorable Christmas. DAVIDSON, Diane Mott.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3020'),
(7390, 'The Scoop', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Teresa ''Toots'' Amelia Loudenberry has crammed a great deal of living - not to mention eight much-loved husbands - into her varied and rewarding life. Newly single, Toots is ready to taste life again, and fate has just handed her the perfect opportunity. The owner of the gossip rag where Toots'' daughter works is about to lose the paper to his gambling debts. Eager to find a way to keep her daughter employed among the movers and shakers of Hollywood, Toots calls on her three trusted friends - Sophie, Mavis, and Ida - to help her pull some strings. Together, they''ll hatch a plan that promises thrills, laughter, and more than a hint of danger. Putting aside her widow''s weeds (black was never her color), Toots will prove that you should never underestimate a Southern lady of a certain age, and that each day can be a gift, if you''re willing to claim it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3785'),
(7391, 'The Scottish Prisoner', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a novel featuring Outlander hero Jamie Fraser in a major role, #1 bestselling author Diana Gabaldon continues the Lord John series.Jamie Fraser, a Scottish Jacobite officer paroled as a prisoner of war on an estate in the Lake District, finds the numbness of his days disturbed. First, by dreams of his dead wife, then by the presence of the small son he cannot claim. Much more disturbing is the sudden reappearance in his life of Lord John Grey, with a summons that will take him - again - from everything he values.A legacy from a dead friend has led Lord John and his brother Hal in pursuit of a corrupt army officer, along a trail of politics and murder. The matter becomes critical when the trail leads into Ireland, with a baffling message left in the tongue called "Erse" - the language spoken by Scottish Highlanders.Jamie is forced to help the Greys, in order to guard his own secrets. But the Greys have secrets, too, which may deprive him of his life, as well as his liberty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2900'),
(7392, 'Scream for Me', 'Karen Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Rose makes her hardcover debut with this intricately plotted romantic thriller, a sequel to\n  <em>\n   Die for Me\n  </em>\n  (2007). Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Daniel Vartanian, having recently buried his parents, who were done in by his late serial-killer brother, Simon, looks into a series of killings that appear to copycat the brutal rape and murder of Alicia Tremaine 13 years earlier. In the course of his investigation, Daniel meets Alex Fallon, an attractive nurse who asks him to help locate her hairdresser stepsister, Bailey Crighton, who''s mysteriously disappeared. In a twist, Alex turns out to be Alicia''s twin sister. The romance between Daniel and Alex intensifies along with the suspense as the body count rises. This chilling novel will leave Rose''s fans breathlessly anticipating her next release.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Rose makes her hardcover debut with this terrifying followup to last year''s DIE FOR ME. That evil can survive and flourish in a town is the horrifying premise. Intricate plotting and rich characterization ensure that the tension and thrill factor hit at gut level and never let go. Rose is a force to be reckoned with!" (\n  <strong>\n   Romantic Times BOOKclub magazine\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mesmerizing. Fabulous suspense. Masterful writing." (\n  <strong>\n   Betina Krahn, New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Test\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "From the first rousing chapter to the last, SCREAM FOR ME is intense, complex, and unforgettable." (\n  <strong>\n   James Patterson\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "SCREAM FOR ME has everything a great suspense novel should have: cold chills, hot thrills, and characters that come alive." (\n  <strong>\n   Allison Brennan\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Rose paints her characters with a flesh and blood brush, bringing life to their every word and gesture. SCREAM FOR ME loudly announces that there could well be a new thriller sheriff in town." (\n  <strong>\n   Lorenzo Carcaterra\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Karen Rose writes blistering, high-octane suspense that never lets up. Before I could finish SCREAM FOR ME, I had to get up and make sure my doors were locked. Don''t miss it!" (\n  <strong>\n   Karen Robards, New York Times bestselling author of Obsession\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/414'),
(7393, 'The Screwtape Letters', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Who among us has never wondered if there might not really be a tempter sitting on our shoulders or dogging our steps? C.S. Lewis dispels all doubts. In\n  <em>\n   The Screwtape Letters\n  </em>\n  , one of his bestselling works, we are made privy to the instructional correspondence between a senior demon, Screwtape, and his wannabe diabolical nephew Wormwood. As mentor, Screwtape coaches Wormwood in the finer points, tempting his "patient" away from God.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each letter is a masterpiece of reverse theology, giving the reader an inside look at the thinking and means of temptation. Tempters, according to Lewis, have two motives: the first is fear of punishment, the second a hunger to consume or dominate other beings. On the other hand, the goal of the Creator is to woo us unto himself or to transform us through his love from "tools into servants and servants into sons." It is the dichotomy between being consumed and subsumed completely into another''s identity or being liberated to be utterly ourselves that Lewis explores with his razor-sharp insight and wit.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The most brilliant feature of\n  <em>\n   The Screwtape Letters\n  </em>\n  may be likening hell to a bureaucracy in which "everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment." We all understand bureaucracies, be it the Department of Motor Vehicles, the IRS, or one of our own making. So we each understand the temptations that slowly lure us into hell. If you''ve never read Lewis,\n  <em>\n   The Screwtape Letters\n  </em>\n  is a great place to start. And if you know Lewis, but haven''t read this, you''ve missed one of his core writings.\n  <em>\n   --Patricia Klein\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lewis''s satire is a Christian classic. Screwtape is a veteran demon in the service of "Our Father Below" whose letters to his nephew and prot?g?, Wormwood, instruct the demon-in-training in the fine points of leading a new Christian astray. Lewis''s take on human nature is as on-target as it was when the letters were first published in 1941. John Cleese''s narration is perfect as he takes Screwtape from emotional height to valley, from tight control to near apoplexy. This will be a popular in most libraries.ANann Blaine Hilyard, Lake Villa Dist. Lib., IL\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1172'),
(7394, 'Scribbling the Cat: Travels With an African Soldier', 'Alexandra Fuller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n K is, seemingly, a man of contradictions; tattooed, battle scarred, and weathered by farm work, he is a lion of a man, feral and bulletproof. Yet he is also a born-again Christian, given to weeping when he recollects his failed romantic life, and more than anything else welling up inside with memories of battle. For his war, like all wars, was a brutal one, marked by racial strife, jungle battles, unimaginable tortures, and the murdering of innocent civilians - and K, like all the veterans of the war, has blood on his hands. Driven by K''s memories, Fuller and K decide to enter the heart of darkness in the most literal way - by traveling from Zambia through Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) and Mozambique to visit the scenes of the war and to meet other veterans. It is a strange journey into the past, one marked at once by somber reflections and odd humor and featuring characters such as Mapenga, a fellow veteran who lives with his pet lion on a little island in the middle of a lake and is known to cope with his personal demons by refusing to speak for days on end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1979'),
(7395, 'Sea of Glory: America&#39;s Voyage of Discovery, the U.s. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842', 'Nathaniel Philbrick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its mercurial leader, Charles Wilkes. This despite the numerous accomplishments and lasting legacy of the massive four-year project that involved six ships and hundreds of men. The "Ex. Ex.," as it came to be known, is credited with the discovery of Antarctica, the first accurate charting of what is now Oregon and Washington, the retrieval of thousands of new species of life, and the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution. Yet when Wilkes returned, instead of being hailed as a great man of science or a national hero, he was shunned by the President, ignored by the press, and was the subject of so much ill will on the part of his men that he was ultimately put on trial for a variety of offenses. In the portrayal presented in Nathaniel Philbrick''s\n <em>\n  Sea of Glory\n </em>\n , Wilkes is a passionate man, brash and enthusiastic, driven by seemingly impossible goals, many of which he actually accomplished. But he''s also a petty, mean-spirited loner, egotistical enough to unilaterally give himself a promotion in the middle of the expedition. Without Wilkes'' singularity of purpose, it''s hard to imagine the mission being as successful as it was, but it''s also hard to conceive a personality more poorly suited to leadership than the near-universally-despised Wilkes. Philbrick also skillfully reveals the insecurity behind the tyranny in excerpts from letters to Wilkes'' wife, Jane. The accounts of the expedition''s adventures are at various times exhilarating and tragic as the crew scales the volcanoes of Hawaii, becomes involved in a bloody war with Fijian natives, and struggles merely to stay alive while at the same time not killing Wilkes. Philbrick''s compelling narrative and meticulous research provide a vivid picture of the triumphs and hardships of the exploration age.\n <em>\n  --John Moe\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After chronicling the sinking of the whaleship Essex in In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick attempts to rescue from obscurity the U.S. Exploring Expedition''s 1838-1842 circumnavigation of the world and its cartographic and scientific accomplishments. With a strong narrative pull but an anticlimactic story arc, he chronicles the six-vessel squadron''s Pacific escapades. Instead of a grisly page-turner, however, Philbrick follows his bestselling tragedy with a drawn-out success story. More than a tale of the Ex. Ex''s journey, the book also profiles the expedition''s egomaniacal commander, Lt. Charles Wilkes; the psychological warfare he waged against his officers; and the near-miraculous survival of the squadron despite Wilkes''s perverse leadership and lack of nautical experience. Wilkes was, however, an accomplished surveyor, and the Ex. Ex. mapped hundreds of Pacific islands, 800 miles of the Oregon coast, 100 miles of the Columbia River and 1,500 miles of Antarctic coast. The expedition''s scientists made groundbreaking contributions in ethnography, biology and geology (their collections formed the basis of the Smithsonian Institution). Particularly noteworthy among Philbrick''s gripping passages are his descriptions of brash navigation in the Antarctic-but too much of the book bogs down in Wilkes''s petty politicking, as he degraded talented men and promoted incompetent ones so as not to be outshone. After four years at sea, he had alienated nearly every officer and returned home to a court-martial. "Instead of a thrilling tale of discovery and incredible achievement, [America] heard more about the flawed personality of the Expedition''s commander than anyone wanted to know," Philbrick writes of Wilkes''s 1842 trial, in which he was acquitted. Unfortunately, this spoils the retelling, too. Maps not seen by PW.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2388'),
(7396, 'The Sea of Monsters', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5-9â€“In this sequel (Miramax Books, 2006) to Rick Riordan''s\n  <em>\n   The Lightning Thief\n  </em>\n  (Hyperion, 2005; Listening Library, 2005) 13-year-old Percy is just finishing up his school year and is looking forward to another great summer at Camp Half-Blood with all the other demigods. But even before school ends, things start happening, and soon Percy is at camp along with Tyson, a homeless kid adopted by Percy''s school. At camp, Percy not only discovers that Tyson is a Cyclops and a son of Poseidon, which makes him Percy''s half-brother, but also that the camp is in trouble. There''s a quest to rescue Percy''s friend, Grover the satyr, and to retrieve the Golden Fleece. The plot zips along with plenty of action; lots of mythological monsters, titans, and gods; and a leavening of humor. Jesse Bernstein does a good job of giving Percy a youthful voice in this first-person narrative, while at the same time creating appropriate voices for the other characters. Listeners who have not read or listened to the first book in the projected trilogy will want to do so before the next installment is published.â€“\n  <em>\n   Sarah Flowers, Santa Clara County Library, CA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 6-9. In this second adventure in Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Percy is anticipating the end of seventh grade and a summer at Camp Half-Blood with kids who are the offspring of Greek gods and mortals. He dreams that his pal Grover, a satyr, is in danger. After monsters attack in his school gym class, Percy and Tyson, a homeless kid, are picked up by Annabeth, a half-blood friend, and rushed to the camp, which is under attack. The tree that guards the camp is dying, and Chiron, the activity director, has been dismissed. Another dream reveals that Grover, whose peril is increasing, is on the same island as the legendary Golden Fleece, which may be the cure for the troubled camp. With the help of Hermes, Percy and his pals set off to the Sea of Monsters, where they encounter legendary dangers. Riordan''s clever mix of classical mythology, contemporary teen characters, and an action-packed adventure will bring new readers to the series.\n  <em>\n   Diana Herald\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1155'),
(7397, 'SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden', 'Chuck Pfarrer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: â€œGeronimo, Echo, KIA.â€ These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Ladenâ€™s three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Ladenâ€™s relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told by Chuck Pfarrer, a former assault element commander of SEAL Team Six and author of the bestselling Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL. After talking to members of the SEAL team involved in the raid, Pfarrer shares never-before-revealed details of the historic raid and the men who planned and conducted it in an exclusive boots-on-the-ground account of what happened during each minute of the missionâ€” both inside the building and outside. Pfarrer takes readers inside the operation as the SEALs flew over the wall of Bin Ladenâ€™s shabby, litter-strewn compound and then penetrated deeper and deeper into the terroristâ€™s lair, telling us just what it looked, sounded, and smelled like in that sweltering Pakistani suburb. He takes us out to the courtyard to witness the near-disaster of the malfunctioning helicopter and brings us to the exact spot where the al-Qaeda leader was cowering when the bullet entered his head. SEAL Target Geronimo is an explosive story of unparalleled valor, clockwork military precision, and deadly accuracy carried out by the most elite fighting force in the worldâ€”the U.S. Navyâ€™s SEAL Team Six.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2884'),
(7398, 'The Search', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n To most people, Fiona Bristow seems to have an idyllic life-a quaint house on an island off Seattle''s coast, a thriving dog-training school, and a challenging volunteer job performing canine search and rescues. Not to mention her three intensely loyal Labs. But Fiona got to this point by surviving a nightmare. Several years ago, Fiona was the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer, who shot and killed Fiona''s cop fiancÃ© and his K-9 partner. A copycat killer has emerged out of the shadows, a man whose bloodlust has been channeled by a master with one motive - to reclaim the woman who slipped out of his hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3212'),
(7399, 'Searching for Caleb', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Magic and true, dazzling and wise...It has an astounding confidence, depth and range...A wonderful, wonderful novel."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n THE BOSTON GLOBE\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Duncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can''t remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912, with nothing more than a fiddle in his hand. All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family''s deepest roots...to a place where rebellion and acceptance have the haunting power to merge into one....\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and The Accidental Tourist\n</p>\n<p>\n Ranging from the ragtime era to small-town America in the seventies, Searching for Caleb is a moving quest for a familyâ€™s deepest roots â€“ and a haunting story of growing up and breaking away, acceptance and rebellion.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Family sagas have such an endless appeal that whenever one meets a really good one, like Anne Tylerâ€™s Searching for Caleb, one wonders why anybody bothers to write a different form of novelâ€™ Auberon Waugh\n</p>\n<p>\n â€˜Anne Tyler is a writer whose special gift is to convey the richness, strangeness and unpredictability of seemingly everyday livesâ€™ Sunday Telegraph\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/974'),
(7400, 'Searching for Schindler', 'Thomas Keneally', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Australian author Keneally was awarded the 1982 Booker Prize for his novel\n <em>\n  Schindler''s List\n </em>\n . How Keneally came to write that novel about Oskar Schindler''s rescue of more than a thousand Jews from the Holocaust is a tale that, curiously enough, began in Beverly Hills while the author was promoting his Civil War novel,\n <em>\n  Confederates\n </em>\n . Looking for a new briefcase, he entered a luggage shop owned by the ebullient, charismatic Leopold Poldek Pfefferberg, one of Schindler''s survivors. Poldek gave Keneally copies of documents he had once assembled for a Schindler film that was never made. Nan Talese, then at Simon &amp; Schuster, offered a $60,000 advance for a book, and Keneally and Poldek left on an international research expedition. That journey and the survivors they met form the compelling centerpiece of this moving memoir. With publication, the question arose as to whether\n <em>\n  Schindler''s List\n </em>\n was a novel or history, but Keneally had planned from the start to write what Truman Capote or his publisher had called faction. The closing chapters cover the making of Steven Spielberg''s 1993 film adaptation, which won seven Academy Awards. Photos.\n <em>\n  (Oct. 14)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keneally is the author of the award-winning Schindlerâ€™s List (1982), which became an Academy Awardâ€“winning film. Here, Keneally revisits his subject, the enigmatic Nazi OskarSchindler, who saved hundreds of Jews from Nazi death camps by employing them in his various (often bogus) factories. In 1981 Keneally was already an established writer when he stumbled across Schindlerâ€™s remarkable exploits. In a Beverly Hills luggage store, he met a Polish-born Jew and Holocaust survivor, Leopold Poldek Pfefferberg, a charming, loquacious, and insistent man who believed he had a great story to tell. His revelations led Keneally on an odyssey across multiple continents to interview Schindlerâ€™s survivors and acquaintances who could verify and expand upon Pfefferbergâ€™s story. Keneally provides some interesting insights into the process of turning a series of decades-old remembrances into a great book. The strength of this work, however, is the stories of the survivors and their efforts to live with a degree of normalcy. Schindler remains as puzzling a character as ever. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1981'),
(7401, 'Searching for the Sound: My Life With the Grateful Dead', 'Phil Lesh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Dead. Lesh first met Garcia in 1959 in the clubs of East Palo Alto, California. At Garcia''s suggestion, Lesh learned to play the electric bass, joining him in a new band that blended R&amp;B, country, and rock and roll with an experimental fervor. Now Lesh offers the first behind-the-scenes history of the Dead, from their first gigs to the legendary Acid Tests, in San Francisco''s Summer of Love, at Woodstock, Monterey, Altamont, and the Pyramids.--From publisher description.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3932'),
(7402, 'Season of the MacHete', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FROM THE BESTSELLING, EDGAR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR JAMES PATTERSON COMES HIS CLASSIC THRILLER.Cool and glamorous, they could be a successful couple on a holiday. But Damian and Carrie Rose are psychopathic murderers for hire. Their new venue is a picture-perfect vacation island. Their adversary will be Peter Macdonald, the dashing young American who forsakes a life of leisure for a confrontation with cold-blooded terror. And risks everything only to discover that he alone suspects the hideous truth about...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/270'),
(7403, 'The Second Coming of Steve Jobs', 'Alan Deutschman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For the legions who revere Apple Computer''s high-profile cofounder as a godlike figure, the aptly titled\n <em>\n  Second Coming of Steve Jobs\n </em>\n will prove an intriguing picture of a seminal time in their deity''s roller-coaster life. It should emphatically vindicate their deeply held faith in the man and his ideas. But even for those with a lesser opinion, Alan Deutschman offers an interesting and enlightening look at the crucial period from Jobs''s unceremonious Apple exit through his triumphant return. Deutschman, a contributing editor at\n <em>\n  Vanity Fair\n </em>\n magazine and longtime Silicon Valley correspondent, interviewed nearly 100 colleagues and friends to draw this portrait of a bewilderingly complex and notoriously private man--albeit one whose talents, personality traits, and idiosyncrasies have long been on public display. "He succeeded in becoming the Jackie Kennedy Onassis of business and technology," Deutschman writes, "a figure who was ubiquitous as a symbol of his times but little known as a human being." To change that, he looks into Jobs''s ill-fated first post-Apple endeavor at the Next computer company, his return to undeniable respectability with Pixar and the two\n <em>\n  Toy Story\n </em>\n movies, and finally, his ultimate absolution with a very successful reclamation of the Apple crown. It''s a revealing account of a singular individual during a remarkable time.\n <em>\n  --Howard Rothman\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A revealing, balanced portrait of Apple Computers CEO and founder Steven Jobs, this fast-paced business biography is based on interviews with nearly 100 of his associates and friends. One glaring absence, however, is Jobs himself, who apparently declined to be interviewed by Deutschman, a Vanity Fair contributing editor and staff writer at GQ. Still, Deutschman provides a juicy, privileged look inside the Apple core. He reports that Jobs''s recent resuscitation of Apple, to which the visionary entrepreneur returned in 1996 after being ousted by John Sculley a decade earlier, was accomplished through a "reign of terror" that shook up thousands of complacent employees. Like other commentators, Deutschman portrays Jobs as both engaging and troubling, a natural charmer who is also an abusive, egomaniacal boss fond of meting out public humiliations. But Deutschman goes further, replacing the image of the pop-culture icon with a complex, contradictory figureAan insecure elitist who yearns for the patronage of the masses, a narcissistic vegetarian billionaire who thrives on scarcity and adversity. Among the book''s revelations are details of Jobs''s bulimia-like eating disorders in the 1970s; his reconnection in the ''80s with his long-lost biological sister, novelist Mona Simpson (Jobs was given up for adoption at birth); and his explosive negotiations with Disney honchos Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who produced the hits A Bug''s Life and Toy Story with Pixar, Jobs''s animation film studio. Though this gossipy bio has a slick magazine feel, Deutschman gets closer to Jobs''s inner self than any previous attempt. Agent, Suzanne Gluck, ICM. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1959'),
(7404, 'Second Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Isaac Asimov''s Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity''s light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruinsâ€”destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first timeâ€”but now he is certain he knows where it lies.The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. They too want the Second Foundation destroyedâ€¦before it destroys them.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1055'),
(7405, 'Second Son', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this new short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, available exclusively as an eBook, a young Jack Reacher knows how to finish a fight so it stays finished. He knows how to get the job done so it stays done. And, in one of his earliest challenges, he knows that his analytical brain is just as important as his impressive brawn.Â Okinawa, 1974. Even at thirteen, Jack Reacher knows how to outwit and overpower anyone who stands in his way. And as the new kid in town, thatâ€™s pretty much everyone. His family has come to the Pacific with his father, whoâ€™s preparing for a top-secret Marine Corps operation. After receiving a rude welcome from the local military brats, Reacher and his older brother, Joe, intend to teach them a lesson they wonâ€™t forget. But itâ€™s soon clear that thereâ€™s more at stake than pride. When his familyâ€™s future appears to come crumbling down, itâ€™s the youngest Reacher who rises to the occasion with all the decisive cunning and bravura that will one day be his deadly trademark.Â Second Son also includes a thrilling excerpt from Lee Childâ€™s forthcoming novel, The Affair.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/619');
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(7406, 'A Secret Affair', 'Mary Balogh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh has written her most beguiling novel yet, in which the black sheep of the scandalous Huxtable family finally meets his matchâ€”in a woman of even more wicked reputation.Â â€œThe Devil was about to be tamed.â€ Her name is Hannah Reid. Born a commoner, she has been Duchess of Dunbarton ever since she was nineteen years old, the wife of an elderly duke to whom she has been rumored to be consistently and flagrantly unfaithful. Now the old duke is dead and, more womanly and beautiful than ever at thirty, Hannah has her freedom at last.And she knows just what she wants to do with it. To the shock of a conventional friend, she announces her intention to take a loverâ€”and not just any lover, but the most dangerous and delicious man in all of upper-class England: Constantine Huxtable.Constantineâ€™s illegitimacy has denied him the title of Earl, so now he denies himself nothing . . . or so the ton would have it. Rumored to be living the free and easy life of a sensualist in his country estate, he always chooses recent widows for his short-lived affairs. Hannah will fit the bill nicely.Â But once these two passionate and scandalous figures find each other, they discover that it isnâ€™t so easy to extricate oneself from the fires of desireâ€”without getting singed. For the duchess and the dark lord each have startling secrets to reveal, and when all is said and done, neither will be able to say which one fell in love first, who tamed whom, and who has emerged from this game of hearts with the stronger hand.Â From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3428'),
(7407, 'A Secret Gift', 'Ted Gup', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An inspiring account of America at its worst-and Americans at their best-woven from the stories of Depression-era families who were helped by gifts from the author''s generous and secretive grandfather.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Shortly before Christmas 1933 in Depression-scarred Canton, Ohio, a small newspaper ad offered $10, no strings attached, to 75 families in distress. Interested readers were asked to submit letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author''s grandfather Sam Stone was inspired to place this ad and assist his fellow Cantonians as they prepared for the cruelest Christmas most of them would ever witness.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moved by the tales of suffering and expressions of hope contained in the letters, which he discovered in a suitcase 75 years later, Ted Gup initially set out to unveil the lives behind them, searching for records and relatives all over the country who could help him flesh out the family sagas hinted at in those letters. From these sources, Gup has re-created the impact that Mr B. Virdot''s gift had on each family. Many people yearned for bread, coal, or other necessities, but many others received money from B. Virdot for more fanciful items-a toy horse, say, or a set of encyclopedias. As Gup''s investigations revealed, all these things had the power to turn people''s lives around- even to save them.\n</p>\n<p>\n But as he uncovered the suffering and triumphs of dozens of strangers, Gup also learned that Sam Stone was far more complex than the lovable- retiree persona he''d always shown his grandson. Gup unearths deeply buried details about Sam''s life-from his impoverished, abusive upbringing to felonious efforts to hide his immigrant origins from U.S. officials-that help explain why he felt such a strong affinity to strangers in need. Drawing on his unique find and his award-winning reportorial gifts, Ted Gup solves a singular family mystery even while he pulls away the veil of eight decades that separate us from the hardships that united America during the Depression. In\n <em>\n  A Secret Gift\n </em>\n , he weaves these revelations seamlessly into a tapestry of Depression-era America, which will fascinate and inspire in equal measure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2200'),
(7408, 'The Secret History of MI6', 'Keith Jeffery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Keith Jeffery on Writing\n  <em>\n   The Secret History of MI6\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The British Secret Intelligence Serviceâ€”popularly known as MI6â€”is the oldest established continuously surviving foreign intelligence-gathering organisation in the world. It has also historically been the most secret department of the British government. Founded in 1909, its existence was not officially acknowledged until 1994. Before then official British representatives had to pretend, sometimes with embarrassing results, that there was no such organisation as â€˜MI6â€™, and even if there was, they â€˜couldnâ€™t possibly commentâ€™ about it. Although the agency has had a website since 2005, few details are released about the number of people who work for it or the size of its budget, nor are any of its officers publicly avowed, with the sole exception of the Chief, whose name has been published since 1992. Unlike Britainâ€™s other security and intelligence organisations, MI5 (which covers domestic security, rather like the FBI) and the signals intelligence agency, the blandly-titled Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ; analogous to the NSA), SIS releases absolutely none of its departmental records to the British National Archives. For almost all of its hundred-year existence, the strict line has been taken that the super-secret work of SIS, gathering foreign intelligence from foreign sources, has been of such vital national importance that no iota of information about it could formally be released to the public. Until now.\n</p>\n<p>\n The writing of an officially-authorised history of SIS presents challenges for the agency and historian alike. For the outcome not to appear to be some sort of â€˜hack house historyâ€™ (and thus vitiate its value as a reliable, scholarly and authoritative work) the author has to be given sufficient freedomâ€”or licenceâ€”to exercise his or her own critical judgments. The author, too, has to surmount the wisely sceptical assumptions of colleagues who may believe that the fact that he has been deemed suitable for the task may precisely render him unsuitable to produce a rigorous and independent history. Writing to such a commission necessarily involves accepting some constraints on what may be published, but so long as any redactions are limited to genuine matters of national security (though that itself is a matter of potentially differing judgment), and not simply to protect the agency from embarrassment, or to suppress failure or wrong-doing, it ought to be a price worth paying. It may in some degree be invidious that only a single individual is granted uniquely privileged access to what is certainly the â€˜Holy Grailâ€™ of British archives, but since it is the case that for the foreseeable future no similar access will be granted to anyone else, then perhaps the risk is worth taking.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Keith Jeffery\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The authorized history of the world''s oldest and most storied foreign intelligence service, drawing extensively on hitherto secret documents.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Britain''s Secret Intelligence Service (also commonly known as MI6) was born a century ago amid fears of the rising power of other countries, especially Germany. The next forty years saw MI6 taking an increasingly important-and, until now, largely hidden-role in shaping the history of Europe and the world. This thorough, fascinating, and revelatory account draws on a wealth of archival materials never before seen by any outsider to unveil the inner workings of the world''s first spy agency.\n</p>\n<p>\n MI6''s early days were haphazard but it was quickly forged into an effective organization in the crucible of World War I. During these war years, MI6 also formed ties with the United States-harbingers of a relationship that would become vital to both countries'' security as the century progressed. These early years also saw the development of techniques that would become plot devices in a thousand books and films-forgery, invisible ink, disguises, concealing mechanisms, and much more. The interwar years were nominally peaceful, but Britain perceived numerous threats, all of which MI6 was expected to keep tabs on. The outbreak of World War II once again caught MI6 off balance, and high-profile blunders (and the memoirs of MI6 operatives such as Graham Greene) created an impression of ineffectiveness. At the same time, however, the service was pioneering cryptography at Bletchley Park (where the Enigma code would be broken) and devising the very methods and equipment that would inspire Ian Fleming''s novels.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a way, the aftermath of World War II was as dramatic as the war itself had been, because 1945-49 saw not only the end of the British Empire but also the emergence of a new sort of conflict-the Cold War. We witness MI6 wrestling with these epic developments as it tightens its bonds with the newly christened CIA, changes that would dictate the shape of the service-and the world-for decades to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2325'),
(7409, 'Secret History of Rock: The Most Influential Bands You&#39;ve Never Heard', 'Roni Sarig', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n To amend the "official" history of Rock, the author focuses on the fascinating history and powerful influence that certain innovative, albeit generally under-appreciated, musicians have had on successive generations of bands. 50 illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1960'),
(7410, 'The Secret History of the Mongol Queens', 'Jack Weatherford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: â€œLet us reward our female offspring.â€ Only this hint of a fatherâ€™s legacy for his daughters remained of a much larger story.Â The queens of the Silk Route turned their fatherâ€™s conquests into the worldâ€™s first truly international empire, fostering trade, education, and religion throughout their territories and creating an economic system that stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Outlandish stories of these powerful queens trickled out of the Empire, shocking the citizens of Europe and and the Islamic world.After Genghis Khanâ€™s death in 1227, conflicts erupted between his daughters and his daughters-in-law; what began as a war between powerful women soon became a war against women in power as brother turned against sister, son against mother. At the end of this epic struggle, the dynasty of the Mongol queens had seemingly been extinguished forever, as even their names were erased from the historical record..Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  One of the most unusual and important warrior queens of history arose to avenge the wrongs, rescue the tattered shreds of the Mongol Empire, and restore order to a shattered world. Putting on her quiver and picking up her bow, Queen Mandhuhai led her soldiers through victory after victory. In her thirties she married a seventeen-year-old prince, and she bore eight children in the midst of a career spent fighting the Ming Dynasty of China on one side and a series of Muslim warlords on the other. Her unprecedented success on the battlefield provoked the Chinese into the most frantic and expensive phase of wall building in history. Charging into battle even while pregnant, she fought to reassemble the Mongol Nation of Genghis Khan and to preserve it for her own children to rule in peace.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  At the conclusion of his magnificently researched and ground-breaking narrative, Weatherford notes that, despite their mystery and the efforts to erase them from our collective memory, the deeds of these Mongol queens inspired great artists from Chaucer and Milton to Goethe and Puccini, and so their stories live on today. With The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, Jack Weatherford restores the queensâ€™ missing chapter to the annals of history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2326'),
(7411, 'The Secret History of the World', 'Jonathan Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Secret History of the World by Jonathan Black describes a complete history of the world, from the beginning of time to the present day, based on the beliefs and writings of the secret societies.\n <br />\n From the esoteric account of the evolution of the species to the occult roots of science, from the secrets of the Flood to the esoteric motives behind American foreign policy, here is a narrative history that shows the basic facts of human existence on this planet can be viewed from a very different angle. Everything in this history is upside down, inside out and the other way around.\n <br />\n At the heart of The Secret History of the World is the belief that we can reach an altered state of consciousness in which we can see things about the way the world works that are hidden from us in our everyday, commonsensical consciousness. This history shows that by using secret techniques, people such as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton and George Washington have worked themselves into this altered state - and been able to access supernatural levels of intelligence.\n <br />\n There have been many books on the subject, but, extraordinarily, no one has really listened to what the secret societies themselves say. The author has been helped in his researches by his friendship with a man who is an initiate of more than one secret society, and in one case an initiate of the highest level.\n <br />\n By the end of The Secret History the reader will see the world differently. It will be evident that a secret philosophy is encoded in the world around us, in public buildings and monuments, in great art and literature, in the arrangement of the pips in an apple, in the names of the days of the week, even in the very stories we tell our children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2329'),
(7412, 'A Secret Kept', 'Tatiana de Rosnay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This stunning new novel from Tatiana de Rosnay, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Sarahâ€™s Key, plumbs the depths of complex family relationships and the power of a past secret to change everything in the present.It all began with a simple seaside vacation, a brother and sister recapturing their childhood.Â  Antoine Rey thought he had the perfect surprise for his sister MÃ©lanieâ€™s birthday: a weekend by the sea at Noirmoutier Island, where the pair spent many happy childhood summers playing on the beach.Â  It had been too long, Antoine thought, since theyâ€™d returned to the islandâ€”over thirty years, since their mother died and the family holidays ceased.Â  But the islandâ€™s haunting beauty triggers more than happy memories; it reminds MÃ©lanie of something unexpected and deeply disturbing about their last island summer.Â  When, on the drive home to Paris, she finally summons the courage to reveal what she knows to Antoine, her emotions overcome her and she loses control of the car.Recovering from the accident in a nearby hospital, MÃ©lanie tries to recall what caused her to crash.Â  Antoine encounters an unexpected ally: sexy, streetwise AngÃ¨le, a mortician who will teach him new meanings for the words life, love and death.Â  Suddenly, however, the past comes swinging back at both siblings, burdened with a dark truth about their mother, Clarisse. Â Trapped in the wake of a shocking family secret shrouded by taboo, Antoine must confront his past and also his troubled relationships with his own children.Â  How well does he really know his mother, his children, even himself?Â  Suddenly fragile on all fronts as a son, a husband, a brother and a father, Antoine Rey will learn the truth about his family and himself the hard way. By turns thrilling, seductive and destructive, with a lingering effect that is bittersweet and redeeming, A Secret Kept is the story of a modern family, the invisible ties that hold it together, and the impact it has throughout life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3311'),
(7413, 'The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe', 'J. Randy Taraborrelli', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Beautiful, damaged, the ultimate sex symbol, publicly celebrated, privately unhappy - Marilyn Monroe''s tumultuous life and untimely death continue to fascinate us. When Marilyn Monroe became famous in the 1950s, the world was told that her mother was either dead or simply not a part of her life. However, that was not true. In fact, her mentally ill mother was very much present in Marilyn''s world and the complex family dynamic that unfolded behind the scenes is a story that has never been told - until now. In this groundbreaking book, Taraborrelli draws complex and sympathetic portraits of the women so influential in the actress'' life, including her mother, her foster mother and her legal guardian. He also reveals, for the first time, the shocking scope of Marilyn''s own mental illness, the identity of Marilyn''s father and the half-brother she never knew, and new information about her relationship with the Kennedys - Bobby, Jack and Pat Lawford Kennedy. Explosive, revelatory and surprisingly moving, this is the final word on the life of one of the most fascinating and elusive icons of the twentieth century.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1961'),
(7414, 'Secret Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Sandford is back with his dapper, dangerous Minneapolis deputy police chief Lucas Davenport for a ninth "preyer" meeting. Fans of the series will be glad to hear that it''s full of smart suspense and deduction as well as explosive action. Davenport and his fellow cops are still recovering from the deadly revenge scheme that maimed them in\n  <em>\n   Sudden Prey\n  </em>\n  , which seems to have ended the relationship between Lucas and his doctor lady friend. This accounts for the depression that dogs him as he is sent to investigate the killing of top banking executive Daniel Kresge in a hunting lodge north of Minneapolis. Any of Kresge''s four fellow hunters--all employees at his Polaris Bank--could have shot him, and all had motives, as did his almost ex-wife. About halfway through the book we find out who the real killer is, just a few pages before Lucas does, and that villain is a masterful creation, an example of the banality of evil worthy of Hannah Arendt. This is where Sandford''s beautifully honed skills at creating suspense really kick in: he keeps us fascinated as Davenport, revitalized by an affair with a jaunty colleague, tries to turn what we all know into hard evidence.\n  <em>\n   --Dick Adler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After his muscle-stretching sidestep in 1997''s The Night Crew, Sandford is back with his ninth Prey novel featuring dapper, dangerous Minneapolis cop Lucas Davenport. Fans of the series will be glad to hear that this is the best installment in years?full of smart suspense and deduction as well as explosive action. Newcomers can plunge in without backstory research; all they need to know is that Davenport and his fellow cops are still nursing the wounds they garnered in Sudden Prey and that a depressed Lucas has gotten dumped by Weather, his girlfriend in that novel, when he is sent to investigate the murder of banking executive Daniel Kresge in a hunting lodge north of Minneapolis. Any of Kresge''s four fellow hunters?all employees at his Polaris Bank?could have shot him, and all had motives (as did his "soon-to-be-ex-wife"). We find out about halfway through the book who the real killer is, just a few pages before Lucas does, and that villain is a masterful creation. This is where Sandford''s suspense-making skills really kick in, keeping us fascinated as Davenport?revitalized by an affair with a jaunty colleague?tries to turn what we all know into hard evidence.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/696'),
(7415, 'The Secret River', 'Kate Grenville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n London, 1807. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. The Thornhills arrive in this harsh and alien land that they cannot understand and which feels like a death sentence. But among the convicts there is a rumour that freedom can be bought, that ''unclaimed'' land up the Hawkesbury offers an opportunity to start afresh, far away from the township of Sydney. When William takes a hundred acres for himself he is shocked to find Aboriginal people already living on the river. And other recent arrivals - Thomas Blackwood, Smasher Sullivan and Mrs Herring - are finding their own ways to respond to them. Soon Thornhill, a man neither better nor worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/706'),
(7416, 'The Secret Servant', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Amsterdam, a terrorism analyst named Ephraim Rosner lies dead, brutally murdered by a Muslim immigrant. The Amsterdam police believe the killer is a deranged extremist, but others know better. Just twenty-four hours before, Rosner had requested an urgent meeting with Israeli intelligence. Now it is Gabriel Allon''s job to find out what Rosner knew, and when he does, it confirms his worst fears - a major terrorist operation is in the works. But not even Allon could have predicted what it is. In London, a young woman vanishes. She is the daughter of the American ambassador-and goddaughter of the president of the United States-and the kidnappers'' demands are at once horrifically clear and clearly impossible to meet. With time running out, Allon has no choice but to plunge into a desperate search, both for the woman and for those responsible, but the truth, when he finds it, is not what he expects. In fact, it is one that will shake him-and many others-to the core.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3910'),
(7417, 'The Secret Soldier', 'Alex Berenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n John Wells goes undercover in Saudi Arabia in a cutting-edge novel of modern suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.   John Wells may have left the CIA, but it hasn''t left him. A mysterious call brings a surprise meeting with the aged monarch of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah. "My kingdom is on a precipice," he tells Wells. "Powerful factions are plotting against me, and my own family is in danger. I don''t know who I can trust, but I''m told I can trust you."  Reluctantly, and with the secret blessing of the CIA, Wells goes undercover; but the more he learns, the more complicated things become, and soon he, too, is unsure whom to trust, in Saudi Arabia or Washington. One thing, however, is clear: If the conspirators prevail, it will mean more than the fall of a monarch-it may be the beginning of the final conflagration between America and Islam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3397'),
(7418, 'Secrets of Eden', 'Christopher A. Bohjalian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice."There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her that evening and then shoot himself. Drew, tortured by the cryptic finality of that short utterance, feels his faith in God slipping away and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about . . . angels.Â Heather survived a childhood that culminated in her own parents'' murder-suicide, so she identifies deeply with Aliceâ€™s daughter, Katie, offering herself as a mentor to the girl and a shoulder for Stephen â€“ who flees the pulpit to be with Heather and see if there is anything to be salvaged from the spiritual wreckage around him.But then the State''s Attorney begins to suspect that Alice''s husband may not have killed himself. . .and finds out that Alice had secrets only her minister knew.Secrets of Eden is both a haunting literary thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the inner complexities that mark all of our lives.Â  Once again Chris Bohjalian has given us a riveting page-turner in which nothing is precisely what it seems.Â  As one character remarks, â€œBelieve no one.Â  Trust no one.Â  Assume all of our stories are suspect.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3655'),
(7419, 'Secrets of the Dead', 'Tom Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Praise for Other Titles by Tom Harper:\n  <br />\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "In the tradition of\n </strong>\n The Da Vinci Code\n <em>\n  , a page-turner of a novel. Like Dan Brown, Tom Harper knows how to ratchet up the tension."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n </em>\n <em>\n  Choice magazine\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Scholarly but speedy narrative, steeped in medieval horrors ranging from flogging to famine, all anchored in what feels like a passion for history and spelling out the way things were."\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Literary Review\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n "Tom Harper writes with strident clarity in this epic tale of murder and betrayal, bloodshed and romance. Gripping from the first page, the reader is swept up in this colourful and convincing portrayal of an Emperor and his realm, under siege. Well-researched, and cinematic in its imagery, this is a fast-paced and exciting debut."\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Ink\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Harper effortlessly draws the reader into the court intrigues and conspiracies of 11th-century Byzantium in his outstanding debut."\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  To reach the living, navigate the deadâ€¦\n </strong>\n In a villa on the coast of Montenegro, Abby Cormac witnesses the brutal murder of her lover, diplomat Michael Lascaris. The last thing she remembers is a gun pointed directly at her. She wakes to find herself at the centre of a diplomatic nightmare. Everyone wants an answer but no one wants to listen. Even her employers at the Foreign Office believe sheâ€™s hiding something. She is completely alone. As Abby tries to piece together the last few months of Michaelâ€™s life in order to get at the truth, she soon realises that he wasnâ€™t quite what he seemed. What exactly was his relationship with one of the most ruthless men in the Balkans â€“ a war criminal who has never been brought to justice? And what links Michaelâ€™s gift to her of a gold necklace with its Christian monogram, a 4th century manuscript left in the shadow of Emperor Constantineâ€™s palace at Trier and an inscription on a tomb in Rome? When Abby investigates further, it becomes clear that someone wants to suppress a secret, one that has been kept hidden for centuries. And they will stop at nothing to do soâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/733'),
(7420, 'Secrets to the Grave', 'Tami Hoag', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns with her second thriller in the Deeper than the Dead microseries, exploring the early days of forensic investigation, the characteristics of innocence-and the nature of evil.   Marissa Fordham had a past full of secrets, a present full of lies. Everyone knew of her, but no one knew her.  When Marissa is found brutally murdered, with her young daughter, Haley, resting her head on her mother''s bloody breast, she sends the idyllic California town of Oak Knoll into a tailspin. Already on edge with the upcoming trial of the See- No-Evil killer, residents are shocked by reports of the crime scene, which might not have been discovered for days had it not been for a chilling 911 call: a small child''s voice saying, "My daddy hurt my mommy."  Sheriff''s detective Tony Mendez faces a puzzle with nothing but pieces that won''t fit. To assist with his witness, Haley, he calls teacher-turned-child advocate Anne Leone. Anne''s life is hectic enough-she''s a newlywed and a part- time student in child psychology, and she''s the star witness in the See-No-Evil trial. But one look at Haley, alone and terrified, and Anne''s heart is stolen.  As Tony and Anne begin to peel back the layers of Marissa Fordham''s life, they find a clue fragment here, another there. And just when it seems Marissa has taken her secrets to the grave, they uncover a fact that puts Anne and Haley directly in the sights of a killer: Marissa Fordham never existed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3306'),
(7421, 'Seducing an Angel', 'Mary Balogh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He must be wealthy, well born and want her more than he wants any other woman. Those are the conditions that should be met by theman Cassandra Belmont chooses for her lover. Marriage is out of the question For The scadalous widow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3513'),
(7422, 'See How They Run', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  akaÂ The Jericho Commandment\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Outside New York city, the palatial home of Dr. David Strauss''s parents is attacked by gunmen during a glittering party. As he watches helplessly, his wife is murdered. In Los Angeles, Strauss''s brother is killed during the Academy Award ceremonies. In Manhattan, his past sweetheart, Alix Rothchild, is running for her life. Dr. David Strauss is soon obsessed with finding the explosive secret behind the murders of his family members. His dangerous odyssey takes him across Europe, and finally to the Olympics, where one of the most shattering surprises in suspense fiction will take place.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/279'),
(7423, 'Self-Defense', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Dr Alex Delaware doesn''t see many private patients any more, but for a young woman called Lucy Lowell he''s prepared to make an exception. Referred to him by the police detective Milo Sturgis, Lucy had been a juror at the harrowing trial of a serial killer, and having survived that trauma is now being subjected to further emotional stress: a recurrent nightmare of a young child in a forest at night, watching something as furtive as it is disturbing.\n <br />\n <br />\n Now Lucy''s dream is starting to disrupt her waking life, and Alex believes the power of the dream and its grip on her emotions may be a repressed childhood memory of something very real.\n <br />\n <br />\n Something like murder...Â \n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/767'),
(7424, 'The Selfish Gene', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Dawkins first book,\n  <em>\n   The Selfish Gene\n  </em>\n  , was a smash hit...Best of all, Dawkins laid out this biology-some of it truly subtle-in stunningly lucid prose. (It is, in my view, the best work of popular science ever written.)"--_New York Review of Books_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This important book could hardly be more exciting."--_The Economist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The sort of popular science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius."--_New York Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Who should read this book? Everyone interested in the universe and their place in it."--Jeffrey R. Baylis,\n  <em>\n   Animal Behaviour\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book should be read, can be read, by almost everyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution."--W. D. Hamilton,\n  <em>\n   Science\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The presentations are remarkable for their clarity and simplicity, intelligible to any schoolchild, yet so little condescending as to be a pleasure to the professional."--_American Scientist_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richard Dawkins'' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life.\n  <br />\n  In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume,\n  <em>\n   The Selfish Gene\n  </em>\n  , Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk.\n  <br />\n  This 30th anniversary edition of Dawkins'' fascinating book retains all original material, including the two enlightening chapters added in the second edition. In a new Introduction the author presents his thoughts thirty years after the publication of his first and most famous book, while the inclusion of the two-page original Foreword by brilliant American scientist Robert Trivers shows the enthusiastic reaction of the scientific community at that time. This edition is a celebration of a remarkable exposition of evolutionary thought, a work that has been widely hailed for its stylistic brilliance and deep scientific insights, and that continues to stimulate whole new areas of research today.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/492'),
(7425, 'The Senator&#39;s Wife', 'Sue Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love. The author of the iconic The Good Mother and the best-selling While I Was Gone brings her marvelous gifts to a powerful story of two unconventional women who unexpectedly change each otherâ€™s lives.Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughtonâ€”wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughtonâ€”is Meriâ€™s new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Deliaâ€™s husbandâ€™s chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. What keeps people together, even in the midst of profound betrayal? How can a journey imperiled by, and sometimes indistinguishable from, compromise and disappointment culminate in healing and grace? Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, both reckoning with the contours and mysteries of marriage, one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun.Here are all the things for which Sue Miller has always been belovedâ€”the complexity of experience precisely rendered, the richness of character and emotion, the superb economy of styleâ€”fused with an utterly engrossing story that has a great deal to say to women, and men, of all ages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3286'),
(7426, 'Senor Nice', 'Howard Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The long-awaited and hugely-entertaining sequel toMr. Nice. During the mid-1980s, Howard Marks had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and companies trading throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to fifty tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada. He was eventually busted and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana for marijuana smuggling. He was released in April 1995, after serving seven years. Senor Nice tells the story of what happened next. After release from prison, Marks changed careers: he wrote two best-selling books, became a sports and travel writer, stood as a parliamentary candidate, and embarked on a long-running sell-out series of one-man shows. While performing in his home town of Kenfig Hill, Wales, an elderly aunt told him of his outlaw ancestry: William Owen, the legendary Welsh smuggler (who had operated for some time in South America) and his great-great-grandfather Patrick McCarty, the half-brother of Billy the Kid, who had joined Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Patagonia. So, Marks decided to explore South America. His travels took him to Jamaica and Panama in the footsteps of the Welsh buccaneer Henry Morgan; to a search for obscure Welsh settlers in Brazil whom he never found; and a search among the thriving Welsh community in Patagonia for signs of Billy the Kid''s half-brother. Richly comic and charged with the sense of adventure that induced this Oxford graduate to become the world''s most notorious marijuana smuggler,Senor Niceis the hugely entertaining sequel toMr. Nice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1982'),
(7427, 'The Sense of an Ending', 'Julian Barnes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ShortlistedÂ for the Man Booker Prize [2011]\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBarnes builds a powerful atmosphere of shame and silence. . . . As ever, Barnes excels at colouring everyday reality with his narratorâ€™s unique subjectivity, without sacrificing any of its vivid precision. . . . Novel, fertile and memorable.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”The Guardian\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œCompelling. . . . His reputation will surely be enhanced by this book. Do not be misled by its brevity. Its mystery is as deeply embedded as the most archaic of memories.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Anita Brookner,\n  <em>\n   The Telegraph\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œShort and sharp. . . . A true master of his craft, Barnesâ€™s precise and economic prose is often a delight, and he packs in some vivid characterisation, scene-drawing and emotional insight within his brief 150 pages.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”The List\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œBarnes has effectively doubled the length of the book by giving us a final revelation that obliges us to reread it. Without overstating his case in the slightest, Barnesâ€™s story is a meditation on the unreliability and falsity of memory. . . . Such a slyly subversive book.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”London Evening Standard\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œA dexterously crafted narrative of unlooked-for consequences.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”The Sunday Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for Julian Barnes:\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œJulian Barnes is one of those marvelously inventive authors who writes a very different book each time. He experiments with historical and contemporary fiction, memoir, biography and essays, seamlessly moving from genre to genre. . . . His prose is rich without being showy; he has a precision and economy of language that at times recalls William Trevor.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”The Oregonian\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œBarnes is among the most adventurous writersâ€”in style, versatility and narrative structureâ€”of his Amis-McEwan-Hitchens generation.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”\n  </em>\n  Christopher Benfey,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œBarnes is a versatile man of letters. From\n  <strong>\n   Flaubertâ€™s Parrot\n  </strong>\n  to\n  <strong>\n   Love, Etc\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   .\n  </em>\n  , Barnesâ€™s fiction is rich and entertaining. His prose is as playful as it is supple and rich.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”\n  </em>\n  Thomas F. Staley, Ransom Center Director\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œThe David Cohen Prize is in effect a UK version of the Nobel Prize for Literature, open to writers of fiction and non-fiction, comedy and tragedy. . . . What is remarkable about Julian Barnes is that he has excelled in all these areas. The already extraordinary list of David Cohen Prizeâ€“winning authors has been fittingly extended.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”\n  </em>\n  Mark Lawson, David Cohen Prize citation\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers,\n  <em>\n   The Sense of an Ending\n  </em>\n  extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling\n  <em>\n   Arthur &amp; George\n  </em>\n  and continued with\n  <em>\n   Nothing to Be Frightened Of\n  </em>\n  and, most recently,\n  <em>\n   Pulse.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought aboutâ€”until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought heâ€™d left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought heâ€™d understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication,\n  <em>\n   The Sense of an Ending\n  </em>\n  is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnesâ€™s oeuvre.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2870'),
(7428, 'The Sentry', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The extraordinary new crime novel from the New York Times bestselling author.   Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina; but now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru''s uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his help, but neither of them want it-and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching them.  As the level of violence escalates, and Pike himself becomes a target, he and Elvis Cole learn that Dru and her uncle are not who they seem- and that everything he thought he knew about them has been a lie. A vengeful and murderous force from their past is now catching up to them . . . and only Pike and Cole stand in the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3714'),
(7429, 'Separation of Power', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  CIA superagent Mitch Rapp is back in action in this high-velocity adventure from the master of the political thriller, Vince Flynn.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **SEPARATION OF POWER**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  CIA director Thomas Stansfield is dead -- a fact many individuals in and around the nation''s capital are pleased to hear. But their happiness proves to be short-lived once they learn that Stansfield''s successor is the late director''s close friend and protÃ©gÃ©, Dr. Irene Kennedy. Her plan of action is to pursue the very goals Stansfield established -- something Stansfield''s fiercest enemies don''t want to hear. And something they refuse to accept.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Meanwhile, Israel has discovered that Saddam Hussein is close to entering the nuclear arms race -- and they''ve vowed to stop the Iraqi madman before he can get his hands on the ultimate weapon. With the Middle East teetering on the precipice of chaos and devastation, the president of the United States is forced to act. The commander in chief''s secret weapon? None other than the CIA''s top counterterrorism operative, Mitch Rapp. But the window for action on this crucial mission is incredibly tight. Israel has given the United States only two weeks to take the nukes out. After that, they''ll do whatever it takes to destroy the weapons themselves. With the haunting specter of World War III looming, Rapp races against time and impossible odds -- navigating the deadly alleys of Baghdad, tearing through the corruption-riddled streets of Washington, D.C., and taking drastic measures against anyone who gets in his way.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  With action that sizzles and true-to-life insider detail, *Separation Of Power* showcases New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn at his shell-shocking best.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/420'),
(7430, 'Seriously...I&#39;m Kidding', 'Ellen DeGeneres', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I''ve experienced a whole lot the last few years and I have a lot to share. So I hope that you''ll take a moment to sit back, relax and enjoy the words I''ve put together for you in this book. I think you''ll find I''ve left no stone unturned, no door unopened, no window unbroken, no rug unvacuumed, no ivories untickled. What I''m saying is, let us begin, shall we?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ellen DeGeneres is a beloved stand-up comedian, television host, bestselling author, and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show\n  <em>\n   The Ellen DeGeneres Show\n  </em>\n  , and was also a judge on\n  <em>\n   American Idol\n  </em>\n  in its ninth season in 2009.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  DeGeneres has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a film actress, she starred in\n  <em>\n   Mr. Wrong\n  </em>\n  , appeared in EDtv and\n  <em>\n   The Love Letter\n  </em>\n  , and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney-Pixar animated film\n  <em>\n   Finding Nemo\n  </em>\n  , for which she awarded a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first and only time a voice acting won a Saturn Award. She also starred in two television sitcoms,\n  <em>\n   Ellen\n  </em>\n  from 1994 to 1998 and\n  <em>\n   The Ellen Show\n  </em>\n  from 2001 to 2002. She has won twelve Emmys and numerous awards for her work and charitable efforts.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3');
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(7431, 'Serpent', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After more than a quarter century of chronicling the aquatic adventures of action hero Dirt Pitt, Cussler (Flood Tide; Shock Wave) has finally decided to cast his line in somewhat different waters. Co-written by veteran mystery author Paul Kemprecos (Bluefin Blues; The Mayflower Murder), this novel still features the sturdy men and women of the National Underwater Marine Agency, plenty of hair-raising derring-do and a convivial cast of characters engaged in an outlandishly hatched thrill ride. The stars of this show are NUMA divers Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala, two young bucks without the seasoning and panache of Pitt but worthy successors, nonetheless. They are trying to find out why top archeologists are being killed, some of them butchered, at dig sites. The archeologists have apparently stumbled across artifacts proving, contrary to established historical thought, that Christopher Columbus wasn''t the first Old World explorer to set foot in the New World. The killings can be traced to a mysterious organization in Texas called Time Quest, whose stated mission is to provide volunteers for digs. Its real intention, however, is much darker: to prevent anyone from learning that Spain was not the first on the scene in the New World and that the culture it claimed to discover had, in fact, been imported from other corners of the globe. Ultimately, Time Quest''s leader, the evil Francisco Halcon, wants to foment revolution in the Western U.S. and reclaim it as Latin-American territory. The showdown between Halcon and NUMA''s forces plays out in typical Cussler furyAfirst on the decks of the sunken passenger liner Andrea Doria in the waters off Nantucket and again in an underwater Mayan crypt in Guatemala. It''s all great fun, if not a little top-heavy at times from flabby subplots and excessive detail on arcane historical facts and the machinery of deep-sea exploration. As for Pitt, his fans will be relieved to know that he and longtime sidekick Al Giordino make a brief appearance to wish Austin and Zavala luck, then depart for a mission in Antarctica, no doubt to return with tales of peril and glory. (June)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It won''t surprise those who remember Cussler''s\n  <em>\n   Raise the Titanic!\n  </em>\n  (1976) that he now uses the 1956 sinking of the\n  <em>\n   Andrea Doria\n  </em>\n  as the springboard for another thriller involving the National Underwater and Maritime Agency. According to Cussler, the\n  <em>\n   Andrea Doria\n  </em>\n  sinking was deliberate, but that secret begins unraveling two generations later, when archaeologist Nina Kirov, fleeing a "terrorist" attack on her dig, is rescued by a NUMA vessel. Aboard are Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala, NUMA field operatives equally deft with underwater hardware and the ladies. The pair''s first job is standing off the "terrorists" pursuing Kirov. Plots--not to mention counterplots--rapidly thicken as NUMA squares off against Halcon, who is clearly a descendant of Fu Manchu despite his Latino characterization. Halcon seeks an immense treasure, brought by fleeing Carthaginians to the Mayan empire, to finance an independent Latino nation in the U.S. Southwest. Before Halcon is defeated, Cussler dispenses, with new collaborator Kemprecos'' aid, the fast action, larger-than-life characters, less-than-graceful prose, credulity-stretching scenarios, and high-saltwater content that are his trademarks. A superlative subplot relays the adventures of archaeologist Gamay Trout and her companion, the Mayan Dr. Chi, as they try to escape outlaws, Halcon''s minions, and the natural hazards of the Yucatan Peninsula. Likely to prove eminently satisfactory to Cussler fans.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1224'),
(7432, 'Set in Darkness', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Edinburgh police inspector John Rebus''s obsession--rock &amp; roll--seems odd for a man whose dark, depressed side is so central to his character, but Ian Rankin always manages to work it gracefully into his noirish novels featuring Rebus. In\n  <em>\n   Set in Darkness\n  </em>\n  , Rebus has a fling with Lorna Grieve, a faded rock muse who''s the sister of Roddy Grieve, an up-and-coming politico who turns up dead on the grounds of the boarded-up hospital that''s being torn down to make way for the new Scottish Parliament. Grieve''s body is the second in the space of days found at Queensberry House; the first was a skeleton bricked up in the fireplace. That decades-old murder seems to be tied to the suicide of a mysterious homeless man whose hefty bank balance is revealed well before his true identity.\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   ''So what''s the story with Mr Supertramp anyway?''\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   ''He had all this money he either couldn''t spend or didn''t want to. He took on a new identity. My theory is that he was hiding.''\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   ''Maybe.'' He was rifling through the scraps on the desk. She folded her arms, gave him a hard look which he failed to notice. He opened the bread bag and shook out the contents: disposable razor, a sliver of soap, toothbrush. ''An organized mind,'' he said. ''Makes himself a wash bag. Doesn''t like being dirty.''\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   ''It''s like he was acting the part,'' she said.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  There are always plenty of subplots in a Rankin mystery. This time he adds a stalker who happens to be one of Rebus''s colleagues, a couple of toughs who hang out in singles clubs and finish their evenings with a rape or two, and the ongoing story of Rebus''s tortured past--a bitter divorce, a daughter still recovering from a terrible accident, and a drinking problem.\n  <em>\n   Set in Darkness\n  </em>\n  hit the bestseller list in Great Britain and should enjoy the same success in its U.S. edition. Rankin''s ability to keep finding new dimensions in Rebus, handle intricate plot details brilliantly, and evoke the gloom and darkness of his setting keep winning him new admirers, with just cause.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set in Darkness is a 2000 crime novel by Ian Rankin. It is the eleventh of the Inspector Rebus novels. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary | Footnotes\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/424'),
(7433, 'Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin', 'James Sullivan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A recipient of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, stand-up comedian Carlin (1937â€“2008) wrote three bestselling humor books and looked back over his five-decade career in his recent memoir,\n <em>\n  Last Words\n </em>\n . Now music journalist and culture critic Sullivan, a contributor to\n <em>\n  Rolling Stone\n </em>\n and the\n <em>\n  San Francisco Chronicle\n </em>\n , offers an overview, starting with the young Carlin in 1950s New York. The Air Force sent him off to Louisiana, where he began as a Shreveport radio personality. As a DJ in Fort Worth, Tex., he polished a comedy act with Jack Burns, and the two left for the West Coast, performing together for two years before they split in 1962. Going solo, Carlin''s taboo topics and subversive attitude took center stage. In this linear summary of Carlin''s career, Sullivan dissects the comedian''s classic iconoclastic routines, probes his working methods and successfully captures his rocketlike ascent to fame from night clubs and the 1960s comedic cauldron of Greenwich Village to television acclaim, controversy, and creative conflicts. However, those who want to experience a full explosion of the cynical and caustic Carlin blasting off minus the heat shields should instead seek out the finely tuned and wit-saturated\n <em>\n  Last Words\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   La Crosse Tribune\n  </em>\n  , 1/3/2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œA critical biography, this is an insightful examination of Carlinâ€™s body of work as it pertained to its cultural times and the man who created it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  , 3/1/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[A] well-written and thorough biographyâ€¦A celebration of the life of George Carlin and how his comedy remade stand-up, this is a great companion to Carlinâ€™s recently published autobiography,\n <em>\n  Last Words\n </em>\n . Highly recommended for readers interested in performing arts, George Carlin, comedy, and celebrity biographies.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  , 3/15/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe author meticulously chronicles Carlinâ€™s career, which intersected with many formative cultural trends of the â€™50s and â€™60sâ€¦Sullivan ably captures a sense of the entertainment industry at the timeâ€”glamorously competitive and fiercely insularâ€¦The author also dutifully covers Carlinâ€™s personal lifeâ€¦This is an apt, detailed memorial to a groundbreaking performer.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  , 4/1/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œSullivan isnâ€™t interested in padding out his book with stand-up material. His focus is on exploring the man himself, with a sharp critical eye and a good feeling for the sociohistorical context of Carlinâ€™s comedy. An excellent account of the life and work of an important and greatly missed artist.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  , 3/29/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œIn this linear summary of Carlin''s career, Sullivan dissects the comedian''s classic iconoclastic routines, probes his working methods and successfully captures his rocketlike ascent to fame from night clubs and the 1960s comedic cauldron of Greenwich Village to television acclaim, controversy, and creative conflicts.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  , 4/15/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œAlthough volumes have been written about his contemporariesâ€”his predecessor and mentor Lenny Bruce before him and his contemporary Richard Pryor, to name but a fewâ€”relatively little analysis has been done about the late, great George Carlinâ€™s mark on the 20th century. In his new book, journalist James Sullivan delves deep into the seven-decade history of one of Americaâ€™s most daring comics.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Sacramento Book Review\n  </em>\n  , 5/27/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe book is an impressive effortâ€¦diligently researched, well-constructed, and showing great affection for the subject without ignoring Carlinâ€™s demons, missteps, or low times.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Magazine\n  </em>\n  , June 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis biography probes [George Carlinâ€™s] life and works.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Newark Star-Ledger\n  </em>\n  , 6/6/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis portrayal, by former San Francisco Chronicle pop culture writer James Sullivan, ought to satisfy anyone who has ever laughed at a Carlin routineâ€”and that takes in a lot of us. From his early days in Greenwich Village clubs through his epic legal battles over words you canâ€™t say on television, which he said anyway, Carlinâ€™s story is inspiring and hilarious. Sullivan correctly nails the reasons for Carlinâ€™s popularityâ€¦His spot-on judgment of Carlinâ€™s achievements is worth the read.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The A.V. Club, 6/3/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œOffer[s] a broad overview of the formative American stand-up comicâ€¦Sullivanâ€™s light hand makes\n <em>\n  7 Dirty Words\n </em>\n a brisk read.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Bookslut, June 2010\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThere were many iterations of Carlinâ€™s public personality, and Sullivan captures both ends of his life well in his cultural treatise.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n  , 6/10/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œJames Sullivan has done an outstanding job in his new book\n <em>\n  7 Dirty Words\n </em>\n positioning the late comedian George Carlin as a counterculture icon whose loathing of hypocrisy and love of language changed comedy foreverâ€¦In his new biography, Sullivan manages to skillfully show us the drama of Carlinâ€™s performing career and how it blended with the larger cultural landscape.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  AOLâ€™s Asylum, 6/7/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œAn engrossing tale of one of our greatest comedic minds.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Internet Review of Books\n  </em>\n  , June 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œI can give no reason\n <em>\n  not\n </em>\n to read\n <em>\n  7 Dirty Words\n </em>\n . Sullivanâ€™s book is an authoritative and well-researched chronicle of Carlinâ€™s professional career, with bits and pieces here and there devoted to his upbringing, his family, and other influences.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œThe Bookwormâ€ column, June 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSullivan digs deep into American entertainment circa 1950 to 1970, which means that lots of stars from a bygone era are in here: Flip Wilson, Merv Griffin, Danny Kaye, Ed Sullivan, Steve &amp; Eydie, Lenny Bruce, and others you might not recognize if you''re under 40. Still, there''s enough for younger readers in this book to make it worth a peek. Be aware that Sullivan (James, that is) isn''t afraid to liberally use Carlin''s infamous Seven, so if profanity bothers you, pass on it. But if you can handle â€˜_7 Dirty Words_,â€™ the word you want is â€˜Y-E-S.â€™â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gene Lavanchy\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  Fox 25 News Boston, 6/25/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSullivan takes a look at the highs and lows, the up-bringing and occasional downfall of a comedy geniusâ€¦Itâ€™s a brilliant book, and if you love George Carlin you have to read it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bookviews, July 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn inside look at Carlinâ€™s unique views as well as his personal battles with addiction, his scrapes with the law, and comedic routines that pulled back the curtain of political correctness to make audiences confront life as he saw it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Times_\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , 7/9/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt fills in and complicates our mental image of Carlinâ€¦This book gets the story toldâ€¦Sullivan convincingly makes the case that for 50 years Carlin â€˜may well have produced more laughs than any other human being.â€™â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Boston\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Phoenix_, 7/2/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSullivan has exhaustively documented the rise of both blue jeans and James Brown, but perhaps his latest book,\n <em>\n  Seven Dirty Words\n </em>\n , has the most to say about the evolution of American society.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Salon.com, 7/16/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExcellentâ€¦Insightfulâ€¦_7 Dirty Words_ deepens Carlin''s posthumous memoir by putting his evolution in context. Sullivan deftly mixes quotes from Carlin''s friends, rivals, protÃ©gÃ©s, collaborators and employers with impeccably researched overviews of trends in radio, TV, the record industry and the nightclub circuit. The result is at once an engrossing account of Carlin''s life that rarely lapses into hero worship, and a highly readable survey of 20th century popular culture, stretching from the last gasp of vaudeville during the Depression through the rise of premium cable and the Internet. No matter how much you know, or think you know, about American show business, you''ll still learn a lot from this book. The sections dealing with the â€˜dirty wordsâ€™ case are especially good.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   ForeWord\n  </em>\n  , July/August 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSullivan does far more than just record a period in American history when free speech was under assault. He tells the story of one of our funniest and sharpest comedic minds.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Buffalo\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ News_, 7/18/10 (Editorâ€™s Choice)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMakes its own key contribution to the history of show businessâ€¦Sullivan is so eloquent and lucidâ€¦A very wise and very good book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Creative Loafing Charlotte\n </em>\n , 7/20/10\n <br />\n â€œLast year, a kind of posthumous autobiography,\n <em>\n  Last Words\n </em>\n , was publishedâ€¦Now, journalist and cultural critic James Sullivan has published a more detailed look at Carlin''s life, which helps fill in some of the gaps in the comedy legend''s own version. Sullivan does a good job of presenting a linear rundown of the various incarnations Carlin went through in his 71 yearsâ€¦He''s smart enough to let Carlin''s story tell itselfâ€”and to put it in the context of how one man''s inner growth matched the changes many people in America were going through at the same timeâ€¦Sullivan''s approach is that of the straightforward journalist. He doesn''t pad the book with Carlin''s comedy material, but instead focuses on how the man changed over the years, and how his influence grewâ€¦The author has a sharp critical eye.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Blogcritics.org, 7/28/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSullivan explores the life and times (crimes) of one of the most popular and controversial stand-up comedians in historyâ€¦While some aspects of Carlinâ€™s material were controversial, Sullivan makes him likableâ€¦This biography is thorough, respectful, sensitive and appropriately funny!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Clark Isaacs (syndicated columnist), 7/22/10\n <br />\n â€œSullivan is an accomplished author who is able to demonstrate how comedy changed when new faces entered the scene in the early l950sâ€¦One of the most outstanding features of this biography is the behind-the-scenes glimpses of the interrelationship between the comedians who were famous and how they would help aspiring hopefuls achieve their day in the spotlightâ€¦Sullivan has written a lasting tribute to this icon of American humor which was well researched, annotated, and most of all, entirely believable. This book is highly recommended for adults who want to have their memories refreshed about comedians of the past and present.â€\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Under the Radar_, July 2010\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFollows C...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1985'),
(7434, 'Seven Habits of Highly Effective People', 'Stephen R. Covey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the inspirational tradition of ''The road less traveled'', ''The seven habits of highly effective people'' is a holistic, integrated approach to solving personal and professional problems by becoming principle-centered. This is a revolutionary guidebook to achieving peace of mind within and building trust without by seeking the roots of human behavior in character and by learning principles rather than merely practices.With pointed anecdotes and penetrating insights, Stephen R. Covey - leading management consultant and author of best-selling spiritual books - reveals how our actions follow from who we are. He shows how we can end self-defeating behavior at home and at work by adopting the ''Seven Habits of Highly Effective People''. Covey shows how these habits are not a ''quick fix'' but rather a step-by-step Ã¡thway to the principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity that give us the security to adapt to change in our family and business lives - as well as the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities such change creates.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1077'),
(7435, 'Seven Troop', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 1983 Andy McNab was assigned to B Squadron, one of the four Sabre Squadrons of the SAS, and within it to Air Troop, otherwise known as SEVEN TROOP. This is Andy McNab''s gripping account of the time he served in the company of a remarkable group of men -- from the day, freshly badged, he joined them in the Malayan jungle, to the day, ten years later, that he handed in his sand-coloured beret and started a new life. The links they forged then bound them inextricably together, but the things they saw and did during that time would take them all to breaking point -- and some beyond -- in the years that were to follow. He who dares doesn''t always win . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/429'),
(7436, 'Shadow of Power', 'Steve Martini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The latest electrifying Paul Madrianinbsp;thriller fromnbsp;a master at the top of hisnbsp;gamenbsp;- Madriani once again finds himself under pressure as murder reaches deep into the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court. Some people will do anything to influence the Supreme Court.nbsp;They willnbsp;sweet-talk and seduce, beg, borrow and steal, allnbsp;as a matter of course. Killing is different though, isn''t it? Terry Scarborough is a legal scholar and provocateur who loves the kinds of controversy that makes headlines. As author of a new book which claims that Thomas Jefferson and the U.S. Constitution support racial discrimination, he knows he''s adding fuel to the fire. When Scarborough is found dead in a hotel room and a young man with connections to hate groups is charged with first-degree murder, defense attorney Paul Madriani is offered a case he can''t pass up. Amid the glare of the cameras, Madriani must pursue an elusive witness within the confines of the Supreme Court itself, a search that threatens the very foundation of government.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3378'),
(7437, 'Shadow of the Hegemon', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Orson Scott Card finally explores what happened on earth after the war with the Buggers in the sixth book of his Ender series,\n <em>\n  Shadow of the Hegemon\n </em>\n . This novel is the continuation of the story of Bean, which began with\n <em>\n  Ender''s Shadow\n </em>\n , a parallel novel to Card''s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n While Ender heads off to a faraway planet, Bean and the other brilliant children who helped Ender save the earth from alien invaders have become war heroes and have finally been sent home to live with their parents. While the children try to fit back in with the family and friends they haven''t known for nearly a decade, someone''s worried about their safety. Peter Wiggins, Ender''s brother, has foreseen that the talented children are in danger of being killed or kidnapped. His fears are quickly realized, and only Bean manages to escape. Bean knows he must save the others and protect humanity from a new evil that has arisen, an evil from his past. But just as he played second to Ender during the Bugger war, Bean must again step into the shadow of another, the one who will be Hegemon.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Shadow of the Hegemon\n </em>\n , Card can''t help but fall back into old patterns. But while the theme is the same as in previous books--brilliant, tragic children with the fate of the human race resting on their shoulders--\n <em>\n  Shadow of the Hegemon\n </em>\n does a wonderful job of continuing Bean''s tale against a backdrop of the politics and intrigue of a fragile earth. While the novel is accessible, new readers to the series would be wise to begin with\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  Ender''s Shadow\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Kathie Huddleston\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fine follow-up to Ender''s Shadow features that novel''s hero, Bean (now a young man), wrestling with Card''s trademark: superbly real moral and ethical dilemmas. In a world between wars, filled with ambitious countries jockeying to carve up their neighbors, the children of Battle School are the strongest asset a nation can possess. The greatest of the children, "Ender" Wiggin, has gone off to colonize a new world. The second best, Bean, is hunted by a young psychopathic genius, Achilles, who schemes to conquer Earth with the aid of Ender''s soldiers. Peter, Ender''s brother, who was too ruthless to make it to Battle School, also works to rule the planet, but through more peaceful, political means. Bean must decide if becoming Peter''s shadow and guiding him to become Hegemon will help defeat Achilles, and if one boy''s megalomania will make a better world than another''s. Children playing at war as if it were a game recalls Card''s most famous work, Ender''s Game, which won both a Hugo and a Nebula award. The complexity and serious treatment of the book''s young protagonists will attract many sophisticated YA readers, while Card''s impeccable prose, fast pacing and political intrigue will appeal to adult fans of spy novels, thrillers and science fiction. (Jan. 2) Forecast: Card is immensely popular; this is one of his best novels. Like Ender''s Game, it will soar on genre lists and should flirt with, and perhaps woo, regular lists. Tor will ensure this through a $300,000 ad/promo campaign including a nine-city author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1049'),
(7438, 'Shadow Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A terrorist conspiracy, masterminded by a small group of Native Americans, embarks on a series of ritualistic murders, offing public officials known for their record of prejudice against Indians, in Sandford''s ( Rules of Prey ) second Lucas Davenport thriller. Dakota medicine men Sam and Aaron Crow recruit killers whom they arm with obsidian knives on leather thongs and send out to cut the throats of victims in Minnesota, Oklahoma and New York--for starters. Both Sam and Aaron act as fathers to young Shadow Love (since each has been his mother''s lover); Shadow Love is, in fact, a psychopath who will use the Indian murder mission to fulfill his own agenda. When Minneapolis police lieutenant Davenport gets on the case, assisted by statuesque, tough-talking policewoman Lily Rothenburg, the "sulky, dark-haired madonna" dispatched from New York to observe the investigation, the story crackles with romance and suspense, especially when Lucas and Lily become the killers'' prey. Lucas''s personality is the novel''s most nuanced: he is a rugged lover of women--including his old friend Elle, psychologist and Sister of Mercy--he fathers his live-in girlfriend''s baby and spends nights inventing board games. Other characters, like Sandford''s dialogue, are only serviceable, but plenty of gore and action drives the plot forward. 75,000 first printing; major ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The pace is relentless...a classic...(_Boston Globe_) A big, scary, suspenseful read. (Stephen King)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/697'),
(7439, 'Shadowfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œEvil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it''s good.â€ Â  MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever.  Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister''s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.  What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubhâ€”a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds.  In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves.  Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card?  Â  From the luxury of the Lord Master''s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac''s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3454'),
(7440, 'Shadowland', 'Colin Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Welcome to twenty-fifth century Earth, a land lorded over by giant spiders and beetles whose ever-expanding consciousness has supplanted our own ever-diminishing one. From among this now-inferior race rises a hero, a young man named Niall whose powers of mind rival those of the spiders. Soon, Niall leads an assault on the very heart of the spiders'' city and strength, and discovers the mysterious source of their power. In his quest to unite the disparate forces of this harsh new world, Niall makes shocking discoveries about both his own people and the rapidly evolving spiders. Niall, in an effort to save his brother''s life, sets off through a secret passage under the spiders'' city and travels down an underground river through the territory of the chameleon men. Beyond this friendly territory however, danger awaits on his path over the mountains and into Shadowland--the lair of the Magician and his subjects. Along the way, Niall''s adventures continue his development to the point that his powers arenearly superhuman. But the Magician''s powers are far greater than Niall''s, and soon they become engaged in a contest of strength. A contest Niall seems almost certain to lose....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2782'),
(7441, 'Shakespeare', 'Peter Ackroyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Signature]_Reviewed by Ron Rosenbaum_At their best, Shakespearean biographers are like great jazz musicians, able to take a few notes of an old standard and spin them into dizzying riffs of conjecture. At their worst they reshuffle old wives'' tales, piling supposition upon conjecture into a rickety house of cards. Peter Ackroyd can riff with the best, and he brings to the task of making the old facts fresh some themes and variations of his own that deserve a hearing. He is particularly good, in fact, on the question of sound: the way the language Shakespeare wrote, his players spoke and his audiences heard differed from the Shakespeare we hear and read today. Demonstrating the courage of his convictions, he does something daring for a book aimed at a general reader: he renders all of his citations from Shakespeare "in the original." Thus a phrase from\n <em>\n  Timon of Athens\n </em>\n is printed: "Our Poesie is as a Goume which ouses" (rather than "gum which oozes"), an effect that can defamiliarize, often in an illuminating way.An accomplished literary biographer, Ackroyd doesn''t offer a new explanation of how the glover''s son of provincial Stratford became the sophisticated poetic genius of London. Instead he gives us intelligent, often elegant, variations on the old ones. Like many of his fellow biographers he warns us that a particular "tradition" has no corroboration and then plays it out anyway. So with such recent, hotly debated questions as whether Shakespeare spent time in his youth in the household of subversive secret Catholics, Ackroyd spins it out for all it''s worth.But the great strength of Ackroyd''s book is the depth of his immersion in the culture of Shakespeare''s age and the sense he gives of Shakespeare as a product of that extraordinary moment in time. His feeling for the role of the theater in Elizabethan London, "a city where dramatic spectacles became the primary means of understanding reality," seems to come from an impressively wide reading of Shakespeare''s dramatic and poetic contemporaries. His judgments about the work itself are sometimes ingenious, occasionally eccentric, as when he tells us, "All the evidence suggests, too, that the speech, ''To be or not to be'' is an interpolation," an unnecessary addition to\n <em>\n  Hamlet\n </em>\n , possibly "from another play altogether." While location of "To be or not to be" is different in an early quarto of\n <em>\n  Hamlet\n </em>\n , to say "All the evidence suggests" interpolation is an overstatement. Still, immersion in Ackroyd''s biography cumulatively gives one a feeling that one has lived for a brief time in Shakespeare''s world. Ackroyd constructs a an intricate mosaic of Elizabethan context, which brings us closer to the shadowy figure, whose most renowned character, Hamlet, tells us: "I have that within which passes show."\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Describing himself as a Shakespeare enthusiast instead of an expert, Ackroyd focuses on the bard as an extraordinarily talented theater professional rather than rhapsodizing about the intricacies of the man''s genius. He interweaves Shakespeare''s life story with England''s dramatic history and the fascinating world of the emerging Elizabethan theater. Apocryphal stories are identified and plausible explanations for what occurred during the missing years are offered. Shakespeare emerges as a thoroughly engaging, almost modern man, brimming with humor, eager for social advancement, and carefully tracking the popular trends in entertainment. Students who want to discover whether Shakespeare really was the author of the famous plays will find compelling evidence that only the man from Stratford could have hidden so many ingenious clues in his work. Sixteen pages of color illustrations include portraits of Shakespeare''s famous contemporaries, photographs of the interiors of Elizabethan buildings, and illustrated title pages. Those daunted by the length of this book will find it a good reference source. Students looking for information on the building of the Globe, the meanings of the sonnets, the differences in the various editions and revisions of the plays, and other typical academic questions will find useful, well-organized information. A rich, vivid account._â€“Kathy Tewell, Fairfax County Public Library, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2391'),
(7442, 'Shanghai Girls', 'Lisa See', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father''s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn''t be more different: Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America. In Los Angeles they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with the strangers they have married, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown''s old ways and rules. At its heart,Shanghai Girlsis a story of sisters: Pearl and May are inseparable best friends who share hopes, dreams, and a deep connection, but like sisters everywhere they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. They love each other, but each knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt the other the most. Along the way they face terrible sacrifices, make impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they areShanghai girls. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3412'),
(7443, 'Shaq Uncut: My Story', 'Shaquille O&#39;Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Shaq was the most unique player in the history of the NBA. He was bigger than life in every way. The dominant game, the dominant personality, his work behind the scenes for charity...nobody has done more for our game than Shaq.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  (\n  <strong>\n   Hall of Famer Larry Bird\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shaq was more confident in his skin than anyone else of his stature. There''s a warmth to him that is unmistakable. At the same time, he was the scariest player I''ve ever seen. He was that dominant. I''ve had a number of great relationships with great players, but he''s the one who will always stand out in my mind.\n  <br />\n  (\n  <strong>\n   Hall of Famer Jerry West\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  He''s the most dominant player I''ve ever seen. His presence, his physicality, his size and his speed made him an athletic phenomenon. He could run, he could move, he had unbelievable hands and he never got enough credit for being a great passer. He was one of a kind. (\n  <strong>\n   Boston Celtics head coach Doc Rivers\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shaq''s a wonderful person and he''s been one of the greatest players ever. He understood the game; dealing with the fans, dealing with the press. .. Great, great player, a great, great personality.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  (\n  <strong>\n   Hall of Famer Charles Barkley\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  What a career for Shaq Diesel!! The most dominating force to ever play the game. Great person to be around as well. Comedy all the time!! (\n  <strong>\n   LeBron James, via Twitter\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  He''s a giant. He''s physically imposing; he has an imposing smile. In the game, he imposed his will, and he has done it for quite a long time. It''s been a great run here, and we''re going to miss him greatly. We hope we can find ways to keep him involved in the game.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  (\n  <strong>\n   NBA Commissioner David Stern\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Shaquille O''Neal is a four time NBA champion, television star, musical artist and renaissance man. He recently retired from the Boston Celtics.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bestselling author Jackie MacMullan is considered the nation''s leading writer on basketball. Her last book\n  <em>\n   When the Game was Ours\n  </em>\n  by Magic Johnson and Larry Bird was a major bestseller. Jackie is a constant presence on ESPN and was a long-time columnist for Sports Illustrated and the Boston Globe.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2913'),
(7444, 'Sharps', 'K. J. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For the first time in nearly forty years, an uneasy truce has been called between two neighbouring kingdoms. The war has been long and brutal, fought over the usual things: resources, land, money . . .  Now, there is a chance for peace. Diplomatic talks have begun and with them, the games of skill and chance. Two teams of fencers represent their nations at this pivotal moment.  When the future of the world lies balanced on the point of a rapier, one misstep could mean ruin for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3919'),
(7445, 'Shatner Rules: Your Key to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large', 'William Shatner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n You love William Shatner. You admire his many and varied talents. You appreciate his creativity and willingness to take risks. You want to learn his master negotiation techniques. You wish you could hang out with him. Admit it. You want to BE William Shatner. And now...you can (almost). This collection of rules, illustrated with stories from Bill''s illustrious life and career, will show you how Bill became WILLIAM SHATNER, larger than life and bigger than any role he ever played. Shatner Rules is your guide to becoming William Shatner. Or more accurately, beautifully Shatneresque. Because let''s face it...Shatner does rule, doesn''t he?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1988'),
(7446, 'She&#39;s Come Undone', 'Wally Lamb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Oprah Book ClubÂ® Selection, January 1997\n  </strong>\n  : "Mine is a story of craving; an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered." So begins the story of Dolores Price, the unconventional heroine of Wally Lamb''s\n  <em>\n   She''s Come Undone\n  </em>\n  . Dolores is a class-A emotional basket case, and why shouldn''t she be? She''s suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists: Her father is a violent, philandering liar; her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-O; and the men in her life are probably the gender''s most loathsome creatures. But Dolores is no quitter; she battles her woes with a sense of self-indulgence and gluttony rivaled only by Henry VIII. Hers is a dysfunctional\n  <em>\n   Wonder Years\n  </em>\n  , where growing up in the golden era was anything but ideal. While most kids her age were dealing with the monumental importance of the latest Beatles single and how college turned an older sibling into a long-haired hippie, Dolores was grappling with such issues as divorce, rape, and mental illness. Whether you''re disgusted by her antics or moved by her pathetic ploys, you''ll be drawn into Dolores''s warped, hilarious, Mallomar-munching world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this engaging first novel, narrator Dolores Price recounts her life story from age four to age 40. The troubled product of a stormy marriage, she is already sipping Maalox in grade school. Then her father walks out on her mother, who suffers a nervous collapse, and Dolores moves to her repressive grandmother''s house in Rhode Island. By the time she reaches eighth grade, she has only one friend: a boarder who eventually rapes her. Anesthetizing herself with junk food and soap operas, Dolores becomes an obese, isolated young woman who attempts suicide during her first semester in college and spends seven years in a mental institution. Oddly enough, this relentless parade of disasters makes for interesting reading. The author keenly evokes his protagonist''s profound alienation and self-loathing, endowing Dolores with a bleak sense of humor that keeps readers rooting for her. Ironically, the book itself "comes undone" as its heroine develops self-esteem, at which point an absorbing portrait of a woman on a collision course with her problems turns into a disappointing series of cliches about love, forgiveness and Dolores''s ticking biological clock. Nonetheless, this is a promising debut.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2965'),
(7447, 'Shelby Foote', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; ">\n  FREDERICKSBURG TO MERIDIAN\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist''s skill in directing the reader''s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better."--\n  <em>\n   Atlantic\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Focused on the pivotal year of 1863 the second volume of Shelby Foote''s masterful narrative history brings to life some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War including the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant"s Vicksburg campaign. "Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist"s skill in directing the reader"s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better." -The Atlantic "Though the events of this middle year of the Civil War have been recounted hundreds of times they have rarely been re-created with such vigor and such picturesque detail." -The New York Times Book Review "The lucidity of the battle narratives the vigor of the prose the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting are all controlled by constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist"s feeling for character and situation without losing the historian"s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequaled." -Walter Mills\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2354'),
(7448, 'Shelter', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A young adult debut from internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mickey Bolitar''s year can''t get much worse. After witnessing his father''s death and sending his mom to rehab, he''s forced to live with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A new school comes with new friends and new enemies, and lucky for Mickey, it also comes with a great new girlfriend, Ashley. For a while, it seems like Mickey''s train-wreck of a life is finally improving - until Ashley vanishes without a trace. Unwilling to let another person walk out of his life, Mickey follows Ashley''s trail into a seedy underworld that reveals that this seemingly sweet, shy girl isn''t who she claimed to be. And neither was Mickey''s father. Soon, Mickey learns about a conspiracy so shocking that it makes high school drama seem like a luxury - and leaves him questioning everything about the life he thought he knew.\n </p>\n <p>\n  First introduced to readers in Harlan Coben''s latest adult novel, Live Wire, Mickey...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/675');
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(7449, 'The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History', 'Philip Bobbitt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The scope of Philip Bobbitt''s\n  <em>\n   The Shield of Achilles\n  </em>\n  is breathtaking: the interplay, over the last six centuries, among war, jurisprudence, and the reshaping of countries ("states," in Bobbitt''s vocabulary). Bobbitt posits that certain wars should be deemed epochal--that is, seen as composed of many "smaller" wars. For example, according to Bobbitt the epochal war of the 20th century began in 1914 and ended with the collapse of communism in 1990. These military affairs--and their subsequent "ultimate" peace agreements--have caused, each in their own way, revolutionary reconstructions of the idea and actuality of statehood and, following, of relationships between these various new entities. Of these reconstructions (including the princely state, the kingly state, and the nation-state), Bobbitt is most interested in the current incarnation, which he calls the market-state: one whose borders are scuffed and hazy at best (certainly compared to earlier territorial markers) and whose strengths, weaknesses, citizens, and enemies roam across cyberspace rather than plains and valleys.\n  <em>\n   The Shield of Achilles\n  </em>\n  is massive, erudite, and demanding--at once highly abstract and extremely detailed. There is about it an air of detached erudition, one noticeably free of the easy "decline and fall" hysteria too often present in contemporary historical analyses.\n  <em>\n   --H. O''Billovich\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The world is at a pivotal point, argues Bobbitt, as the nation-state, developed over six centuries as the optimal institution for waging war and organizing peace, gives way to the market-state. Nation-states derive legitimacy from promising to improve the material welfare of their citizens, specifically by providing security and order. Market-states offer to maximize the opportunity of their people. Nation-states use force and law to bring about desired results. Market-states use various forms of market relationships. Bobbitt, who has an endowed chair at the University of Texas and has written five previous books on constitutional law and on nuclear strategy, argues in sprawling fashion that this paradigm shift is essentially a consequence of the "Long War" of 1914-1990, a struggle among communism, fascism and parliamentarism that, through innovation and mimicry, generated a fundamentally new constitutional and strategic dynamic that in turn generated a fundamentally new "society of states." Central to Bobbitt''s thesis is the postulate that international order is a consequence of domestic order. In the work''s most stimulating section, Bobbitt discusses three possible ways of reorganizing the latter. The "Meadow," essentially an extrapolation of socio-political patterns currently dominant in the U.S., features high levels of individualism around the world at the expense of collective behavior at any level. The "Park," based on a European alternate, emphasizes regionalism. The "Garden" predicates successful market states disengaging from international affairs and emphasizing renewed internal community. None of these systems will eliminate war, but the nation-state is declining, Bobbitt argues, essentially because nonstate actors confront the nation-state with threats it cannot effectively respond to. This big book is provocative and richly textured, but too often Bobbitt''s arguments are obscured by his historically digressive presentation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2330'),
(7450, 'The Shining', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n Horror at an unflagging pace....scary!\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Nashville Banner\n </em>\n This chilling novel will haunt you, and make your blood run cold and your heart race with fear.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cosmopolitain\n </em>\n Guaranteed to frighten you into fits....freezing terror....with a climax tha is literally explosive.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Stephen King\n </strong>\n is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are\n <em>\n  Full Dark No Stars\n </em>\n ,Â \n <em>\n  Blockade Billy\n </em>\n ,Â \n <em>\n  Under the Dome\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Just After Sunset\n </em>\n ,Â the Dark Tower novels,\n <em>\n  Cell, From a Buick 8, Everything''s Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Lisey''s Story\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Bag of Bones\n </em>\n . His acclaimed nonfiction book,\n <em>\n  On Writing\n </em>\n , was recently re-released in a tenth anniversary edition. King was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007 he was inducted as a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America.Â Â He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/882'),
(7451, 'Ship of Ghosts', 'James D. Hornfischer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from James D. Hornfischer''s\n <em>\n  Neptune''s Inferno\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n "Son, we''re going to Hell."\n</p>\n<p>\n The navigator of the USS\n <em>\n  Houston\n </em>\n confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR''s favorite warship, the cruiser USS\n <em>\n  Houston\n </em>\n was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of reinforcement, her crew faced a superior Japanese force ruthlessly committed to total conquest. It wasn''t a fair fight, but the men of the Houston would wage it to the death.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hornfischer brings to life the awesome terror of nighttime naval battles that turned decks into strobe-lit slaughterhouses, the deadly rain of fire from Japanese bombers, and the almost superhuman effort of the crew as they miraculously escaped disaster again and again--until their luck ran out during a daring action in Sunda Strait. There, hopelessly outnumbered, the\n <em>\n  Houston\n </em>\n was finally sunk and its survivors taken prisoner. For more than three years their fate would be a mystery to families waiting at home.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the brutal privation of jungle POW camps dubiously immortalized in such films as\n <em>\n  The Bridge on the River Kwai\n </em>\n , the war continued for the men of the\n <em>\n  Houston\n </em>\n --a life-and-death struggle to survive forced labor, starvation, disease, and psychological torture. Here is the gritty, unvarnished story of the infamous Burma--Thailand Death Railway glamorized by Hollywood, but which in reality mercilessly reduced men to little more than animals, who fought back against their dehumanization with dignity, ingenuity, sabotage, will--power--and the undying faith that their country would prevail.\n</p>\n<p>\n Using journals and letters, rare historical documents, including testimony from postwar Japanese war crimes tribunals, and the eyewitness accounts of\n <em>\n  Houston\n </em>\n ''s survivors, James Hornfischer has crafted an account of human valor so riveting and awe-inspiring, it''s easy to forget that every single word is true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2394'),
(7452, 'Shock Wave', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The thrilling new Virgil Flowers novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.   The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster. The protests don''t seem to be slowing the project, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands.  The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart''s headquarters. The second one explodes at the construction site itself. The blasts are meant to inflict maximum damage-and they do. Who''s behind the bombs, and how far will they go? It''s Virgil Flowers''s job to find out . . . before more people get killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/620'),
(7453, 'Shock Wave', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Mysterious Plague in the Antarctic...A Diamond Empire Run by an Evil Genius...A Devastating New Technology...NUMA agent DIRK PITTÂ® is investigating the baffling deaths of thousands of Antarctic marine animals when he stumbles on something even more chilling. The passengers and crew of a cruise ship all died simultaneously and instantly, leaving stranded on a remote island whaling station a small party of tourists led by the beautiful Maeve Fletcher. And the carnage is just beginning, as Pitt''s investigation leads him to Maeve''s estranged father and sisters, owners of the global diamond cartel Dorsett Consolidated Mining. From a chilling escape at a high-security Canadian mine to a tiny boat adrift on lonely, shark-infested seas, the ingenious Pitt is racing to thwart Dorsett''s ruthless plans -- before an unthinkable disaster claims millions of innocent lives!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1206'),
(7454, 'Shoeless Joe', 'W. P. Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ray Kinsella, sitting on the porch of his Iowa farm one evening, hears the voice of a ghostly baseball announcer. It speaks to him the famous line, ''If you build it, he will come''. Needing no further explanation, Kinsella visualizes the ball field he is being asked to create in the middle of his field of corn. The voice will speak only two more things to Ray: ''Ease his pain'' and ''Go the distance'', and yet the dreaming, idealistic man knows just what it is he has to do. Digging up his corn to build a ballpark will inspire the return of baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson, a man whose reputati.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2771'),
(7455, 'Shoot Him if He Runs', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In the newest addition to the bestselling series, Stone Barrington and Holly Barker pursue a master spy and murderer in a tropical paradise where very little is as it seems.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Teddy Fay, a rogue agent last seen escaping an imploding building in *Iron Orchid*, has been considered dead for some time now. But President Will Lee thinks Teddy may still be alive. In a top-secret Oval Office meeting, Stone learns that he and his cohorts, Holly Barker and Dino Baldachetti, are being sent to the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Marks, courtesy of the CIA, to track down Teddy once and for all.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  St. Marks is a vacationer''s paradise, but its luxurious beach clubs and secluded mountain villas are home to corrupt local politicians and more than a few American ex-pats with murky personal histories. Stone and Holly soon discover that in St. Marks, everyone is hiding something, and Teddy Fay may just be hiding in plain sight.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2678'),
(7456, 'The Shooters', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A key DEA agent has been kidnapped by drugrunners. As much as the news angers Presidential Agent Castillo, he thinks thereâ€™s no way he could get permission to rescue the man. But Castilloâ€™s wrongâ€”the President himself orders Castillo to do anything it takes to bring back the agent...anything except get caught.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/494'),
(7457, 'The Short Forever', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Short Forever, the unflappable Stone Barrington flies to London to see a client he''s never met-and comes face to face with two, possibly three, murders and the affectionate attentions of two former lovers. And when the intelligence services of three countries become involved, he can only hang on for a wild ride-and hope for a not-too-bumpy landing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2684'),
(7458, 'A Short History of Nearly Everything', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From primordial nothingness to this very moment,\n  <em>\n   A Short History of Nearly Everything\n  </em>\n  reports what happened and how humans figured it out. To accomplish this daunting literary task, Bill Bryson uses hundreds of sources, from popular science books to interviews with luminaries in various fields. His aim is to help people like him, who rejected stale school textbooks and dry explanations, to appreciate how we have used science to understand the smallest particles and the unimaginably vast expanses of space. With his distinctive prose style and wit, Bryson succeeds admirably. Though\n  <em>\n   A Short History\n  </em>\n  clocks in at a daunting 500-plus pages and covers the same material as every science book before it, it reads something like a particularly detailed novel (albeit without a plot). Each longish chapter is devoted to a topic like the age of our planet or how cells work, and these chapters are grouped into larger sections such as "The Size of the Earth" and "Life Itself." Bryson chats with experts like Richard Fortey (author of\n  <em>\n   Life\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Trilobite\n  </em>\n  ) and these interviews are charming. But it''s when Bryson dives into some of science''s best and most embarrassing fights--Cope vs. Marsh, Conway Morris vs. Gould--that he finds literary gold.\n  <em>\n   --Therese Littleton\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the title suggests, bestselling author Bryson (In a Sunburned Country) sets out to put his irrepressible stamp on all things under the sun. As he states at the outset, this is a book about life, the universe and everything, from the Big Bang to the ascendancy of Homo sapiens. "This is a book about how it happened," the author writes. "In particular how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since." What follows is a brick of a volume summarizing moments both great and curious in the history of science, covering already well-trod territory in the fields of cosmology, astronomy, paleontology, geology, chemistry, physics and so on. Bryson relies on some of the best material in the history of science to have come out in recent years. This is great for Bryson fans, who can encounter this material in its barest essence with the bonus of having it served up in Bryson''s distinctive voice. But readers in the field will already have studied this information more in-depth in the originals and may find themselves questioning the point of a breakneck tour of the sciences that contributes nothing novel. Nevertheless, to read Bryson is to travel with a memoirist gifted with wry observation and keen insight that shed new light on things we mistake for commonplace. To accompany the author as he travels with the likes of Charles Darwin on the Beagle, Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton is a trip worth taking for most readers.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1029'),
(7459, 'A Short History of World War II', 'James L. Stokesbury', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "We have needed this kind of book for a long time . . . It tells people just what they need to know about the war . . . It is an awfully good book." -- Theodore Ropp, Professor of History, Duke University, author of "War in the Modern World""It is, above all else, a balanced account of World War II . . . Dr. Stokesbury''s one-volume history is by far the best short account of the war yet published." -- Thaddeus V. Tuleja, Professor of History, St. Peter''s College (Jersey City, N.J.), author of "Climax at Midway"\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James L. Stokesbury is the author of\n <em>\n  A Short History of World War I, A Short History of World War II, A Short History of the Korean War,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Short History of the American Revolution.\n </em>\n Before his death in 1995 he was a professor of history at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/418'),
(7460, 'The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Even diehard fans of the Twilight Saga may wish to skip this one. Although Meyer adds some nice touches--the narrator is herself a vampire, for example--critics had few positive things to say about Bree''s life story. "Intelligent and gifted, Bella, Jacob and Edward are intrinsically glamorous to readers,"\n  <em>\n   Salon\n  </em>\n  notes. "But Bree is PVT (poor vampire trash) and she knows it." While Bree could have been interesting, she''s less than the "wild, amoral, bloodthirsty teen protagonist" (\n  <em>\n   Guardian\n  </em>\n  ) critics hoped to see; clunky prose and dialogue don''t help. Still, the\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  speaks for many readers: "The satisfaction of\n  <em>\n   Twilight\n  </em>\n  novels cannot be measured by such terms as â€˜good'' and â€˜bad.'' ... [A]ll fans will read and all haters will skip [this novella] regardless of the reviews."\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bree Tanner, who first appeared briefly as a newborn vampire in Meyerâ€™s Eclipse (2007), is the star of this slim partner to the megamillion-selling Twilight series. A self-described â€œvampire nerd,â€ Bree recounts her adventures as she roams Seattle fulfilling her thirst for blood (and Meyer fansâ€™ thirst for more books). In a passionate introduction, Meyer reiterates what Eclipse readers already know: Bree has few nights left on Earth. As she joins her red-eyed coven in battle against yellow-eyed adversaries that, while foreign to Bree, will be instantly recognizable to millions of human readers, she finds her first (kissable) friend and discovers a truth about daylight. Formatted as one long, breathless chapter, this novella includes the same casual language and elements of suspense and romance found in the Twilight quartet, and interlocking characters and dialogue fit it easily into Bree and Bellaâ€™s scene in Eclipse. While Twilight fans will appreciate the story as an expansion of Bellaâ€™s world, this rapid read also stands satisfyingly alone. Grades 9-12. --Andrew Medlar\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/496'),
(7461, 'Short Straw', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  OUR FAVORITE LEGAL EAGLE RETURNS. "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLING AUTHOR STUART WOODS CONTINUES WHAT HE STARTED IN "SANTA FE RULES": Stuart Woods delivers a compulsively readable novel of crosses and double-crosses, featuring a shrewd criminal lawyer and his shamelessly sexy wife-a true black widow.\n  <br />\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  OUR FAVORITE LEGAL EAGLE RETURNS.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLING AUTHOR STUART WOODS CONTINUES WHAT HE  STARTED IN *SANTA FE RULES*:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Stuart Woods delivers a compulsively readable novel of crosses and double-crosses, featuring a shrewd criminal lawyer and his shamelessly sexy wife-a true black widow.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2660'),
(7462, 'Shut Your Eyes Tight', 'John Verdon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Lisa Scottoline on *Shut Your Eyes Tight\n </strong>\n *\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  *Lisa Scottoline\n </strong>\n is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of 18 novels including her latest,\n <em>\n  Save Me\n </em>\n . She is President of Mystery Writers of America and writes a weekly column,\n <em>\n  Chick Wit\n </em>\n , with her daughter Francesca Serritella for the\n <em>\n  Philadelphia Inquirer\n </em>\n . The columns have been collected in\n <em>\n  Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog\n </em>\n and *My Nest Isnâ€™t Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space.\n</p>\n<p>\n Voice is the hallmark of a great writer, and I loved John Verdonâ€™s riveting\n <em>\n  Shut Your Eyes Tight\n </em>\n from page one, because I fell in love with his voice.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yes, the plot is a humdinger, too, with a bride turning up dead on her wedding day, whereupon former NYPD police detective Dave (â€œDonâ€™t call me Daveyâ€) Gurney is called out of an uneasy retirement to investigate the crime and find the killer. Gurneyâ€™s been settling into a country life in the Catskills, trying to force himself to think about mulch and bulldozers, but it ainâ€™t working out so great. His superbly-drawn (if realistically tart-tongued) wife is hoping they can spend more time together, but Gurney is a â€œnatural-born onion peelerâ€ and he canâ€™t sit on his hands when murder strikes in nearby, ritzy Tambury.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gurney starts digging, asking thoughtful questions, and interviewing the society types who knew the bride, and soon his dining room table is covered with notes and gruesome crime-scene photos that his wife wishes werenâ€™t around when dinner guests arrive. Yet Gurney persists, seeking the truth in his quiet, self-assured way.\n</p>\n<p>\n The plot comes to life on the first page, but as I say, what keeps the pages turning is the pitch-perfect, intriguing voice of this â€œhero,â€ a term I know that Dave Gurney would hate. Heâ€™s super-smart, but the last one to brag. He loves his wife, but he doesnâ€™t get all mawkish about her. Heâ€™s haunted by the death of his young child, but he doesnâ€™t even say that aloud. Even his diversions are fascinating; youâ€™ll never forget his theory of â€œThe Eureka Fallacy,â€ a lesson in police analysis that applies to your everyday life. And he goes about serving justice, despite all the personal costs at home, with a care and concern that you realize, by the end, is characteristic.\n</p>\n<p>\n I know that youâ€™ll want to hear more from Dave Gurney and this amazingly talented author, John Verdon. I canâ€™t wait for his next book.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author John Verdon\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHow on earth did you put this together?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Thatâ€™s probably the question I was asked most frequently about my first Dave Gurney multi-layered thriller,\n <em>\n  Think of a Number\n </em>\n . And now the early readers of the second novel in the series,\n <em>\n  Shut Your Eyes Tight\n </em>\n , an even twistier tale, are asking it again.\n</p>\n<p>\n I guess the best way to answer the question is to describe how these complex stories seem to develop in my mind. For me, there are two starting points for every mystery-thriller. There is the largely concealed action of the criminalâ€”the true extent and nature of which will drive the plot, creating an increasing level of danger and destruction. And there is a specific mysterious result of that criminal action that initially touches and involves the crime-solverâ€”drawing him into an ever higher level of confrontation with the underlying evil enterprise.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Think of a Number\n </em>\n , the initial tip of the criminal iceberg is a chilling and seemingly clairvoyant series of letters received by Dave Gurneyâ€™s old college classmate. As other baffling and murderous bits of the iceberg come to the surface, Dave becomes more and more engaged, more personally challenged to find the pattern, the motive, the killer.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Shut Your Eyes Tight\n </em>\n , the first visible sign of something complex beneath the surface is far more horrific. A bride is decapitated at her own wedding receptionâ€”and Dave is drawn into the investigation by a disgruntled cop who believes the official investigation is off-track.\n</p>\n<p>\n My personal approach is to develop a story like\n <em>\n  Shut Your Eyes Tight\n </em>\n on two simultaneous tracks that gradually become more and more entwined. The criminal does something that gets the attention of the detective; the detective begins his examination of the situation; the criminal escalates his activity, producing results that further involve the detective; the detectiveâ€™s intensified investigative actions provoke more desperate responses by the criminal, building to a climactic high-risk confrontation and the revelation of the full architecture of the very nasty iceberg.\n</p>\n<p>\n For me, the key to the credible development of this kind of a narrative lies in understanding my charactersâ€”their motives, emotions, and potential for interaction. But you know what part of the process excites and inspires me the most? Itâ€™s the part where I imagine that first visible hint of the monster beneath the surface. Whenever I see a horror or science-fiction movie, the great moment is that first glimpse of trouble.\n</p>\n<p>\n I remember an old black-and-white movie I saw, probably back in the 1950s. A happy little family on vacation spent the night in their camping trailer by a back road in the desert. In the morning, one of the children, chasing a ball, comes upon a very strange footprint in the sandâ€”nothing recognizably human or animal.\n</p>\n<p>\n A clichÃ©d opening? Sure. But it gave me gooseflesh, and I loved it! And of course, there is that remarkable scene near the beginning of David Lynchâ€™s\n <em>\n  Blue Velvet\n </em>\n , in which the young hero, walking through the woods, happens upon a human ear.\n</p>\n<p>\n I believe that a lot of the power and appeal of any narrative flows from its initial image of trouble. Itâ€™s the imaginative flash of lightning that illuminates the path into the storyâ€”for writer and reader alike.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Verdon, who hit a home run with his debut novel, THINK OF A NUMBER\n <em>\n  ,\n </em>\n has now nailed another one."--\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n (Starred review)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Verdon follows THINK OF A NUMBER, his sensational debut featuring retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney, with this standout sequel, set a year later. [The elements:] a bizarre, high-profile murderâ€¦an apparent impossibility involving the murder weapon, and once againâ€¦a relationship in crisis."--\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n (Starred Review)\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/642'),
(7463, 'Shutter Island', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe''s radical approach to psychiatry; an approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing. Or is there another, more personal reason why he has come there? As the investigation deepens, the questions only mount. The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1123'),
(7464, 'Sick', 'Brett Battles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Daniel Ash wakes to his daughterâ€™s cry. In her room, he expects to find her frightened by a nightmare. But the nightmare is his. Something is burning her alive. Soon men in biohazard suits separate Ashâ€™s family, stashing them away. The problem is Ash refuses to disappear, determined to find those responsible. Humanity is on the brink of execution. And man is pulling the trigger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/660'),
(7465, 'Sick Puppy', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Da den politisk indflydelsesrige Palmer Stoat forurener Florida''s natur bestemmer miljÃ¸idealisten Twilly Spree sig til at give ham en lÃ¦restreg.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/430'),
(7466, 'Side Jobs', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The first short story collection in the #1 New York Times bestselling series-including a brand-new Harry Dresden novella!   Here, together for the first time, are the shorter works of #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher-a compendium of cases that Harry and his cadre of allies managed to close in record time. The tales range from the deadly serious to the absurdly hilarious. Also included is a new, never-before-published novella that takes place after the cliff-hanger ending of the new April 2010 hardcover, Changes. This is a must-have collection for every devoted Harry Dresden fan as well as a perfect introduction for readers ready to meet Chicago''s only professional wizard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3619'),
(7467, 'The Sigma Protocol', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Ludlum''s trademark skills of intricate plotting, breakneck pacing, and high-wire drama are all on display in this gripping thriller. After his twin brother dies in a plane crash, Ben Hartman reluctantly takes his place in the investment firm started by their father, a Holocaust survivor. But then an old college buddy tries to kill Ben on a crowded Zurich street, setting off a chain of events that ultimately leads Ben into the thick of a worldwide conspiracy. Behind it is Sigma, a multinational cartel built on the rubble of World War II by industrialists and financiers bent on exploiting wartime technology and protecting their wealth from the threat of communism.\n</p>\n<p>\n Accompanied by a beautiful American justice department agent, Ben eludes the assassins on his trail and follows Sigma''s tentacles across Europe, to Brazil, Washington, and finally to a sanitarium known as the Clockworks in the Austrian Alps, where the horrifying agenda of a perverted new world order is revealed. Ludlum, who died between the writing and publishing of this book, was a master of the genre he helped popularize, and\n <em>\n  The Sigma Protocol\n </em>\n shows him at the peak of his craft.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anna Navarro, special agent for the Justice Department, has been assigned to investigate the deaths of several eminent men, all advanced in age and all connected to a mysterious group called Sigma, founded in the last years of World War II. An accident brings her together with Ben Hartman, an American investment banker who is in Zurich investigating the death of his twin brother and finds himself the target of an assassination attempt. Who is Sigma, and why are some of its members being killed? More importantly, what grand project is in the works? Readers may find the answer to these questions simplistic: Sigma is a partnership of high-ranking statesmen and industrialists, put together not only to spirit wealth out of Germany at the end of the war but also to stop communism''s spread. Sigma''s goal is to make the world safe for capitalism, a corporation whose board of directors is in charge of Western history itself. Unfortunately, Ludlum''s latest novel (he died in March but left outlines for more posthumous thrillers) is not one of his better efforts. Even the sparks that eventually fly between Anna and Ben seem tepid.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Ronnie H. Terpening, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1236'),
(7468, 'The Sign', 'Raymond Khoury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Antarctica, a scientific expedition drops anchor for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived -- the entire event witnessed by an incredible world audience. Meanwhile in a dusty bar in Egypt, a dozen men are lazily discussing the state of the world when the brilliant, glowing symbol on the television stops them cold. One man breaks into a sweat, crosses himself repeatedly, and rushes out of the bar muttering the same phrase over and over again: It can''t be. Across the Internet and around the globe, a stunning controversy threatens to consume the world. Has God finally decided to reveal himself; Or is something more sinister at hand;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3643'),
(7469, 'The Silence of the Lambs', 'Thomas Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Silence of the Lambs\n </em>\n , by Thomas Harris, is even better than the successful movie. Like his earlier\n <em>\n  Red Dragon\n </em>\n , the book takes us inside the world of professional criminal investigation. All the elements of a well-executed thriller are working here--driving suspense, compelling characters, inside information, publicity-hungry bureaucrats thwarting the search, and the clock ticking relentlessly down toward the death of another young woman. What enriches this well-told tale is the opportunity to live inside the minds of both the crime fighters and the criminals as each struggles in a prison of pain and seeks, sometimes violently, relief.\n</p>\n<p>\n Clarice Starling, a precociously self-disciplined FBI trainee, is dispatched by her boss, Section Chief Jack Crawford, the FBI''s most successful tracker of serial killers, to see whether she can learn anything useful from Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Lecter''s a gifted psychopath whose nickname is "The Cannibal" because he likes to eat parts of his victims. Isolated by his crimes from all physical contact with the human race, he plays an enigmatic game of "Clue" with Starling, providing her with snippets of data that, if she is smart enough, will lead her to the criminal. Undaunted, she goes where the data takes her. As the tension mounts and the bureaucracy thwarts Starling at every turn, Crawford tells her, "Keep the information and freeze the feelings." Insulted, betrayed, and humiliated, Starling struggles to focus. If she can understand Lecter''s final, ambiguous scrawl, she can find the killer. But can she figure it out in time?\n <em>\n  --Barbara Schlieper\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this thrillingly effective follow-up to Harris''s masterful 1981 suspense novel Red Dragon, the heroine is new, but the villain isn''t: Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the evil genius who played a small but crucial role in the earlier novel, returns, to mesmerizing effect. When a serial killer known as Buffalo Bill (he kidnaps, slays and skins young women) begins a crosscountry rampage, FBI trainee Clarice Starling tries to interview Lecter, a psychiatrist whose brilliant insights into the criminally insane are matched only by his bloodlusthe''s currently imprisoned for nine murders, and would like nothing more than the chance to kill again. Lecter, a vicious gamesman, will offer clues to the murderer''s pattern only in exchange for information about Clarice, analyzing her with horrible accuracy from the barest details. When Bill strikes again, the agent begins to realize that Lecter may know much more, and races against time and two twisted minds. Harris understands the crafting of literary terror as very few writers do; readers who put themselves in his good, coldblooded hands will lose sleep, and demand a sequel. 200,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1315'),
(7470, 'The Silent Girl', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n No one takes readers to the dark side and back with more razor-sharp jolts and sheer suspense than the storytelling master behind Ice Cold and The Keepsake. When New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen has a tale to tell, put yourself in her expert handsâ€”and prepare for the shocks and thrills that are certain to follow.Every crime scene tells a story. Some keep you awake at night. Others haunt your dreams. The grisly display homicide cop Jane Rizzoli finds in Bostonâ€™s Chinatown will do both.In the murky shadows of an alley lies a femaleâ€™s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, her head nearly severed. Two strands of silver hairâ€”not humanâ€”cling to her body. They are Rizzoliâ€™s only clues, but theyâ€™re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make the startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel.Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead. But one woman connected to that massacre is still alive: a mysterious martial arts master who knows a secret she dares not tell, a secret that lives and breathes in the shadows of Chinatown. A secret that may not even be human. Now sheâ€™s the target of someone, or something, deeply and relentlessly evil.Cracking a crime resonating with bone-chilling echoes of an ancient Chinese legend, Rizzoli and Isles must outwit an unseen enemy with centuries of cunningâ€”and a swift, avenging blade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/649'),
(7471, 'Silent Mercy', 'Linda Fairstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the latest thriller in Linda Fairstein''s bestselling series, Alex Cooper dives deep into the byzantine, sinister world of New York City''s powerful religious institutions.   It''s the middle of the night. Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is called to Harlem''s Mount Neboh Baptist Church, a beautiful house of worship originally built as a synagogue. But the crowd gathered there isn''t interested in architecture, or even prayer. They''ve come for the same reason Alex has: to find out why the body of a young woman has been decapitated, set on fire, and left burning on the church steps.  The only identifiable artifact on the charred remains is the imprint of a Star of David necklace seared into the victim''s flesh. Alex wonders if the fire was meant to destroy this woman''s body, or to draw attention to it. Her fears are confirmed days later, when a second corpse is found at a cathedral in Little Italy. The killings look like serial hate crimes, but the apparent differences in the victims'' beliefs seem to eliminate a religious motive. Convinced that another young woman is bound to die, Alex mines the depths of Manhattan''s many houses of worship to find a connection between the victims-and in the process uncovers a terrible and perilous truth that takes her far beyond the scope of her investigation, and directly into the path of terrible danger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3263'),
(7472, 'Silent Partner', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kellerman bares a dark, brooding side of his appealing series'' detective, child psychologist Alex Delaware ( Over the Edge ), in this complex tale of guilt, greed and expiation. Although his beloved girlfriend Robin has left him, to find herself, Delaware decides against seeing former lover Sharon Ransom, when she asks to meet. Stricken with guilt when he reads of her suicide the next day, he is driven to understand the circumstances that led to her death. Delaware traces Sharon''s life back through their relationship and into the many versions of her childhood he discovers. As grisly murders accrue, he gradually unknots a tangled skein of pornography, blackmail, corporate megalomania, academic pretension, mistaken identity, multiple births and borderline personalities. Aided by his friend, gay LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, he travels from L.A.''s mansion-strewn hills to its seamy underside, from the countryside west of Claremont to the hi-tech desert abode of a Howard Hughes-like recluse, uncovering a generation-spanning web of deception that leaves Delaware as uncertain of his own worth as he is of others.'' Kellerman keeps his labyrinthine plot in hand, peopling it with eccentric, memorable characters. 100,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "AÂ Â complex and haunting story of tangled personalities,Â Â deeply buried family secrets, and of violence lyingÂ Â thinly under the surface ... Hits the readerÂ Â right between the eyes." --\n <em>\n  Los AngelesÂ Â Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/768'),
(7473, 'Silent Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This streamlined thriller is a rematch for Minneapolis homicide cop Lucas Davenport and the insane killer he caught in Sandford''s earlier slasher novel, Eyes of Prey. After psychotic pathologist Dr. Mike Bekker escapes from a New York courthouse and begins a killing spree, NYPD Lt. Lily Rothenberg asks Davenport, her former lover, to come to Manhattan and help the investigation. Despite Bekker''s ruined face (courtesy of an enraged Davenport), the killer eludes capture and the bodies keep piling up, each with the eyelids cut off so that Bekker could photograph his victims as they died. Rothenberg gives Davenport an additional, undercover assignment--to ferret out the "Robin Hoods," a clandestine police vigilante group responsible for perhaps three dozen deaths, one of which was that of a fellow cop who might have been onto them. Paired with possible Robin Hood Det. Barbara Fell, Davenport taunts Bekker in the media, hoping to goad him into a mistake, but the grisly murders continue. As the momentum gathers, readers will speed through the surprise twists and confrontations of the last chapters. Although the story never drags and Sandford delivers his usual punch, the devices in his winning formula are becoming familiar.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sandford''s sixth thriller--including two under his real name of John Camp--since July 1989. It''s no surprise, then, that this fourth in his bestselling Prey series shows some stretch and strain, bringing cop-hero Lucas Davenport away from Minneapolis to Manhattan to tangle again with the homicidal maniac of Eyes of Prey (1991). But it''s not just drug-crazed pathologist Michael Bekker- -infamous for cutting out his victims'' eyelids as he torture-kills them to capture the moment of transition from life to death--that tests Davenport here. Weeks after Bekker escapes from a Minneapolis courthouse in the novel''s fierce kickoff, Davenport is visited by old flame Lily Rothenberg of the NYPD (Rules of Prey). Not only is Bekker running amok in N.Y.C., Lily says, but so is a cabal of vigilante cops who''ve killed perhaps dozens of the Big Apple''s most vicious worms. Will Davenport help snare Bekker and at the same time secretly sniff out the bad cops? Davenport''s exploration of Gotham''s mean streets dramatically points up the metropolis as an inferno of the damned--dealers, fences, junkies--as seen by a small-city cop; but Davenport himself seems less the appealingly brooding, game-playing genius of previous novels than a devious bully with a penchant for extralegal tactics, including intimidation and burglary. Meanwhile, Bekker pops pills and reaps victims under Davenport''s nose until a major twist reveals why the killer remains invisible. As Davenport closes in, he also finds himself looking hard at friends old and new as possible vigilantes: Lily, her cop-lover, another top cop, and Davenport''s own new bedmate, a feisty\n  <code>\n  </code>\n  cowgirl'''' cop named Barb Fell. The two cases close out in predictable but tense climaxes fraught with poetic justice. Solid cop-action with well-drawn minor characters, but lacking the high cleverness or suspense of some earlier Preys. And recycled villain Bekker is no Hannibal Lecter. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/698'),
(7474, 'The Silent Sea', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The thrilling new adeventure from the #1 New York Times- bestselling author. Clive Cussler''s tales of the Oregon and its crew-"the clever, indefatigable Juan Cabrillo and his merry band of tough, tech-savvy fighting men and women" ( Publishers Weekly)-have made fans of hundreds of thousands of readers. But the Oregon''s sixth adventure is its most remark able one yet. On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discovery, only to be interrupted by news of Pearl Harbor. In the present, Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumbles upon a shocking revelation of his own. His search to untangle the mystery leads him, first, to that small island and its secret, and then much farther back, to an ancient Chinese expedition-and a curse that seems to have survived for more than five hundred years. If Cabrillo''s team is successful in its quest, the reward could be incalculable. If not . . . the only reward is death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3302'),
(7475, 'Silent Thunder', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Assigned the task of creating a schematic of a recently purchased Russian nuclear submarine that is slated for museum exhibition, architect Hannah Bryson enlists the help of her brother, Connor, who discovers a mysterious message behind a panel before he is brutally murdered. (Suspense)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3382'),
(7476, 'Silks', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œJulian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family including a charge of attempted murder. You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society.â€ When defense lawyer Geoffrey Mason hears the judge''s ruling at London''s Old Bailey, he quietly hopes that a substantial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason realize that he''ll be looking Trent in the eyes again much sooner than that. Setting aside his barrister''s gown and wig, Mason heads to Sandown racetrack to don his colorful racing silks. As an amateur jockey, he fulfills his true passion by pounding the turf in the heat of a steeplechase. Yet when a fellow rider is brutally murderedâ€”a pitchfork driven through his chestâ€”Mason''s racing hobby soon becomes too close to his work. The prime suspect is one of their brethren, champion jockey Steve Mitchell, and the evidence against him seems overwhelming. Mason is reluctant to heed Mitchell''s plea for legal helpâ€”but he soon finds himself at the center of a sinister web of violence, threats and intimidation. Mason is left fighting a battle of right and wrong, and more immediately, a battle of life and death&amp;his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3230');
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(7477, 'The Silmarillion', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The tales of The Silmarillion were the underlying inspiration and source of J.R.R. Tolkien''s imaginative writing; he worked on the book throughout his life but never brought it to a final form. Long preceding in its origins The Lord of the Rings, it is the story of the First Age of Tolkien''s world, the ancient drama to which characters in The Lord of the RIngs look back and in which some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The title Silmarillion is shortened from Quenta Silmarillion, "The History of the Silmarils," the three great jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves, in which he imprisoned the light of the Two Trees that illumined Valinor, the land of the gods. When Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, destroyed the Trees, that light lived on only in the Silmarils; Morgoth seized them and set them in his crown, guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his people against the gods, their exile in Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all the heroisim of Elves and Men, against the great Enemy. The book includes several other, shorter works beside The Silmarillion proper. Preceding it are "Ainulindale," the myth of Creation, and "Valaquenta," in which the nature and powers of each of the gods is set forth. After The Silmarillion is "Akallabeth," the story of the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age; completing the volume is "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age," in which the events of The Lord of the Rings are treated in the manner of The Silmarillion. This new edition of The Silmarillion contains the revised and corrected "second edition" text and, by way of introduction, a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1951, which provides a brilliant exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages. It also contains almost fifty full-color illustrations by the artist Ted Nasmith, many of which appear for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1321'),
(7478, 'Silver Chair', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6-8-King Caspian has grown old and sad in the ten years since the disappearance of his only son. Jill and Eustace embark on a perilous quest to find the Prince.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The magic of C.S. Lewis''s parallel universe never fades." The Times "When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness." C S Lewis\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1177'),
(7479, 'Silver Girl', 'Elin Hilderbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing - because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars.Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie''s had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island can''t offer complete escape, and they''re plagued by new and old troubles alike. When Connie''s brother Toby - Meredith''s high school boyfriend - arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between the life she is leading and the life she could have had. Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, Elin Hilderbrand delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3555'),
(7480, 'Simple Genius', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Last seen in\n  <em>\n   Split Second\n  </em>\n  (2003), former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have reached a crisis in their relationship in this less than compelling Washington political thriller from bestseller Baldacci. When Maxwell instigates a fight with the most intimidating bruiser she could find at a local bar and lets herself be beaten unconscious, despite her superior fighting skills, her partner suggests she voluntarily commit herself to a psychiatric facility. While Maxwell reluctantly undergoes treatment to find the childhood roots of her death wish, King probes the suicide of a scientist found on the grounds of Virginia''s Camp Peary, a mysterious CIA facility. Both mysteries are fairly run of the mill, lacking the sharp twists and expert pacing that characterize Baldacci''s fiction at its best.\n  <em>\n   (Apr. 24)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This follow-up to 2004''s\n  <em>\n   Hour Game\n  </em>\n  begins with Michelle Maxwell, the former Secret Service agent turned private investigator, scraping the bottom of the emotional barrel. When she wanders into a seedy bar and picks a fight with the biggest guy she can find, she knows someone is about to die . . and she hopes it''s not him. Soon Michelle is sidelined at a mental hospital, and Sean King, her partner, is trying to find a case to keep their business afloat. He finds one--a murder at a high-tech think tank--and it''s not long before Michelle checks herself out of the hospital and joins Sean. But can they piece together this intricate puzzle in time to save a girl''s life and blow the lid off a top-level government conspiracy? The most intriguing element of this compulsively readable novel is its setting: Babbage Town, the think tank, is modeled after World War II''s Bletchley Park, where some of the world''s top thinkers joined forces to break the top-secret German communications code. Baldacci''s twenty-first-century version of Bletchley brings together a community of scientists working on a new kind of computer, but readers familiar with the Bletchley story will note how carefully Baldacci draws the parallels. As always, the two leads work well together, their strengths and weaknesses complementing each other. Baldacci, always strong on suspense but occasionally clunky stylistically, finds his voice here. The best entry in the series.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/120'),
(7481, 'The Simple Truth', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rufus Harms is rotting in a Virginia military prison. As readers learn in the terse opening of\n <em>\n  The Simple Truth\n </em>\n , he was convicted 25 years ago of the brutal killing of a young girl. Readers also learn that Rufus did not commit the crime; out of a haze of memories and with fragments of evidence, he has reconstructed the truth about the horrid event that ruined his life. He knows his discovery could cost him his life, so he breaks from prison after sending an appeal to the Supreme Court that details a massive conspiracy tied into the foundations of Washington.\n</p>\n<p>\n The complex drama of Rufus Harms is only\n <em>\n  one\n </em>\n of the interwoven threads in this massive, violent legal thriller that also draws from the vocabulary of hard-boiled crime fiction. Baldacci offers glimpses into the arcane politics of the high court, where Justice Elizabeth Knight wages war with the manipulative Chief Justice Harold Ramsay. And while Harms struggles to keep out of harm''s way and the justices duke it out, Supreme Court law clerk Sara Evans toils with ex-cop John Fiske to discover the import of Harms''s appeal (and, simultaneously, to uncover the murderer of Mike Fiske, John''s law clerk-brother and the original holder of the appeal). Their interest in the document apparently draws the attention of the same deadly conspirators who manipulated Harms over two decades earlier. While the armed mayhem sometimes rises to the point of excess, Baldacci''s novel continues to offer new surprises until the final pages.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Will Baldacci''s most recent title be another Winner, like his recent New York Times best seller? Here, a man convicted of a murder he''s convinced he committed suddenly realizes that he''s been framed and launches an appeal that leads to more murder.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/140'),
(7482, 'Simply Irresistible', 'Jill Shalvis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Maddie Moore''s whole life needs a makeover.In one fell swoop, Maddie loses her boyfriend (her decision) and her job (so not her decision). But rather than drowning her sorrows in bags of potato chips, Maddie leaves L.A. to claim the inheritance left by her free-spirited mother-a ramshackle inn nestled in the little coastal town of Lucky Harbor, Washington.Starting over won''t be easy. Yet Maddie sees the potential for a new home and a new career-if only she can convince her two half-sisters to join her in the adventure. But convincing Tara and Chloe will be difficult because the inn needs a big makeover too. The contractor Maddie hires is a tall, dark-haired hottie whose eyes-and mouth-are making it hard for her to remember that she''s sworn off men. Even harder will be Maddie''s struggles to overcome the past, though she''s about to discover that there''s no better place to call home than Lucky Harbor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3908'),
(7483, 'The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History', 'John Ortved', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Freelance writer Ortved tells the story of a cartoon about a dysfunctional family living in the shadow of a nuclear power plant that became the longest-running prime time series in American television history. The Simpsons first appeared as a series of shorts on The Tracy Ullman Show in 1987 and debuted as a full-length series in 1989. Almost immediately it became an international phenomenon, helping to establish the then-upstart Fox network. Since then, The Simpsons has featured dozens of celebrity guests, from Michael Jackson to Tom Wolf, and has become a major influence on the development of television comedy and on a generation of Americans. Ortved has done dozens of in-depth interviews, and they make the book. His oral history approach is particularly compelling through the first 200 pages, where the disagreements over who deserves credit for The Simpsons take on a Rashomon-like complexity. Ortved seems evenhanded in his assessments of principals like Matt Groening and James Brooks-few of whom come through unscathed. As the book progresses, it loses focus, and Ortved inserts more of his own opinions and analyses, which are generally less interesting than the interviews (hating Everybody Loves Raymond isn''t exactly a radical stance). Nevertheless, Ortved has done a remarkable job of bringing to light the creators of our beloved four-fingered creatures with the bright yellow skin.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Ortved''s "uncensored, unauthorized" history... is as tasty as a pink-glazed donut with sprinkles, as refreshing as a Duff beer and as piquant as a curry slushy from Kwik-E Mart." â€”Louis Bayard,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "AÂ gloriously windy oral history crammed with behind-the-scenes squabbles and power grabs...I completely devoured\n <em>\n  The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History\n </em>\n , even if I felt a little bad afterward for the central players who got sucker punched. The early details, as show creator Matt Groening goes from obscure alt-weekly cartoonist to megamogul via talent and chance, remain a well-known showbiz tale. John Ortved''s sources (including artist Art Spiegelman) tell it in a fresh, vivid way. The subsequent testimony about the empire Groening created is contentious and mesmerizing." â€”Ken Tucker,\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Ortved has produced a 300-page combination of juicy entertainment gossip, rich television history and notes from a disenchanted lover." â€”Lisa Tozzi,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Brisk and engaging and likely to entertain\n <em>\n  Simpsons\n </em>\n die-hards without breaking a sweat...a good balance between information and gossip; between a story about simmering creativity and a story about flawed human beings who showed their flaws -- as many do -- more and more as the money accumulated...a rich read for fans." â€”Linda Holmes,\n <em>\n  NPR\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ortved has done a remarkable job of bringing to light the creators of our beloved four-fingered creatures with the bright yellow skin." â€”\n <em>\n  Publisher''s Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/499'),
(7484, 'Sin No More', 'Kimberla Lawson Roby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A man who once thrived on wickedness and counted on forgiveness, Curtis Black has changed his ways. Back in the heart of his congregation and his family, he will no longer stray from the beaten path. Or so he''s promised his long-suffering wife, Charlotte.   But the sins of the past have strange ways of coming to light. First, Curtis''s former mistress shows up with their newborn baby daughterâ€”named Curtinaâ€”and insists that Curtis be a part of their lives. Charlotte has forbidden her husband to have anything to do with them, but the trouble is, Curtis''s newfound conscience is leading him to have uncomfortable thoughts of responsibility.   Also, the interim pastor who took over while Curtis was on a book tour is threatening blackmail. He''s gotten too used to life at the pulpit and will do everything in his power to stay there.   Meanwhile, Charlotte has her own previous transgressions to deal with. The man who claims to be her son''s biological father has turned up and wants to make amends for the past thirteen years. If Charlotte gives in to his increasing requests, she may lose the only child she has left.   However, Curtis and Charlotte have been through too much together to give up now. They must work harder than everâ€”as a mother and a father, as husband and wifeâ€”to save their family, their marriage, and their souls.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3301'),
(7485, 'The Sinatra Files: The Secret FBI Dossier', 'Tom Kuntz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  An American Icon Under Government SurveillanceWhen Frank Sinatra died in 1998, he was one of the most chronicled celebrities ever, but the most unusual record of his life came to light only posthumously: a 1,275-page dossier recording decades of FBI surveillance stemming from J. Edgar Hoover''s belief that Sinatra had mob or Communist ties. This shadow biography, with information never before presented in book form, details:Hoover''s search through Sinatra''s past to see if he got a bogus medical deferment from military service, ultimately yielding the simple fact that Sinatra really had suffered a perforated eardrum as a youthThe FBI''s previously unreported cooperation with journalists looking for dirt on Sinatra, including one who had recently been punched out by the singerNumerous instances of the star''s carousing and intemperate behavior -- including a detailed report alleging that he rampaged through a Las Vegas hotel after he and his wife Mia Farrow lost small fortunes gamblingThe mob''s attempts to curry favor with John F. Kennedy through Sinatra -- and its anger when Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy turned up the heat.This fascinating record of governmental scrutiny will captivate every Sinatra fan, as well as anyone who wants to understand the second half of the American century -- the Cold War, popular culture, the cult of celebrity, Camelot, and the FBI''s mania for investigating American citizens -- all personified by the most dominant entertainer of the era.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1963'),
(7486, 'Sing You Home', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Every life has a soundtrack. All you have to do is listen. Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxterâ€™s life. Thereâ€™s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. A dance beat that makes her think of using a fake ID to slip into a nightclub. A dirge that marked the years she spent trying to get pregnant. For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love. In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some peopleâ€”even those she loves and trusts mostâ€”donâ€™t want that to happen. Sing You Home is about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. Itâ€™s about people wanting to do the right thing for the greater good, even as they work to fulfill their own personal desires and dreams. And itâ€™s about what happens when the outside world brutally calls into question the very thing closest to our hearts: family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3227'),
(7487, 'Singin&#39; and Swingin&#39; and Gettin&#39; Merry Like Christmas', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe buoyant, gifted Maya Angelou continues her autobiography. . . . Both her joy and her despair have twice as much impact as most peopleâ€™s.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“New York\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAngelou may be one of the best hunters of the heart, one of the best to explore the insides of folks, black or white, and find what moves them, what makes them real and tangible to themselves and others.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _â€“The Christian Science Monitor\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œAngelou is a sharp observer and commentator on culture. . . . [Her book is] filled with penetrating observations about the people she encounters.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“Chicago Tribune Book World\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHonest, funny and heartwarming . . . The strength of the book is Angelouâ€™s lyrical writing . . . a God-given gift.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“The Washington Star\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAngelou is one of the geniuses of the Afro-American serial autobiography.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“The New York Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with\n <em>\n  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\n </em>\n , Maya Angelou moves into the adult world. Maya struggles to support herself and her son through a series of odd jobs and weathers a failed marriage to a white man before landing a gig singing in one of the most popular nightclubs on the San Francisco coast. From there, she is called to New York to join the cast of\n <em>\n  Porgy and Bess.\n </em>\n Maya soon finds herself on a joyous and dramatic adventure, touring abroad through Italy, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Egypt with spirited cast members, and performing for large, enthusiastic audiences. The exciting experience is dampened only by Mayaâ€™s nagging guilt that she has abandoned the person she loves most in life, her son, whose reentrance into her world reveals to Maya the healing power of devotion and love.\n</p>\n<p>\n Charged with Maya Angelouâ€™s remarkable sense of life and love,\n <em>\n  Singinâ€™ and Swinginâ€™ and Gettinâ€™ Merry Like Christmas\n </em>\n is a unique celebration of the human conditionâ€“and an enthralling saga that has touched, inspired, and empowered readers worldwide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1990'),
(7488, 'A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama&#39;s Mother', 'Janny Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother.   Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for, as he says, "what is best in me." Here is the missing piece of the story.  Award-winning reporter Janny Scott interviewed nearly two hundred of Dunham''s friends, colleagues, and relatives (including both her children), and combed through boxes of personal and professional papers, letters to friends, and photo albums, to uncover the full breadth of this woman''s inspiring and untraditional life, and to show the remarkable extent to which she shaped the man Obama is today.  Dunham''s story moves from Kansas and Washington state to Hawaii and Indonesia. It begins in a time when interracial marriage was still a felony in much of the United States, and culminates in the present, with her son as our president- something she never got to see. It is a poignant look at how character is passed from parent to child, and offers insight into how Obama''s destiny was created early, by his mother''s extraordinary faith in his gifts, and by her unconventional mothering. Finally, it is a heartbreaking story of a woman who died at age fifty-two, before her son would go on to his greatest accomplishments and reflections of what she taught him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1784'),
(7489, 'Sinner Takes All of Love and Porn', 'Tera Patrick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Even porn stars have romantic illusions. Just take a stroll through the new\n  <em>\n   Sinner Takes All\n  </em>\n  by Tera Patrick. The fast-reading memoir whips from knowing to naive and back as it tracks its plucky protagonist from ugly-duckling school days to international adult superstardom."\n  <br />\n  -_Dallas Morning News_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Sinner Takes All_ lets fans and interested parties alike get the down and dirty details on the personal and professional life of one of the biggest names in a multi-billion dollar industry."\n  <br />\n  -Seattlest\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I can think of no one more fascinating than Tera Patrick-porn star, model, and businesswoman-as readers of this book are certain to agree. It''s all here-her passions, triumphs, and defeats-in more detail than we have any right to expect."\n  <br />\n  -Larry Flynt\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book is an inspirational read with a clear message: There are no limits when one is determined, motivated, and driven."\n  <br />\n  -Dave Navarro\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Orgasms, like laughter, can be faked, but it''s better when they''re not. Tera doesn''t fake anything in this revealing and inspiring book."\n  <br />\n  -Margaret Cho\n </p>\n <p>\n  "She''s a girl who knows what she wants and gets it. That''s what''s cool about Tera Patrick."\n  <br />\n  -Carmen Electra\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  How does a girl go from being a shy, awkward bookworm to the biggest porn star in the world? In\n  <em>\n   Sinner Takes All\n  </em>\n  , Tera Patrick reveals all, including: her career as an international model; losing her virginity at fourteen to a thirtysomething photographer; learning oral sex techniques backstage at a Guns N'' Roses concert; having an orgy with a team of firefighters; her unglamorous job in a nursing home; her first forays into the adult movie business; and how, with her husband''s help, she launched her own multimillion-dollar empire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along the way, she dishes on the emotional side of being Tera Patrick, writing candidly about her battles with depression and anxiety. She also discusses finding true love and building a healthy marriage, achievements that many consider to be impossible in the world of porn. Featuring hundreds of photos, plus diary pages and scintillating sidebars,\n  <em>\n   Sinner Takes All\n  </em>\n  takes the tell-all to raunchy new heights.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1991'),
(7490, 'Sisterhood Everlasting', 'Ann Brashares', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Return to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . ten years laterÂ From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares comes the welcome return of the characters whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood is everlasting.Despite having jobs and men that they love, each knows that something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didnâ€™t take. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle down, a bigger part canâ€™t seem to shed her old restlessness.Then Tibby reaches out to bridge the distance, sending the others plane tickets for a reunion that they all breathlessly await. And indeed, it will change their lives foreverâ€”but in ways that none of them could ever have expected.As moving and life-changing as an encounter with long-lost best friends, Sisterhood Everlasting is a powerful story about growing up, losing your way, and finding the courage to create a new one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3601'),
(7491, 'Sixkill', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An extraordinary new Spenser novel from the beloved New York Times-bestselling author.   On location in Boston, bad-boy actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of the rape and murder of a young woman. From the start the case seems fishy, so the Boston PD calls on Spenser to investigate. The situation doesn''t look good for Jumbo, whose appetites for food, booze, and sex are as outsized as his name. He was the studio''s biggest star, but he''s become their biggest liability.  In the course of the investigation, Spenser encounters Jumbo''s bodyguard: a young, former football-playing Native American named Zebulon Sixkill. Sixkill acts tough, but Spenser sees something more within the young man. Despite the odd circumstances, the two forge an unlikely alliance, with Spenser serving as mentor for Sixkill. As the case grows darker and secrets about both Jumbo and the dead girl come to light, it''s Spenser-with Sixkill at his side-who must put things right.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3289'),
(7492, 'The Sixth Man', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; ">\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; ">\n   <em>\n    Times\n   </em>\n   bestsellers\n   <em>\n    Split Second\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    Hour Game\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    Simple Genius\n   </em>\n   , and\n   <em>\n    First Family\n   </em>\n   , Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind.\n   <strong>\n    THE SIXTH MAN\n   </strong>\n   Edgar Roy-an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility-is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy''s attorney, Sean''s old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins-en route to their first meeting with Bergin, Sean and Michelle find him murdered. It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to want answered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? With help from some surprising allies, they continue to pursue the case. But the more they dig into Roy''s past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction. Their persistence puts them on a collision course with the highest levels of the government and the darkest corners of power. In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean and Michelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted.\n  </span>\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(7493, 'Sizzle', 'Julie Garwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Whether it''s exhilarating historical romance or spine-tingling contemporary suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood weaves magnificent stories of passion, adventure, and intrigue. Now she raises the heat and spices up the action with a sexy, smart, daring new heroine and a smoldering thriller that''s classic Garwoodâ€”and pure Sizzle.Lyra Prescott, a Los Angeles film student, is closing in on graduation and facing important decisions about her future. She''s already been offered a job at her hometown TV station, an opportunity that could ultimately launch her dream career as a film editor. But heading back home would also mean dealing with her overprotective brothers, social-climbing mother, and eccentric grandmother. Unsure of her future, Lyra dives into work on her final school assignment: a documentary transformed by a twist of fate into a real-life horror film. After she unwittingly captures a shocking crime on camera, a rash of mysterious, treacherous incidents convince Lyra that she''s trapped in a sinister scenario headed for a violent ending. Running scared, she turns to her best friend, Sidney Buchanan, whose connections bring dauntless and devilishly handsome FBI agent Sam Kincaid into Lyra''s life. As the noose of deadly intrigue tightens and the feelings between them deepen, Lyra and Sam must place their faith in each other''s handsâ€”and stand together against the malevolent forces about to break loose.Â No one mixes life-and-death suspense with feverish desire better than Julie Garwood. In Sizzle she burns hotter and brighter than ever, keeping the action and passion blazing till the incredible, unforgettable end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3581'),
(7494, 'Sizzle and Burn', 'Jayne Ann Krentz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lonely and reluctant psychic Raine Tallentyre is targeted for recruitment into the secret Arcane Society by fellow psychic Zack Jones, an effort that is complicated by Raine''s painful memories of how the organization shattered her family through an act of betrayal. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3375'),
(7495, 'Sizzling Sixteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a â€œluckyâ€ bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didnâ€™t specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck. . . . BAD LUCK:Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up a gambling debt of $786,000 with mobster Bobby Sunflower and is being held until the cash can be produced. Nobody else will pay to get Vinnie back, leaving it up to Stephanie, office manager Connie, and file clerk Lula to raise the money if they want to save their jobs.GOOD LUCK:Being in the business of tracking down people, Stephanie, Lula, and Connie have an advantage in finding Vinnie. If they can rescue him, it will buy them some time to raise the cash.BAD LUCK:Finding a safe place to hide Vinnie turns out to be harder than raising $786,000. Vinnieâ€™s messing up Moonerâ€™s vibe, running up pay-per-view porn charges in Rangerâ€™s apartment, and making Stephanie question genetics.GOOD LUCK:Between a bonds office yard sale that has the entire Burg turning out, Moonerâ€™s Hobbit-Con charity event, and Uncle Pipâ€™s lucky bottle, they just might raise enough money to save the business, and Vinnie, from ruin. BAD LUCK:Saving Vincent Plum Bail Bonds means Stephanie can keep being a bounty hunter. In Trenton, this involves hunting down a man wanted for polygamy, a turnpike toilet paper bandit, and a drug dealer with a pet alligator named Mr. Jingles.GOOD LUCK:The job of bounty hunter comes with perks in the guise of Trentonâ€™s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, and the dark and dangerous security expert, Ranger. With any luck at all, Uncle Pipâ€™s lucky bottle will have Stephanie getting lucky---the only question is . . . with whom?Sizzling Sixteen . . . so hot, the pages might spontaneously combust!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3315'),
(7496, 'Skeleton Crew', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the introduction to\n <em>\n  Skeleton Crew\n </em>\n (1985), his second collection of stories, King pokes fun at his penchant for "literary elephantiasis," makes scatological jokes about his muse, confesses how much money he makes (gross and net), and tells a story about getting arrested one time when he was "suffused with the sort of towering, righteous rage that only drunk undergraduates can feel." He winds up with an invitation to a scary voyage: "Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way."\n</p>\n<p>\n And he sure does.\n <em>\n  Skeleton Crew\n </em>\n contains a superb short novel ("The Mist") that alone is worth the price of admission, plus two forgettable poems and 20 short stories on such themes as an evil toy monkey, a human-eating water slick, a machine that avenges murder, and unnatural creatures that inhabit the thick woods near Castle Rock, Maine. The short tales range from simply enjoyable to surprisingly good.\n</p>\n<p>\n In addition to "The Mist," the real standout is "The Reach," a beautifully subtle story about a great-grandmother who was born on a small island off the coast of Maine and has lived there her whole life. She has never been across "the Reach," the body of water between island and mainland. This is the story that King fans give to their friends who don''t read horror in order to show them how literate, how charming a storyteller he can be. Don''t miss it.\n <em>\n  --Fiona Webster\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This hefty sampler of King''s shorter works, from all stages of the horror master''s career, demonstrates the range of his abilities. Some of the stories here rank among his best, and "even the less successful ones are fun," PW observed.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/884'),
(7497, 'Skin Tight', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Somebody wants Mick Stranahan dead. Mick is sure of this, because he just had to dispatch a pistol-packing intruder with the help of a stuffed marlin head. But who would want to hurt a former Florida state investigator? The answer is plenty of peopleas Stranahan soon finds himself acquainted with a litter of nefarious players, including a hit man whose skin problems could fill a comprehensive (if bizarre) medical textbook, a lawyer of questionable repute who advertises on billboards, and a TV show host whose taste for sensationalism is exceeded only by his vanity. The whole thing gets downright harrowing for the ex-cop in one of Hiaasen''s most breathtaking, madcap romps everwhere even a plastic surgeon with extremely shaky hands waits to wring Stranahan''s neck....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/435'),
(7498, 'Skin Trade', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A proven series with a hot new look. The #1 bestselling author returns with her most anticipated novel yet. When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin CityÃ‚''s local authorities what theyÃ‚''re dealing with. Only itÃ‚''s worse than she thought. Ten officers and one executioner have been slainÃ‚â€”paranormal style. Anita heads to Vegas, whereÃ‚''s sheÃ‚''s joined by three other federal marshals, including the ruthless Edward. ItÃ‚''s a good thing he always has her back, because when she gets close to the bodies, Anita senses Ã‚â€œtigerÃ‚â€ too strongly to ignore it. The weretigers are very powerful in Las Vegas, which means the odds of her rubbing someone important the wrong way just got a lot higher.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3496'),
(7499, 'Skinny Dip', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Marine biologist Chaz Perrone can''t tell a sea horse from a sawhorse. And when he throws his beautiful wife, Joey, off a cruise liner, he really should know better. An expert swimmer, Joey makes her way to a floating bale of Jamaican pot-and then to an island inhabited by an ex-cop named Mick Stranahan, whose ex-wives include five waitresses and a TV producer. Now Joey wants to get revenge on Chaz and Mick''s happy to help her.But in swampy South Florida, separating lies from truths and stupidity from brilliance isn''t easy. Especially when you''re after a guy like Chaz-who''s bad at murder, great at fraud, and just terrible at getting caught...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/437'),
(7500, 'Skipping Christmas', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Grisham turns a satirical eye on the overblown ritual of the festive holiday season, and the result is\n <em>\n  Skipping Christmas\n </em>\n , a modest but funny novel about the tyranny of December 25. Grisham''s story revolves around a typical middle-aged American couple, Luther and Nora Krank. On the first Sunday after Thanksgiving they wave their daughter Blair off to Peru to work for the Peace Corps, and they suddenly realize that "for the first time in her young and sheltered life Blair would spend Christmas away from home."\n</p>\n<p>\n Luther Krank sees his daughter''s Christmas absence as an opportunity. He estimates that "a year earlier, the Luther Krank family had spent $6,100 on Christmas," and have "precious little to show for it." So he makes an executive decision, telling his wife, friends, and neighbors that "we won''t do Christmas." Instead, Luther books a 10-day Caribbean cruise. But things start to turn nasty when horrified neighbors get wind of the Krank''s subversive scheme and besiege the couple with questions about their decision.\n</p>\n<p>\n Grisham builds up a funny but increasingly terrifying picture of how this tight-knit community turns on the Kranks, who find themselves under increasing pressure to conform. As the tension mounts, readers may wonder whether they will manage to board their plane on Christmas day.\n <em>\n  Skipping Christmas\n </em>\n is Grisham-lite, with none of the serious action or drama of his legal thrillers, but a funny poke at the craziness of Christmas.\n <em>\n  --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For all its clever curmudgeonly edge and minor charms, no way does this Christmas yarn from Grisham rank with A Christmas Carol, as the publisher claims. Nor does it rank with Grisham''s own best work. The premise is terrific, as you''d expect from Grisham. Fed up with the commercial aspects of Christmas, particularly all the money spent, and alone for the holiday for the first time in decades (their daughter has just joined the Peace Corps), grumpy Luther Krank and his sweeter wife, Nora, decide to skip Christmas this year to forgo the gifts, the tree, the decorations, the cards, the parties and to spend the dollars saved on a 10-day Caribbean cruise. But as clever as this setup is, its elaboration is ho-hum. There''s a good reason why nearly all classic Christmas tales rely on an element of fantasy, for, literarily at least, Christmas is a time of miracles. Grisham sticks to the mundane, however, and his story lacks magic for that. He does a smartly entertaining job of satirizing the usual Christmas frenzy, as Luther and Nora resist entreaties from various charities as well as increasing pressure from their neighbors (all sharply drawn, recognizable members of the generic all-American burb, the book''s setting) to do up their house in the traditional way, including installing the giant Frosty that this year adorns the roof of every home on the block except theirs. And when something happens that prompts the Kranks to jump back into Christmas at the last minute, Grisham does slip in a celebration of the real spirit of Christmas, to the point of perhaps squeezing a tear or two from his most sentimental readers (even if he comes uncomfortably close to It''s a Wonderful Life to do so). But it''s too little, too late. The misanthropy in this short novel makes a good antidote to the more cloying Christmas tales, and the book is fun to read. To compare it to Dickens, however, is...humbug. 1.5-million first printing.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1255'),
(7501, 'Sky of Stone', 'Homer Hickam', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Retired NASA engineer Hickam became a minor mass market celebrity in 1994 after a last-minute 2,000-word filler for Air &amp; Space magazine (he spent three hours writing about launching homemade rockets in 1950s Coalwood, W.Va.) brought an avalanche of phone calls and letters. He expanded the article into 1998''s bestselling Rocket Boys, filmed as the critically acclaimed October Sky (2001). Four hundred schools now use his memoirs in their curricula. The latest episode takes place in 1961 during young Hickam''s first summer vacation from college, shortly after a foreman''s death at the mine that Hickam''s father supervises. Hickam (nicknamed Sonny) plans to read Robert A. Heinlein and meet girls in Myrtle Beach where his mother, Elsie, has a new dreamhouse, but Elsie insists he return home since his father is being accused of negligence in the foreman''s death. Stuck in Coalwood, Sonny takes a difficult job laying track. Amid Sonny''s travails with unrequited love, the track-laying competition and being stonewalled by his father and the locals when he asks anything about the death, state and federal inspectors arrive to investigate. Hickam prolongs the suspense in this cleverly constructed, richly detailed mystery peppered with colloquial dialogue and vivid characters. This pleasing book only reinforces his oeuvre. (Oct. 9)Forecast: A preview excerpt in The Coalwood Way paperback (Sept.), an author tour (including a keynote speech at the Ohio Library Council Conference), promotion at Coalwood''s Annual October Sky Festival, an unabridged audiobook and large print editions, and Hickam''s popularity promise skyrocketing sales.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Lucky readers of Rocket Boys (Delacorte, 1998), which became Hollywood''s hit October Sky, will welcome this final volume of Hickam''s trilogy about his youth in Coalwood, WV. He recounts how he headed off to Virginia Tech in 1960 to become an engineer so he could go to work for Wernher Von Braun. During his freshman year, his mother realized her dream of living in Myrtle Beach and Hickam, then 18, hoped for a summer of sand and girls. Instead, she sent him home because his father, a coal-mine superintendent, was in some kind of serious trouble that she didn''t explain and needed him. Hickam recalls feeling like an outsider after a year away but, in need of money, hired on at the mine over his father''s objections. The writing is so vivid and immediate that readers will feel as if they''ve spent the summer with Hickam as he learns much about his distant father, has a crush on an older female mining engineer with big plans for herself, and ultimately helps to solve the mystery of his dad''s trouble. All of his friends and neighbors will be like old friends, thanks to these colorful portraits. With a sharp eye and an ability to laugh at himself, Hickam offers a reading experience that is every bit as good as the first two. This coming-of-age tale celebrates the virtues of community and family without a hint of preachiness, and provides a rousing good story into the bargain.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Judy McAloon, Potomac Library, Prince William County, VA\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1994'),
(7502, 'Slaughterhouse-Five', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kurt Vonnegut''s absurdist classic\n  <em>\n   Slaughterhouse-Five\n  </em>\n  introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut''s) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Don''t let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut''s isn''t a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..."\n  <em>\n   Slaughterhouse-Five\n  </em>\n  (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut''s most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like\n  <em>\n   Catch- 22\n  </em>\n  , it fashions the author''s experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority.\n  <em>\n   Slaughterhouse-Five\n  </em>\n  boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut''s other works, but the book''s basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time." So begins Vonnegut''s absurdist 1969 classic. Hawke rises to the occasion of performing this sliced-and-diced narrative, which is part sci-fi and partially based on Vonnegut''s experience as a American prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany during the firebombing of 1945 that killed thousands of civilians. Billy travels in time and space, stopping here and there throughout his life, including his long visit to the planet Tralfamador, where he is mated with a porn star. Hawke adopts a confidential, whisper-like tone for his reading. Listening to him is like listening to someone tell you a story in the back of a busâ€”the perfect pitch for this book. After the novel ends, Vonnegut himself speaks for a short while about his survival of the Dresden firestorm and describes and names the man who inspired this story. Tacked on to the very end of this audio smorgasbord is music, a dance single that uses a vintage recording of Vonnegut reading from the book. Though Hawke''s reading is excellent, one cannot help but wish Vonnegut himself had read the entire text.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1078');
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(7503, 'Sleepwalk With Me: And Other Painfully True Stories', 'Mike Birbiglia', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Comedian Birbiglia, frequent contributor to public radioâ€™s This American Life and The Moth and author of the blog My Secret Public Journal, has the ability to remember a lot of things most of us would just as soon forget. Lucky for us, in this memoir Birbiglia recalls the events leading up to his earning the childhood nickname â€œTinklesâ€ (though you might be able to guess how it happened), and he tells the story of how, instead of bestowing his first kiss on his middle-school crush, he tossed his cookies at her feet. Heâ€™s now, hopefully, cashing in on the demoralizing dues paid in his youth and early career as a stand-up comicâ€”readers will recognize him from the late-night circuit and Comedy Central specials, and the book itself is an extension of his one-man show. Charming, brainier than heâ€™d probably admit, and frequently poignant in spite of himself, Birbiglia throws together an alternately rollicking and warm handful of stories; the lengthy title story, of his struggle with a sleep disorder, is as fascinating as it is hilarious. --Annie Bostrom\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia was always a very funny guy who told stories onstage. But in the last two years it''s been inspiring to see the stories get bigger and more complicated and emotional as he turned himself into a real storyteller andâ€”with this bookâ€”a real author as well. These are deeply relatable, totally engaging stories. They''re as moving and amusing as they come.â€ â€”Ira Glass, host and producer of â€œThis American Lifeâ€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia can write an entertaining yet soulful story in his sleepâ€”that and jump out of motel windows.â€ â€”Sarah Vowell, author of\n  <em>\n   The Wordy Shipmates\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Assassination Vacation\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFirst, know that this book is well written and funny. Now, know that I hate cynicism. Hate it. This book is the opposite of cynicism. I love\n  <em>\n   Sleepwalk With Me\n  </em>\n  .â€ â€”Jeff Garlin, Co-creator and Co-star of\n  <em>\n   Curb Your Enthusiasm\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia is a good friend of mine but I''m still really happy when weird, bad things happen to him because I love hearing the stories.â€ â€”Seth Meyers, head writer and host of Weekend Update,\n  <em>\n   Saturday Night Live\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFunny. Very funny. Birbiglia is the child Woody Allen and Bob Newhart never hadâ€”please don''t try to picture that ''encounter.'' Smart and self-aware, with just enough perspective on his quirks and issues that you don''t have to feel too sorry for him...as you laugh at and/or with him.â€ â€”Bob Odenkirk, creator and star of HBO''s\n  <em>\n   Mr. Show with Bob and David\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia has always made me laugh and so did this book. No one explains their insanity as sanely or as honestly or is as funny as Mike. If you think youâ€™re crazy, this is the book for you. Itâ€™s a good thing the kid is a talented writer and comic or heâ€™d be screwed.â€ â€”Lewis Black\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Sleepwalk with Me_ is so funny, inspired, and jealous-makingly well written, I am beginning to suspect that Mike Birbiglia MAY ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN AWAKE WHILE HE WROTE IT. This changes my whole worldview.â€ â€”John Hodgman, author of\n  <em>\n   More Information Than You Require\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œInsightful, heartfelt, and comedicâ€”what more could you want from a book? Mike Birbiglia is a unique and wonderful new voice in American theater and letters.â€ â€”Jonathan Ames, creator of HBO''s "Bored to Death" and author of\n  <em>\n   The Extra Man\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Wake Up, Sir!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Sleepwalk With Me_ is about the things that keep us all up at night: love, family and growing up. In equal parts hilarious and moving, this book should cement Mike Birbigliaâ€™s status as a national treasure.â€ â€”Andy Borowitz, author of\n  <em>\n   Who Moved My Soap: The CEO''s Guide to Surviving Prison; The Bernie Madoff Edition\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMike Birbiglia is a great storyteller, just as funny on the page as on the stage. These comic gems strung together create a hilarious and touching memoir of growing up awkwardly and finding his way in the cruel world of stand-up. An original wit who raises self-deprecation to an art form, and always leaves you thinking and laughing." â€”Nathan Lane\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1996'),
(7504, 'A Slice of Heaven', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dana Sue might run the best little restaurant in Serenity, but when you''re feeding a small town of neighbors, busybodies and best friends, things can get a bit hot in the kitchen. Never mind that sh''s putting on too many pounds (an occupational hazard for a chef)â€”sh''s worried about her too-skinny teenage daughter, Annie, who has been slowly starving herself since the loud, suitcase-tossing, name-calling fit on her front lawn that left Dana Sue minus one cheating husband. But sometimes life picks strange ways to mend fences. When Annie lands in the hospital, Dana Sue reaches out to the man she loves to hate: Ron, the husband who took her heart when she tossed him out. Ron is still Annie''s white knight, even if h''s decidedly more tarnished in Dana Sue''s eyes. But he still looks good enough to eat, and maybe, just maybe, to forgive. Once, Ron made the mistake of letting go without a proper fight. But now Dana Sue is about to get another taste of sweet devotion from a man tired of feeling like a fool, hungry for that slice of heaven he found with her.â€”\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3849'),
(7505, 'Sliding Into Home', 'Kendra Wilkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n KENDRA BARES ALLÂ Fans of the E! smash hit series The Girls Next Door fell in love with sporty Playboy beauty Kendra Wilkinsonâ€™s care- free spirit, infectious laugh, and down-to-earth nature. Now that sheâ€™s moved out of the worldâ€™s most famous bachelor pad and into her own delightfully chaotic world on Kendra as wife to NFL star Hank Baskett and mother to their newborn son, weâ€™ve watched her hilarious antics as she adjusts to domestic life. But how much do we really know about the fun-loving star? In this humorous and optimistic, sometimes heartbreaking, but always unfailingly honest memoir, Kendra reveals the highs and lows of her extraordinary journey.Â She wasnâ€™t always the quintessential girl next door. Before she was a reality television superstar, Hugh Hefnerâ€™s girlfriend, or one of the most popular Playboy cover models ever, Kendra was an athletic tomboy whose father walked out on her family when she was a little girl. She grew into a rebellious teenager with a serious drug habit before she quit cold turkey and beat the odds to graduate from a high school that almost didnâ€™t give her a second (or third, or fourth) chance.Â Following her rocky teenage years, an out-of-the- blue phone call from Hugh Hefner changed everything. Kendra dishes candidly about life in the Playboy Mansion: the sex, the parties, the show, and even her relationships with her Girls Next Door costarsâ€”Hef, Holly, and Bridget. She tells the true story about how she and Hank met and built a relationship in secret while she was still Hefâ€™s girl- friend and a public face of Playboy. Finally, she reflects on the slew of unexpected changes in the short space of a year that have brought her sliding into home from Playboy party girl to wife and mother with a blooming Hollywood career. If you think youâ€™ve seen all of Kendra, think again. Sheâ€™s only warming up. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/8'),
(7506, 'A Slipping-Down Life', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œTO READ A NOVEL BY ANNE TYLER IS TO FALL IN LOVE.â€\n <br />\n â€”*People\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œAnne Tyler is a wise and perceptive writer with a warm understanding of human foible.â€\n  <br />\n </em>\n â€”St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œAll of Tylerâ€™s novels are wonderful.â€\n  <br />\n </em>\n â€”Newsweek\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n *â€œOne of the most beguiling and mesmerizing writers in America.â€\n <br />\n â€”The Cleveland Plain Dealer\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNot merely good . . . She is wickedly good!â€\n <br />\n â€”John Updike\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . A very funny writer. . . Not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.â€\n <br />\n â€”Newsweek\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTylerâ€™s characters have character: quirks, odd angles of vision, colorful mean streaks and harmonic longings.â€\n <br />\n â€”Time\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHer people are triumphantly alive.â€\n <br />\n â€”The New York Times\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWithout Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place.â€\n <br />\n *â€”Newsweek\n <br />\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place."\n <br />\n NEWSDAY\n <br />\n Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meet him, bursting out of her lonely shell--and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real....\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/975'),
(7507, 'Small Favor', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE New York Times BestsellerHarry Dresdenâ€™s life finally seems to be calming downâ€”until a shadow from the past returns. Mab, monarch of the Sidhe Winter Court, calls in an old favor from Harryâ€”one small favor that will trap him between a nightmarish foe and an equally deadly ally, and that will strain his skillsâ€”and loyaltiesâ€”to their very limits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3553'),
(7508, 'Smash Cut', 'Sandra Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The latest thriller from "masterful storyteller" (USA Today) Sandra Brown THE PRINCIPALS: Paul Wheeler: CEO of the Wheeler Enterprises empire, is shot dead during an armed robbery. Julie Rutledge: A savvy, cultured, and attractive Southern woman, was hand-inhand with Paul Wheeler at the time of his death. Derek Mitchell: A defense lawyer of renown, he goes to the mat to make a case for every client -- and headlines for himself. Creighton Wheeler: The prodigal nephew of Paul and a playboy with a passion for movies. Even those closest to Creighton can''t be sure when he exits reality and enters the fantasy world of films. STORYBOARD: The murder of Paul Wheeler has all the elements of a blockbuster: family rivalries, incalculable wealth, and a prominent man dying in the arms of his beautiful mistress. It''s a case that could earn Derek Mitchell even greater star power. When the Wheeler family approaches him about defending Creighton for his uncle''s murder -- even before he''s charged -- he jumps at the chance. Although Creighton has a rock-solid alibi, Julie is convinced that he is responsible for Paul''s murder. Caught in several lies, and keeping secrets from Derek and the police, Julie is suspected of casting blame on Creighton to cover her own crime. Meanwhile, Derek fears he''s being duped...yet he burns with jealousy when he thinks of Julie with her late lover. But the more Derek learns about Creighton, the more he doubts the young man''s innocence. And hiding in a squalid motel under an assumed name is the one man, a career criminal, a killer, who knows the truth. The clock ticks down toward a shocking ending that can''t be known until the final SMASH CUT.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3409'),
(7509, 'Smoke Screen', 'Sandra Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a tale of corruption and betrayal, revenge and reversal - where friends become foes, and heroes become criminals in the ultimate abuse of power.When newswoman Britt Shelley wakes up to find herself in bed with Jay Burgess, a rising star detective in the Charleston PD, she remembers nothing of how she got there...or of how Jay wound up dead.Handsome and hard-partying, Jay was a hero of the disastrous fire that five years earlier had destroyed Charleston''s police headquarters. The blaze left seven people dead, but the death toll would have been much higher if not for the bravery of Jay and three other city officials who risked their lives to lead others to safety.Firefighter Raley Gannon, Jay''s lifelong friend, was off-duty that day. Though he might not have been a front-line hero, he was assigned to lead the investigation into the cause of the fire. It was an investigation he never got to complete. Because on one calamitous night, Raley''s world was shattered.Scandalized, wronged by the people he trusted most, Raley was forced to surrender the woman he loved and the work to which he''d dedicated his life. For five years his resentment against the men who exploited their hero status to further their careers -- and ruin his -- had festered, but he was helpless to set things right.That changes when he learns of Jay Burgess''s shocking death and Britt Shelley''s claim that she has no memory of her night with him. As the investigation into Jay''s death intensifies, and suspicion against Britt Shelley mounts, Raley realizes that the newswoman, Jay''s last sexual conquest, might be his only chance to get personal vindication -- and justice for the seven victims of the police station fire.But there are powerful men who don''t want to address unanswered questions about the fire and who will go to any lengths to protect their reputations. As Raley and Britt discover more about what happened that fateful day, the more perilous their situation becomes, until they''re not only chasing after the truth but running for their lives.Friends are exposed as foes, heroes take on the taint of criminals, and no one can be trusted completely. A tale about audacious corruption -- and those with the courage to expose it -- Smoke Screen is Sandra Brown''s most searing and intense novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3337'),
(7510, 'Smokin Seventeen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Where thereâ€™s smoke thereâ€™s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanieâ€™s name is on the killerâ€™s list.Short on time to find evidence proving the killerâ€™s identity, Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that itâ€™s time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanieâ€™s mom is encouraging Stephanie to dump them both and choose a former high school football star whoâ€™s just returned to town. Stephanieâ€™s sidekick, Lula, is encouraging Stephanie to have a red-hot boudoir â€œbake-off.â€ And Grandma Bella, Morelliâ€™s old-world grandmother, is encouraging Stephanie to move to a new state when she puts â€œthe eyeâ€ on Stephanie.With a cold-blooded killer after her, a handful of hot men, and a capture list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire, Stephanieâ€™s life looks like itâ€™s about to go up in smoke.The hardcover edition of Smokinâ€™ Seventeen contains two smokinâ€™ hot stickers inside!From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2902'),
(7511, 'Smooth Talking Stranger', 'Lisa Kleypas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jack Travis leads the uncomplicated life of a millionaire Texas playboy.Â  He makes no commitments, he loves many women, he lives for pleasure.Â  But no one has ever truly touched his heart or soul.Â  Until one day, a woman appears on his doorstep with fury on her face and a baby in her arms.Â  It seems Jack is the father and this woman is the babyâ€™s aunt. The real mother has abandoned the child to her more responsible sister.Â  And now, Jack is being called upon to take responsibility for the first time in his life.Â  With delicious romantic tension, characters so real they walk onto the page and into your heart, Lisa Kleypas delivers the kind of novel that makes you laugh, love; cry and cheer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3415'),
(7512, 'Snow Crash', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n , Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year''s hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what''s a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel,\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun,\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In California of the near future, when the U.S. is only a "Burbclave" (city-state), the Mafia is just another franchise chain (CosaNostrastet Pizza, Incorporated) and there are no laws to speak of, Hiro Protagonist follows clues from the Bible, ancient Sumer and high technology to help thwart an attempt to take control of civilization--such as it is. When he logs on to Metaverse, an imaginary place entered via computer, Hiro encounters Juanita Marquez, a "radical" Catholic and computer whiz. She warns him off Snow Crash (a street drug named for computer failure) and gives him a file labeled Babel (as in Tower of Babel). Another friend, sp ok/pk Da5id, who ignores Juanita''s warning, computer crashes out of Metaverse into the real world, where he physically collapses. Hiro, Juanita, Y.T. (a freewheeling, skateboard-riding courier) and sundry other Burbclave and franchise power figures see some action on the way to finding out who is behind this bizarre "drug" with ancient roots. Although Stephenson ( Zodiac ) provides more Sumerian culture than the story strictly needs (alternating intense activity with scholarship breaks), his imaginative juxtaposition of ancient and futuristic detail could make this a cult favorite.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/720'),
(7513, 'The Snowball', 'Alice Schroeder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as â€œThe Oracle of Omaha.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Although the media track him constantly, Buffett himself has never told his full life story. His reality is private, especially by celebrity standards. Indeed, while the homespun persona that the public sees is true as far as it goes, it goes only so far. Warren Buffett is an array of paradoxes. He set out to prove that nice guys can finish first. Over the years he treated his investors as partners, acted as their steward, and championed honesty as an investor, CEO, board member, essayist, and speaker. At the same time he became the worldâ€™s richest man, all from the modest Omaha headquarters of his company Berkshire Hathaway. None of this fits the term â€œsimple.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n When Alice Schroeder met Warren Buffett she was an insurance industry analyst and a gifted writer known for her keen perception and business acumen. Her writings on finance impressed him, and as she came to know him she realized that while much had been written on the subject of his investing style, no one had moved beyond that to explore his larger philosophy, which is bound up in a complex personality and the details of his life. Out of this came his decision to cooperate with her on the book about himself that he would never write.\n</p>\n<p>\n Never before has Buffett spent countless hours responding to a writerâ€™s questions, talking, giving complete access to his wife, children, friends, and business associatesâ€”opening his files, recalling his childhood. It was an act of courage, as\n <strong>\n  The Snowball\n </strong>\n makes immensely clear. Being human, his own life, like most lives, has been a mix of strengths and frailties. Yet notable though his wealth may be, Buffettâ€™s legacy will not be his ranking on the scorecard of wealth; it will be his principles and ideas that have enriched peopleâ€™s lives. This book tells you why Warren Buffett is the most fascinating American success story of our time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1965'),
(7514, 'Snowbound', 'Bill Pronzini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Another nightmarish tale from the author of Breakdown. When the blizzard hit and the avalanche that followed cut them off, the 75 hardy residents of a small resort village in the Sierra Nevadas quietly prepared for a Christmas in isolation. But three desperate professional killers were trapped with them...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3805'),
(7515, 'The Snowman', 'Jo Nesbo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The next thrilling installment in the Harry Hole series. The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother''s pink scarf. Inspector Harry Hole is convinced there is a link between the disappearance and a menacing letter he received some months earlier. As Harry and his team delve into unsolved case files, they discover that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years. When a second woman disappears Harry''s suspicions are confirmed: he is a pawn in a deadly game. For the first time in his career Harry finds himself confronted with a serial killer operating on his turf, a killer who will drive him to the brink of insanity. A brilliant thriller with a pace that never lets up, The Snowmanconfirms Jo Nesb ''s position as an international star of crime fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3483'),
(7516, 'Snuff', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palahniuk''s audacious ninth novel tells the story of Cassie Wright, an aging porn queen who intends to put an exclamation point on her career by having sex with 600 men in one day on film. The story begins with Mr. 600â€”the pornosaur who introduced Cassie to the businessâ€”as he describes the other 599 actors awaiting their moment on screen. The perspective then shifts to Mr. 72, an adopted Midwestern 20-something who is one of the many young men claiming to be Cassie''s long-lost son. Mr. 137, a has-been television star hoping to revive his career, wants to ask Cassie''s hand in marriage so that the two can star in a reality TV show. But for a novel centered around a gargantuan gangbang, there''s surprisingly little action; the small amount of narrative movement takes place backstage, where the characters attempt to get a sense of one another while waiting for their number to be called. There are sharp moments when Palahniuk compassionately and candidly examines the flesh-on-film industry, but mostly this reads like a cross between the Spice Channel and\n <em>\n  Days of Our Lives\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Palahniuk has followed his tendency towards sensationalism to its logical conclusion and written a novel about a pornographic film, to mixed reactions. Naysayers wrote that\n <em>\n  Snuff\n </em>\n either failed in its satirical role or, worse, Palahniuk has simply run out of ideas and only wants to make readers cringe. Yet other reviewers felt that, as in previous novels, Palahniukâ€™s strong, character-driven explorations of the unseemly actually reveal a great deal about our society. Certainly, he riffs cleverly on Cassieâ€™s cinematic history (â€œGropes of Wrath,â€ for example). But Palahniukâ€™s play on movies and literature in the context of this novel perhaps points to an important question raised by the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n : â€œWhat the hell is going on? The country that produced Melville, Twain and James now venerates King, Crichton, Grisham, Sebold and Palahniuk.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1124'),
(7517, 'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth''s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. . . .God only knows what it all means. And fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it''s light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. But what else is new?From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1068'),
(7518, 'Solar', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An engrossing, satirical and very funny new novel on climate change. Michael Beard is in his late fifties; bald, overweight, unprepossessing - a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. An inveterate philanderer, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard''s professional and personal worlds are entwined in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself, a chance for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster. With a global scope, Solaris a comedy dealing directly with the crises of today. A story of one man''s ambitions and self-deceptions, it is a startling and stylish new departure in the work of one of the world''s great writers. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3341'),
(7519, 'Some Girls: My Life in a Harem', 'Jillian Lauren', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The ''casting director'' told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold, and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties. More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself-and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2000'),
(7520, 'Somebody', 'Stefan Kanfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For everything we know about Brando as a man as well as an actor and artist, he remains a fascination. What are we to make of someone whose life, both personal and professional, hit such dazzling highs and such abysmal lows? Stefan Kanfer answers this question, in the process giving us the final word on one of the most astonishing talents of the twentieth century.Born in Nebraska in 1924, Marlon grew up unaffected by the Depression but scarred by a brutal father and fatally alcoholic mother. After a turbulent childhood, Brando made his great escape to 1940s New York and fell in love with a city bristling with postwar optimism and vibrancy. Soon New York fell in love with him, tooâ€”his stunning Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski made him an instant star at age twenty-three.Brando then decamped for Hollywood, and Kanfer illuminates his performances in early movies like The Men, Julius Caesar, and On the Waterfront. Starting in the late fifties and continuing throughout the sixties, though, Brando transformed from bright young star into something more complicated. By looking at such films as The Young Lions, One-Eyed Jacksâ€”the one and only movie he ever directedâ€”and Mutiny on the Bounty, Kanfer gives us a real understanding of Brando''s breathtaking talent and sexual power while also giving us a sense of the vulnerable man behind the towering image. Through assessments of his performances in critically panned movies like Reflections in a Golden Eye, Candy, and The Appaloosa, an intricately woven portrait emergesâ€”showing not only Brandoâ€™s genius, but also his self-destructiveness, womanizing, constant dissembling, and evolving ambivalence toward his fame and his craft.With the role of Don Corleone, Brando pulled himself out of his slump for his careerâ€™s third and perhaps most interesting act; Kanfer turns his critical eye on The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and Last Tango in Paris, the last arguably Brandoâ€™s most intimate and disturbing appearance onscreen. After these, it was once again a downhill slalom for Brando, both professionally (the movies he made in the last fifteen years of his life were hardly worthy of him) and personally, as he lived out his finale in the shadow of horrific family tragedies.With the surest of hands, Kanfer gives us the first truly comprehensive examination, not only of a life and a career, but of how the two came together to create the icon we know as Brando.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2002'),
(7521, 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A masterpiece of modern Gothic literature,\n <em>\n  Something Wicked This Way Comes\n </em>\n is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small Midwestern town with the arrival of a "dark carnival" one Autumn midnight. How these two innocents, both age 13, save the souls of the town (as well as their own), makes for compelling reading on timeless themes. What would\n <em>\n  you\n </em>\n do if your secret wishes could be granted by the mysterious ringmaster Mr. Dark? Bradbury excels in revealing the dark side that exists in us all, teaching us ultimately to celebrate the shadows rather than fear them. In many ways, this is a companion piece to his joyful, nostalgia-drenched\n <em>\n  Dandelion Wine\n </em>\n , in which Bradbury presented us with one perfect summer as seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old. In\n <em>\n  Something Wicked This Way Comes\n </em>\n , he deftly explores the fearsome delights of one perfectly terrifying, unforgettable autumn.\n <em>\n  --Stanley Wiater\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Something Wicked is Avon''s latest installment in its ongoing series of reprints of Bradbury''s works in quality yet affordable hardcover editions. Appearing in 1962, this is the story of a diabolical carnival that wreaks havoc on the lives of the people of a small Illinois town, much like the one in which Bradbury grew up. This edition also sports a new afterword by the author.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1284'),
(7522, 'Somewhere Inside: One Sister&#39;s Captivity in North Korea and the Other&#39;s Fight to Bring Her Home', 'Laura Ling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  On March 17, 2009, Laura Ling and her colleague Euna Lee were working on a documentary about North Korean defectors who were fleeing the desperate conditions in their homeland. While filming on the Chineseâ€“North Korean border, they were chased down by North Korean soldiers who violently apprehended them. Laura and Euna were charged with trespassing and "hostile acts," and imprisoned by Kim Jong Il''s notoriously secretive Communist state. Kept totally apart, they endured months of interrogations and eventually a trial before North Korea''s highest court. They were the first Americans ever to be sentenced to twelve years of hard labor in a prison camp in North Korea.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When news of the arrest reached Laura''s sister, journalist Lisa Ling, she immediately began a campaign to get her sister released, one that led her from the State Department to the higher echelons of the media world and eventually to the White House.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *Somewhere Inside* reveals for the first time Laura''s gripping account of what really happened on the river, her treatment at the hands of North Korean guards, and the deprivations and rounds of harrowing interrogations she endured. She speaks movingly about the emotional toll inflicted on her by her incarceration, including the measures she took to protect her sources and her fears that she might never see her family again.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Lisa writes about her unrelenting efforts to secure Laura and Euna''s release. Offering insights into the vast media campaign spearheaded on the women''s behalf, Lisa also takes us deep into the drama involving people at the highest levels of government, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, Senator John Kerry, and Governor Bill Richardsonâ€”intense discussions that entailed strategically balancing the agendas and good intentions of the various players. She also describes her role in the back-and-forth between North Korea''s demands and the dramatic rescue by former President Bill Clinton.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Though they were thousands of miles apart while Laura was in captivity, the Ling sisters'' relationship became a way for the reclusive North Korean government to send messages to the United States government, which helped lead to Laura and Euna''s eventual release.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Told in the sisters'' alternating voices, *Somewhere Inside* is a timely, inspiring, and page-turning tale of survival set against the canvas of international politics that goes beyond the headlines to reveal the impact on lives engulfed by forces beyond their control. But it is also a window into the unique bond these two sisters have always shared, a bond that sustained them throughout the most horrifying ordeal of their lives.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2004'),
(7523, 'Son of Stone', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A new addition to the New York Times-bestselling Stone Barrington series.  After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated (and very wealthy) former love, Arrington Calder, Stone Barrington is back in New York, and he''s looking to stay closer to home and cash in on his partnership at Woodman &amp; Weld.  But Arrington has other plans for Stone...including introducing him to the child he fathered many years ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2689'),
(7524, 'The Song Before It Is Sung', 'Justin Cartwright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. He had the main conspirators brutally strung up on meat hooks. Among the executed was Axel von Gottberg, aÂ German Rhodes Scholar at Oxford who returned home in 1934, to the dismay of his Oxford friends, particularly Elya Mendel. Sixty years later, Elya, now a distinguished professor,Â leaves behind a collection of papers and letters to a former student, Conrad Senior, and asks him to find out the truth aboutÂ Axel, whom he had condemned as a Nazi sympathizer. But the more Conrad tries to uncover the truth, the more complex he finds the relationship between the two friends, especially in their involvement with two beautiful English cousins. As Conrad investigates obsessively, his own life comes apart. Weaving darkly through these complex stories is an infamous film of Axel''s execution; a film which Conrad is desperate to find, for reasons he can barely understand himself.Wonderfully writtenâ€”and based on true eventsâ€”The Song Before It Is Sung is a novel of profound and sensitive insight into the human condition, spanning Oxford in the 1930s, prewar Prussia, and contemporary Britain and surpassing all of Cartwright''s previous works in its scope and ambition. Justin Cartwright is the author of In Every Face I Meet, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Commonwealth Writerâ€™s Prize; Leading the Cheers, which won the Whitbread; White Lightning, which was shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread; and, most recently, The Promise of Happiness, which won the 2005 Hawthornden Prize and the South African Sunday Times Fiction Award.Â He was born in South Africa but has lived all his adult life, since graduating from Oxford, in London. On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. He had the main conspirators brutally strung up on meat hooks. Among the executed was Axel von Gottberg, aÂ German Rhodes Scholar at Oxford who returned home in 1934, to the dismay of his Oxford friends, particularly Elya Mendel. Sixty years later, Elya, now a distinguished professor,Â leaves behind a collection of papers and letters to a former student, Conrad Senior, and asks him to find out the truth aboutÂ Axel, whom he had condemned as a Nazi sympathizer. But the more Conrad tries to uncover the truth, the more complex he finds the relationship between the two friends, especially in their involvement with two beautiful English cousins. As Conrad investigates obsessively, his own life comes apart. Weaving darkly through these complex stories is an infamous film of Axel''s execution; a film which Conrad is desperate to find, for reasons he can barely understand himself.Wonderfully writtenâ€”and based on true eventsâ€”The Song Before It Is Sung is a novel of profound and sensitive insight into the human condition, spanning Oxford in the 1930s, prewar Prussia, and contemporary Britain and surpassing all of Cartwright''s previous works in its scope and ambition. "This tour de force explores the ''paper-thin divide between idealism and delusion,'' while resonating on many levels. Sure to reward any reader concerned with the issues of that appalling time."â€”Library JournalÂ "In July 1944, a serious attempt was made on Adolf Hitler''s life. That actual event serves as the basis for a darkly effective fictionalized depiction of one man''s participation in the conspiracy, by a prizewinning South African-born novelist. The group members who attempted to take the fuhrer''s life were tried and executed in a horrible fashion, among them a young Prussian count, called here Axel von Gottberg, who had been educated at Oxford in the 1930s and there became the close friend of Elya Mendel, an English Jew who eventually became a distinguished professor. In the present day, Mendel has left his collection of letters from Axel to a student, Conrad Senior, whose charge is to organize the papers. Consequently, he is faced with sorting out the dimensions of their relationship. The Count caused a rift between himself and Mendel when he returned to Germany in 1934 and published a letter in an English newspaper that made him appear to be a Nazi sympathizer. The twin themes upon which this novel is constructedâ€”personal betrayal and vicarious living (Senior finds himself ''living more fully'' through Mendel''s and the Count''s lives)â€”greatly entice readers'' interest on political, historical, and intellectual levels."â€”Brad Hooper, Booklist (starred review)Â "Based on the lives of Adam von Trott and Isaiah Berlin, Cartwright''s unsettling twelfth novel follows Axel von Gottberg, a German, and his friend Elya Mendel, a British Jew, both Rhodes scholars at idyllic 1930s Oxford. Gottberg returns to Germany in 1934, ostensibly to rally opposition to Hitler, but Mendel publicly denounces him as a Nazi. Sixty years after Gottberg was executed for his role in the failed German coup of 1944, a dying Mendel entrusts his papers to a former student, Conrad Senior, and bids him to discover whether he had unjustly condemned his late friend. Senior, an insouciant writer whose life is a shambles, is transfixed by Gottberg, a ''man of courage and action,'' a womanizer with an ''operatic'' flair and a love for Hegel. Cartwright''s treatment of the unsuccessful attempt on Hitler''s life in 1944 is gripping. Conrad fails to see what an ambiguous figure Gottberg wasâ€”diffident about the fate of the Jews and finally concerned less about his country than his own achievements."â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2333'),
(7525, 'A Song Flung Up to Heaven', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s been a long time coming, but\n <em>\n  A Song Flung Up to Heaven\n </em>\n triumphantly completes the six volumes of autobiography that began nearly 30 years ago with Maya Angelou''s astonishingly successful __, a work that changed readers'' perceptions of what autobiographical writing could achieve. The impact of\n <em>\n  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\n </em>\n (which evoked the author''s adolescence and sexual abuse in Arkansas) was unprecedented. It combined frankness and emotional force with a nuanced, poetic style--a style that Angelou has perhaps found more elusive recently. But it''s here again, as affecting as ever. The book deals with the years 1964-68, a turbulent period in which Angelou came back to America after her African sojourn. This, of course, was the time of the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King; Angelou was on the point of working with the latter in the civil rights movement. Her voice is fresh and exhilarating as she deals with the tragedies and triumphs of a packed life, and there are some set-piece moments, such as her account of the misguided revenge she took on an ex-lover.\n</p>\n<p>\n Many women have become celebrated as writers and poets, but Angelou has also enjoyed a distinguished career as a civil rights activist, producer, performer, actress, and filmmaker. With all of this under her belt, she can be forgiven for the note of self-congratulation that creeps in at times. But for those who''ve followed her unique writing, this is a journey into a fascinating life and a riveting picture of a divided America, always informed with that clear-sighted vision Angelou is famous for.\n <em>\n  --Barry Forshaw, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Far from a textbook account, this final volume in the writer''s series of six memoirs takes readers into the heart of the civil rights movement. Angelou begins in 1964. When she replanted her feet in America to help Malcolm X, she admittedly left a piece of her heart in Ghana with her son. She was also developing artistically during this time, and finding the means by which to express herself to her country and in her community. Any YA who has aimed to accomplish something meaningful and met with personal loss or the disappointment of bad timing, will identify with her. Before she was able to help Malcolm X form the Organization of African-American Unity, he was assassinated. Her mother and protective brother buttressed her spirits, and encouraged her to move forward. From San Francisco to Hawaii and back to California she takes readers into an economically depressed area in Los Angeles before, during, and after it burned. Her next giant step will be appreciated by YAs with an artistic side. She describes performing and writing plays for an African-American theater. Later, after she moved to New York, her pal James Baldwin and others instrumental in changing the view of America in the 1960s are featured prominently. History was in the making and Angelou was in the midst of it as this worthwhile autobiography attests.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Karen Sokol, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1787'),
(7526, 'Song of Slaves in the Desert', 'Alan Cheuse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Based on historically accurate roots, this novel explores one New Yorker''s involvement in his family''s rice plantation and the wild tensions involved as he tries to right the wrong he sees at work in his family. Tracing the thread of slavery from 1500s Timbuktu up to the Civil War, Songs of Slaves in the Desert explores one man''s struggle with the legacy of slavery and the loyalty of family, brought into sharp focus as he finds himself attracted to one young slave woman. A masterful writer, Cheuse grapples with the nether parts of our history and the wild nature of love, especially by those held closest in chains. Praise for To Catch the Lightning: "Compelling fiction that digs deep into the mystery and sacrifice and selfishness of creative vision." -Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons "Vivid and poignant...Cheuse''s ambitious historical novel illuminates one man''s heroic obsession and the perpetual dichotomies of duty and dream, discovery, and loss."-Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2398');
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(7527, 'Song of Susannah', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There''s something about a crippled, black, schizophrenic, civil rights activist-turned-gunslinger whose body has been hijacked by a white, pregnant demon from a parallel world that keeps a seven-volume story bracingly strong as it veers toward its Armageddon-like conclusion. When Susannah Dean is transported via a magic door on the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis (the scene of much of\n  <em>\n   The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla\n  </em>\n  ) to New York City in the summer of 1999, the "demon-mother" who possesses her, Mia, has only one thing on her mind. She must give birth to her "chap" at a predetermined location in Manhattan''s East 60s, as instructed by the henchmen-or "Low Men"-of the evil Crimson King. Pressed for time, Father Callahan, preteen Jake and talking pet "billy-bumbler" Oy follow Susannah and Mia''s trail in an effort to prevent an act that would quicken the destruction of the Dark Tower and, in turn, of all worlds. Meanwhile, gunslingers Roland and Eddie travel to 1977 Maine in search of bookstore owner Calvin Tower, who is being hunted down by mobster Enrico Balazar and his gang, who first appeared in Eddie''s version of New York in\n  <em>\n   The Drawing of the Three\n  </em>\n  Avid readers of the series will either be completely enthralled or extremely irritated when, in a gutsy move, the author weaves his own character into this unpredictable saga, but either way there''s no denying the ingenuity with which King paints a candid picture of himself. The sixth installment of this magnum opus stops short with the biggest cliffhanger of King''s career, but readers at the edge of their seats need only wait a few short months (\n  <em>\n   Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower\n  </em>\n  ) to find out how-and if-King''s fictional universe will come to an end. 10 full-color illus. not seen by\n  <em>\n   PW\n  </em>\n  .\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  King''s epical Dark Tower hastens to a close, and its penultimate volume is one of the speediest. The gunslingers of Mid-World and other alternate Earths have defeated\n  <em>\n   The Wolves of the Calla\n  </em>\n  (2003) but lost one of their number. Susannah Dean, nee Odetta Holmes, lacking her lower legs after a minion of the Satan of Mid-World, the Crimson King, pushed her in front of a subway train, and whose personality is sometimes split between black bourgeoise Odetta and viciously paranoiac Detta Walker, has been taken over by the spirit Mia to be the body in which Mia will gestate a boy who will eventually kill head gunslinger Roland. The child is to be born in New York in 1999, which is where Susannah-Mia repairs through one of the doors between worlds. The other gunslingers pursue through the same door, but only 11-year-old Jake Chambers, accompanied by former ''Salems'' Lot priest Don Callahan, get to New York. Roland and Susannah''s husband, Eddie Dean, tumble into an ambush in New England in 1977. Each chapter--called a stanza and ending with two songlike quatrains--advances one subset of gunslingers'' progress. King keeps us on tenterhooks throughout--and leaves us there. Before quite departing, he tacks on a clever coda about the gradual creation of the Dark Tower--but in which world? The series concludes with\n  <em>\n   The Dark Tower\n  </em>\n  in September.\n  <em>\n   Ray Olson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/865'),
(7528, 'The Sookie Stackhouse Companion', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Charlaine Harris has topped the bestseller charts and become a nationwide phenomenon, thanks to the unconventional, and otherworldly, life of Sookie Stackhouse. Now take a closer look at Sookie and her family, friends, enemies, adventures, and-of course-the lovers who set her world on fire...  Visit Bon Temps, the small Louisiana town that Sookie calls home, with a detailed map created by Charlaine herself, and learn the characteristics of the supernaturals who live there: vampires, two- natured, and fae. Examine all the branches of Sookie''s family tree. And eavesdrop on the private conversations between rival vampires Eric and Bill.   Also, enjoy the compelling, never-before-published novella "Small- Town Wedding," in which Sookie accompanies her shape-shifting boss, Sam, to his brother''s wedding in Texas, where happily-ever-after seems very far away....  Exclusive interviews with True Blood creator Alan Ball and author Charlaine Harris-complied from fan questions-will satisfy your craving for all things Sookie, as will trivia questions, recipes (including Caroline Bellefluer''s famous chocolate cake!), and a concordance to the Sookie Stackhouse novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3363'),
(7529, 'South of Broad', 'Pat Conroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Leopold Bloom King, the narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo''s older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe, glamorous twins with an alcoholic mother and a prison-escapee father; hardscrabble mountain runaways Niles and Starla Whitehead; socialite Molly Huger and her boyfriend, Chadworth Rutledge X; and an ever-widening circle whose liaisons will ripple across two decades-from 1960s counterculture through the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3342'),
(7530, 'Southern Comfort', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Patrick Tick Kelly was devoted to his career as an Atlanta homicide detective--until his wife and children were murdered. Now he lives an isolated life in Mango Key, Florida. DEA Agent Kate Rush is keeping tabs on a mysterious compound near Tick''s home, believed to be the base for a human trafficking ring--and she thinks Tick is involved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3658'),
(7531, 'Southern Lights', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novelâ€”at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment.Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husbandâ€™s betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, Alexa has finally put her demons to rest, making a name for herself as a top prosecutor, handling the cityâ€™s toughest cases while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa prepares for a high-stakes trialâ€¦until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil. The letters are addressed to her beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter, Savannah, whom Alexa has been raising alone since her divorce. Alexa is certain that Quentin is behind the lettersâ€”and that they are too dangerous to ignore. Suddenly she must make the toughest choice of allâ€”and send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbreakâ€¦her ex-husbandâ€™s world of southern tradition, memories of betrayal, and the antebellum charm of Charleston.Now, while Alexaâ€™s trial builds to a climax in New York, her daughter is settling into southern life, discovering a part of her family history and a father she barely knows--from the ice-cold stepmother who stole him away to a fascinating ancestry and a half-sister and half-brothers she comes to love. As secrets are exposed and old wounds are healed, Alexa and Savannah, after a season in different worlds, will come together againâ€”strengthened by the challenges they have faced, changed by the mysteries they have unraveled, and with Savannah now at home in the southern world her mother fled.In this masterfully told tale, Danielle Steel creates a stunning array of contrasts: from the gritty chaos of Manhattanâ€™s criminal court system to the seductive gentility of the South, from the rage of a hardened criminal to the tender bond between a mother and daughterâ€”and a loving father who has welcomed Savannah home at last. A novel that will catch you off guard at every turn, Southern Lights is Danielle Steel at her electrifying best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3656'),
(7532, 'Spartan Gold', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "New York Times"-bestselling author Cussler debuts a new, action-packed series. Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are shocked to discover a bottle of a rare wine taken from Napoleon''s lost cellar. However, someone else is also searching for this treasure. Available in a tall Premium Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3675'),
(7533, 'Speaker for the Dead', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender''s Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts. Like its predecessor, this book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Card''s novel Ender''s Game introduced Ender Wiggin, a young genius who used his military prowess to all but exterminate the "buggers," the first alien race mankind had ever encountered. Wiggin then transformed himself into the "Speaker for the Dead," who claimed it had been a mistake to destroy the alien civilization. Many years later, when a new breed of intelligent life forms called the "piggies" is discovered, Wiggin takes the opportunity to atone for his earlier actions. This long, rich and ambitious novel views the interplay between the races from the differing perspectives of the colonists, ethnologists, biologists, clergy, politicians, a computer artificial intelligence, the lone surviving bugger and the piggies themselves. Card is very good at portraying his characters in these larger, social, religious and cultural contexts. It''s unfortunate, then, that many of the book''s mysteries and dilemmas seem created just to display Ender''s supposedly godlike understanding. A fine, if overlong, novel nonetheless.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1045'),
(7534, 'Sphere', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Jurassic Park\n  </em>\n  author Michael Crichton is possibly the best science teacher for the masses since H.G. Wells, and\n  <em>\n   Sphere\n  </em>\n  , his thriller about a mysterious spherical spaceship at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, is classic Crichton. A group of not-very-complex characters (portrayed in the film by Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Queen Latifah) assemble to solve a cleverly designed roller coaster of a mystery while attempting (with mixed success) to avoid sudden death and expounding (much more successfully) on the latest, coolest scientific ideas, including the existence of black holes. Somehow, Crichton manages to convey the complicated stuff in utterly simplistic prose, making him, as his old pal Steven Spielberg puts it, "the high priest of high concept." Yet there is more to Crichton than science and big-ticket show biz. He is also, as any reader of his startling memoir\n  <em>\n   Travels\n  </em>\n  knows, a bit of a mystic--he is entirely open to notions spouted by spoon-bending psychics that most science writers would scorn.\n  <em>\n   Sphere\n  </em>\n  is not only a gratifying sci-fi suspense tale; it also reflects Crichton''s keen interest in the unexplained powers of the human mind. When something passes through a black hole in Crichton''s fiction, a lesson is learned. The book also contains another profound lesson: when you''re staring down a giant squid with an eyeball the size of a dinner plate, don''t blink first.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA As in Crichton''s Andromeda Strain (Knopf, 1969), the focus of this science adventure tale is humankind''s encounter with an alien life form. Within a space ship lying on the sea bottom is a mysterious sphere that promises each of the main characters some personal reward: military might, professional prestige, power, understanding. Trapped underwater with the sphere, the humans confront eerie and increasingly dangerous threats after communication with the alien object has been achieved. The story is exciting and loaded with scientific and psychological speculations that add interest at no cost to the action, including an intriguing sequence in which human and computer attempt to decode the alien communication. As the story races to an end, suspicions of evil-doing fall as many ways as in a detective novel. Young adults should find this book both accessible and satisfying. Mike Parson, Houston Public Library\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/336'),
(7535, 'Spider Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kathy Reichs#1 New York Timesbestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bonesreturns with the thirteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan. John Lowery was declared dead in 1968the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford, Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how could Lowery have died twice, and how did an American soldier end up in Canada? Tempe sets off for the answer, exhuming Lowery''s grave in North Carolina and taking the remains to Hawaii for reanalysisto the headquarters of JPAC, the U.S. military''s Joint POW/ MIA Accounting Command, which strives to recover Americans who have died in past conflicts. In Hawaii, Tempe is joined by her colleague and ex-lover Detective Andrew Ryan (how "ex" is he?) and by her daughter, who is recovering from her own tragic loss. Soon another set of remains is located, with Lowery''s dog tags tangled among them. Three bodiesall identified as Lowery. And then Tempe is contacted by Hadley Perry, Honolulu''s flamboyant medical examiner, who needs help identifying the remains of an adolescent boy found offshore. Was he the victim of a shark attack? Or something much more sinister? A complex and riveting tale of deceit and murder unfolds in this, the thirteenth thrilling novel in Reichs''s "cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series" ( The New York Times Book Review). With the smash hit Bonesnow in its fifth season and in full syndicationand her most recent novel, 206 Bones,an instant New York TimesbestsellerKathy Reichs is at the top of her game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3511'),
(7536, 'Spider World: The Tower', 'Colin Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Once the Earth was ruled by human, and insects were very small, with even the largest no bigger than a man''s fist. But now, in the 25th century, humans serve giant beetles and spiders as slaves and often as food.Slaves all, or servants--except for those who live in the desert, spending most of their time underground. For Niall and his family, life is hard, but together they eke out an existence until the day Niall does what was said to be impossible: He kills a spider.This powerful act brings Niall to the attention and seat of the Spider Lord. But as he finds himself deep within the hostile city of the spiders, Niall also meets allies: Odina, a spider servant born and bred, and Bill, no mere man but an honorary beetle.Niall''s special gift makes him useful to the spiders, who want access to their city''s greatest mystery: an impenetrable white tower. But Niall alone can enter, and what he finds inside are the very facts of our planet''s history and humanity''s last chance for freedom and a future.Armed with the secrets of the white tower, the humans mount an epic struggle for power against the vast and brutal forces of the tyrannical Spider Lord.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2778'),
(7537, 'Spider World:fortress', 'Colin Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For years mankind has ruled the Earth, until now. Giant intelligent spiders are kings and all of Earth is theirs, except for the The Fortress. Nothing will stop Niall and his troop from searching for the ultimate weapon to regain the Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2779'),
(7538, 'Spiderworld: The Magician', 'Colin Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Magician continues a brilliantly crafted visionary epic on par with The Lord of the Rings, Dune and Earthsea. Volume 3 embraces such fascinating "unexplained mysteries" as magic, ETs, mind-to-mind communication, and out-of-body experiences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2781'),
(7539, 'Spies of the Balkans', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Greece, 1940. Not sunny vacation Greece: northern Greece, Macedonian Greece, Balkan Greeceâ€”the city of Salonika. In that ancient port, with its wharves and warehouses, dark lanes and Turkish mansions, brothels and tavernas, a tense political drama is being played out. On the northern border, the Greek army has blocked Mussoliniâ€™s invasion, pushing his divisions back to Albaniaâ€”the first defeat suffered by the Nazis, who have conquered most of Europe. But Adolf Hitler cannot tolerate such freedom; the invasion is coming, itâ€™s only a matter of time, and the people of Salonika can only watch and wait.At the center of this drama is Costa Zannis, a senior police official, head of an office that handles special â€œpoliticalâ€ cases. As war approaches, the spies begin to circle, from the Turkish legation to the German secret service. Thereâ€™s a British travel writer, a Bulgarian undertaker, and more. Costa Zannis must deal with them all. And he is soon in the game, securing an escape routeâ€”from Berlin to Salonika, and then to a tenuous safety in Turkey, a route protected by German lawyers, Balkan detectives, and Hungarian gangsters. And hunted by the Gestapo.Meanwhile, as war threatens, the erotic life of the city grows passionate. For Zannis, that means a British expatriate who owns the local ballet academy, a woman from the dark side of Salonika society, and the wife of a local shipping magnate.Â Declared â€œan incomparable expert at his gameâ€ by The New York Times, Alan Furst outdoes even his own finest novels in this thrilling new book. With extraordinary authenticity, a superb cast of characters, and heart-stopping tension as it moves from Salonika to Paris to Berlin and back, Spies of the Balkans is a stunning novel about a man who risks everything to rightâ€”in many small waysâ€”the worldâ€™s evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3413'),
(7540, 'The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Karen Armstrong speaks to the troubling years following her decision to leave the life of a Roman Catholic nun and join the secular world in 1969. What makes this memoir especially fascinating is that Armstrong already wrote about this era once---only it was a disastrous book. It was too soon for her to understand how these dark, struggling years influenced her spiritual development, and she was too immature to protect herself from being be bullied by the publishing world. As a result, she agreed to portray herself only in as "positive and lively a light as possible"---a mandate that gave her permission to deny the truth of her pain and falsify her inner experience. The inspiration for this new approach comes from T. S. Eliot''s\n <em>\n  Ash Wednesday\n </em>\n , a series of six poems that speak to the process of spiritual recovery. Eliot metaphorically climbs a spiral staircase in these poems---turning again and again to what he does not want to see as he slowly makes progress toward the light. In revisiting her spiral climb out of her dark night of the soul, Armstrong gives readers a stunningly poignant account about the nature of spiritual growth. Upon leaving the convent, Armstrong grapples with the grief of her abandoned path and the uncertainty of her place in the world. On top of this angst, Armstrong spent years suffering from undiagnosed temporal lobe epilepsy, causing her to have frequent blackout lapses in memory and disturbing hallucinations---crippling symptoms that her psychiatrist adamantly attributed to Armstrong''s denial of her femininity and sexuality. The details of this narrative may be specific to Armstrong''s life, but the meanin! g she makes of her spiral ascent makes this a universally relevant story. All readers can glean inspiration from her insights into the nature of surrender and the possibilities of finding solace in the absence of hope. Armstrong shows us why spiritual wisdom is often a seasoned gift---no matter how much we strive for understanding, we can''t force profound insights to occur simply because our publisher is waiting for them. With her elegant, humble and brave voice, she inspires readers to willingly turn our attention toward our false identities and vigilantly defended beliefs in order to better see the truth and vulnerability of our existence. Herein lies the staircase we can climb to enlightenment. --\n <em>\n  Gail Hudson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1962, British writer Armstrong (The Battle for God, etc.) entered a Roman Catholic convent, smitten by the desire to "find God." She was 17 years old at the timeâ€”too young, she recognizes now, to have made such a momentous decision. Armstrongâ€™s 1981 memoir Through the Narrow Gate described her frustrating, lonely experience of cloistered life and her decision, at 24, to renounce her vows. In its sequel, Beginning the World (1983), she tried to explain her readjustment to the secular worldâ€”and failed. "It is the worst book I have ever written," she declares in the preface to this new volume: "it was far too soon to write about those years"; "it was not a truthful account"; "I was told to present myself in as positive and lively a light as possible." The true story, which she relates in this second sequel, was far more conflicted and intellectually vibrant. Her departure from the convent, she writes, actually made her quite sad; she was "constantly wracked by a very great regret" and suffering on top of it with the symptoms of undiagnosed temporal lobe epilepsy. How she emerged from such darkness to make a career as a writer whose books honor spiritual concerns while maintaining intellectual freedom and rigorâ€”this is Armstrongâ€™s real concern, and the one that will be of most interest to the fans of her many acclaimed works.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1967'),
(7541, 'The Spire', 'Richard North Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mark Darrow grew up in small-town Ohio with no real advantages. But thanks to Lionel Farr, a professor at a nearby college, Darrow became an excellent scholar/athlete and, later, a superb trial lawyer. Now Farr offers his protÃ©gÃ© a job as his alma materâ€™s new president, which Darrow accepts. But being back on campus opens old wounds. Sixteen years ago, on the night of his greatest football triumph, Darrow found the body of a black female student at the base of the college bell tower, known as the Spireâ€¦Darrowâ€™s best friend was charged with the murder, and was sent to prison for life. But Darrow is about to discover that the case against his college friend left crucial questions unanswered. Despite his new obligationsâ€”and his deepening attachment to Farrâ€™s beautiful though troubled daughterâ€”Darrow begins an inquiry into the murder and is soon convinced that the real killer is still at largeâ€¦and that his own life is surely at risk.DIVDIVDEGREE OF GUILTâ€œA page-turner.â€â€”The New York Times Book Reviewâ€œCompulsively readable.â€â€”Peopleâ€œOne intense courtroom clash after another...An intelligent and gripping thriller.â€â€”The Washington Postâ€œFlamboyant and entertaining.â€â€”The Boston Globeâ€œElectrifying.â€â€”The Cleveland Plain Dealerâ€œOne of the yearâ€™s best thrillersâ€¦Superb characterizations and intense dialogue make this utterly compelling reading.â€â€”Library Journalâ€œAbsorbing.â€â€”Publishers WeeklyECLIPSEâ€œPassionateâ€¦exciting [and] eye-opening, page by page.â€â€”Washington Postâ€œCompelling and credibleâ€¦guaranteed to rouse you to thought.â€â€”Richmond Times-Dispatchâ€œThis stellar legal thriller both informs and entertainsâ€¦ Patterson has exerted all his considerable skill in creating a nightmare atmosphere that will cling to readers long after the last page is turned.â€â€”Publishers Weekly(starred review)â€œA satisfying fable that pits a hero who deeply believes in the rule of law against a violent, lawless regime that holds all the cards.â€â€”Kirkus Reviewsâ€œNearly flawlessâ€”by the time you realize how well Patterson is writing, you are already caught up in this novel.â€â€”San Francisco Chronicleâ€œSuspensefulâ€”pervasive danger as real as the actual reality.â€â€”New York Daily Newsâ€œA terrific legal thriller populated by rich, well drawn characters [Patterson] magnificently brings to life. Not to be missed.â€â€”Providence Sunday Journalâ€œFascinating.â€â€”Booklistâ€œ[A] compelling legal thriller, reminiscent ofExile. Patterson once again brings a timely, controversial subjectâ€”Americaâ€™s dependence on foreign oilâ€”to the forefront in thisâ€¦engrossing read.â€ â€”Library JournalÂ THE RACE"An electrifying page-turner.â€â€”Seattle Post-Intelligencerâ€œPatterson has redefined himself as a writer willing to take risks.â€â€”USA Todayâ€œAbsorbing and suspenseful.â€â€”Publishers Weeklyâ€œRequired reading.â€â€”New York Postâ€œWith verve, intelligence, passion and humanity, Patterson tells an important storyâ€”and one that may find a place withAdvise and ConsentandSeven Days in Mayon the shelf of honored political thrillers.â€â€”Richmond Times-Dispatchâ€œAbsorbingâ€¦timelyâ€¦a gripping read.â€â€”Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3636'),
(7542, 'Spirit Bound', 'Christine Feehan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lethally sexy undercover agent Stefan Prakenskii knows a thousand ways to kill a man-and twice as many ways to pleasure a woman. So he''s looking forward to his new mission: arrive in the coastal town of Sea Haven and insinuate himself in the life of Judith Henderson, an ethereal beauty with mysterious ties to his past...\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2935'),
(7543, 'Split Image', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Family ties prove deadly in the brilliant new Jesse Stone novel from New York Times-bestselling author Robert B. Parker.  The body in the trunk was just the beginning.  Turns out the stiff was a foot soldier for local tough guy Reggie Galen, now enjoying a comfortable "retirement" with his beautiÂ­ful wife, Rebecca, in the nicest part of Paradise. Living next door are Knocko Moynihan and his wife, Robbie, who also happens to be Rebecca''s twin. But what initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach.  Stressed by the case, his failed relationship with his ex-wife, and his ongoing battle with the bottle, Jesse needs something to keep him from spinning out of control. When private investigator Sunny Randall comes into town on a case, she asks for Jesse''s help. As their professional and personal relationships become intertwined, both Jesse and Sunny realize that they have much in common with both their victims and their suspects-and with each other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3290'),
(7544, 'Split Images', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Quintessential Elmore Leonard, Split Images stars Palm Beach playboy Robbie Daniels. He''s the kind of guy who gets away with everything -- even murder -- until a vacationing Motown cop, Bryan Hurd, starts asking questions. When this millionaire reptile reveals the psychopath beneath his slippery skin, Hurd finds out this is one helluva way for an out-of-town lawman to spend his vacation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3109'),
(7545, 'Split Second', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "We just solved a huge, complicated mystery," says one protagonist to another in this latest novel from the bestselling author of Last Man Standing, Absolute Power, etc. And that is the problem: this story of two disgraced Secret Service agents who come together to solve two campaign-trail crimes doesn''t play to Baldacci''s strengths, which are suspense and action (as well as strong characterizations; here''s one thriller author who writes people that readers care about). The novel is primarily a mystery, with lots of talk and untangling of clues, and a less than gripping one at that. It begins in 1996, when Secret Service agent Sean King is distracted-by what isn''t revealed until near the book''s end-just when the presidential candidate he''s guarding is shot dead. Eight years later, agent Michelle Maxwell lets the candidate she''s watching enter a funeral parlor room alone; he''s kidnapped. Then a body appears in the office of King, who''s now a successful lawyer in North Carolina. Maxwell sees King on TV and decides to look into the event that caused his disgrace, so similar to hers. Meanwhile, King''s old flame, Joan Dillinger, an ex-agent whose security firm has been hired to find the kidnapped presidential candidate, hires King to help in the hunt. The narrative ties binding the characters don''t loosen much over the novel''s course, as curious cross-currents flow between the two cases, all leading to a cinematic but off-the-wall denouement that reveals a villain who is more cartoon than human. What saves this novel are a few strong but brief action sequences and, above all, the interplay among the principal characters, particularly the romantic tensions among King, Maxwell and Dillinger.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Baldacci''s new thriller is sustained by the pulse-pounding suspense his fans have come to expect. Sean King is a former Secret Service agent whose career ended eight years ago when the political candidate he was protecting was assassinated. Now a lawyer, King has organized his life to forget his past, but it barges rudely in on him when he finds a colleague murdered in his office building. Further complicating his life are two women: Joan Dillinger, a former coworker and lover, and Michelle Maxwell, a Secret Service agent whose candidate, John Bruno, has just been kidnapped. Sean and Michelle start to suspect that their candidates'' fates are connected and begin to investigate any ties the two may have to each other. It doesn''t help that the police are on King''s case, especially when yet another body turns up, this time in King''s house. King and Maxwell turn their focus to Arnold Ramsey, the man who assassinated King''s candidate, but it remains unclear if he was working alone. Meanwhile, the danger mounts, for neither King nor Maxwell can guess who the conspirators'' next target is.\n  <em>\n   Kristine Huntley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/85'),
(7546, 'Spoken From the Front', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The biggest military author introduces real-life voices from the battlefields of Afghanistan. Spoken from the Frontis the story of the Afghan Campaign, told for the first time in the words of the servicemen and women who have been fighting there. With unprecedented access to soldiers of all ranks, as well as pilots, reservists, engineers, medics, Royal Military police, mechanics, cooks and other military personnel, Andy McNab has assembled a portrait of modern conflict like never before. This is the full experience of British troops on the ground and in the air. The horrors, cruelties, drudgery, excitement and banter of these soldiers'' lives combine to form a chronological narrative of all the major events in Helmand during the British Army''s time there. From their action-packed, dramatic, moving and often humorous testimonies in interviews, diaries, letters and emails written to family, friends and loved ones, merges a 360-degree picture of guerrilla warfare up close and extremely personal. It is as close to the real thing as you can get.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2399'),
(7547, 'Spoken From the Heart', 'Laura Welch Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary story.Â **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, Laura Welch grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies to miscarriage or infant death. She vividly evokes Midland''s brash, rugged culture, her close relationship with her father, and the bonds of early friendships that sustain her to this day. For the first time, in heart-wrenching detail, she writes about the devastating high school car accident that left her friend Mike Douglas dead and about her decades of unspoken grief.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Laura Welch first left West Texas in 1964, she never imagined that her journey would lead her to the world stage and the White House. After graduating from Southern Methodist University in 1968, in the thick of student rebellions across the country and at the dawn of the women''s movement, she became an elementary school teacher, working in inner-city schools, then trained to be a librarian. At age thirty, she met George W. Bush, whom she had last passed in the hallway in seventh grade. Three months later, "the old maid of Midland married Midland''s most eligible bachelor." With rare intimacy and candor, Laura Bush writes about her early married life as she was thrust into one of America''s most prominent political families, as well as her deep longing for children and her husband''s decision to give up drinking. By 1993, she found herself in the full glare of the political spotlight. But just as her husband won the Texas governorship in a stunning upset victory, her father, Harold Welch, was dying in Midland.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 2001, after one of the closest elections in American history, Laura Bush moved into the White House. Here she captures presidential life in the harrowing days and weeks after 9/11, when fighter-jet cover echoed through the walls and security scares sent the family to an underground shelter. She writes openly about the White House during wartime, the withering and relentless media spotlight, and the transformation of her role as she began to understand the power of the first lady. One of the first U.S. officials to visit war-torn Afghanistan, she also reached out to disease-stricken African nations and tirelessly advocated for women in the Middle East and dissidents in Burma. She championed programs to get kids out of gangs and to stop urban violence. And she was a major force in rebuilding Gulf Coast schools and libraries post-Katrina. Movingly, she writes of her visits with U.S. troops and their loved ones, and of her empathy for and immense gratitude to military families.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With deft humor and a sharp eye, Laura Bush lifts the curtain on what really happens inside the White House, from presidential finances to the 175-year-old tradition of separate bedrooms for presidents and their wives to the antics of some White House guests and even a few members of Congress. She writes with honesty and eloquence about her family, her public triumphs, and her personal tribulations. Laura Bush''s compassion, her sense of humor, her grace, and her uncommon willingness to bare her heart make this story revelatory, beautifully rendered, and unlike any other first lady''s memoir ever written.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2005'),
(7548, 'The Sportswriter', 'Richard Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ralph Bascombe, the brooding antihero here, is not a Walter Matthaustyle, cigar-smoking sportswriter. Rather he resembles John Updike''s Rabbit Angstrom (sans cynicism). Bascombe has decided in his "mid-life crisis" years to write heartwarming articles for a glossy sports magazine, and in the literal world of sportswriting, he has found a way to avoid life''s "searing regret" without sacrificing its mysteries. In fact, Ralph is comfortable all around, living an ordinary, invisible existence in the "muted and adaptable" landscape of a New Jersey suburb. He has two lovely children, buddies in the Divorced Men''s Club and occasional romps in the sack with a buxom nurse. Then comes a crisis, with a narrative that becomes an odyssey through an extraordinary Easter week of death and renewal that brutally challenges Ralph''s fragile optimism. This painfully funny addition to Ford''s two other masterful novels (A Piece of My Heart and The Ultimate Good Luck establishes the author among the best realist American writers today.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2855'),
(7549, 'The Spy Who Loved Me', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He was about six feet tall, slim and fit. The eyes in the lean , slightly tanned face were a very clear grey-blue and as they observed the men they were cold and watchful. His good looks had a dangerous, almost cruel quality that had frightened me. But now I knew he could smile, I thought his face exciting, in a way no face had ever excited me before... Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers - the perverse Sol Horror and the deadly Sluggsy Morant. When a coolly charismatic Englishman turns up, Viv, in terrible danger, is not just hopeful, but fascinated. Because he is James Bond, 007 - the man she hopes will save her, the spy she hopes will love her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1137'),
(7550, 'The Spy', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Detective Isaac Bell, hero of The Chase and The Wrecker, returns in the remarkable new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.  It is 1908, and international tensions are mounting as the world plunges toward war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide, the man''s grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father''s name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder. And when more suspicious deaths follow, it becomes clear that someone-an elusive spy-is orchestrating the destruction of America''s brightest technological minds... and the murders all connect to a top- secret project called Hull 44.  But that is just the beginning. As the intrigue deepens, Bell will find himself pitted against German, Japanese, and British spies, in a mission that encompasses dreadnought battleships, Teddy Roosevelt''s Great White Fleet, Chinatown, Hell''s Kitchen, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Isaac Bell has certainly faced perilous situations before, but this time it is more than the future of his country that''s at stake- it''s the fate of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3520'),
(7551, 'Spycraft', 'Robert Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Secret instructons written in invisible ink. Cigarettes that fire bullets. Covert communications slipped inside dead rats. Subminature cameras hidden in ballpoint pens. If these sound like the stuff of James Bond''s gadget-master Q''s trade, think again. They are all real-life devices created by the CIA''s Office of Technical Services. Now, in the first book ever written about this ultrasecretive department, the former director of the OTS gives us an unprecedented look at the devices and operations from the history of the CIA - including many deemed ''inappropriate for public disclosure'' by the CIA just two years ago. Spycraft tells amazing life and death stories about this little-known group, much of which has never before been revealed. Against the backdrop of some of the most critical international events of recent years - including the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the war on terror - the authors show the real techinical and human story of how the CIA carried out its most secret missions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/440'),
(7552, 'Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Featuring David Sedaris''s unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel and the Chipmunk," a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family members.Once again David Sedaris shows us the most outrageous, tender, absurd sides of ourselves in his "profoundly funny, well-crafted stories that somehow, magically, bring home a major point about fidelity or guilt or love" (Christian Science Monitor).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3610'),
(7553, 'St. Lucy&#39;s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves', 'Karen Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearIn these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with stunning inventiveness and heart, St. Lucyâ€™s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduces a radiant new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2783'),
(7554, 'A Stained White Radiance', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the murder of a local cop draws him into the painful conflicts of a bayou family, sadistic villains and interior demons plague Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux in this satisfying novel of suspense.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Another dark rhapsody on Burke''s favorite themes--power and vengeance, organized crime, maverick Louisiana lawmen, and nightmares from Vietnam--all pulled together more tightly than ever by the Sonnier family, threatened by somebody (oilman brother Weldon''s mob contacts? televangelist brother Lyle''s stray sheep? sister Drew''s old political enemies? brother-in-law Bobby Earl''s followers in the Aryan Nation? hateful paterfamilias Verise, long presumed dead in a tanker explosion?) who first shoots out Weldon''s window and then executes a cop in the family basement. There''ll be more violence--much more--and enough guilt for everybody, as New Iberia detective Dave Robicheaux, instead of maundering over the issues, as in Black Cherry Blues (1989) and A Morning for Flamingos (1990), turns in his finest performance to date. By no means a well-made detective story--the Sonniers'' coincidental bad luck rivals Job''s--but a wholly original tale of crime and revenge, inside and outside the law. This series keeps getting stronger and stronger. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/422'),
(7555, 'Stalingrad', 'Antony Beevor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In June 1941, German forces swept across Soviet territory in an offensive that finally brought them within twenty-five miles of Moscow. But in August 1942, the overconfident Hitler chose the wrong target, Stalin?s namesake city on the Volga. The battle of Stalingrad is extraordinary in every way: the triumphant invader fought to a standstill; then the Soviet trap sprung, surrounding their attackers; and the terrible siege, with Germans starving and freezing, forced to fight on by a disbelieving Hitler.The story has never been told as Antony Beevor tells it here. He writes of the great Manichaean clash between Stalin and Hitler, and the strategic brilliance and fatal flaws of their generals. Stalingrad is first and foremost the story of the man on the ground, a soldier?s-eye view of fighting house-to-house on an urban battlefield, with helpless civilians caught in the crossfire. Beevor has gained access to Russian reports on desertions and executions that have never been seen by Western scholars, German transcripts of prisoner interrogations, and private letters and diaries. These help re-create the compelling human drama of the most terrible battle in modern warfare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2403');
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(7556, 'The Stalker', 'Bill Pronzini', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Men who participated in a never solved robbery of an armored truck are being picked off one-by-one 11 years after the crime. "Pronzini makes people and events so real that you''re living those explosive days of terror." â€”Robert Ludlum "Once in a crocodile''s age you come across a writer whose work you instinctively like... I''ve found oneâ€”Bill Pronzini. Buy him, read him, and relax." â€”Los Angeles Times "Pronzini is the master of the shivery, spine-tingling it-could-happen suspense story." â€”Publisher''s Weekly "Pronzini is a pro." â€”The New York Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bill Pronzini is simply one of the masters. He seems to have taken a crack at just about every genre: mysteries, noirish thrillers, historicals, locked-room mysteries, adventure novels, spy capers, men''s action, westerns, and, of course, his masterful, long-running Nameless private detective series, now entering its fourth decade, with no signs of creative flagging. He''s also ghosted several Brett Halliday short stories as Michael Shayne for Mike Shayne''s Mystery Magazine, and has managed to collaborate with such fellow writers as John Lutz, Barry Wahlberg, Collin Wilcox and Marcia Muller. Still, if he never ventured into fiction writing, his non-fiction work, as both writer and editor, would still earn him a place in the P.I. genre''s Hall of Fame. Besides his two tributes to some of the very worst in crime fiction (what he calls "alternative classics"), Gun in Cheek and Son of Gun in Cheek, and one on western fiction (entitled Six Gun in Cheek, naturally), he''s the co-author (with Marcia Muller) of 1001 Midnights. The Mystery Writers of America have nominated him for Edgar Awards several times and his work has been translated into numerous languages and he''s published in almost thirty countries. He was the very first president of the Private Eye Writers of America, and he''s received three Shamus Awards from them, as well as its Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3920'),
(7557, 'Stalking the Angel', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stalking the Angel is a 1989 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the second in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Undoubtedly prompted by the success of recent Crais bestsellers (Demolition Angel; Hostage), his audio publishers have gone back to the second book in his increasingly popular Elvis Cole series, originally published in 1989, for a lively and colorful outing that manages to capture much of the author''s early innocence and freshness. Stuart brings the quirky Cole to life quickly, combining his strengths (tenacity, incorruptibility, frequent flashes of humor) with his oddities (his love of the Disney artifacts that litter his office) to make a credible whole person. Other characters emerge with equal vocal skill: the enigmatic Joe Pike, Cole''s muscular sidekick; a glowering Los Angeles property developer, his alcohol-impaired wife and their fragile adolescent daughter, who winds up being kidnapped by Japanese gangsters. Cole, hired to find a rare Japanese manuscript, discovers that the teenager''s fate is very important to him personally forging a bond between the detective and children in peril that has become a hallmark of the series. For those who have been fans of Elvis since book one, The Monkey''s Raincoat, it''s good to have his early adventures around to listen to. For more recent Crais converts, this could prove an eye-opening revelation of how Cole got to be who he is. Based on the Bantam mass market.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/441'),
(7558, 'The Stand', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can''t ignore it. Stephen King''s most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world''s population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I\n <em>\n  love\n </em>\n to burn things up," King says. "It''s the werewolf in me, I guess....\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."\n</p>\n<p>\n There is much to admire in\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n : the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book.\n <em>\n  --Fiona Webster\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In its 1978 incarnation, The Stand was a healthy, hefty 823-pager. Now, King and Doubleday are republishing The Stand in the gigantic version in which, according to King, it was originally written. Not true . The same excellent tale of the walking dude, the chemical warfare weapon called superflu and the confrontation between its survivors has been updated to 1990, so references to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Reagan years, Roger Rabbit and AIDS are unnecessarily forced into the mouths of King''s late-''70s characters. That said, the extra 400 or so pages of subplots, character development, conversation, interior dialogue, spiritual soul-searching, blood, bone and gristle make King''s best novel better still. A new beginning adds verisimilitude to an already frighteningly believable story, while a new ending opens up possibilities for a sequel. Sheer size makes an Everest of the whole deal. BOMC selection, QPB main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/785'),
(7559, 'Star Island', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia is Cherryâ€™s â€œundercover stunt double,â€ portraying Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. But, one night, Ann-as-Cherry is mistakenly kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by an obsessed paparazzo named Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherryâ€™s handlers (berâ€“stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped-and-tucked twin publicists; weed-whacker-wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence secret from the publicâ€”and from Cherry herself.A further complication: Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink, the unhinged former governor of Florida, and now heâ€™s heading for Miami to find her.Will Bang achieve his fantasy of a private photo session with Cherry? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann before Cherryâ€™s posse does?All will be revealed in Carl Hiaasenâ€™s hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/446'),
(7560, 'Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived', 'Paul S. Kemp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The second novel set in the Old Republic era and based on the massively multiplayer online game Star WarsÂ®: The Old Republicâ„¢ ramps up the action and brings readers face-to-face for the first time with a Sith warrior to rival the most sinister of the Order''s Dark Lordsâ€”Darth Malgus, the mysterious, masked Sith of the wildly popular â€œDeceivedâ€ and â€œHopeâ€ game trailers. Malgus brought down the Jedi Temple on Coruscant in a brutal assault that shocked the galaxy. But if war crowned him the darkest of Sith heroes, peace would transform him into something far more heinousâ€”something Malgus would never want to be, but cannot stop, any more than he can stop the rogue Jedi fast approaching. Her name is Aryn Leneerâ€”and the lone Knight that Malgus cut down in the fierce battle for the Jedi Temple was her Master. And now she''s going to find out what happened to him, even if it means breaking every rule in the book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3575'),
(7561, 'Stardust', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Stardust\n </em>\n is an utterly charming fairy tale in the tradition of\n <em>\n  The Princess Bride\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Neverending Story\n </em>\n . Neil Gaiman, creator of the darkly elegant Sandman comics and author of\n <em>\n  The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish\n </em>\n , tells the story of young Tristran Thorn and his adventures in the land of Faerie. One fateful night, Tristran promises his beloved that he will retrieve a fallen star for her from beyond the Wall that stands between their rural English town (called, appropriately, Wall) and the Faerie realm. No one ever ventures beyond the Wall except to attend an enchanted flea market that is held every nine years (and during which, unbeknownst to him, Tristran was conceived). But Tristran bravely sets out to fetch the fallen star and thus win the hand of his love. His adventures in the magical land will keep you turning pages as fast as you can--he and the star escape evil old witches, deadly clutching trees, goblin press-gangs, and the scheming sons of the dead Lord of Stormhold. The story is by turns thrillingly scary and very funny. You''ll love goofy, earnest Tristran and the talking animals, gnomes, magic trees, and other irresistible denizens of Faerie that he encounters in his travels.\n <em>\n  Stardust\n </em>\n is a perfect read-aloud book, a brand-new fairy tale you''ll want to share with a kid, or maybe hoard for yourself. (If you read it to kids, watch out for a couple of spicy sex bits and one epithet.)\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Tristran Thorn falls in love with the prettiest girl in town and makes her a foolish promise: he says that he''ll go find the falling star they both watched streak across the night sky. She says she''ll marry him if he finds it, so he sets off, leaving his home of Wall, and heads out into the perilous land of faerie, where not everything is what it appears. Gaiman is known for his fanciful wit, sterling prose and wildly imaginative plots, and Stardust is no exception. Gaiman''s silver-tongued narration vividly brings this production to life. Like the bards of old, Gaiman is equally proficient at telling tales as he is at writing them, and his pleasant British accent feels like a perfect match to the material. Gaiman''s performance is an extraordinary achievementâ€”if only all authors could read their own work so well. The audiobook also includes a brief, informative and enjoyable interview with Gaiman about the writing of the novel and his work in the audiobook studio.\n <br />\n <em>\n  CopyrightÂ© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1285'),
(7562, 'The Stardust Lounge: Stories From a Boy&#39;s Adolescence', 'Deborah Digges', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Thanks for a wonderful childhood!" Stephen Digges tells his mother as he hugs her goodbye in front of his New York City college dorm, and it''s a measure of just how persuasive and potent her account of his difficult adolescence is that we know exactly what he means. At 13, Stephen was running away, stealing his mother''s car, carrying guns, doing drugs, and getting into trouble with the law and in school. Already divorced from Stephen''s father, Digges saw her son''s problems break up her second marriage and heard society, her family, and her neighbors tell her she was too easy on her son, that fatherless boys needed "tough love" and discipline. But Digges had the courage to listen to a highly unconventional therapist who urged her, "Join him in his anger at life.... Don''t educate him about what he should have done. Let him figure it out." Together with Digges''s foster son (an African American teen thrown out of his home after a stint in juvenile detention), they create a bohemian household. Three dogs (one of them epileptic) "sleep on the beds no questions asked"; Stephen does his homework with a pet mouse named Frederick in his pocket; there are swarms of kittens "leaping in and out of the windows"; and the pizza delivery for dinner may be interrupted by "phone calls from teachers, more often the cops." Go figure: creative, anti-authoritarian Stephen acquires a sense of responsibility and ambition in this offbeat atmosphere. His mother''s surprisingly funny, unsentimentally tender memoir reminds us that there are no rules about raising children, just countless perils and boundless possibilities.\n <em>\n  --Wendy Smith\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n At 14, Stephen was stealing cars, waving guns around his house, and running with a violent gang. But his mother, poet and memoirist Deborah Digges, did not give up on Stephen. Instead, she took extraordinary steps to save him. She "shadowed" him, disguising herself and following Stephen''s nighttime escapades. She invited gang members into her home, where they smoked and played loud rap music. Enduring the disapproval of neighbors and friends, the breakup of her second marriage, and many late nights, Digges refused to abandon her son. Eventually, with the help of an unconventional therapist and the family''s large assortment of pets, Deborah and Stephen grew back together, sharing a level of intimacy that is sure to be the envy of her disapproving neighbors. This is not a book of advice, and Digges doesn''t offer easy answers or suggest her parenting strategy to others. Instead, it is a wrenching memoir about the things that mothers and children will do to, and for, one another, written with a poet''s eye for resonant images.\n <em>\n  John Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2164'),
(7563, 'State of Fear', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com Exclusive Content\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Michael Crichton Timeline\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Amazon.com reveals a few facts about the "father of the techno-thriller."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1942:\n  </strong>\n  John Michael Crichton is born in Chicago, Illinois on Oct. 23.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1960:\n  </strong>\n  Crichton graduates from Roslyn High School on Long Island, New York, with high marks and a reputation as a star basketball player. He decides to attend Harvard University to study English. During his studies, he rankles under his writing professors'' criticism. As an act of rebellion, Crichton submits an essay by George Orwell as his own. The professor doesnâ€™t catch the plagiarism and gives Orwell a B-. This experience convinces Crichton to change his field of study to anthropology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1964:\n  </strong>\n  Crichton graduates summa cum laude from Harvard University in anthropology. After studying further as a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University and receiving the Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship, which allowed him to travel in Europe and North Africa, Crichton begins coursework at the Harvard School of Medicine. To help fund his medical endeavors, he writes spy thrillers under several pen names. One of these works,\n  <em>\n   A Case of Need\n  </em>\n  , wins the 1968 Mystery Writers of America''s Edgar Allan Poe Award.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1969:\n  </strong>\n  Crichton graduates from Harvard Medical school and is accepted as a post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Science in La Jolla, Calif. However, his career in medicine is waylaid by the publication of the first novel under his own name,\n  <em>\n   The Andromeda Strain\n  </em>\n  . The novel, about an apocalyptic plague, climbs high on bestseller lists and is later made into a popular film. Crichton said of his decision to pursue writing full time: "To quit medicine to become a writer struck most people like quitting the Supreme Court to become a bail bondsman."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1972:\n  </strong>\n  Crichton''s second novel under his own name\n  <em>\n   The Terminal Man\n  </em>\n  , is published. Also, two of Crichton''s previous works under his pen names,\n  <em>\n   Dealing\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Case of Need\n  </em>\n  are made into movies. After watching the filming, Crichton decides to try his hand at directing. He will eventually direct seven films including the 1973 science-fiction hit\n  <em>\n   Westworld\n  </em>\n  , which was the first film ever to use computer-generated effects.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1980:\n  </strong>\n  Crichton draws on his anthropology background and fascination with new technology to create\n  <em>\n   Congo\n  </em>\n  , a best-selling novel about a search for industrial diamonds and a new race of gorillas. The novel, patterned after the adventure writings of H. Ryder Haggard, updates the genre with the inclusion of high-tech gadgets that, although may seem quaint 20 years later, serve to set Crichton''s work apart and he begins to cement his reputation as "the father of the techno-thriller."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1990:\n  </strong>\n  After the 1980s, which saw the publication of the underwater adventure\n  <em>\n   Sphere\n  </em>\n  (1987) and an invitation to become a visiting writer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988), Crichton begins the new decade with a bang via the publication of his most popular novel,\n  <em>\n   Jurassic Park\n  </em>\n  . The book is a powerful example of Crichton''s use of science and technology as the bedrock for his work. Heady discussion of genetic engineering, chaos theory, and paleontology run throughout the tightly-wound thriller that strands a crew of scientists on an island populated by cloned dinosaurs run amok. The novel inspires the 1993 Steven Spielberg film, and together book and film will re-ignite the worldâ€™s fascination with dinosaurs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1995:\n  </strong>\n  Crichton resurrects an idea from his medical school days to create the Emmy-Award Winning television series\n  <em>\n   ER\n  </em>\n  . In this year,\n  <em>\n   ER\n  </em>\n  won eight Emmys and Crichton received an award from the Producers Guild of America in the category of outstanding multi-episodic series. Set in an insanely busy an often dangerous Chicago emergency room, the fast-paced drama is defined by Crichton''s now trademark use of technical expertise and insider jargon. The year also saw the publication of\n  <em>\n   The Lost World\n  </em>\n  returning readers to the dinosaur-infested island.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   2000:\n  </strong>\n  In recognition for Crichton''s contribution in popularizing paleontology, a dinosaur discovered in southern China is named after him. "Crichton''s ankylosaur" is a small, armored plant-eating dinosaur that dates to the early Jurassic Period, about 180 million years ago. "For a person like me, this is much better than an Academy Award," Crichton said of the honor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   2004:\n  </strong>\n  Crichtonâ€™s newest thriller\n  <em>\n   State of Fear\n  </em>\n  is published.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com''s Significant Seven\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Michael Crichton kindly agreed to take the life quiz we like to give to all our authors: the Amazon.com Significant Seven.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What book has had the most significant impact on your life?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Prisoners of Childhood\n  </em>\n  by Alice Miller\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Tao Te Ching\n  </em>\n  by Lao Tzu (Witter Bynner version)\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Symphony #2 in D Major\n  </em>\n  by Johannes Brahms (Georg Solti)\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Ikiru\n  </em>\n  by Akira Kurosawa\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  What is the worst lie you''ve ever told?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Surely you''re joking.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Describe the perfect writing environment.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Small room. Shades down. No daylight. No disturbances. Macintosh with a big screen. Plenty of coffee. Quiet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  I don''t want an epitaph. If forced, I would say "Why Are You Here? Go Live Your Life."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Benjamin Franklin\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Q:\n  </strong>\n  If you could have one superpower what would it be?\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A:\n  </strong>\n  Invisibility\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For his latest foray, Crichton alters his usual formula--three parts thrills and spills to one part hard science--to a less appetizing concoction that is half anti-global warming screed and half adventure yarn. This adds a mission impossible element to Wilson''s narration: how to make pages of research interesting enough to hold the listener''s attention until hero and heroine face their next peril. Unfortunately, Wilson approaches the statistical information like a newscaster communicating via Teleprompter. This earns him an A-plus for elocution and timbre, but a more average grade when it comes to dramatic interpretation. Consequently, the scientific material that Crichton spent three years researching seems even more copious in audio format than in print. And it''s certainly much harder to flip past. Wilson is more successful in handling conversational passages, employing accents and adding subtle touches to various voices--a cynical tone for the hero, who''s a mildly hedonistic corporate lawyer, and an edgier, less patient attitude for the beautiful, ready-for-anything heroine. As they hot-foot it around the globe, assisting an Indiana Jones-like MIT professor in thwarting evils perpetrated by a mass-murdering environmentalist, Wilson stirs up a little suspense by speaking faster and more energetically. But the book''s abundance of statistics would slow any narrator''s momentum, and Wilson is no exception.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/337'),
(7564, 'State of the Union', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the national bestselling author of The Lions of Lucerne and Path of the Assassin comes another electrifying international thriller featuring all-American hero Scot Harvath, as he plunges into the frigid heart of the Russian tundra to save the fragile state of the union.  On a cold January morning, the United States awakes to discover that an old enemy, one long believed dead and buried, has crawled out of its grave to lay siege to the world''s only superpower.  With the stunning discovery that enhanced Soviet-made suitcase nukes have been secreted in America''s major cities, President Jack Rutledge gathers his National Security Council to weigh the feasibility of a first strike against the Russian Federation. There''s only one problem. For over two decades, the Russians have been funneling international aid money into a top secret air defense system, which has just been brought on-line and which will render any conventional attack upon their country utterly ineffective.  After exhausting all of his other options, and with Soviet sleeper agents preparing to detonate their deadly payloads across the United States, the president turns to the nation''s final hope, ex-Navy SEAL and Secret Service Agent Scot Harvath.  Assigned to a covert section of the Department of Homeland Security and charged with defending the nation against all foreign aggressors by any means necessary, Harvath finds himself hand-picked by the president to unravel a brilliantly orchestrated, fiendishly timed conspiracy that has already shattered the fragile peace between the world''s nations and which, if successful, will leave the United States in smoldering ruins.  With family friend and former Deputy FBI Director Gary Lawlor nowhere to be found and suspected of betraying his country, Harvath embarks on an adventure that will test the bonds of loyalty and reveal a nation''s deepest secrets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3930'),
(7565, 'State of Wonder', 'Ann Patchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ann Patchett has dazzled readers with her award-winning books, including The Magician''s Assistant and the New York Times bestselling Bel Canto. Now she raises the bar with State of Wonder, a provocative and ambitious novel set deep in the Amazon jungle.   Dr. Marina Singh, a research scientist with a Minnesota pharmaceutical company, is sent to Brazil to track down her former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson, who seems to have all but disappeared in the Amazon while working on what is destined to be an extremely valuable new drug, the development of which has already cost the company a fortune. Nothing about Marina''s assignment is easy: not only does no one know where Dr. Swenson is, but the last person who was sent to find her, Marina''s research partner Anders Eckman, died before he could complete his mission. Plagued by trepidation, Marina embarks on an odyssey into the insect-infested jungle in hopes of finding her former mentor as well as answers to several troubling questions about her friend''s death, the state of her company''s future, and her own past.   Once found, Dr. Swenson, now in her seventies, is as ruthless and uncompromising as she ever was back in the days of Grand Rounds at Johns Hopkins. With a combination of science and subterfuge, she dominates her research team and the natives she is studying with the force of an imperial ruler. But while she is as threatening as anything the jungle has to offer, the greatest sacrifices to be made are the ones Dr. Swenson asks of herself, and will ultimately ask of Marina, who finds she may still be unable to live up to her teacher''s expectations.   In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, and a neighboring tribe of cannibals, State of Wonder is a world unto itself, where unlikely beauty stands beside unimaginable loss. It is a tale that leads the reader into the very heart of darkness, and then shows us what lies on the other side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3420'),
(7566, 'Stay Close', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  Harlan CobenÂ \n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Stay Close\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Harlan Coben follows four consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers with a stand-alone thriller in the vein of his beloved breakout novels Caught and Hold Tight.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  When the past refuses to stay buried, three people will discover that the American dream can be a nightmare . . .\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Now sheâ€™s got two kids, a perfect husband, a house with a picket fence, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at the age of forty he finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Broome is a detective who canâ€™t let go of a cold case â€“ the disappearance of a local husband and father seventeen years ago.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  As the terrible consequences of long-ago events collide in the present, three people living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that not even those closest to them would ever suspect, will come to realise that the past never truly fades away. And as each confronts the dark side of the American dream â€“ the boredom of suburban life, the thrill of temptation, the desperation that can lurk behind even the prettiest facades â€“ they will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper thin as a heartbeat.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Global bestseller Harlan Coben returns with a stunning new standalone novel â€“ a powerful psychological thriller that explores how our decisions define us and how our present selves are inescapably shaped by our pasts.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3732'),
(7567, 'Stealing Faces', 'Michael Prescott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Twelve years ago Kaylie McMillan fell victim to serial killer John Cray''s sick obsession--and escaped. So did Cray.Twelve years later, the nightmare still haunts Kaylie, putting her sanity in jeopardy--and her life at stake. Because Cray is still out there.And tonight, he''s going to finish what he started...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/571'),
(7568, 'Stealing Home', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Maddie Townsend might live in a town called Serenity, but there''s been nothing calm or peaceful about her life since her marriage broke up. This stay-at-home mom has no job skills, an out-of-control sixteen-year-old son, a talkative fourteen-year-old who''s suddenly gone silent, a six-year-old daughter whose heart is broken, an ex-husband whose younger girlfriend is expecting their baby and two best friends who think she''s somehow qualified to help them open a fitness spa for women.  But if Maddie is a tad on edge with all that on her plate, it''s nothing compared to the chaos that ensues when she discovers that her son''s baseball coach has feelings for her and the whole town disapproves. Maddie''s faced a lot of challenges lately with strength and resolve, but Cal Maddox may turn out to be more than she can handle. Then again, he could just be the one man in all of South Carolina who can help her find serenity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3822'),
(7569, 'The Steel Wave', 'Jeff Shaara', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jeff Shaara, Americaâ€™s premier author of military historical fiction, brings us the centerpiece of his epic trilogy of the Second World War. General Dwight Eisenhower once again commands a diverse army that must find its single purpose in the destruction of Hitlerâ€™s European fortress. His primary subordinates, Omar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery, must prove that this unique blend of Allied armies can successfully confront the might of Adolf Hitlerâ€™s forces, who have already conquered Western Europe. On the coast of France, German commander Erwin Rommel fortifies and prepares for the coming invasion, acutely aware that he must bring all his skills to bear on a fight his side must win. But Rommelâ€™s greatest challenge is to strike the Allies on his front, while struggling behind the lines with the growing insanity of Adolf Hitler, who thwarts the strategies Rommel knows will succeed. Meanwhile, Sergeant Jesse Adams, a no-nonsense veteran of the 82nd Airborne, parachutes with his men behind German lines into a chaotic and desperate struggle. And as the invasion force surges toward the beaches of Normandy, Private Tom Thorne of the 29th Infantry Division faces the horrifying prospects of fighting his way ashore on a stretch of coast more heavily defended than the Allied commanders anticipateâ€“Omaha Beach. From G.I. to general, this story carries the reader through the warâ€™s most crucial juncture, the invasion that altered the flow of the war, and, ultimately, changed history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3594'),
(7570, 'Step on a Crack', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  with Michael Ledwidge\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the unexpected death of a beloved former first lady, the nation falls into mourning as the world''s most powerful people gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs. Billionaires, politicians, and superstars of every kind are suddenly trapped by one man''s brilliant and ruthless scenario. Pulled into the fray, Detective Michael Bennett-father of ten-faces the most sinister challenge of his career: a criminal who kills without hesitation and counters everything the NYPD and FBI throw at him with impunity. As New York descends into chaos, Bennett learns that the great love of his life, his wife, is battling a terrible disease and he may have to raise their children alone. Now with the entire world watching and the tension reaching a boiling point, Bennett must quickly find a way out-or become responsible for the greatest debacle in history.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/280'),
(7571, 'The Stephen King Value Collection: Lawnmower Man, Gray Matter, and Graveyard Shift', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Read by John Glover\n  <br />\n  Six cassettes, 9 hours\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Tales from\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n   <em>\n    Gray Matter\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   include:\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   The Boogeyman\n   <br />\n   I Know What You Need\n   <br />\n   Strawberry Spring\n   <br />\n   Gray Matter\n   <br />\n   The Woman in the Room\n   <br />\n   Battleground\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Tales from\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n   <em>\n    Graveyard Shift\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   include:\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   Graveyard Shift\n   <br />\n   The Man Who Loved Flowers\n   <br />\n   The Last Rung on The Ladder\n   <br />\n   Night Surf\n   <br />\n   Jerusalem''s Lot\n   <br />\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Tales from\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n   <em>\n    Lawnmower Man\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   include:\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   Lawnmower Man\n   <br />\n   The Mangler\n   <br />\n   Quitters, Inc.\n   <br />\n   The Ledge\n   <br />\n   Sometimes They Come Back\n  </em>\n </p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  <h3>\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n </em>\n <p>\n  STEPHEN KING was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. Many of his works have been adapted for the screen including\n  <em>\n   Carrie, The Dead Zone, The Shining, Christine, Salem''s Lot, Firestarter, Cujo, Pet Sematary\n  </em>\n  (for which King wrote the screenplay and had a bit part as a minister), and\n  <em>\n   Misery\n  </em>\n  , as well as several others. The popular movie,\n  <em>\n   Stand By Me\n  </em>\n  , was adapted from his novella, "The Body" from\n  <em>\n   Different Seasons\n  </em>\n  . In 1992,\n  <em>\n   Sleepwalkers\n  </em>\n  was produced from an original screenplay by King.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/838'),
(7572, 'Steve Jobs', 'Walter Isaacson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two yearsâ€”as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleaguesâ€”Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.Â Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against.Â His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Appleâ€™s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Walter Isaacson\n  </strong>\n  , the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine. He is the author of\n  <em>\n   Benjamin Franklin: An American Life\n  </em>\n  and of\n  <em>\n   Kissinger: A Biography\n  </em>\n  , and the coauthor of\n  <em>\n   The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2008'),
(7573, 'Stick', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After serving time for armed robbery, Ernest "Stick" Stickley is back on the outside and trying to stay legit. But it''s tough staying straight in a crooked town -- and Miami is a pirate''s paradise, where investment fat cats and lowlife drug dealers hold hands and dance. And when a crazed player chooses Stick at random to die for another man''s sins, the struggling ex-con is left with no choice but to dive right back into the game. Besides, Stick knows a good thing when he sees it -- and a golden opportunity to run a very profitable sweet revenge scam seems much too tasty to pass up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3138'),
(7574, 'Stieg Larsson, My Friend', 'Kurdo Baksi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''So who was the real Larsson, and what would he have made of his success? His friend, the journalist and fellow activist Kurdo Baksi, goes some way to answering both in this short but powerful memoir. For Larsson geeks such as myself, the unearthed details of his past and the fond recollections of his ceaseless pursuit of justice are gripping ... [A] moving, well-paced and honest account of Larsson''s life'' Rosie Swash, Observer.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five years after his death, Stieg Larsson is best known as the author of the Millennium Trilogy, but during his career as a journalist he was a crucial protagonist in the battle against racism and for democracy in Sweden, and one of the founders of the anti-facist magazine Expo. Kurdo Baksi first met Larsson in 1992; it was the beginning of an intense friendship, and a fruitful but challenging working relationship. In this candid and rounded memoir, Baksi answers the questions a multitude of Larsson''s fans have already asked, about his upbringing; the recurring death threats; his insomnia and his vices; his feminism - so evident in his books - and his dogmatism. What was he like as a colleague? Who provided the inspiration for his now-immortal characters (Baksi is one of the few who appears in the trilogy as himself)? Who was Lisbeth Salander?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2010'),
(7575, 'Still Life With Crows', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  That FBI Special Agent Pendergast, one of the most charismatic thriller heroes in memory, dominates this latest novel from Preston/Child is the good news; that he''s working the least interesting case of his literary career (other outings include The Cabinet of Curiosities and Reliquary) is the bad. An unusual serial killer is wreaking havoc in a small corn-growing town in Kansas; he leaves outlandish signatures, such as a mutilated body within a circle of crows on stakes and a ring of broken corn stalks. On his own initiative, Pendergast, no stranger to bizarre murders, shows up to investigate, and the authors make much hay from the contrast between the lean, infinitely refined and impossibly erudite Pendergast, a distinct descendant of Sherlock Holmes, and the down-home milieu he finds himself in. As if to emphasize his ancestry, the authors give Pendergast a Watson here: one Corrie Swanson, a rebellious, pierced and tattooed teenage girl whom he hires as his driver and guide. Further killings occur, which rumor and Pendergast tie to a 19th-century massacre of a band of outlaws by Indians. (As Pendergast explains to Corrie, he arrives at this conclusion through a "form of mental concentration, one of my own devising, which combines the memory palace with elements of Chongg Ran, an ancient Bhutanese form of meditation.") Not surprisingly, the relatively hick local cops don''t like Pendergast, nor do the local politicians, who hope their town will be chosen for a lucrative experiment in genetically modified crops. When Corrie is dragged off to the killer''s hideaway in a massive cave system, however, cops and Pendergast unite in an extended underground cat-and-mouse chase that will entertain readers despite their likely disappointment at the absurd, even ludicrous, identity of the villain. This may be minor Preston/Child, but it is major Pendergast; those for whom he''s the cup of tea will drink deep.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The authors of such hits as\n  <em>\n   Relic\n  </em>\n  (1992) and\n  <em>\n   The Cabinet of Curiosities\n  </em>\n  [BKL Je 1 &amp; 15 02] bring back Special Agent Pendergast, the FBI man whose slightly archaic dialogue, unique mode of dress, and seemingly endless array of esoteric facts make him a fascinating lead character. This time out Pendergast is in Medicine Creek, Kansas, a small town that appears to be home to its very own serial killer. The novel begins with a gruesome murder, after which we''re introduced to wily Sheriff Dent Hazen, a man who doesn''t take kindly to out-of-towners investigating crimes on his turf. Just as we''re getting to know Hazen, the pace kicks into high gear, with more bodies and a full-tilt investigation. As usual, Preston and Child deftly mix the real and the surreal, creating an atmosphere in which everything, for reasons we can''t quite nail down, seems a tad off-kilter. Call it creeping paranoia, perhaps, or the dreadful certainty that something awful is about to happen. Whatever you call it, it''s a recipe for success.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/610'),
(7576, 'The Stolen Chalice', 'Kitty Pilgrim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n CNN veteran Kitty Pilgrim returns with her second novel featuring the beautiful young oceanographer Cordelia Stapleton and the dashing, urbane archaeologist John Sinclair. Set in the international art world, The Stolen Chalice takes readers across the globe. Bombings, kidnappings, and Sinclairâ€™s old love conspire against the couple as they search for valuable Egyptian art. The black-tie gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art promises to be a star-studded evening. Cordelia Stapleton and John Sinclair have flown in from Alexandria, Egypt, to help celebrate ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian culture with New Yorkâ€™s elite. The influential crowd of artists, collectors, scientists, and New York society dine and dance at the museumâ€™s historic Temple of Dendur, unaware that terrorists are planning to attack. Fortunately, museum security and police stop the terrorists, but the evening is a disaster. The next morning, Cordelia and Sinclair learn that an art theft ring struck New York while they were at the museum. All over the city, pieces of Egyptian art have been stolen. Ted VerPlanckâ€”a pillar of New York society whom Cordelia met the night beforeâ€”discovers that his penthouse apartment was robbed and the legendary Sardonyx Cup, an ancient Egyptian chalice, is missing. Ted asks John Sinclair to help him recover his precious artifact. Despite Cordeliaâ€™s objections, Sinclair calls on his old flame the Egyptologist Dr. Holly Graham to help find the chalice. They discover the stolen art is being sold on the black market to fund an international terrorist group. The groupâ€™s leader, a sinister Egyptian anarchist, and his aristocratic British partner, Lady Xandra Sommerset, are planning a biological-weapon attack to topple the major governments of the world. Aided by British and American security forces, Sinclair sets out to find the missing art, which holds clues to where and when the attack will take place. Pieces of stolen art are scattered around the world. The action moves from a sprawling ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to a castle on Scotlandâ€™s rugged coastline, a beautiful two-hundred-foot yacht in the Mediterranean, the mysterious canals of Venice, the premier beach resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, and ultimately Cairo. Romance sizzles as Sinclair, Cordelia, and Holly Graham are caught in a love triangle, distracted by their emotions, and unknowingly moving closer to mortal danger. Superstition and science meet head-on. And one question remains unansweredâ€”does the Sardonyx Cup have special powers?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3861'),
(7577, 'A Stolen Life', 'Jaycee Dugard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen.\n</p>\n<p>\n For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse.\n</p>\n<p>\n For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation.\n</p>\n<p>\n On August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I donâ€™t think of myself as a victim. I survived.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Stolen Life\n </em>\n is my storyâ€”in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n The pine cone is a symbol that represents the seed of a new beginning for me. To help facilitate new beginnings, with the support of animal-assisted therapy, the J A Y C Foundation provides support and services for the timely treatment of families recovering from abduction and the aftermath of traumatic experiencesâ€”families like my own who need to learn how to heal. In addition, the J A Y C Foundation hopes to facilitate awareness in schools about the important need to care for one another.\n</p>\n<p>\n Our motto is â€œJust Ask Yourself to . . . Care!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A portion of my proceeds from this memoir will be donated to The J A Y C Foundation Inc.\n</p>\n<p>\n www.thejaycfoundation.org\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1788');
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(7578, 'A Stolen Life: A Memoir', 'Jaycee Dugard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I donâ€™t think of myself as a victim. I survived.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A Stolen Life\n  </em>\n  is my storyâ€”in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  The pine cone is a symbol that represents the seed of a new beginning for me. To help facilitate new beginnings, with the support of animal-assisted therapy, the J A Y C Foundation provides support and services for the timely treatment of families recovering from abduction and the aftermath of traumatic experiencesâ€”families like my own who need to learn how to heal. In addition, the J A Y C Foundation hopes to facilitate awareness in schools about the important need to care for one another.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Our motto is â€œJust Ask Yourself to . . . Care!â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  A portion of my proceeds from this memoir will be donated to The J A Y C Foundation Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  www.thejaycfoundation.org\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2873'),
(7579, 'Stone Cold', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Baldacci may not be a literary stylist, but he really knows how to spin a yarn, and with McLarty he gets a narrator who adds emotional depth to his characters without slowing down the breathless pace of his prose. McLarty uses his distinctive, almost avuncular delivery to excellent purpose in this action-packed thriller that finds the Camel Club members attacked by three tough customers seeking revenge. Washington power broker Carter Gray blames them for the loss of his White House job. Thuggish casino operator Jerry Bagger wants con woman extraordinaire Annabelle Conroy and his stolen $40 million. And an old Cold War wrong has placed former U.S. government assassin and club founder Oliver Stone in the path of world-class hit man Harry Finn. Middle-aged baritones offer no great challenge to McLarty''s talent, yet his subtle shifts are admirable, from the thoughtful, slightly rough-edged Stone to the rougher-edged Bagger to Gray''s sneeringly perfect locution. But his art becomes more apparent as he effectively captures the voices of Annabelle, Finn and a gallery of other characters, including a bitter elderly Russian woman and a world-weary Irish-American man, providing them all a dimension not always on the page. Simultaneous release with the Grand Central hardcover (Reviews, Aug. 22).\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Baldacci may not be a literary stylist, but he really knows how to spin a yarn, and with McLarty he gets a narrator who adds emotional depth to his characters without slowing down the breathless pace of his prose. McLarty uses his distinctive, almost avuncular delivery to excellent purpose in this action-packed thriller that finds the Camel Club members attacked by three tough customers seeking revenge... Aged baritones ofer no great challenge to McLarty''s talent, yet his subtle shifts are admirable, from the toughtful, slightly rough-edged Stone to the rougher-edged Bagger to Gray''s sneeringly perfect locution. But his art becomes more apparent as he effectively captures the voices of Annabelle, Finn and a gallery of other characters, including a bitter elderly Russan woman and a world-weary Irish-American man, providing them all a dimension not always on the page.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The author brings back Oliver Stone, with his old friends and older enemies. Baldacci''s adept character development coupled with deft narration from Ron McLarty makes for an enjoyable listening experience. Once again, Baldacci creates unique parallel stories that evolve and eventually intertwine. The expert McLarty gives clear and recognizable voices to all the characters. In particular, his consistent accents for the old Russian woman and for the acerbic Irish man capture the story''s emotions and help bring home the plot. A whiny rare books expert and a bitter gangster round out the colorful cast. Hidden secrets, political espionage, and personal trust all clash in this fast-paced story. M.B. Â© AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/ MAY 08]\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Baldacci weaves the strands of his plot flawlessly, with an attention to detail and character that set this book above the normal run of Washington thriller. McLarty, the actor-author who grew up in East Providence, assists with a fine set of accents (his Irish brogue for Annabelle''s father, Paddy, is particularly good) that let listeners easily distinguish among the many characters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/68'),
(7580, 'Stone Rain', 'Linwood Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Metropolitan newspaper writer Zack Walker has a knack for stumbling onto deadly stories. But itâ€™s one that his good friend Trixie Snelling doesnâ€™t want told thatâ€™s about to unleash a storm of trouble. As a professional dominatrix in the suburbs, Trixie has her share of secrets, but Zack has no idea what sheâ€™s really hiding when a local newspaperman threatens to do an exposÃ© on herâ€¦not until Zack finds a dead body strapped to the bondage cross in her basement dungeon.Now Zack is implicated in a murder, Trixie is missing, and everything he thought he knew about his friend, his town, even his own marriage, reveals a darker side. Zackâ€™s twisted trail to the truth will lead to a long-unsolved triple homicide, bikers, drug wars, and a stone-cold killer hell-bent on revenge. Itâ€™s a story thatâ€™s already cost him his job and possibly his wife, and, if Zackâ€™s not very lucky, it will cost him his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3153'),
(7581, 'Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography', 'Rob Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A lovely autobiography, equal parts dish and pathos."--_Vanity Fair_\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Lowe] writes viscerally and insightfully...He looks back at the aberrant highs of his heart-throb days, the changing nature of stardom in Hollywood, the trade-off he has made between high life and home life, and the step-by-step effort behind his show business survival. He looked like the callowest kid in the "Outsiders" crew. Now he looks like the sturdiest of them all"--_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "I really enjoyed it...Thoroughly entertaining: the Brat Pack years, the Wayne''s World years, the Alcoholic Obscurity, the Glamorous Romances (Princess Stephanie of Monaco!), the Inevitable Rehab, and the Triumphant Comeback on The West Wing."--_Time Magazine_\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Lowe''s] charming, honest, even affectionate memoir is the story of strong guts behind a strikingly handsome face...A book to recommend widely."--_Booklist_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood''s top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Outsiders\n </em>\n placed Lowe at the birth of the modern youth movement in the entertainment industry. During his time on\n <em>\n  The West Wing\n </em>\n , he witnessed the surreal nexus of show business and politics both on the set and in the actual White House. And in between are deft and humorous stories of the wild excesses that marked the eighties, leading to his quest for family and sobriety.\n</p>\n<p>\n Never mean-spirited or salacious, Lowe delivers unexpected glimpses into his successes, disappointments, relationships, and one-of-a-kind encounters with people who shaped our world over the last twenty-five years. These stories are as entertaining as they are unforgettable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2011'),
(7582, 'Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography', 'Rob Lowe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eyeA teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood''s top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood. The Outsiders placed Lowe at the birth of the modern youth movement in the entertainment industry. During his time on The West Wing, he witnessed the surreal nexus of show business and politics both on the set and in the actual White House. And in between are deft and humorous stories of the wild excesses that marked the eighties, leading to his quest for family and sobriety. Never mean-spirited or salacious, Lowe delivers unexpected glimpses into his successes, disappointments, relationships, and one-of-a-kind encounters with people who shaped our world over the last twenty-five years. These stories are as entertaining as they are unforgettable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3082'),
(7583, 'The Storm of War', 'Andrew Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  From "Britain''s finest military historian" (\n  <em>\n   The Economist\n  </em>\n  ) comes a magisterial new history of World War II and the flawed axis strategy that led to their defeat.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion, and claimed the lives of more than 50 million people. What were the factors that affected the war''s outcome? Why did the Axis lose? And could they, with a different strategy, have won? Andrew Roberts''s acclaimed new history has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic con?ict. From the western front to North Africa, from the Baltic to the Far East, he tells the story of the warÂ—the grand strategy and the individual experience, the cruelty and the heroismÂ—as never before.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In researching this magnificently vivid history, Roberts walked many of the key battlefields and wartime sites in Russia, France, Italy, Germany, and the Far East, and drew on a number of never-before-published documents, such as a letter from Hitler''s director of military operations explaining the reasoning behind the FÃ¼hrer''s order to halt the Panzers outside DunkirkÂ—a delay that enabled British forces to evacuate. Roberts illuminates the principal actors on both sides and analyzes how they reached critical decisions. He also presents the tales of many little-known individuals whose experiences form a panoply of the extraordinary courage and self-sacrifice, as well as the terrible depravity and cruelty, of the Second World War.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meticulously researched and masterfully written,\n  <em>\n   The Storm of War\n  </em>\n  gives a dramatic account of this momentous event and shows in remarkable detail why the war took the course it did.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2334'),
(7584, 'Storm Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. At the start of bestseller Sandford''s superb 20th Lucas Davenport thriller (after\n  <em>\n   Wicked Prey\n  </em>\n  ), the getaway vehicle from a botched early morning robbery, which results in a pharmacy employee''s death, almost collides with the car driven by Lucas''s surgeon wife, Weather Karkinnen. Weather, who was on her way to work at the Minnesota Medical Research Center, becomes a key witness. Sandford masterfully handles both sides of the equation as the thievesâ€”planner Lyle Mack, his brother, Joe, and their henchmenâ€”work to cover their crime. The investigation belongs to Minneapolis deputy chief Marcy Sherrill, but Lucas of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension pulls out all the stops to protect his wife. Sandford creates additional drama throughout as Weather and a skilled team of doctors perform an operation to separate twins joined at the skull. Sharply drawn characters, intricate plotting, and smooth dialogue make this a sure-fire winner.\n  <em>\n   500,000 first printing; author tour. (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It was an inside job, and it should have been easy. Rob the pharmacy at Minneapolisâ€™ largest hospital: in, out, wait till things cool down, and then sell the drugs for a half million or so. But the old man had to be a hero. Who knew heâ€™d be on blood thinners and die after he was kicked? A robbery turned murder means Lucas Davenport and his Bureau of Criminal Apprehension team are called in to assist the investigation. Thereâ€™s another element to the case for Davenport: his wife, Weather, a surgeon at the hospital, may be able to identify one of the killers. The case starts to escalate. An attempt is made on Weatherâ€™s life. The bodies of two motorcycle gang members are found in a rural area. Davenport guesses the gang is imploding from the pressure and murdering its members. Weather, under 24-hour guard, is part of a surgical team working to separate conjoined twins in a procedure thatâ€™s captured the attention of the worldâ€™s media. Meanwhile, Davenport and his team keep finding bodies of likely robbers but canâ€™t seem to isolate either the brains behind the theft or the hospital insider who pointed them at the pharmacy. The twenty-second Prey novel includes most of the elements readers expect: sharp plot, snappy dialogue, and believable action, but the background playfulness and gallows humor that usually fill in the gaps are in short supply. But hey, thatâ€™s nitpicking. On balance, this is another fine entry in a wildly popular series. --Wes Lukowsky\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/699'),
(7585, 'Storm Warning', 'Linda Sue Park', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n JOIN ANYTIME TO PLAY FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN!  Throughout the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan have encountered some of the darkest aspects of history . . . and had to deal with the role their family played. But are they ready for the truth? In this thrilling ninth installment, Amy and Dan hit the high seas as they follow the trail of some infamous ancestors to track down a long lost treasure. However, the real prize isn\\\\u2019t hidden in a chest. It''s the discovery of the Madrigals'' most dangerous secret and, even more shockingly, the true identity of the mysterious man in black.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2984'),
(7586, 'The Story of Edgar Sawtelle', 'David Wroblewski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A riveting family saga,The Story of Edgar Sawtelleexplores the deep and ancient alliance between humans and dogs, and the power of fate through one boyâ€™s epic journey into the wild. Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar''s lifelong companion. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar''s uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelle''s once-peaceful home. When Edgar''s father dies suddenly, Claude insinuates himself into the life of the farm â€“ and into Edgar''s motherâ€™s affections. Grief-stricken and bewildered, Edgar tries to prove Claude played a role in his father''s death, but his plan backfires, spectacularly. Edgar flees into the vast wilderness lying beyond the farm. He comes of age in the wild, fighting for his survival and that of the three yearling dogs who follow him. But his need to face his fatherâ€™s murderer, and his devotion to the Sawtelle dogs, turn Edgar ever homeward. Wroblewski is a master storyteller, and his breathtaking scenes â€“ the elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a ghost made of falling rain â€“ create a family saga that is at once a brilliantly inventive retelling of Hamlet, an exploration of the limits of language, and a compulsively readable modern classic. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3565'),
(7587, 'Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper', 'Art Pepper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Art Pepper (1925â€“1982) was called the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But his autobiography,\n  <em>\n   Straight Life\n  </em>\n  , is much more than a jazz bookâ€”it is one of the most explosive, yet one of the most lyrical, of all autobiographies. This edition is updated with an extensive afterword by Laurie Pepper covering Art Pepperâ€™s last years, and a complete and up-to-date discography by Todd Selbert.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2014'),
(7588, 'The Strain', 'Guillermo Del Toro', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009:\n  </strong>\n  Who better to reinvent the vampire genre than Guillermo Del Toro, the genius behind\n  <em>\n   Pan''s Labyrinth\n  </em>\n  , and Chuck Hogan, master of character-driven thrillers like\n  <em>\n   Prince of Thieves\n  </em>\n  ? The first of a trilogy,\n  <em>\n   The Strain\n  </em>\n  is everything you want from a horror novel--dark, bloody, and packed full of mayhem and mythology. But, be forewarned, these are not like any vampires you''ve met before--they''re not sexy or star-crossed or "vegetarians"--they are hungry, they are connected, and they are multiplying. The vampire virus marches its way across New York, and all that stands between us and a grotesque end are a couple of scientists, an old man with a decades-old vendetta, and a young boy. This first installment moves fast and sets up the major players, counting down to the beginning of the end. Great summer reading. --\n  <em>\n   Daphne Durham\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning\n   <em>\n    Pan''s Labyrinth\n   </em>\n   and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    The Strain\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   In two months--the world.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city--a city that includes his wife and son--before it is too late.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Strain\n   </em>\n   : Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Once upon a time," said Abraham Setrakianâ€™s grandmother, "there was a giant."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Young Abrahamâ€™s eyes brightened, and immediately the cabbage borscht in the wooden bowl got tastier, or at least less garlicky. He was a pale boy, underweight and sickly. His grandmother, intent on fattening him, sat across from him while he ate his soup, entertaining him by spinning a yarn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A\n  <em>\n   bubbeh meiseh\n  </em>\n  , a "grandmotherâ€™s story." A fairy tale. A legend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He was the son of a Polish nobleman. And his name was Jusef Sardu. Master Sardu stood taller than any other man. Taller than any roof in the village. He had to bow deeply to enter any door. But his great height, it was a burden. A disease of birth, not a blessing. The young man suffered. His muscles lacked the strength to support his long, heavy bones. At times it was a struggle for him just to walk. He used a cane, a tall stick--taller than you--with a silver handle carved into the shape of a wolfâ€™s head, which was the family crest."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, Bubbeh?" said Abraham, between spoonfuls.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This was his lot in life, and it taught him humility, which is a rare thing indeed for a nobleman to possess. He had so much compassion-- for the poor, for the hardworking, for the sick. He was especially dear to the children of the village, and his great, deep pockets--the size of turnip sacks--bulged with trinkets and sweets. He had not much of a childhood himself, matching his fatherâ€™s height at the age of eight, and surpassing him by a head at age nine. His frailty and his great size were a secret source of shame to his father. But Master Sardu truly was a gentle giant, and much beloved by his people. It was said of him that Master Sardu looked down on everyone, yet looked down on no one."\n </p>\n <p>\n  She nodded at him, reminding him to take another spoonful. He chewed a boiled red beet, known as a "baby heart" because of its color, its shape, its capillary-like strings. "Yes, Bubbeh?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He was also a lover of nature, and had no interest in the brutality of the hunt--but, as a nobleman and a man of rank, at the age of fifteen his father and his uncles prevailed upon him to accompany them on a six-week expedition to Romania."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "To here, Bubbeh?" said Abraham. "The giant, he came here?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "To the north country,\n  <em>\n   kaddishel\n  </em>\n  . The dark forests. The Sardu men, they did not come to hunt wild pig or bear or elk. They came to hunt wolf, the family symbol, the arms of the house of Sardu. They were hunting a hunting animal. Sardu family lore said that eating wolf meat gave Sardu men courage and strength, and the young masterâ€™s father believed that this might cure his sonâ€™s weak muscles."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, Bubbeh?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Their trek was long and arduous, as well as violently opposed by the weather, and Jusef struggled mightily. He had never before traveled anywhere outside his familyâ€™s village, and the looks he received from strangers along the journey shamed him. When they arrived in the dark forest, the woodlands felt alive around him. Packs of animals roamed the woods at night, almost like refugees displaced from their shelters, their dens, nests, and lairs. So many animals that the hunters were unable to sleep at night in their camp. Some wanted to leave, but the elder Sarduâ€™s obsession came before all else. They could hear the wolves, crying in the night, and he wanted one badly for his son, his only son, whose gigantism was a pox upon the Sardu line. He wanted to cleanse the house of Sardu of this curse, to marry off his son, and produce many healthy heirs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "And so it was that his father, off tracking a wolf, was the first to become separated from the others, just before nightfall on the second evening. The rest waited for him all night, and spread out to search for him after sunrise. And so it was that one of Jusefâ€™s cousins failed to return that evening. And so on, you see."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, Bubbeh?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Until the only one left was Jusef, the boy giant. That next day he set out, and in an area previously searched, discovered the body of his father, and of all his cousins and uncles, laid out at the entrance to an underground cave. Their skulls had been crushed with great force, but their bodies remained uneaten--killed by a beast of tremendous strength, yet not out of hunger or fear. For what reason, he could not guessâ€”though he did feel himself being watched, perhaps even studied, by some being lurking within that dark cave.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Master Sardu carried each body away from the cave and buried them deep. Of course, this exertion severely weakened him, taking most of his strength. He was spent, he was\n  <em>\n   farmutshet\n  </em>\n  . And yet, alone and scared and exhausted, he returned to the cave that night, to face what evil revealed itself after dark, to avenge his forebears or die trying. This is known from a diary he kept, discovered in the woods many years later. This was his last entry."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Continue Reading *The Strain\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Director Del Toro (who won an Oscar for\n  <em>\n   Pan''s Labyrinth\n  </em>\n  ) makes a dramatic splash in his fiction debut, the first volume in a vampires vs. humanity trilogy, coauthored with Hogan (\n  <em>\n   Prince of Thieves\n  </em>\n  ). Just as a jumbo jet on a flight from Germany to New York is touching down at JFK, something goes terribly wrong. When Ephraim Goodweather, of the Centers for Disease Control, investigates the darkened plane, he finds all but four passengers and crew dead, drained of blood. Despite Goodweather''s efforts to keep the survivors segregated, they get discharged into the general population. Soon after, the corpses of the tragedy''s victims disappear. The epidemiologist begins to credit the wild stories of Abraham Setrakian, an elderly pawnbroker who''s the book''s Van Helsing figure, and concludes that a master vampire has arrived in the U.S. The authors maintain the suspense and tension throughout in a tour de force reminiscent of Whitley Strieber''s early work.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/586'),
(7589, 'Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System', 'Ray Jayawardhana', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "He takes the reader on a four-century-long scientific quest to discover our place in the universe, beginning with the Copernican hypothesis and Galileo''s discovery of four of Jupiter''s planets. . . . An exciting, highly readable glimpse into a discovery that could have broad scientific and cultural implications."--PublishersWeekly.com (starred review)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œJayawardhana is among a posse of cosmic cowboys mapping the space frontier... His work and that of others is discussed in\n  <em>\n   Strange New Worlds\n  </em>\n  , a science book written in a lively way for star-struck laymen.â€ --Toronto Star\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Everything you need to know about alien planet discovery is insightfully described in this engaging book..." - Library Journal (starred review)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith the seemingly endless stream of news about discoveries of alien planets, it''s easy to forget that just 20 years ago exoplanets were no more than theoretical possibilities. Now astronomer Ray Jayawardhana tells the story of how the dramatic hunt has unfolded, from the early days of stellar astronomy to present-day speculation about life outside our solar system.â€ -- New Scientist\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œProfessor Jayawardhana is an award-winning science writer and an eminent planet-hunter, and so is the perfect person to write an accessible guidebook to the new worlds we''re discovering in our galaxy. He explains how many of those discovered so far are pretty exotic, bloated and massive or scorchingly close to their sun, and how we''ve even had our first weather report for another world. But what''s most exciting is that this book explains how we now have within our grasp the ability to spot a true twin of Earth.â€ -- BBC Focus\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Anyone scanning the shelves today to learn about such urgent news from the universe should go directly ''J'' and take down Ray Jayawardhana''s Strange New Worlds. It begins with early speculation by ancient thinkers but moves quickly to a series of seemingly promising discoveries, beginning 160 years ago, that raised researchers'' hopes only to frustrate them. . . . [R]eading Strange New Worlds, I felt the thrill of briefly sharing in the efforts of these planet-seeking scientists and seeing the universe through their eyes."--Mike Brown, Wall Street Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We are in the midst of a veritable golden age of discovery... Ray Jayawardhana provides here a dramatic account of how this story has unfolded over the years - and you won''t find a more able guide for the journey. He is an eminent astrophysicist and planet hunter himself, and is an award-winning science writer. This combination of the insider''s expert perspective and storyteller''s skill really shines through in Strange New Worlds." -- Times Higher Education\n </p>\n <p>\n  "In Strange New Worlds, Ray Jayawardhana surveys how 15 years of exoplanet discovery has changed astrophysics... His lucid and effortless prose makes for an engaging read." - Chris Tinney, Nature\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Are we alone in the universe? The question is no longer unanswerable. Ray Jayawardhana, an astrophysicist and writer, vividly recounts the advances behind an extraordinary age of exploration." -- The Australian\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A readily accessible account of the increasingly successful search for other planets" - Harvard Magazine\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/453'),
(7590, 'A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s', 'Stephanie Coontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Nearly 50 years after Betty Friedan transformed the lives of American housewives, Coontz (Marriage, a History, 2005) offers a biography of Friedanâ€™s seminal book, The Feminine Mystique (1963). Coupling meticulous research with first-person interviews, Coontz challenges a number of Friedanâ€™s assumptions and exaggerations while also revisiting the climate in which the work appeared and giving voice to women for whom The Feminine Mystique was nothing short of a lifesaver. Though critical of the work on a number of fronts, including its omission of working-class and minority women, Coontz lauds other aspects of The Feminine Mystique, such as its condemnation of mainstream psychiatry, which promoted the notion that women had no need to search for meaning in their lives beyond their roles as wives and mothers. As women continue to struggle with the effort to balance life and work, Coontz argues that The Feminine Mystique remains as relevant today as it when it first appeared. In tracing the roots of current discontents, which Coontz dubs the â€œSupermom Mystique,â€ her book is no less required reading than Friedanâ€™s trailblazer. --Patty Wetli\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œA sharp revisiting of the generation that was floored by Betty Friedanâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  (1963), and how the book is still relevant todayâ€¦. A valuable education for women\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  men.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Daniel Horowitz, author ofÂ _Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_It Changed My Life _was the title of the book Betty Friedan wrote after her transformative 1963\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  . And change she did the lives of American women. Now in her biography of a classic, Stephanie Coontz imaginatively explores the impact of Friedanâ€™s book. Weaving a rich fabric from what women said in letters and interviews, from articles in popular magazines, current scholarship, and her own astute reading of the 1963 work, Coontz compellingly reveals how generations of womenâ€”from the flappers of the 1920s to the bloggers and helicopter moms of todayâ€”have responded to the challenges modern women face.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Christie Hefner, former chairman and chief executive officer of Playboy Enterprises and longest serving female C.E.O. of a U.S. public company\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs was written about\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   A Strange Stirring\n  </em>\n  is â€˜a journalistic tour de force, combining scholarship, investigative reporting and a compelling personal voice.â€™ Stephanie Coontz has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the most transformative movement of our lifetimes. Much of what Coontz reports regarding the prevailing ethos of the 1950s as a time of conformity, cultural conservatism and social repressiveness will be fascinating and eye-opening for younger readers. This book is a must read for men as well as for women. And the transformational desire for a work/family balance in life is now reflected not just by gender, but by generation, as both men and women â€˜need to grow and fulfill their potentialities as human beings,â€™ as Friedan wrote almost a half a century ago.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Elizabeth Gilbert, author ofÂ _Eat, Pray, Love_\n  </strong>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œStephanie Coontz is not just one of the most important historians in America, she is also a personal hero of mine and a brilliant writer. This bookâ€”like all her books before itâ€”has been a marvel and education for me to behold. I am awed by the scope of this research, of this thinking, and I am struck once more by how much there is learned (and taught) about the slow, stubborn advancement of women in America over the last one hundred years. I will keep\n  <em>\n   A Strange Stirring\n  </em>\n  in the forefront of my bookshelf forever.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Library Journal\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œCoontz recaptures the impact of Betty Friedanâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  when it was published in 1963. Although Friedan claimed credit for initiating the modern feminist movement, Coontz places the book more dispassionately in its historical context as one of many factors working against entrenched gender roles. Still, Coontz demonstrates persuasively that women readers from many backgrounds found reliefâ€”some called it life-savingâ€”in knowing that they were not crazy and not alone in their need to find some work independent of their family roles.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Donna L. Franklin, author ofÂ _Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis book offers a nuanced perspective on the womenâ€™s movement by ending the invisibility of African-American women.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Nancy F. Cott, Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œStephanie Coontzâ€™s new book takes you on an engrossing and enlightening tour of the past, with wisdom and meaning for the future.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John Bradshaw, author ofÂ _Reclaiming Virtue_Â and the #1Â _New York Times_Â bestsellers,Â _Homecoming_Â andÂ _Creating Love_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œStephanie Coontz continues to amaze me. In her new book,\n  <em>\n   A Strange Stirring\n  </em>\n  , she chronicles the untold story of some of Americaâ€™s greatest pioneers. This is a must read for all who care about our countryâ€™s growth and maturity. We owe the women described here the same gratitude and respect given to Lewis and Clark and the others who carved out this great nation.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Bitch Magazine\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œAs the author of several books that challenge the accepted historical narrative of â€˜traditionalâ€™ families and institutionsâ€¦Coontz soberly checks facts, corrects misinformation, and fills in holes in the record. Most important, she shows how assumptions and misinformation about the past are used not only to paint a distorted picture of how things used to be, but to justify insidious policies and legislation like the Defense of Marriage Act. In her latest workâ€¦Coontz focuses on a book weâ€™ve come to take for granted, arguing that it deserves a closer lookâ€¦. [S]he not only explores the actual content of\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  (going well beyond the usual proclamations about its controversiality and importance), but insists that readers (and, presumably, feminists) figure out how to reconcile our idealized version of history with information that complicates it.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œThis perceptive [and] engrossingâ€¦book provides welcome context and background to a still controversial bestseller that changed how women viewed themselves.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œCoupling meticulous research with first-person interviews, Coontz challenges a number of Friedanâ€™s assumptions and exaggerations while also revisiting the climate in which the work appeared and giving voice to women for whom\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  was nothing short of a lifesaverâ€¦. As women continue to struggle with the effort to balance life and work, Coontz argues that\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  remains as relevant today as when it first appeared. In tracing the roots of current discontents, which Coontz dubs the â€˜Supermom Mystique,â€™ her book is no less required reading than Friedanâ€™s trailblazer.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Daily Beast\n  </em>\n  , â€œThis Weekâ€™s Hot Readsâ€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œA thoughtful reappraisal of Betty Friedanâ€™s 1960s classic â€“ and a meditation on the ever-evolving role of women in American society.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Christine Whelan,Â _HuffingtonPost_\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œ[An] excellent new social history of the impact of Betty Friedanâ€™s landmark book on American womenâ€¦. Coontz is the rare social historian who knows how to weave meticulous research into a compelling narrative of our not-too-distant pastâ€¦.\n  <em>\n   A Strange Stirring\n  </em>\n  is, in many ways, better than the original. Today the problem has been named, and\n  <em>\n   A Strange Stirring\n  </em>\n  offers poignant personal reactions, accessible history and present-day comparisons to give voice to the modern quest for gender equality.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    BUST\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œ[E]xcellent, eminently readableâ€¦. Coontzâ€™s â€˜demystifyingâ€™ of both the era and Friedan is an erudite, even-handed look at the explosive feminist undercurrents of the era.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Louis Menand,Â _The New Yorker_\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œ[A] useful revisiting of Friedanâ€™s book.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York Times Book Review\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œ[A] timely contribution to the conversation about what constitutes progress for women (and for which women) in these days of mommy wars and mama grizzliesâ€¦. By considering\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  as one sturdy strand in the complex arguments weâ€™re engaged in to this day, Coontz does Friedan the tremendous favor of pulling her down from heaven and up from hellâ€¦. [I]tâ€™s a relief to have the level-headed Coontz providing perspective and taking Friedanâ€™s work and legacy for what it was: stirring, strange, complicated and crucial.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Salon.com\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€œ\n  </em>\n  A Strange Stirring_ gives voice to women whose lives were transformed by Friedanâ€™s book, but most compellingly, it sets the historical record straight as far as its impact on families.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Wall Street Journal\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[S]ocial historian Stephanie Coontzâ€¦takes a fresh look at\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  by examining its effect on the bookâ€™s original readersâ€¦. Ms. Coontz usefully debunks some of the myths that have grown up around\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  and Friedanâ€¦. [A]n illuminating analysis of the book that helped launch the movement that freed women to participate more fully in American society.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Bookforum.com\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œCoontz reconciles Friedanâ€™s flawed text with its seemingly outsized influence, and deftly depicts the social context for the dramatic testimonials uncovered in Coontzâ€™s research, the revelatory proto-feminist experiences shared by women of her motherâ€™s generationâ€¦. [Coontzâ€™s] clear-eyed review of the social data and cultural contradictions of the timeâ€¦comprise a fascinating and important study.\n  <em>\n   A Strange Stirring\n  </em>\n  â€¦is a book of rigor and undeceiving, one worthy of Friedanâ€™s tradition.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _The Buffalo News\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œFor some of us, this is a jolting â€˜remember when;â€™ for others, a slice of history forgotten all too soon. For all of us, there remains relevance.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Bookpage\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPacked with fascinating statistics and research on 20th-century American social history, including the effect of â€˜liberationâ€™ on middle-class, working-class and African-American women, Coontz shines new light on a landmark work.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Seattle\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  _Â Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œThis book enriches Coontzâ€™s impressive body of work on American family lifeâ€¦. She continues to deftly make history a personal science, persuading readers to ponder those societal yokes weâ€™ve taken up to wear around our own necksâ€¦.Â _A Strange Stirring_Â reveals the power of two writers; both are able to see beyond the conventional view and the untold history, and enable the reader to look ahead with new eyes and new questions.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _Ladies Home Journal\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œA fascinating examination of Friedanâ€™s much-misunderstood classic,Â _A Strange Stirring_Â should be required reading for any young woman today who believes that sheâ€™s â€˜not a feminist.â€™ Not only does Stephanie movingly recount how revelatoryÂ _The Feminine Mystique_Â was to the millions of discontented housewives who read it, but she also details â€“ with examples that had me shaking my head in stupefaction â€“ the unbridled sexism that characterized life circa 1963.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Michelle Goldberg,\n   <em>\n    The New Republic\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œCoontz recounts the catalytic effect that\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  had on a great many women. Her book is full of stories of desperate, suffering people who realized they werenâ€™t crazy only when they picked up Friedanâ€™s bestsellerâ€¦. But\n  <em>\n   The Feminine Mystique\n  </em>\n  is not just an artifact of a benighted era. It still contains important lessons about one of the most important questions of all, which is how to create a meaningful, autonomous life.â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2201');
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(7591, 'The Stranger You Seek', 'Amanda Kyle Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Tess Gerritsen on *The Stranger You Seek\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   *Tess Gerritsen\n  </strong>\n  is a physician as well as the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  best-selling author of medical thrillers and the Jane Rizzoli crime thrillers. Her latest book in the Rizzoli &amp; Isles series,\n  <em>\n   The Silent Girl\n  </em>\n  , is available now. *\n </p>\n <p>\n  Southern crime novels are a breed apart because of the weather. The heat is always a little more sweltering, the humidity always making everyone sweat just a bit more than their northern counterparts. There are the great New Orleans novels by James Lee Burke, and there is the Florida gang. There are even a few who set their most terrifying thrillers in the backwoods and bayous. For genuine heat, though, nothing beats Atlanta, a jewel of a city and the setting for Amanda Kyle Williamsâ€™s blistering debut thriller,\n  <em>\n   The Stranger You Seek\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Keye Street immediately puts herself in the top echelon of suspense heroes. Sheâ€™s a mess of fascinating contradictionsâ€”effortlessly brilliant on a case, totally inept in managing her own life. She is brutally funny and powerfully human. Williams has created one of the most realistic protagonists in crime fiction that Iâ€™ve had the thrill to read.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Of course, a southern crime novel needs a great villain, someone who amidst all this heat gets people running.\n  <em>\n   The Stranger You Seek\n  </em>\n  has a heck of a monster on the loose, a killer who is terrorizing Atlanta, taunting the police, and who seems a little too close to Keye to be just the stranger she seeks.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Advance praise for *The Stranger You Seek\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€œAn exceptionally smart, harrowing, and funny character-driven debut by a welcome new thriller writer.â€â€”\n  </em>\n  New York Times\n  <em>\n   bestselling author Karin Slaughter\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€œThereâ€™s a new voice in Atlanta, and her name is Amanda Kyle Williams. A dark, gritty thriller,\n  </em>\n  The Stranger You Seek\n  <em>\n   is a sensational debut. Readers will relish this storyâ€™s many captivating, powerful, and compelling layers.â€â€”\n  </em>\n  New York Times* bestselling author Julia Spencer-Fleming\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ\n  <em>\n   The Stranger You Seek\n  </em>\n  is a page-turning thrill ride from a writer with a sure hand, keen psychological insight, and a devious imagination. Keye Street is my kind of detective: complicated, savvy, flawed, and blessed with a sharply observant dark wit. This is a great read from a powerful new voice.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œFrom its chilling first page,\n  <em>\n   The Stranger You Seek\n  </em>\n  hurtles heroine Keye Street into a race against time that crosses the finish line with a satisfying twist, leaving readers breathlessly waiting for the next installment.â€â€”\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ\n  <em>\n   The Stranger You Seek\n  </em>\n  is filled with rich, evocative prose that transports you straight to the South and right into the psyche of new heroine Keye Street. Sheâ€™s formidable, but poignantly human as she struggles to navigate her present while battling shadows of her past. You can almost feel the Georgia humidity when you read this book, but youâ€™ll definitely feel the heat when the victims of a calculating, relentless serial killer start stacking up. This book burns rubber to the end, so carve out some downtime, because you wonâ€™t want to leave Keye hanging.â€â€”PJ Tracy, author of the Monkeewrench series\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œKeye Street is a kic...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/624'),
(7592, 'Strangers in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In bestseller Robb''s slick 26th not-so-near-future crime thriller to feature Lt. Eve Dallas (after 2007''s\n  <em>\n   Creation in Death\n  </em>\n  ), the New York City homicide cop investigates the murder of business tycoon Thomas Anders, whose strangled body is discovered tied to his bed, apparently the victim of a kinky sex encounter gone bad. Aided by her mysterious husband, Roarke, and long-time sidekick Det. Delia Peabody, Eve doggedly questions Anders''s widow, Ava, and his nephew, Benedict Forrest, number two at the victim''s corporation, Anders Worldwide. Both Ava and Benedict have alibis that put them far from the crime scene at the time of Anders''s death. While the guilty party soon becomes obvious and the gimmick used by the culprit clear to anyone familiar with\n  <em>\n   Strangers on a Train\n  </em>\n  , Robb''s strong, hard-nosed heroine once again generates the kind of heat that keeps fans turning the pages.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The new novel in the #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   -bestselling series.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Technology may be different in 2060 New York, yet the city is still a place of many cultures and great divides. But as ever, some murders receive more attention than others-especially those in which the victim is a prominent businessman, found in his Park Avenue apartment, tied to the bed-and strangled- with cords of black velvet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It doesn''t surprise Lieutenant Eve Dallas that Thomas Anders''s scandalous death is a source of titillation and speculation to the public-and of humiliation to his family. But while people in the city are talking about it, those close to Anders aren''t so anxious to do the same. With some help from her billionaire husband, Roarke, Eve''s soon knocking on doors-or barging through them-to find answers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the facts don''t add up. Physical evidence suggests that the victim didn''t struggle. The security breach in the apartment indicates that the killer was someone known to the family, but everyone''s alibi checks out. Was this a crime of passion in a kinky game gone wrong-or a meticulously planned execution? It''s up to Dallas to solve a case in which strangers may be connected in unexpected, and deadly, ways.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3313'),
(7593, 'The Strangers on Montagu Street', 'Karen White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Psychic realtor Melanie Middleton returns-only to be greeted by a house full of lost souls.  Psychic realtor Melanie Middleton is still restoring her Charleston house and doesn''t expect to have a new houseguest, a teen girl named Nola. But the girl didn''t come alone, and the spirits that accompanied Nola don''t seem willing to leave...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/915'),
(7594, 'Strategic Moves', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n While enjoying dinner at Elaine''s, attorney Stone Barrington is shocked when his boss arrives unannounced and hands him a check worth one million dollars. The money is from Stone''s new client, who is connected to Stone''s undercover dealing with the British MI6. But just as he accepts the case, he learns that his client might be behind an elaborate Ponzi scheme, the magnitude of which could destroy even Stone''s decorated career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2687'),
(7595, 'The Street Lawyer', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Grisham is back with his latest courtroom conundrum,\n <em>\n  The Street Lawyer\n </em>\n . This time the lord of legal thrillers dives deep into the world of the homeless, particularly their barely audible legal voice in a world dominated by large, all-powerful law firms. Our hero, Michael Brock, is on the fast track to partnership at D.C.''s premier law firm, Sweeny &amp; Drake. His dream of someday raking in a million-plus a year is finally within reach. Nothing can stop him, not even 90-hour workweeks and a failing marriage--until he meets DeVon Hardy, a.k.a. "Mister," a Vietnam vet with a grudge against his landlord--and a few lawyers to fry. Hardy, with no clear motive, takes Brock and eight of his colleagues hostage in a boardroom, demanding their tax returns and interrogating them with a conviction that would have put perpetrators of the Spanish Inquisition to shame. Hardy, a man of few words and a lot of ammunition, mumbles cryptically, "Who are the evictors?" as he points a .44 automatic within inches of Brock''s face. The violent outcome of the hostage situation triggers an abrupt soul-searching for the young lawyer, and Hardy''s mysterious question continues to haunt him. Brock learns that Hardy had been in and out of homeless shelters most of his life, but he had recently begun paying rent in a rundown building; that means he has legal recourse when a big money-making outfit such as Sweeny &amp; Drake boots him with no warning. When Brock realizes that his profession caters to the morally challenged, he sets out on an aimless search through the dicier side of D.C., ending up at the 14th Street Legal Clinic. The clinic''s director, a gargantuan man named Mordecai Green, woos Brock to the clinic with a $90,000 cut in pay and the chance to redeem his soul. Brock takes it--and some of the story''s credibility along with it; it''s hard to believe that a Yale graduate who sacrificed everything--including his marriage--to succeed in the legal profession would quickly jump at the opportunity for low-paying, charitable work. However, Brock''s search for corruption in the swanky upper echelons of Sweeny &amp; Drake (via the toughest streets of D.C.) is filled with colorful characters and realistic, gritty descriptions. In the\n <em>\n  The Street Lawyer\n </em>\n , Grisham once again defends the voiceless and powerless. In the words of Mordecai Green, "That''s justice, Michael. That''s what street law is all about. Dignity."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n America''s most popular author is arguably its most popular crusader as well, tilting his pen against myriad targets, including big law (The Firm, etc.), big tobacco (The Runaway Jury), big insurance (The Rainmaker) and now, in perhaps his sweetest, shortest novel, against anyone, big or little, who treats the homeless as less than human. The expected powerhouse opening involves the hostage-taking?by an armed, homeless man who calls himself Mister?of nine attorneys of a huge law firm headquartered in D.C. Among the nine is narrator Michael Brock, an antitrust lawyer who receives a faceful of blood when a police sniper blows away Mister''s head. "I''m alive! I''m alive," Michael cries like Ebenezer Scrooge, but, like Scrooge, this greedy hotshot is ripe for a moral awakening. The next day, Michael visits the shabby offices of Mister''s attorney, Mordecai Green, who explains that Mister and others had been illegally evicted from makeshift housing on orders from a real-estate development company represented by Michael''s firm. Inspired by Green and shaken by his firm''s complicity, Michael volunteers at a homeless shelter. When a family he meets there dies on the street, and turns out to have been among the evictees, Michael quits his job, goes to work for Green and, using as evidence a file he steals from the firm, aims to sue his former employer on behalf of the evictees. In turn, the firm places Michael in its crosshairs, pressuring him to give up the file through legal maneuvers, having him arrested and hints of darker means. The cat-and-mouse between Michael and the firm is vintage Grisham, intricately plotted, but the emphasis in this smoothly told, baldly manipulative tale is less on action and suspense, which are moderate, than on Michael''s change of heart and moving exploration of the world of the homeless. Dickens would be well pleased, and so will Grisham''s fans. 2.8 million first printing.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1237'),
(7596, 'Strip Jack', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Strip Jack is a 1992 crime novel by Ian Rankin. It is the fourth of the Inspector Rebus novels. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   In the article:\n  </strong>\n  Plot summary | Connections to other Rankin books | Writing Strip Jack\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For all the right reasons, Edinburgh Detective Inspector John Rebus calls for comparison with Colin Dexter''s Oxford copper Inspector Morse. Both spend a lot of time in pubs and bemoan the onset of middle age; each is a shrewd detective with a literary bent who operates in an academic town where clashes of culture beget victims. When much-loved politician Gregor Jack is discovered in a midnight raid on a discreet brothel, a surprising number of journalists are on hand--a situation that endangers Jack''s political future. Jack''s wealthy wife Elizabeth, a noted partygoer whose friends are equally well-heeled and hedonistic, can''t be found. Her body is soon pulled from a nearby river, a fatality mirroring the recent murder of another, unidentified, woman. A drunk who brags of the first killing gives a false address and vanishes north of the city. Meanwhile Rebus, trying to trace a cache of valuable stolen books, finds himself talking again to the late Elizabeth''s coterie of party friends. Rankin creates a living, breathing world in which his weary protagonist tackles his cases while involved in the intricacies of the day-to-day: pints and hangovers, stumbling romance, wet weather, damp clothes, tricky superiors and wide-eyed subordinates. All are brought to bear, yet all are ultimately jettisoned as Rebus closes in on the satisfying solution.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/456'),
(7597, 'Strip Tease', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Murder, politics, and G-strings collide in this caper from the bestselling author of Tourist Season. Hilarity and chaos break out in a strip joint when a bachelor party gets out of hand, making the drunken guest of honor a threat to "big money" and "big government."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/459'),
(7598, 'Stunning', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four stunningly beautiful girls are haunted by a very ugly past. Spencer, Aria, Hanna, and Emily want nothing more than to forget Alison DiLaurentis, their former best friend who tried to ruin their lives. But someone refuses to let her memory die. A is still out there, lurking in the shadows and digging up the pretty little liars'' newest secrets. Emily''s reconnecting with an old flame, one baby step at a time. But is she headed toward true love or another bundle of heartache? Spencer''s learning about the highs and lows of campus life on a trip to Princeton. Aria''s seeing a whole new side to Noel''s dad''and it could drive a wedge between her and Noel. And, for better or worse, Hanna''s getting in touch with her inner A. Secret by secret, lie by lie, the girls get tangled in A''s dangerous web. A knows about everything, from their tiniest transgressions to the awful incident in Jamaica. Soon A will have enough ammunition to pull the trigger and end the pretty little liars, once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3783'),
(7599, 'Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages', 'Leland Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n If it would shock you to learn that Benjamin Franklin didn''t discover electricity, you''ll appreciate this take on hundreds of historical legends and debacles. Historians and humorists alike may be surprised to learn that:\n</p>\n<p>\n Samuel Prescott made the famous horseback ride into Concord, not Paul Revere. As a member of Parliament, Isaac Newton spoke only once. He asked for an open window. On April 24, 1898, Spain declared war on the U.S., thus starting the Spanish-American War. The U.S. declared war the very next day, but not wanting to be outdone, had the date on the declaration changed from April 25 to April 21.With these and many other stories, leading humorist Leland Gregory once again highlights both the strange and the funny side of humankind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2404'),
(7600, 'The Subtle Knife', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 1. What is wrong with Will''s mother? Are her concerns real, imagined, or both? Why and how does Will protect her? 2. What does it mean when Lyra assumes Will''s daemon is ''inside''? Do the people in Will''s world, our world, have daemons at all? 3. Why does Will''s being a murderer enable Lyra to trust him? What characters do Serafina Pekkala and Lee Scoresby decide to trust, and is their trust warranted? In what other ways does trust play an important role in this novel? 4. How has Will learned to make himself unnoticed by others? Relate this to the witches'' ability to make themselves invisible. 5. How do the Shadows that communicate with Lyra through the computer relate to dark matter and/or Dust? If Lyra can understand the Shadows as she understands the alethiometer, then is the computer also acting as a truth-giving device? What is the real origin of the Shadows'' messages? 6. On page 188, Giacomo Paradisi tells Will the rules for bearing the subtle knife. Why do you think Will must ''never open without closing''? What did Paradisi mean by ''a base purpose''? Compare these formal guidelines to the instinctive rules Lyra obeys when using the alethiometer. 7. Why is it significant that the possessors of the alethiometer and the subtle knife are children? What is the difference between innocence and experience? What has happened to Mrs. Coulter''s solders who have undergone intercision? 8. Lord Asriel is mentioned several times throughout the story, yet we never directly see him. He is planning a war that he cannot win without an object that he does not know exists. What does Lord Asriel symbolize in The Subtle Knife ? 9. What did the ''Cave'' mean when it told Dr. Malone that she must be ''the serpent''? Where do you think she is at the end of the story? Where is Lyra? 10. In what way can a knife that divides pathways between worlds and can sever bone, rock, and steel be called ''subtle''? 11. DISCUSSION TOPICS IF YOU HAVE READ THE GOLDEN COMPASS AND THE SUBTLE KNIFE In Book One, Lyra is clearly a leader. In Book Two, she seems to have become a follower, a servant to Will''s cause. Who is more powerful, Will or Lyra? Whose cause is more important? Is it the same cause? 12. Is the ''psychic death'' caused by severing the same as that caused by the Specters? Compare Tony Makarios and the servants at Bolvangar (Book One) to Tullio''s actions after Will takes the subtle knife and the final thoughts of Lena Feldt (Book Two). Relate these to the ''natural'' deaths suffered by Lee Scoresby and John Parry. 13. Armored bears, witches, severed children and adults, cliff-ghasts, Spectres, and angels are beings with spiritual qualities different from humans. Why does the authorintroduce so many creatures with alternative soul-states? 14. By the end of The Subtle Knife, we have learned that both Will''s father, John Parry/Stanislaus Grumman, and Lyra''s father, Lord Asriel, are powerful men who have traveled between worlds. Yet one is called a shaman while the other is preparing to be a general. What is the relationship between these two men? Compare it to the relationship between Will and Lyra. 15. The Golden Compass takes place in a ''closed'' world where Lyra finds guidance through her newly-found alethiometer. In The Subtle Knife , boundaries between worlds have been broken, Lyra loses her alethiometer, and Will becomes the reluctant bearer of the knife. Explore the many parallels and opposites established between The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife . How is the dualistic imagery of Lyra''s and Will''s worlds counterpointed by CittaÃ¡gazze? 16. Citing a passage from John Miltons Paradise Lost , Philip Pullman has named his trilogy ''His Dark Materials.'' How might this citation, and the novels'' emerging themes, relate to the following quote: ''The prince of darkness is a gentleman.'' - William Shakespeare (King Lear)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1316'),
(7601, 'Sudden Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Revenge is the engine which powers Sanford''s seventh "Prey" thriller starring superslick Minnesota cop Lucas Davenport. When a dangerous female bank robber is killed in a shootout, her even more dangerous husband escapes from prison and begins a campaign of retribution against the families of Davenport and his team. As always with Sandford, excellent writing is the icing on an enjoyable cake. (Other Sandford "Prey" books:\n  <strong>\n   Eyes of Prey\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n   Mind Prey\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n   Night Prey\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n   Rules of Prey\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n   Silent Prey\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n   Winter Prey\n  </strong>\n  .)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The title tells it true, and applies not only to myriad characters in Sandford''s electrifying eighth "Prey" thriller, but also to the novel''s readers. From the opening scene, in which series hero, Minneapolis cop Lucas Davenport, and his team stalk and kill a female bank robber, the story will clamp down like a bear trap on all who open its covers. That robber is Davenport''s prey, but those beloved by the cop and his men become prey in turn when the slain thief''s husband, Dick LaChaise, and his two sidekicks, all ex-bikers with militia mentalities, vow revenge unto death. Davenport, who in his spare time designs computer games that have made him wealthy, soon learns two disturbing facts: that suicidal enemies are close to unstoppable, and that his addiction to this real-life "game" is powerful enough to put even his loved ones at risk. Further problems ensue from the dangerous presence of a crooked cop, and from the refusal by Davenport''s lover, a dedicated surgeon, to take up Davenport''s offer to seclude her safely. The stakes are high, the characters rich, the action relentless-here''s a thriller that will make your hair stand on end. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and Mystery Guild main selections; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/700'),
(7602, 'Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938', 'R.A. Scotti', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Draws on period newspaper accounts, eyewitness testimony, archival footage, and weather forecasters to provide an in-depth account of the Great Hurricane of 1938, which left a trail of death and destruction across seven communities and obliterated entire communities and families. 50,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2407'),
(7603, 'Sugar and Spice', 'Lauren Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Highly entertaining.'' Heat\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sugar and Spice . . . Not everyone''s nice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fresh from being betrayed by one of her closest friends, new reality-television celebrity Jane Roberts has learned a few lessons. Most important: know who to trust. And inHollywood, that list is short.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although the press is intent on creating a tabloid war between her and ex-friend/current-costar Madison Parker, Jane just wants to take control of her life. Sheâ€™s started by swearing off guys and the drama that comes with them. But when her high school sweetheart Caleb and her unrequited L.A. crush Braden show up, both acting sweeter than ever, Jane has a hard timeremembering her no-boys rule. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her best friend, Scarlett, has only one guy on her mind: her new boyfriend, Liam. The girl who once thought love was a four-letter word is now head over heels. The problem is, being ona hit reality show means hanging out with other guys on-camera, and Liam isnâ€™t too happy with pretending to play a bit part in her love life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Just when everything feels out of control, Jane makes a shocking discoveryâ€”one that changes everyoneâ€™s definition of â€œrealityâ€ forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In her deliciously entertaining novel, television star Lauren Conrad pulls back the curtain on young Hollywood and shows that sometimes the real drama is behind the scenes.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2016'),
(7604, 'The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba&#39;s Last Tycoon', 'John Paul Rathbone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The son of a Cuban exile recounts the remarkable and contradictory life of famed sugar baron Julio Lobo, the richest man in prerevolutionary Cuba and the last of the island''s haute bourgeoisie.   Fifty years after the Cuban revolution, the legendary wealth of the sugar magnate Julio Lobo remains emblematic of a certain way of life that came to an abrupt end when Fidel Castro marched into Havana. Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Lobo was for decades the most powerful force in the world sugar market, controlling vast swathes of the island''s sugar interests. Born in 1898, the year of Cuba''s independence, Lobo''s extraordinary life mirrors, in almost lurid technicolor, the many rises and final fall of the troubled Cuban republic.  The details of Lobo''s life are fit for Hollywood. He twice cornered the international sugar market and had the largest collection of Napoleonica outside of France, including the emperor''s back teeth and death mask. He once faced a firing squad only to be pardoned at the last moment, and later survived a gangland shooting. He courted movie stars from Bette Davis to Joan Fontaine and filled the swimming pool at his sprawling estate with perfume when Esther Williams came to visit.  As Rathbone observes, such are the legends of which revolutions are made, and later justified. But Lobo was also a progressive and a philanthropist, and his genius was so widely acknowledged that Che Guevara personally offered him the position of minister of sugar in the Communist regime. When Lobo declined-knowing that their worldviews could never be compatible-his properties were nationalized, most of his fortune vanished overnight, and he left the island, never to return to his beloved Cuba.  Financial Times journalist John Paul Rathbone has been fascinated by this intoxicating, whirligig, and contradictory prerevolutionary period his entire life. His mother was also a member of Havana''s storied haute bourgeoisie and a friend of Lobo''s daughters. Woven into Lobo''s tale is her family''s experience of republic, revolution, and exile, as well as the author''s own struggle to come to grips with Cuba''s, and his family''s, turbulent history.  Prodigiously researched and imaginatively written, The Sugar King of Havana is a captivating portrait of the glittering end of an era, but also of a more hopeful Cuban past, one that might even provide a window into the island''s future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1862'),
(7605, 'The Sum of All Fears', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Once again, Tom Clancy manages to add new twists to the alternate U.S. history he initiated in\n  <em>\n   The Hunt for Red October\n  </em>\n  . In\n  <em>\n   The Sum of All Fears\n  </em>\n  , the center of conflict is the perpetual hot spot the Mideast, where a nuclear weapon falls into the hands of terrorists just as peace seems possible. Clancy realistically paints an almost unthinkable scenario--the bomb is planted on American soil in the midst of an escalation in tension with the Soviet Union; the terrorists hope to rekindle cold war animosity and prevent reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite such a dramatic story line, Clancy doesn''t neglect the individuals who drive his tale. Jack Ryan''s problems are as much domestic as they are part of the international crisis that is the ostensible narrative: National Security Director Elizabeth Elliot has the president''s ear, and she has convinced him that Ryan''s ethics are questionable. She hints at marital infidelity and an insider-trading scandal. Of course, both accusations are false, but her arguments have enough evidence behind them (e.g. some photographs of an innocent embrace with a friend) to cause a strain in the Ryans'' marriage and a flurry of media attention. While "Mr. Clark" tracks the terrorists, he also provides some needed intelligence to heal the Ryan family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Sum of All Fears\n  </em>\n  is the stuff of nightmares but contains enough verisimilitude to terrify sober minds. Ryan has matured into a complex protagonist as Clancy''s writing, too, has matured. Ryan is plagued by stress and self-doubts that test even his dauntless moral compass and make him a more interesting subject for readers'' attention. Those fascinated by military hardware, from nuclear submarines to atomic weapons, will find almost enough here to start their own army. And Clancy''s understanding of international politics seems chillingly correct.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clancy evolves from storyteller to novelist in his latest techno-thriller, as gadgets take second place to politics and personalities. In the late 1990s the world is cautiously emerging from the Cold War; even the Arab-Israeli conflict is being resolved, thanks to the cleverness of Clancy''s hero Jack Ryan. But as confrontation yields to cooperation, what becomes of displaced terrorists? Palestinians without a cause and East Germans without a country seek to rekindle U.S.-U.S.S.R. animosity. A small nuclear device is exploded at the Super Bowl; in Berlin American and Russian troops are tricked into firing on each other; residual suspicions carry the action from there. After the solution of the Middle East crisis serves as an exciting preliminary to the main plot, the novel''s middle parts seem a recycling of situations and characters from Red October and Cardinal of the Kremlin. But in the last third of the book Clancy integrates story lines, taking readers on a nonstop roller-coaster ride to a nail-biting finish. Fundamentally, Clancy is writing about a vital and elusive quality: grace under pressure. Whether terrorists or statesmen, Clancy''s characters face a common challenge--situations that break down pretensions of rank, power and ideology. Their responses, carefully and empathetically constructed, make this book compelling instead of merely ingenious.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1148'),
(7606, 'The Summer Garden', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Falling for "Maddening Moira" O''Malley was the unexpected highlight of Luke O''Brien''s Dublin holiday. So when she pays a surprise visit to Chesapeake Shores, Luke is thrilledâ€¦at first. A fling with this wild Irish rose is one thing, but forever? Maybe someday, but not when he''s totally focused on establishing a business that will prove his mettle to his overachieving family.Given Luke''s reaction, Moira has some soul-searching of her own to do. Scarred by her father''s abandonment, she wonders if Luke, with his playboy past, is truly the family man she longs for. Adding to her dilemma, she''s offered an amazing chance at a dream career of her own.Deep down, though, Moira knows home is the real prize, and that love can be every bit as enchanted as a summer garden.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3184'),
(7607, 'Summer Island', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The author of the cherished bestseller On Mystic Lake returns with a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter--the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness.Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humor. When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora''s past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic: Nora is injured in an accident and a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother. Under false pretenses, Ruby returns home to take care of the woman she hasn''t spoken to for almost a decade. Nora insists they retreat to Summer Island in the San Juans, to the lovely old house on the water where Ruby grew up, a place filled with childhood memories of love and joy and belonging. There Ruby is also reunited with her first love and his brother. Once, the three of them had been best friends, inseparable. Until the summer that Nora had left and everyone''s hearts had been broken. . . . What began as an expose evolves, as Ruby writes, into an exploration of her family''s past. Nora is not the woman Ruby has hated all these years. Witty, wise, and vulnerable, she is desperate to reconcile with her daughter. As the magazine deadline draws near and Ruby finishes what has begun to seem to her an act of brutal betrayal, she is forced to grow up and at last to look at her mother--and herself--through the eyes of a woman. And she must, finally, allow herself to love.Summer Island is a beautiful novel, funny, tender, sad, and ultimately triumphant.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/991'),
(7608, 'Summer on Blossom Street', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Knitting and life.They''re both about beginnings-and endings. That''s why Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn on Seattle''s Blossom Street, offers a class called Knit to Quit. It''s for people who want to quit something-or someone!-and start a new phase of their lives.First to join is Phoebe Rylander, who''s trying to get over a man. Alix Turner and her husband want a baby, so she has to quit smoking. And Bryan Hutchinson needs a way to deal with the stress of running his family''s business.Then there''s Lydia''s friend Anne Marie Roche. She and her adopted daughter, Ellen, have finally settled into a secure and happy routine-when a stranger appears asking questions.Meanwhile, Lydia and her husband, Brad, have their hands full with the angry, defiant twelve-year-old who unexpectedly becomes their foster childhellip;.But when your life-and your stitches-get snarled, your friends canalwayshelp!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3712'),
(7609, 'Summertime', 'J. M. Coetzee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Nobel laureate and two-time Booker-winner Coetzee has been shortlisted for the third time for this powerful novel, a semisequel to the fictionalized memoirs\n  <em>\n   Boyhood\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Youth\n  </em>\n  that takes the form of a young biographer''s interviews with colleagues of the late author John Coetzee. To Dr. Julia Frankl, who briefly sought in Coetzee deliverance from her husband, he was not fully human; to his cousin, Margot Jonker, he is boring, ridiculous and misguided; and to Sophie DenoÃ«l, an expert in African literature, Coetzee is an underwhelming writer with no original insight into the human condition. The harshest characterizationâ€”and also the best of the interviewsâ€”comes from Adriana Nascimento, a Brazilian emigrant who met Coetzee when both were teachers in Cape Town; she was repulsed by the intellectual''s attempts at courtship. He is nothing, she says, was nothing... an embarrassment. The biographer''s efforts to describe his subject ultimately result in an examination that reaches through fiction and memoir to grasp what the traditional record leaves out.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "This is the third instalment of a life so reserved, so repressed, so seething with polite rage and restrained despair that it could only be approached through a third-person voice... it is wonderful stuff. But then, Coetzee is wonderful: edgy, black, remorselessly human, witty, and often outright funny... Summertime is offbeat and deliberate, elusive and truthful."\n  <br />\n  --_Irish Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "The cumulative effect of Coetzee''s unblinking honesty and his never-wavering seriousness, is an understanding of the creation of a great writer."\n  <br />\n  --_Sunday Telegraph_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Beautifully reflective... reveal a strangely sincere, self-critical and romantic man... an intense outstanding and very enjoyable talent." --Scotland on Sunday "Both an elegant request that the sum of Coetzee''s existence as a public figure be looked for only in his writing, and ample evidence, once again, why that request should be honoured."\n  <br />\n  --_Observer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2018'),
(7610, 'The Summons', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Law professor Ray Atlee and his prodigal brother, Forrest, are summoned home to Clanton, Mississippi, by their ailing father to discuss his will. But when Ray arrives the judge is already dead, and the one-page document dividing his meager estate between the two sons seems crystal clear. What it doesn''t mention, however, is the small fortune in cash Ray discovers hidden in the old man''s house--$3 million he can''t account for and doesn''t mention to brother Forrest, either.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ray''s efforts to keep his find a secret, figure out where it came from, and hide it from a nameless extortioner, who seems to know more about it than he does, culminate in a denouement with an almost biblical twist. It''s a slender plot to hang a thriller on, and in truth it''s not John Grisham''s best in terms of pacing, dramatic tension, and interesting characters (except for Harry Rex, a country lawyer who was the judge''s closest friend and in many ways is the father Ray wishes he''d had. He''s so vivid he jumps off the page). But Grisham''s legions of fans are likely to enjoy\n <em>\n  The Summons\n </em>\n even if it lacks the power of some of his classic earlier books, like\n <em>\n  The Firm\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Brethren\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Testament\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Last year''s historical family drama A Painted House and the Christmas satire Skipping Christmas demonstrated that Grisham is willing to take risks. But fans of his legal thrillers already knew that, with his last three, particularly The Testament, making Play-Doh of the rules of the genre. Sometimes Grisham''s friskiness works, and sometimes it doesn''t. There''s much to admire in his newest thriller, particularly his colorful evocation of a Deep South legal setting, his first use of this milieu since his debut novel, A Time to Kill, and some finely drawn characters. Even so, this isn''t one of his most satisfying books, for while the narrative engages, it never catches fire. The setup is prime Grisham: Ray Atlee, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, is summoned home to Clanton, Miss., to the deathbed of his father, legendary judge Reuben V. Atlee; also summoned is Ray''s younger brother, Forrest, a chronic drug abuser. Ray arrives home first, to find the judge dead and more than $3 million stored in boxes in a cabinet cash not mentioned in the judge''s will and whose source baffles Ray. Grisham does a wonderful job of digging into Ray''s increasingly frazzled head as, stunned, the professor decides to keep the money a secret, even from Forrest, and to safeguard it until he figures out what to do. Greed, frayed nerves and fear plague Ray during the coming weeks, as he investigates, scrambling from one hideout to the next, becoming ever more aware that someone dangerous is following him and wants the money. Several scenarios Ray''s indulging his passion for flying small planes; his playing some of the cash at casinos to test it for counterfeiting; his dealings with screwed-up Forrest and his father''s cronies, notably an ex-mistress and a wily old attorney propel the story, and Ray, forward to the source of the money, a revelation that allows Grisham to take his usual swipes at big lawyerism but which will register for many as anticlimactic though there''s a final twist that as nifty and unexpected as anything Grisham has wrought. Grisham''s writing is silky smooth here, his storytelling captivating; but the novel''s lack of action a stone thrown through a window is as violent as it gets and the dissipation of all tension too far from the end make this, while a clever tale, one that''s just too quiet. Grisham''s fans might as well trim their nails while reading this, because they sure won''t be biting them.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1238'),
(7611, 'Sundays at Tiffany&#39;s', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  with Gabrielle Charbonnet\n </p>\n <p>\n  AN IMAGINARY FRIEND\n  <br />\n  Jane Margaux is a lonely little girl. Her mother, the powerful head of a New York theater company, makes time for her only once a week, for their Sunday trip to admire jewelry at Tiffany''s. Jane has only one friend: a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael. He''s perfect. But only she can see him. Michael can''t stay forever, though. On Jane''s eighth birthday he leaves, promising that she''ll forget him soon. He was there to help her until she was old enough to manage on her own, and now there are other children who need his help.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  AN UNEXPECTED LOVE\n  <br />\n  Years later, in her thirties, Jane is just as alone as she was as a child. And despite her own success as a playwright, she is even more trapped by her overbearing mother. Then she meets Michael again--as handsome, smart and perfect as she remembers him to be. But not even Michael knows the reason they''ve really been reunited.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  AND AN UNFORGETTABLE TWIST\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Sundays at Tiffany''s\n  </em>\n  is...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/281'),
(7612, 'Sunset Express', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Wikipedia\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sunset Express is a 1996 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the sixth in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole. It won the Shamus Award and was named as one of the "Best Books of 1996" by Publishers Weekly. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The public''s readiness to believe the worst of its police forces is an undercurrent in the latest case (after Voodoo River) for Southern California PI Elvis Cole. Beginning with the discovery of a corpse off Mulholland Drive in suburban L.A., the plot uncovers high-level venality, advances the romance of the ever-engaging Cole with Louisiana lawyer Lucy Chenier and reveals some of the past of Joe Pike, Cole''s enigmatic, seriously strange sidekick. Soon after the body of Susan Martin is found in a garbage bag, Detective Angela Rossi discovers evidence that implicates the victim''s husband, wealthy mover and shaker Teddy Martin. Unfortunately, Rossi is under a cloud, having been accused of falsifying evidence in a previous case. Martin''s attorney, Jonathan Green, considered one of the country''s top five criminal defense attorneys, hires Cole after arriving at his office with a video and sound crew, to investigate Rossi. Though Cole''s investigation clears Rossi, Green''s subsequent announcement that Cole has proven her guilt, puts the PI at odds with the LAPD, forces him to examine Green''s motives in the case and, finally, puts him on a course to correct the series of wrongs in the case that have prompted Lucy to observe: "The law is not about justice." $150,000 ad/promo; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/462');
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(7613, 'Sunset Limited', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Imagine Philip Marlowe sans the cigarettes and in AA. Put him in Louisiana and jump forward 50 years or so and you''ve got David Robicheaux, a tough-talking detective with the same soft spot as his prototype for troublesome women and for delving into places into which he probably has no business. New Iberia, Louisiana, perfectly rivals Marlowe''s L.A. for its grit and corruption and dames who''ll turn a good guy bad.\n </p>\n <p>\n  James Lee Burke''s 11th Robicheaux book,\n  <em>\n   Sunset Limited\n  </em>\n  , is a twisted mystery that at times becomes almost byzantine in its attempt to keep disparate characters and narratives wound in a cohesive story line. But Burke''s writing is so stunning that all is forgiven as you become immersed in the tale, which meshes past and present to uncover the secret of a decades-old murder.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Forty years ago, a local labor leader was crucified in a crime that remains unsolved. Now, his daughter--Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Megan Flynn--returns to New Iberia. With a seemingly insignificant remark to Robicheaux, she begins a chain of events that lead right back to her father''s death. New Iberia, in some sense, is frozen in time as the age-old problems of race and class weave their way into the mystery, complicating Robicheaux''s discovery of not only the original crime, but the wealth of murders that spring up along the way. Add in the Chinese mob, corrupt policemen, and a Hollywood film shoot, and the stage is set.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Burke''s forte is his ability to create characters so evil they''re liable to get you up in the night to check in your closet and under your bed. The players--both good and bad--are characterized more by their flaws than their attributes, giving everyone a wicked sheen. The book isn''t overly gory (although short descriptions can be rather graphic), but\n  <em>\n   everyone\n  </em>\n  has a dark side, emphasizing the\n  <em>\n   noir\n  </em>\n  -ish tones of the novel. His writing is powerful, mixing tender landscapes ("[W]e dropped through clouds that were pooled with fire in the sunrise and came in over biscuit-colored hills dotted with juniper and pine and pinyon trees...") with dead-on, cutting descriptions ("His face was tentacled with a huge purple-and-strawberry birthmark, so that his eyes looked squeezed inside a mask") and the camp dialogue of Chandler ("Evil doesn''t have a zip code"). Oddly, these sundry elements blend seamlessly, allowing you to overlook tenuous connections and occasionally confusing turns.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Don''t pick this up expecting a happy ending. But for those who long for a modern-day Chandler, you''ll find\n  <em>\n   Sunset Limited\n  </em>\n  a gripping and satisfying read.\n  <em>\n   --Jenny Brown\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After stepping into stand-alone territory with Cimmaron Rose (1997), Burke choreographs a masterful return to the lush and brooding world of volatile New Iberia Sheriff''s Deputy Dave Robicheaux (Cadillac Jukebox, 1996). This tale''s strength lies in breathtaking, moody descriptive passages and incisive vignettes that set time, place and character. Burke''s major themes, that the past is key to the present and that money buys power, pervade this mystery. The narrative, with more twists and bounces than a fish fighting a hook, rises from the violent, unsolved murder 40 years ago of union organizer Jack Flynn. The story encompasses at least eight disparate but interlocking subplots: the crooked money behind a movie directed by Flynn''s son Cisco; the hold that ex-con Swede Boxleiter has on Cisco''s photojournalist sister, Megan; Willie "Cool Breeze" Broussard''s theft of a mob warehouse; his wife Ida''s suicide 20 years ago; the shooting of two white brothers who raped a black woman; alcoholic Lisa Terrebonne''s haunted childhood; her wealthy, arrogant father''s ties to Harpo Scruggs, a vicious murderer; the post-Civil War killing by freed slaves of a Terrebonne servant. Hired assassins, snitches, lawmen and FBI agents weave through the novel. Dave and his partner Detective Helen Soileau find the connections, but Dave knows that in the ongoing class war, the worst criminals wield too much influence to pay for their crimes. In rich, dense prose, Burke conjures up bizarre, believable characters who inhabit vivid, spellbinding scenes in a multifaceted, engrossing plot. $300,000 ad/promo; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/467'),
(7614, 'Super Freakonomics', 'Steven D. Levitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.   Four years in the making, SuperFreakonomics asks not only the tough questions, but the unexpected ones: What''s more dangerous, driving drunk or walking drunk? Why is chemotherapy prescribed so often if it''s so ineffective? Can a sex change boost your salary?   SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as:     How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa?  Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands?  How much good do car seats do?  What''s the best way to catch a terrorist?  Did TV cause a rise in crime?  What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common?  Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness?  Can eating kangaroo save the planet?  Which adds more value: a pimp or a Realtor?    Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else, whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is â€“ good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky.   Freakonomics has been imitated many times over â€“ but only now, with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1079'),
(7615, 'Super Sad True Love Story', 'Gary Shteyngart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutanteâ€™s Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of Americaâ€™s dysfunctional coming yearsâ€”and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.In a very near futureâ€”oh, letâ€™s say next Tuesdayâ€”a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But donâ€™t that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the worldâ€™s last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldnâ€™t it? Lennyâ€™s from a different centuryâ€”he totally loves books (or â€œprinted, bound media artifacts,â€ as theyâ€™re now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness.After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our â€œancient dorkâ€ effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America proves less flame-resistant than Lennyâ€™s new threads. The country is crushed by a credit crisis, riots break out in New Yorkâ€™s Central Park, the cityâ€™s streets are lined with National Guard tanks on every corner, the dollar is so over, and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Undeterred, Lenny vows to love both Eunice and his homeland. Heâ€™s going to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, in a world where single people can determine a dating prospectâ€™s â€œhotnessâ€ and â€œsustainabilityâ€ with the click of a button, in a society where the privileged may live forever but the unfortunate will die all too soon, there is still value in being a real human being.Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Super Sad True Love Story is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3388'),
(7616, 'The Super Summary of World History', 'Alan Dale Daniel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Super Summary of World History is a very compact history of the world emphasizing western culture and political processes. The Super Summary is for the thinking person. This new history raises exciting questions and puts events into new perspectives to stimulate real thinking about history rather than accepting that the past as set in stone. History isn''t just names and dates, but a range of decisions and actions that often turn on the smallest circumstance. The Super Summary analyzes a few events in depth but most are put into their historical framework so the reader discern where and how all of this action escorts us to the present day. If history seems dull, pick up The Super Summary to discover that Western History is alive with controversy and consequence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2337'),
(7617, 'Supreme Justice', 'Phillip Margolin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin returns to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., with an exciting thriller about a ghost ship and the President''s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.   Sarah Woodruff, on death row in Oregon for murdering her lover, John Finley, has appealed her case to the Supreme Court just when a prominent justice resigns, leaving a vacancy.   Then, for no apparent reason, another justice is mysteriously attacked. Dana Cutlerâ€”one of the heroes from Margolin''s bestselling Executive Privilegeâ€”is quietly called in to investigate. She looks for links between the Woodruff appeal and the ominous incidents in the justices'' chambers, which eventually lead her to a shoot-out that took place years ago on a small freighter docked upriver in Shelby, Oregon, containing a dead crew and illegal drugs. The only survivor on board? John Finley.   With the help of Brad Miller and Keith Evans, Dana uncovers a plot by a rogue element in the American intelligence community involving the president''s nominee to the Supreme Court, and soon the trio is thrown back into the grips of a deadly, executive danger.   With nonstop action, Supreme Justice picks up where Executive Privilege left off, putting readers right back where they wereâ€”on the edge of their seats.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3204'),
(7618, 'Surely You&#39;re Joking, Mr. Feynman!', 'Richard P. Feynman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A series of anecdotes shouldn''t by rights add up to an autobiography, but that''s just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out "Is Electricity Fire?"), unafraid to offend (see "You Just\n  <em>\n   Ask\n  </em>\n  Them?"), Feynman informs by entertaining. It''s possible to enjoy\n  <em>\n   Surely You''re Joking, Mr. Feynman\n  </em>\n  simply as a bunch of hilarious yarns with the smart-alecky author as know-it-all hero. At some point, however, attentive readers realize that underneath all the merriment simmers a running commentary on what constitutes authentic knowledge: learning by understanding, not by rote; refusal to give up on seemingly insoluble problems; and total disrespect for fancy ideas that have no grounding in the real world. Feynman himself had all these qualities in spades, and they come through with vigor and verve in his no-bull prose. No wonder his students--and readers around the world--adored him.\n  <em>\n   --Wendy Smith\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Raymond Todd gives an extraordinary performance bringing to evanescent life the amusing adventures of this Nobel prize-winning physicist. Feynman was the quintessential inquirer whose investigations led him, at times, to sophisticated equations, at other times to a kind of social mischief that is delightful in its purity and inspiring in its intellectual courage. Based upon an impromptu talk during drum-playing sessions with his friend Ralph Leighton, this surprise best seller is packed with unforgettable anecdotes. Working at Los Alamos, Feynman cracked safes containing the secrets of the bomb. He challenged an abacus salesman to an arithmetical duel. He trained himself to sniff like a bloodhound. He played frigideira in a Brazilian samba band. In Las Vegas, he learned the ways of gamblers and show girls. He gave his first physics lecture in front of Einstein. Refreshingly honest, iconoclastic, thought-provoking, this one-of-a-kind classic is a must for every collection.?Peter Josyph, New York\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1080'),
(7619, 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary', 'Simon Winchester', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The making of the "Oxford English Dictionary" was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the "OED''s" editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Simon Winchester has had an award-winning 20 year career as Guardian correspondent. He lives in New York and is the Asia-Pacific Editor for Conde Nast Traveler and contributes to a number of American magazines, as well as the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and the BBC. He has written numerous books. THE RIVER AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD (Viking 1997/Penguin 1998) has been shortlisted for the 1998 Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2338'),
(7620, 'Survival of the Fittest', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The slightly retarded fifteen-year-old daughter of a diplomat dies on a school field trip â€“ forced or lured into a deserted corner of the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father adamantly denies the possibility of a political motive, which leaves LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his longtime friend Alex Delaware to pose the question: why? The victim''s father is so intent on controlling the investigation that Alex and Milo start to wonder if he wants to bring out the truth â€“ or make sure it stays buried. Then there is another killing, and within days Alex finds himself ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of his career. Driven to find answers, he and Milo will work closely with Inspector Daniel Sharavi, the brilliant Israeli police detective introduced in Jonathan Kellerman''s The Butcher''s Theatre, but it is Alex who goes undercover, alone, to expose the smug brutality of a murderous conspiracy and a terrifying contempt for human life. Weaving together the threads of a mystery that lead from a child''s murder to a young scientist''s suicide, Jonathan Kellerman draws one of the most chilling, frighteningly realistic portraits of evil you will ever experience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/769'),
(7621, 'Survivor', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Some say that the apocalypse swiftly approacheth, but that simply ain''t so according to Chuck Palahniuk. Oh no. It''s already here, living in the head of the guy who just crossed the street in front of you, or maybe even closer than that. We saw these possibilities get played out in the author''s bloodsporting-anarchist-yuppie shocker of a first novel,\n  <em>\n   Fight Club\n  </em>\n  . Now, in\n  <em>\n   Survivor\n  </em>\n  , his second and newest, the concern is more for the origin of the malaise. Starting at chapter 47 and screaming toward ground zero, Palahniuk hurls the reader back to the beginning in a breathless search for where it all went wrong. This time out, the author''s protagonist is self-made, self-ruined mogul-messiah Tender Branson, the sole passenger of a jet moments away from slamming first into the Australian outback and then into oblivion. All that will be left, Branson assures us with a tone bordering on relief, is his life story, from its Amish-on-acid cult beginnings to its televangelist-huckster end. All of this courtesy of the plane''s flight recorder.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Speaking of little black boxes, Skinnerians would have a field day with the presenting behavior of the folks who make up Palahniuk''s world. They pretend they''re suicide hotline operators for fun. They eat lobster before it''s quite... done. They dance in morgues. The Cleavers they are not. Scary as they might be, these characters are ultimately more scared of themselves than you are, and that''s what makes them so fascinating. In the wee hours and on lonely highways, they exist in a perpetual twilight, caught between the horror of the present and the dread of the unknown. With only two novels under his belt, Chuck Palahniuk is well on his way to becoming an expert at shining a light on these shadowy creatures.\n  <em>\n   --Bob Michaels\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The rise and fall of a media-made messiah is the subject of Palahniuk''s impressive second novel (after the well-received Fight Club), a wryly mannered commentary on the excesses of pop culture that tracks the 15 minutes of fame of the lone living member of a suicide cult. Tender Branson, aged 33, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the "black box" while flying randomly until the plane runs out of gas and crashes. Branson relates in his long flashback the vicissitudes of his life: a member of the repressive Creedish Death Cult, supposedly founded by a splinter group of Millerites in 1860, he is hired out as a domestic servant who must dedicate his earnings to the cult. Despite his humble beginnings, Branson finds himself on the edge of fame and fortune when the cult members begin their suicide binge, and he keeps himself on the media radar by using the psychic dreams of his potential romantic interest, Fertility Hollis, in which the girl accurately predicts a series of strange disasters. After a brief period at the top of the freak-show heap, Branson succumbs to the excesses of his trade when his agent mysteriously dies at the Super Bowl as Branson predicts the outcome of the game at half-time, simultaneously triggering a riot and turning him into a murder suspect. Branson''s spookily matter of fact account of his bizarre experiences does not excite tension until the narrative is well under way, but the novel picks up momentum during the homestretch when Branson goes on the lam with Fertility and his murderous brother Adam, and the story steamrolls toward its nightmarish climax. Palahniuk''s DeLilloesque cultural witticisms and his satirical take on the culture of instant celebrity invest the narrative with a dark humor that does not quite overcome its lack of a coherent plot. Agent, Edward Hibbert. (Feb.) FYI: Fight Club is being filmed by David Fincher.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1125'),
(7622, 'The Survivors Club', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One of todayâ€™s most electrifying suspense novelists, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner returns with a shattering thriller that dares to play on our deepest vulnerabilities. In this masterful new novel, the killer may very well be the one you sympathize with the most....THE FIRST RULE IS NEVER BLAME THE VICTIM.They survived what no woman should ever have to endure. Now these three women have the means, the opportunity, and the perfect motive. Are they trying to get away with murder--or is someone trying to make sure that this time they donâ€™t get away at all? The Survivors Club. . .thatâ€™s what Jillian Hayes, Carol Rosen, and Meg Pesaturo call it. They wonâ€™t consider themselves victims. They are survivors. They faced the blazing headlines and helped lead the investigation that caught the man who changed their lives forever. And now that Eddie Como, the College Hill rapist, has been murdered, shot down outside a packed courthouse moments before his trial was about to begin, all three women are openly ecstatic that heâ€™s dead. They are also the prime suspects in his murder. Detective Sergeant Roan Griffin knows all too well what can drive even the best people to cross the line. But he has never seen a case quite like this one. No one doubts that the murder of Eddie Como was a professional job, especially when the gunman is killed only blocks away from the shooting. But questions taunt Griffin: Who ordered the deaths of Eddie Como and his killer? Could three ordinary women have been driven to do he unthinkable? Had someone in the Survivors Club become a killer? Griffin seeks the truth--and finds himself confronted with the leader of the Survivors Club. Jillian Hayes is beautiful, successful, cool as ice, and she harbors a pain that mirrors Griffinâ€™s own. Did the horror of what happened to her push her over the thin and desperate line that separates survival and revenge? And if it did, could he blame her--or anyone in the Survivors Club? Then another woman is brutally attacked. Suddenly, with the city on the ragged edge of panic, gripped in a media and political firestorm of controversy, cover-up, and conspiracy, the hunt is on for a ruthless and cunning killer. For Griffin, this may well be the case that shatters his career. For Jillian, the harrowing nightmare is beginning all over again. Someone is out there. Someone who wants to finish what was started. Someone who wants to make sure that no one survives the Survivors Club.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/650'),
(7623, 'Suzanne&#39;s Diary for Nicholas', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Katie Wilkinson has found the perfect man at last-but one day, he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read.\n <br />\n <br />\n The diary is written by a woman named Suzanne and is addressed to her new baby boy, Nicholas. In it she pours out her heart about the joy he has brought her. As Katie reads this moving story, she realizes that the man she''s fallen in love with is Suzanne''s husband, Nicholas'' father. She reads on, filled with terror and hope as she struggles to understand what happened-and whether her new love can survive.\n <br />\n <br />\n Written with Patterson''s perfect pitch for emotion and suspense, this novel captures beautifully the joys of a new family. This is an unforgettable story, at once heartbreaking and full of hope.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/282'),
(7624, 'Swag', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There aren''t any textbooks on armed robbery. The only way to learn is through experience, and small-time crooks Frank and Stick are determined to do as much learning on the job as possible. In 1970s'' Detroit they embark on a crime spree, holding up liquor stores and supermarkets. They invent their ''Ten Golden Rules for Successful Armed Robbery'' and for a short time the cash is rolling in. But then they bend their own rules, and it looks like trouble is heading their way?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3107'),
(7625, 'Swallowing Darkness', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at long last, I am with childtwins, fathered by my royal guard. Though my uncle, Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, claims that he is the true father since he abducted me from my home, betrayed, and defiled me. And now he has branded my guards as a threat to my unborn children. Bearing an heir has placed me halfway to my aunt''s throne, that much closer to my reign over the Unseelie Courtand well ahead of her son, my cousin Cel, in this race. Now I must stay alive to see my children born and claim my place as queen. But not all in faerie are pleased with the news, and conspirators from every court in the realm plot against me and mine. They seek to strip my guards, my lovers, from me by poisoned word or cold steel. But I still have supporters, and even friends, among the goblins and the sluagh, who will stand by me. I am Meredith Nic Essus, and those who would defy and destroy me are destined to pay a terrible pricefor I am truly my father''s daughter. To protect what is mine, I will sacrifice anythingeven if it means waging a great battle against my darkest enemies and making the most momentous decision ever made as princess of faerie. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3473'),
(7626, 'Swamplandia!', 'Karen Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava''s mother, the park''s indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava''s father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL, and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety eight gators as well as her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, the author has written a novel about a family''s struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2784'),
(7627, 'Swan Peak', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Detective Dave Robicheaux is pitted against all types, from an oil tycoon''s deformed brother to a sexually indiscreet minister. With these colorful characters running rampant, narrator Will Patton never stumbles in his delivery or interpretations, offering realistic, entertaining characters who are sure to engage listeners right from the start. Patton''s voice is perfectly suited for Burke''s rough and tumble tale, his gritty Southern dialect sets the tone for this brooding murder mystery.\n  <em>\n   A Simon &amp; Schuster hardcover (Reviews, May 19). (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Although Dave Robicheaux has (temporarily) left his beloved New Orleans, fans will not be disappointed in this fast-moving, taut, and riveting thriller. Critics noted James Lee Burkeâ€™s somewhat lighter tone and brighter mood since his last novel,\n  <em>\n   The Tin Roof Blowdown\n  </em>\n  (2006), a furious reaction to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, though the\n  <em>\n   Miami Herald\n  </em>\n  felt that\n  <em>\n   Swan Peak\n  </em>\n  didnâ€™t measure up to the former novelâ€™s ferocity and immediacy. Burkeâ€™s lyrical language and eye for detail are well suited to the rugged physical beauty of Montana, and his characters spring to life as he deftly juggles several different plotlines. Despite a glut of violence and some potentially confusing narrative shifts, Robicheauxâ€™s followers are in for a â€œdeeply terrifying rideâ€ (_Oregonian_).\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/551'),
(7628, 'Sweet Revenge', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Pull A Fast One? Not On The Sisterhood''s Watch. . . There are some things that a group of gracious ladies just can''t overlook--and doing one of their friends dirty is at the top of the list. That''s the mission of the Sisterhood, seven women who would do anything to help out one of their clan, especially when it means righting a wrong. And Isabelle Flanders has definitely been done wrong. Her former colleague, the conniving Rosemary, did everything in her power to ruin Isabelle, from framing her for a terrible drunk driving accident to stealing her husband and her architecture firm. Now, Isabelle''s formerly lovely life is in tatters while Rosemary scoops up the spoils. It''s enough to make any friend''s blood boil. Rosemary may think she''s flying high, but she''s about to tangle with the Sisterhood. And when the Sisterhood is on the case, revenge is swift, delicious, and oh-so-sweet. . . Praise For Payback Revenge is a dish best served with cloth napkins and floral centerpieces. . .fast-paced. . .puts poetic justice first.--Publishers Weekly Praise For Weekend Warriors Readers who grow weary of seeing the bad guys get away with their crimes will enjoy seeing what happens when well-funded, very angry women take the law into their own hands.--Booklist An unforgettable story.--Rendezvous\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3746'),
(7629, 'Sweet Tea at Sunrise', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Emotionally wounded single mom Sarah Price has come home to Serenity, South Carolina, for a fresh start. With support from her two best friendsâ€”the newest generation of the Sweet Magnoliasâ€”she can face any crisis.But sometimes a woman needs more than even treasured friends can provide. Sexy Travis McDonald may be exactly what Sarah''s battered self-confidence requires. The newcomer is intent on getting Sarah to work at his fledgling radio stationâ€¦and maybe into his bed, as well.Sarah has learned not to trust sweet words. She''ll measure the man by his actions. Is Travis the one to heal her heart? Or will he break it again?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3820'),
(7630, 'Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson', 'Wil Haygood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Haygood''s book is certainly one of the best biographies of a boxer ever written . . . an important contribution to both sports literature and African American studies."\n <br />\n -Gerald Early,\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n ". . . Thoroughly marvelous . . ."\n <br />\n -Tim Rutten,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Haygood captures his grace and power, at many disparate moments, as well as itâ€™s been captured . . . Mr. Haygood . . . is a biographer in his own prime."\n <br />\n <em>\n  -\n </em>\n Dwight Garner_,_\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n ". . . an ambitious portrait of an American legend."\n <br />\n -Pete Hamill,\n <em>\n  Sunday Times\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n ". . . insightful, highly readable . . . A wonderful book that deserves a wide audience."\n <br />\n <em>\n  -Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Haygood''s excellent account of Robinson''s long, eventful life . . .is packed with anecdotes and lush, pertinent context."\n <br />\n -Katherine Dunn,\n <em>\n  Bookforum\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Wil Haygood''s new biography of Robinson . . .is about as fine a book about a boxer as you will find . . . Who is, pound for pound, the best fighter of all time? Robinson is always in that conversation. And should the topic ever pivot to the best writers about the sport, Haygood should be, too."\n <br />\n -Henry C. Jackson,\n <em>\n  Associated Press\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n ". . . a compelling, often brilliant biography."\n <br />\n -Rege Behe,\n <em>\n  Pittsburg Tribune\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n "Haygood was born to the task . . . a portrayal that resonates with the guts, glitter and gravitas that his subject merits."\n <br />\n -Bijan C. Bayne,\n <em>\n  The Bay State Banner\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book is a wonderful mix of reporting and grace, inspired by the thunder and speed of a much forgotten champion. Deeply researched, superbly written, thankfully devoid of dripping sentimentality, Wil Haygood takes an old broom to Harlem history and sweeps out the corners. This is the boxer we never knew."\n <br />\n -James McBride, author of\n <strong>\n  The Color of Water\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The best is always fragile, Sugar Ray Robinson once said, and it took a writer of Wil Haygood''s magnificence to appreciate what this meant in bringing the great boxer back to life. Sweet Thunder is a jewel from beginning to end."\n <br />\n -David Maraniss, author of\n <em>\n </em>\n When Pride Still Mattered\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n Rome 1960\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Finally, a biography worthy of a great athlete and social force, Sugar Ray Robinson."\n <br />\n -Larry Merchant,_ _\n <strong>\n  HBO World Championship Boxing\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the author of the critically acclaimed\n <em>\n  In Black and White\n </em>\n :\n <em>\n  The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.\n </em>\n , comes another illuminating socio-historical narrative of the twentieth century, this one spun around one of the most iconic figures of the fight game, Sugar Ray Robinson.\n</p>\n<p>\n Continuing to set himself apart as one of our canniest cultural historians, Wil Haygood grounds the spectacular story of Robinson''s rise to greatness within the context of the fighter''s life and times. Born Walker Smith, Jr., in 1921, Robinson had an early childhood marked by the seething racial tensions and explosive race riots that infected the Midwest throughout the twenties and thirties. After his mother moved him and his sisters to the relative safety of Harlem, he came of age in the vibrant post-Renaissance years. It was there thatâ€”encouraged to box by his mother, who wanted him off the streetsâ€”he soon became a rising star, cutting an electrifying, glamorous figure, riding around town in his famous pink Cadillac. Beyond the celebrity, though, Robinson would emerge as a powerful, often controversial black symbol in a rapidly changing America. Haygood also weaves in the stories of Langston Hughes, Lena Horne, and Miles Davis, whose lives not only intersected with Robinson''s but also contribute richly to the scope and soul of the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Robinson''s gruesome six-bout war with Jake "Raging Bull" LaMotta and his lethal meeting with Jimmy Doyle to his Harlem nightclub years and thwarted show-biz dreams, Haygood brings the champion''s story, in the ring and out, powerfully to life against a vividly painted backdrop of the world he captivated.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2021'),
(7631, 'Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later', 'Francine Pascal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Now with this striking new adult novel from author and creator Francine Pascal, millions of devoted fans can finally return to the idyllic Sweet Valley, home of the phenomenally successful book series and franchise. Iconic and beloved identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are back and all grown up, dealing with the complicated adult world of love, careers, betrayal, and sisterhood.Â  WANT MORE SWEET VALLEY RIGHT NOW??Â  Become a fan of Sweet Valley Confidential on Facebook or Twitter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3347'),
(7632, 'The Sweetest Thing', 'Barbara Freethy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  #1 New York Times Bestseller Barbara Freethy delivers a romantic, touching and sometimes humorous story of love and family, with a cast of quirky, loveable characters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the back cover ...\n </p>\n <p>\n  SHE LONGED FOR A CHILD - Alone in the world, Faith Christopher had always yearned for love and a man who''d make her heart pound. But her dreams of a place to call home were getting harder to hold on to ...\n </p>\n <p>\n  HE WAS STUBBORNLY SINGLE - Alex Carrigan liked fast cars, fast women and fast deals - then a tough-talking teenager arrived on his doorstep claiming she was his long-lost daughter, and his meddling grandfather decided to move in. Suddenly, Alex has to face the family he never expected.\n </p>\n <p>\n  BUT THEY WERE MEANT TO BE ...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Little did the outspoken and beautiful baker know that deep inside Alex was a well of tenderness ... and that she might have the recipe to bring him true love - the sweetest thing life has to offer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reviews...\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The Sweetest Thing is a heart-tugging tale of...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3179'),
(7633, 'Sweetheart', 'Chelsea Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In Cain''s superb follow-up to\n  <em>\n   Heartsick\n  </em>\n  , damaged detective Archie Sheridan is back home in Portland, Ore., trying to resume a normal life. Archie''s ties to serial killer Gretchen Lowell still run deep, even if he''s stopped their weekly visits in prison. Meanwhile, reporter Susan Ward is finishing an article accusing a beloved U.S. senator of seducing his children''s 14-year-old babysitter a decade earlier. When three bodies are discovered in a local parkâ€”where Archie''s team found Gretchen''s first victim 12 years earlierâ€”Archie worries another serial killer is at large. After the senator''s unexpected death, Susan discovers links between the sex scandal and the bodies in the park. When Gretchen escapes from prison, Archie knows he''s the only one who can stop her from killing. In Cain''s capable hands, Gretchen is both a monster and the only person who truly understands Archie''s pain. With its brisk pacing, carefully metered violence and tortured hero, Cain''s sophomore effort will leave readers desperate for more.\n  <em>\n   200,000 first printing. (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  It was apparent at the end of Cainâ€™s masterful Heartsick (2007) that we hadnâ€™t heard the last from either Gretchen Lowell, the most mesmerizing serial killer since a fellow named Hannibal, or Archie Sheridan, the Portland cop whom Gretchen tortured and then freed, locking the two of them into a creepy symbiotic relationship somewhere between Romeo and Juliet and Holmes and Moriarity. Cain picks up the story with Sheridan trying to overcome his addictions to pain pills and Gretchen, respectively, and not doing very well with either. A new caseâ€”bodies found in a Portland park, near where Gretchenâ€™s first victim was discoveredâ€”provides distraction as well as bringing punky, turquoise-haired reporter Susan Ward back into his life, but neither is enough to get Gretchen out of his mind. Then she escapes from prison, determined to draw Archie away from his family, away from his job, and into her arms for a deadly pas de deux. There is a little less gut-wrenching tension this time than there was in Heartsickâ€”and less gut-wrenching gore, tooâ€”but there is considerably more psychological complexity, as the knot binding Archie to Gretchen tightens further. The psychosexual interplay between the two is endlessly fascinating and, amazingly, thoroughly believable. In addition, Cain gives more space to her supporting castâ€”especially reporter Ward, who seems ready for a starring role herself. Itâ€™s hard to say how long Cain can play out this loversâ€™ duel between Archie and Gretchen before they tumble into their own Reichenbach Falls, but itâ€™s a sure thing we wonâ€™t be leaving our seats before the final curtain. --Bill Ott\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3542'),
(7634, 'Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee', 'Hattie Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œWe have chosen to ?ll our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.â€ â€”Jonathan Swift (1667â€“1745)Sweetness and Light is the fascinating story of bees and honey from the Stone Age to the contemporary cutting edge; from Nepalese honey hunters to urban hives on the rooftops of New York City. Honey is nature in a pot, gathered in by bees from many different environmentsâ€”Zambian rain forests, Midwestern prairies, Scottish moors, and thyme-covered Sicilian mountainsides, to name a few. But honey is much more than just a food, and bees are more than mere insects. The bee is the most studied creature on the planet next to man, and it and its products have been harnessed by doctors, philosophers, scientists, politicians, artists, writers, and architects throughout the ages as both metaphor and material.In colorful, mellifluous language that delights and excites on every page, Hattie Ellis interweaves social history, popular science, and travelerâ€™s tales into a buzzing chronological narrative. She explores the mysterious ways of bees, such as how they can make up to twenty-four thousand journeys to produce a single pound of honey, and she takes the lid off the hive to reveal as many as a hundred thousand bees living and working together in total discipline.Great thinkers throughout the centuries have been inspired by bees, from Aristotle to Shakespeare to Charles Darwin to Frank Lloyd Wright, echoing, at every stage, the wider scienti?c discoveries and philosophical movements that have changed our understanding of the world. The unfolding story of bees also transports us into broader areas of historical experience: from the Egyptian pharaohsâ€™ elaborate burial chambers in the pyramids, the medieval guilds, the berserk drunken rituals of mead drinking, and the Mormonsâ€™ epic journey west to candlelight in churches, sealing wax, and feast and famine.The bee existed long before man; without bees, the planet and its inhabitants would soon begin to die. This small insect, with a collective significance so much greater than its individual size, can carry us through past and present to tell us more about ourselves than any other living creature.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2806'),
(7635, 'Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton', 'Jeff Pearlman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''''Jeff Pearlman does the work of first-rate biography in his addictively readable\n  <em>\n   Sweetness\n  </em>\n  . He presents Walter Payton in all of his flaws and contradictions yet leaves you in the end with a much deeper appreciation of an uncommon man.'''' --David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning author\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''Walter Payton''s life was thrilling, complicated, triumphant, and turbulent, and it takes an artful storyteller to present it all properly. Thankfully for Payton--and for us, the readers of this splendid book--there is Jeff Pearlman to provide precisely the perfect touch.'''' --\n  <em>\n   New York Post\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''Until now, we''ve known Walter Payton as a two-dimensional figure in football''s pantheon. Jeff Pearlman''s thorough biography, exhaustively researched and compellingly written, shows that beneath the Sweetness lay the raw stuff of mortality.\n  <em>\n   Sweetness\n  </em>\n  is the purest, and most poignant, of portraits.'''' --Peter Richmond, author of\n  <em>\n   Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden''s Oakland Raiders\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''Jeff Pearlman proves once again why he''s one of the best sports biographers in the country. This is easily the most comprehensive look at an historic National Football League figure. Pearlman will tell you things about Walter you didn''t know and he does so in a stylish, informative way.'''' --Michael Freeman, author of\n  <em>\n   Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''With\n  <em>\n   Sweetness\n  </em>\n  , Jeff Pearlman joins that small group of men who can claim to have caught up with Walter Payton, with history''s most elusive football player. But Jeff''s the first to make that chase with love in his heart. This book is beautiful.'''' --Chris Jones, author of\n  <em>\n   Out of Orbit\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The first definitive biography of Chicago Bears superstar Walter Payton.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  At five feet ten inches tall, running back Walter Payton was not the largest player in the NFL, but he developed a larger-than-life reputation for his strength, speed, and grit. Nicknamed "Sweetness" during his college football days, he became the NFL''s all-time leader in rushing and all-purpose yards, capturing the hearts of fans in his adopted Chicago.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Crafted from interviews with more than 700 sources, acclaimed sportswriter Jeff Pearlman has produced the first definitive biography of Payton.\n  <em>\n   Sweetness\n  </em>\n  at last brings fans a detailed, scrupulously researched, all-encompassing account of the legend''s rise to greatness. From Payton''s childhood in segregated Mississippi, where he ended a racial war by becoming the star of his integrated high school''s football team, to his college years and his thirteen-year NFL career,\n  <em>\n   Sweetness\n  </em>\n  brims with stories of all-American heroism, and covers Payton''s life off the field as well. Set against the backdrop of the tragic illness that cut his life short at just forty-five years of age, this is a stirring tribute to a singular icon and the lasting legacy he made.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2024');
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(7636, 'Sweetsmoke', 'David Fuller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins."A fascinating and gripping novel about the Civil War. The slave, Cassius Howard, is a great fictional character, and his story is part mystery, part love story, and a harrowing portrait of slavery that reads with the immense power of the slave narratives." --Pat Conroy, author of "Beach Music" and "South of Broad""David Fuller vividly and movingly describes the life of Cassius, a slave on a Virginia tobacco plantation. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, "Sweetsmoke" resonates with unforgettable characters, and is a gripping story of loss and survival." --Robert Hicks, author of "The Widow of the South""Fuller works hard to give us a mid-19th century world that feels authentic, from small details . . . to the larger sprawl of the plantation . . . captivating." --"The New York Times Book Review""The plot unfolds at a brisk pace, and Fuller does an especially good job with the battle scenes . . . Cassius, who has never drawn a single breath as a free man, is a compelling character from the start. "Sweetsmoke" is a well-imagined and researched novel of survival and courage." --"Atlanta Journal-Constitution""Featuring slave traders, smugglers and spies, the novel transports us to a chilling milieu in which human beings are humiliated, and the slaves have a forlorn hope of freedom, decency and dignity . . . "Sweetsmoke" haunts us long after the final page is turned." --Tennessean.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2785'),
(7637, 'Swimming', 'Nicola Keegan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keegan takes on death, religion, relationships and coming-of-age in her gorgeously stylized and irreverent debut about a rising Olympic swimming star. Not even a year after Philomena PipÂ Ash is born in 1960s Middle America, her parents put their rambunctious infant in a pool and watch the remarkable sight of a nine-month-old gliding through the water. With some help from Olympic SupercoachÂ Ernest K. Mankovitz, Pip becomes a mercenary swimming machine who wins an unprecedented collection of gold medals in three Olympic games. Though Pip''s connection with water is preternaturally intense, she can''t relate to people, a dilemma heightened by early encounters with death and her innate awareness of loathsome pain and insecurities. After going through a premature career climax and the subsequent plummet, Pip is forced to deal with emotions she''s spent her life ignoring; her sarcastic (and f-bomb laden) musings provide many amusing turns, while Keegan''s linguistic playfulness moves the story at a fast clip, even if it sometimes muddles what''s going onâ€”particularly toward the end. This is worth reading for the prose alone.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œKeeganâ€™s energy jumps off the page. . . .\n  <em>\n   Swimming\n  </em>\n  is a wonderful coming-of-age story, a richly detailed account of a young woman channeling her rage, grief and insecurity into a passion to win. The voice Keegan has invented for Pip is sarcastic, thoughtful, elegant, irreverent.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   The Boston Globe\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œComic and celebratory, full of the narratorâ€™s weird blend of goofiness and intelligence. . . . Marvelous. . . . You donâ€™t have to be a swimmer to respond to this story.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œA ravishing first novel. . . .The obstacles Keegan has set in the way of Pipâ€™s athletic triumph come by way of a tumultuous, estrogen-rich familyÂ . . . Â two memorably in-your-face girlfriends and a gaggle of steel-plated nuns. . . . Gorgeous.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œAmbitious and exhilarating. . . .Â Gloriously, darkly intuitive. . . . A novel as fun and imaginative as\n  <em>\n   SwimmingÂ \n  </em>\n  . . .Â deserves a medal.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Time\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œAn exhilarating mix of talent and mastery. . . . Pip is a captivating narrator, bawdy, skittish and self-conscious, often emotionally raw. . . .\n  <em>\n   Swimming\n  </em>\n  captures the arc of a great athleteâ€™s career, from training to competition to the inevitable endpoint, filtered through the awareness of a sensitive woman whose world has been shattered by grief.â€ â€”Jane Ciabattari, NPR, â€œBooks We Loveâ€\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œA fine debut novel about the making of an Olympic champ.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   People\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œ\n  <em>\n   Swimming\n  </em>\n  [is] a joy and a testament to Keeganâ€™s skills as a writer and storyteller, and will leave readers eager for more of her work as soon as it breaks the surface.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œYoung Pip relays her tale with such insight, youâ€™ll feel youâ€™re floating beside her.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Good Housekeeping\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œKeeganâ€™s medal-worthy prose lingers on the tip of the tongue like a diver on the edge of the platform. . . . Fresh and spirited.â€ â€”Daily Candy\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œTold in her own quirky, questioning and super-critical voice, Pipâ€™s story of finding her way back to a life on land is inspiring, a must-read for anyone who has, at one time or another, found life to be a challenge.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Hudson Valley News\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œKeeganâ€™s writing is beautiful, often stream-of-consciousness, and smart. . . . Pip is like the female Holden Caulfield, pointing out the ridiculous aspects of life, but secretly harboring a deep sadness about not being more entrenched in it.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Bookreporter\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œNicola Keegan has pulled off a coup with her first novel.\n  <em>\n   Swimming\n  </em>\n  is as entertaining as it is deeply moving, a story of loss that isâ€”against all oddsâ€”also a jubilation.â€ â€”Lauren Groff, author of\n  <em>\n   The Monsters of Templeton\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œThink: velocity. Think: a girl moving through adolescence at breakneck speed as she sloughs off anguish (her motherâ€™s depression) and heartbreak (the deaths of her sister and father) to become a gold-medal winning Olympic swimmer. . . . [A] sleek-as-a-porpoise debut novel.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   O, The Oprah Magazine\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œI loved\n  <em>\n   Swimming\n  </em>\n  . Itâ€™s the most original novel Iâ€™ve read all year. I canâ€™t get Pipâ€™s voice out of my mind. Give yourself a treat this summerâ€”read this book.â€ â€”Judy Blume\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œEngaging. . . . An accomplished debut, as much about swimming as about what it takes to winâ€”and lose.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Richmond Times-Dispatch\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œNicola Keeganâ€™s prose is filled with inventive riffs to draw out the poignant turbulences of her heroine, both in the water and out. Reading the book becomes itself like a long, sinuous surge through the pool. . . . A classy fiction about the tenuous relationship of worldly success to the intimate self.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   The Independent\n  </em>\n  (London)\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œKeegan has caught not only the world of competitive swimming, but the problems professional athletes face when their careers end. . . . The prose is graceful and rapid, as if Keegan set out to write sentences as flowing as the medium she writes of.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   January\n  </em>\n  magazine\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œKeeganâ€™s shimmering, fluid prose is outwardly playful, yet this is a seriously well-crafted novel.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   The Guardian\n  </em>\n  (London)\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œIf Jane Bowles and Gerard Manley Hopkins had a lovechild, she might just possibly write as gloriously as Nicola Keegan.\n  <em>\n   Swimming\n  </em>\n  is a novel for people who love donut holes, or the dead, or dogs, or nuns, or fat people, or world class athletes, or the English language, or pretty much anything. It should be read, re-read, dreamed about, quoted to friends, and enacted as a shimmery odd hilarious mystery play.\n  <em>\n   Swimming\n  </em>\n  is simply magnificent.â€ â€”Rivka Galchen, author of\n  <em>\n   Atmospheric Disturbances\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/958'),
(7638, 'Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer', 'Lynne Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''her thrilling new memoir...SWIMMING TO ANTARCTICA, in fact, tells two stories: the compellingly reconstructed thrill-ride of her swimming career and also, tucked in the folds of her fluid prose, her maturing as a storyteller.'' -- Andrew Gumbel THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ''her remarkable memoir... SWIMMING TO ANTARCTICA reveals a talent for lyrical storytelling that feeds directly off the author''s experience of nature and her place in it. -- Melissa Katsoulis THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ''This is a strange, beautiful book.'' -- Melanie Reid THE HERALD ''this gutsy memoir.'' -- John Koski YOU MAGAZINE ''An unforgettable and beautifully written autobiography of the most remarkable long-distance swimmer.'' SUNDAY EXPRESS ''Cox describes her thoughts upon hitting the water for a one-mile swim off the coast of Antarctica: "All I could think about was moving forward." The same drive infuses her gripping memoir of a career spent one-upping herself. In an understated style as clear as polar sunlight, Cox re-creates her epic swims and brilliantly conveys what it feels like to push across Antarctica, the English Channel and the Bering Strait.'' SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (USA) ''This gripping memoir'' -- Tom de Castella THE NEW STATESMAN ''an enchanting, almost mesmerising book.'' -- Sara Wheeler LITERARY REVIEW ''this delightful memoir...an entertaining yet profound read.'' -- Catherine Humble THE OBSERVER\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€¢Â At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland.\n <br />\n â€¢Â At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the menâ€™s and womenâ€™s world records for swimming the English Channelâ€”a thirty-three-mile crossing in nine hours, thirty-six minutes.\n <br />\n â€¢Â At eighteen, she swam the twenty-mile Cook Strait between North and South Islands of New Zealand, was caught on a massive swell, found herself after five hours farther from the finish than when she started, and still completed the swim.\n <br />\n â€¢Â She was the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, the most treacherous three-mile stretch of water in the world.\n <br />\n â€¢Â The first to swim the Bering Straitâ€”the channel that forms the boundary line between the United States and Russiaâ€”from Alaska to Siberia, thereby opening the U.S.-Soviet border for the first time in forty-eight years, swimming in thirty-eight-degree water in four-foot waves without a shark cage, wet suit, or lanolin grease.\n <br />\n â€¢Â The first to swim the Cape of Good Hope (a shark emerged from the kelp, its jaws wide open, and was shot as it headed straight for her).\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n In this extraordinary book, the worldâ€™s most extraordinary distance swimmer writes about her emotional and spiritual need to swim and about the almost mystical act of swimming itself.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Lynne Cox trained hard from age nine, working with an Olympic coach, swimming five to twelve miles each day in the Pacific. At age eleven, she swam even when hail made the water â€œlike cold tapioca puddingâ€ and was told she would one day swim the English Channel. Four years laterâ€”not yet out of high schoolâ€”she broke the menâ€™s and womenâ€™s world records for the Channel swim. In 1987, she swam the Bering Strait from America to the Soviet Unionâ€”a feat that, according to Gorbachev, helped diminish tensions between Russia and the United States.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Lynne Coxâ€™s relationship with the water is almost mystical: she describes swimming as flying, and remembers swimming at night through flocks of flying fish the size of mockingbirds, remembers being escorted by a pod of dolphins that came to her off New Zealand.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n She has a photographic memory of her swims. She tells us how she conceived of, planned, and trained for each, and re-creates for us the experience of swimming (almost) unswimmable bodies of water, including her most recent astonishing one-mile swim to Antarctica in thirty-two-degree water without a wet suit. She tells us how, through training and by taking advantage of her naturally plump physique, she is able to create more heat in the water than she loses.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Lynne Cox has swum the Mediterranean, the three-mile Strait of Messina, under the ancient bridges of Kunning Lake, below the old summer palace of the emperor of China in Beijing. Breaking records no longer interests her. She writes about the ways in which these swims instead became vehicles for personal goals, how she sees herself as the lone swimmer among the waves, pitting her courage against the odds, drawn to dangerous places and treacherous waters that, since ancient times, have challenged sailors in ships.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2026'),
(7639, 'Swimming to Catalina', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sinking Like A Stone Stone Barrington thought he''d heard the last of former girlfriend Arrington after she''d left him to marry Vance Calder, Hollywood''s hottest star. The last thing Stone expected was a desperate call from Calder. Arrington has vanished, and her new fiance; wants Stone to come to LA and find her.  In a town where the sharks drive Bentleys and no one can be trusted, Stone soon discovers he''s drowning in a sea of empty clues that take him from Bel Air to Malibu to Rodeo Drive. Running out of time and leads, he needs to keep his head above water and find Arrington fast, or end up swimming with the fishes himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2682'),
(7640, 'Swimsuit', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  with Paetro, Maxine\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears. Fearing the worst, her parents travel to Hawaii to investigate for themselves, never expecting the horror that awaits them.LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins is conducting his own research into the case, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller. With no leads and no closer to uncovering the kidnapper''s identity than when he stepped off the plane, Ben gets a shocking visit that pushes him into an impossible-to-resist deal with the devil.A heart-pounding story of fear and desire, SWIMSUIT transports readers to a chilling new territory where the collision of beauty and murder transforms paradise into a hell of unspeakable horrors.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/283'),
(7641, 'Swine Not?', 'Jimmy Buffett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Southern belle Ellie McBride moves her twins from Vertigo, Tennessee, to New York City, they wouldn''t dream of leaving behind the family pig Rumpy. But the posh hotel where Ellie has found work (and living space) has "No Pets" writ large on its portal. So hiding Rumpy from the hotel staff--especially the ultra-carnivorous hotel chef, who would like nothing better than to transform their pet into pork roast--becomes imperative.Can a talented, sensitive pig survive the claustrophobic, neurotic stresses of life in the Big Apple? Can the McBride twins keep their precious pet from becoming the chef''s favorite entree? Get ready for a wonderful ride as master storyteller Jimmy Buffett takes readers on a brilliantly funny romp through Manhattan and beyond. From spoiled rock stars to highly caffeinated football coaches, Buffett''s satirical view of American culture never ceases to bite and delight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3239'),
(7642, 'The Switch', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara hit it off in prison, where they were both doing time for grand theft auto. Now that they''re out, they''re joining forces for one big score. The plan is to kidnap the wife of a wealthy Detroit developer and hold her for ransom. But they didn''t figure the lowlife husband wouldn''t want his lady back. So it''s time for Plan B and the opportunity to make a real killing -- with the unlikely help of a beautiful, ticked-off housewife who''s hungry for a large helping of sweet revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3117'),
(7643, 'Sword Song', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lordâ€”warrior by instinct, Viking by natureâ€”has finally settled down. He has land, a wife, and two children, and a duty given to him by King Alfred to hold the frontier on the Thames. But then trouble stirs: a dead man has risen, and new Vikings have arrived to occupy the decayed Roman city of London. Their dream is to conquer Wessex, and to do it they need Uhtred''s help.   Alfred has other ideas. He wants Uhtred to expel the Viking raiders from London. Uhtred must weigh his oath to the king against the dangerous turning tide of shifting allegiances and deadly power struggles. And other storm clouds are gathering: Ã†theleflÃ¦dâ€”Alfred''s daughterâ€”is newly married, but by a cruel twist of fate, her very existence now threatens Alfred''s kingdom. It is Uhtredâ€”half Saxon, half Daneâ€”whose uncertain loyalties must now decide England''s future.   A gripping story of love, deceit, and violence, Sword Song is set in an England of tremendous turmoil and strifeâ€”yet one galvanized by the hope that Alfred may prove an enduring force. Uhtred, his lord of war and greatest warrior, has become his swordâ€”a man feared and respected the length and breadth of Britain.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3278'),
(7644, 'The Sword Thief', 'Peter Lerangis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ATTENTION! Amy and Dan Cahill have been located once again, this time in the company of the notoriously unreliable Alistair Oh. Could they have been foolish enough to make an alliance? Spies report that Amy and Dan seem to be tracking the life of one of the most powerful fighters the world has ever known. If this fearsome warrior was a Cahill, his secrets are sure to be well-guarded . . . and the price to uncover them just might be lethal.  EXCLUSIVE BONUS MATERIAL: Listen to an Ekaterina leadership meeting &amp; find out about a secret ally!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2978'),
(7645, 'Sworn to Silence', 'Linda Castillo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Å“A gun-toting, cursing, former Amish\n  <em>\n   female\n  </em>\n  chief of policeÂ stars in this excellent first in a new suspense series from romance veteran Castillo (\n  <em>\n   Fade to Red\n  </em>\n  ). When a serial killer strikes bucolic Painters Mill, Ohio, the killer''s signatureâ€”Roman numerals ritualistically carved into each victim''s abdomenâ€”matches the MO of four unsolved murders from 16 years earlier. Police chief Kate Burkholder, who''s reluctant to dredge up the past, must keep secret that she knows why the old murders stopped. Not satisfied with the case''s progress, local politicos set up a multijurisdictional task force to assist, including a law-enforcement agent battling his own demons. The added scrutiny and the rising body count threaten to push the chief over the edge. Adept at creating characters with depth and nuance, Castillo smoothly integrates their backstories into a well-paced plot that illuminates the divide between the Amish and Å“EnglishÂ worlds.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Ohioâ€™s Amish country serves as the bucolic backdrop for romance novelist Castilloâ€™s consistently chilling mystery debut. Kate Burkholder grew up in idyllic Painters Mill, where many residents drive buggies, shun electricity, and distance themselves from the complications of modern life. The presence of a serial killer shatters the stillness of the town, leaving its citizenry terrified and on guard. During this time, young Kateâ€™s life takes a fateful turn when she is sexually assaulted by an Amish man named Daniel Lapp. She shoots Lapp in self-defense and, seeing blood splattered across the floor, is certain heâ€™s dead. (Her father drags away the body, and the family banishes the incident from their memories, never reporting it to police.) With Lappâ€™s demise, the area murders cease. Rattled residents rest easily once again. Fast-forward 16 years. Kate, now chief of police in Painters Mill, is faced with a series of brutal crimes in which the female victims are tortured and raped. Could Daniel Lapp still be alive? Kate battles her inner demons as she tracks down a killer who shows no sign of letting up. Can she come clean about her past without losing her job? Deeply flawed characters in a distinctive setting make this a crackling good series opener, recommended for fans of T. Jefferson Parker and Robert Ellis, whose books take place in very un-Amish settings but who generate the same kind of chills and suspense. --Allison Block\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3039'),
(7646, 'The System of the World', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The colossal and impressive third volume (after\n  <em>\n   Quicksilver\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Confusion\n  </em>\n  ) of Stephenson''s magisterial exploration of the origins of the modern world in the scientific revolution of the baroque era begins in 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, hoping to mediate the feud between Sir Isaac Newton and Leibniz, both of whom claim to have discovered the calculus and neither of whom is showing much scientific rationality in the dispute. This brawl takes place against the background of the imminent death of Queen Anne, which threatens a succession crisis as Jacobite (Stuart, Catholic) sympathizers confront supporters of the Hanoverian succession. Aside from the potential effect of the outcome on the intellectual climate of England, these political maneuverings are notable for the role played by trilogy heroine Eliza de la Zour, who is now wielding her influence over Caroline of Ansbach, consort of the Hanoverian heir. Eliza has risen from the streets to the nobility without losing any of her creativity or her talents as a schemer; nor has outlaw Jack Shaftoe lost any of his wiliness. What he may have lost is discretion, since he oversteps the boundaries of both law and good sense far enough to narrowly escape the hangman. In the end, reluctant hero Waterhouse prevails against the machinations of everybody else, and scientific (if not sweet) reason wins by a nose. The symbol of that victory is the inventor Thomas Newcomen standing (rather like a cock crowing) atop the boiler of one of his first steam engines. This final volume in the cycle is another magnificent portrayal of an era, well worth the long slog it requires of Stephenson''s many devoted readers.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The conclusion to\n  <em>\n   The Baroque Cycle\n  </em>\n  is a veritable doorstop, but a doorstop perhaps worth its weight in 18th-century gold coinsâ€”especially to those who need a reminder about the dangerous misuses of science and â€œprogress.â€ Critics canâ€™t heap enough praise on Stephensonâ€™s eloquent narration, true-to-life characters, and impeccable plotting (â€œgenerated via Waterhouseâ€™s Logic Mills,â€ says the\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Chronicle\n  </em>\n  ). Stephenson exquisitely unearths Baroque history, too, from mints to gardens to Jacobites. While compelling, youâ€™ll best appreciate this epic history-romance-science fiction story â€œonce you have a solid liberal arts education under your beltâ€ (\n  <em>\n   Chronicle\n  </em>\n  ). Stephenson mostly gets away with his philosophical pedantry because heâ€™s so smart and inventive. If you have the courage to delve in, you wonâ€™t be disappointed. And if you canâ€™t bring yourself to start with\n  <em>\n   Quicksilver\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   System\n  </em>\n  includes a preface relating â€œthe story thus farâ€ that reviewers found helpful enough.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/716'),
(7647, 'T Is for Trespass', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n tres pass \\\\''trespes\\\\ n: a transgression of law involving one''s obligations to God or to one''s neighbâˆ¨ a violation of moral law; an offense; a sin -Webster''s New International Dictionary, Second Edition, Unabridged In what may be her most unsettling novel to date, Sue Grafton''s T is for Trespassis also her most direct confrontation with the forces of evil. Beginning slowly with the day-to-day life of a private eye, Grafton suddenly shifts from the voice of Kinsey Millhone to that of Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private caregiving jobs. The true horror of the novel builds with excruciating tension as the reader foresees the awfulness that lies ahead. The suspense lies in whether Millhone will realize what is happening in time to intervene. Though set in the late eighties, T is for Trespasscould not be more topical: identity theft; elder abuse; betrayal of trust; the breakdown in the institutions charged with caring for the weak and the dependent. It reveals a terrifying but all-too-real rip in the social fabric. Once again, Grafton opens up new territory with startling results.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3304'),
(7648, 'Tail Spin', 'Catherine Coulter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the #1 bestselling author, a stunning new novel of secrets, mayhem, and murder. FBI Special Agent Jackson Crowne is flying his Cessna over the Appalachians, with a very important passenger: renowned psychiatrist Dr. Timothy MacLean; their destination is Washington, D.C. Upon their arrival, the FBI will protect the doctorand ascertain just who wants him dead. But they dont make it. In San Francisco, married FBI Special Agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock take an early morning phone call from their supervisor, Jimmy Maitland. Maitland received a Mayday from Jackson in the mountains near Parlow, Kentucky, and sends Savich and Sherlock to see whats happened. Agent Crowne is able to bring his plane down in a narrow valley and haul the unconscious Dr. MacLean from the burning wreckage before it explodes. Their crash is witnessed by Rachael Abbott, a young woman on the run after the mysterious death of her father. When Savich and Sherlock arrive on the scene, they find Jackson and Rachael in the Parlow clinic and Dr. MacLean comatose in the local hospital, prognosis unknown. What they do know frightens them: Dr. MacLean was recently diagnosed with frontal lobe dementia, and in the months prior to the crash his behavior had become erratic and alarmingly uninhibited, his ability to maintain doctor-patient confidentiality badly compromised. With a patient list made up of Washington movers and shakers, MacLeans role as a keeper of secrets is jeopardized as well. Is there someone out there so desperate that theyd kill the doctor for what he knows? It is up to Jackson, Savich, and Sherlock to find outno matter the cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3530'),
(7649, 'Takedown', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n July 4th weekend, New York City:As thousands of holiday travelers make their way out of Manhattan, a flawlessly executed terrorist attack plunges the city into a maelstrom of panic and death. Amidst the chaos, an elite team of foreign soldiers is systematically searching for one of their own, a man so powerful that the U.S. government refuses to admit he even exists and will do anything to keep him hidden. Now, with the world''s deadliest enemy upon America''s doorstep, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must fight his way through the burning city streets to take down an invisible terrorist mastermind with the means to unleash hell on a global scale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3866'),
(7650, 'Taken', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers don''t yet know who the boy is, but when Cole goes undercover to try to buy the two hostages back, he himself is taken and disappears. Now it is up to Pike to retrace Cole''s steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers . . . before it is too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2968'),
(7651, 'Tales of the South Pacific', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Truly one of the most remarkable books to come out of the war. Mr. Michener is a born story-teller.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  "THE NEW YORK TIMES\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Enter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. The young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl. Nurse Nellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque. The soldiers, sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting for love in a tropic paradise.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3066'),
(7652, 'The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan', 'Kim Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n War correspondent Barker first started reporting from Afghanistan in 2003, when the war there was lazy and insignificant. She was just learning to navigate Afghan culture, one caught between warring factions, and struggling to get space in her newspaper, the Chicago Tribune. Lulled into complacency, everyone from the U.S. military to the Afghan diplomatic corps to the Pakistani government stumbled as the Taliban regrouped. Very frank and honest, Barker admits a host of mistakes, including gross cultural ignorance that often put her in danger even as she found Afghanistan similar in some ways to Montana, her home state, what with ï¿½bearded men in pickup trucks stocked with guns and hate for the government.ï¿½ She reports a string of characters: an amorous Pakistani former prime minister, a flashy Afghan American diplomat, an assortment of warlords, drug lords, fundamentalists, politicians, and fellow correspondents struck by wanderlust and plagued by messy personal livesï¿½all of them against a backdrop of declining war coverage in declining American newspapers. A personal, insightful look at covering an ambivalent war in a complicated region. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Taliban Shuffle\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s remarkable aboutÂ _The Taliban Shuffle_Â is that its author, Kim Barker, has written an account of her experiences covering Afghanistan and Pakistan that manages to be hilarious and harrowing, witty and illuminating, all at the same timeâ€¦ Ms. Barker has discovered a voice in these pages that enables her to capture both the serious and the seriously absurd conditions in Af-Pak (Afghanistan and Pakistan), and the surreal deal of being a female reporter there, with dating problems ranging from the screwball (a boyfriend competing to cover the same story) to the ridiculous (being romantically pursued by the former prime minister of Pakistan). Black humor, it turns out, is a perfect tool for capturing the sad-awful-frequently-insane incongruities of war.Â \n <em>\n  The Taliban Shuffle\n </em>\n , in fact, reads like a rollicking and revealing mashup of\n <em>\n  Imperial Life in the Emerald City\n </em>\n (Rajiv Chandrasekaranâ€™s devastating 2006 portrait of the unreal world of Iraqâ€™s Green Zone),\n <em>\n  War Reporting for Cowards\n </em>\n (Chris Ayresâ€™s entertaining 2005 account of being a newbie war reporter for\n <em>\n  The Times of London\n </em>\n ) and Robert Altmanâ€™s darkly satiric 1970 movie\n <em>\n  MASH\n </em>\n , with a bit of Evelyn Waugh-esque satiric verve thrown in for good measure.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Â Â Â Â  â€”Michiko Kakutani,\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n The Taliban Shuffle_ is part war memoir, part tale of self-discovery that, thanks to Barker''s biting honesty and wry wit, manages to be both hilarious and heartbreaking.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Â Â Â Â â€”The Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Brilliant, tender, and unexpectedly hilarious."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _Â Â Â Â â€”Marie Claire\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "[An] immensely entertaining memoir."\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â \n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_The Boston Globe\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Politically astute and clearly influenced by Hunter S. Thompson, Barker provides sharp commentary on the impotence of American foreign policy in South Asiaâ€¦ Fierce, funny and unflinchingly honest.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _Â Â Â Â Â \n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â  â€”Kirkus\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œA candid and darkly comic account of her eight years as an international correspondent for the\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n â€¦With self-deprecation and a keen eye for the absurd, Barker describes her evolution from a green, fill-in correspondent to an adrenaline junkieâ€¦ In equal measure, Barker elucidates the deep political ties between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the U.S.â€™s role in todayâ€™s â€˜whiplash between secularism and extremism,â€™ and blasts Pakistanâ€™s leaders for destroying their nation through endless coups and power jockeying.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â  â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Reporter Kim Barker immersed herself in Afghanistan and Pakistan for nine years and returned with stories that poignantly reflect her deep love for both countriesâ€”and important insights into what went wrong. With dark, self-deprecating humor and shrewd insight, Barker chronicles her experiences as a rookie foreign reporter and the critical years in which the Taliban resurged amidst the collapse of the Afghan and Pakistani governments."\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â  â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Daily Beast\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kim Barker''s memoir about her five years covering Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Chicago Tribune is brave, funny and outrageous...._The Taliban Shuffle_ will pull you in so deep that youâ€™ll smell the poppies and quake from the bombs."\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â  â€”\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n The Minneapolis Star Tribune\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œRead this and try not to hurt yourself laughing. Who knew war could be so funny?\n <em>\n  The Taliban Shuffle\n </em>\n isnâ€™t like any other book out there about Afghanistan and Pakistan. Itâ€™s witty, brilliant, and impossible to put down. Think P. J. Oâ€™Rourke meets Paul Theroux. Kim Barker is a gifted storyteller, and her intrepid, sometimes wacky travels through these two strife-torn nations will leave you informed, amused, andâ€”depending on your sense of adventureâ€”wanting to tag along on her next trip.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â  â€”Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of\n <em>\n  Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraqâ€™s Green Zone\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œ_The Taliban Shuffle_ is\n <em>\n  Scoop\n </em>\n meets\n <em>\n  Dispatches\n </em>\n , remixed with a twenty-first-century Bollywood soundtrack. Laugh-out-loud funny, it is the true story of what it is like to be a female journalist in one of the world''s most exotic war zones, while telling the reader much about what is really going on today in Afghanistan and Pakistan.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Â Â Â Â  â€”Peter Bergen, author of\n <em>\n  Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden\n </em>\n Â and\n <em>\n  The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œYes, there are bombs. And there is carnage. And all sorts of mayhem. But mostly there are people, human beings even, with appetitesâ€”for life, for adventure, for riches, for love. Ms. Barker offers this worldâ€”the human world caught in the crosshairs of historyâ€”with a vitality rarely seen in accounts of the war. A compelling read that offers readers a glimpse of the goings-on behind the byline.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Â Â Â Â  â€”J. Maarten Troost, author of\n <em>\n  The Sex Lives of Cannibals\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œKim Barker gives a true and amusing picture of hellholes and the reporters on assignment in them. But she breaks the journo code of silence and reveals a trade secret of the hacks who cover hellholes: The hell of the holes is that theyâ€™re kind of fun.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â  â€”P. J. O''RourkeÂ \n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2339'),
(7653, 'The Talisman', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The first (1984) collaboration between horror/fantasy writers King and Straub, this book has been reissued in multiple formats to coincide with the publication of its sequel, Black House. In The Talisman, 12-year-old Jack Sawyer takes on a quest in this and a parallel world, the "Territories," to acquire a mystical talisman that will save the life of his dying mother and her "twinner," the Queen of the Territories. Jack "flips" back and forth between worlds during his journey, finding his way through and past representatives of good and evil in both. Award-winning reader Frank Muller continues his long string of superlative performances. This program will generate lots of demand a must for current fiction collections. Also available in the newer, highly compressed MP3-CD format, which requires a CD player that is MP3-compatible or a computer with CD-ROM drive and MP3 player software loaded. Kristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œEXTRAORDINARY . . . MAKES YOUR HAIR STAND ON END.â€\n   <br />\n   â€“*The Washington Post\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œA CLASSIC . . . RARE AND DAZZLING . . . A JOURNEY TO RIVAL THE GREATEST ADVENTURE STORIES EVER TOLD.â€\n   <br />\n   â€“\n   <em>\n    New York Daily News\n   </em>\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/894'),
(7654, 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man&#39;s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut', 'Rob Sheffield', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Talking to Girls About Duran Duran\n </em>\n may sound like a dream come true to all the women who she-bopped through the 80s, but at heart it''s the Feminine Mystique that every boy-next-door has been waiting for (and will actually read). It''s something like a prequel to\n <em>\n  --Anne Bartholomew\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h2>\n Rob Sheffield''s Top ''80s Summer Cruising Songs\n</h2>\n<p>\n Reading\n <em>\n  Talking to Girls About Duran Duran\n </em>\n is a nostalgia trip you''ll love taking: add Rob Sheffield''s exclusive playlist to the mix--featured below, with liner notes--and you''ll be ready for some kind of wonderful summer night. You can also sample and download these songs in\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n <em>\n  Scarface\n </em>\n , I got high on my own supply, which means I spent the summer with one hand on the wheel and another one stuffing my face. I was also listening to the radio 18 hours a day, so I got obsessed with this song. I still get choked up at the "heartbreak overload" part.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song always reminds me of a cool girl I hung around with in the summer of 1988. She liked setting things on fire, getting both of us thrown out of bars, and Def Leppard. It''s funny because this is a classic hair-metal ballad, but with all these glossy keyboards, it sounds like impeccable ''80s synth-pop--it could pass for prime New Order or OMD. (Editor''s note: Song is available on album only.)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this tuneful coming-of-age memoir, the glamorous New Wave band Duran Duran presides spiritually over the all-consuming teenage male efforts to comprehend the opposite sex. Music journalist Sheffield (_Love Is a Mix Tape_) chronicles his passage through the 1980s in a series of chapters in which period groupsâ€”from headliners like Roxy Music and Prince to one-hit wonders like Haysi Fantayzee of Shiny Shiny semifameâ€”provides musical accompaniment to his adolescent angst. They are the soundtrack to his fumbling attempts to dance or make passes at girls, to weather a winless stint on the high school wrestling team, to survive a summer job as an ice-cream truck driver. The relationship insights he arrives atâ€”chiefly, the imperative of unquestioning submission to female whimsâ€”are no more or less cogent than the song lyrics he gleans them from. The book really shines as a collection of free-form riffs on the glorious foolishness of Reagan-era entertainmentâ€”the movie\n <em>\n  E.T.\n </em>\n , he writes, was about a sad muppet who thought he was David Bowieâ€”and its weirdly resonant emotional impact. The result is a funny, poignant browse from a wonderful pop-culture evocateur.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2027'),
(7655, 'Target: Patton', 'Robert K. Wilcox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The death of General George S. Patton is shrouded in mystery. While officially the result of an unfortunate car accident, the evidence points to a far more malevolent plot: murder. So says investigative and military journalist Robert K. Wilcox in his book: "Target: Patton: The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton." Written like a WWII spy thriller and meticulously researched, "Target: Patton" leads you through that fateful December day in 1945, revealing a chilling plan to assassinate General Patton. Backing up this shocking story with facts, photos, and eyewitness statements, Wilcox reveals long-hidden documents and accounts that explain how secrets Patton knew--and his strong anti-Soviet views--may have cost him his life. Not only does Wilcox reveal how, why, and when, he also names names--exposing little-known stories and secrets of such key players as General "Wild Bill" Donovan, the storied head of the OSS (the predecessor to the CIA); an OSS assassin; an Army intelligence agent; and even Josef Stalin himself. "Target: Patton" challenges readers to look at the evidence and question the conventional wisdom. After reading it, few will think of General Patton--or the circumstances surrounding his death--in the same way again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2030');
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(7656, 'The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice', 'Michael Krondl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Advance praise for The Taste of Conquest\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs a chef I have always been deeply intrigued by the mystique of spices. Michael Krondlâ€™s book awakens and transports the reader into this mysterious world, showing us how our lives and history have been transformed by the sensuous odors of cardamom, nutmeg, and turmeric.â€\n <br />\n â€“Gray Kunz, chef and owner of Cafe Gray and Grayz, co-author of The Elements of Taste,\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMichael Krondlâ€™s new book on the spice trade peeks behind the usual histories of Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdamâ€“and tells a tale that is at once witty, informative, scholarly, and as consistently spicy as its subject. In short, itâ€™s delicious!â€\n <br />\n â€“Gary Allen, food history editor at Leiteâ€™s Culinaria and author of The Herbalist in the Kitchen\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith a dash of flair, and a pinch of humor, Michael Krondl mixes up a batch of well-researched facts to tell the story of the intriguing world of spices and their presence on the worldwide table. This is a book that every amateur cook, serious chef, foodie, or food historian should read.â€\n <br />\n â€“Mary Ann Esposito, host/creator of the PBS cooking series Ciao Italia\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Taste of Conquest is the savory story of the rise and fall of three spice-trading cities. It is filled with rich aromas and piquant tastes from the past that still resonate today. Michael Krondl serves up this aromatic tale with zest and verve. This book isnâ€™t just for historians and spice loversâ€“itâ€™s for all who love good writing and great stories.â€\n <br />\n â€“Andrew F. Smith, editor of The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn common with the finest food writersâ€“Elizabeth David, Mark Kurlansky, Anthony Bourdainâ€“Michael Krondl shows a respect for the details of the past that never slays his appetite for the realities of food now. His love of history, travel, and food is as compelling as it...\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The smell of sweet cinnamon on your morning oatmeal, the gentle heat of gingerbread, the sharp piquant bite from your everyday peppermill. The tales these spices could tell: of lavish Renaissance banquets perfumed with cloves, and flimsy sailing ships sent around the world to secure a scented prize; of cinnamon-dusted custard tarts and nutmeg-induced genocide; of pungent elixirs and the quest for the pepper groves of paradise.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Taste of Conquest offers up a riveting, globe-trotting tale of unquenchable desire, fanatical religion, raw greed, fickle fashion, and mouthwatering cuisineâ€“in short, the very stuff of which our world is made. In this engaging, enlightening, and anecdote-filled history, Michael Krondl, a noted chef turned writer and food historian, tells the story of three legendary citiesâ€“Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdamâ€“and how their single-minded pursuit of spice helped to make (and remake) the Western diet and set in motion the first great wave of globalization.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the worldâ€™s peoples were irrevocably brought together as a result of the spice trade. Before the great voyages of discovery, Venice controlled the business in Eastern seasonings and thereby became medieval Europeâ€™s most cosmopolitan urban center. Driven to dominate this trade, Portugalâ€™s mariners pioneered sea routes to the New World and around the Cape of Good Hope to India to unseat Venice as Europeâ€™s chief pepper dealer. Then, in the 1600s, the savvy businessmen of Amsterdam â€œinventedâ€ the modern corporationâ€“the Dutch East India Companyâ€“and took over as spice merchants to the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sharing meals and stories with Indian pepper planters, Portuguese sailors, and Venetian foodies, Krondl takes every opportunity to explore the world of long ago and sample its many flavors. The spice trade and its cultural exchanges didnâ€™t merely lend kick to the traditional Venetian cookies called peverini, or add flavor to Portuguese sausages of every description, or even make the Indonesian rice table more popular than Chinese takeout in trendy Amsterdam. No, the taste for spice of a few wealthy Europeans led to great crusades, astonishing feats of bravery, and even wholesale slaughter.\n</p>\n<p>\n As stimulating as it is pleasurable, and filled with surprising insights, The Taste of Conquest offers a fascinating perspective on how, in search of a tastier dish, the world has been transformed.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2340'),
(7657, 'Tea Time for the Traditionally Built', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The latest installment of this universally beloved and best-selling series finds Precious Ramotswe in personal need of her own formidable detection talents . . . . Mma Ramotswe''s ever-ready tiny white van has recently developed a rather disturbing noise. Of course, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoniher estimable husband and one of Botswana''s most talented mechanicsis the man to turn to for help. But Precious suspects he might simply condemn the van and replace it with something more modern. Can she find a way to save her old friend? In the meantime, Mma Makutsi discovers that her old rival Violet Sephotho, who could not have gotten more than fifty percent on her typing final at the Botswana Secretarial College, has set her sights on none other than Mma Makutsi''s fiance, Phuti Radiphuti. Can Mma Ramotswe''s intuition save the day? Finally, the proprietor of a local football team has enlisted the No. 1 Ladies'' Detective Agency to help explain its dreadful losing streak. The owner of the team is convinced he as a traitor in his midst. But how is Mma Ramotswe, who has never seen a football match in her life, going to discern who is throwing the game? Help, it turns out, may come from an unexpected quarter. There are few mysteries that can''t be solved and fewer problems that can''t be fixed when the irrepressible Precious Ramotswe puts her mind to them. A good cup of red bush tea might be the best solution of all. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3394'),
(7658, 'Teaching the Pig to Dance', 'Fred Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fred Thompson has enjoyed a remarkable career in Hollywood and politics, but when he sat down to write a memoir about how he got to be the person he is, he discovered that his best stories all seemed to come out of the years he spent growing up in and around his hometown of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. It was a small town but not the smallestâ€”after all, it was the county seat and it did have a courthouse, a couple of movie theaters, and its own Davy Crockett statue. For truly small, you had to travel to nearby Summertown, where the regular Sunday dinner was possum and chocolate gravy. But Lawrenceburg is where Fred got to be a kid, get in his share of trouble and scrapes, get to know folks he didnâ€™t realize were so colorful at the time but sure does now, get married, have a few kids, become a man, and start his career as a country lawyer (pretty much in that order). And as Fred tells it, getting that law degree was something of a surprise for him, since in school heâ€™d been less than stellar as a scholar. â€œTeaching Latin to someone like me,â€ he says, â€œwas like trying to teach a pig to dance. Itâ€™s a waste of the teacherâ€™s time and it irritates the pig.â€ In these reflections, as hilarious as they are honest and warm, Fred touches on the influencesâ€”family, hometown neighbors and teachers, team sports, jobs, romances, and personal crisesâ€”that molded his character, his politics, and the way he looks at life today. We get to know the unforgettable characters who congregated at the Blue Ribbon Caf, like the rotund gentleman called â€œShortyâ€ whose claim to fame was his ability to quickly suck in his stomach and cause his pants to fall to the floor. Or Fredâ€™s Grandma Thompson, who became an early TV adopter for the sole purpose of watching â€œWrestling from Hollywoodâ€ and who once had a â€œgourderâ€ removed from her neck and subsequently walked around town with it in a handkerchief showing it to folks. One day Fred and an accomplice placed small explosive Fourth of July â€œcracker ballsâ€ under the four legs of their teacherâ€™s chair. Mrs. Garner sat down and, despite the racket, didnâ€™t flinch so much as a muscleâ€”but Fred felt a twinge of the one emotion he hated mostâ€”shame. Fred idolized Coach Staggs from his high school football days, even though he was â€œlike Captain Ahab without the humorâ€ and didnâ€™t like smart alecks, comics, or individualists, which put the young Fred at a disadvantage. More than anyone else from those days though, Fred remembers his mom and dad, who taught him that kids are shaped most of all by the love and support they can take for granted. Teaching the Pig to Dance will delight everyone who admires Fred Thompson for his contributions to politics or for his work in movies and on TV, along with all those who just love to hear rollicking but unforgettable stories about growing up in a place where, as one of the local old timers put it, â€œWe werenâ€™t big enough to have a town drunk, so a few of us had to take turns.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2032'),
(7659, 'Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln', 'Doris Kearns Goodwin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The life and times of Abraham Lincoln have been analyzed and dissected in countless books. Do we need another Lincoln biography? In\n <em>\n  Team of Rivals\n </em>\n , esteemed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin proves that we do. Though she can''t help but cover some familiar territory, her perspective is focused enough to offer fresh insights into Lincoln''s leadership style and his deep understanding of human behavior and motivation. Goodwin makes the case for Lincoln''s political genius by examining his relationships with three men he selected for his cabinet, all of whom were opponents for the Republican nomination in 1860: William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Edward Bates. These men, all accomplished, nationally known, and presidential, originally disdained Lincoln for his backwoods upbringing and lack of experience, and were shocked and humiliated at losing to this relatively obscure Illinois lawyer. Yet Lincoln not only convinced them to join his administration--Seward as secretary of state, Chase as secretary of the treasury, and Bates as attorney general--he ultimately gained their admiration and respect as well. How he soothed egos, turned rivals into allies, and dealt with many challenges to his leadership, all for the sake of the greater good, is largely what Goodwin''s fine book is about. Had he not possessed the wisdom and confidence to select and work with the best people, she argues, he could not have led the nation through one of its darkest periods.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ten years in the making, this engaging work reveals why "Lincoln''s road to success was longer, more tortuous, and far less likely" than the other men, and why, when opportunity beckoned, Lincoln was "the best prepared to answer the call." This multiple biography further provides valuable background and insights into the contributions and talents of Seward, Chase, and Bates. Lincoln may have been "the indispensable ingredient of the Civil War," but these three men were invaluable to Lincoln and they played key roles in keeping the nation intact. --_Shawn Carkonen_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Team of Rivals\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Team of Rivals\n </em>\n doesn''t just tell the story of Abraham Lincoln. It is a multiple biography of the entire team of personal and political competitors that he put together to lead the country through its greatest crisis. Here, Doris Kearns Goodwin profiles five of the key players in her book, four of whom contended for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination and all of whom later worked together in Lincoln''s cabinet.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1. Edwin M. Stanton\n </strong>\n <br />\n Stanton treated Lincoln with utter contempt at their initial acquaintance when the two men were involved in a celebrated law case in the summer of 1855. Unimaginable as it might seem after Stanton''s demeaning behavior, Lincoln offered him "the most powerful civilian post within his gift"--the post of secretary of war--at their next encounter six years later. On his first day in office as Simon Cameron''s replacement, the energetic, hardworking Stanton instituted "an entirely new regime" in the War Department. After nearly a year of disappointment with Cameron, Lincoln had found in Stanton the leader the War Department desperately needed. Lincoln''s choice of Stanton revealed his singular ability to transcend personal vendetta, humiliation, or bitterness. As for Stanton, despite his initial contempt for the man he once described as a "long armed Ape," he not only accepted the offer but came to respect and love Lincoln more than any person outside of his immediate family. He was beside himself with grief for weeks after the president''s death.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  2. Salmon P. Chase\n </strong>\n <br />\n Chase, an Ohioan, had been both senator and governor, had played a central role in the formation of the national Republican Party, and had shown an unflagging commitment to the cause of the black man. No individual felt he\n <em>\n  deserved\n </em>\n the presidency as a natural result of his past contributions more than Chase himself, but he refused to engage in the practical methods by which nominations are won. He had virtually no campaign and he failed to conciliate his many enemies in Ohio itself. As a result, he alone among the candidates came to the convention without the united support of his own state. Chase never ceased to underestimate Lincoln, nor to resent the fact that he had lost the presidency to a man he considered his inferior. His frustration with his position as secretary of the treasury was alleviated only by his his dogged hope that he, rather than Lincoln, would be the Republican nominee in 1864, and he steadfastly worked to that end. The president put up with Chase''s machinations and haughty yet fundamentally insecure nature because he recognized his superlative accomplishments at treasury. Eventually, however, Chase threatened to split the Republican Party by continuing to fill key positions with partisans who supported his presidential hopes. When Lincoln stepped in, Chase tendered his resignation as he had three times before, but this time Lincoln stunned Chase by calling his bluff and accepting the offer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  3. Abraham Lincoln\n </strong>\n <br />\n When Lincoln won the Republican presidential nomination in 1860 he seemed to have come from nowhere--a backwoods lawyer who had served one undistinguished term in the House of Representatives and lost two consecutive contests for the U.S. Senate. Contemporaries attributed his surprising nomination to chance, to his moderate position on slavery, and to the fact that he hailed from the battleground state of Illinois. But Lincoln''s triumph, particularly when viewed against the efforts of his rivals, owed much to a remarkable, unsuspected political acuity and an emotional strength forged in the crucible of hardship and defeat. That Lincoln, after winning the presidency, made the unprecedented decision to incorporate his eminent rivals into his political family, the cabinet, was evidence of an uncanny self-confidence and an indication of what would prove to others a most unexpected greatness.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  4. William H. Seward\n </strong>\n <br />\n A celebrated senator from New York for more than a decade and governor of his state for two terms before going to Washington, Seward was certain he was going to receive his party''s nomination for president in 1860. The weekend before the convention in Chicago opened he had already composed a first draft of the valedictory speech he expected to make to the Senate, assuming that he would resign his position as soon as the decision in Chicago was made. His mortification at not having received the nomination never fully abated, and when he was offered his cabinet post as secretary of state he intended to have a major role in choosing the remaining cabinet members, conferring upon himself a position in the new government more commanding than that of Lincoln himself. He quickly realized the futility of his plan to relegate the president to a figurehead role. Though the feisty New Yorker would continue to debate numerous issues with Lincoln in the years ahead, exactly as Lincoln had hoped and needed him to do, Seward would become his closest friend, advisor, and ally in the administration. More than any other cabinet member Seward appreciated Lincoln''s peerless skill in balancing factions both within his administration and in the country at large.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  5. Edward Bates\n </strong>\n <br />\n A widely respected elder statesman, a delegate to the convention that framed the Missouri Constitution, and a former Missouri congressman whose opinions on national matters were still widely sought, Bates''s ambitions for political success were gradually displaced by love for his wife and large family, and he withdrew from public life in the late 1840s. For the next 20 years he was asked repeatedly to run or once again accept high government posts but he consistently declined. However in early 1860, with letters and newspaper editorials advocating his candidacy crowding in upon him, he decided to try for the highest office in the land. After losing to Lincoln he vowed, in his diary, to decline a cabinet position if one were to be offered, but with the country "in trouble and danger" he felt it was his duty to accept when Lincoln asked him to be attorney general. Though Bates initially viewed Lincoln as a well-meaning but incompetent administrator, he eventually concluded that the president was an unmatched leader, "very near being a ''perfect man.''"\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Essential Doris Kearns Goodwin\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  More New Reading on the Civil War\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winner Goodwin (_No Ordinary Time_) seeks to illuminate what she interprets as a miraculous event: Lincoln''s smooth (and, in her view, rather sudden) transition from underwhelming one-term congressman and prairie lawyer to robust chief executive during a time of crisis. Goodwin marvels at Lincoln''s ability to co-opt three better-born, better-educated rivalsâ€”each of whom had challenged Lincoln for the 1860 Republican nomination. The three were New York senator William H. Seward, who became secretary of state; Ohio senator Salmon P. Chase, who signed on as secretary of the treasury and later was nominated by Lincoln to be chief justice of the Supreme Court; and Missouri''s "distinguished elder statesman" Edward Bates, who served as attorney general. This is the "team of rivals" Goodwin''s title refers to.The problem with this interpretation is that the metamorphosis of Lincoln to Machiavellian master of men that Goodwin presupposes did not in fact occur overnight only as he approached the grim reality of his presidency. The press had labeled candidate Lincoln "a fourth-rate lecturer, who cannot speak good grammar." But East Coast railroad executives, who had long employed Lincoln at huge prices to defend their interests as attorney and lobbyist, knew better. Lincoln was a shrewd political operator and insider long before he entered the White Houseâ€”a fact Goodwin underplays. On another front, Goodwin''s spotlighting of the president''s three former rivals tends to undercut that Lincoln''s most essential Cabinet-level contacts were not with Seward, Chase and Bates, but rather with secretaries of war Simon Cameron and Edwin Stanton, and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. These criticisms aside, Goodwin supplies capable biographies of the gentlemen on whom she has chosen to focus, and ably highlights the sometimes tangled dynamics of their "team" within the larger assemblage of Lincoln''s full war cabinet.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2408'),
(7660, 'Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America', 'Dana Milbank', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n Washington Post _columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that â€œthe tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.â€ In America in 2010, Glenn Beck provides the very refreshment Jefferson had in mind: Whether heâ€™s the patriot or the tyrant, heâ€™s definitely full of manure.\n</p>\n<p>\n The wildly popular Fox News host with three million daily viewers perfectly captures the vitriol of our time and the fact-free state of our political culture. The secret to his success is his willingness to traffic in the fringe conspiracies and Internet hearsay that others wouldnâ€™t touch with a ten-foot pole: death panels, government health insurance for dogs, FEMA concenÂ­tration camps, an Obama security force like Hitlerâ€™s SS.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Beck, who is, according to a recent Gallup poll, admired by more Americans than the Pope, has nothing in his background that identifies him as an ideologue, giving rise to the speculation that his right-wing shtick is just thatâ€”the act of a brilliant showman, known for both his over-the-top daily outÂ­rages and for weeping on the air.\n</p>\n<p>\n Milbank describes, with lacerating wit, just how the former shock jock without a college degree has managed to become the most recognizable leader of antigovernment conservatives and exposes him as the guy who is single-handedly giving patriÂ­otism a bad name.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Author Dana Milbank on Beck University\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n As part of his $32-million-a-year business empire, Fox News host/radio show host/March on Washington demagogue Glenn Beck has begun offering on-line classes through â€œBeck University.â€ For an annual tuition of $74.95, and hundreds of perfectly good hours wasted, you will learn why everything they teach you at other universities is, as Beck puts it, â€œunbelievably incompleteâ€ â€“ because those schools, unlike Beck University, are constrained by annoyances such as facts.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alternatively, for much less money and pain, you can decline Beck Universityâ€™s admission offer and buy this book. Consider it the Cliffâ€™s Notes to Glenn Beck University: Everything you need to know about the most successful, and dangerous, media personality in America. Iâ€™d call it â€œGlenn Beck for Dummies,â€ but people might confuse it with Beckâ€™s broadcasts.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Class Offerings:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Chemistry 101:\n </strong>\n How Beck uses menthol paste to produce the famous tears that flow from his eyes.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Economics 110:\n </strong>\n Beck describes himself as a â€œregular schmoeâ€ who lives in a â€œsubdivision,â€ then takes a chauffer-driven sedan to his 16-room mansion on three acres in the wealthiest hamlet in America: New Canaan, Connecticut.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Economics 330:\n </strong>\n Beckâ€™s apocalyptic pronouncements on air have made him a favorite of advertisers selling gold coins and â€œSurvival Seed Banksâ€ that can be used in the End Times.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Religion 220:\n </strong>\n Beckâ€™s advancement of the White Horse Prophecy, an obscure Mormon philosophy dating to the Prophet Joseph Smith, who said elders of the Mormon Church will save the Constitution.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Biology 111:\n </strong>\n The saga of how Glenn Beck was almost killed by his hemorrhoids.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Biology 330:\n </strong>\n The science behind Beckâ€™s killing of a frog and restoring life to a dead fish on his Fox News set.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Psychology 125:\n </strong>\n How to convince millions of people that the U.S. government is operating concentration camps in Wyoming.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  History 114:\n </strong>\n Beckâ€™s discovery that progressives in America are using â€œthe same tacticâ€ Hitler did in â€œrounding up Jews and exterminating them.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  History 220:\n </strong>\n Advanced Revisionism. Beck, fierce foe of government spending, once said of the Wall Street bailout: â€œthe real story is the $700 billion that youâ€™re hearing about now is not only, I believe, necessary, it is also not nearly enough, and all of the weasels in Washington know it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Genealogy 401:\n </strong>\n Beckâ€™s research determines that Woodrow Wilson is Obamaâ€™s grandfather.\n</p>\n<p>\n Enroll today. Because the End is Near.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "[A] droll, take-no-prisoners account of the nation''s most audacious conspiracy-spinner...Milbank is pitch-perfect in describing a typical Beck performance. He has watched and listened to more Beck programs than I believed possible for the human mind to absord...Milbank is also superb in describing how Beck manipulates his listeners..."\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n -- David Oshinsky for _The Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n "Train-wreck fascinating...Milbank''s obsessions about Beck''s obsessions can be contagious."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n </em>\n _San Francisco Chronicle\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Milbank''s fast-paced chronicle of Beck World ably details the meteoric rise of a low-rent radio shock jock to national phenomenon in less than a decade."\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n --The Christian Science Monitor\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2033'),
(7661, 'The Tears of the Sun', 'S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Rudi McKenzie-now Artos, the High King of Montival-must fulfill his destiny. He wields the sword crafted for him before he was born. He has made friends of his enemies. He has won the heart of the woman he loves.  And now he must defeat the forces of the Church Universal and Triumphant, knowing he may lose his life in the final battle...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3562'),
(7662, 'The Teeth of the Tiger', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While last year''s Clancy novel, Red Rabbit, hit #1 first week out, sales reportedly were down from previous books, as were the thumbs of critics, who found the book slow, talky and lacking in action. In an effort to repair the damage as well as to revitalize his long-running Jack Ryan series, Clancy has scrapped his usual one-novel-every-two-years cycle to deliver a shorter, swifter tale featuring not Ryan but Ryan''s son, also known as Jack, as well as two of young Jack''s cousins, fraternal twins Dominic and Brian Caruso, the former an FBI agent, the latter a Marine. All three are recruited to a privately funded vigilante organization, Hendley Associates, that aims to strike at America''s enemies-particularly, terrorists-when the Feds can''t or won''t. The narrative divides into two parts. The first concerns the training of the three, with young Ryan basically pushing his way into the organization while Dominic is signed on after taking the law into his own hands by shooting a child killer, and Brian after demonstrating smarts during combat in Afghanistan. Their grapplings with the moral and logistical demands of their new jobs alternate with a villains'' plot, as Islamic terrorists cut a deal with Colombian drug smugglers, sneak into the U.S. and move toward their killing-field objectives, four shopping malls in mid-America. The plot strands tie up in a terrifically exciting sequence, the novel''s highlight, as Dom and Brian, by chance shopping at one mall, take down four of the terrorists. But the terrorists kill scores of innocents, so the rest of the novel details American vengeance-the teeth of the tiger-as the twins fly to Europe, followed by Jack, to take out several of the terrorists'' handlers. This isn''t Clancy''s strongest novel, but it''s a big improvement over Red Rabbit. Geopolitical analysis and operational details overwhelm the few action sequences, perhaps to the chagrin of many Clancy fans, but the author knows this stuff like no one else and delivers it all in his inimitable clipped manner. Clancy''s smart flag-waving and targeting of terrorists will please many, of course, and leaves plenty of room for sequels. Expect generally satisfied fans.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A man named Mohammed sits in a cafÃ© in Vienna, about to propose a deal to a Colombian. Mohammed has a strong network of agents and sympathizers throughout Europe and the Middle East, and the Colombian has an equally strong drug network throughout America. What if they were to form an alliance, to combine all their assets and connections? The potential for profits would be enormous--and the potential for destruction unimaginable.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a nondescript office building in suburban Maryland, the firm Hendley Associates does a profitable business in stocks, bonds, and international currencies, but its true mission is quite different: to identify and locate terrorist threats, and then deal with them, in whatever manner necessary. Established with the knowledge of President John Patrick Ryan, ?the Campus? is always on the lookout for promising new talent, its recruiters scattered throughout the armed forces and government agencies--and three men are about to cross its radar.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first is Dominic Caruso, a rookie FBI agent, barely a year out of Quantico, whose decisive actions resolve a particularly brutal kidnap/murder case. The second is Caruso?s brother, Brian, a Marine captain just back from his first combat action in Afghanistan, and already a man to watch. And the third is their cousin . . . a young man named Jack Ryan, Jr.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jack was raised on intrigue. As his father moved through the ranks of the CIA and then into the White House, Jack received a life course in the world and the way it operates from agents, statesmen, analysts, Secret Service men, and black ops specialists such as John Clark and Ding Chavez. He wants to put it all to work now, but when he knocks on the front door of ?the Campus,? he finds that nothing has prepared him for what he is about to encounter. For it is indeed a different world out there, and in here . . . and it is about to become far more dangerous.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1153'),
(7663, 'The Tehran Initiative', 'Joel C. Rosenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The world is on the brink of disaster and the clock is ticking. Iran has just conducted its first atomic weapons test. Millions of Muslims around the world are convinced their messiah--known as "the Twelfth Imam"--has just arrived on earth. Israeli leaders fear Tehran, under the Twelfth Imam''s spell, will soon launch a nuclear attack that could bring about a second holocaust and the annihilation of Israel. The White House fears Jerusalem will strike first, launching a preemptive attack against Iran''s nuclear facilities that could cause the entire Middle East to go up in flames, oil prices to skyrocket, and the global economy to collapse. With the stakes high and few viable options left, the president of the United States orders CIA operative David Shirazi and his team to track down and sabotage Iran''s nuclear warheads before Iran or Israel can launch a devastating first strike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3574'),
(7664, 'Tell No One', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Harlan Coben comes an unforgettable duet of classic novelsâ€”two top-notch thrillers filled with the authorâ€™s signature storytelling genius.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n TELL NO ONE\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive. Everyone tells him itâ€™s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossibleâ€”that somewhere, somehow, his wife is aliveâ€¦and heâ€™s been warned to tell no one.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA COMPELLING AND ORIGINAL SUSPENSE THRILLER.â€\n <em>\n  â€”Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n GONE FOR GOOD\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleinsâ€™ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young womanâ€”a girl Will had once lovedâ€”was found brutally murdered in her familyâ€™s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good. Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother, and even himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRIVETINGâ€¦HAS MORE TWISTS AND TURNS THAN AN AMUSEMENT PARK RIDE.â€\n <em>\n  â€”USA Today\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harlan Coben is the winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards. His critically acclaimed novels have been published in thirty-three languages around the world and have been number one bestsellers in more than half a dozen countries. In addition to the Myron Bolitar series (\n <strong>\n  Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear\n </strong>\n , and the upcoming\n <em>\n  Promise Me\n </em>\n ), he is also the author of\n <strong>\n  Tell No One, Gone for Good,\n </strong>\n <em>\n  No Second Chance,\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Just One Look,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Innocent.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/485'),
(7665, 'Tell-All', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush. Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevardâ€“inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Touretteâ€™s syndrome of rat-tat-tatÂ  name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a mercilessÂ  send-up of Lillian Hellmanâ€™s habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond. Our Thelma Ritterâ€“ish narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine â€œMiss Kathieâ€Â  Kentonâ€”veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathieâ€™s heart (and boudoir). Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathieâ€™s death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellmanâ€“penned musical extravaganza; as the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fansâ€”and for posterity. Tell-All is funny, subversive, and fascinatingly clever. Itâ€™s wild, itâ€™s wicked, itâ€™sÂ  bold-facedâ€”itâ€™s vintage Chuck.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3217'),
(7666, 'Templars: History and Myth: From Solomon&#39;s Temple to the Freemasons', 'Michael Haag', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval world. Yet two centuries later, they were arrested, accused of blasphemy, heresy and orgies, and their leaders were burnt at the stake.Part guide, part history, this book investigates the Templar legends and legacy from the mysteries of Solomons Temple in Jerusalem, via nineteenth century development of the Freemasons, through to Templar appearances in Dan Brown and Indiana Jones.This book explains the whole context of Templar history, including the recent evidence discovered by the Vatican that the Templars were not guilty of heresy. It also features a guide to Templar castles and sites.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2410'),
(7667, 'Temptation and Surrender', 'Stephanie Laurens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Handsome, wealthy, and well-born, Jonas Tallent has everything a gentleman needs to enjoy London society to the fullestâ€”and he has. He''s played cards until dawn, flirted with eligible young ladies, and made love to some ineligible ones.   But now he''s restless and bored with the mindless frivolity and careless pleasure, so it''s with a sense of relief that he takes up the reins of his family''s estate in rural Devon. His most pressing need is to hire a new manager for the innâ€”the center of village life. Such a small task, yet he discovers few decent applicants are willing to live in a quiet country backwater.   Then genteel but impoverished Miss Emily Beauregard applies for the position. Jonas''s initial response is an emphatic "no!" Ladies, especially one as attractive as Emily, belong in the ballroom or the bedroom, not running an inn. But with no alternatives, he grudgingly allows Emily to try, and she rapidly proves herself worthy, resurrecting the inn with tact and skill.   But Emily has a secret. It''s not only the need to provide for herself and her orphaned siblings that has brought her to Devon. She''s surreptitiously searching for a family treasure hidden in the village, the only clues to its location a cryptic rhyme handed down through the generations. Emily is determined to solve the puzzle, find the treasure, and reinstate her family to its rightful place in society.   But Em hasn''t bargained on Jonas. His experience is temptation, his attentions irresistible, and he''s determined to aid her in her quest. He eventually persuades her to trust him, and together they unravel the clues. But someone else is watching, waiting, and once the family legacy is unearthed, the villain strikes, threatening Em, her family, and the love she and Jonas have discovered in each other''s arms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3635'),
(7668, 'The Ten-Year Nap', 'Meg Wolitzer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author of The Wife and The Position, a feverishly smart novel about female ambition, money, class, motherhood, and marriage-and what happens in one community when a group of educated women chooses not to work.  For a group of four New York friends, the past decade has been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated and reared to believe that they would conquer the world, they then left jobs as corporate lawyers, investment bankers, and film scouts to stay home with their babies. What was meant to be a temporary leave of absence has lasted a decade. Now, at age forty, with the halcyon days of young motherhood behind them and without professions to define them, Amy, Jill, Roberta, and Karen face a life that is not what they were brought up to expect but seems to be the one they have chosen.  But when Amy gets to know a charismatic and successful working mother of three who appears to have fulfilled the classic women''s dream of having it all-work, love, family-without having to give anything up, a lifetime''s worth of concerns, both practical and existential, opens up. As Amy''s obsession with this woman''s bustling life grows, it forces the four friends to confront the choices they''ve made in opting out of their careers-until a series of startling events shatters the peace and, for some of them, changes the landscape entirely.  Written in Meg Wolitzer''s inimitable, glittering style, The Ten-Year Nap is wickedly observant, knowing, provocative, surprising, and always entertaining, as it explores the lives of these women with candor, wit, and generosity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3383'),
(7669, 'Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table', 'Ruth Reichl', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n restaurant critic Ruth Reichl reads her (only very slightly abridged) memoir with the same humor, care, and intimacy that she put into its writing. The voices of the chefs, waiters, and gourmands who taught her to love food and its preparation come to life in this audiobook. Particularly compelling is her wonderful tale of "Life on Mars"--boarding school in Montreal might well have been on another planet. We listen as her halting French becomes fluent, as she shares weekend forays for forbidden smoked meat and cream puffs (the cure for all homesickness) with her new friend, Beatrice, and as her encounter with Beatrice''s father, Monsieur du Croix, introduces her to a new level of joy in food. Audiobook listeners are also treated to a handy booklet of recipes included with the tapes that represent a dish from each of the main characters we meet in Ruth''s life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reichl discovered early on that since she wasn''t "pretty or funny or sexy," she could attract friends with food instead. But that initiative isn''t likely to secure her an audience for her chaotic, self-satisfied memoirs, although her restaurant reviews in the New York Times are popular. Reichl''s knack for describing food gives one a new appreciation for the pleasures of the table, as when she writes here: "There were eggplants the color of amethysts and plates of sliced salami and bresaola that looked like stacks of rose petals left to dry." But when she is recalling her life, she seems unable to judge what''s interesting. Raised in Manhattan and Connecticut by a docile father who was a book designer and a mother who suffered from manic depression, Reichl enjoyed such middle-class perks as a Christmas in Paris when she was 13 and high school in Canada to learn French. But her mother was a blight, whom Reichl disdains to the discomfort of the reader who wonders if she exaggerates. The author studied at the University of Michigan, earned a graduate degree in art history, married a sculptor named Doug, lived in a loft in Manhattan''s Bowery and then with friends bought a 17-room "cottage" in Berkeley, Calif., which turned into a commune so self-consciously offbeat that their Thanksgiving feast one year was prepared from throwaways found in a supermarket dumpster. Seasoning her memoir with recipes, Reichl takes us only through the 1970s, which seems like an arbitrary cutoff, and one hopes the years that followed were more engaging than the era recreated here.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2036'),
(7670, 'The Tender Bar', 'J. R. Moehringer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me," asserts J.R. Moehringer, and his compelling memoir\n <em>\n  The Tender Bar\n </em>\n is the story of how and why. A Pulitzer-Prize winning writer for the Los Angeles Times, Moehringer grew up fatherless in pub-heavy Manhasset, New York, in a ramshackle house crammed with cousins and ruled by an eccentric, unkind grandfather. Desperate for a paternal figure, he turns first to his father, a DJ whom he can only access via the radio (Moehringer calls him The Voice and pictures him as "talking smoke"). When The Voice suddenly disappears from the airwaves, Moehringer turns to his hairless Uncle Charlie, and subsequently, Uncle Charlie''s place of employment--a bar called Dickens that soon takes center stage. While Moehringer may occasionally resort to an overwrought metaphor (the footsteps of his family sound like "storm troopers on stilts"), his writing moves at a quick clip and his tale of a dysfunctional but tightly knit community is warmly told. "While I fear that we''re drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we''re defined by what embraces us," Moehringer says, and his story makes us believe it.\n <em>\n  --Brangien Davis\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Signature]_Reviewed by_ Terry GolwayYou needn''t be a writer to appreciate the romance of the corner tavernâ€”or, for that matter, of the local dive in a suburban strip mall. But perhaps it does take a writer to explain the appeal of these places that ought to offend us on any number of levelsâ€”they often smell bad, the decor generally is best viewed through bloodshot eyes and, by night''s end, they usually do not offer an uplifting vision of the human condition.Ah, but what would we do without them, and what would we do without the companionship of fellow pilgrims whose journey through life requires the assistance of a drop or two?J.R. Moehringer, a Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning writer for the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n , has written a memoir that explains it all, and then some.\n <em>\n  The Tender Bar\n </em>\n is the story of a young man who knows his father only as "The Voice," of a single mother struggling to make a better life for her son, and of a riotously dysfunctional family from Long Island. But more than anything else, Moehringer''s book is a homage to the culture of the local pub. That''s where young J.R. seeks out the companionship of male role models in place of his absent father, where he receives an education that has served him well in his career and where, inevitably, he looks for love, bemoans its absence and mourns its loss.Moehringer grew up in Manhasset, a place, he writes, that "believed in booze." At a young age, he became a regularâ€”not a drinker, of course, for he was far too young. But while still tender of years, he was introduced to the culture, to the companionship andâ€”yesâ€”to the romance of it all. "Everyone has a holy place, a refuge, where their heart is purer, their mind clearer, where they feel close to God or love or truth or whatever it is they happen to worship," he writes. For young J.R., that place was a gin mill on Plandome Road where his Uncle Charlie was a bartender and a patron._The Tender Bar_''s emotional climax comes after its native son has found success as a journalist for the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n . On September 11, 2001, almost 50 souls who lived and loved in Moehringer''s home town of Manhasset were killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. One was a bartender we''ve met along the way. Another was one of the author''s cousins.Moehringer drove from Denver, where he was based as a correspondent for the\n <em>\n  Times\n </em>\n , to New York to mourn and comfort old friends. He describes his cousin''s mother, Charlene Byrne, as she grieved: "Charlene was crying, the kind of crying I could tell would last for years."And so it has, in Manhasset and so many other Long Island commuter towns. Moehringer''s lovely evocation of an ordinary place filled with ordinary people gives dignity and meaning to those lost lives, and to his own.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1864');
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(7671, 'The Tenth Circle', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestselling author Jodi Picoult''s\n <em>\n  The Tenth Circle\n </em>\n is a metaphorical journey through Dante''s\n <em>\n  Inferno\n </em>\n , told through the eyes of a small Maine family whose hidden demons haunt every aspect of their seemingly peaceful existence. Woven throughout the novel are a series of dramatic illustrations that pay homage to the family''s patriarch (comic book artist Daniel Stone), and add a unique twist to this gripping, yet somewhat rhetorical tale.\n</p>\n<p>\n Trixie Stone is an imaginative, perceptive 14 year old whose life begins to unravel when Jason Underhill, Bethel High''s star hockey player, breaks up with her, leaving a void that can only be filled by the blood spilled during shameful self-mutilations in the girls'' bathroom. While Trixie''s dad Daniel notices his daughter''s recent change in demeanor, he turns a blind eye, just as he does to the obvious affair his wife Laura, a college professor, is barely trying to conceal. When Trixie gets raped at a friend''s party, Daniel and Laura are forced to deal not only with the consequences of their daughter''s physical and emotional trauma, but with their own transgressions as well. For Daniel, that means reflecting on a childhood spent as the only white kid in a native Alaskan village, where isolation and loneliness turned him into a recluse, only to be born again after falling in love with his wife. Laura, who blames her family''s unraveling on her selfish affair, must decide how to reconcile her personal desires with her loved ones'' needs.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Tenth Circle\n </em>\n is chock full of symbolism and allegory that at times can seem oppresive. Still, Picoult''s fans will welcome this skillfully told story of betrayal and its many negative, and positive consequences.\n <em>\n  --Gisele Toueg\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Some of Picoult''s best storytelling distinguishes her twisting, metaphor-rich 13th novel (after\n <em>\n  Vanishing Acts\n </em>\n ) about parental vigilance gone haywire, inner demons and the emotional risks of relationships. Comic book artist Daniel Stone is like the character in his graphic novel with the same title as this bookâ€”once a violent youth and the only white boy in an Alaskan Inuit village, now a loving, stay-at-home dad in Bethel, Maineâ€”traveling figuratively through Dante''s circles of hell to save his 14-year-old teenage daughter, Trixie. After she accuses her ex-boyfriend of rape, Trixieâ€”and Daniel, whose fierce father-love morphs to murderous rage toward her assailantâ€”unravel in the aftermath of the allegation. At the same time, wife and mother Laura, a Dante scholar, tries to mend her and Daniel''s marriage after ending her affair with one of her students. Picoult has collaborated with graphic artist Dustin Weaver to illustrate her deft, complex exploration of Daniel and his beast within, but the drawings, though well-done, distract from the powerful picture she has drawn with words. Laura and Daniel follow their runaway daughter to Alaska, at which point Picoult drives the story with the heavy-handed Dante metaphorâ€”not the characters. Still, this story of a flawed family on the brink of destruction grips from start to finish.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1239'),
(7672, 'The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food', 'Judith Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishingâ€”one of the food worldâ€™s most admired figuresâ€”an evocative and inspiring memoir. Living in Paris after World War II, Judith Jones broke free of the bland American food she had been raised on and reveled in everyday French culinary delights. On returning to the Statesâ€”hoping to bring some joie de cuisine to Americaâ€”she published Julia Childâ€™s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The rest is publishing and gastronomic history.A new world now opened up to Jones: discovering, with her husband, Evan, the delights of American food; working with the tireless Julia; absorbing the wisdom of James Beard; understanding food as memory through the writings of Claudia Roden and Madhur Jaffrey; demystifying the techniques of Chinese cookery with Irene Kuo; absorbing the Italian way through the warmth of Lidia Bastianich; and working with Edna Lewis, Marion Cunningham, Joan Nathan, and other groundbreaking cooks. Jones considers matters of taste (can it be acquired?). She discusses the vagaries of vegetable gardening in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and the joys of foraging in the woods and meadows. And she writes about M.F.K. Fisher: as mentor, friend, and the source of luminous insight into the arts of eating, living, and aging.Embellished with fifty recipesâ€”each with its own story and special tipsâ€”this is an absolutely charming memoir by a woman who was present at the creation of the American food revolution and played a seminal role in shaping it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1866'),
(7673, 'Term Limits', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adequate production values and a serviceable reading by James Naughton cannot save this audiobook from a truly awful story that tries to pass off a rightist political manifesto with Fascist underpinnings as an entertaining thriller. The silly plot focuses on our hero, a macho U.S. Congressman, who punches out the National Security Advisor in the President''s presence, spouts that slain U.S. Congressmen got what they deserved, calls Congressmen who oppose his agenda "pansies," and, finally, joins a plot to kill another Fed with assassins who just happen to include an old Marine buddy and the Congressman''s own grandfather. The assassins are all just good Americans, demanding at one point that the President sponsor a crime bill, of all things, or else! They are noble reformers, with a dirty job to do, rubbing out corrupt politicians. This reactionary diatribe is not recommended.?Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, NC\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An underwhelming first technothrilleroriginally self-published.\n  <code>\n   One man''s terrorist is another man''s freedom fighter,'''' says Michael O''Rourke to his girlfriend, thus justifying the triple murder of a US senator and a pair of congressmen. They didn''t deserve to live, he further insists, guilty as they were of mismanaging their country''s business. In fact, virtually all politicians--Republicans and Democrats alike--are similarly guilty. Still, the assassinations are meant not merely as punishment but as a warning. Politicians had better shape up, be upright, set aside partisanship, and balance the budget. Or else. Young Michael, the hero of Flynn''s dismal fable, is himself a congressman--the exception that proves the rule. He''s sore at his government and has his reasons. His parents were killed in an automobile accident; the driver of the other car, it turned out, was a drunk, a repeat offender, who should have been off the streets, in jail. Due to the aforementioned mismanagement, however, the government can''t build enough prisons. Nor is this mismanagement accidental; rather, its the inevitable result of self-serving cabals and wicked conspiracies. And as a variety of the aforesaid cabals maneuver to stop the terrorists, Michael finds himself caught squarely in the middle, very much on his own. While there are conspiracies galore here, much of the novel has an undercrafted feel to it: one-dimensional types, clumsy, often careless writing. (Flynn''s heroine has\n  </code>\n  big brown eyes''''; a\n  <code>\n   freedom fighter'''' has\n  </code>\n  bright blue eyes''''--information delivered frequently, each time as if newly minted.) At length, the cabal is thwarted, the once misunderstood terrorist vindicated. ``You''re not going to believe what''s on this,'''' Michael says, handing over the tape that reveals the depth of the conspiracy. He''s right. A sure-fire hit for readers who share Flynns political outlook--the government as ogre. (Author tour) --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/487'),
(7674, 'Terminal Freeze', 'Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A breathtaking discovery at the top of the world . . .A terrifying collision between modern science and Native American legend . . . An electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child.Two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle lies Alaskaâ€™s Federal Wildlife Zone, one of the most remote and inhospitable places on Earth. But for paleoecologist Evan Marshall and a small group of fellow scientists, an expedition to the Zone represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the effects of global warming. Everything about the expedition changes, however, with an astonishing find. On a routine exploration of a glacial ice cave, the group discovers an enormous ancient animal, encased in solid ice. The media conglomerate sponsoring their research immediately intervenes and arranges the ultimate spectacleâ€”the creature will be cut from the ice, thawed, and revealed live on television. Despite dire warnings from the local Native American village, and the scientific concerns of Marshall and his team, the â€œdocudramaâ€ plows ahead . . . until the scientists make one more horrifying discovery. The beast is no regular specimenâ€”it may be an ancient killing machine. And they may be premature in believing it dead.In this riveting new thriller, Lincoln Child weaves together a stunning Arctic landscape, a terrifying mythic creature, and a pervasive mood of chaosâ€”and fear. With Terminal Freeze, Child demonstrates why he has become a major bestselling author, and why his novels electrify and enthrall so many.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3203'),
(7675, 'The Terror', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in.When the expedition''s leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival, or the harbinger of their deaths. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape. The Terror swells with the heart-stopping suspense and heroic adventure that have won Dan Simmons praise as "a writer who not only makes big promises but keeps them" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). With a haunting and constantly surprising story based on actual historical events, The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/589'),
(7676, 'The Testament', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Troy Phelan, a 78-year-old eccentric and the 10th-richest man in America, is about to read his last will and testament, divvying up an estate worth $11 billion. Phelan''s three ex-wives, their grasping spawn, a legion of lawyers, several psychiatrists, and a plethora of sound technicians wait breathlessly, all eyes glued to digital monitors as they watch the old man read his verdict. But Phelan shocks everyone with a bizarre, last-gasp attempt to redistribute the spoils, setting in motion a legal morality tale of a contested will, sin, and redemption.\n</p>\n<p>\n Our hero, Nate O''Riley--a washed-up, alcoholic litigator with two ruined marriages in his wake and the IRS on his tail--is dispatched to the Brazilian wetlands in search of a mysterious heir named in the will. After a harrowing trip upriver to a remote settlement in the Pantanal, he encounters Rachel Lane, a pure-hearted missionary living with an indigenous tribe and carrying out "God''s work." Rachel''s grave dedication and kindness impress the jaded lawyer, so much that a nasty bout of dengue fever leads him to a vision that could change his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Back in the States, the legal proceedings drag on and Grisham has a high time with Phelan''s money-hungry descendents, a regrettable bunch who squandered millions, married strippers, got druggy, and befriended the Mob. The youngest son, Ramble, is a multi-pierced, tattoo-covered malcontent with big dreams for his rock band, the Demon Monkeys. Will Nate get straight with Rachel''s aid? Do the greedy heirs get theirs? What''s the real legacy of a lifetime''s work?\n <em>\n  The Testament\n </em>\n is classic Grisham: a down-and-out lawyer, a lot of money, an action-packed pursuit, and the highest issues at stake. It''s not just about great characters; it''s about the question of what character is.\n <em>\n  --Rebekah Warren\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A traditional gangbuster Grisham opening?in which an aged billionaire outfoxes his greedy heirs by signing a bombshell will, then jumps to his death?gives little clue how this seductive tale will develop. The novel also features the usual attorney hero and legal action, but Grisham confounds expectations by sweeping readers into adventure in the Brazilian wetlands and, more urgently, into a man''s search for spiritual renewal. Nate O''Riley, 48, is a drunk. He''s also a top D.C. attorney who, winding up his fourth rehab stint in 10 years, is asked by his firm to find one Rachel Lane. The illegitimate daughter to whom the firm''s client, tycoon Troy Phelan, has left his entire $11 billion fortune, Rachel is a missionary-physician tending Indians somewhere in Brazil''s Pantanal region. Nate''s experiences there prove nightmarish, including fierce storms, a plane crash, dangerous animals, hunger and, finally, dengue fever, which nearly kills him. But as Grisham crosscuts from Brazil to D.C. and the sleazy machinations of Phelan''s other children and their lawyers to negate Phelan''s will, readers will wonder which is the real jungle; never has Grisham revealed so nakedly his contempt for the legal profession. What Grisham holds dear is made clear in his unforgettable portrait of Rachel, whose serenity and integrity stun Nate, while inspiring him to forsake forever his lust for booze, power and money and to turn toward God. The message (which isn''t entirely new to Grisham; see The Street Lawyer) and the storytelling that conveys it aren''t subtle, but Grisham''s smart use of the suspense novel to explore questions of being and faith puts him squarely in the footsteps of Dickens and Graham Greene. Sincere, exciting and tinged with wonder, this novel is going to sell like an angel, and deservedly so. Agent, David Gernert. 2.8 million first printing. (On-sale date: Feb. 1)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1240'),
(7677, 'Testimony', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora''s box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work, Anita Shreve delivers in TESTIMONY a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller. No one more compellinglyexplores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, the needs and fears that drive ordinary men and women into intolerable dilemmas, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3228'),
(7678, 'That Hideous Strength', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The final book in C. S. Lewis''s acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to "recondition" society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1183'),
(7679, 'That Used to Be Us', 'Thomas L. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In\n  <em>\n   That Used to Be Us\n  </em>\n  , Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challengesâ€”globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nationâ€™s chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumptionâ€”and spell out what we need to do\n  <em>\n   now\n  </em>\n  to rediscover America and rise to this moment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They explain how the end of the cold war blinded the nation to the need to address these issues. They show howÂ our history, when properly understood, provides the key to addressing them, and explain how the paralysis of our political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible for us to carry out the policies the country needs. They offer a way out of the trap into which the country has fallen, which includes the rediscovery of some of our most valuable traditions and the creation of a new, third-party movement.\n  <em>\n   That Used to Be Us\n  </em>\n  is both a searching exploration of the American condition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs we were writing this book,â€ Friedman and Mandelbaum explain, â€œwe found that when we shared the title with people, they would often nod ruefully and ask: â€˜But does it have a happy ending?â€™ Our answer is that we can write a happy ending, but it is up to the countryâ€”to all of usâ€”to determine whether it is fiction or nonfiction. We need to study harder, save more, spend less, invest wisely, and get back to the formula that made us successful as a country in every previous historical turn. What we need is not novel or foreign, but values, priorities, and practices embedded in our history and culture, applied time and again to propel us forward as a country. That is all part of our past. That used to be us and can be againâ€”if we will it.â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2885'),
(7680, 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey', 'Thornton Wilder', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author''s timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition. This new edition of Wilderâ€™s 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning novel contains a new foreword by Russell Banks.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3073'),
(7681, 'The Optimist&#39;s Daughter', 'Eudora Welty', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  This story of a young woman''s confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   The Optimist''s Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973, and is a short but stunning work. Set primarily in Mississippi, it''s the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, currently living in Chicago, visiting the South where her father is failing. Judge McKelva was a pillar of his community. After the death of his first wife (Laurel''s mother), he remarried a woman younger than Laurel herself. Welty, through small but significant descriptions of second wife Fay, makes the reader despise her in the first few pages.\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   Laurel and Fay are forced together as the Judge''s condition deteriorates, and he subsequently passes away. Fay is tremendously put out by his death, since it happens on her birthday. After the funeral she leaves town to be with her family. Laurel remains to sort through some of her father''s effects and, since Fay has inherited the house, to remove memories of her mother, which she knows Fay will not respect.\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3055'),
(7682, 'Their Finest Hour', 'Winston Churchill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  None\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The eight uneasy, dangerous months from May to December 1940, as Britain stands isolated and Germany follows its war path.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) has been called by historians "the man of the twentieth century." Prime Minister of Great Britain (1940-1945), Churchill won the Nobel prize for literature in 1953.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2270'),
(7683, 'Then Again', 'Diane Keaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n â€œMom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word THINK. I found THINK thumbtacked on a bulletin board in her darkroom. I saw it Scotch-taped on a pencil box sheâ€™d collaged. I even found a pamphlet titled THINK on her bedside table. Mom liked to THINK.â€Â So begins Diane Keatonâ€™s unforgettable memoir about her mother and herself. In it you will meet the woman known to tens of millions as Annie Hall, but you will also meet, and fall in love with, her mother, the loving, complicated, always thinking Dorothy Hall. To write about herself, Diane realized she had to write about her mother, too, and how their bond came to define both their lives. And so, in a remarkable act of creation, Diane not only reveals herself to us, she also lets us meet in intimate detail her mother. Throughout her life, Dorothy kept eighty-five journalsâ€”literally thousands of pagesâ€”in which she wrote about her marriage, her children, and, most probingly, about herself. Dorothy also recorded memorable stories about Dianeâ€™s grandparents. Diane has sorted through all these pages to paint an unflinching portrait of her motherâ€”a woman restless with intellectual and creative energy struggling to find an outlet for her talentsâ€”as well as her entire family, recounting a story that spans four generations and nearly a hundred years. More than just the autobiography of a legendary actress, Then Again is a book about a very American family with very American dreams. Diane will remind you of yourself, and her bonds with her family will remind you of your own relationships with those you love the most.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2888'),
(7684, 'Then Came You', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An unexpected love storyâ€¦Â Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship, acquaintances instead of friends, and a family she''s ashamed to invite to Parents'' Weekend. With the income she''ll receive from donating her â€œpedigreeâ€ eggs, she believes she can save her father from addiction.Â Annie Barrow married her high school sweetheart and became the mother to two boys. After years of staying at home and struggling to support four people on her husband''s salary, she thinks she''s found a way to recover a sense of purpose and bring in some extra cash.Â India Bishop, thirty-eight (really forty-three), has changed everything about herself: her name, her face, her past. In New York City, she falls for a wealthy older man, Marcus Croft, and decides a baby will ensure a happy ending. When her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to technology, and Annie and Jules, to help make her dreams come true.Â But each of their plans is thrown into disarray when Marcus'' daughter Bettina, intent on protecting her father, becomes convinced that his new wife is not what she seemsâ€¦ Â With startling tenderness and laugh-out-loud humor, Jennifer Weiner once again takes readers into the heart of women''s lives in an unforgettable, timely tale that interweaves themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and donorship, the rights of a parent and the measure of motherhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3506'),
(7685, 'Then They Came for Me: A Family&#39;s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival', 'Maziar Bahari', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iranâ€™s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancÃ©e, Paola, that heâ€™d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would spend the next three months in Iranâ€™s most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions at the hands of a man he knew only by his smell: Rosewater.Â For the Bahari family, wars, coups, and revolutions are not distant concepts but intimate realities they have suffered for generations: Maziarâ€™s father was imprisoned by the shah in the 1950s, and his sister by Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1980s. Alone in his cell at Evin Prison, fearing the worst, Maziar draws strength from his memories of the courage of his father and sister in the face of torture, and hears their voices speaking to him across the years. He dreams of being with Paola in London, and imagines all that she and his rambunctious, resilient eighty-four-year-old mother must be doing to campaign for his release. During the worst of his encounters with Rosewater, he silently repeats the names of his loved ones, calling on their strength and love to protect him and praying he will be released in time for the birth of his first child.Â A riveting, heart-wrenching memoir, Then They Came for Me offers insight into the past fifty years of regime change in Iran, as well as the future of a country where the democratic impulses of the youth continually clash with a government that becomes more totalitarian with each passing day. An intimate and fascinating account of contemporary Iran, it is also the moving and wonderfully written story of one familyâ€™s extraordinary courage in the face of repression.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1878'),
(7686, 'Theodore Rex', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this lively biography, Edmund Morris returns to the gifted, energetic, and thoroughly controversial man whom the novelist Henry James called "King Theodore." In his two terms as president of the United States, Roosevelt forged an American empire, and he behaved as if it was his destiny. In this sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  , Morris charts Roosevelt''s accomplishments: the acquisition of the Panama Canal and the Philippines, the creation of national parks and monuments, and more. "Collaring Capital and Labor in either hand," Morris writes, Roosevelt made few friends, but he usually got what he wanted--and earned an enduring place in history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Morris combines a fine command of the era''s big issues with an appreciation for the daily minutiae involved in governing a nation. Less controversially inventive, but no less readable, than the Ronald Reagan biography\n  <em>\n   Dutch\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  gives readers new reason both to admire and fault an American phenomenon.\n  <em>\n   --Gregory McNamee\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second entry in Morris''s projected three-volume life of Theodore Roosevelt focuses on the presidential years 1901 through early 1909. Impeccably researched and beautifully composed, Morris''s book provides what is arguably the best consideration of Roosevelt''s presidency ever penned. Making good use of TR''s private and presidential papers as well as the archives of such protâ€šgâ€šs as John Hay, William Howard Taft, Owen Wister and John Burroughs Morris marshals a rich array of carefully chosen and beautifully rendered vignettes to create a dazzling portrait of the man (the youngest ever to hold the office of president). Morris proves the perfect guide through TR''s eight breathless, fertile years in the White House: years during which the doting father and prolific author conserved millions of Western acres, swung his "big stick" at trusts and monopolies, advanced progressive agendas on race and labor relations, fostered a revolution in Panama (where he sought to build his canal), won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War and pushed through the Pure Food and Drug Act. John Burroughs once wrote that the hypercreative TR "was a many sided man, and every side was like an electric battery." In the end, Morris succeeds brilliantly at capturing all of TR''s many energized sides, producing a book that is every bit as complex, engaging and invigorating as the vibrant president it depicts. Illus. (On-sale: Nov. 20)Forecast: Long-awaited, this volume comes out in the centennial of TR''s rise to the presidency. Morris''s gift for storytelling and his outstanding reputation from volume one (and perhaps his notoriety for the controversial Reagan bio Dutch) should guarantee large sales.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2273'),
(7687, 'Therapy', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jonathan Kellerman has made the psychological thriller his own gripping province with his bestselling series of Alex Delaware novels. Now, Delaware''s new adventure leads the sleuthing psychologist on a harrowing exploration into the realm he knows best: the human psyche, in all its complexity, mystery, and terrifying propensity for darkness.\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  "Been a while since I had me a nice little whodunit,"\n </i>\n homicide detective Milo Sturgis tells Alex Delaware. But there''s definitely nothing nice about the brutal tableau behind the yellow crime-scene tape. On a lonely lover''s lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each bears a single gunshot wound to the head. The female victim has also been impaled by a metal spike. And that savage stroke of psychopathic fury tells Milo this case will call for more than standard police procedure. As he explains to Delaware,\n <i>\n  "Now we''re veering into your territory."\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </i>\n It is dark territory, indeed. The...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/770'),
(7688, 'They&#39;re Watching', 'Gregg Hurwitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Riveting, emotionally rich, original, and beautifully written, this book kept me up too late reading, had me sneaking in pages the next day. They''re Watching reminded me what it''s like to be in the thrall of a great story: helpless until the end, loving every minute of it."--Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Die for You Patrick Davis is a man with troubles. First his Hollywood dreams crumble and then his storybook marriage hits a snag. Now, DVDs start being delivered to his house--DVDs which show that someone is watching him and his wife, that the two of them are being stalked and recorded by cameras hidden in their house. Then the e-mails start, and someone offers to fix everything, to take the mess his life has become and make it all right. Patrick figures it''s the offer of a lifetime. But Patrick couldn''t be more wrong. With every step he falls deeper into a web of intrigue that threatens everything he values in this world. Before he knows it, he''s in and in deep--and his only escape is to outwit and outplay his unseen opponents at their own game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3103'),
(7689, 'The Things They Carried', 'Tim O&#39;Brien', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award,\n <em>\n  The Things They Carried\n </em>\n marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O''Brien''s earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir\n <em>\n  If I Die in a Combat Zone\n </em>\n and the fictional\n <em>\n  Going After Cacciato\n </em>\n , and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O''Brien''s theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas\n <em>\n  Going After Cacciato\n </em>\n played with reality,\n <em>\n  The Things They Carried\n </em>\n plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O''Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn''t make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O''Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O''Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O''Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn''t believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in\n <em>\n  The Things They Carried\n </em>\n speaks another truth that Tim O''Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Weapons and good-luck charms carried by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam here represent survival, lost innocence and the war''s interminable legacy. "O''Brien''s meditations--on war and memory, on darkness and light--suffuse the entire work with a kind of poetic form, making for a highly original, fully realized novel," said PW. 60,000 first printing.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2341'),
(7690, 'The Things We Do for Love', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah â€œtouches the deepest, most tender corner of our heartsâ€ (Tami Hoag). Her last novel, Between Sisters, was chosen by CBSâ€™s The Early Show as one of the best books of the summer. Now she returns with The Things We Do for Loveâ€”a poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love.The youngest of three daughters, Angela DeSaria Malone was always â€œthe princessâ€ of the family, a girl who thought she knew how her life would unfold. High School. College. Marriage. Motherhood. That was how it had gone for her sisters, her cousins, her friends. But it didnâ€™t work out that way for Angie. She and her husband tried desperately to have a child; year after year, their perfectly decorated nursery remained empty. Finally, their marriage collapsed under the weight of lost dreams.After the divorce, Angie moved back to her hometown and rejoined her loud, loving, slightly crazy family. In West End, a place where life rises and falls in time with the tides, she will find the man who once again will open her heart to love . . . and meet the girl who will change Angieâ€™s life.Lauren Ribido lives in a rundown apartment in a bad part of town with a mother who cares more about her next drink than about her daughter. At seventeen, Lauren knows that her aspirations in life may never come to pass.From the moment they meet, Angie sees something special in Lauren. They form a quick connection, this woman who is desperate for a daughter and the girl who has never known a motherâ€™s love. When Lauren is abandoned by her mother, Angie doesnâ€™t hesitate to offer the girl a place to stay.But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness. In a dramatic turn of events, she and Lauren will be tested in a way that mothers and daughters seldom are. Together they will embark on an intensely moving, deeply emotional journey to the very heart of what it means to be a family.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/992'),
(7691, 'Think of a Number', 'John Verdon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Baldacci Reviews *Think of a Number\n </strong>\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Baldacci was born in Virginia, in 1960, where he currently resides. He received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a law degree from the University of Virginia. Mr. Baldacci practiced law for nine years in Washington, D.C., as both a trial and corporate attorney. He has published seventeen novels. Read his review of\n  <em>\n   Think of a Number\n  </em>\n  below:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n John Verdon has done something remarkable in his debut thriller,\n <em>\n  Think of a Number\n </em>\n . He has successfully juggled every storytelling ball, character, atmosphere, prose, pace and plot, with the skill and assuredness of a veteran novelist at the top of his game. The writing is haunting and quotable, the twists expertly placed and infinitely plausible, the conjured locations vivid and memorable, the characters full of depth and promise. You can read the book as a game of cat and mouse, a ride of chilling suspense, or a literary repast, since it provides all in abundance. In the novel the set-up provides an intriguing dilemma. A man gets a letter that scares him to death by challenging him to think of a number. That catalyst soon speeds the reader and Verdonâ€™s hero, Dave Gurney, a legendary and now retired NYPD detective, headlong into a mystery of the first order. Iâ€™m pretty adept at figuring out these types of stories and while I hit on a few twists before Verdon probably wanted me to, the major ones were stunning surprises. I read the last two-hundred pages in one sitting. I did this for two compelling reasons. First, to find out what the hell was going on. And second, just to enjoy the wonderful writing. Some novelists promise plot and pace and deliver it with lightweight characters and silly dialogue. Others get the characters spot-on but the story is mediocre and predictable. Verdon nails it all in his first novel. The villain is appealingly terrifying, smart and cunning while operating mostly in absentia, and that is incredibly difficult to accomplish. The answer behind the â€œthink of a numberâ€ plot, most certainly a disaster in lesser hands, proves clever, winning and eminently believable. Verdonâ€™s protagonist Dave Gurney is one for the ages, and readers everywhere will surely clamor to see this man again.\n <em>\n  Think of a Number\n </em>\n gets full marks from me. And I think it will from you, too. Enjoy.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The numbers game gets a murderous spin in Verdon''s deft, literate debut. Recently retired NYPD homicide detective Dave Gurney is an old warhorse much too easily led to water, in the view of his increasingly disenchanted wife, who insists it''s now me-time. But it surprises neither of them that Gurney snaps at the lure when a beleaguered friend sets before him a tasty, number-driven puzzle. Mark Mellery has been receiving mysterious mailings that terrify him because he''s convinced the author of them can somehow read his mind, and because the mailings threaten his death for crimes he can''t recall having committed. Nor is Mellery the only one, it soon become evident, as a particularly malignant serial killer buckles down to business. Ever the puzzle master, Gurney tracks and unravels each clue untilâ€”in an attenuated denouement that constitutes one of this thriller''s rare self-indulgencesâ€”he finally makes the numbers add up.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/587'),
(7692, 'Think Twice', 'Lisa Scottoline', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the blockbuster New York Times bestselling author of Look Again comes a novel that makes you question the nature of evil: is it born in us or is it bred? Â Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connolly, but the darkness in Aliceâ€™s soul makes them two very different women. Or at least thatâ€™s what Bennie believes, until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin. Meanwhile, Alice takes over Bennieâ€™s life, impersonating her at work and even seducing her boyfriend in order to escape the deadly mess she has made of her own life. But Alice underestimates Bennie and the evil she has unleashed in her twinâ€™s psyche, as well as Bennieâ€™s determination to stay alive long enough to exact revenge. Bennie must face the twisted truth that she is more like her sister Alice than she could have ever imagined, and by the novelâ€™s shocking conclusion, Bennie finds herself engaged in a war she cannot winâ€”with herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3373'),
(7693, 'Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life With Autism', 'Temple Grandin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œI hardly know what to say about this remarkable book. . . It provides a way to understand the many kinds of sentience, human and animal, that adorn the earth.â€ â€“Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of\n <em>\n  The Hidden Life of Dogs\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "There are innumerable astounding facets to this remarkable book. . . . Displaying uncanny powers of observation . . . [Temple Grandin] charts the differences between her life and the lives of those who think in words." â€“_The Philadelphia Inquirer_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA uniquely fascinating view not just of autism but of animalâ€“and humanâ€“thinking and feeling, [providing] insights that can only be called wisdom.â€\n <br />\n â€“Deborah Tannen, author of\n <em>\n  You Just Donâ€™t Understand\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autismâ€”because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world. What emerges in\n <em>\n  Thinking in Pictures\n </em>\n is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who, in gracefully and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1879');
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(7694, 'Thinking, Fast and Slow', 'Daniel Kahneman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAÂ major intellectual event . . . The work of Kahneman and Tversky was a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.â€ â€”David Brooks,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œKahneman provides a detailed, yet accessible, description of the psychological mechanisms involved in making decisions.â€ â€”Jacek Debiec,\n  <em>\n   Nature\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith Kahnemanâ€™s expert help, readers may understand this mix of psychology and economics better than most accountants, therapists, or elected representatives. VERDICT A stellar accomplishment, a book for everyone who likes to think and wants to do it better.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe mind is a hilariously muddled compromise between incompatible modes of thought in this fascinating treatise by a giant in the field of decision research. Nobel-winning psychologist Kahneman (Attention and Effort) posits a brain governed by two clashing decision-making processes. The largely unconscious System 1, he contends, makes intuitive snap judgments based on emotion, memory, and hard-wired rules of thumb; the painfully conscious System 2 laboriously checks the facts and does the math, but is so "lazy" and distractible that it usually defers to System 1. Kahneman uses this scheme to frame a scintillating discussion of his findings in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics, and of the ingenious experiments that tease out the irrational, self-contradictory logics that underlie our choices. We learn why we mistake statistical noise for coherent patterns; why the stock-picking of well-paid investment advisers and the prognostications of pundits are worthless; why businessmen tend to be both absurdly overconfident and unwisely risk-averse; and why memory affects decision making in counterintuitive ways. Kahneman''s primer adds to recent challenges to economic orthodoxies about rational actors and efficient markets; more than that, it''s a lucid, marvelously readable guide to spotting--and correcting--our biased misunderstandings of the world.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers'' Weekly\n  </em>\n  (starred review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor anyone interested in economics, cognitive science, psychology, and, in short, human behavior, this is the book of the year. Before Malcolm Gladwell and\n  <em>\n   Freakonomics,\n  </em>\n  there was Daniel Kahneman who invented the field of behavior economics, won a Nobelâ€¦and now explains how we think and make choices. Hereâ€™s an easy choice: read this.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   The Daily Beast\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis book is one of the few that must be counted as mandatory reading for anyone interested in the Internet, even though it doesnâ€™t claim to be about that.Â Before computer networking got cheap and ubiquitous, the sheer inefficiency of communication dampened the effects of the quirks of human psychology on macro scale events.Â No more.Â We must now confront how we really are in order to make sense of our world and not screw it up.Â Daniel Kahneman has discovered a path to make it possible.â€ â€”Jaron Lanier, author of\n  <em>\n   You Are Not a Gadget\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDaniel Kahneman is one of the most original and interesting thinkers of our time. There may be no other person on the planet who better understands how and why we make the choices we make. In this absolutely amazing book, he shares a lifetimeâ€™s worth of wisdom presented in a manner that is simple and engaging, but nonetheless stunningly profound. This book is a must read for anyone with a curious mind.â€ â€”Steven D. Levitt, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago; co-author of\n  <em>\n   Freakonomics\n  </em>\n  and *SuperFreakonomics.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œ\n  </em>\n  Thinking, Fast and Slow\n  <em>\n   is a masterpieceâ€”a brilliant and engaging intellectual saga by one of the greatest psychologists and deepest thinkers of our time. Kahneman should be parking a Pulitzer next to his Nobel Prize.â€ â€”Daniel Gilbert, Harvard University Professor of Psychology, author of\n  </em>\n  Stumbling on Happiness*, host of the award-winning PBS television series â€œThis Emotional Lifeâ€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis book is a tour de force by an intellectual giant; it is readable, wise, and deep.Â Buy it fast.Â Read it slowly and repeatedly.Â It will change the way you think, on the job, about the world, and in your own life.â€ â€”Richard Thaler, University of Chicago Professor of Economics and co-author of\n  <em>\n   Nudge\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is a landmark book in social thought, in the same league as\n  <em>\n   TheÂ Wealth of NationsÂ \n  </em>\n  by Adam Smith\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Interpretation of Dreams byÂ \n  </em>\n  SigmundÂ Freud\n  <em>\n   .\n  </em>\n  â€â€”Nassim Taleb, author of\n  <em>\n   The Black Swan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDaniel Kahneman is among the most influential psychologists in history and certainly the most important psychologist alive today. He has a gift for uncovering remarkable features of the human mind, many of which have become textbook classics and part of the conventional wisdom. His work has reshaped social psychology, cognitive science, the study of reason and of happiness, and behavioral economics, a field that he and his collaborator Amos Tversky helped to launch. The appearance of\n  <em>\n   Thinking, Fast and Slow\n  </em>\n  is a major event.â€ â€”Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of\n  <em>\n   How the Mind Works\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Better Angels of our Nature\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Daniel Kahneman\n  </strong>\n  is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University and a professor of public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work with Amos Tversky on decision-making.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2889'),
(7695, 'Thinner', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''An incredibly gifted writer, whose writing, like Truman Capote''s, is so fluid that you often forget that you''re reading'' -- Guardian ''Astonishingly good...honourable, deeply felt and almost wonderful'' -- Independent on HEARTS IN ATLANTIS\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON and HEARTS IN ATLANTIS. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/786'),
(7696, 'The Third Bear', 'Jeff Vandermeer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The award-winning short fictions in this collection highlight the voice of an inventive contemporary fantasist who has been compared by critics to Borges, Nabokov, and Kafka. In addition to highlights such as "The Situation," in which a beleaguered office worker creates a child-swallowing manta ray to be used for educational purposes and "Errata," which follows an oddly familiar writer who has marshaled a penguin, a shaman, and two pearl-handled pistols with which to plot the end of the world, this volume contains two never-before-published stories. Chimerical and hypnotic, this compilation leads readers through the postmodern into what is emerging into a new literature of the imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2708'),
(7697, 'The Third Circle', 'Amanda Quick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Leona Hewitt, disguised in menÃ­s formal evening clothes, has secretly made her way into Lord DelbridgeÃ­s private museum to retrieve a relic stolen from her family. But someone else is in the dimly lit gallery on the same errand; a tall, blackcloaked man whose very voice is enough to cause her to fall into a trance. Thaddeus Ware, a mesmerist with psychic gifts, is accustomed to fearful reactions from others - women, in particular. After all, a man who can control the minds of others could rob a lady of her virtue - completely unbeknownst to her. But Leona shows no trace of hysteria in his presence. A gifted crystal worker, she exerts a rather hypnotic power over the hypnotist himself. And she is determined to keep the coveted crystal they manage to recover by giving him the slip at a run-down London inn. Thaddeus, on assignment for the Arcane Society, knows the menace Leona is courting by absconding with the crystal. A source of remarkable energy, it holds the potential for great destruction. Lord Delbridge has already killed to acquire the crystal, his key to membership in the elite, shadowy group known as the Third Circle. And, with the help of a ruthless hunter of preternatural skill - dubbed the Midnight Monster by the press - Delbridge intends to find Leona. With the stolen crystal in their possession, the danger is only beginning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3434'),
(7698, 'The Third Option', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When diplomacy has failed and military intervention is deemed inappropriate, our leaders sometimes take THE THIRD OPTION CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp falls prey to government forces with an agenda of their own after Dr. Irene Kennedy is named the successor to dying CIA Director Thomas Stansfieldâ€”a choice that enrages many inside the worldâ€™s most powerful intelligence agency. Her detractors will resort to extreme measures to prevent her from taking the reinsâ€”which makes Rapp an expendable asset. But Mitch Rapp is no oneâ€™s pawn, and he will stop at nothing to find out who has set him up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/500'),
(7699, 'The Third Victim', 'Lisa Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her new thriller (following The Other Daughter), Gardner deftly probes the psychology of school shootings while developing a cast of complex, compelling characters. Rainie Conner initially joined the small-town police force in Bakersville, Ore., to escape the ghosts of her past. When she responds to a call from the local school and discovers students screaming, bodies lying inert in the rooms and one young boy holding two guns, however, Rainie find herself leading a controversial investigation and struggling to contain her childhood memories. The fact that the boy is the son of the town sheriff, Rainie''s superior and friend, only intensifies the pressure Rainie endures from members of the community, the FBI and the media. Although she tries desperately to do her work amid the growing criticism, Rainie begins to question her own fragile psychological stability. Fortunately, she finds solace in the arrival of the gentlemanly Pierce Quincy, an FBI profiler with a sharp mind and a soft shoulder. The duo eventually reach the conclusion that someone else must be responsible for the massacre, someone who may have recruited the boy to do the shootings. A suspenseful, curl-up winter read, this thriller teems with crisp, realistic dialogue and engaging characters. (Feb.) Forecast: Even though Gardner has only three titles under her belt, her adept use of language and her strong characterizations will ensure her a broad, loyal following. Readers won''t be disappointed to learn that Special Agent Pierce Quincy will reappear in her next offering, which is still untitled.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A suspenseful, curl-up winter read, this thriller teems with crisp, realistic dialogue and engaging characters."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly,\n  </em>\n  starred review\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Riveting, hold-your-breath suspense."\n  <br />\n  â€” Iris Johansen\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Don''t miss these chilling novels from a new master of the thriller, Lisa Gardner:\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Perfect Husband\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "A dark, powerful tale of nerve-shattering suspense."\n  <br />\n  â€” Tami Hoag\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Other Daughter\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "Sheer terror...a great read."\n  <br />\n  â€” Iris Johansen\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/651'),
(7700, 'This Body of Death', 'Elizabeth George', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George is back with a spellbinding tale of mystery and murder featuring Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley.   On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. His former team doesn''t trust the leadership of their new department chief, Isabelle Ardery, whose management style seems to rub everyone the wrong way. In fact, Lynley may be the sole person who can see beneath his superior officer''s hard-as-nails exterior to a hiddenâ€”and possibly attractiveâ€”vulnerability.   While Lynley works in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest. There they discover a beautiful and strange place where animals roam free, the long-lost art of thatching is very much alive, and outsiders are not entirely welcome. What they don''t know is that more than one dark secret lurks among the trees, and that their investigation will lead them to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.   A multilayered jigsaw puzzle of a story skillfully structured to keep readers guessing until the very end, This Body of Death is a magnificent achievement from a writer at the peak of her powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3357'),
(7701, 'This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa&#39;s First Woman President', 'Ellen Johnson Sirleaf', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Forbes\n </em>\n lists Sirleaf, the 23rd president of Liberia and the first elected female president on the African continent, among the 100 Most Powerful Women in 2008. In and out of government, in and out of exile, but consistent in her commitment to Liberia, Sirleaf in her memoir reveals herself to be among the most resilient, determined and courageous as well. She writes with modesty in a calm and measured tone. While her account includes a happy childhood and an unhappy marriage, the book is politically, not personally, focused as she (and Liberia) go through the disastrous presidencies of Samuel Doe and Charles Taylor. Sirleaf''s training as an economist and her employment (e.g., in banking, as minister of finance in Liberia, and in U.N. development programs) informs the perspective from which she views internal Liberian history (e.g., the tensions between the settler class and the indigenous people) and Liberia''s international relations. Although her focus is thoroughly on Liberia, the content is more widely instructive, particularly her account of the role of the Economic Community of West African States.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Africaâ€™s first elected female president, Sirleaf chronicles her rise from an abused young wife and mother to a woman with a career in government finance and international banking to the president of Liberia since 2006. Sirleaf confronted corruption and incompetence through several Liberian governments and suffered imprisonment and exile for her controversial positions before ultimately returning and challenging the long and troubled history of her nation. Liberia was created by the U.S. to repatriate former slaves, creating a tension between Americo-Liberians and indigenous peoples that continues. She recounts her struggles at home and abroad; she watched dictator Samuel Doe and later Charles Taylor destroy Liberia while she continued to criticize U.S. involvement with corrupt regimes. Having no colonial power to overcome, Sirleaf contends that Liberia has often struggled to develop and maintain a sense of true national integration, something she has sought to achieve as she has worked to bring economic and social stability to her civil-war-torn nation. An inspiring inside look at a nation struggling to rebuild itself and the woman now behind those efforts. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1880'),
(7702, 'This Hallowed Ground', 'Bruce Catton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This history of the American Civil War chronicles the entire war to preserve the Union - from the Northern point of view, but in terms of the men from both sides who lived and died in glory on the fields.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2274'),
(7703, 'This House of Sky', 'Ivan Doig', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This haunting, magnificently written memoir introduced an important American writer. Now, in its Fifteenth Anniversary Edition, Ivan Doig''s preface provides stirring details of the making of this memorable book. Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged, elemental Montana wilderness with his father, Charlie, and his grandmother, Bessie Ringer. His life was formed among the sheepherders and characters of small-town saloons and valley ranches as he wandered beside his restless father. Doig''s prose resonates as much with the harshness and beauty of the Montana landscape as it does with those moments in memory that determine our lives. What Doig deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is a raw sense not only of the land and how it shapes us but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to all those who love and loved us, to those who formed our values in our search of intimacy, independence, love, and family. This powerfully told story is at once especially American and quietly universal in its capacity to awaken a longing for an irretrievable past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2277'),
(7704, 'This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House', 'Herman Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Herman Cain speaks, people listen. When he debates, he wins.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you care about the future of America, you have heard of the down-to-earth political newcomer running for president, the straight-talking man of the people with blunt assessments of what America needs. Originally overlooked by mainstream politicos and media, Herman Cain is truly a candidate from â€œoutside the Beltway,â€ but no longer one who is being ignored.\n </p>\n <p>\n  BUT WHO IS HE?\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Herman Cain has been the host of a popular conservative Atlanta-area radio talk show called\n  <em>\n   The Herman Cain Show\n  </em>\n  , a different name originally captured American interest. As CEO, Herman Cain transformed Godfatherâ€™s Pizza from a company teetering on the verge of bankruptcy into a household word. Cainâ€”as those with an interest in commonsense solutions to political problems will rememberâ€”is also famous for using the language and logic of everyday business to expose the fallacies inherent in Clinton assumptions about â€œHillarycareâ€ during a 1994 televised town hall meeting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  WHAT IS HIS STORY?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Herman Cainâ€™s rise is the embodiment of the American dream. His parents, Luther and Lenora Cain, made a living the only way black people could in the â€™40s and â€™50s. Luther held down three jobs, including being a chauffeur; Lenora cleaned houses. They had two big dreams: to buy a house and to see their sons graduate from college. With dedication and hard work, they made both these dreams come true. In this thrilling memoir, Herman Cain describes his past and present . . . and the future he is determined to create, a future that will put our country back on track. His message resonates because he describes the American reality, and his down-to-earth personal tale of hope and hard work is both unforgettable and inspirational.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  What is it in my DNA that years ago prompted me to forgo the ease of cruise control and take on the enormous challenge of doing my part toward making America a better place for my granddaughter and the generations to come?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why do I, a son of the segregated South, refuse to think of myself as a â€œvictimâ€ of racism?\n </p>\n <p>\n  What is it that motivates me to insist on defining my identity in terms of â€œABCâ€â€”as being American first, black second, and Conservative third?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Just who is Herman Cain? And how did I get this way?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Just a hint: it may have had something to do with lessons learned from my parents, Lenora and Luther Cain, Jr.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”From This Is Herman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
(7705, 'This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone', 'Melissa Coleman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With urban farming and backyard chicken flocks becoming increasingly popular, Coleman has written this timely and honest portrait of her own childhood experience in Maine with her two homesteading parents during the turbulent 1970s. Inspired by the back-to-the-land lifestyle of Scott and Helen Nearing, Coleman''s parents, Sue and Eliot, decided to create their own idyllic reality on 60 acres of land in Maine that was sold to them by the Nearing family for a token sum. While Coleman emphasizes the beauty of growing up in a family culture that valued the bounty of nature and freedom of expression, she does not hesitate to also expose farming''s detrimental effect on family lifeâ€”her own well-being as well as the accidental death of her younger sister. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œCombine the sincerity of Walden with the poignancy of The Glass Castle, add dashes of the lush prose found in The Botany of Desire, and you get This Life Is in Your Handsâ€¦. I was engaged and deeply moved by this evocative tale of Paradise found then lost.â€ (Wally Lamb,\n <em>\n  The Hour I First Believed\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMelissa Colemanâ€™s enthralling account of â€˜70s back-to-the-land living is an important cultural\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n emotional document: this is a story about surviving and, eventually, thriving amidst the shadows of loss.â€ (Heidi Julavits, author of The Uses of Enchantment )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA dream, a family, a heartbreaking tragedyâ€”and a book I could not put down. Melissa Colemanâ€™s memoir of a back-to-the-land childhood is fresh, organic, and gorgeously written.â€ (Peter Behrens, author of The Law of Dreams )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œColemanâ€™s moving recounting never loses hope of redemption.â€ (_People_, Lead Review "People Pick" )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith beautiful lyrical prose, Coleman shows us what life in a 1970s back-to-nature farm was like, and the dear price her family paid pursuing their dream.â€ (Ann Hood, author of The Red Thread and The Knitting Circle )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLyrical and down-to-earth, wry and heartbreaking, This Life Is In Your Hands is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesnâ€™t just tell the story of her familyâ€™s brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and underappreciated chapter of our recent history.â€ (Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIntense readability.... haunting power.... as well as lush, vivid atmosphere that is alluring in its own right.... [A] story so nuanced that it would be a disservice to reveal what was in store. If you want to know what happened, read it for yourself.â€ (Janet Maslin,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[This] is a rare breed of book-a memoir that justifies its own existence; that feels like it needs to existâ€¦. Coleman shows that without the essential ingredient of heart, any family-no matter how perfect and revolutionary it seems-is in danger of experiencing real loss.â€ (NPR.org )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1881'),
(7706, 'This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War', 'Drew Gilpin Faust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion of today''s population would be six million.This Republic of Sufferingexplores the impact of this enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual. The eminent historian Drew Gilpin Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and its understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. She describes how survivors mourned and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God, pondered who should die and under what circumstances, and reconceived its understanding of life after death. Faust details the logistical challenges involved when thousands were left dead, many with their identities unknown, on the fields of places like Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, and Gettysburg. She chronicles the efforts to identify, reclaim, preserve, and bury battlefield dead, the resulting rise of undertaking as a profession, the first widespread use of embalming, the gradual emergence of military graves registration procedures, the development of a federal system of national cemeteries for Union dead, and the creation of private cemeteries in the South that contributed to the cult of the Lost Cause. She shows, too, how the war victimized civilians through violence that extended beyond battlefieldsfrom disease, displacement, hardships, shortages, emotional wounds, and conflicts connected to the disintegration of slavery. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, and nurses, of northerners and southerners, slaveholders and freedpeople, of the most exalted and the most humble are brought together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War''s most fundamental and widely shared reality. Were he alive today,This Republic of Sufferingwould compel Walt Whitman to abandon his certainty that the "real war will never get in the books."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2279'),
(7707, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Three terrifying murders in the South culminate in a relentless manhunt in the North that centers on a ruthless assassin, the woman he loves, and the beloved leader he is hired to kill with extreme prejudice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/284'),
(7708, 'Those in Peril', 'Wilbur A. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hazel Bannock is the heir to the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major oil producers with global reach. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, Hazel''s private yacht is hijacked by African pirates. Hazel is not on board at the time, but her nineteen year old daughter, Cayla, is kidnapped and held to ransom. The pirates demand a crippling twenty billion dollar ransom for her release. Complicated political and diplomatic considerations render the civilized major powers incapable of intervening. When Hazel is given evidence of the horrific torture which Cayla is being subjected to, she calls on Hector Cross to help her rescue her daughter. Hector is the owner and operator of Cross Bow Security, the company which is contracted to Bannock Oil to provide all their security. He is a formidable fighting man. Between them Hazel and Hector are determined to take the law into their own hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3174'),
(7709, 'Though Not Dead', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The residents of Alaska'' s largest national park are stunned by the death of one of their oldest members, eighty-seven-year-old Old Sam Dementieff...Even private investigator Kate Shugak. Sam, a lifelong resident, dubbed the "father" of all of the Park rats--even though he had no children of his own--was especially close to Kate, his niece, but even she is surprised to discover that in his will he'' s left her everything, including a letter instructing her simply to, "find my father." Easier said than done, since Sam'' s father is something of a mystery. An outsider, he disappeared shortly after learning about Sam'' s existence, taking with him a priceless tribal artifact, a Russian icon. And in the three days after Kate begins her search through Sam'' s background, she gets threatened--and worse. The flashbacks from Sam'' s fascinating life, including scenes from major events in Alaska'' s colorful history, punctuate a gripping story in which Kate does her best to fulfill Sam'' s last wish without losing her own life to the people who are following her every move, though what they are searching for Kate doesn'' t even know. In Dana Stabenow'' s breathtaking new novel, Though Not Dead , the eighteenth to feature Kate Shugak, Kate'' s search for the long-lost family secrets that have been interwoven with the epic history of an unforgiving land leads to an extraordinary treasure hunt with fatal consequences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3595'),
(7710, 'Thoughts Without Cigarettes', 'Oscar Hijuelos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Hijuelos proves himself again with his autobiography... Readers who enjoyed Hijuelos'' novels will enjoy his memoir, a revelation of the personal sources of most of his fiction."\n <br />\n -_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The story he tells in\n <em>\n  Thoughts Without Cigarettes\n </em>\n , however, is often as compelling as his best fiction...Mr. Hijuelos infuses the stuff of day-to-day life with drama, and sometimes magic."\n <br />\n -George De Stefano,\n <em>\n  New York Journal of Books\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hijuelos observes keenly that "a lot of writing is thinking aloud on paper, and necessary if only to discover the real heart of a story." With grace, care, and torment, he presents his past, and if you care to, it''s more than enough to reassemble into the man."\n <br />\n -Jane Carlen,\n <em>\n  Portland Mercury\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This memoir portrays [second generation Cubans''] experience, and that of successive generations, with a candor that few others have dared. The loss of a mother tongue and the frustration of inheriting a rich but often untouchable heritage are topics that the Cuban-American community has only begun to address."\n <br />\n -Christina Armario,\n <em>\n  Associated Press\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] very personal, often moving, sometimes quite humorous account of [Hijuelos] grappling with his divided self."\n <br />\n -Alden Mudge,\n <em>\n  BookPage\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "People fall easily in love with [Hijuelos''] characters, a testament to his determination to treat them with tenderness and respect and forgiveness for their all-too-human faults, and he is careful to do the same with the real people in\n <em>\n  Thoughts Without Cigarettes\n </em>\n , including himself."\n <br />\n -Marc Covert,\n <em>\n  Oregonian\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Like the great modernist classics, Proust and Joyce, Hijuelos has written the history of a vocation, stripped of the masters'' literary sleight-of-hand."\n <br />\n -Enrique Fernandez,\n <em>\n  Miami Herald\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In this memoir Oscar Hijuelos achieves the miracle of transforming ordinary daily events into extraordinary happenings while recovering the lost time of childhood. He shines a light on the traumatic experience of being a Cuban forced to abandon his native language before becoming an American writer, a process which ironically draws him back to his roots."\n <br />\n -JosÃ© Miguel Oviedo\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist turns his pen to the real people and places that have influenced his life and, in turn, his literature. Growing up in 1950''s working-class New York City to Cuban immigrants, Hijuelos journey to literary acclaim is the evolution of an unlikely writer.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Oscar Hijuelos has enchanted readers with vibrant characters who hunger for success, love, and self-acceptance. In his first work of nonfiction, Hijuelos writes from the heart about the people and places that inspired his international bestselling novels.\n</p>\n<p>\n Born in Manhattan''s Morningside Heights to Cuban immigrants in 1951, Hijuelos introduces readers to the colorful circumstances of his upbringing. The son of a Cuban hotel worker and exuberant poetry- writing mother, his story, played out against the backdrop of an often prejudiced working-class neighborhood, takes on an even richer dimension when his relationship to his family and culture changes forever. During a sojourn in pre-Castro Cuba with his mother, he catches a disease that sends him into a Dickensian home for terminally ill children. The yearlong stay estranges him from the very language and people he had so loved.\n</p>\n<p>\n With a cast of characters whose stories are both funny and tragic,\n <em>\n  Thoughts Without Cigarettes\n </em>\n follows Hijuelos''s subsequent quest for his true identity into adulthood, through college and beyond-a mystery whose resolution he eventually discovers hidden away in the trappings of his fiction, and which finds its most glorious expression in his best-known book,\n <em>\n  The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love\n </em>\n . Illuminating the most dazzling scenes from his novels,\n <em>\n  Thoughts Without Cigarettes\n </em>\n reveals the true stories and indelible memories that shaped a literary genius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1882'),
(7711, 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The author of Cloud Atlas''s most ambitious novel yet, for the readers of Ishiguro, Murakami, and, of course, David Mitchell. The year is 1799, the place Dejima, the "high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island" that is the Japanese Empire''s single port and sole window to the world. It is also the farthest-flung outpost of the powerful Dutch East Indies Company. To this place of superstition and swamp fever, crocodiles and courtesans, earthquakes and typhoons, comes Jacob de Zoet. The young, devout and ambitious clerk must spend five years in the East to earn enough money to deserve the hand of his wealthy fianc e. But Jacob''s intentions are shifted, his character shaken and his soul stirred when he meets Orito Aibagawa, the beautiful and scarred daughter of a Samurai, midwife to the island''s powerful magistrate. In this world where East and West are linked by one bridge, Jacob sees the gaps shrink between pleasure and piety, propriety and profit. Magnificently written, a superb mix of historical research and heedless imagination, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoetis a big and unforgettable book that will be read for years to come. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3254'),
(7712, 'A Thousand Splendid Suns', 'Khaled Hosseini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This deluxe illustrated edition of A Thousand Splendid Suns is filled with striking and memorable photographs that bring Khaled Hosseini''s compelling story to life. Since its publication in 2007, A Thousand Splendid Sunshas shipped more than three million copies. The bestselling adult novel of 2007, it spent fifteen weeks at #1 on the New York Timesbestseller list and remained on the list for an impressive forty-nine weeks. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runnera beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Sunsis at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. Now, in this lavishly designed edition of the novel, the narrative is enhanced by expressive photos that capture the people and culture of the region in vivid detail and reflect the book''s powerful themes, so apt for our times: the passionate search for family, home, acceptance, a healthy society, and a promising future-regardless of the obstacles. Together with The Kite Runner: Illustrated Edition, the illustrated A Thousand Splendid Suns creates a beautiful matched set.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3578'),
(7713, 'Three Seconds', 'Anders Roslund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The New York Times bestsellerâ€¦now in paper!Â Dark, suspenseful, and more riveting than any thriller at the local cineplex, Three Seconds is the latest novel from bestselling Swedish duo Anders Roslund and BÃ¶rge HellstrÃ¶m--the new masters of Scandinavian crime.Piet Hoffman, a top-secret operative for the Swedish police, faces his most dangerous assignment yet: after years spent infiltrating the Polish mafia, he''s become a key player in their attempt to take over amphetamine distribution inside Sweden''s prisons. To stop them from succeeding, he will have to go undercover, posing as a prisoner inside the country''s most notorious jail.But when a botched drug deal involving Hoffman results in the death of another cop, the murder investigation is assigned to the brilliant but haunted Detective Inspector Ewert Grens--a man who never gives up until he''s cracked the case. Grens''s determination to find the killer not only threatens to expose Hoffman''s true identity, it may reveal even bigger crimes at the heart of the Swedish justice system. And there are players who will do anything to stop Grens from discovering the truth.Winner of the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers'' 2009 award for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year and a New York Times bestseller in the United States, Three Seconds captures a nefarious world of betrayal and violence, where a wise man trusts no one and even the most valuable agent can be â€œburned.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3613'),
(7714, 'Three Stations', 'Martin Cruz Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A passenger train hurtling through the night. An unwed teenage mother headed to Moscow to seek a new life. A cruel-hearted soldier looking furtively, forcibly, for sex. An infant disappearing without a trace.So begins Martin Cruz Smith''s masterful Three Stations, a suspenseful, intricately constructed novel featuring Investigator Arkady Renko. For the last three decades, beginning with the trailblazing Gorky Park, Renko (and Smith) have captivated readers with detective tales set in Russia. Renko is the ironic, brilliantly observant cop who finds solutions to heinous crimes when other lawmen refuse to even acknowledge that crimes have occurred. He uses his biting humor and intuitive leaps to fight not only wrongdoers but the corrupt state apparatus as well. In Three Stations, Renko''s skills are put to their most severe test. Though he has been technically suspended from the prosecutor''s office for once again turning up unpleasant truths, he strives to solve a last case: the death of an elegant young woman whose body is found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of Moscow''s main rail hub. It looks like a simple drug overdose to everyoneexcept to Renko, whose examination of the crime scene turns up some inexplicable clues, most notably an invitation to Russia''s premier charity ball, the billionaires'' Nijinksy Fair. Thus a sordid death becomes interwoven with the lifestyles of Moscow''s rich and famous, many of whom are clinging to their cash in the face of Putin''s crackdown on the very oligarchs who placed him in power. Renko uncovers a web of death, money, madness and a kidnapping that threatens the woman he is coming to love and the lives of children he is desperate to protect. In Three Stations, Smith produces a complex and haunting vision of an emergent Russia''s secret underclass of street urchins, greedy thugs and a bureaucracy still paralyzed by power and fear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3646'),
(7715, 'Three Weeks With My Brother', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When bestselling author Sparks (_The Notebook_;\n  <em>\n   Message in a Bottle\n  </em>\n  ; etc.) receives a brochure offering a three-week trip around the world, it''s not hard for him to persuade Micah, his older brother, to join him in touring Guatemala''s Mayan ruins, Peru''s Incan temples, Easter Island, the killing fields in Cambodia, the Taj Mahal and Ethiopian rock cathedrals. His account of the trip is refreshingly honest and perceptive. At each stop, the brothers, both deeply committed to their families, cover the crucial moments in a life full of familial love and tragedy: Nick''s role as the middle child always feeling left out; his marriage in 1989; the loss of Nick and Micah''s mother two months later after a horseback riding accident; the death of Nick''s first baby and the physical problems of his second son; the death of their father in a car accident; and the passing of their younger sister from a brain tumor. As the brothers travel together through these mythical sites and share candid thoughts, they find themselves stunned by fate''s turns, realizing that a peaceful moment may be shattered at any time. Weaving in vignettes of tenderness and loss with travelogue-like observations, Sparks''s account shows how he and his brother both evolved on this voyage. "Somehow there was a chance we could help each other, and in that way, I began to think of the trip less as a journey around the world than a journey to rediscover who I was and how I''? developed the way I did."\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Who wouldn''t want to go on a trip around the world? When best-selling novelist Sparks receives a travel brochure from his alma mater, Notre Dame, he thinks, "If not now, then when?" and asks his brother to join him. They both have family obligations, but this sounds like the trip of a lifetime, and as the reader soon finds out, they both need to relax. As they journey to faraway places, the brothers reminisce about their unusual childhood. Instead of the idealistic life readers may imagine, their early years were marked by poverty, although redeemed by their mother''s great love. Their father was a graduate student working several jobs to support the family, and the boys, best friends as well as brothers, led an independent life filled with adventure, derring-do, and responsibilities beyond their years. This is a rare opportunity for readers to get to know a favorite author as Nicholas reveals the inspirations for his fiction. A must-read for Sparks fans as well as a treat for those who want to find out what makes a family strong.\n  <em>\n   Patty Engelmann\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1885'),
(7716, 'The Three Weissmanns of Westport', 'Cathleen Schine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jane Austenâ€™s beloved Sense and Sensibility has moved to Westport, Connecticut, in this enchanting modern-day homage to the classic novelÂ When Joseph Weissmann divorced his wife, he was seventy eight years old and she was seventy-five . . . He said the words â€œIrreconcilable differences,â€ and saw real confusion in his wifeâ€™s eyes.Â â€œIrreconcilable differences?â€ she said. â€œOf course there are irreconcilable differences. What on earth does that have to do with divorce?â€Â Thus begins The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a sparkling contemporary adaptation of Sense and Sensibility from the always winning Cathleen Schine, who has already been crowned â€œa modern-day Jewish Jane Austenâ€ by Peopleâ€™s Leah Rozen.Â In Schineâ€™s story, sisters Miranda, an impulsive but successful literary agent, and Annie, a pragmatic library director, quite unexpectedly find themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home. Dumped by her husband of nearly fifty years and then exiled from their elegant New York apartment by his mistress, Betty is forced to move to a small, run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. Joining her are Miranda and Annie, who dutifully comes along to keep an eye on her capricious mother and sister. As the sisters mingle with the suburban aristocracy, love starts to blossom for both of them, and they find themselves struggling with the dueling demands of reason and romance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3481'),
(7717, 'Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America''s frontierâ€”with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man''s life with a well-placed bullet. The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision . . . and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3111'),
(7718, 'Thriller', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <b>\n   Edited byÂ James Patterson\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n Be prepared to be thrilled as you''ve never been beforeÂ \n <br />\n <br />\n Featuring North America''s foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as David Morrell and John Lescroart famous to four of the hottest new voices in the genre, this blockbuster will tantalize and terrify.Â \n <br />\n <br />\n Lock the doors, draw the shades, pull up the covers and be prepared for Thriller to keep you up all night.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/285'),
(7719, 'Through My Eyes', 'Tim Tebow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Over the course of the last five years, Tim Tebow established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of college football and a top prospect in the NFL. During that time he amassed an unparalleled resumeâ€”winning two BCS national championships, becoming the first sophomore in NCAA history to win the Heisman trophy, and in the face of massive public scrutiny, being drafted in the first round of the NFL draft by the Denver Broncos.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, in\n  <i>\n   Through My Eyes\n  </i>\n  , Tebow brings readers everywhere an inspirational memoir about life as he chose to live it, revealing how his faith and family values, combined with his relentless will to succeed, have molded him into the person that he is today. As the son of Christian missionaries, Tebow has a unique story to tellâ€”from the circumstances of his birth, to his home-schooled roots, to his record-setting collegiate football career with the Florida Gators and everything else that took place in between.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2909');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(7720, 'Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison', 'Peter Schweizer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n One of the biggest scandals in American politics is waiting to explode: the full story of the inside game in Washington shows how the permanent political class enriches itself at the expense of the rest of us. Insider trading is illegal on Wall Street, yet it is routine among members of Congress. Normal individuals cannot get in on IPOs at the asking price, but politicians do so routinely. The Obama administration has been able to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to its supporters, ensuring yet more campaign donations. An entire class of investors now makes all of its profits based on influence and access in Washington. Peter Schweizer has doggedly researched through mountains of financial records, tracking complicated deals and stock trades back to the timing of briefings, votes on bills, and every other point of leverage for politicians in Washington. The result is a manifesto for revolution: the Permanent Political Class must go.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2890'),
(7721, 'Thunder Dog', 'Michael Hingson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A blind man and his guide dog show the power of trust and courage in the midst of devastating terror.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was 12:30 a.m. on 9/11 and Roselle whimpered at Michaelâ€™s bedside. A thunderstorm was headed east, and she could sense the distant rumbles while her owners slept. As a trained guide dog, when she was â€œon the clockâ€ nothing could faze her. But that morning, without her harness, she was free to be scared, and she nudged Michaelâ€™s hand with her wet nose as it draped over the bedside toward the floor. She needed him to wake up.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With a busy day of meetings and an important presentation ahead, Michael slumped out of bed, headed to his home office, and started chipping away at his daunting workload. Roselle, shivering, took her normal spot at his feet and rode out the storm while he typed. By all indications it was going to be a normal day. A busy day, but normal nonetheless. Until they went into the office.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In Thunder Dog, follow Michael and his guide dog, Roselle, as their...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3049'),
(7722, 'Thunderball', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in London in 1908, Ian Fleming worked as a banker and journalist before serving in the British Naval Intelligence during World War II. He published his first novel Casino Royale in 1953 and thus started the astoundingly successful James Bond novels and films. Fleming died in 1964.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From AudioFile\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Rintoul''s British accent provides a heart-pounding, adrenaline-pumping rendition of Ian Fleming''s classic. Rintoul''s vocal depictions develop each character flawlessly. His breathless excitement is contagious. Beautiful women and Bahamian scenery are successfully created in your mind''s eye. Movie comparisons to a 007 story are inevitable. However, the unabridged version allows the full development of key characters in the storyÃnot achieved in the movie. True Bond fans will look forward to more audio adventures. J.L.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1136'),
(7723, 'Tick Tock', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   with Michael Ledwidge\n  </span>\n </font>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    <div class="ff">\n     <div class="spacer">\n      Â \n     </div>\n    </div>\n    <div class="ff1">\n     <div class="ff">\n      <div class="blurb">\n       A bomb set in one of New York''s busiest places is discovered before it explodes.  But relief turns to terror when the police realize it is just a warning of greater devastation to come. The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a seaside vacation with his ten adopted children and their beloved nanny, Mary Catherine--leaving his entire family open to attack.\n       <br />\n       <br />\n       Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Beth Peters. His affection for Beth grows into attraction and then something stronger, and his relationship with Mary Catherine takes an unexpected turn. Another horrifying crime leads Bennett to a shocking discovery that exposes the killer''s pattern--and the earth-shattering enormity of his plan.\n      </div>\n     </div>\n    </div>\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/286'),
(7724, 'A Ticket to the Circus', 'Norris Church Mailer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A great American love story, this warm, funny, revealing memoir introduces the world to Norman Mailerâ€™s greatest inspiration, his wife of more than thirty years. Like Zelda Fitzgerald before her, Norris Church Mailer has led a life as large and as colorful as her husbandâ€™sâ€”and every bit as engaging.Growing up a strict Free Will Baptist in the South of the 1950s, Norris Church, christened Barbara Jean Davis, was crowned â€œLittle Miss Little Rockâ€ at the age of three and always knew that life had more to offer her than the comforts of small-town Arkansas. But she could never have guessed that in her early twenties she would date future president Bill Clinton (and predict his national victory even after he lost his first run for Congress), or that the following year she would meet Norman Mailer, who was passing through town giving a lecture at the local college. They fell in love in one nightâ€”and their marriage lasted thirty-three years.Despite her enduring love for the man, Norris found life with the writer full of challengesâ€”from carving out her own niche in the wake of five ex-wives and numerous former girlfriends, to easing her way into the hearts of her seven stepchildren, to negotiating the ferocious world of Mailerâ€™s fame, friends, and literary life. The coupleâ€™s New York parties were legendary, and their social circle included such luminaries as Muhammad Ali, Jacqueline Kennedy, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, and Imelda Marcos. Their decades-long obsession with each other, as seen in the intimate letters that Norris reveals here for the first time, was not without tests and infidelities; theirs was a marriage full of friendship, betrayal, doubts, understanding, and deep, complicated, lifelong passion.With southern charm and wit, Norris Church Mailer depicts the full evolution of her life, from her childhood all the way through her intense marriage with Norman and his heartbreaking death. This unforgettable memoir will enchant readers with its honesty and insight into how we grow up and how we love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1790'),
(7725, 'Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska', 'Miranda Weiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Alaska is a place where know-how is currency and a novice''s mistakes can kill you. An extreme landscape in both its beauty and challenges, the state is nicknamed "The Last Frontier" with good reason: Here is a paradoxical landscape where boundariesâ€”between community and isolation, bounty and deprivation, conservation and exploitationâ€”are constantly in flux.\n</p>\n<p>\n But the state has also always been a place for reinvention, a refuge as much for those desperate to escape something as for those on a quest for something else. In\n <em>\n  Tide, Feather, Snow\n </em>\n , Miranda Weiss, a young woman who grew up landlocked in well-kept East Coast suburbs, moves with her boyfriend to Homer, Alaska, where the days are quartered by the most extreme tides in the country, where the years are marked by seasons of fish, and where locals carry around the knowledge of fish, tides, boats, and weather as ballast. At first, she struggles to make a place for herself in this unfamiliar country. But ultimately, Weiss learns the skills to survive on her own, from setting a fishing net to befriending the locals, from jarring rosehip butter to skinning a sea otter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Weiss''s keenly observed prose introduces readers to the memorable people and peculiar beauty of Alaska''s vast landscape and takes us on her personal journey of adventure, physical challenge, and culture clash. In the tradition of John McPhee''s\n <em>\n  Coming into the Country\n </em>\n , this elegant and affecting memoir is nature writing at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1886'),
(7726, 'The Tiger&#39;s Wife', 'Tea Obreht', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, TÃ©a Obreht, the youngest of\n  <i>\n   The New Yorker\n  </i>\n  ''s twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. By the time she and her lifelong friend ZÃ³ra begin to inoculate the children there, she feels age-old superstitions and secrets gathering everywhere around her. Secrets her outwardly cheerful hosts have chosen not to tell her. Secrets involving the strange family digging for something in the surrounding vineyards. Secrets hidden in the landscape itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But Natalia is also confronting a private, hurtful mystery of her own: the inexplicable circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather''s recent death. After telling her grandmother that he...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2898'),
(7727, 'Time Bomb', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The cheerful chaos of a California schoolyard is shattered one autumn day by gunfire. No children are hurt, but a sniper is shot down - and psychologist Dr Alex Delaware is called in to help the kids cope with the trauma. Then comes another stunning surprise: the identity of the sniper. And Delaware is intrigued by the chance to explore intimately the forces that created such a twisted personality. But as he becomes more deeply involved, he discovers an ever-widening net of malice has been cast - one that reaches far beyond the school compound, and which may already have claimed innocent lives... TIME BOMB is a masterpiece of psychological suspense which shocks...and shocks again.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/771'),
(7728, 'A Time for Patriots', 'Dale Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Welcome to Battlefield America   When murderous bands of militiamen begin roaming the western United States and attacking government agencies, it will take a dedicated group of the nation''s finest and toughest civilian airmen to put an end to the homegrown insurgency. U.S. Air Force Lieutenant-General Patrick McLanahan vows to take to the skies to join the fight, but when his son, Bradley, also signs up, they find themselves caught in a deadly game against a shadowy opponent.   When the stock markets crash and the U.S. economy falls into a crippling recession, everything changes for newly elected president Kenneth Phoenix. Politically exhausted from a bruising and divisive election, Phoenix must order a series of massive tax cuts and wipe out entire cabinet-level departments to reduce government spending. With reductions in education and transportation, an incapacitated National Guard, and the loss of public safety budgets, entire communities of armed citizens band together for survival and mutual protection. Against this dismal backdrop, a SWAT team is ambushed and radioactive materials are stolen by a group calling themselves the Knights of the True Republic. Is the battle against the government about to be taken to a new and deadlier level?   In this time of crisis, a citizen organization rises to the task of protecting their fellow countrymen: the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), the U.S. Air Force auxiliary. The Nevada Wingâ€”led by retired Air Force Lieutenant-General Patrick McLanahan, his son, Bradley, and other volunteersâ€”uses their military skills in the sky and on the ground to hunt down violent terrorists. But how will Patrick respond when extremists launch a catastrophic dirty bomb attack in Reno, spreading radiological fallout for miles? And when Bradley is caught in a deadly double-cross that jeopardizes the CAP, Patrick will have to fight to find out where his friends'' loyalties lie: Are they with him and the CAP or with the terrorists?   With A Time for Patriots, the New York Times bestselling master of the modern thriller Dale Brown brings the battle home to explore a terrifying possibilityâ€”the collapse of the American Republic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/566'),
(7729, 'The Time of Our Lives', 'Tom Brokaw', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   The Greatest Generation\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Boom!,\n  </em>\n  now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore Americaâ€™s greatness.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  â€œWhat happened to the America I thought I knew?â€ Brokaw writes. â€œHave we simply wandered off course, but only temporarily? Or have we allowed ourselves to be so divided that weâ€™re easy prey for hijackers who could steer us onto a path to a crash landing? . . . I do have some thoughts, original and inspired by others, for our journey into the heart of a new century.â€\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Rooted in the values, lessons, and verities of generations past and of his South Dakota upbringing, Brokaw weaves together inspiring stories of Americans who are making a difference and personal stories from his own family history, to engage us in a conversation about our country and to offer ideas for how we can revitalize the promise of the American Dream.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Inviting us to foster a rebirth of family, community, and civic engagement as profound as the one that won World War II, built our postwar prosperity, and ushered in the Civil Rights era, Brokaw traces the exciting, unnerving changes in modern lifeâ€”in values, education, public service, housing, the Internet, and moreâ€”that have transformed our society in the decades since the age of thrift in which he was raised. Offering ideas from Americans who are change agents in their communities, in\n  <em>\n   The Time of Our Lives,\n  </em>\n  Brokaw gives us, a wise, honest, and wide-ranging book, a nourishing vision of hopefulness in an age of dimished expectations.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2887'),
(7730, 'A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran', 'Reza Kahlili', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Itâ€™s a compelling read, one that not only talks about the true nature of the Iranian regime but also of the Iranian people, who have now twice tried to free themselves from the yoke of lunatic mullahs trying to destroy the entire world for their dreams of eternal power."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Ed Morrissey, Hot Air\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...the story [Kahlili] tellsâ€”of the Iranian revolution and how he came to despise itâ€”is genuinely powerful. It offers a vivid first-person narrative of how the zealots of the Islamic republic created what has become a nightmare for the Iranian people... One of the strengths of this book is that it makes the authorâ€™s decision to betray his country- or, more properly, the people who are running it- seem like a morally correct and laudable action. Indeed, people in the Iranian operations division at the CIA should welcome\n  <em>\n   A Time to Betray\n  </em>\n  as a virtual recruitment poster."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --David Ignatius,\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n  </em>\n  Book world Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is the first inside account by someone so strategically placed. Without embellishing, Khalili manages to convey the horror of Iranâ€™s regime after the downfall of the Shah. Everyone with an interest in the region or in U.S. foreign policy or in real-life espionage will be interested."\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”Marcia L. Sprules, Council on Foreign Relations Lib., NY,\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_A Time to Betray_ provides a riveting account of how the author, who uses the pseudonym Reza Kahlili, worked undercover and sent intelligence reports to his CIA handlers, all while a suspicious counterintelligence officer was chasing him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Ken Timmerman, Newsmax\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Equal parts astonishing and disturbing, this perfectly crafted memoir will open your eyes to the heinous past, troubled present and murky future of Iran...Using insider information, Kahlili excels at painting an enthralling portrait of a country impacted by religious and political extremism. What makes â€œA Time to Betrayâ€ so powerful is two fold: First, the story reads like a John Grisham novel. Second, the narrative is refreshingly objective. Throughout his gripping journey, Kahlili ping-pongs between being a devoted son of Iran and a U.S. supporter. The emotion this produces creates an astonishing read that will have you rethinking what you know about the Middle East."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Nicholas Addison Thomas, THE FREE LANCE-STAR\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is one of those rare books that grabs you from the very first pageâ€”from the very first sentence, in factâ€”and will not let you go until it is over."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Michael Totten\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Overall I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, it was written in a simple yet sincere and touching manner and brought tears to my eyes on more than one occasion (not an easy thing to do.) The revelations in the book are interesting and serve as a remainder of the brutal human rights violations committed by the Islamic Regime against the Iranian people."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Sayeh Hassan, Canada Free Press\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book reads like a spy novel and is riveting. For readers who enjoy that kind of information,\n  <em>\n   A Time to Betray\n  </em>\n  is a ''can''t miss.'' Beyond that, it provides a fascinating and crucial window into a world the rest of us cannot access."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --WorldNetDaily.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_A Time To Betray__: The Astonishing double Life of a CIA Agent inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran_ is a fantastic book and I highly recommend itâ€¦The secrets revealed in the book, the intrigue, the mixed feelings Kahlili has working as a spy, keeping his actions secret from everyone he knows and loves, makes the reader feel like a fly on the wall -- seeing, hearing, feeling and smelling what Kahlili experiencesâ€¦I give this book 5 out of 5 stars and say if you do not read it you are missing out of the book of the year."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --The Right Truth Book Club\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "A Time To Betray\n  </em>\n  is certainly a thriller, with Iranian intelligence always only one step behind Kahliliâ€™s next move. But Kahlili also writes about an idyllic childhood and illustrates the Iran that disappeared after Ayatollah Khomeiniâ€™s revolution."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Forbes.com\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as todayâ€™s headlines from the Middle East,Â 2010 National Best Books Award-winning\n  <em>\n   A Time to Betray\n  </em>\n  reveals what no other previous CIA operativeâ€™s memoir possibly could: the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government. It is a human story, a chronicle of family and friendships torn apart by a terror-mongering regime, and how the adult choices of three childhood mates during the Islamic Republic yielded divisive and tragic fates. And it is the stunningly courageous account of one manâ€™s decades-long commitment to lead a shocking double life informing on the beloved country of his birth, a place that once offered the promise of freedom and enlightenmentâ€”but instead ruled by murderous violence and spirit-crushing oppression.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reza Kahlili grew up in Tehran surrounded by his close-knit family and two spirited boyhood friends. The Iran of his youth allowed Reza to think and act freely, and even indulge a penchant for rebellious pranks in the face of the local mullahs. His political and personal freedoms flourished while he studied computer science at the University of Southern California in the 1970s. But his carefree time in America was cut short with the sudden death of his father, and Reza returned home to find a country on the cusp of change. The revolution of 1979 plunged Iran into a dark age of religious fundamentalism under the Ayatollah Khomeini, and Reza, clinging to the hope of a Persian Renaissance, joined the Revolutionary Guards, an elite force at the beck and call of the Ayatollah. But as Khomeiniâ€™s tyrannies unfolded, as his fellow countrymen turned on each other, and after the horror he witnessed inside Evin Prison, a shattered and disillusioned Reza returned to America to dangerously become â€œWally,â€ a spy for the CIA.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the wake of an Iranian election that sparked global outrage, at a time when Iranâ€™s nuclear program holds the worldâ€™s anxious attention, the revelations inside\n  <em>\n   A Time to Betray\n  </em>\n  could not be more powerful or timely. Now resigned from his secretive life to reclaim precious time with his loved ones, Reza Kahlili documents scenes from history with heart-wrenching clarity, as he supplies vital information from the Iran-Iraq War, the Marine barracks bombings in Beirut, the catastrophes of Pan Am Flight 103, the scandal of the Iran-Contra affair, and more . . . a chain of incredible events that culminates in a nationâ€™s fight for freedom that continues to this very day.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A TIME TO BETRAY was the winner of The National Best Books 2010 Awards for Non-Fiction Narrative. It was also honored as the â€œFinalistâ€ in the â€œAutobiography/Memoirsâ€ category. ItÂ is now part of JCITAâ€™s (Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy of DOD) Iranian Programâ€™s readings.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1792'),
(7731, 'A Time to Kill', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grisham''s first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for three years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a swift, sunlit stream. Grisham is a born legal storyteller and his dialogue is pitch perfect.\n</p>\n<p>\n The plot turns with jeweled precision. Carl Lee Hailey gets an M-16 from the Chicago hoodlum he''d saved at Da Nang, wastes the rapists on the courthouse steps, then turns to attorney Jake Brigance, who needs a conspicuous win to boost his career. Folks want to give Carl Lee a second medal, but how can they ignore premeditated execution? The town is split, revealing its social structure. Blacks note that a white man shooting a black rapist would be acquitted; the KKK starts a new Clanton chapter; the NAACP, the ambitious local reverend, a snobby, Harvard-infested big local firm, and others try to outmaneuver Jake and his brilliant, disbarred drunk of an ex-law partner. Jake hits the books and the bottle himself. Crosses burn, people die, crowds chant "Free Carl Lee!" and "Fry Carl Lee!" in the antiphony of America''s classical tragedy. Because he''s lived in Oxford, Mississippi, Grisham gets compared to Faulkner, but he''s really got the lean style and fierce folk moralism of John Steinbeck.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this lively novel, Grisham explores the uneasy relationship of blacks and whites in the rural South. His treatment is balanced and humane, if not particularly profound, slighting neither blacks nor whites. Life becomes complicated in the backwoods town of Clanton, Mississippi, when a black worker is brought to trial for the murder of the two whites who raped and tortured his young daughter. Everyone gets involved, from Klan to NAACP. Grisham''s pleasure in relating the byzantine complexities of Clanton politics is contagious, and he tells a good story. There are touches of humor in the dialogue; the characters are salty and down-to-earth. An enjoyable book, which displays a respect for Mississippi ways and for the contrary people who live there. Recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - David Keymer, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Utica\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1167'),
(7732, 'Timeline', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole," and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. If you aren''t strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you''ll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat. You''ll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. On the social front, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with a swoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in "Milady''s Bath," a brackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then for prisoners to eat.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is the plight of the heroes of\n  <em>\n   Timeline\n  </em>\n  , Michael Crichton''s thriller. They''re historians in 1999 employed by a tech billionaire-genius with more than a few of Bill Gates''s most unlovable quirks. Like the entrepreneur in Crichton''s\n  <em>\n   Jurassic Park\n  </em>\n  , Doniger plans a theme park featuring artifacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edge science. When the project''s chief historian sends a distress call to 1999 from 1357, the boss man doesn''t tell the younger historians the risks they''ll face trying to save him. At first, the interplay between eras is clever, but\n  <em>\n   Timeline\n  </em>\n  swiftly becomes a swashbuckling old-fashioned adventure, with just a dash of science and time paradox in the mix. Most of the cool facts are about the Middle Ages, and Crichton marvelously brings the past to life without ever letting the pulse-pounding action slow down. At one point, a time-tripper tries to enter the Chapel of Green Death. Unfortunately, its custodian, a crazed giant with terrible teeth and a bad case of lice, soon has her head on a block. "She saw a shadow move across the grass as he raised his ax into the air." I dare you not to turn the page!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Through the narrative can be glimpsed the glowing bones of the movie that may be made from\n  <em>\n   Timeline\n  </em>\n  and the cutting-edge computer game that should hit the market in 2000. Expect many clashing swords and chase scenes through secret castle passages. But the book stands alone, tall and scary as a knight in armor shining with blood.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "And the Oscar for Best Special Effects goes to: Timeline!" Figure maybe three years before those words are spoken, for Crichton''s new novelAdespite media reports about trouble in selling film rights, which finally went to ParamountAis as cinematic as they come, a shiny science-fantasy adventure powered by a superior high concept: a group of young scientists travel back from our time to medieval southern France to rescue their mentor, who''s trapped there. The novel, in fact, may improve as a movie; its complex action, as the scientists are swept into the intrigue of the Hundred Years War, can be confusing on the page (though a supplied map, one of several graphics, helps), and most of its characters wear hats (or armor) of pure white or black. Crichton remains a master of narrative drive and cleverness. From the startling opening, where an old man with garbled speech and body parts materializes in the Arizona desert, through the revelation that a venal industrialist has developed a risky method of time-travel (based on movement between parallel universes; as in Crichton''s other work, good, hard science abounds), there''s not a dull moment. When elderly Yale history prof Edward Johnston travels back to his beloved 15th century and gets stuck, and his assistants follow to the rescue, excitement runs high, and higher still as Crichton invests his story with terrific period detail and as castles, sword-play, jousts, sudden death and enough bold knights-in-armor and seductive ladies-in-waiting to fill any toystore''s action-figure shelves appear. There''s strong suspense, too, as Crichton cuts between past and present, where the time-travel machinery has broken: Will the heroes survive and make it back? The novel has a calculated feel but, even so, it engages as no Crichton tale has done since Jurassic Park, as it brings the past back to vigorous, entertaining life. Agent, Lynn Nesbit. 1,500,000 first printing; Literary Guild nain selection; simultaneous large-print edition and audiobook. (Nov. 16)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/338'),
(7733, 'The Tin Roof Blowdown', 'James Lee Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  The pain, dismay and anger brought on by the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina explodes from the pages of this new Dave Robicheaux novel. For nearly a quarter of a century, Burke has used this series, despite their dark subject matter, to show his obvious love of the land, the people and the cultures of the South and specifically New Orleans. There is a mystery for Robicheaux to solve, but it''s the destruction of Burke''s beloved New Orleans that resonates like thunder throughout the book. Will Patton, who has come to embody the heart and soul of Burke''s weary, Southern knight, matches the author''s prose in all its intensity and pain. Adept as he is at portraying the eccentric, the evil and the endearing characters found in Burke''s books, it is the actor''s reading of Burke''s descriptive passages, whether it be a storm forming off the Louisiana coast or the shock of blood escaping from a gunshot wound, that creates a fully realized world for the listener. Patton''s insightful interpretation of Burke''s darkly expressive imagery makes for a rich literary experience rarely achieved in crime fiction today.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ever since Hurricane Katrina ravaged southern Louisiana in August 2005, James Lee Burke''s fans have been waiting for this book, and Burke does not disappoint. Outraged and eloquent, the two-time Edgar Award-winner delivers a gut-wrenching portrayal of the storm''s ferocity and devastating aftermath, venting through Robicheaux his frustration at the human incompetence and greed that magnified nature''s destructive fury. His evocative, heartfelt prose, sympathetic characters, and intricately interwoven plotlines grip the reader from the first page.Â Burke''s admirers will savor this latest installment, while those not yetÂ acquainted with Robicheaux can start here, thanks to the comprehensive background information Burke provides in what critics call his best book yet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/502'),
(7734, 'The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia&#39;s Convict Women', 'Deborah J. Swiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "_The Tin Ticket_, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world .\n  <em>\n   The Tin Ticket\n  </em>\n  (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen''s Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglected by history books. Agnes McMillan was one of thousands of children punished for a trivial crime by being shipped to the harsh, remote land. The book explores Agnes'' background, in which her father abandoned her and her mother died when Agnes was twelve years old, and she had no choice but to turn to the streets. The starving child was driven to steal scraps of food to stay alive, which resulted in her and her close friend Janet being caught and condemned to the horrible passage to Australia. The closeness of their relationship, the humor they found together, and their ingenuity helped the girls live through unimaginable hardships and humiliation. The author tells us that the descendants of the girls believe that similar characteristics typify the Australian character today. Swiss follows the lives of Agnes, Janet, and Ludlow, as well as that of Elizabeth Fry, the great pioneering Quaker reformer who fought to make the lives of the women convicts more bearable. These women broke the chains of bondage to establish a society one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world, in which equality of men and women was established. Discarded by their homeland and neglected by history, these women, by sheer force of will became the heart and soul of the new nation."\n  <br />\n  -_Midwest Book Review_, Alma H. Bond, Ph.D., Reviewer\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as "breeding stock" for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women."\n  <br />\n  -MÃ¡irtÃ­n Ã“ FainÃ­n, Ambassador of Ireland\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian "herstory," convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -Birute Regine, author of\n  <em>\n   Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Tin Ticket_ powerfully illustrates the unimaginable vulnerability and desperation that came with being poor and female two hundred years ago in Britain. But the stories of the women in this book are not too different from those of the millions who are trafficked across continents even today for cheap labor or sex. And like these women, the founding mothers of Australia exemplify the same remarkable resilience and resourcefulness that women show to pull themselves and their families out of adversity.\n  <em>\n   The Tin Ticket\n  </em>\n  tells their story, and enriches our shared history as women and as human beings."\n  <br />\n  -Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President, Women Thrive Worldwide\n </p>\n <p>\n  "History books far too often scant the stories of women, of the poor, and of those swallowed up in the prison system. Deborah Swiss has broken this triple barrier to bring us a moving and fascinating story -- both of forgotten people who were ruthlessly exploited, and of a remarkable woman who did much to help them."\n  <br />\n  -Adam Hochschild, author of\n  <em>\n   King Leopold''s Ghost\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Bury the Chains\n  </em>\n  , co-founder of\n  <em>\n   Mother Jones\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting. Bridget Mulligan stole a bucket of milk; Widow Ludlow Tedder, eleven spoons. For their crimes, they would be sent not to jail, but to ships teeming with other female convicts. Tin tickets, stamped with numbers, were hung around the women''s necks, and the ships set out to carry them to their new home: Van Diemen''s Land, later known as Tasmania, part of the British Empire''s crown jewel, Australia. Men outnumbered women nine to one there, and few "proper" citizens were interested in emigrating. The deportation of thousands of petty criminals-the vast majority nonviolent first offenders-provided a convenient solution for the government.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Crossing Shark-infested waters, some died in shipwrecks during the four-month journey, or succumbed to infections and were sent to a watery grave. Others were impregnated against their will by their captors. They arrived as nothing more than property. But incredibly, as the years passed, they managed not only to endure their privation and pain but to thrive on their own terms, breaking the chains of bondage, and forging a society that treated women as equals and led the world in women''s rights.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Tin Ticket\n  </em>\n  takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes''s best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen''s Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2342'),
(7735, 'Tip It!: The World According to Maggie', 'Maggie Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dear Readers,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There are at   least five good reasons to Tip It! right now.          My daughter Kathy put out *   her*    memoir last year, which was real nice except for the controversial parts. And     it got to be a #1 *    New York     Times* bestseller. Congratulations,     Kathleen! But now it''s my turn. I''ve written my own book. I have things to     say, too, without having to be all controversial like you were. Tip it!        People recognize me on the street a lot now     and come over, nicely, and say "Maggie, you remind me of my own mother." And     they say "Maggie, I love your show"--referring to *Kathy Griffin: My Life on     the D-List *as *    my     *show. Sometimes I correct them, I say,     "Oh, it''s not     my     show." But sometimes . . . I don''t correct     them. It''s kind of fun being a star, isn''t it? Tip it!        If you want to know a few things about my     daughter Kathleen that only a mother could know (How the heck did she get this     way? Did she always swear so much, for Chrissake?), you have come to the right     book. Tip it!         You know how a box of wine is never empty just     because the spigot seems to have run dry? (There''s always a little more if you     just tip it!) This book is like that. There''s so much in     it--never-before-published Griffin family photos!, a love story (me and my dear     departed husband Johnny), a whole guide to good living (including how to     survive on what''s in your purse), and a lot of funny business in this book     from Kathleen (she made comments in this book; readers, I was not able to stop     her!). So take this book and Tip It!         And be sure to get the last drop out of     living. Isn''t it nice that "Tip It" acts as a toast? I''m 90 years old, and I     think "Tip It!" even works pretty well as a motto for living to the fullest.     So, Tip It! today.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Yours,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Maggie Griffin\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A funny thing happened on the   way to Kathy Griffin''s skyrocketing stardom. The more she told stories about her   mother, Maggie, in her stand-up act and on her Emmy-winning television show, *  Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List,* the more popular her mother became.   (At the mere mention of Maggie, a stadium full of fans will cheer, "Tip It! Tip   It!")\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Shocked by Kathy,   exasperated by Kathy, grudgingly amused by Kathy, and at the end of the day,   always a loving mother to Kathy, Maggie Griffin has become the darling Gracie to   Kathy''s George Burns, the wry Cher to Kathy''s Sonny Bono, the spry, sweet   Roadrunner to Kathy''s Wile E. Coyote.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Maggie Griffin   grew up in Chicago, the youngest of sixteen children born to Irish immigrant   parents. She met Johnny, the love of her life, in Chicago, started dating him   after high school (while working at the Form Fit Bra factory in the returns   department), and they fell in love and married during the War. Together they   raised five children, the youngest a cutie named Kathleen, who never gave them a   moment''s trouble throughout her childhood--though it''s been payback time ever   since.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Kathy''s comedy   career took off, more and more stories of Maggie magically worked their way into   Kathy''s routines. And as a regular on *Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List,*   Maggie takes more guff from her daughter than any other mom on national   television. Well, after having her life put on comic display by the loudmouthed   redhead she fed, clothed, and cared for well into the comedian''s adulthood,   Maggie finally has the floor, and she has some business to share with you.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So get out your Franzia, stir up some Hamburger Helper, and dive into the world according to   Maggie.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1889'),
(7736, 'The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell''s\n <em>\n  The Tipping Point\n </em>\n has quite a few interesting twists on the subject.\n</p>\n<p>\n For example, Paul Revere was able to galvanize the forces of resistance so effectively in part because he was what Gladwell calls a "Connector": he knew just about everybody, particularly the revolutionary leaders in each of the towns that he rode through. But Revere "wasn''t just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston," he was also a "Maven" who gathered extensive information about the British. He knew what was going on and he knew exactly whom to tell. The phenomenon continues to this day--think of how often you''ve received information in an e-mail message that had been forwarded at least half a dozen times before reaching you.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gladwell develops these and other concepts (such as the "stickiness" of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal) through simple, clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes, such as comparing the pedagogical methods of\n <em>\n  Sesame Street\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Blue''s Clues\n </em>\n , or explaining why it would be even easier to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with the actor Rod Steiger. Although some readers may find the transitional passages between chapters hold their hands a little too tightly, and Gladwell''s closing invocation of the possibilities of social engineering sketchy, even chilling,\n <em>\n  The Tipping Point\n </em>\n is one of the most effective books on science for a general audience in ages. It seems inevitable that "tipping point," like "future shock" or "chaos theory," will soon become one of those ideas that everybody knows--or at least knows by name.\n <em>\n  --Ron Hogan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The premise of this facile piece of pop sociology has built-in appeal: little changes can have big effects; when small numbers of people start behaving differently, that behavior can ripple outward until a critical mass or "tipping point" is reached, changing the world. Gladwell''s thesis that ideas, products, messages and behaviors "spread just like viruses do" remains a metaphor as he follows the growth of "word-of-mouth epidemics" triggered with the help of three pivotal types. These are Connectors, sociable personalities who bring people together; Mavens, who like to pass along knowledge; and Salesmen, adept at persuading the unenlightened. (Paul Revere, for example, was a Maven and a Connector). Gladwell''s applications of his "tipping point" concept to current phenomena--such as the drop in violent crime in New York, the rebirth of Hush Puppies suede shoes as a suburban mall favorite, teenage suicide patterns and the efficiency of small work units--may arouse controversy. For example, many parents may be alarmed at his advice on drugs: since teenagers'' experimentation with drugs, including cocaine, seldom leads to hardcore use, he contends, "We have to stop fighting this kind of experimentation. We have to accept it and even embrace it." While it offers a smorgasbord of intriguing snippets summarizing research on topics such as conversational patterns, infants'' crib talk, judging other people''s character, cheating habits in schoolchildren, memory sharing among families or couples, and the dehumanizing effects of prisons, this volume betrays its roots as a series of articles for the New Yorker, where Gladwell is a staff writer: his trendy material feels bloated and insubstantial in book form. Agent, Tina Bennett of Janklow &amp; Nesbit. Major ad/promo. (Mar.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1097');
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(7737, '&#39;Tis', 'Frank McCourt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Frank McCourt''s glorious childhood memoir, Angela''s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape.And now we have ''Tis, the story of Frank''s American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank''s incomparable voice -- his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue -- that renders these experiences spellbinding.When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should "stick to their own kind" once they arrive. Somehow, Frank knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blonde, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach -- and to write -- that Frank finds his place in the world. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in Angela''s Ashes comes of age.As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek review of Angela''s Ashes, "It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best." Frank McCourt''s ''Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1891'),
(7738, 'Tishomingo Blues', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Daredevil Dennis Lenahan has brought his act to the Tishomingo Lodge &amp; Casino in Tunica, Mississippi -- diving off an eighty-foot ladder into nine feet of water for the amusement of gamblers, gangsters, and luscious belles. His riskiest feat, however, was witnessing a Dixie-style mob execution while atop his diving platform. Robert Taylor saw the hit also. A blues-loving Detroit hustler touring the Southland in a black Jaguar, Taylor''s got his own secret agenda re the "Cornbread Cosa Nostra," and he wants Dennis in on the game. But there''s a lot more in Robert Taylor''s pocket than a photo of his lynched great-grandfather. And high-diver Dennis could be about to take a long, fatal fall -- right into a mess of hoop skirts, Civil War play-acting ... and more trouble than he ever dreamed possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3140'),
(7739, 'Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr', 'Ron Chernow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history''s first billionaire and the patriarch of America''s most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller''s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book will indelibly alter our image of this most enigmatic capitalist.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world''s richest man by creating America''s most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Rockefeller was likely the most controversial businessman in our nation''s history. Critics charged that his empire was built on unscrupulous tactics: grand-scale collusion with the railroads, predatory pricing, industrial espionage, and wholesale bribery of political officials. The titan spent more than thirty years dodging investigations until Teddy Roosevelt and his trustbusters embarked on a marathon crusade to bring Standard Oil to bay.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â While providing abundant new evidence of Rockefeller''s misdeeds, Chernow discards the stereotype of the cold-blooded monster to sketch an unforgettably human portrait of a quirky, eccentric original. A devout Baptist and temperance advocate, Rockefeller gave money more generously--his chosen philanthropies included the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago, and what is today Rockefeller University--than anyone before him. Titan presents a finely nuanced portrait of a fascinating, complex man, synthesizing his public and private lives and disclosing numerous family scandals, tragedies, and misfortunes that have never before come to light.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â John D. Rockefeller''s story captures a pivotal moment in American history, documenting the dramatic post-Civil War shift from small business to the rise of giant corporations that irrevocably transformed the nation. With cameos by Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Jay Gould, William Vanderbilt, Ida Tarbell, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Jung, J. Pierpont Morgan, William James, Henry Clay Frick, Mark Twain, and Will Rogers, Titan turns Rockefeller''s life into a vivid tapestry of American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is Ron Chernow''s signal triumph that he narrates this monumental saga with all the sweep, drama, and insight that this giant subject deserves.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ron Chernow''s first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award and the Ambassador Award for the year''s best study of American culture. His second book, The Warburgs, won the Eccles Prize as the Best Business Book of 1993 and was also selected by the American Library Association as one of that year''s best nonfiction books. In reviewing his recent collection of essays, The Death of the Banker, The New York Times called the author "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we''ve seen in decadesÂ Â and chose the paperback original as one of the year''s Notable Books.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1893'),
(7740, 'The Titan&#39;s Curse', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6-9â€“In this installment, Riordan continues to enliven ancient mythology with wit, contemporary staging, and teenage heroics. Percy Jackson is now 14, a bit older and wiser, yet still entangled with the Fates. Friends, monsters, dysfunctional gods, and the romantic stirrings of all things natural and mythological are encountered. His good friend, if oft-time rival, Annabeth (daughter of Athena) is missing, as is Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Joined by best buddy Grover-the-goat-boy and an argumentative array of accomplices, Percy sets off to fulfill, and hopefully foil, the foreboding prophecy of the Oracle. Plagued by ominous dreams, thwarted by hideous monsters, and challenged by conflicting partnerships, the search party''s success hinges on unlikely unity. The droll pitch is teen-perfect, as when Apollo heats up the scene by arriving in his fire-red Maserati, wearing jeans, a sleeveless T-shirt, and loafers. ''Wow,'' Thalia muttered, ''Apollo is hot.'' ''He''s the sun god,'' I said. ''That''s not what I meant.'' Intricate prophecies and relationships are neatly braided into the adventurous plot. Teachers will cheer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians as they inspire students to embrace Greek mythology and score the ultimate Herculean challenge: getting kids to read. All in all, a winner of Olympic proportions and a surefire read-aloud.â€“\n <em>\n  Alison Follos, North Country School, Lake Placid, NY\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Just after finding Bianca and Nico, two newly discovered half-bloods, Percy, Grover, Annabeth, and Thalia end up trapped between a helicopter and a manticore. Artemis and her Hunters save the day, but Annabeth disappears overÂ a cliff; thenÂ Artemis rushes off to hunt a dangerous monster. Back at Camp Half-Blood, the Oracle foretells that Artemis must be rescued and makes a prediction that bodes ill for one of their numberâ€”but which one? Percy, who is supposed to remain behind while others pursue the quest, follows inÂ search of the missing Annabeth. Their adventures range widely across the U.S., taking themÂ to locales that includeÂ Washington, D.C.,Â and the deserts of the Southwest and pitting them against the usual assortment of colorful adversaries. The Percy Jackson &amp; the Olympians series is builtÂ around a terrific ideaâ€”that the half-mortal offspring of Greek gods live among us, playing out struggles of mythic scaleâ€”and Riordan takes it from strength to strength with this exciting installment, adding even more depth to the characters and story arc while retaining its predecessors'' nonstop laughs and action. Tixier Herald, Diana\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1156'),
(7741, 'To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918', 'Adam Hochschild', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n World War I stands as one of historyâ€™s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the warâ€™s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britainâ€™s leading investigative journalist, a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and an editor who, behind bars, published a newspaper for his fellow inmates on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britainâ€™s most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Today, hundreds of military cemeteries spread across the fields of northern France and Belgium contain the bodies of millions of men who died in the â€œwar to end all wars.â€ Can we ever avoid repeating history?\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Take a Look Inside\n  <em>\n   To End All Wars\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  (Click on Images to Enlarge)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Passchendaele, the battle that cost British forces more than 260,000 dead and wounded\n</p>\n<p>\n King George V and Queen Mary in Delhi\n</p>\n<p>\n Emmeline Parkhurst, under arrest\n</p>\n<p>\n John S. Clark, from circus animal tamer to underground antiwar activist\n</p>\n<p>\n Charlotte Despard, suffragette, prison veteran, pacifist, communist, IRA supporter\n</p>\n<hr />\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Conversation with Author Adam Hochschild\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n In the past youâ€™ve written mostly about issues of human rights and social justice, but now a book about the First World Warâ€”why?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Iâ€™ve long been obsessed and fascinated by the war, for it remade our world for the worse in almost every conceivable way. In addition to killing approximately 20 million soldiers and civilians, the war also ignited the Russian Revolution, sowed the anger that allowed Hitler to seize power, and permanently darkened our outlook on human nature and human self-destructiveness. But also Iâ€™ve always seen the war as a time when men and women faced a moral challenge as great as that faced by those who lived, say, in the time of slavery. Tens of thousands of people were wise enough to foresee, in 1914, the likely bloodshed that a war among the worldâ€™s major industrial powers would causeâ€”and, courageously, they refused to take part.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What are you trying to do in To End All Wars that makes it different from other books about the First World War?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Most books about any war, including this one, tell the story as a conflict between two sides. Instead, Iâ€™ve tried to tell the story of 1914â€“1918 as a struggle between those who felt the war was something noble and necessary, and those who felt it was absolute madness.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Were there war resisters on both sides?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Yes. But Iâ€™ve concentrated on one country, Britain. For various reasonsâ€”a major one being that at the warâ€™s outset Britain itself was not attackedâ€”there was a stronger antiwar movement there than anywhere else. More than 20,000 British men of military age refused the draft, and, as a matter of principle, many also refused the non-combatant alternative service offered to conscientious objectors, such as working in war industries or driving ambulances. More than 6,000 of these young men went to prison under very harsh conditions, as did some brave, outspoken critics of the war. This is one of the largest groups of people ever behind bars for political reasons in a Western democracyâ€”and certainly one of the most interesting. Their number included the countryâ€™s leading investigative journalist, a future Nobel Prize-winner, more than half a dozen future members of Parliament, and a former editor who would publish a clandestine prison newspaper on sheets of toilet paper.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n So the book is just about them?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Not only. I am equally intrigued by the people who fought the war, such as the generals who always thought the next battle was going to be the big breakthrough, and kept the cavalry ready to charge through the gapâ€”which never came, of course. So my cast of characters includes both resisters and those who fought. And there are interesting ties between them. Few people know, for instance, that Britainâ€™s commander-in-chief on the Western Front for the first year and a half of combat had a sister who was an ardent, vocal pacifist. Or that the Minister for War had close friends whose son was not only in jail as a resister but was in solitary confinement for refusing to obey prison rules. Two well-known sisters, the suffragettes Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst, broke with each other so bitterly over the war that they each edited a newspaper that attacked the other.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Are all of your characters well-known?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Not at all. Albert Rochester was a soldier who got into trouble for writing a letter to a newspaper complaining that every British officer had his own private servant. John S. Clarke was an antiwar radical, working undergroundâ€”who in his youth had made his living as a circus lion-tamer. Emily Hobhouse believed the nations of Europe should be negotiating, not fighting. She evaded British government travel restrictions, went to Berlin in 1916 and talked peace terms with the foreign ministerâ€”the sole private citizen in Europe who actually traveled to the other side in search of peace. You couldnâ€™t invent people like this.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What were your sources of information?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n When I write history, I like to hear peopleâ€™s own voices, so as much as possible I relied on personal letters, diaries, memoirs and the like. But there was one additional, unexpected, rich trove of material. In 1914â€“1918, both civilian and military intelligence agents watched the Britainâ€™s antiwar activists intently. They infiltrated spies into peace organizations, sometimes sent in\n <em>\n  agents provocateurs\n </em>\n to try to get pacifists to do things they could be arrested for, and at even the smallest public antiwar meeting, one of Scotland Yardâ€™s dozen shorthand writers would be there taking notes. These agentsâ€™ reports, even those of the\n <em>\n  agents provocateurs\n </em>\n bragging about what they accomplished, are in Britainâ€™s National Archives, some of them opened to public view for the first time only in the last few years.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo by Spark Media)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2280'),
(7742, 'To Kill a Mockingbird', 'Harper Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harper Lee''s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis of an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father -- a crusading local lawyer -- risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2718'),
(7743, 'Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan', 'Jake Adelstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious "Yomiuri Shinbun." For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. But when his final scoop brought him face to face with Japan''s most infamous "yakuza" boss--and the threat of death for him and his family--Adelstein decided to step down . . . momentarily. Then, he fought back. In "Tokyo Vice," Adelstein tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporter--who made rookie mistakes like getting into a martial-arts battle with a senior editor--to a daring, investigative journalist with a price on his head. With its vivid, visceral descriptions of crime in Japan and an exploration of the world of modern-day "yakuza" that even few Japanese ever see, "Tokyo Vice" is a fascination, and an education, from first to last. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1895'),
(7744, 'Tokyo Year Zero', 'David Peace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/983'),
(7745, 'Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading', 'Nina Sankovitch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Sankovitch lost her older sister to cancer, she was determined to "live her life double" in order to make up for her family''s painful loss. But after three years spent at a frenetic pace, Sankovitch decided to slow down and rediscover the pleasure of books in order to reconnect with the memory of her sister. Despite the day-to-day responsibilities of raising four sonsâ€”and the holidays, vacations, and sudden illnesses that accompany a large familyâ€”Sankovitch vowed to read one book a day for an entire year and blog about it. In this entertaining bibliophile''s dream, Sankovitch (who launched ReadAllDay.org and was profiled in the New York Times) found that her "year of magical reading" was "not a way to rid myself of sorrow but a way to absorb it." As well as being an homage to her sister and their family of readers, Sankovitch''s memoir speaks to the power that books can have over our daily lives. Sankovitch champions the act of reading not as an indulgence but as a necessity, and will make the perfect gift from one bookworm to another. (June)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWhat Sankovitch has accomplished in her first book is not only to celebrate the transformational, even healing, powers of reading, but to give the reader a feeling of reading those books as well, through the eyes of an astute reader.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1898'),
(7746, 'Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing', 'John Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first ever intimate portrait of Britain''s best-loved, but little known, comedy entertainer, this fully authorized, biographyÂ of comedian Tommy CooperÂ shows the man behind the laughter that few people saw. Until his tragic death on live television in 1984, Tommy Cooper lived in constant fear of the day he would be found out by his audience. He could never accept the accolades that came so thick and fast from every direction, and died to the sounds of laughter that he never really believed. Supplementing his own intimate knowledge with material accessed for the first time from the archives of Cooper''s agent and manager, Miff Ferrie, and with the full co-operation of the Cooper family, John Fisher''s warm, honest, and insightful writing skillfully brings alive the man behind the comedic mask in this definitive biography of a comedy legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1899'),
(7747, 'Tommy&#39;s Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf&#39;s Founding Father and Son', 'Kevin Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In the tradition of Seabiscuit, the riveting tale of twoproud Scotsmen who beat all comers to   become the heroesof a golden ageâ€”the dawn of professional golf**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bringing to life golfâ€™s founding father and son, Tommyâ€™s Honor is a stirring tribute to two legendary   players and a vivid evocation of their colorful, rip-roaring times.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Morrises were towering figures in their day. Old Tom, born in 1821,began life as a nobodyâ€”  he was the son of a weaver and a maid. But he was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, the cradle of   golf, and the game was in his blood. He became the Champion Golfer of Scotland, a national   hero who won tournaments (and huge bets) while his young son looked on. As "Keeper of the   Green" at the townâ€™s ancient links, Tom deployed golfâ€™s first lawnmower and banished sheep from   the fairways.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Then Young Tommyâ€™s career took off. Handsome Tommy Morris, the Tiger Woods of the   nineteenth century, was a more daring player than his father. Soon he surpassed Old Tom and   dominated the game. But just as he reached his peakâ€”with spectators flocking to see him playâ€”  Tommyâ€™s life took a tragic turn, leading to his death at the age of twenty-four. That shock is at the   heart of *Tommyâ€™s Honor*. It left Tom to pick up the piecesâ€”to honor his son by keeping   Tommyâ€™s memory alive.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Like the *New York Times* bestseller *The Greatest Game Ever Played*, *Tommyâ€™s   Honor* is both fascinating history and a moving personal saga. Golfers will love it, but this   book isnâ€™t only for golfers. Itâ€™s for every son who has fought to escape a fatherâ€™s shadow and for   every father who had guided a son toward manhood, then found it hard to let him go.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1902'),
(7748, 'The Tommyknockers', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n King''s new novel, a numbing variation on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, offers its own best commentary on itself. Nearly one-third of the way through the 560-page book, protagonist Bobbi Anderson, a writer of westerns, describes what she has stumbled upon in her backyard to her friend Gardener, an alcoholic poet: "It was a flying saucer. No self-respecting science-fiction writer would put one in his story, and if he did, no self-respecting editor would touch it with a ten-foot pole.. . . It is the oldest wheeze in the book." After the vampirish Tommyknockers in the spaceship have wrought their evil magic upon the inhabitants of Haven (Tommyknockers live on the blood of comatose humans circulated through mind-reading PCs connected to VCRs), the unfortunate townspeople have, it seems, "become" (the word, over-used and never explained, is King''s) "something else" (the vague words are also the author''s). The "gadgets" of the town "become" living beings that kill (there are marauding hedge cutters and Coke machines, Electrolux vacuums, Yamaha motorcycles and flying smoke detectors ) and The Tommyknockers is consumed by the rambling prose of its author. Taking a whole town as his canvas, King uses too-broad strokes, adding cartoonlike characters and unlikely catastrophes like so many logs on a fire; ultimately he loses all semblance of style, carefully structured plot or resonant meaning, the hallmarks of his best writing. It is clear from this latest work that King himself has "become" a writing machinethis is his fourth novel since It was published 14 months ago; the faithful readers not overwhelmed by his latest fictional "gadget" are likely to wonder, as poet Gardener does near the novel''s end: "What had it all been for? He realized miserably that he was never going to know."\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Yet another mammoth horror novel from King, this dark tale depicts a small town''s fatal encounter with creatures from outer space. Events start with Roberta Anderson, a writer of Old West novels, unearthing a flying saucer on her remote wooded property. Five hundred pages later alcoholic poet Jim Gardener, Roberts''s former English teacher, finds himself aboard the flying saucer in outer space. In the interval the creatures (Tommyknockers) destroy the citizenry of Haven, Maine. While this is not one of King''s more original novels, it does have plenty of blood and guts, macabre humor, and a well-wrought realization of the New England countryside. No doubt King''s legions of fans will demand it. BOMC main selection. James B. Hemesath, Adams State Coll. Lib., Alamosa, Col.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/790'),
(7749, 'Tooth and Nail', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A novelist of great scope, depth, and power." --Jonathan Kellerman\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "In Rankin, you cannot go wrong." --\n <em>\n  The Boston Globe\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ian Rankin is up there among the best crime novelists at work today." --Michael Connelly\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A superior series." --\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Reading [Ian Rankin] is like watching somebody juggle a dozen bottles of single malt without spilling a drop." --\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n (starred review)\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ian Rankin\n </strong>\n is the worldwide #1 bestselling writer of the Inspector Rebus mysteries, including\n <em>\n  Knots and Crosses\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Hide and Seek\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Let It Bleed\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Black and Blue\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Set in Darkness\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Resurrection Men\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  A Question of Blood\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Falls\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Exit Music\n </em>\n . He has won an Edgar Award, a Gold Dagger for fiction, a Diamond Dagger for career excellence, and the Chandler-Fulbright Award.Â He has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his contributions to literature. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/513'),
(7750, 'Tories: Fighting for the King in America&#39;s First Civil War', 'Thomas B. Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Drawing on letters, diaries, and other primary sources, historian Allen (George Washington, Spymaster) challenges the traditional notion that all the colonists wanted to overthrow the oppressive British government. Instead, he argues that a substantial portion of Americans remained loyal to Britain. Even families were divided, making the Revolution a civil war that often pitted sons against fathers and brothers against brothers. Yet Patriots and Loyalists changed constantly with the varying fortunes of the war. [ For example, Stephen Jarvis, a young farmer, initially joined the Patriots'' Connecticut militia in order to defy his Tory father; when his regiment was temporarily released from active duty, young Jarvis fought with the Tory army on Long Island. After the war, 80,000 Tories left the new United States, many starting new lives in Canada; in 1792, about 2,000 ex-slaves given their freedom for joining the Loyalists, sailed to Africa, founding what is now Sierra Leone. Allen''s thorough research and fast-paced narrative provide fresh ways of thinking about the Revolutionary War and shed new light on the lives of those, from bankers to small tradesmen, who remained loyal to the throne in the face of vigorous opposition and persecution. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   A Sweeping, Dramatic History of the Americans Who Chose to Side with the British in the Revolution\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  The American Revolution was not simply a battle between independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted neighbor against neighbor and Patriot against Tory on the battlefield, the village green, and even in church.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this outstanding and vital history, Allen tells the complete story of these other Americans, tracing their lives and experiences throughout the revolutionary period. New York City and Philadelphia were Tory strongholds through much of the war, and at times in the Carolinas and Georgia there were more trained and armed Tories than Redcoats. The Revolution also produced one of the greatestâ€”and least knownâ€”migrations in Western history. More than 80,000 Tories left America, most of them relocating to Canada.\n </p>\n <p>\n  John Adams once said that he feared there would never be a good history of the American Revolution because so many documents had left the country with the\n  <em>\n   Tories\n  </em>\n  . Based on documents in archives from Nova Scotia to London, Tories adds a fresh perspective to our knowledge of the Revolution and sheds an important new light on the little-known figures whose lives were forever changed when they remained faithful to their mother country.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2281'),
(7751, 'Total Control', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  released in February 1997.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sidney Archer is devastated when she hears that the plane carrying her husband to Los Angeles has crashed. But her nightmare begins when she learns he''d traded identities and flown to Seattle instead. Evidence suggests that Jason Archer was selling corporate secrets to a high-tech rival. Soon Sidney herself is caught in a web of intrigue as wealthy men vie for more power and money. Fired from her law firm, pursued by hired killers eager to recover an encrypted computer disk Jason had mailed to himself, Sydney finally trusts only the FBI agent who believes her innocent. No one is immune here from high-tech snooping and violent death. Baldacci writes strictly for action, not wasting time developing characters or setting. Few books have higher heaps of dead millionaires at their conclusion. The scant literary value won''t deter those who snatched up his first book, the best-selling Absolute Power (LJ 11/15/95), or keep them from standing in line to see the film version, due in February. Public libraries will need a copy or two to meet demand, especially with a major publicity blitz planned.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   -?Kathy Piehl, Mankato State Univ. Minn.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/192'),
(7752, 'Touch', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Michigan woman was blind and now she can see, after being touched by a young man who calls himself Juvenal. Maybe it was just coincidence, but Bill Hill -- who used to run the spectacular Uni-Faith Ministry in Dalton, Georgia, and now sells RVs -- can see dollar signs when he looks at this kid with the magic "touch." The trouble is that others see them also, including a wacko fundamentalist fascist with his own private army of the faithful and an assortment of media leeches. But everyone who''s looking to put the touch on the healer is in for a big surprise -- because Juvenal''s got a trick or two up his sleeve that nobody sees coming.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3141'),
(7753, 'Touch of Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her job as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte''s, a small-town bar in small-town Bon Temps, deep in Louisiana. She''s funny and pretty and, thanks to her grandmother, she''s very well-mannered - but since not many people truly appreciate her ability to read their minds, the guys haven''t exactly been beating down her door . . . And then along came Bill, tall, dark and handsome - and Sookie couldn''t ''hear'' a word he was thinking. He was exactly the type of guy she''d been waiting all her life for. Of course, Bill had a disability of his own: fussy about his food, not into suntans, bit of a night person: yep, Bill was a vampire. But at least now Sookie nows there *are* guys she can date who won''t worry about her catching them thinking about other women . . . And that''s going to make Sookie''s life really interesting!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3604'),
(7754, 'Tough Customer', 'Sandra Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Colleagues, friends, and lovers know Dodge Hanley as a private investigator who doesn''t let rules get in his way in his private life as well as his professional one. If he breaks a heart, or bends the law in order to catch a criminal, he does so without hesitation or apology. That''s why he''s the first person Caroline King who after a thirty-year separation continues to haunt his dreams asks for help when a deranged stalker attempts to murder their daughter... the daughter Dodge has never met. He has a whole bagful of grudging excuses for wishing to ignore Caroline''s call, and one compelling reason to drop everything and fly down to Texas: Dodge''s mind may be a haze of disturbing memories and bad decisions, but he arrives in Houston knowing with perfect clarity that his daughter, Berry, is in danger. She has become the object of desire of a co-worker, a madman and genius with a penchant for puzzles and games who has spent the past year making Berry''s life hell, and who now has vowed to kill her. Dodge joins forces with local deputy sheriff Ski Nyland, but the alarming situation goes from bad to worse when the stalker begins to claim other victims and leaves an ominous trail of clues as he lethally works his way toward Berry. Sensing the killer drawing nearer, Dodge, who''s survived vicious criminals and his own self-destructive impulses, realizes that this time he''s in for the fight of his life. From acclaimed best-selling author Sandra Brown,Tough Customer is a heart-pounding tale about obsession and murder, the fragile nature of relationships, and, possibly, second chances.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3437'),
(7755, 'Tourist Season', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the president of the Miami Chamber of Commerce is found dead inside a suitcase with his legs sawn off and a rubber alligator stuffed down his throat, news and police locals prefer to believe it''s simply another typical South Florida crime. But when letters from a terrorist group, Las Noches de Diciembre, link the man''s death to the disappearances of a visiting Shriner and a Canadian tourist, former newsman (now private eye) Brian Keyes intuits that someone is out to kill Florida''s tourist trade. His investigation leads him to an old journalism crony obsessed with fury against the state''s irresponsible development policies. Miami Herald columnist Hiaasen writes with a seriousness of intent and knack for characterization which, unfortunately, outstrip his comic talents. This is an auspicious solo debut for the serious Hiaasen (he has written three thrillers with William Montalbano), but a lukewarm one for him as a potential comic-absurdist. (March 24p\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A dark, funny book full of irony and spice. I loved it!"-- Robert B. Parker\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/515'),
(7756, 'The Tower', 'Gregg Hurwitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. A deadly warning in a deadly game.In the bestselling tradition of The Silence of the Lambs comes The Tower, a novel of nail-biting suspense and heart-stopping terror played out in a psychological battle of wit, cunning, and pure evil between a diabolically clever killer and his determined hunter.The Tower, nicknamed "Alcatraz II" by law enforcement officials, is infamous as the world''s foremost airtight extreme maximum security prison. A futuristic building, it is located offshore of San Francisco, and built to be 100 percent escape-proof. The men who are condemned to spend the rest of their lives there are the most dangerous, violent offenders in the prison system -- men whose crimes have made it imperative that they be separated from society, from one another, and from hope -- forever.Allander Atlasia, a psychopathic killer and himself the victim of a horrible sexual attack as a child, has been sentenced to the Tower for a series of gruesome crimes. But Atlasia manages to do the impossible -- he breaks out of the prison. He makes his way to the mainland and, armed with his own private agenda of hate and murder, begins his killing spree, intent on re-enacting and revenging the childhood tortures that turned him into a monster.Jade Marlow is an ex-FBI agent who has been assigned to hunt down and capture Atlasia. A self-described "tracker," Marlow is relentless, fearless, and brilliant -- a loose cannon in a private struggle with his own demons. With a record of irrational behavior and violence, and a kind of genius for putting himself into the mind of a criminal predator that is itself a sort of madness, Marlow may just be the only man smart and diabolical enough to catch Atlasia.Atlasia''s victims are the unfortunate bystanders in this complex story of emotional and psychological horror, as they fall prey to this madman''s twisted re-enactment of his own depraved past, as he rights the wrongs he feels have been visited upon him. His message to his pursuers is delivered in a particularly chilling manner, a literal realization of the old adage "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."Two men -- one a sinister, inventive, pitiless serial killer, the other a brilliant sleuth and hunter who bears his own heavy burden of dark secrets and impulses -- play out a deadly game against a background of increasingly brutal murders, in which there are no rules but kill or be killed.Superbly written, ingeniously plotted, and enormously entertaining, The Tower marks the debut of a stunning new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3102'),
(7757, 'Towers of Midnight', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark Oneâ€™s prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight.The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age.Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen foe is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck. To prevail, he must seek answers in Telâ€™aranâ€™rhiod and find a way--at long last--to master the wolf within him or lose himself to it forever.Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life. The creatures beyond the stone gateways--the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn--have confused him, taunted him, and left him hanged, his memory stuffed with bits and pieces of other menâ€™s lives. He had hoped that his last confrontation with them would be the end of it, but the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. The time is coming when he will again have to dance with the Snakes and the Foxes, playing a game that cannot be won. The Tower of Ghenjei awaits, and its secrets will reveal the fate of a friend long lost.This penultimate novel of Robert Jordanâ€™s #1 New York Times bestselling series--the second of three based on materials he left behind when he died in 2007--brings dramatic and compelling developments to many threads in the Pattern. The end draws near.Dovieâ€™andi se tovya sagain. Itâ€™s time to toss the dice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3356'),
(7758, 'Townie', 'Andre Dubus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Townie\n </em>\n . You might think that following his father''s trade would have been natural and even obvious for the son and namesake of Andre Dubus, one of the most admired short story writers of his time, but it was anything but. His father left when he was 10, and as his mother worked long hours to keep them fed, her four children mostly raised themselves, stumbling through house parties and street fights in their Massachusetts mill town, so cut off from the larger world that when someone mentioned "Manhattan" when Andre was in college he didn''t know what they were talking about. What he did know, and what he recalls with detailed intensity, were the battles in bars and front yards, brutal to men and women alike, that first gave him discipline, as he built himself from a fearful kid into a first-punch, hair-trigger bruiser, and then empathy, as, miraculously, he pulled himself back from the violence that threatened to define him. And it was out of that empathy that, wanting to understand the stories of the victims of brutality as well as those whose pain drove them to dish it out, he began to write, reconciling with his father and eventually giving us novels like\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Long before he became the highly acclaimed author of House of Sand and Fog, Dubus shuffled and punched his way through a childhood and youth full of dysfunction, desperation, and determination. Just after he turned 12, Dubus''s family fell rapidly into shambles after his father--the prominent writer Andre Dubus--not only left his wife for a younger woman but also left the family in distressing poverty on the violent and drug-infested side of their Massachusetts mill town. For a few years, Dubus escaped into drugs, embracing the apathetic "no-way-out" attitude of his friends. After having his bike stolen, being slapped around by some of the town''s bullies, and watching his brother and mother humiliated by some of the town''s thugs, Dubus started lifting weights at home and boxing at the local gym. Modeling himself on the Walking Tall sheriff, Buford Pusser, Dubus paid back acts of physical violence with physical violence. Ultimately, he decided to take up his pen and write his way up from the bottom and into a new relationship with his father. In this gritty and gripping memoir, Dubus bares his soul in stunning and page-turning prose. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1904'),
(7759, 'Toys', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   with Neil McMahon\n  </span>\n </font>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   </span>\n  </font>\n  <br />\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n    <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n     <strong>\n      Move over James Bond--you''ve just met your match!\n     </strong>\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, exceptional intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do--they''re Elites, endowed at birth with the most advanced genetic enhancements available.\n     <i>\n      Elites\n     </i>\n     are the pinnacle of evolution; the triumph of man''s ambitions.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     The only problem in their perfect world--are the humans!\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     And their\n     <u>\n      toys\n     </u>\n     !\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     Now comes the most unbelievable shock of Hays Baker''s life.  Suddenly he''s on the other side of the gun, experiencing a life he''d never dreamed possible--and fighting to save humans everywhere from extinction.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     Not only that, Hays and Lizbeth just might lose their perfect family.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     James Patterson''s\n     <i>\n      Toys\n     </i>\n     is a thriller on a hyper plane--with a hero to rival both Bond and Jason Bourne.\n    </span>\n   </font>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/295');
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(7760, 'Trace', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cornwell''s latest after the disappointing\n  <em>\n   Blow Fly\n  </em>\n  has indomitable medical examiner Kay Scarpetta returning to her office in Richmond five years after being fired. This homecoming will cheer fans: not only does the move put Scarpetta on her own turf, it reinvigorates Cornwell''s storytelling, restoring some of the spunk lately lacking in her lead character. Dr. Joel Marcus, Scarpetta''s replacement as Virginia''s chief medical examiner, has summoned her back to help him puzzle through the mysterious death of a 14-year-old girl. Marcus is generally loathed: he''s petty, inept, has a secret garbage-truck phobia and harbors an intense hatred for Scarpetta. Meanwhile, Scarpetta''s niece Lucy, owner of a fabulously successful private-eye firm, has her own troubles trying to sort out who attempted to kill her friend Henri (short for Henrietta), who''s now under psychiatric treatment by Scarpetta''s lover in Aspen, Benton Wesley. Lurking in the background is Edgar Allan Pogue, a nutcase who has a thing for dead bodies and a grudge against Scarpetta. It''s her job, as always, to connect all the puzzling forensic dots and identify the killer in time to save herself and her loved ones. She does this, mostly, but leaves the reader to puzzle out a few salient points on his or her own. Cumbersome backstory slows the action, but in general the old Scarpetta comes through, at least in the main, and this will be enough to reassure her many fans and carry them over until her next appearance. _ BOMC, Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selection_.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Against advice from her niece Lucy, Kay Scarpetta answers a request to return to the Richmond medical examiner''s office, the same office from which she was fired, to help with the sensitive case of a dead teen. When she and Pete Marino arrive, they find the new medical examiner to be a vituperative, uncooperative martinet and the office that Kay ran so efficiently in chaos. Two murders, oddly linked, demand their attention. In the meantime, Lucy, still unsettled despite her success with the Last Precinct investigative agency, is having personal problems (there''s been an attack on her housemate), which strangely enough find her treading the same path as her aunt Kay. Traces of the smart, dynamic, yet vulnerable Scarpetta of the early novels are in evidence here, and Cornwell has better control of her plot and characters than in her last few efforts, faltering only occasionally when psychobabble weighs things down. The mystery is intriguing, there''s plenty of forensic detail, and the ending, though perhaps too abrupt, opens the way for Scarpetta and her associates to proceed in any direction that calls to them.\n  <em>\n   Stephanie Zvirin\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3025'),
(7761, 'Trader of Secrets', 'Steve Martini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Defense attorney Paul Madriani is embroiled in a case as perilous as any he has ever faced: one that involves an angry killer who will stop at nothing short of vengeance, and two missing NASA scientists who are holding secrets that a hostile government desperately wants to purchaseâ€”in blood if they must.   Madriani''s daughter, Sarah, has evaded the man known as Liquida, who has stalked her all the way across the country. For her own safety, she is being kept under armed guard on a farm in Ohio.   But one morning, itching for a predawn run to shake off the tension that has grown in the hours she''s spent waiting for word from her father, Sarah slips from her ring of protection. What she doesn''t know is that at the same moment her assailant is outside, waiting patiently in the dark.   Meanwhile in California, two men in a parked car argue over millions in cash that could be slipping through their fingers and a scheme involving government technology for sale that could rock the world.   Paul Madriani, his companion Joselyn Cole, and his longtime law partner, Harry Hinds, track Liquida, not knowing that their quest will carry them deep into the vortex of international terror.It is a journey that will lead them toward a bizarre and cruel twist of natureâ€”and the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. From the nation''s capital to California, from Bangkok to Paris and the jungles of Mexico, Madriani and his party race against time to find Liquida and the scientist who is the "trader of secrets" before he can unleash the weapon that could set the world ablaze.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3510'),
(7762, 'The Traffickers', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there''s been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuykill River. Everybody assumes they''re not related, but Payne can''t shake the hunch that there''s something more to it--and that hunch leads him far from the City of Brotherly Love to the Texas-Mexico border.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3462'),
(7763, 'Trail of the Apache and Other Stories', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Destiny, restlessness, and greed moved the white man west, into lands occupied for centuries by a proud and noble people: Arapahoe, Navajo, Apache, Sioux. The bitter misunderstandings and brutal clashes of cultures that resulted ultimately shaped the nation we know today. In seven classic western tales, the New York Times-bestselling Grand Master re-creates a world of violence, deception, vengeance, and strange beauty with the same peerless storytelling power that distinguishes his acclaimed suspense fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3149'),
(7764, 'The Train of Small Mercies', 'David Rowell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In haunting and crystalline prose,\n  <i>\n   The Train of Small Mercies\n  </i>\n  follows six characters'' intrepid search for hope among the debris of an American tragedy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In New York, a young black porter struggles through his first day on the job-a staggering assignment aboard Robert F. Kennedy''s funeral train. In Pennsylvania, a woman creates a tangle of lies to sneak away from her disapproving husband and pay her respects to the slain senator, dragging her child with her. In Maryland, a wounded young soldier awaits a newspaper interview that his parents hope will restore his damaged self-esteem. And in Washington, an Irish nanny in town to interview with the Kennedy family must reconcile the lost opportunity and the chance to start her life anew.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this stunning debut, David Rowell depicts disparate lives united by an extraordinary commemoration, irrevocably changed as Kennedy''s funeral train makes its solemn journey from New York to Washington.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/918'),
(7765, 'Traitor', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Stratton''s sixth adventure comes to a ripping climax in the heart of Russia, far below ground After a surveillance mission in Sevastopol goes badly wrong, Stratton finds himself doing penance at MI16, the government''s clandestine organization that creates weapons equipment for special forces and the secret service. But Sevastopol has started something. In the North Sea a team of hijackers take over the giant Morpheus oil platform, demanding two billion dollars within 24 hours--or the bodies will start falling. With the SBS overstretched and its surveillance team locked down, there is only one option: Stratton and a team of unproven MI16 operatives. Stratton knows he has to redeem himself and he also has his own agenda. One of the men on the rig is an old friend, and Stratton intends to save him. But one member of Stratton''s team has their own deadly agenda, and Morpheus is just the beginning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/516'),
(7766, 'Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt', 'H. W. Brands', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008\n </strong>\n : With\n <em>\n  Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt\n </em>\n , H.W. Brands penetrates the clenched grin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a masterful biography of one of America''s most beloved leaders. Though born into the upper crust of society, FDR dedicated his career to fighting for the common good and the ideals of the American Dream. With the same exhaustive research familiar to fans of his biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Jackson, Brands provides a portrait of an unflinching (and often recalcitrant) figure whose unshakable confidence inspired a beleaguered nation. FDR''s path may have been unorthodox (evidenced by an unprecedented 12 years spent as commander-in-chief) and arguably illegal (the New Deal didn''t always work well with the Constitution), but his shared goal of a stronger America at home and abroad endeared him to voters of varying backgrounds. "We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country''s interest and concern," proclaimed Roosevelt in 1937. "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." --\n <em>\n  -Dave Callanan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is unfortunate for University of Texas historian Brands (_Andrew Jackson_) that his serviceable biography of Franklin Roosevelt comes on the heels of Jean Smith''s magisterial Francis Parkman Prize winner,\n <em>\n  FDR\n </em>\n (2007). Still, Brands provides an entirely adequate narrative detailing the well-known facts of Roosevelt''s life. We have the young Knickerbocker aristocrat somewhat tentatively entering the dog-eat-dog world of local Democratic politics in New York''s Hudson Valley. We have him embarking on a marriage with his cousin Eleanor that was fated to be politically successful but personally disastrous. We also have the somewhat spoiled son of privilege facing the first real battle of his lifeâ€”polioâ€”and emerging with greatly enhanced fortitude and empathy. Appropriately, Brands gives two-thirds of his book to FDR''s presidency and its two most dramatic events: the domestic war against devastating economic depression (fought with tools that many in America''s upper classes considered socialist), and the international war against Axis power aggression. It is fitting that Roosevelt commands the amount of scholarly attention that he does, but sad that so much is wholly redundant with what has come before. 16 pages of photos.\n <em>\n  (Nov. 4)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2285'),
(7767, 'Transfer of Power', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this long political thriller staged almost entirely around a hostage standoff, Flynn makes maximum use of his White House setting, and mixes in a spicy broth of brutal terrorists, heroic commandos and enough secret agent hijinks to keep the confrontation bubbling until its flag-raising end. The villains are led by Rafique Aziz, a notorious Arab terrorist whose band of thugs takes over the White House by finding a weak point in American politics: they pose as wealthy campaign contributors and are welcomed through the front door. President Robert Hayes manages to escape to his bunker moments before the bloodbath, but religious zealot Aziz takes almost 100 hostages, seals off the White House and begins making demands, of which large sums of cash are just the beginning. With the president incommunicado and weak-willed yet power hungry Vice President Sherman Baxter in charge, the Pentagon and the CIA resort to their secret weapon: commando extraordinaire Mitch Rapp. After sneaking into the bowels of the Executive Mansion through an air duct, Rapp steadily disrupts the terrorists'' well-laid plans. He finally calls in reinforcements when Aziz begins drilling into the president''s bunker. It''s a long haul to the finish, but Flynn (Term Limits) compensates for some stereotyping by creating dynamic tension between the main players, especially between military leaders and politicians, and between Rapp and Aziz. His description of the White House is impressive; readers will wonder if the secret passageways, hidden rooms and clever deception devices that help load this story with seemingly endless intrigue, really exist. Agent, Sloan Harris. 15-city author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When terrorists crash White House security, the President is swept away to an isolated underground bunker, and the Vice President suddenly finds himself in charge. From the author of the best-selling Term Limits.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/517'),
(7768, 'Travels With Myself and Another', 'Martha Gellhorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brilliantly witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues, and narrow escapes of Martha Gellhorn, one of America''s most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway. "Gellhorn is incapable of writing a dull sentence". The Times (London) "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt", writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt''s secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together. Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War. Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1906'),
(7769, 'Treachery in Death', 'J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the latest from the #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon, Eve Dallas tracks down those who break the law-including the ones sworn to uphold it.   Detective Eve Dallas and her partner, Peabody, are following up on a senseless crime-an elderly grocery owner killed by three stoned punks for nothing more than kicks and snacks. This is Peabody''s first case as primary detective-good thing she learned from the master.  But Peabody soon stumbles upon a trickier situation. After a hard workout, she''s all alone in the locker room when the gym door clatters open; and-while hiding inside a shower stall trying not to make a sound-she overhears two fellow officers, Garnet and Oberman, arguing. It doesn''t take long to realize they''re both crooked-guilty not just of corruption but of murder. Now Peabody, Eve, and Eve''s husband, Roarke, are trying to get the hard evidence they need to bring the dirty cops down-knowing all the while that the two are willing to kill to keep their secret.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3288'),
(7770, 'Treasure', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the great Library of Alexandria was ordered sacked in A.D. 391, could some of its fabulous art treasures and volumes from its magnificent library have escaped the flames and been ferried across the Atlantic? It''s an improbable if intriguing notion, but probability is not the strong suit of this wild charade of a novel that features the greatest treasure hunt of all timesome 1600 years after the fabulous riches disappeared. The narrative also encompasses the bloody attempts of two supposedly religious fanatics (who turn out to be brothers in a "criminal dynasty") to seize power in Egypt and Mexico, respectively; the kidnapping of the legitimate presidents of those two countries aboard a cruise ship; and the dazzling exploits of the green-eyed Dirk Pitt, a super-James Bond type whom "no woman could completely possess." These exploits include tracking the cruise ship to Tierra del Fuego, defeating, with the aid of some Special Forces agents, hordes of Arab and Mexican terrorists in several brutal encounters, and locating and saving the treasure. It''s essentially schoolboy stuff, and it leads one to surmise that Cussler, author of the bestselling Cyclops, may have been so intent on packing his tale with action that he forgot about credibility altogether. Paperback rights to Pocket Books; Literary Guild main selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Dazzling exploits... A novel that features the greatest treasure hunt of all time...."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Washington Post\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Cruising speed in TREASURE is pedal-to-the- metal fast forward.... Cussler moves the players around the global chessboard with a compelling clarity that keeps you captivated.... His shoot- outs are first rate.... And the conclusion is gangbusters."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Action-packed.... Cussler has developed and patented a vibrant, rollicking narrative style that seldom shows signs of relenting...."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Detroit Free Press\n </p>\n <p>\n  "TREASURE will raise goosebumps on readers. ...Spine-tingling... suspenseful!"\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Associated Press\n </p>\n <p>\n  "There''s ''treasure'' to be found in Chive Cussler''s iatest novel, and it''s not the discovery of the golden casket of Alexander the Great.... The true treasure is Dirk Pitt."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  South Bend Tribune\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A first-rate story told by a first-class writer."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Los Angeles Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Slick, searing and shocking.... We''re off and running in a race to see which superpower uncovers the treasure''s hiding place first. You name it, you''ve got it in TREASURE.... [A} slam-bang rouser."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  New York Daily News\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An ingenious roller-coaster of a story.... And Pitt, an Indiana Jones with 007 tastes, has never been better. This one will cost readers precious sleep. Guaranteed."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chattanooga News-Free Press\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An action-filled feast of enviable proportions.... High suspense and engrossing drama.... Cussler has the ability to keep the reader flipping pages well past his regular bedtime."\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Denver Post\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A four-star page turner...."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1202'),
(7771, 'Treasure Hunt', 'John T. Lescroart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Wyatt Hunt-hero of John Lescroart''s New York Times bestseller --returns with a new protÃ©gÃ©, in an intricate, tightly plotted thriller set against San Francisco''s glamorous charity circuit Mickey Dade hates deskwork, but that''s all he''s been doing at Wyatt Hunt''s private investigative service, The Hunt Club. His itch to be active is answered when a body is discovered: It''s Dominic Como, one of San Francisco''s most high-profile activists-a charismatic man known as much for his expensive suits as his work on a half dozen nonprofit boards. One "person of interest" in the case is Como''s business associate, Alicia Thorpe-young, gorgeous, and the sister of one of Mickey''s friends.  As Mickey and Hunt are pulled into the case, they soon learn that the city''s golden fundraiser was involved in some highly suspect deals. And the lovely Alicia knows more about this-and more about Como-than she''s letting on.  Treasure Hunt is both a nail-biting thriller and a coming-of-age story, filled with Lescroart''s trademark San Francisco flavors. Mickey Dade, its young protagonist, gradually learns the hard lessons Hunt knows only too well, as the world he though he knew unravels around him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3250'),
(7772, 'Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition', 'Richard Parry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **â€œAn extraordinary real-life adventure of men battling the elements and themselves, told with ice-cold precision.â€â€“*Kirkus Reviews* (starred review)****In the dark years following the Civil War, Americaâ€™s foremost Arctic explorer, Charles Francis Hall, became a figure of national pride when he embarked on a harrowing, landmark expedition. With financial backing from Congress and the personal support of President Grant, Captain Hall and his crew boarded the *Polaris*, a steam schooner carefully refitted for its rigorous journey, and* *began their quest to be the first men to reach the North Pole. Neither the ship nor its captain would ever return.What transpired was a tragic death and whispers of murder, as well as a horrifying ordeal through the heart of an Arctic winter, when men fought starvation, madness, and each other upon the ever-shifting ice. *Trial by Ice *is an incredible adventure that pits men against the natural elements and their own fragile human nature. In this powerful true story of death and survival, courage and intrigue aboard a doomed ship, Richard Parry chronicles one of the most astonishing, little known tragedies at sea in American history.**â€œABSORBING . . . Suspense builds as Parry describes the events leading up to Hallâ€™s â€˜murder,â€™ then climaxes in horrifying detail.â€*â€“Publishers Weekly*â€œRIVETING.â€*â€“Library Journal***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2286'),
(7773, 'Tribute', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Virginia''s Shenandoah Valley is a long way from Hollywood. And that''s exactly how Cilla McGowan wants it. Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother''s farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. Sadly, no one was able to save her grandmother, the legendary Janet Hardy. An actress with a tumultuous life, Janet entertained glamorous guests and engaged in decadent affairsâ€”but died of an overdose in this very house more than thirty years earlier. To this day, Janet haunts Cilla''s dreams. And during waking hours, Cilla is haunted by her melodramatic, five-times-married mother, who carried on in the public spotlight and never gave her a chance at a normal childhood. By coming east, rolling up her sleeves, and rehabbing this wreck of a house, Cilla intends to find some kind of normalcy for herself. Plunging into the project with gusto, she''s almost too busy to notice her neighbor, graphic novelist Ford Sawyerâ€”but his lanky form, green eyes, and easy, unflappable humor (not to mention his delightfully ugly dog, Spock) are hard to ignore. Determined not to perpetuate the family tradition of ill-fated romances, Cilla steels herself against Ford''s quirky charm, but she can''t help indulging in a little fantasy. But love and a peaceful life may not be in the cards for Cilla. In the attic, she has found a cache of unsigned letters suggesting that Janet Hardy was pregnant when she diedâ€”and that the father was a local married man. Cilla can''t help but wonder what really happened all those years ago. The mystery only deepens with a series of intimidating acts and a frightening, violent assault. And if Cilla and Ford are unable to sort out who is targeting her and why, she mayâ€”like her world-famous grandmotherâ€” be cut down in the prime of her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3351'),
(7774, 'Tricks', 'Ellen Hopkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival."   Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching...for freedom, safety, community, family, love. What they don''t expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little words "I love you" are said for all the wrong reasons.  Five moving stories remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger, powerful story -- a story about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up. A story about kids figuring out what sex and love are all about, at all costs, while asking themselves, "Can I ever feel okay about myself?"  A brilliant achievement from New York Times best-selling author Ellen Hopkins -- who has been called "the bestselling living poet in the country" by mediabistro.com -- Tricks is a book that turns you on and repels you at the same time. Just like so much of life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3768'),
(7775, 'Tripwire', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jack Reachers anonymity in Key West is shattered by an investigator who has come looking for him. But only hours after his arrival, the stranger is murdered. Tracking the PIs trail back to New York City, Jack is compelled to find out whos looking for him and why in this explosive novel in Childs "New York Times" bestselling series, now with new cover art. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2556'),
(7776, 'The Tristan Betrayal', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author''s death three years ago has not prevented St. Martin''s from publishing recent material under his name. This WWII-era thriller opens in August 1991 as American ambassador Stephen Metcalfe arrives in Moscow, where Communist hard-liners are attempting to wrest control of Russia from the reform government. The fate of the country will be decided by an official known as the Dirizhor-the Conductor-and Metcalfe is the only man who can convince him to resist the forces of Stalinist darkness. Flash back to 1940, just after the Nazis have signed a nonaggression pact with the Russians. Young playboy/espionage agent Metcalfe is sent by American spymaster "Corky" Corcoran to the U.S.S.R. to enlist an old lover, Lana ("an extraordinary woman, impossibly beautiful, magnetic, passionate") in a scheme that if successful will change the course of history. Hot on Metcalfe''s tail is assassin Kleist, a Nazi Secret Service agent who dispatches his enemies by garroting them with the E string of his violin. These principals and a host of others thrust and parry between Paris, Moscow and Berlin before a final confrontation in an enormous, mock factory fashioned of plywood and cleverly painted canvas. The factory, a bombing decoy, provides an apt metaphor for the book: a hollow, flimsy construct unable to hold the weight of a bloated plot and an army of cliched characters. All of Ludlum''s trademarks are in evidence: one-sentence paragraphs, a plentitude of exclamation points, ridiculous dialogue ("Die, you bastard!") and the breathless use of italics to impart excitement, but in the end there are few surprises in this unsatisfying behemoth. Perhaps it''s time to let the master rest in peace.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ludlum, author of such best-sellers as\n <em>\n  The Bourne Identity\n </em>\n , died on March 12, 2001. His output, however, has not slowed noticeably since his passing: this novel is the seventh published under his name since his death. Some of them had credited coauthors, but, presumably, all of them have been polished by editors or uncredited writers. His latest, the story of an American spy sent into Moscow during World War II, is in some regards far superior to most of the stuff Ludlum published during his lifetime. There is a level of detail here often missing from his early novels, suggesting the efforts of a meticulous ghostwriter. Similarly, the characters, including our hero, Stephen Metcalfe, the well-to-do American spy, tend to be more well defined than your typical Ludlum stick figure. On the other hand, the fast-paced plot reflects Ludlum''s genuine knack for constructing good stories, and the dialogue, regrettably, is typically overwritten. ("Civilization as we know it is being engulfed by Hitler''s devouring maw," one character remarks.) The book''s peculiarly fascinating lineage aside, here''s what really matters: this is one of the better novels published under the Ludlum name.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1241'),
(7777, 'Trojan Odyssey', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adventure tales for boys (and girls) of all ages have no more vigorous champion today than Cussler, who has kept the spirit of Joe and Frank Hardy alive, albeit on a grander scale, in numerous bestsellers. This 17th Dirk Pitt extravaganza finds Cussler (literally, as he makes a cameo at book''s end) and his entourage of paint-by-number characters in fine fettle, foiling a dastardly plot by outlandish villains to launch a new ice age, and at the same time demonstrating that the Achaeans were not Greeks but Celts, and that Troy was a town in what''s now England. After a prelude set during the Trojan War, the novel proper starts with a roar, as a monstrous hurricane sweeps toward the Caribbean, endangering not only Pitt''s twin son and daughter, engaged in undersea exploration, but also the Ocean Wanderer, a luxury floating hotel owned by a mysterious billionaire known as Specter. In a manly manner, Pitt and his longtime sidekick, Al Giordino, both of NUMA (the National Underwater and Marine Agency), save the hotel and Pitt''s grown kids, but not before those kids discover a trove of underwater relics that indicate that the Celts, aka Achaeans, reached the New World millennia ago. And the Celts are still here, in the guise of a female Druidic cult linked to Specter and aiming for world domination by altering ocean currents via a vast underground mechanism in Nicaragua, which will plunge the earth into cold, then selling a new type of cheap fuel cell to supply needed heat. The action never flags, the heroics never halt and the bodies pile up as Pitt and Co. take on the villains; some big changes in Pitt''s personal life close the book.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest Dirk Pitt thriller, like its 16 predecessors, is ready made for the big screen. (Let''s hope it makes a better movie than 1980''s\n  <em>\n   Raise the Titanic,\n  </em>\n  also based on a Pitt adventure, which gives you some idea of how long the series has been around.) A hurricane threatens an undersea resort hotel; meanwhile, Dirk Pitt''s twin offspring are trapped at the bottom of the ocean in Pisces, an underwater laboratory. Oh, and Dirk himself swoops in to rescue the hotel, and its guests--but what about his children? Cussler has written a lot of seabound thrillers, and he clearly knows how to put one together to get maximum excitement from minimal material. Everything is done in shorthand, from the disaster-movie-plot setup to the characters and dialogue. There''s the evil-named Specter, the man behind the hotel, "with a heart of cold stone." There are the twins, whose dialogue sounds like it was lifted from a Hardy Boys novel ("I want to take a closer look inside the cavern where I found the urn." "Can you find it in the dark?" "Like a fox to its lair"). In a nutshell, this novel offers precisely what readers have come to expect from a Dirk Pitt adventure: danger, heroics, villains, heroes.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1209'),
(7778, 'Trotsky', 'Volkogonov, Dmitri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''Absorbing! I now place Volkogonov''s great biographical triptych [Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky] at the top of my reading list on the Russian revolution.'' Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times  Following Stalin (1991) and Lenin (1994), Dmitri Vokogonov completes his grand trilogy of biographies of the giants who dominated the history of the Soviet Union.  A dynamic and inspiring public speaker, military hero of the Russian civil war, and a brilliant organiser and theorist, Trotsky also played a large part in advocating the system of state terror which was ultimately to lead to the nightmare of Stalinism. Widely regarded as Lenin''s likely successor, he was outmanoeuvred by his implacable enemy, Stalin, expelled from the Communist Party, exiled, and finally murdered in Mexico in 1940 by Stalin''s agents.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2288'),
(7779, 'The Troubled Man', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Every morning H kan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winter''s day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation but he has personal reasons for his interest in the case as H kan''s son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier, at H kan''s 75th birthday party, Kurt noticed that the old man appeared uneasy and seemed eager to talk about a controversial incident from his past career that remained shrouded in mystery. Could this be connected to his disappearance? When H kan''s wife Louise also goes missing, Wallander is determined to uncover the truth. His search leads him down dark and unexpected avenues involving espionage, betrayal and new information about events during the Cold War that threatens to cause a political scandal on a scale unprecedented in Swedish history. The investigation also forces Kurt to look back over his own past and consider his hopes and regrets, as he comes to the unsettling realisation that even those we love the most can remain strangers to us. And then an even darker cloud appears on the horizon...The return of Kurt Wallander, for his final case, has already caused a sensation around the globe. The Troubled Man confirms Henning Mankell''s position as the king of crime writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3492'),
(7780, 'Troubleshooter', 'Gregg Hurwitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The maestro of pulse-pounding suspense delivers an explosive new white-knuckle thriller featuring deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Rackley -- a lawman driven by honor, morality, and a thirst for justice. The leader of one of the country''s most violent biker gangs, Den Laurey should have been behind bars. But thanks to a daring escape on an L.A. freeway, several deputy marshals are dead and Laurey is riding free. Rackley, back on the Service''s warrant squad, is in hot pursuit of the outlaw and his ruthless gang -- with a media whirlwind and the entire Los Angeles law-enforcement community driving him. Just when Laurey is within his grasp, circumstances force Rackley to let him go -- with devastating results. A few miles up the road, a sheriff''s deputy is attacked: Tim''s pregnant wife, Dray. Driven by guilt, Tim vows to hunt Laurey down -- a search that will lead him into a dark world of deception and lies, a world of criminals and undercover cops, drugs and mutilation. And the key to the violent puzzle lies in the discarded corpses of women -- women for whom Tim must seek justice when no one else will. With the stakes rising, Tim must unravel a horrifying secret and confront a deadly terror that reaches from the back alleys of Mexico to the poppy fields of Afghanistan ... and threatens to explode on the dark streets of L.A.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3142'),
(7781, 'Trucks', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <b>\n   "Trucks"\n  </b>\n  is a short story by\n  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">\n   Stephen King\n  </a>\n  , first published in the June 1973 issue of\n  <i>\n   <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalier_%28magazine%29" title="Cavalier (magazine)">\n    Cavalier\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  magazine, and later collected in King''s 1978 collection\n  <i>\n   <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Shift_%28book%29" title="Night Shift (book)">\n    Night Shift\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Trucks" takes place in a truck-stop in the United States. The truck stop is located off a freeway and it features a diner, a gas station, and a convenience store.The story has been adapted twice for the cinema. In\n  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_in_film" title="1986 in film">\n   1986\n  </a>\n  it was adapted for cinema with the\n  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-in-cheek" title="Tongue-in-cheek">\n   tongue-in-cheek\n  </a>\n  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">\n   King-directed\n  </a>\n  <i>\n   <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Overdrive" title="Maximum Overdrive">\n    Maximum Overdrive\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  . In\n  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_in_film" title="1997 in film">\n   1997\n  </a>\n  it was adapted again as the\n  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_movie" title="TV movie" class="mw-redirect">\n   TV movie\n  </a>\n  <i>\n   <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trucks_%28film%29" title="Trucks (film)">\n    Trucks\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  , starring\n  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Busfield" title="Timothy Busfield">\n   Timothy Busfield\n  </a>\n  , which was made on a considerably smaller budget than\n  <i>\n   Maximum Overdrive\n  </i>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/791'),
(7782, 'True Believer', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Charming, divorced Jeremy Marsh is a rising star. As a dashing, successful 37-year-old Manhattan science journalist, his skeptical scrutiny of ineffective antidepressants, cults and television clairvoyants has caught the eye of North Carolina restaurant owner Doris McClellan, who invites Jeremy to bucolic Boone Creek to scoop the story of eerie mystery lights appearing in an ancient cemetery. A diviner who can predict the sex of unborn babies, Doris suspects the lights are a ghostly curse. Her beautiful librarian granddaughter, Lexie Darnell, makes a lovely, if guarded, tour guide as Jeremy revs up his electromagnetic equipment for the ghost hunt. After witnessing the ethereal graveside lights, both grow closer, much to the chagrin of local deputy Rodney Hopper, who wants Lexie for himself. Guided by sage Doris and manipulated by meddling mayor Tom Gherkin, big-city Jeremy and smalltown Lexie find that trepidation about their differences somehow manages to bloom into love. Jeremy eventually uncovers the hidden truth behind the glowing graveyard fog and departs the lush gothic environs for New York. Can love bridge the gap? Sparks (\n <em>\n  The Wedding\n </em>\n ) delivers another shrink-wrapped, reliably uncomplicated romantic confection that''s light as air, smooth as silk and gloriously sweet.\n <em>\n  Agent, Theresa Park\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (One-day laydown Apr. 12)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n New York skeptic Jeremy Marsh makes his living exposing frauds in the articles he writes for\n <em>\n  Scientific American\n </em>\n . His latest target is a famous psychic who claims to speak to the dead. The acclaim he receives for his expose places Jeremy in the public eye with an appearance on national television. Jeremy then travels to Boone Creek, North Carolina, to search for the truth behind the mysterious lights that appear in the local cemetery. The legend is that an old curse causes the spirits to wander, and now the town wants to capitalize on the phenomena to bring in badly needed tourist dollars. But Doris McClellan, the local psychic, wants the lights debunked, and asks Jeremy to investigate. What Jeremy doesn''t count on is falling for Doris'' granddaughter, Lexie, the town librarian. Lexie has had enough of smooth-talking city men, and shields her heart, but Jeremy keeps trying to penetrate her tough shell. Lexie never wants to leave Boone Creek, and she believes that Jeremy will never want to stay. Although Sparks'' latest starts with great potential, the main characters feel cool and distant; it is the secondary characters who embody the warmth and verve that usually mark Sparks'' best-sellers.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1291'),
(7783, 'True Blue', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This promising first in a new series from bestseller Baldacci (\n <em>\n  First Family\n </em>\n ) introduces Beth Perry, chief of the District of Columbia''s Metropolitan Police, and Beth''s younger sister, Mace Perry, a former police officer dubbed the Patty Hearst of the twenty-first century after she was seized by bandits, drugged and taken along on a series of armed robberies around Washington. Mace, who''s just getting out of prison after serving a two-year sentence, is willing to risk everything to clear her name and reclaim her life as a cop by cracking a big case on her own. The rape-murder of a powerful lawyer as well as the killing of a prominent U.S. attorney provide Mace an opportunity to vindicate herself. While Baldacci draws his characters in bright primary colors, and some of the action reaches comic book proportions, he delivers his usual intricate plotting and sets the stage nicely for highly competent Beth and impulsive, streetwise Mace to take on more bad guys.\n <em>\n  (Oct. 27)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Fast-paced and entertaining." (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus\n  </em>\n  on TRUE BLUE\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Baldacci] delivers his usual intricate plotting and sets the stage nicely for highly competent Beth and impulsive, streetwise Mace to take on more bad guys."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  on TRUE BLUE\n </strong>\n )\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Baldacci has proven his ability to write well-paced thrillers that combine crime and politics in locations ranging from mean streets to opulent mansions."\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  on TRUE BLUE\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/146'),
(7784, 'True Colors', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Women across America laughed, cried, and reconnected with their friends after reading Kristin Hannah''s smash hit, Firefly Lane. Now, in True Colors, she explores the poignant, powerful, complex world of sistersâ€¦ The Grey sisters had only each other when their mother died years ago. Their stern, unyielding father gave them almost no attention. Winona, the oldest, needs her father''s approval most of all. An overweight dreamer, she never felt at home on the sprawling horse ranch that had been in her family for three generations. Aurora, the middle, is the peacemaker. Vivi Ann, the youngest, is the undisputed star of the family. Everything comes easily to Vivi Ann, her father''s love most of all. But when Vivi Ann makes a fateful decision to follow her heart, rather than take the route of a dutiful daughter, events are set in motion that will test the love and loyalties of the Grey sisters. They will be pitted against each other in ways none could have imagined. Secrets will be revealed, and a terrible, shocking crime will shatter both the family and their beloved town. With breathtaking pace and penetrating insight, Kristin Hannah''s True Colors is a novel about sisters, vengeance, jealousy, betrayalâ€”and ultimately, what it truly means to be a family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3436'),
(7785, 'True Compass', 'Edward Moore Kennedy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events.TRUE COMPASSThe youngest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, he came of age among siblings from whom much was expected. As a young man, he played a key role in the presidential campaign of his brother John F. Kennedy, recounted here in loving detail. In 1962 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he began a fascinating political education and became a legislator.In this historic memoir, Ted Kennedy takes us inside his family, re-creating life with his parents and brothers and explaining their profound impact on him. For the first time, he describes his heartbreak and years of struggle in the wake of their deaths. Through it all, he describes his work in the Senate on the major issues of our time--civil rights, Vietnam, Watergate, the quest for peace in Northern Ireland--and the cause of his life: improved health care for all Americans, a fight influenced by his own experiences in hospitals.His life has been marked by tragedy and perseverance, a love of family, and an abiding faith. There have been controversies, too, and Kennedy addresses them with unprecedented candor. At midlife, embattled and uncertain if he would ever fall in love again, he met the woman who changed his life, Victoria Reggie Kennedy. Facing a tough reelection campaign against an aggressive challenger named Mitt Romney, Kennedy found a new voice and began one of the great third acts in American politics, sponsoring major legislation, standing up for liberal principles, and making the pivotal endorsement of Barack Obama for president.Hundreds of books have been written about the Kennedys. TRUE COMPASS will endure as the definitive account from a member of America''s most heralded family, an inspiring legacy to readers and to history, and a deeply moving story of a life like no other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1908'),
(7786, 'True Detectives', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n TRUE DETECTIVES follows Moe Reed and Aaron Fox on the twisted trail of a missing girl, a dark, baffling whodunit that forces the brothers to put aside their mutual animus -- and to confront the unresolved family mystery that turned them into enemies. PIs can do things, legally, that cops can''t. And cops have access to resources denied their private counterparts. Only by pooling their efforts -- and by consulting a man both brothers respect, psychologist Alex Delaware, do Fox and Reed stand a chance of peeling back the secrets in high places that explain the fate of an outwardly innocent young woman. And, by doing so, the brothers learn about much more than murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/772');
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(7787, 'True Grit', 'Charles Portis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n True Grit, first published in 1968 and the basis for the movie by the same name starring John Wayne, tells the story of fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross. A coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. That''s when Mattie fearlessly heads out to avenge her father''s blood, convincing one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest U.S. Marshal there is, to accompany her. But their plans run into an obstacle -- namely, a Texas Ranger who is also investigating the murder, and whose idea of justice is vastly different from Mattie and Rooster''s.Like Mattie herself, True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching. This is an American classic through and through.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2720'),
(7788, 'Truman', 'David Mccullough', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This warm biography of Harry Truman is both an historical evaluation of his presidency and a paean to the man''s rock-solid American values. Truman was a compromise candidate for vice president, almost an accidental president after Roosevelt''s death 12 weeks into his fourth term. Truman''s stunning come-from-behind victory in the 1948 election showed how his personal qualities of integrity and straightforwardness were appreciated by ordinary Americans, perhaps, as McCullough notes, because he was one himself. His presidency was dominated by enormously controversial issues: he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, established anti-Communism as the bedrock of American foreign policy, and sent U.S. troops into the Korean War. In this winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, McCullough argues that history has validated most of Truman''s war-time and Cold War decisions.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cracker-barrel plain in speech and looks, this seemingly ordinary man turned out to be one of our most dynamic presidents. It was Harry S. Truman who ordered the atomic bomb dropped, halted Communists in Turkey and Greece, initiated the Marshall Plan, NATO and the Berlin Airlift, ordered desegregation of the armed forces, established the CIA and the Defense Department, committed U.S. forces to Korea and upheld the principle of civilian control over the military by firing Gen. Douglas MacArthur. McCullough ( Mornings on Horseback ) has written a surefooted, highly satisfying biography of the 33rd president, one that not only conveys in rich detail Truman''s accomplishments as a politician and statesman, but also reveals the character and personality of this constantly-surprising man--as schoolboy, farmer, soldier, merchant, county judge, senator, vice president and chief executive. The book relates how Truman (1884-1972) overcame the stigma of business failure and debt (as well as the accusation that he was "bellboy" to Kansas City''s Pendergast machine) and acquired a reputation for honesty, reliability and common sense. McCullough pays considerable attention to Truman''s family, especially his fervent and touching courtship of Bess Wallace, the idolized love of his life. Her mother never felt Truman was good enough for her daughter, even after he became president. The book''s re-creation of the 1948 presidential campaign, during which Newsweek ''s poll of 50 political writers predicted that the incumbent would lose the election to Thomas Dewey, is the most complete account of that surprise victory to date. The book is an impressive tribute to a man whose brisk cheerfulness and self-confidence were combined with a God-fearing humility; a great and good man who, in McCullough''s opinion, was a great president. Photos not seen by PW. BOMC main selection; History Book Club and QPB alternatives; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2289'),
(7789, 'Trump: How to Get Rich', 'Donald Trump', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First he made five billion dollars.Then he made The Apprentice.Now The Donald shows you how to make a fortune, Trump style.HOW TO GET RICHReal estate titan, bestselling author, and TV impresario Donald J. Trump reveals the secrets of his success in this candid and unprecedented book of business wisdom and advice. Over the years, everyone has urged Trump to write on this subject, but it wasnâ€™t until NBC and executive producer Mark Burnett asked him to star in The Apprentice that he realized just how hungry people are to learn how great personal wealth is created and first-class businesses are run. Thousands applied to be Trumpâ€™s apprentice, and millions have been watching the program, making it the highest rated debut of the season.In Trump: How To Get Rich, Trump tells allâ€“about the lessons learned from The Apprentice, his real estate empire, his position as head of the 20,000-member Trump Organization, and his most important role, as a father who has successfully taught his children the value of money and hard work.With his characteristic brass and smarts, Trump offers insights on how toâ€¢ invest wiselyâ€¢ impress the boss and get a raiseâ€¢ manage a business efficientlyâ€¢ hire, motivate, and fire employeesâ€¢ negotiate anythingâ€¢ maintain the quality of your brandâ€¢ think big and live largePlus, The Donald tells all on the art of the hair!With his luxury buildings, award-winning golf courses, high-stakes casinos, and glamorous beauty pageants, Donald J. Trump is one of a kind in American business. Every day, he lives the American dream. Now he shows you how itâ€™s done, in this rollicking, inspirational, and illuminating behind-the-scenes story of invaluable lessons and rich rewards.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1336'),
(7790, 'Trunk Music', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Following on the heels of his extraordinary New York Times bestseller, The Poet, Edgar Award-winning author Michael Connelly brings you Trunk Music, his most electrifying Harry Bosch novel to date-a taut, complex thrill ride that confirms Connelly''s standing as one of the premier crime writers of our day.Detective Harry Bosch is back on the job and working on the hottest murder investigation in Hollywood. The body of a movie producer has been found stuffed into the trunk of his Rolls, and to Harry the evidence seems to say it all: it''s "trunk music," a Mafia production. The money trail leads from L.A. to Las Vegas, and Harry''s determined to get to the bottom of things-but he''s making some powerful enemies along the way. And, as if he wasn''t knee-deep in trouble already, he''s about to take the biggest gamble of all-on love. Mixing business with pleasure: it''s the kind of parlay that could drive Harry to distraction...and into an early grave. Vegas-style.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/522'),
(7791, 'The Truth (With Jokes)', 'Al Franken', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nearly a year after the presidential election of 2004, Al Franken is still checking facts, exposing lies, and trying to clear the record as he sees it. Sneering at President Bush''s declaration of a mandate after a two-and-a-half percent victory, he deconstructs Bush''s 2004 platform of "fear, smear, and queers," and explains how the president has done some flip-flopping of his own. He offers comment on well-known stories, including the Terri Schiavo case, and some more obscure, such as reports of forced prostitution, indentured servitude, and squalid conditions at clothing factories in Saipan (which is part of the American Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). Franken focuses on Tom DeLay''s connection to the territory and his efforts to prevent bills from being passed that would have required Saipan to follow U.S. labor laws. Iraq, too, is discussed, from its planning stages to the huge sum of money currently unaccounted for, including $8.8 billion missing from the Coalition Provisional Authority''s coffers. On the home front, Franken covers President Bush''s attempt at Social Security reform, explaining how they came up with the projected shortfall figure of $11 trillion. For one thing, they adjusted life expectancy to 150 years, while leaving the retirement age at 67: "That''s an eighty-three-year retirement. They''re never gonna get to that without stem cell research." He also takes some wickedly funny swipes at Karl Rove, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pundits and hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Tim Russert, and Sean Hannity, and, of course, President Bush. The Truth succeeds in providing ammunition to liberals and others dissatisfied with the current power base in Washington, D.C.--only this time (with jokes). --Shawn Carkonen An Exclusive Video for The Truth (with jokes) from Al Franken We try to keep things civil in our customer review section, but Al Franken, who apparently trained at the Saturday Night Live school of conflict mediation, didn''t get the message in his exclusive video for his book The Truth (with Jokes): see high bandwidth and low bandwidth versions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2990'),
(7792, 'Truth Dare Kill', 'Gordon Ferris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The war''s over. But no medals for Danny McRae. Just amnesia and blackouts; twin handicaps for a private investigator with an upper-class client on the hook for murder. It gets harder: newspaper headlines about a Soho psychopath stir grisly memories in Danny''s fractured mind. As the two bloody sagas collide and interweave, Danny finds himself running for his life across the bomb-ravaged city. Will his past catch up with him before his enemies? And which would be worse? Fast-paced post-war noir, with grimly accurate London setting. Ferris keeps the puzzle alive and gripping to the end of the novel. Brutal, bloody and totally engaging."" - I Love A Mystery\n</p>\n<h3>\n From AudioFile\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gordon Ferris specializes in suspense stories set in postwar Europe. His sleuth is Danny McRae, a former spy turned detective who suffers from blackouts and memory problems as a result of his war service. In this mystery he stands accused of being a serial killer. Robbie MacNab is the perfect narrator for this first-person story of a cynical Scot embroiled in sinister plots and mind games. A Dundee native, MacNab has the right accent and the polished dramatic skills to make McRae both believable and sympathetic. Gordon Ferris is not yet widely known--this audiobook should broaden his following. D.L.G. Â© AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/525'),
(7793, 'Tsar', 'Ted Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Swashbuckling counter Spy Alex Hawke returns in New York Times bestselling author Ted Bell''s most explosive tale of international suspense to date.There dwells, somewhere in Russia, a man so powerful no one even knows his name. His existence is only speculated upon, only whispered about in American corridors of power and CIA strategy meetings. Though he is all but invisible, he is pulling strings -- and pulling them hard. For suddenly, Russia is a far, far more ominous threat than even the most hardened cold warriors ever thought possible.The Russians have their finger on the switch to the European economy and an eye on the American jugular. And, most importantly, they want to be made whole again. Should America interfere with Russia''s plans to "reintegrate" her rogue states, well then, America will pay in blood.In Ted Bell''s latest pulse-pounding and action-packed tour de force, Alex Hawke must face a global nightmare of epic proportions. As this political crisis plays out, Russia gains a new leader. Not just a president, but a new tsar, a signal to the world that the old, imperial Russia is back and plans to have her day. And in America, a mysterious killer, known only as Happy the Baker, brutally murders an innocent family and literally flattens the small Midwestern town they once called home. Just a taste, according to the new tsar, of what will happen if America does not back down. Onto this stage must step Alex Hawke, espionage agent extraordinaire and the only man, both Americans and the Brits agree, who can stop the absolute madness borne and bred inside the modern police state of Vladimir Putin''s ''New Russia''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3443'),
(7794, 'The Tudors: The Complete Story of England&#39;s Most Notorious Dynasty', 'G. J. Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For the first time in decades, here, in a single volume, is a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty, comprising some of the most enigmatic figures ever to rule a country. Acclaimed historian G. J. Meyer reveals the flesh-and-bone reality in all its wild excess.In 1485, young Henry Tudor, whose claim to the throne was so weak as to be almost laughable, crossed the English Channel from France at the head of a ragtag little army and took the crown from the family that had ruled England for almost four hundred years. Half a century later his son, Henry VIII, desperate to rid himself of his first wife in order to marry a second, launched a reign of terror aimed at taking powers no previous monarch had even dreamed of possessing. In the process he plunged his kingdom into generations of division and disorder, creating a legacy of blood and betrayal that would blight the lives of his children and the destiny of his country.The boy king Edward VI, a fervent believer in reforming the English church, died before bringing to fruition his dream of a second English Reformation. Mary I, the disgraced daughter of Catherine of Aragon, tried and failed to reestablish the Catholic Church and produce an heir. And finally came Elizabeth I, who devoted her life to creating an image of herself as Gloriana the Virgin Queen but, behind that mask, sacrificed all chance of personal happiness in order to survive.  The Tudors weaves together all the sinners and saints, the tragedies and triumphs, the high dreams and dark crimes, that reveal the Tudor era to be, in its enthralling, notorious truth, as momentous and as fascinating as the fictions audiences have come to love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2343'),
(7795, 'Tulipomania', 'Mike Dash', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn''t help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens from every walk of life were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The object of this unprecedented speculation was the tulip, a delicate and exotic Eastern import that had bewitched horticulturists, noblemen, and tavern owners alike. For almost a year rare bulbs changed hands for incredible and ever-increasing sums, until single flowers were being sold for more than the cost of a house. Historians would come to call it tulipomania. It was the first futures market in history, and like so many of the ones that would follow, it crashed spectacularly, plunging speculators and investors into economic ruin and despair.This is the history of the tulip, from its origins on the barren, windswept steppes of central Asia to its place of honor in the lush imperial gardens of Constantinople, to its starring moment as the most coveted--and beautiful--commodity in Europe. Historian Mike Dash vividly narrates the story of this amazing flower and the colorful cast of characters--Turkish sultans, Yugoslav soldiers, French botanists, and Dutch tavern keepers--who were centuries apart historically and worlds apart culturally, but who all had one thing in common: tulipomania.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2293'),
(7796, 'Turn Coat', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The new novel in the hit New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series.The Warden Morgan has been accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Councilâ€”and thereâ€™s only one, final punishment for that crime. Heâ€™s on the run, wants his name cleared, and needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog. Someone like Harry Dresden... Now, Harry must uncover a traitor within the Council, keep a less-than-agreeable Morgan under wraps, and avoid coming under scrutiny himself. And a single mistake may cost someone his headâ€”someone like Harry\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3554'),
(7797, 'A Turn in the Road', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the middle of the year, in the middle of her life, Bethanne Hamlin takes a road trip with her daughter, Annie, and her former mother-in-law, Ruth.They''re driving to Florida for Ruth''s 50th high-school reunion. A longtime widow, Ruth would like to reconnect with Royce, the love of her teenage life. She''s heard he''s alone, tooâ€¦and, well, she''s curious. Maybe even hopeful.Bethanne herself needs time to reÃ¯ Â¬ â€š ect, to ponder a decision she has to make. Her ex-husband, Grantâ€”her children''s fatherâ€”wants to reconcile now that his second marriage has failed. Bethanne''s considering itâ€¦.Meanwhile, Annie''s out to prove to her onetime boyfriend that she can live a brilliant life without him!So there they are, three women driving across America. They have their maps and their directionsâ€”but even the best-planned journey can take you to a turn in the road. Or lead you to an unexpected encounterâ€”like the day Bethanne meets a man named Max who really is a hero on a Harley. That''s when Bethanne''s decision becomes a lot harder. Because Grant wants her back, but now there''s Maxâ€¦.From Seattle''s Blossom Street to the other end of the country, this is a trip that could change three women''s lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3277'),
(7798, 'Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines', 'Nic Sheff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It''s a harrowing portrait -- but not one without hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1910'),
(7799, 'The Twelfth Imam', 'Joel C. Rosenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As the apocalyptic leaders of Iran call for the annihilation of Israel and the U.S., CIA operative David Shirazi is sent into Tehran with one objective: use all means necessary to disrupt Iran''s nuclear weapons program, without leaving American fingerprints and without triggering a regional war. A native Farsi speaker whose family escaped from Iran in 1979, he couldn''t be better prepared for the mission. But none of his training has prepared Shirazi for what will happen next. An obscure religious cleric is suddenly hailed throughout the region as the Islamic messiah known as the Mahdi or the Twelfth Imam. News of his miracles, healings, signs, and wonders spreads like wildfire, as do rumors of a new and horrific war. Shirazi must take action to save his country and the world, but the clock is ticking.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3343'),
(7800, 'Twenties Girl', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women donÃ­t get visited by ghosts. Or do they? When the spirit of LaraÃ­s great-aunt Sadie - a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance - mysteriously appears, she has one last request - Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in SadieÃ­s possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Lara, on the other hand, has a number of ongoing distractions. Her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, her start-up company is floundering, and sheÃ­s just been dumped by the ''perfect'' man. Sadie, however, could care less. Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and at first it seems as though they have nothing in common. But as the mission to find SadieÃ­s necklace leads to intrigue and a new romance for Lara, these very different ''twenties'' girls learn some surprising truths from each other along the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3631'),
(7801, 'Twenty Wishes', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What do you want most in the world?What Anne Marie Roche wants is to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, she''s childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle''s Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there''s a feeling of emptiness.On Valentine''s Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get together to celebrateâ€¦hope. They each begin a list of twenty wishesâ€”things they always wanted to do but never did.Anne Marie''s list includes learning to knit, falling in love again, doing good for someone else. When she volunteers at a local school, an eight-year-old girl named Ellen enters her life. It''s a relationship that becomes far more involvingâ€”and far more importantâ€”than Anne Marie had ever imagined.As Ellen helps Anne Marie complete her list of twenty wishes, they both learn that wishes can come trueâ€¦but not necessarily in the way you expect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3577'),
(7802, 'Twilight', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The book that started the phenomenon is now available in a deluxe collector''s edition! Featuring a ribbon bookmark, cloth cover, ragged edges, new chapter opener designs, and a beautiful protective slipcase, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Bella Swan''s move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Bella''s life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Bella, the person Edward holds most dear.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful,\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Grade 9 Upâ€“Headstrong, sun-loving, 17-year-old Bella declines her mom''s invitation to move to Florida, and instead reluctantly opts to move to her dad''s cabin in the dreary, rainy town of Forks, WA. She becomes intrigued with Edward Cullen, a distant, stylish, and disarmingly handsome senior, who is also a vampire. When he reveals that his specific clan hunts wildlife instead of humans, Bella deduces that she is safe from his blood-sucking instincts and therefore free to fall hopelessly in love with him. The feeling is mutual, and the resulting volatile romance smolders as they attempt to hide Edward''s identity from her family and the rest of the school. Meyer adds an eerie new twist to the mismatched, star-crossed lovers theme: predator falls for prey, human falls for vampire. This tension strips away any pretense readers may have about the everyday teen romance novel, and kissing, touching, and talking take on an entirely new meaning when one small mistake could be life-threatening. Bella and Edward''s struggle to make their relationship work becomes a struggle for survival, especially when vampires from an outside clan infiltrate the Cullen territory and head straight for her. As a result, the novel''s danger-factor skyrockets as the excitement of secret love and hushed affection morphs into a terrifying race to stay alive. Realistic, subtle, succinct, and easy to follow,\n <em>\n  Twilight\n </em>\n will have readers dying to sink their teeth into it.\n <em>\n  â€“Hillias J. Martin, New York Public Library\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/553'),
(7803, 'The Twilight Warriors: The Deadliest Naval Battle of World War II and the Men Who Fought It', 'Robert Gandt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Twilight Warriors is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the finalâ€”and most brutalâ€”battle of the Pacific war: Okinawa.April 1945. The end of World War II finally appears to be nearing. The Third Reich is collapsing in Europe, and the Americans are overpowering the once-mighty Japanese Empire in the Pacific. For a group of young pilots trained in the twilight of the war, the greatest worry is that it will end before they have a chance to face the enemy. They call themselves Tail End Charlies. They fly at the tail end of formations, stand at the tail end of chow lines, and now they are catching the tail end of the war. What they donâ€™t know is that they will be key players in the bloodiest and most difficult of naval battlesâ€”not only of World War II but in all of American history.The Twilight Warriors relives the drama of the worldâ€™s last great naval campaign. From the cockpit of a Corsair fighter we gaze down at the Japanese task force racing to destroy the American amphibious force at Okinawa. Through the eyes of the men on the destroyers assigned to picket ship duty, we experience the terror as wave after wave of kamikazes crash into their ships. Standing on the deck of the legendary superbattleship Yamato, we watch Japanâ€™s last hope for victory die in a tableau of gunfire and explosions.Among the Tail End Charlies are men such as a twenty-two-year-old former art student who grows to manhood on the day of his first mission over Japan and his best friend, a ladiesâ€™ man and intrepid fighter pilot whose life abruptly changes when his Corsair goes down off the enemy shore. Another is a young Texan lieutenant who volunteers for the most dangerous flying job in the fleetâ€”intercepting kamikazes at night over the blackened Pacific. Their leader is a charismatic officer who rises to greatness in the crucible of Okinawa. Directing the vast armada of sea, air, and land forces is a cast of brilliant and flawed commandersâ€”from the imperturbable admiral and master of carrier warfare to the controversial soldier assigned to command the land forces. The fate of the Americans at Okinawa is intertwined with the lives of the â€œyoung godsâ€â€” the honor-bound Japanese airmen who swarm like killer bees toward the U.S. ships. The kamikazes are dispatched on their deadly one-way missions by a classic samurai warrior who vows that he will follow them to a warriorâ€™s grave.The ferocity of the Okinawa fighting stuns the world. Before it ends, the long battle will cost more American lives, ships, and aircraft than any naval engagement in U.S. history. More than simply the account of a historic battle, The Twilight Warriors brings to life the human side of an epic conflict. It is the story of young Americans at war in the air and on the seaâ€”and of their enigmatic, fanatically courageous enemy.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2344'),
(7804, 'Twilight&#39;s Dawn: A Black Jewels Book', 'Anne Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Return to the world of the Black Jewels with New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop.   Anne Bishop''s "darkly fascinating"* (SF Site) Black Jewel novels have enthralled readers and critics alike with their mixture of fantasy, intrigue, and romance. Now in Twilight''s Dawn, Bishop returns to the Blood realm with four all-new captivating novellas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3215'),
(7805, 'Twisted', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n A year has passed since the Cold Heart murders and Detective Petra Connor is, once again, working Hollywood Homicide solo. She has just solved three gang-related killings and is feeling pretty good about herself - about life in general - when Isaac Gomez waltzes into her office and tells her he''s found something she might want to take a look at. A twenty-two-year-old prodigy researching a Ph.D. in sociology, Isaac has gained access to LAPD case files. But while combing the files, the brilliant young man has come upon a series of apparently unrelated murders all committed shortly after midnight on the exact same date: June 28. Can this be purely coincidence? As Petra''s curiosity leads her to investigate further, she becomes convinced that something evil has managed to conceal itself within the dry pages of the cold-case files. Killings so diabolical and meticulously constructed that they would have remained invisible but for the probing mind of a young, naive genius. To make matters worse, June 28 is only a month away...Â \n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/773'),
(7806, 'Twisted', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n It''s been a year since the torturous notes from A stopped and the mystery of Alison DiLaurentis''s disappearance was finally put to rest. Now seniors in high school, Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily are older, but they''re not any wiser. The pretty little liars have more secrets than ever - twisted secrets that could destroy the perfect lives they''ve worked so hard to rebuild.\n <br />\n <br />\n Aria''s jealous of her boyfriend''s new exchange student. Spencer''s getting a little\n <i>\n  too\n </i>\n cozy with her soon-to-be-stepbrother. Hanna''s one scandalous photo away from ruining her dad''s Senate campaign. And Emily will do\n <i>\n  anything\n </i>\n to get a swim scholarship.\n <br />\n <br />\n Worst of all: Last spring break in Jamaica, they did something\n <i>\n  unforgivable\n </i>\n . The girls are desperate to forget that fateful night, but they should know better than anyone that all secrets wash ashore . . . eventually.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3782'),
(7807, 'Twisted Imaginings: Vol 1', 'Garry Charles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two blood drenched tales that interlace sex and death in the most gruesome of ways.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In "Mother Knows Best" Gerald is harassed by his mother from beyond the grave...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In "Dance of the Gypsy" The past is ready to pay Father Thomas a visit...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Please note that both stories contain graphic content and are not intended for under 18s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/922'),
(7808, 'Twisted Imaginings: Vol 2', 'Garry Charles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Another two blood soaked tales from the author The Horror Channel is calling "The UK''s Horror Supremo"...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In ''The Greatest Show on Earth'' we are given a new reason to fear the Big Top and clowns haven''t been this scary since Pennywise...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In ''The Tunnel'' something is waiting in the dark and its hungry... very hungry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/923'),
(7809, 'Twisted Imaginings: Vol 3', 'Garry Charles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "The style is direct as a knife to the heart." Shaun Hutson...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Garry Charles once again brings words to the page that will bring a touch of ice to your veins with the latest addition to the Twisted Imaginings series.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n You''ll never look at a greenhouse the same way again and the future just became a darker place to live.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/924'),
(7810, 'Twisted Imaginings: Vol 4', 'Garry Charles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "The UK''s Stephen King." www.pissedoffgeek.com\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Charles is back with a forth instalment of Twisted Imaginings, this time featuring three tales of twisted terror.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In "Voices and Shadows" we witness the dark side of keeping a secret.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In "Vomit Baby" we''ll discover there''s more than one way to end a relationship and in "Pleasure of Pain" eternity grows tiresome.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/925'),
(7811, 'Two Kisses for Maddy of Loss &amp; Love', 'Matthew Logelin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Heartbreaking, raw, moving and uplifting at the same time."\n <strong>\n  -_The Hollywood Reporter_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A tender memoir that combines the deep sadness of loss with the joys of parenthood even under incredibly trying circumstances." -_\n <strong>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n "In Matthew Logelin''s honest and poignant story, we learn a great many lessons about the fragility of life, and about the strength we all can summon to move forward. With two kisses and an open heart, he shows how love can sustain us." -\n <strong>\n  Jeffrey Zaslow,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling coauthor of THE LAST LECTURE\n </strong>\n __\n</p>\n<p>\n "TWO KISSES FOR MADDY is less a conscious piece of writing than a spontaneous eruption from the heart. It will make you cry but not only out of sadness. Some of your tears will be for the beauty of love and its miraculous power to heal even the deepest wounds."\n <strong>\n  -John Grogan,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of MARLEY &amp; ME\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "No one wants to read a depressing book. But how can you possibly call\n <em>\n  depressing\n </em>\n what is so filled with love and life and the unstoppable message of how lucky we are to have what we have. Read this book and put your life back in perspective."\n <strong>\n  -Brad Meltzer,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of HEROES FOR MY SON\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Almost unparalleled as a raw and unapologetic portrait of grief, TWO KISSES FOR MADDY is a stunning testimony of the kind of love-- fated, magnificent-- that inspires novels. So vivid, so powerful and pitch-perfect, is his evocation of his beloved Liz that I could hear her laughter and see her face for days after putting the book down."\n <strong>\n  -Claire Fontaine, national bestselling author of COME BACK\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A touching, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant story. It offers hope, humor, and a path toward new life, and a priceless lesson about the value of communication in times of trouble."\n <strong>\n  -Jim Beaver, author of LIFE''S THAT WAY and SAG award nominee for\n  <em>\n   Deadwood\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "You won''t feel the slightest bit of pity for this unintended single father. You''ll be cheering Matt Logelin on page after page, laughing and crying with him-- and falling in love with Madeline."\n <strong>\n  -\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  Christine Coppa, author of RATTLED!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. After years of long-distance dating, the pair finally settled together in Los Angeles, and they had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home, and a baby girl on the way. Liz''s pregnancy was rocky, but they welcomed Madeline, beautiful and healthy, into the world on March 24, 2008.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just twenty-seven hours later, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and died instantly, without ever holding the daughter whose arrival she had so eagerly awaited. Though confronted with devastating grief and the responsibilities of a new and single father, Matt did not surrender to devastation; he chose to keep moving forward-- to make a life for Maddy.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this memoir, Matt shares bittersweet and often humorous anecdotes of his courtship and marriage to Liz; of relying on his newborn daughter for the support that she unknowingly provided; and of the extraordinary online community of strangers who have become his friends. In honoring Liz''s legacy, heartache has become solace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1913'),
(7812, 'The Two Minute Rule', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two minutes, in and out, that''s the rule for robbing banks in this page-turning action ride around L.A. from bestseller Crais (_Hostage_). Break that rule, and you can end up like Marchenko and Parsons, dying in a violent shoot-out on the streets, the fortune from their string of heists deeply hidden. Max Holman certainly knows the time limit better than most. Dubbed the "hero bandit" by the press, he got caught during a robbery after he stopped to perform CPR on a bank customer who had a heart attack. About to leave prison on parole, the 48-year-old Max hopes he can establish contact with the son he never really knew, now a cop. When Max''s son is murdered, suspected of being in a ring of dirty cops seeking the Marchenko and Parsons loot, Max needs to know the truth. The only person he figures can help him is Katherine Pollard, the fed who nabbed him, who''s now ex-FBI and a struggling single mom. The perfect odd couple, they keep this novel personal and real as it builds to an exciting twist on the bank-robbing rule.\n  <em>\n   200,000 first printing; 15-city author tour. (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Bookmarks Magazine\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Most reviewers are slaphappy with praise for Robert Crais''s 13th novel. While some critics note a preference for his Elvis Cole books, they find that believable, complex characters, the vibrant settings around Los Angelesâ€”from the dive bars to the straitjacketed Los Angeles riverâ€”and heartfelt emotions separate\n  <em>\n   The Two Minute Rule\n  </em>\n  â€”and Craisâ€”from the bulk of crime fiction. The sharp note of dissent from the_ Oregonian_ only serves to reinforce the impression that middle-of-the road Crais is better than many other writers'' best.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/503'),
(7813, 'Two or Three Things I Know for Sure', 'Dorothy Allison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Allison''s much-praised novel Bastard Out of Carolina was inspired by her childhood in Greenville, S.C., but in this memoir, adapted from a performance piece, she cuts even closer to the bone. "We don''t have a family Bible?" the author''s fourth-grade self asks her aunt. "Child, some days we don''t even have a family," comes the response. If Allison suffered horrors, notably rape by her stepfather when she was five, she has transmuted pain into stories, gaining control with maturity. Indeed, her title prefaces several hard-won aphorisms she uses to counterpoint her memories: "No one is as hard as my uncles had to pretend to be." Her mother was a beauty, as was her sister, but Dorothy, smart and plain, felt a legacy of ugliness, one she shook off slowly as her feminism and her heart led her to lesbian relationships, often painful, finally rewarding. She is now, in her 40s, a new mother, and her stories?and life?are a triumph of love over cruelty. Read it aloud and savor the rhythms. Photos not seen by PW. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Allison (Bastard Out of Carolina, LJ 3/1/92) is a poet, essayist, and novelist, but in all these she is a storyteller. For her, stories are not simply creations but the very things that create us. Resounding with a familiarity of the intimate turned universal, this brief memoir recounts the episodes and people of Allison''s life who created her and her own re-creation of herself. Often painful and mean, the stories are never bitter or despairing because of Allison''s ability to move beyond, if not transform, the meaningless cruelty of life. Written as a performance piece, the cadence of the prose reverberates in the head and begs to be read out loud: "Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I would rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me." With this retelling, Allison remakes that coat in her own image and leaves readers waiting for more stories. Highly recommended. [A BOMC and Quality Paperback selection.]?Eric Bryant, "Library Journal.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Eric Bryant, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1914'),
(7814, 'Two Towers', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.\n <br />\n No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkienâ€™s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkienâ€™s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.\n <br />\n <br />\n In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1088'),
(7815, 'Two Truths and a Lie', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n   â€œA fun and fastâ€“moving mysteryâ€¦[readers] will race through the pages as Emma pieces together clues and will have plenty to ponder as they anticipate the next installment.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA thrilling mystery with just the right doses of romance and danger.â€ (School Library Journal )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for The Lying Game:â€œThe Lying Game is a stayâ€“upâ€“pastâ€“yourâ€“bedtime type of thriller...full of amazingly believable plot twists and turns.â€ (Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) (Starred Review) )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3779'),
(7816, 'Two-Dollar Bill', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Stone Barrington is caught between a clever con man-who''s just become his client-and a beautiful prosecutor in this stylish thriller in the bestselling series.    *Two-Dollar Bill* delivers all the storytelling twists and whip-smart banter readers have come to love in Stuart Woods''s thrillers. In this latest, Stone Barrington, the suave Manhattan cop-turned-lawyer, is back on his home turf facing down a brilliant Southern flimflam man.     The fun-and action-begins with what Stone believes will be a quiet dinner with his ex-partner, Dino, but they are interrupted by Billy Bob, a filthy rich, smooth-talkin'' Texan, who strolls in and parks himself at their table. He''s in town "to make money," he says, unwrapping his wad of rare two-dollar bills, and in need of an attorney-namely, Stone-though he won''t say why or when such representation will be necessary. As they leave the restaurant, however, an unknown assailant shoots at Stone and his cohorts-and the wily Southerner has spread his two-dollar bills around to everyone like confetti.     Against his better judgment, Stone offers Billy Bob a safe haven for the night but almost immediately begins to suspect that he''s made several precipitous misjudgments-for the slippery out-of-towner has gone missing and someone has been found dead-in Stone''s town house no less. Stone is now caught between a beautiful federal prosecutor and a love from his past, a con man with more aliases than hairs on his head, and a murder investigation that could ruin them all.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2652'),
(7817, 'U Is for Undertow', 'Sue Gradton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a child is kidnapped and never returned... When the case is reopened after 20 years, a man - Michael Sutton - contacts private detective Kinsey Millhone for help. He claims to have recalled a strange and disturbing memory which just might provide the key to the mystery. He may have stumbled across the kidnappers burying Mary Claire Fitzhugh''s body... But Michael''s account is indistinct - he was only six years old at the time of the kidnapping; and even members of his family try to discredit his evidence. But Kinsey is certain there is something vital within Michael''s recollections. And even when what is eventually unearthed isn''t what anyone expected, she can''t quite let go of the case. As Kinsey gradually brings to light the stories of the protagonists involved in the tragedy, from Country Club parents to their free-living, hippy children, the truth finally begins to emerge. And while stepping back into the past, Kinsey discovers more about her own history too...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3305'),
(7818, 'Ugly Beauty: The Ugly Face of the Beauty Business', 'Ruth Brandon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. With wonderful attention to detail and real affection for her subjects, Brandon tells the story of Helena Rubinstein (1870â€“1965), a Polish Jew from a poor family with a small salon in Australia, who became the first woman tycoon and self-made millionaire. Her timing was excellent: she struck at the moment when decent women, for the first time, were allowing themselves makeup and were willing to shop for it publicly. At the same time, a young French chemist named EugÃ¨ne Schueller (1881â€“1957) was making his name in hair dyes (and later collaborating with the Nazis); it was his company, L''Oreal, that swallowed Rubinstein''s business. The descriptions of Schueller''s political scandals are fascinating, but the story shines when Brandon returns to Rubinstein, a stubborn, spirited woman who responded to a luxury Park Avenue apartment''s "No Jews" policy by buying the entire building, and who calmly thwarted robbers in her home at the age of 91. A clearheaded discussion of current beauty standards, vanity, and the gender politics of the modern cosmetic industry rounds out this lively history of the founding of the beauty business as we know it. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ExposÃ©s of the beauty industry and its relatives, such as cosmetic surgery, are common these days, whether the chosen medium is film or print. In this particular instance, the link between Lâ€™OrÃ©al (the acquirers of Helena Rubensteinâ€™s brand) and Fascist collaborators, to mention just one scandal, is old news. Yet for undisclosed reasons, prolific London-based author Brandon (Being Divine, a biography of Sarah Bernhardt, 1991) deliberately selects the known, Helena Rubenstein, and unknown, Eugene Schueller, as appropriate counter-characters to profile. In a way, the two could not be more opposite. Flamboyant Polish Jew Rubenstein promoted everlasting female beauty through the mysterious workings of her creams and cosmetics, whereas chemist Schueller proudly publicized his invention of the first safe artificial hair dye. Brandon details their divergent philosophies (Eugene, for instance, was convinced that every woman belonged at home), their politics, their friendships, family, and passionsâ€”and the inextricable business and personal links to Nazi Germany and corporate lack of restitution for WWII wrongs. The story meanders, jumping back and forth chronologically, leaving some difficulty in following. --Barbara Jacobs\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1917');
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(7819, 'The Ultimate Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s safe to say that\n  <em>\n   The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy\n  </em>\n  is one of the funniest science fiction novels ever written. Adams spoofs many core science fiction tropes: space travel, aliens, interstellar war--stripping away all sense of wonder and repainting them as commonplace, even silly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This omnibus edition begins with\n  <em>\n   The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy\n  </em>\n  , in which Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth''s destruction. Then in\n  <em>\n   The Restaurant at the End of the Universe\n  </em>\n  , Arthur and his new friends travel to the end of time and discover the true reason for Earth''s existence. In\n  <em>\n   Life, the Universe, and Everything\n  </em>\n  , the gang goes on a mission to save the entire universe.\n  <em>\n   So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish\n  </em>\n  recounts how Arthur finds true love and "God''s Final Message to His Creation." Finally,\n  <em>\n   Mostly Harmless\n  </em>\n  is the story of Arthur''s continuing search for home, in which he instead encounters his estranged daughter, who is on her own quest. There''s also a bonus short story, "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe," more of a vignette than a full story, which wraps up this completist''s package of the Don''t Panic chronicles. As the series progresses, its wackier elements diminish, but the satire of human life and foibles is ever present.\n  <em>\n   --Brooks Peck\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œWITH DROLL WIT, A KEEN EYE FOR DETAIL AND HEAVY DOSES OF INSIGHT . . . ADAMS MAKES US LAUGH UNTIL WE CRY.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€“San Diego Union\n   <br />\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œLIVELY, SHARPLY SATIRICAL, BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN . . . RANKS WITH THE BEST SET PIECES IN MARK TWAIN.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€“The Atlantic\n  </em>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1065'),
(7820, 'Ulysses S. Grant', 'Michael Korda', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This little book will inevitably be compared with Josiah Bunting''s similarly short biography of one of the world''s greatest military figures. The marriage of author and subject works well, although Korda (_Horse People: Scenes from the Riding Life_, etc.) doesn''t have much new to say about Lincoln''s favorite general. That''s not surprising, since everyone now writes about Grant in the shadow of Edmund Wilson, who gave new fame to Grant''s memoirs, and William McFeely, who has written the best full biography to date. Even so, Korda freshly characterizes his man without psychologizing an unpromising subject. Grant was, after all, unyieldingly stolid and tight-lipped. While his qualities of directness and taciturnity made him a great general, they didn''t yield up a fascinating man or a great president. Korda does about as good a job of bringing Grant to life as possible and handles all the essential set piecesâ€”Grant as Mexican War officer, Civil War general, president and author of masterful memoirs on the eve of his deathâ€”with much skill. He''s less perceptive than Bunting about Grant''s presidency and occasionally puts unnecessary erudition on display, but on the whole this is a highly readable, accurate study of the man. FYI:_ This title launches the new Eminent Lives series, edited by James Atlas._\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The second short life of Grant in weeks is nearly as commendable as Josiah Bunting''s\n <em>\n  Ulysses S. Grant\n </em>\n [BKL S 1 04]. Bunting''s contribution to the American Presidents series attends more to Grant''s administration. Korda, as his book''s subtitle portends, prefers Grant''s military career. So doing, Korda brings up possibilities and spotlights figures that Bunting doesn''t. For example, contra Bunting''s implication that, after the episode leading to his post-Mexican War resignation from the army, Grant had no real drinking problem, Korda allows that accusations of drunkenness during the Civil War may have been warranted, and he emphasizes personal aide John Rawlings'' role in managing Grant''s image and sometimes his behavior. Korda attempts to plumb Grant more than Bunting does, with the overall result that he seems more speculative than Bunting, and the exaggerations in Korda''s epilogue ("Why Grant?") make him seem less trustworthy. Korda is easier to read though less stylish than Bunting, but both make Grant, for all his taciturnity and shyness, a fascinating and major historical player.\n <em>\n  Ray Olson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2295'),
(7821, 'Umney&#39;s Last Case', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/792'),
(7822, 'Unaccustomed Earth', 'Jhumpa Lahiri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight storiesâ€”longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet writtenâ€”that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But heâ€™s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair heâ€™s keepingÂ all to himself. In â€œA Choice of Accommodations,â€ a husbandâ€™s attempt to turn an old friendâ€™s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In â€œOnly Goodness,â€ a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in â€œHema and Kaushik,â€ a trio of linked storiesâ€”a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fateâ€”we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome. Unaccustomed Earth is rich with Jhumpa Lahiriâ€™s signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom, and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is a masterful, dazzling work of a writer at the peak of her powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3507'),
(7823, 'Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain', 'Portia de Rossi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAnorexia was my first love,â€ de Rossi declares in her memoir of her early Hollywood career and the eating disorders that went along with it. Her unflinching self-portrait depicts a cripplingly self-conscious young Australian in LA overwhelmed by the pressure to be thin. Never comfortable in her own skin, a by-product of her status as a closeted lesbian, de Rossi was sure if she ever gained weight (or came out as being gay), the shooting star sheâ€™d been cultivating would turn to lead. Weight loss was the key that allowed de Rossi to feel powerful and in control, until dieting became a sickness that nearly killed her and devastated her family. De Rossiâ€™s story and words are not revolutionary, but they are frank, brave, and revelatory of the unhealthy trends that stardom can generate. Although more development of de Rossiâ€™s happy ending (her eventual complete recovery, self-acceptance, coming-out, and marriage to Ellen DeGeneres) would be welcome, the book succeeds as itâ€™s intended: a journal of her sickness and a provocatively sad love affair with dieting. --Annie Bostrom\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBreathtakingly honest, brutal and beautiful.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Jonathan Safran Foer\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDe Rossi tells her story with genuine insight and unflinching honesty. You will cheer her on.â€ â€”Jeannette Walls\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPossibly the best book on the subject ever written. De Rossi is the real deal, a fine writer with a sharp mind and substance. This rich, layered book of remarkable courage, power, and significance will serve as life-changing inspiration for many.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Augusten Burroughs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1918'),
(7824, 'Unbelievable', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Four pretty little liars'' charmed lives have turned into living nightmares.   Emily''s been shipped off to Iowa to live with her Ã¼berconservative cousins. Aria''s boyfriend is behind barsâ€”because of her. Spencer''s afraid she was involved in Ali''s murder. But Hanna''s fate is far worse: She''s clinging to life in the hospital because she knew too much.   If these girls don''t start listening to me, Hanna''s going to look like the lucky one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3771'),
(7825, 'Unbillable Hours: A True Story', 'Ian Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œâ€¦engrossing memoir""\n  <strong>\n   â€” LA MagazineÂ \n  </strong>\n  â€œGrahamâ€™s telling of the overwrought work environment at Latham Watkins brings John Grishamâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Associate\n  </em>\n  to real life.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”New York Journal of Books\n  </strong>\n  Â Â Â  â€œInspiring, crisply written, and gripping, this behind-the-scenes account of one manâ€™s pursuit of justice is highly recommended.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”Tucson CitizenÂ \n  </strong>\n  ""This is the story of a first-year law associate juggling a pro bono murder case on top of the long hours and numerous issues going on in the firm where he works. I''m recommending it for anyone who has experienced the legal system from the inside\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  or out.""\n  <strong>\n   â€”IndieBoundÂ \n  </strong>\n  Â â€œDid not expect to enjoy this book as much as I didÂ ...Definitely worth the read.Â  Better than most else in the genre, for sure.â€Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Jeremy Blachman, author ofÂ  Anonymous LawyerÂ Â \n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The storyâ€”part memoir, part hard-hitting exposeâ€”of a first-year law associate negotiating the arduous path through a system designed to break those who enter it before it makes them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Landing a job at a prestigious L.A. law firm, complete with a six figure income, signaled the beginning of the good life for Ian Graham. But the harsh reality of life as an associate quickly became evident. The work was grueling and boring, the days were impossibly long, and Grahamâ€™s main goal was to rack up billable hours. But when he took an unpaid pro bono case to escape the drudgery, Graham found the meaning in his work that heâ€™d been looking for. As he worked to free Mario Rocha, a gifted young Latino who had been wrongly convicted at 16 and sentenced to life without parole, the shocking contrast between the quest for money and power and Marioâ€™s desperate struggle for freedom led Graham to look long and hard at his future as a corporate lawyer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clear-eyed and moving, written with the drama and speed of a John Grisham novel and the personal appeal of Scott Turowâ€™s account of his law school years,\n  <em>\n   Unbillable Hours\n  </em>\n  is an arresting personal story with implications for all of us.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1921'),
(7826, 'Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption', 'Laura Hillenbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Unbroken\n </em>\n , the inspiring true story of a man who lived through a series of catastrophes almost too incredible to be believed. In evocative, immediate descriptions, Hillenbrand unfurls the story of Louie Zamperini--a juvenile delinquent-turned-Olympic runner-turned-Army hero. During a routine search mission over the Pacific, Louieâ€™s plane crashed into the ocean, and what happened to him over the next three years of his life is a story that will keep you glued to the pages, eagerly awaiting the next turn in the story and fearing it at the same time. Youâ€™ll cheer for the man who somehow maintained his selfhood and humanity despite the monumental degradations he suffered, and youâ€™ll want to share this book with everyone you know._ --Juliet Disparte_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Story of\n  <em>\n   Unbroken\n  </em>\n  by Laura Hillenbrand\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Eight years ago, an old man told me a story that took my breath away. His name was Louie Zamperini, and from the day I first spoke to him, his almost incomprehensibly dramatic life was my obsession.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a horse--the subject of my first book,\n <em>\n  Seabiscuit\n </em>\n , I tracked Louie down, called him and asked about his life. For the next hour, he had me transfixed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Growing up in California in the 1920s, Louie was a hellraiser, stealing everything edible that he could carry, staging elaborate pranks, getting in fistfights, and bedeviling the local police. But as a teenager, he emerged as one of the greatest runners America had ever seen, competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he put on a sensational performance, crossed paths with Hitler, and stole a German flag right off the Reich Chancellery. He was preparing for the 1940 Olympics, and closing in on the fabled four-minute mile, when World War II began. Louie joined the Army Air Corps, becoming a bombardier. Stationed on Oahu, he survived harrowing combat, including an epic air battle that ended when his plane crash-landed, some six hundred holes in its fuselage and half the crew seriously wounded.\n</p>\n<p>\n On a May afternoon in 1943, Louie took off on a search mission for a lost plane. Somewhere over the Pacific, the engines on his bomber failed. The plane plummeted into the sea, leaving Louie and two other men stranded on a tiny raft. Drifting for weeks and thousands of miles, they endured starvation and desperate thirst, sharks that leapt aboard the raft, trying to drag them off, a machine-gun attack from a Japanese bomber, and a typhoon with waves some forty feet high. At last, they spotted an island. As they rowed toward it, unbeknownst to them, a Japanese military boat was lurking nearby. Louieâ€™s journey had only just begun.\n</p>\n<p>\n That first conversation with Louie was a pivot point in my life. Fascinated by his experiences, and the mystery of how a man could overcome so much, I began a seven-year journey through his story. I found it in diaries, letters and unpublished memoirs; in the memories of his family and friends, fellow Olympians, former American airmen and Japanese veterans; in forgotten papers in archives as far-flung as Oslo and Canberra. Along the way, there were staggering surprises, and Louieâ€™s unlikely, inspiring story came alive for me. It is a tale of daring, defiance, persistence, ingenuity, and the ferocious will of a man who refused to be broken.\n</p>\n<p>\n The culmination of my journey is my new book,\n <em>\n  Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption\n </em>\n . I hope you are as spellbound by Louieâ€™s life as I am.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. From the 1936 Olympics to WWII Japan''s most brutal POW camps, Hillenbrand''s heart-wrenching new book is thousands of miles and a world away from the racing circuit of her bestselling Seabiscuit. But it''s just as much a page-turner, and its hero, Louie Zamperini, is just as loveable: a disciplined champion racer who ran in the Berlin Olympics, he''s a wit, a prankster, and a reformed juvenile delinquent who put his thieving skills to good use in the POW camps, In other words, Louie is a total charmer, a lover of life--whose will to live is cruelly tested when he becomes an Army Air Corps bombardier in 1941. The young Italian-American from Torrance, Calif., was expected to be the first to run a four-minute mile. After an astonishing but losing race at the 1936 Olympics, Louie was hoping for gold in the 1940 games. But war ended those dreams forever. In May 1943 his B-24 crashed into the Pacific. After a record-breaking 47 days adrift on a shark-encircled life raft with his pal and pilot, Russell Allen "Phil" Phillips, they were captured by the Japanese. In the "theater of cruelty" that was the Japanese POW camp network, Louie landed in the cruelest theaters of all: Omori and Naoetsu, under the control of Corp. Mutsuhiro Watanabe, a pathologically brutal sadist (called the Bird by camp inmates) who never killed his victims outright--his pleasure came from their slow, unending torment. After one beating, as Watanabe left Louie''s cell, Louie saw on his face a "soft languor.... It was an expression of sexual rapture." And Louie, with his defiant and unbreakable spirit, was Watanabe''s victim of choice. By war''s end, Louie was near death. When Naoetsu was liberated in mid-August 1945, a depleted Louie''s only thought was "I''m free! I''m free! I''m free!" But as Hillenbrand shows, Louie was not yet free. Even as, returning stateside, he impulsively married the beautiful Cynthia Applewhite and tried to build a life, Louie remained in the Bird''s clutches, haunted in his dreams, drinking to forget, and obsessed with vengeance. In one of several sections where Hillenbrand steps back for a larger view, she writes movingly of the thousands of postwar Pacific PTSD sufferers. With no help for their as yet unrecognized illness, Hillenbrand says, "there was no one right way to peace; each man had to find his own path...." The book''s final section is the story of how, with Cynthia''s help, Louie found his path. It is impossible to condense the rich, granular detail of Hillenbrand''s narrative of the atrocities committed (one man was exhibited naked in a Tokyo zoo for the Japanese to "gawk at his filthy, sore-encrusted body") against American POWs in Japan, and the courage of Louie and his fellow POWs, who made attempts on Watanabe''s life, committed sabotage, and risked their own lives to save others. Hillenbrand''s triumph is that in telling Louie''s story (he''s now in his 90s), she tells the stories of thousands whose suffering has been mostly forgotten. She restores to our collective memory this tale of heroism, cruelty, life, death, joy, suffering, remorselessness, and redemption. (Nov.) -Reviewed by Sarah F. Gold\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2296'),
(7827, 'Unbroken: An Extraordinary True Story of Courage and Survival', 'Laura Hillenbrand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Unbroken\n  </em>\n  , the inspiring true story of a man who lived through a series of catastrophes almost too incredible to be believed. In evocative, immediate descriptions, Hillenbrand unfurls the story of Louie Zamperini--a juvenile delinquent-turned-Olympic runner-turned-Army hero. During a routine search mission over the Pacific, Louieâ€™s plane crashed into the ocean, and what happened to him over the next three years of his life is a story that will keep you glued to the pages, eagerly awaiting the next turn in the story and fearing it at the same time. Youâ€™ll cheer for the man who somehow maintained his selfhood and humanity despite the monumental degradations he suffered, and youâ€™ll want to share this book with everyone you know._ --Juliet Disparte_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Story of\n   <em>\n    Unbroken\n   </em>\n   by Laura Hillenbrand\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Eight years ago, an old man told me a story that took my breath away. His name was Louie Zamperini, and from the day I first spoke to him, his almost incomprehensibly dramatic life was my obsession.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a horse--the subject of my first book,\n  <em>\n   Seabiscuit\n  </em>\n  , I tracked Louie down, called him and asked about his life. For the next hour, he had me transfixed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Growing up in California in the 1920s, Louie was a hellraiser, stealing everything edible that he could carry, staging elaborate pranks, getting in fistfights, and bedeviling the local police. But as a teenager, he emerged as one of the greatest runners America had ever seen, competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he put on a sensational performance, crossed paths with Hitler, and stole a German flag right off the Reich Chancellery. He was preparing for the 1940 Olympics, and closing in on the fabled four-minute mile, when World War II began. Louie joined the Army Air Corps, becoming a bombardier. Stationed on Oahu, he survived harrowing combat, including an epic air battle that ended when his plane crash-landed, some six hundred holes in its fuselage and half the crew seriously wounded.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On a May afternoon in 1943, Louie took off on a search mission for a lost plane. Somewhere over the Pacific, the engines on his bomber failed. The plane plummeted into the sea, leaving Louie and two other men stranded on a tiny raft. Drifting for weeks and thousands of miles, they endured starvation and desperate thirst, sharks that leapt aboard the raft, trying to drag them off, a machine-gun attack from a Japanese bomber, and a typhoon with waves some forty feet high. At last, they spotted an island. As they rowed toward it, unbeknownst to them, a Japanese military boat was lurking nearby. Louieâ€™s journey had only just begun.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That first conversation with Louie was a pivot point in my life. Fascinated by his experiences, and the mystery of how a man could overcome so much, I began a seven-year journey through his story. I found it in diaries, letters and unpublished memoirs; in the memories of his family and friends, fellow Olympians, former American airmen and Japanese veterans; in forgotten papers in archives as far-flung as Oslo and Canberra. Along the way, there were staggering surprises, and Louieâ€™s unlikely, inspiring story came alive for me. It is a tale of daring, defiance, persistence, ingenuity, and the ferocious will of a man who refused to be broken.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The culmination of my journey is my new book,\n  <em>\n   Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption\n  </em>\n  . I hope you are as spellbound by Louieâ€™s life as I am.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. From the 1936 Olympics to WWII Japan''s most brutal POW camps, Hillenbrand''s heart-wrenching new book is thousands of miles and a world away from the racing circuit of her bestselling Seabiscuit. But it''s just as much a page-turner, and its hero, Louie Zamperini, is just as loveable: a disciplined champion racer who ran in the Berlin Olympics, he''s a wit, a prankster, and a reformed juvenile delinquent who put his thieving skills to good use in the POW camps, In other words, Louie is a total charmer, a lover of life--whose will to live is cruelly tested when he becomes an Army Air Corps bombardier in 1941. The young Italian-American from Torrance, Calif., was expected to be the first to run a four-minute mile. After an astonishing but losing race at the 1936 Olympics, Louie was hoping for gold in the 1940 games. But war ended those dreams forever. In May 1943 his B-24 crashed into the Pacific. After a record-breaking 47 days adrift on a shark-encircled life raft with his pal and pilot, Russell Allen "Phil" Phillips, they were captured by the Japanese. In the "theater of cruelty" that was the Japanese POW camp network, Louie landed in the cruelest theaters of all: Omori and Naoetsu, under the control of Corp. Mutsuhiro Watanabe, a pathologically brutal sadist (called the Bird by camp inmates) who never killed his victims outright--his pleasure came from their slow, unending torment. After one beating, as Watanabe left Louie''s cell, Louie saw on his face a "soft languor.... It was an expression of sexual rapture." And Louie, with his defiant and unbreakable spirit, was Watanabe''s victim of choice. By war''s end, Louie was near death. When Naoetsu was liberated in mid-August 1945, a depleted Louie''s only thought was "I''m free! I''m free! I''m free!" But as Hillenbrand shows, Louie was not yet free. Even as, returning stateside, he impulsively married the beautiful Cynthia Applewhite and tried to build a life, Louie remained in the Bird''s clutches, haunted in his dreams, drinking to forget, and obsessed with vengeance. In one of several sections where Hillenbrand steps back for a larger view, she writes movingly of the thousands of postwar Pacific PTSD sufferers. With no help for their as yet unrecognized illness, Hillenbrand says, "there was no one right way to peace; each man had to find his own path...." The book''s final section is the story of how, with Cynthia''s help, Louie found his path. It is impossible to condense the rich, granular detail of Hillenbrand''s narrative of the atrocities committed (one man was exhibited naked in a Tokyo zoo for the Japanese to "gawk at his filthy, sore-encrusted body") against American POWs in Japan, and the courage of Louie and his fellow POWs, who made attempts on Watanabe''s life, committed sabotage, and risked their own lives to save others. Hillenbrand''s triumph is that in telling Louie''s story (he''s now in his 90s), she tells the stories of thousands whose suffering has been mostly forgotten. She restores to our collective memory this tale of heroism, cruelty, life, death, joy, suffering, remorselessness, and redemption. (Nov.) -Reviewed by Sarah F. Gold\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/527'),
(7828, 'Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World', 'Mark Pendergrast', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  Uncommon Grounds\n </em>\n tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs. As the scope of coffee culture continues to expand, Uncommon Grounds remains more than ever a brilliantly entertaining guide to the currents of one of the world''s favorite beverages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2299'),
(7829, 'Undead and Unfinished', 'MaryJanice Davidson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor returns in the ninth novel in the New York Times bestselling series.   Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor is having a tough time getting through the Book of the Dead-until the Devil strikes a bargain. She offers Betsy a chance to finish the cursed (literally!) thing, and finally discover all its mysteries. There''s just one catch...  Betsy and her half-sister Laura have to go to Hell long enough for Laura to embrace her dark heritage (after a rebellious youth of charity work) and finally make nice with her mother, aka Lucifer. That means interacting with their family''s past. In doing so, they''re impacting the future in ways they never anticipated. Of course that''s what Mother wanted all along. Damn her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3446'),
(7830, 'Undead and Unwelcome', 'MaryJanice Davidson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Betsy Taylor has problems that only a vampire queen/suburban wife could possibly understand such as taking the body of her werewolf friend Antonia--who died in her service--to Cape Cod, where she''s not sure if the Wyndham werewolves will welcome her with fangs or friendship, and dealing with her half-sister''s increasingly erratic behavior back in St. Paul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3348'),
(7831, 'Under the Dome', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester''s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener''s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician''s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn''t just short. It''s running out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/799'),
(7832, 'Under the Lake', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **Still Waters **\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Situated on a peaceful lake in the prettiest part of the north Georgia mountains, Sutherland seems like a nice town, warm and quiet. The kind of place where families know their neighbors and children can grow up safe.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **Run Deep **\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But this picture-perfect hamlet harbors a dark evil -- whispered rumors of greed, incest, and savagery. Buried deep within the lake''s waters are hideous secrets, unspeakable horrors that can turn hair white and drive a person mad. Wicked lies that can kill.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **And Deadly**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now, one unknowing outsider has the power to reveal the terrifying truth...if he lives.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2662'),
(7833, 'Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty', 'Bradley K. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers in-depth portraits of North Korea''s two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Lifting North Korea''s curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book will take readers inside a society, that to a Westerner, will appear to be from another planet. Subsisting on a diet short on food grains and long on lies, North Koreans have been indoctrinated from birth to follow unquestioningly a father-son team of megalomaniacs. To North Koreans, the Kims are more than just leaders. Kim Il-Sung is the country''s leading novelist, philosopher, historian, educator, designer, literary critic, architect, general, farmer, and ping-pong trainer. Radios are made so they can only be tuned to the official state frequency. "Newspapers" are filled with endless columns of Kim speeches and propaganda. And instead of Christmas, North Koreans celebrate Kim''s birthday--and he presents each child a present, just like Santa. The regime that the Kim Dynasty has built remains technically at war with the United States nearly a half century after the armistice that halted actual fighting in the Korean War. This fascinating and complete history takes full advantage of a great deal of source material that has only recently become available (some from archives in Moscow and Beijing), and brings the reader up to the tensions of the current day. For as this book will explain, North Korea appears more and more to be the greatest threat among the Axis of Evil countries--with some defector testimony warning that Kim Jong-Il has enough chemical weapons to wipe out the entire population of South Korea. Bradley K. Martin has covered Korea and other parts of Asia as a journalist for more than a quarter century and has worked as bureau chief for The Baltimore Sun, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Asia Times (for which he wrote a "Pyongyang Watch" column). He has made five reporting trips to North Korea, a degree of access to the secretive country that few American journalists can match. He currently is based in Tokyo as a senior writer and Asia correspondent for Bloomberg Marketing magazine. This unprecedented study offers detailed portraits of North Korea''s two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il: a father-son team of megalomaniacs. In so doing, Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader fully documents a culture, society, political structure, economic history, and national hierarchyâ€”the seven-decade development of an entire countryâ€”that will fascinate and perhaps confound Western students and scholars.To North Koreans, we find, the Kims are more than just leaders. Kim Il-Sung is the country''s leading novelist, philosopher, historian, educator, designer, literary critic, architect, general, farmer, and ping-pong trainer. Radios in North Korea are manufactured so that they can only be tuned to the official state frequency. Newspapers are filled with endless columns of Kim speeches and propaganda. And instead of Christmas, North Koreans celebrate Kim''s birthdayâ€”during which he presents each child with a present, just like Santa. The regime that the Kim Dynasty has built remains technically at war with the United States nearly fifty years after the armistice that halted actual fighting in the Korean War. This engrossing, well-researched, and complete history, the work of a widely respected journalist, draws on a great deal of source material that has only recently become available (some from archives in Moscow and Beijing), and thus brings us all the way up to the tensions behind today''s headlines. Defectors say Kim Jong-Il now hasâ€”in addition to nuclear bombsâ€”enough chemical weapons to wipe out the entire population of South Korea. Under the circumstances, Martin cautions, negotiation is far more promising than the highly risky alternative of forcible regime change. "As useful a set of insights into life in North Korea as can be found anywhere . . . Accumulates persuasive evidence about the indoctrination of children, the brutality of the gulags, and the persistent famine that began in the 1990s . . . [Kim Jong Il] may be a brutal despot presiding over a corrupt regime, but Martin is convinced that serious negotiations are possible."â€”Warren I. Cohen, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader is, from all I have read, simply the best book ever written about North Korea. Relying largely on extensive interviews with defectors, Martin portrays North Korean life with a clarity that is stunning, and he captures the paradoxes in North Korean public opinion."â€”Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Review of Books"Successfully combines history, society, travel writing, and political analysis in a way that makes it totally readable . . . Must be the most comprehensive single-volume English language book ever written on North Korea . . . Overall, Bradley Martin has written a truly remarkable book, one that should be read by anyone even remotely interested in North Korea."â€”Yoel Sano, Asia Times"Cracking the cocoon of secrecy and propaganda surrounding North Korea is not a job for the faint of heart. Yet somehow Martin, a former Newsweek bureau chief, has pulled it off, presenting a scrupulously detailed, intimate portrait of the Kims, the worldâ€™s only communist dynasty. He deconstructs the mythologized biographies of the father-and-son leaders, taking us inside their family feuds, harems, and fortified villas."â€”Christian Caryl, Newsweek"The most comprehensive and detailed look yet at the nation-sized theme park of Kim World is Bradley''s Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader. Mr. Martin paints a portrait of a national horror show demonstrating how ruthless, effective, and evil men can oppress their neighbors . . . it reads like a medieval court, the Ottoman sultanate, or imperial China . . . The book paints a vast canvas of what must be as close as possible to hell on earth, other than in the very midst of war."â€”Doug Bandow, The Washington Times"Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader is a rich and rewarding book that anyone interested in this strange Leninist vestige should read. The sensational extravagance of the leadership; the dreadful sufferings of the common people; the ludicrous personality cults thrown up by both Kims; Kim Jong-il''s need for nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles (his possession of the later is certain, of the former highly probable); the systematic destruction of normal life and language in North Koreaâ€”all this is laid out here for inspection. If I may be permitted a book reviewer''s clichÃ©: I couldnâ€™t put it down . . . By sheer relentless accumulation of detail, Martin succeeds here in giving us a full portrait of the Kims and their filthy little tyranny."â€”John Derbyshire, National Review "Bradley Martin . . . portrays North Korea as a failed state with a dangerous weapon, but he explores as well the mentality of Mr. Kim and of his father, Kim Il-Sung, whose leadership from 1948 to 1994 did so much to seal North Korea''s fate. Kim Il-Sung, Mr. Martin reminds us, once wrote: ''One is pleased to see the bugs die in a fire even though one''s house is burned down.''"â€”Gordon G. Chang, The Wall Street Journal"It is often said that North Korea is the most puzzling country in the world. It is a difficult place to visit. The few journalists who make it there don''t have the freedom to interview anyone they want. Its archives are not open to scholars. This does not mean, however, that no information is available on North Korea. It just requires a little bit more digging and interpreting. For the last three decades, veteran journalist Bradley Martin has been compiling his notes drawn from four trips to North Korea, patient scrutiny of official publications, and interviews with numerous defectors. His book Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader, an immense and detailed examination of North Korean history and politics, integrates much of the recent scholarship on the country and adds some new pieces to the puzzle . . . The picture of North Korean society that emerges from the narrative is far more thorough and detailed than the usual monochromatic depiction of a monolithic state."â€”John Feffer, Korean Quarterly"A careful, penetrating analysis of North Korea . . . Martin has rendered a considerable service to us all."â€”David Halberstam"This brilliant, important book takes us inside the most closed society and political regime on the planet. With elegance, insight, and an eye for strange and absurd detail, the author paints a revealing, often eerie portrait of this mysterious realm . . . Like Orville Schell''s penetrating studies of China under Mao, Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader is destined to become a classic of Asian Studies. Absorbing and full of surprises, the book brings to life the frighteningly weird Kim Jong-Il and a country whose future may well be cataclysmic."â€”Dingbat Magazine"This massive study of North Korea embraces its political and economic history over the last 70 years; the lives of its leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il; its diplomatic relations with South Korea, Japan, China, and the United States since 1945; its current crises regarding nuclear weapons and food shortages; and memories of the author''s [visits there] . . . Martin, a former bureau chief for the Baltimore Sun, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek, has much to offer [and] the discerning reader can gain much from this work."â€”Library Journal"A sharp-eyed look at a cold and hungry outpost of the Axis of Evil. Former Newsweek bureau chief Martin first traveled to North Korea in 1979, and what he found was a near-religious cult of personality centered on the person of Kim Il-Sung, known variously as the Great Leader, Fatherly Leader, Respected and Beloved Leader, and so on, a partial listing of whose reputed achievements ''would have aroused the envy of a Leonardo da Vinci or Thomas Jefferson.'' And of a Priapus: as Martin writes [here], Kim and his son and successor Kim Jong-Il apparently each take seriously the notion of being the father of their country, each setting aside great numbers of women for personal service. The list of special favors continues on and on: as his country descended ever deeper into poverty and famine in the late 1990s, Kim Jr. ''kept a 10,000-bottle wine cellar and liked shark''s fin soup several times a week,'' hosting banquets that lasted for days on end; when Kim Sr. reached his 70th birthday, his son ordered the construction of a commemorative version of the Arc de Triomphe, ''larger than the Paris original,'' just one of the many monuments built in a program that would be a major drain on the country''s economy. But no matter: the Kims, Martin writes, have created a command economy par excellence as part of the exceptionalist doctrine called juche, which means something like ''national self-reliance'' but really translates to something like Great-Leader-first. As for whether the bizarre Kim Jr.''s North Korea is a threat, Martin suggests that the nation''s nuclear arsenal should give the world pause. But, he adds, that doesn''t seem to be stopping Asian companies from ''teaming their capital with the cheap labor of the North, where workers for foreign-invested joint ventures earned $100 to $400 a month'' . . . [Martin] offers much good information along the way about a decidedly strange and dangerous land."â€”Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2723'),
(7834, 'Under the Radar', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A SisterÃ­s work is never done, not when there are wrongs to right and underdogs to defend. Just returned to their mountaintop hideaway after their latest successful mission, the seven fearless friends enjoy a celebratory dinner and retire to bed. But within an hour, an alarm sounds, and the ladies rush into the compound in time to see Myra and their mentor, Charles, climbing aboard a helicopter. All thatÃ­s left is a mysterious note, signed by Charles. Still reeling, the Sisters receive an urgent call from retired justice Pearl Barnes. Pearl runs an underground railroad to help abused and displaced women, and sheÃ­s just rescued fourteen pregnant teenagers who belong to a highly secretive and controversial polygamy sect. But keeping the girls safe will require the kind of help only the Sisterhood can provide if they can band together and go it alone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3752'),
(7835, 'Undersea Prison', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Falconer''s mediocre fourth contemporary thriller to feature Special Boat Services operative John Stratton (after\n <em>\n  The Operative\n </em>\n ), a lucky missile strike downs a British helicopter in Afghanistan. From the wreckage, the Taliban retrieve a security case containing a computer chip with data on 1,443 indigenous British- and U.S.-run agents and informants throughout the Middle East. A doctor implants the chip in the body of a Taliban fighter, Durrani, who later winds up in American custody. Fearing embarrassment if the Yanks discover the chip, MI6 send Stratton after Durrani, who''s confined in Styx, a secret prison 300 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico for highest-category prisoners and since the announced closure of GuantÃ¡namo... a terrorist-detention centre. In order to infiltrate Styx, Stratton takes the place of a look-alike inmate, Nathan Charon, who''s being transferred there. Fans of cartoonish action yarns will be the most satisfied.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For THE PROTECTOR: ''A gripping and authentic view of life and death in the dangerous world of private protection'' SOLDIER For THE OPERATIVE: ''His novels contain even more bangs than rival Andy McNab''s'' MIRROR For THE HOSTAGE: ''Duncan Falconer''s cracking debut novel ... Inevitably, he''ll be compared to Andy McNab, but I''d say Falconer has the edge'' MAIL ON SUNDAY\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/552'),
(7836, 'Undisputed: How to Become the World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps', 'Chris Jericho', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An entertaining follow-up to their popular book A Lion''s Tale, international wresting superstar Jericho and co-writer Fornatale continue their chronicle of Jericho''s wild ride through the wacky world of professional wrestling. This book picks up where the earlier book endedâ€”with Jericho in 1999 joining Vince McMahon''s World Wrestling Enterprise, the most important venue in wrestingâ€”and ends with Jericho''s return to the ring in 2007 after a two-year retirement. Jericho hilariously details these key years as WWE''s resident bad guy. His feuds with WWE''s colorful (and colorfully profane) cast, including the likes of X-Pac, Ken Shamrock, Chyna, Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, and Christian, are solidly recounted, although most of this will be old news to hardcore WWE fans. But the most interesting stories involve his battles on- and off-stage with such better-known stars as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Goldbergâ€”whom Jericho once had run over by a limousine during an episode of WWE''s Raw series. It is here that Jericho shines and proves once again that, next to Mick Foley, he is an insightful and funny observer of pro wrestling''s absurd universe. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The eagerly awaited follow-up to the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling\n  <em>\n   A Lion''s Tale\n  </em>\n  documents Chris Jericho''s meteoric rise to wrestling glory in the WWE.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A Lion''s Tale\n  </em>\n  gave readers a portrait of Jericho as a young man. Fighting his way through Mexico, rinky-dink leagues and a battery of thieving, sleazy promoters/managers, the book ended with the author''s WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) debut. Never one to leave his fans hanging, as demonstrated by his recent return to wrestling glory, Jericho now tells the story of life in the big leagues. But "making it" in the premier wrestling league in the world comes with its own set of obstacles and hard lessons. Jericho, in his witty, hilarious, and surprisingly endearing manner, lays it all out: the good, the bad, and the spandex.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1923');
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(7837, 'Undone', 'Karin Slaughter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Bestseller Slaughter brings together characters from her two series for the first time with electrifying results. Dr. Sara Linton, who lost her husband in 2007''s\n  <em>\n   Beyond Reach\n  </em>\n  , has left rural Grant County for a new life in an underfunded Atlanta hospital. Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Faith Mitchell and Will Trent, last seen in 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Fractured\n  </em>\n  , happen to be in the hospital''s ER when a woman known only as Anna arrives. Anna was hit by a car after escaping from an unknown captor, whose underground torture chamber Will soon uncovers near the accident site, along with the body of a second woman he believes was held in the same bunker. When another woman is snatched, Faith and Will realize they''re chasing a sadistic serial killer. As the GBI agents try to connect the victims, Sara becomes more involved in the investigation, even as it dredges up painful memories from her past. Slaughter ups the emotional ante with every twist and turn in this disturbing thriller. _\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved._\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œPowerful and complex...The way Slaughter gradually unspools her fascinating story, all the way up to its shocking conclusion, will have readers captivated. Another fine, dark novel from Slaughter.â€â€”_Chicago Sun-Times _for\n  <strong>\n   Beyond Reach\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Slaughter''s] best yet....Her novels smolder with reality.... She writes with confidence and precision as well as passionâ€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Washington Post _on\n  <strong>\n   Faithless\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSlaughter has the courage to detonate her biggest bombshells early on, keeping even the wariest readers off-balance.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Kirkus Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHeart-pounding...Slaughter brings the same raw energy and brutal violence that distinguishes her Grant County series (\n  <strong>\n   Beyond Reach\n  </strong>\n  , etc) to this new series with chilling results, while Trent and Mitchell, a pair of complex and deeply flawed heroes, will leave fans clamoring for the next installment.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Publishers Weekly_, Starred Review for\n  <strong>\n   Fractured\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBone-chilling...Slaughter builds the suspense to a perfect crescendo, connecting every loose plot strand in a devastating and unforgettable climax...A timely and unsettling read.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Publishers Weekly_, Starred Review for\n  <strong>\n   Beyond Reach\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   ,\n  </em>\n  named one of\n  <em>\n   Publisher Weekly\n  </em>\n  ''s Best Books of the Year\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3704'),
(7838, 'Unfamiliar Fishes', 'Sarah Vowell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Recounting the brief, remarkable history of a unified and independent Hawaii, Vowell, a public radio star and bestselling author (The Wordy Shipmates), retraces the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England. In her usual wry tone, Vowell brings out the ironies of their efforts: while the missionaries tried to prevent prostitution with seamen and the resulting deadly diseases, the natives believed it was the missionaries who would kill them: "they will pray us all to death." Along the way, and with the best of intentions, the missionaries eradicated an environmentally friendly, laid-back native culture (although the Hawaiians did have taboos against women sharing a table with men, upon penalty of death, and a reverence for "royal incest"). Freely admitting her own prejudices, Vowell gives contemporary relevance to the past as she weaves in, for instance, Obama''s boyhood memories. Outrageous and wise-cracking, educational but never dry, this book is a thought-provoking and entertaining glimpse into the U.S.''s most unusual state and its unanticipated twists on the familiar story of Americanization. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From the bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Wordy Shipmates,\n  </em>\n  an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In\n <em>\n  Unfamiliar Fishes,\n </em>\n Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded first Cuba, then the Philippines, becoming an international superpower practically overnight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Among the developments in these outposts of 1898, Vowell considers the Americanization of Hawaii the most intriguing. From the arrival of New England missionaries in 1820, their goal to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d''Ã©tat of the missionaries'' sons in 1893, which overthrew the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, and often appealing or tragic, characters: whalers who fired cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their God-given right to whores, an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband, sugar barons, lepers, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha ''Oe" serenaded the first Hawaiian president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade.\n</p>\n<p>\n With her trademark smart-alecky insights and reporting, Vowell lights out to discover the off, emblematic, and exceptional history of the fiftieth state, and in so doing finds America, warts and all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2300'),
(7839, 'Unfinished Business', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n COULD HE HEAL HER BROKEN HEART? What was she doing here? Hyattown had changed very little in the years Vanessa Sexton had been away. In some ways her high school sweetheart, Brady Tucker, hadn''t changed much either - he was still lean, athletic, rugged...But the once reckless boy had become a solid, dependable man. He''d stood her up on the most important night of her life; could she ever trust him again? So Vanessa had finally come home, Brady thought. She could still turn him inside out with one of her sultry looks. He couldn''t believe she hadn''t forgiven him for that night twelve years ago--but he''d had his reasons for not showing up. He''d let her leave town then--but he wasn''t going to let her get away this time. . . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2871'),
(7840, 'The Union Quilters', 'Jennifer Chiaverini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 1862 Water''s Ford, Pennsylvania, abolitionism is prevalent, even passionate, so the local men rally to answer Mr. Lincoln''s call to arms - propelling the women of Elm Creek Valley''s quilting bee into the unknown. The women support each other through loneliness and fear, and devise an ingenious business plan to keep Water''s Ford functioning. That plan may forever alter the patchwork of town life in ways that transcend even the ultimate sacrifices of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3384'),
(7841, 'Unknown Man No. 89', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jack Ryan, Detroit''s best process server, sets out to find a missing stockholder and finds himself part of a vicious, potentially lethal triangle, the perils of which are complicated by his growing love for Lee, a vulnerable alcoholic\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3099'),
(7842, 'Unlikely Friendships', 'Jennifer S. Holland', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: â€œThe wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . â€ Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways. A cat and a bird. A mare and a fawn. An elephant and a sheep. A snake and a hamster. The well-documented stories of Koko the gorilla and All Ball the kitten; and the hippo Owen and the tortoise Mzee. And almost inexplicable stories of predators befriending preyâ€”an Indian leopard slips into a village every night to sleep with a calf. A lionness mothers a baby oryx. Ms. Holland narrates the details and arc of each story, and also offers insights into whyâ€”how the young leopard, probably motherless, sought maternal comfort with the calf, and how a baby oryx inspired the same mothering instinct in the lionness. Or, in the story of Kizzy, a nervous retired Greyhound, and Murphy, a red tabby, how cats and dogs actually understand each otherâ€™s body language. With Murphyâ€™s friendship and support, Kizzy recovered from life as a racing dog and became a confident, loyal family pet.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jennifer Holland is a senior writer for\n  <em>\n   National Geographic\n  </em>\n  magazine, specializing in science and natural history. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with her husband, two dogs, and dozens of snakes and geckos; none of whom, to her dismay, have crossed the species barrier to befriend the others.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2891'),
(7843, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry', 'Rachel Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012: ''The odyssey of a simple man, original, subtle and touching'' - Claire Tomalin  When Harold Fry leaves home one morning to post a letter, with his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other.   He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone.   All he knows is that he must keep walking.   To save someone else''s life.  ''Wonderful'' - Guardian\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3808'),
(7844, 'Unnatural Exposure', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia - separated by thousands of miles - linked by murder. For Dr Kay Scarpetta a lecture stint in Ireland provides the perfect opportunity to find out if the murders on both sides of the Atlantic are indeed connected. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland five years ago - now four have been discovered in the States. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. There are vital discrepancies, and an indication that the elderly victim was already seriously ill. A copy-cat killing. Ghoulish, perhaps, but not unusual. And then abject terror grips Scarpetta and her colleagues when the next body is found. The circumstances of death broadcast a clear and horrifying message - the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3026'),
(7845, 'Unplanned', 'Abby Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Johnson quit her job as the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas, the media went wild; lawsuits were filed; prolife advocates rejoiced. Now this former clinic director reveals the details of her dramatic move from abortion rights advocate to "the right side of the fence" and the prolife movement. Johnson began as a volunteer, moving through the ranks until becoming director of the Bryan, Tex., clinic. Then she witnessed an ultrasound-guided abortion, and she changed. "I was taking a new stand, beginning a new life," she says of her move to the other side. This emotional account reveals Johnson''s remarkable journey through prochoice thinking, two abortions, her love/hate relationship with prolife advocates outside the clinic, and her eventual understanding of abortion. Prolife advocates will salivate over her story, abortion rights advocates will be skeptical,but those who oppose abortion will find inspiration, education, and emotion. Johnson offers a well-planned, well-written account that will touch nerves on both sides of the issue. (Jan.) --Publishers Weekly Bookline, December 22, 2011\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Abby Johnson quit her job in October 2009. That simple act became a national news story because Abby was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas who, after participating in her first actual abortion procedure, walked across the road to join the Coalition for Life.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Unplanned\n  </em>\n  is a heartstopping personal drama of life-and-death encounters, a courtroom battle, and spiritual transformation that speaks hope and compassion into the political controversy that surrounds this issue. Telling Abbyâ€™s story from both sides of the abortion clinic property line, this book is a must-read for anyone who cares about the life versus rights debate and helping women who face crisis pregnancies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1925'),
(7846, 'The Unquiet Heart', 'Gordon Ferris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in post-WWII London and Berlin, Ferris''s run-of-the-mill second crime thriller to feature PI Danny McRae (after\n <em>\n  Truth Dare Kill\n </em>\n ) finds the former soldier, recently traumatized by a serial killer case, handling routine investigations-for-hire in between sessions with an army psychiatrist. McRae is jolted out of his rut by Eve Copeland, ace reporter, with nice legs, who offers him steady money if he gives her access to information that will enable her to regain the prominence as a journalist she''d enjoyed during the war when she had to compete with fewer male colleagues. Predictably, McRae finds himself falling for Copeland, who turns out to be a German whose real name is Ava Kaplan. When she disappears, McRae pursues her trail to occupied Berlin. Ferris captures the feel of bleak postwar Europe (gaps like old women''s gums among the warehouses and tenements), but readers should be prepared for a standard plot and characterization.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ferris captures the feel of bleak post-war Europe. --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/504'),
(7847, 'An Unquiet Mind', 'Kay Redfield Jamison', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR\n </p>\n <p>\n  In her bestselling classic,\n  <em>\n   An Unquiet Mind,\n  </em>\n  Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness;Â she has also experienced it firsthand. For evenÂ while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attemptedÂ suicide.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication.\n  <em>\n   An Unquiet Mind\n  </em>\n  is a memoir of enormous candor, vividness, and wisdomâ€”a deeply powerful book that has both transformed and saved lives.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  First-person account of manic-depression.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1840'),
(7848, 'Up in Honey&#39;s Room', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Odd Thingabout Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he''s a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. Honey Deal, Walter''s American wife, doesn''t know that Walter is a member of a spy ring and gives shelter to escaped German POWs. But she''s tired of telling him jokes he doesn''t understand - it''s time for a divorce. Along comes Carl Webster, the Hot Kid of the Marshals Service. He''s looking for Jurgen Schrenk. Carl''s pretty sure Walter''s involved with keeping Schrenk hidden so he gets to know Honey, hoping she''ll lead him to Walter. Honey likes the hot kid marshal and doesn''t much care that he''s married. But all Carl wants is to get Jurgen without getting shot. Next, Carl meets Vera Mezwa, the Ukrainian head of the spy ring, and her lover Bohdan, with a sly way of killing. And then there''s Otto - the Waffen-SS major who runs away with a nice Jewish girl. It''s Elmore Leonard''s world - gritty, funny, and full of surprises.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3118'),
(7849, 'Ur', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since his first novel was published in 1974, Stephen King has stretched the boundaries of the storyteller as a writer who constantly redefines his readers'' experience by working in various genres and formats . Whether in an epic horror novel, like THE STAND, a serial-novel like THE GREEN MILE, or a novella like SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, King is able to deliver a reading experience like no one else can. As quickly as a spider spins its web, King reminds us why he''s the master of the novella - a format which, up until now that is, one might have thought is fast disappearing.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wesley Smith buys an Amazon Kindle to keep his mind off his recent nasty breakup, but he finds that his version is no ordinary e-reading device. Smith''s Kindle has a special Ur option, which reveals the future and all the works his favorite authors have written in parallel dimensions. However, when the Ur delivers news of terrible events on the way, Smith must decide if he should interfere in fate. While King can certainly spin a good story, the Amazon Kindle focus (the story was written exclusively for and can only be read on an Amazon Kindle) keeps this one feeling like an advertising gimmick. While listeners can easily follow Holter Graham''s narration, his style and projection aren''t particularly impressive. He is consistent with his characterizations, but his light nasal voice lacks energy and momentum, and given that King''s voice is quite similar to Graham''s and King can narrate just as well, it seems unnecessary to have enlisted Graham, whose performance adds little additional flare.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/800'),
(7850, 'V Is for Vengeance', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Amazon Exclusive: A Letter from Sue Grafton\n </p>\n <p>\n  As with the last several books in the series,\n  <em>\n   V Is for Vengeance\n  </em>\n  was a long time in the making. I work by trial and error, keeping a running account of the process in journals that in this case totaled 967 single-spaced pages. It took me from March, 2009 until March, 2010 to settle on a storyline, and after that, it was ten months of hard labor. Women give birth to babies in less time, but surely without as much suffering. Brave soul that I am, I stuck with it, picking my way painstakingly from beginning to middle to end.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What sets the narrative in motion is Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s spotting a shoplifter in an upscale department store. She alerts a sales clerk, who in turn notifies Security, which results in the womanâ€™s arrest. Within two days, the sticky-fingered thief has taken a dive off a four-hundred-foot-high bridge, leaving her fiancÃ© with troubling questions. While the overall subject matter is organized retail theft, of greater concern to Ms. Millhone is the fact that at the height of the action, shortly before sheâ€™s punched in the face, she realizes itâ€™s her thirty-eighth birthday and thus ends up celebrating the milestone with a broken nose and two black eyes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Sue Grafton, November, 2011\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sue Grafton\n  </strong>\n  lives in Montecito, California, and Louisville, Kentucky.\n  <em>\n   V is for Vengeance\n  </em>\n  is her twenty-second Kinsey Millhone novel.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2872'),
(7851, 'Valdez Is Coming', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a shack with a gun, they sent the part-time town constable to deal with the problem -- and made sure he had no choice but to gun the fugitive down. Trouble was, Valdez killed an innocent man. And when he asked for justice -- and some money for the dead man''s woman -- they beat Valdez and tied him to a cross. They were still laughing when Valdez came back. And then they began to die...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3150'),
(7852, 'Valhalla Rising', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dirk Pitt, Clive Cussler''s aging but still potent superhero, returns in the 16th adventure in this popular series about the director of special projects for the National Underwater Maritime Administration (NUMA). Pitt''s NUMA survey ship happens to be in the vicinity when the world''s newest and biggest cruise ship founders and sinks, giving Pitt the chance to stage the daring rescue of nearly 2,000 passengers. Among those who perish is a famous scientist whose revolutionary engines powered the ship to her watery grave; while Pitt is unable to save Dr. Egan, he rescues his beautiful daughter Kelly from the sea, and later from a murder attempt aboard the rescue vessel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pitt and his trusty pal Al Giordino track the sinking to the boardroom door of a multinational conglomerate called Cerberus, whose evil CEO has designs on the world''s oil supply. He''ll do anything to keep Egan''s advanced engines and secret formula for frictionless oil off the market--even sabotage another vessel, this time a luxury passenger submarine. By the time our heroes have foiled the mastermind''s nefarious plots, they''ve also uncovered the existence of a working submarine nearly a century before one actually existed--irrefutable proof of a Viking landing on the Hudson River--and the remains of the British sailor who inspired Jules Verne''s Captain Nemo. A solid page-turner that even features a cameo appearance by the author himself,\n  <em>\n   Valhalla Rising\n  </em>\n  snaps, crackles, and pops with Cussler''s usual brio.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The master of action/adventure fiction strikes oil with this nonstop thriller, which tangles ancient Viking runes, Captain Nemo''s Nautilus, the Red Baron, water propulsion engines, murderous oil magnates, undersea catastrophes and cruise ship explosions into a knot that only Dirk Pitt and his laconic sidekick Al Giordino can unravel. Dirk spots smoke on the horizon from his NUMA research vessel and races to the flaming cruise ship Golden Dolphin in time to save most of the 2,000 passengers and crew, including Kelly Egan, beautiful daughter of the inventor of engines that run on seawater. Dr. Egan drowns, leaving Kelly with a leather case that she believes contains the secrets of his life''s work but a couple of ruthless villains want it, too, and with Dirk''s help she narrowly escapes. When the Dolphin wreck sinks, Pitt and Giordino use a mini-sub to search for arson clues, but the NUMA ship and crew are hijacked while the sub is under and Pitt and Giordino drift until rescued by a private boat. They then cross paths with Curtis Zale, a ruthless oil baron bent on monopoly and unafraid of using mass murder to gain his ends. Meanwhile, Congresswoman Loren Smith, Pitt''s erstwhile lover, heads a committee probing Zale and is added to the target list. Cussler speeds and twists through the complex plot and hairbreadth escapes, giving the thriller the intensity and suspense of a NASCAR race. Historical asides of submarine lore, Jules Verne minutiae and references to Viking runes in America add touches of real-life oddity to the mix, and nothing will prepare even longtime Cussler fans for the major surprise he drops at the end. (Aug. 13)Forecast: Bombs away! A 750,000-copy first printing, a $750,000 ad/promo campaign, an author tour and the simultaneous release of a Putnam Berkley audiotape and CD are all in the cards; instant, long-term entrenchment on top-10 lists is forecast.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1211'),
(7853, 'The Valkyries', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n There is enough interest in angels to ensure this peculiar little book a significant audience. It traces a spiritual journey of sorts, stereotypically cast as a journey into the desert, that embodies a New Age conception of liberation as liberation from the past in confrontation with oneself. The "ritual that demolishes rituals," which is the climax of the book, is all done with mirrors. As Simone de Beauvoir would note, the "mirrors" are women--and that calls into question both the "newness" of the story and the "age" it heralds. But it is a strange tale many will find compelling.\n <em>\n  Steve Schroeder\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A book that delights, fascinates, frightens, and enlightens all at once... A delightful read that leaves you pondering eternal truths long after you put it down." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  NAPRA Review\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Coelho[HTML_REMOVED]s gripping tale of his adventures...reads like a suspense novel." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  San Mateo Times\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Coelho''s gripping tale of his adventures...reads like a suspense novel." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  San Mateo Times\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1242'),
(7854, 'Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend', 'Mark Collins Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mark Jenkins''s engrossing history draws on the latest science, anthropological and archaeological research to explore the origins of vampire stories, providing gripping historic and folkloric context for the concept of immortal beings who defy death by feeding on the lifeblood of others. From the earliest whispers of eternal evil in ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, vampire tales flourished through the centuries and around the globe, fueled by superstition, sexual mystery, fear of disease and death, and the nagging anxiety that demons lurk everywhere. In "Vampire Forensics, " Mark Jenkins probes vampire legend to tease out the historical truths enshrined in the tales of terror: sherds of Persian pottery depicting blood-sucking demons; the amazing recent discovery by National Geographic archaeologist Matteo Borrini of a 16th-century Venetian grave of a plague victim and suspected vampire; and the Transylvanian castle of "Vlad the Impaler," whose bloodthirsty cruelty remains unsurpassed. Jenkins navigates centuries of lore and legend, adding new chapters to the chronicle and weaving an irresistibly seductive blend of superstition, psychology, and science sure to engross everyone from Anne Rice''s countless readers to serious students of archaeology and mythology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2301'),
(7855, 'Vanished', 'Joseph Finder', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lauren Heller and her husband, Roger, are out to dinner one night when they''re brutally attacked. Twenty-four hours later, Lauren awakes in the hospital to find that Roger has mysteriously "VANISHED"The only one with any chance of finding Roger is his brother, Nick. A private spy trained in the Special Forces, Nick Heller specializes in digging up secrets that those of influence would rather keep hidden. He and Roger have been estranged for years, ever since a bitter scandal tore their family apart. But Nick will do anything to protect Lauren and his nephew--even if it means taking on the most lethal enemy he''s ever faced."An Action-packed, full-throttle...read-it-tonight thriller that you definitely shouldn''t miss."--Lee Child Plunged headlong into a desperate chase, Nick begins making shocking discoveries about Roger''s life--and his own. As he finds himself embroiled in a very personal, high-stakes investigation, Nick must take on a powerful and deadly conspiracy that will stop at nothing--and spare no one--to protect its secrets... "A HUMDINGER...TAUT ACTION SCENES." --"Washington"" Post""""Lots of unpredictable plot twists and a furious pace." --"San Francisco"" Chronicle""""lightning-paced from the first page to the last. "--"Providence"" Journal"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3422'),
(7856, 'Vanishing Act', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n WHEN YOU''RE LOST, THE SISTERHOOD WILL FIND YOUFor the women of the Sisterhood, planning a lavish reception for their longtime ally, attorney Lizzie Fox, at their lux mountain retreat is the ideal way to unwind after their latest successful mission.Ã¡ The only cloud over the happy occasion is that their mentor, Charles, is still mysteriously absent.But amid the friendly bickering about floral arrangements, cake tiers, and wedding favors, the ladies of Pinewood receive a frantic phone call from Nikki''s fiance, Jack Emery.Ã¡ Harry Wong - Yoko''s true love and a staunch supporter of the Sisterhood - has become the victim of a ruthless identity theft ring.Ã¡ Harry''s bank accounts have been close out, his beloved dojo is being foreclosed, and he''s being evicted.Ã¡ Distraught, Yoko is about to rush down the mountain to Harry''s aid when the Sister''s intercept her.Ã¡ A situation like Harry''s requires finesse, careful planning, and the Sisterhood''s distinctive brand of vigilante justice . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3754'),
(7857, 'Vanishing Acts', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Delia Hopkins was six years old when her father allowed her to be his assistant in the amateur magic act he performed at the local senior center''s annual Christmas pageant. "I learned a lot that night," recalls Delia, who is now 32, at the start of Picoult''s absorbing new novel (her 12th, after\n <em>\n  My Sister''s Keeper\n </em>\n ). "That people don''t vanish into thin air...." She has come to know this even better as an adult: she makes her living finding missing people with her own search-and-rescue bloodhound. As she prepares for her wedding, however, Delia has a flash of memory that is so vivid yet so wildly out-of-place among the other memories from her idyllic New Hampshire upbringing that she describes it to a childhood friend, who happens to be a reporter. Soon, her whole world and the world of the widowed father she adores is turned upside down. Her marriage to her toddler''s father, a loving but still struggling recovering alcoholic, is put on hold as she is forced to conduct a search-and-rescue mission on her own past and identity. It will cut to the heart of what she holds to be true and good. As in previous novels, Picoult creates compelling, three-dimensional characters who tell a story in alternating voices about what it might mean to be a good parent and a good person, to be true to ourselves and those we love. Picoult weaves together plot and characterization in a landscape that is fleshed out in rich, journalistic detail, so that readers will come away with intriguing questions rather than pat answers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n What better title than\n <em>\n  Vanishing Acts\n </em>\n to describe a search-and-rescue worker who turns out to be a missing person herself, as well as the daughter of an amateur magician who makes people disappear? Reviewers praise Picoult (\n <em>\n  My Sisterâ€™s Keeper\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  1/2 July/Aug 2004) for her cleverness and her abilities as a storyteller, but her tendency to hang her narratives on Issues-with-a-capital-I has limited appeal. Her 12th novel seems particularly overcrowded with themes and subplots addressing the nature of identity, parental and platonic love, Native American mysticism, prison conditions, alcoholism, memory, and much more. The story is told in first-person narratives presented in alternating chapters by the bookâ€™s five main characters, but this contrivance quickly wears thin. All in all,\n </em>\n Vanishing Acts* is a somewhat muddled effort from the best-selling author.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1246'),
(7858, 'Veil of Night', 'Linda Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her jobâ€”usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, a diva whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands. But the unpleasant task at hand turns seriously criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing the deed.The problem is, most everyoneâ€”from the cake maker and the florist to the wedding-gown retailer and the bridesmaidsâ€™ dressmakerâ€”had his or her own reason for wanting the bride dead, including Jaclyn. And while those who felt Carrieâ€™s wrath are now smiling at her demise, Jaclyn refuses to celebrate tragedy, especially since she finds herself in the shadow of suspicion.Assigned to the case, Detective Eric Wilder finds that thereâ€™s too much evidence pointing toward too many suspects. Compounding his problems is Jaclyn, with whom he shared one deeply passionate night before Carrieâ€™s death. Being a prime suspect means that Jaclyn is hands-off just when Eric would rather be hands-on. As the heat intensifies between Eric and Jaclyn, a cold-blooded murderer moves dangerously close. And this time the target is not a bride but one particularly irresistible wedding planner, unaware of a killerâ€™s vow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3407'),
(7859, 'Vendetta', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n They Can Run, But They Can''t Hide From The Sisterhood. Once upon a time there were seven very different women who had been broken but not beaten by life. In those tough days of healing, they became the Sisterhood, a group of devoted friends who vowed to change their lives, empower themselves, and be there for each other, no matter what. Now, they''re ready to answer the call for the woman who started it all, Myra Rutledge. Five years ago, Myra''s pregnant daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver--the playboy son of an ambassador with diplomatic immunity. Myra was left to grieve while the murderer was free to return to his lavish lifestyle with no fear of ever having to pay for his crime. But not for much longer. As the air turns crisp the Virginia hills around Myra''s lovely old farmhouse, the Sisterhood has gathered for a little creative planning, and what they have in mind is a gift for Myra of long-awaited and very sweet revenge. . . Revenge is a dish best served with cloth napkins and floral centerpieces . . .fast-paced. . .puts poetic justice first. --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3744'),
(7860, 'The Venetian Betrayal', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 323 B.C.E, having conquered Persia, Alexander the Great set his sights on Arabia, then suddenly succumbed to a strange fever. Locating his final resting placeunknown to this dayremains a tantalizing goal for both archaeologists and treasure hunters. Now the quest for this coveted prize is about to heat up. And Cotton Maloneformer U.S. Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealerwill be drawn into an intense geopolitical chess game. After narrowly escaping incineration in a devastating fire that consumes a Danish museum, Cotton learns from his friend, the beguiling adventurer Cassiopeia Vitt, that the blaze was neither an accident nor an isolated incident. As part of campaign of arson intended to mask a far more diabolical design, buildings across Europe are being devoured by infernos of unnatural strength. And from the ashes of the U.S.S.R., a new nation has arisen: Former Soviet republics have consolidated into the Central Asian Federation. At its helm is Supreme Minister Irina Zovastina, a cunning despot with a talent for politics, a taste for blood sport, and the single-minded desire to surpass Alexander the Great as history''s ultimate conqueror. Backed by a secret cabal of powerbrokers, the Federation has amassed a harrowing arsenal of biological weapons. Equipped with the hellish power to decimate other nations at will, only one thing keeps Zovastina from setting in motion her death march of domination: a miraculous healing serum, kept secret by an ancient puzzle and buried with the mummified remains of Alexander the Greatin a tomb lost to the ages for more than 1,500 years. Together, Cotton and Cassiopeia must outrun and outthink the forces allied against them. Their perilous quest will take them to the shores of Denmark, deep into the venerated monuments of Venice, and finally high inside the desolate Pamir mountains of Central Asia to unravel a riddle whose solution could destroy or save millions of peopledepending on who finds the lost tomb first. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3663'),
(7861, 'Venice: Pure City', 'Peter Ackroyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even during the dominance of the Roman Empire, Venice and Venetians were regarded as distinct by their neighbors. They spoke Latin, and later Italian, in an unusual dialect. Their geographic position as an island in a lagoon contributed to their fierce spirit of independence, but it also positioned them to control trade routes to and from the East. Ackroyd, the novelist, biographer, and writer of tributes to great urban centers (London), has captured the rich tradition, beauty, and vibrancy of this magnificent city in a survey that combines political and artistic history with aspects of a travelogue. Ackroyd moves back and forth in time as he examines the growth of Venice, from prehistoric settlement to its place in both the Roman and Byzantine empires to the present time. As he describes the development of the art and architectural treasures, he includes informative and charming diversions on various traditions, events, and personalities. For those who have visited or hope to visit the â€œPearl of the Adriatic,â€ this work will be a treasure. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAckroyd â€” the marvelously erudite and staggeringly industrious English writer â€” [has compiled] an encyclopedic amount of general and arcane factual information and then [arranged] it less chronologically than thematically â€” much as one might encounter it in the course of a long walk over fascinating terrain in the company of a knowledgeable but never pedantic companion. It''s an experience rendered all the more agreeable by the independent turn of Ackroyd''s critical imagination and lapidary quality of his prose.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Peter Ackroyd fully explores one of the worldâ€™s most undeniably glorious cities.... Like his acclaimed\n <em>\n  London\n </em>\n , Ackroydâ€™s account isnâ€™t a chronological history of this charming Italian metropolis. The structure and style of\n <em>\n  Venice\n </em>\n is engagingly impressionistic and digressive.... Magnificently crafted."\n <br />\n â€”_The Boston Globe\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "[_Venice: Pure City_] is aÂ swarm - a storm - of dazzling details that coalesce into an artful picture.... Ackroyd''s is a glittering introduction to Venice. There is not much new that can be said about the city, but Ackroyd says it with ripeness - like those Venetian pears, only now it is the reader''s appetite that is whetted. Godspeed."\n <br />\n â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ackroyd''s marvelous book certainly adds to the allure of this magical metropolis."\n <br />\n â€”_Minneapolis Star Tribune\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Peter Ackroyd understands Venice, perhaps even better than modern Venetians.\n <em>\n  Venice: Pure City\n </em>\n isÂ a grand biography of a subject that is as complicated and labyrinthine as Veniceâ€™s tiny alleyways. It is impossible not to get lost there, and that is why Ackroyd may have been the best person to write such an insightful book.... He approaches Venice the way a scholar would a historical figure, because thatâ€™s what Venice is. Yet he isnâ€™t locked into a timeline: He enjoys pushing the tides of history back and forth. Itâ€™s an engaging technique."\n <br />\n â€”_Newark Star-Ledger_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thoughtful, thorough and insightful, [Ackroyd] is at least as much interpreter as historian. He brings this iconic city to vivid life ... While Venice is by no means an orthodox traveler''s guide, it''s a wonderful introduction to a city that has cast a particular spell since the fifth century ... A portrait so vivid it''s aromatic ... Intoxicating."\n <br />\n â€”_Pittsburgh Post-Gazette_\n</p>\n<p>\n "In an effortless style, [Ackroyd] seamlessly stitches the storied city''s crazy quilt of past and present. The watery origins, the architecture that rises and seams to float on a sea of glass, the early settlers and the key players are all rendered with a historian''s curiosity and a novelist''s feel for plot."\n <br />\n â€”_The Free Lance-Star_ (Fredericksburg, VA)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAckroyd provides a history of and meditation on the actual and imaginary Venice in a volume as opulent and paradoxical as the city itself. . . . How Ackroyd deftly catalogues the overabundance of the cityâ€™s real and literary tropes and touchstones is itself a kind of tribute to\n <em>\n  La Serenissima\n </em>\n , as Venice is called, and his seductive voice is elegant and elegiac. The resulting book is, like Venice, something rich, labyrinthine and unique that makes itself and its subject both new and necessary.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise from the UK:\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ackroyd is hugely intelligent and formidably industrious; there can be few people, Venetian or foreign, who know Venice better than he." â€”John Julius Norwich, _The Telegraph\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Ackroyd covers an immense amount of ground with verve and elegance." â€”_The Independent\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Venice tends to provoke extreme reactions. People love it or hate it. Ackroydâ€™s response, however, is pleasingly complex. He observes his subject with a forensic yet morally neutral eye. You can tell he is fascinated by the place; but he is not blind to its many flaws."Â  â€”_The Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Irresistible, entrancing, occasionally weird but undeniably grand." â€”_Literary Review\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2305'),
(7862, 'Veronika Decides to Die of Redemption', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Paulo Coelho (\n  <em>\n   The Alchemist\n  </em>\n  ) was a young man, his parents had him committed to mental hospitals three times because he wanted to be an artist--an unacceptable profession in Brazil at the time. During his numerous forced incarcerations he vowed to write some day about his experiences and the injustices of involuntary commitment. In this fable-like novel, Coelho makes good on his promise, with the creation of a fictional character named Veronika who decides to kill herself when faced with all that is wrong with the world and how powerless she feels to change anything. Although she survives her initial suicide attempt, she is committed to a mental hospital where she begins to wrestle with the meaning of mental illness and whether forced drugging should be inflicted on patients who don''t fit into the narrow definition of "normal." The strength and tragedy of Veronika''s fictional story was instrumental in passing new government regulations in Brazil that have made it more difficult to have a person involuntarily committed. Like any great storyteller, Coelho has used the realm of fiction to magically infiltrate and alter the realm of reality.\n  <em>\n   --Gail Hudson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The bestselling Brazilian author of The Alchemist delicately etches this morose but ultimately uplifting story of the suicidal Veronika, who creeps along the boundary between life and death, sanity and madness, happiness and despair. Veronika, 24, works in a library in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and rents a room in a convent; she is an attractive woman with friends and family, but feelings of powerlessness and apathy tempt her to find "freedom" in an overdose of sleeping pills. When Veronika awakens in the purgatory of Villete, the country''s famous lunatic asylum, she is told her suicide attempt weakened her heart and she has only days to live. At this point, Coelho takes a role in the novel; he describes the circumstances under which he discovered Veronika''s story and then recounts his own youthful incarceration in a Brazilian sanatorium, consigned there by parents who couldn''t understand his "unusual behavior." As quickly as he drops in, however, he drops out again, relying on interior monologues to set scenes. In a sedative-induced haze, Veronika finds companionship in white-haired Mari, who suffers from panic attacks, and Eduard, an ambassador''s son who has been diagnosed as schizophrenic, and she begins to question the definition of insanity. It is her supposed death sentence from the devious Dr. Igor, who is trying to shock her back into reality, that allows Veronika to reacquire the will to live and love. Employing his trademark blend of religious and philosophical overtones, Coelho focuses on his central question: why do people go on when life seems unfair and fate indifferent? The simple, often banal prose contrasts Veronika''s bleak inner landscape with the beautiful contours of Slovenia, gradually culminating in an upbeat ending with the message that each day of life is a miracle. Coelho''s latest will appeal to readers who enjoy animated homilies about the worth of human existence.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1247');
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(7863, 'Very Valentine', 'Adriana Trigiani', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Meet the Roncalli and Angelini families, a vibrant cast of colorful characters who navigate tricky family dynamics with hilarity and brio, from magical Manhattan to the picturesque hills of bella Italia. Very Valentine is the first novel in a trilogy and is sure to be the new favorite of Trigiani''s millions of fans around the world.   In this luscious, contemporary family saga, the Angelini Shoe Company, makers of exquisite wedding shoes since 1903, is one of the last family-owned businesses in Greenwich Village. The company is on the verge of financial collapse. It falls to thirty-three-year-old Valentine Roncalli, the talented and determined apprentice to her grandmother, the master artisan Teodora Angelini, to bring the family''s old-world craftsmanship into the twenty-first century and save the company from ruin.   While juggling a budding romance with dashing chef Roman Falconi, her duty to her family, and a design challenge presented by a prestigious department store, Valentine returns to Italy with her grandmother to learn new techniques and seek one-of-a-kind materials for building a pair of glorious shoes to beat their rivals. There, in Tuscany, Naples, and on the Isle of Capri, a family secret is revealed as Valentine discovers her artistic voice and much more, turning her life and the family business upside down in ways she never expected. Very Valentine is a sumptuous treat, a journey of dreams fulfilled, a celebration of love and loss filled with Trigiani''s trademark heart and humor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3698'),
(7864, 'Vespers Rising', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Cahills thought they were the most powerful family the world had ever known. They thought they were the only ones who knew about Gideon Cahill and his Clues. The Cahills were wrong.Powerful enemies â€” the Vespers â€” have been waiting in the shadows. Now itâ€™s their time to rise and the world will never be the same. In Vespers Rising, a brand new 39 Clues novel, bestselling authors Rick Riordan, Peter Lerangis, Gordon Korman and Jude Watson take on the hidden history of the Cahills and the Vespers, and the last, terrible legacy Grace Cahill leaves for Amy and Dan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2986'),
(7865, 'Victory and Honor', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div class="redaktion raw">\n  <br />\n  <p>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The spectacular new book in "New York Times"-bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin''s Honor Bound saga of World War II espionage.\n   <br />\n   Wars come to an end. But then new ones begin. Just weeks after Hitler''s suicide, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS find themselves up to their necks in battles every bit as fierce as the ones just ended. The first is political-the very survival of the OSS, with every department from Treasury to War to the FBI grabbing for its covert agents and assets. The second is on a much grander scale-the possible next world war, against Joe Stalin and his voracious ambitions. To get a jump on the latter, Frade has been conducting a secret operation, one of great daring-and great danger-but to conduct it and not be discovered, he and his men must walk a perilously dark line. One slip, and everyone becomes a casualty of war.\n   <br />\n  </p>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <br />\n (source: Bol.de)\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/736'),
(7866, 'Vigilante', 'Robin Parrish', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Nolan Gray is an elite soldier, skilled in all forms of combat. After years fighting on foreign battlefields, witnessing unspeakable evils and atrocities firsthand, a world-weary Nolan returns home to find it just as corrupt as the war zones. Everywhere he looks, there''s pain and cruelty. Society is being destroyed by wicked men who don''t care who they make suffer or destroy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nolan decides to do what no one else can, what no one has ever attempted. He will defend the helpless. He will tear down the wicked. He will wage a one-man war on the heart of man, and he won''t stop until the world is the way it should be.\n</p>\n<p>\n The wicked have had their day. Morality''s time has come. In a culture starving for a hero, can one extraordinary man make things right?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/728'),
(7867, 'The Vigilantes', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The dramatic new novel in Griffin''s New York Times- bestselling chronicle of the Philadelphia police force.   There''s a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much because the victims all seem to be lowlifes. The more Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne investigates, however, the more he gets a bad feeling-one that only gets worse when vigilante groups spring up claiming credit for some of the hits, even though Payne knows it can''t be true. As the targets get bigger and events start moving out of control, Payne realizes that if he and his colleagues can''t figure out who''s behind this very soon, the violence could overtake them all.  Filled with authentic color and detail, this is a riveting novel of the men and women who put their lives on the line-storytelling at its absolute best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3722'),
(7868, 'The Villa Triste', 'Lucretia Grindle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n It is the Autumn of 1943. Italy signs the armistice that will take it out of the war, and slides into chaos. In Florence, two sisters, Isabella and Caterina Cammaccio, find themselves surrounded by terror and death. As the Allied advance stalls in the south, Italy is trapped under the heel of a brutal Nazi occupation. Determined to take on not only the Nazis, but also the newly resurgent Fascists, bands of Partisans rise up. Almost all of them are young. Many of them are women. They have little to rely on except ingenuity, determination, and courage. Thrust headlong into the unknown, Isabella and Caterina will test their wits and deepest beliefs as never before. As the winter grinds on, they will be forced to make the most important decisions of their lives. Their choices will reverberate for decades. In the present day, Alessandro Pallioti, one of FlorenceÃ­s most senior policemen, would not normally oversee a murder investigation. He agrees only because the victim - an old man...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/708'),
(7869, 'Violets Are Blue', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Two joggers are found murdered in San Francisco''s Golden Gate Park, and the killings are bizarrely reminiscent of a Washington, D.C. case that Alex Cross has been unable to solve. He is called to San Francisco, and then learns of similar murders in eight cities from Las Vegas to Charleston. Together with a female San Francisco detective, Cross plunges into a menacing world where posing explodes into bloodlust and frenzy, even as he is being stalked by a terrifying criminal who calls himself the Mastermind.\n <br />\n <br />\n James Patterson is at his most shocking and suspenseful best in a novel that will stun and satisfy his vast audience.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/296'),
(7870, 'The Viper&#39;s Nest', 'Peter Lerangis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n JOIN ANYTIME TO PLAY FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN!  It''s no longer a game. The body count is rising. Shaken by recent events, Amy and Dan flee to a distant land and trace the footsteps of their most formidable ancestor yet: a military leader of mythic proportions. Yet just as the siblings begin to master the art of ancient warfare, they confront a dangerous enemy that can''t be felled with a sword: the truth. With the stakes higher than ever, Amy and Dan uncover something so devastating it changes everything â€“ the secret of their family branch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2982'),
(7871, 'The Visitor', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common. Both were army high-flyers.Both were acquainted with Jack Reacher.Both were forced to resign from the service. Now they''re both dead. Both were found in their own home, naked, in a bath full of paint.Both apparent victims of an army man.A loner, a smart guy with a score to settle, a ruthless vigilante. A man just like Jack Reacher.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2555'),
(7872, 'Vixen 03', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œDirk Pitt [is] oceanographyâ€™s answer to Indiana Jones.â€â€”Associated Press\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <em>\n    Vixen 03\n   </em>\n   is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-six Doomsday bombs -- canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency -- vanishes. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988. Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised the\n   <em>\n    Titanic\n   </em>\n   , discovers the wreckage of\n   <em>\n    Vixen 03\n   </em>\n   . But two deadly canisters are missing. They''re in the hands of a terrorist group. Their lethal mission: to sail a battleship seventy-five miles up the Potomac and blast Washington, D.C., to kingdom come. Only Dirk can stop them.\n  </li>\n </ol>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1198'),
(7873, 'Voices From the Korean War', 'Douglas Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; ">\n  <p>\n   <i>\n    Voices from the Korean War\n   </i>\n   Â presents a collection of first-person accounts of those who served in the Korean War.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   The Korean War is often dubbed the "Forgotten War," although more than 36,000 soldiers died in this three-year conflict. InÂ \n   <i>\n    Voices from the Korean War,\n   </i>\n   Â author Douglas Rice makes certain the men who served are not forgotten as he shares first-person accounts fromÂ \n   <i>\n    seventy-nine\n   </i>\n   Â soldiers who fought in the war from June of 1950 through July of 1953.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <i>\n    Voices from the Korean War\n   </i>\n   Â follows the soldiers as they trek and fly over the mountainous terrain of the Korean peninsula. Through these eyewitness accounts, hear a soldier describe what happened to a small group of North Korean villagers who refused to divulge their location. Listen in as a wounded soldier tells a flight nurse the story of how he was rescued by American soldiers as he lay wounded in a North Korean home. Learn how some prisoners of war walked their imaginary dogs to irritate their captors.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   This compilation of different soldiers'' perspectives conveys what it must have been like to be directly involved in the conflict. It serves as a reminder of the challenges and the sacrifices the soldiers made in the name of war.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2308'),
(7874, 'Void Moon', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n There seems to be an unspoken rule among mystery writers that once the author has created a successful character, the obligation to fans demands regular installments in the hero''s life history, whatever the author''s literary aspirations. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was famously unsuccessful at killing off Sherlock Holmes and resurrected his detective in response to public outcry. Michael Connelly''s police procedural series featuring Harry Bosch has garnered numerous top mystery awards, including the coveted Edgar. But, strangely, it is his deviations from Bosch, including\n <em>\n  The Poet\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Blood Work\n </em>\n , that have drawn the biggest readerships--and have won awards of their own to boot (_The Poet_ was honored with the 1997 Anthony Award). Now, once again, Connelly follows up the success of a Bosch book,\n <em>\n  Angels Flight\n </em>\n , with a non-series tale that pushes Connelly''s already impressive body of work into new territory.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Void Moon\n </em>\n traces the path of Cassie Black, a gifted thief who struggles with the temptation of "outlaw juice" (the burning desire to live the fast life of crime and payoffs) even while she regularly attends her probation meetings. It''s not that hawking Porsches to newly flush young Hollywood males isn''t satisfying, but... well, it isn''t. After years away, she returns to her old striking grounds in Las Vegas for one last big mark hoping to pave her way into a new life. But Cassie discovers that her old Las Vegas is a new town with a new skyline and new (and more deadly) bad guys; it is also a place haunted by the ghost of her lover-partner Max. When her take proves to be 10 times larger than she imagined, her road to freedom runs afoul of the Mob while a morally questionable--and openly vicious--PI sniffs her trail.\n</p>\n<p>\n With its attractive central character, meticulous plot, and glitzy packaging,\n <em>\n  Void Moon\n </em>\n seems perfectly poised for the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellers list. That is not to say, however, that Connelly has "dumbed down" his usual presentation. The novel displays Connelly''s stunning ability to breathe reality into his fiction with the subtle details that can only come from careful research and his years of experience reporting on crime for the\n <em>\n  L.A. Times\n </em>\n . What other author has so lovingly described the aftermath of crime? The jail sentence, recidivism, the numbing visits to the parole officer where "she held the plastic cup she would have to squat over and fill while an office trainee, dubbed the wizard because of the nature of her monitoring duty, watched to make sure it was her own urine going into the container." While we Connelly fans are always eager to read the next Bosch, once again we''re not disappointed with Connelly''s "vacation."\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Wikipedia\n</h3>\n<p>\n Void Moon is the ninth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly. It was released in the UK in 2000 and was Michael Connely''s third book not to follow the character Harry Bosch. It was also his first (and, as of 2009, only) novel to feature a female protagonist, Cassidy "Cassie" Black, and a protagonist who is a criminal instead of an investigator of criminals. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â \n <strong>\n  In the article:\n </strong>\n Plot summary\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/341'),
(7875, 'Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin', 'Norah Vincent', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The journalist who famously lived as a man commits herself- literally**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Norah Vincent''s *New York Times* bestselling book, *Self-Made Man*, ended on a harrowing note. Suffering from severe depression after her eighteen months living disguised as a man, Vincent felt she was a danger to herself. On the advice of her psychologist she committed herself to a mental institution. Out of this raw and overwhelming experience came the idea for her next book. She decided to get healthy and to study the effect of treatment on the depressed and insane "in the bin," as she calls it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Vincent''s journey takes her from a big city hospital to a facility in the Midwest and finally to an upscale retreat down south, as she analyzes the impact of institutionalization on the unwell, the tyranny of drugs-as-treatment, and the dysfunctional dynamic between caregivers and patients. Vincent applies brilliant insight as she exposes her personal struggle with depression and explores the range of people, caregivers, and methodologies that guide these strange, often scary, and bizarre environments. Eye opening, emotionally wrenching, and at times very funny, *Voluntary Madness* is a riveting work that exposes the state of mental healthcare in America from the inside out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1926'),
(7876, 'Voodoo River', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole''s assignment is to find out their biological history and report back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he finds out there''s something much darker going on. Other people are also looking for Taylor''s parents; and some are ending up dead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And when Cole realizes that his employer knew more than she was telling, Voodoo River becomes a twisting tale of identity, secrets, and murder.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Elvis Cole returns in his most exciting adventure yet. Hired to uncover the past of Jodi Taylor, an actress on a hit TV series, Elvis travels to Louisiana to search for Jodi''s biological parents. Soon he discovers the real reason that he''s been sent there--but not before he has run-ins with a crazed housewife, a Cajun thug and a 100-pound river turtle named Luther.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/345'),
(7877, 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader', 'C.S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential Christian writer of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. His major contributions in literary criticism, children''s literature, fantasy literature, and popular theology brought him international renown and acclaim. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include\n  <em>\n   The Chronicles of Narnia\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Out of the Silent Planet\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Four Loves\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Screwtape Letters\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Mere Christianity\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los intelectuales mÃs importantes del siglo veinte y podrÃa decirse que fue el escritor cristiano mÃs influyente de su tiempo. Fue profesor particular de literatura inglesa y miembro de la junta de gobierno en la Universidad Oxford hasta 1954, cuando fue nombrado profesor de literatura medieval y renacentista en la Universidad Cambridge, cargo que desempeÃ‘Ã“ hasta que se jubilÃ“. Sus contribuciones a la crÃtica literaria, literatura infantil, literatura fantÃstica y teologÃa popular le trajeron fama y aclamaciÃ“n a nivel internacional. C. S. Lewis escribiÃ“ mÃs de treinta libros, lo cual le permitiÃ“ alcanzar una enorme audiencia, y sus obras aÃšn atraen a miles de nuevos lectores cada aÃ‘o. Sus mÃs distinguidas y populares obras incluyen\n  <em>\n   Las CrÃ“nicas de Narnia, Los Cuatro Amores, Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino y Mero Cristianismo\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1176'),
(7878, 'A Walk to Remember', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the prologue to his latest novel, Nicholas Sparks makes the rather presumptuous pledge "first you will smile, and then you will cry," but sure enough, he delivers the goods. With his calculated ability to throw your heart around like a yo-yo (try out his earlier\n <em>\n  Message in the Bottle\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  The Notebook\n </em>\n if you really want to stick it to yourself), Sparks pulls us back to the perfect innocence of a first love.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1958 Landon Carter is a shallow but well-meaning teenager who spends most of his time hanging out with his friends and trying hard to ignore the impending responsibilities of adulthood. Then Landon gets roped into acting the lead in the Christmas play opposite the most renowned goody two-shoes in town: Jamie Sullivan. Against his best intentions and the taunts of his buddies, Landon finds himself falling for Jamie and learning some central lessons in life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like John Irving''s\n <em>\n  A Prayer for Owen Meany\n </em>\n , Sparks maintains a delicate and rarely seen balance of humor and sentiment. While the plot may not be the most original, this boy-makes-good tearjerker will certainly reel in the fans. Look for a movie starring beautiful people or, better yet, snuggle under the covers with your tissues nearby and let your inner sap run wild.\n <em>\n  --Nancy R.E. O''Brien\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sure to wring yet more tears from willing readers'' eyes, the latest novel by the bestselling Sparks is a forced coming-of-age story concerning a pair of unlikely young lovers. In a corny flashback device that mimics The Notebook, 57-year-old Landon Carter spirits himself back to his fateful senior year in high school in Beaufort, N.C., when he was an archetypal troublemaking teenager of the 1950s, changed forever by an unexpected first love. Jamie Sullivan, the Bible-toting minister''s daughter, with her drab brown sweaters, spinster hairstyle and sincere, beatific advice, is the obvious target of high school ridicule. Despite conspiring in Jamie''s derision, class president Landon, desperate for a date for the homecoming dance, finds himself asking Jamie. Afterwards, Jamie asks him to participate with her in the metaphor-laden school Christmas play (Jamie plays the angel). Landon endures the taunting of his friends and forms an uneasy friendship with Jamie, which is carefully supervised by her father. The teens visit needy orphans, give Oscar-worthy performances in the school play and share dreams watching the sunset. Landon realizes he''s in love with Jamie, but, of course, she is hiding a devastating secret that could wring her from Landon''s arms forever. Now tortured by his knowledge of what will be her terrible fate, he must make the ultimate decision that catapults him into adulthood. Readers may be frustrated with the invariable formula that Sparks seems to regurgitate with regularity. Although the narrator declares, "My story can''t be summed up in two or three sentences; it can''t be packaged into something neat and simple that people would immediately understand," this is the author''s most simple, formulaic, and blatantly melodramatic package to date. Agent, Theresa Park, Sanford Greenburger Associates. Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild main selections; 20-city author tour; movie rights optioned by Denise DiNovi at Warner Bros.. (Oct.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1293'),
(7879, 'Walking to the Moon', 'Kate Cole-Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A woman wakes from a coma, its cause unknown. She refuses to see her family; she does not say why. Slowly, almost reluctantly, she becomes stronger. Now she will walk. Where?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   Walking to the Moon\n  </i>\n  , Kate Cole-Adams'' enthralling, seductive debut novel is both a psychological journey and a piercing exploration of abandonment and loss. A work of striking subtlety and maturity, it is without doubt the start of something special.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''\n  <i>\n   Walking to the Moon\n  </i>\n  is a novel of breathtaking lyricism and sensuality. The narrative momentum is faultless...A startling new voice in Australian fiction.''\n  <i>\n   Age\n  </i>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/926'),
(7880, 'Walter Mosley', 'The Long Fall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n His name is etched on the door of his Manhattan office: LEONID McGILL, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR. Itâ€™s a name that   takes a little explaining, but heâ€™s used to it. â€œDaddy was a communist and great-great- Granddaddy was a slave   master from Scotland. You know, the black manâ€™s family tree is mostly root. Whatever you see aboveground is only a   hint at the real story.â€\n <br />\n <br />\n Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a business that trades mostly in cash and favors:   McGillâ€™s an old-school P.I. working a city thatâ€™s gotten fancy all around him. Fancy or not, he has always managed to   get byâ€”keep a roof over the head of his wife and kids, and still manage a little fun on the sideâ€”mostly because heâ€™s   never been above taking a shady job for a quick buck. But like the city itself, McGill is turning over a new leaf,   â€œdecided to go from crooked to slightly bent.â€\n <br />\n <br />\n New York City in the twenty-first century is a city full of   secretsâ€”and still a place that reacts when you know where to poke and which string to pull. Thatâ€™s exactly the kind   of thing Leonid McGill knows how to do. As soon as\n <i>\n  The Long Fall\n </i>\n begins, with McGill calling in old markers   and greasing NYPD palms to unearth some seemingly harmless information for a high-paying client, he learns that   even in this cleaned-up city, his commitment to the straight and narrow is going to be constantly tested.\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3456'),
(7881, 'Wanted', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n In Rosewood, majestic estates sprawl for acres, and Tiffany toggle bracelets dangle from every girl''s wrist. But not all that glitters is gold, and the town harbors secrets darker than anyone could imagine - like the truth about what\n <i>\n  really\n </i>\n happened the night Alison DiLaurentis went missing. . . .\n <br />\n <br />\n Back in middle school, Ali plucked Emily, Hanna, Aria, and Spencer from obscurity and turned them into the beautiful, popular girls everyone wanted to be. Ali was the best friend they ever had. But she also made them do\n <i>\n  terrible\n </i>\n things and taunted them with their worst secrets. Now, three years later, all their questions about Ali have finally been answered and they can put this awful chapter of their lives behind them. Or so they think.\n <br />\n <br />\n Not every story has a happy ending, especially when four pretty little liars have done so many wicked things. In the dramatic conclusion of Sara Shepard''s bestselling Pretty Little Liars series, Emily, Hanna, Aria, and Spencer could get everything they''ve ever wanted - unless A has one more horrifying twist in store.Â \n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3780'),
(7882, 'Warlord', 'Ted Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Counterspy Alexander Hawke races to stop a madman hell-bent on murdering the British royal family in this latest spellbinding action thriller in Ted Bellâ€™s New York Times bestselling series.   Alex Hawke has all but given up on life. The British-American MI6 counterterrorism operative lost the woman he loved almost a year ago and has sought refuge at the bottom of a rum bottle ever since. But late one night at his home on Bermuda, he receives a wake-up call . . . literally.   His Royal Highness Prince Charles, an old friend, desperately needs his help. The prince has discovered a not-so-subtle threat directed toward the British royal family. Whatâ€™s more, the evidence reveals an ominous connection to Charlesâ€™s god-father, Lord Mountbattenâ€”the beloved family patriarch assassinated by an ingeniously designed bomb thirty years before. A shadowy figure from the past has the British crown in his sights, and has proven once before that his warnings are not to be taken lightly. Several clues point to IRA involvement, but the authorities have little to go on and answers are scarce. This is just the call to duty Hawke needs to get back into actionâ€”if the madman doesnâ€™t strike first.   Alex Hawke, one of the most dashing and compelling action heroes in all of thriller fiction, faces his most formidable challenge yet in Warlord, a gripping, white-knuckled adventure told with verve and swashbuckling panache by a master of the art.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3622'),
(7883, 'The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America&#39;s Great Migration', 'Isabel Wilkerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, **The Warmth of Other Suns** is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an â€œunrecognized immigrationâ€ within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2345'),
(7884, 'The Warrior Elite: The Forging of Seal Class 228', 'Dick Couch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n There is a pod of good books on the SEALs, but this one is unique. Couch, a Vietnam-era SEAL and retired naval reserve captain, was given the most complete access possible to the demanding BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) course and has recorded his observations, those of one who has been there and done a good deal of that. His account of Hell Week, the culmination of a formidable three-phase course intended to produce men who are physically, psychologically, and technically the best in the world at what they do, may leave the average reader short of breath. Few Hollywood stereotypes are on view; in their stead are a man who passed BUD/S at age 39, a superb swimmer who was disqualified for sinus problems, and a trainee at the low end of the fitness scale who subsequently won the Congressional Medal of Honor. Also on view is much serious thought by serious thinkers on the making of warriors at the dawn of the twenty-first century.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  The Warrior Elite is\n </strong>\n the first book that captures how the SEAL spirit is tempered. It reveals all the grit, sweat, mud, and blood of BUID/S training -- real-time, down and dirty. This is a must-read if you want to know what becoming a virtual warrior is all about." -- Governor Jesse Ventura, BUD/S Class 58\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderful, thought-provoking book by Dick Couch and a quick study of human personalities; his conclusions are optimistic and uplifting." -- Vice Admiral James Stockdale (USN. Ret.) Recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The Warrior Elite\n <em>\n </em>\n offers superb insight into the making of a Navy SEAL. Dick Couch takes the reader through the incredible challenges of basic training and into the minds of these unique warriors who comprise our nation''s highly selective fighting force. Having served extensively with Dick in combat as junior officers in Vietnam, I now understand the "how''s and why''s" of his profession and the SEALs'' commitment to mission.\n <strong>\n  The Warrior Elite\n </strong>\n captures the essence of a Navy SEAL -- the indomitable will to win and steadfast commitment to team." -- Robert J. Natter, Admiral, U.S. Navy, Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet\n</p>\n<p>\n "An authentic voice that spells out what it takes to become a SEAL--the sheer grit to overcome all obstacles. America is lucky that it continues to attract such men as these to serve." -- Theodore Roosevelt IV, Class 36\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2346'),
(7885, 'The Waste Lands', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  King''s third volume on Roland the gunfighter''s search for the Dark Tower offers charming bits of whimsy, some splendidly tense moments and one rip-roaring horror scene. At times, however, it is pretentious and the direction of the sprawling plot uncertain. Roland has two companions on his quest for the tower at the portal of all the worldsp. 53 : Susannah Dean and Eddie Dean, who entered his world from New York City of 1963 and 1987, respectively. When the three track down the den of a 70-foot-tall cyborg bear, they are pointed down a path leading to the Tower. But Roland is slowly going mad, a fact that seems linked to his past experiences with Jake Chambers, a boy who died twicestet ital in the first book of the series. Jake reappears here, displaying great resilience in crossing over from 1977 New York City to join Roland &amp; Co. (As Susannah notes, "This time-travel business is some confusing shit.") They press on, plumbing the depths of a children''s book that tells a profound and ancient tale. Unfortunately, the questers don''t reach the Tower; in fact, they''re caught in a cliff-hanger ending--King says, he''ll write volume four if we want it. Illustrations not seen by PW. 1.5 million first printing; $400,000 ad/promo; BOMC and QPB selections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- The third installment in the offbeat fantasy saga involving the enigmatic Roland (the last gunfighter) and his quest for the Dark Tower. While the story (inspired by Robert Browning''s narrative poem ``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'''') is entertaining, what really makes it outstanding are King''s unique, multifaceted characters. This is Stephen King at his best.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/859'),
(7886, 'Watch the Skies', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   Ned Rust\n  </span>\n </font>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   </span>\n  </font>\n  <strong>\n   LIGHTS\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  All''s quiet in the small town of Holliswood. Television sets, computers, and portable devices are aglow in every home, classroom, and store. Yet not all is perfect. Evil is lurking, just out of sight, behind the screen.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   CAMERA\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  Residing in this sleepy town is a villain with more ambition than the world can withstand. Twisted beyond reason, he is dead set on throwing Holliswood into chaos and documenting the destruction of every person in it, including Daniel X.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   EXTERMINATION\n   <br />\n  </strong>\n  The only person who can stop this made-for-TV tyrant, Daniel must use his extraordinary power to save the town. But this devilish director has assembled an all-star team of his own creation and vows to stage the most spectacular finale the world has ever seen. Can Daniel X stop this deranged outlaw--or will he find himself on the cutting room floo\n  <br />\n  <div>\n   <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n    <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">\n     <br />\n    </span>\n   </font>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/297'),
(7887, 'Watchman', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Bombs are exploding in the streets of London, but life seems to have planted more subtle booby-traps for Miles Flint. Miles is a spy. His job is to watch and to listen, then to report back to his superiors, nothing more. The job, affording glimpses into the most private lives of his victims, appeals to Miles. He doesn''t lust after promotion, and he doesn''t want action. He wants, just for once, not to botch a case. Having lost one suspect - with horrific consequences - Miles becomes too involved with another, a young Irishwoman. His marriage seems ready to crumble to dust. So does his home. But Miles is given one last chance for redemption - a trip to Belfast, which quickly becomes a flight of terror, murder and shocking discoveries. But can the voyeur survive in a world of violent action?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/346'),
(7888, 'The Watchman', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The city was hers for a single hour, just the one magic hour, only hers.Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Until out of nowhere a car appears, and with it the metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident. Dazed, Larkin attempts to help the other victims. And finds herself the sole witness in a secret federal investigation.For maybe the first time in her life, Larkin wants to do the right thing. But by agreeing to cooperate with the authorities, she becomes the target for a relentless team of killers. And when the U.S. Marshals and the finest security money can buy can''t protect her, Larkin''s wealthy family turns to the one man money can''t buy -- Joe Pike.Pike lives a world away from the palaces of Beverly Hills. He''s an ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex-mercenary who owes a bad man a favor, and that favor is to keep Larkin alive. The one upside of the job is reuniting with Bud Flynn, Pike''s LAPD training officer, and a man Pike reveres as a father. The downside is Larkin Barkley, who is the uncontrollable cover girl for self-destruction -- and as deeply alone as Pike.Pike commits himself to protecting the girl, but when they immediately come under fire, he realizes someone is selling them out. In defiance of Bud and the authorities, Pike drops off the grid with the girl and follows his own rules of survival: strike fast, hit hard, hunt down the hunters. With the help of private investigator Elvis Cole, Pike uncovers a web of lies and betrayals, and the stunning revelation that even the cops are not who they seem. As the body count rises, Pike''s biggest threat might come from the girl herself, a lost soul in the City of Angels, determined to destroy herself unless Joe Pike can teach her the value of life...and love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/508'),
(7889, 'Water for Elephants', 'Sara Gruen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of\n  <em>\n   Water for Elephants\n  </em>\n  , he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn''t always like this, however, because Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he was twenty-one. It wasn''t a romantic, carefree decision, to be sure. His parents were killed in an auto accident one week before he was to sit for his veterinary medicine exams at Cornell. He buried his parents, learned that they left him nothing because they had mortgaged everything to pay his tuition, returned to school, went to the exams, and didn''t write a single word. He walked out without completing the test and wound up on a circus train. The circus he joins, in Depression-era America, is second-rate at best. With Ringling Brothers as the standard, Benzini Brothers is far down the scale and pale by comparison.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Water for Elephants\n  </em>\n  is the story of Jacob''s life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed or fed rotten food, and abused. Jacob, once it becomes known that he has veterinary skills, is put in charge of the "menagerie" and all its ills. Uncle Al, the circus impresario, is a self-serving, venal creep who slaps people around because he can. August, the animal trainer, is a certified paranoid schizophrenic whose occasional flights into madness and brutality often have Jacob as their object. Jacob is the only person in the book who has a handle on a moral compass and as his reward he spends most of the novel beaten, broken, concussed, bleeding, swollen and hungover. He is the self-appointed Protector of the Downtrodden, and... he falls in love with Marlena, crazy August''s wife. Not his best idea.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The most interesting aspect of the book is all the circus lore that Gruen has so carefully researched. She has all the right vocabulary: grifters, roustabouts, workers, cooch tent, rubes, First of May, what the band plays when there''s trouble, Jamaican ginger paralysis, life on a circus train, set-up and take-down, being run out of town by the "revenooers" or the cops, and losing all your hooch. There is one glorious passage about Marlena and Rosie, the bull elephant, that truly evokes the magic a circus can create. It is easy to see Marlena''s and Rosie''s pink sequins under the Big Top and to imagine their perfect choreography as they perform unbelievable stunts. The crowd loves it--and so will the reader. The ending is absolutely ludicrous and really quite lovely.\n  <em>\n   --Valerie Ryan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With its spotlight on elephants, Gruen''s romantic page-turner hinges on the human-animal bonds that drove her debut and its sequel (\n  <em>\n   Riding Lessons\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Flying Changes\n  </em>\n  )â€”but without the mass appeal that horses hold. The novel, told in flashback by nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski, recounts the wild and wonderful period he spent with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a traveling circus he joined during the Great Depression. When 23-year-old Jankowski learns that his parents have been killed in a car crash, leaving him penniless, he drops out of Cornell veterinary school and parlays his expertise with animals into a job with the circus, where he cares for a menagerie of exotic creatures[...] He also falls in love with Marlena, one of the show''s star performersâ€”a romance complicated by Marlena''s husband, the unbalanced, sadistic circus boss who beats both his wife and the animals Jankowski cares for. Despite her often clichÃ©d prose and the predictability of the story''s ending, Gruen skillfully humanizes the midgets, drunks, rubes and freaks who populate her book.\n  <em>\n   (May 26)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/588'),
(7890, 'Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe', 'Andrew Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n This summary narrative supplies basic data about Waterloo and evaluates mistakes by both Wellington and Napoleon that make the historic battle one of the most worked-over topics for speculation in military history. A\n <em>\n  Saturday Night Live\n </em>\n skit once parodied the phenomenon by wondering, What if Napoleon had a B-52 at the Battle of Waterloo? Roberts'' original contribution to historical contingency--for such an exhaustively studied battle, his research, amazingly enough, turned up new evidence--is that a cavalry charge by Marshal Ney, possibly the gravest error the French made during the battle, was a spontaneous assault rather than an intended one. Smoothly integrating the what-ifs into the chronology, Roberts joins the essential facts about Waterloo, such as its area and relief, to the morale of individual units involved. Emphasizing the courage and fear that rippled over the battlefield during its daylong course, Roberts instills an appreciation for Waterloo as a horrific experience saturated with alternative possible outcomes. A must for the military shelf.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Salisbury: Victorian Titan (Winner of the 1999 Wolfson Prize for History): ''Although constructed on a massive scale, Roberts''s book is so beautifully written that one would not wish it a page shorter. It is unlikely ever to be superseded.'' Vernon Bogdanor, Times Higher Education Supplement ''Salisbury deserves, and has found, a fine biographer, who has left no stone unturned in his researches, has written cogently and well about his subject, and provided not just a history of Lord Salisbury, but one of the best histories yet of Victorian Britain and her place in the world.'' Simon Heffer, Daily Mail Praise for Napoleon &amp; Wellington: ''It is one of Andrew Roberts''s merits that, as well as being intelligent, hard-working and opinionated, he gets great fun out of his writing. His books are consequently not only genuinely important but also a pleasure to read.'' Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph ''Well written and well organised, his study of the relationship between the emperor and the Duke of Wellington is as entertaining as it is instructive, and is original and judicious both as military and personal history.'' Christopher Hibbert, The Sunday Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2310');
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(7891, 'Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works', 'Henry A. Waxman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n At a time when some of the most sweeping national initiatives in decades are being debated, Congressman Henry Waxman offers a fascinating inside account of how Congress really works by describing the subtleties and complexities of the legislative process. For four decades, Waxman has taken visionary and principled positions on crucial issues and been a driving force for change. Because of legislation he helped champion, our air is cleaner, our food is safer, and our medical care better. Thanks to his work as a top watchdog in Congress, crucial steps have been taken to curb abuses on Wall Street, to halt wasteful spending in Iraq, and to ban steroids from Major League Baseball. Few legislators can match his accomplishments or his insights on how good work gets done in Washington.In this book, Waxman affords readers a rare glimpse into how this is achieved-the strategy, the maneuvering, the behind-the-scenes deals. He shows how the things we take for granted (clear information about tobacco''s harmfulness, accurate nutritional labeling, important drugs that have saved countless lives) started out humbly-derided by big business interests as impossible or even destructive. Sometimes, the most dramatic breakthroughs occur through small twists of fate or the most narrow voting margin. Waxman''s stories are surprising because they illustrate that while government''s progress may seem glacial, much is happening, and small battles waged over years can yield great results. At a moment when so much has been written about what''s wrong with Congress-the gridÂ­lock, the partisanship, the influence of interest groups-Henry Waxman offers sophisticated, concrete examples of how governÂ­ment can (and should) work.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2311'),
(7892, 'The Way of Kings', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n According to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls. Heaven. But then the Voidbringers assaulted and captured heaven, casting out God and men. Men took root on Roshar, the world of storms. And the Voidbringers followed . . .They came against man ten thousand times. To help them cope, the Almighty gave men powerful suits of armor and mystical weapons, known as Shardblades. Led by ten angelic Heralds and ten orders of knights known as Radiants, mankind finally won.Or so the legends say. Today, the only remnants of those supposed battles are the Shardblades, the possession of which makes a man nearly invincible on the battlefield. The entire world is at war with itself and has been for centuries since the Radiants turned against mankind. Kings strive to win more Shardblades, each secretly wishing to be the one who will finally unite all of mankind under a single throne.On a world scoured down to the rock by terrfiying hurricanes that blow through every few day a young spearman forced into the army of a Shardbearer, led to war against an enemy he doesnt understand and doesnt really want to fight. What happened deep in mankinds past? Why did the Radiants turn against mankind, and what happened to the magic they used to wield?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3222'),
(7893, 'The Way West', 'A.B. Guthrie, Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  "With sure skill, with absolute command of every detail of equipment, custom, speech, and thought . . . Mr. Guthrie has written a stirring and tenderly moving book."\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman''s return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon. In sensitive but unsentimental prose, Guthrie illuminates the harsh trials and resounding triumphs of pioneer life. With THE WAY WEST, he pays homage to the grandeur of the western wilderness, its stark and beautiful scenery, and its extraordinary people.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3065'),
(7894, 'We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency', 'Parmy Olson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A thrilling, exclusive expose of the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec. WE ARE ANONYMOUS is the first full account of how a loosely assembled group of hackers scattered across the globe formed a new kind of insurgency, seized headlines, and tortured the feds-and the ultimate betrayal that would eventually bring them down. Parmy Olson goes behind the headlines and into the world of Anonymous and LulzSec with unprecedented access, drawing upon hundreds of conversations with the hackers themselves, including exclusive interviews with all six core members of LulzSec. In late 2010, thousands of hacktivists joined a mass digital assault on the websites of VISA, MasterCard, and PayPal to protest their treatment of WikiLeaks. Other targets were wide ranging-the websites of corporations from Sony Entertainment and Fox to the Vatican and the Church of Scientology were hacked, defaced, and embarrassed-and the message was that no one was safe. Thousands of user accounts from pornography websites were released, exposing government employees and military personnel.Although some attacks were perpetrated by masses of users who were rallied on the message boards of 4Chan, many others were masterminded by a small, tight-knit group of hackers who formed a splinter group of Anonymous called LulzSec. The legend of Anonymous and LulzSec grew in the wake of each ambitious hack. But how were they penetrating intricate corporate security systems? Were they anarchists or activists? Teams or lone wolves? A cabal of skilled hackers or a disorganized bunch of kids?WE ARE ANONYMOUS delves deep into the internet''s underbelly to tell the incredible full story of the global cyber insurgency movement, and its implications for the future of computer security.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3847'),
(7895, 'We Did Porn: Memoir and Drawings', 'Zak Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Visual artist and recent alt-porn star Smithâ€”known in the adult film world as Zak Sabbathâ€”takes readers on a frenetic journey from the New York art scene to pornography-saturated Los Angeles. Interspersed with his drawings, which have been displayed at MoMA and the 2004 Whitney Biennial, Smith''s memoir is more a series of linked vignettes than a chronological account of his foray into alt-porn. As distinct from mainstream hardcore porn, alt-porn tries to do with sex the kinds of things ambitious young filmmakers might try to do after graduating from art school. It was Smith''s collection of illustrations for Thomas Pynchon''s\n <em>\n  Gravity''s Rainbow\n </em>\n that first attracted the attention of pirate porn director Osbie Feel. As Smith puts it, I ended up in porn because one day I sat down and decided to draw one picture for every page of a very thick book no one I knew had read. In addition to attending the Porn Film Festival Berlin and the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegasâ€”and having sex with countless women with names like Tina DiVine and Trixie Kyle in countless warehouse setsâ€”Smith is also a cultural critic, dissecting everything from Valentine''s Day to the grammar in antipornography laws. Just as porn, alternative or otherwise, has its fans, Smith''s memoir is an acquired taste and will appeal to those who like things a little kinky.\n <em>\n  (July 1)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Intelligent, frank and often hilarious meditation on the author''s dual career...The pleasure in this book comes not from living through the author''s atypical experience, but in being taken deeper into areas of thought commonly perceived as tabooâ€”a wild, entirely worthwhile ride." ."â€”\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Smithâ€™s take on the industry is vivid and insightful, including observations on people, politics and American cultureâ€”the push-and-pull between the Right and those who want the right to screw."â€”\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n , Nonfiction Supplement\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Will appeal to those who like things a little kinky."â€”\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "A fascinating synthesis of words and art..."â€”LibraryJournal.com\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "An intelligent, funny, and self-aware reminder that intelligent, funny, and self-aware people do in fact choose to work in the porn industry...It is all incredibly interesting and entertaining."â€”Alison Hallett,\n <em>\n  The Portland Mercury\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "The subject matter â€” combined with his clever imagery â€” couldnâ€™t help but keep it fascinating... It reminded me of David Foster Wallaceâ€™s hilarious, equally dense essay â€œBig Red Sonâ€...Smith and Wallace have similarly breathless, heady writing styles and We Did Porn could easily serve as a porn insiderâ€™s compliment to Wallaceâ€™s journalistic-outsider perspective."â€”Alex Peterson, Willamette Week Online\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Artist Zak Smith injects some life into the moribund genre of the memoir with this thoughtful and hilarious look into the alt-porn industry." â€”Drew Toal,\n <em>\n  Time Out New York\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Wildly entertaining." â€”Fleshbot\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "...a page-turner...a genuinely enjoyable read..." â€”Audacia Ray, author of\n <em>\n  Naked on the Internet\n </em>\n <br />\n "Alongside ''fine artist and ''porn star'' on Zak Smith''s unique resume, you can now add the phrase ''entertaining and resourceful writer''...[We Did Porn] is exhaustive, perceptive, empathic, and very funny."â€”John Bolster,\n <em>\n  Penthouse\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "...reads not unlike a George Plimpton-style adventure in immersive investigation, as the artist chronicles his adventures in front of the camera as eager rookie Zak Sabbath, with words, pictures, self-awareness, and dark humor." â€”Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "...Smith is an outrageously talented observer, which makes his writing almost as arresting as his images, which are superb. Smith''s detailed descriptions of ''life in the zeros'' both on and off the set make We did Porn a fascinating x-rates documents of a cynical age." â€”Jim Ruland,\n <em>\n  Girls Gone Wild Magazine\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "...combines words and images, mixing memoir with gorgeous paintings...Smith''s art is exquisite, intensely drawn with splashes of electric colors, sharp lines and energy throbbing in every complex detail...We Did Porn is an excellent book and Zak Smith is an incredibly interesting artist and writer."â€”Alyssa Bianca-Pavley, Fanzine.com\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "The many crosscurrents in Smith''s works are fun, but more compelling is the fact that Smith does not seem so much involved in critique as something else from literary post-modernismâ€”he''s leapt into his own work as a character...Smith seems headed towards the historiographic, creatively narrating an alternative history, in this case, of a very recent past moment, from what might be perceived as the center of our authentic cultural life." â€”Joe Fyfe, Artnet.com\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "Smith''s ''artwork is impeccable. There is tenderness, daring, heat in his pieces. With a Nan Goldin compassion, he captures an intimacy that is often lacking in the movies he and his comrades make.''"â€”\n <em>\n  The San Francisco Bay Guardian\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book is beautiful and complicated and riveting... I think there''s no doubt that Zak Smith has genius, or that thing that we think of as genius that is really just the urge to get up every morning and spend long hours struggling with art." â€”Stephen Elliott, The Rumpus\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1929'),
(7896, 'We Know', 'Gregg Hurwitz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A good job, a decent flat in Los Angeles, a quiet life - Nick Horrigan has finally put his traumatic past behind him. Or so it seems, until a SWAT team smashes into his place in the middle of the night. Still in pajamas, he''s dragged outside to a waiting helicopter. He''s told that a terrorist has seized control of a nuclear power plant and is threatening to blow it up...unless he can talk to Nick.Flown into a deadly intrigue, Nick is charged with a dangerous secret, one that will take him from the dark alleys of the city to behind the scenes of a Presidential race. As he rockets toward the truth, peeling back layer after layer of lies and deception, only one thing is certain: The long-buried secret, tied to the traumas of his own past, threatens his life at every turn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3104'),
(7897, 'We Were Young and Carefree', 'Laurent Fignon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''One of the most charismatic and flamboyant cyclists in recent history'' - "Daily Telegraph". Laurent Fignon is one of the giants of modern cycling. Twice-winner of the Tour de France in the early eighties, Fignon became the star for a new generation. In 1989 he took part in one of the most fiercely-contested Tours of all time. Over the course of 3,285 kilometres he lost out to his American arch-rival, Greg LeMond, by an agonising eight seconds on the final Parisian time trial. Fignon does not mince his words. In this forthright and unflinching account the former champion spares neither friends nor opponents, nor even his own image. In doing so he gives cycling fans a tantalising glimpse of what really went on behind the scenes of this epic sport - the friendships, the rivalries, the betrayals, the scheming, the parties, the girls, and, of course, the performance-enhancing drugs. Laurent Fignon lived cycling at its peak. He enjoyed a truly exceptional career, winning over eighty titles from 1982 to 1993. The highs were matched by lows of serious injury, periods of self-doubt, and accusations of cheating. Fignon''s story bestrides a golden age in cycling: a time before the scandals and the shadow of doping, a time when cyclists were afraid of nothing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1931'),
(7898, 'We&#39;ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin&#39; Show-Biz Saga', 'Paul Shaffer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman''s band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.**How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and a gig leading the band on *Letterman*? This book is Paul Shaffer''s answer to that question. From playing seedy strip joints in Toronto, to his first legitimate job out of college-which found him working with future stars (and friends) Gilda Radner, Martin Short, and Eugene Levy-to being first musical director of the nascent *Saturday Night Live* and helping to form the Blues Brothers, to being onstage every night with Dave and playing with the greatest musicians of our time, Shaffer has lived the ultimate showbiz life. Now, in this hilarious, entertaining, and candid memoir-in which he dishes on everyone from John Belushi and Jerry Lewis to Mel Gibson and Britney Spears-Paul gives us the full behind-the-scenes story of his life, from banging out pop tunes on the piano at the age of twelve to leading the band every night at the Sullivan Theater.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1933'),
(7899, 'The Web', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After thirty years of attending to the phsical and mental health of the inhabitants of Knife Island, a tiny community in the Micronesian archipelago, Dr William Moreland feels it would be of benefit to his successor, and to his colleagues throughout the Pacific, if his records were properly analysed. Only too grateful to escape the violent atmosphere of Los Angeles and recoup their emotional resources, Dr Alex Delaware and his partner Robin accept Moreland''s invitation to spend a sabbatical on the island to help him in the task. But Knife Island is not the paradise of the travel brochures. The murder of a young woman has created an atmosphere of division and fear. A potential development threatens a large part of the island with environmental pollution. And Dr Moreland is not universally regarded as the saintly healer of his own mythology. Co-habiting with cockroaches the size of dinner plates and spiders more venomous than rattlesnakes, Alex and Robin discover the doctor is concealing an older and darker mystery, a conspiracy of such startling magnitude that even Alex, with his knowledge of the depths of human depravity, is hard put to comprehend, or understand why he has been invited into such a horrific web of intrigue and abasement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/774'),
(7900, 'The Wedding', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n - Nicholas Sparks'' most recent novel, "The Guardian (4/03), was an instant "New York Times bestseller with nearly 700,000 hardcover copies in print to date.- "Nights in Rodanthe (Warner, 9/02), with 875,000 copies in hardcover print alone; "A Bend in the Road (Warner, 9/01), with nearly 2.4 million copies in print combined; and "The Rescue (Warner, 2000), with 2.7 million copies in print combined all rocketed to #1 on the "New York Times bestseller list.- "A Walk to Remember (Warner, 2000), with nearly four million copies in combined print, was an instant "New York Times bestseller. The Warner Bros, feature film version was a surprise hit in 2001.- "The Notebook (Warner, 1996), the prequel to THE WEDDING, was on the "New York Times bestseller list for over one year and has nearly 4.5 million copies in print combined. The feature film produced by New Line and scheduled for release in Fall 2003, stars James Garner and Gena Rowlands and was directed by Nick Cassavettes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3739'),
(7901, 'Wedlock', 'Wendy Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the death of her fabulously wealthy coal magnate father when she was just eleven, Mary Eleanor Bowes became the richest heiress in Britain. An ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, Mary grew to be a highly educated young woman, winning acclaim as a playwright and botanist. Courted by a bevy of eager suitors, at eighteen she married the handsome but aloof ninth Earl of Strathmore in a celebrated, if ultimately troubled, match that forged the Bowes Lyon name. Yet she stumbled headlong into scandal when, following her husbandâ€™s early death, a charming young army hero flattered his way into the merry widowâ€™s bed. Captain Andrew Robinson Stoney insisted on defending her honor in a duel, and Mary was convinced she had found true love. Judged by doctors to have been mortally wounded in the melee, Stoney persuaded Mary to grant his dying wish; four days later they were married.Sadly, the â€œcaptainâ€ was not what he seemed. Staging a sudden and remarkable recovery, Stoney was revealed as a debt-ridden lieutenant, a fraudster, and a bully. Immediately taking control of Maryâ€™s vast fortune, he squandered her wealth and embarked on a campaign of appalling violence and cruelty against his new bride. Finally, fearing for her life, Mary masterminded an audacious escape and challenged social conventions of the day by launching a suit for divorce. The English public was horrifiedâ€“and enthralled. But Maryâ€™s troubles were far from over . . . Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray was inspired by Stoneyâ€™s villainy to write *The Luck of Barry Lyndon,* which Stanley Kubrick turned into an Oscar-winning film. Based on exhaustive archival research, *Wedlock* is a thrilling and cinematic true story, ripped from the headlines of eighteenth-century England.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2314'),
(7902, 'Weekend Warriors', 'Fern Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n - Available for the first time in paperback.- About Face was on the New York Times bestseller list for eight weeks (reaching #3), the USA Today list for seven weeks (reaching #5), and Publishers Weekly for four weeks (reaching #6).- Kentucky Heat was on the New York Times extended hardcover bestseller list for six weeks, and as a paperback, appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for five weeks (reaching #9), the USA Today list for four weeks (reaching #13), and Publishers Weekly for two weeks (reaching #11).- Kentucky Sunrise was on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list for three weeks, and the USA Today list for two weeks.- Kentucky Rich was on the New York Times extended hardcover bestseller list for three weeks, and as a paperback, appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for seven weeks (reaching #4), the USA Today list for three weeks (reaching #9), and Publishers Weekly for three weeks (reaching #7).- In hardcover, Plain Jane was on the New York Times bestseller list for seven weeks (reaching #10), and as a paperback, was a New York Times bestseller for ten weeks (two consecutive weeks at #2); a Publishers Weekly bestseller for four weeks (reaching #7); and appeared on the USA Today list for seven weeks, going up to #12.- Kentucky Rich, Kentucky Heat and Kentucky Sunrise are each Featured Alternate Selections of the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild.- The entire Kentucky trilogy is available on Brilliance Audio and in Thorndike large print.- Fern Michaels is the author of 70 novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3742'),
(7903, 'Weekends at Bellevue', 'Julie Holland', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Julie Holland on\n  <em>\n   Weekends at Bellevue\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n No one is immune from mental illness. After working at New York Cityâ€™s Bellevue Hospital for nine years, as the psychiatrist in charge of admissions at the psych E.R. on Saturday and Sunday nights, I came away knowing this for sure. Over the years, I admitted heiresses and art dealers, altar boys and college students, homecoming queens, studio executives, bankers, lawyers, correction officers, and the list goes on. No matter who you are, what you do for a living, how much money you have in the bank, or how often you go to church, circumstances can transpire that will bring you to Bellevue. This is one of the hardest lessons for our patients to learn.\n</p>\n<p>\n My years at Bellevue taught me many things, life lessons I could never have hoped to receive elsewhere, but the main take-home message was this: cherish your sanity, for it can be lost in the blink of an eye. Sometimes I saw the same patients repeatedly, alcoholics and addicts who were hitting bottom in regular cycles, showing up when their funds ran out. Other times, however, I met patients with no psychiatric history, who ended up at Bellevue when a bad break-up led to a suicide attempt, or a shared cigarette at a bar led to a PCP-induced psychosis. There are so many ways in which a life can suddenly unravel, and many of my patients could specify just when that started to happen for them--whether it was joining the army, leaving home for college, or living through the death of their child.\n</p>\n<p>\n Many of the people I encountered at Bellevue tried strenuously to convince me that they did not belong there. Or vice versa. A big part of my job was learning how to separate the genuinely disturbed from the fakers (some people actually wanted to be admitted to Bellevue, if only for the promise of a clean bed and three meals a day), and to identify the people who had been misunderstood, misdiagnosed, who werenâ€™t mentally ill at all. After a few years of Bellevue experiences under my belt, I developed a sixth sense for what real crazy looked like, sounded like, and yes, smelled like. One night a young man was brought in to the E.R. because he was found on a street corner preaching to passersby to give up their worldly possessions. I knew enough to listen and wait, and not rush to judgment, even though it might have seemed a no-brainer to admit him. Once I was able to draw him out, I learned that he had taken psychedelic mushrooms and then spent time in a Chelsea art gallery known as COSM, which I myself had been to and knew to be an intense, inspirational and potentially overwhelming experience, something that might well unhinge a person on mind-altering drugs. I spoke with him gently as his trip slowly ebbed, helping him to navigate his re-entry in the city hospital where he had landed with no money or identification. He stayed in touch with me for months afterwards, grateful that I was there to protect him when he soared--however briefly--beyond the boundaries of normal behavior.\n</p>\n<p>\n There is a diaphanous membrane between sane and insane. It is the flimsiest of barriers, and because any one of us can break through at any time, it terrifies us, causing us to turn our backs on those who remind us of this painful reality. But spending so much time with people who marched out of the lockstep of sanity has made me less forgiving of the way the mentally ill are ostracized and shunned. We owe them something better. And we should remember that the barrier separating "them" from "us" is not nearly as secure as we might think.\n <em>\n  --Julie Holland\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this disjointed memoir, Holland describes her nine-year odyssey as a doctor on the night shift at New York City''s Bellevue hospital, a name that has become synonymous with insanity. Holland met a bewildering assortment of drunks, sociopaths, schizophrenics and homeless people malingering in hope of a warm place to crash. As the physician in charge of the psychiatric emergency room, the hard-boiled Holland acted as gatekeeper, deciding who would be sent upstairs to the psych ward, to Central Booking or back to the streets. The book also covers Holland''s personal life from her student days as a wannabe rock star to her psychotherapy sessions, her sexual escapades and her marriage and birth of her children. Holland captures the rhythms and routines of the E.R. with its unbearable suffering, petty jealousies and gallows humor. She is less successful at maintaining any kind of narrative continuity. Chapters generally run only a couple of pages and often depict random anecdotes that most likely sound better than they read. *(Oct.) *\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1935'),
(7904, 'The Weight of Silence', 'Heather Gudenkauf', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It happens quietly one August morning. As dawn''s shimmering light drenches the humid Iowa air, two families awaken to find their little girls have gone missing in the night.Seven-year-old Calli Clark is sweet, gentle, a dreamer who suffers from selective mutism brought on by tragedy that pulled her deep into silence as a toddler.Calli''s mother, Antonia, tried to be the best mother she could within the confines of marriage to a mostly absent, often angry husband. Now, though she denies that her husband could be involved in the possible abductions, she fears her decision to stay in her marriage has cost her more than her daughter''s voice.Petra Gregory is Calli''s best friend, her soul mate and her voice. But neither Petra nor Calli has been heard from since their disappearance was discovered. Desperate to find his child, Martin Gregory is forced to confront a side of himself he did not know existed beneath his intellectual, professorial demeanor.Now these families are tied by the question of what happened to their children. And the answer is trapped in the silence of unspoken family secrets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2846'),
(7905, 'The Weird Sisters', 'Eleanor Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A major new talent tackles the complicated terrain of sisters, the power of books, and the places we decide to call home.   There is no problem that a library card can''t solve.   The Andreas family is one of readers. Their father, a renowned Shakespeare professor who speaks almost entirely in verse, has named his three daughters after famous Shakespearean women. When the sisters return to their childhood home, ostensibly to care for their ailing mother, but really to lick their wounds and bury their secrets, they are horrified to find the others there. See, we love each other. We just don''t happen to like each other very much. But the sisters soon discover that everything they''ve been running from-one another, their small hometown, and themselves-might offer more than they ever expected.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3558'),
(7906, 'Welcome to Serenity', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Jeanette Brioche helped launch The Corner Spa in Serenity, South Carolina, she found a whole lot more than professional satisfaction. She discovered the deep and loyal friendships that had been missing from her life. But even the Sweet Magnolias can''t mend the terrible rift between Jeanette and her family or persuade her that the holidays are anything more than a season of misery.Pushed into working on the town''s much-loved annual Christmas festival, Jeanette teams up with the sexy new town manager. Tom McDonald may be the only person in Serenity who''s less enthused about family and the holidays than she is. But with tree decorations going up on the town square and a bit of romance in the air, Jeanette and Tom take a fresh look at the past and a hopeful look into the future. Together they discover that this just may be a season of miracles after all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3853'),
(7907, 'What Dreams May Come', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A classic novel of love after death, from one our greatest fantasy writers. The premise is deceptively simple: Chris Neilson has died in a car accident, but his life-force--his spirit--is still conscious of this plane of reality. And he is still too in love with his wife, Ann, to completely let go. She in turn does not want to go on living without him, as each regards the other as their soul mate. What Chris will do to get back with Ann after she dies makes for one of the most unusual love stories ever told. Even though the story can be enjoyed as pure fantasy, what makes\n <em>\n  What Dreams May Come\n </em>\n unique is how the author spent years researching the subject of life after death. (An exhaustive bibliography is included to verify this.) And while Matheson admits that the characters are of course fictional, he also states that "With few exceptions, every other detail is derived exclusively from research." Whether, after reading this novel, one believes in life after death is of course a matter of opinion. At least you''ll entertain the possibility that, even though we may not live forever, true love can be eternal.\n <em>\n  --Stanley Wiater\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Richard Matheson is worth our time, attention, and great affection."--Ray Bradbury\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1112'),
(7908, 'What I Did for Love', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n How did this happen? Georgie York, once the costar of America''s favorite television sitcom, has been publicly abandoned by her famous husband, her film career has tanked, her father is driving her crazy, and her public image as a spunky heroine is taking a serious beating.   What should a down-on-her-luck actress do? Not go to Vegas . . . not run into her detestable former costar, dreamboat-from-hell Bramwell Shepard . . . and not get caught up in an ugly incident that leads to a calamitous elopement. Before she knows it, Georgie has a fake marriage, a fake husband, and maybe (or not) a fake sex life.   It''s a paparazzi free-for-all, and Georgie''s nonsupporting cast doesn''t help. There''s Bram''s punk-nightmare housekeeper, Georgie''s own pushy parent, a suck-up agent, an icy studio head with a private agenda, and her ex-husband''s new wife, who can''t get enough of doing good deeds and saving the worldâ€”the bitch. As for Georgie''s leading man, Bram''s giving the performance of his life, but he''s never cared about anyone except himself, and it''s not exactly clear why.   Two enemies find themselves working without a script in a town where the spotlight shines bright . . . and where the strongest emotions can wear startling disguises.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3253'),
(7909, 'What I Didn&#39;t See: Stories', 'Karen Joy Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Praise for Karen Joy Fowler:"No contemporary writer creates characters more appealing, or examines them with greater acuity and forgiveness."â€”Michael Chabon"Fowler''s witty writing is a joy to read."â€”USA TodayIn her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth''s younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and sheÂ digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.The sinister and the magical are always lurking just below the surface: for a mother who invents a fairy-tale world for her son in "Halfway People"; for Edwin Booth in "Edwin''s Ghost," haunted by his fame as "America''s Hamlet" and his brother''s terrible actions; for Norah, a rebellious teenager facing torture in "The Pelican Bar" as she confronts Mama Strong, the sadistic boss of a rehabilitation facility; for the narrator recounting her descent in "What I Didn''t See."With clear and insightful prose, Fowler''s stories measure the human capacities for hope and despair, brutality and kindness. This collection, which includes two Nebula Award winners, is sure to delight readers, even as it pulls the rug out from underneath them.Karen Joy Fowler (karenjoyfowler.com) is the author of five novels, including Wit''s End, PEN/Faulkner finalist Sister Noon, and New York Times bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club. Her collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award. Fowler and her husband, who have two grown children, live in Santa Cruz, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2724'),
(7910, 'What I Learned When I Almost Died: How a Maniac TV Producer Put Down His BlackBerry and Started to Live His Life', 'Chris Licht', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  What do you learn when your brain goes pop?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Chris Licht had always been ambitious. When he was only nine years old, he tracked down an NBC correspondent while on vacation to solicit advice for a career in television. At eleven, he began filming himself as he delivered the news. And by the time he was thirty-five, he landed his dream job: a fast-paced, demanding spot at the helm of MSNBCâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Morning Joeâ€”\n  </em>\n  one of the most popular shows on cable TV. He had become a real-life Jerry Maguire: hard-charging, obsessively competitive, and willing to sacrifice anything to get it done. He felt invincible. Then one day Chris heard a\n  <em>\n   pop\n  </em>\n  in his head, followed by a\n  <em>\n   whoosh\n  </em>\n  of blood and crippling pain. Doctors at the ER said he had suffered a near-deadly brain hemorrhage. Chrisâ€™s life had almost been cut short, and he had eight long days in a hospital bed to think about it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   What I Learned When I Almost Died\n  </em>\n  tells the story of what happened next.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chris Licht\n  </strong>\n  is the co-creator and original executive producer ofÂ _Morning Joe_â€”the popular daily morning show on MSNBC hosted by Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Willie Geist. Before_Â Morning Joe_, Licht worked as executive producer onÂ _Scarborough Country._ He lives in Manhattan with his wife Jenny and their two sons.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1937'),
(7911, 'What I Talk About When I Talk About Running', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n  In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, heâ€™d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life andâ€”even more importantâ€”on his writing.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and takes us to places ranging from Tokyoâ€™s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvelous lens of sport emerges a panorama of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical,Â \n  <i>\n   What I Talk About When I Talk About Running\n  </i>\n  Â is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in running.\n </div>\n</span>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1939'),
(7912, 'What the Night Knows', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the late summer of a long ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months he brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy.Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, recreating in detail Blackwood''s crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own familyâ€”his wife and three childrenâ€”will be targets in the fourth crime, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer.As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return.Here is ghost story like no other you have read. In the Calvinos, Dean Koontz brings to life a family that might be your own, in a war for their survival against an adversary more malevolent than any he has yet created, with their own home the battleground. Of all his acclaimed novels, none exceeds What the Night Knows in power, in chilling suspense, and in sheer mesmerizing storytelling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3243'),
(7913, 'What to Expect the First Year', 'Heidi Murkoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Everything new parents need to know about the care (and feeding) of an infant, from the authors of\n  <i>\n   What to ExpectÂ® When You''re Expecting\n  </i>\n  . Covers monthly growth and development, feeding for every age and stage, sleep strategies that really work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Filled with the most practical tips (how to give a bath, decode your baby''s crying, what to buy for baby, and when to return to work) and the most up-to-date medical advice (the latest on vaccines, vitamins, illnesses, SIDS, safety, and more).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reassuring Answers to Hundreds of Questions:\n </p>\n <li>\n  What''s the best kind of car seat for my newborn?\n </li>\n <li>\n  How do I know if my baby''s getting enough to eat?\n </li>\n <li>\n  How can I tell if my baby is really sick? When should I call the doctor?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Should I sign my baby up for classes?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Should I be worried that my baby isn''t crawling yet?\n </li>\n <li>\n  How do I cope with my colicky baby?\n  <p>\n   <i>\n    The only book on infant care to address the physical as well as the emotional needs of the entire family.\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </li>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/563'),
(7914, 'What to Expect the Toddler Years', 'Heidi Murkoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n They guided you through pregnancy, they guided you through baby''s first year, and now they''ll guide you through the toddler years. In a direct continuation of What to Expect When You''re Expecting (over 9.6 million copies in print) and What to Expect the First Year (over 5.6 million copies in print), America''s bestselling pregnancy and childcare authors turn their uniquely comprehensive, lively, and reassuring coverage to years two and three. Organized month by month for the second year (months 12-24) and quarterly through the third year (months 24-36), What to Expect the Toddler Years covers each growth and development phase parents are likely to encounter-when they''re likely to encounter it. Hundreds of questions and answers treat everything from eating and sleeping problems to day care, tantrums, bottle mouth, shyness, self-esteem, and more. An entire third section of the book is devoted to toilet training, safety, and health, and a fourth covers special concerns-the exceptional child, siblings, and balancing work and parenting.Remarkably thorough, caring and intelligent, What to Expect the Toddler Years is as valuable for the seasoned parent as it is for the new parent. 2.4 million copies in print.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/560'),
(7915, 'What to Expect When You&#39;re Expecting', 'Heidi Murkoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cuts through the confusion surrounding pregnancy and birth by debunking dozens of myths that mislead parents, offering explanations of medical terms, and covering a variety of issues including prenatal care, birth defects, and amniocentesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/562'),
(7916, 'What to Expect: The Second Year', 'Heidi Murkoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Heidi Murkoff''s What to Expect has delivered again. Announcing the arrival of a brand-new member of the What to Expect family:\n <i>\n  What to Expect the Second Year\n </i>\n . The essential sequel to\n <i>\n  What to Expect the First Year,\n </i>\n with 9.7 million copies in print,\n <i>\n  What to Expect the Second Year\n </i>\n picks up the action at baby''s first birthday, and takes parents through what can only be called "the wonder year"&#8212;12 jam-packed (and jam-smeared) months of memorable milestones (from first steps to first words, first scribbles to first friends), lightning-speed learning, endless explorations driven by insatiable curiosity. Not to mention a year of challenges, both for toddlers and the parents who love them, but don''t always love their behaviors (picky eating, negativity, separation anxiety, bedtime battles, biting, and tantrums).\n</p>\n<p>\n Comprehensive, reassuring, empathetic, realistic, and practical,\n <i>\n  What to Expect the Second Year\n </i>\n is filled with solutions, strategies, and. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/561'),
(7917, 'Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem', 'Anthony Bozza', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The demand for all things Eminem is big, and rock journalist Bozza aims to fill in the gaps with some personal notes of his own. Culling from his own past interviews with the often-reviled rapper, Bozza''s portrait begins four years ago, when he first met and interviewed 27-year-old Marshall Mathers III. He stumbled upon a young man growing into his fame and struggling with the demons of his past life. Eminem''s music-propelled by Dr. Dre''s beats and Mathers''s own controversial lyrics-gave rise to a new era. But it was before this big break, before the awards, movie offers and protests, that Bozza met and connected with Eminem. The two would become irrevocably linked-Bozza gained prominence after writing a remarkable in-depth piece on Em for Rolling Stone, which took the cover and helped catapult the artist to superstardom. It is Bozza''s relationship with Eminem that lends credibility to this bio, as well as his ability to fold personal reminiscence into longer analytical sections on Eminem''s life, the Detroit rap scene and pop culture. Bozza''s unprecedented access to Mathers then and now has given rise to one of the only fully honest accounts of the now brilliant star.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sine qua non of white rappers gets star treatment by\n <em>\n  Rolling Stone\n </em>\n -r Bozza. Eminem''s "sense of timing and image management are nothing short of exceptional," you see, and he "lives in the world he dreamed of . . . when he birthed [musical alter ego] Slim Shady," which is supposed to be a compliment to Eminem''s grasp on reality. Still, this is a serious enough book, crammed with facts and the musings of its subject. Yes, it is legend-making stuff, urgently delivered and pretty constantly giving the subject more than his "props" as Bozza dotes on the oh-so-awesome importance of the Great White Rapper''s every act. But as the rap analog of Elvis (the white guy who sounds black), Eminem commands a huge audience, and as they did with the King, informed observers (the critics) debate his musical value and import. Oh, what the heck, get the book, display it, and reel in some of the highly prized YA breeder-male demographic. Hey, it''s only rock and roll (and\n <em>\n  they\n </em>\n like it).\n <em>\n  Mike Tribby\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1940');
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(7918, 'The Wheel of Darkness', 'Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the exciting eighth supernatural thriller from bestsellers Preston and Child (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   The Book of the Dead\n  </em>\n  ), FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast and his ward, Constance Greene, seek peace of mind at a remote Tibetan monastery, only to fall into yet another perilous, potentially earthshaking assignment. The monastery''s abbot asks them to recover a stolen relic, the cryptic Agozyen, which could, in the wrong hands, wipe out humanity. The pair follow the trail to a luxury cruise ship, where a series of brutal murders suggests the relic''s evil spirit might already have been invoked. Fans of earlier books focused on a thinly disguised American Museum of Natural History may find less at stake among the new cast of secondary characters, but the fate of Constance, who claims to have aborted the child of Pendergast''s villainous younger brother, remains a potent subplot. While not as frightening as others in the series, this entry still shows why the authors stand head and shoulders above their rivals in this subgenre.\n  <em>\n   (Aug. 28)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Exciting...the authors stand head and shoulders above their rivals." (\n  <strong>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </strong>\n  )\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "From the opening page to the shocking last, an amazingly claustrophobic and terrifying reading experience awaits: this book does for cruise ships what\n  <em>\n   Jaws\n  </em>\n  did for summer beach resorts. One of the best thrillers of the year." (\n  <strong>\n   Library Journal *starred review\n  </strong>\n  * )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/614'),
(7919, 'When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge', 'Chanrithy Him', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child." In the Cambodian proverb, "when broken glass floats" is the time when evil triumphs over good. That time began in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and the Him family began their trek through the hell of the "killing fields." In a mesmerizing story, Him vividly recounts a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps are the norm and technology, such as cars and electricity, no longer exists. Death becomes a companion at the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, Chanrithy''s family remains loyal to one another despite the Khmer Rouge''s demand of loyalty only to itself. Moments of inexpressible sacrifice and love lead them to bring what little food they have to the others, even at the risk of their own lives. In 1979, "broken glass" finally sinks. From a family of twelve, only five of the Him children survive. Sponsored by an uncle in Oregon, they begin their new lives in a land that promises welcome to those starved for freedom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1943'),
(7920, 'When God Was a Rabbit', 'Sarah Winman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Winman debuts with a heartbreaking story of the secrets and hopes of a sister and brother who share an unshakable bond. Elly and her older brother, Joe, appear to be just like all the other kids in mid-1970s Essex, U.K., but, as is often the case, shocking secrets lurk below the surface for the siblings and Elly''s best friend, Jenny Pennyâ€”one has been sexually abused, another has an alcoholic and promiscuous mother, another is homosexualâ€”and the weight of bearing each other''s traumas erupts in hard to watch ways. As the years go on, each moves forward; for Elly and Joe, this is more easily accomplished, as their family moves away from Essex and Joe''s secret is brought to light, relief Elly doesn''t receive until much later. As the story winds through time and across the Atlantic, the trio and their families are rocked by 9/11, leading to a final twist that strains belief before settling into acceptable inevitability. Winman shows impressive range and vision in breaking out of the muted coming-of-age mold, and the narrative''s intensity will appeal to readers who like a little gloom. (May)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''At times laugh-out-loud funny, at others gut-wrenchingly sad, the book is peppered with unique and complex characters who are so original, well-observed and believable that you''ll be completely absorbed into their world'' -- Easy Living ''A story of siblings, friendship, secrets and love, told with sadness and humour'' -- Marie Claire ''A genuinely captivating read'' -- Glamour ''In the way that David Nicholls'' ONE DAY follows two people through their lives, this traces a family story over four decades in the most unexpected way'' -- Red Magazine ''Mesmerising'' -- Good Housekeeping\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/350'),
(7921, 'When I Stop Talking, You&#39;ll Know I&#39;m Dead: Useful Stories From a Persuasive Man', 'Jerry Weintraub', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. No matter where nature has placed him--the club rooms of Brooklyn, the Mafia dives of New York''s Lower East Side, the wilds of Alaska, or the hills of Hollywood--he has found a way to put on a show and sell tickets at the door. "All life was a theater and I wanted to put it up on a stage," he writes. "I wanted to set the world under a marquee that read: ''Jerry Weintraub Presents.''" In WHEN I STOP TALKING, YOU''LL KNOW I''M DEAD, we follow Weintraub from his first great success at age twenty-six with Elvis Presley, whom he took on the road with the help of Colonel Tom Parker; to the immortal days with Sinatra and Rat Pack glory; to his crowning hits as a movie producer, starting with Robert Altman and Nashville, continuing with Oh, God!, The Karate Kid movies, and Diner, among others, and summiting with Steven Soderbergh and Ocean''s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen. Along the way, we''ll watch as Jerry moves from the poker tables of Palm Springs (the games went on for days), to the power rooms of Hollywood, to the halls of the White House, to Red Square in Moscow and the Great Palace in Beijing-all the while counseling potentates, poets, and kings, with clients and confidants like George Clooney, Bruce Willis, George H. W. Bush, Armand Hammer, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, John Denver, Bobby Fischer . . .well, the list goes on forever. And of course, the story is not yet over . . .as the old-timers say, "The best is yet to come." As Weintraub says, "When I stop talking, you''ll know I''m dead." With wit, wisdom, and the cool confidence that has colored his remarkable career, Jerry chronicles a quintessentially American journey, one marked by luck, love, and improvisation. The stories he tells and the lessons we learn are essential, not just for those who love movies and music, but for businessmen, entrepreneurs, artists . . . everyone.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1945'),
(7922, 'When I Was Puerto Rican', 'Esmeralda Santiago', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Esmeralda Santiago''s story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs in the mango groves at night, the taste of the delectable sausage called\n <em>\n  morcilla\n </em>\n , and the formula for ushering a dead baby''s soul to heaven. As she enters school we see the clash, both hilarious and fierce, of Puerto Rican and Yankee culture. When her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually take on a new identity. In this first volume of her much-praised, bestselling trilogy, Santiago brilliantly recreates the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years and her tremendous journey from the\n <em>\n  barrio\n </em>\n to Brooklyn, from translating for her mother at the welfare office to high honors at Harvard.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n From a rippled zinc shack in rural Puerto Rico to "the better life" in a decaying Brooklyn tenement, Esmerelda Santiago''s Puerto Rican childhood is one of sorcery, smoldering war between the sexes, and high comedy. Hers is a portrait of a harsh but enchanted world that can never be reclaimed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1946'),
(7923, 'When the Bough Breaks', 'Jonathan Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It began with a double murder: particularly vicious, particularly gruesome. There was only one witness: but little Melody Quinn can''t or won''t say a word. Which is where child psychologist Alex Delaware comes in - and takes the first step into a maelstrom of atrocitiesâ€¦A breathtaking novel about the sewer of perversion and corruption lying below the glittering surface of California cool.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/775'),
(7924, 'When the Wind Blows', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Frannie O''Neil, a young and talented veterinarian whose husband was recently murdered, comes across a discovery in the woods near her animal hospital. Soon after, Kit Harrison, an FBI agent, arrives on Frannie''s doorstep. And then there is eleven-year-old Max.Â \n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/298'),
(7925, 'When the Women Come Out to Dance', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Elmore Leonard, a literary icon praised by The New York Times Book Review as "the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever," has captured the imagination of millions of readers with his more than three dozen books.   In this short fiction collection, Leonard demonstrates the superb characterizations, dead-on dialogue, vivid atmosphere, and driving plots that have made him a household name -- and once again illustrates that the line between the law and the lawbreakers is not as firm as we might think.   Federal marshal Karen Sisco, from the bestselling novel Out of Sight, returns in "Karen Makes Out," once again inadvertently mixing pleasure with business. In "Fire in the Hole," Raylan Givens, last seen in Riding the Rap and Pronto, meets up with an old friend, but they''re now on different sides of the law. In the title story, "When the Women Come Out to Dance," Mrs. Mahmood gets more than she bargains for when she conspires with her maid to end her unhappy marriage.   All nine stories are Elmore Leonard at his vivid, hilarious, and unfailingly human best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3152'),
(7926, 'When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?', 'George Carlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. There''s no better way to enjoy one of Carlin''s books than to hear him read it himself. With his gravelly voice, Carlin sounds like a foul-mouthed, grumpy grandfather as he riffs on everything from politics and the improper use of language to plane-boarding etiquette and the differences between the sexes. He''s alternately crude ("Every evening at seven-thirty, citizens and consumers get a chance to sound off and air their complaints. Don''t miss\n <em>\n  Blow It Out Your Ass!\n </em>\n ...") and outrageously funny (such as when he compares people of faith to UFO believers), and he''s always irreverent ("A children''s museum sounds like a good idea, but I would imagine it''s not very easy to breathe inside the little glass cases"). The one topic that gets under his skin is euphemisms and, related to that, political correctness: "I can remember when I was young that poor people lived in slums. Not anymore. These days, the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. It''s so much nicer for them." Needless to say, Carlin has his comic timing down pat. His energetic reading is punctuated by conversational bits ("Hah? Whaddya think? Maybe?") and enhanced by his deft vocal variation (such as when he''s narrating the "Continuing Story of Mary &amp; Joseph"), making listeners will feel as if they''ve got a front-row seat at one of his comedy shows.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest book by longtime stand-up comic Carlin will undoubtedly join his previous "acts" in book form on the best-seller lists, so expect demand. Here are more of his irreverent, hilarious takes on contemporary social and political issues; as anyone who is familiar with his routines and books knows, Carlin doesn''t let current notions of what is politically correct stand in the way of his taking a jab. So this series of short observations, one flung at the reader right after another, encompasses the Ten Commandments ("a padded list"), an anti-plastic surgery stance ("Ugliness should be a permanent condition"), body maintenance ("Every time you clip [a toenail], the little clipped part flies several feet away. You notice that?"), and euphemistic language (the first instance was being instructed to call his aunt''s mole a "beauty mark"). The book is not meant to be read straight through but, rather, dipped into here and there. The language is explicit; therefore, this is not recommended for readers advocating propriety in speech on every occasion.\n <em>\n  Brad Hooper\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1248'),
(7927, 'Where Are You Now?', 'Mary Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As Carolyn MacKenzie unravels the mystery behind her brother''s disappearance ten years ago, she confronts someone close to her that is equally determined to keep his whereabouts secret at any cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3677'),
(7928, 'Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman', 'Jon Krakauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The bestselling author of "Into the Wild," "Into Thin Air," and "Under the Banner of Heaven" delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man''s haunting journey. ""Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan. Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman''s own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman''s wife, other family members, and the American public for five weeks following his death. During this time, President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman''s name to promote his administration''s foreign policy. Long after Tillman''s nationally televised memorial service, the Army grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had "probably" been killed by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the details of his death and who was responsible. In "Where Men Win Glory," Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman''s journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account" "of the events and actions that led to his death. Before he enlisted in the army, Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an undersized, overachieving Arizona Cardinals safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding. With his shoulder-length hair, outspoken views, and boundless intellectual curiosity, Tillman was considered a maverick. America was fascinated when he traded the bright lights and riches of the NFL for boot camp and a buzz cut. Sent first to Iraq--a war he would openly declare was "illegal as hell" --and eventually to Afghanistan, Tillman was driven by complicated, emotionally charged, sometimes contradictory notions of duty, honor, justice, patriotism, and masculine pride, and he was determined to serve his entire three-year commitment. But on April 22, 2004, his life would end in a barrage of bullets fired by his fellow soldiers. Krakauer chronicles Tillman''s riveting, tragic odyssey in engrossing detail highlighting his remarkable character and personality while closely examining the murky, heartbreaking circumstances of his death. Infused with the power and authenticity readers have come to expect from Krakauer''s storytelling, "Where Men Win Glory "exposes shattering truths about men and war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1949'),
(7929, 'Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given', 'Duane Dog Chapman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The incredible story of struggle, redemption, and bounty hunting--which has catapulted Duane "Dog" Chapman into the hearts of millions, sparked a #1 rated television show, and inspired a #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling book--continues in\n <em>\n  Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Who is going to give them the ride, Duane? Who will give them the cigarette and who will give them `the talk''?"\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When the preacher posed those questions to me, I realized he was right. If not me, then who? Whether I had planned it or not, I was leading a backseat ministry, one ride at a time.\n <br />\n --from\n <em>\n  Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Considered by many to be the world''s greatest bounty hunter, Duane "Dog" Chapman has become famous for capturing fugitives on\n <em>\n  Dog the Bounty Hunter\n </em>\n , his #1 rated show on A&amp;E.\n</p>\n<p>\n But his job doesn''t end when he cuffs his man--or woman.\n</p>\n<p>\n Having personally struggled against abuse, addition, and a life of crime, Dog knows a thing or two about the path that these fugitives cuffed in the back of his car are on--and he has a good idea of the bad news they''ll find at the end of it. As someone who has succeeded in beating the odds and finding a way to live on the right side of the law, Dog also knows what the person in the backseat needs to hear in order to straighten out his or her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is your wake up call. You either answer it now, or pay for it later and for the rest of your life. You''re being given another shot at things, but only if you take the risk to make the right decision. The choice is yours. What''s it going to be, brotha?"\n</p>\n<p>\n While he is himself a mentor to many, Dog draws strength from the great teachers in his own life to face the surprising and difficult challenges that have come his way. Through hard work, unflinching faith, and the acknowledgment of his own flaws--along with the overwhelming desire to fix those flaws--Dog has been through the fire again and again, and come out the stronger for it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Revealing, behind-the-scenes looks at Dog''s most significant challenges, along with seat-of-your-pants accounts of his most breakneck bounty hunting stories, makes\n <em>\n  Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given\n </em>\n a must-read for any fan.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Duane "Dog" Chapman\n </strong>\n is the famed bounty hunter featured on A&amp;E''s\n <em>\n  Dog the Bounty Hunter\n </em>\n . He is considered an expert on fugitive behavior and is called upon frequently by various news services for his opinion on breaking news stories involving crime. He lives with his wife, Beth, and children in Hawaii.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Laura Morton\n </strong>\n has collaborated on over thirty books, including multiple\n <em>\n  New York Times bestsellers\n </em>\n . She lives in New York City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1952'),
(7930, 'Where the Heart Leads', 'Stephanie Laurens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens knows the world of Regency London . . . especially the exclusive enclave of luxury in which the aristocracy lived in wealth and comfort. But outside that glittering circle lay another world . . . and Laurens pulls back the curtain that has hidden it from usâ€”until now.   Penelope Ashford, Portia Cynster''s younger sister, has grown up with every advantageâ€”wealth, position, and beauty. Yet Penelope is anything but a pretty face in a satin gownâ€”forceful, willful, and blunt to a fault, she has for years devoted her considerable energy and intelligence to caring for the forgotten orphans of London''s sooty and seamier streets.   But now her charges are mysteriously disappearing. Desperate, Penelope turns to the one man she knows who might help herâ€”Barnaby Adair.   Handsome scion of a noble house, Adair has made a name for himself in certain circles where his powers of observation and deduction have seen him solve several serious and unsavory crimes within the ton. His pedigree, relentless intelligence, and discretion make him a deadly avenger in an elegant guise. Despite his skillsâ€”or perhaps because of themâ€”he makes Penelope distinctly uncomfortable, but the stakes are too grave. Throwing caution to the wind, defying every rule for unmarried ladies, she appears on his doorstep late one night determined to recruit his talents.   Barnaby is intriguedâ€”both by her problem and her. Her bold beauty and undeniable brains make a striking contrast to the usual insipid ton misses. And as he''s in dire need of an excuse to avoid said insipid misses, he accepts her challenge, never dreaming she and it will consume his every waking hour.   Enlisting the aid of Inspector Basil Stokes of the fledgling Scotland Yard, they infiltrate the streets of London''s notorious East End. But as they unravel the mystery of the missing orphans, they uncover a trail leading to the upper echelons of society and a ruthless and clever criminal adept at pulling strings who, becoming aware of them and their efforts, is only too ready to destroy all they hold dear, including their newfound understanding of the intrigues of the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3376'),
(7931, 'Where the Shadows Lie', 'Michael Ridpath', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Where the Shadows Lie\n </em>\n and Michael Ridpath:\n</p>\n<p>\n "Michael Ridpath is on the war path, trouncing the Scandinavians on their home turf.Â Â  This is international thriller writing at its best, fine characters, page turning suspense and a great, fresh location." --Peter James, #1 international bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Dead Like You\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe latest novel by British crime writer Ridpath is highly imaginative, with a striking setting and a marvelous storyâ€¦ Ridpath does a fine job of immersing us in Icelandic culture, and Magnus, who is the anchor of a proposed series of novels, is a thoroughly fascinating character, not so much a fish out of water as a man reconnecting with his own heritage. Exotic and compelling, a first-class mystery.â€ â€“\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n , starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ridpath smoothly melds history, legend, and a police procedural in this first of a crime series set in Iceland... Ridpath deftly explores the influence myths have on contemporary, credit-strapped Iceland." --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This highly atmospheric and addictive thriller brings in elements that will entice both crime fiction and fantasy readers. If your readers like a treasure-hunting chase, give them this one. With Tolkien groupies, Internet hacking, and revenge, this title has no shortage of appeal. Clearly, Ridpath, the author of eight financial thrillers, has his own trilogy in mind." --\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n , starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n "Michael Ridpathâ€™s latest offering, â€œWhere the Shadows Lieâ€ is a tight mix of crime and lore that takes the reader on a journey from crime-ridden streets to the slopes of a mysterious volcano. Fast-paced and well written, Ridpath keeps your attention while exploring 10th century sagas, corrupt policemen, contract killers, fanboys, family secrets, and a magical ring... Ridpathâ€™s research into Iceland and its people, customs, and geography, makes the British author seem native. â€œWhere the Shadows Lieâ€ has a lot going for it and the reward is worth the journey." --\n <em>\n  Suspense Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA clever blend of murder mystery, myth and up-tothe- minute mayhem.. . Whether youâ€™re a fan of orcs, Gimli and Legolas or Elmore Leonard and â€œThe Sopranosâ€, thereâ€™s something in this. . . thriller for you.â€Â \n <em>\n  â€”The London Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is a good story set in a fascinating place and spiced with some sharp observation.â€Â \n <em>\n  â€”Literary Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA superbly entertaining thriller. . . Michael Ridpath, no stranger to big sales figures, has another hit on his hands.â€Â \n <em>\n  â€”Shots Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <em>\n  Where the Shadows Lie\n </em>\n is ingenious, and briskly narrated. Like many good thriller writers, Ridpath is adept at informing as well as thrilling â€” you can learn a great deal about Iceland, ancient and modern, here, and itâ€™s fascinating stuff.â€Â  â€“\n <em>\n  The Spectator\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRidpath has that read-on factor that sets bestsellers apartâ€ --\n <em>\n  The Guardian\n </em>\n (UK)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA five-star effort as an entry in the select genre called â€˜Icelandic novels written by non-Icelandersâ€™â€ --\n <em>\n  IceNews\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fascinating echoes of Tolkien andÂ \n <em>\n  Njalâ€™s SagaÂ \n </em>\n and acute observations about the distinctive culture of Iceland." --\n <em>\n  Kirkus\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fascinating... A real page-turner, and if you are a saga or Lord of the Rings fan, you''ll like it even more." --\n <em>\n  LÃ¶gberg-Heimskringla\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The vivid descriptions of the modern city of Reykjavik contrast sharply with the eerie landscape of the Icelandic countryside, where the clues to Haraldsson''s death lead the investigation. Michael Ridpath has created a mystery whose eccentric characters seem like they might have come from Middle Earth. The only question is whether or not Magnus will be able to separate truth from myth and find the killer before the Dominicans find him." --Jessica Howard, bookseller, Bookmans Entertainment Exchange\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n MICHAEL RIDPATH spent eight years as a bond trader inÂ LondonÂ before giving up his job to write full-time.Â  He is the bestselling author of eight financial thrillers and has been published in 38 languages.Â \n <em>\n  Where the Shadows Lie\n </em>\n is the first in a new series featuring detective Magnus Jonson.Â  He lives in north London with his wife and three children. Visit him online at www.michaelridpath.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/711'),
(7932, 'Where We Belong', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The author of five blockbuster novels, Emily Giffin, delivers an unforgettable story of two women, the families that make them who they are, and the longing, loyalty and love that binds them togetherÂ Â Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in New York City. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced everyone, including herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be. But one night, Marian answers a knock on the door . . . only to find Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off forever. From the moment Kirby appears on her doorstep, Marianâ€™s perfectly constructed worldâ€”and her very identityâ€”will be shaken to its core, resurrecting ghosts and memories of a passionate young love affair that threaten everything that has come to define her.Â For the precocious and determined Kirby, the encounter will spur a process of discovery that ushers her across the threshold of adulthood, forcing her to re-evaluate her family and future in a wise and bittersweet light. As the two women embark on a journey to find the one thing missing in their lives, each will come to recognize that where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselvesâ€”a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3848'),
(7933, 'Where We Going, Daddy?: Life With Two Sons Unlike Any Other', 'Jean-Louis Fournier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Jean-Louis Fournier did not expect to have a disabled child. He certainly did not expect to have two. But that is precisely what happened to this wry French humorist, and his attempts to live and cope with his Mathieu and Thomas, both facing extremely debilitating physical and mental challenges, is the subject of this brave and heartbreaking book. Fournier recalls the life he imagined having with his sons--but his boys will never really grow up, and he mourns the loss of every memory he thought he''d have.\n <br />\n Though a devoted father, he does not shy away from exploring the limits of his love, the countless times he is filled with frustration and disappointment with no relief in sight. Mathieu and Thomas can barely communicate, and each in turn repeats learned phrases, such as "Where we going, Daddy?" (a favorite in the car) in what feels to\n <br />\n Fournier to be an eternal loop.\n <br />\n In\n <em>\n  WhereWe Going, Daddy?\n </em>\n Fournier reveals everything, and that is perhaps his most remarkable quality. He does not hide behind a mask of clichÃ©, but gives voice to the darkness that comes with disability, and the rare moments of light. Through short, powerful vignettes Jean-Louis manages his grief with cynicism and humor. For parents of disabled children, this book will offer some relief from the courage they must garner every day, a chance to let down their guard, laugh at themselves, and embrace even the ugly emotions they feel. For the rest of us, it''s an unsettling and heartfelt glimpse into an otherwise unimaginable life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2165'),
(7934, 'While My Sister Sleeps', 'Barbara Delinsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROnce again New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky brings us a masterful family portrait, filled with thought-provoking insights into how emotions affect the decisions we make and how letting go can be the hardest thing to do and the greatest expression of love all at the same time. Molly and Robin Snow are sisters in the prime of life. So when Molly receives the news that Robin has suffered a massive heart attack, the news couldn''t be more shocking. At the hospital, the Snow family receives a grim prognosis: Robin may never regain consciousness. Feelings of guilt and jealousy flare up as Robin''s family struggles to cope. It''s up to Molly to make the tough decisions, and she soon makes discoveries that shatter some of her most cherished beliefs about the sister she thought she knew.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3637'),
(7935, 'Whiplash', 'Catherine Coulter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender''s father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug suddenly runs out. Unwilling to accept the drug company''s disingenuous excuse of production line problems, Dr. Kender hires private investigator Erin Pulaski to prove that something more sinister is going on at Schiffer Hartwin.  Meanwhile, in Maryland, married FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich are investigating a rather unusual case: Senator David Hoffman is experiencing a ghostly apparition with possible malicious intent. The case is baffling, and Sherlock and Savich are not sure what to believe, even after witnessing the disturbing specter for themselves. They''re no closer to cracking the case when a call comes in from Connecticut: A top foreign Schiffer Hartwin employee has been found murdered behind the drug company''s U.S. headquarters.  Unbeknownst to the FBI, Erin Pulaski had uncovered a bombshell in her investigation: The Culovort shortage is set to bring in a windfall profit in excess of two billion dollars. Upon learning of the murder, Erin is certain it has something to do with her findings, but she risks exposing herself by coming forward. As the feds move in, the case becomes even more complicated for Erin, since the murder of a foreign national on federal land can mean only that the pharmaceutical house has a secret of epic proportions-one it would do anything to keep hidden.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3532'),
(7936, 'Whispers in the Dark', 'Maya Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   She came to him when he needed her the most.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  She came to him at his lowest point. The voice of an angel, a whisper in the dark. She''s the only thing that gets Nathan Kelly through his captivity, the endless days of torture and the fear that he''ll never return to his family. With her help, he''s able to escape. But he isn''t truly free, because now she''s disappeared and he''s left with an all-consuming emptiness as he struggles to pick up the pieces of his life. Did he imagine his angel? Or is she out there, needing his help as he''d once needed hers?\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Now he rushes to save her before it''s too late.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shea has been on the run from people who will stop at nothing to exploit her unique abilities. She never wanted to drag Nathan, who''d already suffered so much, into danger, but she doesn''t have a choice so she reaches out to him for help. Finally face-to-face after having already formed a soul-deep bond in hell, their emotional connection is even more powerful than their telepathic one. Nathan refuses to consider ever letting her go again, but she worries they can never have a life free of the dangers that dog her every step. He''ll protect her with his every breath, but can he convince her that they are meant to face these threats together?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2932'),
(7937, 'White Cargo', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They should have killed Catledge. But they let him live while they savagely brutalized his wife and daughter. Let him live while they sent his yacht and his family to the bottom of the Caribbean. Let him live knowing he could never find the killers in the drug towns of Colombia. Then, late one night back in the States, the phone rang. And one word gave Catledge something to live for. One word that launched a one-man war against a ruthless outlaw.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2645'),
(7938, 'White Death', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cussler''s multitude of fans arrive at the table expecting a roiling stew of seafaring adventure, exotic travel destinations, cutting-edge science, a splash of romance and insider tips on food and drink. In this latest starring series hero Kurt Austin (Fire Ice; Blue Gold), readers will find all their expectations extravagantly fulfilled. The bronzed, rugged Austin, leader of the NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) Special Assignments Team, and his partner, Joe Zavala, are called in to free survivors trapped inside a Danish warship sunk after a collision with the flagship of the radical environmentalist group Sentinels of the Sea. After a successful rescue, Austin''s investigations lead him from the haughty environmentalists to the Oceanus Corporation, a shadowy fish farming organization: "A miasma of pure evil seemed to hang over the Oceanus operation." Austin sneaks into one of the fish farms on a solo recon and is nearly killed by the swarthy, black-clad, facially tattooed Eskimos of the evil Kiolya tribe who guard the company''s many operations. The Kiolyas are led by albino madman Toonook, a genius fish geneticist who has engineered members of the harmless salmon family into a breed of 10-foot, piranha-like Frankenfish. All the villains have satanic smiles and pitiless eyes, and snarl their dialogue. If it all sounds highly preposterous, it is, but Cussler manages with his usual aplomb, impressively juggling his plots and bringing everyone home in an action-fueled, rip-roaring finale in which evil doers are soundly defeated and swashbuckling heroes reign supreme. Who would have guessed that the world of high-stakes fish farming could be so thrilling?\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High School-Kurt Austin and his partner, Joe Zavala, of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, receive a frantic call about a crew trapped inside a sunken ship off the Faroe Islands. Using cutting-edge technology, they pull off the rescue with a new submersible, only to find themselves involved with members of an environmental group and, at the same time, up against the mysterious Oceanus Corporation. After several attempts by Austin at industrial espionage to gain information about Oceanus, he and Zavala, other members of NUMA, and select individuals from the environmental group unite in their attempts to prevent the corporation from unleashing hundreds of genetically altered, large white fish into the oceans. Starting with historical background, the authors smoothly move the story into the contemporary plot. The information about genetically altered fish provides enough detail for understanding events without overwhelming readers. Myriad secondary plots supplement the main one, and lots of action keeps the story moving at a swift pace. Cussler and Kemprecos have a gift for fitting history, science, and action into an interesting story, and this book is an example of their best efforts.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1227'),
(7939, 'White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson', 'Brenda Wineapple', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In 1862, Emily Dickinson wrote to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a noted man of letters and radical activist for abolition and women''s rights, asking if he would look at her poems. He did and recognized immediately their strange power. As Wineapple points out in this brilliant study, Dickinson''s letter marked the blossoming of a complicated lifelong friendship. Although the two met face-to-face only twice, Higginson found Dickinson''s explosive poetry seductive. Drawing on 25 years'' worth of Dickinson''s letters (Higginson''s are lost), Wineapple contests the traditional portrait of her as isolated from the world and liking it that way. In her poems and her letters, Wineapple shows, Dickinson was the consummate flirt, a sorceress, a prestidigitator in words. Wineapple resurrects the reputation of Higginson, long viewed as stodgy in his literary tastes (he reviled Whitman) yet who recognized Dickinson''s genius and saw her work as an example of the democratic art he fervently believed in. As Wineapple did previously with Hawthorne (_Hawthorne: A Life_), she elegantly delves into a life and offers rich insights into a little-known relationship between two of the lateâ€“19th century''s most intriguing writers. 32 photos.\n <em>\n  (Aug. 13)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics embraced this new angle on the life of Emily Dickinson, one of Americaâ€™s best-loved poets but also one of the most difficult to understand. While the subject of the book may seem rather narrow, reviewers claimed that Wineappleâ€™s excellent narrative and literary sensibilities keep\n <em>\n  White Heat\n </em>\n from becoming overly obscure. Only the\n <em>\n  Boston Globe\n </em>\n faulted Wineapple for reading too vaguely between the lines, literally, of Dickson and Wineappleâ€™s correspondence and for rehashing older material. Overall, however, the result is a book that balances literary criticism, biography, and history, while never straying too far from the few available facts about Dickinson and her life.\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2317'),
(7940, 'White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India', 'William Dalrymple', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dalrymple, author of the bestselling In Xanadu, now anchors himself in India around the turn of the 19th century to focus on James Kirkpatrick, an officer for the East India Company and the British Resident, representing the British government, in the Indian city-state of Hyderabad. Kirkpatrick, who converted to Islam and, after a celebrated and notorious romance, married Khair un-Nissa, the teenage great-niece of the region''s prime minister, exemplifies the "White Mughals," British colonialists who "went native." One of the book''s strengths is its stunningly detailed depiction of day-to-day life-gardens, food, sexual mores, modes of travel and architecture-and portraits of British governors-general, Indian politicians, their wives and families, and adventurers. It is also an astute study of the political complications Kirkpatrick faced because of his conversion and cross-cultural marriage, and the difficulties his divided loyalties caused him in his role as agent of the increasingly imperialistic British. But most suspenseful is the fate of Kirkpatrick''s willful and charismatic wife, just 19 when he died in 1805, and the fate of their children. The twists and turns in the life of their daughter-sent to England when she was five, never to return to India or see her mother again-are fascinating. Dalrymple makes note of the present schism, which some believe unbridgeable, between Western and Eastern civilizations and Kirkpatrick''s tale as a counterexample that the two can meet. Illus., maps.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From The New Yorker\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the end of the eighteenth century, James Achilles Kirkpatrick, the promising young British Resident at the Shia court of Hyderabad, fell in love with Khair un-Nissa, an adolescent noblewoman and a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. The story of their romance and semi-secret marriage endured in local legend and family lore but was otherwise forgotten. After five years'' work with a trove of documents in several languages, Dalrymple has emerged not only with a gripping tale of politics and power but also with evidence of the surprising extent of cultural exchange in pre-Victorian India, before the arrogance of empire set in. His book, ambitious in scope and rich in detail, demonstrates that a century before Kipling''s "never the twain"â€”and two centuries before neocons and radical Islamists trumpeted the clash of civilizationsâ€”the story of the Westerner in Muslim India was one not of conquest but of appreciation, adaptation, and seduction.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2318'),
(7941, 'The White Queen', 'Philippa Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The #1 New York Times bestselling author presents the first book in a new series set amidst the tumult and intrigue of englandâ€™s passionate family feud, The War of the Roses. Meet the Plantaganets. Like the Tudors, they live high and love passionately, but this family story is set against the backdrop of The War of the Roses, a long war, pitting brother against brother, for the throne of England. Now Philippa Gregory, master chronicler of British royal history, brings this family drama to life through the lives of its women, beginning with the story of Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen. The White Queen tells the story of a common woman who ascends to royalty by virtue of her beauty, a woman who rises to the demands of her position and fights tenaciously for the success of her family, a woman whose two sons become the central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the so-called missing princes in the Tower of London. From her uniquely qualified perspective, Philippa Gregory explores the most famous unsolved mystery of English history, informed by impeccable research and framed by her inimitable storytelling skills. Timed to publish in the English language simultaneously around the worldâ€”and heralded by a global online event followed by author appearances in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, and Australiaâ€”The White Queen ushers in the dawn of a great new era for Philippa Gregory. For the first time, one of our most beloved authors will have one exclusive English language publisherâ€”Simon &amp; Schusterâ€”the perfect platform from which to launch what is sure to be another bestselling, classic series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3209'),
(7942, 'The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919', 'Mark Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With elegance and pathos, historian Mark Thompson relates the saga of the Italian front, the nationalist frenzy and political intrigues that preceded the conflict, and the towering personalities of the statesmen, generals, and writers drawn into the heart of the chaos. A work of epic scale, *The White War* does full justice to the brutal and heart-wrenching war that inspired Hemingwayâ€™s *A Farewell to Arms*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2347');
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(7943, 'White Witch, Black Curse', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Confusion reigns for characters and readers in the complicated seventh urban fantasy outing (after 2008''s\n  <em>\n   The Outlaw Demon Wails\n  </em>\n  ) for witch detective Rachel Morgan. Rachel''s reputation is in tattersâ€”to save humanity, she used powers that are considered evilâ€”and she''s still devastated by the mysterious death of her boyfriend six months earlier. Her attempts to solve his murder bleed into a case involving an emotion-sucking banshee, and soon Rachel has to bring in her PI partnersâ€”Ivy, a bisexual vampire, and Jenks, a pixie in existential crisisâ€”along with empathic psychiatrist Ford and the banshee victim''s father, Federal Inderland Bureau captain Edden. Harrison''s unique vampire mythology unduly complicates world-building, and newcomers will be desperate for a glossary, but the nearly nonstop action nicely plays off the poignancy of Rachel''s difficult life.\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hell hath no fury like witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan when it comes to avenging her loverâ€™s murder. Her quest for justice holds some significant realizations for her, too, such as the strength in her bond with vamp partner Ivy, who helps her withstand the waves of power coursing through her body in one of the bookâ€™s most emotionally gripping scenes. Through a welter of vampires, demons, pixies, and witches, Harrison conducts readers on a suspenseful, satisfying journey of payback, personal growth, and empowerment while setting the scene for Rachelâ€™s new romance, which will probably commence in the next of this spellbinding series. --Whitney Scott\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3702'),
(7944, 'Who&#39;s Buried in Grant&#39;s Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites', 'Brian Lamb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this newly updated book, C-SPAN provides a comprehensive guide to the final resting places of our nation''s presidents. As much about the presidents'' lives as it is about their burial sites and how to visit them, this book belongs in the glove box of every traveler and the bedside table of every American history fan. Contributions from presidential historian Richard Norton Smith and an afterword by historian Douglas Brinkley add to this unique look at the American presidency.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2319'),
(7945, 'Whole Truth', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Dick, I need a war."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world''s largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man Creel retains to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by manipulating international conflicts. But Creel may have an even grander plan in mind.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shaw, a man with no first name and a truly unique past, has a different agenda. Reluctantly doing the bidding of a secret multi-national intelligence agency, he travels the globe to keep it safe and at peace.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Willing to do anything to get back to the top of her profession, Katie James is a journalist who has just gotten the break of a lifetime: the chance to interview the sole survivor of a massacre that has left every nation stunned.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this terrifying, global thriller, these characters'' lives will collide head-on as a series of events is set in motion that could change the world as we know it. An utterly spellbinding story that feels all too real, THE WHOLE TRUTH delivers all the twists and turns, emotional drama, unforgettable characters, and can''t-put-it-down pacing that readers expect from David Baldacci-and still goes beyond anything he''s written before.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/353'),
(7946, 'The Whole Truth', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Usually a sophisticated plotter, bestseller Baldacci (\n  <em>\n   Absolute Power\n  </em>\n  ) offers a story line and villain on a par with an average James Bond film in what''s billed as his first international thriller. Nicholas Creel, the head of the Ares Corporation, a huge defense contractor, hires a perception management firm to start a second cold war by planting fake news stories on the Internet about Russian atrocities. The propaganda campaign soon turns violent with the massacre of the members of a London think tank, the Phoenix Group, apparently by a Russian hit team. Creel hopes that the Phoenix Group''s links with the Chinese government will lead to war between Russia and China as well as feed a worldwide arms race that will profit his company. A shadowy operative, A Shaw, whose fiancÃ©e perished in the London attack, allies himself with a disgraced female journalist in an effort to thwart Creel''s evil plot. While some readers may find it a stretch that a resurgent Russia should so easily overshadow all other world crises, Baldacci in an author''s note makes an eloquent case for the very real threat of perception management.\n  <em>\n   (Apr. 22)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Baldacci masterfully plays on the American paranoia in the wake of the War on Terror in this bizarre international thriller. â€œRemember Constantinâ€ is the battle cry du jour across America after a frightening piece of video makes the rounds on the Internet. In it, Constantin, a young Russian, claims that the release of the video means he has been executed by the Russian Federation. The fear of a return to the cold war is so palpable that nations across the globe are preparing for the worst. But is it a hoax? Nicolas Creel, the Machiavellian head of the largest defense contractor in the U.S., and his buddy Dick Pender, the image-maker (think evil, cartoonish versions of Cheney and Rove, respectively), are hell bent on keeping the terror levels high so that they become the ultimate go-to guys. But Shawâ€”thatâ€™s it, our heroâ€™s nameâ€™s just Shawâ€”has other plans and risks his life and limb in order to keep the peace. Shaw answers to a secret global intelligence agency, and though heâ€™s not too keen on their tactics, either, heâ€™s determined to stay with the good guys, however negligible the distinction may be. Meanwhile journalist Katie James is after the â€œwhole truthâ€ behind this twisted version of king of the hill. Baldacciâ€™s ability to make international intrigue light and readable is uncanny. It hovers on the verge ofÂ superhero nonsense, but the dialogue snaps forth on cue, the plot never slows, and the ending packs a genuine punch. Read-alikes? Tom Clancy, of course. --Mary Frances Wilkens\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(7947, 'Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story', 'Jim Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Whether framedphilosophically as â€œWhy is there a world rather than nothing at all?â€ or morecolloquially as â€œBut, Mommy, who made God?â€ the metaphysical mystery about howwe came into existence remains the most fractious and fascinating question ofall time. Following in the footsteps of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose,and even Stephen Hawking, Jim Holt emerges with an engrossing narrative thattraces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. As he takes onthe role of cosmological detective, the brilliant yet slyly humorous Holtcontends that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to God vs.the Big Bang. Whether interviewing a cranky Oxford philosopher, a Physics NobelLaureate, or a French Buddhist monk, Holt pursues unexplored and often bizarreangles to this cosmic puzzle. The result is a brilliant synthesis of cosmology,mathematics, and physicsâ€”one that propels his own work to the level ofphilosophy itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3863'),
(7948, 'Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future', 'Ian Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Only the supremely self-confident put forth all-encompassing theories of world history, and Morris is one such daredevil. An archaeologist by academic specialty, he advances a quasi-deterministic construct that is suitable for nonacademics. From a repeatedly enunciated premise that humans by nature are indolent, avaricious, and fearful, Morris holds that such traits, when combined with sociology and geography, explain history right from the beginning, when humanity trudged out of Africa, through the contemporary rivalry between China and America. Such temporal range leaves scant room for individual human agency: Morris names the names of world history, but in his narrative, leaders and tyrants, at best, muddle through patterns of history that are beyond their power to shape. And those patterns, he claims, can be numerically measured by a â€œsocial development indexâ€ that he applies to every epochal change from agriculture to the industrial revolution. However, the reading is not as heavy as it may sound. His breezy style and what-if imagination for alternative scenarios should maintain audience interest; whether his sweeping perspective convinces is another matter altogether. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Why the West Rules-for Now\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn an era when cautious academics too often confine themselves to niggling discussions of pipsqueak topics, it is a joy to see a scholar take a bold crack at explaining the vast sweep of human progress. . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers of\n  <em>\n   Why the West Rulesâ€”For Now\n  </em>\n  are unlikely to see the history of the world in quite the same way ever again. And that can''t be said of many books on any topic. Morris has penned a tour de force.â€â€”Keith Monroe,\n  <em>\n   The Virginian-Pilot\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf you read one history book this year, if you read one this decade, this is the one.â€â€” Tim Oâ€™ Connell,\n  <em>\n   The Florida Times-Union\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA monumental effort...Morris is an engaging writer with deep insights from archaeology and ancient history that offer us compelling visions about how the past influences the future.â€â€”Michael D. Langan,\n  <em>\n   Buffalo News\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Morris] has written the first history of the world that really makes use of what modern technology can offer to the interpretation of the historical process. The result is a path-breaking work that lays out what modern history should look like.â€â€”Harold James, Financial Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMorris is a lucid thinker and a fine writer. . .possessed of a welcome sense of humor that helps him guide us through this grand game of history as if he were an erudite sportscaster.â€ â€”Orville Schell,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA remarkable book that may come to be as widely read as Paul Kennedyâ€™s 1987 work, â€˜The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.â€™ Like Mr Kennedyâ€™s epic, Mr Morrisâ€™s â€˜Why the West Rulesâ€”For Nowâ€™ uses history and an overarching theory to address the anxieties of the present . . . This is an important bookâ€”one that challenges, stimulates and entertains. Anyone who does not believe there are lessons to be learned from history should start here.â€ â€”_The Economist _\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMorrisâ€™ new book illustrates perfectly why one really scholarly book about the past is worth a hundred fanciful works of futurology. Morris is the worldâ€™s most talented ancient historian, a man as much at home with state-of-the-art archaeology as with the classics as they used to be studied . . . HeÂ has brilliantly pulled off what few modern academics would dare to attempt: a single-volume history of the world that offers a bold and original answer to the question, Why did the societies that make up ''the West'' pull ahead of ''the Rest'' not once but twice, and most spectacularly in the modern era after around 1500? Wearing his impressive erudition lightly â€” indeed, writing with a wit and clarity that will delight the lay reader â€” Morris uses his own ingenious index of social development as the basis for his answer.â€ â€”Niall Ferguson,\n  <em>\n   Foreign Affairs\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA formidable, richly engrossing effort to determine why Western institutions dominate the world . . . Readers will enjoy [Morrisâ€™s] lively prose and impressive combination of scholarship . . . with economics and science. A superior contribution to the grand-theory-of-human-history genre.â€ â€”_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIan Morris has returned history to the position it once held: no longer a series of dusty debates, nor simple storiesâ€”although he has many stories to tell and tells them brilliantlyâ€”but a true\n  <em>\n   magister vitae\n  </em>\n  , â€˜teacher of life.â€™ Morris explains how the shadowy East-West divide came about, why it really does matter, and how one day it might end up. His vision is dazzling, and his prose irresistible. Everyone from Sheffield to Shanghai who wants to know not only how they came to be who and where they are but where their children and their childrenâ€™s children might one day end up must read this book.â€ â€”Anthony Pagden, author of _Worlds and War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œThis is an astonishing work by Ian Morris: hundreds of pages of the latest information dealing with every aspect of change. Then, the questions of the future: What will a new distribution bring about? Will Europe undergo a major change? Will the millions of immigrants impose a new set of rules on the rest? There was a time when Europe could absorb any and all newcomers. Now the newcomers may dictate the terms. The West may continue to rule, but the rule may be very different.â€ â€”David S. Landes, author of\n  </em>\n  The Wealth and Poverty of Nations\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œHere you have three books wrapped into one: an exciting novel that happens to be true; an entertaining but thorough historical account of everything important that happened to any important people in the last ten millennia; and an educated guess about what will happen in the future.Â Read, learn, and enjoy!â€ â€”Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography at UCLA, and Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of\n  <em>\n   Guns, Germs, and Steel\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Collapse\n  </em>\n  , and _Natural Experiments of History\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIan Morris is a classical archaeologist, an ancient historian, and a writer whose breathtaking vision and scope make him fit to be ranked alongside the likes of Jared Diamond and David Landes. His magnum opus is a tour not just dâ€™horizon but de force, taking us on a spectacular journey to and from the two nodal cores of the Euramerican West and the Asian East, alighting and reflecting as suggestively upon 10,800 BC as upon AD 2010. The shape of globalizing history may well never be quite the same again.â€ â€”Paul Cartledge, A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Clare College\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAt lastâ€”a brilliant historian with a light touch. We should all rejoice.â€ â€”John Julius Norwich\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDeeply thought-provoking and engagingly lively, broad in sweep and precise in detail.â€ â€”Jonathan Fenby, author of _Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œMorrisâ€™s history of world dominance sparkles as much with exotic ideas as with extraordinary tales.\n  <em>\n   Why the West Rulesâ€”for Now\n  </em>\n  is both a riveting drama and a major step toward an integrated theory of history.â€ â€”Richard Wrangham, author of _Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œThe nearest thing to a unified field theory of history we are ever likely to get. With wit and wisdom, Ian Morris deploys the techniques and insights of the new ancient history to address the biggest of all historical questions: Why on earth did the West beat the Rest? I loved it.â€ â€”Niall Ferguson, author of\n  <em>\n   The Ascent of Money\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2323'),
(7949, 'Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid', 'Denis Leary', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n According to Leary, his first book is not for the faint of heart, by which he means Americans: "I am here to debunk and declassify and otherwise hold up a brutally honest mirror to our fat, ugly, lazy American selves." Now, a good many comedians make a career out of daring to speak the ugly, gasping truths that few others would. Leary brings a particularly acid-tinged tone to his rantings about annoying children, why cats are satanic spawn, what an ugly racket the Catholic Church is and (more surprisingly) why he loves\n <em>\n  Oprah\n </em>\n . The book will most likely appeal to fans of Leary, and while the material might have been better delivered as a live performance (some of these hate-laced monologues are just begging to be read aloud), Leary himself wildly entertains.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n One of America''s most original and biting comic satirists, Denis Leary takes on all the poseurs, politicians, and pop culture icons who have sucked in public for far too long. Sparing no one, Leary zeroes in on the ridiculous wherever he finds it-his Irish Catholic upbringing, the folly of celebrity, the pressures of family life, and the great hypocrisy of politics-with the same bright, savage, and profane insight he brought to his critically acclaimed one-man shows\n <em>\n  No Cure for Cancer\n </em>\n &lt; and\n <em>\n  Lock ''n Load\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Proudly Irish-American, defiantly working class, with a reserve of compassion for the underdog and the overlooked, Leary delivers blistering diatribes that are both penetrating social commentary with no holds barred and laugh-out-loud funny. As always, Leary''s impassioned comic perspective in\n <em>\n  Why We Suck\n </em>\n is right on target.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1858'),
(7950, 'Wicked', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In idyllic Rosewood, Pennsylvania, where Burberry earmuffs keep diamond-studded ears warm, four very pretty girls have done some very wicked things. . . .  High school juniors Hanna, Spencer, Emily, and Aria have paid dearly for their sins. A stalker named "A" terrorized them for months and revealed their darkest secrets. But now that A''s true identity has been revealed, the girls can finally go back to their pretty little lives.  Only, once a pretty little liar, always a pretty little liarâ€”and these girls just can''t help but be bad. Hanna will do anything to be Rosewood''s queen bee. Spencer starts stealing . . . from her parents. Emily can''t stop thinking about her new boyfriend. And Aria approves a little too strongly of her mom''s taste in men.  As the secrets get darker and the scandals juicier, the consequences turn deadly. After all, girls who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. And in Rosewood, someone is always watching. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3772'),
(7951, 'Wicked Appetite', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Life in Marblehead has had a pleasant predictability, until Diesel arrives. Rumor has it that a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins have made their way to Bostonâ€™s North Shore. Partnered with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker, Diesel bullies and charms his way through historic Salem to track them downâ€”and his criminal mastermind cousin Gerewulf Grimorie. The black-haired, black-hearted Wulf is on the hunt for the relic representing gluttony. Caught in a race against time, Diesel and Lizzie soon find out that more isnâ€™t always better, as they battle Wulf and the first of the deadly sins. With delectable characters and non-stop thrills that have made Janet Evanovich a household name, Wicked Appetite will leave you hungry for more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3508'),
(7952, 'Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln&#39;s Mother &amp; Other Botanical Atrocities', 'Amy Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In "Wicked Plants," Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature''s most appalling creations. It''s an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. You''ll learn which plants to avoid (like exploding shrubs), which plants make themselves exceedingly unwelcome (like the vine that ate the South), and which ones have been killing for centuries (like the weed that killed Abraham Lincoln''s mother). Menacing botanical illustrations and splendidly ghastly drawings create a fascinating portrait of the evildoers that may be lurking in your own backyard. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2725'),
(7953, 'Wicked Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The 2008 Republican convention serves as the backdrop for bestseller Sandford''s amped-up, ultra-violent 19th thriller to feature Lucas Davenport of the Minneapolis Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (after\n  <em>\n   Phantom Prey\n  </em>\n  ). An assassination plot aimed at John McCain turns out to be just a sidebar to another criminal operationâ€”extremely slick thieves have come to the twin cities to rob Republican political operatives loaded down with millions of dollars of street money, illegal handouts for low-level campaign workers. Mastermind Rosie Cruz handles the gang''s complicated planning, while gangster Brutus Cohn does the robbery and killing aided by a couple of lesser thugs. A subplot involving Davenport''s teenage ward, Letty West, who''s provided interesting complications in the series, establishes her as a brave and intrepid investigator. A slam-bang shootout climax proves that Davenport still has what it takes when it comes to guts and gunplay.\n  <em>\n   500,000 first printing; author tour. (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Danger stalks Lucas Davenport at work and all too close to home, in the superlative new thriller by the #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   -bestselling author.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For twenty years, John Sandford''s novels have been beloved for their "ingenious plots, vivid characters, crisp dialogue and endless surprises" (_The Washington Post_), and nowhere are those more in evidence than in the sudden twists and shocks of\n  <em>\n   Wicked Prey\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Republicans are coming to St. Paul for their convention. Throwing a big party is supposed to be fun, but crashing the party are a few hard cases the police would rather stayed away. Chief among them is a crew of professional stickup men who''ve spotted several lucrative opportunities, ranging from political moneymen with briefcases full of cash to that armored-car warehouse with the weakness in its security system. All that''s headache enough for Lucas Davenport-but what''s about to hit him is even worse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A while back, a stray bullet put a pimp and petty thief named Randy Whitcomb in a wheelchair, and, ever since, the man has been nursing his grudge into a full head of psychotic steam. He blames Davenport for the bullet, but it''s no fun just shooting him. That wouldn''t be painful enough. Not when Davenport has a pretty fourteen-year-old adopted daughter that Whitcomb can target instead. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then there''s the young man with the .50 caliber sniper rifle and the right- wing-crazy background, roaming through a city filled with the most powerful politicians on earth. . . . Rich with his brilliant trademark suspense and some of the best characters in suspense fiction,\n  <em>\n   Wicked Prey\n  </em>\n  is further proof that "Sandford is one of the most consistently entertaining crime writers working today" (_Booklist_).\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/702'),
(7954, 'Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild', 'Lee Sandlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John M. Barry Reviews\n  <em>\n   Wicked River\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John M. Barry is the author of five previous books, including the highly acclaimed and award-winning studies __, and\n  <em>\n   The Creation of the American Soul\n  </em>\n  , about the development of the separation of church and state, will appear in 2011. Read his review of\n  <em>\n   Wicked River:\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There are literally thousands of books about the Mississippi River, each of them attempting to capture its majesty. It is a tribute to the river''s complexity and power that so few have succeeded. Lee Sandlin does. He writes elegantly and delivers what he promised--the story of the river in the days before engineers began their efforts to drain it of its mystery and protect us from its power. And by demythologizing both the river itself and the men and women on and along the river, by separating fact from legend, Sandlin actually makes it more majestic still.\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s plenty of humor in here, and farce. Perhaps the single story that hits the hardest, though, has nothing about it either humorous or majestic. And it could be farce, something for Mark Twain''s illumination, except for the punch line. It is the story of Virgil Stewart. In a kind of American version of the Protocols of Zion, Stewart peddled a supposed plan for a white-led slave uprising that took hold of much of the lower Mississippi Valley. The beatings, murder, and torture his lies engendered only remind us how fearful and stupid humans can be at their worst.\n</p>\n<p>\n The river today has banks lined with concrete for hundreds of miles, while dams block off tributaries and levees seal the main river in. All that constrains the river. Nonetheless, these very constraints have themselves wreaked havoc on the land the river made--physically made, by the deposit of sediment--along the modern Gulf Coast. And the power and wildness of the river which Sandlin writes about are one great flood away from unleashing. The river is, as T.S. Eliot wrote, "unhonored, unpropitiated / by the worshippers of machine. But waiting, watching and waiting."\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In this lush, exuberant, action-packed and history-drenched book, Sandlin has brought the river back home again. . . . A vivid torrent of facts and passions, in an inspired agitation of water and words. . . .\n <em>\n  Wicked River\n </em>\n is the best kind of history book. It is organized around people and their fates, not wars and dates and treaty signings. It artfully separates reality from fables, but it recognizes that fables have a story to tell, too, that our tall tales and our songs and our exaggerations and our mythologies can be as revelatory as topographical maps and temperature charts."\n <br />\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n â€”_Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n "Gripping stuff. . . . Appreciators of what Greil Marcus calls the Old, Weird America will savor\n <em>\n  Wicked River\n </em>\n . Its many ghastly scenes, vividly rendered by Mr. Sandlin, started showing up in my dreams. . . . I was surprised, upon finishing\n <em>\n  Wicked River\n </em>\n , to read that this confident and swift-moving book is the author''s first. It makes one eager for the next."-_â€”_John Jeremiah Sullivan, _The Wall Street Journal\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "A biography of the river in its pre-Twain period."\n <br />\n _â€”The Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n _"Entertaining. . . . Chicago essayist and journalist Lee Sandlin tells tales about the Mississippi in the days when the river and the people who floated on it or lived along it were wild and untamed in the extreme. . . . Sandlin has done an impressive amount of research. For all that, his prose manages to avoid the snags and shoals of academic English. . . . A lot of fun to read."\n <br />\n _â€”St. Louis Post-Dispatch\n</p>\n<p>\n _"Remarkable. . . . Told with the same verve and affinity for a good yarn that encomia to the river tend to inspire,\n <em>\n  Wicked River\n </em>\n looks at life along the Mississippi in the 19th century, before Twain had us thinking it was all Americana adventures. . . . Sandlin may singlehandedly destroy the view that the Midwest is a mellow place."\n <br />\n _â€”Time Out Chicago\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Marvelously captured. . . . A superb book debut. . . . Sandlin writes of a recurring sense of looming catastrophe that gripped many residents. . . . Fascinating."\n <br />\n _â€”Chicago Sun-Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Sumptuous writing and fascinating tales of the days when life on the Mississippi was rough and wild. . . . Sandlin transports readers back to a renegade time on the Mississippi, a rollicking ride full of marauders, floating brothels and rough characters spit straight from the pen of Twain himself. Sandlin''s own prose style is a fluvial joy."\n <br />\n _â€”Minneapolis Star Tribune\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "A gripping look back at the forgotten history of the river that made America."\n <br />\n _â€”The Daily Beast\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Splendid. . . . Intriguing. . . . Full of great stories. . . . makes for amusing and stimulating reading."\n <br />\n _â€”Columbus Commercial Dispatch (MS)\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "[A] superb book debut. . . . Thoroughly engaging, entertaining and seductively educational history. . . . a grand, clear-eyed look at river towns'' ''semi-barbarism.''"\n <br />\n â€”_The Denver Post\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Sandlin pulls no punches . . . it''s almost as if he decided Twain was wrong and we need to find out the truth. He tells of pirates, drownings and slavery even uglier than most history books will tell us, of people who fell off boats and had no way of being rescued in a wilderness. . . . if you love the river and its history, read it. It''s fun."\n <br />\n _â€”Rochester (MN) Post-Bulletin\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "A gripping book that plunges you into a rich dark stretch of visceral history. I read it in two sittings and got up shaken."\n <br />\n â€”Garrison Keillor\n</p>\n<p>\n "Raucous, fascinating and fun. . . . [Lee] Sandlin debuts with a rollicking history of the Mississippi Valley before commerce and technology tamed it. . . . [He] seems to have adopted some of Twainâ€™s technique in\n <em>\n  Life On the Mississippi\n </em>\n â€”i.e., disappearing for pages into long narratives/legends/rumors associated with the valley and its denizens. . . . [He] provides some John McPheeâ€“like detail about geology and riverine history, and also examines the human history of the region. . . . Apart from his generous offering of surprising facts, itâ€™s obvious that Sandlin loves the lore of the river, its narratives, legends and lies. . . . Readers will delight in stories about Annie Christmas (who wrote tales about prostitutes), Marie Laveau (the Voodoo Queen), the Crowâ€™s Nest pirates and John Murrell and his so-called â€œMystic Clan. . . .Gorgeous. â€\n <br />\n â€”Kirkus\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Wicked River _almost makes you feel guilty for enjoying an education so much. I learned things at every S-curve, neck deep in a fine, fine story. I lived a stone''s throw from that river, and though I knew it flowed through eons of meanness and sadness and ribaldry, I didn''t know it was this twisted. "\n <br />\n â€”Rick Bragg, author of _The Prince of Frogtown\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œGreat stuff, essential stuff, and yeah, wicked.â€Â \n <br />\n â€”Roy Blount Jr, author of\n <em>\n  Alphabet Juice\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Long Time Leaving Dispatches From Up South\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Geographically, culturally, and metaphorically, the Mississippi River has been at the center of American reality and imagination for 400 years. In\n <em>\n  Wicked River\n </em>\n , Lee Sandlin has lived up to his epic subject, taking us into overlooked, if not forgotten, epochs of history and folklore. Through labor and erudition he weaves the incredibly complicated strands of a story that seems too big to contemplate into a coherent tale that is surprising and entertaining on every page. He''s made the river his own, and extends it as a welcome gift to the reader."\n <br />\n â€”Anthony Walton, author of _Mississippi: An American Journey\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "What a wickedly wild ride of a read! I loved this book! It may be nonfiction, but Sandlin tells his stories with a narrative drive that any novelist would envy. The events and characters from the early days along the Mississippi, which he so evocatively recreates, are among the most fascinating youâ€™ll ever encounter anywhere. Honest to god, reading history has never been more fun!".\n <br />\n â€”William Kent Krueger, author of _Heaven''s Keep\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œOne of the best bookâ€™s ever written about the Mississippi River. Each page rounds a new bend full of delirious missionaries, hell-bent-for-speed steamboat captains, and gaudy traders in â€˜fancy girlâ€™ slave prostitutes. You wonâ€™t put it down till youâ€™ve read every steamy, malarial, fascinating page.â€\n <br />\n â€”Mike Tidwell, author of\n <em>\n  Bayou Farewell\n </em>\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _â€œToday we think of the Mississippi River as an elder statesman of the American landscape, but for most of the nineteenth century it was pure frontier: unruly, unregulated, and dangerous. Wicked River perfectly captures the great river''s secret history, overflowing with wonderfully chosen and impeccably delivered character sketches, set pieces, and side trips.â€\n <br />\n â€”Scott W. Berg, author of\n <em>\n  Grand Avenues\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn a narrative worthy of Mark Twain, Lee Sandlin tells of the Mississippi River when it was not only wild but wicked, home to sharpers and humbuggers, jackanapes, tub thumpers, and naked revelers.Â  This is a grand tale of Americaâ€™s mightiest river and the larger-than-life men and women who rode its waves into history.â€\n <br />\n â€”Sandra Dallas, author of\n <em>\n  Whiter Than Snow\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Prayers for Sale\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fascinating book, rich in detail and lore, the kind of strange object one wants to curl up with for long periods of time and gaze into the past we know much less well than we imagine.Â _Wicked River _is bound to cause a stir among readers who always want to know a little more about some place or some thing than the usual sources allow. Reading it is going to school again, in the best possible way.Â An entrance into a world so magical and unlikely that everyÂ page is a new episode full ofÂ real swashbuckling, nasty critters (human), and the roiling history of the big bad river.â€\n <br />\n â€”Frederick Barthelme, author of\n <em>\n  Waveland\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] superb book debut. . . . Thoroughly engaging, entertaining and seductively educational history. . . . a grand, clear-eyed look at river towns'' ''semi-barbarism.''"\n <br />\n _â€”The Denver Post\n</p>\n<p>\n _"Sandlin pulls no punches . . . it''s almost as if he decided Twain was wrong and we need to find out the truth. He tells of pirates, drownings and slavery even uglier than most history books will tell us, of people who fell off boats and had no way of being rescued in a wilderness. . . . if you love the river and its history, read it. It''s fun."\n <br />\n _â€”Rochester (MN) Post-Bulletin\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2324'),
(7955, 'Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild', 'Lee Sandlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A riveting look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in Americaâ€™s historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the nineteenth century. Â Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg in 1863, Wicked River takes us back to a time before the Mississippi was dredged into a shipping channel, and before Mark Twain romanticized it into myth. Drawing on an array of suspenseful and bizarre firsthand accounts, Lee Sandlin brings to life a place where river pirates brushed elbows with future presidents and religious visionaries shared passage with thievesâ€”a world unto itself where, every night, near the levees of the big river towns, hundreds of boats gathered to form dusk-todawn cities dedicated to music, drinking, and gambling. Here is a minute-by-minute account of Natchez being flattened by a tornado; the St. Louis harbor being crushed by a massive ice floe; hidden, nefarious celebrations of Mardi Gras; and the sinking of the Sultana, the worst naval disaster in American history. And here is the Mississippi itself: gorgeous, perilous, and unpredictable, lifeblood to the communities that rose and fell along its banks. Â An exuberant work of Americanaâ€”at once history, culture, and geographyâ€”Wicked River is a grand epic that portrays a forgotten society on the edge of revolutionary change.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2726'),
(7956, 'A Widow&#39;s Story', 'Joyce Carol Oates', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Early one morning in February 2008, Oates drove her husband, Raymond Smith, to the Princeton Medical Center where he was admitted with pneumonia. There, he developed a virulent opportunistic infection and died just one week later. Suddenly and unexpectedly alone, Oates staggered through her days and nights trying desperately just to survive Smith''s death and the terrifying loneliness that his death brought. In her typically probing fashion, Oates navigates her way through the choppy waters of widowhood, at first refusing to accept her new identity as a widow. She wonders if there is a perspective from which the widow''s grief is sheer vanity, this pretense that one''s loss is so very special that there has never been a loss quite like it. In the end, Oates finds meaning, much like many of Tolstoy''s characters, in the small acts that make up and sustain ordinary life. When she finds an earring she thought she''d lost in a garbage can that raccoons have overturned, she reflects, "If I have lost the meaning of my life, and the love of my life, I might still find small treasured things amid the spilled and pilfered trash." At times overly self-conscious, Oates nevertheless shines a bright light in every corner in her soul-searing memoir of widowhood. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Brutal violence and catastrophic loss are often the subjects of Oatesâ€™ powerful novels and stories. But as she reveals in this galvanizing memoir, her creative inferno was sequestered from her joyful life with her husband, Raymond Smith. A revered editor and publisher who did not read her fiction, Smith kept their household humming during their 48-year marriage. After his shocking death from a â€œsecondary infectionâ€ while hospitalized with pneumonia, Oates found herself in the grip of a relentless waking nightmare. She recounts this horrific â€œsiegeâ€ of grief with her signature perception, specificity, and intensity, from epic insomnia and terrifying hallucinations to the torment of â€œdeath-duties,â€ painful recognitions of confidences unshared and secrets harbored, and a chilling evaporation of meaning. But Oates also rallies to offer droll advice on how to be a â€œgood widowâ€ and describes her struggles with mountains of lavish â€œsympathy giftsâ€ and the attendant trash with a â€œwidowâ€™s slapstick-comedy.â€ In a stunning extension of the compelling disclosures found in The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973â€“1982 (2007), protean and unflinching Oates has created an illuminating portrait of a marriage, a searing confrontation with death, an extraordinarily forthright chronicle of mourning, and a profound â€œpilgrimageâ€ from chaos to coherence. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The incomparable, best-selling Oates fascinates readers, and her memoir of sudden widowhood will have an impact similar to Joan Didionâ€™s The Year of Magical Thinking (2005). --Donna Seaman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1796'),
(7957, 'A Wild Life: The Authorized Biography', 'Jeff Corwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A fascinating look at the real Jeff Corwin! From growing up in an urban community near Boston, to falling in love with snakes, to traveling to exotic places, to becoming a beloved Emmy Awardwinning television host of Animal Planet, this authorized biography will give readers a first-hand look at Jeffs amazing and adventurous life. Based on extensive research and one-on-one interviews with Jeff, kids will get an honest telling of Jeff Corwins incredible journey from child nature enthusiast to naturalist and animal specialist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2097'),
(7958, 'The Wild Things', 'Dave Eggers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Wild Things â€” based very loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze â€” is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he canâ€™t control. His father is gone, his mother is spending time with a younger boyfriend, his sister is becoming a teenager and no longer has interest in him. At the same time, Max finds himself capable of startling acts of wildness: he wears a wolf suit, bites his mom, and canâ€™t always control his outbursts. During a fight at home, Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Funny, dark, and alive, The Wild Things is a timeless and time-tested tale for all ages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2715'),
(7959, 'The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie', 'Wendy McClure', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Gretchen Rubin Interviews Wendy McClure\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gretchen:\n </strong>\n If you had to pick the one scene from all of Laura Ingalls Wilderâ€™s books that makes you the happiest, what would it be? I''d pick the scene where Mr. Edwards brings back the Christmas gifts to Laura and Mary, after he meets Santa Claus in Independence. I cry every time! Or maybe when Laura tells Almanzo that she won''t go buggy-riding with Nellie Oleson again.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy:\n </strong>\n For me itâ€™s when the Ingalls family moves into the â€œwonderful houseâ€ in\n <em>\n  On the Banks of Plum Creek\n </em>\n . The rooms are clean and new, with store-boughten hinges and china knobs on the doors, and everything is in its place. Every time I read it, I swoon over the details, from the calico-edged curtains to the smell of the pine boards. A close second is the scene where Laura gets to see the surveyorsâ€™ house for the first time in\n <em>\n  By the Shores of Silver Lake\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gretchen:\n </strong>\n Why do you think the Little House books have meant so much to you for so long?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy:\n </strong>\n I think itâ€™s because the point of view is at once so subtle and vivid that it feels like Iâ€™m in Laura Ingallsâ€™s head, looking with her eyes. I learned so much about how to see from these books, which in turn helped me learn to observe and think like a writer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gretchen:\n </strong>\n Now that you''ve had all those adventures and written your own book about LIW, do you feel differently about Wilder and the books?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy:\n </strong>\n In some ways, yes. Iâ€™m able to separate the real Laura Ingalls Wilder from her fictional counterpart and see her in ways that my childhood vision of her didnâ€™t allow for. I also now see Lauraâ€™s daughter, Rose, as part of the books because she contributed so much to them. At the same time, the world of the books hasnâ€™t changed much in my mind. Even when Iâ€™ve seen the actual sites where the books take place, my imagined version of those places is just as real to me as itâ€™s always been.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gretchen:\n </strong>\n Having written\n <em>\n  The Wilder Life\n </em>\n , you must be approached constantly by people who are also ardent Laura Ingalls Wilder fans. Do you feel an instant connection to them, or is it a bit hard to relate to everyone''s strong emotions about her work?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy:\n </strong>\n I feel more connected to other fans much more than I ever did when I was younger. As a kid, my relationship to Laura and the books was so solitaryâ€”I didnâ€™t really know anyone else who loved the books. So when I started to meet and talk to others about the book, it took a little getting used to at first, because everyoneâ€™s fandom is different (some people really love the TV show, others consider it sacrilege); but Iâ€™ve since found that one of the best things about writing this book is being able to take part in this shared passion.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gretchen:\n </strong>\n How in the world do you come up with those hilarious Twitter comments as @HalfPintIngalls? Brilliant. My favorite so far: "Hey Almanzo, if you liked it then you shouldâ€™ve built a shanty on it."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy:\n </strong>\n It takes longer than youâ€™d think! I try to take advantage of the seasons and think, what would Laura be tweeting about this time of year? (Thanks to\n <em>\n  The Long Winter\n </em>\n , itâ€™s never too early or late in the year to complain about twisting hay!) I also go through the Little House books in search of inspiration. It helps that HalfPintIngalls doesnâ€™t tweet too much...after all, she has to walk two miles into town to send her posts from the Twittergraph office!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Obsessed with Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books about an 1880s pioneer family, children''s book editor and memoirist McClure (I''m Not the New Me) attempts to recapture her childhood vision of "Laura World." Her wacky quest includes hand-grinding wheat for bread, buying an authentic churn, and traveling to sites where the Ingalls family attempted to wrest a living from the prairie. Discovering that butter she churned herself was "just butter," McClure admits she "felt like a genius and a complete idiot at the same time." Viewing a one-room dugout the Ingallses occupied that was "smaller than a freight elevator" prompted McClure to admit that "the actual past and the Little House world had different properties." McClure finally tells her boyfriend, "I''m home," after recognizing that her travels stemmed from her reaction to the recent death of her mother. Readers don''t need to be Wilder fans to enjoy this funny and thoughtful guide to a romanticized version of the American expansion west. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1867');
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(7960, 'The Wilderness Warrior', 'Douglas Brinkley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president." By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I. Roosevelt''s most important legacies led to the creation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and passage of the Antiquities Act in 1906. His executive orders saved such treasures as Devils Tower, the Grand Canyon, and the Petrified Forest.   Tracing the role that nature played in Roosevelt''s storied career, Brinkley brilliantly analyzes the influence that the works of John James Audubon and Charles Darwin had on the young man who would become our twenty-sixth president. With descriptive flair, the author illuminates Roosevelt''s bird watching in the Adirondacks, wildlife obsession in Yellowstone, hikes in the Blue Ridge Mountains, ranching in the Dakota Territory, hunting in the Big Horn Mountains, and outdoor romps through Idaho and Wyoming. He also profiles Roosevelt''s incredible circle of naturalist friends, including the Catskills poet John Burroughs, Boone and Crockett Club cofounder George Bird Grinnell, forestry zealot Gifford Pinchot, buffalo breeder William Hornaday, Sierra Club founder John Muir, U.S. Biological Survey wizard C. Hart Merriam, Oregon Audubon Society founder William L. Finley, and pelican protector Paul Kroegel, among many others. He brings to life hilarious anecdotes of wild-pig hunting in Texas and badger saving in Kansas, wolf catching in Oklahoma and grouse flushing in Iowa. Even the story of the teddy bear gets its definitive treatment.   Destined to become a classic, this extraordinary and timeless biography offers a penetrating and colorful look at Roosevelt''s naturalist achievements, a legacy now more important than ever. Raising a Paul Revereâ€“like alarm about American wildlife in perilâ€”including buffalo, manatees, antelope, egrets, and elkâ€”Roosevelt saved entire species from probable extinction. As we face the problems of global warming, overpopulation, and sustainable land management, this imposing leader''s stout resolution to protect our environment is an inspiration and a contemporary call to arms for us all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2542'),
(7961, 'Will Eisner: A Dreamer&#39;s Life in Comics', 'Michael Schumacher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An iconic figure in the world of comics, Will Eisner has stellar achievements worthy of the reverence shown by Schumacher (Wreck of the Carl D.). Fortified by intimate interviews, Schumacher''s work shows an outsider during a Depression-era childhood, "an artistic dreamer and steely realist" determined to use his exceptional talent to forge a career. Eisner, his skills sharpened by an apprenticeship and a stint at Manhattan''s noted Art Students League, created one of the first comics syndicates at a peak in the comics trend in the 1930s and ''40s, recruiting such top names as Lou Fine, Bob Kane, and Jack Kirby. Despite wars, a congressional probe on the "immorality" of comics, and the cancer death of his daughter, Eisner produced remarkable work over eight decades: as a young artist, as the creator of a classic superhero, the Spirit, and as the father of the American graphic novel with his Contract with God trilogy. This exploration of Eisner, with photos and drawings, provides an absorbing glimpse of an American original who continually set the bar higher in his field. (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Born in 1917, Will Eisner, now known as the father of the graphic novel, grew up in the Bronx poor but resourceful. Seasoned biographer Schumacher zeroes in on the essence of Eisnerâ€™s success: his rare ability to unite art (he inherited his phenomenal gift for drawing from his immigrant artist father) with practicality (his motherâ€™s specialty). After going to work selling newspapers at age 13, it didnâ€™t take long for this tireless â€œobserver of the cityâ€ and an ardent fan of short stories and movies to excel in the burgeoning world of comics as the creator of the Spirit, a masked superhero, and as the founder of a thriving comics studio. Drafted in 1942 and put to work making educational comics for the army, Eisner spent the next two decades creating instructional comics until the underground comic movement initiated a revival of his early work and sparked his revolutionary and socially conscious graphic novels, beginning with A Contract with God (1978). Propelled by Eisnerâ€™s geyserlike energy and output, Schumacher keenly chronicles Eisnerâ€™s brilliant career within a lively history of American comics and creates an inspiring portrait of a perpetually diligent and innovative artist whose belief in comics as fine art fueled a new and fertile creative universe. --Donna Seaman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1859'),
(7962, 'The Will of the People: Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy', 'Martin Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Will of the People is an incisive, in-depth look at Winston Churchillâ€™s lifelong commitment to parliamentary democracy. First elected at twenty-five, Churchill was still in the House of Commons sixty-four years later. By far the largest part of his life â€“ of his working days and nights â€“ was spent in the cut and thrust of debate in the service of the people, whose instrument he believed Parliament to be. â€œI am a child of the House of Commons,â€ he told a joint session of the US Congress in December 1941. â€œI was brought up in my fatherâ€™s house to believe in democracy. Trust the people â€“ that was his messageâ€¦.â€Throughout his career, Churchill did his utmost to ensure that Parliament was effective and that it was not undermined by either adversarial party politics or by elected members who sought to manipulate it. Even the defeat of the Conservative Party in the General Election of 1945, which ended his wartime premiership, in no way altered his faith in parliamentary democracy. â€œIt is the will of the people,â€ he told a small gathering of friends and family the day after the results were announced. And he meant it. Reflecting on the importance of the Second World War as a means of restoring democracy, Churchill told the House of Commons: â€œAt the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper â€“ no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.â€Todayâ€™s readers will readily compare Churchillâ€™s regard for democracy and the importance of that â€œlittle manâ€ with the attitudes of contemporary leaders, and of those who seek leadership.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1869'),
(7963, 'William and Harry: Behind the Palace Walls', 'Katie Nicholl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n William and Harry is a fascinating insight into the lives and loves of two extraordinary young men who have captured not only the hearts and minds of not only the British public, but those the world over. This is the definitive book about the princes, bringing their story right up to date. It is the tale of two brothers who have carried the legacy of their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, into the twenty-first century and on whom the future of the House of Windsor largely depends.Drawing on her unique set of contacts Katie Nicholl recounts the royal brothers'' extraordinary lives and reveals William and Harry''s real characters as they become front-line soldiers and modern princes. Through her network of sources, some of whome have agreed to speak for the very first time, Katie tells the story of one of Prince William''s earliest romances, and his struggle with his destiny as a future King of England.As a royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton seems more probable, Katie has spoken to a wealth of contacts close to the couple who reveal how their love affair really started at St Andrews, the hurdles the pair overcame and the challenges they still face. She recounts the story of Harry''s time at Eton, his relationship with Chelsy Davy, and his three months he spent on the front line in Afghanistan. She analyses William and Harry''s complex relationship with their father, and the woman who will one day become Queen Camilla. She talks to their friends, contemporaries and confidants to paint a unique and revealing portrait of the two most famous brothers in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1860'),
(7964, 'The Winds of Dune', 'Brian Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With their usual skill, Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have taken ideas left behind by Frank Herbert and filled them with living characters and a true sense of wonder. Where Paul of Dune picked up the saga directly after the events of Dune,Â The WindsÂ of Dune begins after the events of Dune Messiah. Paul has walked off into the sand, blind, and is presumed dead. Jessica and Gurney are on Caladan; Alia is trying to hold the Imperial government together with Duncan; Mohiam dead at the hands of Stilgar; Irulan imprisoned. Paulâ€™s former friend, Bronso of Ix, now seems to be leading opposition to the House of Atreides. Herbert and Andersonâ€™s newest book in this landmark series will concentrate on these characters as well the growing battle between Jessica, and her daughter, Alia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3536'),
(7965, 'Winner Stands Alone', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€˜â€¦this scintillating parable about shallowness, greed and celebrity worship from international bestseller Coelho (The Alchemist) unsparingly examines the Superclass, the elite''s eliteâ€¦Coelho''s trademark mysticism and spiritual messages provide an extra boost to the thriller plot.â€™Publisher''s WeeklyPraise for Paulo Coelho:â€˜An exceptional writer.'' USA Todayâ€˜His books have had a life-enhancing impact on millions of people.â€™ Timesâ€˜One of the few to deserve the term â€œPublishing Phenomenonâ€.â€™ Independent on Sundayâ€˜Coelhoâ€™s writing is beautifully poetic but his message is what countsâ€¦he gives me hope and puts a smile on my face.â€™ Daily Expressâ€˜The Alchemist is a beautiful book about magic, dreams and the treasures we seek elsewhere and then find on our doorstep.â€˜ Madonnaâ€˜Itâ€™s like music, really, the way he writes, itâ€™s so beautiful. Itâ€™s a gift that I envy above all others.â€™ Julia Roberts\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1243'),
(7966, 'The Winner', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Absolute Power. Total Control. And now The Winner: Baldacci doesn''t settle for second best. Here, his heroine, who gets rich after being forced to participate in a fixed lottery, is wanted for murder.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irritatingly trite woman-in-periler from lawyer-turned-novelist Baldacci. Moving away from the White House and the white-shoe Washington law firms of his previous bestsellers (Absolute Power, 1996; Total Control, 1997), Baldacci comes up with LuAnn Tyler, a spunky, impossibly beautiful, white-trash truck stop waitress with a no-good husband and a terminally cute infant daughter in tow. Some months after the birth of Lisa, LuAnn gets a phone call summoning her to a make-shift office in an unrented storefront of the local shopping mall. There, she gets a Faustian offer from a Mr. Jackson, a monomaniacal, cross-dressing manipulator who apparently knows the winning numbers in the national lottery before the numbers are drawn. It seems that LuAnn fits the media profile of what a lottery winner should be--poor, undereducated but proud--and if she''s willing to buy the right ticket at the right time and transfer most of her winnings to Jackson, she''ll be able to retire in luxury. Jackson fails to inform her, however, that if she refuses his offer, he''ll have her killed. Before that can happen, as luck would have it, LuAnn barely escapes death when one of husband Duane''s drug deals goes bad. She hops on a first-class Amtrak sleeper to Manhattan with a hired executioner in pursuit. But executioner Charlie, one of Jackson''s paid handlers, can''t help but hear wedding bells when he sees LuAnn cooing with her daughter. Alas, a winning $100- million lottery drawing complicates things. Jackson spirits LuAnn and Lisa away to Sweden, with Charlie in pursuit. Never fear. Not only will LuAnn escape a series of increasingly violent predicaments, but she''ll also outwit Jackson, pay an enormous tax bill to the IRS, and have enough left over to honeymoon in Switzerland. Too preposterous to work as feminine wish-fulfillment, too formulaic to be suspenseful. (Book-of-the-Month Club main selection) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/193'),
(7967, 'Winston Churchill&#39;s War Leadership', 'Martin Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Invited to lecture at the White House in February 2002, Gilbert, known as Winston Churchill''s official biographer, hopes this commentary "can be of service" to the leaders of the war on terror. Whether George W. Bush and Tony Blair have been consciously imitating Churchill will be left for future historians to discover; Gilbert, for his part, cautions that "Churchill''s war leadership can have no parallel," except during a war conducted on the scale of World War II. Caveat announced, Gilbert proceeds point by point to Churchill''s direction of affairs, of which his celebrated speeches and buoyancy in public (depicted in the author''s photo album\n <em>\n  Churchill at War\n </em>\n [BKL F 15 04]) was only one praiseworthy aspect. Above all, Gilbert credits Churchill''s refusal to deal with Hitler in 1940 and rates highly as well Churchill''s articulation of the war''s aim as the defense of democracy. Beneath the public plane, Churchill''s day-to-day activity (such as attending to intelligence and logistical details) was, according to Gilbert, equally integral to his leadership.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How does he assess the information that is brought to him? How does his personal or political philosophy, or a moral sense, sustain him? How does he draw inspiration from those around him? How does he deal with setbacks and disasters? In this brilliant close-up look at Winston Churchill''s leadership during the Second World War, Gilbert gets to the heart of the trials and struggles that have confronted the world''s most powerful leaders, even up to current politicians such as George Bush and Tony Blair.\n</p>\n<p>\n Basing the book on his intimate knowledge of Churchill''s private and official papers, Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchillâ€™s official biographer, looks at the public figure and wartime propaganda, to reveal a very human, sensitive, and often tormented man, who nevertheless found the strength to lead his nation forward from the darkest and most dangerous of times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1861'),
(7968, 'Winston&#39;s War: Churchill, 1940-1945', 'Max Hastings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2010\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Winston''s War\n  </em>\n  is a brilliant tribute to the leadership of Winston Churchill during the bleakest hours of World War II. Employing an oratory genius that awed proponents and critics alike, the British Prime Minister fortified national pride and resolve by remaining fiercely defiant in the face of a powerful Axis war machine. Yet historian Max Hastings provides more than just a look at the inner workings of one man, as he extends beyond the words of the dynamic leader to portray an honest account of the emotions that defined Great Britain during the 1940''s. Contrary to what his gilded legacy may lead future generations to believe, Churchill did not cement his place in history by winning unanimous public support. Rather, he achieved his iconic status by empowering "millions to look beyond the havoc of the battlefield...and perceive a higher purpose in their struggles and sacrifices."\n  <em>\n   --Dave Callanan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lynne Olson Reviews *Winston''s War\n  </strong>\n  *\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lynne Olson, a former Moscow correspondent for the\n   <em>\n    Associated Press\n   </em>\n   and White House correspondent for the\n   <em>\n    Baltimore Sun\n   </em>\n   , is the author of\n   <em>\n    Citizens of London\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    Troublesome Young Men\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    Freedomâ€™s Daughters\n   </em>\n   and co-author, with her husband, Stanley Cloud, of\n   <em>\n    A Question of Honor\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    The Murrow Boys\n   </em>\n   . She lives in Washington, D.C.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  British historian Max Hastings has entered a very crowded field with\n  <em>\n   Winstonâ€™s War\n  </em>\n  , his new book about Winston Churchillâ€™s direction of the British effort in World War II. Hastings, the author of the acclaimed military histories\n  <em>\n   Armageddon\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Retribution\n  </em>\n  , readily acknowledges the problem, noting that no human being has been written about more than Churchill. Yet he accomplishes what he has set out to do--provide an insightful, compelling portrait of the political outcast who came to power at the gravest moment in his countryâ€™s history and, over the course of a desperate summer, rallied the British to stand alone against Hitler.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hastings is clear-eyed about Churchillâ€™s not inconsiderable shortcomings as a warlord, including a penchant for rash, ill-thought-out raids and other military operations "more appropriate to a Victorian cavalry subaltern than to the director of a vast industrial war effort." Yet, as he points out, that same capacity for boldness enabled Churchill--one of the few British prime ministers ever to have fought in a war himself--to spur into action not only his demoralized countrymen but also Britainâ€™s sclerotic military establishment, whose fortress mentality was the bane of his wartime existence.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Equally important was Churchillâ€™s assiduous courtship of the American people and their president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. While the prime ministerâ€™s relationship with Roosevelt was never as close as Churchill later claimed, he exerted a sizable influence on FDRâ€™s decisionmaking early in the war, including the critical decision to launch a 1942 invasion of North Africa, rather than the premature assault on France that the U.S. military brass had been urging--an attack that almost certainly would have ended in disaster.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the last two years of the conflict, however, the prime ministerâ€™s influence in Washington waned dramatically. To his considerable pain and alarm, Roosevelt paid far more heed to the wishes and demands of Stalin and the Soviets than to Churchill and the British, who now were consigned to junior partnership in the Grand Alliance. Yet Hastings makes a convincing case that Churchillâ€™s still-commanding stature in the United States helped maintain Britainâ€™s status as a key, if diminished, player during the warâ€™s endgame--a time when this exhausted country could easily have been pushed into the shadows as "a backwater, supply center and aircraft carrier for American-led armies in Europe."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Above all, though, Churchill will be remembered for his clarion calls of defiance and hope in the summer of 1940, almost singlehandedly changing the mood of his nation and rousing the British to fight on in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. "Gradually we came under the spell of that wonderful voice and inspiration," one London woman later wrote. "His stature grew larger and larger, until it filled our sky."\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Stanley Cloud)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Max Hastings on *Winston''s War\n  </strong>\n  *\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why another Churchill book? We have been told more about him than any other human being. Most of my own research for this book has been done not in the Churchill papers, gutted by historians, but among military and civilian diaries, newspaper files, British, American and Russian records. What I have tried to do is to portray the story of Churchill at war in the context of his relationships with the British and American peoples, the armed forces, the Russians. All these were more complex than is sometimes acknowledged.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is easy to identify his strategic errors and misplaced enthusiasms. Yet the outcome justified all. The defining fact of Churchillâ€™s leadership was Britainâ€™s emergence from the war among the victors. No warlord, no commander, in history has failed to make mistakes. It is as easy to catalogue the errors of Alexander the Great, Caesar, Napoleon as those of Churchill. He towers over the war, standing higher than any other single human being at the head of the forces of light. Without him, Britainâ€™s part would have seemed pretty small by VE-Day. Russia and the United States had played the dominant parts. No honourable course of action existed which could have averted his nationâ€™s bankruptcy and exhaustion in 1945, its eclipse from world power.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Churchill did not command the confidence of all the British people all of the time. But his rhetoric empowered millions to look beyond the havoc of the battlefield, the squalor of their circumstances amid privation and bombardment, and to perceive a higher purpose in their struggles and sacrifices. This was, of course, of greater importance in 1940-41 than later, when the allies could commit superior masses of men and material to securing victory. But Churchillâ€™s words remain a lasting force in causing the struggle against Hitler to be perceived by posterity as â€˜the good warâ€™.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He cherished aspirations which often proved greater than his nation was capable of fulfilling, which is one of my central themes. But it is inconsistent to applaud his defiance of reason in insisting that Britain must fight on in June 1940, and denounce the extravagance of his later demands upon its people and armed forces. Service chiefs often deplored his misjudgements and intemperance. Yet his instinct for war was much more highly developed than their own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  History must take Churchill as a whole, as his wartime countrymen were obliged to do, rather than employ a spoke shave to strip away the blemishes created by his lunges into excess and folly, which were real enough. If the governance of nations in peace is best conducted by reasonable men, in war there is a powerful argument for leadership by those sometimes willing to adopt courses beyond the boundaries of reason, as Churchill did in 1940-41. His foremost quality was strength of will. This was so fundamental to his triumph in the early war years, that it seems absurd to suggest that he should have become more biddable, merely because in 1943-45 his stubbornness was sometimes deployed in support of misjudged purposes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As he left Chequers for the last time in July 1945, he wrote in its visitorâ€™s book: â€˜FINIS.â€™ Three weeks later, on 15 August, Japanâ€™s surrender brought an end to the Second World War. Churchill was among the greatest actors upon the stage of affairs the world has ever known. Familiarity with his speeches, conversation and the fabulous anecdotage about his wartime doings, does nothing to diminish our capacity to be moved to awe, tears, laughter by the sustained magnificence of his performance. He has become today a shared British and American legend. If his leadership was imperfect, no other British ruler in history has matched his achievement nor, please God, is ever likely to find himself in circumstances to surpass it.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Military historian Hastings (\n  <em>\n   Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944â€“45\n  </em>\n  ) adds to his illustrious reputation with this magnificent analysis of Winston Churchill''s years of greatness. In 1938 Churchill seemed a man bypassed by history. By 1945 he had become the greatest war leader Britain ever knew and has since achieved mythic status, standing higher than any other single human being at the head of the forces of light. During WWII Churchill wielded more power than any British prime minister in history but remained a democrat. He raised his nation far higher in the Grand Alliance than its material contributions justified. Hastings recognizes Churchill''s strategic errors, his misplaced enthusiasms. Britain''smilitary leaders and military systems often disappointed his soaring hopes. His understanding of the empire and its peoples was limited and unenlightened. His indifference to building a new society resulted in his being turned out of office as the guns fell silent. But the outcome justified all, in his eyes. Churchill''s strength of will, rhetoric, and personality enabled the British to understand the reasons for their sacrifices and made Britain''s end as a great power a heroic one. 32 pages of photos, 8 maps.\n  <em>\n   (Apr. 30)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2327'),
(7969, 'Winter Garden', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesnâ€™t know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes a powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort to her daughters. As children, the only connection between them was the Russian fairy tale Anya sometimes told the girls at night. On his deathbed, their father extracts a promise from the women in his life: the fairy tale will be told one last timeâ€”and all the way to the end. Thus begins an unexpected journey into the truth of Anyaâ€™s life in war-torn Leningrad, more than five decades ago. Alternating between the past and present, Meredith and Nina will finally hear the singular, harrowing story of their motherâ€™s life, and what they learn is a secret so terrible and terrifying that it will shake the very foundation of their family and change who they believe they are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3549'),
(7970, 'Winter Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The author of four previous mystery thrillers starring Lucas Davenport ( Rules of Prey , etc.) evokes with precision and clarity two disparate, but equally unsettling types of harshness: the raw power of nature and the pitilessness of certain human beings. In a rural area of northern Wisconsin, a family of three is savagely wiped out by the Iceman, who then torches their house. In pursuit of a damaging photograph--a snapshot of him in a sexual situation with a local boy--this fiend puts no value on human life. Enter Davenport, the laconic, slightly cynical ex-cop from Minneapolis, who uncovers several disturbing truths before determining the Iceman''s identity. The wintry climate is practically palpable here; numbing cold and blizzards prove as threatening as the Iceman''s malevolence. Despite its chilling moments (literally and figuratively), this forceful narrative is tempered with an unexpected humanity, as evidenced primarily in the mature, slowly blossoming romance between Davenport and a local doctor. The moments of tenderness and humor shared by the rugged detective and this worldlywise Mother Earth figure stand in vigorous counterpoint to the surrounding events. Sandford casts a keen eye, too, on small-town life: he knows that everyone''s peccadillos are grist for the rumor mill, and that secrets can quickly sour. A compelling vitality suffuses this novel, arguably the finest in a sterling quintet.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vastly entertaining fifth entry in Sandford''s popular Prey series (Silent Prey, 1992, etc.). This time, ex-cop and master- gamesman Lucas Davenport takes on a crazed killer ravaging a small Wisconsin town. The killer, who calls himself\n  <code>\n  </code>\n  the Iceman'''' for his sang- froid, debuts in the creepy opening pages by stalking an isolated house, gunning down the woman inside, chopping up her husband, and torturing their daughter--all in a failed attempt to retrieve an incriminating photo that''s fallen into the victims'' hands. It''s a gruesome start, but Sandford splatters the gore mostly off-page, relying on suspense--and there''s plenty of it--to jangle readers'' nerves. When the bodies are found, the local sheriff calls in Davenport to help. Arriving in town, Davenport, who''s at loose ends in his life, finds himself facing two enemies: the Iceman, but also record cold and snow that''s frozen the town into a death-trap. His investigation--which hinges on retrieving the photo before the Iceman does--stalls in the face of challenging puzzles centering on time-of-death and a seemingly reluctant witness, but it also butts him up against some marvelous characters, including a female M.D. with whom he falls eagerly in love. Meanwhile, the Iceman slays anyone who might know about the photo--which, it turns out, shows him having sex with a local boy, his first victim: The Iceman heads a child-porn ring. When Davenport--who''s been revitalized by the case--at last recovers the photo, the Iceman''s surprising identity is revealed, leading to a furious climactic chase on snowmobiles through dark woods and howling wind--and to Davenport and the Iceman each having a tË†te-â€¦-tË†te with death. Crackling action, a clever mystery, and characters who breathe make this great fun: one of the best Preys yet and a must for thriller fans. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/703'),
(7971, 'The Winter Sea', 'Susanna Kearsley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The story was deliciously romantic and the writing style matched the brooding, haunting tale very well. Definitely well worth reading! (Lynn Spencer\n  <em>\n   All About Romance\n  </em>\n  20101108)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kearsley''s novel is highly reminiscent of Barbara Erskine''s Lady of Hay and Mary Stewart''s works: evocative novels that lift readers straight into another time and place to smell the sea, feel the castle walls, see history and sense every emotion. These are marks of a fantastic storyteller. 4 1/2 Stars, Top Pick of the Month (_RT Book Reviews_ 20101116)\n </p>\n <p>\n  The rich history and the historical aspect of this novel made it a book that was hard to put down. (_The Romance Studio_ 20101123)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Skillful writing and research... Readers will not be disappointed in Sophia''s enthralling story. Highly recommended. (_Historical Novels Review_ 20101201)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reading this book was pure magic. (_Queen of Happy Endings_ 20101201)\n </p>\n <p>\n  I loved The\n  <em>\n   Winter Sea\n  </em>\n  . It drew me in from the start and I found myself reading faster and faster just to find out what would happen next... (_Starting Fresh_ 20101201)\n </p>\n <p>\n  A creative tour de force... Brilliant! (_New York Journal of Books_ 20101201)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Scotland past and present comes vividly alive in this superior piece of historical fiction - the rugged countryside, salty sea air and rich heritage are the perfect setting for this tale of love, loss and destiny. (_Thoughts From Lady Tess_ 20101202)\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is historical fiction at its best! (_Library of Clean Reads_ 20101202)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vivid... One of those books that you remember long after the last page has been turned. (_Debbie''s Book Bag_ 20101206)\n </p>\n <p>\n  A perfect blend of romance, real history and what if... (_At Home with a Good Book and the Cat_ 20101208)\n </p>\n <p>\n  A beautiful work of historical fiction . (_Rundpinne_ 20101213)\n </p>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   Winter Sea\n  </em>\n  is a beautiful story... It will transport you to another time and place. (_A Buckeye Girl Reads_ 20101220)\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book has everything: historical romance, contemporary romance, rebellion, tragedy. All the good stuff... A+ storytelling! (_Readin'' and Dreamin''_ 20101220)\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the moment I picked up this novel I was intoxicated by the idea of finding not just a muse but true love by pure accident.. A book not to be missed. (_Pencil Pushers and Ink Splotches_ 20101221)\n </p>\n <p>\n  An excellent "time-travel" story with alternating chapters set in modern time and in the past. I would definitely recommend this book to those who love an epic story rich in historical detail. (_In the Hammock_ 20101221)\n </p>\n <p>\n  A wonderful book to escape into for a couple of days with fabulous characters, and an engaging story. (_In Spring it is the Dawn_ 20101221)\n </p>\n <p>\n  A well written, engaging historical novel with a dash of romance... it''s a page turner. (_A Work in Progress_ 20101222)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beautiful, clear writing, a believable storyline, adventure and romance. (_Bookfoolery and Babble_ 20101227)\n </p>\n <p>\n  A breathtaking novel... Kearsley''s writing style beautifully spells out the mood for this novel. (_Luxury Reading_ 20101227)\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the most enchanting romance novels of the decade, The\n  <em>\n   Winter Sea\n  </em>\n  will find a home on everyone''s bookshelf. (_Romance Fiction on Suite101.com_ 20101227)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each page I devoured only made me want to read the next one and the next one... highly engaging. (_The Royal Reviews_ 20101227)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Absolutely phenomenal... A stunning, gorgeous and heart-wrenching tale. (_Psychotic State_ 20101228)\n </p>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   Winter Sea\n  </em>\n  was an emotionally poignant, gripping tale of adventure both in the past and the present with characters full of life, and conflicts that tug at the heart strings. A definite read! (_History Undressed_ 20101229)\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you are a fan of Mary Stewart and Barbara Erskine, this is a must for your bookcase. (_Celtic Lady''s Reviews_ 20110105)\n </p>\n <p>\n  What a gifted writer Ms. Kearsley is! This is one book that I wish had gone on... (_Books by the Willow Tree_ 20110110)\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book had it all: romance, intrigue, mystery, historical fiction, kick-ass location, and a storyline that made me not want to put the book down. (_Life in the Thumb_ 20110117)\n </p>\n <p>\n  A beautiful and engrossing story... The\n  <em>\n   Winter Sea\n  </em>\n  will appeal in spades to fans of Mary Stewart and Diana Gabaldon. (_Angieville_ 20110127)\n </p>\n <p>\n  I loved how the author wove the past and the present together as Carrie dreamed of the Jacobite invasion, finding inspiration for her novel, and then in her research discovered that her dreams were more than just dreams. (_Let Them Read Books_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Marvelous and flawless... (_Read All Over Reviews_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beautifully written... A book to be read carefully and savored. (_DearAuthor.com_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  _"Powerful, atmospheric, enthralling, and simply mesmerizing, [\n  <strong>\n   The Winter Sea\n  </strong>\n  ] is one of the best books you''ll read this year!"_\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   -Singletitles.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Susanna Kearsley''s obvious love of history is infectious...\n  <strong>\n   The Winter Sea\n  </strong>\n  is an acknowledgement that so many of us are haunted by the deeds of our ancestors, perhaps literally..."_\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   -Gail Anderson-Dargatz, international bestselling author of\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    A Recipe for Bees\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   History has all but forgotten...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestselling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows the truth-the ultimate betrayal-that happened all those years ago, and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    What readers say:\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Kearsley weaves an airtight spell that alternates and mingles the past with the present... Kudos go to her ending that, believe it or not, had this jaded reader blinking back both tears and smiles of surprise and approval. Well done."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "A perfect concoction of history and romance. Susanna Kearsley has to be one of my all-time favorite authors-she captures the audience''s attention from the start."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "The book is so beautifully written the reader will feel they are right there on the northeast coast of Scotland; one can almost taste the salt-laced wind..."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (20100202)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2929'),
(7972, 'The Wise Man&#39;s Fear', 'Patrick Rothfuss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Day Two: The Wise Man''s Fear.  "There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."  An escalating rivalry with a powerful member of the nobility forces Kvothe to leave the University and seek his fortune abroad. Adrift, penniless, and alone, he travels to Vintas, where he quickly becomes entangled in the politics of courtly society. While attempting to curry favor with a powerful noble, Kvothe discovers an assassination attempt, comes into conflict with a rival arcanist, and leads a group of mercenaries into the wild, in an attempt to solve the mystery of who (or what) is waylaying travelers on the King''s road.  All the while, Kvothe searches for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, forced to reclaim the honor of the Edema Ruh, and travels into the Fae realm. There he meets Felurian, the faerie woman no man can resist, and who no man has ever survived. Under her tutelage, Kvothe learns much about true magic and the ways of women.  In The Wise Man''s Fear Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3569'),
(7973, 'Wiseguy', 'Nicholas Pileggi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "At the age of twelve my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world." -- Henry Hill\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *Wiseguy* is Nicholas Pileggi''s remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what some people call the Mafia. *Wiseguy* is Henry Hill''s story, in fascinating, brutal detail, the never-before-revealed day-to-day life of a working mobster -- his violence, his wild spending sprees, his wife, his mistresses, his code of honor.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Henry Hill knows where a lot of bodies are buried, and he turned Federal witness to save his own life. The mob is still hunting him for what he reveals in *Wiseguy*: hundreds of crimes including arson, extortion, hijacking, and the $6 million Lufthansa heist, the biggest successful cash robbery in U.S. history, which led to ten murders. A firsthand account of the secret world of the mob,\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *Wiseguy* is more compelling than any novel.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1863'),
(7974, 'Wish You Well', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Baldacci has made a name for himself crafting big, burly legal thrillers with larger-than-life plots. However,\n <em>\n  Wish You Well\n </em>\n , set in his native Virginia, is a tale of hope and wonder and "something of a miracle" just itching to happen. This shift from contentious urbanites to homespun hill families may come as a surprise to some of Baldacci''s fans--but they can rest assured: the author''s sense of pacing and exuberant prose have made the leap as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n The year is 1940. After a car accident kills 12-year-old Lou''s and 7-year-old Oz''s father and leaves their mother Amanda in a catatonic trance, the children find themselves sent from New York City to their great-grandmother Louisa''s farm in Virginia. Louisa''s hardscrabble existence comes as a profound shock to precocious Lou and her shy brother. Still struggling to absorb their abandonment, they enter gamely into a life that tests them at every turn--and offers unimaginable rewards. For Lou, who dreams of following in her father''s literary footsteps, the misty, craggy Appalachians and the equally rugged individuals who make the mountains their home quickly become invested with an almost mythic significance:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  They took metal cups from nails on the wall and dipped them in the water, and then sat outside and drank. Louisa picked up the green leaves of a mountain spurge growing next to the springhouse, which revealed beautiful purple blossoms completely hidden underneath. "One of God''s little secrets," she explained. Lou sat there, cup cradled between her dimpled knees, watching and listening to her great-grandmother in the pleasant shade...\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Baldacci switches deftly between lovingly detailed character description (an area in which his debt to Laura Ingalls Wilder and Harper Lee seems evident) and patient development of the novel''s central plot. If that plot is a trifle transparent--no one will be surprised by Amanda''s miraculous recovery or by the children''s eventual battle with the nefarious forces of industry in an attempt to save their great-grandmother''s farm--neither reader nor character is the worse for it. After all, nostalgia is about remembering things one already knows.\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Baldacci is writing what? That waspish question buzzed around publishing circles when Warner announced that the bestselling author of The Simple Truth, Absolute Power and other turbo-thrillersâ€”an author generally esteemed more for his plots than for his characters or proseâ€”was trying his hand at mainstream fiction, with a mid-century period novel set in the rural South, no less. Shades of John Grisham and A Painted House. But guess what? Clearly inspired by his subjectâ€”his maternal ancestors, he reveals in a foreword, hail from the mountain area he writes about here with such strengthâ€”Baldacci triumphs with his best novel yet, an utterly captivating drama centered on the difficult adjustment to rural life faced by two children when their New York City existence shatters in an auto accident. That tragedy, which opens the book with a flourish, sees acclaimed but impecunious riter Jack Cardinal dead, his wife in a coma and their daughter, Lou, 12, and son, Oz, seven, forced to move to the southwestern Virginia farm of their aged great-grandmother, Louisa. Several questions propel the subsequent story with vigor. Will the siblings learn to accept, even to love, their new life? Will their mother regain consciousness? Andâ€”in a development that takes the narrative into familiar Baldacci territory for a gripping legal showdownâ€”will Louisa lose her land to industrial interests? Baldacci exults in high melodrama here, and it doesn''t always work: the death of one major character will wring tears from the stoniest eyes, but the reappearance of another, though equally hanky-friendly, is outright manipulative. Even so, what the novel offers above all is bone-deep emotional truth, as its myriad charactersâ€”each, except for one cartoonish villain, as real as readers'' own kinâ€”grapple not just with issues of life and death but with the sufferings and joys of daily existence in a setting detailed with finely attuned attention and a warm sense of wonder. This novel has a huge heartâ€”and millions of readers are going to love it. Agent, Aaron Priest. 600,000 first printing; 3-city author tour; simultaneous Time Warner Audiobook; foreign rights sold in the U.K., Bulgaria, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Turkey; world Spanish rights sold. (One-day laydown, Oct. 24)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/190'),
(7975, 'Wishin&#39; and Hopin&#39;', 'Wally Lamb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  It''s 1964 and ten-year-old Felix is sure of a few things: the birds and the bees are puzzling, television is magical, and this is one Christmas he''ll never forget.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  LBJ and Lady Bird are in the White House,\n  <em>\n   Meet the Beatles\n  </em>\n  is on everyone''s turntable, and Felix Funicello (distant cousin of the iconic Annette!) is doing his best to navigate fifth grade - easier said than done when scary movies still give you nightmares and you bear a striking resemblance to a certain adorable cartoon boy.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  Back in his beloved fictional town of Three Rivers, Connecticut, with a new cast of endearing characters, Wally Lamb takes his readers straight into the halls of St. Aloysius Gonzaga Parochial School - where Mother Filomina''s word is law and goody-two-shoes Rosalie Twerski is sure to be minding everyone''s business. But grammar and arithmetic move to the back burner this holiday season with the sudden arrivals of substitute teacher Madame Frechette, straight from QuÃ‰bec, and feisty Russian student Zhenya Kabakova. While Felix learns the meaning of French kissing, cultural misunderstanding, and\n  <em>\n   tableaux vivants\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Wishin'' and Hopin''\n  </em>\n  barrels toward one outrageous Christmas.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the Funicello family''s bus-station lunch counter to the elementary school playground (with an uproarious stop at the Pillsbury Bake-Off),\n  <em>\n   Wishin'' and Hopin''\n  </em>\n  is a vivid slice of 1960s life, a wise and witty holiday tale that celebrates where we''ve been - and how far we''ve come.\n  <br />\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2899');
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(7976, 'Witch &amp; Wizard', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   With Gabrielle Charbonnet\n  </span>\n </font>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n    The world is changing: the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now, kids are disappearing. For 15-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside down when they are torn from their parents one night and slammed into a secret prison for no reason they can comprehend. The New Order, as it is known, is clearly trying to suppress Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Being a Normal Teenager. But while trapped in this totalitarian nightmare, Wisty and Whit discover they have incredible powers they''d never dreamed of. Can this newly minted witch and wizard master their skills in time to save themselves, their parents--and maybe the world?\n    <br />\n   </span>\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/299'),
(7977, 'The Witch of Portbello', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<div id="outer_postBodyPS" style="overflow: hidden; z-index: 1; height: auto;">\n <div id="postBodyPS">\n  <p>\n   Â How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselvesâ€”even if we are unsure of who we are?\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho''s profound new work,\n   <i>\n    The Witch of Portobello\n   </i>\n   . It is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her wellâ€”or hardly at all. Like\n   <i>\n    The Alchemist\n   </i>\n   ,\n   <i>\n    The Witch of Portobello\n   </i>\n   is the kind of story that will transform the way readers think about love, passion, joy, and sacrifice.Â \n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1244'),
(7978, 'With an Extreme Burning', 'Bill Pronzini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a story of ordinary people trapped in extraordinary and deadly circumstances, two friends are faced with the possibility that someone they know wellâ€”for reasons they cannot fathomâ€”is plotting to destroy them and everyone they love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3917'),
(7979, 'With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa', 'E. B. Sledge', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir,\n  <strong>\n   With The Old Breed\n  </strong>\n  . He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific â€”the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinaryâ€”into terms we mortals can grasp."â€”Tom Hanks\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledge''s. This is the real deal, the real war: unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patriotism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war. It is a classic that will outlive all the armchair generals'' safe accounts ofâ€”not the "good war"â€”but the worst war ever.â€â€”Ken Burns\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  , Victor Davis Hanson named\n  <em>\n   With the Old Breed\n  </em>\n  one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history,\n  <em>\n   The Good War\n  </em>\n  . Now E. B. Sledgeâ€™s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the warâ€™s famous 1st Marine Divisionâ€“3d Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where â€œthe world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.â€ By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in the fierce Pacific Theater. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and killâ€“and came to loveâ€“his fellow man.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1350'),
(7980, 'Without a Word: How a Boy&#39;s Unspoken Love Changed Everything', 'Jill Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n WITHOUT A WORD is a riveting memoir that blends remarkable achievement with passion, sacrifice, love, pain, and human interest. It takes the reader into the lives of a celebrity couple, Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Kelly, and his wife, Jill, to reveal the Kelly family''s private struggle and how seven years with their severely disabled, terminally ill son, Hunter, unfolded in a redemptive and transforming manner. The light of Hunter''s love through his brief and silent life shone into the shadowed corners of Jill and Jim''s lives resulting in Jill believing that Jesus Christ was authentic, her learning to forgive Jim of past indiscretions, and finally resulting in Jim''s seeking and finding God. Lessons gleaned from Hunter''s life and death, and Jim and Jill''s struggle to save their marriage during tumultuous times, make this a compelling and inspiring read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1865'),
(7981, 'Without Fail', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jack Reacher is approached by a Secret Service agent who needs a favor. ''I want to hire you to assassinate the Vice President of the United States,'' she asks. She is the newly appointed head of the VP''s security detail and wants Reacher to try to penetrate her team''s shield. He has the skills and the stealth and no one knows him. How else can she be sure her protection is truly effective? What she doesn''t tell Reacher - but what he soon discovers - is that a very real and deadly team of assassins has just put the VP in their sights and will stop at nothing to realize their objective. These men have planned well, but they haven''t planned on Reacher. For only Reacher has the head and the heart to corner his prey and bring them to justice - without fail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2557'),
(7982, 'Without Remorse', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Over the course of seven novels, Tom Clancy''s "genius for big, compelling plots" and his "natural narrative gift" (The New York Times Magazine) have mesmerized tens of millions of readers and established him as one of the preeminent storytellers of our time. Without Remorse, however, goes beyond anything he has ever done. Its hero is John Kelly, a man well familiar to Clancy''s readers by his code name, Mr. Clark. In The Sum of All Fears, he hunted down nuclear terrorists. In Clear and Present Danger, he led aerial raids against drug lords. In The Cardinal of the Kremlin, he spirited away a KGB chief''s family by submarine. But nothing will ever be as deadly - or as personal - as the danger he must face in Without Remorse. John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six months before, when he befriends a young woman with a decidedly checkered past. When that past reaches out for her in a particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge and, assembling all of his old skills, sets out to track down the men responsible, before it can happen again. At the same time, the Pentagon is readying an operation to rescue a key group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp. One man, they find, knows the terrain around the camp better than anyone else they have: a certain former Navy SEAL named John Kelly. Kelly has his own mission. The Pentagon wants him for theirs. Attempting to juggle the two, Kelly (now code-named Mr. Clark) finds himself confronted by a vast array of enemies, both at home and abroad - men so skillful that the slightest misstep means death. And the fate of dozens of people, including Kelly himself, restson his making sure that misstep never happens. Men aren''t born dangerous. They grow dangerous. And the most dangerous of all, Kelly learns, are the ones you least expect... As Clancy takes us through the twists and turns of Without Remorse, he blends the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, knife-edge suspense and a remarkable cast of characters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1168'),
(7983, 'Wizard and Glass', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Frank Muller, the recognized virtuoso of audiobook narration (\n  <em>\n   The Green Mile\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Shawshank Redemption\n  </em>\n  ), takes on Stephen King''s Goliath tale of sorcerers, time travelers, and sci-fi love. Totaling more than 27 hours and spanning 18 cassettes,\n  <em>\n   Wizard and Glass\n  </em>\n  requires the listener to love Muller''s Hannibal Lecter-like voice--either that or suffer in audio hell for the equivalent of three full working days. While some might find his breathy staccatos irritating at best, others will find his voice the perfect accompaniment to King''s creepy characters and nightmarish plots. (Running time: 27 hours, 18 cassettes)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Frank Muller''s reading of King''s fourth book in a projected seven-part series (e.g., The Waste Lands: The Dark Tower, Bk. 3, Audio Reviews LJ 2/15/92) is effective in creating a suspenseful and fearful atmosphere. We find Roland, the knight errant/gunslinger, continuing his quest to attain the Dark Tower, the source of destructive forces in his Mid-World. A major portion of this work is a recounting by Roland of his ill-fated love affair with Susan Delgado. The writing is expectedly imaginative, the story line engrossing, and the characters vivid. The listener is carried along through alternating Western, urban, and futuristic settings. The work stands on its own, incorporating a summary of Books 1-3, but will be better appreciated if listened to as part of the whole. Recommended for sf/fantasy collections and Stephen King fans.?Catherine Swenson, Norwich Univ. Lib., Northfield, Vt.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/860'),
(7984, 'The Wolf at the Door', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dillon and company are back in the ultimate blockbuster from the legend that is Jack Higgins''ÅšTHE LEGEND IS BACKSomeone is targeting the members of the elite intelligence unit known as ''the Prime Minister''s private army'' and all those who work with them.On Long Island, a trusted operative for the President nudges his boat up to a pier, when a man materializes out of the rain and shoots him. In London, General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the Prime Minister, approaches his car on a side street, when there is a flash, and the car explodes. In New York a former British soldier takes a short walk when a man comes up fast behind him, a pistol in his hand.For Sean Dillon the hunt is on, a very well-connected old nemesis has clearly become tired of their interference in his schemes. But proving it is going to be a difficult task, and surviving it the hardest task of all...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3457'),
(7985, 'The Wolf Gift', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A daring new departure from the inspired creator of The Vampire Chronicles (â€œunrelentingly erotic . . . unforgettableâ€â€”The Washington Post), Lives of the Mayfair Witches (â€œAnne Rice will live on through the ages of literatureâ€â€”San Francisco Chronicle), and the angels of The Songs of the Seraphim (â€œremarkableâ€â€”Associated Press). A whole new worldâ€”modern, sleek, high-techâ€”and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history: the making of a werewolf, reimagined and reinvented as only Anne Rice, teller of mesmerizing tales, conjurer extraordinaire of other realms, could create. Â  The time is the present. Â  The place, the rugged coast of Northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest. Â  A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer . . . An older woman welcoming him into her magnificent family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . An idyllic nightâ€”shattered by horrific unimaginable violence, the young man inexplicably attackedâ€”bittenâ€”by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation, as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing what he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift. Â  As he resists the paradoxical pleasure and enthrallment of his wolfen savagery and delights in the power and (surprising) capacity for good, he is caught up in a strange and dangerous rescue and is desperately hunted as â€œthe Man Wolfâ€ by authorities, the media, and scientists (evidence of DNA threatens to reveal his dual existence) . . . As a new and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper into his mysterious new world: questions of why and how he has been given this gift; of its true nature and the curious but satisfying pull towards goodness; of the profound realization that there may be others like him who are watchingâ€”guardian creatures who have existed throughout time who possess ancient secrets and alchemical knowledge. And throughout it all, the search for salvation for a soul tormented by a new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating journey, still to come, of being and becoming, fully, both wolf and man.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3185'),
(7986, 'Wolf Hall', 'Hilary Mantel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n WINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph? In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel''s Wolf Hall is "a darkly brilliant reimagining of life under Henry VIII. . . . Magnificent." (The Boston Globe). Hilary Mantel is the author of nine previous novels, including A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater Safety, and Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. She has also written a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize, she reviews for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. She lives in England. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardShortlisted for the Orange Prize for FictionIn inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change.Â  England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the kingâ€™s freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum.Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?In Mantel''s 16th century monarchy,Â individuals mustÂ fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death. "It is a famous portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger: Thomas Cromwell in his finery, about 1534, looking formidable and clutching a piece of paper while he sits at a desk that holds the implements he used to write Henry VIIIâ€™s correspondence and draft Henry VIIIâ€™s laws. In Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantelâ€™s arch, elegant, richly detailed biographical novel centered on Cromwell, she has used Holbeinâ€™s delivery of the portrait as the basis for a dagger-sharp moment of truth . . . It is Ms. Mantelâ€™s velvet-gloved delivery of such devastating observations, her bookâ€™s broad historical sweep and her counterintuitive choice to make Cromwell its primary focus that have helped make Wolf Hall a widely favored contender for this yearâ€™s Man Booker Prize . . . Her bookâ€™s main characters are scorchingly well rendered. And their sharp-clawed machinations are presented with nonstop verve in a book that can compress a wealth of incisiveness into a very few well-chosen words . . . Ms. Mantel also has improbable success in reinventing Anne Boleyn. Or at least she succeeds in newly underscoring Anneâ€™s debt to Niccolo, as this bookâ€™s characters refer to Machiavelli. With the kingâ€™s friends, Cromwell notices: ''Anne is brittle in their company, and as ruthless with their compliments as a housewife snapping the necks of larks for the table. If her precise smile fades for a moment, they all lean forward, anxious to know how to please her. A bigger set of fools you would go far to seek.'' And when Anne bears a daughter who can seemingly never inherit the throne (though she will of course grow up to be Queen Elizabeth I), Ms. Mantel provides a prime example of acerbic flair. The baby is described as ''an ugly, purple, grizzling knot of womankind, with an upstanding ruff of pale hair and a habit of kicking up her gown as if to display her most unfortunate feature.'' Deft and diabolical as they are, Ms. Mantelâ€™s slyly malicious turns of phrase would count for little more than banter if they could not succinctly capture the important struggles that have set her characters to talking. But she is able to place Cromwell on plausibly familiar terms with royalty and on a fair moral footing with More, that paragon of self-sacrifice . . . Wolf Hall is far too tricky a book to let Cromwellâ€™s pronouncement be taken at face value. He is, after all, the kingâ€™s wily advocate. And he is never without an agenda. But this much is certain: Moreâ€™s downfall has been assured by the time Cromwell finishes with him. Cromwellâ€™s troubles, which will be no less lethal, are barely stirring when Wolf Hall ends. It is to be hoped that Ms. Mantel makes Cromwellâ€™s endgame part of her future."â€”Janet Maslin, The New York Times â€œA brilliant historical novel focused on the rise to power of a figure exceedingly unlikely, on the face of things, to arouse any sympathy at allÂ . . . This is a novel too in which nothing is wasted, and nothing completely disappears.â€â€”Stephen Greenblatt, The New York Review of Booksâ€œWhether we accept Ms Mantelâ€™s reading of history or not, her characters have a lifeblood of their ownÂ . . . a Shakespearean vigour. Stylistically, her fly-on-the-wall approach is achieved through the present tense, of which she is a master. Her prose is muscular, avoiding cod Tudor dialogue and going for direct modern English. The result is Ms Mantelâ€™s best novel yet.â€â€”The Economistâ€œA novel both fresh and finely wrought: a brilliant portrait of a society in the throes of disorienting change, anchored by a penetrating character study of Henryâ€™s formidable advisor, Thomas Cromwell. Itâ€™s no wonder that her masterful book just won this yearâ€™s Booker Prize . . . [Mantelâ€™s prose is] extraordinarily flexible, subtle, and shrewd.â€â€”Wendy Smith, The Washington Post"Mantel has filled in the blanks plausibly, brilliantly. Wolf Hall has epic scale but lyric texture. Its 500-plus pages turn quickly, winged and falconlike. Trained in the law, Mantel can see the understated heroism in the skilled administrator''s day-to-day decisions in service of a well-ordered civil societyâ€”not of a medieval fief based on war and not, heaven help us, a utopia . . . Hilary Mantel''s Wolf Hall is both spellbinding and believable."â€”Christopher Benfey, The New York Times Book Review â€œ[Mantelâ€™s] interest is in the question of good and evil as it applies to people who wield great power. That means anguish, exultation, deals, spies, decapitations, and fabulous clothes . . . She always goes for color, richness, music. She has read Shakespeare closely. One also hears the accents of the young James Joyce.â€â€”Joan Acocella, The New Yorkerâ€œMantelâ€™s abilities to channel the life and lexicon of the past are nothing short of astonishing. She burrows down through the historical record to uncover the tiniest, most telling details, evoking the minutiae of history as vividly as its grand sweep. The dialogue is so convincing that she seems to have been, in another life, a stenographer taking notes in the taverns and palaces of England.â€â€”Ross King, Los Angeles Timesâ€œInstead of bringing the past to us, [Mantel''s] writing, brilliant and black, launches us disconcertingly into the past. We are space-time travelers landed in an alien world . . . history is a feast whose various and vital excitements and intrigues make the book a long and complex pleasure.â€â€”Richard Eder, The Boston Globeâ€œHistorical fiction at its finest,Â Wolf Hall captures the character of a nation and its people. It exemplifies something that has lately seemed as mythical as those serpent princesses: the great English novel.â€â€”Bloomberg News"[Mantel] wades into the dark currents of 16th century English politics to sculpt a drama and a protagonist with a surprisingly contemporary feel . . . Wolf Hall is sometimes an ambitious read. But it is a rewarding one as well.â€â€”Marjorie Kehe, The Christian Science Monitorâ€œThe story of Cromwellâ€™s rise shimmers in Ms. Mantelâ€™s spry intelligent prose . . . [Mantel] leaches out the bones of the story as it is traditionally known, and presents to us a phantasmagoric extravaganza of the charactersâ€™ plans and ploys, toils and tactics.â€â€”Washington Timesâ€œThere are no new stories, only new ways of telling them. Set during Henry VIIIâ€™s tumultuous, oft-covered reign, this epic novel . . . proves just how inspired a fresh take can be. [Mantel] is an author as audacious as Anne [Boleyn] herself, imagining private conversations between public figures and making it read as if she had a glass to the wall.â€â€”People Magazineâ€œFans of historical fictionâ€”or great writingâ€”should howl with delight.â€â€”USA Todayâ€œThis masterwork is full of gems for the careful reader. The recurring details alone . . . shine through like some kind of Everymanâ€™s poetry. Plainspoken and occasionally brutal, Wolf Hall is both as complex and as powerful as its subject, as messy as life itself.â€â€”Clea Simon, The Boston Phoenixâ€œReader, youâ€™re in excellent hands with Hilary Mantel . . . for this thrumming, thrilling read. . . . Part of the delight of masterfully paced Wolf Hall is how utterly modern it feels. It is political intrigue pulsing with energy and peopled by historical figures who have never seemed more aliveâ€”and more human.â€â€”Ellen Kanner, Miami Heraldâ€œWolf Hall is a solid historical novel thatâ€™s also a compelling read . . . Mantelâ€™s narrative manages to be both rich and lean: thereâ€™s plenty of detail, but itâ€™s not piled in endless paragraphs. The plot flows swiftly from one development to the next.â€â€”David Loftus, The Oregonianâ€œ[Mantel] seamlessly blends fiction and history and creates a stunning story of Tudor England . . . With its excellent plotting and riveting dialogue, Wolf Hall is a gem of a novel that is both accurate and gripping.â€â€”Cody Corliss, St. Louis Post-Dispatch â€œ[A] spirited novel . . . Mantel has a solid grasp of court politics and a knack for sharp, cutting dialogue.â€â€”Thom Geier, Entertainment Weekly"The monarch is the focus of history, but somebody has to make the show run behind the pageantry. For Henry VIII, it was Thomas Cromwell, for a time, at least. Henry had his own take on term limitsâ€”an axâ€”and in time many of his advisers lost their heads on the chopping block. While Cromwell (a very distant relation to Oliver Cromwell, who was keen on the ax as well) managed the king''s monumental project of taking the church away from Rome efficiently and loyally, he eventually rankled the irritable Henry (all those wives!) and was executed. Most Americans can be forgiven for confusing the Cromwells, but the English know the difference. Thomas is usually portrayed as a cunning, ruthless villain who smashed the monasteries while persecuting the real or imagined enemies of the king and of his heretical takeover of the Catholic church in England. All of this happened in the 16th century, when England was riven with religious upheaval and governed by a king desperate for a male heir. Married to the older Catherine of Aragon, a Spaniard and widow of his brother, Henry was unsuccessful in siring a son, only a daughter, Mary, who caused much mischief later. Guided by Cromwell, the king dumped Catherine for the younger and presumably more fertile Anne Boleyn. While this history sounds better suited for horse-breeding operations, lovers of royalty revel in it. It is the stuff of romance and mythology, and frequently the human dimension takes a backseat to the intrigue. Hilary Mantel has brilliantly restored that dimension to history in this highly original novel, a fictional biography of Cromwell that won the Man Booker Prize in September. History aside, Wolf Hall breathes life into a world of 500 years ago through Mantel''s fully realized central character and the people who surround him. Much of the novel is about day-to-day living in the 16th centuryâ€”the stocking of kitchens, making of clothes and, most vividly, the lives of families . . . If you give yourself over to her prose, you can find yourself in Cromwell''s world in the profound way only fiction can deliver."â€”Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"Henry VIII? Anne Boleyn? 500-plus pages? If Mantel hadn''t won the 2009 Booker Prize for this I would never have read it. And would have missed out big-time. Mantel approaches this well-traveled road from a fresh viewpoint: that of the tolerant, brilliant, and witty Thomas Cromwell . . . Mantel shows Cromwell a contented and involved family man, despite his long hours. We are ever aware that life is precarious in this world and this is driven home when, escaping one year''s plague season, his wife and two daughters succumb in the next. Cromwell never really recovers. Still, over the years his household grows as he takes in stray relatives, protÃ©gÃ©s and promising servants and indulges his passion for building. Mantel skillfully portrays his riseâ€”his use of diplomacy and his own protestant sympathies to give Henry the freedom and money he wantsâ€”as the tumultuous life of the court unfolds in scandal and self-interest. Unlike the aristocracy to whom ordinary people are almost an alien species, Cromwell remains aware of the rhythm of common lives and ambitious for the country''s practical needsâ€”roads, better nutrition, even maps . . . Mantel''s prose is clean and straightforward; she evokes the era without wielding archaic forms. Her research never protrudes, but the details paint pictures in the mind''s eye. Dialogue drives much of the narrative, as words are meat and bread to Cromwell . . . Mantel intends a sequel, though so far it is only a title and a box of notes, she has said. Readers who were sorry to see this beguiling, dense, colorful and often funny novel end, will look forward to it."â€”Lynn Harnett, Portsmouth Heraldâ€œThe essential Mantel element . . . is a styleâ€”of writing and of thinkingâ€”that combines steely-eyed intelligence with intense yet wide-ranging sympathy. This style implies enormous respect for her readers, as if she believes that we are as intelligent and empathetic as she is, and one of the acute pleasures of reading her books is that we sometimes find ourselves living up to those expectations. . . . If you are anything like me, you will finish Wolf Hall wishing it were twice as long as its 560 pages. Torn away from this sixteenth-century world, in which you have come to know the engaging, pragmatic Cromwell as if he were your own brotherâ€”as if he were yourselfâ€”you will turn to the Internet to find out more about him . . . But none of this, however instructive will make up for your feeling of loss, because none of this additional material will come clothed in the seductive, inimitable language of Mantelâ€™s great fiction.â€â€”Wendy Lesser, Bookforumâ€œMantel sets a new standard for historical fiction with her latest novel Wolf Hall, a riveting portrait of Thomas Cromwell . . . Mantelâ€™s crystalline style, piercing eye and interest in, shall we say, the darker side of human nature, together with a real respect for historical accuracy, make this novel an engrossing, enveloping read.â€â€”BookPageâ€œThis is in all respects a superior work of fiction, peopled with appealing characters living through a period of tense high drama . . . There will be few novels this year as good as this one.â€â€”Library Journal (starred review)â€œMixing fiction with fact, Mantel captures the atmosphere of the times and brings to life the important players.â€â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3671'),
(7987, 'The Wolf of Wall Street', 'Jordan Belfort', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Belfort, who founded one of the first and largest chop shop brokerage firms in 1987, was banned from the securities business for life by 1994, and later went to jail for fraud and money-laundering, delivers a memoir that reads like fiction. It covers his decade of success with straightforward accounts of how he worked with managers of obscure companies to acquire large amounts of stock with minimal public disclosure, then pumped up the price and sold it, so he and the insiders made large profits while public investors usually lost. Profits were laundered through purchase of legitimate businesses and cash deposits in Swiss banks. There is only brief mention of Belfort''s life before Wall Street or events since 1997. The book''s main topic is the vast amount of sex, drugs and risky physical behavior Belfort managed to survive. As might be expected in the autobiography of a veteran con man with movie rights already sold, it''s hard to know how much to believe. The story is told mostly in dialogue, with allegedly contemporaneous mental asides by the author, reported verbatim. But it reports only surface events, never revealing what motivates Belfort or any of the other characters\n <em>\n  . (Oct. 2)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA cocky bad boy of finance recalls ... [his] career as a master of his own universe.... A hell of a read.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n  <br />\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA memoir that reads like fiction.... [concerning] the vast amount of sex, drugs and risky physical behavior Belfort managed to survive.â€â€”\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1872'),
(7988, 'Wolves of the Calla', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Roland of Gilead''s quest to save all worlds from evil continues in this fifth installment of King''s epic tale, which finds the gunslinger and his companions helping the farmers of Calla Bryn Sturgis fight against the terrifying "Wolves" who threaten to kidnap the Calla''s children. Joining them is Father Callahan, who first appeared in King''s second book, ''Salem''s Lot (1975). Using a low, gruff voice that only Clint Eastwood could equal, Guidall aptly captures Roland''s rough-edged character, but it''s often difficult to distinguish between the tenors he employs for the book''s many male characters. Andy the robot, however, is one character that listeners won''t confuse with the others. Wise-guy gunslinger Eddie might compare Andy to Star Wars'' C3PO, both in his "complacent, slightly prissy voice" and his lanky, mechanical appearance, but avid listeners will find that the tone Guidall adopts for Andy more closely resembles that of the beloved 1980s toy Speak &amp; Spell. In the afterword, King thanks the narrator of the first four Dark Tower novels, Frank Muller, whose debilitating motorcycle accident in 2001 prevented him from finishing the series. "[A]udio insists you absorb everything," King notes, and in Muller''s absence, Guidall does a fine job of bringing this epic tale to life.--udio insists you absorb everything," King notes, and in Muller''s absence, Guidall does a fine job of bringing this epic tale to life.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Wizard and Glass\n  </em>\n  (1997), volume 4 of King''s massive, postapocalyptic, chivalrized western, The Dark Tower, was rather a snooze, not for lack of action but because it was primarily a flashback that drew unmercifully on King''s stash of horse-opera cliches. "''S''all very nice," one thought, "but let''s move it, Steve!" Volume 5--this book--moves it, despite not getting Roland the Gunslinger much nearer the Dark Tower, taking another big backward glance, and continuing to mine an open pit of oater conceits. Roland''s\n  <em>\n   ka-tet--\n  </em>\n  himself and three twentieth-century New Yorkers, all of them now fellow gunslingers--approach a ranching and farming community anticipating a recurrent pestilence. After 23 years, the Wolves are coming from the evil-darkened East to abduct one of every pair of prepubescent twins older than three. The children will be returned, but nearly witless and sterile, doomed to grow immensely and enormously painfully in their middle teens, serve (if not too stupid) as workhorses, and suddenly, painfully wither and die in their early thirties. An erstwhile priest in the community knows what Roland and company are, and he persuades a community to send a committee to ask for their help. Of course, once asked, the code of the gunslinger compels acceptance. Gonna be a humdinger of a fight! Fore and aft of the showdown, King stuffs the book with juice, like the big flashback, in which Pere Callahan reveals his past in . . . ''Salem''s Lot. One of the greatest cavalcades in popular fiction is back on track.\n  <em>\n   Ray Olson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/861'),
(7989, 'The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts', 'Maxine Hong Kingston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Woman Warrior\n  </strong>\n  is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Maxine Hong Kingston grew up in two worlds. There was "solid America," the place her parents emigrated to, and the China of her mother''s "talk-stories." In talk-stories women were warriors and her mother was still a doctor in China who could cure the sick and scare away ghosts, not a harried and frustrated woman running a stifling laundromat in California. But what is story and what is truth? In China, a ghost is a supernatural being; in America it is anyone who is not Chinese. In addition, underlying even the most exciting talk-stories of Chinese women warriors is the real oppression of Chinese women: "There is a Chinese word for the female ''I'' - which is ''slave.'' " In an attempt to figure out her world, Maxine Hong Kingston finds herself creating stories of her own, filling in the blanks her mother has not told her because her daughter is, after all, not true Chinese and thus cannot be completely trusted. Can these new stories explain why she had trouble speaking in the American schools? Can they help her understand the aunt who committed adultery and whose existence is denied? The new stories refuse to fall into traditional forms, and the realizations that come from them often bring out a beautiful, passionate anger that practically burns through the pages. This is powerful, experimental writing, a combination of love, hate, frustration, and sheer beauty.\n  <em>\n   -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out\n  </em>\n  . --\n  <em>\n   From\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1873'),
(7990, 'The Woman Who Fell From the Sky: My Year of Making News in Yemen', 'Jennifer Steil', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It?s hard to imagine that one of the most influential newspapers in Osama Bin Laden?s heartland could be run by an agnostic thirty-something single woman from Manhattan. But Jennifer Steil is no ordinary woman. Eager for adventure, she jumped at the chance to train young journalists at the Yemen Observer, despite the fact that she didn?t speak a word of Arabic, loathed hot weather, and had never taught a class in her life. In turn, her students thought nothing of plagiarising articles from the Internet and had trouble distinguishing opinion from news, but they were desperate for training. One in particular, a diminuitive abaya-clad ball of fire called Zuhra begged her to teach her how to be a real reporter. Never before in her career had she felt so useful. But when Steil agreed to take over as editor-in-chief for a year, the real challenges of living and working in a conservative Muslim country, and the strength and determination her female colleagues need to have their voices heard, hit home. Along the way, she makes lifelong friends with people whose traditions could not be more different from her own, and often learns much more than she could ever teach. And also proves that you often find love in the most unlikely of places ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1868'),
(7991, 'Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium', 'Judith Herrin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses--Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora--changed history. Their combined efforts restored the veneration of icons, saving Byzantium from a purely symbolic and decorative art and ensuring its influence for centuries to come.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this exhilarating and highly entertaining account, one of the foremost historians of the medieval period tells the story of how these fascinating women exercised imperial sovereignty with consummate skill and sometimes ruthless tactics. Though they gained access to the all-pervasive authority of the Byzantine ruling dynasty through marriage, all three continued to wear the imperial purple and wield tremendous power as widows. From Constantinople, their own Queen City, the empresses undermined competitors and governed like men. They conducted diplomacy across the known world, negotiating with the likes of Charlemagne, Roman popes, and the great Arab caliph Harun al Rashid.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vehemently rejecting the ban on holy images instituted by their male relatives, Irene and Theodora used craft and power to reverse the official iconoclasm and restore icons to their place of adoration in the Eastern Church. In so doing, they profoundly altered the course of history. The art--and not only the art--of Byzantium, of Islam, and of the West would have been very different without them.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Judith Herrin traces the surviving evidence, she evokes the complex and deeply religious world of Constantinople in the aftermath of Arab conquest. She brings to life its monuments and palaces, its court ceremonies and rituals, the role of eunuchs (the "third sex"), bride shows, and the influence of warring monks and patriarchs. Based on new research and written for a general audience,\n <em>\n  Women in Purple\n </em>\n reshapes our understanding of an empire that lasted a thousand years and splashes fresh light on the relationship of women to power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2328'),
(7992, 'The Women', 'T C Boyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a rural backwater in Wisconsin lies the rambling estate of Taliesin. Here, tempestuous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside and fires have ripped through the wings of the house. Paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door, hounding for the latest scandal, the latest tragedy in this never-ending drama. For this is the home of the great architect of the twentieth century, Frank Lloyd Wright, a man of extremes in both his work and his private life: at once a force of nature - arrogant and infuriating - and an avalanche of need and emotion that sweeps aside everything in its path.This is the story of the wives and mistresses who fall under Frank''s spell. There is the delusional Kitty, his first wife, convinced that his affair with the defiant Mamah can''t possibly last. There is Miriam, his crazed, demented second wife, hell-bent on wreaking revenge most public and most vicious after the bitter demise of their marriage. And there is Oglivanna, the Serbian immigrant, who waits with Frank in constant terror for the next wave of desolation from Miriam as she stalks them at every turn, unleashing a torrent of sheriffs, immigration officials, bankers, lawyers and journalists.Sharp, savage and subtle in equal measure, The Women plumbs the chaos, horrors and uncontainable passions of a fascinating American icon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3590'),
(7993, 'The Woodcutter', 'Reginald Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <br />\n </h3>\n <em>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n </em>\n <p>\n  Wolf Haddaâ€™s life has been a fairy tale. From his humble origins as a Cumbrian woodcutterâ€™s son, he has risen to become a hugely successful entrepreneur, happily married to the woman of his dreams.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A knock on the door one morning ends it all. Universally reviled, thrown into prison while protesting his innocence, abandoned by friends and family, Wolf retreats into silence. Seven years later, prison psychiatrist Alva Ozigbo makes a breakthrough. Wolf begins to talk, and under her guidance he is paroled, returning to his family home in rural Cumbria.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But there was a mysterious period in Wolfâ€™s youth when he disappeared from home and was known to his employers as the Woodcutter. And now the Woodcutter is back, looking for the truthâ€”and revenge. Can Alva intervene before his pursuit of vengeance takes him to a place from which he can never come back?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Woodcutter\n  </em>\n  is a treat that both lovers of the Dalziel and Pascoe series and newcomers to the always masterful work of Reginald Hill will devour.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/726'),
(7994, 'Woodrow Wilson: A Biography', 'John Milton Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The first major biography of Americaâ€™s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of Americaâ€™s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative presidentâ€”he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDRâ€™s New Deal and would prove central to governance through the early twenty-first century, including the Federal Reserve system and the Clayton Antitrust Act; he guided the nation through World War I; and, although his advocacy in favor of joining the League of Nations proved unsuccessful, he nonetheless established a new way of thinking about international relations that would carry America into the United Nations era. Yet Wilson also steadfastly resisted progress for civil rights, while his attorney general launched an aggressive attack on civil liberties.Even as he reminds us of the foundational scope of Wilsonâ€™s domestic policy achievements, John Milton Cooper, Jr., reshapes our understanding of the man himself: his Wilson is warm and graciousâ€”not at all the dour puritan of popular imagination. As the president of Princeton, his encounters with the often rancorous battles of academe prepared him for state and national politics. Just two years after he was elected governor of New Jersey, Wilson, now a leader in the progressive movement, won the Democratic presidential nomination and went on to defeat Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft in one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s most memorable presidential elections. Ever the professor, Wilson relied on the strength of his intellectual convictions and the power of reason to win over the American people.John Milton Cooper, Jr., gives us a vigorous, lasting record of Wilsonâ€™s life and achievements. This is a long overdue, revelatory portrait of one of our most important presidentsâ€”particularly resonant now, as another president seeks to change the way government relates to the people and regulates the economy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2331');
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(7995, 'The Woods', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of this disappointing stand-alone from bestseller Coben (_Promise Me_), Paul "Cope" Copeland, acting county prosecutor for Essex County, N.J., and Lucy Gold, his long-lost summer camp love, are still haunted by a fateful night, decades earlier, when their nighttime tryst allowed some younger campers, including Cope''s sister, to venture into the nearby forest, where they apparently fell victim to the Summer Slasher, a serial killer. Cope''s intense focus on a high-profile rape prosecution of some wealthy college students shifts after one of the Slasher''s victims, whose body was never found, turns up as a recent corpse in Manhattan, casting doubt on the official theory of the old case. Cope''s own actions on that night again come under scrutiny, even as the highly placed fathers of the men he''s prosecuting work to unearth as many skeletons as possible to pressure him into dropping the rape case. Less than compelling characters fail to compensate for a host of implausibilities. Hopefully, Coben will return to form with his next book.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this stand-alone legal thriller, Harlan Coben presents a riveting courtroom drama, creates riveting players, and delves into family secrets, love, loss, mistakes, and betrayal. A few critics noted that while\n <em>\n  The Woods\n </em>\n falls into Coben''s typical formulaâ€”a past crime affects innocent people in the presentâ€”it still comes off as fresh. The trial scenes, Cope''s ruminations on what really happened that night, and the back-and-forth narration are particularly well done. Only the\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n faulted the novel''s cheap thrills, improbable revelations, and awkward conclusion. Nevertheless, few readers will remain unaffected by its emotional heft.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/512'),
(7996, 'The Wordy Shipmates', 'Sarah Vowell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Essayist and public radio regular Vowell (_Assassination Vacation_) revisits America''s Puritan roots in this witty exploration of the ways in which our country''s present predicaments are inextricably tied to its past. In a style less colloquial than her previous books, Vowell traces the 1630 journey of several key English colonists and members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Foremost among these men was John Winthrop, who would become governor of Massachusetts. While the Puritans who had earlier sailed to Plymouth on the\n <em>\n  Mayflower\n </em>\n were separatists, Winthrop''s followers remained loyal to England, spurred on by Puritan Reverend John Cotton''s proclamation that they were God''s chosen people. Vowell underscores that the seemingly minute differences between the Plymouth Puritans and the Massachusetts Puritans were as meaningful as the current Sunni/Shia Muslim rift. Gracefully interspersing her history lesson with personal anecdotes, Vowell offers reflections that are both amusing (colonial history lesson via\n <em>\n  The Brady Bunch\n </em>\n ) and tender (watching New Yorkers patiently waiting in line to donate blood after 9/11).\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Most reviewers found Vowell to be a lively guide through the frequently misunderstood Puritan period. Several wrote that she will draw in readers who might not otherwise pick up a book on the subject: what could be better than history with the voice of Violet from\n <em>\n  The Incredibles\n </em>\n ? But others found Vowell''s treatment to be less dexterous; she slips in jokes where they don''t make sense and too often explains the past through pop culture references despite her clear understanding of it through original texts. Those who enjoy traditional history books may be dissatisfied. Yet, as one reviewer noted, Vowell''s irreverence frees her to explore the lives of neglected figures such as Anne Hutchinson and to illuminate aspects of the Puritan era that more serious authors might have missed.\n <br />\n Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2262'),
(7997, 'The World at War', 'Richard Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Compelling."Â \n  <em>\n   â€”Library Journal\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What sets Richard Holmes apart is the sheer quality of his writing and his empathy with his subjects."Â \n  <em>\n   â€”Independent\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   The World at War\n  </em>\n  was one of the greatest television series of all time. It demonstrated the potential power of history on television and inspired a generation. It is tremendously exciting that the complete interviews with the participants . . . are now published here for the first time. Most of the people who were interviewed for the series are now dead, but their vital historyâ€”thanks to this bookâ€”still lives."\n  <em>\n   Â  â€”\n  </em>\n  Laurence Rees, author,\n  <em>\n   Auschwitz\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A treasure trove of eyewitness accounts."\n  <em>\n   Â  â€”BBC History Magazine\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Holmes has a sharp, knowing eye for anecdote and detail."Â \n  <em>\n   â€”Mail on Sunday\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The World at War\n  </em>\n  is the definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. First broadcast in 1973, the result was a unique and irreplaceable record since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long to live. The programme''s producers committed hundreds of interview-hours to tape in its creation, but only a fraction of that material made it to the final cut. For more than 30 years the interviews have never been allowed to be published - until now. Highly respected historian and bestselling author Richard Holmes has skilfully woven this valuable original material into a compelling narrative, creating a truly phenomenal oral history of the Second World War.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2264'),
(7998, 'A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance : Portrait of an Age', 'William Manchester', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It speaks to the failure of medieval Europe, writes popular historian William Manchester, that "in the year 1500, after a thousand years of neglect, the roads built by the Romans were still the best on the continent." European powers were so absorbed in destroying each other and in suppressing peasant revolts and religious reform that they never quite got around to realizing the possibilities of contemporary innovations in public health, civil engineering, and other peaceful pursuits. Instead, they waged war in faraway lands, created and lost fortunes, and squandered millions of lives. For all the wastefulness of medieval societies, however, Manchester notes, the era created the foundation for the extraordinary creative explosion of the Renaissance. Drawing on a cast of characters numbering in the hundreds, Manchester does a solid job of reconstructing the medieval world, although some scholars may disagree with his interpretations.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Using only secondary sources, Manchester plunges readers into the medieval mind-set in a captivating, marvelously vivid popular history that humanizes the tumultuous span from the Dark Ages to the dawn of the Renaissance. He delineates an age when invisible spirits infested the air, when tolerance was seen as treachery and "a mafia of profane popes desecrated Christianity." Besides re-creating the arduous lives of ordinary people, the Wesleyan professor of history peoples his tapestry with such figures as Leonardo, Machiavelli, Lucrezia Borgia, Erasmus, Luther, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Manchester ( The Arms of Krupp ) devotes much attention to Magellan, whose globe-straddling voyage shattered Christendom''s implicit belief in Europe as the center of the universe. His portrayal of the Middle Ages as a time when the strong and the shrewd flourished, while the imaginative, the cerebral and the unfortunate suffered, rings true. Illustrations.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2202'),
(7999, 'A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918', 'G. J. Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The First World War is one of historyâ€™s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europeâ€™s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today.The First World War is one of historyâ€™s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europeâ€™s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3797'),
(8000, 'World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War', 'Max Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œThe end was near.â€ â€”Voices from the Zombie WarThe Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War. Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, â€œBy excluding the human factor, arenâ€™t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isnâ€™t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as â€˜the living deadâ€™?â€Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.Eyewitness reports from the first truly global warâ€œI found â€˜Patient Zeroâ€™ behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although heâ€™d rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was â€˜cursed.â€™ I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boyâ€™s skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse.â€ â€”Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of Chinaâ€œâ€˜Shock and Aweâ€™? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy canâ€™t be shocked and awed? Not just wonâ€™t, but biologically canâ€™t! Thatâ€™s what happened that day outside New York City, thatâ€™s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldnâ€™t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! Theyâ€™re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid!â€ â€”Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkersâ€œTwo hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth.â€ â€”General Travis Dâ€™Ambrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, EuropeFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1099'),
(8001, 'World Without End', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earthis his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the yearâ€” World Without End. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmedâ€”â€œit will hold you, fascinate you, surround youâ€ ( Chicago Tribune)â€”and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. World Without Endtakes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideasâ€” about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human raceâ€”the Black Death. Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without Endbreathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3582'),
(8002, 'A World Without Ice', 'H. N. Pollack', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A member of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, Univ. of Mich. geophysicist Pollack (Uncertain Science) shares the warning call of Al Gore (his co-recipient), that "humanity has arrived at an historic moment of decision." According to science, Pollack explains, humanity may soon lose the polar ice caps altogether, with dire consequences. Pollack explains how glacial ice is "a major player" in the climate: snow and ice "account for much of the sunshine reflected from the surface" and their disappearance will only accelerate the rate of global warming. Using geological evidence (800 bore-holes drilled on the earth''s continental crust), Pollack and his colleagues have established that the past 500 years have seen a 2-degree increase in the Earth''s average temperature, and that "fully half of the warming occurred in the 20th century." While taking account of countervailing forces (like periodic variations in the earth''s orbit, explosive volcanism, and changes in solar radiation) Pollack shows that no single natural force can reverse the present trend, which if unchecked will render the Earth uninhabitable. This important wake up call joins a rapidly growing selection; this volume distinguishes itself with a Nobel pedigree and a sound, straightforward approach.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "In a world where everything frozen is now melting, we should barely need a book to get our attention. But clearly we do, and this is the book-a thorough reminder of what it means to live in a planet with poles and glaciers, and what it will be like without them."\n  <br />\n  -Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org and author of the national bestseller\n  <em>\n   Deep Economy\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Skiers rejoice when snow falls and Inuit hunters welcome sea ice, while commuters find winter storms an inconvenience. Henry Pollack has a much broader view. Speaking eloquently, forcefully, yet lyrically, he explains how snow and ice are the clockworks of our planet.\n  <em>\n   A World Without Ice\n  </em>\n  is a fascinating, scary, but informative portrait of Earth''s delicate climate balance and the thresholds we are staring across."\n  <br />\n  -Jon Turk, author of\n  <em>\n   The Raven''s Gift\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The work of Dr. Pollack and the IPCC in bringing attention to the very serious dangers posed by climate change has been justly praised. This book shows how essential ice-caps and glaciers are. It is a welcome contribution to planetary conservation."\n  <br />\n  -Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and author of\n  <em>\n   The Challenge For Africa\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <em>\n   A World Without Ice\n  </em>\n  is part a history of ice on Earth, part a scientist''s love song to his subject, and part an unsentimental eulogy to ice...The book offers a great opportunity for the novice to dip into climate science first-hand."\n  <br />\n  -\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Chronicle\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Seldom has a scientist written so well and so clearly for the lay reader. Pollack''s explanations of how researchers can tell that the climate is warming faster than normal are free of the usual scientific jargon and understandable."\n  <br />\n  -Betty Galbraith, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman;\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  , starred review\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Pollack, a geophysicist with the admirable ability to communicate in a language other than math, presents the stark facts of today''s [climate] situation and offers careful descriptions of the likelihood of a frightening future, should earth''s climate continue to change. . . . But he also offers some realistic hope that catastrophes may be mitigated, if not avoided."\n  <br />\n  -Patricia Monaghan,\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  , starred review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1024'),
(8003, 'The World&#39;s Greatest Book of Useless Information: If You Thought You Knew All the Things You Didn&#39;t Need to Know - Think Again', 'Noel Botham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the creators of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless InformationÃ‚â€”a collection of even greater insignificance.More useless than ever before! Impress know-it-all friends with this all-new hodgepodge of frivolous facts and silly statistics that no one really needs to know. But honestly, how cool is it to find out that... Ã‚â€¢ There is a place in Maryland called MonkeyÃ‚''s Eyebrow Ã‚â€¢ Giving yellow flowers is a sign of bad luck in Russia Ã‚â€¢ One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns Ã‚â€¢ Paper can be made from asparagus This is the book that will also tell youÃ‚â€¦ Ã‚â€¢ The meaning of Ã‚''mageirocophobiaÃ‚'' Ã‚â€¢ Where it is illegal to kill a butterfly Ã‚â€¢ Huckleberry FinnÃ‚''s remedy for warts Ã‚â€¢ What bodily fluid the Romans used as a hair treatment And much, much more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1309'),
(8004, 'Worst Case', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Â With Michael Ledwidge\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One by one, children of New York''s wealthiest are taken hostage. But the criminal doesn''t crave money or power--he only wants to ask the elite if they know the price others pay for their luxurious lifestyles. And, if they don''t, he corrects their ignorance--by killing them.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  To Detective Michael Bennett, it becomes clear that these murders are linked and must be part of a greater, more public demonstration. With the city thrown into chaos, he is forced to team up with FBI agent Emily Parker, and the two set out to capture the killer before he begins his most public lesson yet--a deadly message for the entire city to witness.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  From the bestselling author who brought you the Alex Cross novels comes James Patterson''s most action-packed series yet. With the heart-pounding suspense that only Patterson delivers, WORST CASE will leave you gasping for breath until the very end.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/300'),
(8005, 'Worst Fears Realized', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stone Barrington is Back! Not a man to dwell on the past, Stone Barrington has no choice but to rattle old skeletons when the people closest to him start dying, and he has little to go on but the suspicion that. the killer may be someone he once knew. The trip down memory lane isn''t all bad though, for it reunites Stone with his ex-partner, Dino Bacchetti--now head of detectives in the nineteenth precinct.Trying to find a brilliant killer in a sea of old faces is difficult enough without Stone''s former love, Arrington, now Mrs. Vance Calder, resurfacing, too--especially when she sets off her own fireworks coming nose to nose with his latest flame, a Mafia princess as beautiful as she is dangerous.Caught on thrill ride of a case that tests him as none has ever done before, Stone races to find a twisted madman with a taste for blood vengeance, with only a prayer to find him before Stone''s worst fears are realized.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2650'),
(8006, 'The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl', 'Timothy Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.\n</p>\n<p>\n Timothy Egan''s critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, Egan does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, â€œthe stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect" (New York Times).\n</p>\n<p>\n In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is â€œarguably the best nonfiction book yet" (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of trifling with nature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2265'),
(8007, 'The Worst Journey in the World', 'Apsley Cherry-Garrard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in a deceptively jaunty introduction to this classic story of bravery and fortitude first published in 1922. The story he relates is of Scott''s last expedition to the Antarctic, from its departure from England in 1910 to its arrival in New Zealand in 1913; it is one of the most famous and tragic in the annals of exploration. Driven by an obsession for scientific knowledge, these brave polar explorers embarked on a journey into the unknown, testing their endurance by pushing themselves to the ultimate physical and mental limits as they surveyed the striking and mammoth land that lies far to the south.Cherry-Garrard was himself a member of the expedition that had two goals: to discover as much as was scientifically possible about the terrain and habitat of Antarctica, and to be the first to reach the South Pole. The party was plagued by bad luck, weather conditions of unanticipated ferocity, and the physical deterioration of the party on the last part of the journey. Confronted by the shattering knowledge that Roald Amundsen had reached the South Pole a month before them, Scott''s party then had to negotiate the last, heroic part of their journey, a doomed attempt which has entered modern mythology.The Worst Journey in the World is the inside story of this most famous of journeys and is truly one of the best and most moving books of travel ever written. Join Scott''s expedition as he and his team venture deep into the frozen unknown. This volume is the second in the continuing series of Explorers Club books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2266'),
(8008, 'Worth Dying For', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child follows the electrifying 61 Hours with his latest Reacher thrillerâ€”a story that hits the ground running and then accelerates all the way to a colossal showdown.Â Â Thereâ€™s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska ... and Jack Reacher walks right into it.Â  First he falls foul of a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission.Â  But itâ€™s the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades-old, that Reacher canâ€™t let go.Â The Duncans want Reacher goneâ€”and itâ€™s not just past secrets theyâ€™re trying to hide. Theyâ€™re awaiting a secret shipment thatâ€™s already late - and they have the kind of customers no one can afford to annoy.Â  For as dangerous as the Duncans are, theyâ€™re right at the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world. Â For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to keeping on going, to put some distance between himself and the hardcore trouble thatâ€™s bearing down on him.Â For Reacher, that was also impossible.Â WORTH DYING FOR is the kind of explosive thriller only Lee Child could write and only Jack Reacher could surviveâ€”a heart-racing page-turner no suspense fan will want to miss.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2558'),
(8009, 'Wrath of a Mad God', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The celebrated New York Times bestselling master of fantasy returns with the thrilling conclusion to his enthralling, explosive Darkwar Saga . . .   Wrath of a Mad God Book three of The Darkwar Saga   "At this very moment, a dome of black energy is being expanded in a vale in the far north. This is not merely an invasion, but the beginning of a colonization, a process that will end with the complete annihilation of every life-form on this world."   The Darkwar rages upon Midkemia and Kelewan, bringing bleak days of destruction and despair. To save the future of both worlds, the powerful sorcerer Pug and select members of the secretive Conclave of Shadows must journey deep into the dangerous realm of the bloodthirsty Dasati, there to carry out an audacious mission that has little, if any, chance of succeeding.   In Midkemia, young warriors Tad and Zane, and their fellow soldiers, protect the Kingdom from raiders. And Pug''s beloved wife, Miranda, finds herself a prisoner of the Dasati and, even more ominously, of Pug''s nemesis, the evil sorcerer Leso Varen.   Salvation may come from a friend thought long dead, an unlikely ally whose remarkable powers will be sorely needed in the momentous battle to come . . . a final, fevered onslaught against the most malevolent agents of evil ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3521'),
(8010, 'Wreck of the Carl D.: A True Story of Loss, Survival, and Rescue at Sea', 'Michael Schumacher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Great Lakes historian Schumacher (_Mighty Fitz: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald_) profiles another nautical tragedy. The\n  <em>\n   Carl D. Bradley\n  </em>\n  , a 638-foot limestone carrier, sank to Lake Michigan''s cold bottom 50 years ago this November. Known as the "Queen of the Stone-Carrying Fleet," it was the most expensive wreck in the history of the Great Lakes, totaling $8 million. The human cost was far greater, as many of the 33 deceased lived in one city, the ship''s port of Rogers City, Mich. Schumacher is a rigorous reporter and researcher, covering the ship''s shaky state, the harrowing wreck and risky rescue with assurance and clarity. There are a few missteps, a chapter on the wreck of the\n  <em>\n   Cedarville\n  </em>\n  in 1965 feeling like padding. By profiling the\n  <em>\n   Carl D.\n  </em>\n  ''s crew and detailing their lives in Rogers City, Schumacher gives a human face to the tragedy, infusing the book with dramatic substance to match the riveting narrative.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This chronicle of the November 1958 sinking of the limestone carrier Carl D. Bradley in Lake Michigan is sure to appeal to the many fans of Jungerâ€™s The Perfect Storm (1997). Almost the entire crew of 35 died when the ship was literally torn in half during a fierce storm; the book recounts the incident and its tragic aftermath, including a dramatic search-and-rescue effort. Itâ€™s a poignant story, made even more poignant by the fact that most of the crewâ€™s families lived in the same small town, Rogers City; this isnâ€™t just a story about a tragedy on the water, but about an entire town coming to terms with the sudden loss of so many of its friends and family. Schumacher, the author of several nonfiction books including Mighty Fitz (2005), about the more famous sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, writes with a steady hand, never letting the drama or emotion of the moment overwhelm the storytelling. A solid and sometimes heartbreaking addition to the maritime-tragedy genre. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1870'),
(8011, 'The Wrecker', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad''s Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn sends in his best man, and Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West, a man known as the Wrecker, who recruits accomplices from the down-and-out to attack the railroad, and then kills them afterward. The Wrecker traverses the vast spaces of the American West as if he had wings, striking wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3249'),
(8012, 'Xenocide', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Orson Scott Card''s\n <em>\n  Xenocide\n </em>\n is a space opera with verve. In this continuation of Ender Wiggin''s story, the Starways Congress has sent a fleet to immolate the rebellious planet of Lusitania, home to the alien race of\n <em>\n  pequeninos\n </em>\n , and home to Ender Wiggin and his family. Concealed on Lusitania is the only remaining Hive Queen, who holds a secret that may save or destroy humanity throughout the galaxy. Familiar characters from the previous novels continue to grapple with religious conflicts and family squabbles while inventing faster-than-light travel and miraculous virus treatments. Throw into the mix an entire planet of mad geniuses and a self-aware computer who wants to be a martyr, and it''s hard to guess who will topple the first domino. Due to the densely woven and melodramatic nature of the story, newcomers to Ender''s tale will want to start reading this series with the first books,\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Speaker for the Dead\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Card returns to the highly popular, award-winning story of Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the boy wonder who saved humanity from alien invasion and, guilt-ridden over his near-total destruction of the alien species, has now become a sort of traveling conscience. This third Ender novel picks up where Speaker for the Dead left off: on the planet Lusitania, Ender and the other human colonists strive to neutralize the "descolada," a possibly sentient virus that adapts itself rapidly to every attack. Meanwhile, tensions are rising between the colonists and the indigenous "pequeninos," who rely on the descolada for their survival; and the fleet sent by Starways Congress to destroy the rebellious colony closes in with its doomsday weapon. With the help of their family, their pequenino friends, and Jane (an artificial intelligence living in the galactic computer network), Ender and his sister Valentine race against time to resolve these crises. The plot is sometimes compelling, but the novel''s many flaws make the book more often dull and irritating. Card''s style is openly didactic, and when his characters do veer away from lengthy philosophical and scientific ruminations, they venture into contrived personality conflicts and endless self-deprecation. Some, notably Ender, Valentine and the wonderchild Wang-mu, are simply too good to be true--too smart, too reasonable, too kind and generous. The reader quickly tires of such impossible perfection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1046'),
(8013, 'The Yankee Years', 'Joe Torre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The definitive story of one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, Joe Torre''s New York Yankees.Â When Joe Torre took over as manager of the Yankees in 1996, they had not won a World Series title in eighteen years. In that time seventeen others had tried to take the helm of Americaâ€™s most famous baseball team. Each one was fired by George Steinbrenner. After twelve triumphant seasonsâ€”with twelve straight playoff appearances, six pennants, and four World Series titlesâ€”Torre left the Yankees as the most beloved manager in baseball. But dealing with players like Jason Giambi, A-Rod, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Roger Clemens, and Randy Johnson is what managing is all about. Here, for the first time, Joe Torre and Tom Verducci take readers inside the dugout, the clubhouse, and the front office, showing what it took to keep the Yankees on top of the baseball world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1875'),
(8014, 'The Year of Living Biblically: One Man&#39;s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible', 'A. J. Jacobs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible.Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to play a ten-string harp; to stone adulterers.The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal and will make you see history''s most influential book with new eyes. Jacobs''s quest transforms his life even more radically than the year spent reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica for The Know-It-All. His beard grows so unruly that he is regularly mistaken for a member of ZZ Top. He immerses himself in prayer, tends sheep in the Israeli desert, battles idolatry, and tells the absolute truth in all situations - much to his wife''s chagrin.Throughout the book, Jacobs also embeds himself in a cross-section of communities that take the Bible literally. He tours a Kentucky-based creationist museum and sings hymns with Pennsylvania Amish. He dances with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn and does Scripture study with Jehovah''s Witnesses. He discovers ancient biblical wisdom of startling relevance. And he wrestles with seemingly archaic rules that baffle the twenty-first-century brain.Jacobs''s extraordinary undertaking yields unexpected epiphanies and challenges. A book that will charm readers both secular and religious, The Year of Living Biblically is part Cliff Notes to the Bible, part memoir, and part look into worlds unimaginable. Thou shalt not be able to put it down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1876'),
(8015, 'The Year of Magical Thinking', 'Joan Didion', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Many will greet this taut, clear-eyed memoir of grief as a long-awaited return to the terrain of Didion''s venerated, increasingly rare personal essays. The author of\n <em>\n  Slouching Towards Bethlehem\n </em>\n and 11 other works chronicles the year following the death of her husband, fellow writer John Gregory Dunne, from a massive heart attack on December 30, 2003, while the couple''s only daughter, Quintana, lay unconscious in a nearby hospital suffering from pneumonia and septic shock. Dunne and Didion had lived and worked side by side for nearly 40 years, and Dunne''s death propelled Didion into a state she calls "magical thinking." "We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss," she writes. "We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe that their husband is about to return and need his shoes." Didion''s mourning follows a traditional arcâ€”she describes just how precisely it cleaves to the medical descriptions of griefâ€”but her elegant rendition of its stages leads to hard-won insight, particularly into the aftereffects of marriage. "Marriage is not only time: it is also, paradoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John''s eyes. I did not age." In a sense, all of Didion''s fiction, with its themes of loss and bereavement, served as preparation for the writing of this memoir, and there is occasionally a curious hint of repetition, despite the immediacy and intimacy of the subject matter. Still, this is an indispensable addition to Didion''s body of work and a lyrical, disciplined entry in the annals of mourning literature.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Didion''s husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, died of a heart attack, just after they had returned from the hospital where their only child, Quintana, was lying in a coma. This book is a memoir of Dunne''s death, Quintana''s illness, and Didion''s efforts to make sense of a time when nothing made sense. "She''s a pretty cool customer," one hospital worker says of her, and, certainly, coolness was always part of the addictive appeal of Didion''s writing. The other part was the dark side of cool, the hyper-nervous awareness of the tendency of things to go bad. In 2004, Didion had her own disasters to deal with, and she did not, she feels, deal with them coolly, or even sanely. This book is about getting a grip and getting on; it''s also a tribute to an extraordinary marriage.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1877'),
(8016, 'The Year of the Flood', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An epic of biblical proportions, The Year of the Flood is a feast of imagination and a journey to the end of the world. Adam One is the leader of the God''s Gardeners, a religious group devoted to living under the command of the natural world. They wear beige cloth-sacks, cultivate mushrooms, harvest honey and curse each other by shouting: Pig-Eater! Their community is only tolerated by the CorpSeCorps, the ruling power, because they are not perceived as threatening. But, this is a world where gene-splicing is the norm; where lions and lambs have become Liobams and pigs have human DNA. The times, and species, are changing at a rapid rate, and with loyalites as thin as environmental stability, the future is a dangerous place. And, if the Waterless Flood does indeed arrive, as predicted by the Gardeners, will there even be a future to contemplate? Ren is a trapeze dancer at Scales and Tails, and can work a plank just as well. After a rip in her biofilm she is placed in solitary confinement until they can guarantee she is without disease. Her story is one part of our gateway into this uniquely constructed world. The other is Toby, an ex-counter-girl at SecretBurger (''Because we all love a Secret''), a natural cynic and source of extensive homeopathic knowledge; she knows her aminatas from her puffballs. Their stories weave beneath the holy teachings and saintly-songs of Adam One to create a truly apocalyptic vision, a world that harnesses Atwood''s wit, dystopic imagination and sharp insight. The result is a collective blast of a novel and one that will remain with you until the Waterless Flood comes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3591'),
(8017, 'Year of Wonders of the Plague', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Geraldine Brooks''s\n <em>\n  Year of Wonders\n </em>\n describes the 17th-century plague that is carried from London to a small Derbyshire village by an itinerant tailor. As villagers begin, one by one, to die, the rest face a choice: do they flee their village in hope of outrunning the plague or do they stay? The lord of the manor and his family pack up and leave. The rector, Michael Mompellion, argues forcefully that the villagers should stay put, isolate themselves from neighboring towns and villages, and prevent the contagion from spreading. His oratory wins the day and the village turns in on itself. Cocooned from the outside world and ravaged by the disease, its inhabitants struggle to retain their humanity in the face of the disaster. The narrator, the young widow Anna Frith, is one of the few who succeeds. With Mompellion and his wife, Elinor, she tends to the dying and battles to prevent her fellow villagers from descending into drink, violence, and superstition. All is complicated by the intense, inexpressible feelings she develops for both the rector and his wife.\n <em>\n  Year of Wonders\n </em>\n sometimes seems anachronistic as historical fiction; Anna and Mompellion occasionally appear to be modern sensibilities unaccountably transferred to 17th-century Derbyshire. However, there is no mistaking the power of Brooks''s imagination or the skill with which she constructs her story of ordinary people struggling to cope with extraordinary circumstances.\n <em>\n  --Nick Rennison, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discriminating readers who view the term historical novel with disdain will find that this debut by praised journalist Brooks (Foreign Correspondence) is to conventional work in the genre as a diamond is to a rhinestone. With an intensely observant eye, a rigorous regard for period detail, and assured, elegant prose, Brooks re-creates a year in the life of a remote British village decimated by the bubonic plague. Inspired by the actual town commemorated as Plague Village because of the events that transpired there in 1665-1666, Brooks tells her harrowing story from the perspective of 18-year-old Anna Frith, a widow with two young sons. Anna works as a maid for vicar Michael Mompellion and his gentle, selfless wife, Elinor, who has taught her to read. When bubonic plague arrives in the community, the vicar announces it as a scourge sent by God; obeying his command, the villagers voluntarily seal themselves off from the rest of the world. The vicar behaves nobly as he succors his dwindling flock, and his wife, aided by Anna, uses herbs to alleviate their pain. As deaths mount, however, grief and superstition evoke mob violence against "witches," and cults of self-flagellation and devil worship. With the facility of a prose artist, Brooks unflinchingly describes barbaric 17th-century customs and depicts the fabric of life in a poor rural area. If Anna''s existential questions about the role of religion and ethical behavior in a world governed by nature seem a bit too sophisticated for her time, Brooks keeps readers glued through starkly dramatic episodes and a haunting story of flawed, despairing human beings. This poignant and powerful account carries the pulsing beat of a sensitive imagination and the challenge of moral complexity. (Aug. 6)Forecast: Brooks should be a natural on talk shows as she tells of discovering the town of Eyam, in Derbyshire, in 1990, and her research to unearth its remarkable history. With astute marketing, Viking will have a winner here. BOMC, Literary Guild and QPB featured alternates; 8-city author tour; rights sold in England, France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/947'),
(8018, 'The Yearling', 'Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  SUMMARY:\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Fighting off a pack of starving wolves, wrestling alligators in the swamp, romping with bear cubs, drawing off the venom of a giant rattlesnake bite with the heart of a fresh-killed deer--it''s all in a day''s work for the Baxter family of the Florida scrublands. But young Jody Baxter is not content with these electrifying escapades, or even with the cozy comfort of home with Pa and Ma. He wants a pet, a friend with whom he can share his quiet cogitations and his corn pone. Jody gets his pet, a frisky fawn he calls Flag, but that''s not all. With Flag comes a year of life lessons, frolicking times, and achingly hard decisions. This powerful book is as compelling now as when it was written over 60 years ago. Read simply as a naturalist study of the Florida interior, it fascinates and entices. Add the heart-stopping adventure and heart-wrenching human elements, and this is a classic well worth its Pulitzer Prize. Earthy dialect and homespun wisdom season the story, giving it a unique and unforgettable flavor, and N.C. Wyeth''s warm, soft illustrations capture an era of rough subsistence and sweet survival.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  Jody, a young boy growing up in the backwoods of Florida, is lonely and when he discovers a young fawn a new world is opened up to him. However, his family cannot afford to keep feeding his pet.\n </div>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3070');
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(8019, 'Yesterday, I Cried: Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving', 'Iyanla Vanzant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What is the lesson in abuse, neglect, abandonment, rejection?What is the lesson when you lose someone you really love?Just what are the lessons of life''s hard times?Bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant has had an amazing and difficult life -- one of great challenges that unmasked her wonderful gifts and led to wisdom gained. In this simple book, she uses her own personal experiences to show how life''s hardships can be re-languaged and re-visioned to become lessons that teach us as we grow, heal, and learn to love. The pain of the past does not have to be today''s reality. Iyanla Vanzant is an example of how yesterday''s tears become the seeds of today''s hope, renewal, and strength.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1871'),
(8020, 'You Can&#39;t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times', 'Howard Zinn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  By any standards, Howard Zinn has led a remarkable life as teacher, writer, and social activist, a life in which those three categories are viewed not as compartmentalized tasks but as part of a unified identity.\n  <em>\n   You Can''t Be Neutral on a Moving Train\n  </em>\n  , a title taken from his advice to students about his take on American history and current events, is a powerful testament to that life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It begins with his 1956 acceptance of a teaching post at Atlanta''s Spelman College, a school for black women that would soon be caught up in the civil rights movement. Zinn, who had already been radicalized on the streets of Brooklyn as a teenager, got caught up along with his students (who included the future head of the Children''s Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman, and author Alice Walker), and was kicked out in 1963 for "insubordination." He moved to Boston University, where he became an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, and would prove a constant thorn in the side of university president John Silber throughout the 1970s and 1980s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Zinn writes in plain language that brooks no nonsense when it speaks of moral urgency, but he isn''t above a sense of humor. Noting that the FBI was watching him constantly during the war era, he wryly observes that, "I have grown to depend on them for accurate reports on my speeches." Individual scenes leap out at the reader: Zinn''s horror when he realized, years after WWII, that he had dropped napalm bombs on German troops; a meeting in a college classroom with the sister and parents of one of the victims of the Kent State massacre; Selma, Alabama, police beating blacks attempting to register to vote while federal agents stand by and do nothing. Through it all, Zinn writes, "I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience."\n  <em>\n   --Ron Hogan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Noted left-wing historian Zinn ( A People''s History of the United States ) believes that activism and education are inextricable, and his memoir illuminates a well-engaged life. Teaching at Atlanta''s Spelman College in the early days of the civil rights movement, he found allies in principled students like Marian Wright (now Edelman) and budding writer Alice Walker. He advised SNCC in Selma, Ala. He volunteered to fight the Nazis but, after Hiroshima, developed a skeptical pacifism he further exercised as a passionate opponent of the Vietnam War. Zinn''s narrative is oddly disjointed: not until late in the book does he recount his youth in the slums of Brooklyn, his discovery of Dickens, Marx and Steinbeck and his post-WW II years as a laborer and a 27-year-old college freshman. If Zinn is a bit Pollyannish, he''s also inspirational, arguing that, because much has changed in history, "We can be surprised again. Indeed, we can do the surprising."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2332'),
(8021, 'You Only Live Twice', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n You Only Lice Twice is the twelfth of Ian Fleming''s novels and sees the broken agent sent to the Far East for one final mission... Bond, a shattered man after the death of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofield, has gone to pieces as an agent, endangering himself and his fellow operatives. M, unwilling to accept the loss of one of his best men, sends 007 to Japan for one last, near-impossible mission. But Japan proves to be Bond''s downfall, leading him to a mysterious residence known as the ''Castle of Death'' where he encounters an old enemy revitalised. All the omens suggest that this is the end for the British agent, and for once, even Bond himself seems unable to disagree...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1139'),
(8022, 'You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story', 'Annabelle Gurwitch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir, comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is loveâ€”and a healthy dose of complaining, codependence, and pinot noir. After thirteen years of being married, Annabelle and Jeff have found â€œWeâ€™re just not that into us.â€ Instead of giving up, theyâ€™ve held their relationship together by ignoring conventional wisdom and fostering a lack of intimacy, by using parenting as a competitive sport, and by dropping out of couples therapy. The he-said/she-said chronicle of their intense but loving marriage includes an unsentimental account of the medical odyssey that their family embarked upon after their infant son was diagnosed with VACTERL, a very rare series of birth defects. Annabelle and Jeffâ€™s unforgivingly raw, uproariously funny story is sure to strike both laughter and terror in the hearts of all couples (not to mention every single man or woman who is contemplating the connubial state). Serving up equal parts sincerity and cynicism, *You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up *is a laugh-out-loud must-read for everyone who has come to realize that being â€œin loveâ€ can only get you so far.** ****On Cohabitation****He says: **â€œWithin days of Annabelleâ€™s arrival, I became very aware that she demanded solitude and had the housekeeping habits of a feral animal.â€**She says: **â€œThe guy had some sort of nudity radar. When I would take my clothes off for even a second, Jeff would be in front of me cheering as if heâ€™d scored box seats at Fenway Park.â€** ****On Sex****He says: **â€œI want to have sex every day, but Annabelle only wants to do it once a week. So we compromise: we have sex once a week.â€**She says: **â€œJeff says talking about money before you have sex is a turnoff, but itâ€™s only a *turnoff *if youâ€™re talking about not having money. Talking about money before you have sex when you have money is actually a *turn-on*.â€ **On Pregnancy****He says: **â€œFor Godâ€™s sake, all I wanted to do was have sex without a condom for a little while; now we were moments from bringing a new life into the world!â€**She says: **â€œMy ass was expanding so fast it was like a Starbucks franchise. On every corner of my ass there was a new branch of ass opening up.â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1874'),
(8023, 'You&#39;ve Been Warned', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  with Howard Roughan\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  For Karen Burns, a talented young photographer, it was only natural to go   to New York to chase her dreams.  And it was only normal--just to pay the   rent while she waited for her big chance--to work as a nanny for a young   power couple, an attorney and his socialite wife, watching their two   children.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But for all the promise, the thrills, and the glitter, there are   temptations and there are deadly dangers that come with life among the rich   and powerful.  Get ready for the Nanny Diaries from Hell.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/301'),
(8024, 'Your Dream Home: A Comprehensive Guide to Buying a House, Condo, or Co-Op', 'Marguerite Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The experts at "Money" magazine offer sound advice on everything involved in buying a house, condo, or co-op in this clear, concise guide. This book helps consumers construct a winning game plan when purchasing a home that''s also a financial investment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1100'),
(8025, 'Your Heart Belongs to Me', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the #1New York Timesbestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psycheand the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Here a brilliant young man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts with the most frightening words of all... At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocketuntil the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, he''s diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; it''s his only hope, and it''s dwindling fast. Ryan is about to lose it all...his health, his girlfriend Samantha, and his life. One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Business is good and he hopes to renew his relationship with Samantha. Then the unmarked gifts begin to appeara box of Valentine candy hearts, a heart pendant. Most disturbing of all, a graphic heart surgery video and the chilling message:Your heart belongs to me. In a heartbeat, the medical miracle that gave Ryan a second chance at life is about to become a curse worse than death. For Ryan is being stalked by a mysterious woman who feels entitled to everything he has. She''s the spitting image of the twenty-six-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan''s own chest. And she''s come to take it back. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3690'),
(8026, 'The Zahir of Obsession', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The press chat cites 65 million copies of Coelho''s eight previous novels in print, making the Brazilian author one of the world''s bestselling novelists (150 countries and 56 languages). This book, whose title means "the present" or "unable to go unnoticed" in Arabic, has an initial staggered laydown of eight million copies in 83 countries and 42 languages. It centers on the narrator''s search for his missing wife, Esther, a journalist who fled Iraq in the runup to the present war, only to disappear from Paris; the narrator, a writer, is freed from suspicion when his lover, Marie, comes forward with a (true) alibi. He seeks out Mikhail, the man who may be Esther''s most recent lover and with whom she was last seen, who has abandoned his native Kazakhstan for a kind of speaking tour on love. Mikhail introduces the narrator to a global underground "tribe" of spiritual seekers who resist, somewhat vaguely, conventional ways of living. Through the narrator''s journey from Paris to Kazakhstan, Coelho explores various meanings of love and life, but the impact of these lessons is diminished significantly as they are repeated in various forms by various characters. Then again, 65 million readers can''t be wrong; the spare, propulsive style that drove\n <em>\n  The Alchemist\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Eleven Minutes\n </em>\n and Coelho''s other books will easily carry fans through myriad iterations of the ways and means of\n <em>\n  amor\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Subtitled\n <em>\n  A Novel of Obsession\n </em>\n , this tale is the philosophical and spiritual chronicle of one man''s quest for self-discovery. Stunned by his wife''s inexplicable disappearance from their Paris home and immediately suspected of foul play by the authorities and the press, the unnamed protagonist, a best-selling writer, is forced to reexamine both his marital relationship and his own life. What he eventually discovers with the help of a -mysterious stranger named Mikhail--a man he suspects is somehow involved in Esther''s disappearance--is that he must first "find himself" before he can ever hope to find his wife. Although Esther is physically and emotionally lost to him, he rediscovers her as he retraces both her footsteps and the disintegration of their visceral connection. Finally able to release the past and his anger, he can accept the uncertainty of the present by traveling to Kazakhstan with Mikhail in search of Esther and the remote possibility of resurrecting a dormant love. As in\n <em>\n  The Alchemist\n </em>\n (1993), Coelho continues to prove himself a contemporary fabulist, spinning irresistible stories while seeking enlightenment at the same time. Interwoven with details drawn from his life, the mesmerizing narrative offers a highly personal meditation on the meaning and the power of love.\n <em>\n  Margaret Flanagan\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1245'),
(8027, 'Zapped', 'Carol Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s a hot, humid July night in New York City. Where were you when the lights went out?A New York City resident for many years, Carol Higgins Clark was there during the blackout of 2003. Not surprisingly, she felt that Regan and Jack Reilly should one day share the experience!As Zapped begins, the Reillys return home from a summer weekend to the loft in Tribeca they are in the agonizing process of renovating and expanding. They are looking forward to a quiet supper on their newly acquired rooftop terrace. But it''s not meant to be. While Jack goes to pick up Chinese food, Regan enters their apartment, unaware that a nervous thief, who preceded her by minutes, is hiding in the front closet. A thief who knows about a hidden safe that Regan and Jack have yet to discover. Minutes later, the blackout strikes, and both Reillys are called into action.A new gallery in SoHo, featuring treasured glass sculptures from all over the world, has been burglarized. As head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, Jack oversees several departments. Art theft is one of them.PI Regan hears from her best friend, Kit, who is in Manhattan on business. She''s been abandoned at a comedy club by a colleague from an insurance convention, Georgina Mathieson, who ran out for a cigarette moments before the blackout struck and never came back. Kit gets a call that Georgina is disturbed and dangerous. Fueled by her rage at a college boyfriend who dumped her, Georgina seeks revenge on unsuspecting young blond men. She was last seen getting into a cab outside the club -- with a tall blond. Regan heads the search for Georgina and her potential victim.Meanwhile, Lorraine Lily, an almost famous actress, returns to New York City the night of the blackout, after spending three months in England doing a play, and is informed by her estranged husband, Conrad Spreckles, that he''d sold his loft to their next-door neighbors, the Reillys. Lorraine had never told him about the hidden safe she''d had installed in the closet. If she doesn''t get back what''s in there, she''s sure her budding career will be ruined.In Zapped, Clark takes readers on a tour of the city they won''t forget and introduces them to a wonderful cast of colorful, eccentric characters whose stories intersect in precarious and often humorous ways during one very dark and hot summer night.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3503'),
(8028, 'Zeitoun', 'Dave Eggers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **National Bestseller **A *New York Times *Notable Book An *O, The Oprah Magazine *Terrific Read of the YearA *Huffington Post *Best Book of the Year A *New Yorker *Favorite Book of the Year A *Chicago Tribune *Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year A *Kansas City Star* Best Book of the Year A *San Francisco Chronicle* Best Book of the Year An *Entertainment Weekly* Best Book of the Decade The true story of one family, caught between Americaâ€™s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, **Zeitoun** is a riveting account of one familyâ€™s unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/2166'),
(8029, 'Zero Day', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From David Baldacci-the modern master of the thriller and #1 worldwide bestselling novelist-comes a new hero: a lone Army Special Agent taking on the toughest crimes facing the nation.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n And\n <em>\n  Zero Day\n </em>\n is where it all begins....\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army''s Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. The local homicide detective, a headstrong woman with personal demons of her own, joins forces with Puller in the investigation. As Puller digs through deception after deception, he realizes that absolutely nothing he''s seen in this small town, and no one in it, are what they seem. Facing a potential conspiracy that reaches far beyond the hills of West Virginia, he is one man on the hunt for justice against an overwhelming force.\n <br />\n</p>\n<p>\n David Baldacci is one of the world''s favorite storytellers. His books are published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with over 110 million copies in print. David Baldacci is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America. Still a resident of his native Virginia, he invites you to visit him at www.DavidBaldacci.com and his foundation at www.WishYouWellFoundation.org, and to look into its program to spread books across America at www.FeedingBodyandMind.com.\n <br />\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Baldacci lives with his family in Virginia. He and his wife have founded the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America. He invites you to visit him at www.david-baldacci.com and his foundation at www.wishyouwellfoundation.org, and to look into its program to spread books across America at www.FeedingBodyandMind.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/17'),
(8030, 'Zero History', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The new novel from William Gibson, "one of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working." ( The Boston Globe) Hollis Henry worked for the global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend once before. She never meant to repeat the experience. But she''s broke, and Bigend never feels it''s beneath him to use whatever power comes his way -- in this case, the power of money to bring Hollis onto his team again. Not that she knows what the "team" is up to, not at first. Milgrim is even more thoroughly owned by Bigend. He''s worth owning for his useful gift of seeming to disappear in almost any setting, and his Russian is perfectly idiomatic - so much so that he spoke Russian with his therapist, in the secret Swiss clinic where Bigend paid for him to be cured of the addiction that would have killed him. Garreth has a passion for extreme sports. Most recently he jumped off the highest building in the world, opening his chute at the last moment, and he has a new thighbone made of rattan baked into bone, entirely experimental, to show for it. Garreth isn''t owned by Bigend at all. Garreth has friends from whom he can call in the kinds of favors that a man like Bigend will find he needs, when things go unexpectedly sideways, in a world a man like Bigend is accustomed to controlling. As when a Department of Defense contract for combat-wear turns out to be the gateway drug for arms dealers so shadowy that even Bigend, whose subtlety and power in the private sector would be hard to overstate, finds himself outmaneuvered and adrift in a seriously dangerous world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/3408'),
(8031, 'Zero Hour', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A code which will jam every item of military hardware from Kabul to Washingtona On 5 September 2007, Israeli jets bombed a suspected nuclear installation in northeastern Syria. Syrian radar u supposedly state-of-the-art u had failed to warn the target of the incoming assault. A system on the verge of collapsea Unknown to anyone but the Israelis and the radar''s manufacturers, the commercial, off-the-shelf microprocessors within it contained a remotely accessible kill switch. A terrorist group who nearly have it in their handsa Now British Intelligence has discovered that the same switches are at the heart of every electronic device in the UK and US arsenal. It will take years to replace the components. So they must deactivate the man who controls them instead. And a soldier who wants to go down fightinga Ex-SAS deniable operator Nick Stone is tasked to find and kill him u but this time he''s not on ''receive''. For once, his life is under threat for another reason u from within. And now he really is a man with nothing to lose...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/376'),
(8032, 'Zodiac', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Zodiac, the brilliant second novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the The Baroque Cycle and Snow Crash, is now available from Grove Press. Meet Sangamon Taylor, a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evilâ€”all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places. Before long Taylorâ€™s house is bombed, his every move followed, heâ€™s adopted by reservation Indians, moves onto the FBIâ€™s most wanted list, makes up with his girlfriend, and plays a starring role in the near-assassination of a presidential candidate. Closing the case with the aid of his burnout roommate, his tofu-eating comrades, three major networks, and a range of unconventional weaponry, Sangamon Taylor pulls off the most startling caper in Boston Harbor since the Tea Party.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/724'),
(8033, 'The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead', 'Max Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this outrageous parody of a survival guide, Saturday Night Live staff writer Brooks prepares humanity for its eventual battle with zombies. One would expect the son of Mel Brooks to have a genetic predisposition to humor, and indeed, he does, and he exhibits it relentlessly here: he outlines virtually every possible zombie-human encounter, drafts detailed plans for defense and attack and outlines past recorded attacks dating from 60,000 B.C. to 2002. In planning for that catastrophic day when "the dead rise," Brooks urges readers to get to know themselves, their bodies, their weaponry, their surroundings and, just in case, their escape routes. Some of the book''s more amusing aspects are the laughable analyses Brooks proposes on all aspects of zombiehood, and the specificity with which he enumerates the necessary actions for survival-i.e., a member of an anti-zombie team must be sure to have with him at all times two emergency flares, a signaling mirror, daily rations, a personal mess kit and two pairs of socks. Comic, though unnecessarily exhaustive, this is a good bet for Halloween gag gifts and fans of Bored of the Rings-esque humor. 100 line drawings.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "''So meticulous and well researched that it''s more scary than funny. This book lays out everything you need to know to protect yourself from flesh-eating monsters'' - Esquire ''A bloody-minded, straight laced manual for evading the grasp of the undead'' - Time Out ''A tome you start reading for fun and then at page 50 you go out and buy a machete just to be on the safe side'' - New York Post ''Ignorance is the undead''s strongest ally, knowledge their deadliest enemy. Personal choice, the will to live, must be paramount when the dead begin to rise. The choice is up to you.'' (from The Zombie Survival Guide)"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/1081'),
(8034, 'Zone One', 'Colson Whitehead', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.\n <br />\n <br />\n Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild&shy;ing civilization under orders from the provisional govern&shy;ment based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street--aka Zone One--but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety--the "malfunctioning" stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives.\n <br />\n <br />\n Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams work&shy;ing in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz''s desperate fight for survival during the worst of the...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://75.176.64.245/get/thumb_90_120/927'),
(8035, '[Brotherhood 01] - Dark Lover', 'JR Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13684'),
(8036, '[Brotherhood 01] - Dark Lover', 'JR Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26156'),
(8037, '[Brotherhood 02] - Lover Eternal', 'JR Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13792'),
(8038, '[Brotherhood 03] - Lover Awakened', 'JR Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13689'),
(8039, '[Ergoth 03] - A Hero&#39;s Justice', 'Paul B. Thompson, Tonya C. Cook - (ebook by Undead)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21535'),
(8040, '**Bridget Jones&#39;s Diary : A Novel', 'Helen Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones''s Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year''s resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent. At the beginning of Helen Fielding''s exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she''ll have made a good start. As far as she''s concerned, "We wouldn''t rush up to them and roar, ''How''s your marriage going? Still having sex?''" This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people''s "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones''s Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don''t sound half as sensible to Bridget when she''s sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it''s impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry Fried\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14782'),
(8041, '**Bridget Jones&#39;s Diary : A Novel', 'Helen Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones''s Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year''s resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent. At the beginning of Helen Fielding''s exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she''ll have made a good start. As far as she''s concerned, "We wouldn''t rush up to them and roar, ''How''s your marriage going? Still having sex?''" This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people''s "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones''s Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don''t sound half as sensible to Bridget when she''s sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it''s impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry Fried\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19482'),
(8042, '**Bridget Jones&#39;s Diary : A Novel', 'Helen Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones''s Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year''s resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent. At the beginning of Helen Fielding''s exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she''ll have made a good start. As far as she''s concerned, "We wouldn''t rush up to them and roar, ''How''s your marriage going? Still having sex?''" This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people''s "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones''s Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don''t sound half as sensible to Bridget when she''s sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it''s impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry Fried\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28144'),
(8043, '0 The Story Behind the Foundation Trilogy', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18260'),
(8044, '01 Count Brass', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21657'),
(8045, '01 Jewel in the Skull', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21615'),
(8046, '01 Mister Monday', 'Nix, Garth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18428'),
(8047, '01 The Camels are Coming', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15434'),
(8048, '01 The Eternal Champion', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21624'),
(8049, '01 The Fall', 'Nix, Garth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18433'),
(8050, '01 The Knight', 'Wolfe, Gene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18429'),
(8051, '01 The Knight of Swords', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21629'),
(8052, '01 The War Hound and the World&#39;s Pain', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21642'),
(8053, '01 The Warlord of the Air', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21641'),
(8054, '01 When The Lion Feeds', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "Only a handful of 20th century writers tantalize our senses as well as Smith...a rare author who wields a razor-sharp sword of craftsmanship."\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   --\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Tulsa\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   _ World_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   __\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   TRIUMPH OF THE SUN\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "_Triumph of the Sun_ is everything [Smith''s] fans have come to expect: masterful storytelling and breathtaking adventure...chalk up another winner."--_Times Record News_ (Wichita Falls, TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Espionage, disguise, stabbings in the dark...a story that is--like the Nile itself--swift and powerful... fans will not be disappointed."--_Booklist_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Nobody does it better."--_Kirkus Reviews_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Wildly entertaining, compulsively readable."--Sunday Telegraph (UK)\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  BLUE HORIZON\n </strong>\n <br />\n "The eleventh volume in Smith''s saga of the Courtney clan is every bit as riveting as its predecessors. Brimming with bravado, greed, and romance."--_Booklist_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Really big retro-fun."--_Kirkus Reviews_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "A swashbuckling, brawling, sprawling historical epic. Rich, exciting, and fascinating."--_Library Journal_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Adventure and danger at every turn."--_New York__ Daily News_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Gripping. The writer''s fans will enjoy the ride."--_Publishers Weekly_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Master storyteller Smith takes his story into another generation of adventurers battling on the sea and on land in the settling of South Africa."--_Tulsa__ World_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Everything Smith''s fans have come to expect from his epic adventure novels. His consummate skill at crafting vast battle scenes, passionate and wildly romantic characters, cruel and bloodthirsty villains, and larger-than-life heroes make\n <em>\n  Blue Horizon\n </em>\n irresistible."--_Journal _(Flint, MI)\n <br />\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  WARLOCK\n </strong>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When it comes to historical fiction, Smith is without rival. He is a warlock of writers."--_Tulsa__ World_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Filled with enough action, adventure, battles, betrayals, and actual cliffhangers to satisfy Indiana Jones, Wilbur Smith''s new novel\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  is a rousing and worthy sequel to\n  <em>\n   River God\n  </em>\n  ."\n  <br />\n  --_The Plain Dealer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Seamlessly composed, this epic historical drama by veteran author Smith tracks a power struggle in ancient Egypt between false pharaohs and a true royal heir, evoking the cruel glories and terrible torments of the era. Those willing to brave the blood and gore will be carried away by the sweep and pace of Smith''s tale."-_Publishers Weekly_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Each time I read a new Wilbur Smith I say it is the best book I have ever read--until the next one. It''s the same with\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  . Brilliant...irresistible and impossible to put down."\n  <br />\n  --_Times Record News _(Wichita Falls, TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Those of you familiar with Smith''s writing...can expect more of his signature brand of pulse-pounding, "Perils of Pauline"--style of adventure and excitement, with more blood and guts than a slaughterhouse."--_Tampa__ Tribune Times_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "This summer''s most entertaining read...another full-blown tale of war, intrigue, murder, lust, and true love set in ancient Egypt [this] is really the book Taita fans have been waiting for."--_Flint__ Journal_\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n "Smith is at the top of his game in weaving exotic adventures in this work. Very highly recommended."--_Library Journal_\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith...returns to the genre with this epic action tale of intrigue, suspense, and adventure set in ancient Egypt. His many fans will be clamoring for copies of this one."--_Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A stirring tale, full of chariot battles...Smith has whipped up a heady brew...and undoubtedly deserves his immense popularity far more than most of his rivals."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --_Evening Standard_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You can almost feel the heat and taste the dust as the narrative builds to a cracking pace...[_Warlock_] is a ripping yarn and a classic adventure story."--_Irish News_\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  RIVER GOD\n </strong>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A grand tale of intrigue, deception, true love and exile."--_The\n  <strong>\n   Denver\n  </strong>\n  Post_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Vivid and fascinating...packed with passion, war, intrigue and revenge...sprawling and absorbing...gripping.... A racy rampage through ancient Egypt that puts the reader right there with details that are intimate, inspiring, horrifying....The author makes you see it, hear it--even smell it...Fans will be happy to know Smith hasn''t lost his touch for the dramatic, exotic adventure story."--_The\n  <strong>\n   Orlando\n  </strong>\n  Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A page-turner...few novelists can write action scenes that all but leap off the page the way Smith can...his detailed portrait of ancient Egypt is fascinating."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --_Anniston__ Star_ (TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith tackles the elevated literary fields of ancient Egypt, and comes up with a full-blooded epic."\n  <br />\n  --_The\n  <strong>\n   London\n  </strong>\n  Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Like a good action movie, the book ends with a show-down between the good guys and bad guys on the battlefield...well-written and entertaining."--_Lexington__ Herald-Leader_ (KY)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Compulsively readable...contains intrigue, romance, greed, cruelty, and furious action...rewarding and satisfying."--_El Paso__ Herald-Post_ (TX)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An epic...Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."--_Tulsa__ World _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An epic novel of ancient Egypt, a great adventure with all the right ingredients: victories and defeats, secrets and revelations, life and death, reverence and godlessness, hate and love"--_The Des Moines Register _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s clear Smith knows his subject: his graphic depiction of lust, bloodletting, politics, and, in Taita''s case, honor is firmly grounded in rich details that evoke the period."_--Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[_River God_] gallops swiftly through the action and flying blood his fans have come to relish...Brightly colored, sweeping escapism."--_Kirkus Reviews_\n  <br />\n  MONSOON"[Smith] paces his tale as swiftly as he can with swordplay aplenty and killing strokes that come like lightning out of a sunny blue sky."-_Kirkus Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] non-stop thriller that takes readers on a magical tour...this is what makes a Smith book worth reading."-_Midwest__ Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Only a handful of 20th century writers tantalize our senses as well as Smith...a rare author who wields a razor-sharp sword of craftsmanship."-_Tulsa__ World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A wild adventure...brought flawlessly to life through realistic sword fights and sea battles, vivid stories of pirates...breathtaking."-_Times Record News_\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n "A masterful tale of action and suspense.... A smooth blend of adventure and romance, the novel is an atmospheric trip through the fierce mysteries of the Dark Continent and the Arabian seas."--_Publishers Weekly_\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith offers plenty of battles and harrowing escapes for adventure fans."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --_Library Journal_\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n BIRDS OF PREY"Smith''s novel is far more than your typical pirate script...A fascinating account...Smith deftly evokes not only the horrific but also the beautiful, particularly the lush landscape of Africa."--_The\n <strong>\n  Washington\n </strong>\n Post Book World_\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As usual, Smith...peoples his tale with unforgettable characters...swashbuckling and sensuous,\n  <em>\n   Birds of Prey\n  </em>\n  is not for the faint-hearted. Its bloodiest scenes are vivid and detailed--and so are hero Hal''s romantic encounters. But, as with Smith''s previous two best sellers,\n  <em>\n   River God\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Seventh Scroll\n  </em>\n  , this latest epic transcends the average action-adventure yarn."--_The\n  <strong>\n   Orlando\n  </strong>\n  Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Birds of Prey_ is a wonderful novel filled with excitement, pirates, and vivid sea battles...In short, it is vintage Wilbur Smith."--_Times Record News_ (Wichita Falls, TX)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is the 1870s and twin brothers Sean and Garrick Courtney are born into the wilds of Natal. They could not be more different, and fate, war and the jealous schemes of a woman are to drive them even further apart. But as history unfolds, a continent is awakening. And on the horizon is the promise of fortune, adventure, destiny and love...''The world''s leading adventure writer'' - "Daily Express" ''The pace would do credit to a Porsche, and the invention is as bright and explosive as a fireworks display'' - "Sunday Telegraph". '' ...action follows action ...mystery is piled on mystery ...tales to delight the millions of addicts of the gutsy adventure story'' - "Sunday Express". '' ...a natural storyteller who moves confidently and often splendidly in his period and sustains a flow of convincing incident'' - "The Scotsman".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22759'),
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(8056, '02 Castle', 'Nix, Garth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18417'),
(8057, '02 Grim Tuesday', 'Nix, Garth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18420'),
(8058, '02 Magician: Master', 'Feist, Raymond', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21471'),
(8059, '02 Sorcerer&#39;s Amulet', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21619'),
(8060, '02 The Brothel in Rosenstrasse', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21622'),
(8061, '02 The Champion of Garathorm', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21656'),
(8062, '02 The Dark of the Sun', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œBest historical novelist: I say Wilbur Smith.â€â€”Stephen King\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAction is Smithâ€™s game, and he is a master.â€_â€”The Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by fighting, and to retrieve a consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits, guerillas and hostile tribes - and one of his own men.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22777'),
(8063, '02 The Land Leviathan', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21630'),
(8064, '02 The Queen of Swords', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21618'),
(8065, '02 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14702'),
(8066, '02 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27603');
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(8068, '03 Aenir', 'Nix, Garth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18416'),
(8069, '03 Biggles of the Camel Squadron', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15501'),
(8070, '03 Drowned Wednesday', 'Nix, Garth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18419'),
(8071, '03 Life, the Universe and Everything', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14863'),
(8072, '03 Life, the Universe and Everything', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27602'),
(8073, '03 The Quest for Tanelorn', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21631'),
(8074, '03 The Sound of Thunder', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Action is Smith''s game, and he is a master."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You can get lost in Wilbur Smith...with his swashbuckling novels."--Stephen King,\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  __\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 1899. The British Empire is at the height of its power. But in South Africa, proud Dutch colonists defy the Queen and her army--and a lush, wild world is torn apart by guns, spears, and swords.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sean Courtney had been tragically separated from his family, but the Boer War has brought him back to his homeland--and into the sights of his enemy''s guns. It has also returned him to Ruth Friedman, the only woman Sean can love, even though he shouldn''t. As Sean''s loyalties--to nation, man, and blood--are tested, a saga of duty and betrayal unfolds....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22798'),
(8075, '03 The Steel Tsar', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21639'),
(8076, '03 The Sword of the Dawn', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21616'),
(8077, '04 Biggles Flies Again', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15473'),
(8078, '04 Shout at the Devil', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  _Wilbur Smith''s adventure tales are big, bold and unforgettable. In\n  <em>\n   SHOUT AT THE DEVIL\n  </em>\n  , the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling master storyteller takes us to a brutal paradise engulfed in the fires of civilization''s war..._\n  <br />\n  __\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   A MAN ON HIS OWN\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  They couldn''t be anymore different: an earnest young Englishman named Sebastian Oldsmith and an Irish American adventurer named Flynn O''Flynn who never encounters a rule he doesn''t break. Fate brings them together in Zanzibar. A sadistic German turns them into allies, then into warriors.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  A WOMAN IN LOVE\n </strong>\n <br />\n From the moment Rosa O''Flynn lays eyes on Sebastian, Rosa finds the man she would love forever--never mind what plans her father has for her. But imperialism is shaking Mozambique, where O''Flynn is the craftiest, fiercest beast in the jungle. And when Rosa and Sebastian lose what is most precious, they join a band of rogues, natives, wanderers, and hunters to start their own war against an enemy who has nothing to fear--and everything to lose...\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A HUNT FOR THE MOST DANGEROUS PREY OF ALL\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  From the sound and sight of a charging bull elephant to ships ablaze on the Indian Ocean, this is a full throttle saga of survival--against nature, man, and the devil himself...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "Action is Wilbur Smith''s game, and he is a master."\n  <br />\n  --_The _\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Washington\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  _ Post Book World_\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <strong>\n  "[Wilbur Smith] puts the reader right there with details that are intimate, inspiring, horrifying.... Fans will be happy to know Smith hasn''t lost his touch for the dramatic, exotic adventure story\n </strong>\n ."\n <br />\n --\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Orlando\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Sentinel_\n </strong>\n _ _\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <p>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  These audiobooks from Macmillan UK offer abridged readings of some of the world''s most popular authors. Handsomely packaged, they feature readings by eminent actors of the stage and screen, including James Fox, Martin Shaw, Tim Pigott-Smith and David Rintoul.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22792'),
(8079, '04 Sir Thursday', 'Nix, Garth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18422'),
(8080, '04 So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14745'),
(8081, '04 So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27601'),
(8082, '04.5 The Arms of the Kraken', 'Martin, George RR', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18409'),
(8083, '05 Biggles Flies East', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15474'),
(8084, '05 Biggles Learns To Fly', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15498'),
(8085, '05 Gold mine', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22782'),
(8086, '05 Into Battle', 'Nix, Garth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18421'),
(8087, '05 Lady Friday', 'Nix, Garth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18424'),
(8088, '05 Mostly Harmless', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14686'),
(8089, '05 Mostly Harmless', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27600'),
(8090, '06 Biggles And The Black Peril', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15433'),
(8091, '06 Biggles Hits The Trail', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15487'),
(8092, '06 Superior Saturday', 'Nix, Garth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18432'),
(8093, '06 The Diamond Hunters', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Wilbur Smith leaves fans feeling that they sailed alongside Sir Hal because the geography and the era appear so genuine. This is what makes a Smith book worth reading."\n  <br />\n  --_Midwest Book Review _on\n  <em>\n   Monsoon\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith''s novel is far more than your typical pirate script...A fascinating account...Smith deftly evokes not only the horrific but also the beautiful, particularly the lush landscape of Africa."\n  <br />\n  --_The Washington Post Book World_ on\n  <em>\n   Birds of Prey\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As usual, Smith...peoples his tale with unforgettable characters...Swashbuckling and sensuous,\n  <em>\n   Birds of Prey\n  </em>\n  is not for the faint-hearted. This latest epic transcends the average action-adventure yarn."\n  <br />\n  --_The Orlando Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A rich, compelling look back in time when history and myth intermingled."\n  <br />\n  --_San Francisco Chronicle_ on\n  <em>\n   River God\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Throughout\n  <em>\n   The Seventh Scroll\n  </em>\n  , as in all Wilbur Smith novels, the plot twists and turns with constant surprises...This old-fashioned adventure novel keeps the reader enthralled all the way to its very exciting conclusion."\n  <br />\n  --_The Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the Van Der Byl Diamond Company is willed by its founder to his son Benedict, it turns out to be a bequest of hatred.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22778'),
(8094, '06 The Violet Keystone', 'Nix, Garth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18434'),
(8095, '07 The Sunbird', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "When it comes to historical fiction, Smith is without rival."--_Tulsa World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Each time I read a new Wilbur Smith I say it is the best book I have ever read--until the next one."--_Times Record News _(Wichita Falls, TX)\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dr. Ben Kazin is a brilliant acrheologist. Louren Sturvesant is rich, impulsive, and physically imposing, everything Ben is not. Now, the to men--friends, competitors and partner--are searching for the legendary lost city of Opet, built by an Egyptian culture that reached Africa two thousand years ago, then vanished completely.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Ben, the expedition is a chance to prove a controversial thesis. For Louren, it is a chance to spend milions--and make it all back in gold and glory. But what awaits them is an astounding discovery, a seige of terror, and an act of betrayal that will tear the two men apart and bind them together forever...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hidden beneath water, jungle, and blood-red cliffs is a lost world where two men and a beautiful woman were caught in a furious battle of passions two thousands years ago, but which has begun once again....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22799'),
(8096, '08 Eagle in the Sky', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''With a dull but awful roar, the Mirage bloomed with dark crimson flame and sooty black smoke, the wind ripped flames outwards in great streamers and pennants that engulfed all around them, and David staggered onwards in the midst of the roaring furnace that seemed to consume the very air.'' Drawn to the sky as though to his natural element, young David Morgan spurns the boardroom future mapped out for him by his family for the life of a jet pilot. Then he meets Debra, the beautiful Israeli writer for whom he will fight, in another country''s war, at the controls of his Mirage. Yet the breathless action which brings them together is also the very tragedy that will threaten to tear them apart...''Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared'' - "The Times."\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  These audiobooks from Macmillan UK offer abridged readings of some of the world''s most popular authors. Handsomely packaged, they feature readings by eminent actors of the stage and screen, including James Fox, Martin Shaw, Tim Pigott-Smith and David Rintoul.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22779'),
(8097, '09 Biggles In France', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15492'),
(8098, '09 The Eye of the Tiger', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Set amid the exotic world of deep-sea diving in the tropics, The Eye of the Tiger is a tale of adventure and romance told with rare humour and excitement. ''I was looking down, watching the shark come. It seemed to swell up in size as it rushed towards me. Every detail was burned into my mind in those frantic seconds. I saw the hog''s snout with the two slotted nostrils, the golden eyes with the black pupils like arrowheads, the broad blue back from which stood the tall executioner''s blade of the dorsal fin.'' Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, has reformed and is making an honest living as a charter skipper fishing for big game in the seductive waters of the Indian Ocean. Suddenly men from the world of violence Harry has put behind him overturn his good intentions, involving him in a hectic race to recover a fabulous treasure from an ancient wreck.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22781'),
(8099, '1 - The Covenant of The Forge', 'Covenant of The Forge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17311'),
(8100, '1-2-3 Magic, 3rd Ed', 'Thomas W. Phelan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22878'),
(8101, '10 Biggles And Co', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15462'),
(8102, '10 Conversations You Need to Have With Your Children', 'Shmuley Boteach', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Why do I have to repeat everything? Why does every conversation end in an argument?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Communicating with our children. Conversing. Connecting. When did it become so difficult? And how do we begin to change it for the better?\n</p>\n<p>\n This book was designed to help parents answer these important questions, and it is based on two fundamental ideas: The first is that there are no bad children, and no deliberately bad parents -- but that sometimes, despite the best of intentions on both sides, there can be bad\n <em>\n  relationships\n </em>\n between parents and children. The second is that, as parents, we must do everything we can to save those relationships, to reach out and really communicate with our children, because it is only through talking to them that we can create an environment for inspiration and change.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this compelling book, Shmuley Boteach, passionate social commentator and outspoken relationship guru, walks you through the critical conversations, including:\n <em>\n  cherishing childhood; developing intellectual curiosity; knowing who you are and what you want to become; learning to forgive; realizing the importance of family and tradition; being fearless and courageous\n </em>\n . As a father of eight, Rabbi Shmuley speaks from a wealth of experience. He has written a book for parents of children of all ages, from toddlers, who are just beginning to become aware of the world around them, to adolescents, who must learn to navigate all sorts of tricky social and academic pressures.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  10 Conversations\n </em>\n will help you stay connected to your children so that they develop the kind of strong moral character that leads to rich, meaningful lives.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Shmuley Boteach is host of the daily national radio program\n <em>\n  The Rabbi Shmuley Show\n </em>\n on Oprah &amp; Friends and Sirius XM Satellite Radio and host of the award-winning national television show\n <em>\n  Shalom in the Home\n </em>\n on TLC. He is also the international bestselling author of twenty books, including the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling\n <em>\n  Kosher Sex\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Ten Conversations You Need to Have with Your Children\n </em>\n . In 2007, Boteach was labeled "a cultural phenomenon" and "the most famous rabbi in America" by\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n , and was also named one of the ten most influential rabbis in America. He has been profiled in many of the world''s leading publications, including\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n , the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  London Times\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Chicago Tribune\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n . Shmuley and his wife, Debbie, have nine children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23049'),
(8103, '10 Cry Wolf', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Wilbur smith is a master."--_Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith is a captivating storyteller."--_Orlando Sentinel_\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 1935, shortly before World War II. The "Wolf of Rome", Italy''s army under Mussolini, is poised to invade Ethiopia, whose army is not only ill-equipped, but also severely outnumbered. Desperate to save his troubled land, Emperor Haile Selassie enlists American Jake Barton and Englishman Gareth Swales, two risk-takers who both share a taste for danger and the thrill of adventure. The mission seems simple: Deliver four ancient refurbished armored cars and Vicky Camberwell, an American journalist, in exchange for a hefty weight of gold. But soon Jake and Gareth realize that this is just the beginning of a long, harrowing journey that will take them from the sea to the scorching deserts of Africa to the peaks of its treacherous mountains, where a dramatic struggle to stay alive awaits them...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22776'),
(8104, 'The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention: Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy', 'Pamela Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "We constantly hear that each of us will have multiple careers in a lifetime. The trick is to know how to switch from one to another. No one understands the process better than Pamela Mitchell, and she shares her secrets here in the\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n "\n <br />\n -_Fast Company_, "The Best Books for Business Owners 2010"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Pamela Mitchell is an expert in the world of career change."\n <br />\n -_BusinessWeek_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Although there are at least 1,300 career coaches nationwide -- and countless books on career change -- Mitchell is among a handful who are pioneering a new spin on the concept: lifestyle reinvention.''"\n <br />\n -_More_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Use Mitchell''s 10 makes-sense laws as your guide to opportunity..."\n <br />\n -_Palm Beach Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mitchell''s advice is spot on."\n <br />\n -_Dallas Morning News_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Pamela Mitchell, CEO of the Reinvention Institute, expertly pairs personal stories of career 180s with practical advice for how you, too, can veer off course-and still be OK. She doesn''t promise it''ll be easy, but of all the useful tools she offers, her honesty is the best."\n <br />\n -_Harvard Business Review _\n</p>\n<p>\n "After reading Pamela Mitchell''s book, I am left with an overwhelming feeling that anyone can reinvent their careers and their lives by following this simple step-by-step instruction manual. Easy to Read, Easy to Follow, Easy to Succeed..."\n <br />\n -Norm Brodsky, Senior Contributing Editor\n <em>\n  INC. Magazine\n </em>\n , author of\n <em>\n  The Knack\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Move over\n <em>\n  What Color is Your Parachute?\n </em>\n --this book is the new go-to-guide for career changers!"\n <br />\n -Lauren Doliva, Managing Partner, Chief Advisor Network, Heidrick &amp; Struggles\n</p>\n<p>\n "In\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n , Pamela Mitchell shares the secret strategies that successful reinventors use to land on their feet, even in turbulent times. If you want a practical plan for a richer career and life--in any kind of job market--read this book."\n <br />\n -Barbara Stanny, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Secrets of Six Figure Women\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Overcoming Underearning(r)\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s never too late to re-write your script...and Pamela Mitchell is the perfect person to show you how. If\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n doesn''t make you stop worrying about the future and start taking action to create your dream, nothing will."\n <br />\n -Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., author of\n <em>\n  Stop Sabotaging Your Career\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Nice Girls Don''t Get the Corner Office\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Today, career reinvention is the new-and only-form of job security.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Until recently, most people expected to have one career with maybe two or three job changes in a lifetime. Now, experts advise us to expect seven or eight jobs with multiple\n <em>\n  industry\n </em>\n changes. If you want to survive, you need the ability to transfer and repurpose your skills in a completely new direction.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n , Pamela Mitchell shows you how your knowledge, experience, and skill sets can be adapted to a wide spectrum of industries and jobs, and provides the tools to help you navigate the full art of career change.\n</p>\n<p>\n With ten clear, insightful, and practical "laws," you can:\n <br />\n * Market your skills to anyone\n <br />\n * Transition seamlessly from one industry to another\n <br />\n * Find fulfillment in a career that fits you\n</p>\n<p>\n From finding a vision to creating your action plan,\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n walks you through your own path to a new career, with success stories, workbook exercises, and actionable steps to start your new life today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2312'),
(8105, 'The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention: Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy', 'Pamela Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "We constantly hear that each of us will have multiple careers in a lifetime. The trick is to know how to switch from one to another. No one understands the process better than Pamela Mitchell, and she shares her secrets here in the\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n "\n <br />\n -_Fast Company_, "The Best Books for Business Owners 2010"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Pamela Mitchell is an expert in the world of career change."\n <br />\n -_BusinessWeek_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Although there are at least 1,300 career coaches nationwide -- and countless books on career change -- Mitchell is among a handful who are pioneering a new spin on the concept: lifestyle reinvention.''"\n <br />\n -_More_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Use Mitchell''s 10 makes-sense laws as your guide to opportunity..."\n <br />\n -_Palm Beach Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mitchell''s advice is spot on."\n <br />\n -_Dallas Morning News_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Pamela Mitchell, CEO of the Reinvention Institute, expertly pairs personal stories of career 180s with practical advice for how you, too, can veer off course-and still be OK. She doesn''t promise it''ll be easy, but of all the useful tools she offers, her honesty is the best."\n <br />\n -_Harvard Business Review _\n</p>\n<p>\n "After reading Pamela Mitchell''s book, I am left with an overwhelming feeling that anyone can reinvent their careers and their lives by following this simple step-by-step instruction manual. Easy to Read, Easy to Follow, Easy to Succeed..."\n <br />\n -Norm Brodsky, Senior Contributing Editor\n <em>\n  INC. Magazine\n </em>\n , author of\n <em>\n  The Knack\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Move over\n <em>\n  What Color is Your Parachute?\n </em>\n --this book is the new go-to-guide for career changers!"\n <br />\n -Lauren Doliva, Managing Partner, Chief Advisor Network, Heidrick &amp; Struggles\n</p>\n<p>\n "In\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n , Pamela Mitchell shares the secret strategies that successful reinventors use to land on their feet, even in turbulent times. If you want a practical plan for a richer career and life--in any kind of job market--read this book."\n <br />\n -Barbara Stanny, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Secrets of Six Figure Women\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Overcoming Underearning(r)\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s never too late to re-write your script...and Pamela Mitchell is the perfect person to show you how. If\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n doesn''t make you stop worrying about the future and start taking action to create your dream, nothing will."\n <br />\n -Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., author of\n <em>\n  Stop Sabotaging Your Career\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Nice Girls Don''t Get the Corner Office\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Today, career reinvention is the new-and only-form of job security.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Until recently, most people expected to have one career with maybe two or three job changes in a lifetime. Now, experts advise us to expect seven or eight jobs with multiple\n <em>\n  industry\n </em>\n changes. If you want to survive, you need the ability to transfer and repurpose your skills in a completely new direction.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n , Pamela Mitchell shows you how your knowledge, experience, and skill sets can be adapted to a wide spectrum of industries and jobs, and provides the tools to help you navigate the full art of career change.\n</p>\n<p>\n With ten clear, insightful, and practical "laws," you can:\n <br />\n * Market your skills to anyone\n <br />\n * Transition seamlessly from one industry to another\n <br />\n * Find fulfillment in a career that fits you\n</p>\n<p>\n From finding a vision to creating your action plan,\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n walks you through your own path to a new career, with success stories, workbook exercises, and actionable steps to start your new life today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11558'),
(8106, 'The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention: Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy', 'Pamela Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "We constantly hear that each of us will have multiple careers in a lifetime. The trick is to know how to switch from one to another. No one understands the process better than Pamela Mitchell, and she shares her secrets here in the\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n "\n <br />\n -_Fast Company_, "The Best Books for Business Owners 2010"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Pamela Mitchell is an expert in the world of career change."\n <br />\n -_BusinessWeek_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Although there are at least 1,300 career coaches nationwide -- and countless books on career change -- Mitchell is among a handful who are pioneering a new spin on the concept: lifestyle reinvention.''"\n <br />\n -_More_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Use Mitchell''s 10 makes-sense laws as your guide to opportunity..."\n <br />\n -_Palm Beach Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mitchell''s advice is spot on."\n <br />\n -_Dallas Morning News_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Pamela Mitchell, CEO of the Reinvention Institute, expertly pairs personal stories of career 180s with practical advice for how you, too, can veer off course-and still be OK. She doesn''t promise it''ll be easy, but of all the useful tools she offers, her honesty is the best."\n <br />\n -_Harvard Business Review _\n</p>\n<p>\n "After reading Pamela Mitchell''s book, I am left with an overwhelming feeling that anyone can reinvent their careers and their lives by following this simple step-by-step instruction manual. Easy to Read, Easy to Follow, Easy to Succeed..."\n <br />\n -Norm Brodsky, Senior Contributing Editor\n <em>\n  INC. Magazine\n </em>\n , author of\n <em>\n  The Knack\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Move over\n <em>\n  What Color is Your Parachute?\n </em>\n --this book is the new go-to-guide for career changers!"\n <br />\n -Lauren Doliva, Managing Partner, Chief Advisor Network, Heidrick &amp; Struggles\n</p>\n<p>\n "In\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n , Pamela Mitchell shares the secret strategies that successful reinventors use to land on their feet, even in turbulent times. If you want a practical plan for a richer career and life--in any kind of job market--read this book."\n <br />\n -Barbara Stanny, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Secrets of Six Figure Women\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Overcoming Underearning(r)\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s never too late to re-write your script...and Pamela Mitchell is the perfect person to show you how. If\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n doesn''t make you stop worrying about the future and start taking action to create your dream, nothing will."\n <br />\n -Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., author of\n <em>\n  Stop Sabotaging Your Career\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Nice Girls Don''t Get the Corner Office\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Today, career reinvention is the new-and only-form of job security.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Until recently, most people expected to have one career with maybe two or three job changes in a lifetime. Now, experts advise us to expect seven or eight jobs with multiple\n <em>\n  industry\n </em>\n changes. If you want to survive, you need the ability to transfer and repurpose your skills in a completely new direction.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n , Pamela Mitchell shows you how your knowledge, experience, and skill sets can be adapted to a wide spectrum of industries and jobs, and provides the tools to help you navigate the full art of career change.\n</p>\n<p>\n With ten clear, insightful, and practical "laws," you can:\n <br />\n * Market your skills to anyone\n <br />\n * Transition seamlessly from one industry to another\n <br />\n * Find fulfillment in a career that fits you\n</p>\n<p>\n From finding a vision to creating your action plan,\n <em>\n  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention\n </em>\n walks you through your own path to a new career, with success stories, workbook exercises, and actionable steps to start your new life today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22510'),
(8107, '10 LB Penalty', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the most impressive aspects of Dick Francis''s long and celebrated career (he''s won three\n <em>\n  10 Lb. Penalty\n </em>\n Francis adds several new arrows to his quiver. His protagonist, Ben Juliard, narrates the tale in a vivid first person that begins in his insecure late teens instead of the settled middle age of the usual Francis hero. Also, Ben''s relationship with horses is more of a fading dream than an active reality. The book begins with Ben''s expulsion from Vivian Durridge''s stables; he''s removed with a false accusation of glue sniffing. But as Ben soon discovers, it is, in fact, his powerful father''s machinations that are behind his ill fortunes. The elder Juliard is "standing for Parliament," and the bachelor candidate needs his son by his side for a year of campaigning if he hopes to win. Ben accedes to his father''s wishes. He almost always has, but he soon finds that his "gap year"--his year before entering college--is going to be a nightmare. Orinda Nagle, the widow of the recently deceased Hoopwestern MP, and her companion, Alderney Wyvern, resist George''s campaign from the start. Then, Usher Rudd, a muckraking journalist, turns his vitriol to George. When an attempt is made on George''s life, he and his son find themselves inside a vigorous tale of suspense that takes several narrative years to sort out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Francis''s lucid prose is the driving force in this political mystery, and the realistic rendering of the complicated father-son relationship between George and Ben adds a sophistication and weight that marks the author''s best fiction.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n More murderous horseplay from the prolific Francis.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6002'),
(8108, '10 LB Penalty', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the most impressive aspects of Dick Francis''s long and celebrated career (he''s won three\n <em>\n  10 Lb. Penalty\n </em>\n Francis adds several new arrows to his quiver. His protagonist, Ben Juliard, narrates the tale in a vivid first person that begins in his insecure late teens instead of the settled middle age of the usual Francis hero. Also, Ben''s relationship with horses is more of a fading dream than an active reality. The book begins with Ben''s expulsion from Vivian Durridge''s stables; he''s removed with a false accusation of glue sniffing. But as Ben soon discovers, it is, in fact, his powerful father''s machinations that are behind his ill fortunes. The elder Juliard is "standing for Parliament," and the bachelor candidate needs his son by his side for a year of campaigning if he hopes to win. Ben accedes to his father''s wishes. He almost always has, but he soon finds that his "gap year"--his year before entering college--is going to be a nightmare. Orinda Nagle, the widow of the recently deceased Hoopwestern MP, and her companion, Alderney Wyvern, resist George''s campaign from the start. Then, Usher Rudd, a muckraking journalist, turns his vitriol to George. When an attempt is made on George''s life, he and his son find themselves inside a vigorous tale of suspense that takes several narrative years to sort out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Francis''s lucid prose is the driving force in this political mystery, and the realistic rendering of the complicated father-son relationship between George and Ben adds a sophistication and weight that marks the author''s best fiction.\n <em>\n  --Patrick O''Kelley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n More murderous horseplay from the prolific Francis.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9771'),
(8109, '10_The_Dreamthief&#39;s_Daughter', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21623'),
(8110, '100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It', 'David Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating what makes people happy. But hidden in obscure scholarly journals and reports, their research is all too often inaccessible to ordinary people. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series distills the scientific findings of over a thousand of the most important studies on happiness into easy-to-digest nuggets of advice. Each of the hundred practices is illustrated with a clear example and illuminated by a straightforward explanation of the science behind it to show you how to transform a ho-hum existence into a full and happy life.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Believe in yourself: Across all ages, and all groups, a solid belief in one''s own abilities increases life satisfaction by about 40 percent, and makes us happier both in our home lives and in our work lives.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Turn off your TV: Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Niven, Ph.D., bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series, is a psychologist and social scientist who teaches at Ohio State University.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n David Niven, Ph.D., es el autor de los bestsellers internacionales\n <em>\n  Los 100 Secretos de la Gente Exitosa\n </em>\n , y\n <em>\n  Los 100 Secretos de las Buenas Relaciones\n </em>\n . Es psicÃ³logo y cientÃ­fico social, y enseÃ±a en la Florida Atlantic University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6237'),
(8111, '100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It', 'David Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating what makes people happy. But hidden in obscure scholarly journals and reports, their research is all too often inaccessible to ordinary people. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series distills the scientific findings of over a thousand of the most important studies on happiness into easy-to-digest nuggets of advice. Each of the hundred practices is illustrated with a clear example and illuminated by a straightforward explanation of the science behind it to show you how to transform a ho-hum existence into a full and happy life.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Believe in yourself: Across all ages, and all groups, a solid belief in one''s own abilities increases life satisfaction by about 40 percent, and makes us happier both in our home lives and in our work lives.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Turn off your TV: Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Niven, Ph.D., bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series, is a psychologist and social scientist who teaches at Ohio State University.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n David Niven, Ph.D., es el autor de los bestsellers internacionales\n <em>\n  Los 100 Secretos de la Gente Exitosa\n </em>\n , y\n <em>\n  Los 100 Secretos de las Buenas Relaciones\n </em>\n . Es psicÃ³logo y cientÃ­fico social, y enseÃ±a en la Florida Atlantic University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11710'),
(8112, '100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It', 'David Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating what makes people happy. But hidden in obscure scholarly journals and reports, their research is all too often inaccessible to ordinary people. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series distills the scientific findings of over a thousand of the most important studies on happiness into easy-to-digest nuggets of advice. Each of the hundred practices is illustrated with a clear example and illuminated by a straightforward explanation of the science behind it to show you how to transform a ho-hum existence into a full and happy life.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Believe in yourself: Across all ages, and all groups, a solid belief in one''s own abilities increases life satisfaction by about 40 percent, and makes us happier both in our home lives and in our work lives.\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Turn off your TV: Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Niven, Ph.D., bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series, is a psychologist and social scientist who teaches at Ohio State University.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n David Niven, Ph.D., es el autor de los bestsellers internacionales\n <em>\n  Los 100 Secretos de la Gente Exitosa\n </em>\n , y\n <em>\n  Los 100 Secretos de las Buenas Relaciones\n </em>\n . Es psicÃ³logo y cientÃ­fico social, y enseÃ±a en la Florida Atlantic University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17747'),
(8113, '1000 Questions for Couples', 'Michael Webb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21620'),
(8114, 'The 1001 Healthy Baby Answers: Pediatricians&#39; Answers to All the Questions You Didn&#39;t Know to Ask', 'Gary Morchower', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What parent hasn''t had the experience of leaving a pediatrician''s office more confused than when they came in? Or gotten home and thought of 10 questions they should have asked after the diagnosis was given?\n</p>\n<p>\n Dr. Morchower understands. As a board-certified pediatrician and President of the Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas, he has helped thousands of parents by helping keep their child healthy.\n</p>\n<p>\n 1001 Healthy Baby Answers collects the most common questions parents have about a variety of different ailments, along with expert answers detailing everything the parent needs to know.\n</p>\n<p>\n Perfect for parents to have on hand and in the home for quick reference, this essential guide will alleviate fears and give parents the right advice to help their child feel better . . . without another trip to the doctor''s.\n</p>\n<p>\n Find authoritative answers to your questions about:\n <br />\n - Jaundice\n <br />\n - Asthma\n <br />\n - Seizures\n <br />\n - Chicken pox\n <br />\n - Anemia\n <br />\n - Rapid breathing\n <br />\n - Autism\n <br />\n - Croup\n <br />\n - Pneumonia\n <br />\n - Diabetes\n <br />\n - Heart murmurs\n <br />\n - Sleep disorders\n <br />\n And much, much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n "A must for a parent or grandparent caring for a sick child."\n <br />\n -Carden Johnston, MD, past president, American Academy of Pediatrics\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dr. Gary Morchower is a board-certified pediatrician and President of the Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas. A graduate of Tulane University and Tulane Medical School, he has received numerous honors and awards, including the Robert Moore M.D. Outstanding Teaching Award. He lives in Dallas, Texas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18435'),
(8115, '1001 Low-Carb Recipes', 'Carpender, Dana', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17306'),
(8116, '1001 Low-Carb Recipes: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes From Dinner to Dessert That Let You Live Your Low-Carb Lifestyle and Never Look Back', 'Dana Carpender', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drawing on the best 1001 recipes from Dana Carpenderâ€™s bestselling books including\n <em>\n  500 Low-Carb Recipes\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes,\n </em>\n <em>\n  500 More Low-Carb Recipes\n </em>\n , 2_00 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes_,\n <em>\n  The Low-Carb Barbeque Book\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Low-Carb Smoothies\n </em>\n . Youâ€™ll find delicious and varied options including recipes for "high-carb" foods you thought you had to give up forever such as Cinnamon Raisin Bread and Mocha Chocolate Cheesecake. Staying the low-carb course will be easy with choices from barbecue to slow-cooker to internationally-inspired dishes.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best-selling author\n <strong>\n  Dana Carpender\n </strong>\n was startled to discover that limiting her carbohydrate intake not only helped her control her weight, but produced the health and vitality a low fat diet had promised but never delivered. Fifteen years later, she laughs at people who say â€œYou canâ€™t eat that way long-term.â€ Her eight cookbooks are the result of her realization that the key to permanent dietary change is the answer to the age-old question, â€œWhatâ€™s for supper?â€ To date they have sold over a million copies worldwide. Dana blogs about low carb nutrition at www.HoldtheToast.com; her weekly blog digest goes out to over 20,000 readers. She is also Managing Editor of CarbSmart Magazine at http://www.CarbSmart.com, as well as a featured staff writer. She launches her internet radio show, Dana''s Low Carb For Life, on Labor Day 2010. Dana lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her husband and a menagerie of pets, all of whom are well and healthily fed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6506'),
(8117, '1001 Low-Carb Recipes: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes From Dinner to Dessert That Let You Live Your Low-Carb Lifestyle and Never Look Back', 'Dana Carpender', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drawing on the best 1001 recipes from Dana Carpenderâ€™s bestselling books including\n <em>\n  500 Low-Carb Recipes\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes,\n </em>\n <em>\n  500 More Low-Carb Recipes\n </em>\n , 2_00 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes_,\n <em>\n  The Low-Carb Barbeque Book\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Low-Carb Smoothies\n </em>\n . Youâ€™ll find delicious and varied options including recipes for "high-carb" foods you thought you had to give up forever such as Cinnamon Raisin Bread and Mocha Chocolate Cheesecake. Staying the low-carb course will be easy with choices from barbecue to slow-cooker to internationally-inspired dishes.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best-selling author\n <strong>\n  Dana Carpender\n </strong>\n was startled to discover that limiting her carbohydrate intake not only helped her control her weight, but produced the health and vitality a low fat diet had promised but never delivered. Fifteen years later, she laughs at people who say â€œYou canâ€™t eat that way long-term.â€ Her eight cookbooks are the result of her realization that the key to permanent dietary change is the answer to the age-old question, â€œWhatâ€™s for supper?â€ To date they have sold over a million copies worldwide. Dana blogs about low carb nutrition at www.HoldtheToast.com; her weekly blog digest goes out to over 20,000 readers. She is also Managing Editor of CarbSmart Magazine at http://www.CarbSmart.com, as well as a featured staff writer. She launches her internet radio show, Dana''s Low Carb For Life, on Labor Day 2010. Dana lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her husband and a menagerie of pets, all of whom are well and healthily fed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8815'),
(8118, '101 Romantic Ideas', 'Michael Webb; 99c4you', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The eBook will put a sparkle into even the most jaded relationship.\n</p>\n<p>\n The stresses and strains of our hectic lives means that sometimes we neglect the people who mean the most to us - our partners.\n</p>\n<p>\n But this exciting new eBook from Romance Guru Michael Webb aims to change all that. He describes 101 romantic ideas that cost little or nothing to do but speak volumes to the one you love. And as you don''t need to spend a fortune, you can start as soon as you have downloaded the manual.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Dear readers:\n</p>\n<p>\n If your are looking for other economic, interesting titles, please click on the name "99c4you"\n <br />\n at the top of the page, next to the title, or type "99c4you" at the search box and you will be taken\n <br />\n to our main page in Amazon, where you can find a lot more great titles!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21621'),
(8119, '101 Things to Do With Ramen Noodles', 'Toni Patrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Expand your ramen repertoire with an amazingly inventive and unique addition to the million-copy-selling "101" series-101 Things to do with Ramen Noodles.    Ramen is fast, easy, and filling, but what can be done to spruce it up and give it a whole new life? How about recipes like Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup, Summer Garden Soup,    Zucchini Salad, Creamy Beef and Broccoli Noodles, Ramen Burgers, Chicken Alfredo,    Pork Chop Ramen, Tuna Noodle Casserole, Garlic Noodle Saute, Beer Noodles (the ultimate college crowd pleaser!), Chinese Veggie Noodles, Corny Cheese Noodles, and more!    As a student at the University of Northern Colorado, Toni Patrick came up with creative and quick ways to make ramen noodles. These recipes tasted great and fit into her tight budget and busy schedule. Even today, several years after graduating, she still enjoys cooking with ramen noodles. Toni currently lives in Walden, Colorado.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/535'),
(8120, '101 Things to Do With Ramen Noodles', 'Toni Patrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Expand your ramen repertoire with an amazingly inventive and unique addition to the million-copy-selling "101" series-101 Things to do with Ramen Noodles.    Ramen is fast, easy, and filling, but what can be done to spruce it up and give it a whole new life? How about recipes like Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup, Summer Garden Soup,    Zucchini Salad, Creamy Beef and Broccoli Noodles, Ramen Burgers, Chicken Alfredo,    Pork Chop Ramen, Tuna Noodle Casserole, Garlic Noodle Saute, Beer Noodles (the ultimate college crowd pleaser!), Chinese Veggie Noodles, Corny Cheese Noodles, and more!    As a student at the University of Northern Colorado, Toni Patrick came up with creative and quick ways to make ramen noodles. These recipes tasted great and fit into her tight budget and busy schedule. Even today, several years after graduating, she still enjoys cooking with ramen noodles. Toni currently lives in Walden, Colorado.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11768');
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(8121, '101 Things to Do with Ramen Noodles', 'Toni Patrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Expand your ramen repertoire with an amazingly inventive and unique addition to the million-copy-selling "101" series-101 Things to do with Ramen Noodles. Ramen is fast, easy, and filling, but what can be done to spruce it up and give it a whole new life? How about recipes like Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup, Summer Garden Soup, Zucchini Salad, Creamy Beef and Broccoli Noodles, Ramen Burgers, Chicken Alfredo, Pork Chop Ramen, Tuna Noodle Casserole, Garlic Noodle Saute, Beer Noodles (the ultimate college crowd pleaser!), Chinese Veggie Noodles, Corny Cheese Noodles, and more! As a student at the University of Northern Colorado, Toni Patrick came up with creative and quick ways to make ramen noodles. These recipes tasted great and fit into her tight budget and busy schedule. Even today, several years after graduating, she still enjoys cooking with ramen noodles. Toni currently lives in Walden, Colorado.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24436'),
(8122, '10th Anniversary', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  For every secret\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Detective Lindsay Boxer''s long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals--but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   For every lie\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life--a woman who has been accused of murdering her husband in front of her two young children. Yuki''s career rests on a guilty verdict, so when Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant, she is forced to choose. Should she trust her best friend or follow her instinct?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   There''s a different way to die\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lindsay''s every move is watched by her new boss, Lieutenant Jackson Brady, and when the pressure to find the baby begins interfering with her new marriage to Joe, she wonders if she''ll ever be able to start a family. With James Patterson''s white-hot speed and unquenchable action,\n  <em>\n   10th Anniversary\n  </em>\n  is the most deliciously chilling Women''s Murder Club book ever.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Patterson has had more\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to\n  <em>\n   Guinness World Records\n  </em>\n  . Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson''s books have sold more than 205 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including\n  <em>\n   Kiss the Girls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Along Came a Spider\n  </em>\n  . Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women''s Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maxine Paetro is the author of three novels, two works of nonfiction, and the coauthor of seven books with James Patterson. She lives in New York with her husband.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4804'),
(8123, '10th Anniversary', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  For every secret\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Detective Lindsay Boxer''s long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals--but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   For every lie\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life--a woman who has been accused of murdering her husband in front of her two young children. Yuki''s career rests on a guilty verdict, so when Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant, she is forced to choose. Should she trust her best friend or follow her instinct?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   There''s a different way to die\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lindsay''s every move is watched by her new boss, Lieutenant Jackson Brady, and when the pressure to find the baby begins interfering with her new marriage to Joe, she wonders if she''ll ever be able to start a family. With James Patterson''s white-hot speed and unquenchable action,\n  <em>\n   10th Anniversary\n  </em>\n  is the most deliciously chilling Women''s Murder Club book ever.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Patterson has had more\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to\n  <em>\n   Guinness World Records\n  </em>\n  . Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson''s books have sold more than 205 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including\n  <em>\n   Kiss the Girls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Along Came a Spider\n  </em>\n  . Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women''s Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maxine Paetro is the author of three novels, two works of nonfiction, and the coauthor of seven books with James Patterson. She lives in New York with her husband.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11756'),
(8124, '10th Anniversary', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  For every secret\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Detective Lindsay Boxer''s long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals--but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   For every lie\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life--a woman who has been accused of murdering her husband in front of her two young children. Yuki''s career rests on a guilty verdict, so when Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant, she is forced to choose. Should she trust her best friend or follow her instinct?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   There''s a different way to die\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lindsay''s every move is watched by her new boss, Lieutenant Jackson Brady, and when the pressure to find the baby begins interfering with her new marriage to Joe, she wonders if she''ll ever be able to start a family. With James Patterson''s white-hot speed and unquenchable action,\n  <em>\n   10th Anniversary\n  </em>\n  is the most deliciously chilling Women''s Murder Club book ever.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  James Patterson has had more\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to\n  <em>\n   Guinness World Records\n  </em>\n  . Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson''s books have sold more than 205 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including\n  <em>\n   Kiss the Girls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Along Came a Spider\n  </em>\n  . Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women''s Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maxine Paetro is the author of three novels, two works of nonfiction, and the coauthor of seven books with James Patterson. She lives in New York with her husband.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19847'),
(8125, '11 A Sparrow Falls', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Action is Smith''s game, and he is a master."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Mark never heard the Mauser shot for the bullet came ahead of the sound. There was only the massive shock in the upper part of his body, and then he was hurled backwards with a violence that drove the air from his lungs. The earth opened before him, and as he fell, there was a sensation of being engulfed in a swirling vortex of blackness and he knew for just a fleeting instant of time that he was dead''. From the trenches of France, General Sean Courtney comes back to fame, fortune and a seat in the Government. Mark Anders, the courageous young South African whom he has come to regard as his own son, returns to nothing, his grandfather murdered, his property seized by an unknown company. At the bottom of the mystery is Sean''s son Dirk, the jealous, violent and power-crazed genius whose all-consuming hatred can only end in blood.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22771'),
(8126, '11 Biggles In Africa', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15489'),
(8127, '11 The Skrayling Tree', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21636'),
(8128, '12 Biggles Air Commodore', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15458'),
(8129, '12 Hungry As The Sea', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "One of the world''s most popular and prolific adventure writers."--_The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smith joins the ranks as one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."--_Tulsa World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A captivating storyteller."--_Orlando Sentinel_\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wilbur Smith sets his vividly realistic novels on the razor''s edge between human courage and nature''s wrath. In\n  <em>\n   Hungry As The Sea\n  </em>\n  , this master storyteller takes us to the frigid South Atlantic, where one man fights for his life-- and for redemption.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nicholas Berg is steaming out of Cape Town aboard the salvage tug\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  . Once Berg ruled an ocean-going empire. Now, his future has come down to a powerful boat and a daring rescue mission. One of his former ships is being lashed against the cliffs of Cape Alarm, surrounded by deadly icebergs and survivors clinging to their boats. Berg has gambled everything on reaching the_ Golden Adventurer _before a competitor and a violent storm-- to win a fortune in salvage fees. But if Nick Berg succeeds, and climbs back into the international shipping game, that''s when the real danger will begin...\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the power of a relentless ocean to the hunger of men to survive upon her, this is a towering novel of adventure, love and the daring of the human soul.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22784'),
(8130, '12 Simple Secrets Real Moms Know: Getting Back to Basics and Raising Happy Kids', 'Michele Borba Ed.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A worthy addition for most parenting collections." (_Library Journal_, February 15, 2006)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "_12 Simple Secrets Real Moms Know_ is a revolutionary, wonderful, and welcome answer to a motherâ€™s prayers. Michele Borba has shown us all how to be loving moms who raise great kids, without losing our peace of mind, our lives as adults, or our true selves."\n <br />\n â€”Phyllis George, former Miss America and former first lady of Kentucky\n</p>\n<p>\n "Michele infuses you with the wisdom and warmth of her over twenty years of teaching, shares the savvy of her indepth research of over 5000 parents and helps return you to the heart of successful parenting."\n <br />\n â€”Stacy Debroff, author,\n <em>\n  The Mom Book\n </em>\n and founder of momscentral.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "_12 Simple Secrets Real Moms Know_ is a Godsend for all the anxious, stressed-out mothers who worry that they''re not "doing enough" (and that''s pretty much everyone!)"\n <br />\n â€”Christiane Northrup, M.D., author,\n <em>\n  Mother-Daughter Wisdom; The Wisdom of Menopause;\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Women''s Bodies, Women''s Wisdom\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "I am a firm believer in the importance of parental involvement and the tremendous influence mothers can have on their child''s development. I appreciate the message that this book champions and the guidance it provides to mothers struggling to foster a brighter future for their children."\n <br />\n â€”Mary Bono, Member of Congress, California''s 45th District\n</p>\n<p>\n "Michele has done it again. She''s given mothers a book full to the brim with wisdom, stories, and tips on how to raise happy, well adjusted children."\n <br />\n â€”Mimi Doe, author,\n <em>\n  Busy but Balanced\n </em>\n and founder of SpiritualParenting.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21634'),
(8131, '12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food', 'Victoria Boutenko', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe first edition of this book (published in 2000) was excellent. The second edition is\n  <em>\n   masterfully outstanding.\n  </em>\n  â€\n  <br />\n  â€”From the foreword by Gabriel Cousens, MD\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSensational! The why and how of a raw-foods lifestyle in a nutshell. A must-read for those who want more vitality, happiness, and success in their lives.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Victor M. Vieira, DC, fellow of the International Academy of Clinical Acupuncture\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA marvelous book full of useful information for people seeking a better understanding of the relationship between nutritional factors and optimal health. Victoria Boutenko asks probing questions and searches every avenue that can lead to new answers. Her conclusions are remarkable, often surprising, and always illuminating.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Melvyn L. Iscove, MD\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œImagine what would happen in a society wherein people would take responsibility for their own health and wellness. Victoria Boutenkoâ€™s book provides the basis for this healthier shift in our thinking and daily lifestyle.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Jeannette Vos, EdD, co-author of\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   The Learning Revolution\n  </em>\n  Â and\n  <em>\n   The New Learning Revolution\n  </em>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor those new to Boutenko, this is a great introduction to her ideas, methods and life experiences, the latter of which includes the inspiring account of how she healed her families illnesses through healthful eating and exercise.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Spiritualitea.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œVictoria Boutenkoâ€™s revised and expanded\n  <em>\n   12 Steps to Raw Foods\n  </em>\n  is magnificent! If you have ever attempted to incorporate raw/living foods into your diet to any degree, and hit the wall of resistance, you absolutely must read this bookâ€¦ Victoriaâ€™s 12-Step outline, which is very loosely derived from her personal research into AA and OA, has helped countless people rise above the struggle of changing behavior, and into an empowered state of raw consciousness.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Reader Views_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Why do we overeat time and time again? Why do we make poor diet choices while we want to be healthy? What makes losing weight so difficult? These and many other vital questions are addressed in\n  <em>\n   12 Steps to Raw Foods\n  </em>\n  in an open and sincere dialogue. Based on the latest scientific research, Victoria Boutenko explains the numerous benefits of choosing a diet of fresh rather than cooked foods. This book contains self-tests and questionnaires that help the reader to determine if they have hidden eating patterns that undermine their health. Using examples from life, the author explores the most common reasons for people to make unhealthy eating choices.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rather than simply praising the benefits of raw foods, this book offers helpful tips and coping techniques to form and maintain new, healthy patterns. Learn how to make a raw food restaurant card that makes dining with co-workers easy and enjoyable. Discover three magic sentences that enable you to refuse your mother-in-lawâ€™s apple pie without offending her. Find out how to sustain your chosen diet while traveling. These are only a few of the many scenarios that Boutenko outlines.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written in a convenient 12-step format, this book guides the reader through the most significant physical, psychological, and spiritual phases of the transition from cooked to raw foods. Embracing the raw food lifestyle is more than simply turning off the stove. Such a radical change in the way we eat affects all aspects of life. Boutenko touches on the human relationship with nature, the value of supporting others, and the importance of living in harmony with people who donâ€™t share the same point of view on eating. Already a classic, this enhanced second edition is aimed at anyone interested in improving their health through diet.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/348'),
(8132, '12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food', 'Victoria Boutenko', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe first edition of this book (published in 2000) was excellent. The second edition is\n  <em>\n   masterfully outstanding.\n  </em>\n  â€\n  <br />\n  â€”From the foreword by Gabriel Cousens, MD\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSensational! The why and how of a raw-foods lifestyle in a nutshell. A must-read for those who want more vitality, happiness, and success in their lives.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Victor M. Vieira, DC, fellow of the International Academy of Clinical Acupuncture\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA marvelous book full of useful information for people seeking a better understanding of the relationship between nutritional factors and optimal health. Victoria Boutenko asks probing questions and searches every avenue that can lead to new answers. Her conclusions are remarkable, often surprising, and always illuminating.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Melvyn L. Iscove, MD\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œImagine what would happen in a society wherein people would take responsibility for their own health and wellness. Victoria Boutenkoâ€™s book provides the basis for this healthier shift in our thinking and daily lifestyle.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Jeannette Vos, EdD, co-author of\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   The Learning Revolution\n  </em>\n  Â and\n  <em>\n   The New Learning Revolution\n  </em>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor those new to Boutenko, this is a great introduction to her ideas, methods and life experiences, the latter of which includes the inspiring account of how she healed her families illnesses through healthful eating and exercise.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Spiritualitea.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œVictoria Boutenkoâ€™s revised and expanded\n  <em>\n   12 Steps to Raw Foods\n  </em>\n  is magnificent! If you have ever attempted to incorporate raw/living foods into your diet to any degree, and hit the wall of resistance, you absolutely must read this bookâ€¦ Victoriaâ€™s 12-Step outline, which is very loosely derived from her personal research into AA and OA, has helped countless people rise above the struggle of changing behavior, and into an empowered state of raw consciousness.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Reader Views_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Why do we overeat time and time again? Why do we make poor diet choices while we want to be healthy? What makes losing weight so difficult? These and many other vital questions are addressed in\n  <em>\n   12 Steps to Raw Foods\n  </em>\n  in an open and sincere dialogue. Based on the latest scientific research, Victoria Boutenko explains the numerous benefits of choosing a diet of fresh rather than cooked foods. This book contains self-tests and questionnaires that help the reader to determine if they have hidden eating patterns that undermine their health. Using examples from life, the author explores the most common reasons for people to make unhealthy eating choices.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rather than simply praising the benefits of raw foods, this book offers helpful tips and coping techniques to form and maintain new, healthy patterns. Learn how to make a raw food restaurant card that makes dining with co-workers easy and enjoyable. Discover three magic sentences that enable you to refuse your mother-in-lawâ€™s apple pie without offending her. Find out how to sustain your chosen diet while traveling. These are only a few of the many scenarios that Boutenko outlines.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written in a convenient 12-step format, this book guides the reader through the most significant physical, psychological, and spiritual phases of the transition from cooked to raw foods. Embracing the raw food lifestyle is more than simply turning off the stove. Such a radical change in the way we eat affects all aspects of life. Boutenko touches on the human relationship with nature, the value of supporting others, and the importance of living in harmony with people who donâ€™t share the same point of view on eating. Already a classic, this enhanced second edition is aimed at anyone interested in improving their health through diet.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8545'),
(8133, '12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food', 'Victoria Boutenko', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe first edition of this book (published in 2000) was excellent. The second edition is\n  <em>\n   masterfully outstanding.\n  </em>\n  â€\n  <br />\n  â€”From the foreword by Gabriel Cousens, MD\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSensational! The why and how of a raw-foods lifestyle in a nutshell. A must-read for those who want more vitality, happiness, and success in their lives.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Victor M. Vieira, DC, fellow of the International Academy of Clinical Acupuncture\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA marvelous book full of useful information for people seeking a better understanding of the relationship between nutritional factors and optimal health. Victoria Boutenko asks probing questions and searches every avenue that can lead to new answers. Her conclusions are remarkable, often surprising, and always illuminating.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Melvyn L. Iscove, MD\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œImagine what would happen in a society wherein people would take responsibility for their own health and wellness. Victoria Boutenkoâ€™s book provides the basis for this healthier shift in our thinking and daily lifestyle.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Jeannette Vos, EdD, co-author of\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   The Learning Revolution\n  </em>\n  Â and\n  <em>\n   The New Learning Revolution\n  </em>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor those new to Boutenko, this is a great introduction to her ideas, methods and life experiences, the latter of which includes the inspiring account of how she healed her families illnesses through healthful eating and exercise.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”Spiritualitea.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œVictoria Boutenkoâ€™s revised and expanded\n  <em>\n   12 Steps to Raw Foods\n  </em>\n  is magnificent! If you have ever attempted to incorporate raw/living foods into your diet to any degree, and hit the wall of resistance, you absolutely must read this bookâ€¦ Victoriaâ€™s 12-Step outline, which is very loosely derived from her personal research into AA and OA, has helped countless people rise above the struggle of changing behavior, and into an empowered state of raw consciousness.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Reader Views_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Why do we overeat time and time again? Why do we make poor diet choices while we want to be healthy? What makes losing weight so difficult? These and many other vital questions are addressed in\n  <em>\n   12 Steps to Raw Foods\n  </em>\n  in an open and sincere dialogue. Based on the latest scientific research, Victoria Boutenko explains the numerous benefits of choosing a diet of fresh rather than cooked foods. This book contains self-tests and questionnaires that help the reader to determine if they have hidden eating patterns that undermine their health. Using examples from life, the author explores the most common reasons for people to make unhealthy eating choices.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rather than simply praising the benefits of raw foods, this book offers helpful tips and coping techniques to form and maintain new, healthy patterns. Learn how to make a raw food restaurant card that makes dining with co-workers easy and enjoyable. Discover three magic sentences that enable you to refuse your mother-in-lawâ€™s apple pie without offending her. Find out how to sustain your chosen diet while traveling. These are only a few of the many scenarios that Boutenko outlines.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written in a convenient 12-step format, this book guides the reader through the most significant physical, psychological, and spiritual phases of the transition from cooked to raw foods. Embracing the raw food lifestyle is more than simply turning off the stove. Such a radical change in the way we eat affects all aspects of life. Boutenko touches on the human relationship with nature, the value of supporting others, and the importance of living in harmony with people who donâ€™t share the same point of view on eating. Already a classic, this enhanced second edition is aimed at anyone interested in improving their health through diet.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24532'),
(8134, 'The 120 Days of Sodom', 'Marquis De Sade', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ...this astonishing new version renders the previous translation null-and-void...â€ -- Professor Stephen Barber, CalArts\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe book that dominates all books.â€ -- Georges Bataille\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over the manuscript''s loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing acheivment.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3029'),
(8135, 'The 120 Days of Sodom', 'Marquis De Sade', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ...this astonishing new version renders the previous translation null-and-void...â€ -- Professor Stephen Barber, CalArts\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe book that dominates all books.â€ -- Georges Bataille\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over the manuscript''s loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing acheivment.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21793'),
(8136, '1222', 'Anne Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7617'),
(8137, '1222', 'Anne Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10347'),
(8138, '1222', 'Anne Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16296'),
(8139, '13 Biggles Flies West', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15482'),
(8140, '13 Ghosts: Strange but True Stories', 'Will Osborne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tells the stories of a man who foresaw his own death, a ghost who solved a murder, a mummy''s curse, a haunted museum, and a phantom sailor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/181'),
(8141, '13 Ghosts: Strange but True Stories', 'Will Osborne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tells the stories of a man who foresaw his own death, a ghost who solved a murder, a mummy''s curse, a haunted museum, and a phantom sailor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24701'),
(8142, '13 Wild Justice', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Action is Wilbur Smith''s game, and he is a master." -_The Washington Post Book World_\n  <br />\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It begins as a routine trip to South Africa. It ends in a nightmare for 400 passengers taken hostage. The hijacker is a beautiful pawn for an elusive figure-codename Caliph, whose campaign of terror has just begun. And the one man who rescued Flight 070 is the only man who can stop Caliph dead in his tracks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His name is Major Peter Stride, commanding agent of a crack team of anti-terrorist operatives. He''s used to doing battle-and winning. But when his help is sought by the mysterious widow of one of Caliph''s victims, and his own daughter is kidnapped, Stride plunges into a darker and more personal war than ever before. A war that will take him across the oceans and continents, closer to a shocking betrayal...and closer still to a madman who has the power to destroy the world and who knows Stride''s every move- down to what could be his last one...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22760'),
(8143, '14 A Falcon Flies', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An epic...Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."\n  <br />\n  --_Tulsa World_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1860, a man and woman approach the coast of Africa aboard a swift clipper--in the command of an American who knows no law. Robyn Ballantyne and her brother Morris have waited years for this moment: to return to Africa, to search for their missionary father who had disappeared somewhere in the wilderness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Traveling north from Cape Town, they follow a map left by a madman--into an uncharted world of waterfalls and jungle, teeming wildlife, murderous disease, and the ghastly ruins of an astounding city.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Uncovering their father''s trail, Robyn and her brother are in the midst of a slave trade that pours out of Africa like a bloody wound. Now, to survive what they have found, they must make their separate ways out--through pitched battles on land and on sea...and through the pride, passions and fury of their hearts...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22770'),
(8144, '14 Biggles Goes To War', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15483'),
(8145, '1491', 'Mann, Charles C. &amp; Johnson, Peter (nrt)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description\n <br />\n Based on the latest scientific findings, this breakthrough book argues that most of what we thought we knew about the Americas before Columbus was wrong.\n <br />\n In the last 20 years, archaeologists and anthropologists equipped with new scientific techniques have made far-reaching discoveries about the Americas. For example, Indians did not cross the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago, as most of us learned in school. They were already here. Their numbers were vast, not few. And instead of living lightly on the land, they managed it beautifully and left behind an enormous ecological legacy.\n <br />\n In this riveting, accessible work of science, Charles Mann takes us on an enthralling journey of scientific exploration. We learn that the Indian development of modern corn was one of the most complex feats of genetic engineering ever performed. That the Great Plains are a third smaller today than they were in 1700 because the Indians who maintained them by burning died. And that the Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact.\n <br />\n Compelling and eye-opening, this book has the potential to vastly alter our understanding of our history and change the course of today''s environmental disputes.\n <br />\n Â©2005 Charles C. Mann; (P)2005 HighBridge Company\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11056'),
(8146, '1492: The Year Our World Began', 'Felipe Fernandez-Armesto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that began to bind the planet: from the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe to the way major religions and civilizations divide the world. Events that began in 1492 even transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith - all the glories and follies of the time are in this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5486'),
(8147, '1492: The Year Our World Began', 'Felipe Fernandez-Armesto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that began to bind the planet: from the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe to the way major religions and civilizations divide the world. Events that began in 1492 even transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith - all the glories and follies of the time are in this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9609'),
(8148, '1492: The Year Our World Began', 'Felipe Fernandez-Armesto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that began to bind the planet: from the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe to the way major religions and civilizations divide the world. Events that began in 1492 even transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith - all the glories and follies of the time are in this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19104'),
(8149, '1492: The Year Our World Began', 'Felipe Fernandez-Armesto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that began to bind the planet: from the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe to the way major religions and civilizations divide the world. Events that began in 1492 even transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith - all the glories and follies of the time are in this book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27821'),
(8150, '15 Men of Men', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Action is Smith''s game, and he is a master."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   --The Washington Post Book World\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It was called The Devils''s Own: a steep scar in the African earth, around which men toiled with picks, shovels, and dreams of the milky treasures that would become prized, polished diamonds. In this demonic race, native tribesmen became miners. Sometimes they became thieves. And then they became rebels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Zouga Ballantyne, an African-born Englishman, sees the Devil''s Own mine as his ticket to the North: a realm of waterfalls and fertile plains, teeming wildlife, and seeded fields of gold. But what happens in the diamond mines of the fledgling Boer Free State sets the course for Ballantyne and a cast of comrades, enemies, and lovers--and for the continent itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the visions of imperialists to the fury between a father and a son, from the lengths a man will go for a woman and a woman for her convictions, a tragic clash of generations and civilizations was shaking 19th century Africa, where some warriors fought for their gods--and others for the men who came before them...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22785'),
(8151, 'The 1500-Calorie-A-Day Cookbook', 'Nancy S. Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Eat up. Slim down. Itâ€™s just that easy--with just 1,500 delicious calories a day!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the author of *The 1,200-Calorie-a-Day Menu    Cookbook*, comes all new recipes for when you are counting calories but donâ€™t want to sacrifice flavor, taste, or variety. While most low-calorie meal plans leave you hungry for more, this cookbook serves up a satisfying selection of energy-boosting breakfasts, fast-fix lunches, and delectable dinners--plus two healthy snacks and one guilt-free dessert--every single day! Itâ€™s    hard to believe itâ€™s just 1,500 calories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2719'),
(8152, 'The 1500-Calorie-A-Day Cookbook', 'Nancy S. Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Eat up. Slim down. Itâ€™s just that easy--with just 1,500 delicious calories a day!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the author of *The 1,200-Calorie-a-Day Menu    Cookbook*, comes all new recipes for when you are counting calories but donâ€™t want to sacrifice flavor, taste, or variety. While most low-calorie meal plans leave you hungry for more, this cookbook serves up a satisfying selection of energy-boosting breakfasts, fast-fix lunches, and delectable dinners--plus two healthy snacks and one guilt-free dessert--every single day! Itâ€™s    hard to believe itâ€™s just 1,500 calories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10404'),
(8153, 'The 1500-Calorie-a-Day Cookbook', 'Nancy S. Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Eat up. Slim down. Itâ€™s just that easy--with just 1,500 delicious calories a day!** From the author of *The 1,200-Calorie-a-Day Menu Cookbook*, comes all new recipes for when you are counting calories but donâ€™t want to sacrifice flavor, taste, or variety. While most low-calorie meal plans leave you hungry for more, this cookbook serves up a satisfying selection of energy-boosting breakfasts, fast-fix lunches, and delectable dinners--plus two healthy snacks and one guilt-free dessert--every single day! Itâ€™s hard to believe itâ€™s just 1,500 calories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22101'),
(8154, '16 Biggles Flies North', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15480'),
(8155, '16 The Angels Weep', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wild Justice, nicely read by Steven Pacey, involves Col. Peter Stride, who leads an elite force in an assault on a hijacked airliner in an attempt to free endangered hostages. Though the raid succeeds, Stride is fired for not fully following orders. Free from his military connection, he is then in a position to fight terrorism and conspiracy independently. A good story with lots of twists and treacheries. Together or separately, these three books are fine short adventures; each tale is about one-sixth the length of its original novel and loses an awful lot in the abridging. A recommendation: get these audios if you must for patrons in a hurry, but point them to an unabridged version if you can. - Cliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., OH\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An epic...Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."\n  <br />\n  --_Tulsa World_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22772'),
(8156, '1636: The Saxon Uprising', 'Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  The West Virginia town of Grantville, torn from the twentieth century and hurled back into seventeenth century Europe has allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, in the United States of Europe. So, when Gustavus invades Poland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling the common enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry about getting dragged into the fight along with the Swedish forces. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  But Mike Stearns has another problem. He was Prime Minister of the USE until he lost an election, and now heâ€™s one of Gustavusâ€™s generals; and he has demonstrated that heâ€™s very good at being a general. And heâ€™s about to really need all his military aptitude. Gretchen , who never saw a revolution she didnâ€™t like, has been arrested in Saxony, and is likely to be executed. The revolutionary groups which she has been working with are not about to let that happen, and suddenly thereâ€™s rioting in the streets. Saxonyâ€™s ruthless General Baner is determined to suppress the uprising by the time-honored â€œkill them all and let God sort them outâ€ method, which only adds fuel to the fire. So Gustavus orders Mike Stearns to go to Saxony and restore order. But he makes one mistake. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  He didnâ€™t tell Mike to take his troops along on the mission. But he didnâ€™t tell him not to, either . . . Â Praise for the New York Times Best-Selling Series:â€œ. . . gripping and expertly detailed . . . a treat for lovers of action-SF or alternate history . . . battle scenes depicted with power . . . distinguishes Flint as an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (in a starred review)Â â€œ[This] alternate-history saga . . . is certainly a landmark in that subgenre. . . . A splendid example of character-centered alternate-history, this is a must read for its series'' growing fandom.â€ â€”Booklist (Starred Review)Â â€œ. . . takes historic speculation to a new level in a tale that combines accurate historical research with bold leaps of the imagination. Fans of alternate history and military sf should enjoy this rousing tale of adventure and intrigue.â€ â€”Library JournalÂ â€œThis alternate history series is already one of the best around and each new entry appears better than the previous one, a seemingly impossible feat . . . terrific. . . .â€ â€”The Midwest Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5636'),
(8157, '1636: The Saxon Uprising', 'Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  The West Virginia town of Grantville, torn from the twentieth century and hurled back into seventeenth century Europe has allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, in the United States of Europe. So, when Gustavus invades Poland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling the common enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry about getting dragged into the fight along with the Swedish forces. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  But Mike Stearns has another problem. He was Prime Minister of the USE until he lost an election, and now heâ€™s one of Gustavusâ€™s generals; and he has demonstrated that heâ€™s very good at being a general. And heâ€™s about to really need all his military aptitude. Gretchen , who never saw a revolution she didnâ€™t like, has been arrested in Saxony, and is likely to be executed. The revolutionary groups which she has been working with are not about to let that happen, and suddenly thereâ€™s rioting in the streets. Saxonyâ€™s ruthless General Baner is determined to suppress the uprising by the time-honored â€œkill them all and let God sort them outâ€ method, which only adds fuel to the fire. So Gustavus orders Mike Stearns to go to Saxony and restore order. But he makes one mistake. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  He didnâ€™t tell Mike to take his troops along on the mission. But he didnâ€™t tell him not to, either . . . Â Praise for the New York Times Best-Selling Series:â€œ. . . gripping and expertly detailed . . . a treat for lovers of action-SF or alternate history . . . battle scenes depicted with power . . . distinguishes Flint as an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (in a starred review)Â â€œ[This] alternate-history saga . . . is certainly a landmark in that subgenre. . . . A splendid example of character-centered alternate-history, this is a must read for its series'' growing fandom.â€ â€”Booklist (Starred Review)Â â€œ. . . takes historic speculation to a new level in a tale that combines accurate historical research with bold leaps of the imagination. Fans of alternate history and military sf should enjoy this rousing tale of adventure and intrigue.â€ â€”Library JournalÂ â€œThis alternate history series is already one of the best around and each new entry appears better than the previous one, a seemingly impossible feat . . . terrific. . . .â€ â€”The Midwest Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9673');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(8158, '1636: The Saxon Uprising: N/A', 'Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  The West Virginia town of Grantville, torn from the twentieth century and hurled back into seventeenth century Europe has allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, in the United States of Europe. So, when Gustavus invades Poland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling the common enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry about getting dragged into the fight along with the Swedish forces. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  But Mike Stearns has another problem. He was Prime Minister of the USE until he lost an election, and now heâ€™s one of Gustavusâ€™s generals; and he has demonstrated that heâ€™s very good at being a general. And heâ€™s about to really need all his military aptitude. Gretchen , who never saw a revolution she didnâ€™t like, has been arrested in Saxony, and is likely to be executed. The revolutionary groups which she has been working with are not about to let that happen, and suddenly thereâ€™s rioting in the streets. Saxonyâ€™s ruthless General Baner is determined to suppress the uprising by the time-honored â€œkill them all and let God sort them outâ€ method, which only adds fuel to the fire. So Gustavus orders Mike Stearns to go to Saxony and restore order. But he makes one mistake. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  He didnâ€™t tell Mike to take his troops along on the mission. But he didnâ€™t tell him not to, either . . . Â Praise for the New York Times Best-Selling Series:â€œ. . . gripping and expertly detailed . . . a treat for lovers of action-SF or alternate history . . . battle scenes depicted with power . . . distinguishes Flint as an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (in a starred review)Â â€œ[This] alternate-history saga . . . is certainly a landmark in that subgenre. . . . A splendid example of character-centered alternate-history, this is a must read for its series'' growing fandom.â€ â€”Booklist (Starred Review)Â â€œ. . . takes historic speculation to a new level in a tale that combines accurate historical research with bold leaps of the imagination. Fans of alternate history and military sf should enjoy this rousing tale of adventure and intrigue.â€ â€”Library JournalÂ â€œThis alternate history series is already one of the best around and each new entry appears better than the previous one, a seemingly impossible feat . . . terrific. . . .â€ â€”The Midwest Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18527'),
(8159, '17 Biggles And The Rescue Flight', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15465'),
(8160, '17 The Leopard Hunts in Darkness', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Exciled author Craig must return to Zimbabwe - when he is given a spying mission... Craig Mellow, acclaimed author but unhappy exile, seizes the chance to return to Zimbabwe when he is given a spying mission for the World Bank. Accompanied by beautiful photographer Sally-Anne Jay, he is at first unaware of the dangerous currents of tribal conflict that swirl below the calm surface of Zimbabwean politics. Then he stumbles upon a highly organized ivory-poaching operation which masks the treacherous plot to sell the country he once fought for into slavery . . .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Wild Justice, nicely read by Steven Pacey, involves Col. Peter Stride, who leads an elite force in an assault on a hijacked airliner in an attempt to free endangered hostages. Though the raid succeeds, Stride is fired for not fully following orders. Free from his military connection, he is then in a position to fight terrorism and conspiracy independently. A good story with lots of twists and treacheries. Together or separately, these three books are fine short adventures; each tale is about one-sixth the length of its original novel and loses an awful lot in the abridging. A recommendation: get these audios if you must for patrons in a hurry, but point them to an unabridged version if you can. - Cliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., OH\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Smith deftly evokes not only the horrific but also the beautiful, particularly the lush landscape of Africa."--_The Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22794'),
(8161, '1776', 'David McCullough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King''s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books -- Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough''s 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6202'),
(8162, '1776', 'David McCullough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King''s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books -- Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough''s 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14499'),
(8163, '1776', 'David McCullough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King''s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books -- Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough''s 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17787'),
(8164, '1776', 'David McCullough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King''s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books -- Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough''s 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27259'),
(8165, '18 Biggles In Spain', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15493'),
(8166, '18 The Burning Shore', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "You can get lost in Wilbur Smith...with his swashbuckling novels of Africa."--Stephen King,\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  __\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Centaine de Thiry grew up with privilege, wealth, and freedom on a sprawling French estate. Then war came crashing down around her, and a daring young South African aviator named Michael Courtney stole her heart amidst the destruction. But the tides of fate and battle sent the young woman on a journey across a dangerous sea to the coast of Africa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Centaine''s ship is torpedoed and sunk, she is plunged into a shark-filled sea miles from the unseen shore. And when she reaches land, Centaine puts foot not in the lush world that Michael Courtney described to her, but on the edge of a burning desert--alone and fighting for her life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a strange world, under a great rushing sky, Centaine sets forth in the company of wandering Bushmen--and then into the arms of a renegade white soldier who may be her savior or destruction. As Michael Courtney''s family searches for Centaine, she comes near her promised land--and the untold tragedy and riches that it holds...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22793'),
(8167, '1861: The Civil War Awakening', 'Adam Goodheart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Goodheart, a historian and journalist who will be writing a column on the Civil War for the New York Times online, makes sophisticated use of a broad spectrum of sources for an evocative reinterpretation of the Civil War''s beginnings. Wanting to retrieve the war from recent critics who dismiss the importance of slavery in the Union''s aims, he reframes the war as "not just a Southern rebellion but a nationwide revolution" to free the country of slavery and end paralyzing attempts to compromise over it. The revolution began long before the war''s first shots were fired. But it worked on the minds and hearts of average whites and blacks, slaves and free men. By 1861 it had attained an irresistible momentum. Goodheart shifts focus away from the power centers of Washington and Charleston to look at the actions and reactions of citizens from Boston to New York City, from Hampton Roads, Va., to St. Louis, Mo., and San Francisco, emphasizing the cultural, rather than military, clash between those wanting the country to move forward and those clinging to the old ways. War would be waged for four bitter years, with enduring seriousness, intensity, and great heroism, Goodheart emphasizes. 15 illus. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Exhilarating ... inspiring ... irresistible ...\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  creates the uncanny illusion that the reader has stepped into a time machine."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â --\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  New York Times Book Review (cover review)\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "In his marvelous book...Goodheart brings us into 19th-century America, as ambiguous, ambitious and fractured as the times we live in now, and he brings to pulsing life the hearts and minds of its American citizens."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  --Huffington Post\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Riveting and thought-provoking narrative."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â  --Library Journal (\n  <em>\n   starred review\n  </em>\n  )\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Hardly a page of this book lacks an important insight or a fact that beguiles the readers. ... Goodheart shows us that even at 150 years'' distance there are new voices, and new stories, to be heard about the Civil War."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  --Boston Globe\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Beautifully written and thoroughly original--quite unlike any other Civil War book out there."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â --Kirkus Reviews (\n  <em>\n   starred review\n  </em>\n  )\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  advance praise for Adam Goodheartâ€™s\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_1861_ is the best book I have ever read on the start of the Civil War. Sumter, secession, and Lincoln appear in a wonderfully fresh and illuminating light, supported by a cast of extraordinary players that few Americans know about.Â  Penetrating, eloquent, and deeply moving, this is a classic introduction to the nationâ€™s greatest conflict.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Tony Horwitz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of\n   <em>\n    Confederates in the Attic\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCombining a master historianâ€™s sure command of original sources and a novelistâ€™s deft touch with character and narrative, Adam Goodheart has produced the young centuryâ€™s liveliest book about how a generation of remarkable and ordinary Americans alike variously provoked, resisted, and endured the dissolution of their country and the tragic march toward civil war. Major and minor characters, political movements, and whole towns and villages come alive under Goodheartâ€™s expert scrutiny. The result is that rarest of history books: a work of remarkable original scholarship crafted into an irresistible read.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Harold Holzer, chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and author of\n   <em>\n    Lincoln President-Elect\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAdam Goodheart brings to this book a rare combination of talent: passion and precision as a historian, grace and generosity as a writer.\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  puts us in the young nation that was about to shed its skin and begin life as something new.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Richard Ben Cramer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNo one could capture Whitmanâ€™s â€˜hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted yearâ€™ more vividly than Adam Goodheart has done in this magnificent book.Â \n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  isnâ€™t merely a work of history; itâ€™s a time-travel device that makes a century and a half fall away and sets us down, eyes and ears wide open, right in the midst of the chaos and the glory.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Anne Fadiman, author of\n   <em>\n    The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down\n   </em>\n   , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith boundlessÂ  verve, Adam Goodheart has sketched an uncommonly rich tableau of America on the cusp of the Civil War. The research is impeccable, the cast of little-known characters we are introduced to is thoroughly fascinating, the book is utterly thought-provoking, and the story is luminescent. What a triumph.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Jay Winik, author of New York Times best-sellers\n   <em>\n    April 1865\n   </em>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   The Great Upheaval\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œAdam Goodheart is a Monet with a pen instead of a paintbrush. Like an impressionist painting,\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  reveals layers of meaning and beauty as one studies it closely.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”James McPherson, author of\n   <em>\n    Battle Cry of Freedom\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/84'),
(8168, '1861: The Civil War Awakening', 'Adam Goodheart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Goodheart, a historian and journalist who will be writing a column on the Civil War for the New York Times online, makes sophisticated use of a broad spectrum of sources for an evocative reinterpretation of the Civil War''s beginnings. Wanting to retrieve the war from recent critics who dismiss the importance of slavery in the Union''s aims, he reframes the war as "not just a Southern rebellion but a nationwide revolution" to free the country of slavery and end paralyzing attempts to compromise over it. The revolution began long before the war''s first shots were fired. But it worked on the minds and hearts of average whites and blacks, slaves and free men. By 1861 it had attained an irresistible momentum. Goodheart shifts focus away from the power centers of Washington and Charleston to look at the actions and reactions of citizens from Boston to New York City, from Hampton Roads, Va., to St. Louis, Mo., and San Francisco, emphasizing the cultural, rather than military, clash between those wanting the country to move forward and those clinging to the old ways. War would be waged for four bitter years, with enduring seriousness, intensity, and great heroism, Goodheart emphasizes. 15 illus. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Exhilarating ... inspiring ... irresistible ...\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  creates the uncanny illusion that the reader has stepped into a time machine."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â --\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  New York Times Book Review (cover review)\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "In his marvelous book...Goodheart brings us into 19th-century America, as ambiguous, ambitious and fractured as the times we live in now, and he brings to pulsing life the hearts and minds of its American citizens."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  --Huffington Post\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Riveting and thought-provoking narrative."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â  --Library Journal (\n  <em>\n   starred review\n  </em>\n  )\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Hardly a page of this book lacks an important insight or a fact that beguiles the readers. ... Goodheart shows us that even at 150 years'' distance there are new voices, and new stories, to be heard about the Civil War."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  --Boston Globe\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Beautifully written and thoroughly original--quite unlike any other Civil War book out there."Â \n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â --Kirkus Reviews (\n  <em>\n   starred review\n  </em>\n  )\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  advance praise for Adam Goodheartâ€™s\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_1861_ is the best book I have ever read on the start of the Civil War. Sumter, secession, and Lincoln appear in a wonderfully fresh and illuminating light, supported by a cast of extraordinary players that few Americans know about.Â  Penetrating, eloquent, and deeply moving, this is a classic introduction to the nationâ€™s greatest conflict.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Tony Horwitz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of\n   <em>\n    Confederates in the Attic\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCombining a master historianâ€™s sure command of original sources and a novelistâ€™s deft touch with character and narrative, Adam Goodheart has produced the young centuryâ€™s liveliest book about how a generation of remarkable and ordinary Americans alike variously provoked, resisted, and endured the dissolution of their country and the tragic march toward civil war. Major and minor characters, political movements, and whole towns and villages come alive under Goodheartâ€™s expert scrutiny. The result is that rarest of history books: a work of remarkable original scholarship crafted into an irresistible read.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Harold Holzer, chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and author of\n   <em>\n    Lincoln President-Elect\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAdam Goodheart brings to this book a rare combination of talent: passion and precision as a historian, grace and generosity as a writer.\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  puts us in the young nation that was about to shed its skin and begin life as something new.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Richard Ben Cramer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNo one could capture Whitmanâ€™s â€˜hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted yearâ€™ more vividly than Adam Goodheart has done in this magnificent book.Â \n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  isnâ€™t merely a work of history; itâ€™s a time-travel device that makes a century and a half fall away and sets us down, eyes and ears wide open, right in the midst of the chaos and the glory.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Anne Fadiman, author of\n   <em>\n    The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down\n   </em>\n   , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith boundlessÂ  verve, Adam Goodheart has sketched an uncommonly rich tableau of America on the cusp of the Civil War. The research is impeccable, the cast of little-known characters we are introduced to is thoroughly fascinating, the book is utterly thought-provoking, and the story is luminescent. What a triumph.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”Jay Winik, author of New York Times best-sellers\n   <em>\n    April 1865\n   </em>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   The Great Upheaval\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œAdam Goodheart is a Monet with a pen instead of a paintbrush. Like an impressionist painting,\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  reveals layers of meaning and beauty as one studies it closely.â€\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n  <strong>\n   â€”James McPherson, author of\n   <em>\n    Battle Cry of Freedom\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9945'),
(8169, '1861: The Civil War Awakening', 'Adam Goodheart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Goodheart, a historian and journalist who will be writing a column on the Civil War for the New York Times online, makes sophisticated use of a broad spectrum of sources for an evocative reinterpretation of the Civil War''s beginnings. Wanting to retrieve the war from recent critics who dismiss the importance of slavery in the Union''s aims, he reframes the war as "not just a Southern rebellion but a nationwide revolution" to free the country of slavery and end paralyzing attempts to compromise over it. The revolution began long before the war''s first shots were fired. But it worked on the minds and hearts of average whites and blacks, slaves and free men. By 1861 it had attained an irresistible momentum. Goodheart shifts focus away from the power centers of Washington and Charleston to look at the actions and reactions of citizens from Boston to New York City, from Hampton Roads, Va., to St. Louis, Mo., and San Francisco, emphasizing the cultural, rather than military, clash between those wanting the country to move forward and those clinging to the old ways. War would be waged for four bitter years, with enduring seriousness, intensity, and great heroism, Goodheart emphasizes. 15 illus. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Exhilarating ... inspiring ... irresistible ...\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  creates the uncanny illusion that the reader has stepped into a time machine."\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  New York Times Book Review (cover review)\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "In his marvelous book...Goodheart brings us into 19th-century America, as ambiguous, ambitious and fractured as the times we live in now, and he brings to pulsing life the hearts and minds of its American citizens."\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  --Huffington Post\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Riveting and thought-provoking narrative."\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  --Library Journal (\n  <em>\n   starred review\n  </em>\n  )\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Hardly a page of this book lacks an important insight or a fact that beguiles the readers. ... Goodheart shows us that even at 150 years'' distance there are new voices, and new stories, to be heard about the Civil War."\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  --Boston Globe\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  "Beautifully written and thoroughly original--quite unlike any other Civil War book out there."\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  --Kirkus Reviews (\n  <em>\n   starred review\n  </em>\n  )\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  advance praise for Adam Goodheartâ€™s\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_1861_ is the best book I have ever read on the start of the Civil War. Sumter, secession, and Lincoln appear in a wonderfully fresh and illuminating light, supported by a cast of extraordinary players that few Americans know about. Penetrating, eloquent, and deeply moving, this is a classic introduction to the nationâ€™s greatest conflict.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Tony Horwitz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of\n   <em>\n    Confederates in the Attic\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCombining a master historianâ€™s sure command of original sources and a novelistâ€™s deft touch with character and narrative, Adam Goodheart has produced the young centuryâ€™s liveliest book about how a generation of remarkable and ordinary Americans alike variously provoked, resisted, and endured the dissolution of their country and the tragic march toward civil war. Major and minor characters, political movements, and whole towns and villages come alive under Goodheartâ€™s expert scrutiny. The result is that rarest of history books: a work of remarkable original scholarship crafted into an irresistible read.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Harold Holzer, chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and author of\n   <em>\n    Lincoln President-Elect\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAdam Goodheart brings to this book a rare combination of talent: passion and precision as a historian, grace and generosity as a writer.\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  puts us in the young nation that was about to shed its skin and begin life as something new.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Richard Ben Cramer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNo one could capture Whitmanâ€™s â€˜hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted yearâ€™ more vividly than Adam Goodheart has done in this magnificent book.\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  isnâ€™t merely a work of history; itâ€™s a time-travel device that makes a century and a half fall away and sets us down, eyes and ears wide open, right in the midst of the chaos and the glory.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Anne Fadiman, author of\n   <em>\n    The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down\n   </em>\n   , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith boundless verve, Adam Goodheart has sketched an uncommonly rich tableau of America on the cusp of the Civil War. The research is impeccable, the cast of little-known characters we are introduced to is thoroughly fascinating, the book is utterly thought-provoking, and the story is luminescent. What a triumph.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Jay Winik, author of New York Times best-sellers\n   <em>\n    April 1865\n   </em>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   The Great Upheaval\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œAdam Goodheart is a Monet with a pen instead of a paintbrush. Like an impressionist painting,\n  <em>\n   1861\n  </em>\n  reveals layers of meaning and beauty as one studies it closely.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”James McPherson, author of\n   <em>\n    Battle Cry of Freedom\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17155'),
(8170, '19 Biggles Secret Agent', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15461'),
(8171, '19 The Power Of The Sword', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A sequel to Smith''s The Burning Shore , this novel continues to trace the lives of Lothar de la Rey and Centaine Courtney. Their love/hate unfolds in the South Africa of the 1930s. Centaine''s son by Lothar and her son by an English gentleman also become bitter enemies. Diamonds stolen by Lothar are a pivotal element in the story, which ranges from Bushman country to the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. Even without the first book, this is an exciting story. Smith makes us sympathize with both the Afrikaners and the British South Africans. His details and historical setting seem authentic. Recommended for historical fiction collections. A third novel is clearly intended. Judith Nixon, Purdue Univ. Libs., W. Lafayette, Ind.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "You can get lost in Wilbur Smith...with his swashbuckling novels of Africa."--Stephen King,\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22788'),
(8172, '1915: The Death of Innocence', 'Lyn Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n By Christmas 1914, the wild wave of enthusiasm that had sent men flocking to join up a few months earlier began to tail off, and though the original British Expeditionary Force had suffered 90 percent casualties, most people, particularly the soldiers themselves, still believed that 1915 would see the breaking of the deadlock. But their hopes were shattered on the bloody battlefields of Neuve Chapelle, Ypres, Loos, and far away on the shores of Gallipoli.Lyn Macdonald''s story of 1915 is stark, brutal, frank, sometimes painfully funny, always human. Never before has any writer collected so many firsthand accounts of the experiences of ordinary soldiers, through diaries, letters, and interviews with survivors -- and it is the dogged heroism and sardonic humor of the soldiers that shine through the pages of this epic narrative. 1915 is a uniquely compelling blend of military history and poignant memories of the fighters who survived the ordeal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11065'),
(8173, '1984', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people''s lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible? There must be something that the Party cannot control - something like love, perhaps?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14172'),
(8174, '1984', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27883'),
(8175, '1984', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people''s lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible? There must be something that the Party cannot control - something like love, perhaps?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27884'),
(8176, '1st to Die', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Imagine a killer who thinks, "What is the worst thing anyone has ever done?"--and then goes far beyond it. Now imagine four women --a police detective, an assistant DA, a reporter, and a medical examiner --who join forces as they sidestep their bosses to track down criminals. Known as the Women''s Murder Club, they are pursuing a murderer whose twisted imagination has stunned an entire city. Their chief suspect is a socially prominent writer, but the men in charge won''t touch him. On the trail of the most terrifying and unexpected killer ever, they discover a shocking surprise that turns everything about the case upside down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4805'),
(8177, '1st to Die', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Imagine a killer who thinks, "What is the worst thing anyone has ever done?"--and then goes far beyond it. Now imagine four women --a police detective, an assistant DA, a reporter, and a medical examiner --who join forces as they sidestep their bosses to track down criminals. Known as the Women''s Murder Club, they are pursuing a murderer whose twisted imagination has stunned an entire city. Their chief suspect is a socially prominent writer, but the men in charge won''t touch him. On the trail of the most terrifying and unexpected killer ever, they discover a shocking surprise that turns everything about the case upside down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13877'),
(8178, '1st to Die', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Imagine a killer who thinks, "What is the worst thing anyone has ever done?"--and then goes far beyond it. Now imagine four women --a police detective, an assistant DA, a reporter, and a medical examiner --who join forces as they sidestep their bosses to track down criminals. Known as the Women''s Murder Club, they are pursuing a murderer whose twisted imagination has stunned an entire city. Their chief suspect is a socially prominent writer, but the men in charge won''t touch him. On the trail of the most terrifying and unexpected killer ever, they discover a shocking surprise that turns everything about the case upside down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19846'),
(8179, '2 - Dalamar the Dark', 'Dalamar the Dark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21593'),
(8180, '2 - Kendermore', 'Parkinson, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21685'),
(8181, '2 in the Hat: A Novel of Suspense', 'Raffi Yessayan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Â A serial killer the cops thought was long gone.A good detective racing the clock to stop the murders.A chilling and twisty thriller that will leave readers gasping.Â A major spike in gang homicides has Boston on edge, leaving a growing body count of bangers in its wake and the cityâ€™s police and DAâ€™s office scrambling to catch up. Even the mayorâ€™s Street Saviors taskforce of ex-cons, devoted to steering kids out of the thug life, are working overtime to stop the bloodshed. But who will stop the even greater threat thatâ€™s about to descend when a murderous psychopath steps out of the past?Memories of the infamous Blood Bath Killer still loom large, especially for homicide detective Angel Alves, who helped bring down the multiple-murderer whose rampage shocked the city. So when a pair of students turn up bizarrely slain, Alves fears that another serial killer is stalking Boston. A fear that becomes fact when his ex-partner, Wayne Mooney, recognizes the murders as the work of the Prom Night Killerâ€”whose unsolved crimes have haunted Mooney for a decade. Now, with hands-on assistant DA Conrad Darget backing them, Alves and Mooney set out to stop grim history from repeating itself. But matching wits with a twisted mind is a dangerous game. Especially when there are no rulesâ€”and your allies really may be your enemies.Â Mixing edgy psychological suspense, hard-boiled realism, and staccato bursts of pulse-quickening action, 2 in the Hat makes another slam-dunk winning case for Raffi Yessayan, hailed by Robin Moore, author of The French Connection, as â€œthe best prosecutor-turned-crime-writer to hit the streets since George V. Higgins and Scott Turow.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1889'),
(8182, '2 in the Hat: A Novel of Suspense', 'Raffi Yessayan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Â A serial killer the cops thought was long gone.A good detective racing the clock to stop the murders.A chilling and twisty thriller that will leave readers gasping.Â A major spike in gang homicides has Boston on edge, leaving a growing body count of bangers in its wake and the cityâ€™s police and DAâ€™s office scrambling to catch up. Even the mayorâ€™s Street Saviors taskforce of ex-cons, devoted to steering kids out of the thug life, are working overtime to stop the bloodshed. But who will stop the even greater threat thatâ€™s about to descend when a murderous psychopath steps out of the past?Memories of the infamous Blood Bath Killer still loom large, especially for homicide detective Angel Alves, who helped bring down the multiple-murderer whose rampage shocked the city. So when a pair of students turn up bizarrely slain, Alves fears that another serial killer is stalking Boston. A fear that becomes fact when his ex-partner, Wayne Mooney, recognizes the murders as the work of the Prom Night Killerâ€”whose unsolved crimes have haunted Mooney for a decade. Now, with hands-on assistant DA Conrad Darget backing them, Alves and Mooney set out to stop grim history from repeating itself. But matching wits with a twisted mind is a dangerous game. Especially when there are no rulesâ€”and your allies really may be your enemies.Â Mixing edgy psychological suspense, hard-boiled realism, and staccato bursts of pulse-quickening action, 2 in the Hat makes another slam-dunk winning case for Raffi Yessayan, hailed by Robin Moore, author of The French Connection, as â€œthe best prosecutor-turned-crime-writer to hit the streets since George V. Higgins and Scott Turow.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13450'),
(8183, '20 Rage', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this latest epic, popular novelist Smith (The Leopard Hunts in Darkness) takes on a difficult challenge, telling of post-World War II South Africa. What he has created is a hybrid. His narrative seriously addresses the conflicts of whites and blacks, the differences between British and Afrikaners, and the tribes and personalities vying for control of the African National Congress. But it''s also a soap opera, one of those conventional generational sagas with a contrived forbidden love affair between a white and a black, adultery and the rivalry between two men who do not realize they are half-brothers. The combination is simultaneously thrilling and embarrassing. Shasa Courtney is a wealthy United Party minister to the South African Parliament. A moderate of English heritage, he is often opposed to the Nationalist Party''s Manfred De La Rey, an Afrikaner. Their mother, the matriarchal Centaine Courtney-Malcomess, is able to mediate their conflicts but not to control Shasa''s wife, Tara, who sympathizes with the black cause. It is Tara who falls in love with the black Moses Gama, an advocate of violent opposition to apartheid. All their stories intermingle with the history of South Africa in the ''50s and ''60s. Smith''s account of some of the worst racial riots is terrifying and his storytelling powers are strong, but readers of Rage will likely come away wondering whether turgid sub-plots really enhance a novel about one of the world''s most troubled countries.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Smith continues the family saga set in South Africa which he began in The Burning Shore and The Power of the Sword. This new novel focuses on the half brothers, Shasa Courtney and Manfred De La Rey, now high officials in the Nationalist government. During the mounting protest and violence brought on by apartheid in the 1950s and early 1960s, these former enemies find themselves working together to save the land they both love. Other family members are involved too. Michael, one of Shasa''s sons, becomes a reporter who opposes apartheid, while Lothar, Manfred''s son, is a policeman who enforces it. The interlocking stories of these and many others, set against the authentic African historical and cultural background that Smith so effectively provides, produces both a compelling tale and some real insights into South Africa. Recommended. Judith Nixon, Purdue Univ. Lib., W. Lafayette, Ind.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22790'),
(8184, '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sent to unravel the mystery of an enigmatic monolith left on the moon by an unknown alien intelligence, two astronauts aboard the spacecraft Discovery find their journey into space and their very lives jeopardized by the jealousy of an extraordinary computer named Hal. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7447'),
(8185, '2001: a space odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A deluxe hardcover edition of the science fiction classic...now with a new introduction by Arthur C. Clarke!It has been over thirty years since the publication of *2001: A Space Odyssey*, the science fiction classic that changed the way we looked at the stars--and ourselves. From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the outer rim of our solar system, Arthur C. Clarke takes us on a journey unlike any other.This allegory about humanity''s exploration of the universe, and the universe''s reaction to humanity, was the basis for Stanley Kubrick''s immortal film, and lives on as a hallmark achievement in storytelling.* Special hardcover edition for the new millennium* New introduction by Arthur C. Clarke* Winner of the Science Fiction Writers'' Grand Master Award for Life Achievement* Basis of Stanley Kubrick''s 1968 movie--chosen by American Film Institute as one of the 100 best films of all time* *2001*''s unforgettable character, HAL the computer, has been revived in Macintosh''s TV spots"Full of poetry, scientific imagination, and typical Clarke wit."--*The New Yorker*"Breathtaking."--*Saturday Review*"Brain-boggling."--*Life*"A mind-bender."--*Time*Special Millennial Edition\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15209');
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(8186, '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sent to unravel the mystery of an enigmatic monolith left on the moon by an unknown alien intelligence, two astronauts aboard the spacecraft Discovery find their journey into space and their very lives jeopardized by the jealousy of an extraordinary computer named Hal. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16451'),
(8187, '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It has been forty years since the publication of this classic science fiction novel that changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves. From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man adventures to the outer rim of our solar system, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a journey unlike any other. This allegory about humanity''s exploration of the universe, and the universe''s reaction to humanity, was the basis for director Stanley Kubrick''s immortal film, and lives on as a hallmark achievement in storytelling.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A deluxe hardcover edition of the science fiction classic...now with a new introduction by Arthur C. Clarke!It has been over thirty years since the publication of *2001: A Space Odyssey*, the science fiction classic that changed the way we looked at the stars--and ourselves.  From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the outer rim of our solar system, Arthur C. Clarke takes us on a journey unlike any other.This allegory about humanity''s exploration of the universe, and the universe''s reaction to humanity, was the basis for Stanley Kubrick''s immortal film, and lives on as a hallmark achievement in storytelling.* Special hardcover edition for the new millennium* New introduction by Arthur C. Clarke* Winner of the Science Fiction Writers'' Grand Master Award for Life Achievement* Basis of Stanley Kubrick''s  1968 movie--chosen by American Film Institute as one of the 100 best films of all time* *2001*''s unforgettable character, HAL the computer, has been revived in Macintosh''s TV spots"Full of poetry, scientific imagination, and typical Clarke wit."--*The New Yorker*"Breathtaking."--*Saturday Review*"Brain-boggling."--*Life*"A mind-bender."--*Time*Special Millennial Edition\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26455'),
(8188, '2010 A doua odisee spatiala', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26053'),
(8189, '2010: Odyssey Two', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 2010: Odyssey Two is a best-selling science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, which was published in January 1982. It is the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983.[1] The novel was adapted for the screen and released as a film in 1984.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The story is set nine years after the failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter.[4]\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A joint Soviet-American crew,[5] including Heywood Floyd from 2001, on the Soviet spaceship Alexei Leonov (named after the famous cosmonaut) arrives to discover what went wrong with the earlier mission, to investigate the monolith in orbit around the planet, and to resolve the disappearance of David Bowman. They hypothesize that much of this information is locked away on the now-abandoned Discovery One. The Soviets have an advanced new "Sakharov" drive which will propel them to Jupiter ahead of the American Discovery Two, so Floyd is assigned to the Leonov crew.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n However, a Chinese space station rockets out of Earth orbit, revealing itself to be the interplanetary spacecraft Tsien, also aimed at Jupiter. The Leonov crewmembers think the Chinese are on a one-way trip due to its speed, but Floyd surmises that due to the large water content of Europa they intend to land there and use the water content to refuel. The Tsien''s daring mission ends in failure, when it is destroyed by an indigenous life-form on Europa. The only survivor radios the story to the Leonov; it is presumed that he dies when his spacesuit air supply runs out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7448'),
(8190, '2010: Odyssey Two', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 2010: Odyssey Two is a best-selling science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, which was published in January 1982. It is the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983.[1] The novel was adapted for the screen and released as a film in 1984. The story is set nine years after the failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter.[4] A joint Soviet-American crew,[5] including Heywood Floyd from 2001, on the Soviet spaceship Alexei Leonov (named after the famous cosmonaut) arrives to discover what went wrong with the earlier mission, to investigate the monolith in orbit around the planet, and to resolve the disappearance of David Bowman. They hypothesize that much of this information is locked away on the now-abandoned Discovery One. The Soviets have an advanced new "Sakharov" drive which will propel them to Jupiter ahead of the American Discovery Two, so Floyd is assigned to the Leonov crew. However, a Chinese space station rockets out of Earth orbit, revealing itself to be the interplanetary spacecraft Tsien, also aimed at Jupiter. The Leonov crewmembers think the Chinese are on a one-way trip due to its speed, but Floyd surmises that due to the large water content of Europa they intend to land there and use the water content to refuel. The Tsien''s daring mission ends in failure, when it is destroyed by an indigenous life-form on Europa. The only survivor radios the story to the Leonov; it is presumed that he dies when his spacesuit air supply runs out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16450'),
(8191, '2010: Odyssey Two', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Haywood Floyd, director of the original Discovery mission, sets out to discover what happened to HAL 9000 and comes face to face with something claiming to be Dave Bowman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26454'),
(8192, 'The 2011 Baby Names Almanac', 'Emily Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Hottest Baby Name Trends, Lists, and Forecasts\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n An instant snapshot of how the world today is shaping the name you may choose for your child tomorrow, The 2011 Baby Names Almanac is jam-packed with information and trends, plus thousands of names to browse. Here''s a sneak peek at the ideas, forecasts, predictions, and suggestions you''ll find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Why some names are a lot more popular than you think (Carly, Tristan)\n  </strong>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   The cutting edge names on the rise (Kellan, Serenity) and the superhot names cooling fast (Miley, Kaden)\n  </strong>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   The crossover pop culture names that will be moving to the cribs of tomorrow (Pandora)\n  </strong>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Just how many Isabellas and Jacobs are out there\n  </strong>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   A look at whether popular unisex names like Riley are used more for boys or girls\n  </strong>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   The hottest names in your state\n  </strong>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   The girls'' name that jumped more than 675 places on the top 1000 names, and the boys'' name that can''t shake a 902 ranking\n  </strong>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Packed with easy-to-read charts, graphs, and maps, this book is a screen shot of the world today. It''s stuffed with ideas on what''s hip and hot, and how you can take that trend and turn it into a name you love.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Introduction\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n So, you''ve got a baby to name.\n</p>\n<p>\n As if preparing for the arrival of the baby isn''t enough, you''re dealing with all the pressure of figuring out what, exactly, to call the little bundle of joy. It can be stressful to find a name that will do justice to the hope you have for your child.\n <br />\n After all, names influence first impressions. They can trigger great-or unpleasant-nicknames. They can affect your child''s self-esteem. They can be a tangible, lasting link to a family legacy.\n</p>\n<p>\n But let''s not forget that they can be fun. And that''s what this book is all about.\n <br />\n Remember\n <em>\n  The Old Farmer''s Almanac\n </em>\n , which comes out annuÂ­ally as a guide to each year''s trends, forecasts, and hot spots? Aimed at farmers, of course, the book provides a way to put the year into context, to navigate the shifting seasons, and to underÂ­stand all the factors swirling in the atmosphere.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The 2011 Baby Names Almanac\n </em>\n aims to be a similar lifeline for parents. With a finger on the pulse of pop culture and an ear to the ground of what''s hip, new, and relevant, this book offers you an instant, idiosyncratic snapshot of how the world today is shapÂ­ing what you may want to name your child tomorrow.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jam-packed with information and ideas, plus thousands of names to browse, this book analyzes the most recent trends and fads in baby naming, offering up forecasts and predictions. You''ll find our take on questions like these (and much more!):\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Which cutting-edge names are on the rise?\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Which popular names are on the decline?\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What influence do celebrities have on names?\n  </p>\n  <ul>\n   <li>\n    <em>\n     Names in music:\n    </em>\n    Has\n    <strong>\n     Miley\n    </strong>\n    peaked? Is\n    <strong>\n     Taylor\n    </strong>\n    <strong>\n    </strong>\n    now excluÂ­sively a girl''s name?\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <em>\n     Names in movies:\n    </em>\n    Could you name a kid\n    <strong>\n     Pandora\n    </strong>\n    ?\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <em>\n     Names in sports:\n    </em>\n    Is\n    <strong>\n     Peyton\n    </strong>\n    over? Will\n    <strong>\n     Rooney\n    </strong>\n    surge? And what''s so great about\n    <strong>\n     Jacoby\n    </strong>\n    ?\n   </li>\n  </ul>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How many babies get the most popular name, anyway?\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Which letter do most girls'' names start with? How about boys'' names?\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What are the most popular "gender-neutral" names today- and which gender uses each name more often? (If you name your daughter\n   <strong>\n    Harley\n   </strong>\n   , will she find herself playing with lots of other little girls named Harley-or little boys instead?)\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How can you take a trend and turn it into a name you love?\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n We understand that sometimes this information on trends and popularity is hard to digest, so we''ve created some easy-to-visualize graphics. Turn to page 4, for example, to see a map of the United States showing where\n <strong>\n  Isabella\n </strong>\n reigns and where little\n <strong>\n  Jayden\n </strong>\n is king.\n</p>\n<p>\n And what baby name book would be complete without the names? Flip to page 59 to begin browsing through more than 20,000 names, including entries for the most popular names for girls and boys as reported by the Social Security Administration (www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames).\n</p>\n<p>\n A little bit of a mishmash and a screenshot of the world today,\n <em>\n  The 2011 Baby Names Almanac\n </em>\n is like no other book out there. Stuffed with ideas on what''s hip and hot and how you can take a trend and turn it into a name you love, this book is your all-in-one guide to baby names now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18528'),
(8193, 'The 2012 Story: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most Intriguing Date in History', 'John Major Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On December 21, 2012, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, a 5,125- year cycle calendar system pioneered by the Maya, will come to an end. At the same time, the earth, the sun, and the center of the galaxy will come together in an extremely rare cosmic alignment. More and more people believe that the world as we know it will experience a transformation in 2012, but few are aware of the complete history or significance of the date. John Major Jenkins, among the most authoritative voices of the 2012 movement, has written a definitive explanation of one of the most thought-provoking phenomena of our time. Drawing from his own groundbreaking research (including his involvement in the modern reconstruction of Mayan 2012 cosmology) and more than two decades of extensive study of Mayan culture, Jenkins has created the crucial guide to understanding the story of 2012an essential overview of the history, theory, cultures, and personalities that have brought this extraordinary idea into modern awareness. Jenkins provides illuminating answers to some of the most-asked questions about 2012, including:  - How did the early Maya devise the calendar that gives us the cycle ending in 2012, and how does it work?  - How did the calendar come to be rediscovered and reconstructed in our era?  - What controversies and intrigues surround the topic, and what do scholars and researchers have to say about them?  - How can we cut through all the noise about 2012 and gain true wisdom from the Mayan teachings about this moment?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4293'),
(8194, 'The 2012 Story: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most Intriguing Date in History', 'John Major Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On December 21, 2012, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, a 5,125- year cycle calendar system pioneered by the Maya, will come to an end. At the same time, the earth, the sun, and the center of the galaxy will come together in an extremely rare cosmic alignment. More and more people believe that the world as we know it will experience a transformation in 2012, but few are aware of the complete history or significance of the date. John Major Jenkins, among the most authoritative voices of the 2012 movement, has written a definitive explanation of one of the most thought-provoking phenomena of our time. Drawing from his own groundbreaking research (including his involvement in the modern reconstruction of Mayan 2012 cosmology) and more than two decades of extensive study of Mayan culture, Jenkins has created the crucial guide to understanding the story of 2012an essential overview of the history, theory, cultures, and personalities that have brought this extraordinary idea into modern awareness. Jenkins provides illuminating answers to some of the most-asked questions about 2012, including:  - How did the early Maya devise the calendar that gives us the cycle ending in 2012, and how does it work?  - How did the calendar come to be rediscovered and reconstructed in our era?  - What controversies and intrigues surround the topic, and what do scholars and researchers have to say about them?  - How can we cut through all the noise about 2012 and gain true wisdom from the Mayan teachings about this moment?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10549'),
(8195, 'The 2012 Story: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most Intriguing Date in History', 'John Major Jenkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On December 21, 2012, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, a 5,125- year cycle calendar system pioneered by the Maya, will come to an end. At the same time, the earth, the sun, and the center of the galaxy will come together in an extremely rare cosmic alignment. More and more people believe that the world as we know it will experience a transformation in 2012, but few are aware of the complete history or significance of the date. John Major Jenkins, among the most authoritative voices of the 2012 movement, has written a definitive explanation of one of the most thought-provoking phenomena of our time. Drawing from his own groundbreaking research (including his involvement in the modern reconstruction of Mayan 2012 cosmology) and more than two decades of extensive study of Mayan culture, Jenkins has created the crucial guide to understanding the story of 2012an essential overview of the history, theory, cultures, and personalities that have brought this extraordinary idea into modern awareness. Jenkins provides illuminating answers to some of the most-asked questions about 2012, including: - How did the early Maya devise the calendar that gives us the cycle ending in 2012, and how does it work? - How did the calendar come to be rediscovered and reconstructed in our era? - What controversies and intrigues surround the topic, and what do scholars and researchers have to say about them? - How can we cut through all the noise about 2012 and gain true wisdom from the Mayan teachings about this moment?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20334'),
(8196, '2012: The War for Souls', 'Whitley Strieber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Strieber''s epic sequel to 2006''s\n <em>\n  The Grays\n </em>\n blends equal parts science fiction thriller, supernatural horror and provocative spiritual speculation. As struggling author Wylie Dale works on his latest novel, which revolves around an upcoming date when the earth crosses both the galactic equator and the solar eclipticâ€”a time that the Maya predicted would mark the cataclysmic end of this ageâ€”he begins to uncover evidence that what he''s writing about is actually happening on a parallel earth. If nothing is done, on December 21, 2012, gateways will open into this world and reptilian invaders will not only enslave humanity but feast on their succulent souls as well. While Strieber''s exploration into the existence and import of the soul isn''t exactly profound, it is wildly entertaining. Fans of apocalyptic page-turners like King''s\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n and Niven and Pournelle''s\n <em>\n  Lucifer''s Hammer\n </em>\n will enjoy this ambitiousâ€”and audaciousâ€”tale as it invokes everything from rectal probes and Ann Coulter to the destruction of the Great Pyramid of Giza._ (Sept.)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Archaeologist Martin Winters gets out of the collapsing Great Pyramid of Khufu just in time to see a gigantic lens arise from the rubble. Simultaneously at equally ancient monument sites all over the world, other lenses emerge. What''s happening is a kind of alien invasion, but the aliens, whose advance agents have been subverting human society for some time, aren''t really another species. They''re their world''s degenerates, whose earlier incursions into human history inspired the way the evil beings of religious mythology have been represented. In short, they''re demons, fortunately killable but possessed of awesome power by the standards of Martin''s world, which is one of three parallel Earths. The others are the invaders'' and ours, in which buff sf writer Wiley Dale is compulsively and automatically writing Martin''s story, which is more transmission than story. Eventually the demonic aliens pop up in Wiley''s as well as Martin''s Kansas homeland. Each Earth has advantages over the others; one of those,Â in both Martin''s and the aliens'' worlds, is that the physical existence of the soul has been discovered. The implications of that discovery drive the action of Strieber''s hyperactive cosmological thriller. Despite Wiley and his cop buddy''s excruciating hardy-har-he-man palaver and the exposition turning to cardboard whenever love is mentioned, it''s immensely entertaining, and it''s optioned for a big, splashy, FX-laden movie. Oh boy! Olson, Ray\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/268'),
(8197, '2012: The War for Souls', 'Whitley Strieber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Strieber''s epic sequel to 2006''s\n <em>\n  The Grays\n </em>\n blends equal parts science fiction thriller, supernatural horror and provocative spiritual speculation. As struggling author Wylie Dale works on his latest novel, which revolves around an upcoming date when the earth crosses both the galactic equator and the solar eclipticâ€”a time that the Maya predicted would mark the cataclysmic end of this ageâ€”he begins to uncover evidence that what he''s writing about is actually happening on a parallel earth. If nothing is done, on December 21, 2012, gateways will open into this world and reptilian invaders will not only enslave humanity but feast on their succulent souls as well. While Strieber''s exploration into the existence and import of the soul isn''t exactly profound, it is wildly entertaining. Fans of apocalyptic page-turners like King''s\n <em>\n  The Stand\n </em>\n and Niven and Pournelle''s\n <em>\n  Lucifer''s Hammer\n </em>\n will enjoy this ambitiousâ€”and audaciousâ€”tale as it invokes everything from rectal probes and Ann Coulter to the destruction of the Great Pyramid of Giza._ (Sept.)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Archaeologist Martin Winters gets out of the collapsing Great Pyramid of Khufu just in time to see a gigantic lens arise from the rubble. Simultaneously at equally ancient monument sites all over the world, other lenses emerge. What''s happening is a kind of alien invasion, but the aliens, whose advance agents have been subverting human society for some time, aren''t really another species. They''re their world''s degenerates, whose earlier incursions into human history inspired the way the evil beings of religious mythology have been represented. In short, they''re demons, fortunately killable but possessed of awesome power by the standards of Martin''s world, which is one of three parallel Earths. The others are the invaders'' and ours, in which buff sf writer Wiley Dale is compulsively and automatically writing Martin''s story, which is more transmission than story. Eventually the demonic aliens pop up in Wiley''s as well as Martin''s Kansas homeland. Each Earth has advantages over the others; one of those, in both Martin''s and the aliens'' worlds, is that the physical existence of the soul has been discovered. The implications of that discovery drive the action of Strieber''s hyperactive cosmological thriller. Despite Wiley and his cop buddy''s excruciating hardy-har-he-man palaver and the exposition turning to cardboard whenever love is mentioned, it''s immensely entertaining, and it''s optioned for a big, splashy, FX-laden movie. Oh boy! Olson, Ray\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24667'),
(8198, '2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America', 'Albert Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Comedian and filmmaker Brooks welcomes the reader to the year 2030 in his smart and surprisingly serious debut. Cancer has been cured, global warming is an acknowledged reality, people have robot companions, and the president is a Jew--and oy vey does he have his hands full with an earthquake-leveled Los Angeles and a growing movement by the young to exterminate the elderly. And when the Chinese offer to rebuild L.A. in exchange for a half-ownership stake in Southern California, President Bernstein is faced with a decision that will alter the future of America. Brooks''s sweeping narrative encompasses a diverse cast of characters, including an 80-year-old Angelino left homeless by the earthquake, a trust fund brat with a grudge against the elderly, and a teenage girl saddled with debt after her father''s death, all of whom get brought together just in time for a climactic hostage crisis. Brooks''s mordant vision encompasses the future of politics, medicine, entertainment, and daily living, resulting in a novel as entertaining as it is thought provoking, like something from the imagination of a borscht belt H.G. Wells. (May)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œWith\n  <em>\n   2030\n  </em>\n  Mr. Brooks has made the nervy move of transposing his worrywart sensibility from film to book. Two things are immediately apparent about his debut novel: that itâ€™s as purposeful as it is funny, and that Mr. Brooks has immersed himself deeply in its creation.â€--_New York Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The novel is a revelation, painting a caustic, unsettling and only occasionally comic portrait of a country plumb down on its luck."--_Los Angeles Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Albert Brooks is a keen and critical social observer...His first novel is an inspired work of social science fiction, thoughtful and ambitiously conceived, both serious and seriously funny."--_Boston Globe_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œComedian and filmmaker Brooks welcomes the reader to the year 2030 in his smart and surprisingly serious debut....Brooks''s mordant vision encompasses the future of politics, medicine, entertainment, and daily living, resulting in a novel as entertaining as it is thought provoking, like something from the imagination of a borscht belt H.G. Wells.â€--_PublishersÂ Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An intriguing vision of Americaâ€™s future."--_Library Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Required reading!"--_New York Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a comedian and filmmaker, the very gifted Albert Brooks has specialized for more than 30 years in cooking up quandaries with no ready solution except humiliation. His often ingenious first novel is no exception.â€--_New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Brooks''s vision of the future is credible and compelling."--_Booklist_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8117'),
(8199, '206 Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. At the start of bestseller Reichs''s outstanding 12th thriller to feature Dr. Temperance Brennan (after\n  <em>\n   Devil Bones\n  </em>\n  ), Brennan finds herself bound and injured in an underground tomb. In flashbacks, Reichs fills in the how and why of the forensic anthropologist''s deadly predicament. When Brennan and Andrew Ryan of the SÃ»retÃ© du QuÃ©bec arrive in Chicago on business, she''s accused of botching the autopsy of Rose Jurmain, a Canadian heiress. Knowing only that an anonymous caller instigated the investigation, Brennan is determined to uncover who''s out to sabotage her. Back in her Montreal lab, Brennan soon realizes that not only is Jurmain''s death possibly linked to the brutal murders of other elderly women but that whoever is out to tarnish her reputation refuses to back off. With her usual blend of cutting-edge forensic science and a stubborn, compelling heroine, Reichs manages to juggle several story lines without losing an ounce of momentum.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe science is fascinating, and every minute in the morgue with\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tempe is golden.â€ â€”The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13637'),
(8200, '206 Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. At the start of bestseller Reichs''s outstanding 12th thriller to feature Dr. Temperance Brennan (after\n  <em>\n   Devil Bones\n  </em>\n  ), Brennan finds herself bound and injured in an underground tomb. In flashbacks, Reichs fills in the how and why of the forensic anthropologist''s deadly predicament. When Brennan and Andrew Ryan of the SÃ»retÃ© du QuÃ©bec arrive in Chicago on business, she''s accused of botching the autopsy of Rose Jurmain, a Canadian heiress. Knowing only that an anonymous caller instigated the investigation, Brennan is determined to uncover who''s out to sabotage her. Back in her Montreal lab, Brennan soon realizes that not only is Jurmain''s death possibly linked to the brutal murders of other elderly women but that whoever is out to tarnish her reputation refuses to back off. With her usual blend of cutting-edge forensic science and a stubborn, compelling heroine, Reichs manages to juggle several story lines without losing an ounce of momentum.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThe science is fascinating, and every minute in the morgue with\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tempe is golden.â€ â€”The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20621'),
(8201, '2061 A treia odisee spatiala', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26054'),
(8202, '2061: Odyssey Three', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Centenarian Heywood Floyd, survivor of two encounters with mysterious monoliths, once again confronts Dave Bowman, an independent HAL, and an unseen alien race\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7449'),
(8203, '2061: Odyssey Three', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Centenarian Heywood Floyd, survivor of two encounters with mysterious monoliths, once again confronts Dave Bowman, an independent HAL, and an unseen alien race\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16449'),
(8204, '2061: Odyssey Three', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world''s best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not.*From the Paperback edition.*\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "[Clarke] remains a master at describing the wonders of the material universe in sentences that combine a respect for scientific accuracy with an often startling lyricism."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fifty years after meeting the spirit of Dave Bowman aboard the abandoned Discovery and witnessing the fiery transformation of Jupiter into Earths second sun, 103-year-old Dr. Heywood Floyd boards the luxury spaceship Universe for the historic first landing on the surface of Halley''s Comet.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At the same time, the Galaxy expedition sets out to probe the evolutionary upheaval on Jupiter''s former moon Europa haunted by the fate of a doomed Chinese mission and by the ominous message from space: "All these worlds are yours *except Europa. Attempt no landings there. "\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As the stranded Galaxy awaits rescue on the dangerous and forbidden surface of Europa and Universe races to her aid, the omniscient force that is Dave Bowman watches *and waits to reveal the extraordinary secrets of the monoliths, of the masters he now serves, and of mankind''s ultimate role in the course of cosmic history . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "[Clarke] is, after all, the poet laureate of the Space Age. He is at his best making the reader feel . . . that it is those dreams that finally come true that are the best dreams of all."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world''s best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not.*From the Paperback edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26453'),
(8205, '21 A Time to Die', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA --Continuing the saga of the South African family begun in When the Legends Die (Lippincott, 1963; o.p.), Smith weaves another compelling tale of high adventure, politics, and romance in the wilds of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. This new novel finds Sean Courtney leading a big game hunting expedition that is caught deep in hostile territory, where two tribal armies are engaged in battle. Courtney''s fighting and survival instincts are constantly being tested throughout this action-packed story. Compassion and love interest temper the characterization of Sean Courtney, a bit of a change from his wild ways of the past. Smith''s fans will not be disappointed in this addition to the Courtney chronicles, as he expertly describes the excitement and beauty of the African veldt. --Nancy Bard, Jefferson Sci-Tech, Alexandria, VA\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sean Courtney, professional hunter and guerrilla fighter, is swept up by the tides of a new war. Caught between two rival armies, between his love for the woman at his side and his instincts as a trained killer, Courtney finds himself the captive of a brutal enemy from the past.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22757'),
(8206, '21 Biggles In The Baltic v3', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15494'),
(8207, '21 Biggles In the South Seas', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15497'),
(8208, '22 Biggles Defies The Swastika', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15470'),
(8209, '22 Britannia Road', 'Amanda Hodgkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011\n </strong>\n : By the end of World War II, Silvana is a ghost of the wife Janusz once had. She and their 7-year-old son Aurek travel from Poland to England to reunite their family--a family that has been separated for 6 years. That''s where\n <em>\n  22 Britannia Road\n </em>\n , Amanda Hodgkinson''s stunning debut novel, begins. As the past unfolds from multiple points of view, it becomes clear that despite their determination to make a fresh start, the hidden secrets of the past threaten to destroy Silvana and Janusz''s dreams of becoming a family once again. The irreversible events that passed during their years of separation still linger, including the horrors of war, Janusz''s betrayal by a love affair with another woman, and the devastating secret that Silvana will do anything to conceal. Hodgkinson''s poetic voice is impossible to forget, and the shocking and hopeful ending of her remarkable historical novel will leave readers reeling--and satisfied.\n <em>\n  --Miriam Landis\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Author Q&amp;A with Amanda Hodgkinson\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What drew you to this particular story of Polish World War II survivors living in England?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n As a child, I was always fascinated when the adults around me talked about World War II. These were older family members who had lived through it and I would try to stay quiet so I could listen without being discovered. Their voices changed to lower registers, there were weighted silences in the conversations, sad looks, secretive whispering and then somebody would notice me and send me out to play, their voice swinging up a register to convey a gaiety they probably didnâ€™t feel. I would go to bed at night, sick at heart thinking about these stories, and wonder how the world ever managed to get back to the normal after that war.\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking back, I think I never stopped wondering. Years later, I was standing in my kitchen and heard a Russian woman on the radio, describing her experiences of being a child during the war. â€œWe were so hungry,â€ she said, â€œwe ate the bark of the silver birch trees.â€ An image came to me, so clear and strong, it was more like a memory than an act of my imagination. I wrote down what I saw; a young woman in a silver birch forest. I had begun to write my novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n From Silvanaâ€™s exile in the forest to the petrol rations in post-war Ipswich, you paint a vivid picture of the novelâ€™s historical settings and events. What sort of research did you do to get the details right?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I balanced my own imaginative input with research. I read social history books on the war and the postwar period, including a lot of oral histories on Polish immigrant experiences. I also read wonderful Polish poets like Zbigniew Herbert and Tadeusz RÃ³zewicz, among others. I studied Polish fairytales and classic Polish literature from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. I discovered tango music had been very popular in Poland during the thirties, so I listened to some fabulous clips on YouTube and imagined myself there, in the 1930s, dancing at a club in Warsaw, just like Hanka, one of the characters in the book tells Silvana about. I immersed myself in books, music and literature and then I put aside all research and let my imagination go to work. Whenever I was unsure about a scene, I turned to my own thoughts and feelings, relying on my ability to imagine a moment and on my empathy for the characters, rather than history books, and I think this approach helped me really understand my characters and the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What does the title, the address of the home Janusz chooses for his reunited family, represent to you symbolically? Why that particular address?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I wanted a very ordinary address. A typical English home. You can find a Britannia Road in most English towns and there is no mistaking the pronounced sense of place in this address. Janusz wants what the address offers. A new life and a new country. Ironically, this address, with its connotations of national identity and pride, also serves to highlight the sense of displacement Janusz, Silvana and Aurek, as an immigrant family, must have felt in a small town in Britain. Another reason I used an address was to show how important home was to the characters. For me, the novel is about finding a home, physically, psychologically and metaphorically. Home is a small word that holds within itself complex meanings. Change one letter and you have the word hope. And Janusz, Silvana and Aurek hope to make a home together.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n A powerful theme in this book is the pain of survivalâ€”even Janusz, who had a relatively easy escape from Poland, suffers from having outlived HÃ©lÃ¨ne and other loved ones. What personal discoveries did you make about this theme while writing the book?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Writing the book and researching it made me very aware of how people are still suffering under wars. The mass movement of displaced people around the world continues and the number of children who are orphaned and families disrupted and broken by war does not diminish.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You do an exceptional job capturing the psyche of young Aurek, who has clearly been traumatized by his experiences. Did you draw from case studies of children with similar experiences, or did you find your way to this character instinctually?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I wrote Aurek very instinctively. I felt I knew the boy from the moment I first wrote a small, tentative description of him, crouching in the back garden at 22 Britannia Road. I read Through\n <em>\n  The Eyes of the Innocents: Children Witness World War II\n </em>\n by Emmy E Werner, which conveys the heartbreaking experiences of children, and that fed my own understanding of what Aurek might have been through but really, when I was writing Aurek, I found I could connect with him best on an emotional level. So I wrote what he\n <em>\n  felt\n </em>\n . I tried to go beyond language with him and bring out his primitive sense of survival, his desire to feel loved and his need to love others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7689'),
(8210, '22 Britannia Road', 'Amanda Hodgkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011\n </strong>\n : By the end of World War II, Silvana is a ghost of the wife Janusz once had. She and their 7-year-old son Aurek travel from Poland to England to reunite their family--a family that has been separated for 6 years. That''s where\n <em>\n  22 Britannia Road\n </em>\n , Amanda Hodgkinson''s stunning debut novel, begins. As the past unfolds from multiple points of view, it becomes clear that despite their determination to make a fresh start, the hidden secrets of the past threaten to destroy Silvana and Janusz''s dreams of becoming a family once again. The irreversible events that passed during their years of separation still linger, including the horrors of war, Janusz''s betrayal by a love affair with another woman, and the devastating secret that Silvana will do anything to conceal. Hodgkinson''s poetic voice is impossible to forget, and the shocking and hopeful ending of her remarkable historical novel will leave readers reeling--and satisfied.\n <em>\n  --Miriam Landis\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Author Q&amp;A with Amanda Hodgkinson\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What drew you to this particular story of Polish World War II survivors living in England?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n As a child, I was always fascinated when the adults around me talked about World War II. These were older family members who had lived through it and I would try to stay quiet so I could listen without being discovered. Their voices changed to lower registers, there were weighted silences in the conversations, sad looks, secretive whispering and then somebody would notice me and send me out to play, their voice swinging up a register to convey a gaiety they probably didnâ€™t feel. I would go to bed at night, sick at heart thinking about these stories, and wonder how the world ever managed to get back to the normal after that war.\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking back, I think I never stopped wondering. Years later, I was standing in my kitchen and heard a Russian woman on the radio, describing her experiences of being a child during the war. â€œWe were so hungry,â€ she said, â€œwe ate the bark of the silver birch trees.â€ An image came to me, so clear and strong, it was more like a memory than an act of my imagination. I wrote down what I saw; a young woman in a silver birch forest. I had begun to write my novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n From Silvanaâ€™s exile in the forest to the petrol rations in post-war Ipswich, you paint a vivid picture of the novelâ€™s historical settings and events. What sort of research did you do to get the details right?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I balanced my own imaginative input with research. I read social history books on the war and the postwar period, including a lot of oral histories on Polish immigrant experiences. I also read wonderful Polish poets like Zbigniew Herbert and Tadeusz RÃ³zewicz, among others. I studied Polish fairytales and classic Polish literature from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. I discovered tango music had been very popular in Poland during the thirties, so I listened to some fabulous clips on YouTube and imagined myself there, in the 1930s, dancing at a club in Warsaw, just like Hanka, one of the characters in the book tells Silvana about. I immersed myself in books, music and literature and then I put aside all research and let my imagination go to work. Whenever I was unsure about a scene, I turned to my own thoughts and feelings, relying on my ability to imagine a moment and on my empathy for the characters, rather than history books, and I think this approach helped me really understand my characters and the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What does the title, the address of the home Janusz chooses for his reunited family, represent to you symbolically? Why that particular address?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I wanted a very ordinary address. A typical English home. You can find a Britannia Road in most English towns and there is no mistaking the pronounced sense of place in this address. Janusz wants what the address offers. A new life and a new country. Ironically, this address, with its connotations of national identity and pride, also serves to highlight the sense of displacement Janusz, Silvana and Aurek, as an immigrant family, must have felt in a small town in Britain. Another reason I used an address was to show how important home was to the characters. For me, the novel is about finding a home, physically, psychologically and metaphorically. Home is a small word that holds within itself complex meanings. Change one letter and you have the word hope. And Janusz, Silvana and Aurek hope to make a home together.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n A powerful theme in this book is the pain of survivalâ€”even Janusz, who had a relatively easy escape from Poland, suffers from having outlived HÃ©lÃ¨ne and other loved ones. What personal discoveries did you make about this theme while writing the book?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Writing the book and researching it made me very aware of how people are still suffering under wars. The mass movement of displaced people around the world continues and the number of children who are orphaned and families disrupted and broken by war does not diminish.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You do an exceptional job capturing the psyche of young Aurek, who has clearly been traumatized by his experiences. Did you draw from case studies of children with similar experiences, or did you find your way to this character instinctually?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I wrote Aurek very instinctively. I felt I knew the boy from the moment I first wrote a small, tentative description of him, crouching in the back garden at 22 Britannia Road. I read Through\n <em>\n  The Eyes of the Innocents: Children Witness World War II\n </em>\n by Emmy E Werner, which conveys the heartbreaking experiences of children, and that fed my own understanding of what Aurek might have been through but really, when I was writing Aurek, I found I could connect with him best on an emotional level. So I wrote what he\n <em>\n  felt\n </em>\n . I tried to go beyond language with him and bring out his primitive sense of survival, his desire to feel loved and his need to love others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10372');
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(8211, '22 Britannia Road', 'Amanda Hodgkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011\n </strong>\n : By the end of World War II, Silvana is a ghost of the wife Janusz once had. She and their 7-year-old son Aurek travel from Poland to England to reunite their family--a family that has been separated for 6 years. That''s where\n <em>\n  22 Britannia Road\n </em>\n , Amanda Hodgkinson''s stunning debut novel, begins. As the past unfolds from multiple points of view, it becomes clear that despite their determination to make a fresh start, the hidden secrets of the past threaten to destroy Silvana and Janusz''s dreams of becoming a family once again. The irreversible events that passed during their years of separation still linger, including the horrors of war, Janusz''s betrayal by a love affair with another woman, and the devastating secret that Silvana will do anything to conceal. Hodgkinson''s poetic voice is impossible to forget, and the shocking and hopeful ending of her remarkable historical novel will leave readers reeling--and satisfied.\n <em>\n  --Miriam Landis\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Author Q&amp;A with Amanda Hodgkinson\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What drew you to this particular story of Polish World War II survivors living in England?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n As a child, I was always fascinated when the adults around me talked about World War II. These were older family members who had lived through it and I would try to stay quiet so I could listen without being discovered. Their voices changed to lower registers, there were weighted silences in the conversations, sad looks, secretive whispering and then somebody would notice me and send me out to play, their voice swinging up a register to convey a gaiety they probably didnâ€™t feel. I would go to bed at night, sick at heart thinking about these stories, and wonder how the world ever managed to get back to the normal after that war.\n</p>\n<p>\n Looking back, I think I never stopped wondering. Years later, I was standing in my kitchen and heard a Russian woman on the radio, describing her experiences of being a child during the war. â€œWe were so hungry,â€ she said, â€œwe ate the bark of the silver birch trees.â€ An image came to me, so clear and strong, it was more like a memory than an act of my imagination. I wrote down what I saw; a young woman in a silver birch forest. I had begun to write my novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n From Silvanaâ€™s exile in the forest to the petrol rations in post-war Ipswich, you paint a vivid picture of the novelâ€™s historical settings and events. What sort of research did you do to get the details right?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I balanced my own imaginative input with research. I read social history books on the war and the postwar period, including a lot of oral histories on Polish immigrant experiences. I also read wonderful Polish poets like Zbigniew Herbert and Tadeusz RÃ³zewicz, among others. I studied Polish fairytales and classic Polish literature from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. I discovered tango music had been very popular in Poland during the thirties, so I listened to some fabulous clips on YouTube and imagined myself there, in the 1930s, dancing at a club in Warsaw, just like Hanka, one of the characters in the book tells Silvana about. I immersed myself in books, music and literature and then I put aside all research and let my imagination go to work. Whenever I was unsure about a scene, I turned to my own thoughts and feelings, relying on my ability to imagine a moment and on my empathy for the characters, rather than history books, and I think this approach helped me really understand my characters and the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What does the title, the address of the home Janusz chooses for his reunited family, represent to you symbolically? Why that particular address?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I wanted a very ordinary address. A typical English home. You can find a Britannia Road in most English towns and there is no mistaking the pronounced sense of place in this address. Janusz wants what the address offers. A new life and a new country. Ironically, this address, with its connotations of national identity and pride, also serves to highlight the sense of displacement Janusz, Silvana and Aurek, as an immigrant family, must have felt in a small town in Britain. Another reason I used an address was to show how important home was to the characters. For me, the novel is about finding a home, physically, psychologically and metaphorically. Home is a small word that holds within itself complex meanings. Change one letter and you have the word hope. And Janusz, Silvana and Aurek hope to make a home together.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n A powerful theme in this book is the pain of survivalâ€”even Janusz, who had a relatively easy escape from Poland, suffers from having outlived HÃ©lÃ¨ne and other loved ones. What personal discoveries did you make about this theme while writing the book?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Writing the book and researching it made me very aware of how people are still suffering under wars. The mass movement of displaced people around the world continues and the number of children who are orphaned and families disrupted and broken by war does not diminish.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You do an exceptional job capturing the psyche of young Aurek, who has clearly been traumatized by his experiences. Did you draw from case studies of children with similar experiences, or did you find your way to this character instinctually?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I wrote Aurek very instinctively. I felt I knew the boy from the moment I first wrote a small, tentative description of him, crouching in the back garden at 22 Britannia Road. I read Through\n <em>\n  The Eyes of the Innocents: Children Witness World War II\n </em>\n by Emmy E Werner, which conveys the heartbreaking experiences of children, and that fed my own understanding of what Aurek might have been through but really, when I was writing Aurek, I found I could connect with him best on an emotional level. So I wrote what he\n <em>\n  felt\n </em>\n . I tried to go beyond language with him and bring out his primitive sense of survival, his desire to feel loved and his need to love others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16186'),
(8212, '22 Golden Fox', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Smith''s ( A Time to Die ) 22nd novel, already a bestseller in England, adds to his reputation as a writer of suspenseful, knowledgeable thrillers. Isabella Courtney is the only daughter of a wealthy, influential South African family. Ramon de Santiago y Machado is the calculating, cold-blooded villain who skillfully pursues, seduces and impregnates her, then uses the child as a pawn to force her to participate in his cause: a violent revolution against capitalism. In desperation, Isabella is forced to seek help from her family, and it is here that Smith''s skill in building tension shifts into high gear. The final chapters are fast-paced and action-filled, augmenting the effects of realistic settings and exemplary prose throughout. Though Smith sometimes focuses too long on unnecessary detail, this is an entertaining novel by a gifted, intelligent raconteur.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-- Smith''s newest novel about the Courtney family centers around Isabella, the only daughter of Shasa Courtney, South Africa''s ambassador to England. Ramon de Santiago y Machado, secretly known as El Zoro Dorado or the Golden Fox, concocts an elaborate plan to seduce Isabella, impregnate her, and then use the child as a pawn to further terrorist plots against South Africa. She gives birth to a son, Nicholas, whom Ramon kidnaps when he is one month old, setting in motion Isabella''s betrayal of her beloved family and country. Smith excels at creating finely drawn characters; descriptive settings in London, Europe, and Africa; and a masterful development of an action-packed thriller that gets better as each new predicament unfolds. Expertly written, this novel engulfs readers until the very last page. --Nancy Bard, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VA-\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22783'),
(8213, '23 Biggles Sees It Through', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15503'),
(8214, '23 Elephant Song', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his latest novel of Africa, Smith ( The Diamond Hunters ) sets a fast-paced melodrama of greed and political corruption against the stunning, indisputably commanding backdrop of a rain forest. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker and African ecologist Daniel Armstrong vows revenge after a gang of poachers steals a huge cache of South African government-protected ivory, in the process brutally killing Chief Warden Johnny Nzou, Armstrong''s childhood friend, and his family. Tracing the smuggling operation to its highest source, Armstrong comes up against a sadistic Chinese diplomat and his profoundly wealthy clan, an unscrupulous entrepreneur expatriate from India, a knighted British tycoon, assorted thugs and a torture-crazed leopard guarding a warehouse. Armstrong agrees to film a PR piece for a tyrant who has just taken over a small African nation and, with money supplied by Armstrong''s enemies, is despoiling the rain forest and enslaving members of certain tribes. Some romance, more sex, lots of bloody fighting and international intrigues, all carried out by deftly directed larger-than-life cardboard characters, will surely please Smith''s fans and other action-addicted readers.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A dashing producer of TV documentaries battles to save his beloved Africa from callous international multimillionaires and home-grown villainous politicians--in a free-standing adventure from the author of the Africa-based Courtney sagas (Golden Fox, A Time to Die, etc.) and others. Smith''s trademark big-hunter thrills, toned down to accommodate 90''s sensibilities, keep things hopping for Rhodesian- born David Armstrong as he first documents Zimbabwe''s thoughtful elephant management--and then avenges the death of Zimbabwe''s best elephant-manager at the hands of ruthless ivory poachers. Armstrong, a one-time soldier who now turns out PBS-style nature films, just misses the slaughter of old colleague Johnny Nzou and family, but quickly deduces that Taiwan''s ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ning Cheng Gong, and his avaricious subcontinental ivory-agent, Chetti Singh, are the monsters behind the murders and the heist of a fortune in elephant teeth. Vowing to send Ning and Singh to their reward, Armstrong returns to London, where he picks up the backing of a bent billionaire and the assistance of a very capable, very randy camera person, meets a lovely scholar of Pygmy life, and then heads again to Africa. The grand confrontation with Singh and Ning takes place in Ubomo, a semi-democracy that has just been taken over by a rapacious army officer. Ubomo is also the home of the pretty Pygmy scholar. Humorless and politically only partially correct, but who cares? The point of a big African adventure is big adventure with big animals and big scenery, and that''s all here. Smith knows the scene. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22780'),
(8215, '23 Hours: A Vengeful Vampire Tale', 'David Wellington', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In the next 23 hours, there will be no reprieve, no mercy, and no time off for good behavior.**When vampire hunter Laura Caxton is locked up in a maximum-security prison, the cop-turned-con finds herself surrounded by countless murderers and death-row inmates with nothing to lose . . . and plenty of time to *kill.  *Caxtonâ€™s always been able to watch her own backâ€“even when itâ€™s against a cell-block wallâ€“but soon she learns that an even greater threat has slithered behind the bars to join her. Justinia Malvern, the worldâ€™s oldest living vampire, has taken up residence, and her strength grows by the moment as she raids the inmate population like an open bar with an all-you-can-drink supply of fresh blood. The crafty old vampire knows just how to pull Caxtonâ€™s strings, too, and she''s issued an ultimatum that Laura canâ€™t refuse.  Now Laura has just 23 hours to fight her way through a gauntlet of vampires, cons, and killers . . . 23 hours to make one last, desperate attempt at protecting the world from Justiniaâ€™s evil.   **\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6221'),
(8216, '23 Hours: A Vengeful Vampire Tale', 'David Wellington', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In the next 23 hours, there will be no reprieve, no mercy, and no time off for good behavior.**When vampire hunter Laura Caxton is locked up in a maximum-security prison, the cop-turned-con finds herself surrounded by countless murderers and death-row inmates with nothing to lose . . . and plenty of time to *kill. *Caxtonâ€™s always been able to watch her own backâ€“even when itâ€™s against a cell-block wallâ€“but soon she learns that an even greater threat has slithered behind the bars to join her. Justinia Malvern, the worldâ€™s oldest living vampire, has taken up residence, and her strength grows by the moment as she raids the inmate population like an open bar with an all-you-can-drink supply of fresh blood. The crafty old vampire knows just how to pull Caxtonâ€™s strings, too, and she''s issued an ultimatum that Laura canâ€™t refuse. Now Laura has just 23 hours to fight her way through a gauntlet of vampires, cons, and killers . . . 23 hours to make one last, desperate attempt at protecting the world from Justiniaâ€™s evil. **\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17897'),
(8217, '23 Hours: A Vengeful Vampire Tale', 'David Wellington', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In the next 23 hours, there will be no reprieve, no mercy, and no time off for good behavior.**When vampire hunter Laura Caxton is locked up in a maximum-security prison, the cop-turned-con finds herself surrounded by countless murderers and death-row inmates with nothing to lose . . . and plenty of time to *kill. *Caxtonâ€™s always been able to watch her own backâ€“even when itâ€™s against a cell-block wallâ€“but soon she learns that an even greater threat has slithered behind the bars to join her. Justinia Malvern, the worldâ€™s oldest living vampire, has taken up residence, and her strength grows by the moment as she raids the inmate population like an open bar with an all-you-can-drink supply of fresh blood. The crafty old vampire knows just how to pull Caxtonâ€™s strings, too, and she''s issued an ultimatum that Laura canâ€™t refuse. Now Laura has just 23 hours to fight her way through a gauntlet of vampires, cons, and killers . . . 23 hours to make one last, desperate attempt at protecting the world from Justiniaâ€™s evil. **\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27435'),
(8218, '23 Things They Don&#39;t Tell You About Capitalism', 'Ha-Joon Chang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chang (Bad Samaritans) takes on the "free-market ideologues," the stentorian voices in economic thought and, in his analysis, the engineers of the recent financial catastrophe. Free market orthodoxy has inserted its tenterhooks into almost every economy in the world--over the past three decades, most countries have privatized state-owned industrial and financial firms, deregulated finance and industry, liberalized international trade and investments, and reduced income taxes and welfare payments. But these policies have unleashed bubbles and ever increasing income disparity. How can we dig ourselves out? By examining the many myths in the narrative of free-market liberalism, crucially that the name is itself a misnomer: there is nothing "free" about a market where wages are largely politically determined; that greater macroeconomic stability has not made the world economy more stable; and a more educated population itself won''t make a country richer. An advocate of big, active government and capitalism as distinct from a free market, Chang presents an enlightening prÃ©cis of modern economic thought--and all the places it''s gone wrong, urging us to act in order to completely rebuild the world economy: "This will some readers uncomfortable... it is time to get uncomfortable." (Jan.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œChang presents an enlightening prÃ©cis of modern economic thoughtâ€”and all the places itâ€™s gone wrong, urging us to act in order to completely rebuild the world economy: â€˜This will [make] some readers uncomfortableâ€¦[;] it is time to get uncomfortable.â€™â€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€”Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMyth-busting and nicely-written collection of essaysâ€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€”Independent\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   (UK)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œShaking Economics 101 assumptions to the core â€¦ Eminently accessible, with a clearly liberal (or at least anticonservative) bent, but with surprises along the wayâ€”for one, the thought that markets need to become less rather than more efficient.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”_Kirkus Reviews_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have pictured it but as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”John Gray,\n   <em>\n    Observer\n   </em>\n   (UK)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€œA lively, accessible and provocative book.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”_Sunday Times_ (UK)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor 40 years, I have worked as a journalist and trained thousands of other journalists from my former perches as a University of Missouri Journalism School professor and as executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors. I have written newspaper articles, magazine features and entire books with heavy doses of economics policy and business behavior. I wish the book\n  <em>\n   23 Things They Donâ€™t Tell You About Capitalism\n  </em>\n  had been available when I was a rookie; I would have been more alert to the hands-off-business catechism by which Americans are relentlessly indoctrinated.â€â€”\n  <strong>\n   Steven Weinberg,\n   <em>\n    Remapping Debate\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   __\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5262'),
(8219, '23 Things They Don&#39;t Tell You About Capitalism', 'Ha-Joon Chang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chang (Bad Samaritans) takes on the "free-market ideologues," the stentorian voices in economic thought and, in his analysis, the engineers of the recent financial catastrophe. Free market orthodoxy has inserted its tenterhooks into almost every economy in the world--over the past three decades, most countries have privatized state-owned industrial and financial firms, deregulated finance and industry, liberalized international trade and investments, and reduced income taxes and welfare payments. But these policies have unleashed bubbles and ever increasing income disparity. How can we dig ourselves out? By examining the many myths in the narrative of free-market liberalism, crucially that the name is itself a misnomer: there is nothing "free" about a market where wages are largely politically determined; that greater macroeconomic stability has not made the world economy more stable; and a more educated population itself won''t make a country richer. An advocate of big, active government and capitalism as distinct from a free market, Chang presents an enlightening prÃ©cis of modern economic thought--and all the places it''s gone wrong, urging us to act in order to completely rebuild the world economy: "This will some readers uncomfortable... it is time to get uncomfortable." (Jan.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œChang presents an enlightening prÃ©cis of modern economic thoughtâ€”and all the places itâ€™s gone wrong, urging us to act in order to completely rebuild the world economy: â€˜This will [make] some readers uncomfortableâ€¦[;] it is time to get uncomfortable.â€™â€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€”Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMyth-busting and nicely-written collection of essaysâ€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€”Independent\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   (UK)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œShaking Economics 101 assumptions to the core â€¦ Eminently accessible, with a clearly liberal (or at least anticonservative) bent, but with surprises along the wayâ€”for one, the thought that markets need to become less rather than more efficient.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”_Kirkus Reviews_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  __\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have pictured it but as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”John Gray,\n   <em>\n    Observer\n   </em>\n   (UK)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  â€œA lively, accessible and provocative book.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”_Sunday Times_ (UK)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFor 40 years, I have worked as a journalist and trained thousands of other journalists from my former perches as a University of Missouri Journalism School professor and as executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors. I have written newspaper articles, magazine features and entire books with heavy doses of economics policy and business behavior. I wish the book\n  <em>\n   23 Things They Donâ€™t Tell You About Capitalism\n  </em>\n  had been available when I was a rookie; I would have been more alert to the hands-off-business catechism by which Americans are relentlessly indoctrinated.â€â€”\n  <strong>\n   Steven Weinberg,\n   <em>\n    Remapping Debate\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   __\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8889'),
(8220, '23 Things They Don&#39;t Tell You about Capitalism', 'Chang, Ha-Joon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19414'),
(8221, '24 Spitfire Parade', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15432'),
(8222, '2484 Quirinal AVE', 'Sebastian A. Corn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25145'),
(8223, '25 Biggles In The Jungle', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15495'),
(8224, '25 The Seventh Scroll', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A search for the 4000-year-old tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh along the Nile''s headwaters in Ethiopia is the focus of this intoxicating sequel to River God. A heady mix of exotic adventure, romance and Egyptology, it pairs blueblood, devil-may-care Sir Nicholas Quenton-Harper, who recently has lost his wife and children in a tragic accident, and half-English, half-Egyptian archeologist Royan Al-Sima, herself recently bereaved, in a desperate race to unearth Pharaoh Mamose''s fabulous treasures. Their rival in this quest is Gotthold von Schiller, an old, crazed, murderous German collector of antiquities whose mistress, a porno actress, dresses up as an ancient Egyptian queen to titillate him. The major clue is the eponymous seventh scroll, key to the tomb''s location, written by ancient Egyptian scribe Taita, who figured prominently in River God. As the novel opens, thugs hired by von Schiller steal the scroll, and thereafter the rival archeologist teams play a cat-and-mouse game with Taita across the millennia, avoiding lethal traps and deciphering red herrings, which will fool the reader too. The colorful cast includes alcoholic ex-KGB operative Boris Brusilov and ruthless Texan Jake Helm, von Schiller''s slavish sidekick. Fans of intricate adventure and Egyptian lore will be captivated by Smith''s capacious saga, which should serve to increase his audience in the States. This prolific and popular British writer-with 24 previous novels, he is a bestseller in England and elsewhere, to the tune of 65 million copies-is a master of the genre. 250,000 first printing; $250,000 ad/promo.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Noted Egyptologist Royan Al Simma escapes an attempt on her life, but her husband, Duraid, is not so lucky. This husband-and-wife archaeological team was immersed in unraveling the secrets of the "seventh scroll." Written in a type of shorthand, the scroll dates back to the Hyksos invasion of Egypt and was recently discovered in the tomb of Queen Lostris, whose story is told in Smith''s River God (St. Martin''s, 1994). Grieving over the loss of her husband, Royan engages Sir Nicholas Quenton-Harper, a wealthy English collector, to assist her in completing the work she and Duraid had begun by locating the tomb of Pharaoh Mamose the Eighth, husband of Lostris. Through collective teamwork, Royan and Nicholas travel to Ethiopia, at great peril to themselves, as they try to uncover a 4000-year-old secret. This well-crafted novel is full of adventure, tension, and intrigue. Recommended for general readers.?Maria A. Perez-Stable, Western Michigan Univ. Libs., Kalamazoo\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22796'),
(8225, '25,001 Best Baby Names, 2E', 'Lesley Bolton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The most convenient, value-priced reference for parents-to-be who want an easy guide to the best baby names out there\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n From the author of the #1 baby name book in the country comes an updated edition of the mass entry into the category: 25,001 Best Baby Names.\n</p>\n<p>\n An easy-to-use, affordable book aimed at frazzled, overwhelmed parents-to-be, this is the perfect reference to make naming boys and girls quick and painless. 25,001 Best Baby Names is thoroughly researched and updated to reflect recent trends in baby names.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a compact format and with incredible variety, 25,001 Best Baby Names offers a low price, a handy package, and the most current names for parents making one of their biggest decisions for baby.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lesley Bolton\n </strong>\n is a freelance writer and publishing professional with over six years of publishing experience. She is also the author of\n <em>\n  The Complete Book of Baby Names\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Everything Guide to Writing Children''s Books\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Everything Psychology Book\n </em>\n . She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20063'),
(8226, '26 Birds of Prey', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Look up "classic adventure novel" in the dictionary and you''ll find the strong and capable features of South Africa''s own Wilbur Smith, who--in books as varied and enjoyable as\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From Library Journal\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   In 1667, Sir Francis Courteney commands his ship off the coast of Africa in England''s war against the Dutch. He has groomed his son Hal to succeed him as captain. Birds of Prey chronicles Hal''s swift and bloody passage to manhood after his father''s torture and death at the hands of the Dutch. Escaping with the remaining crew, Hal makes his way overland to claim his father''s hidden treasure and confront the treacherous English captain who betrayed them. Men are hacked apart in sword fights, blown to bits in shipboard battles, mauled by crocodiles, and more in this tale from the prolific author of such historical fare as The Seventh Scroll (LJ 4/15/95). Short on character development and tight plotting, this meandering escapist novel will be relished by those who enjoy swashbuckling tales with nonstop action. For popular collections.?Kathy Piehl, Mankato State Univ., Minn.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Look up "classic adventure novel" in the dictionary and you''ll find the strong and capable features of South Africa''s own Wilbur Smith, who--in books as varied and enjoyable as\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1667, Sir Francis Courteney commands his ship off the coast of Africa in England''s war against the Dutch. He has groomed his son Hal to succeed him as captain. Birds of Prey chronicles Hal''s swift and bloody passage to manhood after his father''s torture and death at the hands of the Dutch. Escaping with the remaining crew, Hal makes his way overland to claim his father''s hidden treasure and confront the treacherous English captain who betrayed them. Men are hacked apart in sword fights, blown to bits in shipboard battles, mauled by crocodiles, and more in this tale from the prolific author of such historical fare as The Seventh Scroll (LJ 4/15/95). Short on character development and tight plotting, this meandering escapist novel will be relished by those who enjoy swashbuckling tales with nonstop action. For popular collections.?Kathy Piehl, Mankato State Univ., Minn.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22774'),
(8227, '27 Biggles - Charter Pilot', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15460'),
(8228, '27 Monsoon', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  South Africa''s master storyteller Wilbur Smith has been writing his exotic historical sagas for so long that he''s in danger of being taken for granted and typecast as an author of adventure stories for and about overgrown boys. But there''s a lot more to Smith''s books than mere blood, thunder, swash, and buckle. He might not be as thoughtful or as philosophical as Patrick O''Brian, but his stories have a wider geographical and chronological range and lots more action.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Monsoon\n  </em>\n  is the latest chronicle in Smith''s Courteney series. In it, Hal Courteney is sent by the East India Trading Company to attack Arab pirates who are harassing trade off the East African coast. He takes three of his four sons, but one of them absconds to Bombay and another is taken prisoner by the Arabs. Although the mission is an eventual success, Hal himself is seriously injured and returns to England. His son Tom becomes the real hero of the story, gallantly rescuing his captured brother from the infidel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like his heroes, Smith''s prose pulls no punches: "Aboli swung the axe in a wide, flashing arc. It took the man full in the side of his neck, severing it cleanly. His head toppled forward and rolled down his chest, while his trunk stood erect before it slumped to the deck. The air escaped from his lungs in a whistling blast of frothy blood from the open windpipe." It may not be pretty, but it certainly grabs your attention.\n  <em>\n   --Dick Adler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tenth in the swashbuckling saga of the bold and adventuresome Courtneys, this epic sequel to Birds of Prey finds Sir Hal Courtney and his sons up to their bloody sword arms in piracy, intrigue, treachery and civil war in late 17th and early 18th century East Africa and Arabia. Once again the veteran author creates a masterful tale of action and suspense set on the high seas, arid deserts and steaming jungles. Wealthy English landowner Sir Hal earned his fortune as a sea captain with the East India Company. To protect his overseas investments, he becomes a privateer to combat Arab pirates attacking company ships from bases in Zanzibar and Madagascar. Accompanied by three of his four sons, Sir Hal embarks on a desperate voyage that will bring either glory and treasure or ruin. Sir Hal is a skilled leader and a good father, but his sons are a mixed lot, bitter rivals in love and war. William, the eldest son, left in charge of the English estate, is a greedy blackguard and a brutal poltroon. Tom is a fearless leader while his twin brother, Guy, is a bitter and vengeful schemer. Young Dorian, captured by the Arabs and raised as a Muslim, is resourceful and cunning. Sir Hals voyage brings the Courtney family both wealth and catastrophe. One son is murdered, another becomes a fugitive, a third an abusive betrayer and the fourth is abandoned and forlorn. Clever plot twists and lavish historical detail attend the siblings adventures as they battle pirates, slavers, assassins, their own government and each other. A smooth blend of adventure and romance, the novel is an atmospheric trip through the fierce mysteries of the Dark Continent and the Arabian seas.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22787'),
(8229, '28 Biggles In Borneo', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15490'),
(8230, '29 Biggles Fails to Return', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15472'),
(8231, '29 Blue Horizon', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Smith''s latest Courtney family adventure (after Monsoon), set in colonial South Africa in the early 18th century, follows Jim Courtney, scion of the English shipping and adventuring family seeking their fortune in the Cape of Good Hope colony, administered by the Dutch. A storm at sea blows a ship full of female Dutch convicts into port, and Jim saves the life of the comeliest prisoner, Louisa, before the vessel sinks. Louisa was unjustly imprisoned when she went to the authorities about her lascivious and violent employer. Jim''s rescue infuriates the greedy Dutch overlords, and the Courtneys, with Louisa in tow, head north in search of more hospitable territory. The balance of the long tale is elephant hunts, exploration of Indian sea islands, battles among native tribes and conflicts between principled colonialists-Jim and his father and brother-and their baser counterparts, including Jim''s treacherous uncle and most of the Dutch population. The Courtneys are adored by various native peoples, and a Bushman tracker named Bakkat becomes their acolyte and guide, while his enemy, Xhia, takes orders from the Dutch. The eventual confrontation of the two Bushmen is gripping, if readers can get past the generally condescending way in which Smith writes about black Africans. Subtlety takes a back seat in this broad tale, and readers may be exhausted before they get to the end, but the writer''s fans will enjoy the ride.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The eleventh volume in Smith''s saga of the Courtney clan is every bit as riveting as its predecessors. In\n  <em>\n   Monsoon\n  </em>\n  (1999), brothers Tom and Dorian Courtney established themselves as both swashbuckling seamen and master tradesmen on the shores of South Africa. This time around, their sons, Jim and Mansur Courtney, are equally determined to carve out their own triumphs across the African continent. When Jim falls in love unexpectedly with a beautiful prisoner he spies on a convict ship, he vows to free her from her shackles and a life of certain misery. Escaping with the emotionally shattered and physically damaged Louisa, Jim flees cross country with both his beloved and his faithful manservant, Zama, in tow. Worried about their only son, Tom and Sarah Courtney pursue the young couple, eventually bestowing their family blessing upon them. Blazing a trail across Africa, Jim and Louisa traverse thousands of miles of unexplored wilderness, encountering risk, adventure, and passion along every step of their perilous journey into the unknown. Reuniting with Mansur, Jim and the rest of his expedition face mortal danger from an unexpected source. Brimming with bravado, greed, and romance, this rip-roaring historical romp across eighteenth-century Africa will mesmerize faithful fans and win new converts to Smith''s trademark brand of lushly exotic fiction.\n  <em>\n   Margaret Flanagan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22775'),
(8232, '2nd Chance', 'James Patterson &amp; Andrew Gross', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  2nd Chance\n </em>\n reconvenes the Women''s Murder Club, four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner) who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles to solve a baffling series of murders in __. This time, the murders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all the signs of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of San Francisco''s homicide squad. But there''s an odd detail she finds even more disturbing: both victims were related to city cops. A symbol glimpsed at both murder scenes leads to a racist hate group, but the taunting killer strikes again and again, leaving deliberate clues and eluding the police ever more cleverly. In the meantime, each of the women has a personal stake at risk--and the killer knows who they are.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  2nd Chance\n </em>\n speeds along at a Formula One pace through many tight curves, but unlike recent entries in the\n <em>\n  esprit de corps\n </em>\n among the four women, who are even better developed here than in the first book. What makes them both convincing and interesting as a criminal-justice juggernaut is their willingness to stick their necks out, even if they suffer for it. If you haven''t picked up a James Patterson novel in a while, this is a great time to start anew.\n <em>\n  --Barrie Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s been a long time since we''ve seen a bestselling author of Patterson''s clout credit an assistant author on the cover, and good for Patterson for that. The credit is deserved. This is Patterson''s richest, most engaging novel since When the Wind Blows and, as the second in his Women''s Murder Club series (after 1st to Die), yet more evidence that this prolific writer can roam beyond Alex Cross with style and success. Like all Pattersons, the narration mixes first and third person the first here is voiced, as before, by San Francisco homicide detective Lindsay Boxer, while the third-person sections cover the doings of the other three members of Boxer''s informal club, a reporter, a pathologist and a prosecutor, as well as the villain''s shenanigans. The basic story line is vintage Patterson, i.e., a serial killer (here, one known as Chimera) goes on a calculated rampage until stopped by the good guys or in this case, gals. As the victims a young girl shot dead, an elderly black woman hanged, two cops pile up, it becomes clear to Boxer and others that they''re up against a racist who hates black cops; is the killer a cop himself? The story ripples with twists and some remarkably strong scenes, particularly Boxer''s in-prison interview with a crazed con. But what makes this Patterson stand out above all is the textured storytelling arising from its focus on Boxer''s personal issues. In the first novel, Patterson personalized Boxer by dealing with her rare blood disease; here, it''s the emotionally powerful introduction of Boxer''s long-lost father into her life that galvanizes the plot, particularly as Patterson ties the man into Chimera''s rampage. Prime Patterson; first-rate entertainment. (On sale Mar. 4)Forecast: Patterson''s name, major ad/promo and a 10-city author tour add up to #1; simultaneous Time Warner Audio and large-print edition.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4806'),
(8233, '2nd Chance', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 2nd Chance reconvenes the Women''s Murder Club, four friends (adetective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner)who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles tosolve a baffling series of murders in 1st to Die. This time, themurders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all thesigns of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of SanFrancisco''s homicide squad. But there''s an odd detail she finds even moredisturbing: both victims were related to city cops. A symbol glimpsed at bothmurder scenes leads to a racist hate group, but the taunting killer strikesagain and again, leaving deliberate clues and eluding the police ever morecleverly. In the meantime, each of the women has a personal stake at risk--andthe killer knows who they are. 2nd Chance speeds along at a Formula One pace through many tight curves,but unlike recent entries in theAlex Cross series, itdoesn''t sacrifice good characters to a twisted plot. Lindsay''s the star, butthere''s a fine esprit de corps among the four women, who are even betterdeveloped here than in the first book. What makes them both convincing andinteresting as a criminal-justice juggernaut is their willingness to stick theirnecks out, even if they suffer for it. If you haven''t picked up a JamesPatterson novel in a while, this is a great time to start anew. --BarrieTrinkle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14053'),
(8234, '2nd Chance', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  2nd Chance reconvenes the Women''s Murder Club, four friends (adetective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner)who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles tosolve a baffling series of murders in 1st to Die. This time, themurders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all thesigns of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of SanFrancisco''s homicide squad. But there''s an odd detail she finds even moredisturbing: both victims were related to city cops. A symbol glimpsed at bothmurder scenes leads to a racist hate group, but the taunting killer strikesagain and again, leaving deliberate clues and eluding the police ever morecleverly. In the meantime, each of the women has a personal stake at risk--andthe killer knows who they are. 2nd Chance speeds along at a Formula One pace through many tight curves,but unlike recent entries in theAlex Cross series, itdoesn''t sacrifice good characters to a twisted plot. Lindsay''s the star, butthere''s a fine esprit de corps among the four women, who are even betterdeveloped here than in the first book. What makes them both convincing andinteresting as a criminal-justice juggernaut is their willingness to stick theirnecks out, even if they suffer for it. If you haven''t picked up a JamesPatterson novel in a while, this is a great time to start anew. --BarrieTrinkle\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19843'),
(8235, '30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account', 'Peter Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œThis is a fabulously idiosyncratic small masterpiece ... itâ€™s so good it takes your breath away.â€â€”Times (UK)After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character. Seeking the help of his old friends, Carey is soon drawn into their strange, anarchic worlds, each one orbiting the place he has come back to see. The result is a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as the southerly bluster that sometimes batters Sydneyâ€™s shores. Famous sights such as Bondi Beach, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Blue Mountains all take on a strange new intensity when exposed to the penetrating gaze of the author and his friends.30 Days in Sydney offers the reader an enchanting glimpse behind the facades and the Venetian blinds of the city.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2212'),
(8236, '30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account', 'Peter Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œThis is a fabulously idiosyncratic small masterpiece ... itâ€™s so good it takes your breath away.â€â€”Times (UK)After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character. Seeking the help of his old friends, Carey is soon drawn into their strange, anarchic worlds, each one orbiting the place he has come back to see. The result is a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as the southerly bluster that sometimes batters Sydneyâ€™s shores. Famous sights such as Bondi Beach, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Blue Mountains all take on a strange new intensity when exposed to the penetrating gaze of the author and his friends.30 Days in Sydney offers the reader an enchanting glimpse behind the facades and the Venetian blinds of the city.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8758'),
(8237, '30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account', 'Peter Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œThis is a fabulously idiosyncratic small masterpiece ... itâ€™s so good it takes your breath away.â€â€”Times (UK)After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character. Seeking the help of his old friends, Carey is soon drawn into their strange, anarchic worlds, each one orbiting the place he has come back to see. The result is a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as the southerly bluster that sometimes batters Sydneyâ€™s shores. Famous sights such as Bondi Beach, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Blue Mountains all take on a strange new intensity when exposed to the penetrating gaze of the author and his friends.30 Days in Sydney offers the reader an enchanting glimpse behind the facades and the Venetian blinds of the city.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22601');
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(8238, '30 The Triumph of the Sun', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Set in colonial Egypt at the end of Victoria''s reign, this sweeping romantic epic reprises Smith regularsâ€”scions of the Courteneys and Ballantynes. (The two fictional British families have provided character fodder for least half of Smith''s 30 novels.) Bloodthirsty legions of Arab dervish troops under the command of the Mahdi, or ruling successor to the Prophet Muhammad, have surrounded (but not taken) Khartoum, trapping comely 17-year-old Rebecca Benbrook; her consul general father, David; and her younger twin sisters, Saffron and Amber. The appearance of a cargo boat owned by the dashing, entrepreneurial Ryder Courteney, as well as the subsequent appearance of Capt. Penrod Ballantyne of Her Majesty''s 10th Hussars, give hope. NaÃ¯ve Rebecca falls in love with Ballantyne, who deflowers her before racing off to warn the rescue force commander that the commander is outnumbered 25 to one. The dervish, led by the fearsome Emir Osman Atalan, overrun Khartoum, and Rebecca''s father is brutally butchered; the saga continues with Penrod heroically leading troops against Osman. Steamy romance alternates with gore, and it''s all done by-the-numbers in a good wayâ€”like a junky, absorbing miniseries. Fans will not be disappointed.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As popular as he is prolific, and as masterful a storyteller now as he has ever been, Smith once again visits Africa, the continent where he was born, the source of his inspiration, and the setting for his supremely adventuresome novels that make authentic and riveting use of history. He took readers to ancient Egypt in the marvelously wrought\n  <em>\n   River God\n  </em>\n  (1994), and now he returns there, this time in the late nineteenth century, at the apex of the British Empire. Smith bases this tightly woven narrative on an actual incident in British colonial history: the holy war conducted by a Sudanese man proclaiming himself the Mahdi, or savior, and his forces'' siege of the British garrison at Khartoum, at the convergence of the White and Blue Nile in the Egyptian-held Sudan. Readers who appreciate World War II-era spy thrillers will enjoy this tale of espionage, disguise, and stabbings in the dark, as Smith deliciously elaborates on all the military and religious issues and events surrounding the siege. He marshals telling detail into a story that is--like the Nile itself--swift and powerful.\n  <em>\n   Brad Hooper\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22758'),
(8239, 'The 30-Minute Vegan&#39;s Taste of the East: 150 Asian-Inspired Recipes--From Soba Noodles to Summer Rolls', 'Mark Reinfeld &amp; Jennifer Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n , 6/25/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe vegan''s answer to Rachael Ray and Mr. Food, this is recommended for anyone wishing to re-create their favorite Asian restaurant dishes without the meat.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Blogcritics, 6/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor vegetarians who are ready to take the step to vegan and omnivores that would like to add animal-free dishes to their diet,\n <em>\n  The 30 Minute Veganâ€™s Taste of the East\n </em>\n offers an array of dishes that will make their experimentation easy. Vegans will find it is an excellent addition to their cookbook libraries.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  VegCooking Chef Spotlight\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMark Reinfeld is poised at the leading edge of contemporary vegan cooking.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Hungry Vegan blog\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , 7/9/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œLike accelerated culinary nirvanaâ€¦Whether you want to impress your friends and family with your cooking prowess or you just enjoy eating great Asian cuisine, get yourself a copy ofÂ _The 30 Minute Vegan''s Taste of the East_. It will inspire and delight you and awaken the creative culinary genius within you.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Portland\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Oregonian_, 7/13/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere''s aâ€¦â€™keep it simpleâ€™ approach to\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n . Murray and Reinfeld must have been thinking weeknight suppers with the 150 recipes they''ve assembled, which includes hearty noodle and rice bowls, Indian stews, Chinese stir fries and Southeast Asian fusionâ€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Hippo\n  </em>\n  , 7/15/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAside from its veganness,\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n also offers a nice little primer on the differences between the cuisines of Japan, China, Thailand and Indiaâ€¦Vegan or not, if youâ€™re looking to expand into Asian cooking_, Taste of the Ea_st can offer a good guide.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Basil &amp; Spice, 7/18/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn excellent cookbook for cooking Asian food in less than 30 minutesâ€¦The acquisition would be perfect for dieters everywhere.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Leslie Loves Veggies Blog, 7/25/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œComplete with at-a-glance cooking charts, key Asian pantry ingredients, all-new preparation techniques, and unique cooking tips,\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n is a must-have addition to your cookbook shelf.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Chicago Vegan Restaurant Examiner, 8/19/10\n <br />\n â€œThe recipes pop with bright flavors, like their Panang Curry and Tofu Tikka Masala and luscious textures, like the silky Mango Custard Pudding and Coconut Spinach Rice. Not only do the recipes emphasize fresh, healthy preparations, but they are a breeze to put together, most clocking in at thirty minutes or less with prep and cooking time included unless otherwise indicatedâ€¦This cookbook is for anyone from the novice to the experienced home cook: anyone who loves the bold, satisfying aromas and flavors at the Indian buffet or wonders how much she could improve on the sesame tofu at the local Chinese restaurant should run out and get this gem of a cookbook. I''ve only had it for a few weeks and it has already found its way into my top ten cookbook rotation. Very impressive!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   January Magazine\n  </em>\n  , 8/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEven non-vegans will enjoy these simple and well-described recipes for Madras Curry, Mu Shu Vegetables, Pad Thai, Wontons and more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n CurledUpWithAGoodBook.com_, _9/6/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA new recipe book that will inspire you to cookâ€¦Will be useful for those wanting to try new flavors or improve their health through diet.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Midwest\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Book Review, _September 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn extraordinary compilation of vegan dishesâ€¦The recipes'' instructions are described at length in user-friendly detail. Simple cooking charts, suggested preparation techniques, cooking tips and more round out this excellent, easy-to-use addition to any vegan cookbook collection.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Veganacious.com, 10/07/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhen time is limited and you want to try something new and Asian, reach for Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murrayâ€™s wonderful cookbook. Whether you have experience with Asian cuisine or want to learn more about foods from the East, this is one you are sure to enjoy again and again.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n White Pumpkin Seeds Blog, 10/07/10\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe kick of hot peppers, blends of exotic spices, and the crispness of fresh vegetables all await you inside the covers of this must-try cookbook.â€\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noted vegans and vegetarians love Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murrayâ€™s food. Food Network host and author Ellie Krieger lauds their recipes as â€œdelicious, exciting, healthful, [and] accessible for everyone,â€ while Deborah Madison notes their â€œappealing recipes, good information about food and cooking in general [and] surprisingly realistic approaches to thirty-minute cooking.â€ Now, Reinfeld and Murray turn their skillets to the East, featuring over 150 vegan versions of favorite cuisine from India, Thailand, China, and Japan.\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n also offers inspired animal-free recipes from Indonesia, Nepal, Vietnam, Korea, Tibet, Iran, and Afghanistan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2984'),
(8240, 'The 30-Minute Vegan&#39;s Taste of the East: 150 Asian-Inspired Recipes--From Soba Noodles to Summer Rolls', 'Mark Reinfeld &amp; Jennifer Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n , 6/25/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe vegan''s answer to Rachael Ray and Mr. Food, this is recommended for anyone wishing to re-create their favorite Asian restaurant dishes without the meat.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Blogcritics, 6/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor vegetarians who are ready to take the step to vegan and omnivores that would like to add animal-free dishes to their diet,\n <em>\n  The 30 Minute Veganâ€™s Taste of the East\n </em>\n offers an array of dishes that will make their experimentation easy. Vegans will find it is an excellent addition to their cookbook libraries.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  VegCooking Chef Spotlight\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMark Reinfeld is poised at the leading edge of contemporary vegan cooking.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Hungry Vegan blog\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , 7/9/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œLike accelerated culinary nirvanaâ€¦Whether you want to impress your friends and family with your cooking prowess or you just enjoy eating great Asian cuisine, get yourself a copy ofÂ _The 30 Minute Vegan''s Taste of the East_. It will inspire and delight you and awaken the creative culinary genius within you.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Portland\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Oregonian_, 7/13/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere''s aâ€¦â€™keep it simpleâ€™ approach to\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n . Murray and Reinfeld must have been thinking weeknight suppers with the 150 recipes they''ve assembled, which includes hearty noodle and rice bowls, Indian stews, Chinese stir fries and Southeast Asian fusionâ€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Hippo\n  </em>\n  , 7/15/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAside from its veganness,\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n also offers a nice little primer on the differences between the cuisines of Japan, China, Thailand and Indiaâ€¦Vegan or not, if youâ€™re looking to expand into Asian cooking_, Taste of the Ea_st can offer a good guide.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Basil &amp; Spice, 7/18/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn excellent cookbook for cooking Asian food in less than 30 minutesâ€¦The acquisition would be perfect for dieters everywhere.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Leslie Loves Veggies Blog, 7/25/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œComplete with at-a-glance cooking charts, key Asian pantry ingredients, all-new preparation techniques, and unique cooking tips,\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n is a must-have addition to your cookbook shelf.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Chicago Vegan Restaurant Examiner, 8/19/10\n <br />\n â€œThe recipes pop with bright flavors, like their Panang Curry and Tofu Tikka Masala and luscious textures, like the silky Mango Custard Pudding and Coconut Spinach Rice. Not only do the recipes emphasize fresh, healthy preparations, but they are a breeze to put together, most clocking in at thirty minutes or less with prep and cooking time included unless otherwise indicatedâ€¦This cookbook is for anyone from the novice to the experienced home cook: anyone who loves the bold, satisfying aromas and flavors at the Indian buffet or wonders how much she could improve on the sesame tofu at the local Chinese restaurant should run out and get this gem of a cookbook. I''ve only had it for a few weeks and it has already found its way into my top ten cookbook rotation. Very impressive!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   January Magazine\n  </em>\n  , 8/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEven non-vegans will enjoy these simple and well-described recipes for Madras Curry, Mu Shu Vegetables, Pad Thai, Wontons and more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n CurledUpWithAGoodBook.com_, _9/6/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA new recipe book that will inspire you to cookâ€¦Will be useful for those wanting to try new flavors or improve their health through diet.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Midwest\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Book Review, _September 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn extraordinary compilation of vegan dishesâ€¦The recipes'' instructions are described at length in user-friendly detail. Simple cooking charts, suggested preparation techniques, cooking tips and more round out this excellent, easy-to-use addition to any vegan cookbook collection.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Veganacious.com, 10/07/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhen time is limited and you want to try something new and Asian, reach for Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murrayâ€™s wonderful cookbook. Whether you have experience with Asian cuisine or want to learn more about foods from the East, this is one you are sure to enjoy again and again.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n White Pumpkin Seeds Blog, 10/07/10\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe kick of hot peppers, blends of exotic spices, and the crispness of fresh vegetables all await you inside the covers of this must-try cookbook.â€\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noted vegans and vegetarians love Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murrayâ€™s food. Food Network host and author Ellie Krieger lauds their recipes as â€œdelicious, exciting, healthful, [and] accessible for everyone,â€ while Deborah Madison notes their â€œappealing recipes, good information about food and cooking in general [and] surprisingly realistic approaches to thirty-minute cooking.â€ Now, Reinfeld and Murray turn their skillets to the East, featuring over 150 vegan versions of favorite cuisine from India, Thailand, China, and Japan.\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n also offers inspired animal-free recipes from Indonesia, Nepal, Vietnam, Korea, Tibet, Iran, and Afghanistan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12103'),
(8241, 'The 30-Minute Vegan&#39;s Taste of the East: 150 Asian-Inspired Recipes--from Soba Noodles to Summer Rolls', 'Mark Reinfeld; Jennifer Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n , 6/25/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe vegan''s answer to Rachael Ray and Mr. Food, this is recommended for anyone wishing to re-create their favorite Asian restaurant dishes without the meat.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Blogcritics, 6/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor vegetarians who are ready to take the step to vegan and omnivores that would like to add animal-free dishes to their diet,\n <em>\n  The 30 Minute Veganâ€™s Taste of the East\n </em>\n offers an array of dishes that will make their experimentation easy. Vegans will find it is an excellent addition to their cookbook libraries.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  VegCooking Chef Spotlight\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMark Reinfeld is poised at the leading edge of contemporary vegan cooking.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Hungry Vegan blog\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , 7/9/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œLike accelerated culinary nirvanaâ€¦Whether you want to impress your friends and family with your cooking prowess or you just enjoy eating great Asian cuisine, get yourself a copy ofÂ _The 30 Minute Vegan''s Taste of the East_. It will inspire and delight you and awaken the creative culinary genius within you.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Portland\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Oregonian_, 7/13/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere''s aâ€¦â€™keep it simpleâ€™ approach to\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n . Murray and Reinfeld must have been thinking weeknight suppers with the 150 recipes they''ve assembled, which includes hearty noodle and rice bowls, Indian stews, Chinese stir fries and Southeast Asian fusionâ€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Hippo\n  </em>\n  , 7/15/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAside from its veganness,\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n also offers a nice little primer on the differences between the cuisines of Japan, China, Thailand and Indiaâ€¦Vegan or not, if youâ€™re looking to expand into Asian cooking_, Taste of the Ea_st can offer a good guide.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Basil &amp; Spice, 7/18/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn excellent cookbook for cooking Asian food in less than 30 minutesâ€¦The acquisition would be perfect for dieters everywhere.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Leslie Loves Veggies Blog, 7/25/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œComplete with at-a-glance cooking charts, key Asian pantry ingredients, all-new preparation techniques, and unique cooking tips,\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n is a must-have addition to your cookbook shelf.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Chicago Vegan Restaurant Examiner, 8/19/10\n <br />\n â€œThe recipes pop with bright flavors, like their Panang Curry and Tofu Tikka Masala and luscious textures, like the silky Mango Custard Pudding and Coconut Spinach Rice. Not only do the recipes emphasize fresh, healthy preparations, but they are a breeze to put together, most clocking in at thirty minutes or less with prep and cooking time included unless otherwise indicatedâ€¦This cookbook is for anyone from the novice to the experienced home cook: anyone who loves the bold, satisfying aromas and flavors at the Indian buffet or wonders how much she could improve on the sesame tofu at the local Chinese restaurant should run out and get this gem of a cookbook. I''ve only had it for a few weeks and it has already found its way into my top ten cookbook rotation. Very impressive!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   January Magazine\n  </em>\n  , 8/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEven non-vegans will enjoy these simple and well-described recipes for Madras Curry, Mu Shu Vegetables, Pad Thai, Wontons and more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n CurledUpWithAGoodBook.com_, _9/6/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA new recipe book that will inspire you to cookâ€¦Will be useful for those wanting to try new flavors or improve their health through diet.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Midwest\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Book Review, _September 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn extraordinary compilation of vegan dishesâ€¦The recipes'' instructions are described at length in user-friendly detail. Simple cooking charts, suggested preparation techniques, cooking tips and more round out this excellent, easy-to-use addition to any vegan cookbook collection.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Veganacious.com, 10/07/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhen time is limited and you want to try something new and Asian, reach for Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murrayâ€™s wonderful cookbook. Whether you have experience with Asian cuisine or want to learn more about foods from the East, this is one you are sure to enjoy again and again.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n White Pumpkin Seeds Blog, 10/07/10\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe kick of hot peppers, blends of exotic spices, and the crispness of fresh vegetables all await you inside the covers of this must-try cookbook.â€\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noted vegans and vegetarians love Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murrayâ€™s food. Food Network host and author Ellie Krieger lauds their recipes as â€œdelicious, exciting, healthful, [and] accessible for everyone,â€ while Deborah Madison notes their â€œappealing recipes, good information about food and cooking in general [and] surprisingly realistic approaches to thirty-minute cooking.â€ Now, Reinfeld and Murray turn their skillets to the East, featuring over 150 vegan versions of favorite cuisine from India, Thailand, China, and Japan.\n <em>\n  Taste of the East\n </em>\n also offers inspired animal-free recipes from Indonesia, Nepal, Vietnam, Korea, Tibet, Iran, and Afghanistan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21826'),
(8242, '300 Creative Dates', 'Michael Webb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21625'),
(8243, '3001 Odiseea finala', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26055'),
(8244, '3001: The Final Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be stirring once again. . . . A Main Selection of the Science Fiction Book ClubÂ®Selected by the Literary GuildÂ® and Doubleday Book ClubÂ®\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7452'),
(8245, '3001: The Final Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be stirring once again. . . . A Main Selection of the Science Fiction Book ClubÂ®Selected by the Literary GuildÂ® and Doubleday Book ClubÂ®\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16448'),
(8246, '3001: The Final Odyssey', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be stirring once again . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be stirring once again. . . . A Main Selection of the Science Fiction Book ClubÂ®Selected by the Literary GuildÂ® and Doubleday Book ClubÂ®\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26452'),
(8247, '31 Biggles Delivers The Goods', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15471'),
(8248, '31 The Quest', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of bestseller Smith''s ancient Egyptian series will welcome the fourth book in the saga, which picks up where\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  (2001) left off. The powerful magus Taita and his loyal ally, Col. Meren Cambyses, have returned to Egypt after a journey of many years only to find the country beset by a series of plagues that include giant flesh-eating toads and river water turned to blood. Pharaoh Nefer Seti asks the pair to findâ€”and eliminateâ€”the source of his country''s torment, a mission that sends Taita and Meren on a perilous quest in which they must contend with fierce creatures both natural and supernatural. Once again Smith deftly blends history, fantasy and mythology, but newcomers should be prepared for grisly deaths and mutilations.\n  <em>\n   225,000 printing.\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest book by best-selling adventure novelist Smith is the fourth volume in his series of historical novels set in pharaonic Egypt, tracing the adventures of eunuch and mystic Taita. Its immediate predecessor was\n  <em>\n   Warlock\n  </em>\n  (2001). The quest of the title is just as much a spiritual one as an actual one as Taita, out of a deep devotion to his country and his pharaoh, seeks the identity and the quashing of the "menacing force" that is threatening the very existence of the kingdom; the "land of Egypt quailed, and the population gave in to despair." The Nile has refused to rise and bring fresh, fertile soil to the river valley; the shrunken river runs with blood; and huge, poisonous toads arise from the bloody water and overrun the land. Taita must go deep upriver, far into Africa''s interior, to discover the reason. Ancient mysticism and mythology swirl through the narrative as swiftly as the Nile waters when in full flood. Smith has always been long on action, and his new novel won''t disappoint his fans in that regard; he''s always been graphic in depicting violence and death, and his new novel certainly fits the mold.\n  <em>\n   Brad Hooper\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22795'),
(8249, '32 Assegai', 'Wilbur Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Courtney - 13\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Smith continues the saga of the Courtney family of Africa begun in 1964 with\n  <em>\n   When the Lion Feeds\n  </em>\n  . In this installment, Leon Courtney, ladies'' man and former lieutenant in the King''s African Rifles, becomes a professional big game hunter and safari guide in the years leading up to WWI. Among his clients are Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Teddy Roosevelt, and a spoiled German princess who is fond of the whip. The story really doesn''t kick into gear until halfway through, on the eve of war, when Courtney''s uncle, Brig. Gen. Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, asks him to spy on his newest client, Count Otto von Meerbach, a German industrialist with a secret agenda. Courtney also begins an affair with Otto''s mistress, Eva, who has a secret life of her own. Will Courtney defeat Otto''s dastardly scheme and rescue Eva? Though the outcome is never in doubt, Smith manages to serve up adventure, history and melodrama in one thrilling package that will be eagerly devoured by series fans.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The highly popular historical novelist returns with another guaranteed best-seller. In the early 1900s, Second Lieutenant Leon Courtney decides to hang up his military career after a near-fatal mission in British East Africa (and a subsequent court-martial proceeding instigated by a vindictive superior office). He takes up big-game hunting, but thatâ€™s only his cover: in reality, he is working as a spy, gathering intelligence for his uncle Penrod Ballantyne. Leonâ€™s target is Count Otto Von Meerbach, a German weapons manufacturer (the novel is set only a handful of years before World War I), but Leon doesnâ€™t count on falling in love with the targetâ€™s seductive mistress, Eva. Can Leon foil Von Meerbachâ€™s plot to foment an African rebellion and, at the same time, protect the beautiful Eva? There is a reason Smith is a hugely popular writer of historical novels: his remarkable talent for re-creating historical periods and crafting characters we care about is virtually unmatched in the genre. Smithâ€™s novels of the Courtney and Ballantyne families (in 2005, he brought the two sagas together in The Triumph of the Sun) have been entertaining readers for nearly five decades, and if this novel is any indication, he is showing no signs of slowing down. --David Pitt\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22773'),
(8250, '32 Biggles In The Orient', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15496'),
(8251, '34 Biggles Hunts Big Game', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15488'),
(8252, 'The 34th Rule', 'Armin Shimerman &amp; David R. George', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For once, business is going well for Quark, not that anyone on "Deep Space Nine(TM)" truly appreciates his genius for finding profit in the most unlikely of circumstances. Quark is even looking forward to making the deal of a lifetime -- when he suddenly finds himself stuck right in the middle of a major dispute between Bajor and the Ferengi Alliance. It seems that the Grand Nagus is refusing to sell one of the lost Orbs of the Prophets to the Bajoran government, which has responded by banning all Ferengi activity in Bajoran space.  With diplomatic relations between the two cultures rapidly breaking down, Quark loses his bar first, then his freedom. But even penniless, he still has his cunning and his lobes, and those alone may be all he needs to come out on top -- and prevent an interstellar war!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7431'),
(8253, 'The 34th Rule', 'Armin Shimerman; David R. George', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For once, business is going well for Quark, not that anyone on "Deep Space Nine(TM)" truly appreciates his genius for finding profit in the most unlikely of circumstances. Quark is even looking forward to making the deal of a lifetime -- when he suddenly finds himself stuck right in the middle of a major dispute between Bajor and the Ferengi Alliance. It seems that the Grand Nagus is refusing to sell one of the lost Orbs of the Prophets to the Bajoran government, which has responded by banning all Ferengi activity in Bajoran space. With diplomatic relations between the two cultures rapidly breaking down, Quark loses his bar first, then his freedom. But even penniless, he still has his cunning and his lobes, and those alone may be all he needs to come out on top -- and prevent an interstellar war!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16405'),
(8254, 'The 34th Rule', 'Armin Shimerman; David R. George', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For once, business is going well for Quark, not that anyone on "Deep Space Nine(TM)" truly appreciates his genius for finding profit in the most unlikely of circumstances. Quark is even looking forward to making the deal of a lifetime -- when he suddenly finds himself stuck right in the middle of a major dispute between Bajor and the Ferengi Alliance. It seems that the Grand Nagus is refusing to sell one of the lost Orbs of the Prophets to the Bajoran government, which has responded by banning all Ferengi activity in Bajoran space. With diplomatic relations between the two cultures rapidly breaking down, Quark loses his bar first, then his freedom. But even penniless, he still has his cunning and his lobes, and those alone may be all he needs to come out on top -- and prevent an interstellar war!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26468'),
(8255, '36 Biggles Breaks The Silence', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15469'),
(8256, 'The 37th Hour', 'Jodi Compton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a suspense novel of astounding power and depth, Jodi Compton unleashes a haunting tale of secrets and betrayal...and of one woman''s search for her missing husband that spirals into a dark journey strewn with bitter truths and damged lives.  Here debut novelist Compton introduces an extraordinary character: Detective Sarah Pribek, a woman of strength, complexity, and instinct, a woman caught in an unimaginable nightmare...**The 37th Hour**On a chilly Minnesota morning, Sarah comes home to the house she shares with her husband and fellow cop, Michael Shiloh.  Shiloh was supposed to be in Virginia, starting his training with the FBI.  A seasoned missing-persons investigator, Sarah is used to anxious calls from wives and parents.  She''s used to the innocent explanations that resolve so many of her cases.  But from the moment she learns that he never arrived at Quantico, she feels a terrible foreboding.  Now, beneath the bed in which they make love, Sarah finds Shiloh''s neatly packed bag.  And in that instant the cop in her knows: Her husband has disappeared.Suddenly Sarah finds herself at the beginning of the kind of investigation she has made so often.  The kind that she and her ex-partner, Genevieve, solved routinely -- until a brutal crime stole Genevieve''s daughter and ended her career.  The kind that pries open family secrets and hidden lives.  For Sarah this investigation will mean going back to the beginning, to Shiloh''s religion-steeped childhood in Utah, the rift that separated him from his family -- and the one horrifying case that struck them both too close to home.  As Sarah turns over more and more unknown ground in her husband''s past, she sees her lover and friend change into a stranger before her eyes.  And as she moves further down a trail of shocking surprises and bitter revelations, Sarah is about to discover that her worst fear -- that Shiloh is dead -- may be less painful than what she will learn next...In a novel of runaway tension, Jodi Compton masterfully weaves together the quiet details of everyday life with the moments that can shatter them forever.  At once a beguiling mystery and a powerful rumination on family, friendship, and loss, **The 37th Hour** is a thriller that will catch you off guard at every turn -- instantly compelling and utterly impossible to put down.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4417'),
(8257, '38 Ways To Win An Argument', 'Schopenhaur', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23070'),
(8258, '3rd Degree', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Women''s Murder Club returns in a shockingly suspenseful thriller. Plunging into a burning town house, Detective Lindsay Boxer discovers three dead bodies...and a mysterious message at the scene. When more corpses turn up, Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner''s office, Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, and San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to help her find a murderer who vows to kill every three days. Even more terrifying, he has targeted one of the four friends. Which one will it be?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4807'),
(8259, '3rd Degree', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Women''s Murder Club returns in a shockingly suspenseful thriller. Plunging into a burning town house, Detective Lindsay Boxer discovers three dead bodies...and a mysterious message at the scene. When more corpses turn up, Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner''s office, Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, and San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to help her find a murderer who vows to kill every three days. Even more terrifying, he has targeted one of the four friends. Which one will it be?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13833'),
(8260, '3rd Degree', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Women''s Murder Club returns in a shockingly suspenseful thriller. Plunging into a burning town house, Detective Lindsay Boxer discovers three dead bodies...and a mysterious message at the scene. When more corpses turn up, Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner''s office, Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, and San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to help her find a murderer who vows to kill every three days. Even more terrifying, he has targeted one of the four friends. Which one will it be?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19842'),
(8261, 'The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality', 'Richard Panek', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n An exciting look at the next big thing in cosmologyâ€”the search for dark matter and dark energyâ€”and the making of an entirely new physics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10989'),
(8262, 'The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman', 'Timothy Ferriss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which 150 pages will you read? Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours? Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?   Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book.  The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, fixated on one life-changing question:   For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results?  Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women.  From the gym to the bedroom, itâ€™s all here, and it all works.    YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each): How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails. * How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends) * How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice * How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time * How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested * How to produce 15-minute female orgasms * How to triple testosterone and double sperm count* How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks * How to reverse â€œpermanentâ€ injuries * How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months * How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit          And that''s just the tip of the iceberg.  There are more than 50 topics covered, all with real-world experiments, many including more than 200 test subjects.  You don''t need better genetics or more discipline. You need immediate results that compel you to continue.  Thatâ€™s exactly what The 4-Hour Body delivers.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/592'),
(8263, 'The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman', 'Timothy Ferriss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which 150 pages will you read? Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours? Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?   Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book.  The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, fixated on one life-changing question:   For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results?  Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women.  From the gym to the bedroom, itâ€™s all here, and it all works.    YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each): How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails. * How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends) * How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice * How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time * How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested * How to produce 15-minute female orgasms * How to triple testosterone and double sperm count* How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks * How to reverse â€œpermanentâ€ injuries * How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months * How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit          And that''s just the tip of the iceberg.  There are more than 50 topics covered, all with real-world experiments, many including more than 200 test subjects.  You don''t need better genetics or more discipline. You need immediate results that compel you to continue.  Thatâ€™s exactly what The 4-Hour Body delivers.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9544'),
(8264, 'The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman', 'Timothy Ferriss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which 150 pages will you read? Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours? Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?   Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book.  The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, fixated on one life-changing question:   For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results?  Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women.  From the gym to the bedroom, itâ€™s all here, and it all works.    YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each): How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails. * How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends) * How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice * How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time * How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested * How to produce 15-minute female orgasms * How to triple testosterone and double sperm count* How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks * How to reverse â€œpermanentâ€ injuries * How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months * How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit          And that''s just the tip of the iceberg.  There are more than 50 topics covered, all with real-world experiments, many including more than 200 test subjects.  You don''t need better genetics or more discipline. You need immediate results that compel you to continue.  Thatâ€™s exactly what The 4-Hour Body delivers.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15145'),
(8265, 'The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman', 'Timothy Ferriss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24290'),
(8266, 'The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich', 'Timothy Ferriss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n More than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content. Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life planâ€“there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint. This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: â€¢How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per weekâ€¢How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you wantâ€¢How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobsâ€¢How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economistâ€¢How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent â€œmini-retirementsâ€The new expanded edition of Tim Ferrissâ€™ The 4-Hour Workweek includes:â€¢More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting pointâ€¢Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating e-mail, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than $8 a mealâ€¢How Lifestyle Design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic timesâ€¢The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/593'),
(8267, 'The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich', 'Timothy Ferriss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n More than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content. Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life planâ€“there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint. This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: â€¢How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per weekâ€¢How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you wantâ€¢How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobsâ€¢How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economistâ€¢How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent â€œmini-retirementsâ€The new expanded edition of Tim Ferrissâ€™ The 4-Hour Workweek includes:â€¢More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting pointâ€¢Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating e-mail, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than $8 a mealâ€¢How Lifestyle Design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic timesâ€¢The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9747');
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(8268, 'The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich', 'Timothy Ferriss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: More than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content. Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life planâ€“there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint. This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: â€¢How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per weekâ€¢How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you wantâ€¢How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobsâ€¢How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economistâ€¢How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent â€œmini-retirementsâ€The new expanded edition of Tim Ferrissâ€™ The 4-Hour Workweek includes:â€¢More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting pointâ€¢Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating e-mail, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than $8 a mealâ€¢How Lifestyle Design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic timesâ€¢The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15094'),
(8269, 'The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich', 'Timothy Ferriss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: More than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content. Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life planâ€“there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint. This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: â€¢How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per weekâ€¢How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you wantâ€¢How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobsâ€¢How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economistâ€¢How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent â€œmini-retirementsâ€The new expanded edition of Tim Ferrissâ€™ The 4-Hour Workweek includes:â€¢More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting pointâ€¢Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating e-mail, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than $8 a mealâ€¢How Lifestyle Design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic timesâ€¢The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24289'),
(8270, '4:50 From Paddington', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE ANTHONY AWARD-WINNING SLEUTH Elspeth McGillicuddy is not given to hallucinations. Until she witnesses a murder at Paddington Station. But did she? No victim, no suspect, no other witnesses. In fact no one believes it really happened at all. Except her friend Miss Jane Marple, and she''s returning to the scene of the crime to discover just exactly what Mrs. McGillicuddy saw.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/37'),
(8271, '4:50 from Paddington', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE ANTHONY AWARD-WINNING SLEUTH Elspeth McGillicuddy is not given to hallucinations. Until she witnesses a murder at Paddington Station. But did she? No victim, no suspect, no other witnesses. In fact no one believes it really happened at all. Except her friend Miss Jane Marple, and she''s returning to the scene of the crime to discover just exactly what Mrs. McGillicuddy saw.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17189'),
(8272, '4.50 From Paddington', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24956'),
(8273, '43 Biggles Air Detective', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15459'),
(8274, '44 Charles Street', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <p>\n    <b>\n     What makes a houseâ€¦a home?\n    </b>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Everything is falling to pieces forÂ \n    <b>\n     Francesca Thayer.Â \n    </b>\n    Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks and in need of total restoration. Then her relationship with lawyer Todd collapses and he moves out. As the owner of a struggling art gallery she canâ€™t possibly manage the mortgage alone, so she is forced to do the one thing she never imagined she would: she advertises for lodgers.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    First arrivesÂ \n    <b>\n     Eileen\n    </b>\n    Â â€“ a young, attractive schoolteacher who has just moved from LA.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Then comesÂ \n    <b>\n     Chris\n    </b>\n    , a newly-divorced father struggling with a difficult ex-wife and the challenges of parenting his seven-year-old son who visits every other weekend.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Last to arrive isÂ \n    <b>\n     Marya\n    </b>\n    Â â€“ a famous cookery author who is hoping to rebuild her life after the death of her husband.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    And so Francesca finds that her house has become a whole new world â€“ and as things begin to turn around, she realises that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life. Over their year together, the house at 44 Charles Street fills with laughter, hope and heartbreak.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    And Francesca discovers that she might be able to open her heart again after allâ€¦\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6520'),
(8275, '44 Charles Street', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <p>\n    <b>\n     What makes a houseâ€¦a home?\n    </b>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Everything is falling to pieces forÂ \n    <b>\n     Francesca Thayer.Â \n    </b>\n    Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks and in need of total restoration. Then her relationship with lawyer Todd collapses and he moves out. As the owner of a struggling art gallery she canâ€™t possibly manage the mortgage alone, so she is forced to do the one thing she never imagined she would: she advertises for lodgers.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    First arrivesÂ \n    <b>\n     Eileen\n    </b>\n    Â â€“ a young, attractive schoolteacher who has just moved from LA.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Then comesÂ \n    <b>\n     Chris\n    </b>\n    , a newly-divorced father struggling with a difficult ex-wife and the challenges of parenting his seven-year-old son who visits every other weekend.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Last to arrive isÂ \n    <b>\n     Marya\n    </b>\n    Â â€“ a famous cookery author who is hoping to rebuild her life after the death of her husband.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    And so Francesca finds that her house has become a whole new world â€“ and as things begin to turn around, she realises that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life. Over their year together, the house at 44 Charles Street fills with laughter, hope and heartbreak.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    And Francesca discovers that she might be able to open her heart again after allâ€¦\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12801'),
(8276, '44 Charles Street', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <p>\n    <b>\n     What makes a house...a home?\n    </b>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Everything is falling to pieces for\n    <b>\n     Francesca Thayer.\n    </b>\n    Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks and in need of total restoration. Then her relationship with lawyer Todd collapses and he moves out. As the owner of a struggling art gallery she canâ€™t possibly manage the mortgage alone, so she is forced to do the one thing she never imagined she would: she advertises for lodgers.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    First arrives\n    <b>\n     Eileen\n    </b>\n    â€“ a young, attractive schoolteacher who has just moved from LA.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Then comes\n    <b>\n     Chris\n    </b>\n    , a newly-divorced father struggling with a difficult ex-wife and the challenges of parenting his seven-year-old son who visits every other weekend.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Last to arrive is\n    <b>\n     Marya\n    </b>\n    â€“ a famous cookery author who is hoping to rebuild her life after the death of her husband.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    And so Francesca finds that her house has become a whole new world â€“ and as things begin to turn around, she realises that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life. Over their year together, the house at 44 Charles Street fills with laughter, hope and heartbreak.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    And Francesca discovers that she might be able to open her heart again after all...\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17612'),
(8277, '44 Scotland Street', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland''s most exclusive golf club. We have the pushy Stockbridge mother, and her prodigiously talented five-year-old son, who is making good progress with the saxophone and with his Italian. Then there is Domenica Macdonald who is that type of Edinburgh lady who sees herself as a citizen of a broader intellectual world. In McCall Smith''s hands such characters retain charm and novelty, simultaneously arousing both mirth and empathy. 44 Scotland Street is vintage McCall Smith, tackling issues of trust and honesty, snobbery and hypocrisy, love and loss, but all with great lightness of touch. Clever, elegant and funny, this is a novel that provides huge entertainment but which is underpinned by the moral dilemmas of everyday life and the characters'' struggles to resolve them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12389'),
(8278, '&#39;48', 'James Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n James Herbert transcends the horror medium with ''48, a blistering tale of post-World War II London overrun with fear and blood. Delivering not only terrifying imagery, but pulse-pounding action and historical adventure, it is destined to become a classic.It is a London Too Terrifying to Imagine. Already crippled by the relentless Nazi bombing, this once-beautiful city has been depopulated by a hideous blood plague unleashed in the final convulsive collapse of the German regime. Now, human vampires wander the rubble-strewn streets, desperately searching for the only thing that can cure them...But not all survivors have been afflicted, and Hoke -- a lone hero accompanied only by his trusty dog and bitter memories -- is relentlessly pursued for the clean blood that courses through his veins. Yet his flight soon takes on a different meaning as he saves two women and a former German soldier. Banding together, they flee into the city''s underground tunnels where an unexpected betrayal that delivers them right into the hands of their deadly adversaries prompts Hoke to take a stand against these monsters once and for all."With ''48, James Herbert delivers another triumphant thriller that blends two-fisted action with the supernatural". -- Douglas E. Winter\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4865'),
(8279, '&#39;48', 'James Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n James Herbert transcends the horror medium with ''48, a blistering tale of post-World War II London overrun with fear and blood. Delivering not only terrifying imagery, but pulse-pounding action and historical adventure, it is destined to become a classic.It is a London Too Terrifying to Imagine. Already crippled by the relentless Nazi bombing, this once-beautiful city has been depopulated by a hideous blood plague unleashed in the final convulsive collapse of the German regime. Now, human vampires wander the rubble-strewn streets, desperately searching for the only thing that can cure them...But not all survivors have been afflicted, and Hoke -- a lone hero accompanied only by his trusty dog and bitter memories -- is relentlessly pursued for the clean blood that courses through his veins. Yet his flight soon takes on a different meaning as he saves two women and a former German soldier. Banding together, they flee into the city''s underground tunnels where an unexpected betrayal that delivers them right into the hands of their deadly adversaries prompts Hoke to take a stand against these monsters once and for all."With ''48, James Herbert delivers another triumphant thriller that blends two-fisted action with the supernatural". -- Douglas E. Winter\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10266'),
(8280, '&#39;48', 'James Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19814'),
(8281, '48 Laws of Power', 'Greene, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14848'),
(8282, '48 Laws of Power', 'Greene, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28088'),
(8283, 'The 48 Laws of Power', 'Robert Greene &amp; Joost Elffers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE BESTSELLING BOOK FOR THOSE WHO WANT POWER, WATCH POWER, OR WANT TO ARM THEMSELVES AGAINST POWER . . .A moral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into forty-eight well-explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws require prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), some stealth ("Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions"), and some the total absence of mercy ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally") but like it or not, all have applications in real-life situations. Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, P. T. Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded -- or been victimized by -- power, these laws will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1603'),
(8284, 'The 48 laws of power', 'Robert Greene; Joost Elffers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE BESTSELLING BOOK FOR THOSE WHO WANT POWER, WATCH POWER, OR WANT TO ARM THEMSELVES AGAINST POWER . . .A moral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into forty-eight well-explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws require prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), some stealth ("Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions"), and some the total absence of mercy ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally") but like it or not, all have applications in real-life situations. Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, P. T. Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded -- or been victimized by -- power, these laws will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23256'),
(8285, '4th of July', 'James Patterson &amp; Maxine Paetro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A young girl is killed in the crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While awaiting trial, Lindsay escapes to the tranquility of the beautiful town of Half Moon Bay.  But the peaceful community there is reeling from a string of unspeakable murders.  Working with her friends in the Women''s Murder Club, Lindsay finds a link between these killings and a case she worked on years before - an unsolved murder that has haunted her ever since.      As summer comes into full swing, Lindsay battles for her life on two fronts:  before a judge and jury as her trial comes to a climax and facing unknown adversaries who will do anything to keep her from the truth about the killings.  It all comes to a head before the big annual 4th of July celebration on the waterfront at Half Moon Bay.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried. There''s no stopping his imagination."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Patterson''s skill at building suspense is enviable." -Kansas City Star\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "When it comes to constructing a harrowing plot, author James Patterson can turn a screw all right."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -New York Daily News\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4808'),
(8286, '4th of July', 'James Patterson &amp; Maxine Paetro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A young girl is killed in the crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While awaiting trial, Lindsay escapes to the tranquility of the beautiful town of Half Moon Bay.  But the peaceful community there is reeling from a string of unspeakable murders.  Working with her friends in the Women''s Murder Club, Lindsay finds a link between these killings and a case she worked on years before - an unsolved murder that has haunted her ever since.      As summer comes into full swing, Lindsay battles for her life on two fronts:  before a judge and jury as her trial comes to a climax and facing unknown adversaries who will do anything to keep her from the truth about the killings.  It all comes to a head before the big annual 4th of July celebration on the waterfront at Half Moon Bay.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried. There''s no stopping his imagination."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Patterson''s skill at building suspense is enviable." -Kansas City Star\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "When it comes to constructing a harrowing plot, author James Patterson can turn a screw all right."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -New York Daily News\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19841'),
(8287, 'The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts', 'Gary Chapman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Marriage should be based on love, right? But does it seem as though you and your spouse are speaking two different languages? *New York Times* bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouseâ€™s primary love languageâ€”quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n By learning the five love languages, you and your spouse will discover your unique love languages and learn practical steps in truly loving each other. Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with specific, simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and guide your marriage in the right direction. A newly designed love languages assessment will help you understand and strengthen your relationship. You can build a lasting, loving marriage together.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Gary Chapman hosts a nationally syndicated daily radio program called *A Love Language Minute* that can be heard on more than 150 radio stations as well as the weekly syndicated program *Building Relationships with Gary Chapman*, which can both be heard on fivelovelanguages.com.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Five Love Languages* is a consistent new York Times bestseller - with over **5 million copies** sold and translated into 38 languages.  This book is a sales phenomenon, with each year outselling the prior for 16 years running!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Includes a promotional code to gain exclusive online access to the new comprehensive love languages assessment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7931'),
(8288, 'The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts', 'Gary Chapman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Marriage should be based on love, right? But does it seem as though you and your spouse are speaking two different languages? *New York Times* bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouseâ€™s primary love languageâ€”quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n By learning the five love languages, you and your spouse will discover your unique love languages and learn practical steps in truly loving each other. Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with specific, simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and guide your marriage in the right direction. A newly designed love languages assessment will help you understand and strengthen your relationship. You can build a lasting, loving marriage together.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Gary Chapman hosts a nationally syndicated daily radio program called *A Love Language Minute* that can be heard on more than 150 radio stations as well as the weekly syndicated program *Building Relationships with Gary Chapman*, which can both be heard on fivelovelanguages.com.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Five Love Languages* is a consistent new York Times bestseller - with over **5 million copies** sold and translated into 38 languages.  This book is a sales phenomenon, with each year outselling the prior for 16 years running!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Includes a promotional code to gain exclusive online access to the new comprehensive love languages assessment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8882'),
(8289, 'The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts', 'Gary Chapman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Marriage should be based on love, right? But does it seem as though you and your spouse are speaking two different languages? *New York Times* bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouseâ€™s primary love languageâ€”quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch. By learning the five love languages, you and your spouse will discover your unique love languages and learn practical steps in truly loving each other. Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with specific, simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and guide your marriage in the right direction. A newly designed love languages assessment will help you understand and strengthen your relationship. You can build a lasting, loving marriage together. Gary Chapman hosts a nationally syndicated daily radio program called *A Love Language Minute* that can be heard on more than 150 radio stations as well as the weekly syndicated program *Building Relationships with Gary Chapman*, which can both be heard on fivelovelanguages.com. *The Five Love Languages* is a consistent new York Times bestseller - with over **5 million copies** sold and translated into 38 languages. This book is a sales phenomenon, with each year outselling the prior for 16 years running! Includes a promotional code to gain exclusive online access to the new comprehensive love languages assessment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19159'),
(8290, 'The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts', 'Gary Chapman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Marriage should be based on love, right? But does it seem as though you and your spouse are speaking two different languages? *New York Times* bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouseâ€™s primary love languageâ€”quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch. By learning the five love languages, you and your spouse will discover your unique love languages and learn practical steps in truly loving each other. Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with specific, simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and guide your marriage in the right direction. A newly designed love languages assessment will help you understand and strengthen your relationship. You can build a lasting, loving marriage together. Gary Chapman hosts a nationally syndicated daily radio program called *A Love Language Minute* that can be heard on more than 150 radio stations as well as the weekly syndicated program *Building Relationships with Gary Chapman*, which can both be heard on fivelovelanguages.com. *The Five Love Languages* is a consistent new York Times bestseller - with over **5 million copies** sold and translated into 38 languages. This book is a sales phenomenon, with each year outselling the prior for 16 years running! Includes a promotional code to gain exclusive online access to the new comprehensive love languages assessment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27939'),
(8291, '50 Secrets of Blissful Relationships', 'Michael Webb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21626'),
(8292, '500 Lovemaking Tips &amp; Secrets', 'Michael Webb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21627'),
(8293, '5000 Year Leap', 'Skousen, W. Cleon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22811'),
(8294, 'The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World', 'W. Cleon Skousen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   This is the best-selling\n   <em>\n    Original Authorized Edition\n   </em>\n   regularly featured by Glenn Beck to Fox TV viewers as a Must Read!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The nation the Founders built is now in the throes of a political, economic, social, and spiritual crisis that has driven many to an almost frantic search for\n  <em>\n   modern\n  </em>\n  solutions. The truth is that the solutions have been available for a long time -- in the writings of our Founding Fathers -- carefully set forth in this timely book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World\n  </em>\n  , Discover the\n  <strong>\n   28 Principles of Freedom\n  </strong>\n  our Founding Fathers said must be understood and perpetuated by every people who desire peace, prosperity, and freedom. Learn how adherence to these beliefs during the past 200 years has brought about more progress than was made in the previous 5000 years. These 28 Principles include\n  <em>\n   The Genius of Natural Law, Virtuous and Moral Leaders, Equal Rights--Not Equal Things,\n  </em>\n  and_ Avoiding the Burden of Debt._ Published by the National Center for Constitutional Studies, a nonprofit educational foundation dedicated to restoring Constitutional principles in the tradition of America''s Founding Fathers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The National Center for Constitutional Studies...is doing a fine public service in educating Americans about the principles of the Constitution.\n  </em>\n  -- Ronald Reagan, President of the United States\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   This is possibly the most comprehensive treatment of the genius of the American Founding Fathers which has ever been encompassed in a single volume.\n  </em>\n  --Kenneth C. Chatwin, District Judge, Phoenix, Arizona\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/299'),
(8295, 'The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World', 'W. Cleon Skousen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   This is the best-selling\n   <em>\n    Original Authorized Edition\n   </em>\n   regularly featured by Glenn Beck to Fox TV viewers as a Must Read!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The nation the Founders built is now in the throes of a political, economic, social, and spiritual crisis that has driven many to an almost frantic search for\n  <em>\n   modern\n  </em>\n  solutions. The truth is that the solutions have been available for a long time -- in the writings of our Founding Fathers -- carefully set forth in this timely book.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World\n  </em>\n  , Discover the\n  <strong>\n   28 Principles of Freedom\n  </strong>\n  our Founding Fathers said must be understood and perpetuated by every people who desire peace, prosperity, and freedom. Learn how adherence to these beliefs during the past 200 years has brought about more progress than was made in the previous 5000 years. These 28 Principles include\n  <em>\n   The Genius of Natural Law, Virtuous and Moral Leaders, Equal Rights--Not Equal Things,\n  </em>\n  and_ Avoiding the Burden of Debt._ Published by the National Center for Constitutional Studies, a nonprofit educational foundation dedicated to restoring Constitutional principles in the tradition of America''s Founding Fathers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The National Center for Constitutional Studies...is doing a fine public service in educating Americans about the principles of the Constitution.\n  </em>\n  -- Ronald Reagan, President of the United States\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   This is possibly the most comprehensive treatment of the genius of the American Founding Fathers which has ever been encompassed in a single volume.\n  </em>\n  --Kenneth C. Chatwin, District Judge, Phoenix, Arizona\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12728'),
(8296, '51 Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15502'),
(8297, '52 pickup', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Probably no one knows this nation''s rogues, bent cops, and sleazebags better than Elmore Leonard."\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Newsday\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell had had only one affair in his twenty-two years of happy matrimony. Unfortunately someone caught his indiscretion on film and now wants Harry to fork over one hundred grand to keep his infidelity a secret. And if Harry doesn''t pay up, the blackmailer and his associates plan to press a lot harder -- up to and including homicide, if necessary. But the psychos picked the wrong pigeon for their murderous scam. Because Harry Mitchell doesn''tget mad...he gets even.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18542'),
(8298, '52 Pickup', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell had had only one affair in his twenty-two years of happy matrimony. Unfortunately someone caught his indiscretion on film and now wants Harry to fork over one hundred grand to keep his infidelity a secret. And if Harry doesn''t pay up, the blackmailer and his associates plan to press a lot harder -- up to and including homicide, if necessary. But the psychos picked the wrong pigeon for their murderous scam. Because Harry Mitchell doesn''t get mad...he gets even.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27653'),
(8299, '54 Biggles of 266', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15500'),
(8300, '55 No Rest For Biggles', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15967'),
(8301, '59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot', 'Richard Wiseman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community.Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realization that the self-help industry often promotes exercises that destroy motivation, damage relationships, and reduce creativity: the opposite of everything it promises. Now, in 59 Seconds, he fights back, bringing together the diverse scientific advice that can help you change your life in under a minute, and guides you toward becoming more decisive, more imaginative, more engaged, and altogether more happy.From mood to memory, persuasion to procrastination, resilience to relationships, Wiseman outlines the research supporting the new science of â€œrapid changeâ€ and, with clarity and infectious enthusiasm, describes how these quirky, sometimes counterintuitive techniques can be effortlessly incorporated into your everyday life. Or, as he likes to say: â€œThink a little, change a lot.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1754'),
(8302, '59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot', 'Richard Wiseman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community.Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realization that the self-help industry often promotes exercises that destroy motivation, damage relationships, and reduce creativity: the opposite of everything it promises. Now, in 59 Seconds, he fights back, bringing together the diverse scientific advice that can help you change your life in under a minute, and guides you toward becoming more decisive, more imaginative, more engaged, and altogether more happy.From mood to memory, persuasion to procrastination, resilience to relationships, Wiseman outlines the research supporting the new science of â€œrapid changeâ€ and, with clarity and infectious enthusiasm, describes how these quirky, sometimes counterintuitive techniques can be effortlessly incorporated into your everyday life. Or, as he likes to say: â€œThink a little, change a lot.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13439'),
(8303, 'The 5th Horseman', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women''s Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths--and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, the Women''s Murder Club hunts for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff. The newest addition to the top selling new mystery series takes the Women''s Murder Club to the most terrifying heights of suspense they have yet to encounter. THE 5TH HORSEMAN proves once again that James Patterson is "the page-turningest author in the game right now " (San Francisco Chronicle).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4724'),
(8304, 'The 5th Horseman', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women''s Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths--and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, the Women''s Murder Club hunts for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff. The newest addition to the top selling new mystery series takes the Women''s Murder Club to the most terrifying heights of suspense they have yet to encounter. THE 5TH HORSEMAN proves once again that James Patterson is "the page-turningest author in the game right now " (San Francisco Chronicle).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19931'),
(8305, '61 Hours', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jack Reacher is back. The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Lee Childâ€™s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page. Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If sheâ€™s going to live long enough to testify, sheâ€™ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.Reacherâ€™s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessedâ€”but so is the woman whose life heâ€™ll risk his own to save. In **61 Hours**, Lee Child has written a showdown thriller with an explosive ending that readers will talk about for a long time to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3520'),
(8306, '61 Hours', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jack Reacher is back. The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Lee Childâ€™s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page. Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If sheâ€™s going to live long enough to testify, sheâ€™ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.Reacherâ€™s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessedâ€”but so is the woman whose life heâ€™ll risk his own to save. In **61 Hours**, Lee Child has written a showdown thriller with an explosive ending that readers will talk about for a long time to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8852'),
(8307, '61 Hours', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jack Reacher is back. The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Lee Childâ€™s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page. Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If sheâ€™s going to live long enough to testify, sheâ€™ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.Reacherâ€™s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessedâ€”but so is the woman whose life heâ€™ll risk his own to save. In **61 Hours**, Lee Child has written a showdown thriller with an explosive ending that readers will talk about for a long time to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14963'),
(8308, '61 Hours', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jack Reacher is back. The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Lee Childâ€™s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page. Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If sheâ€™s going to live long enough to testify, sheâ€™ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.Reacherâ€™s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessedâ€”but so is the woman whose life heâ€™ll risk his own to save. In **61 Hours**, Lee Child has written a showdown thriller with an explosive ending that readers will talk about for a long time to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21042'),
(8309, '63 Documents the Government Doesn&#39;t Want You to Read', 'Jesse Ventura &amp; Dick Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thereâ€™s the Freedom of Information Act, and then thereâ€™s Venturaâ€™s way.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bullshit, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate non- partisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and Dick Russell walk readers through 63 of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. In addition to providing original government data, Ventura discusses what it really means and how regular Americans can stop criminal behavior at the top levels of government and in the media. Among the cases discussed:\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ The CIAâ€™s top-secret program to control human behavior\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Operation Northwoodsâ€”the military plan to hijack airplanes and blame it on Cuban terrorists\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ The discovery of a secret Afghan archiveâ€”information that never left the boardroom\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Potentially deadly healthcare cover-ups, including a dengue fever outbreak\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ What the Department of Defense knows about our food supplyâ€”but is keeping mum\n</p>\n<p>\n Although these documents are now in the public domain, the powers that be would just as soon they stay under wraps. Venturaâ€™s research and commentary sheds new light on what theyâ€™re not telling youâ€”and why it matters.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jesse Ventura\n </strong>\n is the former governor of Minnesota and author of several bestselling books, including\n <em>\n  Donâ€™t Start the Revolution Without Me!\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  American Conspiracies.\n </em>\n Ventura is the host of the television show\n <em>\n  Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura\n </em>\n on truTV. He lives in Minnesota and Mexico.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dick Russell\n </strong>\n is a nationally respected activist, environmentalist, and author of critically acclaimed books, including, with Jesse Ventura, The\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellers\n <em>\n  Don''t Start the Revolution Without Me!\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  American Conspiracies\n </em>\n . He is also the author of\n <em>\n  On the Trail of the JFK Assassins\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Man Who Knew Too Much\n </em>\n . Russell is a prolific publisher in many of the nation''s top magazines and has been a guest on many national TV and radio programs, including the\n <em>\n  Joan Rivers Show\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  NBC Nightly News\n </em>\n . He lives in Los Angeles, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4460');
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(8310, '63 Documents the Government Doesn&#39;t Want You to Read', 'Jesse Ventura &amp; Dick Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thereâ€™s the Freedom of Information Act, and then thereâ€™s Venturaâ€™s way.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bullshit, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate non- partisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and Dick Russell walk readers through 63 of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. In addition to providing original government data, Ventura discusses what it really means and how regular Americans can stop criminal behavior at the top levels of government and in the media. Among the cases discussed:\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ The CIAâ€™s top-secret program to control human behavior\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Operation Northwoodsâ€”the military plan to hijack airplanes and blame it on Cuban terrorists\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ The discovery of a secret Afghan archiveâ€”information that never left the boardroom\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Potentially deadly healthcare cover-ups, including a dengue fever outbreak\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ What the Department of Defense knows about our food supplyâ€”but is keeping mum\n</p>\n<p>\n Although these documents are now in the public domain, the powers that be would just as soon they stay under wraps. Venturaâ€™s research and commentary sheds new light on what theyâ€™re not telling youâ€”and why it matters.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jesse Ventura\n </strong>\n is the former governor of Minnesota and author of several bestselling books, including\n <em>\n  Donâ€™t Start the Revolution Without Me!\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  American Conspiracies.\n </em>\n Ventura is the host of the television show\n <em>\n  Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura\n </em>\n on truTV. He lives in Minnesota and Mexico.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dick Russell\n </strong>\n is a nationally respected activist, environmentalist, and author of critically acclaimed books, including, with Jesse Ventura, The\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellers\n <em>\n  Don''t Start the Revolution Without Me!\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  American Conspiracies\n </em>\n . He is also the author of\n <em>\n  On the Trail of the JFK Assassins\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Man Who Knew Too Much\n </em>\n . Russell is a prolific publisher in many of the nation''s top magazines and has been a guest on many national TV and radio programs, including the\n <em>\n  Joan Rivers Show\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  NBC Nightly News\n </em>\n . He lives in Los Angeles, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13219'),
(8311, 'The 6th Target', 'James Patterson &amp; Maxine Paetro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women''s Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their nannies--but the kidnappers aren''t demanding ransom. Amid uncertainty and rising panic, Lindsay juggles the possibility of a new love with an unsolvable investigation, and the knowledge that one member of the club could be on the brink of death. And just when everything appears momentarily under control, the case takes a terrifying turn, putting an entire city in lethal danger. Lindsay must make a choice she never dreamed she''d face--with no certainty that either outcome has more than a prayer of success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4728'),
(8312, 'The 6th Target', 'James Patterson; Maxine Paetro', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women''s Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their nannies--but the kidnappers aren''t demanding ransom. Amid uncertainty and rising panic, Lindsay juggles the possibility of a new love with an unsolvable investigation, and the knowledge that one member of the club could be on the brink of death. And just when everything appears momentarily under control, the case takes a terrifying turn, putting an entire city in lethal danger. Lindsay must make a choice she never dreamed she''d face--with no certainty that either outcome has more than a prayer of success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19930'),
(8313, '7 Effective Ways To Talk To Your Children', 'Jamie Sullivan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18176'),
(8314, '700 Sundays', 'Billy Crystal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A memoir based on the Emmy-nominated actor''s Broadway play is a humorous and poignant portrayal of his youth that describes his experiences of growing up in a family headed by a father who worked two jobs to support the family before succumbing to heart failure when Crystal was fifteen. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7177'),
(8315, '700 Sundays', 'Billy Crystal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A memoir based on the Emmy-nominated actor''s Broadway play is a humorous and poignant portrayal of his youth that describes his experiences of growing up in a family headed by a father who worked two jobs to support the family before succumbing to heart failure when Crystal was fifteen. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9153'),
(8316, '700 Sundays', 'Billy Crystal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A memoir based on the Emmy-nominated actor''s Broadway play is a humorous and poignant portrayal of his youth that describes his experiences of growing up in a family headed by a father who worked two jobs to support the family before succumbing to heart failure when Crystal was fifteen. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16686'),
(8317, '700 Sundays', 'Billy Crystal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A memoir based on the Emmy-nominated actor''s Broadway play is a humorous and poignant portrayal of his youth that describes his experiences of growing up in a family headed by a father who worked two jobs to support the family before succumbing to heart failure when Crystal was fifteen. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26686'),
(8318, '776 Stupidest Things Ever Said', 'Ross Petras &amp; Kathryn Petras', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A connoisseur''s compendium of Freudian slips,Â Â spoonerisms, double-talk, and utter bosh from famousÂ Â and infamous figures past and present -- aÂ Â complete course in anti-eloquence by the foot-in-mouthÂ Â champions of all time.\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  This brother and sister team have collected the most idiotic, most embarressing, and downright assinine quotations in history, in one quirky little volume. Its a side-splitting selection of awkward utterances and memorable misstatements from famous figures in the worlds of politics, sports, diplomacy, literature, and entertainment, past and present.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10972'),
(8319, '7th Heaven', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Women''s Murder Club faces not one-but two-terrifying cases that may tear it apart. The teenage son of California''s ex-governor has mysteriously vanished-and the pressure on Detective Lindsay Boxer to find him is overwhelming. When she finally does get a lead, it''s devastating. At the same time, Lindsay and her partner, Rich Conklin, must investigate mysterious fires that are destroying some of San Francisco''s most beautiful homes-and leaving their owners dead in the debris. But when Lindsay enlists her friends in the Women''s Murder Club to help uncover the arsonist, the blazes suddenly rage much too close to home . . . and the detective''s life may go up in flames.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4810'),
(8320, '7th Heaven', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Women''s Murder Club faces not one-but two-terrifying cases that may tear it apart. The teenage son of California''s ex-governor has mysteriously vanished-and the pressure on Detective Lindsay Boxer to find him is overwhelming. When she finally does get a lead, it''s devastating. At the same time, Lindsay and her partner, Rich Conklin, must investigate mysterious fires that are destroying some of San Francisco''s most beautiful homes-and leaving their owners dead in the debris. But when Lindsay enlists her friends in the Women''s Murder Club to help uncover the arsonist, the blazes suddenly rage much too close to home . . . and the detective''s life may go up in flames.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19840'),
(8321, 'The 7th Victim', 'Alan Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Jacobson''s tepid third thriller (after\n <em>\n  Hunted\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  False Accusations\n </em>\n ), FBI profiler Karen Vail is obsessed with bringing to justice the Dead Eyes Killer, who''s gruesomely slain several women in Virginia. The action alternates between Karen''s attempts to unravel the clues left behind at the crime scenes and glimpses of the Dead Eyes Killer himself as he stalks future victims. A messy divorce and custody battle threaten to distract Karen, as do her tentative relationship with a local detective and disturbing revelations about her family history. The author fails to put a fresh spin on any of the genre''s cliches--the serial killer who taunts law enforcement, the FBI agent with an implausible connection to the case, the chaotic crime scene that contains clues only the hero can crack. Though Jacobson''s research into the FBI''s Behavioral Analysis Unit is evident, he overloads his story with too much information and unbelievable coincidences.\n <em>\n  5-city author tour. (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jacobson''s third novel (after\n <em>\n  False Accusations\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Hunted\n </em>\n ) has all the ingredients for a best-selling psychological thriller: strong female lead, multifaceted serial killer, compelling plot, and just enough secrets and surprises to keep the adrenaline racing. The hunt is on for the notorious Dead Eyes killer who is preying on young women. Karen Vail is a gritty yet vulnerable FBI profiler with a precarious personal life. As Vail and the task force pursue the serial killer, readers are drawn into the inner sanctum of a profiler while simultaneously privy to the killer''s crazed thoughts. The murders rapidly escalate, and Vail''s personal life is careening out of control, threatening to derail her investigation. When the killer strikes a seventh time, surprising revelations provide a shocking finale. The author''s seven years of study with the FBI''s profiling unit have helped him craft a riveting, authentically detailed thriller that will ensnare readers. Strongly recommended for all popular fiction collections.â€”Mary Todd Chesnut, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7826'),
(8322, 'The 7th Victim', 'Alan Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Jacobson''s tepid third thriller (after\n <em>\n  Hunted\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  False Accusations\n </em>\n ), FBI profiler Karen Vail is obsessed with bringing to justice the Dead Eyes Killer, who''s gruesomely slain several women in Virginia. The action alternates between Karen''s attempts to unravel the clues left behind at the crime scenes and glimpses of the Dead Eyes Killer himself as he stalks future victims. A messy divorce and custody battle threaten to distract Karen, as do her tentative relationship with a local detective and disturbing revelations about her family history. The author fails to put a fresh spin on any of the genre''s cliches--the serial killer who taunts law enforcement, the FBI agent with an implausible connection to the case, the chaotic crime scene that contains clues only the hero can crack. Though Jacobson''s research into the FBI''s Behavioral Analysis Unit is evident, he overloads his story with too much information and unbelievable coincidences.\n <em>\n  5-city author tour. (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jacobson''s third novel (after\n <em>\n  False Accusations\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Hunted\n </em>\n ) has all the ingredients for a best-selling psychological thriller: strong female lead, multifaceted serial killer, compelling plot, and just enough secrets and surprises to keep the adrenaline racing. The hunt is on for the notorious Dead Eyes killer who is preying on young women. Karen Vail is a gritty yet vulnerable FBI profiler with a precarious personal life. As Vail and the task force pursue the serial killer, readers are drawn into the inner sanctum of a profiler while simultaneously privy to the killer''s crazed thoughts. The murders rapidly escalate, and Vail''s personal life is careening out of control, threatening to derail her investigation. When the killer strikes a seventh time, surprising revelations provide a shocking finale. The author''s seven years of study with the FBI''s profiling unit have helped him craft a riveting, authentically detailed thriller that will ensnare readers. Strongly recommended for all popular fiction collections.â€”Mary Todd Chesnut, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10492'),
(8323, 'The 7th Victim', 'Alan Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Jacobson''s tepid third thriller (after\n  <em>\n   Hunted\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   False Accusations\n  </em>\n  ), FBI profiler Karen Vail is obsessed with bringing to justice the Dead Eyes Killer, who''s gruesomely slain several women in Virginia. The action alternates between Karen''s attempts to unravel the clues left behind at the crime scenes and glimpses of the Dead Eyes Killer himself as he stalks future victims. A messy divorce and custody battle threaten to distract Karen, as do her tentative relationship with a local detective and disturbing revelations about her family history. The author fails to put a fresh spin on any of the genre''s cliches--the serial killer who taunts law enforcement, the FBI agent with an implausible connection to the case, the chaotic crime scene that contains clues only the hero can crack. Though Jacobson''s research into the FBI''s Behavioral Analysis Unit is evident, he overloads his story with too much information and unbelievable coincidences.\n  <em>\n   5-city author tour. (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jacobson''s third novel (after\n  <em>\n   False Accusations\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Hunted\n  </em>\n  ) has all the ingredients for a best-selling psychological thriller: strong female lead, multifaceted serial killer, compelling plot, and just enough secrets and surprises to keep the adrenaline racing. The hunt is on for the notorious Dead Eyes killer who is preying on young women. Karen Vail is a gritty yet vulnerable FBI profiler with a precarious personal life. As Vail and the task force pursue the serial killer, readers are drawn into the inner sanctum of a profiler while simultaneously privy to the killer''s crazed thoughts. The murders rapidly escalate, and Vail''s personal life is careening out of control, threatening to derail her investigation. When the killer strikes a seventh time, surprising revelations provide a shocking finale. The author''s seven years of study with the FBI''s profiling unit have helped him craft a riveting, authentically detailed thriller that will ensnare readers. Strongly recommended for all popular fiction collections.â€”Mary Todd Chesnut, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16031'),
(8324, '86&#39;d: A Novel', 'Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the number in the ad, he discovers the boss is his former Manhattan employer David Koffman, who is opening a West Coast branch of his thriving limo service. Koffman hires Bruno as resident manager of Dav-Ko Hollywood under one condition: he must remain sober. But instant business success triggers an abrupt booze-and-blackout-soaked downward spiral for Bruno, forcing him to confront his own madness as he struggles to keep his old familiar demons from getting the best of him yet again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7919'),
(8325, '86&#39;d: A Novel', 'Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the number in the ad, he discovers the boss is his former Manhattan employer David Koffman, who is opening a West Coast branch of his thriving limo service. Koffman hires Bruno as resident manager of Dav-Ko Hollywood under one condition: he must remain sober. But instant business success triggers an abrupt booze-and-blackout-soaked downward spiral for Bruno, forcing him to confront his own madness as he struggles to keep his old familiar demons from getting the best of him yet again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9653'),
(8326, '86&#39;d: A Novel', 'Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the number in the ad, he discovers the boss is his former Manhattan employer David Koffman, who is opening a West Coast branch of his thriving limo service. Koffman hires Bruno as resident manager of Dav-Ko Hollywood under one condition: he must remain sober. But instant business success triggers an abrupt booze-and-blackout-soaked downward spiral for Bruno, forcing him to confront his own madness as he struggles to keep his old familiar demons from getting the best of him yet again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17518'),
(8327, '86&#39;d: A Novel', 'Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the number in the ad, he discovers the boss is his former Manhattan employer David Koffman, who is opening a West Coast branch of his thriving limo service. Koffman hires Bruno as resident manager of Dav-Ko Hollywood under one condition: he must remain sober. But instant business success triggers an abrupt booze-and-blackout-soaked downward spiral for Bruno, forcing him to confront his own madness as he struggles to keep his old familiar demons from getting the best of him yet again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27187'),
(8328, 'The 8th Confession', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As San Francisco''s most glamorous millionaires mingle at the party of the year, someone is watching--waiting for a chance to take vengeance on Isa and Ethan Bailey, the city''s most celebrated couple. Finally, the killer pinpoints the ideal moment, and it''s the *perfect* murder. Not a trace of evidence is left behind in their glamorous home.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile murder, someone else is found brutally executed--a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless. His death nearly falls through the cracks, but when reporter Cindy Thomas hears about it, she knows the story could be *huge*. Probing deeper into the victim''s history, she discovers he may not have been quite as saintly as everyone thought.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As the hunt for two criminals tests the limits of the Women''s Murder Club, Lindsay sees sparks fly between Cindy and her partner, Detective Rich Conklin. The Women''s Murder Club now faces its toughest challenge: will love destroy all that four friends have built? The exhilarating new chapter in the Women''s Murder Club series, *The 8th Confession* serves up a double dose of speed-charged twists and shocking revelations as only James Patterson can. And remember, this is the only Murder Club episode of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4729'),
(8329, 'The 8th Confession', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: As San Francisco''s most glamorous millionaires mingle at the party of the year, someone is watching--waiting for a chance to take vengeance on Isa and Ethan Bailey, the city''s most celebrated couple. Finally, the killer pinpoints the ideal moment, and it''s the *perfect* murder. Not a trace of evidence is left behind in their glamorous home. As Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile murder, someone else is found brutally executed--a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless. His death nearly falls through the cracks, but when reporter Cindy Thomas hears about it, she knows the story could be *huge*. Probing deeper into the victim''s history, she discovers he may not have been quite as saintly as everyone thought. As the hunt for two criminals tests the limits of the Women''s Murder Club, Lindsay sees sparks fly between Cindy and her partner, Detective Rich Conklin. The Women''s Murder Club now faces its toughest challenge: will love destroy all that four friends have built? The exhilarating new chapter in the Women''s Murder Club series, *The 8th Confession* serves up a double dose of speed-charged twists and shocking revelations as only James Patterson can. And remember, this is the only Murder Club episode of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19929'),
(8330, '9 Dragons', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14707'),
(8331, '9 Dragons', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21988'),
(8332, '90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death &amp; Life', 'Don Piper &amp; Cecil Murphey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As he is driving home from a minister''s conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace. Back on earth, a passing minister who had also been at the conference is led to pray for Don even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery. For years Piper kept his heavenly experience to himself. Finally, however, friends and family convinced him to share his remarkable story.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over 600,000 in print.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5926'),
(8333, '90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death &amp; Life', 'Don Piper &amp; Cecil Murphey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As he is driving home from a minister''s conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace. Back on earth, a passing minister who had also been at the conference is led to pray for Don even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery. For years Piper kept his heavenly experience to himself. Finally, however, friends and family convinced him to share his remarkable story.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over 600,000 in print.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11997'),
(8334, '90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death &amp; Life', 'Don Piper; Cecil Murphey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As he is driving home from a minister''s conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace. Back on earth, a passing minister who had also been at the conference is led to pray for Don even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery. For years Piper kept his heavenly experience to himself. Finally, however, friends and family convinced him to share his remarkable story.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Over 600,000 in print.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18691'),
(8335, '93 Biggles &amp; the Deep Blue Sea', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15457'),
(8336, '97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement', 'Jane Ziegelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In "97 Orchard," Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York''s Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century--a city within a city, where Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life. Through the experiences of five families, all of them residents of 97 Orchard Street, she takes readers on a vivid and unforgettable tour, from impossibly cramped tenement apartments down dimly lit stairwells where children played and neighbors socialized, beyond the front stoops where immigrant housewives found respite and company, and out into the hubbub of the dirty, teeming streets.  Ziegelman shows how immigrant cooks brought their ingenuity to the daily task of feeding their families, preserving traditions from home but always ready to improvise. While health officials worried that pushcarts were unsanitary and that pickles made immigrants too excitable to be good citizens, a culinary revolution was taking place in the streets of what had been culturally an English city. Along the East River, German immigrants founded breweries, dispensing their beloved lager in the dozens of beer gardens that opened along the Bowery. Russian Jews opened tea parlors serving blintzes and strudel next door to Romanian nightclubs that specialized in goose pastrami. On the streets, Italian peddlers hawked the cheese-and-tomato pies known as "pizzarelli," while Jews sold knishes and squares of halvah. Gradually, as Americans began to explore the immigrant ghetto, they uncovered the array of comestible enticements of their foreign-born neighbors. "97 Orchard" charts this exciting process of discovery as it lays bare the roots of our collective culinary heritage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4740'),
(8337, '97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement', 'Jane Ziegelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In "97 Orchard," Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York''s Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century--a city within a city, where Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life. Through the experiences of five families, all of them residents of 97 Orchard Street, she takes readers on a vivid and unforgettable tour, from impossibly cramped tenement apartments down dimly lit stairwells where children played and neighbors socialized, beyond the front stoops where immigrant housewives found respite and company, and out into the hubbub of the dirty, teeming streets.  Ziegelman shows how immigrant cooks brought their ingenuity to the daily task of feeding their families, preserving traditions from home but always ready to improvise. While health officials worried that pushcarts were unsanitary and that pickles made immigrants too excitable to be good citizens, a culinary revolution was taking place in the streets of what had been culturally an English city. Along the East River, German immigrants founded breweries, dispensing their beloved lager in the dozens of beer gardens that opened along the Bowery. Russian Jews opened tea parlors serving blintzes and strudel next door to Romanian nightclubs that specialized in goose pastrami. On the streets, Italian peddlers hawked the cheese-and-tomato pies known as "pizzarelli," while Jews sold knishes and squares of halvah. Gradually, as Americans began to explore the immigrant ghetto, they uncovered the array of comestible enticements of their foreign-born neighbors. "97 Orchard" charts this exciting process of discovery as it lays bare the roots of our collective culinary heritage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13421'),
(8338, '98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive', 'Cody Lundin &amp; Russ Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n $14.95 gatefold paper * 1-58685-234-5 * May\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 6 x 9 in, 192 pp, 70 Line Drawings, 16 Color Photo Pages\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Rights: W, Survival/Nature\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "If you breathe and have a pulse, you NEED this book."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -Cody Lundin\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. It is the ultimate book on how to stay alive-based on the principal of keeping the body''s core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees. In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks, and without water for about three days or so. But if the body''s core temperature dips much below or above the 98.6 degree mark, a person can literally die within hours. It is a concept that many don''t take seriously or even consider, but knowing what to do to maintain a safe core temperature when lost in a blizzard or in the desert could save your life. Lundin delivers the message with wit, rebellious humor, and plenty of backcountry expertise.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cody Lundin and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, including Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The Donny and Marie Show, and CBC Radio One in Canada, as well as on the cover of Backpacker magazine. When not teaching for his own school, he is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at the Ecosa Institute. Cody is the only person in Arizona licensed to catch fish with his hands, and lives in a passive solar earth home sixty miles from Prescott, Arizona.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6579'),
(8339, '98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive', 'Cody Lundin &amp; Russ Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n $14.95 gatefold paper * 1-58685-234-5 * May\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 6 x 9 in, 192 pp, 70 Line Drawings, 16 Color Photo Pages\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Rights: W, Survival/Nature\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "If you breathe and have a pulse, you NEED this book."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -Cody Lundin\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. It is the ultimate book on how to stay alive-based on the principal of keeping the body''s core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees. In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks, and without water for about three days or so. But if the body''s core temperature dips much below or above the 98.6 degree mark, a person can literally die within hours. It is a concept that many don''t take seriously or even consider, but knowing what to do to maintain a safe core temperature when lost in a blizzard or in the desert could save your life. Lundin delivers the message with wit, rebellious humor, and plenty of backcountry expertise.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cody Lundin and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, including Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The Donny and Marie Show, and CBC Radio One in Canada, as well as on the cover of Backpacker magazine. When not teaching for his own school, he is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at the Ecosa Institute. Cody is the only person in Arizona licensed to catch fish with his hands, and lives in a passive solar earth home sixty miles from Prescott, Arizona.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11199'),
(8340, '98.6 degrees: the art of keeping your ass alive', 'Cody Lundin; Russ Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: $14.95 gatefold paper * 1-58685-234-5 * May 6 x 9 in, 192 pp, 70 Line Drawings, 16 Color Photo Pages Rights: W, Survival/Nature "If you breathe and have a pulse, you NEED this book." -Cody Lundin Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. It is the ultimate book on how to stay alive-based on the principal of keeping the body''s core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees. In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks, and without water for about three days or so. But if the body''s core temperature dips much below or above the 98.6 degree mark, a person can literally die within hours. It is a concept that many don''t take seriously or even consider, but knowing what to do to maintain a safe core temperature when lost in a blizzard or in the desert could save your life. Lundin delivers the message with wit, rebellious humor, and plenty of backcountry expertise. Cody Lundin and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, including Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The Donny and Marie Show, and CBC Radio One in Canada, as well as on the cover of Backpacker magazine. When not teaching for his own school, he is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at the Ecosa Institute. Cody is the only person in Arizona licensed to catch fish with his hands, and lives in a passive solar earth home sixty miles from Prescott, Arizona.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17416'),
(8341, '98.6 degrees: the art of keeping your ass alive', 'Cody Lundin; Russ Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: $14.95 gatefold paper * 1-58685-234-5 * May 6 x 9 in, 192 pp, 70 Line Drawings, 16 Color Photo Pages Rights: W, Survival/Nature "If you breathe and have a pulse, you NEED this book." -Cody Lundin Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. It is the ultimate book on how to stay alive-based on the principal of keeping the body''s core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees. In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks, and without water for about three days or so. But if the body''s core temperature dips much below or above the 98.6 degree mark, a person can literally die within hours. It is a concept that many don''t take seriously or even consider, but knowing what to do to maintain a safe core temperature when lost in a blizzard or in the desert could save your life. Lundin delivers the message with wit, rebellious humor, and plenty of backcountry expertise. Cody Lundin and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, including Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The Donny and Marie Show, and CBC Radio One in Canada, as well as on the cover of Backpacker magazine. When not teaching for his own school, he is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at the Ecosa Institute. Cody is the only person in Arizona licensed to catch fish with his hands, and lives in a passive solar earth home sixty miles from Prescott, Arizona.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27049'),
(8342, 'The 9th Judgment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The most personalA young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick. **The most dangerous******The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars'' worth of precious jewels. In just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. **The most exciting Women''s Murder Club novel ever******Lindsay spends every waking hour working with her partner, Rich--and her desire for him threatens to tear apart both her engagement and the Women''s Murder Club. Before Lindsay and her friends can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her own life on the line--but is it enough to save the city? With unparalleled danger and explosive action, *The 9th Judgment *is James Patterson at his compelling, unstoppable best!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4732'),
(8343, 'The 9th Judgment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The most personalA young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick. **The most dangerous******The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars'' worth of precious jewels. In just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. **The most exciting Women''s Murder Club novel ever******Lindsay spends every waking hour working with her partner, Rich--and her desire for him threatens to tear apart both her engagement and the Women''s Murder Club. Before Lindsay and her friends can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her own life on the line--but is it enough to save the city? With unparalleled danger and explosive action, *The 9th Judgment *is James Patterson at his compelling, unstoppable best!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11751'),
(8344, 'The 9th Judgment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The most personalA young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick. **The most dangerous******The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars'' worth of precious jewels. In just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. **The most exciting Women''s Murder Club novel ever******Lindsay spends every waking hour working with her partner, Rich--and her desire for him threatens to tear apart both her engagement and the Women''s Murder Club. Before Lindsay and her friends can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her own life on the line--but is it enough to save the city? With unparalleled danger and explosive action, *The 9th Judgment *is James Patterson at his compelling, unstoppable best!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19928'),
(8345, 'The A B C Murders', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26101'),
(8346, 'A-Z Common Symptom Answer Guide', 'John H Wasson; Timothy B. Walsh; Mary C. Labrecque; Harold C. Sox; Robert Pantell; Ivan Oransky; John Wasson; Timothy Walsh; Mary Labrecque; Harold Sox', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Your familyâ€™s first line of defense!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Provides expert medical advice on more than 100 common signs, symptoms, and problem areasâ€”_A-Z Common Symptom Answer Guide_ is a wonderful addition to your medical reference library!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Can you describe what your symptoms look and feel likeâ€”but not know what they mean? Written by an experienced team of physicians and nurses, this handy guide answers your questions before you go to the doctor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A-Z Common Symptom Answer Guide\n  </em>\n  gives youâ€”\n  <br />\n  -A toolkit for matching your signs and symptoms to possible causes\n  <br />\n  -A renowned medical teamâ€™s advice on symptoms from allergies to vomiting blood to irritability in children\n  <br />\n  -Expert tips on relieving symptoms and helping yourself heal\n  <br />\n  -What to avoid and what could make your condition worse\n  <br />\n  -The questions your doctor will ask\n  <br />\n  -Alphabetical listing of common symptoms for easy reference\n  <br />\n  -A glossary of medical terms you may not know\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Your familyâ€™s first line of defense!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Provides expert medical advice on more than 100 common signs, symptoms, and problem areasâ€”_A-Z Common Symptom Answer Guide_ is a wonderful addition to your medical reference library!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Can you describe what your symptoms look and feel likeâ€”but not know what they mean? Written by an experienced team of physicians and nurses, this handy guide answers your questions before you go to the doctor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   A-Z Common Symptom Answer Guide\n  </em>\n  gives youâ€”\n  <br />\n  -A toolkit for matching your signs and symptoms to possible causes\n  <br />\n  -A renowned medical teamâ€™s advice on symptoms from allergies to vomiting blood to irritability in children\n  <br />\n  -Expert tips on relieving symptoms and helping yourself heal\n  <br />\n  -What to avoid and what could make your condition worse\n  <br />\n  -The questions your doctor will ask\n  <br />\n  -Alphabetical listing of common symptoms for easy reference\n  <br />\n  -A glossary of medical terms you may not know\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20021'),
(8347, 'A. Lincoln: A Biography', 'Ronald C White &amp; Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ronald C. White, Jr., is the author of two bestselling books on Abraham Lincoln: The Eloquent President and Lincolnâ€™s Greatest Speech, a New York Times Notable Book. White earned his Ph.D. at Princeton and has lectured on Lincoln at hundreds of universities and organizations, and at Gettysburg and the White House. He is a Fellow at the Huntington Library and a Visiting Professor of History at UCLA. He lives with his wife, Cynthia, in La CaÃ±ada, California.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1463'),
(8348, 'A. Lincoln: A Biography', 'Ronald C White &amp; Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ronald C. White, Jr., is the author of two bestselling books on Abraham Lincoln: The Eloquent President and Lincolnâ€™s Greatest Speech, a New York Times Notable Book. White earned his Ph.D. at Princeton and has lectured on Lincoln at hundreds of universities and organizations, and at Gettysburg and the White House. He is a Fellow at the Huntington Library and a Visiting Professor of History at UCLA. He lives with his wife, Cynthia, in La CaÃ±ada, California.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13327'),
(8349, 'A. Lincoln: A Biography', 'Ronald C White; Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ronald C. White, Jr., is the author of two bestselling books on Abraham Lincoln: The Eloquent President and Lincolnâ€™s Greatest Speech, a New York Times Notable Book. White earned his Ph.D. at Princeton and has lectured on Lincoln at hundreds of universities and organizations, and at Gettysburg and the White House. He is a Fellow at the Huntington Library and a Visiting Professor of History at UCLA. He lives with his wife, Cynthia, in La CaÃ±ada, California.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23434'),
(8350, 'The A.b.c. Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturbing than the alphabetic sequence of the killings or the ABC Railway guide that the killer leaves at the scene of each crime are the taunting notes Hercule Poirot receives each time the killer is about to strike again. It is one of Poirotâ€™s most challenging cases yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7882');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(8351, 'The A.b.c. Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturbing than the alphabetic sequence of the killings or the ABC Railway guide that the killer leaves at the scene of each crime are the taunting notes Hercule Poirot receives each time the killer is about to strike again. It is one of Poirotâ€™s most challenging cases yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16002'),
(8352, 'The A.b.c. Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturbing than the alphabetic sequence of the killings or the ABC Railway guide that the killer leaves at the scene of each crime are the taunting notes Hercule Poirot receives each time the killer is about to strike again. It is one of Poirotâ€™s most challenging cases yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26246'),
(8353, 'Aaron&#39;s Rod', 'David Herbert Lawrence; Mara Kalnins; Steven Vine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Abandoning his wife and children, Aaron Sisson leaves the mining community in pursuit of the ''life single'': individual freedom, personal friendship, the ''male power'' of passion and art.Playing the flute to pay his way he travels to post-war London, where he mixes with the modern Bohemian set and finds male friendship in Rawdon Lilly. Further travels take him to Milan and Florence (''a town of men'') preoccupied with thoughts on the decline of humanity from the Renaissance to the modern age. For Aaron, in his own way, is striving to save civilization.Aaron''s Rod was completed in 1921 but was then censored by Lawrence''s publishers. This edition of the novel, based on the only authoritative surviving typescript, restores these cut passages and eliminates the errors of previous editions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17325'),
(8354, 'Aaron&#39;s Rod', 'D. H. Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27126'),
(8355, 'The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages', 'Nancy Marie Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The pontiff in question is Sylvester II, pope from 999 to 1003. From the fragmentary evidence about Gerbert of Aurillac, Sylvesterâ€™s name before his elevation, Brown resourcefully recounts his remarkable career and boldly asserts that the history of mathematics must be revised in light of Gerbertâ€™s life. Born to a humble station around 950, Gerbertâ€™s precocity impressed bishops and counts, and his friendship-forming personality, visible in surviving letters, showed up in places from Barcelona to Reims to Rome. Brown speculates that he also may have studied in Cordoba, then a center of Islamic erudition, where he may have learned about Arabic numerals, the abacus, and the astrolabe. In any event, she recounts that Gerbert served as a conduit of Arab science into Christian Europe as schoolmaster at Reims. His medieval scholarly renown subsequently attracted the attention of emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. As readably knowledgeable about Gerbertâ€™s political fortunes as about his intellectual influence, Brown is a lively narrator and interesting interpreter of Gerbertâ€™s life and world. This portrait gives both the science and the history audiences something to talk about. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Overflowing with illuminating material,Â _The Abacus and the Cross_Â is the biography of a vital moment we know precious little about." --Maria Rosa Menocal, author of The Ornament of the World\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Keith Devlin, Stanford University professor and author of _Fibonacciâ€™s Bridge of Numbers: the Medieval Visionary and the Book that Launched the Modern World\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œNancy Marie Brownâ€™s book provides a fascinating, well researched, in depth study of the life and times of one of the key figures who brought modern arithmetic into Western Europe.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Marilyn Yalom, author of _Birth of the Chess Queen\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThis book will change how you think about the so-called Dark Ages.Â  Well-researched, well-written, and vividly illuminating.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pat Shipman, Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University and author of\n  <em>\n   Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNancy Marie Brown again uses her extraordinary ability to bring medieval time to life in_ The Abacus and the Cross_, in the person of the â€˜Scientist Popeâ€™ Gerbert of Aurillac (later Pope Sylvester II). Working from sparse records, Brown manages to tell us of the remarkable scholar, brilliant mathematician, and inveterate punster who loved both his holy orders and luxurious living. She shows us a time in which the route to God lay through the study of science and math and when intellectual developments flowed across the boundaries of religion and empire in Eurasia. This is a remarkable book that reflects on our modern times on every page.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jeff Sypeck, author of\n  <em>\n   Becoming Charlemagne\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA pleasure to read,\n <em>\n  The Abacus and the Cross\n </em>\n draws readers into a worldÂ ofÂ intrigue, superstition, and scholarship. Nancy Marie Brown writes lucidly about math and science, finding important stories in the lives of medieval peopleÂ who deserve to be widely remembered.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _Kirkus\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA thoroughly engrossing account of the Dark Ages and one of its Popes, both far less dark than popular histories teach. . . .The years around 1000 CE seem to be every medieval historianâ€™s favorite era, but Brownâ€™s welcome addition to the genre provides a lively, eye-opening portrait of a sophisticated Europe whose intellectual leaders showed genuine interest in learning.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Science Writers Magazine\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n _â€œAs she reconstructs the strangely illuminated Europe of the Dark Ages, Brown reminds readers that the major conflicts in our world todayâ€”between Christianity and Islam, between religion and scienceâ€”are products of our own age, not historical inevitabilities.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs readably knowledgeable about Gerbertâ€™s political fortunes as about his intellectual influence, Brown is a lively narrator and interesting interpreter of Gerbertâ€™s life and world. Â This portrait gives both the science and the history audiences something to talk about.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA rags-to-riches sagaâ€¦ captures how the direction of history can be influenced by one person. . . . Had Gerbert lived longer and been more politically savvy, Brownâ€™s portrait makes one believe his ability to teach might have jump-started science before the Dark Ages enveloped Europe. VERDICT: Enjoyable to read, informative, and highly recommended for all history and history of science buffs.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Maria Rosa Menocal, author ofÂ _The Ornament of the WorldÂ _and co-author ofÂ _The Arts of Intimacy_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOverflowing with illuminating material,\n <em>\n  The Abacus and the Cross\n </em>\n is the biography of a vital moment we know precious little about: the second half of the tenth century, when Gerbert of Aurillac, the man who would be pope at the much-anticipated millennium, came of age. Among Brownâ€™s many virtues is her ability to weave the intellectual and the material into a seamless narrative, so that when her readers learn about what books the monks of a monastery might be copyingâ€”and how those volumes connect to the intellectual past and futureâ€”they are also going to learn the mechanics of the copying itself, beginning with the cultivation of the animals whose skins will become parchment. She has the scientistâ€™s eye for detail and the historianâ€™s gift of storytelling and she has not one but dozens of great stories to tell about this transformative moment in Latin Christendom, as it began to embrace the foundations of modern science and technology.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Richard Rubenstein, author ofÂ _Aristotleâ€™s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_The Abacus and the Cross_ tells the fascinating, little known story of the â€˜Scientist-Popeâ€™ Sylvester II (Gerbert of Aurillac), whom older writers long considered a practitioner of the Black Arts. In this vividly presented, scrupulously researched biography, Nancy Marie Brown shows how a few open-minded intellectuals illuminated the Dark Ages by importing scientific knowledge and methods into Christian Europe from Muslim Spain. Brownâ€™s descriptions of Gerbertâ€™s â€˜magicalâ€™ instruments, the abacus, celestial spheres, and astrolabe, as well as of his worship of a mathematically-inspired Creator, make important contributions to the history of medieval science.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The New York Journal of Books\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n _â€œMs. Brownâ€™s easily readable history draws the reader into a world of political intrigue, the excitement of introducing the abacus and astrolabe to Europe, and the shaky ground that surrounding the broader culture of Europe around 1000. Her book is a useful reminder that clear and well-reasoned history is by no means simplistic. The story of dâ€™Aurillacâ€™s life and papacy shows a medieval milieu more complex than oft portrayed.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2706'),
(8356, 'The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages', 'Nancy Marie Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The pontiff in question is Sylvester II, pope from 999 to 1003. From the fragmentary evidence about Gerbert of Aurillac, Sylvesterâ€™s name before his elevation, Brown resourcefully recounts his remarkable career and boldly asserts that the history of mathematics must be revised in light of Gerbertâ€™s life. Born to a humble station around 950, Gerbertâ€™s precocity impressed bishops and counts, and his friendship-forming personality, visible in surviving letters, showed up in places from Barcelona to Reims to Rome. Brown speculates that he also may have studied in Cordoba, then a center of Islamic erudition, where he may have learned about Arabic numerals, the abacus, and the astrolabe. In any event, she recounts that Gerbert served as a conduit of Arab science into Christian Europe as schoolmaster at Reims. His medieval scholarly renown subsequently attracted the attention of emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. As readably knowledgeable about Gerbertâ€™s political fortunes as about his intellectual influence, Brown is a lively narrator and interesting interpreter of Gerbertâ€™s life and world. This portrait gives both the science and the history audiences something to talk about. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Overflowing with illuminating material,Â _The Abacus and the Cross_Â is the biography of a vital moment we know precious little about." --Maria Rosa Menocal, author of The Ornament of the World\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Keith Devlin, Stanford University professor and author of _Fibonacciâ€™s Bridge of Numbers: the Medieval Visionary and the Book that Launched the Modern World\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œNancy Marie Brownâ€™s book provides a fascinating, well researched, in depth study of the life and times of one of the key figures who brought modern arithmetic into Western Europe.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Marilyn Yalom, author of _Birth of the Chess Queen\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThis book will change how you think about the so-called Dark Ages.Â  Well-researched, well-written, and vividly illuminating.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pat Shipman, Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University and author of\n  <em>\n   Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNancy Marie Brown again uses her extraordinary ability to bring medieval time to life in_ The Abacus and the Cross_, in the person of the â€˜Scientist Popeâ€™ Gerbert of Aurillac (later Pope Sylvester II). Working from sparse records, Brown manages to tell us of the remarkable scholar, brilliant mathematician, and inveterate punster who loved both his holy orders and luxurious living. She shows us a time in which the route to God lay through the study of science and math and when intellectual developments flowed across the boundaries of religion and empire in Eurasia. This is a remarkable book that reflects on our modern times on every page.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jeff Sypeck, author of\n  <em>\n   Becoming Charlemagne\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA pleasure to read,\n <em>\n  The Abacus and the Cross\n </em>\n draws readers into a worldÂ ofÂ intrigue, superstition, and scholarship. Nancy Marie Brown writes lucidly about math and science, finding important stories in the lives of medieval peopleÂ who deserve to be widely remembered.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _Kirkus\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA thoroughly engrossing account of the Dark Ages and one of its Popes, both far less dark than popular histories teach. . . .The years around 1000 CE seem to be every medieval historianâ€™s favorite era, but Brownâ€™s welcome addition to the genre provides a lively, eye-opening portrait of a sophisticated Europe whose intellectual leaders showed genuine interest in learning.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Science Writers Magazine\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n _â€œAs she reconstructs the strangely illuminated Europe of the Dark Ages, Brown reminds readers that the major conflicts in our world todayâ€”between Christianity and Islam, between religion and scienceâ€”are products of our own age, not historical inevitabilities.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs readably knowledgeable about Gerbertâ€™s political fortunes as about his intellectual influence, Brown is a lively narrator and interesting interpreter of Gerbertâ€™s life and world. Â This portrait gives both the science and the history audiences something to talk about.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA rags-to-riches sagaâ€¦ captures how the direction of history can be influenced by one person. . . . Had Gerbert lived longer and been more politically savvy, Brownâ€™s portrait makes one believe his ability to teach might have jump-started science before the Dark Ages enveloped Europe. VERDICT: Enjoyable to read, informative, and highly recommended for all history and history of science buffs.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Maria Rosa Menocal, author ofÂ _The Ornament of the WorldÂ _and co-author ofÂ _The Arts of Intimacy_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOverflowing with illuminating material,\n <em>\n  The Abacus and the Cross\n </em>\n is the biography of a vital moment we know precious little about: the second half of the tenth century, when Gerbert of Aurillac, the man who would be pope at the much-anticipated millennium, came of age. Among Brownâ€™s many virtues is her ability to weave the intellectual and the material into a seamless narrative, so that when her readers learn about what books the monks of a monastery might be copyingâ€”and how those volumes connect to the intellectual past and futureâ€”they are also going to learn the mechanics of the copying itself, beginning with the cultivation of the animals whose skins will become parchment. She has the scientistâ€™s eye for detail and the historianâ€™s gift of storytelling and she has not one but dozens of great stories to tell about this transformative moment in Latin Christendom, as it began to embrace the foundations of modern science and technology.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Richard Rubenstein, author ofÂ _Aristotleâ€™s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_The Abacus and the Cross_ tells the fascinating, little known story of the â€˜Scientist-Popeâ€™ Sylvester II (Gerbert of Aurillac), whom older writers long considered a practitioner of the Black Arts. In this vividly presented, scrupulously researched biography, Nancy Marie Brown shows how a few open-minded intellectuals illuminated the Dark Ages by importing scientific knowledge and methods into Christian Europe from Muslim Spain. Brownâ€™s descriptions of Gerbertâ€™s â€˜magicalâ€™ instruments, the abacus, celestial spheres, and astrolabe, as well as of his worship of a mathematically-inspired Creator, make important contributions to the history of medieval science.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The New York Journal of Books\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n _â€œMs. Brownâ€™s easily readable history draws the reader into a world of political intrigue, the excitement of introducing the abacus and astrolabe to Europe, and the shaky ground that surrounding the broader culture of Europe around 1000. Her book is a useful reminder that clear and well-reasoned history is by no means simplistic. The story of dâ€™Aurillacâ€™s life and papacy shows a medieval milieu more complex than oft portrayed.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8615'),
(8357, 'The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages', 'Nancy Marie Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The pontiff in question is Sylvester II, pope from 999 to 1003. From the fragmentary evidence about Gerbert of Aurillac, Sylvesterâ€™s name before his elevation, Brown resourcefully recounts his remarkable career and boldly asserts that the history of mathematics must be revised in light of Gerbertâ€™s life. Born to a humble station around 950, Gerbertâ€™s precocity impressed bishops and counts, and his friendship-forming personality, visible in surviving letters, showed up in places from Barcelona to Reims to Rome. Brown speculates that he also may have studied in Cordoba, then a center of Islamic erudition, where he may have learned about Arabic numerals, the abacus, and the astrolabe. In any event, she recounts that Gerbert served as a conduit of Arab science into Christian Europe as schoolmaster at Reims. His medieval scholarly renown subsequently attracted the attention of emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. As readably knowledgeable about Gerbertâ€™s political fortunes as about his intellectual influence, Brown is a lively narrator and interesting interpreter of Gerbertâ€™s life and world. This portrait gives both the science and the history audiences something to talk about. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Overflowing with illuminating material, _The Abacus and the Cross_ is the biography of a vital moment we know precious little about." --Maria Rosa Menocal, author of The Ornament of the World\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Keith Devlin, Stanford University professor and author of _Fibonacciâ€™s Bridge of Numbers: the Medieval Visionary and the Book that Launched the Modern World\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œNancy Marie Brownâ€™s book provides a fascinating, well researched, in depth study of the life and times of one of the key figures who brought modern arithmetic into Western Europe.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Marilyn Yalom, author of _Birth of the Chess Queen\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThis book will change how you think about the so-called Dark Ages.  Well-researched, well-written, and vividly illuminating.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pat Shipman, Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University and author of\n  <em>\n   Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNancy Marie Brown again uses her extraordinary ability to bring medieval time to life in_ The Abacus and the Cross_, in the person of the â€˜Scientist Popeâ€™ Gerbert of Aurillac (later Pope Sylvester II). Working from sparse records, Brown manages to tell us of the remarkable scholar, brilliant mathematician, and inveterate punster who loved both his holy orders and luxurious living. She shows us a time in which the route to God lay through the study of science and math and when intellectual developments flowed across the boundaries of religion and empire in Eurasia. This is a remarkable book that reflects on our modern times on every page.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jeff Sypeck, author of\n  <em>\n   Becoming Charlemagne\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA pleasure to read,\n <em>\n  The Abacus and the Cross\n </em>\n draws readers into a world of intrigue, superstition, and scholarship. Nancy Marie Brown writes lucidly about math and science, finding important stories in the lives of medieval people who deserve to be widely remembered.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _Kirkus\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA thoroughly engrossing account of the Dark Ages and one of its Popes, both far less dark than popular histories teach. . . .The years around 1000 CE seem to be every medieval historianâ€™s favorite era, but Brownâ€™s welcome addition to the genre provides a lively, eye-opening portrait of a sophisticated Europe whose intellectual leaders showed genuine interest in learning.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Science Writers Magazine\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n _â€œAs she reconstructs the strangely illuminated Europe of the Dark Ages, Brown reminds readers that the major conflicts in our world todayâ€”between Christianity and Islam, between religion and scienceâ€”are products of our own age, not historical inevitabilities.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs readably knowledgeable about Gerbertâ€™s political fortunes as about his intellectual influence, Brown is a lively narrator and interesting interpreter of Gerbertâ€™s life and world.  This portrait gives both the science and the history audiences something to talk about.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA rags-to-riches saga... captures how the direction of history can be influenced by one person. . . . Had Gerbert lived longer and been more politically savvy, Brownâ€™s portrait makes one believe his ability to teach might have jump-started science before the Dark Ages enveloped Europe. VERDICT: Enjoyable to read, informative, and highly recommended for all history and history of science buffs.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Maria Rosa Menocal, author of _The Ornament of the World _and co-author of _The Arts of Intimacy_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOverflowing with illuminating material,\n <em>\n  The Abacus and the Cross\n </em>\n is the biography of a vital moment we know precious little about: the second half of the tenth century, when Gerbert of Aurillac, the man who would be pope at the much-anticipated millennium, came of age. Among Brownâ€™s many virtues is her ability to weave the intellectual and the material into a seamless narrative, so that when her readers learn about what books the monks of a monastery might be copyingâ€”and how those volumes connect to the intellectual past and futureâ€”they are also going to learn the mechanics of the copying itself, beginning with the cultivation of the animals whose skins will become parchment. She has the scientistâ€™s eye for detail and the historianâ€™s gift of storytelling and she has not one but dozens of great stories to tell about this transformative moment in Latin Christendom, as it began to embrace the foundations of modern science and technology.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Richard Rubenstein, author of _Aristotleâ€™s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_The Abacus and the Cross_ tells the fascinating, little known story of the â€˜Scientist-Popeâ€™ Sylvester II (Gerbert of Aurillac), whom older writers long considered a practitioner of the Black Arts. In this vividly presented, scrupulously researched biography, Nancy Marie Brown shows how a few open-minded intellectuals illuminated the Dark Ages by importing scientific knowledge and methods into Christian Europe from Muslim Spain. Brownâ€™s descriptions of Gerbertâ€™s â€˜magicalâ€™ instruments, the abacus, celestial spheres, and astrolabe, as well as of his worship of a mathematically-inspired Creator, make important contributions to the history of medieval science.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The New York Journal of Books\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n _â€œMs. Brownâ€™s easily readable history draws the reader into a world of political intrigue, the excitement of introducing the abacus and astrolabe to Europe, and the shaky ground that surrounding the broader culture of Europe around 1000. Her book is a useful reminder that clear and well-reasoned history is by no means simplistic. The story of dâ€™Aurillacâ€™s life and papacy shows a medieval milieu more complex than oft portrayed.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22108'),
(8358, 'Abaddon, Exterminatorul', 'Ernesto Sabato', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25858'),
(8359, 'Abandon', 'Meg Cabot', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for Meg Cabot:\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCabot shows the dark side behind the bling-blingy superficial worlds.â€ â€”Teenreads.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[The] strong, amusing voice, the plot twists, and the possibility of romance will draw mystery and chick-lit readers alike." â€”ALA Booklist\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBag the tiara and get out the gun ... Cabot delivers.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, a dark, fantastical story about this world . . . and the underworld.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can''t help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she''s never alone . . . because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now she''s moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Only she can''t. Because even here, he finds her. That''s how desperately he wants her back. She knows he''s no guardian angel, and his dark world isn''t exactly heaven, yet she can''t stay away . . . especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2919'),
(8360, 'Abandon', 'Meg Cabot', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for Meg Cabot:\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCabot shows the dark side behind the bling-blingy superficial worlds.â€ â€”Teenreads.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[The] strong, amusing voice, the plot twists, and the possibility of romance will draw mystery and chick-lit readers alike." â€”ALA Booklist\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBag the tiara and get out the gun ... Cabot delivers.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, a dark, fantastical story about this world . . . and the underworld.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can''t help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she''s never alone . . . because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now she''s moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Only she can''t. Because even here, he finds her. That''s how desperately he wants her back. She knows he''s no guardian angel, and his dark world isn''t exactly heaven, yet she can''t stay away . . . especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8715'),
(8361, 'Abandon', 'Meg Cabot', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for Meg Cabot:\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCabot shows the dark side behind the bling-blingy superficial worlds.â€ â€”Teenreads.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[The] strong, amusing voice, the plot twists, and the possibility of romance will draw mystery and chick-lit readers alike." â€”ALA Booklist\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBag the tiara and get out the gun ... Cabot delivers.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, a dark, fantastical story about this world . . . and the underworld.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can''t help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she''s never alone . . . because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now she''s moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Only she can''t. Because even here, he finds her. That''s how desperately he wants her back. She knows he''s no guardian angel, and his dark world isn''t exactly heaven, yet she can''t stay away . . . especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21849'),
(8362, 'Abatia 2 - Blestemul Abatiei', 'Dan Dobos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25914'),
(8363, 'The Abduction', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The presidential election of 2000 is coming down to the wire in this disappointing thriller, when Democratic candidate (and attorney general) Allison Leahy blows a solid lead by refusing to answer the question whether she''s ever been unfaithful to her husband. Just as Republican candidate Lincoln Howe (read: Colin Powell) is about to pull ahead, his granddaughter is kidnapped. Leahy''s own newly adopted baby daughter was the victim of a similar crime eight years earlier. Are the abductions linked? Is someone connected to either of the candidates responsible? Those are the questions that never quite propel Grippando''s latest, after The Informant. While that novel had a strong narrative engine fueled by insider information on the FBI, this one never hits second gear. Neither Leahy nor Howe seems a particularly worthy candidate or likable person, and the possible villains?an ex-boyfriend, a pair of conniving campaign managers, Leahy''s tough businessman husband?are equally flat and unconvincing. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A U.S. attorney general running for president must deal with the kidnapping of an opponent''s granddaughter.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4864'),
(8364, 'The Abduction', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The presidential election of 2000 is coming down to the wire in this disappointing thriller, when Democratic candidate (and attorney general) Allison Leahy blows a solid lead by refusing to answer the question whether she''s ever been unfaithful to her husband. Just as Republican candidate Lincoln Howe (read: Colin Powell) is about to pull ahead, his granddaughter is kidnapped. Leahy''s own newly adopted baby daughter was the victim of a similar crime eight years earlier. Are the abductions linked? Is someone connected to either of the candidates responsible? Those are the questions that never quite propel Grippando''s latest, after The Informant. While that novel had a strong narrative engine fueled by insider information on the FBI, this one never hits second gear. Neither Leahy nor Howe seems a particularly worthy candidate or likable person, and the possible villains?an ex-boyfriend, a pair of conniving campaign managers, Leahy''s tough businessman husband?are equally flat and unconvincing. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A U.S. attorney general running for president must deal with the kidnapping of an opponent''s granddaughter.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10041'),
(8365, 'The Abduction', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The presidential election of 2000 is coming down to the wire in this disappointing thriller, when Democratic candidate (and attorney general) Allison Leahy blows a solid lead by refusing to answer the question whether she''s ever been unfaithful to her husband. Just as Republican candidate Lincoln Howe (read: Colin Powell) is about to pull ahead, his granddaughter is kidnapped. Leahy''s own newly adopted baby daughter was the victim of a similar crime eight years earlier. Are the abductions linked? Is someone connected to either of the candidates responsible? Those are the questions that never quite propel Grippando''s latest, after The Informant. While that novel had a strong narrative engine fueled by insider information on the FBI, this one never hits second gear. Neither Leahy nor Howe seems a particularly worthy candidate or likable person, and the possible villains?an ex-boyfriend, a pair of conniving campaign managers, Leahy''s tough businessman husband?are equally flat and unconvincing. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A U.S. attorney general running for president must deal with the kidnapping of an opponent''s granddaughter.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19815'),
(8366, 'Abhorsen', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An explosive prologue sets the stage for Nix''s riveting continuation of the story begun in Sabriel and Lirael. While newcomers might find the intricate plotting and the rituals of the Charter Magic off-putting at first, Nix rewards their efforts. Returning characters Lirael, former Second Assistant Librarian of the Clayr and now an Abhorsen-in-Waiting (the Abhorsen''s "birthright and charge [is] to maintain the borders of Life and Death"), and her nephew, Prince Sameth, along with Disreputable Dog and the mysterious white cat, Mogget, are ensorcelled in the Abhorsen House by a Dead creature, Chlorr of the Mask, who is in league with the evil necromancer Hedge. They break out to try and rescue Sam''s old friend, Nicholas Sayre, who has been tricked by Hedge into digging up Orannis, the Destroyer; if Hedge''s plan succeeds, the evil now contained by two separate hemispheres will join and annihilate all life. The grotesque imagery of the Death realm provides a haunting note, which Nix offsets by the brightness of the main characters'' quest to defeat the Destroyer. At once an allegory regarding war and peace and a testament to friendship, this thought-provoking fantasy also resolves the true identities of the popular Dog and Mogget characters-and suggests that Nix may still have more tricks up his sleeve. Ages 12-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up-The long-awaited confrontation between the evil necromancer Hedge and Abhorsen-in-Waiting Lirael and her nephew Sameth finally takes place in this conclusion to Nix''s trilogy. Fans were left hanging at the end of Lirael (HarperCollins, 2001) as they learned that Hedge had magically enslaved a horde of the newly dead and Sam''s friend Nick to help him dig up Orannis, a powerful Free Magic being who intended to destroy all life in the Kingdom. Long ago, Orannis had been broken in two and buried deep beneath the earth and Nick has discovered a way to join the two pieces to release him. All the characters from the previous books are here, but Lirael and Sam dominate the action. Lirael is destined to travel into death to find out how Orannis was defeated before and to try to find out how to defeat him once again. The experience leaves her scathed but stronger, and she finds her family, heritage, and her place in the world. Readers discover the real identities of the Disreputable Dog and the cat Mogget but Lirael''s mother''s actions still remain unsatisfactorily explained. Lirael and Sam have gained confidence in themselves and in their abilities in this title. There are also fewer surprises here, but Nix maintains the nonstop action, imaginative magical descriptions, and high level of violence of the previous titles. It is essential to read the series in order. There is a resolution, but the ending hints that this may not be the last story about the Old Kingdom. Fans will be overjoyed.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Sharon Rawlins, Piscataway Public Library, NJ\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5547'),
(8367, 'Abhorsen', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An explosive prologue sets the stage for Nix''s riveting continuation of the story begun in Sabriel and Lirael. While newcomers might find the intricate plotting and the rituals of the Charter Magic off-putting at first, Nix rewards their efforts. Returning characters Lirael, former Second Assistant Librarian of the Clayr and now an Abhorsen-in-Waiting (the Abhorsen''s "birthright and charge [is] to maintain the borders of Life and Death"), and her nephew, Prince Sameth, along with Disreputable Dog and the mysterious white cat, Mogget, are ensorcelled in the Abhorsen House by a Dead creature, Chlorr of the Mask, who is in league with the evil necromancer Hedge. They break out to try and rescue Sam''s old friend, Nicholas Sayre, who has been tricked by Hedge into digging up Orannis, the Destroyer; if Hedge''s plan succeeds, the evil now contained by two separate hemispheres will join and annihilate all life. The grotesque imagery of the Death realm provides a haunting note, which Nix offsets by the brightness of the main characters'' quest to defeat the Destroyer. At once an allegory regarding war and peace and a testament to friendship, this thought-provoking fantasy also resolves the true identities of the popular Dog and Mogget characters-and suggests that Nix may still have more tricks up his sleeve. Ages 12-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up-The long-awaited confrontation between the evil necromancer Hedge and Abhorsen-in-Waiting Lirael and her nephew Sameth finally takes place in this conclusion to Nix''s trilogy. Fans were left hanging at the end of Lirael (HarperCollins, 2001) as they learned that Hedge had magically enslaved a horde of the newly dead and Sam''s friend Nick to help him dig up Orannis, a powerful Free Magic being who intended to destroy all life in the Kingdom. Long ago, Orannis had been broken in two and buried deep beneath the earth and Nick has discovered a way to join the two pieces to release him. All the characters from the previous books are here, but Lirael and Sam dominate the action. Lirael is destined to travel into death to find out how Orannis was defeated before and to try to find out how to defeat him once again. The experience leaves her scathed but stronger, and she finds her family, heritage, and her place in the world. Readers discover the real identities of the Disreputable Dog and the cat Mogget but Lirael''s mother''s actions still remain unsatisfactorily explained. Lirael and Sam have gained confidence in themselves and in their abilities in this title. There are also fewer surprises here, but Nix maintains the nonstop action, imaginative magical descriptions, and high level of violence of the previous titles. It is essential to read the series in order. There is a resolution, but the ending hints that this may not be the last story about the Old Kingdom. Fans will be overjoyed.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Sharon Rawlins, Piscataway Public Library, NJ\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11704'),
(8368, 'Abhorsen', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An explosive prologue sets the stage for Nix''s riveting continuation of the story begun in Sabriel and Lirael. While newcomers might find the intricate plotting and the rituals of the Charter Magic off-putting at first, Nix rewards their efforts. Returning characters Lirael, former Second Assistant Librarian of the Clayr and now an Abhorsen-in-Waiting (the Abhorsen''s "birthright and charge [is] to maintain the borders of Life and Death"), and her nephew, Prince Sameth, along with Disreputable Dog and the mysterious white cat, Mogget, are ensorcelled in the Abhorsen House by a Dead creature, Chlorr of the Mask, who is in league with the evil necromancer Hedge. They break out to try and rescue Sam''s old friend, Nicholas Sayre, who has been tricked by Hedge into digging up Orannis, the Destroyer; if Hedge''s plan succeeds, the evil now contained by two separate hemispheres will join and annihilate all life. The grotesque imagery of the Death realm provides a haunting note, which Nix offsets by the brightness of the main characters'' quest to defeat the Destroyer. At once an allegory regarding war and peace and a testament to friendship, this thought-provoking fantasy also resolves the true identities of the popular Dog and Mogget characters-and suggests that Nix may still have more tricks up his sleeve. Ages 12-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up-The long-awaited confrontation between the evil necromancer Hedge and Abhorsen-in-Waiting Lirael and her nephew Sameth finally takes place in this conclusion to Nix''s trilogy. Fans were left hanging at the end of Lirael (HarperCollins, 2001) as they learned that Hedge had magically enslaved a horde of the newly dead and Sam''s friend Nick to help him dig up Orannis, a powerful Free Magic being who intended to destroy all life in the Kingdom. Long ago, Orannis had been broken in two and buried deep beneath the earth and Nick has discovered a way to join the two pieces to release him. All the characters from the previous books are here, but Lirael and Sam dominate the action. Lirael is destined to travel into death to find out how Orannis was defeated before and to try to find out how to defeat him once again. The experience leaves her scathed but stronger, and she finds her family, heritage, and her place in the world. Readers discover the real identities of the Disreputable Dog and the cat Mogget but Lirael''s mother''s actions still remain unsatisfactorily explained. Lirael and Sam have gained confidence in themselves and in their abilities in this title. There are also fewer surprises here, but Nix maintains the nonstop action, imaginative magical descriptions, and high level of violence of the previous titles. It is essential to read the series in order. There is a resolution, but the ending hints that this may not be the last story about the Old Kingdom. Fans will be overjoyed.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Sharon Rawlins, Piscataway Public Library, NJ\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14493'),
(8369, 'Abhorsen', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An explosive prologue sets the stage for Nix''s riveting continuation of the story begun in Sabriel and Lirael. While newcomers might find the intricate plotting and the rituals of the Charter Magic off-putting at first, Nix rewards their efforts. Returning characters Lirael, former Second Assistant Librarian of the Clayr and now an Abhorsen-in-Waiting (the Abhorsen''s "birthright and charge [is] to maintain the borders of Life and Death"), and her nephew, Prince Sameth, along with Disreputable Dog and the mysterious white cat, Mogget, are ensorcelled in the Abhorsen House by a Dead creature, Chlorr of the Mask, who is in league with the evil necromancer Hedge. They break out to try and rescue Sam''s old friend, Nicholas Sayre, who has been tricked by Hedge into digging up Orannis, the Destroyer; if Hedge''s plan succeeds, the evil now contained by two separate hemispheres will join and annihilate all life. The grotesque imagery of the Death realm provides a haunting note, which Nix offsets by the brightness of the main characters'' quest to defeat the Destroyer. At once an allegory regarding war and peace and a testament to friendship, this thought-provoking fantasy also resolves the true identities of the popular Dog and Mogget characters-and suggests that Nix may still have more tricks up his sleeve. Ages 12-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up-The long-awaited confrontation between the evil necromancer Hedge and Abhorsen-in-Waiting Lirael and her nephew Sameth finally takes place in this conclusion to Nix''s trilogy. Fans were left hanging at the end of Lirael (HarperCollins, 2001) as they learned that Hedge had magically enslaved a horde of the newly dead and Sam''s friend Nick to help him dig up Orannis, a powerful Free Magic being who intended to destroy all life in the Kingdom. Long ago, Orannis had been broken in two and buried deep beneath the earth and Nick has discovered a way to join the two pieces to release him. All the characters from the previous books are here, but Lirael and Sam dominate the action. Lirael is destined to travel into death to find out how Orannis was defeated before and to try to find out how to defeat him once again. The experience leaves her scathed but stronger, and she finds her family, heritage, and her place in the world. Readers discover the real identities of the Disreputable Dog and the cat Mogget but Lirael''s mother''s actions still remain unsatisfactorily explained. Lirael and Sam have gained confidence in themselves and in their abilities in this title. There are also fewer surprises here, but Nix maintains the nonstop action, imaginative magical descriptions, and high level of violence of the previous titles. It is essential to read the series in order. There is a resolution, but the ending hints that this may not be the last story about the Old Kingdom. Fans will be overjoyed.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Sharon Rawlins, Piscataway Public Library, NJ\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19181');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(8370, 'Abhorsen', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An explosive prologue sets the stage for Nix''s riveting continuation of the story begun in Sabriel and Lirael. While newcomers might find the intricate plotting and the rituals of the Charter Magic off-putting at first, Nix rewards their efforts. Returning characters Lirael, former Second Assistant Librarian of the Clayr and now an Abhorsen-in-Waiting (the Abhorsen''s "birthright and charge [is] to maintain the borders of Life and Death"), and her nephew, Prince Sameth, along with Disreputable Dog and the mysterious white cat, Mogget, are ensorcelled in the Abhorsen House by a Dead creature, Chlorr of the Mask, who is in league with the evil necromancer Hedge. They break out to try and rescue Sam''s old friend, Nicholas Sayre, who has been tricked by Hedge into digging up Orannis, the Destroyer; if Hedge''s plan succeeds, the evil now contained by two separate hemispheres will join and annihilate all life. The grotesque imagery of the Death realm provides a haunting note, which Nix offsets by the brightness of the main characters'' quest to defeat the Destroyer. At once an allegory regarding war and peace and a testament to friendship, this thought-provoking fantasy also resolves the true identities of the popular Dog and Mogget characters-and suggests that Nix may still have more tricks up his sleeve. Ages 12-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Up-The long-awaited confrontation between the evil necromancer Hedge and Abhorsen-in-Waiting Lirael and her nephew Sameth finally takes place in this conclusion to Nix''s trilogy. Fans were left hanging at the end of Lirael (HarperCollins, 2001) as they learned that Hedge had magically enslaved a horde of the newly dead and Sam''s friend Nick to help him dig up Orannis, a powerful Free Magic being who intended to destroy all life in the Kingdom. Long ago, Orannis had been broken in two and buried deep beneath the earth and Nick has discovered a way to join the two pieces to release him. All the characters from the previous books are here, but Lirael and Sam dominate the action. Lirael is destined to travel into death to find out how Orannis was defeated before and to try to find out how to defeat him once again. The experience leaves her scathed but stronger, and she finds her family, heritage, and her place in the world. Readers discover the real identities of the Disreputable Dog and the cat Mogget but Lirael''s mother''s actions still remain unsatisfactorily explained. Lirael and Sam have gained confidence in themselves and in their abilities in this title. There are also fewer surprises here, but Nix maintains the nonstop action, imaginative magical descriptions, and high level of violence of the previous titles. It is essential to read the series in order. There is a resolution, but the ending hints that this may not be the last story about the Old Kingdom. Fans will be overjoyed.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Sharon Rawlins, Piscataway Public Library, NJ\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26173'),
(8371, 'About a Boy', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Inventing a son got Will into a single parents support group, but rather than a fabulous new sex life, he found someone else''s very real son--a 12-year-old with a lot to teach about being a grown up. From the acclaimed author of "High Fidelity" comes this national bestseller that "GQ" calls "Clever and winning".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14572'),
(8372, 'About a Boy', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Inventing a son got Will into a single parents support group, but rather than a fabulous new sex life, he found someone else''s very real son--a 12-year-old with a lot to teach about being a grown up. From the acclaimed author of "High Fidelity" comes this national bestseller that "GQ" calls "Clever and winning".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22301'),
(8373, 'About a Girl', 'Joanne Horniman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''I remember when we lay together for the first time and I closed my eyes and felt the crackle of her dark hair between my fingers. She was all warmth and sparking light. When I was with her, my skin sighed that the centre of the world was precisely here.'' Anna is afraid she must be unlovable - until she meets Flynn. Together, the girls swim, eat banana cake, laugh and love. Some days Flynn is unreachable; other days she''s at Anna''s door - but when Anna discovers Flynn''s secret, she wonders if she knows her at all. A beautifully crafted novel by award-winning author Joanne Horniman that explores the tension between the tender moments that pull people together and the secrets that push them apart.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''I remember when we lay together for the first time and I closed my eyes and felt the crackle of her dark hair between my fingers. She was all warmth and sparking light. When I was with her, my skin sighed that the centre of the world was precisely here.'' Anna is afraid she must be unlovable - until she meets Flynn. Together, the girls swim, eat banana cake, laugh and love. Some days Flynn is unreachable; other days she''s at Anna''s door - but when Anna discovers Flynn''s secret, she wonders if she knows her at all. A beautifully crafted novel by award-winning author Joanne Horniman that explores the tension between the tender moments that pull people together and the secrets that push them apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25511'),
(8374, 'About Face', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Donna Leon''s eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon''s best-selling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family, but also violent crime and political corruption.\n <br />\n In About Face, Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous garbage piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across the lagoon, the issue is never far from the fore.\n <br />\n Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti''s work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor. But the investigator is not the only one with a special request. His father-in-law needs help and a mysterious woman comes into the picture. Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he''s seen before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5867'),
(8375, 'About Face', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Donna Leon''s eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon''s best-selling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family, but also violent crime and political corruption.\n <br />\n In About Face, Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous garbage piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across the lagoon, the issue is never far from the fore.\n <br />\n Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti''s work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor. But the investigator is not the only one with a special request. His father-in-law needs help and a mysterious woman comes into the picture. Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he''s seen before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11129'),
(8376, 'About Face', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Donna Leon''s eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon''s best-selling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family, but also violent crime and political corruption. In About Face, Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous garbage piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across the lagoon, the issue is never far from the fore. Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti''s work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor. But the investigator is not the only one with a special request. His father-in-law needs help and a mysterious woman comes into the picture. Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he''s seen before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18754'),
(8377, 'About Face', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Donna Leon''s eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon''s best-selling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family, but also violent crime and political corruption. In About Face, Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous garbage piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across the lagoon, the issue is never far from the fore. Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti''s work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor. But the investigator is not the only one with a special request. His father-in-law needs help and a mysterious woman comes into the picture. Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he''s seen before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27484'),
(8378, 'Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter', 'Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  Indiana, 1818\n </em>\n . Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother''s bedside. She''s been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."\n</p>\n<p>\n "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.\n</p>\n<p>\n Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother''s fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "_henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose_..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon\n <em>\n  The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln\n </em>\n , and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.\n</p>\n<p>\n Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the\n <em>\n  true\n </em>\n life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9473'),
(8379, 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter', 'Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother''s bedside. She''s been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother''s fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, ""henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose.".." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House. While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon "The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln," and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years. Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the "true" life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1383'),
(8380, 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter', 'Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother''s bedside. She''s been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother''s fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, ""henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose.".." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House. While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon "The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln," and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years. Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the "true" life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15259'),
(8381, 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter', 'Seth Grahame-Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Indiana, 1818 - Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother''s bedside. She''s been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother''s fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House. While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years. Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23580'),
(8382, 'Absent Friends', 'S. J. Rozan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner S. J. Rozan. Set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11, Absent Friends brilliantly captures a time and place unlike any other, as it winds through the wounded streets of New York and Staten Island...and into a maze of old crimes, damaged lives, and heartbreaking revelations. The result is not only an electrifying mystery and a riveting piece of storytelling but an elegiac novel that powerfully explores a world changed forever on a clear September morning.In a novel that will catch you off guard at every turn, and one that is guaranteed to become a classic, S. J. Rozan masterfully ratchets up the tension one revelation at a time as she dares you to ponder the bonds of friendship, the meaning of truth, and the stuff of heroism.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1418'),
(8383, 'Absent Friends', 'S. J. Rozan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner S. J. Rozan. Set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11, Absent Friends brilliantly captures a time and place unlike any other, as it winds through the wounded streets of New York and Staten Island...and into a maze of old crimes, damaged lives, and heartbreaking revelations. The result is not only an electrifying mystery and a riveting piece of storytelling but an elegiac novel that powerfully explores a world changed forever on a clear September morning.In a novel that will catch you off guard at every turn, and one that is guaranteed to become a classic, S. J. Rozan masterfully ratchets up the tension one revelation at a time as she dares you to ponder the bonds of friendship, the meaning of truth, and the stuff of heroism.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12474'),
(8384, 'Absent Friends', 'S. J. Rozan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner S. J. Rozan. Set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11, Absent Friends brilliantly captures a time and place unlike any other, as it winds through the wounded streets of New York and Staten Island...and into a maze of old crimes, damaged lives, and heartbreaking revelations. The result is not only an electrifying mystery and a riveting piece of storytelling but an elegiac novel that powerfully explores a world changed forever on a clear September morning.In a novel that will catch you off guard at every turn, and one that is guaranteed to become a classic, S. J. Rozan masterfully ratchets up the tension one revelation at a time as she dares you to ponder the bonds of friendship, the meaning of truth, and the stuff of heroism.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23471'),
(8385, 'The Absentee', 'Maria Edgeworth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25395'),
(8386, 'Absolute Beginner&#39;s Guide to Pregnancy', 'John Adams; Marta Justak', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pregnancy is a thrilling experience, but it can also be filled with apprehension and anxiety, especially for first-time parents. _Absolute Beginner[HTML_REMOVED]s Guide to Pregnancy_ eases the worry by giving you answers to the questions you have, as well as questions that you may not think to ask. Unlike most other books available on the topic, this book provides no-nonsense information from a medical professional[HTML_REMOVED]s perspective, written in a conversational style that makes even the most confusing medical terminology easy to understand. Dr. John Adams covers the entire process, from pre-pregnancy issues like fertility and finding the right doctor, through the nine months of pregnancy to postpartum care. Dedicated chapters address the unique issues that single mothers and working mothers face.\n</p>\n<p>\n With _Absolute Beginner[HTML_REMOVED]s Guide to Pregnancy,_ you will be prepared for the physical, mental, social and financial changes to come during this exciting time.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pregnancy is a thrilling experience, but it can also be filled with apprehension and anxiety, especially for first-time parents. _Absolute Beginner[HTML_REMOVED]s Guide to Pregnancy_ eases the worry by giving you answers to the questions you have, as well as questions that you may not think to ask. Unlike most other books available on the topic, this book provides no-nonsense information from a medical professional[HTML_REMOVED]s perspective, written in a conversational style that makes even the most confusing medical terminology easy to understand. Dr. John Adams covers the entire process, from pre-pregnancy issues like fertility and finding the right doctor, through the nine months of pregnancy to postpartum care. Dedicated chapters address the unique issues that single mothers and working mothers face.\n</p>\n<p>\n With _Absolute Beginner[HTML_REMOVED]s Guide to Pregnancy,_ you will be prepared for the physical, mental, social and financial changes to come during this exciting time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20014'),
(8387, 'Absolute Friends', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Le Carrâ€š may have changed publishers, but his latest novel remains as resolutely up-to-date as ever. In place of the old Cold War games, his recent books have dealt with the depredations of international arms merchants and the impact of predatory drug manufacturers on the Third World. Now his eloquent and white-hot indignation is turned on what he sees as a duplicitous war in Iraq and the devious means employed to tarnish those who oppose it. The friends of the title are two beautifully realized characters, both idealists in their very different ways. Ted Mundy, the bighearted son of a pukka Indian Army officer, leads a life in which his inborn kindliness and lack of self-regard are turned to what he sees as good causes. With Sasha, the crippled son of an old Nazi who turns bitterly against that past only to be tormented by the rise of a new brutalism in East Germany, he forms a double-agent partnership that feeds British intelligence during the Cold War years. With the collapse of the Soviet system, Ted is at loose ends, trying both to make ends meet as a cheery tour guide for English-speaking visitors to Mad Ludwig''s castle in Bavaria and to support his Muslim wife and her small son in Munich. Suddenly he hears again from Sasha, who tells him that a mysterious benefactor wishes to enlist his services as teacher and translator to counter the widespread propaganda on behalf of an Iraqi war, and he is inflamed once more with a desire to help. The grim consequences are spelled out by le Carrâ€š with a deadly fury that is startling in the context of his usual urbanity. With a largely German setting that recalls some of his earliest books, as well as the same embracing clarity of vision about human motives and failings that gleams through all his best work, this is a book that offers a bitter warning even as it delivers immense reading pleasure.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n There has been a linear evolution in the mind-set of le Carre''s spies over the years--from agonizing over the moral ambiguity of the craft set against a firm belief in its necessity (the Smiley novels), through opting to place individual values over national ones (_A Perfect Spy_ and\n <em>\n  Russia House\n </em>\n ), to recognizing that bureaucracy has poisoned the intelligence business from within (the post-cold war novels). Now, driven by recent world events, that evolution takes an even more radical step--to the realization that ideology is irrelevant, that powerful governments are an evil unto themselves, forever the enemy of individual life. It is a harrowing journey to that somber knowledge for Ted Mundy, expatriate son of a British army officer, and his "absolute friend," the crippled German radical Sasha, whose idealism finally engenders its own chaos and makes him easy prey for the powerful. Jumping backward and forward in time, le Carre reveals the history of a friendship in the context of a lifetime of commitment gone sour: student radicalism in Berlin during the ''60s; active spying for the West during the waning years of the cold war; and, finally, a parting of the ways, with Sasha continuing to search for the revolution of his dreams while Teddy finds a separate peace. But Iraq and a reunion with his friend reignite Teddy''s fervor, paving the way for the inevitable tragedy. Yes, le Carre uses Teddy as a mouthpiece for some strong political opinions (the U.S. is described as a "hyperpower that thinks it can treat the rest of the world as its allotment"), but the novel never becomes the author''s soapbox. The human story remains paramount, even if the chilling message is that human stories don''t stand much of a chance in the world as we find it.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20208'),
(8388, 'Absolute Zero', 'Chuck Logan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ex-cop Phil Broker, hero of Logan''s previous three thrillers (The Big Law, etc.), takes a break from managing his small Minnesota resort in this latest outing and fills in for his uncle as a wilderness guide in the northernmost reaches of the state. It''s hardly a pleasure trip: Broker''s soldier wife, Nina, has just split with their child, and one of Broker''s three clients, action writer Hank Sommer, is constantly fighting with his wife, Jolene, by cell phone while Dr. Allen Falken and lawyer Milt Bane look on. Caught by a sudden blizzard as they are kayaking, Broker nearly drowns until Sommer fights their kayak across the lake, but ruptures his colon in the effort. At a minimal hospital with no surgeon in snowbound Ely, Falken operates with local nurse anesthetist Amy Skoda, but Sommer goes into post-op coma and Skoda gets the blame. Then Sommer''s sexy wife takes Sommer home early, and the kinky death of a CPA, Cliff Stovall, hits the news. Pondering Sommer''s last words "tell Cliff to move the money" Broker teams up with Skoda to visit Sommer and Jolene, but Skoda gets info that puts their lives in danger. Lured back to Ely and tricked by experts, Broker and Skoda are put out of action, and the scene is set for a shattering surprise ending. Logan parlays the plot elements with the icy finesse of James M. Cain and draws characters so real you can feel the body heat steaming off the page. Once again, he proves himself an awesome storyteller with a unique voice and a flawless sense of place and mood. Major ad/promo; 6-city author tour; Harper Audio.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Continuing his winning streak, Logan (The Big Law) brings back recurring character Phil Broker, now as a wilderness guide rather than an undercover police officer. Broker leads three minimally equipped men deep into the Minnesota woods to hunt moose. Before they can bag a beast, however, a massive storm destroys most of their supplies and critically injures one of the men. As the troupe''s guide, it falls to Phil to get to civilization and bring back a rescue team before the man dies. The rescue and subsequent events connect their four lives in unexpected ways. Readers will delights in the first-rate characterization and compelling plot filled with unexpected twists. Recommended for popular fiction collections. Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6734'),
(8389, 'Absolute Zero', 'Chuck Logan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ex-cop Phil Broker, hero of Logan''s previous three thrillers (The Big Law, etc.), takes a break from managing his small Minnesota resort in this latest outing and fills in for his uncle as a wilderness guide in the northernmost reaches of the state. It''s hardly a pleasure trip: Broker''s soldier wife, Nina, has just split with their child, and one of Broker''s three clients, action writer Hank Sommer, is constantly fighting with his wife, Jolene, by cell phone while Dr. Allen Falken and lawyer Milt Bane look on. Caught by a sudden blizzard as they are kayaking, Broker nearly drowns until Sommer fights their kayak across the lake, but ruptures his colon in the effort. At a minimal hospital with no surgeon in snowbound Ely, Falken operates with local nurse anesthetist Amy Skoda, but Sommer goes into post-op coma and Skoda gets the blame. Then Sommer''s sexy wife takes Sommer home early, and the kinky death of a CPA, Cliff Stovall, hits the news. Pondering Sommer''s last words "tell Cliff to move the money" Broker teams up with Skoda to visit Sommer and Jolene, but Skoda gets info that puts their lives in danger. Lured back to Ely and tricked by experts, Broker and Skoda are put out of action, and the scene is set for a shattering surprise ending. Logan parlays the plot elements with the icy finesse of James M. Cain and draws characters so real you can feel the body heat steaming off the page. Once again, he proves himself an awesome storyteller with a unique voice and a flawless sense of place and mood. Major ad/promo; 6-city author tour; Harper Audio.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Continuing his winning streak, Logan (The Big Law) brings back recurring character Phil Broker, now as a wilderness guide rather than an undercover police officer. Broker leads three minimally equipped men deep into the Minnesota woods to hunt moose. Before they can bag a beast, however, a massive storm destroys most of their supplies and critically injures one of the men. As the troupe''s guide, it falls to Phil to get to civilization and bring back a rescue team before the man dies. The rescue and subsequent events connect their four lives in unexpected ways. Readers will delights in the first-rate characterization and compelling plot filled with unexpected twists. Recommended for popular fiction collections. Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11145'),
(8390, 'Absolute Zero', 'Chuck Logan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ex-cop Phil Broker, hero of Logan''s previous three thrillers (The Big Law, etc.), takes a break from managing his small Minnesota resort in this latest outing and fills in for his uncle as a wilderness guide in the northernmost reaches of the state. It''s hardly a pleasure trip: Broker''s soldier wife, Nina, has just split with their child, and one of Broker''s three clients, action writer Hank Sommer, is constantly fighting with his wife, Jolene, by cell phone while Dr. Allen Falken and lawyer Milt Bane look on. Caught by a sudden blizzard as they are kayaking, Broker nearly drowns until Sommer fights their kayak across the lake, but ruptures his colon in the effort. At a minimal hospital with no surgeon in snowbound Ely, Falken operates with local nurse anesthetist Amy Skoda, but Sommer goes into post-op coma and Skoda gets the blame. Then Sommer''s sexy wife takes Sommer home early, and the kinky death of a CPA, Cliff Stovall, hits the news. Pondering Sommer''s last words "tell Cliff to move the money" Broker teams up with Skoda to visit Sommer and Jolene, but Skoda gets info that puts their lives in danger. Lured back to Ely and tricked by experts, Broker and Skoda are put out of action, and the scene is set for a shattering surprise ending. Logan parlays the plot elements with the icy finesse of James M. Cain and draws characters so real you can feel the body heat steaming off the page. Once again, he proves himself an awesome storyteller with a unique voice and a flawless sense of place and mood. Major ad/promo; 6-city author tour; Harper Audio.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Continuing his winning streak, Logan (The Big Law) brings back recurring character Phil Broker, now as a wilderness guide rather than an undercover police officer. Broker leads three minimally equipped men deep into the Minnesota woods to hunt moose. Before they can bag a beast, however, a massive storm destroys most of their supplies and critically injures one of the men. As the troupe''s guide, it falls to Phil to get to civilization and bring back a rescue team before the man dies. The rescue and subsequent events connect their four lives in unexpected ways. Readers will delights in the first-rate characterization and compelling plot filled with unexpected twists. Recommended for popular fiction collections. Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18018'),
(8391, 'Absolutely Small', 'Michael D. Fayer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  How a photon can be in two places at once is just one of the conundrums of quantum physics that Fayer (Elements of Quantum Mechanics) helps to unravel. The Stanford University Professor of Chemistry provides a roadmap for non-scientific readers who wish to understand the subject but lack advanced mathematical training. Fayer''s belief that our everyday experiences "teach us to think in terms of classical physics" helps him easily breach the leap from playing ball to understanding how the earth orbits the sun. But because what we learn as children "prepares us to view nature in a manner that is fundamentally wrong," most people are at a loss when probing seemingly simple questions: "Why are cherries red and blueberries blue?" While the large objects treated in classical physics can be measured without appreciable disturbance, the same is not true at the quantum level. We may take the color and size of fruit for granted, but Fayer illustrates the ways in which "the natural world is driven by quantum phenomena" with a serious, accessible treatment of a complex and fascinating subject.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9513'),
(8392, 'Abyss', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following a trail of clues across the galaxy, Luke Skywalker continues his quest to find the reasons behind Jacen Soloâ€™s dark downfall and to win redemption for the Jedi Order. Sojourning among the mysterious Aing-Tii monks has left Luke and his son Ben with no real answers, only the suspicion that the revelations they seek lie in the forbidden reaches of the distant Maw Cluster. There, hidden from the galaxy in a labyrinth of black holes, dwell the Mind Walkers: those whose power to transcend their bodies and be one with the Force is as seductive and intoxicating as it is potentially fatal. But it may be Lukeâ€™s only path to the truth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, on Coruscant, the war of wills between Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala and the Jedi Order is escalating. Outraged over the carbonite freezing of young Jedi Knights Valin and Jysella Horn after their inexplicable mental breakdowns, the Jedi are determined to defy Daalaâ€™s martial tactics, override Council Master Kenth Hamnerâ€™s wavering leadership, and deal on their own terms with the epidemic of madness preying on their ranks. As Han and Leia Solo, along with their daughter Jaina, join the fight to protect more stricken Knights from arrest, Jedi healers race to find a cure for the rapidly spreading affliction. But none of them realize the blaster barrel is already swinging in their directionâ€“and Chief Daala is about to pull the trigger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nor do Luke and Ben, deep in the Maw Cluster and pushing their Force abilities beyond known limits, realize how close they areâ€“to the Sith strike squad bent on exterminating the Skywalkers, to a nexus of dark-side energy unprecedented in its power and its hunger, and to an explosive confrontation between opposing wielders of the Force from which only one Masterâ€“good or evilâ€“can emerge alive.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Troy Denning is the_ New York Times_ bestselling author of\n <strong>\n  Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost; Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Star by Star; the Star Wars: Dark Nest trilogy: The Joiner King, The Unseen Queen, and The Swarm War; and Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Tempest, Inferno, and Invincible\n </strong>\n â€“as well as\n <em>\n  Pages of Pain\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Beyond the High Road\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Summoning\n </em>\n , and many other novels. A former game designer and editor, he lives in western Wisconsin with his wife, Andria.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/478'),
(8393, 'Abyss', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following a trail of clues across the galaxy, Luke Skywalker continues his quest to find the reasons behind Jacen Soloâ€™s dark downfall and to win redemption for the Jedi Order. Sojourning among the mysterious Aing-Tii monks has left Luke and his son Ben with no real answers, only the suspicion that the revelations they seek lie in the forbidden reaches of the distant Maw Cluster. There, hidden from the galaxy in a labyrinth of black holes, dwell the Mind Walkers: those whose power to transcend their bodies and be one with the Force is as seductive and intoxicating as it is potentially fatal. But it may be Lukeâ€™s only path to the truth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, on Coruscant, the war of wills between Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala and the Jedi Order is escalating. Outraged over the carbonite freezing of young Jedi Knights Valin and Jysella Horn after their inexplicable mental breakdowns, the Jedi are determined to defy Daalaâ€™s martial tactics, override Council Master Kenth Hamnerâ€™s wavering leadership, and deal on their own terms with the epidemic of madness preying on their ranks. As Han and Leia Solo, along with their daughter Jaina, join the fight to protect more stricken Knights from arrest, Jedi healers race to find a cure for the rapidly spreading affliction. But none of them realize the blaster barrel is already swinging in their directionâ€“and Chief Daala is about to pull the trigger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nor do Luke and Ben, deep in the Maw Cluster and pushing their Force abilities beyond known limits, realize how close they areâ€“to the Sith strike squad bent on exterminating the Skywalkers, to a nexus of dark-side energy unprecedented in its power and its hunger, and to an explosive confrontation between opposing wielders of the Force from which only one Masterâ€“good or evilâ€“can emerge alive.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Troy Denning is the_ New York Times_ bestselling author of\n <strong>\n  Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost; Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Star by Star; the Star Wars: Dark Nest trilogy: The Joiner King, The Unseen Queen, and The Swarm War; and Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Tempest, Inferno, and Invincible\n </strong>\n â€“as well as\n <em>\n  Pages of Pain\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Beyond the High Road\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Summoning\n </em>\n , and many other novels. A former game designer and editor, he lives in western Wisconsin with his wife, Andria.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9216'),
(8394, 'Abyss', 'Troy Denning', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following a trail of clues across the galaxy, Luke Skywalker continues his quest to find the reasons behind Jacen Soloâ€™s dark downfall and to win redemption for the Jedi Order. Sojourning among the mysterious Aing-Tii monks has left Luke and his son Ben with no real answers, only the suspicion that the revelations they seek lie in the forbidden reaches of the distant Maw Cluster. There, hidden from the galaxy in a labyrinth of black holes, dwell the Mind Walkers: those whose power to transcend their bodies and be one with the Force is as seductive and intoxicating as it is potentially fatal. But it may be Lukeâ€™s only path to the truth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, on Coruscant, the war of wills between Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala and the Jedi Order is escalating. Outraged over the carbonite freezing of young Jedi Knights Valin and Jysella Horn after their inexplicable mental breakdowns, the Jedi are determined to defy Daalaâ€™s martial tactics, override Council Master Kenth Hamnerâ€™s wavering leadership, and deal on their own terms with the epidemic of madness preying on their ranks. As Han and Leia Solo, along with their daughter Jaina, join the fight to protect more stricken Knights from arrest, Jedi healers race to find a cure for the rapidly spreading affliction. But none of them realize the blaster barrel is already swinging in their directionâ€“and Chief Daala is about to pull the trigger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nor do Luke and Ben, deep in the Maw Cluster and pushing their Force abilities beyond known limits, realize how close they areâ€“to the Sith strike squad bent on exterminating the Skywalkers, to a nexus of dark-side energy unprecedented in its power and its hunger, and to an explosive confrontation between opposing wielders of the Force from which only one Masterâ€“good or evilâ€“can emerge alive.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Troy Denning is the_ New York Times_ bestselling author of\n <strong>\n  Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost; Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Star by Star; the Star Wars: Dark Nest trilogy: The Joiner King, The Unseen Queen, and The Swarm War; and Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Tempest, Inferno, and Invincible\n </strong>\n â€“as well as\n <em>\n  Pages of Pain\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Beyond the High Road\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Summoning\n </em>\n , and many other novels. A former game designer and editor, he lives in western Wisconsin with his wife, Andria.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24459'),
(8395, 'Acacia: Book One: The War With the Mein', 'David Anthony Durham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In this sprawling and vividly imagined fantasy, historical novelist Durham (_Pride of Carthage_) chronicles the downfall and reinvention of the Akaran Dynasty, whose empire, called Acacia, was built on conquest, slaving and drug trade. The Acacian empire, encompassing "The Known World," is hated by its subjugated peoples, especially the Mein, who 22 generations earlier were exiled to the icy northland. Having sent an assassin to kill the Acacian king, Leodan, the rebel chieftain, Hanish Mein, declares war on the empire. As Acacia falls, Leodan''s treasonous but conflicted chancellor, Thaddeus Clegg, spirits the king''s four children to safety. When the Mein''s rule proves even more tyrannical than the old, the former chancellor seeks to reunite the now adult Akaran heirsâ€”the oldest son Aliver (once heir to the throne), the beautiful elder daughter Corinn, their younger sister, Mena, and youngest brother, Darielâ€”to lead a war to regain the empire. Durham has created a richly detailed alternate reality leavened with a dollop of magic and populated by complicated personalities grappling with issues of freedom and oppression.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Anthony Durham, the author of three historical novels, envisions a fascinating, fully developed world in\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  . He delves into great detail-explaining religious beliefs, political philosophies, even courting rituals-to draw the reader into his creation. Critics acknowledge the necessity of these "info dumps" (_Science Fiction and Fantasy News_) as setups for future volumes of the saga, while maintaining that the frequent descriptions did not detract from the absorbing, fast-paced plot. Readers won''t find any wizards or dragons in\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  ; it is narrated in the alternating voices of genuine, convincing characters that blur the lines between good and evil. Packed with suspense, intrigue, and adventure, most readers will devour this first\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  installment and impatiently await the next.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6261');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(8396, 'Acacia: Book One: The War With the Mein', 'David Anthony Durham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In this sprawling and vividly imagined fantasy, historical novelist Durham (_Pride of Carthage_) chronicles the downfall and reinvention of the Akaran Dynasty, whose empire, called Acacia, was built on conquest, slaving and drug trade. The Acacian empire, encompassing "The Known World," is hated by its subjugated peoples, especially the Mein, who 22 generations earlier were exiled to the icy northland. Having sent an assassin to kill the Acacian king, Leodan, the rebel chieftain, Hanish Mein, declares war on the empire. As Acacia falls, Leodan''s treasonous but conflicted chancellor, Thaddeus Clegg, spirits the king''s four children to safety. When the Mein''s rule proves even more tyrannical than the old, the former chancellor seeks to reunite the now adult Akaran heirsâ€”the oldest son Aliver (once heir to the throne), the beautiful elder daughter Corinn, their younger sister, Mena, and youngest brother, Darielâ€”to lead a war to regain the empire. Durham has created a richly detailed alternate reality leavened with a dollop of magic and populated by complicated personalities grappling with issues of freedom and oppression.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Anthony Durham, the author of three historical novels, envisions a fascinating, fully developed world in\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  . He delves into great detail-explaining religious beliefs, political philosophies, even courting rituals-to draw the reader into his creation. Critics acknowledge the necessity of these "info dumps" (_Science Fiction and Fantasy News_) as setups for future volumes of the saga, while maintaining that the frequent descriptions did not detract from the absorbing, fast-paced plot. Readers won''t find any wizards or dragons in\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  ; it is narrated in the alternating voices of genuine, convincing characters that blur the lines between good and evil. Packed with suspense, intrigue, and adventure, most readers will devour this first\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  installment and impatiently await the next.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10875'),
(8397, 'Acacia: Book One: The War with the Mein', 'David Anthony Durham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In this sprawling and vividly imagined fantasy, historical novelist Durham (_Pride of Carthage_) chronicles the downfall and reinvention of the Akaran Dynasty, whose empire, called Acacia, was built on conquest, slaving and drug trade. The Acacian empire, encompassing "The Known World," is hated by its subjugated peoples, especially the Mein, who 22 generations earlier were exiled to the icy northland. Having sent an assassin to kill the Acacian king, Leodan, the rebel chieftain, Hanish Mein, declares war on the empire. As Acacia falls, Leodan''s treasonous but conflicted chancellor, Thaddeus Clegg, spirits the king''s four children to safety. When the Mein''s rule proves even more tyrannical than the old, the former chancellor seeks to reunite the now adult Akaran heirsâ€”the oldest son Aliver (once heir to the throne), the beautiful elder daughter Corinn, their younger sister, Mena, and youngest brother, Darielâ€”to lead a war to regain the empire. Durham has created a richly detailed alternate reality leavened with a dollop of magic and populated by complicated personalities grappling with issues of freedom and oppression.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  David Anthony Durham, the author of three historical novels, envisions a fascinating, fully developed world in\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  . He delves into great detail-explaining religious beliefs, political philosophies, even courting rituals-to draw the reader into his creation. Critics acknowledge the necessity of these "info dumps" (_Science Fiction and Fantasy News_) as setups for future volumes of the saga, while maintaining that the frequent descriptions did not detract from the absorbing, fast-paced plot. Readers won''t find any wizards or dragons in\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  ; it is narrated in the alternating voices of genuine, convincing characters that blur the lines between good and evil. Packed with suspense, intrigue, and adventure, most readers will devour this first\n  <em>\n   Acacia\n  </em>\n  installment and impatiently await the next.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17662'),
(8398, 'Academ&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For centuries, the people of Alera have relied on the power of the furies to protect them from outside invaders. But the gravest threat might be closer than they think.Tavi has escaped the Calderon Valley and the mysterious attack of the Marat on his homeland. But he is far from safe, as trying to keep up the illusion of being a student while secretly training as one of the First Lord''s spies is a dangerous game. And he has not yet learned to use the furies, making him especially vulnerable.When the attack comes it''s on two fronts. A sudden strike threatens the First Lord''s life and threatens to plunge the land into civil war. While in the Calderon Valley, the threat faced from the Marat is dwarfed by an ancient menace. And Tavi must learn to harness the furies if he has any chance of fighting the greatest threat Alera has ever known . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4502'),
(8399, 'Academ&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For centuries, the people of Alera have relied on the power of the furies to protect them from outside invaders. But the gravest threat might be closer than they think.Tavi has escaped the Calderon Valley and the mysterious attack of the Marat on his homeland. But he is far from safe, as trying to keep up the illusion of being a student while secretly training as one of the First Lord''s spies is a dangerous game. And he has not yet learned to use the furies, making him especially vulnerable.When the attack comes it''s on two fronts. A sudden strike threatens the First Lord''s life and threatens to plunge the land into civil war. While in the Calderon Valley, the threat faced from the Marat is dwarfed by an ancient menace. And Tavi must learn to harness the furies if he has any chance of fighting the greatest threat Alera has ever known . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14989'),
(8400, 'Academy 5 - Odyssey', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchinson''s fifth adventure opens with the former starship pilot deskbound at the Academy (the twenty-third-century equivalent of NASA), which is facing catastrophic cuts to the space program. In a media campaign led by Hutch''s old friend, acerbic newspaper editor Gregory MacAllister, pundits and politicians alike argue that the program''s money would be better spent on the earthbound threats of global warming and disease. Perhaps not coincidentally, humans everywhere from Earth to Ophiuchi begin witnessing repeated visitations from "moonriders" (apparently alien spherical spacecraft), and they prompt an Academy investigative mission. To humor Hutch and grab a good story, MacAllister joins a spacebound team including a celebrated pilot and a senator''s daughter. When the moonriders apparently redirect a few asteroids to destroy an orbiting hotel and narrowly bypass Earth, suspicions begin to emerge that the moonriders--and certain members of the Academy--may not be what they seem to be. McDevitt''s energetic, character-driven prose serves double duty by exploring Earth''s future political climate and forecasting the potential dangers awaiting humanity among the stars.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18200'),
(8401, 'Academy 6 - Cauldron', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Space opera specialist McDevitt shoehorns two traditional SF plots into his latest Academy novel (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  Odyssey\n </em>\n ), doing both stories a disservice. Youthful physicist Jon Silvestri persuades the philanthropic Prometheus Foundation to back tests of a risky interstellar drive that''s vastly superior to current technology. Soon series keystone Priscilla Hutchins finds herself aboard a newly outfitted ship dispatched to the galactic core, seeking the source of a million-year-old interstellar menace. The cast is uniformly likable if prickly, but no true protagonist emerges from McDevitt''s ensemble. Some sections are leisurely, others rushed. Readers see little of the star drive research, and the space voyage is triply sidetrackedâ€”to a planet of cheerfully technophobic aliens, an abandoned world with unexpected dangers and a black hole with a tantalizing secretâ€”before reaching its stated objective, where the threat''s origin is summarily introduced and disposed of in the last 60 pages. Despite considerable inventiveness and an enthusiastic pro-space agenda, the story remains superficial, especially frustrating from a writer of McDevitt''s caliber.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Chosen as One of the Five Best SF Novels of the Year by\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When a young physicist unveils an efficient star drive capable of reaching the core of the galaxy, veteran star pilot Priscilla â€œHutchâ€ Hutchins finds herself back in the deepest reaches of space, and on the verge of discovering the origins of the deadly omega clouds that continue to haunt her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18247'),
(8402, 'Accident', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Packed with Steel''s trademark dense plotting and incidents featuring everything from sexual abuse and infidelity to car crashes and impossible relatives, her 32nd novel (after Vanished ) is set in California''s plush Marin County. Page Clarke, devoted wife of Brad and mother of Allyson and Andy, finds her golden life shattered when 15-year-old Allyson sneaks off with friend Chloe to meet two boys. In a subsequent head-on collision, one boy is killed, Chloe is seriously injured and Allyson lapses into a coma. Page can''t reach Brad, who confesses when he comes home that he is having an affair. Stunned and hurt, Page keeps a vigil at Allyson''s bedside while also coping with needy seven-year-old Andy and an ambivalent husband who can''t decide whether to stay or leave. Her only support comes from Chloe''s father, Trygve Thorensen, who has been the primary caretaker for his kids since their mother divorced him. Other plot twists include a visit from Page''s self-indulgent, neurotic mother and her sister, and a secret concerning the driver of the other car in the accident. While not drawn in much depth, the characters are believable; Trygve in particular is likable and nurturing. The ending is predictable but pleasant, bound to delight Steel''s fans. One million first printing; national ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Steel''s 32nd work, Page Clarke waits alone at a hospital to discover whether her daughter will survive a car crash involving several teenagers. As usual, her husband is out of town, but at least Page can lean on handsome Trygve, father of her daughter''s best friend.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6524'),
(8403, 'Accident', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Packed with Steel''s trademark dense plotting and incidents featuring everything from sexual abuse and infidelity to car crashes and impossible relatives, her 32nd novel (after Vanished ) is set in California''s plush Marin County. Page Clarke, devoted wife of Brad and mother of Allyson and Andy, finds her golden life shattered when 15-year-old Allyson sneaks off with friend Chloe to meet two boys. In a subsequent head-on collision, one boy is killed, Chloe is seriously injured and Allyson lapses into a coma. Page can''t reach Brad, who confesses when he comes home that he is having an affair. Stunned and hurt, Page keeps a vigil at Allyson''s bedside while also coping with needy seven-year-old Andy and an ambivalent husband who can''t decide whether to stay or leave. Her only support comes from Chloe''s father, Trygve Thorensen, who has been the primary caretaker for his kids since their mother divorced him. Other plot twists include a visit from Page''s self-indulgent, neurotic mother and her sister, and a secret concerning the driver of the other car in the accident. While not drawn in much depth, the characters are believable; Trygve in particular is likable and nurturing. The ending is predictable but pleasant, bound to delight Steel''s fans. One million first printing; national ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Steel''s 32nd work, Page Clarke waits alone at a hospital to discover whether her daughter will survive a car crash involving several teenagers. As usual, her husband is out of town, but at least Page can lean on handsome Trygve, father of her daughter''s best friend.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12861'),
(8404, 'Accident', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Packed with Steel''s trademark dense plotting and incidents featuring everything from sexual abuse and infidelity to car crashes and impossible relatives, her 32nd novel (after Vanished ) is set in California''s plush Marin County. Page Clarke, devoted wife of Brad and mother of Allyson and Andy, finds her golden life shattered when 15-year-old Allyson sneaks off with friend Chloe to meet two boys. In a subsequent head-on collision, one boy is killed, Chloe is seriously injured and Allyson lapses into a coma. Page can''t reach Brad, who confesses when he comes home that he is having an affair. Stunned and hurt, Page keeps a vigil at Allyson''s bedside while also coping with needy seven-year-old Andy and an ambivalent husband who can''t decide whether to stay or leave. Her only support comes from Chloe''s father, Trygve Thorensen, who has been the primary caretaker for his kids since their mother divorced him. Other plot twists include a visit from Page''s self-indulgent, neurotic mother and her sister, and a secret concerning the driver of the other car in the accident. While not drawn in much depth, the characters are believable; Trygve in particular is likable and nurturing. The ending is predictable but pleasant, bound to delight Steel''s fans. One million first printing; national ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Steel''s 32nd work, Page Clarke waits alone at a hospital to discover whether her daughter will survive a car crash involving several teenagers. As usual, her husband is out of town, but at least Page can lean on handsome Trygve, father of her daughter''s best friend.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17610'),
(8405, 'The Accident Man', 'Tom Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The pseudonymous Cain, a British journalist, has come up with a clever premise for his first novel. One summer night in 1997, Samuel Carver, an extremely capable assassin who only targets bad guys, is in a Paris tunnel ready to make a hit. He causes a speeding black Mercedes to smash into a stone pillar, leaving the car''s principal passenger, a dangerous terrorist, he''s been told, undoubtedly dead. Moments later, Carver himself is on the run from a Russian thug. Only after escaping the Russian does Carver realize he''s caused the death of Princess Diana. Carver vows revenge on those who set him up. A number of spy organizations are involved as well as several intermediaries, all of whom Carver must work his way through before finding who''s behind the conspiracy. A likable hero and nicely detailed action help offset a predictable and at times overwrought romance between Carver and the Russian''s female accomplice. Hopefully, Cain will keep the mayhem and soft-pedal the love interest in his next Samuel Carver thriller.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAudacious, authentic, full of tension and tradecraft . . . Maybe itâ€™s true and maybe it isnâ€™t, but either way itâ€™s a great thriller read. I loved it.â€\n <br />\n â€”Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is the best first thriller I have read since\n <em>\n  The Day of the Jackal\n </em>\n , and that was a long time ago. With one mighty bound Tom Cain has vaulted over Archer and Grisham and stands close on Frederick Forsythâ€™s tail.â€\n <br />\n â€”Wilbur Smith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/636'),
(8406, 'The Accident Man', 'Tom Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The pseudonymous Cain, a British journalist, has come up with a clever premise for his first novel. One summer night in 1997, Samuel Carver, an extremely capable assassin who only targets bad guys, is in a Paris tunnel ready to make a hit. He causes a speeding black Mercedes to smash into a stone pillar, leaving the car''s principal passenger, a dangerous terrorist, he''s been told, undoubtedly dead. Moments later, Carver himself is on the run from a Russian thug. Only after escaping the Russian does Carver realize he''s caused the death of Princess Diana. Carver vows revenge on those who set him up. A number of spy organizations are involved as well as several intermediaries, all of whom Carver must work his way through before finding who''s behind the conspiracy. A likable hero and nicely detailed action help offset a predictable and at times overwrought romance between Carver and the Russian''s female accomplice. Hopefully, Cain will keep the mayhem and soft-pedal the love interest in his next Samuel Carver thriller.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAudacious, authentic, full of tension and tradecraft . . . Maybe itâ€™s true and maybe it isnâ€™t, but either way itâ€™s a great thriller read. I loved it.â€\n <br />\n â€”Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is the best first thriller I have read since\n <em>\n  The Day of the Jackal\n </em>\n , and that was a long time ago. With one mighty bound Tom Cain has vaulted over Archer and Grisham and stands close on Frederick Forsythâ€™s tail.â€\n <br />\n â€”Wilbur Smith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8708'),
(8407, 'The Accident Man', 'Tom Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The pseudonymous Cain, a British journalist, has come up with a clever premise for his first novel. One summer night in 1997, Samuel Carver, an extremely capable assassin who only targets bad guys, is in a Paris tunnel ready to make a hit. He causes a speeding black Mercedes to smash into a stone pillar, leaving the car''s principal passenger, a dangerous terrorist, he''s been told, undoubtedly dead. Moments later, Carver himself is on the run from a Russian thug. Only after escaping the Russian does Carver realize he''s caused the death of Princess Diana. Carver vows revenge on those who set him up. A number of spy organizations are involved as well as several intermediaries, all of whom Carver must work his way through before finding who''s behind the conspiracy. A likable hero and nicely detailed action help offset a predictable and at times overwrought romance between Carver and the Russian''s female accomplice. Hopefully, Cain will keep the mayhem and soft-pedal the love interest in his next Samuel Carver thriller.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAudacious, authentic, full of tension and tradecraft . . . Maybe itâ€™s true and maybe it isnâ€™t, but either way itâ€™s a great thriller read. I loved it.â€\n <br />\n â€”Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is the best first thriller I have read since\n <em>\n  The Day of the Jackal\n </em>\n , and that was a long time ago. With one mighty bound Tom Cain has vaulted over Archer and Grisham and stands close on Frederick Forsythâ€™s tail.â€\n <br />\n â€”Wilbur Smith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24357'),
(8408, 'The Accidental Demon Slayer', 'Angie Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s never a good day when an ancient demon shows up on your toilet bowl. For Lizzie Brown, that''s just the beginning. Soon her hyperactive terrier starts talking, and her long-lost biker witch Grandma is hurling Smuckers jars filled with magic. Just when she thinks she''s seen it all, Lizzie learns she''s a demon slayer-and all hell is after her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Of course, that''s not the only thing after her. Dimitri Kallinikos, a devastatingly handsome shape-shifting griffin needs Lizzie to slay a demon of his own. But how do you talk a girl you''ve never met into going straight to the underworld? Lie. And if that doesn''t work, how dangerous could a little seduction be...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7674'),
(8409, 'The Accidental Demon Slayer', 'Angie Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s never a good day when an ancient demon shows up on your toilet bowl. For Lizzie Brown, that''s just the beginning. Soon her hyperactive terrier starts talking, and her long-lost biker witch Grandma is hurling Smuckers jars filled with magic. Just when she thinks she''s seen it all, Lizzie learns she''s a demon slayer-and all hell is after her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Of course, that''s not the only thing after her. Dimitri Kallinikos, a devastatingly handsome shape-shifting griffin needs Lizzie to slay a demon of his own. But how do you talk a girl you''ve never met into going straight to the underworld? Lie. And if that doesn''t work, how dangerous could a little seduction be...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9787'),
(8410, 'The Accidental Demon Slayer', 'Angie Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s never a good day when an ancient demon shows up on your toilet bowl. For Lizzie Brown, that''s just the beginning. Soon her hyperactive terrier starts talking, and her long-lost biker witch Grandma is hurling Smuckers jars filled with magic. Just when she thinks she''s seen it all, Lizzie learns she''s a demon slayer-and all hell is after her. Of course, that''s not the only thing after her. Dimitri Kallinikos, a devastatingly handsome shape-shifting griffin needs Lizzie to slay a demon of his own. But how do you talk a girl you''ve never met into going straight to the underworld? Lie. And if that doesn''t work, how dangerous could a little seduction be...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16272'),
(8411, 'The Accidental Demon Slayer', 'Angie Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s never a good day when an ancient demon shows up on your toilet bowl. For Lizzie Brown, that''s just the beginning. Soon her hyperactive terrier starts talking, and her long-lost biker witch Grandma is hurling Smuckers jars filled with magic. Just when she thinks she''s seen it all, Lizzie learns she''s a demon slayer-and all hell is after her. Of course, that''s not the only thing after her. Dimitri Kallinikos, a devastatingly handsome shape-shifting griffin needs Lizzie to slay a demon of his own. But how do you talk a girl you''ve never met into going straight to the underworld? Lie. And if that doesn''t work, how dangerous could a little seduction be...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26422'),
(8412, 'The Accidental Tourist', 'Anne Tyler &amp; Jennifer Bassett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyday life in Baltimore, USA, is full of problems - getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbors ...After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon''s attempts to run his own life become increasingly desperate - and more and more odd. Meanwhile, he has to get on with his work, writing tourist guides for business people. Then his dog Edward starts to bite people, and he has to send for Muriel, the dog trainer. And day by day, Macon''s life gets more and more complicated.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jennifer Bassett is Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, for which she has written original stories One-Way Ticket and The President''s Murderer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7451'),
(8413, 'The Accidental Tourist', 'Anne Tyler &amp; Jennifer Bassett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyday life in Baltimore, USA, is full of problems - getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbors ...After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon''s attempts to run his own life become increasingly desperate - and more and more odd. Meanwhile, he has to get on with his work, writing tourist guides for business people. Then his dog Edward starts to bite people, and he has to send for Muriel, the dog trainer. And day by day, Macon''s life gets more and more complicated.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jennifer Bassett is Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, for which she has written original stories One-Way Ticket and The President''s Murderer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13087'),
(8414, 'The Accidental Tourist', 'Anne Tyler; Jennifer Bassett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyday life in Baltimore, USA, is full of problems - getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbors ...After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon''s attempts to run his own life become increasingly desperate - and more and more odd. Meanwhile, he has to get on with his work, writing tourist guides for business people. Then his dog Edward starts to bite people, and he has to send for Muriel, the dog trainer. And day by day, Macon''s life gets more and more complicated.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jennifer Bassett is Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, for which she has written original stories One-Way Ticket and The President''s Murderer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16373'),
(8415, 'Accidentally the Sheikh&#39;s Wife', 'Barbara McMahon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Bethanne Saunders, flying Sheikh Rashid al Harum''s private plane has its perks. When her feet touch the ground it''s on the plush carpet of his sumptuous palace. And just being near gorgeous Rashid makes her feel on cloud nine!Bethanne has all the luxury she can handle-until suddenly she''s promoted to princess! But the dazzling rock on her finger is a stark reminder that it''s a convenient engagement. Everyone knows sheikhs don''t fall for ordinary girls from Texashellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7364'),
(8416, 'Accidentally the Sheikh&#39;s Wife', 'Barbara McMahon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Bethanne Saunders, flying Sheikh Rashid al Harum''s private plane has its perks. When her feet touch the ground it''s on the plush carpet of his sumptuous palace. And just being near gorgeous Rashid makes her feel on cloud nine!Bethanne has all the luxury she can handle-until suddenly she''s promoted to princess! But the dazzling rock on her finger is a stark reminder that it''s a convenient engagement. Everyone knows sheikhs don''t fall for ordinary girls from Texashellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11327'),
(8417, 'Accidentally the Sheikh&#39;s Wife', 'Barbara McMahon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For Bethanne Saunders, flying Sheikh Rashid al Harum''s private plane has its perks. When her feet touch the ground it''s on the plush carpet of his sumptuous palace. And just being near gorgeous Rashid makes her feel on cloud nine!Bethanne has all the luxury she can handle-until suddenly she''s promoted to princess! But the dazzling rock on her finger is a stark reminder that it''s a convenient engagement. Everyone knows sheikhs don''t fall for ordinary girls from Texashellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16536'),
(8418, 'Accidentally the Sheikh&#39;s Wife', 'Barbara McMahon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For Bethanne Saunders, flying Sheikh Rashid al Harum''s private plane has its perks. When her feet touch the ground it''s on the plush carpet of his sumptuous palace. And just being near gorgeous Rashid makes her feel on cloud nine!Bethanne has all the luxury she can handle-until suddenly she''s promoted to princess! But the dazzling rock on her finger is a stark reminder that it''s a convenient engagement. Everyone knows sheikhs don''t fall for ordinary girls from Texashellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26576'),
(8419, 'The Accusers', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of "informer" Marcus Didius Falco will be glad to find the classical world''s answer to the modern-day gumshoe back in Rome in Davis''s stellar historical, the 15th entry in this witty and learned series, after two adventures set in Britain (A Body in the Bathhouse; The Jupiter Myth). In an effort to resume his career as an informer on his home turf, Falco ends up playing advocate in a messy dispute that pits him against two highly successful "legals," Paccius Africanus and Silius Italicus. The convoluted case, which involves a wealthy, fractious family and tricky questions of inheritance, gives Davis the opportunity to explore the vagaries of Roman law, which she approaches with her usual mix of respect and sarcasm. The corruption conviction of senator Rubirius Metellus followed by his mysterious demise threaten the Metelli family''s fortunes. Hired to prove the senator''s death was not a suicide, Falco finds himself immersed in scandal, blackmail, corruption and intrigueÃ¢â‚¬"common ingredients of legal practice. In one particularly fine scene, Falco delivers a speech in the Basilica that relies on amusing and effective rhetorical tricks. Wry, cynical and principled, Falco makes the perfect guide to Davis''s vividly realized ancient Rome.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rome, 75 A.D. Marcus Didius Falco, professional informer (that is, private investigator), returns to Italy after an extended trip to Britain and finds that his clients have forgotten him. Falco needs a new case to put some money in the coffers, so he signs on to investigate the supposed suicide of a senator who was recently exposed as corrupt. But, after he''s talked to a few interested parties and made a few discoveries, Falco begins to wish he had passed on the case. This is the fifteenth Falco mystery, and the series shows no signs of slowing down. Falco (who narrates the novel in a noirish but never anachronistic tone) is a personable hero, and the stories are always suspenseful and surprising. Also, Davis knows how to stage a mystery against a historical backdrop without overwhelming us with information. Many historical series go flat once the milieu becomes familiar, but this one continues to mix its history and its mystery in a pleasing blend.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3414'),
(8420, 'The Accusers', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of "informer" Marcus Didius Falco will be glad to find the classical world''s answer to the modern-day gumshoe back in Rome in Davis''s stellar historical, the 15th entry in this witty and learned series, after two adventures set in Britain (A Body in the Bathhouse; The Jupiter Myth). In an effort to resume his career as an informer on his home turf, Falco ends up playing advocate in a messy dispute that pits him against two highly successful "legals," Paccius Africanus and Silius Italicus. The convoluted case, which involves a wealthy, fractious family and tricky questions of inheritance, gives Davis the opportunity to explore the vagaries of Roman law, which she approaches with her usual mix of respect and sarcasm. The corruption conviction of senator Rubirius Metellus followed by his mysterious demise threaten the Metelli family''s fortunes. Hired to prove the senator''s death was not a suicide, Falco finds himself immersed in scandal, blackmail, corruption and intrigueÃ¢â‚¬"common ingredients of legal practice. In one particularly fine scene, Falco delivers a speech in the Basilica that relies on amusing and effective rhetorical tricks. Wry, cynical and principled, Falco makes the perfect guide to Davis''s vividly realized ancient Rome.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rome, 75 A.D. Marcus Didius Falco, professional informer (that is, private investigator), returns to Italy after an extended trip to Britain and finds that his clients have forgotten him. Falco needs a new case to put some money in the coffers, so he signs on to investigate the supposed suicide of a senator who was recently exposed as corrupt. But, after he''s talked to a few interested parties and made a few discoveries, Falco begins to wish he had passed on the case. This is the fifteenth Falco mystery, and the series shows no signs of slowing down. Falco (who narrates the novel in a noirish but never anachronistic tone) is a personable hero, and the stories are always suspenseful and surprising. Also, Davis knows how to stage a mystery against a historical backdrop without overwhelming us with information. Many historical series go flat once the milieu becomes familiar, but this one continues to mix its history and its mystery in a pleasing blend.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21115'),
(8421, 'Achebe&#39;s Things Fall Apart', 'Ode Ogede', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Reader''s Guides" provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts. Chinua Achebe''s remarkable novel "Things Fall Apart (1958)" is probably the best known African novel and has become one of the world''s most influential literary masterpieces. Since publication, a total of nearly 12 million copies have been sold, with translations into more than 50 languages. Despite its undoubted success, its apparent simplicity has tended to blind readers to the dazzling storytelling resources and the inventive language, plot, setting, and characterization which first draw them to the novel and keep them reading.  This is the ideal guide to the text, setting "Things Fall Apart" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure, providing exemplary close readings, presenting an up-to-date account of its critical reception and examining its afterlife in literature, film and popular culture. It includes points for discussion, suggestions for further study and an annotated guide to relevant reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2459'),
(8422, 'Achebe&#39;s Things fall apart', 'Ode Ogede', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Reader''s Guides" provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts. Chinua Achebe''s remarkable novel "Things Fall Apart (1958)" is probably the best known African novel and has become one of the world''s most influential literary masterpieces. Since publication, a total of nearly 12 million copies have been sold, with translations into more than 50 languages. Despite its undoubted success, its apparent simplicity has tended to blind readers to the dazzling storytelling resources and the inventive language, plot, setting, and characterization which first draw them to the novel and keep them reading. This is the ideal guide to the text, setting "Things Fall Apart" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure, providing exemplary close readings, presenting an up-to-date account of its critical reception and examining its afterlife in literature, film and popular culture. It includes points for discussion, suggestions for further study and an annotated guide to relevant reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22399'),
(8423, 'Acorna&#39;s People', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Filled with adventure and wonder, Acorna''s Peoplecontinues the enthralling saga of Acorna, the beautiful, brave, and kindhearted creature known as the Unicorn Girl."Welcome Home, Linyaari Child!"With the help of her "uncles" and the thousands of humans who love and admire her, Acorna has found her true people, the peaceful, telepathic Linyaari. But Acorna still has much to do before she can enjoy her new home. The legendary resting place of the lost Linyaari ancestors has yet to be found. And with the help of a rogue spacetrader and his feline sidekick, Acorna must strive to right an unspeakable wrong and defeat an enemy even crueler than the Khleevi. Along the way, she will at last uncover the Universe''s most carefully guarded secret--the true nature of the ancient link between the Linyaari and the space-faring humans she has also come to think of as her "people."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15766'),
(8424, 'Acorna&#39;s Quest', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **"I must find my own kind!"**Found as an infant drifting in space, Acorna, the Unicorn Girl, has become a young woman. She still has her tiny, translucent horn, and her "funny" feet and hands. And, she still has her miraculous ability to make plants grow and heal human sickness.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But Acorna has strange dreams of a gentle folk who mind-speak by touching horns. With her "Uncle" Calum, one of the three grizzled asteroid prospectors who rescued, protected, and raised her, she sets off to find her people. No sooner does she leave than a mysterious craft appears, piloted by the *Linyaari,* a gentle race with telepathic powers.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The *Linyaari* are roaming the galaxy, spreading the alarm about the deadly *Khleev*--And searching for a beloved little girl they had given up for lost, long ago...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15767'),
(8425, 'Acorna&#39;s Rebels', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15768'),
(8426, 'Acorna&#39;s Triumph', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15770'),
(8427, 'Acorna&#39;s World', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Acorna the "unicorn girl" -- found as a baby years ago, abandoned and floating alone in an escape pod at the far end of the galaxy -- has made peace with her past, her *Linyaari* heritage, and with the powerful "differences" that set her apart from the loving humans who raised her. But only in the deep reaches of limitless space can she truly feel at home.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now, aboard the interplanetary salvage vessel *Condor*, Acorna is free once more, traveling through space in the company of her good friend, ship''s commander Captain Jonas Becker, his gargantuan feline "first mate" Roadkill, and Aari, a proud *Linyaari* survivor of torture at the hands of the savage, bug-like *Khleevi*. But the journey is interrupted when a transmitted distress call -- faint but undeniable -- draws Acorna and her companions down to the surface of a nearby planet.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  What awaits them is a world of wonders, shrouded in an atmosphere of strange, intoxicating perfumes. Intelligent, sentiment plants help guide Acorna, Becker, Aari, and RK to the source of the SOS. But a broken, burned out -- alien ship is all they find, the pitiful remnants of a relentlessly brutal yet carefully coordinated assault. To Acorna, the signs are unmistakable.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  This is the grim handiwork of the cold-blooded species that seeks the complete eradication of all human and *Linyaari* life from the galaxy...the *Khleevi*!\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  And suddenly all that Acrona holds dear is in grave peril. Because the devastation that was wrought here was no isolated occurence, but the opening move in a planned onslaught that will decimate the two races to whom Acorna is culturally, emotionally, and genetically tied. A worlds-shattering catastrophe is in the making -- unless one courageous and beautiful young woman with remarkable healing powers and her small, motley group of friends can go the unthinkable: discover the fearsome insectile enemy''s greatest weakness...and strike first.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15771'),
(8428, 'Acqua Alta', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Donna Leonâ€™s growing American fan base is hungry for more of the books from her   internationally bestselling series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Now in   what   many consider one of the finest in the series, Venice braces for the onslaught   of *acqua   alta*â€”the rising waters from torrential rain. But Brunetti has his own   problems,   beginning with the savage beating of an old friend. When a manâ€™s body is   discovered,   Brunetti must wade through the chaos to solve one of his deadliest cases. Full   of   marvelous plot twists, *Acqua Alta* is a chilling addition to Donna Leonâ€™s   addictive series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5868'),
(8429, 'Acqua Alta', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Donna Leonâ€™s growing American fan base is hungry for more of the books from her internationally bestselling series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Now in what many consider one of the finest in the series, Venice braces for the onslaught of *acqua alta*â€”the rising waters from torrential rain. But Brunetti has his own problems, beginning with the savage beating of an old friend. When a manâ€™s body is discovered, Brunetti must wade through the chaos to solve one of his deadliest cases. Full of marvelous plot twists, *Acqua Alta* is a chilling addition to Donna Leonâ€™s addictive series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18753'),
(8430, 'Acqua Alta', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Donna Leonâ€™s growing American fan base is hungry for more of the books from her internationally bestselling series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Now in what many consider one of the finest in the series, Venice braces for the onslaught of *acqua alta*â€”the rising waters from torrential rain. But Brunetti has his own problems, beginning with the savage beating of an old friend. When a manâ€™s body is discovered, Brunetti must wade through the chaos to solve one of his deadliest cases. Full of marvelous plot twists, *Acqua Alta* is a chilling addition to Donna Leonâ€™s addictive series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27479'),
(8431, 'Across the Bridge', 'Mavis Gallant &amp; Robertson Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A new collection of stories by Mavis Gallant is always a major publishing event. For this is the writer whoâ€“like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munroâ€“has made Canadian short stories a presence on the world literary scene, and on our bestseller lists. InAcross the Bridgefour of the eleven stories are connected, following the fortunes of the Carette family in Montreal. In â€œ1933â€ their widowed mother teaches Berthe and Marie to deny that she was a seamstress and to say instead that she was â€œclever with her hands.â€ In â€œThe Chosen Husbandâ€ the luckless suitor Louis has to undergo the front-parlour scrutiny of Marieâ€™s mother and sister: â€œBut then Louis began to cough and had to cover his mouth. He was in trouble with a caramel. The Carettes looked away, so that he could strangle unobserved. â€˜How dark it is,â€™ said Berthe, to let him think he could not be seen.â€ We then follow their marriage, the birth of Raymond, and Raymondâ€™s flight from his mother and aunt to his eventual role as a motel manager in Florida. â€œâ€˜The place was full of Canadians,â€™ he said. â€˜They stole like raccoons...â€™â€ With the exception of â€œThe Fenton Child,â€ an eerie story set in postwar Montreal, the other stories take place in the Paris Mavis Gallant knows so well. â€œAcross the Bridge,â€ the title story, begins with the narratorâ€™s mother throwing her reluctant daughterâ€™s wedding invitations into the Seine. â€œI watched the envelopes fall in a slow shower and land on the dark water and float apart. Strangers leaned on the parapet and stared, too, but nobody spoke.â€ This is a superb collection of stories by a writer at the top of her form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2879');
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(8432, 'Across the Bridge', 'Mavis Gallant &amp; Robertson Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A new collection of stories by Mavis Gallant is always a major publishing event. For this is the writer whoâ€“like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munroâ€“has made Canadian short stories a presence on the world literary scene, and on our bestseller lists. InAcross the Bridgefour of the eleven stories are connected, following the fortunes of the Carette family in Montreal. In â€œ1933â€ their widowed mother teaches Berthe and Marie to deny that she was a seamstress and to say instead that she was â€œclever with her hands.â€ In â€œThe Chosen Husbandâ€ the luckless suitor Louis has to undergo the front-parlour scrutiny of Marieâ€™s mother and sister: â€œBut then Louis began to cough and had to cover his mouth. He was in trouble with a caramel. The Carettes looked away, so that he could strangle unobserved. â€˜How dark it is,â€™ said Berthe, to let him think he could not be seen.â€ We then follow their marriage, the birth of Raymond, and Raymondâ€™s flight from his mother and aunt to his eventual role as a motel manager in Florida. â€œâ€˜The place was full of Canadians,â€™ he said. â€˜They stole like raccoons...â€™â€ With the exception of â€œThe Fenton Child,â€ an eerie story set in postwar Montreal, the other stories take place in the Paris Mavis Gallant knows so well. â€œAcross the Bridge,â€ the title story, begins with the narratorâ€™s mother throwing her reluctant daughterâ€™s wedding invitations into the Seine. â€œI watched the envelopes fall in a slow shower and land on the dark water and float apart. Strangers leaned on the parapet and stared, too, but nobody spoke.â€ This is a superb collection of stories by a writer at the top of her form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9858'),
(8433, 'Across the Bridge', 'Mavis Gallant; Robertson Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A new collection of stories by Mavis Gallant is always a major publishing event. For this is the writer whoâ€“like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munroâ€“has made Canadian short stories a presence on the world literary scene, and on our bestseller lists. InAcross the Bridgefour of the eleven stories are connected, following the fortunes of the Carette family in Montreal. In â€œ1933â€ their widowed mother teaches Berthe and Marie to deny that she was a seamstress and to say instead that she was â€œclever with her hands.â€ In â€œThe Chosen Husbandâ€ the luckless suitor Louis has to undergo the front-parlour scrutiny of Marieâ€™s mother and sister: â€œBut then Louis began to cough and had to cover his mouth. He was in trouble with a caramel. The Carettes looked away, so that he could strangle unobserved. â€˜How dark it is,â€™ said Berthe, to let him think he could not be seen.â€ We then follow their marriage, the birth of Raymond, and Raymondâ€™s flight from his mother and aunt to his eventual role as a motel manager in Florida. â€œâ€˜The place was full of Canadians,â€™ he said. â€˜They stole like raccoons...â€™â€ With the exception of â€œThe Fenton Child,â€ an eerie story set in postwar Montreal, the other stories take place in the Paris Mavis Gallant knows so well. â€œAcross the Bridge,â€ the title story, begins with the narratorâ€™s mother throwing her reluctant daughterâ€™s wedding invitations into the Seine. â€œI watched the envelopes fall in a slow shower and land on the dark water and float apart. Strangers leaned on the parapet and stared, too, but nobody spoke.â€ This is a superb collection of stories by a writer at the top of her form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21881'),
(8434, 'Across the Nightingale Floor', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n åœ¨çº¿é˜…è¯»æœ¬ä¹¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is the first book in a new epic trilogy that has already become a bestselling sensation in England and Australia, earning comparisons to The Lord of the Rings. It begins with the legend of a nightingale floor in a black-walled fortress-a floor that sings in alarm at the step of an assassin. It will take true courage and all the skills of an ancient Tribe for one orphaned youth named Takeo to discover the magical destiny that awaits him...across the nightingale floor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3362'),
(8435, 'Across the Nightingale Floor', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: åœ¨çº¿é˜…è¯»æœ¬ä¹¦ This is the first book in a new epic trilogy that has already become a bestselling sensation in England and Australia, earning comparisons to The Lord of the Rings. It begins with the legend of a nightingale floor in a black-walled fortress-a floor that sings in alarm at the step of an assassin. It will take true courage and all the skills of an ancient Tribe for one orphaned youth named Takeo to discover the magical destiny that awaits him...across the nightingale floor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21157'),
(8436, 'Across the River and Into the Trees', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for\n <em>\n  Across the River and into the Trees,\n </em>\n the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. A poignant, bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the worldweary beauty and majesty of Venice,\n <em>\n  Across the River and into the Trees\n </em>\n stands as Hemingway''s statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War. Hemingway''s last full-length novel published in his lifetime, it moved John O''Hara in\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n to call him "the most important author since Shakespeare."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n 6 1.5-hour cassettes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18506'),
(8437, 'Across the River and Into the Trees', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27765'),
(8438, 'Across the Universe', 'Beth Revis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Across the Universe\n </em>\n challenges readers to consider the impact of unchecked power, blind trust, and the ability of one dissenting voice to make a difference.--\n <em>\n  Seira Wilson\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Preview the Spacecraft in\n  <em>\n   Across the Universe\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  (Click on Images to Enlarge)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Across the Universe\n </em>\n , Godspeed is a vast spaceship, the size of a small county. The lives of its passengers are severely regulated. And people are divided into three categories--Feeders, Shippers, and Keepers--represented by the three levels of the ship.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 10 Up-Imagine leaving everything behind in order to be with the people you love, only to be left with nothing. Amy and her parents have been cryogenically frozen to be awakened in 300 years when their spaceship reaches the planet they will colonize. Unfortunately, Amy is unfrozen 50 years too soon. Her parents are too critical to the colony to awaken early, so by the time she sees them again, she will be older than they are. The culture on the spaceship is unfamiliar and everyone Amy meets is either an emotionless drone or lives in the mental ward. But there is little time for her to grieve the loss of her former life, because someone is thawing other colonists and leaving them to die. In order to find the murderer, Amy must join forces with Elder, the teenage future leader of the ship. But all of the inhabitants onboard have been told lies, and there are secrets that even Elder doesn''t know. This compelling novel is told in alternating chapters from Amy''s and Elder''s points of view. Amy is a contemporary character in a fish-out-of-water situation, and her grief and fear are realistically depicted. And as Elder learns the truth behind the ship, he begins to experience a coming-of-age that is convincingly written. The mystery will propel readers along, and the budding romance between Amy and Elder set against the backdrop of a dystopian society will appeal even to readers who don''t enjoy science fiction. Revis''s thrilling debut novel hints at more great books to come.-Heather M. Campbell, formerly at Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7246'),
(8439, 'Across the Universe', 'Beth Revis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Across the Universe\n </em>\n challenges readers to consider the impact of unchecked power, blind trust, and the ability of one dissenting voice to make a difference.--\n <em>\n  Seira Wilson\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Preview the Spacecraft in\n  <em>\n   Across the Universe\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  (Click on Images to Enlarge)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Across the Universe\n </em>\n , Godspeed is a vast spaceship, the size of a small county. The lives of its passengers are severely regulated. And people are divided into three categories--Feeders, Shippers, and Keepers--represented by the three levels of the ship.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 10 Up-Imagine leaving everything behind in order to be with the people you love, only to be left with nothing. Amy and her parents have been cryogenically frozen to be awakened in 300 years when their spaceship reaches the planet they will colonize. Unfortunately, Amy is unfrozen 50 years too soon. Her parents are too critical to the colony to awaken early, so by the time she sees them again, she will be older than they are. The culture on the spaceship is unfamiliar and everyone Amy meets is either an emotionless drone or lives in the mental ward. But there is little time for her to grieve the loss of her former life, because someone is thawing other colonists and leaving them to die. In order to find the murderer, Amy must join forces with Elder, the teenage future leader of the ship. But all of the inhabitants onboard have been told lies, and there are secrets that even Elder doesn''t know. This compelling novel is told in alternating chapters from Amy''s and Elder''s points of view. Amy is a contemporary character in a fish-out-of-water situation, and her grief and fear are realistically depicted. And as Elder learns the truth behind the ship, he begins to experience a coming-of-age that is convincingly written. The mystery will propel readers along, and the budding romance between Amy and Elder set against the backdrop of a dystopian society will appeal even to readers who don''t enjoy science fiction. Revis''s thrilling debut novel hints at more great books to come.-Heather M. Campbell, formerly at Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12156'),
(8440, 'Across the Universe', 'Beth Revis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Across the Universe\n </em>\n challenges readers to consider the impact of unchecked power, blind trust, and the ability of one dissenting voice to make a difference.--\n <em>\n  Seira Wilson\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Preview the Spacecraft in\n  <em>\n   Across the Universe\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  (Click on Images to Enlarge)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Across the Universe\n </em>\n , Godspeed is a vast spaceship, the size of a small county. The lives of its passengers are severely regulated. And people are divided into three categories--Feeders, Shippers, and Keepers--represented by the three levels of the ship.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 10 Up-Imagine leaving everything behind in order to be with the people you love, only to be left with nothing. Amy and her parents have been cryogenically frozen to be awakened in 300 years when their spaceship reaches the planet they will colonize. Unfortunately, Amy is unfrozen 50 years too soon. Her parents are too critical to the colony to awaken early, so by the time she sees them again, she will be older than they are. The culture on the spaceship is unfamiliar and everyone Amy meets is either an emotionless drone or lives in the mental ward. But there is little time for her to grieve the loss of her former life, because someone is thawing other colonists and leaving them to die. In order to find the murderer, Amy must join forces with Elder, the teenage future leader of the ship. But all of the inhabitants onboard have been told lies, and there are secrets that even Elder doesn''t know. This compelling novel is told in alternating chapters from Amy''s and Elder''s points of view. Amy is a contemporary character in a fish-out-of-water situation, and her grief and fear are realistically depicted. And as Elder learns the truth behind the ship, he begins to experience a coming-of-age that is convincingly written. The mystery will propel readers along, and the budding romance between Amy and Elder set against the backdrop of a dystopian society will appeal even to readers who don''t enjoy science fiction. Revis''s thrilling debut novel hints at more great books to come.-Heather M. Campbell, formerly at Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16644'),
(8441, 'Across the Wall', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The collected short stories of Garth Nix, including a novella which follows on from the enthralling Old Kingdom fantasy adventures of Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen. Nicholas Sayre will do anything to get across the wall, back to the Old Kingdom. Thoughts of Lirael and Sam haunt his dreams. But here in Ancelstierre the charter is dormant, and before Nick can re-join his friends he must face one of the rarest and most dangerous of the Free Magic creatures: a creature that seems to draw power from Nicholas himself. ''Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case'' opens this superb collection of short stories from Garth Nix, that range from classic fantasy to a gritty urban version of Hansel and Gretel, and an unusual take on the role of nature in matters of the heart. Across the Wall displays the depth and versatility that have made Garth Nix one of today''s leading fantasy writers, and a New York Times bestseller.Garth Nix is the author of The Old Kingdom trilogy and the Keys to the Kingdom series''The reader''s absorption into the intrigue, magic and dazzling richness of the worlds and characters created by Nix is irresistible pleasure ''  AUSTRALIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5549'),
(8442, 'Across the Wall', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The collected short stories of Garth Nix, including a novella which follows on from the enthralling Old Kingdom fantasy adventures of Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen. Nicholas Sayre will do anything to get across the wall, back to the Old Kingdom. Thoughts of Lirael and Sam haunt his dreams. But here in Ancelstierre the charter is dormant, and before Nick can re-join his friends he must face one of the rarest and most dangerous of the Free Magic creatures: a creature that seems to draw power from Nicholas himself. ''Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case'' opens this superb collection of short stories from Garth Nix, that range from classic fantasy to a gritty urban version of Hansel and Gretel, and an unusual take on the role of nature in matters of the heart. Across the Wall displays the depth and versatility that have made Garth Nix one of today''s leading fantasy writers, and a New York Times bestseller.Garth Nix is the author of The Old Kingdom trilogy and the Keys to the Kingdom series''The reader''s absorption into the intrigue, magic and dazzling richness of the worlds and characters created by Nix is irresistible pleasure ''  AUSTRALIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11701'),
(8443, 'Across the Wall', 'Garth Nix', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The collected short stories of Garth Nix, including a novella which follows on from the enthralling Old Kingdom fantasy adventures of Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen. Nicholas Sayre will do anything to get across the wall, back to the Old Kingdom. Thoughts of Lirael and Sam haunt his dreams. But here in Ancelstierre the charter is dormant, and before Nick can re-join his friends he must face one of the rarest and most dangerous of the Free Magic creatures: a creature that seems to draw power from Nicholas himself. ''Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case'' opens this superb collection of short stories from Garth Nix, that range from classic fantasy to a gritty urban version of Hansel and Gretel, and an unusual take on the role of nature in matters of the heart. Across the Wall displays the depth and versatility that have made Garth Nix one of today''s leading fantasy writers, and a New York Times bestseller.Garth Nix is the author of The Old Kingdom trilogy and the Keys to the Kingdom series''The reader''s absorption into the intrigue, magic and dazzling richness of the worlds and characters created by Nix is irresistible pleasure '' AUSTRALIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19180'),
(8444, 'The Act of Love', 'Howard Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Â Â Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece,Â \n   <i>\n    Kalooki Nights\n   </i>\n   , acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights on Felix Quinn, a rare-book dealer living in London, whose wife Marisa is unfaithful to him.\n   <p>\n    All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wives to be unfaithful to them. Felix hasn''t always thought this way. From the moment of his first boyhood rejection, surviving the shattering effects of love and jealousy had been the study of his life. But while he is honeymooning with Marisa in Florida an event occurs that changes everything. In a moment, he goes from dreading the thought of someone else''s hands on the woman he loves to thinking about nothing else. Enter Marius into Marisa''s affections. And now Felix must wonder if he really is a happy man.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <i>\n     The Act of Love\n    </i>\n    Â is a haunting novel of love and jealousy, with stylish prose that crackles and razor-sharp dialogue, praised by the London Times as "darkly transgressive, as savage in its brilliance, as anything Jacobson has written." It is a startlingly perceptive, subtle portrait of a marriage and an excruciatingly honest, provocative exploration of sexual obsession.\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5100'),
(8445, 'The Act of Love', 'Howard Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Â Â Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece,Â \n   <i>\n    Kalooki Nights\n   </i>\n   , acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights on Felix Quinn, a rare-book dealer living in London, whose wife Marisa is unfaithful to him.\n   <p>\n    All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wives to be unfaithful to them. Felix hasn''t always thought this way. From the moment of his first boyhood rejection, surviving the shattering effects of love and jealousy had been the study of his life. But while he is honeymooning with Marisa in Florida an event occurs that changes everything. In a moment, he goes from dreading the thought of someone else''s hands on the woman he loves to thinking about nothing else. Enter Marius into Marisa''s affections. And now Felix must wonder if he really is a happy man.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <i>\n     The Act of Love\n    </i>\n    Â is a haunting novel of love and jealousy, with stylish prose that crackles and razor-sharp dialogue, praised by the London Times as "darkly transgressive, as savage in its brilliance, as anything Jacobson has written." It is a startlingly perceptive, subtle portrait of a marriage and an excruciatingly honest, provocative exploration of sexual obsession.\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10491'),
(8446, 'The Act of Love', 'Howard Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Â Â Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece,Â \n   <i>\n    Kalooki Nights\n   </i>\n   , acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights on Felix Quinn, a rare-book dealer living in London, whose wife Marisa is unfaithful to him.\n   <p>\n    All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wives to be unfaithful to them. Felix hasn''t always thought this way. From the moment of his first boyhood rejection, surviving the shattering effects of love and jealousy had been the study of his life. But while he is honeymooning with Marisa in Florida an event occurs that changes everything. In a moment, he goes from dreading the thought of someone else''s hands on the woman he loves to thinking about nothing else. Enter Marius into Marisa''s affections. And now Felix must wonder if he really is a happy man.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <i>\n     The Act of Love\n    </i>\n    Â is a haunting novel of love and jealousy, with stylish prose that crackles and razor-sharp dialogue, praised by the London Times as "darkly transgressive, as savage in its brilliance, as anything Jacobson has written." It is a startlingly perceptive, subtle portrait of a marriage and an excruciatingly honest, provocative exploration of sexual obsession.\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19615'),
(8447, 'Act of Treason', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n CIA operative Mitch Rapp follows a trail of contract killers leading directly to the heart of our nation''s capital in "New York Times" bestselling author Vince Flynn''s eighth explosive thriller. It''s a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a national security conference has just been held, bringing together the world''s greatest minds to discuss the issues that are threatening the country. It''s American politicking at its best. That''s when all hell breaks loose. When presidential candidate Josh Alexander''s motorcade is ambushed by a group of terrorists, the nation is thrown into turmoil. Two weeks following the attack, Alexander is carried to victory by a sympathy vote, but his assailants have not been found. On the surface it appears to be the work of al-Qaeda, despite the tremendous job that the U.S. and her allies have done eliminating terrorist cells within the heart of America. While the FBI and the rest of the government begin scouring the world for jihadists, CIA director Irene Kennedy and Special Agent Skip McMahon are presented with classified information so toxic that they consider destroying it altogether, as it contains intelligence pointing to some of the most powerful players in Washington. Enter Mitch Rapp, the one man reckless enough to follow the evidence to its explosive conclusion. His journey takes him through the shadowy world of contract killers, into the darkest corners of the globe, and eventually back to Washington, where the fragile pillars of power are shaken to their core.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/369'),
(8448, 'Act of Treason', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n CIA operative Mitch Rapp follows a trail of contract killers leading directly to the heart of our nation''s capital in "New York Times" bestselling author Vince Flynn''s eighth explosive thriller. It''s a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a national security conference has just been held, bringing together the world''s greatest minds to discuss the issues that are threatening the country. It''s American politicking at its best. That''s when all hell breaks loose. When presidential candidate Josh Alexander''s motorcade is ambushed by a group of terrorists, the nation is thrown into turmoil. Two weeks following the attack, Alexander is carried to victory by a sympathy vote, but his assailants have not been found. On the surface it appears to be the work of al-Qaeda, despite the tremendous job that the U.S. and her allies have done eliminating terrorist cells within the heart of America. While the FBI and the rest of the government begin scouring the world for jihadists, CIA director Irene Kennedy and Special Agent Skip McMahon are presented with classified information so toxic that they consider destroying it altogether, as it contains intelligence pointing to some of the most powerful players in Washington. Enter Mitch Rapp, the one man reckless enough to follow the evidence to its explosive conclusion. His journey takes him through the shadowy world of contract killers, into the darkest corners of the globe, and eventually back to Washington, where the fragile pillars of power are shaken to their core.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9755'),
(8449, 'Act of Treason', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: CIA operative Mitch Rapp follows a trail of contract killers leading directly to the heart of our nation''s capital in "New York Times" bestselling author Vince Flynn''s eighth explosive thriller. It''s a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a national security conference has just been held, bringing together the world''s greatest minds to discuss the issues that are threatening the country. It''s American politicking at its best. That''s when all hell breaks loose. When presidential candidate Josh Alexander''s motorcade is ambushed by a group of terrorists, the nation is thrown into turmoil. Two weeks following the attack, Alexander is carried to victory by a sympathy vote, but his assailants have not been found. On the surface it appears to be the work of al-Qaeda, despite the tremendous job that the U.S. and her allies have done eliminating terrorist cells within the heart of America. While the FBI and the rest of the government begin scouring the world for jihadists, CIA director Irene Kennedy and Special Agent Skip McMahon are presented with classified information so toxic that they consider destroying it altogether, as it contains intelligence pointing to some of the most powerful players in Washington. Enter Mitch Rapp, the one man reckless enough to follow the evidence to its explosive conclusion. His journey takes him through the shadowy world of contract killers, into the darkest corners of the globe, and eventually back to Washington, where the fragile pillars of power are shaken to their core.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24614'),
(8450, 'Act of Will', 'A. J. Hartley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Starred Review. As 18-year-old orphaned actor Will Hawthorne explains early on in this clever page-turner, I don''t want you thinking you''re going to get a tale about some blue-eyed tyke with a heart of gold in a world where good triumphs over evil. You''re not, I''m not, and in my experience it never does. Charged as a rebel after escaping the authorities in a world not unlike Elizabethan England, obnoxious, charming Will joins a small mercenary group and proves himself the least honorable of them all. When the group comes under attack from crimson-armored raiders, Will reluctantly fails to betray the companions he is even more reluctantly growing to like. In small, swift scenes, Hartley (\n  <i>\n   On the Fifth Day\n  </i>\n  ) deftly proves that people you shouldn''t trust at your back can be the best ones to have at your side.\n  <i>\n   (Mar.)\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  This fantasy by a Shakespearean scholar tells the story of hapless young actor William Hawthorne in a fictional world that, not unlike Elizabethan England, brims with intrigue. Saving his neck by joining a band of heroes led by a warrior possessed of a magical and powerful sword, Hawthorne unwittingly joins a battle against an evil empire bent on crushing everyone to its will. The subsequent story is at times formulaic, the whole piece a pastiche of clichÃ©s and plot twists from better-known movies and adventure fiction. Only someone unfamiliar with the genre may be surprised, for example, that Hartleyâ€™s foolish and cowardly protagonist learns, over the course of this ripping yarn, to be wise and brave. Hartleyâ€™s prose is so graceful, his narrative so taut, and his battle scenes so exciting and well described, however, that one quickly forgives his betimes paint-by-numbers development. All this is especially true of the compulsively readable second half, which unfolds with remarkable elegance and power. --Jack Helbig\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24'),
(8451, 'Act of Will', 'A. J. Hartley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Starred Review. As 18-year-old orphaned actor Will Hawthorne explains early on in this clever page-turner, I don''t want you thinking you''re going to get a tale about some blue-eyed tyke with a heart of gold in a world where good triumphs over evil. You''re not, I''m not, and in my experience it never does. Charged as a rebel after escaping the authorities in a world not unlike Elizabethan England, obnoxious, charming Will joins a small mercenary group and proves himself the least honorable of them all. When the group comes under attack from crimson-armored raiders, Will reluctantly fails to betray the companions he is even more reluctantly growing to like. In small, swift scenes, Hartley (\n  <i>\n   On the Fifth Day\n  </i>\n  ) deftly proves that people you shouldn''t trust at your back can be the best ones to have at your side.\n  <i>\n   (Mar.)\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  This fantasy by a Shakespearean scholar tells the story of hapless young actor William Hawthorne in a fictional world that, not unlike Elizabethan England, brims with intrigue. Saving his neck by joining a band of heroes led by a warrior possessed of a magical and powerful sword, Hawthorne unwittingly joins a battle against an evil empire bent on crushing everyone to its will. The subsequent story is at times formulaic, the whole piece a pastiche of clichÃ©s and plot twists from better-known movies and adventure fiction. Only someone unfamiliar with the genre may be surprised, for example, that Hartleyâ€™s foolish and cowardly protagonist learns, over the course of this ripping yarn, to be wise and brave. Hartleyâ€™s prose is so graceful, his narrative so taut, and his battle scenes so exciting and well described, however, that one quickly forgives his betimes paint-by-numbers development. All this is especially true of the compulsively readable second half, which unfolds with remarkable elegance and power. --Jack Helbig\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10251'),
(8452, 'Act of Will', 'A. J. Hartley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Starred Review. As 18-year-old orphaned actor Will Hawthorne explains early on in this clever page-turner, I don''t want you thinking you''re going to get a tale about some blue-eyed tyke with a heart of gold in a world where good triumphs over evil. You''re not, I''m not, and in my experience it never does. Charged as a rebel after escaping the authorities in a world not unlike Elizabethan England, obnoxious, charming Will joins a small mercenary group and proves himself the least honorable of them all. When the group comes under attack from crimson-armored raiders, Will reluctantly fails to betray the companions he is even more reluctantly growing to like. In small, swift scenes, Hartley (\n  <i>\n   On the Fifth Day\n  </i>\n  ) deftly proves that people you shouldn''t trust at your back can be the best ones to have at your side.\n  <i>\n   (Mar.)\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  This fantasy by a Shakespearean scholar tells the story of hapless young actor William Hawthorne in a fictional world that, not unlike Elizabethan England, brims with intrigue. Saving his neck by joining a band of heroes led by a warrior possessed of a magical and powerful sword, Hawthorne unwittingly joins a battle against an evil empire bent on crushing everyone to its will. The subsequent story is at times formulaic, the whole piece a pastiche of clichÃ©s and plot twists from better-known movies and adventure fiction. Only someone unfamiliar with the genre may be surprised, for example, that Hartleyâ€™s foolish and cowardly protagonist learns, over the course of this ripping yarn, to be wise and brave. Hartleyâ€™s prose is so graceful, his narrative so taut, and his battle scenes so exciting and well described, however, that one quickly forgives his betimes paint-by-numbers development. All this is especially true of the compulsively readable second half, which unfolds with remarkable elegance and power. --Jack Helbig\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17205'),
(8453, 'Acts of Faith', 'Philip Caputo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Philip Caputoâ€™s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness. Thereâ€™s the entrepreneurial American pilot who goes from flying food and medicine to smuggling arms, the Kenyan aid worker who canâ€™t help seeing the tawdry underside of his enterprise, and the evangelical Christian who comes to Sudan to redeem slaves and falls in love with a charismatic rebel commander. As their fates intersect and our understanding of their characters deepens, it becomes apparent that Acts of Faith is one of those rare novels that combine high moral seriousness with irresistible narrative wizardry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2157'),
(8454, 'Acts of Faith', 'Philip Caputo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Philip Caputoâ€™s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness. Thereâ€™s the entrepreneurial American pilot who goes from flying food and medicine to smuggling arms, the Kenyan aid worker who canâ€™t help seeing the tawdry underside of his enterprise, and the evangelical Christian who comes to Sudan to redeem slaves and falls in love with a charismatic rebel commander. As their fates intersect and our understanding of their characters deepens, it becomes apparent that Acts of Faith is one of those rare novels that combine high moral seriousness with irresistible narrative wizardry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8806'),
(8455, 'Acts of Malice', 'Perri O&#39;Shaughnessy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody in the exploding field of legal thrillers catches the day-to-day life of a working lawyer better than the O''Shaughnessy sisters--lawyer Pamela and writer Mary, who collaborate under the joint byline of Perri. This is the fifth in their series about lawyer Nina Reilly. O''Shaughnessy expertly balances Reilly''s life between the working half and the private half (raising her 16-year-old son as a single mother and finding the time and place for romance). The fact that both parts take place in the heavenly venue of Lake Tahoe only adds to the reading pleasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Acts of Malice\n </em>\n begins with a jolt: the manager of one of the area''s largest ski resorts is charged with the murder of his brother, and hires Nina to defend him. But this will not be an easy case for Nina since the prosecutor, Collier Hallowell, is the man who shook up her life so violently by walking out on her a year before. Also, Nina and her immediate circle find themselves in danger from the very client that they are defending.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other examples of the O''Shaughnessy expertise include\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attorney and single mother Nina Reilly makes her fifth appearance in the bestselling author O''Shaughnessy sisters'' (Breach of Promise; Obstruction of Justice) new legal thriller, this one set on the ski slopes of Lake Tahoe. Reilly''s client in this case is Jim Strong, a local ski bum whose family owns the swanky Paradise resort. Jim stands accused of killing his younger brother Alex, who was stomped to death by someone wearing ski boots whose imprints on Alex''s chest match the soles of Jim''s footgear. But the suspect claims he''s being framed by his adulterous wife, Heidi, who gave a statement to police and has gone into hiding. The case gives Reilly the willies, as disturbing events ensue that cast doubt on her client. Philip Strong, father of the dead youth and the suspect, is behaving strangely, and the victim''s wife, a libidinous ski bunny made wealthy through inheritance, seems to have more feelings for Jim than for her dead husband. And the prosecutor, the passionate Collier Hallowell, warns Reilly off the case, hinting that Jim is a psychopath who killed animals as a kid and will seek vengeance on her if her defense doesn''t get him off the hook. Reilly almost takes the latter advice, because she and Hallowell are in love and talking about having kids together. Their romance strains credibility and verges on syrupy: "He kissed her like he was searching for something, looking for her, only her." The central question of whether Jim is a murderer or a sap has an answer as predictable as the love scenes are corny. Sisters Pamela and Mary O''Shaughnessy (writing under their vaguely disguised pen name) do well to surround Reilly with a well-drawn cast of characters who provide a pleasant diversion even after the suspense has fizzled. $300,000 marketing campaign; author tour. (July)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2179'),
(8456, 'Acts of Malice', 'Perri O&#39;Shaughnessy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody in the exploding field of legal thrillers catches the day-to-day life of a working lawyer better than the O''Shaughnessy sisters--lawyer Pamela and writer Mary, who collaborate under the joint byline of Perri. This is the fifth in their series about lawyer Nina Reilly. O''Shaughnessy expertly balances Reilly''s life between the working half and the private half (raising her 16-year-old son as a single mother and finding the time and place for romance). The fact that both parts take place in the heavenly venue of Lake Tahoe only adds to the reading pleasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Acts of Malice\n </em>\n begins with a jolt: the manager of one of the area''s largest ski resorts is charged with the murder of his brother, and hires Nina to defend him. But this will not be an easy case for Nina since the prosecutor, Collier Hallowell, is the man who shook up her life so violently by walking out on her a year before. Also, Nina and her immediate circle find themselves in danger from the very client that they are defending.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other examples of the O''Shaughnessy expertise include\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attorney and single mother Nina Reilly makes her fifth appearance in the bestselling author O''Shaughnessy sisters'' (Breach of Promise; Obstruction of Justice) new legal thriller, this one set on the ski slopes of Lake Tahoe. Reilly''s client in this case is Jim Strong, a local ski bum whose family owns the swanky Paradise resort. Jim stands accused of killing his younger brother Alex, who was stomped to death by someone wearing ski boots whose imprints on Alex''s chest match the soles of Jim''s footgear. But the suspect claims he''s being framed by his adulterous wife, Heidi, who gave a statement to police and has gone into hiding. The case gives Reilly the willies, as disturbing events ensue that cast doubt on her client. Philip Strong, father of the dead youth and the suspect, is behaving strangely, and the victim''s wife, a libidinous ski bunny made wealthy through inheritance, seems to have more feelings for Jim than for her dead husband. And the prosecutor, the passionate Collier Hallowell, warns Reilly off the case, hinting that Jim is a psychopath who killed animals as a kid and will seek vengeance on her if her defense doesn''t get him off the hook. Reilly almost takes the latter advice, because she and Hallowell are in love and talking about having kids together. Their romance strains credibility and verges on syrupy: "He kissed her like he was searching for something, looking for her, only her." The central question of whether Jim is a murderer or a sap has an answer as predictable as the love scenes are corny. Sisters Pamela and Mary O''Shaughnessy (writing under their vaguely disguised pen name) do well to surround Reilly with a well-drawn cast of characters who provide a pleasant diversion even after the suspense has fizzled. $300,000 marketing campaign; author tour. (July)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11725'),
(8457, 'Acts of Malice', 'Perri O&#39;Shaughnessy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody in the exploding field of legal thrillers catches the day-to-day life of a working lawyer better than the O''Shaughnessy sisters--lawyer Pamela and writer Mary, who collaborate under the joint byline of Perri. This is the fifth in their series about lawyer Nina Reilly. O''Shaughnessy expertly balances Reilly''s life between the working half and the private half (raising her 16-year-old son as a single mother and finding the time and place for romance). The fact that both parts take place in the heavenly venue of Lake Tahoe only adds to the reading pleasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Acts of Malice\n </em>\n begins with a jolt: the manager of one of the area''s largest ski resorts is charged with the murder of his brother, and hires Nina to defend him. But this will not be an easy case for Nina since the prosecutor, Collier Hallowell, is the man who shook up her life so violently by walking out on her a year before. Also, Nina and her immediate circle find themselves in danger from the very client that they are defending.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other examples of the O''Shaughnessy expertise include\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attorney and single mother Nina Reilly makes her fifth appearance in the bestselling author O''Shaughnessy sisters'' (Breach of Promise; Obstruction of Justice) new legal thriller, this one set on the ski slopes of Lake Tahoe. Reilly''s client in this case is Jim Strong, a local ski bum whose family owns the swanky Paradise resort. Jim stands accused of killing his younger brother Alex, who was stomped to death by someone wearing ski boots whose imprints on Alex''s chest match the soles of Jim''s footgear. But the suspect claims he''s being framed by his adulterous wife, Heidi, who gave a statement to police and has gone into hiding. The case gives Reilly the willies, as disturbing events ensue that cast doubt on her client. Philip Strong, father of the dead youth and the suspect, is behaving strangely, and the victim''s wife, a libidinous ski bunny made wealthy through inheritance, seems to have more feelings for Jim than for her dead husband. And the prosecutor, the passionate Collier Hallowell, warns Reilly off the case, hinting that Jim is a psychopath who killed animals as a kid and will seek vengeance on her if her defense doesn''t get him off the hook. Reilly almost takes the latter advice, because she and Hallowell are in love and talking about having kids together. Their romance strains credibility and verges on syrupy: "He kissed her like he was searching for something, looking for her, only her." The central question of whether Jim is a murderer or a sap has an answer as predictable as the love scenes are corny. Sisters Pamela and Mary O''Shaughnessy (writing under their vaguely disguised pen name) do well to surround Reilly with a well-drawn cast of characters who provide a pleasant diversion even after the suspense has fizzled. $300,000 marketing campaign; author tour. (July)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22622');
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(8458, 'Acts of Nature', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Florida, hurricanes and crime make a potent mix, as shown in Edgar-winner King''s fifth entry in his Max Freeman PI series (_The Blue Edge of Midnight_, etc.). The vacation trip that Max and his cop girlfriend, Sherry Richards, take to his Everglades cabin and then to a friend''s even more remote fishing camp turns into a struggle for survival when hurricane Simone shifts course unpredictably. A trio of unscrupulous thieves scavenging in the hurricane''s wake and a pair of deadly security guards out to protect an illegal asset compound the danger. King vividly describes the hurricane''s force and the different ways people respond to it. Sherry displays her grit and Max his ingenuity in a series of desperate gambles as the story builds to an explosive climax. This is a worthy addition to a Florida subgenre that includes Carl Hiaasen''s\n <em>\n  Stormy Weather\n </em>\n and Tim Dorsey''s\n <em>\n  Hurricane Punch\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The latest entry in the Max Freeman series (King won an Edgar with the debut of cop-turned-recluse Freeman in 2002''s Blue Eye of Midnight) is every bit as polished and absorbing as its four predecessors, and it trumps King''s own standards for description with a stunning depiction of a hurricane and its aftermath. A longtime Philadelphia crime reporter, King knows cops well, and it shows in the hero he has crafted. Ex-cop Freeman has been holed up in a former research shack deep in the Florida Everglades, accepting some detective work from an old lawyer friend but mostly hiding himself away from his horror at having killed a 12-year-old boy in a robbery attempt. Each novel inches Freeman away from his grief and into life; King is both a master plotter and an able psychologist. In his latest, Freeman and his new love, a South Florida detective, are enjoying a break at Max''s retreat when a hurricane rips apart the shack, nearly killing Freeman''s girlfriend. This novel is more adventure-suspense tale than mystery, as the couple struggles to survive, first against the hurricane and then against the villains who flood into the Everglades. King juxtaposes Max''s first-person narration with third-person accounts of criminals in a breathtaking series of survival moves. Gripping. Fletcher, Connie\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4049'),
(8459, 'Acts of Nature', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Florida, hurricanes and crime make a potent mix, as shown in Edgar-winner King''s fifth entry in his Max Freeman PI series (_The Blue Edge of Midnight_, etc.). The vacation trip that Max and his cop girlfriend, Sherry Richards, take to his Everglades cabin and then to a friend''s even more remote fishing camp turns into a struggle for survival when hurricane Simone shifts course unpredictably. A trio of unscrupulous thieves scavenging in the hurricane''s wake and a pair of deadly security guards out to protect an illegal asset compound the danger. King vividly describes the hurricane''s force and the different ways people respond to it. Sherry displays her grit and Max his ingenuity in a series of desperate gambles as the story builds to an explosive climax. This is a worthy addition to a Florida subgenre that includes Carl Hiaasen''s\n <em>\n  Stormy Weather\n </em>\n and Tim Dorsey''s\n <em>\n  Hurricane Punch\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The latest entry in the Max Freeman series (King won an Edgar with the debut of cop-turned-recluse Freeman in 2002''s Blue Eye of Midnight) is every bit as polished and absorbing as its four predecessors, and it trumps King''s own standards for description with a stunning depiction of a hurricane and its aftermath. A longtime Philadelphia crime reporter, King knows cops well, and it shows in the hero he has crafted. Ex-cop Freeman has been holed up in a former research shack deep in the Florida Everglades, accepting some detective work from an old lawyer friend but mostly hiding himself away from his horror at having killed a 12-year-old boy in a robbery attempt. Each novel inches Freeman away from his grief and into life; King is both a master plotter and an able psychologist. In his latest, Freeman and his new love, a South Florida detective, are enjoying a break at Max''s retreat when a hurricane rips apart the shack, nearly killing Freeman''s girlfriend. This novel is more adventure-suspense tale than mystery, as the couple struggles to survive, first against the hurricane and then against the villains who flood into the Everglades. King juxtaposes Max''s first-person narration with third-person accounts of criminals in a breathtaking series of survival moves. Gripping. Fletcher, Connie\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10738'),
(8460, 'Acts of Nature', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Florida, hurricanes and crime make a potent mix, as shown in Edgar-winner King''s fifth entry in his Max Freeman PI series (_The Blue Edge of Midnight_, etc.). The vacation trip that Max and his cop girlfriend, Sherry Richards, take to his Everglades cabin and then to a friend''s even more remote fishing camp turns into a struggle for survival when hurricane Simone shifts course unpredictably. A trio of unscrupulous thieves scavenging in the hurricane''s wake and a pair of deadly security guards out to protect an illegal asset compound the danger. King vividly describes the hurricane''s force and the different ways people respond to it. Sherry displays her grit and Max his ingenuity in a series of desperate gambles as the story builds to an explosive climax. This is a worthy addition to a Florida subgenre that includes Carl Hiaasen''s\n <em>\n  Stormy Weather\n </em>\n and Tim Dorsey''s\n <em>\n  Hurricane Punch\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The latest entry in the Max Freeman series (King won an Edgar with the debut of cop-turned-recluse Freeman in 2002''s Blue Eye of Midnight) is every bit as polished and absorbing as its four predecessors, and it trumps King''s own standards for description with a stunning depiction of a hurricane and its aftermath. A longtime Philadelphia crime reporter, King knows cops well, and it shows in the hero he has crafted. Ex-cop Freeman has been holed up in a former research shack deep in the Florida Everglades, accepting some detective work from an old lawyer friend but mostly hiding himself away from his horror at having killed a 12-year-old boy in a robbery attempt. Each novel inches Freeman away from his grief and into life; King is both a master plotter and an able psychologist. In his latest, Freeman and his new love, a South Florida detective, are enjoying a break at Max''s retreat when a hurricane rips apart the shack, nearly killing Freeman''s girlfriend. This novel is more adventure-suspense tale than mystery, as the couple struggles to survive, first against the hurricane and then against the villains who flood into the Everglades. King juxtaposes Max''s first-person narration with third-person accounts of criminals in a breathtaking series of survival moves. Gripping. Fletcher, Connie\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20361'),
(8461, 'Acupuncture in Pregnancy and Childbirth', 'Zita West; Giovanni Maciocia', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "One of the joys of this book is Zita''s ability to combine knowledge of the traditional western approach, essential for the confidence of those non-midwife acupuncturists, with the traditional eastern knowledge, essential for all practitioners, to produce a detailed ''how to'' book. However, I would also recommend this book to midwives and student midwives in general. The terminology used in TCM is wonderfully evocative (the uterus is known as the ''envelope of Yin'', and improving postnatal wellbeing may involve ''mother roasting''), yet also so alien sounding that many may dismiss this book as being of specialist interest only. Please don''t! There is so much knowledge, and understanding of the underlying principle of holistic care, and the fundamental importance of all aspects of a mother''s wellbeing before, during and after pregnancy, that it would be unfortunate if this book became purely a specialist tome."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  MIDIRS Digest\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n ACUPUNCTURE IN PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH is a concise highly illustrated and practical guide to using acupuncture to treat women throughout their pregnancy and labour. Drawing on an unparalleled wealth of experience as a midwife and an acupuncturist, the author has produced a book accessible to both acupuncture students and practitioners covering physiology related to pregnancy and childbirth, illuminating links between Western knowledge and acupuncture approaches and suggesting points and point combinations for particular stages and actions during pregnancy and labour.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Highly illustrated with summary boxes and guidelines\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Covers nutritional aspects of pregnancy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Gives practical advice and instruction on the use of acupuncture through the four trimesters of pregnancy and labour\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Uses case examples to further illustrate the text\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Covers recent advances in relation to the effects of aspirin and heparin to the immune system and pregnancy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Includes IVF pregnancies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Glossary and appendix of useful addresses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Fully updated and revised throughout to include recent research\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Nutrition and its effect on the foetus (new and developing area of research)\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22747'),
(8462, 'Ada, Or, Ardor, a Family Chronicle', 'Vladimir Nabokov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov''s greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.Â Â It tells a love story troubled by incest.Â Â But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue.Â Â  Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat.This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniouslyÂ Â sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11015'),
(8463, 'Adam &amp; Eve', 'Sena Jeter Naslund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What happened to Eden?   The New York Times bestselling author of Ahab''s Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance returns with an audacious and provocative novel that envisions a world where science and faith contend for the allegiance of a new Adam &amp; Eve   Her books have been hailed as "exceptional" (People); "enchanting" (Entertainment Weekly); "of great cultural and historical importance" (New York Times Book Review); and "original and affecting" (Los Angeles Times). One of the most imaginative and inspired writers of our time, Sena Jeter Naslund masterfully uses her craft to lay bare the poignant complexity of humanityâ€”the passion and despair, the ignorance and frailty, the genius and resilience that define us. From Victorian London to civil-rights-era Alabama, from nineteenth-century New England to revolutionary Paris, her novels offer profound insight and startling truths about human experience. Now, with Adam &amp; Eve, she delivers her most ambitious and encompassing tale to date.   Hours before his untimelyâ€”and highly suspiciousâ€”death, world-renowned astrophysicist Thom Bergmann shares his discovery of extraterrestrial life with his wife, Lucy. Feeling that the warring world is not ready to learn ofâ€”or acceptâ€”proof of life elsewhere in the universe, Thom entrusts Lucy with his computer flash drive, which holds the keys to his secret work.   Devastated by Thom''s death, Lucy keeps the secret, but Thom''s friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, contacts Lucy with an unusual and dangerous request about another sensitive matter. Pierre needs Lucy to help him smuggle a newly discovered artifact out of Egypt: an ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis. Offering a reinterpretation of the creation story, the document is sure to threaten the foundation of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions . . . and there are those who will stop at nothing to suppress it.   Midway through the daring journey, Lucy''s small plane goes down on a slip of verdant land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. Burned in the crash landing, she is rescued by Adam, a delusional American soldier whose search for both spiritual and carnal knowledge has led to madness. Blessed with youth, beauty, and an unsettling innocence, Adam gently tends to Lucy''s wounds, and in this quiet, solitary paradise, a bond between the unlikely pair grows. Ultimately, Lucy and Adam forsake their half-mythical Eden and make their way back toward civilization, where members of an ultraconservative religious cult are determined to deprive the world of the knowledge Lucy carries.   Set against the searing debate between evolutionists and creationists, Adam &amp; Eve expands the definition of a "sacred book," and suggests that true madness lies in wars and violence fueled by all religious literalism and intolerance. A thriller, a romance, an adventure, and an idyll, Adam &amp; Eve is a tour de force by a master contemporary storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1378'),
(8464, 'Adam &amp; Eve', 'Sena Jeter Naslund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What happened to Eden?   The New York Times bestselling author of Ahab''s Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance returns with an audacious and provocative novel that envisions a world where science and faith contend for the allegiance of a new Adam &amp; Eve   Her books have been hailed as "exceptional" (People); "enchanting" (Entertainment Weekly); "of great cultural and historical importance" (New York Times Book Review); and "original and affecting" (Los Angeles Times). One of the most imaginative and inspired writers of our time, Sena Jeter Naslund masterfully uses her craft to lay bare the poignant complexity of humanityâ€”the passion and despair, the ignorance and frailty, the genius and resilience that define us. From Victorian London to civil-rights-era Alabama, from nineteenth-century New England to revolutionary Paris, her novels offer profound insight and startling truths about human experience. Now, with Adam &amp; Eve, she delivers her most ambitious and encompassing tale to date.   Hours before his untimelyâ€”and highly suspiciousâ€”death, world-renowned astrophysicist Thom Bergmann shares his discovery of extraterrestrial life with his wife, Lucy. Feeling that the warring world is not ready to learn ofâ€”or acceptâ€”proof of life elsewhere in the universe, Thom entrusts Lucy with his computer flash drive, which holds the keys to his secret work.   Devastated by Thom''s death, Lucy keeps the secret, but Thom''s friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, contacts Lucy with an unusual and dangerous request about another sensitive matter. Pierre needs Lucy to help him smuggle a newly discovered artifact out of Egypt: an ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis. Offering a reinterpretation of the creation story, the document is sure to threaten the foundation of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions . . . and there are those who will stop at nothing to suppress it.   Midway through the daring journey, Lucy''s small plane goes down on a slip of verdant land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. Burned in the crash landing, she is rescued by Adam, a delusional American soldier whose search for both spiritual and carnal knowledge has led to madness. Blessed with youth, beauty, and an unsettling innocence, Adam gently tends to Lucy''s wounds, and in this quiet, solitary paradise, a bond between the unlikely pair grows. Ultimately, Lucy and Adam forsake their half-mythical Eden and make their way back toward civilization, where members of an ultraconservative religious cult are determined to deprive the world of the knowledge Lucy carries.   Set against the searing debate between evolutionists and creationists, Adam &amp; Eve expands the definition of a "sacred book," and suggests that true madness lies in wars and violence fueled by all religious literalism and intolerance. A thriller, a romance, an adventure, and an idyll, Adam &amp; Eve is a tour de force by a master contemporary storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11625'),
(8465, 'Adam &amp; Eve', 'Sena Jeter Naslund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What happened to Eden? The New York Times bestselling author of Ahab''s Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance returns with an audacious and provocative novel that envisions a world where science and faith contend for the allegiance of a new Adam &amp; Eve Her books have been hailed as "exceptional" (People); "enchanting" (Entertainment Weekly); "of great cultural and historical importance" (New York Times Book Review); and "original and affecting" (Los Angeles Times). One of the most imaginative and inspired writers of our time, Sena Jeter Naslund masterfully uses her craft to lay bare the poignant complexity of humanityâ€”the passion and despair, the ignorance and frailty, the genius and resilience that define us. From Victorian London to civil-rights-era Alabama, from nineteenth-century New England to revolutionary Paris, her novels offer profound insight and startling truths about human experience. Now, with Adam &amp; Eve, she delivers her most ambitious and encompassing tale to date. Hours before his untimelyâ€”and highly suspiciousâ€”death, world-renowned astrophysicist Thom Bergmann shares his discovery of extraterrestrial life with his wife, Lucy. Feeling that the warring world is not ready to learn ofâ€”or acceptâ€”proof of life elsewhere in the universe, Thom entrusts Lucy with his computer flash drive, which holds the keys to his secret work. Devastated by Thom''s death, Lucy keeps the secret, but Thom''s friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, contacts Lucy with an unusual and dangerous request about another sensitive matter. Pierre needs Lucy to help him smuggle a newly discovered artifact out of Egypt: an ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis. Offering a reinterpretation of the creation story, the document is sure to threaten the foundation of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions . . . and there are those who will stop at nothing to suppress it. Midway through the daring journey, Lucy''s small plane goes down on a slip of verdant land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. Burned in the crash landing, she is rescued by Adam, a delusional American soldier whose search for both spiritual and carnal knowledge has led to madness. Blessed with youth, beauty, and an unsettling innocence, Adam gently tends to Lucy''s wounds, and in this quiet, solitary paradise, a bond between the unlikely pair grows. Ultimately, Lucy and Adam forsake their half-mythical Eden and make their way back toward civilization, where members of an ultraconservative religious cult are determined to deprive the world of the knowledge Lucy carries. Set against the searing debate between evolutionists and creationists, Adam &amp; Eve expands the definition of a "sacred book," and suggests that true madness lies in wars and violence fueled by all religious literalism and intolerance. A thriller, a romance, an adventure, and an idyll, Adam &amp; Eve is a tour de force by a master contemporary storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23587'),
(8466, 'Adam Bede', 'George Eliot', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novel written by George Eliot, published in three volumes in 1859. The title character, a carpenter, is in love with a woman who bears a child by another man. Although Bede tries to help her, he eventually loses her but finds happiness with Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher. Adam Bede was Eliot''s first long novel. Its masterly realism--evident, for example, in the recording of Derbyshire dialect--brought to English fiction the same truthful observation of minute detail that John Ruskin was commending in the Pre-Raphaelites. But what was new in this work of English fiction was the combination of deep human sympathy and rigorous moral judgment. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18386'),
(8467, 'Adam Bede', 'George Eliot', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27891'),
(8468, 'Adam Schell', 'Tomato Rhapsody (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15368'),
(8469, 'Adam si Eva', 'Liviu Rebreanu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25396'),
(8470, 'Adio, frumoasa mea', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25211'),
(8471, 'Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall', 'Spike Milligan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked ''This is your enemy''. I searched every compartment, but he wasn''t on the train''. Spike Milligan''s on the march, blitzing friend and foe alike with his uproarious recollections of army life from enlistment to the landing at Algiers in 1943. Bathos, pathos and gales of drunken laughter, and insane military goonery explode in superlative Milliganese.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1202'),
(8472, 'Adolf Hitler: my part in his downfall', 'Spike Milligan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ''At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked ''This is your enemy''. I searched every compartment, but he wasn''t on the train''. Spike Milligan''s on the march, blitzing friend and foe alike with his uproarious recollections of army life from enlistment to the landing at Algiers in 1943. Bathos, pathos and gales of drunken laughter, and insane military goonery explode in superlative Milliganese.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23712'),
(8473, 'Adopting a Pet for Dummies (ISBN', '0764598791)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18513'),
(8474, 'Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea', 'Steven Callahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahanâ€™s dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. Â“Utterly absorbingâ€ (Newsweek), Adrift is a must-have for any adventure library.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n He is the only man in history to have survived more than a month alone at sea in an inflatable raft. How he made it back alive is the subject of Steven Callahan''s Adrift, one of the most riveting true-life adventures ever written. 15 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8113'),
(8475, 'The Adventure of Black Peter', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15665'),
(8476, 'The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15666'),
(8477, 'The Adventure of Silver Blaze', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15667'),
(8478, 'The Adventure of the &quot;Gloria Scott&quot;', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15627'),
(8479, 'The Adventure of the Abbey Grange.', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15668'),
(8480, 'The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15669'),
(8481, 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15670'),
(8482, 'The Adventure of the Cardboard Box', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15671'),
(8483, 'Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and Other Stories', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding...then the discovery of corpse in chest...next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder...the strange case of the of the dead man who altered his eating habits..and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide. What links these six baffling cases? The distinctive hand of the queen of crime fiction\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/46'),
(8484, 'Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and other stories', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding...then the discovery of corpse in chest...next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder...the strange case of the of the dead man who altered his eating habits..and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide. What links these six baffling cases? The distinctive hand of the queen of crime fiction\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17185'),
(8485, 'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15672'),
(8486, 'The Adventure of the Crooked Man', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15673'),
(8487, 'The Adventure of the Dancing Men.', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15674'),
(8488, 'The Adventure Of The Devil&#39;s Foot', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15675'),
(8489, 'The Adventure of the Dying Detective', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15676'),
(8490, 'The Adventure of the Empty House', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15678'),
(8491, 'The Adventure of the Engineer&#39;s Thumb', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15964'),
(8492, 'The Adventure of the Final Problem', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15609'),
(8493, 'The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15610'),
(8494, 'The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15611'),
(8495, 'The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15612'),
(8496, 'The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15613'),
(8497, 'The Adventure of the Naval Treaty', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15614'),
(8498, 'The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15615'),
(8499, 'The Adventure of the Norwood Builder', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15617'),
(8500, 'The Adventure of the Priory School', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15618'),
(8501, 'The Adventure of the Resident Patient', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15619'),
(8502, 'The Adventure of the Second Stain', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15620'),
(8503, 'The Adventure of the Six Napoleons', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15621'),
(8504, 'The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15622'),
(8505, 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15623'),
(8506, 'The Adventure of the Stockbroker&#39;s Clerk', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15624'),
(8507, 'The Adventure of the Three Students.', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15625'),
(8508, 'The Adventure of the Yellow Face', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15626'),
(8509, 'Adventures', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Con-man adventurer Dr. Lucifer Jones matches wits with hordes of cannibals, royal mummies, bloodthirsty vampires, the Lord of the Apes, the White Goddess, and other perils on the Dark Continent, in this satirical fantasy romp\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21598'),
(8510, 'Adventures in the Screen Trade', 'William Goldman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22754'),
(8511, 'Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks', 'James P. Delgado &amp; Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n More than a million ships have gone lost or missing in the seas, and going down in "the museum of the deep" to find famous shipwrecks is a risky yet profitable business, sometimes challenging the limits of human endurance. Delgado, a marine archeologist and a member of the Sea Hunter TV retrieval team, presents a chronicle of distinguished wreckage, addressing the wrecksâ€™ histories, the scope of the undersea explorations to locate them, the joy of discovery and the thrill of bringing artifacts to the surface. There are some very significant finds here: the supply ship Isabella, lost in 1830; the Pearl Harbor wreckage of USS Arizona and USS Utah; the flotilla of ships destroyed by an atomic bomb at the Bikini atoll; the massive ruin of the "unsinkable" Titanic; the Russian ship carrying Catherine the Greatâ€™s jewels, which sank off Finland in 1771; and others. Fans of the National Geographic International TV series will attest to Delgadoâ€™s expert care of the ship artifacts as theyâ€™re studied, mapped, tagged, photographed and raised to the surface, where they are treated to stop the ravages of time. This sea adventurerâ€™s inside look will excite thrill seekers, inform novices and educate all readers about the importance of preserving the seaâ€™s historic past against poachers and souvenir hunters. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Leading archaeologist and consummate storyteller James Delgado takes readers on a rollicking deep-sea dive into his highly unusual life''s work: locating and exploring the world''s most famous shipwrecks. Colorful characters, near misses, and the thrill of standing â€” or floating â€” in history''s footprints make for a highly entertaining look at the fascinating history and glittering bounty beneath the waves. Included are accounts of Pearl Harbor, the Titanic, and Bikini Atoll, site of the world''s first nuclear tests.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4802'),
(8512, 'Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks', 'James P. Delgado &amp; Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n More than a million ships have gone lost or missing in the seas, and going down in "the museum of the deep" to find famous shipwrecks is a risky yet profitable business, sometimes challenging the limits of human endurance. Delgado, a marine archeologist and a member of the Sea Hunter TV retrieval team, presents a chronicle of distinguished wreckage, addressing the wrecksâ€™ histories, the scope of the undersea explorations to locate them, the joy of discovery and the thrill of bringing artifacts to the surface. There are some very significant finds here: the supply ship Isabella, lost in 1830; the Pearl Harbor wreckage of USS Arizona and USS Utah; the flotilla of ships destroyed by an atomic bomb at the Bikini atoll; the massive ruin of the "unsinkable" Titanic; the Russian ship carrying Catherine the Greatâ€™s jewels, which sank off Finland in 1771; and others. Fans of the National Geographic International TV series will attest to Delgadoâ€™s expert care of the ship artifacts as theyâ€™re studied, mapped, tagged, photographed and raised to the surface, where they are treated to stop the ravages of time. This sea adventurerâ€™s inside look will excite thrill seekers, inform novices and educate all readers about the importance of preserving the seaâ€™s historic past against poachers and souvenir hunters. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Leading archaeologist and consummate storyteller James Delgado takes readers on a rollicking deep-sea dive into his highly unusual life''s work: locating and exploring the world''s most famous shipwrecks. Colorful characters, near misses, and the thrill of standing â€” or floating â€” in history''s footprints make for a highly entertaining look at the fascinating history and glittering bounty beneath the waves. Included are accounts of Pearl Harbor, the Titanic, and Bikini Atoll, site of the world''s first nuclear tests.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9250'),
(8513, 'Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks', 'James P. Delgado; Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n More than a million ships have gone lost or missing in the seas, and going down in "the museum of the deep" to find famous shipwrecks is a risky yet profitable business, sometimes challenging the limits of human endurance. Delgado, a marine archeologist and a member of the Sea Hunter TV retrieval team, presents a chronicle of distinguished wreckage, addressing the wrecksâ€™ histories, the scope of the undersea explorations to locate them, the joy of discovery and the thrill of bringing artifacts to the surface. There are some very significant finds here: the supply ship Isabella, lost in 1830; the Pearl Harbor wreckage of USS Arizona and USS Utah; the flotilla of ships destroyed by an atomic bomb at the Bikini atoll; the massive ruin of the "unsinkable" Titanic; the Russian ship carrying Catherine the Greatâ€™s jewels, which sank off Finland in 1771; and others. Fans of the National Geographic International TV series will attest to Delgadoâ€™s expert care of the ship artifacts as theyâ€™re studied, mapped, tagged, photographed and raised to the surface, where they are treated to stop the ravages of time. This sea adventurerâ€™s inside look will excite thrill seekers, inform novices and educate all readers about the importance of preserving the seaâ€™s historic past against poachers and souvenir hunters. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Leading archaeologist and consummate storyteller James Delgado takes readers on a rollicking deep-sea dive into his highly unusual life''s work: locating and exploring the world''s most famous shipwrecks. Colorful characters, near misses, and the thrill of standing â€” or floating â€” in history''s footprints make for a highly entertaining look at the fascinating history and glittering bounty beneath the waves. Included are accounts of Pearl Harbor, the Titanic, and Bikini Atoll, site of the world''s first nuclear tests.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19849'),
(8514, 'The Adventures of Button', 'Richard W. Leech', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1750'),
(8515, 'The Adventures of Button', 'Richard W. Leech', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12187'),
(8516, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mark Twain''s classic adventure story of life on the Mississippi.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ A concise introduction that gives readers important background information\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ A chronology of the author''s life and work\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ A timeline of significant events that provides the book''s historical context\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ Detailed explanatory notes\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader''s experience\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world''s finest books to their full potential.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.\n <br />\n The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2996'),
(8517, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mark Twain''s classic adventure story of life on the Mississippi.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ A concise introduction that gives readers important background information\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ A chronology of the author''s life and work\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ A timeline of significant events that provides the book''s historical context\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ Detailed explanatory notes\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€¢ A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader''s experience\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world''s finest books to their full potential.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.\n <br />\n The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13112'),
(8518, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Mark Twain''s classic adventure story of life on the Mississippi. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: â€¢ A concise introduction that gives readers important background information â€¢ A chronology of the author''s life and work â€¢ A timeline of significant events that provides the book''s historical context â€¢ An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations â€¢ Detailed explanatory notes â€¢ Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work â€¢ Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction â€¢ A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader''s experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world''s finest books to their full potential. SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13881');
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(8519, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Mark Twain''s classic adventure story of life on the Mississippi. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: â€¢ A concise introduction that gives readers important background information â€¢ A chronology of the author''s life and work â€¢ A timeline of significant events that provides the book''s historical context â€¢ An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations â€¢ Detailed explanatory notes â€¢ Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work â€¢ Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction â€¢ A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader''s experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world''s finest books to their full potential. SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21818'),
(8520, 'The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle', 'Tobias George Smollett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25008'),
(8521, 'The Adventures of Roderick Random', 'Tobias George Smollett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25009'),
(8522, 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With an Introduction by Dr. Julian Wolfreys    This edition of The Adventures &amp; Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes contains the earliest cases of the greatest fictional detective of all time. It comprises the complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, newly reprinted from the original text of The Strand Magazine.     It is illustrated by Sidney Paget, the finest of illustrators, and the man from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive.    This is the first of three volumes of The Complete Sherlock Holmes. The three books present all the Holmes stories arranged chronologically in order of first publication.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25107'),
(8523, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *â€œSaturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.â€* So starts Mark Twainâ€™s classic tale about a boyâ€™s life in a small town on the Mississippi, which has become an all-time favorite both in America and around the world. Tom Sawyerâ€™s mischievous and by now famous exploitsâ€”venturing into a nighttime graveyard with his friend Huck Finn, getting lost in a bat cave, tricking his friends into whitewashing a fenceâ€”make thrilling reading for all ages. Behind the escapades, though, are darker themes, as young Tom learns some difficult lessons about the often hypocritical rules that govern adult society. This new edition, which celebrates the centenary of Mark Twain''s death, brings together the complete text with more than 70 stunning illustrations by artist Robert Ingpen, each one an enchanting evocation of a forgotten time in the American South.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2999'),
(8524, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *â€œSaturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.â€* So starts Mark Twainâ€™s classic tale about a boyâ€™s life in a small town on the Mississippi, which has become an all-time favorite both in America and around the world. Tom Sawyerâ€™s mischievous and by now famous exploitsâ€”venturing into a nighttime graveyard with his friend Huck Finn, getting lost in a bat cave, tricking his friends into whitewashing a fenceâ€”make thrilling reading for all ages. Behind the escapades, though, are darker themes, as young Tom learns some difficult lessons about the often hypocritical rules that govern adult society. This new edition, which celebrates the centenary of Mark Twain''s death, brings together the complete text with more than 70 stunning illustrations by artist Robert Ingpen, each one an enchanting evocation of a forgotten time in the American South.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13106'),
(8525, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *â€œSaturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.â€* So starts Mark Twainâ€™s classic tale about a boyâ€™s life in a small town on the Mississippi, which has become an all-time favorite both in America and around the world. Tom Sawyerâ€™s mischievous and by now famous exploitsâ€”venturing into a nighttime graveyard with his friend Huck Finn, getting lost in a bat cave, tricking his friends into whitewashing a fenceâ€”make thrilling reading for all ages. Behind the escapades, though, are darker themes, as young Tom learns some difficult lessons about the often hypocritical rules that govern adult society. This new edition, which celebrates the centenary of Mark Twain''s death, brings together the complete text with more than 70 stunning illustrations by artist Robert Ingpen, each one an enchanting evocation of a forgotten time in the American South.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14018'),
(8526, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *â€œSaturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.â€* So starts Mark Twainâ€™s classic tale about a boyâ€™s life in a small town on the Mississippi, which has become an all-time favorite both in America and around the world. Tom Sawyerâ€™s mischievous and by now famous exploitsâ€”venturing into a nighttime graveyard with his friend Huck Finn, getting lost in a bat cave, tricking his friends into whitewashing a fenceâ€”make thrilling reading for all ages. Behind the escapades, though, are darker themes, as young Tom learns some difficult lessons about the often hypocritical rules that govern adult society. This new edition, which celebrates the centenary of Mark Twain''s death, brings together the complete text with more than 70 stunning illustrations by artist Robert Ingpen, each one an enchanting evocation of a forgotten time in the American South.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21812'),
(8527, 'The Adventurous Four Again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is a story of the further adventures of four children who get into some hair-raising scrapes, but always manage to survive them. It is one in a series of adventure stories by Enid Blyton, and should appeal to both boys and girls.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5590'),
(8528, 'The adventurous four again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This is a story of the further adventures of four children who get into some hair-raising scrapes, but always manage to survive them. It is one in a series of adventure stories by Enid Blyton, and should appeal to both boys and girls.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19030'),
(8529, 'The adventurous four again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This is a story of the further adventures of four children who get into some hair-raising scrapes, but always manage to survive them. It is one in a series of adventure stories by Enid Blyton, and should appeal to both boys and girls.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27734'),
(8530, 'The Adventurous Four', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5587'),
(8531, 'The adventurous four', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19031'),
(8532, 'The adventurous four', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27735'),
(8533, 'An Aegean Prophecy', 'Jeffrey Siger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n St John wrote the apocalyptic Book of Revelation over 1900 years ago in a cave on Greece''s eastern Aegean island of Patmos. When a revered monk from that holy island''s thousand-year-old monastery is murdered in Patmos''s town square during Easter Week, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis is called upon to find the killer.Andreas''s impolitic search for answers brings him face-to-face with a scandal haunting the world''s oldest surviving monastic community. On the pristine Aegean peninsula of Mount Athos, isolated from the rest of humanity, twenty monasteries sit protecting the secrets of Byzantium amid a way of life virtually unchanged for more than 1500 years. But today this sacred refuge harbours modern international intrigues that threaten to destroy the very heart of the Church . . . in a matter of days.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4468'),
(8534, 'An Aegean Prophecy', 'Jeffrey Siger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n St John wrote the apocalyptic Book of Revelation over 1900 years ago in a cave on Greece''s eastern Aegean island of Patmos. When a revered monk from that holy island''s thousand-year-old monastery is murdered in Patmos''s town square during Easter Week, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis is called upon to find the killer.Andreas''s impolitic search for answers brings him face-to-face with a scandal haunting the world''s oldest surviving monastic community. On the pristine Aegean peninsula of Mount Athos, isolated from the rest of humanity, twenty monasteries sit protecting the secrets of Byzantium amid a way of life virtually unchanged for more than 1500 years. But today this sacred refuge harbours modern international intrigues that threaten to destroy the very heart of the Church . . . in a matter of days.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12684'),
(8535, 'The Aeneid', 'Virgil, Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n With his translations of Homer''s classic poems, Robert Fagles gave new life to seminal works of the Western canon and became one of the preeminent translators of our time. His latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism,\n <i>\n  The Aeneid\n </i>\n follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to Italy and fulfills his destiny as founder of the Roman people. Retaining all of the gravitas and humanity of the original, this powerful blend of poetry and myth remains as relevant today as when it was first written.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13809'),
(8536, 'The Aeneid', 'Virgil, Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n With his translations of Homer''s classic poems, Robert Fagles gave new life to seminal works of the Western canon and became one of the preeminent translators of our time. His latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism,\n <i>\n  The Aeneid\n </i>\n follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to Italy and fulfills his destiny as founder of the Roman people. Retaining all of the gravitas and humanity of the original, this powerful blend of poetry and myth remains as relevant today as when it was first written.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23267'),
(8537, 'Aesop&#39;s Fables', 'Aesop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Aesop''s Fables, by Aesop, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. As legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modern-day readers. Translated into countless languages and familiar to people around the world, Aesopâ€™s fables never tarnish despite being told again and again. This collection presents nearly 300 of Aesopâ€™s most entertaining and enduring storiesâ€”from â€œThe Hare and the Tortoiseâ€ and â€œThe Town Mouse and the Country Mouseâ€ to â€œThe Goose That Laid the Golden Eggsâ€ and â€œThe Wolf in Sheepâ€™s Clothing.â€ Populated by a colorful array of animal characters who personify every imaginable human typeâ€”from fiddling grasshoppers and diligent ants to sly foxes, wicked wolves, brave mice, and grateful lionsâ€”these timeless tales are as fresh and relevant today as when they were first created. Full of humor, insight, and wit, the tales in Aesopâ€™s Fables champion the value of hard work and perseverance, compassion for others, and honesty. They are age-old wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and children alike.D. L. Ashliman is emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He taught folklore, mythology, German, and comparative literature at that institution for thirty-one years. He has also served as guest professor at the University of Augsburg in Germany.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/36'),
(8538, 'Aesop&#39;s Fables', 'Aesop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Aesop''s Fables, by Aesop, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. As legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modern-day readers. Translated into countless languages and familiar to people around the world, Aesopâ€™s fables never tarnish despite being told again and again. This collection presents nearly 300 of Aesopâ€™s most entertaining and enduring storiesâ€”from â€œThe Hare and the Tortoiseâ€ and â€œThe Town Mouse and the Country Mouseâ€ to â€œThe Goose That Laid the Golden Eggsâ€ and â€œThe Wolf in Sheepâ€™s Clothing.â€ Populated by a colorful array of animal characters who personify every imaginable human typeâ€”from fiddling grasshoppers and diligent ants to sly foxes, wicked wolves, brave mice, and grateful lionsâ€”these timeless tales are as fresh and relevant today as when they were first created. Full of humor, insight, and wit, the tales in Aesopâ€™s Fables champion the value of hard work and perseverance, compassion for others, and honesty. They are age-old wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and children alike.D. L. Ashliman is emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He taught folklore, mythology, German, and comparative literature at that institution for thirty-one years. He has also served as guest professor at the University of Augsburg in Germany.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9308'),
(8539, 'Aesop&#39;s Fables', 'Aesop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 9781434001467\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Aesop''s Fables, by Aesop, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. As legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modern-day readers. Translated into countless languages and familiar to people around the world, Aesopâ€™s fables never tarnish despite being told again and again. This collection presents nearly 300 of Aesopâ€™s most entertaining and enduring storiesâ€”from â€œThe Hare and the Tortoiseâ€ and â€œThe Town Mouse and the Country Mouseâ€ to â€œThe Goose That Laid the Golden Eggsâ€ and â€œThe Wolf in Sheepâ€™s Clothing.â€ Populated by a colorful array of animal characters who personify every imaginable human typeâ€”from fiddling grasshoppers and diligent ants to sly foxes, wicked wolves, brave mice, and grateful lionsâ€”these timeless tales are as fresh and relevant today as when they were first created. Full of humor, insight, and wit, the tales in Aesopâ€™s Fables champion the value of hard work and perseverance, compassion for others, and honesty. They are age-old wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and children alike.D. L. Ashliman is emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He taught folklore, mythology, German, and comparative literature at that institution for thirty-one years. He has also served as guest professor at the University of Augsburg in Germany.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15358'),
(8540, 'Aesop&#39;s Fables', 'Aesop', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Aesop''s Fables, by Aesop, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. As legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modern-day readers. Translated into countless languages and familiar to people around the world, Aesopâ€™s fables never tarnish despite being told again and again. This collection presents nearly 300 of Aesopâ€™s most entertaining and enduring storiesâ€”from â€œThe Hare and the Tortoiseâ€ and â€œThe Town Mouse and the Country Mouseâ€ to â€œThe Goose That Laid the Golden Eggsâ€ and â€œThe Wolf in Sheepâ€™s Clothing.â€ Populated by a colorful array of animal characters who personify every imaginable human typeâ€”from fiddling grasshoppers and diligent ants to sly foxes, wicked wolves, brave mice, and grateful lionsâ€”these timeless tales are as fresh and relevant today as when they were first created. Full of humor, insight, and wit, the tales in Aesopâ€™s Fables champion the value of hard work and perseverance, compassion for others, and honesty. They are age-old wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and children alike.D. L. Ashliman is emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He taught folklore, mythology, German, and comparative literature at that institution for thirty-one years. He has also served as guest professor at the University of Augsburg in Germany.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17195'),
(8541, 'An Affair to Forget', 'Rachel Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2042'),
(8542, 'Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History', 'Thomas Barfield', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them. He shows how governing these peoples was relatively easy when power was concentrated in a small dynastic elite, but how this delicate political order broke down in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when Afghanistan''s rulers mobilized rural militias to expel first the British and later the Soviets. Armed insurgency proved remarkably successful against the foreign occupiers, but it also undermined the Afghan government''s authority and rendered the country ever more difficult to govern as time passed. Barfield vividly describes how Afghanistan''s armed factions plunged the country into a civil war, giving rise to clerical rule by the Taliban and Afghanistan''s isolation from the world. He examines why the American invasion in the wake of September 11 toppled the Taliban so quickly, and how this easy victory lulled the United States into falsely believing that a viable state could be built just as easily. Afghanistan is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how a land conquered and ruled by foreign dynasties for more than a thousand years became the "graveyard of empires" for the British and Soviets, and what the United States must do to avoid a similar fate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8151'),
(8543, 'African Laughter', 'Doris May Lessing', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ''African Laughter'' is a portrait of Doris Lessing''s homeland. In it she recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being exiled from the old Southern Rhodesia for twenty-five years for her opposition to the white minority government. The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, people and spirit are evoked by Lessing in a narrative of detailed scenes. Swooping from the verandahs to the grass roots and back again, noting the kinds of changes that can be appreciated only by one who has lived there before, Lessing embraces every facet of life in Zimbabwe from the lost animals of the bush to political corruption, from AIDS to a communal enterprise created by poor rural blacks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11072'),
(8544, 'The African Safari Discovery', 'Jeff Brown &amp; Josh Greenhut &amp; MacKy Pamintuan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stanleyâ€™s not the only flat one!\n</p>\n<p>\n When a flat skull is discovered in Africa, Stanley Lambchop decides to travel there with his brother, Arthur, and their father, George. Maybe studying the skull will give them clues to Stanley''s flatness. But once in Africa, the Lambchops are in for more adventure than they bargained for. From lions to zebras to elephants, it''s the safari of a lifetime!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeff Brown created the beloved character of Flat Stanley as a bedtime story for his sons. He has written other outrageous books about the Lambchop family, including\n <em>\n  Flat Stanley\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Stanley and the Magic Lamp\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Invisible Stanley\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Stanley''s Christmas Adventure\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Stanley in Space\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Stanley, Flat Again!\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4632'),
(8545, 'The African Safari Discovery', 'Jeff Brown &amp; Josh Greenhut &amp; MacKy Pamintuan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stanleyâ€™s not the only flat one!\n</p>\n<p>\n When a flat skull is discovered in Africa, Stanley Lambchop decides to travel there with his brother, Arthur, and their father, George. Maybe studying the skull will give them clues to Stanley''s flatness. But once in Africa, the Lambchops are in for more adventure than they bargained for. From lions to zebras to elephants, it''s the safari of a lifetime!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeff Brown created the beloved character of Flat Stanley as a bedtime story for his sons. He has written other outrageous books about the Lambchop family, including\n <em>\n  Flat Stanley\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Stanley and the Magic Lamp\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Invisible Stanley\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Stanley''s Christmas Adventure\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Stanley in Space\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Stanley, Flat Again!\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8623'),
(8546, 'After Dark', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murakami''s 12th work of fiction is darkly entertaining and more novella than novel. Taking place over seven hours of a Tokyo night, it intercuts three loosely related stories, linked by Murakami''s signature magical-realist absurd coincidences. When amateur trombonist and soon-to-be law student Tetsuya Takahashi walks into a late-night Denny''s, he espies Mari Asai, 19, sitting by herself, and proceeds to talk himself back into her acquaintance. Tetsuya was once interested in plain Mari''s gorgeous older sister, Eri, whom he courted, sort of, two summers previously. Murakami then cuts to Eri, asleep in what turns out to be some sort of menacing netherworld. Tetsuya leaves for overnight band practice, but soon a large, 30ish woman, Kaoru, comes into Denny''s asking for Mari: Mari speaks Chinese, and Kaoru needs to speak to the Chinese prostitute who has just been badly beaten up in the nearby "love hotel" Kaoru manages. Murakami''s omniscient looks at the lives of the sleeping Eri and the prostitute''s assailant, a salaryman named Shirakawa, are sheer padding, but the probing, wonderfully improvisational dialogues Mari has with Tetsuya, Kaoru and a hotel worker named Korogi sustain the book until the ambiguous, mostly upbeat dÃ©nouement.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Other than an unexpected cheerfulness,\n <em>\n  After Dark\n </em>\n is classic Haruki Murakami, featuring themes of loneliness and alienation, carefully crafted characters, Western references (such as an all-night Denny''s where Hall &amp; Oates plays in the background), and distinctive magical-realist twists of fate. Critics also praised the impassive, omniscient narration, like a constantly shifting video camera, which renders each scene in magnificent detail. The chief complaint was the brevity of the novel, and the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n felt that Eri''s dreamlike scenes missed the mark as well. "For the unfamiliar, it''s the perfect appetizer. For the established fan, it''s a quick work that is over far too soon" (_Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5232'),
(8547, 'After Dark', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murakami''s 12th work of fiction is darkly entertaining and more novella than novel. Taking place over seven hours of a Tokyo night, it intercuts three loosely related stories, linked by Murakami''s signature magical-realist absurd coincidences. When amateur trombonist and soon-to-be law student Tetsuya Takahashi walks into a late-night Denny''s, he espies Mari Asai, 19, sitting by herself, and proceeds to talk himself back into her acquaintance. Tetsuya was once interested in plain Mari''s gorgeous older sister, Eri, whom he courted, sort of, two summers previously. Murakami then cuts to Eri, asleep in what turns out to be some sort of menacing netherworld. Tetsuya leaves for overnight band practice, but soon a large, 30ish woman, Kaoru, comes into Denny''s asking for Mari: Mari speaks Chinese, and Kaoru needs to speak to the Chinese prostitute who has just been badly beaten up in the nearby "love hotel" Kaoru manages. Murakami''s omniscient looks at the lives of the sleeping Eri and the prostitute''s assailant, a salaryman named Shirakawa, are sheer padding, but the probing, wonderfully improvisational dialogues Mari has with Tetsuya, Kaoru and a hotel worker named Korogi sustain the book until the ambiguous, mostly upbeat dÃ©nouement.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Other than an unexpected cheerfulness,\n <em>\n  After Dark\n </em>\n is classic Haruki Murakami, featuring themes of loneliness and alienation, carefully crafted characters, Western references (such as an all-night Denny''s where Hall &amp; Oates plays in the background), and distinctive magical-realist twists of fate. Critics also praised the impassive, omniscient narration, like a constantly shifting video camera, which renders each scene in magnificent detail. The chief complaint was the brevity of the novel, and the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n felt that Eri''s dreamlike scenes missed the mark as well. "For the unfamiliar, it''s the perfect appetizer. For the established fan, it''s a quick work that is over far too soon" (_Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11628'),
(8548, 'After dark', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murakami''s 12th work of fiction is darkly entertaining and more novella than novel. Taking place over seven hours of a Tokyo night, it intercuts three loosely related stories, linked by Murakami''s signature magical-realist absurd coincidences. When amateur trombonist and soon-to-be law student Tetsuya Takahashi walks into a late-night Denny''s, he espies Mari Asai, 19, sitting by herself, and proceeds to talk himself back into her acquaintance. Tetsuya was once interested in plain Mari''s gorgeous older sister, Eri, whom he courted, sort of, two summers previously. Murakami then cuts to Eri, asleep in what turns out to be some sort of menacing netherworld. Tetsuya leaves for overnight band practice, but soon a large, 30ish woman, Kaoru, comes into Denny''s asking for Mari: Mari speaks Chinese, and Kaoru needs to speak to the Chinese prostitute who has just been badly beaten up in the nearby "love hotel" Kaoru manages. Murakami''s omniscient looks at the lives of the sleeping Eri and the prostitute''s assailant, a salaryman named Shirakawa, are sheer padding, but the probing, wonderfully improvisational dialogues Mari has with Tetsuya, Kaoru and a hotel worker named Korogi sustain the book until the ambiguous, mostly upbeat dÃ©nouement.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Other than an unexpected cheerfulness,\n <em>\n  After Dark\n </em>\n is classic Haruki Murakami, featuring themes of loneliness and alienation, carefully crafted characters, Western references (such as an all-night Denny''s where Hall &amp; Oates plays in the background), and distinctive magical-realist twists of fate. Critics also praised the impassive, omniscient narration, like a constantly shifting video camera, which renders each scene in magnificent detail. The chief complaint was the brevity of the novel, and the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n felt that Eri''s dreamlike scenes missed the mark as well. "For the unfamiliar, it''s the perfect appetizer. For the established fan, it''s a quick work that is over far too soon" (_Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19437'),
(8549, 'After Dark, My Sweet', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bill Collins is young, good looking, agile and strong but he''s a drifter with mild multiple neuroses, in and out of institutions, and dangerously violent on occasion. When he gets involved with the hard-drinking Fay Anderson and the deceptively pleasant ex-police officer everyone knows as Uncle Bud in a ruthless kidnap plot, everything goes to hell in a hurry, and the end, for Bill, is inevitable and shattering. This is a tour de force of paranoia and violence from the master of the crime noir novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18129'),
(8550, 'After Life: Answers From the Other Side', 'John Edward &amp; Natasha (CON) Stoynoff &amp; Larry King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "''John has audiences rapt with his amazing spiritual revelations'' News of the World"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  What happens after we die?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n The acclaimed medium takes his talents to new levels and new countries! Â For After Life, John and a documentary crew traveled to Australia and across the United States, where he demonstrated once again that grief, healing, and hope are eternally intertwined. He answers his fans'' most-asked questions about the mediumship process and how it works, while revealing his own personal life as a husband and new father. Edward also shares what heâ€™s learned through his own personal losses and demonstrates that itâ€™s never too late to forgiveâ€¦and never too far away to love.\n</p>\n<p>\n John also connects with celebrities both here and on the other side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4264'),
(8551, 'After Life: Answers From the Other Side', 'John Edward &amp; Natasha (CON) Stoynoff &amp; Larry King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "''John has audiences rapt with his amazing spiritual revelations'' News of the World"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  What happens after we die?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n The acclaimed medium takes his talents to new levels and new countries! Â For After Life, John and a documentary crew traveled to Australia and across the United States, where he demonstrated once again that grief, healing, and hope are eternally intertwined. He answers his fans'' most-asked questions about the mediumship process and how it works, while revealing his own personal life as a husband and new father. Edward also shares what heâ€™s learned through his own personal losses and demonstrates that itâ€™s never too late to forgiveâ€¦and never too far away to love.\n</p>\n<p>\n John also connects with celebrities both here and on the other side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10854'),
(8552, 'After Life: Answers From the Other Side', 'John Edward; Natasha (CON) Stoynoff; Larry King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "''John has audiences rapt with his amazing spiritual revelations'' News of the World"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  What happens after we die?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n The acclaimed medium takes his talents to new levels and new countries! For After Life, John and a documentary crew traveled to Australia and across the United States, where he demonstrated once again that grief, healing, and hope are eternally intertwined. He answers his fans'' most-asked questions about the mediumship process and how it works, while revealing his own personal life as a husband and new father. Edward also shares what heâ€™s learned through his own personal losses and demonstrates that itâ€™s never too late to forgive...and never too far away to love.\n</p>\n<p>\n John also connects with celebrities both here and on the other side.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21435'),
(8553, 'After Midnight', 'Richard Laymon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although Laymon died in 2001, his U.K. novels have only recently gotten an American release; this 1997 title is a sordid, flawed gem, both stomach churning and erotic, and not infrequently at the same time. Narrated by paranoid, defiant 26-year-old Alice, the book opens on a peaceful night of house-sittingâ€”but as Alice warns, "You can\n <em>\n  never\n </em>\n be sure it''s safe." Indeed, shortly after midnight she spots a strange man emerge from the woods and go swimming naked in the family pool. A fortunately timed phone call that''s a wrong number gives Alice the chance to drive off the stranger, but sets in motion a 24-hour whirlwind of murder, terror and madness, beginning when Alice splits open someone''s head with a Civil War saberâ€”and escalating precipitously from there. Alice''s matter-of-fact attitude toward her grisly handiwork can make her hard to sympathize with ("I felt rotten about killing him, but not particularly guilty"); supporting characters are easier to like, but don''t get too attached. As the night wears on, Laymon piles on gory details and violent sex with perverse, over-the-top glee; it''s definitely not for everyone and can strain credibility, but Alice proves to be one of Laymon''s most original and memorable protagonists, and should keep hardened horror fans reading well past the stroke of midnight.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Alice''s friend Serena goes away she stays in her house, with its sunken bathtub and big-screen TV. Best of all is the outdoor swimming pool. But one night a stranger walks out of the woods and jumps naked into the pool. Alice hopes he won''t be coming to get her, like so many have done before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1838'),
(8554, 'After Midnight', 'Richard Laymon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although Laymon died in 2001, his U.K. novels have only recently gotten an American release; this 1997 title is a sordid, flawed gem, both stomach churning and erotic, and not infrequently at the same time. Narrated by paranoid, defiant 26-year-old Alice, the book opens on a peaceful night of house-sittingâ€”but as Alice warns, "You can\n <em>\n  never\n </em>\n be sure it''s safe." Indeed, shortly after midnight she spots a strange man emerge from the woods and go swimming naked in the family pool. A fortunately timed phone call that''s a wrong number gives Alice the chance to drive off the stranger, but sets in motion a 24-hour whirlwind of murder, terror and madness, beginning when Alice splits open someone''s head with a Civil War saberâ€”and escalating precipitously from there. Alice''s matter-of-fact attitude toward her grisly handiwork can make her hard to sympathize with ("I felt rotten about killing him, but not particularly guilty"); supporting characters are easier to like, but don''t get too attached. As the night wears on, Laymon piles on gory details and violent sex with perverse, over-the-top glee; it''s definitely not for everyone and can strain credibility, but Alice proves to be one of Laymon''s most original and memorable protagonists, and should keep hardened horror fans reading well past the stroke of midnight.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Alice''s friend Serena goes away she stays in her house, with its sunken bathtub and big-screen TV. Best of all is the outdoor swimming pool. But one night a stranger walks out of the woods and jumps naked into the pool. Alice hopes he won''t be coming to get her, like so many have done before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12227'),
(8555, 'After Moreau', 'Jeffrey Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18160'),
(8556, 'After the Fall', 'Kylie Ladd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kylie Ladd on\n  <em>\n   After the Fall\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whenever I meet someone new and they ask me about my occupation I always reply that Iâ€™m a psychologist. Itâ€™s true. Iâ€™m a clinical neuropsychologist, to be precise, with a Ph.D. in the field and fifteen years'' experience working in both the public and private sectors. What I fail to mention--mostly because I still canâ€™t quite believe that itâ€™s true, and Iâ€™m stupidly afraid that saying it out loud will make it disappear--is that Iâ€™m also a writer.\n</p>\n<p>\n I never planned to study psychology. At the time it simply seemed like a good compromise between the medical degree my parents wanted me to do and the arts degree I was keener on, but now I realize what a great fit it was. I have always been fascinated by people, and more specifically how we become who we are and why we make the choices we do. I''m also--as is true for most writers--rather a voyeur. Psychology gave me the tools to observe others; writing gives me the reason to do so.\n</p>\n<p>\n Psychology has also helped me understand something I think every writer needs to grasp: that "story" is a fluid concept, depending wholly on perspective. In the clinic where I work, part of my role is to take a history from both the client and a member of his or her family. Though I have been doing so for many years, the process still has the power to surprise, given how differently the same events can be perceived and experienced by different people. It seems there is always some fresh way for us to love or hate, to accommodate or alienate each other; there are at least two sides to every story. Listening to my patients and their families gave me the idea for the narrative structure of\n <em>\n  After The Fall\n </em>\n , where four main characters take turns at telling their side of a shared story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now that both my children are in school, I write three days a week and practice as a psychologist for two--but the distinction is often blurred. When I write, I am using the resources that psychology has given me; when I am seeing a client I am simultaneously alert for what I can learn from them about being human. In both cases, I am listening for story--the stories that explain and define us all.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Neuropsychologist Ladd''s flat debut is narrated by four Australians who make three pairs: Cary and Kate, and Luke and Cressida, two married couplesâ€”and Kate and Luke, who fall headlong into an affair that could have big consequences. Cary is a chivalrous doctor who desperately wants children, while his impetuous wife, Kate, an anthropologist, is the lusty life of every party. Then there''s Luke, the dashing ad man everyone falls in love with, and Cressida, his beautiful pediatrician wife, who is more dedicated to her patients than to her personal life. Short, snappy chapters alternate between the voices of these characters, building the story of the two marriages and the infidelity that dismantles them. Ladd can turn a phrase and spin a metaphor, but the characters are too thin to sustain sympathy, and little is done to find a new angle on the familiar setup of desire and adultery.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3626');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(8557, 'After the Fall', 'Kylie Ladd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kylie Ladd on\n  <em>\n   After the Fall\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whenever I meet someone new and they ask me about my occupation I always reply that Iâ€™m a psychologist. Itâ€™s true. Iâ€™m a clinical neuropsychologist, to be precise, with a Ph.D. in the field and fifteen years'' experience working in both the public and private sectors. What I fail to mention--mostly because I still canâ€™t quite believe that itâ€™s true, and Iâ€™m stupidly afraid that saying it out loud will make it disappear--is that Iâ€™m also a writer.\n</p>\n<p>\n I never planned to study psychology. At the time it simply seemed like a good compromise between the medical degree my parents wanted me to do and the arts degree I was keener on, but now I realize what a great fit it was. I have always been fascinated by people, and more specifically how we become who we are and why we make the choices we do. I''m also--as is true for most writers--rather a voyeur. Psychology gave me the tools to observe others; writing gives me the reason to do so.\n</p>\n<p>\n Psychology has also helped me understand something I think every writer needs to grasp: that "story" is a fluid concept, depending wholly on perspective. In the clinic where I work, part of my role is to take a history from both the client and a member of his or her family. Though I have been doing so for many years, the process still has the power to surprise, given how differently the same events can be perceived and experienced by different people. It seems there is always some fresh way for us to love or hate, to accommodate or alienate each other; there are at least two sides to every story. Listening to my patients and their families gave me the idea for the narrative structure of\n <em>\n  After The Fall\n </em>\n , where four main characters take turns at telling their side of a shared story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now that both my children are in school, I write three days a week and practice as a psychologist for two--but the distinction is often blurred. When I write, I am using the resources that psychology has given me; when I am seeing a client I am simultaneously alert for what I can learn from them about being human. In both cases, I am listening for story--the stories that explain and define us all.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Neuropsychologist Ladd''s flat debut is narrated by four Australians who make three pairs: Cary and Kate, and Luke and Cressida, two married couplesâ€”and Kate and Luke, who fall headlong into an affair that could have big consequences. Cary is a chivalrous doctor who desperately wants children, while his impetuous wife, Kate, an anthropologist, is the lusty life of every party. Then there''s Luke, the dashing ad man everyone falls in love with, and Cressida, his beautiful pediatrician wife, who is more dedicated to her patients than to her personal life. Short, snappy chapters alternate between the voices of these characters, building the story of the two marriages and the infidelity that dismantles them. Ladd can turn a phrase and spin a metaphor, but the characters are too thin to sustain sympathy, and little is done to find a new angle on the familiar setup of desire and adultery.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12250'),
(8558, 'After the Fall', 'Kylie Ladd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kylie Ladd on\n  <em>\n   After the Fall\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whenever I meet someone new and they ask me about my occupation I always reply that Iâ€™m a psychologist. Itâ€™s true. Iâ€™m a clinical neuropsychologist, to be precise, with a Ph.D. in the field and fifteen years'' experience working in both the public and private sectors. What I fail to mention--mostly because I still canâ€™t quite believe that itâ€™s true, and Iâ€™m stupidly afraid that saying it out loud will make it disappear--is that Iâ€™m also a writer.\n</p>\n<p>\n I never planned to study psychology. At the time it simply seemed like a good compromise between the medical degree my parents wanted me to do and the arts degree I was keener on, but now I realize what a great fit it was. I have always been fascinated by people, and more specifically how we become who we are and why we make the choices we do. I''m also--as is true for most writers--rather a voyeur. Psychology gave me the tools to observe others; writing gives me the reason to do so.\n</p>\n<p>\n Psychology has also helped me understand something I think every writer needs to grasp: that "story" is a fluid concept, depending wholly on perspective. In the clinic where I work, part of my role is to take a history from both the client and a member of his or her family. Though I have been doing so for many years, the process still has the power to surprise, given how differently the same events can be perceived and experienced by different people. It seems there is always some fresh way for us to love or hate, to accommodate or alienate each other; there are at least two sides to every story. Listening to my patients and their families gave me the idea for the narrative structure of\n <em>\n  After The Fall\n </em>\n , where four main characters take turns at telling their side of a shared story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now that both my children are in school, I write three days a week and practice as a psychologist for two--but the distinction is often blurred. When I write, I am using the resources that psychology has given me; when I am seeing a client I am simultaneously alert for what I can learn from them about being human. In both cases, I am listening for story--the stories that explain and define us all.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Neuropsychologist Ladd''s flat debut is narrated by four Australians who make three pairs: Cary and Kate, and Luke and Cressida, two married couplesâ€”and Kate and Luke, who fall headlong into an affair that could have big consequences. Cary is a chivalrous doctor who desperately wants children, while his impetuous wife, Kate, an anthropologist, is the lusty life of every party. Then there''s Luke, the dashing ad man everyone falls in love with, and Cressida, his beautiful pediatrician wife, who is more dedicated to her patients than to her personal life. Short, snappy chapters alternate between the voices of these characters, building the story of the two marriages and the infidelity that dismantles them. Ladd can turn a phrase and spin a metaphor, but the characters are too thin to sustain sympathy, and little is done to find a new angle on the familiar setup of desire and adultery.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20934'),
(8559, 'After the Fire, a Still Small Voice', 'Evie Wyld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank drives out to a shack by the ocean that he had last visited as a teenager. There, among the sugarcane and sand dunes, he struggles to rebuild his life.Forty years earlier, Leon is growing up in Sydney, turning out treacle tarts at his parentsâ€™ bakery and flirting with one of the local girls. But when heâ€™s drafted to serve in Vietnam, he finds himself suddenly confronting the same experiences that haunt his war-veteran father.As these two stories weave around each otherâ€“each narrated in a voice as tender as it is fierceâ€“we learn what binds Frank and Leon together, and what may end up keeping them apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5627'),
(8560, 'After the Fire, a Still Small Voice', 'Evie Wyld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank drives out to a shack by the ocean that he had last visited as a teenager. There, among the sugarcane and sand dunes, he struggles to rebuild his life.Forty years earlier, Leon is growing up in Sydney, turning out treacle tarts at his parentsâ€™ bakery and flirting with one of the local girls. But when heâ€™s drafted to serve in Vietnam, he finds himself suddenly confronting the same experiences that haunt his war-veteran father.As these two stories weave around each otherâ€“each narrated in a voice as tender as it is fierceâ€“we learn what binds Frank and Leon together, and what may end up keeping them apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13472'),
(8561, 'After the fire, a still small voice', 'Evie Wyld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank drives out to a shack by the ocean that he had last visited as a teenager. There, among the sugarcane and sand dunes, he struggles to rebuild his life.Forty years earlier, Leon is growing up in Sydney, turning out treacle tarts at his parentsâ€™ bakery and flirting with one of the local girls. But when heâ€™s drafted to serve in Vietnam, he finds himself suddenly confronting the same experiences that haunt his war-veteran father.As these two stories weave around each otherâ€“each narrated in a voice as tender as it is fierceâ€“we learn what binds Frank and Leon together, and what may end up keeping them apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19044'),
(8562, 'After the fire, a still small voice', 'Evie Wyld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank drives out to a shack by the ocean that he had last visited as a teenager. There, among the sugarcane and sand dunes, he struggles to rebuild his life.Forty years earlier, Leon is growing up in Sydney, turning out treacle tarts at his parentsâ€™ bakery and flirting with one of the local girls. But when heâ€™s drafted to serve in Vietnam, he finds himself suddenly confronting the same experiences that haunt his war-veteran father.As these two stories weave around each otherâ€“each narrated in a voice as tender as it is fierceâ€“we learn what binds Frank and Leon together, and what may end up keeping them apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27866'),
(8563, 'After the First Death', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Block''s fiction is tense and energetic. His stories unfold smoothly and elegantly, with plenty of detail and rich characterization."-Houston Chronicle\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lawrence Block weaves his spell in this suspenseful tale of a man haunted by murders he hopes he hasnÃ‚Â¹t committed . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why? before the police do.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3469'),
(8564, 'After the First Death', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Block''s fiction is tense and energetic. His stories unfold smoothly and elegantly, with plenty of detail and rich characterization."-Houston Chronicle\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lawrence Block weaves his spell in this suspenseful tale of a man haunted by murders he hopes he hasnÃ‚Â¹t committed . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why? before the police do.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8503'),
(8565, 'After the First Death', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Block''s fiction is tense and energetic. His stories unfold smoothly and elegantly, with plenty of detail and rich characterization."-Houston Chronicle\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lawrence Block weaves his spell in this suspenseful tale of a man haunted by murders he hopes he hasnÃ‚Â¹t committed . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why? before the police do.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21074'),
(8566, 'After the Funeral', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After the reading of a will at a Victorian mansion, the sister of the deceased patriarch suspects he met with foul play. But before long, Cora is banished from the family tree--with eight blows of a hatchet. And detective Hercule Poirot suspects she won''t be the last to go.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/47'),
(8567, 'After the funeral', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After the reading of a will at a Victorian mansion, the sister of the deceased patriarch suspects he met with foul play. But before long, Cora is banished from the family tree--with eight blows of a hatchet. And detective Hercule Poirot suspects she won''t be the last to go.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17184'),
(8568, 'After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam', 'Lesley Hazleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Narrative history at its most compelling, "After the Prophet" relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam. Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over his successor had begun. Pitting the family of his favorite wife, the controversial Aisha, against supporters of his son-in-law, the philosopher-warrior Ali, the struggle would reach its breaking point fifty years later in Iraq, when soldiers of the first Sunni dynasty massacred seventy-two warriors led by Muhammad''s grandson Hussein at Karbala. Hussein''s agonizing ordeal at Karbala was soon to become the Passion story at the core of Shia Islam. Hazleton''s vivid, gripping prose provides extraordinary insight into the origins of the world''s most volatile blend of politics and religion. Balancing past and present, she shows how these seventh-century events are as alive in Middle Eastern hearts and minds today as though they had just happened, shaping modern headlines from Iran''s Islamic Revolution to the civil war in Iraq. "After the Prophet" is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and an emotional and political revelation for Western readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3427'),
(8569, 'After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam', 'Lesley Hazleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Narrative history at its most compelling, "After the Prophet" relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam. Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over his successor had begun. Pitting the family of his favorite wife, the controversial Aisha, against supporters of his son-in-law, the philosopher-warrior Ali, the struggle would reach its breaking point fifty years later in Iraq, when soldiers of the first Sunni dynasty massacred seventy-two warriors led by Muhammad''s grandson Hussein at Karbala. Hussein''s agonizing ordeal at Karbala was soon to become the Passion story at the core of Shia Islam. Hazleton''s vivid, gripping prose provides extraordinary insight into the origins of the world''s most volatile blend of politics and religion. Balancing past and present, she shows how these seventh-century events are as alive in Middle Eastern hearts and minds today as though they had just happened, shaping modern headlines from Iran''s Islamic Revolution to the civil war in Iraq. "After the Prophet" is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and an emotional and political revelation for Western readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10224'),
(8570, 'After the prophet: the epic story of the Shia-Sunni split in Islam', 'Lesley Hazleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Narrative history at its most compelling, "After the Prophet" relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam. Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over his successor had begun. Pitting the family of his favorite wife, the controversial Aisha, against supporters of his son-in-law, the philosopher-warrior Ali, the struggle would reach its breaking point fifty years later in Iraq, when soldiers of the first Sunni dynasty massacred seventy-two warriors led by Muhammad''s grandson Hussein at Karbala. Hussein''s agonizing ordeal at Karbala was soon to become the Passion story at the core of Shia Islam. Hazleton''s vivid, gripping prose provides extraordinary insight into the origins of the world''s most volatile blend of politics and religion. Balancing past and present, she shows how these seventh-century events are as alive in Middle Eastern hearts and minds today as though they had just happened, shaping modern headlines from Iran''s Islamic Revolution to the civil war in Iraq. "After the Prophet" is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and an emotional and political revelation for Western readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21048'),
(8571, 'After the Quake: Stories', 'Haruki Murakami &amp; Jay Rubin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Haruki Murakami, a writer both mystical and hip, is the West''s favorite Japanese novelist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murakami lived abroad until 1995. That year, two disasters struck Japan: the lethal earthquake in Kobe and the deadly poison gas attacks in the Tokyo subway. Spurred by these tragic events, Murakami returned home. The stories in\n <em>\n  After the Quake\n </em>\n are set in the months that fell between the earthquake and the subway attack, presenting a world marked by despair, hope, and a kind of human instinct for transformation. A teenage girl and a middle-aged man share a hobby of making beach bonfires; a businesswoman travels to Thailand and, quietly, confronts her own death; three friends act out a modern-day Tokyo version of __. There''s a surreal element running through the collection in the form of unlikely frogs turning up in unlikely places. News of the earthquake hums throughout. The book opens with the dull buzz of disaster-watching: "Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at the crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways." With language that''s never self-consciously lyrical or show-offy, Murakami constructs stories as tight and beautiful as poems. There''s no turning back for his people; there''s only before and after the quake.\n <em>\n  --Claire Dederer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n These six stories, all loosely connected to the disastrous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, are Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Norwegian Wood) at his best. The writer, who returned to live in Japan after the Kobe earthquake, measures his country''s suffering and finds reassurance in the inevitability that love will surmount tragedy, mustering his casually elegant prose and keen sense of the absurd in the service of healing. In "Honey Pie," Junpei, a gentle, caring man, loses his would-be sweetheart, Sayoko, when his aggressive best friend, Takatsuki, marries her. They have a child, Sala. He remains close friends with them and becomes even closer after they divorce, but still cannot bring himself to declare his love for Sayoko. Sala is traumatized by the quake and Junpei concocts a wonderful allegorical tale to ease her hurt and give himself the courage to reveal his love for Sayoko. In "UFO in Kushiro" the horrors of the quake inspire a woman to leave her perfectly respectable and loving husband, Komura, because "you have nothing inside you that you can give me." Komura then has a surreal experience that more or less confirms his wife''s assessment. The theme of nothingness is revisited in the powerful "Thailand," in which a female doctor who is on vacation in Thailand and very bitter after a divorce, encounters a mysterious old woman who tells her "There is a stone inside your body.... You must get rid of the stone. Otherwise, after you die and are cremated, only the stone will remain." The remaining stories are of equal quality, the characters fully developed and memorable. Murakami has created a series of small masterpieces.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5233'),
(8572, 'After the Quake: Stories', 'Haruki Murakami &amp; Jay Rubin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Haruki Murakami, a writer both mystical and hip, is the West''s favorite Japanese novelist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murakami lived abroad until 1995. That year, two disasters struck Japan: the lethal earthquake in Kobe and the deadly poison gas attacks in the Tokyo subway. Spurred by these tragic events, Murakami returned home. The stories in\n <em>\n  After the Quake\n </em>\n are set in the months that fell between the earthquake and the subway attack, presenting a world marked by despair, hope, and a kind of human instinct for transformation. A teenage girl and a middle-aged man share a hobby of making beach bonfires; a businesswoman travels to Thailand and, quietly, confronts her own death; three friends act out a modern-day Tokyo version of __. There''s a surreal element running through the collection in the form of unlikely frogs turning up in unlikely places. News of the earthquake hums throughout. The book opens with the dull buzz of disaster-watching: "Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at the crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways." With language that''s never self-consciously lyrical or show-offy, Murakami constructs stories as tight and beautiful as poems. There''s no turning back for his people; there''s only before and after the quake.\n <em>\n  --Claire Dederer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n These six stories, all loosely connected to the disastrous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, are Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Norwegian Wood) at his best. The writer, who returned to live in Japan after the Kobe earthquake, measures his country''s suffering and finds reassurance in the inevitability that love will surmount tragedy, mustering his casually elegant prose and keen sense of the absurd in the service of healing. In "Honey Pie," Junpei, a gentle, caring man, loses his would-be sweetheart, Sayoko, when his aggressive best friend, Takatsuki, marries her. They have a child, Sala. He remains close friends with them and becomes even closer after they divorce, but still cannot bring himself to declare his love for Sayoko. Sala is traumatized by the quake and Junpei concocts a wonderful allegorical tale to ease her hurt and give himself the courage to reveal his love for Sayoko. In "UFO in Kushiro" the horrors of the quake inspire a woman to leave her perfectly respectable and loving husband, Komura, because "you have nothing inside you that you can give me." Komura then has a surreal experience that more or less confirms his wife''s assessment. The theme of nothingness is revisited in the powerful "Thailand," in which a female doctor who is on vacation in Thailand and very bitter after a divorce, encounters a mysterious old woman who tells her "There is a stone inside your body.... You must get rid of the stone. Otherwise, after you die and are cremated, only the stone will remain." The remaining stories are of equal quality, the characters fully developed and memorable. Murakami has created a series of small masterpieces.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11610'),
(8573, 'After the quake: stories', 'Haruki Murakami; Jay Rubin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Haruki Murakami, a writer both mystical and hip, is the West''s favorite Japanese novelist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murakami lived abroad until 1995. That year, two disasters struck Japan: the lethal earthquake in Kobe and the deadly poison gas attacks in the Tokyo subway. Spurred by these tragic events, Murakami returned home. The stories in\n <em>\n  After the Quake\n </em>\n are set in the months that fell between the earthquake and the subway attack, presenting a world marked by despair, hope, and a kind of human instinct for transformation. A teenage girl and a middle-aged man share a hobby of making beach bonfires; a businesswoman travels to Thailand and, quietly, confronts her own death; three friends act out a modern-day Tokyo version of __. There''s a surreal element running through the collection in the form of unlikely frogs turning up in unlikely places. News of the earthquake hums throughout. The book opens with the dull buzz of disaster-watching: "Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at the crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways." With language that''s never self-consciously lyrical or show-offy, Murakami constructs stories as tight and beautiful as poems. There''s no turning back for his people; there''s only before and after the quake.\n <em>\n  --Claire Dederer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n These six stories, all loosely connected to the disastrous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, are Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Norwegian Wood) at his best. The writer, who returned to live in Japan after the Kobe earthquake, measures his country''s suffering and finds reassurance in the inevitability that love will surmount tragedy, mustering his casually elegant prose and keen sense of the absurd in the service of healing. In "Honey Pie," Junpei, a gentle, caring man, loses his would-be sweetheart, Sayoko, when his aggressive best friend, Takatsuki, marries her. They have a child, Sala. He remains close friends with them and becomes even closer after they divorce, but still cannot bring himself to declare his love for Sayoko. Sala is traumatized by the quake and Junpei concocts a wonderful allegorical tale to ease her hurt and give himself the courage to reveal his love for Sayoko. In "UFO in Kushiro" the horrors of the quake inspire a woman to leave her perfectly respectable and loving husband, Komura, because "you have nothing inside you that you can give me." Komura then has a surreal experience that more or less confirms his wife''s assessment. The theme of nothingness is revisited in the powerful "Thailand," in which a female doctor who is on vacation in Thailand and very bitter after a divorce, encounters a mysterious old woman who tells her "There is a stone inside your body.... You must get rid of the stone. Otherwise, after you die and are cremated, only the stone will remain." The remaining stories are of equal quality, the characters fully developed and memorable. Murakami has created a series of small masterpieces.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19436'),
(8574, 'After the Rain', 'Chuck Logan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Logan''s last two books featuring Phil Broker have emphasized extreme weather conditions: Phil broiled in\n  <em>\n   Vapor Trail\n  </em>\n  , froze in\n  <em>\n   Absolute Zero\n  </em>\n  , and incessant rain is the key to this fifth thriller in an outstanding series. Phil''s estranged wife, army Maj. Nina Pryce, is back in the U.S. and involved in a high stakes antiterrorist mission with crusty old ex-Special Forces Col. Holland Wood and lesbian warrior Jane Singer. Their lead is a name, Ace Shuster, who turns out to be a likable ne''er-do-well North Dakotan who runs a small liquor-smuggling operation. Nina''s assignment is to romance Ace until he spills the beans. Philâ€”ex-cop, ex-soldier and all-around knight-errantâ€”is drawn in because it''s a righteous cause, and Nina still looks pretty damn good to him. The pace is rather stately until the rain stops, then the plot picks up speed until all concerned are racing toward a confrontation involving the destruction of a large chunk of American real estate and the citizens thereon. It''s an unbeatable combination: a smart, well-honed plot, fascinating characters (including a Lebanese sleeper spy, various local smugglers and a sexually deviant psycho-killer) and a writer with an original voice and the prose skills to tie it all together.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œTantalizing....A frighteningly plausible thriller, one that hits close to home.â€ (Denver Post )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe book simply canâ€™t be put down....Thrillers donâ€™t get any more up to date than this nail-biter.â€ (Tampa Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHard-edged and gripping ... The nuclear plot is ingenious and its final countdown is a nail-biter.â€ (Washington Post )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA hair-raising yarn thatâ€™s complicated, textured and artfully paced, building to a climax thatâ€™s almost unthinkable.â€ (Minneapolis Star Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œChuck Logan at his adventurous best, creating vivid characters and putting them in nail-biting action.â€ (St. Paul Pioneer Press )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLogan knows how to write international intrigue and suspense.â€ (Kansas City Star )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGreat reading -- a thriller that looks straight into the eye of the post 9/11 landscape, and never blinks.â€ (John Sandford, author of #1 New York Times bestseller NAKED PREY )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA fast-paced action thriller [and] a credible and terrifying story.â€ (Fargo Forum )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSuspenseful [and] forceful.... Logan is a crafty storyteller.â€ (Philadelphia Inquirer )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf you like your thrillers hard [and] tough â€¦ then Chuck Loganâ€™s books ... cry out for addition to your bookbag.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn unbeatable combination: a smart, well-honed plot, fascinating characters and a writer with [the] skills to tie it together.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6736'),
(8575, 'After the Rain', 'Chuck Logan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Logan''s last two books featuring Phil Broker have emphasized extreme weather conditions: Phil broiled in\n  <em>\n   Vapor Trail\n  </em>\n  , froze in\n  <em>\n   Absolute Zero\n  </em>\n  , and incessant rain is the key to this fifth thriller in an outstanding series. Phil''s estranged wife, army Maj. Nina Pryce, is back in the U.S. and involved in a high stakes antiterrorist mission with crusty old ex-Special Forces Col. Holland Wood and lesbian warrior Jane Singer. Their lead is a name, Ace Shuster, who turns out to be a likable ne''er-do-well North Dakotan who runs a small liquor-smuggling operation. Nina''s assignment is to romance Ace until he spills the beans. Philâ€”ex-cop, ex-soldier and all-around knight-errantâ€”is drawn in because it''s a righteous cause, and Nina still looks pretty damn good to him. The pace is rather stately until the rain stops, then the plot picks up speed until all concerned are racing toward a confrontation involving the destruction of a large chunk of American real estate and the citizens thereon. It''s an unbeatable combination: a smart, well-honed plot, fascinating characters (including a Lebanese sleeper spy, various local smugglers and a sexually deviant psycho-killer) and a writer with an original voice and the prose skills to tie it all together.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œTantalizing....A frighteningly plausible thriller, one that hits close to home.â€ (Denver Post )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe book simply canâ€™t be put down....Thrillers donâ€™t get any more up to date than this nail-biter.â€ (Tampa Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHard-edged and gripping ... The nuclear plot is ingenious and its final countdown is a nail-biter.â€ (Washington Post )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA hair-raising yarn thatâ€™s complicated, textured and artfully paced, building to a climax thatâ€™s almost unthinkable.â€ (Minneapolis Star Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œChuck Logan at his adventurous best, creating vivid characters and putting them in nail-biting action.â€ (St. Paul Pioneer Press )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLogan knows how to write international intrigue and suspense.â€ (Kansas City Star )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGreat reading -- a thriller that looks straight into the eye of the post 9/11 landscape, and never blinks.â€ (John Sandford, author of #1 New York Times bestseller NAKED PREY )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA fast-paced action thriller [and] a credible and terrifying story.â€ (Fargo Forum )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSuspenseful [and] forceful.... Logan is a crafty storyteller.â€ (Philadelphia Inquirer )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf you like your thrillers hard [and] tough â€¦ then Chuck Loganâ€™s books ... cry out for addition to your bookbag.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn unbeatable combination: a smart, well-honed plot, fascinating characters and a writer with [the] skills to tie it together.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11146'),
(8576, 'After the Rain', 'Chuck Logan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Logan''s last two books featuring Phil Broker have emphasized extreme weather conditions: Phil broiled in\n  <em>\n   Vapor Trail\n  </em>\n  , froze in\n  <em>\n   Absolute Zero\n  </em>\n  , and incessant rain is the key to this fifth thriller in an outstanding series. Phil''s estranged wife, army Maj. Nina Pryce, is back in the U.S. and involved in a high stakes antiterrorist mission with crusty old ex-Special Forces Col. Holland Wood and lesbian warrior Jane Singer. Their lead is a name, Ace Shuster, who turns out to be a likable ne''er-do-well North Dakotan who runs a small liquor-smuggling operation. Nina''s assignment is to romance Ace until he spills the beans. Philâ€”ex-cop, ex-soldier and all-around knight-errantâ€”is drawn in because it''s a righteous cause, and Nina still looks pretty damn good to him. The pace is rather stately until the rain stops, then the plot picks up speed until all concerned are racing toward a confrontation involving the destruction of a large chunk of American real estate and the citizens thereon. It''s an unbeatable combination: a smart, well-honed plot, fascinating characters (including a Lebanese sleeper spy, various local smugglers and a sexually deviant psycho-killer) and a writer with an original voice and the prose skills to tie it all together.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œTantalizing....A frighteningly plausible thriller, one that hits close to home.â€ (Denver Post )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe book simply canâ€™t be put down....Thrillers donâ€™t get any more up to date than this nail-biter.â€ (Tampa Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHard-edged and gripping ... The nuclear plot is ingenious and its final countdown is a nail-biter.â€ (Washington Post )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA hair-raising yarn thatâ€™s complicated, textured and artfully paced, building to a climax thatâ€™s almost unthinkable.â€ (Minneapolis Star Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œChuck Logan at his adventurous best, creating vivid characters and putting them in nail-biting action.â€ (St. Paul Pioneer Press )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLogan knows how to write international intrigue and suspense.â€ (Kansas City Star )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGreat reading -- a thriller that looks straight into the eye of the post 9/11 landscape, and never blinks.â€ (John Sandford, author of #1 New York Times bestseller NAKED PREY )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA fast-paced action thriller [and] a credible and terrifying story.â€ (Fargo Forum )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSuspenseful [and] forceful.... Logan is a crafty storyteller.â€ (Philadelphia Inquirer )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf you like your thrillers hard [and] tough â€¦ then Chuck Loganâ€™s books ... cry out for addition to your bookbag.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn unbeatable combination: a smart, well-honed plot, fascinating characters and a writer with [the] skills to tie it together.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18017'),
(8577, 'After You', 'Julie Buxbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author ofThe Opposite of Love,delivers a haunting, gloriously written novel about love, family, and the secrets we hide from each otherand ourselves. It happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to a woman who seemed to have the perfect life. Ellie Lerner''s best friend, Lucy, was murdered in front of her young daughter. And, as best friends do, Ellie dropped everythingher marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbsto travel to London and pick up the pieces of Lucy''s life. While Lucy''s husband, Greg, copes with his grief by retreating into himself, eight-year-old Sophie has simply stopped speaking. Desperate to help Sophie, Ellie turns to a book that gave her comfort as a child,The Secret Garden.As the two spend hours exploring the novel''s winding passageways, its story of hurt, magic, and healing blooms around them. But so, too, do Lucy''s secretssome big, some smallsecrets Lucy kept hidden, even from her best friend. Over a summer in London, as Ellie peels back the layers of her friend''s life, she''s forced to confront her own as well: the marriage she left behind, the loss she''d hoped to escape. And suddenly Ellie''s carefully constructed existence is spinning out of control in a chain of events that will transform her lifeand those around her forever. A novel that will resonate in the heart of anyone who''s had a best friend, a love lost, or a past full of regrets,After Youproves once again the unique and compelling talent of Julie Buxbaum.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3989'),
(8578, 'After You', 'Julie Buxbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author ofThe Opposite of Love,delivers a haunting, gloriously written novel about love, family, and the secrets we hide from each otherand ourselves. It happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to a woman who seemed to have the perfect life. Ellie Lerner''s best friend, Lucy, was murdered in front of her young daughter. And, as best friends do, Ellie dropped everythingher marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbsto travel to London and pick up the pieces of Lucy''s life. While Lucy''s husband, Greg, copes with his grief by retreating into himself, eight-year-old Sophie has simply stopped speaking. Desperate to help Sophie, Ellie turns to a book that gave her comfort as a child,The Secret Garden.As the two spend hours exploring the novel''s winding passageways, its story of hurt, magic, and healing blooms around them. But so, too, do Lucy''s secretssome big, some smallsecrets Lucy kept hidden, even from her best friend. Over a summer in London, as Ellie peels back the layers of her friend''s life, she''s forced to confront her own as well: the marriage she left behind, the loss she''d hoped to escape. And suddenly Ellie''s carefully constructed existence is spinning out of control in a chain of events that will transform her lifeand those around her forever. A novel that will resonate in the heart of anyone who''s had a best friend, a love lost, or a past full of regrets,After Youproves once again the unique and compelling talent of Julie Buxbaum.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20574'),
(8579, 'Afterlife', 'Douglas Clegg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Stoker-winner Clegg (_The Hour Before Dark_) has an uncanny ability to frighten readers by chronicling everyday characters'' perilous descents into their own private hells. Julie Hutchinson mentally unravels after the brutal and mysterious murder of her husband, Jeff, in this stand-alone tale full of subtle suspense, inventive twists and credible characters. Julie has erotic nightmares and hideous hallucinations while slowly trying to piece together the decades-old puzzle involving her husband''s past work with Project Daylight, a now-defunct privately funded school that conducted experiments on young children with ESP. Eventually, with the assistance of her mother, daughter and stepson, as well as Jeff''s ex-wife and Michael Diamond, a popular TV psychic, Julie unearths bizarre secrets about her family that lead her to an underground society of scientific misfits. The book''s final sentence is guaranteed to unnerve readers and leave them wanting more. A concise writer, Clegg manages to weave into his plot such grand ideas as reincarnation and psychic phenomena in a mere 272 pages. Many other writers would have taken twice as long to tell a tale half as captivating.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation. --\n  <em>\n   Bentley Little\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clegg...can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby. --\n  <em>\n   Dean Koontz\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5931'),
(8580, 'Afterlife', 'Douglas Clegg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Stoker-winner Clegg (_The Hour Before Dark_) has an uncanny ability to frighten readers by chronicling everyday characters'' perilous descents into their own private hells. Julie Hutchinson mentally unravels after the brutal and mysterious murder of her husband, Jeff, in this stand-alone tale full of subtle suspense, inventive twists and credible characters. Julie has erotic nightmares and hideous hallucinations while slowly trying to piece together the decades-old puzzle involving her husband''s past work with Project Daylight, a now-defunct privately funded school that conducted experiments on young children with ESP. Eventually, with the assistance of her mother, daughter and stepson, as well as Jeff''s ex-wife and Michael Diamond, a popular TV psychic, Julie unearths bizarre secrets about her family that lead her to an underground society of scientific misfits. The book''s final sentence is guaranteed to unnerve readers and leave them wanting more. A concise writer, Clegg manages to weave into his plot such grand ideas as reincarnation and psychic phenomena in a mere 272 pages. Many other writers would have taken twice as long to tell a tale half as captivating.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation. --\n  <em>\n   Bentley Little\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clegg...can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby. --\n  <em>\n   Dean Koontz\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18702'),
(8581, 'Afterlife', 'Merrie DeStefano', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21920'),
(8582, 'Afterlife: The Resurrection Chronicles', 'Merrie DeStefano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to your next chance.   Chaz Dominguez is a professional Babysitter in New Orleans, helping to integrate the recently deceased into their new and improved lives. Though Fresh Start has always been the only game in town, resurrection isn''t all it''s cracked up to be. Nine lives are all a person can getâ€”and a powerful group of desperate, high-level Nine-Timers will stop at nothing to possess the keys to true immortality.   Now the only hope for Chaz and his familyâ€”and the human raceâ€”lies in the secrets locked away in the mind of Angelique, the beautiful, mysterious Newbie he must protect . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7954'),
(8583, 'Afterlife: The Resurrection Chronicles', 'Merrie DeStefano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to your next chance.   Chaz Dominguez is a professional Babysitter in New Orleans, helping to integrate the recently deceased into their new and improved lives. Though Fresh Start has always been the only game in town, resurrection isn''t all it''s cracked up to be. Nine lives are all a person can getâ€”and a powerful group of desperate, high-level Nine-Timers will stop at nothing to possess the keys to true immortality.   Now the only hope for Chaz and his familyâ€”and the human raceâ€”lies in the secrets locked away in the mind of Angelique, the beautiful, mysterious Newbie he must protect . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9209');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(8584, 'Afterlight', 'Elle Jasper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jasper introduces tattoo artist Riley Poe in this shallow launch of a Southern-fried vampire romance trilogy. Once a wild child, Riley is now a surrogate parent to her younger brother, Seth. Riley''s adopted Gullah relatives provide a living blood bank for the DuprÃ© family of "good" vampires, who kept deadly undead "strigoi" bloodsuckers encrypted in Savannah''s Bonaventure Cemetery until Seth''s teenage prank freed them. Now evil strigoi Victorian and Valerian are bent on recruiting Seth and slaking their thirst on Riley''s rare blood. Mysterious and magnetic Eli DuprÃ©, entrusted with Riley''s protection, both thrills her and freaks her out with vampiric cravings and sensual caresses. This superficial addition to today''s vampire craze, couched in superheated first-person tough-girl lingo, adds only a few meager drops of insight into the current popularity of Dracula''s literary descendants. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Darkly atmospheric and steamy, Jasperâ€™s tale follows Riley Poe from her wild-child teens to her becoming a talented tattoo artist, and taking care of heryounger brother, Seth, after their mother dies. One night she follows Seth, 15, and his friends to the historical Bonaventure Cemetery, where, before she can stop them, they break into an ancient crypt that her Gullah friend Preacher had always called â€œda hell stoneâ€ and warned her away from. Over the next few days, Sethâ€™s personality changes as he spends the days sleeping and the nights prowling the city. Preacher takes Riley to meet the Dupres, an ancient vampire family who helped Preacher lock the Arcoses, two evil vampire brothers, in the crypt long ago. Now that theyâ€™ve escaped and infected the teens, the city is in peril. Eli Dupre is gorgeous and has an instantaneous deep connection to Riley, but they have to stop the growing pack of soon-to-be-vampire teens and the Arcoses. --Diana Tixier Herald\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5750'),
(8585, 'Afterlight', 'Alex Scarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Human civilisation as we know it has ended. What next? The world lies devastated after the massive oil crisis that was described in LAST LIGHT. Human society has more or less entirely broken down and millions lie dead of starvation and disease. There are only one or two beacon communities that have managed to fashion a new way of living.Jenny Sutherland runs one of these groups. Based on a series of decaying offshore oil-rigs - for safety - a few hundred people have rebuilt a semblance of normality in this otherwise dead world.But as she and her people start to explore their surroundings once again, they start to realise not every survivor has the same vision of a better future than their catastrophic past. There are people out there who would take everything they have. War is coming, and the stakes are truly massive...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7983'),
(8586, 'Afterlight', 'Elle Jasper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jasper introduces tattoo artist Riley Poe in this shallow launch of a Southern-fried vampire romance trilogy. Once a wild child, Riley is now a surrogate parent to her younger brother, Seth. Riley''s adopted Gullah relatives provide a living blood bank for the DuprÃ© family of "good" vampires, who kept deadly undead "strigoi" bloodsuckers encrypted in Savannah''s Bonaventure Cemetery until Seth''s teenage prank freed them. Now evil strigoi Victorian and Valerian are bent on recruiting Seth and slaking their thirst on Riley''s rare blood. Mysterious and magnetic Eli DuprÃ©, entrusted with Riley''s protection, both thrills her and freaks her out with vampiric cravings and sensual caresses. This superficial addition to today''s vampire craze, couched in superheated first-person tough-girl lingo, adds only a few meager drops of insight into the current popularity of Dracula''s literary descendants. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Darkly atmospheric and steamy, Jasperâ€™s tale follows Riley Poe from her wild-child teens to her becoming a talented tattoo artist, and taking care of heryounger brother, Seth, after their mother dies. One night she follows Seth, 15, and his friends to the historical Bonaventure Cemetery, where, before she can stop them, they break into an ancient crypt that her Gullah friend Preacher had always called â€œda hell stoneâ€ and warned her away from. Over the next few days, Sethâ€™s personality changes as he spends the days sleeping and the nights prowling the city. Preacher takes Riley to meet the Dupres, an ancient vampire family who helped Preacher lock the Arcoses, two evil vampire brothers, in the crypt long ago. Now that theyâ€™ve escaped and infected the teens, the city is in peril. Eli Dupre is gorgeous and has an instantaneous deep connection to Riley, but they have to stop the growing pack of soon-to-be-vampire teens and the Arcoses. --Diana Tixier Herald\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10557'),
(8587, 'Afterlight', 'Alex Scarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Human civilisation as we know it has ended. What next? The world lies devastated after the massive oil crisis that was described in LAST LIGHT. Human society has more or less entirely broken down and millions lie dead of starvation and disease. There are only one or two beacon communities that have managed to fashion a new way of living.Jenny Sutherland runs one of these groups. Based on a series of decaying offshore oil-rigs - for safety - a few hundred people have rebuilt a semblance of normality in this otherwise dead world.But as she and her people start to explore their surroundings once again, they start to realise not every survivor has the same vision of a better future than their catastrophic past. There are people out there who would take everything they have. War is coming, and the stakes are truly massive...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12547'),
(8588, 'Afterlight', 'Alex Scarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Human civilisation as we know it has ended. What next? The world lies devastated after the massive oil crisis that was described in LAST LIGHT. Human society has more or less entirely broken down and millions lie dead of starvation and disease. There are only one or two beacon communities that have managed to fashion a new way of living.Jenny Sutherland runs one of these groups. Based on a series of decaying offshore oil-rigs - for safety - a few hundred people have rebuilt a semblance of normality in this otherwise dead world.But as she and her people start to explore their surroundings once again, they start to realise not every survivor has the same vision of a better future than their catastrophic past. There are people out there who would take everything they have. War is coming, and the stakes are truly massive...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16072'),
(8589, 'Afterlight', 'Alex Scarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Human civilisation as we know it has ended. What next? The world lies devastated after the massive oil crisis that was described in LAST LIGHT. Human society has more or less entirely broken down and millions lie dead of starvation and disease. There are only one or two beacon communities that have managed to fashion a new way of living.Jenny Sutherland runs one of these groups. Based on a series of decaying offshore oil-rigs - for safety - a few hundred people have rebuilt a semblance of normality in this otherwise dead world.But as she and her people start to explore their surroundings once again, they start to realise not every survivor has the same vision of a better future than their catastrophic past. There are people out there who would take everything they have. War is coming, and the stakes are truly massive...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26219'),
(8590, 'Afterlight: The Dark Ink Chronicles', 'Jasper, Elle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18564'),
(8591, 'Afternoon Delight', 'Mia Zachary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2852'),
(8592, 'Afternoon Delight', 'Mia Zachary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13432'),
(8593, 'Afternoon Delight', 'Mia Zachary', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21913'),
(8594, 'AG_orgasmsrus', 'Alice Gaines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15946'),
(8595, 'AG_Victorian', 'Alice Gaines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15903'),
(8596, 'Agahta Christie: An Autobiography', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A new-look printing of Agatha Christie''s ''most absorbing mystery'' to mark the 25th anniversary of her death.  Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, having become the best-selling novelist in history. Her autobiography, published in 1977 a year after her death, tells of her fascinating private life, from early childhood through two marriages and two World Wars, and her experiences both as a writer and on archaeological expeditions with her second husband, Max Mallowan. Not only does the book reveal the true genius of her legendary success, but the story is vividly told and as captivating as one of her novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/50'),
(8597, 'Agahta Christie: An Autobiography', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A new-look printing of Agatha Christie''s ''most absorbing mystery'' to mark the 25th anniversary of her death.  Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, having become the best-selling novelist in history. Her autobiography, published in 1977 a year after her death, tells of her fascinating private life, from early childhood through two marriages and two World Wars, and her experiences both as a writer and on archaeological expeditions with her second husband, Max Mallowan. Not only does the book reveal the true genius of her legendary success, but the story is vividly told and as captivating as one of her novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8909'),
(8598, 'Agahta Christie: An autobiography', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A new-look printing of Agatha Christie''s ''most absorbing mystery'' to mark the 25th anniversary of her death. Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, having become the best-selling novelist in history. Her autobiography, published in 1977 a year after her death, tells of her fascinating private life, from early childhood through two marriages and two World Wars, and her experiences both as a writer and on archaeological expeditions with her second husband, Max Mallowan. Not only does the book reveal the true genius of her legendary success, but the story is vividly told and as captivating as one of her novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17181'),
(8599, 'Again, Dangerous Visions', 'Harlan Ellison', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; ">\n  Again, Dangerous Visions is the sequel to the sf short story anthology Dangerous Visions, 1st published in ''72. It was edited by Harlan Ellison, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller. Like its predecessor, Again, Dangerous Visions &amp; the 46 stories w/in it received many awards. The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin, won a Hugo for Best Novella. When It Changed by Joanna Russ won a Nebula Award for Best Short Story. For a 2nd time, Ellison received a special Hugo for editing the anthology. Again, Dangerous Visions was to be followed by a 3rd anthology, The Last Dangerous Visions. At this point, Ellison has said that it will probably never see the light of day.Â \n  <br />\n  An Assault of New Dreamers: introduction by Harlan EllisonÂ \n  <br />\n  The Counterpoint of View by John HeidenryÂ \n  <br />\n  Ching Witch! by Ross RocklynneÂ \n  <br />\n  The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le GuinÂ \n  <br />\n  For Value Received by Andrew J. OffuttÂ \n  <br />\n  Mathoms From the Time Closet--1/Robot''s Story, 2/Against the Lafayette Escadrille, 3/Loco Parentis by Gene WolfeÂ \n  <br />\n  Time Travel For Pedestrians by Ray NelsonÂ \n  <br />\n  Christ, Old Student in a New School (poem) by Ray BradburyÂ \n  <br />\n  King Of The Hill by Chad OliverÂ \n  <br />\n  The 10:00 Report Is Brought To You By...from Edward BryantÂ \n  <br />\n  The Funeral by Kate WilhelmÂ \n  <br />\n  Harry The Hare by James B. HemesathÂ \n  <br />\n  When It Changed by Joanna RussÂ \n  <br />\n  The Big Space Fuck by Kurt VonnegutÂ \n  <br />\n  Bounty by T.L. SherredÂ \n  <br />\n  Still-Life by K.M. O''Donnell (Barry N. Malzberg)Â \n  <br />\n  Stoned Counsel by H.H. HollisÂ \n  <br />\n  Monitored Dreams &amp; Strategic Cremations--1/The Bisquit Position, 2/The Girl With Rapid Eye Movements by Bernard WolfeÂ \n  <br />\n  With A Finger In My I by David GerroldÂ \n  <br />\n  In The Barn by Piers AnthonyÂ \n  <br />\n  Soundless Evening by Lee HoffmanÂ \n  <br />\n  (the title is an ink blot) by Gahan WilsonÂ \n  <br />\n  The Test-Tube Creature, Afterward by Joan BernottÂ \n  <br />\n  And The Sea Like Mirrors by Gregory BenfordÂ \n  <br />\n  Bed Sheets Are White by Evelyn LiefÂ \n  <br />\n  Tissue at the fitting shop &amp; 53rd American Dream by James SallisÂ \n  <br />\n  Elouise &amp; the Doctors of the Planet Pergamon by Josephine SaxtonÂ \n  <br />\n  Chuck Berry, Won''t You Please Come Home by Ken McCulloughÂ \n  <br />\n  Epiphany For Aliens by David KerrÂ \n  <br />\n  Eye Of The Beholder by Burt K. FilerÂ \n  <br />\n  Moth Race by Richard HillÂ \n  <br />\n  In Re Glover by Leonard TushnetÂ \n  <br />\n  Zero Gee by Ben BovaÂ \n  <br />\n  A Mouse In The Walls Of The Global Village by Dean R. KoontzÂ \n  <br />\n  Getting Along by James Blish &amp; Judith Ann LawrenceÂ \n  <br />\n  Totenbuch by A Parra (Y Figueredo)Â \n  <br />\n  Things Lost by Thomas M. DischÂ \n  <br />\n  With The Bentfin Boomer Boys On Little Old New Alabama by Richard A. LupoffÂ \n  <br />\n  Lamia Mutable by M. John HarrisonÂ \n  <br />\n  Last Train To Kankakee by Robin ScottÂ \n  <br />\n  Empire Of The Sun by Andrew WeinerÂ \n  <br />\n  Ozymandias by Terry CarrÂ \n  <br />\n  The Milk Of Paradise by James Tiptree, Jr\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5169'),
(8600, 'Again, Dangerous Visions', 'Harlan Ellison (Ed)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19503'),
(8601, 'Against a Dark Background', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On the run from a cult of intergalactic religious fanatics who want her death, the Lady Sharrow emerges from retirement to seek out a powerful artifact that may save her life--the legendary Lady Gun, a weapon that kills by altering the reality around it. The author of Consider Phlebas ( LJ 5/15/88) and The Player of Games ( LJ 2/15/89) has constructed a richly hued, far-future tapestry for his latest space adventure. Sophisticated prose, complex characters, and an unbridled imagination combine in this tale of high drama and intrigue. A good choice for most libraries.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith''s apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her journey through the exotic Golterian system is a destructive and savage odyssey into her past, and that of her family and of the system itself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5013'),
(8602, 'Against a Dark Background', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On the run from a cult of intergalactic religious fanatics who want her death, the Lady Sharrow emerges from retirement to seek out a powerful artifact that may save her life--the legendary Lady Gun, a weapon that kills by altering the reality around it. The author of Consider Phlebas ( LJ 5/15/88) and The Player of Games ( LJ 2/15/89) has constructed a richly hued, far-future tapestry for his latest space adventure. Sophisticated prose, complex characters, and an unbridled imagination combine in this tale of high drama and intrigue. A good choice for most libraries.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith''s apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her journey through the exotic Golterian system is a destructive and savage odyssey into her past, and that of her family and of the system itself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8344'),
(8603, 'Against a Dark Background', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On the run from a cult of intergalactic religious fanatics who want her death, the Lady Sharrow emerges from retirement to seek out a powerful artifact that may save her life--the legendary Lady Gun, a weapon that kills by altering the reality around it. The author of Consider Phlebas ( LJ 5/15/88) and The Player of Games ( LJ 2/15/89) has constructed a richly hued, far-future tapestry for his latest space adventure. Sophisticated prose, complex characters, and an unbridled imagination combine in this tale of high drama and intrigue. A good choice for most libraries.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith''s apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her journey through the exotic Golterian system is a destructive and savage odyssey into her past, and that of her family and of the system itself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19568'),
(8604, 'Against All Enemies', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Peter Telep', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The master of international intrigue and explosive action introduces a new hero for a new era of warfare . . . against a new kind of threat.For years, exâ€“Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against Americaâ€™s enemies at every turn.When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn that neither Moore nor any of his bosses saw coming. Barely surviving, he tries to bring to safety a Pakistani colonel with information about the debacle, only to have that mission fall prey to forces more powerful and cunning than any he has faced before. Undaunted, and with failure not an option, Moore continues his quest for the truth, leaving many dead in his wakeâ€”killed by those for whom secrecy is the ultimate weapon.And then . . . a shocking revelation: Two of the greatest threats to the security of the United States have forged an unholy alliance. After years of planning, the Taliban has come to terms with a vicious Mexican drug cartel for which they will supply opium. For the cartel, it is a matter of money, power, and ultimate control of the drug trade. But for the Taliban, it is an opportunity long awaited: to exploit the cartels and bring the fire of jihad to the hearts of the infidels.It is up to Moore, and his team, to infiltrate and dismantle the drug cartel, even as they hunt for those who would bring the ultimate terror and destruction to the streets of America.In a story that races from the remote, war-scarred landscapes of the Middle East to the blood-soaked chaos of the U.S.â€”Mexico border, Tom Clancy once again delivers a heart-stopping thriller that is frighteningly close to reality.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8078'),
(8605, 'Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances', 'Scott Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œPowerful stuff. . . .This isnâ€™t your typical memoir. It is brutally honest, difficult to read, and important.â€ (_The Tucson Citizen_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   The extraordinary personal journey of a man who, against all odds, rose to become one of Americaâ€™s most surprising and promising new political figures\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Scott Brown''s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken, dirty-fingernail hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old, while trying to protect his mother.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, Brown tells the story of his difficult, often nomadic childhood, shunted from house to apartment, and town to town, seventeen times over his first eighteen years. He somehow thrived despite a largely absent father, who married four separate times. So did his mother, in relationships frequently stained with alcohol, anger, and even violence. For nearly two decades'' growing up, Brown endured innumerable hardships and challenges, even stealing food to eat. He was periodically sent off to live with relatives, his possessions wrapped in a few old blankets. Saved by basketball, he was the boy who shoveled snow from the public courts to shoot hoops alone in the frozen cold.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With clear-eyed conviction and unflinching can-dor, Brown tells the story of his own bad-boy days, of the coaches who mentored him, and of how he found a way out of familial chaos through the swish of a ball in the net, winning a starting slot on the Tufts varsity basketball team as a freshman player and becoming the tenth-highest scorer to graduate in the school''s history. His rise from there was even more improbable: a first-year law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as\n  <em>\n   Cosmopolitan\n  </em>\n  magazine''s "America''s Sexiest Man" and was vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling at the height of the 1980s. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to continue with his military and legal training, settle down, raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Here, too, are the secrets from the unprecedented Senate race that captured the country''s imagination and how Scott Brown won his remarkable victory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound, this is the story of one man''s dream and his determination to fight for a better future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1310'),
(8606, 'Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances', 'Scott Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œPowerful stuff. . . .This isnâ€™t your typical memoir. It is brutally honest, difficult to read, and important.â€ (_The Tucson Citizen_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   The extraordinary personal journey of a man who, against all odds, rose to become one of Americaâ€™s most surprising and promising new political figures\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Scott Brown''s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken, dirty-fingernail hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old, while trying to protect his mother.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, Brown tells the story of his difficult, often nomadic childhood, shunted from house to apartment, and town to town, seventeen times over his first eighteen years. He somehow thrived despite a largely absent father, who married four separate times. So did his mother, in relationships frequently stained with alcohol, anger, and even violence. For nearly two decades'' growing up, Brown endured innumerable hardships and challenges, even stealing food to eat. He was periodically sent off to live with relatives, his possessions wrapped in a few old blankets. Saved by basketball, he was the boy who shoveled snow from the public courts to shoot hoops alone in the frozen cold.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With clear-eyed conviction and unflinching can-dor, Brown tells the story of his own bad-boy days, of the coaches who mentored him, and of how he found a way out of familial chaos through the swish of a ball in the net, winning a starting slot on the Tufts varsity basketball team as a freshman player and becoming the tenth-highest scorer to graduate in the school''s history. His rise from there was even more improbable: a first-year law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as\n  <em>\n   Cosmopolitan\n  </em>\n  magazine''s "America''s Sexiest Man" and was vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling at the height of the 1980s. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to continue with his military and legal training, settle down, raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Here, too, are the secrets from the unprecedented Senate race that captured the country''s imagination and how Scott Brown won his remarkable victory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound, this is the story of one man''s dream and his determination to fight for a better future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8179'),
(8607, 'Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances', 'Scott Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œPowerful stuff. . . .This isnâ€™t your typical memoir. It is brutally honest, difficult to read, and important.â€ (_The Tucson Citizen_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   The extraordinary personal journey of a man who, against all odds, rose to become one of Americaâ€™s most surprising and promising new political figures\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Scott Brown''s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken, dirty-fingernail hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old, while trying to protect his mother.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, Brown tells the story of his difficult, often nomadic childhood, shunted from house to apartment, and town to town, seventeen times over his first eighteen years. He somehow thrived despite a largely absent father, who married four separate times. So did his mother, in relationships frequently stained with alcohol, anger, and even violence. For nearly two decades'' growing up, Brown endured innumerable hardships and challenges, even stealing food to eat. He was periodically sent off to live with relatives, his possessions wrapped in a few old blankets. Saved by basketball, he was the boy who shoveled snow from the public courts to shoot hoops alone in the frozen cold.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With clear-eyed conviction and unflinching can-dor, Brown tells the story of his own bad-boy days, of the coaches who mentored him, and of how he found a way out of familial chaos through the swish of a ball in the net, winning a starting slot on the Tufts varsity basketball team as a freshman player and becoming the tenth-highest scorer to graduate in the school''s history. His rise from there was even more improbable: a first-year law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as\n  <em>\n   Cosmopolitan\n  </em>\n  magazine''s "America''s Sexiest Man" and was vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling at the height of the 1980s. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to continue with his military and legal training, settle down, raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Here, too, are the secrets from the unprecedented Senate race that captured the country''s imagination and how Scott Brown won his remarkable victory.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound, this is the story of one man''s dream and his determination to fight for a better future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23549'),
(8608, 'Against All Things Ending', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14718'),
(8609, 'Against All Things Ending (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 3)', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1054'),
(8610, 'Against All Things Ending (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 3)', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10911'),
(8611, 'Against All Things Ending (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 3)', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23838'),
(8612, 'Against the Grain', 'J.-K. Huysmans', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25555'),
(8613, 'Against the Tide of Years', 'S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Against The Tide Of Years* continues the adventures of the Nantucket residents who have been transported through time to the Bronze Age. In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has strived to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are establishing a constitution and handling the waves of immigrants from the British Isles. But a renegade time traveler plans his own future by forging an empire for himself based on conquest by modern technology. The Republic has no alternative but to face the inevitable war brought on by one of their own....  Praise for *Island In The Sea Of Time*:  "...one of the best time/travel alternate history stories I''ve ever read, period. Stirling combines complex, believable characters, meticulous research, and a fascinating setup to produce a book you won''t want to--and won''t be able to--put down." --Harry Turtledove, bestselling author of *Guns of the South*  "...unquestionably Steve Stirling''s best work to date, a page-turner that is certain to win the author legions of new readers and fans. I wouldn''t be surprised to see it on a few awards ballots either." --George R. R. Martin, author of *A Game of Thrones*  "A well thought-out time travel scenario with a few interesting differences from most books in the genre." --*Kliatt*  "Stirling has surpassed his previous work in the creation of a compelling cast of characters and does a fine job of conveying both a sense of loss and hope." --*Science Fiction Chronicle*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1429'),
(8614, 'Against the Tide of Years', 'S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Against The Tide Of Years* continues the adventures of the Nantucket residents who have been transported through time to the Bronze Age. In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has strived to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are establishing a constitution and handling the waves of immigrants from the British Isles. But a renegade time traveler plans his own future by forging an empire for himself based on conquest by modern technology. The Republic has no alternative but to face the inevitable war brought on by one of their own.... Praise for *Island In The Sea Of Time*: "...one of the best time/travel alternate history stories I''ve ever read, period. Stirling combines complex, believable characters, meticulous research, and a fascinating setup to produce a book you won''t want to--and won''t be able to--put down." --Harry Turtledove, bestselling author of *Guns of the South* "...unquestionably Steve Stirling''s best work to date, a page-turner that is certain to win the author legions of new readers and fans. I wouldn''t be surprised to see it on a few awards ballots either." --George R. R. Martin, author of *A Game of Thrones* "A well thought-out time travel scenario with a few interesting differences from most books in the genre." --*Kliatt* "Stirling has surpassed his previous work in the creation of a compelling cast of characters and does a fine job of conveying both a sense of loss and hope." --*Science Fiction Chronicle*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23465'),
(8615, 'The Age of American Unreason', 'Susan Jacoby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inspired by Richard Hofstadter''s trenchant 1963 cultural analysis\n <em>\n  Anti-Intellectualism in American Life\n </em>\n , Jacoby (_Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism_) has produced an engaging, updated and meticulously thought-out continuation of her academic idol''s research. Dismayed by the average U.S. citizen''s political and social apathy and the overall crisis of memory and knowledge involving everything about the way we learn and think, Jacoby passionately argues that the nation''s current cult of unreason has deadly and destructive consequences (the war in Iraq, for one) and traces the seeds of current anti-intellectualism (and its partner in crime, antirationalism) back to post-WWII society. Unafraid of pointing fingers, she singles out mass media and the resurgence of fundamentalist religion as the primary vectors of anti-intellectualism, while also having harsh words for pseudoscientists. Through historical research, Jacoby breaks down popular beliefs that the 1950s were a cultural wasteland and the 1960s were solely a breeding ground for liberals. Though sometimes partial to inflated prose (America''s endemic anti-intellectual tendencies have been grievously exacerbated by a new species of semiconscious anti-rationalism), Jacoby has assembled an erudite mix of personal anecdotes, cultural history and social commentary to decry America''s retreat into junk thought.\n <em>\n  (Feb. 12)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From The New Yorker\n</h3>\n<p>\n Identifying herself as a "cultural conservationist" (but by no means a cultural conservative), Jacoby laments the decline of middlebrow American culture and presents a cogent defense of intellectualism. America, she believes, faces a "crisis of memory and knowledge," in which anti-intellectualism is not only tolerated but celebrated by those in politics and the media to whom we are all "just folks." The Internet, for all its promise, is too often "a highway to the far-flung regions of junk thought." Meanwhile, twenty-five per cent of high-school biology teachers believe that human beings and dinosaurs shared the earth, and more than a third of Americans canâ€™t name a single First Amendment right. In such an environment, Jacoby argues, the secular left and the religious right can have no fruitful dialogue on issues like the separation of church and state. She offers little hope that the situation will improve, opining that, despite increasing levels of education, "Americans seem to know less and less."\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2008 _ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9422'),
(8616, 'Age of Chivalry Or Legends of King Arthur', 'Thomas Bulfinch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is believed that this presentation of a literature which held unrivaled sway over the imaginations of our ancestors, for many centuries, will not be without benefit to the reader, in addition to the amusement it may afford. Found within are the tales of King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, Crusades - Robin Hood, and Knights of English History.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22900'),
(8617, 'The Age of Innocence', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Age of Innocence*, by **Edith Wharton**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, *The Age of Innocence* is **Edith Wharton**â€™s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people â€œdreaded scandal more than disease.â€This is Newland Archerâ€™s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his lifeâ€”or mercilessly destroy it.**Maureen Howard**** is a critic, teacher, and writer of fiction. Her seven novels include *Bridgeport Bus*, *Natural History*, and *A Loverâ€™s Almanac*. Her memoir, *Facts of Life*, won the National Book Criticsâ€™ Circle Award. She has taught at Yale and Columbia University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5846'),
(8618, 'The Age of Innocence', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Age of Innocence*, by **Edith Wharton**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, *The Age of Innocence* is **Edith Wharton**â€™s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people â€œdreaded scandal more than disease.â€This is Newland Archerâ€™s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his lifeâ€”or mercilessly destroy it.**Maureen Howard**** is a critic, teacher, and writer of fiction. Her seven novels include *Bridgeport Bus*, *Natural History*, and *A Loverâ€™s Almanac*. Her memoir, *Facts of Life*, won the National Book Criticsâ€™ Circle Award. She has taught at Yale and Columbia University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13350'),
(8619, 'The Age of Innocence', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Age of Innocence*, by **Edith Wharton**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, *The Age of Innocence* is **Edith Wharton**â€™s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people â€œdreaded scandal more than disease.â€This is Newland Archerâ€™s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his lifeâ€”or mercilessly destroy it.**Maureen Howard**** is a critic, teacher, and writer of fiction. Her seven novels include *Bridgeport Bus*, *Natural History*, and *A Loverâ€™s Almanac*. Her memoir, *Facts of Life*, won the National Book Criticsâ€™ Circle Award. She has taught at Yale and Columbia University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14083'),
(8620, 'The Age of Innocence', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Age of Innocence*, by **Edith Wharton**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, *The Age of Innocence* is **Edith Wharton**â€™s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people â€œdreaded scandal more than disease.â€This is Newland Archerâ€™s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his lifeâ€”or mercilessly destroy it.**Maureen Howard**** is a critic, teacher, and writer of fiction. Her seven novels include *Bridgeport Bus*, *Natural History*, and *A Loverâ€™s Almanac*. Her memoir, *Facts of Life*, won the National Book Criticsâ€™ Circle Award. She has taught at Yale and Columbia University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18768');
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(8621, 'The Age of Innocence', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Age of Innocence*, by **Edith Wharton**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, *The Age of Innocence* is **Edith Wharton**â€™s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people â€œdreaded scandal more than disease.â€This is Newland Archerâ€™s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his lifeâ€”or mercilessly destroy it.**Maureen Howard**** is a critic, teacher, and writer of fiction. Her seven novels include *Bridgeport Bus*, *Natural History*, and *A Loverâ€™s Almanac*. Her memoir, *Facts of Life*, won the National Book Criticsâ€™ Circle Award. She has taught at Yale and Columbia University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27599'),
(8622, 'The Age of Odin', 'James Lovegrove', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Gideon Dixon was a good solider but bad at everything else. Now the British Army doesn''t want him any more. So when he hears about the Valhalla Project it seems like a dream come true. They''re recruiting fromer service personnel for execellent pay, no questions asked, to take part in unspecified combat operations. The last thing Gideon expects is to finding himself fighting alongside the gods of the\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ancient Norse pantheon. The world is in the grip of one of the worst winters it has ever known, and Ragnarok-the fabled final conflict of the Sagas-is looming.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4894'),
(8623, 'The Age of Odin', 'James Lovegrove', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Gideon Dixon was a good solider but bad at everything else. Now the British Army doesn''t want him any more. So when he hears about the Valhalla Project it seems like a dream come true. They''re recruiting fromer service personnel for execellent pay, no questions asked, to take part in unspecified combat operations. The last thing Gideon expects is to finding himself fighting alongside the gods of the\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ancient Norse pantheon. The world is in the grip of one of the worst winters it has ever known, and Ragnarok-the fabled final conflict of the Sagas-is looming.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11219'),
(8624, 'The Age Of Odin', 'James Lovegrove', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Gideon Dixon was a good solider but bad at everything else. Now the British Army doesn''t want him any more. So when he hears about the Valhalla Project it seems like a dream come true. They''re recruiting fromer service personnel for execellent pay, no questions asked, to take part in unspecified combat operations. The last thing Gideon expects is to finding himself fighting alongside the gods of the\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ancient Norse pantheon. The world is in the grip of one of the worst winters it has ever known, and Ragnarok-the fabled final conflict of the Sagas-is looming.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19879'),
(8625, 'The Age of Revolution', 'Winston Spencer Churchill &amp; Jeffrey Webb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">\n </span>\n</h3>\n<h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(176, 163, 119); ">\n Synopsis\n</h3>\n<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n Winston S. Churchill''sÂ \n <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  A History of the English Speaking Peoples\n </i>\n Â is the literary masterwork of the twentieth century''s greatest historical figure. Beginning with Marlborough''s victory at Blenheim in 1704 and ending with Wellington''s defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, Churchill recounts Britain''s rise to world leadership over the course of the eighteenth century. In this volume Churchill provides an excellent illustration of his unique literary voice, together with an introduction to his thoughts on the forces that shape human affairs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/176'),
(8626, 'The Age of Revolution', 'Winston Spencer Churchill &amp; Jeffrey Webb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">\n </span>\n</h3>\n<h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(176, 163, 119); ">\n Synopsis\n</h3>\n<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n Winston S. Churchill''sÂ \n <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n  A History of the English Speaking Peoples\n </i>\n Â is the literary masterwork of the twentieth century''s greatest historical figure. Beginning with Marlborough''s victory at Blenheim in 1704 and ending with Wellington''s defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, Churchill recounts Britain''s rise to world leadership over the course of the eighteenth century. In this volume Churchill provides an excellent illustration of his unique literary voice, together with an introduction to his thoughts on the forces that shape human affairs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8892'),
(8627, 'The Age of Revolution: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume III (Barnes &amp; Noble Library of Essential Reading Series)', 'Winston S. Churchill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22748'),
(8628, 'The Age of the Pussyfoot', 'Frederik Pohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18441'),
(8629, 'The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science', 'Richard Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Oliver Sacks on\n  <em>\n   The Age of Wonder\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Oliver Sacks is the author of\n <em>\n  The Age of Wonder\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n I am a Richard Holmes addict. He is an incomparable biographer, but in\n <em>\n  The Age of Wonder\n </em>\n , he rises to new heights and becomes the biographer not of a single figure, but of an entire unique period, when artist and scientist could share common aims and ambitions and a common language--and together create a "romantic," humanist science. We are once again on the brink of such an age, when science and art will come together in new and powerful ways. For this we could have no better model than the lives of William and Caroline Herschel and Humphry Davy, whose dedication and scientific inventiveness were combined with a deep sense of wonder and poetry in the universe. Only Holmes, who is so deeply versed in the people and culture of eighteenth-century science, could tell their story with such verve and resonance for our own time.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Elena Seibert)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The Romantic imagination was inspired, not alienated, by scientific advances, argues this captivating history. Holmes, author of a much-admired biography of Coleridge, focuses on prominent British scientists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including the astronomer William Herschel and his accomplished assistant and sister, Caroline; Humphrey Davy, a leading chemist and amateur poet; and Joseph Banks, whose journal of a youthful voyage to Tahiti was a study in sexual libertinism. Holmes''s biographical approach makes his obsessive protagonists (Davy''s self-experimenting with laughing gas is an epic in itself) the prototypes of the Romantic genius absorbed in a Promethean quest for knowledge. Their discoveries, he argues, helped establish a new paradigm of Romantic science that saw the universe as vast, dynamic and full of marvels and celebrated mankind''s power to not just describe but transform Nature. Holmes''s treatment is sketchy on the actual science and heavy on the cultural impact, with wide-ranging discussions of the 1780s ballooning craze, Mary Shelley''s\n <em>\n  Frankenstein\n </em>\n and scientific metaphors in Romantic poetry. It''s an engrossing portrait of scientists as passionate adventurers, boldly laying claim to the intellectual leadership of society. Illus.\n <em>\n  (July 14)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1830'),
(8630, 'The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science', 'Richard Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Oliver Sacks on\n  <em>\n   The Age of Wonder\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Oliver Sacks is the author of\n <em>\n  The Age of Wonder\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n I am a Richard Holmes addict. He is an incomparable biographer, but in\n <em>\n  The Age of Wonder\n </em>\n , he rises to new heights and becomes the biographer not of a single figure, but of an entire unique period, when artist and scientist could share common aims and ambitions and a common language--and together create a "romantic," humanist science. We are once again on the brink of such an age, when science and art will come together in new and powerful ways. For this we could have no better model than the lives of William and Caroline Herschel and Humphry Davy, whose dedication and scientific inventiveness were combined with a deep sense of wonder and poetry in the universe. Only Holmes, who is so deeply versed in the people and culture of eighteenth-century science, could tell their story with such verve and resonance for our own time.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Elena Seibert)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The Romantic imagination was inspired, not alienated, by scientific advances, argues this captivating history. Holmes, author of a much-admired biography of Coleridge, focuses on prominent British scientists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including the astronomer William Herschel and his accomplished assistant and sister, Caroline; Humphrey Davy, a leading chemist and amateur poet; and Joseph Banks, whose journal of a youthful voyage to Tahiti was a study in sexual libertinism. Holmes''s biographical approach makes his obsessive protagonists (Davy''s self-experimenting with laughing gas is an epic in itself) the prototypes of the Romantic genius absorbed in a Promethean quest for knowledge. Their discoveries, he argues, helped establish a new paradigm of Romantic science that saw the universe as vast, dynamic and full of marvels and celebrated mankind''s power to not just describe but transform Nature. Holmes''s treatment is sketchy on the actual science and heavy on the cultural impact, with wide-ranging discussions of the 1780s ballooning craze, Mary Shelley''s\n <em>\n  Frankenstein\n </em>\n and scientific metaphors in Romantic poetry. It''s an engrossing portrait of scientists as passionate adventurers, boldly laying claim to the intellectual leadership of society. Illus.\n <em>\n  (July 14)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10353'),
(8631, 'Agent 21', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Zak Darkeâ€™s parents die in an unexplained mass murder heâ€™s left alone in the world. That is until heâ€™s sought out by a mysterious man: â€œI work for a government agency,â€ the man tells him. â€œYou donâ€™t need to know which one. Not yet. All you need to know is that weâ€™ve had our eye on you. Thereâ€™s a possibility you could help us in certain... operational situations.â€Zak becomes Agent 21. What happened to the 20 agents before him heâ€™ll never know. What he does know is that his life is about to change forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15387'),
(8632, 'Agent X', 'Noah Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Noah Boyd on How to Catch a Serial Killer\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Mystery Readers,\n</p>\n<p>\n Thought you might like to hear about my last case with the FBI.\n</p>\n<p>\n The first three bodies were found in the abandoned Monterey Motel in Highland Park, a small, once affluent city surrounded by Detroit. But the public concern didnâ€™t reach full pitch until the count reached eight, all the victims raped and strangled. Thatâ€™s when I was called in.\n</p>\n<p>\n My first impulse when tackling any problem is looking for a way to slice through the Gordian knot, a shortcut seekerâ€™s most reliable tool. What I had learned by working on the Green River Murders and studying other serial killings was to search for a surviving victim; itâ€™s how Gary Ridgeway and Ted Bundy had both been caught.\n</p>\n<p>\n The first thing I asked for at the Highland Park PD was any tips that had been called inâ€”a technique I had learned during my three months in Seattle. After an exchange of confused looks, one of the detectives said that he thought they were in the third floor (long-abandoned) bathroom. Inside a twisted, dusty filing cabinet, I found about a hundred of them.\n</p>\n<p>\n One had been called in by a woman who had been raped and then severely choked by a man she knew only as â€œTonyâ€ before she escaped by running down a busy street naked in the middle of the winter. The assault had taken place in the basement of an abandoned Howard Johnsonâ€™s restaurant, which was immediately adjacent to the Monterey Motel. Being an investigator of keen insight, it occurred to me that Tony was somebody we needed to find.\n</p>\n<p>\n It being Detroit, the woman had used an alias to report the crime and â€œTonyâ€ would turn out to be a nickname without a single etymological connection to the killerâ€™s true identity. Theseâ€”letâ€™s call themâ€”big city idiosyncrasies, caused a two-month delay before we were able to arrest Benjamin Atkins and obtain a confession to 11th homicides, along with a planned 12th to celebrate his birthday in two weeks.\n</p>\n<p>\n --Noah Boyd\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steve Vail, once an ace FBI agent, now a bricklayer (The Bricklayer, 2009), arrives in Washington to take Kate Bannon, the bureauâ€™s assistant director, to an embassy soiree. But his romantic mission is sidelined by an urgent summons from the bureau: a Russian embassy staffer, code-named Calculus, is offering to name Americans feeding sensitive information to Russian intelligence. But no sooner than the bureau accepts the Russianâ€™s terms, he is spirited off to Moscow, presumably to be tortured into admitting what he has done. Steve and Kate must identify the moles and reel them in before the Russians snuff them. But before that can happen, Vail must solve the many puzzles that Calculus uses to conceal information. Thriller fans get an endlessly twisting plot strewn with chases, gun battles, and explosions. Calculusâ€™ puzzles are engaging, and the bureauâ€™s procedural and bureaucratic thickets sound real. Cynics will enjoy the portrayal of all FBI administrators as butt-covering careerists, but Vail, equal parts Sherlock Holmes and Dirty Harry, strains credulity. Not as strong as The Bricklayer, but fans wonâ€™t want to give up on the series yet. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2519'),
(8633, 'Agent X', 'Noah Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Noah Boyd on How to Catch a Serial Killer\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Mystery Readers,\n</p>\n<p>\n Thought you might like to hear about my last case with the FBI.\n</p>\n<p>\n The first three bodies were found in the abandoned Monterey Motel in Highland Park, a small, once affluent city surrounded by Detroit. But the public concern didnâ€™t reach full pitch until the count reached eight, all the victims raped and strangled. Thatâ€™s when I was called in.\n</p>\n<p>\n My first impulse when tackling any problem is looking for a way to slice through the Gordian knot, a shortcut seekerâ€™s most reliable tool. What I had learned by working on the Green River Murders and studying other serial killings was to search for a surviving victim; itâ€™s how Gary Ridgeway and Ted Bundy had both been caught.\n</p>\n<p>\n The first thing I asked for at the Highland Park PD was any tips that had been called inâ€”a technique I had learned during my three months in Seattle. After an exchange of confused looks, one of the detectives said that he thought they were in the third floor (long-abandoned) bathroom. Inside a twisted, dusty filing cabinet, I found about a hundred of them.\n</p>\n<p>\n One had been called in by a woman who had been raped and then severely choked by a man she knew only as â€œTonyâ€ before she escaped by running down a busy street naked in the middle of the winter. The assault had taken place in the basement of an abandoned Howard Johnsonâ€™s restaurant, which was immediately adjacent to the Monterey Motel. Being an investigator of keen insight, it occurred to me that Tony was somebody we needed to find.\n</p>\n<p>\n It being Detroit, the woman had used an alias to report the crime and â€œTonyâ€ would turn out to be a nickname without a single etymological connection to the killerâ€™s true identity. Theseâ€”letâ€™s call themâ€”big city idiosyncrasies, caused a two-month delay before we were able to arrest Benjamin Atkins and obtain a confession to 11th homicides, along with a planned 12th to celebrate his birthday in two weeks.\n</p>\n<p>\n --Noah Boyd\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steve Vail, once an ace FBI agent, now a bricklayer (The Bricklayer, 2009), arrives in Washington to take Kate Bannon, the bureauâ€™s assistant director, to an embassy soiree. But his romantic mission is sidelined by an urgent summons from the bureau: a Russian embassy staffer, code-named Calculus, is offering to name Americans feeding sensitive information to Russian intelligence. But no sooner than the bureau accepts the Russianâ€™s terms, he is spirited off to Moscow, presumably to be tortured into admitting what he has done. Steve and Kate must identify the moles and reel them in before the Russians snuff them. But before that can happen, Vail must solve the many puzzles that Calculus uses to conceal information. Thriller fans get an endlessly twisting plot strewn with chases, gun battles, and explosions. Calculusâ€™ puzzles are engaging, and the bureauâ€™s procedural and bureaucratic thickets sound real. Cynics will enjoy the portrayal of all FBI administrators as butt-covering careerists, but Vail, equal parts Sherlock Holmes and Dirty Harry, strains credulity. Not as strong as The Bricklayer, but fans wonâ€™t want to give up on the series yet. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8651'),
(8634, 'Agent X', 'Noah Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Noah Boyd on How to Catch a Serial Killer\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Mystery Readers,\n</p>\n<p>\n Thought you might like to hear about my last case with the FBI.\n</p>\n<p>\n The first three bodies were found in the abandoned Monterey Motel in Highland Park, a small, once affluent city surrounded by Detroit. But the public concern didnâ€™t reach full pitch until the count reached eight, all the victims raped and strangled. Thatâ€™s when I was called in.\n</p>\n<p>\n My first impulse when tackling any problem is looking for a way to slice through the Gordian knot, a shortcut seekerâ€™s most reliable tool. What I had learned by working on the Green River Murders and studying other serial killings was to search for a surviving victim; itâ€™s how Gary Ridgeway and Ted Bundy had both been caught.\n</p>\n<p>\n The first thing I asked for at the Highland Park PD was any tips that had been called inâ€”a technique I had learned during my three months in Seattle. After an exchange of confused looks, one of the detectives said that he thought they were in the third floor (long-abandoned) bathroom. Inside a twisted, dusty filing cabinet, I found about a hundred of them.\n</p>\n<p>\n One had been called in by a woman who had been raped and then severely choked by a man she knew only as â€œTonyâ€ before she escaped by running down a busy street naked in the middle of the winter. The assault had taken place in the basement of an abandoned Howard Johnsonâ€™s restaurant, which was immediately adjacent to the Monterey Motel. Being an investigator of keen insight, it occurred to me that Tony was somebody we needed to find.\n</p>\n<p>\n It being Detroit, the woman had used an alias to report the crime and â€œTonyâ€ would turn out to be a nickname without a single etymological connection to the killerâ€™s true identity. Theseâ€”letâ€™s call themâ€”big city idiosyncrasies, caused a two-month delay before we were able to arrest Benjamin Atkins and obtain a confession to 11th homicides, along with a planned 12th to celebrate his birthday in two weeks.\n</p>\n<p>\n --Noah Boyd\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steve Vail, once an ace FBI agent, now a bricklayer (The Bricklayer, 2009), arrives in Washington to take Kate Bannon, the bureauâ€™s assistant director, to an embassy soiree. But his romantic mission is sidelined by an urgent summons from the bureau: a Russian embassy staffer, code-named Calculus, is offering to name Americans feeding sensitive information to Russian intelligence. But no sooner than the bureau accepts the Russianâ€™s terms, he is spirited off to Moscow, presumably to be tortured into admitting what he has done. Steve and Kate must identify the moles and reel them in before the Russians snuff them. But before that can happen, Vail must solve the many puzzles that Calculus uses to conceal information. Thriller fans get an endlessly twisting plot strewn with chases, gun battles, and explosions. Calculusâ€™ puzzles are engaging, and the bureauâ€™s procedural and bureaucratic thickets sound real. Cynics will enjoy the portrayal of all FBI administrators as butt-covering careerists, but Vail, equal parts Sherlock Holmes and Dirty Harry, strains credulity. Not as strong as The Bricklayer, but fans wonâ€™t want to give up on the series yet. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22243'),
(8635, 'The Agent&#39;s Secret Child', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE MISSION: FIND MOTHER AND CHILD Finding Isabella Montenegro and her young daughter and bringing them back to testify should have been easy. But one look at Isabella and Texas Confidential Agent Jake Cantrell remembered a woman he''d cherished...a woman who''d died. And one look at the child -- and he saw himself in her eyes.... Until she''d met Jake Cantrell, Isabella''s past had been a blank. Now fragmented memories began to assault her. Who was she? If Jake had fathered her child, then her entire life was a lie. Now that false life and the life of her daughter were at stake -- and there was only Jake to trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7912'),
(8636, 'The Agent&#39;s Secret Child', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE MISSION: FIND MOTHER AND CHILD Finding Isabella Montenegro and her young daughter and bringing them back to testify should have been easy. But one look at Isabella and Texas Confidential Agent Jake Cantrell remembered a woman he''d cherished...a woman who''d died. And one look at the child -- and he saw himself in her eyes.... Until she''d met Jake Cantrell, Isabella''s past had been a blank. Now fragmented memories began to assault her. Who was she? If Jake had fathered her child, then her entire life was a lie. Now that false life and the life of her daughter were at stake -- and there was only Jake to trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16471'),
(8637, 'The Agent&#39;s Secret Child', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE MISSION: FIND MOTHER AND CHILD Finding Isabella Montenegro and her young daughter and bringing them back to testify should have been easy. But one look at Isabella and Texas Confidential Agent Jake Cantrell remembered a woman he''d cherished...a woman who''d died. And one look at the child -- and he saw himself in her eyes.... Until she''d met Jake Cantrell, Isabella''s past had been a blank. Now fragmented memories began to assault her. Who was she? If Jake had fathered her child, then her entire life was a lie. Now that false life and the life of her daughter were at stake -- and there was only Jake to trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26519'),
(8638, 'Agents of Light and Darkness', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author takes readers back to the Nightside.\n</p>\n<p>\n A quest for the Unholy Grail-the goblet from which Judas drank at the Last Supper-takes private eye John Taylor deep into the secret, magical heart of London...called the Nightside.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1263'),
(8639, 'Agents of Light and Darkness', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author takes readers back to the Nightside.\n</p>\n<p>\n A quest for the Unholy Grail-the goblet from which Judas drank at the Last Supper-takes private eye John Taylor deep into the secret, magical heart of London...called the Nightside.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10102'),
(8640, 'Agents of Light and Darkness', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author takes readers back to the Nightside.\n</p>\n<p>\n A quest for the Unholy Grail-the goblet from which Judas drank at the Last Supper-takes private eye John Taylor deep into the secret, magical heart of London...called the Nightside.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23655'),
(8641, 'Aggressor', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAddictiveâ€¦ Packed with wild action and revealing tradecraft.â€\n <br />\n _â€“Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œMcNab is a terrific novelist. When it comes to thrills, heâ€™s Forsyth class.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€“Mail on Sunday\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The stunning new thriller from the master of the genre.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nick Stone seems to be living his dream, not a care in the world as he steers his camper van round the surfing and parachuting centres of Australia, a board on the roof, freefall rig behind him, and a beautiful young backpacker at his side. But when he witnesses on TV the massacre of children in a terrorist siege on the other side of the world, long-suppressed memories are triggered and Nick finds himself catapulted once more into working for the American secret services â€” only this time, of his own free will.\n</p>\n<p>\n As events unfold in the bleak, medieval villages of Azerbajhan, and the teeming streets of modern Istanbul, it isnâ€™t long before Nick discovers the true objective of the mission on which he has embarked. His talents are being misused by those who stalk the corridors of power, and he is determined to make a stand.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hurtled at breakneck pace through a deadly landscape of greed, violence and ever-shifting allegiances, the reader will be left in no doubt that McNab is the master of the genre â€” and\n <strong>\n  Aggressor\n </strong>\n is McNab at his searing, blockbusting best.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7633'),
(8642, 'Aggressor', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAddictiveâ€¦ Packed with wild action and revealing tradecraft.â€\n <br />\n _â€“Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œMcNab is a terrific novelist. When it comes to thrills, heâ€™s Forsyth class.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€“Mail on Sunday\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The stunning new thriller from the master of the genre.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nick Stone seems to be living his dream, not a care in the world as he steers his camper van round the surfing and parachuting centres of Australia, a board on the roof, freefall rig behind him, and a beautiful young backpacker at his side. But when he witnesses on TV the massacre of children in a terrorist siege on the other side of the world, long-suppressed memories are triggered and Nick finds himself catapulted once more into working for the American secret services â€” only this time, of his own free will.\n</p>\n<p>\n As events unfold in the bleak, medieval villages of Azerbajhan, and the teeming streets of modern Istanbul, it isnâ€™t long before Nick discovers the true objective of the mission on which he has embarked. His talents are being misused by those who stalk the corridors of power, and he is determined to make a stand.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hurtled at breakneck pace through a deadly landscape of greed, violence and ever-shifting allegiances, the reader will be left in no doubt that McNab is the master of the genre â€” and\n <strong>\n  Aggressor\n </strong>\n is McNab at his searing, blockbusting best.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11468'),
(8643, 'Aggressor', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAddictiveâ€¦ Packed with wild action and revealing tradecraft.â€\n <br />\n _â€“Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œMcNab is a terrific novelist. When it comes to thrills, heâ€™s Forsyth class.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€“Mail on Sunday\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The stunning new thriller from the master of the genre.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nick Stone seems to be living his dream, not a care in the world as he steers his camper van round the surfing and parachuting centres of Australia, a board on the roof, freefall rig behind him, and a beautiful young backpacker at his side. But when he witnesses on TV the massacre of children in a terrorist siege on the other side of the world, long-suppressed memories are triggered and Nick finds himself catapulted once more into working for the American secret services â€” only this time, of his own free will.\n</p>\n<p>\n As events unfold in the bleak, medieval villages of Azerbajhan, and the teeming streets of modern Istanbul, it isnâ€™t long before Nick discovers the true objective of the mission on which he has embarked. His talents are being misused by those who stalk the corridors of power, and he is determined to make a stand.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hurtled at breakneck pace through a deadly landscape of greed, violence and ever-shifting allegiances, the reader will be left in no doubt that McNab is the master of the genre â€” and\n <strong>\n  Aggressor\n </strong>\n is McNab at his searing, blockbusting best.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16230'),
(8644, 'Agincourt: Henry v and the Battle That Made England', 'Juliet R. V. Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Barker, a British biographer (_The BrontÃ«s_) and accomplished medievalist, brings an excellent synergy of academic and literary skills to this study of the 1415 British campaign in France and the battle that was its climax, around which she elaborately reconstructs the conflict''s antecedents. Henry V spent years preparing the ground: asserting initially shaky authority in England, exploiting domestic strife in France and isolating the disorganized kingdom from its traditional allies. During the campaign itself, a train of artillery manned by foreign gunners supplemented the men-at-arms and the longbowmen, who were the British army''s real backbone. But the French were not the vainglorious incompetents of English legend and Shakespearean drama. Many in northern France made a brave effort, often putting aside personal and political differences to stand together at Agincourt, where they came closer to success than is generally realized. Barker shows that the battle hung by a thread: French numbers against English desperation, with courage a common virtue. She also illustrates how Agincourt was decisiveâ€”not only for its consequences in France. An English defeat would have meant chaos, perhaps civil war. Destiny on both sides of the Channel turned on the outcome of St. Crispin''s Day.\n <em>\n  (June 14)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Battle of Agincourt of 1415 has endured in popular awareness on the strength of Shakespeare''s\n <em>\n  Henry the Fifth.\n </em>\n The historical Henry V bears scant resemblance to Falstaff''s royal drinking buddy: in Barker''s lushly detailed account, Henry V was a pious warrior, an able administrator, and an aggressive diplomat. Barker dwells extensively on Henry''s rapid intensification, after ascending to the throne in 1413, of the Hundred Years'' War, the English attempt to control the crown and territory of France. As a result, her emphasis on the organization of the campaign that culminated at Agincourt delivers a superb description of how a medieval military force was raised. Founded on feudal precepts of lord-and-vassal obligation, Henry''s army and that of France were personalistic, a trait Barker turns to positive advantage in portraying the combatants. From longbow men to men-at-arms, Barker successfully individuates the Agincourt battle so that readers perceive actual people, not just a melee of thousands, engaging in the battle. With fluency and empathy, Barker delivers a superior performance that should capture avid history readers.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4035'),
(8645, 'Agincourt: Henry v and the Battle That Made England', 'Juliet R. V. Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Barker, a British biographer (_The BrontÃ«s_) and accomplished medievalist, brings an excellent synergy of academic and literary skills to this study of the 1415 British campaign in France and the battle that was its climax, around which she elaborately reconstructs the conflict''s antecedents. Henry V spent years preparing the ground: asserting initially shaky authority in England, exploiting domestic strife in France and isolating the disorganized kingdom from its traditional allies. During the campaign itself, a train of artillery manned by foreign gunners supplemented the men-at-arms and the longbowmen, who were the British army''s real backbone. But the French were not the vainglorious incompetents of English legend and Shakespearean drama. Many in northern France made a brave effort, often putting aside personal and political differences to stand together at Agincourt, where they came closer to success than is generally realized. Barker shows that the battle hung by a thread: French numbers against English desperation, with courage a common virtue. She also illustrates how Agincourt was decisiveâ€”not only for its consequences in France. An English defeat would have meant chaos, perhaps civil war. Destiny on both sides of the Channel turned on the outcome of St. Crispin''s Day.\n <em>\n  (June 14)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Battle of Agincourt of 1415 has endured in popular awareness on the strength of Shakespeare''s\n <em>\n  Henry the Fifth.\n </em>\n The historical Henry V bears scant resemblance to Falstaff''s royal drinking buddy: in Barker''s lushly detailed account, Henry V was a pious warrior, an able administrator, and an aggressive diplomat. Barker dwells extensively on Henry''s rapid intensification, after ascending to the throne in 1413, of the Hundred Years'' War, the English attempt to control the crown and territory of France. As a result, her emphasis on the organization of the campaign that culminated at Agincourt delivers a superb description of how a medieval military force was raised. Founded on feudal precepts of lord-and-vassal obligation, Henry''s army and that of France were personalistic, a trait Barker turns to positive advantage in portraying the combatants. From longbow men to men-at-arms, Barker successfully individuates the Agincourt battle so that readers perceive actual people, not just a melee of thousands, engaging in the battle. With fluency and empathy, Barker delivers a superior performance that should capture avid history readers.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8320'),
(8646, 'Agincourt: Henry v and the Battle That Made England', 'Juliet R. V. Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Barker, a British biographer (_The BrontÃ«s_) and accomplished medievalist, brings an excellent synergy of academic and literary skills to this study of the 1415 British campaign in France and the battle that was its climax, around which she elaborately reconstructs the conflict''s antecedents. Henry V spent years preparing the ground: asserting initially shaky authority in England, exploiting domestic strife in France and isolating the disorganized kingdom from its traditional allies. During the campaign itself, a train of artillery manned by foreign gunners supplemented the men-at-arms and the longbowmen, who were the British army''s real backbone. But the French were not the vainglorious incompetents of English legend and Shakespearean drama. Many in northern France made a brave effort, often putting aside personal and political differences to stand together at Agincourt, where they came closer to success than is generally realized. Barker shows that the battle hung by a thread: French numbers against English desperation, with courage a common virtue. She also illustrates how Agincourt was decisiveâ€”not only for its consequences in France. An English defeat would have meant chaos, perhaps civil war. Destiny on both sides of the Channel turned on the outcome of St. Crispin''s Day.\n <em>\n  (June 14)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Battle of Agincourt of 1415 has endured in popular awareness on the strength of Shakespeare''s\n <em>\n  Henry the Fifth.\n </em>\n The historical Henry V bears scant resemblance to Falstaff''s royal drinking buddy: in Barker''s lushly detailed account, Henry V was a pious warrior, an able administrator, and an aggressive diplomat. Barker dwells extensively on Henry''s rapid intensification, after ascending to the throne in 1413, of the Hundred Years'' War, the English attempt to control the crown and territory of France. As a result, her emphasis on the organization of the campaign that culminated at Agincourt delivers a superb description of how a medieval military force was raised. Founded on feudal precepts of lord-and-vassal obligation, Henry''s army and that of France were personalistic, a trait Barker turns to positive advantage in portraying the combatants. From longbow men to men-at-arms, Barker successfully individuates the Agincourt battle so that readers perceive actual people, not just a melee of thousands, engaging in the battle. With fluency and empathy, Barker delivers a superior performance that should capture avid history readers.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20545'),
(8647, 'Aground', 'Charles Williams &amp; Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6854'),
(8648, 'Aground', 'Charles Williams &amp; Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13375'),
(8649, 'Aground', 'Charles Williams; Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17049'),
(8650, 'Aground', 'Charles Williams; Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26863'),
(8651, 'The AI War', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The dreaded AI''s have regrouped in an alternate universe and are preparing to launch their invincible fleet. But war weary humanity refuses to accept the threat as real. Commodore J''Quel D''Trelna has been secretly ordered to enter forbidden territory to find the only weapon that can stop the AI''s from overwhelming his universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1116'),
(8652, 'The AI War', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The dreaded AI''s have regrouped in an alternate universe and are preparing to launch their invincible fleet. But war weary humanity refuses to accept the threat as real. Commodore J''Quel D''Trelna has been secretly ordered to enter forbidden territory to find the only weapon that can stop the AI''s from overwhelming his universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23745'),
(8653, 'Ain&#39;t She Sweet?', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sugar Beth Carey''s come back to Parrish, Mississippi, and she''s brought her reputation for wreaking havoc with her. She''s broke, desperate, and too proud to show it, even with her old enemies lining up for a chance to get even. Her former girlfriends have their eyebrow pencils sharpened into lethal points. Winnie Davis, her longtime rival, is fully armed with the money, power, and prestige that had once been Sugar Beth''s. But worst of all is Colin Byrne, the man whose career Sugar Beth had destroyed -- and not exactly accidentally. Now Colin''s a famous novelist living in Sugar Beth''s old mansion, and this modern day dark prince is using his writer''s imagination to figure out how to bring the town''s beautiful former princess to her knees. But despite her sassy mouth, feisty spirit, and hardheaded ways, Sugar Beth''s no longer the spoiled rich girl they all remember. No, now she''s a woman to be reckoned with ... and a great big reckonin'' is about to happen, not least of all for one dark prince who might -- just might -- be thinking about falling in love with the wickedest girl in town. Ain''t She Sweet? A funny, heartwarming, oh-so-spicy story of love, friendship, and the possibility of happily-ever-after.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/979'),
(8654, 'Ain&#39;t She Sweet?', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sugar Beth Carey''s come back to Parrish, Mississippi, and she''s brought her reputation for wreaking havoc with her. She''s broke, desperate, and too proud to show it, even with her old enemies lining up for a chance to get even. Her former girlfriends have their eyebrow pencils sharpened into lethal points. Winnie Davis, her longtime rival, is fully armed with the money, power, and prestige that had once been Sugar Beth''s. But worst of all is Colin Byrne, the man whose career Sugar Beth had destroyed -- and not exactly accidentally. Now Colin''s a famous novelist living in Sugar Beth''s old mansion, and this modern day dark prince is using his writer''s imagination to figure out how to bring the town''s beautiful former princess to her knees. But despite her sassy mouth, feisty spirit, and hardheaded ways, Sugar Beth''s no longer the spoiled rich girl they all remember. No, now she''s a woman to be reckoned with ... and a great big reckonin'' is about to happen, not least of all for one dark prince who might -- just might -- be thinking about falling in love with the wickedest girl in town. Ain''t She Sweet? A funny, heartwarming, oh-so-spicy story of love, friendship, and the possibility of happily-ever-after.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11940'),
(8655, 'Air Apparent', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the Good Magician Humfrey''s son Hugo suddenly vanishes, his disappearance sets in motion a series of madcap misadventures that send a collection of colorful characters on a perilous pair of parallel quests. Among them are Debra, a pretty young girl beset by an obnoxious curse; Hugo''s beloved wife Wira, whose sightlessness is balanced by a talent for sensitivity, Happy and Fray, a pair of sprightly storm-spirits; Nimbus, the Demon Xanth''s own son; and the mysterious outlaw known as the Random Factor.As they travel through some of the magical realm''s most astonishing locales, these unwitting adventurers discover they are key players in a grand drama whose origins reach back to the origins of time itself. Filled with exhilaration and excitement, ribaldry and romance, "Air Apparent "is a fabulous new fantasy saga from the lively imagination of master storyteller Piers Anthony.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1989');
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(8656, 'Air Apparent', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the Good Magician Humfrey''s son Hugo suddenly vanishes, his disappearance sets in motion a series of madcap misadventures that send a collection of colorful characters on a perilous pair of parallel quests. Among them are Debra, a pretty young girl beset by an obnoxious curse; Hugo''s beloved wife Wira, whose sightlessness is balanced by a talent for sensitivity, Happy and Fray, a pair of sprightly storm-spirits; Nimbus, the Demon Xanth''s own son; and the mysterious outlaw known as the Random Factor.As they travel through some of the magical realm''s most astonishing locales, these unwitting adventurers discover they are key players in a grand drama whose origins reach back to the origins of time itself. Filled with exhilaration and excitement, ribaldry and romance, "Air Apparent "is a fabulous new fantasy saga from the lively imagination of master storyteller Piers Anthony.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26141'),
(8657, 'Air Bridge', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18328'),
(8658, 'Air Force One Is Down', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20017'),
(8659, 'Airborne', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n They are America''s front lines--serving proudly in forward areas around the world. Representing the very best from the Army and Air Force, the Airborne Task Force is an unstoppable combination of manpower and firepower. Now, Tom Clancy examines this elite branch of our nation''s armed forces. With pinpoint accuracy and a style more compelling than any fiction, the acclaimed author of Executive Orders delivers an fascinating account of the Airborne juggernaut--the people, the technology, and Airborne''s mission in an ever-changing world... * Two Tom Clancy "mini-novels"--real world scenarios involving the airborne task force * Airborne''s weapons of the 21st century, including the Javelin anti-tank missile, the fiber-optically guided N-LOS fire support system, and the Joint Strike Fighter * 18 weeks: Life in an Airborne Alert Brigade * Exclusive photographs, illustrations, and diagrams PLUS: An in-depth interview with the incoming commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, General John Keen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/637'),
(8660, 'Airborne', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n They are America''s front lines--serving proudly in forward areas around the world. Representing the very best from the Army and Air Force, the Airborne Task Force is an unstoppable combination of manpower and firepower. Now, Tom Clancy examines this elite branch of our nation''s armed forces. With pinpoint accuracy and a style more compelling than any fiction, the acclaimed author of Executive Orders delivers an fascinating account of the Airborne juggernaut--the people, the technology, and Airborne''s mission in an ever-changing world... * Two Tom Clancy "mini-novels"--real world scenarios involving the airborne task force * Airborne''s weapons of the 21st century, including the Javelin anti-tank missile, the fiber-optically guided N-LOS fire support system, and the Joint Strike Fighter * 18 weeks: Life in an Airborne Alert Brigade * Exclusive photographs, illustrations, and diagrams PLUS: An in-depth interview with the incoming commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, General John Keen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8853'),
(8661, 'Airborne', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n They are America''s front lines--serving proudly in forward areas around the world. Representing the very best from the Army and Air Force, the Airborne Task Force is an unstoppable combination of manpower and firepower. Now, Tom Clancy examines this elite branch of our nation''s armed forces. With pinpoint accuracy and a style more compelling than any fiction, the acclaimed author of Executive Orders delivers an fascinating account of the Airborne juggernaut--the people, the technology, and Airborne''s mission in an ever-changing world... * Two Tom Clancy "mini-novels"--real world scenarios involving the airborne task force * Airborne''s weapons of the 21st century, including the Javelin anti-tank missile, the fiber-optically guided N-LOS fire support system, and the Joint Strike Fighter * 18 weeks: Life in an Airborne Alert Brigade * Exclusive photographs, illustrations, and diagrams PLUS: An in-depth interview with the incoming commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, General John Keen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24356'),
(8662, 'Airframe', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . . At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. AIRFRAME is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2933'),
(8663, 'Airframe', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . . At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. AIRFRAME is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14970'),
(8664, 'Airframe', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . . At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. AIRFRAME is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21937'),
(8665, 'Airman', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One dark night on the island of Great Saltee, fourteen-year-old Conor is framed for a terrible crime he didn''t commit. Thrown into prison by the dastardly Hugo Bonvilain, Conor is trapped in a seaswept dungeon and branded a traitor. He must escape and clear his name; he wants his old life back his family, his friends . . . and his princess. Conor knows there is only one way out. It''s an impossible task, which has never been done before. But Conor is determined to do it. He''ll have to fly. Swashbuckling new fiction from the amazing Eoin Colfer, ideal for readers aged 11+.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5609'),
(8666, 'Airman', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One dark night on the island of Great Saltee, fourteen-year-old Conor is framed for a terrible crime he didn''t commit. Thrown into prison by the dastardly Hugo Bonvilain, Conor is trapped in a seaswept dungeon and branded a traitor. He must escape and clear his name; he wants his old life back his family, his friends . . . and his princess. Conor knows there is only one way out. It''s an impossible task, which has never been done before. But Conor is determined to do it. He''ll have to fly. Swashbuckling new fiction from the amazing Eoin Colfer, ideal for readers aged 11+.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8978'),
(8667, 'Airman', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One dark night on the island of Great Saltee, fourteen-year-old Conor is framed for a terrible crime he didn''t commit. Thrown into prison by the dastardly Hugo Bonvilain, Conor is trapped in a seaswept dungeon and branded a traitor. He must escape and clear his name; he wants his old life back his family, his friends . . . and his princess. Conor knows there is only one way out. It''s an impossible task, which has never been done before. But Conor is determined to do it. He''ll have to fly. Swashbuckling new fiction from the amazing Eoin Colfer, ideal for readers aged 11+.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19021'),
(8668, 'Akeelah and the Bee', 'James W. Ellison &amp; Doug Atchison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-6â€“Akeelah Anderson, 11, is accustomed to hiding her intelligence from the other students at Crenshaw Middle School. All this changes when she is coerced into participating in the school''s first spelling bee. Words have always fascinated the seventh grader, a passion she shared with her late father. When she wins and moves on to the district competition, her principal''s old friend, university professor Dr. Larabee, begins to coach her. Both are stubborn, and they take some time warming up to one another, but their sessions begin in earnest once Akeelah qualifies for the next level. Beyond learning thousands of words, she has a major problemâ€“her mother wants her to concentrate on summer school instead of entering the competition. Determined to go, the girl forges her father''s signature on the application. Of course Mrs. Anderson discovers the truth, but is persuaded to let her daughter continue. Along the way the girl finds that she has become a symbol of pride to her South Central Los Angeles neighborhood. This novel, based on the screenplay of the same name, tends to tell rather than show much of the action, but this will probably not deter young readers._â€“Terrie Dorio, Santa Monica Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A novelization of the inspirational movie about an 11-year-old girl in South Los Angeles named Akeelah and her quest to make it to the Scripps National Spelling Beeâ€”with help from some very unexpected places.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Akeelah and the Bee\n </em>\n is the story of Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer,\n <em>\n  Barbershop 2\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Madea''s Family Reunion\n </em>\n ), a precocious 11-year-old girl from South Los Angeles with a gift for words. Despite the objections of her mother, Tanya (Angela Bassett), Akeelah enters various spelling contests, for which she is tutored by the forthright Dr. Larabee (Laurence Fishburne); her principal; and the proud residents of her neighborhood who witness the courage and inspiration of one amazing little girl. 8-page color photo insert.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9529'),
(8669, 'Al Capone Shines My Shoes', 'Gennifer Choldenko', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Itâ€™s 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name hit men, con men, mad dog murderers and a handful of bank robbers too. And one of those cons has just done him a big favor.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n You see, Moose has never met Al Capone, but a few weeks ago Moose wrote a letter to him asking him to use his influence to get his sister, Natalie, into a school she desperately needs in San Francisco. After Natalie got accepted, a note appeared in Mooseâ€™s freshly laundered shirt that said: Done.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As this book begins, Moose discovers a new note. This one says: Your turn. Is it really from Capone? What does it mean? Moose canâ€™t risk anything that might get his dad fired. But how can he ignore Al Capone?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7932'),
(8670, 'Al Capone Shines My Shoes', 'Gennifer Choldenko', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Itâ€™s 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name hit men, con men, mad dog murderers and a handful of bank robbers too. And one of those cons has just done him a big favor.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n You see, Moose has never met Al Capone, but a few weeks ago Moose wrote a letter to him asking him to use his influence to get his sister, Natalie, into a school she desperately needs in San Francisco. After Natalie got accepted, a note appeared in Mooseâ€™s freshly laundered shirt that said: Done.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As this book begins, Moose discovers a new note. This one says: Your turn. Is it really from Capone? What does it mean? Moose canâ€™t risk anything that might get his dad fired. But how can he ignore Al Capone?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8932'),
(8671, 'Al Capone Shines My Shoes', 'Gennifer Choldenko', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel. Itâ€™s 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name hit men, con men, mad dog murderers and a handful of bank robbers too. And one of those cons has just done him a big favor. You see, Moose has never met Al Capone, but a few weeks ago Moose wrote a letter to him asking him to use his influence to get his sister, Natalie, into a school she desperately needs in San Francisco. After Natalie got accepted, a note appeared in Mooseâ€™s freshly laundered shirt that said: Done. As this book begins, Moose discovers a new note. This one says: Your turn. Is it really from Capone? What does it mean? Moose canâ€™t risk anything that might get his dad fired. But how can he ignore Al Capone?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19281'),
(8672, 'Al Capone Shines My Shoes', 'Gennifer Choldenko', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel. Itâ€™s 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name hit men, con men, mad dog murderers and a handful of bank robbers too. And one of those cons has just done him a big favor. You see, Moose has never met Al Capone, but a few weeks ago Moose wrote a letter to him asking him to use his influence to get his sister, Natalie, into a school she desperately needs in San Francisco. After Natalie got accepted, a note appeared in Mooseâ€™s freshly laundered shirt that said: Done. As this book begins, Moose discovers a new note. This one says: Your turn. Is it really from Capone? What does it mean? Moose canâ€™t risk anything that might get his dad fired. But how can he ignore Al Capone?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27904'),
(8673, 'Al doilea amant al doamnei Chatterley', 'Clifford Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25967'),
(8674, 'Al Pacino', 'Lawrence Grobel &amp; Al Pacino', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Journalist Grobel, who literally wrote the book on interviewing (The Art of the Interview), puts his talent on full display in this compilation of interviews conducted with Al Pacino over 25 years, giving the reader as much insight into interviewing style as into the legendary actor. Notoriously private, Pacino shares stories about his formative years, his preference for the theater over movies and how he handles criticism. Pacino''s views on acting, punctuated by stories of preparing for iconic roles like Tony Montana in Scarface, are fascinating, and his obvious passion for and dedication to acting in all its forms is inspiring. But it''s the personal side of Pacino many readers will look for, and Grobel does a deft and graceful job eliciting tales from the actor''s upbringing and notorious fear of romantic commitment. Although the two are friends, Grobel maintains a respectful distance in the book, allowing Pacino the slack to cut things short or-after a few attempts-decline to answer. Part of the book''s draw, however, is witnessing the two become closer as the years go by, their conversations becoming less formal and more intimate, making for increasingly engaging and illuminating reading. Until the famously shy Pacino authorizes a proper, official biography, this title makes a fine substitute.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  These interviews of Pacino conducted by Grobel and spanning the years 1979 to 2005 read more like old buddies conversing than formal discussion between aloof professionals, and in fact, Grobel and the notoriously aloof actor have became close friends. Still, even in what he claims was his first interview ever, Pacino seems, surprisingly, relaxed and open. Altogether, these are nine warts-and-all portraits of Pacino, full of surprising details about him and his life. For example, at one point Pacino laments that he is never given a comic role, despite his early experience writing and appearing in comedy reviews in the Village. Equally fascinating are moments when Pacino turns the tables on Grobel, answering questions with other questions that throw Grobel off balance and require him to be as on-his-toes as Pacino clearly is. Grobel and Pacino maintain a remarkable openness throughout, by the end creating the illusion that the reader has really gotten to know the man behind\n  <em>\n   Serpico\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Scarface\n  </em>\n  , and Michael Corleone.\n  <em>\n   Jack Helbig\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25433'),
(8675, 'Aladdin and the Magic Lamp', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is a tale originally found in a Middle-Eastern folk tale and in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights). A poor boy obtains a magic lamp and when the lamp is rubbed, a genie appears and fulfils its owner''s wishes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7470'),
(8676, 'Aladdin and the Magic Lamp', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is a tale originally found in a Middle-Eastern folk tale and in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights). A poor boy obtains a magic lamp and when the lamp is rubbed, a genie appears and fulfils its owner''s wishes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22496'),
(8677, 'Aladdin and the Magic Lamp', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is a tale originally found in a Middle-Eastern folk tale and in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights). A poor boy obtains a magic lamp and when the lamp is rubbed, a genie appears and fulfils its owner''s wishes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26436'),
(8678, 'Alan Lomax', 'John Szwed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. Armed with a tape-recorder and his own near-flawless good taste, Lomax spent years travelling the US, particularly the south, recording its heritage of music and song for posterity, bringing to light the talents of performers ranging from Jelly Roll Morton to Leadbelly and Muddy Waters, and crucially influencing generations of musicians from Pete Seeger to the Stones, from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan. Exiled from the US for seven years in the McCarthy era, his influence on British folk and rock was virtually as profound as on American music. The Stones owed both their existence and their name to Lomax''s discovery Muddy Waters, and without Leadbelly there would have been no skiffle and no Beatles as we know them. His influence continues: recordings made by Lomax are the core of the sound-tracks of Oh, Brother, Where art Thou? and The Gangs of New York, and even featured, remixed, on Moby''s Play. John Szwed''s biography is the first ever of this remarkable and contradictory man (whom he both knew and worked with for ten years); through it Szwed will tell the story of a musical and political era, as he did so successfully in his previous book on Miles Davis and Sun Ra.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4240'),
(8679, 'Alan Lomax', 'John Szwed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. Armed with a tape-recorder and his own near-flawless good taste, Lomax spent years travelling the US, particularly the south, recording its heritage of music and song for posterity, bringing to light the talents of performers ranging from Jelly Roll Morton to Leadbelly and Muddy Waters, and crucially influencing generations of musicians from Pete Seeger to the Stones, from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan. Exiled from the US for seven years in the McCarthy era, his influence on British folk and rock was virtually as profound as on American music. The Stones owed both their existence and their name to Lomax''s discovery Muddy Waters, and without Leadbelly there would have been no skiffle and no Beatles as we know them. His influence continues: recordings made by Lomax are the core of the sound-tracks of Oh, Brother, Where art Thou? and The Gangs of New York, and even featured, remixed, on Moby''s Play. John Szwed''s biography is the first ever of this remarkable and contradictory man (whom he both knew and worked with for ten years); through it Szwed will tell the story of a musical and political era, as he did so successfully in his previous book on Miles Davis and Sun Ra.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13010'),
(8680, 'Alan Lomax', 'John Szwed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. Armed with a tape-recorder and his own near-flawless good taste, Lomax spent years travelling the US, particularly the south, recording its heritage of music and song for posterity, bringing to light the talents of performers ranging from Jelly Roll Morton to Leadbelly and Muddy Waters, and crucially influencing generations of musicians from Pete Seeger to the Stones, from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan. Exiled from the US for seven years in the McCarthy era, his influence on British folk and rock was virtually as profound as on American music. The Stones owed both their existence and their name to Lomax''s discovery Muddy Waters, and without Leadbelly there would have been no skiffle and no Beatles as we know them. His influence continues: recordings made by Lomax are the core of the sound-tracks of Oh, Brother, Where art Thou? and The Gangs of New York, and even featured, remixed, on Moby''s Play. John Szwed''s biography is the first ever of this remarkable and contradictory man (whom he both knew and worked with for ten years); through it Szwed will tell the story of a musical and political era, as he did so successfully in his previous book on Miles Davis and Sun Ra.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20312'),
(8681, 'Alara Unbroken', 'Doug Beyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Once upon a time, the plane of Alara was shattered into five planes, each distinctly populated with relative mono-magical culture that reflects each of the five colors. Now, the planes are beginning to realign and merge once more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As nefarious forces work to hasten the cataclysmic realignment for their own gain, the populations of once ordered planes struggle to come to terms with a new planar order in which long separated struggles between opposite clash once more; martyrs face executioners, fire and water, earth and air, growth and decay, the innate versus the artificial.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Amid this chaos, Ajani, a fierce leonin planeswalker, struggles to bring justice and resolution to his brother''s death. Noble warrior Rafiq searches for the source of the of this evil that has invaded his world. And Sarkhan Vol, planeswalker and dragon hunter, taps into a power so pure and ancient, it threatens to consume him even as he revels in its unadulterated totality.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An action packed story from the mind of one of the creators, Doug Beyer opens up the\n  <strong>\n   Shards of Alara\n  </strong>\n  (TM) set like no one else can.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5909'),
(8682, 'Alara Unbroken', 'Doug Beyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Once upon a time, the plane of Alara was shattered into five planes, each distinctly populated with relative mono-magical culture that reflects each of the five colors. Now, the planes are beginning to realign and merge once more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As nefarious forces work to hasten the cataclysmic realignment for their own gain, the populations of once ordered planes struggle to come to terms with a new planar order in which long separated struggles between opposite clash once more; martyrs face executioners, fire and water, earth and air, growth and decay, the innate versus the artificial.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Amid this chaos, Ajani, a fierce leonin planeswalker, struggles to bring justice and resolution to his brother''s death. Noble warrior Rafiq searches for the source of the of this evil that has invaded his world. And Sarkhan Vol, planeswalker and dragon hunter, taps into a power so pure and ancient, it threatens to consume him even as he revels in its unadulterated totality.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An action packed story from the mind of one of the creators, Doug Beyer opens up the\n  <strong>\n   Shards of Alara\n  </strong>\n  (TM) set like no one else can.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8436'),
(8683, 'Alara Unbroken', 'Doug Beyer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Once upon a time, the plane of Alara was shattered into five planes, each distinctly populated with relative mono-magical culture that reflects each of the five colors. Now, the planes are beginning to realign and merge once more.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As nefarious forces work to hasten the cataclysmic realignment for their own gain, the populations of once ordered planes struggle to come to terms with a new planar order in which long separated struggles between opposite clash once more; martyrs face executioners, fire and water, earth and air, growth and decay, the innate versus the artificial.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Amid this chaos, Ajani, a fierce leonin planeswalker, struggles to bring justice and resolution to his brother''s death. Noble warrior Rafiq searches for the source of the of this evil that has invaded his world. And Sarkhan Vol, planeswalker and dragon hunter, taps into a power so pure and ancient, it threatens to consume him even as he revels in its unadulterated totality.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An action packed story from the mind of one of the creators, Doug Beyer opens up the\n  <strong>\n   Shards of Alara\n  </strong>\n  (TM) set like no one else can.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18723'),
(8684, 'Alas, Babylon', 'Pat Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14605'),
(8685, 'Alas, Babylon', 'Pat Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22497'),
(8686, 'Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination', 'Peter Ackroyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed **London: A Biography** with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century.  Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore,  a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more.  A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative,  **Albion*** *reveals the manifold nature of English genius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2189'),
(8687, 'Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination', 'Peter Ackroyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed **London: A Biography** with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century.  Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore,  a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more.  A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative,  **Albion*** *reveals the manifold nature of English genius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9359'),
(8688, 'Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination', 'Peter Ackroyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed **London: A Biography** with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, **Albion*** *reveals the manifold nature of English genius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22614'),
(8689, 'Albion&#39;s Seed', 'David Hackett Fischer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This cultural history explains the European settlement of the United States as voluntary migrations from four English cultural centers. Families of zealous, literate Puritan yeomen and artisans from urbanized East Anglia established a religious community in Massachusetts (1629-40); royalist cavaliers headed by Sir William Berkeley and young, male indentured servants from the south and west of England built a highly stratified agrarian way of life in Virginia (1640-70); egalitarian Quakers of modest social standing from the North Midlands resettled in the Delaware Valley and promoted a social pluralism (1675-1715); and, in by far the largest migration (1717-75), poor borderland families of English, Scots, and Irish fled a violent environment to seek a better life in a similarly uncertain American backcountry. These four cultures, reflected in regional patterns of language, architecture, literacy, dress, sport, social structure, religious beliefs, and familial ways, persisted in the American settlements. The final chapter shows the significance of these regional cultures for American history up to the present. Insightful, fresh, interesting, and well-written, this synthesis of traditional and more current historical scholarship provides a model for interpretations of the American character. Subsequent volumes of this promised multivolume work will be eagerly awaited. Highly recommended for the general reader and the scholar.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - David Szatmary, Univ. of Washington, Seattle\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Professor Fischer''s careful research and analysis opens a much needed discussion of cultural character and origins in North America. The variety and complexity of historical sources will inform the work of other cultural historians and analysts."--Nadesan Permaul, UC Berkeley\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is history at a lively pace, peppered with curious details about the origins of families....The author makes a convincing case."--Dolores and Roger Flaherty,\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A pleasure to read, for it is written with Fischer''s characteristic perspicuity. Moreover, the numerous drawings by Jennifer Brody and maps by Andrew Mudryk are a visual treat."--Raymond A. Mohl,\n <em>\n  Review Essay\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The kind of book one can open to almost any page and immediately become engrossed....readers will enjoy and benefit from this book....We eagerly await volume two."--Neil R. Stout,\n <em>\n  Vermont History\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Holds up to readers a mirror in which they can discover in themselves and in their own world the persistence of their heritage....An engrossing work that will whet the appetite for more."--_The National Genealogical Society Quarterly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ingenious and provocative....Raises matters of cardinal interest."--IThe Times Literary Supplement\n</p>\n<p>\n "A splendid work of historical scholarship. . . . based on an original conception of cultural history which I find extremely usable. Eminently readable."--Omer Hadziselimovic,\n <em>\n  Earlham College\n </em>\n [SEE REVIEW CARD FOR ACCENTS ON LAST NAME]\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] sprightly analysis....This is history at a lively pace, peppered with curious details about the origins of familiar words and practices....The author makes a convincing case for his claim that `in a cultural sense most Americans are Albion''s seed."--_Chicago Sun-Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about American cultural and social origins ever written....A richly rewarding book, and one of great significance....It blends the best of new and old scholarship in lucid language designed to attract laymen and students alike. Very simply,\n <em>\n  Albion''s Seed\n </em>\n is a splendid achievement."--Michael Kammen,\n <em>\n  New York Newsday\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "David Hackett Fischer''s book could not be much bigger or more ambitious. It is the first in a series of volumes that he hopes will eventually constitute a cultural history of the United States....This book starts his series with a bang--a big bang....Remarkable....A revisionist blockbuster."--Gordon Wood,\n <em>\n  The New Republic\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Beautifully produced, this work should popularize the discoveries of a generation of scholars in the new social history. Anyone interested in these four cultures of the Anglo-American colonists will find here population data, family life, community mores, and achetypical individuals, portrayed in a clear and often lively text, thoughtfully analyzed illustrations, and wonderful maps."--Stephen Saunders Webb,\n <em>\n  Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9497'),
(8690, 'Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A hero with an incredible talent...for breaking things. A life-or-death mission...to rescue a bag of sand. A fearsome threat from a powerful secret network...the evil Librarians. Alcatraz Smedry doesn''t seem destined for anything but disaster. On his 13th birthday he receives a bag of sand, which is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians plotting to take over the world. The sand will give the Librarians the edge they need to achieve world domination. Alcatraz must stop them!...by infiltrating the local library, armed with nothing but eyeglasses and a talent for klutziness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7239'),
(8691, 'Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A hero with an incredible talent...for breaking things. A life-or-death mission...to rescue a bag of sand. A fearsome threat from a powerful secret network...the evil Librarians. Alcatraz Smedry doesn''t seem destined for anything but disaster. On his 13th birthday he receives a bag of sand, which is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians plotting to take over the world. The sand will give the Librarians the edge they need to achieve world domination. Alcatraz must stop them!...by infiltrating the local library, armed with nothing but eyeglasses and a talent for klutziness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12472'),
(8692, 'Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A hero with an incredible talent...for breaking things. A life-or-death mission...to rescue a bag of sand. A fearsome threat from a powerful secret network...the evil Librarians. Alcatraz Smedry doesn''t seem destined for anything but disaster. On his 13th birthday he receives a bag of sand, which is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians plotting to take over the world. The sand will give the Librarians the edge they need to achieve world domination. Alcatraz must stop them!...by infiltrating the local library, armed with nothing but eyeglasses and a talent for klutziness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16735'),
(8693, 'Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A hero with an incredible talent...for breaking things. A life-or-death mission...to rescue a bag of sand. A fearsome threat from a powerful secret network...the evil Librarians. Alcatraz Smedry doesn''t seem destined for anything but disaster. On his 13th birthday he receives a bag of sand, which is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians plotting to take over the world. The sand will give the Librarians the edge they need to achieve world domination. Alcatraz must stop them!...by infiltrating the local library, armed with nothing but eyeglasses and a talent for klutziness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26637'),
(8694, 'The Alchemist', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. *The Alchemist* is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, *The Alchemist* has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho''s charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Alchemist* is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life''s path, and, above all, following our dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2158'),
(8695, 'The Alchemist', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. *The Alchemist* is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, *The Alchemist* has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho''s charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come. *The Alchemist* is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life''s path, and, above all, following our dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14938'),
(8696, 'The Alchemist', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. *The Alchemist* is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, *The Alchemist* has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho''s charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come. *The Alchemist* is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life''s path, and, above all, following our dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22649'),
(8697, 'The Alchemist', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. *The Alchemist* is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, *The Alchemist* has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho''s charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Alchemist* is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life''s path, and, above all, following our dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26143'),
(8698, 'Alchemist&#39;s Secret', 'Scott Mariani', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Where therea??s Hope therea??s troublea?| Ben Hope lives on the edge. A former ??lite member of the SAS, Ben is tortured by a tragedy from his past and now devotes his life to finding kidnapped children. But when Ben is recruited to locate an ancient manuscript which could save a dying child, he embarks on the deadliest quest of his life. The document is alleged to contain the formula for the elixir of life, discovered by the brilliant alchemist Fulcanelli decades before. But it soon becomes apparent that others are hunting this most precious of treasures - for far more evil ends. When the secrets of alchemy hidden within the pages remain impenetrable, Ben teams up with beautiful American scientist Dr Roberta Ryder to crack the code. It seems that everyone - from the Nazis during WW2 and powerful Catholic organisation Gladius Domini - wants to unearth the secrets of immortality. The trail leads Ben and Roberta from Paris to the ancient Cathar strongholds of the Languedoc, where an astonishing secret has lain hidden for centuriesa?|\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1322'),
(8699, 'Alchemist&#39;s Secret', 'Scott Mariani', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Where therea??s Hope therea??s troublea?| Ben Hope lives on the edge. A former ??lite member of the SAS, Ben is tortured by a tragedy from his past and now devotes his life to finding kidnapped children. But when Ben is recruited to locate an ancient manuscript which could save a dying child, he embarks on the deadliest quest of his life. The document is alleged to contain the formula for the elixir of life, discovered by the brilliant alchemist Fulcanelli decades before. But it soon becomes apparent that others are hunting this most precious of treasures - for far more evil ends. When the secrets of alchemy hidden within the pages remain impenetrable, Ben teams up with beautiful American scientist Dr Roberta Ryder to crack the code. It seems that everyone - from the Nazis during WW2 and powerful Catholic organisation Gladius Domini - wants to unearth the secrets of immortality. The trail leads Ben and Roberta from Paris to the ancient Cathar strongholds of the Languedoc, where an astonishing secret has lain hidden for centuriesa?|\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11298');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(8700, 'Alchemist&#39;s Secret', 'Scott Mariani', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Where therea??s Hope therea??s troublea?| Ben Hope lives on the edge. A former ??lite member of the SAS, Ben is tortured by a tragedy from his past and now devotes his life to finding kidnapped children. But when Ben is recruited to locate an ancient manuscript which could save a dying child, he embarks on the deadliest quest of his life. The document is alleged to contain the formula for the elixir of life, discovered by the brilliant alchemist Fulcanelli decades before. But it soon becomes apparent that others are hunting this most precious of treasures - for far more evil ends. When the secrets of alchemy hidden within the pages remain impenetrable, Ben teams up with beautiful American scientist Dr Roberta Ryder to crack the code. It seems that everyone - from the Nazis during WW2 and powerful Catholic organisation Gladius Domini - wants to unearth the secrets of immortality. The trail leads Ben and Roberta from Paris to the ancient Cathar strongholds of the Languedoc, where an astonishing secret has lain hidden for centuriesa?|\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23539'),
(8701, 'The Alchemyst', 'Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n He holds the secret that can end the world.The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life.The records show that he died in 1418.But his tomb is empty.The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. But only because he has been making the elixir of life for centuries. The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protectsâ€”the Book of Abraham the Mage. It''s the most powerful book that has ever existed. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. That''s exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when he steals it. Humankind won''t know what''s happening until it''s too late. And if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it.Sometimes legends are true.And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2824'),
(8702, 'The Alchemyst', 'Michael Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: He holds the secret that can end the world.The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life.The records show that he died in 1418.But his tomb is empty.The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. But only because he has been making the elixir of life for centuries. The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protectsâ€”the Book of Abraham the Mage. It''s the most powerful book that has ever existed. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. That''s exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when he steals it. Humankind won''t know what''s happening until it''s too late. And if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it.Sometimes legends are true.And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22065'),
(8703, 'Alchimistul', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25255'),
(8704, 'Alcibiade', 'Platon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25228'),
(8705, 'The Alcoholics', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Peter S. Murphy runs a clinic to cure alcoholics. But his charges believe that the only thing that will fix them is another drink. To this bitter struggle of wills, add an orderly who doubles as a quack practitioner, a nurse who is both alluring and ingeniously sadistic, and a misplaced patient whose main problem is his lack of a frontal lobe, and the result is one of Jim Thompson''s most harrowingly funny yet deeply sympathetic novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4394'),
(8706, 'Alex Cross 1 - Along Came A Spider', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25536'),
(8707, 'Alex Cross 10 - London Bridges', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25537'),
(8708, 'Alex Cross 11 - Mary, Mary', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25538'),
(8709, 'Alex Cross 12 - Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25540'),
(8710, 'Alex Cross 13 - Double Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25541'),
(8711, 'Alex Cross 14 - Cross Country', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25542'),
(8712, 'Alex Cross 15 - Alex Cross&#39;s Trial', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25543'),
(8713, 'Alex Cross 16 - I, Alex Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25544'),
(8714, 'Alex Cross 2 - Kiss the Girls', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25545'),
(8715, 'Alex Cross 3 - Jack and Jill', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25546'),
(8716, 'Alex Cross 4 - Cat and Mouse', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25547'),
(8717, 'Alex Cross 5 - Pop Goes the Weasel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25548'),
(8718, 'Alex Cross 6 - Roses Are Red', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25549'),
(8719, 'Alex Cross 7 - Violets Are Blue', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25550'),
(8720, 'Alex Cross 8 - Four Blind Mice', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25551'),
(8721, 'Alex Cross 9 - The Big Bad Wolf', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25552'),
(8722, 'Alex Cross&#39;s Trial', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Separated by timeFrom his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he''s written--a novel called *Trial.***Connected by blood**As a lawyer in turn-of-the-century Washington D.C., Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases. Fighting against oppression and racism, he risks his family and his life in the process. When President Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his home town to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there, he cannot refuse. **United by bravery**When he arrives in Eudora, Mississippi, Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross and his beautiful granddaughter, Moody. Ben enlists their help, and the two Crosses introduce him to the hidden side of the idyllic Southern town. Lynchings have become commonplace and residents of the town''s black quarter live in constant fear. Ben aims to break the reign of terror--but the truth of who is really behind it could break his heart. Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross, *Alex Cross''s *Trial is a gripping story of murder, love, and, above all, bravery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4811'),
(8723, 'Alex Cross&#39;s Trial', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Separated by timeFrom his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he''s written--a novel called *Trial.***Connected by blood**As a lawyer in turn-of-the-century Washington D.C., Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases. Fighting against oppression and racism, he risks his family and his life in the process. When President Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his home town to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there, he cannot refuse. **United by bravery**When he arrives in Eudora, Mississippi, Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross and his beautiful granddaughter, Moody. Ben enlists their help, and the two Crosses introduce him to the hidden side of the idyllic Southern town. Lynchings have become commonplace and residents of the town''s black quarter live in constant fear. Ben aims to break the reign of terror--but the truth of who is really behind it could break his heart. Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross, *Alex Cross''s *Trial is a gripping story of murder, love, and, above all, bravery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19839'),
(8724, 'The Alexander Cipher', 'Will Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Egyptologist Daniel Knox''s lifelong fascination with Alexander the Great and his tomb, a fabled wonder of the ancient world, could be the death of him. After construction workers excavating in Alexandria expose a catacomb dating back to ancient times, Knox eagerly sneaks in to scout the cavernous and dusty site. Among the relics he finds clues that may solve one of the world''s greatest mysteries: the last resting place of Alexander the Great. An unconquerable warrior king, Alexander was the single most powerful man on the planet and thought to be a god. Now, nearly 2,500 years later, the discovery of his tomb, seemingly lost forever, is within reach, triggering a deadly hunt for one of the greatest treasures of all time. Knox is not the only seeker; others are after the prize, and they would kill to win it . . .  In the spirit of the great adventure-thrillers by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Clive Cussler, Raymond Khoury, and Steve Berry, THE ALEXANDER CIPHER keeps the pages turning with a rip-roaring ride through history, archaeology, and the great deserts of Egypt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/289'),
(8725, 'The Alexander Cipher', 'Will Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Egyptologist Daniel Knox''s lifelong fascination with Alexander the Great and his tomb, a fabled wonder of the ancient world, could be the death of him. After construction workers excavating in Alexandria expose a catacomb dating back to ancient times, Knox eagerly sneaks in to scout the cavernous and dusty site. Among the relics he finds clues that may solve one of the world''s greatest mysteries: the last resting place of Alexander the Great. An unconquerable warrior king, Alexander was the single most powerful man on the planet and thought to be a god. Now, nearly 2,500 years later, the discovery of his tomb, seemingly lost forever, is within reach, triggering a deadly hunt for one of the greatest treasures of all time. Knox is not the only seeker; others are after the prize, and they would kill to win it . . .  In the spirit of the great adventure-thrillers by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Clive Cussler, Raymond Khoury, and Steve Berry, THE ALEXANDER CIPHER keeps the pages turning with a rip-roaring ride through history, archaeology, and the great deserts of Egypt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9322'),
(8726, 'The Alexander Cipher', 'Will Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Egyptologist Daniel Knox''s lifelong fascination with Alexander the Great and his tomb, a fabled wonder of the ancient world, could be the death of him. After construction workers excavating in Alexandria expose a catacomb dating back to ancient times, Knox eagerly sneaks in to scout the cavernous and dusty site. Among the relics he finds clues that may solve one of the world''s greatest mysteries: the last resting place of Alexander the Great. An unconquerable warrior king, Alexander was the single most powerful man on the planet and thought to be a god. Now, nearly 2,500 years later, the discovery of his tomb, seemingly lost forever, is within reach, triggering a deadly hunt for one of the greatest treasures of all time. Knox is not the only seeker; others are after the prize, and they would kill to win it . . . In the spirit of the great adventure-thrillers by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Clive Cussler, Raymond Khoury, and Steve Berry, THE ALEXANDER CIPHER keeps the pages turning with a rip-roaring ride through history, archaeology, and the great deserts of Egypt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24707'),
(8727, 'Alexandra, Gone', 'Anna McPartlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n LETTING GO FOR GOOD . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Once, Jane Moore and Alexandra Walsh were inseparable, sharing secrets and stolen candy, plotting their futures together. But when Jane became pregnant at seventeen, they drifted slowly apart. Jane has spent the years since raising her son, now seventeen himself, on her own, running a gallery, managing her sisterâ€™s art career, and looking after their volatile motherâ€”all the while trying not to resent the limited choices life has given her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Then a quirk of fate and a faulty elevator bring Jane into contact with Tom, Alexandraâ€™s husband, who has some shocking news. Alexandra disappeared from a south Dublin suburb months ago, and Tom has been searching fruitlessly for her. Jane offers to help, as do the elevatorâ€™s other passengersâ€”Janeâ€™s brilliant but self-absorbed sister, Elle, and Leslie Sheehan, a reclusive web designer whoâ€™s ready to step back into the world again. And as Jane quickly realizes, Tom isnâ€™t the only one among them whoâ€™s looking for something . . . or traveling toward unexpected revelations about love, life, and what it means to let go, in every sense.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this insightful and irresistible novel, by turns profound, poignant, and laugh- out-loud funny, acclaimed Irish writer Anna McPartlin tells a story of friendship and love, of the families we are born into and the ones we create for ourselves, and of the hope and strength that remain when we fi nd the courage to leave the past behind at last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7591'),
(8728, 'Alexandra, Gone', 'Anna McPartlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n LETTING GO FOR GOOD . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Once, Jane Moore and Alexandra Walsh were inseparable, sharing secrets and stolen candy, plotting their futures together. But when Jane became pregnant at seventeen, they drifted slowly apart. Jane has spent the years since raising her son, now seventeen himself, on her own, running a gallery, managing her sisterâ€™s art career, and looking after their volatile motherâ€”all the while trying not to resent the limited choices life has given her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Then a quirk of fate and a faulty elevator bring Jane into contact with Tom, Alexandraâ€™s husband, who has some shocking news. Alexandra disappeared from a south Dublin suburb months ago, and Tom has been searching fruitlessly for her. Jane offers to help, as do the elevatorâ€™s other passengersâ€”Janeâ€™s brilliant but self-absorbed sister, Elle, and Leslie Sheehan, a reclusive web designer whoâ€™s ready to step back into the world again. And as Jane quickly realizes, Tom isnâ€™t the only one among them whoâ€™s looking for something . . . or traveling toward unexpected revelations about love, life, and what it means to let go, in every sense.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this insightful and irresistible novel, by turns profound, poignant, and laugh- out-loud funny, acclaimed Irish writer Anna McPartlin tells a story of friendship and love, of the families we are born into and the ones we create for ourselves, and of the hope and strength that remain when we fi nd the courage to leave the past behind at last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11443'),
(8729, 'Alexandra, Gone', 'Anna McPartlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: LETTING GO FOR GOOD . . . Once, Jane Moore and Alexandra Walsh were inseparable, sharing secrets and stolen candy, plotting their futures together. But when Jane became pregnant at seventeen, they drifted slowly apart. Jane has spent the years since raising her son, now seventeen himself, on her own, running a gallery, managing her sisterâ€™s art career, and looking after their volatile motherâ€”all the while trying not to resent the limited choices life has given her. Then a quirk of fate and a faulty elevator bring Jane into contact with Tom, Alexandraâ€™s husband, who has some shocking news. Alexandra disappeared from a south Dublin suburb months ago, and Tom has been searching fruitlessly for her. Jane offers to help, as do the elevatorâ€™s other passengersâ€”Janeâ€™s brilliant but self-absorbed sister, Elle, and Leslie Sheehan, a reclusive web designer whoâ€™s ready to step back into the world again. And as Jane quickly realizes, Tom isnâ€™t the only one among them whoâ€™s looking for something . . . or traveling toward unexpected revelations about love, life, and what it means to let go, in every sense. In this insightful and irresistible novel, by turns profound, poignant, and laugh- out-loud funny, acclaimed Irish writer Anna McPartlin tells a story of friendship and love, of the families we are born into and the ones we create for ourselves, and of the hope and strength that remain when we fi nd the courage to leave the past behind at last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16312'),
(8730, 'Alexandra, Gone', 'Anna McPartlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: LETTING GO FOR GOOD . . . Once, Jane Moore and Alexandra Walsh were inseparable, sharing secrets and stolen candy, plotting their futures together. But when Jane became pregnant at seventeen, they drifted slowly apart. Jane has spent the years since raising her son, now seventeen himself, on her own, running a gallery, managing her sisterâ€™s art career, and looking after their volatile motherâ€”all the while trying not to resent the limited choices life has given her. Then a quirk of fate and a faulty elevator bring Jane into contact with Tom, Alexandraâ€™s husband, who has some shocking news. Alexandra disappeared from a south Dublin suburb months ago, and Tom has been searching fruitlessly for her. Jane offers to help, as do the elevatorâ€™s other passengersâ€”Janeâ€™s brilliant but self-absorbed sister, Elle, and Leslie Sheehan, a reclusive web designer whoâ€™s ready to step back into the world again. And as Jane quickly realizes, Tom isnâ€™t the only one among them whoâ€™s looking for something . . . or traveling toward unexpected revelations about love, life, and what it means to let go, in every sense. In this insightful and irresistible novel, by turns profound, poignant, and laugh- out-loud funny, acclaimed Irish writer Anna McPartlin tells a story of friendship and love, of the families we are born into and the ones we create for ourselves, and of the hope and strength that remain when we fi nd the courage to leave the past behind at last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26407'),
(8731, 'Alexandria', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A locked-room murder provides Marcus Didius Falco with an intriguing challenge in Davis''s 19th novel to feature the first-century Roman sleuth (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Saturnalia\n </em>\n ). In the spring of A.D. 77, while on vacation with his family in Alexandria, Egypt, Falco is stunned to get word that Theon, the Great Library''s head librarian, with whom he just dined, has been found dead with neither marks of violence on the body nor evidence of how the killer got away from the scene of the crime. Falco probes the academic politics surrounding the Great Library to determine whether one of Theon''s potential successors was the culprit. Other deaths follow, including that of a philosophy student, mauled by a crocodile that escaped from the local zoo. While the impossible crime''s solution may disappoint some readers, the twisty plot with its various false leads and the author''s plausible depiction of ancient Alexandria make this one of the stronger entries in this solid historical series.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even spies age, but fortunately Marcus Didius Falcoâ€”"informer" for the Roman emperor in the first century C.E.â€”is aging with grace. What makes Davis''s long-standing series so indelible is the expert blend of Falco''s wisecracking observations and crazy family life with some masterly suspense. In this latest, Falco has taken his pregnant wife, two daughters, and brother-in-law to Alexandria on what is ostensibly a vacation. (They''re staying at the house of his wayward uncle and the uncle''s partner.) In fact, Falco is charged with keeping his eye on things, and indeed trouble brews right awayâ€”the Librarian of Alexandria''s great library is found dead in his sealed office. There''s been plenty of controversy surrounding the Librarian already, and the controversy over who will succeed him turns bloody. Who knew that the race for a top library spot could be so intriguing? The mystery is intricately plotted, the characters are well drawn, and Falco is as engaging a protagonist as ever, still tough but wiser and more reflective, too. Another winner for historical mystery fans. [See Prepub Mystery,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 1/09.]â€”Barbara Hoffert,\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3394'),
(8732, 'Alexandria', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A locked-room murder provides Marcus Didius Falco with an intriguing challenge in Davis''s 19th novel to feature the first-century Roman sleuth (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Saturnalia\n </em>\n ). In the spring of A.D. 77, while on vacation with his family in Alexandria, Egypt, Falco is stunned to get word that Theon, the Great Library''s head librarian, with whom he just dined, has been found dead with neither marks of violence on the body nor evidence of how the killer got away from the scene of the crime. Falco probes the academic politics surrounding the Great Library to determine whether one of Theon''s potential successors was the culprit. Other deaths follow, including that of a philosophy student, mauled by a crocodile that escaped from the local zoo. While the impossible crime''s solution may disappoint some readers, the twisty plot with its various false leads and the author''s plausible depiction of ancient Alexandria make this one of the stronger entries in this solid historical series.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even spies age, but fortunately Marcus Didius Falcoâ€”"informer" for the Roman emperor in the first century C.E.â€”is aging with grace. What makes Davis''s long-standing series so indelible is the expert blend of Falco''s wisecracking observations and crazy family life with some masterly suspense. In this latest, Falco has taken his pregnant wife, two daughters, and brother-in-law to Alexandria on what is ostensibly a vacation. (They''re staying at the house of his wayward uncle and the uncle''s partner.) In fact, Falco is charged with keeping his eye on things, and indeed trouble brews right awayâ€”the Librarian of Alexandria''s great library is found dead in his sealed office. There''s been plenty of controversy surrounding the Librarian already, and the controversy over who will succeed him turns bloody. Who knew that the race for a top library spot could be so intriguing? The mystery is intricately plotted, the characters are well drawn, and Falco is as engaging a protagonist as ever, still tough but wiser and more reflective, too. Another winner for historical mystery fans. [See Prepub Mystery,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 1/09.]â€”Barbara Hoffert,\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21125'),
(8733, 'The Algebraist', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he''s barely heard of - part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony - Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer - a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he''s ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5027'),
(8734, 'The Algebraist', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he''s barely heard of - part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony - Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer - a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he''s ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8359'),
(8735, 'The Algebraist', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he''s barely heard of - part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony - Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer - a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he''s ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15191'),
(8736, 'The Algebraist', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he''s barely heard of - part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony - Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer - a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he''s ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19552'),
(8737, 'The Algebraist', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he''s barely heard of - part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony - Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer - a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he''s ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28240'),
(8738, 'Alias Grace', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14666'),
(8739, 'Alice I Have Been: A Novel', 'Melanie Benjamin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Few works of literature are as universally beloved as" Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland." Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole-and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling. But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? Alice Liddell Hargreaves''s life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she''s experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy. But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only "Alice." Her life was permanently dog-eared at one fateful moment in her tenth year-the golden summer day she urged a grown-up friend to write down one of his fanciful stories. That story, a wild tale of rabbits, queens, and a precocious young child, becomes a sensation the world over. Its author, a shy, stuttering Oxford professor, does more than immortalize Alice-he changes her life forever. But even he cannot stop time, as much as he might like to. And as Alice''s childhood slips away, a peacetime of glittering balls and royal romances gives way to the urgent tide of war. For Alice, the stakes could not be higher, for she is the mother of three grown sons, soldiers all. Yet even as she stands to lose everything she treasures, one part of her will always be the determined, undaunted Alice of the story, who discovered that life beyond the rabbit hole was an astonishing journey. A love story and a literary mystery, Alice I Have Been brilliantly blends fact and fiction to capture the passionate spirit of a woman who was truly worthy of her fictional alter ego, in a world as captivating as the Wonderland only she could inspire. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2932'),
(8740, 'Alice I Have Been: A Novel', 'Melanie Benjamin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Few works of literature are as universally beloved as" Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland." Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole-and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling. But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? Alice Liddell Hargreaves''s life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she''s experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy. But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only "Alice." Her life was permanently dog-eared at one fateful moment in her tenth year-the golden summer day she urged a grown-up friend to write down one of his fanciful stories. That story, a wild tale of rabbits, queens, and a precocious young child, becomes a sensation the world over. Its author, a shy, stuttering Oxford professor, does more than immortalize Alice-he changes her life forever. But even he cannot stop time, as much as he might like to. And as Alice''s childhood slips away, a peacetime of glittering balls and royal romances gives way to the urgent tide of war. For Alice, the stakes could not be higher, for she is the mother of three grown sons, soldiers all. Yet even as she stands to lose everything she treasures, one part of her will always be the determined, undaunted Alice of the story, who discovered that life beyond the rabbit hole was an astonishing journey. A love story and a literary mystery, Alice I Have Been brilliantly blends fact and fiction to capture the passionate spirit of a woman who was truly worthy of her fictional alter ego, in a world as captivating as the Wonderland only she could inspire. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8490'),
(8741, 'Alice I Have Been: A Novel', 'Melanie Benjamin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Few works of literature are as universally beloved as" Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland." Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole-and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling. But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? Alice Liddell Hargreaves''s life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she''s experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy. But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only "Alice." Her life was permanently dog-eared at one fateful moment in her tenth year-the golden summer day she urged a grown-up friend to write down one of his fanciful stories. That story, a wild tale of rabbits, queens, and a precocious young child, becomes a sensation the world over. Its author, a shy, stuttering Oxford professor, does more than immortalize Alice-he changes her life forever. But even he cannot stop time, as much as he might like to. And as Alice''s childhood slips away, a peacetime of glittering balls and royal romances gives way to the urgent tide of war. For Alice, the stakes could not be higher, for she is the mother of three grown sons, soldiers all. Yet even as she stands to lose everything she treasures, one part of her will always be the determined, undaunted Alice of the story, who discovered that life beyond the rabbit hole was an astonishing journey. A love story and a literary mystery, Alice I Have Been brilliantly blends fact and fiction to capture the passionate spirit of a woman who was truly worthy of her fictional alter ego, in a world as captivating as the Wonderland only she could inspire. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21838'),
(8742, 'Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics', 'Robert Gilmore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n My eyes tend to glaze over when I encounter YAPBAQPs (Yet Another Popular Book About Quantum Physics). But this volume captured my attention, and imagination. Told in the same way as\n <strong>\n  Alice in Wonderland\n </strong>\n (with many of the original passages re-tooled to their new purpose) and a hint of\n <strong>\n  Flatland\n </strong>\n , Gilmore guides us through the principles of Quantum mechanics in a truly lively and fun way. I suspect it may even be a good read for teens or extremely bright children.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It (..) includes characters like the uncertain accountant and the state agent who shows Alice how items can be two places at once. --\n <em>\n  The Vancouver Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1729'),
(8743, 'Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics', 'Robert Gilmore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n My eyes tend to glaze over when I encounter YAPBAQPs (Yet Another Popular Book About Quantum Physics). But this volume captured my attention, and imagination. Told in the same way as\n <strong>\n  Alice in Wonderland\n </strong>\n (with many of the original passages re-tooled to their new purpose) and a hint of\n <strong>\n  Flatland\n </strong>\n , Gilmore guides us through the principles of Quantum mechanics in a truly lively and fun way. I suspect it may even be a good read for teens or extremely bright children.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It (..) includes characters like the uncertain accountant and the state agent who shows Alice how items can be two places at once. --\n <em>\n  The Vancouver Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10002'),
(8744, 'Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics', 'Robert Gilmore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n My eyes tend to glaze over when I encounter YAPBAQPs (Yet Another Popular Book About Quantum Physics). But this volume captured my attention, and imagination. Told in the same way as\n <strong>\n  Alice in Wonderland\n </strong>\n (with many of the original passages re-tooled to their new purpose) and a hint of\n <strong>\n  Flatland\n </strong>\n , Gilmore guides us through the principles of Quantum mechanics in a truly lively and fun way. I suspect it may even be a good read for teens or extremely bright children.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It (..) includes characters like the uncertain accountant and the state agent who shows Alice how items can be two places at once. --\n <em>\n  The Vancouver Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23263'),
(8745, 'Alice in Tara minunilor', 'Lewis Carrol', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25410'),
(8746, 'Alice in Wonderland', 'Lewis Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One normal summer day, Alice is sitting on the riverbank when a big, white, talking rabbit runs past.  He pops into a big rabbit hole, and Alice follows him down, down, down into a magical and strange land.  Alice has many exciting adventures in this extraordinary place called Wonderland.  Here, anything can happen: all the animals talk, a deck of cards comes to life, and everything gets curiouser and curiouser.  This is the timeless tale of AliceÂ¹s adventures in Wonderland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25411'),
(8747, 'Alice&#39;s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass', 'Lewis Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice booksâ€“with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.â€“by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian childrenâ€™s literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing upâ€“or down, or all turned roundâ€“as seen through the expert eyes of a child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3360'),
(8748, 'Alice&#39;s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass', 'Lewis Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice booksâ€“with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.â€“by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian childrenâ€™s literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing upâ€“or down, or all turned roundâ€“as seen through the expert eyes of a child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8801'),
(8749, 'Alice&#39;s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass', 'Lewis Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice booksâ€“with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.â€“by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian childrenâ€™s literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing upâ€“or down, or all turned roundâ€“as seen through the expert eyes of a child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14899'),
(8750, 'Alice&#39;s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass', 'Lewis Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice booksâ€“with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter et al.â€“by proclaiming that they really comprise a satire on language, a political allegory, a parody of Victorian childrenâ€™s literature, even a reflection of contemporary ecclesiastical history. Perhaps, as Dodgson might have said, Alice is no more than a dream, a fairy tale about the trials and tribulations of growing upâ€“or down, or all turned roundâ€“as seen through the expert eyes of a child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21161'),
(8751, 'Alicia', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alicia takes on Mission Spalfa: Spanish Alpha! Back in Spain to visit her relatives, Alicia discovers that Spain''s newest pop sensation Â¡Ignacio! is searching for a true Spanish beauty to star in his new hit-single video. She can''t believe her luck! If Alicia is cast as a true Spanish beauty, Massie will never call her fake-Spanish again. The only trick: She''ll have to beat her super-bonita cousins to win the coveted spot. Adios, bimbos!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3310'),
(8752, 'Alicia', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alicia takes on Mission Spalfa: Spanish Alpha! Back in Spain to visit her relatives, Alicia discovers that Spain''s newest pop sensation Â¡Ignacio! is searching for a true Spanish beauty to star in his new hit-single video. She can''t believe her luck! If Alicia is cast as a true Spanish beauty, Massie will never call her fake-Spanish again. The only trick: She''ll have to beat her super-bonita cousins to win the coveted spot. Adios, bimbos!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21155'),
(8753, 'The Alienist', 'Caleb Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times  reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan''s infamous brothels.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler''s intellect and Moore''s knowledge of New York''s vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they''re looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian''s exactitude, The Alienist  conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society''s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7002');
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(8754, 'The Alienist', 'Caleb Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times  reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan''s infamous brothels.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler''s intellect and Moore''s knowledge of New York''s vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they''re looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian''s exactitude, The Alienist  conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society''s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8813'),
(8755, 'The Alienist', 'Caleb Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan''s infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler''s intellect and Moore''s knowledge of New York''s vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they''re looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over. Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian''s exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society''s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14966'),
(8756, 'The Alienist', 'Caleb Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan''s infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler''s intellect and Moore''s knowledge of New York''s vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they''re looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over. Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian''s exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society''s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16905'),
(8757, 'The Alienist', 'Caleb Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan''s infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler''s intellect and Moore''s knowledge of New York''s vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they''re looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over. Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian''s exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society''s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26735'),
(8758, 'Alis', 'Naomi Rich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At fourteen, Alis has never been outside her strict religious community. But when her parents arrange for her to marry a forty-year-old man, she flees desperately to the dangerous, unfamiliar city. She learns quickly that the only way to survive there is to become a thiefor worse. Facing an impossible choice between a forced marriage or life on the streets, Alis seizes control of her own fate. But the path she chooses sets off a disastrous chain of events that leave her accused of murder. Steadfastly loyal, Alis must decide: will she betray a loved one or sacrifice herself?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2730'),
(8759, 'Alis', 'Naomi Rich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At fourteen, Alis has never been outside her strict religious community. But when her parents arrange for her to marry a forty-year-old man, she flees desperately to the dangerous, unfamiliar city. She learns quickly that the only way to survive there is to become a thiefor worse. Facing an impossible choice between a forced marriage or life on the streets, Alis seizes control of her own fate. But the path she chooses sets off a disastrous chain of events that leave her accused of murder. Steadfastly loyal, Alis must decide: will she betray a loved one or sacrifice herself?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13579'),
(8760, 'Alis', 'Naomi Rich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At fourteen, Alis has never been outside her strict religious community. But when her parents arrange for her to marry a forty-year-old man, she flees desperately to the dangerous, unfamiliar city. She learns quickly that the only way to survive there is to become a thiefor worse. Facing an impossible choice between a forced marriage or life on the streets, Alis seizes control of her own fate. But the path she chooses sets off a disastrous chain of events that leave her accused of murder. Steadfastly loyal, Alis must decide: will she betray a loved one or sacrifice herself?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21722'),
(8761, 'Alistair MacLean&#39;s time of the assassins', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15953'),
(8762, 'All Cakes Considered', 'Melissa Gray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Turning the offices of National Public Radio into a sugar-dusted gastrolab, NPR producer Gray (of the news program All Things Considered) spent a year testing cake recipes on coworkers to find the most satisfying among them. The result is this eclectic but cohesive cookbook, with a gentle learning curve especially useful for novices. An untrained pastry chef herself, Gray begins with a basic, lemon-glazed sour cream pound cake (which she calls the "Man Catcher") that introduces several key baking techniques: creaming the butter and sugar, incorporating eggs, beating batter, and lining the pan. She increases the skill level gradually as she goes, moving on to bundt, layer, and fruit cakes, followed by trickier temptations like angel food cake and the spicy, molasses-rich Appalachian Stack Cake. Each recipe comes with the story of its origin, reception, and variants. Readers will spot many bold-faced culinary names like Paula Deen and Ina Garten, but also obscure sources like out-of-print cookbooks, local publications, and small-town prizewinners. A handful of no-cake recipes includes cowboy cookies, butterscotch bars, and sinful fried pies. The instructional tone and homespun quality are signature NPR ingredients; fans of the network will find this cookbook a useful and companionable tool for family eating, potlucks, and easy entertaining.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Melissa Gray is National Public Radio''s Cake Lady. Every Monday she brings a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share. With more than 50 recipes for the cakes that have been dreamed of and drooled over for a lifetime including Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake, Lord and Lady Baltimore Cakes, Dark-Chocolate Red Velvet Cake, and Honey Buttercream and Apricot Jam Cake\n <em>\n  All Cakes Considered\n </em>\n is an essential addition to every baker''s library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2939'),
(8763, 'All Cakes Considered', 'Melissa Gray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Turning the offices of National Public Radio into a sugar-dusted gastrolab, NPR producer Gray (of the news program All Things Considered) spent a year testing cake recipes on coworkers to find the most satisfying among them. The result is this eclectic but cohesive cookbook, with a gentle learning curve especially useful for novices. An untrained pastry chef herself, Gray begins with a basic, lemon-glazed sour cream pound cake (which she calls the "Man Catcher") that introduces several key baking techniques: creaming the butter and sugar, incorporating eggs, beating batter, and lining the pan. She increases the skill level gradually as she goes, moving on to bundt, layer, and fruit cakes, followed by trickier temptations like angel food cake and the spicy, molasses-rich Appalachian Stack Cake. Each recipe comes with the story of its origin, reception, and variants. Readers will spot many bold-faced culinary names like Paula Deen and Ina Garten, but also obscure sources like out-of-print cookbooks, local publications, and small-town prizewinners. A handful of no-cake recipes includes cowboy cookies, butterscotch bars, and sinful fried pies. The instructional tone and homespun quality are signature NPR ingredients; fans of the network will find this cookbook a useful and companionable tool for family eating, potlucks, and easy entertaining.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Melissa Gray is National Public Radio''s Cake Lady. Every Monday she brings a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share. With more than 50 recipes for the cakes that have been dreamed of and drooled over for a lifetime including Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake, Lord and Lady Baltimore Cakes, Dark-Chocolate Red Velvet Cake, and Honey Buttercream and Apricot Jam Cake\n <em>\n  All Cakes Considered\n </em>\n is an essential addition to every baker''s library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9988'),
(8764, 'All Cakes Considered', 'Melissa Gray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Turning the offices of National Public Radio into a sugar-dusted gastrolab, NPR producer Gray (of the news program All Things Considered) spent a year testing cake recipes on coworkers to find the most satisfying among them. The result is this eclectic but cohesive cookbook, with a gentle learning curve especially useful for novices. An untrained pastry chef herself, Gray begins with a basic, lemon-glazed sour cream pound cake (which she calls the "Man Catcher") that introduces several key baking techniques: creaming the butter and sugar, incorporating eggs, beating batter, and lining the pan. She increases the skill level gradually as she goes, moving on to bundt, layer, and fruit cakes, followed by trickier temptations like angel food cake and the spicy, molasses-rich Appalachian Stack Cake. Each recipe comes with the story of its origin, reception, and variants. Readers will spot many bold-faced culinary names like Paula Deen and Ina Garten, but also obscure sources like out-of-print cookbooks, local publications, and small-town prizewinners. A handful of no-cake recipes includes cowboy cookies, butterscotch bars, and sinful fried pies. The instructional tone and homespun quality are signature NPR ingredients; fans of the network will find this cookbook a useful and companionable tool for family eating, potlucks, and easy entertaining.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Melissa Gray is National Public Radio''s Cake Lady. Every Monday she brings a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share. With more than 50 recipes for the cakes that have been dreamed of and drooled over for a lifetime including Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake, Lord and Lady Baltimore Cakes, Dark-Chocolate Red Velvet Cake, and Honey Buttercream and Apricot Jam Cake\n <em>\n  All Cakes Considered\n </em>\n is an essential addition to every baker''s library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21947'),
(8765, 'All Good Things...', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This audio adaptation is based on the series finale of Star TrekR: The Next GenerationTM, the most successful syndicated show in television history. As the title suggests, "all good things" must come to an end. The crew''s final adventure begins abruptly as Captain Picard announces he is inexplicably moving backward and forward through time. He soon realizes that his old nemesis, known simply as "Q," is at least partly responsible. As the plot unfolds, three different time lines emerge: one seven years in the past, where we meet old friends long gone; another 25 years in the future, where we get a glimpse of the crew''s fate; and, of course, one in the present. As time collides in a desperate climax, Picard risks everything to save a condemned humanity. The story is deftly read by Jonathan Frakes, who appears as Commander Riker in the TV series. Frakes''s riveting narration is accented by an impeccable depiction of Patrick Stewart''s Picard. Highly recommended.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Charles A. Weiss, "Library Journal"\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Seven years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard first faced the judgment of the Q Continuum -- a race of beings with God-like powers over time and space who presumed to gauge humanity''s fitness to exist in the galaxy. Seven years ago they suspended judgment, but now a decision has been reached: The human race will be eliminated, not only in the present, but throughout time. Humanity will never have existed at all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The only chance to save mankind lies with Captain Picard. An old enemy has granted him the power to revisit his life as it was seven years before, and to experience his life twenty-five years in the future. With the help of friendships that span time and space, Picard struggles to defeat the plans of the Q Continuum. But even as he fights to save the human race from total extinction, he has been set up to be the unwitting agent of mankind''s destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In an effort to save humanity, Picard must sacrifice himself and all those he commands and if their sacrifice fails all mankind is doomed.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2833'),
(8766, 'All Good Things...', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This audio adaptation is based on the series finale of Star TrekR: The Next GenerationTM, the most successful syndicated show in television history. As the title suggests, "all good things" must come to an end. The crew''s final adventure begins abruptly as Captain Picard announces he is inexplicably moving backward and forward through time. He soon realizes that his old nemesis, known simply as "Q," is at least partly responsible. As the plot unfolds, three different time lines emerge: one seven years in the past, where we meet old friends long gone; another 25 years in the future, where we get a glimpse of the crew''s fate; and, of course, one in the present. As time collides in a desperate climax, Picard risks everything to save a condemned humanity. The story is deftly read by Jonathan Frakes, who appears as Commander Riker in the TV series. Frakes''s riveting narration is accented by an impeccable depiction of Patrick Stewart''s Picard. Highly recommended.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Charles A. Weiss, "Library Journal"\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Seven years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard first faced the judgment of the Q Continuum -- a race of beings with God-like powers over time and space who presumed to gauge humanity''s fitness to exist in the galaxy. Seven years ago they suspended judgment, but now a decision has been reached: The human race will be eliminated, not only in the present, but throughout time. Humanity will never have existed at all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The only chance to save mankind lies with Captain Picard. An old enemy has granted him the power to revisit his life as it was seven years before, and to experience his life twenty-five years in the future. With the help of friendships that span time and space, Picard struggles to defeat the plans of the Q Continuum. But even as he fights to save the human race from total extinction, he has been set up to be the unwitting agent of mankind''s destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In an effort to save humanity, Picard must sacrifice himself and all those he commands and if their sacrifice fails all mankind is doomed.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21999'),
(8767, 'All Just Glass', 'Amelia Atwater-Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sarah Vida has given up everything for love. From a legendary family of vampire-hunting witches, Sarah was raised to never trust a vampire, to never let her guard down, and to avoid all tricky attachments of the heart. But now Sarah IS a vampireâ€”changed by the boy she thought she loved. Her family has forsaken her, and Sarah herself is disgusted by her appetite for blood.\n <br />\n Aida Vida is Sarah''s older sister, the good, reliable sibling who always does her family proud. But when Aida''s mother insists that Sarah be found and killed, Aida is given the one assignment that she may not be able to carry out.\n <br />\n Taking place over just twenty-four hours, ALL JUST GLASS tells the story of a game-changing battle that will forever change the world of the Den of Shadows. And at its center is the story of two sisters who must choose between love and duty. Dark, fully-imagined, and hard to put down, ALL JUST GLASS will thrill Amelia''s fansâ€”old and new.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES wrote her first novel,\n <em>\n  In the Forests of the Night,\n </em>\n when she was 13 years old. Other books in the Den of Shadows series are\n <em>\n  Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Midnight Predator,\n </em>\n all ALA Quick Picks for Young Adults. She has also published the five-volume series The Kiesha''ra:\n <em>\n  Hawksong,\n </em>\n a\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n Best Book of the Year and VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror List Selection;_ Snakecharm; Falcondance; Wolfcry,_ an IRA-CBC Young Adults'' Choice; and\n <em>\n  Wyvernhail\n </em>\n . She is also the author of\n <em>\n  Persistence of Memory\n </em>\n . Visit her online at AmeliaAtwaterRhodes.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7693'),
(8768, 'All Just Glass', 'Amelia Atwater-Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sarah Vida has given up everything for love. From a legendary family of vampire-hunting witches, Sarah was raised to never trust a vampire, to never let her guard down, and to avoid all tricky attachments of the heart. But now Sarah IS a vampireâ€”changed by the boy she thought she loved. Her family has forsaken her, and Sarah herself is disgusted by her appetite for blood.\n <br />\n Aida Vida is Sarah''s older sister, the good, reliable sibling who always does her family proud. But when Aida''s mother insists that Sarah be found and killed, Aida is given the one assignment that she may not be able to carry out.\n <br />\n Taking place over just twenty-four hours, ALL JUST GLASS tells the story of a game-changing battle that will forever change the world of the Den of Shadows. And at its center is the story of two sisters who must choose between love and duty. Dark, fully-imagined, and hard to put down, ALL JUST GLASS will thrill Amelia''s fansâ€”old and new.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES wrote her first novel,\n <em>\n  In the Forests of the Night,\n </em>\n when she was 13 years old. Other books in the Den of Shadows series are\n <em>\n  Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Midnight Predator,\n </em>\n all ALA Quick Picks for Young Adults. She has also published the five-volume series The Kiesha''ra:\n <em>\n  Hawksong,\n </em>\n a\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n Best Book of the Year and VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror List Selection;_ Snakecharm; Falcondance; Wolfcry,_ an IRA-CBC Young Adults'' Choice; and\n <em>\n  Wyvernhail\n </em>\n . She is also the author of\n <em>\n  Persistence of Memory\n </em>\n . Visit her online at AmeliaAtwaterRhodes.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8237'),
(8769, 'All Just Glass', 'Amelia Atwater-Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sarah Vida has given up everything for love. From a legendary family of vampire-hunting witches, Sarah was raised to never trust a vampire, to never let her guard down, and to avoid all tricky attachments of the heart. But now Sarah IS a vampireâ€”changed by the boy she thought she loved. Her family has forsaken her, and Sarah herself is disgusted by her appetite for blood.\n <br />\n Aida Vida is Sarah''s older sister, the good, reliable sibling who always does her family proud. But when Aida''s mother insists that Sarah be found and killed, Aida is given the one assignment that she may not be able to carry out.\n <br />\n Taking place over just twenty-four hours, ALL JUST GLASS tells the story of a game-changing battle that will forever change the world of the Den of Shadows. And at its center is the story of two sisters who must choose between love and duty. Dark, fully-imagined, and hard to put down, ALL JUST GLASS will thrill Amelia''s fansâ€”old and new.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES wrote her first novel,\n <em>\n  In the Forests of the Night,\n </em>\n when she was 13 years old. Other books in the Den of Shadows series are\n <em>\n  Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Midnight Predator,\n </em>\n all ALA Quick Picks for Young Adults. She has also published the five-volume series The Kiesha''ra:\n <em>\n  Hawksong,\n </em>\n a\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n Best Book of the Year and VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror List Selection;_ Snakecharm; Falcondance; Wolfcry,_ an IRA-CBC Young Adults'' Choice; and\n <em>\n  Wyvernhail\n </em>\n . She is also the author of\n <em>\n  Persistence of Memory\n </em>\n . Visit her online at AmeliaAtwaterRhodes.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16177'),
(8770, 'All My Life: A Memoir', 'Susan Lucci &amp; Laura (CON) Morton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n "See that moon up there?\n <br />\n You can reach that high.\n <br />\n Never be afraid because you can be anything you want to be."\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan Lucci was only five years old when her father shared these encouraging words with her. They inspired the highly imaginative child who loved make-believe to craft one of the most enduring characters in television history, an achievement that would earn her a record twenty-one Emmy nominationsâ€”the most for an actor in the award''s historyâ€”and the crown as "Leading Lady of Daytime."\n</p>\n<p>\n When Lucci and\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n were introduced to the world in 1971, American television changed forever. Susan''s character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an originalâ€”the first vixen viewers loved to hate. But while millions have enjoyed getting to know Erica''s many sidesâ€”and have been awed at how this character has continually remade herselfâ€”the woman who plays her has remained a mystery.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her long-awaited memoir, this very private actress, wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, sister, friend, and entrepreneur pulls back the curtain to reveal her story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan, like Erica Kane, has undergone a metamorphosis many times.\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n shares the stories of those transformations: starring in roles on television and stage, where she took Broadway not just by storm but "by tsunami" as one critic raved about her performance in\n <em>\n  Annie Get Your Gun\n </em>\n ; mounting successful cabaret acts (solo and with Regis Philbin); bringing art and joy back to New York in the wake of 9/11; conquering the tango with Tony Dovolani on ABC''s hit show\n <em>\n  Dancing with the Stars\n </em>\n ; and building a successful career as an entrepreneur with a signature line of products.\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan goes beyond her success to talk about the darker moments, too, including the childhood guilt she harbored over the death of her dear grandmother, the car accident that nearly took away her career and her eyesight, her newborn son''s life-threatening illness, coping with her husband''s cancer, and the pain of miscarriageâ€”one of the many parallels between her Erica Kane.\n</p>\n<p>\n As charming, down-to-earth, and compelling as the woman whose story it tells,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n shines a spotlight on one of our most popular stars and reminds us of the power of dreams and how we can find the courage and tenacity to make them come true.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Look Inside\n  <em>\n   All My Life\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n Click on the images below to open larger versions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Susan Lucci and\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n were introduced to the world in 1971, American television changed forever. Susan''s character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an original. But while millions have enjoyed getting to know Erica''s many sides, the woman who plays her has remained a mystery.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her long-awaited memoir, this very private entertainment icon pulls back the curtain to reveal her own story. Warm, candid, and inviting,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n chronicles Susan''s journey from her childhood to playing Erica Kane, and from finding true love to living that "Cinderella moment" when she finally won her Emmy. As charming, down-to-earth, and compelling as the woman whose story it tells,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n reminds us of the power of dreams and how we can all find the courage and tenacity to make them come true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/878'),
(8771, 'All My Life: A Memoir', 'Susan Lucci &amp; Laura (CON) Morton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n "See that moon up there?\n <br />\n You can reach that high.\n <br />\n Never be afraid because you can be anything you want to be."\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan Lucci was only five years old when her father shared these encouraging words with her. They inspired the highly imaginative child who loved make-believe to craft one of the most enduring characters in television history, an achievement that would earn her a record twenty-one Emmy nominationsâ€”the most for an actor in the award''s historyâ€”and the crown as "Leading Lady of Daytime."\n</p>\n<p>\n When Lucci and\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n were introduced to the world in 1971, American television changed forever. Susan''s character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an originalâ€”the first vixen viewers loved to hate. But while millions have enjoyed getting to know Erica''s many sidesâ€”and have been awed at how this character has continually remade herselfâ€”the woman who plays her has remained a mystery.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her long-awaited memoir, this very private actress, wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, sister, friend, and entrepreneur pulls back the curtain to reveal her story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan, like Erica Kane, has undergone a metamorphosis many times.\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n shares the stories of those transformations: starring in roles on television and stage, where she took Broadway not just by storm but "by tsunami" as one critic raved about her performance in\n <em>\n  Annie Get Your Gun\n </em>\n ; mounting successful cabaret acts (solo and with Regis Philbin); bringing art and joy back to New York in the wake of 9/11; conquering the tango with Tony Dovolani on ABC''s hit show\n <em>\n  Dancing with the Stars\n </em>\n ; and building a successful career as an entrepreneur with a signature line of products.\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan goes beyond her success to talk about the darker moments, too, including the childhood guilt she harbored over the death of her dear grandmother, the car accident that nearly took away her career and her eyesight, her newborn son''s life-threatening illness, coping with her husband''s cancer, and the pain of miscarriageâ€”one of the many parallels between her Erica Kane.\n</p>\n<p>\n As charming, down-to-earth, and compelling as the woman whose story it tells,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n shines a spotlight on one of our most popular stars and reminds us of the power of dreams and how we can find the courage and tenacity to make them come true.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Look Inside\n  <em>\n   All My Life\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n Click on the images below to open larger versions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Susan Lucci and\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n were introduced to the world in 1971, American television changed forever. Susan''s character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an original. But while millions have enjoyed getting to know Erica''s many sides, the woman who plays her has remained a mystery.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her long-awaited memoir, this very private entertainment icon pulls back the curtain to reveal her own story. Warm, candid, and inviting,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n chronicles Susan''s journey from her childhood to playing Erica Kane, and from finding true love to living that "Cinderella moment" when she finally won her Emmy. As charming, down-to-earth, and compelling as the woman whose story it tells,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n reminds us of the power of dreams and how we can all find the courage and tenacity to make them come true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11211'),
(8772, 'All My Life: A Memoir', 'Susan Lucci; Laura (CON) Morton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n "See that moon up there?\n <br />\n You can reach that high.\n <br />\n Never be afraid because you can be anything you want to be."\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan Lucci was only five years old when her father shared these encouraging words with her. They inspired the highly imaginative child who loved make-believe to craft one of the most enduring characters in television history, an achievement that would earn her a record twenty-one Emmy nominationsâ€”the most for an actor in the award''s historyâ€”and the crown as "Leading Lady of Daytime."\n</p>\n<p>\n When Lucci and\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n were introduced to the world in 1971, American television changed forever. Susan''s character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an originalâ€”the first vixen viewers loved to hate. But while millions have enjoyed getting to know Erica''s many sidesâ€”and have been awed at how this character has continually remade herselfâ€”the woman who plays her has remained a mystery.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her long-awaited memoir, this very private actress, wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, sister, friend, and entrepreneur pulls back the curtain to reveal her story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan, like Erica Kane, has undergone a metamorphosis many times.\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n shares the stories of those transformations: starring in roles on television and stage, where she took Broadway not just by storm but "by tsunami" as one critic raved about her performance in\n <em>\n  Annie Get Your Gun\n </em>\n ; mounting successful cabaret acts (solo and with Regis Philbin); bringing art and joy back to New York in the wake of 9/11; conquering the tango with Tony Dovolani on ABC''s hit show\n <em>\n  Dancing with the Stars\n </em>\n ; and building a successful career as an entrepreneur with a signature line of products.\n</p>\n<p>\n Susan goes beyond her success to talk about the darker moments, too, including the childhood guilt she harbored over the death of her dear grandmother, the car accident that nearly took away her career and her eyesight, her newborn son''s life-threatening illness, coping with her husband''s cancer, and the pain of miscarriageâ€”one of the many parallels between her Erica Kane.\n</p>\n<p>\n As charming, down-to-earth, and compelling as the woman whose story it tells,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n shines a spotlight on one of our most popular stars and reminds us of the power of dreams and how we can find the courage and tenacity to make them come true.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Look Inside\n  <em>\n   All My Life\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n Click on the images below to open larger versions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Susan Lucci and\n <em>\n  All My Children\n </em>\n were introduced to the world in 1971, American television changed forever. Susan''s character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an original. But while millions have enjoyed getting to know Erica''s many sides, the woman who plays her has remained a mystery.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her long-awaited memoir, this very private entertainment icon pulls back the curtain to reveal her own story. Warm, candid, and inviting,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n chronicles Susan''s journey from her childhood to playing Erica Kane, and from finding true love to living that "Cinderella moment" when she finally won her Emmy. As charming, down-to-earth, and compelling as the woman whose story it tells,\n <em>\n  All My Life\n </em>\n reminds us of the power of dreams and how we can all find the courage and tenacity to make them come true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23959'),
(8773, 'All Quiet on the Western Front', 'Erich Maria Remarque', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "* ''Brian Murdoch''s new English translation...shows that Remarque''s evocation of the horrors of modern warfare has lost none of its force'' - The Times * ''There are some books that should be read by every generation. The latest translation and republication of Remarque''s story of German trench soldiers of the 1914-18 war gains even more authority in the context of the loss of life in wars that still rage from Bosnia to Kashmir'' Chris Searle * ''The book conquers without persuading, it shakes you without exaggerating, a perfect work of art and at the same time truth that cannot be doubted'' Stefan Sweig"\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive.\n  <br />\n  "The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first trank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."\n  <br />\n  THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5578'),
(8774, 'All Quiet on the Western Front', 'Erich Maria Remarque', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n   SUMMARY:\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n   Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive.\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first trank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."\n  <br />\n  -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14009'),
(8775, 'All Quiet on the Western Front', 'Erich Maria Remarque', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "* ''Brian Murdoch''s new English translation...shows that Remarque''s evocation of the horrors of modern warfare has lost none of its force'' - The Times * ''There are some books that should be read by every generation. The latest translation and republication of Remarque''s story of German trench soldiers of the 1914-18 war gains even more authority in the context of the loss of life in wars that still rage from Bosnia to Kashmir'' Chris Searle * ''The book conquers without persuading, it shakes you without exaggerating, a perfect work of art and at the same time truth that cannot be doubted'' Stefan Sweig"\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive.\n  <br />\n  "The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first trank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."\n  <br />\n  THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19100'),
(8776, 'All Quiet on the Western Front', 'Erich Maria Remarque', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive."The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first trank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWFrom the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27782'),
(8777, 'All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs', 'Elie Wiesel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From his early years with his loving Jewish family to the horrors of Auschwitz to his life as a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Elie Wiesel tells his story. Passionate and poignant, All Rivers Run to the Sea is an unforgettable book of love and rage, doubt and faith, despair and trust, and ultimately, of wisdom. of photos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12300'),
(8778, 'All Souls&#39; Rising', 'Madison Smartt Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this first installment of his epic Haitian trilogy, Madison Smartt Bell brings to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious system of slavery, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world''s first Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture-a loyal, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant-emerges as the man who will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality. Bell assembles a kaleidoscopic portrait of this seminal movement through a tableau of characters that encompass black, white, male, female, rich, poor, free and enslaved. Pulsing with brilliant detail, All Soul''s Rising provides a visceral sense of the pain, terror, confusion, and triumph of revolution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3162'),
(8779, 'All Souls&#39; Rising', 'Madison Smartt Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this first installment of his epic Haitian trilogy, Madison Smartt Bell brings to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious system of slavery, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world''s first Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture-a loyal, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant-emerges as the man who will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality. Bell assembles a kaleidoscopic portrait of this seminal movement through a tableau of characters that encompass black, white, male, female, rich, poor, free and enslaved. Pulsing with brilliant detail, All Soul''s Rising provides a visceral sense of the pain, terror, confusion, and triumph of revolution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8417'),
(8780, 'All Souls&#39; Rising', 'Madison Smartt Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this first installment of his epic Haitian trilogy, Madison Smartt Bell brings to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious system of slavery, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world''s first Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture-a loyal, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant-emerges as the man who will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality. Bell assembles a kaleidoscopic portrait of this seminal movement through a tableau of characters that encompass black, white, male, female, rich, poor, free and enslaved. Pulsing with brilliant detail, All Soul''s Rising provides a visceral sense of the pain, terror, confusion, and triumph of revolution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21295');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(8781, 'All That Follows', 'Jim Crace', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Leonard Lessing, the British protagonist of Crace''s surprisingly bad 10th novel (after\n <em>\n  The Pesthouse\n </em>\n ), has Walter Mittyâ€“like dreams of being a revolutionary that are invariably short-circuited by his fear of making a disturbance. In 2006, Leonard, while in Austin, Tex., to reconnect with ex-flame Nadia, is bullied into assuming the role of activist by Maxie, the founder of Snipers Without Bullets, who is living with Nadia and who has gotten her pregnant. Though Maxie appalls Leonard, he nevertheless halfheartedly takes part in an action against Laura Bush that leads to Nadia''s arrest and her daughter, Lucy, being born in prison. Eighteen years later, Leonard sees a news story about Maxie, who has taken a British family hostage. While gawking at the proceedings, Leonard runs into Lucy and gets drawn, once again, into a cockeyed scheme that begins Leonard''s unlikely reunion with Nadia and a partial, ironic fulfillment of his dream of being an iconic radical. Unfortunately, Crace''s novel is held hostage by the listlessness that emanates from chickenhearted Leonard and the embarrassing stereotypes that clutter many of the scenes, especially those set in Texas. This is a feeble effort for a novelist of Crace''s stature.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reaction to\n <em>\n  All That Follows\n </em>\n was decidedly mixed, with most critics agreeing that it is not Crace''s best work. While several reviewers described his writing as "elegant," others found it overwritten and self-conscious: the\n <em>\n  Boston Globe\n </em>\n cited too much "writerly riffing." While some enjoyed the in-depth passages on jazz music, others found them a bit tedious. Jim Crace is one of England''s most beloved and award-winning contemporary novelists, but readers new to his work may want to seek out earlier titles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8069'),
(8782, 'All That Is Bitter and Sweet', 'Ashley Judd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAll That Is Bitter and Sweet,â€ is, at its heart, the story of Ashley Juddâ€™s awakening. In sharing the secrets of a childhood fraught with neglect, abuse and debilitating depression, she confronts the stigma of mental illness and celebrates the serenity that comes with the hard work of recovery. The reward is a new role on a new stage -- global advocate for HIV/AIDS sufferers. The humanitarian pursuit of social justice and gender equality is gritty work, but the people she meets in the slums, brothels, sex-slave markets, clinics and orphanages reinforce her faithful contention that every life has value. Juddâ€™s search for justice and peace -- for herself, and for the millions without a voice â€“ is testament to the adage that when we help one person, we help the whole world."Â  --\n  <strong>\n   Greg Mortenson\n  </strong>\n  , author of NYT bestselling _Three Cups of Tea\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Ashley Judd has written a deeply moving story -- amazingly, searingly, frank. It is her life story, warts and all. As I read her account of her childhood, I ask ''How could one so traumatized, so abused in childhood, become the woman we know, so caring, so altruistic, so compassionate, so concerned for others, and so joyful?''" --\n  <strong>\n   Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _"Ashley Judd is has lived an extraordinary life. She has learned from it and turned it into a blessing and a call to action for others. Her journey is both moving and inspiring, unique and universal. Reading about it makes your own life make more sense." --\n  <strong>\n   Marianne Williamson\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This lovely woman, this movie star, this determined dreamer will be familiar to you, assuming you have struggled to resolve your childhood, carve out a career and make greater use of yourself. Â Ashley Judd''s story reminds us to work harder and on more important tasks, and promises that if we do, contentedness awaits." --\n  <strong>\n   Kelly Corrigan\n  </strong>\n  , author of NYT bestselling\n  <em>\n   The Middle Place\n  </em>\n  and _Lift\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œJuddâ€™s hauntingly beautiful memoir reflects upon her life as actress, wife, daughter, sister, woman of faith, and ultimately, as friend of the worldâ€™s forgotten. The book is engaging as a narrative (I could not put it down), but this is not your typical â€˜celebrity memoir.â€™\n  <em>\n   All That is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is written with uncommon depth and uncommon love. It has the power to transport you not only into the mind and spirit of a true activist, but into the elusive meaning of our shared humanity, and even into unexpected places in your own soul. Prepare to have your eyes opened and your heart jolted.Â  --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Sue Monk Kidd\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Ashley Judd has given us magnetic and searingly honest portrayals of diverse women on screen. Now with the same honesty and magnetism, she brings us her true self on the page. From her childhood to her revolutionary empathy with women and girls living very different lives, her path will inspire readers on journeys of their own."Â  --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Gloria Steinem\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€œAll That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is all that is enlightening and inspiring. Â Ashley Judd has composed a memoir that teaches while it entrances and finds hope and faith in the most unlikely places. Â The book is full of real-life stories that reflect both the compassion of its author and the need for healing in the world.â€Â \n  <em>\n  </em>\n  --Madeleine K. Albright\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œOver the last decade I have watched my gifted, brilliant friend grow as an artist, but more importantly, as a wise, deeply empathetic woman. Â I have read the diaries that are the heart of this memoir since she began traveling the world, fearing for her safety and sanity, baffled why she chooses these grueling missions.\n  <em>\n   All That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  will be a revelation to readers, exposing Ashley Judd for what I have known for years she is: Â An amazing woman doing extraordinary work." --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Morgan Freeman\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "There are certain books that stay with you far after the last page - Ashley Judd''s\n  <em>\n   All That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is that very type of book. With her sincere honesty, her commitment to servant leadership and her intense passion for everything that she is involved with, Ashley Judd presents a multi-layered portrait of how one person - committed, caring and conscientious - can truly make a difference. She may be our program''s No. 1 fan, but after reading this, you can count me as one of her top fans." --\n  <strong>\n   John Calipari\n  </strong>\n  , University of Kentucky Head Coach\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ashley Judd is an award-winning film and stage actor known for her roles in both box-office hits and art-house gems, and the daughter and sister of country-music royalty. In 2002, drawing on a deep well of empathy, she found her true calling: as a humanitarian and advocate for those suffering in neglected parts of the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Asked why she was opting out of a successful career, walking away while she was one of the highest-paid women in Hollywood, Ashley herself could not provide an answer. She simply knew that after her first trip to the notorious brothels, slums, and hospices of southeast Asia, her own life depended on advocating on behalf of the vulnerable. Promising each new sister, â€œI will never forget you,â€ Ashley began writing extraordinary diariesâ€”on which this memoir is basedâ€”expanding her capacity to relate to, and to share with a global audience, stories of survival and resilience.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along the way, Ashley realized that the coping strategies she had developed to deal with her own emotional pain, stemming from childhood abandonment, were no longer working. Seeking in-patient treatment in 2006 for the grief that had nearly killed her, Ashley found not only her own recovery and an enriched faith but an expanded kit of spiritual tools that energized and advanced her feminist social justice work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, in this deeply moving and unforgettable memoir, Ashley Judd describes her odyssey, as a left-behind lost child attains international prominence as a fiercely dedicated advocate. Her story ranges from anger to forgiveness, isolation to interdependence, depression to activism. In telling it, she resoundingly answers the ineffable question about the relationship between healing oneself and service to others.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7357'),
(8783, 'All That Is Bitter and Sweet', 'Ashley Judd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAll That Is Bitter and Sweet,â€ is, at its heart, the story of Ashley Juddâ€™s awakening. In sharing the secrets of a childhood fraught with neglect, abuse and debilitating depression, she confronts the stigma of mental illness and celebrates the serenity that comes with the hard work of recovery. The reward is a new role on a new stage -- global advocate for HIV/AIDS sufferers. The humanitarian pursuit of social justice and gender equality is gritty work, but the people she meets in the slums, brothels, sex-slave markets, clinics and orphanages reinforce her faithful contention that every life has value. Juddâ€™s search for justice and peace -- for herself, and for the millions without a voice â€“ is testament to the adage that when we help one person, we help the whole world."Â  --\n  <strong>\n   Greg Mortenson\n  </strong>\n  , author of NYT bestselling _Three Cups of Tea\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Ashley Judd has written a deeply moving story -- amazingly, searingly, frank. It is her life story, warts and all. As I read her account of her childhood, I ask ''How could one so traumatized, so abused in childhood, become the woman we know, so caring, so altruistic, so compassionate, so concerned for others, and so joyful?''" --\n  <strong>\n   Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _"Ashley Judd is has lived an extraordinary life. She has learned from it and turned it into a blessing and a call to action for others. Her journey is both moving and inspiring, unique and universal. Reading about it makes your own life make more sense." --\n  <strong>\n   Marianne Williamson\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This lovely woman, this movie star, this determined dreamer will be familiar to you, assuming you have struggled to resolve your childhood, carve out a career and make greater use of yourself. Â Ashley Judd''s story reminds us to work harder and on more important tasks, and promises that if we do, contentedness awaits." --\n  <strong>\n   Kelly Corrigan\n  </strong>\n  , author of NYT bestselling\n  <em>\n   The Middle Place\n  </em>\n  and _Lift\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œJuddâ€™s hauntingly beautiful memoir reflects upon her life as actress, wife, daughter, sister, woman of faith, and ultimately, as friend of the worldâ€™s forgotten. The book is engaging as a narrative (I could not put it down), but this is not your typical â€˜celebrity memoir.â€™\n  <em>\n   All That is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is written with uncommon depth and uncommon love. It has the power to transport you not only into the mind and spirit of a true activist, but into the elusive meaning of our shared humanity, and even into unexpected places in your own soul. Prepare to have your eyes opened and your heart jolted.Â  --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Sue Monk Kidd\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Ashley Judd has given us magnetic and searingly honest portrayals of diverse women on screen. Now with the same honesty and magnetism, she brings us her true self on the page. From her childhood to her revolutionary empathy with women and girls living very different lives, her path will inspire readers on journeys of their own."Â  --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Gloria Steinem\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€œAll That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is all that is enlightening and inspiring. Â Ashley Judd has composed a memoir that teaches while it entrances and finds hope and faith in the most unlikely places. Â The book is full of real-life stories that reflect both the compassion of its author and the need for healing in the world.â€Â \n  <em>\n  </em>\n  --Madeleine K. Albright\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œOver the last decade I have watched my gifted, brilliant friend grow as an artist, but more importantly, as a wise, deeply empathetic woman. Â I have read the diaries that are the heart of this memoir since she began traveling the world, fearing for her safety and sanity, baffled why she chooses these grueling missions.\n  <em>\n   All That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  will be a revelation to readers, exposing Ashley Judd for what I have known for years she is: Â An amazing woman doing extraordinary work." --\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Morgan Freeman\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "There are certain books that stay with you far after the last page - Ashley Judd''s\n  <em>\n   All That Is Bitter and Sweet\n  </em>\n  is that very type of book. With her sincere honesty, her commitment to servant leadership and her intense passion for everything that she is involved with, Ashley Judd presents a multi-layered portrait of how one person - committed, caring and conscientious - can truly make a difference. She may be our program''s No. 1 fan, but after reading this, you can count me as one of her top fans." --\n  <strong>\n   John Calipari\n  </strong>\n  , University of Kentucky Head Coach\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ashley Judd is an award-winning film and stage actor known for her roles in both box-office hits and art-house gems, and the daughter and sister of country-music royalty. In 2002, drawing on a deep well of empathy, she found her true calling: as a humanitarian and advocate for those suffering in neglected parts of the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Asked why she was opting out of a successful career, walking away while she was one of the highest-paid women in Hollywood, Ashley herself could not provide an answer. She simply knew that after her first trip to the notorious brothels, slums, and hospices of southeast Asia, her own life depended on advocating on behalf of the vulnerable. Promising each new sister, â€œI will never forget you,â€ Ashley began writing extraordinary diariesâ€”on which this memoir is basedâ€”expanding her capacity to relate to, and to share with a global audience, stories of survival and resilience.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Along the way, Ashley realized that the coping strategies she had developed to deal with her own emotional pain, stemming from childhood abandonment, were no longer working. Seeking in-patient treatment in 2006 for the grief that had nearly killed her, Ashley found not only her own recovery and an enriched faith but an expanded kit of spiritual tools that energized and advanced her feminist social justice work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, in this deeply moving and unforgettable memoir, Ashley Judd describes her odyssey, as a left-behind lost child attains international prominence as a fiercely dedicated advocate. Her story ranges from anger to forgiveness, isolation to interdependence, depression to activism. In telling it, she resoundingly answers the ineffable question about the relationship between healing oneself and service to others.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10588'),
(8784, 'All That Is Bitter and Sweet', 'Ashley Judd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ashley Judd is best known as the acclaimed actress in films such as\n <i>\n  De Lovely\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n  Double Jeopardy\n </i>\n , but these days she is more likely to be found wading through an African refugee camp or Asian brothel than on a film set. For most of the past decade Judd has been visiting human rights hotspots around the world to spread the word of hope, health, and gender equality on behalf of one of the leading public health nonprofits, PSI/YouthAIDS. Her work has put her in the company of Bono, Bill Clinton, and other world leaders in the battle against disease and poverty and in advocating grassroots programs to improve the lives of women and children.\n <br />\n <br />\n Memories of her own painful childhood inspired Judd to reach out to those in desperate need, especially abused and abandoned girls. She writes movingly of friends such as Kausar, an AIDS sufferer in the slums of Mumbai who becomes an activist and peer-educator, and heroes such as Dr. Rene, who lends his heart and soul to...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14391'),
(8785, 'All That Is Bitter and Sweet', 'Ashley Judd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ashley Judd is best known as the acclaimed actress in films such as\n <i>\n  De Lovely\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n  Double Jeopardy\n </i>\n , but these days she is more likely to be found wading through an African refugee camp or Asian brothel than on a film set. For most of the past decade Judd has been visiting human rights hotspots around the world to spread the word of hope, health, and gender equality on behalf of one of the leading public health nonprofits, PSI/YouthAIDS. Her work has put her in the company of Bono, Bill Clinton, and other world leaders in the battle against disease and poverty and in advocating grassroots programs to improve the lives of women and children.\n <br />\n <br />\n Memories of her own painful childhood inspired Judd to reach out to those in desperate need, especially abused and abandoned girls. She writes movingly of friends such as Kausar, an AIDS sufferer in the slums of Mumbai who becomes an activist and peer-educator, and heroes such as Dr. Rene, who lends his heart and soul to...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16456'),
(8786, 'All That Is Bitter and Sweet', 'Ashley Judd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ashley Judd is best known as the acclaimed actress in films such as\n <i>\n  De Lovely\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n  Double Jeopardy\n </i>\n , but these days she is more likely to be found wading through an African refugee camp or Asian brothel than on a film set. For most of the past decade Judd has been visiting human rights hotspots around the world to spread the word of hope, health, and gender equality on behalf of one of the leading public health nonprofits, PSI/YouthAIDS. Her work has put her in the company of Bono, Bill Clinton, and other world leaders in the battle against disease and poverty and in advocating grassroots programs to improve the lives of women and children.\n <br />\n <br />\n Memories of her own painful childhood inspired Judd to reach out to those in desperate need, especially abused and abandoned girls. She writes movingly of friends such as Kausar, an AIDS sufferer in the slums of Mumbai who becomes an activist and peer-educator, and heroes such as Dr. Rene, who lends his heart and soul to...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26471'),
(8787, 'All That Lives Must Die', 'Eric Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Following the events of 2009''s Mortal Coils, 15-year-old twins Fiona and Eliot Post--children of Lucifer and the goddess Atropos--come into their powers at the onset of a vast battle between supernatural entities. Forced to enroll in an ultra-competitive magical school called Paxington, where even gym class can prove lethal, the twins encounter such mysterious, dangerous, and intriguing characters as headmistress Miss Weston and gym teacher Mister Ma, while learning more about familiar characters like slick Uncle Henry and Lucifer himself. Nylund masterfully blends the mundane details of studying with an epic war in Hell, and with similar skill portrays Fiona and Eliot''s sibling bond even as their political and romantic interests diverge. Nylund has hit his stride, piling on the plot developments, but never losing sight of the standout characterizations that made the first book memorable.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Immortals and the Infernals are still at it in the sequel to Mortal Coils (2009), and twins Eliot and Fiona, children of Lucifer and a goddess, are still caught in the middle as both sides vie to claim the half-Immortal, half-Infernal teens as their own. Having passed the life-or-death tests set up by the league of gods, the twins face even more challenges when they are admitted as freshmen to Paxington Institute, a high school for children of the gods, which has an extremely rigorous and competitive curriculumâ€”it is possible they might not survive the first semester. Their skills of diplomacy and strategic thinking are tested, and they are trained how to use and strengthen their powers. However, Eliot and Fiona not only face the deadly perils inherent in their classes but also the machinations of the Infernals, who plan to draw the twins into a war between clans. The Immortals are also manipulating the twins, and the tale abounds with lies, plans, schemes, and double-crosses as well as death and destruction. The twins become even more multifaceted than in the first book, and the swirling intrigue is compelling. To be continued in the planned What Fools These Mortals, which is sure to be anticipated. --Sally Estes\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5656'),
(8788, 'All That Lives Must Die', 'Eric Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Following the events of 2009''s Mortal Coils, 15-year-old twins Fiona and Eliot Post--children of Lucifer and the goddess Atropos--come into their powers at the onset of a vast battle between supernatural entities. Forced to enroll in an ultra-competitive magical school called Paxington, where even gym class can prove lethal, the twins encounter such mysterious, dangerous, and intriguing characters as headmistress Miss Weston and gym teacher Mister Ma, while learning more about familiar characters like slick Uncle Henry and Lucifer himself. Nylund masterfully blends the mundane details of studying with an epic war in Hell, and with similar skill portrays Fiona and Eliot''s sibling bond even as their political and romantic interests diverge. Nylund has hit his stride, piling on the plot developments, but never losing sight of the standout characterizations that made the first book memorable.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Immortals and the Infernals are still at it in the sequel to Mortal Coils (2009), and twins Eliot and Fiona, children of Lucifer and a goddess, are still caught in the middle as both sides vie to claim the half-Immortal, half-Infernal teens as their own. Having passed the life-or-death tests set up by the league of gods, the twins face even more challenges when they are admitted as freshmen to Paxington Institute, a high school for children of the gods, which has an extremely rigorous and competitive curriculumâ€”it is possible they might not survive the first semester. Their skills of diplomacy and strategic thinking are tested, and they are trained how to use and strengthen their powers. However, Eliot and Fiona not only face the deadly perils inherent in their classes but also the machinations of the Infernals, who plan to draw the twins into a war between clans. The Immortals are also manipulating the twins, and the tale abounds with lies, plans, schemes, and double-crosses as well as death and destruction. The twins become even more multifaceted than in the first book, and the swirling intrigue is compelling. To be continued in the planned What Fools These Mortals, which is sure to be anticipated. --Sally Estes\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11664'),
(8789, 'All That Lives Must Die', 'Eric Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18976'),
(8790, 'All the King&#39;s Men', 'Robert Penn Warren', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the great classics of American fiction reissued as it was originally written.Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King''s Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. Its original publication by Harcourt catapulted author Robert Penn Warren to fame and made the novel a bestseller for many seasons. Set in the 1930s, it traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success, caught between dreams of service and a lust for power. All the King''s Men is as relevant today as it was fifty years ago.In a momentous publishing event, Robert Penn Warren''s masterpiece has been restored and reintroduced by literary scholar Noel Polk, whose work on the texts of William Faulkner has proved so important to American literature. Polk presents the novel as it was originally written, and without the deletions required by its original editors. The result restores Warren''s complexity and subtlety to an already near-perfect work, charging the characters with an energy and a more tangled web of relationships than previously was available. All the King''s Men is a landmark in letters. This new edition brings it fully to life."The publication of a new, corrected edition of All the King''s Men is welcome news for all who care about American literature. Robert Penn Warren''s prize-winning novel has remained a classic since its publication more than half a century ago. Editor Noel Polk has studied the manuscript and all other available versions of Warren''s finest novels, eliminating errors and retrieving deleted material. The result has been to enrich the character of narrator Jack Burden and his protagonist, Willie Talos, in this story of tumultuous Louisiana politics which also has implications for morals and manners in the modern world." -Joseph Blotner, author of Robert Penn Warren: A Biography\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13668'),
(8791, 'All the King&#39;s Men', 'Robert Penn Warren', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the great classics of American fiction reissued as it was originally written.Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King''s Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. Its original publication by Harcourt catapulted author Robert Penn Warren to fame and made the novel a bestseller for many seasons. Set in the 1930s, it traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success, caught between dreams of service and a lust for power. All the King''s Men is as relevant today as it was fifty years ago.In a momentous publishing event, Robert Penn Warren''s masterpiece has been restored and reintroduced by literary scholar Noel Polk, whose work on the texts of William Faulkner has proved so important to American literature. Polk presents the novel as it was originally written, and without the deletions required by its original editors. The result restores Warren''s complexity and subtlety to an already near-perfect work, charging the characters with an energy and a more tangled web of relationships than previously was available. All the King''s Men is a landmark in letters. This new edition brings it fully to life."The publication of a new, corrected edition of All the King''s Men is welcome news for all who care about American literature. Robert Penn Warren''s prize-winning novel has remained a classic since its publication more than half a century ago. Editor Noel Polk has studied the manuscript and all other available versions of Warren''s finest novels, eliminating errors and retrieving deleted material. The result has been to enrich the character of narrator Jack Burden and his protagonist, Willie Talos, in this story of tumultuous Louisiana politics which also has implications for morals and manners in the modern world." -Joseph Blotner, author of Robert Penn Warren: A Biography\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23271'),
(8792, 'All the Possibilities', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cynical Senator Alan MacGregor falls for free-spirited beauty Shelby Campbell despite their long-standing family feud.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2543'),
(8793, 'All the Possibilities', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cynical Senator Alan MacGregor falls for free-spirited beauty Shelby Campbell despite their long-standing family feud.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22331'),
(8794, 'All the Pretty Dead Girls', 'John Manning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One By One...Two decades ago, at a private women''s college in upstate New York, a student was brutally attacked in her dorm room. Her assailant was never found...They Disappear...Sue Barlow arrives at Wilbourne College twenty years later. When a classmate disappears, Sue thinks it''s an isolated incident. But then two other girls vanish...And Die...As fear grows on campus, Sue begins to sense she''s being watched. And as the body count rises, she soon realizes that a twisted psychopath is summoning her to play a wicked game - a game that only will end when she dies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4296'),
(8795, 'All the Pretty Dead Girls', 'John Manning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One By One...Two decades ago, at a private women''s college in upstate New York, a student was brutally attacked in her dorm room. Her assailant was never found...They Disappear...Sue Barlow arrives at Wilbourne College twenty years later. When a classmate disappears, Sue thinks it''s an isolated incident. But then two other girls vanish...And Die...As fear grows on campus, Sue begins to sense she''s being watched. And as the body count rises, she soon realizes that a twisted psychopath is summoning her to play a wicked game - a game that only will end when she dies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11224'),
(8796, 'All the Pretty Dead Girls', 'John Manning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: One By One...Two decades ago, at a private women''s college in upstate New York, a student was brutally attacked in her dorm room. Her assailant was never found...They Disappear...Sue Barlow arrives at Wilbourne College twenty years later. When a classmate disappears, Sue thinks it''s an isolated incident. But then two other girls vanish...And Die...As fear grows on campus, Sue begins to sense she''s being watched. And as the body count rises, she soon realizes that a twisted psychopath is summoning her to play a wicked game - a game that only will end when she dies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20329'),
(8797, 'All the Pretty Horses', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy''s Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself.  With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.  Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6632'),
(8798, 'All the Pretty Horses', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy''s Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself.  With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.  Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11319'),
(8799, 'All the pretty horses', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy''s Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14312'),
(8800, 'All the pretty horses', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy''s Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17457'),
(8801, 'All the Pretty Horses', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy''s Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself.  With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.  Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy''s Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself.Â Â With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.Â Â Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27106'),
(8802, 'All the Rage', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesnâ€™t deal with electronic appliancesâ€”he fixes situations for people, situations that usually involve putting himself in deadly danger. His latest project is recovering a stolen necklace, which carries with it an ancient curse that may unleash a horde of Bengali demons. Jack is used to danger, but this time Giaâ€™s daughter Vicky is threatened. Can Jack overcome the curse of the yellow necklace and bring Vicky safely back home?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5633'),
(8803, 'All the Rage', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesnâ€™t deal with electronic appliancesâ€”he fixes situations for people, situations that usually involve putting himself in deadly danger. His latest project is recovering a stolen necklace, which carries with it an ancient curse that may unleash a horde of Bengali demons. Jack is used to danger, but this time Giaâ€™s daughter Vicky is threatened. Can Jack overcome the curse of the yellow necklace and bring Vicky safely back home?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19043'),
(8804, 'All the Rage', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesnâ€™t deal with electronic appliancesâ€”he fixes situations for people, situations that usually involve putting himself in deadly danger. His latest project is recovering a stolen necklace, which carries with it an ancient curse that may unleash a horde of Bengali demons. Jack is used to danger, but this time Giaâ€™s daughter Vicky is threatened. Can Jack overcome the curse of the yellow necklace and bring Vicky safely back home?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27864'),
(8805, 'All the Sad Young Literary Men', 'Keith Gessen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, *All the Sad Young Literary Men* charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle through the encouragement of the women who love and despise them to find a semblance of maturity, responsibility, and even literary fame.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Heartbroken in his university town, Mark tries to focus his attention on his graduate work on the Russian Revolution, only to be lured again and again to the free pornography on the library computers. Sam binds himself to the task of crafting "the first great Zionist epic" even though he speaks no Hebrew, has never visited Israel, and is not a practicing Jew. Keith, more earnest and easily upset than the other two, is haunted by catastrophes both public and private--and his inability to tell the difference.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At every turn, at each character''s misstep, *All the Sad Young Literary Men* radiates with comedic warmth and biting honesty and signals the arrival of a brave and trenchant new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3839'),
(8806, 'All the Sad Young Literary Men', 'Keith Gessen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, *All the Sad Young Literary Men* charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle through the encouragement of the women who love and despise them to find a semblance of maturity, responsibility, and even literary fame.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Heartbroken in his university town, Mark tries to focus his attention on his graduate work on the Russian Revolution, only to be lured again and again to the free pornography on the library computers. Sam binds himself to the task of crafting "the first great Zionist epic" even though he speaks no Hebrew, has never visited Israel, and is not a practicing Jew. Keith, more earnest and easily upset than the other two, is haunted by catastrophes both public and private--and his inability to tell the difference.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At every turn, at each character''s misstep, *All the Sad Young Literary Men* radiates with comedic warmth and biting honesty and signals the arrival of a brave and trenchant new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9893'),
(8807, 'All the Sad Young Literary Men', 'Keith Gessen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, *All the Sad Young Literary Men* charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle through the encouragement of the women who love and despise them to find a semblance of maturity, responsibility, and even literary fame. Heartbroken in his university town, Mark tries to focus his attention on his graduate work on the Russian Revolution, only to be lured again and again to the free pornography on the library computers. Sam binds himself to the task of crafting "the first great Zionist epic" even though he speaks no Hebrew, has never visited Israel, and is not a practicing Jew. Keith, more earnest and easily upset than the other two, is haunted by catastrophes both public and private--and his inability to tell the difference. At every turn, at each character''s misstep, *All the Sad Young Literary Men* radiates with comedic warmth and biting honesty and signals the arrival of a brave and trenchant new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20717'),
(8808, 'All the Way', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6855'),
(8809, 'All the Way', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13376'),
(8810, 'All the way', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17046'),
(8811, 'All the way', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26887'),
(8812, 'All the Weyrs of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For Generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land. On the backs of their magnificent telepathic dragons they flew to flame the deadly stuff out of the air before it could reach the planet''s surface. But the greatest dream of the dragonriders was to find a way to eradicate Thread completely, so that never again would their beloved Pern be threatened with destruction. Now, for the first time, it looked as if that dream could come true. For when the people of Pern, led by Masterharper Robinton and F''lar and Lessa, Weyrleader and Weyrwoman of Benden Weyr, excavated the ancient remains of the planet''s original settlement, they uncovered the colonists'' voice-activated artificial intelligence system-which still functioned! And the computer had incredible news for them: There was a chance-a good chance- that they could at long last, annihilate Thread once and for all!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15772'),
(8813, 'All Together Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life-the shapeshifter Quinn-but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The summit is a tense situation. The vampire queen of Louisiana is in a precarious position, her power base weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans. And there are some vamps who would like to finish what nature started. Soon, Sookie must decide what side she''ll stand with. And her choice may mean the difference between survival and all-out catastrophe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6846'),
(8814, 'All Together Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life-the shapeshifter Quinn-but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The summit is a tense situation. The vampire queen of Louisiana is in a precarious position, her power base weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans. And there are some vamps who would like to finish what nature started. Soon, Sookie must decide what side she''ll stand with. And her choice may mean the difference between survival and all-out catastrophe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10190'),
(8815, 'All Together Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life-the shapeshifter Quinn-but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit. The summit is a tense situation. The vampire queen of Louisiana is in a precarious position, her power base weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans. And there are some vamps who would like to finish what nature started. Soon, Sookie must decide what side she''ll stand with. And her choice may mean the difference between survival and all-out catastrophe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14902'),
(8816, 'All Together Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life-the shapeshifter Quinn-but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit. The summit is a tense situation. The vampire queen of Louisiana is in a precarious position, her power base weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans. And there are some vamps who would like to finish what nature started. Soon, Sookie must decide what side she''ll stand with. And her choice may mean the difference between survival and all-out catastrophe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17053'),
(8817, 'All Together Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life-the shapeshifter Quinn-but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The summit is a tense situation. The vampire queen of Louisiana is in a precarious position, her power base weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans. And there are some vamps who would like to finish what nature started. Soon, Sookie must decide what side she''ll stand with. And her choice may mean the difference between survival and all-out catastrophe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26841');
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(8818, 'All Tomorrow&#39;s Parties', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Although Colin Laney (from Gibson''s earlier novel __) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see "nodal points" in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points are rare but significant events in history that forever change society, even though they might not be recognizable as such when they occur. Colin isn''t quite sure what''s going to happen when society reaches this latest nodal point, but he knows it''s going to be big. And he knows it''s going to occur on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, which has been home to a sort of SoHo-esque shantytown since an earthquake rendered it structurally unsound to carry traffic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Colin sends Barry Rydell (last seen in Gibson''s novel __) to the bridge to find a mysterious killer who reveals himself only by his lack of presence on the Net. Barry is also entrusted with a strange package that seems to be the home of Rei Toi, the computer-generated "idol singer" who once tried to "marry" a human rock star (she''s also from\n  <em>\n   Idoru\n  </em>\n  ). Barry and Rei Toi are eventually joined by Barry''s old girlfriend Chevette (from\n  <em>\n   Virtual Light\n  </em>\n  ) and a young boy named Silencio who has an unnatural fascination with watches. Together this motley assortment of characters holds the key to stopping billionaire Cody Harwood from doing whatever it is that will make sure he still holds the reigns of power after the nodal point takes place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although\n  <em>\n   All Tomorrow''s Parties\n  </em>\n  includes characters from two of Gibson''s earlier novels, it''s not a direct sequel to either. It''s a stand-alone book that is possibly Gibson''s best solo work since __. In the past, Gibson has let his brilliant prose overwhelm what were often lackluster (or nonexistent) story lines, but this book has it all: a good story, electric writing, and a group of likable and believable characters who are out to save the world ... kind of. The ending is not quite as supercharged as the rest of the novel and so comes off a bit flat, but overall this is definitely a winner.\n  <em>\n   --Craig E. Engler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gibson is in fine form in his seventh novel, a fast-paced, pyrotechnic sequel to Idoru. In the early 21st century, the world has survived any number of millennial events, including major earthquakes in Tokyo and San Francisco, the expansion of the World Wide Web into virtual reality, a variety of killer new recreational drugs and the creation and later disappearance of the first true artificial intelligence, the rock superstar know as the Idoru. However, Colin Laney, with his uncanny ability to sift through media data and discern the importance of upcoming historical "nodes," has determined that even more world-shattering occurrences are in the offing. Letting his personal life fall apart, suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder related to his talent, Laney retreats to a cardboard box in a Tokyo subway station. There he uses his powers and an Internet connection to do everything he can to head off worldwide disaster. Contacting Berry Rydell, former rent-a-cop and would-be star of the TV show Cops in Trouble (and a character in two of Gibson''s previous novels), Laney first maneuvers him into investigating a pair of murders committed by a man who is mysteriously invisible to the psychic''s predictive powers, and then into recovering the Idoru, who is seeking independence from her owners. Also involved in the complex plot, centered on the bohemian community that has grown up on and around San Francisco''s now derelict Golden Gate Bridge, are several other returning characters, such as the incredibly buff former bicycle messenger Chevette, plus a number of new eccentrics of the sort the author portrays so well. Gibson breaks little new thematic ground with this novel, but the cocreator of cyberpunk takes his readers on a wild and exciting ride filled with enough off-the-wall ideas and extended metaphors to fuel half a dozen SF tales. Author tour. (Nov.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/228'),
(8819, 'All Tomorrow&#39;s Parties', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Although Colin Laney (from Gibson''s earlier novel __) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see "nodal points" in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points are rare but significant events in history that forever change society, even though they might not be recognizable as such when they occur. Colin isn''t quite sure what''s going to happen when society reaches this latest nodal point, but he knows it''s going to be big. And he knows it''s going to occur on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, which has been home to a sort of SoHo-esque shantytown since an earthquake rendered it structurally unsound to carry traffic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Colin sends Barry Rydell (last seen in Gibson''s novel __) to the bridge to find a mysterious killer who reveals himself only by his lack of presence on the Net. Barry is also entrusted with a strange package that seems to be the home of Rei Toi, the computer-generated "idol singer" who once tried to "marry" a human rock star (she''s also from\n  <em>\n   Idoru\n  </em>\n  ). Barry and Rei Toi are eventually joined by Barry''s old girlfriend Chevette (from\n  <em>\n   Virtual Light\n  </em>\n  ) and a young boy named Silencio who has an unnatural fascination with watches. Together this motley assortment of characters holds the key to stopping billionaire Cody Harwood from doing whatever it is that will make sure he still holds the reigns of power after the nodal point takes place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although\n  <em>\n   All Tomorrow''s Parties\n  </em>\n  includes characters from two of Gibson''s earlier novels, it''s not a direct sequel to either. It''s a stand-alone book that is possibly Gibson''s best solo work since __. In the past, Gibson has let his brilliant prose overwhelm what were often lackluster (or nonexistent) story lines, but this book has it all: a good story, electric writing, and a group of likable and believable characters who are out to save the world ... kind of. The ending is not quite as supercharged as the rest of the novel and so comes off a bit flat, but overall this is definitely a winner.\n  <em>\n   --Craig E. Engler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gibson is in fine form in his seventh novel, a fast-paced, pyrotechnic sequel to Idoru. In the early 21st century, the world has survived any number of millennial events, including major earthquakes in Tokyo and San Francisco, the expansion of the World Wide Web into virtual reality, a variety of killer new recreational drugs and the creation and later disappearance of the first true artificial intelligence, the rock superstar know as the Idoru. However, Colin Laney, with his uncanny ability to sift through media data and discern the importance of upcoming historical "nodes," has determined that even more world-shattering occurrences are in the offing. Letting his personal life fall apart, suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder related to his talent, Laney retreats to a cardboard box in a Tokyo subway station. There he uses his powers and an Internet connection to do everything he can to head off worldwide disaster. Contacting Berry Rydell, former rent-a-cop and would-be star of the TV show Cops in Trouble (and a character in two of Gibson''s previous novels), Laney first maneuvers him into investigating a pair of murders committed by a man who is mysteriously invisible to the psychic''s predictive powers, and then into recovering the Idoru, who is seeking independence from her owners. Also involved in the complex plot, centered on the bohemian community that has grown up on and around San Francisco''s now derelict Golden Gate Bridge, are several other returning characters, such as the incredibly buff former bicycle messenger Chevette, plus a number of new eccentrics of the sort the author portrays so well. Gibson breaks little new thematic ground with this novel, but the cocreator of cyberpunk takes his readers on a wild and exciting ride filled with enough off-the-wall ideas and extended metaphors to fuel half a dozen SF tales. Author tour. (Nov.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9882'),
(8820, 'All Tomorrow&#39;s Parties', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Although Colin Laney (from Gibson''s earlier novel __) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see "nodal points" in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points are rare but significant events in history that forever change society, even though they might not be recognizable as such when they occur. Colin isn''t quite sure what''s going to happen when society reaches this latest nodal point, but he knows it''s going to be big. And he knows it''s going to occur on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, which has been home to a sort of SoHo-esque shantytown since an earthquake rendered it structurally unsound to carry traffic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Colin sends Barry Rydell (last seen in Gibson''s novel __) to the bridge to find a mysterious killer who reveals himself only by his lack of presence on the Net. Barry is also entrusted with a strange package that seems to be the home of Rei Toi, the computer-generated "idol singer" who once tried to "marry" a human rock star (she''s also from\n  <em>\n   Idoru\n  </em>\n  ). Barry and Rei Toi are eventually joined by Barry''s old girlfriend Chevette (from\n  <em>\n   Virtual Light\n  </em>\n  ) and a young boy named Silencio who has an unnatural fascination with watches. Together this motley assortment of characters holds the key to stopping billionaire Cody Harwood from doing whatever it is that will make sure he still holds the reigns of power after the nodal point takes place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although\n  <em>\n   All Tomorrow''s Parties\n  </em>\n  includes characters from two of Gibson''s earlier novels, it''s not a direct sequel to either. It''s a stand-alone book that is possibly Gibson''s best solo work since __. In the past, Gibson has let his brilliant prose overwhelm what were often lackluster (or nonexistent) story lines, but this book has it all: a good story, electric writing, and a group of likable and believable characters who are out to save the world ... kind of. The ending is not quite as supercharged as the rest of the novel and so comes off a bit flat, but overall this is definitely a winner.\n  <em>\n   --Craig E. Engler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gibson is in fine form in his seventh novel, a fast-paced, pyrotechnic sequel to Idoru. In the early 21st century, the world has survived any number of millennial events, including major earthquakes in Tokyo and San Francisco, the expansion of the World Wide Web into virtual reality, a variety of killer new recreational drugs and the creation and later disappearance of the first true artificial intelligence, the rock superstar know as the Idoru. However, Colin Laney, with his uncanny ability to sift through media data and discern the importance of upcoming historical "nodes," has determined that even more world-shattering occurrences are in the offing. Letting his personal life fall apart, suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder related to his talent, Laney retreats to a cardboard box in a Tokyo subway station. There he uses his powers and an Internet connection to do everything he can to head off worldwide disaster. Contacting Berry Rydell, former rent-a-cop and would-be star of the TV show Cops in Trouble (and a character in two of Gibson''s previous novels), Laney first maneuvers him into investigating a pair of murders committed by a man who is mysteriously invisible to the psychic''s predictive powers, and then into recovering the Idoru, who is seeking independence from her owners. Also involved in the complex plot, centered on the bohemian community that has grown up on and around San Francisco''s now derelict Golden Gate Bridge, are several other returning characters, such as the incredibly buff former bicycle messenger Chevette, plus a number of new eccentrics of the sort the author portrays so well. Gibson breaks little new thematic ground with this novel, but the cocreator of cyberpunk takes his readers on a wild and exciting ride filled with enough off-the-wall ideas and extended metaphors to fuel half a dozen SF tales. Author tour. (Nov.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24663'),
(8821, 'All Worked Up', 'Cathryn Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6959'),
(8822, 'All Worked Up', 'Cathryn Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16959'),
(8823, 'All Worked Up', 'Cathryn Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26864'),
(8824, 'All You Zombies', 'Robert A Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22722'),
(8825, 'All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture', 'Harold Goldberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Through the stories of gaming''s greatest innovations and most beloved creations, journalist Harold Goldberg captures the creativity, controversy--and passion--behind the videogame''s meteoric rise to the top of the pop-culture pantheon.Over the last fifty years, video games have grown from curiosities to fads to trends to one of the world''s most popular forms of mass entertainment. But as the gaming industry grows in numerous directions and everyone talks about the advance of the moment, few explore and seek to understand the forces behind this profound evolution. How did we get from Space Invaders to Grand Theft Auto? How exactly did gaming become a $50 billion industry and a dominant pop culture form? What are the stories, the people, the innovations, and the fascinations behind this incredible growth?Through extensive interviews with gaming''s greatest innovators, both its icons and those unfairly forgotten by history, All Your Base Are Belong To Us sets out to answer these questions, exposing the creativity, odd theories--and passion--behind the twenty-first century''s fastest-growing medium.Go inside the creation of: Grand Theft Auto * World of Warcraft * Bioshock * Kings Quest * Bejeweled * Madden Football * Super Mario Brothers * Myst * Pong * Donkey Kong * Crash Bandicoot * The 7th Guest * Tetris * Shadow Complex * Everquest * The Sims * And many more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18320'),
(8826, 'The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel', 'Jane Smiley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres"Rousing . . . Action-packed . . . A gripping story about love, fortitude, and convictions that are worth fighting for."--Los Angeles TimesA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK"POWERFUL . . . Smiley takes us back to Kansas in 1855, a place of rising passions and vast uncertainties. Narrated in the spirited, unsentimental voice of 20-year-old Lidie Newton, the novel is at once an ambitious examination of a turning point in history and the riveting story of one woman''s journey into uncharted regions of place and self."--Chicago Tribune"[A] grand tale of the moral and political upheavals igniting antebellum frontier life and a heroine so wonderfully fleshed and unforgettable you will think you are listening to her story instead of reading it. Smiley may have snared a Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres . . . but it is with Lydia (Lidie) Harkness Newton that she emphatically captures our hearts. . . . The key word in Smiley''s title is Adventures, and Lydia''s are crammed with breathless movement, danger, and tension; populated by terrifically entertaining characters and securely grounded in telling detail."--The Miami Herald"SMILEY BRILLIANTLY EVOKES MID-19TH-CENTURY LIFE. . . . Richly imagined and superbly written, Jane Smiley''s new novel is an extraordinary accomplishment in an already distinguished career."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution"A SPRAWLING EPIC . . . A garrulous, nights-by-the-hearth narrative not unlike those classics of the period it emulates. In following a rebellious young woman of 1855 into Kansas Territory and beyond, the novel is so persuasively authentic that it reads like a forgotten document from the days of Twain and Stowe."--The Boston Sunday Globe"CONSISTENTLY ENTERTAINING, FILLED WITH ACTION AND IDEAS."--The New York Times Book Review"ENGAGING . . . [A] HARROWING ADVENTURE . . . This picaresque tale presents a series of remarkable characters, particularly in the inexperienced narrator, whose graphic descriptions of travel and domestic life before the Civil War strip away romantic notions of simpler times. . . . Smiley has created an authentic voice in this struggle of a young woman to live simply amid a swirl of deadly antagonism."--The Christian Science Monitor"A fine historical novel that describes a fascinating time and place . . . It is both funny and subtle, rich in ideas . . . Smiley has created a better all-around piece of fiction than any of her previous work, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres."--The Wall Street Journal"Smiley is a writer of rare versatility who travels widely in her creative endeavors. She proved her mastery of both short fiction and the novel with three sterling works (The Age of Grief, Ordinary Love and Good Will, and A Thousand Acres); her fondness for history had already been established with The Greelanders. In 1995, she successfully extended her repertoire to comedy with the hilarious academic satire Moo. What her new novel shares with all these works is its authorial intelligence."--The Boston Sunday GlobeÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  "Jane Smiley is nothing if not protean, a literary ventriloquist of incredible range. . . . This is a novel that manages to combine the evocative storyteller''s voice with the moviemaker''s sense of drama and visuals, an old-fashioned tale told with contemporary steam and panache."--The Philadelphia Inquirer"Not only is this a rollicking feminist tale of a woman who can handle herself in the thick of the Kansas Wars, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton is also a coming of age story as well as a lasting portrait of the genuinely tumultuous time just before the Civil War."--The Raleigh News &amp; Observer"A tale of love and war, revenge and betrayal, Smiley''s fictional memoir invites comparisons with Gone with the Wind, even War and Peace. . . . Lidie Newton has the ring of honesty and truth. It also carries the stamp of its author''s historical sense, stylistic verve, and moral passion."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch"Full of the same arresting authenticity of detail that carried A Thousand Acres."--New York Daily News"LIDIE IS AN UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER . . . The All-True Travels is a showcase for Smiley''s range and dexterity, dead-on in its emotional impact and resonant in the painful truths it conveys."--San Diego Union-Tribune"Rendered in sharply lucid prose and filled with wonderful period detail . . . Lidie''s story reads like a long and various dream, brightly colored and brilliantly observed--a journey into a world as troubled, ambiguous, and full of life as our own."--Chicago Tribune"An adventure story, full of suspense, near-misses, and coincidence . . . The first and sustaining marvel of [Smiley''s] new novel is Lydia Newton''s voice: grounded in 19th-century reserve, yet honest, self-aware, and curious."--Toronto Globe &amp; Mail"Smiley nabbed a Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres. This stunning new effort should win equally thunderous acclaim."--MademoiselleÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â "An immensely appealing heroine, a historical setting conveyed with impressive fidelity and a charming and poignant love story make Smiley''s new novel a sure candidate for bestseller longevity. . . . Propelled by Lidie''s spirited voice, this narrative is packed with drama, irony, historical incident, moral ambiguities, and the perception of human frailty. . . . This novel performs all the functions of superior fiction: in reading one woman''s moving story, we understand an historical epoch, the social and political conditions that produced it, and the psychological, moral, and economic motivations of the people who incited and endured its violent confrontations."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Gloriously detailed and brilliantly told, this is a hugely entertaining, illuminating, and sagacious vision of a time of profound moral and political conflict, and of one woman''s coming to terms with the perilous, maddening, and precious world."--Booklist (starred review)"Smiley scales another peak with this bighearted and thoughtful picaresque novel. . . . [A] richly entertaining saga of a woman who might have been well matched with Thomas Berger''s Little Big Man, and whom Huck Finn would have been proud to claim as his big sister."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â "HER FINEST WORK YET . . . Resembling a cross between the writing of Jane Austen, Stephen Crane, and Mark Twain . . . A fast-paced historical ride through a defining moment in our nation''s history as seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman. . . . Smiley''s biggest triumph is in the character of Lidie. One can actually ''see'' her growth throughout the story as Lidie learns about the ambiguity of human morality--and that true justice is rarely served."--San Antonio Express-News"Highly recommended . . . Trust Smiley to take a situation charged with both social significance and novelistic opportunity and ride it for all its worth. . . . Smiley gives us a rich lode of historical detail yet keep the story moving, so that it seems to flow by like a river while at the same time yielding up its riches in leisurely fashion."--Library Journal (starred review)"Like Cold Mountain and Beloved--and with more than a casual nod to Mark Twain--this sprawling saga by the Pulitzer-winning author of A Thousand Acres connects readers to the historical issues of the time."--Glamour"Our heroine is a horse-riding, river-swimming, plain-faced young woman with a distinctly well-calibrated mind of her own."--The Baltimore Sun"A long, wild adventure . . . Lidie never loses her pluck, and her story becomes both a rich homage to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and a thrilling variation on the derring-do of Lonesome Dove."--Outside magazine"[A] gripping, epic new novel . . . The All-True Travels is consistently absorbing, thanks in large part to the strong, vibrant voice of the unforgettable Lidie Newton."--Good Housekeeping"Packed with action in a setting worthy of a Western shoot-''em-up."--Newark Star-LedgerÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  "ROUSING . . . ACTION-PACKED . . . A gripping story about love, fortitude, and convictions that are worth fighting for regardless of the outcome. . . . The voice Smiley creates for her sympathetic and wonderfully human heroine is sharp, engaging, wry, and wise."--Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4734'),
(8827, 'The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel', 'Jane Smiley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres"Rousing . . . Action-packed . . . A gripping story about love, fortitude, and convictions that are worth fighting for."--Los Angeles TimesA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK"POWERFUL . . . Smiley takes us back to Kansas in 1855, a place of rising passions and vast uncertainties. Narrated in the spirited, unsentimental voice of 20-year-old Lidie Newton, the novel is at once an ambitious examination of a turning point in history and the riveting story of one woman''s journey into uncharted regions of place and self."--Chicago Tribune"[A] grand tale of the moral and political upheavals igniting antebellum frontier life and a heroine so wonderfully fleshed and unforgettable you will think you are listening to her story instead of reading it. Smiley may have snared a Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres . . . but it is with Lydia (Lidie) Harkness Newton that she emphatically captures our hearts. . . . The key word in Smiley''s title is Adventures, and Lydia''s are crammed with breathless movement, danger, and tension; populated by terrifically entertaining characters and securely grounded in telling detail."--The Miami Herald"SMILEY BRILLIANTLY EVOKES MID-19TH-CENTURY LIFE. . . . Richly imagined and superbly written, Jane Smiley''s new novel is an extraordinary accomplishment in an already distinguished career."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution"A SPRAWLING EPIC . . . A garrulous, nights-by-the-hearth narrative not unlike those classics of the period it emulates. In following a rebellious young woman of 1855 into Kansas Territory and beyond, the novel is so persuasively authentic that it reads like a forgotten document from the days of Twain and Stowe."--The Boston Sunday Globe"CONSISTENTLY ENTERTAINING, FILLED WITH ACTION AND IDEAS."--The New York Times Book Review"ENGAGING . . . [A] HARROWING ADVENTURE . . . This picaresque tale presents a series of remarkable characters, particularly in the inexperienced narrator, whose graphic descriptions of travel and domestic life before the Civil War strip away romantic notions of simpler times. . . . Smiley has created an authentic voice in this struggle of a young woman to live simply amid a swirl of deadly antagonism."--The Christian Science Monitor"A fine historical novel that describes a fascinating time and place . . . It is both funny and subtle, rich in ideas . . . Smiley has created a better all-around piece of fiction than any of her previous work, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres."--The Wall Street Journal"Smiley is a writer of rare versatility who travels widely in her creative endeavors. She proved her mastery of both short fiction and the novel with three sterling works (The Age of Grief, Ordinary Love and Good Will, and A Thousand Acres); her fondness for history had already been established with The Greelanders. In 1995, she successfully extended her repertoire to comedy with the hilarious academic satire Moo. What her new novel shares with all these works is its authorial intelligence."--The Boston Sunday GlobeÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  "Jane Smiley is nothing if not protean, a literary ventriloquist of incredible range. . . . This is a novel that manages to combine the evocative storyteller''s voice with the moviemaker''s sense of drama and visuals, an old-fashioned tale told with contemporary steam and panache."--The Philadelphia Inquirer"Not only is this a rollicking feminist tale of a woman who can handle herself in the thick of the Kansas Wars, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton is also a coming of age story as well as a lasting portrait of the genuinely tumultuous time just before the Civil War."--The Raleigh News &amp; Observer"A tale of love and war, revenge and betrayal, Smiley''s fictional memoir invites comparisons with Gone with the Wind, even War and Peace. . . . Lidie Newton has the ring of honesty and truth. It also carries the stamp of its author''s historical sense, stylistic verve, and moral passion."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch"Full of the same arresting authenticity of detail that carried A Thousand Acres."--New York Daily News"LIDIE IS AN UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER . . . The All-True Travels is a showcase for Smiley''s range and dexterity, dead-on in its emotional impact and resonant in the painful truths it conveys."--San Diego Union-Tribune"Rendered in sharply lucid prose and filled with wonderful period detail . . . Lidie''s story reads like a long and various dream, brightly colored and brilliantly observed--a journey into a world as troubled, ambiguous, and full of life as our own."--Chicago Tribune"An adventure story, full of suspense, near-misses, and coincidence . . . The first and sustaining marvel of [Smiley''s] new novel is Lydia Newton''s voice: grounded in 19th-century reserve, yet honest, self-aware, and curious."--Toronto Globe &amp; Mail"Smiley nabbed a Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres. This stunning new effort should win equally thunderous acclaim."--MademoiselleÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â "An immensely appealing heroine, a historical setting conveyed with impressive fidelity and a charming and poignant love story make Smiley''s new novel a sure candidate for bestseller longevity. . . . Propelled by Lidie''s spirited voice, this narrative is packed with drama, irony, historical incident, moral ambiguities, and the perception of human frailty. . . . This novel performs all the functions of superior fiction: in reading one woman''s moving story, we understand an historical epoch, the social and political conditions that produced it, and the psychological, moral, and economic motivations of the people who incited and endured its violent confrontations."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Gloriously detailed and brilliantly told, this is a hugely entertaining, illuminating, and sagacious vision of a time of profound moral and political conflict, and of one woman''s coming to terms with the perilous, maddening, and precious world."--Booklist (starred review)"Smiley scales another peak with this bighearted and thoughtful picaresque novel. . . . [A] richly entertaining saga of a woman who might have been well matched with Thomas Berger''s Little Big Man, and whom Huck Finn would have been proud to claim as his big sister."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â "HER FINEST WORK YET . . . Resembling a cross between the writing of Jane Austen, Stephen Crane, and Mark Twain . . . A fast-paced historical ride through a defining moment in our nation''s history as seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman. . . . Smiley''s biggest triumph is in the character of Lidie. One can actually ''see'' her growth throughout the story as Lidie learns about the ambiguity of human morality--and that true justice is rarely served."--San Antonio Express-News"Highly recommended . . . Trust Smiley to take a situation charged with both social significance and novelistic opportunity and ride it for all its worth. . . . Smiley gives us a rich lode of historical detail yet keep the story moving, so that it seems to flow by like a river while at the same time yielding up its riches in leisurely fashion."--Library Journal (starred review)"Like Cold Mountain and Beloved--and with more than a casual nod to Mark Twain--this sprawling saga by the Pulitzer-winning author of A Thousand Acres connects readers to the historical issues of the time."--Glamour"Our heroine is a horse-riding, river-swimming, plain-faced young woman with a distinctly well-calibrated mind of her own."--The Baltimore Sun"A long, wild adventure . . . Lidie never loses her pluck, and her story becomes both a rich homage to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and a thrilling variation on the derring-do of Lonesome Dove."--Outside magazine"[A] gripping, epic new novel . . . The All-True Travels is consistently absorbing, thanks in large part to the strong, vibrant voice of the unforgettable Lidie Newton."--Good Housekeeping"Packed with action in a setting worthy of a Western shoot-''em-up."--Newark Star-LedgerÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  "ROUSING . . . ACTION-PACKED . . . A gripping story about love, fortitude, and convictions that are worth fighting for regardless of the outcome. . . . The voice Smiley creates for her sympathetic and wonderfully human heroine is sharp, engaging, wry, and wise."--Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12719'),
(8828, 'Alliance', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25676'),
(8829, 'Alligator Bayou', 'Donna Jo Napoli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Building on her extensive research conducted after reading a newspaper article about the lynching of Sicilian grocers in Tallulah, LA, in 1899, Napoli presents a moving, sobering story about an aspect of American immigration that is probably unknown to most readers. After his mother''s death, 14-year-old Calogero leaves his bustling Sicilian home for the sleepy southern town to help his uncles and younger cousin run their grocery store. White customers expect to be served before blacks and make their displeasure angrily apparent when the Sicilians fail to do so. Barred from the white school and unaware that he can attend the black school, Calogero learns English from a tutor who also tries to help him comprehend Southern American behavior. The cousins meet some African American boys who take them on a terrifying alligator hunt that firmly cements their friendship. Calogero is attracted to Patricia, a African American girl, but fails to fully understand the danger behind her fear of being seen in public with him. Although he has heard his uncles'' stories of the recent lynching of Sicilians in New Orleans, he is unprepared for the horrifying tragedy that befalls his family when a local white doctor kills Uncle Francesco''s goats and then convinces an angry mob that the Sicilians plan to retaliate violently. Historical events are smoothly integrated with vivid everyday details, strong characterizations, and genuine-sounding dialogue. Ultimately, the author expands her themes beyond the story''s specifics, encouraging readers to reconsider the motivations behind this calamity and other manifestations of racism.â€”_Ginny Gustin, Sonoma County Library System, Santa Rosa, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n ...The facts from [a] little-told chapter in American history frame Napoliâ€™s wrenching novel about a 14-year-old Sicilian, Calogero, who joins male relatives in Tallulah after his motherâ€™s death. Legally segregated from both whites and blacks, the Italians maintain an insular life, focused on their thriving produce business, until Caloâ€™s secret crush on African American Patricia begins to dissolve social barriers between the two communities, even as social tensions with whites escalate into shocking violence. Through Caloâ€™s active questioning, Napoli integrates a great deal of background history that is further explored in an extensive authorâ€™s note. Readers learn, right along with naive Calo, the draconian specifics of Jim Crow laws and the complex factors of fear and economics that fueled the Southâ€™s entrenched bigotry. A few passages do have a purposeful feel, particularly those between Calo and his tutor, but Napoliâ€™s skillful pacing and fascinating detail combine in a gripping story that sheds cold, new light on Southern history and on the nature of racial prejudice. Grades 7-10. --Gillian Engberg\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5960'),
(8830, 'Alligator Bayou', 'Donna Jo Napoli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Building on her extensive research conducted after reading a newspaper article about the lynching of Sicilian grocers in Tallulah, LA, in 1899, Napoli presents a moving, sobering story about an aspect of American immigration that is probably unknown to most readers. After his mother''s death, 14-year-old Calogero leaves his bustling Sicilian home for the sleepy southern town to help his uncles and younger cousin run their grocery store. White customers expect to be served before blacks and make their displeasure angrily apparent when the Sicilians fail to do so. Barred from the white school and unaware that he can attend the black school, Calogero learns English from a tutor who also tries to help him comprehend Southern American behavior. The cousins meet some African American boys who take them on a terrifying alligator hunt that firmly cements their friendship. Calogero is attracted to Patricia, a African American girl, but fails to fully understand the danger behind her fear of being seen in public with him. Although he has heard his uncles'' stories of the recent lynching of Sicilians in New Orleans, he is unprepared for the horrifying tragedy that befalls his family when a local white doctor kills Uncle Francesco''s goats and then convinces an angry mob that the Sicilians plan to retaliate violently. Historical events are smoothly integrated with vivid everyday details, strong characterizations, and genuine-sounding dialogue. Ultimately, the author expands her themes beyond the story''s specifics, encouraging readers to reconsider the motivations behind this calamity and other manifestations of racism.â€”_Ginny Gustin, Sonoma County Library System, Santa Rosa, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n ...The facts from [a] little-told chapter in American history frame Napoliâ€™s wrenching novel about a 14-year-old Sicilian, Calogero, who joins male relatives in Tallulah after his motherâ€™s death. Legally segregated from both whites and blacks, the Italians maintain an insular life, focused on their thriving produce business, until Caloâ€™s secret crush on African American Patricia begins to dissolve social barriers between the two communities, even as social tensions with whites escalate into shocking violence. Through Caloâ€™s active questioning, Napoli integrates a great deal of background history that is further explored in an extensive authorâ€™s note. Readers learn, right along with naive Calo, the draconian specifics of Jim Crow laws and the complex factors of fear and economics that fueled the Southâ€™s entrenched bigotry. A few passages do have a purposeful feel, particularly those between Calo and his tutor, but Napoliâ€™s skillful pacing and fascinating detail combine in a gripping story that sheds cold, new light on Southern history and on the nature of racial prejudice. Grades 7-10. --Gillian Engberg\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11638'),
(8831, 'Alligator Bayou', 'Donna Jo Napoli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Building on her extensive research conducted after reading a newspaper article about the lynching of Sicilian grocers in Tallulah, LA, in 1899, Napoli presents a moving, sobering story about an aspect of American immigration that is probably unknown to most readers. After his mother''s death, 14-year-old Calogero leaves his bustling Sicilian home for the sleepy southern town to help his uncles and younger cousin run their grocery store. White customers expect to be served before blacks and make their displeasure angrily apparent when the Sicilians fail to do so. Barred from the white school and unaware that he can attend the black school, Calogero learns English from a tutor who also tries to help him comprehend Southern American behavior. The cousins meet some African American boys who take them on a terrifying alligator hunt that firmly cements their friendship. Calogero is attracted to Patricia, a African American girl, but fails to fully understand the danger behind her fear of being seen in public with him. Although he has heard his uncles'' stories of the recent lynching of Sicilians in New Orleans, he is unprepared for the horrifying tragedy that befalls his family when a local white doctor kills Uncle Francesco''s goats and then convinces an angry mob that the Sicilians plan to retaliate violently. Historical events are smoothly integrated with vivid everyday details, strong characterizations, and genuine-sounding dialogue. Ultimately, the author expands her themes beyond the story''s specifics, encouraging readers to reconsider the motivations behind this calamity and other manifestations of racism.â€”_Ginny Gustin, Sonoma County Library System, Santa Rosa, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n ...The facts from [a] little-told chapter in American history frame Napoliâ€™s wrenching novel about a 14-year-old Sicilian, Calogero, who joins male relatives in Tallulah after his motherâ€™s death. Legally segregated from both whites and blacks, the Italians maintain an insular life, focused on their thriving produce business, until Caloâ€™s secret crush on African American Patricia begins to dissolve social barriers between the two communities, even as social tensions with whites escalate into shocking violence. Through Caloâ€™s active questioning, Napoli integrates a great deal of background history that is further explored in an extensive authorâ€™s note. Readers learn, right along with naive Calo, the draconian specifics of Jim Crow laws and the complex factors of fear and economics that fueled the Southâ€™s entrenched bigotry. A few passages do have a purposeful feel, particularly those between Calo and his tutor, but Napoliâ€™s skillful pacing and fascinating detail combine in a gripping story that sheds cold, new light on Southern history and on the nature of racial prejudice. Grades 7-10. --Gillian Engberg\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18673'),
(8832, 'Alma', 'William Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBell writes with taut drama, building scene upon scene to the climactic revelation.â€\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Booklist_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Award-winning YA author William Bellâ€™s Alma is the captivating story of a quiet girl who builds a friendship with a reclusive stranger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Times have been tough since Almaâ€™s father died and she and her mother had to give up their farm and move into town. Luckily, Alma can always retreat into the books of her favourite author, R.R. Hawkins.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Almaâ€™s teacher notices her lovely handwriting, she recommends Alma for a job transcribing letters for â€œMiss Lily,â€ a reclusive old woman who has just arrived from Boston. Eventually, their mutual love of reading creates a strong friendship. Miss Lily lends Alma some of her favourite books, introduces her to calligraphy, and encourages her passion to write stories.\n</p>\n<p>\n But who is this difficult and solitary old woman who reminds Alma of Dickensâ€™ Miss Havisham? And why is she so secretive about the part of her life she refuses to share? Could she be, as Alma begins to suspect, R.R. Hawkins herself? Alma is determined to find out.\n</p>\n<p>\n This touching story explores the relationship between a blossoming writer and her mentor, and delves into the complicated dynamics of friendship and trust.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/201'),
(8833, 'Alma', 'William Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBell writes with taut drama, building scene upon scene to the climactic revelation.â€\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Booklist_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Award-winning YA author William Bellâ€™s Alma is the captivating story of a quiet girl who builds a friendship with a reclusive stranger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Times have been tough since Almaâ€™s father died and she and her mother had to give up their farm and move into town. Luckily, Alma can always retreat into the books of her favourite author, R.R. Hawkins.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Almaâ€™s teacher notices her lovely handwriting, she recommends Alma for a job transcribing letters for â€œMiss Lily,â€ a reclusive old woman who has just arrived from Boston. Eventually, their mutual love of reading creates a strong friendship. Miss Lily lends Alma some of her favourite books, introduces her to calligraphy, and encourages her passion to write stories.\n</p>\n<p>\n But who is this difficult and solitary old woman who reminds Alma of Dickensâ€™ Miss Havisham? And why is she so secretive about the part of her life she refuses to share? Could she be, as Alma begins to suspect, R.R. Hawkins herself? Alma is determined to find out.\n</p>\n<p>\n This touching story explores the relationship between a blossoming writer and her mentor, and delves into the complicated dynamics of friendship and trust.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8411'),
(8834, 'Alma', 'William Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBell writes with taut drama, building scene upon scene to the climactic revelation.â€\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Booklist_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Award-winning YA author William Bellâ€™s Alma is the captivating story of a quiet girl who builds a friendship with a reclusive stranger.\n</p>\n<p>\n Times have been tough since Almaâ€™s father died and she and her mother had to give up their farm and move into town. Luckily, Alma can always retreat into the books of her favourite author, R.R. Hawkins.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Almaâ€™s teacher notices her lovely handwriting, she recommends Alma for a job transcribing letters for â€œMiss Lily,â€ a reclusive old woman who has just arrived from Boston. Eventually, their mutual love of reading creates a strong friendship. Miss Lily lends Alma some of her favourite books, introduces her to calligraphy, and encourages her passion to write stories.\n</p>\n<p>\n But who is this difficult and solitary old woman who reminds Alma of Dickensâ€™ Miss Havisham? And why is she so secretive about the part of her life she refuses to share? Could she be, as Alma begins to suspect, R.R. Hawkins herself? Alma is determined to find out.\n</p>\n<p>\n This touching story explores the relationship between a blossoming writer and her mentor, and delves into the complicated dynamics of friendship and trust.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24688');
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(8835, 'Almost a Family', 'John Darnton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Soon after Pearl Harbor, Darnton''s father, Barney Darnton, a correspondent for the New York Times, shipped off to the South Pacific, leaving behind infant Darnton and his older brother and mother. By year''s end, Barney had been killed in the war. Darnton''s mother, also a reporter and editor at the Times, struggled to raise her kids on her own. Darnton describes his adolescence, such as attending and getting expelled from prep school, attending college, meeting his future wife, and eventually finding his own way into journalism. In this unsentimental narrative, Darnton vividly chronicles the high-water era of classic journalism and his stints as a Times correspondent in Africa and Solidarity-era Poland, but what drives his memoir are the pursuit of the fullest possible picture of his father''s death, the story of his mother''s alcoholism and sobriety, and most of all, the quest for deeply buried facts about his parents and their relationship. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this interesting and often moving memoir of loss, longing, and discovery, Darnton, a Pulitzer Prize''winning journalist, was only 11 months old when his father, Barney, a war correspondent, was killed in New Guinea in 1942. Barney''s wife and John''s mother was also a journalist. She was an emotionally fragile woman who was prone to long periods of severe depression, but she created and passed on to her children an idealized fantasy of their brief, earlier family life. Eventually John, assisted by his historian brother, Robert, felt a compulsion to learn more about a father he never knew. The result of their odyssey is surprising and painful but liberating. Their father is revealed as both less saintly and more interesting than the portrait created for them. As his revelations unfold, Darnton also offers a vivid description of the evolution of American society over the decades preceding WWII. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8058'),
(8836, 'Almost Dead: A Novel', 'Assaf Gavron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Politically incorrect, provocative, and steeped in wit and irony, a fast-paced tragicomedy about the perfectly ordinary madness in today''s Middle East  A thirtysomething Tel Aviv businessman, Eitan "Croc" Einoch''s life is turned upside down when he narrowly escapes a suicide bombing on the minibus he rides to work. When he lives through a second attack, and then a third, he becomes, reluctantly, a national media celebrity. Naturally, the Palestinian terrorists responsible for the attacks are less than happy. This embarrassing symbol of their failure--this "CrocAttack"--must be neutralized.  Meanwhile, Fahmi Sabih lies in a coma, quarrelling with his conscience. The young Palestinian suicide bomber has learned everything he knows about bombs, targets, and revenge from his brother. So why has Einoch survived? As Fahmi''s story unfolds, it becomes clear that their paths are destined to cross again--for there is another bombing still to come--and then luck will change drastically for one or both of them. But who, if anyone, has right on his side?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7358'),
(8837, 'Almost Dead: A Novel', 'Assaf Gavron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Politically incorrect, provocative, and steeped in wit and irony, a fast-paced tragicomedy about the perfectly ordinary madness in today''s Middle East  A thirtysomething Tel Aviv businessman, Eitan "Croc" Einoch''s life is turned upside down when he narrowly escapes a suicide bombing on the minibus he rides to work. When he lives through a second attack, and then a third, he becomes, reluctantly, a national media celebrity. Naturally, the Palestinian terrorists responsible for the attacks are less than happy. This embarrassing symbol of their failure--this "CrocAttack"--must be neutralized.  Meanwhile, Fahmi Sabih lies in a coma, quarrelling with his conscience. The young Palestinian suicide bomber has learned everything he knows about bombs, targets, and revenge from his brother. So why has Einoch survived? As Fahmi''s story unfolds, it becomes clear that their paths are destined to cross again--for there is another bombing still to come--and then luck will change drastically for one or both of them. But who, if anyone, has right on his side?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9933'),
(8838, 'Almost Dead: A Novel', 'Assaf Gavron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Politically incorrect, provocative, and steeped in wit and irony, a fast-paced tragicomedy about the perfectly ordinary madness in today''s Middle East A thirtysomething Tel Aviv businessman, Eitan "Croc" Einoch''s life is turned upside down when he narrowly escapes a suicide bombing on the minibus he rides to work. When he lives through a second attack, and then a third, he becomes, reluctantly, a national media celebrity. Naturally, the Palestinian terrorists responsible for the attacks are less than happy. This embarrassing symbol of their failure--this "CrocAttack"--must be neutralized. Meanwhile, Fahmi Sabih lies in a coma, quarrelling with his conscience. The young Palestinian suicide bomber has learned everything he knows about bombs, targets, and revenge from his brother. So why has Einoch survived? As Fahmi''s story unfolds, it becomes clear that their paths are destined to cross again--for there is another bombing still to come--and then luck will change drastically for one or both of them. But who, if anyone, has right on his side?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16455'),
(8839, 'Almost Dead: A Novel', 'Assaf Gavron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Politically incorrect, provocative, and steeped in wit and irony, a fast-paced tragicomedy about the perfectly ordinary madness in today''s Middle East A thirtysomething Tel Aviv businessman, Eitan "Croc" Einoch''s life is turned upside down when he narrowly escapes a suicide bombing on the minibus he rides to work. When he lives through a second attack, and then a third, he becomes, reluctantly, a national media celebrity. Naturally, the Palestinian terrorists responsible for the attacks are less than happy. This embarrassing symbol of their failure--this "CrocAttack"--must be neutralized. Meanwhile, Fahmi Sabih lies in a coma, quarrelling with his conscience. The young Palestinian suicide bomber has learned everything he knows about bombs, targets, and revenge from his brother. So why has Einoch survived? As Fahmi''s story unfolds, it becomes clear that their paths are destined to cross again--for there is another bombing still to come--and then luck will change drastically for one or both of them. But who, if anyone, has right on his side?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26464'),
(8840, 'Almost Perfect', 'James Goss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The ninth novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. Emma is 30, single and, frankly, desperate. She woke up this morning with nothing to look forward to but another evening of unsuccessful speed-dating. But now she has a new weapon in her quest for Mr Right. And it''s made her almost perfect! Ianto Jones woke up this morning with no memory of last night. He went to work, where he caused amusement, suspicion, and a little bit of jealousy. Because Ianto Jones woke up this morning in the body of a woman! And he''s looking just about perfect! And Jack Harkness has always had his doubts about Perfection...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25572'),
(8841, 'Alone Together: How Marriage in America Is Changing', 'Paul R. Amato; Alan Booth; David R. Johnson; Stacy J. Rogers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Alone Together\n </em>\n is an immensely useful book. It deals with an important topic by drawing on a unique data set, analyzing and interpreting the data in a very sophisticated fashion and presenting the results in clear, straightforward prose. The book is dense with useful and interesting information, and the authors have made a very important contribution. They are masters at what they do.\n <br />\n --Norval Glenn, The University of Texas at Austin (20080901)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the best and most comprehensive examination available of how the institution of marriage in America has changed over the past few decades.\n <br />\n --David Popenoe (_International Journal of Sociology of the Family_ 20080901)\n</p>\n<p>\n One of the most comprehensive studies of marriage.\n <br />\n --Sue Shellenbarger (_Wall Street Journal_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n The authors find increasing separateness in aspects of marital life, along with maintained or even increased stability and commitment to the relationship. The details hold as much interest as the big picture...[A] landmark, authoritative, complex but readable study...This book offers a wealth of useful information to professional helpers, clergy, judges, policy makers, and general readers. A cornucopia of data and ideas, it is a boon to everyone who wants to know what is going on at home in America.\n <br />\n --E. James Lieberman (_PsycCritiques_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n [_Alone Together_] makes an important and timely contribution to the current debate about the meaning of marriage in American society...For teachers and researchers in marriage and family studies, this book is an extremely valuable resource.\n <br />\n --Susan D. Stewart (_American Journal of Sociology_ )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Most observers agree that marriage in America has been changing. Some think it is in decline, that the growth of individualism has made it increasingly difficult to achieve satisfying and stable relationships. Others believe that changes, such as increasing gender equality, have made marriage a better arrangement for men as well as women.\n</p>\n<p>\n Based on two studies of marital quality in America twenty years apart, this book takes a middle view, showing that while the divorce rate has leveled off, spouses are spending less time togetherâ€”people may be â€œbowling aloneâ€ these days, but married couples are also eating alone. Indeed, the declining social capital of married couplesâ€”including the fact that couples have fewer shared friendsâ€”combined with the general erosion of community ties in American society has had pervasive, negative effects on marital quality.\n</p>\n<p>\n At the same time, family income has increased, decision-making equality between husbands and wives is greater, marital conflict and violence have declined, and the norm of lifelong marriage enjoys greater support than ever.\n</p>\n<p>\n The authors conclude that marriage is an adaptable institution, and in accommodating the vast changes that have occurred in society over the recent past, it has become a less cohesive, yet less confining arrangement.\n</p>\n<p>\n (20080702)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21534'),
(8842, 'Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other', 'Sherry Turkle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. As the digital age sparks increasing debate about what new technologies and increased connectivity are doing to our brains, comes this chilling examination of what our iPods and iPads are doing to our relationships from MIT professor Turkle (Simulation and Its Discontents). In this third in a trilogy that explores the relationship between humans and technology, Turkle argues that people are increasingly functioning without face-to-face contact. For all the talk of convenience and connection derived from texting, e-mailing, and social networking, Turkle reaffirms that what humans still instinctively need is each other, and she encounters dissatisfaction and alienation among users: teenagers whose identities are shaped not by self-exploration but by how they are perceived by the online collective, mothers who feel texting makes communicating with their children more frequent yet less substantive, Facebook users who feel shallow status updates devalue the true intimacies of friendships. Turkle ''s prescient book makes a strong case that what was meant to be a way to facilitate communications has pushed people closer to their machines and further away from each other. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the recent explosion of increasingly sophisticated cell-phone technology and social networking websites like Twitter and Facebook, a casual observer might understandably conclude that human relationships are blossoming like never before. But according to MIT science professor Turkle, that assumption would be sadly wrong. In the third and final volume of a trilogy dissecting the interface between humans and technology, Turkle suggests that we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things. In her university-sponsored studies surveying everything from text-message usage among teens to the use of robotic baby seals in nursing homes for companionship, Turkle paints a sobering and paradoxical portrait of human disconnectedness in the face of expanding virtual connections in cell-phone, intelligent machine, and Internet usage. Despite her reliance on research observations, Turkle emphasizes personal stories from computer gadgetryâ€™s front lines, which keeps her prose engaging and her message to the human speciesâ€”to restrain ourselves from becoming technologyâ€™s willing slaves instead of its guiding mastersâ€”loud and clear. --Carl Hays\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1295'),
(8843, 'Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other', 'Sherry Turkle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. As the digital age sparks increasing debate about what new technologies and increased connectivity are doing to our brains, comes this chilling examination of what our iPods and iPads are doing to our relationships from MIT professor Turkle (Simulation and Its Discontents). In this third in a trilogy that explores the relationship between humans and technology, Turkle argues that people are increasingly functioning without face-to-face contact. For all the talk of convenience and connection derived from texting, e-mailing, and social networking, Turkle reaffirms that what humans still instinctively need is each other, and she encounters dissatisfaction and alienation among users: teenagers whose identities are shaped not by self-exploration but by how they are perceived by the online collective, mothers who feel texting makes communicating with their children more frequent yet less substantive, Facebook users who feel shallow status updates devalue the true intimacies of friendships. Turkle ''s prescient book makes a strong case that what was meant to be a way to facilitate communications has pushed people closer to their machines and further away from each other. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the recent explosion of increasingly sophisticated cell-phone technology and social networking websites like Twitter and Facebook, a casual observer might understandably conclude that human relationships are blossoming like never before. But according to MIT science professor Turkle, that assumption would be sadly wrong. In the third and final volume of a trilogy dissecting the interface between humans and technology, Turkle suggests that we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things. In her university-sponsored studies surveying everything from text-message usage among teens to the use of robotic baby seals in nursing homes for companionship, Turkle paints a sobering and paradoxical portrait of human disconnectedness in the face of expanding virtual connections in cell-phone, intelligent machine, and Internet usage. Despite her reliance on research observations, Turkle emphasizes personal stories from computer gadgetryâ€™s front lines, which keeps her prose engaging and her message to the human speciesâ€”to restrain ourselves from becoming technologyâ€™s willing slaves instead of its guiding mastersâ€”loud and clear. --Carl Hays\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13058'),
(8844, 'Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other', 'Sherry Turkle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. As the digital age sparks increasing debate about what new technologies and increased connectivity are doing to our brains, comes this chilling examination of what our iPods and iPads are doing to our relationships from MIT professor Turkle (Simulation and Its Discontents). In this third in a trilogy that explores the relationship between humans and technology, Turkle argues that people are increasingly functioning without face-to-face contact. For all the talk of convenience and connection derived from texting, e-mailing, and social networking, Turkle reaffirms that what humans still instinctively need is each other, and she encounters dissatisfaction and alienation among users: teenagers whose identities are shaped not by self-exploration but by how they are perceived by the online collective, mothers who feel texting makes communicating with their children more frequent yet less substantive, Facebook users who feel shallow status updates devalue the true intimacies of friendships. Turkle ''s prescient book makes a strong case that what was meant to be a way to facilitate communications has pushed people closer to their machines and further away from each other. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With the recent explosion of increasingly sophisticated cell-phone technology and social networking websites like Twitter and Facebook, a casual observer might understandably conclude that human relationships are blossoming like never before. But according to MIT science professor Turkle, that assumption would be sadly wrong. In the third and final volume of a trilogy dissecting the interface between humans and technology, Turkle suggests that we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things. In her university-sponsored studies surveying everything from text-message usage among teens to the use of robotic baby seals in nursing homes for companionship, Turkle paints a sobering and paradoxical portrait of human disconnectedness in the face of expanding virtual connections in cell-phone, intelligent machine, and Internet usage. Despite her reliance on research observations, Turkle emphasizes personal stories from computer gadgetryâ€™s front lines, which keeps her prose engaging and her message to the human speciesâ€”to restrain ourselves from becoming technologyâ€™s willing slaves instead of its guiding mastersâ€”loud and clear. --Carl Hays\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23650'),
(8845, 'Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991', 'Ramsey Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world''s most honored author of horror fiction. He has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and the Horror Writers'' Association''s Lifetime Achievement Award. Three decades into his career, Campbell paused to review his body of short fiction and selected the stories that were, to his mind, the very best of his works. Alone With the Horrors collects nearly forty tales from the first thirty years of Campbell''s writing, including several award-winners.Campbell crowns the book with a length preface-revised for this edition-which traces his early publication history, discusses his youthful correspondence with August Derleth, and illuminates the influence of H.P. Lovecraft on his work.Alone With the Horrors provides readers with a close look at a powerful writer''s development of his craft.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21475'),
(8846, 'Along Came a Husband', 'Helen Brenna', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Missy Charms just got the shock of her life. The man she thought was dead has turned up on her doorstep.Her ex-husband-Jonas Abel.Four years ago, Missy Charms fell hard for Jonas. But his FBI job always came first. Missy only wanted-still wants-a home and family. Jonas isn''t husband material, not even close. And now his latest undercover mission has trailed him to Mirabelle Island. With both their lives on the line, Missy knows she''s been fooling herself. She loves Jonas as much as she ever did-maybe more. His return also means finally admitting the truth: she can''t lose him againhellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5126'),
(8847, 'Along Came a Husband', 'Helen Brenna', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Missy Charms just got the shock of her life. The man she thought was dead has turned up on her doorstep.Her ex-husband-Jonas Abel.Four years ago, Missy Charms fell hard for Jonas. But his FBI job always came first. Missy only wanted-still wants-a home and family. Jonas isn''t husband material, not even close. And now his latest undercover mission has trailed him to Mirabelle Island. With both their lives on the line, Missy knows she''s been fooling herself. She loves Jonas as much as she ever did-maybe more. His return also means finally admitting the truth: she can''t lose him againhellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19489'),
(8848, 'Along Came a Husband', 'Helen Brenna', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Missy Charms just got the shock of her life. The man she thought was dead has turned up on her doorstep.Her ex-husband-Jonas Abel.Four years ago, Missy Charms fell hard for Jonas. But his FBI job always came first. Missy only wanted-still wants-a home and family. Jonas isn''t husband material, not even close. And now his latest undercover mission has trailed him to Mirabelle Island. With both their lives on the line, Missy knows she''s been fooling herself. She loves Jonas as much as she ever did-maybe more. His return also means finally admitting the truth: she can''t lose him againhellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28148'),
(8849, 'Along Came a Spider', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A missing little girl named Maggie Rose. A family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. The thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher. A psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who calls himself the Son of Lindbergh. He is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him-even after he''s been captured.Gary Soneji is a mild-mannered mathematics teacher at a Washington, D.C., private school for the children of the political and social elite. He''s so popular that the kids all call him "Mr. Chips." And he''s very, very smart. Growing up, he always knew he was smarter than the rest of them-he knew that the Great Ones always fooled everybody. He kidnaps Maggie Rose, the golden-haired daughter of a famous movie actress, and her best friend, Shrimpie Goldberg, the son of the secretary of the treasury, right out from under the noses of their two Secret Service agents. But Gary Soneji is not surprised at his skill. He''s done it before. Hundreds of times before.Alex Cross must face the ultimate test as a psychologist: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath? Especially one who appears to have a split personality-one who won''t let the other half remember those horrific acts?Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Who will be his next victim?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4817'),
(8850, 'Along Came a Spider', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A missing little girl named Maggie Rose. A family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. The thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher. A psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who calls himself the Son of Lindbergh. He is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him-even after he''s been captured.Gary Soneji is a mild-mannered mathematics teacher at a Washington, D.C., private school for the children of the political and social elite. He''s so popular that the kids all call him "Mr. Chips." And he''s very, very smart. Growing up, he always knew he was smarter than the rest of them-he knew that the Great Ones always fooled everybody. He kidnaps Maggie Rose, the golden-haired daughter of a famous movie actress, and her best friend, Shrimpie Goldberg, the son of the secretary of the treasury, right out from under the noses of their two Secret Service agents. But Gary Soneji is not surprised at his skill. He''s done it before. Hundreds of times before.Alex Cross must face the ultimate test as a psychologist: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath? Especially one who appears to have a split personality-one who won''t let the other half remember those horrific acts?Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Who will be his next victim?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11761'),
(8851, 'Along Came a Spider', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A missing little girl named Maggie Rose. A family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. The thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher. A psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who calls himself the Son of Lindbergh. He is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him-even after he''s been captured.Gary Soneji is a mild-mannered mathematics teacher at a Washington, D.C., private school for the children of the political and social elite. He''s so popular that the kids all call him "Mr. Chips." And he''s very, very smart. Growing up, he always knew he was smarter than the rest of them-he knew that the Great Ones always fooled everybody. He kidnaps Maggie Rose, the golden-haired daughter of a famous movie actress, and her best friend, Shrimpie Goldberg, the son of the secretary of the treasury, right out from under the noses of their two Secret Service agents. But Gary Soneji is not surprised at his skill. He''s done it before. Hundreds of times before.Alex Cross must face the ultimate test as a psychologist: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath? Especially one who appears to have a split personality-one who won''t let the other half remember those horrific acts?Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Who will be his next victim?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13952'),
(8852, 'Along Came a Spider', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A missing little girl named Maggie Rose. A family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. The thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher. A psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who calls himself the Son of Lindbergh. He is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him-even after he''s been captured.Gary Soneji is a mild-mannered mathematics teacher at a Washington, D.C., private school for the children of the political and social elite. He''s so popular that the kids all call him "Mr. Chips." And he''s very, very smart. Growing up, he always knew he was smarter than the rest of them-he knew that the Great Ones always fooled everybody. He kidnaps Maggie Rose, the golden-haired daughter of a famous movie actress, and her best friend, Shrimpie Goldberg, the son of the secretary of the treasury, right out from under the noses of their two Secret Service agents. But Gary Soneji is not surprised at his skill. He''s done it before. Hundreds of times before.Alex Cross must face the ultimate test as a psychologist: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath? Especially one who appears to have a split personality-one who won''t let the other half remember those horrific acts?Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Who will be his next victim?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19838'),
(8853, 'Along for the Ride', 'Sarah Dessen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents'' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning toride a bike and dating.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1412'),
(8854, 'Along for the Ride', 'Sarah Dessen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents'' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning toride a bike and dating.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9211'),
(8855, 'Along for the Ride', 'Sarah Dessen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents'' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning toride a bike and dating.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23578'),
(8856, 'Alpha Force 01: Survival', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Five kids: Alex, Li, Paulo, Hex and Amber bond on board a sailing ship. When they are marooned on a desert island, they must face the ultimate test -- survival! The team is born.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15415'),
(8857, 'Alpha Force 02: Rat-catcher', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The elite young SAS team sees action in a South American operation to catch a drug baron, where their individual skills are tested to the max.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15408'),
(8858, 'Alpha Force 03 - Desert Pursuit', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15396'),
(8859, 'Alpha Force 04: Hostage', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In their toughest challenge yet, Alex, Li, Paulo, Hex and Amber fly to Alaska to investigate reports of illegal dumping of toxic waste. They must mobilize all their survival skills to cope with the harsh landscape, and a man who is out to kill them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15402'),
(8860, 'Alpha Force 05: Red Centre', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alpha Force â€“ a group of five kids dedicated to fighting against injustice in the world â€“ are in Australia, helping with a TV reality show. But when Paulo spots a dangerous terrorist hiding out in a nearby town, events suddenly force them into a terrifying adventure as the terrorist seizes hostages and flies off into the bush. Supporting the Australian SAS, Alpha Force has to take action â€“ even if it means flying into the middle of a scary bushfire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15411'),
(8861, 'Alpha Force 06: Hunted', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The team freefall into danger.The elite young squad head to Namibia to compete in an extreme sports contest. When they discover a horrifying threat to the local wildlife, they snap into action, only to find themselves facing a desperate flight across the African plains, hunted by a group who are prepared to shoot to kill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15403'),
(8862, 'Alpha Force 07 - Blood Money', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15390'),
(8863, 'Alpha Force 08 - Fault Line', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15399'),
(8864, 'Alpha Force 09: Black Gold', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alpha Force are in the Caribbean, diving, when a sudden oil spill draws them into a new mission. All their skills â€” powerboating, scuba-diving and jetskiing â€” are needed when an underwater bomb explodes. And then an assassin strikes . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15389'),
(8865, 'Alpha Force 10 - Untouchable', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15421'),
(8866, 'Alpha One', 'Chris Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What lies beyond the worm hole is the devil incarnate...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jake is a trainee Jump Pilot and war is rife in the galaxy...The Sentinels are very sensitive about a region of space, light years from their territorial boundaries. They are guided by the Betanica Sect, who seek to protect the galaxy and in particular the Tri Star Region from invasion by the Kryl. The Kryl are the devil incarnate.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jake is a final year Alpha Academy student and he has chosen Jump Ship Command to launch his career. He and Steve are two of the brightest academy pilots. They are also vying for the affection of the same girl. Carla is looking for her sister, who left home 6 years before to join the Collective, led by the sinister and mysterious Professor Winterburn. Winterburn casts a spell over everyone he meets.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Sentinels and the Betanica Sect lock horns with Alpha in a battle to assume control of the Tri Star System. Alpha''s aim is to open the Blue Worm hole; a gateway to another galaxy. The gathering masses are joined by Winterburn and his flock and by Jake and Steve whose sole intention is to rescue Carla Stevenson from Winterburnâ€™s clutches.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6823'),
(8867, 'Alpha One', 'Chris Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What lies beyond the worm hole is the devil incarnate...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jake is a trainee Jump Pilot and war is rife in the galaxy...The Sentinels are very sensitive about a region of space, light years from their territorial boundaries. They are guided by the Betanica Sect, who seek to protect the galaxy and in particular the Tri Star Region from invasion by the Kryl. The Kryl are the devil incarnate.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jake is a final year Alpha Academy student and he has chosen Jump Ship Command to launch his career. He and Steve are two of the brightest academy pilots. They are also vying for the affection of the same girl. Carla is looking for her sister, who left home 6 years before to join the Collective, led by the sinister and mysterious Professor Winterburn. Winterburn casts a spell over everyone he meets.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Sentinels and the Betanica Sect lock horns with Alpha in a battle to assume control of the Tri Star System. Alpha''s aim is to open the Blue Worm hole; a gateway to another galaxy. The gathering masses are joined by Winterburn and his flock and by Jake and Steve whose sole intention is to rescue Carla Stevenson from Winterburnâ€™s clutches.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8756'),
(8868, 'Alpha One', 'Chris Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What lies beyond the worm hole is the devil incarnate... Jake is a trainee Jump Pilot and war is rife in the galaxy...The Sentinels are very sensitive about a region of space, light years from their territorial boundaries. They are guided by the Betanica Sect, who seek to protect the galaxy and in particular the Tri Star Region from invasion by the Kryl. The Kryl are the devil incarnate. Jake is a final year Alpha Academy student and he has chosen Jump Ship Command to launch his career. He and Steve are two of the brightest academy pilots. They are also vying for the affection of the same girl. Carla is looking for her sister, who left home 6 years before to join the Collective, led by the sinister and mysterious Professor Winterburn. Winterburn casts a spell over everyone he meets. The Sentinels and the Betanica Sect lock horns with Alpha in a battle to assume control of the Tri Star System. Alpha''s aim is to open the Blue Worm hole; a gateway to another galaxy. The gathering masses are joined by Winterburn and his flock and by Jake and Steve whose sole intention is to rescue Carla Stevenson from Winterburnâ€™s clutches.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17142'),
(8869, 'Alphabet Weekends', 'Elizabeth Noble', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Natalie and her sisters have known Tom and his family forever. They climbed trees together, scraped knees on the same pavements and, in taking shared steps towards adulthood, shaped bonds that would last a lifetime.\n</p>\n<p>\n So when Natalie''s long-term love walks out on her, Tom''s is the much-needed shoulder she cries on. And Tom dreams up an ingenious way to dry her tears: a series of Alphabet Weekends - starting with A for Abseiling - to make her forget the heartache and, he hopes, to make her see what''s been staring her in the face all these years. His genuine love for her.\n</p>\n<p>\n But as they tumble from A to Z, their families and friends face broken hearts and tragedies of their own. Can the Alphabet Weekends unlock love in all its many and wonderful guises? And not just for Natalie and Tom, but for everyone they care about?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5714'),
(8870, 'Alphabet Weekends', 'Elizabeth Noble', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Natalie and her sisters have known Tom and his family forever. They climbed trees together, scraped knees on the same pavements and, in taking shared steps towards adulthood, shaped bonds that would last a lifetime.\n</p>\n<p>\n So when Natalie''s long-term love walks out on her, Tom''s is the much-needed shoulder she cries on. And Tom dreams up an ingenious way to dry her tears: a series of Alphabet Weekends - starting with A for Abseiling - to make her forget the heartache and, he hopes, to make her see what''s been staring her in the face all these years. His genuine love for her.\n</p>\n<p>\n But as they tumble from A to Z, their families and friends face broken hearts and tragedies of their own. Can the Alphabet Weekends unlock love in all its many and wonderful guises? And not just for Natalie and Tom, but for everyone they care about?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11691'),
(8871, 'Alphabet Weekends', 'Elizabeth Noble', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Natalie and her sisters have known Tom and his family forever. They climbed trees together, scraped knees on the same pavements and, in taking shared steps towards adulthood, shaped bonds that would last a lifetime.\n</p>\n<p>\n So when Natalie''s long-term love walks out on her, Tom''s is the much-needed shoulder she cries on. And Tom dreams up an ingenious way to dry her tears: a series of Alphabet Weekends - starting with A for Abseiling - to make her forget the heartache and, he hopes, to make her see what''s been staring her in the face all these years. His genuine love for her.\n</p>\n<p>\n But as they tumble from A to Z, their families and friends face broken hearts and tragedies of their own. Can the Alphabet Weekends unlock love in all its many and wonderful guises? And not just for Natalie and Tom, but for everyone they care about?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18836'),
(8872, 'Alphas', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At OCD the losers are tormented.At Alpha Academy, they''re sent home.Skye Hamilton has scored an invitation to the ultra-exclusive Alphas-only boarding school where beta is spelled LBR . What happens when the country''s best, brightest, and hawtest begin clawing and scratching their way to the top?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3312'),
(8873, 'Alphas', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At OCD the losers are tormented.At Alpha Academy, they''re sent home.Skye Hamilton has scored an invitation to the ultra-exclusive Alphas-only boarding school where beta is spelled LBR . What happens when the country''s best, brightest, and hawtest begin clawing and scratching their way to the top?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10158'),
(8874, 'Alphas', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At OCD the losers are tormented.At Alpha Academy, they''re sent home.Skye Hamilton has scored an invitation to the ultra-exclusive Alphas-only boarding school where beta is spelled LBR . What happens when the country''s best, brightest, and hawtest begin clawing and scratching their way to the top?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21154'),
(8875, 'Alpine for You', 'Maddy Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A TRIP TO DIE FOR...  Accompanying her grandmother on a seniors tour of Switzerland, Emily Andrew had envisioned a vacation straight out of a travel brochure: spectacular scenery, great food, and a classy European hotel, all worlds away from her rural Iowa hometown. But her dream trip quickly snowballs into mayhem when smooth-talking tour escort Andy Simon is found dead. To be sure, Andy was as randy as a mountain goat on Viagra, hitting on every miss -- Swiss or otherwise -- within striking distance. His constant advances were driving Emily cuckoo -- but had someone orchestrated his untimely death?  For savvy, resourceful Emily, leading the tour in Andy''s place is only natural. But she can''t remain neutral when a fellow traveler takes a fatal plunge -- she''s convinced a murderer lurks among them. With precision timing, sexy Etienne Miceli steps in to investigate, and Emily warms to the suave detective. Still, with the group roster suddenly sprouting more holes than the local cheese, Emily wonders: is there a safe haven anywhere in the shadow of the Alps?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3252'),
(8876, 'Alpine for You', 'Maddy Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A TRIP TO DIE FOR... Accompanying her grandmother on a seniors tour of Switzerland, Emily Andrew had envisioned a vacation straight out of a travel brochure: spectacular scenery, great food, and a classy European hotel, all worlds away from her rural Iowa hometown. But her dream trip quickly snowballs into mayhem when smooth-talking tour escort Andy Simon is found dead. To be sure, Andy was as randy as a mountain goat on Viagra, hitting on every miss -- Swiss or otherwise -- within striking distance. His constant advances were driving Emily cuckoo -- but had someone orchestrated his untimely death? For savvy, resourceful Emily, leading the tour in Andy''s place is only natural. But she can''t remain neutral when a fellow traveler takes a fatal plunge -- she''s convinced a murderer lurks among them. With precision timing, sexy Etienne Miceli steps in to investigate, and Emily warms to the suave detective. Still, with the group roster suddenly sprouting more holes than the local cheese, Emily wonders: is there a safe haven anywhere in the shadow of the Alps?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21306'),
(8877, 'Already Dead', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: theyâ€™re true. Only itâ€™s not like the movies or old man Stokerâ€™s storybook. Itâ€™s worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them. Just ask Joe Pitt.Thereâ€™s a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folksâ€™ brains. Joe hates shamblers, but heâ€™s still the one who has to deal with them. Thatâ€™s just the kind of life he has. Except afterlife might be better word.From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and heâ€™s not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and heâ€™s tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus thatâ€™s eating at him isnâ€™t his idea of a good time. And Joe doesnâ€™t make it any easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattanâ€“it ainâ€™t easy. Itâ€™s worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalitionâ€“the cityâ€™s most powerful Clanâ€“and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl whoâ€™s gone missing in Alphabet City.Now the Coalition and the girlâ€™s high-society parents are breathing down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though. Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes down . . . and before the sun comes up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6890'),
(8878, 'Already Dead', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: theyâ€™re true. Only itâ€™s not like the movies or old man Stokerâ€™s storybook. Itâ€™s worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them. Just ask Joe Pitt.Thereâ€™s a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folksâ€™ brains. Joe hates shamblers, but heâ€™s still the one who has to deal with them. Thatâ€™s just the kind of life he has. Except afterlife might be better word.From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and heâ€™s not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and heâ€™s tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus thatâ€™s eating at him isnâ€™t his idea of a good time. And Joe doesnâ€™t make it any easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattanâ€“it ainâ€™t easy. Itâ€™s worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalitionâ€“the cityâ€™s most powerful Clanâ€“and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl whoâ€™s gone missing in Alphabet City.Now the Coalition and the girlâ€™s high-society parents are breathing down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though. Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes down . . . and before the sun comes up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17006');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(8879, 'Already Dead', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: theyâ€™re true. Only itâ€™s not like the movies or old man Stokerâ€™s storybook. Itâ€™s worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them. Just ask Joe Pitt.Thereâ€™s a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folksâ€™ brains. Joe hates shamblers, but heâ€™s still the one who has to deal with them. Thatâ€™s just the kind of life he has. Except afterlife might be better word.From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and heâ€™s not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and heâ€™s tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus thatâ€™s eating at him isnâ€™t his idea of a good time. And Joe doesnâ€™t make it any easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattanâ€“it ainâ€™t easy. Itâ€™s worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalitionâ€“the cityâ€™s most powerful Clanâ€“and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl whoâ€™s gone missing in Alphabet City.Now the Coalition and the girlâ€™s high-society parents are breathing down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though. Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes down . . . and before the sun comes up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26181'),
(8880, 'Already Home', 'Susan Mallery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth Kendrick and Susan Mallery: Author One-on-One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Okay, before we start this interview, Iâ€™d like to take a moment to talk to you about your Christmas card this year, which featured your adorable poodle, Nikki. Dressed up in an elaborate chiffon holiday neckpiece. Featuring jingle bells and ribbon. You and I both know that this is not an isolated incident. Oh yes, Iâ€™ve seen the photos of Miss Nikki making love to the camera in Halloween costumes and baseball jerseys. I think everyone here deserves to know the truth: does Nikki have a stylist? Or do poodles have an innate French flair for accessorizing?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Yes, Nikki actually does have a personal stylist, a friend who sends her a new outfit at least once a year. Nikki is a star. Sigh. Itâ€™s getting to be a problem. She was born in a playpen in Albuquerque, but has grown so used to attention that she demands it. When she decides itâ€™s time to cuddle, nothing will deter her. She bats my hands away from the keyboard with her nose. Like everyone else who meets her, I have fallen under her spell. Iâ€™m helpless to resist.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Who gets more fan mail--you or Nikki?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I get more, but hers tastes better.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  is technically womenâ€™s fiction, which means that in addition to the romance storyline, thereâ€™s a truckload of family drama. Oh, how I love family drama. The fictional kind, I mean. Give us a few hints about the book. Whatâ€™s your favorite scene?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  : The story revolves around Jenna, recently divorced and in the midst of an unexpected career change. So her life is already in a state of flux when sheâ€™s hit with the sudden appearance of her birth parents who are, to put it mildly, nothing like Jennaâ€™s â€œrealâ€ (aka, adoptive) parents. Jenna was raised in a conservative Texas town by loving but traditional parents. Her birth parents are throwbacks to the 1970s, vegetarian hippies who get messages from "the Universe" and have an unnatural dislike of dairy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the scenes I love best takes place when Jenna travels with them to their home on a California vineyard. There, she meets siblings and other family, and she gets a glimpse of the life she would have lived if they hadnâ€™t given her up for adoption all those years ago. What I love about this scene is that this is where Jennaâ€™s heart begins to open. First impressions can be wrongâ€¦ or at least incomplete.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But as Jenna is getting to know her birth family, she canâ€™t help wondering why they seem to think they have to dive into deep family intimacy immediately. Whatâ€™s the urgency? Why canâ€™t they let their feelings develop over time?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Jenna, the main character in\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  , has invited Amy and Linnie, the main characters from my novel\n  <em>\n   The Bake-Off\n  </em>\n  , over for a dinner party. Discussion topics will include: dysfunctional families, cooking disasters, and truly unfortunate dating choices. What is your heroine cooking, and what can my characters bring?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Jenna has discovered the joy of fusion cuisine. In the book, she experiments with Mexican-Indian fusion and comes up with a fabulous recipe for Curry Chicken Enchiladas. Served, of course, with chips and salsa and hummus and pita. As for your characters, they can bring dessert. Itâ€™ll have to be apple pie, since they are big old bake-off frauds and that is really the only recipe they can make, right?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Well, yes. But they prefer the term â€œcounterfeit confectionistasâ€ to â€œfrauds,â€ thank you very much. Since Jenna is a sous chef who wants to open her own cooking store, I assume you had to slog through hours of torturous research at places like Williams-Sonoma and Sur La Table. (These are the sacrifices you make for your art!) What is your favorite kitchen implement or gadget?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Two words: wine key.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  If you had a reality show, what would it be called, and what would a typical episode be like?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I adore watching reality shows, and Iâ€™m not even embarrassed to admit it. (Okay, Iâ€™m a little embarrassed.) Theyâ€™re just so grotesque. The situations are staged, but the emotions are real, and Iâ€™m an emotion junkie. But I would never go on a reality show because I donâ€™t want people to feed off of my emotions, other than in my books, of course.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  I know, I know, but humor me. If you didâ€¦?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I actually do have a reality dating show in\n  <em>\n   Only Mine\n  </em>\n  , an August release in my\n  <em>\n   Foolâ€™s Gold\n  </em>\n  series of romance novels. It doesnâ€™t go well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  So in addition to being talented and witty, youâ€™re prolific as all get-out. How many books do you have coming out in 2011? Five? Eighteen? What gives? Have you somehow figured out how to clone yourself or survive without sleep? I demand to know your secret. And donâ€™t give me that song and dance about â€œhard workâ€ and â€œself-discipline.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I have four books coming out in 2011.\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  in April, and then Iâ€™ll continue the\n  <em>\n   Foolâ€™s Gold\n  </em>\n  series in August, September, and October with\n  <em>\n   Only Mine\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Only Yours\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Only His\n  </em>\n  . The Hendrix triplets will all fall in love this year.\n </p>\n <p>\n  My secret? I have the attention span of a gnat. If I donâ€™t write quickly, I get bored. I start thinking about the next story I want to write, and the next one after that. I donâ€™t lack for ideas, so I have to be disciplined about completing each one. Working on the next one is my reward for finishing the current project.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A delightful story about turning your life around. --Fresh Fiction\n </p>\n <p>\n  5 Stars, Top Pick! Warm, snappy dialog...signature Susan Mallery. --Night Owl Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the best books I''ve read this year! --Roundtable Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  This poignant tale of family dynamics, the jarring impact of change, and eventual acceptance and healing is sure to please Mallery''s many, devoted fans. --Booklist-Starred Review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/881'),
(8881, 'Already Home', 'Susan Mallery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth Kendrick and Susan Mallery: Author One-on-One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Okay, before we start this interview, Iâ€™d like to take a moment to talk to you about your Christmas card this year, which featured your adorable poodle, Nikki. Dressed up in an elaborate chiffon holiday neckpiece. Featuring jingle bells and ribbon. You and I both know that this is not an isolated incident. Oh yes, Iâ€™ve seen the photos of Miss Nikki making love to the camera in Halloween costumes and baseball jerseys. I think everyone here deserves to know the truth: does Nikki have a stylist? Or do poodles have an innate French flair for accessorizing?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Yes, Nikki actually does have a personal stylist, a friend who sends her a new outfit at least once a year. Nikki is a star. Sigh. Itâ€™s getting to be a problem. She was born in a playpen in Albuquerque, but has grown so used to attention that she demands it. When she decides itâ€™s time to cuddle, nothing will deter her. She bats my hands away from the keyboard with her nose. Like everyone else who meets her, I have fallen under her spell. Iâ€™m helpless to resist.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Who gets more fan mail--you or Nikki?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I get more, but hers tastes better.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  is technically womenâ€™s fiction, which means that in addition to the romance storyline, thereâ€™s a truckload of family drama. Oh, how I love family drama. The fictional kind, I mean. Give us a few hints about the book. Whatâ€™s your favorite scene?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  : The story revolves around Jenna, recently divorced and in the midst of an unexpected career change. So her life is already in a state of flux when sheâ€™s hit with the sudden appearance of her birth parents who are, to put it mildly, nothing like Jennaâ€™s â€œrealâ€ (aka, adoptive) parents. Jenna was raised in a conservative Texas town by loving but traditional parents. Her birth parents are throwbacks to the 1970s, vegetarian hippies who get messages from "the Universe" and have an unnatural dislike of dairy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the scenes I love best takes place when Jenna travels with them to their home on a California vineyard. There, she meets siblings and other family, and she gets a glimpse of the life she would have lived if they hadnâ€™t given her up for adoption all those years ago. What I love about this scene is that this is where Jennaâ€™s heart begins to open. First impressions can be wrongâ€¦ or at least incomplete.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But as Jenna is getting to know her birth family, she canâ€™t help wondering why they seem to think they have to dive into deep family intimacy immediately. Whatâ€™s the urgency? Why canâ€™t they let their feelings develop over time?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Jenna, the main character in\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  , has invited Amy and Linnie, the main characters from my novel\n  <em>\n   The Bake-Off\n  </em>\n  , over for a dinner party. Discussion topics will include: dysfunctional families, cooking disasters, and truly unfortunate dating choices. What is your heroine cooking, and what can my characters bring?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Jenna has discovered the joy of fusion cuisine. In the book, she experiments with Mexican-Indian fusion and comes up with a fabulous recipe for Curry Chicken Enchiladas. Served, of course, with chips and salsa and hummus and pita. As for your characters, they can bring dessert. Itâ€™ll have to be apple pie, since they are big old bake-off frauds and that is really the only recipe they can make, right?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Well, yes. But they prefer the term â€œcounterfeit confectionistasâ€ to â€œfrauds,â€ thank you very much. Since Jenna is a sous chef who wants to open her own cooking store, I assume you had to slog through hours of torturous research at places like Williams-Sonoma and Sur La Table. (These are the sacrifices you make for your art!) What is your favorite kitchen implement or gadget?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Two words: wine key.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  If you had a reality show, what would it be called, and what would a typical episode be like?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I adore watching reality shows, and Iâ€™m not even embarrassed to admit it. (Okay, Iâ€™m a little embarrassed.) Theyâ€™re just so grotesque. The situations are staged, but the emotions are real, and Iâ€™m an emotion junkie. But I would never go on a reality show because I donâ€™t want people to feed off of my emotions, other than in my books, of course.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  I know, I know, but humor me. If you didâ€¦?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I actually do have a reality dating show in\n  <em>\n   Only Mine\n  </em>\n  , an August release in my\n  <em>\n   Foolâ€™s Gold\n  </em>\n  series of romance novels. It doesnâ€™t go well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  So in addition to being talented and witty, youâ€™re prolific as all get-out. How many books do you have coming out in 2011? Five? Eighteen? What gives? Have you somehow figured out how to clone yourself or survive without sleep? I demand to know your secret. And donâ€™t give me that song and dance about â€œhard workâ€ and â€œself-discipline.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I have four books coming out in 2011.\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  in April, and then Iâ€™ll continue the\n  <em>\n   Foolâ€™s Gold\n  </em>\n  series in August, September, and October with\n  <em>\n   Only Mine\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Only Yours\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Only His\n  </em>\n  . The Hendrix triplets will all fall in love this year.\n </p>\n <p>\n  My secret? I have the attention span of a gnat. If I donâ€™t write quickly, I get bored. I start thinking about the next story I want to write, and the next one after that. I donâ€™t lack for ideas, so I have to be disciplined about completing each one. Working on the next one is my reward for finishing the current project.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A delightful story about turning your life around. --Fresh Fiction\n </p>\n <p>\n  5 Stars, Top Pick! Warm, snappy dialog...signature Susan Mallery. --Night Owl Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the best books I''ve read this year! --Roundtable Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  This poignant tale of family dynamics, the jarring impact of change, and eventual acceptance and healing is sure to please Mallery''s many, devoted fans. --Booklist-Starred Review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11249'),
(8882, 'Already Home', 'Susan Mallery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth Kendrick and Susan Mallery: Author One-on-One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Okay, before we start this interview, Iâ€™d like to take a moment to talk to you about your Christmas card this year, which featured your adorable poodle, Nikki. Dressed up in an elaborate chiffon holiday neckpiece. Featuring jingle bells and ribbon. You and I both know that this is not an isolated incident. Oh yes, Iâ€™ve seen the photos of Miss Nikki making love to the camera in Halloween costumes and baseball jerseys. I think everyone here deserves to know the truth: does Nikki have a stylist? Or do poodles have an innate French flair for accessorizing?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Yes, Nikki actually does have a personal stylist, a friend who sends her a new outfit at least once a year. Nikki is a star. Sigh. Itâ€™s getting to be a problem. She was born in a playpen in Albuquerque, but has grown so used to attention that she demands it. When she decides itâ€™s time to cuddle, nothing will deter her. She bats my hands away from the keyboard with her nose. Like everyone else who meets her, I have fallen under her spell. Iâ€™m helpless to resist.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Who gets more fan mail--you or Nikki?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I get more, but hers tastes better.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  is technically womenâ€™s fiction, which means that in addition to the romance storyline, thereâ€™s a truckload of family drama. Oh, how I love family drama. The fictional kind, I mean. Give us a few hints about the book. Whatâ€™s your favorite scene?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  : The story revolves around Jenna, recently divorced and in the midst of an unexpected career change. So her life is already in a state of flux when sheâ€™s hit with the sudden appearance of her birth parents who are, to put it mildly, nothing like Jennaâ€™s â€œrealâ€ (aka, adoptive) parents. Jenna was raised in a conservative Texas town by loving but traditional parents. Her birth parents are throwbacks to the 1970s, vegetarian hippies who get messages from "the Universe" and have an unnatural dislike of dairy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the scenes I love best takes place when Jenna travels with them to their home on a California vineyard. There, she meets siblings and other family, and she gets a glimpse of the life she would have lived if they hadnâ€™t given her up for adoption all those years ago. What I love about this scene is that this is where Jennaâ€™s heart begins to open. First impressions can be wrong... or at least incomplete.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But as Jenna is getting to know her birth family, she canâ€™t help wondering why they seem to think they have to dive into deep family intimacy immediately. Whatâ€™s the urgency? Why canâ€™t they let their feelings develop over time?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Jenna, the main character in\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  , has invited Amy and Linnie, the main characters from my novel\n  <em>\n   The Bake-Off\n  </em>\n  , over for a dinner party. Discussion topics will include: dysfunctional families, cooking disasters, and truly unfortunate dating choices. What is your heroine cooking, and what can my characters bring?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Jenna has discovered the joy of fusion cuisine. In the book, she experiments with Mexican-Indian fusion and comes up with a fabulous recipe for Curry Chicken Enchiladas. Served, of course, with chips and salsa and hummus and pita. As for your characters, they can bring dessert. Itâ€™ll have to be apple pie, since they are big old bake-off frauds and that is really the only recipe they can make, right?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  Well, yes. But they prefer the term â€œcounterfeit confectionistasâ€ to â€œfrauds,â€ thank you very much. Since Jenna is a sous chef who wants to open her own cooking store, I assume you had to slog through hours of torturous research at places like Williams-Sonoma and Sur La Table. (These are the sacrifices you make for your art!) What is your favorite kitchen implement or gadget?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  Two words: wine key.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  If you had a reality show, what would it be called, and what would a typical episode be like?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I adore watching reality shows, and Iâ€™m not even embarrassed to admit it. (Okay, Iâ€™m a little embarrassed.) Theyâ€™re just so grotesque. The situations are staged, but the emotions are real, and Iâ€™m an emotion junkie. But I would never go on a reality show because I donâ€™t want people to feed off of my emotions, other than in my books, of course.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  I know, I know, but humor me. If you did...?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I actually do have a reality dating show in\n  <em>\n   Only Mine\n  </em>\n  , an August release in my\n  <em>\n   Foolâ€™s Gold\n  </em>\n  series of romance novels. It doesnâ€™t go well.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Beth:\n  </strong>\n  So in addition to being talented and witty, youâ€™re prolific as all get-out. How many books do you have coming out in 2011? Five? Eighteen? What gives? Have you somehow figured out how to clone yourself or survive without sleep? I demand to know your secret. And donâ€™t give me that song and dance about â€œhard workâ€ and â€œself-discipline.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Susan:\n  </strong>\n  I have four books coming out in 2011.\n  <em>\n   Already Home\n  </em>\n  in April, and then Iâ€™ll continue the\n  <em>\n   Foolâ€™s Gold\n  </em>\n  series in August, September, and October with\n  <em>\n   Only Mine\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Only Yours\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Only His\n  </em>\n  . The Hendrix triplets will all fall in love this year.\n </p>\n <p>\n  My secret? I have the attention span of a gnat. If I donâ€™t write quickly, I get bored. I start thinking about the next story I want to write, and the next one after that. I donâ€™t lack for ideas, so I have to be disciplined about completing each one. Working on the next one is my reward for finishing the current project.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A delightful story about turning your life around. --Fresh Fiction\n </p>\n <p>\n  5 Stars, Top Pick! Warm, snappy dialog...signature Susan Mallery. --Night Owl Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the best books I''ve read this year! --Roundtable Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  This poignant tale of family dynamics, the jarring impact of change, and eventual acceptance and healing is sure to please Mallery''s many, devoted fans. --Booklist-Starred Review\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23956'),
(8883, 'Alta', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As in its predecessor Joust (2003), a clear, uncluttered style marks Lackey''s latest light entertainment about wizards and dragons and social struggle. Vetch (aka Kiron), the hero of Joust, has escaped from the oppressive dragon riders of Tia with Avatre, the crimson female dragon he has secretly raised. In his native Alta, the former serf finds his fate interconnected with the destinies of Orest, youngest son of the Lord Ya-tiren, and the girl Aket-ten, a "Winged One" in training capable of speaking with animals. Vetch begins a new career teaching other Altan males how to bond with dragons from the egg. Vivid depictions of mythical creatures and a pastoral, casual approach to magic enliven such emotionally charged themes as cultural displacement, alienation and search for self. The crises of individual characters with easily identifiable conflicts nicely mirror larger catastrophes of plot. Full of adventure, romance and political intrigue if low on moral complexity, this highly readable fantasy will appeal particularly to young adults. Fans of Anne McCaffrey''s Pern series will also be happy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Young Vetch, former serf turned dragon boy in\n <em>\n  Joust\n </em>\n [BKL Mr 15 03], and his hand-reared dragon, Avarte, escape from Tia and cross the deadly desert to Altan-controlled lands. Back among his own people, Vetch becomes indispensable because he knows how to tame newly hatched dragons, which then don''t need to be drugged into submission. All is not well with the Altans, however. The Magi, who work their will on the world, have great powers they use to prolong the war that is raging for their own benefit. There''s plenty of dragon lore as Vetch, now known as Kiron, teaches a close-knit cadre of young jousters how to bond with dragonets and train them for combat in the hope of ending the war. Rife with intrigue and dangerous counterintrigue, the story continues a classic quest-for-good-against-evil plot development while beautifully maintaining the world, society, and characterizations established in\n <em>\n  Joust\n </em>\n . A very satisfying sequel with an ending that begs for another episode because the final battle is yet to come.\n <em>\n  Sally Estes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2950'),
(8884, 'Alta', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As in its predecessor Joust (2003), a clear, uncluttered style marks Lackey''s latest light entertainment about wizards and dragons and social struggle. Vetch (aka Kiron), the hero of Joust, has escaped from the oppressive dragon riders of Tia with Avatre, the crimson female dragon he has secretly raised. In his native Alta, the former serf finds his fate interconnected with the destinies of Orest, youngest son of the Lord Ya-tiren, and the girl Aket-ten, a "Winged One" in training capable of speaking with animals. Vetch begins a new career teaching other Altan males how to bond with dragons from the egg. Vivid depictions of mythical creatures and a pastoral, casual approach to magic enliven such emotionally charged themes as cultural displacement, alienation and search for self. The crises of individual characters with easily identifiable conflicts nicely mirror larger catastrophes of plot. Full of adventure, romance and political intrigue if low on moral complexity, this highly readable fantasy will appeal particularly to young adults. Fans of Anne McCaffrey''s Pern series will also be happy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Young Vetch, former serf turned dragon boy in\n <em>\n  Joust\n </em>\n [BKL Mr 15 03], and his hand-reared dragon, Avarte, escape from Tia and cross the deadly desert to Altan-controlled lands. Back among his own people, Vetch becomes indispensable because he knows how to tame newly hatched dragons, which then don''t need to be drugged into submission. All is not well with the Altans, however. The Magi, who work their will on the world, have great powers they use to prolong the war that is raging for their own benefit. There''s plenty of dragon lore as Vetch, now known as Kiron, teaches a close-knit cadre of young jousters how to bond with dragonets and train them for combat in the hope of ending the war. Rife with intrigue and dangerous counterintrigue, the story continues a classic quest-for-good-against-evil plot development while beautifully maintaining the world, society, and characterizations established in\n <em>\n  Joust\n </em>\n . A very satisfying sequel with an ending that begs for another episode because the final battle is yet to come.\n <em>\n  Sally Estes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12257'),
(8885, 'Alta', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As in its predecessor Joust (2003), a clear, uncluttered style marks Lackey''s latest light entertainment about wizards and dragons and social struggle. Vetch (aka Kiron), the hero of Joust, has escaped from the oppressive dragon riders of Tia with Avatre, the crimson female dragon he has secretly raised. In his native Alta, the former serf finds his fate interconnected with the destinies of Orest, youngest son of the Lord Ya-tiren, and the girl Aket-ten, a "Winged One" in training capable of speaking with animals. Vetch begins a new career teaching other Altan males how to bond with dragons from the egg. Vivid depictions of mythical creatures and a pastoral, casual approach to magic enliven such emotionally charged themes as cultural displacement, alienation and search for self. The crises of individual characters with easily identifiable conflicts nicely mirror larger catastrophes of plot. Full of adventure, romance and political intrigue if low on moral complexity, this highly readable fantasy will appeal particularly to young adults. Fans of Anne McCaffrey''s Pern series will also be happy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Young Vetch, former serf turned dragon boy in\n <em>\n  Joust\n </em>\n [BKL Mr 15 03], and his hand-reared dragon, Avarte, escape from Tia and cross the deadly desert to Altan-controlled lands. Back among his own people, Vetch becomes indispensable because he knows how to tame newly hatched dragons, which then don''t need to be drugged into submission. All is not well with the Altans, however. The Magi, who work their will on the world, have great powers they use to prolong the war that is raging for their own benefit. There''s plenty of dragon lore as Vetch, now known as Kiron, teaches a close-knit cadre of young jousters how to bond with dragonets and train them for combat in the hope of ending the war. Rife with intrigue and dangerous counterintrigue, the story continues a classic quest-for-good-against-evil plot development while beautifully maintaining the world, society, and characterizations established in\n <em>\n  Joust\n </em>\n . A very satisfying sequel with an ending that begs for another episode because the final battle is yet to come.\n <em>\n  Sally Estes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21931'),
(8886, 'The Altar of Bones', 'Philip Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This conspiracy thriller from the pseudonymous Carter opens in 1937 with a rousing Siberian prison camp escape, but the present-day action soon turns predictable. After the murder of Katya Orlova, the grandmother of San Francisco lawyer Zoe Dmitroff, a letter written by Katya reaches Zoe informing her that she''s now the "Keeper" of an ancient secret involving a Siberian cave known as the Altar of Bones. Many people try to wrest the secret from Zoe, including her own mother, a mysterious business tycoon, and the Russian mob. Ry O''Malley, a hunky tough guy, signs on to protect Zoe, and soon they''re on the run. Zoe and Ry prove to be amazingly lucky, to the point that by the time the unsurprising ending rolls around, all suspense has been drained from the action. Readers should be prepared for prose typical of erotic romance fiction (e.g., "He tried to gentle his kiss, but then she tangled her fingers in his hair and sucked on his tongue, pulling it deeper into her mouth, making love with their mouths, sucking, tonguing, and he was lost"). (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Will blow your mind! Dan Brown meets Robert Ludlum in this gripping, incredibly fast-paced thriller.â€--_New York Times_ bestseller Greg Iles\n</p>\n<p>\n "You won''t put it down until you get up to walk around and catch your breath."â€”_New York Times_ bestseller Ted Bell\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Altar of Bones_ is one of the most stunning novels I''ve ever read. From superbly etched characters to a plot rich with twists and heart-stopping action . . . an incredible reading experience you can''t miss.â€ --\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Catherine Coulter\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[An] action-filled story . . . lots of sex, lots of violence, and lots of plot twists.â€ --\n <em>\n  Kirkus\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2161'),
(8887, 'The Altar of Bones', 'Philip Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This conspiracy thriller from the pseudonymous Carter opens in 1937 with a rousing Siberian prison camp escape, but the present-day action soon turns predictable. After the murder of Katya Orlova, the grandmother of San Francisco lawyer Zoe Dmitroff, a letter written by Katya reaches Zoe informing her that she''s now the "Keeper" of an ancient secret involving a Siberian cave known as the Altar of Bones. Many people try to wrest the secret from Zoe, including her own mother, a mysterious business tycoon, and the Russian mob. Ry O''Malley, a hunky tough guy, signs on to protect Zoe, and soon they''re on the run. Zoe and Ry prove to be amazingly lucky, to the point that by the time the unsurprising ending rolls around, all suspense has been drained from the action. Readers should be prepared for prose typical of erotic romance fiction (e.g., "He tried to gentle his kiss, but then she tangled her fingers in his hair and sucked on his tongue, pulling it deeper into her mouth, making love with their mouths, sucking, tonguing, and he was lost"). (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Will blow your mind! Dan Brown meets Robert Ludlum in this gripping, incredibly fast-paced thriller.â€--_New York Times_ bestseller Greg Iles\n</p>\n<p>\n "You won''t put it down until you get up to walk around and catch your breath."â€”_New York Times_ bestseller Ted Bell\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Altar of Bones_ is one of the most stunning novels I''ve ever read. From superbly etched characters to a plot rich with twists and heart-stopping action . . . an incredible reading experience you can''t miss.â€ --\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Catherine Coulter\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[An] action-filled story . . . lots of sex, lots of violence, and lots of plot twists.â€ --\n <em>\n  Kirkus\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8787'),
(8888, 'Alte istorii insolite', 'Ovid S. Crohmalniceanu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25259'),
(8889, 'Altered Carbon', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldnt be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.For a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1857'),
(8890, 'Altered Carbon', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldnt be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.For a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11563'),
(8891, 'Altered Carbon', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldnt be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.For a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14430'),
(8892, 'The Alternative Hero', 'Tim Thornton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What do you do if you''re a failed music fanzine writer in your early thirties with a dead-end job, and the best moment of your life occurred when you went to your first Thieving Magpies gig as a teenager and suddenly you "belonged" in a way you never had before, and the worst moment of your life occurred about six years later when Lance Webster, the Magpies'' lead singer, self-destructed on stage before your eyes--basically taking you with him--and just today you''ve discovered that Lance lives down the street from you? If you''re Clive Beresford--the haplessly obsessed guy at the center of Tim Thornton''s wildly comic and energetic debut novel--you get remarkably drunk and write and deliver a note to your idol (the contents of which you can''t remember the next morning), which causes two very large bouncer types to appear at your door warning you to back off, which, in turn, causes you to hide your true identity when you do finally meet Lance, totally by accident (he''s come a long way since the Magpies, but he is still LANCE F**CKING WEBSTER!) . . . none of which deters you from believing--really believing--that he could still save your life if only you could get that "earth-shattering exclusive" interview with him. With the story shifting between Clive''s life-changing Magpies past and his frantic present, we get a headlong, boisterous coming-of-age (if-not-quite-growing-up) romp and a warmhearted, hilarious view of friendship, hero worship, and the full-blast power of music to help us become, at the very least, who we would like to think we are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/573'),
(8893, 'The Alternative Hero', 'Tim Thornton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What do you do if you''re a failed music fanzine writer in your early thirties with a dead-end job, and the best moment of your life occurred when you went to your first Thieving Magpies gig as a teenager and suddenly you "belonged" in a way you never had before, and the worst moment of your life occurred about six years later when Lance Webster, the Magpies'' lead singer, self-destructed on stage before your eyes--basically taking you with him--and just today you''ve discovered that Lance lives down the street from you? If you''re Clive Beresford--the haplessly obsessed guy at the center of Tim Thornton''s wildly comic and energetic debut novel--you get remarkably drunk and write and deliver a note to your idol (the contents of which you can''t remember the next morning), which causes two very large bouncer types to appear at your door warning you to back off, which, in turn, causes you to hide your true identity when you do finally meet Lance, totally by accident (he''s come a long way since the Magpies, but he is still LANCE F**CKING WEBSTER!) . . . none of which deters you from believing--really believing--that he could still save your life if only you could get that "earth-shattering exclusive" interview with him. With the story shifting between Clive''s life-changing Magpies past and his frantic present, we get a headlong, boisterous coming-of-age (if-not-quite-growing-up) romp and a warmhearted, hilarious view of friendship, hero worship, and the full-blast power of music to help us become, at the very least, who we would like to think we are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13035'),
(8894, 'Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace', 'David Lipsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "If you can think of times in your life that youâ€™ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves.Â Â To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself.Â Â And I think itâ€™s probably possible to achieve that.Â Â I think part of the job weâ€™re here for is to learn how to do it.Â Â I know that sounds a little pious."-- David Foster WallaceÂ An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring,Â  based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallaceâ€™sÂ Infinite JestÂ tour." Â Â In David Lipskyâ€™s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America.Â  Wallaceâ€™s pieces forÂ Harperâ€™sÂ Magazine in the â€™90s were, according to Lipsky, â€œlike hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away.Â  You knew something gigantic was coming.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  ThenÂ Rolling StoneÂ sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tourâ€”forÂ Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport.Â  They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight.Â  They endure a terrible readerâ€™s escort in Minneapolis.Â  Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance.Â  Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an â€œorgy of spectationâ€).Â  They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallaceâ€™s dogs.Â  Amidst these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable things - everything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and counfounds him - in the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him and came to feel about himâ€”that grateful, awake feelingâ€”the same way he felt aboutÂ Infinite Jest.Â  Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church.Â A biography in five days,Â Although Of Course You End Up Becoming YourselfÂ is an indelible portrait of one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers. Told in his own words, here is Wallaceâ€™s own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer, of being young generally, trying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with andâ€”as he tells itâ€”what is was like to become David Foster Wallace.Â David Lipsky is a contributing editor atÂ Rolling StoneÂ magazine.Â  His fiction and nonfiction have appeared inÂ The New Yorker,Â Harper''sÂ Magazine,Â The Best American Short Stories,Â The Best American Magazine Writing,Â The New York Times,Â The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. He contributes as an essayist to NPR''s All Things Considered, and is the recipient of a Lambert Fellowship, a Media Award from GLAAD, and a National Magazine Award.Â  He''s the author of the novel The Art Fair, a collection of stories,Â Three Thousand Dollars, and the bestselling nonfiction bookÂ Absolutely American, which was aÂ TimeÂ magazine Best Book of the Year.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6341');
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(8895, 'Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace', 'David Lipsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "If you can think of times in your life that youâ€™ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves.Â Â To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself.Â Â And I think itâ€™s probably possible to achieve that.Â Â I think part of the job weâ€™re here for is to learn how to do it.Â Â I know that sounds a little pious."-- David Foster WallaceÂ An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring,Â  based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallaceâ€™sÂ Infinite JestÂ tour." Â Â In David Lipskyâ€™s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America.Â  Wallaceâ€™s pieces forÂ Harperâ€™sÂ Magazine in the â€™90s were, according to Lipsky, â€œlike hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away.Â  You knew something gigantic was coming.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  ThenÂ Rolling StoneÂ sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tourâ€”forÂ Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport.Â  They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight.Â  They endure a terrible readerâ€™s escort in Minneapolis.Â  Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance.Â  Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an â€œorgy of spectationâ€).Â  They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallaceâ€™s dogs.Â  Amidst these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable things - everything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and counfounds him - in the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him and came to feel about himâ€”that grateful, awake feelingâ€”the same way he felt aboutÂ Infinite Jest.Â  Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church.Â A biography in five days,Â Although Of Course You End Up Becoming YourselfÂ is an indelible portrait of one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers. Told in his own words, here is Wallaceâ€™s own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer, of being young generally, trying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with andâ€”as he tells itâ€”what is was like to become David Foster Wallace.Â David Lipsky is a contributing editor atÂ Rolling StoneÂ magazine.Â  His fiction and nonfiction have appeared inÂ The New Yorker,Â Harper''sÂ Magazine,Â The Best American Short Stories,Â The Best American Magazine Writing,Â The New York Times,Â The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. He contributes as an essayist to NPR''s All Things Considered, and is the recipient of a Lambert Fellowship, a Media Award from GLAAD, and a National Magazine Award.Â  He''s the author of the novel The Art Fair, a collection of stories,Â Three Thousand Dollars, and the bestselling nonfiction bookÂ Absolutely American, which was aÂ TimeÂ magazine Best Book of the Year.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11177'),
(8896, 'Although of course you end up becoming yourself: a road trip with David Foster Wallace', 'David Lipsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "If you can think of times in your life that youâ€™ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves.Â Â To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself.Â Â And I think itâ€™s probably possible to achieve that.Â Â I think part of the job weâ€™re here for is to learn how to do it.Â Â I know that sounds a little pious."-- David Foster WallaceÂ An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring,Â  based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallaceâ€™sÂ Infinite JestÂ tour." Â Â In David Lipskyâ€™s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America.Â  Wallaceâ€™s pieces forÂ Harperâ€™sÂ Magazine in the â€™90s were, according to Lipsky, â€œlike hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away.Â  You knew something gigantic was coming.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  ThenÂ Rolling StoneÂ sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tourâ€”forÂ Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport.Â  They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight.Â  They endure a terrible readerâ€™s escort in Minneapolis.Â  Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance.Â  Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an â€œorgy of spectationâ€).Â  They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallaceâ€™s dogs.Â  Amidst these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable things - everything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and counfounds him - in the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him and came to feel about himâ€”that grateful, awake feelingâ€”the same way he felt aboutÂ Infinite Jest.Â  Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church.Â A biography in five days,Â Although Of Course You End Up Becoming YourselfÂ is an indelible portrait of one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers. Told in his own words, here is Wallaceâ€™s own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer, of being young generally, trying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with andâ€”as he tells itâ€”what is was like to become David Foster Wallace.Â David Lipsky is a contributing editor atÂ Rolling StoneÂ magazine.Â  His fiction and nonfiction have appeared inÂ The New Yorker,Â Harper''sÂ Magazine,Â The Best American Short Stories,Â The Best American Magazine Writing,Â The New York Times,Â The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. He contributes as an essayist to NPR''s All Things Considered, and is the recipient of a Lambert Fellowship, a Media Award from GLAAD, and a National Magazine Award.Â  He''s the author of the novel The Art Fair, a collection of stories,Â Three Thousand Dollars, and the bestselling nonfiction bookÂ Absolutely American, which was aÂ TimeÂ magazine Best Book of the Year.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17822'),
(8897, 'The Altman Code', 'Robert Ludlum &amp; Gayle Lynds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer records cargo being secretly loaded. He''s brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Two weeks later on the dangerous high seas, the U.S. Navy covertly tracks a Chinese ship rumoured to carry tons of chemicals to create biological weapons of mass-destruction. The President cannot let the ship reach its destination - a rogue Middle East nation. But he doesn''t want the navy to attack and board it either, because decades of negotiations with China have at long last yielded a landmark human rights agreement that China is willing to sign. Covert-One operative Jon Smith is brought in to find solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying. Then an agent is murdered and vital evidence destroyed. Smith must find the truth about the ship, a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1651'),
(8898, 'The Altman Code', 'Robert Ludlum; Gayle Lynds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer records cargo being secretly loaded. He''s brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Two weeks later on the dangerous high seas, the U.S. Navy covertly tracks a Chinese ship rumoured to carry tons of chemicals to create biological weapons of mass-destruction. The President cannot let the ship reach its destination - a rogue Middle East nation. But he doesn''t want the navy to attack and board it either, because decades of negotiations with China have at long last yielded a landmark human rights agreement that China is willing to sign. Covert-One operative Jon Smith is brought in to find solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying. Then an agent is murdered and vital evidence destroyed. Smith must find the truth about the ship, a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23313'),
(8899, 'Alvin Journeyman', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alvin is a Maker, the first to be born in a century.Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family in the town of Vigor Church. He will share in their isolation, work as a blacksmith, and try to teach anyone who wishes to learn the knack of being a Maker. For Alvin has had a vision of the Crystal City he will build, and he knows that he cannot build it alone.But he has left behind in Hatrack River enemies as well as true friends. His ancient foe, the Unmaker, whose cruel whispers and deadly plots have threatened Alvinâ€™s life at every turn, has found new hands to do his work of destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2368'),
(8900, 'Alvin Journeyman', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alvin is a Maker, the first to be born in a century.Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family in the town of Vigor Church. He will share in their isolation, work as a blacksmith, and try to teach anyone who wishes to learn the knack of being a Maker. For Alvin has had a vision of the Crystal City he will build, and he knows that he cannot build it alone.But he has left behind in Hatrack River enemies as well as true friends. His ancient foe, the Unmaker, whose cruel whispers and deadly plots have threatened Alvinâ€™s life at every turn, has found new hands to do his work of destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22367'),
(8901, 'Alvin Maker 1 - Seventh Son', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25992'),
(8902, 'Alvin Maker 2 - Red Prophet', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25993'),
(8903, 'Alvin Maker 3 - Prentice Alvin', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25994'),
(8904, 'Alvin Maker 4 - Journeyman', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25995'),
(8905, 'Alvin Maker 5 - Heart Fire', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25996'),
(8906, 'Alvin Maker 6 - The Crystal City', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25997'),
(8907, 'Always', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen provides her trademark blend of seductive romance and pulse-pounding suspense in this classic tale of a woman who unexpectedly finds herself livingâ€”and lovingâ€”on the edge of danger. Â  Lisa Landon makes her living with her voiceâ€”a voice fueled by a heartbreak she vows never to experience again. But despite her renown, Lisaâ€™s real ambition is to escape the memories that follow her from one sold-out engagement to the next. Perhaps thatâ€™s what brings her to the exotic desert nation of Sedikhan and the nightclub where she meets Clancy Donahue.  Clancy takes one look at the beautiful, vulnerable chanteuse and knows she is exactly the woman heâ€™s been searching for. The Sedikhan security chief needs to bait a trap for a terrorist moneyman, and Clancy is certain that Lisa will be irresistible. What he doesnâ€™t count on is that he wonâ€™t be able to resist her eitherâ€”and that heâ€™ll do anything to protect her, even if it means risking his own life. With deadly plans in motion and Lisa in the crosshairs, Clancy realizes that before their romance can get to always, it will first have to reach tomorrow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4998'),
(8908, 'Always', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen provides her trademark blend of seductive romance and pulse-pounding suspense in this classic tale of a woman who unexpectedly finds herself livingâ€”and lovingâ€”on the edge of danger. Â  Lisa Landon makes her living with her voiceâ€”a voice fueled by a heartbreak she vows never to experience again. But despite her renown, Lisaâ€™s real ambition is to escape the memories that follow her from one sold-out engagement to the next. Perhaps thatâ€™s what brings her to the exotic desert nation of Sedikhan and the nightclub where she meets Clancy Donahue.  Clancy takes one look at the beautiful, vulnerable chanteuse and knows she is exactly the woman heâ€™s been searching for. The Sedikhan security chief needs to bait a trap for a terrorist moneyman, and Clancy is certain that Lisa will be irresistible. What he doesnâ€™t count on is that he wonâ€™t be able to resist her eitherâ€”and that heâ€™ll do anything to protect her, even if it means risking his own life. With deadly plans in motion and Lisa in the crosshairs, Clancy realizes that before their romance can get to always, it will first have to reach tomorrow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10522'),
(8909, 'Always', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen provides her trademark blend of seductive romance and pulse-pounding suspense in this classic tale of a woman who unexpectedly finds herself livingâ€”and lovingâ€”on the edge of danger. Lisa Landon makes her living with her voiceâ€”a voice fueled by a heartbreak she vows never to experience again. But despite her renown, Lisaâ€™s real ambition is to escape the memories that follow her from one sold-out engagement to the next. Perhaps thatâ€™s what brings her to the exotic desert nation of Sedikhan and the nightclub where she meets Clancy Donahue. Clancy takes one look at the beautiful, vulnerable chanteuse and knows she is exactly the woman heâ€™s been searching for. The Sedikhan security chief needs to bait a trap for a terrorist moneyman, and Clancy is certain that Lisa will be irresistible. What he doesnâ€™t count on is that he wonâ€™t be able to resist her eitherâ€”and that heâ€™ll do anything to protect her, even if it means risking his own life. With deadly plans in motion and Lisa in the crosshairs, Clancy realizes that before their romance can get to always, it will first have to reach tomorrow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19676'),
(8910, 'Always a Thief', 'Kay Hooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a deadly game of skill and deception...A master thief is just the first wild cardâ€¦The priceless, rarely displayed Bannister collection is about to be exhibitedâ€”and the showâ€™s director, Morgan West, canâ€™t ignore her growing uneasiness. Sheâ€™s certain she hasnâ€™t seen the last of the infamous cat burglar Quinn. But she never expected him to turn up at her apartment one dark night in desperate need of her helpâ€”help she canâ€™t refuse. The mysterious master thief is playing a dangerous game, and itâ€™s a game that just might get him killed.With Morganâ€™s help, Quinn sets a trap intended to catch someone far more elusiveâ€¦and more deadlyâ€¦than a thief. But an unseen threat shadows him in the fog-shrouded San Francisco night, an unknown adversary more cunning than any he has yet encountered. Now, just when the stakes are higher than even Quinn can imagine, no one can be trustedâ€”and everythingâ€™s at risk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3813'),
(8911, 'Always a Thief', 'Kay Hooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a deadly game of skill and deception...A master thief is just the first wild cardâ€¦The priceless, rarely displayed Bannister collection is about to be exhibitedâ€”and the showâ€™s director, Morgan West, canâ€™t ignore her growing uneasiness. Sheâ€™s certain she hasnâ€™t seen the last of the infamous cat burglar Quinn. But she never expected him to turn up at her apartment one dark night in desperate need of her helpâ€”help she canâ€™t refuse. The mysterious master thief is playing a dangerous game, and itâ€™s a game that just might get him killed.With Morganâ€™s help, Quinn sets a trap intended to catch someone far more elusiveâ€¦and more deadlyâ€¦than a thief. But an unseen threat shadows him in the fog-shrouded San Francisco night, an unknown adversary more cunning than any he has yet encountered. Now, just when the stakes are higher than even Quinn can imagine, no one can be trustedâ€”and everythingâ€™s at risk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10452'),
(8912, 'Always a Thief', 'Kay Hooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In a deadly game of skill and deception...A master thief is just the first wild card...The priceless, rarely displayed Bannister collection is about to be exhibitedâ€”and the showâ€™s director, Morgan West, canâ€™t ignore her growing uneasiness. Sheâ€™s certain she hasnâ€™t seen the last of the infamous cat burglar Quinn. But she never expected him to turn up at her apartment one dark night in desperate need of her helpâ€”help she canâ€™t refuse. The mysterious master thief is playing a dangerous game, and itâ€™s a game that just might get him killed.With Morganâ€™s help, Quinn sets a trap intended to catch someone far more elusive...and more deadly...than a thief. But an unseen threat shadows him in the fog-shrouded San Francisco night, an unknown adversary more cunning than any he has yet encountered. Now, just when the stakes are higher than even Quinn can imagine, no one can be trustedâ€”and everythingâ€™s at risk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20742'),
(8913, 'Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist', 'Michael J. Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Star. Husband. Father. Activist. But one word encapsulates everything he stands for, everything he''s accomplished: Optimist. Struck with Parkinson''s at the height of his fame, Fox has taken what some might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions. In Always Looking Up, he writes about the personal philosophy that carried him through his darkest hours, and speaks with others who have emerged from difficult periods with optimism to spare. With humor and wit, Fox shows how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life. SUMMARY: There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Star. Husband. Father. Activist. But one word encapsulates everything he stands for, everything he''s accomplished: Optimist. Struck with Parkinson''s at the height of his fame, Fox has taken what some might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions. In Always Looking Up, he writes about the personal philosophy that carried him through his darkest hours, and speaks with others who have emerged from difficult periods with optimism to spare. With humor and wit, Fox shows how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life. EDITORIAL REVIEW: There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of *Always Looking Up* will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagement and discovery: an emotional, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual outlook that has served him throughout his struggle with Parkinson''s disease. Michael''s exit from a very demanding, very public arena offered him the time-and the inspiration-to open up new doors leading to unexpected places. One door even led him to the center of his own family, the greatest destination of all. ***The last ten years, which is really the stuff of this book, began with such a loss: my retirement from Spin City. I found myself struggling with a strange new dynamic: the shifting of public and private personas. I had been Mike the actor, then Mike the actor with PD. Now was I just Mike with PD? Parkinson''s had consumed my career and, in a sense, had become my career. But where did all of this leave Me? I had to build a new life when I was already pretty happy with the old one.*.** *Always Looking Up* is a memoir of this last decade, told through the critical themes of Michael''s life: work, politics, faith, and family. The book is a journey of self-discovery and reinvention, and a testament to the consolations that protect him from the ravages of Parkinson''s. With the humor and wit that captivated fans of his first book, *Lucky Man*, Michael describes how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14795'),
(8914, 'Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist', 'Michael J. Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Star. Husband. Father. Activist. But one word encapsulates everything he stands for, everything he''s accomplished: Optimist. Struck with Parkinson''s at the height of his fame, Fox has taken what some might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions. In Always Looking Up, he writes about the personal philosophy that carried him through his darkest hours, and speaks with others who have emerged from difficult periods with optimism to spare. With humor and wit, Fox shows how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life. SUMMARY: There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Star. Husband. Father. Activist. But one word encapsulates everything he stands for, everything he''s accomplished: Optimist. Struck with Parkinson''s at the height of his fame, Fox has taken what some might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions. In Always Looking Up, he writes about the personal philosophy that carried him through his darkest hours, and speaks with others who have emerged from difficult periods with optimism to spare. With humor and wit, Fox shows how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life. EDITORIAL REVIEW: There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of *Always Looking Up* will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagement and discovery: an emotional, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual outlook that has served him throughout his struggle with Parkinson''s disease. Michael''s exit from a very demanding, very public arena offered him the time-and the inspiration-to open up new doors leading to unexpected places. One door even led him to the center of his own family, the greatest destination of all. ***The last ten years, which is really the stuff of this book, began with such a loss: my retirement from Spin City. I found myself struggling with a strange new dynamic: the shifting of public and private personas. I had been Mike the actor, then Mike the actor with PD. Now was I just Mike with PD? Parkinson''s had consumed my career and, in a sense, had become my career. But where did all of this leave Me? I had to build a new life when I was already pretty happy with the old one.*.** *Always Looking Up* is a memoir of this last decade, told through the critical themes of Michael''s life: work, politics, faith, and family. The book is a journey of self-discovery and reinvention, and a testament to the consolations that protect him from the ravages of Parkinson''s. With the humor and wit that captivated fans of his first book, *Lucky Man*, Michael describes how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22001'),
(8915, 'Am I Boring My Dog?: And 99 Other Things Every Dog Wishes You Knew', 'Edie Jarolim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A delightfully witty guide to keeping much-loved dogs not just fed and groomed, but happy to be with you. And vice versa. Geared to the millions who want to be socially responsible but also indulgent, who want to be informed about the latest ideas inc are and training, and, above all, who worry about their relationships with their dogs, this poignant, irreverent guide is doggone funny. Written by a first-time dog owner who''s been there, worried about that, this comprehensive but accessible book articulates the questions that many people have about all things canine-related but are afraid to ask, all with a reassuring, amusing tone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5837'),
(8916, 'Am I Boring My Dog?: And 99 Other Things Every Dog Wishes You Knew', 'Edie Jarolim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A delightfully witty guide to keeping much-loved dogs not just fed and groomed, but happy to be with you. And vice versa. Geared to the millions who want to be socially responsible but also indulgent, who want to be informed about the latest ideas inc are and training, and, above all, who worry about their relationships with their dogs, this poignant, irreverent guide is doggone funny. Written by a first-time dog owner who''s been there, worried about that, this comprehensive but accessible book articulates the questions that many people have about all things canine-related but are afraid to ask, all with a reassuring, amusing tone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10559'),
(8917, 'Am I Boring My Dog?: And 99 Other Things Every Dog Wishes You Knew', 'Edie Jarolim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A delightfully witty guide to keeping much-loved dogs not just fed and groomed, but happy to be with you. And vice versa. Geared to the millions who want to be socially responsible but also indulgent, who want to be informed about the latest ideas inc are and training, and, above all, who worry about their relationships with their dogs, this poignant, irreverent guide is doggone funny. Written by a first-time dog owner who''s been there, worried about that, this comprehensive but accessible book articulates the questions that many people have about all things canine-related but are afraid to ask, all with a reassuring, amusing tone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18772'),
(8918, 'Am I Boring My Dog?: And 99 Other Things Every Dog Wishes You Knew', 'Edie Jarolim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A delightfully witty guide to keeping much-loved dogs not just fed and groomed, but happy to be with you. And vice versa. Geared to the millions who want to be socially responsible but also indulgent, who want to be informed about the latest ideas inc are and training, and, above all, who worry about their relationships with their dogs, this poignant, irreverent guide is doggone funny. Written by a first-time dog owner who''s been there, worried about that, this comprehensive but accessible book articulates the questions that many people have about all things canine-related but are afraid to ask, all with a reassuring, amusing tone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27609'),
(8919, 'Amagansett', 'Mark Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a first-generation Basque fisherman pulls in the body of a beautiful young woman, his close-knit Long Island community will be irrevocably changed. As sweeping and haunting as its backdrop, Amagansett is an unforgettable evocation of life''s epic forces.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3128'),
(8920, 'Amagansett', 'Mark Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a first-generation Basque fisherman pulls in the body of a beautiful young woman, his close-knit Long Island community will be irrevocably changed. As sweeping and haunting as its backdrop, Amagansett is an unforgettable evocation of life''s epic forces.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11423'),
(8921, 'Amagansett', 'Mark Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a first-generation Basque fisherman pulls in the body of a beautiful young woman, his close-knit Long Island community will be irrevocably changed. As sweeping and haunting as its backdrop, Amagansett is an unforgettable evocation of life''s epic forces.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21736'),
(8922, 'Amantii din Bizant', 'Mika Waltari', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25326'),
(8923, 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay', 'Michael Chabon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 1. Reading group guide for THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER &amp; CLAY by Michael Chabon Escape, literally and figuratively, is everywhere in this novel. Why do you think Michael Chabon and the characters in the novel place so much importance on it? From what and to what are the different characters in the novels escaping? When is escape good in the novel and when is it bad? Can the character of Joe Kavalier ever quit trying to escape, whether it is from place, like Prague and New York, or from relationships, like Rosa and Sammy? When Sammy leaves for LA, is this an escape, and if so, is it good or bad? Why do characters in this novel seem to be trying to escape relationships, and what are the different types of relationships that can be binding? Does the escaping end at the conclusion of the novel? 2. Compare the theme of escape in the novel to escapist nature of art. In what ways does Chabon explore this in his novel through the art of magic, and painting, and comics? How is the novel THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY an escape itself and the creation of a world unto itself for the reader? Although the novel is clearly fiction, why do you think Michael Chabon goes to such lengths to make it feel real, by adding real historical facts and fictitious footnotes? Why do you think Chabon chose to write about the medium of comics, as opposed to something else like television or the movies? 3. How are love and family portrayed in the novel? What constitutes a family at different points in the novel? What are the different types of love in the novel? How are the families of Joe, Sammy, and Rosa different, and how are these three people able to make a family themselves? What role does family play in Joe''s life? Does it unnecessarily bind him to the past? Why or why not? Is there something special about America that allows for unorthodox types of families? Why do you think Sammy married Rosa? Why did she marry him? Are Sammy and Joe both fathers to Tommy? 4. Joe and Sammy create alter egos for themselves and others in their comic books. What is the significance of this? Do the comic book character give us any insight into the real characters in the book which they resemble. Does the character of Luna Moth help us to understand Rosa or Joe more? What does the character of The Escapist tell us about Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay? Why does Joe dress up as The Escapist before reuniting with Rosa and Sammy? 5. A golem, according to Webster''s New World Dictionary, is ''a man artificially created by cabalistic rites: a robot.'' Knowing this, what do you think the significance of the golem is in this novel. Why is it so important to preserve the golem, and what is the realization one comes to when the golem is only dirt? Where does the transforming power lie, in the dirt or some other, inexplicable, magic quality? Does the power of the creator die with the creation? Compare the creation of the golem to the creation of The Escapist and other characters by Sammy and Joe and the creation of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER &amp; CLAY by Michael Chabon. 6. Is this a happy ending? Is Sammy escaping to LA?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14813'),
(8924, 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel', 'Michael Chabon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book. Inspired by their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapists, The Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2882'),
(8925, 'The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay: a novel', 'Michael Chabon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book. Inspired by their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapists, The Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21892'),
(8926, 'Amazing Grace', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Bungalow 2\n </em>\n still on bestseller lists, Steel checks in with a Bay Area earthquake that shakes up the lives of three beautiful, talented yet somehow unfulfilled women. Sarah Sloane, 30-something wife of Seth, a wildly successful hedge fund entrepreneur, and mother of two, has planned to perfection a high-ticket charity auction. The only thing she hasn''t counted on is the biggest seismic event to hit San Francisco since 1906 and the aftershocks it will cause in her marriage. Meanwhile, hot Grammy-winning 19-year-old singer Melanie Free, flown in to perform at the benefit, likewise finds her life overturned: following an on-stage triumph, Melanie throws away her platform shoes to assist disaster victims, admittingâ€”much to the annoyance of her pushy stage mother and her TV actor boyfriendâ€”that she always wanted to be a nurse. Sarah and Melanie face change with support from the 40-ish Sister Maggie Kent, a California nun whose good deeds draw the interest of recovering alcoholic and former AP photojournalist Everett Carson, who captures her in pictures. As marriage, faith and vows of chastity are tested, there''s nothing complicated to spoil the romance. Steel delivers a sparkly story with an uplifting spiritual twist.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA sparkly story with an uplifting spiritual twist.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6527'),
(8927, 'Amazing Grace', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Bungalow 2\n </em>\n still on bestseller lists, Steel checks in with a Bay Area earthquake that shakes up the lives of three beautiful, talented yet somehow unfulfilled women. Sarah Sloane, 30-something wife of Seth, a wildly successful hedge fund entrepreneur, and mother of two, has planned to perfection a high-ticket charity auction. The only thing she hasn''t counted on is the biggest seismic event to hit San Francisco since 1906 and the aftershocks it will cause in her marriage. Meanwhile, hot Grammy-winning 19-year-old singer Melanie Free, flown in to perform at the benefit, likewise finds her life overturned: following an on-stage triumph, Melanie throws away her platform shoes to assist disaster victims, admittingâ€”much to the annoyance of her pushy stage mother and her TV actor boyfriendâ€”that she always wanted to be a nurse. Sarah and Melanie face change with support from the 40-ish Sister Maggie Kent, a California nun whose good deeds draw the interest of recovering alcoholic and former AP photojournalist Everett Carson, who captures her in pictures. As marriage, faith and vows of chastity are tested, there''s nothing complicated to spoil the romance. Steel delivers a sparkly story with an uplifting spiritual twist.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA sparkly story with an uplifting spiritual twist.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12872'),
(8928, 'Amazing Grace', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Bungalow 2\n </em>\n still on bestseller lists, Steel checks in with a Bay Area earthquake that shakes up the lives of three beautiful, talented yet somehow unfulfilled women. Sarah Sloane, 30-something wife of Seth, a wildly successful hedge fund entrepreneur, and mother of two, has planned to perfection a high-ticket charity auction. The only thing she hasn''t counted on is the biggest seismic event to hit San Francisco since 1906 and the aftershocks it will cause in her marriage. Meanwhile, hot Grammy-winning 19-year-old singer Melanie Free, flown in to perform at the benefit, likewise finds her life overturned: following an on-stage triumph, Melanie throws away her platform shoes to assist disaster victims, admittingâ€”much to the annoyance of her pushy stage mother and her TV actor boyfriendâ€”that she always wanted to be a nurse. Sarah and Melanie face change with support from the 40-ish Sister Maggie Kent, a California nun whose good deeds draw the interest of recovering alcoholic and former AP photojournalist Everett Carson, who captures her in pictures. As marriage, faith and vows of chastity are tested, there''s nothing complicated to spoil the romance. Steel delivers a sparkly story with an uplifting spiritual twist.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA sparkly story with an uplifting spiritual twist.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17609'),
(8929, 'The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **  Winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal  **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n They''d have been really amazed if they''d ever found out that the rats and the piper met up with a cat somewhere outside of town and solemnly counted out the money.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in Terry Pratchett''s widely popular Discworld, this masterfully crafted, gripping read is both compelling and funny. When one of the world''s most acclaimed fantasy writers turns a classic fairy tale on its head, no one will ever look at the Pied Piper -- or rats -- the same way again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/694'),
(8930, 'The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal ** *One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town. They''d have been really amazed if they''d ever found out that the rats and the piper met up with a cat somewhere outside of town and solemnly counted out the money.* The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets.... Set in Terry Pratchett''s widely popular Discworld, this masterfully crafted, gripping read is both compelling and funny. When one of the world''s most acclaimed fantasy writers turns a classic fairy tale on its head, no one will ever look at the Pied Piper -- or rats -- the same way again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13900'),
(8931, 'The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal ** *One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town. They''d have been really amazed if they''d ever found out that the rats and the piper met up with a cat somewhere outside of town and solemnly counted out the money.* The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets.... Set in Terry Pratchett''s widely popular Discworld, this masterfully crafted, gripping read is both compelling and funny. When one of the world''s most acclaimed fantasy writers turns a classic fairy tale on its head, no one will ever look at the Pied Piper -- or rats -- the same way again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24266'),
(8932, 'The Amazing Mexican Secret', 'Jeff Brown &amp; Josh Greenhut &amp; MacKy Pamintuan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Special delivery: Danger!\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Stanley''s mother needs the secret ingredient for a special recipe, Stanley mails himself to Mexico to track down its mysterious maker. But when a band of spies threatens to steal the secret, Stanley''s simple trip becomes a race against an opponent that even a flat boy like himself can''t slip past!!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jeff Brown created the beloved character of Flat Stanley as a bedtime story for his sons. He has written other outrageous books about the Lambchop family, including\n  <em>\n   Flat Stanley\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stanley and the Magic Lamp\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Invisible Stanley\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stanley''s Christmas Adventure\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stanley in Space\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Stanley, Flat Again!\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4636'),
(8933, 'The Amazing Mexican Secret', 'Jeff Brown &amp; Josh Greenhut &amp; MacKy Pamintuan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Special delivery: Danger!\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Stanley''s mother needs the secret ingredient for a special recipe, Stanley mails himself to Mexico to track down its mysterious maker. But when a band of spies threatens to steal the secret, Stanley''s simple trip becomes a race against an opponent that even a flat boy like himself can''t slip past!!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jeff Brown created the beloved character of Flat Stanley as a bedtime story for his sons. He has written other outrageous books about the Lambchop family, including\n  <em>\n   Flat Stanley\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stanley and the Magic Lamp\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Invisible Stanley\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stanley''s Christmas Adventure\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Stanley in Space\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Stanley, Flat Again!\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8622'),
(8934, 'Amazon.com for Dummies (ISBN', '0764558404)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20024');
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(8935, 'The Ambassadors', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher a wordsmeaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is no\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18310'),
(8936, 'The Ambassadors', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28157'),
(8937, 'Amber and Ashes', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  The paperback edition of the new novel from\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling\n  <br />\n  author Margaret Weis.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The paperback edition of the opening title in a new trilogy from\n  </strong>\n  Dragonlance\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  setting co-creator Margaret Weis takes up where the War of Souls series left off\n  <br />\n  with the central character Mina. While following her story, this new trilogy also explores the chaos that is post-war Krynn. This is Weisâ€™s first solo trilogy in\n  <br />\n  the\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  AUTHOR BIO: MARGARET WEIS is the author of numerous\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  novels, many of them co-written with Tracy Hickman or Don Perrin, including\n  <em>\n   the New York Times\n  </em>\n  best-selling War of Souls trilogy. She is also the author of The\n  <em>\n   Soulforge\n  </em>\n  and the Star of the Guardian novels and the designer of many\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  roleplaying products, including the\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Dragonlance\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Campaign Setting\n  </em>\n  .\n  <br />\n  Margaretâ€™s latest title is\n  <em>\n   Mistress of Dragons\n  </em>\n  from Tor Books.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  MARGARET WEIS is the author of numerous Dragonlance novels, many of them co-written with Tracy Hickman or Don Perrin, including the New York Times best-selling War of Souls trilogy. She is also the author of The Soulforge and the Star of the Guardian novels and the designer of many Dragonlance role-playing products, including the Dragonlance Campaign Setting. Margaret''s latest title is Mistress of Dragons from Tor Books.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21450'),
(8938, 'Amber and Blood', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The Dark Disciple''s fate will alter the future of Krynn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the concluding volume of this post-War of Souls trilogy, Mina learns the truth about herself and the terrible knowledge drives her insane. Rhys, the monk of Majere, accompanied by his dog Atta and the kender Nightshade, is given the dangerous assignment of guarding the crazed god, escorting her on a long, strange journey to the mysterious place known as Godshome, where Mina hopes to find the answer to the riddle of her existence. Their path is fraught with peril, for the undead Beloved want to make Mina their leader, even as the death knight Krell wants to seize her and Galdar tries to deliver Mina to her most hated enemy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21451'),
(8939, 'Amber and Iron', 'Margaret Weis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Synopsis:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The world of Krynn is ever changing, and even the gods can be taken by surprise. And if thatâ€™s true of the gods, what chance can a mere mortal have? Caught up in forces none of them could hope to face alone, a small but determined band of adventurers come together in a desperate attempt to stop an invasion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mina, as enigmatic as ever, escapes imprisonment to set off on a quest that will test even her considerable will. All the while, evil spreads across the land, gaining ground with each new day. With so much at stake, with the very soul of Krynn on the line, champions must be found even in the darkest places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21452'),
(8940, 'The Amber Room', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First-time novelist Berry weighs in with a hefty thriller that''s long on interesting research but short on thrills. Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler and ex-husband Paul are divorced but still care for each other. Rachel''s father, Karol Borya, knows secrets about the famed Amber Room, a massive set of intricately carved panels crafted from the precious substance and looted by Nazis during WWII from Russia''s Catherine Palace. The disappearance of the panels, which together formed a room, remains one of the world''s greatest unsolved art mysteries. Borya''s secret gets him killed as two European industrialists/art collectors go head to head in a deadly race to find the fabled room. Searching for Borya''s killer, Rachel and Paul bumble their way to Europe, where their naivetâ€š triggers more deaths. Berry has obviously done his homework, and he seems determined to find a place for every fact he''s unearthed. The plot slows for descriptions of various art pieces, lectures and long internal monologues in which characters examine their innermost feelings and motives in minute detail, while also packing in plenty of sex and an abundance of brutal killings. A final confrontation between all the principals ends in a looming Bavarian castle where Rachel is raped. All the right elements are in place, but the book is far too long and not as exciting as the ingredients suggest. Readers may end up wishing Berry had written a nonfiction account of the fascinating story of the Amber Room and skipped the fictional mayhem.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Give this man credit: whereas most lawyers who decide to write a novel stay fairly close to home, Berry, a Georgia trial attorney, wanders far off the beaten path. Although his debut novel features a trial judge as its central character and opens with a pretty typical courtroom scene, it soon steps outside the courtroom--way outside. When Judge Rachel Cutler''s father dies under suspicious circumstances, he leaves his daughter tantalizing clues to a decades-old secret: the Amber Room, an exquisite treasure that, so the legend goes, was appropriated by the Nazis when they invaded the Soviet Union. Now, to find out why her father died, and who''s responsible, Rachel (with her ex-husband, Paul) heads off to Germany, where she hopes to find the truth about the Amber Room. Based loosely, very loosely, on certain historical events, the novel is plotted cleverly and written with style and substance. A welcome change from the usual legal-thriller fare from wanna-be Turows.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1079'),
(8941, 'The Amber Room', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First-time novelist Berry weighs in with a hefty thriller that''s long on interesting research but short on thrills. Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler and ex-husband Paul are divorced but still care for each other. Rachel''s father, Karol Borya, knows secrets about the famed Amber Room, a massive set of intricately carved panels crafted from the precious substance and looted by Nazis during WWII from Russia''s Catherine Palace. The disappearance of the panels, which together formed a room, remains one of the world''s greatest unsolved art mysteries. Borya''s secret gets him killed as two European industrialists/art collectors go head to head in a deadly race to find the fabled room. Searching for Borya''s killer, Rachel and Paul bumble their way to Europe, where their naivetâ€š triggers more deaths. Berry has obviously done his homework, and he seems determined to find a place for every fact he''s unearthed. The plot slows for descriptions of various art pieces, lectures and long internal monologues in which characters examine their innermost feelings and motives in minute detail, while also packing in plenty of sex and an abundance of brutal killings. A final confrontation between all the principals ends in a looming Bavarian castle where Rachel is raped. All the right elements are in place, but the book is far too long and not as exciting as the ingredients suggest. Readers may end up wishing Berry had written a nonfiction account of the fascinating story of the Amber Room and skipped the fictional mayhem.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Give this man credit: whereas most lawyers who decide to write a novel stay fairly close to home, Berry, a Georgia trial attorney, wanders far off the beaten path. Although his debut novel features a trial judge as its central character and opens with a pretty typical courtroom scene, it soon steps outside the courtroom--way outside. When Judge Rachel Cutler''s father dies under suspicious circumstances, he leaves his daughter tantalizing clues to a decades-old secret: the Amber Room, an exquisite treasure that, so the legend goes, was appropriated by the Nazis when they invaded the Soviet Union. Now, to find out why her father died, and who''s responsible, Rachel (with her ex-husband, Paul) heads off to Germany, where she hopes to find the truth about the Amber Room. Based loosely, very loosely, on certain historical events, the novel is plotted cleverly and written with style and substance. A welcome change from the usual legal-thriller fare from wanna-be Turows.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8449'),
(8942, 'The Amber Room', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First-time novelist Berry weighs in with a hefty thriller that''s long on interesting research but short on thrills. Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler and ex-husband Paul are divorced but still care for each other. Rachel''s father, Karol Borya, knows secrets about the famed Amber Room, a massive set of intricately carved panels crafted from the precious substance and looted by Nazis during WWII from Russia''s Catherine Palace. The disappearance of the panels, which together formed a room, remains one of the world''s greatest unsolved art mysteries. Borya''s secret gets him killed as two European industrialists/art collectors go head to head in a deadly race to find the fabled room. Searching for Borya''s killer, Rachel and Paul bumble their way to Europe, where their naivetâ€š triggers more deaths. Berry has obviously done his homework, and he seems determined to find a place for every fact he''s unearthed. The plot slows for descriptions of various art pieces, lectures and long internal monologues in which characters examine their innermost feelings and motives in minute detail, while also packing in plenty of sex and an abundance of brutal killings. A final confrontation between all the principals ends in a looming Bavarian castle where Rachel is raped. All the right elements are in place, but the book is far too long and not as exciting as the ingredients suggest. Readers may end up wishing Berry had written a nonfiction account of the fascinating story of the Amber Room and skipped the fictional mayhem.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Give this man credit: whereas most lawyers who decide to write a novel stay fairly close to home, Berry, a Georgia trial attorney, wanders far off the beaten path. Although his debut novel features a trial judge as its central character and opens with a pretty typical courtroom scene, it soon steps outside the courtroom--way outside. When Judge Rachel Cutler''s father dies under suspicious circumstances, he leaves his daughter tantalizing clues to a decades-old secret: the Amber Room, an exquisite treasure that, so the legend goes, was appropriated by the Nazis when they invaded the Soviet Union. Now, to find out why her father died, and who''s responsible, Rachel (with her ex-husband, Paul) heads off to Germany, where she hopes to find the truth about the Amber Room. Based loosely, very loosely, on certain historical events, the novel is plotted cleverly and written with style and substance. A welcome change from the usual legal-thriller fare from wanna-be Turows.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23890'),
(8943, 'The Amber Spyglass', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Una fria noche de invierno, la nieve cae en una pequena ciudad, el viento hace resonar las campanas de la iglesia... y Fritz el novelista empieza el relato de su ultima narracion. En ese instante los mas extranos sucesos empiezan a desencadenarse, ligados unos a otros, casi como los engranajes de un reloj.En la inquietante historia se entremezclan un atormentado aprendiz de relojero, un principe automata, un amenazador caballero enfundado en su armadura y el siniestro senor Kalmenius, que, segun algunos, es el diablo en persona... A medida que la historia va desarrollandose, la vida y el reloj mecanico se entremezclan en esta muestra unica de la literatura de suspense, de la mano de uno de los mas prestigiosos escritores de nuestros dias. Philip Pullman ha sido el ganador de los codiciados premios Carnegie Medad y Guardian Children''s Fiction Prize\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2116'),
(8944, 'The Amber Spyglass', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Una fria noche de invierno, la nieve cae en una pequena ciudad, el viento hace resonar las campanas de la iglesia... y Fritz el novelista empieza el relato de su ultima narracion. En ese instante los mas extranos sucesos empiezan a desencadenarse, ligados unos a otros, casi como los engranajes de un reloj.En la inquietante historia se entremezclan un atormentado aprendiz de relojero, un principe automata, un amenazador caballero enfundado en su armadura y el siniestro senor Kalmenius, que, segun algunos, es el diablo en persona... A medida que la historia va desarrollandose, la vida y el reloj mecanico se entremezclan en esta muestra unica de la literatura de suspense, de la mano de uno de los mas prestigiosos escritores de nuestros dias. Philip Pullman ha sido el ganador de los codiciados premios Carnegie Medad y Guardian Children''s Fiction Prize\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12028'),
(8945, 'The Amber Spyglass', 'Pullman, Philip', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13830'),
(8946, 'Amberville', 'Tim Davys', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What does it mean to be bad? Eric Bear has it all: a successful career, a beautiful wife, a blissful home. He knows he''s been lucky; a while back, his life revolved around drugs, gambling, a gang of stuffed-animal thugs, and notorious crime boss Nicholas Dove. But the past isn''t as far away as Eric had hoped. Rumors are swirling that Dove is on the Death List and that he wants Eric to save him. If Eric fails to act, his beloved wife, Emma Rabbit, will be torn apart, limb from limb, and reduced to stuffing. With a nod to the best of noir and the wisest of allegories--interlaced with greed and gangsters--"Amberville" depicts an alternate world that mirrors our own realities and moral concerns, and reminds us of the inextricable link between good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/688'),
(8947, 'Amberville', 'Tim Davys', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What does it mean to be bad? Eric Bear has it all: a successful career, a beautiful wife, a blissful home. He knows he''s been lucky; a while back, his life revolved around drugs, gambling, a gang of stuffed-animal thugs, and notorious crime boss Nicholas Dove. But the past isn''t as far away as Eric had hoped. Rumors are swirling that Dove is on the Death List and that he wants Eric to save him. If Eric fails to act, his beloved wife, Emma Rabbit, will be torn apart, limb from limb, and reduced to stuffing. With a nod to the best of noir and the wisest of allegories--interlaced with greed and gangsters--"Amberville" depicts an alternate world that mirrors our own realities and moral concerns, and reminds us of the inextricable link between good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9134'),
(8948, 'Amberville', 'Tim Davys', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What does it mean to be bad? Eric Bear has it all: a successful career, a beautiful wife, a blissful home. He knows he''s been lucky; a while back, his life revolved around drugs, gambling, a gang of stuffed-animal thugs, and notorious crime boss Nicholas Dove. But the past isn''t as far away as Eric had hoped. Rumors are swirling that Dove is on the Death List and that he wants Eric to save him. If Eric fails to act, his beloved wife, Emma Rabbit, will be torn apart, limb from limb, and reduced to stuffing. With a nod to the best of noir and the wisest of allegories--interlaced with greed and gangsters--"Amberville" depicts an alternate world that mirrors our own realities and moral concerns, and reminds us of the inextricable link between good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24326'),
(8949, 'Amberville', 'Tim Davys', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What does it mean to be bad? Eric Bear has it all: a successful career, a beautiful wife, a blissful home. He knows he''s been lucky; a while back, his life revolved around drugs, gambling, a gang of stuffed-animal thugs, and notorious crime boss Nicholas Dove. But the past isn''t as far away as Eric had hoped. Rumors are swirling that Dove is on the Death List and that he wants Eric to save him. If Eric fails to act, his beloved wife, Emma Rabbit, will be torn apart, limb from limb, and reduced to stuffing. With a nod to the best of noir and the wisest of allegories--interlaced with greed and gangsters--"Amberville" depicts an alternate world that mirrors our own realities and moral concerns, and reminds us of the inextricable link between good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26126'),
(8950, 'Ambitii', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25877'),
(8951, 'The Ambler Warning', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n HE''S SEARCHING FOR SOMEONE WHO DOESN''T EXIST--HIMSELF. On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, lies a psychiatric facility. Far from prying eyes, it is a government-run hospital for former intelligence employees in possession of highly classified information. Former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler is one of these patients whose mind is filled with secrets of state--and is considered such a security risk that he is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there''s one critical difference between Ambler and the other patients--Ambler isn''t crazy. Now he must find a way to escape the facility, find out who put him there, and uncover the truth of who he was...and why someone is willing to risk everything to see him dead. "Reading a Ludlum novel is like watching a James Bond film...slickly paced...all consuming."--"Entertainment Weekly"" ""Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined."--"The New York Times" " " Visit the Robert Ludlum(TM) Web site atwww.ludlumbooks.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1652'),
(8952, 'The Ambler Warning', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: HE''S SEARCHING FOR SOMEONE WHO DOESN''T EXIST--HIMSELF. On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, lies a psychiatric facility. Far from prying eyes, it is a government-run hospital for former intelligence employees in possession of highly classified information. Former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler is one of these patients whose mind is filled with secrets of state--and is considered such a security risk that he is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there''s one critical difference between Ambler and the other patients--Ambler isn''t crazy. Now he must find a way to escape the facility, find out who put him there, and uncover the truth of who he was...and why someone is willing to risk everything to see him dead. "Reading a Ludlum novel is like watching a James Bond film...slickly paced...all consuming."--"Entertainment Weekly"" ""Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined."--"The New York Times" " " Visit the Robert Ludlum(TM) Web site atwww.ludlumbooks.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23312'),
(8953, 'Ambuscada pe Ornella', 'Daniel Walther', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25909'),
(8954, 'Ambushed!', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n COWBOY SHERIFF IN COMMAND\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Despite his previously unblemished reputation, for years, cowboy sheriff Cash McCall had been the prime suspect in his fiancÃ©e''s disappearance and presumed murder. So when a woman claiming to be her showed up in his office, Cash was finally off the hook...even though his instincts told him he''d never before held this woman in his arms.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Posing as a missing woman had seemed like a good idea to on-the-run Molly Kilpatrick...unfortunately, she''d made the mistake of stealing the wrong identity. Someone wanted the woman dead and would stop at nothing to make sure, this time, she stayed dead. Molly needed Cash''s protection and had to trust in his innocence, but if she was wrong, she''d be *dead* wrong.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7420'),
(8955, 'Ambushed!', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: COWBOY SHERIFF IN COMMAND Despite his previously unblemished reputation, for years, cowboy sheriff Cash McCall had been the prime suspect in his fiancÃ©e''s disappearance and presumed murder. So when a woman claiming to be her showed up in his office, Cash was finally off the hook...even though his instincts told him he''d never before held this woman in his arms. Posing as a missing woman had seemed like a good idea to on-the-run Molly Kilpatrick...unfortunately, she''d made the mistake of stealing the wrong identity. Someone wanted the woman dead and would stop at nothing to make sure, this time, she stayed dead. Molly needed Cash''s protection and had to trust in his innocence, but if she was wrong, she''d be *dead* wrong.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16487'),
(8956, 'Ambushed!', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: COWBOY SHERIFF IN COMMAND Despite his previously unblemished reputation, for years, cowboy sheriff Cash McCall had been the prime suspect in his fiancÃ©e''s disappearance and presumed murder. So when a woman claiming to be her showed up in his office, Cash was finally off the hook...even though his instincts told him he''d never before held this woman in his arms. Posing as a missing woman had seemed like a good idea to on-the-run Molly Kilpatrick...unfortunately, she''d made the mistake of stealing the wrong identity. Someone wanted the woman dead and would stop at nothing to make sure, this time, she stayed dead. Molly needed Cash''s protection and had to trust in his innocence, but if she was wrong, she''d be *dead* wrong.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26530'),
(8957, 'America&#39;s War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust, and Liberty', 'Marty Klein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Spotlights the political, legal and civic battles raging in this country against what is arguably our most private and pluralistic right - sexual freedom.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Right has politicized private life, expanding the zone of public sexuality. This guarantees policies that will worsen social problems and increase personal anxiety, providing proof that sexuality is fundamentally negativeÃ¢â‚¬â€so citizens demand more sex-negative policies.\n</p>\n<p>\n With examples ripped from today''s headlines, with brutal honesty and a wicked sense of humor, Marty Klein names names, challenges political hypocrisy, and shows the financial connections between government and conservative religious groups that are systematically taking away your rights. And, in the process, changing American societyÃ¢â‚¬â€forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n In our free society, people have the right to choose how they live their lives.Ã¢â‚¬â€ President George Bush, June 3, 2006\n</p>\n<p>\n So why does our government want to censor what you read, hear, and see, try to limit your access to contraception, attempt to legislate good moral values, and try to brainwash your kids about abstinence?\n</p>\n<p>\n These are the kinds of questions Dr. Marty Klein asksÃ¢â‚¬â€and answersÃ¢â‚¬â€in his new book,\n <em>\n  America''s War on Sex\n </em>\n . With hundreds of examples ripped from today''s headlines, he names names, challenges political hypocrisy, and shows the financial connections between government and conservative religious groups that are systematically taking away your rights. Dr. Klein isn''t shy about it. He demands to knowÃ¢â‚¬â€as you should demand to knowÃ¢â‚¬â€answers to difficult questions, such as: If 50 million Americans consume pornography, why does the government dare to regulate it without consulting any consumers? Why do Congressmen listen to victims of porn but not healthy adults who use porn? Now that abstinence-only sex education has been proven a failure, why does the government still give it $200 million each year? And how can most of that money go to faith-based groups who tell your kids how God feels about their sexual choices? Why do hundreds of American communities feel they have the right to eliminate legal adult entertainment, claiming we''re not that kind of city? Why do family courts have the right to judge the private sexual habits of each parent when making custody decisions? How can licensed pharmacists and physicians claim they have the right to deny you legal medical care if it violates their conscience?\n</p>\n<p>\n Our glorious Constitution guarantees us the widest range of rights civilization has ever seen. Why are those rights systematically undermined and revoked when it comes to sexual expression?\n</p>\n<p>\n Is there a conspiracy to deny us our sexual rights? No, says Marty Klein: It''s worse than a conspiracy. It''s a war. They''re very open about itÃ¢â‚¬â€it''s a War on Sex.\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s a war that threatens the very fabric of our secular democracy. The American Taliban, our own sexual jihadists, want to replace our government with laws based on the Bible, creating a country in which normal sex is narrowly defined and no one has the right to alternative sexual information, health care, or personal expression.\n</p>\n<p>\n America is fighting a war on terror to prevent the overthrow of our way of life by fanatics who want to base all law on their strict religious beliefs. It is completely unacceptable that a group of conservative Americans is trying to accomplish the same thing right here.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21704'),
(8958, 'American 19th Century Literature: Complete Stories; The Golden Bowl; Moby-Dick; Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; The Age of Innocence', 'Various; Henry James; Herman Melville; Mark Twain; Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An extraordinary collection that features some of the most beloved stories in early American literature, ranging from tales of love and longing to those of personal transformation. With elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers, these classics are an essential for any home library.\n</p>\n<p>\n Titles included:\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Age of Innocence\n </em>\n by Edith Wharton\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Complete Stories\n </em>\n by Edgar Allan Poe\n <br />\n <em>\n  The Golden Bowl\n </em>\n by Henry James\n <br />\n <em>\n  Moby-Dick\n </em>\n by Herman Melville\n <br />\n _Tom Sawyer\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n Huckleberry Finn_ by Mark Twain\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22842'),
(8959, 'American Assassin', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1New York Timesbestselling author Vince Flynn returns with yet another explosive thriller, introducing the young Mitch Rapp, as he takes on his first assignment.Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terroristrs"s worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world . . . and then tragedy struck.Two decades of cutthroat, partisan politics has left the CIA and the country in an increasingly vulnerable position. Cold War veteran and CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield knows he must prepare his people for the next war. The rise of Islamic terrorism is coming, and it needs to be met abroad before it reaches America''s shores. Stansfield directs his protEacute;Eacute;, Irene Kennedy, and his old Cold War colleague, Stan Hurley, to form a new group of clandestine operatives who will work outside the normal chain of command-men who do not exist. What type of man is willing to kill for his country without putting on a uniform? Kennedy finds him in the wake of the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack. Two-hundred and seventy souls perished that cold December night, and thousands of family and friends were left searching for comfort. Mitch Rapp was one of them, but he was not interested in comfort. He wanted retribution.Six months of intense training has prepared him to bring the war to the enemy''s doorstep, and he does so with brutal efficiency. Rapp starts in Istanbul, where he assassinates the Turkish arms dealer who sold the explosives used in the Pan Am attack. Rapp then moves onto Hamburg with his team and across Europe, leaving a trail of bodies. All roads lead to Beirut, though, and what Rapp doesnrs"t know is that the enemy is aware of his existence and has prepared a trap. The hunter is about to become the hunted, and Rapp will need every ounce of skill and cunning if he is to survive the war-ravaged city and its various terrorist factions.As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynn''s latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind then; steely gazen of the nation''s ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an American Assassin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/371'),
(8960, 'American Assassin', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1New York Timesbestselling author Vince Flynn returns with yet another explosive thriller, introducing the young Mitch Rapp, as he takes on his first assignment.Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terroristrs"s worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world . . . and then tragedy struck.Two decades of cutthroat, partisan politics has left the CIA and the country in an increasingly vulnerable position. Cold War veteran and CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield knows he must prepare his people for the next war. The rise of Islamic terrorism is coming, and it needs to be met abroad before it reaches America''s shores. Stansfield directs his protEacute;Eacute;, Irene Kennedy, and his old Cold War colleague, Stan Hurley, to form a new group of clandestine operatives who will work outside the normal chain of command-men who do not exist. What type of man is willing to kill for his country without putting on a uniform? Kennedy finds him in the wake of the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack. Two-hundred and seventy souls perished that cold December night, and thousands of family and friends were left searching for comfort. Mitch Rapp was one of them, but he was not interested in comfort. He wanted retribution.Six months of intense training has prepared him to bring the war to the enemy''s doorstep, and he does so with brutal efficiency. Rapp starts in Istanbul, where he assassinates the Turkish arms dealer who sold the explosives used in the Pan Am attack. Rapp then moves onto Hamburg with his team and across Europe, leaving a trail of bodies. All roads lead to Beirut, though, and what Rapp doesnrs"t know is that the enemy is aware of his existence and has prepared a trap. The hunter is about to become the hunted, and Rapp will need every ounce of skill and cunning if he is to survive the war-ravaged city and its various terrorist factions.As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynn''s latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind then; steely gazen of the nation''s ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an American Assassin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9756'),
(8961, 'American Assassin', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24613'),
(8962, 'American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood', 'Marie Arana', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though this memoir of growing up in America and Peru centers on Arana''s parents'' turbulent marriage, her real focus is the way cultures define, limit and enrich us. At one point, Arana, whose mother is American and father is Peruvian, recalls her first lesson in the color politics of Latin America. She was living in a gated house, in a factory town high in the Andes, and wanted to invite the daughter of the family cook to her birthday party. Of course she can come, said Arana''s mother, but if she does, none of the mothers of the other little girls will allow them to attend; an Indian girl is not accepted at a party of aristocratic schoolchildren. "I am reminded of my political innocence," Arana writes, "when I go to Latino conferences in [the U.S.]. When I see the children of Spanish-blooded oligarchs line up alongside migrant workers for a piece of affirmative action." It is this willingness to slice through convenient classifications, to see the rifts in every group, that distinguishes Arana''s account of how she learned to navigate between a culture that encouraged family loyalty and another that fostered independence. She writes beautifully, whether describing hunting for ghosts in Peru''s highlands, chewing tobacco in Wyoming, attending an American school in Lima or finding friends in New Jersey. Arana, the editor of the Washington Post Book World, blends a journalist''s dedication to research with a style that sings with humor. Her memoir is an outstanding contribution to the growing shelf of Latina literature. Agent, Amanda Urban.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Arana, editor of the Washington Post Book World, recently described this memoir as a love story. It is fraught with the tension of two worlds colliding: her North American mother''s independent, free-spirited individualism crashes into her South American father''s traditional, family-based orientation. Their children formed the bicultural bridge between them. In rich, lyrical prose, the author details her privileged, Peruvian childhood, watched by amas, and schooled at home. She writes of her grandfather who lived like a hermit in his own house, and further back the ancestors who played a horrifying role on Peru''s rubber plantations. She describes the scent of sugar, "raw, rough, Cartavio brown" from her father''s factory; the sounds of "El Gringo," the crazy blind man on his daily rounds; and the surreal world of los pishtacos, the ghosts, so mystifying, but terrifyingly real to Arana. She also writes of her mother and her former marriages, and finally of her life in America. Here Arana is an American Chica, where she leads not a double life, sometimes in her "American skin" at other times she is a Latina, but a triple life in which she makes up a "whole new person." While this book, filled with humor and insight, will be of special interest to Hispanic teens, it is a sparkling addition to the story of America''s "salad bowl" and will appeal to young people of all heritages.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Jane S. Drabkin, Chinn Park Regional Library, Prince William, VA\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8169'),
(8963, 'An American Childhood', 'Annie Dillard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother''s knuckles, which "didn''t snap back; it lay dead across her knuckle in a yellowish ridge." She remembers the compulsion to spend a whole afternoon (or many whole afternoons) endlessly pitching a ball at a target. In this intoxicating account of her childhood, Dillard climbs back inside her 5-, 10-, and 15-year-old selves with apparent effortlessness. The voracious young Dillard embraces headlong one fascination after another--from drawing to rocks and bugs to the French symbolists. "Everywhere, things snagged me," she writes. "The visible world turned me curious to books; the books propelled me reeling back to the world." From her parents she inherited a love of language--her mother''s speech was "an endlessly interesting, swerving path"--and the understanding that "you do what you do out of your private passion for the thing itself," not for anyone else''s approval or desire. And one would be mistaken to call the energy Dillard exhibits in\n  <em>\n   An American Childhood\n  </em>\n  merely youthful; "still I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day," she writes, "as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive."\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dillard''s luminous prose painlessly captures the pain of growing up in this wonderful evocation of childhood. Her memoir is partly a hymn to Pittsburgh, where orange streetcars ran on Penn Avenue in 1953 when she was eight, and where the Pirates were always in the cellar. Dillard''s mother, an unstoppable force, had energies too vast for the bridge games and household chores that stymied her. Her father made low-budget horror movies, loved Dixieland jazz, told endless jokes and sight-gags and took lonesome river trips down to New Orleans to get away. From this slightly odd couple, Dillard (Teaching a Stone to Talk acquired her love of nature and taut sensitivity. The events of childhood often loom larger than life; the magic of Dillard''s writing is that she sets down typical childhood happenings with their original immediacy and force.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7458'),
(8964, 'An American Childhood', 'Annie Dillard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This American author describes her ordinary 1950''s childhood in Pittsburgh with extraordinary clarity and humour. Her father quits the family firm and takes a boat down the Ohio River alone for a few months. Her mother teaches the three daughters how to tell a joke and bet a poker hand.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7986'),
(8965, 'An American Childhood', 'Annie Dillard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother''s knuckles, which "didn''t snap back; it lay dead across her knuckle in a yellowish ridge." She remembers the compulsion to spend a whole afternoon (or many whole afternoons) endlessly pitching a ball at a target. In this intoxicating account of her childhood, Dillard climbs back inside her 5-, 10-, and 15-year-old selves with apparent effortlessness. The voracious young Dillard embraces headlong one fascination after another--from drawing to rocks and bugs to the French symbolists. "Everywhere, things snagged me," she writes. "The visible world turned me curious to books; the books propelled me reeling back to the world." From her parents she inherited a love of language--her mother''s speech was "an endlessly interesting, swerving path"--and the understanding that "you do what you do out of your private passion for the thing itself," not for anyone else''s approval or desire. And one would be mistaken to call the energy Dillard exhibits in\n  <em>\n   An American Childhood\n  </em>\n  merely youthful; "still I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day," she writes, "as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive."\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dillard''s luminous prose painlessly captures the pain of growing up in this wonderful evocation of childhood. Her memoir is partly a hymn to Pittsburgh, where orange streetcars ran on Penn Avenue in 1953 when she was eight, and where the Pirates were always in the cellar. Dillard''s mother, an unstoppable force, had energies too vast for the bridge games and household chores that stymied her. Her father made low-budget horror movies, loved Dixieland jazz, told endless jokes and sight-gags and took lonesome river trips down to New Orleans to get away. From this slightly odd couple, Dillard (Teaching a Stone to Talk acquired her love of nature and taut sensitivity. The events of childhood often loom larger than life; the magic of Dillard''s writing is that she sets down typical childhood happenings with their original immediacy and force.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9218'),
(8966, 'An American Childhood', 'Annie Dillard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother''s knuckles, which "didn''t snap back; it lay dead across her knuckle in a yellowish ridge." She remembers the compulsion to spend a whole afternoon (or many whole afternoons) endlessly pitching a ball at a target. In this intoxicating account of her childhood, Dillard climbs back inside her 5-, 10-, and 15-year-old selves with apparent effortlessness. The voracious young Dillard embraces headlong one fascination after another--from drawing to rocks and bugs to the French symbolists. "Everywhere, things snagged me," she writes. "The visible world turned me curious to books; the books propelled me reeling back to the world." From her parents she inherited a love of language--her mother''s speech was "an endlessly interesting, swerving path"--and the understanding that "you do what you do out of your private passion for the thing itself," not for anyone else''s approval or desire. And one would be mistaken to call the energy Dillard exhibits in\n  <em>\n   An American Childhood\n  </em>\n  merely youthful; "still I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day," she writes, "as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive."\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dillard''s luminous prose painlessly captures the pain of growing up in this wonderful evocation of childhood. Her memoir is partly a hymn to Pittsburgh, where orange streetcars ran on Penn Avenue in 1953 when she was eight, and where the Pirates were always in the cellar. Dillard''s mother, an unstoppable force, had energies too vast for the bridge games and household chores that stymied her. Her father made low-budget horror movies, loved Dixieland jazz, told endless jokes and sight-gags and took lonesome river trips down to New Orleans to get away. From this slightly odd couple, Dillard (Teaching a Stone to Talk acquired her love of nature and taut sensitivity. The events of childhood often loom larger than life; the magic of Dillard''s writing is that she sets down typical childhood happenings with their original immediacy and force.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16371'),
(8967, 'The American Civil War and the Wars of the Industrial Revolution', 'Brian Holden Reid &amp; John Keegan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 70 color illustrations &amp; 80 b/w illustrations! The social changes and political changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution transformed everything from the balance of power between nations to the manufacture of armaments to battlefield tactics and strategy. Using three wars as examples--most dramatically the American Civil War, perhaps the greatest struggle of the 19th century--trace the development of land fighting and the effects of higher command during this period of tumultuous technological change. Unlike histories that downplay the connection between the outcome in the United States and the conflicts in Europe, this one reveals their interconnection. Trim size: 7 3/4 x 10 3/8.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7111'),
(8968, 'The American Civil War and the Wars of the Industrial Revolution', 'Brian Holden Reid &amp; John Keegan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 70 color illustrations &amp; 80 b/w illustrations! The social changes and political changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution transformed everything from the balance of power between nations to the manufacture of armaments to battlefield tactics and strategy. Using three wars as examples--most dramatically the American Civil War, perhaps the greatest struggle of the 19th century--trace the development of land fighting and the effects of higher command during this period of tumultuous technological change. Unlike histories that downplay the connection between the outcome in the United States and the conflicts in Europe, this one reveals their interconnection. Trim size: 7 3/4 x 10 3/8.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12109');
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(8969, 'The American Civil War and the wars of the Industrial Revolution', 'Brian Holden Reid; John Keegan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 70 color illustrations &amp; 80 b/w illustrations! The social changes and political changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution transformed everything from the balance of power between nations to the manufacture of armaments to battlefield tactics and strategy. Using three wars as examples--most dramatically the American Civil War, perhaps the greatest struggle of the 19th century--trace the development of land fighting and the effects of higher command during this period of tumultuous technological change. Unlike histories that downplay the connection between the outcome in the United States and the conflicts in Europe, this one reveals their interconnection. Trim size: 7 3/4 x 10 3/8.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16840'),
(8970, 'The American Civil War and the wars of the Industrial Revolution', 'Brian Holden Reid; John Keegan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 70 color illustrations &amp; 80 b/w illustrations! The social changes and political changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution transformed everything from the balance of power between nations to the manufacture of armaments to battlefield tactics and strategy. Using three wars as examples--most dramatically the American Civil War, perhaps the greatest struggle of the 19th century--trace the development of land fighting and the effects of higher command during this period of tumultuous technological change. Unlike histories that downplay the connection between the outcome in the United States and the conflicts in Europe, this one reveals their interconnection. Trim size: 7 3/4 x 10 3/8.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26722'),
(8971, 'American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900', 'H. W. Brands', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this timely study, University of Texas historian Brands (Traitor to His Class) describes the rise of the great corporate capitalists after the Civil War. J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie constituted an trinity of power-obsessed individuals who instinctively understood that wealth was the ultimate political weapon. They defined the cold-blooded authority of big business. Fascinating detours away from the tale of corporate empires examine the Reconstruction process in the South, the Indian Wars of the West, the opening of the Great Plains, immigration in the East, and the rise of organized labor and the agrarian reformers. Effectively, excerpts from the first-person accounts of Booker T. Washington, Black Elk, Jacob Riis, and others convey the drama of the time. Perhaps the only significant omission in this fast-paced, engrossing narrative is a tendency to dwell on political doctrines that sought to repudiate or restrain capitalism while only briefly discussing the dogma of Herbert Spencer''s social Darwinism,Â which favored the monopolists.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  American Colossus\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n "Mr. Brands, a terrific writer who commands his material, handles this sprawling, complicated story with authority and panache. A book that might have been a worthy but boring tome turns out to be as close as serious history gets to a page turner...._American Colossus_ is a first-rate overview of one of the most important periods in American history, one without which the American Century could not have happened."\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”John Steele Gordon,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A superb new historyâ€¦.This is a big, brash narrative running from the Confederate surrender at Appomattox to the trust busting of Theodore Rooseveltâ€¦.I read swaths of this book twice, just to savor Brandsâ€™ storytelling and mastery of detail."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”James Pressley, Bloomberg News\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Brands paints a vivid portrait of both this understudied age and those industrialists still introduced by high school teachers as â€˜robber baronsâ€™: Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morganâ€¦.As Mr. Brands relates the tycoonsâ€™ stories, he drops some anecdotes wonderfully relevant today."\n <br />\n â€”_The Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n _"An excellent bookâ€¦.H. W. Brands is a smart, lively writerâ€¦ [who] demonstrates, as the best historians do, that past is prologue."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Dallas Morning News\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Age of Gold\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”David McCullough, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n John Adams\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œA barn burner . . . Masterfully sketched historical figures, subtly developed themes, and especially well-braided stories . . . Eureka!â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Traitor to His Class\n </em>\n <br />\n (Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography)\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThis is a rare book indeed, shedding new light and brilliant insight upon an elusive subject we thought we knew well . . .\n <em>\n  Traitor to His Class\n </em>\n will quickly emerge as the finest one-volume biography of FDR.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”David Oshinsky, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œH. W. Brands has accomplished a remarkable feat in this terrific workâ€¦. He has brought to vivid life the central figures in his story . . . while at the same time providing a fresh understanding of the rich historical context for their thoughts and actions at every step along the way.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning historian and author of\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Team of Rivals\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œThis may well be the best general biography of Franklin Roosevelt we will see for many years to come.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”_Christian Science Monitor_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for _The First American\n <br />\n _(Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œH. W. Brands has given us the authoritative Franklin biography for our time.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning\n  <em>\n   Founding Brothers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA biography with a rich cast of secondary characters and a large and handsome stock of historical sceneryâ€¦This is a Franklin to savor.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Wall Street Journal_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Lone Star Nation\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œSweeping and specific . . . [Brands] writes the story with clarity and vigor . . . .Clearly adds to our knowledge of an era when men rode to the sound of guns and honor was a comprehensible concept.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Washington Post Book World_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œBrands [is] on the path to becoming the preeminent popular historian of his generation.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Andrew Jackson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA great story . . . Serves up everything you might expect in a ripping yarn: murderous duels, savage Indian raids, equally savage counterattacks.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Washington Post Book World\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n _â€œOld Hickory rides again in Brandsâ€™ elegantly written and carefully researched biography . . . A must-read!â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Douglas Brinkley, author of\n  <em>\n   The Great Deluge\n  </em>\n  , winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5259'),
(8972, 'American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900', 'H. W. Brands', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this timely study, University of Texas historian Brands (Traitor to His Class) describes the rise of the great corporate capitalists after the Civil War. J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie constituted an trinity of power-obsessed individuals who instinctively understood that wealth was the ultimate political weapon. They defined the cold-blooded authority of big business. Fascinating detours away from the tale of corporate empires examine the Reconstruction process in the South, the Indian Wars of the West, the opening of the Great Plains, immigration in the East, and the rise of organized labor and the agrarian reformers. Effectively, excerpts from the first-person accounts of Booker T. Washington, Black Elk, Jacob Riis, and others convey the drama of the time. Perhaps the only significant omission in this fast-paced, engrossing narrative is a tendency to dwell on political doctrines that sought to repudiate or restrain capitalism while only briefly discussing the dogma of Herbert Spencer''s social Darwinism,Â which favored the monopolists.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  American Colossus\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n "Mr. Brands, a terrific writer who commands his material, handles this sprawling, complicated story with authority and panache. A book that might have been a worthy but boring tome turns out to be as close as serious history gets to a page turner...._American Colossus_ is a first-rate overview of one of the most important periods in American history, one without which the American Century could not have happened."\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”John Steele Gordon,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A superb new historyâ€¦.This is a big, brash narrative running from the Confederate surrender at Appomattox to the trust busting of Theodore Rooseveltâ€¦.I read swaths of this book twice, just to savor Brandsâ€™ storytelling and mastery of detail."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”James Pressley, Bloomberg News\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Brands paints a vivid portrait of both this understudied age and those industrialists still introduced by high school teachers as â€˜robber baronsâ€™: Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morganâ€¦.As Mr. Brands relates the tycoonsâ€™ stories, he drops some anecdotes wonderfully relevant today."\n <br />\n â€”_The Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n _"An excellent bookâ€¦.H. W. Brands is a smart, lively writerâ€¦ [who] demonstrates, as the best historians do, that past is prologue."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Dallas Morning News\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Age of Gold\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”David McCullough, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n John Adams\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œA barn burner . . . Masterfully sketched historical figures, subtly developed themes, and especially well-braided stories . . . Eureka!â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Traitor to His Class\n </em>\n <br />\n (Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography)\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThis is a rare book indeed, shedding new light and brilliant insight upon an elusive subject we thought we knew well . . .\n <em>\n  Traitor to His Class\n </em>\n will quickly emerge as the finest one-volume biography of FDR.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”David Oshinsky, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œH. W. Brands has accomplished a remarkable feat in this terrific workâ€¦. He has brought to vivid life the central figures in his story . . . while at the same time providing a fresh understanding of the rich historical context for their thoughts and actions at every step along the way.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning historian and author of\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Team of Rivals\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œThis may well be the best general biography of Franklin Roosevelt we will see for many years to come.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”_Christian Science Monitor_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for _The First American\n <br />\n _(Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œH. W. Brands has given us the authoritative Franklin biography for our time.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning\n  <em>\n   Founding Brothers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA biography with a rich cast of secondary characters and a large and handsome stock of historical sceneryâ€¦This is a Franklin to savor.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Wall Street Journal_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Lone Star Nation\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œSweeping and specific . . . [Brands] writes the story with clarity and vigor . . . .Clearly adds to our knowledge of an era when men rode to the sound of guns and honor was a comprehensible concept.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Washington Post Book World_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œBrands [is] on the path to becoming the preeminent popular historian of his generation.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Andrew Jackson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA great story . . . Serves up everything you might expect in a ripping yarn: murderous duels, savage Indian raids, equally savage counterattacks.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Washington Post Book World\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n _â€œOld Hickory rides again in Brandsâ€™ elegantly written and carefully researched biography . . . A must-read!â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Douglas Brinkley, author of\n  <em>\n   The Great Deluge\n  </em>\n  , winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8599'),
(8973, 'American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900', 'H. W. Brands', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this timely study, University of Texas historian Brands (Traitor to His Class) describes the rise of the great corporate capitalists after the Civil War. J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie constituted an trinity of power-obsessed individuals who instinctively understood that wealth was the ultimate political weapon. They defined the cold-blooded authority of big business. Fascinating detours away from the tale of corporate empires examine the Reconstruction process in the South, the Indian Wars of the West, the opening of the Great Plains, immigration in the East, and the rise of organized labor and the agrarian reformers. Effectively, excerpts from the first-person accounts of Booker T. Washington, Black Elk, Jacob Riis, and others convey the drama of the time. Perhaps the only significant omission in this fast-paced, engrossing narrative is a tendency to dwell on political doctrines that sought to repudiate or restrain capitalism while only briefly discussing the dogma of Herbert Spencer''s social Darwinism, which favored the monopolists.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  American Colossus\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n "Mr. Brands, a terrific writer who commands his material, handles this sprawling, complicated story with authority and panache. A book that might have been a worthy but boring tome turns out to be as close as serious history gets to a page turner...._American Colossus_ is a first-rate overview of one of the most important periods in American history, one without which the American Century could not have happened."\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”John Steele Gordon,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A superb new history....This is a big, brash narrative running from the Confederate surrender at Appomattox to the trust busting of Theodore Roosevelt....I read swaths of this book twice, just to savor Brandsâ€™ storytelling and mastery of detail."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”James Pressley, Bloomberg News\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Brands paints a vivid portrait of both this understudied age and those industrialists still introduced by high school teachers as â€˜robber baronsâ€™: Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan....As Mr. Brands relates the tycoonsâ€™ stories, he drops some anecdotes wonderfully relevant today."\n <br />\n â€”_The Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n _"An excellent book....H. W. Brands is a smart, lively writer... [who] demonstrates, as the best historians do, that past is prologue."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Dallas Morning News\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Age of Gold\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”David McCullough, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n John Adams\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œA barn burner . . . Masterfully sketched historical figures, subtly developed themes, and especially well-braided stories . . . Eureka!â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Traitor to His Class\n </em>\n <br />\n (Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography)\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThis is a rare book indeed, shedding new light and brilliant insight upon an elusive subject we thought we knew well . . .\n <em>\n  Traitor to His Class\n </em>\n will quickly emerge as the finest one-volume biography of FDR.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”David Oshinsky, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œH. W. Brands has accomplished a remarkable feat in this terrific work.... He has brought to vivid life the central figures in his story . . . while at the same time providing a fresh understanding of the rich historical context for their thoughts and actions at every step along the way.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning historian and author of\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Team of Rivals\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œThis may well be the best general biography of Franklin Roosevelt we will see for many years to come.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”_Christian Science Monitor_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for _The First American\n <br />\n _(Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œH. W. Brands has given us the authoritative Franklin biography for our time.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning\n  <em>\n   Founding Brothers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA biography with a rich cast of secondary characters and a large and handsome stock of historical scenery...This is a Franklin to savor.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Wall Street Journal_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Lone Star Nation\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œSweeping and specific . . . [Brands] writes the story with clarity and vigor . . . .Clearly adds to our knowledge of an era when men rode to the sound of guns and honor was a comprehensible concept.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”_Washington Post Book World_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œBrands [is] on the path to becoming the preeminent popular historian of his generation.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Andrew Jackson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA great story . . . Serves up everything you might expect in a ripping yarn: murderous duels, savage Indian raids, equally savage counterattacks.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n Washington Post Book World\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n _â€œOld Hickory rides again in Brandsâ€™ elegantly written and carefully researched biography . . . A must-read!â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Douglas Brinkley, author of\n  <em>\n   The Great Deluge\n  </em>\n  , winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19420'),
(8974, 'American Empire: Blood and Iron', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody plays the what-if game of alternative history better than Turtledove, especially when he has a large-scale subject and when he''s working close enough to the present for readers to appreciate his detailed analyses of how familiar events might have turned out differently. His massive trilogy, The Great War, described how WWI might have been fought on an Earth where the Confederacy was still an independent nation. This follow-up novel begins by showing postwar life. Teddy Roosevelt is president; however, the Socialist Party gives the establishment serious competition, as veterans question the society they fought to save, and Upton Sinclair challenges TR in the election of 1920. Meanwhile, in the humiliated and bankrupt Confederate states, an angry racist with a gift of demagoguery whips up violent mobs and aims them at his enemies. Readers will recognize some of the names, but watching historical processes in action is the novel''s real attraction. Knowing what happened in our timeline, readers will want to imagine the results of different choices. Sometimes, luck and willingness to compromise can resolve conflicts. On the other hand, the Southern Hitler may have his way. It depends on how well people make sense of the situations facing them. Turtledove''s introduction carries over a cast of 16 varied characters from The Great War. Not all survive, but readers will be curious to see how the rest go on to cope with new challenges. This book begins a panoramic story, a new trilogy at least, that promises to be immensely fascinating. 5-city author tour; on-sale date July 31.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turtledove''s Great War series morphs into the American Empire series. The U.S and imperial Germany have imposed a "blood and iron" peace on Britain, France, Russia, and the Confederacy. On the western front, the Confederacy struggles to overcome defeat, dissension, and Weimar-level inflation, and the U.S. labors to stay on top of things and prepare for the next round of combat. Indomitable, muddleheaded General Custer has his sails trimmed by the election of Socialist Upton Sinclair as president in 1920, which also makes Turtledove''s creation, Flora Hamburger, the wife of the vice-president. In the Confederacy, former artillery sergeant Jake Featherstone founds the Freedom Party. His road to power turns rocky after the crackbrained assassination of President Wade Hampton V, but Ann Colleton escapes the subsequent Freedom Party debacle only slightly damaged and loses her stormy lover when the widow of one of his victims shoots him. Cincinnatus Driver leaves Ohio for the better racial climate of Iowa, and Scipio, married and now named Xerxes, learns that no matter which whites win in the Confederacy, the black man almost always loses. Turtledove''s skill at dramatizing historical forces proves magisterial once more.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5186'),
(8975, 'American Empire: Blood and Iron', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody plays the what-if game of alternative history better than Turtledove, especially when he has a large-scale subject and when he''s working close enough to the present for readers to appreciate his detailed analyses of how familiar events might have turned out differently. His massive trilogy, The Great War, described how WWI might have been fought on an Earth where the Confederacy was still an independent nation. This follow-up novel begins by showing postwar life. Teddy Roosevelt is president; however, the Socialist Party gives the establishment serious competition, as veterans question the society they fought to save, and Upton Sinclair challenges TR in the election of 1920. Meanwhile, in the humiliated and bankrupt Confederate states, an angry racist with a gift of demagoguery whips up violent mobs and aims them at his enemies. Readers will recognize some of the names, but watching historical processes in action is the novel''s real attraction. Knowing what happened in our timeline, readers will want to imagine the results of different choices. Sometimes, luck and willingness to compromise can resolve conflicts. On the other hand, the Southern Hitler may have his way. It depends on how well people make sense of the situations facing them. Turtledove''s introduction carries over a cast of 16 varied characters from The Great War. Not all survive, but readers will be curious to see how the rest go on to cope with new challenges. This book begins a panoramic story, a new trilogy at least, that promises to be immensely fascinating. 5-city author tour; on-sale date July 31.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turtledove''s Great War series morphs into the American Empire series. The U.S and imperial Germany have imposed a "blood and iron" peace on Britain, France, Russia, and the Confederacy. On the western front, the Confederacy struggles to overcome defeat, dissension, and Weimar-level inflation, and the U.S. labors to stay on top of things and prepare for the next round of combat. Indomitable, muddleheaded General Custer has his sails trimmed by the election of Socialist Upton Sinclair as president in 1920, which also makes Turtledove''s creation, Flora Hamburger, the wife of the vice-president. In the Confederacy, former artillery sergeant Jake Featherstone founds the Freedom Party. His road to power turns rocky after the crackbrained assassination of President Wade Hampton V, but Ann Colleton escapes the subsequent Freedom Party debacle only slightly damaged and loses her stormy lover when the widow of one of his victims shoots him. Cincinnatus Driver leaves Ohio for the better racial climate of Iowa, and Scipio, married and now named Xerxes, learns that no matter which whites win in the Confederacy, the black man almost always loses. Turtledove''s skill at dramatizing historical forces proves magisterial once more.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13047'),
(8976, 'American Empire: The Victorious Opposition', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest volume in Turtledove''s colossal and brilliant saga of an alternate (and disunited) United States may be the strongest and most compelling since the opener, How Few Remain (1997). Juxtaposing historical dilemmas and universal human ones, the novel explores weird twists of history at both levels. Jake Featherston leads an independent Confederacy toward war, with his propaganda chief a scrawny undersized Jew. Anne Colleton attends the Richmond Olympics of 1936, still dynamic but worried about losing her sex appeal. George Enos has lost his mother, accidentally shot by her drunken lover Ernie, and is now following in his late father''s footsteps as a commercial fisherman out of Boston. Cincinnatus Driver and Scipio are on a collision course with the Holocaust that the Confederacy is preparing for African-Americans in Alabama, but Cincinnatus has also borne the burden of making peace with the parents of his Chinese daughter-in-law. Jonathan Moss is climbing back into the cockpit of an alternate P-40, ready to wield it like a sword of vengeance against Canadian terrorists who killed his wife and daughter. And one does wonder what will come of a WWII with France and Britain under quasi-Fascist regimes. Readers will not have long to wait, as the WWII trilogy is only a couple of years from seeing the light of print-which many fans will find far too long.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The conclusion to American Empire, part of Turtledove''s magisterial saga of an alternate America that also includes the trilogy The Great War, is the most powerful volume in it since the post-Civil War novel that launched it all,\n <em>\n  How Few Remain\n </em>\n (1997). It demonstrates Turtledove''s continuing mastery of historical fiction on the macrocosmic and the microcosmic levels. On the grand scale, there is Confederate president Jake Featherstone (the Confederacy won the Civil War, you see) shouting, "I''m here to tell you the truth," while he does nothing of the sort; the Olympics of 1936 unfolding in Richmond, Virginia; a France ruled by the Action Francaise and upholding a king, Charles XI; and the death of Kaiser Wilhelm II precipitating the next world war. On the smaller scale, three old friends from previous saga volumes are lost: Sylvia Enos to her drunken lover Ernie, the widowed Lucien Gautier to a heart attack while with a new lady-love, and Clara Jacobs to old-fashioned blood-poisoning. Cincinnatus Driver is torn between obligations to his old Red comrades, his family in Iowa, and his parents in a Kentucky that, having voted itself into the Confederacy, is preparing a Holocaust of its black population. Farther south, Scipio has no hope of refuge if Anne Colleton comes after him, while up north Jonathan Moss leaves Canada to return to a fighter cockpit after his wife and daughter are killed by a letter bomb. Busy, to be sure, but almost impossible to praise too highly.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5187'),
(8977, 'American Empire: The Victorious Opposition', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest volume in Turtledove''s colossal and brilliant saga of an alternate (and disunited) United States may be the strongest and most compelling since the opener, How Few Remain (1997). Juxtaposing historical dilemmas and universal human ones, the novel explores weird twists of history at both levels. Jake Featherston leads an independent Confederacy toward war, with his propaganda chief a scrawny undersized Jew. Anne Colleton attends the Richmond Olympics of 1936, still dynamic but worried about losing her sex appeal. George Enos has lost his mother, accidentally shot by her drunken lover Ernie, and is now following in his late father''s footsteps as a commercial fisherman out of Boston. Cincinnatus Driver and Scipio are on a collision course with the Holocaust that the Confederacy is preparing for African-Americans in Alabama, but Cincinnatus has also borne the burden of making peace with the parents of his Chinese daughter-in-law. Jonathan Moss is climbing back into the cockpit of an alternate P-40, ready to wield it like a sword of vengeance against Canadian terrorists who killed his wife and daughter. And one does wonder what will come of a WWII with France and Britain under quasi-Fascist regimes. Readers will not have long to wait, as the WWII trilogy is only a couple of years from seeing the light of print-which many fans will find far too long.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The conclusion to American Empire, part of Turtledove''s magisterial saga of an alternate America that also includes the trilogy The Great War, is the most powerful volume in it since the post-Civil War novel that launched it all,\n <em>\n  How Few Remain\n </em>\n (1997). It demonstrates Turtledove''s continuing mastery of historical fiction on the macrocosmic and the microcosmic levels. On the grand scale, there is Confederate president Jake Featherstone (the Confederacy won the Civil War, you see) shouting, "I''m here to tell you the truth," while he does nothing of the sort; the Olympics of 1936 unfolding in Richmond, Virginia; a France ruled by the Action Francaise and upholding a king, Charles XI; and the death of Kaiser Wilhelm II precipitating the next world war. On the smaller scale, three old friends from previous saga volumes are lost: Sylvia Enos to her drunken lover Ernie, the widowed Lucien Gautier to a heart attack while with a new lady-love, and Clara Jacobs to old-fashioned blood-poisoning. Cincinnatus Driver is torn between obligations to his old Red comrades, his family in Iowa, and his parents in a Kentucky that, having voted itself into the Confederacy, is preparing a Holocaust of its black population. Farther south, Scipio has no hope of refuge if Anne Colleton comes after him, while up north Jonathan Moss leaves Canada to return to a fighter cockpit after his wife and daughter are killed by a letter bomb. Busy, to be sure, but almost impossible to praise too highly.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13127'),
(8978, 'American Empire: The Victorious Opposition', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest volume in Turtledove''s colossal and brilliant saga of an alternate (and disunited) United States may be the strongest and most compelling since the opener, How Few Remain (1997). Juxtaposing historical dilemmas and universal human ones, the novel explores weird twists of history at both levels. Jake Featherston leads an independent Confederacy toward war, with his propaganda chief a scrawny undersized Jew. Anne Colleton attends the Richmond Olympics of 1936, still dynamic but worried about losing her sex appeal. George Enos has lost his mother, accidentally shot by her drunken lover Ernie, and is now following in his late father''s footsteps as a commercial fisherman out of Boston. Cincinnatus Driver and Scipio are on a collision course with the Holocaust that the Confederacy is preparing for African-Americans in Alabama, but Cincinnatus has also borne the burden of making peace with the parents of his Chinese daughter-in-law. Jonathan Moss is climbing back into the cockpit of an alternate P-40, ready to wield it like a sword of vengeance against Canadian terrorists who killed his wife and daughter. And one does wonder what will come of a WWII with France and Britain under quasi-Fascist regimes. Readers will not have long to wait, as the WWII trilogy is only a couple of years from seeing the light of print-which many fans will find far too long.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The conclusion to American Empire, part of Turtledove''s magisterial saga of an alternate America that also includes the trilogy The Great War, is the most powerful volume in it since the post-Civil War novel that launched it all,\n <em>\n  How Few Remain\n </em>\n (1997). It demonstrates Turtledove''s continuing mastery of historical fiction on the macrocosmic and the microcosmic levels. On the grand scale, there is Confederate president Jake Featherstone (the Confederacy won the Civil War, you see) shouting, "I''m here to tell you the truth," while he does nothing of the sort; the Olympics of 1936 unfolding in Richmond, Virginia; a France ruled by the Action Francaise and upholding a king, Charles XI; and the death of Kaiser Wilhelm II precipitating the next world war. On the smaller scale, three old friends from previous saga volumes are lost: Sylvia Enos to her drunken lover Ernie, the widowed Lucien Gautier to a heart attack while with a new lady-love, and Clara Jacobs to old-fashioned blood-poisoning. Cincinnatus Driver is torn between obligations to his old Red comrades, his family in Iowa, and his parents in a Kentucky that, having voted itself into the Confederacy, is preparing a Holocaust of its black population. Farther south, Scipio has no hope of refuge if Anne Colleton comes after him, while up north Jonathan Moss leaves Canada to return to a fighter cockpit after his wife and daughter are killed by a letter bomb. Busy, to be sure, but almost impossible to praise too highly.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19487'),
(8979, 'American Freak Show: The Completely Fabricated Stories of Our New National Treasures', 'Willie Geist', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For his first book Geist, from MSNBC''s Way Too Early and Morning Joe, imagines private conversations, e-mail exchanges, Twitter feeds, speeches, and other scenarios involving top newsmakers from our time. Such luminaries as Hillary Clinton, Kate Gosselin, Tiger Woods, Levi Johnston, and "President" Sarah Palin are subjected to Geist''s wooden, repetitive send-ups. As Geist tells it, most everyone-including all 20th century presidents-seem to be identical to each other, right down to their speech patterns: they are arrogant, lack self-awareness, and have a penchant for swearing. While they may, indeed, share certain qualities, individual personalities are lost on Geist. Occasional "true story" vignettes about real-life "freaks" feature much fresher and funnier content; while recounting a news story in which a man was arrested for pleasuring himself with a coin-operated car wash vacuum, Geist muses, "One assumes Whitesnake was playing on the radio." Clearly commentary, rather than storytelling, is Geist''s strength, so it''s a shame that narratives make up the bulk of this effort.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  This is not the first book written about quantum mechanics, but it just might be the last. The theory presented inside these pages is so revolutionary that it has stunned the scientific community into reconsidering centuries of thought about the behavior of energy and matter. Prepare to have your mind blown.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Sorry, that''s the introduction to Willie Geist''s\n <em>\n  next\n </em>\n book--the culmination of his life''s work. Look for it next spring, just in time for Mother''s Day.\n <em>\n  This\n </em>\n book is about his other passion: freaks.\n</p>\n<p>\n When he''s not in the lab, Geist spends his time on MSNBC''s\n <em>\n  Morning Joe\n </em>\n sifting through the wreckage of American politics and popular culture. These days, that''s a big job. With an Alaska hockey mom turning, almost overnight, into a national icon and threatening to move from Wasilla to the White House, with the world''s most famous athlete now associated less with the Masters and more with the strippers, and with reality TV working around the clock to ensure the constitutional right of every man, woman, and child to fifteen minutes of fame, Geist''s business is thriving.\n</p>\n<p>\n In his hilarious first book,\n <em>\n  American Freak Show\n </em>\n , Geist takes the smart, biting observation loved by his television audience to new satirical extremes. The real-life characters who now haunt our daily lives are cast as stars in completely made-up scenes that, frankly, are not all that far from reality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Geist treats us to the first look at President Sarah Palin''s unconventional inaugural address, performed live on WWE''s\n <em>\n  Monday Night Raw\n </em>\n after her renegade victory in the 2012 election. We go inside the ballroom for a Dean Martin-style welcome roast of Bernie Madoff upon his arrival in Hell, with Pol Pot serving as sidesplitting roastmaster. Geist provides us with never-before-seen FBI wiretap transcripts of the more mundane, but equally profane, telephone conversations of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. And George W. Bush''s batting-cage-and-waterslide-themed plans for a presidential library are laid out publicly for the first time.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Obama to Oprah, Afghanistan to Lohan, and Snooki to the Salahis, Willie Geist spares no one as our host of this wild\n <em>\n  American Freak Show\n </em>\n . You''ll laugh out loud while weeping for the future of America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/168'),
(8980, 'American Freak Show: The Completely Fabricated Stories of Our New National Treasures', 'Willie Geist', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For his first book Geist, from MSNBC''s Way Too Early and Morning Joe, imagines private conversations, e-mail exchanges, Twitter feeds, speeches, and other scenarios involving top newsmakers from our time. Such luminaries as Hillary Clinton, Kate Gosselin, Tiger Woods, Levi Johnston, and "President" Sarah Palin are subjected to Geist''s wooden, repetitive send-ups. As Geist tells it, most everyone-including all 20th century presidents-seem to be identical to each other, right down to their speech patterns: they are arrogant, lack self-awareness, and have a penchant for swearing. While they may, indeed, share certain qualities, individual personalities are lost on Geist. Occasional "true story" vignettes about real-life "freaks" feature much fresher and funnier content; while recounting a news story in which a man was arrested for pleasuring himself with a coin-operated car wash vacuum, Geist muses, "One assumes Whitesnake was playing on the radio." Clearly commentary, rather than storytelling, is Geist''s strength, so it''s a shame that narratives make up the bulk of this effort.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  This is not the first book written about quantum mechanics, but it just might be the last. The theory presented inside these pages is so revolutionary that it has stunned the scientific community into reconsidering centuries of thought about the behavior of energy and matter. Prepare to have your mind blown.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Sorry, that''s the introduction to Willie Geist''s\n <em>\n  next\n </em>\n book--the culmination of his life''s work. Look for it next spring, just in time for Mother''s Day.\n <em>\n  This\n </em>\n book is about his other passion: freaks.\n</p>\n<p>\n When he''s not in the lab, Geist spends his time on MSNBC''s\n <em>\n  Morning Joe\n </em>\n sifting through the wreckage of American politics and popular culture. These days, that''s a big job. With an Alaska hockey mom turning, almost overnight, into a national icon and threatening to move from Wasilla to the White House, with the world''s most famous athlete now associated less with the Masters and more with the strippers, and with reality TV working around the clock to ensure the constitutional right of every man, woman, and child to fifteen minutes of fame, Geist''s business is thriving.\n</p>\n<p>\n In his hilarious first book,\n <em>\n  American Freak Show\n </em>\n , Geist takes the smart, biting observation loved by his television audience to new satirical extremes. The real-life characters who now haunt our daily lives are cast as stars in completely made-up scenes that, frankly, are not all that far from reality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Geist treats us to the first look at President Sarah Palin''s unconventional inaugural address, performed live on WWE''s\n <em>\n  Monday Night Raw\n </em>\n after her renegade victory in the 2012 election. We go inside the ballroom for a Dean Martin-style welcome roast of Bernie Madoff upon his arrival in Hell, with Pol Pot serving as sidesplitting roastmaster. Geist provides us with never-before-seen FBI wiretap transcripts of the more mundane, but equally profane, telephone conversations of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. And George W. Bush''s batting-cage-and-waterslide-themed plans for a presidential library are laid out publicly for the first time.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Obama to Oprah, Afghanistan to Lohan, and Snooki to the Salahis, Willie Geist spares no one as our host of this wild\n <em>\n  American Freak Show\n </em>\n . You''ll laugh out loud while weeping for the future of America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9927');
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(8981, 'American Freak Show: The Completely Fabricated Stories of Our New National Treasures', 'Willie Geist', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For his first book Geist, from MSNBC''s Way Too Early and Morning Joe, imagines private conversations, e-mail exchanges, Twitter feeds, speeches, and other scenarios involving top newsmakers from our time. Such luminaries as Hillary Clinton, Kate Gosselin, Tiger Woods, Levi Johnston, and "President" Sarah Palin are subjected to Geist''s wooden, repetitive send-ups. As Geist tells it, most everyone-including all 20th century presidents-seem to be identical to each other, right down to their speech patterns: they are arrogant, lack self-awareness, and have a penchant for swearing. While they may, indeed, share certain qualities, individual personalities are lost on Geist. Occasional "true story" vignettes about real-life "freaks" feature much fresher and funnier content; while recounting a news story in which a man was arrested for pleasuring himself with a coin-operated car wash vacuum, Geist muses, "One assumes Whitesnake was playing on the radio." Clearly commentary, rather than storytelling, is Geist''s strength, so it''s a shame that narratives make up the bulk of this effort.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  This is not the first book written about quantum mechanics, but it just might be the last. The theory presented inside these pages is so revolutionary that it has stunned the scientific community into reconsidering centuries of thought about the behavior of energy and matter. Prepare to have your mind blown.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Sorry, that''s the introduction to Willie Geist''s\n <em>\n  next\n </em>\n book--the culmination of his life''s work. Look for it next spring, just in time for Mother''s Day.\n <em>\n  This\n </em>\n book is about his other passion: freaks.\n</p>\n<p>\n When he''s not in the lab, Geist spends his time on MSNBC''s\n <em>\n  Morning Joe\n </em>\n sifting through the wreckage of American politics and popular culture. These days, that''s a big job. With an Alaska hockey mom turning, almost overnight, into a national icon and threatening to move from Wasilla to the White House, with the world''s most famous athlete now associated less with the Masters and more with the strippers, and with reality TV working around the clock to ensure the constitutional right of every man, woman, and child to fifteen minutes of fame, Geist''s business is thriving.\n</p>\n<p>\n In his hilarious first book,\n <em>\n  American Freak Show\n </em>\n , Geist takes the smart, biting observation loved by his television audience to new satirical extremes. The real-life characters who now haunt our daily lives are cast as stars in completely made-up scenes that, frankly, are not all that far from reality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Geist treats us to the first look at President Sarah Palin''s unconventional inaugural address, performed live on WWE''s\n <em>\n  Monday Night Raw\n </em>\n after her renegade victory in the 2012 election. We go inside the ballroom for a Dean Martin-style welcome roast of Bernie Madoff upon his arrival in Hell, with Pol Pot serving as sidesplitting roastmaster. Geist provides us with never-before-seen FBI wiretap transcripts of the more mundane, but equally profane, telephone conversations of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. And George W. Bush''s batting-cage-and-waterslide-themed plans for a presidential library are laid out publicly for the first time.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Obama to Oprah, Afghanistan to Lohan, and Snooki to the Salahis, Willie Geist spares no one as our host of this wild\n <em>\n  American Freak Show\n </em>\n . You''ll laugh out loud while weeping for the future of America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24791'),
(8982, 'American Gods', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she''s been killed in a terrible accident.Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible.He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever he the same...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2615'),
(8983, 'American Gods', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming -- a battle for the very soul of America . . . and they are in its direct path.   One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15299'),
(8984, 'American Gods', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming -- a battle for the very soul of America . . . and they are in its direct path.   One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22166'),
(8985, 'American Jihad: Islam After Malcolm X', 'Steven Barboza', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  American Jihad\n </em>\n is the only popular bookÂ Â available about the religious experience of Muslims,Â Â both black and white, in America. With over oneÂ Â billion faithful worldwide, and over six rnillion inÂ Â the United States alone, Islam is the world''sÂ Â fastest-growing religion. In fact, the population ofÂ Â American Muslims surpasses the membership of manyÂ Â mainline Protestant denominations. However, theÂ Â media''s depiction of Muslims in America often stopsÂ Â short of any real examination and opts instead toÂ Â cover only the sensational, puzzling charisma ofÂ Â Louis Farrakhan, who leads the Nation of Islam, orÂ Â the violence of some of the more extremistÂ Â Muslims.\n <em>\n  American Jihad\n </em>\n dispels theseÂ Â prominent but dangerously deceptive stereotypesÂ Â and is the first book to take a serious andÂ Â inclusive approach to exploring how the Muslim faith isÂ Â embraced and practiced in America. Like manyÂ Â African-Americans of his generation, author StevenÂ Â Barboza was affected profoundly by Malcolm X andÂ Â converted from Catholicism after reading theÂ Â Autobiography. In\n <em>\n  American Jihad\n </em>\n , heÂ Â features a myriad of faithful Muslims who come fromÂ Â many different walks of life from a foreign policyÂ Â advisor of Richard M. Nixon''s, to a blond Sufi, toÂ Â an AIDS activist, and so on. InÂ Â _American Jihad_, you''ll hear from some of theÂ Â most famous American Muslims after Malcolm X,Â Â including Louis Farrakhan, Kareem Abdul Jabar,AttallahÂ Â Shabazz (Malcolm X''s daughter), and the former H.Â Â Rap Brown. In\n <em>\n  American Jihad\n </em>\n ,Â Â Steven Barboza does for Islam what Studs Terkel hasÂ Â recently done for race relations.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n In this Studs Terkel-like approach to the wide variety of people who practice Islam in America, some of the most famous Muslims after Malcolm X tell their own stories in their own words. Contributors include Louis Farrakhan, Kareem Abdul Jabar, and May May Ali (Muhammad Ali''s daughter). Illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8149'),
(8986, 'American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century', 'Howard Blum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n It was an explosion that reverberated across the country--and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage had been sifted and the hospital triage units consulted, twenty-one people were declared dead and dozens more injured. But as it turned out, this was just a prelude to the devastation that was to come.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  American Lightning\n </em>\n , acclaimed author Howard Blum masterfully evokes the incredible circumstances that led to the original "crime of the century"--and an aftermath more dramatic than even the crime itself.\n</p>\n<p>\n With smoke still wafting up from the charred ruins, the city''s mayor reacts with undisguised excitement when he learns of the arrival, only that morning, of America''s greatest detective, William J. Burns, a former Secret Service man who has been likened to Sherlock Holmes. Surely Burns, already world famous for cracking unsolvable crimes and for his elaborate disguises, can run the perpetrators to ground.\n</p>\n<p>\n Through the work of many months, snowbound stakeouts, and brilliant forensic sleuthing, the great investigator finally identifies the men he believes are responsible for so much destruction. Stunningly, Burns accuses the men--labor activists with an apparent grudge against the Los Angeles Times''s fiercely anti-union owner--of not just one heinous deed but of being part of a terror wave involving hundreds of bombings.\n</p>\n<p>\n While preparation is laid for America''s highest profile trial ever--and the forces of labor and capital wage hand-to-hand combat in the streets--two other notable figures are swept into the drama: industry-shaping lmmaker D.W. Griffith, who perceives in these events the possibility of great art and who will go on to alchemize his observations into the landmark film The Birth of a Nation; and crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, committed to lend his eloquence to the defendants, though he will be driven to thoughts of suicide before events have fully played out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a can''t-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today,\n <em>\n  American Lightning\n </em>\n is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5094'),
(8987, 'American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century', 'Howard Blum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n It was an explosion that reverberated across the country--and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage had been sifted and the hospital triage units consulted, twenty-one people were declared dead and dozens more injured. But as it turned out, this was just a prelude to the devastation that was to come.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  American Lightning\n </em>\n , acclaimed author Howard Blum masterfully evokes the incredible circumstances that led to the original "crime of the century"--and an aftermath more dramatic than even the crime itself.\n</p>\n<p>\n With smoke still wafting up from the charred ruins, the city''s mayor reacts with undisguised excitement when he learns of the arrival, only that morning, of America''s greatest detective, William J. Burns, a former Secret Service man who has been likened to Sherlock Holmes. Surely Burns, already world famous for cracking unsolvable crimes and for his elaborate disguises, can run the perpetrators to ground.\n</p>\n<p>\n Through the work of many months, snowbound stakeouts, and brilliant forensic sleuthing, the great investigator finally identifies the men he believes are responsible for so much destruction. Stunningly, Burns accuses the men--labor activists with an apparent grudge against the Los Angeles Times''s fiercely anti-union owner--of not just one heinous deed but of being part of a terror wave involving hundreds of bombings.\n</p>\n<p>\n While preparation is laid for America''s highest profile trial ever--and the forces of labor and capital wage hand-to-hand combat in the streets--two other notable figures are swept into the drama: industry-shaping lmmaker D.W. Griffith, who perceives in these events the possibility of great art and who will go on to alchemize his observations into the landmark film The Birth of a Nation; and crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, committed to lend his eloquence to the defendants, though he will be driven to thoughts of suicide before events have fully played out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a can''t-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today,\n <em>\n  American Lightning\n </em>\n is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8181'),
(8988, 'American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century', 'Howard Blum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n It was an explosion that reverberated across the country--and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage had been sifted and the hospital triage units consulted, twenty-one people were declared dead and dozens more injured. But as it turned out, this was just a prelude to the devastation that was to come.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  American Lightning\n </em>\n , acclaimed author Howard Blum masterfully evokes the incredible circumstances that led to the original "crime of the century"--and an aftermath more dramatic than even the crime itself.\n</p>\n<p>\n With smoke still wafting up from the charred ruins, the city''s mayor reacts with undisguised excitement when he learns of the arrival, only that morning, of America''s greatest detective, William J. Burns, a former Secret Service man who has been likened to Sherlock Holmes. Surely Burns, already world famous for cracking unsolvable crimes and for his elaborate disguises, can run the perpetrators to ground.\n</p>\n<p>\n Through the work of many months, snowbound stakeouts, and brilliant forensic sleuthing, the great investigator finally identifies the men he believes are responsible for so much destruction. Stunningly, Burns accuses the men--labor activists with an apparent grudge against the Los Angeles Times''s fiercely anti-union owner--of not just one heinous deed but of being part of a terror wave involving hundreds of bombings.\n</p>\n<p>\n While preparation is laid for America''s highest profile trial ever--and the forces of labor and capital wage hand-to-hand combat in the streets--two other notable figures are swept into the drama: industry-shaping lmmaker D.W. Griffith, who perceives in these events the possibility of great art and who will go on to alchemize his observations into the landmark film The Birth of a Nation; and crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, committed to lend his eloquence to the defendants, though he will be driven to thoughts of suicide before events have fully played out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a can''t-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today,\n <em>\n  American Lightning\n </em>\n is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19538'),
(8989, 'American Lion', 'Jon Meacham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jacksonâ€™s election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad. To tell the saga of Jacksonâ€™s presidency, acclaimed author Jon Meacham goes inside the Jackson White House. Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers, he details the human dramaâ€“the family, the women, and the inner circle of advisersâ€“that shaped Jacksonâ€™s private world through years of storm and victory.One of our most significant yet dimly recalled presidents, Jackson was a battle-hardened warrior, the founder of the Democratic Party, and the architect of the presidency as we know it. His story is one of violence, sex, courage, and tragedy. With his powerful persona, his evident bravery, and his mystical connection to the people, Jackson moved the White House from the periphery of government to the center of national action, articulating a vision of change that challenged entrenched interests to heed the popular willâ€“or face his formidable wrath. The greatest of the presidents who have followed Jackson in the White Houseâ€“from Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to FDR to Trumanâ€“have found inspiration in his example, and virtue in his vision.Jackson was the most contradictory of men. The architect of the removal of Indians from their native lands, he was warmly sentimental and risked everything to give more power to ordinary citizens. He was, in short, a lot like his country: alternately kind and vicious, brilliant and blind; and a man who fought a lifelong war to keep the republic safeâ€“no matter what it took. Jon Meacham in American Lion has delivered the definitive human portrait of a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidencyâ€“and America itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11026'),
(8990, 'American Music', 'Jane Mendelsohn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jane Mendelsohn on\n  <em>\n   American Music\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The first moment of inspiration for\n <em>\n  American Music\n </em>\n came in 1996 when I learned the remarkable fact that there was a secret formula for making cymbals. I was in Maine for a reading of my first novel,\n</p>\n<p>\n I immediately envisioned a story about a woman searching for this formula, desperately, somewhat pointlessly but also movingly, as if it were the secret to life itself. I pictured her trying to work through a loss by realizing the simultaneity of all things, that memories, like symbols, and the sound of cymbals, contain all time. That idea changed over the years, but essentially remained a deep part of the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n A while later, I heard from a friend who does bodywork about a man who refused to lie on his back. I began imagining a tale about why he wouldn''t and started thinking of a character who was a soldier. The two ideas: the secret formula for making cymbals and the soldier with his mysterious reason for not lying on his back simmered in my mind as I started researching.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I read about the history of cymbals, I was struck that these instruments developed in 17th century Turkey by an Armenian alchemist were so central to American music. I read about jazz and learned that it was the shift to leading the beat with the cymbals instead of the drums that marked the beginning of swing. It interested me that such a quintessentially American art form could be traced so clearly to a moment in time so distant and different from America in the 1930''s, which was when swing began. And I was also struck that Istanbul in 1623 was a place of cosmopolitanism, a vibrant melting pot of cultures.\n</p>\n<p>\n I was at this point in my thinking about the book, and living in New York City, when 9/11 occurred. That I had been writing about Islamic culture and its relation to 20th century America felt uncanny. And when we went to war, the fact that I had been writing about a soldier felt uncomfortable. I put the book away for a while. My daughter was two, and not long after, I had another baby.\n</p>\n<p>\n But I could not stop thinking about cymbals and about the soldier. I worked on the book in my head while I pushed my daughters on the swings in Washington Square Park, the destruction at ground zero so close but at the same time, in the playground, seemingly very far away.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eventually, the strands I had been working on came together, found each other in a way, in one larger narrative about families and love stories and the world that goes on while war is happening someplace else. Of course I am still searching for that secret formula.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Nick Davis)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This digressive novel by the author of\n <em>\n  I Was Amelia Earhart\n </em>\n probes intersecting tales that emerge from the work done by a masseuse-cum-shaman. Honor is a 21-year-old physical therapist at the Bronx VA hospital; Milo Hatch is a particularly traumatized patient who was severely wounded in Iraq. During Milo''s treatment, both he and Honor begin having visions of people they don''t know. The narrative breaks up in pursuit of the stories behind the visions of the late 1930s love triangle between Joe, a saxophone player and law student; his wife, Pearl, unable to have children after many miscarriages; and Pearl''s cousin, Vivian, who shares with Joe a passion for jazz. (Mendelsohn provides, for instance, a tidy excursus on the significance of cymbals in jazz, tracing their provenance to 17th-century Istanbul.) The fallout from Joe and Vivian''s messy affair connects back to present day, yet the music evoked by this ponderously embellished work remains a vague, distant noise.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4727'),
(8991, 'American Music', 'Jane Mendelsohn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jane Mendelsohn on\n  <em>\n   American Music\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The first moment of inspiration for\n <em>\n  American Music\n </em>\n came in 1996 when I learned the remarkable fact that there was a secret formula for making cymbals. I was in Maine for a reading of my first novel,\n</p>\n<p>\n I immediately envisioned a story about a woman searching for this formula, desperately, somewhat pointlessly but also movingly, as if it were the secret to life itself. I pictured her trying to work through a loss by realizing the simultaneity of all things, that memories, like symbols, and the sound of cymbals, contain all time. That idea changed over the years, but essentially remained a deep part of the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n A while later, I heard from a friend who does bodywork about a man who refused to lie on his back. I began imagining a tale about why he wouldn''t and started thinking of a character who was a soldier. The two ideas: the secret formula for making cymbals and the soldier with his mysterious reason for not lying on his back simmered in my mind as I started researching.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I read about the history of cymbals, I was struck that these instruments developed in 17th century Turkey by an Armenian alchemist were so central to American music. I read about jazz and learned that it was the shift to leading the beat with the cymbals instead of the drums that marked the beginning of swing. It interested me that such a quintessentially American art form could be traced so clearly to a moment in time so distant and different from America in the 1930''s, which was when swing began. And I was also struck that Istanbul in 1623 was a place of cosmopolitanism, a vibrant melting pot of cultures.\n</p>\n<p>\n I was at this point in my thinking about the book, and living in New York City, when 9/11 occurred. That I had been writing about Islamic culture and its relation to 20th century America felt uncanny. And when we went to war, the fact that I had been writing about a soldier felt uncomfortable. I put the book away for a while. My daughter was two, and not long after, I had another baby.\n</p>\n<p>\n But I could not stop thinking about cymbals and about the soldier. I worked on the book in my head while I pushed my daughters on the swings in Washington Square Park, the destruction at ground zero so close but at the same time, in the playground, seemingly very far away.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eventually, the strands I had been working on came together, found each other in a way, in one larger narrative about families and love stories and the world that goes on while war is happening someplace else. Of course I am still searching for that secret formula.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Nick Davis)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This digressive novel by the author of\n <em>\n  I Was Amelia Earhart\n </em>\n probes intersecting tales that emerge from the work done by a masseuse-cum-shaman. Honor is a 21-year-old physical therapist at the Bronx VA hospital; Milo Hatch is a particularly traumatized patient who was severely wounded in Iraq. During Milo''s treatment, both he and Honor begin having visions of people they don''t know. The narrative breaks up in pursuit of the stories behind the visions of the late 1930s love triangle between Joe, a saxophone player and law student; his wife, Pearl, unable to have children after many miscarriages; and Pearl''s cousin, Vivian, who shares with Joe a passion for jazz. (Mendelsohn provides, for instance, a tidy excursus on the significance of cymbals in jazz, tracing their provenance to 17th-century Istanbul.) The fallout from Joe and Vivian''s messy affair connects back to present day, yet the music evoked by this ponderously embellished work remains a vague, distant noise.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11406'),
(8992, 'American Music', 'Jane Mendelsohn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jane Mendelsohn on\n  <em>\n   American Music\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The first moment of inspiration for\n <em>\n  American Music\n </em>\n came in 1996 when I learned the remarkable fact that there was a secret formula for making cymbals. I was in Maine for a reading of my first novel,\n</p>\n<p>\n I immediately envisioned a story about a woman searching for this formula, desperately, somewhat pointlessly but also movingly, as if it were the secret to life itself. I pictured her trying to work through a loss by realizing the simultaneity of all things, that memories, like symbols, and the sound of cymbals, contain all time. That idea changed over the years, but essentially remained a deep part of the book.\n</p>\n<p>\n A while later, I heard from a friend who does bodywork about a man who refused to lie on his back. I began imagining a tale about why he wouldn''t and started thinking of a character who was a soldier. The two ideas: the secret formula for making cymbals and the soldier with his mysterious reason for not lying on his back simmered in my mind as I started researching.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I read about the history of cymbals, I was struck that these instruments developed in 17th century Turkey by an Armenian alchemist were so central to American music. I read about jazz and learned that it was the shift to leading the beat with the cymbals instead of the drums that marked the beginning of swing. It interested me that such a quintessentially American art form could be traced so clearly to a moment in time so distant and different from America in the 1930''s, which was when swing began. And I was also struck that Istanbul in 1623 was a place of cosmopolitanism, a vibrant melting pot of cultures.\n</p>\n<p>\n I was at this point in my thinking about the book, and living in New York City, when 9/11 occurred. That I had been writing about Islamic culture and its relation to 20th century America felt uncanny. And when we went to war, the fact that I had been writing about a soldier felt uncomfortable. I put the book away for a while. My daughter was two, and not long after, I had another baby.\n</p>\n<p>\n But I could not stop thinking about cymbals and about the soldier. I worked on the book in my head while I pushed my daughters on the swings in Washington Square Park, the destruction at ground zero so close but at the same time, in the playground, seemingly very far away.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eventually, the strands I had been working on came together, found each other in a way, in one larger narrative about families and love stories and the world that goes on while war is happening someplace else. Of course I am still searching for that secret formula.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Nick Davis)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This digressive novel by the author of\n <em>\n  I Was Amelia Earhart\n </em>\n probes intersecting tales that emerge from the work done by a masseuse-cum-shaman. Honor is a 21-year-old physical therapist at the Bronx VA hospital; Milo Hatch is a particularly traumatized patient who was severely wounded in Iraq. During Milo''s treatment, both he and Honor begin having visions of people they don''t know. The narrative breaks up in pursuit of the stories behind the visions of the late 1930s love triangle between Joe, a saxophone player and law student; his wife, Pearl, unable to have children after many miscarriages; and Pearl''s cousin, Vivian, who shares with Joe a passion for jazz. (Mendelsohn provides, for instance, a tidy excursus on the significance of cymbals in jazz, tracing their provenance to 17th-century Istanbul.) The fallout from Joe and Vivian''s messy affair connects back to present day, yet the music evoked by this ponderously embellished work remains a vague, distant noise.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19886'),
(8993, 'American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot', 'Craig Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his markâ€”as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer. To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: in 1993, the washed-up Ferguson washed up in the United States. Finally sober, Ferguson landed a breakthrough part on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, a success that eventually led to his role as the host of CBS''s The Late Late Show. By far Ferguson''s greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008, just before his command performance for the president at the White House Correspondents'' Association Dinner. In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his markâ€”as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer.   To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: in 1993, the washed-up Ferguson washed up in the United States. Finally sober, Ferguson landed a breakthrough part on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, a success that eventually led to his role as the host of CBS''s The Late Late Show. By far Ferguson''s greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008, just before his command performance for the president at the White House Correspondents'' Association Dinner. In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14569'),
(8994, 'American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot', 'Craig Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his markâ€”as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer. To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: in 1993, the washed-up Ferguson washed up in the United States. Finally sober, Ferguson landed a breakthrough part on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, a success that eventually led to his role as the host of CBS''s The Late Late Show. By far Ferguson''s greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008, just before his command performance for the president at the White House Correspondents'' Association Dinner. In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his markâ€”as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer.   To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: in 1993, the washed-up Ferguson washed up in the United States. Finally sober, Ferguson landed a breakthrough part on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, a success that eventually led to his role as the host of CBS''s The Late Late Show. By far Ferguson''s greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008, just before his command performance for the president at the White House Correspondents'' Association Dinner. In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17418'),
(8995, 'American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot', 'Craig Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his markâ€”as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer. To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: in 1993, the washed-up Ferguson washed up in the United States. Finally sober, Ferguson landed a breakthrough part on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, a success that eventually led to his role as the host of CBS''s The Late Late Show. By far Ferguson''s greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008, just before his command performance for the president at the White House Correspondents'' Association Dinner. In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his markâ€”as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer.   To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: in 1993, the washed-up Ferguson washed up in the United States. Finally sober, Ferguson landed a breakthrough part on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, a success that eventually led to his role as the host of CBS''s The Late Late Show. By far Ferguson''s greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008, just before his command performance for the president at the White House Correspondents'' Association Dinner. In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27087'),
(8996, 'American Outlaw', 'Jesse James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Jesse James has survived lower depths, faced harder times, and beaten down more private demons than most--and lived to tell his story with honesty, introspection, and humility.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4454'),
(8997, 'American Outlaw', 'Jesse James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Jesse James has survived lower depths, faced harder times, and beaten down more private demons than most--and lived to tell his story with honesty, introspection, and humility.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10482'),
(8998, 'American Outrage', 'Tim Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Green (_Kingdom Come_) introduces a tough, appealing hero in his action-packed 12th thriller. Jake Carlson, a correspondent for the tabloid TV news show\n <em>\n  American Outrage\n </em>\n , based in New York City, has softened his hard line a bit after his wife''s recent death, but is still capable of going for the jugular when necessary for a hot story. On the home front, to help his preteen adopted son, Sam, get over his grief, Jake agrees to try and track down Sam''s biological mother. This simple request goes from bad to worse once pseudo-celebrity Jake starts asking questions about the boy''s supposed Albanian roots. After Jake is drugged and shot at, his personal life becomes tabloid fodder as his own colleagues ruthlessly chase down the story. When Sam disappears, Jake gets serious and sets out to do whatever it takes to bring his son back, regardless of who pays the price. Green''s tale is ripe with irony and full of barbs.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sure, Jake Carlson is making big bucks as a reporter on the tabloid news show I^ American Outrage, but the former foreign correspondent is ashamed of his job, and his personal life is a mess, too. Widowed for a year, he''s struggling to keep his 13-year-old adopted son, Sam, on the straight and narrow. Jake finds a renewed sense of purpose, though, when Sam convinces him to help find his birth mother. He knows the hunt will be difficult, but he doesn''t realize just how challenging until he starts asking questions. The head of the agency Jake used for the adoption had died, and there''s no trace of the agency, which had been operating slightly under the radar, funneling babies from Albania to the U.S. for couples desperate for children. As Jake attempts to tie his investigation into a story to bolster his waning popularity at I^ American Outrage, he and Sam become the target of violence and revenge. Genre veteran Green hits his stride here, with his best novel since his early football thrillers (I^ Outlaws, 1996).\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/692'),
(8999, 'American Outrage', 'Tim Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Green (_Kingdom Come_) introduces a tough, appealing hero in his action-packed 12th thriller. Jake Carlson, a correspondent for the tabloid TV news show\n <em>\n  American Outrage\n </em>\n , based in New York City, has softened his hard line a bit after his wife''s recent death, but is still capable of going for the jugular when necessary for a hot story. On the home front, to help his preteen adopted son, Sam, get over his grief, Jake agrees to try and track down Sam''s biological mother. This simple request goes from bad to worse once pseudo-celebrity Jake starts asking questions about the boy''s supposed Albanian roots. After Jake is drugged and shot at, his personal life becomes tabloid fodder as his own colleagues ruthlessly chase down the story. When Sam disappears, Jake gets serious and sets out to do whatever it takes to bring his son back, regardless of who pays the price. Green''s tale is ripe with irony and full of barbs.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sure, Jake Carlson is making big bucks as a reporter on the tabloid news show I^ American Outrage, but the former foreign correspondent is ashamed of his job, and his personal life is a mess, too. Widowed for a year, he''s struggling to keep his 13-year-old adopted son, Sam, on the straight and narrow. Jake finds a renewed sense of purpose, though, when Sam convinces him to help find his birth mother. He knows the hunt will be difficult, but he doesn''t realize just how challenging until he starts asking questions. The head of the agency Jake used for the adoption had died, and there''s no trace of the agency, which had been operating slightly under the radar, funneling babies from Albania to the U.S. for couples desperate for children. As Jake attempts to tie his investigation into a story to bolster his waning popularity at I^ American Outrage, he and Sam become the target of violence and revenge. Genre veteran Green hits his stride here, with his best novel since his early football thrillers (I^ Outlaws, 1996).\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10099'),
(9000, 'American Outrage', 'Tim Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Green (_Kingdom Come_) introduces a tough, appealing hero in his action-packed 12th thriller. Jake Carlson, a correspondent for the tabloid TV news show\n <em>\n  American Outrage\n </em>\n , based in New York City, has softened his hard line a bit after his wife''s recent death, but is still capable of going for the jugular when necessary for a hot story. On the home front, to help his preteen adopted son, Sam, get over his grief, Jake agrees to try and track down Sam''s biological mother. This simple request goes from bad to worse once pseudo-celebrity Jake starts asking questions about the boy''s supposed Albanian roots. After Jake is drugged and shot at, his personal life becomes tabloid fodder as his own colleagues ruthlessly chase down the story. When Sam disappears, Jake gets serious and sets out to do whatever it takes to bring his son back, regardless of who pays the price. Green''s tale is ripe with irony and full of barbs.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sure, Jake Carlson is making big bucks as a reporter on the tabloid news show I^ American Outrage, but the former foreign correspondent is ashamed of his job, and his personal life is a mess, too. Widowed for a year, he''s struggling to keep his 13-year-old adopted son, Sam, on the straight and narrow. Jake finds a renewed sense of purpose, though, when Sam convinces him to help find his birth mother. He knows the hunt will be difficult, but he doesn''t realize just how challenging until he starts asking questions. The head of the agency Jake used for the adoption had died, and there''s no trace of the agency, which had been operating slightly under the radar, funneling babies from Albania to the U.S. for couples desperate for children. As Jake attempts to tie his investigation into a story to bolster his waning popularity at I^ American Outrage, he and Sam become the target of violence and revenge. Genre veteran Green hits his stride here, with his best novel since his early football thrillers (I^ Outlaws, 1996).\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24321');
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(9001, 'American Passage: The History of Ellis Island', 'Vincent J. Cannato', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Using a variety of primary sources, Cannato (_The Ungovernable City_) describes Ellis Island as a place and as an experience for the approximately 12 million immigrants who passed through it from 1892 to 1924. He follows its reincarnation as a detention center for wartime aliens and as a monument and museum, which he admits may celebrate uncritically "ethnic triumphalism" and upward mobility. Cannato writes that understaffing resulted in only perfunctory screening for mental, physical, and moral traits that might have made newcomers public charges, and he disabuses readers of the fallacy that examiners, rather than steamship officials or immigrants bent on assimilation, changed entrants'' last names. With a focus on how "actual people created, interpreted, and executed immigration laws," Cannato maintains that regulation, which sometimes degraded into restriction, formed part of Progressive era reform and growing federal involvement to safeguard what was deemed the public interest. This measured book helps to place in perspective discussionsâ€”sure to matter to genealogists and those engaged in political discourseâ€”of Ellis Island and the idea of immigration as a privilege rather than a right. Essential reading.â€”Frederick J. Augustyn Jr., Library of Congress\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe story of America is one of immigration. By bringing us the inspiring and sometimes unsettling tales of Ellis Island, Vincent Cannatoâ€™s American Passage helps us understand who we are as a nation.â€ (Walter Isaacson, author of\n <em>\n  Einstein\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReading Vincent Cannatoâ€™s American Passage was an amazing journey into our nationâ€™s immigrant past. Never before has Ellis Island been written about with such scholarly care and historical wisdom. Highly recommended!â€ (Douglas Brinkley, author of\n <em>\n  The Great Deluge\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTo his great credit Cannato does not pretend to answer our tough questions about immigration, nor to find a â€˜usable pastâ€™ in the history of Ellis Island. He just tells one heck of a story that oozes with relevance.â€ (Walter A. McDougall, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of\n <em>\n  Throes of Democracy\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHistorian Vincent Cannato appears to have overlooked nothing in telling the tale of the historic island, now a national monument. . . . Cannato is not only a meticulous researcher and historian, heâ€™s also a lively storyteller. A rare combination.â€ (_USA Today_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImmigration has long been a critical slice of the American narrative, and here, in American Passage, Vincent Cannato tells its story with great brio. From landing point to national Monument, from immigrants to interpreters, we see the veritable Babel of Ellis Island play out across the years.â€ (Jay Winik, author of\n <em>\n  The Great Upheaval\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  April 1865\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlthough Ellis Island is about immigrants from far-away places, it is in fact as American as Thanksgiving and apple pie. This amazing story is recounted beautifully in Vincent Cannatoâ€™s well-written and evocative book, which will bring pleasure and profit to readers.â€ (Kenneth T. Jackson, editor in chief,\n <em>\n  Encyclopedia of New York City\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCannato navigates the crosscurrents of immigration since the 1700s, illustrating his tale generously with odd facts and highly readable stories.â€ (_Associated Press_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCannato does a masterful job of weaving together a slew of singular immigrant stories with the larger issues that surrounded newcomers. He gives us the politics, the health scares and epidemics, the crowding, the corruption and the public policy.â€ (_The New York Post_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMr. Cannatoâ€™s writing is vivid and accessible, and his approach is admirably even-handed.â€ (_The Wall Street Journal_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCannato resists the temptation to setimentalize Ellis Island. He understands that, now as then, immigration is an issue that leaves Americans uncomfortable and contentious, even as it continues to bring new blood and energy into the country.â€ (Jonathan Yardley,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/394'),
(9002, 'American Passage: The History of Ellis Island', 'Vincent J. Cannato', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Using a variety of primary sources, Cannato (_The Ungovernable City_) describes Ellis Island as a place and as an experience for the approximately 12 million immigrants who passed through it from 1892 to 1924. He follows its reincarnation as a detention center for wartime aliens and as a monument and museum, which he admits may celebrate uncritically "ethnic triumphalism" and upward mobility. Cannato writes that understaffing resulted in only perfunctory screening for mental, physical, and moral traits that might have made newcomers public charges, and he disabuses readers of the fallacy that examiners, rather than steamship officials or immigrants bent on assimilation, changed entrants'' last names. With a focus on how "actual people created, interpreted, and executed immigration laws," Cannato maintains that regulation, which sometimes degraded into restriction, formed part of Progressive era reform and growing federal involvement to safeguard what was deemed the public interest. This measured book helps to place in perspective discussionsâ€”sure to matter to genealogists and those engaged in political discourseâ€”of Ellis Island and the idea of immigration as a privilege rather than a right. Essential reading.â€”Frederick J. Augustyn Jr., Library of Congress\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe story of America is one of immigration. By bringing us the inspiring and sometimes unsettling tales of Ellis Island, Vincent Cannatoâ€™s American Passage helps us understand who we are as a nation.â€ (Walter Isaacson, author of\n <em>\n  Einstein\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReading Vincent Cannatoâ€™s American Passage was an amazing journey into our nationâ€™s immigrant past. Never before has Ellis Island been written about with such scholarly care and historical wisdom. Highly recommended!â€ (Douglas Brinkley, author of\n <em>\n  The Great Deluge\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTo his great credit Cannato does not pretend to answer our tough questions about immigration, nor to find a â€˜usable pastâ€™ in the history of Ellis Island. He just tells one heck of a story that oozes with relevance.â€ (Walter A. McDougall, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of\n <em>\n  Throes of Democracy\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHistorian Vincent Cannato appears to have overlooked nothing in telling the tale of the historic island, now a national monument. . . . Cannato is not only a meticulous researcher and historian, heâ€™s also a lively storyteller. A rare combination.â€ (_USA Today_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImmigration has long been a critical slice of the American narrative, and here, in American Passage, Vincent Cannato tells its story with great brio. From landing point to national Monument, from immigrants to interpreters, we see the veritable Babel of Ellis Island play out across the years.â€ (Jay Winik, author of\n <em>\n  The Great Upheaval\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  April 1865\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlthough Ellis Island is about immigrants from far-away places, it is in fact as American as Thanksgiving and apple pie. This amazing story is recounted beautifully in Vincent Cannatoâ€™s well-written and evocative book, which will bring pleasure and profit to readers.â€ (Kenneth T. Jackson, editor in chief,\n <em>\n  Encyclopedia of New York City\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCannato navigates the crosscurrents of immigration since the 1700s, illustrating his tale generously with odd facts and highly readable stories.â€ (_Associated Press_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCannato does a masterful job of weaving together a slew of singular immigrant stories with the larger issues that surrounded newcomers. He gives us the politics, the health scares and epidemics, the crowding, the corruption and the public policy.â€ (_The New York Post_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMr. Cannatoâ€™s writing is vivid and accessible, and his approach is admirably even-handed.â€ (_The Wall Street Journal_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCannato resists the temptation to setimentalize Ellis Island. He understands that, now as then, immigration is an issue that leaves Americans uncomfortable and contentious, even as it continues to bring new blood and energy into the country.â€ (Jonathan Yardley,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8818'),
(9003, 'American Passage: The History of Ellis Island', 'Vincent J. Cannato', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Using a variety of primary sources, Cannato (_The Ungovernable City_) describes Ellis Island as a place and as an experience for the approximately 12 million immigrants who passed through it from 1892 to 1924. He follows its reincarnation as a detention center for wartime aliens and as a monument and museum, which he admits may celebrate uncritically "ethnic triumphalism" and upward mobility. Cannato writes that understaffing resulted in only perfunctory screening for mental, physical, and moral traits that might have made newcomers public charges, and he disabuses readers of the fallacy that examiners, rather than steamship officials or immigrants bent on assimilation, changed entrants'' last names. With a focus on how "actual people created, interpreted, and executed immigration laws," Cannato maintains that regulation, which sometimes degraded into restriction, formed part of Progressive era reform and growing federal involvement to safeguard what was deemed the public interest. This measured book helps to place in perspective discussionsâ€”sure to matter to genealogists and those engaged in political discourseâ€”of Ellis Island and the idea of immigration as a privilege rather than a right. Essential reading.â€”Frederick J. Augustyn Jr., Library of Congress\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe story of America is one of immigration. By bringing us the inspiring and sometimes unsettling tales of Ellis Island, Vincent Cannatoâ€™s American Passage helps us understand who we are as a nation.â€ (Walter Isaacson, author of\n <em>\n  Einstein\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReading Vincent Cannatoâ€™s American Passage was an amazing journey into our nationâ€™s immigrant past. Never before has Ellis Island been written about with such scholarly care and historical wisdom. Highly recommended!â€ (Douglas Brinkley, author of\n <em>\n  The Great Deluge\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTo his great credit Cannato does not pretend to answer our tough questions about immigration, nor to find a â€˜usable pastâ€™ in the history of Ellis Island. He just tells one heck of a story that oozes with relevance.â€ (Walter A. McDougall, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of\n <em>\n  Throes of Democracy\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHistorian Vincent Cannato appears to have overlooked nothing in telling the tale of the historic island, now a national monument. . . . Cannato is not only a meticulous researcher and historian, heâ€™s also a lively storyteller. A rare combination.â€ (_USA Today_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImmigration has long been a critical slice of the American narrative, and here, in American Passage, Vincent Cannato tells its story with great brio. From landing point to national Monument, from immigrants to interpreters, we see the veritable Babel of Ellis Island play out across the years.â€ (Jay Winik, author of\n <em>\n  The Great Upheaval\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  April 1865\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlthough Ellis Island is about immigrants from far-away places, it is in fact as American as Thanksgiving and apple pie. This amazing story is recounted beautifully in Vincent Cannatoâ€™s well-written and evocative book, which will bring pleasure and profit to readers.â€ (Kenneth T. Jackson, editor in chief,\n <em>\n  Encyclopedia of New York City\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCannato navigates the crosscurrents of immigration since the 1700s, illustrating his tale generously with odd facts and highly readable stories.â€ (_Associated Press_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCannato does a masterful job of weaving together a slew of singular immigrant stories with the larger issues that surrounded newcomers. He gives us the politics, the health scares and epidemics, the crowding, the corruption and the public policy.â€ (_The New York Post_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMr. Cannatoâ€™s writing is vivid and accessible, and his approach is admirably even-handed.â€ (_The Wall Street Journal_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCannato resists the temptation to setimentalize Ellis Island. He understands that, now as then, immigration is an issue that leaves Americans uncomfortable and contentious, even as it continues to bring new blood and energy into the country.â€ (Jonathan Yardley,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24601'),
(9004, 'American pastoral', 'Philip Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century''s promises of prosperity, civic order,  and domestic bliss. Roth''s protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father''s glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede''s beautiful American luck deserts him.For Swede''s adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenagerâ€”a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longer-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth''s masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13800'),
(9005, 'American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza', 'Peter Reinhart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Baking bread is mysterious enough. But creating truly great pizza--the transformation of next to nothing into something extraordinary--is downright alchemical. It is for no small reason that there are distinct words in Italian for those disciples of these mystic arts who bake pizza and focaccia,\n <em>\n  pizzaiolo\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  focacciaiolo\n </em>\n . Peter Reinhart, he who gave us\n <strong>\n  and the multi-award winning\n </strong>\n , takes the reader of\n <em>\n  American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza\n </em>\n right into the heart of the matter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reinhart begins his inquiry into pizza with his baseline palate memory for what a great pizza should be. As a teenager he had worked in a pizzeria, Mama''s, and instinctively knew this pie to be the best. Returning as an adult years later, he discovered otherwise. Had he changed, or had the pizza changed? Both, it happened, were true.\n</p>\n<p>\n So what is the nature of perfection, and where do you go to find it? In the case of Peter Reinhart, this journey includes travels through Italy and across the US. This is Part One of the book, called The Hunt. It''s not the most enlivening travel writing, which would have helped elevate the insights into the nature of great pizza and the people who make it happen. But it''s only a third of the entire package. The best is yet to come. In Part Two: The Recipes, Reinhart comes entirely into his own. Here is the master at work. Chapters include "The Family of Doughs", "Sauces and Specialty Toppings," and "The Pizzas." Reinhart gives you the building blocks, no matter what your kitchen, tools, and oven might be like. And then he unfolds the roadmap--pizzas from the strictly classical to the strictly whimsical.\n</p>\n<p>\n Work diligently with\n <em>\n  American Pie\n </em>\n and in time you will be able to call yourself, without hesitation or rising color,\n <em>\n  pizzaiolo\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  focacciaiolo\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Schuyler Ingle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n On the subject of pizza, there is never a shortage of opinions. Allegiances run from the general (Chicago versus New York style, Neapolitan versus Roman) to the particular (Pepe[HTML_REMOVED]s versus Sally[HTML_REMOVED]s, Gino[HTML_REMOVED]s East versus Pizzeria Uno), and new interpretations ever extend the pizza frontier.In AMERICAN PIE, master bread baker Peter Reinhart follows the trail from Italy to the States, capturing the stories behind the greatest artisanal pizzas of the Old World and the New. Beginning his journey in Genoa, Reinhart scours the countryside in search of the fabled focaccia col formaggio. He next heads to Rome to sample the famed seven-foot-long pizza al taglio, and then to Naples for the archetypal pizza napoletana. Back in America, the hunt resumes in the unlikely locale of Phoenix, Arizona, where Chris Bianco of Pizzeria Bianco has convinced many that his pie sets the new standard in the country. The pizza mecca of New Haven, grilled pizza in Providence, the deep-dish pies of Chicago, California-style pizza in San Francisco and Los Angelesâ€”these are just a few of the tasty attractions on Reinhart[HTML_REMOVED]s epic tour. Returning to the kitchen, Reinhart gives a master class on pizza-making techniques and provides more than 60 recipes for doughs, sauces and toppings, and the pizzas that bring them all together. His insatiable curiosity and gift for storytelling make AMERICAN PIE essential reading for those who aspire to make great pizza at home, as well as for anyone who enjoys the thrill of the hunt.\n <em>\n  A fascinating look into the great pizzas and pizzerias of Italy and America.\n </em>\n Peter Reinhart[HTML_REMOVED]s last book, THE BREAD BAKER[HTML_REMOVED]S APPRENTICE, was named Cookbook of the Year by both the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Reviewsâ€œPeter Reinhart has taken a deep look into pizza, one of the best and simplest of foods, embracing all its variety. He probes American pizza especially, but he has tasted the original in Naples and visited elsewhere in Italy to learn about variations and relatives. He tells vivid stories, and his recipes and techniques are thorough and practical. A splendid book.â€â€”Edward Behr, editor, The Art of Eatingâ€œI doubt whether anyone else could be as passionate as Peter Reinhart about pizzas or have made such extensive and exciting journeys in pursuing them. He has collected great anecdotes and wonderfully detailed recipes in the course of his intercontinental hunt.â€â€”Alan Davidson, author of The Oxford Companion to Foodâ€œWe all know that Peter Reinhart is a great baker and teacher, but now that he[HTML_REMOVED]s fallen in love with pizza, we can see he[HTML_REMOVED]s also a great tour guide as he takes us to the best pizzerias in Italy and America. Secrets are divulged, expert tips provided, and stories told. Much more than a collection of recipes, this is a book that is as fun to read as it is to bake from.â€â€”Carol Field, author of The Italian Baker\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2129'),
(9006, 'American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza', 'Peter Reinhart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Baking bread is mysterious enough. But creating truly great pizza--the transformation of next to nothing into something extraordinary--is downright alchemical. It is for no small reason that there are distinct words in Italian for those disciples of these mystic arts who bake pizza and focaccia,\n <em>\n  pizzaiolo\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  focacciaiolo\n </em>\n . Peter Reinhart, he who gave us\n <strong>\n  and the multi-award winning\n </strong>\n , takes the reader of\n <em>\n  American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza\n </em>\n right into the heart of the matter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reinhart begins his inquiry into pizza with his baseline palate memory for what a great pizza should be. As a teenager he had worked in a pizzeria, Mama''s, and instinctively knew this pie to be the best. Returning as an adult years later, he discovered otherwise. Had he changed, or had the pizza changed? Both, it happened, were true.\n</p>\n<p>\n So what is the nature of perfection, and where do you go to find it? In the case of Peter Reinhart, this journey includes travels through Italy and across the US. This is Part One of the book, called The Hunt. It''s not the most enlivening travel writing, which would have helped elevate the insights into the nature of great pizza and the people who make it happen. But it''s only a third of the entire package. The best is yet to come. In Part Two: The Recipes, Reinhart comes entirely into his own. Here is the master at work. Chapters include "The Family of Doughs", "Sauces and Specialty Toppings," and "The Pizzas." Reinhart gives you the building blocks, no matter what your kitchen, tools, and oven might be like. And then he unfolds the roadmap--pizzas from the strictly classical to the strictly whimsical.\n</p>\n<p>\n Work diligently with\n <em>\n  American Pie\n </em>\n and in time you will be able to call yourself, without hesitation or rising color,\n <em>\n  pizzaiolo\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  focacciaiolo\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Schuyler Ingle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n On the subject of pizza, there is never a shortage of opinions. Allegiances run from the general (Chicago versus New York style, Neapolitan versus Roman) to the particular (Pepe[HTML_REMOVED]s versus Sally[HTML_REMOVED]s, Gino[HTML_REMOVED]s East versus Pizzeria Uno), and new interpretations ever extend the pizza frontier.In AMERICAN PIE, master bread baker Peter Reinhart follows the trail from Italy to the States, capturing the stories behind the greatest artisanal pizzas of the Old World and the New. Beginning his journey in Genoa, Reinhart scours the countryside in search of the fabled focaccia col formaggio. He next heads to Rome to sample the famed seven-foot-long pizza al taglio, and then to Naples for the archetypal pizza napoletana. Back in America, the hunt resumes in the unlikely locale of Phoenix, Arizona, where Chris Bianco of Pizzeria Bianco has convinced many that his pie sets the new standard in the country. The pizza mecca of New Haven, grilled pizza in Providence, the deep-dish pies of Chicago, California-style pizza in San Francisco and Los Angelesâ€”these are just a few of the tasty attractions on Reinhart[HTML_REMOVED]s epic tour. Returning to the kitchen, Reinhart gives a master class on pizza-making techniques and provides more than 60 recipes for doughs, sauces and toppings, and the pizzas that bring them all together. His insatiable curiosity and gift for storytelling make AMERICAN PIE essential reading for those who aspire to make great pizza at home, as well as for anyone who enjoys the thrill of the hunt.\n <em>\n  A fascinating look into the great pizzas and pizzerias of Italy and America.\n </em>\n Peter Reinhart[HTML_REMOVED]s last book, THE BREAD BAKER[HTML_REMOVED]S APPRENTICE, was named Cookbook of the Year by both the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Reviewsâ€œPeter Reinhart has taken a deep look into pizza, one of the best and simplest of foods, embracing all its variety. He probes American pizza especially, but he has tasted the original in Naples and visited elsewhere in Italy to learn about variations and relatives. He tells vivid stories, and his recipes and techniques are thorough and practical. A splendid book.â€â€”Edward Behr, editor, The Art of Eatingâ€œI doubt whether anyone else could be as passionate as Peter Reinhart about pizzas or have made such extensive and exciting journeys in pursuing them. He has collected great anecdotes and wonderfully detailed recipes in the course of his intercontinental hunt.â€â€”Alan Davidson, author of The Oxford Companion to Foodâ€œWe all know that Peter Reinhart is a great baker and teacher, but now that he[HTML_REMOVED]s fallen in love with pizza, we can see he[HTML_REMOVED]s also a great tour guide as he takes us to the best pizzerias in Italy and America. Secrets are divulged, expert tips provided, and stories told. Much more than a collection of recipes, this is a book that is as fun to read as it is to bake from.â€â€”Carol Field, author of The Italian Baker\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12179'),
(9007, 'American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza', 'Peter Reinhart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Baking bread is mysterious enough. But creating truly great pizza--the transformation of next to nothing into something extraordinary--is downright alchemical. It is for no small reason that there are distinct words in Italian for those disciples of these mystic arts who bake pizza and focaccia,\n <em>\n  pizzaiolo\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  focacciaiolo\n </em>\n . Peter Reinhart, he who gave us\n <strong>\n  and the multi-award winning\n </strong>\n , takes the reader of\n <em>\n  American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza\n </em>\n right into the heart of the matter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reinhart begins his inquiry into pizza with his baseline palate memory for what a great pizza should be. As a teenager he had worked in a pizzeria, Mama''s, and instinctively knew this pie to be the best. Returning as an adult years later, he discovered otherwise. Had he changed, or had the pizza changed? Both, it happened, were true.\n</p>\n<p>\n So what is the nature of perfection, and where do you go to find it? In the case of Peter Reinhart, this journey includes travels through Italy and across the US. This is Part One of the book, called The Hunt. It''s not the most enlivening travel writing, which would have helped elevate the insights into the nature of great pizza and the people who make it happen. But it''s only a third of the entire package. The best is yet to come. In Part Two: The Recipes, Reinhart comes entirely into his own. Here is the master at work. Chapters include "The Family of Doughs", "Sauces and Specialty Toppings," and "The Pizzas." Reinhart gives you the building blocks, no matter what your kitchen, tools, and oven might be like. And then he unfolds the roadmap--pizzas from the strictly classical to the strictly whimsical.\n</p>\n<p>\n Work diligently with\n <em>\n  American Pie\n </em>\n and in time you will be able to call yourself, without hesitation or rising color,\n <em>\n  pizzaiolo\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  focacciaiolo\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Schuyler Ingle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n On the subject of pizza, there is never a shortage of opinions. Allegiances run from the general (Chicago versus New York style, Neapolitan versus Roman) to the particular (Pepe[HTML_REMOVED]s versus Sally[HTML_REMOVED]s, Gino[HTML_REMOVED]s East versus Pizzeria Uno), and new interpretations ever extend the pizza frontier.In AMERICAN PIE, master bread baker Peter Reinhart follows the trail from Italy to the States, capturing the stories behind the greatest artisanal pizzas of the Old World and the New. Beginning his journey in Genoa, Reinhart scours the countryside in search of the fabled focaccia col formaggio. He next heads to Rome to sample the famed seven-foot-long pizza al taglio, and then to Naples for the archetypal pizza napoletana. Back in America, the hunt resumes in the unlikely locale of Phoenix, Arizona, where Chris Bianco of Pizzeria Bianco has convinced many that his pie sets the new standard in the country. The pizza mecca of New Haven, grilled pizza in Providence, the deep-dish pies of Chicago, California-style pizza in San Francisco and Los Angelesâ€”these are just a few of the tasty attractions on Reinhart[HTML_REMOVED]s epic tour. Returning to the kitchen, Reinhart gives a master class on pizza-making techniques and provides more than 60 recipes for doughs, sauces and toppings, and the pizzas that bring them all together. His insatiable curiosity and gift for storytelling make AMERICAN PIE essential reading for those who aspire to make great pizza at home, as well as for anyone who enjoys the thrill of the hunt.\n <em>\n  A fascinating look into the great pizzas and pizzerias of Italy and America.\n </em>\n Peter Reinhart[HTML_REMOVED]s last book, THE BREAD BAKER[HTML_REMOVED]S APPRENTICE, was named Cookbook of the Year by both the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reviewsâ€œPeter Reinhart has taken a deep look into pizza, one of the best and simplest of foods, embracing all its variety. He probes American pizza especially, but he has tasted the original in Naples and visited elsewhere in Italy to learn about variations and relatives. He tells vivid stories, and his recipes and techniques are thorough and practical. A splendid book.â€â€”Edward Behr, editor, The Art of Eatingâ€œI doubt whether anyone else could be as passionate as Peter Reinhart about pizzas or have made such extensive and exciting journeys in pursuing them. He has collected great anecdotes and wonderfully detailed recipes in the course of his intercontinental hunt.â€â€”Alan Davidson, author of The Oxford Companion to Foodâ€œWe all know that Peter Reinhart is a great baker and teacher, but now that he[HTML_REMOVED]s fallen in love with pizza, we can see he[HTML_REMOVED]s also a great tour guide as he takes us to the best pizzerias in Italy and America. Secrets are divulged, expert tips provided, and stories told. Much more than a collection of recipes, this is a book that is as fun to read as it is to bake from.â€â€”Carol Field, author of The Italian Baker\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22637'),
(9008, 'American Psycho', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now a major motion picture from Lion''s Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol).In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14816'),
(9009, 'American Psycho', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now a major motion picture from Lion''s Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol).In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26751'),
(9010, 'American Psycho: A Novel', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This review is based on the galley issued by Ellis''s original publisher, Simon &amp; Schuster, before it cancelled the book. The book is now going through the editing process at Vintage. There may be some changes in the final version. The indignant attacks on Ellis''s third novel (see News, p. 17; Editorial, p. 6) will make it difficult for most readers to judge it objectively. Although the book contains horrifying scenes, they must be read in the context of the book as a whole; the horror does not lie in the novel itself, but in the society it reflects. In the first third of the book, Pat Bateman, a 26-year-old who works on Wall Street, describes his designer lifestyle in excruciating detail. This is a world in which the elegance of a business card evokes more emotional response than the murder of a child. Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, Bateman calmly and deliberately blinds and stabs a homeless man. From here, the body count builds, as he kills a male acquaintance and sadistically tortures and murders two prostitutes, an old girlfriend, and a child he passes in the zoo. The recital of the brutalization is made even more horrible by the first-person narrator''s delivery: flat, matter-of-fact, as impersonal as a car parts catalog. The author has carefully constructed the work so that the reader has no way to understand this killer''s motivations, making it even more frightening. If these acts cannot be explained, there is no hope of protection from such random, senseless crimes. This book is not pleasure reading, but neither is it pornography. It is a serious novel that comments on a society that has become inured to suffering. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/90 and 12/90.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Nora Rawlinson, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and]\n <strong>\n  American Psycho\n </strong>\n is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novelâ€¦. The novelistâ€™s function is to keep a running tag on the progress of culture; and heâ€™s done it brilliantlyâ€¦. A seminal book.â€ â€”Fay Weldon,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book.â€ â€”Katherine Dunn\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA great novel. What Emerson said about genius, that itâ€™s the return of oneâ€™s rejected thoughts with an alienated majesty, holds true for\n <strong>\n  American Psycho\n </strong>\n â€¦. There is a fever to the life of this book that is, in my reading, unknown in American literature.â€ â€”Michael Tolkin\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themesâ€¦. [Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands come to on the clock.â€ â€”Norman Mailer,\n <em>\n  Vanity Fair\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7184'),
(9011, 'American Psycho: A Novel', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This review is based on the galley issued by Ellis''s original publisher, Simon &amp; Schuster, before it cancelled the book. The book is now going through the editing process at Vintage. There may be some changes in the final version. The indignant attacks on Ellis''s third novel (see News, p. 17; Editorial, p. 6) will make it difficult for most readers to judge it objectively. Although the book contains horrifying scenes, they must be read in the context of the book as a whole; the horror does not lie in the novel itself, but in the society it reflects. In the first third of the book, Pat Bateman, a 26-year-old who works on Wall Street, describes his designer lifestyle in excruciating detail. This is a world in which the elegance of a business card evokes more emotional response than the murder of a child. Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, Bateman calmly and deliberately blinds and stabs a homeless man. From here, the body count builds, as he kills a male acquaintance and sadistically tortures and murders two prostitutes, an old girlfriend, and a child he passes in the zoo. The recital of the brutalization is made even more horrible by the first-person narrator''s delivery: flat, matter-of-fact, as impersonal as a car parts catalog. The author has carefully constructed the work so that the reader has no way to understand this killer''s motivations, making it even more frightening. If these acts cannot be explained, there is no hope of protection from such random, senseless crimes. This book is not pleasure reading, but neither is it pornography. It is a serious novel that comments on a society that has become inured to suffering. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/90 and 12/90.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Nora Rawlinson, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and]\n <strong>\n  American Psycho\n </strong>\n is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novelâ€¦. The novelistâ€™s function is to keep a running tag on the progress of culture; and heâ€™s done it brilliantlyâ€¦. A seminal book.â€ â€”Fay Weldon,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book.â€ â€”Katherine Dunn\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA great novel. What Emerson said about genius, that itâ€™s the return of oneâ€™s rejected thoughts with an alienated majesty, holds true for\n <strong>\n  American Psycho\n </strong>\n â€¦. There is a fever to the life of this book that is, in my reading, unknown in American literature.â€ â€”Michael Tolkin\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themesâ€¦. [Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands come to on the clock.â€ â€”Norman Mailer,\n <em>\n  Vanity Fair\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9561'),
(9012, 'American psycho: a novel', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This review is based on the galley issued by Ellis''s original publisher, Simon &amp; Schuster, before it cancelled the book. The book is now going through the editing process at Vintage. There may be some changes in the final version. The indignant attacks on Ellis''s third novel (see News, p. 17; Editorial, p. 6) will make it difficult for most readers to judge it objectively. Although the book contains horrifying scenes, they must be read in the context of the book as a whole; the horror does not lie in the novel itself, but in the society it reflects. In the first third of the book, Pat Bateman, a 26-year-old who works on Wall Street, describes his designer lifestyle in excruciating detail. This is a world in which the elegance of a business card evokes more emotional response than the murder of a child. Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, Bateman calmly and deliberately blinds and stabs a homeless man. From here, the body count builds, as he kills a male acquaintance and sadistically tortures and murders two prostitutes, an old girlfriend, and a child he passes in the zoo. The recital of the brutalization is made even more horrible by the first-person narrator''s delivery: flat, matter-of-fact, as impersonal as a car parts catalog. The author has carefully constructed the work so that the reader has no way to understand this killer''s motivations, making it even more frightening. If these acts cannot be explained, there is no hope of protection from such random, senseless crimes. This book is not pleasure reading, but neither is it pornography. It is a serious novel that comments on a society that has become inured to suffering. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/90 and 12/90.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Nora Rawlinson, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and]\n <strong>\n  American Psycho\n </strong>\n is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novelâ€¦. The novelistâ€™s function is to keep a running tag on the progress of culture; and heâ€™s done it brilliantlyâ€¦. A seminal book.â€ â€”Fay Weldon,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book.â€ â€”Katherine Dunn\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA great novel. What Emerson said about genius, that itâ€™s the return of oneâ€™s rejected thoughts with an alienated majesty, holds true for\n <strong>\n  American Psycho\n </strong>\n â€¦. There is a fever to the life of this book that is, in my reading, unknown in American literature.â€ â€”Michael Tolkin\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themesâ€¦. [Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands come to on the clock.â€ â€”Norman Mailer,\n <em>\n  Vanity Fair\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16769'),
(9013, 'American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee', 'Karen Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author Karen Abbott\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n My grandmother used to tell me stories about growing up during the Great Depression, and she once related a tale about a cousin who saw Gypsy Rose Lee perform in 1935. â€œShe took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove,â€ the cousin said, â€œand she was so damned good at it I wouldâ€™ve gladly given her fifteen more.â€ This story got me thinking: who\n <em>\n  was\n </em>\n Gypsy Rose Lee? And how did an awkward girl named Louise Hovick become her? I spent three years researching the answer, research that included connecting with Gypsyâ€™s late sister, the actress June Havoc; I was the last person to interview her.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I arrived at Juneâ€™s Connecticut farm I found her lying in bed, her hair done up in pert white pigtails. She was ninety-four years old, give or take, and the legs that once danced on stages across the country were now motionless, two nearly imperceptible bumps tucked beneath crisp white sheets. Her eyes were a bold shade of blue and painfully sensitive to light. She told me the musical\n <em>\n  Gypsy\n </em>\n distorted her childhood so thoroughly it was as if â€œI didnâ€™t own me anymore.â€ She realized her sister was â€œscrewing me out in public,â€ and that, in the end, there was no stopping either\n <em>\n  Gypsy\n </em>\n or Gypsy; the play was both her sisterâ€™s monument and her best chance for monumental revisionism.\n</p>\n<p>\n It took another visit for June to share more personal memories: money was Gypsyâ€™s â€œgod,â€ and she would do anything to anybody, including June, to make more of it. Gypsy did in fact do things, not only to June but also to herselfâ€”â€œterribleâ€ and â€œawfulâ€ and â€œshockingâ€ things, things beneath her sisterâ€™s formidable intellect and keen wit, things that made June believe, to that day, that love (even love fraught with competition and jealousy) never existed between them at all.\n</p>\n<p>\n I asked and listened, for as much time as June gave me. I asked until her patience wore thin and her eyes watered with the effort to stay open.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI hope I didnâ€™t upset you today,â€ I whispered. â€œThatâ€™s not my intention.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI know,â€ June said. Those startling eyes found their focus, settling on mine. â€œIâ€™m sorry I couldnâ€™t be more open about some thingsâ€¦ Iâ€™m still ashamed for her. I wish they hadnâ€™t happened.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWould Gypsy wish the same?â€ I asked.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShe had no shame.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A pause, and I said, feebly, â€œYou were a good sister to her.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A hand tunneled out from the sheet. She coiled long, blade-thin fingers around my wrist.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI was no sister,â€ June said. â€œI was a knot in her life. I was nothing.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n She retracted her hand, gave her eyes permission to close. I kissed her cheek and crept out the bedroom door. I was grateful she let me insideâ€”even on the periphery, even brieflyÂ¬â€”and I suspected she was saving her own questions for the day she reunited with the sister she did profess to love, the one she still called Louise.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  American Rose\n </em>\n :\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Abbott creates a brainy striptease similar to the one her subject may have performed: uncovering doozies in one chapter about Lee''s outrageous life, followed in the next by the less salacious (but always captivating) details about how New York City''s Minsky brothers, who played a crucial role in Lee''s stardom, built their burlesque empire." â€”_Newsday_\n</p>\n<p>\n "At its core,\n <em>\n  American Rose\n </em>\n is a haunting portrait of a woman ''giving what she has to, keeping all she can,'' offering her audiences a sassy, confident self while making sure they would never know the damaged soul who created her." â€”_The_\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_American Rose_ is the rare biography that captures the imagination and doesn''t let go. It would scare the bejeesus out of Gypsy Rose Lee, and it''s guaranteed to enthrall readers." â€”_Book Page\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "[Abbott''s] portrait of the famed stripper is both darker and more inspiring than the famed stripper''s version of her life as filtered by Broadway or Hollywood." â€”\n </em>\n Atlanta Journal-Constitution\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Praise for Karen Abbottâ€™s\n <em>\n  Sin in the Second City\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA delicious history . . . a lush love letter to the underworld . . . [Abbott] describes the Leveeâ€™s characters in such detail that itâ€™s easy to mistake this meticulously researched history for literary fiction.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Abbottâ€™s] research enables the kind of vivid description Ã  la fellow journalist Erik Larsonâ€™s The\n <em>\n  Devil in the White City\n </em>\n that makes what could be a dry historic account an intriguing read.â€â€”_The Seattle Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] satisfyingly lurid tale . . . Change the hemlines, add 100 years, and the book could be filed under current affairs.â€â€”_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAssiduously researched . . . Even this bookâ€™s minutiae . . . make for good storytelling.â€â€”_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA colorful history of old Chicago that reads like a novel.â€â€”_The Atlanta Journal-Constitution_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLavish . . . an immensely readable book.â€â€”_The Wall Street Journal _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3921');
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(9014, 'American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee', 'Karen Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author Karen Abbott\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n My grandmother used to tell me stories about growing up during the Great Depression, and she once related a tale about a cousin who saw Gypsy Rose Lee perform in 1935. â€œShe took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove,â€ the cousin said, â€œand she was so damned good at it I wouldâ€™ve gladly given her fifteen more.â€ This story got me thinking: who\n <em>\n  was\n </em>\n Gypsy Rose Lee? And how did an awkward girl named Louise Hovick become her? I spent three years researching the answer, research that included connecting with Gypsyâ€™s late sister, the actress June Havoc; I was the last person to interview her.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I arrived at Juneâ€™s Connecticut farm I found her lying in bed, her hair done up in pert white pigtails. She was ninety-four years old, give or take, and the legs that once danced on stages across the country were now motionless, two nearly imperceptible bumps tucked beneath crisp white sheets. Her eyes were a bold shade of blue and painfully sensitive to light. She told me the musical\n <em>\n  Gypsy\n </em>\n distorted her childhood so thoroughly it was as if â€œI didnâ€™t own me anymore.â€ She realized her sister was â€œscrewing me out in public,â€ and that, in the end, there was no stopping either\n <em>\n  Gypsy\n </em>\n or Gypsy; the play was both her sisterâ€™s monument and her best chance for monumental revisionism.\n</p>\n<p>\n It took another visit for June to share more personal memories: money was Gypsyâ€™s â€œgod,â€ and she would do anything to anybody, including June, to make more of it. Gypsy did in fact do things, not only to June but also to herselfâ€”â€œterribleâ€ and â€œawfulâ€ and â€œshockingâ€ things, things beneath her sisterâ€™s formidable intellect and keen wit, things that made June believe, to that day, that love (even love fraught with competition and jealousy) never existed between them at all.\n</p>\n<p>\n I asked and listened, for as much time as June gave me. I asked until her patience wore thin and her eyes watered with the effort to stay open.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI hope I didnâ€™t upset you today,â€ I whispered. â€œThatâ€™s not my intention.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI know,â€ June said. Those startling eyes found their focus, settling on mine. â€œIâ€™m sorry I couldnâ€™t be more open about some thingsâ€¦ Iâ€™m still ashamed for her. I wish they hadnâ€™t happened.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWould Gypsy wish the same?â€ I asked.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShe had no shame.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A pause, and I said, feebly, â€œYou were a good sister to her.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A hand tunneled out from the sheet. She coiled long, blade-thin fingers around my wrist.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI was no sister,â€ June said. â€œI was a knot in her life. I was nothing.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n She retracted her hand, gave her eyes permission to close. I kissed her cheek and crept out the bedroom door. I was grateful she let me insideâ€”even on the periphery, even brieflyÂ¬â€”and I suspected she was saving her own questions for the day she reunited with the sister she did profess to love, the one she still called Louise.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  American Rose\n </em>\n :\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Abbott creates a brainy striptease similar to the one her subject may have performed: uncovering doozies in one chapter about Lee''s outrageous life, followed in the next by the less salacious (but always captivating) details about how New York City''s Minsky brothers, who played a crucial role in Lee''s stardom, built their burlesque empire." â€”_Newsday_\n</p>\n<p>\n "At its core,\n <em>\n  American Rose\n </em>\n is a haunting portrait of a woman ''giving what she has to, keeping all she can,'' offering her audiences a sassy, confident self while making sure they would never know the damaged soul who created her." â€”_The_\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_American Rose_ is the rare biography that captures the imagination and doesn''t let go. It would scare the bejeesus out of Gypsy Rose Lee, and it''s guaranteed to enthrall readers." â€”_Book Page\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "[Abbott''s] portrait of the famed stripper is both darker and more inspiring than the famed stripper''s version of her life as filtered by Broadway or Hollywood." â€”\n </em>\n Atlanta Journal-Constitution\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Praise for Karen Abbottâ€™s\n <em>\n  Sin in the Second City\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA delicious history . . . a lush love letter to the underworld . . . [Abbott] describes the Leveeâ€™s characters in such detail that itâ€™s easy to mistake this meticulously researched history for literary fiction.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Abbottâ€™s] research enables the kind of vivid description Ã  la fellow journalist Erik Larsonâ€™s The\n <em>\n  Devil in the White City\n </em>\n that makes what could be a dry historic account an intriguing read.â€â€”_The Seattle Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] satisfyingly lurid tale . . . Change the hemlines, add 100 years, and the book could be filed under current affairs.â€â€”_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAssiduously researched . . . Even this bookâ€™s minutiae . . . make for good storytelling.â€â€”_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA colorful history of old Chicago that reads like a novel.â€â€”_The Atlanta Journal-Constitution_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLavish . . . an immensely readable book.â€â€”_The Wall Street Journal _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9372'),
(9015, 'American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee', 'Karen Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author Karen Abbott\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n My grandmother used to tell me stories about growing up during the Great Depression, and she once related a tale about a cousin who saw Gypsy Rose Lee perform in 1935. â€œShe took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove,â€ the cousin said, â€œand she was so damned good at it I wouldâ€™ve gladly given her fifteen more.â€ This story got me thinking: who\n <em>\n  was\n </em>\n Gypsy Rose Lee? And how did an awkward girl named Louise Hovick become her? I spent three years researching the answer, research that included connecting with Gypsyâ€™s late sister, the actress June Havoc; I was the last person to interview her.\n</p>\n<p>\n When I arrived at Juneâ€™s Connecticut farm I found her lying in bed, her hair done up in pert white pigtails. She was ninety-four years old, give or take, and the legs that once danced on stages across the country were now motionless, two nearly imperceptible bumps tucked beneath crisp white sheets. Her eyes were a bold shade of blue and painfully sensitive to light. She told me the musical\n <em>\n  Gypsy\n </em>\n distorted her childhood so thoroughly it was as if â€œI didnâ€™t own me anymore.â€ She realized her sister was â€œscrewing me out in public,â€ and that, in the end, there was no stopping either\n <em>\n  Gypsy\n </em>\n or Gypsy; the play was both her sisterâ€™s monument and her best chance for monumental revisionism.\n</p>\n<p>\n It took another visit for June to share more personal memories: money was Gypsyâ€™s â€œgod,â€ and she would do anything to anybody, including June, to make more of it. Gypsy did in fact do things, not only to June but also to herselfâ€”â€œterribleâ€ and â€œawfulâ€ and â€œshockingâ€ things, things beneath her sisterâ€™s formidable intellect and keen wit, things that made June believe, to that day, that love (even love fraught with competition and jealousy) never existed between them at all.\n</p>\n<p>\n I asked and listened, for as much time as June gave me. I asked until her patience wore thin and her eyes watered with the effort to stay open.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI hope I didnâ€™t upset you today,â€ I whispered. â€œThatâ€™s not my intention.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI know,â€ June said. Those startling eyes found their focus, settling on mine. â€œIâ€™m sorry I couldnâ€™t be more open about some things... Iâ€™m still ashamed for her. I wish they hadnâ€™t happened.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWould Gypsy wish the same?â€ I asked.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShe had no shame.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A pause, and I said, feebly, â€œYou were a good sister to her.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n A hand tunneled out from the sheet. She coiled long, blade-thin fingers around my wrist.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI was no sister,â€ June said. â€œI was a knot in her life. I was nothing.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n She retracted her hand, gave her eyes permission to close. I kissed her cheek and crept out the bedroom door. I was grateful she let me insideâ€”even on the periphery, even brieflyÂ¬â€”and I suspected she was saving her own questions for the day she reunited with the sister she did profess to love, the one she still called Louise.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  American Rose\n </em>\n :\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "Abbott creates a brainy striptease similar to the one her subject may have performed: uncovering doozies in one chapter about Lee''s outrageous life, followed in the next by the less salacious (but always captivating) details about how New York City''s Minsky brothers, who played a crucial role in Lee''s stardom, built their burlesque empire." â€”_Newsday_\n</p>\n<p>\n "At its core,\n <em>\n  American Rose\n </em>\n is a haunting portrait of a woman ''giving what she has to, keeping all she can,'' offering her audiences a sassy, confident self while making sure they would never know the damaged soul who created her." â€”_The_\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_American Rose_ is the rare biography that captures the imagination and doesn''t let go. It would scare the bejeesus out of Gypsy Rose Lee, and it''s guaranteed to enthrall readers." â€”_Book Page\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "[Abbott''s] portrait of the famed stripper is both darker and more inspiring than the famed stripper''s version of her life as filtered by Broadway or Hollywood." â€”\n </em>\n Atlanta Journal-Constitution\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Praise for Karen Abbottâ€™s\n <em>\n  Sin in the Second City\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA delicious history . . . a lush love letter to the underworld . . . [Abbott] describes the Leveeâ€™s characters in such detail that itâ€™s easy to mistake this meticulously researched history for literary fiction.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Abbottâ€™s] research enables the kind of vivid description Ã  la fellow journalist Erik Larsonâ€™s The\n <em>\n  Devil in the White City\n </em>\n that makes what could be a dry historic account an intriguing read.â€â€”_The Seattle Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] satisfyingly lurid tale . . . Change the hemlines, add 100 years, and the book could be filed under current affairs.â€â€”_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAssiduously researched . . . Even this bookâ€™s minutiae . . . make for good storytelling.â€â€”_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA colorful history of old Chicago that reads like a novel.â€â€”_The Atlanta Journal-Constitution_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLavish . . . an immensely readable book.â€â€”_The Wall Street Journal _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20536'),
(9016, 'American Rust', 'Philipp Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, **American Rust** is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperationâ€”as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and loveâ€”that arise from its loss. From local bars to trainyards to prison, it is the story of two young men, bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them, who dream of a future beyond the factories and abandoned homes.Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother commits suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown. But when he finally sets out to leave for good, accompanied by his temperamental best friend, former high school football star Billy Poe, they are caught up in a terrible act of violence that changes their lives forever.Evoking John Steinbeckâ€™s novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, **American Rust** takes us into the contemporary American heartland at a moment of profound unrest and uncertainty about the future. It is a dark but lucid vision, a moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.**Newsweek''s list of "Best. Books. Ever"Amazon Top 100 book of 2009A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2009A New York Times Notable Book of 2009An Economist Best Book of 2009A Kansas City Star Top 100 book of 2009Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''s Best Books of 2009Idaho Statesman''s Best Books of 2009**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2128'),
(9017, 'American Supernatural Tales', 'S. T. Joshi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The ultimate collection of weird and frightening American fiction**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Stephen King will attest , the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation''s brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and-of course- Stephen King. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good addition to Penguin Classics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1438'),
(9018, 'American Supernatural Tales', 'S. T. Joshi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The ultimate collection of weird and frightening American fiction**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Stephen King will attest , the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation''s brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and-of course- Stephen King. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good addition to Penguin Classics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10590'),
(9019, 'American supernatural tales', 'S. T. Joshi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The ultimate collection of weird and frightening American fiction** As Stephen King will attest , the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation''s brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and-of course- Stephen King. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good addition to Penguin Classics.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23453'),
(9020, 'American Tabloid', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Repackaged to celebrate the release of Blood''s a Rover in PB 1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy''s presidency. Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power, men allied to the makers and shakers of the era. Peter Bondurant - Howard Hughes''s right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa''s hitman. Kemper Boyd - employed by J. Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan. Ward Littell, a man seeking redemption in Bobby Kennedy''s drive against organised crime. The festering discount of the age that burns brightly in these men''s hearts will go into supernova as the Bay of Pigs ends in calamity, the Mob clamous for payback and the 1000 days ends in brutal quietus in 1963.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18192'),
(9021, 'American tabloid: a novel', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK''s presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . . Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . . Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man''s loyalty . . . Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . .James Ellroy''s trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he''s written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14811'),
(9022, 'American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA : When FDR Put the Nation to Work', 'Nick Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Launched in 1935, at the bottom of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) served as a linchpin of FDR''s New Deal. Through the WPA, Roosevelt put millions of unemployed Americans to work on public construction projects, from dams and courthouses to parks and roads. The WPA''s Federal Writers Project employed a host of artists and writers (among them Jackson Pollock, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston and Studs Terkel); theater and musical artists also received funding. Taylor (_Ordinary Miracles: Life in a Small Church_) vividly and painstakingly paints the full story of the WPA from its inception to its shutdown by Congress in 1943, at which point the war boom in manufacturing had made it unnecessary. In an eloquent and balanced appraisal, Taylor not only chronicles the WPA''s numerous triumphs (including New York''s LaGuardia Airport) but also its failures, most notably graft and other chicanery at the local level. Taylor details as well the dicey intramural politics in Congress over which states and districts would get the largest slice of the WPA pie. All told, Taylor''s volume makes for a splendid appreciation of the WPA with which to celebrate the upcoming 75th anniversary of the New Deal''s beginnings in 1933.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 4)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Franklin Roosevelt assumed the presidency in March 1933, the rate of unemployment was approximately 25 percent. Staples of todayâ€™s government support system for the needy, such as unemployment compensation and food stamps, did not exist. Roosevelt had not campaigned as a big government â€œliberal,â€ but he and his brain trust felt compelled to do something and do it fast. One of the cornerstones of the New Deal was the WPA, or Works Progress Administration. It was a controversial program. Conservative economists and politicians viewed it as an unwarranted and wasteful intrusion of government into the economy But as Taylor illustrates in this comprehensive analysis of the program, the short-term results, over the eight-year life of the program, were enormous. Dams, roads, and bridges were built; on a smaller scale, WPA workers painted murals, served hot meals to the indigent, and even repaired toys. Perhaps more important, hope was provided for the hopeless. Taylor has written a passionate defense of a program that millions saw as a godsend. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2472'),
(9023, 'American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA : When FDR Put the Nation to Work', 'Nick Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Launched in 1935, at the bottom of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) served as a linchpin of FDR''s New Deal. Through the WPA, Roosevelt put millions of unemployed Americans to work on public construction projects, from dams and courthouses to parks and roads. The WPA''s Federal Writers Project employed a host of artists and writers (among them Jackson Pollock, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston and Studs Terkel); theater and musical artists also received funding. Taylor (_Ordinary Miracles: Life in a Small Church_) vividly and painstakingly paints the full story of the WPA from its inception to its shutdown by Congress in 1943, at which point the war boom in manufacturing had made it unnecessary. In an eloquent and balanced appraisal, Taylor not only chronicles the WPA''s numerous triumphs (including New York''s LaGuardia Airport) but also its failures, most notably graft and other chicanery at the local level. Taylor details as well the dicey intramural politics in Congress over which states and districts would get the largest slice of the WPA pie. All told, Taylor''s volume makes for a splendid appreciation of the WPA with which to celebrate the upcoming 75th anniversary of the New Deal''s beginnings in 1933.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 4)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Franklin Roosevelt assumed the presidency in March 1933, the rate of unemployment was approximately 25 percent. Staples of todayâ€™s government support system for the needy, such as unemployment compensation and food stamps, did not exist. Roosevelt had not campaigned as a big government â€œliberal,â€ but he and his brain trust felt compelled to do something and do it fast. One of the cornerstones of the New Deal was the WPA, or Works Progress Administration. It was a controversial program. Conservative economists and politicians viewed it as an unwarranted and wasteful intrusion of government into the economy But as Taylor illustrates in this comprehensive analysis of the program, the short-term results, over the eight-year life of the program, were enormous. Dams, roads, and bridges were built; on a smaller scale, WPA workers painted murals, served hot meals to the indigent, and even repaired toys. Perhaps more important, hope was provided for the hopeless. Taylor has written a passionate defense of a program that millions saw as a godsend. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12984'),
(9024, 'American-made: the enduring legacy of the WPA : when FDR put the nation to work', 'Nick Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Launched in 1935, at the bottom of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) served as a linchpin of FDR''s New Deal. Through the WPA, Roosevelt put millions of unemployed Americans to work on public construction projects, from dams and courthouses to parks and roads. The WPA''s Federal Writers Project employed a host of artists and writers (among them Jackson Pollock, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston and Studs Terkel); theater and musical artists also received funding. Taylor (_Ordinary Miracles: Life in a Small Church_) vividly and painstakingly paints the full story of the WPA from its inception to its shutdown by Congress in 1943, at which point the war boom in manufacturing had made it unnecessary. In an eloquent and balanced appraisal, Taylor not only chronicles the WPA''s numerous triumphs (including New York''s LaGuardia Airport) but also its failures, most notably graft and other chicanery at the local level. Taylor details as well the dicey intramural politics in Congress over which states and districts would get the largest slice of the WPA pie. All told, Taylor''s volume makes for a splendid appreciation of the WPA with which to celebrate the upcoming 75th anniversary of the New Deal''s beginnings in 1933.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 4)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Franklin Roosevelt assumed the presidency in March 1933, the rate of unemployment was approximately 25 percent. Staples of todayâ€™s government support system for the needy, such as unemployment compensation and food stamps, did not exist. Roosevelt had not campaigned as a big government â€œliberal,â€ but he and his brain trust felt compelled to do something and do it fast. One of the cornerstones of the New Deal was the WPA, or Works Progress Administration. It was a controversial program. Conservative economists and politicians viewed it as an unwarranted and wasteful intrusion of government into the economy But as Taylor illustrates in this comprehensive analysis of the program, the short-term results, over the eight-year life of the program, were enormous. Dams, roads, and bridges were built; on a smaller scale, WPA workers painted murals, served hot meals to the indigent, and even repaired toys. Perhaps more important, hope was provided for the hopeless. Taylor has written a passionate defense of a program that millions saw as a godsend. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22291'),
(9025, 'The Americans: The Democratic Experience', 'Daniel Boorstin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The third and final volume in Daniel Boorstin''s award-winning trilogy, The Americans: The Democratic Experience wraps up his remarkable exploration of the American character. Beginning roughly from the time of the Civil War and ending with the moon landing, The Democratic Experience, like its two predecessors, spends remarkably little time with presidents, senators and famous battles. Indeed, in his account it is the leaders and their high-level dealings that are the footnotes to the experience of common people. Boorstin begins his book with an exploration of a distinctively American type, the "go-getter." The Western states, largely unexplored and unmapped, comprised a territory rich in opportunities for those willing to go find them, or, even better, to go make them. Boorstin provides fascinating looks into the formation of American society through the lens of these found and made opportunities. Oil, cattle, and gold are just a part of the story. His exploration extends across the whole web of social relations and business practices that were influenced and created by a nation''s early experiences with its own vastness. We think of the typical go-getters, the prospectors and oil men striking out into the heart of the continent looking to make their fortune. But with this phenomenon comes a whole host of secondary effects that Boorstin examines in fascinating detail. For example, he points out that with a problematic lack of established knowledge of local customs and practices, businessmen seeking to establish themselves in the West had to find support and guidance. The role of intermediary, therefore, became a crucial one, giving birth to another industry, and a figure more enduring than the cowboy or the pioneer: the American lawyer. Along the way, Boorstin also tackles some more typical Western stories, discussing the cowboy, the frontiersman and the emigrant, bringing new clarity and discrimination to some old, familiar myths. He also looks into the growth of individual states, such as Nevada, the opportunities created through gambling and, oddly enough, divorce, and the rise of organized crime. As he did most interestingly in his other works, Boorstin describes the American experience, and the formation of the American character through the technology and the systems that spring up to meet certain needs and that become closely woven into the fabric of American life. The department store, mail order shopping, the sewing machine, IQ tests, and life insurance all arise as a result of needs to some degree peculiar to the American experience and go on to inform the way Americans think about abstractions like intelligence, poverty, income, consumption and class. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Americans: The Democratic Experience is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand present-day American culture.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8124'),
(9026, 'Amerika', 'Franz Kafka &amp; Willa Muir &amp; Edwin Muir &amp; Emlen Etting', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Depicts the tragicomic misadventures of a young immigrant in New York.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5556'),
(9027, 'Amerika', 'Franz Kafka &amp; Willa Muir &amp; Edwin Muir &amp; Emlen Etting', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Depicts the tragicomic misadventures of a young immigrant in New York.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10577'),
(9028, 'Amerika', 'Franz Kafka; Willa Muir; Edwin Muir; Emlen Etting', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Depicts the tragicomic misadventures of a young immigrant in New York.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19151'),
(9029, 'Amigoland', 'Oscar Casares', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a small town on the Mexican border live two brothers, Don Fidencio and Don Celestino. Stubborn and independent, they now must face the facts: they are old, and they have let a family argument stand between them for too long. Don Celestino''s good-natured housekeeper encourages him to make amends--while he still can. They secretly liberate Don Fidencio from his nursing home and travel into Mexico to solve the mystery at the heart of their dispute: the family legend of their grandfather''s kidnapping. As the unlikely trio travels, the brothers learn it''s never too late for a new beginning. With winsome prose and heartfelt humor, Oscar Casares''s debut novel of family lost and found radiates with generosity and grace and confirms the arrival of a uniquely talented new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2440'),
(9030, 'Amigoland', 'Oscar Casares', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a small town on the Mexican border live two brothers, Don Fidencio and Don Celestino. Stubborn and independent, they now must face the facts: they are old, and they have let a family argument stand between them for too long. Don Celestino''s good-natured housekeeper encourages him to make amends--while he still can. They secretly liberate Don Fidencio from his nursing home and travel into Mexico to solve the mystery at the heart of their dispute: the family legend of their grandfather''s kidnapping. As the unlikely trio travels, the brothers learn it''s never too late for a new beginning. With winsome prose and heartfelt humor, Oscar Casares''s debut novel of family lost and found radiates with generosity and grace and confirms the arrival of a uniquely talented new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8774'),
(9031, 'Amigoland', 'Oscar Casares', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a small town on the Mexican border live two brothers, Don Fidencio and Don Celestino. Stubborn and independent, they now must face the facts: they are old, and they have let a family argument stand between them for too long. Don Celestino''s good-natured housekeeper encourages him to make amends--while he still can. They secretly liberate Don Fidencio from his nursing home and travel into Mexico to solve the mystery at the heart of their dispute: the family legend of their grandfather''s kidnapping. As the unlikely trio travels, the brothers learn it''s never too late for a new beginning. With winsome prose and heartfelt humor, Oscar Casares''s debut novel of family lost and found radiates with generosity and grace and confirms the arrival of a uniquely talented new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22437'),
(9032, 'Amintiri din copilarie', 'Ion Creanga', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25650'),
(9033, 'Amis, Martin - Money (v1.0)', 'Money', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21697'),
(9034, 'Amnezia la Romani', 'Paul Goma', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25248'),
(9035, 'Among Others', 'Jo Walton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œA hymnal for the clever and oddâ€”an inspiration and a lifeline to anyone who has ever felt in the world, but not of it.â€\n  </strong>\n  â€”Cory Doctorow , _New York Times\n  <em>\n   bestselling author of\n  </em>\n  Little Brother\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   â€œIf you love SF and fantasy, if reading it formed your teen years, if you do remember the magic you used to do, if you remember the absolute joy of first discovering those books, then read this.â€\n  </strong>\n  â€”Robin Hob ,\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n  _ Times\n  <em>\n   bestselling author of\n  </em>\n  Assassinâ€™s Apprentice\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   â€œA lovely story, unlike anything Iâ€™ve ever read before: funny,\n  </strong>\n  _ _\n  <strong>\n   touching, and gently magical.â€\n  </strong>\n  â€”Patrick Rothfuss,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Name of the Wind\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable,\n  <em>\n   Among Others\n  </em>\n  is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins. But her mind found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels that were her closest companions. Then her mother tried to bend the spirits to dark ends, and Mori was forced to confront her in a magical battle that left her crippled--and her twin sister dead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fleeing to her father whom she barely knew, Mori was sent to boarding school in Englandâ€“a place all but devoid of true magic. There, outcast and alone, she tempted fate by doing magic herself, in an attempt to find a circle of like-minded friends. But her magic also drew the attention of her mother, bringing about a reckoning that could no longer be put offâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  Combining elements of autobiography with flights of imagination in the manner of novels like Jonathan Lethemâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Fortress of Solitude\n  </em>\n  , this is potentially a breakout book for an author whose genius has already been hailed by peers like Kelly Link, Sarah Weinman, and Ursula K. Le Guin.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28452'),
(9036, 'Among the Living', 'Dan Vining', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** Two novels in one trade volume.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There are so many mysteries hidden in the fog off the Pacific Coast. Jimmy Miles has been hired to solve them. But they''re not the only things keeping him up at night...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *The Quick*, an investigation into a long-ago murder leads to his discovery of the Sailors-restless strangers who roam the night, trapped between the world of the living and dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *The Next*, still haunted by the Sailors, Jimmy becomes obsessed with a sudden rash of murders, and a never-forgotten love affair that may hold the clue to his future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6492'),
(9037, 'Among the Living', 'Dan Vining', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** Two novels in one trade volume.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There are so many mysteries hidden in the fog off the Pacific Coast. Jimmy Miles has been hired to solve them. But they''re not the only things keeping him up at night...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *The Quick*, an investigation into a long-ago murder leads to his discovery of the Sailors-restless strangers who roam the night, trapped between the world of the living and dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *The Next*, still haunted by the Sailors, Jimmy becomes obsessed with a sudden rash of murders, and a never-forgotten love affair that may hold the clue to his future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13201'),
(9038, 'Among the Living', 'Dan Vining', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Two novels in one trade volume.** There are so many mysteries hidden in the fog off the Pacific Coast. Jimmy Miles has been hired to solve them. But they''re not the only things keeping him up at night... In *The Quick*, an investigation into a long-ago murder leads to his discovery of the Sailors-restless strangers who roam the night, trapped between the world of the living and dead. In *The Next*, still haunted by the Sailors, Jimmy becomes obsessed with a sudden rash of murders, and a never-forgotten love affair that may hold the clue to his future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17475'),
(9039, 'Among the Living', 'Dan Vining', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Two novels in one trade volume.** There are so many mysteries hidden in the fog off the Pacific Coast. Jimmy Miles has been hired to solve them. But they''re not the only things keeping him up at night... In *The Quick*, an investigation into a long-ago murder leads to his discovery of the Sailors-restless strangers who roam the night, trapped between the world of the living and dead. In *The Next*, still haunted by the Sailors, Jimmy becomes obsessed with a sudden rash of murders, and a never-forgotten love affair that may hold the clue to his future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27152'),
(9040, 'Amos Daragon: The Mask Wearer', 'Bryan Perro &amp; Y. Maudet', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon #1: The Mask Wearer\n  </em>\n  is the first book in a fast-paced adventure series for middle grade readers. Amos is a hero straight out of the Brothers Grimm--loyal, trustworthy, and very clever--outsmarting villains with their own nefarious schemes. In this classic story of good versus evil, Amos has been chosen as a Mask Wearer, tasked with combating forces of evil using the power embedded in four lost masks. Encountering gorgons, mermaids, nagas, and the Egyptian god Seth, Amos proves he is a fierce opponent and a steadfast friend. A satisfying conclusion sets the tone for the next book, and the mythology glossary at the end is an added bonus._--Seira Wilson_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Author Bryan Perro\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a young boy, I had a passion for comic books, especially the French\n  <em>\n   Pif Gadget\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Rahan\n  </em>\n  . At fourteen, I discovered my first book,\n  <em>\n   The Devilâ€™s Triangle\n  </em>\n  by American writer Richard Winer. The book was about the Bermuda Triangle; I loved how it dealt with the supernatural and how unexplained forces exert power over the boats, aircrafts, and people who dare to venture in this eerie part of the Atlantic Ocean. This real-life mystery and Winerâ€™s way with words fueled my imagination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  During my college years, I developed a deep interest in anthropology and the myths that exist throughout the world. I have around 350 books in my home--all myths and legends from places near and far. The fantastical creatures that populate these amazing stories, along with the hero in each of them, inspired me to create\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon\n  </em>\n  , the series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When I was looking for a magical item that Amos Daragon would need to find on his quest, I was surprised to learn that the first such item in the history of mankind is not the magic wand, but the mask.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the aborigines, the first men, danced around their campfires, they personified animals. How did they do this? They wore masks! If, for example, they put on the mask of the eagle, their vision grew more piercing. This enhanced power allowed them to be a better hunter. So I wanted Amos to be in pursuit of mankindâ€™s first magical item, the mask. Four of them, in fact! And since I wanted to write an extended series, I decided that stones would empower the masks. Not only did this allow Amos to harness his abilities as Mask Wearer slowly, it gave me the opportunity to explore all sorts of adventures for my young hero. Itâ€™s been an incredible journey for him and for me--one that I hope boys and girls will join as they begin\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon #1: The Mask Wearer\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fast paced, with a litany of new friends and foes introduced in every chapter, this first installment in the Amos Daragon series is a smart choice for die-hard fantasy lovers. Young Amos, a child of peasants in a mythical realm ruled by an evil king, is chosen to fight a ï¿½mysterious and wicked forceï¿½ by collecting four masks that represent earth, wind, fire, and water and along the way eliminating the malevolent forces corrupting the woods of Tarkasis. In his quest, Amos encounters mermaids and mermen, druids and fairies, and he befriends the ï¿½humanimalï¿½ Beorf. The plot is complex, and the fantasy can be heavy-handed at times, but a ï¿½mythological lexiconï¿½ appears as an addendum and provides some cultural context regarding many of the creatures who appear in the story. This is ultimately a tale about finding oneï¿½s own independence, and the climax will leave readers eager for the next installment in the series. Fans of Cornelia Funkeï¿½s Inkheart trilogy will approve. Grades 4-7. --Erin Anderson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7023'),
(9041, 'Amos Daragon: The Mask Wearer', 'Bryan Perro &amp; Y. Maudet', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon #1: The Mask Wearer\n  </em>\n  is the first book in a fast-paced adventure series for middle grade readers. Amos is a hero straight out of the Brothers Grimm--loyal, trustworthy, and very clever--outsmarting villains with their own nefarious schemes. In this classic story of good versus evil, Amos has been chosen as a Mask Wearer, tasked with combating forces of evil using the power embedded in four lost masks. Encountering gorgons, mermaids, nagas, and the Egyptian god Seth, Amos proves he is a fierce opponent and a steadfast friend. A satisfying conclusion sets the tone for the next book, and the mythology glossary at the end is an added bonus._--Seira Wilson_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Author Bryan Perro\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a young boy, I had a passion for comic books, especially the French\n  <em>\n   Pif Gadget\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Rahan\n  </em>\n  . At fourteen, I discovered my first book,\n  <em>\n   The Devilâ€™s Triangle\n  </em>\n  by American writer Richard Winer. The book was about the Bermuda Triangle; I loved how it dealt with the supernatural and how unexplained forces exert power over the boats, aircrafts, and people who dare to venture in this eerie part of the Atlantic Ocean. This real-life mystery and Winerâ€™s way with words fueled my imagination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  During my college years, I developed a deep interest in anthropology and the myths that exist throughout the world. I have around 350 books in my home--all myths and legends from places near and far. The fantastical creatures that populate these amazing stories, along with the hero in each of them, inspired me to create\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon\n  </em>\n  , the series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When I was looking for a magical item that Amos Daragon would need to find on his quest, I was surprised to learn that the first such item in the history of mankind is not the magic wand, but the mask.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the aborigines, the first men, danced around their campfires, they personified animals. How did they do this? They wore masks! If, for example, they put on the mask of the eagle, their vision grew more piercing. This enhanced power allowed them to be a better hunter. So I wanted Amos to be in pursuit of mankindâ€™s first magical item, the mask. Four of them, in fact! And since I wanted to write an extended series, I decided that stones would empower the masks. Not only did this allow Amos to harness his abilities as Mask Wearer slowly, it gave me the opportunity to explore all sorts of adventures for my young hero. Itâ€™s been an incredible journey for him and for me--one that I hope boys and girls will join as they begin\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon #1: The Mask Wearer\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fast paced, with a litany of new friends and foes introduced in every chapter, this first installment in the Amos Daragon series is a smart choice for die-hard fantasy lovers. Young Amos, a child of peasants in a mythical realm ruled by an evil king, is chosen to fight a ï¿½mysterious and wicked forceï¿½ by collecting four masks that represent earth, wind, fire, and water and along the way eliminating the malevolent forces corrupting the woods of Tarkasis. In his quest, Amos encounters mermaids and mermen, druids and fairies, and he befriends the ï¿½humanimalï¿½ Beorf. The plot is complex, and the fantasy can be heavy-handed at times, but a ï¿½mythological lexiconï¿½ appears as an addendum and provides some cultural context regarding many of the creatures who appear in the story. This is ultimately a tale about finding oneï¿½s own independence, and the climax will leave readers eager for the next installment in the series. Fans of Cornelia Funkeï¿½s Inkheart trilogy will approve. Grades 4-7. --Erin Anderson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11906');
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(9042, 'Amos Daragon: The Mask Wearer', 'Bryan Perro; Y. Maudet', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon #1: The Mask Wearer\n  </em>\n  is the first book in a fast-paced adventure series for middle grade readers. Amos is a hero straight out of the Brothers Grimm--loyal, trustworthy, and very clever--outsmarting villains with their own nefarious schemes. In this classic story of good versus evil, Amos has been chosen as a Mask Wearer, tasked with combating forces of evil using the power embedded in four lost masks. Encountering gorgons, mermaids, nagas, and the Egyptian god Seth, Amos proves he is a fierce opponent and a steadfast friend. A satisfying conclusion sets the tone for the next book, and the mythology glossary at the end is an added bonus._--Seira Wilson_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Author Bryan Perro\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a young boy, I had a passion for comic books, especially the French\n  <em>\n   Pif Gadget\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Rahan\n  </em>\n  . At fourteen, I discovered my first book,\n  <em>\n   The Devilâ€™s Triangle\n  </em>\n  by American writer Richard Winer. The book was about the Bermuda Triangle; I loved how it dealt with the supernatural and how unexplained forces exert power over the boats, aircrafts, and people who dare to venture in this eerie part of the Atlantic Ocean. This real-life mystery and Winerâ€™s way with words fueled my imagination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  During my college years, I developed a deep interest in anthropology and the myths that exist throughout the world. I have around 350 books in my home--all myths and legends from places near and far. The fantastical creatures that populate these amazing stories, along with the hero in each of them, inspired me to create\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon\n  </em>\n  , the series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When I was looking for a magical item that Amos Daragon would need to find on his quest, I was surprised to learn that the first such item in the history of mankind is not the magic wand, but the mask.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the aborigines, the first men, danced around their campfires, they personified animals. How did they do this? They wore masks! If, for example, they put on the mask of the eagle, their vision grew more piercing. This enhanced power allowed them to be a better hunter. So I wanted Amos to be in pursuit of mankindâ€™s first magical item, the mask. Four of them, in fact! And since I wanted to write an extended series, I decided that stones would empower the masks. Not only did this allow Amos to harness his abilities as Mask Wearer slowly, it gave me the opportunity to explore all sorts of adventures for my young hero. Itâ€™s been an incredible journey for him and for me--one that I hope boys and girls will join as they begin\n  <em>\n   Amos Daragon #1: The Mask Wearer\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fast paced, with a litany of new friends and foes introduced in every chapter, this first installment in the Amos Daragon series is a smart choice for die-hard fantasy lovers. Young Amos, a child of peasants in a mythical realm ruled by an evil king, is chosen to fight a ï¿½mysterious and wicked forceï¿½ by collecting four masks that represent earth, wind, fire, and water and along the way eliminating the malevolent forces corrupting the woods of Tarkasis. In his quest, Amos encounters mermaids and mermen, druids and fairies, and he befriends the ï¿½humanimalï¿½ Beorf. The plot is complex, and the fantasy can be heavy-handed at times, but a ï¿½mythological lexiconï¿½ appears as an addendum and provides some cultural context regarding many of the creatures who appear in the story. This is ultimately a tale about finding oneï¿½s own independence, and the climax will leave readers eager for the next installment in the series. Fans of Cornelia Funkeï¿½s Inkheart trilogy will approve. Grades 4-7. --Erin Anderson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16850'),
(9043, 'Amsterdam', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the\n <em>\n  Judge\n </em>\n , persuades his old friend Clive Linley, a self-indulgent composer of some reputation, to enter into a euthanasia pact with him. Should either of them be stricken with such an illness, the other will bring about his death. From this point onward we are in little doubt as to\n <em>\n  Amsterdam\n </em>\n ''s outcome--it''s only a matter of who will kill whom. In the meantime, compromising photographs of Molly''s most distinguished lover, foreign secretary Julian Garmony, have found their way into the hands of the press, and as rumors circulate he teeters on the edge of disgrace. However, this is McEwan, so it is no surprise to find that the rather unsavory Garmony comes out on top. Ian McEwan is master of the writer''s craft, and while this is the sort of novel that wins prizes, his characters remain curiously soulless amidst the twists and turns of plot.\n <em>\n  --Lisa Jardine\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As swift as a lethal bullet and as timely as current headlines, McEwan''s Booker Prize-winning novel is a mordantly clever?but ultimately too clever for its own good?exploration of ethical issues. Two longtime friends meet at the cremation of the woman they shared, beautiful restaurant critic and photographer Molly Lane. Clive Linley, a celebrated composer, and Vernon Halliday, the editor of a financially troubled London tabloid, could never understand Molly''s third liaison?with conservative Foreign Secretary Julian Garmony, who is angling to be prime minister, or her marriage to dour but rich publisher George Lane. Mourning the manner of Molly''s agonizing death, which left her mad and helpless at the end, each man pledges to dispatch the other by euthanasia should he be similarly afflicted. Immediately afterwards, both Clive and Vernon are enmeshed in a crisis: Clive must finish his commissioned Millennium Symphony so it can premiere in Amsterdam, and Vernon must grapple with the moral issue of publishing photos of Julian Garmony in drag that George has discovered with Molly''s effects. The clash between whether the demands of pure art are more valid than political accountability and financial solvency soon assumes a larger dimension that turns Clive and Vernon into bitter enemies and inspires each of them to seek revenge by the same means. McEwan spins these plot developments with smooth alacrity and with acidulous wit, especially focused on the way shallow and mediocre people can occupy positions of power and esteem: "In his profession, Vernon was revered as a nonentity." His ability to sculpt a scene with such arresting visual detail that it assumes a physical dimension for the reader (most memorably in the opening of Enduring Love but also evident here as Clive observes a woman being accosted by a rapist, and as Vernon watches a TV interview that signals the end of his career) are undiminished. But when, in the last third of the book, McEwan manipulates the plot to achieve a less than credible symmetry, it is obvious that, despite the Booker recognition, this is far from McEwan''s best novel. That said, however, it will undoubtedly hit the bestseller charts, for McEwan, even when not quite at the top of his form, is a writer of compelling gifts. Major ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18303'),
(9044, 'Amsterdam', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Loin des annÃ©es hippies de leur jeunesse, deux amis liÃ©s depuis trente ans battent la semelle au cimetiÃ¨re tandis qu''achÃ¨ve de se consumer leur ex-maÃ®tresse Molly Lane, critique gastronomique et photographe bien connue : Clive Linley, compositeur cÃ©lÃ¨bre, et Vernon Halliday, directeur de la rÃ©daction d''un prestigieux journal londonien. Ils partagent la mÃªme hostilitÃ© envers un autre ancien amant de Molly, Julian Garmony, ministre des Affaires Ã©trangÃ¨res. Tout occupÃ©s Ã  dÃ©fendre leurs situations, ils n''hÃ©sitent pas Ã  piÃ©tiner les valeurs morales, Clive au nom de son art, Vernon afin d''augmenter les chiffres de diffusion de son journal. A quel drame le plan montÃ© par Vernon contre Garmony va-t-il aboutir ? Et oÃ¹ les mÃ¨nera le pacte qu''ils avaient conclu Ã  la suite de la mort de Molly ? L''intrigue diabolique de ce roman brillamment inscrit dans notre sociÃ©tÃ© contemporaine est traitÃ©e par Ian McEwan avec l''humour corrosif dont il a le secret.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </h3>\n  <p class="description">\n   When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the\n   <em>\n    Judge\n   </em>\n   , persuades his old friend Clive Linley, a self-indulgent composer of some reputation, to enter into a euthanasia pact with him. Should either of them be stricken with such an illness, the other will bring about his death. From this point onward we are in little doubt as to\n   <em>\n    Amsterdam\n   </em>\n   ''s outcomeâ€”it''s only a matter of who will kill whom. In the meantime, compromising photographs of Molly''s most distinguished lover, foreign secretary Julian Garmony, have found their way into the hands of the press, and as rumors circulate he teeters on the edge of disgrace. However, this is McEwan, so it is no surprise to find that the rather unsavory Garmony comes out on top. Ian McEwan is master of the writer''s craft, and while this is the sort of novel that wins prizes, his characters remain curiously soulless amidst the twists and turns of plot.\n   <em>\n    â€”Lisa Jardine\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p class="description">\n   As swift as a lethal bullet and as timely as current headlines, McEwan''s Booker Prize-winning novel is a mordantly clever?but ultimately too clever for its own good?exploration of ethical issues. Two longtime friends meet at the cremation of the woman they shared, beautiful restaurant critic and photographer Molly Lane. Clive Linley, a celebrated composer, and Vernon Halliday, the editor of a financially troubled London tabloid, could never understand Molly''s third liaison?with conservative Foreign Secretary Julian Garmony, who is angling to be prime minister, or her marriage to dour but rich publisher George Lane. Mourning the manner of Molly''s agonizing death, which left her mad and helpless at the end, each man pledges to dispatch the other by euthanasia should he be similarly afflicted. Immediately afterwards, both Clive and Vernon are enmeshed in a crisis: Clive must finish his commissioned Millennium Symphony so it can premiere in Amsterdam, and Vernon must grapple with the moral issue of publishing photos of Julian Garmony in drag that George has discovered with Molly''s effects. The clash between whether the demands of pure art are more valid than political accountability and financial solvency soon assumes a larger dimension that turns Clive and Vernon into bitter enemies and inspires each of them to seek revenge by the same means. McEwan spins these plot developments with smooth alacrity and with acidulous wit, especially focused on the way shallow and mediocre people can occupy positions of power and esteem: "In his profession, Vernon was revered as a nonentity." His ability to sculpt a scene with such arresting visual detail that it assumes a physical dimension for the reader (most memorably in the opening of Enduring Love but also evident here as Clive observes a woman being accosted by a rapist, and as Vernon watches a TV interview that signals the end of his career) are undiminished. But when, in the last third of the book, McEwan manipulates the plot to achieve a less than credible symmetry, it is obvious that, despite the Booker recognition, this is far from McEwan''s best novel. That said, however, it will undoubtedly hit the bestseller charts, for McEwan, even when not quite at the top of his form, is a writer of compelling gifts. Major ad/promo; author tour.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28193'),
(9045, 'The Amulet of Power', 'Mike Resnick &amp; Ballantine Books Staff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Here at lastâ€“the first exciting book in a bold new series of Lara Croft novels tying directly into the popular video games. The Amulet of Power reveals the never-before shown events that took place between â€œThe Last Revelationâ€ and â€œAngel of Darkness.â€ Trapped beneath the ruins of an Egyptian tomb, Lara faces certain death . . . until fate intervenes and sets her on the trail of an ancient talisman of power.\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Archaeologist and explorer Lara Croft travels the world in search of ancient relics, forgotten crypts, and lost cities. Highly trained for combat and possessing an insatiable appetite for adventure, she answers to no one and goes wherever the quest takes herâ€“heedless of the danger.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Lara turns up in the Middle East, despite the rumors of her death, religious fanatics believe she has located the coveted Amulet of Mareish. Lost since the siege of Khartoum, the amulet is rumored to grant the wearer untold power. Some long to possess it, others want to see it destroyed, and both sides pursue Lara relentlessly. While she fights trained warriors and ruthless mercenaries, and desperately searches for the jewel they all seek, one thing becomes clear: the fate of the world rests in the hands of . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10947'),
(9046, 'Amurg', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25091'),
(9047, 'Amurgul gindurilor', 'Emil Cioran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25849'),
(9048, 'Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business', 'Neil Postman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the author of Teaching as a Subversive Activity comes a sustained, withering and thought-provoking attack on television and what it is doing to us. Postman''s theme is the decline of the printed word and the ascendancy of the "tube" with its tendency to present everythingmurder, mayhem, politics, weatheras entertainment. The ultimate effect, as Postman sees it, is the shrivelling of public discourse as TV degrades our conception of what constitutes news, political debate, art, even religious thought. Early chapters trace America''s one-time love affair with the printed word, from colonial pamphlets to the publication of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. There''s a biting analysis of TV commercials as a form of "instant therapy" based on the assumption that human problems are easily solvable. Postman goes further than other critics in demonstrating that television represents a hostile attack on literate culture. October 30\n <br />\n Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A brilliant, powerful and important book. -- _Jonathan Yardley,\n <em>\n  _The Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10975'),
(9049, 'Amy &amp; Roger&#39;s Epic Detour', 'Morgan Matson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Amy Curry thinks her life sucks. Her mom decides to move from California to Connecticut to start anew--just in time for Amy''s senior year. Her dad recently died in a car accident. So Amy embarks on a road trip to escape from it all, driving cross-country from the home she''s always known toward her new life. Joining Amy on the road trip is Roger, the son of Amy''s mother''s old friend. Amy hasn''t seen him in years, and she is less than thrilled to be driving across the country with a guy she barely knows. So she''s surprised to find that she is developing a crush on him. At the same time, she''s coming to terms with her father''s death and how to put her own life back together after the accident. Told in traditional narrative as well as scraps from the road--diner napkins, motel receipts, postcards--this is the story of one girl''s journey to find herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2684'),
(9050, 'Amy &amp; Roger&#39;s Epic Detour', 'Morgan Matson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Amy Curry thinks her life sucks. Her mom decides to move from California to Connecticut to start anew--just in time for Amy''s senior year. Her dad recently died in a car accident. So Amy embarks on a road trip to escape from it all, driving cross-country from the home she''s always known toward her new life. Joining Amy on the road trip is Roger, the son of Amy''s mother''s old friend. Amy hasn''t seen him in years, and she is less than thrilled to be driving across the country with a guy she barely knows. So she''s surprised to find that she is developing a crush on him. At the same time, she''s coming to terms with her father''s death and how to put her own life back together after the accident. Told in traditional narrative as well as scraps from the road--diner napkins, motel receipts, postcards--this is the story of one girl''s journey to find herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11235'),
(9051, 'Amy &amp; Roger&#39;s Epic Detour', 'Morgan Matson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Amy Curry thinks her life sucks. Her mom decides to move from California to Connecticut to start anew--just in time for Amy''s senior year. Her dad recently died in a car accident. So Amy embarks on a road trip to escape from it all, driving cross-country from the home she''s always known toward her new life. Joining Amy on the road trip is Roger, the son of Amy''s mother''s old friend. Amy hasn''t seen him in years, and she is less than thrilled to be driving across the country with a guy she barely knows. So she''s surprised to find that she is developing a crush on him. At the same time, she''s coming to terms with her father''s death and how to put her own life back together after the accident. Told in traditional narrative as well as scraps from the road--diner napkins, motel receipts, postcards--this is the story of one girl''s journey to find herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22131'),
(9052, 'Analgesia, Anaesthesia and Pregnancy: A Practical Guide', 'Steve Yentis; Anne May; Surbhi Malhotra', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Brimming with plenty of useful information....Overall, the well-written little handbook is a valuable resource that provides a practical approach to many important aspects of obstetric anesthesia practice."\n <br />\n --Canadian Journal of Anesthesia\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A thoroughly updated edition of this well-established practical guide to obstetric analgesia and anaesthesia originally published by W. B. Saunders. All aspects of obstetric medicine relevant to the anaesthetist are covered, from conception, throughout pregnancy, to after birth care. The emphasis is on pre-empting problems and maximising quality of care. The authors have identified over 150 potential complications each covered in two sections: issues raised and management options, with key points extracted into boxes for quick reference. A section on organisational aspects such as record keeping, training, protocols and guidelines makes this an important resource for any labour ward or hospital dealing with pregnant women. Presented in a clear, structured format, this book will be invaluable to trainee anaesthetists at all levels and to experienced anaesthetists who encounter obstetric patients. Obstetricians, neonatologists, midwives, nurses and operating department practitioners wishing to extend or update their knowledge will also find it highly beneficial.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22950'),
(9053, 'Analog SFF, December 2009', 'Dell Magazine Authors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction. 73724 words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5994'),
(9054, 'Analog SFF, December 2009', 'Dell Magazine Authors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction. 73724 words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8306'),
(9055, 'Analog SFF, December 2009', 'Dell Magazine Authors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Science Fiction. 73724 words long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17938'),
(9056, 'Anansi Boys', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fat Charlie Nancy is not having a good week. It all hit the proverbial fan when his rotter of an estranged father dropped dead at a karaoke night and Charlie discovered that his dad was in fact Anansi the spider god. Then he found out that he has a brother (called Spider) who is also a god. And that said brother is hell bent on taking over his life, flat and fiance, and, just to add insult to injury, doing a much better job of being him. Desperate to reclaim his life, Charlie enlists the help of four loco old ladies and their unique brand of voodoo and unleashes a bitter and twisted force to get rid of Spider. But as darkness descends and badness begins is Fat Charlie Nancy going to get his life back in one piece or is he about to enter a whole netherworld of pain?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2616'),
(9057, 'Anansi Boys', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fat Charlie Nancy''s normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn''t know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother.   Now brother Spider''s on his doorstepâ€”about to make Fat Charlie''s life more interesting . . . and a lot more dangerous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15146'),
(9058, 'Anansi Boys', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fat Charlie Nancy''s normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn''t know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother.   Now brother Spider''s on his doorstepâ€”about to make Fat Charlie''s life more interesting . . . and a lot more dangerous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22165'),
(9059, 'Anarchy, State, and Utopia', 'Robert Nozick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "...This book is the best piece of sustained analytical argument in political philosophy to have appeared for a very long time." Mind "...complex, sophisticated and ingenious." Economist\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "...This book is the best piece of sustained analytical argument in political philosophy to have appeared for a very long time."\n  <em>\n   Mind\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...complex, sophisticated and ingenious."\n  <em>\n   Economist\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14262'),
(9060, 'Anarchy, State, and Utopia', 'Robert Nozick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "...This book is the best piece of sustained analytical argument in political philosophy to have appeared for a very long time." Mind "...complex, sophisticated and ingenious." Economist\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "...This book is the best piece of sustained analytical argument in political philosophy to have appeared for a very long time."\n  <em>\n   Mind\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...complex, sophisticated and ingenious."\n  <em>\n   Economist\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23278'),
(9061, 'Anathem', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic changeâ€”and Erasmas will become a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world, as he follows his destiny to the most inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond.   Anathem is the latest miraculous invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycleâ€”a work of astonishing scope, intelligence, and imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2594'),
(9062, 'Anathem', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic changeâ€”and Erasmas will become a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world, as he follows his destiny to the most inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond.   Anathem is the latest miraculous invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycleâ€”a work of astonishing scope, intelligence, and imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12910'),
(9063, 'Anathem', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic changeâ€”and Erasmas will become a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world, as he follows his destiny to the most inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond. Anathem is the latest miraculous invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycleâ€”a work of astonishing scope, intelligence, and imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13826'),
(9064, 'Anathem', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic changeâ€”and Erasmas will become a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world, as he follows his destiny to the most inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond. Anathem is the latest miraculous invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycleâ€”a work of astonishing scope, intelligence, and imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22179'),
(9065, 'The Anatomist', 'Bill Hayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Hayesâ€™s history of the illustrated medical text â€œGrayâ€™s Anatomyâ€ coincides with the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of its first publication. Fascinated by the fact that little was known about the famous bookâ€™s genesis, Hayes combed through nineteenth-century letters and medical-school records, learning that, besides Henry Gray, the brilliant scholar and surgeon who wrote the text, another anatomist was crucial to the bookâ€™s popularity: Henry Vandyke Carter, who provided its painstaking drawings. Hayes moves nimbly between the dour streets of Victorian London, where Gray and Carter trained at St. Georgeâ€™s Hospital, and the sunnier classrooms of a West Coast university filled with athletic physical therapists in training, where he enrolls in anatomy classes and discovers that â€œwhen done well, dissection is very pleasing aesthetically.â€ - The New Yorker"All laud and honor to Hayes....In perusing the body''s 650 muscles and 206 bones, he has made the case that we are, as the psalmist wrote, "fearfully and wonderfully made" and that dissection has an aesthetic all its own. The act of carving open a body becomes, in this context, a perverse act of love, a desecration that consecrates "the extraordinary, the inner architecture of the human form." - The Washington Post"How do you write a book about someone about whom next to nothing is known? For most writers, the answer would be move on to the next subject. But Bill Hayes has an unusual set of skills. The author of previous books on insomnia and blood, he is part science writer, part memoirist, part culture explainer. â€œThe Anatomist,â€ his appealing new book about the man behind Grayâ€™s Anatomy, combines his search for the remaining traces of Henry Gray with a memoir of his own experience as a dissection student and a scalpelâ€™s-eye tour of the body." - The New York Times"Some of [Hayes''s] most memorable writing describes the dissection classes he attended in San Francisco. We are treated to a selection of fascinating anatomical snippets about, for example, how to trace evidence of the sealed hole in the fetal heart through which the mother''s blood enters; or how to find the kidney in a cadaver; or that blood flowing out of the heart is first used to feed the heart itself; or, best of all, a structural analysis of how the Queen manages to deliver such a uniquely restrained wave." - Nature: The International Weekly Journal of ScienceThe classic medical text known as Grayâ€™s Anatomy is one of the most famous books ever written. Now, on the 150th anniversary of its publication, acclaimed science writer and master of narrative nonfiction Bill Hayes has written the fascinating, never-before-told true story of how this seminal volume came to be. A blend of history, science, culture, and Hayesâ€™s own personal experiences, The Anatomist is this authorâ€™s most accomplished and affecting work to date.With passion and wit, Hayes explores the significance of Grayâ€™s Anatomy and explains why it came to symbolize a turning point in medical history. But he does much, much more. Uncovering a treasure trove of forgotten letters and diaries, he illuminates the astonishing relationship between the fiercely gifted young anatomist Henry Gray and his younger collaborator H. V. Carter, whose exquisite anatomical illustrations are masterpieces of art and close observation. Tracing the triumphs and tragedies of these two extraordinary men, Hayes brings an equally extraordinary eraâ€“the mid-1800sâ€“unforgettably to life.But the journey Hayes takes us on is not only outward but inwardâ€“through the blood and tissue and organs of the human bodyâ€“for The Anatomist chronicles Hayesâ€™s year as a student of classical gross anatomy, performing with his own hands the dissections and examinations detailed by Henry Gray 150 years ago. As Hayesâ€™s acquaintance with death deepens, he finds his understanding and appreciation of life deepening in unexpected and profoundly moving ways.The Anatomist is more than just the story of a book. It is the story of the human body, a story whose beginning and end we all know and share but that, like all great stories, is infinitely rich in between.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9451'),
(9066, 'The Anatomy of Fascism', 'Robert O. Paxton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A scholar of Vichy France, Paxton focuses here on the literature about fascism. The term is used with abandon in contemporary political discourse, reflecting scholarly disagreement about how to define it. His historical source material predominantly emanates from Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany, an obvious but necessary observation since the "fascist" status of other authoritarian regimes is contentious. Paxton does integrate biographies of the two ur-fascists into his dissection, but he comments frequently that a researcher''s fixation on the leader obscures rather than clarifies the rise of his party, as does a propensity to focus on the party''s ideology instead of its actions, and he follows the significantly different trajectories of radicalism taken by the Fascists and the Nazis. Formulating a five-stage life cycle of fascism from birth in "mobilizing passions" provoked by World War I to its destructiveness in power, Paxton wants his intricate but readable work to "rescue the concept [of fascism] for meaningful use," a laudable goal largely achieved.\n  <em>\n   Gilbert Taylor\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "So fair, so thorough and, in the end, so convincing, it may well become the most authoritative . . . study of the subject. . . . A splendid book."\n  <em>\n   â€“The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Useful and timely. . . . Mussolini and Hitler were the prototypical fascist leaders, and Paxton chronicles their rise to power--and their global influence and ultimate fall--with a brilliant economy." â€“_San Francisco Chronicle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A deeply intelligent and very readable book. . . . Historical analysis at its best." â€“_The Economist\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œ[A] helpful contribution, thoughtfully mapping out the descent of a civilized people â€” first the Italians, then the Germans â€” into a primal state (and state of being) ruled by mythology, symbol and emotion. . . . Serves as a reminder of our power and responsibility.â€ â€“\n  </em>\n  The Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œUntil now there has been no satisfying account of fascism that includes a convincing diagnostic kit for identifying its symptoms. . . . Robert Paxton steps in to restore sanity, with his view that fascism is not what was believed but what was done.â€ â€“_Los Angeles Times Book Review_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1576'),
(9067, 'The Anatomy of Fascism', 'Robert O. Paxton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23275'),
(9068, 'The Anatomy of Story', 'John Truby', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13670'),
(9069, 'The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller', 'John Truby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywoodâ€™s most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek.Â The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all of his secrets for writing a compelling script.Â Based on the lessons in his award-winning class, Great Screenwriting, The Anatomy of StoryÂ draws on a broad range of philosophy and mythology, offering fresh techniques and insightful anecdotes alongside Trubyâ€™s own uniqueÂ approach for how to build an effective, multifaceted narrative.Â Trubyâ€™s method for constructing a story is at onceÂ insightful and practical, focusing on the heroâ€™s moral and emotional growth. As a result, writers will dig deep within and explore their own values and worldviews in order to create an effectiveÂ story. Writers willÂ come away with an extremely precise set of tools to work withâ€”specific, useful techniques to make the audience care about their characters, and that make their characters grow in meaningful ways. TheyÂ will construct a surprising plot that is unique to their particular concept, and they will learn how to express a moral vision that can genuinely move an audience.The foundations of story that Truby lays out are so fundamental they are applicableâ€”and essentialâ€”to all writers, from novelists and short-story writers to journalists, memoirists, and writers of narrative non-fiction. John Truby is Hollywoodâ€™s premiere story consultant and founder of Trubyâ€™s Writers Studio. He has worked as a story consultant and script doctor for Disney Studios, Sony Pictures, FOX, and HBO, among others, and has taught his 22-Step Great Screenwriting and Genre classes to over 20,000 students worldwide.Â  John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry.Â Â His students have gone on to pen some of Hollywoodâ€™s most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek.Â His first book, The Anatomy of Story is about the process ofÂ writing a compelling script.Â Based on the lessons in his award-winning class, Great Screenwriting, The Anatomy of StoryÂ draws on a broad range of philosophy and mythology and offers techniques andÂ anecdotes alongside Trubyâ€™s ownÂ approach toÂ developing an effective, multifaceted narrative.Â Â Trubyâ€™s method for constructing a story is at onceÂ insightful and practical, focusing on the heroâ€™s moral and emotional growth. As a result, writers will explore their own values and worldviews in order to create an effectiveÂ story. Truby provides a precise set of toolsâ€”specific, useful techniques to make the audience care about their characters, and that make their characters grow in meaningful ways. Writers will learn toÂ construct a surprising plot that is unique to their particular concept, and they will learn how to express a moral vision that can genuinely move an audience.The foundations of story that Truby lays out are applicable to all writers, from novelists and short-story writers to journalists, memoirists, and writers of narrative non-fiction. "If you''re ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby . . . [His lessons draw] epiphanies that make you see the contours of your psyche as sharply as your script."â€”LA Weekly "A veritable bible for screenwriters."â€”BackstageÂ  Â "If you''re ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby . . . [His lessons draw] epiphanies that make you see the contours of your psyche as sharply as your script."â€”LA WeeklyÂ "The Anatomy Of Story is concrete and practical without resorting to simplistic ''Three Act Structure'' screenwriting clichÃ©s. It will be an indispensable guide to writing your first great script. Then, the perfect survival manual to help you negotiate the often confusing, contradictory and cutthroat world of professional screenwriting."â€”Larry Wilson, co-writer and co-producer of Beetlejuice andÂ co-writer of The Addams FamilyÂ "Hollywood story consultant Truby commits his vast knowledge of screenwriting and storytelling to the page in this handy guide for aspiring writers of all types. Truby delves into the setup, from basic structure to the premise and the depth behind it. From there, he moves into character, emphasizing the importance of not only the hero but also the characters in the story who aid and oppose him. Truby illustrates the importance of setting to the story and how careful plotting is needed to weave the elements of the story together. He cautions that plot is not incidental and requires careful management and timely revelations. Although most of his examples are from movies, such as Tootsie, The Godfather, and Star Wars, Truby also draws from novels and plays, and his advice is applicable not only to the hopeful screenwriter but to the aspiring novelist as well. A comprehensive guide to writing stories of all kinds, Truby''s tome is invaluable to any writer looking to put an idea to paper."â€”Kristine Huntley, Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4241'),
(9070, 'The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller', 'John Truby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywoodâ€™s most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all of his secrets for writing a compelling script. Based on the lessons in his award-winning class, Great Screenwriting, The Anatomy of Story draws on a broad range of philosophy and mythology, offering fresh techniques and insightful anecdotes alongside Trubyâ€™s own unique approach for how to build an effective, multifaceted narrative. Trubyâ€™s method for constructing a story is at once insightful and practical, focusing on the heroâ€™s moral and emotional growth. As a result, writers will dig deep within and explore their own values and worldviews in order to create an effective story. Writers will come away with an extremely precise set of tools to work withâ€”specific, useful techniques to make the audience care about their characters, and that make their characters grow in meaningful ways. They will construct a surprising plot that is unique to their particular concept, and they will learn how to express a moral vision that can genuinely move an audience.The foundations of story that Truby lays out are so fundamental they are applicableâ€”and essentialâ€”to all writers, from novelists and short-story writers to journalists, memoirists, and writers of narrative non-fiction. John Truby is Hollywoodâ€™s premiere story consultant and founder of Trubyâ€™s Writers Studio. He has worked as a story consultant and script doctor for Disney Studios, Sony Pictures, FOX, and HBO, among others, and has taught his 22-Step Great Screenwriting and Genre classes to over 20,000 students worldwide. John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry. His students have gone on to pen some of Hollywoodâ€™s most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. His first book, The Anatomy of Story is about the process of writing a compelling script. Based on the lessons in his award-winning class, Great Screenwriting, The Anatomy of Story draws on a broad range of philosophy and mythology and offers techniques and anecdotes alongside Trubyâ€™s own approach to developing an effective, multifaceted narrative. Trubyâ€™s method for constructing a story is at once insightful and practical, focusing on the heroâ€™s moral and emotional growth. As a result, writers will explore their own values and worldviews in order to create an effective story. Truby provides a precise set of toolsâ€”specific, useful techniques to make the audience care about their characters, and that make their characters grow in meaningful ways. Writers will learn to construct a surprising plot that is unique to their particular concept, and they will learn how to express a moral vision that can genuinely move an audience.The foundations of story that Truby lays out are applicable to all writers, from novelists and short-story writers to journalists, memoirists, and writers of narrative non-fiction. "If you''re ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby . . . [His lessons draw] epiphanies that make you see the contours of your psyche as sharply as your script."â€”LA Weekly "A veritable bible for screenwriters."â€”Backstage "If you''re ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby . . . [His lessons draw] epiphanies that make you see the contours of your psyche as sharply as your script."â€”LA Weekly "The Anatomy Of Story is concrete and practical without resorting to simplistic ''Three Act Structure'' screenwriting clichÃ©s. It will be an indispensable guide to writing your first great script. Then, the perfect survival manual to help you negotiate the often confusing, contradictory and cutthroat world of professional screenwriting."â€”Larry Wilson, co-writer and co-producer of Beetlejuice and co-writer of The Addams Family "Hollywood story consultant Truby commits his vast knowledge of screenwriting and storytelling to the page in this handy guide for aspiring writers of all types. Truby delves into the setup, from basic structure to the premise and the depth behind it. From there, he moves into character, emphasizing the importance of not only the hero but also the characters in the story who aid and oppose him. Truby illustrates the importance of setting to the story and how careful plotting is needed to weave the elements of the story together. He cautions that plot is not incidental and requires careful management and timely revelations. Although most of his examples are from movies, such as Tootsie, The Godfather, and Star Wars, Truby also draws from novels and plays, and his advice is applicable not only to the hopeful screenwriter but to the aspiring novelist as well. A comprehensive guide to writing stories of all kinds, Truby''s tome is invaluable to any writer looking to put an idea to paper."â€”Kristine Huntley, Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20311'),
(9071, 'The Ancestor&#39;s Tale', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14622');
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(9072, 'The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry', 'Tony Barnstone &amp; Ping Chou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Unmatched in scope and literary quality,\n <strong>\n  The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry\n </strong>\n _ _spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translationsâ€“many new and exclusive to the bookâ€“by an array of distinguished translators.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here is the grand sweep of Chinese poetry, from the\n <strong>\n  Book of Songs\n </strong>\n â€“ancient folk songs said to have been collected by Confucius himselfâ€“and Laoziâ€™s\n <strong>\n  Dao De Jing\n </strong>\n _ _to the vividly pictorial verse of Wang Wei, the romanticism of Li Po, the technical brilliance of Tu Fu, and all the way up to the twentieth-century poetry of Mao Zedong and the postâ€”Cultural Revolution verse of the Misty poets. Encompassing the spiritual, philosophical, political, mystical, and erotic strains that have emerged over millennia, this broadly representative selection also includes a preface on the art of translation, a general introduction to Chinese poetic form, biographical headnotes for each of the poets, and concise essays on the dynasties that structure the book. A landmark anthology,\n <strong>\n  The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry\n </strong>\n _ _captures with impressive range and depth the essence of Chinaâ€™s illustrious poetic tradition.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  ZHOU DYNASTY\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n (1122-256 BCE)\n</p>\n<p>\n Though Chinese civilization stretches back to Neolithic times, the earliest known dynasty, the Xia, is of limited importance to a discussion of Chinese literature, as there is no evidence that a written language was in use. The succeeding dynasty, the Shang, was a Bronze Age agricultural civilization. During the Shang, characters were written on oracle bones (usually made of turtle shell or cattle shoulder bones, and later on bamboo strips, silk, and bronze), but no literature from this time is extant.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Shang were overthrown by the king of Zhou, a small dependent nation in the Wei River Valley in the western Shang territory, and thus began the Zhou dynasty, the first great period of Chinese literature. It was during the Zhou dynasty that the doctrine that the Chinese King was exercising a "Mandate of Heaven" in his rule developed. It later became an extremely important doctrine both to justify imperial rule and to explain the fall of an empire (should an emperor prove corrupt or weak, heaven would remove his mandate). The Zhou dynasty is the longest of China''s many dynasties, and is divided into the Western Zhou (1122-771 BCE) and the Eastern Zhou (771-256 BCE), as the Zhou were forced out of their capital at Xian by barbarian invaders from the north, and moved east to found their new capital in Luoyang. The Eastern Zhou is itself subdivided into the Spring and Autumn Period (771-481 BCE) and the Warring States Period (463-221 BCE). The troubled Warring States Period marked the waning years of the dynasty. Such great thinkers, moralists, and philosophers as Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Zhuangzi lived during the Eastern Zhou. It was the time of the Hundred Schools of Thought, the golden age of Chinese philosophy, when the great traditions of Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, Militarism, and Mohism developed. In this period, itinerant thinkers traveled with their followers, finding employment with rulers, who would seek their advice on warfare, morality, diplomacy, and government. The Zhou dynasty eventually weakened to the point where it ruled only in name, as seven powerful warring states vied for dominance. In 221 BCE, the ruler of a western state emerged triumphant from the ongoing warfare and unified China, naming himself Shi Huangdi (the "first emperor") and beginning the Qin dynasty. After eight hundred years, heaven had removed its mandate from the Zhou at last.\n</p>\n<p>\n The three Zhou dynasty texts presented here are the source of Chinese poetic literature, evolving out of the beginnings of Chinese writing, and foreshadowing what was to come in this extraordinary three thousand year tradition. Chinese poetry begins with the Book of Songs, comprised of folk songs, hymns, and court songs collected largely from ordinary people living along the Yellow River, and putatively edited by Confucius himself (thus the collection is sometimes referred to as the Confucian Odes). The fact that the Chinese poetic tradition begins with folk poetry reworked and set to music has meant that the long tradition of Chinese poetry written by the nobility has often striven for a sense of folk authenticity to blend with the master poet''s craft and skill, simplicity balancing elegance. The four-character verses in the Book of Songs are the model for shi poetry, whose variations came to dominate classical Chinese poetry for the next two thousand years.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Book of Songs is one of the Confucian classics, studied throughout Chinese history by the nobility and by those who wished to rise in society as scholar-officials. Poetry is held to be one of the great arts that educated Chinese men (and sometimes women) should know and be able to practice. In fact, poetry has been in the mainstream of literary expression in Chinese literature, and so it is often afforded great powers of influence in the Chinese critical tradition. The "Great Preface" to the Book of Songs states that poetry is a Confucian rectifier that establishes the proper relationships between spouses, encourages respect and loyalty for the old, strengthens human ties, improves civilizations, and excises bad customs. In the Analects, Confucius often mentions the Songs. In Analect 2.2, for example, he states, "There are 300 Songs, but they can be summed up with one phrase: let your thoughts be free of depravity." Poetry serves a moral purpose, according to Confucius, "stimulating the reader, and making him observant, sociable, and capable of expressing his grievances," while at the same time "helping him to serve his family and his King" (Analect 17.8). Though the poems in the Book of Songs were in fact simply songs of the peasants, they were read as moral allegories, or as analogues to political and historical events.\n</p>\n<p>\n The second text presented here is the marvelous, riddling, profound, and elegantly difficult Dao De Jing of Laozi (better known in the West by an earlier transliteration as the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu). As the Book of Songs stands as one of the key texts that gave birth to the Confucian tradition, so the Dao De Jing (along with another great text, the Zhuangzi) stands as the source of the great religious and philosophical tradition of Daoism, and ultimately of Chinese Buddhism, which blended with Daoism in a particularly Chinese philosophical and spiritual mÃ©lange. Though it is not normally considered to be poetry, the Dao De Jing translates as marvelous poetry. A selection from it can help give Western readers an understanding of the concepts that underlie so many of the great Daoist and Buddhist poets in China who were to come later.\n</p>\n<p>\n The final text in this section is a selection from the great long poem Encountering Sorrow, by Qu Yuan (c. 332-c. 295 bce). This poem comes from the Verses of Chu, the second great early anthology of Chinese poetry, which included Qu Yuan''s poetry, as well as that of a later poet, Song Yu. Encountering Sorrow and other poems in the collection tell of how Qu Yuan''s dedication to his king was rewarded with banishment, leading him to drown himself in despair. The poems are celebrated for their Confucian dedication to duty. The work of Qu Yuan represents the beginning of an ornate literary tradition in China, which is counterbalanced by the simpler, vernacular, folk tradition of the Book of Songs. His poems are also the source of Chinese fu poetry, an irregular blend of poetry and prose that was to become an important part of the Chinese tradition. Fu poems usually begin and conclude with prose passages, with rhymed poetry in the center.\n</p>\n<p>\n Qu Yuan is supposedly the first Chinese poet whose name we know (though in fact there are a few cases in the Book of Songs in which a poet''s name is embedded). That the Verses of Chu begins the tradition of named poetry in China is more important than one might think. When one knows a poet''s name, and something of his or her life, one gets a powerful sense of human connection to the person behind the poem. As poets name the world, so their own names name something to us as readers-a life and, perhaps more important, a lifework. Though the songs from the Books of Songs can often feel personal, they are almost exclusively anonymous and written to set generic topics. Thus, despite their allusive and elaborate nature, the poems of Qu Yuan are the fountainhead of personal poetry in China.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  BOOK OF SONGS\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n (c. 600 bce)\n</p>\n<p>\n The Book of Songs is the earliest anthology of Chinese poetry, and the thematic and formal source of the Chinese poetic tradition. The Chinese name for the Book of Songs is the Shi Jing, and the term shi (the general term for poetry, like the Japanese term waka) derives from its name. Legend has it that its 305 poems were compiled by Confucius (551-479 bce) from an earlier manuscript of around three thousand songs. The assertion that Confucius was the compiler is questionable, but certainly the anthology was extant in Confucius''s time, and it seems likely that the anthology was collected between 1100 and 600 bce. Confucius refers to the Book of Songs in the Analects, and it was part of the curriculum of his disciples; it is counted among the Confucian classics that form the basis of Confucian education. The collection was banned in the third century bce, along with the other Confucian classics, but was reconstructed during the Han dynasty, and the edition that is most complete derives from this time.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Book of Songs contains three basic categories of song: folk songs and ballads, court songs, and sacrificial songs. Like the Sanskrit Vedas of India, these songs provide us with a window onto the simple and beautiful life of an ancient time. Heroes and ancestors are praised, love is made, war is waged, farmers sing to their crops, people complain about their taxes, and moral categories are set forth in stark and powerful form. Though these are songs, the music has been lost, and some of them have been revised from folk song roots by court musicians, rhymed and arranged into stanzas. Others were aristocratic songs, songs to be sung to accompany ritual dancing, or to accompany the rites of ancestor worship.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  White Moonrise\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The white rising moon\n</p>\n<p>\n is your bright beauty\n</p>\n<p>\n binding me in spells\n</p>\n<p>\n till my heart''s devoured.\n</p>\n<p>\n The light moon soars\n</p>\n<p>\n resplendent like my lady,\n</p>\n<p>\n binding me in light chains\n</p>\n<p>\n till my heart''s devoured.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moon in white glory,\n</p>\n<p>\n you are the beautiful one\n</p>\n<p>\n who delicately wounds me\n</p>\n<p>\n till my heart''s devoured.\n</p>\n<p>\n Translated by Tony Barnstone\n</p>\n<p>\n and Willis Barnstone\n</p>\n<p>\n Fruit Plummets from the Plum Tree\n</p>\n<p>\n Fruit plummets from the plum tree\n</p>\n<p>\n but seven of ten plums remain.\n</p>\n<p>\n You gentlemen who would court me,\n</p>\n<p>\n come on a lucky day.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fruit plummets from the plum tree\n</p>\n<p>\n but three of ten plums still remain.\n</p>\n<p>\n You men who want to court me,\n</p>\n<p>\n come now, today is a lucky day!\n</p>\n<p>\n Fruit plummets from the plum tree.\n</p>\n<p>\n You can fill up your baskets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gentlemen if you want to court me,\n</p>\n<p>\n just say the word...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/538'),
(9073, 'The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry', 'Tony Barnstone &amp; Ping Chou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Unmatched in scope and literary quality,\n <strong>\n  The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry\n </strong>\n _ _spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translationsâ€“many new and exclusive to the bookâ€“by an array of distinguished translators.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here is the grand sweep of Chinese poetry, from the\n <strong>\n  Book of Songs\n </strong>\n â€“ancient folk songs said to have been collected by Confucius himselfâ€“and Laoziâ€™s\n <strong>\n  Dao De Jing\n </strong>\n _ _to the vividly pictorial verse of Wang Wei, the romanticism of Li Po, the technical brilliance of Tu Fu, and all the way up to the twentieth-century poetry of Mao Zedong and the postâ€”Cultural Revolution verse of the Misty poets. Encompassing the spiritual, philosophical, political, mystical, and erotic strains that have emerged over millennia, this broadly representative selection also includes a preface on the art of translation, a general introduction to Chinese poetic form, biographical headnotes for each of the poets, and concise essays on the dynasties that structure the book. A landmark anthology,\n <strong>\n  The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry\n </strong>\n _ _captures with impressive range and depth the essence of Chinaâ€™s illustrious poetic tradition.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  ZHOU DYNASTY\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n (1122-256 BCE)\n</p>\n<p>\n Though Chinese civilization stretches back to Neolithic times, the earliest known dynasty, the Xia, is of limited importance to a discussion of Chinese literature, as there is no evidence that a written language was in use. The succeeding dynasty, the Shang, was a Bronze Age agricultural civilization. During the Shang, characters were written on oracle bones (usually made of turtle shell or cattle shoulder bones, and later on bamboo strips, silk, and bronze), but no literature from this time is extant.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Shang were overthrown by the king of Zhou, a small dependent nation in the Wei River Valley in the western Shang territory, and thus began the Zhou dynasty, the first great period of Chinese literature. It was during the Zhou dynasty that the doctrine that the Chinese King was exercising a "Mandate of Heaven" in his rule developed. It later became an extremely important doctrine both to justify imperial rule and to explain the fall of an empire (should an emperor prove corrupt or weak, heaven would remove his mandate). The Zhou dynasty is the longest of China''s many dynasties, and is divided into the Western Zhou (1122-771 BCE) and the Eastern Zhou (771-256 BCE), as the Zhou were forced out of their capital at Xian by barbarian invaders from the north, and moved east to found their new capital in Luoyang. The Eastern Zhou is itself subdivided into the Spring and Autumn Period (771-481 BCE) and the Warring States Period (463-221 BCE). The troubled Warring States Period marked the waning years of the dynasty. Such great thinkers, moralists, and philosophers as Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Zhuangzi lived during the Eastern Zhou. It was the time of the Hundred Schools of Thought, the golden age of Chinese philosophy, when the great traditions of Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, Militarism, and Mohism developed. In this period, itinerant thinkers traveled with their followers, finding employment with rulers, who would seek their advice on warfare, morality, diplomacy, and government. The Zhou dynasty eventually weakened to the point where it ruled only in name, as seven powerful warring states vied for dominance. In 221 BCE, the ruler of a western state emerged triumphant from the ongoing warfare and unified China, naming himself Shi Huangdi (the "first emperor") and beginning the Qin dynasty. After eight hundred years, heaven had removed its mandate from the Zhou at last.\n</p>\n<p>\n The three Zhou dynasty texts presented here are the source of Chinese poetic literature, evolving out of the beginnings of Chinese writing, and foreshadowing what was to come in this extraordinary three thousand year tradition. Chinese poetry begins with the Book of Songs, comprised of folk songs, hymns, and court songs collected largely from ordinary people living along the Yellow River, and putatively edited by Confucius himself (thus the collection is sometimes referred to as the Confucian Odes). The fact that the Chinese poetic tradition begins with folk poetry reworked and set to music has meant that the long tradition of Chinese poetry written by the nobility has often striven for a sense of folk authenticity to blend with the master poet''s craft and skill, simplicity balancing elegance. The four-character verses in the Book of Songs are the model for shi poetry, whose variations came to dominate classical Chinese poetry for the next two thousand years.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Book of Songs is one of the Confucian classics, studied throughout Chinese history by the nobility and by those who wished to rise in society as scholar-officials. Poetry is held to be one of the great arts that educated Chinese men (and sometimes women) should know and be able to practice. In fact, poetry has been in the mainstream of literary expression in Chinese literature, and so it is often afforded great powers of influence in the Chinese critical tradition. The "Great Preface" to the Book of Songs states that poetry is a Confucian rectifier that establishes the proper relationships between spouses, encourages respect and loyalty for the old, strengthens human ties, improves civilizations, and excises bad customs. In the Analects, Confucius often mentions the Songs. In Analect 2.2, for example, he states, "There are 300 Songs, but they can be summed up with one phrase: let your thoughts be free of depravity." Poetry serves a moral purpose, according to Confucius, "stimulating the reader, and making him observant, sociable, and capable of expressing his grievances," while at the same time "helping him to serve his family and his King" (Analect 17.8). Though the poems in the Book of Songs were in fact simply songs of the peasants, they were read as moral allegories, or as analogues to political and historical events.\n</p>\n<p>\n The second text presented here is the marvelous, riddling, profound, and elegantly difficult Dao De Jing of Laozi (better known in the West by an earlier transliteration as the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu). As the Book of Songs stands as one of the key texts that gave birth to the Confucian tradition, so the Dao De Jing (along with another great text, the Zhuangzi) stands as the source of the great religious and philosophical tradition of Daoism, and ultimately of Chinese Buddhism, which blended with Daoism in a particularly Chinese philosophical and spiritual mÃ©lange. Though it is not normally considered to be poetry, the Dao De Jing translates as marvelous poetry. A selection from it can help give Western readers an understanding of the concepts that underlie so many of the great Daoist and Buddhist poets in China who were to come later.\n</p>\n<p>\n The final text in this section is a selection from the great long poem Encountering Sorrow, by Qu Yuan (c. 332-c. 295 bce). This poem comes from the Verses of Chu, the second great early anthology of Chinese poetry, which included Qu Yuan''s poetry, as well as that of a later poet, Song Yu. Encountering Sorrow and other poems in the collection tell of how Qu Yuan''s dedication to his king was rewarded with banishment, leading him to drown himself in despair. The poems are celebrated for their Confucian dedication to duty. The work of Qu Yuan represents the beginning of an ornate literary tradition in China, which is counterbalanced by the simpler, vernacular, folk tradition of the Book of Songs. His poems are also the source of Chinese fu poetry, an irregular blend of poetry and prose that was to become an important part of the Chinese tradition. Fu poems usually begin and conclude with prose passages, with rhymed poetry in the center.\n</p>\n<p>\n Qu Yuan is supposedly the first Chinese poet whose name we know (though in fact there are a few cases in the Book of Songs in which a poet''s name is embedded). That the Verses of Chu begins the tradition of named poetry in China is more important than one might think. When one knows a poet''s name, and something of his or her life, one gets a powerful sense of human connection to the person behind the poem. As poets name the world, so their own names name something to us as readers-a life and, perhaps more important, a lifework. Though the songs from the Books of Songs can often feel personal, they are almost exclusively anonymous and written to set generic topics. Thus, despite their allusive and elaborate nature, the poems of Qu Yuan are the fountainhead of personal poetry in China.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  BOOK OF SONGS\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n (c. 600 bce)\n</p>\n<p>\n The Book of Songs is the earliest anthology of Chinese poetry, and the thematic and formal source of the Chinese poetic tradition. The Chinese name for the Book of Songs is the Shi Jing, and the term shi (the general term for poetry, like the Japanese term waka) derives from its name. Legend has it that its 305 poems were compiled by Confucius (551-479 bce) from an earlier manuscript of around three thousand songs. The assertion that Confucius was the compiler is questionable, but certainly the anthology was extant in Confucius''s time, and it seems likely that the anthology was collected between 1100 and 600 bce. Confucius refers to the Book of Songs in the Analects, and it was part of the curriculum of his disciples; it is counted among the Confucian classics that form the basis of Confucian education. The collection was banned in the third century bce, along with the other Confucian classics, but was reconstructed during the Han dynasty, and the edition that is most complete derives from this time.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Book of Songs contains three basic categories of song: folk songs and ballads, court songs, and sacrificial songs. Like the Sanskrit Vedas of India, these songs provide us with a window onto the simple and beautiful life of an ancient time. Heroes and ancestors are praised, love is made, war is waged, farmers sing to their crops, people complain about their taxes, and moral categories are set forth in stark and powerful form. Though these are songs, the music has been lost, and some of them have been revised from folk song roots by court musicians, rhymed and arranged into stanzas. Others were aristocratic songs, songs to be sung to accompany ritual dancing, or to accompany the rites of ancestor worship.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  White Moonrise\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The white rising moon\n</p>\n<p>\n is your bright beauty\n</p>\n<p>\n binding me in spells\n</p>\n<p>\n till my heart''s devoured.\n</p>\n<p>\n The light moon soars\n</p>\n<p>\n resplendent like my lady,\n</p>\n<p>\n binding me in light chains\n</p>\n<p>\n till my heart''s devoured.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moon in white glory,\n</p>\n<p>\n you are the beautiful one\n</p>\n<p>\n who delicately wounds me\n</p>\n<p>\n till my heart''s devoured.\n</p>\n<p>\n Translated by Tony Barnstone\n</p>\n<p>\n and Willis Barnstone\n</p>\n<p>\n Fruit Plummets from the Plum Tree\n</p>\n<p>\n Fruit plummets from the plum tree\n</p>\n<p>\n but seven of ten plums remain.\n</p>\n<p>\n You gentlemen who would court me,\n</p>\n<p>\n come on a lucky day.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fruit plummets from the plum tree\n</p>\n<p>\n but three of ten plums still remain.\n</p>\n<p>\n You men who want to court me,\n</p>\n<p>\n come now, today is a lucky day!\n</p>\n<p>\n Fruit plummets from the plum tree.\n</p>\n<p>\n You can fill up your baskets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gentlemen if you want to court me,\n</p>\n<p>\n just say the word...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8404'),
(9074, 'The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry', 'Tony Barnstone; Ping Chou', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Unmatched in scope and literary quality,\n  <strong>\n   The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry\n  </strong>\n  _ _spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translationsâ€“many new and exclusive to the bookâ€“by an array of distinguished translators.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here is the grand sweep of Chinese poetry, from the\n  <strong>\n   Book of Songs\n  </strong>\n  â€“ancient folk songs said to have been collected by Confucius himselfâ€“and Laoziâ€™s\n  <strong>\n   Dao De Jing\n  </strong>\n  _ _to the vividly pictorial verse of Wang Wei, the romanticism of Li Po, the technical brilliance of Tu Fu, and all the way up to the twentieth-century poetry of Mao Zedong and the postâ€”Cultural Revolution verse of the Misty poets. Encompassing the spiritual, philosophical, political, mystical, and erotic strains that have emerged over millennia, this broadly representative selection also includes a preface on the art of translation, a general introduction to Chinese poetic form, biographical headnotes for each of the poets, and concise essays on the dynasties that structure the book. A landmark anthology,\n  <strong>\n   The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry\n  </strong>\n  _ _captures with impressive range and depth the essence of Chinaâ€™s illustrious poetic tradition.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   ZHOU DYNASTY\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (1122-256 BCE)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though Chinese civilization stretches back to Neolithic times, the earliest known dynasty, the Xia, is of limited importance to a discussion of Chinese literature, as there is no evidence that a written language was in use. The succeeding dynasty, the Shang, was a Bronze Age agricultural civilization. During the Shang, characters were written on oracle bones (usually made of turtle shell or cattle shoulder bones, and later on bamboo strips, silk, and bronze), but no literature from this time is extant.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Shang were overthrown by the king of Zhou, a small dependent nation in the Wei River Valley in the western Shang territory, and thus began the Zhou dynasty, the first great period of Chinese literature. It was during the Zhou dynasty that the doctrine that the Chinese King was exercising a "Mandate of Heaven" in his rule developed. It later became an extremely important doctrine both to justify imperial rule and to explain the fall of an empire (should an emperor prove corrupt or weak, heaven would remove his mandate). The Zhou dynasty is the longest of China''s many dynasties, and is divided into the Western Zhou (1122-771 BCE) and the Eastern Zhou (771-256 BCE), as the Zhou were forced out of their capital at Xian by barbarian invaders from the north, and moved east to found their new capital in Luoyang. The Eastern Zhou is itself subdivided into the Spring and Autumn Period (771-481 BCE) and the Warring States Period (463-221 BCE). The troubled Warring States Period marked the waning years of the dynasty. Such great thinkers, moralists, and philosophers as Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Zhuangzi lived during the Eastern Zhou. It was the time of the Hundred Schools of Thought, the golden age of Chinese philosophy, when the great traditions of Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, Militarism, and Mohism developed. In this period, itinerant thinkers traveled with their followers, finding employment with rulers, who would seek their advice on warfare, morality, diplomacy, and government. The Zhou dynasty eventually weakened to the point where it ruled only in name, as seven powerful warring states vied for dominance. In 221 BCE, the ruler of a western state emerged triumphant from the ongoing warfare and unified China, naming himself Shi Huangdi (the "first emperor") and beginning the Qin dynasty. After eight hundred years, heaven had removed its mandate from the Zhou at last.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The three Zhou dynasty texts presented here are the source of Chinese poetic literature, evolving out of the beginnings of Chinese writing, and foreshadowing what was to come in this extraordinary three thousand year tradition. Chinese poetry begins with the Book of Songs, comprised of folk songs, hymns, and court songs collected largely from ordinary people living along the Yellow River, and putatively edited by Confucius himself (thus the collection is sometimes referred to as the Confucian Odes). The fact that the Chinese poetic tradition begins with folk poetry reworked and set to music has meant that the long tradition of Chinese poetry written by the nobility has often striven for a sense of folk authenticity to blend with the master poet''s craft and skill, simplicity balancing elegance. The four-character verses in the Book of Songs are the model for shi poetry, whose variations came to dominate classical Chinese poetry for the next two thousand years.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Book of Songs is one of the Confucian classics, studied throughout Chinese history by the nobility and by those who wished to rise in society as scholar-officials. Poetry is held to be one of the great arts that educated Chinese men (and sometimes women) should know and be able to practice. In fact, poetry has been in the mainstream of literary expression in Chinese literature, and so it is often afforded great powers of influence in the Chinese critical tradition. The "Great Preface" to the Book of Songs states that poetry is a Confucian rectifier that establishes the proper relationships between spouses, encourages respect and loyalty for the old, strengthens human ties, improves civilizations, and excises bad customs. In the Analects, Confucius often mentions the Songs. In Analect 2.2, for example, he states, "There are 300 Songs, but they can be summed up with one phrase: let your thoughts be free of depravity." Poetry serves a moral purpose, according to Confucius, "stimulating the reader, and making him observant, sociable, and capable of expressing his grievances," while at the same time "helping him to serve his family and his King" (Analect 17.8). Though the poems in the Book of Songs were in fact simply songs of the peasants, they were read as moral allegories, or as analogues to political and historical events.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The second text presented here is the marvelous, riddling, profound, and elegantly difficult Dao De Jing of Laozi (better known in the West by an earlier transliteration as the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu). As the Book of Songs stands as one of the key texts that gave birth to the Confucian tradition, so the Dao De Jing (along with another great text, the Zhuangzi) stands as the source of the great religious and philosophical tradition of Daoism, and ultimately of Chinese Buddhism, which blended with Daoism in a particularly Chinese philosophical and spiritual mÃ©lange. Though it is not normally considered to be poetry, the Dao De Jing translates as marvelous poetry. A selection from it can help give Western readers an understanding of the concepts that underlie so many of the great Daoist and Buddhist poets in China who were to come later.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The final text in this section is a selection from the great long poem Encountering Sorrow, by Qu Yuan (c. 332-c. 295 bce). This poem comes from the Verses of Chu, the second great early anthology of Chinese poetry, which included Qu Yuan''s poetry, as well as that of a later poet, Song Yu. Encountering Sorrow and other poems in the collection tell of how Qu Yuan''s dedication to his king was rewarded with banishment, leading him to drown himself in despair. The poems are celebrated for their Confucian dedication to duty. The work of Qu Yuan represents the beginning of an ornate literary tradition in China, which is counterbalanced by the simpler, vernacular, folk tradition of the Book of Songs. His poems are also the source of Chinese fu poetry, an irregular blend of poetry and prose that was to become an important part of the Chinese tradition. Fu poems usually begin and conclude with prose passages, with rhymed poetry in the center.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Qu Yuan is supposedly the first Chinese poet whose name we know (though in fact there are a few cases in the Book of Songs in which a poet''s name is embedded). That the Verses of Chu begins the tradition of named poetry in China is more important than one might think. When one knows a poet''s name, and something of his or her life, one gets a powerful sense of human connection to the person behind the poem. As poets name the world, so their own names name something to us as readers-a life and, perhaps more important, a lifework. Though the songs from the Books of Songs can often feel personal, they are almost exclusively anonymous and written to set generic topics. Thus, despite their allusive and elaborate nature, the poems of Qu Yuan are the fountainhead of personal poetry in China.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   BOOK OF SONGS\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  (c. 600 bce)\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Book of Songs is the earliest anthology of Chinese poetry, and the thematic and formal source of the Chinese poetic tradition. The Chinese name for the Book of Songs is the Shi Jing, and the term shi (the general term for poetry, like the Japanese term waka) derives from its name. Legend has it that its 305 poems were compiled by Confucius (551-479 bce) from an earlier manuscript of around three thousand songs. The assertion that Confucius was the compiler is questionable, but certainly the anthology was extant in Confucius''s time, and it seems likely that the anthology was collected between 1100 and 600 bce. Confucius refers to the Book of Songs in the Analects, and it was part of the curriculum of his disciples; it is counted among the Confucian classics that form the basis of Confucian education. The collection was banned in the third century bce, along with the other Confucian classics, but was reconstructed during the Han dynasty, and the edition that is most complete derives from this time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Book of Songs contains three basic categories of song: folk songs and ballads, court songs, and sacrificial songs. Like the Sanskrit Vedas of India, these songs provide us with a window onto the simple and beautiful life of an ancient time. Heroes and ancestors are praised, love is made, war is waged, farmers sing to their crops, people complain about their taxes, and moral categories are set forth in stark and powerful form. Though these are songs, the music has been lost, and some of them have been revised from folk song roots by court musicians, rhymed and arranged into stanzas. Others were aristocratic songs, songs to be sung to accompany ritual dancing, or to accompany the rites of ancestor worship.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   White Moonrise\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The white rising moon\n </p>\n <p>\n  is your bright beauty\n </p>\n <p>\n  binding me in spells\n </p>\n <p>\n  till my heart''s devoured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The light moon soars\n </p>\n <p>\n  resplendent like my lady,\n </p>\n <p>\n  binding me in light chains\n </p>\n <p>\n  till my heart''s devoured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Moon in white glory,\n </p>\n <p>\n  you are the beautiful one\n </p>\n <p>\n  who delicately wounds me\n </p>\n <p>\n  till my heart''s devoured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Translated by Tony Barnstone\n </p>\n <p>\n  and Willis Barnstone\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fruit Plummets from the Plum Tree\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fruit plummets from the plum tree\n </p>\n <p>\n  but seven of ten plums remain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You gentlemen who would court me,\n </p>\n <p>\n  come on a lucky day.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fruit plummets from the plum tree\n </p>\n <p>\n  but three of ten plums still remain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You men who want to court me,\n </p>\n <p>\n  come now, today is a lucky day!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fruit plummets from the plum tree.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You can fill up your baskets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gentlemen if you want to court me,\n </p>\n <p>\n  just say the word...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24435'),
(9075, 'Ancient Chinese Warfare', 'Ralph D. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sawyer, a leading scholar of Chinese warfare and fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, is best known for his comprehensively edited translations of classical military writings. His latest analytical work is no less significant. It begins in the prehistoric period and continues through the fifth century B.C.E., an era traditionally described as one of stability, almost idyllic compared to the two-century warring states period that followed. Sawyer instead demonstrates through archeological evidence, traditional accounts, and convincing interpretations of inscriptions that conflict in China became increasingly complex, lethal, and decisive during the Hsia and Shang dynasties. Armies became structured forces with bureaucratized logistics. Warrior values were integrated into mainstream cultures. Sawyer''s analysis ranges from the evolution of fortification, through the metallurgical innovations behind improved weapons, to the technologies and animal husbandry that enabled the chariots that became ancient China''s signature. Warfare, says Sawyer, stimulated innovation, social change, and material progress. It also destroyed the peace and security of communities, then peoples, absorbed into ever-larger political systems sustained by force. Ancient China, shaped by its wars, was firmly set on "a trajectory of state building and aggressive activity." Illus. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n P. H. Liotta, author ofÂ _The Real Population Bomb: Megacities and Global Security\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œAfter decades of intense and dedicated scholarship, Ralph Sawyer has produced an astonishing volume. His linguistic and strategic skillsâ€”his fierce geniusâ€”are everywhere in evidence. Sawyer is a master, and\n <em>\n  Ancient Chinese Warfare\n </em>\n is his masterpiece.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Ralph Peters, retired Military Intelligence officer and author ofÂ _The War After Armageddon_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Ancient Chinese Warfare_ is, paradoxically, a crucial book for the 21st century. As the â€˜newâ€™ China aspires to global power, understanding the foundations of this civilizationâ€™s way of war helps us grasp Beijingâ€™s present psychology and behavior.Â The Chinese take a very long view of history, and we need to learn to do so.Â To that end, the brilliant work of Ralph D. Sawyer has long proven unrivalled...and this book is his masterpiece.Â No work better illustrates the deep (and gnarled) roots of Chinaâ€™s contemporary ambitions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Nicola Di Cosmo, Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian History at the Institute for Advanced Study\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ_Ancient Chinese Warfare_ is an important, informative, and exciting book. Written with panache, brimming with new ideas, and based on a level of knowledge that would challenge any expert, Sawyerâ€™s work has transformed single-handedly our understanding of ancient Chinese military history. Readers will find in this book a solidly informed and vivid account of Chinaâ€™s ways of warfare from the Shang dynasty to the mid-first millennium BC. Only few of them will appreciate the massive effort of synthesis and analysis that this book represents, and it is to Sawyerâ€™s credit that he has succeeded in bringing an extremely difficult topic to a level that everyone can understand, learn from, and enjoy.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Edward N. Luttwak, author ofÂ _The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œNot unexpectedly, this book enhances Ralph D. Sawyerâ€™s reputation as the premier interpreter of Chinese strategy and warfare. The surprise is that with the aid of a flowing style he has written a highly readable, indeed very enjoyable book on a seemingly abstruse subject. In a manner fascinating in itself, Sawyer brilliantly reconstructs the fragmentary archaeological evidence.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1897'),
(9076, 'Ancient Chinese Warfare', 'Ralph D. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sawyer, a leading scholar of Chinese warfare and fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, is best known for his comprehensively edited translations of classical military writings. His latest analytical work is no less significant. It begins in the prehistoric period and continues through the fifth century B.C.E., an era traditionally described as one of stability, almost idyllic compared to the two-century warring states period that followed. Sawyer instead demonstrates through archeological evidence, traditional accounts, and convincing interpretations of inscriptions that conflict in China became increasingly complex, lethal, and decisive during the Hsia and Shang dynasties. Armies became structured forces with bureaucratized logistics. Warrior values were integrated into mainstream cultures. Sawyer''s analysis ranges from the evolution of fortification, through the metallurgical innovations behind improved weapons, to the technologies and animal husbandry that enabled the chariots that became ancient China''s signature. Warfare, says Sawyer, stimulated innovation, social change, and material progress. It also destroyed the peace and security of communities, then peoples, absorbed into ever-larger political systems sustained by force. Ancient China, shaped by its wars, was firmly set on "a trajectory of state building and aggressive activity." Illus. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n P. H. Liotta, author ofÂ _The Real Population Bomb: Megacities and Global Security\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œAfter decades of intense and dedicated scholarship, Ralph Sawyer has produced an astonishing volume. His linguistic and strategic skillsâ€”his fierce geniusâ€”are everywhere in evidence. Sawyer is a master, and\n <em>\n  Ancient Chinese Warfare\n </em>\n is his masterpiece.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Ralph Peters, retired Military Intelligence officer and author ofÂ _The War After Armageddon_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Ancient Chinese Warfare_ is, paradoxically, a crucial book for the 21st century. As the â€˜newâ€™ China aspires to global power, understanding the foundations of this civilizationâ€™s way of war helps us grasp Beijingâ€™s present psychology and behavior.Â The Chinese take a very long view of history, and we need to learn to do so.Â To that end, the brilliant work of Ralph D. Sawyer has long proven unrivalled...and this book is his masterpiece.Â No work better illustrates the deep (and gnarled) roots of Chinaâ€™s contemporary ambitions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Nicola Di Cosmo, Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian History at the Institute for Advanced Study\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ_Ancient Chinese Warfare_ is an important, informative, and exciting book. Written with panache, brimming with new ideas, and based on a level of knowledge that would challenge any expert, Sawyerâ€™s work has transformed single-handedly our understanding of ancient Chinese military history. Readers will find in this book a solidly informed and vivid account of Chinaâ€™s ways of warfare from the Shang dynasty to the mid-first millennium BC. Only few of them will appreciate the massive effort of synthesis and analysis that this book represents, and it is to Sawyerâ€™s credit that he has succeeded in bringing an extremely difficult topic to a level that everyone can understand, learn from, and enjoy.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Edward N. Luttwak, author ofÂ _The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œNot unexpectedly, this book enhances Ralph D. Sawyerâ€™s reputation as the premier interpreter of Chinese strategy and warfare. The surprise is that with the aid of a flowing style he has written a highly readable, indeed very enjoyable book on a seemingly abstruse subject. In a manner fascinating in itself, Sawyer brilliantly reconstructs the fragmentary archaeological evidence.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12562'),
(9077, 'Ancient Forces Collection', 'Bill Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don''t want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by bestselling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca ''Becka'' Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world---a world fraught with deception and spiritual adversaries that promise goodness and enlightenment but will stop at nothing to destroy life, sanity, and human souls. Witchcraft. Reincarnation. Ouija Boards. UFOs. Shamanism. Counterfeit spiritualities are widespread and popular with spiritually searching young adults such as Becka''s peers. What''s the harm? Find out. Join Becka, Scott, and Ryan as they head for mind-bending clashes between the forces of darkness and the kingdom of God. Combining meticulous research, realistic settings, and masterful storytelling, the Forbidden Doors novels take you from the mountains of New Mexico to the inner workings of a secret society---and into the truth of God''s Word, which exposes lies and reveals the reality of spiritual warfare. Each volume in the series contains three books that center around a particular kind of Forbidden Door. Book One: Dark Powers contains The Society, The Deceived, and The Spell; Book Two: Invisible Terror contains The Haunting, The Guardian, and The Encounter; Book Three: Deadly Loyalty contains The Curse, The Undead, and The Scream; Book Four: Ancient Forces contains The Ancients, The Wiccan, and The Cards\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don''t want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by bestselling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca ''Becka'' Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world---a world fraught with deception and spiritual adversaries that promise goodness and enlightenment but will stop at nothing to destroy life, sanity, and human souls. Witchcraft. Reincarnation. Ouija Boards. UFOs. Shamanism. Counterfeit spiritualities are widespread and popular with spiritually searching young adults such as Becka''s peers. What''s the harm? Find out. Join Becka, Scott, and Ryan as they head for mind-bending clashes between the forces of darkness and the kingdom of God. Combining meticulous research, realistic settings, and masterful storytelling, the Forbidden Doors novels take you from the mountains of New Mexico to the inner workings of a secret society---and into the truth of God''s Word, which exposes lies and reveals the reality of spiritual warfare. Each volume in the series contains three books that center around a particular kind of Forbidden Door. Book One: Dark Powers contains The Society, The Deceived, and The Spell; Book Two: Invisible Terror contains The Haunting, The Guardian, and The Encounter; Book Three: Deadly Loyalty contains The Curse, The Undead, and The Scream; Book Four: Ancient Forces contains The Ancients, The Wiccan, and The Cards\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7169');
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(9078, 'Ancient Forces Collection', 'Bill Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don''t want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by bestselling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca ''Becka'' Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world---a world fraught with deception and spiritual adversaries that promise goodness and enlightenment but will stop at nothing to destroy life, sanity, and human souls. Witchcraft. Reincarnation. Ouija Boards. UFOs. Shamanism. Counterfeit spiritualities are widespread and popular with spiritually searching young adults such as Becka''s peers. What''s the harm? Find out. Join Becka, Scott, and Ryan as they head for mind-bending clashes between the forces of darkness and the kingdom of God. Combining meticulous research, realistic settings, and masterful storytelling, the Forbidden Doors novels take you from the mountains of New Mexico to the inner workings of a secret society---and into the truth of God''s Word, which exposes lies and reveals the reality of spiritual warfare. Each volume in the series contains three books that center around a particular kind of Forbidden Door. Book One: Dark Powers contains The Society, The Deceived, and The Spell; Book Two: Invisible Terror contains The Haunting, The Guardian, and The Encounter; Book Three: Deadly Loyalty contains The Curse, The Undead, and The Scream; Book Four: Ancient Forces contains The Ancients, The Wiccan, and The Cards\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don''t want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by bestselling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca ''Becka'' Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world---a world fraught with deception and spiritual adversaries that promise goodness and enlightenment but will stop at nothing to destroy life, sanity, and human souls. Witchcraft. Reincarnation. Ouija Boards. UFOs. Shamanism. Counterfeit spiritualities are widespread and popular with spiritually searching young adults such as Becka''s peers. What''s the harm? Find out. Join Becka, Scott, and Ryan as they head for mind-bending clashes between the forces of darkness and the kingdom of God. Combining meticulous research, realistic settings, and masterful storytelling, the Forbidden Doors novels take you from the mountains of New Mexico to the inner workings of a secret society---and into the truth of God''s Word, which exposes lies and reveals the reality of spiritual warfare. Each volume in the series contains three books that center around a particular kind of Forbidden Door. Book One: Dark Powers contains The Society, The Deceived, and The Spell; Book Two: Invisible Terror contains The Haunting, The Guardian, and The Encounter; Book Three: Deadly Loyalty contains The Curse, The Undead, and The Scream; Book Four: Ancient Forces contains The Ancients, The Wiccan, and The Cards\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16691'),
(9079, 'Ancient Grains for Modern Meals', 'Maria Speck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Food writer Maria Speckâ€™s passion for propelling Old World staples such as farro, barley, polenta, and wheat berries to the forefront of new American cooking is beautifully presented in Ancient Grains for Modern Meals. In this inspired and highly personal book, Maria Speck draws on food traditions from across the Mediterranean and northern Europe to reveal how versatile, satisfying, flavorful, and sophisticated whole grains can be.Â Â  Â Rustic but elegant dishes--Creamy Farro with Honey-Roasted Grapes, Barley Salad with Figs and Tarragon-Lemon Dressing, Lamb Stew with Wheat Berries in Red Wine Sauce, and Purple Rice Pudding with Rose Water Dates--are sure to please discerning palates and become favorites in any whole grain repertoire. Â Food lovers and health-conscious home chefs alike learn how to integrate whole grains into their busy lives, from quick-cooking quinoa and buckwheat to the slower varieties such as spelt and Kamut. The stunning flavors and lively textures of whole grains are enhanced with natural ingredients such as butter, cream, and prosciutto--in moderation--to create lush Mediterranean-inspired recipes. Mariaâ€™s approachable style and generous spirit make this collection of time-honored, updated classics a treasury for todayâ€™s cooks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12371'),
(9080, 'Ancient images', 'Ramsey Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n British horror writer Campbell here focuses on one of his most intriguing inventions, a horror film supposedly starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, made in England in 1938 and immediately suppressed. When film editor Sandy Allen decides to track down a print of the film, her detective work leads her to Redfield, a rural community known for the delicious wheat that grows on its rich soil, fertilized by blood from an ancient massacre and, it turns out, in need of a fresh infusion every 50 years to maintain its fecundity. During her search, Sandy is shadowed by bizarre creatures that sometimes look like dogs and sometimes like scarecrows. After Sandy finally pins down the connection between the film and Redfield, the creatures come out of the shadows and reveal themselves. Campbell''s novels tend to be dense and less accessible than his short stories, but this narrative seems more relaxed and simplified--perhaps his most readable effort since his debut in The Doll Who Ate His Mother. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21476'),
(9081, 'Ancient Iraq', 'Georges Roux', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A history of the politics, economics, and culture of ancient Mesopotamia, from prehistoric times to the dawn of the Christian era, surveying the shared civilization of Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12415'),
(9082, 'Ancient Shores', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Something very strange has turned up in Tom Lasker''s wheat field: a ten-thousand-year-old sailboat made of an unknown substance. And then there''s the Roundhouse, apparently a doorway to another world, sitting squarely on Sioux reservation land. How did they get there, and what do they signify for the people embroiled in their discovery? This is sci-fi on a grand scale by the author of\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Early in the next century, outside a North Dakota town, farmer Tom Lasker digs up a boat on his land. Not only is the vessel crafted from an unknown element, but Lasker''s farm is on land that has been dry for 10,000 years. A search for further artifacts unearths a building of the same material and age that turns out to be an interdimensional transportation device. The building sits on land owned by the Sioux, who want to use it to regain their old way of life on another world; meanwhile, the U.S. government, fearful of change, wants to destroy the building. Right up to the climax, McDevitt (Engines of God) tells his complex and suspenseful story with meticulous attention to detail, deft characterizations and graceful prose. That climax, though, is another matter, featuring out-of-the-blue heroic intervention in a conflict between the feds and the Indians by, among others, astronaut Walter Schirra, cosmologist Stephen Hawking and SF writers Ursula K. LeGuin, Carl Sagan and Gregory Benford. "If the government wants to kill anyone else, it''ll have to start with us," announces Stephen Jay Gould. That absurdity aside, this is the big-vision, large-scale novel McDevitt''s readers have been waiting for.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4904'),
(9083, 'Ancient Shores', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Something very strange has turned up in Tom Lasker''s wheat field: a ten-thousand-year-old sailboat made of an unknown substance. And then there''s the Roundhouse, apparently a doorway to another world, sitting squarely on Sioux reservation land. How did they get there, and what do they signify for the people embroiled in their discovery? This is sci-fi on a grand scale by the author of\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Early in the next century, outside a North Dakota town, farmer Tom Lasker digs up a boat on his land. Not only is the vessel crafted from an unknown element, but Lasker''s farm is on land that has been dry for 10,000 years. A search for further artifacts unearths a building of the same material and age that turns out to be an interdimensional transportation device. The building sits on land owned by the Sioux, who want to use it to regain their old way of life on another world; meanwhile, the U.S. government, fearful of change, wants to destroy the building. Right up to the climax, McDevitt (Engines of God) tells his complex and suspenseful story with meticulous attention to detail, deft characterizations and graceful prose. That climax, though, is another matter, featuring out-of-the-blue heroic intervention in a conflict between the feds and the Indians by, among others, astronaut Walter Schirra, cosmologist Stephen Hawking and SF writers Ursula K. LeGuin, Carl Sagan and Gregory Benford. "If the government wants to kill anyone else, it''ll have to start with us," announces Stephen Jay Gould. That absurdity aside, this is the big-vision, large-scale novel McDevitt''s readers have been waiting for.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11391'),
(9084, 'Ancient shores', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Something very strange has turned up in Tom Lasker''s wheat field: a ten-thousand-year-old sailboat made of an unknown substance. And then there''s the Roundhouse, apparently a doorway to another world, sitting squarely on Sioux reservation land. How did they get there, and what do they signify for the people embroiled in their discovery? This is sci-fi on a grand scale by the author of\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Early in the next century, outside a North Dakota town, farmer Tom Lasker digs up a boat on his land. Not only is the vessel crafted from an unknown element, but Lasker''s farm is on land that has been dry for 10,000 years. A search for further artifacts unearths a building of the same material and age that turns out to be an interdimensional transportation device. The building sits on land owned by the Sioux, who want to use it to regain their old way of life on another world; meanwhile, the U.S. government, fearful of change, wants to destroy the building. Right up to the climax, McDevitt (Engines of God) tells his complex and suspenseful story with meticulous attention to detail, deft characterizations and graceful prose. That climax, though, is another matter, featuring out-of-the-blue heroic intervention in a conflict between the feds and the Indians by, among others, astronaut Walter Schirra, cosmologist Stephen Hawking and SF writers Ursula K. LeGuin, Carl Sagan and Gregory Benford. "If the government wants to kill anyone else, it''ll have to start with us," announces Stephen Jay Gould. That absurdity aside, this is the big-vision, large-scale novel McDevitt''s readers have been waiting for.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19759'),
(9085, 'And Another Thing: The World According to Clarkson Volume Two', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place. So much so, in fact, that he wrote a book about it. But despite the appearance of the bestselling The World According To Clarkson, things don t seem to have changed much. And so Jeremy s having another go. In And Another Thing, our exasperated hero discovers that: bull;He inadvertently dropped a bomb on North Carolina bull;We re all going to explode at the age of 62 bull;Russians look bad in Speedos. But not as bad as Brits bull;No one should have to worry about being Bill Oddie s long lost sister bull;Cooking a Sunday Roast is one thing. Gravy is quite another bull;He should probably be nicer about David BeckhamBut while these things play on his mind, the world remains Jeremy s favourite place to be. On the whole, it s brilliant. It s just the idiots, meddlers and do-gooders who spoil it for the rest of us. Laugh-out-loud funny and as straight-talking as ever, Clarkson bursts their pointless little bubble, while celebrating the special things that we should hold dear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4510'),
(9086, 'And Another Thing...', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Douglas Adams''s Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At long last, the motley band from Douglas Adams''s renowned five-book Hitchhiker''s Guide Trilogy have returned, thanks to Artemis Fowl author Colfer. When the Vogons return to finish obliterating Earth in our universe and all alternatives, Arthur Dent and his companions find themselves hitchhiking on the spacefaring Viking longship of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, an immortal with a death wish who is an expert at mass insults. Readers may find this volume paradoxical. On its own it is a funny novel, but Adams set a legendary, nearly impossible standard. Wacky humor reminiscent of the original Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy rings true, as do most of the characters, but newer elements, such as the brief appearance of Cthulhu, feel out of place. Most notably absent is the supreme inventiveness that hit us with the Infinite Improbability Drive, and the comic-sublime moments like Arthur flying with Fenchurch. You can''t go home again, but Adams fans will still appreciate the reunion with old friends.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wide variety of people love Douglas Adams''s books, so perhaps it is appropriate that each critic brought his or her own expectations to\n  <em>\n   And Another Thing . ...\n  </em>\n  Several who revered Adams''s deadpan prose and verbal inventiveness found that the new book falls short. Others felt that Colfer''s imitation often lacks subtlety and relies too heavily on reviving old Adams gags and characters. The\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  even went so far as to argue that this novel should have been reinvented in some more original form, such as an e-book. But some took the appearance of\n  <em>\n   And Another Thing ...\n  </em>\n  to critically review the Adams oeuvre and found that Colfer made up for some qualities the original author lacked. In any case, even the harshest critics of the book were happy to see Arthur, Ford, Trillian, and Random saved from their doom.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5610'),
(9087, 'And Another Thing...', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Douglas Adams''s Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At long last, the motley band from Douglas Adams''s renowned five-book Hitchhiker''s Guide Trilogy have returned, thanks to Artemis Fowl author Colfer. When the Vogons return to finish obliterating Earth in our universe and all alternatives, Arthur Dent and his companions find themselves hitchhiking on the spacefaring Viking longship of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, an immortal with a death wish who is an expert at mass insults. Readers may find this volume paradoxical. On its own it is a funny novel, but Adams set a legendary, nearly impossible standard. Wacky humor reminiscent of the original Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy rings true, as do most of the characters, but newer elements, such as the brief appearance of Cthulhu, feel out of place. Most notably absent is the supreme inventiveness that hit us with the Infinite Improbability Drive, and the comic-sublime moments like Arthur flying with Fenchurch. You can''t go home again, but Adams fans will still appreciate the reunion with old friends.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wide variety of people love Douglas Adams''s books, so perhaps it is appropriate that each critic brought his or her own expectations to\n  <em>\n   And Another Thing . ...\n  </em>\n  Several who revered Adams''s deadpan prose and verbal inventiveness found that the new book falls short. Others felt that Colfer''s imitation often lacks subtlety and relies too heavily on reviving old Adams gags and characters. The\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  even went so far as to argue that this novel should have been reinvented in some more original form, such as an e-book. But some took the appearance of\n  <em>\n   And Another Thing ...\n  </em>\n  to critically review the Adams oeuvre and found that Colfer made up for some qualities the original author lacked. In any case, even the harshest critics of the book were happy to see Arthur, Ford, Trillian, and Random saved from their doom.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8999'),
(9088, 'And Another Thing...', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Douglas Adams''s Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At long last, the motley band from Douglas Adams''s renowned five-book Hitchhiker''s Guide Trilogy have returned, thanks to Artemis Fowl author Colfer. When the Vogons return to finish obliterating Earth in our universe and all alternatives, Arthur Dent and his companions find themselves hitchhiking on the spacefaring Viking longship of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, an immortal with a death wish who is an expert at mass insults. Readers may find this volume paradoxical. On its own it is a funny novel, but Adams set a legendary, nearly impossible standard. Wacky humor reminiscent of the original Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy rings true, as do most of the characters, but newer elements, such as the brief appearance of Cthulhu, feel out of place. Most notably absent is the supreme inventiveness that hit us with the Infinite Improbability Drive, and the comic-sublime moments like Arthur flying with Fenchurch. You can''t go home again, but Adams fans will still appreciate the reunion with old friends.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wide variety of people love Douglas Adams''s books, so perhaps it is appropriate that each critic brought his or her own expectations to\n  <em>\n   And Another Thing . ...\n  </em>\n  Several who revered Adams''s deadpan prose and verbal inventiveness found that the new book falls short. Others felt that Colfer''s imitation often lacks subtlety and relies too heavily on reviving old Adams gags and characters. The\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  even went so far as to argue that this novel should have been reinvented in some more original form, such as an e-book. But some took the appearance of\n  <em>\n   And Another Thing ...\n  </em>\n  to critically review the Adams oeuvre and found that Colfer made up for some qualities the original author lacked. In any case, even the harshest critics of the book were happy to see Arthur, Ford, Trillian, and Random saved from their doom.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19020'),
(9089, 'And Here&#39;s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft', 'Mike Sacks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT ?**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Every great joke has a punch line, and every great humor writer has an arsenal of experiences, anecdotes, and obsessions that were the inspiration for that humor. In fact, those who make a career out of entertaining strangers with words are a notoriously intelligent and quirky lot. And boy, do they have some stories.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this entertaining and inspirational book, you''ll hear from 21 top humor writers as they discuss the comedy-writing process, their influences, their likes and dislikes, and their experiences in the industry. You''ll also learn some less useful but equally amusing things, such as:How screenwriter Buck Henry came up with the famous "plastics" line for The Graduate.How many times the cops were called on co-writers Sacha Baron Cohen and Dan Mazer during the shooting of Borat.What David Sedaris thinks of his critics. What creator Paul Feig thinks would have happened to the Freaks &amp; Geeks crew if the show had had another season.What Jack Handey considers his favorite "Deep Thoughts." How Todd Hanson and the staff of The Onion managed to face the aftermath of 9/11 with the perfect dose of humor.How Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais created the original version of The Office. What it''s really like in the writers'' room at SNL.Funny and informative, And Here''s the Kicker is a must-have resource - whether you''re an aspiring humor writer, a fan of the genre, or someone who just likes to laugh.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25328'),
(9090, 'And So on and So On', 'James Jr. Tiptree', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18582'),
(9091, 'And the Deep Blue Sea', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6856'),
(9092, 'And the Deep Blue Sea', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13391'),
(9093, 'And the deep blue sea', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17045'),
(9094, 'And the deep blue sea', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26886'),
(9095, 'And the Rat Laughed', 'Nava Semel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the last day of 1999, a survivor grandmother in Tel Aviv shares with her granddaughter her tragic life story as a child hidden in a pit, with only a rat for company. The granddaughter tells the legend of ''''Girl and Rat'''' to her teacher; in 2009 those who heard it through her classmates establish an internet website with poems. From now on this memory is spread all over the world and becomes a myth. A future anthropologist, researching its mysterious roots in 2099, discovers Father Stanislaw''s personal journal documenting his rescue of that little Jewish girl, and so the chain of remembearers moves from the present to the future and back to the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2589'),
(9096, 'And the Rat Laughed', 'Nava Semel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the last day of 1999, a survivor grandmother in Tel Aviv shares with her granddaughter her tragic life story as a child hidden in a pit, with only a rat for company. The granddaughter tells the legend of ''''Girl and Rat'''' to her teacher; in 2009 those who heard it through her classmates establish an internet website with poems. From now on this memory is spread all over the world and becomes a myth. A future anthropologist, researching its mysterious roots in 2099, discovers Father Stanislaw''s personal journal documenting his rescue of that little Jewish girl, and so the chain of remembearers moves from the present to the future and back to the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12576'),
(9097, 'And the Rat Laughed', 'Nava Semel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the last day of 1999, a survivor grandmother in Tel Aviv shares with her granddaughter her tragic life story as a child hidden in a pit, with only a rat for company. The granddaughter tells the legend of ''''Girl and Rat'''' to her teacher; in 2009 those who heard it through her classmates establish an internet website with poems. From now on this memory is spread all over the world and becomes a myth. A future anthropologist, researching its mysterious roots in 2099, discovers Father Stanislaw''s personal journal documenting his rescue of that little Jewish girl, and so the chain of remembearers moves from the present to the future and back to the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22183'),
(9098, 'And Then There Were None', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "First, there were ten - a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they''re unwilling to reveal - and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder, and one by one they begin to fall prey to an unseen hand. As the only people on the island, unable to leave and unable to call for help, they know that the only possible suspects are among their number. And only the dead are above suspicion."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/51'),
(9099, 'And then there were none', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "First, there were ten - a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they''re unwilling to reveal - and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder, and one by one they begin to fall prey to an unseen hand. As the only people on the island, unable to leave and unable to call for help, they know that the only possible suspects are among their number. And only the dead are above suspicion."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15284'),
(9100, 'And then there were none', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "First, there were ten - a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they''re unwilling to reveal - and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder, and one by one they begin to fall prey to an unseen hand. As the only people on the island, unable to leave and unable to call for help, they know that the only possible suspects are among their number. And only the dead are above suspicion."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17180'),
(9101, 'Android Karenina', 'Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy &amp; Ben H. Winters &amp; Leo Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back  with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy,  and the result is Android Karenina an enhanced edition of the classic  love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar  space travel.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the  tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and  the much more hopeful marriage of Konstantin Levin and Kitty  Shcherbatskaya.These four, yearning for true love, live in a  steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers,  extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their  passions alone would be enough to consume them-but when a secret cabal  of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high  society''s high-tech lifestyle, our heroes must fight back with all their  courage, all their gadgets, and all the power of a sleek new cyborg  model like nothing the world has ever seen."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that made the  first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina  brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science  fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6550'),
(9102, 'Android Karenina', 'Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy &amp; Ben H. Winters &amp; Leo Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back  with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy,  and the result is Android Karenina an enhanced edition of the classic  love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar  space travel.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the  tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and  the much more hopeful marriage of Konstantin Levin and Kitty  Shcherbatskaya.These four, yearning for true love, live in a  steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers,  extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their  passions alone would be enough to consume them-but when a secret cabal  of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high  society''s high-tech lifestyle, our heroes must fight back with all their  courage, all their gadgets, and all the power of a sleek new cyborg  model like nothing the world has ever seen."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that made the  first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina  brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science  fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13108'),
(9103, 'Android Karenina', 'Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy; Ben H. Winters; Leo Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel. As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the much more hopeful marriage of Konstantin Levin and Kitty Shcherbatskaya.These four, yearning for true love, live in a steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers, extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their passions alone would be enough to consume them-but when a secret cabal of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high society''s high-tech lifestyle, our heroes must fight back with all their courage, all their gadgets, and all the power of a sleek new cyborg model like nothing the world has ever seen." Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that made the first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17432'),
(9104, 'Android Karenina', 'Ben H. Winters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back  with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy,  and the result is Android Karenina an enhanced edition of the classic  love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar  space travel.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the  tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and  the much more hopeful marriage of Konstantin Levin and Kitty  Shcherbatskaya.These four, yearning for true love, live in a  steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers,  extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their  passions alone would be enough to consume them-but when a secret cabal  of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high  society''s high-tech lifestyle, our heroes must fight back with all their  courage, all their gadgets, and all the power of a sleek new cyborg  model like nothing the world has ever seen."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that made the  first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina  brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science  fiction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel. As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the much more hopeful marriage of Konstantin Levin and Kitty Shcherbatskaya.These four, yearning for true love, live in a steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers, extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their passions alone would be enough to consume them-but when a secret cabal of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high society''s high-tech lifestyle, our heroes must fight back with all their courage, all their gadgets, and all the power of a sleek new cyborg model like nothing the world has ever seen." Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that made the first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26549'),
(9105, 'The Android&#39;s Dream', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13629'),
(9106, 'The Android&#39;s Dream', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20351'),
(9107, 'The Andromeda Strain', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town''s inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2790'),
(9108, 'The Andromeda Strain', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town''s inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15137'),
(9109, 'The Andromeda Strain', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town''s inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21918'),
(9110, 'Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit', 'Andy Rooney', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   Chairs. Neat people. Ugliness. War. Over six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Andy Rooney has proven a shrewd cultural analystâ€”unafraid to question the sometimes ridiculous, often surprising facts of our lives. Rooneyâ€™s great gift is telling it straight, without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor. His take on America? â€œItâ€™s just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.â€ On food? â€œThereâ€™s more dependable mediocrity than there used to be.â€\n   <div class="emptyClear">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   <div>\n    Known to millions for his regular commentary on the television news magazine\n    <i>\n     60 Minutes\n    </i>\n    , and his syndicated newspaper column,\n    <b>\n     Andrew A. Rooney\n    </b>\n    is the author of numerous bestselling books. He has published five previous books with PublicAffairs:\n    <i>\n     My War\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Sincerely, Andy Rooney\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Common Nonsense\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Years of Minutes\n    </i>\n    , and\n    <i>\n     Out of My Mind\n    </i>\n    . He lives in New York.\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œRooney has solid credentials as an old-fashioned liberal of an almost extinct type, one who dislikes hubbub and loudmouths but dislikes injustice even more.â€\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œRooney has solid credentials as an old-fashioned liberal of an almost extinct type, one who dislikes hubbub and loudmouths but dislikes injustice even more.â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7669'),
(9111, 'Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit', 'Andy Rooney', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   Chairs. Neat people. Ugliness. War. Over six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Andy Rooney has proven a shrewd cultural analystâ€”unafraid to question the sometimes ridiculous, often surprising facts of our lives. Rooneyâ€™s great gift is telling it straight, without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor. His take on America? â€œItâ€™s just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.â€ On food? â€œThereâ€™s more dependable mediocrity than there used to be.â€\n   <div class="emptyClear">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   <div>\n    Known to millions for his regular commentary on the television news magazine\n    <i>\n     60 Minutes\n    </i>\n    , and his syndicated newspaper column,\n    <b>\n     Andrew A. Rooney\n    </b>\n    is the author of numerous bestselling books. He has published five previous books with PublicAffairs:\n    <i>\n     My War\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Sincerely, Andy Rooney\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Common Nonsense\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Years of Minutes\n    </i>\n    , and\n    <i>\n     Out of My Mind\n    </i>\n    . He lives in New York.\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œRooney has solid credentials as an old-fashioned liberal of an almost extinct type, one who dislikes hubbub and loudmouths but dislikes injustice even more.â€\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œRooney has solid credentials as an old-fashioned liberal of an almost extinct type, one who dislikes hubbub and loudmouths but dislikes injustice even more.â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13527'),
(9112, 'Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit', 'Andy Rooney', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   Chairs. Neat people. Ugliness. War. Over six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Andy Rooney has proven a shrewd cultural analystâ€”unafraid to question the sometimes ridiculous, often surprising facts of our lives. Rooneyâ€™s great gift is telling it straight, without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor. His take on America? â€œItâ€™s just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.â€ On food? â€œThereâ€™s more dependable mediocrity than there used to be.â€\n   <div class="emptyClear">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   <div>\n    Known to millions for his regular commentary on the television news magazine\n    <i>\n     60 Minutes\n    </i>\n    , and his syndicated newspaper column,\n    <b>\n     Andrew A. Rooney\n    </b>\n    is the author of numerous bestselling books. He has published five previous books with PublicAffairs:\n    <i>\n     My War\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Sincerely, Andy Rooney\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Common Nonsense\n    </i>\n    ,\n    <i>\n     Years of Minutes\n    </i>\n    , and\n    <i>\n     Out of My Mind\n    </i>\n    . He lives in New York.\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œRooney has solid credentials as an old-fashioned liberal of an almost extinct type, one who dislikes hubbub and loudmouths but dislikes injustice even more.â€\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œRooney has solid credentials as an old-fashioned liberal of an almost extinct type, one who dislikes hubbub and loudmouths but dislikes injustice even more.â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16275'),
(9113, 'The Andy Warhol Diaries', 'Andy Warhol', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards party, nights out at Studio 54, trips between London, Paris and New York, and surprisingly even the money he spent each day, down to the cent. With appearances from and references to everyone who was anyone, from Jim Morrison, Martina Navratilova and Calvin Klein to Shirley Bassey, Estee Lauder and Muhammad Ali, these diaries are the most glamorous, witty and revealing writings of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7670'),
(9114, 'The Andy Warhol Diaries', 'Andy Warhol', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards party, nights out at Studio 54, trips between London, Paris and New York, and surprisingly even the money he spent each day, down to the cent. With appearances from and references to everyone who was anyone, from Jim Morrison, Martina Navratilova and Calvin Klein to Shirley Bassey, Estee Lauder and Muhammad Ali, these diaries are the most glamorous, witty and revealing writings of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16274'),
(9115, 'The Andy Warhol Diaries', 'Andy Warhol', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards party, nights out at Studio 54, trips between London, Paris and New York, and surprisingly even the money he spent each day, down to the cent. With appearances from and references to everyone who was anyone, from Jim Morrison, Martina Navratilova and Calvin Klein to Shirley Bassey, Estee Lauder and Muhammad Ali, these diaries are the most glamorous, witty and revealing writings of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26426'),
(9116, 'Angel Cake', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she sits in a school where nobody understands her, she dreams of Polish summer skies and the place where she once belonged.Then Anya meets bad boy Dan. Hes no angel, but shes sure theres a sweeter side to him. And when things begin to fall apart, Anya realizes shes not alone how can Dan be such bad news when being with him feels like heaven?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6961'),
(9117, 'Angel Cake', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she sits in a school where nobody understands her, she dreams of Polish summer skies and the place where she once belonged.Then Anya meets bad boy Dan. Hes no angel, but shes sure theres a sweeter side to him. And when things begin to fall apart, Anya realizes shes not alone how can Dan be such bad news when being with him feels like heaven?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8770'),
(9118, 'Angel Cake', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she sits in a school where nobody understands her, she dreams of Polish summer skies and the place where she once belonged.Then Anya meets bad boy Dan. Hes no angel, but shes sure theres a sweeter side to him. And when things begin to fall apart, Anya realizes shes not alone how can Dan be such bad news when being with him feels like heaven?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16957'),
(9119, 'Angel Cake', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she sits in a school where nobody understands her, she dreams of Polish summer skies and the place where she once belonged.Then Anya meets bad boy Dan. Hes no angel, but shes sure theres a sweeter side to him. And when things begin to fall apart, Anya realizes shes not alone how can Dan be such bad news when being with him feels like heaven?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26859');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(9120, 'The Angel Experiment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In James Patterson''s blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it''s like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time...like when Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the "School" where she and the others were experimented on by a crew of wack jobs. Her friends brave a journey to blazing hot Death Valley, CA, to save Angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare--this one involving fighting off the half-human, half-wolf "Erasers" in New York City. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or in the bowels of the Manhattan subway system, Max and her adopted family take the ride of their lives. Along the way Max discovers from her old friend and father-figure Jeb--now her betrayed and greatest enemy--that her purpose is save the world--but can she?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4733'),
(9121, 'The Angel Experiment', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In James Patterson''s blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it''s like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time...like when Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the "School" where she and the others were experimented on by a crew of wack jobs. Her friends brave a journey to blazing hot Death Valley, CA, to save Angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare--this one involving fighting off the half-human, half-wolf "Erasers" in New York City. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or in the bowels of the Manhattan subway system, Max and her adopted family take the ride of their lives. Along the way Max discovers from her old friend and father-figure Jeb--now her betrayed and greatest enemy--that her purpose is save the world--but can she?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19924'),
(9122, 'Angel Falls', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother of two, falls into a coma, it is up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together, to care for their grieving, frightened children. Day after day, he sits by her bedside, telling stories of the precious life they have built, hoping, always hoping, that she will wake up. Then he discovers evidence of her secret past: a hidden first marriage to Julian True, a man no woman could resist . . . or forget. Desperate to bring Mikaela back at any cost, Liam turns to the one person who could make her respondâ€” and who could take her out of his arms forever.ANGEL FALLS is a moving portrayal of marriage and commitment, and of an ordinary man who risks everything in the name of love.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3562'),
(9123, 'Angel Falls', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother of two, falls into a coma, it is up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together, to care for their grieving, frightened children. Day after day, he sits by her bedside, telling stories of the precious life they have built, hoping, always hoping, that she will wake up. Then he discovers evidence of her secret past: a hidden first marriage to Julian True, a man no woman could resist . . . or forget. Desperate to bring Mikaela back at any cost, Liam turns to the one person who could make her respondâ€” and who could take her out of his arms forever.ANGEL FALLS is a moving portrayal of marriage and commitment, and of an ordinary man who risks everything in the name of love.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10134'),
(9124, 'Angel Falls', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother of two, falls into a coma, it is up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together, to care for their grieving, frightened children. Day after day, he sits by her bedside, telling stories of the precious life they have built, hoping, always hoping, that she will wake up. Then he discovers evidence of her secret past: a hidden first marriage to Julian True, a man no woman could resist . . . or forget. Desperate to bring Mikaela back at any cost, Liam turns to the one person who could make her respondâ€” and who could take her out of his arms forever.ANGEL FALLS is a moving portrayal of marriage and commitment, and of an ordinary man who risks everything in the name of love.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20904'),
(9125, 'Angel Interrupted', 'Chaz McGee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Some cases are as cold as the grave...**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A lost soul in limbo, Kevin Fahey is trying to prove he''s a better ghost than he ever was a man. And trying to help Maggie Gunn, the detective who replaced him, is a good way to start.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6758'),
(9126, 'Angel Interrupted', 'Chaz McGee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Some cases are as cold as the grave...**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A lost soul in limbo, Kevin Fahey is trying to prove he''s a better ghost than he ever was a man. And trying to help Maggie Gunn, the detective who replaced him, is a good way to start.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11373'),
(9127, 'Angel Interrupted', 'Chaz McGee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Some cases are as cold as the grave...** A lost soul in limbo, Kevin Fahey is trying to prove he''s a better ghost than he ever was a man. And trying to help Maggie Gunn, the detective who replaced him, is a good way to start.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17111'),
(9128, 'Angel Interrupted', 'Chaz McGee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Some cases are as cold as the grave...** A lost soul in limbo, Kevin Fahey is trying to prove he''s a better ghost than he ever was a man. And trying to help Maggie Gunn, the detective who replaced him, is a good way to start.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26945'),
(9129, 'Angel Souls and Devil Hearts', 'Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As the vampires of the world prepare to do battle with humanity, and each other, the possibility of a new life for those that remain is what spurs them on in their bloody quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6649'),
(9130, 'Angel Souls and Devil Hearts', 'Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As the vampires of the world prepare to do battle with humanity, and each other, the possibility of a new life for those that remain is what spurs them on in their bloody quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9953'),
(9131, 'Angel Souls and Devil Hearts', 'Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As the vampires of the world prepare to do battle with humanity, and each other, the possibility of a new life for those that remain is what spurs them on in their bloody quest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18025'),
(9132, 'Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with Anne Rice\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™ve written about many kinds of immortal or supernatural beings. What inspired you to turn to angels in this new book?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n I have always been fascinated by the idea of angels--these perfect beings who are Godâ€™s messengers, sinless, bold, and unfathomable to the human mind. I was deliciously challenged to be biblically correct about them, and theologically correct: to present Malchiah as truly perfect, yet sent to interact with my hero Toby, and commissioned therefore to take a human body and reflect human emotions and respond to Tobyâ€™s human emotions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n How did imagining a character like Malchiah the angel differ from creating one like the vampire Lestat?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Well, again, Malchiah is perfect and sinless. And to make such a character appealing is a challenge; he has to reflect Godâ€™s love for human beings, Godâ€™s compassion. Heâ€™s not sent to judge Toby; heâ€™s sent to guide him to salvation, and to enlist Toby in working for the angels on earth. He must feel things; he must have a personality, but with marvelous theological constraints. Doing Lestat was entirely different: Lestat is sinful and ferociously human, a rebel who wants to be good at being bad; a rebel who is seeking redemption but turning away from it all the time. There is a certain joy in writing about Malchiah because he is sent from God. There was never a perfect joy in writing about Lestat: Lestat suffers too much and does too many bad things with relish.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n The hero of\n <em>\n  Angel Time\n </em>\n is Toby Oâ€™Dare, a boy who had a tough life growing up in New Orleans and who goes on to become a skilled assassin before meeting Malchiah. How does Toby compare to your past protagonists? What is unique about him?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Well, Toby is deeply flawed, much like the vampires. Heâ€™s an assassin, and he has done terrible things, and questionable things. But he turns around in the very first book of the series and sets out to do the bidding of the angels in helping others. I think of all those characters Iâ€™ve created, Toby is most like Michael Curry in\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n People who have read your memoir\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Yes, I did identify with Toby, though my life has been nothing like his. I know what it is like to struggle with an alcoholic parent; I know what it is like to care for younger siblings in an alcoholic household. But of course Toby suffers a family tragedy that I didnâ€™t suffer, and he turns to evil in a defiant way, whereas I only turned to writing about evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n How did you imagine the concept of Angel Time (as opposed to Normal Time)? And what sources did you reference while reading about angels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n I came up with the concept of Angel Time through meditating on it; really, figuring that from Godâ€™s standpoint there is no linear time. I felt certain that the angels would be able to move back and forth in our linear time, and to grasp how some one can be lifted from one century and put down in another to work a solution that then becomes part of the very future from which the original person came. I think meditation led to this definition of Angel Time, more than any actual reading. It seemed logical to me that the angels could do this. I did read theology about angels, of course, including St. Thomas Aquinas and books by Catholic writers who have studied angels and all the biblical references to them. It all starts with the Bible, of course and how angels appear in those pages. But the scholars Pascal Parente and Peter Kreeft help me to cover the sources. I stayed away from other writersâ€™ more fanciful conjectures about angels. I wanted the biblical facts, and the way that the theologians interpreted them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n People are clearly fascinated with angels. Why do you think even those people who do not consider themselves religious are so drawn to the idea of angels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n People are drawn to angels because there is a deep seated instinctive belief that they do exist, that creatures from Heaven are here on Earth looking out for us and playing a special role in our care. Of course we read of this in the Bible. And it is a very seductive idea. Itâ€™s sometimes easier to pray to oneâ€™s guardian angel than to pray to the saints or even to the Lord. Itâ€™s easy to imagine that our guardian angel is right here with us. In my novel, Toby really does believe this, though after he suffered tragedy, he blamed the angels in charge for not stopping it. And he lived as a cursed human being for ten years.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Full of provocative moral reflections, this kickoff to bestseller Rice''s new Songs of the Seraphim religious romance series centers on hired assassin Toby O''Dare, a one-time aspirant to the priesthood until personal tragedy unmoored his life. Guardian angel Malchiah visits Toby, who''s just consummated his latest kill, and offers him redemption for his sins. After accepting the offer, Toby is whisked away to 13th-century England, where, in the guise of a Dominican friar, he becomes the protector of a Jewish couple accused wrongly by the gentile populace of having murdered their young daughter for her conversion to Christianity. Two eloquently told if clunkily joined digressions give the backstory on Toby and on the persecution of the Jews in medieval Europe. Readers will revel in Rice''s colorful recreation of the historical past and in her moving depiction of characters struggling to reconcile matters of the heart with their personal sense of faith.\n <em>\n  250,000 first printing. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7543'),
(9133, 'Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with Anne Rice\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™ve written about many kinds of immortal or supernatural beings. What inspired you to turn to angels in this new book?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n I have always been fascinated by the idea of angels--these perfect beings who are Godâ€™s messengers, sinless, bold, and unfathomable to the human mind. I was deliciously challenged to be biblically correct about them, and theologically correct: to present Malchiah as truly perfect, yet sent to interact with my hero Toby, and commissioned therefore to take a human body and reflect human emotions and respond to Tobyâ€™s human emotions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n How did imagining a character like Malchiah the angel differ from creating one like the vampire Lestat?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Well, again, Malchiah is perfect and sinless. And to make such a character appealing is a challenge; he has to reflect Godâ€™s love for human beings, Godâ€™s compassion. Heâ€™s not sent to judge Toby; heâ€™s sent to guide him to salvation, and to enlist Toby in working for the angels on earth. He must feel things; he must have a personality, but with marvelous theological constraints. Doing Lestat was entirely different: Lestat is sinful and ferociously human, a rebel who wants to be good at being bad; a rebel who is seeking redemption but turning away from it all the time. There is a certain joy in writing about Malchiah because he is sent from God. There was never a perfect joy in writing about Lestat: Lestat suffers too much and does too many bad things with relish.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n The hero of\n <em>\n  Angel Time\n </em>\n is Toby Oâ€™Dare, a boy who had a tough life growing up in New Orleans and who goes on to become a skilled assassin before meeting Malchiah. How does Toby compare to your past protagonists? What is unique about him?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Well, Toby is deeply flawed, much like the vampires. Heâ€™s an assassin, and he has done terrible things, and questionable things. But he turns around in the very first book of the series and sets out to do the bidding of the angels in helping others. I think of all those characters Iâ€™ve created, Toby is most like Michael Curry in\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n People who have read your memoir\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Yes, I did identify with Toby, though my life has been nothing like his. I know what it is like to struggle with an alcoholic parent; I know what it is like to care for younger siblings in an alcoholic household. But of course Toby suffers a family tragedy that I didnâ€™t suffer, and he turns to evil in a defiant way, whereas I only turned to writing about evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n How did you imagine the concept of Angel Time (as opposed to Normal Time)? And what sources did you reference while reading about angels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n I came up with the concept of Angel Time through meditating on it; really, figuring that from Godâ€™s standpoint there is no linear time. I felt certain that the angels would be able to move back and forth in our linear time, and to grasp how some one can be lifted from one century and put down in another to work a solution that then becomes part of the very future from which the original person came. I think meditation led to this definition of Angel Time, more than any actual reading. It seemed logical to me that the angels could do this. I did read theology about angels, of course, including St. Thomas Aquinas and books by Catholic writers who have studied angels and all the biblical references to them. It all starts with the Bible, of course and how angels appear in those pages. But the scholars Pascal Parente and Peter Kreeft help me to cover the sources. I stayed away from other writersâ€™ more fanciful conjectures about angels. I wanted the biblical facts, and the way that the theologians interpreted them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n People are clearly fascinated with angels. Why do you think even those people who do not consider themselves religious are so drawn to the idea of angels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n People are drawn to angels because there is a deep seated instinctive belief that they do exist, that creatures from Heaven are here on Earth looking out for us and playing a special role in our care. Of course we read of this in the Bible. And it is a very seductive idea. Itâ€™s sometimes easier to pray to oneâ€™s guardian angel than to pray to the saints or even to the Lord. Itâ€™s easy to imagine that our guardian angel is right here with us. In my novel, Toby really does believe this, though after he suffered tragedy, he blamed the angels in charge for not stopping it. And he lived as a cursed human being for ten years.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Full of provocative moral reflections, this kickoff to bestseller Rice''s new Songs of the Seraphim religious romance series centers on hired assassin Toby O''Dare, a one-time aspirant to the priesthood until personal tragedy unmoored his life. Guardian angel Malchiah visits Toby, who''s just consummated his latest kill, and offers him redemption for his sins. After accepting the offer, Toby is whisked away to 13th-century England, where, in the guise of a Dominican friar, he becomes the protector of a Jewish couple accused wrongly by the gentile populace of having murdered their young daughter for her conversion to Christianity. Two eloquently told if clunkily joined digressions give the backstory on Toby and on the persecution of the Jews in medieval Europe. Readers will revel in Rice''s colorful recreation of the historical past and in her moving depiction of characters struggling to reconcile matters of the heart with their personal sense of faith.\n <em>\n  250,000 first printing. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12147'),
(9134, 'Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with Anne Rice\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Youâ€™ve written about many kinds of immortal or supernatural beings. What inspired you to turn to angels in this new book?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n I have always been fascinated by the idea of angels--these perfect beings who are Godâ€™s messengers, sinless, bold, and unfathomable to the human mind. I was deliciously challenged to be biblically correct about them, and theologically correct: to present Malchiah as truly perfect, yet sent to interact with my hero Toby, and commissioned therefore to take a human body and reflect human emotions and respond to Tobyâ€™s human emotions.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n How did imagining a character like Malchiah the angel differ from creating one like the vampire Lestat?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Well, again, Malchiah is perfect and sinless. And to make such a character appealing is a challenge; he has to reflect Godâ€™s love for human beings, Godâ€™s compassion. Heâ€™s not sent to judge Toby; heâ€™s sent to guide him to salvation, and to enlist Toby in working for the angels on earth. He must feel things; he must have a personality, but with marvelous theological constraints. Doing Lestat was entirely different: Lestat is sinful and ferociously human, a rebel who wants to be good at being bad; a rebel who is seeking redemption but turning away from it all the time. There is a certain joy in writing about Malchiah because he is sent from God. There was never a perfect joy in writing about Lestat: Lestat suffers too much and does too many bad things with relish.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n The hero of\n <em>\n  Angel Time\n </em>\n is Toby Oâ€™Dare, a boy who had a tough life growing up in New Orleans and who goes on to become a skilled assassin before meeting Malchiah. How does Toby compare to your past protagonists? What is unique about him?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Well, Toby is deeply flawed, much like the vampires. Heâ€™s an assassin, and he has done terrible things, and questionable things. But he turns around in the very first book of the series and sets out to do the bidding of the angels in helping others. I think of all those characters Iâ€™ve created, Toby is most like Michael Curry in\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n People who have read your memoir\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n Yes, I did identify with Toby, though my life has been nothing like his. I know what it is like to struggle with an alcoholic parent; I know what it is like to care for younger siblings in an alcoholic household. But of course Toby suffers a family tragedy that I didnâ€™t suffer, and he turns to evil in a defiant way, whereas I only turned to writing about evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n How did you imagine the concept of Angel Time (as opposed to Normal Time)? And what sources did you reference while reading about angels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n I came up with the concept of Angel Time through meditating on it; really, figuring that from Godâ€™s standpoint there is no linear time. I felt certain that the angels would be able to move back and forth in our linear time, and to grasp how some one can be lifted from one century and put down in another to work a solution that then becomes part of the very future from which the original person came. I think meditation led to this definition of Angel Time, more than any actual reading. It seemed logical to me that the angels could do this. I did read theology about angels, of course, including St. Thomas Aquinas and books by Catholic writers who have studied angels and all the biblical references to them. It all starts with the Bible, of course and how angels appear in those pages. But the scholars Pascal Parente and Peter Kreeft help me to cover the sources. I stayed away from other writersâ€™ more fanciful conjectures about angels. I wanted the biblical facts, and the way that the theologians interpreted them.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n People are clearly fascinated with angels. Why do you think even those people who do not consider themselves religious are so drawn to the idea of angels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Rice:\n </strong>\n People are drawn to angels because there is a deep seated instinctive belief that they do exist, that creatures from Heaven are here on Earth looking out for us and playing a special role in our care. Of course we read of this in the Bible. And it is a very seductive idea. Itâ€™s sometimes easier to pray to oneâ€™s guardian angel than to pray to the saints or even to the Lord. Itâ€™s easy to imagine that our guardian angel is right here with us. In my novel, Toby really does believe this, though after he suffered tragedy, he blamed the angels in charge for not stopping it. And he lived as a cursed human being for ten years.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Full of provocative moral reflections, this kickoff to bestseller Rice''s new Songs of the Seraphim religious romance series centers on hired assassin Toby O''Dare, a one-time aspirant to the priesthood until personal tragedy unmoored his life. Guardian angel Malchiah visits Toby, who''s just consummated his latest kill, and offers him redemption for his sins. After accepting the offer, Toby is whisked away to 13th-century England, where, in the guise of a Dominican friar, he becomes the protector of a Jewish couple accused wrongly by the gentile populace of having murdered their young daughter for her conversion to Christianity. Two eloquently told if clunkily joined digressions give the backstory on Toby and on the persecution of the Jews in medieval Europe. Readers will revel in Rice''s colorful recreation of the historical past and in her moving depiction of characters struggling to reconcile matters of the heart with their personal sense of faith.\n <em>\n  250,000 first printing. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16326'),
(9135, 'The Angel Whispered Danger', 'Mignon F. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Kate McBride returns to her hometown of Bishop''s Bridge, North Carolina, for a family reunion, she expects questions about her husband''s conspicuous absence. What she doesn''t expect is murder. Soon after arriving, Kate finds her great uncle''s housekeeper, Ella Stegall, badly injured and incoherent, at the bottom of a wooded ravine after an apparent fall from a ledge. But moments before losing consciousness, Ella whispers she was pushed--not surprising, considering that Bramblewood, Uncle Ernest''s woodsy estate, is no stranger to murder and intrigue. Could Ella''s accident be connected to Bramblewood''s mysterious past, or was her claim just the rambling of a delirious old woman? Poor Ella slips away before leaving more clues to her death. Now Kate must come to terms with disturbing doubts about close family members while coping with her troubled young daughter. Luckily for Kate, guardian angel Augusta Goodnight has dropped by to help, this time with a bumbling young apprentice in tow. With fresh baked goods and sound, heavenly advice, Augusta helps Kate investigate Ella''s untimely demise--and a few other unsolved mysteries along the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2721'),
(9136, 'The Angel Whispered Danger', 'Mignon F. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Kate McBride returns to her hometown of Bishop''s Bridge, North Carolina, for a family reunion, she expects questions about her husband''s conspicuous absence. What she doesn''t expect is murder. Soon after arriving, Kate finds her great uncle''s housekeeper, Ella Stegall, badly injured and incoherent, at the bottom of a wooded ravine after an apparent fall from a ledge. But moments before losing consciousness, Ella whispers she was pushed--not surprising, considering that Bramblewood, Uncle Ernest''s woodsy estate, is no stranger to murder and intrigue. Could Ella''s accident be connected to Bramblewood''s mysterious past, or was her claim just the rambling of a delirious old woman? Poor Ella slips away before leaving more clues to her death. Now Kate must come to terms with disturbing doubts about close family members while coping with her troubled young daughter. Luckily for Kate, guardian angel Augusta Goodnight has dropped by to help, this time with a bumbling young apprentice in tow. With fresh baked goods and sound, heavenly advice, Augusta helps Kate investigate Ella''s untimely demise--and a few other unsolved mysteries along the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8368'),
(9137, 'The Angel Whispered Danger', 'Mignon F. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Kate McBride returns to her hometown of Bishop''s Bridge, North Carolina, for a family reunion, she expects questions about her husband''s conspicuous absence. What she doesn''t expect is murder. Soon after arriving, Kate finds her great uncle''s housekeeper, Ella Stegall, badly injured and incoherent, at the bottom of a wooded ravine after an apparent fall from a ledge. But moments before losing consciousness, Ella whispers she was pushed--not surprising, considering that Bramblewood, Uncle Ernest''s woodsy estate, is no stranger to murder and intrigue. Could Ella''s accident be connected to Bramblewood''s mysterious past, or was her claim just the rambling of a delirious old woman? Poor Ella slips away before leaving more clues to her death. Now Kate must come to terms with disturbing doubts about close family members while coping with her troubled young daughter. Luckily for Kate, guardian angel Augusta Goodnight has dropped by to help, this time with a bumbling young apprentice in tow. With fresh baked goods and sound, heavenly advice, Augusta helps Kate investigate Ella''s untimely demise--and a few other unsolved mysteries along the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22110'),
(9138, 'Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the seventh book in the bestselling series, evil scientists are still trying to convince Max that she needs to save the world, this time by providing the genetic link in speeding up the pace of evolution. Worse, they''re trying to convince her that her perfect mate is Dylan, the newest addition to the flock. The problem is that, despite herself, Max is starting to\n <em>\n  believe\n </em>\n it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fang travels the country collecting his own gang of evolved humans, but the two separate flocks must unite to defeat a frightening doomsday cult whose motto is\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Save the Planet: Kill the Humans.\n  </em>\n </strong>\n And this time, the true heroine, for once, might just be little Angel.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Patterson is the author of the highly praised Maximum Ride novels,\n <em>\n  Witch &amp; Wizard\n </em>\n , the Daniel X series, and of bestselling detective series featuring Alex Cross and the Women''s Murder Club. His novels have sold more than 180 million copies worldwide. In 2009 and 2010 he was nominated for the Children''s Choice Award for Author of the Year. He lives in Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4818'),
(9139, 'Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the seventh book in the bestselling series, evil scientists are still trying to convince Max that she needs to save the world, this time by providing the genetic link in speeding up the pace of evolution. Worse, they''re trying to convince her that her perfect mate is Dylan, the newest addition to the flock. The problem is that, despite herself, Max is starting to\n <em>\n  believe\n </em>\n it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fang travels the country collecting his own gang of evolved humans, but the two separate flocks must unite to defeat a frightening doomsday cult whose motto is\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Save the Planet: Kill the Humans.\n  </em>\n </strong>\n And this time, the true heroine, for once, might just be little Angel.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Patterson is the author of the highly praised Maximum Ride novels,\n <em>\n  Witch &amp; Wizard\n </em>\n , the Daniel X series, and of bestselling detective series featuring Alex Cross and the Women''s Murder Club. His novels have sold more than 180 million copies worldwide. In 2009 and 2010 he was nominated for the Children''s Choice Award for Author of the Year. He lives in Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19837'),
(9140, 'Angelology', 'Danielle Trussoni', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Set in the secluded world of cloistered abbeys, long-lost secrets and angelic humans, *Angelology* has all the makings of a blockbuster hit, combining elements of *The Da Vinci Code* and Kate Mosse''s *Labyrinth***Sister Evangeline was just a young girl when her father left her at St. Rose Convent under the care of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. Now a young woman, she has unexpectedly discovered a collection of letters dating back sixty years - letters that bring her deep into a closely guarded secret, to an ancient conflict between the millennium-old Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful Nephilim, the descendants of angels and humans. Rich and mesmerizing, **Angelology** blends biblical lore, mythology and the fall of the Rebel Angels, creating a luminous, riveting tale of one young woman caught in a battle that will determine the fate of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6441'),
(9141, 'Angelology', 'Danielle Trussoni', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Set in the secluded world of cloistered abbeys, long-lost secrets and angelic humans, *Angelology* has all the makings of a blockbuster hit, combining elements of *The Da Vinci Code* and Kate Mosse''s *Labyrinth***Sister Evangeline was just a young girl when her father left her at St. Rose Convent under the care of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. Now a young woman, she has unexpectedly discovered a collection of letters dating back sixty years - letters that bring her deep into a closely guarded secret, to an ancient conflict between the millennium-old Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful Nephilim, the descendants of angels and humans. Rich and mesmerizing, **Angelology** blends biblical lore, mythology and the fall of the Rebel Angels, creating a luminous, riveting tale of one young woman caught in a battle that will determine the fate of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13064'),
(9142, 'Angelology', 'Danielle Trussoni', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Set in the secluded world of cloistered abbeys, long-lost secrets and angelic humans, *Angelology* has all the makings of a blockbuster hit, combining elements of *The Da Vinci Code* and Kate Mosse''s *Labyrinth***Sister Evangeline was just a young girl when her father left her at St. Rose Convent under the care of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. Now a young woman, she has unexpectedly discovered a collection of letters dating back sixty years - letters that bring her deep into a closely guarded secret, to an ancient conflict between the millennium-old Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful Nephilim, the descendants of angels and humans. Rich and mesmerizing, **Angelology** blends biblical lore, mythology and the fall of the Rebel Angels, creating a luminous, riveting tale of one young woman caught in a battle that will determine the fate of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17619'),
(9143, 'Angelology', 'Danielle Trussoni', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Set in the secluded world of cloistered abbeys, long-lost secrets and angelic humans, *Angelology* has all the makings of a blockbuster hit, combining elements of *The Da Vinci Code* and Kate Mosse''s *Labyrinth***Sister Evangeline was just a young girl when her father left her at St. Rose Convent under the care of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. Now a young woman, she has unexpectedly discovered a collection of letters dating back sixty years - letters that bring her deep into a closely guarded secret, to an ancient conflict between the millennium-old Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful Nephilim, the descendants of angels and humans. Rich and mesmerizing, **Angelology** blends biblical lore, mythology and the fall of the Rebel Angels, creating a luminous, riveting tale of one young woman caught in a battle that will determine the fate of the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27172'),
(9144, 'Angels &amp; Demons', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An ancient secret brotherhood.A devastating new weapon of destruction.When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.Langdon''s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican''s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.An explosive international thriller, Angels &amp; Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6613'),
(9145, 'Angels &amp; Demons', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An ancient secret brotherhood.A devastating new weapon of destruction.When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.Langdon''s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican''s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.An explosive international thriller, Angels &amp; Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8639'),
(9146, 'Angels &amp; Demons', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An ancient secret brotherhood.A devastating new weapon of destruction.When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.Langdon''s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican''s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.An explosive international thriller, Angels &amp; Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15085'),
(9147, 'Angels &amp; Demons', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An ancient secret brotherhood.A devastating new weapon of destruction.When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.Langdon''s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican''s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.An explosive international thriller, Angels &amp; Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17532'),
(9148, 'Angels &amp; Demons', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An ancient secret brotherhood.A devastating new weapon of destruction.When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.Langdon''s worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican''s holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.An explosive international thriller, Angels &amp; Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27201'),
(9149, 'Angels Flight', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14817'),
(9150, 'Angels Flight', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Harry Bosch finds himself yet again in charge of a case that no one else will touch . . .This time his job is to nail the killer of hot shot black lawyer Howard Elias. Elias has been found murdered on the eve of going to court on behalf of Michael Harris, a man the LAPD believes guilty of the rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl. Elias had let it be known that the aim of his civil case was not only to reveal the real killer but to target and bring down the racist cops who beat up his client during a violent interrogation.Now it''s all down to Bosch - and he''s got to take a long, hard look at some of his colleagues in a police department that is rife with suspicion and hatred.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21986');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(9151, 'Angels in the Gloom: A Novel', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n This powerful and intense third novel in Perry''s WWI series (after 2004''s Shoulder the Sky) continues the Reavley family''s anguished search for the "Peacemaker," a shadowy figure responsible for their parents'' murders two years earlier, and now intent on Anglo-German world domination as a means toward world peace. After Chaplain Joseph Reavley is badly wounded in Flanders attempting to rescue fellow Brits under fire, he returns home to bucolic St. Giles for rehabilitation, but finds the village consumed by issues raised by the war. Perry''s deeply held antiwar feelings are again apparent in this moving story in which "the searing scarlet of grief" destroys families of loved ones lost in the service, and the local vicar questions fundamental beliefs in the wake of mounting casualties. When Theo Blaine, a scientist working on a secret weapon to end the war, is mysteriously slain, the town is torn apart by fears of a spy in their midst. Joseph''s brother, Matthew, an intelligence expert, must work with seductive Irish double agent Detta Hannassey to determine the extent of Germany''s knowledge of Britain''s war strategies, despite his revulsion for her duplicity. A climactic U-boat hunt and naval battle conclude this stirring work.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The third entry in Perry''s World War I series moves from the horror of the trenches to the English countryside, where chaplain Joseph Reavley, wounded at the front, has returned to recuperate under his sister''s Hannah''s care. Still fresh is his grief for their parents, both killed by the mysterious Peacemaker, who, in the guise of seeking an end to the conflict, is sabotaging Britain''s war effort. The murder of a scientist whose work might have ensured Allied success leads Joseph (and his brother, Matthew, who works for British intelligence) on a twisted trail that they hope will lead to the Peacemaker. As in previous books in this series and in her Victorian detective series, Perry creates a meticulously detailed backdrop, whether home front or frontlines, while leaving plenty of room for her characters to contemplate issues of honor, loyalty, and love: Will Joseph return to the front or minister to the bereft at home? Will Matthew''s growing affection for Irish double agent Detta Hannassey interfere with his mission? The characters, familiar now after two books, grow stronger and richer here, as Perry illuminates the emotional and physical character of war and asks the inevitable question, At what cost peace?\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7499'),
(9152, 'Angels in the Gloom: A Novel', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n This powerful and intense third novel in Perry''s WWI series (after 2004''s Shoulder the Sky) continues the Reavley family''s anguished search for the "Peacemaker," a shadowy figure responsible for their parents'' murders two years earlier, and now intent on Anglo-German world domination as a means toward world peace. After Chaplain Joseph Reavley is badly wounded in Flanders attempting to rescue fellow Brits under fire, he returns home to bucolic St. Giles for rehabilitation, but finds the village consumed by issues raised by the war. Perry''s deeply held antiwar feelings are again apparent in this moving story in which "the searing scarlet of grief" destroys families of loved ones lost in the service, and the local vicar questions fundamental beliefs in the wake of mounting casualties. When Theo Blaine, a scientist working on a secret weapon to end the war, is mysteriously slain, the town is torn apart by fears of a spy in their midst. Joseph''s brother, Matthew, an intelligence expert, must work with seductive Irish double agent Detta Hannassey to determine the extent of Germany''s knowledge of Britain''s war strategies, despite his revulsion for her duplicity. A climactic U-boat hunt and naval battle conclude this stirring work.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The third entry in Perry''s World War I series moves from the horror of the trenches to the English countryside, where chaplain Joseph Reavley, wounded at the front, has returned to recuperate under his sister''s Hannah''s care. Still fresh is his grief for their parents, both killed by the mysterious Peacemaker, who, in the guise of seeking an end to the conflict, is sabotaging Britain''s war effort. The murder of a scientist whose work might have ensured Allied success leads Joseph (and his brother, Matthew, who works for British intelligence) on a twisted trail that they hope will lead to the Peacemaker. As in previous books in this series and in her Victorian detective series, Perry creates a meticulously detailed backdrop, whether home front or frontlines, while leaving plenty of room for her characters to contemplate issues of honor, loyalty, and love: Will Joseph return to the front or minister to the bereft at home? Will Matthew''s growing affection for Irish double agent Detta Hannassey interfere with his mission? The characters, familiar now after two books, grow stronger and richer here, as Perry illuminates the emotional and physical character of war and asks the inevitable question, At what cost peace?\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11858'),
(9153, 'Angels in the Gloom: A Novel', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n This powerful and intense third novel in Perry''s WWI series (after 2004''s Shoulder the Sky) continues the Reavley family''s anguished search for the "Peacemaker," a shadowy figure responsible for their parents'' murders two years earlier, and now intent on Anglo-German world domination as a means toward world peace. After Chaplain Joseph Reavley is badly wounded in Flanders attempting to rescue fellow Brits under fire, he returns home to bucolic St. Giles for rehabilitation, but finds the village consumed by issues raised by the war. Perry''s deeply held antiwar feelings are again apparent in this moving story in which "the searing scarlet of grief" destroys families of loved ones lost in the service, and the local vicar questions fundamental beliefs in the wake of mounting casualties. When Theo Blaine, a scientist working on a secret weapon to end the war, is mysteriously slain, the town is torn apart by fears of a spy in their midst. Joseph''s brother, Matthew, an intelligence expert, must work with seductive Irish double agent Detta Hannassey to determine the extent of Germany''s knowledge of Britain''s war strategies, despite his revulsion for her duplicity. A climactic U-boat hunt and naval battle conclude this stirring work.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The third entry in Perry''s World War I series moves from the horror of the trenches to the English countryside, where chaplain Joseph Reavley, wounded at the front, has returned to recuperate under his sister''s Hannah''s care. Still fresh is his grief for their parents, both killed by the mysterious Peacemaker, who, in the guise of seeking an end to the conflict, is sabotaging Britain''s war effort. The murder of a scientist whose work might have ensured Allied success leads Joseph (and his brother, Matthew, who works for British intelligence) on a twisted trail that they hope will lead to the Peacemaker. As in previous books in this series and in her Victorian detective series, Perry creates a meticulously detailed backdrop, whether home front or frontlines, while leaving plenty of room for her characters to contemplate issues of honor, loyalty, and love: Will Joseph return to the front or minister to the bereft at home? Will Matthew''s growing affection for Irish double agent Detta Hannassey interfere with his mission? The characters, familiar now after two books, grow stronger and richer here, as Perry illuminates the emotional and physical character of war and asks the inevitable question, At what cost peace?\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16368'),
(9154, 'Angels of Destruction', 'Keith Donohue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Keith Donohueâ€™s first novel, *The Stolen Child*, was a national bestseller hailed as â€œcaptivatingâ€ (USA Today), â€œluminous and thrillingâ€ (Washington Post), and â€œwonderful...So spare and unsentimental that itâ€™s impossible not to be moved (Newsweek. His new novel, *Angels of Destruction*, opens on a winterâ€™s night, when a young girl appears at the home of Mrs. Margaret Quinn, a widow who lives alone. A decade earlier, she had lost her only child, Erica, who fled with her high school sweetheart to join a radical student group known as the Angels of Destruction. Before Margaret answers the knock in the dark hours, she whispers a prayer and then makes her visitor welcome at the door. The girl, who claims to be nine years old and an orphan with no place to go, beguiles Margaret, offering some solace, some compensation, for the womanâ€™s loss. Together, they hatch a plan to pass her off as her newly found granddaughter, Norah Quinn, and enlist Sean Fallon, a classmate and heartbroken boy, to guide her into the school and town. Their conspiracy is vulnerable not only to those children and neighbors intrigued by Norahâ€™s mysterious and magical qualities but by a lone figure shadowing the girl who threatens to reveal the childâ€™s true identity and her purpose in Margaretâ€™s life. Who are these strangers really? And what is their connection to the past, the Angels, and the long-missing daughter? Angels of Destruction is an unforgettable story of hope and fear, heartache and redemption. The saga of the Quinn family unfolds against an America wracked by change. As it delicately dances on the line between the real and the imagined, this mesmerizing new novel confirms Keith Donohueâ€™s standing as one of our most inspiring and inventive novelists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3838'),
(9155, 'Angels of Destruction', 'Keith Donohue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Keith Donohueâ€™s first novel, *The Stolen Child*, was a national bestseller hailed as â€œcaptivatingâ€ (USA Today), â€œluminous and thrillingâ€ (Washington Post), and â€œwonderful...So spare and unsentimental that itâ€™s impossible not to be moved (Newsweek. His new novel, *Angels of Destruction*, opens on a winterâ€™s night, when a young girl appears at the home of Mrs. Margaret Quinn, a widow who lives alone. A decade earlier, she had lost her only child, Erica, who fled with her high school sweetheart to join a radical student group known as the Angels of Destruction. Before Margaret answers the knock in the dark hours, she whispers a prayer and then makes her visitor welcome at the door. The girl, who claims to be nine years old and an orphan with no place to go, beguiles Margaret, offering some solace, some compensation, for the womanâ€™s loss. Together, they hatch a plan to pass her off as her newly found granddaughter, Norah Quinn, and enlist Sean Fallon, a classmate and heartbroken boy, to guide her into the school and town. Their conspiracy is vulnerable not only to those children and neighbors intrigued by Norahâ€™s mysterious and magical qualities but by a lone figure shadowing the girl who threatens to reveal the childâ€™s true identity and her purpose in Margaretâ€™s life. Who are these strangers really? And what is their connection to the past, the Angels, and the long-missing daughter? Angels of Destruction is an unforgettable story of hope and fear, heartache and redemption. The saga of the Quinn family unfolds against an America wracked by change. As it delicately dances on the line between the real and the imagined, this mesmerizing new novel confirms Keith Donohueâ€™s standing as one of our most inspiring and inventive novelists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20718'),
(9156, 'Anger Management for Dummies (ISBN', '0470037156)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22812'),
(9157, 'Angle of Repose', 'Wallace Stegner &amp; Jackson Benson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Wallace Stegner''s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents'' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America''s western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he''s willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Stegner''s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--the magnificent story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner''s masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12369'),
(9158, 'Angle of Repose', 'Wallace Stegner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Wallace Stegner''s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents'' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America''s western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he''s willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward''s investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. The result is a deeply moving novel that, through the prism of one family, illuminates the American present against the fascinating background of its past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14000'),
(9159, 'Angle of Repose', 'Wallace Stegner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Wallace Stegner''s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents'' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America''s western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he''s willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward''s investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. The result is a deeply moving novel that, through the prism of one family, illuminates the American present against the fascinating background of its past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24634'),
(9160, 'Angry Lead Skies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A series far ahead of its time, now back in print Anyone else would have learned by now: when trouble comes knocking, don''t open the door. But there''s a reason why Garrett''s still in the P.I. business after all these years-he''s not one to learn his lessons. Maybe that''s why he lets himself get roped into being a bodyguard for Kip Prose, an obnoxious kid being threatened by creatures that can''t quite be described. But before Kip Prose has a chance to explain what he''s done to get on the hit list of some nameless nasties, the precocious Prose is abducted, and the chase begins...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5336'),
(9161, 'Angry Lead Skies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A series far ahead of its time, now back in print Anyone else would have learned by now: when trouble comes knocking, don''t open the door. But there''s a reason why Garrett''s still in the P.I. business after all these years-he''s not one to learn his lessons. Maybe that''s why he lets himself get roped into being a bodyguard for Kip Prose, an obnoxious kid being threatened by creatures that can''t quite be described. But before Kip Prose has a chance to explain what he''s done to get on the hit list of some nameless nasties, the precocious Prose is abducted, and the chase begins...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19328'),
(9162, 'Angry Lead Skies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A series far ahead of its time, now back in print Anyone else would have learned by now: when trouble comes knocking, don''t open the door. But there''s a reason why Garrett''s still in the P.I. business after all these years-he''s not one to learn his lessons. Maybe that''s why he lets himself get roped into being a bodyguard for Kip Prose, an obnoxious kid being threatened by creatures that can''t quite be described. But before Kip Prose has a chance to explain what he''s done to get on the hit list of some nameless nasties, the precocious Prose is abducted, and the chase begins...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28021'),
(9163, 'Anil&#39;s Ghost', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prizeâ€”winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anilâ€™s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden pastâ€“a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lankaâ€™s landscape and ancient civilization, Anilâ€™s Ghost is a literary spellbinderâ€“Michael Ondaatjeâ€™s most powerful novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2771'),
(9164, 'Anil&#39;s Ghost', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prizeâ€”winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anilâ€™s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden pastâ€“a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lankaâ€™s landscape and ancient civilization, Anilâ€™s Ghost is a literary spellbinderâ€“Michael Ondaatjeâ€™s most powerful novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11670'),
(9165, 'Anil&#39;s Ghost', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prizeâ€”winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anilâ€™s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden pastâ€“a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lankaâ€™s landscape and ancient civilization, Anilâ€™s Ghost is a literary spellbinderâ€“Michael Ondaatjeâ€™s most powerful novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22029'),
(9166, 'Animal farm: a fairy story', 'George Orwell; Russell Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Featuring a new preface, this classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is once again brought to life for a new generation of readers. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14205'),
(9167, 'Animal farm: a fairy story', 'George Orwell; Russell Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Featuring a new preface, this classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is once again brought to life for a new generation of readers. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19269'),
(9168, 'Animal farm: a fairy story', 'George Orwell; Russell Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Featuring a new preface, this classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is once again brought to life for a new generation of readers. Reissue.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Featuring a new preface, this classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is once again brought to life for a new generation of readers. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28015'),
(9169, 'The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint', 'Marc Bekoff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A collaborator with legendary primatologist Jane Goodall and the 2000 winner of the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society, author and Colorado University professor Bekoff (The Emotional Lives of Animals) lays out the "unique responsibilities" of human beings, as "moral agents," to overcome speciesism and recognize animals "as fellow sentient, emotional beings," with all the attendant rights that implies. Taking examples from everyday life-from rodeos and circuses to word-processors that replace "who" with "that" when referring to animals-Bekoff illustrates the lengths to which humans go to convince themselves animals don''t think, feel, and suffer like we do. Concerning a topic of growing popularity, Bekoff''s arguments can be less than rigorous; an "unwavering optimist and dreamer," he focuses more on anecdotes and emotions ("alienation from nature... kills our hearts") than practicalities or a concrete agenda. Instead, Bekoff encourages readers to start simply, by being "mindful" in their interactions with animals. Addressing a weighty issue with gentle but insistent charm, Bekoff''s manifesto will nudge skeptics in the direction of enlightenment (assuming anyone but the choir is buying copies).\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following the premises that animals both feel and convey emotion, are capable of actions that are motivated by compassion, and exhibit attitudes of kindness and empathy, preeminent ethologist and prolific author Bekoff comprehensively posits that the time has come for humans to return the favor. Just as environmental activists advocate reducing oneâ€™s carbon footprint in order to live more responsibly, Bekoff argues that expanding oneâ€™s compassion footprint, that is, treating animals more humanely, can have equally beneficial consequences. Supporting current scientific research with a wide range of anecdotal evidence, Bekoff outlines six guiding principles designed to increase awareness of the deplorable conditions animals experience across a broad spectrum of activities. From food production to circus acts, drug testing to wildlife encroachment, animals have long been considered objects to be manipulated for the express pleasure and benefit of humans. Unabashedly speaking on their behalf, Bekoff presents impassioned reasons why, and explicit ways in which, such destructive behaviors should stop. --Carol Haggas\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3203'),
(9170, 'The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint', 'Marc Bekoff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A collaborator with legendary primatologist Jane Goodall and the 2000 winner of the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society, author and Colorado University professor Bekoff (The Emotional Lives of Animals) lays out the "unique responsibilities" of human beings, as "moral agents," to overcome speciesism and recognize animals "as fellow sentient, emotional beings," with all the attendant rights that implies. Taking examples from everyday life-from rodeos and circuses to word-processors that replace "who" with "that" when referring to animals-Bekoff illustrates the lengths to which humans go to convince themselves animals don''t think, feel, and suffer like we do. Concerning a topic of growing popularity, Bekoff''s arguments can be less than rigorous; an "unwavering optimist and dreamer," he focuses more on anecdotes and emotions ("alienation from nature... kills our hearts") than practicalities or a concrete agenda. Instead, Bekoff encourages readers to start simply, by being "mindful" in their interactions with animals. Addressing a weighty issue with gentle but insistent charm, Bekoff''s manifesto will nudge skeptics in the direction of enlightenment (assuming anyone but the choir is buying copies).\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following the premises that animals both feel and convey emotion, are capable of actions that are motivated by compassion, and exhibit attitudes of kindness and empathy, preeminent ethologist and prolific author Bekoff comprehensively posits that the time has come for humans to return the favor. Just as environmental activists advocate reducing oneâ€™s carbon footprint in order to live more responsibly, Bekoff argues that expanding oneâ€™s compassion footprint, that is, treating animals more humanely, can have equally beneficial consequences. Supporting current scientific research with a wide range of anecdotal evidence, Bekoff outlines six guiding principles designed to increase awareness of the deplorable conditions animals experience across a broad spectrum of activities. From food production to circus acts, drug testing to wildlife encroachment, animals have long been considered objects to be manipulated for the express pleasure and benefit of humans. Unabashedly speaking on their behalf, Bekoff presents impassioned reasons why, and explicit ways in which, such destructive behaviors should stop. --Carol Haggas\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8425'),
(9171, 'The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint', 'Marc Bekoff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A collaborator with legendary primatologist Jane Goodall and the 2000 winner of the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society, author and Colorado University professor Bekoff (The Emotional Lives of Animals) lays out the "unique responsibilities" of human beings, as "moral agents," to overcome speciesism and recognize animals "as fellow sentient, emotional beings," with all the attendant rights that implies. Taking examples from everyday life-from rodeos and circuses to word-processors that replace "who" with "that" when referring to animals-Bekoff illustrates the lengths to which humans go to convince themselves animals don''t think, feel, and suffer like we do. Concerning a topic of growing popularity, Bekoff''s arguments can be less than rigorous; an "unwavering optimist and dreamer," he focuses more on anecdotes and emotions ("alienation from nature... kills our hearts") than practicalities or a concrete agenda. Instead, Bekoff encourages readers to start simply, by being "mindful" in their interactions with animals. Addressing a weighty issue with gentle but insistent charm, Bekoff''s manifesto will nudge skeptics in the direction of enlightenment (assuming anyone but the choir is buying copies).\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following the premises that animals both feel and convey emotion, are capable of actions that are motivated by compassion, and exhibit attitudes of kindness and empathy, preeminent ethologist and prolific author Bekoff comprehensively posits that the time has come for humans to return the favor. Just as environmental activists advocate reducing oneâ€™s carbon footprint in order to live more responsibly, Bekoff argues that expanding oneâ€™s compassion footprint, that is, treating animals more humanely, can have equally beneficial consequences. Supporting current scientific research with a wide range of anecdotal evidence, Bekoff outlines six guiding principles designed to increase awareness of the deplorable conditions animals experience across a broad spectrum of activities. From food production to circus acts, drug testing to wildlife encroachment, animals have long been considered objects to be manipulated for the express pleasure and benefit of humans. Unabashedly speaking on their behalf, Bekoff presents impassioned reasons why, and explicit ways in which, such destructive behaviors should stop. --Carol Haggas\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21315'),
(9172, 'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life', 'Barbara Kingsolver &amp; Steven L. Hopp &amp; Camille Kingsolver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n [Signature]Reviewed by\n <em>\n  Nina Planck\n </em>\n Michael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. Accomplished gardeners, the Kingsolver clan grow a large garden in southern Appalachia and spend summers "putting food by," as the classic kitchen title goes. They make pickles, chutney and mozzarella; they jar tomatoes, braid garlic and stuff turkey sausage. Nine-year-old Lily runs a heritage poultry business, selling eggs and meat. What they don''t raise (lamb, beef, apples) comes from local farms. Come winter, they feast on root crops and canned goods, menus slouching toward asparagus. Along the way, the Kingsolver family, having given up industrial meat years before, abandons its vegetarian ways and discovers the pleasures of conscientious carnivory.This fieldâ€”local food and sustainable agricultureâ€”is crowded with books in increasingly predictable flavors: the earnest manual, diary of an epicure, the environmental battle cry, the accidental gardener.\n <em>\n  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle\n </em>\n is all of these, and much smarter. Kingsolver takes the genre to a new literary level; a well-paced narrative and the apparent ease of the beautiful prose makes the pages fly. Her tale is both classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny. Kingsolver is a moralist ("the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners"), but more often wry than pious. Another hazard of the genre is snobbery. You won''t find it here. Seldom do paeans to heirloom tomatoes (which I grew up selling at farmers'' markets) include equal respect for outstanding modern hybrids like Early Girl.Kingsolver has the ear of a journalist and the accuracy of a naturalist. She makes short, neat work of complex topics: what''s risky about the vegan diet, why animals belong on ecologically sound farms, why bitterness in lettuce is good. Kingsolver''s clue to help greenhorns remember what''s in season is the best I''ve seen. You trace the harvest by botanical development, from buds to fruits to roots. Kingsolver is not the first to note our national "eating disorder" and the injuries industrial agriculture wreaks, yet this practical vision of how we might eat instead is as fresh as just-picked sweet corn. The narrative is peppered with useful sidebars on industrial agriculture and ecology (by husband Steven Hopp) and recipes (by daughter Camille), as if to show that local foodâ€”in the growing, buying, cooking, eating and the tellingâ€”demands teamwork.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <em>\n  Nina Planck is the author of\n </em>\n Real Food: What to Eat and Why\n <em>\n  (Bloomsbury USA, 2006).\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“This book chronicles the year that Barbara Kingsolver, along with her husband and two daughters, made a commitment to become locavoresâ€“those who eat only locally grown foods. This first entailed a move away from their home in non-food-producing Tuscon to a family farm in Virginia, where they got right down to the business of growing and raising their own food and supporting local farmers. For teens who grew up on supermarket offerings, the notion not only of growing one''s own produce but also of harvesting one''s own poultry was as foreign as the concept that different foods relate to different seasons. While the volume begins as an environmental treatiseâ€“the oil consumption related to transporting foodstuffs around the world is enormousâ€“it ends, as the year ends, in a celebration of the food that physically nourishes even as the recipes and the memories of cooks and gardeners past nourish our hearts and souls. Although the book maintains that eating well is not a class issue, discussions of heirloom breeds and making cheese at home may strike some as high-flown; however, those looking for healthful alternatives to processed foods will find inspiration to seek out farmers'' markets and to learn to cook and enjoy seasonal foods. Give this title to budding Martha Stewarts, green-leaning fans of Al Gore''s\n <em>\n  An Inconvenient Truth\n </em>\n (Rodale, 2006), and kids outraged by Eric Schlosser''s\n <em>\n  Fast Food Nation\n </em>\n (Houghton, 2001)._â€“Jenny Gasset, Orange County Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7361'),
(9173, 'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life', 'Barbara Kingsolver &amp; Steven L. Hopp &amp; Camille Kingsolver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n [Signature]Reviewed by\n <em>\n  Nina Planck\n </em>\n Michael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. Accomplished gardeners, the Kingsolver clan grow a large garden in southern Appalachia and spend summers "putting food by," as the classic kitchen title goes. They make pickles, chutney and mozzarella; they jar tomatoes, braid garlic and stuff turkey sausage. Nine-year-old Lily runs a heritage poultry business, selling eggs and meat. What they don''t raise (lamb, beef, apples) comes from local farms. Come winter, they feast on root crops and canned goods, menus slouching toward asparagus. Along the way, the Kingsolver family, having given up industrial meat years before, abandons its vegetarian ways and discovers the pleasures of conscientious carnivory.This fieldâ€”local food and sustainable agricultureâ€”is crowded with books in increasingly predictable flavors: the earnest manual, diary of an epicure, the environmental battle cry, the accidental gardener.\n <em>\n  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle\n </em>\n is all of these, and much smarter. Kingsolver takes the genre to a new literary level; a well-paced narrative and the apparent ease of the beautiful prose makes the pages fly. Her tale is both classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny. Kingsolver is a moralist ("the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners"), but more often wry than pious. Another hazard of the genre is snobbery. You won''t find it here. Seldom do paeans to heirloom tomatoes (which I grew up selling at farmers'' markets) include equal respect for outstanding modern hybrids like Early Girl.Kingsolver has the ear of a journalist and the accuracy of a naturalist. She makes short, neat work of complex topics: what''s risky about the vegan diet, why animals belong on ecologically sound farms, why bitterness in lettuce is good. Kingsolver''s clue to help greenhorns remember what''s in season is the best I''ve seen. You trace the harvest by botanical development, from buds to fruits to roots. Kingsolver is not the first to note our national "eating disorder" and the injuries industrial agriculture wreaks, yet this practical vision of how we might eat instead is as fresh as just-picked sweet corn. The narrative is peppered with useful sidebars on industrial agriculture and ecology (by husband Steven Hopp) and recipes (by daughter Camille), as if to show that local foodâ€”in the growing, buying, cooking, eating and the tellingâ€”demands teamwork.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <em>\n  Nina Planck is the author of\n </em>\n Real Food: What to Eat and Why\n <em>\n  (Bloomsbury USA, 2006).\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“This book chronicles the year that Barbara Kingsolver, along with her husband and two daughters, made a commitment to become locavoresâ€“those who eat only locally grown foods. This first entailed a move away from their home in non-food-producing Tuscon to a family farm in Virginia, where they got right down to the business of growing and raising their own food and supporting local farmers. For teens who grew up on supermarket offerings, the notion not only of growing one''s own produce but also of harvesting one''s own poultry was as foreign as the concept that different foods relate to different seasons. While the volume begins as an environmental treatiseâ€“the oil consumption related to transporting foodstuffs around the world is enormousâ€“it ends, as the year ends, in a celebration of the food that physically nourishes even as the recipes and the memories of cooks and gardeners past nourish our hearts and souls. Although the book maintains that eating well is not a class issue, discussions of heirloom breeds and making cheese at home may strike some as high-flown; however, those looking for healthful alternatives to processed foods will find inspiration to seek out farmers'' markets and to learn to cook and enjoy seasonal foods. Give this title to budding Martha Stewarts, green-leaning fans of Al Gore''s\n <em>\n  An Inconvenient Truth\n </em>\n (Rodale, 2006), and kids outraged by Eric Schlosser''s\n <em>\n  Fast Food Nation\n </em>\n (Houghton, 2001)._â€“Jenny Gasset, Orange County Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10808'),
(9174, 'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life', 'Barbara Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp; Camille Kingsolver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n [Signature]Reviewed by\n <em>\n  Nina Planck\n </em>\n Michael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. Accomplished gardeners, the Kingsolver clan grow a large garden in southern Appalachia and spend summers "putting food by," as the classic kitchen title goes. They make pickles, chutney and mozzarella; they jar tomatoes, braid garlic and stuff turkey sausage. Nine-year-old Lily runs a heritage poultry business, selling eggs and meat. What they don''t raise (lamb, beef, apples) comes from local farms. Come winter, they feast on root crops and canned goods, menus slouching toward asparagus. Along the way, the Kingsolver family, having given up industrial meat years before, abandons its vegetarian ways and discovers the pleasures of conscientious carnivory.This fieldâ€”local food and sustainable agricultureâ€”is crowded with books in increasingly predictable flavors: the earnest manual, diary of an epicure, the environmental battle cry, the accidental gardener.\n <em>\n  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle\n </em>\n is all of these, and much smarter. Kingsolver takes the genre to a new literary level; a well-paced narrative and the apparent ease of the beautiful prose makes the pages fly. Her tale is both classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny. Kingsolver is a moralist ("the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners"), but more often wry than pious. Another hazard of the genre is snobbery. You won''t find it here. Seldom do paeans to heirloom tomatoes (which I grew up selling at farmers'' markets) include equal respect for outstanding modern hybrids like Early Girl.Kingsolver has the ear of a journalist and the accuracy of a naturalist. She makes short, neat work of complex topics: what''s risky about the vegan diet, why animals belong on ecologically sound farms, why bitterness in lettuce is good. Kingsolver''s clue to help greenhorns remember what''s in season is the best I''ve seen. You trace the harvest by botanical development, from buds to fruits to roots. Kingsolver is not the first to note our national "eating disorder" and the injuries industrial agriculture wreaks, yet this practical vision of how we might eat instead is as fresh as just-picked sweet corn. The narrative is peppered with useful sidebars on industrial agriculture and ecology (by husband Steven Hopp) and recipes (by daughter Camille), as if to show that local foodâ€”in the growing, buying, cooking, eating and the tellingâ€”demands teamwork.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <em>\n  Nina Planck is the author of\n </em>\n Real Food: What to Eat and Why\n <em>\n  (Bloomsbury USA, 2006).\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“This book chronicles the year that Barbara Kingsolver, along with her husband and two daughters, made a commitment to become locavoresâ€“those who eat only locally grown foods. This first entailed a move away from their home in non-food-producing Tuscon to a family farm in Virginia, where they got right down to the business of growing and raising their own food and supporting local farmers. For teens who grew up on supermarket offerings, the notion not only of growing one''s own produce but also of harvesting one''s own poultry was as foreign as the concept that different foods relate to different seasons. While the volume begins as an environmental treatiseâ€“the oil consumption related to transporting foodstuffs around the world is enormousâ€“it ends, as the year ends, in a celebration of the food that physically nourishes even as the recipes and the memories of cooks and gardeners past nourish our hearts and souls. Although the book maintains that eating well is not a class issue, discussions of heirloom breeds and making cheese at home may strike some as high-flown; however, those looking for healthful alternatives to processed foods will find inspiration to seek out farmers'' markets and to learn to cook and enjoy seasonal foods. Give this title to budding Martha Stewarts, green-leaning fans of Al Gore''s\n <em>\n  An Inconvenient Truth\n </em>\n (Rodale, 2006), and kids outraged by Eric Schlosser''s\n <em>\n  Fast Food Nation\n </em>\n (Houghton, 2001)._â€“Jenny Gasset, Orange County Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16538');
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(9175, 'Animals Make Us Human', 'Temple Grandin &amp; Catherine Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n How can we give animals the best life--for them? What does an animal need to be happy\n</p>\n<p>\n In her groundbreaking, best-selling book\n <em>\n  Animals in Translation\n </em>\n , Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her experience as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Now she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest life--on their terms, not ours.\n</p>\n<p>\n Knowing what causes animals physical pain is usually easy, but pinpointing emotional distress is much harder. Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals and then explains how to fulfill the specific needs of dogs and cats, horses, farm animals, zoo animals, and even wildlife. Whether it''s how to make the healthiest environment for the dog you must leave alone most of the day, how to keep pigs from being bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in the zoo is miserable or just exercising, Grandin teaches us to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment and honor our bond with our fellow creatures.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Animals Make Us Human\n </em>\n is the culmination of almost thirty years of research, experimentation, and experience. This is essential reading for anyone who''s ever owned, cared for, or simply cared about an animal.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with Temple Grandin, Author of\n  <em>\n   Animals Make Us Human\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n In\n <em>\n  Animals Make Us Human\n </em>\n , you discuss a wide range of animals, from dogs to pigs to tigers. Which animals do you enjoy studying and working with the most?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I''ve worked with cattle the most, so I really enjoy cattle. I always liked to sit in the pen and let the cattle come around me and lick me--they''re really peaceful animals when they''re not afraid. But the thing about cattle is they''re a prey-species animal and they get scared really easily--and I can relate to that because as a person with autism, fear is my main emotion. So I can relate to how cattle are always hypervigilant, looking for rapid movements, looking for little signs of things that might be danger.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How has autism helped you in your work with animals?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I''m a total visual thinker. And you''ve got to think about it: animals don''t think in language. If you want to understand animals, you must get away from language. Animals are sensory-based thinkers; they think in pictures, they think in sounds, they think in touches. There''s no other way that their brains can store those memories.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How has your work affected the treatment of animals?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I''ve been working on improving the treatment of cattle for years. When I started out in the seventies, people were incredibly rough and abusive with cattle. The thing that kept me going was that there were some really nice people who handled their cattle well, and their cattle had a great life, and so I could see that it was possible to handle animals right. And today many more people are now involved in teaching low-stress stockmanship and good cattle handling. When I started in the early seventies, I was a pioneer in the U.S. on this; nobody else was working on these things.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How will this book be useful to people working with cats and dogs in animal shelters?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n People often don''t recognize emotions in these animals. I went to a very nice animal shelter recently that had group housing for cats that had tree-like things with platforms and cubbyholes for the cats to get in, and a very astute worker there noticed that you can have a situation where a cat seems very calm in a shelter, but he''s not really sleeping, he''s constantly keeping an eye out for another cat. And people need to watch for that kind of situation, because even though it looks peaceful, that one particular cat that never sleeps is going to be stressed out.\n</p>\n<p>\n Also at this shelter, I was very pleased that the amount of dog barking was way less, and I think one of the reasons for this is that every day, every dog is taken out for an hour of quality time, playing and being walked and interacting with a person. That''s going to help lower the stress. Dogs need to be taken out every day for quality interaction with a person, exercise, and fun play.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What are the things you really like about creating a book like\n <em>\n  Animals Make Us Human\n </em>\n ?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I really enjoyed getting into all the neuroscience information. Another thing I talked about in the book are the problems with not having enough people working out in the field to implement things. We''ve got policymakers who never work out in the field, and some of the policies can backfire. We need to have more people working in the field. In the wildlife chapter, I talk about who''s going to be the next Jane Goodall--we need a lot more of that kind of on-the-ground work.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You mention Dr. Nicholas Dodman and some other people in your field. Has anyone in particular been a great inspiration for you?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n One of my big inspirations when I was starting out was a scientist named Ron Kilgore, who studied sheep handling and sheep behavior. At the same time that I was working on cattle handling in the U.S. in the early seventies, Ron Kilgore was doing the same sorts of things in New Zealand. I discovered one of his papers early on, and that really was an inspiration.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What do you think of the more extreme animal activists?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Violence I''m totally against--that''s very counterproductive. All that does is make the animal industry go and get more lawyers and more security systems. Demonstrations--sometimes there may be a place for that. In some situations we might have philosophical differences. I eat meat. I get hypoglycemic if I don''t eat animal protein. But I feel very strongly that we''ve got to give the animals a decent life. A woman working at Niman Ranch said that we''ve got to give animals "a life worth living." These cattle can have a decent life: the cows and the bulls, out on a ranch eating grass. The calves spend half their lives in a feed yard, but they''re still outside. Another way I look at it is, those cattle would have never been born, would have never existed, but now that we''ve made them exist, we''ve got to give them a decent life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n If you could give your book to one person or one group of people so that they could learn more about animal care, who would that be?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I think any kind of person who works with animals, whether it''s a pet owner, a cat owner, people who work with horses, people who work on farms--anyone who works with animals on a daily basis is going to like\n <em>\n  Animals Make Us Human\n </em>\n , and they''re also going to like\n <em>\n  Animals in Translation\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Proposition 2 in California just passed. Its aim is to reduce the inhumane confinement of farm animals by giving them enough room to stand up, turn around, and stretch. What do you think of this, and what do you think the real effects will be?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n Veal stalls and sow stalls we need to get rid of, plain and simple. Putting a sow in a box where she can''t turn around for most of her life, that''s absolutely not acceptable. Two-thirds of the public have problems with it. With hens and chickens, that''s a more complicated issue. It''s so much more expensive to put them in systems that are cage-free, and what I''m worried about is the egg industry migrating to Mexico and being a real mess, where we have no controls at all. What people don''t realize is that half of the egg industry is liquid egg, which can be easily shipped in those stainless-steel tanks. It''s the eggs that go into bread, the eggs that restaurants use...And I''m concerned that that might migrate to Mexico.\n</p>\n<p>\n There needs to be a lot more thought going into how we''re going to implement things. What''s happening in a lot of fields now--with any issue, not just animal issues--is we''re getting more and more policymakers totally separated from the reality of what''s happening on the ground, where ideology takes over from practicality.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What are your future plans relating to animal advocacy? What is the next issue that you would like to tackle?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I''m an implementer. Somebody has to work on implementing things. I want to continue working with people on practical guidelines that will result in improvements. I spend a great deal of time working with large meat buyers, because economic forces can often bring about great change. One of the things that should be a major criterion in judging welfare is when there are too many lame animals. And lameness is something I can measure. I want things I can measure. Too often we''ve got our best and brightest going into policy, and they haven''t done anything practical. All I can say is, whatever field you''re in, whether it is animals or something else, you need to get out in the field and find out what''s going on in the trenches, so that you don''t make policies that might have unintended, bad consequences. Get away from the lobbyists, get away from all that, get out and visit farms, visit ranchers, because with a lot of issues, the truth is somewhere in the middle.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Joel Benjamin)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Grandin (_Animals in Translation_), famed for her decades-long commitment to treating livestock as humanely as possible on its way to slaughter, considers how humans and animals can best interact. Working from the premise that an animal is a conscious being that has feelings, the autistic author assesses dogs, cats, horses, cows, pigs, poultry, wildlife and zoo animals based on a core emotion system she believes animals and humans share, including a need to seek; a sense of rage, fear, and panic; feelings of lust; an urge to nurture; and an ability to play. Among observations at odds with conventional wisdom: dogs need human parents, not alpha pack leaders, and cats respond to training. Discussions of why horses are skittish and why pigs are arguably the most intelligent of beastsâ€”raccoons run them a close secondâ€”illuminate the intersection of people and more domesticated animals; chapters on cows and chickens focus more generally on animal welfare, particularly the horrific conditions in which they are usually raised and slaughtered. Packed with fascinating insights, unexpected observations and a wealth of how-to tips, Grandin''s peppy work ably challenges assumptions about what makes animals happy.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9474'),
(9176, 'Anna Karenina', 'Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher - as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856). They tell of a rich landowner''s son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3404'),
(9177, 'Anna Karenina', 'Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher - as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856). They tell of a rich landowner''s son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13102'),
(9178, 'Anna Karenina', 'Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher - as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856). They tell of a rich landowner''s son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21077'),
(9179, 'Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl', 'Anne Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Introduce your students to award-winning books with these engaging teaching guides. Each guide includes an author biography, chapter summaries, creative cross-curricular activities, vocabulary builders, reproducibles, and discussion questions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14675'),
(9180, 'Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl', 'Anne Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Introduce your students to award-winning books with these engaging teaching guides. Each guide includes an author biography, chapter summaries, creative cross-curricular activities, vocabulary builders, reproducibles, and discussion questions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26393'),
(9181, 'Anne McCaffrey - Acorna 5 - Acorna&#39;s Search', 'Acorna&#39;s Search', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15769'),
(9182, 'Anne McCaffrey - Chronicles of Pern.txt', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15762'),
(9183, 'Anne McCaffrey - Dragonriders of Pern 07 - Moreta Dragonlady of Pern [V1].txt', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15746'),
(9184, 'Anne McCaffrey - Dragons Dawn.txt', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15725'),
(9185, 'Anne of Avonlea', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This duo continue the adventures of Anne Shirley begun in Montgomery''s Anne of Green Gables. Avonlea (1909) finds her at 16 taking on a job as a school teacher, while in Island (1915), a slightly older Anne moves on to college to continue her own education. Along with the full text, these editions also include scholarly essays. These budget hardcovers are for all fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An exceptional audio. Highly recommended." --Reviewerâ€™s Bookwatch\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3640'),
(9186, 'Anne of Avonlea', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This duo continue the adventures of Anne Shirley begun in Montgomery''s Anne of Green Gables. Avonlea (1909) finds her at 16 taking on a job as a school teacher, while in Island (1915), a slightly older Anne moves on to college to continue her own education. Along with the full text, these editions also include scholarly essays. These budget hardcovers are for all fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An exceptional audio. Highly recommended." --Reviewerâ€™s Bookwatch\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11511'),
(9187, 'Anne of Avonlea', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This duo continue the adventures of Anne Shirley begun in Montgomery''s Anne of Green Gables. Avonlea (1909) finds her at 16 taking on a job as a school teacher, while in Island (1915), a slightly older Anne moves on to college to continue her own education. Along with the full text, these editions also include scholarly essays. These budget hardcovers are for all fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An exceptional audio. Highly recommended." --Reviewerâ€™s Bookwatch\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20918'),
(9188, 'Anne of Green Gables', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMatthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his; then and there he decided what to do. He could not tell this child with the glowing eyes that there had been a mistake. . . .â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  When eleven-year-old Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables with nothing but a carpetbag and an overactive imagination, she knows that she has found her home. But first she must convince the Cuthberts to let her stay, even though she isnâ€™t the boy theyâ€™d hoped for. The loquacious Anne quickly finds her way into their hearts, as she has with generations of readers, and her charming, ingenious adventures in Avonlea, filled with colorful characters and tender escapades, linger forever in our memories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This Modern Library edition of the first of L. M. Montgomeryâ€™s beloved and immensely popular Avonlea novels features the restored original text and an Introduction by the noted childrenâ€™s literature scholar Jack Zipes.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  L. M. Montgomery was born in 1874 on Prince Edward Island in Canada, the setting of nineteen of her twenty novels. She died in Toronto in 1942.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3641'),
(9189, 'Anne of Green Gables', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMatthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his; then and there he decided what to do. He could not tell this child with the glowing eyes that there had been a mistake. . . .â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  When eleven-year-old Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables with nothing but a carpetbag and an overactive imagination, she knows that she has found her home. But first she must convince the Cuthberts to let her stay, even though she isnâ€™t the boy theyâ€™d hoped for. The loquacious Anne quickly finds her way into their hearts, as she has with generations of readers, and her charming, ingenious adventures in Avonlea, filled with colorful characters and tender escapades, linger forever in our memories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This Modern Library edition of the first of L. M. Montgomeryâ€™s beloved and immensely popular Avonlea novels features the restored original text and an Introduction by the noted childrenâ€™s literature scholar Jack Zipes.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  L. M. Montgomery was born in 1874 on Prince Edward Island in Canada, the setting of nineteen of her twenty novels. She died in Toronto in 1942.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11512'),
(9190, 'Anne of Green Gables', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMatthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his; then and there he decided what to do. He could not tell this child with the glowing eyes that there had been a mistake. . . .â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  When eleven-year-old Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables with nothing but a carpetbag and an overactive imagination, she knows that she has found her home. But first she must convince the Cuthberts to let her stay, even though she isnâ€™t the boy theyâ€™d hoped for. The loquacious Anne quickly finds her way into their hearts, as she has with generations of readers, and her charming, ingenious adventures in Avonlea, filled with colorful characters and tender escapades, linger forever in our memories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This Modern Library edition of the first of L. M. Montgomeryâ€™s beloved and immensely popular Avonlea novels features the restored original text and an Introduction by the noted childrenâ€™s literature scholar Jack Zipes.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  L. M. Montgomery was born in 1874 on Prince Edward Island in Canada, the setting of nineteen of her twenty novels. She died in Toronto in 1942.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20917'),
(9191, 'Anne of Ingleside', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The continued saga of the now adult, Anne, mother of five children.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now with a new baby on the way and insufferable Aunt Mary Maria visiting -- and wearing out her welcome -- Anne''s life is full to bursting.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still Mrs. Doctor can''t think of any place she''d rather be than her own beloved Ingleside. Until the day she begins to worry that her adored Gilbert doesn''t love her anymore. How could that be? She may be a little older, but she''s still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead -- the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, all grown up. . . She''s ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3643'),
(9192, 'Anne of Ingleside', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The continued saga of the now adult, Anne, mother of five children.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now with a new baby on the way and insufferable Aunt Mary Maria visiting -- and wearing out her welcome -- Anne''s life is full to bursting.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still Mrs. Doctor can''t think of any place she''d rather be than her own beloved Ingleside. Until the day she begins to worry that her adored Gilbert doesn''t love her anymore. How could that be? She may be a little older, but she''s still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead -- the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, all grown up. . . She''s ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11514'),
(9193, 'Anne of Ingleside', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The continued saga of the now adult, Anne, mother of five children.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now with a new baby on the way and insufferable Aunt Mary Maria visiting -- and wearing out her welcome -- Anne''s life is full to bursting.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still Mrs. Doctor can''t think of any place she''d rather be than her own beloved Ingleside. Until the day she begins to worry that her adored Gilbert doesn''t love her anymore. How could that be? She may be a little older, but she''s still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead -- the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, all grown up. . . She''s ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20916'),
(9194, 'Anne of the Island', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Third volume of the series in which Anne goes to college.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and frivolous new pal Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises...including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when Anne and her friends move into an old cottage and an ornery black cat steals her heart. Little does Anne know that handsome Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too. Suddenly Anne must decide if she''s ready for love...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3644'),
(9195, 'Anne of the Island', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Third volume of the series in which Anne goes to college.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and frivolous new pal Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises...including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when Anne and her friends move into an old cottage and an ornery black cat steals her heart. Little does Anne know that handsome Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too. Suddenly Anne must decide if she''s ready for love...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11513'),
(9196, 'Anne of the Island', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Third volume of the series in which Anne goes to college.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and frivolous new pal Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises...including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when Anne and her friends move into an old cottage and an ornery black cat steals her heart. Little does Anne know that handsome Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too. Suddenly Anne must decide if she''s ready for love...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20915'),
(9197, 'Anne of Windy Poplars', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lucy Maud Montgomery CBE, (always called "Maud" by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, (1874-1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables,\n  </em>\n  published in 1908.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Once published,\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables\n  </em>\n  was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. The novels became the basis for the highly acclaimed 1985 CBC television miniseries,\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables\n  </em>\n  and several other television movies and programs, including\n  <em>\n   Road to Avonlea,\n  </em>\n  which ran in Canada and the U.S. from 1990-1996.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Delightful, unpredictable Anne Shirley takes her first job away from Green Gables.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3647'),
(9198, 'Anne of Windy Poplars', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lucy Maud Montgomery CBE, (always called "Maud" by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, (1874-1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables,\n  </em>\n  published in 1908.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Once published,\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables\n  </em>\n  was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. The novels became the basis for the highly acclaimed 1985 CBC television miniseries,\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables\n  </em>\n  and several other television movies and programs, including\n  <em>\n   Road to Avonlea,\n  </em>\n  which ran in Canada and the U.S. from 1990-1996.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Delightful, unpredictable Anne Shirley takes her first job away from Green Gables.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11515'),
(9199, 'Anne of Windy Poplars', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lucy Maud Montgomery CBE, (always called "Maud" by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, (1874-1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables,\n  </em>\n  published in 1908.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Once published,\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables\n  </em>\n  was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. The novels became the basis for the highly acclaimed 1985 CBC television miniseries,\n  <em>\n   Anne of Green Gables\n  </em>\n  and several other television movies and programs, including\n  <em>\n   Road to Avonlea,\n  </em>\n  which ran in Canada and the U.S. from 1990-1996.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Delightful, unpredictable Anne Shirley takes her first job away from Green Gables.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20910'),
(9200, 'Anne Perry&#39;s Silent Nights: Two Victorian Christmas Mysteries', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œInviting, comforting holiday fare.â€â€”_Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ[A] heartwarming, if crime-tinged, complement to the holiday season.â€â€”\n </em>\n Booklist\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here are two holiday mysteries set in remote, snow-covered regions of Victorian Britainâ€“where the nights are indeed silent but all is not calm, and where some will sleep in eternal peace.\n</p>\n<p>\n A CHRISTMAS BEGINNING\n <br />\n While spending Christmas on the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, Superintendent Runcorn of Scotland Yard, a lonely bachelor, stumbles upon the lifeless body of the vicarâ€™s younger sister in the village churchyard. Everyone insists that only a stranger to the island could have committed the heinous crime, but the evidence proves otherwise. Intending to uncover the identity of the ruthless killer, Runcorn never dreams that the case may also, miraculously, open the door to a new future for himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n A CHRISTMAS GRACE\n <br />\n With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pittâ€™s sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt on the western coast of Ireland. Emily soon discovers that painful memories of an unsolved murder haunt the lonely Irish town and sets out to unmask the culprit. When a lone shipwreck survivor washes up onshore, he brings with him not only the key to solving the terrible crime but the opportunity for the townspeople to make peace with the pastâ€“and with one another.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7500'),
(9201, 'Anne Perry&#39;s Silent Nights: Two Victorian Christmas Mysteries', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œInviting, comforting holiday fare.â€â€”_Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ[A] heartwarming, if crime-tinged, complement to the holiday season.â€â€”\n </em>\n Booklist\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here are two holiday mysteries set in remote, snow-covered regions of Victorian Britainâ€“where the nights are indeed silent but all is not calm, and where some will sleep in eternal peace.\n</p>\n<p>\n A CHRISTMAS BEGINNING\n <br />\n While spending Christmas on the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, Superintendent Runcorn of Scotland Yard, a lonely bachelor, stumbles upon the lifeless body of the vicarâ€™s younger sister in the village churchyard. Everyone insists that only a stranger to the island could have committed the heinous crime, but the evidence proves otherwise. Intending to uncover the identity of the ruthless killer, Runcorn never dreams that the case may also, miraculously, open the door to a new future for himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n A CHRISTMAS GRACE\n <br />\n With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pittâ€™s sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt on the western coast of Ireland. Emily soon discovers that painful memories of an unsolved murder haunt the lonely Irish town and sets out to unmask the culprit. When a lone shipwreck survivor washes up onshore, he brings with him not only the key to solving the terrible crime but the opportunity for the townspeople to make peace with the pastâ€“and with one another.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11879'),
(9202, 'Anne Perry&#39;s Silent Nights: Two Victorian Christmas Mysteries', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œInviting, comforting holiday fare.â€â€”_Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ[A] heartwarming, if crime-tinged, complement to the holiday season.â€â€”\n </em>\n Booklist\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here are two holiday mysteries set in remote, snow-covered regions of Victorian Britainâ€“where the nights are indeed silent but all is not calm, and where some will sleep in eternal peace.\n</p>\n<p>\n A CHRISTMAS BEGINNING\n <br />\n While spending Christmas on the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, Superintendent Runcorn of Scotland Yard, a lonely bachelor, stumbles upon the lifeless body of the vicarâ€™s younger sister in the village churchyard. Everyone insists that only a stranger to the island could have committed the heinous crime, but the evidence proves otherwise. Intending to uncover the identity of the ruthless killer, Runcorn never dreams that the case may also, miraculously, open the door to a new future for himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n A CHRISTMAS GRACE\n <br />\n With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pittâ€™s sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt on the western coast of Ireland. Emily soon discovers that painful memories of an unsolved murder haunt the lonely Irish town and sets out to unmask the culprit. When a lone shipwreck survivor washes up onshore, he brings with him not only the key to solving the terrible crime but the opportunity for the townspeople to make peace with the pastâ€“and with one another.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16367'),
(9203, 'Anne&#39;s House of Dreams', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6 Upâ€“L. M. Montgomery fans will be delighted by Barbara Caruso''s narration of the fifth volume in the series (Indy, 2001). It follows the red-headed heroine and her new husband, Dr. Gilbert Blythe, to the snug little cottage that is their first home at Four Winds Harbor on Prince Edward Island. There''s laughter, heartache, and unexpected turnabouts with new friends such as lighthouse keeper Captain Jim, and neighbors, Cornelia and Leslie. There''s sorrow after the death of the couple''s first child, and happiness after their healthy son is born. The story is liberally peppered with sketches of other memorable islanders and views of family life around the turn of the 20th century. Caruso''s spirited and versatile narration brings to life diverse character traits such as Anne''s zest for life, Cornelia''s crusty opinions, and Leslie''s soft, sometimes fearful breathlessness. This story will be appreciated by anyone who likes their happy-ending stories wrapped in old fashioned values. A great choice for all school and public libraries.â€“_Barbara Wysocki, Cora J. Belden Library, Rocky Hill, CT_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This 1917 volume is the latest of the publisher''s inexpensive hardcover editions of Montgomery''s adventures of Anne Shirley, which began with Anne of Green Gables.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3549'),
(9204, 'Anne&#39;s House of Dreams', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6 Upâ€“L. M. Montgomery fans will be delighted by Barbara Caruso''s narration of the fifth volume in the series (Indy, 2001). It follows the red-headed heroine and her new husband, Dr. Gilbert Blythe, to the snug little cottage that is their first home at Four Winds Harbor on Prince Edward Island. There''s laughter, heartache, and unexpected turnabouts with new friends such as lighthouse keeper Captain Jim, and neighbors, Cornelia and Leslie. There''s sorrow after the death of the couple''s first child, and happiness after their healthy son is born. The story is liberally peppered with sketches of other memorable islanders and views of family life around the turn of the 20th century. Caruso''s spirited and versatile narration brings to life diverse character traits such as Anne''s zest for life, Cornelia''s crusty opinions, and Leslie''s soft, sometimes fearful breathlessness. This story will be appreciated by anyone who likes their happy-ending stories wrapped in old fashioned values. A great choice for all school and public libraries.â€“_Barbara Wysocki, Cora J. Belden Library, Rocky Hill, CT_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This 1917 volume is the latest of the publisher''s inexpensive hardcover editions of Montgomery''s adventures of Anne Shirley, which began with Anne of Green Gables.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11510'),
(9205, 'Anne&#39;s House of Dreams', 'L. M. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6 Upâ€“L. M. Montgomery fans will be delighted by Barbara Caruso''s narration of the fifth volume in the series (Indy, 2001). It follows the red-headed heroine and her new husband, Dr. Gilbert Blythe, to the snug little cottage that is their first home at Four Winds Harbor on Prince Edward Island. There''s laughter, heartache, and unexpected turnabouts with new friends such as lighthouse keeper Captain Jim, and neighbors, Cornelia and Leslie. There''s sorrow after the death of the couple''s first child, and happiness after their healthy son is born. The story is liberally peppered with sketches of other memorable islanders and views of family life around the turn of the 20th century. Caruso''s spirited and versatile narration brings to life diverse character traits such as Anne''s zest for life, Cornelia''s crusty opinions, and Leslie''s soft, sometimes fearful breathlessness. This story will be appreciated by anyone who likes their happy-ending stories wrapped in old fashioned values. A great choice for all school and public libraries.â€“_Barbara Wysocki, Cora J. Belden Library, Rocky Hill, CT_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This 1917 volume is the latest of the publisher''s inexpensive hardcover editions of Montgomery''s adventures of Anne Shirley, which began with Anne of Green Gables.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20909'),
(9206, 'Annie Dunne', 'Sebastian Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The central character in Sebastian Barry''s novel\n <em>\n  Annie Dunne\n </em>\n is a woman who has been pushed to the margins, a woman whom life has given few chances of happiness and fulfillment. Unmarried, she spends years as housekeeper for her brother-in-law because her sister is too ill to manage. Her sister dies, her brother-in-law remarries, and Annie Dunne is homeless. Invited by her cousin Sarah, she moves to a small farm in a remote part of Wicklow. As the novel opens, the two cousins share their lives and the work on the farm. It is the late 1950s and rural Ireland is changing around them. Annie''s nephew heads for London in search of work and leaves his young children with their great-aunt. Content with her life with Sarah, Annie also finds a new capacity for love in her feelings for the two children. Yet even the small pleasures that Annie finds in her life are threatened. An unlikely suitor pays court to Sarah, and Annie''s love for the children opens her up to pain almost as much as to happiness.\n <em>\n  Annie Dunne\n </em>\n is a novel in which few external dramas occur--there is an accident with a pony and trap, one of the children goes temporarily missing--but Barry evokes superbly the inner dramas of his characters. In a society where emotions are often severely repressed and expressed only obliquely, small incidents hint at larger feelings and Barry has written a story in which these are subtly and poignantly unfolded.\n <em>\n  --Nick Rennison, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irish playwright and novelist Barry''s gift for image and metaphor (The Whereabouts of Aneas McNulty) are equaled here by his eye for descriptive detail. This moving story is narrated by the eponymous Annie Dunne, who, in her 60s, has come to live with her cousin Sarah on an impoverished farm in Kelsha, County Wicklow. Plain and poor, and afflicted with a humpback since a childhood attack of polio, Annie is grateful to Sarah for taking her in. She loves the farm and attacks the backbreaking daily chores with fierce ardor. But when a scheming handyman on a neighboring farm begins to court Sarah, Annie sees her livelihood threatened and fights back with the only weapons in her arsenal: bitterness and rage. Complicating the events of the summer spanned by the plot are the two young children left in Annie''s care by her nephew, who''s gone off to London. As Annie is terrified to admit, even to herself, the children have their own dark secret, too fearsome to contemplate. Veering between dread, anger and shame, Anne''s thoughts are also a mixture of whimsical observations, naâ€¹ve ideas and a poetic appreciation of the natural world. This compassionate portrait of a distraught woman mourning the years of promise and dreams that were "narrowed by the empty hand of possibility" is a masterful feat of characterization, all the more vivid against the backdrop of rural Ireland in the 1950s, undergoing changes that throw Annie''s life into sharper focus.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1362');
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(9207, 'Annie Dunne', 'Sebastian Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The central character in Sebastian Barry''s novel\n <em>\n  Annie Dunne\n </em>\n is a woman who has been pushed to the margins, a woman whom life has given few chances of happiness and fulfillment. Unmarried, she spends years as housekeeper for her brother-in-law because her sister is too ill to manage. Her sister dies, her brother-in-law remarries, and Annie Dunne is homeless. Invited by her cousin Sarah, she moves to a small farm in a remote part of Wicklow. As the novel opens, the two cousins share their lives and the work on the farm. It is the late 1950s and rural Ireland is changing around them. Annie''s nephew heads for London in search of work and leaves his young children with their great-aunt. Content with her life with Sarah, Annie also finds a new capacity for love in her feelings for the two children. Yet even the small pleasures that Annie finds in her life are threatened. An unlikely suitor pays court to Sarah, and Annie''s love for the children opens her up to pain almost as much as to happiness.\n <em>\n  Annie Dunne\n </em>\n is a novel in which few external dramas occur--there is an accident with a pony and trap, one of the children goes temporarily missing--but Barry evokes superbly the inner dramas of his characters. In a society where emotions are often severely repressed and expressed only obliquely, small incidents hint at larger feelings and Barry has written a story in which these are subtly and poignantly unfolded.\n <em>\n  --Nick Rennison, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irish playwright and novelist Barry''s gift for image and metaphor (The Whereabouts of Aneas McNulty) are equaled here by his eye for descriptive detail. This moving story is narrated by the eponymous Annie Dunne, who, in her 60s, has come to live with her cousin Sarah on an impoverished farm in Kelsha, County Wicklow. Plain and poor, and afflicted with a humpback since a childhood attack of polio, Annie is grateful to Sarah for taking her in. She loves the farm and attacks the backbreaking daily chores with fierce ardor. But when a scheming handyman on a neighboring farm begins to court Sarah, Annie sees her livelihood threatened and fights back with the only weapons in her arsenal: bitterness and rage. Complicating the events of the summer spanned by the plot are the two young children left in Annie''s care by her nephew, who''s gone off to London. As Annie is terrified to admit, even to herself, the children have their own dark secret, too fearsome to contemplate. Veering between dread, anger and shame, Anne''s thoughts are also a mixture of whimsical observations, naâ€¹ve ideas and a poetic appreciation of the natural world. This compassionate portrait of a distraught woman mourning the years of promise and dreams that were "narrowed by the empty hand of possibility" is a masterful feat of characterization, all the more vivid against the backdrop of rural Ireland in the 1950s, undergoing changes that throw Annie''s life into sharper focus.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8388'),
(9208, 'Annie Dunne', 'Sebastian Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The central character in Sebastian Barry''s novel\n <em>\n  Annie Dunne\n </em>\n is a woman who has been pushed to the margins, a woman whom life has given few chances of happiness and fulfillment. Unmarried, she spends years as housekeeper for her brother-in-law because her sister is too ill to manage. Her sister dies, her brother-in-law remarries, and Annie Dunne is homeless. Invited by her cousin Sarah, she moves to a small farm in a remote part of Wicklow. As the novel opens, the two cousins share their lives and the work on the farm. It is the late 1950s and rural Ireland is changing around them. Annie''s nephew heads for London in search of work and leaves his young children with their great-aunt. Content with her life with Sarah, Annie also finds a new capacity for love in her feelings for the two children. Yet even the small pleasures that Annie finds in her life are threatened. An unlikely suitor pays court to Sarah, and Annie''s love for the children opens her up to pain almost as much as to happiness.\n <em>\n  Annie Dunne\n </em>\n is a novel in which few external dramas occur--there is an accident with a pony and trap, one of the children goes temporarily missing--but Barry evokes superbly the inner dramas of his characters. In a society where emotions are often severely repressed and expressed only obliquely, small incidents hint at larger feelings and Barry has written a story in which these are subtly and poignantly unfolded.\n <em>\n  --Nick Rennison, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irish playwright and novelist Barry''s gift for image and metaphor (The Whereabouts of Aneas McNulty) are equaled here by his eye for descriptive detail. This moving story is narrated by the eponymous Annie Dunne, who, in her 60s, has come to live with her cousin Sarah on an impoverished farm in Kelsha, County Wicklow. Plain and poor, and afflicted with a humpback since a childhood attack of polio, Annie is grateful to Sarah for taking her in. She loves the farm and attacks the backbreaking daily chores with fierce ardor. But when a scheming handyman on a neighboring farm begins to court Sarah, Annie sees her livelihood threatened and fights back with the only weapons in her arsenal: bitterness and rage. Complicating the events of the summer spanned by the plot are the two young children left in Annie''s care by her nephew, who''s gone off to London. As Annie is terrified to admit, even to herself, the children have their own dark secret, too fearsome to contemplate. Veering between dread, anger and shame, Anne''s thoughts are also a mixture of whimsical observations, naâ€¹ve ideas and a poetic appreciation of the natural world. This compassionate portrait of a distraught woman mourning the years of promise and dreams that were "narrowed by the empty hand of possibility" is a masterful feat of characterization, all the more vivid against the backdrop of rural Ireland in the 1950s, undergoing changes that throw Annie''s life into sharper focus.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23595'),
(9209, 'Anno Dracula', 'Kim Newman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n As Nina Auerbach writes in the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n , " Stephen King assumes we hate vampires; Anne Rice makes it safe to love them, because they hate themselves. Kim Newman suspects that most of us live with them . . . .\n <em>\n  Anno Dracula\n </em>\n is the definitive account of that post-modern species, the self-obsessed undead." In this first of what looks to be an excellent series, Victorian England has vampires at every level of society, especially the higher ones, and they engage in incessant intrigue, power games, and casual oppression of the weak--activities, as we know, that are all too human. Numerous characters from literature and from history appear in both major and cameo roles. Spectacular fight scenes, stormy politics, and a serial vampire killer keep the action lively. A scholarly bibliography is included.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Queen Victoria consorts with Count Dracula in this ingenious historical romp peopled by historic characters.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10992'),
(9210, 'The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems', 'John Milton &amp; Burton Raffel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Affordable, compact, and authoritative, this one-volume edition of\n <b>\n  The Annotated Milton\n </b>\n encompasses the monumental sweep of John Miltonâ€™s poetry. Here are Miltonâ€™ s early works, including his first great poem, â€œOn the Morning of Christâ€™s Nativity,â€ the light and lyrical â€œLâ€™Allegroâ€ and â€œIl Penseroso,â€ the masque\n <i>\n  Comus,\n </i>\n and the lushly beautiful pastoral elegy â€œLycidas.â€ Here, too, included in their entirety, are the three epic poems considered to be among the finest works in the English language:\n <i>\n  Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained,\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n  Samson Agonistes.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </i>\n Fully annotated by Burton Raffel, this distinguished edition clarifies the complex allusions of Miltonâ€™s verse and references the personal, religious, historical, and mythical influences that inspired the great blind poet of England, who ranks among the undisputed giants of world literature.\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <br />\n <div>\n  <br />\n  Burton Raffel is a translator, poet, and scholar whose major translations include\n  <b>\n   The Canterbury Tales\n  </b>\n  , , ,\n  <b>\n   Beowulf\n  </b>\n  <i>\n   Don Quijote\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   The Red and the Black\n  </i>\n  , and\n  <i>\n   Gargantua and Pantagruel\n  </i>\n  . He has also annotated several Shakespeare plays for Yale University Press. He was the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities and emeritus professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette until 2003. He lives in Louisiana.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </div>\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4301'),
(9211, 'The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems', 'John Milton &amp; Burton Raffel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Affordable, compact, and authoritative, this one-volume edition of\n <b>\n  The Annotated Milton\n </b>\n encompasses the monumental sweep of John Miltonâ€™s poetry. Here are Miltonâ€™ s early works, including his first great poem, â€œOn the Morning of Christâ€™s Nativity,â€ the light and lyrical â€œLâ€™Allegroâ€ and â€œIl Penseroso,â€ the masque\n <i>\n  Comus,\n </i>\n and the lushly beautiful pastoral elegy â€œLycidas.â€ Here, too, included in their entirety, are the three epic poems considered to be among the finest works in the English language:\n <i>\n  Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained,\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n  Samson Agonistes.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </i>\n Fully annotated by Burton Raffel, this distinguished edition clarifies the complex allusions of Miltonâ€™s verse and references the personal, religious, historical, and mythical influences that inspired the great blind poet of England, who ranks among the undisputed giants of world literature.\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <br />\n <div>\n  <br />\n  Burton Raffel is a translator, poet, and scholar whose major translations include\n  <b>\n   The Canterbury Tales\n  </b>\n  , , ,\n  <b>\n   Beowulf\n  </b>\n  <i>\n   Don Quijote\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   The Red and the Black\n  </i>\n  , and\n  <i>\n   Gargantua and Pantagruel\n  </i>\n  . He has also annotated several Shakespeare plays for Yale University Press. He was the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities and emeritus professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette until 2003. He lives in Louisiana.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </div>\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11413'),
(9212, 'The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems', 'John Milton;Burton Raffel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Affordable, compact, and authoritative, this one-volume edition of\n <b>\n  The Annotated Milton\n </b>\n encompasses the monumental sweep of John Miltonâ€™s poetry. Here are Miltonâ€™ s early works, including his first great poem, â€œOn the Morning of Christâ€™s Nativity,â€ the light and lyrical â€œLâ€™Allegroâ€ and â€œIl Penseroso,â€ the masque\n <i>\n  Comus,\n </i>\n and the lushly beautiful pastoral elegy â€œLycidas.â€ Here, too, included in their entirety, are the three epic poems considered to be among the finest works in the English language:\n <i>\n  Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained,\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n  Samson Agonistes.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </i>\n Fully annotated by Burton Raffel, this distinguished edition clarifies the complex allusions of Miltonâ€™s verse and references the personal, religious, historical, and mythical influences that inspired the great blind poet of England, who ranks among the undisputed giants of world literature.\n <br />\n <br />\n <br />\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <br />\n <div>\n  <br />\n  Burton Raffel is a translator, poet, and scholar whose major translations include\n  <b>\n   The Canterbury Tales\n  </b>\n  , , ,\n  <b>\n   Beowulf\n  </b>\n  <i>\n   Don Quijote\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   The Red and the Black\n  </i>\n  , and\n  <i>\n   Gargantua and Pantagruel\n  </i>\n  . He has also annotated several Shakespeare plays for Yale University Press. He was the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities and emeritus professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette until 2003. He lives in Louisiana.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n </div>\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20322'),
(9213, 'The Annotated Pride and Prejudice', 'David Shapard &amp; Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of\n <em>\n  Pride and Prejudice\n </em>\n with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Explanations of historical context\n </strong>\n <br />\n Rules of etiquette, class differences, the position of women, legal and economic realities, leisure activities, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Citations from Austenâ€™s life, letters, and other writings\n </strong>\n <br />\n Parallels between the novel and Austenâ€™s experience are revealed, along with writings that illuminate her beliefs and opinions.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Definitions and clarifications\n </strong>\n <br />\n Archaic words, words still in use whose meanings have changed, and obscure passages are explained.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Literary comments and analyses\n </strong>\n <br />\n Insightful notes highlight Austenâ€™s artistry and point out the subtle ways she develops her characters and themes.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Maps and illustrations\n </strong>\n <br />\n of places and objects mentioned in the novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  An introduction, a bibliography, and a detailed chronology of events\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Of course, one can enjoy the novel\n <em>\n  without\n </em>\n knowing the precise definition of a gentleman, or what it signifies that a character drives a coach rather than a hack chaise, or the rules governing social interaction at a ball, but readers of\n <em>\n  The Annotated Pride and Prejudice\n </em>\n will find that these kinds of details add immeasurably to understanding and enjoying the intricate psychological interplay of Austenâ€™s immortal characters.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jane Austen\n </strong>\n was born in 1775 and died in 1817. The daughter of a Hampshire clergyman, she never married. On her father''s retirement in 1801, the family moved to Bath for several years and then to Southampton, settling finally at Chawton Cottage, near Alton, Hampshire, which was Jane''s home for the rest of her life. The novels published in Austen''s lifetime were\n <em>\n  Sense and Sensibility\n </em>\n (1811),\n <em>\n  Pride and Prejudice\n </em>\n (1813),\n <em>\n  Mansfield Park\n </em>\n (1814), and\n <em>\n  Emma\n </em>\n (1816).\n <em>\n  Persuasion\n </em>\n was issued in 1818 with Northanger Abbey. Her minor works include her juvenilia, the novella\n <em>\n  Lady Susan\n </em>\n , and the fragments\n <em>\n  The Watsons\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Sanditon\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Shapard\n </strong>\n graduated with a Ph.D. in European History from the University of California at Berkeley; his specialty was the eighteenth century. Since then he has taught at several colleges, and lives in upstate New York.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6187'),
(9214, 'The Annotated Pride and Prejudice', 'David Shapard &amp; Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of\n <em>\n  Pride and Prejudice\n </em>\n with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Explanations of historical context\n </strong>\n <br />\n Rules of etiquette, class differences, the position of women, legal and economic realities, leisure activities, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Citations from Austenâ€™s life, letters, and other writings\n </strong>\n <br />\n Parallels between the novel and Austenâ€™s experience are revealed, along with writings that illuminate her beliefs and opinions.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Definitions and clarifications\n </strong>\n <br />\n Archaic words, words still in use whose meanings have changed, and obscure passages are explained.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Literary comments and analyses\n </strong>\n <br />\n Insightful notes highlight Austenâ€™s artistry and point out the subtle ways she develops her characters and themes.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  Maps and illustrations\n </strong>\n <br />\n of places and objects mentioned in the novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢\n <strong>\n  An introduction, a bibliography, and a detailed chronology of events\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Of course, one can enjoy the novel\n <em>\n  without\n </em>\n knowing the precise definition of a gentleman, or what it signifies that a character drives a coach rather than a hack chaise, or the rules governing social interaction at a ball, but readers of\n <em>\n  The Annotated Pride and Prejudice\n </em>\n will find that these kinds of details add immeasurably to understanding and enjoying the intricate psychological interplay of Austenâ€™s immortal characters.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jane Austen\n </strong>\n was born in 1775 and died in 1817. The daughter of a Hampshire clergyman, she never married. On her father''s retirement in 1801, the family moved to Bath for several years and then to Southampton, settling finally at Chawton Cottage, near Alton, Hampshire, which was Jane''s home for the rest of her life. The novels published in Austen''s lifetime were\n <em>\n  Sense and Sensibility\n </em>\n (1811),\n <em>\n  Pride and Prejudice\n </em>\n (1813),\n <em>\n  Mansfield Park\n </em>\n (1814), and\n <em>\n  Emma\n </em>\n (1816).\n <em>\n  Persuasion\n </em>\n was issued in 1818 with Northanger Abbey. Her minor works include her juvenilia, the novella\n <em>\n  Lady Susan\n </em>\n , and the fragments\n <em>\n  The Watsons\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Sanditon\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Shapard\n </strong>\n graduated with a Ph.D. in European History from the University of California at Berkeley; his specialty was the eighteenth century. Since then he has taught at several colleges, and lives in upstate New York.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12660'),
(9215, 'The Annotated Pride and Prejudice', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17846'),
(9216, 'The Anonymous Venetian', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Commissario Brunetti''s hopes of a refreshing holiday with his family are dashed when a body is found in Marghera so badly beaten that the face is unrecognizable. Brunetti searches in vain for someone who can identify the body. Then he receives a call promising some tantalizing information.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5885'),
(9217, 'The anonymous Venetian', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Commissario Brunetti''s hopes of a refreshing holiday with his family are dashed when a body is found in Marghera so badly beaten that the face is unrecognizable. Brunetti searches in vain for someone who can identify the body. Then he receives a call promising some tantalizing information.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18745'),
(9218, 'The anonymous Venetian', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Commissario Brunetti''s hopes of a refreshing holiday with his family are dashed when a body is found in Marghera so badly beaten that the face is unrecognizable. Brunetti searches in vain for someone who can identify the body. Then he receives a call promising some tantalizing information.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27620'),
(9219, 'Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words', 'John Marciano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **An encyclopedia of linguistic biographies: the witty, illustrated stories of the Earl of Sandwich, Charles Boycott, and other historical figures better known as words than people.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Eponymous, *adj. *Giving oneâ€™s name to a person, place, or thing.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anonymous, *adj. *Anonymous.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anonyponymous, *adj. *Anonymous and eponymous.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Earl of Sandwich, fond of salted beef and paired slices of toast, found a novel way to eat them all together. Etienne de Silhouette, a former French finance minister, was so notoriously cheap that his name became a byword for chintzy practicesâ€”such as substituting a darkened outline for a proper painted portrait. Both bequeathed their names to the language, but neither man is remembered.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this clever and funny book, John Bemelmans Marciano illuminates the lives of these anonyponymous persons. A kind of encyclopedia of linguistic biographies, the book is arranged alphabetically, giving the stories of everyone from Abu â€œalgorithmâ€ Al-Khwarizmi to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Along with them you''ll find the likes of Harry Shrapnel, Joseph-Ignace Guillotine, and many other people whose vernacular legacies have long outlived their memory.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Accented by amusing line portraits and short etymological essays on subjects like â€œsuperhero eponyms,â€ *Anonyponymous *is both a compendium of trivia and a window into the fascinating world of etymology.  Carefully curated and unfailingly witty, this book is both a fantastic gift for language lovers and a true pleasure to read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4300'),
(9220, 'Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words', 'John Marciano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **An encyclopedia of linguistic biographies: the witty, illustrated stories of the Earl of Sandwich, Charles Boycott, and other historical figures better known as words than people.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Eponymous, *adj. *Giving oneâ€™s name to a person, place, or thing.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anonymous, *adj. *Anonymous.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anonyponymous, *adj. *Anonymous and eponymous.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Earl of Sandwich, fond of salted beef and paired slices of toast, found a novel way to eat them all together. Etienne de Silhouette, a former French finance minister, was so notoriously cheap that his name became a byword for chintzy practicesâ€”such as substituting a darkened outline for a proper painted portrait. Both bequeathed their names to the language, but neither man is remembered.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this clever and funny book, John Bemelmans Marciano illuminates the lives of these anonyponymous persons. A kind of encyclopedia of linguistic biographies, the book is arranged alphabetically, giving the stories of everyone from Abu â€œalgorithmâ€ Al-Khwarizmi to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Along with them you''ll find the likes of Harry Shrapnel, Joseph-Ignace Guillotine, and many other people whose vernacular legacies have long outlived their memory.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Accented by amusing line portraits and short etymological essays on subjects like â€œsuperhero eponyms,â€ *Anonyponymous *is both a compendium of trivia and a window into the fascinating world of etymology.  Carefully curated and unfailingly witty, this book is both a fantastic gift for language lovers and a true pleasure to read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11301'),
(9221, 'Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words', 'John Marciano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An encyclopedia of linguistic biographies: the witty, illustrated stories of the Earl of Sandwich, Charles Boycott, and other historical figures better known as words than people. **Eponymous, *adj. *Giving oneâ€™s name to a person, place, or thing. Anonymous, *adj. *Anonymous. Anonyponymous, *adj. *Anonymous and eponymous. The Earl of Sandwich, fond of salted beef and paired slices of toast, found a novel way to eat them all together. Etienne de Silhouette, a former French finance minister, was so notoriously cheap that his name became a byword for chintzy practicesâ€”such as substituting a darkened outline for a proper painted portrait. Both bequeathed their names to the language, but neither man is remembered. In this clever and funny book, John Bemelmans Marciano illuminates the lives of these anonyponymous persons. A kind of encyclopedia of linguistic biographies, the book is arranged alphabetically, giving the stories of everyone from Abu â€œalgorithmâ€ Al-Khwarizmi to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Along with them you''ll find the likes of Harry Shrapnel, Joseph-Ignace Guillotine, and many other people whose vernacular legacies have long outlived their memory. Accented by amusing line portraits and short etymological essays on subjects like â€œsuperhero eponyms,â€ *Anonyponymous *is both a compendium of trivia and a window into the fascinating world of etymology. Carefully curated and unfailingly witty, this book is both a fantastic gift for language lovers and a true pleasure to read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20327'),
(9222, 'Another Life', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: High-profile new Doctor Who-inspired drama created by Russell T. Davies. The 21st century is when it all changes, and you''ve got to be ready. Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations; Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. A terror hides at the bottom of Cardiff Bay - waiting, feeding, controlling... this novel is a brand-new Torchwood adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21531'),
(9223, 'Another Life Altogether: A Novel', 'Elaine Beale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A keenly observed depiction of the effects of a mother''s mental illness on her young daughter, Another Life Altogether is a profoundly moving, funny, and ultimately heartrending coming-of-age story. After years of living in the shadow of her mother''s mental illness, Jesse Bennett is given a fresh chance at happiness when her family moves to a village in northern England. But just as it seems that she might be able to build a perfect life for herself after befriending two of her new school''s most popular girls, her mother''s worsening mental state and the secret Jesse fiercely guards about herself threaten to destroy her fragile stability. Caught in the storm of her mother''s moods, her father''s desperation, and her classmates'' strict adherence to cruel social hierarchies, Jesse is forced to choose between doing what''s right and preserving her long-held hope for a normal life. At the heart of a maddening, eccentric, and ultimately lovable family--from her manic mother and her long-suffering father to her blowsy Aunt Mabel and her Uncle Ted, a comically inept criminal--Jesse is an utterly sympathetic narrator who navigates the ups and downs of adolescence with insight, emotional vulnerability, and a wickedly sharp sense of humor. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, Another Life Altogether marks the arrival of an immensely gifted novelist. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5806'),
(9224, 'Another Life Altogether: A Novel', 'Elaine Beale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A keenly observed depiction of the effects of a mother''s mental illness on her young daughter, Another Life Altogether is a profoundly moving, funny, and ultimately heartrending coming-of-age story. After years of living in the shadow of her mother''s mental illness, Jesse Bennett is given a fresh chance at happiness when her family moves to a village in northern England. But just as it seems that she might be able to build a perfect life for herself after befriending two of her new school''s most popular girls, her mother''s worsening mental state and the secret Jesse fiercely guards about herself threaten to destroy her fragile stability. Caught in the storm of her mother''s moods, her father''s desperation, and her classmates'' strict adherence to cruel social hierarchies, Jesse is forced to choose between doing what''s right and preserving her long-held hope for a normal life. At the heart of a maddening, eccentric, and ultimately lovable family--from her manic mother and her long-suffering father to her blowsy Aunt Mabel and her Uncle Ted, a comically inept criminal--Jesse is an utterly sympathetic narrator who navigates the ups and downs of adolescence with insight, emotional vulnerability, and a wickedly sharp sense of humor. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, Another Life Altogether marks the arrival of an immensely gifted novelist. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8472'),
(9225, 'Another Life Altogether: A Novel', 'Elaine Beale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A keenly observed depiction of the effects of a mother''s mental illness on her young daughter, Another Life Altogether is a profoundly moving, funny, and ultimately heartrending coming-of-age story. After years of living in the shadow of her mother''s mental illness, Jesse Bennett is given a fresh chance at happiness when her family moves to a village in northern England. But just as it seems that she might be able to build a perfect life for herself after befriending two of her new school''s most popular girls, her mother''s worsening mental state and the secret Jesse fiercely guards about herself threaten to destroy her fragile stability. Caught in the storm of her mother''s moods, her father''s desperation, and her classmates'' strict adherence to cruel social hierarchies, Jesse is forced to choose between doing what''s right and preserving her long-held hope for a normal life. At the heart of a maddening, eccentric, and ultimately lovable family--from her manic mother and her long-suffering father to her blowsy Aunt Mabel and her Uncle Ted, a comically inept criminal--Jesse is an utterly sympathetic narrator who navigates the ups and downs of adolescence with insight, emotional vulnerability, and a wickedly sharp sense of humor. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, Another Life Altogether marks the arrival of an immensely gifted novelist. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18840'),
(9226, 'Another Life Altogether: A Novel', 'Elaine Beale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A keenly observed depiction of the effects of a mother''s mental illness on her young daughter, Another Life Altogether is a profoundly moving, funny, and ultimately heartrending coming-of-age story. After years of living in the shadow of her mother''s mental illness, Jesse Bennett is given a fresh chance at happiness when her family moves to a village in northern England. But just as it seems that she might be able to build a perfect life for herself after befriending two of her new school''s most popular girls, her mother''s worsening mental state and the secret Jesse fiercely guards about herself threaten to destroy her fragile stability. Caught in the storm of her mother''s moods, her father''s desperation, and her classmates'' strict adherence to cruel social hierarchies, Jesse is forced to choose between doing what''s right and preserving her long-held hope for a normal life. At the heart of a maddening, eccentric, and ultimately lovable family--from her manic mother and her long-suffering father to her blowsy Aunt Mabel and her Uncle Ted, a comically inept criminal--Jesse is an utterly sympathetic narrator who navigates the ups and downs of adolescence with insight, emotional vulnerability, and a wickedly sharp sense of humor. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, Another Life Altogether marks the arrival of an immensely gifted novelist. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27556'),
(9227, 'Another Part of the Wood', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.Joseph decides to take his mistress and son, together with a few friends, to stay in a cabin in deepest Wales for the weekend - with absolutely disastrous results. Beryl Bainbridge''s gift for deadpan dialogue and spare narrative, and her darkly comic vision of the world, are all in evidence in this early novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7227'),
(9228, 'Another Part of the Wood', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.Joseph decides to take his mistress and son, together with a few friends, to stay in a cabin in deepest Wales for the weekend - with absolutely disastrous results. Beryl Bainbridge''s gift for deadpan dialogue and spare narrative, and her darkly comic vision of the world, are all in evidence in this early novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8274'),
(9229, 'Another part of the wood', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.Joseph decides to take his mistress and son, together with a few friends, to stay in a cabin in deepest Wales for the weekend - with absolutely disastrous results. Beryl Bainbridge''s gift for deadpan dialogue and spare narrative, and her darkly comic vision of the world, are all in evidence in this early novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16663'),
(9230, 'Another part of the wood', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.Joseph decides to take his mistress and son, together with a few friends, to stay in a cabin in deepest Wales for the weekend - with absolutely disastrous results. Beryl Bainbridge''s gift for deadpan dialogue and spare narrative, and her darkly comic vision of the world, are all in evidence in this early novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26621'),
(9231, 'Answered Prayers', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Danielle Steelâ€™s 56th bestselling novel is about family and friendship, about one womanâ€™s struggle to break free from the pastâ€”and the man who helps her triumph. And most of all, it is about daring to believe in...Answered Prayers.On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling Manhattan town house. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to no one. And with it, she has kept an even more painful secret from herself.For Faith, it is the sudden death of her stepfatherâ€”a man who, like her husband, Alex, always remained just beyond her reachâ€”that will touch off a journey of change and revelation. At the funeral, painful memories flood backâ€”and an old friend reenters Faithâ€™s life. Faith is greeting mourners, when she hears a voice behind her and a single word that brings a quick smile to her face: â€œFred.â€ Only one person aside from her older brother, Jack, called her that. Brad Patterson was Jackâ€™s best friend, a long, lanky boy who teased, tormented, and protected Faith when they fancied themselves â€œThe Three Musketeersâ€ as kids. When Jack died years later, Faith and Brad came together again in their common, inconsolable grief, then lost touch once more amid the demands of families and busy lives a continent apart. Now a lawyer in California, Brad has reentered Faithâ€™s life just as she is making a decision that plunges her marriage into crisis. Determined to fulfill a long-held desire for a career of her own, Faith applies to law school against her husbandâ€™s wishes, igniting a barrage of anger and recrimination. Faithâ€™s only solace is the correspondence she has begun with Brad, a man trapped in an empty marriage of his own, a friend she once lost and has found again. Soon e-mails are flying between them, bridging three thousand miles, sharing much-needed friendship, support, laughter. And as these two childhood friends rediscover each other, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. In the safety of their friendship, Brad will find the courage to make a decision he should have made years before. And Faith, too, is changing, beginning to believe in herselfâ€”and in her right to grab hold of her dreams. Gathering a strength she never knew she had, Faith is finally ready to face the most painful step of all: of sharing the secret that has long been haunting her, and truly opening up her heart for the first time in her life. With unerring insight into the hearts of husbands and wives, lovers and families, Danielle Steel tells a wise and moving story of the secrets that wound and the choices that healâ€”and of the second chances that come only once in a lifetime.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6528'),
(9232, 'Answered Prayers', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Danielle Steelâ€™s 56th bestselling novel is about family and friendship, about one womanâ€™s struggle to break free from the pastâ€”and the man who helps her triumph. And most of all, it is about daring to believe in...Answered Prayers.On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling Manhattan town house. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to no one. And with it, she has kept an even more painful secret from herself.For Faith, it is the sudden death of her stepfatherâ€”a man who, like her husband, Alex, always remained just beyond her reachâ€”that will touch off a journey of change and revelation. At the funeral, painful memories flood backâ€”and an old friend reenters Faithâ€™s life. Faith is greeting mourners, when she hears a voice behind her and a single word that brings a quick smile to her face: â€œFred.â€ Only one person aside from her older brother, Jack, called her that. Brad Patterson was Jackâ€™s best friend, a long, lanky boy who teased, tormented, and protected Faith when they fancied themselves â€œThe Three Musketeersâ€ as kids. When Jack died years later, Faith and Brad came together again in their common, inconsolable grief, then lost touch once more amid the demands of families and busy lives a continent apart. Now a lawyer in California, Brad has reentered Faithâ€™s life just as she is making a decision that plunges her marriage into crisis. Determined to fulfill a long-held desire for a career of her own, Faith applies to law school against her husbandâ€™s wishes, igniting a barrage of anger and recrimination. Faithâ€™s only solace is the correspondence she has begun with Brad, a man trapped in an empty marriage of his own, a friend she once lost and has found again. Soon e-mails are flying between them, bridging three thousand miles, sharing much-needed friendship, support, laughter. And as these two childhood friends rediscover each other, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. In the safety of their friendship, Brad will find the courage to make a decision he should have made years before. And Faith, too, is changing, beginning to believe in herselfâ€”and in her right to grab hold of her dreams. Gathering a strength she never knew she had, Faith is finally ready to face the most painful step of all: of sharing the secret that has long been haunting her, and truly opening up her heart for the first time in her life. With unerring insight into the hearts of husbands and wives, lovers and families, Danielle Steel tells a wise and moving story of the secrets that wound and the choices that healâ€”and of the second chances that come only once in a lifetime.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12803'),
(9233, 'Answered prayers', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Danielle Steelâ€™s 56th bestselling novel is about family and friendship, about one womanâ€™s struggle to break free from the pastâ€”and the man who helps her triumph. And most of all, it is about daring to believe in...Answered Prayers.On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling Manhattan town house. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to no one. And with it, she has kept an even more painful secret from herself.For Faith, it is the sudden death of her stepfatherâ€”a man who, like her husband, Alex, always remained just beyond her reachâ€”that will touch off a journey of change and revelation. At the funeral, painful memories flood backâ€”and an old friend reenters Faithâ€™s life. Faith is greeting mourners, when she hears a voice behind her and a single word that brings a quick smile to her face: â€œFred.â€ Only one person aside from her older brother, Jack, called her that. Brad Patterson was Jackâ€™s best friend, a long, lanky boy who teased, tormented, and protected Faith when they fancied themselves â€œThe Three Musketeersâ€ as kids. When Jack died years later, Faith and Brad came together again in their common, inconsolable grief, then lost touch once more amid the demands of families and busy lives a continent apart. Now a lawyer in California, Brad has reentered Faithâ€™s life just as she is making a decision that plunges her marriage into crisis. Determined to fulfill a long-held desire for a career of her own, Faith applies to law school against her husbandâ€™s wishes, igniting a barrage of anger and recrimination. Faithâ€™s only solace is the correspondence she has begun with Brad, a man trapped in an empty marriage of his own, a friend she once lost and has found again. Soon e-mails are flying between them, bridging three thousand miles, sharing much-needed friendship, support, laughter. And as these two childhood friends rediscover each other, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. In the safety of their friendship, Brad will find the courage to make a decision he should have made years before. And Faith, too, is changing, beginning to believe in herselfâ€”and in her right to grab hold of her dreams. Gathering a strength she never knew she had, Faith is finally ready to face the most painful step of all: of sharing the secret that has long been haunting her, and truly opening up her heart for the first time in her life. With unerring insight into the hearts of husbands and wives, lovers and families, Danielle Steel tells a wise and moving story of the secrets that wound and the choices that healâ€”and of the second chances that come only once in a lifetime.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17608'),
(9234, 'Anthem', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand''s Centennial Year.  Ayn Rand''s classic tale of a future dark age of the great ?We??a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values?anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7388'),
(9235, 'Anthem', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand''s Centennial Year.  Ayn Rand''s classic tale of a future dark age of the great ?We??a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values?anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12077'),
(9236, 'Anthem', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Anthem is Ayn Randâ€™s classic tale of a dark future age of the great "We"â€”a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. Written a full decade before George Orwell''s "1984," this dystopian novel depicts a man who seeks escape from a society in which individuality has been utterly destroyed. Rand expertly shows how collectivism (including social programs in the United States) destroys freedom and individuality. Her philosophy is simple: "planning" is a synonym for "collectivism," and "collectivism" is a metaphor for communism and tyranny. This important book should be read by all who are concerned about the role of government in modern life. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13879');
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(9237, 'Anthem', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand''s Centennial Year. Ayn Rand''s classic tale of a future dark age of the great ?We??a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values?anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16508'),
(9238, 'Anthem', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26572'),
(9239, 'Anthill: A Novel', 'Edward O. Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Inspirational and magical, the story of boy who grows up determined to save the world from its most savage ecological predator: Man himself.  "What the hell do you want?" snarled Frogman at Raff Cody, as the boy stepped innocently onto the reputed murderer''s property.   Fifteen years old, Raff, along with his older cousin, Junior, had only wanted to catch a glimpse of Frogmanâ€™s 1000-pound alligator.     Thus, begins the saga of Anthill, which follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, whose improbable love of the "strange, beautiful, and elegant" world of ants ends up transforming his own life and the citizens of Nokobee County.  Battling both snakes bites and cynical relatives who just donâ€™t understand his consuming fascination with the outdoors, Raff explores the pristine beauty of the Nokobee wildland. And in doing so, he witnesses the remarkable creation and destruction of four separate ant colonies (â€œThe Anthill Chroniclesâ€), whose histories are epics that unfold on picnic grounds, becoming a young naturalist in the process.      An extraordinary undergraduate at Florida State University, Raff, despite his scientific promise, opts for Harvard Law School, believing that the environmental fight must be waged in the courtroom as well as the lab.  Returning home a legal gladiator, Raff grows increasingly alarmed by rapacious condo developers who are eager to pave and subdivide the wildlands surrounding the Chicobee River.  But one last battle awaits him in his epic struggle.  In a shattering ending that no reader will forget,  Raff  suddenly encounters the angry and corrupt ghosts of an old South  he thought had all but disappeared, and learns that â€œwar is a genetic imperative,â€ not only for ants but for men as well.     Part thriller, part parable, Anthill will not only transfix readers with its stunning twists and startling revelations, but will provide readers with new insights into the meaning of survival in our rapidly changing world. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5772'),
(9240, 'Anthill: A Novel', 'Edward O. Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Inspirational and magical, the story of boy who grows up determined to save the world from its most savage ecological predator: Man himself.  "What the hell do you want?" snarled Frogman at Raff Cody, as the boy stepped innocently onto the reputed murderer''s property.   Fifteen years old, Raff, along with his older cousin, Junior, had only wanted to catch a glimpse of Frogmanâ€™s 1000-pound alligator.     Thus, begins the saga of Anthill, which follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, whose improbable love of the "strange, beautiful, and elegant" world of ants ends up transforming his own life and the citizens of Nokobee County.  Battling both snakes bites and cynical relatives who just donâ€™t understand his consuming fascination with the outdoors, Raff explores the pristine beauty of the Nokobee wildland. And in doing so, he witnesses the remarkable creation and destruction of four separate ant colonies (â€œThe Anthill Chroniclesâ€), whose histories are epics that unfold on picnic grounds, becoming a young naturalist in the process.      An extraordinary undergraduate at Florida State University, Raff, despite his scientific promise, opts for Harvard Law School, believing that the environmental fight must be waged in the courtroom as well as the lab.  Returning home a legal gladiator, Raff grows increasingly alarmed by rapacious condo developers who are eager to pave and subdivide the wildlands surrounding the Chicobee River.  But one last battle awaits him in his epic struggle.  In a shattering ending that no reader will forget,  Raff  suddenly encounters the angry and corrupt ghosts of an old South  he thought had all but disappeared, and learns that â€œwar is a genetic imperative,â€ not only for ants but for men as well.     Part thriller, part parable, Anthill will not only transfix readers with its stunning twists and startling revelations, but will provide readers with new insights into the meaning of survival in our rapidly changing world. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13359'),
(9241, 'Anthill: a novel', 'Edward O. Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Inspirational and magical, the story of boy who grows up determined to save the world from its most savage ecological predator: Man himself. "What the hell do you want?" snarled Frogman at Raff Cody, as the boy stepped innocently onto the reputed murderer''s property. Fifteen years old, Raff, along with his older cousin, Junior, had only wanted to catch a glimpse of Frogmanâ€™s 1000-pound alligator. Thus, begins the saga of Anthill, which follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, whose improbable love of the "strange, beautiful, and elegant" world of ants ends up transforming his own life and the citizens of Nokobee County. Battling both snakes bites and cynical relatives who just donâ€™t understand his consuming fascination with the outdoors, Raff explores the pristine beauty of the Nokobee wildland. And in doing so, he witnesses the remarkable creation and destruction of four separate ant colonies (â€œThe Anthill Chroniclesâ€), whose histories are epics that unfold on picnic grounds, becoming a young naturalist in the process. An extraordinary undergraduate at Florida State University, Raff, despite his scientific promise, opts for Harvard Law School, believing that the environmental fight must be waged in the courtroom as well as the lab. Returning home a legal gladiator, Raff grows increasingly alarmed by rapacious condo developers who are eager to pave and subdivide the wildlands surrounding the Chicobee River. But one last battle awaits him in his epic struggle. In a shattering ending that no reader will forget, Raff suddenly encounters the angry and corrupt ghosts of an old South he thought had all but disappeared, and learns that â€œwar is a genetic imperative,â€ not only for ants but for men as well. Part thriller, part parable, Anthill will not only transfix readers with its stunning twists and startling revelations, but will provide readers with new insights into the meaning of survival in our rapidly changing world. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18870'),
(9242, 'Anthill: a novel', 'Edward O. Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Inspirational and magical, the story of boy who grows up determined to save the world from its most savage ecological predator: Man himself. "What the hell do you want?" snarled Frogman at Raff Cody, as the boy stepped innocently onto the reputed murderer''s property. Fifteen years old, Raff, along with his older cousin, Junior, had only wanted to catch a glimpse of Frogmanâ€™s 1000-pound alligator. Thus, begins the saga of Anthill, which follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, whose improbable love of the "strange, beautiful, and elegant" world of ants ends up transforming his own life and the citizens of Nokobee County. Battling both snakes bites and cynical relatives who just donâ€™t understand his consuming fascination with the outdoors, Raff explores the pristine beauty of the Nokobee wildland. And in doing so, he witnesses the remarkable creation and destruction of four separate ant colonies (â€œThe Anthill Chroniclesâ€), whose histories are epics that unfold on picnic grounds, becoming a young naturalist in the process. An extraordinary undergraduate at Florida State University, Raff, despite his scientific promise, opts for Harvard Law School, believing that the environmental fight must be waged in the courtroom as well as the lab. Returning home a legal gladiator, Raff grows increasingly alarmed by rapacious condo developers who are eager to pave and subdivide the wildlands surrounding the Chicobee River. But one last battle awaits him in his epic struggle. In a shattering ending that no reader will forget, Raff suddenly encounters the angry and corrupt ghosts of an old South he thought had all but disappeared, and learns that â€œwar is a genetic imperative,â€ not only for ants but for men as well. Part thriller, part parable, Anthill will not only transfix readers with its stunning twists and startling revelations, but will provide readers with new insights into the meaning of survival in our rapidly changing world. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27577'),
(9243, 'Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel', 'Hilary Thayer Hamann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Self-published in 2003, Hilary Thayer Hamannâ€™s Anthropology of an American Girl touched a nerve among readers, who identified with the sexual and intellectual awakening of its heroine, a young woman on the brink of adulthood.  A moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamannâ€™s first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed, high-pressured Manhattan of the 1980s. Centering on Evieâ€™s fragile relationship with her family and her thwarted love affair with Harrison Rourke, a professional boxer, the novel is both a love story and an exploration of the difficulty of finding oneâ€™s place in the world.  As Evie surrenders to the dazzling emotional highs of love and the crippling loneliness of heartbreak, she strives to reconcile her identity with the constraints that all relationshipsâ€”whether those familial or romantic, uplifting to the spirit or quietly detrimentalâ€”inherently place on us. Though she stumbles and strains against social conventions, Evie remains a strong yet sensitive observer of the world around her, often finding beauty and meaning in unexpected places. Newly edited and revised since its original publication, Anthropology of an American Girl is an extraordinary piece of writing, original in its vision and thrilling in its execution.       From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5071'),
(9244, 'Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel', 'Hilary Thayer Hamann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Self-published in 2003, Hilary Thayer Hamannâ€™s Anthropology of an American Girl touched a nerve among readers, who identified with the sexual and intellectual awakening of its heroine, a young woman on the brink of adulthood.  A moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamannâ€™s first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed, high-pressured Manhattan of the 1980s. Centering on Evieâ€™s fragile relationship with her family and her thwarted love affair with Harrison Rourke, a professional boxer, the novel is both a love story and an exploration of the difficulty of finding oneâ€™s place in the world.  As Evie surrenders to the dazzling emotional highs of love and the crippling loneliness of heartbreak, she strives to reconcile her identity with the constraints that all relationshipsâ€”whether those familial or romantic, uplifting to the spirit or quietly detrimentalâ€”inherently place on us. Though she stumbles and strains against social conventions, Evie remains a strong yet sensitive observer of the world around her, often finding beauty and meaning in unexpected places. Newly edited and revised since its original publication, Anthropology of an American Girl is an extraordinary piece of writing, original in its vision and thrilling in its execution.       From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10175'),
(9245, 'Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel', 'Hilary Thayer Hamann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Self-published in 2003, Hilary Thayer Hamannâ€™s Anthropology of an American Girl touched a nerve among readers, who identified with the sexual and intellectual awakening of its heroine, a young woman on the brink of adulthood. A moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamannâ€™s first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed, high-pressured Manhattan of the 1980s. Centering on Evieâ€™s fragile relationship with her family and her thwarted love affair with Harrison Rourke, a professional boxer, the novel is both a love story and an exploration of the difficulty of finding oneâ€™s place in the world. As Evie surrenders to the dazzling emotional highs of love and the crippling loneliness of heartbreak, she strives to reconcile her identity with the constraints that all relationshipsâ€”whether those familial or romantic, uplifting to the spirit or quietly detrimentalâ€”inherently place on us. Though she stumbles and strains against social conventions, Evie remains a strong yet sensitive observer of the world around her, often finding beauty and meaning in unexpected places. Newly edited and revised since its original publication, Anthropology of an American Girl is an extraordinary piece of writing, original in its vision and thrilling in its execution. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19560'),
(9246, 'Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel', 'Hilary Thayer Hamann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Self-published in 2003, Hilary Thayer Hamannâ€™s Anthropology of an American Girl touched a nerve among readers, who identified with the sexual and intellectual awakening of its heroine, a young woman on the brink of adulthood. A moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamannâ€™s first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed, high-pressured Manhattan of the 1980s. Centering on Evieâ€™s fragile relationship with her family and her thwarted love affair with Harrison Rourke, a professional boxer, the novel is both a love story and an exploration of the difficulty of finding oneâ€™s place in the world. As Evie surrenders to the dazzling emotional highs of love and the crippling loneliness of heartbreak, she strives to reconcile her identity with the constraints that all relationshipsâ€”whether those familial or romantic, uplifting to the spirit or quietly detrimentalâ€”inherently place on us. Though she stumbles and strains against social conventions, Evie remains a strong yet sensitive observer of the world around her, often finding beauty and meaning in unexpected places. Newly edited and revised since its original publication, Anthropology of an American Girl is an extraordinary piece of writing, original in its vision and thrilling in its execution. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28119'),
(9247, 'Anti-ice', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A new element has been discovered in a hidden vein near the South Pole. Anti-ice is harmless until warmed, when it releases vast energies that promise new wonders and threaten new horrors beyond humankind''s wildest dreams. "A major new talent!"--Arthur C. Clarke.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23004'),
(9248, 'Anti-Man', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sam was an android.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His flesh was the ultimate miracle of science, artificially created and completely self sustaining. And he had the unusual power to heal others. In fact, Sam was too good to live."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6068'),
(9249, 'Anti-man', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17856'),
(9250, 'Anti-man', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27419'),
(9251, 'Antiphon', 'Ken Scholes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nothing is as it seems to be.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to control the magick and technology that they sought to understand and claim for their own.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nebios, the boy who watched the destruction of the city of Windwir, now runs the vast deserts of the world, far from his beloved Marsh Queen. He is being hunted by strange women warriors, while his dreams are invaded by warnings from his dead father.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jin Li Tam, queen of the Ninefold Forest, guards her son as best she can against both murderous threats, and the usurper queen and her evangelists. They bring a message: Jakob is the child of promise of their Gospel, and the Crimson Empress is on her way.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And in hidden places, the remnants of the Androfrancine order formulate their response to the song pouring out of a silver crescent that was found in the wastes.\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nothing is as it seems to be.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to control the magick and technology that they sought to understand and claim for their own.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nebios, the boy who watched the destruction of the city of Windwir, now runs the vast deserts of the world, far from his beloved Marsh Queen. He is being hunted by strange women warriors, while his dreams are invaded by warnings from his dead father.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jin Li Tam, queen of the Ninefold Forest, guards her son as best she can against both murderous threats, and the usurper queen and her evangelists. They bring a message: Jakob is the child of promise of their Gospel, and the Crimson Empress is on her way.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And in hidden places, the remnants of the Androfrancine order formulate their response to the song pouring out of a silver crescent that was found in the wastes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3654'),
(9252, 'Antiphon', 'Ken Scholes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nothing is as it seems to be.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to control the magick and technology that they sought to understand and claim for their own.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nebios, the boy who watched the destruction of the city of Windwir, now runs the vast deserts of the world, far from his beloved Marsh Queen. He is being hunted by strange women warriors, while his dreams are invaded by warnings from his dead father.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jin Li Tam, queen of the Ninefold Forest, guards her son as best she can against both murderous threats, and the usurper queen and her evangelists. They bring a message: Jakob is the child of promise of their Gospel, and the Crimson Empress is on her way.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And in hidden places, the remnants of the Androfrancine order formulate their response to the song pouring out of a silver crescent that was found in the wastes.\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nothing is as it seems to be.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to control the magick and technology that they sought to understand and claim for their own.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nebios, the boy who watched the destruction of the city of Windwir, now runs the vast deserts of the world, far from his beloved Marsh Queen. He is being hunted by strange women warriors, while his dreams are invaded by warnings from his dead father.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jin Li Tam, queen of the Ninefold Forest, guards her son as best she can against both murderous threats, and the usurper queen and her evangelists. They bring a message: Jakob is the child of promise of their Gospel, and the Crimson Empress is on her way.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And in hidden places, the remnants of the Androfrancine order formulate their response to the song pouring out of a silver crescent that was found in the wastes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12528'),
(9253, 'Antiphon', 'Ken Scholes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Nothing is as it seems to be. The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to control the magick and technology that they sought to understand and claim for their own. Nebios, the boy who watched the destruction of the city of Windwir, now runs the vast deserts of the world, far from his beloved Marsh Queen. He is being hunted by strange women warriors, while his dreams are invaded by warnings from his dead father. Jin Li Tam, queen of the Ninefold Forest, guards her son as best she can against both murderous threats, and the usurper queen and her evangelists. They bring a message: Jakob is the child of promise of their Gospel, and the Crimson Empress is on her way. And in hidden places, the remnants of the Androfrancine order formulate their response to the song pouring out of a silver crescent that was found in the wastes. EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nothing is as it seems to be. The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to control the magick and technology that they sought to understand and claim for their own. Nebios, the boy who watched the destruction of the city of Windwir, now runs the vast deserts of the world, far from his beloved Marsh Queen. He is being hunted by strange women warriors, while his dreams are invaded by warnings from his dead father. Jin Li Tam, queen of the Ninefold Forest, guards her son as best she can against both murderous threats, and the usurper queen and her evangelists. They bring a message: Jakob is the child of promise of their Gospel, and the Crimson Empress is on her way. And in hidden places, the remnants of the Androfrancine order formulate their response to the song pouring out of a silver crescent that was found in the wastes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20704'),
(9254, 'The Anubis Gates', 'Tim Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25006'),
(9255, 'Anvil of Stars', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLike Orson Scott Card''s\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n , this sequel to\n <em>\n  The Forge of God\n </em>\n explores the issues of morality and justice, using children as its vehicle. Bear''s treatment differs, however, in that his characters have already lost their innocence and face their destiny with open eyes. As a stylist, Bear writes with a heady brilliance that communicates a sense of immediacy and credibility.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --_Library Journal_ on\n <em>\n  Anvil of Stars\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the outstanding sf novels of the current year is also the best book so far from an author whose versatility is continually growing.Â  Literate hard-science or alien invasion novels are no longer rare, but a book such as this, which effectively blends these concepts and is also compellingly written, is a joy to behold.â€Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _--ALA Booklist\n <em>\n  on\n </em>\n The Forge of God_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Forge of God\n </em>\n described the destruction of Earth itself by self-replicating robots, Von Neumann machines designed to use the planet''s mass to create more robotic creatures and spread throughout the Galaxy. Only a few humans have survived, aided by a mysterious alien race known only as â€œThe Benefactorsâ€, who arrived at Earth too late.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now the small group of human survivors is determined to track down the criminal race who launched the planet killers. Humanity is given a starship by The Benefactors, and driven only by revenge they set out to find the unknown beings who are responsible for the destruction of Earth, and many other worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5300'),
(9256, 'Anvil of Stars', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLike Orson Scott Card''s\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n , this sequel to\n <em>\n  The Forge of God\n </em>\n explores the issues of morality and justice, using children as its vehicle. Bear''s treatment differs, however, in that his characters have already lost their innocence and face their destiny with open eyes. As a stylist, Bear writes with a heady brilliance that communicates a sense of immediacy and credibility.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --_Library Journal_ on\n <em>\n  Anvil of Stars\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the outstanding sf novels of the current year is also the best book so far from an author whose versatility is continually growing.Â  Literate hard-science or alien invasion novels are no longer rare, but a book such as this, which effectively blends these concepts and is also compellingly written, is a joy to behold.â€Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _--ALA Booklist\n <em>\n  on\n </em>\n The Forge of God_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Forge of God\n </em>\n described the destruction of Earth itself by self-replicating robots, Von Neumann machines designed to use the planet''s mass to create more robotic creatures and spread throughout the Galaxy. Only a few humans have survived, aided by a mysterious alien race known only as â€œThe Benefactorsâ€, who arrived at Earth too late.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now the small group of human survivors is determined to track down the criminal race who launched the planet killers. Humanity is given a starship by The Benefactors, and driven only by revenge they set out to find the unknown beings who are responsible for the destruction of Earth, and many other worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8461'),
(9257, 'Anvil of Stars', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLike Orson Scott Card''s\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n , this sequel to\n <em>\n  The Forge of God\n </em>\n explores the issues of morality and justice, using children as its vehicle. Bear''s treatment differs, however, in that his characters have already lost their innocence and face their destiny with open eyes. As a stylist, Bear writes with a heady brilliance that communicates a sense of immediacy and credibility.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --_Library Journal_ on\n <em>\n  Anvil of Stars\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the outstanding sf novels of the current year is also the best book so far from an author whose versatility is continually growing.Â  Literate hard-science or alien invasion novels are no longer rare, but a book such as this, which effectively blends these concepts and is also compellingly written, is a joy to behold.â€Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _--ALA Booklist\n <em>\n  on\n </em>\n The Forge of God_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Forge of God\n </em>\n described the destruction of Earth itself by self-replicating robots, Von Neumann machines designed to use the planet''s mass to create more robotic creatures and spread throughout the Galaxy. Only a few humans have survived, aided by a mysterious alien race known only as â€œThe Benefactorsâ€, who arrived at Earth too late.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now the small group of human survivors is determined to track down the criminal race who launched the planet killers. Humanity is given a starship by The Benefactors, and driven only by revenge they set out to find the unknown beings who are responsible for the destruction of Earth, and many other worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19339'),
(9258, 'Anxiety &amp; Depression Workbook for Dummies (ISBN', '0764597930)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15423'),
(9259, 'Any Man of Mine', 'Rachel Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What happens in Vegas . . . doesn''t always stay there.\n</p>\n<p>\n Autumn Haven''s Las Vegas "to-do" list said to catch a show and play the slotsâ€”not wake up married to a sexy jerk like Sam LeClaire. The first moment she saw him eyeing her like a luscious piece of the dessert buffet, her usually responsible self told her to run. And she didâ€”right into the wildest fantasy weekend of her life. But Monday morning jolted her back to reality, and before she could say "pass the coffee," Sam was gone.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now a successful wedding planner, Autumn hasn''t clapped eyes on the heartbreaking hockey superstar for over two years . . . until she organizes his teammate''s "Special Day," where Sam makes a big play to pick up where he left off! But she has vowed any man of hers plays for keeps. Is Sam the man for her or does she banish him to the sin bin forever?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the publication of\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Rachel Gibson''s first book, readers discovered one of contemporary romance''s freshest voices. Four of her novels were named among the Top Ten Favorite Books of the Year by Romance Writers of America. She has won numerous awards, including Borders Bestselling Romantic Comedy, National Reader''s Choice, and two RITAÂ® Awards for the Best Single Contemporary Romance Title of the Year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2032'),
(9260, 'Any Man of Mine', 'Rachel Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n What happens in Vegas . . . doesn''t always stay there.\n</p>\n<p>\n Autumn Haven''s Las Vegas "to-do" list said to catch a show and play the slotsâ€”not wake up married to a sexy jerk like Sam LeClaire. The first moment she saw him eyeing her like a luscious piece of the dessert buffet, her usually responsible self told her to run. And she didâ€”right into the wildest fantasy weekend of her life. But Monday morning jolted her back to reality, and before she could say "pass the coffee," Sam was gone.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now a successful wedding planner, Autumn hasn''t clapped eyes on the heartbreaking hockey superstar for over two years . . . until she organizes his teammate''s "Special Day," where Sam makes a big play to pick up where he left off! But she has vowed any man of hers plays for keeps. Is Sam the man for her or does she banish him to the sin bin forever?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the publication of\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author Rachel Gibson''s first book, readers discovered one of contemporary romance''s freshest voices. Four of her novels were named among the Top Ten Favorite Books of the Year by Romance Writers of America. She has won numerous awards, including Borders Bestselling Romantic Comedy, National Reader''s Choice, and two RITAÂ® Awards for the Best Single Contemporary Romance Title of the Year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9885'),
(9261, 'Any Way You Want Me', 'Jamie Sobrato', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n She''s learned the hard way that following her impulses lands her in trouble. But being a by-the-book girl has never been so hard for Yasmine Talbot since the hot new guy started at work. Meeting deadlines is impossible with that delicious bod around. It''s time to corner him under the mistletoe with a naughty suggestion or two!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Alex DiCarlo is so hot for Yasmine, he''s almost forgotten that he''s undercover investigating her. He tells himself that spending the holidays with her is perfect for some intimate observation. Truth is, he''s so enjoying this sinfully sexy weekend, he wants it to continue. Too bad flings weren''t meant to last....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4693'),
(9262, 'Any Way You Want Me', 'Jamie Sobrato', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n She''s learned the hard way that following her impulses lands her in trouble. But being a by-the-book girl has never been so hard for Yasmine Talbot since the hot new guy started at work. Meeting deadlines is impossible with that delicious bod around. It''s time to corner him under the mistletoe with a naughty suggestion or two!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Alex DiCarlo is so hot for Yasmine, he''s almost forgotten that he''s undercover investigating her. He tells himself that spending the holidays with her is perfect for some intimate observation. Truth is, he''s so enjoying this sinfully sexy weekend, he wants it to continue. Too bad flings weren''t meant to last....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12773'),
(9263, 'Any Way You Want Me', 'Jamie Sobrato', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: She''s learned the hard way that following her impulses lands her in trouble. But being a by-the-book girl has never been so hard for Yasmine Talbot since the hot new guy started at work. Meeting deadlines is impossible with that delicious bod around. It''s time to corner him under the mistletoe with a naughty suggestion or two! Alex DiCarlo is so hot for Yasmine, he''s almost forgotten that he''s undercover investigating her. He tells himself that spending the holidays with her is perfect for some intimate observation. Truth is, he''s so enjoying this sinfully sexy weekend, he wants it to continue. Too bad flings weren''t meant to last....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19948'),
(9264, 'Anybody Out There?', 'Marian Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Bestselling author Marian Keyes has delighted readers with the lives, loves, and foibles of the irrepressible Walsh sisters and their eccentric mammy. In this Life in the Big Apple is perfect for Anna. She has the best job in the world, a lovely apartment, and great friends. Then one morning, she wakes up in her mammy''s house in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, hands smashed up, and no memory at all of what happened. As soon as she''s able, Anna''s flying back to Manhattan, mystified but determined to find out how her life turned upside down. As her past slowly begins coming back to her, she sets out on an outrageous questâ€”involving lilies, psychics, mediums, and anyone who can point her in the right direction.   Marrying life''s darker bits with wild humor and tender wit, Anybody Out There? is a strange and wonderfully charming look at love here and ever after.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14157'),
(9265, 'Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties', 'Lucy Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The term Roaring Twenties connotates an era of uninhibited excess, characterized by drinking, shameless flappers, jazz, and gangland wars. All of these aspects are covered in this enjoyable, if uneven, survey of the decade. Moore also convincingly asserts that this was a period of significant social and political change with long-term effects. Utilizing a topical approach, she offers interesting descriptions of the emergence of organized crime, the excesses of big business, the Harlem Renaissance, and the stirrings of civil rights activism. She provides many useful tidbits about personalities as varied as Al Capone and Marcus Garvey. As long as Moore stays with her descriptive narrative, her account moves along smoothly. Unfortunately, her efforts to analyze these trends and to link them to our current economic and political conditions donâ€™t ring true and are often based upon unwarranted assumptions. Still, for general readers, this work provides an interesting and wide-ranging look at a tumultuous period. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for\n   <em>\n    Anything Goes\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³A gorgeous historical indulgence.Â² --_InStyle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³Quickstepping over the surface of the 1920s, a high-octane and high- speed decade that F. Scott Fitzgerald christened the Jazz Age, U.K. writer Moore emphasizes that the 1920s was a time a lot like our recent past.Â² --_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³Lucy MooreÂ¹s enlightening, well-researched biography of the 1920s will appeal to scholars as well as a general audience. Filled with attention-grabbing details that many historians neglect and a wide range of subjectsâ€¹from celebrities like Charlie Chaplin or Bessie Smith to political corruption and social upheavalâ€¹_Anything Goes_ will not disappoint readers, no matter their educational background.Â² --_ForeWord Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³A varied and dazzling portrait gallery of crooks and film stars, boxers and presidents, each brilliantly delineated and coloured in by a historian with a novelistÂ¹s relish for human foibles.Â² --_The Sunday Times_ (London)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3314'),
(9266, 'Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties', 'Lucy Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The term Roaring Twenties connotates an era of uninhibited excess, characterized by drinking, shameless flappers, jazz, and gangland wars. All of these aspects are covered in this enjoyable, if uneven, survey of the decade. Moore also convincingly asserts that this was a period of significant social and political change with long-term effects. Utilizing a topical approach, she offers interesting descriptions of the emergence of organized crime, the excesses of big business, the Harlem Renaissance, and the stirrings of civil rights activism. She provides many useful tidbits about personalities as varied as Al Capone and Marcus Garvey. As long as Moore stays with her descriptive narrative, her account moves along smoothly. Unfortunately, her efforts to analyze these trends and to link them to our current economic and political conditions donâ€™t ring true and are often based upon unwarranted assumptions. Still, for general readers, this work provides an interesting and wide-ranging look at a tumultuous period. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for\n   <em>\n    Anything Goes\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³A gorgeous historical indulgence.Â² --_InStyle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³Quickstepping over the surface of the 1920s, a high-octane and high- speed decade that F. Scott Fitzgerald christened the Jazz Age, U.K. writer Moore emphasizes that the 1920s was a time a lot like our recent past.Â² --_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³Lucy MooreÂ¹s enlightening, well-researched biography of the 1920s will appeal to scholars as well as a general audience. Filled with attention-grabbing details that many historians neglect and a wide range of subjectsâ€¹from celebrities like Charlie Chaplin or Bessie Smith to political corruption and social upheavalâ€¹_Anything Goes_ will not disappoint readers, no matter their educational background.Â² --_ForeWord Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³A varied and dazzling portrait gallery of crooks and film stars, boxers and presidents, each brilliantly delineated and coloured in by a historian with a novelistÂ¹s relish for human foibles.Â² --_The Sunday Times_ (London)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11574'),
(9267, 'Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties', 'Lucy Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The term Roaring Twenties connotates an era of uninhibited excess, characterized by drinking, shameless flappers, jazz, and gangland wars. All of these aspects are covered in this enjoyable, if uneven, survey of the decade. Moore also convincingly asserts that this was a period of significant social and political change with long-term effects. Utilizing a topical approach, she offers interesting descriptions of the emergence of organized crime, the excesses of big business, the Harlem Renaissance, and the stirrings of civil rights activism. She provides many useful tidbits about personalities as varied as Al Capone and Marcus Garvey. As long as Moore stays with her descriptive narrative, her account moves along smoothly. Unfortunately, her efforts to analyze these trends and to link them to our current economic and political conditions donâ€™t ring true and are often based upon unwarranted assumptions. Still, for general readers, this work provides an interesting and wide-ranging look at a tumultuous period. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for\n   <em>\n    Anything Goes\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³A gorgeous historical indulgence.Â² --_InStyle_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³Quickstepping over the surface of the 1920s, a high-octane and high- speed decade that F. Scott Fitzgerald christened the Jazz Age, U.K. writer Moore emphasizes that the 1920s was a time a lot like our recent past.Â² --_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³Lucy MooreÂ¹s enlightening, well-researched biography of the 1920s will appeal to scholars as well as a general audience. Filled with attention-grabbing details that many historians neglect and a wide range of subjectsâ€¹from celebrities like Charlie Chaplin or Bessie Smith to political corruption and social upheavalâ€¹_Anything Goes_ will not disappoint readers, no matter their educational background.Â² --_ForeWord Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â³A varied and dazzling portrait gallery of crooks and film stars, boxers and presidents, each brilliantly delineated and coloured in by a historian with a novelistÂ¹s relish for human foibles.Â² --_The Sunday Times_ (London)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21258'),
(9268, 'Apache Security', 'Ivan Ristic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This all-purpose guide for locking down Apache arms readers with all the information they need to securely deploy applications. Administrators and programmers alike will benefit from a concise introduction to the theory of securing Apache, plus a wealth of practical advice and real-life examples. Topics covered include installation, server sharing, logging and monitoring, web applications, PHP and SSL/TLS, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5036'),
(9269, 'Apache Security', 'Ivan Ristic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This all-purpose guide for locking down Apache arms readers with all the information they need to securely deploy applications. Administrators and programmers alike will benefit from a concise introduction to the theory of securing Apache, plus a wealth of practical advice and real-life examples. Topics covered include installation, server sharing, logging and monitoring, web applications, PHP and SSL/TLS, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13531'),
(9270, 'Apache Security', 'Ivan Ristic', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This all-purpose guide for locking down Apache arms readers with all the information they need to securely deploy applications. Administrators and programmers alike will benefit from a concise introduction to the theory of securing Apache, plus a wealth of practical advice and real-life examples. Topics covered include installation, server sharing, logging and monitoring, web applications, PHP and SSL/TLS, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19729'),
(9271, 'Apaches', 'Lorenzo Carcaterra', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carcaterra, author of a powerful, best-selling memoir, Sleepers (Ballantine, 1995), here weighs in with his first novel. Although information on the plot is a bit sketchy, the story centers around a group of controversial New York City cops.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Remember these names: Boomer. Dead-Eye. Pins. Geronimo. Reverend Jim. Mrs. Columbo. They were great cops. The best cops. But they are cops no more.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Now they are apaches--a renegade unit working on their own.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n With this novel, the author of the stunning #1 bestseller\n <strong>\n  Sleepers\n </strong>\n returns to the mean streets he knows so well. And in doing so, he has written his most explosive, electrifying, and startling book yet.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â It is the early 1980s. Crack cocaine has made its devastating appearance. Violence is escalating and so is an unnerving lack of morality. Things are happening that have never happened before.\n</p>\n<p>\n One of those things is the brutal kidnapping of an innocent 12-year-old girl. But the kidnapper has made a deadly mistake. He has brought Boomer Frontierie back to life, back to the streets. And back into action. A New York City detective forced to retire after being wounded in a drug bust, Boomer thirsts to return to the life he loved--the life of a cop. When an old friend turns to him for help, Boomer has the excuse he needs. And when the simple kidnapping turns into something more, something much more evil, even more horrifying, Boomer realizes that he can once again find a way to serve justice.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are others like Boomer. Cops who can no longer be cops. He brings them together, bringing them back to life as well. Even as they face almost certain death.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Apaches\n </strong>\n is the story of an extraordinary band of cops. Some might call them criminals. Some might call them heroes. But theirs is a world where good is always shadowed by bad, where right is almost indecipherable from wrong, and where the living can, within mere moments, cross over to the world of the dead.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Lorenzo Carcaterra has written the most exciting novel of the year. Like\n <strong>\n  Sleepers\n </strong>\n , it is a book that will never be forgotten.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3262');
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(9272, 'Apaches', 'Lorenzo Carcaterra', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carcaterra, author of a powerful, best-selling memoir, Sleepers (Ballantine, 1995), here weighs in with his first novel. Although information on the plot is a bit sketchy, the story centers around a group of controversial New York City cops.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Remember these names: Boomer. Dead-Eye. Pins. Geronimo. Reverend Jim. Mrs. Columbo. They were great cops. The best cops. But they are cops no more.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Now they are apaches--a renegade unit working on their own.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n With this novel, the author of the stunning #1 bestseller\n <strong>\n  Sleepers\n </strong>\n returns to the mean streets he knows so well. And in doing so, he has written his most explosive, electrifying, and startling book yet.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â It is the early 1980s. Crack cocaine has made its devastating appearance. Violence is escalating and so is an unnerving lack of morality. Things are happening that have never happened before.\n</p>\n<p>\n One of those things is the brutal kidnapping of an innocent 12-year-old girl. But the kidnapper has made a deadly mistake. He has brought Boomer Frontierie back to life, back to the streets. And back into action. A New York City detective forced to retire after being wounded in a drug bust, Boomer thirsts to return to the life he loved--the life of a cop. When an old friend turns to him for help, Boomer has the excuse he needs. And when the simple kidnapping turns into something more, something much more evil, even more horrifying, Boomer realizes that he can once again find a way to serve justice.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are others like Boomer. Cops who can no longer be cops. He brings them together, bringing them back to life as well. Even as they face almost certain death.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Apaches\n </strong>\n is the story of an extraordinary band of cops. Some might call them criminals. Some might call them heroes. But theirs is a world where good is always shadowed by bad, where right is almost indecipherable from wrong, and where the living can, within mere moments, cross over to the world of the dead.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Lorenzo Carcaterra has written the most exciting novel of the year. Like\n <strong>\n  Sleepers\n </strong>\n , it is a book that will never be forgotten.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8800'),
(9273, 'Apaches', 'Lorenzo Carcaterra', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carcaterra, author of a powerful, best-selling memoir, Sleepers (Ballantine, 1995), here weighs in with his first novel. Although information on the plot is a bit sketchy, the story centers around a group of controversial New York City cops.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Remember these names: Boomer. Dead-Eye. Pins. Geronimo. Reverend Jim. Mrs. Columbo. They were great cops. The best cops. But they are cops no more.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Now they are apaches--a renegade unit working on their own.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n With this novel, the author of the stunning #1 bestseller\n <strong>\n  Sleepers\n </strong>\n returns to the mean streets he knows so well. And in doing so, he has written his most explosive, electrifying, and startling book yet.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â It is the early 1980s. Crack cocaine has made its devastating appearance. Violence is escalating and so is an unnerving lack of morality. Things are happening that have never happened before.\n</p>\n<p>\n One of those things is the brutal kidnapping of an innocent 12-year-old girl. But the kidnapper has made a deadly mistake. He has brought Boomer Frontierie back to life, back to the streets. And back into action. A New York City detective forced to retire after being wounded in a drug bust, Boomer thirsts to return to the life he loved--the life of a cop. When an old friend turns to him for help, Boomer has the excuse he needs. And when the simple kidnapping turns into something more, something much more evil, even more horrifying, Boomer realizes that he can once again find a way to serve justice.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are others like Boomer. Cops who can no longer be cops. He brings them together, bringing them back to life as well. Even as they face almost certain death.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Apaches\n </strong>\n is the story of an extraordinary band of cops. Some might call them criminals. Some might call them heroes. But theirs is a world where good is always shadowed by bad, where right is almost indecipherable from wrong, and where the living can, within mere moments, cross over to the world of the dead.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Lorenzo Carcaterra has written the most exciting novel of the year. Like\n <strong>\n  Sleepers\n </strong>\n , it is a book that will never be forgotten.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21211'),
(9274, 'Apararea lui Socrate', 'Platon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25229'),
(9275, 'Apartment 16', 'Adam Nevill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Some doors are better left closed... In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it''s been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She''s been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago. Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/99'),
(9276, 'Apartment 16', 'Adam Nevill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Some doors are better left closed... In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it''s been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She''s been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago. Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11586'),
(9277, 'Apartment 16', 'Adam Nevill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Some doors are better left closed... In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it''s been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She''s been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago. Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17225'),
(9278, 'Apathy and Other Small Victories', 'Paul Neilan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time itâ€™s complicated: there''s a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she''s his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord''s wife, and the bizarrely appealing deaf assistant to Shaneâ€™s cosmically unstable dentist. When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesnâ€™t care enough to act like he didnâ€™t do it, the question becomes just how heâ€™ll clear the good name he never had and doesn''t particularly want: his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14155'),
(9279, 'Apathy and Other Small Victories', 'Paul Neilan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time itâ€™s complicated: there''s a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she''s his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord''s wife, and the bizarrely appealing deaf assistant to Shaneâ€™s cosmically unstable dentist. When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesnâ€™t care enough to act like he didnâ€™t do it, the question becomes just how heâ€™ll clear the good name he never had and doesn''t particularly want: his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22549'),
(9280, 'Apathy for the Devil', 'Nick Kent', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The subtitle of Kent''s first memoir, and first book since 2002''s The Dark Stuff collected his writings on rock music, says it all: this is a staggering and vibrant account of one music critic''s decadent decade. Kent, whose journalism helped define the UK''s New Musical Express in its heyday, reportedly spent 15 years working on this book, sifting through his drug-addled memory to provide a blow-by-blow, year-by-year account of his dark and chaotic journey from teenage fan to celebrated music critic to serious junkie. Packed with up-close-and-personal encounters on both sides of the Atlantic with the likes of the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and Led Zeppelin, this memoir is a refreshingly bleak and grimy chronicle of an oft-mythologized era. Kent''s sometimes unfavorable recollections seldom veer into character assassinations, nor does he glorify the sex, drugs, and rock''n''roll lifestyle that nearly killed him. Along the way, Kent falls in love with Chrissie Hynde, takes a beating from Sid Vicious, and finds a life-saver in Iggy Pop. Kent''s personal, candid style makes the exploits, few of which are pretty or heroic, read like an intimate all-night conversation. 10 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  The Onionâ€™s\n </em>\n AV Club, 9/1/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  â€œ\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Apathy\n </em>\n ping-pongs easily between personal reminiscences and more general overviews of rockâ€™s shape each year.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Goldmine\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   ,\n  </em>\n  10/1\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA vibrant story, an autobiography that never hits auto-pilotâ€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Library Journal_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   ,\n  </em>\n  9/24\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œA candid, graphic, and fascinating memoir of [Kentâ€™s] 1970sâ€¦ Amazing true stories on every pageâ€¦ Highly recommended for anyone interested in the dark days of rock and in British rock journalism.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Hartford\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Advocate, _10/15/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNearly every page of\n <em>\n  Apathy\n </em>\n contains a scene about which you find yourself muttering out loud, â€˜No way,â€™ and two pages later Kent has fleshed it out so completely that you can almost hear him responding â€˜Wayâ€™â€¦If you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall to rock â€˜nâ€™ roll debauchery, Nick Kent is your man.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Buffalo\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n _ News\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ_Apathy_ is not some sordid tale of rockstar trainspottingâ€¦Kent mattered (and matters still) because he was a great writer, a passionate music love and a man able to tap into the cultural zeitgeist at will.Â Essential reading for anyone who cares about the rock culture of the â€˜70s.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Glide Magazine\n </em>\n , 10/27/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ[A]nyone who can write a memoir that includes folks like David Bowie, Chrissie Hynde, Lou Reed, and Keith Richards and never comes off as a name-dropper must be telling a pretty good story, wouldnâ€™t you say?â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Milwaukee_\n <strong>\n </strong>\n _ Shepherd Express_, 11/8/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ[A] compelling page-turner and revealing look at the origins of heavy metal, space rock, glitter and punk.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Crawdaddy! ,\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n 11/24/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œAt once sentimental, salacious, and sometimes shocking slice of essential music memoirâ€¦If there is redemption in Kentâ€™s decade of groping in the dark, itâ€™s that he lived to illuminate it; his emotional appreciation of rockâ€™s art prevails over 30 years of chitchat and theory about itâ€¦A whistle blower and old-time investigative journalist, Kent fulfills a necessary function as truth teller in the flighty discourse of pop culture. Reporting back from a time when the complicity of the press and the audience converged to become the great rock â€˜nâ€™ roll swindle, heâ€™s done his due diligence and given us more than a glimpse behind the curtain.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Detroit\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n _ Metrotimes,_ 11/30/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œOne of the more fascinating reads of the year.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Metroland\n </em>\n , 12/13/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œEnglishman Nick Kent had a front-row seat for the tumult of music that spilled out of the â€™60s into the â€™70sâ€¦He depicts it all with the same honest flair that put him on the map as a journalist in the first place.â€Â \n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Houston\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n _ Press_, 12/15/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œKnow this: Nick Kent had more fun by age 24 than you will during your entire life.Â His fascinating eyewitness accounts include musical (but mostly non-musical) recreational pursuits with a who''s who of ''70s rockâ€¦ An eminently readable and rollicking ride,\n <em>\n  Apathy for the Devil\n </em>\n â€¦is a great read. Kent''s hero, and\n <em>\n  Almost Famous\n </em>\n cameo, Lester Bangs would be proud.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  , 2/28/11\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA staggering and vibrant account of one music critic''s decadent decadeâ€¦A blow-by-blow, year-by-year account of [Kentâ€™s] dark and chaotic journey from teenage fan to celebrated music critic to serious junkie. Packed with up-close-and-personal encounters on both sides of the Atlanticâ€¦this memoir is a refreshingly bleak and grimy chronicle of an oft-mythologized eraâ€¦Kent''s personal, candid style makes the exploits, few of which are pretty or heroic, read like an intimate all-night conversation.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9405'),
(9281, 'The Ape Who Guards the Balance', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Named 1998 Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America, Elizabeth Peters   is also a doctor of Egyptology whose mysteries have submerged readers in the  vivid turn-of-the-century world of Amelia Peabody.  In *The Ape Who  Guards the Balance* Peters captures the immediacy of uncovering a new  Egyptian tomb within the context of a tightly plotted murder investigation  involving the entire Emerson Peabody clan.  The characters, including  Amelia''s husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and her gifted son, Ramses, are  meticulously drawn. As in previous novels the dialogue is reminiscent of  *The Thin Man*.  When a man calls out to passing suffragettes, "You  ought to be ''ome washin'' your ''usband''s trousers!" Ramses shoots back, "I  assure you, sir, the lady''s trousers are not in such sore need of  laundering as your own." Peters also toys with differing narrative  perspectives, and Ramses emerges as a possible successor to his mother''s  legacy of crime solving.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Ape Who Guards the Balance* begins in 1907 in England where  Amelia is attending a suffragettes'' rally outside the home of Mr. Geoffrey  Romer of the House of Commons. It seems Romer is one of the few remaining  private collectors of Egyptian antiquities, and a series of bizarre events  at the protest soon embroil Amelia in grave personal danger.  Suspecting  that the Master Criminal, Sethos, is behind their problems, the Emerson  Peabodys hasten to Egypt to continue their studies in the Valley of Kings  where they soon acquire a papyrus of the *Book of the Dead*.  As with  past seasons, however, their archaeological expedition is interrupted.  The  murdered body of a woman is found in the Nile.   Ramses, Radcliffe, and Amelia all have their theories as to the origin of  the crime, but their own lives might soon be at stake if the cult of Thoth  and their ancient book is, indeed, involved.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Other Peabody mysteries include *Seeing a Large Cat*, *The Hippopotamus Pool*,  *The Snake, the Crocodile,  and the Dog*, *The  Deeds of the Disturber*, *Lion in the Valley*, *The Curse of the Pharaohs*,  and *Crocodile on the  Sandbank*. *--Patrick O''Kelley*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5732'),
(9282, 'The Ape Who Guards the Balance', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Named 1998 Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America, Elizabeth Peters is also a doctor of Egyptology whose mysteries have submerged readers in the vivid turn-of-the-century world of Amelia Peabody. In *The Ape Who Guards the Balance* Peters captures the immediacy of uncovering a new Egyptian tomb within the context of a tightly plotted murder investigation involving the entire Emerson Peabody clan. The characters, including Amelia''s husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and her gifted son, Ramses, are meticulously drawn. As in previous novels the dialogue is reminiscent of *The Thin Man*. When a man calls out to passing suffragettes, "You ought to be ''ome washin'' your ''usband''s trousers!" Ramses shoots back, "I assure you, sir, the lady''s trousers are not in such sore need of laundering as your own." Peters also toys with differing narrative perspectives, and Ramses emerges as a possible successor to his mother''s legacy of crime solving. *The Ape Who Guards the Balance* begins in 1907 in England where Amelia is attending a suffragettes'' rally outside the home of Mr. Geoffrey Romer of the House of Commons. It seems Romer is one of the few remaining private collectors of Egyptian antiquities, and a series of bizarre events at the protest soon embroil Amelia in grave personal danger. Suspecting that the Master Criminal, Sethos, is behind their problems, the Emerson Peabodys hasten to Egypt to continue their studies in the Valley of Kings where they soon acquire a papyrus of the *Book of the Dead*. As with past seasons, however, their archaeological expedition is interrupted. The murdered body of a woman is found in the Nile. Ramses, Radcliffe, and Amelia all have their theories as to the origin of the crime, but their own lives might soon be at stake if the cult of Thoth and their ancient book is, indeed, involved. Other Peabody mysteries include *Seeing a Large Cat*, *The Hippopotamus Pool*, *The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog*, *The Deeds of the Disturber*, *Lion in the Valley*, *The Curse of the Pharaohs*, and *Crocodile on the Sandbank*. *--Patrick O''Kelley*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18943'),
(9283, 'The Ape Who Guards the Balance', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Named 1998 Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America, Elizabeth Peters   is also a doctor of Egyptology whose mysteries have submerged readers in the  vivid turn-of-the-century world of Amelia Peabody.  In *The Ape Who  Guards the Balance* Peters captures the immediacy of uncovering a new  Egyptian tomb within the context of a tightly plotted murder investigation  involving the entire Emerson Peabody clan.  The characters, including  Amelia''s husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and her gifted son, Ramses, are  meticulously drawn. As in previous novels the dialogue is reminiscent of  *The Thin Man*.  When a man calls out to passing suffragettes, "You  ought to be ''ome washin'' your ''usband''s trousers!" Ramses shoots back, "I  assure you, sir, the lady''s trousers are not in such sore need of  laundering as your own." Peters also toys with differing narrative  perspectives, and Ramses emerges as a possible successor to his mother''s  legacy of crime solving.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Ape Who Guards the Balance* begins in 1907 in England where  Amelia is attending a suffragettes'' rally outside the home of Mr. Geoffrey  Romer of the House of Commons. It seems Romer is one of the few remaining  private collectors of Egyptian antiquities, and a series of bizarre events  at the protest soon embroil Amelia in grave personal danger.  Suspecting  that the Master Criminal, Sethos, is behind their problems, the Emerson  Peabodys hasten to Egypt to continue their studies in the Valley of Kings  where they soon acquire a papyrus of the *Book of the Dead*.  As with  past seasons, however, their archaeological expedition is interrupted.  The  murdered body of a woman is found in the Nile.   Ramses, Radcliffe, and Amelia all have their theories as to the origin of  the crime, but their own lives might soon be at stake if the cult of Thoth  and their ancient book is, indeed, involved.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Other Peabody mysteries include *Seeing a Large Cat*, *The Hippopotamus Pool*,  *The Snake, the Crocodile,  and the Dog*, *The  Deeds of the Disturber*, *Lion in the Valley*, *The Curse of the Pharaohs*,  and *Crocodile on the  Sandbank*. *--Patrick O''Kelley*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27721'),
(9284, 'Aphrodite', 'Russell Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Ludlum meets Dashiell Hammett in this gripping, wildly plotted thriller by the author of Gideon and Icarus. In the sleepy town of East End, New York, former homicide cop Justin Westwood is trying to escape the tragedy of his past by consuming scotch and writing traffic tickets for the local police department. The murder of a young reporter (disguised as an accident), however, catapults him out of his stasis and into a complicated investigation. A terrified witness tells of a blond killer, whom readers first met in the book''s opening pages murdering another young woman. As Justin investigates, it seems that the police and the FBI are always one step ahead of him, and that folks with any connection to the case start turning up dead. Signs point to a sinister fountain-of-youth project run by a mysterious, all-powerful cabal, which the reporter had accidentally uncovered. If Westwood penetrates the secrets of the Aphrodite program, he''s sure to be their next victim. A smalltown cop does battle with a great conspiracy: the plot may sound conventional, even hackneyed, but Andrews sustains white-hot tension throughout, bolstered by enough surprises and body blows to satisfy even a hardened mystery/conspiracy buff. The suspense flags slightly at midpoint, but elsewhere the pace is fast, the dialogue sharp, the characters skillfully drawn and the familiar, heady whodunit action cleverly handled.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n From the author of\n <em>\n  Gideon\n </em>\n (1999) and\n <em>\n  Icarus\n </em>\n (2001) comes another thriller that''s propelled as much by its characters as its plot. In a small Long Island town, a newspaper reporter is found dead, apparently murdered. Justin Westwood, a member of the local police force who would much rather keep to the background, reluctantly gets involved in the investigation. His problem: find out how the victim''s last story, the obituary of a little-known Hollywood actor, could possible have led to her murder. Soon Justin is up against something much bigger--and much weirder--than he could possibly have imagined. The story is solid, but it''s the lead character who elevates the novel above your typical thriller. Justin--the small-town cop in a town without murder, who clearly knows his way around a homicide investigation--keeps us flipping the pages as fast as we can. As we watch him solve the mystery, we''re working on a puzzle of our own: Who is Justin, and where did he come from? Top of the line.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1508'),
(9285, 'Aphrodite', 'Russell Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Ludlum meets Dashiell Hammett in this gripping, wildly plotted thriller by the author of Gideon and Icarus. In the sleepy town of East End, New York, former homicide cop Justin Westwood is trying to escape the tragedy of his past by consuming scotch and writing traffic tickets for the local police department. The murder of a young reporter (disguised as an accident), however, catapults him out of his stasis and into a complicated investigation. A terrified witness tells of a blond killer, whom readers first met in the book''s opening pages murdering another young woman. As Justin investigates, it seems that the police and the FBI are always one step ahead of him, and that folks with any connection to the case start turning up dead. Signs point to a sinister fountain-of-youth project run by a mysterious, all-powerful cabal, which the reporter had accidentally uncovered. If Westwood penetrates the secrets of the Aphrodite program, he''s sure to be their next victim. A smalltown cop does battle with a great conspiracy: the plot may sound conventional, even hackneyed, but Andrews sustains white-hot tension throughout, bolstered by enough surprises and body blows to satisfy even a hardened mystery/conspiracy buff. The suspense flags slightly at midpoint, but elsewhere the pace is fast, the dialogue sharp, the characters skillfully drawn and the familiar, heady whodunit action cleverly handled.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n From the author of\n <em>\n  Gideon\n </em>\n (1999) and\n <em>\n  Icarus\n </em>\n (2001) comes another thriller that''s propelled as much by its characters as its plot. In a small Long Island town, a newspaper reporter is found dead, apparently murdered. Justin Westwood, a member of the local police force who would much rather keep to the background, reluctantly gets involved in the investigation. His problem: find out how the victim''s last story, the obituary of a little-known Hollywood actor, could possible have led to her murder. Soon Justin is up against something much bigger--and much weirder--than he could possibly have imagined. The story is solid, but it''s the lead character who elevates the novel above your typical thriller. Justin--the small-town cop in a town without murder, who clearly knows his way around a homicide investigation--keeps us flipping the pages as fast as we can. As we watch him solve the mystery, we''re working on a puzzle of our own: Who is Justin, and where did he come from? Top of the line.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8204'),
(9286, 'Aphrodite', 'Russell Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Ludlum meets Dashiell Hammett in this gripping, wildly plotted thriller by the author of Gideon and Icarus. In the sleepy town of East End, New York, former homicide cop Justin Westwood is trying to escape the tragedy of his past by consuming scotch and writing traffic tickets for the local police department. The murder of a young reporter (disguised as an accident), however, catapults him out of his stasis and into a complicated investigation. A terrified witness tells of a blond killer, whom readers first met in the book''s opening pages murdering another young woman. As Justin investigates, it seems that the police and the FBI are always one step ahead of him, and that folks with any connection to the case start turning up dead. Signs point to a sinister fountain-of-youth project run by a mysterious, all-powerful cabal, which the reporter had accidentally uncovered. If Westwood penetrates the secrets of the Aphrodite program, he''s sure to be their next victim. A smalltown cop does battle with a great conspiracy: the plot may sound conventional, even hackneyed, but Andrews sustains white-hot tension throughout, bolstered by enough surprises and body blows to satisfy even a hardened mystery/conspiracy buff. The suspense flags slightly at midpoint, but elsewhere the pace is fast, the dialogue sharp, the characters skillfully drawn and the familiar, heady whodunit action cleverly handled.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n From the author of\n <em>\n  Gideon\n </em>\n (1999) and\n <em>\n  Icarus\n </em>\n (2001) comes another thriller that''s propelled as much by its characters as its plot. In a small Long Island town, a newspaper reporter is found dead, apparently murdered. Justin Westwood, a member of the local police force who would much rather keep to the background, reluctantly gets involved in the investigation. His problem: find out how the victim''s last story, the obituary of a little-known Hollywood actor, could possible have led to her murder. Soon Justin is up against something much bigger--and much weirder--than he could possibly have imagined. The story is solid, but it''s the lead character who elevates the novel above your typical thriller. Justin--the small-town cop in a town without murder, who clearly knows his way around a homicide investigation--keeps us flipping the pages as fast as we can. As we watch him solve the mystery, we''re working on a puzzle of our own: Who is Justin, and where did he come from? Top of the line.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23392'),
(9287, 'Apocalypse', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Failure of the Hive to contain the Umbrella Corporation''s most deadly viral creation has led to an outbreak of apocalyptic proportions. Now the streets of Raccoon City swarm with the living dead, compelling Umbrella to deploy another of its bioweapons, a hulking prototype soldier code-named NEMESIS that kills anything in its path.  Jill Valentine of the RCPD and several others are determined to get out of Raccoon alive, but only if they can escape the city''s hordes of undead, Umbrella''s unleashed creatures, and the relentless pursuit of Nemesis itself. Their one chance is with one of the only survivors of the Hive -- a young woman named Alice, who learns a terrifying secret behind her connection to Umbrella.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3844'),
(9288, 'The Apocalypse Reader', 'Justin Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Across boundaries of place and time, these writers celebrate the variety and vitality of the short story as a form by writing their own conclusions to the story of the world. Obliteration has never hurt so good. Contributors include Grace Aguilar, Steve Aylett, Robert Bradley, Dennis Cooper, Lucy Corin, Elliott David, Matthew Derby, Carol Emshwiller, Brian Evenson, Neil Gaiman, Jeff Goldberg, Theodora Goss, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jared Hohl, Shelley Jackson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stacey Levine, Tao Lin, Kelly Link, H.P. Lovecraft, Gary Lutz, Rick Moody, Michael Moorcock, Adam Nemett, Josip Novakovich, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette Phair, Edgar Allan Poe, Terese Svoboda, Justin Taylor, Lynne Tillman, Deb Olin, Unferth, H.G. Wells, Allison Whittenberg, and Diane Williams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3881'),
(9289, 'The Apocalypse Reader', 'Justin Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Across boundaries of place and time, these writers celebrate the variety and vitality of the short story as a form by writing their own conclusions to the story of the world. Obliteration has never hurt so good. Contributors include Grace Aguilar, Steve Aylett, Robert Bradley, Dennis Cooper, Lucy Corin, Elliott David, Matthew Derby, Carol Emshwiller, Brian Evenson, Neil Gaiman, Jeff Goldberg, Theodora Goss, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jared Hohl, Shelley Jackson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stacey Levine, Tao Lin, Kelly Link, H.P. Lovecraft, Gary Lutz, Rick Moody, Michael Moorcock, Adam Nemett, Josip Novakovich, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette Phair, Edgar Allan Poe, Terese Svoboda, Justin Taylor, Lynne Tillman, Deb Olin, Unferth, H.G. Wells, Allison Whittenberg, and Diane Williams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12986'),
(9290, 'The Apocalypse Reader', 'Justin Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Across boundaries of place and time, these writers celebrate the variety and vitality of the short story as a form by writing their own conclusions to the story of the world. Obliteration has never hurt so good. Contributors include Grace Aguilar, Steve Aylett, Robert Bradley, Dennis Cooper, Lucy Corin, Elliott David, Matthew Derby, Carol Emshwiller, Brian Evenson, Neil Gaiman, Jeff Goldberg, Theodora Goss, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jared Hohl, Shelley Jackson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stacey Levine, Tao Lin, Kelly Link, H.P. Lovecraft, Gary Lutz, Rick Moody, Michael Moorcock, Adam Nemett, Josip Novakovich, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette Phair, Edgar Allan Poe, Terese Svoboda, Justin Taylor, Lynne Tillman, Deb Olin, Unferth, H.G. Wells, Allison Whittenberg, and Diane Williams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20578'),
(9291, 'The Apocalypse Watch', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria, there is a remote hideaway-- the fortress-like nerve center of an ominous movement, the Brotherhood of theWatch.  American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the movement, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the Third Reich''s defeat and whose deadly tentacles have spread to the United States and beyond.  Now, after three years in deep cover, and on the eve of his most spectacular success, HarryLatham has disappeared.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular Operations in Paris, is frantic to discover his older brother''s fate.  But when he receives the sudden good newsthat Harry has surfaced, gut-twisting doubts arise.  Has Harry''s cover been blown? And if so, why has the Brotherhood of the Watch let him live?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Harry Latham has emerged with an explosive list: the secret supporters of the movement, among them some of the highest-ranking officials in the UnitedStates and its allies, names synonymous with honorable service to their nations.  It is a document that could topple governments--but is the listlegitimate? Can Drew Latham trust his own brother?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To find the answer, Drew Latham decides to take on his brother''s identity, stepping directly into the crossfire between the assassins gunning for HarryLatham--and those who want Drew himself dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From a hushed Alpine valley to the backstreets of Paris, from the ruling chambers of Washington and London to the casinos of Monte Carlo, *TheApocalypse Watch* is vintage Robert Ludlum, a superb international thriller from the writer who created the standard for a new kind of entertainment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1653'),
(9292, 'The apocalypse watch', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria, there is a remote hideaway-- the fortress-like nerve center of an ominous movement, the Brotherhood of theWatch. American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the movement, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the Third Reich''s defeat and whose deadly tentacles have spread to the United States and beyond. Now, after three years in deep cover, and on the eve of his most spectacular success, HarryLatham has disappeared. Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular Operations in Paris, is frantic to discover his older brother''s fate. But when he receives the sudden good newsthat Harry has surfaced, gut-twisting doubts arise. Has Harry''s cover been blown? And if so, why has the Brotherhood of the Watch let him live? For Harry Latham has emerged with an explosive list: the secret supporters of the movement, among them some of the highest-ranking officials in the UnitedStates and its allies, names synonymous with honorable service to their nations. It is a document that could topple governments--but is the listlegitimate? Can Drew Latham trust his own brother? To find the answer, Drew Latham decides to take on his brother''s identity, stepping directly into the crossfire between the assassins gunning for HarryLatham--and those who want Drew himself dead. From a hushed Alpine valley to the backstreets of Paris, from the ruling chambers of Washington and London to the casinos of Monte Carlo, *TheApocalypse Watch* is vintage Robert Ludlum, a superb international thriller from the writer who created the standard for a new kind of entertainment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23311'),
(9293, 'Apologize, Apologize!', 'Elizabeth Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cinematically vivid with heartstopping dialogue, Apologize, Apologize! is an extraordinary debut about a family that puts the personality in disorder.Welcome to the world of the fantastic Flanagans; a wildly eccentric Massachusetts clan that is both blessed and afflicted with an inexhaustible reservoir of old money, unwavering subversive charm â€“ and a veritable chorus of dogs. At the centre of this maelstrom is sensible Collie Flanagan, first-born son and heir to his grandfatherâ€™s publishing fortune, whose easy life is shattered by the outcome of a casual afternoon outing. Affecting, funny and wise, this is a rollicking story packed with characters that are a delight to get to know, and are impossible to forget.Excerpt:My name is Collie Flanagan. Ma chose the name Collie after re-discovering the books of Albert Payson Terhune, the guy who wrote Lad: A Dog.Pop swore she read him throughout the pregnancy hoping to give birth to a puppy. During my baptism a fight broke out at the altar when the priest objected to me being named after a breed of dog, saying there was no St. Collie and Ma told him there damn well should be and Pop announced that maybe Iâ€™d be the first.At Andover they called me Lassie. That was fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5706'),
(9294, 'Apologize, Apologize!', 'Elizabeth Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cinematically vivid with heartstopping dialogue, Apologize, Apologize! is an extraordinary debut about a family that puts the personality in disorder.Welcome to the world of the fantastic Flanagans; a wildly eccentric Massachusetts clan that is both blessed and afflicted with an inexhaustible reservoir of old money, unwavering subversive charm â€“ and a veritable chorus of dogs. At the centre of this maelstrom is sensible Collie Flanagan, first-born son and heir to his grandfatherâ€™s publishing fortune, whose easy life is shattered by the outcome of a casual afternoon outing. Affecting, funny and wise, this is a rollicking story packed with characters that are a delight to get to know, and are impossible to forget.Excerpt:My name is Collie Flanagan. Ma chose the name Collie after re-discovering the books of Albert Payson Terhune, the guy who wrote Lad: A Dog.Pop swore she read him throughout the pregnancy hoping to give birth to a puppy. During my baptism a fight broke out at the altar when the priest objected to me being named after a breed of dog, saying there was no St. Collie and Ma told him there damn well should be and Pop announced that maybe Iâ€™d be the first.At Andover they called me Lassie. That was fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10594'),
(9295, 'Apologize, Apologize!', 'Elizabeth Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cinematically vivid with heartstopping dialogue, Apologize, Apologize! is an extraordinary debut about a family that puts the personality in disorder.Welcome to the world of the fantastic Flanagans; a wildly eccentric Massachusetts clan that is both blessed and afflicted with an inexhaustible reservoir of old money, unwavering subversive charm â€“ and a veritable chorus of dogs. At the centre of this maelstrom is sensible Collie Flanagan, first-born son and heir to his grandfatherâ€™s publishing fortune, whose easy life is shattered by the outcome of a casual afternoon outing. Affecting, funny and wise, this is a rollicking story packed with characters that are a delight to get to know, and are impossible to forget.Excerpt:My name is Collie Flanagan. Ma chose the name Collie after re-discovering the books of Albert Payson Terhune, the guy who wrote Lad: A Dog.Pop swore she read him throughout the pregnancy hoping to give birth to a puppy. During my baptism a fight broke out at the altar when the priest objected to me being named after a breed of dog, saying there was no St. Collie and Ma told him there damn well should be and Pop announced that maybe Iâ€™d be the first.At Andover they called me Lassie. That was fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18843'),
(9296, 'Apologize, Apologize!', 'Elizabeth Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cinematically vivid with heartstopping dialogue, Apologize, Apologize! is an extraordinary debut about a family that puts the personality in disorder.Welcome to the world of the fantastic Flanagans; a wildly eccentric Massachusetts clan that is both blessed and afflicted with an inexhaustible reservoir of old money, unwavering subversive charm â€“ and a veritable chorus of dogs. At the centre of this maelstrom is sensible Collie Flanagan, first-born son and heir to his grandfatherâ€™s publishing fortune, whose easy life is shattered by the outcome of a casual afternoon outing. Affecting, funny and wise, this is a rollicking story packed with characters that are a delight to get to know, and are impossible to forget.Excerpt:My name is Collie Flanagan. Ma chose the name Collie after re-discovering the books of Albert Payson Terhune, the guy who wrote Lad: A Dog.Pop swore she read him throughout the pregnancy hoping to give birth to a puppy. During my baptism a fight broke out at the altar when the priest objected to me being named after a breed of dog, saying there was no St. Collie and Ma told him there damn well should be and Pop announced that maybe Iâ€™d be the first.At Andover they called me Lassie. That was fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27637'),
(9297, 'The Apostle', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Master of suspense and #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most riveting international thriller yet.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A new administration and a new approach to dealing with America''s enemies have left covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath without a job. But when American doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave the president with only one course of action.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a dangerous assignment that the United States government will deny any knowledge of, Scot Harvath must secretly infiltrate Kabul''s notorious Policharki Prison and free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom - al-Qaeda mastermind, Mustafa Khan.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But when Harvath arrives, he quickly learns that there is more to the kidnapping than anyone dares to admit. And as the subterfuge is laid bare, Harvath must examine his own career of hunting down and killing terrorists, and ask himself if he has what it takes to help one of the world''s worst go free.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Brimming with the kind of ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity Brad Thor''s internationally bestselling novels are known for, *The Apostle* doubles down on the blockbuster success of *The Last Patriot* and reaffirms Thor''s status as the master of the political thriller.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Unabridged Compact Disk Includes a Bonus MP3 CD of Brad Thor''s *The Lions Of Lucerne***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7219');
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(9298, 'The Apostle', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Master of suspense and #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most riveting international thriller yet.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A new administration and a new approach to dealing with America''s enemies have left covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath without a job. But when American doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave the president with only one course of action.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a dangerous assignment that the United States government will deny any knowledge of, Scot Harvath must secretly infiltrate Kabul''s notorious Policharki Prison and free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom - al-Qaeda mastermind, Mustafa Khan.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But when Harvath arrives, he quickly learns that there is more to the kidnapping than anyone dares to admit. And as the subterfuge is laid bare, Harvath must examine his own career of hunting down and killing terrorists, and ask himself if he has what it takes to help one of the world''s worst go free.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Brimming with the kind of ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity Brad Thor''s internationally bestselling novels are known for, *The Apostle* doubles down on the blockbuster success of *The Last Patriot* and reaffirms Thor''s status as the master of the political thriller.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Unabridged Compact Disk Includes a Bonus MP3 CD of Brad Thor''s *The Lions Of Lucerne***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13039'),
(9299, 'The Apostle', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Master of suspense and #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most riveting international thriller yet. A new administration and a new approach to dealing with America''s enemies have left covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath without a job. But when American doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave the president with only one course of action. In a dangerous assignment that the United States government will deny any knowledge of, Scot Harvath must secretly infiltrate Kabul''s notorious Policharki Prison and free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom - al-Qaeda mastermind, Mustafa Khan. But when Harvath arrives, he quickly learns that there is more to the kidnapping than anyone dares to admit. And as the subterfuge is laid bare, Harvath must examine his own career of hunting down and killing terrorists, and ask himself if he has what it takes to help one of the world''s worst go free. Brimming with the kind of ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity Brad Thor''s internationally bestselling novels are known for, *The Apostle* doubles down on the blockbuster success of *The Last Patriot* and reaffirms Thor''s status as the master of the political thriller. **Unabridged Compact Disk Includes a Bonus MP3 CD of Brad Thor''s *The Lions Of Lucerne***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16759'),
(9300, 'The Apostle', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Master of suspense and #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most riveting international thriller yet. A new administration and a new approach to dealing with America''s enemies have left covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath without a job. But when American doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave the president with only one course of action. In a dangerous assignment that the United States government will deny any knowledge of, Scot Harvath must secretly infiltrate Kabul''s notorious Policharki Prison and free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom - al-Qaeda mastermind, Mustafa Khan. But when Harvath arrives, he quickly learns that there is more to the kidnapping than anyone dares to admit. And as the subterfuge is laid bare, Harvath must examine his own career of hunting down and killing terrorists, and ask himself if he has what it takes to help one of the world''s worst go free. Brimming with the kind of ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity Brad Thor''s internationally bestselling novels are known for, *The Apostle* doubles down on the blockbuster success of *The Last Patriot* and reaffirms Thor''s status as the master of the political thriller. **Unabridged Compact Disk Includes a Bonus MP3 CD of Brad Thor''s *The Lions Of Lucerne***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26668'),
(9301, 'The Appeal', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 30\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small townâ€™s water supply, causing the worst â€œcancer clusterâ€ in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4309'),
(9302, 'The Appeal', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 30\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small townâ€™s water supply, causing the worst â€œcancer clusterâ€ in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10035'),
(9303, 'The Appeal', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 30 SUMMARY: Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small townâ€™s water supply, causing the worst â€œcancer clusterâ€ in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15119'),
(9304, 'The Appeal', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 30 SUMMARY: Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small townâ€™s water supply, causing the worst â€œcancer clusterâ€ in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21387'),
(9305, 'Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child', 'Noel Riley Fitch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noel Riley Fitch''s savory new biography,\n <em>\n  Appetite for Life\n </em>\n , reveals a woman as appealing as the good food and serious cooking she popularized. As a California girl and Smith College undergraduate, Fitch writes, Julia McWilliams was notable for her high spirits and voracious appetite. Performing intelligence work in Asia during World War II, she met Paul Child, and their marriage of mutual devotion and affection endured until his death in 1994. His postwar assignment took them to France, where she discovered her true calling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fitch reminds us that Child championed fresh ingredients at a time when frozen foods and TV dinners dominated American supermarket shelves, and that she demystified haute cuisine with her earthy humor and casual attitude toward mistakes. This affectionate portrait of the remarkable Julia Child reflects her fervent belief that the pleasures of the table are a natural accompaniment to the pleasures of life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n No one person in the U.S. improved the nation''s standard of eating more than Julia Child. Her celebrity stems less from her masterwork,\n <em>\n  Mastering the Art of French Cooking\n </em>\n , than from her perennially popular PBS television series,\n <em>\n  The French Chef\n </em>\n . Born into a wealthy Southern California home, Julia McWilliams led a lively but pampered existence until she met Paul Child in wartime India. These two eager esthetes, for whom the worst possible sin was being boring, bonded into an extraordinarily strong marriage that helped the husband survive McCarthy''s purges and gave the wife a decade to focus on her revolutionary book. Although the Childs crossed paths with dozens of political, artistic, and literary notables in postwar Paris, Marseille, Bonn, Oslo, and Washington, biographer Fitch does little but catalog names. But he does make both Childs'' personalities come alive, from Paul''s meticulousness to Julia''s exuberant, even bawdy, gusto. Uneasy yet productive relationships among Julia and her coauthors fed off both professional and cultural differences. Fitch recounts in mortifying detail one of publishing''s great gaffes: Houghton Mifflin let\n <em>\n  Mastering\n </em>\n slip away to Knopf. Julia''s evolution from author into television personality and food guru began in her fifties; now in her eighties, she continues to reshape the food world she transfigured.\n <em>\n  Mark Knoblauch\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2535'),
(9306, 'Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child', 'Noel Riley Fitch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noel Riley Fitch''s savory new biography,\n <em>\n  Appetite for Life\n </em>\n , reveals a woman as appealing as the good food and serious cooking she popularized. As a California girl and Smith College undergraduate, Fitch writes, Julia McWilliams was notable for her high spirits and voracious appetite. Performing intelligence work in Asia during World War II, she met Paul Child, and their marriage of mutual devotion and affection endured until his death in 1994. His postwar assignment took them to France, where she discovered her true calling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fitch reminds us that Child championed fresh ingredients at a time when frozen foods and TV dinners dominated American supermarket shelves, and that she demystified haute cuisine with her earthy humor and casual attitude toward mistakes. This affectionate portrait of the remarkable Julia Child reflects her fervent belief that the pleasures of the table are a natural accompaniment to the pleasures of life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n No one person in the U.S. improved the nation''s standard of eating more than Julia Child. Her celebrity stems less from her masterwork,\n <em>\n  Mastering the Art of French Cooking\n </em>\n , than from her perennially popular PBS television series,\n <em>\n  The French Chef\n </em>\n . Born into a wealthy Southern California home, Julia McWilliams led a lively but pampered existence until she met Paul Child in wartime India. These two eager esthetes, for whom the worst possible sin was being boring, bonded into an extraordinarily strong marriage that helped the husband survive McCarthy''s purges and gave the wife a decade to focus on her revolutionary book. Although the Childs crossed paths with dozens of political, artistic, and literary notables in postwar Paris, Marseille, Bonn, Oslo, and Washington, biographer Fitch does little but catalog names. But he does make both Childs'' personalities come alive, from Paul''s meticulousness to Julia''s exuberant, even bawdy, gusto. Uneasy yet productive relationships among Julia and her coauthors fed off both professional and cultural differences. Fitch recounts in mortifying detail one of publishing''s great gaffes: Houghton Mifflin let\n <em>\n  Mastering\n </em>\n slip away to Knopf. Julia''s evolution from author into television personality and food guru began in her fifties; now in her eighties, she continues to reshape the food world she transfigured.\n <em>\n  Mark Knoblauch\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9705'),
(9307, 'Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child', 'Noel Riley Fitch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Noel Riley Fitch''s savory new biography,\n <em>\n  Appetite for Life\n </em>\n , reveals a woman as appealing as the good food and serious cooking she popularized. As a California girl and Smith College undergraduate, Fitch writes, Julia McWilliams was notable for her high spirits and voracious appetite. Performing intelligence work in Asia during World War II, she met Paul Child, and their marriage of mutual devotion and affection endured until his death in 1994. His postwar assignment took them to France, where she discovered her true calling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fitch reminds us that Child championed fresh ingredients at a time when frozen foods and TV dinners dominated American supermarket shelves, and that she demystified haute cuisine with her earthy humor and casual attitude toward mistakes. This affectionate portrait of the remarkable Julia Child reflects her fervent belief that the pleasures of the table are a natural accompaniment to the pleasures of life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n No one person in the U.S. improved the nation''s standard of eating more than Julia Child. Her celebrity stems less from her masterwork,\n <em>\n  Mastering the Art of French Cooking\n </em>\n , than from her perennially popular PBS television series,\n <em>\n  The French Chef\n </em>\n . Born into a wealthy Southern California home, Julia McWilliams led a lively but pampered existence until she met Paul Child in wartime India. These two eager esthetes, for whom the worst possible sin was being boring, bonded into an extraordinarily strong marriage that helped the husband survive McCarthy''s purges and gave the wife a decade to focus on her revolutionary book. Although the Childs crossed paths with dozens of political, artistic, and literary notables in postwar Paris, Marseille, Bonn, Oslo, and Washington, biographer Fitch does little but catalog names. But he does make both Childs'' personalities come alive, from Paul''s meticulousness to Julia''s exuberant, even bawdy, gusto. Uneasy yet productive relationships among Julia and her coauthors fed off both professional and cultural differences. Fitch recounts in mortifying detail one of publishing''s great gaffes: Houghton Mifflin let\n <em>\n  Mastering\n </em>\n slip away to Knopf. Julia''s evolution from author into television personality and food guru began in her fifties; now in her eighties, she continues to reshape the food world she transfigured.\n <em>\n  Mark Knoblauch\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22228'),
(9308, 'Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes', 'Isa Chandra Moskowitz &amp; Matthew Ruscigno', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Vegetarian Timesâ€™\n  </em>\n  , November/December 2010\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œOffers 125 recipes for low-fat, plant-based dishes that donâ€™t skimp on flavor.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Vegetarian Living\n  </em>\n  (UK), December 2010\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œJam-packed with mouth-watering vegan recipes that are low in fat and light on caloriesâ€¦[Moskowitzâ€™s] recipes are visual and gastronomic delights, which inspire the reader to try new things and cook outside of their comfort zone, while never underestimating the beauty of the familiar.â€Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  ThisDishisVeg.com_, _12/8/10\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œ[Isa Moskowitz is] the queen of the vegans.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Portland\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Press Herald_, 12/15/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA snappy cookbook that embraces whole plant foods without a sugary snack in sight. Those avoiding gluten or soy will appreciate the numerous gluten-free and soy-free recipes, and everyone is sure to learn something from the preparation and nutrition tips [Moskowitz] sprinkles throughout the book. Best of all, her recipes for goodies such as OMG Oven-Banked Onion Rings, Tamarind BBQ Tempeh &amp; Sweet Potatoes, and Chipotle Lentil Burgers will make even dedicated carnivores appreciate the pleasures of plant-based meals.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Technorati.com, 12/23/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is an innovative source of vegan recipesâ€¦_Appetite for Reduction_ offers tempting recipes that are quick and easy, andâ€”most importantlyâ€”no- or low-fatâ€¦Moskowitz has lots of yummy ideas that prove that dieting doesnâ€™t have to be painfulâ€¦Moskowitz incorporates the reduction of unhealthy foods, environmental impact, grocery store costs, and animal suffering in her cooking philosophy. The results are tasty dishes with no guilt attached.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LeslieLovesVeggies.com, 12/23/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œContains 125 fabulous recipes that are quick to make and most take 30 minutes or less to prepare. These tasty dishes are easy on the budget and are made with real food for real people. Nothing bizarre, no outlandish over the top ingredients, just good for ya, low fat, delish vegan food! Oh and the portions are real, too! None of these ridiculous tiny serving sizes to get the low calorie counts. These are real servings folks!â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Examiner.com, 12/20/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is a proven advisor you want to have in the vegan kitchen with you, consistently creating recipes that are at once accessinle to the home cook and impressive enough to show off to those you want to, well, impress.\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reductionâ€¦\n  </em>\n  will knock your socks off, just in time for a great Christmas gift for omnivores or vegans alike and strengthen some of those New Yearâ€™s resolutionsâ€¦Easy-to-follow directions, well-organized chapters, [and] gorgeous art direction and helpful tipsâ€¦The icons that designate quick-to-prepare, gluten- and soy-free recpies make this cookbook especially user-friendlyâ€¦_Appetite for Reduction_ casts its culinary net wideâ€¦The recipes span the globe and include rare treats calorie-conscious diners usually donâ€™t get to enjoyâ€¦_Appetite for Reduction _gives lots of creative, easy and tasty opportunities to eat healthfullyâ€¦A very worthwhile edition to anyoneâ€™s cookbook collection.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GreenWala.com, 12/27/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitz] has done a lot for dispelling the myth that vegan food equals rabbit food or that itâ€™s not satisfyingâ€¦The tone is conversational and often humorous and the book is not just about leaner recipes. Appetite refers also to environmental impact, animal cruelty, and your bank account.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   VegNews,\n  </em>\n  February 2011\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œFrom the grand dame of vegan cookbooks,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  doesnâ€™t leave you hungryâ€¦From salads that satisfy like meals to hearty pasta dishes to every vegetable imaginable,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  doesnâ€™t miss a beatâ€¦Unlike other diet books,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  isnâ€™t about dropping 20 pounds in a weekend; itâ€™s about eating healthfully in a way that can lead to weight loss without resorting to drastic measuresâ€”measures which Moskowitz assures are guaranteed to pile pounds right back on.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   EatDrinkBetter.com, 12/30/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI recommend this cookbook for anyone, vegan or not...[Moskowitz] has put together 125 recipes that are under 400 caloriesâ€”perfect for that New Yearâ€™s resolution to lose weightâ€”and are packed with nutrientsâ€”perfect for that New Yearâ€™s resolution to eat healthier.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   EatDrinkBetter.com, 12/31/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFeatures many quick and delicious low-calorie vegan recipes.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WomanAroundTown.com, 12/20/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCrammed full of good advice as well as tasty recipes.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GoDairyFree.org, 1/4/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitzâ€™s] latest cookbook could be one of her greatest yetâ€¦Anyone who has already inhaled a lifetime''s worth ofÂ vegan sweets and processed foods, or who is interested in the vegan diet for health reasons, will probably love\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  .â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  TreeHugger.com, 1/4/11\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œIf you''re suffering through the fourth day of some weird diet, you might want to pick up a copy of this book and make yourself something good to eat.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Daily News_, 1/9/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitz is] the queen of vegan cookingâ€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  San Francisco Book Review_, 1/10/11\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz has singlehandedly revolutionized vegan cookingâ€¦_Appetite _is brimming not only with recipes, but also detailed nutritional information useful to everyone, but especially important to those who seek essential vitamins and nutrients from nontraditional (non-animal) sources. But if youâ€™re worried about typical bland diet food, have no fear: This\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  an Isa Chandra Moskowitz cookbook after all. While all recipes are between 200 and 400 calories per serving, each is loaded with delicious, vibrant flavor.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Long Island_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Press_, 1/7/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œContains 125 delectable, nutritionally-balanced recipes for the foods you craveâ€”lasagna, tacos, barbecue, curries, stews, and much moreâ€”and itâ€™s all only 200 to 400 calories per serving, plant-based and packed with nutrients, low in saturated fat and sugar; high in fiber and, well, delicious.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  South_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Coast_\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Insider_, January 2011\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is the best and most creative of all the chefs working with plant based foodsâ€¦This is not your motherâ€™s low-fat cookbook.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  InfoDad.com, 1/13/11\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œIt moves along like a well-oiled machine, starting with salads and continuing with side dishes, beans (a mainstay of this type of cooking), tofu and tempeh, soups, stews and more...It contains solid information and a variety of recipes that vegans will find tasty.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  BBC Good Food_ (UK), February 2011\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œThis is a vegan diet book, but forget your preconceptions and look at the food. Isa is an amazing cookâ€”her recipes are delicious and written for people who want to lose weight, but not their enjoyment of food. She uses spices cleverly to make you forget youâ€™re eating low fat and ups the grain and veg content to keep you satisfied. Isa reworks favorites making them lighter and healthier. Her book is worth buying for the salad dressings alone.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Natural Health,\n   </em>\n   February 2011\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] great read!...Moskowitzâ€”a tireless crusader against the perception that meatless, dairy-free meals taste like cardboardâ€”proves low-fat can be delicious. While offering plenty of tips for novice vegans, Moskowitzâ€™s recipes are interesting and flavorful enough to delight seasoned meatless mavens, too.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Washington_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Post_, 1/19/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSurprisingly creamy and hearty, this vegan soup [Cauliflower Pesto Soup] is elegant enough to serve as a first course at any dinner party.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Hudson_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Valley_\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ News,_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf youâ€™re not vegan, but simply donâ€™t like meat very much, youâ€™ll find many tasty recipes here.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  January Magazine_ (Canada), 12/20/10\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Appetite for Reduction_ is all about real food for real people, really easilyâ€¦Whatâ€™s not to like?...Spend a lot of time eating from the recipes in this book and you will get smaller.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Living Without,\n   </em>\n   1/25/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[The] tortilla soup has a light tomato broth and simple yet assertive seasoning. Stirring crushed tortilla chips into the soup as it cooks gives it a full-bodied texture.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Portland\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Oregonian, _1/25/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLeave it to innovative cookbook author Isa Chandra Moskowitz, the co-author of\n  <em>\n   Veganomicon\n  </em>\n  , to come up with a collection of 125 low-fat recipes that won''t have you leaving the table hungryâ€¦Moskowitz''s writing style is accessible and fun, and she demystifies ingredients like tempeh and tofuâ€¦Every recipe has detailed nutritional analysis, including vitamin content, something too many diet cookbooks don''t bother with.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Hippo,\n  </em>\n  1/20/11\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œAs with previous Moskowitz books, one thing not sacrificed is flavor. She plays with Asian, Mediterranean, Indian and Latin cuisine with her recipes in ways that make you feel like youâ€™re not losing ta...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is not your motherâ€™s low-fat cookbook. Thereâ€™s no foolish tricks, no bizarre concoctions, no chemicals, no frozen mealsâ€¦no fake anything!\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  means cooking with real food, for real life. (Skimpy portions need not apply.)\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  , bestselling author and vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz has created 125 delectable, nutritionally-balanced recipes for the foods you craveâ€”lasagna, tacos, barbecue, curries, stews, and much moreâ€”and itâ€™s all:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Only 200 to 400 calories per serving\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Plant-based and packed with nutrients\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Low in saturated fat and sugar; high in fiber\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Drop-dead delicious\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Youâ€™ll also find lots of gluten-free and soy-free options, and best of all, dinner can be on the table in less than 30 minutes. So ditch those diet shakes. Skip that lemonade cleanse. And fight for your right to eat something satisfying! Now you can look better, feel better, and have more energyâ€”for health at any size.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5006'),
(9309, 'Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes', 'Isa Chandra Moskowitz &amp; Matthew Ruscigno', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Vegetarian Timesâ€™\n  </em>\n  , November/December 2010\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œOffers 125 recipes for low-fat, plant-based dishes that donâ€™t skimp on flavor.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Vegetarian Living\n  </em>\n  (UK), December 2010\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œJam-packed with mouth-watering vegan recipes that are low in fat and light on caloriesâ€¦[Moskowitzâ€™s] recipes are visual and gastronomic delights, which inspire the reader to try new things and cook outside of their comfort zone, while never underestimating the beauty of the familiar.â€Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  ThisDishisVeg.com_, _12/8/10\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œ[Isa Moskowitz is] the queen of the vegans.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Portland\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Press Herald_, 12/15/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA snappy cookbook that embraces whole plant foods without a sugary snack in sight. Those avoiding gluten or soy will appreciate the numerous gluten-free and soy-free recipes, and everyone is sure to learn something from the preparation and nutrition tips [Moskowitz] sprinkles throughout the book. Best of all, her recipes for goodies such as OMG Oven-Banked Onion Rings, Tamarind BBQ Tempeh &amp; Sweet Potatoes, and Chipotle Lentil Burgers will make even dedicated carnivores appreciate the pleasures of plant-based meals.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Technorati.com, 12/23/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is an innovative source of vegan recipesâ€¦_Appetite for Reduction_ offers tempting recipes that are quick and easy, andâ€”most importantlyâ€”no- or low-fatâ€¦Moskowitz has lots of yummy ideas that prove that dieting doesnâ€™t have to be painfulâ€¦Moskowitz incorporates the reduction of unhealthy foods, environmental impact, grocery store costs, and animal suffering in her cooking philosophy. The results are tasty dishes with no guilt attached.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LeslieLovesVeggies.com, 12/23/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œContains 125 fabulous recipes that are quick to make and most take 30 minutes or less to prepare. These tasty dishes are easy on the budget and are made with real food for real people. Nothing bizarre, no outlandish over the top ingredients, just good for ya, low fat, delish vegan food! Oh and the portions are real, too! None of these ridiculous tiny serving sizes to get the low calorie counts. These are real servings folks!â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Examiner.com, 12/20/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is a proven advisor you want to have in the vegan kitchen with you, consistently creating recipes that are at once accessinle to the home cook and impressive enough to show off to those you want to, well, impress.\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reductionâ€¦\n  </em>\n  will knock your socks off, just in time for a great Christmas gift for omnivores or vegans alike and strengthen some of those New Yearâ€™s resolutionsâ€¦Easy-to-follow directions, well-organized chapters, [and] gorgeous art direction and helpful tipsâ€¦The icons that designate quick-to-prepare, gluten- and soy-free recpies make this cookbook especially user-friendlyâ€¦_Appetite for Reduction_ casts its culinary net wideâ€¦The recipes span the globe and include rare treats calorie-conscious diners usually donâ€™t get to enjoyâ€¦_Appetite for Reduction _gives lots of creative, easy and tasty opportunities to eat healthfullyâ€¦A very worthwhile edition to anyoneâ€™s cookbook collection.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GreenWala.com, 12/27/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitz] has done a lot for dispelling the myth that vegan food equals rabbit food or that itâ€™s not satisfyingâ€¦The tone is conversational and often humorous and the book is not just about leaner recipes. Appetite refers also to environmental impact, animal cruelty, and your bank account.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   VegNews,\n  </em>\n  February 2011\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œFrom the grand dame of vegan cookbooks,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  doesnâ€™t leave you hungryâ€¦From salads that satisfy like meals to hearty pasta dishes to every vegetable imaginable,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  doesnâ€™t miss a beatâ€¦Unlike other diet books,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  isnâ€™t about dropping 20 pounds in a weekend; itâ€™s about eating healthfully in a way that can lead to weight loss without resorting to drastic measuresâ€”measures which Moskowitz assures are guaranteed to pile pounds right back on.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   EatDrinkBetter.com, 12/30/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI recommend this cookbook for anyone, vegan or not...[Moskowitz] has put together 125 recipes that are under 400 caloriesâ€”perfect for that New Yearâ€™s resolution to lose weightâ€”and are packed with nutrientsâ€”perfect for that New Yearâ€™s resolution to eat healthier.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   EatDrinkBetter.com, 12/31/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFeatures many quick and delicious low-calorie vegan recipes.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WomanAroundTown.com, 12/20/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCrammed full of good advice as well as tasty recipes.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GoDairyFree.org, 1/4/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitzâ€™s] latest cookbook could be one of her greatest yetâ€¦Anyone who has already inhaled a lifetime''s worth ofÂ vegan sweets and processed foods, or who is interested in the vegan diet for health reasons, will probably love\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  .â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  TreeHugger.com, 1/4/11\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œIf you''re suffering through the fourth day of some weird diet, you might want to pick up a copy of this book and make yourself something good to eat.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Daily News_, 1/9/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitz is] the queen of vegan cookingâ€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  San Francisco Book Review_, 1/10/11\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz has singlehandedly revolutionized vegan cookingâ€¦_Appetite _is brimming not only with recipes, but also detailed nutritional information useful to everyone, but especially important to those who seek essential vitamins and nutrients from nontraditional (non-animal) sources. But if youâ€™re worried about typical bland diet food, have no fear: This\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  an Isa Chandra Moskowitz cookbook after all. While all recipes are between 200 and 400 calories per serving, each is loaded with delicious, vibrant flavor.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Long Island_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Press_, 1/7/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œContains 125 delectable, nutritionally-balanced recipes for the foods you craveâ€”lasagna, tacos, barbecue, curries, stews, and much moreâ€”and itâ€™s all only 200 to 400 calories per serving, plant-based and packed with nutrients, low in saturated fat and sugar; high in fiber and, well, delicious.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  South_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Coast_\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Insider_, January 2011\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is the best and most creative of all the chefs working with plant based foodsâ€¦This is not your motherâ€™s low-fat cookbook.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  InfoDad.com, 1/13/11\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œIt moves along like a well-oiled machine, starting with salads and continuing with side dishes, beans (a mainstay of this type of cooking), tofu and tempeh, soups, stews and more...It contains solid information and a variety of recipes that vegans will find tasty.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  BBC Good Food_ (UK), February 2011\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œThis is a vegan diet book, but forget your preconceptions and look at the food. Isa is an amazing cookâ€”her recipes are delicious and written for people who want to lose weight, but not their enjoyment of food. She uses spices cleverly to make you forget youâ€™re eating low fat and ups the grain and veg content to keep you satisfied. Isa reworks favorites making them lighter and healthier. Her book is worth buying for the salad dressings alone.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Natural Health,\n   </em>\n   February 2011\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] great read!...Moskowitzâ€”a tireless crusader against the perception that meatless, dairy-free meals taste like cardboardâ€”proves low-fat can be delicious. While offering plenty of tips for novice vegans, Moskowitzâ€™s recipes are interesting and flavorful enough to delight seasoned meatless mavens, too.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Washington_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Post_, 1/19/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSurprisingly creamy and hearty, this vegan soup [Cauliflower Pesto Soup] is elegant enough to serve as a first course at any dinner party.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Hudson_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Valley_\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ News,_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf youâ€™re not vegan, but simply donâ€™t like meat very much, youâ€™ll find many tasty recipes here.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  January Magazine_ (Canada), 12/20/10\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Appetite for Reduction_ is all about real food for real people, really easilyâ€¦Whatâ€™s not to like?...Spend a lot of time eating from the recipes in this book and you will get smaller.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Living Without,\n   </em>\n   1/25/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[The] tortilla soup has a light tomato broth and simple yet assertive seasoning. Stirring crushed tortilla chips into the soup as it cooks gives it a full-bodied texture.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Portland\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Oregonian, _1/25/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLeave it to innovative cookbook author Isa Chandra Moskowitz, the co-author of\n  <em>\n   Veganomicon\n  </em>\n  , to come up with a collection of 125 low-fat recipes that won''t have you leaving the table hungryâ€¦Moskowitz''s writing style is accessible and fun, and she demystifies ingredients like tempeh and tofuâ€¦Every recipe has detailed nutritional analysis, including vitamin content, something too many diet cookbooks don''t bother with.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Hippo,\n  </em>\n  1/20/11\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œAs with previous Moskowitz books, one thing not sacrificed is flavor. She plays with Asian, Mediterranean, Indian and Latin cuisine with her recipes in ways that make you feel like youâ€™re not losing ta...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is not your motherâ€™s low-fat cookbook. Thereâ€™s no foolish tricks, no bizarre concoctions, no chemicals, no frozen mealsâ€¦no fake anything!\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  means cooking with real food, for real life. (Skimpy portions need not apply.)\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  , bestselling author and vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz has created 125 delectable, nutritionally-balanced recipes for the foods you craveâ€”lasagna, tacos, barbecue, curries, stews, and much moreâ€”and itâ€™s all:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Only 200 to 400 calories per serving\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Plant-based and packed with nutrients\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Low in saturated fat and sugar; high in fiber\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Drop-dead delicious\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Youâ€™ll also find lots of gluten-free and soy-free options, and best of all, dinner can be on the table in less than 30 minutes. So ditch those diet shakes. Skip that lemonade cleanse. And fight for your right to eat something satisfying! Now you can look better, feel better, and have more energyâ€”for health at any size.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11507');
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(9310, 'Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes', 'Isa Chandra Moskowitz; Matthew Ruscigno', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Vegetarian Timesâ€™\n  </em>\n  , November/December 2010\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œOffers 125 recipes for low-fat, plant-based dishes that donâ€™t skimp on flavor.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Vegetarian Living\n  </em>\n  (UK), December 2010\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œJam-packed with mouth-watering vegan recipes that are low in fat and light on calories...[Moskowitzâ€™s] recipes are visual and gastronomic delights, which inspire the reader to try new things and cook outside of their comfort zone, while never underestimating the beauty of the familiar.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  ThisDishisVeg.com_, _12/8/10\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œ[Isa Moskowitz is] the queen of the vegans.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Portland\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Press Herald_, 12/15/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA snappy cookbook that embraces whole plant foods without a sugary snack in sight. Those avoiding gluten or soy will appreciate the numerous gluten-free and soy-free recipes, and everyone is sure to learn something from the preparation and nutrition tips [Moskowitz] sprinkles throughout the book. Best of all, her recipes for goodies such as OMG Oven-Banked Onion Rings, Tamarind BBQ Tempeh &amp; Sweet Potatoes, and Chipotle Lentil Burgers will make even dedicated carnivores appreciate the pleasures of plant-based meals.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Technorati.com, 12/23/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is an innovative source of vegan recipes..._Appetite for Reduction_ offers tempting recipes that are quick and easy, andâ€”most importantlyâ€”no- or low-fat...Moskowitz has lots of yummy ideas that prove that dieting doesnâ€™t have to be painful...Moskowitz incorporates the reduction of unhealthy foods, environmental impact, grocery store costs, and animal suffering in her cooking philosophy. The results are tasty dishes with no guilt attached.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LeslieLovesVeggies.com, 12/23/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œContains 125 fabulous recipes that are quick to make and most take 30 minutes or less to prepare. These tasty dishes are easy on the budget and are made with real food for real people. Nothing bizarre, no outlandish over the top ingredients, just good for ya, low fat, delish vegan food! Oh and the portions are real, too! None of these ridiculous tiny serving sizes to get the low calorie counts. These are real servings folks!â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Examiner.com, 12/20/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is a proven advisor you want to have in the vegan kitchen with you, consistently creating recipes that are at once accessinle to the home cook and impressive enough to show off to those you want to, well, impress.\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction...\n  </em>\n  will knock your socks off, just in time for a great Christmas gift for omnivores or vegans alike and strengthen some of those New Yearâ€™s resolutions...Easy-to-follow directions, well-organized chapters, [and] gorgeous art direction and helpful tips...The icons that designate quick-to-prepare, gluten- and soy-free recpies make this cookbook especially user-friendly..._Appetite for Reduction_ casts its culinary net wide...The recipes span the globe and include rare treats calorie-conscious diners usually donâ€™t get to enjoy..._Appetite for Reduction _gives lots of creative, easy and tasty opportunities to eat healthfully...A very worthwhile edition to anyoneâ€™s cookbook collection.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GreenWala.com, 12/27/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitz] has done a lot for dispelling the myth that vegan food equals rabbit food or that itâ€™s not satisfying...The tone is conversational and often humorous and the book is not just about leaner recipes. Appetite refers also to environmental impact, animal cruelty, and your bank account.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   VegNews,\n  </em>\n  February 2011\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œFrom the grand dame of vegan cookbooks,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  doesnâ€™t leave you hungry...From salads that satisfy like meals to hearty pasta dishes to every vegetable imaginable,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  doesnâ€™t miss a beat...Unlike other diet books,\n  <em>\n   Appetite\n  </em>\n  isnâ€™t about dropping 20 pounds in a weekend; itâ€™s about eating healthfully in a way that can lead to weight loss without resorting to drastic measuresâ€”measures which Moskowitz assures are guaranteed to pile pounds right back on.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   EatDrinkBetter.com, 12/30/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI recommend this cookbook for anyone, vegan or not...[Moskowitz] has put together 125 recipes that are under 400 caloriesâ€”perfect for that New Yearâ€™s resolution to lose weightâ€”and are packed with nutrientsâ€”perfect for that New Yearâ€™s resolution to eat healthier.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   EatDrinkBetter.com, 12/31/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFeatures many quick and delicious low-calorie vegan recipes.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WomanAroundTown.com, 12/20/10\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCrammed full of good advice as well as tasty recipes.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GoDairyFree.org, 1/4/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitzâ€™s] latest cookbook could be one of her greatest yet...Anyone who has already inhaled a lifetime''s worth of vegan sweets and processed foods, or who is interested in the vegan diet for health reasons, will probably love\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  .â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  TreeHugger.com, 1/4/11\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œIf you''re suffering through the fourth day of some weird diet, you might want to pick up a copy of this book and make yourself something good to eat.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    New York\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Daily News_, 1/9/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Moskowitz is] the queen of vegan cookingâ€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  San Francisco Book Review_, 1/10/11\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz has singlehandedly revolutionized vegan cooking..._Appetite _is brimming not only with recipes, but also detailed nutritional information useful to everyone, but especially important to those who seek essential vitamins and nutrients from nontraditional (non-animal) sources. But if youâ€™re worried about typical bland diet food, have no fear: This\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  an Isa Chandra Moskowitz cookbook after all. While all recipes are between 200 and 400 calories per serving, each is loaded with delicious, vibrant flavor.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Long Island_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Press_, 1/7/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œContains 125 delectable, nutritionally-balanced recipes for the foods you craveâ€”lasagna, tacos, barbecue, curries, stews, and much moreâ€”and itâ€™s all only 200 to 400 calories per serving, plant-based and packed with nutrients, low in saturated fat and sugar; high in fiber and, well, delicious.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  South_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Coast_\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Insider_, January 2011\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoskowitz is the best and most creative of all the chefs working with plant based foods...This is not your motherâ€™s low-fat cookbook.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  InfoDad.com, 1/13/11\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt moves along like a well-oiled machine, starting with salads and continuing with side dishes, beans (a mainstay of this type of cooking), tofu and tempeh, soups, stews and more...It contains solid information and a variety of recipes that vegans will find tasty.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  BBC Good Food_ (UK), February 2011\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œThis is a vegan diet book, but forget your preconceptions and look at the food. Isa is an amazing cookâ€”her recipes are delicious and written for people who want to lose weight, but not their enjoyment of food. She uses spices cleverly to make you forget youâ€™re eating low fat and ups the grain and veg content to keep you satisfied. Isa reworks favorites making them lighter and healthier. Her book is worth buying for the salad dressings alone.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Natural Health,\n   </em>\n   February 2011\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] great read!...Moskowitzâ€”a tireless crusader against the perception that meatless, dairy-free meals taste like cardboardâ€”proves low-fat can be delicious. While offering plenty of tips for novice vegans, Moskowitzâ€™s recipes are interesting and flavorful enough to delight seasoned meatless mavens, too.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Washington_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Post_, 1/19/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSurprisingly creamy and hearty, this vegan soup [Cauliflower Pesto Soup] is elegant enough to serve as a first course at any dinner party.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  Hudson_\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   _ Valley_\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ News,_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIf youâ€™re not vegan, but simply donâ€™t like meat very much, youâ€™ll find many tasty recipes here.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <br />\n  January Magazine_ (Canada), 12/20/10\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Appetite for Reduction_ is all about real food for real people, really easily...Whatâ€™s not to like?...Spend a lot of time eating from the recipes in this book and you will get smaller.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Living Without,\n   </em>\n   1/25/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[The] tortilla soup has a light tomato broth and simple yet assertive seasoning. Stirring crushed tortilla chips into the soup as it cooks gives it a full-bodied texture.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Portland\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ Oregonian, _1/25/11\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLeave it to innovative cookbook author Isa Chandra Moskowitz, the co-author of\n  <em>\n   Veganomicon\n  </em>\n  , to come up with a collection of 125 low-fat recipes that won''t have you leaving the table hungry...Moskowitz''s writing style is accessible and fun, and she demystifies ingredients like tempeh and tofu...Every recipe has detailed nutritional analysis, including vitamin content, something too many diet cookbooks don''t bother with.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Hippo,\n  </em>\n  1/20/11\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€œAs with previous Moskowitz books, one thing not sacrificed is flavor. She plays with Asian, Mediterranean, Indian and Latin cuisine with her recipes in ways that make you feel like youâ€™re not losing ta...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is not your motherâ€™s low-fat cookbook. Thereâ€™s no foolish tricks, no bizarre concoctions, no chemicals, no frozen meals...no fake anything!\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  means cooking with real food, for real life. (Skimpy portions need not apply.)\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Appetite for Reduction\n  </em>\n  , bestselling author and vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz has created 125 delectable, nutritionally-balanced recipes for the foods you craveâ€”lasagna, tacos, barbecue, curries, stews, and much moreâ€”and itâ€™s all:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Only 200 to 400 calories per serving\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Plant-based and packed with nutrients\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Low in saturated fat and sugar; high in fiber\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Drop-dead delicious\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Youâ€™ll also find lots of gluten-free and soy-free options, and best of all, dinner can be on the table in less than 30 minutes. So ditch those diet shakes. Skip that lemonade cleanse. And fight for your right to eat something satisfying! Now you can look better, feel better, and have more energyâ€”for health at any size.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19655'),
(9311, 'Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age', 'Steve Knopper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world -- and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees. In a comprehensive, fast-paced account full of larger-than-life personalities, Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper shows that, after the incredible wealth and excess of the ''80s and ''90s, Sony, Warner, and the other big players brought about their own downfall through years of denial and bad decisions in the face of dramatic advances in technology.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world -- and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees. In a comprehensive, fast-paced account full of larger-than-life personalities, Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper shows that, after the incredible wealth and excess of the ''80s and ''90s, Sony, Warner, and the other big players brought about their own downfall through years of denial and bad decisions in the face of dramatic advances in technology.Big Music has been asleep at the wheel ever since Napster revolutionized the way music was distributed in the 1990s. Now, because powerful people like Doug Morris and Tommy Mottola failed to recognize the incredible potential of file-sharing technology, the labels are in danger of becoming completely obsolete. Knopper, who has been writing about the industry for more than ten years, has unparalleled access to those intimately involved in the music world''s highs and lows. Based on interviews with more than two hundred music industry sources -- from Warner Music chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. to renegade Napster creator Shawn Fanning -- Knopper is the first to offer such a detailed and sweeping contemporary history of the industry''s wild ride through the past three decades. From the birth of the compact disc, through the explosion of CD sales in the ''80s and ''90s, the emergence of Napster, and the secret talks that led to iTunes, to the current collapse of the industry as CD sales plummet, Knopper takes us inside the boardrooms, recording studios, private estates, garage computer labs, company jets, corporate infighting, and secret deals of the big names and behind-the-scenes players who made it all happen.With unforgettable portraits of the music world''s mighty and formerly mighty; detailed accounts of both brilliant and stupid ideas brought to fruition or left on the cutting-room floor; the dish on backroom schemes, negotiations, and brawls; and several previously unreported stories, Appetite for Self-Destruction is a riveting, informative, and highly entertaining read. It offers a broad perspective on the current state of Big Music, how it got into these dire straits, and where it''s going from here -- and a cautionary tale for the digital age.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/977'),
(9312, 'Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age', 'Steve Knopper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world -- and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees. In a comprehensive, fast-paced account full of larger-than-life personalities, Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper shows that, after the incredible wealth and excess of the ''80s and ''90s, Sony, Warner, and the other big players brought about their own downfall through years of denial and bad decisions in the face of dramatic advances in technology.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world -- and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees. In a comprehensive, fast-paced account full of larger-than-life personalities, Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper shows that, after the incredible wealth and excess of the ''80s and ''90s, Sony, Warner, and the other big players brought about their own downfall through years of denial and bad decisions in the face of dramatic advances in technology.Big Music has been asleep at the wheel ever since Napster revolutionized the way music was distributed in the 1990s. Now, because powerful people like Doug Morris and Tommy Mottola failed to recognize the incredible potential of file-sharing technology, the labels are in danger of becoming completely obsolete. Knopper, who has been writing about the industry for more than ten years, has unparalleled access to those intimately involved in the music world''s highs and lows. Based on interviews with more than two hundred music industry sources -- from Warner Music chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. to renegade Napster creator Shawn Fanning -- Knopper is the first to offer such a detailed and sweeping contemporary history of the industry''s wild ride through the past three decades. From the birth of the compact disc, through the explosion of CD sales in the ''80s and ''90s, the emergence of Napster, and the secret talks that led to iTunes, to the current collapse of the industry as CD sales plummet, Knopper takes us inside the boardrooms, recording studios, private estates, garage computer labs, company jets, corporate infighting, and secret deals of the big names and behind-the-scenes players who made it all happen.With unforgettable portraits of the music world''s mighty and formerly mighty; detailed accounts of both brilliant and stupid ideas brought to fruition or left on the cutting-room floor; the dish on backroom schemes, negotiations, and brawls; and several previously unreported stories, Appetite for Self-Destruction is a riveting, informative, and highly entertaining read. It offers a broad perspective on the current state of Big Music, how it got into these dire straits, and where it''s going from here -- and a cautionary tale for the digital age.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10759'),
(9313, 'Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age', 'Steve Knopper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world -- and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees. In a comprehensive, fast-paced account full of larger-than-life personalities, Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper shows that, after the incredible wealth and excess of the ''80s and ''90s, Sony, Warner, and the other big players brought about their own downfall through years of denial and bad decisions in the face of dramatic advances in technology.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world -- and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees. In a comprehensive, fast-paced account full of larger-than-life personalities, Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper shows that, after the incredible wealth and excess of the ''80s and ''90s, Sony, Warner, and the other big players brought about their own downfall through years of denial and bad decisions in the face of dramatic advances in technology.Big Music has been asleep at the wheel ever since Napster revolutionized the way music was distributed in the 1990s. Now, because powerful people like Doug Morris and Tommy Mottola failed to recognize the incredible potential of file-sharing technology, the labels are in danger of becoming completely obsolete. Knopper, who has been writing about the industry for more than ten years, has unparalleled access to those intimately involved in the music world''s highs and lows. Based on interviews with more than two hundred music industry sources -- from Warner Music chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. to renegade Napster creator Shawn Fanning -- Knopper is the first to offer such a detailed and sweeping contemporary history of the industry''s wild ride through the past three decades. From the birth of the compact disc, through the explosion of CD sales in the ''80s and ''90s, the emergence of Napster, and the secret talks that led to iTunes, to the current collapse of the industry as CD sales plummet, Knopper takes us inside the boardrooms, recording studios, private estates, garage computer labs, company jets, corporate infighting, and secret deals of the big names and behind-the-scenes players who made it all happen.With unforgettable portraits of the music world''s mighty and formerly mighty; detailed accounts of both brilliant and stupid ideas brought to fruition or left on the cutting-room floor; the dish on backroom schemes, negotiations, and brawls; and several previously unreported stories, Appetite for Self-Destruction is a riveting, informative, and highly entertaining read. It offers a broad perspective on the current state of Big Music, how it got into these dire straits, and where it''s going from here -- and a cautionary tale for the digital age.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23872'),
(9314, 'The Applause of Heaven', 'Max Lucado', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is what you always dreamed but never expected. It''s having God as your dad, your biggest fan, and your best friend. It is having the King of Kings in your cheering section. It is hearing the applause of heaven. Max Lucado believes that the Beatitudes provide what we need to discover the the joy of God. Much more than a how-to book on happiness.\n <em>\n  The Applause of Heaven\n </em>\n is an encounter with the Source of Joy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2895'),
(9315, 'The Applause of Heaven', 'Max Lucado', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is what you always dreamed but never expected. It''s having God as your dad, your biggest fan, and your best friend. It is having the King of Kings in your cheering section. It is hearing the applause of heaven. Max Lucado believes that the Beatitudes provide what we need to discover the the joy of God. Much more than a how-to book on happiness.\n <em>\n  The Applause of Heaven\n </em>\n is an encounter with the Source of Joy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11213'),
(9316, 'The Applause of Heaven', 'Max Lucado', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21869'),
(9317, 'Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Support Essentials V10.6', 'Kevin M. White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The only Apple-certified book on Mac OS X v10.6, this revised best-seller will take you deep inside the latest big-cat operating systemâ€”covering everything from installation to automation, customizing the operating system, supporting applications, setting up peripherals, and more. Whether you[HTML_REMOVED]re a support technician or simply an ardent Mac user, you[HTML_REMOVED]ll quickly learn and master the new features in Mac OS X 10.6, including native support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Following the learning objectives of the Apple Certified Support Professional exam, this self-paced book is a perfect guide for Appleâ€™s training and a first-rate primer for computer support personnel who need to troubleshoot and optimize Mac OS X as part of their jobs. Chapter review sections and quizzes summarize and reinforce acquired knowledge.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Apple Training Series serves as both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum for the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server certification programs.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The only Apple-certified book on Mac OS X v10.6, this revised best-seller will take you deep inside the latest big-cat operating systemâ€”covering everything from installation to automation, customizing the operating system, supporting applications, setting up peripherals, and more. Whether you[HTML_REMOVED]re a support technician or simply an ardent Mac user, you[HTML_REMOVED]ll quickly learn and master the new features in Mac OS X 10.6, including native support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Following the learning objectives of the Apple Certified Support Professional exam, this self-paced book is a perfect guide for Appleâ€™s training and a first-rate primer for computer support personnel who need to troubleshoot and optimize Mac OS X as part of their jobs. Chapter review sections and quizzes summarize and reinforce acquired knowledge.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Apple Training Series serves as both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum for the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server certification programs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3656'),
(9318, 'Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Support Essentials V10.6', 'Kevin M. White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The only Apple-certified book on Mac OS X v10.6, this revised best-seller will take you deep inside the latest big-cat operating systemâ€”covering everything from installation to automation, customizing the operating system, supporting applications, setting up peripherals, and more. Whether you[HTML_REMOVED]re a support technician or simply an ardent Mac user, you[HTML_REMOVED]ll quickly learn and master the new features in Mac OS X 10.6, including native support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Following the learning objectives of the Apple Certified Support Professional exam, this self-paced book is a perfect guide for Appleâ€™s training and a first-rate primer for computer support personnel who need to troubleshoot and optimize Mac OS X as part of their jobs. Chapter review sections and quizzes summarize and reinforce acquired knowledge.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Apple Training Series serves as both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum for the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server certification programs.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The only Apple-certified book on Mac OS X v10.6, this revised best-seller will take you deep inside the latest big-cat operating systemâ€”covering everything from installation to automation, customizing the operating system, supporting applications, setting up peripherals, and more. Whether you[HTML_REMOVED]re a support technician or simply an ardent Mac user, you[HTML_REMOVED]ll quickly learn and master the new features in Mac OS X 10.6, including native support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Following the learning objectives of the Apple Certified Support Professional exam, this self-paced book is a perfect guide for Appleâ€™s training and a first-rate primer for computer support personnel who need to troubleshoot and optimize Mac OS X as part of their jobs. Chapter review sections and quizzes summarize and reinforce acquired knowledge.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Apple Training Series serves as both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum for the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server certification programs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13336'),
(9319, 'Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.6', 'White, Kevin M.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20785'),
(9320, 'Appointment with Death', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24933'),
(9321, 'Appointment With Death: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Among the towering red cliffs and the ancient ruins of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton, the cruel and tyrannizing matriarch of the Boynton family. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. With only twenty-four hours to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalls a remark he overheard back in Jerusalem: "You do see, don''t you, that she''s got to be killed?" Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he had ever met.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/52'),
(9322, 'Appointment with death: a Hercule Poirot mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Among the towering red cliffs and the ancient ruins of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton, the cruel and tyrannizing matriarch of the Boynton family. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. With only twenty-four hours to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalls a remark he overheard back in Jerusalem: "You do see, don''t you, that she''s got to be killed?" Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he had ever met.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17179'),
(9323, 'April Lady', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A very young lady marries a man 14 years her senior. Although theirs is a love match, between her reckless brother and his wild young ward, Lord and Lady Cardross''s misunderstandings pile up, until he''s convinced she only married him for his money and she believes he only married her to produce an heir.\n</p>\n<p>\n When he fears he''s driven her away with his anger, the two finally have an unexpected opportunity to mend their rifts and start afresh...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or private life. She was born in Wimbledon in August 1902. She wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, at the age of seventeen to amuse her convalescent brother; it was published in 1921 and became an instant success.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer published 56 books over the next 53 years, until her death from lung cancer in 1974. Heyer''s large volume of works included Regency romances, mysteries and historical fiction. Known as the Queen of Regency romance, Heyer was legendary for her research, historical accuracy and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. Her last book, My Lord John, was published posthumously in 1975. She was married to George Ronald Rougier, a barrister, and they had one son, Richard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18367'),
(9324, 'The Aquaintaine Progession', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25191'),
(9325, 'The Aquitaine Progression', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It begins in Geneva. There American lawyer Joel Converse meets a man he hasn''t seen in twenty years, a covert operative who dies violently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse a staggering legacy of death: "THE GENERALS...THEY''RE BACK...AQUITAINE!" Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alone with the world''s most shattering secret. Pursued by anonymous executioners to the dark corners of Europe, he is forced to play a game of survival by blood rules he thought he''d long left behind. One by one, he traces each thread of a deadly progression to the hear of every major governmentâ€”a network of coordinated global violence that no one believes possible. No one but Converse and the woman he once loved and lost. The only two people on earth who can wrest the world from the iron grasp of Aquitaine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1654'),
(9326, 'The Aquitaine Progression', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It begins in Geneva. There American lawyer Joel Converse meets a man he hasn''t seen in twenty years, a covert operative who dies violently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse a staggering legacy of death: "THE GENERALS...THEY''RE BACK...AQUITAINE!" Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alone with the world''s most shattering secret. Pursued by anonymous executioners to the dark corners of Europe, he is forced to play a game of survival by blood rules he thought he''d long left behind. One by one, he traces each thread of a deadly progression to the hear of every major governmentâ€”a network of coordinated global violence that no one believes possible. No one but Converse and the woman he once loved and lost. The only two people on earth who can wrest the world from the iron grasp of Aquitaine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23310'),
(9327, 'Arabella', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prolific Georgette Heyer--author of more than 70 novels--is perhaps best known for her Regency romances. A consummate storyteller, Heyer was also an astute historian of the times she wrote about; every detail of the language, dress, and customs rings with authenticity.\n <em>\n  Arabella\n </em>\n is one of Heyer''s most charming Regency novels. In it, young Arabella Tallant, the beautiful daughter of an impoverished clergyman, comes to London for her social debut and almost immediately runs afoul of Robert Beaumaris, a wealthy, eligible aristocrat. Beaumaris suspects that Arabella engineered a carriage accident in order to meet him; Arabella, in a rage, leads him to believe that she is the heiress to a massive fortune and thus quite uninterested in his own riches.\n</p>\n<p>\n Having set the stage for inevitable misunderstandings between this arrogant Romeo and hotheaded Juliet, Heyer then peoples it with unforgettable secondary characters. Arabella''s warm heart and strong principles lead her to befriend such unsavory types as an abused apprentice to a chimney sweep, a stray dog, and a fallen woman happily known as "Leaky Peg"--all of whom she foists on the reluctant but gallant Mr. Beaumaris.\n <em>\n  Arabella\n </em>\n is an intelligent, witty romp--both a romance with a hearty sense of humor and a historical novel that remains true to the times it depicts.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n My favorite Heyer yet. (Patricia Seguine\n <em>\n  Library Queue\n </em>\n 20091109)\n</p>\n<p>\n Compulsively readable Regency romance. (Margaret Donsbach\n <em>\n  HistoricalNovels.info\n </em>\n 20091109)\n</p>\n<p>\n Engaging... the romance was delightful. (Debbie White\n <em>\n  Genre Reviews\n </em>\n 20091111)\n</p>\n<p>\n I was completely wrapped up in the story from the very beginning as I was sucked in by Heyer''s seemingly unending witty and charming writing style. (Marie Burton\n <em>\n  The Burton Review\n </em>\n 20091111)\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer fans will definitely enjoy this Regency romance. (Drey Salick\n <em>\n  Drey''s Library\n </em>\n 20091116)\n</p>\n<p>\n Wickedly entertaining; a superb comedy of manners! (Keira Gillet\n <em>\n  Love Romance Passion\n </em>\n 20091124)\n</p>\n<p>\n Recommend it to Austen fans, to anyone new to Heyer (I think it would be a great starter book for a Heyer reader), or the general historical romance fan. I don''t know how you could be disappointed in it! (Erin Page\n <em>\n  The Courtier''s Book\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n I enjoyed spending time in this one... Heyer books feel like good friends (Rebecca Laney\n <em>\n  Becky''s Book Reviews\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Arabella\n </em>\n is simply a not-to-be-missed story that I can''t say enough about. (April Pohren\n <em>\n  Cafe of Dreams\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n Sweet, funny and entertaining. (Naida Milenkovic\n <em>\n  The Bookworm\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n A nice diversion from real-life... Highly recommended. (Courtney Wilson\n <em>\n  Once Upon a Bookshelf\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18368'),
(9328, 'Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon', 'Claudia Roden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the 1960s Claudia Roden introduced Americans to a new world of tastes in her classic A Book of Middle Eastern Food. Now, in her enchanting new book, Arabesque, she revisits the three countries with the most exciting cuisines todayâ€”Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon. Interweaving history, stories, and her own observations, she gives us 150 of the most delectable recipes: some of them new discoveries, some reworkings of classic dishesâ€”all of them made even more accessible and delicious for todayâ€™s home cook.From Morocco, the most exquisite and refined cuisine of North Africa: couscous dishes; multilayered pies; delicately flavored tagines; ways of marrying meat, poultry, or fish with fruit to create extraordinary combinations of spicy, savory, and sweet.From Turkey, a highly sophisticated cuisine that dates back to the Ottoman Empire yet reflects many new influences today: a delicious array of kebabs, fillo pies, eggplant dishes in many guises, bulgur and chickpea salads, stuffed grape leaves and peppers, and sweet puddings.From Lebanon, a cuisine of great diversity: a wide variety of mezze (those tempting appetizers that can make a meal all on their own); dishes featuring sun-drenched Middle Eastern vegetables and dried legumes; and national specialties such as kibbeh, meatballs with pine nuts, and lamb shanks with yogurt.Claudia Roden knows this part of the world so intimately that we delight in being in such good hands as she translates the subtle play of flavors and simple cooking techniques to our own home kitchens.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6668'),
(9329, 'Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon', 'Claudia Roden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the 1960s Claudia Roden introduced Americans to a new world of tastes in her classic A Book of Middle Eastern Food. Now, in her enchanting new book, Arabesque, she revisits the three countries with the most exciting cuisines todayâ€”Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon. Interweaving history, stories, and her own observations, she gives us 150 of the most delectable recipes: some of them new discoveries, some reworkings of classic dishesâ€”all of them made even more accessible and delicious for todayâ€™s home cook.From Morocco, the most exquisite and refined cuisine of North Africa: couscous dishes; multilayered pies; delicately flavored tagines; ways of marrying meat, poultry, or fish with fruit to create extraordinary combinations of spicy, savory, and sweet.From Turkey, a highly sophisticated cuisine that dates back to the Ottoman Empire yet reflects many new influences today: a delicious array of kebabs, fillo pies, eggplant dishes in many guises, bulgur and chickpea salads, stuffed grape leaves and peppers, and sweet puddings.From Lebanon, a cuisine of great diversity: a wide variety of mezze (those tempting appetizers that can make a meal all on their own); dishes featuring sun-drenched Middle Eastern vegetables and dried legumes; and national specialties such as kibbeh, meatballs with pine nuts, and lamb shanks with yogurt.Claudia Roden knows this part of the world so intimately that we delight in being in such good hands as she translates the subtle play of flavors and simple cooking techniques to our own home kitchens.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13548'),
(9330, 'Arabesque: a taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon', 'Claudia Roden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the 1960s Claudia Roden introduced Americans to a new world of tastes in her classic A Book of Middle Eastern Food. Now, in her enchanting new book, Arabesque, she revisits the three countries with the most exciting cuisines todayâ€”Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon. Interweaving history, stories, and her own observations, she gives us 150 of the most delectable recipes: some of them new discoveries, some reworkings of classic dishesâ€”all of them made even more accessible and delicious for todayâ€™s home cook.From Morocco, the most exquisite and refined cuisine of North Africa: couscous dishes; multilayered pies; delicately flavored tagines; ways of marrying meat, poultry, or fish with fruit to create extraordinary combinations of spicy, savory, and sweet.From Turkey, a highly sophisticated cuisine that dates back to the Ottoman Empire yet reflects many new influences today: a delicious array of kebabs, fillo pies, eggplant dishes in many guises, bulgur and chickpea salads, stuffed grape leaves and peppers, and sweet puddings.From Lebanon, a cuisine of great diversity: a wide variety of mezze (those tempting appetizers that can make a meal all on their own); dishes featuring sun-drenched Middle Eastern vegetables and dried legumes; and national specialties such as kibbeh, meatballs with pine nuts, and lamb shanks with yogurt.Claudia Roden knows this part of the world so intimately that we delight in being in such good hands as she translates the subtle play of flavors and simple cooking techniques to our own home kitchens.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17367'),
(9331, 'Arabesque: a taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon', 'Claudia Roden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the 1960s Claudia Roden introduced Americans to a new world of tastes in her classic A Book of Middle Eastern Food. Now, in her enchanting new book, Arabesque, she revisits the three countries with the most exciting cuisines todayâ€”Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon. Interweaving history, stories, and her own observations, she gives us 150 of the most delectable recipes: some of them new discoveries, some reworkings of classic dishesâ€”all of them made even more accessible and delicious for todayâ€™s home cook.From Morocco, the most exquisite and refined cuisine of North Africa: couscous dishes; multilayered pies; delicately flavored tagines; ways of marrying meat, poultry, or fish with fruit to create extraordinary combinations of spicy, savory, and sweet.From Turkey, a highly sophisticated cuisine that dates back to the Ottoman Empire yet reflects many new influences today: a delicious array of kebabs, fillo pies, eggplant dishes in many guises, bulgur and chickpea salads, stuffed grape leaves and peppers, and sweet puddings.From Lebanon, a cuisine of great diversity: a wide variety of mezze (those tempting appetizers that can make a meal all on their own); dishes featuring sun-drenched Middle Eastern vegetables and dried legumes; and national specialties such as kibbeh, meatballs with pine nuts, and lamb shanks with yogurt.Claudia Roden knows this part of the world so intimately that we delight in being in such good hands as she translates the subtle play of flavors and simple cooking techniques to our own home kitchens.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27041'),
(9332, 'The Arabian Nights Entertainments: Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, ... Freely Transcribed From the Original Translation. ...', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7483'),
(9333, 'The Arabian Nights Entertainments: Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, ... Freely Transcribed from the Original Translation. ...', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16243'),
(9334, 'The Arabian Nights Entertainments: Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, ... Freely Transcribed from the Original Translation. ...', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26432'),
(9335, 'Arabian Nights With a Rake', 'Bronwyn Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7011'),
(9336, 'Arabian Nights With a Rake', 'Bronwyn Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12604'),
(9337, 'Arabian Nights with a Rake', 'Bronwyn Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16863'),
(9338, 'Arabian Nights with a Rake', 'Bronwyn Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26715'),
(9339, 'The Arabian Nights', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7480');
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(9340, 'The Arabian Nights', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8189'),
(9341, 'The Arabian Nights', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21349'),
(9342, 'The Arabian Nights', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26433'),
(9343, 'Arcadia Falls', 'Carol Goodman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There once was a girl who liked to pretend she was lost. . . . Meg Rosenthal is driving toward the next chapter in her life. Winding along a wooded roadway, her car moves through a dense forest setting not unlike one in the bedtime stories Meg used to read to her daughter, Sally. But the girl riding beside Meg is a teenager now, and has exchanged the land of make-believe for an iPod and some personal space. Too much space, it seems, as the chasm between them has grown since the sudden, unexpected death of Meg''s husband.  Dire financial straits and a desire for a fresh start take Meg and Sally from a comfortable life on Long Island to a tucked-away hamlet in upstate New York: Arcadia Falls, where Meg has accepted a teaching position at a boarding school. The creaky, neglected cottage Meg and Sally are to call home feels like an ill portent of things to come, but Meg is determined to make the best of it--and to make a good impression on the school''s dean, the diminutive, elegant Ivy St. Clare. St. Claire, however, is distracted by a shocking crisis: During Arcadia''s First Night bonfire, one of Meg''s folklore students, Isabel Cheney, plunges to her death in a campus gorge. Sheriff Callum Reade finds Isabel''s death suspicious, but then, he is a man with secrets and a dark past himself. Meg is unnerved by Reade''s interest in the girl''s death, and as long-buried secrets emerge, she must face down her own demons and the danger threatening to envelop Sally. As the past clings tight to the present, the shadows, as if in a terrifying fairy tale, grow longer and deadlier. In Arcadia Falls, award-winning author Carol Goodman deftly weaves a mesmerizing narrative of passion: for revenge, for art, for love. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6920'),
(9344, 'Arcadia Falls', 'Carol Goodman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There once was a girl who liked to pretend she was lost. . . . Meg Rosenthal is driving toward the next chapter in her life. Winding along a wooded roadway, her car moves through a dense forest setting not unlike one in the bedtime stories Meg used to read to her daughter, Sally. But the girl riding beside Meg is a teenager now, and has exchanged the land of make-believe for an iPod and some personal space. Too much space, it seems, as the chasm between them has grown since the sudden, unexpected death of Meg''s husband.  Dire financial straits and a desire for a fresh start take Meg and Sally from a comfortable life on Long Island to a tucked-away hamlet in upstate New York: Arcadia Falls, where Meg has accepted a teaching position at a boarding school. The creaky, neglected cottage Meg and Sally are to call home feels like an ill portent of things to come, but Meg is determined to make the best of it--and to make a good impression on the school''s dean, the diminutive, elegant Ivy St. Clare. St. Claire, however, is distracted by a shocking crisis: During Arcadia''s First Night bonfire, one of Meg''s folklore students, Isabel Cheney, plunges to her death in a campus gorge. Sheriff Callum Reade finds Isabel''s death suspicious, but then, he is a man with secrets and a dark past himself. Meg is unnerved by Reade''s interest in the girl''s death, and as long-buried secrets emerge, she must face down her own demons and the danger threatening to envelop Sally. As the past clings tight to the present, the shadows, as if in a terrifying fairy tale, grow longer and deadlier. In Arcadia Falls, award-winning author Carol Goodman deftly weaves a mesmerizing narrative of passion: for revenge, for art, for love. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10031'),
(9345, 'Arcadia Falls', 'Carol Goodman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There once was a girl who liked to pretend she was lost. . . . Meg Rosenthal is driving toward the next chapter in her life. Winding along a wooded roadway, her car moves through a dense forest setting not unlike one in the bedtime stories Meg used to read to her daughter, Sally. But the girl riding beside Meg is a teenager now, and has exchanged the land of make-believe for an iPod and some personal space. Too much space, it seems, as the chasm between them has grown since the sudden, unexpected death of Meg''s husband. Dire financial straits and a desire for a fresh start take Meg and Sally from a comfortable life on Long Island to a tucked-away hamlet in upstate New York: Arcadia Falls, where Meg has accepted a teaching position at a boarding school. The creaky, neglected cottage Meg and Sally are to call home feels like an ill portent of things to come, but Meg is determined to make the best of it--and to make a good impression on the school''s dean, the diminutive, elegant Ivy St. Clare. St. Claire, however, is distracted by a shocking crisis: During Arcadia''s First Night bonfire, one of Meg''s folklore students, Isabel Cheney, plunges to her death in a campus gorge. Sheriff Callum Reade finds Isabel''s death suspicious, but then, he is a man with secrets and a dark past himself. Meg is unnerved by Reade''s interest in the girl''s death, and as long-buried secrets emerge, she must face down her own demons and the danger threatening to envelop Sally. As the past clings tight to the present, the shadows, as if in a terrifying fairy tale, grow longer and deadlier. In Arcadia Falls, award-winning author Carol Goodman deftly weaves a mesmerizing narrative of passion: for revenge, for art, for love. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16916'),
(9346, 'Arcadia Falls', 'Carol Goodman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There once was a girl who liked to pretend she was lost. . . . Meg Rosenthal is driving toward the next chapter in her life. Winding along a wooded roadway, her car moves through a dense forest setting not unlike one in the bedtime stories Meg used to read to her daughter, Sally. But the girl riding beside Meg is a teenager now, and has exchanged the land of make-believe for an iPod and some personal space. Too much space, it seems, as the chasm between them has grown since the sudden, unexpected death of Meg''s husband. Dire financial straits and a desire for a fresh start take Meg and Sally from a comfortable life on Long Island to a tucked-away hamlet in upstate New York: Arcadia Falls, where Meg has accepted a teaching position at a boarding school. The creaky, neglected cottage Meg and Sally are to call home feels like an ill portent of things to come, but Meg is determined to make the best of it--and to make a good impression on the school''s dean, the diminutive, elegant Ivy St. Clare. St. Claire, however, is distracted by a shocking crisis: During Arcadia''s First Night bonfire, one of Meg''s folklore students, Isabel Cheney, plunges to her death in a campus gorge. Sheriff Callum Reade finds Isabel''s death suspicious, but then, he is a man with secrets and a dark past himself. Meg is unnerved by Reade''s interest in the girl''s death, and as long-buried secrets emerge, she must face down her own demons and the danger threatening to envelop Sally. As the past clings tight to the present, the shadows, as if in a terrifying fairy tale, grow longer and deadlier. In Arcadia Falls, award-winning author Carol Goodman deftly weaves a mesmerizing narrative of passion: for revenge, for art, for love. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26798'),
(9347, 'The Archimedes Effect', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Perry &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik &amp; Larry Segriff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When terrorists launch an attack on Army bases throughout the U.S., Net Force must partner with Army Intelligence and the National Guard to take down a cunning opponent who just might be one of them. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/564'),
(9348, 'The Archimedes Effect', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Perry &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik &amp; Larry Segriff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When terrorists launch an attack on Army bases throughout the U.S., Net Force must partner with Army Intelligence and the National Guard to take down a cunning opponent who just might be one of them. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9011'),
(9349, 'The Archimedes Effect', 'Tom Clancy; Steve Perry; Steve R. Pieczenik; Larry Segriff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When terrorists launch an attack on Army bases throughout the U.S., Net Force must partner with Army Intelligence and the National Guard to take down a cunning opponent who just might be one of them. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24410'),
(9350, 'Architects of Emortality', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The futuristic biotech world of Stableford''s acclaimed SF novella Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), expanded upon in last year''s novel Inherit the Earth, provides the foundation for this sequel. After an ecological collapse brought on by biological warfare and a runaway greenhouse effect, nanotechnology is regrowing lost forests as well as offering near-immortality to those who can afford it. Although the United Nations calls itself a World Government, the true power rests with the MegaMall, a company produced by generations of multinational mergers and buyouts. On this cusp of a new world, someone is murdering the pioneering scientists of the New Human Race, and it''s up to Detective Sgt. Charlotte Holmes and Inspector Hal Watson, of the U.N. Police, to stop the killing. Charlotte and Hal are assisted by Michael Lowenthal, a "special investigator" from the MegaMall, and Oscar Wilde, a legendary bioengineer of specialty flowers. Evidence indicates that the murderer, a mysterious young woman, is somehow related to a genetic engineer who calls himself Rappaccini (after a character in a Hawthorne story). As the team investigates the murders, they realize that Rappaccini''s taut game of hide-and-seek is leading them to the truth behind a much darker secret. Stableford''s skill at creating technologically overwhelmed future worlds is evident here. His narrative teems with vivid, believable descriptions of man-eating flowers, hundred-year-old artists and rampant genetic engineering. His talent for mystery is less sure, featuring characters whose roles blur unconvincingly as the plot picks up speed. Although the novel''s ending is weakened by premature revelations of Rappaccini''s motives, the scale and audacity of Stableford''s vision is a wonder. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bizarre murder of a prominent architect of the new Decivilization of the world draws New York investigator Charlotte Holmes into a complicated web of murderous intrigue involving death by genetically altered flowers. Aided by a brilliant and occasionally maddening "expert witness" with the unlikely name of Oscar Wilde, Holmes seeks solutions to a series of puzzles rooted in the poets and authors of the 19th century. Set in the same distant future as Inherit the Earth, this literary sf mystery, based on the short story "Flowers of Evil," belongs in most sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7135'),
(9351, 'Architects of Emortality', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The futuristic biotech world of Stableford''s acclaimed SF novella Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), expanded upon in last year''s novel Inherit the Earth, provides the foundation for this sequel. After an ecological collapse brought on by biological warfare and a runaway greenhouse effect, nanotechnology is regrowing lost forests as well as offering near-immortality to those who can afford it. Although the United Nations calls itself a World Government, the true power rests with the MegaMall, a company produced by generations of multinational mergers and buyouts. On this cusp of a new world, someone is murdering the pioneering scientists of the New Human Race, and it''s up to Detective Sgt. Charlotte Holmes and Inspector Hal Watson, of the U.N. Police, to stop the killing. Charlotte and Hal are assisted by Michael Lowenthal, a "special investigator" from the MegaMall, and Oscar Wilde, a legendary bioengineer of specialty flowers. Evidence indicates that the murderer, a mysterious young woman, is somehow related to a genetic engineer who calls himself Rappaccini (after a character in a Hawthorne story). As the team investigates the murders, they realize that Rappaccini''s taut game of hide-and-seek is leading them to the truth behind a much darker secret. Stableford''s skill at creating technologically overwhelmed future worlds is evident here. His narrative teems with vivid, believable descriptions of man-eating flowers, hundred-year-old artists and rampant genetic engineering. His talent for mystery is less sure, featuring characters whose roles blur unconvincingly as the plot picks up speed. Although the novel''s ending is weakened by premature revelations of Rappaccini''s motives, the scale and audacity of Stableford''s vision is a wonder. (Sept.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bizarre murder of a prominent architect of the new Decivilization of the world draws New York investigator Charlotte Holmes into a complicated web of murderous intrigue involving death by genetically altered flowers. Aided by a brilliant and occasionally maddening "expert witness" with the unlikely name of Oscar Wilde, Holmes seeks solutions to a series of puzzles rooted in the poets and authors of the 19th century. Set in the same distant future as Inherit the Earth, this literary sf mystery, based on the short story "Flowers of Evil," belongs in most sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16796'),
(9352, 'Arctic Chill', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy''s Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? The investigation soon unearths tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland''s outwardly liberal, multicultural society. A teacher at the boy''s school makes no secret of his anti-immigration stance; incidents are reported between Icelandic pupils and the disaffected children of incomers; and, to confuse matters further, a suspected paedophile has been spotted in the area. Meanwhile, the boy''s murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past. Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7433'),
(9353, 'Arctic Chill', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy''s Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? The investigation soon unearths tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland''s outwardly liberal, multicultural society. A teacher at the boy''s school makes no secret of his anti-immigration stance; incidents are reported between Icelandic pupils and the disaffected children of incomers; and, to confuse matters further, a suspected paedophile has been spotted in the area. Meanwhile, the boy''s murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past. Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10454'),
(9354, 'Arctic Chill', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy''s Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? The investigation soon unearths tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland''s outwardly liberal, multicultural society. A teacher at the boy''s school makes no secret of his anti-immigration stance; incidents are reported between Icelandic pupils and the disaffected children of incomers; and, to confuse matters further, a suspected paedophile has been spotted in the area. Meanwhile, the boy''s murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past. Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16403'),
(9355, 'Arctic Chill', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy''s Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? The investigation soon unearths tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland''s outwardly liberal, multicultural society. A teacher at the boy''s school makes no secret of his anti-immigration stance; incidents are reported between Icelandic pupils and the disaffected children of incomers; and, to confuse matters further, a suspected paedophile has been spotted in the area. Meanwhile, the boy''s murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past. Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26467'),
(9356, 'The Arctic Event', 'James Cobb &amp; Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On a desolate island deep within the Canadian Arctic, a scientific expedition photograph the wreckage of a bomber on a mountain glacier. To the world at large, the half-century old aeroplane is merely a relic of the early Cold War. Only a handful of insiders know that it still represents a major threat to civilization, as the aircraft is a Soviet Air Force biological warfare platform, still armed with two tons of active weaponized anthrax.Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith of Covert-One - the personal action arm of the President of the United States - is assigned to lead CIA agent Randi Russell and the lovely, but lethal, weapons expert, Professor Valentina Metrace to secure the site.But on the island Smith and his team find themselves confronted with a traitor from within their ranks. Cut off from all outside aid, the operatives must struggle against both betrayal and the brutal polar environment. Gradually they become aware that something else exists within the hulk of the ancient bomber: a secret potentially more devastating than even the plane''s warload, and one that could bring about both a cataclysmic revision of global history and serve as the trigger for a Third World War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4843'),
(9357, 'The Arctic Event', 'James Cobb; Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On a desolate island deep within the Canadian Arctic, a scientific expedition photograph the wreckage of a bomber on a mountain glacier. To the world at large, the half-century old aeroplane is merely a relic of the early Cold War. Only a handful of insiders know that it still represents a major threat to civilization, as the aircraft is a Soviet Air Force biological warfare platform, still armed with two tons of active weaponized anthrax.Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith of Covert-One - the personal action arm of the President of the United States - is assigned to lead CIA agent Randi Russell and the lovely, but lethal, weapons expert, Professor Valentina Metrace to secure the site.But on the island Smith and his team find themselves confronted with a traitor from within their ranks. Cut off from all outside aid, the operatives must struggle against both betrayal and the brutal polar environment. Gradually they become aware that something else exists within the hulk of the ancient bomber: a secret potentially more devastating than even the plane''s warload, and one that could bring about both a cataclysmic revision of global history and serve as the trigger for a Third World War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19860'),
(9358, 'The Arctic Patrol Mystery', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For action, mystery and cliff-hanging suspense, read THE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES - featuring the thrilling adventures of America''s favorite detective duo, Frank and Joe Hardy. Millions of young readers have teamed up with the Hardy Boys, helping them in their quest to bring criminals to justice. Be a part of the fun! Start your collection of original hardcover Hardy Boys Mysteries today!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18453'),
(9359, 'Are You Kidding Me?: The Story of Rocco Mediate&#39;s Extraordinary Battle With Tiger Woods at the US Open', 'Rocco Mediate &amp; John Feinstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  PRAISE FOR AMERICA''S FAVORITE SPORTSWRITER:\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "John Feinstein...has done perhaps as much for golf writing as Arnold Palmer has for golf." (\n  <strong>\n   Washington Monthly\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Ron Rappaport\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Feinstein is the most successful sportswriter in America....He has the gift of re-creating events known to us all while infusing them with excitement, even suspense." (\n  <strong>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Jay Nordlinger\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The best chronicler in sports journalism." (\n  <strong>\n   Seattle Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Craig Smith\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "John Feinstein has become sportswriting''s John Grisham." (\n  <strong>\n   Sporting News\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   David Kindred\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Feinstein makes you care." (\n  <strong>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Bruce Fetts,\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of the best sportswriters alive." (\n  <strong>\n   USA Today\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Larry King\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  June 2008''s US Open produced one of the most unexpected and dramatic showdowns in golf history. Day after day the invincible Tiger Woods was challenged by Rocco Mediate, a respected journeyman. On Sunday, both ended play tied at par, forcing a playoff. Defying expectations, Mediate played Woods to yet another tie, losing only after forcing a sudden-death showdown.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Through it all, Rocco Mediate emerged as one of the most likable, open, and fascinating golfers. In ARE YOU KIDDING ME?, he tells the full story of these five life-changing days. With John Feinstein, whose insider knowledge of the golf world is unparalleled, Mediate relives one of sport''s greatest feats, how one man overcame every obstacle to challenge the game''s finest.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1550'),
(9360, 'Are You Kidding Me?: The Story of Rocco Mediate&#39;s Extraordinary Battle With Tiger Woods at the US Open', 'Rocco Mediate &amp; John Feinstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  PRAISE FOR AMERICA''S FAVORITE SPORTSWRITER:\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "John Feinstein...has done perhaps as much for golf writing as Arnold Palmer has for golf." (\n  <strong>\n   Washington Monthly\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Ron Rappaport\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Feinstein is the most successful sportswriter in America....He has the gift of re-creating events known to us all while infusing them with excitement, even suspense." (\n  <strong>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Jay Nordlinger\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The best chronicler in sports journalism." (\n  <strong>\n   Seattle Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Craig Smith\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "John Feinstein has become sportswriting''s John Grisham." (\n  <strong>\n   Sporting News\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   David Kindred\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Feinstein makes you care." (\n  <strong>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Bruce Fetts,\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of the best sportswriters alive." (\n  <strong>\n   USA Today\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Larry King\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  June 2008''s US Open produced one of the most unexpected and dramatic showdowns in golf history. Day after day the invincible Tiger Woods was challenged by Rocco Mediate, a respected journeyman. On Sunday, both ended play tied at par, forcing a playoff. Defying expectations, Mediate played Woods to yet another tie, losing only after forcing a sudden-death showdown.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Through it all, Rocco Mediate emerged as one of the most likable, open, and fascinating golfers. In ARE YOU KIDDING ME?, he tells the full story of these five life-changing days. With John Feinstein, whose insider knowledge of the golf world is unparalleled, Mediate relives one of sport''s greatest feats, how one man overcame every obstacle to challenge the game''s finest.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11432'),
(9361, 'Are You Kidding Me?: The Story of Rocco Mediate&#39;s Extraordinary Battle With Tiger Woods at the US Open', 'Rocco Mediate; John Feinstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  PRAISE FOR AMERICA''S FAVORITE SPORTSWRITER:\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "John Feinstein...has done perhaps as much for golf writing as Arnold Palmer has for golf." (\n  <strong>\n   Washington Monthly\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Ron Rappaport\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Feinstein is the most successful sportswriter in America....He has the gift of re-creating events known to us all while infusing them with excitement, even suspense." (\n  <strong>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Jay Nordlinger\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The best chronicler in sports journalism." (\n  <strong>\n   Seattle Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Craig Smith\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "John Feinstein has become sportswriting''s John Grisham." (\n  <strong>\n   Sporting News\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   David Kindred\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Feinstein makes you care." (\n  <strong>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Bruce Fetts,\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of the best sportswriters alive." (\n  <strong>\n   USA Today\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Larry King\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  June 2008''s US Open produced one of the most unexpected and dramatic showdowns in golf history. Day after day the invincible Tiger Woods was challenged by Rocco Mediate, a respected journeyman. On Sunday, both ended play tied at par, forcing a playoff. Defying expectations, Mediate played Woods to yet another tie, losing only after forcing a sudden-death showdown.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Through it all, Rocco Mediate emerged as one of the most likable, open, and fascinating golfers. In ARE YOU KIDDING ME?, he tells the full story of these five life-changing days. With John Feinstein, whose insider knowledge of the golf world is unparalleled, Mediate relives one of sport''s greatest feats, how one man overcame every obstacle to challenge the game''s finest.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23384'),
(9362, 'Are You There, Vodka? It&#39;s Me, Chelsea', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE EAGERLY AWAITED COLLECTION OF PERSONAL ESSAYS FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY HORIZONTAL LIFEWhen Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power -- vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your father in order to upgrade to first class. Welcome to Chelsea''s world -- a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense. In this hilarious, deliciously skewed collection, Chelsea mines her past for stories about her family, relationships, and career that are at once singular and ridiculous. Whether she''s convincing her third-grade class that she has been tapped to play Goldie Hawn''s daughter in the sequel to Private Benjamin, deciding to be more egalitarian by dating a redhead, or looking out for a foulmouthed, rum-swilling little person who looks just like her...only smaller, Chelsea has a knack for getting herself into the most outrageous situations. Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea showcases the candor and irresistible turns of phrase that have made her one of the freshest voices in comedy today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6762'),
(9363, 'Are You There, Vodka? It&#39;s Me, Chelsea', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE EAGERLY AWAITED COLLECTION OF PERSONAL ESSAYS FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY HORIZONTAL LIFEWhen Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power -- vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your father in order to upgrade to first class. Welcome to Chelsea''s world -- a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense. In this hilarious, deliciously skewed collection, Chelsea mines her past for stories about her family, relationships, and career that are at once singular and ridiculous. Whether she''s convincing her third-grade class that she has been tapped to play Goldie Hawn''s daughter in the sequel to Private Benjamin, deciding to be more egalitarian by dating a redhead, or looking out for a foulmouthed, rum-swilling little person who looks just like her...only smaller, Chelsea has a knack for getting herself into the most outrageous situations. Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea showcases the candor and irresistible turns of phrase that have made her one of the freshest voices in comedy today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10140'),
(9364, 'Are You There, Vodka? It&#39;s Me, Chelsea', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power -- vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your father in order to upgrade to first class. Welcome to Chelsea''s world -- a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense. In this hilarious, deliciously skewed collection, Chelsea mines her past for stories about her family, relationships, and career that are at once singular and ridiculous. Whether she''s convincing her third-grade class that she has been tapped to play Goldie Hawn''s daughter in the sequel to Private Benjamin, deciding to be more egalitarian by dating a redhead, or looking out for a foulmouthed, rum-swilling little person who looks just like her...only smaller, Chelsea has a knack for getting herself into the most outrageous situations. Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea showcases the candor and irresistible turns of phrase that have made her one of the freshest voices in comedy today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15290'),
(9365, 'Are You There, Vodka? It&#39;s Me, Chelsea', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE EAGERLY AWAITED COLLECTION OF PERSONAL ESSAYS FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY HORIZONTAL LIFEWhen Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power -- vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your father in order to upgrade to first class. Welcome to Chelsea''s world -- a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense. In this hilarious, deliciously skewed collection, Chelsea mines her past for stories about her family, relationships, and career that are at once singular and ridiculous. Whether she''s convincing her third-grade class that she has been tapped to play Goldie Hawn''s daughter in the sequel to Private Benjamin, deciding to be more egalitarian by dating a redhead, or looking out for a foulmouthed, rum-swilling little person who looks just like her...only smaller, Chelsea has a knack for getting herself into the most outrageous situations. Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea showcases the candor and irresistible turns of phrase that have made her one of the freshest voices in comedy today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17109'),
(9366, 'Are You There, Vodka? It&#39;s Me, Chelsea', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power -- vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your father in order to upgrade to first class. Welcome to Chelsea''s world -- a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense. In this hilarious, deliciously skewed collection, Chelsea mines her past for stories about her family, relationships, and career that are at once singular and ridiculous. Whether she''s convincing her third-grade class that she has been tapped to play Goldie Hawn''s daughter in the sequel to Private Benjamin, deciding to be more egalitarian by dating a redhead, or looking out for a foulmouthed, rum-swilling little person who looks just like her...only smaller, Chelsea has a knack for getting herself into the most outrageous situations. Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea showcases the candor and irresistible turns of phrase that have made her one of the freshest voices in comedy today.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE EAGERLY AWAITED COLLECTION OF PERSONAL ESSAYS FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY HORIZONTAL LIFEWhen Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power -- vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your father in order to upgrade to first class. Welcome to Chelsea''s world -- a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense. In this hilarious, deliciously skewed collection, Chelsea mines her past for stories about her family, relationships, and career that are at once singular and ridiculous. Whether she''s convincing her third-grade class that she has been tapped to play Goldie Hawn''s daughter in the sequel to Private Benjamin, deciding to be more egalitarian by dating a redhead, or looking out for a foulmouthed, rum-swilling little person who looks just like her...only smaller, Chelsea has a knack for getting herself into the most outrageous situations. Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea showcases the candor and irresistible turns of phrase that have made her one of the freshest voices in comedy today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26943'),
(9367, 'Area 51', 'Annie Jacobsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  Area 51\n </i>\n <br />\n <br />\n It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn''t exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada''s desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades.\n <br />\n <br />\n Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe that the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence of these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now.\n <br />\n <br />\n Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, thirty-two of...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14206'),
(9368, 'Area 51', 'Annie Jacobsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  Area 51\n </i>\n <br />\n <br />\n It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn''t exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada''s desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades.\n <br />\n <br />\n Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe that the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence of these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now.\n <br />\n <br />\n Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, thirty-two of...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16365'),
(9369, 'Area 51', 'Annie Jacobsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  Area 51\n </i>\n <br />\n <br />\n It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn''t exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada''s desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades.\n <br />\n <br />\n Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe that the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence of these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now.\n <br />\n <br />\n Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, thirty-two of...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26439'),
(9370, 'Area 51: An Uncensored History of America&#39;s Top Secret Military Base', 'Annie Jacobsen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Cauldron-stirring. [AREA 51] is not science fiction. It is an assertive account, revelatory ... Ms. Jacobsen has put together a set of strong allegations about Area 51''s covert history ... Her research into the world of ''overhead,'' the aerial espionage that needed to be developed in extreme secrecy, is compellingly hard-hittting ... the book is noteworthy for its author''s dogged devotion to her research." (_\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times\n  </strong>\n  _ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Area 51\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn''t exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada''s desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe that the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence of these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, thirty-two of whom lived and worked there for extended periods. In\n  <em>\n   Area 51,\n  </em>\n  Jacobsen shows us what has really gone on in the Nevada desert, from testing nuclear weapons to building super-secret, supersonic jets to pursuing the War on Terror.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is the first book based on interviews with eye witnesses to Area 51 history, which makes it the seminal work on the subject. Filled with formerly classified information that has never been accurately decoded for the public,\n  <em>\n   Area 51\n  </em>\n  weaves the mysterious activities of the top-secret base into a gripping narrative, showing that facts are often more fantastic than fiction, especially when the distinction is almost impossible to make.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9420'),
(9371, 'An Area of Darkness', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A classic of modern travel writing,\n <strong>\n  An Area of Darkness\n </strong>\n _ _is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul[HTML_REMOVED]s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.\n <br />\n Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker.\n <strong>\n  An Area of Darkness\n </strong>\n also abounds with Naipaul[HTML_REMOVED]s strikingly original responses to India[HTML_REMOVED]s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11000'),
(9372, 'Aristophanes: The Complete Plays', 'Paul Roche', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   A brand-new translation of the world''s greatest satirist. With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate, as well as a fearless penchant for lampooning the rich and powerful, Aristophanes remains arguably the finest satirist of all time. Collected here are all 11 of his surviving plays-newly translated by the distinguished poet and translator Paul Roche.\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2228');
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(9373, 'Aristophanes: The Complete Plays', 'Paul Roche', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   A brand-new translation of the world''s greatest satirist. With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate, as well as a fearless penchant for lampooning the rich and powerful, Aristophanes remains arguably the finest satirist of all time. Collected here are all 11 of his surviving plays-newly translated by the distinguished poet and translator Paul Roche.\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <br />\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13551'),
(9374, 'Aristophanes: The Complete Plays', 'Paul Roche', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22547'),
(9375, 'Ark Angel', 'Anthony Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5-10-Alex Rider is giving it up. Being a teenage secret agent is just too dangerous. He wants his old life back. As he lies in the hospital bed recovering from a gunshot wound, he contemplates the end of his career with MI6, the British secret service. But then he saves the life of Paul Drevin, son of multibillionaire Nikolei Drevin, and once again he is pulled into service. This time his mission involves eco-terrorists, rockets to space, maniacal killers, and a less-than-idyllic tropical island. Is it all in a day''s work, or will this truly be Alex Rider''s last mission? The action-filled plot develops quickly and keeps readers on the edge of their seats. The over-the-top characters, with their exaggerated quirks and personalities, work well in this James Bond-like novel. Detailed background, technical, and political information, essential for any spy story, is uncomplicated and easy for most readers to understand. Though there are some references to previous missions, this title can certainly stand alone. Recommend it to your reluctant readers and get ready for them to line up for the rest of the series._-Heather E. Miller, Homewood Public Library, AL_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 6--9. In his sixth adventure Alex Rider runs afoul of a group of murderous "eco warriors" and befriends Paul Drevin, the lonely son of venerated multibillionaire Nikolai Drevin, who isn''t what he seems. In fact, neither is Paul, as Alex finds out when he accompanies the father and son on a vacation to the family''s luxurious home in Flamingo Bay, which happens to be the launching site of a rocket that will carry the observation module for Drevin''s hugely publicized Ark Angel, the first hotel in space. Readers will need to suspend disbelief more than usual this time: Alex''s solo trip into space is unquestionably over the top, and there are a few glitches in plotting. What''s impossible to resist are the imaginative gadgets and the breakneck action, which Horowitz handles with his usual assurance and skill. Expect very high demand for this. The first title in the series,\n  <em>\n   Stormbreaker\n  </em>\n  (2001), is being released as a movie, and to celebrate the event, the publisher has redesigned the series'' book covers to incorporate a snazzy holographic foil.\n  <em>\n   Stephanie Zvirin\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7493'),
(9376, 'Ark Angel', 'Anthony Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5-10-Alex Rider is giving it up. Being a teenage secret agent is just too dangerous. He wants his old life back. As he lies in the hospital bed recovering from a gunshot wound, he contemplates the end of his career with MI6, the British secret service. But then he saves the life of Paul Drevin, son of multibillionaire Nikolei Drevin, and once again he is pulled into service. This time his mission involves eco-terrorists, rockets to space, maniacal killers, and a less-than-idyllic tropical island. Is it all in a day''s work, or will this truly be Alex Rider''s last mission? The action-filled plot develops quickly and keeps readers on the edge of their seats. The over-the-top characters, with their exaggerated quirks and personalities, work well in this James Bond-like novel. Detailed background, technical, and political information, essential for any spy story, is uncomplicated and easy for most readers to understand. Though there are some references to previous missions, this title can certainly stand alone. Recommend it to your reluctant readers and get ready for them to line up for the rest of the series._-Heather E. Miller, Homewood Public Library, AL_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 6--9. In his sixth adventure Alex Rider runs afoul of a group of murderous "eco warriors" and befriends Paul Drevin, the lonely son of venerated multibillionaire Nikolai Drevin, who isn''t what he seems. In fact, neither is Paul, as Alex finds out when he accompanies the father and son on a vacation to the family''s luxurious home in Flamingo Bay, which happens to be the launching site of a rocket that will carry the observation module for Drevin''s hugely publicized Ark Angel, the first hotel in space. Readers will need to suspend disbelief more than usual this time: Alex''s solo trip into space is unquestionably over the top, and there are a few glitches in plotting. What''s impossible to resist are the imaginative gadgets and the breakneck action, which Horowitz handles with his usual assurance and skill. Expect very high demand for this. The first title in the series,\n  <em>\n   Stormbreaker\n  </em>\n  (2001), is being released as a movie, and to celebrate the event, the publisher has redesigned the series'' book covers to incorporate a snazzy holographic foil.\n  <em>\n   Stephanie Zvirin\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10436'),
(9377, 'Ark Angel', 'Anthony Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5-10-Alex Rider is giving it up. Being a teenage secret agent is just too dangerous. He wants his old life back. As he lies in the hospital bed recovering from a gunshot wound, he contemplates the end of his career with MI6, the British secret service. But then he saves the life of Paul Drevin, son of multibillionaire Nikolei Drevin, and once again he is pulled into service. This time his mission involves eco-terrorists, rockets to space, maniacal killers, and a less-than-idyllic tropical island. Is it all in a day''s work, or will this truly be Alex Rider''s last mission? The action-filled plot develops quickly and keeps readers on the edge of their seats. The over-the-top characters, with their exaggerated quirks and personalities, work well in this James Bond-like novel. Detailed background, technical, and political information, essential for any spy story, is uncomplicated and easy for most readers to understand. Though there are some references to previous missions, this title can certainly stand alone. Recommend it to your reluctant readers and get ready for them to line up for the rest of the series._-Heather E. Miller, Homewood Public Library, AL_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 6--9. In his sixth adventure Alex Rider runs afoul of a group of murderous "eco warriors" and befriends Paul Drevin, the lonely son of venerated multibillionaire Nikolai Drevin, who isn''t what he seems. In fact, neither is Paul, as Alex finds out when he accompanies the father and son on a vacation to the family''s luxurious home in Flamingo Bay, which happens to be the launching site of a rocket that will carry the observation module for Drevin''s hugely publicized Ark Angel, the first hotel in space. Readers will need to suspend disbelief more than usual this time: Alex''s solo trip into space is unquestionably over the top, and there are a few glitches in plotting. What''s impossible to resist are the imaginative gadgets and the breakneck action, which Horowitz handles with his usual assurance and skill. Expect very high demand for this. The first title in the series,\n  <em>\n   Stormbreaker\n  </em>\n  (2001), is being released as a movie, and to celebrate the event, the publisher has redesigned the series'' book covers to incorporate a snazzy holographic foil.\n  <em>\n   Stephanie Zvirin\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16340'),
(9378, 'The Ark', 'Boyd Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A modern-day international thriller hailed by James Rollins as "one of the best debut I''ve read this year. . . here is a novel that will have you holding your breath until the last page is turned." When brilliant archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah''s Ark--the artifact her father had long been searching for--and the possible death of billions. Before Sam can explain, he collapses. With his dying breath, he urges Dilara to find Tyler Locke--a man she''s never heard of. Two days later Dilara manages to track down former combat engineer Tyler Locke on an oil rig off Newfoundland. Her helicopter transport goes down well short of the oil rig''s landing pad and Dilara and those aboard nearly drown. No sooner is Dilara safely on the rig than she convinces Tyler the crash was no accident. Tyler agrees to help her uncover the secret behind Noah''s Ark and, more important, her father''s disappearance. As the picture begins to come into focus, they realize they have just seven days to find the Ark before its secret is used to wipe out civilization once again. With a chilling premise and a blistering pace, Boyd Morrison combines all the best elements of a blockbuster thriller with an intelligent and fascinating exploration of one of the Old Testament''s great mysteries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7201'),
(9379, 'The Ark', 'Boyd Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A modern-day international thriller hailed by James Rollins as "one of the best debut I''ve read this year. . . here is a novel that will have you holding your breath until the last page is turned." When brilliant archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah''s Ark--the artifact her father had long been searching for--and the possible death of billions. Before Sam can explain, he collapses. With his dying breath, he urges Dilara to find Tyler Locke--a man she''s never heard of. Two days later Dilara manages to track down former combat engineer Tyler Locke on an oil rig off Newfoundland. Her helicopter transport goes down well short of the oil rig''s landing pad and Dilara and those aboard nearly drown. No sooner is Dilara safely on the rig than she convinces Tyler the crash was no accident. Tyler agrees to help her uncover the secret behind Noah''s Ark and, more important, her father''s disappearance. As the picture begins to come into focus, they realize they have just seven days to find the Ark before its secret is used to wipe out civilization once again. With a chilling premise and a blistering pace, Boyd Morrison combines all the best elements of a blockbuster thriller with an intelligent and fascinating exploration of one of the Old Testament''s great mysteries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16659'),
(9380, 'The Ark', 'Boyd Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A modern-day international thriller hailed by James Rollins as "one of the best debut I''ve read this year. . . here is a novel that will have you holding your breath until the last page is turned." When brilliant archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah''s Ark--the artifact her father had long been searching for--and the possible death of billions. Before Sam can explain, he collapses. With his dying breath, he urges Dilara to find Tyler Locke--a man she''s never heard of. Two days later Dilara manages to track down former combat engineer Tyler Locke on an oil rig off Newfoundland. Her helicopter transport goes down well short of the oil rig''s landing pad and Dilara and those aboard nearly drown. No sooner is Dilara safely on the rig than she convinces Tyler the crash was no accident. Tyler agrees to help her uncover the secret behind Noah''s Ark and, more important, her father''s disappearance. As the picture begins to come into focus, they realize they have just seven days to find the Ark before its secret is used to wipe out civilization once again. With a chilling premise and a blistering pace, Boyd Morrison combines all the best elements of a blockbuster thriller with an intelligent and fascinating exploration of one of the Old Testament''s great mysteries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26672'),
(9381, 'Armadillo', 'William Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lorimer Black may suffer from a serious sleep disorder and an obsession with the labyrinths of the British class system, but\n <em>\n  Armadillo\n </em>\n ''s peculiar protagonist\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n the star insurance adjuster of London''s Fortress Sure PLC, unaffectionately known as the Fort. At the very start of William Boyd''s\n <em>\n  noir\n </em>\n -ish seventh novel, however, things take a decided swerve for the worse. On a bleak January morning one of his cases has apparently chosen to kill himself rather than talk: "Mr. Dupree was simultaneously the first dead person he had encountered in his life, his first suicide and his first hanged man and Lorimer found this congruence of firsts deceptively troubling."\n</p>\n<p>\n Soon our hero, who himself has a lot to hide, finds himself threatened by a dodgy type whose loss he has adjusted way down and embroiled with the beautiful married actress Flavia Malinverno. "People who''ve lost something, they call on you to adjust it, make the loss less hard to bear? As if their lives are broken in some way and they call on you to fix it," Flavia dippily wonders. Lorimer also has his car torched and instantly goes from an object of affection to one of deep suspicion at the Fort. Then there is another case, the small matter of the rock star who may or may not be faking the Devil he says is sitting on his left shoulder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Needless to say, Lorimer is "becoming fed up with this role of fall guy for other people''s woes." Boyd adds a deep layer of psychological heft and a lighter level of humor to this thinking-person''s thriller by exploring Lorimer''s manifold personal and social fears. This is a man who desperately collects ancient helmets even though he knows they offer only "the illusion of protection." Another of\n <em>\n  Armadillo\n </em>\n ''s many pleasures: its dose of delicious argot. Should Lorimer "oil" the apparent perpetrator of the Fedora Palace arson before he''s oiled himself? Or perhaps he just needs to "put the frighteners" on him. Boyd definitely puts the frighteners on his readers more than once in this cinematically seedy and dazzling literary display.\n <em>\n  --Kerry Fried\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ever inventive Boyd?whose highly praised first novel, A Good Man in Africa, was followed by others set in Africa and America, sets this latest work in contemporary London, which he observes with the close attention of someone seeing it for the first time. In fact, his protagonist, Lorimer Black, is not exactly a native: his ancestry derives from an obscure Central European Gypsy clan who made it to London after the war. Lorimer is the only truly Anglicized one among them, from his name to his careful sense of what to wear and say on every occasion. He is a loss adjuster at a big insurance company, whose day begins unsettlingly with the suicide of an insured client he was about to visit. Then a new hotel building, mysteriously overinsured, burns down, and his boss, the overbearing and cheerfully philosophical Mr. Hogg, seems to want Lorimer to investigate. A dreadful new colleague comes into his life and tries to make Lorimer his best friend; Lorimer falls hard for a mysterious actress glimpsed in one of his company''s TV commercials; his car is vandalized, and he is attacked in the street; his elderly father dies suddenly; and Hogg turns nasty and fires him. Throughout all this, poor Lorimer, stricken with a severe sleep disorder, tries to get some rest at a sleep clinic where he seeks what he calls "lucid dreams," which?unlike his waking life?he can control. Boyd''s comic writing is zesty and brilliantly on-target about contemporary Londoners, high and low, and Lorimer''s adventures have enough of an alarming edge to keep a reader constantly, and delightedly, off balance. The only flaw in an otherwise sparkling performance is an odd and unlikely journal Lorimer keeps, which is designed to fill the gaps in his previous life, but which never sounds like anything other than the author''s voice. Editor, Vicky Wilson; agent: Georges Borchardt.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/206'),
(9382, 'Armadillo', 'William Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lorimer Black may suffer from a serious sleep disorder and an obsession with the labyrinths of the British class system, but\n <em>\n  Armadillo\n </em>\n ''s peculiar protagonist\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n the star insurance adjuster of London''s Fortress Sure PLC, unaffectionately known as the Fort. At the very start of William Boyd''s\n <em>\n  noir\n </em>\n -ish seventh novel, however, things take a decided swerve for the worse. On a bleak January morning one of his cases has apparently chosen to kill himself rather than talk: "Mr. Dupree was simultaneously the first dead person he had encountered in his life, his first suicide and his first hanged man and Lorimer found this congruence of firsts deceptively troubling."\n</p>\n<p>\n Soon our hero, who himself has a lot to hide, finds himself threatened by a dodgy type whose loss he has adjusted way down and embroiled with the beautiful married actress Flavia Malinverno. "People who''ve lost something, they call on you to adjust it, make the loss less hard to bear? As if their lives are broken in some way and they call on you to fix it," Flavia dippily wonders. Lorimer also has his car torched and instantly goes from an object of affection to one of deep suspicion at the Fort. Then there is another case, the small matter of the rock star who may or may not be faking the Devil he says is sitting on his left shoulder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Needless to say, Lorimer is "becoming fed up with this role of fall guy for other people''s woes." Boyd adds a deep layer of psychological heft and a lighter level of humor to this thinking-person''s thriller by exploring Lorimer''s manifold personal and social fears. This is a man who desperately collects ancient helmets even though he knows they offer only "the illusion of protection." Another of\n <em>\n  Armadillo\n </em>\n ''s many pleasures: its dose of delicious argot. Should Lorimer "oil" the apparent perpetrator of the Fedora Palace arson before he''s oiled himself? Or perhaps he just needs to "put the frighteners" on him. Boyd definitely puts the frighteners on his readers more than once in this cinematically seedy and dazzling literary display.\n <em>\n  --Kerry Fried\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ever inventive Boyd?whose highly praised first novel, A Good Man in Africa, was followed by others set in Africa and America, sets this latest work in contemporary London, which he observes with the close attention of someone seeing it for the first time. In fact, his protagonist, Lorimer Black, is not exactly a native: his ancestry derives from an obscure Central European Gypsy clan who made it to London after the war. Lorimer is the only truly Anglicized one among them, from his name to his careful sense of what to wear and say on every occasion. He is a loss adjuster at a big insurance company, whose day begins unsettlingly with the suicide of an insured client he was about to visit. Then a new hotel building, mysteriously overinsured, burns down, and his boss, the overbearing and cheerfully philosophical Mr. Hogg, seems to want Lorimer to investigate. A dreadful new colleague comes into his life and tries to make Lorimer his best friend; Lorimer falls hard for a mysterious actress glimpsed in one of his company''s TV commercials; his car is vandalized, and he is attacked in the street; his elderly father dies suddenly; and Hogg turns nasty and fires him. Throughout all this, poor Lorimer, stricken with a severe sleep disorder, tries to get some rest at a sleep clinic where he seeks what he calls "lucid dreams," which?unlike his waking life?he can control. Boyd''s comic writing is zesty and brilliantly on-target about contemporary Londoners, high and low, and Lorimer''s adventures have enough of an alarming edge to keep a reader constantly, and delightedly, off balance. The only flaw in an otherwise sparkling performance is an odd and unlikely journal Lorimer keeps, which is designed to fill the gaps in his previous life, but which never sounds like anything other than the author''s voice. Editor, Vicky Wilson; agent: Georges Borchardt.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8646'),
(9383, 'Armadillo', 'William Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lorimer Black may suffer from a serious sleep disorder and an obsession with the labyrinths of the British class system, but\n <em>\n  Armadillo\n </em>\n ''s peculiar protagonist\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n the star insurance adjuster of London''s Fortress Sure PLC, unaffectionately known as the Fort. At the very start of William Boyd''s\n <em>\n  noir\n </em>\n -ish seventh novel, however, things take a decided swerve for the worse. On a bleak January morning one of his cases has apparently chosen to kill himself rather than talk: "Mr. Dupree was simultaneously the first dead person he had encountered in his life, his first suicide and his first hanged man and Lorimer found this congruence of firsts deceptively troubling."\n</p>\n<p>\n Soon our hero, who himself has a lot to hide, finds himself threatened by a dodgy type whose loss he has adjusted way down and embroiled with the beautiful married actress Flavia Malinverno. "People who''ve lost something, they call on you to adjust it, make the loss less hard to bear? As if their lives are broken in some way and they call on you to fix it," Flavia dippily wonders. Lorimer also has his car torched and instantly goes from an object of affection to one of deep suspicion at the Fort. Then there is another case, the small matter of the rock star who may or may not be faking the Devil he says is sitting on his left shoulder.\n</p>\n<p>\n Needless to say, Lorimer is "becoming fed up with this role of fall guy for other people''s woes." Boyd adds a deep layer of psychological heft and a lighter level of humor to this thinking-person''s thriller by exploring Lorimer''s manifold personal and social fears. This is a man who desperately collects ancient helmets even though he knows they offer only "the illusion of protection." Another of\n <em>\n  Armadillo\n </em>\n ''s many pleasures: its dose of delicious argot. Should Lorimer "oil" the apparent perpetrator of the Fedora Palace arson before he''s oiled himself? Or perhaps he just needs to "put the frighteners" on him. Boyd definitely puts the frighteners on his readers more than once in this cinematically seedy and dazzling literary display.\n <em>\n  --Kerry Fried\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ever inventive Boyd?whose highly praised first novel, A Good Man in Africa, was followed by others set in Africa and America, sets this latest work in contemporary London, which he observes with the close attention of someone seeing it for the first time. In fact, his protagonist, Lorimer Black, is not exactly a native: his ancestry derives from an obscure Central European Gypsy clan who made it to London after the war. Lorimer is the only truly Anglicized one among them, from his name to his careful sense of what to wear and say on every occasion. He is a loss adjuster at a big insurance company, whose day begins unsettlingly with the suicide of an insured client he was about to visit. Then a new hotel building, mysteriously overinsured, burns down, and his boss, the overbearing and cheerfully philosophical Mr. Hogg, seems to want Lorimer to investigate. A dreadful new colleague comes into his life and tries to make Lorimer his best friend; Lorimer falls hard for a mysterious actress glimpsed in one of his company''s TV commercials; his car is vandalized, and he is attacked in the street; his elderly father dies suddenly; and Hogg turns nasty and fires him. Throughout all this, poor Lorimer, stricken with a severe sleep disorder, tries to get some rest at a sleep clinic where he seeks what he calls "lucid dreams," which?unlike his waking life?he can control. Boyd''s comic writing is zesty and brilliantly on-target about contemporary Londoners, high and low, and Lorimer''s adventures have enough of an alarming edge to keep a reader constantly, and delightedly, off balance. The only flaw in an otherwise sparkling performance is an odd and unlikely journal Lorimer keeps, which is designed to fill the gaps in his previous life, but which never sounds like anything other than the author''s voice. Editor, Vicky Wilson; agent: Georges Borchardt.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24684'),
(9384, 'Armageddon in Retrospect', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death--a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity''s tendency toward violence.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut''s trademark rueful humor, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden during World War II--an essay that is as timely today as it was then--to a painfully funny short story about three Army privates and their fantasies of the perfect first meal upon returning home from war, to a darker, more poignant story about the impossibility of shielding our children from the temptations of violence. Also included are Vonnegut''s last speech as well as an assortment of his artwork, and an introduction by the author''s son, Mark Vonnegut.\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n says as much about the times in which we live as it does about the genius of the writer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Read an Unreleased Kurt Vonnegut Story, "Guns Before Butter"\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Guns Before Butter," Kurt Vonnegut''s story of hungry GIs held as prisoner of war in World War II in Dresden (a site of Vonnegut''s best-known novel,\n <em>\n  Slaughterhouse-Five\n </em>\n , and his own wartime imprisonment), was unpublished until its inclusion in\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n . Read the complete story\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kurt Vonnegut Sketchbook\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Click through on the images below to see samples of the artwork included in\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. When Kurt Vonnegut died in April 2007, the world lost a wry commentator on the human condition. Thanks to this collection of unpublished fiction and nonfiction, Vonnegut''s voice returns full force. Introduced by his son, these writings dwell on war and peace, especially the firebombing of Dresden, Germany. The volume opens with a poignant 1945 letter from Pfc. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. to his father in Indianapolis, presenting a vivid portrait of his harrowing escape from that city. The fiction, full of his characteristic humor, includes stories about time travel and the impossibility of peace in the world (Great Day) and, in the title piece, a kind of mock\n <em>\n  Paradise Lost\n </em>\n , Dr. Lucifer Mephisto teaches his charges about the insidious nature of evil and the impossibility of good ever triumphing. In his final speech, Vonnegut lets go some of his zingers (jazz is safe sex of the highest order) and does what he always did best, tell the truth through jokes: And how should we behave during the Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don''t already have one. So it goes.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3584'),
(9385, 'Armageddon in Retrospect', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death--a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity''s tendency toward violence.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut''s trademark rueful humor, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden during World War II--an essay that is as timely today as it was then--to a painfully funny short story about three Army privates and their fantasies of the perfect first meal upon returning home from war, to a darker, more poignant story about the impossibility of shielding our children from the temptations of violence. Also included are Vonnegut''s last speech as well as an assortment of his artwork, and an introduction by the author''s son, Mark Vonnegut.\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n says as much about the times in which we live as it does about the genius of the writer.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Read an Unreleased Kurt Vonnegut Story, "Guns Before Butter"\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Guns Before Butter," Kurt Vonnegut''s story of hungry GIs held as prisoner of war in World War II in Dresden (a site of Vonnegut''s best-known novel,\n <em>\n  Slaughterhouse-Five\n </em>\n , and his own wartime imprisonment), was unpublished until its inclusion in\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n . Read the complete story\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kurt Vonnegut Sketchbook\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Click through on the images below to see samples of the artwork included in\n <em>\n  Armageddon in Retrospect\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. When Kurt Vonnegut died in April 2007, the world lost a wry commentator on the human condition. Thanks to this collection of unpublished fiction and nonfiction, Vonnegut''s voice returns full force. Introduced by his son, these writings dwell on war and peace, especially the firebombing of Dresden, Germany. The volume opens with a poignant 1945 letter from Pfc. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. to his father in Indianapolis, presenting a vivid portrait of his harrowing escape from that city. The fiction, full of his characteristic humor, includes stories about time travel and the impossibility of peace in the world (Great Day) and, in the title piece, a kind of mock\n <em>\n  Paradise Lost\n </em>\n , Dr. Lucifer Mephisto teaches his charges about the insidious nature of evil and the impossibility of good ever triumphing. In his final speech, Vonnegut lets go some of his zingers (jazz is safe sex of the highest order) and does what he always did best, tell the truth through jokes: And how should we behave during the Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don''t already have one. So it goes.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13183'),
(9386, 'Armageddon in Retrospect', 'Vonnegut, Kurt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20881'),
(9387, 'Armageddon&#39;s Children', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terry Brooks is one of a handful of writers whose work defines modern fantasy fiction. His twenty-three international bestsellers have ranged from the beloved Shannara series to stories that tread a much darker path. Armageddonâ€™s Children is a new creationâ€“the perfect opportunity for readers unfamiliar with Brooksâ€™s previous work to experience an author at the height of his considerable storytelling powers. It is a gripping chronicle of a once-familiar world now spun shockingly out of control, in which an extraordinary few struggle to salvage hope in the face of terrifying chaos. Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his familyâ€™s slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilizationâ€™s downfall. Somewhere ahead of him rests the only chance to beat back the minions of evil that are systematically killing and enslaving the last remnants of humanity. Navigating the scarred and poisoned landscape that once was America and guided by a powerful talisman, Logan has sworn an oath to seek out a remarkable being born of magic, possessed of untold abilities, and destined to lead the final fight against darkness.Across the country, Angel Perez, herself a survivor of the malevolent, death-dealing forces combing the land, has also been chosen for an uncanny mission in the name of her ruined worldâ€™s salvation. From the devastated streets of Los Angeles, she will journey to find a placeâ€“and a peopleâ€“shrouded in mystery, celebrated in legend, and vital to the cause of humankind . . . even as a relentless foe follows close behind, bent on her extermination. While in the nearly forsaken city of Seattle, a makeshift family of refugees has carved out a tenuous existence among the street gangs, mutants, and marauders fighting to stay alive against mounting oddsâ€“and something unspeakable that has come from the shadows in search of prey. In time, all their paths will cross. Their common purpose will draw them together. Their courage and convictions will be tested and their fates will be decided, as their singular crusade begins: to take back, or lose forever, the only world they have.In Armageddonâ€™s Children, Brooks brings his gifts as a mythmaker to the timeless theme of the unending, essential conflict between darkness and lightâ€“and carries his unique imaginative vision to a stunning new level. Prepare for a breathtaking tour de force. To those who are new to Terry Brooks, welcome. And to those who have read him for many years: prepare for a dramatic surprise.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/746'),
(9388, 'Armageddon&#39;s Children', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Brooks is one of a handful of writers whose work defines modern fantasy fiction. His twenty-three international bestsellers have ranged from the beloved Shannara series to stories that tread a much darker path. Armageddonâ€™s Children is a new creationâ€“the perfect opportunity for readers unfamiliar with Brooksâ€™s previous work to experience an author at the height of his considerable storytelling powers. It is a gripping chronicle of a once-familiar world now spun shockingly out of control, in which an extraordinary few struggle to salvage hope in the face of terrifying chaos. Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his familyâ€™s slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilizationâ€™s downfall. Somewhere ahead of him rests the only chance to beat back the minions of evil that are systematically killing and enslaving the last remnants of humanity. Navigating the scarred and poisoned landscape that once was America and guided by a powerful talisman, Logan has sworn an oath to seek out a remarkable being born of magic, possessed of untold abilities, and destined to lead the final fight against darkness.Across the country, Angel Perez, herself a survivor of the malevolent, death-dealing forces combing the land, has also been chosen for an uncanny mission in the name of her ruined worldâ€™s salvation. From the devastated streets of Los Angeles, she will journey to find a placeâ€“and a peopleâ€“shrouded in mystery, celebrated in legend, and vital to the cause of humankind . . . even as a relentless foe follows close behind, bent on her extermination. While in the nearly forsaken city of Seattle, a makeshift family of refugees has carved out a tenuous existence among the street gangs, mutants, and marauders fighting to stay alive against mounting oddsâ€“and something unspeakable that has come from the shadows in search of prey. In time, all their paths will cross. Their common purpose will draw them together. Their courage and convictions will be tested and their fates will be decided, as their singular crusade begins: to take back, or lose forever, the only world they have.In Armageddonâ€™s Children, Brooks brings his gifts as a mythmaker to the timeless theme of the unending, essential conflict between darkness and lightâ€“and carries his unique imaginative vision to a stunning new level. Prepare for a breathtaking tour de force. To those who are new to Terry Brooks, welcome. And to those who have read him for many years: prepare for a dramatic surprise.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24144'),
(9389, 'Armor', 'John Steakley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The military sci-fi classic in a striking new package Felix is an Earth soldier, encased in special body armor designed to withstand Earth''s most implacable enemy-a bioengineered, insectoid alien horde. But Felix is also equipped with internal mechanisms that enable him, and his fellow soldiers, to survive battle situations that would destroy a man''s mind. This is a remarkable novel of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat-and how the strength of the human spirit can be the greatest armor of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13679'),
(9390, 'Armor', 'John Steakley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The military sci-fi classic in a striking new package Felix is an Earth soldier, encased in special body armor designed to withstand Earth''s most implacable enemy-a bioengineered, insectoid alien horde. But Felix is also equipped with internal mechanisms that enable him, and his fellow soldiers, to survive battle situations that would destroy a man''s mind. This is a remarkable novel of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat-and how the strength of the human spirit can be the greatest armor of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20338'),
(9391, 'Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A penetrating look inside an armored cavalry regiment--the technology, the strategies, and the people... profiled by Tom Clancy.\n</p>\n<p>\n His first nonfiction book,\n <strong>\n  , captured the reality of life aboard a nuclear warship. Now, the #1 bestselling author of\n </strong>\n portrays today''s military as only army personnel can know it.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the same compelling, you-are-there immediacy of his acclaimed fiction, Tom Clancy provides detailed descriptions of tanks, helicopters, artillery, and more--the brilliant technology behind the U. S. Army. He captures military life--from the drama of combat to the daily routine--with total accuracy, and reveals the roles and missions that have in recent years distinguished our fighting forces.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Armored Cav\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Descriptions of the M1A2 Main Battle Tank, the AH-64A Apache Attack Helicopter, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  An interview with General Frederick Franks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Strategies behind the Desert Storm account\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exclusive photograph, illustrations and diagrams\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n PLUS: From West Point cadet to Desert Storm commander, an interview with a combat cavalry officer on the rise.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Today''s cavalry has traded four-hoofed mounts for heavily armored tanks, fighting vehicles, and helicopters in a combined arms force that is prepared for combat against much larger forces. In this report, noted technothriller novelist Clancy takes readers on a tour of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. He explores the delicacies found in an MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) and describes such hardware as the Abrams battle tank, the Apache helicopter, and the nine-millimeter Beretta pistol. Through interviews with General Franks of the U.S. Army''s Training and Doctrine Command and Captain McMaster of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, the author reveals what life was like during the Persian Gulf War. Clancy''s thorough research makes a persuasive case for maintaining a strong post-Cold War military. For all public libraries and many academic libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/641'),
(9392, 'Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A penetrating look inside an armored cavalry regiment--the technology, the strategies, and the people... profiled by Tom Clancy.\n</p>\n<p>\n His first nonfiction book,\n <strong>\n  , captured the reality of life aboard a nuclear warship. Now, the #1 bestselling author of\n </strong>\n portrays today''s military as only army personnel can know it.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the same compelling, you-are-there immediacy of his acclaimed fiction, Tom Clancy provides detailed descriptions of tanks, helicopters, artillery, and more--the brilliant technology behind the U. S. Army. He captures military life--from the drama of combat to the daily routine--with total accuracy, and reveals the roles and missions that have in recent years distinguished our fighting forces.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Armored Cav\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Descriptions of the M1A2 Main Battle Tank, the AH-64A Apache Attack Helicopter, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  An interview with General Frederick Franks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Strategies behind the Desert Storm account\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exclusive photograph, illustrations and diagrams\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n PLUS: From West Point cadet to Desert Storm commander, an interview with a combat cavalry officer on the rise.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Today''s cavalry has traded four-hoofed mounts for heavily armored tanks, fighting vehicles, and helicopters in a combined arms force that is prepared for combat against much larger forces. In this report, noted technothriller novelist Clancy takes readers on a tour of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. He explores the delicacies found in an MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) and describes such hardware as the Abrams battle tank, the Apache helicopter, and the nine-millimeter Beretta pistol. Through interviews with General Franks of the U.S. Army''s Training and Doctrine Command and Captain McMaster of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, the author reveals what life was like during the Persian Gulf War. Clancy''s thorough research makes a persuasive case for maintaining a strong post-Cold War military. For all public libraries and many academic libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8885'),
(9393, 'Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A penetrating look inside an armored cavalry regiment--the technology, the strategies, and the people... profiled by Tom Clancy.\n</p>\n<p>\n His first nonfiction book,\n <strong>\n  , captured the reality of life aboard a nuclear warship. Now, the #1 bestselling author of\n </strong>\n portrays today''s military as only army personnel can know it.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the same compelling, you-are-there immediacy of his acclaimed fiction, Tom Clancy provides detailed descriptions of tanks, helicopters, artillery, and more--the brilliant technology behind the U. S. Army. He captures military life--from the drama of combat to the daily routine--with total accuracy, and reveals the roles and missions that have in recent years distinguished our fighting forces.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Armored Cav\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Descriptions of the M1A2 Main Battle Tank, the AH-64A Apache Attack Helicopter, and more\n </li>\n <li>\n  An interview with General Frederick Franks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Strategies behind the Desert Storm account\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exclusive photograph, illustrations and diagrams\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n PLUS: From West Point cadet to Desert Storm commander, an interview with a combat cavalry officer on the rise.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Today''s cavalry has traded four-hoofed mounts for heavily armored tanks, fighting vehicles, and helicopters in a combined arms force that is prepared for combat against much larger forces. In this report, noted technothriller novelist Clancy takes readers on a tour of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. He explores the delicacies found in an MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) and describes such hardware as the Abrams battle tank, the Apache helicopter, and the nine-millimeter Beretta pistol. Through interviews with General Franks of the U.S. Army''s Training and Doctrine Command and Captain McMaster of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, the author reveals what life was like during the Persian Gulf War. Clancy''s thorough research makes a persuasive case for maintaining a strong post-Cold War military. For all public libraries and many academic libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24355');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(9394, 'The Arms Maker of Berlin', 'Dan Fesperman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An unflinching thriller from Dan Fesperman that takes us deep into the White Rose resistance movement during World War II. When Nat Turnbullrs"s mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of a missing WWII secret service archive and then turns up dead in jail, Natrs"s quiet academic life is suddenly thrown into tumult. The archive is a time bomb of sensitive material, but key documents are still missing, and the FBI dispatches Nat to track them down. Following a trail of cryptic clues, Nat''s journeys to Germany, where he soon crosses paths with Berta, a gorgeous and mysterious student and Kurt Bauer, an arms billionaire with a dark past. As their tales intersect, long-buried exploits of deceit emerge, and each step becomes more dangerous than the last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6457'),
(9395, 'The Arms Maker of Berlin', 'Dan Fesperman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An unflinching thriller from Dan Fesperman that takes us deep into the White Rose resistance movement during World War II. When Nat Turnbullrs"s mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of a missing WWII secret service archive and then turns up dead in jail, Natrs"s quiet academic life is suddenly thrown into tumult. The archive is a time bomb of sensitive material, but key documents are still missing, and the FBI dispatches Nat to track them down. Following a trail of cryptic clues, Nat''s journeys to Germany, where he soon crosses paths with Berta, a gorgeous and mysterious student and Kurt Bauer, an arms billionaire with a dark past. As their tales intersect, long-buried exploits of deceit emerge, and each step becomes more dangerous than the last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9746'),
(9396, 'The Arms Maker of Berlin', 'Dan Fesperman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An unflinching thriller from Dan Fesperman that takes us deep into the White Rose resistance movement during World War II. When Nat Turnbullrs"s mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of a missing WWII secret service archive and then turns up dead in jail, Natrs"s quiet academic life is suddenly thrown into tumult. The archive is a time bomb of sensitive material, but key documents are still missing, and the FBI dispatches Nat to track them down. Following a trail of cryptic clues, Nat''s journeys to Germany, where he soon crosses paths with Berta, a gorgeous and mysterious student and Kurt Bauer, an arms billionaire with a dark past. As their tales intersect, long-buried exploits of deceit emerge, and each step becomes more dangerous than the last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17509'),
(9397, 'The Arms Maker of Berlin', 'Dan Fesperman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An unflinching thriller from Dan Fesperman that takes us deep into the White Rose resistance movement during World War II. When Nat Turnbullrs"s mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of a missing WWII secret service archive and then turns up dead in jail, Natrs"s quiet academic life is suddenly thrown into tumult. The archive is a time bomb of sensitive material, but key documents are still missing, and the FBI dispatches Nat to track them down. Following a trail of cryptic clues, Nat''s journeys to Germany, where he soon crosses paths with Berta, a gorgeous and mysterious student and Kurt Bauer, an arms billionaire with a dark past. As their tales intersect, long-buried exploits of deceit emerge, and each step becomes more dangerous than the last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27179'),
(9398, 'Around the World in 80 Days', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 9781434001337\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25461'),
(9399, 'Around the World in 80 Dinners', 'Bill Jamison &amp; Cheryl Alters Jamison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After years of painstaking planning, veteran cookbook authors Cheryl and Bill Jamison (Smoke &amp; Spice, American Home Cooking, The Big Book of Outdoor Cooking and Entertaining) used all their frequent flier miles on a three-month global culinary tour, chronicled in this charming travelogue. Beginning in Bali, the couple traveled to 10 different countries during the fall of 2005, sampling the local cuisine and taking in the sights. Narrating as "we," the Jamisons bring readers along as they dig into succulent jumbo crab at a hole in the wall in Singapore, dine on a luxurious wood and rattan houseboat in India and tour wineries in Australia; unfortunately, the spell is occasionally broken by awkward lapses into third person. That aside, the Jamisons make for informative and inquisitive travel guides, seeking out lesser-known establishments that capture the feel of each country. Though they occasionally splurge on an upscale meal, the majority of their dining experiences are well within the budgets of most travelers. Those interested in replicating legs of their journey will find the book a welcome resource, including information on lodging, dining destinations and not-to-be-missed cultural experiences (like the Carmen Miranda Museum in Brazil). For the sedentary, the Jamisons have thoughtfully included a native recipe from each stop.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Loath to squander frequent-flier miles on pointless excursions, the Jamisons organize a trip around the world to sample the best foods the planet has to offer. Traveling a westerly route, they commence their planetary banquet in Bali, with its unique island version of Hindu cookery. Fine wines enhance the Australian dining experience. Singaporeâ€™s multiculturalism turns the days spent there into a vast Asian banquet. South Africa offers an opportunity to savor such wild delights as smoked zebra. No gastronomic journey being complete without a French stopover, the travelers revisit a favorite ProvenÃ§al inn. For each destination, the Jamisons offer a list of visited hotels and restaurants and a particularly exemplary recipe. Anyone contemplating a similar circumnavigation or other extensive, exotic travel will find here a trove of practical and anecdotal information and encouragement along with useful recommendations for clothes, luggage, and even medicines. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7164'),
(9400, 'Around the World in 80 Dinners', 'Bill Jamison &amp; Cheryl Alters Jamison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After years of painstaking planning, veteran cookbook authors Cheryl and Bill Jamison (Smoke &amp; Spice, American Home Cooking, The Big Book of Outdoor Cooking and Entertaining) used all their frequent flier miles on a three-month global culinary tour, chronicled in this charming travelogue. Beginning in Bali, the couple traveled to 10 different countries during the fall of 2005, sampling the local cuisine and taking in the sights. Narrating as "we," the Jamisons bring readers along as they dig into succulent jumbo crab at a hole in the wall in Singapore, dine on a luxurious wood and rattan houseboat in India and tour wineries in Australia; unfortunately, the spell is occasionally broken by awkward lapses into third person. That aside, the Jamisons make for informative and inquisitive travel guides, seeking out lesser-known establishments that capture the feel of each country. Though they occasionally splurge on an upscale meal, the majority of their dining experiences are well within the budgets of most travelers. Those interested in replicating legs of their journey will find the book a welcome resource, including information on lodging, dining destinations and not-to-be-missed cultural experiences (like the Carmen Miranda Museum in Brazil). For the sedentary, the Jamisons have thoughtfully included a native recipe from each stop.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Loath to squander frequent-flier miles on pointless excursions, the Jamisons organize a trip around the world to sample the best foods the planet has to offer. Traveling a westerly route, they commence their planetary banquet in Bali, with its unique island version of Hindu cookery. Fine wines enhance the Australian dining experience. Singaporeâ€™s multiculturalism turns the days spent there into a vast Asian banquet. South Africa offers an opportunity to savor such wild delights as smoked zebra. No gastronomic journey being complete without a French stopover, the travelers revisit a favorite ProvenÃ§al inn. For each destination, the Jamisons offer a list of visited hotels and restaurants and a particularly exemplary recipe. Anyone contemplating a similar circumnavigation or other extensive, exotic travel will find here a trove of practical and anecdotal information and encouragement along with useful recommendations for clothes, luggage, and even medicines. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10567'),
(9401, 'Around the World in 80 Dinners', 'Bill Jamison; Cheryl Alters Jamison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After years of painstaking planning, veteran cookbook authors Cheryl and Bill Jamison (Smoke &amp; Spice, American Home Cooking, The Big Book of Outdoor Cooking and Entertaining) used all their frequent flier miles on a three-month global culinary tour, chronicled in this charming travelogue. Beginning in Bali, the couple traveled to 10 different countries during the fall of 2005, sampling the local cuisine and taking in the sights. Narrating as "we," the Jamisons bring readers along as they dig into succulent jumbo crab at a hole in the wall in Singapore, dine on a luxurious wood and rattan houseboat in India and tour wineries in Australia; unfortunately, the spell is occasionally broken by awkward lapses into third person. That aside, the Jamisons make for informative and inquisitive travel guides, seeking out lesser-known establishments that capture the feel of each country. Though they occasionally splurge on an upscale meal, the majority of their dining experiences are well within the budgets of most travelers. Those interested in replicating legs of their journey will find the book a welcome resource, including information on lodging, dining destinations and not-to-be-missed cultural experiences (like the Carmen Miranda Museum in Brazil). For the sedentary, the Jamisons have thoughtfully included a native recipe from each stop.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Loath to squander frequent-flier miles on pointless excursions, the Jamisons organize a trip around the world to sample the best foods the planet has to offer. Traveling a westerly route, they commence their planetary banquet in Bali, with its unique island version of Hindu cookery. Fine wines enhance the Australian dining experience. Singaporeâ€™s multiculturalism turns the days spent there into a vast Asian banquet. South Africa offers an opportunity to savor such wild delights as smoked zebra. No gastronomic journey being complete without a French stopover, the travelers revisit a favorite ProvenÃ§al inn. For each destination, the Jamisons offer a list of visited hotels and restaurants and a particularly exemplary recipe. Anyone contemplating a similar circumnavigation or other extensive, exotic travel will find here a trove of practical and anecdotal information and encouragement along with useful recommendations for clothes, luggage, and even medicines. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16694'),
(9402, 'Around the World in Eighty Days', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n fiction ; prose, Young Readers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20151'),
(9403, 'Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do if the Police Get in Your Face', 'Dale C. Carson &amp; Wes Denham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€”Carson has been both a cop and a criminal defense attorney. Here, he puts his years of experience into a "how-not-to" book. He feels that most people who get arrested aren''t the worst criminals; they are just the most "clueless"â€”small-time offenders who make bad decisions and end up in what he calls the "electronic plantation." Now that computers make it ever so easy to track people, getting arrested, even if you''re not ultimately convicted, can and will come back to haunt you. Carson has three golden rules: "If cops can''t see you, they can''t arrest you," "Keep your dope at home," and "Give cops your name and basic info, then shut the f*@# up!" While the book read straight through may seem a little repetitive, it ultimately does come back to one of these three rules, which are imparted with examples and behavior charts. Carson uses a blunt style to make these points, but it''s a style that is sure to hit home with his target audienceâ€”the underclass. And he does make it plain that while there are many middle-class and white-collar criminals, the police tend to focus their patrols in bad neighborhoods. Those most likely to be in situations where they or those they know might get arrested will get the most out of this book, but even readers in more lofty areas with an interest in law enforcement could find much to discuss.â€”_Jamie Watson, Harford County Public Library, MD_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This essential â€œhow not toâ€ guide explains how to act and what to say in the presence of police to minimize the chances of being arrested and to avoid add-on chargesâ€”which can often lead to permanent disqualification from jobs, financing, and education. Citizens can learn how to avoid arrest both on the street and when pulled over in a vehicle and are alerted to basic tricks cops use to get people to incriminate themselves. Sprinkled with absurdity and humor, this urgent, eye-opening book is a guide to criminal justice for all Americans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6594'),
(9404, 'Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do if the Police Get in Your Face', 'Dale C. Carson &amp; Wes Denham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€”Carson has been both a cop and a criminal defense attorney. Here, he puts his years of experience into a "how-not-to" book. He feels that most people who get arrested aren''t the worst criminals; they are just the most "clueless"â€”small-time offenders who make bad decisions and end up in what he calls the "electronic plantation." Now that computers make it ever so easy to track people, getting arrested, even if you''re not ultimately convicted, can and will come back to haunt you. Carson has three golden rules: "If cops can''t see you, they can''t arrest you," "Keep your dope at home," and "Give cops your name and basic info, then shut the f*@# up!" While the book read straight through may seem a little repetitive, it ultimately does come back to one of these three rules, which are imparted with examples and behavior charts. Carson uses a blunt style to make these points, but it''s a style that is sure to hit home with his target audienceâ€”the underclass. And he does make it plain that while there are many middle-class and white-collar criminals, the police tend to focus their patrols in bad neighborhoods. Those most likely to be in situations where they or those they know might get arrested will get the most out of this book, but even readers in more lofty areas with an interest in law enforcement could find much to discuss.â€”_Jamie Watson, Harford County Public Library, MD_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This essential â€œhow not toâ€ guide explains how to act and what to say in the presence of police to minimize the chances of being arrested and to avoid add-on chargesâ€”which can often lead to permanent disqualification from jobs, financing, and education. Citizens can learn how to avoid arrest both on the street and when pulled over in a vehicle and are alerted to basic tricks cops use to get people to incriminate themselves. Sprinkled with absurdity and humor, this urgent, eye-opening book is a guide to criminal justice for all Americans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8796'),
(9405, 'Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do if the Police Get in Your Face', 'Dale C. Carson; Wes Denham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€”Carson has been both a cop and a criminal defense attorney. Here, he puts his years of experience into a "how-not-to" book. He feels that most people who get arrested aren''t the worst criminals; they are just the most "clueless"â€”small-time offenders who make bad decisions and end up in what he calls the "electronic plantation." Now that computers make it ever so easy to track people, getting arrested, even if you''re not ultimately convicted, can and will come back to haunt you. Carson has three golden rules: "If cops can''t see you, they can''t arrest you," "Keep your dope at home," and "Give cops your name and basic info, then shut the f*@# up!" While the book read straight through may seem a little repetitive, it ultimately does come back to one of these three rules, which are imparted with examples and behavior charts. Carson uses a blunt style to make these points, but it''s a style that is sure to hit home with his target audienceâ€”the underclass. And he does make it plain that while there are many middle-class and white-collar criminals, the police tend to focus their patrols in bad neighborhoods. Those most likely to be in situations where they or those they know might get arrested will get the most out of this book, but even readers in more lofty areas with an interest in law enforcement could find much to discuss.â€”_Jamie Watson, Harford County Public Library, MD_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This essential â€œhow not toâ€ guide explains how to act and what to say in the presence of police to minimize the chances of being arrested and to avoid add-on chargesâ€”which can often lead to permanent disqualification from jobs, financing, and education. Citizens can learn how to avoid arrest both on the street and when pulled over in a vehicle and are alerted to basic tricks cops use to get people to incriminate themselves. Sprinkled with absurdity and humor, this urgent, eye-opening book is a guide to criminal justice for all Americans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17555'),
(9406, 'Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World', 'Doug Saunders', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a globe-trotting narrative alive with on-the-ground reportage, journalist Saunders offers a cautionary but essentially optimistic perspective on global urbanization. He concentrates on the slums and satellite communities that act as portals from villages to cities and, in turn, revitalize village economies. Policy makers misunderstand at their peril these "arrival cities"â€”London''s heavily Bangladeshi Tower Hamlets, Brazil''s favelas, China''s Shenzhen. Citing the statistical relationship between urbanization and falling poverty rates, as well as historical precedents like Paris ("the first great arrival city of the modern world"), Saunders insists urban migration means improvement overall, and that the arrival city serves as a springboard for the integration of new populations. While the picture of urbanization veers from gloomier forecasts by analysts like Mike Davis (Planet of Slums), it does so by eschewing direct questioning of the global economic system driving much of this migration. Barely addressed are food, energy, and water shortages, or the fact that healthy city growth requires preservation of surrounding ecosystems on which cities habitually wreak havoc. Saunders''s narrative, however, does plead for rational and humane planning within global capitalism to ensure that arrival cities fulfill their purpose and achieve their potential. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Praise from the UK and Canada:\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œ_Arrival City_ brilliantly captures the breakneck pace of this â€˜great migration,â€™ as the peasants of the poor world relocate to their own megacitiesâ€”and ours. And it brings profoundly good news from the mean streets . . . Bottom of Form\n <br />\n Doug Saunders, a Canadian journalist skilled in both colourful reportage and sustaining a good argument, provides a badly needed progressive and optimistic narrative about our future. This is the perfect antidote to the doom-laden determinism of the last popular book on urbanisation, Mike Davis''s\n <em>\n  Planet of Slums\n </em>\n . . . This may be the best popular book on cities since Jane Jacobsâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Death and Life of Great American Cities\n </em>\n half a century ago. Certainly, it shares the same optimism about human aspiration amid overcrowded buildings and unplanned urban jungles, and the same plea for planners to help rather than stifle those dreams . . . Few books can make rationalists feel optimistic and empowered for the future. This oneÂ does.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Guardian_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrilliantly researched, hugely valuable new book. . . . A testament to the value of research and knowledge. . . .\n <em>\n  Arrival City\n </em>\n is a masterpiece of reporting, one of the most valuable and lucid works on public policy published anywhere in years. That Saunders produced it now, as journalism is moving more and more toward the temporary, makes it even more remarkable. As the business he works in strives every day to give consumers less information more often, Saunders does the opposite. He takes the long view. He questions perceived wisdom and finds answers in research, reporting and facts.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Edmonton Journal\n </em>\n (review also appeared in\n <em>\n  The Vancouver Sun\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Gazette\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œ[This] book not only ranks as one of the yearâ€™s most engaging and important works of non-fiction. It gives a vital resource to everyone who wants to learn about the pursuit of the public good in an era of challenged or enfeebled nation-states. With sharply written case-studies from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the banlieues of Paris and the so-called â€˜slumsâ€™ of Mumbai, Saunders shows that the â€˜arrival cityâ€™ of informal communities, where migrants from rural hinterlands to urban centres gather, presents not simply one of the worldâ€™s most pressing problems. It also offers us the most promising solutions . . . For his part, Saunders extends the debate about globalisation and immigration to embrace the lessons of urban history. In his close attention to the voices of actual incomersâ€”many of them Muslims in Europe, in all their diversity; even more notâ€”he also supplies a hugely welcome antidote to the toxic nonsense about â€˜Eurabia.â€™â€\n <br />\n â€”Boyd Tonkin,\n <em>\n  Independent\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œProvocative . . .Â \n <em>\n  Arrival City\n </em>\n addresses the great neglected trend of the 21st century: urbanisation. Travelling across the globe, from Rio de Janeiroâ€™s favelas to Nairobiâ€™s slums and Berlinâ€™s Turkish enclave, Saunders weaves the tales of individual migrants through his vast story, that of the current, final great human movementâ€”involving a third of our speciesâ€”from the countryside to the city . . . A powerful work . . . But\n <em>\n  Arrival City\n </em>\n is above all a warning. Migration is changing our world, and Saunders believes our reaction to it now will determine whether it can help eliminate poverty or whether it will cause catastrophe.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Evening Standard_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œDoug Saundersâ€™s important new book,\n <em>\n  Arrival City\n </em>\n , deals with an unglamorous but bitingly important issue: the largest ever human migration . . . While various academic titles have plumbed this phenomenon, no single bookâ€”until nowâ€”has breathed such life and human drama into it . . . The book engages while remaining serious. It pulls in the reader by centring its storyline on the fate of its numerous lead characters . . . The book tells a fascinating tale . . . Doug Saundersâ€™s greatest strength lies in the global breadth of his reportage, which moves from the alleys of Mumbai to the soulless\n <em>\n  banlieues\n </em>\n of Paris with the urgency of an international spy thriller. His evocative descriptions of open sewers, precarious dwellings, dark, dangerous spaces, noisy slum factories and the indomitable spirit of humanity transform a complex, serious subject into a page-turning read.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Literary Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe bookâ€™s focus is not the migration itself, but what happens in the cities of arrival . . . Saundersâ€™s approach is through anecdotes and vignettes, but he has done his legwork so they cumulate into a persuasive whole . . . Highly readable.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The_\n <em>\n  Financial Times\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œSaunders looks beyond what he sees as a pretty transitional flight and instead focuses, to absorbing effect, on the destination cities . . . Recent books on the phenomenon of mass migration have been riddled with portents of gloom . . . Saundersâ€™ thesis is far more positive . . . Serving as both a wide-ranging examination of the presentâ€”and a measured look into the futureâ€”_Arrival City_ is an absorbing, enlightening read.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Sunday Business Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s . . . unusual . . . is that Saundersâ€™s look at life inside the slums brims with hope, redemption and possibility. . . . Saunderâ€™s writing style is sumptuous and itâ€™s clear that he is more portraitist than statistician: he meanders through slums, noting the smells, colours and sounds. . . . By personally acquainting readers with humanity on the margins, it just may open your mind to the aspirations of billions of people that few in the prosperous west take the time to consider.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”SEE Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is a broadly researched, passionate and portentous call for a new way to look at the experience of migrants. It is essential reading for policymakersâ€”and for all who look at the future of cities with a mix of hope and fear. . . . A well-argued treatise on urban planning.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Winnipeg Free Press\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œ[A] timely contribution to the discourse on global cities. . . . Saundersâ€™s contribution is valuable. It combines two virtues not often encountered in the literature: a focus on the margins of very large cities, where new arrivals mostly negotiate their first steps to urbanization, and an immediacy of reportage in the real details of individual stories. . . . Saunders has travelled far and listened hard. . . . The book is a sympathetic and, finally, optimistic work of social journalism. . . . Doug Saunders offers a readable, immediate social history of how we might be getting there [future cities].â€\n <br />\n â€”Mark Kingwell,\n <em>\n  The Globe and Mail\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHis premise is well argued. . . . Saundersâ€™s prescription for dealing with urbanization . . . is eminently reasonable, and it is mostly borne out by the findings presented in the book.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Quill &amp; Quire\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12404'),
(9407, 'Arrows of Time', 'Kim Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a portal spins Rosette and Jarrod off in different directions, Rosette is caught in a loop of repeating events. A strange bard helps her find a way back home, but things have changed -- Jarrod is missing, her mentor is a child and women are forbidden to carry swords. While Kreshkali leads the survivors on Earth, Rosette and her Temple Cat turn to the future for help -- but which future? Time is their only hope, and it''s playing tricks ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3681'),
(9408, 'Arrows of Time', 'Kim Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a portal spins Rosette and Jarrod off in different directions, Rosette is caught in a loop of repeating events. A strange bard helps her find a way back home, but things have changed -- Jarrod is missing, her mentor is a child and women are forbidden to carry swords. While Kreshkali leads the survivors on Earth, Rosette and her Temple Cat turn to the future for help -- but which future? Time is their only hope, and it''s playing tricks ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9662'),
(9409, 'Arrows of Time', 'Kim Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a portal spins Rosette and Jarrod off in different directions, Rosette is caught in a loop of repeating events. A strange bard helps her find a way back home, but things have changed -- Jarrod is missing, her mentor is a child and women are forbidden to carry swords. While Kreshkali leads the survivors on Earth, Rosette and her Temple Cat turn to the future for help -- but which future? Time is their only hope, and it''s playing tricks ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20849'),
(9410, 'Arsenalele din Isher', 'A.E. van Vogt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24931'),
(9411, 'An Arsonist&#39;s Guide to Writers&#39; Homes in New England: A Novel', 'Brock Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  An Arsonist''s Guide to Writers'' Homes in New Englan\n </em>\n , the quirkiest title for a book since\n <em>\n  --Brad Thomas Parsons\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Clarke''s fourth book (after the story collection\n <em>\n  Carrying the Torch\n </em>\n ) is the delightfully dark story of Sam Pulsifer, the accidental arsonist and murderer narrator who leads readers through a multilayered, flame-filled adventure about literature, lies, love and life. Growing up in Amherst, Mass., with an editor for a father and an English teacher for a mother, Sam was fed endless stories that fueled (literally and figuratively) the rest of his life. Thus, the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction, story and reality become the landscape for amusing and provocative adventures that begin when, at age 18, Sam accidentally torches the Emily Dickinson Homestead, killing two people. After serving 10 years, Sam tries to distance himself from his past through college, employment, marriage and fatherhood, but he eventually winds up back in his parents'' home, separated from his wife and jobless. When more literary landmarks go up in flames, Sam is the likely suspect, and his determination to find the actual arsonist uncovers family secrets and more than a bit about human nature. Sam is equal parts fall guy and tour guide in this bighearted and wily jolt to the American literary legacy.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7008'),
(9412, 'An Arsonist&#39;s Guide to Writers&#39; Homes in New England: A Novel', 'Brock Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  An Arsonist''s Guide to Writers'' Homes in New Englan\n </em>\n , the quirkiest title for a book since\n <em>\n  --Brad Thomas Parsons\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Clarke''s fourth book (after the story collection\n <em>\n  Carrying the Torch\n </em>\n ) is the delightfully dark story of Sam Pulsifer, the accidental arsonist and murderer narrator who leads readers through a multilayered, flame-filled adventure about literature, lies, love and life. Growing up in Amherst, Mass., with an editor for a father and an English teacher for a mother, Sam was fed endless stories that fueled (literally and figuratively) the rest of his life. Thus, the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction, story and reality become the landscape for amusing and provocative adventures that begin when, at age 18, Sam accidentally torches the Emily Dickinson Homestead, killing two people. After serving 10 years, Sam tries to distance himself from his past through college, employment, marriage and fatherhood, but he eventually winds up back in his parents'' home, separated from his wife and jobless. When more literary landmarks go up in flames, Sam is the likely suspect, and his determination to find the actual arsonist uncovers family secrets and more than a bit about human nature. Sam is equal parts fall guy and tour guide in this bighearted and wily jolt to the American literary legacy.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8949'),
(9413, 'An Arsonist&#39;s Guide to Writers&#39; Homes in New England: A Novel', 'Brock Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   An Arsonist''s Guide to Writers'' Homes in New Englan\n  </em>\n  , the quirkiest title for a book since\n  <em>\n   --Brad Thomas Parsons\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Clarke''s fourth book (after the story collection\n  <em>\n   Carrying the Torch\n  </em>\n  ) is the delightfully dark story of Sam Pulsifer, the accidental arsonist and murderer narrator who leads readers through a multilayered, flame-filled adventure about literature, lies, love and life. Growing up in Amherst, Mass., with an editor for a father and an English teacher for a mother, Sam was fed endless stories that fueled (literally and figuratively) the rest of his life. Thus, the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction, story and reality become the landscape for amusing and provocative adventures that begin when, at age 18, Sam accidentally torches the Emily Dickinson Homestead, killing two people. After serving 10 years, Sam tries to distance himself from his past through college, employment, marriage and fatherhood, but he eventually winds up back in his parents'' home, separated from his wife and jobless. When more literary landmarks go up in flames, Sam is the likely suspect, and his determination to find the actual arsonist uncovers family secrets and more than a bit about human nature. Sam is equal parts fall guy and tour guide in this bighearted and wily jolt to the American literary legacy.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16866'),
(9414, 'The Art of Choosing', 'Sheena Iyengar', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Choice, perhaps the highest good in the American socioeconomic lexicon, is a very mixed blessing, according to this fascinating study of decision making and its discontents. Psychologist Iyengar cites evidence that a paucity of choice can damage the mental and physical health of dogs, rats, and British civil servants alike. But, she contends, choice can also mislead and burden us: advertising manipulates us through the illusion of choice; a surfeit of choices can paralyze decision making; and some choices, like the decision to withdraw life support from a loved one, are so terrible that we are happier if we delegate them to others. Iyengar draws on everything from the\n <em>\n  pensÃ©es\n </em>\n of Albert Camus to\n <em>\n  The Matrix\n </em>\n , but her focus is on the ingenious experiments that psychologists have concocted to explore the vagaries of choice. (In her own experiment, shoppers presented with an assortment of 24 jams were 1/10th as likely to buy some than those who were shown a mere six.) Iyengar writes in a lucid, catchy style, very much in the Malcolm Gladwell vein of pop psychologyâ€“cumâ€“social commentary, but with more rigor. The result is a delightful, astonishing take on the pitfalls of making up one''s mind.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prominent social psychologist Iyengar begins her unique and invigorating study of choice by telling the story of a man who survived for 76 days stranded alone in the middle of the ocean. He chose to live, Iyengar tells us, just as she has chosen not to let her blindness keep her from conducting prodigious research and intrepid experiments. Iyengar exponentially expands our understanding of the central role choice plays in the lives of animals and humans in a rapid-fire, many-faceted, and original inquiry that is at once personable and commanding. She explains our â€œbiological need for choice and control,â€ the decision process, and the myriad influences that dictate everything from purchasing choices to career moves, voting, medical decisions, and marriage. The daughter of Sikh immigrants from India, Iyengar is particularly astute in her globally significant analysis of the striking differences between how Americans and Asians make decisions. Much of this eye-opening anatomy of choice focuses on consumerism, a lively, revealing arena, but Iyengarâ€™s high-voltage curiosity and penetrating insights are far more valuable when applied to deeper matters of existence. --Donna Seaman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9415'),
(9415, 'The Art of Client Service, Revised and Updated Edition: 58 Things Every Advertising &amp; Marketing Professional Should Know', 'Robert Solomon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ""A book about client service that is so practical it''s almost embarrassing. Solomon offers unique perspectives that help clients, creatives, and, oh yeah, account people do their jobs better, resulting in more creative marketing.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Tom Monahan, President, Before &amp; After, and author of\n  <em>\n   The Do-it-Yourself Lobotomy\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is said that great clients get great work, but it doesnâ€™t magically happen! Â Without great account people daily bridging the gap between client and agency demands, itâ€™s virtually impossible. Â This is a must read book for all who have chosen to engage in the fine art of serving clients -Â  truly a fresh dose of account management inspiration!â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Karen M. Jones, Senior Vice President, Corporate and Marketing Communications, DHL Express\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith all the time and money it takes to win new business, professional services firms would be smarter to improve client service to retain more clients. Reading and practicing Robert Solomonâ€™s advice is guaranteed to help.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Joanne Davis, Joanne Davis Consulting\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs a career-long â€˜client,â€™ Iâ€™ve been on a continuous search for the ideal agency account person. Robert Solomonâ€¦and students of his textâ€¦would clearly fit the bill. CMOs want insights, partnership, creative team leadership and results.\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n teaches how to deliver them all.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Sara Lipson, Chief Customer Sciences Officer, Market &amp; Business Intelligence TIAA-CREF\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is essential reading for anyone in the creative services profession. Marketing disciplines may change with the times, but the art of client service is timelessâ€”and Robert has captured its essence.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Barry Wacksman, Executive Vice President, Chief Growth Officer R/GA\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn addition to sage, prescriptive advice, Robert demonstrates the importance of checking oneself with a good, hard look in the mirrorâ€”to learn lessons, and strive for greatness in the craft of managing client relationships.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Sarah Fay, President, Isobar U.S.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you work with clients in any industry,\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n is for you. If you work in an advertising or marketing agency, then this book is indispensable.\n</p>\n<p>\n Distilling decades of experience, advertising executive Robert Solomon has compiled the definitive resource for advertising and marketing account executives: a fast-reading, pocket-size, actionable checklist of 58 essential ideas to help client service professionals improve their account management strategy and skills.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now fully updated and revised,\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n is geared to the entire account team -- copy writers, art directors, and planners, researchers, media executives, support staff -- anyone who works with clients.Â With brevity, levity, and clarity, Solomon recounts both successes and failures, and uses them to formulate fast-reading, actionable tips, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Know when to look it up; know when to make it up. (#7)\n </li>\n <li>\n  What happens when I screw up? (#51)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Respect what it takes to do great creative. (#19)\n </li>\n <li>\n  In a high-tech world, be low-tech (#46)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Be brief, be bright, be gone. (#31)\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to write a letter of proposal (#44)\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Zen of PowerPoint. (#45)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll also find new chapters on technology in advertising, the changing role of client service in an increasingly high-tech era, and an updated bibliography of essential reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1597'),
(9416, 'The Art of Client Service, Revised and Updated Edition: 58 Things Every Advertising &amp; Marketing Professional Should Know', 'Robert Solomon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ""A book about client service that is so practical it''s almost embarrassing. Solomon offers unique perspectives that help clients, creatives, and, oh yeah, account people do their jobs better, resulting in more creative marketing.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Tom Monahan, President, Before &amp; After, and author of\n  <em>\n   The Do-it-Yourself Lobotomy\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is said that great clients get great work, but it doesnâ€™t magically happen! Â Without great account people daily bridging the gap between client and agency demands, itâ€™s virtually impossible. Â This is a must read book for all who have chosen to engage in the fine art of serving clients -Â  truly a fresh dose of account management inspiration!â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Karen M. Jones, Senior Vice President, Corporate and Marketing Communications, DHL Express\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith all the time and money it takes to win new business, professional services firms would be smarter to improve client service to retain more clients. Reading and practicing Robert Solomonâ€™s advice is guaranteed to help.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Joanne Davis, Joanne Davis Consulting\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs a career-long â€˜client,â€™ Iâ€™ve been on a continuous search for the ideal agency account person. Robert Solomonâ€¦and students of his textâ€¦would clearly fit the bill. CMOs want insights, partnership, creative team leadership and results.\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n teaches how to deliver them all.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Sara Lipson, Chief Customer Sciences Officer, Market &amp; Business Intelligence TIAA-CREF\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is essential reading for anyone in the creative services profession. Marketing disciplines may change with the times, but the art of client service is timelessâ€”and Robert has captured its essence.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Barry Wacksman, Executive Vice President, Chief Growth Officer R/GA\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn addition to sage, prescriptive advice, Robert demonstrates the importance of checking oneself with a good, hard look in the mirrorâ€”to learn lessons, and strive for greatness in the craft of managing client relationships.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Sarah Fay, President, Isobar U.S.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you work with clients in any industry,\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n is for you. If you work in an advertising or marketing agency, then this book is indispensable.\n</p>\n<p>\n Distilling decades of experience, advertising executive Robert Solomon has compiled the definitive resource for advertising and marketing account executives: a fast-reading, pocket-size, actionable checklist of 58 essential ideas to help client service professionals improve their account management strategy and skills.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now fully updated and revised,\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n is geared to the entire account team -- copy writers, art directors, and planners, researchers, media executives, support staff -- anyone who works with clients.Â With brevity, levity, and clarity, Solomon recounts both successes and failures, and uses them to formulate fast-reading, actionable tips, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Know when to look it up; know when to make it up. (#7)\n </li>\n <li>\n  What happens when I screw up? (#51)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Respect what it takes to do great creative. (#19)\n </li>\n <li>\n  In a high-tech world, be low-tech (#46)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Be brief, be bright, be gone. (#31)\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to write a letter of proposal (#44)\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Zen of PowerPoint. (#45)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll also find new chapters on technology in advertising, the changing role of client service in an increasingly high-tech era, and an updated bibliography of essential reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12767');
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(9417, 'The Art of Client Service, Revised and Updated Edition: 58 Things Every Advertising &amp; Marketing Professional Should Know', 'Robert Solomon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ""A book about client service that is so practical it''s almost embarrassing. Solomon offers unique perspectives that help clients, creatives, and, oh yeah, account people do their jobs better, resulting in more creative marketing.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Tom Monahan, President, Before &amp; After, and author of\n  <em>\n   The Do-it-Yourself Lobotomy\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is said that great clients get great work, but it doesnâ€™t magically happen! Without great account people daily bridging the gap between client and agency demands, itâ€™s virtually impossible. This is a must read book for all who have chosen to engage in the fine art of serving clients - truly a fresh dose of account management inspiration!â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Karen M. Jones, Senior Vice President, Corporate and Marketing Communications, DHL Express\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith all the time and money it takes to win new business, professional services firms would be smarter to improve client service to retain more clients. Reading and practicing Robert Solomonâ€™s advice is guaranteed to help.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Joanne Davis, Joanne Davis Consulting\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs a career-long â€˜client,â€™ Iâ€™ve been on a continuous search for the ideal agency account person. Robert Solomon...and students of his text...would clearly fit the bill. CMOs want insights, partnership, creative team leadership and results.\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n teaches how to deliver them all.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Sara Lipson, Chief Customer Sciences Officer, Market &amp; Business Intelligence TIAA-CREF\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is essential reading for anyone in the creative services profession. Marketing disciplines may change with the times, but the art of client service is timelessâ€”and Robert has captured its essence.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Barry Wacksman, Executive Vice President, Chief Growth Officer R/GA\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn addition to sage, prescriptive advice, Robert demonstrates the importance of checking oneself with a good, hard look in the mirrorâ€”to learn lessons, and strive for greatness in the craft of managing client relationships.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Sarah Fay, President, Isobar U.S.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you work with clients in any industry,\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n is for you. If you work in an advertising or marketing agency, then this book is indispensable.\n</p>\n<p>\n Distilling decades of experience, advertising executive Robert Solomon has compiled the definitive resource for advertising and marketing account executives: a fast-reading, pocket-size, actionable checklist of 58 essential ideas to help client service professionals improve their account management strategy and skills.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now fully updated and revised,\n <em>\n  The Art of Client Service\n </em>\n is geared to the entire account team -- copy writers, art directors, and planners, researchers, media executives, support staff -- anyone who works with clients. With brevity, levity, and clarity, Solomon recounts both successes and failures, and uses them to formulate fast-reading, actionable tips, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Know when to look it up; know when to make it up. (#7)\n </li>\n <li>\n  What happens when I screw up? (#51)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Respect what it takes to do great creative. (#19)\n </li>\n <li>\n  In a high-tech world, be low-tech (#46)\n </li>\n <li>\n  Be brief, be bright, be gone. (#31)\n </li>\n <li>\n  How to write a letter of proposal (#44)\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Zen of PowerPoint. (#45)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll also find new chapters on technology in advertising, the changing role of client service in an increasingly high-tech era, and an updated bibliography of essential reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23361'),
(9418, 'The Art of Contrarian Trading: How to Profit From Crowd Behavior in the Financial Markets', 'Carl Futia', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Why is it so hard to beat the market? How can you avoid getting caught in bubbles and crashes? You will find the answers in Carl Futiaâ€™s new book,\n <em>\n  The Art of Contrarian Trading\n </em>\n . This book will teach you Futiaâ€™s novel method of contrarian trading from the ground up.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 16 chapters filled with facts and many historical examples Futia explains the principles and practice of contrarian trading. Discover the Edge which separates winning speculators from the losers. Find out how to apply the No Free Lunch principle to identify profitable trading methods.Â  Learn about the wisdom and the follies of investment crowds â€“ and how crowds are formed by information cascades that drive stock prices too high or too low relative to fair value. Discover the power of your Media Diary - and how to use it to spot these information cascades, measure the strength of the crowdâ€™s beliefs, and decide when the crowdâ€™s view is about to be proven wrong.\n</p>\n<p>\n You will watch Futia apply these principles of contrarian trading to navigate safely and profitably through the last 26 tumultuous years of roller coaster swings in the U.S. stock market â€“ a time during which Futia kept his own media diary and developed his Grand Strategy of Contrarian Trading.Â  See how this Grand Strategy worked during the Great Bull Market of 1982-2000. Watch the Contrarian Rebalancing technique in practice during the dot.com crash of 2000-2002. Find out when the Aggressive Contrarian Trader bought and sold during the bull market of 2002-2007. Read about the causes of the Panic of 2008 and ups and downs of contrarian trading during that dangerous time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Futia shows you how the market turning points during the 1982-2008 period were foreshadowed by magazine covers and newspaper headlines that astonishingly and consistently encouraged investors to do the wrong thing at the wrong time. By monitoring crowd beliefs revealed by news media headlines â€“ and with the guidance provided by the many historical examples Futia provides â€“ a trader or investor will be well-equipped to anticipate and profit from market turning points.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Contrarian theory in investing and trading is based on the idea that markets are driven in large part by crowd behavior. When crowds form around investing themes in the stock market, they push stock prices too high or too low relative to fair value. Contrarians hold that if investment crowds are responsible for the pricing mistakes made by the stock market, it logically follows that you can do better than buy-and-hold if you can detect those situations in which an investment crowd has driven the stock market too high or too low relative to fair value.\n <em>\n  The Art of Contrarian Trading\n </em>\n shows how to take advantage of the crowd''s periodic bouts of enthusiasm and fear, and make wise investment choices that most others may think are ill-advised.\n</p>\n<p>\n Veteran trader Carl Futia explains the contrarian trader''s principal tool: his media diary. Since major market turning points are almost always foreshadowed by magazine covers and newspaper headlines that turn out to be completely wrong, by monitoring crowd behavior through both quantitative indicators and news media headlinesâ€”and with the hindsight of historical examplesâ€”a trader or investor will be well equipped to profit from market turning points. Futia shows specifically how the information contained in a media diary can be interpreted and then coordinated with a statistical view of a market''s current and past swings. By looking back at the bull market of 1982â€“2000, the 2000â€“2002 bear market, the bull market of 2002â€“2007, and the crash of 2008, he reveals how his own media diary effectively identified the many valuation mistakes the stock market made during those years. In addition, he explains the development of the theory of contrary opinion, highlights the contributions key individuals made to the theory, briefly discusses several books every contrarian should read, and offers a quick primer on value investing for the contrarian trader.\n</p>\n<p>\n The contrarian trader, says Futia, is not in the business of predicting stock market highs and lows or of making correct forecasts of any kind. Instead, his focus is on a single objectiveâ€”that of achieving a higher return than that earned by the buy-and-hold strategy. This book will show you how to achieve this elusive goal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7030'),
(9419, 'The Art of Contrarian Trading: How to Profit From Crowd Behavior in the Financial Markets', 'Carl Futia', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Why is it so hard to beat the market? How can you avoid getting caught in bubbles and crashes? You will find the answers in Carl Futiaâ€™s new book,\n <em>\n  The Art of Contrarian Trading\n </em>\n . This book will teach you Futiaâ€™s novel method of contrarian trading from the ground up.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 16 chapters filled with facts and many historical examples Futia explains the principles and practice of contrarian trading. Discover the Edge which separates winning speculators from the losers. Find out how to apply the No Free Lunch principle to identify profitable trading methods.Â  Learn about the wisdom and the follies of investment crowds â€“ and how crowds are formed by information cascades that drive stock prices too high or too low relative to fair value. Discover the power of your Media Diary - and how to use it to spot these information cascades, measure the strength of the crowdâ€™s beliefs, and decide when the crowdâ€™s view is about to be proven wrong.\n</p>\n<p>\n You will watch Futia apply these principles of contrarian trading to navigate safely and profitably through the last 26 tumultuous years of roller coaster swings in the U.S. stock market â€“ a time during which Futia kept his own media diary and developed his Grand Strategy of Contrarian Trading.Â  See how this Grand Strategy worked during the Great Bull Market of 1982-2000. Watch the Contrarian Rebalancing technique in practice during the dot.com crash of 2000-2002. Find out when the Aggressive Contrarian Trader bought and sold during the bull market of 2002-2007. Read about the causes of the Panic of 2008 and ups and downs of contrarian trading during that dangerous time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Futia shows you how the market turning points during the 1982-2008 period were foreshadowed by magazine covers and newspaper headlines that astonishingly and consistently encouraged investors to do the wrong thing at the wrong time. By monitoring crowd beliefs revealed by news media headlines â€“ and with the guidance provided by the many historical examples Futia provides â€“ a trader or investor will be well-equipped to anticipate and profit from market turning points.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Contrarian theory in investing and trading is based on the idea that markets are driven in large part by crowd behavior. When crowds form around investing themes in the stock market, they push stock prices too high or too low relative to fair value. Contrarians hold that if investment crowds are responsible for the pricing mistakes made by the stock market, it logically follows that you can do better than buy-and-hold if you can detect those situations in which an investment crowd has driven the stock market too high or too low relative to fair value.\n <em>\n  The Art of Contrarian Trading\n </em>\n shows how to take advantage of the crowd''s periodic bouts of enthusiasm and fear, and make wise investment choices that most others may think are ill-advised.\n</p>\n<p>\n Veteran trader Carl Futia explains the contrarian trader''s principal tool: his media diary. Since major market turning points are almost always foreshadowed by magazine covers and newspaper headlines that turn out to be completely wrong, by monitoring crowd behavior through both quantitative indicators and news media headlinesâ€”and with the hindsight of historical examplesâ€”a trader or investor will be well equipped to profit from market turning points. Futia shows specifically how the information contained in a media diary can be interpreted and then coordinated with a statistical view of a market''s current and past swings. By looking back at the bull market of 1982â€“2000, the 2000â€“2002 bear market, the bull market of 2002â€“2007, and the crash of 2008, he reveals how his own media diary effectively identified the many valuation mistakes the stock market made during those years. In addition, he explains the development of the theory of contrary opinion, highlights the contributions key individuals made to the theory, briefly discusses several books every contrarian should read, and offers a quick primer on value investing for the contrarian trader.\n</p>\n<p>\n The contrarian trader, says Futia, is not in the business of predicting stock market highs and lows or of making correct forecasts of any kind. Instead, his focus is on a single objectiveâ€”that of achieving a higher return than that earned by the buy-and-hold strategy. This book will show you how to achieve this elusive goal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9899'),
(9420, 'The Art of Contrarian Trading: How to Profit From Crowd Behavior in the Financial Markets', 'Carl Futia', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Why is it so hard to beat the market? How can you avoid getting caught in bubbles and crashes? You will find the answers in Carl Futiaâ€™s new book,\n <em>\n  The Art of Contrarian Trading\n </em>\n . This book will teach you Futiaâ€™s novel method of contrarian trading from the ground up.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 16 chapters filled with facts and many historical examples Futia explains the principles and practice of contrarian trading. Discover the Edge which separates winning speculators from the losers. Find out how to apply the No Free Lunch principle to identify profitable trading methods. Learn about the wisdom and the follies of investment crowds â€“ and how crowds are formed by information cascades that drive stock prices too high or too low relative to fair value. Discover the power of your Media Diary - and how to use it to spot these information cascades, measure the strength of the crowdâ€™s beliefs, and decide when the crowdâ€™s view is about to be proven wrong.\n</p>\n<p>\n You will watch Futia apply these principles of contrarian trading to navigate safely and profitably through the last 26 tumultuous years of roller coaster swings in the U.S. stock market â€“ a time during which Futia kept his own media diary and developed his Grand Strategy of Contrarian Trading. See how this Grand Strategy worked during the Great Bull Market of 1982-2000. Watch the Contrarian Rebalancing technique in practice during the dot.com crash of 2000-2002. Find out when the Aggressive Contrarian Trader bought and sold during the bull market of 2002-2007. Read about the causes of the Panic of 2008 and ups and downs of contrarian trading during that dangerous time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Futia shows you how the market turning points during the 1982-2008 period were foreshadowed by magazine covers and newspaper headlines that astonishingly and consistently encouraged investors to do the wrong thing at the wrong time. By monitoring crowd beliefs revealed by news media headlines â€“ and with the guidance provided by the many historical examples Futia provides â€“ a trader or investor will be well-equipped to anticipate and profit from market turning points.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Contrarian theory in investing and trading is based on the idea that markets are driven in large part by crowd behavior. When crowds form around investing themes in the stock market, they push stock prices too high or too low relative to fair value. Contrarians hold that if investment crowds are responsible for the pricing mistakes made by the stock market, it logically follows that you can do better than buy-and-hold if you can detect those situations in which an investment crowd has driven the stock market too high or too low relative to fair value.\n <em>\n  The Art of Contrarian Trading\n </em>\n shows how to take advantage of the crowd''s periodic bouts of enthusiasm and fear, and make wise investment choices that most others may think are ill-advised.\n</p>\n<p>\n Veteran trader Carl Futia explains the contrarian trader''s principal tool: his media diary. Since major market turning points are almost always foreshadowed by magazine covers and newspaper headlines that turn out to be completely wrong, by monitoring crowd behavior through both quantitative indicators and news media headlinesâ€”and with the hindsight of historical examplesâ€”a trader or investor will be well equipped to profit from market turning points. Futia shows specifically how the information contained in a media diary can be interpreted and then coordinated with a statistical view of a market''s current and past swings. By looking back at the bull market of 1982â€“2000, the 2000â€“2002 bear market, the bull market of 2002â€“2007, and the crash of 2008, he reveals how his own media diary effectively identified the many valuation mistakes the stock market made during those years. In addition, he explains the development of the theory of contrary opinion, highlights the contributions key individuals made to the theory, briefly discusses several books every contrarian should read, and offers a quick primer on value investing for the contrarian trader.\n</p>\n<p>\n The contrarian trader, says Futia, is not in the business of predicting stock market highs and lows or of making correct forecasts of any kind. Instead, his focus is on a single objectiveâ€”that of achieving a higher return than that earned by the buy-and-hold strategy. This book will show you how to achieve this elusive goal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16945'),
(9421, 'The Art Of Deception', 'Kevin Mitnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20100'),
(9422, 'The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security', 'Kevin D. Mitnick &amp; William L. Simon &amp; Steve Wozniak', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Art of Deception\n  </em>\n  is about gaining someone''s trust by lying to them and then abusing that trust for fun and profit. Hackers use the euphemism "social engineering" and hacker-guru Kevin Mitnick examines many example scenarios.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After Mitnick''s first dozen examples anyone responsible for organizational security is going to lose the will to live. It''s been said before, but people and security are antithetical. Organizations exist to provide a good or service and want helpful, friendly employees to promote the good or service. People are social animals who want to be liked. Controlling the human aspects of security means denying someone something. This circle can''t be squared.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Considering Mitnick''s reputation as a hacker guru, it''s ironic that the last point of attack for hackers using social engineering are computers. Most of the scenarios in\n  <em>\n   The Art of Deception\n  </em>\n  work just as well against computer-free organizations and were probably known to the Phoenicians; technology simply makes it all easier. Phones are faster than letters, after all, and having large organizations means dealing with lots of strangers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Much of Mitnick''s security advice sounds practical until you think about implementation, when you realize that more effective security means reducing organizational efficiency--an impossible trade in competitive business. And anyway, who wants to work in an organization where the rule is "Trust no one"? Mitnick shows how easily security is breached by trust, but without trust people can''t live and work together. In the real world, effective organizations have to acknowledge that total security is a chimera--and carry more insurance.\n  <em>\n   --Steve Patient, amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mitnick is the most famous computer hacker in the world. Since his first arrest in 1981, at age 17, he has spent nearly half his adult life either in prison or as a fugitive. He has been the subject of three books and his alleged 1982 hack into NORAD inspired the movie War Games. Since his plea-bargain release in 2000, he says he has reformed and is devoting his talents to helping computer security. It''s not clear whether this book is a means toward that end or a, wink-wink, fictionalized account of his exploits, with his name changed to protect his parole terms. Either way, it''s a tour de force, a series of tales of how some old-fashioned blarney and high-tech skills can pry any information from anyone. As entertainment, it''s like reading the climaxes of a dozen complex thrillers, one after the other. As a security education, it''s a great series of cautionary tales; however, the advice to employees not to give anyone their passwords is bland compared to the depth and energy of Mitnick''s descriptions of how he actually hacked into systems. As a manual for a would-be hacker, it''s dated and nonspecific better stuff is available on the Internet but it teaches the timeless spirit of the hack. Between the lines, a portrait emerges of the old-fashioned hacker stereotype: a socially challenged, obsessive loser addicted to an intoxicating sense of power that comes only from stalking and spying.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11019'),
(9423, 'The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Tore Boeckmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A newly published resource taken from a famous lecture course given by Ayn RandIn 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as *Atlas Shrugged* and *The Fountainhead*, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. *The Art of Fiction* offers invaluable lessons, in which Rand analyzes the four essential elements of fiction: theme, plot, characterization, and style. She demonstrates her ideas by dissecting her best-known works, as well as those of other famous authors, such as Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, and Victor Hugo. An historic accomplishment, this compendium will be a unique and fascinating resource for both writers and readers of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7398'),
(9424, 'The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Tore Boeckmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A newly published resource taken from a famous lecture course given by Ayn RandIn 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as *Atlas Shrugged* and *The Fountainhead*, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. *The Art of Fiction* offers invaluable lessons, in which Rand analyzes the four essential elements of fiction: theme, plot, characterization, and style. She demonstrates her ideas by dissecting her best-known works, as well as those of other famous authors, such as Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, and Victor Hugo. An historic accomplishment, this compendium will be a unique and fascinating resource for both writers and readers of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12063'),
(9425, 'The art of fiction: a guide for writers and readers', 'Ayn Rand; Tore Boeckmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A newly published resource taken from a famous lecture course given by Ayn RandIn 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as *Atlas Shrugged* and *The Fountainhead*, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. *The Art of Fiction* offers invaluable lessons, in which Rand analyzes the four essential elements of fiction: theme, plot, characterization, and style. She demonstrates her ideas by dissecting her best-known works, as well as those of other famous authors, such as Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, and Victor Hugo. An historic accomplishment, this compendium will be a unique and fascinating resource for both writers and readers of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16500'),
(9426, 'The art of fiction: a guide for writers and readers', 'Ayn Rand; Tore Boeckmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A newly published resource taken from a famous lecture course given by Ayn RandIn 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as *Atlas Shrugged* and *The Fountainhead*, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. *The Art of Fiction* offers invaluable lessons, in which Rand analyzes the four essential elements of fiction: theme, plot, characterization, and style. She demonstrates her ideas by dissecting her best-known works, as well as those of other famous authors, such as Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, and Victor Hugo. An historic accomplishment, this compendium will be a unique and fascinating resource for both writers and readers of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26532'),
(9427, 'The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders &amp; Deceivers', 'Kevin David Mitnick &amp; William L. Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Hacker extraordinaire Kevin Mitnick delivers the explosive encore to his bestselling The Art of Deception Kevin Mitnick, the world''s most celebrated hacker, now devotes his life to helping businesses and governments combat data thieves, cybervandals, and other malicious computer intruders. In his bestselling The Art of Deception, Mitnick presented fictionalized case studies that illustrated how savvy computer crackers use "social engineering" to compromise even the most technically secure computer systems. Now, in his new book, Mitnick goes one step further, offering hair-raising stories of real-life computer break-ins-and showing how the victims could have prevented them. Mitnick''s reputation within the hacker community gave him unique credibility with the perpetrators of these crimes, who freely shared their stories with him-and whose exploits Mitnick now reveals in detail for the first time, including:  A group of friends who won nearly a million dollars in Las Vegas by reverse-engineering slot machines Two teenagers who were persuaded by terrorists to hack into the Lockheed Martin computer systems Two convicts who joined forces to become hackers inside a Texas prison A "Robin Hood" hacker who penetrated the computer systems of many prominent companies-andthen told them how he gained access  With riveting "you are there" descriptions of real computer break-ins, indispensable tips on countermeasures security professionals need to implement now, and Mitnick''s own acerbic commentary on the crimes he describes, this book is sure to reach a wide audience-and attract the attention of both law enforcement agencies and the media.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11020'),
(9428, 'The Art of Mending: A Novel', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestselling novelist Berg (Talk Before Sleep; Open House ) explores memory, love and forgiveness in her flawed but moving 12th novel. At her annual family reunion, Laura Bartone, a 50-something "quilt artist," is forced to confront the secrets that have long haunted her family. Her emotionally unstable sister, Caroline, tells Laura and their brother, Steve, that their mother abused her as a child. As Laura and Steve-whose own childhoods were reasonably happy-struggle to make sense of Caroline''s accusations and wonder how they could''ve been oblivious to or complicit in what happened, their father dies. This could be the stuff of melodrama, but Berg generally manages to avoid it. Her prose is often luminous and buoyant, and her insights can be penetrating. Her big ideas, though, are too frequently interrupted by the sort of domestic-detail overdoses that belong in less ambitious novels ("I hung up, flipped the turkey burgers for the last time, dumped the oven-baked French fries into a basket and salted them, sliced tomatoes, drained the water off the ears of corn..."). Other shortcomings include a few gender stereotypes and a husband and children for Laura who seem too good to be true ("Sometimes it seemed like I was making it up," Laura thinks). But Laura''s thornier relationships with her mother and siblings are carefully rendered and compelling. Berg has written a nuanced account of a family''s implosion, with enough ambiguity and drama to give book clubs-the book''s likely audience-"plenty to discuss and to keep any reader intrigued, right up to the fittingly redemptive ending.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prolific Berg (_Say When_ [BKL Ap 1 03]) is unafraid of tackling gritty domestic issues such as aging and illness; in her latest, she takes on the question of why a mother would be so caring with two of her children but treat the third with great cruelty. Although Berg never answers that question satisfactorily, she does offer a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a flawed family. Fifty-four-year-old Laura Bartone, the happily married mother of two, is looking forward to her annual family reunion in Minnesota. But her vacation plans are marred when her father is felled by a stroke, and her sister, Caroline, at the urging of a therapist, confronts Laura and her brother with disturbing information about her relationship with their mother. As she details the verbal and physical abuse she was subjected to, Laura and her brother are tempted to write Caroline''s confidences off as just another example of her histrionics. Because if what she says is true, what would that mean about their complicity in the family dynamics? Although Berg proffers a number of reasons for the mother''s singular treatment of Caroline, none of them is totally convincing. Berg is much better at detailing Laura''s childhood impatience with her gloomy sister and her inability to fully comprehend the cause of her sister''s moodiness. This is a skillful popular treatment of a troubling family issue.\n <em>\n  Joanne Wilkinson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5847'),
(9429, 'The Art of Mending: A Novel', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestselling novelist Berg (Talk Before Sleep; Open House ) explores memory, love and forgiveness in her flawed but moving 12th novel. At her annual family reunion, Laura Bartone, a 50-something "quilt artist," is forced to confront the secrets that have long haunted her family. Her emotionally unstable sister, Caroline, tells Laura and their brother, Steve, that their mother abused her as a child. As Laura and Steve-whose own childhoods were reasonably happy-struggle to make sense of Caroline''s accusations and wonder how they could''ve been oblivious to or complicit in what happened, their father dies. This could be the stuff of melodrama, but Berg generally manages to avoid it. Her prose is often luminous and buoyant, and her insights can be penetrating. Her big ideas, though, are too frequently interrupted by the sort of domestic-detail overdoses that belong in less ambitious novels ("I hung up, flipped the turkey burgers for the last time, dumped the oven-baked French fries into a basket and salted them, sliced tomatoes, drained the water off the ears of corn..."). Other shortcomings include a few gender stereotypes and a husband and children for Laura who seem too good to be true ("Sometimes it seemed like I was making it up," Laura thinks). But Laura''s thornier relationships with her mother and siblings are carefully rendered and compelling. Berg has written a nuanced account of a family''s implosion, with enough ambiguity and drama to give book clubs-the book''s likely audience-"plenty to discuss and to keep any reader intrigued, right up to the fittingly redemptive ending.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prolific Berg (_Say When_ [BKL Ap 1 03]) is unafraid of tackling gritty domestic issues such as aging and illness; in her latest, she takes on the question of why a mother would be so caring with two of her children but treat the third with great cruelty. Although Berg never answers that question satisfactorily, she does offer a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a flawed family. Fifty-four-year-old Laura Bartone, the happily married mother of two, is looking forward to her annual family reunion in Minnesota. But her vacation plans are marred when her father is felled by a stroke, and her sister, Caroline, at the urging of a therapist, confronts Laura and her brother with disturbing information about her relationship with their mother. As she details the verbal and physical abuse she was subjected to, Laura and her brother are tempted to write Caroline''s confidences off as just another example of her histrionics. Because if what she says is true, what would that mean about their complicity in the family dynamics? Although Berg proffers a number of reasons for the mother''s singular treatment of Caroline, none of them is totally convincing. Berg is much better at detailing Laura''s childhood impatience with her gloomy sister and her inability to fully comprehend the cause of her sister''s moodiness. This is a skillful popular treatment of a troubling family issue.\n <em>\n  Joanne Wilkinson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8479'),
(9430, 'The art of mending: a novel', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestselling novelist Berg (Talk Before Sleep; Open House ) explores memory, love and forgiveness in her flawed but moving 12th novel. At her annual family reunion, Laura Bartone, a 50-something "quilt artist," is forced to confront the secrets that have long haunted her family. Her emotionally unstable sister, Caroline, tells Laura and their brother, Steve, that their mother abused her as a child. As Laura and Steve-whose own childhoods were reasonably happy-struggle to make sense of Caroline''s accusations and wonder how they could''ve been oblivious to or complicit in what happened, their father dies. This could be the stuff of melodrama, but Berg generally manages to avoid it. Her prose is often luminous and buoyant, and her insights can be penetrating. Her big ideas, though, are too frequently interrupted by the sort of domestic-detail overdoses that belong in less ambitious novels ("I hung up, flipped the turkey burgers for the last time, dumped the oven-baked French fries into a basket and salted them, sliced tomatoes, drained the water off the ears of corn..."). Other shortcomings include a few gender stereotypes and a husband and children for Laura who seem too good to be true ("Sometimes it seemed like I was making it up," Laura thinks). But Laura''s thornier relationships with her mother and siblings are carefully rendered and compelling. Berg has written a nuanced account of a family''s implosion, with enough ambiguity and drama to give book clubs-the book''s likely audience-"plenty to discuss and to keep any reader intrigued, right up to the fittingly redemptive ending.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prolific Berg (_Say When_ [BKL Ap 1 03]) is unafraid of tackling gritty domestic issues such as aging and illness; in her latest, she takes on the question of why a mother would be so caring with two of her children but treat the third with great cruelty. Although Berg never answers that question satisfactorily, she does offer a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a flawed family. Fifty-four-year-old Laura Bartone, the happily married mother of two, is looking forward to her annual family reunion in Minnesota. But her vacation plans are marred when her father is felled by a stroke, and her sister, Caroline, at the urging of a therapist, confronts Laura and her brother with disturbing information about her relationship with their mother. As she details the verbal and physical abuse she was subjected to, Laura and her brother are tempted to write Caroline''s confidences off as just another example of her histrionics. Because if what she says is true, what would that mean about their complicity in the family dynamics? Although Berg proffers a number of reasons for the mother''s singular treatment of Caroline, none of them is totally convincing. Berg is much better at detailing Laura''s childhood impatience with her gloomy sister and her inability to fully comprehend the cause of her sister''s moodiness. This is a skillful popular treatment of a troubling family issue.\n <em>\n  Joanne Wilkinson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18886'),
(9431, 'The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Robert Mayhew', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century''s most profound writers and thinkers-now available for the first time in print.Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work offers indispensable guidance to the aspiring writer of nonfiction while providing readers with a fascinating discourse on art and creation. Based on the concept that the ability to create quality nonfiction is a skill that can be learned like any other, *The Art of Nonfiction* takes readers through the writing process, step-by-step, providing insightful observations and invaluable techniques along the way.In these edited transcripts, Rand discusses the psychological aspects of writing, and the different roles played by the conscious and subconscious mind. From choosing a subject to polishing a draft to mastering an individual writing style-for authors of theoretical works or those leaning toward journalistic reporting-this crucial resource introduces the words and ideas of one of our most enduring authors to a new generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7399'),
(9432, 'The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Robert Mayhew', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century''s most profound writers and thinkers-now available for the first time in print.Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work offers indispensable guidance to the aspiring writer of nonfiction while providing readers with a fascinating discourse on art and creation. Based on the concept that the ability to create quality nonfiction is a skill that can be learned like any other, *The Art of Nonfiction* takes readers through the writing process, step-by-step, providing insightful observations and invaluable techniques along the way.In these edited transcripts, Rand discusses the psychological aspects of writing, and the different roles played by the conscious and subconscious mind. From choosing a subject to polishing a draft to mastering an individual writing style-for authors of theoretical works or those leaning toward journalistic reporting-this crucial resource introduces the words and ideas of one of our most enduring authors to a new generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12055'),
(9433, 'The art of nonfiction: a guide for writers and readers', 'Ayn Rand; Robert Mayhew', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century''s most profound writers and thinkers-now available for the first time in print.Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work offers indispensable guidance to the aspiring writer of nonfiction while providing readers with a fascinating discourse on art and creation. Based on the concept that the ability to create quality nonfiction is a skill that can be learned like any other, *The Art of Nonfiction* takes readers through the writing process, step-by-step, providing insightful observations and invaluable techniques along the way.In these edited transcripts, Rand discusses the psychological aspects of writing, and the different roles played by the conscious and subconscious mind. From choosing a subject to polishing a draft to mastering an individual writing style-for authors of theoretical works or those leaning toward journalistic reporting-this crucial resource introduces the words and ideas of one of our most enduring authors to a new generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16499'),
(9434, 'The art of nonfiction: a guide for writers and readers', 'Ayn Rand; Robert Mayhew', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century''s most profound writers and thinkers-now available for the first time in print.Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work offers indispensable guidance to the aspiring writer of nonfiction while providing readers with a fascinating discourse on art and creation. Based on the concept that the ability to create quality nonfiction is a skill that can be learned like any other, *The Art of Nonfiction* takes readers through the writing process, step-by-step, providing insightful observations and invaluable techniques along the way.In these edited transcripts, Rand discusses the psychological aspects of writing, and the different roles played by the conscious and subconscious mind. From choosing a subject to polishing a draft to mastering an individual writing style-for authors of theoretical works or those leaning toward journalistic reporting-this crucial resource introduces the words and ideas of one of our most enduring authors to a new generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26535'),
(9435, 'The Art of Racing in the Rain', 'Garth Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.   Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn''t simply about going fast. Using the techniques needed on the race track, one can successfully navigate all of life''s ordeals.   On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through: the sacrifices Denny has made to succeed professionally; the unexpected loss of Eve, Denny''s wife; the three-year battle over their daughter, ZoÃ«, whose maternal grandparents pulled every string to gain custody. In the end, despite what he sees as his own limitations, Enzo comes through heroically to preserve the Swift family, holding in his heart the dream that Denny will become a racing champion with ZoÃ« at his side. Having learned what it takes to be a compassionate and successful person, the wise canine can barely wait until his next lifetime, when he is sure he will return as a man.   A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5557'),
(9436, 'The Art of Racing in the Rain', 'Garth Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.   Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn''t simply about going fast. Using the techniques needed on the race track, one can successfully navigate all of life''s ordeals.   On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through: the sacrifices Denny has made to succeed professionally; the unexpected loss of Eve, Denny''s wife; the three-year battle over their daughter, ZoÃ«, whose maternal grandparents pulled every string to gain custody. In the end, despite what he sees as his own limitations, Enzo comes through heroically to preserve the Swift family, holding in his heart the dream that Denny will become a racing champion with ZoÃ« at his side. Having learned what it takes to be a compassionate and successful person, the wise canine can barely wait until his next lifetime, when he is sure he will return as a man.   A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12841'),
(9437, 'The Art of Racing in the Rain', 'Garth Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14076');
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(9438, 'The Art of Racing in the Rain', 'Garth Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn''t simply about going fast. Using the techniques needed on the race track, one can successfully navigate all of life''s ordeals. On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through: the sacrifices Denny has made to succeed professionally; the unexpected loss of Eve, Denny''s wife; the three-year battle over their daughter, ZoÃ«, whose maternal grandparents pulled every string to gain custody. In the end, despite what he sees as his own limitations, Enzo comes through heroically to preserve the Swift family, holding in his heart the dream that Denny will become a racing champion with ZoÃ« at his side. Having learned what it takes to be a compassionate and successful person, the wise canine can barely wait until his next lifetime, when he is sure he will return as a man. A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19161'),
(9439, 'The Art of Racing in the Rain', 'Garth Stein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.   Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn''t simply about going fast. Using the techniques needed on the race track, one can successfully navigate all of life''s ordeals.   On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through: the sacrifices Denny has made to succeed professionally; the unexpected loss of Eve, Denny''s wife; the three-year battle over their daughter, ZoÃ«, whose maternal grandparents pulled every string to gain custody. In the end, despite what he sees as his own limitations, Enzo comes through heroically to preserve the Swift family, holding in his heart the dream that Denny will become a racing champion with ZoÃ« at his side. Having learned what it takes to be a compassionate and successful person, the wise canine can barely wait until his next lifetime, when he is sure he will return as a man.   A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27941'),
(9440, 'The Art of the Moving Picture', 'Vachel Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."\n <br />\n --Stanley Kauffmann\n</p>\n<p>\n Written in 1915, The Art of the Moving Picture by poet Vachel Lindsay is the first book to treat movies as art. Lindsay writes a brilliant analysis of the early silent films (including several now lost films). He is extraordinarily prescient about the future of moviemaking--particularly about the business, the prominence of technology, and the emergence of the director as the author of the film.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."\n <br />\n --Stanley Kauffmann\n</p>\n<p>\n Written in 1915, The Art of the Moving Picture by poet Vachel Lindsay is the first book to treat movies as art. Lindsay writes a brilliant analysis of the early silent films (including several now lost films). He is extraordinarily prescient about the future of moviemaking--particularly about the business, the prominence of technology, and the emergence of the director as the author of the film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/415'),
(9441, 'The Art of the Moving Picture', 'Vachel Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."\n <br />\n --Stanley Kauffmann\n</p>\n<p>\n Written in 1915, The Art of the Moving Picture by poet Vachel Lindsay is the first book to treat movies as art. Lindsay writes a brilliant analysis of the early silent films (including several now lost films). He is extraordinarily prescient about the future of moviemaking--particularly about the business, the prominence of technology, and the emergence of the director as the author of the film.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."\n <br />\n --Stanley Kauffmann\n</p>\n<p>\n Written in 1915, The Art of the Moving Picture by poet Vachel Lindsay is the first book to treat movies as art. Lindsay writes a brilliant analysis of the early silent films (including several now lost films). He is extraordinarily prescient about the future of moviemaking--particularly about the business, the prominence of technology, and the emergence of the director as the author of the film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11197'),
(9442, 'The Art of the Moving Picture', 'Vachel Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."\n <br />\n --Stanley Kauffmann\n</p>\n<p>\n Written in 1915, The Art of the Moving Picture by poet Vachel Lindsay is the first book to treat movies as art. Lindsay writes a brilliant analysis of the early silent films (including several now lost films). He is extraordinarily prescient about the future of moviemaking--particularly about the business, the prominence of technology, and the emergence of the director as the author of the film.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."\n <br />\n --Stanley Kauffmann\n</p>\n<p>\n Written in 1915, The Art of the Moving Picture by poet Vachel Lindsay is the first book to treat movies as art. Lindsay writes a brilliant analysis of the early silent films (including several now lost films). He is extraordinarily prescient about the future of moviemaking--particularly about the business, the prominence of technology, and the emergence of the director as the author of the film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24510'),
(9443, 'The Art of Travel', 'Alain De Botton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Any Baedeker will tell us\n <em>\n  where\n </em>\n we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us\n <em>\n  how\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  why.\n </em>\n With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to\n <strong>\n  How Proust Can Save Your Life\n </strong>\n <em>\n  ,\n </em>\n de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything from a seascape in Barbados to the takeoffs at Heathrow.\n</p>\n<p>\n Even as de Botton takes the reader along on his own peregrinations, he also cites such distinguished fellow-travelers as Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Van Gogh, the biologist Alexander von Humboldt, and the 18th-century eccentric Xavier de Maistre, who catalogued the wonders of his bedroom.\n <strong>\n  The Art of Travel\n </strong>\n is a wise and utterly original book. Don''t leave home without it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8125'),
(9444, 'The Art of War', 'Sun Tzu', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Book One of *The Warrior* Series\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sun Tzu and Sun PinÃ‚â€™s timeless strategic masterpieces are constantly analyzed and interpreted by leaders worldwide. For the first time ever, author D.E. Tarver explains the classic texts, *The Art of War* by Sun Tzu and *The Art of Warfare* by Sun Pin, in plain English.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n War is the perfect training ground for teaching Sun TzuÃ‚â€™s ancient philosophies to attaining victory over an opponent. ***The Art of War*** outlines the steps for outwitting the enemy, be it an army of 10,000 or an unresponsive client.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The Art of War*** teaches leaders strategies to attain victory by:    Knowing when to stand up to an opponent, and when to back down.  How to be confident without being overly confident.  Considering the cost of the campaign before launching an attack.  Avoiding an opponentÃ‚â€™s strengths and striking his weaknesses.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ã‚â€œThe one who is first to the field of battle has time to rest, while his opponent rushes into the conflict weary and confused. The first will be fresh and alert. The second will waste most of his energy trying to catch up.Ã‚â€ Be the first to the battlefield with ***The Art of War***.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/968'),
(9445, 'The Art of War', 'Sun Tzu', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Book One of *The Warrior* Series Sun Tzu and Sun PinÃ‚â€™s timeless strategic masterpieces are constantly analyzed and interpreted by leaders worldwide. For the first time ever, author D.E. Tarver explains the classic texts, *The Art of War* by Sun Tzu and *The Art of Warfare* by Sun Pin, in plain English. War is the perfect training ground for teaching Sun TzuÃ‚â€™s ancient philosophies to attaining victory over an opponent. ***The Art of War*** outlines the steps for outwitting the enemy, be it an army of 10,000 or an unresponsive client. ***The Art of War*** teaches leaders strategies to attain victory by: Knowing when to stand up to an opponent, and when to back down. How to be confident without being overly confident. Considering the cost of the campaign before launching an attack. Avoiding an opponentÃ‚â€™s strengths and striking his weaknesses. Ã‚â€œThe one who is first to the field of battle has time to rest, while his opponent rushes into the conflict weary and confused. The first will be fresh and alert. The second will waste most of his energy trying to catch up.Ã‚â€ Be the first to the battlefield with ***The Art of War***.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14073'),
(9446, 'The Art of War', 'Sun Tzu', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Book One of *The Warrior* Series Sun Tzu and Sun PinÃ‚â€™s timeless strategic masterpieces are constantly analyzed and interpreted by leaders worldwide. For the first time ever, author D.E. Tarver explains the classic texts, *The Art of War* by Sun Tzu and *The Art of Warfare* by Sun Pin, in plain English. War is the perfect training ground for teaching Sun TzuÃ‚â€™s ancient philosophies to attaining victory over an opponent. ***The Art of War*** outlines the steps for outwitting the enemy, be it an army of 10,000 or an unresponsive client. ***The Art of War*** teaches leaders strategies to attain victory by: Knowing when to stand up to an opponent, and when to back down. How to be confident without being overly confident. Considering the cost of the campaign before launching an attack. Avoiding an opponentÃ‚â€™s strengths and striking his weaknesses. Ã‚â€œThe one who is first to the field of battle has time to rest, while his opponent rushes into the conflict weary and confused. The first will be fresh and alert. The second will waste most of his energy trying to catch up.Ã‚â€ Be the first to the battlefield with ***The Art of War***.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24002'),
(9447, 'Arta alegerii', 'Clara Nicollet', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25979'),
(9448, 'Arta conversatiei', 'Ileana Vulpescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25640'),
(9449, 'Arta de a avea intotdeauna dreptate', 'Arthur Schopenhauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26041'),
(9450, 'Arta Razboiului', 'Sun Tzu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25071'),
(9451, 'Arta Refugii', 'Paul Goma', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25249'),
(9452, 'Arta tacerii', 'B. Blanchard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26033'),
(9453, 'Arta visatului', 'Carlos Castaneda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26006'),
(9454, 'Artemis', 'Julian Stockwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With Kydd, Julian Stockwin introduced us to a young wig-maker from Guildford who was kidnapped and pressed into duty with the tempestuous crew of the Duke William battle ship. Now, Thomas Paine Kydd is back -- with a vengeance -- in the latest installment of Stockwin''s thrilling naval adventure series.Artemis is the eighteenth-century crack frigate that Kydd and sea-mate Nicholas Renzi are set to sail all the way to the fabled Far East. In this great age of fighting sailing ships, Kydd''s voyage promises to be a perilous undertaking. But not even shipwreck, mutiny, or a confrontation with a mighty French frigate manages to thwart Artemis and her crew. It''s only when Kydd receives an urgent message from home -- one that threatens to cut short his career and trap him on shore forever -- that Artemis''s real journey begins.Filled with mesmerizing suspense and vivid details of Napoleonic-era seafaring, Artemis is classic, page-turning storytelling at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3977'),
(9455, 'Artemis', 'Julian Stockwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With Kydd, Julian Stockwin introduced us to a young wig-maker from Guildford who was kidnapped and pressed into duty with the tempestuous crew of the Duke William battle ship. Now, Thomas Paine Kydd is back -- with a vengeance -- in the latest installment of Stockwin''s thrilling naval adventure series.Artemis is the eighteenth-century crack frigate that Kydd and sea-mate Nicholas Renzi are set to sail all the way to the fabled Far East. In this great age of fighting sailing ships, Kydd''s voyage promises to be a perilous undertaking. But not even shipwreck, mutiny, or a confrontation with a mighty French frigate manages to thwart Artemis and her crew. It''s only when Kydd receives an urgent message from home -- one that threatens to cut short his career and trap him on shore forever -- that Artemis''s real journey begins.Filled with mesmerizing suspense and vivid details of Napoleonic-era seafaring, Artemis is classic, page-turning storytelling at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20577'),
(9456, 'Artemis Fowl', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Artemis Fowl, a charming but villainous twelve-year-old, takes on the dangerous world of the Fairy People in this unforgettable story, which became a national best-seller and instant cult classic with its hardcover publication in May 2000. The book received tremendous attention and created fans of all ages, around the world. In this extraordinary adventure, Artemis kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon unit, to help him decode the fairys magic book, which will lead him to a vast treasure of gold. But these are not the fairies of bedtime storiestheyre cunning and dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl opens up a riveting world of fantasy and mystery where anything, literally, is possible.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5614'),
(9457, 'Artemis Fowl', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Artemis Fowl, a charming but villainous twelve-year-old, takes on the dangerous world of the Fairy People in this unforgettable story, which became a national best-seller and instant cult classic with its hardcover publication in May 2000. The book received tremendous attention and created fans of all ages, around the world. In this extraordinary adventure, Artemis kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon unit, to help him decode the fairys magic book, which will lead him to a vast treasure of gold. But these are not the fairies of bedtime storiestheyre cunning and dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl opens up a riveting world of fantasy and mystery where anything, literally, is possible.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8986'),
(9458, 'Artemis Fowl', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Artemis Fowl, a charming but villainous twelve-year-old, takes on the dangerous world of the Fairy People in this unforgettable story, which became a national best-seller and instant cult classic with its hardcover publication in May 2000. The book received tremendous attention and created fans of all ages, around the world. In this extraordinary adventure, Artemis kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon unit, to help him decode the fairys magic book, which will lead him to a vast treasure of gold. But these are not the fairies of bedtime storiestheyre cunning and dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl opens up a riveting world of fantasy and mystery where anything, literally, is possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14972'),
(9459, 'Artemis Fowl', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Artemis Fowl, a charming but villainous twelve-year-old, takes on the dangerous world of the Fairy People in this unforgettable story, which became a national best-seller and instant cult classic with its hardcover publication in May 2000. The book received tremendous attention and created fans of all ages, around the world. In this extraordinary adventure, Artemis kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon unit, to help him decode the fairys magic book, which will lead him to a vast treasure of gold. But these are not the fairies of bedtime storiestheyre cunning and dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl opens up a riveting world of fantasy and mystery where anything, literally, is possible.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19018'),
(9460, 'Artemis Fowl', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Artemis Fowl, a charming but villainous twelve-year-old, takes on the dangerous world of the Fairy People in this unforgettable story, which became a national best-seller and instant cult classic with its hardcover publication in May 2000. The book received tremendous attention and created fans of all ages, around the world. In this extraordinary adventure, Artemis kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon unit, to help him decode the fairys magic book, which will lead him to a vast treasure of gold. But these are not the fairies of bedtime storiestheyre cunning and dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl opens up a riveting world of fantasy and mystery where anything, literally, is possible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27812'),
(9461, 'Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ARTEMIS FOWLS CRIMINAL WAYS HAVE FINALLY GOT THE BETTER OF HIM . . . Young Artemis has frequently used high-tech fairy magic to mastermind the most devious criminal activity of the new century. Now, at a conference in Iceland, Artemis has gathered the fairies to present his latest idea to save the world from global warming. But Artemis is behaving strangely he seems different. Something terrible has happened to him . . . Artemis Fowl has become nice. The fairies diagnose Atlantis Complex thats obsessive compulsive disorder to you and me dabbling in magic has damaged his mind. Fairy ally Captain Holly Short doesnt know what to do. Because the subterranean volcanoes are under attack from vicious robots and Artemis cannot fight them. Can Holly get the real Artemis back ---before the robot probes destroy every human and life form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5615'),
(9462, 'Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ARTEMIS FOWLS CRIMINAL WAYS HAVE FINALLY GOT THE BETTER OF HIM . . . Young Artemis has frequently used high-tech fairy magic to mastermind the most devious criminal activity of the new century. Now, at a conference in Iceland, Artemis has gathered the fairies to present his latest idea to save the world from global warming. But Artemis is behaving strangely he seems different. Something terrible has happened to him . . . Artemis Fowl has become nice. The fairies diagnose Atlantis Complex thats obsessive compulsive disorder to you and me dabbling in magic has damaged his mind. Fairy ally Captain Holly Short doesnt know what to do. Because the subterranean volcanoes are under attack from vicious robots and Artemis cannot fight them. Can Holly get the real Artemis back ---before the robot probes destroy every human and life form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8979'),
(9463, 'Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ARTEMIS FOWLS CRIMINAL WAYS HAVE FINALLY GOT THE BETTER OF HIM . . . Young Artemis has frequently used high-tech fairy magic to mastermind the most devious criminal activity of the new century. Now, at a conference in Iceland, Artemis has gathered the fairies to present his latest idea to save the world from global warming. But Artemis is behaving strangely he seems different. Something terrible has happened to him . . . Artemis Fowl has become nice. The fairies diagnose Atlantis Complex thats obsessive compulsive disorder to you and me dabbling in magic has damaged his mind. Fairy ally Captain Holly Short doesnt know what to do. Because the subterranean volcanoes are under attack from vicious robots and Artemis cannot fight them. Can Holly get the real Artemis back ---before the robot probes destroy every human and life form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19017'),
(9464, 'Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ARTEMIS FOWLS CRIMINAL WAYS HAVE FINALLY GOT THE BETTER OF HIM . . . Young Artemis has frequently used high-tech fairy magic to mastermind the most devious criminal activity of the new century. Now, at a conference in Iceland, Artemis has gathered the fairies to present his latest idea to save the world from global warming. But Artemis is behaving strangely he seems different. Something terrible has happened to him . . . Artemis Fowl has become nice. The fairies diagnose Atlantis Complex thats obsessive compulsive disorder to you and me dabbling in magic has damaged his mind. Fairy ally Captain Holly Short doesnt know what to do. Because the subterranean volcanoes are under attack from vicious robots and Artemis cannot fight them. Can Holly get the real Artemis back ---before the robot probes destroy every human and life form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27811'),
(9465, 'The Artemis Fowl Files', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *The Artemis Fowl Files* is comprised of two original stories: "LEPrecon": the story of Fairy Police Captain Holly Short''s move from Traffic to Recon following her initiation into the Fairy Police; and "The Seventh Dwarf", featuring Mulch, Butler, and Artemis himself.EXTRAS INCLUDE:. "Behind-the-scenes" interviews with major characters including: Artemis, Holly, Foaly, Mulch, and EoinColfer himself. Coded section from the Fairy Book for kids to translate. A section for Fairy Spotters including the different categories of Fairy and their physical characteristicsand personality traits, including: Elves, Trolls, Sprites, Pixies Goblins, Dwarves and Centaurs. Technical diagrams of Foaly''s inventions\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5628'),
(9466, 'The Artemis Fowl Files', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *The Artemis Fowl Files* is comprised of two original stories: "LEPrecon": the story of Fairy Police Captain Holly Short''s move from Traffic to Recon following her initiation into the Fairy Police; and "The Seventh Dwarf", featuring Mulch, Butler, and Artemis himself.EXTRAS INCLUDE:. "Behind-the-scenes" interviews with major characters including: Artemis, Holly, Foaly, Mulch, and EoinColfer himself. Coded section from the Fairy Book for kids to translate. A section for Fairy Spotters including the different categories of Fairy and their physical characteristicsand personality traits, including: Elves, Trolls, Sprites, Pixies Goblins, Dwarves and Centaurs. Technical diagrams of Foaly''s inventions\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8989'),
(9467, 'The Artemis Fowl files', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *The Artemis Fowl Files* is comprised of two original stories: "LEPrecon": the story of Fairy Police Captain Holly Short''s move from Traffic to Recon following her initiation into the Fairy Police; and "The Seventh Dwarf", featuring Mulch, Butler, and Artemis himself.EXTRAS INCLUDE:. "Behind-the-scenes" interviews with major characters including: Artemis, Holly, Foaly, Mulch, and EoinColfer himself. Coded section from the Fairy Book for kids to translate. A section for Fairy Spotters including the different categories of Fairy and their physical characteristicsand personality traits, including: Elves, Trolls, Sprites, Pixies Goblins, Dwarves and Centaurs. Technical diagrams of Foaly''s inventions\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19004'),
(9468, 'The Artemis Fowl files', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Artemis Fowl Files* is comprised of two original stories: "LEPrecon": the story of Fairy Police Captain Holly Short''s move from Traffic to Recon following her initiation into the Fairy Police; and "The Seventh Dwarf", featuring Mulch, Butler, and Artemis himself.EXTRAS INCLUDE:. "Behind-the-scenes" interviews with major characters including: Artemis, Holly, Foaly, Mulch, and EoinColfer himself. Coded section from the Fairy Book for kids to translate. A section for Fairy Spotters including the different categories of Fairy and their physical characteristicsand personality traits, including: Elves, Trolls, Sprites, Pixies Goblins, Dwarves and Centaurs. Technical diagrams of Foaly''s inventions\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27805'),
(9469, 'Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he suddenly receives an urgent video-email from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his father. As Artemis rushes to the rescue, he is stopped by captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. But this time, instead of battling the fairies, he is going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5616'),
(9470, 'Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he suddenly receives an urgent video-email from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his father. As Artemis rushes to the rescue, he is stopped by captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. But this time, instead of battling the fairies, he is going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8985'),
(9471, 'Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he suddenly receives an urgent video-email from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his father. As Artemis rushes to the rescue, he is stopped by captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. But this time, instead of battling the fairies, he is going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19015'),
(9472, 'Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he suddenly receives an urgent video-email from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his father. As Artemis rushes to the rescue, he is stopped by captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. But this time, instead of battling the fairies, he is going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27810'),
(9473, 'Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ever the resourceful young criminal mastermind, Artemis has found a way to construct a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete. Artemis then arranges a meeting with a Chicago businessman, Jon Spiro, to offer to suppress the Cube for one year in return for gold, his favorite substance. But the meeting is a trap, and Spiro steals the Cube and mortally injures Butler. Artemis knows his only hope to save Butler lies in fairy magic, so once again he is forced to contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrepcon fairy police. Miraculously, Butler is healed, but there is a catch: he has aged fifteen years. Thus, Butler''s infamously ditzy sister, Juliet, is called in as Artemis''s bodyguard. Together, they travel to Chicago to steal back the Cube and ensure that Jon Spiro is put out of business-permanently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5617'),
(9474, 'Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ever the resourceful young criminal mastermind, Artemis has found a way to construct a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete. Artemis then arranges a meeting with a Chicago businessman, Jon Spiro, to offer to suppress the Cube for one year in return for gold, his favorite substance. But the meeting is a trap, and Spiro steals the Cube and mortally injures Butler. Artemis knows his only hope to save Butler lies in fairy magic, so once again he is forced to contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrepcon fairy police. Miraculously, Butler is healed, but there is a catch: he has aged fifteen years. Thus, Butler''s infamously ditzy sister, Juliet, is called in as Artemis''s bodyguard. Together, they travel to Chicago to steal back the Cube and ensure that Jon Spiro is put out of business-permanently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9000'),
(9475, 'Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ever the resourceful young criminal mastermind, Artemis has found a way to construct a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete. Artemis then arranges a meeting with a Chicago businessman, Jon Spiro, to offer to suppress the Cube for one year in return for gold, his favorite substance. But the meeting is a trap, and Spiro steals the Cube and mortally injures Butler. Artemis knows his only hope to save Butler lies in fairy magic, so once again he is forced to contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrepcon fairy police. Miraculously, Butler is healed, but there is a catch: he has aged fifteen years. Thus, Butler''s infamously ditzy sister, Juliet, is called in as Artemis''s bodyguard. Together, they travel to Chicago to steal back the Cube and ensure that Jon Spiro is put out of business-permanently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19014'),
(9476, 'Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ever the resourceful young criminal mastermind, Artemis has found a way to construct a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete. Artemis then arranges a meeting with a Chicago businessman, Jon Spiro, to offer to suppress the Cube for one year in return for gold, his favorite substance. But the meeting is a trap, and Spiro steals the Cube and mortally injures Butler. Artemis knows his only hope to save Butler lies in fairy magic, so once again he is forced to contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrepcon fairy police. Miraculously, Butler is healed, but there is a catch: he has aged fifteen years. Thus, Butler''s infamously ditzy sister, Juliet, is called in as Artemis''s bodyguard. Together, they travel to Chicago to steal back the Cube and ensure that Jon Spiro is put out of business-permanently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27809'),
(9477, 'Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilization underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. All the fairy families agreed on this, except the 8th family, the demons.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The demons planned to lift their small island out of time until they had regrouped and were ready to wage war on the humans once more. However the time spell went wrong, and the island of Hybras was catapulted into Limbo, where it has remained for ten thousand years.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, the tainted time spell is deteriorating and demons are being sucked back into the present space and time. The fairy Council is naturally concerned about this and is monitoring any materializations. When the spell''s deterioration accelerates, the materializations become unpredictable. Even the fairy scientists cannot figure out where the next demon will pop up.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But someone can. Artemis Fowl, teenage criminal mastermind has solved temporal equations that no normal human should be intelligent enough to understand. So when a confused and frightened demon pops up in a Sicilian theatre, Artemis Fowl is there to meet him. Unfortunately, he is not the only one. A second, mysterious party has also solved the temporal equations, and has managed to abduct the demon before Artemis can secure him.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is a disaster for the fairy people, as this demon was no ordinary fairy. He was the last demon warlock, the one who held the key to the survival of the entire demon race.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is up to Artemis and his old comrade, Captain Holly Short, to track down the missing demon and rescue him, before the time spell dissolves completely and the lost demon colony returns violently to Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5621'),
(9478, 'Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilization underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. All the fairy families agreed on this, except the 8th family, the demons.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The demons planned to lift their small island out of time until they had regrouped and were ready to wage war on the humans once more. However the time spell went wrong, and the island of Hybras was catapulted into Limbo, where it has remained for ten thousand years.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, the tainted time spell is deteriorating and demons are being sucked back into the present space and time. The fairy Council is naturally concerned about this and is monitoring any materializations. When the spell''s deterioration accelerates, the materializations become unpredictable. Even the fairy scientists cannot figure out where the next demon will pop up.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But someone can. Artemis Fowl, teenage criminal mastermind has solved temporal equations that no normal human should be intelligent enough to understand. So when a confused and frightened demon pops up in a Sicilian theatre, Artemis Fowl is there to meet him. Unfortunately, he is not the only one. A second, mysterious party has also solved the temporal equations, and has managed to abduct the demon before Artemis can secure him.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is a disaster for the fairy people, as this demon was no ordinary fairy. He was the last demon warlock, the one who held the key to the survival of the entire demon race.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is up to Artemis and his old comrade, Captain Holly Short, to track down the missing demon and rescue him, before the time spell dissolves completely and the lost demon colony returns violently to Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8990'),
(9479, 'Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilization underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. All the fairy families agreed on this, except the 8th family, the demons. The demons planned to lift their small island out of time until they had regrouped and were ready to wage war on the humans once more. However the time spell went wrong, and the island of Hybras was catapulted into Limbo, where it has remained for ten thousand years. Now, the tainted time spell is deteriorating and demons are being sucked back into the present space and time. The fairy Council is naturally concerned about this and is monitoring any materializations. When the spell''s deterioration accelerates, the materializations become unpredictable. Even the fairy scientists cannot figure out where the next demon will pop up. But someone can. Artemis Fowl, teenage criminal mastermind has solved temporal equations that no normal human should be intelligent enough to understand. So when a confused and frightened demon pops up in a Sicilian theatre, Artemis Fowl is there to meet him. Unfortunately, he is not the only one. A second, mysterious party has also solved the temporal equations, and has managed to abduct the demon before Artemis can secure him. This is a disaster for the fairy people, as this demon was no ordinary fairy. He was the last demon warlock, the one who held the key to the survival of the entire demon race. It is up to Artemis and his old comrade, Captain Holly Short, to track down the missing demon and rescue him, before the time spell dissolves completely and the lost demon colony returns violently to Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19010'),
(9480, 'Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilization underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. All the fairy families agreed on this, except the 8th family, the demons.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The demons planned to lift their small island out of time until they had regrouped and were ready to wage war on the humans once more. However the time spell went wrong, and the island of Hybras was catapulted into Limbo, where it has remained for ten thousand years.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, the tainted time spell is deteriorating and demons are being sucked back into the present space and time. The fairy Council is naturally concerned about this and is monitoring any materializations. When the spell''s deterioration accelerates, the materializations become unpredictable. Even the fairy scientists cannot figure out where the next demon will pop up.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But someone can. Artemis Fowl, teenage criminal mastermind has solved temporal equations that no normal human should be intelligent enough to understand. So when a confused and frightened demon pops up in a Sicilian theatre, Artemis Fowl is there to meet him. Unfortunately, he is not the only one. A second, mysterious party has also solved the temporal equations, and has managed to abduct the demon before Artemis can secure him.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is a disaster for the fairy people, as this demon was no ordinary fairy. He was the last demon warlock, the one who held the key to the survival of the entire demon race.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is up to Artemis and his old comrade, Captain Holly Short, to track down the missing demon and rescue him, before the time spell dissolves completely and the lost demon colony returns violently to Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27808'),
(9481, 'Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has no memory of the fairy people and his dangerous enemy, Opal Koboi escapes from jail and is planning revenge. Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl is back and so is his brilliant and dangerous enemy, Opal Koboi. At the start of the story, Artemis has no memory of the fairy people and has returned to his unlawful ways. In Berlin, he is preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank. He doesn''t know that his old rival, Opal, has escaped from prison by cloning herself. She''s left her double behind in jail and, now free, is exacting her revenge on all those who put here there, including Artemis. Meanwhile in the lower elements, Captain Holly Short of the fairy police is framed for a heinous crime, yet she manages to elude her captors and escape to the surface to rescue Artemis. But before Holly and Artemis can get away, Opal arrives and abducts them both, forcing Artemis to go head to head with an enemy who plans on destroying the fairy world forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5622'),
(9482, 'Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has no memory of the fairy people and his dangerous enemy, Opal Koboi escapes from jail and is planning revenge. Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl is back and so is his brilliant and dangerous enemy, Opal Koboi. At the start of the story, Artemis has no memory of the fairy people and has returned to his unlawful ways. In Berlin, he is preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank. He doesn''t know that his old rival, Opal, has escaped from prison by cloning herself. She''s left her double behind in jail and, now free, is exacting her revenge on all those who put here there, including Artemis. Meanwhile in the lower elements, Captain Holly Short of the fairy police is framed for a heinous crime, yet she manages to elude her captors and escape to the surface to rescue Artemis. But before Holly and Artemis can get away, Opal arrives and abducts them both, forcing Artemis to go head to head with an enemy who plans on destroying the fairy world forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8988'),
(9483, 'Artemis Fowl: the opal deception', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has no memory of the fairy people and his dangerous enemy, Opal Koboi escapes from jail and is planning revenge. Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl is back and so is his brilliant and dangerous enemy, Opal Koboi. At the start of the story, Artemis has no memory of the fairy people and has returned to his unlawful ways. In Berlin, he is preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank. He doesn''t know that his old rival, Opal, has escaped from prison by cloning herself. She''s left her double behind in jail and, now free, is exacting her revenge on all those who put here there, including Artemis. Meanwhile in the lower elements, Captain Holly Short of the fairy police is framed for a heinous crime, yet she manages to elude her captors and escape to the surface to rescue Artemis. But before Holly and Artemis can get away, Opal arrives and abducts them both, forcing Artemis to go head to head with an enemy who plans on destroying the fairy world forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27807'),
(9484, 'Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Artemis''s mother has contracted a deadly disease--and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of  African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save the lemur. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet: his younger self.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5623'),
(9485, 'Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Artemis''s mother has contracted a deadly disease--and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of  African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save the lemur. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet: his younger self.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8991'),
(9486, 'Artemis Fowl: the time paradox', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Artemis''s mother has contracted a deadly disease--and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save the lemur. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet: his younger self.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19006');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(9487, 'Artemis Fowl: the time paradox', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Artemis''s mother has contracted a deadly disease--and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of  African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save the lemur. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet: his younger self.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27806'),
(9488, 'Arthas: Rise of the Lich King', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frostmourne.It was caught in a hovering, jagged chunk of ice, the runes that ran the length of its blade glowing a cool blue. Below it was a dais of some sort, standing on a large gently raised mound that was covered in a dusting of snow. A soft light, coming from somewhere high above where the cavern was open to daylight, shone down on the runeblade. The icy prison hid some details of the sword''s shape and form, exaggerated others. It was revealed and concealed at the same time, and all the more tempting, like a new lover imperfectly glimpsed through a gauzy curtain. Arthas knew the blade -- it was the selfsame sword he had seen in his dream when he first arrived. The sword that had not killed Invincible, but that had brought him back healed and healthy. He''d thought it a good omen then, but now he knew it was a true sign. This was what he had come to find. This sword would change everything. Arthas stared raptly at it, his hands almost physically aching to grasp it, his fingers to wrap themselves around the hilt, his arms to feel the weapon swinging smoothly in the blow that would end Mal''Ganis, end the torment he had visited upon the people of Lordaeron, end this lust for revenge. Drawn, he stepped forward.The uncanny elemental spirit drew its icy sword. "Turn away, before it is too late," it intoned.* * *His evil is legend. Lord of the undead Scourge, wielder of the runeblade Frostmourne, and enemy of the free peoples of Azeroth. The Lich King is an entity of incalculable power and unparalleled malice -- his icy soul utterly consumed by his plans to destroy all life on the World of Warcraft.But it was not always so. Long before his soul was fused with that of the orc shaman Ner''zhul, the Lich King was Arthas Menethil, crown prince of Lordaeron and faithful paladin of the Silver Hand.When a plague of undeath threatened all that he loved, Arthas was driven to pursue an ill-fated quest for a runeblade powerful enough to save his homeland. Yet the object of his search would exact a heavy price from its new master, beginning a horrifying descent into damnation. Arthas''s path would lead him through the arctic northern wastes toward the Frozen Throne, where he would face, at long last, the darkest of destinies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6752'),
(9489, 'Arthas: Rise of the Lich King', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frostmourne.It was caught in a hovering, jagged chunk of ice, the runes that ran the length of its blade glowing a cool blue. Below it was a dais of some sort, standing on a large gently raised mound that was covered in a dusting of snow. A soft light, coming from somewhere high above where the cavern was open to daylight, shone down on the runeblade. The icy prison hid some details of the sword''s shape and form, exaggerated others. It was revealed and concealed at the same time, and all the more tempting, like a new lover imperfectly glimpsed through a gauzy curtain. Arthas knew the blade -- it was the selfsame sword he had seen in his dream when he first arrived. The sword that had not killed Invincible, but that had brought him back healed and healthy. He''d thought it a good omen then, but now he knew it was a true sign. This was what he had come to find. This sword would change everything. Arthas stared raptly at it, his hands almost physically aching to grasp it, his fingers to wrap themselves around the hilt, his arms to feel the weapon swinging smoothly in the blow that would end Mal''Ganis, end the torment he had visited upon the people of Lordaeron, end this lust for revenge. Drawn, he stepped forward.The uncanny elemental spirit drew its icy sword. "Turn away, before it is too late," it intoned.* * *His evil is legend. Lord of the undead Scourge, wielder of the runeblade Frostmourne, and enemy of the free peoples of Azeroth. The Lich King is an entity of incalculable power and unparalleled malice -- his icy soul utterly consumed by his plans to destroy all life on the World of Warcraft.But it was not always so. Long before his soul was fused with that of the orc shaman Ner''zhul, the Lich King was Arthas Menethil, crown prince of Lordaeron and faithful paladin of the Silver Hand.When a plague of undeath threatened all that he loved, Arthas was driven to pursue an ill-fated quest for a runeblade powerful enough to save his homeland. Yet the object of his search would exact a heavy price from its new master, beginning a horrifying descent into damnation. Arthas''s path would lead him through the arctic northern wastes toward the Frozen Throne, where he would face, at long last, the darkest of destinies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9958'),
(9490, 'Arthas: Rise of the Lich King', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Frostmourne.It was caught in a hovering, jagged chunk of ice, the runes that ran the length of its blade glowing a cool blue. Below it was a dais of some sort, standing on a large gently raised mound that was covered in a dusting of snow. A soft light, coming from somewhere high above where the cavern was open to daylight, shone down on the runeblade. The icy prison hid some details of the sword''s shape and form, exaggerated others. It was revealed and concealed at the same time, and all the more tempting, like a new lover imperfectly glimpsed through a gauzy curtain. Arthas knew the blade -- it was the selfsame sword he had seen in his dream when he first arrived. The sword that had not killed Invincible, but that had brought him back healed and healthy. He''d thought it a good omen then, but now he knew it was a true sign. This was what he had come to find. This sword would change everything. Arthas stared raptly at it, his hands almost physically aching to grasp it, his fingers to wrap themselves around the hilt, his arms to feel the weapon swinging smoothly in the blow that would end Mal''Ganis, end the torment he had visited upon the people of Lordaeron, end this lust for revenge. Drawn, he stepped forward.The uncanny elemental spirit drew its icy sword. "Turn away, before it is too late," it intoned.* * *His evil is legend. Lord of the undead Scourge, wielder of the runeblade Frostmourne, and enemy of the free peoples of Azeroth. The Lich King is an entity of incalculable power and unparalleled malice -- his icy soul utterly consumed by his plans to destroy all life on the World of Warcraft.But it was not always so. Long before his soul was fused with that of the orc shaman Ner''zhul, the Lich King was Arthas Menethil, crown prince of Lordaeron and faithful paladin of the Silver Hand.When a plague of undeath threatened all that he loved, Arthas was driven to pursue an ill-fated quest for a runeblade powerful enough to save his homeland. Yet the object of his search would exact a heavy price from its new master, beginning a horrifying descent into damnation. Arthas''s path would lead him through the arctic northern wastes toward the Frozen Throne, where he would face, at long last, the darkest of destinies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18088'),
(9491, 'Arthur &amp; George', 'Julian Barnes &amp; Nigel Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From one of Englandâ€™s most esteemed novelists, an utter astonishment that captures an era through one life celebrated internationally and another entirely forgotten.In the vast expanse of late-Victorian Britain, two boys come to life: George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, in shabby genteel Edinburgh, both of them feeling at once near to and impossibly distant from the beating heart of Empire. One falls prey to a series of pranks en route to a legal vocation, while the other studies medicine before discovering a different calling entirely, and it is years before their destinies are entwined in a mesmerizing alliance. We follow each through outrageous accusation and unrivaled success, through faith and perseverance and dogged self-recrimination, whether in the dock awaiting complete disgrace or at the height of fame while desperately in love with a woman not his wife, and gradually realize that George is half-Indian and that Arthur becomes the creator of the worldâ€™s most famous detective. Ranging from London clubs to teeming prisons, from a lost century to the modern age, this novel is a panoramic revelation of things we thought we knew or else had no clue of, as well as a gripping exploration of what goals drive us toward whatever lies in waitâ€“an experience resounding with issues, no less relevant today, of crime and spirituality; of identity and nationality; of what we think, what we believe and what we can prove.Intriguing, relentless and, most of all, moving, Arthur &amp; George richly extends the reach and achievement of a novelist described by the Philadelphia Inquirer as â€œa dazzling mind in mercurial flight.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8142'),
(9492, 'Arthurian Saga 01 - The Crystal Cave', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13774'),
(9493, 'Arthurian Saga 01 - The Crystal Cave', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21836'),
(9494, 'Arthurian Saga 02 - The Hollow Hills', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13750'),
(9495, 'Arthurian Saga 02 - The Hollow Hills', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21835'),
(9496, 'Arthurian Saga 03 - The Last Enchantment', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13620'),
(9497, 'Arthurian Saga 03 - The Last Enchantment', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21834'),
(9498, 'Arthurian Saga 04 - The Wicked Day', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13758'),
(9499, 'Arthurian Saga 04 - The Wicked Day', 'Mary Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21833'),
(9500, 'Articles of the Federation', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the wake of the events of "Star Trek: Titan", in Book One: "Taking Wings", relations between the Federation, The Klingon Empire and the Romulans remain fragile. Refugees are requesting asylum within the Federation, requiring delicate negotiations whose outcome could prove as deadly as any starship combat. As public opinion about the continued tenability of the Federation/Klingon alliance goes south, Federation councillors unhappy with the solution brokered by Captain. Will Riker in Titan begin power plays of their own against the fledgling Bacco administration.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keith R.A. Decandido is a top genre author whose tie-in novels for Pocket include several Star Trek titles across all series as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelizations. He is also known for his Star Trek: The Next Generation comicbook miniseries Perchance to Dream, and is the editor of several science-fiction and fantasy anthologies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3845'),
(9501, 'Articles of the Federation', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the wake of the events of "Star Trek: Titan", in Book One: "Taking Wings", relations between the Federation, The Klingon Empire and the Romulans remain fragile. Refugees are requesting asylum within the Federation, requiring delicate negotiations whose outcome could prove as deadly as any starship combat. As public opinion about the continued tenability of the Federation/Klingon alliance goes south, Federation councillors unhappy with the solution brokered by Captain. Will Riker in Titan begin power plays of their own against the fledgling Bacco administration.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keith R.A. Decandido is a top genre author whose tie-in novels for Pocket include several Star Trek titles across all series as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelizations. He is also known for his Star Trek: The Next Generation comicbook miniseries Perchance to Dream, and is the editor of several science-fiction and fantasy anthologies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20710'),
(9502, 'An Artificial Night', 'Seanan McGuire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Experience the thrill of the hunt in the third October Daye urban fantasy novel. October "Toby" Daye is a changeling-half human and half fae-and the only one who has earned knighthood. Now she must take on a nightmarish new challenge. Someone is stealing the children of the fae as well as mortal children, and all signs point to Blind Michael. Toby has no choice but to track the villain down-even when there are only three magical roads by which to reach Blind Michael''s realm, home of the Wild Hunt-and no road may be taken more than once. If Toby cannot escape with the children, she will fall prey to the Wild Hunt and Blind Michael''s inescapable power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1360'),
(9503, 'An Artificial Night', 'Seanan McGuire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Experience the thrill of the hunt in the third October Daye urban fantasy novel. October "Toby" Daye is a changeling-half human and half fae-and the only one who has earned knighthood. Now she must take on a nightmarish new challenge. Someone is stealing the children of the fae as well as mortal children, and all signs point to Blind Michael. Toby has no choice but to track the villain down-even when there are only three magical roads by which to reach Blind Michael''s realm, home of the Wild Hunt-and no road may be taken more than once. If Toby cannot escape with the children, she will fall prey to the Wild Hunt and Blind Michael''s inescapable power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11361'),
(9504, 'An Artificial Night', 'Seanan McGuire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Experience the thrill of the hunt in the third October Daye urban fantasy novel. October "Toby" Daye is a changeling-half human and half fae-and the only one who has earned knighthood. Now she must take on a nightmarish new challenge. Someone is stealing the children of the fae as well as mortal children, and all signs point to Blind Michael. Toby has no choice but to track the villain down-even when there are only three magical roads by which to reach Blind Michael''s realm, home of the Wild Hunt-and no road may be taken more than once. If Toby cannot escape with the children, she will fall prey to the Wild Hunt and Blind Michael''s inescapable power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23597'),
(9505, 'Artificii', 'Jorge Luis Borges', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25470'),
(9506, 'An Artist of the Floating World', 'Kazuo Ishiguro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  An Artist of the Floating World\n </em>\n , Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the night life who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war. But the war is over. Japan lost, Ono''s wife and son have been killed, and many young people blame the imperialists for leading the country to disaster. What''s left for Ono? Ishiguro''s treatment of this story earned a 1986 Whitbread Prize.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like figures on a Japanese screen, the painter Masuji Ono and his daughters Setsuko and Noriko are fixed in the formal attitudes that even their private conversations reflect. In the postwar 1940, the father is a relic of traditional Japan, of teahouses, geishas and patterned gardens not yet destroyed by industry and Westernized thinking. He is unable to communicate with his daughters, unsure of the propriety of his wartime nationalism yet unwilling to exchange it for what seem to him doubtful modern values. His thoughts turn to the optimism of his student days, to uncertainties and disappointments that were mitigated by his sense of a prevailing order, now nowhere apparent. He cannot fathom why his daughters treat him with a disdain that approaches rudeness, why they imply that he and his kind were responsible for the war that killed so many sons, his own among them. And so, despite the rigidity of Ishiguro''s prosewhich matches Ono''s inflexibilitythe once famous artist gathers pathos as he moves through the pages of a novel that is both a reminder and a warning. Ishiguro wote A Pale View of Hills.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20121'),
(9507, 'Artists in crime', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One of Ngaio Marsh''s most famous murder mysteries, which introduces Inspector Alleyn to his future wife, the irrepressible Agatha Troy.  It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the model''s pose chalked in place. But before Agatha Troy, artist and instructor, returns to the class, the pose has been re-enacted in earnest: the model is dead, fixed for ever in one of the most dramatic poses Troy has ever seen.  It''s a difficult case for Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn. How can he believe that the woman he loves is a murderess? And yet no one can be above suspicion...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25299'),
(9508, 'As Dog Is My Witness Another Aaron Tucker Mystery', 'Jeffrey Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this, the third Aaron Tucker mystery, Aaron, fresh from a trip to Hollywood to "take meetings" on his screenplay, finds himself dragged kicking and screaming once again into investigating a murder, this time of a man in a nearby town shot while walking his dog at night. The young man accused of the crime has Aspergerâ€™s Syndrome, the same autism-related disorder that Aaron''s son Ethan has had since birth.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Aaron is hip-deep in the investigation when heâ€™s assaulted by visiting Visigothsâ€”-no, wait, that''s just his wife Abby''s brother and his family, come to visit for a week. But then a local mobster becomes aware of Aaron''s poking around in the killing, and wants him to stop. It''s going to be an especially interesting holiday season for New Jersey''s funniest height-challenged amateur sleuth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4553'),
(9509, 'As Dog Is My Witness Another Aaron Tucker Mystery', 'Jeffrey Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this, the third Aaron Tucker mystery, Aaron, fresh from a trip to Hollywood to "take meetings" on his screenplay, finds himself dragged kicking and screaming once again into investigating a murder, this time of a man in a nearby town shot while walking his dog at night. The young man accused of the crime has Aspergerâ€™s Syndrome, the same autism-related disorder that Aaron''s son Ethan has had since birth.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Aaron is hip-deep in the investigation when heâ€™s assaulted by visiting Visigothsâ€”-no, wait, that''s just his wife Abby''s brother and his family, come to visit for a week. But then a local mobster becomes aware of Aaron''s poking around in the killing, and wants him to stop. It''s going to be an especially interesting holiday season for New Jersey''s funniest height-challenged amateur sleuth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9021'),
(9510, 'As She Climbed Across the Table', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Particle physics, false vacuum bubbles, an alternate universe--this is the stuff of Jonathan Lethem''s novel\n <em>\n  As She Climbed Across the Table\n </em>\n . The tale echoes __ in its mad tumble through a rearranged reality. Narrator Phillip Engstrand is a university professor who has made a career out of studying academic environments. Engstrand is in love with Alice Coombs, a particle physicist engaged in a bold attempt to replicate the origins of the universe. The result of the experiment is Lack, a very selective black hole that sucks some things into its void--a cat, a pair of socks, a strawberry--and rejects others, namely, a love-struck Alice. As Alice''s unrequited obsession with Lack grows, Phillip becomes so desperate to save his beloved from this empty rival that he risks a journey down the metaphysical rabbit hole.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here the language of physics becomes the language of love: describing physics'' "observer problem," Alice says, "Some people think the observer''s consciousness determines the spin or even the existence of the electron." Later, as he stumbles to explain Alice''s importance to him, Phillip tells her, "I''m not sure I really exist except under your observation." In this memorable little book, Lethem explores the cosmic possibilities of love.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this witty but telling new work from the author of The Wall of Sky, the Wall of Eye (LJ 8/96), our hapless narrator has completed his dissertation on "Theory as Neurosis in the Professional Scientist" and landed a job at the University of North California at Beauchamp (pronouced beach ''em), where he studies academic envirorments, producing "strong but irrelevant work" and falling for physics professor Alice. But Alice is too caught up in Professor Soft''s notorious experiment with a vacuum intelligence called Lack to pay her lover much heed, and soon Lack is the real love of her life. This is not your typically insular campus comedy; Lethem has something bigger in mind, and he succeeds admirably in skewering our pretensions, technological or not, in language that gently mocks the way we hide behind jargon. An ironical book that is, ironically, quite poignant; for public and academic libraries.?Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4115'),
(9511, 'As She Climbed Across the Table', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Particle physics, false vacuum bubbles, an alternate universe--this is the stuff of Jonathan Lethem''s novel\n <em>\n  As She Climbed Across the Table\n </em>\n . The tale echoes __ in its mad tumble through a rearranged reality. Narrator Phillip Engstrand is a university professor who has made a career out of studying academic environments. Engstrand is in love with Alice Coombs, a particle physicist engaged in a bold attempt to replicate the origins of the universe. The result of the experiment is Lack, a very selective black hole that sucks some things into its void--a cat, a pair of socks, a strawberry--and rejects others, namely, a love-struck Alice. As Alice''s unrequited obsession with Lack grows, Phillip becomes so desperate to save his beloved from this empty rival that he risks a journey down the metaphysical rabbit hole.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here the language of physics becomes the language of love: describing physics'' "observer problem," Alice says, "Some people think the observer''s consciousness determines the spin or even the existence of the electron." Later, as he stumbles to explain Alice''s importance to him, Phillip tells her, "I''m not sure I really exist except under your observation." In this memorable little book, Lethem explores the cosmic possibilities of love.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this witty but telling new work from the author of The Wall of Sky, the Wall of Eye (LJ 8/96), our hapless narrator has completed his dissertation on "Theory as Neurosis in the Professional Scientist" and landed a job at the University of North California at Beauchamp (pronouced beach ''em), where he studies academic envirorments, producing "strong but irrelevant work" and falling for physics professor Alice. But Alice is too caught up in Professor Soft''s notorious experiment with a vacuum intelligence called Lack to pay her lover much heed, and soon Lack is the real love of her life. This is not your typically insular campus comedy; Lethem has something bigger in mind, and he succeeds admirably in skewering our pretensions, technological or not, in language that gently mocks the way we hide behind jargon. An ironical book that is, ironically, quite poignant; for public and academic libraries.?Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11121'),
(9512, 'As She Climbed Across the Table', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Particle physics, false vacuum bubbles, an alternate universe--this is the stuff of Jonathan Lethem''s novel\n <em>\n  As She Climbed Across the Table\n </em>\n . The tale echoes __ in its mad tumble through a rearranged reality. Narrator Phillip Engstrand is a university professor who has made a career out of studying academic environments. Engstrand is in love with Alice Coombs, a particle physicist engaged in a bold attempt to replicate the origins of the universe. The result of the experiment is Lack, a very selective black hole that sucks some things into its void--a cat, a pair of socks, a strawberry--and rejects others, namely, a love-struck Alice. As Alice''s unrequited obsession with Lack grows, Phillip becomes so desperate to save his beloved from this empty rival that he risks a journey down the metaphysical rabbit hole.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here the language of physics becomes the language of love: describing physics'' "observer problem," Alice says, "Some people think the observer''s consciousness determines the spin or even the existence of the electron." Later, as he stumbles to explain Alice''s importance to him, Phillip tells her, "I''m not sure I really exist except under your observation." In this memorable little book, Lethem explores the cosmic possibilities of love.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this witty but telling new work from the author of The Wall of Sky, the Wall of Eye (LJ 8/96), our hapless narrator has completed his dissertation on "Theory as Neurosis in the Professional Scientist" and landed a job at the University of North California at Beauchamp (pronouced beach ''em), where he studies academic envirorments, producing "strong but irrelevant work" and falling for physics professor Alice. But Alice is too caught up in Professor Soft''s notorious experiment with a vacuum intelligence called Lack to pay her lover much heed, and soon Lack is the real love of her life. This is not your typically insular campus comedy; Lethem has something bigger in mind, and he succeeds admirably in skewering our pretensions, technological or not, in language that gently mocks the way we hide behind jargon. An ironical book that is, ironically, quite poignant; for public and academic libraries.?Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20399'),
(9513, 'As We Know It Life', 'Ben Bova - Life As We Know It', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15591'),
(9514, 'Ascending', 'James Alan Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oar is the last of her kind -- a resident of the so-called "planet of no return," once the Admiralty''s dumping ground for undesirables and those who had become expendable. Oar''s transparent body is indestructible. Yet the mind it houses grows weary and will soon surrender to the catatonic torpor that has already claimed the others of her genetically altered human race. But Oar cannot sleep, not yet. There are powerful forces seeking her destruction for reasons unknown. There are old allies who need her assistance and a true history that must be revealed. There is much Oar must accomplish before the "apathetic hibernation" overcomes her, though time is decidedly her enemy. Together with her friend, Admiral Festina Ramos, she must find her final destiny ... and in a vast and volatile universe, destiny is never a sure thing.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Alan Gardner is a graduate of the Clarion West Fiction Writers Workshop, and has published numerous works of short fiction in leading genre publications. He is the author of the novel\n <em>\n  Expendable\n </em>\n . A Grand Prize winner of the Writers of the Future contest, he lives with his family in Canada.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4815'),
(9515, 'Ascending', 'James Alan Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oar is the last of her kind -- a resident of the so-called "planet of no return," once the Admiralty''s dumping ground for undesirables and those who had become expendable. Oar''s transparent body is indestructible. Yet the mind it houses grows weary and will soon surrender to the catatonic torpor that has already claimed the others of her genetically altered human race. But Oar cannot sleep, not yet. There are powerful forces seeking her destruction for reasons unknown. There are old allies who need her assistance and a true history that must be revealed. There is much Oar must accomplish before the "apathetic hibernation" overcomes her, though time is decidedly her enemy. Together with her friend, Admiral Festina Ramos, she must find her final destiny ... and in a vast and volatile universe, destiny is never a sure thing.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Alan Gardner is a graduate of the Clarion West Fiction Writers Workshop, and has published numerous works of short fiction in leading genre publications. He is the author of the novel\n <em>\n  Expendable\n </em>\n . A Grand Prize winner of the Writers of the Future contest, he lives with his family in Canada.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9944'),
(9516, 'Ascending', 'James Alan Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oar is the last of her kind -- a resident of the so-called "planet of no return," once the Admiralty''s dumping ground for undesirables and those who had become expendable. Oar''s transparent body is indestructible. Yet the mind it houses grows weary and will soon surrender to the catatonic torpor that has already claimed the others of her genetically altered human race. But Oar cannot sleep, not yet. There are powerful forces seeking her destruction for reasons unknown. There are old allies who need her assistance and a true history that must be revealed. There is much Oar must accomplish before the "apathetic hibernation" overcomes her, though time is decidedly her enemy. Together with her friend, Admiral Festina Ramos, she must find her final destiny ... and in a vast and volatile universe, destiny is never a sure thing.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Alan Gardner is a graduate of the Clarion West Fiction Writers Workshop, and has published numerous works of short fiction in leading genre publications. He is the author of the novel\n <em>\n  Expendable\n </em>\n . A Grand Prize winner of the Writers of the Future contest, he lives with his family in Canada.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19760'),
(9517, 'The Ascension: A Novel', 'Michael &amp; G. Cornelius', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE ASCENSION BEGINS. A Catholic bishop. A Quaker prayer leader. A Methodist minister. A Mormon ward leader. An entire congregation of Seventh Day Adventists. What do they have in common? They all minister to people''s spiritual needs. And someone-or something-is ripping them to shreds for it. A BLOODY WARNING. Police detective Caldwell "Cal" Evans, still three weeks shy of completing rehab, is called in on the case. His only clue is a chilling message written in blood at the first murder scene: "Leave the Christ alone. He does not belong to you." THE SERPENT SHALL REIGN. With bodies piling up, Cal and his partner, Velvet Rabinowitz, chase leads involving snake-handling cults, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and an ancient ceremony left unfinished for two thousand years. With the help of a graduate student and an enigmatic Roman Catholic priest, the two detectives do more than fight for their lives. .THEY FIGHT FOR US ALL.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2854'),
(9518, 'The Ascension: A Novel', 'Michael; G. Cornelius', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE ASCENSION BEGINS. A Catholic bishop. A Quaker prayer leader. A Methodist minister. A Mormon ward leader. An entire congregation of Seventh Day Adventists. What do they have in common? They all minister to people''s spiritual needs. And someone-or something-is ripping them to shreds for it. A BLOODY WARNING. Police detective Caldwell "Cal" Evans, still three weeks shy of completing rehab, is called in on the case. His only clue is a chilling message written in blood at the first murder scene: "Leave the Christ alone. He does not belong to you." THE SERPENT SHALL REIGN. With bodies piling up, Cal and his partner, Velvet Rabinowitz, chase leads involving snake-handling cults, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and an ancient ceremony left unfinished for two thousand years. With the help of a graduate student and an enigmatic Roman Catholic priest, the two detectives do more than fight for their lives. .THEY FIGHT FOR US ALL.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22012'),
(9519, 'The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.  Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, itas the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, itas the chains of labor. But in "The Ascent of Money," Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. Whatas more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.  Through Fergusonas expert lens familiar historical landmarks appear in a new and sharper financial focus. Suddenly, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the worldas first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. And the origins of the French Revolution are traced back to a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scot murderer.  With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? Whatas the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do?  This is history for the present. Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market canat provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis. Perhaps most important, "The Ascent of Money" documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the worldas biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generationaan economic transformation unprecedented in human history.  Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble burstsasooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. And thatas why, whether youare scraping by or rolling in it, thereas never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2569'),
(9520, 'The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.  Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, itas the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, itas the chains of labor. But in "The Ascent of Money," Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. Whatas more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.  Through Fergusonas expert lens familiar historical landmarks appear in a new and sharper financial focus. Suddenly, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the worldas first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. And the origins of the French Revolution are traced back to a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scot murderer.  With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? Whatas the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do?  This is history for the present. Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market canat provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis. Perhaps most important, "The Ascent of Money" documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the worldas biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generationaan economic transformation unprecedented in human history.  Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble burstsasooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. And thatas why, whether youare scraping by or rolling in it, thereas never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9612'),
(9521, 'The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, itas the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, itas the chains of labor. But in "The Ascent of Money," Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. Whatas more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history. Through Fergusonas expert lens familiar historical landmarks appear in a new and sharper financial focus. Suddenly, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the worldas first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. And the origins of the French Revolution are traced back to a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scot murderer. With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? Whatas the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do? This is history for the present. Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market canat provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis. Perhaps most important, "The Ascent of Money" documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the worldas biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generationaan economic transformation unprecedented in human history. Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble burstsasooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. And thatas why, whether youare scraping by or rolling in it, thereas never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15150'),
(9522, 'The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.  Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, itas the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, itas the chains of labor. But in "The Ascent of Money," Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. Whatas more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.  Through Fergusonas expert lens familiar historical landmarks appear in a new and sharper financial focus. Suddenly, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the worldas first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. And the origins of the French Revolution are traced back to a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scot murderer.  With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? Whatas the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do?  This is history for the present. Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market canat provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis. Perhaps most important, "The Ascent of Money" documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the worldas biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generationaan economic transformation unprecedented in human history.  Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble burstsasooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. And thatas why, whether youare scraping by or rolling in it, thereas never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22218'),
(9523, 'Ashes and Bones: An Emma Fielding Mystery', 'Dana Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Just when everything is going beautifully for archaeologist Emma Fielding -- a position at a respected university, a beautiful home in New England, and the warm love of a devoted husband -- her world starts to crumble. What begins as a series of seemingly innocent gestures -- the anonymous delivery of gifts and flowers to Emma''s family and friends -- soon progresses to secret, sadistic acts designed to destroy her reputation, her character, and her career.   Someone has instituted a brilliantly insidious campaign of personal terror against Emma Fielding, and she is certain she knows who it is: a cunning and dangerous enemy whom everyone but she believes is dead. But with no proof, no clues, and no allies, Emma will have to fight alone in the dark to rescue a life being rapidly reduced to ashes . . . if she can survive long enough to do so.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6502'),
(9524, 'Ashes and Bones: An Emma Fielding Mystery', 'Dana Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Just when everything is going beautifully for archaeologist Emma Fielding -- a position at a respected university, a beautiful home in New England, and the warm love of a devoted husband -- her world starts to crumble. What begins as a series of seemingly innocent gestures -- the anonymous delivery of gifts and flowers to Emma''s family and friends -- soon progresses to secret, sadistic acts designed to destroy her reputation, her character, and her career.   Someone has instituted a brilliantly insidious campaign of personal terror against Emma Fielding, and she is certain she knows who it is: a cunning and dangerous enemy whom everyone but she believes is dead. But with no proof, no clues, and no allies, Emma will have to fight alone in the dark to rescue a life being rapidly reduced to ashes . . . if she can survive long enough to do so.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8842'),
(9525, 'Ashes and Bones: An Emma Fielding Mystery', 'Dana Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Just when everything is going beautifully for archaeologist Emma Fielding -- a position at a respected university, a beautiful home in New England, and the warm love of a devoted husband -- her world starts to crumble. What begins as a series of seemingly innocent gestures -- the anonymous delivery of gifts and flowers to Emma''s family and friends -- soon progresses to secret, sadistic acts designed to destroy her reputation, her character, and her career.   Someone has instituted a brilliantly insidious campaign of personal terror against Emma Fielding, and she is certain she knows who it is: a cunning and dangerous enemy whom everyone but she believes is dead. But with no proof, no clues, and no allies, Emma will have to fight alone in the dark to rescue a life being rapidly reduced to ashes . . . if she can survive long enough to do so.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17561'),
(9526, 'Ashes and Bones: An Emma Fielding Mystery', 'Dana Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Just when everything is going beautifully for archaeologist Emma Fielding -- a position at a respected university, a beautiful home in New England, and the warm love of a devoted husband -- her world starts to crumble. What begins as a series of seemingly innocent gestures -- the anonymous delivery of gifts and flowers to Emma''s family and friends -- soon progresses to secret, sadistic acts designed to destroy her reputation, her character, and her career. Someone has instituted a brilliantly insidious campaign of personal terror against Emma Fielding, and she is certain she knows who it is: a cunning and dangerous enemy whom everyone but she believes is dead. But with no proof, no clues, and no allies, Emma will have to fight alone in the dark to rescue a life being rapidly reduced to ashes . . . if she can survive long enough to do so.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27149');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(9527, 'The Ashes of Worlds', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against each other. Heroes rise and enemies make their last stands in the climax of an epic tale seven years in the making.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Acclaim for The Saga of Seven Suns\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Anderson weaves action, romance, and science with a rousing plot reflecting the classic SF of Clarke and Herbert and the glossy cinematic influence of Lucas and Spielberg." ---\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kevin Anderson has created a fully independent and richly conceived venue for his personal brand of space opera, a venue that nonetheless raises fruitful resonances with Frank Herbert''s classic\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  series." --- Scifi.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Everything about Anderson''s latest is BIG-the war, the history, the aliens. These are elemental forces battling here, folks. Yet the characters are always the heart of the story, and their defeats and triumphs give perspective to it all." ---\n  <em>\n   Starlog\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A soaring epic . . . a space opera to rival the best the field has ever seen." ---\n  <em>\n   Science Fiction Chronicle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Colorful stuff . . . bursting with incidents, concepts, and a massive cast of characters, matching well-thought-out SF ideas with melodrama and interfamily strife." ---\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kevin J. Anderson has written 46 national bestsellers and has over 20 million books in print worldwide in thirty languages. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers'' Choice Award. Find out more about Kevin Anderson at www.wordfire.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3744'),
(9528, 'The Ashes of Worlds', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against each other. Heroes rise and enemies make their last stands in the climax of an epic tale seven years in the making.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Acclaim for The Saga of Seven Suns\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Anderson weaves action, romance, and science with a rousing plot reflecting the classic SF of Clarke and Herbert and the glossy cinematic influence of Lucas and Spielberg." ---\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kevin Anderson has created a fully independent and richly conceived venue for his personal brand of space opera, a venue that nonetheless raises fruitful resonances with Frank Herbert''s classic\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  series." --- Scifi.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Everything about Anderson''s latest is BIG-the war, the history, the aliens. These are elemental forces battling here, folks. Yet the characters are always the heart of the story, and their defeats and triumphs give perspective to it all." ---\n  <em>\n   Starlog\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A soaring epic . . . a space opera to rival the best the field has ever seen." ---\n  <em>\n   Science Fiction Chronicle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Colorful stuff . . . bursting with incidents, concepts, and a massive cast of characters, matching well-thought-out SF ideas with melodrama and interfamily strife." ---\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kevin J. Anderson has written 46 national bestsellers and has over 20 million books in print worldwide in thirty languages. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers'' Choice Award. Find out more about Kevin Anderson at www.wordfire.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8210'),
(9529, 'The Ashes of Worlds', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against each other. Heroes rise and enemies make their last stands in the climax of an epic tale seven years in the making.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Acclaim for The Saga of Seven Suns\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Anderson weaves action, romance, and science with a rousing plot reflecting the classic SF of Clarke and Herbert and the glossy cinematic influence of Lucas and Spielberg." ---\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kevin Anderson has created a fully independent and richly conceived venue for his personal brand of space opera, a venue that nonetheless raises fruitful resonances with Frank Herbert''s classic\n  <em>\n   Dune\n  </em>\n  series." --- Scifi.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Everything about Anderson''s latest is BIG-the war, the history, the aliens. These are elemental forces battling here, folks. Yet the characters are always the heart of the story, and their defeats and triumphs give perspective to it all." ---\n  <em>\n   Starlog\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A soaring epic . . . a space opera to rival the best the field has ever seen." ---\n  <em>\n   Science Fiction Chronicle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Colorful stuff . . . bursting with incidents, concepts, and a massive cast of characters, matching well-thought-out SF ideas with melodrama and interfamily strife." ---\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kevin J. Anderson has written 46 national bestsellers and has over 20 million books in print worldwide in thirty languages. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers'' Choice Award. Find out more about Kevin Anderson at www.wordfire.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20793'),
(9530, 'Asimov&#39;s Chimera: The New Isaac Asimov&#39;s Robot Mystery', 'Mark W. Tiedmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Coren Lanra is the head of security for DyNan Manual Industries. A former Special Service agent, he''s never cared for bureaucracy, piracy, or deception. Lanra''s troubles begin when Nyom Looms, daughter of DyNan president Rega Looms, is murdered during an ill-fated mission to smuggle illegal immigrants from Earth to the colony Nova Levis. The question is, why? The only clue might be contained within the positronic brain of a robot that had accompanied the victim, but it has been deactivated, and Lanra is denied access to its memories. With the help of roboticist Derec Avery and Auroran ambassador Ariel Burgess, Lanra searches for the identity of a killer, before more lives are lost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25391'),
(9531, 'Asimov&#39;s Mirage: The New Isaac Asimov&#39;s Robot Mystery', 'Mark W. Tiedmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The First Law of Robotics states that a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human to come to harm. At a crucial conference uniting the Spacers, the Settlers, and representatives of Earth, Senator Clar Eliton of Earth and Senior Space Ambassador Galiel Humadros of Aurora are advocating the restoration of positronic robots on Earth, repudiating years of fear and resentment. As the Spacer delegates arrive on Earth, conspirators assassinate Sentor Eliton and Ambassador Humadros. Derec Avery is called in to investigate what may have caused the robot bodyguards to fail at the most critical hour. But when his inquiries are stone-walled, he joins forces with Special Agent Mia Daventri and Calvin Instititute attache Ariel Burgess to penetrate a vast conspiracy that threatens to bring all three worlds to the brink of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25392'),
(9532, 'Asimov&#39;s Mysteries', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thirteen short science-fiction mysteries by the acclaimed science writer are presented together with commentary\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18285'),
(9533, 'Asimov&#39;s Mysteries', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thirteen short science-fiction mysteries by the acclaimed science writer are presented together with commentary\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28259'),
(9534, 'Asimov&#39;s Science Fiction', 'Penny Publications', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25242'),
(9535, 'Ask the Parrot', 'Richard Stark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fleeing the authorities after a diastrous bank heist, Parker is rescued from the law enforcement pursuit by Tom Lindahl, an angry recluse and one-time whistleblower tossed aside by the corrupt political establishment, who has a daring scheme to seek revenge and a plan to use Parker to accomplish his goal. By the author of Nobody Runs Forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1871'),
(9536, 'Ask the Parrot', 'Richard Stark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fleeing the authorities after a diastrous bank heist, Parker is rescued from the law enforcement pursuit by Tom Lindahl, an angry recluse and one-time whistleblower tossed aside by the corrupt political establishment, who has a daring scheme to seek revenge and a plan to use Parker to accomplish his goal. By the author of Nobody Runs Forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12808'),
(9537, 'The Ask', 'Sam Lipsyte', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Milo Burke, a development officer at a third-tier university, has Â“not been developingâ€: after a run-in with a well-connected undergrad, he finds himself among the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is offered one last chance by his former employer: he must reel in a potential donorÂ—a major Â“askâ€Â—who, mysteriously, has requested Miloâ€™s involvement. But it turns out that the ask is Miloâ€™s sinister college classmate Purdy Stuart. And the Â“giveâ€ wonâ€™t come cheap. Probing many themesÂ— or, perhaps, anxietiesÂ—including work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and the eroticization of chicken wire, *The Ask *is a burst of genius by a young American master who has already demonstrated that the truly provocative and important fictions are often the funniest ones.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“**If youâ€™ve heard anything about Sam Lipsyte, youâ€™ve probably heard that heâ€™s funny. Scabrously, deliriously, piss-yourself funny** (his characters would no doubt find a dirtier, and funnier, way of putting it), drawing audible snorts even from the kind of people, such as the people in his novels, who are way too cool to laugh out loud . . . **Lipsyteâ€™s prose arrows fly with gloriously weird spin, tracing punch-drunk curlicues before hitting their marksÂ—or landing in some weird alternate**.â€ **Â—**Jennifer Schuessler, *The New York Review of Books*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“**Lipsyte shakes his comic cocktail of sarcasm and bitter impotence to eloquent effect**: briefcases on wheels are Â“luggage for people not going anywhere,â€ and a Manhattan salad bar consists of Â“go-goo for the regular folk, these lumpy lumpen lunches.â€ **Milo**** is repulsive, hilarious, and devastatingly self-aware, but it is his country that is Lipsyteâ€™s real subject**.â€** Â Â Â Â Â Â—***The New Yorker*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“**So letâ€™s read Lipsyte and rejoice; letâ€™s celebrate the laugh-producing Milo Burkes who are all too rarely brought to us by brave and bitter menÂ—letâ€™s celebrate the canny, well-educated yet perpetually failing furtive Internet onanists, the dark, half-crippled, doughnut-gobbling man-apes of the literary world, who cast their lumpen shadows across the rest of us.** These are the kind of unlikeable, lovable protagonists we miss; these are the self-loathing, mediocre secret geniuses who can set our people free.â€ **Â—**Lydia Millet,** ***The New York Times Book Review*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“[*The Ask*] is ****a biting, bilious and often brilliant book**** . . . It started, for me, as a comic, bad-boy outing on Mr. Toad''s Wild Ride. It concludes somewhere much darker and richer than a theme park. Â‘Heavens to Betsy,â€™ I murmured when I finished. Â‘What a book.â€™â€ **Â—**Karen Long,** ***The Plain Dealer*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“Lipsyteâ€™s brand of absurdity is deeply rooted in the now. The recession, text messaging, reality TV*Â—*all are up for grabs. Whatâ€™s particularly effective is Lipsyteâ€™s acerbic yet subtle approach . . . But heâ€™s never simply bitter; one can always sense a yearning in this book, even at its most acidic moments . . . **Precision and painstaking craft have granted Lipsyte complete authority in *The Ask*, his most acidic and empathetic work to date**.â€ *Â—Kimberly King Parsons, Time Out New York *(five stars)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“****Sardonic, brilliant**** . . . Lipsyte skewers everything from precious preschools to academia, displaying an effortless grace and style all his own.â€ **Â—***People *(three-and-a-half stars)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“An **off-kilter and hilarious** novel about work, war, sex, class, childrenÂ—and Benjamin Franklin.â€** Â—***O, The Oprah Magazine*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“The riffs on fatherhood, work, and sex in Sam Lipsyteâ€™s unsparingly comic novel *The Ask* explode like a string of firecrackers**Â—so funny you might lose an eye**.â€ **Â—***Vanity Fair*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“**Itâ€™s customary for radically sardonic, corrosively funny writers to put in time as mere cult icons, but enough already: everybody should read Sam Lipsyte.**â€** Â—***TIME*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“**One of the greatest black-humorists alive, Lipsyte has gone unnoticed for far too long**. With his third novel, about the painfully hilarious adventures of a failed painter in a dead-end job**, he should finally get the acclaim he deserves.â€ Â—***Details*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“**[The] gift is Lipsyteâ€™s writing: a chewy, corrosive, and syntactically dazzling prose style that doesnâ€™t so much run across the page as pick it up and throttle it. A-**â€ **Â—**Leah Greenblatt, *Entertainment Weekly*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“**Acrid, hilarious, and hard to put down**.â€ **Â—**The Must List, *Entertainment Weekly*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Â“*Itâ€™s not easy to write a really funny book about such anxiety-producing topics as love, death, failure and our currently terrifying economy, but thatâ€™s exactly what Sam Lipsyte has accomplished with his terrific new novel, *The Ask . . .* This novel isnâ€™t afraid to show the darker side of life, but while *The Ask* can be **a bone-chilling read, it somehow still makes you laugh out loud.**â€** Â—***The Observerâ€™s *Very Short List\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“If you''re the sort of person who underlines amusing or thought-provoking lines in books, you best gird yourself, as Lipsyte is an inexhaustible fount of eloquent prurience, deftly mingling high- and low-mindedness.â€* Â—Rob Harvilla, Village Voice*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“With this novel, Mr. Lipsyte has proven himself to be one of the most unapologetic voices of contemporary literature. He mines the sexual frustration of Philip Roth, combines it with the paranoia of Don DeLillo and fills the space in between with a cast of characters as absurd and enigmatic as anything in a Thomas Pynchon novel . . . *The Ask* is a hilarious book about failure; a scathing unhappy comedy obsessed with a culture thatâ€™s obsessed with obsessions.â€** Â—**Michael Miller,** ***The New York Observer*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“Thereâ€™s probably not a living American writer who has so comprehensively mined the comic possibilities of that particular anguished, hapless combination of the overeducated and the underachieving as Sam Lipsyte. Against all odds, his heroes refuse to succeed, and they and we are rewarded with the endlessly entertaining spectacle of their nonstop humiliation.â€ **Â—**Jim Shepard, *Bookforum*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Â“***Another savage, hilarious black comedy from Lipsyte** . . . Once again, Lipsyte creates a main character whose **lacerating, hyper-eloquent wit** is directed both outward at the worldÂ—sardonic commentary on parenthood, class privilege, sexuality, the working world, education, ideas of Americanness and much moreÂ—and inward; Milo spares himself no degradation, no self-loathing, nothing. As it goes on one canâ€™t help noticing, beneath the fevered playfulness, a deeply earnest moral vision akin to that of Joseph Heller or Stanley Elkin. **The authorâ€™s most ambitious work yetÂ—a brilliant and scabrously entertaining riff on contemporary America**.â€ **Â—***Kirkus Reviews* (starred review)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Â“Lipsyteâ€™s pitch-black comedy takes aim at marriage, work, parenting, abject failure (the authorâ€™s signature soapbox) and a host of subjects you havenâ€™t figured out how to feel bad about yet.** This latest slice of mucked-up life follows Milo Burke, a washed-up painter living in Astoria, Queens, with his wife and three-year-old son, as heâ€™s jerked in and out of employment at a mediocre university where Milo and his equally jaded cohorts solicit funding from the Â“Asks,â€ or those who financially support the art program. Miloâ€™s latest target is Purdy Stuart, a former classmate turned nouveau aristocrat to whom Milo quickly becomes indentured. Purdy, it turns out, needs Milo to deliver payments to Purdyâ€™s illegitimate son, a veteran of the Iraq War whose titanium legs are fodder for a disgruntlement that makes the chip on Miloâ€™s shoulder a mere speck of dust by comparison. Submission is the order of the day, but where *Home Land* had a working-class trajectory, **this takes its tone of lucid lament to the devastated white-collar sector; in its merciless assault on the duel between privilege and expectation, it arrives at a rare articulation of empire in decline.***â€ ***Â—***Publishers Weekly* (starred review)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Â“**Lipsyteâ€™s third novel, a darkly humorous story of sons and fathers, is both **his most realistic and convulsively hilarious to date **. . . **Lipsyteâ€™s razor-sharp eye filets dying America** (a fractiously culty daycare; a reality cooking show set on death row; the scarified plaguescape of a lonely first generation social networking site), **throwing off brilliant riffs and exhilaratingly steep dives from frontal lobe to perineum, sauced with yummy dollops of white liberal guilt . . . Yet for all his wit, Lipsyteâ€™s narrator is not above it all but deeply, messily down in it**: the casual miracles of parenthood, the deepening thrum of mortality, the grim perdurance of a shaky marriage, Â‘warm with that feeling of wanting a feeling that maybe had already fled.â€™ **Seriously funny, Lipsyte sits alongside such illustrious Daves as Gates, Eggers, and Foster Wallace on the self-conscious shelf, but with a heartfelt brilliance all his own.** **Â—**David Wright,* Booklist *(starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25149'),
(9538, 'Asking for Trouble', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  4 1/2 stars--an October Top Pick! --\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times Bookreviews, October 2006\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers who love a good romantic suspense mixed with some blistering love scenes shouldn''t miss Leslie Kelly''s ASKING FOR TROUBLE! --\n  <em>\n   Romance Reviews Today, October 1, 2006\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It was a dark and sexy night, and she was in Trouble! Trouble, Pennsylvania, that is.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lottie Santori doesn''t realize when she arrives at the mysterious Seaton House that it''s inhabited by Simon Lebeaux, a sinfully sexy recluse. While wildly attracted to the dangerous stranger, she''s also determined to uncover the secrets of his past, and to find out whether Seaton House is merely a dark and dangerous inn on a mountain, or if it truly is inhabited by the ghost of a notorious serial killer...and his victims!\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s gothic romance...Blaze style...and it''s Leslie Kelly at her best!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3438'),
(9539, 'Asking for Trouble', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  4 1/2 stars--an October Top Pick! --\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times Bookreviews, October 2006\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers who love a good romantic suspense mixed with some blistering love scenes shouldn''t miss Leslie Kelly''s ASKING FOR TROUBLE! --\n  <em>\n   Romance Reviews Today, October 1, 2006\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It was a dark and sexy night, and she was in Trouble! Trouble, Pennsylvania, that is.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lottie Santori doesn''t realize when she arrives at the mysterious Seaton House that it''s inhabited by Simon Lebeaux, a sinfully sexy recluse. While wildly attracted to the dangerous stranger, she''s also determined to uncover the secrets of his past, and to find out whether Seaton House is merely a dark and dangerous inn on a mountain, or if it truly is inhabited by the ghost of a notorious serial killer...and his victims!\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s gothic romance...Blaze style...and it''s Leslie Kelly at her best!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21028'),
(9540, 'The Assassin', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A perfectly typed bomb threat makes its way to the Philadelphia Police Department--the calling card of a political assassin on the loose. It couldn''t happen at a worse time, since a rogue cop has brought corruption into the force. The police can''t trust their own people as seconds tick away toward an explosion that could rock the nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/321'),
(9541, 'The Assassin', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A perfectly typed bomb threat makes its way to the Philadelphia Police Department--the calling card of a political assassin on the loose. It couldn''t happen at a worse time, since a rogue cop has brought corruption into the force. The police can''t trust their own people as seconds tick away toward an explosion that could rock the nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10058'),
(9542, 'The assassin', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A perfectly typed bomb threat makes its way to the Philadelphia Police Department--the calling card of a political assassin on the loose. It couldn''t happen at a worse time, since a rogue cop has brought corruption into the force. The police can''t trust their own people as seconds tick away toward an explosion that could rock the nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24570'),
(9543, 'Assassin&#39;s Apprentice', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father''s gruff stableman.  He is treated like an outcast by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has him sectetly tutored in the arts of the assassin.  For in Fitz''s blood runs the magic Skill--and the darker knowledge of a child raised with the stable hounds and rejected by his family.  As barbarous raiders ravage the coasts, Fitz is growing to manhood.  Soon he will face his first dangerous, soul-shattering mission.  And though some regard him as a threat to the throne, he may just be the key to the survival of the kingdom.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7965'),
(9544, 'Assassin&#39;s Apprentice', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father''s gruff stableman.  He is treated like an outcast by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has him sectetly tutored in the arts of the assassin.  For in Fitz''s blood runs the magic Skill--and the darker knowledge of a child raised with the stable hounds and rejected by his family.  As barbarous raiders ravage the coasts, Fitz is growing to manhood.  Soon he will face his first dangerous, soul-shattering mission.  And though some regard him as a threat to the throne, he may just be the key to the survival of the kingdom.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10385'),
(9545, 'Assassin&#39;s Apprentice', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father''s gruff stableman. He is treated like an outcast by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has him sectetly tutored in the arts of the assassin. For in Fitz''s blood runs the magic Skill--and the darker knowledge of a child raised with the stable hounds and rejected by his family. As barbarous raiders ravage the coasts, Fitz is growing to manhood. Soon he will face his first dangerous, soul-shattering mission. And though some regard him as a threat to the throne, he may just be the key to the survival of the kingdom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14924'),
(9546, 'Assassin&#39;s Apprentice', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father''s gruff stableman. He is treated like an outcast by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has him sectetly tutored in the arts of the assassin. For in Fitz''s blood runs the magic Skill--and the darker knowledge of a child raised with the stable hounds and rejected by his family. As barbarous raiders ravage the coasts, Fitz is growing to manhood. Soon he will face his first dangerous, soul-shattering mission. And though some regard him as a threat to the throne, he may just be the key to the survival of the kingdom.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23330'),
(9547, 'Assassin&#39;s Creed: Brotherhood', 'Oliver Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a sequel to Assassin''s Creed: Renaissance. Ezio, the master assassin, seeks to avenge the death of his uncle. Unbeknownst to him this will pit him against the Knights Templar.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Oliver Bowden\n </strong>\n is a pseudonym for an acclaimed novelist who is also a Renaissance historian.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2362'),
(9548, 'Assassin&#39;s Creed: Brotherhood', 'Oliver Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a sequel to Assassin''s Creed: Renaissance. Ezio, the master assassin, seeks to avenge the death of his uncle. Unbeknownst to him this will pit him against the Knights Templar.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Oliver Bowden\n </strong>\n is a pseudonym for an acclaimed novelist who is also a Renaissance historian.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8540'),
(9549, 'Assassin&#39;s Creed: Brotherhood', 'Oliver Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a sequel to Assassin''s Creed: Renaissance. Ezio, the master assassin, seeks to avenge the death of his uncle. Unbeknownst to him this will pit him against the Knights Templar.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Oliver Bowden\n </strong>\n is a pseudonym for an acclaimed novelist who is also a Renaissance historian.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22398'),
(9550, 'Assassin&#39;s Quest', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From an extraordinary new voice in fantasy comes the stunning conclusion to the Farseer trilogy, as FitzChivalry confronts his destiny as the catalyst who holds the fate of the kingdom of the Six Duchies...and the world itself.King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz--or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from the grave, deeply scarred in body and soul. The kingdom also teeters toward ruin: Regal has plundered and abandoned the capital, while the rightful heir, Prince Verity, is lost to his mad quest--perhaps to death. Only Verity''s return--or the heir his princess carries--can save the Six Duchies.But Fitz will not wait. Driven by loss and bitter memories, he undertakes a quest: to kill Regal. The journey casts him into deep waters, as he discovers wild currents of magic within him--currents that will either drown him or make him something more than he was....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1503'),
(9551, 'Assassin&#39;s Quest', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From an extraordinary new voice in fantasy comes the stunning conclusion to the Farseer trilogy, as FitzChivalry confronts his destiny as the catalyst who holds the fate of the kingdom of the Six Duchies...and the world itself.King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz--or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from the grave, deeply scarred in body and soul. The kingdom also teeters toward ruin: Regal has plundered and abandoned the capital, while the rightful heir, Prince Verity, is lost to his mad quest--perhaps to death. Only Verity''s return--or the heir his princess carries--can save the Six Duchies.But Fitz will not wait. Driven by loss and bitter memories, he undertakes a quest: to kill Regal. The journey casts him into deep waters, as he discovers wild currents of magic within him--currents that will either drown him or make him something more than he was....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10378'),
(9552, 'Assassin&#39;s quest', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From an extraordinary new voice in fantasy comes the stunning conclusion to the Farseer trilogy, as FitzChivalry confronts his destiny as the catalyst who holds the fate of the kingdom of the Six Duchies...and the world itself.King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz--or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from the grave, deeply scarred in body and soul. The kingdom also teeters toward ruin: Regal has plundered and abandoned the capital, while the rightful heir, Prince Verity, is lost to his mad quest--perhaps to death. Only Verity''s return--or the heir his princess carries--can save the Six Duchies.But Fitz will not wait. Driven by loss and bitter memories, he undertakes a quest: to kill Regal. The journey casts him into deep waters, as he discovers wild currents of magic within him--currents that will either drown him or make him something more than he was....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15025'),
(9553, 'Assassin&#39;s quest', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From an extraordinary new voice in fantasy comes the stunning conclusion to the Farseer trilogy, as FitzChivalry confronts his destiny as the catalyst who holds the fate of the kingdom of the Six Duchies...and the world itself.King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz--or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from the grave, deeply scarred in body and soul. The kingdom also teeters toward ruin: Regal has plundered and abandoned the capital, while the rightful heir, Prince Verity, is lost to his mad quest--perhaps to death. Only Verity''s return--or the heir his princess carries--can save the Six Duchies.But Fitz will not wait. Driven by loss and bitter memories, he undertakes a quest: to kill Regal. The journey casts him into deep waters, as he discovers wild currents of magic within him--currents that will either drown him or make him something more than he was....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23329'),
(9554, 'The Assassin&#39;s Song', 'M. G. Vassanji', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The tension between India''s centuries-old spiritual traditions and contemporary religious militancy drives this memorable, melancholy family saga by two-time Canadian Giller Prizeâ€“winner Vassanji (who won for\n <em>\n  The Book of Secrets\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The In-Between World of Vikram Lall\n </em>\n ). Karsan Dargawalla is destined from boyhood to succeed his father and his father''s father as avatar of Pirbaag, a 13th-century Sufi shrine. As the novel unfolds in fits and starts, Karsan rejects his spiritual inheritance and decamps for Harvard in 1970, against his chagrined father''s wishes. The three decades of stubborn self-exile that follow represent a sorrowful generational rift between father and son that ends when Karsan returns home after his ascetic father''s death, announced at the book''s opening. Though Sufism is a Muslim tradition, Karsan''s father considered himself neither and both Muslim and Hindu, and we, says Karsan at one point, are respected for that. Yet Karsan finds the shrine destroyed by a mob of Hindu hard-liners, while his younger brother, Mansoor, militantly calls himself a Muslim and may be involved in Islamist terrorist activities. Frequent shifts in time and perspective (including flashes of the shrine''s early history) heighten Vassanji''s evocative depiction of India''s ongoing postcolonial tumult, mournfully personalized by the fate of the fractured family at the novel''s heart.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This resplendent novel traces the path of Karsan Dargawalla, who is brought up, as generations of his forefathers have been, to be the "gaadi-varas, the successor and avatar" of a seven-hundred-year-old Sufi shrine in Gujarat, a mausoleum of Muslim origin but for centuries open to all religions. Karsan, rebelling against "the iron bonds of history," leaves for Boston and Canada, though he ultimately returns to India to "research, recall, and write about" his abandoned heritage. Vassanji eloquently details the sufferings of Karsanâ€™s family as the price of his individual freedom, but suggests that this abandonment was necessary, and that tradition, in the face of Indiaâ€™s "ancient animosities," must be engaged with critically and in the context of the wider world.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2007\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3229'),
(9555, 'The Assassin&#39;s Song', 'M. G. Vassanji', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The tension between India''s centuries-old spiritual traditions and contemporary religious militancy drives this memorable, melancholy family saga by two-time Canadian Giller Prizeâ€“winner Vassanji (who won for\n <em>\n  The Book of Secrets\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The In-Between World of Vikram Lall\n </em>\n ). Karsan Dargawalla is destined from boyhood to succeed his father and his father''s father as avatar of Pirbaag, a 13th-century Sufi shrine. As the novel unfolds in fits and starts, Karsan rejects his spiritual inheritance and decamps for Harvard in 1970, against his chagrined father''s wishes. The three decades of stubborn self-exile that follow represent a sorrowful generational rift between father and son that ends when Karsan returns home after his ascetic father''s death, announced at the book''s opening. Though Sufism is a Muslim tradition, Karsan''s father considered himself neither and both Muslim and Hindu, and we, says Karsan at one point, are respected for that. Yet Karsan finds the shrine destroyed by a mob of Hindu hard-liners, while his younger brother, Mansoor, militantly calls himself a Muslim and may be involved in Islamist terrorist activities. Frequent shifts in time and perspective (including flashes of the shrine''s early history) heighten Vassanji''s evocative depiction of India''s ongoing postcolonial tumult, mournfully personalized by the fate of the fractured family at the novel''s heart.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This resplendent novel traces the path of Karsan Dargawalla, who is brought up, as generations of his forefathers have been, to be the "gaadi-varas, the successor and avatar" of a seven-hundred-year-old Sufi shrine in Gujarat, a mausoleum of Muslim origin but for centuries open to all religions. Karsan, rebelling against "the iron bonds of history," leaves for Boston and Canada, though he ultimately returns to India to "research, recall, and write about" his abandoned heritage. Vassanji eloquently details the sufferings of Karsanâ€™s family as the price of his individual freedom, but suggests that this abandonment was necessary, and that tradition, in the face of Indiaâ€™s "ancient animosities," must be engaged with critically and in the context of the wider world.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2007\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13228'),
(9556, 'The Assassin&#39;s Song', 'M. G. Vassanji', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The tension between India''s centuries-old spiritual traditions and contemporary religious militancy drives this memorable, melancholy family saga by two-time Canadian Giller Prizeâ€“winner Vassanji (who won for\n <em>\n  The Book of Secrets\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The In-Between World of Vikram Lall\n </em>\n ). Karsan Dargawalla is destined from boyhood to succeed his father and his father''s father as avatar of Pirbaag, a 13th-century Sufi shrine. As the novel unfolds in fits and starts, Karsan rejects his spiritual inheritance and decamps for Harvard in 1970, against his chagrined father''s wishes. The three decades of stubborn self-exile that follow represent a sorrowful generational rift between father and son that ends when Karsan returns home after his ascetic father''s death, announced at the book''s opening. Though Sufism is a Muslim tradition, Karsan''s father considered himself neither and both Muslim and Hindu, and we, says Karsan at one point, are respected for that. Yet Karsan finds the shrine destroyed by a mob of Hindu hard-liners, while his younger brother, Mansoor, militantly calls himself a Muslim and may be involved in Islamist terrorist activities. Frequent shifts in time and perspective (including flashes of the shrine''s early history) heighten Vassanji''s evocative depiction of India''s ongoing postcolonial tumult, mournfully personalized by the fate of the fractured family at the novel''s heart.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This resplendent novel traces the path of Karsan Dargawalla, who is brought up, as generations of his forefathers have been, to be the "gaadi-varas, the successor and avatar" of a seven-hundred-year-old Sufi shrine in Gujarat, a mausoleum of Muslim origin but for centuries open to all religions. Karsan, rebelling against "the iron bonds of history," leaves for Boston and Canada, though he ultimately returns to India to "research, recall, and write about" his abandoned heritage. Vassanji eloquently details the sufferings of Karsanâ€™s family as the price of his individual freedom, but suggests that this abandonment was necessary, and that tradition, in the face of Indiaâ€™s "ancient animosities," must be engaged with critically and in the context of the wider world.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2007\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21341'),
(9557, 'The Assassin&#39;s Touch', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is a lost art, passed down by the ancients in great secrecy: Dim-mak. It is death, by the lightest touch of a finger. Sano Ichiro, tenuous in the new regime as the shogunâ€™s second-in-command, does not have the luxury of skepticism?another senior official is dead, a fingerprint lightly glazed into his skin.Â Sanoâ€™s wife Reiko has an investigation of her own: a beautiful, proud, and hopelessly poor woman has confessed to murdering her family. Yet the pieces do not fit, and as Reiko looks deeper into the womanâ€™s life as a hinin?a moral outcast, shunned by the world?inexplicable connections appear between her investigation and Sanoâ€™s.Â As Reikoâ€™s questions spiral her further into the squalor of life as a hinin, Sano and Hirata?his most loyal samurai?pursure their prey, uncovering an intricate tapestry of betrayal woven into the highest levels of the new regime. But they are no match for the one who has mastered dim-mak, a warrior who will strike all those who cross him or his path?even Reiko.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3625'),
(9558, 'The Assassin&#39;s Touch', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of Rowland''s assured 10th historical set in 17th-century Japan (after 2004''s\n  <em>\n   The Perfumed Sleeve\n  </em>\n  ), Sano Ichiro, now the shogun''s chamberlain and second-in-command, returns to his previous role of criminal investigator after the country''s top spy, Ejima Senzaemon, drops dead on his mount during a horse race. Sano quickly finds that Senzaemon was just the latest senior official to die without warning. With the assistance of Hirata, his longtime assistant, the chamberlain uses his highly irregular sources to get on the trail of a martial-arts master using the legendary\n  <em>\n   dim-mak\n  </em>\n  , or touch of death. As always, the potential political ramifications of the crimes, which threaten the regime''s precarious hold on power, add urgency to the inquiries, and failure risks not only Sano''s status but his family''s lives as well. While the significance of the subplot featuring Sano''s wife, Reiko, may strike some as coincidental, the compelling story line, evocative detail and suspense should engage newcomers and satisfy longtime fans alike. At a point when many series show signs of wear, Rowland''s characters remain fresh.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lately, this popular series, set during Japan''s feudal period, has shown signs of lethargy. But now it feels reenergized. Sano Ichiro, the former\n  <em>\n   ronin\n  </em>\n  (a samurai without a master), has been promoted from investigator to chamberlain, the shogun''s second-in-command and overseer of Japan''s military government. The story, which involves the mysterious death of the chief of the shogun''s intelligence service, is much more political than previous Sano adventures. Sano himself, perhaps because of his new responsibilities (or is it because his wife may be implicated in the man''s death?), seems different, too: less impetuous, more deferential to authority. Even Rowland''s writing, which was never a problem, even when the stories began to decline, feels a little livelier. A welcome breath of fresh air and a reminder that staleness is a fixable problem, at least in series fiction.\n  <em>\n   David Pitt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20954'),
(9559, 'Assault on Soho', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan, Americas one-man army, rocks London in his war on the Mafia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5881'),
(9560, 'Assault on Soho', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan, Americas one-man army, rocks London in his war on the Mafia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18727'),
(9561, 'Assault on Soho', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan, Americas one-man army, rocks London in his war on the Mafia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27534'),
(9562, 'Assholes Finish First', 'Tucker Max &amp; Maddox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What do you do after you write a #1 bestselling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures that makes you rich and famous? Celebrate by getting more drunk and having insane amounts of sex, obviously. And pretty soon you''ve got another fucking book on your hands. Stuffed full of ridiculous stories of bad decisions, debauchery, and sexual recklessness,Assholes Finish Firststarts whereI Hope They Serve Beer In Hellleft off, then proceeds to "some next-level shit." You already know how women react to confidence, game, and vodka, but what happens when you add money and fame to the mix? You get answers to the hard questions you''ve never thought of asking: What''s it like to have sex with a midget? What about two midgets? How does it feel to get multiple requests to "fuck for charity"? What does it do to a man to watch a 19-year-old do wind sprints to sober up, so that she can have sex with you before her twin sister does? At what number of virgins does deflowering them stop being fun and start feeling like a job? When a girl you met three hours ago decides to tattoo your name next to her pussy, what is the appropriate reaction? Can you X-ray a blowjob? The answers are inside, they are absurd and hilarious, and they are the product of one man''s experiences:His name is Tucker Max, and he is still an asshole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/388'),
(9563, 'Assholes Finish First', 'Tucker Max &amp; Maddox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What do you do after you write a #1 bestselling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures that makes you rich and famous? Celebrate by getting more drunk and having insane amounts of sex, obviously. And pretty soon you''ve got another fucking book on your hands. Stuffed full of ridiculous stories of bad decisions, debauchery, and sexual recklessness,Assholes Finish Firststarts whereI Hope They Serve Beer In Hellleft off, then proceeds to "some next-level shit." You already know how women react to confidence, game, and vodka, but what happens when you add money and fame to the mix? You get answers to the hard questions you''ve never thought of asking: What''s it like to have sex with a midget? What about two midgets? How does it feel to get multiple requests to "fuck for charity"? What does it do to a man to watch a 19-year-old do wind sprints to sober up, so that she can have sex with you before her twin sister does? At what number of virgins does deflowering them stop being fun and start feeling like a job? When a girl you met three hours ago decides to tattoo your name next to her pussy, what is the appropriate reaction? Can you X-ray a blowjob? The answers are inside, they are absurd and hilarious, and they are the product of one man''s experiences:His name is Tucker Max, and he is still an asshole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11377');
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(9564, 'Assholes Finish First', 'Tucker Max; Maddox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What do you do after you write a #1 bestselling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures that makes you rich and famous? Celebrate by getting more drunk and having insane amounts of sex, obviously. And pretty soon you''ve got another fucking book on your hands. Stuffed full of ridiculous stories of bad decisions, debauchery, and sexual recklessness,Assholes Finish Firststarts whereI Hope They Serve Beer In Hellleft off, then proceeds to "some next-level shit." You already know how women react to confidence, game, and vodka, but what happens when you add money and fame to the mix? You get answers to the hard questions you''ve never thought of asking: What''s it like to have sex with a midget? What about two midgets? How does it feel to get multiple requests to "fuck for charity"? What does it do to a man to watch a 19-year-old do wind sprints to sober up, so that she can have sex with you before her twin sister does? At what number of virgins does deflowering them stop being fun and start feeling like a job? When a girl you met three hours ago decides to tattoo your name next to her pussy, what is the appropriate reaction? Can you X-ray a blowjob? The answers are inside, they are absurd and hilarious, and they are the product of one man''s experiences:His name is Tucker Max, and he is still an asshole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14413'),
(9565, 'Assholes Finish First', 'Tucker Max; Maddox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What do you do after you write a #1 bestselling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures that makes you rich and famous? Celebrate by getting more drunk and having insane amounts of sex, obviously. And pretty soon you''ve got another fucking book on your hands. Stuffed full of ridiculous stories of bad decisions, debauchery, and sexual recklessness,Assholes Finish Firststarts whereI Hope They Serve Beer In Hellleft off, then proceeds to "some next-level shit." You already know how women react to confidence, game, and vodka, but what happens when you add money and fame to the mix? You get answers to the hard questions you''ve never thought of asking: What''s it like to have sex with a midget? What about two midgets? How does it feel to get multiple requests to "fuck for charity"? What does it do to a man to watch a 19-year-old do wind sprints to sober up, so that she can have sex with you before her twin sister does? At what number of virgins does deflowering them stop being fun and start feeling like a job? When a girl you met three hours ago decides to tattoo your name next to her pussy, what is the appropriate reaction? Can you X-ray a blowjob? The answers are inside, they are absurd and hilarious, and they are the product of one man''s experiences:His name is Tucker Max, and he is still an asshole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24558'),
(9566, 'The Associate', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in "The Firm," waituntil you meet Kyle McAvoy, "The Associate" Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father''s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of "The Yale Law Journal," and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn''t want--even though it''s a job most law students can only dream about. Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed. With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains--from Baxter Tate, a drug-addled trust fund kid and possible rapist, to Dale, a pretty but seemingly quiet former math teacher who shares Kyle''s "cubicle" at the law firm, to two of the most powerful and fiercely competitive defense contractors in the country--and featuring all the twists and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world, The Associate is vintage Grisham.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4312'),
(9567, 'The associate', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in "The Firm," waituntil you meet Kyle McAvoy, "The Associate" Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father''s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of "The Yale Law Journal," and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn''t want--even though it''s a job most law students can only dream about. Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed. With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains--from Baxter Tate, a drug-addled trust fund kid and possible rapist, to Dale, a pretty but seemingly quiet former math teacher who shares Kyle''s "cubicle" at the law firm, to two of the most powerful and fiercely competitive defense contractors in the country--and featuring all the twists and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world, The Associate is vintage Grisham.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15321'),
(9568, 'The associate', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in "The Firm," waituntil you meet Kyle McAvoy, "The Associate" Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father''s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of "The Yale Law Journal," and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn''t want--even though it''s a job most law students can only dream about. Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed. With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains--from Baxter Tate, a drug-addled trust fund kid and possible rapist, to Dale, a pretty but seemingly quiet former math teacher who shares Kyle''s "cubicle" at the law firm, to two of the most powerful and fiercely competitive defense contractors in the country--and featuring all the twists and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world, The Associate is vintage Grisham.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21386'),
(9569, 'Astro Boy: The Movie', 'Tracey West', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy follows the story of a young robot who was created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he has lost. This novel is based on the new animated film, includes 8 pages of full-color images from the movie, and is written by *New York Times* bestselling author Tracey West.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/442'),
(9570, 'Astro Boy: The Movie', 'Tracey West', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy follows the story of a young robot who was created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he has lost. This novel is based on the new animated film, includes 8 pages of full-color images from the movie, and is written by *New York Times* bestselling author Tracey West.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13355'),
(9571, 'Astro Boy: The Movie', 'Tracey West', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy follows the story of a young robot who was created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he has lost. This novel is based on the new animated film, includes 8 pages of full-color images from the movie, and is written by *New York Times* bestselling author Tracey West.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24492'),
(9572, 'The Astronaut&#39;s Wife', 'Robert Tine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this relentlessly gripping psychological thriller, Johnny Depp plays Spencer Armacost, an astronaut sent on a space shuttle mission with his partner, Captain Alex Streck. While in space, an accident occurs that cuts all contact between the men and Earth for two minutes. Both men return from the trip with no memory of those crucial minutes, and soon thereafter Streck mysteriously dies. Little by little, Spencer''s wife Jillian, played by Charlize Theron, pregnant with twins, begins to suspect that something happened on the mission during those two minutes--something that changed Spencer into someone other than the man she loves, something that might mean the end of us all. Coming to theaters from New Line Cinema in March ''99.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1605'),
(9573, 'The Astronaut&#39;s Wife', 'Robert Tine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this relentlessly gripping psychological thriller, Johnny Depp plays Spencer Armacost, an astronaut sent on a space shuttle mission with his partner, Captain Alex Streck. While in space, an accident occurs that cuts all contact between the men and Earth for two minutes. Both men return from the trip with no memory of those crucial minutes, and soon thereafter Streck mysteriously dies. Little by little, Spencer''s wife Jillian, played by Charlize Theron, pregnant with twins, begins to suspect that something happened on the mission during those two minutes--something that changed Spencer into someone other than the man she loves, something that might mean the end of us all. Coming to theaters from New Line Cinema in March ''99.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23358'),
(9574, 'Asylum', 'Patrick McGrath', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n review praised Patrick McGrath''s "ornate, deadpan style . . . distinguished by its unusual seriousness, its lack of camp," and described\n <em>\n  Asylum\n </em>\n as a "layered, implicating book, whose terrors and malignities aren''t quite the ones we expect, and are a matter of mood and viewpoint as well as of plot." McGrath''s fourth novel (his other\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n McGrath (Dr. Haggard''s Disease) has a mind that revels in the toxic side of things. In this tale of headlong descent into darkness and despair, the toxicity comes from obsessional love. Stella Raphael is the lovely but dissatisfied wife of Max, a resident psychiatrist at an asylum for the criminally insane in the countryside near London. She becomes infatuated with Edgar Stark, a sculptor who murdered and mutilated his wife in a delusionary fit, and the two contrive a passionate affair when Edgar is assigned to work in the Raphaels'' garden on the asylum grounds. Stealing Max''s clothes, Edgar escapes to London and goes underground, where Stella eventually follows him. When he begins to manifest the same furious jealousies that led to his wife''s murder, she flees home again, only to find she has ruined her husband''s career. The Raphaels, with their young son, Charlie, are exiled to a remote hospital in rural Wales, where further disaster strikes as Stella drifts into her own desperate delusions. The story is told by another psychiatrist at the asylum, ostensibly through interviews with Stella. Although the doctor''s own interpolations are sometimes a relief in the supercharged atmosphere, this seems an unnecessary device, and the intended frisson of his participation in the somber conclusion doesn''t come off. In every other respect, however, the book is hypnotizing, with its own strange but darkly convincing pace and style; and the way in which nature and climate are woven into the fabric of the bizarre couple''s strange love is masterly. 75,000 first printing; paperback rights to Vintage; rights sold in the U.K. and six European nations; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2349'),
(9575, 'Asylum', 'Patrick McGrath', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n review praised Patrick McGrath''s "ornate, deadpan style . . . distinguished by its unusual seriousness, its lack of camp," and described\n <em>\n  Asylum\n </em>\n as a "layered, implicating book, whose terrors and malignities aren''t quite the ones we expect, and are a matter of mood and viewpoint as well as of plot." McGrath''s fourth novel (his other\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n McGrath (Dr. Haggard''s Disease) has a mind that revels in the toxic side of things. In this tale of headlong descent into darkness and despair, the toxicity comes from obsessional love. Stella Raphael is the lovely but dissatisfied wife of Max, a resident psychiatrist at an asylum for the criminally insane in the countryside near London. She becomes infatuated with Edgar Stark, a sculptor who murdered and mutilated his wife in a delusionary fit, and the two contrive a passionate affair when Edgar is assigned to work in the Raphaels'' garden on the asylum grounds. Stealing Max''s clothes, Edgar escapes to London and goes underground, where Stella eventually follows him. When he begins to manifest the same furious jealousies that led to his wife''s murder, she flees home again, only to find she has ruined her husband''s career. The Raphaels, with their young son, Charlie, are exiled to a remote hospital in rural Wales, where further disaster strikes as Stella drifts into her own desperate delusions. The story is told by another psychiatrist at the asylum, ostensibly through interviews with Stella. Although the doctor''s own interpolations are sometimes a relief in the supercharged atmosphere, this seems an unnecessary device, and the intended frisson of his participation in the somber conclusion doesn''t come off. In every other respect, however, the book is hypnotizing, with its own strange but darkly convincing pace and style; and the way in which nature and climate are woven into the fabric of the bizarre couple''s strange love is masterly. 75,000 first printing; paperback rights to Vintage; rights sold in the U.K. and six European nations; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11371'),
(9576, 'Asylum', 'Patrick McGrath', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n review praised Patrick McGrath''s "ornate, deadpan style . . . distinguished by its unusual seriousness, its lack of camp," and described\n <em>\n  Asylum\n </em>\n as a "layered, implicating book, whose terrors and malignities aren''t quite the ones we expect, and are a matter of mood and viewpoint as well as of plot." McGrath''s fourth novel (his other\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n McGrath (Dr. Haggard''s Disease) has a mind that revels in the toxic side of things. In this tale of headlong descent into darkness and despair, the toxicity comes from obsessional love. Stella Raphael is the lovely but dissatisfied wife of Max, a resident psychiatrist at an asylum for the criminally insane in the countryside near London. She becomes infatuated with Edgar Stark, a sculptor who murdered and mutilated his wife in a delusionary fit, and the two contrive a passionate affair when Edgar is assigned to work in the Raphaels'' garden on the asylum grounds. Stealing Max''s clothes, Edgar escapes to London and goes underground, where Stella eventually follows him. When he begins to manifest the same furious jealousies that led to his wife''s murder, she flees home again, only to find she has ruined her husband''s career. The Raphaels, with their young son, Charlie, are exiled to a remote hospital in rural Wales, where further disaster strikes as Stella drifts into her own desperate delusions. The story is told by another psychiatrist at the asylum, ostensibly through interviews with Stella. Although the doctor''s own interpolations are sometimes a relief in the supercharged atmosphere, this seems an unnecessary device, and the intended frisson of his participation in the somber conclusion doesn''t come off. In every other respect, however, the book is hypnotizing, with its own strange but darkly convincing pace and style; and the way in which nature and climate are woven into the fabric of the bizarre couple''s strange love is masterly. 75,000 first printing; paperback rights to Vintage; rights sold in the U.K. and six European nations; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22470'),
(9577, 'At Bertram&#39;s Hotel', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Miss Jane Marple is on vacation and loving every minute of her stay at London''s eminently expensive bastion of tradition. Bertam''s Hotel. but its impeccable old-world reputation is being tarnished -- by new blood. For someone disreputable has just checked in. And what''s now going on at Bertram''s Hotel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/55'),
(9578, 'At Bertram&#39;s Hotel', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Miss Jane Marple is on vacation and loving every minute of her stay at London''s eminently expensive bastion of tradition. Bertam''s Hotel. but its impeccable old-world reputation is being tarnished -- by new blood. For someone disreputable has just checked in. And what''s now going on at Bertram''s Hotel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17178'),
(9579, 'At First Sight', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he''d never do: he''d never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple''s marriage. Dramatic, heartbreaking and surprising, this is a story about the love between a man and a woman and between a parent and a child. More than that, it is a story that beautifully portrays how the same emotion that can break your heart is also the one that will ultimately heal it.While the novel picks up the tale of Lexie Darnell and Jeremy Marsh that started in True Believer and will delight fans of that novel, it stands on its own as one of Nicholas Sparks''s most deeply moving love stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2601'),
(9580, 'At First Sight', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he''d never do: he''d never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple''s marriage. Dramatic, heartbreaking and surprising, this is a story about the love between a man and a woman and between a parent and a child. More than that, it is a story that beautifully portrays how the same emotion that can break your heart is also the one that will ultimately heal it.While the novel picks up the tale of Lexie Darnell and Jeremy Marsh that started in True Believer and will delight fans of that novel, it stands on its own as one of Nicholas Sparks''s most deeply moving love stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12739'),
(9581, 'At First Sight', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he''d never do: he''d never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple''s marriage. Dramatic, heartbreaking and surprising, this is a story about the love between a man and a woman and between a parent and a child. More than that, it is a story that beautifully portrays how the same emotion that can break your heart is also the one that will ultimately heal it.While the novel picks up the tale of Lexie Darnell and Jeremy Marsh that started in True Believer and will delight fans of that novel, it stands on its own as one of Nicholas Sparks''s most deeply moving love stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14072'),
(9582, 'At Some Disputed Barricade: A Novel', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of the first three books in this WWI series from Perry, best known for her Victorian police procedurals, will eagerly pick up this fourth volume to learn more of the ongoing saga of the three Reavley siblings: Joseph, a chaplain working with soldiers on the front line in France; Matthew, a British intelligence officer; and Judith, an ambulance driver. (Newcomers may struggle to understand the backstory.) Matthew continues his search for the traitorous mastermindâ€”the "Peacemaker"â€”plotting to align Britain with Germany to end the war, while Joseph is working on a smaller mystery: was British officer Howard Northrop killed by one of his own men? Exposition slows down the pace in places, but the author vividly captures the unspeakable horrors of the Great War. Readers won''t have long to wait for the fifth and final entry in the series,\n  <em>\n   We Shall Not Sleep\n  </em>\n  (Reviews, Feb. 5).\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fourth entry in Perry''s World War I series finds chaplain Joseph Reavley three years into his service in the trenches of Ypres on the western front. The British army has suffered appalling losses, and the men are exhausted, hungry, and afraid. Now an incompetent officer, the son of a general, unwilling to take advice from more experienced soldiers, is sending his men to certain death by making wrongheaded, uninformed decisions. When the officer''s body is discovered, it falls to Joseph to determine whether he was killed by his own men. The investigation is complicated when Joseph''s sister, Judith, a fearless ambulance driver, is drawn into the dispute. Meanwhile, their brother, Matthew, who works for British intelligence, is seeing indications of the work of the Peacemaker, who, under the guise of seeking an end to the conflict, is sabotaging Britain''s war effort. Perry explores the shifting nature of loyalty, conscience, and honor when set against the backdrop of a blood-soaked battlefield, and her grisly descriptions of that battlefield are heartrending.\n  <em>\n   Joanne Wilkinson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7502'),
(9583, 'At Some Disputed Barricade: A Novel', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fans of the first three books in this WWI series from Perry, best known for her Victorian police procedurals, will eagerly pick up this fourth volume to learn more of the ongoing saga of the three Reavley siblings: Joseph, a chaplain working with soldiers on the front line in France; Matthew, a British intelligence officer; and Judith, an ambulance driver. (Newcomers may struggle to understand the backstory.) Matthew continues his search for the traitorous mastermindâ€”the "Peacemaker"â€”plotting to align Britain with Germany to end the war, while Joseph is working on a smaller mystery: was British officer Howard Northrop killed by one of his own men? Exposition slows down the pace in places, but the author vividly captures the unspeakable horrors of the Great War. Readers won''t have long to wait for the fifth and final entry in the series,\n  <em>\n   We Shall Not Sleep\n  </em>\n  (Reviews, Feb. 5).\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fourth entry in Perry''s World War I series finds chaplain Joseph Reavley three years into his service in the trenches of Ypres on the western front. The British army has suffered appalling losses, and the men are exhausted, hungry, and afraid. Now an incompetent officer, the son of a general, unwilling to take advice from more experienced soldiers, is sending his men to certain death by making wrongheaded, uninformed decisions. When the officer''s body is discovered, it falls to Joseph to determine whether he was killed by his own men. The investigation is complicated when Joseph''s sister, Judith, a fearless ambulance driver, is drawn into the dispute. Meanwhile, their brother, Matthew, who works for British intelligence, is seeing indications of the work of the Peacemaker, who, under the guise of seeking an end to the conflict, is sabotaging Britain''s war effort. Perry explores the shifting nature of loyalty, conscience, and honor when set against the backdrop of a blood-soaked battlefield, and her grisly descriptions of that battlefield are heartrending.\n  <em>\n   Joanne Wilkinson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11863'),
(9584, 'At Some Disputed Barricade: A Novel', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of the first three books in this WWI series from Perry, best known for her Victorian police procedurals, will eagerly pick up this fourth volume to learn more of the ongoing saga of the three Reavley siblings: Joseph, a chaplain working with soldiers on the front line in France; Matthew, a British intelligence officer; and Judith, an ambulance driver. (Newcomers may struggle to understand the backstory.) Matthew continues his search for the traitorous mastermindâ€”the "Peacemaker"â€”plotting to align Britain with Germany to end the war, while Joseph is working on a smaller mystery: was British officer Howard Northrop killed by one of his own men? Exposition slows down the pace in places, but the author vividly captures the unspeakable horrors of the Great War. Readers won''t have long to wait for the fifth and final entry in the series,\n <em>\n  We Shall Not Sleep\n </em>\n (Reviews, Feb. 5).\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fourth entry in Perry''s World War I series finds chaplain Joseph Reavley three years into his service in the trenches of Ypres on the western front. The British army has suffered appalling losses, and the men are exhausted, hungry, and afraid. Now an incompetent officer, the son of a general, unwilling to take advice from more experienced soldiers, is sending his men to certain death by making wrongheaded, uninformed decisions. When the officer''s body is discovered, it falls to Joseph to determine whether he was killed by his own men. The investigation is complicated when Joseph''s sister, Judith, a fearless ambulance driver, is drawn into the dispute. Meanwhile, their brother, Matthew, who works for British intelligence, is seeing indications of the work of the Peacemaker, who, under the guise of seeking an end to the conflict, is sabotaging Britain''s war effort. Perry explores the shifting nature of loyalty, conscience, and honor when set against the backdrop of a blood-soaked battlefield, and her grisly descriptions of that battlefield are heartrending.\n <em>\n  Joanne Wilkinson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16366'),
(9585, 'At Swim, Two Boys', 'Jamie O&#39;Neill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Raised in County Dublin,Jamie O''Neillis the author ofKilbrackandAt Swim, Two Boys,which won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction and the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Men''s Fiction. He lives in Galway, Ireland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4690'),
(9586, 'At Swim, Two Boys', 'Jamie O&#39;Neill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Raised in County Dublin,Jamie O''Neillis the author ofKilbrackandAt Swim, Two Boys,which won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction and the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Men''s Fiction. He lives in Galway, Ireland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11737'),
(9587, 'At Swim, Two Boys', 'Jamie O&#39;Neill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Raised in County Dublin,Jamie O''Neillis the author ofKilbrackandAt Swim, Two Boys,which won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction and the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Men''s Fiction. He lives in Galway, Ireland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19949'),
(9588, 'At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA', 'George Tenet &amp; Bill Harlow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Former CIA director Tenet leaves the main vocal duties for this audio in the capable hands of Conger (who also recently narrated\n <em>\n  The Reagan Diaries\n </em>\n ). Yet in reading both the brief introduction and lengthy-but highly compelling-afterword, Tenet demonstrates a command of the spoken word that makes one wonder why he did not handle his own narration. However, the two men project a compatible style and tone, conveying deeply personal emotion within the boundaries of professionalism and decorum. Tenet does not shy away from acknowledging his own responsibility in controversies involving terrorism and the Iraq War, but he also takes several key political leaders to task for scapegoating the intelligence community in the wake of unpopular policy. The musical interludes at the start and end of each CD serve to maintain the cloak and dagger ambience. Those who prefer to skim the surface of news events may find the length taxing, but listeners ready to move beyond the headlines and into a wider world of nuanced complexity will be more than satisfied.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tenet, former director of the CIA, has finally delivered his long-anticipated book. It was supposed to provide background and insight into the events of September 11 as well as the lead-up (and fall down) of the Iraq War. But most readers will find that Tenet''s hodgepodge of facts tangled with homey anecdotes, excuses, and mea culpas will leave them as confused as ever.Â Alternately presenting himself as the folksy Greek American kid from Queens and the high-charging power broker, Tenet is proud of the many things the CIA did right under his charge, such as disrupting terrorist attacks leading up to 9/11 (while, of course, missing the big one), and he writes feverishly about successes in Afghanistan and elsewhere during the trying months afterward. The book is at its best painting just how dangerous, confusing, and exhausting those days were. Then comes the distraction from terrorism that was Iraq, and according to Tenet, common purpose disappeared in Washington, and interagency warfare reigned. Cheney comes out looking bad, and Rice worse, but much of the blame for the ill-preparedness goes to the slightly lower-level neocons: Wolfowitz, Libby, et al. As for the president, Tenet likes himâ€“â€“a lot. But in a telling few pages, Bush keeps trying to get neocon favorite Ahmed Chalabi off the payroll, and no one pays a bit of attention to him. Turning these pages is like walking through mirrors. Cooper, Ilene\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5434'),
(9589, 'At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA', 'George Tenet &amp; Bill Harlow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Former CIA director Tenet leaves the main vocal duties for this audio in the capable hands of Conger (who also recently narrated\n <em>\n  The Reagan Diaries\n </em>\n ). Yet in reading both the brief introduction and lengthy-but highly compelling-afterword, Tenet demonstrates a command of the spoken word that makes one wonder why he did not handle his own narration. However, the two men project a compatible style and tone, conveying deeply personal emotion within the boundaries of professionalism and decorum. Tenet does not shy away from acknowledging his own responsibility in controversies involving terrorism and the Iraq War, but he also takes several key political leaders to task for scapegoating the intelligence community in the wake of unpopular policy. The musical interludes at the start and end of each CD serve to maintain the cloak and dagger ambience. Those who prefer to skim the surface of news events may find the length taxing, but listeners ready to move beyond the headlines and into a wider world of nuanced complexity will be more than satisfied.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tenet, former director of the CIA, has finally delivered his long-anticipated book. It was supposed to provide background and insight into the events of September 11 as well as the lead-up (and fall down) of the Iraq War. But most readers will find that Tenet''s hodgepodge of facts tangled with homey anecdotes, excuses, and mea culpas will leave them as confused as ever.Â Alternately presenting himself as the folksy Greek American kid from Queens and the high-charging power broker, Tenet is proud of the many things the CIA did right under his charge, such as disrupting terrorist attacks leading up to 9/11 (while, of course, missing the big one), and he writes feverishly about successes in Afghanistan and elsewhere during the trying months afterward. The book is at its best painting just how dangerous, confusing, and exhausting those days were. Then comes the distraction from terrorism that was Iraq, and according to Tenet, common purpose disappeared in Washington, and interagency warfare reigned. Cheney comes out looking bad, and Rice worse, but much of the blame for the ill-preparedness goes to the slightly lower-level neocons: Wolfowitz, Libby, et al. As for the president, Tenet likes himâ€“â€“a lot. But in a telling few pages, Bush keeps trying to get neocon favorite Ahmed Chalabi off the payroll, and no one pays a bit of attention to him. Turning these pages is like walking through mirrors. Cooper, Ilene\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12977'),
(9590, 'At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA', 'George Tenet; Bill Harlow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Former CIA director Tenet leaves the main vocal duties for this audio in the capable hands of Conger (who also recently narrated\n  <em>\n   The Reagan Diaries\n  </em>\n  ). Yet in reading both the brief introduction and lengthy-but highly compelling-afterword, Tenet demonstrates a command of the spoken word that makes one wonder why he did not handle his own narration. However, the two men project a compatible style and tone, conveying deeply personal emotion within the boundaries of professionalism and decorum. Tenet does not shy away from acknowledging his own responsibility in controversies involving terrorism and the Iraq War, but he also takes several key political leaders to task for scapegoating the intelligence community in the wake of unpopular policy. The musical interludes at the start and end of each CD serve to maintain the cloak and dagger ambience. Those who prefer to skim the surface of news events may find the length taxing, but listeners ready to move beyond the headlines and into a wider world of nuanced complexity will be more than satisfied.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tenet, former director of the CIA, has finally delivered his long-anticipated book. It was supposed to provide background and insight into the events of September 11 as well as the lead-up (and fall down) of the Iraq War. But most readers will find that Tenet''s hodgepodge of facts tangled with homey anecdotes, excuses, and mea culpas will leave them as confused as ever.Â Alternately presenting himself as the folksy Greek American kid from Queens and the high-charging power broker, Tenet is proud of the many things the CIA did right under his charge, such as disrupting terrorist attacks leading up to 9/11 (while, of course, missing the big one), and he writes feverishly about successes in Afghanistan and elsewhere during the trying months afterward. The book is at its best painting just how dangerous, confusing, and exhausting those days were. Then comes the distraction from terrorism that was Iraq, and according to Tenet, common purpose disappeared in Washington, and interagency warfare reigned. Cheney comes out looking bad, and Rice worse, but much of the blame for the ill-preparedness goes to the slightly lower-level neocons: Wolfowitz, Libby, et al. As for the president, Tenet likes himâ€“â€“a lot. But in a telling few pages, Bush keeps trying to get neocon favorite Ahmed Chalabi off the payroll, and no one pays a bit of attention to him. Turning these pages is like walking through mirrors. Cooper, Ilene\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19228'),
(9591, 'At the Gates of Darkness', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ten years after the terrible Darkwar finally ended, catastrophe once again threatens to engulf Midkemia and Kelewan, as the demon hordes continue their relentless quest to infiltrate this realm of magic and wonder. . . .  **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *At the Gates of Darkness* Book Two of the Demonwar Saga\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To protect their world from the savage demon hordes, the Black Sorcerer Pug and Midkemia''s clandestine protectors, the Conclave of Shadows, forged an uneasy alliance of formidable magical talents. Together, this brave band of wizards, demon masters, warriors, and elves defeated the brutal Demon King Maarg and turned back the onrushing death tide.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Maarg''s fall has not stopped the demonic onslaught, and danger now looms greater than ever before. Amid the barren ridges of the Valley of Lost Men, in the shadows of an ancient Keshian fortress, the fearsome demon Dahun and the mad necromancer Belasco have joined forces, creating an unstoppable union of deathly black magics that even Pug and a united Conclave may not be strong enough to withstand.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Battling the Demon Legion has taken a heavy blood toll on the valiant and dedicated magician, claiming the lives of nearly all those he loves. Though he is racked by despair and rage, Pug knows that the time for mourning must wait. Putting aside his pain, he and the Conclave and their alliesâ€”the cold-blooded master spy Jim Dasher; the fearsome young Knight-Adamant Sandreena; her former lover the necromancer Amirantha; two renegade Star Elves; and Pug''s surviving son, Magnusâ€”must marshal their resources against this latest threat. None can forget the dozens of worlds overrun by the demon plague and the millions of dead left behind in their wake. At the gates of darkness, where shadows hide even deeper shadows, these magical defenders will face what is sure to be the bloodiest, nastiest fight their land has ever seen. And as evil, mayhem, and dark magic are unleashed, none can predict if theyâ€”and Midkemia itselfâ€”will survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1972'),
(9592, 'At the Mountains of Madness', 'H. P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the greatest short novels in American literature, and a key text in my own understanding of what that literature can do.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  MICHAEL CHABON\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLovecraftâ€™s fiction is one of the cornerstones of modern horror.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  CLIVE BARKER\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Introduction by China MiÃ©ville\n</p>\n<p>\n Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expeditionâ€™s uncanny discoveriesâ€“and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilizationâ€“is a milestone of macabre literature.\n</p>\n<p>\n This exclusive new edition, presents Lovecraftâ€™s masterpiece in fully restored form, and includes his acclaimed scholarly essay â€œSupernatural Horror in Literature.â€ This is essential reading for every devotee of classic terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5255'),
(9593, 'At the Mountains of Madness', 'H. P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the greatest short novels in American literature, and a key text in my own understanding of what that literature can do.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  MICHAEL CHABON\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLovecraftâ€™s fiction is one of the cornerstones of modern horror.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  CLIVE BARKER\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Introduction by China MiÃ©ville\n</p>\n<p>\n Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expeditionâ€™s uncanny discoveriesâ€“and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilizationâ€“is a milestone of macabre literature.\n</p>\n<p>\n This exclusive new edition, presents Lovecraftâ€™s masterpiece in fully restored form, and includes his acclaimed scholarly essay â€œSupernatural Horror in Literature.â€ This is essential reading for every devotee of classic terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11220'),
(9594, 'At the mountains of madness', 'Howard Phillips Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the greatest short novels in American literature, and a key text in my own understanding of what that literature can do.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  MICHAEL CHABON\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLovecraftâ€™s fiction is one of the cornerstones of modern horror.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  CLIVE BARKER\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Introduction by China MiÃ©ville\n</p>\n<p>\n Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expeditionâ€™s uncanny discoveriesâ€“and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilizationâ€“is a milestone of macabre literature.\n</p>\n<p>\n This exclusive new edition, presents Lovecraftâ€™s masterpiece in fully restored form, and includes his acclaimed scholarly essay â€œSupernatural Horror in Literature.â€ This is essential reading for every devotee of classic terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19369'),
(9595, 'At the Mountains of Madness', 'H.P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28083'),
(9596, 'At the Stroke of Madness', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the tomblike silence of an abandoned rock quarry someone is trying to hide their dirty little secret. A secret that reveals the depths of human depravity. A secret that is about to be discovered. FBI Special Agent Maggie O''Dell is just starting a hard-earned vacation when she gets a call from her friend, psychologist Dr. Gwen Patterson. One of Gwen''s patients is missing on a trip to Connecticut. Can Maggie look into Joan Begley''s disappearance? At first Maggie dismisses Gwen''s concern. But when the body of a woman is discovered buried in an abandoned rock quarry in Connecticut, Maggie heads to the small town on "unofficial" business to see if there''s a connection to Joan Begley. Soon the shocking news surfaces that more bodies have been discovered. And before she realizes it, Maggie is drawn into a case that confounds both local law enforcement and a seasoned criminal profiler like herself. The question remains: Where is Joan Begley? Is she in fact the woman discovered buried in the quarry? Or is she the unwilling guest of a killer obsessed with possessing an unimaginable prize from his victims?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7790'),
(9597, 'At the Stroke of Madness', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the tomblike silence of an abandoned rock quarry someone is trying to hide their dirty little secret. A secret that reveals the depths of human depravity. A secret that is about to be discovered. FBI Special Agent Maggie O''Dell is just starting a hard-earned vacation when she gets a call from her friend, psychologist Dr. Gwen Patterson. One of Gwen''s patients is missing on a trip to Connecticut. Can Maggie look into Joan Begley''s disappearance? At first Maggie dismisses Gwen''s concern. But when the body of a woman is discovered buried in an abandoned rock quarry in Connecticut, Maggie heads to the small town on "unofficial" business to see if there''s a connection to Joan Begley. Soon the shocking news surfaces that more bodies have been discovered. And before she realizes it, Maggie is drawn into a case that confounds both local law enforcement and a seasoned criminal profiler like herself. The question remains: Where is Joan Begley? Is she in fact the woman discovered buried in the quarry? Or is she the unwilling guest of a killer obsessed with possessing an unimaginable prize from his victims?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16079');
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(9598, 'At the Stroke of Madness', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the tomblike silence of an abandoned rock quarry someone is trying to hide their dirty little secret. A secret that reveals the depths of human depravity. A secret that is about to be discovered. FBI Special Agent Maggie O''Dell is just starting a hard-earned vacation when she gets a call from her friend, psychologist Dr. Gwen Patterson. One of Gwen''s patients is missing on a trip to Connecticut. Can Maggie look into Joan Begley''s disappearance? At first Maggie dismisses Gwen''s concern. But when the body of a woman is discovered buried in an abandoned rock quarry in Connecticut, Maggie heads to the small town on "unofficial" business to see if there''s a connection to Joan Begley. Soon the shocking news surfaces that more bodies have been discovered. And before she realizes it, Maggie is drawn into a case that confounds both local law enforcement and a seasoned criminal profiler like herself. The question remains: Where is Joan Begley? Is she in fact the woman discovered buried in the quarry? Or is she the unwilling guest of a killer obsessed with possessing an unimaginable prize from his victims?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26232'),
(9599, 'At Wick&#39;s End', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Upon his Great-Aunt Belle''s death, Harrison Black inherits her candle shop. When he begins to suspect foul play in her death, he does a bit of sleuthing. But it looks like he''s playing with fire-because somebody wants Harrison to mind his own beeswax...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/705'),
(9600, 'At Wick&#39;s End', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Upon his Great-Aunt Belle''s death, Harrison Black inherits her candle shop. When he begins to suspect foul play in her death, he does a bit of sleuthing. But it looks like he''s playing with fire-because somebody wants Harrison to mind his own beeswax...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24312'),
(9601, 'At Witt&#39;s End', 'Beth Solheim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Things are really bustling at the Witt''s End resort in Northern Minnesota. Clients are vying for one of the few remaining rentals, except Cabin 14thing isno one gets out of Cabin 14 alive.  Sadie isn''t your typical sixty-four year old senior citizen. She has things she wants to do and shouldn''t be expected to solve a murder while trying to prevent an unscrupulous sheriff''s deputy from shutting down the lakeside resort she owns with her straight arrow sister. But that''s exactly what Sadie Witt must do.  When five guests with hidden agendas arrive at Cabin 14, they''re stunned to learn that the flamboyant Sadie is their conduit to the hereafter. Clad in the latest fashion trends--fads typically reserved for those without sagging body parts--and sporting hairdos that make bystanders want to look away but can''t, Sadie realizes one of the guests has been murdered and must work against the clock to untangle the web and prevent further mayhem.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7247'),
(9602, 'At Witt&#39;s End', 'Beth Solheim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Things are really bustling at the Witt''s End resort in Northern Minnesota. Clients are vying for one of the few remaining rentals, except Cabin 14thing isno one gets out of Cabin 14 alive. Sadie isn''t your typical sixty-four year old senior citizen. She has things she wants to do and shouldn''t be expected to solve a murder while trying to prevent an unscrupulous sheriff''s deputy from shutting down the lakeside resort she owns with her straight arrow sister. But that''s exactly what Sadie Witt must do. When five guests with hidden agendas arrive at Cabin 14, they''re stunned to learn that the flamboyant Sadie is their conduit to the hereafter. Clad in the latest fashion trends--fads typically reserved for those without sagging body parts--and sporting hairdos that make bystanders want to look away but can''t, Sadie realizes one of the guests has been murdered and must work against the clock to untangle the web and prevent further mayhem.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16643'),
(9603, 'At Witt&#39;s End', 'Beth Solheim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Things are really bustling at the Witt''s End resort in Northern Minnesota. Clients are vying for one of the few remaining rentals, except Cabin 14thing isno one gets out of Cabin 14 alive. Sadie isn''t your typical sixty-four year old senior citizen. She has things she wants to do and shouldn''t be expected to solve a murder while trying to prevent an unscrupulous sheriff''s deputy from shutting down the lakeside resort she owns with her straight arrow sister. But that''s exactly what Sadie Witt must do. When five guests with hidden agendas arrive at Cabin 14, they''re stunned to learn that the flamboyant Sadie is their conduit to the hereafter. Clad in the latest fashion trends--fads typically reserved for those without sagging body parts--and sporting hairdos that make bystanders want to look away but can''t, Sadie realizes one of the guests has been murdered and must work against the clock to untangle the web and prevent further mayhem.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26617'),
(9604, 'Athabasca', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  SABOTAGE!THE VICTIMSTwo of the most important oil-fields in the world - one in Canada, the other in Alaska.THE SABOTEURSAn unknown quantity - deadly and efficient. The oil flow could be interrupted in any one of thousands of places down the trans-Alaskan pipeline.THE RESULTCatastrophe.One man, Jim Brady, is called in to save the life-blood of the world as unerringly, the chosen targets fall at the hands of a hidden enemy...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15907'),
(9605, 'Atheism: The Case Against God', 'George H. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18395'),
(9606, 'The Atheist Camel Chronicles: Debate Themes &amp; Arguments for the Non-Believer', 'Dromedary Hump', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "... the author has produced a hilarious book of humorous and witty descriptions taken from her/his blog. They are absolutely delightful arguments useful to Atheists, Agnostics ... and also for Theists who want to be prepared for challenges from secularists. A real delight! Caution: Be careful where you read this book. You may find yourself helplessly rolling around on the floor in laughter. So check for sharp objects in advance." -- ReligiousTolerance.org / July 2009\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s not often one finds an opinionated camel with humor, biting wit, cutting sarcasm, unabashed irreverence, outright blasphemy, and on-point arguments for rational thought and against religious delusion. An advocate of reason and common sense, the author debunks traditional believer apologetics and challenges theist platitudes, while providing food for thought and debate fodder for the neophyte to intermediate atheist. With more than one hundred no-holds-barred, plain-speaking rants and essays on a variety of religious subjects, The Atheist Camel Chronicles is the go-to book to find a burr to place under the saddle of the holier than thou, or to glean retorts to the banal "Truths" that religionists use to bolster their faith in the face of the Scientific Age and 21st century reality. Sometimes funny, always hard hitting and thought provoking, this book belongs in the library of every atheist, agnostic and skeptic who engages in debate and discourse with the religiously afflicted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9430'),
(9607, 'Atheist Universe', 'David Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17281'),
(9608, 'The Athena Project: A Thriller', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The worldâ€™s most elite counterterrorism unit has just taken its game to an entirely new level. And not a moment too soon . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n From behind the rows of razor wire, a new breed of counterterrorism operator has emerged.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just as skilled, just as fearsome, and just as deadly as their colleagues, Delta Forceâ€™s newest members have only one thing setting them apartâ€”their gender. Part of a top-secret, all-female program codenamed\n <em>\n  The Athena Project,\n </em>\n four of Deltaâ€™s best and brightest women are about to undertake one of the nationâ€™s deadliest assignments.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a terrorist attack in Rome kills more than twenty Americans, Athena Team members Gretchen Casey, Julie Ericsson, Megan Rhodes, and Alex Cooper are tasked with hunting down the Venetian arms dealer responsible for providing the explosives. But there is more to the story than anyone knows.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the jungles of South America, a young U.S. intelligence officer has made a grisly discovery. Surrounded by monoliths covered with Runic symbols, one of Americaâ€™s greatest fears appears to have come true. Simultaneously in Colorado, a foreign spy is close to penetrating the mysterious secret the U.S. government has hidden beneath Denver International Airport.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Casey, Ericsson, Rhodes, and Cooper close in on their target, they will soon learn that another attackâ€”one of unimaginable proportionsâ€”has already been set in motion, and the greatest threat they face may be the secrets kept by their own government.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tucked away in a remote corner of North Carolinaâ€™s Fort Bragg, behind rows of razor wire and heavily armed guards, lies the headquarters of the nationâ€™s most elite counter-terrorism unit - the United States Armyâ€™s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta. Here, a brilliant new approach to combating terrorism has just been born. Its codename: The Athena Project.\n</p>\n<p>\n The novels will follow an elite team of female warriors from their recruitment as top-level athletes, through their training, to their deployment on some of the most exciting and dangerous international assignments the fiction world has ever seen.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brad Thorâ€™s readers will be electrified as he employs his vast knowledge of covert operations and military intrigue to bring to life his most heart-pounding, globe-trotting thrillers yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7222'),
(9609, 'The Athena Project: A Thriller', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The worldâ€™s most elite counterterrorism unit has just taken its game to an entirely new level. And not a moment too soon . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n From behind the rows of razor wire, a new breed of counterterrorism operator has emerged.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just as skilled, just as fearsome, and just as deadly as their colleagues, Delta Forceâ€™s newest members have only one thing setting them apartâ€”their gender. Part of a top-secret, all-female program codenamed\n <em>\n  The Athena Project,\n </em>\n four of Deltaâ€™s best and brightest women are about to undertake one of the nationâ€™s deadliest assignments.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a terrorist attack in Rome kills more than twenty Americans, Athena Team members Gretchen Casey, Julie Ericsson, Megan Rhodes, and Alex Cooper are tasked with hunting down the Venetian arms dealer responsible for providing the explosives. But there is more to the story than anyone knows.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the jungles of South America, a young U.S. intelligence officer has made a grisly discovery. Surrounded by monoliths covered with Runic symbols, one of Americaâ€™s greatest fears appears to have come true. Simultaneously in Colorado, a foreign spy is close to penetrating the mysterious secret the U.S. government has hidden beneath Denver International Airport.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Casey, Ericsson, Rhodes, and Cooper close in on their target, they will soon learn that another attackâ€”one of unimaginable proportionsâ€”has already been set in motion, and the greatest threat they face may be the secrets kept by their own government.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tucked away in a remote corner of North Carolinaâ€™s Fort Bragg, behind rows of razor wire and heavily armed guards, lies the headquarters of the nationâ€™s most elite counter-terrorism unit - the United States Armyâ€™s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta. Here, a brilliant new approach to combating terrorism has just been born. Its codename: The Athena Project.\n</p>\n<p>\n The novels will follow an elite team of female warriors from their recruitment as top-level athletes, through their training, to their deployment on some of the most exciting and dangerous international assignments the fiction world has ever seen.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brad Thorâ€™s readers will be electrified as he employs his vast knowledge of covert operations and military intrigue to bring to life his most heart-pounding, globe-trotting thrillers yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13040'),
(9610, 'The Athena Project: A Thriller', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The worldâ€™s most elite counterterrorism unit has just taken its game to an entirely new level. And not a moment too soon . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n From behind the rows of razor wire, a new breed of counterterrorism operator has emerged.\n</p>\n<p>\n Just as skilled, just as fearsome, and just as deadly as their colleagues, Delta Forceâ€™s newest members have only one thing setting them apartâ€”their gender. Part of a top-secret, all-female program codenamed\n <em>\n  The Athena Project,\n </em>\n four of Deltaâ€™s best and brightest women are about to undertake one of the nationâ€™s deadliest assignments.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a terrorist attack in Rome kills more than twenty Americans, Athena Team members Gretchen Casey, Julie Ericsson, Megan Rhodes, and Alex Cooper are tasked with hunting down the Venetian arms dealer responsible for providing the explosives. But there is more to the story than anyone knows.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the jungles of South America, a young U.S. intelligence officer has made a grisly discovery. Surrounded by monoliths covered with Runic symbols, one of Americaâ€™s greatest fears appears to have come true. Simultaneously in Colorado, a foreign spy is close to penetrating the mysterious secret the U.S. government has hidden beneath Denver International Airport.\n</p>\n<p>\n As Casey, Ericsson, Rhodes, and Cooper close in on their target, they will soon learn that another attackâ€”one of unimaginable proportionsâ€”has already been set in motion, and the greatest threat they face may be the secrets kept by their own government.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tucked away in a remote corner of North Carolinaâ€™s Fort Bragg, behind rows of razor wire and heavily armed guards, lies the headquarters of the nationâ€™s most elite counter-terrorism unit - the United States Armyâ€™s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta. Here, a brilliant new approach to combating terrorism has just been born. Its codename: The Athena Project.\n</p>\n<p>\n The novels will follow an elite team of female warriors from their recruitment as top-level athletes, through their training, to their deployment on some of the most exciting and dangerous international assignments the fiction world has ever seen.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brad Thorâ€™s readers will be electrified as he employs his vast knowledge of covert operations and military intrigue to bring to life his most heart-pounding, globe-trotting thrillers yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16758'),
(9611, 'The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War', 'Norman Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stone builds on his expertise in the long 19th century in this very successful overview of a cold war whose end, he says, was a complete surprise. Intellectually, Marxism-Leninism in parts of the West was more of a vital belief system than in the East, where it was an orthodoxy Diplomatically, for every Western success there seemed to be multiple triumphs for Communist countries or Third World proxies. Militarily, a thermonuclear stalemate framed a spectrum of defeats in unconventional wars and insurgencies. Europe was moribund; America was uncertain. Then the U.S.S.R. imploded. The Western-generated forces of individualism and creativity might have been overshadowed, says Stone, but for Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, who he says personified their re-emergence. The Atlantic world boomed unexpectedly while the East was gridlocked and the Third World hobbled by ideologically based overextension and overmanagement, too arteriosclerotic to withstand the stress of reform. Stone''s consistently vivid text presents history as a contingent process whose results are never idealâ€”but neither are they permanent. Illus.\n <em>\n  (June 1)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Economist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[Stone] has a terrific eye for detail, bringing to life everything from the ruins of Germany to Ronald Reaganâ€™s White House with a wonderfully waspish turn of phraseâ€¦. He captures well the Westâ€™s weakness, as well as the seemingly powerful challenge that eastern-style socialism posed to Western freedom.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Michael Burleigh,\n  <em>\n   Spectator\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œSparkling....The bookâ€™s importance is to remind us that the Cold War was an active contest, whose outcome was by no means certain....Stone has produced a powerful alternative to the Left â€˜liberalâ€™ reading of Cold War history, without sounding in the least triumphalist.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New Statesman\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStoneâ€™s eye for the telling detail gives his account of the cold war years an edge of authenticity lacking from more conventional historiesâ€¦. A beguiling mix of grand narrative and autobiographical vignettes,\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and its Enemies\n </em>\n is the one book that anyone who wants to understand the cold war as it developed must readâ€¦. [A] rich, exuberant and melancholy book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Norman Stone] paints on a broad canvas, showing how the Cold War unfoldedâ€¦. The West is currently engaged in a new sort of war, with radical Islam.... Meanwhile, the economy of the developed world is more precarious than it was in the darkest hours of the 1970s. Mr. Stone doesnâ€™t stop to address the contemporary crisis, but\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n is an inspiring reminder that the West has risen to meet such challenges before, helped at crucial moments by bold leaders.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStone, one of Great Britainâ€™s most distinguished historians, now offers his own assessment of the period between the end of World War II and the fall of the Soviet Unionâ€¦. [He] bring[s] decades of erudition to his analysis; moreover, he lived in Eastern Europe during part of the period under review and brings that perspective to his work as well.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John Gray,\n  <em>\n   New Statesman\n  </em>\n  (London)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œStoneâ€™s eye for the telling detail gives his account of the cold war years an edge of authenticity lacking from more conventional historiesâ€¦. A beguiling mix of grand narrative and autobiographical vignettes, The Atlantic and Its Enemies is the one book that anyone who wants to understand the cold war as it developed must readâ€¦. [A] rich, exuberant and melancholy book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrilliant....A forthright, brave history, full of wit and humanity, and readable to a degree that will delight all but the green-eyed.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Geoffrey Wheatcroft,\n  <em>\n   Guardian\n  </em>\n  (London)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[Stone] knows central Europe better than most historians, and has no sympathy with the â€˜revisionistâ€™ claim that the west started the conflict, or that both sides were equally to blameâ€¦. All of this is told in a lively or even rollicking fashion, and the word â€˜personalâ€™ in Stoneâ€™s subtitle is an understatement; idiosyncratic or downright eccentric might be more like it. The author is one of the great academic characters of our time.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Boyd Tonkin,\n  <em>\n   Independent\n  </em>\n  (London) (UK)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œWandering, opinionated, mischievous, the book is strung between two downfalls, that of the Third Reich in 1945 and the Soviet empire in 1989. Stoneâ€™s vagabond history rattles across one world-shaking scene of upheaval after another, from the Moscow-backed putsches of the late 1940s in eastern Europe via the 1960sâ€™ feast of fools and the 1970s convulsions that led to the later triumph of Thatcher, Reagan and Pinochet to the unpredicted foundering of Soviet power: Stoneâ€™s terminus, and his final vindication in the face of gormless academic fellow-travellersâ€¦. The book bristles with gleeful passages of lefty-baiting provocationâ€¦.In these moods, part-Evelyn Waugh, part-Jeremy Clarkson, Stone just loves to goad the liberal left. Yet they alternate with hard-headed analyses of the financial shifts behind political faÃ§ades (with a brilliant account of how Saudi oil-price manipulation helped sink the Soviet Union), virtuoso sketches of pivotal events (such as Papa Docâ€™s funeral) and enthralling, colourful swerves into memoir.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mark Mazower,\n  <em>\n   Financial Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œPedantic historians are just one of Norman Stoneâ€™s targets in this swashbuckling survey of the cold war. Perhaps the most brilliant Europeanist of his generation, a man with an intimate knowledge of at least half a dozen countries, and the languages to match, he serves the reader a spicier fare than the pabulums provided by his more cautious brethren." _\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <em>\n  _TusconCitizen.com\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œWhat gives this hefty 668-page book its literary legs is how the author has vividly captured the atmosphere of the time and the moral and political crises that tempered strategies on both sides of the Atlantic.\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n is full of surp\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  _\n  <em>\n   _TusconCitizen.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œWhat gives this hefty 668-page book its literary legs is how the author has vividly captured the atmosphere of the time and the moral and political crises that tempered strategies on both sides of the Atlantic.\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n is full of surprises."\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  _\n  <em>\n   _Bookviews.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œSome works of history are so monumental that they are especially deserving of praise. This is the case of Norman Stoneâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   National Review\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStone, the veteran British journalist and historian, has produced an original interpretative narrative that is idiosyncratic and downright odd in placesâ€¦. Yet it is precisely Stoneâ€™s departures from the standard political-diplomatic themes that enable him to offer a fresh and provocative perspective on events we might have thought thoroughly familiarâ€¦. One of the beguiling charms of Stoneâ€™s narrative is the way in which his cool, understated prose bursts from the page at piquant moments, especially when describing the defects of political leaders of the 1960s and 1970sâ€¦.\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n [is] a worthy addition to the essential Cold War canon. Add it to your shelf.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pat Shipman, Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University and author of\n  <em>\n   Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNancy Marie Brown again uses her extraordinary ability to bring medieval time to life in_ The Abacus and the Cross_, in the person of the â€˜Scientist Popeâ€™ Gerbert of Aurillac (later Pope Sylvester III). Working from sparse records, Brown manages to tell us of the remarkable scholar, brilliant mathematician, and inveterate punster who loved both his holy orders and luxurious living. She shows us a time in which the route to God lay through the study of science and math and when intellectual developments flowed across the boundaries of religion and empire in Eurasia. This is a remarkable book that reflects on our modern times on every page.â€\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jeff Sypeck, author of\n  <em>\n   Becoming Charlemagne\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA pleasure to read,\n <em>\n  The Abacus and the Cross\n </em>\n draws readers into a worldÂ ofÂ intrigue, superstition, and scholarship. Nancy Marie Brown writes lucidly about math and science, finding important stories in the lives of medieval peopleÂ who deserve to be widely remembered.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2449'),
(9612, 'The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War', 'Norman Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stone builds on his expertise in the long 19th century in this very successful overview of a cold war whose end, he says, was a complete surprise. Intellectually, Marxism-Leninism in parts of the West was more of a vital belief system than in the East, where it was an orthodoxy Diplomatically, for every Western success there seemed to be multiple triumphs for Communist countries or Third World proxies. Militarily, a thermonuclear stalemate framed a spectrum of defeats in unconventional wars and insurgencies. Europe was moribund; America was uncertain. Then the U.S.S.R. imploded. The Western-generated forces of individualism and creativity might have been overshadowed, says Stone, but for Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, who he says personified their re-emergence. The Atlantic world boomed unexpectedly while the East was gridlocked and the Third World hobbled by ideologically based overextension and overmanagement, too arteriosclerotic to withstand the stress of reform. Stone''s consistently vivid text presents history as a contingent process whose results are never idealâ€”but neither are they permanent. Illus.\n <em>\n  (June 1)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Economist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[Stone] has a terrific eye for detail, bringing to life everything from the ruins of Germany to Ronald Reaganâ€™s White House with a wonderfully waspish turn of phraseâ€¦. He captures well the Westâ€™s weakness, as well as the seemingly powerful challenge that eastern-style socialism posed to Western freedom.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Michael Burleigh,\n  <em>\n   Spectator\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œSparkling....The bookâ€™s importance is to remind us that the Cold War was an active contest, whose outcome was by no means certain....Stone has produced a powerful alternative to the Left â€˜liberalâ€™ reading of Cold War history, without sounding in the least triumphalist.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New Statesman\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStoneâ€™s eye for the telling detail gives his account of the cold war years an edge of authenticity lacking from more conventional historiesâ€¦. A beguiling mix of grand narrative and autobiographical vignettes,\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and its Enemies\n </em>\n is the one book that anyone who wants to understand the cold war as it developed must readâ€¦. [A] rich, exuberant and melancholy book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Norman Stone] paints on a broad canvas, showing how the Cold War unfoldedâ€¦. The West is currently engaged in a new sort of war, with radical Islam.... Meanwhile, the economy of the developed world is more precarious than it was in the darkest hours of the 1970s. Mr. Stone doesnâ€™t stop to address the contemporary crisis, but\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n is an inspiring reminder that the West has risen to meet such challenges before, helped at crucial moments by bold leaders.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStone, one of Great Britainâ€™s most distinguished historians, now offers his own assessment of the period between the end of World War II and the fall of the Soviet Unionâ€¦. [He] bring[s] decades of erudition to his analysis; moreover, he lived in Eastern Europe during part of the period under review and brings that perspective to his work as well.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John Gray,\n  <em>\n   New Statesman\n  </em>\n  (London)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œStoneâ€™s eye for the telling detail gives his account of the cold war years an edge of authenticity lacking from more conventional historiesâ€¦. A beguiling mix of grand narrative and autobiographical vignettes, The Atlantic and Its Enemies is the one book that anyone who wants to understand the cold war as it developed must readâ€¦. [A] rich, exuberant and melancholy book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrilliant....A forthright, brave history, full of wit and humanity, and readable to a degree that will delight all but the green-eyed.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Geoffrey Wheatcroft,\n  <em>\n   Guardian\n  </em>\n  (London)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[Stone] knows central Europe better than most historians, and has no sympathy with the â€˜revisionistâ€™ claim that the west started the conflict, or that both sides were equally to blameâ€¦. All of this is told in a lively or even rollicking fashion, and the word â€˜personalâ€™ in Stoneâ€™s subtitle is an understatement; idiosyncratic or downright eccentric might be more like it. The author is one of the great academic characters of our time.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Boyd Tonkin,\n  <em>\n   Independent\n  </em>\n  (London) (UK)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œWandering, opinionated, mischievous, the book is strung between two downfalls, that of the Third Reich in 1945 and the Soviet empire in 1989. Stoneâ€™s vagabond history rattles across one world-shaking scene of upheaval after another, from the Moscow-backed putsches of the late 1940s in eastern Europe via the 1960sâ€™ feast of fools and the 1970s convulsions that led to the later triumph of Thatcher, Reagan and Pinochet to the unpredicted foundering of Soviet power: Stoneâ€™s terminus, and his final vindication in the face of gormless academic fellow-travellersâ€¦. The book bristles with gleeful passages of lefty-baiting provocationâ€¦.In these moods, part-Evelyn Waugh, part-Jeremy Clarkson, Stone just loves to goad the liberal left. Yet they alternate with hard-headed analyses of the financial shifts behind political faÃ§ades (with a brilliant account of how Saudi oil-price manipulation helped sink the Soviet Union), virtuoso sketches of pivotal events (such as Papa Docâ€™s funeral) and enthralling, colourful swerves into memoir.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Mark Mazower,\n  <em>\n   Financial Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œPedantic historians are just one of Norman Stoneâ€™s targets in this swashbuckling survey of the cold war. Perhaps the most brilliant Europeanist of his generation, a man with an intimate knowledge of at least half a dozen countries, and the languages to match, he serves the reader a spicier fare than the pabulums provided by his more cautious brethren." _\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <em>\n  _TusconCitizen.com\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œWhat gives this hefty 668-page book its literary legs is how the author has vividly captured the atmosphere of the time and the moral and political crises that tempered strategies on both sides of the Atlantic.\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n is full of surp\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  _\n  <em>\n   _TusconCitizen.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œWhat gives this hefty 668-page book its literary legs is how the author has vividly captured the atmosphere of the time and the moral and political crises that tempered strategies on both sides of the Atlantic.\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n is full of surprises."\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  _\n  <em>\n   _Bookviews.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œSome works of history are so monumental that they are especially deserving of praise. This is the case of Norman Stoneâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   National Review\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStone, the veteran British journalist and historian, has produced an original interpretative narrative that is idiosyncratic and downright odd in placesâ€¦. Yet it is precisely Stoneâ€™s departures from the standard political-diplomatic themes that enable him to offer a fresh and provocative perspective on events we might have thought thoroughly familiarâ€¦. One of the beguiling charms of Stoneâ€™s narrative is the way in which his cool, understated prose bursts from the page at piquant moments, especially when describing the defects of political leaders of the 1960s and 1970sâ€¦.\n <em>\n  The Atlantic and Its Enemies\n </em>\n [is] a worthy addition to the essential Cold War canon. Add it to your shelf.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pat Shipman, Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University and author of\n  <em>\n   Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNancy Marie Brown again uses her extraordinary ability to bring medieval time to life in_ The Abacus and the Cross_, in the person of the â€˜Scientist Popeâ€™ Gerbert of Aurillac (later Pope Sylvester III). Working from sparse records, Brown manages to tell us of the remarkable scholar, brilliant mathematician, and inveterate punster who loved both his holy orders and luxurious living. She shows us a time in which the route to God lay through the study of science and math and when intellectual developments flowed across the boundaries of religion and empire in Eurasia. This is a remarkable book that reflects on our modern times on every page.â€\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jeff Sypeck, author of\n  <em>\n   Becoming Charlemagne\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA pleasure to read,\n <em>\n  The Abacus and the Cross\n </em>\n draws readers into a worldÂ ofÂ intrigue, superstition, and scholarship. Nancy Marie Brown writes lucidly about math and science, finding important stories in the lives of medieval peopleÂ who deserve to be widely remembered.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12870'),
(9613, 'The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History Of The Cold War', 'Norman Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21563'),
(9614, 'Atlantic Fury', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18329'),
(9615, 'Atlantis', 'David Gibbins &amp; Gerardo Di Masso', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marine archeologist Jack Howard may have found the key to uncovering Atlantis, the legendary sunken city purportedly built by a flourishing culture. A scrap of papyrus discovered in an Egyptian desert, which may contain a secondhand account of the lost city, sends Jack scrambling to assemble a team, including Costas, an MIT- and Stanford-trained expert in "submersible technology" and Katya, a beautiful Russian Atlantis specialist. Once prepped and in position in the Aegean Sea, Jack and company find themselves caught up with Kazakhstan terrorists and a multicountry fight over a missing Soviet nuclear submarineâ€”and that''s before they''ve uncovered the ancient secrets of the lost city. It''s thrilling stuff for sure, but the story limps along on complicated, exposition-heavy science that''s doled out much too slowly (characters walk each otherâ€”often and at lengthâ€”through their particular areas of expertise as the plot requires). Gibbons, an underwater archeologist and Cambridge University Ph.D., knows his science; still, things don''t pick up until the second half of the story, when the dive gives way to a more straightforward kidnapping plot. The historical conspiracy angle gives the book\n <em>\n  Da Vinci\n </em>\n -esque appeal, and the intense visual details of the team''s marine discoveries make it naturally cinematic, but if history and science lectures aren''t your cup of Dramamine, you might want to give this one a pass.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The historical conspiracy angle gives the book\n <em>\n  Da Vinci\n </em>\n -esque appeal, and the intense visual details of the team''s marine discoveries make it naturally cinematic."â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6298'),
(9616, 'Atlantis', 'David Gibbins &amp; Gerardo Di Masso', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marine archeologist Jack Howard may have found the key to uncovering Atlantis, the legendary sunken city purportedly built by a flourishing culture. A scrap of papyrus discovered in an Egyptian desert, which may contain a secondhand account of the lost city, sends Jack scrambling to assemble a team, including Costas, an MIT- and Stanford-trained expert in "submersible technology" and Katya, a beautiful Russian Atlantis specialist. Once prepped and in position in the Aegean Sea, Jack and company find themselves caught up with Kazakhstan terrorists and a multicountry fight over a missing Soviet nuclear submarineâ€”and that''s before they''ve uncovered the ancient secrets of the lost city. It''s thrilling stuff for sure, but the story limps along on complicated, exposition-heavy science that''s doled out much too slowly (characters walk each otherâ€”often and at lengthâ€”through their particular areas of expertise as the plot requires). Gibbons, an underwater archeologist and Cambridge University Ph.D., knows his science; still, things don''t pick up until the second half of the story, when the dive gives way to a more straightforward kidnapping plot. The historical conspiracy angle gives the book\n <em>\n  Da Vinci\n </em>\n -esque appeal, and the intense visual details of the team''s marine discoveries make it naturally cinematic, but if history and science lectures aren''t your cup of Dramamine, you might want to give this one a pass.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The historical conspiracy angle gives the book\n <em>\n  Da Vinci\n </em>\n -esque appeal, and the intense visual details of the team''s marine discoveries make it naturally cinematic."â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9887'),
(9617, 'Atlantis', 'David Gibbins; Gerardo Di Masso', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marine archeologist Jack Howard may have found the key to uncovering Atlantis, the legendary sunken city purportedly built by a flourishing culture. A scrap of papyrus discovered in an Egyptian desert, which may contain a secondhand account of the lost city, sends Jack scrambling to assemble a team, including Costas, an MIT- and Stanford-trained expert in "submersible technology" and Katya, a beautiful Russian Atlantis specialist. Once prepped and in position in the Aegean Sea, Jack and company find themselves caught up with Kazakhstan terrorists and a multicountry fight over a missing Soviet nuclear submarineâ€”and that''s before they''ve uncovered the ancient secrets of the lost city. It''s thrilling stuff for sure, but the story limps along on complicated, exposition-heavy science that''s doled out much too slowly (characters walk each otherâ€”often and at lengthâ€”through their particular areas of expertise as the plot requires). Gibbons, an underwater archeologist and Cambridge University Ph.D., knows his science; still, things don''t pick up until the second half of the story, when the dive gives way to a more straightforward kidnapping plot. The historical conspiracy angle gives the book\n <em>\n  Da Vinci\n </em>\n -esque appeal, and the intense visual details of the team''s marine discoveries make it naturally cinematic, but if history and science lectures aren''t your cup of Dramamine, you might want to give this one a pass.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The historical conspiracy angle gives the book\n <em>\n  Da Vinci\n </em>\n -esque appeal, and the intense visual details of the team''s marine discoveries make it naturally cinematic."â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17756'),
(9618, 'Atlantis and Other Places', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alternate historian extraordinaire Turtledove (Hitler''s War) explores a dozen different "what if?" scenarios in this reprint collection. These stories, some dead serious and some absurdly improbable, demonstrate his ability to slip, chameleonlike, from one mode to the next. An aging John Audubon searches for rare birds in "Audubon in Atlantis," and Hitler''s life takes a very different turn in the epistolary "Uncle Alf." "The Catcher in the Rhine" adeptly blends an American classic and a Wagnerian opera. Perhaps the most outrageous is "Bedfellows," featuring George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. Turtledove also takes a few potshots at the modern media in "News from the Front." Helpful forewords explain the inspiration for, or divergence point of, each story. Whether he''s going for humor or pathos, action or social commentary, Turtledove''s research is always solid, his speculation thoughtful, and his execution professional. (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turtledove has long been established at the head of the alternate-history field. This short-story collection suggests that he can also thrust his tongue farther into his cheek than most authors can dream of. The first and last stories are laid in his new creation, the mid-Atlantic subcontinent of Atlantis. In one, John James Audubon sets out to capture on canvas the fast-disappearing birdlife; in the other, an eminent London detective and his doctor partner tackle the mystery of the Scarlet Band. In â€œDaimon,â€ the Greek general Alkibiades rises to the level of Alexander the Great, with unfortunate results for Socrates. â€œThe Horse of Bronzeâ€ is a wild romp through classical Greece, while â€œOccupation Dutyâ€ explores another possible conqueror for Southwest Asia. â€œThe Catcher in the Rhineâ€ is a send-up that a certain cult novel has long deserved, while â€œNews from the Frontâ€ savagely juxtaposes modern mediaocracy with WWII. And letâ€™s not forget â€œUncle Alf,â€ wholly spent inside the mind of an alternate Adolf Hitler (the Germans won WWI), and just plain scary. High Demand Backstory: Publisher promotion, plus his recognizable name, equals buzz. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5188'),
(9619, 'Atlantis and Other Places', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alternate historian extraordinaire Turtledove (Hitler''s War) explores a dozen different "what if?" scenarios in this reprint collection. These stories, some dead serious and some absurdly improbable, demonstrate his ability to slip, chameleonlike, from one mode to the next. An aging John Audubon searches for rare birds in "Audubon in Atlantis," and Hitler''s life takes a very different turn in the epistolary "Uncle Alf." "The Catcher in the Rhine" adeptly blends an American classic and a Wagnerian opera. Perhaps the most outrageous is "Bedfellows," featuring George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. Turtledove also takes a few potshots at the modern media in "News from the Front." Helpful forewords explain the inspiration for, or divergence point of, each story. Whether he''s going for humor or pathos, action or social commentary, Turtledove''s research is always solid, his speculation thoughtful, and his execution professional. (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turtledove has long been established at the head of the alternate-history field. This short-story collection suggests that he can also thrust his tongue farther into his cheek than most authors can dream of. The first and last stories are laid in his new creation, the mid-Atlantic subcontinent of Atlantis. In one, John James Audubon sets out to capture on canvas the fast-disappearing birdlife; in the other, an eminent London detective and his doctor partner tackle the mystery of the Scarlet Band. In â€œDaimon,â€ the Greek general Alkibiades rises to the level of Alexander the Great, with unfortunate results for Socrates. â€œThe Horse of Bronzeâ€ is a wild romp through classical Greece, while â€œOccupation Dutyâ€ explores another possible conqueror for Southwest Asia. â€œThe Catcher in the Rhineâ€ is a send-up that a certain cult novel has long deserved, while â€œNews from the Frontâ€ savagely juxtaposes modern mediaocracy with WWII. And letâ€™s not forget â€œUncle Alf,â€ wholly spent inside the mind of an alternate Adolf Hitler (the Germans won WWI), and just plain scary. High Demand Backstory: Publisher promotion, plus his recognizable name, equals buzz. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13133');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(9620, 'Atlantis and Other Places', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alternate historian extraordinaire Turtledove (Hitler''s War) explores a dozen different "what if?" scenarios in this reprint collection. These stories, some dead serious and some absurdly improbable, demonstrate his ability to slip, chameleonlike, from one mode to the next. An aging John Audubon searches for rare birds in "Audubon in Atlantis," and Hitler''s life takes a very different turn in the epistolary "Uncle Alf." "The Catcher in the Rhine" adeptly blends an American classic and a Wagnerian opera. Perhaps the most outrageous is "Bedfellows," featuring George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. Turtledove also takes a few potshots at the modern media in "News from the Front." Helpful forewords explain the inspiration for, or divergence point of, each story. Whether he''s going for humor or pathos, action or social commentary, Turtledove''s research is always solid, his speculation thoughtful, and his execution professional. (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Turtledove has long been established at the head of the alternate-history field. This short-story collection suggests that he can also thrust his tongue farther into his cheek than most authors can dream of. The first and last stories are laid in his new creation, the mid-Atlantic subcontinent of Atlantis. In one, John James Audubon sets out to capture on canvas the fast-disappearing birdlife; in the other, an eminent London detective and his doctor partner tackle the mystery of the Scarlet Band. In â€œDaimon,â€ the Greek general Alkibiades rises to the level of Alexander the Great, with unfortunate results for Socrates. â€œThe Horse of Bronzeâ€ is a wild romp through classical Greece, while â€œOccupation Dutyâ€ explores another possible conqueror for Southwest Asia. â€œThe Catcher in the Rhineâ€ is a send-up that a certain cult novel has long deserved, while â€œNews from the Frontâ€ savagely juxtaposes modern mediaocracy with WWII. And letâ€™s not forget â€œUncle Alf,â€ wholly spent inside the mind of an alternate Adolf Hitler (the Germans won WWI), and just plain scary. High Demand Backstory: Publisher promotion, plus his recognizable name, equals buzz. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19484'),
(9621, 'Atlantis Betrayed', 'Alyssa Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Another Warriors of Poseidon novel for romance lovers to dive into... What could Christophe, powerful Warrior of Poseidon, have in common with Fiona Campbell, the notorious jewel thief known as the Scarlet Ninja? Answer: The Siren, a legendary Crown Jewel that Fiona has targeted for her next heist. It''s said to be worth millions, but to Christophe it''s invaluable. For the Siren also happens to be one of the missing jewels from Poseidon''s trident. But breaking into the Tower of London is a two-person job, and Christophe and Fiona must team up to commit the crime of the century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7684'),
(9622, 'Atlantis Betrayed', 'Alyssa Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Another Warriors of Poseidon novel for romance lovers to dive into... What could Christophe, powerful Warrior of Poseidon, have in common with Fiona Campbell, the notorious jewel thief known as the Scarlet Ninja? Answer: The Siren, a legendary Crown Jewel that Fiona has targeted for her next heist. It''s said to be worth millions, but to Christophe it''s invaluable. For the Siren also happens to be one of the missing jewels from Poseidon''s trident. But breaking into the Tower of London is a two-person job, and Christophe and Fiona must team up to commit the crime of the century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9279'),
(9623, 'Atlantis Betrayed', 'Alyssa Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Another Warriors of Poseidon novel for romance lovers to dive into... What could Christophe, powerful Warrior of Poseidon, have in common with Fiona Campbell, the notorious jewel thief known as the Scarlet Ninja? Answer: The Siren, a legendary Crown Jewel that Fiona has targeted for her next heist. It''s said to be worth millions, but to Christophe it''s invaluable. For the Siren also happens to be one of the missing jewels from Poseidon''s trident. But breaking into the Tower of London is a two-person job, and Christophe and Fiona must team up to commit the crime of the century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16194'),
(9624, 'Atlantis Betrayed', 'Alyssa Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Another Warriors of Poseidon novel for romance lovers to dive into... What could Christophe, powerful Warrior of Poseidon, have in common with Fiona Campbell, the notorious jewel thief known as the Scarlet Ninja? Answer: The Siren, a legendary Crown Jewel that Fiona has targeted for her next heist. It''s said to be worth millions, but to Christophe it''s invaluable. For the Siren also happens to be one of the missing jewels from Poseidon''s trident. But breaking into the Tower of London is a two-person job, and Christophe and Fiona must team up to commit the crime of the century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26342'),
(9625, 'The Atlantis Code', 'Charles Brokaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A thrill-seeking Harvard linguistics professor and an ultrasecret branch of the Catholic Church go head-to-head in a race to uncover the secrets of the lost city of Atlantis. The ruins of the technologically-advanced, eerily-enigmatic ancient civilization promise their discoverer fame, fortune, and powerâ€¦ but hold earth-shattering secrets about the origin of man.  While world-famous linguist and archaeologist, Thomas Lourds, is shooting a film that dramatizes his flamboyant life and scientific achievements, satellites spot impossibly ancient ruins along the Spanish coast.  Lourds knows exactly what it means: the Lost Continent of Atlantis has been found.  The race is on, and Lourds'' challengers will do anything to get there first.Whoever controls the Lost Continent will control the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6910'),
(9626, 'The Atlantis Code', 'Charles Brokaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A thrill-seeking Harvard linguistics professor and an ultrasecret branch of the Catholic Church go head-to-head in a race to uncover the secrets of the lost city of Atlantis. The ruins of the technologically-advanced, eerily-enigmatic ancient civilization promise their discoverer fame, fortune, and powerâ€¦ but hold earth-shattering secrets about the origin of man. While world-famous linguist and archaeologist, Thomas Lourds, is shooting a film that dramatizes his flamboyant life and scientific achievements, satellites spot impossibly ancient ruins along the Spanish coast. Lourds knows exactly what it means: the Lost Continent of Atlantis has been found. The race is on, and Lourds'' challengers will do anything to get there first.Whoever controls the Lost Continent will control the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16998'),
(9627, 'The Atlantis Code', 'Charles Brokaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A thrill-seeking Harvard linguistics professor and an ultrasecret branch of the Catholic Church go head-to-head in a race to uncover the secrets of the lost city of Atlantis. The ruins of the technologically-advanced, eerily-enigmatic ancient civilization promise their discoverer fame, fortune, and powerâ€¦ but hold earth-shattering secrets about the origin of man. While world-famous linguist and archaeologist, Thomas Lourds, is shooting a film that dramatizes his flamboyant life and scientific achievements, satellites spot impossibly ancient ruins along the Spanish coast. Lourds knows exactly what it means: the Lost Continent of Atlantis has been found. The race is on, and Lourds'' challengers will do anything to get there first.Whoever controls the Lost Continent will control the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26797'),
(9628, 'Atlantis Endgame', 'Andre Norton; Sherwood Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15935'),
(9629, 'Atlantis Found', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Dirk Pitt discovers Atlantis, in a breathtaking novel from the grand master of adventure fiction. Clive Cussler has long since proven himself one of America''s most popular authors--a master of intricate, audacious plotting and "vibrant, rollicking narrative" (*Chicago Tribune*). But Atlantis Found may be his most audacious novel of all.September l858: An Antarctic whaler stumbles upon an aged wreck, its grisly frozen crew guarding crates of odd antiquities--and a skull carved from black obsidian.March 200l: A team of anthropologists gazes in awe at a wall of strange inscriptions, moments before a blast seals them deep within the Colorado rock.April 200l: A research ship manned by Dirk Pitt and members of the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency is set upon and nearly sunk by an impossibility--a vessel that should have died fifty-six years before.Pitt knows that somehow all these incidents are connected, and his investigations soon land him deep into an ancient mystery with very modern consequences, up against a diabolical enemy unlike any he has ever known, and racing to save not only his own life but the future of the world itself.The trap is set. The clock is ticking. And only one man stands between earth and Armageddon. . . .Filled with dazzling suspense and astonishing set pieces, this is Clive Cussler''s greatest adventure novel yet."I''ve always had tremendous fun with Dirk Pitt, but nothing has given me more pleasure than the opportunity to send him to that most fabled of lost lands, Atlantis, and to virtually reinvent aspects of its civilization. I hope you have as good a time reading Atlantis Found as I did writing it!"--Clive Cussler\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6701'),
(9630, 'Atlantis Found', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Dirk Pitt discovers Atlantis, in a breathtaking novel from the grand master of adventure fiction. Clive Cussler has long since proven himself one of America''s most popular authors--a master of intricate, audacious plotting and "vibrant, rollicking narrative" (*Chicago Tribune*). But Atlantis Found may be his most audacious novel of all.September l858: An Antarctic whaler stumbles upon an aged wreck, its grisly frozen crew guarding crates of odd antiquities--and a skull carved from black obsidian.March 200l: A team of anthropologists gazes in awe at a wall of strange inscriptions, moments before a blast seals them deep within the Colorado rock.April 200l: A research ship manned by Dirk Pitt and members of the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency is set upon and nearly sunk by an impossibility--a vessel that should have died fifty-six years before.Pitt knows that somehow all these incidents are connected, and his investigations soon land him deep into an ancient mystery with very modern consequences, up against a diabolical enemy unlike any he has ever known, and racing to save not only his own life but the future of the world itself.The trap is set. The clock is ticking. And only one man stands between earth and Armageddon. . . .Filled with dazzling suspense and astonishing set pieces, this is Clive Cussler''s greatest adventure novel yet."I''ve always had tremendous fun with Dirk Pitt, but nothing has given me more pleasure than the opportunity to send him to that most fabled of lost lands, Atlantis, and to virtually reinvent aspects of its civilization. I hope you have as good a time reading Atlantis Found as I did writing it!"--Clive Cussler\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9126'),
(9631, 'Atlantis Found', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Dirk Pitt discovers Atlantis, in a breathtaking novel from the grand master of adventure fiction. Clive Cussler has long since proven himself one of America''s most popular authors--a master of intricate, audacious plotting and "vibrant, rollicking narrative" (*Chicago Tribune*). But Atlantis Found may be his most audacious novel of all.September l858: An Antarctic whaler stumbles upon an aged wreck, its grisly frozen crew guarding crates of odd antiquities--and a skull carved from black obsidian.March 200l: A team of anthropologists gazes in awe at a wall of strange inscriptions, moments before a blast seals them deep within the Colorado rock.April 200l: A research ship manned by Dirk Pitt and members of the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency is set upon and nearly sunk by an impossibility--a vessel that should have died fifty-six years before.Pitt knows that somehow all these incidents are connected, and his investigations soon land him deep into an ancient mystery with very modern consequences, up against a diabolical enemy unlike any he has ever known, and racing to save not only his own life but the future of the world itself.The trap is set. The clock is ticking. And only one man stands between earth and Armageddon. . . .Filled with dazzling suspense and astonishing set pieces, this is Clive Cussler''s greatest adventure novel yet."I''ve always had tremendous fun with Dirk Pitt, but nothing has given me more pleasure than the opportunity to send him to that most fabled of lost lands, Atlantis, and to virtually reinvent aspects of its civilization. I hope you have as good a time reading Atlantis Found as I did writing it!"--Clive Cussler\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17351'),
(9632, 'Atlantis Found', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dirk Pitt discovers Atlantis, in a breathtaking novel from the grand master of adventure fiction. Clive Cussler has long since proven himself one of America''s most popular authors--a master of intricate, audacious plotting and "vibrant, rollicking narrative" (*Chicago Tribune*). But Atlantis Found may be his most audacious novel of all.September l858: An Antarctic whaler stumbles upon an aged wreck, its grisly frozen crew guarding crates of odd antiquities--and a skull carved from black obsidian.March 200l: A team of anthropologists gazes in awe at a wall of strange inscriptions, moments before a blast seals them deep within the Colorado rock.April 200l: A research ship manned by Dirk Pitt and members of the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency is set upon and nearly sunk by an impossibility--a vessel that should have died fifty-six years before.Pitt knows that somehow all these incidents are connected, and his investigations soon land him deep into an ancient mystery with very modern consequences, up against a diabolical enemy unlike any he has ever known, and racing to save not only his own life but the future of the world itself.The trap is set. The clock is ticking. And only one man stands between earth and Armageddon. . . .Filled with dazzling suspense and astonishing set pieces, this is Clive Cussler''s greatest adventure novel yet."I''ve always had tremendous fun with Dirk Pitt, but nothing has given me more pleasure than the opportunity to send him to that most fabled of lost lands, Atlantis, and to virtually reinvent aspects of its civilization. I hope you have as good a time reading Atlantis Found as I did writing it!"--Clive Cussler\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27017'),
(9633, 'Atlas Shrugged', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At last, Ayn Rand''s masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers. Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man''s body, but about the murder--and rebirth--of man''s spirit. * Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7391'),
(9634, 'Atlas shrugged', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, "Atlas Shrugged" is unlike any other book you have ever read. It is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man''s body, but about the murder - and rebirth - of man''s spirit. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query "Who is John Galt?" Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. This is the book that made her not only one of the most popular novelists of our century, but also one of its most influential thinkers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13995'),
(9635, 'Atlas Shrugged', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At last, Ayn Rand''s masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers. Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man''s body, but about the murder--and rebirth--of man''s spirit. * Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16507'),
(9636, 'Atlas shrugged', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, "Atlas Shrugged" is unlike any other book you have ever read. It is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man''s body, but about the murder - and rebirth - of man''s spirit. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query "Who is John Galt?" Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. This is the book that made her not only one of the most popular novelists of our century, but also one of its most influential thinkers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26571'),
(9637, 'Atmospheric Disturbances', 'Rivka Galchen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  not\n </em>\n the person you love but a doppelgÃ¤nger: or, what Leo Liebenstein coolly terms a "simulacrum" of his wife Rema at the outset of\n <em>\n  Atmospheric Disturbances\n </em>\n . David Byrne''s infamous cry that "this is not my beautiful wife" seems the most likely response, but Leo''s reaction to this sea change takes unpredictable and dazzlingly plotted turns in the story that follows. Leo''s journey to recover the "real" Rema is nothing short of byzantine; among its many mysteries is the delightfully inscrutable Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen, a master meteorologist who in cleverly constructed flashback sequences takes up residence in the daily rhythms of Leo and Rema''s marriage and becomes as much a focus of Leo''s obsession as his wife''s whereabouts. (Think\n <em>\n  --Anne Bartholomew\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this enthralling debut, psychiatrist Dr. Leo Liebenstein sets off to find his wife, Rema, who he believes has been replaced by a simulacrum. Also missing is one of Leo''s patients, Harvey, who is convinced he receives coded messages (via Page Six in the\n <em>\n  New York Post\n </em>\n ) from the Royal Academy of Meteorology to control the weather. At Rema''s urging, Leo pretends during his sessions with Harvey to be a Royal Academy agent (she thinks the fib could help break through to Harvey), and once Re- ma and Leo disappear, Leo turns to actual Royal Academy member Tzvi Gal-Chen''s meteorological work to guide him in his search for his wife. Leo''s quest takes him through Buenos Aires and Patagonia, and as he becomes increasingly delusional and erratic, Galchen adeptly reveals the actual situation to readers, including Rema''s anguish and anger at her husband. Leo''s devotion to the real Rema is heartbreaking and maddening; he cannot see that the woman he seeks has been with him all along. Don''t be surprised if this gives you a\n <em>\n  Crying of Lot 49\n </em>\n nostalgia hit.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1819'),
(9638, 'Atmospheric Disturbances', 'Rivka Galchen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  not\n </em>\n the person you love but a doppelgÃ¤nger: or, what Leo Liebenstein coolly terms a "simulacrum" of his wife Rema at the outset of\n <em>\n  Atmospheric Disturbances\n </em>\n . David Byrne''s infamous cry that "this is not my beautiful wife" seems the most likely response, but Leo''s reaction to this sea change takes unpredictable and dazzlingly plotted turns in the story that follows. Leo''s journey to recover the "real" Rema is nothing short of byzantine; among its many mysteries is the delightfully inscrutable Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen, a master meteorologist who in cleverly constructed flashback sequences takes up residence in the daily rhythms of Leo and Rema''s marriage and becomes as much a focus of Leo''s obsession as his wife''s whereabouts. (Think\n <em>\n  --Anne Bartholomew\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this enthralling debut, psychiatrist Dr. Leo Liebenstein sets off to find his wife, Rema, who he believes has been replaced by a simulacrum. Also missing is one of Leo''s patients, Harvey, who is convinced he receives coded messages (via Page Six in the\n <em>\n  New York Post\n </em>\n ) from the Royal Academy of Meteorology to control the weather. At Rema''s urging, Leo pretends during his sessions with Harvey to be a Royal Academy agent (she thinks the fib could help break through to Harvey), and once Re- ma and Leo disappear, Leo turns to actual Royal Academy member Tzvi Gal-Chen''s meteorological work to guide him in his search for his wife. Leo''s quest takes him through Buenos Aires and Patagonia, and as he becomes increasingly delusional and erratic, Galchen adeptly reveals the actual situation to readers, including Rema''s anguish and anger at her husband. Leo''s devotion to the real Rema is heartbreaking and maddening; he cannot see that the woman he seeks has been with him all along. Don''t be surprised if this gives you a\n <em>\n  Crying of Lot 49\n </em>\n nostalgia hit.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9871'),
(9639, 'Atmospheric Disturbances', 'Rivka Galchen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   not\n  </em>\n  the person you love but a doppelgÃ¤nger: or, what Leo Liebenstein coolly terms a "simulacrum" of his wife Rema at the outset of\n  <em>\n   Atmospheric Disturbances\n  </em>\n  . David Byrne''s infamous cry that "this is not my beautiful wife" seems the most likely response, but Leo''s reaction to this sea change takes unpredictable and dazzlingly plotted turns in the story that follows. Leo''s journey to recover the "real" Rema is nothing short of byzantine; among its many mysteries is the delightfully inscrutable Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen, a master meteorologist who in cleverly constructed flashback sequences takes up residence in the daily rhythms of Leo and Rema''s marriage and becomes as much a focus of Leo''s obsession as his wife''s whereabouts. (Think\n  <em>\n   --Anne Bartholomew\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In this enthralling debut, psychiatrist Dr. Leo Liebenstein sets off to find his wife, Rema, who he believes has been replaced by a simulacrum. Also missing is one of Leo''s patients, Harvey, who is convinced he receives coded messages (via Page Six in the\n  <em>\n   New York Post\n  </em>\n  ) from the Royal Academy of Meteorology to control the weather. At Rema''s urging, Leo pretends during his sessions with Harvey to be a Royal Academy agent (she thinks the fib could help break through to Harvey), and once Re- ma and Leo disappear, Leo turns to actual Royal Academy member Tzvi Gal-Chen''s meteorological work to guide him in his search for his wife. Leo''s quest takes him through Buenos Aires and Patagonia, and as he becomes increasingly delusional and erratic, Galchen adeptly reveals the actual situation to readers, including Rema''s anguish and anger at her husband. Leo''s devotion to the real Rema is heartbreaking and maddening; he cannot see that the woman he seeks has been with him all along. Don''t be surprised if this gives you a\n  <em>\n   Crying of Lot 49\n  </em>\n  nostalgia hit.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24836'),
(9640, 'Atonement', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister, Cecilia, strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl''s imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Atonement is Ian McEwan''s finest achievement. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, at its centre is a profound - and profoundly moving - exploration of shame and forgiveness, of atonement and the difficulty of absolution.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </h3>\n  <p class="description">\n   Ian McEwan''s Booker Prize-nominated\n   <em>\n    Atonement\n   </em>\n   is his first novel since\n   <em>\n    Amsterdam\n   </em>\n   took home the prize in 1998. But while\n   <em>\n    Amsterdam\n   </em>\n   was a slim, sleek piece,\n   <em>\n    Atonement\n   </em>\n   is a more sturdy, more ambitious work, allowing McEwan more room to play, think, and experiment.\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   We meet 13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama "The Trials of Arabella" to welcome home her older, idolized brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the glamorous Lola and the twin boys Jackson and Pierrot, aren''t up to the task, and directorial ambitions are abandoned as more interesting prospects of preoccupation come onto the scene. The charlady''s son, Robbie Turner, appears to be forcing Briony''s sister Cecilia to strip in the fountain and sends her obscene letters; Leon has brought home a dim chocolate magnate keen for a war to promote his new "Army Ammo" chocolate bar; and upstairs, Briony''s migraine-stricken mother Emily keeps tabs on the house from her bed. Soon, secrets emerge that change the lives of everyone present....\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   The interwar, upper-middle-class setting of the book''s long, masterfully sustained opening section might recall Virginia Woolf or Henry Green, but as we move forwardâ€”eventually to the turn of the 21st centuryâ€”the novel''s central concerns emerge, and McEwan''s voice becomes clear, even personal. For at heart,\n   <em>\n    Atonement\n   </em>\n   is about the pleasures, pains, and dangers of writing, and perhaps even more, about the challenge of controlling what readers make of your writing. McEwan shouldn''t have any doubts about readers of\n   <em>\n    Atonement\n   </em>\n   : this is a thoughtful, provocative, and at times moving book that will have readers applauding.\n   <em>\n    â€”Alan Stewart, Amazon.co.uk\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p class="description">\n   This haunting novel, which just failed to win the Booker this year, is at once McEwan at his most closely observed and psychologically penetrating, and his most sweeping and expansive. It is in effect two, or even three, books in one, all masterfully crafted. The first part ushers us into a domestic crisis that becomes a crime story centered around an event that changes the lives of half a dozen people in an upper-middle-class country home on a hot English summer''s day in 1935. Young Briony Tallis, a hyperimaginative 13-year-old who sees her older sister, Cecilia, mysteriously involved with their neighbor Robbie Turner, a fellow Cambridge student subsidized by the Tallis family, points a finger at Robbie when her young cousin is assaulted in the grounds that night; on her testimony alone, Robbie is jailed. The second part of the book moves forward five years to focus on Robbie, now freed and part of the British Army that was cornered and eventually evacuated by a fleet of small boats at Dunkirk during the early days of WWII. This is an astonishingly imagined fresco that bares the full anguish of what Britain in later years came to see as a kind of victory. In the third part, Briony becomes a nurse amid wonderfully observed scenes of London as the nation mobilizes. No, she doesn''t have Robbie as a patient, but she begins to come to terms with what she has done and offers to make amends to him and Cecilia, now together as lovers. In an ironic epilogue that is yet another coup de the tre, McEwan offers Briony as an elderly novelist today, revisiting her past in fact and fancy and contributing a moving windup to the sustained flight of a deeply novelistic imagination. With each book McEwan ranges wider, and his powers have never been more fully in evidence than here. Author tour. (Mar. 19)Forecast: McEwan''s work has been building a strong literary readership, and the brilliantly evoked prewar and wartime scenes here should extend that; expect strong results from handselling to the faithful. The cover photo of a stately English home nicely establishes the novel''s atmosphere\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25700'),
(9641, 'Atonement: A Novel', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a momentâ€™s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Brionyâ€™s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions* Atonement* follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4962'),
(9642, 'Atonement: a novel', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a momentâ€™s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Brionyâ€™s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions* Atonement* follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14443'),
(9643, 'Atonement: a novel', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a momentâ€™s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Brionyâ€™s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions* Atonement* follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19629'),
(9644, 'Atonement: a novel', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a momentâ€™s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Brionyâ€™s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions* Atonement* follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28188'),
(9645, 'The atrocity exhibition', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When ''''The Atrocity Exhibition'''' was first published in 1970 it was received by an unprepared world with widespread confusion. I soon became a cult book, however, and is now seen as one of this remarkable author''s key works, featuring many of the obsessions that recur in later books such as Empire of the Sun, High Rise and Super-Cannes, as well as the seed of his controversial Crash. In this revised edition, J.G. Ballard has added extensive annotations that help to unlock many of the mysteries of one of the most prophetic and enigmatic works of fiction of the late 20th century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25603'),
(9646, 'The au pairs skinny-dipping', 'Melissa de la Cruz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (The Au Pairs #2) SUMMARY: The girls are back for another summer of fun in the sun (and childminding), but a lot has changed since last time. Eliza is now working at a ''celebrity playground'' nightclub: schmoozing with the A-List (well, serving their drinks), trying to regain her title of popularity queen, and attempting to forget all about her Big Palm Beach Secret. The others, meanwhile, are back at the Perrys looking after the kids: what with the arrival of sexy Philippe, the new French au pair, who forces Jacqui to reconsider her ''No More Boys'' motto; and Mara''s ex hanging around with his new Charlize Therone clone of a girlfriend, the au pairs have a lot to contend with... Will their three-way friendship survive this summer of gossip and secrets?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21661'),
(9647, 'The Au Pairs', 'Melissa de la Cruz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (The Au Pairs #1) EDITORIAL REVIEW: **SUMMER AU PAIRS NEEDED IMMEDIATELY** *For four energetic children, between 3 and 10 years old. Join a NYC family for the best summer of your life in East Hampton, July 4-Labor Day. **Pay: $10,000.00** Driver''s license a must. Familiarity with the Hamptons, a plus. Send resumes and head shots to HamptonsAuPairs@yahoo.com* Meet Mara Waters, Eliza Thompson, and Jacqui Velasco -- new au pairs for one of New York City''s wealthiest families -- who will spend their summer in one of the most posh, most exclusive spots for summer summering: the Hamptons. For good girl Mara, this job is a way out of another go-slow Massachusetts summer. Eliza, New York City''s former It Girl, knows this is the fast lane back to the stylish world she wishes she''d never left. And for Brazilian bombshell Jacqui, it''s a boarding pass back to her American love who told her he''d e-mail as soon as he got home, and didn''t. After all, how hard can an au pair job be? Slap sunscreen on the kids during the day and party at the coolest hot spots at night, right?Ã¿Wrong. While Eliza is desperately trying to hide her baby-sitting job from her superspoiled friends who think she''s still just as rich as she used to be, Mara''s getting awfully cozy with the kids'' extremely attractive older brother, Ryan. And Jacqui is heartbroken when she discovers that the love of her life may have been nothing more than a spring fling. If the girls can manage au pair duties -- all the while mastering the ins and outs of the Hamptons'' social scene -- it might just turn out to be the most incredible summer of their lives. But to do it they''ll have to stick together. And that''s where things definitely get sticky.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21660'),
(9648, 'The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream', 'Barack Obama', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama''s call for a new kind of politicsâ€”a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America''s place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7322'),
(9649, 'The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream', 'Barack Obama', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama''s call for a new kind of politicsâ€”a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America''s place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14454'),
(9650, 'The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream', 'Barack Obama', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama''s call for a new kind of politicsâ€”a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America''s place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16562'),
(9651, 'The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream', 'Barack Obama', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama''s call for a new kind of politicsâ€”a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America''s place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26604'),
(9652, 'The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama&#39;s Historic Victory', 'David Plouffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The architect of the Obama campaign reveals how it all happened- and how it will revolutionize our politics**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy itself. *The Audacity to Win* is his story of that groundbreaking achievement, taking readers inside the remarkable campaign that led to the election of the first African American president.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For two years Plouffe worked side by side with Obama, charting the course of the campaign. His is the ultimate insider''s tale, revealing both the strategies that delivered Obama to office and how the candidate and campaign handled moments of great challenge and opportunity. Moving from the deliberations about whether to run at all, through the epic primary battle with Hillary Clinton and the general election against John McCain, Plouffe showcases the high-wire gamesmanship that fascinated pundits and the drama and intrigue that captivated a nation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Audacity to Win* chronicles the arrival of a new moment in American life at the convergence of digital technology and grassroots organization, and the exciting possibilities revealed by a campaign that in many ways functioned as a $1 billion start-up with laser-like focus and discipline. In this extraordinary book, David Plouffe unfolds one of the most important political stories of our time, one whose lessons are not limited to politics, but reach to the greatest heights of what we dream about for our country and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7923'),
(9653, 'The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama&#39;s Historic Victory', 'David Plouffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The architect of the Obama campaign reveals how it all happened- and how it will revolutionize our politics**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy itself. *The Audacity to Win* is his story of that groundbreaking achievement, taking readers inside the remarkable campaign that led to the election of the first African American president.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For two years Plouffe worked side by side with Obama, charting the course of the campaign. His is the ultimate insider''s tale, revealing both the strategies that delivered Obama to office and how the candidate and campaign handled moments of great challenge and opportunity. Moving from the deliberations about whether to run at all, through the epic primary battle with Hillary Clinton and the general election against John McCain, Plouffe showcases the high-wire gamesmanship that fascinated pundits and the drama and intrigue that captivated a nation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Audacity to Win* chronicles the arrival of a new moment in American life at the convergence of digital technology and grassroots organization, and the exciting possibilities revealed by a campaign that in many ways functioned as a $1 billion start-up with laser-like focus and discipline. In this extraordinary book, David Plouffe unfolds one of the most important political stories of our time, one whose lessons are not limited to politics, but reach to the greatest heights of what we dream about for our country and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11995'),
(9654, 'The audacity to win: the inside story and lessons of Barack Obama&#39;s historic victory', 'David Plouffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The architect of the Obama campaign reveals how it all happened- and how it will revolutionize our politics** David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy itself. *The Audacity to Win* is his story of that groundbreaking achievement, taking readers inside the remarkable campaign that led to the election of the first African American president. For two years Plouffe worked side by side with Obama, charting the course of the campaign. His is the ultimate insider''s tale, revealing both the strategies that delivered Obama to office and how the candidate and campaign handled moments of great challenge and opportunity. Moving from the deliberations about whether to run at all, through the epic primary battle with Hillary Clinton and the general election against John McCain, Plouffe showcases the high-wire gamesmanship that fascinated pundits and the drama and intrigue that captivated a nation. *The Audacity to Win* chronicles the arrival of a new moment in American life at the convergence of digital technology and grassroots organization, and the exciting possibilities revealed by a campaign that in many ways functioned as a $1 billion start-up with laser-like focus and discipline. In this extraordinary book, David Plouffe unfolds one of the most important political stories of our time, one whose lessons are not limited to politics, but reach to the greatest heights of what we dream about for our country and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17888'),
(9655, 'The audacity to win: the inside story and lessons of Barack Obama&#39;s historic victory', 'David Plouffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The architect of the Obama campaign reveals how it all happened- and how it will revolutionize our politics** David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy itself. *The Audacity to Win* is his story of that groundbreaking achievement, taking readers inside the remarkable campaign that led to the election of the first African American president. For two years Plouffe worked side by side with Obama, charting the course of the campaign. His is the ultimate insider''s tale, revealing both the strategies that delivered Obama to office and how the candidate and campaign handled moments of great challenge and opportunity. Moving from the deliberations about whether to run at all, through the epic primary battle with Hillary Clinton and the general election against John McCain, Plouffe showcases the high-wire gamesmanship that fascinated pundits and the drama and intrigue that captivated a nation. *The Audacity to Win* chronicles the arrival of a new moment in American life at the convergence of digital technology and grassroots organization, and the exciting possibilities revealed by a campaign that in many ways functioned as a $1 billion start-up with laser-like focus and discipline. In this extraordinary book, David Plouffe unfolds one of the most important political stories of our time, one whose lessons are not limited to politics, but reach to the greatest heights of what we dream about for our country and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27353');
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(9656, 'Audrey&#39;s Door', 'Sarah Langan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B''s astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all potential tenants . . . except for Audrey Lucas.   No stranger to tragedy at thirty-twoâ€”a survivor of a fatherless childhood and a mother''s hopeless dementiaâ€” Audrey is obsessively determined to make her own way in a city that often strangles the weak. But is it something otherworldly or Audrey''s own increasing instability that''s to blame for the dark visions that haunt her . . . and for the voice that demands that she build a door? A door it would be true madness to open . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1419'),
(9657, 'Audrey&#39;s Door', 'Sarah Langan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B''s astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all potential tenants . . . except for Audrey Lucas.   No stranger to tragedy at thirty-twoâ€”a survivor of a fatherless childhood and a mother''s hopeless dementiaâ€” Audrey is obsessively determined to make her own way in a city that often strangles the weak. But is it something otherworldly or Audrey''s own increasing instability that''s to blame for the dark visions that haunt her . . . and for the voice that demands that she build a door? A door it would be true madness to open . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12221'),
(9658, 'Audrey&#39;s Door', 'Sarah Langan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B''s astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all potential tenants . . . except for Audrey Lucas. No stranger to tragedy at thirty-twoâ€”a survivor of a fatherless childhood and a mother''s hopeless dementiaâ€” Audrey is obsessively determined to make her own way in a city that often strangles the weak. But is it something otherworldly or Audrey''s own increasing instability that''s to blame for the dark visions that haunt her . . . and for the voice that demands that she build a door? A door it would be true madness to open . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23571'),
(9659, 'Audrey&#39;s Door', 'Sarah Langan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B''s astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all potential tenants . . . except for Audrey Lucas. No stranger to tragedy at thirty-twoâ€”a survivor of a fatherless childhood and a mother''s hopeless dementiaâ€” Audrey is obsessively determined to make her own way in a city that often strangles the weak. But is it something otherworldly or Audrey''s own increasing instability that''s to blame for the dark visions that haunt her . . . and for the voice that demands that she build a door? A door it would be true madness to open . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26134'),
(9660, 'Aurorarama', 'Jean-Christophe Valtat', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A startling, seductive literary novel that entwines suspense, science fiction, adventure, romance and history into an intoxicating new genre.1908: New Venice--"the pearl of the Arctic"--a place of ice palaces and pneumatic tubes, of beautifully ornate carriage-sleds and elegant victorian garb, of long nights and vistas of ice.But as the city prepares for spring, it feels more like qaartsiluni, "the time when something is about to explode in the dark." Local "poletics" are wracked by tensions with the Eskimos circling the city, with suffragette riots led by an underground music star, with drug round-ups by the secret police force known as the Gentlemen of the Night. An ominous black airship hovers over the city, and the Gentlemen are hunting for the author of a radical pamphlet calling for revolt.Their lead suspect is Brentford Orsini, one of the city''s most prominent figures. But as the Gentlemen of the Night tighten the net around him, Orsini receives a mysterious message from a long-lost love that compels him to act.What transpires is a literary adventure novel unlike anything you''ve ever read before. Brilliant in its conception, masterful in its prose, thrilling in its plot twists, and laced with humor, suspense, and intelligence, it marks the beginning of a great new series of books set in New Venice-and the launch of an astonishing new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4613'),
(9661, 'Aurorarama', 'Jean-Christophe Valtat', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A startling, seductive literary novel that entwines suspense, science fiction, adventure, romance and history into an intoxicating new genre.1908: New Venice--"the pearl of the Arctic"--a place of ice palaces and pneumatic tubes, of beautifully ornate carriage-sleds and elegant victorian garb, of long nights and vistas of ice.But as the city prepares for spring, it feels more like qaartsiluni, "the time when something is about to explode in the dark." Local "poletics" are wracked by tensions with the Eskimos circling the city, with suffragette riots led by an underground music star, with drug round-ups by the secret police force known as the Gentlemen of the Night. An ominous black airship hovers over the city, and the Gentlemen are hunting for the author of a radical pamphlet calling for revolt.Their lead suspect is Brentford Orsini, one of the city''s most prominent figures. But as the Gentlemen of the Night tighten the net around him, Orsini receives a mysterious message from a long-lost love that compels him to act.What transpires is a literary adventure novel unlike anything you''ve ever read before. Brilliant in its conception, masterful in its prose, thrilling in its plot twists, and laced with humor, suspense, and intelligence, it marks the beginning of a great new series of books set in New Venice-and the launch of an astonishing new writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13167'),
(9662, 'The Austere Academy', 'Lemony A. Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dear Reader, If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire arc intelligent and resourceful children, and you might expect that they would do very well at school. Don''t. For the Baudelaires, school turns out to be another miserable episode in their unlucky lives. Truth be told, within the chapters that make up this dreadful story, the children will face snapping crabs, strict punishments, dripping fungus, comprehensive exams, violin recitals, S.O.R.E., and the metric system. It is my solemn duty to stay up all night researching and writing the history of these three hapless youngsters, but you may be more comfortable getting a good night''s sleep. In that case, you should probably choose some other book. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13807'),
(9663, 'Australia for Dummies (ISBN', '0470178345)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21440'),
(9664, 'Auto Repair for Dummies (ISBN', '076459902X)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17243'),
(9665, 'The Autobiography of Charles Darwin', 'Charles Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6917'),
(9666, 'The Autobiography of Charles Darwin', 'Charles Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16992'),
(9667, 'The Autobiography of Charles Darwin', 'Charles Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26792'),
(9668, 'The Autobiography of Henry VIII', 'Margaret George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14621'),
(9669, 'The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers', 'Margaret George', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n George presents a romanticized Henry VIII and fails to capture the "brilliance, the cunning or the ruthlessness of the grim monarch who tore down monasteries to fill his coffers, executed two of his six wives and sacrificed friend and enemy alike for political expediency," PW commented.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A remarkable achievement...Magnificently researched and admirably written." --_Mary Stewart_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Her novel is a...banquet feast for most readers...astonishing. There''s rousing drama, robust atmosphere and consistently solid characterization; and finally, Margaret George''s triumph is anchored in the urgent rhythm her writing attains." --_Forth Worth Star Telegram_\n</p>\n<p>\n "It doth brim with lust, violence, cruelty and living conservation...Margaret George has found a new and fresh way to tell the story. --_Detroit Free Press_\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3094'),
(9670, 'The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers', 'Margaret George', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n George presents a romanticized Henry VIII and fails to capture the "brilliance, the cunning or the ruthlessness of the grim monarch who tore down monasteries to fill his coffers, executed two of his six wives and sacrificed friend and enemy alike for political expediency," PW commented.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A remarkable achievement...Magnificently researched and admirably written." --_Mary Stewart_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Her novel is a...banquet feast for most readers...astonishing. There''s rousing drama, robust atmosphere and consistently solid characterization; and finally, Margaret George''s triumph is anchored in the urgent rhythm her writing attains." --_Forth Worth Star Telegram_\n</p>\n<p>\n "It doth brim with lust, violence, cruelty and living conservation...Margaret George has found a new and fresh way to tell the story. --_Detroit Free Press_\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9909'),
(9671, 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X', 'Malcolm X &amp; Alex Haley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the crucial truth about our times."Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book."TEH NEW YORKTIMES\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3196'),
(9672, 'The autobiography of Malcolm X', 'Malcolm X; Alex Haley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the crucial truth about our times."Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book."TEH NEW YORKTIMES\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14473'),
(9673, 'The autobiography of Malcolm X', 'Malcolm X; Alex Haley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the crucial truth about our times."Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book."TEH NEW YORKTIMES\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21326'),
(9674, 'Autobiography of Mark Twain', 'Twain, Mark &amp; Smith, Harriet E. &amp; Griffin, Benjamin &amp; Fischer, Victor &amp; Frank, Michael B.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13753'),
(9675, 'Autobiography of Mark Twain', 'Twain, Mark &amp; Smith, Harriet E. &amp; Griffin, Benjamin &amp; Fischer, Victor &amp; Frank, Michael B.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21814'),
(9676, 'Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I''ve struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"--meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank mind." The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain''s death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain''s works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain''s uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain''s authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2997'),
(9677, 'Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I''ve struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"--meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank mind." The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain''s death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain''s works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain''s uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain''s authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13115'),
(9678, 'Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "I''ve struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"--meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank mind." The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain''s death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain''s works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain''s uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain''s authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21813'),
(9679, 'Automating System Administration With Perl', 'David N. Blank-Edelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Thoroughly updated and expanded in its second edition to cover the latest operating systems, technologies, and Perl modules,\n <em>\n  Automating System Administration with Perl\n </em>\n will help you perform your job with less effort. The second edition not only offers you the right tools for your job, but also suggests the best way to approach particular problems and securely automate pressing tasks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6235'),
(9680, 'Automating System Administration With Perl', 'David N. Blank-Edelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Thoroughly updated and expanded in its second edition to cover the latest operating systems, technologies, and Perl modules,\n <em>\n  Automating System Administration with Perl\n </em>\n will help you perform your job with less effort. The second edition not only offers you the right tools for your job, but also suggests the best way to approach particular problems and securely automate pressing tasks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8514'),
(9681, 'Automating System Administration with Perl', 'David N. Blank-Edelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Thoroughly updated and expanded in its second edition to cover the latest operating systems, technologies, and Perl modules,\n <em>\n  Automating System Administration with Perl\n </em>\n will help you perform your job with less effort. The second edition not only offers you the right tools for your job, but also suggests the best way to approach particular problems and securely automate pressing tasks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17751'),
(9682, 'Autostrada din sud', 'Julio Cortazar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25465'),
(9683, 'Autumn of the Patriarch', 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18493'),
(9684, 'Avatamsaka Sutra', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15697'),
(9685, 'Avatarul', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25219'),
(9686, 'Avenger', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Having proved his grandfather Fergusâ€™ innocence, Danny Watts and his friend Elena have now been recruited by the British government for a dangerous assignment. Elena must impersonate a would-be suicide bomber to win the confidence of Black Star, the master computer hacker who is behind the rash of teenage bombings that have swept the globe. When Black Star sends Elena to New York, Danny and Fergus come along to keep an eye on her. But Fergus knows that once this mission is over, the government will have them all eliminated. As Elena begins to fall under Black Starâ€™s spell, it will take all of Dannyâ€™s survival training to find a way out. Having scored smash bestsellers in Britain with Traitor and Payback, the adventure continues in Avenger with all the authentic Special Ops details that made the previous books stand out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7636'),
(9687, 'Avenger', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Having proved his grandfather Fergusâ€™ innocence, Danny Watts and his friend Elena have now been recruited by the British government for a dangerous assignment. Elena must impersonate a would-be suicide bomber to win the confidence of Black Star, the master computer hacker who is behind the rash of teenage bombings that have swept the globe. When Black Star sends Elena to New York, Danny and Fergus come along to keep an eye on her. But Fergus knows that once this mission is over, the government will have them all eliminated. As Elena begins to fall under Black Starâ€™s spell, it will take all of Dannyâ€™s survival training to find a way out. Having scored smash bestsellers in Britain with Traitor and Payback, the adventure continues in Avenger with all the authentic Special Ops details that made the previous books stand out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11466'),
(9688, 'Avenger', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Having proved his grandfather Fergusâ€™ innocence, Danny Watts and his friend Elena have now been recruited by the British government for a dangerous assignment. Elena must impersonate a would-be suicide bomber to win the confidence of Black Star, the master computer hacker who is behind the rash of teenage bombings that have swept the globe. When Black Star sends Elena to New York, Danny and Fergus come along to keep an eye on her. But Fergus knows that once this mission is over, the government will have them all eliminated. As Elena begins to fall under Black Starâ€™s spell, it will take all of Dannyâ€™s survival training to find a way out. Having scored smash bestsellers in Britain with Traitor and Payback, the adventure continues in Avenger with all the authentic Special Ops details that made the previous books stand out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16229'),
(9689, 'Aventura lui Miguel Littin, clandestin in Chile', 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25790'),
(9690, 'Aventura unui student german', 'Washington Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24965'),
(9691, 'Avocatul strazii', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25494'),
(9692, 'Avoid Boring People: Lessons From a Life in Science', 'James D. Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson, a living legend for his work unlocking the structure of DNA, comes this candid and entertaining memoir, filled with practical advice for those starting out their academic careers. InAvoid Boring People, Watson lays down a lifers"s wisdom for getting ahead in a competitive world. Witty and uncompromisingly honest, he shares his thoughts on how young scientists should choose the projects that will shape their careers, the supreme importance of collegiality, and dealing with competitors within the same institution. Itrs"s an irreverent romp through Watsonrs"s colorful career and an indispensable guide to anyone interested in nurturing the life of the mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4848'),
(9693, 'Avoid Boring People: Lessons From a Life in Science', 'James D. Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson, a living legend for his work unlocking the structure of DNA, comes this candid and entertaining memoir, filled with practical advice for those starting out their academic careers. InAvoid Boring People, Watson lays down a lifers"s wisdom for getting ahead in a competitive world. Witty and uncompromisingly honest, he shares his thoughts on how young scientists should choose the projects that will shape their careers, the supreme importance of collegiality, and dealing with competitors within the same institution. Itrs"s an irreverent romp through Watsonrs"s colorful career and an indispensable guide to anyone interested in nurturing the life of the mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13225'),
(9694, 'Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science', 'James D. Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson, a living legend for his work unlocking the structure of DNA, comes this candid and entertaining memoir, filled with practical advice for those starting out their academic careers. InAvoid Boring People, Watson lays down a lifers"s wisdom for getting ahead in a competitive world. Witty and uncompromisingly honest, he shares his thoughts on how young scientists should choose the projects that will shape their careers, the supreme importance of collegiality, and dealing with competitors within the same institution. Itrs"s an irreverent romp through Watsonrs"s colorful career and an indispensable guide to anyone interested in nurturing the life of the mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19853'),
(9695, 'Await Your Reply', 'Dan Chaon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen waysâ€“and with unexpected consequencesâ€“in acclaimed author Dan Chaonâ€™s gripping, brilliantly written new novel.Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire nevertheless canâ€™t stop searching for his troubled twin brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to place, managing along the way to hold down various jobs and seem, to the people he meets, entirely normal. But some version of the truth is always concealed.A few days after graduating from high school, Lucy Lattimore sneaks away from the small town of Pompey, Ohio, with her charismatic former history teacher. They arrive in Nebraska, in the middle of nowhere, at a long-deserted motel next to a dried-up reservoir, to figure out the next move on their path to a new life. But soon Lucy begins to feel quietly uneasy.My whole life is a lie, thinks Ryan Schuyler, who has recently learned some shocking news. In response, he walks off the Northwestern University campus, hops on a bus, and breaks loose from his existence, which suddenly seems abstract and tenuous. Presumed dead, Ryan decides to remake himselfâ€“through unconventional and precarious means.Await Your Reply is a literary masterwork with the momentum of a thriller, an unforgettable novel in which pasts are invented and reinvented and the future is both seductively uncharted and perilously unmoored.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6622'),
(9696, 'Await Your Reply', 'Dan Chaon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen waysâ€“and with unexpected consequencesâ€“in acclaimed author Dan Chaonâ€™s gripping, brilliantly written new novel.Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire nevertheless canâ€™t stop searching for his troubled twin brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to place, managing along the way to hold down various jobs and seem, to the people he meets, entirely normal. But some version of the truth is always concealed.A few days after graduating from high school, Lucy Lattimore sneaks away from the small town of Pompey, Ohio, with her charismatic former history teacher. They arrive in Nebraska, in the middle of nowhere, at a long-deserted motel next to a dried-up reservoir, to figure out the next move on their path to a new life. But soon Lucy begins to feel quietly uneasy.My whole life is a lie, thinks Ryan Schuyler, who has recently learned some shocking news. In response, he walks off the Northwestern University campus, hops on a bus, and breaks loose from his existence, which suddenly seems abstract and tenuous. Presumed dead, Ryan decides to remake himselfâ€“through unconventional and precarious means.Await Your Reply is a literary masterwork with the momentum of a thriller, an unforgettable novel in which pasts are invented and reinvented and the future is both seductively uncharted and perilously unmoored.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8887'),
(9697, 'Await Your Reply', 'Dan Chaon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen waysâ€“and with unexpected consequencesâ€“in acclaimed author Dan Chaonâ€™s gripping, brilliantly written new novel.Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire nevertheless canâ€™t stop searching for his troubled twin brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to place, managing along the way to hold down various jobs and seem, to the people he meets, entirely normal. But some version of the truth is always concealed.A few days after graduating from high school, Lucy Lattimore sneaks away from the small town of Pompey, Ohio, with her charismatic former history teacher. They arrive in Nebraska, in the middle of nowhere, at a long-deserted motel next to a dried-up reservoir, to figure out the next move on their path to a new life. But soon Lucy begins to feel quietly uneasy.My whole life is a lie, thinks Ryan Schuyler, who has recently learned some shocking news. In response, he walks off the Northwestern University campus, hops on a bus, and breaks loose from his existence, which suddenly seems abstract and tenuous. Presumed dead, Ryan decides to remake himselfâ€“through unconventional and precarious means.Await Your Reply is a literary masterwork with the momentum of a thriller, an unforgettable novel in which pasts are invented and reinvented and the future is both seductively uncharted and perilously unmoored.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17520'),
(9698, 'Await Your Reply', 'Dan Chaon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen waysâ€“and with unexpected consequencesâ€“in acclaimed author Dan Chaonâ€™s gripping, brilliantly written new novel.Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire nevertheless canâ€™t stop searching for his troubled twin brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to place, managing along the way to hold down various jobs and seem, to the people he meets, entirely normal. But some version of the truth is always concealed.A few days after graduating from high school, Lucy Lattimore sneaks away from the small town of Pompey, Ohio, with her charismatic former history teacher. They arrive in Nebraska, in the middle of nowhere, at a long-deserted motel next to a dried-up reservoir, to figure out the next move on their path to a new life. But soon Lucy begins to feel quietly uneasy.My whole life is a lie, thinks Ryan Schuyler, who has recently learned some shocking news. In response, he walks off the Northwestern University campus, hops on a bus, and breaks loose from his existence, which suddenly seems abstract and tenuous. Presumed dead, Ryan decides to remake himselfâ€“through unconventional and precarious means.Await Your Reply is a literary masterwork with the momentum of a thriller, an unforgettable novel in which pasts are invented and reinvented and the future is both seductively uncharted and perilously unmoored.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27188'),
(9699, 'Awaken', 'Anya Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An angry fairy queen trapped his body. A womanâ€™s love could imprison his heart.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An Enchanted story.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Prince Ryllio once lived so charmed a life, even he began to believe nothing bad could touch him. Then a momentâ€™s indiscretion brought Queen Mabâ€™s wrath raining down, encasing him in stone.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hundreds of years later, he is losing hope that anyone will find him, much less counter the spell. Until a beautiful young woman wanders into his hidden glade to privately discover the pleasures of her own body. Her sensual innocence reignites his acute longing for freedom.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lured into the old forest by an irresistible impulse, Myrina finds intimate communion with Ryllioâ€™s imprisoned spirit. His whispered guidance weaves an erotic spell, rousing her to undreamed heights of ecstasy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The intertwining of their minds comes at a devastating price. As each encounter intensifies, Myrina falls in love with a man she can never touch. And Ryllio realizes he must give up the last vestiges of his humanityâ€”or condemn her to a life devoid of a flesh-and-blood loverâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7409'),
(9700, 'Awaken', 'Anya Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An angry fairy queen trapped his body. A womanâ€™s love could imprison his heart.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An Enchanted story.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Prince Ryllio once lived so charmed a life, even he began to believe nothing bad could touch him. Then a momentâ€™s indiscretion brought Queen Mabâ€™s wrath raining down, encasing him in stone.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hundreds of years later, he is losing hope that anyone will find him, much less counter the spell. Until a beautiful young woman wanders into his hidden glade to privately discover the pleasures of her own body. Her sensual innocence reignites his acute longing for freedom.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lured into the old forest by an irresistible impulse, Myrina finds intimate communion with Ryllioâ€™s imprisoned spirit. His whispered guidance weaves an erotic spell, rousing her to undreamed heights of ecstasy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The intertwining of their minds comes at a devastating price. As each encounter intensifies, Myrina falls in love with a man she can never touch. And Ryllio realizes he must give up the last vestiges of his humanityâ€”or condemn her to a life devoid of a flesh-and-blood loverâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13577'),
(9701, 'Awaken', 'Anya Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An angry fairy queen trapped his body. A womanâ€™s love could imprison his heart. An Enchanted story. Prince Ryllio once lived so charmed a life, even he began to believe nothing bad could touch him. Then a momentâ€™s indiscretion brought Queen Mabâ€™s wrath raining down, encasing him in stone. Hundreds of years later, he is losing hope that anyone will find him, much less counter the spell. Until a beautiful young woman wanders into his hidden glade to privately discover the pleasures of her own body. Her sensual innocence reignites his acute longing for freedom. Lured into the old forest by an irresistible impulse, Myrina finds intimate communion with Ryllioâ€™s imprisoned spirit. His whispered guidance weaves an erotic spell, rousing her to undreamed heights of ecstasy. The intertwining of their minds comes at a devastating price. As each encounter intensifies, Myrina falls in love with a man she can never touch. And Ryllio realizes he must give up the last vestiges of his humanityâ€”or condemn her to a life devoid of a flesh-and-blood loverâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16417'),
(9702, 'Awaken', 'Anya Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An angry fairy queen trapped his body. A womanâ€™s love could imprison his heart. An Enchanted story. Prince Ryllio once lived so charmed a life, even he began to believe nothing bad could touch him. Then a momentâ€™s indiscretion brought Queen Mabâ€™s wrath raining down, encasing him in stone. Hundreds of years later, he is losing hope that anyone will find him, much less counter the spell. Until a beautiful young woman wanders into his hidden glade to privately discover the pleasures of her own body. Her sensual innocence reignites his acute longing for freedom. Lured into the old forest by an irresistible impulse, Myrina finds intimate communion with Ryllioâ€™s imprisoned spirit. His whispered guidance weaves an erotic spell, rousing her to undreamed heights of ecstasy. The intertwining of their minds comes at a devastating price. As each encounter intensifies, Myrina falls in love with a man she can never touch. And Ryllio realizes he must give up the last vestiges of his humanityâ€”or condemn her to a life devoid of a flesh-and-blood loverâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26487'),
(9703, 'Awakened', 'P. C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œMy love, speak to me.Â  Tell me everything.â€Â  Neferet went to Kalona, kneeling before him, stroking the soft, dark wings that unfurled loosely around the immortal.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWhat would you have me say?â€Â  He didnâ€™t meet her eyes.Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â â€œZoey lives.â€ Neferetâ€™s voice was flat, cold, lifeless.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œShe does.â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œThen you owe me the subservience of your immortal soul.â€Â  She started to walk away from him.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWhere are you going?Â  What will happen next?â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â â€œIt is quite simple.Â  I will ensure Zoey is drawn back toÂ Oklahoma.Â  There, on my own terms, I will complete the task you failed.â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess atÂ Tulsaâ€™s House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey.Â  Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z.Â  But Zoey has found sanctuary on theÂ Isle of SkyeÂ and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there.Â  Being Queen would be cool, wouldnâ€™t it?Â  Why should she return toÂ Tulsa? After losing her human consort, Heath, she will never be the same â€“ and her relationship with her super-hot-warrior, Stark, may never be the same eitherâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n And what about Stevie Rae and Rephaim?Â  The Raven Mocker refuses to be used against Stevie Rae, but what choice does he have when no one in the entire world, including Zoey, would be okay with their relationship?Â  Does he betray his father or his heart?\n</p>\n<p>\n In the pulse-pounding 8thÂ book in the bestselling House of Night series, how far will the bonds of friendship stretch and how strong are the ties that bind one girlâ€™s heart?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n P.C. Cast is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author as well as an experienced speaker and teacher.Â  Her novels have been awarded the prestigious Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, Prism, Daphne du Maurier, and Affaire de Coeur, as well as others.Â  She lives in Oklahoma.\n</p>\n<p>\n Her daughter, Kristin Cast, has won awards for her poetry and journalism.Â  She also lives in Oklahoma, where she attends college in Tulsa.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2280'),
(9704, 'Awakened', 'P. C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œMy love, speak to me.Â  Tell me everything.â€Â  Neferet went to Kalona, kneeling before him, stroking the soft, dark wings that unfurled loosely around the immortal.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWhat would you have me say?â€Â  He didnâ€™t meet her eyes.Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â â€œZoey lives.â€ Neferetâ€™s voice was flat, cold, lifeless.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œShe does.â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œThen you owe me the subservience of your immortal soul.â€Â  She started to walk away from him.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWhere are you going?Â  What will happen next?â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â â€œIt is quite simple.Â  I will ensure Zoey is drawn back toÂ Oklahoma.Â  There, on my own terms, I will complete the task you failed.â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess atÂ Tulsaâ€™s House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey.Â  Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z.Â  But Zoey has found sanctuary on theÂ Isle of SkyeÂ and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there.Â  Being Queen would be cool, wouldnâ€™t it?Â  Why should she return toÂ Tulsa? After losing her human consort, Heath, she will never be the same â€“ and her relationship with her super-hot-warrior, Stark, may never be the same eitherâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n And what about Stevie Rae and Rephaim?Â  The Raven Mocker refuses to be used against Stevie Rae, but what choice does he have when no one in the entire world, including Zoey, would be okay with their relationship?Â  Does he betray his father or his heart?\n</p>\n<p>\n In the pulse-pounding 8thÂ book in the bestselling House of Night series, how far will the bonds of friendship stretch and how strong are the ties that bind one girlâ€™s heart?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n P.C. Cast is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author as well as an experienced speaker and teacher.Â  Her novels have been awarded the prestigious Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, Prism, Daphne du Maurier, and Affaire de Coeur, as well as others.Â  She lives in Oklahoma.\n</p>\n<p>\n Her daughter, Kristin Cast, has won awards for her poetry and journalism.Â  She also lives in Oklahoma, where she attends college in Tulsa.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8765'),
(9705, 'Awakened: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œMy love, speak to me.Â  Tell me everything.â€Â  Neferet went to Kalona, kneeling before him, stroking the soft, dark wings that unfurled loosely around the immortal.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWhat would you have me say?â€Â  He didnâ€™t meet her eyes.Â \n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â â€œZoey lives.â€ Neferetâ€™s voice was flat, cold, lifeless.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œShe does.â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œThen you owe me the subservience of your immortal soul.â€Â  She started to walk away from him.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWhere are you going?Â  What will happen next?â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Â â€œIt is quite simple.Â  I will ensure Zoey is drawn back toÂ Oklahoma.Â  There, on my own terms, I will complete the task you failed.â€\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess atÂ Tulsaâ€™s House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey.Â  Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z.Â  But Zoey has found sanctuary on theÂ Isle of SkyeÂ and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there.Â  Being Queen would be cool, wouldnâ€™t it?Â  Why should she return toÂ Tulsa? After losing her human consort, Heath, she will never be the same â€“ and her relationship with her super-hot-warrior, Stark, may never be the same eitherâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n And what about Stevie Rae and Rephaim?Â  The Raven Mocker refuses to be used against Stevie Rae, but what choice does he have when no one in the entire world, including Zoey, would be okay with their relationship?Â  Does he betray his father or his heart?\n</p>\n<p>\n In the pulse-pounding 8thÂ book in the bestselling House of Night series, how far will the bonds of friendship stretch and how strong are the ties that bind one girlâ€™s heart?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n P.C. Cast is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author as well as an experienced speaker and teacher.Â  Her novels have been awarded the prestigious Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, Prism, Daphne du Maurier, and Affaire de Coeur, as well as others.Â  She lives in Oklahoma.\n</p>\n<p>\n Her daughter, Kristin Cast, has won awards for her poetry and journalism.Â  She also lives in Oklahoma, where she attends college in Tulsa.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21558'),
(9706, 'The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction', 'Kate Chopin &amp; Rachel Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, by Kate Chopin, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopinâ€™s The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novelâ€™s frank portrayal of a womanâ€™s emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the authorâ€™s reputation and career. Many years passed before this short, pioneering work was recognized as a major achievement in American literature. Set in and around New Orleans, The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother who, determined to control her own life, flouts convention by moving out of her husbandâ€™s house, having an adulterous affair, and becoming an artist.Beautifully written, with sensuous imagery and vivid local descriptions, The Awakening has lost none of its power to provoke and inspire. Additionally, this edition includes thirteen of Kate Chopinâ€™s magnificent short stories.Â Stories Included in the Volume:The AwakeningEmancipation: A Life FableA Shameful AffairAt the â€˜Cadian BallDÃ©sirÃ©eâ€™s BabyA Gentleman of Bayou TÃªcheA Respectable WomanThe Story of an HourAthÃ©naÃ¯seA Pair of Silk StockingsElizabeth Stockâ€™s One StoryThe StormThe GodmotherA Little Country Girl Â Rachel Adams teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature at Columbia University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3910');
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(9707, 'The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction', 'Kate Chopin &amp; Rachel Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, by Kate Chopin, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopinâ€™s The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novelâ€™s frank portrayal of a womanâ€™s emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the authorâ€™s reputation and career. Many years passed before this short, pioneering work was recognized as a major achievement in American literature. Set in and around New Orleans, The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother who, determined to control her own life, flouts convention by moving out of her husbandâ€™s house, having an adulterous affair, and becoming an artist.Beautifully written, with sensuous imagery and vivid local descriptions, The Awakening has lost none of its power to provoke and inspire. Additionally, this edition includes thirteen of Kate Chopinâ€™s magnificent short stories.Â Stories Included in the Volume:The AwakeningEmancipation: A Life FableA Shameful AffairAt the â€˜Cadian BallDÃ©sirÃ©eâ€™s BabyA Gentleman of Bayou TÃªcheA Respectable WomanThe Story of an HourAthÃ©naÃ¯seA Pair of Silk StockingsElizabeth Stockâ€™s One StoryThe StormThe GodmotherA Little Country Girl Â Rachel Adams teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature at Columbia University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8924'),
(9708, 'The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction', 'Kate Chopin; Rachel Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, by Kate Chopin, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopinâ€™s The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novelâ€™s frank portrayal of a womanâ€™s emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the authorâ€™s reputation and career. Many years passed before this short, pioneering work was recognized as a major achievement in American literature. Set in and around New Orleans, The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother who, determined to control her own life, flouts convention by moving out of her husbandâ€™s house, having an adulterous affair, and becoming an artist.Beautifully written, with sensuous imagery and vivid local descriptions, The Awakening has lost none of its power to provoke and inspire. Additionally, this edition includes thirteen of Kate Chopinâ€™s magnificent short stories.Â Stories Included in the Volume:The AwakeningEmancipation: A Life FableA Shameful AffairAt the â€˜Cadian BallDÃ©sirÃ©eâ€™s BabyA Gentleman of Bayou TÃªcheA Respectable WomanThe Story of an HourAthÃ©naÃ¯seA Pair of Silk StockingsElizabeth Stockâ€™s One StoryThe StormThe GodmotherA Little Country Girl Â Rachel Adams teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature at Columbia University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20623'),
(9709, 'The Awakening and Selected Short Stories', 'Kate Chopin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 9781434000439\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25457'),
(9710, 'The Awakening', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girlâ€”someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I''m as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experimentâ€”not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, I''m a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control; I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever.   Now I''m running for my life with three of my supernatural friendsâ€”a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witchâ€”and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3797'),
(9711, 'The Awakening', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girlâ€”someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I''m as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experimentâ€”not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, I''m a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control; I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever. Now I''m running for my life with three of my supernatural friendsâ€”a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witchâ€”and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20760'),
(9712, 'An Awfully Big Adventure', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Booker Prize nominee, Bainbridge''s latest novel is a compelling read, again demonstrating her acuity of observation and darkly comic view of life. In Stella Bradshaw, a teenage aspiring actress from the slums of Liverpool, Bainbridge limns a tough but beguiling character. She also deftly conveys the atmosphere of 1950s England, still grimly bomb-cratered, coping with food rationing and the visible casualties of maimed veterans. Her portrait of a seedy repertory troupe, whose members histrionically indulge in love affairs and unrequited passions, is classic. Into this company, directed by elegant Meredith Potter, comes Stella, inveigled into their midst by her uncle/guardian, who feels that the stage is Stella''s only alternative to working in Woolworth''s. Added to her knowledge of her illigitimacy and lower-class origins (the Bradshaws bathe once a fortnight, and share "the family towel"), Stella has the normal self-consciousness and naivete of adolescence overlaid by a strong will, guilelessness and lack of tact. Her innocent but dangerous impulses and her crush on Meredith, whose homosexuality eludes her, makes Stella a sort of Typhoid Mary of psychological injury; one after another, members of the troupe suffer from her impetuous behavior. Bainbridge''s prose brims with pithy insights tinged with sardonic humor, and her plot moves swiftly to a chilling conclusion.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  *''Vintage bittersweet Bainbridge'' MAIL ON SUNDAY\n  <em>\n   ''Imagine Priestley''s THE GOOD COMPANIONS as written by Gogol and you will have some idea of the mixture of waggish humour and sordid pathos in Bainbridge''s novel'' SUNDAY TIMES\n  </em>\n  ''A subtle schizophrenic insight into adult relationships . Bainbridge''s understated prose and obsessive eye for the smallest and most telling of details have never been better employed'' TIME OUT\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7226'),
(9713, 'An Awfully Big Adventure', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Booker Prize nominee, Bainbridge''s latest novel is a compelling read, again demonstrating her acuity of observation and darkly comic view of life. In Stella Bradshaw, a teenage aspiring actress from the slums of Liverpool, Bainbridge limns a tough but beguiling character. She also deftly conveys the atmosphere of 1950s England, still grimly bomb-cratered, coping with food rationing and the visible casualties of maimed veterans. Her portrait of a seedy repertory troupe, whose members histrionically indulge in love affairs and unrequited passions, is classic. Into this company, directed by elegant Meredith Potter, comes Stella, inveigled into their midst by her uncle/guardian, who feels that the stage is Stella''s only alternative to working in Woolworth''s. Added to her knowledge of her illigitimacy and lower-class origins (the Bradshaws bathe once a fortnight, and share "the family towel"), Stella has the normal self-consciousness and naivete of adolescence overlaid by a strong will, guilelessness and lack of tact. Her innocent but dangerous impulses and her crush on Meredith, whose homosexuality eludes her, makes Stella a sort of Typhoid Mary of psychological injury; one after another, members of the troupe suffer from her impetuous behavior. Bainbridge''s prose brims with pithy insights tinged with sardonic humor, and her plot moves swiftly to a chilling conclusion.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  *''Vintage bittersweet Bainbridge'' MAIL ON SUNDAY\n  <em>\n   ''Imagine Priestley''s THE GOOD COMPANIONS as written by Gogol and you will have some idea of the mixture of waggish humour and sordid pathos in Bainbridge''s novel'' SUNDAY TIMES\n  </em>\n  ''A subtle schizophrenic insight into adult relationships . Bainbridge''s understated prose and obsessive eye for the smallest and most telling of details have never been better employed'' TIME OUT\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8276'),
(9714, 'An Awfully Big Adventure', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Booker Prize nominee, Bainbridge''s latest novel is a compelling read, again demonstrating her acuity of observation and darkly comic view of life. In Stella Bradshaw, a teenage aspiring actress from the slums of Liverpool, Bainbridge limns a tough but beguiling character. She also deftly conveys the atmosphere of 1950s England, still grimly bomb-cratered, coping with food rationing and the visible casualties of maimed veterans. Her portrait of a seedy repertory troupe, whose members histrionically indulge in love affairs and unrequited passions, is classic. Into this company, directed by elegant Meredith Potter, comes Stella, inveigled into their midst by her uncle/guardian, who feels that the stage is Stella''s only alternative to working in Woolworth''s. Added to her knowledge of her illigitimacy and lower-class origins (the Bradshaws bathe once a fortnight, and share "the family towel"), Stella has the normal self-consciousness and naivete of adolescence overlaid by a strong will, guilelessness and lack of tact. Her innocent but dangerous impulses and her crush on Meredith, whose homosexuality eludes her, makes Stella a sort of Typhoid Mary of psychological injury; one after another, members of the troupe suffer from her impetuous behavior. Bainbridge''s prose brims with pithy insights tinged with sardonic humor, and her plot moves swiftly to a chilling conclusion.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  *''Vintage bittersweet Bainbridge'' MAIL ON SUNDAY\n  <em>\n   ''Imagine Priestley''s THE GOOD COMPANIONS as written by Gogol and you will have some idea of the mixture of waggish humour and sordid pathos in Bainbridge''s novel'' SUNDAY TIMES\n  </em>\n  ''A subtle schizophrenic insight into adult relationships . Bainbridge''s understated prose and obsessive eye for the smallest and most telling of details have never been better employed'' TIME OUT\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16664'),
(9715, 'Awkward Family Photos', 'Mike Bender &amp; Doug Chernack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jennifer Weiner Reviews\n  <em>\n   Awkward Family Photos\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jennifer Weiner was born in 1970 on an army base in Louisiana. She grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a degree in English literature from Princeton University. She is the author of the novels\n  <em>\n   Good in Bed\n  </em>\n  , and her most recent,\n  <em>\n   Awkward Family Photos\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Samuel Butler once said "Every manâ€™s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."\n</p>\n<p>\n If thatâ€™s true, than God help Mike Bender and Doug Chernack, who waded into the toxic slurry of bad mullets, spiral perms, skin conditions, leg warmers, wet pants, creepy Moms, funny uncles, and truly disturbing Santas, and came back with this hilarious collection of awkward family photos.\n <em>\n  Awkward Family Photos\n </em>\n reminds anyone with a dusty shoebox full of snapshots of unfortunate fashion choices, band trips, braces, bad bridesmaidsâ€™ dresses and that one time you got talked into dressing up and going to the Renaissance Faire, that you are not alone. This isnâ€™t just a book, itâ€™s a public service on the page, a living, breathing, laugh-out-loud reminder that no matter how badly you dressed, how oddly you posed, and how weird Uncle Dave who lived in the basement was, somebody out there had it worse. Particularly the girl on page 77.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This is the best book of embarrassing and strange photos of people who look like my family that I have ever seen."\n <br />\n â€”Judd ApatowÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "Being a test tube baby doesn''t seem such a bad idea after looking at these folks. I laughed till it hurt. To paraphrase Tolstoy... every family is freaky in its own way. There''s so much love here- but maybe a little more pain, or desperation, or bewilderment. I often feel slightly sad or guilty that I''m not closer with my own family- but looking at this bunch I sense we all have something in common and I''m far from being alone."\n <br />\n â€”David Byrne\n</p>\n<p>\n "Awkwardness has never looked so cool.Â  Finally there''s a book that celebrates the cringe-worthy family photo we all have buried in an album somewhere."\n <br />\n â€”Â Amanda Goldberg,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Celebutantes\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Anything that both makes me laugh and think my family isn''t so embarrassing deserves to be a book."\n <br />\n â€”Joel Stein,\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n magazine columnist\n</p>\n<p>\n "I wept with laughter fourteen times while reading this book and snorted aloud twice. I dare you to find a higher weep/snort ratio in any other publication."\n <br />\n â€”Karen McCullah Lutz, screenwriter of\n <em>\n  Legally Blonde\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Ugly Truth\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Awkward Family Photos_ is the funniest book that I''ve read in a long time. It reminds you that it''s okay to laugh at yourself and celebrates the family that made you awkward in the first place."\n <br />\n â€”Mia Kirshner, The L WordÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "_Awkward Family PhotosÂ _is absolutely hysterical, yet at the same time, it''s a stunninglyÂ accurate photographic record of the late 20th century American family. Â Now I can be certain I was not alone in my awkwardness."\n <br />\n â€”Adam Herz, Writer,Â _American Pie I, II, III_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2734'),
(9716, 'Awkward Family Photos', 'Mike Bender &amp; Doug Chernack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jennifer Weiner Reviews\n  <em>\n   Awkward Family Photos\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jennifer Weiner was born in 1970 on an army base in Louisiana. She grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a degree in English literature from Princeton University. She is the author of the novels\n  <em>\n   Good in Bed\n  </em>\n  , and her most recent,\n  <em>\n   Awkward Family Photos\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Samuel Butler once said "Every manâ€™s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."\n</p>\n<p>\n If thatâ€™s true, than God help Mike Bender and Doug Chernack, who waded into the toxic slurry of bad mullets, spiral perms, skin conditions, leg warmers, wet pants, creepy Moms, funny uncles, and truly disturbing Santas, and came back with this hilarious collection of awkward family photos.\n <em>\n  Awkward Family Photos\n </em>\n reminds anyone with a dusty shoebox full of snapshots of unfortunate fashion choices, band trips, braces, bad bridesmaidsâ€™ dresses and that one time you got talked into dressing up and going to the Renaissance Faire, that you are not alone. This isnâ€™t just a book, itâ€™s a public service on the page, a living, breathing, laugh-out-loud reminder that no matter how badly you dressed, how oddly you posed, and how weird Uncle Dave who lived in the basement was, somebody out there had it worse. Particularly the girl on page 77.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This is the best book of embarrassing and strange photos of people who look like my family that I have ever seen."\n <br />\n â€”Judd ApatowÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "Being a test tube baby doesn''t seem such a bad idea after looking at these folks. I laughed till it hurt. To paraphrase Tolstoy... every family is freaky in its own way. There''s so much love here- but maybe a little more pain, or desperation, or bewilderment. I often feel slightly sad or guilty that I''m not closer with my own family- but looking at this bunch I sense we all have something in common and I''m far from being alone."\n <br />\n â€”David Byrne\n</p>\n<p>\n "Awkwardness has never looked so cool.Â  Finally there''s a book that celebrates the cringe-worthy family photo we all have buried in an album somewhere."\n <br />\n â€”Â Amanda Goldberg,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Celebutantes\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Anything that both makes me laugh and think my family isn''t so embarrassing deserves to be a book."\n <br />\n â€”Joel Stein,\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n magazine columnist\n</p>\n<p>\n "I wept with laughter fourteen times while reading this book and snorted aloud twice. I dare you to find a higher weep/snort ratio in any other publication."\n <br />\n â€”Karen McCullah Lutz, screenwriter of\n <em>\n  Legally Blonde\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Ugly Truth\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Awkward Family Photos_ is the funniest book that I''ve read in a long time. It reminds you that it''s okay to laugh at yourself and celebrates the family that made you awkward in the first place."\n <br />\n â€”Mia Kirshner, The L WordÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "_Awkward Family PhotosÂ _is absolutely hysterical, yet at the same time, it''s a stunninglyÂ accurate photographic record of the late 20th century American family. Â Now I can be certain I was not alone in my awkwardness."\n <br />\n â€”Adam Herz, Writer,Â _American Pie I, II, III_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8407'),
(9717, 'The Ayatollah Begs to Differ', 'Hooman Majd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this critical but affectionate portrait of Iranian politics and culture, Majd, the Western-educated grandson of an ayatollah, delves into the very core of Iranian society, closely examining social mores and Farsi phrases to identify the Persian sensibility, which, Majd determines, cherishes privacy, praise and poetry. Nothing is too small or too sweeping for Majd to consider, and although he announces his allegiance to the former president Khatami, he remains scrupulously even-handed in assessing his successor Ahmadinejad, shedding light on the Iranian president''s obsession with the Holocaust and penchant for windbreakers and why the two are (surprisingly) intertwined. The author''s brisk, conversational prose is appealing; his book reads as if he is chatting with a smart friend, while strolling around Tehran, engaged in\n <em>\n  ta''arouf\n </em>\n (an exaggerated form of self-deprecation key to understanding Persian society). Although Majd seems to gloss too quickly over realities that don''t engage his interestâ€”women''s voices are only intermittently includedâ€”this failing scarcely mars this remarkable ride through what is often uncharted territory.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for _The Ayatollah Begs to Differ\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œIn this delightful book, Hooman Majd, a gifted storyteller, takes us on a tour of his own private Persia, which is also the Iran of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The results are illuminating, humorous, sobering, and ultimately reassuring.â€\n <br />\n â€”Jon Lee Anderson, author of\n <em>\n  The Fall of Baghdad\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHooman Majd is a stylish and engaging guide through the by-ways of Iranian life. Leading us from seminary to opium den to the presidential compound, his wry sense of humor makes this book a pleasure to read.â€ â€”Gary Sick, Ph.D., senior research scholar at Columbia University and member of the National Security Council staff under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA witty, timely perspective on the nation posing the greatest challenge to our next President.â€\n <br />\n â€”Bill White, mayor of Houston and U.S. secretary of energy under President Clinton\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5093'),
(9718, 'The Ayatollah Begs to Differ', 'Hooman Majd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this critical but affectionate portrait of Iranian politics and culture, Majd, the Western-educated grandson of an ayatollah, delves into the very core of Iranian society, closely examining social mores and Farsi phrases to identify the Persian sensibility, which, Majd determines, cherishes privacy, praise and poetry. Nothing is too small or too sweeping for Majd to consider, and although he announces his allegiance to the former president Khatami, he remains scrupulously even-handed in assessing his successor Ahmadinejad, shedding light on the Iranian president''s obsession with the Holocaust and penchant for windbreakers and why the two are (surprisingly) intertwined. The author''s brisk, conversational prose is appealing; his book reads as if he is chatting with a smart friend, while strolling around Tehran, engaged in\n <em>\n  ta''arouf\n </em>\n (an exaggerated form of self-deprecation key to understanding Persian society). Although Majd seems to gloss too quickly over realities that don''t engage his interestâ€”women''s voices are only intermittently includedâ€”this failing scarcely mars this remarkable ride through what is often uncharted territory.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for _The Ayatollah Begs to Differ\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œIn this delightful book, Hooman Majd, a gifted storyteller, takes us on a tour of his own private Persia, which is also the Iran of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The results are illuminating, humorous, sobering, and ultimately reassuring.â€\n <br />\n â€”Jon Lee Anderson, author of\n <em>\n  The Fall of Baghdad\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHooman Majd is a stylish and engaging guide through the by-ways of Iranian life. Leading us from seminary to opium den to the presidential compound, his wry sense of humor makes this book a pleasure to read.â€ â€”Gary Sick, Ph.D., senior research scholar at Columbia University and member of the National Security Council staff under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA witty, timely perspective on the nation posing the greatest challenge to our next President.â€\n <br />\n â€”Bill White, mayor of Houston and U.S. secretary of energy under President Clinton\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11256'),
(9719, 'The Ayatollah Begs to Differ', 'Hooman Majd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this critical but affectionate portrait of Iranian politics and culture, Majd, the Western-educated grandson of an ayatollah, delves into the very core of Iranian society, closely examining social mores and Farsi phrases to identify the Persian sensibility, which, Majd determines, cherishes privacy, praise and poetry. Nothing is too small or too sweeping for Majd to consider, and although he announces his allegiance to the former president Khatami, he remains scrupulously even-handed in assessing his successor Ahmadinejad, shedding light on the Iranian president''s obsession with the Holocaust and penchant for windbreakers and why the two are (surprisingly) intertwined. The author''s brisk, conversational prose is appealing; his book reads as if he is chatting with a smart friend, while strolling around Tehran, engaged in\n <em>\n  ta''arouf\n </em>\n (an exaggerated form of self-deprecation key to understanding Persian society). Although Majd seems to gloss too quickly over realities that don''t engage his interestâ€”women''s voices are only intermittently includedâ€”this failing scarcely mars this remarkable ride through what is often uncharted territory.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for _The Ayatollah Begs to Differ\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œIn this delightful book, Hooman Majd, a gifted storyteller, takes us on a tour of his own private Persia, which is also the Iran of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The results are illuminating, humorous, sobering, and ultimately reassuring.â€\n <br />\n â€”Jon Lee Anderson, author of\n <em>\n  The Fall of Baghdad\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHooman Majd is a stylish and engaging guide through the by-ways of Iranian life. Leading us from seminary to opium den to the presidential compound, his wry sense of humor makes this book a pleasure to read.â€ â€”Gary Sick, Ph.D., senior research scholar at Columbia University and member of the National Security Council staff under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA witty, timely perspective on the nation posing the greatest challenge to our next President.â€\n <br />\n â€”Bill White, mayor of Houston and U.S. secretary of energy under President Clinton\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19539'),
(9720, 'Ayn Rand and the World She Made', 'Anne C. Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Anne C. Heller\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Many people discover Ayn Randâ€™s novels\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  It''s true that I didnâ€™t read Ayn Randâ€™s popular novels in high school or college. I read them for the first time seven or eight years ago, while I was editing a trial issue of a new financial magazine at CondÃ© Nast Publications.\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  . In the novel, the speech is delivered by a young copper baron to an assembled crowd of liberal bureaucrats and corporate welfare-statists. He argues that money, far from being the root of all evil, as the liberals in the novel pretend to think, is really "the root of all good," and "the barometer of a societyâ€™s virtue." The speech surprised me with its passion and seemingly air-tight logic and aroused my curiosity. So I read the books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At that time, Rand and her work werenâ€™t in the news, as they are now. Once I had finished\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  for the second time, I looked around to see what had been written about her. Later, I learned that the novels were still selling in the hundreds of thousands of copies every year and that she was influential among libertarians and certain conservatives; yet no full-scale, impartial biography of this extraordinary woman had been written. Only former disciples and detractors had published books about her. The time seemed right to take a fresh approach.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Do you think your experience with her work, philosophy, and life was different from those who read her in their adolescence?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  Yes. I appreciated Randâ€™s insights into the nature of power and her spectacular ability to integrate plot, character, and theme more than I might have when younger. And, I was less susceptible to her romantic celebration of heroic achievement.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Ayn Rand and the World She Made\n  </em>\n  is the first objective, investigative biography of Ayn Rand. What new sources did you use for your research? Did you travel for your research?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  The only other biography was written in the 1980s by\n </p>\n <p>\n  I traveled all over the United States to work in relevant archives and to conduct interviews with her former friends and followers, many now in their eighties and nineties, who spoke surprisingly candidly about her capacity for cruelty as well as her genius and personal magnetism. I had three lengthy interviews with her long-time lover, Nathaniel Branden, now eighty, and spoke with most members of what used to be called the "inner circle" of her cult following. I also had access to interviews with her elderly Russian sister and with close friends from the 1920s and 1930s, all now deceased.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  What surprised you most?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  I was surprised by many things--by how deeply her hostility to liberal social programs was rooted in her Russian childhood, by her remarkable insight into the psychology of envy and mediocrity, by her personal courage, and by her unfailing ability to spot a flaw in any opposing argument. I was also surprised to discover that many of her former followers, though personally damaged by her temper and her moral absolutism, remembered her as the most important and beneficent person in their lives. They had been wounded by her and yet loved her and were protective of her memory and legend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Why does Rand remain a bestseller?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  She certainly does remain popular. In a 1991 poll, sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club, Americans named\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  the book that had most influenced their lives after the Bible. In a separate 1998 poll by Modern Library, readers chose\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fountainhead\n  </em>\n  as number one and two on a list of the one hundred greatest novels of the twentieth century, and Randâ€™s other two novels,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like Holden Caulfield and Huckleberry Finn, Randâ€™s fictional heroes strike each new generation as timelessly American in their self-reliance and revolt against timidity and conformity. And her passionate, brainy arguments on behalf of limited government and unfettered individual rights strike a strong chord, especially in times of economic trouble and increased government activism.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Brennan Cavanaugh)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum was born to Jewish parents in 1905 Russia. Ayn Rand left Russia in 1926 for America and founded her anticollectivist philosophy, Objectivism, a philosophy of free market capitalism and the pursuit of self-interest as a moral good. Depressive, pill-taking, chain-smoking and manipulative, Rand''s life was defined by a longtime Sunset Boulevardâ€“like affair with Nathaniel Branden, who went on to start the self-esteem movement. At the same time, the combustible Rand was married to a passive man with matinee-idol looks. Magazine editor and journalist Heller competently describes Rand''s feuds with William F. Buckley and with her sister, who had remained in the U.S.S.R., and the more courtly relationship Rand had with publisher Bennett Cerf. This objective account of the Objectivist Rand will interest her still large and devoted readership. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Nov. 3)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7604'),
(9721, 'Ayn Rand and the World She Made', 'Anne C. Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Anne C. Heller\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Many people discover Ayn Randâ€™s novels\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  It''s true that I didnâ€™t read Ayn Randâ€™s popular novels in high school or college. I read them for the first time seven or eight years ago, while I was editing a trial issue of a new financial magazine at CondÃ© Nast Publications.\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  . In the novel, the speech is delivered by a young copper baron to an assembled crowd of liberal bureaucrats and corporate welfare-statists. He argues that money, far from being the root of all evil, as the liberals in the novel pretend to think, is really "the root of all good," and "the barometer of a societyâ€™s virtue." The speech surprised me with its passion and seemingly air-tight logic and aroused my curiosity. So I read the books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At that time, Rand and her work werenâ€™t in the news, as they are now. Once I had finished\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  for the second time, I looked around to see what had been written about her. Later, I learned that the novels were still selling in the hundreds of thousands of copies every year and that she was influential among libertarians and certain conservatives; yet no full-scale, impartial biography of this extraordinary woman had been written. Only former disciples and detractors had published books about her. The time seemed right to take a fresh approach.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Do you think your experience with her work, philosophy, and life was different from those who read her in their adolescence?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  Yes. I appreciated Randâ€™s insights into the nature of power and her spectacular ability to integrate plot, character, and theme more than I might have when younger. And, I was less susceptible to her romantic celebration of heroic achievement.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Ayn Rand and the World She Made\n  </em>\n  is the first objective, investigative biography of Ayn Rand. What new sources did you use for your research? Did you travel for your research?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  The only other biography was written in the 1980s by\n </p>\n <p>\n  I traveled all over the United States to work in relevant archives and to conduct interviews with her former friends and followers, many now in their eighties and nineties, who spoke surprisingly candidly about her capacity for cruelty as well as her genius and personal magnetism. I had three lengthy interviews with her long-time lover, Nathaniel Branden, now eighty, and spoke with most members of what used to be called the "inner circle" of her cult following. I also had access to interviews with her elderly Russian sister and with close friends from the 1920s and 1930s, all now deceased.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  What surprised you most?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  I was surprised by many things--by how deeply her hostility to liberal social programs was rooted in her Russian childhood, by her remarkable insight into the psychology of envy and mediocrity, by her personal courage, and by her unfailing ability to spot a flaw in any opposing argument. I was also surprised to discover that many of her former followers, though personally damaged by her temper and her moral absolutism, remembered her as the most important and beneficent person in their lives. They had been wounded by her and yet loved her and were protective of her memory and legend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Why does Rand remain a bestseller?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  She certainly does remain popular. In a 1991 poll, sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club, Americans named\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  the book that had most influenced their lives after the Bible. In a separate 1998 poll by Modern Library, readers chose\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fountainhead\n  </em>\n  as number one and two on a list of the one hundred greatest novels of the twentieth century, and Randâ€™s other two novels,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like Holden Caulfield and Huckleberry Finn, Randâ€™s fictional heroes strike each new generation as timelessly American in their self-reliance and revolt against timidity and conformity. And her passionate, brainy arguments on behalf of limited government and unfettered individual rights strike a strong chord, especially in times of economic trouble and increased government activism.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Brennan Cavanaugh)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum was born to Jewish parents in 1905 Russia. Ayn Rand left Russia in 1926 for America and founded her anticollectivist philosophy, Objectivism, a philosophy of free market capitalism and the pursuit of self-interest as a moral good. Depressive, pill-taking, chain-smoking and manipulative, Rand''s life was defined by a longtime Sunset Boulevardâ€“like affair with Nathaniel Branden, who went on to start the self-esteem movement. At the same time, the combustible Rand was married to a passive man with matinee-idol looks. Magazine editor and journalist Heller competently describes Rand''s feuds with William F. Buckley and with her sister, who had remained in the U.S.S.R., and the more courtly relationship Rand had with publisher Bennett Cerf. This objective account of the Objectivist Rand will interest her still large and devoted readership. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Nov. 3)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9536'),
(9722, 'Ayn Rand and the World She Made', 'Anne C. Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Q&amp;A with Anne C. Heller\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Many people discover Ayn Randâ€™s novels\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  It''s true that I didnâ€™t read Ayn Randâ€™s popular novels in high school or college. I read them for the first time seven or eight years ago, while I was editing a trial issue of a new financial magazine at CondÃ© Nast Publications.\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  . In the novel, the speech is delivered by a young copper baron to an assembled crowd of liberal bureaucrats and corporate welfare-statists. He argues that money, far from being the root of all evil, as the liberals in the novel pretend to think, is really "the root of all good," and "the barometer of a societyâ€™s virtue." The speech surprised me with its passion and seemingly air-tight logic and aroused my curiosity. So I read the books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At that time, Rand and her work werenâ€™t in the news, as they are now. Once I had finished\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  for the second time, I looked around to see what had been written about her. Later, I learned that the novels were still selling in the hundreds of thousands of copies every year and that she was influential among libertarians and certain conservatives; yet no full-scale, impartial biography of this extraordinary woman had been written. Only former disciples and detractors had published books about her. The time seemed right to take a fresh approach.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Do you think your experience with her work, philosophy, and life was different from those who read her in their adolescence?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  Yes. I appreciated Randâ€™s insights into the nature of power and her spectacular ability to integrate plot, character, and theme more than I might have when younger. And, I was less susceptible to her romantic celebration of heroic achievement.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  <em>\n   Ayn Rand and the World She Made\n  </em>\n  is the first objective, investigative biography of Ayn Rand. What new sources did you use for your research? Did you travel for your research?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  The only other biography was written in the 1980s by\n </p>\n <p>\n  I traveled all over the United States to work in relevant archives and to conduct interviews with her former friends and followers, many now in their eighties and nineties, who spoke surprisingly candidly about her capacity for cruelty as well as her genius and personal magnetism. I had three lengthy interviews with her long-time lover, Nathaniel Branden, now eighty, and spoke with most members of what used to be called the "inner circle" of her cult following. I also had access to interviews with her elderly Russian sister and with close friends from the 1920s and 1930s, all now deceased.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  What surprised you most?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  I was surprised by many things--by how deeply her hostility to liberal social programs was rooted in her Russian childhood, by her remarkable insight into the psychology of envy and mediocrity, by her personal courage, and by her unfailing ability to spot a flaw in any opposing argument. I was also surprised to discover that many of her former followers, though personally damaged by her temper and her moral absolutism, remembered her as the most important and beneficent person in their lives. They had been wounded by her and yet loved her and were protective of her memory and legend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Question:\n  </strong>\n  Why does Rand remain a bestseller?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Anne C. Heller:\n  </strong>\n  She certainly does remain popular. In a 1991 poll, sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club, Americans named\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  the book that had most influenced their lives after the Bible. In a separate 1998 poll by Modern Library, readers chose\n  <em>\n   Atlas Shrugged\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fountainhead\n  </em>\n  as number one and two on a list of the one hundred greatest novels of the twentieth century, and Randâ€™s other two novels,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like Holden Caulfield and Huckleberry Finn, Randâ€™s fictional heroes strike each new generation as timelessly American in their self-reliance and revolt against timidity and conformity. And her passionate, brainy arguments on behalf of limited government and unfettered individual rights strike a strong chord, especially in times of economic trouble and increased government activism.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Brennan Cavanaugh)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum was born to Jewish parents in 1905 Russia. Ayn Rand left Russia in 1926 for America and founded her anticollectivist philosophy, Objectivism, a philosophy of free market capitalism and the pursuit of self-interest as a moral good. Depressive, pill-taking, chain-smoking and manipulative, Rand''s life was defined by a longtime Sunset Boulevardâ€“like affair with Nathaniel Branden, who went on to start the self-esteem movement. At the same time, the combustible Rand was married to a passive man with matinee-idol looks. Magazine editor and journalist Heller competently describes Rand''s feuds with William F. Buckley and with her sister, who had remained in the U.S.S.R., and the more courtly relationship Rand had with publisher Bennett Cerf. This objective account of the Objectivist Rand will interest her still large and devoted readership. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Nov. 3)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16302'),
(9723, 'Ayn Rand and the World She Made', 'Anne C. Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26395'),
(9724, 'The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism From a to Z', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Harry Binswanger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought--from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so extensive and the range of issues she covers so enormous that those interested in finding her discussions of a given topic may have to search through many sources to locate the relevant passage. THE AYN RAND LEXICON brings together all the key ideas of her philosophy of Objectivism. Begun under Rand''s supervision, this unique volume is an invaluable guide to her philosophy or reason, self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism--the philosophy so brilliantly dramatized in her novels THE FOUNTAINHEAD, WE THE LIVING, and ATLAS SHRUGGED.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7400'),
(9725, 'The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism From a to Z', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Harry Binswanger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought--from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so extensive and the range of issues she covers so enormous that those interested in finding her discussions of a given topic may have to search through many sources to locate the relevant passage. THE AYN RAND LEXICON brings together all the key ideas of her philosophy of Objectivism. Begun under Rand''s supervision, this unique volume is an invaluable guide to her philosophy or reason, self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism--the philosophy so brilliantly dramatized in her novels THE FOUNTAINHEAD, WE THE LIVING, and ATLAS SHRUGGED.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12064');
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(9726, 'The Ayn Rand lexicon: objectivism from A to Z', 'Ayn Rand; Harry Binswanger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought--from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so extensive and the range of issues she covers so enormous that those interested in finding her discussions of a given topic may have to search through many sources to locate the relevant passage. THE AYN RAND LEXICON brings together all the key ideas of her philosophy of Objectivism. Begun under Rand''s supervision, this unique volume is an invaluable guide to her philosophy or reason, self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism--the philosophy so brilliantly dramatized in her novels THE FOUNTAINHEAD, WE THE LIVING, and ATLAS SHRUGGED.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16498'),
(9727, 'The Ayn Rand lexicon: objectivism from A to Z', 'Ayn Rand; Harry Binswanger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought--from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so extensive and the range of issues she covers so enormous that those interested in finding her discussions of a given topic may have to search through many sources to locate the relevant passage. THE AYN RAND LEXICON brings together all the key ideas of her philosophy of Objectivism. Begun under Rand''s supervision, this unique volume is an invaluable guide to her philosophy or reason, self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism--the philosophy so brilliantly dramatized in her novels THE FOUNTAINHEAD, WE THE LIVING, and ATLAS SHRUGGED.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26550'),
(9728, 'The Ayn Rand Reader', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Gary Hull &amp; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. Containing excerpts from all her novels--including Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, and We The Living--The Ayn Rand Reader is a perfect introduction for those who have never read Rand, and provides teachers with an excellent guide to the basics of her viewpoint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7401'),
(9729, 'The Ayn Rand Reader', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Gary Hull &amp; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. Containing excerpts from all her novels--including Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, and We The Living--The Ayn Rand Reader is a perfect introduction for those who have never read Rand, and provides teachers with an excellent guide to the basics of her viewpoint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12056'),
(9730, 'The Ayn Rand reader', 'Ayn Rand; Gary Hull; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. Containing excerpts from all her novels--including Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, and We The Living--The Ayn Rand Reader is a perfect introduction for those who have never read Rand, and provides teachers with an excellent guide to the basics of her viewpoint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16497'),
(9731, 'The Ayn Rand reader', 'Ayn Rand; Gary Hull; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. Containing excerpts from all her novels--including Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, and We The Living--The Ayn Rand Reader is a perfect introduction for those who have never read Rand, and provides teachers with an excellent guide to the basics of her viewpoint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26551'),
(9732, 'Azazel', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Azazel, an enchanting, other-wordly imp, uses his magical powers to help humans beset by ill fortune, but his efforts frequently have unexpected results, in this collection of fantasy tales.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18286'),
(9733, 'Azazel', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Azazel, an enchanting, other-wordly imp, uses his magical powers to help humans beset by ill fortune, but his efforts frequently have unexpected results, in this collection of fantasy tales.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Azazel, an enchanting, other-wordly imp, uses his magical powers to help humans beset by ill fortune, but his efforts frequently have unexpected results, in this collection of fantasy tales\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28258'),
(9734, 'Azincourt', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14637'),
(9735, 'Azincourt', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16605'),
(9736, 'Azincourt', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26654'),
(9737, 'Aztec 1 - Aztec', 'Gary Jennings', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14261'),
(9738, 'Aztec 1 - Aztec', 'Gary Jennings', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19153'),
(9739, 'Aztec 1 - Aztec', 'Gary Jennings', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27923'),
(9740, 'Aztecs', 'Vonda N. McIntyre', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22807'),
(9741, 'B Is for Burglar', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Although business has been slow lately for P.I. Kinsey Millhone, sheâ€™s reluctant to take on the case of locating Beverly Danzigerâ€™s sister Elaine Boldt. Itâ€™s a small matter that Beverly should be able to handle herself. So why is she enlisting Kinseyâ€™s services? Beverly claims she needs Elaineâ€™s signature on some documents so that she can collect a small inheritance. But the whole affair doesnâ€™t sit well with Kinsey. And if thereâ€™s something sheâ€™s learned in her line of work, itâ€™s to always follow your instinctsâ€¦ Kinseyâ€™s hunch proves true when she begins her inquiries into Elaineâ€™s whereabouts and discovers that the attractive widow was last seen in a flashy lynx coat boarding a plane for Boca Raton. But the more Kinsey searches for Elaine the more questions she encounters. Is Elaineâ€™s disappearance tied in to the brutal murder several months ago of one of her bridge partners? And what happened to Elaineâ€™s Persian cat who seems to have also vanished?Things take a turn for the worse when a stranger vandalizes the home of one of Elaineâ€™s neighbors and another neighbor turns up murdered. With her reputation and career on the line, Kinsey risks all to find a missing woman and a killer whoâ€™s waiting in the shadows to strike againâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/945'),
(9742, 'B Is for Burglar', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Although business has been slow lately for P.I. Kinsey Millhone, sheâ€™s reluctant to take on the case of locating Beverly Danzigerâ€™s sister Elaine Boldt. Itâ€™s a small matter that Beverly should be able to handle herself. So why is she enlisting Kinseyâ€™s services? Beverly claims she needs Elaineâ€™s signature on some documents so that she can collect a small inheritance. But the whole affair doesnâ€™t sit well with Kinsey. And if thereâ€™s something sheâ€™s learned in her line of work, itâ€™s to always follow your instinctsâ€¦ Kinseyâ€™s hunch proves true when she begins her inquiries into Elaineâ€™s whereabouts and discovers that the attractive widow was last seen in a flashy lynx coat boarding a plane for Boca Raton. But the more Kinsey searches for Elaine the more questions she encounters. Is Elaineâ€™s disappearance tied in to the brutal murder several months ago of one of her bridge partners? And what happened to Elaineâ€™s Persian cat who seems to have also vanished?Things take a turn for the worse when a stranger vandalizes the home of one of Elaineâ€™s neighbors and another neighbor turns up murdered. With her reputation and career on the line, Kinsey risks all to find a missing woman and a killer whoâ€™s waiting in the shadows to strike againâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15118'),
(9743, 'B Is for Burglar', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Although business has been slow lately for P.I. Kinsey Millhone, sheâ€™s reluctant to take on the case of locating Beverly Danzigerâ€™s sister Elaine Boldt. Itâ€™s a small matter that Beverly should be able to handle herself. So why is she enlisting Kinseyâ€™s services? Beverly claims she needs Elaineâ€™s signature on some documents so that she can collect a small inheritance. But the whole affair doesnâ€™t sit well with Kinsey. And if thereâ€™s something sheâ€™s learned in her line of work, itâ€™s to always follow your instinctsâ€¦ Kinseyâ€™s hunch proves true when she begins her inquiries into Elaineâ€™s whereabouts and discovers that the attractive widow was last seen in a flashy lynx coat boarding a plane for Boca Raton. But the more Kinsey searches for Elaine the more questions she encounters. Is Elaineâ€™s disappearance tied in to the brutal murder several months ago of one of her bridge partners? And what happened to Elaineâ€™s Persian cat who seems to have also vanished?Things take a turn for the worse when a stranger vandalizes the home of one of Elaineâ€™s neighbors and another neighbor turns up murdered. With her reputation and career on the line, Kinsey risks all to find a missing woman and a killer whoâ€™s waiting in the shadows to strike againâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24030'),
(9744, 'Baal', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23099'),
(9745, 'Babbit', 'Sinclair Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 1919. Lewis, was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Possibly the greatest satirist of his age, Lewis wrote novels that present a devastating picture of middle-class American life in the 1920s. Although he ridiculed the values, the lifestyles, and even the speech of his characters, there is often affection behind the irony. Lewis began his career as a journalist, editor, and hack writer. He became an important literary figure with the publication of Main Street. His seventh novel, Babbitt, is considered by many critics to be his greatest work. The story follows George Babbitt, a middle-aged realtor who is unimaginative, self-important, and hopelessly middle class. Vaguely dissatisfied with his position, he tries to alter the pattern of his life by flirting with liberalism and by having an affair with an attractive widow, only to find that his dread of ostracism is greater than his desire for escape. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1175'),
(9746, 'Babbit', 'Sinclair Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 1919. Lewis, was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Possibly the greatest satirist of his age, Lewis wrote novels that present a devastating picture of middle-class American life in the 1920s. Although he ridiculed the values, the lifestyles, and even the speech of his characters, there is often affection behind the irony. Lewis began his career as a journalist, editor, and hack writer. He became an important literary figure with the publication of Main Street. His seventh novel, Babbitt, is considered by many critics to be his greatest work. The story follows George Babbitt, a middle-aged realtor who is unimaginative, self-important, and hopelessly middle class. Vaguely dissatisfied with his position, he tries to alter the pattern of his life by flirting with liberalism and by having an affair with an attractive widow, only to find that his dread of ostracism is greater than his desire for escape. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23731'),
(9747, 'Babbitt', 'Sinclair Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1178'),
(9748, 'Babbitt', 'Sinclair Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11100'),
(9749, 'Baby and Toddler Sleep Solutions for Dummies', 'Arthur Lavin Md; Susan Glaser Ma', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Understand the sleep effects of life changes, prematurity, and health issues\n</p>\n<p>\n Find your way to your family''s best sleep solutions!\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you wonder whether you''ll ever sleep through the night again? Relax! This reassuring guide provides the essential information you need to help your kids to go to sleep -- and stay asleep -- all night long, whatever their age or stage of development. So cheer up -- a good night''s sleep is just pages away!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Foster healthy sleep patterns for life\n </li>\n <li>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Tailor your approach to your child''s personality\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Establish bedtime rules in a nurturing way\n <br />\n *\n</p>\n<p>\n Handle snoring, night terrors, bedwetting, and other distressing issues\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Understand the sleep effects of life changes, prematurity, and health issues\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find your way to your family''s best sleep solutions!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Do you wonder whether you''ll ever sleep through the night again? Relax! This reassuring guide provides the essential information you need to help your kids to go to sleep â€” and stay asleep â€” all night long, whatever their age or stage of development. So cheer up â€” a good night''s sleep is just pages away!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Foster healthy sleep patterns for life\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tailor your approach to your child''s personality\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Establish bedtime rules in a nurturing way\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Handle snoring, night terrors, bedwetting, and other distressing issues\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15640'),
(9750, 'Baby Proof', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From the author of the smash hits Something Borrowed and Something Blue comes a novel that explores the question: is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love?First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes . . . a baby carriage? Isnâ€™t that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fall in love and agree to buck tradition with a satisfying, child-free marriage. Then the unexpected occurs: one of them has a change of heart. One of them wants children after all. This is the witty, heartfelt story about what happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things. Itâ€™s about feeling that your life is set and then realizing that nothing is as you thought it was---and that there is no possible compromise. Itâ€™s about deciding what is most important in life, and taking chances to get it. But most of all, itâ€™s about the things we will do---and wonâ€™t do---for love.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14563'),
(9751, 'Baby Proof', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From the author of the smash hits Something Borrowed and Something Blue comes a novel that explores the question: is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love?First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes . . . a baby carriage? Isnâ€™t that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fall in love and agree to buck tradition with a satisfying, child-free marriage. Then the unexpected occurs: one of them has a change of heart. One of them wants children after all. This is the witty, heartfelt story about what happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things. Itâ€™s about feeling that your life is set and then realizing that nothing is as you thought it was---and that there is no possible compromise. Itâ€™s about deciding what is most important in life, and taking chances to get it. But most of all, itâ€™s about the things we will do---and wonâ€™t do---for love.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19002'),
(9752, 'Baby Proof', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From the author of the smash hits Something Borrowed and Something Blue comes a novel that explores the question: is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love?First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes . . . a baby carriage? Isnâ€™t that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fall in love and agree to buck tradition with a satisfying, child-free marriage. Then the unexpected occurs: one of them has a change of heart. One of them wants children after all. This is the witty, heartfelt story about what happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things. Itâ€™s about feeling that your life is set and then realizing that nothing is as you thought it was---and that there is no possible compromise. Itâ€™s about deciding what is most important in life, and taking chances to get it. But most of all, itâ€™s about the things we will do---and wonâ€™t do---for love.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27767'),
(9753, 'Baby Signing for Dummies', 'Jennifer Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Have you thought about signing with your baby or toddler? Parents and caregivers are discovering the benefits of using American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate with children long before they can speak. Some studies show that signing babies talk sooner, have larger vocabularies, and have fewer tantrums!\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Baby Signing For Dummies\n </em>\n gives you the skills to connect in a meaningful way with your hearing baby or toddler. Packed with more than 150 illustrated signs, this friendly, easy-to-follow guide shows you how to use simple hand gestures and baby-specific signing techniques to start interacting with your baby. Every sign is accompanied by step-by-step directions and an illustrationâ€”from meeting and greeting, people, and mealtime signs to clothes, animals, outdoor signs, and, of course, bath time and bedtime. Youâ€™ll discover how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Introduce signs to your baby\n </li>\n <li>\n  Incorporate signing into daily life\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make everyday events easier with signs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Overcome stumbling blocks\n </li>\n <li>\n  Decrease fussing and crying through signing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Help your baby sign combinations of words\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep your baby safe with signing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the whole family involved\n </li>\n <li>\n  Find outside help (Web sites, videos, and signing schools and courses)\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Complete with illustrations of the entire ASL alphabet, signing dos and donâ€™ts, and ten songs to sign along with,\n <em>\n  Baby Signing For Dummies\n </em>\n is the key to enhancing communication with your child and increasing his/her intelligence in a simple, fun, and rewarding way!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Packed with more than 150 illustrated signs\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Now you''re talking! Communicate with signing and strengthen your bond\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Want to sign with your baby? This easy-to-use guide shows you how to use sign-language gestures to communicate with hearing infants and toddlers. Using baby-specific signing techniques, you''ll see how to lessen frustration and crying, as well as teach signs for every part of baby''s day. You may even improve baby''s IQ!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Discover how to\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Introduce signs to your baby\n </li>\n <li>\n  Get the whole family involved\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make bedtime easier with signs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep baby safe with signing\n </li>\n <li>\n  Overcome stumbling blocks\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18155'),
(9754, 'Baby-sitters Beware', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15826'),
(9755, 'Baby-sitters On Board', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15827'),
(9756, 'Baby, Let&#39;s Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him', 'Alanna Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nash culls reminiscences from long-term girlfriends, starlets like Ann-Margret and Cybill Shepherd, and assorted strippers, showgirls and groupies for this gossipy, besotted biography of rock''s original sex god. They attest to the allure that had females lining up for access to the young Elvis''s bed: devastating looks, pelvic gyrations and a bad-boy sneer combined with a romantic soul, sublime kissing technique and a courtliness that lulled parents into handing over their underage daughters. (He was attracted to 14-year-old brunettes, Nash argues, like future wife Priscilla.) And there''s the indefinable magnetismâ€”i.e., celebrityâ€”that kept them coming through the drugs and debauchery, the bizarre monologues and random gunplay, the impotence and incontinence and vomit and bloat of the King''s declining years. Nash''s mix of breathless melodrama (his voice was soft and sensuous, and he had a mischievous grin on his face, and he was looking straight at her) with rote psychoanalysis (Elvis could never really let go of [his mother] Gladys) often reads like a fan magazine. Her shallow but vivid portrait nonetheless manages to evoke much of what made Elvis so enthralling.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 5)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe most comprehensive work ever on how the women in Presleyâ€™s lifeâ€¦influenced him and his music.â€ (New York Newsday )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDeliciously gossipy but never mean, revealingly intimate but never leering, Baby, Letâ€™s Play House is a masterwork of psycho-sexual history neatly disguised as celebrity journalism.â€ (David Hajdu, author of Positively 4th Street, music critic for The New Republic, and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism David Hajdu, author of Positively 4th Street, music critic for The New Republic, and professor at Co )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn this astounding look at the Kingâ€™s unstoppable pursuit of women from his elementary school days until his untimely death at 42, hundreds of girls and women pass through the revolving doors of Elvisâ€™ love life.â€ (Atlanta Journal-Constitution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUn-put-downabble.â€ (Jezebel.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nash meticulously documents and explores all the relationships Elvis had with women that were â€˜extremely special,â€™ as Ann-Margret so delightfully (and euphemistically) phrases it. I was delighted to see my stepmother, June Carter, make an appearance, as she always became uncharacteristically silent when Elvisâ€™ name came up in conversation. Nash belongs in the pantheon of great music writers, and this book is a fascinating study (Rosanne Cash )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exhaustive and penetrating work that functions as an intimate personal profile, a family study and a psychosexual investigation of one of the 20th centuryâ€™s true cultural icons.â€ (Memphis Commercial Appeal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nashâ€¦turns her eye toward The Kingâ€™s other women in a psychological history ...Among those who loved him tender - Ann-Margret and Cybill Shepherd. Those who turned him down include Cher and Karen Carpenter. And of course, thereâ€™s plenty on the No. 1 woman in his life - Mom Gladys Presley.â€ (New York Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBy far the best study of Elvis Presley I have read. â€˜The Kingâ€™ emerges more clearly from this mosaic of his troubled love life than from any linear biography to date.Impressively researched, written--and felt.â€ (Philip Norman, New York Times bestselling author of John Lennon and Shout! )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s left to say about Elvis? Plenty, if Alanna Nash is on the case. She rips the satin sheets right off the King, resulting in the most entertaining Elvis book ever. Ann-Margret! Raquel Welch! Barbara Eden! Tura Satana! This is very funny book.â€ (Jimmy McDonough, New York Times bestselling author of Shakey: Neil Young''s Biography )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA frank and fascinating portrait of an essentially lonely man...[told] with grace and intelligence...The work of a master.â€ (Louisville Courier Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nashâ€™s long look at Elvisâ€™ bizarre history with women...collect[s] all the madness, badness and sadness of the Elvis myth in one exhaustive and embarrassingly tempting volume.â€ (New York Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf anything, Baby, Letâ€™s Play House heightens the heartbreaking aspects of Presleyâ€™s life.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA major new contribution to Presley lore...[Alanna Nashâ€™s] focus on Presleyâ€™s relationships with women takes us on a long and often fascinating journey...Itâ€™s a welcome and well-crafted addition to our understanding of his strange, triumphant and tragic life.â€ (The Globe and Mail )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNew girls slip between [Elvisâ€™] satin sheets on nearly every page...Combine that with an absorbing snapshot section, and [Baby, Letâ€™s Play House] will leave you all shook up.â€ (BettyConfidential.com )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7840'),
(9757, 'Baby, Let&#39;s Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him', 'Alanna Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nash culls reminiscences from long-term girlfriends, starlets like Ann-Margret and Cybill Shepherd, and assorted strippers, showgirls and groupies for this gossipy, besotted biography of rock''s original sex god. They attest to the allure that had females lining up for access to the young Elvis''s bed: devastating looks, pelvic gyrations and a bad-boy sneer combined with a romantic soul, sublime kissing technique and a courtliness that lulled parents into handing over their underage daughters. (He was attracted to 14-year-old brunettes, Nash argues, like future wife Priscilla.) And there''s the indefinable magnetismâ€”i.e., celebrityâ€”that kept them coming through the drugs and debauchery, the bizarre monologues and random gunplay, the impotence and incontinence and vomit and bloat of the King''s declining years. Nash''s mix of breathless melodrama (his voice was soft and sensuous, and he had a mischievous grin on his face, and he was looking straight at her) with rote psychoanalysis (Elvis could never really let go of [his mother] Gladys) often reads like a fan magazine. Her shallow but vivid portrait nonetheless manages to evoke much of what made Elvis so enthralling.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 5)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe most comprehensive work ever on how the women in Presleyâ€™s lifeâ€¦influenced him and his music.â€ (New York Newsday )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDeliciously gossipy but never mean, revealingly intimate but never leering, Baby, Letâ€™s Play House is a masterwork of psycho-sexual history neatly disguised as celebrity journalism.â€ (David Hajdu, author of Positively 4th Street, music critic for The New Republic, and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism David Hajdu, author of Positively 4th Street, music critic for The New Republic, and professor at Co )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn this astounding look at the Kingâ€™s unstoppable pursuit of women from his elementary school days until his untimely death at 42, hundreds of girls and women pass through the revolving doors of Elvisâ€™ love life.â€ (Atlanta Journal-Constitution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUn-put-downabble.â€ (Jezebel.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nash meticulously documents and explores all the relationships Elvis had with women that were â€˜extremely special,â€™ as Ann-Margret so delightfully (and euphemistically) phrases it. I was delighted to see my stepmother, June Carter, make an appearance, as she always became uncharacteristically silent when Elvisâ€™ name came up in conversation. Nash belongs in the pantheon of great music writers, and this book is a fascinating study (Rosanne Cash )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exhaustive and penetrating work that functions as an intimate personal profile, a family study and a psychosexual investigation of one of the 20th centuryâ€™s true cultural icons.â€ (Memphis Commercial Appeal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nashâ€¦turns her eye toward The Kingâ€™s other women in a psychological history ...Among those who loved him tender - Ann-Margret and Cybill Shepherd. Those who turned him down include Cher and Karen Carpenter. And of course, thereâ€™s plenty on the No. 1 woman in his life - Mom Gladys Presley.â€ (New York Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBy far the best study of Elvis Presley I have read. â€˜The Kingâ€™ emerges more clearly from this mosaic of his troubled love life than from any linear biography to date.Impressively researched, written--and felt.â€ (Philip Norman, New York Times bestselling author of John Lennon and Shout! )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s left to say about Elvis? Plenty, if Alanna Nash is on the case. She rips the satin sheets right off the King, resulting in the most entertaining Elvis book ever. Ann-Margret! Raquel Welch! Barbara Eden! Tura Satana! This is very funny book.â€ (Jimmy McDonough, New York Times bestselling author of Shakey: Neil Young''s Biography )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA frank and fascinating portrait of an essentially lonely man...[told] with grace and intelligence...The work of a master.â€ (Louisville Courier Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nashâ€™s long look at Elvisâ€™ bizarre history with women...collect[s] all the madness, badness and sadness of the Elvis myth in one exhaustive and embarrassingly tempting volume.â€ (New York Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf anything, Baby, Letâ€™s Play House heightens the heartbreaking aspects of Presleyâ€™s life.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA major new contribution to Presley lore...[Alanna Nashâ€™s] focus on Presleyâ€™s relationships with women takes us on a long and often fascinating journey...Itâ€™s a welcome and well-crafted addition to our understanding of his strange, triumphant and tragic life.â€ (The Globe and Mail )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNew girls slip between [Elvisâ€™] satin sheets on nearly every page...Combine that with an absorbing snapshot section, and [Baby, Letâ€™s Play House] will leave you all shook up.â€ (BettyConfidential.com )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11630'),
(9758, 'Baby, Let&#39;s Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him', 'Alanna Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nash culls reminiscences from long-term girlfriends, starlets like Ann-Margret and Cybill Shepherd, and assorted strippers, showgirls and groupies for this gossipy, besotted biography of rock''s original sex god. They attest to the allure that had females lining up for access to the young Elvis''s bed: devastating looks, pelvic gyrations and a bad-boy sneer combined with a romantic soul, sublime kissing technique and a courtliness that lulled parents into handing over their underage daughters. (He was attracted to 14-year-old brunettes, Nash argues, like future wife Priscilla.) And there''s the indefinable magnetismâ€”i.e., celebrityâ€”that kept them coming through the drugs and debauchery, the bizarre monologues and random gunplay, the impotence and incontinence and vomit and bloat of the King''s declining years. Nash''s mix of breathless melodrama (his voice was soft and sensuous, and he had a mischievous grin on his face, and he was looking straight at her) with rote psychoanalysis (Elvis could never really let go of [his mother] Gladys) often reads like a fan magazine. Her shallow but vivid portrait nonetheless manages to evoke much of what made Elvis so enthralling.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 5)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe most comprehensive work ever on how the women in Presleyâ€™s life...influenced him and his music.â€ (New York Newsday )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDeliciously gossipy but never mean, revealingly intimate but never leering, Baby, Letâ€™s Play House is a masterwork of psycho-sexual history neatly disguised as celebrity journalism.â€ (David Hajdu, author of Positively 4th Street, music critic for The New Republic, and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism David Hajdu, author of Positively 4th Street, music critic for The New Republic, and professor at Co )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn this astounding look at the Kingâ€™s unstoppable pursuit of women from his elementary school days until his untimely death at 42, hundreds of girls and women pass through the revolving doors of Elvisâ€™ love life.â€ (Atlanta Journal-Constitution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUn-put-downabble.â€ (Jezebel.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nash meticulously documents and explores all the relationships Elvis had with women that were â€˜extremely special,â€™ as Ann-Margret so delightfully (and euphemistically) phrases it. I was delighted to see my stepmother, June Carter, make an appearance, as she always became uncharacteristically silent when Elvisâ€™ name came up in conversation. Nash belongs in the pantheon of great music writers, and this book is a fascinating study (Rosanne Cash )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exhaustive and penetrating work that functions as an intimate personal profile, a family study and a psychosexual investigation of one of the 20th centuryâ€™s true cultural icons.â€ (Memphis Commercial Appeal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nash...turns her eye toward The Kingâ€™s other women in a psychological history ...Among those who loved him tender - Ann-Margret and Cybill Shepherd. Those who turned him down include Cher and Karen Carpenter. And of course, thereâ€™s plenty on the No. 1 woman in his life - Mom Gladys Presley.â€ (New York Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBy far the best study of Elvis Presley I have read. â€˜The Kingâ€™ emerges more clearly from this mosaic of his troubled love life than from any linear biography to date.Impressively researched, written--and felt.â€ (Philip Norman, New York Times bestselling author of John Lennon and Shout! )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s left to say about Elvis? Plenty, if Alanna Nash is on the case. She rips the satin sheets right off the King, resulting in the most entertaining Elvis book ever. Ann-Margret! Raquel Welch! Barbara Eden! Tura Satana! This is very funny book.â€ (Jimmy McDonough, New York Times bestselling author of Shakey: Neil Young''s Biography )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA frank and fascinating portrait of an essentially lonely man...[told] with grace and intelligence...The work of a master.â€ (Louisville Courier Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlanna Nashâ€™s long look at Elvisâ€™ bizarre history with women...collect[s] all the madness, badness and sadness of the Elvis myth in one exhaustive and embarrassingly tempting volume.â€ (New York Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf anything, Baby, Letâ€™s Play House heightens the heartbreaking aspects of Presleyâ€™s life.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA major new contribution to Presley lore...[Alanna Nashâ€™s] focus on Presleyâ€™s relationships with women takes us on a long and often fascinating journey...Itâ€™s a welcome and well-crafted addition to our understanding of his strange, triumphant and tragic life.â€ (The Globe and Mail )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNew girls slip between [Elvisâ€™] satin sheets on nearly every page...Combine that with an absorbing snapshot section, and [Baby, Letâ€™s Play House] will leave you all shook up.â€ (BettyConfidential.com )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16019'),
(9759, 'Babycakes Covers the Classics: Gluten-Free Vegan Recipes from Donuts to Snickerdoodles', 'Erin McKenna &amp; Tara Donne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For those with food sensitivities, these desserts have remained a distant dreamâ€”until now.  Following her widely adored debut cookbook with this delectable and extensive new collection, Erin McKenna, celebrated baker and proprietress of BabyCakes NYC in New York and Los Angeles, satisfies all your food fantasies with fifty recipes for perennial favoritesâ€”all created without gluten, dairy, eggs, or refined sugar. In addition to its important primer on key ingredients and easy substitutions, BabyCakes Covers the Classics includes a section filled with Erinâ€™s insightful solutions to frequently asked questions, which will lead you to newfound baking glory. As for the goods themselves, prepare for untold hours of refreshingly simple and undeniably delicious recipes adapted from the ones that sprinkled our collective childhoods. They include: Thin Mints Madeleines Chocolate Chip Waffles SnickerdoodlesÂ   Sâ€™mores  Hamentaschen  Square-Pan Tomato Pizza Six-Layer Chocolate Cake with Raspberry Preserves Banana RoyaleÂ  Five variations of BabyCakes NYCâ€™s famous donuts &amp; many more . . . BabyCakes Covers the Classics is filled with timeless sweet and savory temptations that vegans, celiacs, and the health-minded can safely indulge in. Erin shows people of all stripes how to take control of a vegan, gluten-free pantry, and she proves that once you do, there are no limitations to what you can bake.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11036'),
(9760, 'The Babylonian Codex', 'C.S. Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   An ancient Biblical prophecy . . . The convening of the richest and most powerful men on earth . . . The sudden, mysterious death of the vice president . . .\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  When Iraq War vet October "Tobie" Guinness volunteers to remote view a priceless artifact looted from war-ravaged Baghdad, she unwittingly becomes the main target in the midst of a horrific bloodbath. Now a fugitive accused of murder, Tobie turns for help from her sometime partner, rogue CIA agent Jax Alexander. Ranging from a high-mountain Moroccan kasbah and a medieval English church to a frozen Idaho lake, the two must race to unravel the secrets that link a long-lost mosaic to a mysterious Biblical codex, in time to stop a deadly cabal of powerful zealots with a chilling plot to remake the world and bring on the Second Coming.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  C.S. Graham is the pseudonym of writing team Steven Harris and Candice Proctor. Steven Harris spent twenty-one years as an Army Intelligence officer. His career ranged from participation in the Army''s controversial domestic spying activities to running agents in Southeast Asia. He also spent ten years in Washington, D.C., working at the national intelligence level. Candice Proctor is the author of more than a dozen previous novels, including the critically acclaimed Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series published under the name C.S. Harris. A former academic with a P.h.D. in history, she has lived most of her life abroad, in Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6990'),
(9761, 'The Babylonian Codex', 'C.S. Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   An ancient Biblical prophecy . . . The convening of the richest and most powerful men on earth . . . The sudden, mysterious death of the vice president . . .\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  When Iraq War vet October "Tobie" Guinness volunteers to remote view a priceless artifact looted from war-ravaged Baghdad, she unwittingly becomes the main target in the midst of a horrific bloodbath. Now a fugitive accused of murder, Tobie turns for help from her sometime partner, rogue CIA agent Jax Alexander. Ranging from a high-mountain Moroccan kasbah and a medieval English church to a frozen Idaho lake, the two must race to unravel the secrets that link a long-lost mosaic to a mysterious Biblical codex, in time to stop a deadly cabal of powerful zealots with a chilling plot to remake the world and bring on the Second Coming.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  C.S. Graham is the pseudonym of writing team Steven Harris and Candice Proctor. Steven Harris spent twenty-one years as an Army Intelligence officer. His career ranged from participation in the Army''s controversial domestic spying activities to running agents in Southeast Asia. He also spent ten years in Washington, D.C., working at the national intelligence level. Candice Proctor is the author of more than a dozen previous novels, including the critically acclaimed Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series published under the name C.S. Harris. A former academic with a P.h.D. in history, she has lived most of her life abroad, in Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10019'),
(9762, 'The Babylonian Codex', 'C.S. Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   An ancient Biblical prophecy . . . The convening of the richest and most powerful men on earth . . . The sudden, mysterious death of the vice president . . .\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  When Iraq War vet October "Tobie" Guinness volunteers to remote view a priceless artifact looted from war-ravaged Baghdad, she unwittingly becomes the main target in the midst of a horrific bloodbath. Now a fugitive accused of murder, Tobie turns for help from her sometime partner, rogue CIA agent Jax Alexander. Ranging from a high-mountain Moroccan kasbah and a medieval English church to a frozen Idaho lake, the two must race to unravel the secrets that link a long-lost mosaic to a mysterious Biblical codex, in time to stop a deadly cabal of powerful zealots with a chilling plot to remake the world and bring on the Second Coming.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  C.S. Graham is the pseudonym of writing team Steven Harris and Candice Proctor. Steven Harris spent twenty-one years as an Army Intelligence officer. His career ranged from participation in the Army''s controversial domestic spying activities to running agents in Southeast Asia. He also spent ten years in Washington, D.C., working at the national intelligence level. Candice Proctor is the author of more than a dozen previous novels, including the critically acclaimed Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series published under the name C.S. Harris. A former academic with a P.h.D. in history, she has lived most of her life abroad, in Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16861');
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(9763, 'Babyproofing Your Marriage CD: How to Laugh More, Argue Less, and Communicate Better as Your Family Grows', 'Stacie Cockrell; Cathy O&#39;neill; Julia Stone; Jennifer van Dyck', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Warning! New parents are likely to experience:\n</p>\n<p>\n Scorekeepingâ€”An exceedingly complex, often relentless, tit-for-tat war waged by husbands and wives over the division of parenting responsibilities and domestic chores.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Ten O''Clock Shoulder Tapâ€”Considered by many men to be a form of foreplay. A paw on a wife''s shoulder is how some men indicate their desire for sex. The Tap is rarely accompanied by a term of endearment or any other verbal form of communication and is seldom well received by the often-sleeping/almost-always-exhausted wife. The frustrated husband, meanwhile, wonders if his wife has pulled a Bait and Switch in the bedroom.\n</p>\n<p>\n Clash of the Granniesâ€”A high stakes "who will have the greatest influence on the grandkids" tournament played by each set of grandparents. Competitive categories include: the Title Championship (who gets to be called "Grandma"), the Battle for Floor and Wall Space, the Battle for Face Time, and Gratuitous Grandparental Gift-Giving.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Babyproofers are three women who wouldn''t trade their roles as mothers for anything, and they love their husbands deeply. But after living through it and hearing the stories of hundreds of other couples, they know that with young children in the house, you need to block the stairs with baby gates, put plastic covers over the outlets, AND take the necessary steps to safeguard your marriage.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Babyproofing Your Marriage\n </em>\n is the warts-and-all truth about how having children can affect your relationship. The authors explore the transition to parenthood in light of their own experiences, with input from their husbands and commentary from men and women across the country. Their evenhanded approach to both sides of the marital equation allows spouses to understand each other in a whole new way.\n</p>\n<p>\n With loads of humor and practical advice, the Babyproofers will guide first-time parents and veterans alike around the rocky shores of the early parenting years. Don''t fall prey to common relationship pitfalls: Babyproof Your Marriage!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stacie Harris Cockrell graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and went on to receive her MBA from the University of Texas. After graduate school, she was a finance and marketing professional at Dell Inc. and subsequently co-founded a high tech company in Austin, Texas. She currently resides in Austin with her husband, Ross, and their three children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23038'),
(9764, 'Babyville', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jane Greenâ€™s rise to reigning queen of commercial womenâ€™s literature has been positively meteoric. *Jemima J*, *Mr. Maybe,* and *Bookends* all took international bestseller lists by stormâ€”and went on to knockout paperback success (*Jemima J *has 390,000 copies in print)â€”thanks to Janeâ€™s fresh perspective on dating and marriage. Now she applies her golden touch to the next phase in a womanâ€™s life, in an insightful, bighearted tale of three friends grappling with their biological clocks.     Convinced that a baby will spice up her lackluster relationship with an apathetic boyfriend, Julia launches into a frenetic round of doctorâ€™s appointments and fertility rituals that threatens to send her over the edge. Samantha, happily married and confident that sheâ€™s the next June Cleaver, is appalled to find that her little bundle of joy leaves her exhausted, overweight, and ogling a girlfriendâ€™s hottie husband. Meanwhile, glamorous Maeve knows sheâ€™s allergic to rugratsâ€”until a steamy one-night stand leaves her with more than one surprise. As the three heroines confront their maternity dilemmas,  each one discovers a long-lost part of herself and stumbles toward her own unexpected happy ending.In Janeâ€™s trademark luminous and compassionate prose, *Babyville* beautifully tackles that rite of passage that crosses every womanâ€™s mind at least onceâ€”whether it takes her breath away or knocks the wind right out of her: having a baby.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4715'),
(9765, 'Babyville', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jane Greenâ€™s rise to reigning queen of commercial womenâ€™s literature has been positively meteoric. *Jemima J*, *Mr. Maybe,* and *Bookends* all took international bestseller lists by stormâ€”and went on to knockout paperback success (*Jemima J *has 390,000 copies in print)â€”thanks to Janeâ€™s fresh perspective on dating and marriage. Now she applies her golden touch to the next phase in a womanâ€™s life, in an insightful, bighearted tale of three friends grappling with their biological clocks.     Convinced that a baby will spice up her lackluster relationship with an apathetic boyfriend, Julia launches into a frenetic round of doctorâ€™s appointments and fertility rituals that threatens to send her over the edge. Samantha, happily married and confident that sheâ€™s the next June Cleaver, is appalled to find that her little bundle of joy leaves her exhausted, overweight, and ogling a girlfriendâ€™s hottie husband. Meanwhile, glamorous Maeve knows sheâ€™s allergic to rugratsâ€”until a steamy one-night stand leaves her with more than one surprise. As the three heroines confront their maternity dilemmas,  each one discovers a long-lost part of herself and stumbles toward her own unexpected happy ending.In Janeâ€™s trademark luminous and compassionate prose, *Babyville* beautifully tackles that rite of passage that crosses every womanâ€™s mind at least onceâ€”whether it takes her breath away or knocks the wind right out of her: having a baby.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9977'),
(9766, 'Babyville', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jane Greenâ€™s rise to reigning queen of commercial womenâ€™s literature has been positively meteoric. *Jemima J*, *Mr. Maybe,* and *Bookends* all took international bestseller lists by stormâ€”and went on to knockout paperback success (*Jemima J *has 390,000 copies in print)â€”thanks to Janeâ€™s fresh perspective on dating and marriage. Now she applies her golden touch to the next phase in a womanâ€™s life, in an insightful, bighearted tale of three friends grappling with their biological clocks. Convinced that a baby will spice up her lackluster relationship with an apathetic boyfriend, Julia launches into a frenetic round of doctorâ€™s appointments and fertility rituals that threatens to send her over the edge. Samantha, happily married and confident that sheâ€™s the next June Cleaver, is appalled to find that her little bundle of joy leaves her exhausted, overweight, and ogling a girlfriendâ€™s hottie husband. Meanwhile, glamorous Maeve knows sheâ€™s allergic to rugratsâ€”until a steamy one-night stand leaves her with more than one surprise. As the three heroines confront their maternity dilemmas, each one discovers a long-lost part of herself and stumbles toward her own unexpected happy ending.In Janeâ€™s trademark luminous and compassionate prose, *Babyville* beautifully tackles that rite of passage that crosses every womanâ€™s mind at least onceâ€”whether it takes her breath away or knocks the wind right out of her: having a baby.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19900'),
(9767, 'Bachelor Unleashed', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n They had a hot, fleeting affair Farrah Langley has never forgotten. Attorney-to-the-rich-and-famous Xavier Kane was tender, sexy, attentiveâ€”and\n <em>\n  ravished\n </em>\n her body. Everything she ever wanted in a lover. Getting together with him again in New York is a fantasy come true. She certainly doesn''t expect the footloose bachelor to change his ways. And the burned-by-love mediator isn''t looking for forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Xavier is.\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s something about Farrahâ€¦something that touches him deep in his soulâ€¦something that keeps him coming back. So when fate brings them together again, Xavier''s ready to pick up where they left off. But this time around, he wants more. Can he convince the lean, leggy beauty that he''s finished playing the field? That he wants only one woman in his bed, in his armsâ€”in his heart?\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n So, what are your plans for the holidays, X?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier leaned back in the leather chair and propped his legs up on his desk while glancing out the window at New York City''s skyline. The Empire State Building was in his direct line of vision and looked massive against the dark blue sky overhead.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had arrived in New York a few days ago to wrap up a business deal between the Northeast Division of Cody Enterprises and Oxley Financial Services. Cameron Cody''s takeover of the investment firm was a done deal, and as the executive attorney for all Cameron''s affairs, Xavier needed to be in place to make sure everything was handled as it should be. Not only was he considered Cameron''s right-hand man, they were very close friends. That friendship had begun back at Harvard when the two had been struggling students, determined to become successful in life.\n</p>\n<p>\n And now, just like then, they looked out for each other, so he wasn''t surprised by Cameron''s question. Cameron knew that Xavier''s parents had left for their annual six-month missionary crusadeâ€”this year to Haitiâ€”and wouldn''t be returning back to the States until sometime in the spring. "I''m not sure yet, Cam. I have a number of invitations out there."\n</p>\n<p>\n Cameron''s deep chuckle sounded over the speaker-phone. "Hey, don''t brag about it. Not everyone is blessed to have five sets of godparents."\n</p>\n<p>\n A frown settled on Xavier''s face that was best not seen by anyone. "That could be a blessing or a curse," he said, shaking his head pensively. "Currently it might be the latter. Now that Uriel has married, some of the godparents are eyeing the remaining five of us. I''m not sure I want to be included in any of their get-togethers for the holidays. Thanksgiving was hard enough."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I bet."\n</p>\n<p>\n Everyone had been invited to Uriel and Ellie''s place on Cavanaugh Lake. Former neighbors on the lake, the two had remodeled both their homes once married, combining them into one with an enclosed walkway. That meant plenty of space for sleepovers.\n</p>\n<p>\n And it was nice having all six godfathers present as they retold the story of how they''d met at Morehouse and become close friends, and how on graduation day they''d promised to stay in touch by becoming godfathers to each of their children, and that the firstborn sons'' names would carry the letters of the alphabet from U to Z. And that was how Uriel Lassiter, Virgil Bougard, Winston Coltrane, Xavier Kane, York Ellis and Zion Blackstone had come into existence.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Well, you know you can add me and Vanessa to your list," Cam was saying. "You''re always welcome to our place. We''re doing Christmas in Jamaica this year."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier couldn''t help but smile. His friend sounded happy and contented. What man wouldn''t be once he''d finally gotten the woman of his dreams? The former Vanessa Steele had been determined not to become involved with Cameron after his attempt to take over her family''s business. Cameron, on the other hand, had been just as determined to win her over. Not surprisingly, Cam had succeeded and was a happily married man with a baby on the way.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks, Cam, but I think I''m going to use the two weeks I''ll have off during the holidays to chill and relax. I''m even thinking about going someplace quiet. I might decide to visit Zion in Rome," he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moments later after hanging up the phone with Cameron, Xavier stood to stretch, ignoring the pile of work sitting on his desk. Not only was he executive attorney to Cameron Cody, he also managed the legal affairs for several well-known Hollywood celebrities, which was the reason he had an office in Los Angeles as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n Of all his clients, Cam kept him the busiest, which accounted for Xavier''s additional offices in London, Jamaica and Paris. And since Cameron''s newest brother-in-law, Quade Westmoreland, had a first cousin who was married to a sheikh, Cameron and Sheikh Jamal Yasir were anticipating a business venture that could now take Xavier to parts of the Middle East.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Kane, those reports you ordered are ready."\n</p>\n<p>\n He glanced over at the intercom on his desk before leaning over to press a button. "Thanks, Vicki. Please bring them in."\n</p>\n<p>\n "With pleasure, sir."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier shook his head. Vicki Connell, the woman who''d replaced Christine James, his New York administrative assistant, while she was out on an extended maternity leave, was determined to get inside his pants one way or the other. He knew the signs and had read those hidden seductive looks in her pretty dark eyes plenty of times whenever he came to town. All of that would be fine and dandy if he was interested, but he wasn''t. And he downright hated admitting that he hadn''t been gung ho about any woman getting into his pants since splitting with Farrah almost a half a year ago.\n</p>\n<p>\n He didn''t know what the hell was wrong with him since, typically, he wasn''t the brooding type. He''d certainly never given a woman any lasting thoughts once things between them had ended. So why was he doing so now?\n</p>\n<p>\n He walked over to the window and glanced out again. If the forecaster''s predictions held true, a snowstorm would be hitting the city by Sunday, and Xavier wished he could return to Charlotte before that happened. He could kiss that wish goodbye since he was due to remain in New York for another week or so.\n</p>\n<p>\n He heard the door opening behind him and then an ultra sexy feminine voice said, "Here are the reports, Mr. Kane. Will there be anything else?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He slowly turned around at the same time Vicki was smoothing her short skirt down her thighs, at least as much of them that could be covered. He was convinced if she were to bend over he would find out what color her panties were.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had to admit her outfit looked fine on her, but did nothing for him, other than reminding him how inappropriate it was for the workplace. But then the same thing held true for the outfit she''d worn yesterday. One of his godbrothers, York, who lived in New York, had dropped by the office to take him to lunch and had mentioned a number of times during their meal how good he thought Vicki had looked. Apparently he was impressed with her attire.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes, there will be something else," Xavier replied to Vicki. As he spoke he watched lust flare in her eyes.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes?" she asked, with anticipation flowing in her voice.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Please have a seat."\n</p>\n<p>\n She lifted a brow. "A seat?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes."\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the chair?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He inwardly smiled. Evidently she''d been hoping he meant spread-eagle on the desk. "Yes, Vicki, please sit in the chair."\n</p>\n<p>\n When she did so, the hem of her skirt barely covered her thighs. "Yes, Mr. Kane?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "How old are you, Vicki?"\n</p>\n<p>\n After probably trying to figure out why he was asking, she said, "I''m twenty."\n</p>\n<p>\n He nodded as he leaned against his desk. "And I understand you''re attending classes at the university at night and working for a temp agency part-time."\n</p>\n<p>\n She shifted in her seat to deliberately show more of a bare thigh. "Yes, that''s right. I''m hoping to get hired here full-time during the summer so I can qualify for an internship next fall."\n</p>\n<p>\n He wasn''t surprised to hear that. Cody Enterprises had several internship programs available. Going to college had been a financial hardship for Cameron, so he was a firm believer in assisting college students whatever way he could. The internship program he had in place was just one way of doing so.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I see no reason why that can''t happen for you, other than for one."\n</p>\n<p>\n She looked surprised. "And what reason is that?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "You need to improve your attire in the workplace."\n</p>\n<p>\n She actually looked offended. "I was told there wasn''t a dress code here."\n</p>\n<p>\n "There isn''t one per se. However, a person trying to move up in a company needs to care about the image she projects."\n</p>\n<p>\n She lifted her chin. "And just what kind of image am I projecting?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "An image of someone who enjoys getting a lot of attention. You''ve become a distraction. Deliberately so. Every man in this building finds some excuse to come to this floor every day and your work is suffering because you''re spending more time entertaining than taking care of business matters. I''ve yet to get that report that was due yesterday."\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s not my fault those guys drop by and take up my time."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier''s gaze roamed up and down her outfit. "Isn''t it?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He didn''t say anything, wanting to give her time to consider everything he''d said. "That will be all for now, Vicki," he finally said. "I hope we don''t have to discuss this issue again and I hope to have that report on my desk before I leave today."\n</p>\n<p>\n He took his seat behind his desk and watched her quickly leave the room. Moments later, while sitting staring into space, the truth hit him right between the eyes as to why he wasn''t attracted to other women. He hadn''t gotten Farrah out of his system.\n</p>\n<p>\n Considering everything they''d shared for close to a year, that was understandable. Usually his affairs with women rarely lasted a couple of months. That was when the women began to get possessive, and Xavier had no interest in being tied down to one woman.\n</p>\n<p>\n With Farrah things had been quite different. She''d never stamped a claim to any kind of ownership on him. He''d liked that. He''d liked her. And dammit, he missed her. He still wasn''t sure why she had ended things between them, but he did have a hunch.\n</p>\n<p>\n They had started getting too comfortable with each other, had fallen into one of those relationship routines where they just couldn''t get enough of each other. That sort of addiction between two people was kind of scary since there was no telling where it could lead. Straight to their hearts was out of the question since falling in love was in neither of their plans. Still, the thought of doing something as drastic as ending things between them hadn''t crossed his mind.\n</p>\n<p>\n He''d been perfectly satisfied with how things had been going. She didn''t ask for anything but gave everything. Hell, no woman could compare to her in the bedroom. And she had never questioned his activities whe...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7118'),
(9768, 'Bachelor Unleashed', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n They had a hot, fleeting affair Farrah Langley has never forgotten. Attorney-to-the-rich-and-famous Xavier Kane was tender, sexy, attentiveâ€”and\n <em>\n  ravished\n </em>\n her body. Everything she ever wanted in a lover. Getting together with him again in New York is a fantasy come true. She certainly doesn''t expect the footloose bachelor to change his ways. And the burned-by-love mediator isn''t looking for forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Xavier is.\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s something about Farrahâ€¦something that touches him deep in his soulâ€¦something that keeps him coming back. So when fate brings them together again, Xavier''s ready to pick up where they left off. But this time around, he wants more. Can he convince the lean, leggy beauty that he''s finished playing the field? That he wants only one woman in his bed, in his armsâ€”in his heart?\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n So, what are your plans for the holidays, X?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier leaned back in the leather chair and propped his legs up on his desk while glancing out the window at New York City''s skyline. The Empire State Building was in his direct line of vision and looked massive against the dark blue sky overhead.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had arrived in New York a few days ago to wrap up a business deal between the Northeast Division of Cody Enterprises and Oxley Financial Services. Cameron Cody''s takeover of the investment firm was a done deal, and as the executive attorney for all Cameron''s affairs, Xavier needed to be in place to make sure everything was handled as it should be. Not only was he considered Cameron''s right-hand man, they were very close friends. That friendship had begun back at Harvard when the two had been struggling students, determined to become successful in life.\n</p>\n<p>\n And now, just like then, they looked out for each other, so he wasn''t surprised by Cameron''s question. Cameron knew that Xavier''s parents had left for their annual six-month missionary crusadeâ€”this year to Haitiâ€”and wouldn''t be returning back to the States until sometime in the spring. "I''m not sure yet, Cam. I have a number of invitations out there."\n</p>\n<p>\n Cameron''s deep chuckle sounded over the speaker-phone. "Hey, don''t brag about it. Not everyone is blessed to have five sets of godparents."\n</p>\n<p>\n A frown settled on Xavier''s face that was best not seen by anyone. "That could be a blessing or a curse," he said, shaking his head pensively. "Currently it might be the latter. Now that Uriel has married, some of the godparents are eyeing the remaining five of us. I''m not sure I want to be included in any of their get-togethers for the holidays. Thanksgiving was hard enough."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I bet."\n</p>\n<p>\n Everyone had been invited to Uriel and Ellie''s place on Cavanaugh Lake. Former neighbors on the lake, the two had remodeled both their homes once married, combining them into one with an enclosed walkway. That meant plenty of space for sleepovers.\n</p>\n<p>\n And it was nice having all six godfathers present as they retold the story of how they''d met at Morehouse and become close friends, and how on graduation day they''d promised to stay in touch by becoming godfathers to each of their children, and that the firstborn sons'' names would carry the letters of the alphabet from U to Z. And that was how Uriel Lassiter, Virgil Bougard, Winston Coltrane, Xavier Kane, York Ellis and Zion Blackstone had come into existence.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Well, you know you can add me and Vanessa to your list," Cam was saying. "You''re always welcome to our place. We''re doing Christmas in Jamaica this year."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier couldn''t help but smile. His friend sounded happy and contented. What man wouldn''t be once he''d finally gotten the woman of his dreams? The former Vanessa Steele had been determined not to become involved with Cameron after his attempt to take over her family''s business. Cameron, on the other hand, had been just as determined to win her over. Not surprisingly, Cam had succeeded and was a happily married man with a baby on the way.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks, Cam, but I think I''m going to use the two weeks I''ll have off during the holidays to chill and relax. I''m even thinking about going someplace quiet. I might decide to visit Zion in Rome," he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moments later after hanging up the phone with Cameron, Xavier stood to stretch, ignoring the pile of work sitting on his desk. Not only was he executive attorney to Cameron Cody, he also managed the legal affairs for several well-known Hollywood celebrities, which was the reason he had an office in Los Angeles as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n Of all his clients, Cam kept him the busiest, which accounted for Xavier''s additional offices in London, Jamaica and Paris. And since Cameron''s newest brother-in-law, Quade Westmoreland, had a first cousin who was married to a sheikh, Cameron and Sheikh Jamal Yasir were anticipating a business venture that could now take Xavier to parts of the Middle East.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Kane, those reports you ordered are ready."\n</p>\n<p>\n He glanced over at the intercom on his desk before leaning over to press a button. "Thanks, Vicki. Please bring them in."\n</p>\n<p>\n "With pleasure, sir."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier shook his head. Vicki Connell, the woman who''d replaced Christine James, his New York administrative assistant, while she was out on an extended maternity leave, was determined to get inside his pants one way or the other. He knew the signs and had read those hidden seductive looks in her pretty dark eyes plenty of times whenever he came to town. All of that would be fine and dandy if he was interested, but he wasn''t. And he downright hated admitting that he hadn''t been gung ho about any woman getting into his pants since splitting with Farrah almost a half a year ago.\n</p>\n<p>\n He didn''t know what the hell was wrong with him since, typically, he wasn''t the brooding type. He''d certainly never given a woman any lasting thoughts once things between them had ended. So why was he doing so now?\n</p>\n<p>\n He walked over to the window and glanced out again. If the forecaster''s predictions held true, a snowstorm would be hitting the city by Sunday, and Xavier wished he could return to Charlotte before that happened. He could kiss that wish goodbye since he was due to remain in New York for another week or so.\n</p>\n<p>\n He heard the door opening behind him and then an ultra sexy feminine voice said, "Here are the reports, Mr. Kane. Will there be anything else?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He slowly turned around at the same time Vicki was smoothing her short skirt down her thighs, at least as much of them that could be covered. He was convinced if she were to bend over he would find out what color her panties were.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had to admit her outfit looked fine on her, but did nothing for him, other than reminding him how inappropriate it was for the workplace. But then the same thing held true for the outfit she''d worn yesterday. One of his godbrothers, York, who lived in New York, had dropped by the office to take him to lunch and had mentioned a number of times during their meal how good he thought Vicki had looked. Apparently he was impressed with her attire.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes, there will be something else," Xavier replied to Vicki. As he spoke he watched lust flare in her eyes.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes?" she asked, with anticipation flowing in her voice.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Please have a seat."\n</p>\n<p>\n She lifted a brow. "A seat?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes."\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the chair?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He inwardly smiled. Evidently she''d been hoping he meant spread-eagle on the desk. "Yes, Vicki, please sit in the chair."\n</p>\n<p>\n When she did so, the hem of her skirt barely covered her thighs. "Yes, Mr. Kane?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "How old are you, Vicki?"\n</p>\n<p>\n After probably trying to figure out why he was asking, she said, "I''m twenty."\n</p>\n<p>\n He nodded as he leaned against his desk. "And I understand you''re attending classes at the university at night and working for a temp agency part-time."\n</p>\n<p>\n She shifted in her seat to deliberately show more of a bare thigh. "Yes, that''s right. I''m hoping to get hired here full-time during the summer so I can qualify for an internship next fall."\n</p>\n<p>\n He wasn''t surprised to hear that. Cody Enterprises had several internship programs available. Going to college had been a financial hardship for Cameron, so he was a firm believer in assisting college students whatever way he could. The internship program he had in place was just one way of doing so.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I see no reason why that can''t happen for you, other than for one."\n</p>\n<p>\n She looked surprised. "And what reason is that?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "You need to improve your attire in the workplace."\n</p>\n<p>\n She actually looked offended. "I was told there wasn''t a dress code here."\n</p>\n<p>\n "There isn''t one per se. However, a person trying to move up in a company needs to care about the image she projects."\n</p>\n<p>\n She lifted her chin. "And just what kind of image am I projecting?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "An image of someone who enjoys getting a lot of attention. You''ve become a distraction. Deliberately so. Every man in this building finds some excuse to come to this floor every day and your work is suffering because you''re spending more time entertaining than taking care of business matters. I''ve yet to get that report that was due yesterday."\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s not my fault those guys drop by and take up my time."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier''s gaze roamed up and down her outfit. "Isn''t it?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He didn''t say anything, wanting to give her time to consider everything he''d said. "That will be all for now, Vicki," he finally said. "I hope we don''t have to discuss this issue again and I hope to have that report on my desk before I leave today."\n</p>\n<p>\n He took his seat behind his desk and watched her quickly leave the room. Moments later, while sitting staring into space, the truth hit him right between the eyes as to why he wasn''t attracted to other women. He hadn''t gotten Farrah out of his system.\n</p>\n<p>\n Considering everything they''d shared for close to a year, that was understandable. Usually his affairs with women rarely lasted a couple of months. That was when the women began to get possessive, and Xavier had no interest in being tied down to one woman.\n</p>\n<p>\n With Farrah things had been quite different. She''d never stamped a claim to any kind of ownership on him. He''d liked that. He''d liked her. And dammit, he missed her. He still wasn''t sure why she had ended things between them, but he did have a hunch.\n</p>\n<p>\n They had started getting too comfortable with each other, had fallen into one of those relationship routines where they just couldn''t get enough of each other. That sort of addiction between two people was kind of scary since there was no telling where it could lead. Straight to their hearts was out of the question since falling in love was in neither of their plans. Still, the thought of doing something as drastic as ending things between them hadn''t crossed his mind.\n</p>\n<p>\n He''d been perfectly satisfied with how things had been going. She didn''t ask for anything but gave everything. Hell, no woman could compare to her in the bedroom. And she had never questioned his activities whe...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10524'),
(9769, 'Bachelor Unleashed', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n They had a hot, fleeting affair Farrah Langley has never forgotten. Attorney-to-the-rich-and-famous Xavier Kane was tender, sexy, attentiveâ€”and\n <em>\n  ravished\n </em>\n her body. Everything she ever wanted in a lover. Getting together with him again in New York is a fantasy come true. She certainly doesn''t expect the footloose bachelor to change his ways. And the burned-by-love mediator isn''t looking for forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Xavier is.\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s something about Farrah...something that touches him deep in his soul...something that keeps him coming back. So when fate brings them together again, Xavier''s ready to pick up where they left off. But this time around, he wants more. Can he convince the lean, leggy beauty that he''s finished playing the field? That he wants only one woman in his bed, in his armsâ€”in his heart?\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n So, what are your plans for the holidays, X?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier leaned back in the leather chair and propped his legs up on his desk while glancing out the window at New York City''s skyline. The Empire State Building was in his direct line of vision and looked massive against the dark blue sky overhead.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had arrived in New York a few days ago to wrap up a business deal between the Northeast Division of Cody Enterprises and Oxley Financial Services. Cameron Cody''s takeover of the investment firm was a done deal, and as the executive attorney for all Cameron''s affairs, Xavier needed to be in place to make sure everything was handled as it should be. Not only was he considered Cameron''s right-hand man, they were very close friends. That friendship had begun back at Harvard when the two had been struggling students, determined to become successful in life.\n</p>\n<p>\n And now, just like then, they looked out for each other, so he wasn''t surprised by Cameron''s question. Cameron knew that Xavier''s parents had left for their annual six-month missionary crusadeâ€”this year to Haitiâ€”and wouldn''t be returning back to the States until sometime in the spring. "I''m not sure yet, Cam. I have a number of invitations out there."\n</p>\n<p>\n Cameron''s deep chuckle sounded over the speaker-phone. "Hey, don''t brag about it. Not everyone is blessed to have five sets of godparents."\n</p>\n<p>\n A frown settled on Xavier''s face that was best not seen by anyone. "That could be a blessing or a curse," he said, shaking his head pensively. "Currently it might be the latter. Now that Uriel has married, some of the godparents are eyeing the remaining five of us. I''m not sure I want to be included in any of their get-togethers for the holidays. Thanksgiving was hard enough."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I bet."\n</p>\n<p>\n Everyone had been invited to Uriel and Ellie''s place on Cavanaugh Lake. Former neighbors on the lake, the two had remodeled both their homes once married, combining them into one with an enclosed walkway. That meant plenty of space for sleepovers.\n</p>\n<p>\n And it was nice having all six godfathers present as they retold the story of how they''d met at Morehouse and become close friends, and how on graduation day they''d promised to stay in touch by becoming godfathers to each of their children, and that the firstborn sons'' names would carry the letters of the alphabet from U to Z. And that was how Uriel Lassiter, Virgil Bougard, Winston Coltrane, Xavier Kane, York Ellis and Zion Blackstone had come into existence.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Well, you know you can add me and Vanessa to your list," Cam was saying. "You''re always welcome to our place. We''re doing Christmas in Jamaica this year."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier couldn''t help but smile. His friend sounded happy and contented. What man wouldn''t be once he''d finally gotten the woman of his dreams? The former Vanessa Steele had been determined not to become involved with Cameron after his attempt to take over her family''s business. Cameron, on the other hand, had been just as determined to win her over. Not surprisingly, Cam had succeeded and was a happily married man with a baby on the way.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks, Cam, but I think I''m going to use the two weeks I''ll have off during the holidays to chill and relax. I''m even thinking about going someplace quiet. I might decide to visit Zion in Rome," he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moments later after hanging up the phone with Cameron, Xavier stood to stretch, ignoring the pile of work sitting on his desk. Not only was he executive attorney to Cameron Cody, he also managed the legal affairs for several well-known Hollywood celebrities, which was the reason he had an office in Los Angeles as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n Of all his clients, Cam kept him the busiest, which accounted for Xavier''s additional offices in London, Jamaica and Paris. And since Cameron''s newest brother-in-law, Quade Westmoreland, had a first cousin who was married to a sheikh, Cameron and Sheikh Jamal Yasir were anticipating a business venture that could now take Xavier to parts of the Middle East.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mr. Kane, those reports you ordered are ready."\n</p>\n<p>\n He glanced over at the intercom on his desk before leaning over to press a button. "Thanks, Vicki. Please bring them in."\n</p>\n<p>\n "With pleasure, sir."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier shook his head. Vicki Connell, the woman who''d replaced Christine James, his New York administrative assistant, while she was out on an extended maternity leave, was determined to get inside his pants one way or the other. He knew the signs and had read those hidden seductive looks in her pretty dark eyes plenty of times whenever he came to town. All of that would be fine and dandy if he was interested, but he wasn''t. And he downright hated admitting that he hadn''t been gung ho about any woman getting into his pants since splitting with Farrah almost a half a year ago.\n</p>\n<p>\n He didn''t know what the hell was wrong with him since, typically, he wasn''t the brooding type. He''d certainly never given a woman any lasting thoughts once things between them had ended. So why was he doing so now?\n</p>\n<p>\n He walked over to the window and glanced out again. If the forecaster''s predictions held true, a snowstorm would be hitting the city by Sunday, and Xavier wished he could return to Charlotte before that happened. He could kiss that wish goodbye since he was due to remain in New York for another week or so.\n</p>\n<p>\n He heard the door opening behind him and then an ultra sexy feminine voice said, "Here are the reports, Mr. Kane. Will there be anything else?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He slowly turned around at the same time Vicki was smoothing her short skirt down her thighs, at least as much of them that could be covered. He was convinced if she were to bend over he would find out what color her panties were.\n</p>\n<p>\n He had to admit her outfit looked fine on her, but did nothing for him, other than reminding him how inappropriate it was for the workplace. But then the same thing held true for the outfit she''d worn yesterday. One of his godbrothers, York, who lived in New York, had dropped by the office to take him to lunch and had mentioned a number of times during their meal how good he thought Vicki had looked. Apparently he was impressed with her attire.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes, there will be something else," Xavier replied to Vicki. As he spoke he watched lust flare in her eyes.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes?" she asked, with anticipation flowing in her voice.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Please have a seat."\n</p>\n<p>\n She lifted a brow. "A seat?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "Yes."\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the chair?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He inwardly smiled. Evidently she''d been hoping he meant spread-eagle on the desk. "Yes, Vicki, please sit in the chair."\n</p>\n<p>\n When she did so, the hem of her skirt barely covered her thighs. "Yes, Mr. Kane?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "How old are you, Vicki?"\n</p>\n<p>\n After probably trying to figure out why he was asking, she said, "I''m twenty."\n</p>\n<p>\n He nodded as he leaned against his desk. "And I understand you''re attending classes at the university at night and working for a temp agency part-time."\n</p>\n<p>\n She shifted in her seat to deliberately show more of a bare thigh. "Yes, that''s right. I''m hoping to get hired here full-time during the summer so I can qualify for an internship next fall."\n</p>\n<p>\n He wasn''t surprised to hear that. Cody Enterprises had several internship programs available. Going to college had been a financial hardship for Cameron, so he was a firm believer in assisting college students whatever way he could. The internship program he had in place was just one way of doing so.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I see no reason why that can''t happen for you, other than for one."\n</p>\n<p>\n She looked surprised. "And what reason is that?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "You need to improve your attire in the workplace."\n</p>\n<p>\n She actually looked offended. "I was told there wasn''t a dress code here."\n</p>\n<p>\n "There isn''t one per se. However, a person trying to move up in a company needs to care about the image she projects."\n</p>\n<p>\n She lifted her chin. "And just what kind of image am I projecting?"\n</p>\n<p>\n "An image of someone who enjoys getting a lot of attention. You''ve become a distraction. Deliberately so. Every man in this building finds some excuse to come to this floor every day and your work is suffering because you''re spending more time entertaining than taking care of business matters. I''ve yet to get that report that was due yesterday."\n</p>\n<p>\n "It''s not my fault those guys drop by and take up my time."\n</p>\n<p>\n Xavier''s gaze roamed up and down her outfit. "Isn''t it?"\n</p>\n<p>\n He didn''t say anything, wanting to give her time to consider everything he''d said. "That will be all for now, Vicki," he finally said. "I hope we don''t have to discuss this issue again and I hope to have that report on my desk before I leave today."\n</p>\n<p>\n He took his seat behind his desk and watched her quickly leave the room. Moments later, while sitting staring into space, the truth hit him right between the eyes as to why he wasn''t attracted to other women. He hadn''t gotten Farrah out of his system.\n</p>\n<p>\n Considering everything they''d shared for close to a year, that was understandable. Usually his affairs with women rarely lasted a couple of months. That was when the women began to get possessive, and Xavier had no interest in being tied down to one woman.\n</p>\n<p>\n With Farrah things had been quite different. She''d never stamped a claim to any kind of ownership on him. He''d liked that. He''d liked her. And dammit, he missed her. He still wasn''t sure why she had ended things between them, but he did have a hunch.\n</p>\n<p>\n They had started getting too comfortable with each other, had fallen into one of those relationship routines where they just couldn''t get enough of each other. That sort of addiction between two people was kind of scary since there was no telling where it could lead. Straight to their hearts was out of the question since falling in love was in neither of their plans. Still, the thought of doing something as drastic as ending things between them hadn''t crossed his mind.\n</p>\n<p>\n He''d been perfectly satisfied with how things had been going. She didn''t ask for anything but gave everything. Hell, no woman could compare to her in the bedroom. And she had never questioned his activities whe...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16723'),
(9770, 'Bachelor Untamed', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One mind-blowing kiss. That was all Ellie Weston shared with her neighbor and crush one summer, before he angrily discovered she''d approached him on a dare. Ten years later, Ellie is back at her great-aunt''s lake house, and so is Uriel Lassiter still wildly sexy, single and happy to stay that way. When Ellie finds her great-aunt''s never-completed romance novel, she decides to finish the manuscript but first she needs some real-life inspiration: a sultry summer fling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Uriel hasn''t forgotten Ellie, and their sizzling chemistry is starting to make him reconsider his tried-and-true bachelor status. But when the truth about her motive emerges, can Ellie convince him that make-believe has turned into sweet reality?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7121'),
(9771, 'Bachelor Untamed', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One mind-blowing kiss. That was all Ellie Weston shared with her neighbor and crush one summer, before he angrily discovered she''d approached him on a dare. Ten years later, Ellie is back at her great-aunt''s lake house, and so is Uriel Lassiter still wildly sexy, single and happy to stay that way. When Ellie finds her great-aunt''s never-completed romance novel, she decides to finish the manuscript but first she needs some real-life inspiration: a sultry summer fling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Uriel hasn''t forgotten Ellie, and their sizzling chemistry is starting to make him reconsider his tried-and-true bachelor status. But when the truth about her motive emerges, can Ellie convince him that make-believe has turned into sweet reality?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10527'),
(9772, 'Bachelor Untamed', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One mind-blowing kiss. That was all Ellie Weston shared with her neighbor and crush one summer, before he angrily discovered she''d approached him on a dare. Ten years later, Ellie is back at her great-aunt''s lake house, and so is Uriel Lassiter still wildly sexy, single and happy to stay that way. When Ellie finds her great-aunt''s never-completed romance novel, she decides to finish the manuscript but first she needs some real-life inspiration: a sultry summer fling.\n</p>\n<p>\n Uriel hasn''t forgotten Ellie, and their sizzling chemistry is starting to make him reconsider his tried-and-true bachelor status. But when the truth about her motive emerges, can Ellie convince him that make-believe has turned into sweet reality?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16722'),
(9773, 'The Bachman Books', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The name on the covers was Bachman. But the imagination could only belong to one man. A compelling collection of three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense - THE LONG WALK, ROADWORK and THE RUNNING MAN - in which Stephen King also explains ''Why I was Richard Bachman''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22969'),
(9774, 'Back in the World: Stories', 'Tobias Wolff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff''s characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the vaguest notion of what normal is. A gentle priest finds himself in a Vegas hotel with a hysterical, sun-burned stranger. A show-biz hopeful undergoes a dubious audition in a hearse speeding across the California desert. An aging soldier is distracted from a night of philandering by a gun-toting neighbor and a suicidal enlisted man. As he moves among these unfortunates, Wolff observes the disparity between their realities and their dreams, in ten stories of exhilarating lucidity and grace.Stories included are: "The Missing Person," "Say Yes," "The Poor Are Always With Us," "Sister," "Soldier''s Joy," "Desert Breakdown," "Our Story Begins," "Leviathan," and "The Rich Brother." "Terrific...The magic of his fiction cannot be explained. It is the ancient art of the master storyteller."--Tim O''Brien\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/611'),
(9775, 'Back in the World: Stories', 'Tobias Wolff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff''s characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the vaguest notion of what normal is. A gentle priest finds himself in a Vegas hotel with a hysterical, sun-burned stranger. A show-biz hopeful undergoes a dubious audition in a hearse speeding across the California desert. An aging soldier is distracted from a night of philandering by a gun-toting neighbor and a suicidal enlisted man. As he moves among these unfortunates, Wolff observes the disparity between their realities and their dreams, in ten stories of exhilarating lucidity and grace.Stories included are: "The Missing Person," "Say Yes," "The Poor Are Always With Us," "Sister," "Soldier''s Joy," "Desert Breakdown," "Our Story Begins," "Leviathan," and "The Rich Brother." "Terrific...The magic of his fiction cannot be explained. It is the ancient art of the master storyteller."--Tim O''Brien\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13420');
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(9776, 'Back in the World: Stories', 'Tobias Wolff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff''s characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the vaguest notion of what normal is. A gentle priest finds himself in a Vegas hotel with a hysterical, sun-burned stranger. A show-biz hopeful undergoes a dubious audition in a hearse speeding across the California desert. An aging soldier is distracted from a night of philandering by a gun-toting neighbor and a suicidal enlisted man. As he moves among these unfortunates, Wolff observes the disparity between their realities and their dreams, in ten stories of exhilarating lucidity and grace.Stories included are: "The Missing Person," "Say Yes," "The Poor Are Always With Us," "Sister," "Soldier''s Joy," "Desert Breakdown," "Our Story Begins," "Leviathan," and "The Rich Brother." "Terrific...The magic of his fiction cannot be explained. It is the ancient art of the master storyteller."--Tim O''Brien\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24388'),
(9777, 'Back on Murder', 'J. Mark Bertrand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Det. Roland March is a homicide cop on his way out. But when he''s the only one at a crime scene to find evidence of a missing female victim, he''s given one last chance to prove himself. Before he can crack the case, he''s transferred to a new one that has grabbed the spotlight--the disappearance of a famous Houston evangelist''s teen daughter.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the help of a youth pastor with a guilty conscience who navigates the world of church and faith, March is determined to find the missing girls while proving he''s still one of Houston''s best detectives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4957'),
(9778, 'Back on Murder', 'J. Mark Bertrand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Det. Roland March is a homicide cop on his way out. But when he''s the only one at a crime scene to find evidence of a missing female victim, he''s given one last chance to prove himself. Before he can crack the case, he''s transferred to a new one that has grabbed the spotlight--the disappearance of a famous Houston evangelist''s teen daughter.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the help of a youth pastor with a guilty conscience who navigates the world of church and faith, March is determined to find the missing girls while proving he''s still one of Houston''s best detectives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8443'),
(9779, 'Back on Murder', 'J. Mark Bertrand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Det. Roland March is a homicide cop on his way out. But when he''s the only one at a crime scene to find evidence of a missing female victim, he''s given one last chance to prove himself. Before he can crack the case, he''s transferred to a new one that has grabbed the spotlight--the disappearance of a famous Houston evangelist''s teen daughter. With the help of a youth pastor with a guilty conscience who navigates the world of church and faith, March is determined to find the missing girls while proving he''s still one of Houston''s best detectives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19752'),
(9780, 'Back on Murder', 'J. Mark Bertrand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Det. Roland March is a homicide cop on his way out. But when he''s the only one at a crime scene to find evidence of a missing female victim, he''s given one last chance to prove himself. Before he can crack the case, he''s transferred to a new one that has grabbed the spotlight--the disappearance of a famous Houston evangelist''s teen daughter. With the help of a youth pastor with a guilty conscience who navigates the world of church and faith, March is determined to find the missing girls while proving he''s still one of Houston''s best detectives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28300'),
(9781, 'Back Spin (1997)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 04', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14840'),
(9782, 'Back Spin (1997)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 04', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19390'),
(9783, 'Back Spin (1997)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 04', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27055'),
(9784, 'Back Story', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Robert B. Parker''s most popular series, an unsolved thirty-year-old-murder draws the victim''s daughter out of the shadows for overdue justice--and lures Spenser into his own past, old crimes, and dangerous lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1752'),
(9785, 'Back Story (2003)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 30', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13798'),
(9786, 'Back Story (2003)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 30', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23186'),
(9787, 'Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explains the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything', 'David Sirota', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An Essay from Author David Sirota\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Five â€™80s Flicks That Explain How the â€™80s Still Define Our World\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Back To Our Future\n  </em>\n  posits that the 1980s--and specifically 1980s pop culture--frames the way we think about major issues today. The decade is the lens through which we see our world. To understand what that means, here are five classic flicks that show how the 1980s still shapes our thinking on government, the â€œrogue,â€ militarism, race, and even our not-so-distant past.\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1984): Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, and Winston Zeddmore seem like happy-go-lucky guys, but these are cold, hard military contractors. Between evading the Environmental Protection Agency, charging exorbitant rates for apparition captures, and summoning a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the merry band shows a Zoul-haunted New York that their for-profit services are far more reliable than those of the Big Appleâ€™s wholly inept government. At the same time, the Ghostbusters were providing 1980s audiences with a cinematic version of what would later become the very real Blackwater--and what would be the anti-government, privatize-everything narrative of the twenty-first century.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1988): Though the 1980s was setting the stage for the rise of anti-government politics today, it was also creating the Palin-esque â€œrogueâ€ to conveniently explain the good things government undeniably accomplishes. Hitting the silver screen just a few years after Ollie Northâ€™s rogue triumphalism, John McClane became the â€™80s most famous of this â€œrogueâ€ archetype--a government employee who becomes a hero specifically by defying his police superiors and rescuing hostages from the twin threat of terrorism\n    <em>\n     and\n    </em>\n    his bossâ€™s bureaucratic clumsiness. This message is so clear in\n    <em>\n     Die Hard\n    </em>\n    , that in one memorable scene, McClane is yelling at one police lieutenant that the government has become â€œpart of the problem.â€\n    <em>\n     Die Hard\n    </em>\n    , like almost every national politician today, says government can only work if it gets out of the way of the rogues, mavericks, and rule-breakers within its own midst.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1985): â€œSir, do we get to win this time?â€ So begins the second--and most culturally important--installment of the Rambo series. The question was a direct rip-off of Ronald Reaganâ€™s insistence that when it came to the loss in Vietnam, America had been too â€œafraid to let them winâ€--them, of course, being the troops. The theory embedded in this refrain is simple: If only meddling politicians and a weak-kneed public had deferred to the Pentagon, then we would have won the conflict in Southeast Asia. Repeated ad nauseum since the 1980s, the â€œlet them winâ€ idea now defines our modern discussion of war. If only we let the Pentagonâ€™s Rambos do whatever they want with no question or oversight whatsoever, then we can decisively conclude the wars in Iraq and Afghanistanâ€¦and we can win the neverending â€œWar on Terror.â€\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1982): Before the 2008 presidential campaign devolved into cartoonish media portrayals of the palatable â€œpost-racialâ€ Barack Obama and his allegedly unpalatable â€œoverly racialâ€ pastor Jeremiah Wright, there was\n    <em>\n     Rocky III\n    </em>\n    more explicitly outlining this binary and bigoted portrayal of African Americans. Here was Rocky Balboa as the determined but slightly ignorant stand-in for White Middle America. Surveying the diverse landscape, the Italian Stallion could see only two kinds of black peopleâ€”on one side the suave, smooth, post-racial Apollo Creed, and on the other side the enraged, animalistic Clubber Lang. Rocky thus gravitated to the former, and reflexively feared the latter, essentially summarizing twenty-first-century White Americaâ€™s often over-simplistic and bigoted attitudes toward the black community today.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1983): This college reunion flick from Lawrence Kasdan is hilarious, morose, and seemingly nostalgic for the halcyon days of the past; but powerfully propagandistic in its negative framing of the 1960s. Over the course of the filmâ€™s weekend, character after character berates the 1960s as an overly decadent age that may have been rooted in idealism, but was fundamentally destined to fail. Sound familiar? Of course it does. The 1980s-created narrative of the Bad Sixties can still be found in everything from national Tea Party protests to never-ending culture-war battles on local school boards. The message is always the same: If only America can emulate the Big Chillers and get past its Sixties immaturity and liberalism, everything will be A-okay.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sirota (The Uprising) ushers readers back to the era of big money and bigger hair, the yuppie and the Gipper to show how the 1980s transformedâ€”and continues to influenceâ€”America''s culture and politics. As Carter''s presidency began to crumble in 1978, a revival of back-to-the-''50s theater, television, and film productions (Grease, Happy Days, La Bamba) overtook grittier 1960s imagery of "urbanity, ethnicity and strife" and came to define the Reagan era in a country eager to forgetâ€”or unwilling to learn fromâ€”the failure of Vietnam. Sirota argues that the combination of Reagan, the "candidate of nostalgia"; hypermilitarist movies that re-demonized communism; and sophisticated marketing campaigns glorifying the cult of the individual led to our current culture''s narcissism and obsessive pursuit of wealth and celebrity. In his effort to fit current trends to his overriding thesis, Sirota occasionally makes some sweeping statements, such as claiming the military''s public relations campaign was so successful that Americans "never dare question" the military, ignoring the numerous antiâ€“Iraq War protests and the outrage over the Abu Ghraib photographs. But the many of his arguments are well informed and sparkle with wit and irreverence. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6199'),
(9788, 'Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explains the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything', 'David Sirota', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An Essay from Author David Sirota\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Five â€™80s Flicks That Explain How the â€™80s Still Define Our World\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Back To Our Future\n  </em>\n  posits that the 1980s--and specifically 1980s pop culture--frames the way we think about major issues today. The decade is the lens through which we see our world. To understand what that means, here are five classic flicks that show how the 1980s still shapes our thinking on government, the â€œrogue,â€ militarism, race, and even our not-so-distant past.\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1984): Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, and Winston Zeddmore seem like happy-go-lucky guys, but these are cold, hard military contractors. Between evading the Environmental Protection Agency, charging exorbitant rates for apparition captures, and summoning a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the merry band shows a Zoul-haunted New York that their for-profit services are far more reliable than those of the Big Appleâ€™s wholly inept government. At the same time, the Ghostbusters were providing 1980s audiences with a cinematic version of what would later become the very real Blackwater--and what would be the anti-government, privatize-everything narrative of the twenty-first century.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1988): Though the 1980s was setting the stage for the rise of anti-government politics today, it was also creating the Palin-esque â€œrogueâ€ to conveniently explain the good things government undeniably accomplishes. Hitting the silver screen just a few years after Ollie Northâ€™s rogue triumphalism, John McClane became the â€™80s most famous of this â€œrogueâ€ archetype--a government employee who becomes a hero specifically by defying his police superiors and rescuing hostages from the twin threat of terrorism\n    <em>\n     and\n    </em>\n    his bossâ€™s bureaucratic clumsiness. This message is so clear in\n    <em>\n     Die Hard\n    </em>\n    , that in one memorable scene, McClane is yelling at one police lieutenant that the government has become â€œpart of the problem.â€\n    <em>\n     Die Hard\n    </em>\n    , like almost every national politician today, says government can only work if it gets out of the way of the rogues, mavericks, and rule-breakers within its own midst.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1985): â€œSir, do we get to win this time?â€ So begins the second--and most culturally important--installment of the Rambo series. The question was a direct rip-off of Ronald Reaganâ€™s insistence that when it came to the loss in Vietnam, America had been too â€œafraid to let them winâ€--them, of course, being the troops. The theory embedded in this refrain is simple: If only meddling politicians and a weak-kneed public had deferred to the Pentagon, then we would have won the conflict in Southeast Asia. Repeated ad nauseum since the 1980s, the â€œlet them winâ€ idea now defines our modern discussion of war. If only we let the Pentagonâ€™s Rambos do whatever they want with no question or oversight whatsoever, then we can decisively conclude the wars in Iraq and Afghanistanâ€¦and we can win the neverending â€œWar on Terror.â€\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1982): Before the 2008 presidential campaign devolved into cartoonish media portrayals of the palatable â€œpost-racialâ€ Barack Obama and his allegedly unpalatable â€œoverly racialâ€ pastor Jeremiah Wright, there was\n    <em>\n     Rocky III\n    </em>\n    more explicitly outlining this binary and bigoted portrayal of African Americans. Here was Rocky Balboa as the determined but slightly ignorant stand-in for White Middle America. Surveying the diverse landscape, the Italian Stallion could see only two kinds of black peopleâ€”on one side the suave, smooth, post-racial Apollo Creed, and on the other side the enraged, animalistic Clubber Lang. Rocky thus gravitated to the former, and reflexively feared the latter, essentially summarizing twenty-first-century White Americaâ€™s often over-simplistic and bigoted attitudes toward the black community today.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    __ (1983): This college reunion flick from Lawrence Kasdan is hilarious, morose, and seemingly nostalgic for the halcyon days of the past; but powerfully propagandistic in its negative framing of the 1960s. Over the course of the filmâ€™s weekend, character after character berates the 1960s as an overly decadent age that may have been rooted in idealism, but was fundamentally destined to fail. Sound familiar? Of course it does. The 1980s-created narrative of the Bad Sixties can still be found in everything from national Tea Party protests to never-ending culture-war battles on local school boards. The message is always the same: If only America can emulate the Big Chillers and get past its Sixties immaturity and liberalism, everything will be A-okay.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sirota (The Uprising) ushers readers back to the era of big money and bigger hair, the yuppie and the Gipper to show how the 1980s transformedâ€”and continues to influenceâ€”America''s culture and politics. As Carter''s presidency began to crumble in 1978, a revival of back-to-the-''50s theater, television, and film productions (Grease, Happy Days, La Bamba) overtook grittier 1960s imagery of "urbanity, ethnicity and strife" and came to define the Reagan era in a country eager to forgetâ€”or unwilling to learn fromâ€”the failure of Vietnam. Sirota argues that the combination of Reagan, the "candidate of nostalgia"; hypermilitarist movies that re-demonized communism; and sophisticated marketing campaigns glorifying the cult of the individual led to our current culture''s narcissism and obsessive pursuit of wealth and celebrity. In his effort to fit current trends to his overriding thesis, Sirota occasionally makes some sweeping statements, such as claiming the military''s public relations campaign was so successful that Americans "never dare question" the military, ignoring the numerous antiâ€“Iraq War protests and the outrage over the Abu Ghraib photographs. But the many of his arguments are well informed and sparkle with wit and irreverence. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12731'),
(9789, 'Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explains the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything', 'Sirota, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17829'),
(9790, 'Back to the Bedroom', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dear Reader:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All immediately went out of print and could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I''m excited to tell you that those nine stories are now being re-released by HarperCollins. Back to the Bedroom is presented here in almost original form. I''ve done only minor editing to correct some embarrassing bloopers missed the first time around.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I lived in northern Virginia when I wrote Back to the Bedroom. My children were young, and we spent a lot of time visiting the Washington, D.C. museums and wandering through the historic neighborhoods. One day while strolling Capitol Hill I came upon two townhouses that captured my imagination. The houses were totally different -- a birthday cake of a house and a bran muffin of a house, and yet they shared a common wall. I wondered about the people who lived inside the houses. And eventually the houses inspired Back to the Bedroom.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Back to the Bedroom is the story of a young woman with the soul of a birthday cake living in a bran muffin house -- and a nice-looking guy with the substance of a bran muffin living in a birthday cake. They share some misadventures, some romantic moments, some misunderstandings, and ultimately they turn into wedding cake.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And for Plum fans, you''ll be interested to find that this was the first of the four romances to feature Elsie Hawkins, the prototype for Grandma Mazur.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Janet Evanovich\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4750'),
(9791, 'Back to the Moon', 'Travis S. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Praise for Travis S. Taylor *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œ[Warp Speed*] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum. . . .You won''t want to put it down.â€ â€”**John Ringo**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œIn the tradition of Golden Age SF . . . explodes with inventive action . . . dazzling . . . cutting-edge scientific possibilities. . . .â€ â€”Publishers Weekly*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Praise for Les Johnson:*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œ. . . Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary* Travel* . . . convincingly captures the history of ideas about solar sails, their current state of play and their future promise. â€¦ Suitable for aerospace students and keen enthusiasts alike. . . .â€ â€”Stuart Clark**, Nature*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œI can recommend this book [Living* Off the Land* in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos*] to everyone interested in the future of space exploration.â€ â€”Claude Semay**, Physicalia*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/452'),
(9792, 'Back to the Moon', 'Travis S. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Praise for Travis S. Taylor * â€œ[Warp Speed*] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum. . . .You won''t want to put it down.â€ â€”**John Ringo** â€œIn the tradition of Golden Age SF . . . explodes with inventive action . . . dazzling . . . cutting-edge scientific possibilities. . . .â€ â€”Publishers Weekly* Praise for Les Johnson:* â€œ. . . Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary* Travel* . . . convincingly captures the history of ideas about solar sails, their current state of play and their future promise. â€¦ Suitable for aerospace students and keen enthusiasts alike. . . .â€ â€”Stuart Clark**, Nature* * â€œI can recommend this book [Living* Off the Land* in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos*] to everyone interested in the future of space exploration.â€ â€”Claude Semay**, Physicalia*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24486'),
(9793, 'Backlash', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Repercussions from the dark sideâ€™s fatal seduction of Jacen Solo and the mysterious plague of madness afflicting young Jedi continue to wreak havoc galaxy-wide. Having narrowly escaped the deranged Force worshippers known as the Mind Walkers and a deadly Sith hit squad, Luke and Ben Skywalker are in pursuit of the now Masterless Sith apprentice. It is a chase that leads to the forbidding planet Dathomir, where an enclave of powerful dark side Force-wielders will give Vestara the edge she needs to escapeâ€”and where the Skywalkers will be forced into combat for their quarry and their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, Han and Leia have completed their own desperate mission, shuttling madness-stricken Jedi from Coruscant to safe haven in the Transitory Mists and beyond the grasp of Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala. But the bold maneuver has intensified Daalaâ€™s fury, and she is determined to shatter Jedi Order resistance once and for all.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet no greater threat exists than that which still waits in the depths of the distant Maw Cluster: A being of pure, ravenous dark-side energy named Abeloth calls out across the stars to Jedi and Sith alike. For some it may be the ultimate source of answers crucial to their survival. For others it could be the ultimate weapon of conquest. But for all, it is a game-changingâ€”and life-alteringâ€”encounter of untold magnitude and a tactical gambit with unimaginable consequences.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Aaron Allston is the_ New York Times_ bestselling author of the Star Wars: Legacy of the Force novels\n <strong>\n  Betrayal, Exile,\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Fury\n </strong>\n ; the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines adventures\n <strong>\n  Rebel Dream\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Rebel Stand\n </strong>\n ; novels in the popular Star Wars X-Wing series; and the Doc Sidhe novels, which combine 1930s-style hero-pulps with Celtic myth. He is also a longtime game designer and was recently inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts &amp; Design (AAGAD) Hall of Fame. He lives in Central Texas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/40'),
(9794, 'Backlash', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Repercussions from the dark sideâ€™s fatal seduction of Jacen Solo and the mysterious plague of madness afflicting young Jedi continue to wreak havoc galaxy-wide. Having narrowly escaped the deranged Force worshippers known as the Mind Walkers and a deadly Sith hit squad, Luke and Ben Skywalker are in pursuit of the now Masterless Sith apprentice. It is a chase that leads to the forbidding planet Dathomir, where an enclave of powerful dark side Force-wielders will give Vestara the edge she needs to escapeâ€”and where the Skywalkers will be forced into combat for their quarry and their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, Han and Leia have completed their own desperate mission, shuttling madness-stricken Jedi from Coruscant to safe haven in the Transitory Mists and beyond the grasp of Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala. But the bold maneuver has intensified Daalaâ€™s fury, and she is determined to shatter Jedi Order resistance once and for all.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet no greater threat exists than that which still waits in the depths of the distant Maw Cluster: A being of pure, ravenous dark-side energy named Abeloth calls out across the stars to Jedi and Sith alike. For some it may be the ultimate source of answers crucial to their survival. For others it could be the ultimate weapon of conquest. But for all, it is a game-changingâ€”and life-alteringâ€”encounter of untold magnitude and a tactical gambit with unimaginable consequences.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Aaron Allston is the_ New York Times_ bestselling author of the Star Wars: Legacy of the Force novels\n <strong>\n  Betrayal, Exile,\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Fury\n </strong>\n ; the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines adventures\n <strong>\n  Rebel Dream\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Rebel Stand\n </strong>\n ; novels in the popular Star Wars X-Wing series; and the Doc Sidhe novels, which combine 1930s-style hero-pulps with Celtic myth. He is also a longtime game designer and was recently inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts &amp; Design (AAGAD) Hall of Fame. He lives in Central Texas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9298'),
(9795, 'Backlash', 'Aaron Allston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Repercussions from the dark sideâ€™s fatal seduction of Jacen Solo and the mysterious plague of madness afflicting young Jedi continue to wreak havoc galaxy-wide. Having narrowly escaped the deranged Force worshippers known as the Mind Walkers and a deadly Sith hit squad, Luke and Ben Skywalker are in pursuit of the now Masterless Sith apprentice. It is a chase that leads to the forbidding planet Dathomir, where an enclave of powerful dark side Force-wielders will give Vestara the edge she needs to escapeâ€”and where the Skywalkers will be forced into combat for their quarry and their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, Han and Leia have completed their own desperate mission, shuttling madness-stricken Jedi from Coruscant to safe haven in the Transitory Mists and beyond the grasp of Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala. But the bold maneuver has intensified Daalaâ€™s fury, and she is determined to shatter Jedi Order resistance once and for all.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet no greater threat exists than that which still waits in the depths of the distant Maw Cluster: A being of pure, ravenous dark-side energy named Abeloth calls out across the stars to Jedi and Sith alike. For some it may be the ultimate source of answers crucial to their survival. For others it could be the ultimate weapon of conquest. But for all, it is a game-changingâ€”and life-alteringâ€”encounter of untold magnitude and a tactical gambit with unimaginable consequences.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Aaron Allston is the_ New York Times_ bestselling author of the Star Wars: Legacy of the Force novels\n <strong>\n  Betrayal, Exile,\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Fury\n </strong>\n ; the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines adventures\n <strong>\n  Rebel Dream\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Rebel Stand\n </strong>\n ; novels in the popular Star Wars X-Wing series; and the Doc Sidhe novels, which combine 1930s-style hero-pulps with Celtic myth. He is also a longtime game designer and was recently inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts &amp; Design (AAGAD) Hall of Fame. He lives in Central Texas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17190'),
(9796, 'The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama', 'Will Bunch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While it was no secret that Americans on the far right of the political spectrum were unenthusiastic about Obama''s victory, the immediacy and intensity of the backlash went well beyond what anyone expected. In this exhaustive investigation of the Tea Party movement and its loudest mouthpieces, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Bunch seeks to help liberal and moderate America understand the rage of the right, where they see the nation headed, and how legitimate grievances are being manipulated by opportunists hawking fear to make millions off of working class people. While Bunch''s own biases are apparent from page one, he is careful to try to present the far right in an honest light and, according to Bunch, without challenging their perspectives. Maturity in political discourse would be refreshing if Bunch were writing political discourse; he''s not. This is investigative reporting. Bunch''s primary issue seems to be Beck''s opportunism, but his targeting of the only person he doesn''t interview will likely make conservatives avoid his book, something Bunch clearly expects. But for liberals or moderates seeking to understand current far right events, the book will fascinate, and likely frighten.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Already fretting over the U.S. Census Bureau prediction that by 2050 whites will no longer be in the majority in the U.S. and worried by the loss of jobs and home equity, a certain element of the white population has been unhinged by the election of the nationâ€™s first black president, argues Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning journalist Bunch. Thus, the Tea Party, Birthers, Oath Keepers, the 9.12 Project, and other right-wing radicals are on the rise, spurred by television and Internet hustlers, most prominently Glenn Beck. Bunch traveled the circuit from Delaware to Arizona, attending anti-immigration meetings and shooting rallies, to record the astonishing anger, fear, and discontent that has formed into a backlash against President Obama, alleging that he is not a U.S. citizen, that he means to take away guns from private citizens, and that he is directing FEMA to set up internment camps, all of which Bunch debunks. Bunch also profiles the cynical hustlers making money on this visceral fear, comparing Beck to Elmer Gantry as he morphs from evoker of the Founding Fathers and defender of the Constitution to evoker of God the father and defender of Christian morality, all the while hawking gold and survival food packets through Glen Beck, Inc. Despite writing in a sometimes awkward second-person voice, Bunch has rendered an insightful close-up look at the individuals and social forces that promise to churn American politics in the face of huge social and demographic changes. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/179'),
(9797, 'The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama', 'Will Bunch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While it was no secret that Americans on the far right of the political spectrum were unenthusiastic about Obama''s victory, the immediacy and intensity of the backlash went well beyond what anyone expected. In this exhaustive investigation of the Tea Party movement and its loudest mouthpieces, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Bunch seeks to help liberal and moderate America understand the rage of the right, where they see the nation headed, and how legitimate grievances are being manipulated by opportunists hawking fear to make millions off of working class people. While Bunch''s own biases are apparent from page one, he is careful to try to present the far right in an honest light and, according to Bunch, without challenging their perspectives. Maturity in political discourse would be refreshing if Bunch were writing political discourse; he''s not. This is investigative reporting. Bunch''s primary issue seems to be Beck''s opportunism, but his targeting of the only person he doesn''t interview will likely make conservatives avoid his book, something Bunch clearly expects. But for liberals or moderates seeking to understand current far right events, the book will fascinate, and likely frighten.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Already fretting over the U.S. Census Bureau prediction that by 2050 whites will no longer be in the majority in the U.S. and worried by the loss of jobs and home equity, a certain element of the white population has been unhinged by the election of the nationâ€™s first black president, argues Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning journalist Bunch. Thus, the Tea Party, Birthers, Oath Keepers, the 9.12 Project, and other right-wing radicals are on the rise, spurred by television and Internet hustlers, most prominently Glenn Beck. Bunch traveled the circuit from Delaware to Arizona, attending anti-immigration meetings and shooting rallies, to record the astonishing anger, fear, and discontent that has formed into a backlash against President Obama, alleging that he is not a U.S. citizen, that he means to take away guns from private citizens, and that he is directing FEMA to set up internment camps, all of which Bunch debunks. Bunch also profiles the cynical hustlers making money on this visceral fear, comparing Beck to Elmer Gantry as he morphs from evoker of the Founding Fathers and defender of the Constitution to evoker of God the father and defender of Christian morality, all the while hawking gold and survival food packets through Glen Beck, Inc. Despite writing in a sometimes awkward second-person voice, Bunch has rendered an insightful close-up look at the individuals and social forces that promise to churn American politics in the face of huge social and demographic changes. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8701'),
(9798, 'The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama', 'Will Bunch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While it was no secret that Americans on the far right of the political spectrum were unenthusiastic about Obama''s victory, the immediacy and intensity of the backlash went well beyond what anyone expected. In this exhaustive investigation of the Tea Party movement and its loudest mouthpieces, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Bunch seeks to help liberal and moderate America understand the rage of the right, where they see the nation headed, and how legitimate grievances are being manipulated by opportunists hawking fear to make millions off of working class people. While Bunch''s own biases are apparent from page one, he is careful to try to present the far right in an honest light and, according to Bunch, without challenging their perspectives. Maturity in political discourse would be refreshing if Bunch were writing political discourse; he''s not. This is investigative reporting. Bunch''s primary issue seems to be Beck''s opportunism, but his targeting of the only person he doesn''t interview will likely make conservatives avoid his book, something Bunch clearly expects. But for liberals or moderates seeking to understand current far right events, the book will fascinate, and likely frighten.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Already fretting over the U.S. Census Bureau prediction that by 2050 whites will no longer be in the majority in the U.S. and worried by the loss of jobs and home equity, a certain element of the white population has been unhinged by the election of the nationâ€™s first black president, argues Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning journalist Bunch. Thus, the Tea Party, Birthers, Oath Keepers, the 9.12 Project, and other right-wing radicals are on the rise, spurred by television and Internet hustlers, most prominently Glenn Beck. Bunch traveled the circuit from Delaware to Arizona, attending anti-immigration meetings and shooting rallies, to record the astonishing anger, fear, and discontent that has formed into a backlash against President Obama, alleging that he is not a U.S. citizen, that he means to take away guns from private citizens, and that he is directing FEMA to set up internment camps, all of which Bunch debunks. Bunch also profiles the cynical hustlers making money on this visceral fear, comparing Beck to Elmer Gantry as he morphs from evoker of the Founding Fathers and defender of the Constitution to evoker of God the father and defender of Christian morality, all the while hawking gold and survival food packets through Glen Beck, Inc. Despite writing in a sometimes awkward second-person voice, Bunch has rendered an insightful close-up look at the individuals and social forces that promise to churn American politics in the face of huge social and demographic changes. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24704'),
(9799, 'Backseat Saints', 'Joshilyn Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As "Mrs. Ro Grandee" she''s trapped in a marriage that''s thick with love and sick with abuse. Her true self has been bound in the chains of marital bliss in rural Texas, letting "Ro" make eggs, iron shirts, and take her punches. She seems doomed to spend the rest of her life battered outside by her husband and inside by her former self, until fate throws her in the path of an airport gypsy---one who shares her past and knows her future. The tarot cards foretell that Rose''s beautiful, abusive husband is going to kill her. Unless she kills him first. Hot-blooded Rose Mae escapes from under Ro''s perky compliance and emerges with a gun and a plan to beat the hand she''s been dealt. Following messages that her long-missing mother has left hidden for her in graffiti and behind paintings, Rose and her dog Gretel set out from Amarillo, TX back to her hometown of Fruiton, AL, and then on to California, unearthing a host of family secrets as she goes. Running for her life, she realizes that she must face her past in order to overcome her fate---death by marriage---and become a girl who is strong enough to save herself from the one who loves her best. BACKSEAT SAINTS will dazzle readers with a fresh and heartwrenching portrayal of the lengths a mother will go to right the wrongs she''s created, and how far a daughter will go to escape the demands of forgiveness. With the seed of a minor character from her popular best-seller, GODS IN ALABAMA, Jackson has built a whole new story full of her trademark sly wit, endearingly off-kilter characters, and utterly riveting plot twists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4108'),
(9800, 'Backseat Saints', 'Joshilyn Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As "Mrs. Ro Grandee" she''s trapped in a marriage that''s thick with love and sick with abuse. Her true self has been bound in the chains of marital bliss in rural Texas, letting "Ro" make eggs, iron shirts, and take her punches. She seems doomed to spend the rest of her life battered outside by her husband and inside by her former self, until fate throws her in the path of an airport gypsy---one who shares her past and knows her future. The tarot cards foretell that Rose''s beautiful, abusive husband is going to kill her. Unless she kills him first. Hot-blooded Rose Mae escapes from under Ro''s perky compliance and emerges with a gun and a plan to beat the hand she''s been dealt. Following messages that her long-missing mother has left hidden for her in graffiti and behind paintings, Rose and her dog Gretel set out from Amarillo, TX back to her hometown of Fruiton, AL, and then on to California, unearthing a host of family secrets as she goes. Running for her life, she realizes that she must face her past in order to overcome her fate---death by marriage---and become a girl who is strong enough to save herself from the one who loves her best. BACKSEAT SAINTS will dazzle readers with a fresh and heartwrenching portrayal of the lengths a mother will go to right the wrongs she''s created, and how far a daughter will go to escape the demands of forgiveness. With the seed of a minor character from her popular best-seller, GODS IN ALABAMA, Jackson has built a whole new story full of her trademark sly wit, endearingly off-kilter characters, and utterly riveting plot twists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10510'),
(9801, 'Backseat Saints', 'Joshilyn Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As "Mrs. Ro Grandee" she''s trapped in a marriage that''s thick with love and sick with abuse. Her true self has been bound in the chains of marital bliss in rural Texas, letting "Ro" make eggs, iron shirts, and take her punches. She seems doomed to spend the rest of her life battered outside by her husband and inside by her former self, until fate throws her in the path of an airport gypsy---one who shares her past and knows her future. The tarot cards foretell that Rose''s beautiful, abusive husband is going to kill her. Unless she kills him first. Hot-blooded Rose Mae escapes from under Ro''s perky compliance and emerges with a gun and a plan to beat the hand she''s been dealt. Following messages that her long-missing mother has left hidden for her in graffiti and behind paintings, Rose and her dog Gretel set out from Amarillo, TX back to her hometown of Fruiton, AL, and then on to California, unearthing a host of family secrets as she goes. Running for her life, she realizes that she must face her past in order to overcome her fate---death by marriage---and become a girl who is strong enough to save herself from the one who loves her best. BACKSEAT SAINTS will dazzle readers with a fresh and heartwrenching portrayal of the lengths a mother will go to right the wrongs she''s created, and how far a daughter will go to escape the demands of forgiveness. With the seed of a minor character from her popular best-seller, GODS IN ALABAMA, Jackson has built a whole new story full of her trademark sly wit, endearingly off-kilter characters, and utterly riveting plot twists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20458'),
(9802, 'Backshot', 'David Sherman &amp; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An exciting new special-ops adventure from the battle-tested vets who created the popular Starfist seriesJorge Lavager, charismatic leader of the mysterious Union of Margelan, ferociously guards an agricultural research facility on the planet Atlas. What that facility conceals will prove whether Lavager is an idealist seeking to unify Atlas under a banner of freedom and prosperityâ€“or a tyrant aiming to control all of Human Space.The Marines of Fourth Force Reconâ€™s second platoon are dispatched to Atlas to uncover the truth. They will have to sneak past state-of-the-art surveillance equipment barring unlawful entry to the planet and land in a desolate area miles from their target. And if they discover lethal new weapons instead of legitimate research, the thirty-six Marines are to seize the compoundâ€“guarded by merciless, armed-to-the-teeth soldiersâ€“and destroy it. But what the recon team finds on Atlas sets off a chain of events that will force some hard decisions on the Marines . . . and end in a deadly surprise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6188'),
(9803, 'Backshot', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An exciting new special-ops adventure from the battle-tested vets who created the popular Starfist seriesJorge Lavager, charismatic leader of the mysterious Union of Margelan, ferociously guards an agricultural research facility on the planet Atlas. What that facility conceals will prove whether Lavager is an idealist seeking to unify Atlas under a banner of freedom and prosperityâ€“or a tyrant aiming to control all of Human Space.The Marines of Fourth Force Reconâ€™s second platoon are dispatched to Atlas to uncover the truth. They will have to sneak past state-of-the-art surveillance equipment barring unlawful entry to the planet and land in a desolate area miles from their target. And if they discover lethal new weapons instead of legitimate research, the thirty-six Marines are to seize the compoundâ€“guarded by merciless, armed-to-the-teeth soldiersâ€“and destroy it. But what the recon team finds on Atlas sets off a chain of events that will force some hard decisions on the Marines . . . and end in a deadly surprise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17845'),
(9804, 'Backshot', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An exciting new special-ops adventure from the battle-tested vets who created the popular Starfist seriesJorge Lavager, charismatic leader of the mysterious Union of Margelan, ferociously guards an agricultural research facility on the planet Atlas. What that facility conceals will prove whether Lavager is an idealist seeking to unify Atlas under a banner of freedom and prosperityâ€“or a tyrant aiming to control all of Human Space.The Marines of Fourth Force Reconâ€™s second platoon are dispatched to Atlas to uncover the truth. They will have to sneak past state-of-the-art surveillance equipment barring unlawful entry to the planet and land in a desolate area miles from their target. And if they discover lethal new weapons instead of legitimate research, the thirty-six Marines are to seize the compoundâ€“guarded by merciless, armed-to-the-teeth soldiersâ€“and destroy it. But what the recon team finds on Atlas sets off a chain of events that will force some hard decisions on the Marines . . . and end in a deadly surprise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27326');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(9805, 'Backup &amp; Recovery', 'W. Curtis Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of\n <i>\n  Unix Backup &amp; Recovery\n </i>\n by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/300'),
(9806, 'Backup &amp; Recovery', 'W. Curtis Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of\n <i>\n  Unix Backup &amp; Recovery\n </i>\n by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12037'),
(9807, 'Backup &amp; Recovery', 'W. Curtis Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of Unix Backup &amp; Recovery by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material. Backup &amp; Recovery starts with a complete overview of backup philosophy and design, including the basic backup utilities of tar, dump, cpio, ntbackup, ditto, and rsync. It then explains several open source backup products that automate backups using those utilities, including AMANDA, Bacula, BackupPC, rdiff-backup, and rsnapshot. Backup &amp; Recovery then explains how to perform bare metal recovery of AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, VMWare, &amp; Windows systems using freely-available utilities. The book also provides overviews of the current state of the commercial backup software and hardware market, including overviews of CDP, Data De-duplication, D2D2T, and VTL technology. Finally, it covers how to automate the backups of DB2, Exchange, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL-Server, and Sybase databases - without purchasing a commercial backup product to do so. For environments of all sizes and budgets, this unique book shows you how to ensure data protection without resorting to expensive commercial solutions. You will soon learn to:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Automate the backup of popular databases without a commercial utility\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Perform bare metal recovery of any popular open systems platform, including your PC or laptop\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Utilize valuable but often unknown open source backup products\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Understand the state of commercial backup software, including explanations of CDP and data de-duplication software\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Access the current state of backup hardware, including Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs)\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24576'),
(9808, 'The Backward Look', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25615'),
(9809, 'Bacon: A Love Story', 'Heather Lauer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this voluminous look at all things bacon, the creator of BaconUnwrapped.com takes her love of pig belly to print. Like its subject, this material is best consumed in small portions; along with anecdotes and opinions from hog farmers, chefs, food bloggers and average Joes, first-time author Lauer also covers topics like bacon production, non-pork variations, and songs devoted to the breakfast meat. Lauer does her best to keep things light, but her relentless cheerleading quickly becomes grating; her phrase "The Best Meat Ever" appears on almost every page. Still, bacon lovers will enjoy (and probably employ) the glut of trivia, including the restaurant chain that first put bacon on a cheeseburger (A&amp;W), the number of states with a town named "Bacon" (six), and alternate uses such as "bacon plaster," assembled with cheesecloth and affixed to one''s chest in order to ward off a cold. Even those well-acquainted with bacon will find new recipes like Black Pepper Bacon Chili, Bacon-Wrapped Tater Tots, Bacon Bloody Marys and Candied Bacon Ice Cream. Readers who, like Lauer, possess a borderline-obsessive love for bacon are likely to embrace this as their new Bible, but anyone else will quickly get their fill.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s salty, smoky, and sweet. It can make almost any dish better. It''s bacon, and it''s the best meat ever!\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Bacon: A Love Story\n  </em>\n  , popular bacon blogger Heather Lauer serves up a piping hot dish of fun and facts and explores the ins and outs of how bacon finds its way to your skillet . . . and what to do with it when it gets there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bacon: A Love Story\n  </em>\n  features\n </p>\n <p>\n  Makin'' Bacon\n  <br />\n  A tour of country-style bacon outfits and their time-honored curing methods and traditions. Includes tips for making your own signature cure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon Nation\n  <br />\n  Profiles of bacon-loving chefs across the country who incorporate the meat into their menus in increasingly innovative ways.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There''s In This?\n  <br />\n  More than twenty delicious recipes for tons of bacon goodies like Bacon-Wrapped Tater Tots, BLT with caramelized bacon . . . plus a few surprises like Bacon Bloody Marys and Bacon Brownies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon 411\n  <br />\n  An extensive resource section on all things bacon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon fans, prepare to get your pig on!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5110'),
(9810, 'Bacon: A Love Story', 'Heather Lauer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this voluminous look at all things bacon, the creator of BaconUnwrapped.com takes her love of pig belly to print. Like its subject, this material is best consumed in small portions; along with anecdotes and opinions from hog farmers, chefs, food bloggers and average Joes, first-time author Lauer also covers topics like bacon production, non-pork variations, and songs devoted to the breakfast meat. Lauer does her best to keep things light, but her relentless cheerleading quickly becomes grating; her phrase "The Best Meat Ever" appears on almost every page. Still, bacon lovers will enjoy (and probably employ) the glut of trivia, including the restaurant chain that first put bacon on a cheeseburger (A&amp;W), the number of states with a town named "Bacon" (six), and alternate uses such as "bacon plaster," assembled with cheesecloth and affixed to one''s chest in order to ward off a cold. Even those well-acquainted with bacon will find new recipes like Black Pepper Bacon Chili, Bacon-Wrapped Tater Tots, Bacon Bloody Marys and Candied Bacon Ice Cream. Readers who, like Lauer, possess a borderline-obsessive love for bacon are likely to embrace this as their new Bible, but anyone else will quickly get their fill.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s salty, smoky, and sweet. It can make almost any dish better. It''s bacon, and it''s the best meat ever!\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Bacon: A Love Story\n  </em>\n  , popular bacon blogger Heather Lauer serves up a piping hot dish of fun and facts and explores the ins and outs of how bacon finds its way to your skillet . . . and what to do with it when it gets there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bacon: A Love Story\n  </em>\n  features\n </p>\n <p>\n  Makin'' Bacon\n  <br />\n  A tour of country-style bacon outfits and their time-honored curing methods and traditions. Includes tips for making your own signature cure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon Nation\n  <br />\n  Profiles of bacon-loving chefs across the country who incorporate the meat into their menus in increasingly innovative ways.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There''s In This?\n  <br />\n  More than twenty delicious recipes for tons of bacon goodies like Bacon-Wrapped Tater Tots, BLT with caramelized bacon . . . plus a few surprises like Bacon Bloody Marys and Bacon Brownies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon 411\n  <br />\n  An extensive resource section on all things bacon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon fans, prepare to get your pig on!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12268'),
(9811, 'Bacon: A Love Story', 'Heather Lauer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this voluminous look at all things bacon, the creator of BaconUnwrapped.com takes her love of pig belly to print. Like its subject, this material is best consumed in small portions; along with anecdotes and opinions from hog farmers, chefs, food bloggers and average Joes, first-time author Lauer also covers topics like bacon production, non-pork variations, and songs devoted to the breakfast meat. Lauer does her best to keep things light, but her relentless cheerleading quickly becomes grating; her phrase "The Best Meat Ever" appears on almost every page. Still, bacon lovers will enjoy (and probably employ) the glut of trivia, including the restaurant chain that first put bacon on a cheeseburger (A&amp;W), the number of states with a town named "Bacon" (six), and alternate uses such as "bacon plaster," assembled with cheesecloth and affixed to one''s chest in order to ward off a cold. Even those well-acquainted with bacon will find new recipes like Black Pepper Bacon Chili, Bacon-Wrapped Tater Tots, Bacon Bloody Marys and Candied Bacon Ice Cream. Readers who, like Lauer, possess a borderline-obsessive love for bacon are likely to embrace this as their new Bible, but anyone else will quickly get their fill.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It''s salty, smoky, and sweet. It can make almost any dish better. It''s bacon, and it''s the best meat ever!\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Bacon: A Love Story\n  </em>\n  , popular bacon blogger Heather Lauer serves up a piping hot dish of fun and facts and explores the ins and outs of how bacon finds its way to your skillet . . . and what to do with it when it gets there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bacon: A Love Story\n  </em>\n  features\n </p>\n <p>\n  Makin'' Bacon\n  <br />\n  A tour of country-style bacon outfits and their time-honored curing methods and traditions. Includes tips for making your own signature cure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon Nation\n  <br />\n  Profiles of bacon-loving chefs across the country who incorporate the meat into their menus in increasingly innovative ways.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There''s In This?\n  <br />\n  More than twenty delicious recipes for tons of bacon goodies like Bacon-Wrapped Tater Tots, BLT with caramelized bacon . . . plus a few surprises like Bacon Bloody Marys and Bacon Brownies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon 411\n  <br />\n  An extensive resource section on all things bacon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bacon fans, prepare to get your pig on!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19504'),
(9812, 'The Bad Beginning', 'Lemony A. Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Just as they are enjoying a day at Briny Beach, the three Baudelaire children--- 14-year-old Violet, 12-year-old Klaus and baby Sunny--- receive some bad news. Mr. Poe, a friend of the family, comes trekking across the foggy beach to tell the Baudelaires that their parents have died in a fire that also burned down the family mansion. Now orphaned, the Baudelaires face an uncertain future. They are soon packed off to their new guardian--- the icky Count Olaf, who is a distant cousin. But when they move in with the Count, the Baudelaire children are certain that he does not care about them--- he only wants to get his hands on the fortune Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire left behind. See if they are right, as you read this exciting and humorous tale of mystery. Ages 10 &amp; up\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13757'),
(9813, 'Bad Blood', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sept 21, 2010\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When 19-year-old Bob Tripp hits farmer Jacob Flood in the head with a T-ball bat at the outset of Sandford''s exciting fourth thriller to feature Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers (after Rough Country), Tripp''s subsequent attempt to make murder look like an accident fails. The morning after Tripp''s arrest, he''s found hanging in his cell. Warren County sheriff Lee Coakley seeks Flowers''s help to investigate what role, if any, deputy Jim Crocker, the officer on duty at the jail at the time, played in Tripp''s death. A link to the earlier murder of a young woman leads Flowers and Coakley to members of a small church with strange ways. As the pair become aware of the magnitude of the unspeakable crimes (rape, child abuse, incest) behind the deaths, they search desperately for a lever to pry open what turns out to be Flowers''s biggest, if perhaps most unlikely, case to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4155'),
(9814, 'Bad Blood', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sept 21, 2010\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When 19-year-old Bob Tripp hits farmer Jacob Flood in the head with a T-ball bat at the outset of Sandford''s exciting fourth thriller to feature Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers (after Rough Country), Tripp''s subsequent attempt to make murder look like an accident fails. The morning after Tripp''s arrest, he''s found hanging in his cell. Warren County sheriff Lee Coakley seeks Flowers''s help to investigate what role, if any, deputy Jim Crocker, the officer on duty at the jail at the time, played in Tripp''s death. A link to the earlier murder of a young woman leads Flowers and Coakley to members of a small church with strange ways. As the pair become aware of the magnitude of the unspeakable crimes (rape, child abuse, incest) behind the deaths, they search desperately for a lever to pry open what turns out to be Flowers''s biggest, if perhaps most unlikely, case to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12470'),
(9815, 'Bad Blood', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sept 21, 2010 When 19-year-old Bob Tripp hits farmer Jacob Flood in the head with a T-ball bat at the outset of Sandford''s exciting fourth thriller to feature Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers (after Rough Country), Tripp''s subsequent attempt to make murder look like an accident fails. The morning after Tripp''s arrest, he''s found hanging in his cell. Warren County sheriff Lee Coakley seeks Flowers''s help to investigate what role, if any, deputy Jim Crocker, the officer on duty at the jail at the time, played in Tripp''s death. A link to the earlier murder of a young woman leads Flowers and Coakley to members of a small church with strange ways. As the pair become aware of the magnitude of the unspeakable crimes (rape, child abuse, incest) behind the deaths, they search desperately for a lever to pry open what turns out to be Flowers''s biggest, if perhaps most unlikely, case to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20284'),
(9816, 'Bad Boy', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4387'),
(9817, 'Bad Business', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the great series in the history of the American detective story gets even better when Spenser is hired by a jilted bride to follow a cheating husband, only to cross paths with a detective hired to tail the two-timing wife. They aren''t the most trusting couple in town, but as it turns out, they are the most dangerous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1753'),
(9818, 'Bad Business', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 31', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14065'),
(9819, 'Bad Business', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One of the great series in the history of the American detective story gets even better when Spenser is hired by a jilted bride to follow a cheating husband, only to cross paths with a detective hired to tail the two-timing wife. They aren''t the most trusting couple in town, but as it turns out, they are the most dangerous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23185'),
(9820, 'Bad Girl', 'Blake Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Before the events of Blake Crouchâ€™s horror novels DESERT PLACES and LOCKED DOORS...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Before the events of Jack Kilborn''s and Blake Crouch''s #1 Amazon Kindle bestseller SERIAL...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The year is 1995, and a young girl with psychopathic tendencies named Lucy (the sweetheart from SERIAL) has run away from home to a mystery convention to see her favorite author in the world: Andrew Z. Thomas.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Lucy has problems, and not just the psychopathic kindâ€¦to start with, the hotel wonâ€™t rent a room to a 15-year-old girl. So she does a bad, bad thing, which only gets worse when a couple of horrifying killers, Orson Thomas, and his protÃ©gÃ©, Luther Kite, catch her trying to cover up a nasty mess.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n BAD GIRL is a thriller novella that brings all of Crouchâ€™s most terrifying villains to the same hotel.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A prequel to SERIAL, which has been downloaded more than 200,000 times, BAD GIRL is not for the faint of heart. Let the reader beware.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n BAD GIRL also contains a bonus interview with Blake, plus excerpts from all four of his novels.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Note: BAD GIRL is fully contained in SERIAL UNCUT. BAD GIRL + TRUCK STOP + SERIAL = SERIAL UNCUT.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7187'),
(9821, 'Bad Girl', 'Blake Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Before the events of Blake Crouchâ€™s horror novels DESERT PLACES and LOCKED DOORS...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Before the events of Jack Kilborn''s and Blake Crouch''s #1 Amazon Kindle bestseller SERIAL...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The year is 1995, and a young girl with psychopathic tendencies named Lucy (the sweetheart from SERIAL) has run away from home to a mystery convention to see her favorite author in the world: Andrew Z. Thomas.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Lucy has problems, and not just the psychopathic kindâ€¦to start with, the hotel wonâ€™t rent a room to a 15-year-old girl. So she does a bad, bad thing, which only gets worse when a couple of horrifying killers, Orson Thomas, and his protÃ©gÃ©, Luther Kite, catch her trying to cover up a nasty mess.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n BAD GIRL is a thriller novella that brings all of Crouchâ€™s most terrifying villains to the same hotel.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A prequel to SERIAL, which has been downloaded more than 200,000 times, BAD GIRL is not for the faint of heart. Let the reader beware.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n BAD GIRL also contains a bonus interview with Blake, plus excerpts from all four of his novels.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Note: BAD GIRL is fully contained in SERIAL UNCUT. BAD GIRL + TRUCK STOP + SERIAL = SERIAL UNCUT.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9165'),
(9822, 'Bad Girl', 'Blake Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Before the events of Blake Crouchâ€™s horror novels DESERT PLACES and LOCKED DOORS... Before the events of Jack Kilborn''s and Blake Crouch''s #1 Amazon Kindle bestseller SERIAL... The year is 1995, and a young girl with psychopathic tendencies named Lucy (the sweetheart from SERIAL) has run away from home to a mystery convention to see her favorite author in the world: Andrew Z. Thomas. But Lucy has problems, and not just the psychopathic kindâ€¦to start with, the hotel wonâ€™t rent a room to a 15-year-old girl. So she does a bad, bad thing, which only gets worse when a couple of horrifying killers, Orson Thomas, and his protÃ©gÃ©, Luther Kite, catch her trying to cover up a nasty mess. BAD GIRL is a thriller novella that brings all of Crouchâ€™s most terrifying villains to the same hotel. A prequel to SERIAL, which has been downloaded more than 200,000 times, BAD GIRL is not for the faint of heart. Let the reader beware. BAD GIRL also contains a bonus interview with Blake, plus excerpts from all four of his novels. *Note: BAD GIRL is fully contained in SERIAL UNCUT. BAD GIRL + TRUCK STOP + SERIAL = SERIAL UNCUT.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16683'),
(9823, 'Bad Girl', 'Blake Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Before the events of Blake Crouchâ€™s horror novels DESERT PLACES and LOCKED DOORS... Before the events of Jack Kilborn''s and Blake Crouch''s #1 Amazon Kindle bestseller SERIAL... The year is 1995, and a young girl with psychopathic tendencies named Lucy (the sweetheart from SERIAL) has run away from home to a mystery convention to see her favorite author in the world: Andrew Z. Thomas. But Lucy has problems, and not just the psychopathic kindâ€¦to start with, the hotel wonâ€™t rent a room to a 15-year-old girl. So she does a bad, bad thing, which only gets worse when a couple of horrifying killers, Orson Thomas, and his protÃ©gÃ©, Luther Kite, catch her trying to cover up a nasty mess. BAD GIRL is a thriller novella that brings all of Crouchâ€™s most terrifying villains to the same hotel. A prequel to SERIAL, which has been downloaded more than 200,000 times, BAD GIRL is not for the faint of heart. Let the reader beware. BAD GIRL also contains a bonus interview with Blake, plus excerpts from all four of his novels. *Note: BAD GIRL is fully contained in SERIAL UNCUT. BAD GIRL + TRUCK STOP + SERIAL = SERIAL UNCUT.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26682'),
(9824, 'Bad Luck and Trouble: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the nightâ€¦. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of exâ€“army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacherâ€”soldier, cop, heroâ€”is pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee Childâ€™s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friendsâ€¦and is on its way to something even worse.A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his backâ€”no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying storyâ€”about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they donâ€™t know: about two other comrades who have suddenly gone missingâ€”and a trail that leads into the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international terrorism.For now, Reacher can only react. To every sound. Every suspicion. Every scent and every moment. Then Reacher will trust the people he once trusted with his lifeâ€”and take this thing all the way to the end. Because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, theyâ€™d better be ready for what comes right back at themâ€¦From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3521'),
(9825, 'Bad Luck and Trouble: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the nightâ€¦. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of exâ€“army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacherâ€”soldier, cop, heroâ€”is pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee Childâ€™s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friendsâ€¦and is on its way to something even worse.A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his backâ€”no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying storyâ€”about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they donâ€™t know: about two other comrades who have suddenly gone missingâ€”and a trail that leads into the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international terrorism.For now, Reacher can only react. To every sound. Every suspicion. Every scent and every moment. Then Reacher will trust the people he once trusted with his lifeâ€”and take this thing all the way to the end. Because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, theyâ€™d better be ready for what comes right back at themâ€¦From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15089'),
(9826, 'Bad Luck and Trouble: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the nightâ€¦. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of exâ€“army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacherâ€”soldier, cop, heroâ€”is pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee Childâ€™s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friendsâ€¦and is on its way to something even worse.A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his backâ€”no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying storyâ€”about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they donâ€™t know: about two other comrades who have suddenly gone missingâ€”and a trail that leads into the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international terrorism.For now, Reacher can only react. To every sound. Every suspicion. Every scent and every moment. Then Reacher will trust the people he once trusted with his lifeâ€”and take this thing all the way to the end. Because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, theyâ€™d better be ready for what comes right back at themâ€¦From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21040'),
(9827, 'A Bad Man', 'Stanley Elkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A black market dealer must reconcile his lifetime of sins as he faces hard time in prison A born salesman, Leo Feldman can peddle anything from clothing and appliances to prostitutes, guns, and drugs. Although guilty of myriad crimes, Feldman is sentenced to prison as the result of a clerical error that charged him with a crime he did not commit. Now, completely vulnerable to the inmates who surround himâ€”and to the stern Warden Fisherâ€”Feldman must come to terms with what it means to be jailed not for his crimes, but for his character. Wry and insightful, A Bad Man is an engrossing story of an antihero''s journey through the twisted world of an unforgiving penal system. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9526'),
(9828, 'The Bad Place', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down''s Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns. Now repackaged with a new Afterword by the author, this classic Koontz tale is the story of Frank Pollard, who is afraid to fall asleep because of haunting visions, and the young man with Down Syndrome--the only person who can imagine where Frank''s journeys may end.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down''s Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down''s Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns. Now repackaged with a new Afterword by the author, this classic Koontz tale is the story of Frank Pollard, who is afraid to fall asleep because of haunting visions, and the young man with Down Syndrome--the only person who can imagine where Frank''s journeys may end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17248'),
(9829, 'The Bad Place', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down''s Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns. Now repackaged with a new Afterword by the author, this classic Koontz tale is the story of Frank Pollard, who is afraid to fall asleep because of haunting visions, and the young man with Down Syndrome--the only person who can imagine where Frank''s journeys may end.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down''s Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down''s Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns. Now repackaged with a new Afterword by the author, this classic Koontz tale is the story of Frank Pollard, who is afraid to fall asleep because of haunting visions, and the young man with Down Syndrome--the only person who can imagine where Frank''s journeys may end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27444'),
(9830, 'Bad Samaritans', 'Chang, Ha-Joon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18325'),
(9831, 'Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism', 'Ha-Joon Chang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chang''s detailed, thorough book puts another theoretical nail in the coffin of free trade and unbridled capitalism. Chang illustrates a vast array of contradictions and hypocrisies spouted by the neoliberal agenda (sometimes known as neo-conservative in the U.S.) to completely deregulate developing governments. Looking at the history of capitalism, he reveals how often free trade has failed where protectionism has benefited many of the richer countries today including the U.S. and U.K. Bond, who has his work cut out for him with Chang''s long, technical and fact-laden work, does a good job of emphasis and pacing. But staying atop the tidal wave of information and complex connections in Chang''s writing may require listening to the audiobook in small chunks or listening to some sections more than once. Bond''s smooth but stern delivery proves a useful companion. Simultaneous release with the Bloomsbury hardcover (Reviews, Nov. 12).\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA well-researched and readable case against free-trade orthodoxy.â€ _\n  <strong>\n   â€”Business Week\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA lively addition to the protectionist side of the debateâ€¦well written and far more serious than most anti-globalization gibberish.â€ _\n  <strong>\n   â€” New York Sun\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBookstore shelves are loaded with offerings by economists and commentators seeking to explain, in accessible prose, why free-trade-style globalization is desirable and even indispensable for countries the world over. Now comes the best riposte from the critics that I have seen. Readers who are leery of open-market orthodoxy will rejoice at the cogency of Bad Samaritans. Ha-Joon Chang has the credentials -- he''s on the economics faculty at Cambridge University -- and the storytelling skill to make a well-informed, engaging case against the dogma propagated by globalization''s cheerleaders. Believers in free trade will find that the book forces them to recalibrate and maybe even backpedal a bitâ€¦.Chang''s book deserves a wide readership for illuminating the need for humility about the virtues of private markets and free trade, especially in the developing world.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”Paul Blustein,\n   <em>\n    Washington\n   </em>\n   _ Post_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations, this penetrating study could be entitled â€œeconomics in the real world.â€ Chang reveals the yawning gap between standard doctrines concerning economic development and what really has taken place from the origins of the industrial revolution until today.  His incisive analysis shows how, and why, prescriptions based on reigning doctrines have caused severe harm, particularly to the most vulnerable and defenseless, and are likely to continue to do so.  He goes on to provide sensible and constructive proposals, solidly based on economic theory and historical evidence, as to how the global economy could be redesigned to proceed on a far more humane and civilized course.  And his warnings of what might happen if corrective action is not taken are grim and apt.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“ Noam Chomsky\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA smart, lively, and provocative book that offers us compelling new ways of looking at globalization.â€ â€”\n  <strong>\n   Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI recommend this book to people who have any interest in these issuesâ€”i.e. everyone.â€\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”Bob Geldof\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œEvery orthodoxy needs effective critics. Ha-Joon Chang is probably the worldâ€™s most effective critic of globalization. He does not deny the benefits to developing countries of integration into the world economy. But he draws on the lessons of history to argue that they must be allowed to integrate on their own terms.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”Martin Wolf,\n   <em>\n    Financial Times\n   </em>\n   , author of\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Why Globalization Works\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œThis is a marvelous book. Well researched, panoramic in its scope and beautifully written,\n  <em>\n   Bad Samaritans\n  </em>\n  is the perfect riposte to devotees of a one-size-fits-all model of growth and globalisation. I strongly urge you to read it.â€â€”\n  <strong>\n   Larry Elliott, economics editor, the\n   <em>\n    Guardian\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5263'),
(9832, 'Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism', 'Ha-Joon Chang', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chang''s detailed, thorough book puts another theoretical nail in the coffin of free trade and unbridled capitalism. Chang illustrates a vast array of contradictions and hypocrisies spouted by the neoliberal agenda (sometimes known as neo-conservative in the U.S.) to completely deregulate developing governments. Looking at the history of capitalism, he reveals how often free trade has failed where protectionism has benefited many of the richer countries today including the U.S. and U.K. Bond, who has his work cut out for him with Chang''s long, technical and fact-laden work, does a good job of emphasis and pacing. But staying atop the tidal wave of information and complex connections in Chang''s writing may require listening to the audiobook in small chunks or listening to some sections more than once. Bond''s smooth but stern delivery proves a useful companion. Simultaneous release with the Bloomsbury hardcover (Reviews, Nov. 12).\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA well-researched and readable case against free-trade orthodoxy.â€ _\n  <strong>\n   â€”Business Week\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA lively addition to the protectionist side of the debateâ€¦well written and far more serious than most anti-globalization gibberish.â€ _\n  <strong>\n   â€” New York Sun\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBookstore shelves are loaded with offerings by economists and commentators seeking to explain, in accessible prose, why free-trade-style globalization is desirable and even indispensable for countries the world over. Now comes the best riposte from the critics that I have seen. Readers who are leery of open-market orthodoxy will rejoice at the cogency of Bad Samaritans. Ha-Joon Chang has the credentials -- he''s on the economics faculty at Cambridge University -- and the storytelling skill to make a well-informed, engaging case against the dogma propagated by globalization''s cheerleaders. Believers in free trade will find that the book forces them to recalibrate and maybe even backpedal a bitâ€¦.Chang''s book deserves a wide readership for illuminating the need for humility about the virtues of private markets and free trade, especially in the developing world.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”Paul Blustein,\n   <em>\n    Washington\n   </em>\n   _ Post_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations, this penetrating study could be entitled â€œeconomics in the real world.â€ Chang reveals the yawning gap between standard doctrines concerning economic development and what really has taken place from the origins of the industrial revolution until today.  His incisive analysis shows how, and why, prescriptions based on reigning doctrines have caused severe harm, particularly to the most vulnerable and defenseless, and are likely to continue to do so.  He goes on to provide sensible and constructive proposals, solidly based on economic theory and historical evidence, as to how the global economy could be redesigned to proceed on a far more humane and civilized course.  And his warnings of what might happen if corrective action is not taken are grim and apt.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“ Noam Chomsky\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA smart, lively, and provocative book that offers us compelling new ways of looking at globalization.â€ â€”\n  <strong>\n   Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI recommend this book to people who have any interest in these issuesâ€”i.e. everyone.â€\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”Bob Geldof\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œEvery orthodoxy needs effective critics. Ha-Joon Chang is probably the worldâ€™s most effective critic of globalization. He does not deny the benefits to developing countries of integration into the world economy. But he draws on the lessons of history to argue that they must be allowed to integrate on their own terms.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”Martin Wolf,\n   <em>\n    Financial Times\n   </em>\n   , author of\n  </strong>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Why Globalization Works\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œThis is a marvelous book. Well researched, panoramic in its scope and beautifully written,\n  <em>\n   Bad Samaritans\n  </em>\n  is the perfect riposte to devotees of a one-size-fits-all model of growth and globalisation. I strongly urge you to read it.â€â€”\n  <strong>\n   Larry Elliott, economics editor, the\n   <em>\n    Guardian\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8890'),
(9833, 'Bad Science', 'Ben Goldacre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Guardian columnist Dr Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the bad science we''re fed by the worst of the hacks and the quacks''Â¦When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an ''Aqua Detox'' footbath, releasing her toxins into the water and turning it brown, he thought he''d try the same at home. ''Like some kind of Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General'', using his girlfriend''s Barbie doll, he gently passed an electrical current through the warm salt water. It turned brown. In his words: ''before my very eyes, the world''s first Detox Barbie was sat, with her feet in a pool of brown sludge, purged of a weekend''s immorality.''Dr Ben Goldacre is the author of the ''Bad Science'' column in the Guardian and his book is about all the ''bad science'' we are constantly bombarded with in the media and in advertising. At a time when science is used to prove everything and nothing, everyone has their own ''bad science'' moments '' from the useless pie-chart on the back of cereal packets to the use of the word ''visibly'' in cosmetics ads. This book will help people to quantify their instincts '' that a lot of the so-called ''science'' which appears in the media and in advertising is just wrong or misleading. Satirical and amusing '' and unafraid to expose the ridiculous '' it provides the reader with the facts they need to differentiate the good from the bad.Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of ''bad science''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7309'),
(9834, 'Bad Science', 'Ben Goldacre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Guardian columnist Dr Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the bad science we''re fed by the worst of the hacks and the quacks''Â¦When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an ''Aqua Detox'' footbath, releasing her toxins into the water and turning it brown, he thought he''d try the same at home. ''Like some kind of Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General'', using his girlfriend''s Barbie doll, he gently passed an electrical current through the warm salt water. It turned brown. In his words: ''before my very eyes, the world''s first Detox Barbie was sat, with her feet in a pool of brown sludge, purged of a weekend''s immorality.''Dr Ben Goldacre is the author of the ''Bad Science'' column in the Guardian and his book is about all the ''bad science'' we are constantly bombarded with in the media and in advertising. At a time when science is used to prove everything and nothing, everyone has their own ''bad science'' moments '' from the useless pie-chart on the back of cereal packets to the use of the word ''visibly'' in cosmetics ads. This book will help people to quantify their instincts '' that a lot of the so-called ''science'' which appears in the media and in advertising is just wrong or misleading. Satirical and amusing '' and unafraid to expose the ridiculous '' it provides the reader with the facts they need to differentiate the good from the bad.Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of ''bad science''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9964'),
(9835, 'Bad science', 'Ben Goldacre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Guardian columnist Dr Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the bad science we''re fed by the worst of the hacks and the quacks''Â¦When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an ''Aqua Detox'' footbath, releasing her toxins into the water and turning it brown, he thought he''d try the same at home. ''Like some kind of Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General'', using his girlfriend''s Barbie doll, he gently passed an electrical current through the warm salt water. It turned brown. In his words: ''before my very eyes, the world''s first Detox Barbie was sat, with her feet in a pool of brown sludge, purged of a weekend''s immorality.''Dr Ben Goldacre is the author of the ''Bad Science'' column in the Guardian and his book is about all the ''bad science'' we are constantly bombarded with in the media and in advertising. At a time when science is used to prove everything and nothing, everyone has their own ''bad science'' moments '' from the useless pie-chart on the back of cereal packets to the use of the word ''visibly'' in cosmetics ads. This book will help people to quantify their instincts '' that a lot of the so-called ''science'' which appears in the media and in advertising is just wrong or misleading. Satirical and amusing '' and unafraid to expose the ridiculous '' it provides the reader with the facts they need to differentiate the good from the bad.Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of ''bad science''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16552');
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(9836, 'Bad science', 'Ben Goldacre', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Guardian columnist Dr Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the bad science we''re fed by the worst of the hacks and the quacks''Â¦When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an ''Aqua Detox'' footbath, releasing her toxins into the water and turning it brown, he thought he''d try the same at home. ''Like some kind of Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General'', using his girlfriend''s Barbie doll, he gently passed an electrical current through the warm salt water. It turned brown. In his words: ''before my very eyes, the world''s first Detox Barbie was sat, with her feet in a pool of brown sludge, purged of a weekend''s immorality.''Dr Ben Goldacre is the author of the ''Bad Science'' column in the Guardian and his book is about all the ''bad science'' we are constantly bombarded with in the media and in advertising. At a time when science is used to prove everything and nothing, everyone has their own ''bad science'' moments '' from the useless pie-chart on the back of cereal packets to the use of the word ''visibly'' in cosmetics ads. This book will help people to quantify their instincts '' that a lot of the so-called ''science'' which appears in the media and in advertising is just wrong or misleading. Satirical and amusing '' and unafraid to expose the ridiculous '' it provides the reader with the facts they need to differentiate the good from the bad.Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of ''bad science''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26552'),
(9837, 'Badlands', 'Richard Montanari', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano take on a high-profile cold case in Montanari''s superior thriller, which combines a genuinely creepy villain with fully fleshed-out victims. The dead-end inquiry into the drowning death of 17-year-old Caitlin O''Riordan four months earlier gets a boost when someone, privy to details never made public, tips the police to an abandoned building in a bad neighborhood that later turns out to house a second corpse. The stakes are raised even higher when another body turns up, an ex-girlfriend of Byrne''s who''d worked for the local district attorney. Segments from the killer''s perspective increase the tension, and Montanari (_Merciless_) does a nice job of concealing one of the murderer''s alter egos. The fiend''s methods, modeled after elaborate magical tricks, are a welcome change from the gore typical of the serial killer subgenre. Likewise, Byrne and Balzano possess a psychological depth all too rare in such fiction.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The new Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne mystery is also, by far, the best is the series, a novel worthy of comparison with such elite procedural authors as Michael Connelly. Philadelphia homicide cops Balzano and Byrne are working a cold case, the disappearance of a young girl. Following some new evidence, the partners discover that a serial killer is stalking runaways, abducting and killing them in bizarre ways. This is a stunning novel, combining the best elements of the police procedural with the most unsettling aspects of the psycho serial-killer genre.Â  The villain is not merely a psychopath but a fully realized human being, with a backstory that explains his obsessions. We feel a certain amount of compassion for him even as weâ€™re seriously creeped out by his actions and what goes on inside his head.Â Along with such Connelly jewels as The Narrows (2004), this outstanding, truly memorable novel will remind readers ofÂ Ridley Pearsonâ€™s Lou Boldt and Daphne Matthews series, especially The Pied Piper (1998), which also includes a riveting portrait of a deranged serial killer. Montanari seems poised to take his place on the top ranks of the mystery field. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1855'),
(9838, 'Badlands', 'Richard Montanari', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano take on a high-profile cold case in Montanari''s superior thriller, which combines a genuinely creepy villain with fully fleshed-out victims. The dead-end inquiry into the drowning death of 17-year-old Caitlin O''Riordan four months earlier gets a boost when someone, privy to details never made public, tips the police to an abandoned building in a bad neighborhood that later turns out to house a second corpse. The stakes are raised even higher when another body turns up, an ex-girlfriend of Byrne''s who''d worked for the local district attorney. Segments from the killer''s perspective increase the tension, and Montanari (_Merciless_) does a nice job of concealing one of the murderer''s alter egos. The fiend''s methods, modeled after elaborate magical tricks, are a welcome change from the gore typical of the serial killer subgenre. Likewise, Byrne and Balzano possess a psychological depth all too rare in such fiction.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The new Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne mystery is also, by far, the best is the series, a novel worthy of comparison with such elite procedural authors as Michael Connelly. Philadelphia homicide cops Balzano and Byrne are working a cold case, the disappearance of a young girl. Following some new evidence, the partners discover that a serial killer is stalking runaways, abducting and killing them in bizarre ways. This is a stunning novel, combining the best elements of the police procedural with the most unsettling aspects of the psycho serial-killer genre.Â  The villain is not merely a psychopath but a fully realized human being, with a backstory that explains his obsessions. We feel a certain amount of compassion for him even as weâ€™re seriously creeped out by his actions and what goes on inside his head.Â Along with such Connelly jewels as The Narrows (2004), this outstanding, truly memorable novel will remind readers ofÂ Ridley Pearsonâ€™s Lou Boldt and Daphne Matthews series, especially The Pied Piper (1998), which also includes a riveting portrait of a deranged serial killer. Montanari seems poised to take his place on the top ranks of the mystery field. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11522'),
(9839, 'The Badlands 01: Book One', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); font-size: 11px; ">\n  <h2 class="about-the-product" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.5em; font-family: arial; ">\n   About theÂ The Badlands Book One\n  </h2>\n </span>\n <p class="about-product-ctw" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); width: 540px; ">\n  Located dangerously near the Cardassian border, the unstable region of space known as the Badlands has long been a hazard to interstellar navigation, characterized by violent plasma storms and other even stranger phenomena. Many starships have faced destruction there, including at least two incarnations of the Starship Enterpriseâ„¢....\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); ">\n  James T. Kirk braves the perils of the Badlands to confront a Romulan Bird of Prey that has entered Federation space in pursuit of a fleeing smuggler. But trespassing Romulans may be the least of Kirk''s problems when the mysterious forces at work in the Badlands threaten both his ship and his crew!\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); ">\n  A generation later, Jean-Luc Picard faces the same phantom menace when he commands his Enterprise into the Badlands on a mission vital to Federation-Cardassian relations. With Will Riker''s life on the line, and the entire ship in jeopardy, it''s up to Lieutenant Commander Data to determine the true nature of the Badlands'' hidden danger!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/899'),
(9840, 'The Badlands 01: Book One', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); font-size: 11px; ">\n  <h2 class="about-the-product" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.5em; font-family: arial; ">\n   About the The Badlands Book One\n  </h2>\n </span>\n <p class="about-product-ctw" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); width: 540px; ">\n  Located dangerously near the Cardassian border, the unstable region of space known as the Badlands has long been a hazard to interstellar navigation, characterized by violent plasma storms and other even stranger phenomena. Many starships have faced destruction there, including at least two incarnations of the Starship EnterpriseTM....\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); ">\n  James T. Kirk braves the perils of the Badlands to confront a Romulan Bird of Prey that has entered Federation space in pursuit of a fleeing smuggler. But trespassing Romulans may be the least of Kirk''s problems when the mysterious forces at work in the Badlands threaten both his ship and his crew!\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; color: rgb(84, 48, 25); ">\n  A generation later, Jean-Luc Picard faces the same phantom menace when he commands his Enterprise into the Badlands on a mission vital to Federation-Cardassian relations. With Will Riker''s life on the line, and the entire ship in jeopardy, it''s up to Lieutenant Commander Data to determine the true nature of the Badlands'' hidden danger!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23938'),
(9841, 'Bag of Bones', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Stephen King''s most gripping and unforgettable novel, *Bag of   Bones,* is a story of grief and a lost love''s enduring bonds, of a new   love haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught in a   terrible crossfire.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, *Bag of Bones*   recounts the plight of forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan,   who is unable to stop grieving even four years after the sudden death of   his wife, Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his   word processor.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares of the house by the lake.   Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike finally returns to   Sara Laughs, the Noonans'' isolated summer home.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He finds his beloved Yankee town familiar on its surface, but much   changed underneath -- held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max   Devore, who twists the very fabric of the community to his purpose: to   take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother.   As Mike is drawn into their struggle, as he falls in love with both of   them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of   ghostly visitations, ever-escalating nightmares, and the sudden recovery   of his writing ability. What are the forces that have been unleashed here   -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As vivid and enthralling as King''s most enduring works, *Bag of   Bones* resonates with what Amy Tan calls "the witty and obsessive   voice of King''s powerful imagination." It''s no secret that King is our   most mesmerizing storyteller. In *Bag of Bones* -- described by   Gloria Naylor as "a love story about the dark places within us all" -- he   proves to be one of our most moving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1076'),
(9842, 'Bag of Bones', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Stephen King''s most gripping and unforgettable novel, *Bag of Bones,* is a story of grief and a lost love''s enduring bonds, of a new love haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, *Bag of Bones* recounts the plight of forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving even four years after the sudden death of his wife, Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his word processor. Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares of the house by the lake. Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike finally returns to Sara Laughs, the Noonans'' isolated summer home. He finds his beloved Yankee town familiar on its surface, but much changed underneath -- held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, who twists the very fabric of the community to his purpose: to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother. As Mike is drawn into their struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations, ever-escalating nightmares, and the sudden recovery of his writing ability. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan? As vivid and enthralling as King''s most enduring works, *Bag of Bones* resonates with what Amy Tan calls "the witty and obsessive voice of King''s powerful imagination." It''s no secret that King is our most mesmerizing storyteller. In *Bag of Bones* -- described by Gloria Naylor as "a love story about the dark places within us all" -- he proves to be one of our most moving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14361'),
(9843, 'Bag of Bones', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is Stephen King''s most gripping and unforgettable novel -- a tale of grief and lost love''s enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire.Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra''s struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan?It is no secret that King is one of our most mesmerizing storytellers. In Bag of Bones, he proves to be one of our most moving as well.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23762'),
(9844, 'Bake Sale Murder', 'Leslie Meier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ever since local developer Fred Stanton and his wife, Mimi, built five modular homes next door to Lucy Stone''s farmhouse, life just hasn''t been the same. With Mimi complaining about everything from the state of Lucy''s lawn to another neighbor''s lovable dog, quaint Tinker''s Cove, Maine, is now entangled in cul-de-sac politics and backstabbing. And when Mimi doesn''t show up for her shift at The Hat and Mitten Fund bake sale, the scent of burnt sugar leads Lucy to a shocking discovery: Mimi, face down on her kitchen floor--with a knife in her back.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While the police start their investigation, Lucy gets busy writing up the murder for the local Pennysaver--and following a few leads of her own. Lucy knows the women in her neighborhood didn''t like Mimi, but they certainly didn''t want her dead...right?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I like Lucy Stone a lot, and so will readers."  --Carolyn Hart\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Leslie Meier writes with sparkle and warmth."  --*Chicago Sun Times*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Mothers everywhere will identify with Lucy Stone and the domestic problems she encounters."  --*Publishers Weekly*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3355'),
(9845, 'Bake Sale Murder', 'Leslie Meier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ever since local developer Fred Stanton and his wife, Mimi, built five modular homes next door to Lucy Stone''s farmhouse, life just hasn''t been the same. With Mimi complaining about everything from the state of Lucy''s lawn to another neighbor''s lovable dog, quaint Tinker''s Cove, Maine, is now entangled in cul-de-sac politics and backstabbing. And when Mimi doesn''t show up for her shift at The Hat and Mitten Fund bake sale, the scent of burnt sugar leads Lucy to a shocking discovery: Mimi, face down on her kitchen floor--with a knife in her back.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While the police start their investigation, Lucy gets busy writing up the murder for the local Pennysaver--and following a few leads of her own. Lucy knows the women in her neighborhood didn''t like Mimi, but they certainly didn''t want her dead...right?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I like Lucy Stone a lot, and so will readers."  --Carolyn Hart\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Leslie Meier writes with sparkle and warmth."  --*Chicago Sun Times*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Mothers everywhere will identify with Lucy Stone and the domestic problems she encounters."  --*Publishers Weekly*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11431'),
(9846, 'Bake Sale Murder', 'Leslie Meier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ever since local developer Fred Stanton and his wife, Mimi, built five modular homes next door to Lucy Stone''s farmhouse, life just hasn''t been the same. With Mimi complaining about everything from the state of Lucy''s lawn to another neighbor''s lovable dog, quaint Tinker''s Cove, Maine, is now entangled in cul-de-sac politics and backstabbing. And when Mimi doesn''t show up for her shift at The Hat and Mitten Fund bake sale, the scent of burnt sugar leads Lucy to a shocking discovery: Mimi, face down on her kitchen floor--with a knife in her back. While the police start their investigation, Lucy gets busy writing up the murder for the local Pennysaver--and following a few leads of her own. Lucy knows the women in her neighborhood didn''t like Mimi, but they certainly didn''t want her dead...right? "I like Lucy Stone a lot, and so will readers." --Carolyn Hart "Leslie Meier writes with sparkle and warmth." --*Chicago Sun Times* "Mothers everywhere will identify with Lucy Stone and the domestic problems she encounters." --*Publishers Weekly*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21169'),
(9847, 'Baking Artisan Bread: 10 Expert Formulas for Baking Better Bread at Home', 'Ciril Hitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While â€œbreadâ€ once implied a simple, sliced white loaf from the supermarket, consumers have begun to consider the product in a more sophisticated light. Bread enthusiasts are more aware of the diverse array of high-quality breads than ever before and are seeking out handmade artisan products at local farmersâ€™ markets, organic grocery stores, specialty shopsâ€¦even the Internet.\n  <em>\n   Baking Artisan Bread\n  </em>\n  will show that finding these specialty breads is as easy as looking in your own kitchen!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Baking Artisan Bread\n  </em>\n  provides a simplified, formula-based approach to baking bread at home, making the mixing, the rising, and the baking itself more approachable and less intimidating. With step-by-step full-color process shots and clear directions, chef Ciril Hitz will show you how with just 10 formulas you can create more than 40 different productsâ€”howâ€™s that for streamlined?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ciril Hitz is the Department Chair for the International Baking and Pastry Institute at Johnson &amp; Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, after which he returned to his native Switzerland and completed a three-year apprenticeship as a Pastry Chef/Chocolatier. He was first introduced to bread baking while in Europe, which laid the foundation for the skills that led him to where he is today. Hitz has been recognized nationally and internationally with numerous awards and accomplishments. He was selected as a Top Ten Pastry Chef in America in both 2007 and 2008 by Pastry Art &amp; Design magazine. In 2004 he competed in the National Bread and Pastry Team Championship, winning the overall team Gold Medal as well as all individual bread awards. He was a member of the Bread Bakers Guild Team USA that competed at the 2002 Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie in Paris, France, where the team captured the silver medal. He has been a guest instructor and expert at many national and international culinary events and schools and serves on the Advisory Board of the Bread Bakers Guild of America. Ciril Hitz is frequently seen on The Food Network and has been featured on the NBC''s The Today Show. His work has graced the pages of numerous magazines and the interiors of exhibition halls and museums, including COPIA in Napa, California. He is the producer of his own line of educational DVDs. For more information on his work, visit www.breadhitz.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6659'),
(9848, 'Baking Artisan Bread: 10 Expert Formulas for Baking Better Bread at Home', 'Ciril Hitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While â€œbreadâ€ once implied a simple, sliced white loaf from the supermarket, consumers have begun to consider the product in a more sophisticated light. Bread enthusiasts are more aware of the diverse array of high-quality breads than ever before and are seeking out handmade artisan products at local farmersâ€™ markets, organic grocery stores, specialty shopsâ€¦even the Internet.\n  <em>\n   Baking Artisan Bread\n  </em>\n  will show that finding these specialty breads is as easy as looking in your own kitchen!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Baking Artisan Bread\n  </em>\n  provides a simplified, formula-based approach to baking bread at home, making the mixing, the rising, and the baking itself more approachable and less intimidating. With step-by-step full-color process shots and clear directions, chef Ciril Hitz will show you how with just 10 formulas you can create more than 40 different productsâ€”howâ€™s that for streamlined?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ciril Hitz is the Department Chair for the International Baking and Pastry Institute at Johnson &amp; Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, after which he returned to his native Switzerland and completed a three-year apprenticeship as a Pastry Chef/Chocolatier. He was first introduced to bread baking while in Europe, which laid the foundation for the skills that led him to where he is today. Hitz has been recognized nationally and internationally with numerous awards and accomplishments. He was selected as a Top Ten Pastry Chef in America in both 2007 and 2008 by Pastry Art &amp; Design magazine. In 2004 he competed in the National Bread and Pastry Team Championship, winning the overall team Gold Medal as well as all individual bread awards. He was a member of the Bread Bakers Guild Team USA that competed at the 2002 Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie in Paris, France, where the team captured the silver medal. He has been a guest instructor and expert at many national and international culinary events and schools and serves on the Advisory Board of the Bread Bakers Guild of America. Ciril Hitz is frequently seen on The Food Network and has been featured on the NBC''s The Today Show. His work has graced the pages of numerous magazines and the interiors of exhibition halls and museums, including COPIA in Napa, California. He is the producer of his own line of educational DVDs. For more information on his work, visit www.breadhitz.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10307'),
(9849, 'Baking Cakes in Kigali', 'Gaile Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talentâ€”and Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written taleâ€”set in modern-day Rwandaâ€”introduces one of the most singular and engaging characters in recent fiction: Angel Tungarazaâ€”mother, cake baker, keeper of secretsâ€”a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create hope amid the madness swirling all around her.In Kigali, Angel runs a bustling business: baking cakes for all occasionsâ€”cakes filled with vibrant color, buttery richness, and, most of all, a sense of hope only Angel can deliver.â€¦A CIA agentâ€™s wife seeks the perfect holiday cake but walks away with something far sweeterâ€¦a former boy-soldier orders an engagement cake, then, between sips of tea, shares an enthralling storyâ€¦weary human rights workersâ€¦lovesick limo drivers. Amid this cacophony of native tongues, love affairs, and confessions, Angelâ€™s kitchen is an oasis where people tell their secrets, where hope abounds and help awaits.In this unlikely place, in the heart of Rwanda, unexpected things are beginning to happen: A most unusual wedding is plannedâ€¦a heartbreaking mysteryâ€”involving Angelâ€™s own familyâ€”unravelsâ€¦and extraordinary connections are being made among the men and women who have tasted Angelâ€™s beautiful cakesâ€¦as a chain of events unfolds that will change Angelâ€™s lifeâ€”and the lives of those around herâ€”in the most astonishing ways.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5523'),
(9850, 'Baking Cakes in Kigali', 'Gaile Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talentâ€”and Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written taleâ€”set in modern-day Rwandaâ€”introduces one of the most singular and engaging characters in recent fiction: Angel Tungarazaâ€”mother, cake baker, keeper of secretsâ€”a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create hope amid the madness swirling all around her.In Kigali, Angel runs a bustling business: baking cakes for all occasionsâ€”cakes filled with vibrant color, buttery richness, and, most of all, a sense of hope only Angel can deliver.â€¦A CIA agentâ€™s wife seeks the perfect holiday cake but walks away with something far sweeterâ€¦a former boy-soldier orders an engagement cake, then, between sips of tea, shares an enthralling storyâ€¦weary human rights workersâ€¦lovesick limo drivers. Amid this cacophony of native tongues, love affairs, and confessions, Angelâ€™s kitchen is an oasis where people tell their secrets, where hope abounds and help awaits.In this unlikely place, in the heart of Rwanda, unexpected things are beginning to happen: A most unusual wedding is plannedâ€¦a heartbreaking mysteryâ€”involving Angelâ€™s own familyâ€”unravelsâ€¦and extraordinary connections are being made among the men and women who have tasted Angelâ€™s beautiful cakesâ€¦as a chain of events unfolds that will change Angelâ€™s lifeâ€”and the lives of those around herâ€”in the most astonishing ways.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11791'),
(9851, 'Baking Cakes in Kigali', 'Gaile Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talentâ€”and Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written taleâ€”set in modern-day Rwandaâ€”introduces one of the most singular and engaging characters in recent fiction: Angel Tungarazaâ€”mother, cake baker, keeper of secretsâ€”a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create hope amid the madness swirling all around her.In Kigali, Angel runs a bustling business: baking cakes for all occasionsâ€”cakes filled with vibrant color, buttery richness, and, most of all, a sense of hope only Angel can deliver.â€¦A CIA agentâ€™s wife seeks the perfect holiday cake but walks away with something far sweeterâ€¦a former boy-soldier orders an engagement cake, then, between sips of tea, shares an enthralling storyâ€¦weary human rights workersâ€¦lovesick limo drivers. Amid this cacophony of native tongues, love affairs, and confessions, Angelâ€™s kitchen is an oasis where people tell their secrets, where hope abounds and help awaits.In this unlikely place, in the heart of Rwanda, unexpected things are beginning to happen: A most unusual wedding is plannedâ€¦a heartbreaking mysteryâ€”involving Angelâ€™s own familyâ€”unravelsâ€¦and extraordinary connections are being made among the men and women who have tasted Angelâ€™s beautiful cakesâ€¦as a chain of events unfolds that will change Angelâ€™s lifeâ€”and the lives of those around herâ€”in the most astonishing ways.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19210'),
(9852, 'Baking Cakes in Kigali', 'Gaile Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talentâ€”and Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written taleâ€”set in modern-day Rwandaâ€”introduces one of the most singular and engaging characters in recent fiction: Angel Tungarazaâ€”mother, cake baker, keeper of secretsâ€”a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create hope amid the madness swirling all around her.In Kigali, Angel runs a bustling business: baking cakes for all occasionsâ€”cakes filled with vibrant color, buttery richness, and, most of all, a sense of hope only Angel can deliver.â€¦A CIA agentâ€™s wife seeks the perfect holiday cake but walks away with something far sweeterâ€¦a former boy-soldier orders an engagement cake, then, between sips of tea, shares an enthralling storyâ€¦weary human rights workersâ€¦lovesick limo drivers. Amid this cacophony of native tongues, love affairs, and confessions, Angelâ€™s kitchen is an oasis where people tell their secrets, where hope abounds and help awaits.In this unlikely place, in the heart of Rwanda, unexpected things are beginning to happen: A most unusual wedding is plannedâ€¦a heartbreaking mysteryâ€”involving Angelâ€™s own familyâ€”unravelsâ€¦and extraordinary connections are being made among the men and women who have tasted Angelâ€™s beautiful cakesâ€¦as a chain of events unfolds that will change Angelâ€™s lifeâ€”and the lives of those around herâ€”in the most astonishing ways.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27872'),
(9853, 'Balance of Power', 'Dafydd ab Hugh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a famous Federation scientist dies, his son puts his inventions up for sale to the highest bidder, be they Federation, Klingon, Romulan, or Cardassian. Among the items at auction is a photon pulse canon capable of punching through a starship''s shields with a single shot. Meanwhile, Wesley Crusher is kidnapped from the Academy by renegade Ferengi who have set their sights on the photon canon as well, and Captain Picard must outmaneuver enemies on every side to save Wesley and protect the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM from the deadly fire of the new canon.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a famous Federation scientist dies, his son puts his inventions up for sale to the highest bidder, be they Federation, Klingon, Romulan, or Cardassian. Among the items at auction is a photon pulse canon capable of punching through a starship''s shields with a single shot. Meanwhile, Wesley Crusher is kidnapped from the Academy by renegade Ferengi who have set their sights on the photon canon as well, and Captain Picard must outmaneuver enemies on every side to save Wesley and protect the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM from the deadly fire of the new canon.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6586'),
(9854, 'Balance of Power', 'Dafydd ab Hugh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a famous Federation scientist dies, his son puts his inventions up for sale to the highest bidder, be they Federation, Klingon, Romulan, or Cardassian. Among the items at auction is a photon pulse canon capable of punching through a starship''s shields with a single shot. Meanwhile, Wesley Crusher is kidnapped from the Academy by renegade Ferengi who have set their sights on the photon canon as well, and Captain Picard must outmaneuver enemies on every side to save Wesley and protect the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM from the deadly fire of the new canon.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a famous Federation scientist dies, his son puts his inventions up for sale to the highest bidder, be they Federation, Klingon, Romulan, or Cardassian. Among the items at auction is a photon pulse canon capable of punching through a starship''s shields with a single shot. Meanwhile, Wesley Crusher is kidnapped from the Academy by renegade Ferengi who have set their sights on the photon canon as well, and Captain Picard must outmaneuver enemies on every side to save Wesley and protect the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM from the deadly fire of the new canon.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17388'),
(9855, 'The Balfour Declaration', 'Jonathan Schneer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of â€œa National Home for the Jewish people,â€ and its reverberations continue to be felt to this day. Now the entire fascinating story of the document is revealed in this impressive work of modern history.With new material retrieved from historical archives, scholar Jonathan Schneer recounts in dramatic detail the public and private battles in the early 1900s for a small strip of land in the Middle East, battles that started when the governing Ottoman Empire took Germanyâ€™s side in World War I. The Balfour Declaration paints an indelible picture of how Arab nationalists, backed by Britain, fought for their future as Zionists in England battled diplomatically for influence. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to either side or even to most members of the British government, Prime Minister David Lloyd George was telling Turkey that she could keep her flag flying over the disputed territory if only she would agree to a separate peace.The key players in this watershed moment are rendered here in nuanced and detailed relief: Sharif Hussein, the Arab leader who secretly sought British support; Chaim Weizmann, Zionist hero, the folksmensch who charmed British high society; T. E. Lawrence, the legendary â€œsuper cerebralâ€ British officer who â€œset the desert on fireâ€ for the Arabs; Basil Zaharoff, the infamous arms dealer who was Britainâ€™s most important back channel to the Turks; and the other generals and prime ministers, soldiers and negotiators, who shed blood and cut deals to grab or give away the precious land.A book crucial to understanding the Middle East as it is today, The Balfour Declaration is a rich and remarkable achievement, a riveting volume about the ancient faiths and timeless treacheries that continue to drive global events.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12412'),
(9856, 'The Balkan Escape (Short Story): A Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Steve Berry''s first ever eBook exclusive short story finds an adventurer in a strange and forbidding land, in search of a long lost treasure, and very much in harm''s way." As a favor to enigmatic billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, Cassiopeia Vitt treks into Bulgaria''s Rila mountains in search of a buried stash of exceedingly rare artifacts from a bygone civilization: the ancient tomb of a Thracian king. But when her presence is discovered by a shadowy group of Russians secretly mining the area, she needs a way out. "Who to trust" becomes the question, and her life depends on choosing the right option. Includes a sneak-preview of the new Cotton Malone thriller" The Emperor''s Tomb."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1083'),
(9857, 'The Balkan Escape (Short Story): A Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Steve Berry''s first ever eBook exclusive short story finds an adventurer in a strange and forbidding land, in search of a long lost treasure, and very much in harm''s way." As a favor to enigmatic billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, Cassiopeia Vitt treks into Bulgaria''s Rila mountains in search of a buried stash of exceedingly rare artifacts from a bygone civilization: the ancient tomb of a Thracian king. But when her presence is discovered by a shadowy group of Russians secretly mining the area, she needs a way out. "Who to trust" becomes the question, and her life depends on choosing the right option. Includes a sneak-preview of the new Cotton Malone thriller" The Emperor''s Tomb."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23889'),
(9858, 'The Balkan Escape', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Steve Berry''s first ever eBook exclusive short story finds an adventurer in a strange and forbidding land, in search of a long lost treasure, and very much in harm''s way.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As a favor to enigmatic billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, Cassiopeia Vitt treks into Bulgaria''s Rila mountains in search of a buried stash of exceedingly rare artifacts from a bygone civilization: the ancient tomb of a Thracian king. But when her presence is discovered by a shadowy group of Russians secretly mining the area, she needs a way out. Who to trust becomes the question, and her life depends on choosing the right option.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1082'),
(9859, 'The Balkan Escape', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Steve Berry''s first ever eBook exclusive short story finds an adventurer in a strange and forbidding land, in search of a long lost treasure, and very much in harm''s way.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As a favor to enigmatic billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, Cassiopeia Vitt treks into Bulgaria''s Rila mountains in search of a buried stash of exceedingly rare artifacts from a bygone civilization: the ancient tomb of a Thracian king. But when her presence is discovered by a shadowy group of Russians secretly mining the area, she needs a way out. Who to trust becomes the question, and her life depends on choosing the right option.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8452'),
(9860, 'Ballet Shoes: A Story of Three Children on the Stage', 'Noel Streatfeild', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Relates the fortunes of three adopted sisters who take dancing and stage training, one to become an actress, the second a ballerina, and the third an aviatrix.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2536'),
(9861, 'Ballet Shoes: A Story of Three Children on the Stage', 'Noel Streatfeild', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Relates the fortunes of three adopted sisters who take dancing and stage training, one to become an actress, the second a ballerina, and the third an aviatrix.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12951'),
(9862, 'Ballet Shoes: A Story of Three Children on the Stage', 'Noel Streatfeild', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Relates the fortunes of three adopted sisters who take dancing and stage training, one to become an actress, the second a ballerina, and the third an aviatrix.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21720'),
(9863, 'Bamboo and Blood', 'James Church', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Church once again does a brilliant job of portraying the dysfunctional, paranoid society of modern North Korea in his third novel to feature Inspector O of the ministry of public security (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Hidden Moon\n </em>\n ). When a foreigner O has been assigned to watch turns out to be working for Israeli intelligence, O and his supervisor, Pak, come under the scrutiny of a rival security service. To complicate matters, Pak asks the inspector to investigate the murder of a North Korean diplomat''s wife in Pakistan, but O is restricted to merely collecting facts about the dead woman. O''s efforts to actually solve the crime lead to dangerous encounters with his country''s special weapons program. While the espionage elements compel, the book''s main strength, as with its predecessors, derives from the small details that enable the reader to imagine life in North Koreaâ€”and from O''s struggles to maintain his principles and integrity.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n It is brutal winter in North Korea, the first winter after the death of Beloved Leader. His son and successor is grieving, and the countryâ€™s survival is threatened by famine and infrastructure collapse. Even in Pyongyang, government employees are hungry and cold. Word of mouth from the countryside and their own experiences cause Inspector O and Chief Inspector Pak to fear that the nation has â€œfallen apart.â€ But even as the country lurches toward collapse, foreigners interested in guided missiles stream into North Korea. O is sent to Geneva, ostensibly to ensure that the head of a diplomatic delegation doesnâ€™t defect. There, Swiss, Israeli, and North Korean agents alternately charm and menace him, and O doesnâ€™t even knowÂ what his superiors really want of him. The sketch of the most secretive country in the world is as spare and elegant as a Japanese painting. The machinations and motivations of the unseen politicians who pull Oâ€™s strings canâ€™t be fathomed. Pak, Oâ€™s politically astute superior, often speaks in what sound like Zen koans. O is left to rely on himself and the wisdom of his animist-woodworker grandfather for guidance. Bamboo and Blood, the third in this outstanding series,Â invites readers to take aÂ step through the looking glass. Thoughtful crime fans will love what they find. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4838'),
(9864, 'Bamboo and Blood', 'James Church', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Church once again does a brilliant job of portraying the dysfunctional, paranoid society of modern North Korea in his third novel to feature Inspector O of the ministry of public security (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Hidden Moon\n </em>\n ). When a foreigner O has been assigned to watch turns out to be working for Israeli intelligence, O and his supervisor, Pak, come under the scrutiny of a rival security service. To complicate matters, Pak asks the inspector to investigate the murder of a North Korean diplomat''s wife in Pakistan, but O is restricted to merely collecting facts about the dead woman. O''s efforts to actually solve the crime lead to dangerous encounters with his country''s special weapons program. While the espionage elements compel, the book''s main strength, as with its predecessors, derives from the small details that enable the reader to imagine life in North Koreaâ€”and from O''s struggles to maintain his principles and integrity.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n It is brutal winter in North Korea, the first winter after the death of Beloved Leader. His son and successor is grieving, and the countryâ€™s survival is threatened by famine and infrastructure collapse. Even in Pyongyang, government employees are hungry and cold. Word of mouth from the countryside and their own experiences cause Inspector O and Chief Inspector Pak to fear that the nation has â€œfallen apart.â€ But even as the country lurches toward collapse, foreigners interested in guided missiles stream into North Korea. O is sent to Geneva, ostensibly to ensure that the head of a diplomatic delegation doesnâ€™t defect. There, Swiss, Israeli, and North Korean agents alternately charm and menace him, and O doesnâ€™t even knowÂ what his superiors really want of him. The sketch of the most secretive country in the world is as spare and elegant as a Japanese painting. The machinations and motivations of the unseen politicians who pull Oâ€™s strings canâ€™t be fathomed. Pak, Oâ€™s politically astute superior, often speaks in what sound like Zen koans. O is left to rely on himself and the wisdom of his animist-woodworker grandfather for guidance. Bamboo and Blood, the third in this outstanding series,Â invites readers to take aÂ step through the looking glass. Thoughtful crime fans will love what they find. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8899');
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(9865, 'Bamboo and Blood', 'James Church', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Church once again does a brilliant job of portraying the dysfunctional, paranoid society of modern North Korea in his third novel to feature Inspector O of the ministry of public security (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Hidden Moon\n </em>\n ). When a foreigner O has been assigned to watch turns out to be working for Israeli intelligence, O and his supervisor, Pak, come under the scrutiny of a rival security service. To complicate matters, Pak asks the inspector to investigate the murder of a North Korean diplomat''s wife in Pakistan, but O is restricted to merely collecting facts about the dead woman. O''s efforts to actually solve the crime lead to dangerous encounters with his country''s special weapons program. While the espionage elements compel, the book''s main strength, as with its predecessors, derives from the small details that enable the reader to imagine life in North Koreaâ€”and from O''s struggles to maintain his principles and integrity.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n It is brutal winter in North Korea, the first winter after the death of Beloved Leader. His son and successor is grieving, and the countryâ€™s survival is threatened by famine and infrastructure collapse. Even in Pyongyang, government employees are hungry and cold. Word of mouth from the countryside and their own experiences cause Inspector O and Chief Inspector Pak to fear that the nation has â€œfallen apart.â€ But even as the country lurches toward collapse, foreigners interested in guided missiles stream into North Korea. O is sent to Geneva, ostensibly to ensure that the head of a diplomatic delegation doesnâ€™t defect. There, Swiss, Israeli, and North Korean agents alternately charm and menace him, and O doesnâ€™t even knowÂ what his superiors really want of him. The sketch of the most secretive country in the world is as spare and elegant as a Japanese painting. The machinations and motivations of the unseen politicians who pull Oâ€™s strings canâ€™t be fathomed. Pak, Oâ€™s politically astute superior, often speaks in what sound like Zen koans. O is left to rely on himself and the wisdom of his animist-woodworker grandfather for guidance. Bamboo and Blood, the third in this outstanding series,Â invites readers to take aÂ step through the looking glass. Thoughtful crime fans will love what they find. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19861'),
(9866, 'Band of Brothers', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the bloody battlefields of World War II Europe, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, got the toughest missions. As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy was always in the thick of the fight -- from parachuting into France under a hellish crossfire early D-Day morning, to the final capture of Hitler''s supposedly impregnable Eagle''s Nest at Berchtesgaden. New York Times bestselling author Stephen E. Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died for their country, and for one another -- taking 150 percent casualties and earning Purple Hearts as combat pay. Drawing on interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers'' journals and letters, Ambrose chronicles the gripping true stories of these American heroes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25104'),
(9867, 'Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler&#39;s Eagle&#39;s Nest', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the bloody battlefields of World War II Europe, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, got the toughest missions. As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy was always in the thick of the fight -- from parachuting into France under a hellish crossfire early D-Day morning, to the final capture of Hitler''s supposedly impregnable Eagle''s Nest at Berchtesgaden. New York Times bestselling author Stephen E. Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died for their country, and for one another -- taking 150 percent casualties and earning Purple Hearts as combat pay. Drawing on interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers'' journals and letters, Ambrose chronicles the gripping true stories of these American heroes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1159'),
(9868, 'Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler&#39;s Eagle&#39;s Nest', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the bloody battlefields of World War II Europe, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, got the toughest missions. As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy was always in the thick of the fight -- from parachuting into France under a hellish crossfire early D-Day morning, to the final capture of Hitler''s supposedly impregnable Eagle''s Nest at Berchtesgaden. New York Times bestselling author Stephen E. Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died for their country, and for one another -- taking 150 percent casualties and earning Purple Hearts as combat pay. Drawing on interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers'' journals and letters, Ambrose chronicles the gripping true stories of these American heroes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15343'),
(9869, 'Band of brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler&#39;s Eagle&#39;s Nest', 'Ambrose, Stephen E.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. And at its peak -- in Holland and the Ardennes -- Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Divison, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From the rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the disbanding in 1945, Stephen Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company. In combat, the reward for a job well done is the next tough assignment, and as they advanced through Europe, the men of Easy kept getting the tough assignments. They parachuted into France early D-Day morning and knocked out a battery of four 105 mm cannon looking down Utah Beach; they parachuted into Holland during the Arnhem campaign; they were the Battered Bastards of the Bastion of Bastogne, brought in to hold the line, although surrounded, in the Battle of the Bulge; and then they spearheaded the counteroffensive. Finally, they captured Hitler''s Bavarian outpost, his Eagle''s Nest at Berchtesgaden. They were rough-and-ready guys, battered by the Depression, mistrustful and suspicious. They drank too much French wine, looted too many German cameras and watches, and fought too often with other GIs. But in training and combat they learned selflessness and found the closest brotherhood they ever knew. They discovered that in war, men who loved life would give their lives for them. This is the story of the men who fought, of the martinet they hated who trained them well, and of the captain they loved who led them. E Company was a company of men who went hungry, froze, and died for each other, a company that took 150 percent casualties, a company where the Purple Heart was not a medal -- it was a badge of office.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23787'),
(9870, 'Bandits', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Working at his brother-in-law''s New Orleans funeral home isn''t reformed jewel thief Jack Delaney''s idea of excitement -- until he''s dispatched to a leper''s hospital to pick up a corpse that turns out to be very much alive ... and under the care of a beautiful, radical ex-nun in designer jeans. The "deceased" is the one-time squeeze of a Nicaraguan colonel who''s ordered her dead for trying to "infect" him, and Sister Lucy''s looking to spirit the young woman away from his guns and goons. Plus Lucy''s getting ideas about spiriting away some of the colonel''s millions as well -- and someone with Jack Delaney''s talents could come in very handy indeed.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books including\n <em>\n  Cuba Libre, Rum Punch,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Get Shorty,\n </em>\n and numerous screenplays. He has an unparalleled reputation among lovers of mayhem, suspense, and just plain wonderful writing. A Grand Master Award winner of the Mystery Writers of America, he has been likened to everyone from Balzac to Dostoevsky to Dickens to Dashiell Hammett -- but he is, in fact, entirely and entertainingly\n <em>\n  sui generis\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n He lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18545'),
(9871, 'The Bane of the Black Sword', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After much wandering and seeking Elric finally discovers the location of the sorcerer who had earlier inconvenienced him. A meeting of old friends and scattered brothers evolves into a union of vengeance. A demon sent hoping to devour an albino is thwarted, but it''s master''s aim''s are met with Elric''s capture. A bargain made with a well intentioned merchant wins Elric his freedom, but only half of him is allowed to escape. Elric restored with his symbiotic blade calls upon unholy aide to finally vanquish his meddlesome sorceress enemy. The final assault brings a grievous death as the dragon caves will no longer have a master. A promise broken and an unwanted soul taken by Elric''s hungry companion. Another hollow victory causes Elric much discomfort.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2763'),
(9872, 'The Bane of the Black Sword', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After much wandering and seeking Elric finally discovers the location of the sorcerer who had earlier inconvenienced him. A meeting of old friends and scattered brothers evolves into a union of vengeance. A demon sent hoping to devour an albino is thwarted, but it''s master''s aim''s are met with Elric''s capture. A bargain made with a well intentioned merchant wins Elric his freedom, but only half of him is allowed to escape. Elric restored with his symbiotic blade calls upon unholy aide to finally vanquish his meddlesome sorceress enemy. The final assault brings a grievous death as the dragon caves will no longer have a master. A promise broken and an unwanted soul taken by Elric''s hungry companion. Another hollow victory causes Elric much discomfort.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22044'),
(9873, 'Bangkok 8', 'John Burdett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  When a U.S. Marine is killed in Bangkok, the task of finding the murderer falls to Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, seemingly the only member of the Royal Thai Police Force whose idea of justice precludes his fellow officers'' customary system of bribery. This assignment''s especially important to the devout detective for during the investigation of the murder scene, the methamphetamine-stoked snakes that bit the marine also kill Sonchai''s police partner, best friend, and Buddhist soul-mate Pichai. Sonchai''s pursuit of revenge will team him with a sexually frustrated FBI agent and leave them at the mercy of\n  <i>\n   yaa-baa\n  </i>\n  -fueled motorcycle-taxi drivers as they hurtle through neon-lit Bangkok and into the labyrinthine and deadly machinations of the international jade and drug trades in search of the killer.\n  <p>\n   As Sonchai himself notes at one point, "This isn''t a\n   <i>\n    whodunit\n   </i>\n   , is it?" And, no, it isn''t, but author John Burdett (\n   <i>\n   </i>\n   ,\n   <i>\n   </i>\n   ) infuses the plot with enough suspense, detail, and dry Asian insight to keep readers rapt as the story careens about the bars and brothels of Thailand''s flesh trade, through its cut-rate plastic surgery parlors, and ends in a climax with a fittingly Buddhist twist.\n   <i>\n    Bangkok 8\n   </i>\n   is highly recommended for readers in the mood for Thai.\n   <i>\n    --Benjamin Reese\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Part mystery, part thriller and part exploration of Thai attitudes toward sex, this accomplished first novel by Burdett (A Personal History of Thirst; The Last Six Million Seconds) delivers both entertainment and depth. The narrator, a Buddhist cop named Sonchai Jitplecheep, finds himself plunged into a dangerous investigation of the deaths by snakebite of his partner Pichai Apiradee and U.S. Embassy Sgt. William Bradley. Sonchai is an unusual character on several levels, from the mysteries of his violent past to his conversations with the ghost of Pichai. His ambiguous feelings toward Kimberley Jones, an American FBI agent brought in to work the case, reflect his upbringing as the child of a Thai mother and an unknown American father. Above all else, however, Sonchai''s Buddhism permeates the text. An encounter with an embassy official, for example, leads to this unexpected reverie: "[She] is blithely unaware that she once accompanied me across a courtyard of startlingly similar dimensions, thousands of years ago." As Sonchai''s investigation brings him closer to Bradley''s companion, a woman known as Fatima, and the rich American jade dealer Sylvester Warren, his quest for revenge becomes muddied by the strangeness of his discoveries. The mix of detective work, Bangkok street life, the Thai sex trade and drug smuggling forms a powerful melange of images and insight. Despite an anti-climactic last chapter, the novel''s structure is solid. Sonchai''s fatalism, wry humor and dogged determination-his ability to be both vulnerable and strong-make him one of the more memorable characters in recent novel-length fiction. Readers expecting a traditional mystery structure would be advised to look elsewhere, but those who want something new will find Burdett''s novel an intriguing, fresh take on noir.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4420'),
(9874, 'Bangkok 8', 'John Burdett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  When a U.S. Marine is killed in Bangkok, the task of finding the murderer falls to Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, seemingly the only member of the Royal Thai Police Force whose idea of justice precludes his fellow officers'' customary system of bribery. This assignment''s especially important to the devout detective for during the investigation of the murder scene, the methamphetamine-stoked snakes that bit the marine also kill Sonchai''s police partner, best friend, and Buddhist soul-mate Pichai. Sonchai''s pursuit of revenge will team him with a sexually frustrated FBI agent and leave them at the mercy of\n  <i>\n   yaa-baa\n  </i>\n  -fueled motorcycle-taxi drivers as they hurtle through neon-lit Bangkok and into the labyrinthine and deadly machinations of the international jade and drug trades in search of the killer.\n  <p>\n   As Sonchai himself notes at one point, "This isn''t a\n   <i>\n    whodunit\n   </i>\n   , is it?" And, no, it isn''t, but author John Burdett (\n   <i>\n   </i>\n   ,\n   <i>\n   </i>\n   ) infuses the plot with enough suspense, detail, and dry Asian insight to keep readers rapt as the story careens about the bars and brothels of Thailand''s flesh trade, through its cut-rate plastic surgery parlors, and ends in a climax with a fittingly Buddhist twist.\n   <i>\n    Bangkok 8\n   </i>\n   is highly recommended for readers in the mood for Thai.\n   <i>\n    --Benjamin Reese\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Part mystery, part thriller and part exploration of Thai attitudes toward sex, this accomplished first novel by Burdett (A Personal History of Thirst; The Last Six Million Seconds) delivers both entertainment and depth. The narrator, a Buddhist cop named Sonchai Jitplecheep, finds himself plunged into a dangerous investigation of the deaths by snakebite of his partner Pichai Apiradee and U.S. Embassy Sgt. William Bradley. Sonchai is an unusual character on several levels, from the mysteries of his violent past to his conversations with the ghost of Pichai. His ambiguous feelings toward Kimberley Jones, an American FBI agent brought in to work the case, reflect his upbringing as the child of a Thai mother and an unknown American father. Above all else, however, Sonchai''s Buddhism permeates the text. An encounter with an embassy official, for example, leads to this unexpected reverie: "[She] is blithely unaware that she once accompanied me across a courtyard of startlingly similar dimensions, thousands of years ago." As Sonchai''s investigation brings him closer to Bradley''s companion, a woman known as Fatima, and the rich American jade dealer Sylvester Warren, his quest for revenge becomes muddied by the strangeness of his discoveries. The mix of detective work, Bangkok street life, the Thai sex trade and drug smuggling forms a powerful melange of images and insight. Despite an anti-climactic last chapter, the novel''s structure is solid. Sonchai''s fatalism, wry humor and dogged determination-his ability to be both vulnerable and strong-make him one of the more memorable characters in recent novel-length fiction. Readers expecting a traditional mystery structure would be advised to look elsewhere, but those who want something new will find Burdett''s novel an intriguing, fresh take on noir.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8690'),
(9875, 'Bangkok 8', 'John Burdett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  When a U.S. Marine is killed in Bangkok, the task of finding the murderer falls to Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, seemingly the only member of the Royal Thai Police Force whose idea of justice precludes his fellow officers'' customary system of bribery. This assignment''s especially important to the devout detective for during the investigation of the murder scene, the methamphetamine-stoked snakes that bit the marine also kill Sonchai''s police partner, best friend, and Buddhist soul-mate Pichai. Sonchai''s pursuit of revenge will team him with a sexually frustrated FBI agent and leave them at the mercy of\n  <i>\n   yaa-baa\n  </i>\n  -fueled motorcycle-taxi drivers as they hurtle through neon-lit Bangkok and into the labyrinthine and deadly machinations of the international jade and drug trades in search of the killer.\n  <p>\n   As Sonchai himself notes at one point, "This isn''t a\n   <i>\n    whodunit\n   </i>\n   , is it?" And, no, it isn''t, but author John Burdett (\n   <i>\n   </i>\n   ,\n   <i>\n   </i>\n   ) infuses the plot with enough suspense, detail, and dry Asian insight to keep readers rapt as the story careens about the bars and brothels of Thailand''s flesh trade, through its cut-rate plastic surgery parlors, and ends in a climax with a fittingly Buddhist twist.\n   <i>\n    Bangkok 8\n   </i>\n   is highly recommended for readers in the mood for Thai.\n   <i>\n    --Benjamin Reese\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Part mystery, part thriller and part exploration of Thai attitudes toward sex, this accomplished first novel by Burdett (A Personal History of Thirst; The Last Six Million Seconds) delivers both entertainment and depth. The narrator, a Buddhist cop named Sonchai Jitplecheep, finds himself plunged into a dangerous investigation of the deaths by snakebite of his partner Pichai Apiradee and U.S. Embassy Sgt. William Bradley. Sonchai is an unusual character on several levels, from the mysteries of his violent past to his conversations with the ghost of Pichai. His ambiguous feelings toward Kimberley Jones, an American FBI agent brought in to work the case, reflect his upbringing as the child of a Thai mother and an unknown American father. Above all else, however, Sonchai''s Buddhism permeates the text. An encounter with an embassy official, for example, leads to this unexpected reverie: "[She] is blithely unaware that she once accompanied me across a courtyard of startlingly similar dimensions, thousands of years ago." As Sonchai''s investigation brings him closer to Bradley''s companion, a woman known as Fatima, and the rich American jade dealer Sylvester Warren, his quest for revenge becomes muddied by the strangeness of his discoveries. The mix of detective work, Bangkok street life, the Thai sex trade and drug smuggling forms a powerful melange of images and insight. Despite an anti-climactic last chapter, the novel''s structure is solid. Sonchai''s fatalism, wry humor and dogged determination-his ability to be both vulnerable and strong-make him one of the more memorable characters in recent novel-length fiction. Readers expecting a traditional mystery structure would be advised to look elsewhere, but those who want something new will find Burdett''s novel an intriguing, fresh take on noir.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21414'),
(9876, 'Bangkok Haunts', 'John Burdett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n At the start of Burdett''s superb third mystery-thriller to feature Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep (after\n <em>\n  Bangkok 8\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Bangkok Tattoo\n </em>\n ), Jitpleecheep shows old friend Kimberley Jones, an American FBI agent, a vicious snuff film he''s received depicting the murder of an ex-lover of his named Damrong. Jitpleecheep and Jones maintain their complex platonic relationship as, helped by Jitpleecheep''s assistant Lek, they pursue Damrong''s killers. The trail leads them to an important banker, an American teacher, a Buddhist and an exclusive men''s club called the Parthenon. Jitpleecheep, who now lives with Chanya, a former prostitute pregnant with his child, is visited in an erotic way by Damrong''s ghost, while his corrupt superior, police colonel Vikorn, orders Jitpleecheep to help start a porn film business. Expertly juggling elements that in lesser hands would become confused or hackneyed, Burdett has created a haunting, powerful story that transcends genre.\n <em>\n  75,000 first printing; 6-city author tour. (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the hero of Burdettâ€™s Bangkok-based thrillers, is a unique police detective. A Buddhist as closely attuned to karma as to crime, Sonchai is profoundly aware that the latter is only an expression of the former, and, accordingly, he finds answers in places that logic-hampered Westerners would never know to look. In his third adventure to date, a murdered prostitute proves to beâ€”even more in death than she was in lifeâ€”a femme fatale of special magnitude. As in previous episodes, the pleasures derive less from Burdettâ€™s baroque plotting (in this case including former Khmer Rouge hired killers, a pornography ring debased even by Bangkok standards, and a death by torture involving elephants) than from the vivid portrait he paints of contemporary Thai life and mores.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2007\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4421'),
(9877, 'Bangkok Haunts', 'John Burdett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n At the start of Burdett''s superb third mystery-thriller to feature Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep (after\n <em>\n  Bangkok 8\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Bangkok Tattoo\n </em>\n ), Jitpleecheep shows old friend Kimberley Jones, an American FBI agent, a vicious snuff film he''s received depicting the murder of an ex-lover of his named Damrong. Jitpleecheep and Jones maintain their complex platonic relationship as, helped by Jitpleecheep''s assistant Lek, they pursue Damrong''s killers. The trail leads them to an important banker, an American teacher, a Buddhist and an exclusive men''s club called the Parthenon. Jitpleecheep, who now lives with Chanya, a former prostitute pregnant with his child, is visited in an erotic way by Damrong''s ghost, while his corrupt superior, police colonel Vikorn, orders Jitpleecheep to help start a porn film business. Expertly juggling elements that in lesser hands would become confused or hackneyed, Burdett has created a haunting, powerful story that transcends genre.\n <em>\n  75,000 first printing; 6-city author tour. (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the hero of Burdettâ€™s Bangkok-based thrillers, is a unique police detective. A Buddhist as closely attuned to karma as to crime, Sonchai is profoundly aware that the latter is only an expression of the former, and, accordingly, he finds answers in places that logic-hampered Westerners would never know to look. In his third adventure to date, a murdered prostitute proves to beâ€”even more in death than she was in lifeâ€”a femme fatale of special magnitude. As in previous episodes, the pleasures derive less from Burdettâ€™s baroque plotting (in this case including former Khmer Rouge hired killers, a pornography ring debased even by Bangkok standards, and a death by torture involving elephants) than from the vivid portrait he paints of contemporary Thai life and mores.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2007\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8689'),
(9878, 'Bangkok Haunts', 'John Burdett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n At the start of Burdett''s superb third mystery-thriller to feature Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep (after\n <em>\n  Bangkok 8\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Bangkok Tattoo\n </em>\n ), Jitpleecheep shows old friend Kimberley Jones, an American FBI agent, a vicious snuff film he''s received depicting the murder of an ex-lover of his named Damrong. Jitpleecheep and Jones maintain their complex platonic relationship as, helped by Jitpleecheep''s assistant Lek, they pursue Damrong''s killers. The trail leads them to an important banker, an American teacher, a Buddhist and an exclusive men''s club called the Parthenon. Jitpleecheep, who now lives with Chanya, a former prostitute pregnant with his child, is visited in an erotic way by Damrong''s ghost, while his corrupt superior, police colonel Vikorn, orders Jitpleecheep to help start a porn film business. Expertly juggling elements that in lesser hands would become confused or hackneyed, Burdett has created a haunting, powerful story that transcends genre.\n <em>\n  75,000 first printing; 6-city author tour. (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the hero of Burdettâ€™s Bangkok-based thrillers, is a unique police detective. A Buddhist as closely attuned to karma as to crime, Sonchai is profoundly aware that the latter is only an expression of the former, and, accordingly, he finds answers in places that logic-hampered Westerners would never know to look. In his third adventure to date, a murdered prostitute proves to beâ€”even more in death than she was in lifeâ€”a femme fatale of special magnitude. As in previous episodes, the pleasures derive less from Burdettâ€™s baroque plotting (in this case including former Khmer Rouge hired killers, a pornography ring debased even by Bangkok standards, and a death by torture involving elephants) than from the vivid portrait he paints of contemporary Thai life and mores.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2007\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21413'),
(9879, 'Banker', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Investment banker Tim Ekaterin thought arranging the purchase of a champion racehorse was a sure thing-but he never gambled on getting caught up in murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6005'),
(9880, 'Banker', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Investment banker Tim Ekaterin thought arranging the purchase of a champion racehorse was a sure thing-but he never gambled on getting caught up in murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9757'),
(9881, 'Banquet for the Damned', 'Adam Nevill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A hair-raising tribute to the classic British ghost story. Few believed Professor Coldwell was in touch with an unseen world and could commune with spirits. But in Scotlandâ€™s oldest university town something has passed from darkness into light, and now the students are being haunted by night terrors. And those who are visited mysteriously disappear. This is no place for outsiders, especially at night, so what chance do a rootless musician and burnt-out explorer have of surviving their entanglement with an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it? This chilling occult thriller is both a homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a fast-paced modern tale of diabolism and witchcraft.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/100'),
(9882, 'Banquet for the Damned', 'Adam Nevill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A hair-raising tribute to the classic British ghost story. Few believed Professor Coldwell was in touch with an unseen world and could commune with spirits. But in Scotlandâ€™s oldest university town something has passed from darkness into light, and now the students are being haunted by night terrors. And those who are visited mysteriously disappear. This is no place for outsiders, especially at night, so what chance do a rootless musician and burnt-out explorer have of surviving their entanglement with an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it? This chilling occult thriller is both a homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a fast-paced modern tale of diabolism and witchcraft.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11587'),
(9883, 'Banquet for the Damned', 'Adam Nevill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A hair-raising tribute to the classic British ghost story. Few believed Professor Coldwell was in touch with an unseen world and could commune with spirits. But in Scotlandâ€™s oldest university town something has passed from darkness into light, and now the students are being haunted by night terrors. And those who are visited mysteriously disappear. This is no place for outsiders, especially at night, so what chance do a rootless musician and burnt-out explorer have of surviving their entanglement with an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it? This chilling occult thriller is both a homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a fast-paced modern tale of diabolism and witchcraft.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17224'),
(9884, 'Banquets of the Black Widowers', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chronicles the adventures of a club of men, the Black Widowers, who meet once a month for dinner at the Milano restaurant and attempt to solve a series of puzzles\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25677'),
(9885, 'Barack and Michelle', 'Christopher P. Andersen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   "She is my rockâ€”the one person who keeps it real." â€”Barack\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "I don''t want anybody to think that it''s easy. . . . We have a strong marriage, but it''s not perfect." â€”Michelle\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  They exploded onto the world scene and within a matter of a few short years captured the ultimate political prize. In so doing, they became a First Couple like no other: Heâ€”the biracial son of a free-spirited Kansas-born woman and a mercurial Kenyan father who abandoned him at an early ageâ€”was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, educated at Columbia and Harvard, and launched his political career in America''s heartland. She, by contrast, was the product of a solidly middle-American family with roots planted firmly in Chicago''s working-class South Sideâ€”paving the way for her to achieve her dreams of an Ivy League education and a position at one of the nation''s top law firms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By the time they claimed the White House in one of the most hotly contested presidential races in modern history, Barack and Michelle Obama were seen by millions around the world as the new Jack and Jackie Kennedyâ€”brilliant, attractive, elegant, youthful,\n  <em>\n   exciting\n  </em>\n  . Accompanied by their two young daughters, Malia and Sasha, the Obamas would arrive at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the promise of a new Camelot all but assured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Given the obvious historic significance of what they have accomplished together, the marriage of Barack and Michelle stands as one of the great personal and political partnerships in American history. Yet, incredibly, the true nature of that relationship has remained a mystery. Until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the style of his No. 1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   The Day Diana Died\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Day John Died\n  </em>\n  , as well as his bestselling books about the Kennedys, the Clintons, and the Bushes, author Christopher Andersen draws on important sourcesâ€”some speaking here for the first timeâ€”to paint the first complete, compelling portrait of America''s first black First Family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among the many intriguing insights and stunning revelations:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    New behind-the-scenes details of the Obamas'' courtship and marriageâ€”and the lovers who went before.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The early tragedies that shaped both Barack''s and Michelle''s personalities, and how those events haunt them to this day. Also, new information about Barack''s rootless childhood, at times tortured adolescence, and the true extent of his early drug use.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How Barack''s ambition put a strain on their relationship from the very beginning, how close the Obamas really came to breaking up, and how Michelle made the difficult decision that saved their marriage.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The little-known near-tragedy that brought Barack and Michelle closer than they had ever been.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How Michelle may have saved her husband''s presidential campaign, and her surprising behind-the-scenes role as the president''s chief advisor.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The pressures and delights of raising two young girls in the relentless glare of the media, and how, like Jack and Jackie Kennedy before them, Barack and Michelle strive to make the lives of America''s two most famous children as "normal" as possible.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage\n  </em>\n  is an intimate and ultimately riveting look at their unique partnership, and the humor, faith, fortitude, and grace that defines it. It is, above all, an extraordinary American love story.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christopher Andersen is the critically acclaimed author of twenty-eight books, which have been translated into more than twenty-five languages worldwide. A former contributing editor of\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine and senior editor of\n  <em>\n   People\n  </em>\n  magazine, Andersen has also written hundreds of articles for a wide range of publications, including\n  <em>\n   Life\n  </em>\n  magazine, the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Vanity Fair\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6702'),
(9886, 'Barack and Michelle', 'Christopher P. Andersen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   "She is my rockâ€”the one person who keeps it real." â€”Barack\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "I don''t want anybody to think that it''s easy. . . . We have a strong marriage, but it''s not perfect." â€”Michelle\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  They exploded onto the world scene and within a matter of a few short years captured the ultimate political prize. In so doing, they became a First Couple like no other: Heâ€”the biracial son of a free-spirited Kansas-born woman and a mercurial Kenyan father who abandoned him at an early ageâ€”was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, educated at Columbia and Harvard, and launched his political career in America''s heartland. She, by contrast, was the product of a solidly middle-American family with roots planted firmly in Chicago''s working-class South Sideâ€”paving the way for her to achieve her dreams of an Ivy League education and a position at one of the nation''s top law firms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By the time they claimed the White House in one of the most hotly contested presidential races in modern history, Barack and Michelle Obama were seen by millions around the world as the new Jack and Jackie Kennedyâ€”brilliant, attractive, elegant, youthful,\n  <em>\n   exciting\n  </em>\n  . Accompanied by their two young daughters, Malia and Sasha, the Obamas would arrive at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the promise of a new Camelot all but assured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Given the obvious historic significance of what they have accomplished together, the marriage of Barack and Michelle stands as one of the great personal and political partnerships in American history. Yet, incredibly, the true nature of that relationship has remained a mystery. Until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the style of his No. 1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   The Day Diana Died\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Day John Died\n  </em>\n  , as well as his bestselling books about the Kennedys, the Clintons, and the Bushes, author Christopher Andersen draws on important sourcesâ€”some speaking here for the first timeâ€”to paint the first complete, compelling portrait of America''s first black First Family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among the many intriguing insights and stunning revelations:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    New behind-the-scenes details of the Obamas'' courtship and marriageâ€”and the lovers who went before.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The early tragedies that shaped both Barack''s and Michelle''s personalities, and how those events haunt them to this day. Also, new information about Barack''s rootless childhood, at times tortured adolescence, and the true extent of his early drug use.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How Barack''s ambition put a strain on their relationship from the very beginning, how close the Obamas really came to breaking up, and how Michelle made the difficult decision that saved their marriage.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The little-known near-tragedy that brought Barack and Michelle closer than they had ever been.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How Michelle may have saved her husband''s presidential campaign, and her surprising behind-the-scenes role as the president''s chief advisor.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The pressures and delights of raising two young girls in the relentless glare of the media, and how, like Jack and Jackie Kennedy before them, Barack and Michelle strive to make the lives of America''s two most famous children as "normal" as possible.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage\n  </em>\n  is an intimate and ultimately riveting look at their unique partnership, and the humor, faith, fortitude, and grace that defines it. It is, above all, an extraordinary American love story.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christopher Andersen is the critically acclaimed author of twenty-eight books, which have been translated into more than twenty-five languages worldwide. A former contributing editor of\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine and senior editor of\n  <em>\n   People\n  </em>\n  magazine, Andersen has also written hundreds of articles for a wide range of publications, including\n  <em>\n   Life\n  </em>\n  magazine, the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Vanity Fair\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8214'),
(9887, 'Barack and Michelle', 'Christopher P. Andersen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   "She is my rockâ€”the one person who keeps it real." â€”Barack\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   "I don''t want anybody to think that it''s easy. . . . We have a strong marriage, but it''s not perfect." â€”Michelle\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  They exploded onto the world scene and within a matter of a few short years captured the ultimate political prize. In so doing, they became a First Couple like no other: Heâ€”the biracial son of a free-spirited Kansas-born woman and a mercurial Kenyan father who abandoned him at an early ageâ€”was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, educated at Columbia and Harvard, and launched his political career in America''s heartland. She, by contrast, was the product of a solidly middle-American family with roots planted firmly in Chicago''s working-class South Sideâ€”paving the way for her to achieve her dreams of an Ivy League education and a position at one of the nation''s top law firms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By the time they claimed the White House in one of the most hotly contested presidential races in modern history, Barack and Michelle Obama were seen by millions around the world as the new Jack and Jackie Kennedyâ€”brilliant, attractive, elegant, youthful,\n  <em>\n   exciting\n  </em>\n  . Accompanied by their two young daughters, Malia and Sasha, the Obamas would arrive at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the promise of a new Camelot all but assured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Given the obvious historic significance of what they have accomplished together, the marriage of Barack and Michelle stands as one of the great personal and political partnerships in American history. Yet, incredibly, the true nature of that relationship has remained a mystery. Until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the style of his No. 1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   The Day Diana Died\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Day John Died\n  </em>\n  , as well as his bestselling books about the Kennedys, the Clintons, and the Bushes, author Christopher Andersen draws on important sourcesâ€”some speaking here for the first timeâ€”to paint the first complete, compelling portrait of America''s first black First Family.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among the many intriguing insights and stunning revelations:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    New behind-the-scenes details of the Obamas'' courtship and marriageâ€”and the lovers who went before.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The early tragedies that shaped both Barack''s and Michelle''s personalities, and how those events haunt them to this day. Also, new information about Barack''s rootless childhood, at times tortured adolescence, and the true extent of his early drug use.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How Barack''s ambition put a strain on their relationship from the very beginning, how close the Obamas really came to breaking up, and how Michelle made the difficult decision that saved their marriage.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The little-known near-tragedy that brought Barack and Michelle closer than they had ever been.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    How Michelle may have saved her husband''s presidential campaign, and her surprising behind-the-scenes role as the president''s chief advisor.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The pressures and delights of raising two young girls in the relentless glare of the media, and how, like Jack and Jackie Kennedy before them, Barack and Michelle strive to make the lives of America''s two most famous children as "normal" as possible.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage\n  </em>\n  is an intimate and ultimately riveting look at their unique partnership, and the humor, faith, fortitude, and grace that defines it. It is, above all, an extraordinary American love story.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christopher Andersen is the critically acclaimed author of twenty-eight books, which have been translated into more than twenty-five languages worldwide. A former contributing editor of\n  <em>\n   Time\n  </em>\n  magazine and senior editor of\n  <em>\n   People\n  </em>\n  magazine, Andersen has also written hundreds of articles for a wide range of publications, including\n  <em>\n   Life\n  </em>\n  magazine, the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Vanity Fair\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18052'),
(9888, 'Bardisms', 'Barry Edelstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n William Shakespeare''s plays and poetry make up a vast repository of wit and wisdom, of insight and passion. For the momentous events in our livesâ€”the ones that call for some memorable remarks or a great toastâ€”the Bard is the perfect speechwriter. On any occasion, chances are there''s a Shakespeare quote that''s fitting. The challenge, of course, is finding the right one.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Enter Barry Edelstein. One of the top Shakespeare directors and teachers in the country, he can help you pick the perfect "Bardism," pronounce it with style, and craft an elegant speech, talk, or missive around it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Bardisms* provides the best of Shakespeare''s wisdom, with passages that mark the special times as well as the everyday:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A wedding vow: "To you I give myself, for I am yours." â€”*As You Like It*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For your darling little girl: "You gods, look down / And from your sacred vials pour your graces / Upon my daughter''s head." â€”*The Winter''s Tale*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Birthday greeting: "To me, fair friend, you can never be old;" â€”*Sonnet 104*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Time to party: "Let''s mock the midnight bell." â€”*Antony and Cleopatra*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On reputation: "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, / Is the immediate jewel of their souls." â€”*Othello*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Edelstein takes the reader step by step through each Shakespeare quote, providing eminently helpful tips for speaking the lines like a pro. The book is organized chronologically, covering all stages of lifeâ€”from childbirth to commencement, marriage, the workplace, old age, and all the significant events in between.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Bardisms* celebrates Shakespeare''s genius with a wealth of fascinating tidbits about his life and times, his work and his art. Edelstein explores what it is about Shakespeare''s writing that makes it so fitting for important moments: his perfect balance of wit and sentimentality; his boundless imagination; his ability to express emotion at its purest; and his talent for communicating a complex thought in vivid and energetic terms.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Most of all, *Bardisms* makes Shakespeare infinitely more accessible, lending a freshness and vitality to his writing and fostering a new appreciation for its usefulness in our lives. For anyone struggling to come up with the perfect words, in any situation, *Bardisms* is the ultimate resource.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7273');
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(9889, 'Bardisms', 'Barry Edelstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n William Shakespeare''s plays and poetry make up a vast repository of wit and wisdom, of insight and passion. For the momentous events in our livesâ€”the ones that call for some memorable remarks or a great toastâ€”the Bard is the perfect speechwriter. On any occasion, chances are there''s a Shakespeare quote that''s fitting. The challenge, of course, is finding the right one.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Enter Barry Edelstein. One of the top Shakespeare directors and teachers in the country, he can help you pick the perfect "Bardism," pronounce it with style, and craft an elegant speech, talk, or missive around it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Bardisms* provides the best of Shakespeare''s wisdom, with passages that mark the special times as well as the everyday:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A wedding vow: "To you I give myself, for I am yours." â€”*As You Like It*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For your darling little girl: "You gods, look down / And from your sacred vials pour your graces / Upon my daughter''s head." â€”*The Winter''s Tale*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Birthday greeting: "To me, fair friend, you can never be old;" â€”*Sonnet 104*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Time to party: "Let''s mock the midnight bell." â€”*Antony and Cleopatra*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On reputation: "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, / Is the immediate jewel of their souls." â€”*Othello*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Edelstein takes the reader step by step through each Shakespeare quote, providing eminently helpful tips for speaking the lines like a pro. The book is organized chronologically, covering all stages of lifeâ€”from childbirth to commencement, marriage, the workplace, old age, and all the significant events in between.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Bardisms* celebrates Shakespeare''s genius with a wealth of fascinating tidbits about his life and times, his work and his art. Edelstein explores what it is about Shakespeare''s writing that makes it so fitting for important moments: his perfect balance of wit and sentimentality; his boundless imagination; his ability to express emotion at its purest; and his talent for communicating a complex thought in vivid and energetic terms.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Most of all, *Bardisms* makes Shakespeare infinitely more accessible, lending a freshness and vitality to his writing and fostering a new appreciation for its usefulness in our lives. For anyone struggling to come up with the perfect words, in any situation, *Bardisms* is the ultimate resource.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10857'),
(9890, 'Bardisms', 'Barry Edelstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: William Shakespeare''s plays and poetry make up a vast repository of wit and wisdom, of insight and passion. For the momentous events in our livesâ€”the ones that call for some memorable remarks or a great toastâ€”the Bard is the perfect speechwriter. On any occasion, chances are there''s a Shakespeare quote that''s fitting. The challenge, of course, is finding the right one. Enter Barry Edelstein. One of the top Shakespeare directors and teachers in the country, he can help you pick the perfect "Bardism," pronounce it with style, and craft an elegant speech, talk, or missive around it. *Bardisms* provides the best of Shakespeare''s wisdom, with passages that mark the special times as well as the everyday: A wedding vow: "To you I give myself, for I am yours." â€”*As You Like It* For your darling little girl: "You gods, look down / And from your sacred vials pour your graces / Upon my daughter''s head." â€”*The Winter''s Tale* Birthday greeting: "To me, fair friend, you can never be old;" â€”*Sonnet 104* Time to party: "Let''s mock the midnight bell." â€”*Antony and Cleopatra* On reputation: "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, / Is the immediate jewel of their souls." â€”*Othello* Edelstein takes the reader step by step through each Shakespeare quote, providing eminently helpful tips for speaking the lines like a pro. The book is organized chronologically, covering all stages of lifeâ€”from childbirth to commencement, marriage, the workplace, old age, and all the significant events in between. *Bardisms* celebrates Shakespeare''s genius with a wealth of fascinating tidbits about his life and times, his work and his art. Edelstein explores what it is about Shakespeare''s writing that makes it so fitting for important moments: his perfect balance of wit and sentimentality; his boundless imagination; his ability to express emotion at its purest; and his talent for communicating a complex thought in vivid and energetic terms. Most of all, *Bardisms* makes Shakespeare infinitely more accessible, lending a freshness and vitality to his writing and fostering a new appreciation for its usefulness in our lives. For anyone struggling to come up with the perfect words, in any situation, *Bardisms* is the ultimate resource.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16593'),
(9891, 'Bardisms', 'Barry Edelstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: William Shakespeare''s plays and poetry make up a vast repository of wit and wisdom, of insight and passion. For the momentous events in our livesâ€”the ones that call for some memorable remarks or a great toastâ€”the Bard is the perfect speechwriter. On any occasion, chances are there''s a Shakespeare quote that''s fitting. The challenge, of course, is finding the right one. Enter Barry Edelstein. One of the top Shakespeare directors and teachers in the country, he can help you pick the perfect "Bardism," pronounce it with style, and craft an elegant speech, talk, or missive around it. *Bardisms* provides the best of Shakespeare''s wisdom, with passages that mark the special times as well as the everyday: A wedding vow: "To you I give myself, for I am yours." â€”*As You Like It* For your darling little girl: "You gods, look down / And from your sacred vials pour your graces / Upon my daughter''s head." â€”*The Winter''s Tale* Birthday greeting: "To me, fair friend, you can never be old;" â€”*Sonnet 104* Time to party: "Let''s mock the midnight bell." â€”*Antony and Cleopatra* On reputation: "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, / Is the immediate jewel of their souls." â€”*Othello* Edelstein takes the reader step by step through each Shakespeare quote, providing eminently helpful tips for speaking the lines like a pro. The book is organized chronologically, covering all stages of lifeâ€”from childbirth to commencement, marriage, the workplace, old age, and all the significant events in between. *Bardisms* celebrates Shakespeare''s genius with a wealth of fascinating tidbits about his life and times, his work and his art. Edelstein explores what it is about Shakespeare''s writing that makes it so fitting for important moments: his perfect balance of wit and sentimentality; his boundless imagination; his ability to express emotion at its purest; and his talent for communicating a complex thought in vivid and energetic terms. Most of all, *Bardisms* makes Shakespeare infinitely more accessible, lending a freshness and vitality to his writing and fostering a new appreciation for its usefulness in our lives. For anyone struggling to come up with the perfect words, in any situation, *Bardisms* is the ultimate resource.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26565'),
(9892, 'Bare Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   "As I was packaging what remained of the dead baby, the man I would kill was burning pavement north toward Charlotte."\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  With this opening sentence, Kathy Reichs serves notice that her heroine, Temperance Brennan, is in for one of her scariest, most gruesome adventures yet. As fans of this\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reichs knows how to keep the narrative ball rolling with a canny mix of plot developments, character delineation, and scientific detail, all relayed in Tempe''s smart, breezy, sarcastic voice. In fact,\n  <em>\n   Bare Bones\n  </em>\n  has a few\n  <em>\n   too\n  </em>\n  many characters and plot lines for Reichs--or most readers--to keep perfect track of. But it''s a fun ride anyway, enlivened by some steamy romantic scenes and some fascinating, appalling information about the illicit trade in endangered wildlife (did you know that bears'' gall bladders fetch more money per ounce than cocaine?).\n  <em>\n   Bare Bones\n  </em>\n  is a crisp, enjoyable read that cements Kathy Reichs''s standing as the best forensic-thriller writer at work today.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Feisty forensic anthropologist Temperance (Tempe) Brennan is supposed to be on vacation, but body parts keep turning up. At the start of her sixth adventure, she''s awaiting the arrival of her current flame, Quebecois sleuth Andrew Ryan, so she can head for the beach near her hometown of Charlotte, N.C. Before he shows up, she''s called in to use her world-class forensics skills when a local janitor''s infant granddaughter is found dead and charred in an oven. Then some strange, decomposing remains ("\n  <code>\n   Human?''\n  </code>\n  I''m not sure'' ") are discovered by Brennan''s dog during a barbecue at a local lakeside resort. Ryan finally arrives, but Brennan''s vacation is indefinitely put on hold when a small plane crashes nearby. Two people are dead, and her expertise is required yet again ("The skull had suffered massive communitive fracturing on impact. The fire had done the rest"). Brennan eventually realizes that all three cases are linked to a drug-smuggling ring that also dabbles in poaching exotic animals. As she pursues her investigations, she is forced to work with "Skinny" Slidell, a redneck cop who rubs her the wrong way, but tension is defused by the presence of Ryan, who gamely gives up his vacation to pitch in. He matches Brennan quip for quip, and Tempe''s dog, Boyd, provides extra comic relief. Reichs has built a reputation on cut-to-the-chase writing and swift plotting, and this latest effort delivers everything her fans have come to expect.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13795'),
(9893, 'Bare Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   "As I was packaging what remained of the dead baby, the man I would kill was burning pavement north toward Charlotte."\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  With this opening sentence, Kathy Reichs serves notice that her heroine, Temperance Brennan, is in for one of her scariest, most gruesome adventures yet. As fans of this\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reichs knows how to keep the narrative ball rolling with a canny mix of plot developments, character delineation, and scientific detail, all relayed in Tempe''s smart, breezy, sarcastic voice. In fact,\n  <em>\n   Bare Bones\n  </em>\n  has a few\n  <em>\n   too\n  </em>\n  many characters and plot lines for Reichs--or most readers--to keep perfect track of. But it''s a fun ride anyway, enlivened by some steamy romantic scenes and some fascinating, appalling information about the illicit trade in endangered wildlife (did you know that bears'' gall bladders fetch more money per ounce than cocaine?).\n  <em>\n   Bare Bones\n  </em>\n  is a crisp, enjoyable read that cements Kathy Reichs''s standing as the best forensic-thriller writer at work today.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Feisty forensic anthropologist Temperance (Tempe) Brennan is supposed to be on vacation, but body parts keep turning up. At the start of her sixth adventure, she''s awaiting the arrival of her current flame, Quebecois sleuth Andrew Ryan, so she can head for the beach near her hometown of Charlotte, N.C. Before he shows up, she''s called in to use her world-class forensics skills when a local janitor''s infant granddaughter is found dead and charred in an oven. Then some strange, decomposing remains ("\n  <code>\n   Human?''\n  </code>\n  I''m not sure'' ") are discovered by Brennan''s dog during a barbecue at a local lakeside resort. Ryan finally arrives, but Brennan''s vacation is indefinitely put on hold when a small plane crashes nearby. Two people are dead, and her expertise is required yet again ("The skull had suffered massive communitive fracturing on impact. The fire had done the rest"). Brennan eventually realizes that all three cases are linked to a drug-smuggling ring that also dabbles in poaching exotic animals. As she pursues her investigations, she is forced to work with "Skinny" Slidell, a redneck cop who rubs her the wrong way, but tension is defused by the presence of Ryan, who gamely gives up his vacation to pitch in. He matches Brennan quip for quip, and Tempe''s dog, Boyd, provides extra comic relief. Reichs has built a reputation on cut-to-the-chase writing and swift plotting, and this latest effort delivers everything her fans have come to expect.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20620'),
(9894, 'The Barefoot Running Book', 'Jason Robillard &amp; Dirk Wierenga (Editor)', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jason Robillard is a master at teaching people the art and science of barefoot running. His book is highly motivating, and gives you the skills to go as far as you want. --Dr. Michael Nirenberg\n</p>\n<p>\n An invaluable guide by one of the experts in the field of barefoot and minimalist shoe running. --Dr. Joseph Froncioni\n</p>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book is a no-nonsense approach to barefoot running recommended for anyone wanting to ditch their over-padded trainers and to learn what their feet have been "dying" to tell them! --Barefoot Rick Roeber\n</p>\n<p>\n An invaluable guide by one of the experts in the field of barefoot and minimalist shoe running. --Dr. Joseph Froncioni\n</p>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book is a no-nonsense approach to barefoot running recommended for anyone wanting to ditch their over-padded trainers and to learn what their feet have been "dying" to tell them! --Barefoot Rick Roeber\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book (second edition) provides expert advice for new and experienced runners interested in making the transition to barefoot or minimalist shoe running. Why? Because runners find shedding their heavy, overly-cushioned shoes provides a more enjoyable running experience while reducing injury and allowing better form. Jason Robillard uses a combination of research, collaboration, and his own experiences to bring the latest methods for making a safe, enjoyable transition to barefoot or minimalist shoe running. This new expanded second edition includes training plans, information on ultramarathons, photos, tested running tips and helpful hints. Includes contributions from top barefoot runners and experts including Barefoot Ted McDonald, Barefoot Rick Roeber, Dr. Daniel Lieberman, Dr. Michael Nirenberg, Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, Dr. Scott Hadley, Dr. Joseph Froncioni, and many more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4573'),
(9895, 'The Barefoot Running Book', 'Jason Robillard &amp; Dirk Wierenga (Editor)', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jason Robillard is a master at teaching people the art and science of barefoot running. His book is highly motivating, and gives you the skills to go as far as you want. --Dr. Michael Nirenberg\n</p>\n<p>\n An invaluable guide by one of the experts in the field of barefoot and minimalist shoe running. --Dr. Joseph Froncioni\n</p>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book is a no-nonsense approach to barefoot running recommended for anyone wanting to ditch their over-padded trainers and to learn what their feet have been "dying" to tell them! --Barefoot Rick Roeber\n</p>\n<p>\n An invaluable guide by one of the experts in the field of barefoot and minimalist shoe running. --Dr. Joseph Froncioni\n</p>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book is a no-nonsense approach to barefoot running recommended for anyone wanting to ditch their over-padded trainers and to learn what their feet have been "dying" to tell them! --Barefoot Rick Roeber\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book (second edition) provides expert advice for new and experienced runners interested in making the transition to barefoot or minimalist shoe running. Why? Because runners find shedding their heavy, overly-cushioned shoes provides a more enjoyable running experience while reducing injury and allowing better form. Jason Robillard uses a combination of research, collaboration, and his own experiences to bring the latest methods for making a safe, enjoyable transition to barefoot or minimalist shoe running. This new expanded second edition includes training plans, information on ultramarathons, photos, tested running tips and helpful hints. Includes contributions from top barefoot runners and experts including Barefoot Ted McDonald, Barefoot Rick Roeber, Dr. Daniel Lieberman, Dr. Michael Nirenberg, Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, Dr. Scott Hadley, Dr. Joseph Froncioni, and many more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13499'),
(9896, 'The Barefoot Running Book: A Practical Guide to the Art and Science of Barefoot and Minimalist Shoe Running', 'Jason Robillard; Dirk Wierenga (Editor)', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jason Robillard is a master at teaching people the art and science of barefoot running. His book is highly motivating, and gives you the skills to go as far as you want. --Dr. Michael Nirenberg\n</p>\n<p>\n An invaluable guide by one of the experts in the field of barefoot and minimalist shoe running. --Dr. Joseph Froncioni\n</p>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book is a no-nonsense approach to barefoot running recommended for anyone wanting to ditch their over-padded trainers and to learn what their feet have been "dying" to tell them! --Barefoot Rick Roeber\n</p>\n<p>\n An invaluable guide by one of the experts in the field of barefoot and minimalist shoe running. --Dr. Joseph Froncioni\n</p>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book is a no-nonsense approach to barefoot running recommended for anyone wanting to ditch their over-padded trainers and to learn what their feet have been "dying" to tell them! --Barefoot Rick Roeber\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Barefoot Running Book (second edition) provides expert advice for new and experienced runners interested in making the transition to barefoot or minimalist shoe running. Why? Because runners find shedding their heavy, overly-cushioned shoes provides a more enjoyable running experience while reducing injury and allowing better form. Jason Robillard uses a combination of research, collaboration, and his own experiences to bring the latest methods for making a safe, enjoyable transition to barefoot or minimalist shoe running. This new expanded second edition includes training plans, information on ultramarathons, photos, tested running tips and helpful hints. Includes contributions from top barefoot runners and experts including Barefoot Ted McDonald, Barefoot Rick Roeber, Dr. Daniel Lieberman, Dr. Michael Nirenberg, Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, Dr. Scott Hadley, Dr. Joseph Froncioni, and many more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18170'),
(9897, 'Barefoot Running Step by Step: Barefoot Ken Bob, the Guru of Shoeless Running, Shares His Personal Technique for Running With More Speed, Less Impact, Fewer Injuries and More Fun', 'Roy Wallack &amp; Ken Bob Saxton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Barefoot running has garnered lots of attention due to the mega-bestseller\n <em>\n  Born to Run\n </em>\n while products like the VibramÂ® FiveFinger Shoes have tripled in sales and top athletic companies like NikeÂ® and AdidasÂ® are declaring barefoot running the next big thing. However, barefoot running involves more than simply taking off your shoes and hitting the track and\n <em>\n  Barefoot Running Step by Step\n </em>\n teaches runners how to train their feet and body to run barefoot properly and in a way that will dramatically reduce injuries.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Barefoot Running Step by Step\n </em>\n separates the facts from the hype covering the latest research and running techniques behind this key trend. Written by noted barefoot runner and instructor Ken Bob Saxton and running journalist Roy Wallack this guide outlines proper techniques for running barefoot properly and incorporating the practice into their running regimen for a better stride, longer endurance, and fewer injuries. Barefoot Running Step by Step is the most comprehensive book on the hottest athletic trend.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Barefoot Ken Bob is The Master. Long before anyone else was even talking about barefoot running, he was perfecting the art . . . Now, after twenty years of teaching, experimenting, and "merry marathoning" (as he calls it), the first and best source of barefoot-running knowledge is bringing his ideas to print. And it''s about time."\n <br />\n --\n <strong>\n  Christopher McDougall\n </strong>\n , author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ken Bob Saxton, a pioneer of the modern barefoot running movement, has logged more miles in his birthday shoes than just about anyone I know, and he has helped countless people run barefoot. As one would expect, this delightful book, full of wit and wisdom, is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to run barefoot, avoid injury, and have fun."\n <br />\n --\n <strong>\n  Daniel E. Lieberman\n </strong>\n , professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Learn Barefoot Running from the Master!\n </strong>\n Almost overnight, barefoot running has exploded onto the fitness scene. However, it involves more than simply taking off your shoes. In fact, everything you''ve learned about barefoot running is probably wrong--unless you''ve learned it from Barefoot Ken Bob Saxton. The leading instructor and proponent of unshod running, he has completed seventy-six marathons barefoot, survived an astounding marathon-a-month challenge in 2004, and gone on to top that with sixteen marathons in 2006, including four in a fifteen-day period--all barefoot. Barefoot Running Step by Step separates the facts from the hype, outlines Ken Bob''s personal techniques, and details the latest research on the newest trend in mankind''s oldest sport. Whether you run barefoot occasionally, part-time, or full-time, you''ll find methods for improving your form, staying injury-free, dramatically improving your speed and performance, and having more fun.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Ease into it:\n </strong>\n The steps you need to make the transition from running in shoes to barefoot running as painless and easy as possible.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Improve Speed:\n </strong>\n Barefoot running''s injury reduction benefits are well-touted; however a new landmark study proves that barefooting--even part-time--can make you faster.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  The Bent Knee:\n </strong>\n The hidden secret to perfect running form. How this crucial adjustment will keep you running stronger and injury-free for life.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Vibrams and Minimalist Shoes\n </strong>\n : Barefoot running is not a transition from shoes to minimalist shoes to bare feet. It''s the other way around. Why you need to run barefoot before you use other footwear.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Start From the Head:\n </strong>\n Proper barefoot form doesn''t start at the feet. Discover how to get the correct body biomechanics.\n</p>\n<p>\n Barefoot Running Step by Step is filled with series photos and illustrations that show you the "do''s" and "don''ts" of barefoot running, the latest research, and Ken Bob Saxton''s personal experiences and insights for running barefoot for life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12318'),
(9898, 'Barefoot Running: How to Run Light and Free by Getting in Touch With the Earth', 'Michael Sandler &amp; Jessica Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Enjoy the insights this book has to offer -- It is about form, joy and the love of running. Run Free!" - Micah True, AKA Caballo Blanco.\n</p>\n<p>\n As seen nationally on TV, radio and in print, Barefoot Running is the original, most comprehensive guide to barefoot running, written by best-selling author and running coach Michael Sandler, who has coached and inspired thousands of runners, walkers, and hikers nationwide.\n</p>\n<p>\n After a near-death accident left him with a titanium femur and hip along with 10 knee operations, no ACL, and an inch leg-length discrepancy, former professional athlete and Olympic hopeful Michael Sandler was told he could never run again. It was only by going barefoot and feeling the ground, he began to heal as he learned how to run light and free. He now runs pain free 10-20 miles a day and in all conditions. His step-by-step method helps runners overcome injuries, find their natural form and rediscover the pure joy of running, no matter their age, history, or fitness level.\n</p>\n<p>\n Co-Author Jessica Lee hated running and nagging knee pain and swore off running until the day she went barefoot. Now she helps women experience the joy of running barefoot (and pain free) nationwide.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written to help people get into running, back into running, or run pain free and at your best at any age, Michael Sandler''s inspirational book and step-by-step guide is an easy to read bible of information and a must read for any runner. Barefoot Running is the how-to-guide that picks up where Christopher McDougall''s inspiring book Born to Run left off. If you liked Born to Run, you''ll love Barefoot Running.\n</p>\n<p>\n Topics include: Barefoot Running for Kids, for Seniors, choosing footwear, transitioning safely, cold-weather running and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You are holding in your hands a book as exhaustive and accurate of a description of barefoot running as you could ever hope for." - Barefoot Ted\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael Sandler is a best-selling author, and an internationally recognized barefoot running and walking coach, teaching thousands of runners, walkers, and hikers of all abilities. He has coached athletes professionally for nearly 20 years. After a near-death accident in 2006, he was told he was lucky to keep his leg and that he would never run again. With a titanium femur and hip, it was only through barefoot running and the lessons learned on the trails that he was able to heal and run again. With co-author Jessica Lee, they teach people how to rediscover the bliss of pain-free running. Together, they are cofounders of RunBare Company, a barefoot running school based out of Boulder, Colorado.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Sandler is a best selling author, barefoot running and walking coach. He has coached professionally for nearly 20 years. After a nearl-fatal accident he was told that he would be lucky to keep functioning legs and that he would not run again. With an implanted titanium femur and hip, it was only through barefoot running, and lessons learned on the trails that he was able to heal and run again.\n</p>\n<p>\n With coauthor Jessica Lee, they travel around the world, teaching people how to discover the joy of running.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2815'),
(9899, 'Barefoot Running: How to Run Light and Free by Getting in Touch With the Earth', 'Michael Sandler &amp; Jessica Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Enjoy the insights this book has to offer -- It is about form, joy and the love of running. Run Free!" - Micah True, AKA Caballo Blanco.\n</p>\n<p>\n As seen nationally on TV, radio and in print, Barefoot Running is the original, most comprehensive guide to barefoot running, written by best-selling author and running coach Michael Sandler, who has coached and inspired thousands of runners, walkers, and hikers nationwide.\n</p>\n<p>\n After a near-death accident left him with a titanium femur and hip along with 10 knee operations, no ACL, and an inch leg-length discrepancy, former professional athlete and Olympic hopeful Michael Sandler was told he could never run again. It was only by going barefoot and feeling the ground, he began to heal as he learned how to run light and free. He now runs pain free 10-20 miles a day and in all conditions. His step-by-step method helps runners overcome injuries, find their natural form and rediscover the pure joy of running, no matter their age, history, or fitness level.\n</p>\n<p>\n Co-Author Jessica Lee hated running and nagging knee pain and swore off running until the day she went barefoot. Now she helps women experience the joy of running barefoot (and pain free) nationwide.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written to help people get into running, back into running, or run pain free and at your best at any age, Michael Sandler''s inspirational book and step-by-step guide is an easy to read bible of information and a must read for any runner. Barefoot Running is the how-to-guide that picks up where Christopher McDougall''s inspiring book Born to Run left off. If you liked Born to Run, you''ll love Barefoot Running.\n</p>\n<p>\n Topics include: Barefoot Running for Kids, for Seniors, choosing footwear, transitioning safely, cold-weather running and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You are holding in your hands a book as exhaustive and accurate of a description of barefoot running as you could ever hope for." - Barefoot Ted\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael Sandler is a best-selling author, and an internationally recognized barefoot running and walking coach, teaching thousands of runners, walkers, and hikers of all abilities. He has coached athletes professionally for nearly 20 years. After a near-death accident in 2006, he was told he was lucky to keep his leg and that he would never run again. With a titanium femur and hip, it was only through barefoot running and the lessons learned on the trails that he was able to heal and run again. With co-author Jessica Lee, they teach people how to rediscover the bliss of pain-free running. Together, they are cofounders of RunBare Company, a barefoot running school based out of Boulder, Colorado.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michael Sandler is a best selling author, barefoot running and walking coach. He has coached professionally for nearly 20 years. After a nearl-fatal accident he was told that he would be lucky to keep functioning legs and that he would not run again. With an implanted titanium femur and hip, it was only through barefoot running, and lessons learned on the trails that he was able to heal and run again.\n</p>\n<p>\n With coauthor Jessica Lee, they travel around the world, teaching people how to discover the joy of running.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12465'),
(9900, 'Barefoot Running: How to Run Light and Free by Getting in Touch With the Earth', 'Michael Sandler; Jessica Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Enjoy the insights this book has to offer -- It is about form, joy and the love of running. Run Free!" - Micah True, AKA Caballo Blanco.\n</p>\n<p>\n As seen nationally on TV, radio and in print, Barefoot Running is the original, most comprehensive guide to barefoot running, written by best-selling author and running coach Michael Sandler, who has coached and inspired thousands of runners, walkers, and hikers nationwide.\n</p>\n<p>\n After a near-death accident left him with a titanium femur and hip along with 10 knee operations, no ACL, and an inch leg-length discrepancy, former professional athlete and Olympic hopeful Michael Sandler was told he could never run again. It was only by going barefoot and feeling the ground, he began to heal as he learned how to run light and free. He now runs pain free 10-20 miles a day and in all conditions. His step-by-step method helps runners overcome injuries, find their natural form and rediscover the pure joy of running, no matter their age, history, or fitness level.\n</p>\n<p>\n Co-Author Jessica Lee hated running and nagging knee pain and swore off running until the day she went barefoot. Now she helps women experience the joy of running barefoot (and pain free) nationwide.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written to help people get into running, back into running, or run pain free and at your best at any age, Michael Sandler''s inspirational book and step-by-step guide is an easy to read bible of information and a must read for any runner. Barefoot Running is the how-to-guide that picks up where Christopher McDougall''s inspiring book Born to Run left off. If you liked Born to Run, you''ll love Barefoot Running.\n</p>\n<p>\n Topics include: Barefoot Running for Kids, for Seniors, choosing footwear, transitioning safely, cold-weather running and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You are holding in your hands a book as exhaustive and accurate of a description of barefoot running as you could ever hope for." - Barefoot Ted\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael Sandler is a best-selling author, and an internationally recognized barefoot running and walking coach, teaching thousands of runners, walkers, and hikers of all abilities. He has coached athletes professionally for nearly 20 years. After a near-death accident in 2006, he was told he was lucky to keep his leg and that he would never run again. With a titanium femur and hip, it was only through barefoot running and the lessons learned on the trails that he was able to heal and run again. With co-author Jessica Lee, they teach people how to rediscover the bliss of pain-free running. Together, they are cofounders of RunBare Company, a barefoot running school based out of Boulder, Colorado.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22067'),
(9901, 'Barrayar', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Following her marriage to the notorious "Butcher of Komarr" - Lord Aral Vorkosigan - Captain Cordelia Naismith has become an outcast in her own world. Sick of combat and betrayal, she prepares to settle down to a quiet life on Barrayar. At least, that was the plan...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20030'),
(9902, 'Barrel Fever', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In David Sedaris''s world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris''s collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the American Zeitgeist: a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tried to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; and in his essays, David Sedaris considers the hazards of rewards of smoking, writing for Giantess magazine, and living with his scrappy brother Paul, aka ''The Rooster''.With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes and reads stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behaviour. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life - and anything can happen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6175'),
(9903, 'Barrel Fever', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In David Sedaris''s world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris''s collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the American Zeitgeist: a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tried to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; and in his essays, David Sedaris considers the hazards of rewards of smoking, writing for Giantess magazine, and living with his scrappy brother Paul, aka ''The Rooster''.With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes and reads stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behaviour. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life - and anything can happen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12593'),
(9904, 'Barrel Fever', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In David Sedaris''s world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris''s collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the American Zeitgeist: a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tried to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; and in his essays, David Sedaris considers the hazards of rewards of smoking, writing for Giantess magazine, and living with his scrappy brother Paul, aka ''The Rooster''.With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes and reads stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behaviour. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life - and anything can happen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17863'),
(9905, 'Barrel Fever', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In David Sedaris''s world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris''s collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the American Zeitgeist: a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tried to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; and in his essays, David Sedaris considers the hazards of rewards of smoking, writing for Giantess magazine, and living with his scrappy brother Paul, aka ''The Rooster''.With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes and reads stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behaviour. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life - and anything can happen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27341'),
(9906, 'Basic Writings of Nietzsche', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche &amp; Walter Arnold Kaufmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche''s most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume provides a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche''s thought. Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche''s correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5470'),
(9907, 'Basic Writings of Nietzsche', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche &amp; Walter Arnold Kaufmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche''s most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume provides a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche''s thought. Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche''s correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11721'),
(9908, 'Basic writings of Nietzsche', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Walter Arnold Kaufmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche''s most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume provides a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche''s thought. Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche''s correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14428'),
(9909, 'Basic writings of Nietzsche', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Walter Arnold Kaufmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche''s most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume provides a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche''s thought. Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche''s correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19138'),
(9910, 'Basic writings of Nietzsche', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Walter Arnold Kaufmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche''s most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume provides a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche''s thought. Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche''s correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27925'),
(9911, 'The Basilisk&#39;s Lair (Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist, Book 2)', 'R. L. LaFevers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist Book 2) SUMMARY: Nate Fludd, Beastologist, is back in the camel saddle in hot pursuit of a missing, deadly Basiliskâ€”the King of Serpents. As if saving an entire Dhughani village from the Basiliskâ€™s poisonous gaze isnâ€™t difficult enough, Nate and Aunt Phil must begin to piece together the mystery of his parentsâ€™ disappearance and protect the lone copy of the Fludd Book of Beasts from a sinister man who always seem to be one step ahead of them. Pack your goggles, rue, and an extra pair of gloves and join Nate on another unbelievable adventureâ€”thereâ€™s no rest for the worldâ€™s youngest beastologist-in-training!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21486'),
(9912, 'Basket Case', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14678'),
(9913, 'Basket Case', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16941'),
(9914, 'Basket Case', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26833'),
(9915, 'Bastard Out of Carolina', 'Dorothy Allison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Fairly autobiographical in nature, this audio book evokes strong, disturbing and haunting images of growing up as poor white trash in the rural South. Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, The final harrowing episode changes all of their lives forever. 4 cassettes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8043'),
(9916, 'Bastion of Darkness', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Twice the combined might of Ynis Aielle''s greatest heroes and wizards\n <br />\n has hurled back the demon armies of Morgan Thalasi. Always the Black\n <br />\n Warlock has rebounded, stronger and more evil. But never has he wielded such power as now. With the Staff of Death, Thalasi can raise a new army from out of the very ground -- soldiers who cannot be killed because they are already dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the Black Warlock and his fearsome general -- the foul wraith that was once Hollis Mitchell -- prepares a devastating attack, the humans and elves of Ynis Aielle are staggered by a fresh calamity. The beautiful\n <br />\n Rhiannon, daughter of the Emerald Witch, has been captured by Mitchell and given over to his dark master. Now the last hope of defeating\n <br />\n Thalasi -- and Rhiannon''s last hope as well -- lies at the heart of a mountain, guarded by a dragon as old as the world itself. . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Twice the combined might of Ynis Aielle''s greatest heroes and wizards\n <br />\n has hurled back the demon armies of Morgan Thalasi. Always the Black\n <br />\n Warlock has rebounded, stronger and more evil. But never has he wielded such power as now. With the Staff of Death, Thalasi can raise a new army from out of the very ground -- soldiers who cannot be killed because they are already dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the Black Warlock and his fearsome general -- the foul wraith that was once Hollis Mitchell -- prepares a devastating attack, the humans and elves of Ynis Aielle are staggered by a fresh calamity. The beautiful\n <br />\n Rhiannon, daughter of the Emerald Witch, has been captured by Mitchell and given over to his dark master. Now the last hope of defeating\n <br />\n Thalasi -- and Rhiannon''s last hope as well -- lies at the heart of a mountain, guarded by a dragon as old as the world itself. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1971'),
(9917, 'Bastion of Darkness', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Twice the combined might of Ynis Aielle''s greatest heroes and wizards\n <br />\n has hurled back the demon armies of Morgan Thalasi. Always the Black\n <br />\n Warlock has rebounded, stronger and more evil. But never has he wielded such power as now. With the Staff of Death, Thalasi can raise a new army from out of the very ground -- soldiers who cannot be killed because they are already dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the Black Warlock and his fearsome general -- the foul wraith that was once Hollis Mitchell -- prepares a devastating attack, the humans and elves of Ynis Aielle are staggered by a fresh calamity. The beautiful\n <br />\n Rhiannon, daughter of the Emerald Witch, has been captured by Mitchell and given over to his dark master. Now the last hope of defeating\n <br />\n Thalasi -- and Rhiannon''s last hope as well -- lies at the heart of a mountain, guarded by a dragon as old as the world itself. . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Twice the combined might of Ynis Aielle''s greatest heroes and wizards\n <br />\n has hurled back the demon armies of Morgan Thalasi. Always the Black\n <br />\n Warlock has rebounded, stronger and more evil. But never has he wielded such power as now. With the Staff of Death, Thalasi can raise a new army from out of the very ground -- soldiers who cannot be killed because they are already dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the Black Warlock and his fearsome general -- the foul wraith that was once Hollis Mitchell -- prepares a devastating attack, the humans and elves of Ynis Aielle are staggered by a fresh calamity. The beautiful\n <br />\n Rhiannon, daughter of the Emerald Witch, has been captured by Mitchell and given over to his dark master. Now the last hope of defeating\n <br />\n Thalasi -- and Rhiannon''s last hope as well -- lies at the heart of a mountain, guarded by a dragon as old as the world itself. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12497'),
(9918, 'Batalion de mars', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25072');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(9919, 'Batavia&#39;s Graveyard', 'Mike Dash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author ofTulipomaniacomesBatavia''s Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival. It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company''s flagship, was loaded with a king''s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company''s fleet, a tangible symbol of the world''s richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java, for the Company had also sent along a new employee, Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a bankrupt and disgraced man who possessed disarming charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, Jeronimus soon sparked a mutiny that seemed certain to succeedbut for one unplanned event: In the dark morning hours of June 3, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The commander of the ship and the skipper evaded the mutineers by escaping in a tiny lifeboat and setting a course for Javasome 1,800 miles northto summon help. Nearly all of the passengers survived the wreck and found themselves trapped on a bleak coral island without water, food, or shelter. Leaderless, unarmed, and unaware of Jeronimus''s treachery, they were at the mercy of the mutineers. Jeronimus took control almost immediately, preaching his own twisted version of heresy he''d learned in Holland''s secret Anabaptist societies. More than 100 people died at his command in the months that followed. Before long, an all-out war erupted between the mutineers and a small group of soldiers led by Wiebbe Hayes, the one man brave enough to challenge Jeronimus''s band of butchers. Unluckily for the mutineers, the Batavia''s commander had raised the alarm in Java, and at the height of the violence the Company''s gunboats sailed over the horizon. Jeronimus and his mutineers would meet an end almost as gruesome as that of the innocents whose blood had run on the small island they called Batavia''s Graveyard. Impeccably researched and beautifully written,Batavia''s Graveyardis the next classic of narrative nonfiction, the book that secures Mike Dash''s place as one of the finest writers of the genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2738'),
(9920, 'Batavia&#39;s Graveyard', 'Mike Dash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author ofTulipomaniacomesBatavia''s Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival. It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company''s flagship, was loaded with a king''s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company''s fleet, a tangible symbol of the world''s richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java, for the Company had also sent along a new employee, Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a bankrupt and disgraced man who possessed disarming charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, Jeronimus soon sparked a mutiny that seemed certain to succeedbut for one unplanned event: In the dark morning hours of June 3, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The commander of the ship and the skipper evaded the mutineers by escaping in a tiny lifeboat and setting a course for Javasome 1,800 miles northto summon help. Nearly all of the passengers survived the wreck and found themselves trapped on a bleak coral island without water, food, or shelter. Leaderless, unarmed, and unaware of Jeronimus''s treachery, they were at the mercy of the mutineers. Jeronimus took control almost immediately, preaching his own twisted version of heresy he''d learned in Holland''s secret Anabaptist societies. More than 100 people died at his command in the months that followed. Before long, an all-out war erupted between the mutineers and a small group of soldiers led by Wiebbe Hayes, the one man brave enough to challenge Jeronimus''s band of butchers. Unluckily for the mutineers, the Batavia''s commander had raised the alarm in Java, and at the height of the violence the Company''s gunboats sailed over the horizon. Jeronimus and his mutineers would meet an end almost as gruesome as that of the innocents whose blood had run on the small island they called Batavia''s Graveyard. Impeccably researched and beautifully written,Batavia''s Graveyardis the next classic of narrative nonfiction, the book that secures Mike Dash''s place as one of the finest writers of the genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9156'),
(9921, 'Batavia&#39;s Graveyard', 'Mike Dash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author ofTulipomaniacomesBatavia''s Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival. It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company''s flagship, was loaded with a king''s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company''s fleet, a tangible symbol of the world''s richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java, for the Company had also sent along a new employee, Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a bankrupt and disgraced man who possessed disarming charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, Jeronimus soon sparked a mutiny that seemed certain to succeedbut for one unplanned event: In the dark morning hours of June 3, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The commander of the ship and the skipper evaded the mutineers by escaping in a tiny lifeboat and setting a course for Javasome 1,800 miles northto summon help. Nearly all of the passengers survived the wreck and found themselves trapped on a bleak coral island without water, food, or shelter. Leaderless, unarmed, and unaware of Jeronimus''s treachery, they were at the mercy of the mutineers. Jeronimus took control almost immediately, preaching his own twisted version of heresy he''d learned in Holland''s secret Anabaptist societies. More than 100 people died at his command in the months that followed. Before long, an all-out war erupted between the mutineers and a small group of soldiers led by Wiebbe Hayes, the one man brave enough to challenge Jeronimus''s band of butchers. Unluckily for the mutineers, the Batavia''s commander had raised the alarm in Java, and at the height of the violence the Company''s gunboats sailed over the horizon. Jeronimus and his mutineers would meet an end almost as gruesome as that of the innocents whose blood had run on the small island they called Batavia''s Graveyard. Impeccably researched and beautifully written,Batavia''s Graveyardis the next classic of narrative nonfiction, the book that secures Mike Dash''s place as one of the finest writers of the genre.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22097'),
(9922, 'Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul', 'Mark D. White &amp; Robert Arp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Why doesn''t Batman just kill the Joker and end everyone''s misery?        Can we hold the Joker morally responsible for his actions?        Is Batman better than Superman?        If everyone followed Batman''s example,        would Gotham be a better place?        What is the Tao of the Bat?        Batman is one of the most complex characters ever to appear in comic books, graphic novels, and on the big screen. What philosophical trials does this superhero confront in order to keep Gotham safe? Combing through seventy years of comic books, television shows, and movies, Batman and Philosophy explores how the Dark Knight grapples with ethical conundrums, moral responsibility, his identity crisis, the moral weight he carries to avenge his murdered parents, and much more. How does this caped crusader measure up against the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Kierkegaard, and Lao Tzu?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3088'),
(9923, 'Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul', 'Mark D. White &amp; Robert Arp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Why doesn''t Batman just kill the Joker and end everyone''s misery?        Can we hold the Joker morally responsible for his actions?        Is Batman better than Superman?        If everyone followed Batman''s example,        would Gotham be a better place?        What is the Tao of the Bat?        Batman is one of the most complex characters ever to appear in comic books, graphic novels, and on the big screen. What philosophical trials does this superhero confront in order to keep Gotham safe? Combing through seventy years of comic books, television shows, and movies, Batman and Philosophy explores how the Dark Knight grapples with ethical conundrums, moral responsibility, his identity crisis, the moral weight he carries to avenge his murdered parents, and much more. How does this caped crusader measure up against the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Kierkegaard, and Lao Tzu?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13335'),
(9924, 'Batman and philosophy: the dark knight of the soul', 'Mark D. White; Robert Arp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Why doesn''t Batman just kill the Joker and end everyone''s misery? Can we hold the Joker morally responsible for his actions? Is Batman better than Superman? If everyone followed Batman''s example, would Gotham be a better place? What is the Tao of the Bat? Batman is one of the most complex characters ever to appear in comic books, graphic novels, and on the big screen. What philosophical trials does this superhero confront in order to keep Gotham safe? Combing through seventy years of comic books, television shows, and movies, Batman and Philosophy explores how the Dark Knight grapples with ethical conundrums, moral responsibility, his identity crisis, the moral weight he carries to avenge his murdered parents, and much more. How does this caped crusader measure up against the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Kierkegaard, and Lao Tzu?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21757'),
(9925, 'Batranul care citea romane de dragoste', 'Luis Sepulveda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25409'),
(9926, 'Battle Circle 1 - Sos the Rope', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21496'),
(9927, 'Battle Circle 2 - Var the Stick', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21497'),
(9928, 'Battle Circle 3 - Neq the Sword', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21491'),
(9929, 'The Battle for Christmas', 'Stephen Nissenbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This scholarly analysis of our modern celebration of Christmas pulls together a thoroughly convincing case for the widely accepted notion that it is a 19th-century creation, indeed a deliberate reformation and taming of a holiday with wilder pagan origins. Christmas was set at December 25 in the fourth century, not for any biblical link with Christ''s birth, but because the church hoped to annex and Christianize the existing midwinter pagan feast. This latter was based on the seasonal agricultural plenty, with the year''s food supply newly in store, and nothing to do in the fields. It was a time of drinking and debauchery from the Roman Saturnalia to the English Mummers. The Victorians hijacked the holiday, and Victorian writers helped turn it into a feast of safe domesticity and a cacophonous chime of retail cash registers.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christmas in America hasn''t always been the benevolent, family-centered holiday we idealize. The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony so feared the day''s association with pagan winter solstice revels, replete with public drunkenness, licentiousness and violence, that they banned Christmas celebrations. In this ever-surprising work, Nissenbaum (Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America), a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, conducts a vivid historical tour of the holiday''s social evolution. Nissenbaum maintains that not until the 1820s in New York City, among the mercantile Episcopalian Knickerbockers, was Christmas as we know it celebrated. Before Washington Irving and Clement Clarke Moore ("A Visit from St. Nicholas") popularized the genteel version, he explains, the holiday was more of a raucous festival and included demands for tribute from the wealthy by roaming bands of lower-class extortionists. Peppering his insights with analysis of period literature, art and journalism, Nissenbaum constructs his theory. Taming Christmas, he contends, was a way to contain the chaos of social dislocation in a developing consumer-capitalist culture. Later, under the influence of Unitarian writers, the Christmas season became a living object lesson in familial stability and charity, centering on the ideals of bourgeois childhood. From colonial New England, through 18th- and 19th-century New York''s and Philadelphia''s urban Yuletide contributions, to Christmas traditions in the antebellum South, Nissenbaum''s excursion is fascinating, and will startle even those who thought they knew all there was to know about Christmas. Illustrations.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1051'),
(9930, 'The Battle for Christmas', 'Stephen Nissenbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This scholarly analysis of our modern celebration of Christmas pulls together a thoroughly convincing case for the widely accepted notion that it is a 19th-century creation, indeed a deliberate reformation and taming of a holiday with wilder pagan origins. Christmas was set at December 25 in the fourth century, not for any biblical link with Christ''s birth, but because the church hoped to annex and Christianize the existing midwinter pagan feast. This latter was based on the seasonal agricultural plenty, with the year''s food supply newly in store, and nothing to do in the fields. It was a time of drinking and debauchery from the Roman Saturnalia to the English Mummers. The Victorians hijacked the holiday, and Victorian writers helped turn it into a feast of safe domesticity and a cacophonous chime of retail cash registers.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christmas in America hasn''t always been the benevolent, family-centered holiday we idealize. The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony so feared the day''s association with pagan winter solstice revels, replete with public drunkenness, licentiousness and violence, that they banned Christmas celebrations. In this ever-surprising work, Nissenbaum (Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America), a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, conducts a vivid historical tour of the holiday''s social evolution. Nissenbaum maintains that not until the 1820s in New York City, among the mercantile Episcopalian Knickerbockers, was Christmas as we know it celebrated. Before Washington Irving and Clement Clarke Moore ("A Visit from St. Nicholas") popularized the genteel version, he explains, the holiday was more of a raucous festival and included demands for tribute from the wealthy by roaming bands of lower-class extortionists. Peppering his insights with analysis of period literature, art and journalism, Nissenbaum constructs his theory. Taming Christmas, he contends, was a way to contain the chaos of social dislocation in a developing consumer-capitalist culture. Later, under the influence of Unitarian writers, the Christmas season became a living object lesson in familial stability and charity, centering on the ideals of bourgeois childhood. From colonial New England, through 18th- and 19th-century New York''s and Philadelphia''s urban Yuletide contributions, to Christmas traditions in the antebellum South, Nissenbaum''s excursion is fascinating, and will startle even those who thought they knew all there was to know about Christmas. Illustrations.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11711'),
(9931, 'The Battle for Christmas', 'Stephen Nissenbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This scholarly analysis of our modern celebration of Christmas pulls together a thoroughly convincing case for the widely accepted notion that it is a 19th-century creation, indeed a deliberate reformation and taming of a holiday with wilder pagan origins. Christmas was set at December 25 in the fourth century, not for any biblical link with Christ''s birth, but because the church hoped to annex and Christianize the existing midwinter pagan feast. This latter was based on the seasonal agricultural plenty, with the year''s food supply newly in store, and nothing to do in the fields. It was a time of drinking and debauchery from the Roman Saturnalia to the English Mummers. The Victorians hijacked the holiday, and Victorian writers helped turn it into a feast of safe domesticity and a cacophonous chime of retail cash registers.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christmas in America hasn''t always been the benevolent, family-centered holiday we idealize. The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony so feared the day''s association with pagan winter solstice revels, replete with public drunkenness, licentiousness and violence, that they banned Christmas celebrations. In this ever-surprising work, Nissenbaum (Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America), a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, conducts a vivid historical tour of the holiday''s social evolution. Nissenbaum maintains that not until the 1820s in New York City, among the mercantile Episcopalian Knickerbockers, was Christmas as we know it celebrated. Before Washington Irving and Clement Clarke Moore ("A Visit from St. Nicholas") popularized the genteel version, he explains, the holiday was more of a raucous festival and included demands for tribute from the wealthy by roaming bands of lower-class extortionists. Peppering his insights with analysis of period literature, art and journalism, Nissenbaum constructs his theory. Taming Christmas, he contends, was a way to contain the chaos of social dislocation in a developing consumer-capitalist culture. Later, under the influence of Unitarian writers, the Christmas season became a living object lesson in familial stability and charity, centering on the ideals of bourgeois childhood. From colonial New England, through 18th- and 19th-century New York''s and Philadelphia''s urban Yuletide contributions, to Christmas traditions in the antebellum South, Nissenbaum''s excursion is fascinating, and will startle even those who thought they knew all there was to know about Christmas. Illustrations.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23841'),
(9932, 'The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs', 'Roberta Brandes Gratz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New Yorkâ€™s â€œmaster builderâ€ Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways.Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Mosesâ€™s urban philosophy.As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobsâ€™s philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life. Gratz who was named as one of Planetizenâ€™s Top 100 Urban Thinkers gives an on-the-ground account of urban renewal and community success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1615'),
(9933, 'The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs', 'Roberta Brandes Gratz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New Yorkâ€™s â€œmaster builderâ€ Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways.Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Mosesâ€™s urban philosophy.As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobsâ€™s philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life. Gratz who was named as one of Planetizenâ€™s Top 100 Urban Thinkers gives an on-the-ground account of urban renewal and community success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9996'),
(9934, 'The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs', 'Roberta Brandes Gratz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New Yorkâ€™s â€œmaster builderâ€ Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways.Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Mosesâ€™s urban philosophy.As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobsâ€™s philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life. Gratz who was named as one of Planetizenâ€™s Top 100 Urban Thinkers gives an on-the-ground account of urban renewal and community success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23352'),
(9935, 'The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs', 'Roberta Brandes Gratz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New Yorkâ€™s â€œmaster builderâ€ Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways.Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Mosesâ€™s urban philosophy.As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobsâ€™s philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life. Gratz who was named as one of Planetizenâ€™s Top 100 Urban Thinkers gives an on-the-ground account of urban renewal and community success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26136'),
(9936, 'The Battle for Iwo Jima', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Iwo Jima is one of the most famous battles in World War II, and the greatest battle fought by the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. From that battle came the most famous image of the war, the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi. Robert Leckie, the bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow has written an extraordinary story of one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1647'),
(9937, 'The Battle for Iwo Jima', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Iwo Jima is one of the most famous battles in World War II, and the greatest battle fought by the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. From that battle came the most famous image of the war, the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi. Robert Leckie, the bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow has written an extraordinary story of one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23319'),
(9938, 'The Battle for Skandia', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Still far from their homeland after escaping slavery in the icebound land of Skandia, Will and Evanlyn''s plans to return to Araluen are spoiled when Evanlyn is taken captive by a Temujai warrior. Though still weakened by the warmweed''s toxic effects, Will employs his Ranger training to locate his friend, but an enemy scouting party has him fatally outnumbered. Will is certain death is close at hand, until Halt and Horace make a daring, last-minute rescue. The reunion is cut short, however, when Halt makes a horrifying discovery: Skandia''s borders have been breached by the entire Temujai army. And Araluen is next in their sights. If two kingdoms are to be saved, an unlikely union must be made. Will it hold long enough to vanquish a ruthless new enemy? Or will past tensions spell doom for all?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The battles and drama are nonstop in Book Four of this hugely popular epic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4278'),
(9939, 'The Battle for Skandia', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Still far from their homeland after escaping slavery in the icebound land of Skandia, Will and Evanlyn''s plans to return to Araluen are spoiled when Evanlyn is taken captive by a Temujai warrior. Though still weakened by the warmweed''s toxic effects, Will employs his Ranger training to locate his friend, but an enemy scouting party has him fatally outnumbered. Will is certain death is close at hand, until Halt and Horace make a daring, last-minute rescue. The reunion is cut short, however, when Halt makes a horrifying discovery: Skandia''s borders have been breached by the entire Temujai army. And Araluen is next in their sights. If two kingdoms are to be saved, an unlikely union must be made. Will it hold long enough to vanquish a ruthless new enemy? Or will past tensions spell doom for all? The battles and drama are nonstop in Book Four of this hugely popular epic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15270'),
(9940, 'The Battle for Skandia', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Still far from their homeland after escaping slavery in the icebound land of Skandia, Will and Evanlyn''s plans to return to Araluen are spoiled when Evanlyn is taken captive by a Temujai warrior. Though still weakened by the warmweed''s toxic effects, Will employs his Ranger training to locate his friend, but an enemy scouting party has him fatally outnumbered. Will is certain death is close at hand, until Halt and Horace make a daring, last-minute rescue. The reunion is cut short, however, when Halt makes a horrifying discovery: Skandia''s borders have been breached by the entire Temujai army. And Araluen is next in their sights. If two kingdoms are to be saved, an unlikely union must be made. Will it hold long enough to vanquish a ruthless new enemy? Or will past tensions spell doom for all? The battles and drama are nonstop in Book Four of this hugely popular epic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21417'),
(9941, 'The Battle for Terra Two', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Harrison, a hero of the Biofab War, traces a few renegades to an alternate universe, where the Biofabs are rebuilding for another war\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1117'),
(9942, 'The Battle for Terra Two', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John Harrison, a hero of the Biofab War, traces a few renegades to an alternate universe, where the Biofabs are rebuilding for another war\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23744'),
(9943, 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother', 'Amy Chua', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chua (Day of Empire) imparts the secret behind the stereotypical Asian child''s phenomenal success: the Chinese mother. Chua promotes what has traditionally worked very well in raising children: strict, Old World, uncompromising values--and the parents don''t have to be Chinese. What they are, however, are different from what she sees as indulgent and permissive Western parents: stressing academic performance above all, never accepting a mediocre grade, insisting on drilling and practice, and instilling respect for authority. Chua and her Jewish husband (both are professors at Yale Law) raised two girls, and her account of their formative years achieving amazing success in school and music performance proves both a model and a cautionary tale. Sophia, the eldest, was dutiful and diligent, leapfrogging over her peers in academics and as a Suzuki piano student; Lulu was also gifted, but defiant, who excelled at the violin but eventually balked at her mother''s pushing. Chua''s efforts "not to raise a soft, entitled child" will strike American readers as a little scary--removing her children from school for extra practice, public shaming and insults, equating Western parenting with failure--but the results, she claims somewhat glibly in this frank, unapologetic report card, "were hard to quarrel with." (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chuaâ€™s stated intent is to present the differences between Western and Chinese parenting styles by sharing experiences with her own children (now teenagers). As the daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is poised to contrast the two disparate styles, even as she points out that being a â€œChinese Motherâ€ can cross ethnic lines: it is more a state of mind than a genetic trait. Yet this is a deeply personal story about her two daughters and how their lives are shaped by such demands as Chuaâ€™s relentless insistence on straight Aâ€™s and daily hours of mandatory music practice, even while vacationing with grandparents. Readers may be stunned by Chuaâ€™s explanations of her hard-line style, and her meant-to-be humorous depictions of screaming matches intended to force greatness from her girls. She insists that Western children are no happier than Chinese ones, and that her daughters are the envy of neighbors and friends, because of their poise and musical, athletic, and academic accomplishments. Ironically, this may be read as a cautionary tale that asks just what price should be paid for achievement. --Colleen Mondor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7701'),
(9944, 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother', 'Amy Chua', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chua (Day of Empire) imparts the secret behind the stereotypical Asian child''s phenomenal success: the Chinese mother. Chua promotes what has traditionally worked very well in raising children: strict, Old World, uncompromising values--and the parents don''t have to be Chinese. What they are, however, are different from what she sees as indulgent and permissive Western parents: stressing academic performance above all, never accepting a mediocre grade, insisting on drilling and practice, and instilling respect for authority. Chua and her Jewish husband (both are professors at Yale Law) raised two girls, and her account of their formative years achieving amazing success in school and music performance proves both a model and a cautionary tale. Sophia, the eldest, was dutiful and diligent, leapfrogging over her peers in academics and as a Suzuki piano student; Lulu was also gifted, but defiant, who excelled at the violin but eventually balked at her mother''s pushing. Chua''s efforts "not to raise a soft, entitled child" will strike American readers as a little scary--removing her children from school for extra practice, public shaming and insults, equating Western parenting with failure--but the results, she claims somewhat glibly in this frank, unapologetic report card, "were hard to quarrel with." (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chuaâ€™s stated intent is to present the differences between Western and Chinese parenting styles by sharing experiences with her own children (now teenagers). As the daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is poised to contrast the two disparate styles, even as she points out that being a â€œChinese Motherâ€ can cross ethnic lines: it is more a state of mind than a genetic trait. Yet this is a deeply personal story about her two daughters and how their lives are shaped by such demands as Chuaâ€™s relentless insistence on straight Aâ€™s and daily hours of mandatory music practice, even while vacationing with grandparents. Readers may be stunned by Chuaâ€™s explanations of her hard-line style, and her meant-to-be humorous depictions of screaming matches intended to force greatness from her girls. She insists that Western children are no happier than Chinese ones, and that her daughters are the envy of neighbors and friends, because of their poise and musical, athletic, and academic accomplishments. Ironically, this may be read as a cautionary tale that asks just what price should be paid for achievement. --Colleen Mondor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8903'),
(9945, 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother', 'Amy Chua', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chua (Day of Empire) imparts the secret behind the stereotypical Asian child''s phenomenal success: the Chinese mother. Chua promotes what has traditionally worked very well in raising children: strict, Old World, uncompromising values--and the parents don''t have to be Chinese. What they are, however, are different from what she sees as indulgent and permissive Western parents: stressing academic performance above all, never accepting a mediocre grade, insisting on drilling and practice, and instilling respect for authority. Chua and her Jewish husband (both are professors at Yale Law) raised two girls, and her account of their formative years achieving amazing success in school and music performance proves both a model and a cautionary tale. Sophia, the eldest, was dutiful and diligent, leapfrogging over her peers in academics and as a Suzuki piano student; Lulu was also gifted, but defiant, who excelled at the violin but eventually balked at her mother''s pushing. Chua''s efforts "not to raise a soft, entitled child" will strike American readers as a little scary--removing her children from school for extra practice, public shaming and insults, equating Western parenting with failure--but the results, she claims somewhat glibly in this frank, unapologetic report card, "were hard to quarrel with." (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chuaâ€™s stated intent is to present the differences between Western and Chinese parenting styles by sharing experiences with her own children (now teenagers). As the daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is poised to contrast the two disparate styles, even as she points out that being a â€œChinese Motherâ€ can cross ethnic lines: it is more a state of mind than a genetic trait. Yet this is a deeply personal story about her two daughters and how their lives are shaped by such demands as Chuaâ€™s relentless insistence on straight Aâ€™s and daily hours of mandatory music practice, even while vacationing with grandparents. Readers may be stunned by Chuaâ€™s explanations of her hard-line style, and her meant-to-be humorous depictions of screaming matches intended to force greatness from her girls. She insists that Western children are no happier than Chinese ones, and that her daughters are the envy of neighbors and friends, because of their poise and musical, athletic, and academic accomplishments. Ironically, this may be read as a cautionary tale that asks just what price should be paid for achievement. --Colleen Mondor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15175'),
(9946, 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother', 'Chua, Amy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16172'),
(9947, 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother', 'Amy Chua', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chua (Day of Empire) imparts the secret behind the stereotypical Asian child''s phenomenal success: the Chinese mother. Chua promotes what has traditionally worked very well in raising children: strict, Old World, uncompromising values--and the parents don''t have to be Chinese. What they are, however, are different from what she sees as indulgent and permissive Western parents: stressing academic performance above all, never accepting a mediocre grade, insisting on drilling and practice, and instilling respect for authority. Chua and her Jewish husband (both are professors at Yale Law) raised two girls, and her account of their formative years achieving amazing success in school and music performance proves both a model and a cautionary tale. Sophia, the eldest, was dutiful and diligent, leapfrogging over her peers in academics and as a Suzuki piano student; Lulu was also gifted, but defiant, who excelled at the violin but eventually balked at her mother''s pushing. Chua''s efforts "not to raise a soft, entitled child" will strike American readers as a little scary--removing her children from school for extra practice, public shaming and insults, equating Western parenting with failure--but the results, she claims somewhat glibly in this frank, unapologetic report card, "were hard to quarrel with." (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chuaâ€™s stated intent is to present the differences between Western and Chinese parenting styles by sharing experiences with her own children (now teenagers). As the daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is poised to contrast the two disparate styles, even as she points out that being a â€œChinese Motherâ€ can cross ethnic lines: it is more a state of mind than a genetic trait. Yet this is a deeply personal story about her two daughters and how their lives are shaped by such demands as Chuaâ€™s relentless insistence on straight Aâ€™s and daily hours of mandatory music practice, even while vacationing with grandparents. Readers may be stunned by Chuaâ€™s explanations of her hard-line style, and her meant-to-be humorous depictions of screaming matches intended to force greatness from her girls. She insists that Western children are no happier than Chinese ones, and that her daughters are the envy of neighbors and friends, because of their poise and musical, athletic, and academic accomplishments. Ironically, this may be read as a cautionary tale that asks just what price should be paid for achievement. --Colleen Mondor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26332'),
(9948, 'Battle Mask', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n War hero Mack Bolan, wearing a new Sicilian-style face fashioned for him by a plastic surgeon and ex-war buddy, infiltrates the inner family of the Mafia. Aided by the head mans beautiful daughter, Bolan almost becomes son-in-law and heir-apparent to the powerful Di George West Coast empire. Still hunted by police and mafiosi alike, with a $100,000 price tag on his head, the Executioner evades all the dragnets and strikes a crippling blow against the "invincible" underground organization before his identity is uncovered and he disappears - to fight another day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5884'),
(9949, 'Battle Mask', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n War hero Mack Bolan, wearing a new Sicilian-style face fashioned for him by a plastic surgeon and ex-war buddy, infiltrates the inner family of the Mafia. Aided by the head mans beautiful daughter, Bolan almost becomes son-in-law and heir-apparent to the powerful Di George West Coast empire. Still hunted by police and mafiosi alike, with a $100,000 price tag on his head, the Executioner evades all the dragnets and strikes a crippling blow against the "invincible" underground organization before his identity is uncovered and he disappears - to fight another day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18726'),
(9950, 'Battle Mask', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n War hero Mack Bolan, wearing a new Sicilian-style face fashioned for him by a plastic surgeon and ex-war buddy, infiltrates the inner family of the Mafia. Aided by the head mans beautiful daughter, Bolan almost becomes son-in-law and heir-apparent to the powerful Di George West Coast empire. Still hunted by police and mafiosi alike, with a $100,000 price tag on his head, the Executioner evades all the dragnets and strikes a crippling blow against the "invincible" underground organization before his identity is uncovered and he disappears - to fight another day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27533'),
(9951, 'The Battle of Betazed', 'Charlotte Douglas &amp; Susan Kearney &amp; Gene Roddenberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the darkest hours of the Dominion War, as the Federation''s downfall seemed ever more certain, Jem''Hadar and Cardassian forces conquered Betazed, the homeworld of Deanna Troi. Their victory sent shock waves through the Alpha Quadrant, and put the Dominion within striking distance of Vulcan, Andor, Tellar -- and possibly Earth itself. To secure their position in the very heart of the Federation, the Cardassians begin constructing space station Sentok Nor in orbit of Betazed. The station is to serve as both the seat of the Dominion occupation and the site of horrific experiments by Cardassia''s foremost exobiologist, the infamous Dr. Crell Moset. With Starfleet''s forces spread too thinky in the ongoing struggle to retake Betazed outright, the U.S.S. Enterprise? along with some old and new friends, is deployed to carry out a dangerous and desperate plan. But no matter what the outcome, the consequences could alter Betazed irrevocably, forcing Deanna Troi to choose between her world''s survival and its very soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6755'),
(9952, 'The Battle of Betazed', 'Charlotte Douglas; Susan Kearney; Gene Roddenberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the darkest hours of the Dominion War, as the Federation''s downfall seemed ever more certain, Jem''Hadar and Cardassian forces conquered Betazed, the homeworld of Deanna Troi. Their victory sent shock waves through the Alpha Quadrant, and put the Dominion within striking distance of Vulcan, Andor, Tellar -- and possibly Earth itself. To secure their position in the very heart of the Federation, the Cardassians begin constructing space station Sentok Nor in orbit of Betazed. The station is to serve as both the seat of the Dominion occupation and the site of horrific experiments by Cardassia''s foremost exobiologist, the infamous Dr. Crell Moset. With Starfleet''s forces spread too thinky in the ongoing struggle to retake Betazed outright, the U.S.S. Enterprise? along with some old and new friends, is deployed to carry out a dangerous and desperate plan. But no matter what the outcome, the consequences could alter Betazed irrevocably, forcing Deanna Troi to choose between her world''s survival and its very soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17113'),
(9953, 'The Battle of Britain', 'Richard Overy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain ...In his carefully argued, clearly explained and impressively documented book ...Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths and expose the real history of what he does not doubt was a great British victory ...the best historical analysis in readable form which has yet appeared on this prime subject'' Noble Frankland, The Times Literary Supplement\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1867'),
(9954, 'The Battle of Britain', 'Richard Overy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain ...In his carefully argued, clearly explained and impressively documented book ...Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths and expose the real history of what he does not doubt was a great British victory ...the best historical analysis in readable form which has yet appeared on this prime subject'' Noble Frankland, The Times Literary Supplement\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11798'),
(9955, 'The Battle of Corrin', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fifty-six hard years after the events of The Machine Crusade, after the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. The human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight. Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets. The war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin. In the greatest battle of science fiction history, human and machine face off one last time, and on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Maud''Dib in Frank Herbert''s classic, Dune.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7105'),
(9956, 'The Battle of Corrin', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fifty-six hard years after the events of The Machine Crusade, after the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. The human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight. Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets. The war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin. In the greatest battle of science fiction history, human and machine face off one last time, and on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Maud''Dib in Frank Herbert''s classic, Dune.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10287');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(9957, 'The Battle of Corrin', 'Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fifty-six hard years after the events of The Machine Crusade, after the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. The human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight. Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets. The war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin. In the greatest battle of science fiction history, human and machine face off one last time, and on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Maud''Dib in Frank Herbert''s classic, Dune.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16845'),
(9958, 'The Battle of the Labyrinth', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Honestly, blowing up another school was the last thing I wanted to do. As the son of a Greek god, I''ve had my share of near-death disaster. This summer, I didn''t choose to battle the cheerleading squad, but when two hissing she-devils with fangs are heading straight for you, what''s a half-blood meant to do?\n</p>\n<p>\n That was just the beginning. This is the one where my arch-enemy, Luke, is looking for a way to invade our camp via an ancient labyrinth. If he succeeds, thousands of bloodthirsty monsters will attack. So it''s goodbye sunshine, hello darkness as four of us descend into the terrifying underground and beyond . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Gripping, funny and hugely original &#8211; readers aged 9+ will be desperate for more in this award-winning series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1786'),
(9959, 'The Battle of the Labyrinth', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Honestly, blowing up another school was the last thing I wanted to do. As the son of a Greek god, I''ve had my share of near-death disaster. This summer, I didn''t choose to battle the cheerleading squad, but when two hissing she-devils with fangs are heading straight for you, what''s a half-blood meant to do?\n</p>\n<p>\n That was just the beginning. This is the one where my arch-enemy, Luke, is looking for a way to invade our camp via an ancient labyrinth. If he succeeds, thousands of bloodthirsty monsters will attack. So it''s goodbye sunshine, hello darkness as four of us descend into the terrifying underground and beyond . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Gripping, funny and hugely original &#8211; readers aged 9+ will be desperate for more in this award-winning series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13553'),
(9960, 'The Battle of the Labyrinth', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Honestly, blowing up another school was the last thing I wanted to do. As the son of a Greek god, I''ve had my share of near-death disaster. This summer, I didn''t choose to battle the cheerleading squad, but when two hissing she-devils with fangs are heading straight for you, what''s a half-blood meant to do?\n</p>\n<p>\n That was just the beginning. This is the one where my arch-enemy, Luke, is looking for a way to invade our camp via an ancient labyrinth. If he succeeds, thousands of bloodthirsty monsters will attack. So it''s goodbye sunshine, hello darkness as four of us descend into the terrifying underground and beyond . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Gripping, funny and hugely original &#8211; readers aged 9+ will be desperate for more in this award-winning series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24872'),
(9961, 'Battle Ready', 'Tom Clancy &amp; General Tony Zinni', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the lead-up to the Iraq War and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption." So says former U.S. Central Command commander in chief Zinni, who retired in September 2000 and has been outspoken ever since regarding the uses and abuses of the U.S. military. This book is the latest of Clancy''s nonfiction Commanders series, which has previously featured collaborations with Gen. Fred Franks Jr. of the army, Gen. Chuck Horner of the air force and Gen. Carl Stiner, formerly U.S. Special Operations commander. As in those books, Clancy gives adequate background on his subject and his subject''s context, then quotes him liberally, consigning tens of pages at a time to Zinni''s italicized first-person reflections. Beginning the book with the 1998 CentCom-coordinated attack on Saddam Hussein (the unfortunately named Operation Desert Fox), Clancy and Zinni next move through 150 or so pages of Zinni''s service as a Philadelphia-born (in 1947) Marine infantry officer during Vietnam and his racially charged Headquarters and Service stint on Okinawa in the early ''70s. The book then flashes forward to the end of the Cold War and steams along from there, with details on Zinni''s European command service, including 1990 meetings with a recently de-Sovietized Russian army and support operations during the Persian Gulf War. Zinni joined CentCom just in time for the Somalia debacle, and he is candid about its failings. Over the next years, Zinni traveled widely in parts of the world that were obscure to the U.S. then (Pakistan, Central Asia), but are central now, and played cat-and-mouse with Saddam regarding weapons inspections all through the late ''90s. But it is Zinni''s 24-page closing statement, "The Calling," that will sell the book to nonbuff civilians, summing up his service and the ways in which he feels his generation''s legacy is in jeopardy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the fourth book in Clancy''s nonfiction Commanders series; all have been cowritten with generals. This one chronicles the 40-year career of the now-retired Zinni, which includes two tours in Vietnam, two years as an instructor at the Basic School in the U.S., and his role as head of the U.S. Central Command. He also served in posts in Okinawa, Vieques Island, Germany, Turkey, and Somalia. Zinni reflects on the Vietnam War, saying, "Today we are seeing a stream of apologetic books by the policymakers and military leaders of that era--as though saying mea culpa enough will absolve them of the terrible responsibility they bear." On Operation Desert Storm, he says, "The only reason [that campaign] worked was because we managed to go up against the only jerk on the planet who was stupid enough to challenge us to refight World War II." On the Iraq war, he insists, "False rationales presented as justification, a flawed strategy, lack of planning, the unnecessary distraction from real threats, and the unbearable strain dumped on our overstretched military, all of these caused me to speak out." He warns that military conflict has changed in the twenty-first century and we have been reluctant to recognize it or to acknowledge it. Whether or not readers agree with Zinni, this is a book that demands our attention.\n <em>\n  George Cohen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/642'),
(9962, 'Battle Ready', 'Tom Clancy &amp; General Tony Zinni', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the lead-up to the Iraq War and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption." So says former U.S. Central Command commander in chief Zinni, who retired in September 2000 and has been outspoken ever since regarding the uses and abuses of the U.S. military. This book is the latest of Clancy''s nonfiction Commanders series, which has previously featured collaborations with Gen. Fred Franks Jr. of the army, Gen. Chuck Horner of the air force and Gen. Carl Stiner, formerly U.S. Special Operations commander. As in those books, Clancy gives adequate background on his subject and his subject''s context, then quotes him liberally, consigning tens of pages at a time to Zinni''s italicized first-person reflections. Beginning the book with the 1998 CentCom-coordinated attack on Saddam Hussein (the unfortunately named Operation Desert Fox), Clancy and Zinni next move through 150 or so pages of Zinni''s service as a Philadelphia-born (in 1947) Marine infantry officer during Vietnam and his racially charged Headquarters and Service stint on Okinawa in the early ''70s. The book then flashes forward to the end of the Cold War and steams along from there, with details on Zinni''s European command service, including 1990 meetings with a recently de-Sovietized Russian army and support operations during the Persian Gulf War. Zinni joined CentCom just in time for the Somalia debacle, and he is candid about its failings. Over the next years, Zinni traveled widely in parts of the world that were obscure to the U.S. then (Pakistan, Central Asia), but are central now, and played cat-and-mouse with Saddam regarding weapons inspections all through the late ''90s. But it is Zinni''s 24-page closing statement, "The Calling," that will sell the book to nonbuff civilians, summing up his service and the ways in which he feels his generation''s legacy is in jeopardy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the fourth book in Clancy''s nonfiction Commanders series; all have been cowritten with generals. This one chronicles the 40-year career of the now-retired Zinni, which includes two tours in Vietnam, two years as an instructor at the Basic School in the U.S., and his role as head of the U.S. Central Command. He also served in posts in Okinawa, Vieques Island, Germany, Turkey, and Somalia. Zinni reflects on the Vietnam War, saying, "Today we are seeing a stream of apologetic books by the policymakers and military leaders of that era--as though saying mea culpa enough will absolve them of the terrible responsibility they bear." On Operation Desert Storm, he says, "The only reason [that campaign] worked was because we managed to go up against the only jerk on the planet who was stupid enough to challenge us to refight World War II." On the Iraq war, he insists, "False rationales presented as justification, a flawed strategy, lack of planning, the unnecessary distraction from real threats, and the unbearable strain dumped on our overstretched military, all of these caused me to speak out." He warns that military conflict has changed in the twenty-first century and we have been reluctant to recognize it or to acknowledge it. Whether or not readers agree with Zinni, this is a book that demands our attention.\n <em>\n  George Cohen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8968'),
(9963, 'Battle Ready', 'Tom Clancy; General Tony Zinni', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In the lead-up to the Iraq War and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption." So says former U.S. Central Command commander in chief Zinni, who retired in September 2000 and has been outspoken ever since regarding the uses and abuses of the U.S. military. This book is the latest of Clancy''s nonfiction Commanders series, which has previously featured collaborations with Gen. Fred Franks Jr. of the army, Gen. Chuck Horner of the air force and Gen. Carl Stiner, formerly U.S. Special Operations commander. As in those books, Clancy gives adequate background on his subject and his subject''s context, then quotes him liberally, consigning tens of pages at a time to Zinni''s italicized first-person reflections. Beginning the book with the 1998 CentCom-coordinated attack on Saddam Hussein (the unfortunately named Operation Desert Fox), Clancy and Zinni next move through 150 or so pages of Zinni''s service as a Philadelphia-born (in 1947) Marine infantry officer during Vietnam and his racially charged Headquarters and Service stint on Okinawa in the early ''70s. The book then flashes forward to the end of the Cold War and steams along from there, with details on Zinni''s European command service, including 1990 meetings with a recently de-Sovietized Russian army and support operations during the Persian Gulf War. Zinni joined CentCom just in time for the Somalia debacle, and he is candid about its failings. Over the next years, Zinni traveled widely in parts of the world that were obscure to the U.S. then (Pakistan, Central Asia), but are central now, and played cat-and-mouse with Saddam regarding weapons inspections all through the late ''90s. But it is Zinni''s 24-page closing statement, "The Calling," that will sell the book to nonbuff civilians, summing up his service and the ways in which he feels his generation''s legacy is in jeopardy.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the fourth book in Clancy''s nonfiction Commanders series; all have been cowritten with generals. This one chronicles the 40-year career of the now-retired Zinni, which includes two tours in Vietnam, two years as an instructor at the Basic School in the U.S., and his role as head of the U.S. Central Command. He also served in posts in Okinawa, Vieques Island, Germany, Turkey, and Somalia. Zinni reflects on the Vietnam War, saying, "Today we are seeing a stream of apologetic books by the policymakers and military leaders of that era--as though saying mea culpa enough will absolve them of the terrible responsibility they bear." On Operation Desert Storm, he says, "The only reason [that campaign] worked was because we managed to go up against the only jerk on the planet who was stupid enough to challenge us to refight World War II." On the Iraq war, he insists, "False rationales presented as justification, a flawed strategy, lack of planning, the unnecessary distraction from real threats, and the unbearable strain dumped on our overstretched military, all of these caused me to speak out." He warns that military conflict has changed in the twenty-first century and we have been reluctant to recognize it or to acknowledge it. Whether or not readers agree with Zinni, this is a book that demands our attention.\n <em>\n  George Cohen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24354'),
(9964, 'Battlefield Earth', 'L. Ron Hubbard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 3000 AD: only one man on Earth rebels against the tyranny of the all powerful Psychlos led by the evil Terl. Based on the novel by L. Ron Hubbard..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20079'),
(9965, 'The Bay at Midnight', 'Diane Chamberlain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Her family''s cottage was a place of innocence for twelve-year-old Julie Bauer - until her sister was murdered. It''s been many years since that August night, but Julie''s memories of Izzy''s death still haunt her. Now someone from her past is asking questions about what really happened that night. About Julie''s own complicity. About a devastating secret her mother kept from them all. About the person who went to prison for Izzy''s murder - and the person who didn''t. Julie must gather the courage to revisit her past and untangle the complex emotions that led to one unspeakable act of violence on the bay at midnight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5966'),
(9966, 'The Bay at Midnight', 'Diane Chamberlain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Her family''s cottage was a place of innocence for twelve-year-old Julie Bauer - until her sister was murdered. It''s been many years since that August night, but Julie''s memories of Izzy''s death still haunt her. Now someone from her past is asking questions about what really happened that night. About Julie''s own complicity. About a devastating secret her mother kept from them all. About the person who went to prison for Izzy''s murder - and the person who didn''t. Julie must gather the courage to revisit her past and untangle the complex emotions that led to one unspeakable act of violence on the bay at midnight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8914'),
(9967, 'The Bay at Midnight', 'Diane Chamberlain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Her family''s cottage was a place of innocence for twelve-year-old Julie Bauer - until her sister was murdered. It''s been many years since that August night, but Julie''s memories of Izzy''s death still haunt her. Now someone from her past is asking questions about what really happened that night. About Julie''s own complicity. About a devastating secret her mother kept from them all. About the person who went to prison for Izzy''s murder - and the person who didn''t. Julie must gather the courage to revisit her past and untangle the complex emotions that led to one unspeakable act of violence on the bay at midnight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27460'),
(9968, 'Bay of the Dead', 'Mark Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk! Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach home. A stolen tugboat is brought back to shore, carrying only human remains. And a couple of girls heading back from the pub watch the mysterious drivers of a big black SUV take over a crime scene. Torchwood must now contend with the intangible barrier surrounding Cardiff, and some unidentified space debris that seems to be regenerating itself. Plus, of course, the all-night zombie horror show! Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21706'),
(9969, 'Bayou Moon', 'Andrews, Ilona', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cerise Mar and her clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands. When her parents vanish, her clan''s long-time rivals are suspect. But all is not as it seems.\n</p>\n<p>\n Two nations of the Weird are waging a cold war fought by feint and espionage, and their conflict is about to spill over into the Edge-and Cerise''s life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ilona Andrews lives in Pooler, GA.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7618'),
(9970, 'Bayou Moon', 'Andrews, Ilona', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cerise Mar and her clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands. When her parents vanish, her clan''s long-time rivals are suspect. But all is not as it seems.\n</p>\n<p>\n Two nations of the Weird are waging a cold war fought by feint and espionage, and their conflict is about to spill over into the Edge-and Cerise''s life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ilona Andrews lives in Pooler, GA.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8205'),
(9971, 'Bayou Moon', 'Andrews, Ilona', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cerise Mar and her clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands. When her parents vanish, her clan''s long-time rivals are suspect. But all is not as it seems.\n</p>\n<p>\n Two nations of the Weird are waging a cold war fought by feint and espionage, and their conflict is about to spill over into the Edge-and Cerise''s life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ilona Andrews lives in Pooler, GA.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19683'),
(9972, 'Be Cool', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After one triumph and one flop, Mafia loanshark-turned-Hollywood producer Chili Palmer (last seen in Get Shorty) is desperate for another hit ... of the celluloid sort. And when a similarly relocated former mob associate takes a hit of the bullet-in-the-brain variety while they''re power-lunching, Chili begins to see all kinds of story possibilities. The whacked recording company mogul''s midday demise is leading Chili into the twisted world of rock stars, pop divas, and hip-hop gangstas, which is rife with drama, jealousy, betrayal, all the stuff that makes big box office. Tinsel Town had better take cover, because Chili Palmer''s working on another movie. And that''s when people tend to die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14246'),
(9973, 'Be Cool', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After one triumph and one flop, Mafia loanshark-turned-Hollywood producer Chili Palmer (last seen in Get Shorty) is desperate for another hit ... of the celluloid sort. And when a similarly relocated former mob associate takes a hit of the bullet-in-the-brain variety while they''re power-lunching, Chili begins to see all kinds of story possibilities. The whacked recording company mogul''s midday demise is leading Chili into the twisted world of rock stars, pop divas, and hip-hop gangstas, which is rife with drama, jealousy, betrayal, all the stuff that makes big box office. Tinsel Town had better take cover, because Chili Palmer''s working on another movie. And that''s when people tend to die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18947'),
(9974, 'Be Cool', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After one triumph and one flop, Mafia loanshark-turned-Hollywood producer Chili Palmer (last seen in Get Shorty) is desperate for another hit ... of the celluloid sort. And when a similarly relocated former mob associate takes a hit of the bullet-in-the-brain variety while they''re power-lunching, Chili begins to see all kinds of story possibilities. The whacked recording company mogul''s midday demise is leading Chili into the twisted world of rock stars, pop divas, and hip-hop gangstas, which is rife with drama, jealousy, betrayal, all the stuff that makes big box office. Tinsel Town had better take cover, because Chili Palmer''s working on another movie. And that''s when people tend to die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27652'),
(9975, 'Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian With Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families &amp; Teachers', 'John Elder Robison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFor anyone who has difficulty fitting in, this book is fantastic.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Temple Grandin\n </strong>\n , author of Thinking in Pictures\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn a love poem to his wife, Pedro Salinas, the Spanish poet, wrote,Â â€˜Glory to the differences / between you and me.â€™ John Robison teaches us toÂ celebrate differences\n <br />\n like Salinas did, but also offers clear insight and valuableÂ advice on how to cope with the challenges that being different can create.Â This book transcends the specific case of Aspergerâ€™s syndrome andÂ is a lesson in humanity and the human condition.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Alvaro Pascual-Leone\n </strong>\n , M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical SchoolÂ and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnyone with Aspergerâ€™s, if not everyone else, will derive knowledge andÂ pleasure from the wonderful stories told in John Elder Robisonâ€™s newest book,Â Be Different. Clearly, John is one of our communityâ€™s leading voices.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Michael John Carley\n </strong>\n , author of Aspergerâ€™s from the Inside OutÂ and executive director of GRASP and ASTEP\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBe Different is a fascinating and unique guide for young peopleÂ who may be struggling with autism and feel â€˜out of syncâ€™ with theÂ world around them. John shares personal insights about growing up,Â feeling apart from his peers, and learning to modify his socializing skillsÂ and harness his gifts to discover his path to a successful life.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Mark Roithmayr,\n </strong>\n president of Autism Speaks\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRobison offers down-to-earth life advice for his â€œAspieâ€ peers and their friends, families, and teachers...recommended reading for anyone seeking to understand Aspergian children and adults\n <strong>\n  â€\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n â€”_Kirkus_\n</p>\n<p>\n " ...provides incredibly helpful advice to families learning to live with these challenges. Robisonâ€™s clear writing provides substantial insight into the mind of someone whose disorder makes clarity very, very difficult...a valuable read."_â€¬\n <strong>\n  --Booklist\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œI believe those of us with Aspergerâ€™s are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book will help you bring out those gifts.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In his bestselling memoir,Â _Look Me in the Eye_, John Elder Robison described growing up with Aspergerâ€™s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didnâ€™t exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents won him jobs with toy makers and rock bands but did little to endear him to authority figures and classmates, who were put off by his inclination to blurt out non sequiturs and avoid eye contact.\n</p>\n<p>\n By the time he was diagnosed at age forty, John had already developed a myriad of coping strategies that helped him achieve a seemingly normal, even highly successful, life. InÂ _Be Different_, Robison shares a new batch of endearing stories\n <br />\n about his childhood, adolescence, and young adult years, giving the reader a rare window into the Aspergian mind.\n</p>\n<p>\n In each story, he offers practical adviceâ€”for Aspergians and indeed for anyone who feels â€œdifferentâ€â€”on how to improve the weak communication and social skills that keep so many people from taking full advantage of their often remarkable gifts. With his trademark honesty and unapologetic eccentricity, Robison addresses questions like:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ How to read others and follow their behaviors when in uncertain social situations\n <br />\n â€¢ Why manners matter\n <br />\n â€¢ How to harness your powers of concentration to master difficult skills\n <br />\n â€¢ How to deal with bullies\n <br />\n â€¢ When to make an effort to fit in, and when to embrace eccentricity\n <br />\n â€¢ How to identify special gifts and use them to your advantage\n</p>\n<p>\n Every person, Aspergian or not, has something unique to offer the world, and every person has the capacity to create strong, loving bonds with their friends and family.Â _Be Different_Â will help readers and those they love find their path to success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4267'),
(9976, 'Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian With Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families &amp; Teachers', 'John Elder Robison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFor anyone who has difficulty fitting in, this book is fantastic.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Temple Grandin\n </strong>\n , author of Thinking in Pictures\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn a love poem to his wife, Pedro Salinas, the Spanish poet, wrote,Â â€˜Glory to the differences / between you and me.â€™ John Robison teaches us toÂ celebrate differences\n <br />\n like Salinas did, but also offers clear insight and valuableÂ advice on how to cope with the challenges that being different can create.Â This book transcends the specific case of Aspergerâ€™s syndrome andÂ is a lesson in humanity and the human condition.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Alvaro Pascual-Leone\n </strong>\n , M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical SchoolÂ and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnyone with Aspergerâ€™s, if not everyone else, will derive knowledge andÂ pleasure from the wonderful stories told in John Elder Robisonâ€™s newest book,Â Be Different. Clearly, John is one of our communityâ€™s leading voices.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Michael John Carley\n </strong>\n , author of Aspergerâ€™s from the Inside OutÂ and executive director of GRASP and ASTEP\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBe Different is a fascinating and unique guide for young peopleÂ who may be struggling with autism and feel â€˜out of syncâ€™ with theÂ world around them. John shares personal insights about growing up,Â feeling apart from his peers, and learning to modify his socializing skillsÂ and harness his gifts to discover his path to a successful life.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Mark Roithmayr,\n </strong>\n president of Autism Speaks\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRobison offers down-to-earth life advice for his â€œAspieâ€ peers and their friends, families, and teachers...recommended reading for anyone seeking to understand Aspergian children and adults\n <strong>\n  â€\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n â€”_Kirkus_\n</p>\n<p>\n " ...provides incredibly helpful advice to families learning to live with these challenges. Robisonâ€™s clear writing provides substantial insight into the mind of someone whose disorder makes clarity very, very difficult...a valuable read."_â€¬\n <strong>\n  --Booklist\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œI believe those of us with Aspergerâ€™s are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book will help you bring out those gifts.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In his bestselling memoir,Â _Look Me in the Eye_, John Elder Robison described growing up with Aspergerâ€™s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didnâ€™t exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents won him jobs with toy makers and rock bands but did little to endear him to authority figures and classmates, who were put off by his inclination to blurt out non sequiturs and avoid eye contact.\n</p>\n<p>\n By the time he was diagnosed at age forty, John had already developed a myriad of coping strategies that helped him achieve a seemingly normal, even highly successful, life. InÂ _Be Different_, Robison shares a new batch of endearing stories\n <br />\n about his childhood, adolescence, and young adult years, giving the reader a rare window into the Aspergian mind.\n</p>\n<p>\n In each story, he offers practical adviceâ€”for Aspergians and indeed for anyone who feels â€œdifferentâ€â€”on how to improve the weak communication and social skills that keep so many people from taking full advantage of their often remarkable gifts. With his trademark honesty and unapologetic eccentricity, Robison addresses questions like:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ How to read others and follow their behaviors when in uncertain social situations\n <br />\n â€¢ Why manners matter\n <br />\n â€¢ How to harness your powers of concentration to master difficult skills\n <br />\n â€¢ How to deal with bullies\n <br />\n â€¢ When to make an effort to fit in, and when to embrace eccentricity\n <br />\n â€¢ How to identify special gifts and use them to your advantage\n</p>\n<p>\n Every person, Aspergian or not, has something unique to offer the world, and every person has the capacity to create strong, loving bonds with their friends and family.Â _Be Different_Â will help readers and those they love find their path to success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13558'),
(9977, 'Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian With Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families &amp; Teachers', 'John Elder Robison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFor anyone who has difficulty fitting in, this book is fantastic.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Temple Grandin\n </strong>\n , author of Thinking in Pictures\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn a love poem to his wife, Pedro Salinas, the Spanish poet, wrote, â€˜Glory to the differences / between you and me.â€™ John Robison teaches us to celebrate differences\n <br />\n like Salinas did, but also offers clear insight and valuable advice on how to cope with the challenges that being different can create. This book transcends the specific case of Aspergerâ€™s syndrome and is a lesson in humanity and the human condition.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Alvaro Pascual-Leone\n </strong>\n , M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnyone with Aspergerâ€™s, if not everyone else, will derive knowledge and pleasure from the wonderful stories told in John Elder Robisonâ€™s newest book, Be Different. Clearly, John is one of our communityâ€™s leading voices.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Michael John Carley\n </strong>\n , author of Aspergerâ€™s from the Inside Out and executive director of GRASP and ASTEP\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBe Different is a fascinating and unique guide for young people who may be struggling with autism and feel â€˜out of syncâ€™ with the world around them. John shares personal insights about growing up, feeling apart from his peers, and learning to modify his socializing skills and harness his gifts to discover his path to a successful life.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Mark Roithmayr,\n </strong>\n president of Autism Speaks\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRobison offers down-to-earth life advice for his â€œAspieâ€ peers and their friends, families, and teachers...recommended reading for anyone seeking to understand Aspergian children and adults\n <strong>\n  â€\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n â€”_Kirkus_\n</p>\n<p>\n " ...provides incredibly helpful advice to families learning to live with these challenges. Robisonâ€™s clear writing provides substantial insight into the mind of someone whose disorder makes clarity very, very difficult...a valuable read."_â€¬\n <strong>\n  --Booklist\n </strong>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œI believe those of us with Aspergerâ€™s are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book will help you bring out those gifts.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In his bestselling memoir, _Look Me in the Eye_, John Elder Robison described growing up with Aspergerâ€™s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didnâ€™t exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents won him jobs with toy makers and rock bands but did little to endear him to authority figures and classmates, who were put off by his inclination to blurt out non sequiturs and avoid eye contact.\n</p>\n<p>\n By the time he was diagnosed at age forty, John had already developed a myriad of coping strategies that helped him achieve a seemingly normal, even highly successful, life. In _Be Different_, Robison shares a new batch of endearing stories\n <br />\n about his childhood, adolescence, and young adult years, giving the reader a rare window into the Aspergian mind.\n</p>\n<p>\n In each story, he offers practical adviceâ€”for Aspergians and indeed for anyone who feels â€œdifferentâ€â€”on how to improve the weak communication and social skills that keep so many people from taking full advantage of their often remarkable gifts. With his trademark honesty and unapologetic eccentricity, Robison addresses questions like:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ How to read others and follow their behaviors when in uncertain social situations\n <br />\n â€¢ Why manners matter\n <br />\n â€¢ How to harness your powers of concentration to master difficult skills\n <br />\n â€¢ How to deal with bullies\n <br />\n â€¢ When to make an effort to fit in, and when to embrace eccentricity\n <br />\n â€¢ How to identify special gifts and use them to your advantage\n</p>\n<p>\n Every person, Aspergian or not, has something unique to offer the world, and every person has the capacity to create strong, loving bonds with their friends and family. _Be Different_ will help readers and those they love find their path to success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21431'),
(9978, 'Be Happy!', 'Robert Holden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ""Happiness is a spiritual path. The more you learn about true happiness, the more you discover the truth of who you are, what is important, and what your life is for."" "Be Happy  "is the follow-up to Robert Holden''s best-selling "Happiness NOW " In this book, Robert gives you a front-row seat on his 8-week happiness program--famously tested by independent scientists for the BBC-TV documentary called "How to Be Happy." Step-by-step he introduces you to a set of proven techniques, principles, meditations, and insights that will help you be happy now  Key lessons include: Follow Your Joy -- stop chasing happiness and start enjoying your life as it happens. The Happiness Contract -- undo mental and emotional blocks to happiness and success. The Receiving Meditation -- increase your natural capacity for happiness and abundance. The Forgiveness Practice -- give up all hopes for a better past and "be happy now." The Gift of Happiness -- use the power of happiness to bless your life and benefit others. ""This happiness training not only changes the way you feel; it actually changes the way your brain functions."" -- Professor Davidson, Wisconsin-Madison University BBC''s "How to Be Happy "TV documentary\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9437'),
(9979, 'The Beach House', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The perfect title for the perfect beach read from the *New York Times* bestselling Author**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jane Green is one of the preeminent authors of womenâ€™s fiction today, and with each new novel, her audience grows. Greenâ€™s avid and loyal fans follow her because she writes about the true-to-life dilemmas of womenâ€”and *The Beach House* will not disappoint.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesnâ€™t care what people think. At sixty-five-years old, her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, and her family has flown. If her neighbors are away, why shouldnâ€™t she skinny dip in their swimming pools and help herself to their flowers? But when she discovers the money she thought would last forever is dwindling and she could lose her beloved house, Nan knows she has to make drastic changes.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So Nan takes out an ad: *Rooms to rent for the summer in a beautiful old Nantucket home with water views and direct access to the beach*. Slowly, people start moving into the house, filling it with noise, with laughter, and with tears. As the house comes alive again, Nan finds her family expanding. Her son comes home for the summer, and then an unexpected visitor turns all their lives upside-down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4721'),
(9980, 'The Beach House', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons'' elite-and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter''s body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone''s unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school ... and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling-and cheering-to the very last page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8023'),
(9981, 'The Beach House', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The perfect title for the perfect beach read from the *New York Times* bestselling Author**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jane Green is one of the preeminent authors of womenâ€™s fiction today, and with each new novel, her audience grows. Greenâ€™s avid and loyal fans follow her because she writes about the true-to-life dilemmas of womenâ€”and *The Beach House* will not disappoint.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesnâ€™t care what people think. At sixty-five-years old, her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, and her family has flown. If her neighbors are away, why shouldnâ€™t she skinny dip in their swimming pools and help herself to their flowers? But when she discovers the money she thought would last forever is dwindling and she could lose her beloved house, Nan knows she has to make drastic changes.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So Nan takes out an ad: *Rooms to rent for the summer in a beautiful old Nantucket home with water views and direct access to the beach*. Slowly, people start moving into the house, filling it with noise, with laughter, and with tears. As the house comes alive again, Nan finds her family expanding. Her son comes home for the summer, and then an unexpected visitor turns all their lives upside-down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9978'),
(9982, 'The beach house', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons'' elite-and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter''s body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone''s unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school ... and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling-and cheering-to the very last page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14098'),
(9983, 'The Beach House', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19893'),
(9984, 'The beach house', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons'' elite-and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter''s body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone''s unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school ... and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling-and cheering-to the very last page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19923'),
(9985, 'Beach Lane', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the close-knit community of Chesapeake Shores, Maryland, Susie O''Brien and Mack Franklin''s "not dating" claim befuddles everyone, especially since the two spend every spare minute together. Susie''s thrilled when their friendship finally heats up. Then, just when happily-ever-after seems within reach, Mack loses the job he loves and Susie faces a devastating diagnosis.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But O''Briens always unite in a crisis. Even her cousin Jess, Susie''s rival for most of their lives, becomes her staunchest supporterâ€”especially when Mack''s former lover comes to town. The stakes are higher than ever before, but Susie''s definitely up to the challengeâ€¦as long as Mack''s right there by her side.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With her roots firmly planted in the South, Sherryl Woods has written many of her more than 100 books in that distinctive setting, whether her home state of Virginia, her adopted state, Florida, or her much-adored South Carolina. She''s also especially partial to small towns, wherever they may be. A member of Novelists Inc., Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America, Sherryl divides her time between her childhood summer home overlooking the Potomac River in Colonial Beach, Virginia, and her oceanfront home, with its lighthouse view, in Key Biscayne, Florida.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12292'),
(9986, 'Beach Road', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy''s client list is woefully small - occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. When he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder that has the East Hampton world in an uproar, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime. The crime turns the glittering playground for the super-rich into a blazing inferno. Dunleavy''s client is a local hero, but Dunleavy knows the case rests atop a volcano of money, deception, and forbidden desires. His client is the perfect fall guy - unless he can find the key that unlocks the secret rooms of the gilt-shrouded set. When Dunleavy is joined by his former flame, the savvy and well-connected attorney, Kate Costello, he believes he has a chance. But payback is a bitch - especially from the rich. The violent retaliations of billionaires threatened by his investigation exceed anything Dunleavy has ever seen. With the entire nation''s eyes on him in a new Trial of the Century, Dunleavy orchestrates a series of revelations that lead to a stunning outcome - only to find afterward that the truth is wilder than anything he ever imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4819'),
(9987, 'Beach Road', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy''s client list is woefully small - occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. When he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder that has the East Hampton world in an uproar, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime. The crime turns the glittering playground for the super-rich into a blazing inferno. Dunleavy''s client is a local hero, but Dunleavy knows the case rests atop a volcano of money, deception, and forbidden desires. His client is the perfect fall guy - unless he can find the key that unlocks the secret rooms of the gilt-shrouded set. When Dunleavy is joined by his former flame, the savvy and well-connected attorney, Kate Costello, he believes he has a chance. But payback is a bitch - especially from the rich. The violent retaliations of billionaires threatened by his investigation exceed anything Dunleavy has ever seen. With the entire nation''s eyes on him in a new Trial of the Century, Dunleavy orchestrates a series of revelations that lead to a stunning outcome - only to find afterward that the truth is wilder than anything he ever imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14017');
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(9988, 'Beach Road', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy''s client list is woefully small - occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. When he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder that has the East Hampton world in an uproar, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime. The crime turns the glittering playground for the super-rich into a blazing inferno. Dunleavy''s client is a local hero, but Dunleavy knows the case rests atop a volcano of money, deception, and forbidden desires. His client is the perfect fall guy - unless he can find the key that unlocks the secret rooms of the gilt-shrouded set. When Dunleavy is joined by his former flame, the savvy and well-connected attorney, Kate Costello, he believes he has a chance. But payback is a bitch - especially from the rich. The violent retaliations of billionaires threatened by his investigation exceed anything Dunleavy has ever seen. With the entire nation''s eyes on him in a new Trial of the Century, Dunleavy orchestrates a series of revelations that lead to a stunning outcome - only to find afterward that the truth is wilder than anything he ever imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19833'),
(9989, 'The Beach', 'Alex Garland', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Alex Garland''s The Beach was published to immediate acclaim, and has since become a bestselling cult classic and a Hollywood blockbuster. Richard, a gap-year student, is introduced to a beautiful island by the mysterious Daffy. But with drugs and the glamorized violence of Vietnam War films haunting his perception of his Thai paradise, Richard soon finds the hideaway becomes a nightmare. A compulsive adrenaline rush, The Beach is an adventure you''ll never forget.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14748'),
(9990, 'The Beach', 'Alex Garland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alex Garland''s The Beach was published to immediate acclaim, and has since become a bestselling cult classic and a Hollywood blockbuster. Richard, a gap-year student, is introduced to a beautiful island by the mysterious Daffy. But with drugs and the glamorized violence of Vietnam War films haunting his perception of his Thai paradise, Richard soon finds the hideaway becomes a nightmare. A compulsive adrenaline rush, The Beach is an adventure you''ll never forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16084'),
(9991, 'The Beach', 'Alex Garland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alex Garland''s The Beach was published to immediate acclaim, and has since become a bestselling cult classic and a Hollywood blockbuster. Richard, a gap-year student, is introduced to a beautiful island by the mysterious Daffy. But with drugs and the glamorized violence of Vietnam War films haunting his perception of his Thai paradise, Richard soon finds the hideaway becomes a nightmare. A compulsive adrenaline rush, The Beach is an adventure you''ll never forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26243'),
(9992, 'Bear and His Daughter: Stories', 'Robert Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The stories collected in Bear and His Daughter span nearly thirty years - 1969 to the present - and they explore, acutely and powerfully, the humanity that unites us. In "Miserere," a widowed librarian with an unspeakable secret undertakes an unusual and grisly role in the anti-abortion crusade. "Under the Pitons" is the harrowing story of a reluctant participant in a drug-running scheme and the grim and unexpected consequences of his involvement. The title story is a riveting account of the tangled lines that weave together the relationship of a father and his grown daughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12368'),
(9993, 'The Bear and the Dragon', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Four Cassettes, 6 hoursTime and again, **Tom Clancy**''s novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive, but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events.  In *The Bear and The Dragon*, the future is very near at hand indeed.Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier.  Domestic pitfalls await him at every turn, there''s a revolution in Liberia, the Asian economy is going down the tubes, and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR - the former KGB - with a rocket-propelled grenade.  Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the assassins.  Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB?  Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here.Ryan is right.   For even while he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops specialist John Clark, to find out the truth of the matter, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions.  If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same.  If they fail--the consequences will be unspeakable.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/565'),
(9994, 'The Bear and the Dragon', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Four Cassettes, 6 hoursTime and again, **Tom Clancy**''s novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive, but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events.  In *The Bear and The Dragon*, the future is very near at hand indeed.Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier.  Domestic pitfalls await him at every turn, there''s a revolution in Liberia, the Asian economy is going down the tubes, and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR - the former KGB - with a rocket-propelled grenade.  Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the assassins.  Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB?  Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here.Ryan is right.   For even while he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops specialist John Clark, to find out the truth of the matter, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions.  If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same.  If they fail--the consequences will be unspeakable.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8857'),
(9995, 'The Bear and the Dragon', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Four Cassettes, 6 hoursTime and again, **Tom Clancy**''s novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive, but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events. In *The Bear and The Dragon*, the future is very near at hand indeed.Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier. Domestic pitfalls await him at every turn, there''s a revolution in Liberia, the Asian economy is going down the tubes, and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR - the former KGB - with a rocket-propelled grenade. Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the assassins. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here.Ryan is right. For even while he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops specialist John Clark, to find out the truth of the matter, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions. If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same. If they fail--the consequences will be unspeakable.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24409'),
(9996, 'Bear Island', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Film Crew Sails North To A Barren Arctic Island With A Killer On Board. And A Wartime Graveyard Of Ships And Men Explodes In Violence Once More&amp;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15908'),
(9997, 'Bearded Tit', 'Rory McGrath', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A poignant but hilarious journey into the arcane world of birdwatching by one of the most popular names in British comedy, Bearded Tit is Rory McGrathâ€™s story of life among birds. From a Cornish boyhood wandering gorse-tipped cliffs listening to the song of the yellowhammer with his imaginary girlfriend, or drawing gravity-defying jackdaws in class when he should have been applying himself to physics, to quoting the Latin names of birds to give himself a fighting chance with the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. As an adult, or what passes for one, Rory recounts becoming a card-carrying birdwatcher, observing his first skylarkâ€”peerless king of the summer skyâ€”while stoned; his repeatedly failed attempts to get up at the crack of dawn like the real twitchers; and his flawed bid to educate his utterly unreconstructed drinking mate Danny in the ways of birding. Roryâ€™s tale is a thoroughly educational, occasionally lyrical, and highly amusing romp through the hidden byways of birdwatching and all its attendant arcane knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1476'),
(9998, 'Bearded Tit', 'Rory McGrath', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A poignant but hilarious journey into the arcane world of birdwatching by one of the most popular names in British comedy, Bearded Tit is Rory McGrathâ€™s story of life among birds. From a Cornish boyhood wandering gorse-tipped cliffs listening to the song of the yellowhammer with his imaginary girlfriend, or drawing gravity-defying jackdaws in class when he should have been applying himself to physics, to quoting the Latin names of birds to give himself a fighting chance with the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. As an adult, or what passes for one, Rory recounts becoming a card-carrying birdwatcher, observing his first skylarkâ€”peerless king of the summer skyâ€”while stoned; his repeatedly failed attempts to get up at the crack of dawn like the real twitchers; and his flawed bid to educate his utterly unreconstructed drinking mate Danny in the ways of birding. Roryâ€™s tale is a thoroughly educational, occasionally lyrical, and highly amusing romp through the hidden byways of birdwatching and all its attendant arcane knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23428'),
(9999, 'Bearded Tit', 'Rory McGrath', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A poignant but hilarious journey into the arcane world of birdwatching by one of the most popular names in British comedy, Bearded Tit is Rory McGrathâ€™s story of life among birds. From a Cornish boyhood wandering gorse-tipped cliffs listening to the song of the yellowhammer with his imaginary girlfriend, or drawing gravity-defying jackdaws in class when he should have been applying himself to physics, to quoting the Latin names of birds to give himself a fighting chance with the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. As an adult, or what passes for one, Rory recounts becoming a card-carrying birdwatcher, observing his first skylarkâ€”peerless king of the summer skyâ€”while stoned; his repeatedly failed attempts to get up at the crack of dawn like the real twitchers; and his flawed bid to educate his utterly unreconstructed drinking mate Danny in the ways of birding. Roryâ€™s tale is a thoroughly educational, occasionally lyrical, and highly amusing romp through the hidden byways of birdwatching and all its attendant arcane knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26135'),
(10000, 'Bearers of the Black Staff', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Five hundred years have passed since the devastating demon-led war that almost exterminated humankind. Those who escaped the carnage were led to sanctuary by the boy saviour known as Hawk: the gypsy morph. But now, the unimaginable has come to pass: the cocoon of protective magic surrounding the valley has vanished. When Sider Ament, last surviving Knight of the Word, detects unknown predators stalking the valley, and Trackers from the human village of Glensk Wood, find two of their own gruesomely killed, there can be no doubt: the once safe haven of generations has been laid bare. Together, the young Trackers, the aging Knight, and a daring Elf princess race to spread word of the encroaching danger. But suspicion and hostility among their countrymen threaten to doom their efforts from within, while beyond the breached borders, a ruthless Troll army masses for invasion. Standing firm between the two, the last wielder of the black staff and its awesome magic must find a successor to carry on the fight against the cresting new wave of evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/747'),
(10001, 'Bearers of the Black Staff', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Five hundred years have passed since the devastating demon-led war that almost exterminated humankind. Those who escaped the carnage were led to sanctuary by the boy saviour known as Hawk: the gypsy morph. But now, the unimaginable has come to pass: the cocoon of protective magic surrounding the valley has vanished. When Sider Ament, last surviving Knight of the Word, detects unknown predators stalking the valley, and Trackers from the human village of Glensk Wood, find two of their own gruesomely killed, there can be no doubt: the once safe haven of generations has been laid bare. Together, the young Trackers, the aging Knight, and a daring Elf princess race to spread word of the encroaching danger. But suspicion and hostility among their countrymen threaten to doom their efforts from within, while beyond the breached borders, a ruthless Troll army masses for invasion. Standing firm between the two, the last wielder of the black staff and its awesome magic must find a successor to carry on the fight against the cresting new wave of evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24140'),
(10002, 'The Bears&#39; Vacation', 'Stan Berenstain &amp; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Illus. in full color. Papa Bear demonstrates his seaside safety rules--with disastrous results.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8133'),
(10003, 'The Beast Master', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Left homeless by the war that reduced Terra to a radioactive cinder, Hosteen Storm â€“ Navaho commando and master of beasts â€“ is drawn to the planet Arzor, to kill a man he has never met.On that dangerous frontier world, aliens and human colonists share the land in an uneasy truce. But something is upsetting the balance, and Storm is caught in the middle. He had thought the war was over â€“ but was it?â€œMiss Norton endows this story of a homeless, revenge-driven man with her own inimitable touch. The result is a compelling and compassionate tale.â€ â€“ The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15891'),
(10004, 'Beast Master&#39;s Circus', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15936'),
(10005, 'Beastchild', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6073'),
(10006, 'Beastchild', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17855'),
(10007, 'Beastchild', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27418'),
(10008, 'Beat the Reaper: A Novel', 'Josh Bazell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan''s worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a  past he''d prefer to keep hidden.  Whether it''s a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pietro "Bearclaw" Brnwna is a hitman for the mob, with a genius for violence, a well-earned fear of sharks, and an overly close relationship with the Federal Witness Relocation Program.  More likely to leave a trail of dead gangsters than a molecule of evidence, he''s the last person you want to see in your hospital room.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nicholas LoBrutto,  aka Eddy Squillante, is Dr. Brown''s new patient, with three months to live and a very strange idea:  that Peter Brown and Pietro Brnwa might-just might-be the same person ...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, with the mob, the government, and death itself descending on the hospital, Peter has to buy time and do whatever it takes to keep his patients, himself, and his last shot at redemption alive.  To get through the next eight hours-and somehow beat the reaper.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Spattered in adrenaline-fueled action and bone-saw-sharp dialogue, BEAT THE REAPER is a debut thriller so utterly original you won''t be able to guess what happens next, and so shockingly entertaining you won''t be able to put it down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4104'),
(10009, 'Beat the Reaper: A Novel', 'Josh Bazell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan''s worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a  past he''d prefer to keep hidden.  Whether it''s a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pietro "Bearclaw" Brnwna is a hitman for the mob, with a genius for violence, a well-earned fear of sharks, and an overly close relationship with the Federal Witness Relocation Program.  More likely to leave a trail of dead gangsters than a molecule of evidence, he''s the last person you want to see in your hospital room.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nicholas LoBrutto,  aka Eddy Squillante, is Dr. Brown''s new patient, with three months to live and a very strange idea:  that Peter Brown and Pietro Brnwa might-just might-be the same person ...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, with the mob, the government, and death itself descending on the hospital, Peter has to buy time and do whatever it takes to keep his patients, himself, and his last shot at redemption alive.  To get through the next eight hours-and somehow beat the reaper.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Spattered in adrenaline-fueled action and bone-saw-sharp dialogue, BEAT THE REAPER is a debut thriller so utterly original you won''t be able to guess what happens next, and so shockingly entertaining you won''t be able to put it down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8474'),
(10010, 'Beat the reaper: a novel', 'Josh Bazell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan''s worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he''d prefer to keep hidden. Whether it''s a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. Pietro "Bearclaw" Brnwna is a hitman for the mob, with a genius for violence, a well-earned fear of sharks, and an overly close relationship with the Federal Witness Relocation Program. More likely to leave a trail of dead gangsters than a molecule of evidence, he''s the last person you want to see in your hospital room. Nicholas LoBrutto, aka Eddy Squillante, is Dr. Brown''s new patient, with three months to live and a very strange idea: that Peter Brown and Pietro Brnwa might-just might-be the same person ... Now, with the mob, the government, and death itself descending on the hospital, Peter has to buy time and do whatever it takes to keep his patients, himself, and his last shot at redemption alive. To get through the next eight hours-and somehow beat the reaper. Spattered in adrenaline-fueled action and bone-saw-sharp dialogue, BEAT THE REAPER is a debut thriller so utterly original you won''t be able to guess what happens next, and so shockingly entertaining you won''t be able to put it down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20464'),
(10011, 'Beat Your Ticket: Go to Court &amp; Win', 'David Wayne Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attorney Brown states in his introduction that there are many reasons why municipalities may issue traffic tickets, not all of them related to unsafe or illegal driving. His book targets those who feel they have been unfairly ticketed and those who through "bad luck or indiscretion" have a need to fight a ticket. He covers types of violations, speed detection methods, how to read a ticket, understanding the charges, and how to prepare, research, and argue a case. He provides a rich appendix with summaries of traffic court rules, citations to the motor vehicle laws of each state, and references to related web sites. The text is highlighted with icons that point up cross references, tactical hints, and warnings about potential problems. Brown does not minimize the homework that needs to be done to challenge a traffic ticket successfully, and his chapter on reading the law and performing legal research is nicely done. Recommended for most public libraries.AJoan Pedzich, Harris, Beach &amp; Wilcox, Rochester, NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "State and local governments are increasingly relying on traffic ticket revenue for daily operations. Beat Your Ticket gives responsible motorists the means to protect their rights." --\n <em>\n  James J. Baxter, President, National Motorists Association\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is one of [our] consumer picks of the year, and a book every driver should own." --\n <em>\n  The Electric Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Covers... when to seek professional help, when to take the traffic-school option, how to research for court, and how to conduct yourself before the judge. --\n <em>\n  Mike Maza,Dallas Morning News\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6216'),
(10012, 'Beat Your Ticket: Go to Court &amp; Win', 'David Wayne Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attorney Brown states in his introduction that there are many reasons why municipalities may issue traffic tickets, not all of them related to unsafe or illegal driving. His book targets those who feel they have been unfairly ticketed and those who through "bad luck or indiscretion" have a need to fight a ticket. He covers types of violations, speed detection methods, how to read a ticket, understanding the charges, and how to prepare, research, and argue a case. He provides a rich appendix with summaries of traffic court rules, citations to the motor vehicle laws of each state, and references to related web sites. The text is highlighted with icons that point up cross references, tactical hints, and warnings about potential problems. Brown does not minimize the homework that needs to be done to challenge a traffic ticket successfully, and his chapter on reading the law and performing legal research is nicely done. Recommended for most public libraries.AJoan Pedzich, Harris, Beach &amp; Wilcox, Rochester, NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "State and local governments are increasingly relying on traffic ticket revenue for daily operations. Beat Your Ticket gives responsible motorists the means to protect their rights." --\n <em>\n  James J. Baxter, President, National Motorists Association\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is one of [our] consumer picks of the year, and a book every driver should own." --\n <em>\n  The Electric Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Covers... when to seek professional help, when to take the traffic-school option, how to research for court, and how to conduct yourself before the judge. --\n <em>\n  Mike Maza,Dallas Morning News\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8638'),
(10013, 'Beat Your Ticket: Go to Court &amp; Win (5th Edition)', 'David Wayne Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attorney Brown states in his introduction that there are many reasons why municipalities may issue traffic tickets, not all of them related to unsafe or illegal driving. His book targets those who feel they have been unfairly ticketed and those who through "bad luck or indiscretion" have a need to fight a ticket. He covers types of violations, speed detection methods, how to read a ticket, understanding the charges, and how to prepare, research, and argue a case. He provides a rich appendix with summaries of traffic court rules, citations to the motor vehicle laws of each state, and references to related web sites. The text is highlighted with icons that point up cross references, tactical hints, and warnings about potential problems. Brown does not minimize the homework that needs to be done to challenge a traffic ticket successfully, and his chapter on reading the law and performing legal research is nicely done. Recommended for most public libraries.AJoan Pedzich, Harris, Beach &amp; Wilcox, Rochester, NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "State and local governments are increasingly relying on traffic ticket revenue for daily operations. Beat Your Ticket gives responsible motorists the means to protect their rights." --\n <em>\n  James J. Baxter, President, National Motorists Association\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is one of [our] consumer picks of the year, and a book every driver should own." --\n <em>\n  The Electric Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Covers... when to seek professional help, when to take the traffic-school option, how to research for court, and how to conduct yourself before the judge. --\n <em>\n  Mike Maza,Dallas Morning News\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17252'),
(10014, 'Beaten, Seared, and Sauced: On Becoming a Chef at the Culinary Institute of America', 'Jonathan Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Millions of people fantasize about leaving their old lives behind, enrolling in cooking school, and training to become a chef. But for those who make the decision, the difference between the dream and reality can be gigantic--especially at the top cooking school in the country. For the first time in the Culinary Institute of America''s history, a book will give readers the firsthand experience of being a full-time student facing all of the challenges of the legendary course in its entirety.\n</p>\n<p>\n On the eve of his thirty-eighth birthday and after shuffling through a series of unsatisfying jobs, Jonathan Dixon enrolled in the CIA (on a scholarship) to pursue his passion for cooking. In Beaten, Seared, and Sauced he tells hilarious and harrowing stories of life at the CIA as he and his classmates navigate the institution''s many rules and customs under the watchful and critical eyes of their instructors. Each part of the curriculum is covered, from knife skills and stock making to the high-pressure cooking tests and the daunting wine course (the undoing of many a student). Dixon also details his externship in the kitchen of Danny Meyer''s Tabla, giving readers a look into the inner workings of a celebrated New York City restaurant.\n</p>\n<p>\n With the benefit of his age to give perspective to his experience, Dixon delivers a gripping day-to-day chronicle of his transformation from amateur to professional. From the daily tongue-lashings in class to learning the ropes--fast--at a top NYC kitchen, Beaten, Seared, and Sauced is a fascinating and intimate first-person view of one of America''s most famous culinary institutions and one of the world''s most coveted jobs.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9386'),
(10015, 'Beatrice and Virgil', 'Yann Martel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Fate takes many forms. . . .  When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkeyâ€”named **Beatrice and Virgil**â€”and the epic journey they undertake together.With all the spirit and originality that made *Life of Pi* so beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.\n  <br />\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Fate takes many forms. . . . When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey-named Beatrice and Virgil-and the epic journey they undertake together. With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Piso beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/187'),
(10016, 'Beatrice and Virgil', 'Yann Martel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Fate takes many forms. . . .  When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkeyâ€”named **Beatrice and Virgil**â€”and the epic journey they undertake together.With all the spirit and originality that made *Life of Pi* so beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.\n  <br />\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Fate takes many forms. . . . When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey-named Beatrice and Virgil-and the epic journey they undertake together. With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Piso beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11286'),
(10017, 'Beatrice and Virgil', 'Yann Martel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fate takes many forms. . . . When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkeyâ€”named **Beatrice and Virgil**â€”and the epic journey they undertake together.With all the spirit and originality that made *Life of Pi* so beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity. SUMMARY: Fate takes many forms. . . . When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey-named Beatrice and Virgil-and the epic journey they undertake together. With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Piso beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24780'),
(10018, 'The Beautiful and Damned', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Publisher: New York: Scribner Publication date: 1922 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5661'),
(10019, 'The Beautiful and Damned', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Publisher: New York: Scribner Publication date: 1922 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9703'),
(10020, 'The Beautiful and Damned', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Publisher: New York: Scribner Publication date: 1922 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15076'),
(10021, 'The Beautiful and Damned', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Publisher: New York: Scribner Publication date: 1922 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19112'),
(10022, 'The Beautiful and Damned', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Publisher: New York: Scribner Publication date: 1922 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27830'),
(10023, 'Beautiful Assassin', 'Michael C. White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A breathtaking tale of love, loyalty, and intrigue set in the early days of World War II from the acclaimed "New York Times" Notable Book author of "Soul Catcher," which "USA Today" hailed as "a marvelous historical novel"  World War II threatens to engulf the globe. The beleaguered Soviets, struggling to hold back the rising German tide, face despair and defeat daily. Yet just as all seems lost, a fearless female sniper named Tat''yana Levchenko gains fame in the Battle of Sevastopol with her remarkable composure and stunning skill. Offering hope in her nation''s darkest moments, she becomes a Soviet hero, and word of her beauty and prowess eventually reaches Washington, D.C. Soon, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt invites Tat''yana to visit America and tour the country with her.  For the Soviets, Tat''yana''s newfound friendship with the wife of the most powerful man in the world is an opportunity to garner public support for a much-needed second front in the war--but it''s also a chance to gather information about President Roosevelt''s plans. Surrounded by those who would exploit her position, Tat''yana becomes a pawn in a battle for information, and she is forced to question the motivations of everyone she knows, including the American captain who has been assigned as her translator. But as quickly as she rises to fame, Tat''yana vanishes. Did she defect? Was she silenced--and if so, by whom? Decades later, a clever journalist will discover Tat''yana''s story . . . and reveal the truth.  In "Beautiful Assassin," Michael White delivers a heartrending story of war, betrayal, and a mother''s love that can never be extinguished. Lyrical, evocative, and powerfully moving, this is a tale you will not soon forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2875'),
(10024, 'Beautiful Assassin', 'Michael C. White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A breathtaking tale of love, loyalty, and intrigue set in the early days of World War II from the acclaimed "New York Times" Notable Book author of "Soul Catcher," which "USA Today" hailed as "a marvelous historical novel"  World War II threatens to engulf the globe. The beleaguered Soviets, struggling to hold back the rising German tide, face despair and defeat daily. Yet just as all seems lost, a fearless female sniper named Tat''yana Levchenko gains fame in the Battle of Sevastopol with her remarkable composure and stunning skill. Offering hope in her nation''s darkest moments, she becomes a Soviet hero, and word of her beauty and prowess eventually reaches Washington, D.C. Soon, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt invites Tat''yana to visit America and tour the country with her.  For the Soviets, Tat''yana''s newfound friendship with the wife of the most powerful man in the world is an opportunity to garner public support for a much-needed second front in the war--but it''s also a chance to gather information about President Roosevelt''s plans. Surrounded by those who would exploit her position, Tat''yana becomes a pawn in a battle for information, and she is forced to question the motivations of everyone she knows, including the American captain who has been assigned as her translator. But as quickly as she rises to fame, Tat''yana vanishes. Did she defect? Was she silenced--and if so, by whom? Decades later, a clever journalist will discover Tat''yana''s story . . . and reveal the truth.  In "Beautiful Assassin," Michael White delivers a heartrending story of war, betrayal, and a mother''s love that can never be extinguished. Lyrical, evocative, and powerfully moving, this is a tale you will not soon forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13334'),
(10025, 'Beautiful Assassin', 'Michael C. White', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A breathtaking tale of love, loyalty, and intrigue set in the early days of World War II from the acclaimed "New York Times" Notable Book author of "Soul Catcher," which "USA Today" hailed as "a marvelous historical novel" World War II threatens to engulf the globe. The beleaguered Soviets, struggling to hold back the rising German tide, face despair and defeat daily. Yet just as all seems lost, a fearless female sniper named Tat''yana Levchenko gains fame in the Battle of Sevastopol with her remarkable composure and stunning skill. Offering hope in her nation''s darkest moments, she becomes a Soviet hero, and word of her beauty and prowess eventually reaches Washington, D.C. Soon, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt invites Tat''yana to visit America and tour the country with her. For the Soviets, Tat''yana''s newfound friendship with the wife of the most powerful man in the world is an opportunity to garner public support for a much-needed second front in the war--but it''s also a chance to gather information about President Roosevelt''s plans. Surrounded by those who would exploit her position, Tat''yana becomes a pawn in a battle for information, and she is forced to question the motivations of everyone she knows, including the American captain who has been assigned as her translator. But as quickly as she rises to fame, Tat''yana vanishes. Did she defect? Was she silenced--and if so, by whom? Decades later, a clever journalist will discover Tat''yana''s story . . . and reveal the truth. In "Beautiful Assassin," Michael White delivers a heartrending story of war, betrayal, and a mother''s love that can never be extinguished. Lyrical, evocative, and powerfully moving, this is a tale you will not soon forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21900'),
(10026, 'The Beautiful Between', 'Alyssa B. Sheinmel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9â€“11â€”Connelly Sternin, 16, moves through her New York City high school on cruise control. She is an average student who doesn''t get into trouble, doesn''t sit with the cool kids, and has a quiet home life. She fantasizes that she is living in a fairy tale and sees herself as Rapunzel, confined in an Upper East Side tower amid college applications and SAT scores. She sees wealthy Jeremy Cole as the prince of their school: loved and respected by all. What she doesn''t see coming is a friendship with him based on tragedyâ€”his younger sister has leukemiaâ€”and secretsâ€”Connelly is preoccupied with learning how her father died. Jeremy knows more about her life than she does, and together they find the fortitude to face the present and the past. Although the narrative concerns death and lies, this first novel is not dark, but instead full of small moments and quiet realism. Connelly and Jeremy''s friendship, which may turn into romance, is realistically portrayed as deepening over time. The story''s pace is steady. Although the buildup to the climaxâ€”Connelly confronts her mother about her fatherâ€”is better paced, and more creative and satisfying than the conflict itself, overall this is a terrific alternative to the clique-y high school novels that are all sex, drugs, and rock ''n'' roll.â€”_Geri Diorio, The Ridgefield Library, CT_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Endearing, realistic and heart-wrenching, Sheinmel offers a thoughtful look at teens." â€”_The New York Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sheinmel makes an impressive debut with an absorbing tale of unlikely friendship, loss, and family secrets." - Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "Satisfying and believable"- Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n<p>\n Full of small moments and quiet realism. -\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7683'),
(10027, 'The Beautiful Between', 'Alyssa B. Sheinmel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9â€“11â€”Connelly Sternin, 16, moves through her New York City high school on cruise control. She is an average student who doesn''t get into trouble, doesn''t sit with the cool kids, and has a quiet home life. She fantasizes that she is living in a fairy tale and sees herself as Rapunzel, confined in an Upper East Side tower amid college applications and SAT scores. She sees wealthy Jeremy Cole as the prince of their school: loved and respected by all. What she doesn''t see coming is a friendship with him based on tragedyâ€”his younger sister has leukemiaâ€”and secretsâ€”Connelly is preoccupied with learning how her father died. Jeremy knows more about her life than she does, and together they find the fortitude to face the present and the past. Although the narrative concerns death and lies, this first novel is not dark, but instead full of small moments and quiet realism. Connelly and Jeremy''s friendship, which may turn into romance, is realistically portrayed as deepening over time. The story''s pace is steady. Although the buildup to the climaxâ€”Connelly confronts her mother about her fatherâ€”is better paced, and more creative and satisfying than the conflict itself, overall this is a terrific alternative to the clique-y high school novels that are all sex, drugs, and rock ''n'' roll.â€”_Geri Diorio, The Ridgefield Library, CT_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Endearing, realistic and heart-wrenching, Sheinmel offers a thoughtful look at teens." â€”_The New York Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sheinmel makes an impressive debut with an absorbing tale of unlikely friendship, loss, and family secrets." - Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "Satisfying and believable"- Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n<p>\n Full of small moments and quiet realism. -\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12636'),
(10028, 'The Beautiful Between', 'Alyssa B. Sheinmel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9â€“11â€”Connelly Sternin, 16, moves through her New York City high school on cruise control. She is an average student who doesn''t get into trouble, doesn''t sit with the cool kids, and has a quiet home life. She fantasizes that she is living in a fairy tale and sees herself as Rapunzel, confined in an Upper East Side tower amid college applications and SAT scores. She sees wealthy Jeremy Cole as the prince of their school: loved and respected by all. What she doesn''t see coming is a friendship with him based on tragedyâ€”his younger sister has leukemiaâ€”and secretsâ€”Connelly is preoccupied with learning how her father died. Jeremy knows more about her life than she does, and together they find the fortitude to face the present and the past. Although the narrative concerns death and lies, this first novel is not dark, but instead full of small moments and quiet realism. Connelly and Jeremy''s friendship, which may turn into romance, is realistically portrayed as deepening over time. The story''s pace is steady. Although the buildup to the climaxâ€”Connelly confronts her mother about her fatherâ€”is better paced, and more creative and satisfying than the conflict itself, overall this is a terrific alternative to the clique-y high school novels that are all sex, drugs, and rock ''n'' roll.â€”_Geri Diorio, The Ridgefield Library, CT_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Endearing, realistic and heart-wrenching, Sheinmel offers a thoughtful look at teens." â€”_The New York Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sheinmel makes an impressive debut with an absorbing tale of unlikely friendship, loss, and family secrets." - Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "Satisfying and believable"- Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n<p>\n Full of small moments and quiet realism. -\n <em>\n  School Library Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16195');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(10029, 'Beautiful Boy: A Father&#39;s Journey Through His Son&#39;s Addiction', 'David Sheff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best of the Month, February 2008\n  </strong>\n  : From as early as grade school, the world seemed to be on Nic Sheff''s string. Bright and athletic, he excelled in any setting and appeared destined for greatness. Yet as childhood exuberance faded into teenage angst, the precocious boy found himself going down a much different path. Seduced by the illicit world of drugs and alcohol, he quickly found himself caught in the clutches of addiction.\n  <em>\n   Beautiful Boy\n  </em>\n  is Nic''s story, but from the perspective of his father, David. Achingly honest, it chronicles the betrayal, pain, and terrifying question marks that haunt the loved ones of an addict. Many respond to addiction with a painful oath of silence, but David Sheff opens up personal wounds to reinforce that it is a disease, and must be treated as such. Most importantly, his journey provides those in similar situations with a commodity that they can never lose: hope\n  <em>\n   --Dave Callanan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Expanding on his New York Times Magazine article, Sheff chronicles his son''s downward spiral into addiction and the impact on him and his family. A bright, capable teenager, Nic began trying mind- and mood-altering substances when he was 17. In months, use became abuse, then abuse became addiction. By the time Sheff knew of his son''s condition, Nic was strung out on meth, the highly potent stimulant. While his son struggles to get clean, his second wife and two younger children are pulled helplessly into the drama. Sheff, as the parent of an addict, cycles through denial and acceptance and resistance. The author was already a journalist of considerable standing when this painful story began to unfold, and his impulse for detail serves him personally as well as professionally: there are hard, solid facts about meth and the kinds of havoc it wreaks on individuals, families and communities both urban and rural. His journey is long and harrowing, but Sheff does not spare himself or anyone else from keen professional scrutiny any more than he was himself spared the painsâ€”and joysâ€”of watching a loved one struggling with addiction and recovery. Real recovery createsâ€”and can itself beâ€”its own reward; this is an honest, hopeful book, coming at a propitious moment in the meth epidemic.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12394'),
(10030, 'Beautiful Creatures', 'Kami Garcia &amp; Margaret Stohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Is falling in love the beginning . . . or the end? Beautiful Creatures, a beautiful new young adult book by Kami Garcia &amp; Margaret Stohl.In Ethan Wate''s hometown there lies the darkest of secrets . . .There is a girl.Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes.There is a curse.On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it''s been promised.And no one can stop it.In the end, there is a grave.Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided.Ethan never even saw it coming.Web site: beautifulcreaturesthebook.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3913'),
(10031, 'Beautiful Creatures', 'Kami Garcia &amp; Margaret Stohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Is falling in love the beginning . . . or the end? Beautiful Creatures, a beautiful new young adult book by Kami Garcia &amp; Margaret Stohl.In Ethan Wate''s hometown there lies the darkest of secrets . . .There is a girl.Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes.There is a curse.On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it''s been promised.And no one can stop it.In the end, there is a grave.Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided.Ethan never even saw it coming.Web site: beautifulcreaturesthebook.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9851'),
(10032, 'Beautiful Creatures', 'Kami Garcia; Margaret Stohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Is falling in love the beginning . . . or the end? Beautiful Creatures, a beautiful new young adult book by Kami Garcia &amp; Margaret Stohl.In Ethan Wate''s hometown there lies the darkest of secrets . . .There is a girl.Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes.There is a curse.On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it''s been promised.And no one can stop it.In the end, there is a grave.Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided.Ethan never even saw it coming.Web site: beautifulcreaturesthebook.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20543'),
(10033, 'A Beautiful Place to Die', 'Malla Nunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper -- a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a morally complex tale rich with authenticity, Nunn takes readers to Jacob''s Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect, dividing a nation into black and white while supposedly healing the political rifts between the Afrikaners and the English. Tensions simmer as the fault line between the oppressed and the oppressors cuts deeper, but it''s not until an Afrikaner police officer is found dead that emotions more dangerous than anyone thought possible boil to the surface.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder, his mission is preempted by the powerful police Security Branch, who are dedicated to their campaign to flush out black communist radicals. But Detective Cooper isn''t interested in political expediency and has never been one for making friends. He may be modest, but he radiates intelligence and certainly won''t be getting on his knees before those in power. Instead, he strikes out on his own, following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of Captain Pretorius, a man whose relationships with the black and coloured residents of the town he ruled were more complicated and more human than anyone could have imagined.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The first in her Detective Emmanuel Cooper series, *A Beautiful Place to Die* marks the debut of a talented writer who reads like a brilliant combination of Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene. It is a tale of murder, passion, corruption, and the corrosive double standard that defined an apartheid nation. I\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3199'),
(10034, 'A Beautiful Place to Die', 'Malla Nunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper -- a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a morally complex tale rich with authenticity, Nunn takes readers to Jacob''s Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect, dividing a nation into black and white while supposedly healing the political rifts between the Afrikaners and the English. Tensions simmer as the fault line between the oppressed and the oppressors cuts deeper, but it''s not until an Afrikaner police officer is found dead that emotions more dangerous than anyone thought possible boil to the surface.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder, his mission is preempted by the powerful police Security Branch, who are dedicated to their campaign to flush out black communist radicals. But Detective Cooper isn''t interested in political expediency and has never been one for making friends. He may be modest, but he radiates intelligence and certainly won''t be getting on his knees before those in power. Instead, he strikes out on his own, following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of Captain Pretorius, a man whose relationships with the black and coloured residents of the town he ruled were more complicated and more human than anyone could have imagined.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The first in her Detective Emmanuel Cooper series, *A Beautiful Place to Die* marks the debut of a talented writer who reads like a brilliant combination of Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene. It is a tale of murder, passion, corruption, and the corrosive double standard that defined an apartheid nation. I\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11667'),
(10035, 'A Beautiful Place to Die', 'Malla Nunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper -- a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed.** In a morally complex tale rich with authenticity, Nunn takes readers to Jacob''s Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect, dividing a nation into black and white while supposedly healing the political rifts between the Afrikaners and the English. Tensions simmer as the fault line between the oppressed and the oppressors cuts deeper, but it''s not until an Afrikaner police officer is found dead that emotions more dangerous than anyone thought possible boil to the surface. When Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder, his mission is preempted by the powerful police Security Branch, who are dedicated to their campaign to flush out black communist radicals. But Detective Cooper isn''t interested in political expediency and has never been one for making friends. He may be modest, but he radiates intelligence and certainly won''t be getting on his knees before those in power. Instead, he strikes out on his own, following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of Captain Pretorius, a man whose relationships with the black and coloured residents of the town he ruled were more complicated and more human than anyone could have imagined. The first in her Detective Emmanuel Cooper series, *A Beautiful Place to Die* marks the debut of a talented writer who reads like a brilliant combination of Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene. It is a tale of murder, passion, corruption, and the corrosive double standard that defined an apartheid nation. I\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21325'),
(10036, 'The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World&#39;s Poorest People Are Educating Themselves', 'James Tooley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tooley (_Reclaiming Education_) documents his surprising finding that private schools are providing quality education to millions of poor children in the developing world. Whereas development experts insist that the path out of poverty lies in investment in public schools, the author draws on his fieldwork in India, China and Africa to argue that small entrepreneurs are educating the poor. In one region of India, 80% of urban children and 30% of rural children attend private schools; in China''s Gansu province 586 private schools are located in small villages, even though the state prides itself on its public system. Contrary to accepted wisdom, the modest fees of private schools are within reach of most, and parents find them superior to public schools that are often riddled with corruption and incompetence. Tooley argues that development funds be invested to support these institutions, through vouchers to parents and microfinance loans to the schools. The author''s engaging style transforms what could have been a dry if startling research report into a moving account of how poor parents struggle against great odds to provide a rich educational experience to their children.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Everyone from Bono to the United Nations is looking for a miracle to bring schooling within reach of the poorest children on Earth. James Tooley found one hiding in plain sight. While researching private schools in India for the World Bank, and worried he was doing little to help the poor, Tooley wandered into the slums of Hyderabad''s Old City. Shocked to find it overflowing with tiny, parentfunded schools filled with energized students, he set out to discover if schools like these could help achieve universal education. Named after Mahatma Gandhi''s phrase for the schools of pre-colonial India, The Beautiful Tree recounts Tooley''s journey from the largest shanty town in Africa to the hinterlands of Gansu, China. It introduces readers to the families and teachers who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own schools and educating themselves.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4675'),
(10037, 'The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World&#39;s Poorest People Are Educating Themselves', 'James Tooley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tooley (_Reclaiming Education_) documents his surprising finding that private schools are providing quality education to millions of poor children in the developing world. Whereas development experts insist that the path out of poverty lies in investment in public schools, the author draws on his fieldwork in India, China and Africa to argue that small entrepreneurs are educating the poor. In one region of India, 80% of urban children and 30% of rural children attend private schools; in China''s Gansu province 586 private schools are located in small villages, even though the state prides itself on its public system. Contrary to accepted wisdom, the modest fees of private schools are within reach of most, and parents find them superior to public schools that are often riddled with corruption and incompetence. Tooley argues that development funds be invested to support these institutions, through vouchers to parents and microfinance loans to the schools. The author''s engaging style transforms what could have been a dry if startling research report into a moving account of how poor parents struggle against great odds to provide a rich educational experience to their children.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Everyone from Bono to the United Nations is looking for a miracle to bring schooling within reach of the poorest children on Earth. James Tooley found one hiding in plain sight. While researching private schools in India for the World Bank, and worried he was doing little to help the poor, Tooley wandered into the slums of Hyderabad''s Old City. Shocked to find it overflowing with tiny, parentfunded schools filled with energized students, he set out to discover if schools like these could help achieve universal education. Named after Mahatma Gandhi''s phrase for the schools of pre-colonial India, The Beautiful Tree recounts Tooley''s journey from the largest shanty town in Africa to the hinterlands of Gansu, China. It introduces readers to the families and teachers who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own schools and educating themselves.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13099'),
(10038, 'The beautiful tree: a personal journey into how the world&#39;s poorest people are educating themselves', 'James Tooley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tooley (_Reclaiming Education_) documents his surprising finding that private schools are providing quality education to millions of poor children in the developing world. Whereas development experts insist that the path out of poverty lies in investment in public schools, the author draws on his fieldwork in India, China and Africa to argue that small entrepreneurs are educating the poor. In one region of India, 80% of urban children and 30% of rural children attend private schools; in China''s Gansu province 586 private schools are located in small villages, even though the state prides itself on its public system. Contrary to accepted wisdom, the modest fees of private schools are within reach of most, and parents find them superior to public schools that are often riddled with corruption and incompetence. Tooley argues that development funds be invested to support these institutions, through vouchers to parents and microfinance loans to the schools. The author''s engaging style transforms what could have been a dry if startling research report into a moving account of how poor parents struggle against great odds to provide a rich educational experience to their children.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Everyone from Bono to the United Nations is looking for a miracle to bring schooling within reach of the poorest children on Earth. James Tooley found one hiding in plain sight. While researching private schools in India for the World Bank, and worried he was doing little to help the poor, Tooley wandered into the slums of Hyderabad''s Old City. Shocked to find it overflowing with tiny, parentfunded schools filled with energized students, he set out to discover if schools like these could help achieve universal education. Named after Mahatma Gandhi''s phrase for the schools of pre-colonial India, The Beautiful Tree recounts Tooley''s journey from the largest shanty town in Africa to the hinterlands of Gansu, China. It introduces readers to the families and teachers who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own schools and educating themselves.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19965'),
(10039, 'Beauty and the Feast', 'Julia Barrett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eva Raines is an uncomplicated country girl who''s all about food. Eva moves to the Napa Valley where her culinary skills come to the attention of the owners of a start-up, All Things to All People, and Eva finds her niche as a personal chef. Now all she needs is a man as perfect as her cooking, but she has serious doubts that such a creature exists.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When wealthy entrepreneur, winery owner, and noted lothario, Gabriel Abbott, makes plans to seduce his flavor of the month, his assistant hires All Things to All People to cater a gourmet dinner. Eva expects to use her way with food to showcase the startup. What she unexpectedly discovers is that her culinary skills showcase far more.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Once Gabriel finds himself seduced by Eva''s voice, and the sensual flavors and textures of her food, his previous plans are quickly forgotten. He begins to obsess about meeting his little chef in person. But when Eva and Gabe finally come face to face, the question is, how hot will their fire burn?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3961'),
(10040, 'Beauty and the Feast', 'Julia Barrett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eva Raines is an uncomplicated country girl who''s all about food. Eva moves to the Napa Valley where her culinary skills come to the attention of the owners of a start-up, All Things to All People, and Eva finds her niche as a personal chef. Now all she needs is a man as perfect as her cooking, but she has serious doubts that such a creature exists.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When wealthy entrepreneur, winery owner, and noted lothario, Gabriel Abbott, makes plans to seduce his flavor of the month, his assistant hires All Things to All People to cater a gourmet dinner. Eva expects to use her way with food to showcase the startup. What she unexpectedly discovers is that her culinary skills showcase far more.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Once Gabriel finds himself seduced by Eva''s voice, and the sensual flavors and textures of her food, his previous plans are quickly forgotten. He begins to obsess about meeting his little chef in person. But when Eva and Gabe finally come face to face, the question is, how hot will their fire burn?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8400'),
(10041, 'Beauty and the Feast', 'Julia Barrett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eva Raines is an uncomplicated country girl who''s all about food. Eva moves to the Napa Valley where her culinary skills come to the attention of the owners of a start-up, All Things to All People, and Eva finds her niche as a personal chef. Now all she needs is a man as perfect as her cooking, but she has serious doubts that such a creature exists. When wealthy entrepreneur, winery owner, and noted lothario, Gabriel Abbott, makes plans to seduce his flavor of the month, his assistant hires All Things to All People to cater a gourmet dinner. Eva expects to use her way with food to showcase the startup. What she unexpectedly discovers is that her culinary skills showcase far more. Once Gabriel finds himself seduced by Eva''s voice, and the sensual flavors and textures of her food, his previous plans are quickly forgotten. He begins to obsess about meeting his little chef in person. But when Eva and Gabe finally come face to face, the question is, how hot will their fire burn?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20588'),
(10042, 'The Beauty Diet: Looking Great Has Never Been So Delicious', 'Lisa Drayer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The secret to glowing skin, brighter eyes, whiter teeth, shinier hair, and stronger nails**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n According to nationally known nutritionist Lisa Drayer, itâ€™s not what you put on your body, but what you put in your body that makes you beautiful. Drayer''s groundbreaking guide reveals the Top 10 Beauty Foods--natureâ€™s best kept secrets for glowing skin, fuller hair, healthier nails, brighter eyes, and whiter teeth. Her easy-to-follow programâ€”including a mouthwatering four-week meal plan with more than 100 recipesâ€”unlocks the amazing power of these Beauty Foods and makes every part of your body look and feel absolutely fantastic.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Here are the Top 10 Beauty Foods**    Wild Salmon    Yogurt     Blueberries    Spinach    Kiwis    Tomatoes    Oysters    Sweet Potatoes    Walnuts    Dark Chocolate\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3436'),
(10043, 'The Beauty Diet: Looking Great Has Never Been So Delicious', 'Lisa Drayer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The secret to glowing skin, brighter eyes, whiter teeth, shinier hair, and stronger nails**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n According to nationally known nutritionist Lisa Drayer, itâ€™s not what you put on your body, but what you put in your body that makes you beautiful. Drayer''s groundbreaking guide reveals the Top 10 Beauty Foods--natureâ€™s best kept secrets for glowing skin, fuller hair, healthier nails, brighter eyes, and whiter teeth. Her easy-to-follow programâ€”including a mouthwatering four-week meal plan with more than 100 recipesâ€”unlocks the amazing power of these Beauty Foods and makes every part of your body look and feel absolutely fantastic.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Here are the Top 10 Beauty Foods**    Wild Salmon    Yogurt     Blueberries    Spinach    Kiwis    Tomatoes    Oysters    Sweet Potatoes    Walnuts    Dark Chocolate\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10915'),
(10044, 'The Beauty Diet: Looking Great Has Never Been So Delicious', 'Lisa Drayer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The secret to glowing skin, brighter eyes, whiter teeth, shinier hair, and stronger nails** According to nationally known nutritionist Lisa Drayer, itâ€™s not what you put on your body, but what you put in your body that makes you beautiful. Drayer''s groundbreaking guide reveals the Top 10 Beauty Foods--natureâ€™s best kept secrets for glowing skin, fuller hair, healthier nails, brighter eyes, and whiter teeth. Her easy-to-follow programâ€”including a mouthwatering four-week meal plan with more than 100 recipesâ€”unlocks the amazing power of these Beauty Foods and makes every part of your body look and feel absolutely fantastic. **Here are the Top 10 Beauty Foods** Wild Salmon Yogurt Blueberries Spinach Kiwis Tomatoes Oysters Sweet Potatoes Walnuts Dark Chocolate\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21193'),
(10045, 'The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women', 'Naomi Wolf', '<div class="comments">\n<h4>\n The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity.\n</h4>\n<p>\n In today''s world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women''s movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It''s the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society''s impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12290'),
(10046, 'Beauty&#39;s Punishment', 'A. N. Roquelaure &amp; Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice''s elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the castle. Once again Rice''s fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/34'),
(10047, 'Beauty&#39;s Punishment', 'A. N. Roquelaure &amp; Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice''s elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the castle. Once again Rice''s fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13520'),
(10048, 'Beauty&#39;s Punishment', 'A. N. Roquelaure; Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice''s elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the castle. Once again Rice''s fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17193'),
(10049, 'Beauty&#39;s Release', 'A. N. Roquelaure &amp; Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the final volume of Anne Rice''s deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty''s adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all Beauty''s encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, rich prose that intensifies this exquisite rendition of Love''s secret world, and makes the Beauty series and incomparable study of erotica. In it, Anne Rice makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche and the heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/35'),
(10050, 'Beauty&#39;s Release', 'A. N. Roquelaure &amp; Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the final volume of Anne Rice''s deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty''s adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all Beauty''s encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, rich prose that intensifies this exquisite rendition of Love''s secret world, and makes the Beauty series and incomparable study of erotica. In it, Anne Rice makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche and the heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13519'),
(10051, 'Beauty&#39;s Release', 'A. N. Roquelaure; Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the final volume of Anne Rice''s deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty''s adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all Beauty''s encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, rich prose that intensifies this exquisite rendition of Love''s secret world, and makes the Beauty series and incomparable study of erotica. In it, Anne Rice makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche and the heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17192'),
(10052, 'Beauvallet', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you love adventure, romance, intrigue, betrayal, love and history all rolled into one,\n <em>\n  Beauvallet\n </em>\n , has it! (Eliza Knight\n <em>\n  Historically Undressed\n </em>\n 20100215)\n</p>\n<p>\n Romance! Romance! Romance! The kind that puts roses in your cheeks, butterflies in your stomach, and a yearning in your heart. (Lynda Coker\n <em>\n  Between the Pages\n </em>\n 20100218)\n</p>\n<p>\n Such a sweet story! I cannot think of words enough to describe how much I adored\n <em>\n  Beauvallet\n </em>\n . (Haley Mathiot\n <em>\n  The Life (and lies) of an Inanimate Flying Object\n </em>\n 20100219)\n</p>\n<p>\n I guarantee that by the end of this book a dashing pirate will have captured your heart. (Renee\n <em>\n  Renne''s Reads\n </em>\n 20100226)\n</p>\n<p>\n You get drawn into the story, you root for the characters and you don''t want to put the book down. (Patty\n <em>\n  The Broken TeePee\n </em>\n 20100226)\n</p>\n<p>\n A Georgette Heyer novel is better than any adventure on tv today. (_Read With Tea_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n A wild romp of a read... filled with adventure, romance and excitement. (Danielle Torres\n <em>\n  A Work in Progress\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n I really enjoyed this swashbuckling romance book . (Alaine Bucknall\n <em>\n  Queen of Happy Endings\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Cinematographic with escapes, kidnapping, galloping sword play, and a breathless elopement."\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The most daring, dashing hero of all\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mad Nicholas" to his friends, "Scourge of Spain" to his enemies, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet is one of Queen Elizabeth''s most dashing buccaneers and has never been known to resist a challenge.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Spanish lady all fire and heart\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When Beauvallet captures the galleon carrying DoÃ±a Dominica de Rada y Sylvan and her father, he vows to return them safely to the shores of Spain. But he has no sooner done so than he proposes a venture more reckless than any of his exploits on the high seasâ€”he will return to Spain, where there''s a price on his head, and claim Dominica as his bride...\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  What readers say:\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "An adventure story you can''t put down. This is more exciting than any movie; your eyes will sparkle and your hands will grip the pages as you frantically try to keep up with the laughing pirate who leads you on the most daring trek through Spain."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Swashbuckling romance. Great yarn set in Elizabethan times...you will not be disappointed, it''s action-packed."\n</p>\n<p>\n "A love story not to be missed! Highly recommended!"\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you''ve ever secretly thrilled to swashbuckling films, you will LOVE Beauvallet! If you enjoy the language of Shakespearean times, the color, the pagentry, you will LOVE Beauvallet! If you love a great romance, you will LOVE Beauvallet!"\n</p>\n<p>\n (20100201)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18369'),
(10053, 'Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves', 'Camille Peri; Kate Moses', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The challenges facing mothers in the twenty-first century go well beyond tantrum control and potty training. Camille Peri and Kate Moses, the founding editors of Salon.com''s "Mothers Who Think" column and the subsequent anthology of the same name, have once again compiled a selection of intimate and fiercely honest essays on the profound issues that affect women and their children. Because I Said So offers thirty-three unique perspectives on motherhood from such writers as Janet Fitch, Mariane Pearl, Ayelet Waldman, Mary Roach, Rosellen Brown, Mary Morris, and Ana Castillo. Witty and wise, their stories range from the anguish of giving up child custody to the guilt of having sex in an era of sexless marriages; from learning to love the full-speed testosterone chaos of boys to raising girls in a pervasively sexualized culture; from facing racial and religious intolerance to surviving cancer and rap simultaneously. This is the collective voice of real mothers in all their humor, anger, vulnerability, grace, and glory.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15456'),
(10054, 'Becoming a Parent: The Emotional Journey Through Pregnancy and Childbirth Family Matters 2004 08', 'Jackie Ganley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18220'),
(10055, 'Becoming Madame Mao', 'Anchee Min', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Many writers have engaged in the project of rescuing female figures from history, but few have tackled such an unsympathetic character as Anchee Min does in her historical novel\n  <em>\n   Becoming Madame Mao\n  </em>\n  . Known as the White Boned Demon during her reign of terror in China, Madame Mao was blamed for countless bloody and vengeful executions; she sought out those who had wronged her in the past and wiped them off the face of the earth. Eventually she was reviled in China and executed, even as her husband was revered as a hero.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before her stint as Mao''s first lady, Jiang Ching, as she was then known, was an actress, a singer, and a star in Communist films. Anchee Min grew up in Red China and watched Jiang Ching from afar; she was fascinated by her for many years, by tales of her independence and strength, and by images of her beauty. In a way, the great villain and demon was a role model for Anchee Min, and her teenage devotion is the engine of her remarkable novel. Moving back and forth between stories of the actress and the evil dictator, Min complicates the Madame Mao of history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a girl, Madame Mao narrowly escaped having her feet bound. The book opens with graphic descriptions of this process and of the ensuing infection that freed her. But if her feet were not bound, her spirit was. Reared by a mother who was the last concubine of a rich man, and a father who liked to hit his girls with shovels, Madame Mao as a young girl felt herself doomed: "I see my father hit Mother with a shovel. It happened suddenly. Without warning. I can hardly believe my eyes. He is mad. He calls Mother a slut. Mother''s body curls up. My chest swells. He hits her back, front, shouting that he will break her bones." The father then goes on to treat his daughter the same way. Decades later, when Madame Mao manifests deep brutality, Min seems to be saying that what goes around comes around. Flawed by a clumsy structure that vacillates between third and first person arbitrarily,\n  <em>\n   Becoming Madame Mao\n  </em>\n  is nevertheless an immensely interesting work--defiant, morally ambiguous, and difficult to put down.\n  <em>\n   --Emily White\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Historical fiction acquires new luster and credibility in Min''s brilliant evocation of the woman who married Mao and fought to succeed him. As she proved in her memoir, Red Azalea, Min is a forceful writer, but her first novel, Katherine, did not prepare us for the highly dramatic, psychologically penetrating and provocative narrative she presents here. A girl called Yunhe is born to a rural concubine in 1919; she renames herself Lan Ping when, in 1934, she runs away to Shanghai with ambitions to be an actress, and later joins the Red Army; and finally, she is dubbed Jiang Ching by the man she marries, Mao Zedong. Madame Mao has become a myth, but Min has the background and the insight to imagine her afresh, and to create a complex psychological portrait of a driven, passionate woman and a period of history in which she would suffer, rise and prosper, and then fall victim to her own insatiable thirst for power. Min draws Madame Mao with bold, arresting strokes, gives her a fierce, imperious voice and a personality devoid of humility or self-knowledge. Lan Ping sets out to seduce the charismatic Mao, and wins him--for a time--until her jealousy, the machinations of his trusted aides, and Mao''s own loss of interest cast her into limbo. By then a veteran of the inner circle betrayals that Mao encouraged, Jiang Ching''s attempts to wrest personal power, but that becomes her undoing. As with a fine ink brush, Min details her heroine''s series of love affairs and marriages, divorces and acrimonious partings, roles in Chinese opera and movies, endurance in the shadow of Mao''s disfavor, desperate ploys to regain his attention, and brief time in the limelight during the Cultural Revolution. As a chronicle of ambition, betrayal, murder, revenge, barbaric cruelty, paranoia and internecine rivalry, the narrative speeds through its turbulent time frame: 1919-1991. But it is foremost a character study of a determined, vindictive, rage-filled, cruel and emotionally needy woman who flourished because she reinvented herself as an actress in different, self-defined roles-- and because China was ready for her. Min uses several effective prose devices to spin her narrative at top speed. Short first- and third-person vignettes juxtapose Madame Mao''s early experience with the comments of an omniciscient narrator who relates pivotal circumstances to events that will grow from their consequences. Such foreshadowing not only raises tension, it also helps readers construct a mental chart of historical figures and events. Striking metaphors and vivid Chinese proverbs enhance Min''s tensile prose, but it is her trenchant comments about the ways in which powerful individuals can paint bold colors on the panorama of history that distinguishes her spellbinding novel. Agent, Sandra Dijkstra. 10-city author tour. (June)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7710'),
(10056, 'Becoming Madame Mao', 'Anchee Min', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Many writers have engaged in the project of rescuing female figures from history, but few have tackled such an unsympathetic character as Anchee Min does in her historical novel\n  <em>\n   Becoming Madame Mao\n  </em>\n  . Known as the White Boned Demon during her reign of terror in China, Madame Mao was blamed for countless bloody and vengeful executions; she sought out those who had wronged her in the past and wiped them off the face of the earth. Eventually she was reviled in China and executed, even as her husband was revered as a hero.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before her stint as Mao''s first lady, Jiang Ching, as she was then known, was an actress, a singer, and a star in Communist films. Anchee Min grew up in Red China and watched Jiang Ching from afar; she was fascinated by her for many years, by tales of her independence and strength, and by images of her beauty. In a way, the great villain and demon was a role model for Anchee Min, and her teenage devotion is the engine of her remarkable novel. Moving back and forth between stories of the actress and the evil dictator, Min complicates the Madame Mao of history.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a girl, Madame Mao narrowly escaped having her feet bound. The book opens with graphic descriptions of this process and of the ensuing infection that freed her. But if her feet were not bound, her spirit was. Reared by a mother who was the last concubine of a rich man, and a father who liked to hit his girls with shovels, Madame Mao as a young girl felt herself doomed: "I see my father hit Mother with a shovel. It happened suddenly. Without warning. I can hardly believe my eyes. He is mad. He calls Mother a slut. Mother''s body curls up. My chest swells. He hits her back, front, shouting that he will break her bones." The father then goes on to treat his daughter the same way. Decades later, when Madame Mao manifests deep brutality, Min seems to be saying that what goes around comes around. Flawed by a clumsy structure that vacillates between third and first person arbitrarily,\n  <em>\n   Becoming Madame Mao\n  </em>\n  is nevertheless an immensely interesting work--defiant, morally ambiguous, and difficult to put down.\n  <em>\n   --Emily White\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Historical fiction acquires new luster and credibility in Min''s brilliant evocation of the woman who married Mao and fought to succeed him. As she proved in her memoir, Red Azalea, Min is a forceful writer, but her first novel, Katherine, did not prepare us for the highly dramatic, psychologically penetrating and provocative narrative she presents here. A girl called Yunhe is born to a rural concubine in 1919; she renames herself Lan Ping when, in 1934, she runs away to Shanghai with ambitions to be an actress, and later joins the Red Army; and finally, she is dubbed Jiang Ching by the man she marries, Mao Zedong. Madame Mao has become a myth, but Min has the background and the insight to imagine her afresh, and to create a complex psychological portrait of a driven, passionate woman and a period of history in which she would suffer, rise and prosper, and then fall victim to her own insatiable thirst for power. Min draws Madame Mao with bold, arresting strokes, gives her a fierce, imperious voice and a personality devoid of humility or self-knowledge. Lan Ping sets out to seduce the charismatic Mao, and wins him--for a time--until her jealousy, the machinations of his trusted aides, and Mao''s own loss of interest cast her into limbo. By then a veteran of the inner circle betrayals that Mao encouraged, Jiang Ching''s attempts to wrest personal power, but that becomes her undoing. As with a fine ink brush, Min details her heroine''s series of love affairs and marriages, divorces and acrimonious partings, roles in Chinese opera and movies, endurance in the shadow of Mao''s disfavor, desperate ploys to regain his attention, and brief time in the limelight during the Cultural Revolution. As a chronicle of ambition, betrayal, murder, revenge, barbaric cruelty, paranoia and internecine rivalry, the narrative speeds through its turbulent time frame: 1919-1991. But it is foremost a character study of a determined, vindictive, rage-filled, cruel and emotionally needy woman who flourished because she reinvented herself as an actress in different, self-defined roles-- and because China was ready for her. Min uses several effective prose devices to spin her narrative at top speed. Short first- and third-person vignettes juxtapose Madame Mao''s early experience with the comments of an omniciscient narrator who relates pivotal circumstances to events that will grow from their consequences. Such foreshadowing not only raises tension, it also helps readers construct a mental chart of historical figures and events. Striking metaphors and vivid Chinese proverbs enhance Min''s tensile prose, but it is her trenchant comments about the ways in which powerful individuals can paint bold colors on the panorama of history that distinguishes her spellbinding novel. Agent, Sandra Dijkstra. 10-city author tour. (June)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16164'),
(10057, 'The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms', 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most prophetic voice of all.â€ â€”_GQ_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe hottest thinker in the world.â€ â€”Bryan Appleyard,\n <em>\n  The Sunday Times\n </em>\n (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne.â€ â€”_The Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIdiosyncratically brilliant.â€ â€”Niall Ferguson,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n By the author of the modern classic\n <em>\n  The Black Swan\n </em>\n , this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Bed of Procrustes\n </em>\n takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Talebâ€™s view of modern civilizationâ€™s hubristic side effectsâ€”modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.\n</p>\n<p>\n Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized.\n</p>\n<p>\n With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2732');
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(10058, 'The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms', 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most prophetic voice of all.â€ â€”_GQ_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe hottest thinker in the world.â€ â€”Bryan Appleyard,\n <em>\n  The Sunday Times\n </em>\n (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne.â€ â€”_The Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIdiosyncratically brilliant.â€ â€”Niall Ferguson,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n By the author of the modern classic\n <em>\n  The Black Swan\n </em>\n , this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Bed of Procrustes\n </em>\n takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Talebâ€™s view of modern civilizationâ€™s hubristic side effectsâ€”modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.\n</p>\n<p>\n Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized.\n</p>\n<p>\n With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13002'),
(10059, 'The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms', 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most prophetic voice of all.â€ â€”_GQ_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe hottest thinker in the world.â€ â€”Bryan Appleyard,\n <em>\n  The Sunday Times\n </em>\n (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne.â€ â€”_The Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIdiosyncratically brilliant.â€ â€”Niall Ferguson,\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n By the author of the modern classic\n <em>\n  The Black Swan\n </em>\n , this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Bed of Procrustes\n </em>\n takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Talebâ€™s view of modern civilizationâ€™s hubristic side effectsâ€”modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.\n</p>\n<p>\n Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized.\n</p>\n<p>\n With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22212'),
(10060, 'Bed of Roses', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Love blooms in the second novel in Nora Roberts''s celebrated Bride Quartet series.** As little girls MacKensie, Emma, Laurel, and Parker spent hours acting out their perfect make believe "I do" moments. Years later their fantasies become reality when they start their own wedding planning company to make every woman''s dream day come true. With perfect flowers, delicious desserts, and joyful moments captured on film, Nora Roberts''s Bride Quartet shares each woman''s emotionally magical journey to romance. *In Bed of Roses*, florist Emma Grant is finding career success with her friends at Vows wedding planning company, and her love life appears to be thriving. Though men swarm around her, she still hasn''t found Mr. Right. And the last place she''s looking is right under her nose. But that''s just where Jack Cooke is. He''s so close to the women of Vows that he''s practically family, but the architect has begun to admit to himself that his feelings for Emma have developed into much more than friendship. When Emma returns his passionâ€”kiss for blistering kissâ€”they must trust in their historyâ€¦and in their hearts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21571'),
(10061, 'Bedding the Enemy', 'Mary Wine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Laird Keir McQuade is a newcomer to his title, and has much work before him to restore the McQuade honour. Finding a wife is an excellent start. He''s duty-bound to go to court and swear homage to his king anyway, a perfect opportunity - were not court women trussed in stupid fashions and corrupted with false mannerisms. Of course, not every lady hides behind a powdered face...Helena Knyvett may be a daughter of the aristocracy, but in truth she is little but a pawn in her brother''s ploys for power. Her smallest acts of defiance carry a heavy price. But one honourable man among a crowd of dandies could give her all she needs to change her fortunes - and set her free...Among the ruthless ambitions of England''s powerful, love at first sight is a dangerous game. But the treachery, scandal, and treason that follow can unleash as much passion as it does adventure...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2969'),
(10062, 'Bedding the Enemy', 'Mary Wine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Laird Keir McQuade is a newcomer to his title, and has much work before him to restore the McQuade honour. Finding a wife is an excellent start. He''s duty-bound to go to court and swear homage to his king anyway, a perfect opportunity - were not court women trussed in stupid fashions and corrupted with false mannerisms. Of course, not every lady hides behind a powdered face...Helena Knyvett may be a daughter of the aristocracy, but in truth she is little but a pawn in her brother''s ploys for power. Her smallest acts of defiance carry a heavy price. But one honourable man among a crowd of dandies could give her all she needs to change her fortunes - and set her free...Among the ruthless ambitions of England''s powerful, love at first sight is a dangerous game. But the treachery, scandal, and treason that follow can unleash as much passion as it does adventure...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13347'),
(10063, 'Bedding the Enemy', 'Mary Wine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Laird Keir McQuade is a newcomer to his title, and has much work before him to restore the McQuade honour. Finding a wife is an excellent start. He''s duty-bound to go to court and swear homage to his king anyway, a perfect opportunity - were not court women trussed in stupid fashions and corrupted with false mannerisms. Of course, not every lady hides behind a powdered face...Helena Knyvett may be a daughter of the aristocracy, but in truth she is little but a pawn in her brother''s ploys for power. Her smallest acts of defiance carry a heavy price. But one honourable man among a crowd of dandies could give her all she needs to change her fortunes - and set her free...Among the ruthless ambitions of England''s powerful, love at first sight is a dangerous game. But the treachery, scandal, and treason that follow can unleash as much passion as it does adventure...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21832'),
(10064, 'Bedford Square', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even if you prefer the tougher, edgier William Monk books by Anne Perry, such as __, there''s no denying the wealth of detail and the powerful emotions at work in her longer series of Victorian murder mysteries featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. The Pitt books effectively merge Henry James with Raymond Chandler: by having a middleclass policeman married to a socialite, Perry can probe both worlds, as she does in\n <em>\n  Bedford Square\n </em>\n , a story of high-level blackmail and murder.\n</p>\n<p>\n A famous historical scandal called the Tranby Croft affair (a gambling case involving the Prince of Wales) is very much in the news when the body of a working-class man is found early one morning on the posh doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne. No one in the house claims to know the murdered man, but he has a valuable piece of jewelry belonging to the Balantynes in his pocket. Thomas Pitt and his outspoken aide, Sergeant Tellman, must tread lightly, but Charlotte--and especially her sharp relative Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould--aren''t restrained by such social niceties. Gracie, the Pitts'' smart and rough-tongued maid, is also a valued asset to the investigation, which proceeds in a satisfying, if not particularly surprising, manner to a highly dramatic conclusion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other recent books in the Pitt series include __,\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n History, social commentary and suspense blend artfully in this 19th installment (after Brunswick Gardens, 1998) in Perry''s popular series featuring London Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his adventurous wife, Charlotte. The mystery arises when a body is found outside the home of respectable General Brandon Balantyne (who appeared in two earlier Pitt novels). Pitt and Sergeant Tellman, whose class prejudices are challenged during the investigation, are mystified by the body''s identity and the motive for the murder. Their diggings lead them to a parallel case, when Pitt discovers that six honorable men, including Balantyne and Assistant Police Commissioner Cornwallis, are being blackmailed. Perry uses the historical Tranby Croft gambling scandal involving the Prince of Wales as backdrop, highlighting how even the imputation of wrongdoing can tarnish someone''s good name. To find the blackmailer, Pitt seeks a common bond among the accused. The careful reader may spy that link before Pitt does, but will nonetheless be swept along by the narrative''s rush and engaged by its attention to period detail. Aiding Pitt is a cast of smart, well-drawn female characters: Charlotte, whose social connections afford her access to society''s upper crust; Gracie, the Pitts'' uneducated but no-nonsense maid; and Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould, Charlotte''s worldly-wise relation, who dominates the narrative once she joins the investigation. Pitt solves the case based on a clever red herring, uncovering the murderer in a quick, horrifying finale. Yet again, Perry delivers an astute and gripping examination of life behind Victorian England''s virtuous facade. Mystery Guild main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7505'),
(10065, 'Bedford Square', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even if you prefer the tougher, edgier William Monk books by Anne Perry, such as __, there''s no denying the wealth of detail and the powerful emotions at work in her longer series of Victorian murder mysteries featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. The Pitt books effectively merge Henry James with Raymond Chandler: by having a middleclass policeman married to a socialite, Perry can probe both worlds, as she does in\n <em>\n  Bedford Square\n </em>\n , a story of high-level blackmail and murder.\n</p>\n<p>\n A famous historical scandal called the Tranby Croft affair (a gambling case involving the Prince of Wales) is very much in the news when the body of a working-class man is found early one morning on the posh doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne. No one in the house claims to know the murdered man, but he has a valuable piece of jewelry belonging to the Balantynes in his pocket. Thomas Pitt and his outspoken aide, Sergeant Tellman, must tread lightly, but Charlotte--and especially her sharp relative Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould--aren''t restrained by such social niceties. Gracie, the Pitts'' smart and rough-tongued maid, is also a valued asset to the investigation, which proceeds in a satisfying, if not particularly surprising, manner to a highly dramatic conclusion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other recent books in the Pitt series include __,\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n History, social commentary and suspense blend artfully in this 19th installment (after Brunswick Gardens, 1998) in Perry''s popular series featuring London Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his adventurous wife, Charlotte. The mystery arises when a body is found outside the home of respectable General Brandon Balantyne (who appeared in two earlier Pitt novels). Pitt and Sergeant Tellman, whose class prejudices are challenged during the investigation, are mystified by the body''s identity and the motive for the murder. Their diggings lead them to a parallel case, when Pitt discovers that six honorable men, including Balantyne and Assistant Police Commissioner Cornwallis, are being blackmailed. Perry uses the historical Tranby Croft gambling scandal involving the Prince of Wales as backdrop, highlighting how even the imputation of wrongdoing can tarnish someone''s good name. To find the blackmailer, Pitt seeks a common bond among the accused. The careful reader may spy that link before Pitt does, but will nonetheless be swept along by the narrative''s rush and engaged by its attention to period detail. Aiding Pitt is a cast of smart, well-drawn female characters: Charlotte, whose social connections afford her access to society''s upper crust; Gracie, the Pitts'' uneducated but no-nonsense maid; and Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould, Charlotte''s worldly-wise relation, who dominates the narrative once she joins the investigation. Pitt solves the case based on a clever red herring, uncovering the murderer in a quick, horrifying finale. Yet again, Perry delivers an astute and gripping examination of life behind Victorian England''s virtuous facade. Mystery Guild main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11864'),
(10066, 'Bedford Square', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Even if you prefer the tougher, edgier William Monk books by Anne Perry, such as __, there''s no denying the wealth of detail and the powerful emotions at work in her longer series of Victorian murder mysteries featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. The Pitt books effectively merge Henry James with Raymond Chandler: by having a middleclass policeman married to a socialite, Perry can probe both worlds, as she does in\n <em>\n  Bedford Square\n </em>\n , a story of high-level blackmail and murder.\n</p>\n<p>\n A famous historical scandal called the Tranby Croft affair (a gambling case involving the Prince of Wales) is very much in the news when the body of a working-class man is found early one morning on the posh doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne. No one in the house claims to know the murdered man, but he has a valuable piece of jewelry belonging to the Balantynes in his pocket. Thomas Pitt and his outspoken aide, Sergeant Tellman, must tread lightly, but Charlotte--and especially her sharp relative Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould--aren''t restrained by such social niceties. Gracie, the Pitts'' smart and rough-tongued maid, is also a valued asset to the investigation, which proceeds in a satisfying, if not particularly surprising, manner to a highly dramatic conclusion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other recent books in the Pitt series include __,\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n History, social commentary and suspense blend artfully in this 19th installment (after Brunswick Gardens, 1998) in Perry''s popular series featuring London Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his adventurous wife, Charlotte. The mystery arises when a body is found outside the home of respectable General Brandon Balantyne (who appeared in two earlier Pitt novels). Pitt and Sergeant Tellman, whose class prejudices are challenged during the investigation, are mystified by the body''s identity and the motive for the murder. Their diggings lead them to a parallel case, when Pitt discovers that six honorable men, including Balantyne and Assistant Police Commissioner Cornwallis, are being blackmailed. Perry uses the historical Tranby Croft gambling scandal involving the Prince of Wales as backdrop, highlighting how even the imputation of wrongdoing can tarnish someone''s good name. To find the blackmailer, Pitt seeks a common bond among the accused. The careful reader may spy that link before Pitt does, but will nonetheless be swept along by the narrative''s rush and engaged by its attention to period detail. Aiding Pitt is a cast of smart, well-drawn female characters: Charlotte, whose social connections afford her access to society''s upper crust; Gracie, the Pitts'' uneducated but no-nonsense maid; and Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould, Charlotte''s worldly-wise relation, who dominates the narrative once she joins the investigation. Pitt solves the case based on a clever red herring, uncovering the murderer in a quick, horrifying finale. Yet again, Perry delivers an astute and gripping examination of life behind Victorian England''s virtuous facade. Mystery Guild main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16363'),
(10067, 'Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (like me)', 'Harper, Lexy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20051'),
(10068, 'Bedtime Stories: A Collection of Erotic Fairy Tales', 'Jean Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** All-new! Fairy tales retold with an erotic edge, by the national bestselling author of the Sons of Destiny series. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jean Johnson sneaks between the covers of such classic fairy tales as *Beauty and the Beast, Puss n'' Boots*, and *Sleeping Beauty*, and refashions them into bedtime stories for adults only. With clever gender twists, hot fetishistic turns, other-worldly desires, and explorations into forbidden territories, *Bedtime Stories* reveals a veritable garden of sensual delights that gives new meaning to the term "happy ending."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4598'),
(10069, 'Bedtime Stories: A Collection of Erotic Fairy Tales', 'Jean Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** All-new! Fairy tales retold with an erotic edge, by the national bestselling author of the Sons of Destiny series. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jean Johnson sneaks between the covers of such classic fairy tales as *Beauty and the Beast, Puss n'' Boots*, and *Sleeping Beauty*, and refashions them into bedtime stories for adults only. With clever gender twists, hot fetishistic turns, other-worldly desires, and explorations into forbidden territories, *Bedtime Stories* reveals a veritable garden of sensual delights that gives new meaning to the term "happy ending."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10497'),
(10070, 'Bedtime Stories: A Collection of Erotic Fairy Tales', 'Jean Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** All-new! Fairy tales retold with an erotic edge, by the national bestselling author of the Sons of Destiny series. ** Jean Johnson sneaks between the covers of such classic fairy tales as *Beauty and the Beast, Puss n'' Boots*, and *Sleeping Beauty*, and refashions them into bedtime stories for adults only. With clever gender twists, hot fetishistic turns, other-worldly desires, and explorations into forbidden territories, *Bedtime Stories* reveals a veritable garden of sensual delights that gives new meaning to the term "happy ending."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19987'),
(10071, 'The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee', 'Sarah Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Warning from publisher to reader:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At HarperCollins, we are committed to customer satisfaction. Before proceeding with your purchase, please take the following questionnaire to determine your likelihood of enjoying this book:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 1. Which of the following do you appreciate?   (a) Women with somewhat horse-ish facial features. (b) Women who, while not super Jew-y, are more identifiably Jewish than, say, Natalie Portman. (c) Frequent discussion of unwanted body hair.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 2. Are you offended by the following behavior?   (a) Instructing one''s grandmother to place baked goods in her rectal cavity. (b) Stripping naked in publicâ€”eleven times in a row. (c) Stabbing one''s boss in the head with a writing implement.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 3. The best way to treat an emotionally fragile young girl is:   (a) Murder the main course of her Thanksgiving dinner before her very eyes. (b) Tell her that her older sister is prettier than she, and then immediately die. (c) Prevent her suicide by recommending she stay away from open windows.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n If you read the above questions without getting nauseous or forming a hate Web site, you are ready to buy this book! Please proceed to the cashier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1426'),
(10072, 'The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee', 'Sarah Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Warning from publisher to reader:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At HarperCollins, we are committed to customer satisfaction. Before proceeding with your purchase, please take the following questionnaire to determine your likelihood of enjoying this book:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 1. Which of the following do you appreciate?   (a) Women with somewhat horse-ish facial features. (b) Women who, while not super Jew-y, are more identifiably Jewish than, say, Natalie Portman. (c) Frequent discussion of unwanted body hair.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 2. Are you offended by the following behavior?   (a) Instructing one''s grandmother to place baked goods in her rectal cavity. (b) Stripping naked in publicâ€”eleven times in a row. (c) Stabbing one''s boss in the head with a writing implement.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 3. The best way to treat an emotionally fragile young girl is:   (a) Murder the main course of her Thanksgiving dinner before her very eyes. (b) Tell her that her older sister is prettier than she, and then immediately die. (c) Prevent her suicide by recommending she stay away from open windows.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n If you read the above questions without getting nauseous or forming a hate Web site, you are ready to buy this book! Please proceed to the cashier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12659'),
(10073, 'The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee', 'Sarah Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Warning from publisher to reader: At HarperCollins, we are committed to customer satisfaction. Before proceeding with your purchase, please take the following questionnaire to determine your likelihood of enjoying this book: 1. Which of the following do you appreciate? (a) Women with somewhat horse-ish facial features. (b) Women who, while not super Jew-y, are more identifiably Jewish than, say, Natalie Portman. (c) Frequent discussion of unwanted body hair. 2. Are you offended by the following behavior? (a) Instructing one''s grandmother to place baked goods in her rectal cavity. (b) Stripping naked in publicâ€”eleven times in a row. (c) Stabbing one''s boss in the head with a writing implement. 3. The best way to treat an emotionally fragile young girl is: (a) Murder the main course of her Thanksgiving dinner before her very eyes. (b) Tell her that her older sister is prettier than she, and then immediately die. (c) Prevent her suicide by recommending she stay away from open windows. If you read the above questions without getting nauseous or forming a hate Web site, you are ready to buy this book! Please proceed to the cashier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13880'),
(10074, 'The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee', 'Sarah Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Warning from publisher to reader: At HarperCollins, we are committed to customer satisfaction. Before proceeding with your purchase, please take the following questionnaire to determine your likelihood of enjoying this book: 1. Which of the following do you appreciate? (a) Women with somewhat horse-ish facial features. (b) Women who, while not super Jew-y, are more identifiably Jewish than, say, Natalie Portman. (c) Frequent discussion of unwanted body hair. 2. Are you offended by the following behavior? (a) Instructing one''s grandmother to place baked goods in her rectal cavity. (b) Stripping naked in publicâ€”eleven times in a row. (c) Stabbing one''s boss in the head with a writing implement. 3. The best way to treat an emotionally fragile young girl is: (a) Murder the main course of her Thanksgiving dinner before her very eyes. (b) Tell her that her older sister is prettier than she, and then immediately die. (c) Prevent her suicide by recommending she stay away from open windows. If you read the above questions without getting nauseous or forming a hate Web site, you are ready to buy this book! Please proceed to the cashier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23565'),
(10075, 'The Beekeeper&#39;s Apprentice', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Edgar Award-winning author Laurie R. King again proves her flair fortantalizing mystery in this first novel of an acclaimed series. Long sinceretired from his observations of criminal humanity, Sherlock Holmes is engagedin a reclusive study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. Never did heexpect to meet an intellect to match his own--until he made the acquaintance ofa very modern 15-year-old girl whose mental acuity is equaled only by heraudacity, tenacity, and unconventional taste for trousers and cloth caps. Underthe master detective''s sardonic instruction, Miss Mary Russell hones her talentfor deduction, disguises, and danger--in the chilling case of a landowner''smysterious fever, and in the kidnapping of an American senator''s daughter inthe wilds of Wales. But her ultimate challenge is yet to come. A near-fatalbomb on her doorstep--and another on Holmes''s--sends the two sleuths on thetrail of a villain whose machinations scatter meaningless clues and seemutterly without motive. The bomber''s objective, however, is quite clear: to endRussell and Holmes''s partnership...and their lives.Edgar Award-winning author Laurie R. KingSherlock Holmes meets his match in a formidable new enemy--and his surprising new partner"Rousing...riveting...suspenseful." -- "Chicago Sun-Times" " "The Beekeeper''s Apprentice" has power to charm the most grizzled BakerStreet Irregular." -- "Daily News," New York"If there is a new P. D. James... I would put my money on Laurie R. King, whose "A Grave Talent" kept me reading deep into the night."-- "The Boston Globe" "Amazing first novel with intelligence, intrigue, and intricacy...This workexhibits strong psychological undertones,compelling urgency, and dramaticaction. [Laurie King is] a writer to watch." -- "Library Journal" "Wonderful: an intelligently and imaginatively crafted novel that''s alsogreat fun." -- "The Drood Review of Mystery" (Editors'' Choice of1994)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3456'),
(10076, 'Beekeeper&#39;s Apprentice, The', 'King, Laurie R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20057'),
(10077, 'Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery', 'Leon F. Litwack', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\n </strong>\n <br />\n Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese,\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n ) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Contents\n </em>\n <br />\n 1. "The Faithful Slave"\n <br />\n 2. Black Liberators\n <br />\n 3. Kingdom Comin''\n <br />\n 4. Slaves No More\n <br />\n 5. How Free is Free?\n <br />\n 6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About\n <br />\n 7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions\n <br />\n 8. Back to Work: The New Dependency\n <br />\n 9. The Gospel and the Primer\n <br />\n 10. Becoming a People\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11063'),
(10078, 'Before Dishonor', 'Peter David', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An enemy so intractable that it cannot be reasoned with. The entire race thinks with one mind and strives toward one purpose: to add our biological distinctiveness to their own and wipe out individuality, to make every living thing Borg.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In over two centuries, the Federation has never encountered a greater threat. Twice Starfleet assembled and threw countless starships to stand against them. The Borg were stopped, the price paid in blood. Humanity breathed a sigh of relief, assuming it was safe. And with the destruction of the transwarp conduits, the Federation believed that the killing blow had finally been struck against the Borg.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Driven to the point of extinction, the Borg continue to fight for their very existence, for their culture. They will not be denied. They must not be stopped. The old rules and assumptions regarding how the Collective should act have been dismissed. Now the Borg kill first, assimilate later.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the Enterprise manages to thwart them once again, the Borg turn inward. The dark places that even the drones never realized existed are turned outward against the enemy they have never been able to defeat. What is revealed is the thing that\n  <em>\n   no one\n  </em>\n  believed the Borg could do.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Peter David\n  </strong>\n  is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of numerous\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  novels, including the incredibly popular\n  <em>\n   New Frontier\n  </em>\n  series. In addition, he has also written dozens of other books, including his acclaimed original novel,\n  <em>\n   Sir Apropos of Nothing\n  </em>\n  , and its sequel,\n  <em>\n   The Woad to Wuin.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  David is also well known for his comic book work, particularly his award-winning run on\n  <em>\n   The Incredible Hulk\n  </em>\n  . He recently authored the novelizations of both the\n  <em>\n   Spider-Man\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Hulk\n  </em>\n  motion pictures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He lives in New York.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2235'),
(10079, 'Before Dishonor', 'Peter David', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An enemy so intractable that it cannot be reasoned with. The entire race thinks with one mind and strives toward one purpose: to add our biological distinctiveness to their own and wipe out individuality, to make every living thing Borg.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In over two centuries, the Federation has never encountered a greater threat. Twice Starfleet assembled and threw countless starships to stand against them. The Borg were stopped, the price paid in blood. Humanity breathed a sigh of relief, assuming it was safe. And with the destruction of the transwarp conduits, the Federation believed that the killing blow had finally been struck against the Borg.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Driven to the point of extinction, the Borg continue to fight for their very existence, for their culture. They will not be denied. They must not be stopped. The old rules and assumptions regarding how the Collective should act have been dismissed. Now the Borg kill first, assimilate later.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the Enterprise manages to thwart them once again, the Borg turn inward. The dark places that even the drones never realized existed are turned outward against the enemy they have never been able to defeat. What is revealed is the thing that\n  <em>\n   no one\n  </em>\n  believed the Borg could do.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Peter David\n  </strong>\n  is the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of numerous\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  novels, including the incredibly popular\n  <em>\n   New Frontier\n  </em>\n  series. In addition, he has also written dozens of other books, including his acclaimed original novel,\n  <em>\n   Sir Apropos of Nothing\n  </em>\n  , and its sequel,\n  <em>\n   The Woad to Wuin.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  David is also well known for his comic book work, particularly his award-winning run on\n  <em>\n   The Incredible Hulk\n  </em>\n  . He recently authored the novelizations of both the\n  <em>\n   Spider-Man\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Hulk\n  </em>\n  motion pictures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He lives in New York.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22586'),
(10080, 'Before Eden', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23077'),
(10081, 'Before I Fall', 'Lauren Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''They say that when you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that''s not how it happened for me'' Sam Kingston is dead. Except she isn''t. On a rainy February night, eighteen-year-old Sam is killed in a horrific car crash. But then the impossible happens: she wakes up in her own bed, on the morning of the day that she died. Forced to live over and over the last day of her life '' the drive to school, skipping class, the fateful party '' she desperately struggles to alter the outcome, but every morning she wakes up on the day of the crash. This is a story of a girl who dies young, but in the process learns how to live. And who falls in love . . . a little too late. BEFORE I FALL is a brave and complex novel about the territory between life and death. As astonishing as The Lovely Bonesand as luminous as Jenny Downham''s Before I Die, it will make you want to live every day as if it were your last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3535'),
(10082, 'Before I Fall', 'Lauren Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''They say that when you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that''s not how it happened for me'' Sam Kingston is dead. Except she isn''t. On a rainy February night, eighteen-year-old Sam is killed in a horrific car crash. But then the impossible happens: she wakes up in her own bed, on the morning of the day that she died. Forced to live over and over the last day of her life '' the drive to school, skipping class, the fateful party '' she desperately struggles to alter the outcome, but every morning she wakes up on the day of the crash. This is a story of a girl who dies young, but in the process learns how to live. And who falls in love . . . a little too late. BEFORE I FALL is a brave and complex novel about the territory between life and death. As astonishing as The Lovely Bonesand as luminous as Jenny Downham''s Before I Die, it will make you want to live every day as if it were your last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11682'),
(10083, 'Before I Fall', 'Lauren Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''They say that when you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that''s not how it happened for me'' Sam Kingston is dead. Except she isn''t. On a rainy February night, eighteen-year-old Sam is killed in a horrific car crash. But then the impossible happens: she wakes up in her own bed, on the morning of the day that she died. Forced to live over and over the last day of her life '' the drive to school, skipping class, the fateful party '' she desperately struggles to alter the outcome, but every morning she wakes up on the day of the crash. This is a story of a girl who dies young, but in the process learns how to live. And who falls in love . . . a little too late. BEFORE I FALL is a brave and complex novel about the territory between life and death. As astonishing as The Lovely Bonesand as luminous as Jenny Downham''s Before I Die, it will make you want to live every day as if it were your last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20958'),
(10084, 'Before I Go To Sleep: A Novel', 'S. J. Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  "As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I''m still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me. . . ."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Memories define us.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you loveâ€”all forgotten overnight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Welcome to Christine''s life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12301'),
(10085, 'Before the Play', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23001'),
(10086, 'Before They Are Hanged', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It''s bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepared for the slaughter that''s coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod''s scouts, let alone the cream of his forces. In the heat-ravaged south the Gurkish are massing to assault the city of Dagoska, defended by Inquisitor Glokta. The city is braced for the inevitable defeat and massacre to come, preparations are made to make the Gurkish pay for every inch of land . . . but a plot is festering to hand the city to its beseigers without a fight, and the previous Inquisitor of Dagoska vanished without trace. Threatened from within and without the city, Glokta needs answers, and he needs them soon. And to the east a small band of malefactors travel to the edge of the world to reclaim a device from history - a Seed, hidden for generations - with tremendous destructive potential. A device which could put a end to war, to the army of Eaters in the South, to the invasion of Shanka from the North - but only if it can be found, and only if its power can be controlled . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4345'),
(10087, 'Before They Are Hanged', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It''s bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepared for the slaughter that''s coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod''s scouts, let alone the cream of his forces. In the heat-ravaged south the Gurkish are massing to assault the city of Dagoska, defended by Inquisitor Glokta. The city is braced for the inevitable defeat and massacre to come, preparations are made to make the Gurkish pay for every inch of land . . . but a plot is festering to hand the city to its beseigers without a fight, and the previous Inquisitor of Dagoska vanished without trace. Threatened from within and without the city, Glokta needs answers, and he needs them soon. And to the east a small band of malefactors travel to the edge of the world to reclaim a device from history - a Seed, hidden for generations - with tremendous destructive potential. A device which could put a end to war, to the army of Eaters in the South, to the invasion of Shanka from the North - but only if it can be found, and only if its power can be controlled . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15244'),
(10088, 'Before You Know Kindness', 'Christopher Bohjalian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you imagine most writer''s bathrooms (and this is probably a mistake) you''d picture damp towels in a clump on the floor, hair in the soap, a few mildewed paperbacks stacked on the counter. But it''s impossible to picture Chris Bohjalian''s bathroom as anything but an\n <em>\n  Architectural Digest\n </em>\n centerfold: polished counters, not a stray thread on the plush towels, the modulated colors sparked to life by fresh flowers from a neighbor''s garden.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bohjalian''s eighth novel,\n <em>\n  Before You Know Kindness\n </em>\n , is a beautifully observed, delicately balanced portrait of a family that could only come from the hands of a tireless craftsman who keeps reaching into his story to straighten the tulips or tuck in a shirttail. It begins with two EMTs leaning over animal rights'' activist Spencer McCullough''s gushing shotgun wound and winds back through the ordinary days leading up to the extraordinary accident, and then forward again as Spencer and his family come to terms with what has happened. As ambitious as other Bohjalian novels,\n <em>\n  Before You Know Kindness\n </em>\n spirals out to encompass the larger issues of Spencer''s political loyalties and the heartless, passionate world of political spin. Some readers may find Bohjalian''s style too smooth. Others will relish the completeness of his vision and his obvious tenderness for even the most difficult of his characters.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bohjalian''s new novel begins with a literal bang: a bullet from a hunting rifle accidentally strikes Spencer McCullough, an extreme advocate for animal rights, leaving him seriously wounded. The weaponâ€”owned by his brother-in-law, John, and shot by his 12-year-old daughter, Charlotteâ€”becomes the center of a lawsuit and media circus led by Spencer''s employer, FERAL (Federation for Animal Liberation), a dead ringer for PETA. The many-faceted satire Bohjalian (_Midwives_, etc.) crafts out of these events revolves around Spencer and Jon''s families, but also involves a host of secondary figures. Bohjalian excels at getting inside each character''s head with shifts of diction and perspective, though he makes it difficult for readers to connect with any one in particular. This is in part because his portraits are often unsympathetic; the characters are allowed to hoist themselves on their own petards. While some are credibly flawedâ€”Spencer is both a loving father and an obnoxious activistâ€”others are cartoonishly mocked with their own thoughts, like high-powered attorney Paige, who mourns the loss of her leather chairs and briefcases, hidden away for as long as FERAL is a lucrative client. If there is a grounded center to this work, it is 10-year-old Willow, Spencer''s niece, who distinguishes herself from this baggy ensemble by always trying to do the right thing. She alone is spared the narrator''s irony, and it is Willow, years after the accident, who has the last word. Bohjalian''s skewering of the animal rights movement gets the better of his domestic drama, but his skillful storytelling will engage readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6777'),
(10089, 'Before You Know Kindness', 'Christopher Bohjalian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you imagine most writer''s bathrooms (and this is probably a mistake) you''d picture damp towels in a clump on the floor, hair in the soap, a few mildewed paperbacks stacked on the counter. But it''s impossible to picture Chris Bohjalian''s bathroom as anything but an\n <em>\n  Architectural Digest\n </em>\n centerfold: polished counters, not a stray thread on the plush towels, the modulated colors sparked to life by fresh flowers from a neighbor''s garden.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bohjalian''s eighth novel,\n <em>\n  Before You Know Kindness\n </em>\n , is a beautifully observed, delicately balanced portrait of a family that could only come from the hands of a tireless craftsman who keeps reaching into his story to straighten the tulips or tuck in a shirttail. It begins with two EMTs leaning over animal rights'' activist Spencer McCullough''s gushing shotgun wound and winds back through the ordinary days leading up to the extraordinary accident, and then forward again as Spencer and his family come to terms with what has happened. As ambitious as other Bohjalian novels,\n <em>\n  Before You Know Kindness\n </em>\n spirals out to encompass the larger issues of Spencer''s political loyalties and the heartless, passionate world of political spin. Some readers may find Bohjalian''s style too smooth. Others will relish the completeness of his vision and his obvious tenderness for even the most difficult of his characters.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bohjalian''s new novel begins with a literal bang: a bullet from a hunting rifle accidentally strikes Spencer McCullough, an extreme advocate for animal rights, leaving him seriously wounded. The weaponâ€”owned by his brother-in-law, John, and shot by his 12-year-old daughter, Charlotteâ€”becomes the center of a lawsuit and media circus led by Spencer''s employer, FERAL (Federation for Animal Liberation), a dead ringer for PETA. The many-faceted satire Bohjalian (_Midwives_, etc.) crafts out of these events revolves around Spencer and Jon''s families, but also involves a host of secondary figures. Bohjalian excels at getting inside each character''s head with shifts of diction and perspective, though he makes it difficult for readers to connect with any one in particular. This is in part because his portraits are often unsympathetic; the characters are allowed to hoist themselves on their own petards. While some are credibly flawedâ€”Spencer is both a loving father and an obnoxious activistâ€”others are cartoonishly mocked with their own thoughts, like high-powered attorney Paige, who mourns the loss of her leather chairs and briefcases, hidden away for as long as FERAL is a lucrative client. If there is a grounded center to this work, it is 10-year-old Willow, Spencer''s niece, who distinguishes herself from this baggy ensemble by always trying to do the right thing. She alone is spared the narrator''s irony, and it is Willow, years after the accident, who has the last word. Bohjalian''s skewering of the animal rights movement gets the better of his domestic drama, but his skillful storytelling will engage readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8578');
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(10090, 'Before You Know Kindness', 'Christopher Bohjalian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you imagine most writer''s bathrooms (and this is probably a mistake) you''d picture damp towels in a clump on the floor, hair in the soap, a few mildewed paperbacks stacked on the counter. But it''s impossible to picture Chris Bohjalian''s bathroom as anything but an\n <em>\n  Architectural Digest\n </em>\n centerfold: polished counters, not a stray thread on the plush towels, the modulated colors sparked to life by fresh flowers from a neighbor''s garden.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bohjalian''s eighth novel,\n <em>\n  Before You Know Kindness\n </em>\n , is a beautifully observed, delicately balanced portrait of a family that could only come from the hands of a tireless craftsman who keeps reaching into his story to straighten the tulips or tuck in a shirttail. It begins with two EMTs leaning over animal rights'' activist Spencer McCullough''s gushing shotgun wound and winds back through the ordinary days leading up to the extraordinary accident, and then forward again as Spencer and his family come to terms with what has happened. As ambitious as other Bohjalian novels,\n <em>\n  Before You Know Kindness\n </em>\n spirals out to encompass the larger issues of Spencer''s political loyalties and the heartless, passionate world of political spin. Some readers may find Bohjalian''s style too smooth. Others will relish the completeness of his vision and his obvious tenderness for even the most difficult of his characters.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bohjalian''s new novel begins with a literal bang: a bullet from a hunting rifle accidentally strikes Spencer McCullough, an extreme advocate for animal rights, leaving him seriously wounded. The weaponâ€”owned by his brother-in-law, John, and shot by his 12-year-old daughter, Charlotteâ€”becomes the center of a lawsuit and media circus led by Spencer''s employer, FERAL (Federation for Animal Liberation), a dead ringer for PETA. The many-faceted satire Bohjalian (_Midwives_, etc.) crafts out of these events revolves around Spencer and Jon''s families, but also involves a host of secondary figures. Bohjalian excels at getting inside each character''s head with shifts of diction and perspective, though he makes it difficult for readers to connect with any one in particular. This is in part because his portraits are often unsympathetic; the characters are allowed to hoist themselves on their own petards. While some are credibly flawedâ€”Spencer is both a loving father and an obnoxious activistâ€”others are cartoonishly mocked with their own thoughts, like high-powered attorney Paige, who mourns the loss of her leather chairs and briefcases, hidden away for as long as FERAL is a lucrative client. If there is a grounded center to this work, it is 10-year-old Willow, Spencer''s niece, who distinguishes herself from this baggy ensemble by always trying to do the right thing. She alone is spared the narrator''s irony, and it is Willow, years after the accident, who has the last word. Bohjalian''s skewering of the animal rights movement gets the better of his domestic drama, but his skillful storytelling will engage readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17087'),
(10091, 'Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self', 'Danielle Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The territory Evans covers in her debut collection may be small, but she owns it. Her main characters are almost all teen girls and young women who struggle with disorder, and the reader is given close access to each one''s interior, from which the muted plots originate. "Jellyfish," one of the better stories, starts out with the plight of middle-aged William, whose roof has just collapsed, before settling on his adult daughter, Eva, and examining her life. The two friends in "Virgins," the opening and best story, maneuver unsteadily through the minefield of casually predatory men and boys. "Snakes" looks back on a consequential summer in the lives of two little girls. "The King of a Vast Empire" is the biggest departure from form and is narrated by good son Terrence, who frustratedly tells the story of his free-spirited sister, Liddie. The stories are beautifully observed, though their similarities in theme and voice make them better read individually than together. Evans has some great chops that would really shine with a little more narrative breadth.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Evansâ€™ first collection of short stories deals thoughtfully and incisively with considerations of class, race, and coming-of-age. That six of the stories are told in their female or male protagonistsâ€™ first-person voices brings them immediacy and emotional resonance. Sometimes, though, this device results in narrative voices that sound too much alike while the stories they tell lack thematic originality. Interestingly, two of the best storiesâ€”â€œSomeone Ought to Tell Her Thereâ€™s Nowhere to Go,â€ about a deeply troubled veteran of the Iraq War, and â€œJellyfish,â€ about the fraught relationship of a young woman and her fatherâ€”are told in third person. Yet, whether told in first or third person, what all of the stories share is a demonstration of the profound influence of the past on the present-day lives of their characters and the intricacies of relationships among African American, white, Hispanic, and mixed-race young people. Clearly, Evans lives up to her reputation as an important new voice in literary fiction. --Michael Cart\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6515'),
(10092, 'Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self', 'Danielle Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The territory Evans covers in her debut collection may be small, but she owns it. Her main characters are almost all teen girls and young women who struggle with disorder, and the reader is given close access to each one''s interior, from which the muted plots originate. "Jellyfish," one of the better stories, starts out with the plight of middle-aged William, whose roof has just collapsed, before settling on his adult daughter, Eva, and examining her life. The two friends in "Virgins," the opening and best story, maneuver unsteadily through the minefield of casually predatory men and boys. "Snakes" looks back on a consequential summer in the lives of two little girls. "The King of a Vast Empire" is the biggest departure from form and is narrated by good son Terrence, who frustratedly tells the story of his free-spirited sister, Liddie. The stories are beautifully observed, though their similarities in theme and voice make them better read individually than together. Evans has some great chops that would really shine with a little more narrative breadth.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Evansâ€™ first collection of short stories deals thoughtfully and incisively with considerations of class, race, and coming-of-age. That six of the stories are told in their female or male protagonistsâ€™ first-person voices brings them immediacy and emotional resonance. Sometimes, though, this device results in narrative voices that sound too much alike while the stories they tell lack thematic originality. Interestingly, two of the best storiesâ€”â€œSomeone Ought to Tell Her Thereâ€™s Nowhere to Go,â€ about a deeply troubled veteran of the Iraq War, and â€œJellyfish,â€ about the fraught relationship of a young woman and her fatherâ€”are told in third person. Yet, whether told in first or third person, what all of the stories share is a demonstration of the profound influence of the past on the present-day lives of their characters and the intricacies of relationships among African American, white, Hispanic, and mixed-race young people. Clearly, Evans lives up to her reputation as an important new voice in literary fiction. --Michael Cart\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9592'),
(10093, 'Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self', 'Danielle Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The territory Evans covers in her debut collection may be small, but she owns it. Her main characters are almost all teen girls and young women who struggle with disorder, and the reader is given close access to each one''s interior, from which the muted plots originate. "Jellyfish," one of the better stories, starts out with the plight of middle-aged William, whose roof has just collapsed, before settling on his adult daughter, Eva, and examining her life. The two friends in "Virgins," the opening and best story, maneuver unsteadily through the minefield of casually predatory men and boys. "Snakes" looks back on a consequential summer in the lives of two little girls. "The King of a Vast Empire" is the biggest departure from form and is narrated by good son Terrence, who frustratedly tells the story of his free-spirited sister, Liddie. The stories are beautifully observed, though their similarities in theme and voice make them better read individually than together. Evans has some great chops that would really shine with a little more narrative breadth.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Evansâ€™ first collection of short stories deals thoughtfully and incisively with considerations of class, race, and coming-of-age. That six of the stories are told in their female or male protagonistsâ€™ first-person voices brings them immediacy and emotional resonance. Sometimes, though, this device results in narrative voices that sound too much alike while the stories they tell lack thematic originality. Interestingly, two of the best storiesâ€”â€œSomeone Ought to Tell Her Thereâ€™s Nowhere to Go,â€ about a deeply troubled veteran of the Iraq War, and â€œJellyfish,â€ about the fraught relationship of a young woman and her fatherâ€”are told in third person. Yet, whether told in first or third person, what all of the stories share is a demonstration of the profound influence of the past on the present-day lives of their characters and the intricacies of relationships among African American, white, Hispanic, and mixed-race young people. Clearly, Evans lives up to her reputation as an important new voice in literary fiction. --Michael Cart\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17615'),
(10094, 'A Beggar at the Gate', 'Thalassa Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n , native Bostonian and Muslim convert Ali continues the saga of Marianna Givens, a young Englishwoman living in 19th-century India. Though competently written and often entertaining, the novel feels like exoticism cloaked as historical fiction (the prologue delivers a taste of what''s to come: in Calcutta, Marianna encounters a Hindu soothsayer who points his "authoritative, brown hand away from the crowd" and tells her that her "path lies to the northwest" and that she "must return there to find [her] destiny"). Marianna casts her lot with the Sufi family of Shaikh Waliullah as she marries his son, the Punjabi courtier, Hassan Ali Khan. She flees to Calcutta with Hassan''s infant son, Saboor, to protect him from the opium-addicted Maharajah of Punjab. After two years in exile, Marianna travels back to Lahore to give Saboor to his father, divorce Hassan and return to respectable British society. Ali convincingly captures both Victorian-era Punjabi and British court culture, and her description of the conniving ineptitude of the British as they travel across the subcontinent humanizes them. Upon arriving in Lahore, the traveling party finds itself caught between warring Punjabi factions. The conclusion, in which Marianna predictably displays a redemptive heroism, sets up for the final book in this trilogy, slated for release in 2005.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“In this sequel to\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n (Bantam, 2002), Mariana Givens, a tempestuous Englishwoman, is sent to India to find a husband from the surfeit of bachelor British officers there. Two years have passed since her disastrous first visit, when her reputation was ruined by her marriage to a wealthy Punjabi, Hassan. She is devoted to his son Saboor, whom she rescued from kidnappers and has been sheltering. The revelation that the marriage was never consummated affords Mariana the chance to restore her good name: once in Lahore she can return Saboor to his father, request a divorce, and proceed to Afghanistan with her aunt and uncle and the rest of the British entourage. But she again falls under the spell of Hassan and his family, and decides to stay with him. Amid fighting following the death of the maharajah, Mariana goes to tell her aunt and uncle of her decision and returns to find him gravely wounded. This mid-19th-century adventure story contrasts the richness of Islam and its strict laws regarding women with the equally rigid societal norms of privileged, upper-class British. The characters and their actions illustrate the barriers between cultures and the difficulty of establishing trust among peoples with different worldviews. The engaging ending suggests another installment to come._â€“Molly Connally, Chantilly Regional Library, VA_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/724'),
(10095, 'A Beggar at the Gate', 'Thalassa Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n , native Bostonian and Muslim convert Ali continues the saga of Marianna Givens, a young Englishwoman living in 19th-century India. Though competently written and often entertaining, the novel feels like exoticism cloaked as historical fiction (the prologue delivers a taste of what''s to come: in Calcutta, Marianna encounters a Hindu soothsayer who points his "authoritative, brown hand away from the crowd" and tells her that her "path lies to the northwest" and that she "must return there to find [her] destiny"). Marianna casts her lot with the Sufi family of Shaikh Waliullah as she marries his son, the Punjabi courtier, Hassan Ali Khan. She flees to Calcutta with Hassan''s infant son, Saboor, to protect him from the opium-addicted Maharajah of Punjab. After two years in exile, Marianna travels back to Lahore to give Saboor to his father, divorce Hassan and return to respectable British society. Ali convincingly captures both Victorian-era Punjabi and British court culture, and her description of the conniving ineptitude of the British as they travel across the subcontinent humanizes them. Upon arriving in Lahore, the traveling party finds itself caught between warring Punjabi factions. The conclusion, in which Marianna predictably displays a redemptive heroism, sets up for the final book in this trilogy, slated for release in 2005.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“In this sequel to\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n (Bantam, 2002), Mariana Givens, a tempestuous Englishwoman, is sent to India to find a husband from the surfeit of bachelor British officers there. Two years have passed since her disastrous first visit, when her reputation was ruined by her marriage to a wealthy Punjabi, Hassan. She is devoted to his son Saboor, whom she rescued from kidnappers and has been sheltering. The revelation that the marriage was never consummated affords Mariana the chance to restore her good name: once in Lahore she can return Saboor to his father, request a divorce, and proceed to Afghanistan with her aunt and uncle and the rest of the British entourage. But she again falls under the spell of Hassan and his family, and decides to stay with him. Amid fighting following the death of the maharajah, Mariana goes to tell her aunt and uncle of her decision and returns to find him gravely wounded. This mid-19th-century adventure story contrasts the richness of Islam and its strict laws regarding women with the equally rigid societal norms of privileged, upper-class British. The characters and their actions illustrate the barriers between cultures and the difficulty of establishing trust among peoples with different worldviews. The engaging ending suggests another installment to come._â€“Molly Connally, Chantilly Regional Library, VA_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9328'),
(10096, 'A Beggar at the Gate', 'Thalassa Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n , native Bostonian and Muslim convert Ali continues the saga of Marianna Givens, a young Englishwoman living in 19th-century India. Though competently written and often entertaining, the novel feels like exoticism cloaked as historical fiction (the prologue delivers a taste of what''s to come: in Calcutta, Marianna encounters a Hindu soothsayer who points his "authoritative, brown hand away from the crowd" and tells her that her "path lies to the northwest" and that she "must return there to find [her] destiny"). Marianna casts her lot with the Sufi family of Shaikh Waliullah as she marries his son, the Punjabi courtier, Hassan Ali Khan. She flees to Calcutta with Hassan''s infant son, Saboor, to protect him from the opium-addicted Maharajah of Punjab. After two years in exile, Marianna travels back to Lahore to give Saboor to his father, divorce Hassan and return to respectable British society. Ali convincingly captures both Victorian-era Punjabi and British court culture, and her description of the conniving ineptitude of the British as they travel across the subcontinent humanizes them. Upon arriving in Lahore, the traveling party finds itself caught between warring Punjabi factions. The conclusion, in which Marianna predictably displays a redemptive heroism, sets up for the final book in this trilogy, slated for release in 2005.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“In this sequel to\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n (Bantam, 2002), Mariana Givens, a tempestuous Englishwoman, is sent to India to find a husband from the surfeit of bachelor British officers there. Two years have passed since her disastrous first visit, when her reputation was ruined by her marriage to a wealthy Punjabi, Hassan. She is devoted to his son Saboor, whom she rescued from kidnappers and has been sheltering. The revelation that the marriage was never consummated affords Mariana the chance to restore her good name: once in Lahore she can return Saboor to his father, request a divorce, and proceed to Afghanistan with her aunt and uncle and the rest of the British entourage. But she again falls under the spell of Hassan and his family, and decides to stay with him. Amid fighting following the death of the maharajah, Mariana goes to tell her aunt and uncle of her decision and returns to find him gravely wounded. This mid-19th-century adventure story contrasts the richness of Islam and its strict laws regarding women with the equally rigid societal norms of privileged, upper-class British. The characters and their actions illustrate the barriers between cultures and the difficulty of establishing trust among peoples with different worldviews. The engaging ending suggests another installment to come._â€“Molly Connally, Chantilly Regional Library, VA_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24240'),
(10097, 'Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage', 'Kenneth Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, quite readable account of the composer and his work. What comes across is a man who was ferociously driven to create music and to promote it to those who could most effectively advance it. Cage was an iconoclast, yet he developed relationshipsâ€”often symbioticâ€”with some of the iconic artists of the past century, including Arnold Schoenberg, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller, Pierre Boulez, Robert Rauschenberg, and longtime companion Merce Cunningham. What also comes across is a humanity and openness that served Cage well in his personal life and his work, personified in his advice to young percussion student Cunningham: â€œYou were playing everything absolutely perfectly. Now go a little further and make a few mistakes.â€ --Alan Moores\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Excellent, thoroughly researched . . . The first in-depth, detailed account of Cage''s rich and colorful life . . . Silverman''s prose is lively and occasionally mirrors Cage''s own wit." --_Library Journal (starred review)_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSince his death almost two decades ago, Cage''s influence has increased to the point where he is now seen as one of the major creative spirits of his age. This marvelous biography brings into focus the many elusive facets of his music, and situates them against the background of his personal life and the seething cultural currents of the era.â€ â€”John Ashbery\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSilvermanâ€™s artful narrative lays bare Cageâ€™s compositional processes, aesthetic posturing and the cross-cultural philosophical underpinnings to his work with a clarity that musicologists and art historians have yet to achieve.  Not just an exemplary biography, but a significant contribution to the cultural history of American music.â€â€”_Kirkus,_ starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohn Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, quite readable account of the composer and his work.â€  â€”Alan Moores,\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œJohn Cage, a master of musical modernism, meets Kenneth Silverman, a master of the biographical art.  Cage, the most innovative composer of recent times, comes freshly alive in Kenneth Silvermanâ€™s magisterial biography.  Silverman distills an astonishing amount of information in an engaging, fluid narrative that brings alive every facet of John Cageâ€™s lifeâ€”his loves, his friendships, his career, and his path-blazing experiments with sound.   Cage expanded music, and Silverman considerably expands our knowledge of Cage by interweaving fascinating new details of his everyday life with insightful accounts of his musical maturation. A gripping, ceaselessly revelatory biography.â€ â€”David S. Reynolds, author of\n <em>\n  Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Walt Whitmanâ€™s America: A Cultural Biography\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œ_Begin Again_ is a glittering manifestation of the biographerâ€™s craft. With impeccable aim and pitch-perfect tone, Kenneth Silverman has curated the crowded, cacophonous, frenetic and fractured details of modernist master John Cageâ€™s life into a witty and sensuous literary exhibition. Readers will feel privileged to attend the gala opening of this cosmopolitan showâ€”performance art between two covers!â€ â€”Neil Baldwin, author of\n <em>\n  Man Ray: American Artist\n </em>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3669'),
(10098, 'Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage', 'Kenneth Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, quite readable account of the composer and his work. What comes across is a man who was ferociously driven to create music and to promote it to those who could most effectively advance it. Cage was an iconoclast, yet he developed relationshipsâ€”often symbioticâ€”with some of the iconic artists of the past century, including Arnold Schoenberg, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller, Pierre Boulez, Robert Rauschenberg, and longtime companion Merce Cunningham. What also comes across is a humanity and openness that served Cage well in his personal life and his work, personified in his advice to young percussion student Cunningham: â€œYou were playing everything absolutely perfectly. Now go a little further and make a few mistakes.â€ --Alan Moores\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Excellent, thoroughly researched . . . The first in-depth, detailed account of Cage''s rich and colorful life . . . Silverman''s prose is lively and occasionally mirrors Cage''s own wit." --_Library Journal (starred review)_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSince his death almost two decades ago, Cage''s influence has increased to the point where he is now seen as one of the major creative spirits of his age. This marvelous biography brings into focus the many elusive facets of his music, and situates them against the background of his personal life and the seething cultural currents of the era.â€ â€”John Ashbery\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSilvermanâ€™s artful narrative lays bare Cageâ€™s compositional processes, aesthetic posturing and the cross-cultural philosophical underpinnings to his work with a clarity that musicologists and art historians have yet to achieve.  Not just an exemplary biography, but a significant contribution to the cultural history of American music.â€â€”_Kirkus,_ starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohn Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, quite readable account of the composer and his work.â€  â€”Alan Moores,\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œJohn Cage, a master of musical modernism, meets Kenneth Silverman, a master of the biographical art.  Cage, the most innovative composer of recent times, comes freshly alive in Kenneth Silvermanâ€™s magisterial biography.  Silverman distills an astonishing amount of information in an engaging, fluid narrative that brings alive every facet of John Cageâ€™s lifeâ€”his loves, his friendships, his career, and his path-blazing experiments with sound.   Cage expanded music, and Silverman considerably expands our knowledge of Cage by interweaving fascinating new details of his everyday life with insightful accounts of his musical maturation. A gripping, ceaselessly revelatory biography.â€ â€”David S. Reynolds, author of\n <em>\n  Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Walt Whitmanâ€™s America: A Cultural Biography\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œ_Begin Again_ is a glittering manifestation of the biographerâ€™s craft. With impeccable aim and pitch-perfect tone, Kenneth Silverman has curated the crowded, cacophonous, frenetic and fractured details of modernist master John Cageâ€™s life into a witty and sensuous literary exhibition. Readers will feel privileged to attend the gala opening of this cosmopolitan showâ€”performance art between two covers!â€ â€”Neil Baldwin, author of\n <em>\n  Man Ray: American Artist\n </em>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12666'),
(10099, 'Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage', 'Kenneth Silverman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, quite readable account of the composer and his work. What comes across is a man who was ferociously driven to create music and to promote it to those who could most effectively advance it. Cage was an iconoclast, yet he developed relationshipsâ€”often symbioticâ€”with some of the iconic artists of the past century, including Arnold Schoenberg, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller, Pierre Boulez, Robert Rauschenberg, and longtime companion Merce Cunningham. What also comes across is a humanity and openness that served Cage well in his personal life and his work, personified in his advice to young percussion student Cunningham: â€œYou were playing everything absolutely perfectly. Now go a little further and make a few mistakes.â€ --Alan Moores\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Excellent, thoroughly researched . . . The first in-depth, detailed account of Cage''s rich and colorful life . . . Silverman''s prose is lively and occasionally mirrors Cage''s own wit." --_Library Journal (starred review)_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSince his death almost two decades ago, Cage''s influence has increased to the point where he is now seen as one of the major creative spirits of his age. This marvelous biography brings into focus the many elusive facets of his music, and situates them against the background of his personal life and the seething cultural currents of the era.â€ â€”John Ashbery\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSilvermanâ€™s artful narrative lays bare Cageâ€™s compositional processes, aesthetic posturing and the cross-cultural philosophical underpinnings to his work with a clarity that musicologists and art historians have yet to achieve. Not just an exemplary biography, but a significant contribution to the cultural history of American music.â€â€”_Kirkus,_ starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohn Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, quite readable account of the composer and his work.â€ â€”Alan Moores,\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œJohn Cage, a master of musical modernism, meets Kenneth Silverman, a master of the biographical art. Cage, the most innovative composer of recent times, comes freshly alive in Kenneth Silvermanâ€™s magisterial biography. Silverman distills an astonishing amount of information in an engaging, fluid narrative that brings alive every facet of John Cageâ€™s lifeâ€”his loves, his friendships, his career, and his path-blazing experiments with sound. Cage expanded music, and Silverman considerably expands our knowledge of Cage by interweaving fascinating new details of his everyday life with insightful accounts of his musical maturation. A gripping, ceaselessly revelatory biography.â€ â€”David S. Reynolds, author of\n <em>\n  Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Walt Whitmanâ€™s America: A Cultural Biography\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œ_Begin Again_ is a glittering manifestation of the biographerâ€™s craft. With impeccable aim and pitch-perfect tone, Kenneth Silverman has curated the crowded, cacophonous, frenetic and fractured details of modernist master John Cageâ€™s life into a witty and sensuous literary exhibition. Readers will feel privileged to attend the gala opening of this cosmopolitan showâ€”performance art between two covers!â€ â€”Neil Baldwin, author of\n <em>\n  Man Ray: American Artist\n </em>\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20696'),
(10100, 'The Beginner&#39;s Guide to Preserving Food at Home', 'Janet Chadwick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wonderful thing is happening in home kitchens. People are rediscovering the joys of locally produced foods and reducing the amount of the grocery budget that''s spent on packaged items, out-of-season produce, and heavily processed foods. But fresh, seasonal fruits and vegetables don''t stay fresh and delicious forever - they must be eaten now . . . or preserved for later.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For all the vegetable gardeners facing baskets overflowing with bright tomatoes, and for all the dedicated farmers'' market fans and CSA members,\n  <em>\n   The Beginner''s Guide to Preserving Food at Home\n  </em>\n  has the simple solutions that turn overwhelming bounty into neatly canned tomatoes, jars of jams and jellies, and crispy-tart relishes and pickles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Organized in a friendly, food-by-food format, readers will find freezing, drying, canning, and storing instructions for each vegetable, fruit, and herb. In many cases, several ways to freeze or can a food are described, and there are often other preserving suggestions as well, such as making juice or fruit leather.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Everything is written with busy people in mind: these are the quickest, most efficient methods for preserving summer''s bounty. Up-to-date information and clear, step-by-step instructions show even absolute beginners the way to a fully stocked pantry.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Enjoy local produce year-round.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You don''t need a lot of time or years of experience to preserve garden-fresh fruits and vegetables. Simple step-by-step instructions give you the confidence and know-how to freeze, dry, can, root cellar, and brine the abundance from your CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share or summer garden.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Grate and freeze excess zucchini; it will be perfect in quick breads and muffins all winter long. Pick up a crate of less-than-perfect tomatoes at the farmers'' market and preserve them in jars of spicy salsa. Turn the overflow of green beans from your CSA farm share into tasty dilly beans to eat all winter or give as holiday gifts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  These techniques and recipes will have you eating locally all year long.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4745'),
(10101, 'The Beginner&#39;s Guide to Preserving Food at Home', 'Janet Chadwick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wonderful thing is happening in home kitchens. People are rediscovering the joys of locally produced foods and reducing the amount of the grocery budget that''s spent on packaged items, out-of-season produce, and heavily processed foods. But fresh, seasonal fruits and vegetables don''t stay fresh and delicious forever - they must be eaten now . . . or preserved for later.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For all the vegetable gardeners facing baskets overflowing with bright tomatoes, and for all the dedicated farmers'' market fans and CSA members,\n  <em>\n   The Beginner''s Guide to Preserving Food at Home\n  </em>\n  has the simple solutions that turn overwhelming bounty into neatly canned tomatoes, jars of jams and jellies, and crispy-tart relishes and pickles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Organized in a friendly, food-by-food format, readers will find freezing, drying, canning, and storing instructions for each vegetable, fruit, and herb. In many cases, several ways to freeze or can a food are described, and there are often other preserving suggestions as well, such as making juice or fruit leather.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Everything is written with busy people in mind: these are the quickest, most efficient methods for preserving summer''s bounty. Up-to-date information and clear, step-by-step instructions show even absolute beginners the way to a fully stocked pantry.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Enjoy local produce year-round.\n </p>\n <p>\n  You don''t need a lot of time or years of experience to preserve garden-fresh fruits and vegetables. Simple step-by-step instructions give you the confidence and know-how to freeze, dry, can, root cellar, and brine the abundance from your CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share or summer garden.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Grate and freeze excess zucchini; it will be perfect in quick breads and muffins all winter long. Pick up a crate of less-than-perfect tomatoes at the farmers'' market and preserve them in jars of spicy salsa. Turn the overflow of green beans from your CSA farm share into tasty dilly beans to eat all winter or give as holiday gifts.\n </p>\n <p>\n  These techniques and recipes will have you eating locally all year long.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8929'),
(10102, 'Beginning Flash Game Programming for Dummies (ISBN', '0764589628)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15885'),
(10103, 'Beginning Programming All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies (ISBN', '0470108541)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22797'),
(10104, 'Beginning Programming with Java for Dummies (ISBN', '0764588745)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15582'),
(10105, 'The Beginning... The End... Anew!', 'Zedart Hodges', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For sometime Iâ€™ve been clean and at times it has been hard but I think about my love for me and know that I canÂ´t and refuse to fall back into that self pity state of denial and  that now I understand that itÂ´s not about me also thereÂ´s a saying that is so true which sayÂ´s in order to keep what you got you must give it away I hope this will help someone or some bodyÂ´s out there thatÂ´s beginning to realize that life is bigger than they are and more important to someone else other than you thank you for time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/145'),
(10106, 'The Beginning... the End... Anew!', 'Zedart Hodges', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: For sometime Iâ€™ve been clean and at times it has been hard but I think about my love for me and know that I canÂ´t and refuse to fall back into that self pity state of denial and that now I understand that itÂ´s not about me also thereÂ´s a saying that is so true which sayÂ´s in order to keep what you got you must give it away I hope this will help someone or some bodyÂ´s out there thatÂ´s beginning to realize that life is bigger than they are and more important to someone else other than you thank you for time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24808'),
(10107, 'Beguilement', 'Judy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20031'),
(10108, 'Bel Ami', 'Guy de Maupassant', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n French author Guy de Maupassant''s second novel â€œBel Ami,â€ charts the incredible rise to power of journalist Georges Duroy. Itâ€™s widely considered Maupassant''s greatest achievement as a novelist. By manipulating a series of wealthy mistresses Duroy rises from a poor peasant family in Normandy to become one of the most successful men in Paris. Set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa, the novel explores society and itâ€™s attitudes toward sex, wealth, and power. It also places journalism under the microscope as a pointed satire. Read this book and discover how little has changed from the late nineteenth-century to today, and see why â€œBel Amiâ€ is one of the finest French novels ever written.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Language Notes\n</h3>\n<p>\n Text: English, French (translation)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18350'),
(10109, 'Bel Ami', 'Guy de Maupassant', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28031'),
(10110, 'Bel Canto', 'Ann Patchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13771'),
(10111, 'Bel Canto', 'Ann Patchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16318'),
(10112, 'Bel Canto', 'Ann Patchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26412'),
(10113, 'Bel-Air Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Woods''s dizzyingly paced 20th Stone Barrington novel (after Strategic Moves) takes the New York attorney to Los Angeles to represent recent widow Arrington Calder, his sometime lover, in her attempts to keep control of Centurion Studios. Barrington undertakes a rapid realignment of Calder''s holdings while forming alliances and buying shares to thwart the efforts of Prince Investment''s Terry Prince, who wants the prime Bel-Air acreage the studio occupies. The murder of stockholder Jennifer Harris is only the first indication of how rough Prince plays. With longtime pal Dino Bacchetti at his side as well as the mighty resources of Mike Freeman''s Strategic Services and Bill Eggers''s law firm Woodman &amp; Weld, Barrington matches financial wits with the arrogant Prince. There''s cross-pollination with Woods''s Ed Eagle series (Santa Fe Edge, etc.) as one of Eagle''s nemeses plays a surprising role. Series fans will find Barrington as shrewd, sexy, and glib as ever. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In the newest addition to the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   -bestselling series, Stone Barrington comes face-to-face with a beautiful woman from his past. . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington''s much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn. It seems many of Hollywood''s rich and beautiful have Arrington and Centurion in their sights, and Stone finds himself dragged into a surprisingly deadly web of intrigue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/930'),
(10114, 'Bel-Air Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Woods''s dizzyingly paced 20th Stone Barrington novel (after Strategic Moves) takes the New York attorney to Los Angeles to represent recent widow Arrington Calder, his sometime lover, in her attempts to keep control of Centurion Studios. Barrington undertakes a rapid realignment of Calder''s holdings while forming alliances and buying shares to thwart the efforts of Prince Investment''s Terry Prince, who wants the prime Bel-Air acreage the studio occupies. The murder of stockholder Jennifer Harris is only the first indication of how rough Prince plays. With longtime pal Dino Bacchetti at his side as well as the mighty resources of Mike Freeman''s Strategic Services and Bill Eggers''s law firm Woodman &amp; Weld, Barrington matches financial wits with the arrogant Prince. There''s cross-pollination with Woods''s Ed Eagle series (Santa Fe Edge, etc.) as one of Eagle''s nemeses plays a surprising role. Series fans will find Barrington as shrewd, sexy, and glib as ever. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In the newest addition to the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   -bestselling series, Stone Barrington comes face-to-face with a beautiful woman from his past. . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington''s much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn. It seems many of Hollywood''s rich and beautiful have Arrington and Centurion in their sights, and Stone finds himself dragged into a surprisingly deadly web of intrigue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13399'),
(10115, 'Bel-Air Dead', 'Stuart Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Woods''s dizzyingly paced 20th Stone Barrington novel (after Strategic Moves) takes the New York attorney to Los Angeles to represent recent widow Arrington Calder, his sometime lover, in her attempts to keep control of Centurion Studios. Barrington undertakes a rapid realignment of Calder''s holdings while forming alliances and buying shares to thwart the efforts of Prince Investment''s Terry Prince, who wants the prime Bel-Air acreage the studio occupies. The murder of stockholder Jennifer Harris is only the first indication of how rough Prince plays. With longtime pal Dino Bacchetti at his side as well as the mighty resources of Mike Freeman''s Strategic Services and Bill Eggers''s law firm Woodman &amp; Weld, Barrington matches financial wits with the arrogant Prince. There''s cross-pollination with Woods''s Ed Eagle series (Santa Fe Edge, etc.) as one of Eagle''s nemeses plays a surprising role. Series fans will find Barrington as shrewd, sexy, and glib as ever. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In the newest addition to the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   -bestselling series, Stone Barrington comes face-to-face with a beautiful woman from his past. . . .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington''s much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn. It seems many of Hollywood''s rich and beautiful have Arrington and Centurion in their sights, and Stone finds himself dragged into a surprisingly deadly web of intrigue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24036');
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(10116, 'The Believing Brain', 'Michael Shermer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMichael Shermer has long been one of our most committed champions of scientific thinking in the face of popular delusion. In\n <em>\n  The Believing Brain\n </em>\n , he has written a wonderfully lucid, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the boundary between justified and unjustified belief. We have all fallen more deeply in his debt\n <strong>\n  .â€Â \n </strong>\n â€“\n <strong>\n  Sam Harris, author of the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestsellers\n  <em>\n   The Moral Landscape\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Letter to a Christian Nation\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The End of Faith\n  </em>\n  .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe physicist Richard Feynman once said that the easiest person to fool is yourself, and as a result he argued that as a scientist one has to be especially careful to try and find out not only what is right about one''s theories, but what might also be wrong with them. Â If we all followed this maxim of skepticism in everyday life, the world would probably be a better place. But we don''t. In this book Michael Shermer lucidly describes why and how we are hard wired to ''want to believe''. Â With a narrative that gently flows from the personal to the profound, Shermer shares what he has learned after spending a lifetime pondering the relationship between beliefs and reality, and how to be prepared to tell the difference between the two.â€â€”\n <strong>\n  Lawrence M. Krauss, Foundation Professor and Director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University and author of\n  <em>\n   The Physics of Star Trek\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Quantum Man\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Universe from Nothing\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Michael Shermer has long been one of the world''s deepest thinkers when it comes to explaining where our beliefs come from, and he brings it all together in this important, engaging, and ambitious book. Shermer knows all the science, he tells great stories, he is funny, and he is_ fearless_, delving into hot-button topics like 9-11 Truthers, life after death, capitalism, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, and the existence of God. This is an entertaining and thoughtful exploration of the beliefs that shape our lives."â€”\n <strong>\n  Paul Bloom, author of_ How Pleasure Works_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_The Believing Brain_ is a tour de force integrating neuroscience and the social sciences to explain how irrational beliefs are formed and reinforced, while leaving us confident our ideas are valid. This is a must read for everyone who wonders why religious and political beliefs are so rigid and polarizedâ€”or why the other side is always wrong, but somehow doesn''t see it."â€”\n <em>\n </em>\n Dr. Leonard Mlodinow, physicist and author of\n <em>\n  The Drunkardâ€™s Walk\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Grand Design\n </em>\n (with Stephen Hawking)\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "We might think that we learn how the world works, because we take the time to observe and understand it. Shermer says that''s just not so. We just believe things, and then make our world fit our perceptions. Believe me; you don''t have to take my word for it. Just try clearing some space in your own\n <em>\n  Believing Brain\n </em>\n ."â€”\n <em>\n </em>\n Bill Nye, the Science Guy Â©, Executive Director of The Planetary Society\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n "_The Believing Brain_ is a fascinating account of the origins of all manner of beliefs, replete with cutting edge evidence from the best scientific research, packed with nuggets of truths and then for good measure, studded with real world examples to deliver to the reader, a very personable, engaging and ultimately, convincing set of explanations for why we believe."â€”\n <strong>\n  Professor Bruce Hood, Chair of Developmental Psychology, Bristol University and author of\n  <em>\n   Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bestselling author Michael Shermer''s comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In this work synthesizing thirty years ofÂ research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world''s best-known skeptic Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put,Â beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a belief engine. From sensory data flowing in through the senses, the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns, and then infuses those patterns with meaning. Our brainsÂ connect the dots of our world into meaningful patterns that explain why things happen, and these patterns become beliefs. Once beliefs are formed the brain begins to look for and find confirmatory evidence in support of those beliefs, which accelerates the process of reinforcing them, and round and round the process goes in a positive-feedback loop of belief confirmation. Shermer outlines the numerous cognitive tools our brains engage to reinforce our beliefs as truths.\n</p>\n<p>\n Interlaced with his theory of belief, Shermer provides countless real-world examples of how this process operates, from politics, economics, and religion to conspiracy theories, the supernatural, and the paranormal. Ultimately, he demonstrates why science is the best tool ever devised to determine whether or not a belief matches reality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12398'),
(10117, 'The Bell at Sealey Head', 'Patricia A. McKillip', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An unseen bell haunts a seaside town and a magical mansion in this delicate fable from World Fantasy Award winner McKillip (_Od Magic_). Inside the baffling Aislinn House, young chambermaid Emma, opening an ordinary cabinet door, might find a rack of towels or encounter knights, crows and a lonely princess. As Lady Eglantyne, the ancient matron of the house, lies dying, her long-lost grand-niece is sent for. The townspeople are delighted by wealthy, city-bred Miranda Beryl, but suspicious of her eagerness to make herself at home and inherit the houseâ€”spellbound bell and all. Meanwhile, vacationing academic Ridley Dow''s interest in Aislinn House hints at another motive for his visit to the village beside the ocean. Romantic intrigue and touches of this fantastic make this light mystery an easy and pleasant read.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The small seaside town of Sealey Head is home to a few families, an inn, and Aislinn House, an old mansion with a special powerâ€”its doors sometimes open onto the world of faerie, where princesses like young Ysabo occupy their time with a complex ritual and knights exist to marry the princesses. Each day at sunset, a bell sounds, heard by everyone, yet its whereabouts and the identity of its ringer remain unknownâ€”until a few strangers arrive to unlock an ancient past. McKillip (_Song for the Basilisk_;\n <em>\n  Solstice Wood\n </em>\n ) weaves elegant modern fairy tales from simple themes, drawing the mythical and everyday worlds into an enchanted union. Elegant, deceptively spare prose and well-developed characters make this a good choice for adult and YA fantasy collections.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2332'),
(10118, 'The Bell at Sealey Head', 'Patricia A. McKillip', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An unseen bell haunts a seaside town and a magical mansion in this delicate fable from World Fantasy Award winner McKillip (_Od Magic_). Inside the baffling Aislinn House, young chambermaid Emma, opening an ordinary cabinet door, might find a rack of towels or encounter knights, crows and a lonely princess. As Lady Eglantyne, the ancient matron of the house, lies dying, her long-lost grand-niece is sent for. The townspeople are delighted by wealthy, city-bred Miranda Beryl, but suspicious of her eagerness to make herself at home and inherit the houseâ€”spellbound bell and all. Meanwhile, vacationing academic Ridley Dow''s interest in Aislinn House hints at another motive for his visit to the village beside the ocean. Romantic intrigue and touches of this fantastic make this light mystery an easy and pleasant read.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The small seaside town of Sealey Head is home to a few families, an inn, and Aislinn House, an old mansion with a special powerâ€”its doors sometimes open onto the world of faerie, where princesses like young Ysabo occupy their time with a complex ritual and knights exist to marry the princesses. Each day at sunset, a bell sounds, heard by everyone, yet its whereabouts and the identity of its ringer remain unknownâ€”until a few strangers arrive to unlock an ancient past. McKillip (_Song for the Basilisk_;\n <em>\n  Solstice Wood\n </em>\n ) weaves elegant modern fairy tales from simple themes, drawing the mythical and everyday worlds into an enchanted union. Elegant, deceptively spare prose and well-developed characters make this a good choice for adult and YA fantasy collections.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11348'),
(10119, 'The Bell at Sealey Head', 'Patricia A. McKillip', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An unseen bell haunts a seaside town and a magical mansion in this delicate fable from World Fantasy Award winner McKillip (_Od Magic_). Inside the baffling Aislinn House, young chambermaid Emma, opening an ordinary cabinet door, might find a rack of towels or encounter knights, crows and a lonely princess. As Lady Eglantyne, the ancient matron of the house, lies dying, her long-lost grand-niece is sent for. The townspeople are delighted by wealthy, city-bred Miranda Beryl, but suspicious of her eagerness to make herself at home and inherit the houseâ€”spellbound bell and all. Meanwhile, vacationing academic Ridley Dow''s interest in Aislinn House hints at another motive for his visit to the village beside the ocean. Romantic intrigue and touches of this fantastic make this light mystery an easy and pleasant read.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The small seaside town of Sealey Head is home to a few families, an inn, and Aislinn House, an old mansion with a special powerâ€”its doors sometimes open onto the world of faerie, where princesses like young Ysabo occupy their time with a complex ritual and knights exist to marry the princesses. Each day at sunset, a bell sounds, heard by everyone, yet its whereabouts and the identity of its ringer remain unknownâ€”until a few strangers arrive to unlock an ancient past. McKillip (_Song for the Basilisk_;\n <em>\n  Solstice Wood\n </em>\n ) weaves elegant modern fairy tales from simple themes, drawing the mythical and everyday worlds into an enchanted union. Elegant, deceptively spare prose and well-developed characters make this a good choice for adult and YA fantasy collections.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22495'),
(10120, 'The Bell Jar', 'Sylvia Plath', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath''s only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author''s suicide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/927'),
(10121, 'The Bell Jar', 'Sylvia Plath', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath''s only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author''s suicide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13917'),
(10122, 'The Bell Jar', 'Sylvia Plath', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath''s only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author''s suicide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23166'),
(10123, 'The Bell', 'Iris Murdoch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell,legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disasterous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercies discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved whatever that may mean...Iris Murdoch''s funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell,legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disasterous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercies discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved whatever that may mean...Iris Murdoch''s funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5004'),
(10124, 'The Bell', 'Iris Murdoch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell,legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disasterous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercies discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved whatever that may mean...Iris Murdoch''s funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19662'),
(10125, 'The bell', 'Iris Murdoch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean. Originally published in 1958, this funny, sad, and moving novel is about religion, sex, and the fight between good and evil.  With an introduction by A. S. Byatt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28267'),
(10126, 'Belle', 'Lesley Pearse', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n London 1910. Fifteen year-old Belle has lived in a brothel in Seven Dials all her life, with no understanding of what happens in the rooms upstairs. But her innocence is shattered when she witnesses the murder of one of the girls and, subsequently snatched from the streets by the killer, she is sold into prostitution in Paris. No longer mistress of her own fate, Belle is blown across the globe to sensuous New Orleans where she comes of age and learns to enjoy life as a courtesan. Yet thoughts of home - and the knowledge her status as golden girl cannot last - compel her to break out of her gilded cage. But Belle finds escaping tougher than she imagined, for her life is threatened by desperate men who crave her beauty and attention. Armed only with resourcefulness and spirit, she has a long and dangerous journey ahead of her. Will courage be enough to sustain her? Can she make it back to her family and friends and find her chance at true happiness? Number One bestseller Lesley Pearse has created in Belle a heroine for our times: a strong woman who stands up for right in a world turned bad.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lesley Pearse''s novels have sold close to 4 million copies in the UK alone. Her thirteen most recent books, including Stolen, Gypsy, Faith and Hope - each of which occupied a Top Three slot in both hardback and paperback - are huge bestsellers and are all available as Penguin paperbacks. Lesley lives near Bristol and has three daughters and two grandchildren.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3431'),
(10127, 'Belle', 'Lesley Pearse', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n London 1910. Fifteen year-old Belle has lived in a brothel in Seven Dials all her life, with no understanding of what happens in the rooms upstairs. But her innocence is shattered when she witnesses the murder of one of the girls and, subsequently snatched from the streets by the killer, she is sold into prostitution in Paris. No longer mistress of her own fate, Belle is blown across the globe to sensuous New Orleans where she comes of age and learns to enjoy life as a courtesan. Yet thoughts of home - and the knowledge her status as golden girl cannot last - compel her to break out of her gilded cage. But Belle finds escaping tougher than she imagined, for her life is threatened by desperate men who crave her beauty and attention. Armed only with resourcefulness and spirit, she has a long and dangerous journey ahead of her. Will courage be enough to sustain her? Can she make it back to her family and friends and find her chance at true happiness? Number One bestseller Lesley Pearse has created in Belle a heroine for our times: a strong woman who stands up for right in a world turned bad.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lesley Pearse''s novels have sold close to 4 million copies in the UK alone. Her thirteen most recent books, including Stolen, Gypsy, Faith and Hope - each of which occupied a Top Three slot in both hardback and paperback - are huge bestsellers and are all available as Penguin paperbacks. Lesley lives near Bristol and has three daughters and two grandchildren.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11843'),
(10128, 'Belle', 'Lesley Pearse', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n London 1910. Fifteen year-old Belle has lived in a brothel in Seven Dials all her life, with no understanding of what happens in the rooms upstairs. But her innocence is shattered when she witnesses the murder of one of the girls and, subsequently snatched from the streets by the killer, she is sold into prostitution in Paris. No longer mistress of her own fate, Belle is blown across the globe to sensuous New Orleans where she comes of age and learns to enjoy life as a courtesan. Yet thoughts of home - and the knowledge her status as golden girl cannot last - compel her to break out of her gilded cage. But Belle finds escaping tougher than she imagined, for her life is threatened by desperate men who crave her beauty and attention. Armed only with resourcefulness and spirit, she has a long and dangerous journey ahead of her. Will courage be enough to sustain her? Can she make it back to her family and friends and find her chance at true happiness? Number One bestseller Lesley Pearse has created in Belle a heroine for our times: a strong woman who stands up for right in a world turned bad.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lesley Pearse''s novels have sold close to 4 million copies in the UK alone. Her thirteen most recent books, including Stolen, Gypsy, Faith and Hope - each of which occupied a Top Three slot in both hardback and paperback - are huge bestsellers and are all available as Penguin paperbacks. Lesley lives near Bristol and has three daughters and two grandchildren.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21045'),
(10129, 'The Bells: A Novel', 'Richard Harvell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n I grew up as the son of a man who could not possibly have been my father. Though there was never any doubt that my seed had come from another man, Moses Froben, Lo Svizzero, called me â€œson.â€ And I called him â€œfather.â€ On the rare occasions when someone dared to ask for clarification, he simply laughed as though the questioner were obtuse. â€œOf course heâ€™s not my son!â€ he would say. â€œDonâ€™t be ridiculous.â€Â But whenever I myself gained the courage to ask him further of our past, he just looked sadly at me. â€œPlease, Nicolai,â€ he would say after a moment, as though we had made a pact I had forgotten. With time, I came to understand I would never know the secrets of my birth, for my father was the only one who knew these secrets, and he would take them to his grave.Â The celebrated opera singer Lo Svizzero was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps where his mother served as the keeper of the loudest and most beautiful bells in the land. Shaped by the bellsâ€™ glorious music, as a boy he possessed an extraordinary gift for sound. But when his preternatural hearing was discoveredâ€”along with its power to expose the sins of the churchâ€”young Moses Froben was cast out of his village with only his ears to guide him in a world fraught with danger. Â Rescued from certain death by two traveling monks, he finds refuge at the vast and powerful Abbey of St. Gall. There, his ears lead him through the ancient stone hallways and past the monksâ€™ cells into the choir, where he aches to join the singers in their strange and enchanting song. Suddenly Moses knows his true gift, his purpose. Like his motherâ€™s bells, he rings with sound and soon, he becomes the protÃ©gÃ© of the Abbeyâ€™s brilliant yet repulsive choirmaster, Ulrich. Â But it is this gift that will cause Mosesâ€™ greatest misfortune: determined to preserve his brilliant pupilâ€™s voice, Ulrich has Moses castrated. Now a young man, he will forever sing with the exquisite voice of an angelâ€”a musicoâ€”yet castration is an abomination in the Swiss Confederation, and so he must hide his shameful condition from his friends and even from the girl he has come to love. When his saviors are exiled and his beloved leaves St. Gall for an arranged marriage in Vienna, he decides he can deny the truth no longer and he follows herâ€”to sumptuous Vienna, to the former monks who saved his life, to an apprenticeship at one of Europeâ€™s greatest theaters, and to the premiere of one of historyâ€™s most beloved operas. Â In this confessional letter to his son, Moses recounts how his gift for sound led him on an astonishing journey to Europeâ€™s celebrated opera houses and reveals the secret that has long shadowed his fame: How did Moses Froben, world renowned musico, come to raise a son who by all rights he never could have sired? Â Like the voice of Lo Svizzero, The Bells is a sublime debut novel that rings with passion, courage, and beauty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1826'),
(10130, 'The Bells: A Novel', 'Richard Harvell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n I grew up as the son of a man who could not possibly have been my father. Though there was never any doubt that my seed had come from another man, Moses Froben, Lo Svizzero, called me â€œson.â€ And I called him â€œfather.â€ On the rare occasions when someone dared to ask for clarification, he simply laughed as though the questioner were obtuse. â€œOf course heâ€™s not my son!â€ he would say. â€œDonâ€™t be ridiculous.â€Â But whenever I myself gained the courage to ask him further of our past, he just looked sadly at me. â€œPlease, Nicolai,â€ he would say after a moment, as though we had made a pact I had forgotten. With time, I came to understand I would never know the secrets of my birth, for my father was the only one who knew these secrets, and he would take them to his grave.Â The celebrated opera singer Lo Svizzero was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps where his mother served as the keeper of the loudest and most beautiful bells in the land. Shaped by the bellsâ€™ glorious music, as a boy he possessed an extraordinary gift for sound. But when his preternatural hearing was discoveredâ€”along with its power to expose the sins of the churchâ€”young Moses Froben was cast out of his village with only his ears to guide him in a world fraught with danger. Â Rescued from certain death by two traveling monks, he finds refuge at the vast and powerful Abbey of St. Gall. There, his ears lead him through the ancient stone hallways and past the monksâ€™ cells into the choir, where he aches to join the singers in their strange and enchanting song. Suddenly Moses knows his true gift, his purpose. Like his motherâ€™s bells, he rings with sound and soon, he becomes the protÃ©gÃ© of the Abbeyâ€™s brilliant yet repulsive choirmaster, Ulrich. Â But it is this gift that will cause Mosesâ€™ greatest misfortune: determined to preserve his brilliant pupilâ€™s voice, Ulrich has Moses castrated. Now a young man, he will forever sing with the exquisite voice of an angelâ€”a musicoâ€”yet castration is an abomination in the Swiss Confederation, and so he must hide his shameful condition from his friends and even from the girl he has come to love. When his saviors are exiled and his beloved leaves St. Gall for an arranged marriage in Vienna, he decides he can deny the truth no longer and he follows herâ€”to sumptuous Vienna, to the former monks who saved his life, to an apprenticeship at one of Europeâ€™s greatest theaters, and to the premiere of one of historyâ€™s most beloved operas. Â In this confessional letter to his son, Moses recounts how his gift for sound led him on an astonishing journey to Europeâ€™s celebrated opera houses and reveals the secret that has long shadowed his fame: How did Moses Froben, world renowned musico, come to raise a son who by all rights he never could have sired? Â Like the voice of Lo Svizzero, The Bells is a sublime debut novel that rings with passion, courage, and beauty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10241'),
(10131, 'Belonging to Them', 'Brynn Paulin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the run from her past, Rayna Halliday is devastated when her old car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. She soon finds that her ex has managed to block her credit cards, her accounts and even her cell phones in an attempt to exert his control over her. Giving in to him is something she refuses to do.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When the owners of O''Keefe''s Gas and Repair come to her rescue, they make her an offer that tantalizes the forbidden desires within her-she can find a way to pay for the car repairs or she can belong to them for two weeks and they''ll see to her repairs for free. At the sexual mercy of four gorgeous men for two weeks? Why not? She can have fun and get things straightened out, all at once. But there are two problems heading her way: an ex on a rampage and her heart that''s in for more than just fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7029'),
(10132, 'Belonging to Them', 'Brynn Paulin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the run from her past, Rayna Halliday is devastated when her old car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. She soon finds that her ex has managed to block her credit cards, her accounts and even her cell phones in an attempt to exert his control over her. Giving in to him is something she refuses to do.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When the owners of O''Keefe''s Gas and Repair come to her rescue, they make her an offer that tantalizes the forbidden desires within her-she can find a way to pay for the car repairs or she can belong to them for two weeks and they''ll see to her repairs for free. At the sexual mercy of four gorgeous men for two weeks? Why not? She can have fun and get things straightened out, all at once. But there are two problems heading her way: an ex on a rampage and her heart that''s in for more than just fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11884'),
(10133, 'Belonging to Them', 'Brynn Paulin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the run from her past, Rayna Halliday is devastated when her old car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. She soon finds that her ex has managed to block her credit cards, her accounts and even her cell phones in an attempt to exert his control over her. Giving in to him is something she refuses to do. When the owners of O''Keefe''s Gas and Repair come to her rescue, they make her an offer that tantalizes the forbidden desires within her-she can find a way to pay for the car repairs or she can belong to them for two weeks and they''ll see to her repairs for free. At the sexual mercy of four gorgeous men for two weeks? Why not? She can have fun and get things straightened out, all at once. But there are two problems heading her way: an ex on a rampage and her heart that''s in for more than just fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16839'),
(10134, 'Belonging to Them', 'Brynn Paulin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the run from her past, Rayna Halliday is devastated when her old car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. She soon finds that her ex has managed to block her credit cards, her accounts and even her cell phones in an attempt to exert his control over her. Giving in to him is something she refuses to do. When the owners of O''Keefe''s Gas and Repair come to her rescue, they make her an offer that tantalizes the forbidden desires within her-she can find a way to pay for the car repairs or she can belong to them for two weeks and they''ll see to her repairs for free. At the sexual mercy of four gorgeous men for two weeks? Why not? She can have fun and get things straightened out, all at once. But there are two problems heading her way: an ex on a rampage and her heart that''s in for more than just fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26708'),
(10135, 'Beloved: A Novel', 'Toni Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never named, thought of only as Beloved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A dead child, a runaway slave, a terrible secret--these are the central concerns of Toni Morrison''s Pulitzer Prize-winning\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  . Morrison, a Nobel laureate, has written many fine novels, including\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  is arguably her best. To modern readers, antebellum slavery is a subject so familiar that it is almost impossible to render its horrors in a way that seems neither clichÃ©d nor melodramatic. Rapes, beatings, murders, and mutilations are recounted here, but they belong to characters so precisely drawn that the tragedy remains\n  <em>\n   individual\n  </em>\n  , terrifying to us because it is terrifying to the sufferer. And Morrison is master of the telling detail: in the\n  <em>\n   bit\n  </em>\n  , for example, a punishing piece of headgear used to discipline recalcitrant slaves, she manages to encapsulate all of slavery''s many cruelties into one apt symbol--a device that deprives its wearer of speech. "Days after it was taken out, goose fat was rubbed on the corners of the mouth but nothing to soothe the tongue or take the wildness out of the eye." Most importantly, the language here, while often lyrical, is never overheated. Even as she recalls the cruelties visited upon her while a slave, Sethe is evocative without being overemotional: "Add my husband to it, watching, above me in the loft--hiding close by--the one place he thought no one would look for him, looking down on what I couldn''t look at at all. And not stopping them--looking and letting it happen.... And if he was that broken then, then he is also and certainly dead now." Even the supernatural is treated as an ordinary fact of life: "Not a house in the country ain''t packed to its rafters with some dead Negro''s grief. We lucky this ghost is a baby," comments Sethe''s mother-in-law.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  is a dense, complex novel that yields up its secrets one by one. As Morrison takes us deeper into Sethe''s history and her memories, the horrifying circumstances of her baby''s death start to make terrible sense. And as past meets present in the shape of a mysterious young woman about the same age as Sethe''s daughter would have been, the narrative builds inexorably to its powerful, painful conclusion.\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  may well be\n  <em>\n   the\n  </em>\n  defining novel of slavery in America, the one that all others will be measured by.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mixed with the lyric beauty of the writing, the fury in Morrison''s (Song of Solomonp latest book is almost palpable. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this haunting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath traces the life of a young woman, Sethe, who has kept a terrible memory at bay only by shutting down part of her mind. Juxtaposed with searing descriptions of brutality, gradually revealed in flashbacks, are equally harrowing scenes in which fantasy takes flesh, a device Morrison handles with consummate skill. The narrative concerns Sethe''s former life as a slave on Sweet Home Farm, her escape with her children to what seems a safe haven and the tragic events that ensue. The death of Sethe''s infant daughter Beloved is the incident on which the plot hinges, and it is obvious to the reader that the sensuous young woman who mysteriously appears one day is Beloved''s spirit, come back to claim Sethe''s love. Sethe''s surviving daughter, Denver, immediately grasps the significance of Beloved''s return and so does Paul Dno period after D, another escapee from Sweet Home; but Sethe herself resists comprehension, and, as a result, a certain loss of tension affects the latter part of the narrative. But this is a small flaw in a novel full of insights, both piercing and tender, with distinctive, memorable characters, flowing prose that conveys speech patterns with musical intensity and a brilliantly conceived story. As a record of white brutality mitigated by rare acts of decency and compassion, and as a testament to the courageous lives of a tormented people, this novel is a milestone in the chronicling of the black experience in America. It is Morrison writing at the height of her considerable powers, and it should not be missed. BOMC main selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/529'),
(10136, 'Beloved: a novel', 'Toni Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never named, thought of only as Beloved.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A dead child, a runaway slave, a terrible secret--these are the central concerns of Toni Morrison''s Pulitzer Prize-winning\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  . Morrison, a Nobel laureate, has written many fine novels, including\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  is arguably her best. To modern readers, antebellum slavery is a subject so familiar that it is almost impossible to render its horrors in a way that seems neither clichÃ©d nor melodramatic. Rapes, beatings, murders, and mutilations are recounted here, but they belong to characters so precisely drawn that the tragedy remains\n  <em>\n   individual\n  </em>\n  , terrifying to us because it is terrifying to the sufferer. And Morrison is master of the telling detail: in the\n  <em>\n   bit\n  </em>\n  , for example, a punishing piece of headgear used to discipline recalcitrant slaves, she manages to encapsulate all of slavery''s many cruelties into one apt symbol--a device that deprives its wearer of speech. "Days after it was taken out, goose fat was rubbed on the corners of the mouth but nothing to soothe the tongue or take the wildness out of the eye." Most importantly, the language here, while often lyrical, is never overheated. Even as she recalls the cruelties visited upon her while a slave, Sethe is evocative without being overemotional: "Add my husband to it, watching, above me in the loft--hiding close by--the one place he thought no one would look for him, looking down on what I couldn''t look at at all. And not stopping them--looking and letting it happen.... And if he was that broken then, then he is also and certainly dead now." Even the supernatural is treated as an ordinary fact of life: "Not a house in the country ain''t packed to its rafters with some dead Negro''s grief. We lucky this ghost is a baby," comments Sethe''s mother-in-law.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  is a dense, complex novel that yields up its secrets one by one. As Morrison takes us deeper into Sethe''s history and her memories, the horrifying circumstances of her baby''s death start to make terrible sense. And as past meets present in the shape of a mysterious young woman about the same age as Sethe''s daughter would have been, the narrative builds inexorably to its powerful, painful conclusion.\n  <em>\n   Beloved\n  </em>\n  may well be\n  <em>\n   the\n  </em>\n  defining novel of slavery in America, the one that all others will be measured by.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mixed with the lyric beauty of the writing, the fury in Morrison''s (Song of Solomonp latest book is almost palpable. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this haunting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath traces the life of a young woman, Sethe, who has kept a terrible memory at bay only by shutting down part of her mind. Juxtaposed with searing descriptions of brutality, gradually revealed in flashbacks, are equally harrowing scenes in which fantasy takes flesh, a device Morrison handles with consummate skill. The narrative concerns Sethe''s former life as a slave on Sweet Home Farm, her escape with her children to what seems a safe haven and the tragic events that ensue. The death of Sethe''s infant daughter Beloved is the incident on which the plot hinges, and it is obvious to the reader that the sensuous young woman who mysteriously appears one day is Beloved''s spirit, come back to claim Sethe''s love. Sethe''s surviving daughter, Denver, immediately grasps the significance of Beloved''s return and so does Paul Dno period after D, another escapee from Sweet Home; but Sethe herself resists comprehension, and, as a result, a certain loss of tension affects the latter part of the narrative. But this is a small flaw in a novel full of insights, both piercing and tender, with distinctive, memorable characters, flowing prose that conveys speech patterns with musical intensity and a brilliantly conceived story. As a record of white brutality mitigated by rare acts of decency and compassion, and as a testament to the courageous lives of a tormented people, this novel is a milestone in the chronicling of the black experience in America. It is Morrison writing at the height of her considerable powers, and it should not be missed. BOMC main selection.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24440'),
(10137, 'Ben Bova - Cafe Coup', 'Coup Cafe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15588'),
(10138, 'Ben-Hur, A Tale of the Christ', 'Lewis Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25414'),
(10139, 'A Bend in the River', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In the "brilliant novel" (_The New York Times_) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man â€” an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n Explores an isolated African town caught between the modern worlds, as seen through the eyes of an uprooted Indian who comes to live there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11005'),
(10140, 'A Bend in the Road', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Miles Ryan''s life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah''s second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah reach out to each other...soon they are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to reexamine everything they believe in-including their love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2596'),
(10141, 'A Bend in the Road', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Miles Ryan''s life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah''s second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah reach out to each other...soon they are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to reexamine everything they believe in-including their love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12745'),
(10142, 'A Bend in the Road', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Miles Ryan''s life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah''s second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah reach out to each other...soon they are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to reexamine everything they believe in-including their love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14105'),
(10143, 'A Bend in the Road', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Miles Ryan''s life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah''s second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah reach out to each other...soon they are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to reexamine everything they believe in-including their love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22196'),
(10144, 'Beneath a Southern Sky', 'Deborah Raney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Her Second Husband Healed the Sorrow of a Tragic Loss. Her First Has Just Returned from the Dead.Which Man Has the Right to Claim Dariaâ€™s Heart?After two years of serving as a missionary in a remote area of South America, Daria Camfield has returned to the States to mourn her husband, reportedly killed while providing medical aid to a neighboring Colombian village. One family discovers how God can redeem any tragedy.At first, Daria finds comfort only in the daughter born to her after Nateâ€™s tragic death. As she begins to heal, she also finds a listening ear and a tender heart in her new boss, veterinarian Colson Hunter. Determined to move forward with life, Daria ignores the still small voice calling her to wait and accepts Coleâ€™s marriage proposal. But after the wedding, Dariaâ€™s new dream life turns into a nightmare with the arrival of an unbelievable telegram: â€œNathan Camfield found alive. Flying into K.C. Intâ€™l. via Bogotaâ€¦â€Now two men have the right to her daughter, her life, and her love. Will Daria return to her beloved first husband, abandoning Cole? Or will she reject Nate and choose the only man her daughter has ever called â€œDaddyâ€--a man she has come to cherish with all her heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5975'),
(10145, 'Beneath a Southern Sky', 'Deborah Raney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Her Second Husband Healed the Sorrow of a Tragic Loss. Her First Has Just Returned from the Dead.Which Man Has the Right to Claim Dariaâ€™s Heart?After two years of serving as a missionary in a remote area of South America, Daria Camfield has returned to the States to mourn her husband, reportedly killed while providing medical aid to a neighboring Colombian village. One family discovers how God can redeem any tragedy.At first, Daria finds comfort only in the daughter born to her after Nateâ€™s tragic death. As she begins to heal, she also finds a listening ear and a tender heart in her new boss, veterinarian Colson Hunter. Determined to move forward with life, Daria ignores the still small voice calling her to wait and accepts Coleâ€™s marriage proposal. But after the wedding, Dariaâ€™s new dream life turns into a nightmare with the arrival of an unbelievable telegram: â€œNathan Camfield found alive. Flying into K.C. Intâ€™l. via Bogotaâ€¦â€Now two men have the right to her daughter, her life, and her love. Will Daria return to her beloved first husband, abandoning Cole? Or will she reject Nate and choose the only man her daughter has ever called â€œDaddyâ€--a man she has come to cherish with all her heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12041');
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(10146, 'Beneath a Southern Sky', 'Deborah Raney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Her Second Husband Healed the Sorrow of a Tragic Loss. Her First Has Just Returned from the Dead.Which Man Has the Right to Claim Dariaâ€™s Heart?After two years of serving as a missionary in a remote area of South America, Daria Camfield has returned to the States to mourn her husband, reportedly killed while providing medical aid to a neighboring Colombian village. One family discovers how God can redeem any tragedy.At first, Daria finds comfort only in the daughter born to her after Nateâ€™s tragic death. As she begins to heal, she also finds a listening ear and a tender heart in her new boss, veterinarian Colson Hunter. Determined to move forward with life, Daria ignores the still small voice calling her to wait and accepts Coleâ€™s marriage proposal. But after the wedding, Dariaâ€™s new dream life turns into a nightmare with the arrival of an unbelievable telegram: â€œNathan Camfield found alive. Flying into K.C. Intâ€™l. via Bogotaâ€¦â€Now two men have the right to her daughter, her life, and her love. Will Daria return to her beloved first husband, abandoning Cole? Or will she reject Nate and choose the only man her daughter has ever called â€œDaddyâ€--a man she has come to cherish with all her heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17956'),
(10147, 'Beneath a Southern Sky', 'Deborah Raney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Her Second Husband Healed the Sorrow of a Tragic Loss. Her First Has Just Returned from the Dead.Which Man Has the Right to Claim Dariaâ€™s Heart?After two years of serving as a missionary in a remote area of South America, Daria Camfield has returned to the States to mourn her husband, reportedly killed while providing medical aid to a neighboring Colombian village. One family discovers how God can redeem any tragedy.At first, Daria finds comfort only in the daughter born to her after Nateâ€™s tragic death. As she begins to heal, she also finds a listening ear and a tender heart in her new boss, veterinarian Colson Hunter. Determined to move forward with life, Daria ignores the still small voice calling her to wait and accepts Coleâ€™s marriage proposal. But after the wedding, Dariaâ€™s new dream life turns into a nightmare with the arrival of an unbelievable telegram: â€œNathan Camfield found alive. Flying into K.C. Intâ€™l. via Bogotaâ€¦â€Now two men have the right to her daughter, her life, and her love. Will Daria return to her beloved first husband, abandoning Cole? Or will she reject Nate and choose the only man her daughter has ever called â€œDaddyâ€--a man she has come to cherish with all her heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27383'),
(10148, 'Beneath the Skin', 'Savannah Russe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n No one can tell that Daphne Urban is a vampire. But the government knows-and she''s been recruited to spy for them. To get over a recent break-up, Daphne must throw herself into her work, joining her colleagues to chase down a ruthless enemy. Mysterious, cruel, and unstoppable, this assassin is dead-set on killing a certain presidential candidate. Now Team Darkwing has to find him before it''s too late. But soon, Daphne finds herself drawn back into the life she once rejected: a secret vampire underworld, where all pleasures-like human blood-can be found.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1300'),
(10149, 'Beneath the Skin', 'Savannah Russe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No one can tell that Daphne Urban is a vampire. But the government knows-and she''s been recruited to spy for them. To get over a recent break-up, Daphne must throw herself into her work, joining her colleagues to chase down a ruthless enemy. Mysterious, cruel, and unstoppable, this assassin is dead-set on killing a certain presidential candidate. Now Team Darkwing has to find him before it''s too late. But soon, Daphne finds herself drawn back into the life she once rejected: a secret vampire underworld, where all pleasures-like human blood-can be found.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23554'),
(10150, 'Benedict 4 - the Devil&#39;s Eye', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n McDevitt fills the fourth far-future Alex Benedict adventure (after 2005''s Nebula-winning\n <em>\n  Seeker\n </em>\n ) with historical details and thrilling stunts as well as sharp political allegory. When famous horror writer Vicki Greene leaves antiquities dealer Alex a desperate message and then voluntarily has her memory erased, he and his pilot companion, Chase Kolpath, follow clues literally to the end of the galaxy, where Vicky had been researching her next novel. Official threats and a kidnapping reveal a planet-threatening catastrophe, covered up for years by hapless bureaucrats. As panic ensues and evacuation looks hopeless, the space opera turns into commentary on government reaction to emergencies and the values of openness. McDevitt balances the two sides of his story well, never losing sight of either the fast-paced action or the message behind it.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œNo one writing today is better than McDevitt at combining galaxy-spanning adventure with the genuine novel of ideas.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJack McDevitt is a master at describing otherworldly grandeur.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Denver Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhy read Jack McDevitt? The question should be: Who among us is such a slow pony that s/he isnâ€™t reading McDevitt?â€\n <br />\n â€”Harlan Ellison\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou should definitely read Jack McDevitt.â€\n <br />\n â€”Gregory Benford\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18201'),
(10151, 'Benedict 5 - Echo', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of antiquities dealer Alex Benedict will find their expectations fully met by his fifth outing (after 2008''s The Devil''s Eye). Benedict innocently arranges the purchase of a curious but not obviously significant stone tablet with an unreadable inscription. When the slab proves inexplicably difficult to collect, Benedict and his partner, Chase Kolpath, investigate its connections to explorer Sunset Tuttle''s abrupt abandonment of his quest to find another intelligent race. Death hounds Benedict and Chase as they inch closer to an old shame someone will kill to protect. McDevitt''s characters may live 9,600 years in the future, but their values are entirely 21st century, which will endear them to some SF fans and turn off others. There are hints of the existential malaise that permeates McDevitt''s Priscilla Hutchins novels, but despite the book''s terrible events, the series retains its essential optimism about redemption and progress. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A new novel of the fantastic unknown by the national bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Time Travelers Never Die\n  </em>\n  .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Eccentric Sunset Tuttle spent his life searching in vain for forms of alien life. Thirty years after his death, a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic, indecipherable symbols is found in the possession of Tuttle''s onetime lover, and antiquities dealer Alex Benedict is anxious to discover what secret the tablet holds. It could be proof that Tuttle had found what he was looking for. To find out, Benedict and his assistant embark on their own voyage of discovery-one that will lead them directly into the path of a very determined assassin who doesn''t want those secrets revealed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18249'),
(10152, 'Bent Road', 'Lori Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Set in the mid ''60s, Roy''s outstanding debut melds strong characters and an engrossing plot with an evocative sense of place. When Negro boys start phoning Elaine, Arthur Scott''s teenage daughter, Arthur decides it''s time to leave Detroit and return to the small Kansas town that he left 20 years earlier after his sister Eve''s mysterious death. His wife, Celia, resents the move that will put her close to in-laws she barely knows and that will change her family dynamic. That Arthur''s younger daughter, Eve-ee, resembles her late aunt unsettles Arthur''s older sister, Ruth, and Ruth''s husband, Ray, who have never seen Eve-ee before. When a neighbor''s child disappears, suspicion uncomfortably settles on Ray, who was suspected in Eve''s death. Roy couples a vivid view of the isolation and harshness of farm life with a perceptive look at the emotions that can rage beneath the surface. This Midwestern noir with gothic undertones is sure to make several 2011 must-read lists. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''''_Bent Road_ is a remarkably assured debut novel. Rich and evocative, Lori Roy''s voice is a welcome addition to American fiction.'''' --Dennis Lehane,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Mystic River\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Shutter Island\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''In her promising debut novel\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  , Lori Roy proves that dark secrets hide even in the most wide-open places. Set in the beautifully rendered Kansas plains,\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  is a family story with a suspenseful gothic core, one which shows that the past always has a price, whether you''re running from it or back toward it. Crisp, evocative prose, full-blooded characters, and a haunting setting make this debut stand out.'''' --Michael Koryta, author of\n  <em>\n   Tonight I Said Goodbye\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''Dropping us in a world of seeming simplicity, in a time of seeming calm, Lori Roy transforms 1960s small-town Kansas into a haunting memoryscape. Bringing to mind the family horrors of Jane Smiley''s\n  <em>\n   A Thousand Acres\n  </em>\n  and the dark emotional terrain of Tana French''s\n  <em>\n   In the Woods\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  manages to be both psychologically acute and breathtakingly suspenseful, burrowing into your brain with a feverish power all its own.'''' --Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning novelist\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3268'),
(10153, 'Bent Road', 'Lori Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Set in the mid ''60s, Roy''s outstanding debut melds strong characters and an engrossing plot with an evocative sense of place. When Negro boys start phoning Elaine, Arthur Scott''s teenage daughter, Arthur decides it''s time to leave Detroit and return to the small Kansas town that he left 20 years earlier after his sister Eve''s mysterious death. His wife, Celia, resents the move that will put her close to in-laws she barely knows and that will change her family dynamic. That Arthur''s younger daughter, Eve-ee, resembles her late aunt unsettles Arthur''s older sister, Ruth, and Ruth''s husband, Ray, who have never seen Eve-ee before. When a neighbor''s child disappears, suspicion uncomfortably settles on Ray, who was suspected in Eve''s death. Roy couples a vivid view of the isolation and harshness of farm life with a perceptive look at the emotions that can rage beneath the surface. This Midwestern noir with gothic undertones is sure to make several 2011 must-read lists. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''''_Bent Road_ is a remarkably assured debut novel. Rich and evocative, Lori Roy''s voice is a welcome addition to American fiction.'''' --Dennis Lehane,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Mystic River\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Shutter Island\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''In her promising debut novel\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  , Lori Roy proves that dark secrets hide even in the most wide-open places. Set in the beautifully rendered Kansas plains,\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  is a family story with a suspenseful gothic core, one which shows that the past always has a price, whether you''re running from it or back toward it. Crisp, evocative prose, full-blooded characters, and a haunting setting make this debut stand out.'''' --Michael Koryta, author of\n  <em>\n   Tonight I Said Goodbye\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''Dropping us in a world of seeming simplicity, in a time of seeming calm, Lori Roy transforms 1960s small-town Kansas into a haunting memoryscape. Bringing to mind the family horrors of Jane Smiley''s\n  <em>\n   A Thousand Acres\n  </em>\n  and the dark emotional terrain of Tana French''s\n  <em>\n   In the Woods\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  manages to be both psychologically acute and breathtakingly suspenseful, burrowing into your brain with a feverish power all its own.'''' --Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning novelist\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12478'),
(10154, 'Bent Road', 'Lori Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Set in the mid ''60s, Roy''s outstanding debut melds strong characters and an engrossing plot with an evocative sense of place. When Negro boys start phoning Elaine, Arthur Scott''s teenage daughter, Arthur decides it''s time to leave Detroit and return to the small Kansas town that he left 20 years earlier after his sister Eve''s mysterious death. His wife, Celia, resents the move that will put her close to in-laws she barely knows and that will change her family dynamic. That Arthur''s younger daughter, Eve-ee, resembles her late aunt unsettles Arthur''s older sister, Ruth, and Ruth''s husband, Ray, who have never seen Eve-ee before. When a neighbor''s child disappears, suspicion uncomfortably settles on Ray, who was suspected in Eve''s death. Roy couples a vivid view of the isolation and harshness of farm life with a perceptive look at the emotions that can rage beneath the surface. This Midwestern noir with gothic undertones is sure to make several 2011 must-read lists. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''''_Bent Road_ is a remarkably assured debut novel. Rich and evocative, Lori Roy''s voice is a welcome addition to American fiction.'''' --Dennis Lehane,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Mystic River\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Shutter Island\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''In her promising debut novel\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  , Lori Roy proves that dark secrets hide even in the most wide-open places. Set in the beautifully rendered Kansas plains,\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  is a family story with a suspenseful gothic core, one which shows that the past always has a price, whether you''re running from it or back toward it. Crisp, evocative prose, full-blooded characters, and a haunting setting make this debut stand out.'''' --Michael Koryta, author of\n  <em>\n   Tonight I Said Goodbye\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ''''Dropping us in a world of seeming simplicity, in a time of seeming calm, Lori Roy transforms 1960s small-town Kansas into a haunting memoryscape. Bringing to mind the family horrors of Jane Smiley''s\n  <em>\n   A Thousand Acres\n  </em>\n  and the dark emotional terrain of Tana French''s\n  <em>\n   In the Woods\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Bent Road\n  </em>\n  manages to be both psychologically acute and breathtakingly suspenseful, burrowing into your brain with a feverish power all its own.'''' --Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning novelist\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21205'),
(10155, 'Beowulf', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., this classic tale describes the adventures of a great Danish warrior of the sixth century\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7472'),
(10156, 'Beowulf', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., this classic tale describes the adventures of a great Danish warrior of the sixth century\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8190'),
(10157, 'Beowulf', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., this classic tale describes the adventures of a great Danish warrior of the sixth century\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16357'),
(10158, 'Beowulf', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., this classic tale describes the adventures of a great Danish warrior of the sixth century\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26435'),
(10159, 'Beowulf&#39;s Children', 'Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle; Steven Barnes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived on Earth. Setting out for the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however, there are monsters which drawf the ones their parents fought, and as the group will soon learn, monsters also dwell in the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20092'),
(10160, 'The Berenstain Bears and the Mama&#39;s Day Surprise', 'Stan Berenstain &amp; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Motherâ€™s Day is coming, and Mama Bear knows that Papa and the cubs are going to surprise her. She also knows that Motherâ€™s Day in the tree house is going to be one big, messy success that sheâ€™ll have to clean up. But maybe, just maybe, Papa and the cubs have cooked up a really big surprise for Mama this year! Featuring greeting card gatefold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8132'),
(10161, 'The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone', 'Stan Berenstain &amp; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  The Bear Detectives come to the aid of Dr. Bear at the Bear Museum. With less than an hour to spare, the cubs must find the missing dinosaur bone so that everyone can enjoy the dinosaur exhibit. Illus. in full color.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8131'),
(10162, 'The Berenstain Bears and the Papa&#39;s Day Surprise', 'Stan Berenstain &amp; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  â€œFatherâ€™s Day is nothing but a greeting card holiday,â€ is what Papa says. If thatâ€™s the way Papa feels, then his family just wonâ€™t celebrate this year. But, as the big day rolls around, and thereâ€™s no card, no gift, and no breakfast in bed, Papaâ€™s spirits sink lower and lower. Thatâ€™s when the cubs spring on him their wonderful Papaâ€™s Day surprise!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h4>\n  Annotation\n </h4>\n <p>\n  Papa Bear makes it clear to his family that he does not believe in celebrating Fathers'' Day, then changes his opinion but fears it may be too late for any special treatment.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8134'),
(10163, 'The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree', 'Stan Berenstain &amp; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Three terrified little bears explore the inside of a mysterious old tree and go\n <em>\n  into, up, through, over, down,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  out.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Three terrified little bears explore the inside of a mysterious old tree and go\n <em>\n  into, up, through, over, down,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  out.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1221'),
(10164, 'The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree', 'Stan Berenstain &amp; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Three terrified little bears explore the inside of a mysterious old tree and go\n <em>\n  into, up, through, over, down,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  out.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Three terrified little bears explore the inside of a mysterious old tree and go\n <em>\n  into, up, through, over, down,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  out.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8482'),
(10165, 'The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree', 'Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Three terrified little bears explore the inside of a mysterious old tree and go\n <em>\n  into, up, through, over, down,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  out.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Three terrified little bears explore the inside of a mysterious old tree and go\n <em>\n  into, up, through, over, down,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  out.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23695'),
(10166, 'The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Teasing', 'Stan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Illustrated in full color. Brother Bear is a master at teasing--until the tables are turned and he''s the one being heckled for being the principal''s pet. And when Brother finally understands that teasing isn''t just mean, it''s also dangerous, he actually decides to stick up for the new kid at school.\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </i>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1224'),
(10167, 'The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Teasing', 'Stan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Illustrated in full color. Brother Bear is a master at teasing--until the tables are turned and he''s the one being heckled for being the principal''s pet. And when Brother finally understands that teasing isn''t just mean, it''s also dangerous, he actually decides to stick up for the new kid at school.\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </i>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8485'),
(10168, 'The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Teasing', 'Stan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Illustrated in full color. Brother Bear is a master at teasing--until the tables are turned and he''s the one being heckled for being the principal''s pet. And when Brother finally understands that teasing isn''t just mean, it''s also dangerous, he actually decides to stick up for the new kid at school.\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </i>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23694'),
(10169, 'The Berlin Conspiracy', 'Tom Gabbay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wallowing in a postâ€“Bay of Pigs funk, ex-CIA agent Jack Teller is called out of retirement in 1963 and sent to Berlin to meet an East German agent with a message for Jack''s ears only in the debut of screenwriter and former TV producer Gabbay. Jack is floored by both his contact''s identity and his information about a plot to kill President Kennedy during an upcoming visit to West Berlin. His dormant idealism roused, Jack delves into the conspiracy while dodging the threats of corrupt CIA higherups and falling in with colorful residents of Berlin''s Cold War demimonde. Mixing cynical world-weariness with dead-pan humor and a refreshing lack of Bond-style omnicompetence (random mishaps include a nasty dog bite and a disastrous attempt to shoot off a pair of handcuffs), Jack''s story is part John le CarrÃ© and part Elmore Leonard. Gabbay constructs the thriller as a dress rehearsal and what-if scenario for the actual Dallas assassination. With rogue intelligence operatives, gangsters, Texas tycoons and a mob of snipers, coverup hit men, fall guys, fall guy impersonators, and miscellaneous functionaries all jostling each other, the plot''s many moving parts make the climax a virtual parody of ponderous JFK conspiracy theories. But until this odd turn, Gabbay offers a stylish thriller with an appealing hero.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 3)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“The nuances of the JFK assassination conspiracy theories chillingly collide with the intricacies of Cold War espionage in this well-crafted, fast-paced thriller. CIA agent Jack Teller is a hard-boiled, world-weary pragmatist who would rather be fishing in Florida but warms to the notion that fate has selected him to abort an assassination attempt in Berlin. If allowed to succeed, it could lead in a matter of minutes to all-out nuclear war and the end of the world as we know it. Teller soon finds himself in that never-never land of spies where no one is who he seems to be, and where danger lurks behind, above, below, and within every doorway. As implausible as this may sound, Gabbay does a credible job of juxtaposing his story with historically accurate but equally implausible events, namely the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the assassination in Dallas. The novel could be viewed as simply a good escapist read, but there is an enormously significant lesson at its core: in a world with stockpiles of nuclear weapons, it only takes a well-placed loose cannon or two to set us all on a course of utter destruction. That story has been told before, but it bears repeating. This is a thrilling tale with historical lessons of lasting consequences.â€“_Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/475'),
(10170, 'The Berlin Conspiracy', 'Tom Gabbay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wallowing in a postâ€“Bay of Pigs funk, ex-CIA agent Jack Teller is called out of retirement in 1963 and sent to Berlin to meet an East German agent with a message for Jack''s ears only in the debut of screenwriter and former TV producer Gabbay. Jack is floored by both his contact''s identity and his information about a plot to kill President Kennedy during an upcoming visit to West Berlin. His dormant idealism roused, Jack delves into the conspiracy while dodging the threats of corrupt CIA higherups and falling in with colorful residents of Berlin''s Cold War demimonde. Mixing cynical world-weariness with dead-pan humor and a refreshing lack of Bond-style omnicompetence (random mishaps include a nasty dog bite and a disastrous attempt to shoot off a pair of handcuffs), Jack''s story is part John le CarrÃ© and part Elmore Leonard. Gabbay constructs the thriller as a dress rehearsal and what-if scenario for the actual Dallas assassination. With rogue intelligence operatives, gangsters, Texas tycoons and a mob of snipers, coverup hit men, fall guys, fall guy impersonators, and miscellaneous functionaries all jostling each other, the plot''s many moving parts make the climax a virtual parody of ponderous JFK conspiracy theories. But until this odd turn, Gabbay offers a stylish thriller with an appealing hero.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 3)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“The nuances of the JFK assassination conspiracy theories chillingly collide with the intricacies of Cold War espionage in this well-crafted, fast-paced thriller. CIA agent Jack Teller is a hard-boiled, world-weary pragmatist who would rather be fishing in Florida but warms to the notion that fate has selected him to abort an assassination attempt in Berlin. If allowed to succeed, it could lead in a matter of minutes to all-out nuclear war and the end of the world as we know it. Teller soon finds himself in that never-never land of spies where no one is who he seems to be, and where danger lurks behind, above, below, and within every doorway. As implausible as this may sound, Gabbay does a credible job of juxtaposing his story with historically accurate but equally implausible events, namely the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the assassination in Dallas. The novel could be viewed as simply a good escapist read, but there is an enormously significant lesson at its core: in a world with stockpiles of nuclear weapons, it only takes a well-placed loose cannon or two to set us all on a course of utter destruction. That story has been told before, but it bears repeating. This is a thrilling tale with historical lessons of lasting consequences.â€“_Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9891'),
(10171, 'The Berlin Conspiracy', 'Tom Gabbay', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wallowing in a postâ€“Bay of Pigs funk, ex-CIA agent Jack Teller is called out of retirement in 1963 and sent to Berlin to meet an East German agent with a message for Jack''s ears only in the debut of screenwriter and former TV producer Gabbay. Jack is floored by both his contact''s identity and his information about a plot to kill President Kennedy during an upcoming visit to West Berlin. His dormant idealism roused, Jack delves into the conspiracy while dodging the threats of corrupt CIA higherups and falling in with colorful residents of Berlin''s Cold War demimonde. Mixing cynical world-weariness with dead-pan humor and a refreshing lack of Bond-style omnicompetence (random mishaps include a nasty dog bite and a disastrous attempt to shoot off a pair of handcuffs), Jack''s story is part John le CarrÃ© and part Elmore Leonard. Gabbay constructs the thriller as a dress rehearsal and what-if scenario for the actual Dallas assassination. With rogue intelligence operatives, gangsters, Texas tycoons and a mob of snipers, coverup hit men, fall guys, fall guy impersonators, and miscellaneous functionaries all jostling each other, the plot''s many moving parts make the climax a virtual parody of ponderous JFK conspiracy theories. But until this odd turn, Gabbay offers a stylish thriller with an appealing hero.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 3)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“The nuances of the JFK assassination conspiracy theories chillingly collide with the intricacies of Cold War espionage in this well-crafted, fast-paced thriller. CIA agent Jack Teller is a hard-boiled, world-weary pragmatist who would rather be fishing in Florida but warms to the notion that fate has selected him to abort an assassination attempt in Berlin. If allowed to succeed, it could lead in a matter of minutes to all-out nuclear war and the end of the world as we know it. Teller soon finds himself in that never-never land of spies where no one is who he seems to be, and where danger lurks behind, above, below, and within every doorway. As implausible as this may sound, Gabbay does a credible job of juxtaposing his story with historically accurate but equally implausible events, namely the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the assassination in Dallas. The novel could be viewed as simply a good escapist read, but there is an enormously significant lesson at its core: in a world with stockpiles of nuclear weapons, it only takes a well-placed loose cannon or two to set us all on a course of utter destruction. That story has been told before, but it bears repeating. This is a thrilling tale with historical lessons of lasting consequences.â€“_Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24386'),
(10172, 'Beside a Burning Sea', 'John Shors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the author of *Beneath a Marble Sky* comes an inspiring new novel of a man and a woman from different worlds whose love is put to the ultimate test as they struggle to survive an extraordinary set of circumstances.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One moment, the World War II hospital ship *Benevolence* is patrolling the South Pacific on a mission of mercyâ€”to save wounded American soldiers.  The next, *Benevolence* is split in two by a torpedo, killing almost everyone on board. A small band of survivors, including an injured Japanese soldier and a young American nurse whom he saves from drowning, makes it to the deserted shore of a nearby island.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Akira has suffered five years of bloodshed and horror fighting for the Japanese empire. Now, surrounded by enemies he is supposed to hate, he instead finds solace in their companyâ€”and rediscovers his love of poetry. While sharing the mystery and beauty of this passion with Annie, the captivating but tormented woman he rescued, Akira grapples with the pain of his past while helping Annie uncover the promise of her future. Meanwhile, the remaining castaways endure a world not of their makingâ€”a world as barbaric as it is beautiful, as hateful as it is loving.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the blend of epic storytelling and emotional intensity that distinguishes him as a unique talent, John Shors reveals a powerful story of redemption focusing on unlikely lovers, heroes and villains, and war-torn countriesâ€”all, in their own ways, fighting to survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4215'),
(10173, 'Beside a Burning Sea', 'John Shors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the author of *Beneath a Marble Sky* comes an inspiring new novel of a man and a woman from different worlds whose love is put to the ultimate test as they struggle to survive an extraordinary set of circumstances.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One moment, the World War II hospital ship *Benevolence* is patrolling the South Pacific on a mission of mercyâ€”to save wounded American soldiers.  The next, *Benevolence* is split in two by a torpedo, killing almost everyone on board. A small band of survivors, including an injured Japanese soldier and a young American nurse whom he saves from drowning, makes it to the deserted shore of a nearby island.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Akira has suffered five years of bloodshed and horror fighting for the Japanese empire. Now, surrounded by enemies he is supposed to hate, he instead finds solace in their companyâ€”and rediscovers his love of poetry. While sharing the mystery and beauty of this passion with Annie, the captivating but tormented woman he rescued, Akira grapples with the pain of his past while helping Annie uncover the promise of her future. Meanwhile, the remaining castaways endure a world not of their makingâ€”a world as barbaric as it is beautiful, as hateful as it is loving.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the blend of epic storytelling and emotional intensity that distinguishes him as a unique talent, John Shors reveals a powerful story of redemption focusing on unlikely lovers, heroes and villains, and war-torn countriesâ€”all, in their own ways, fighting to survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12613'),
(10174, 'Beside a Burning Sea', 'John Shors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of *Beneath a Marble Sky* comes an inspiring new novel of a man and a woman from different worlds whose love is put to the ultimate test as they struggle to survive an extraordinary set of circumstances. One moment, the World War II hospital ship *Benevolence* is patrolling the South Pacific on a mission of mercyâ€”to save wounded American soldiers. The next, *Benevolence* is split in two by a torpedo, killing almost everyone on board. A small band of survivors, including an injured Japanese soldier and a young American nurse whom he saves from drowning, makes it to the deserted shore of a nearby island. Akira has suffered five years of bloodshed and horror fighting for the Japanese empire. Now, surrounded by enemies he is supposed to hate, he instead finds solace in their companyâ€”and rediscovers his love of poetry. While sharing the mystery and beauty of this passion with Annie, the captivating but tormented woman he rescued, Akira grapples with the pain of his past while helping Annie uncover the promise of her future. Meanwhile, the remaining castaways endure a world not of their makingâ€”a world as barbaric as it is beautiful, as hateful as it is loving. With the blend of epic storytelling and emotional intensity that distinguishes him as a unique talent, John Shors reveals a powerful story of redemption focusing on unlikely lovers, heroes and villains, and war-torn countriesâ€”all, in their own ways, fighting to survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20342'),
(10175, 'The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  What if\n </em>\n ? Harry Turtledove, renowned alt-historian and the editor of this anthology, calls that question "those two mournful little words." But little though they might be, they inspired some of the previous century''s most brilliant speculative fiction, including the 14 short stories collected here.\n</p>\n<p>\n And with contributors like Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Larry Niven, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling, and Turtledove himself, there''s truly not a clunker in the bunch. All of these stories revolve around Turtledove''s central beard-tugging question, but they vary wildly in style, mood, and approach. Many toy with how the future might be altered had some particular event turned out differently (what if the Confederates had won at Gettysburg, or the\n <em>\n  Enola Gay\n </em>\n had crashed before making its fateful flight?), while others follow dimension-hoppers traveling through tangled branches of our timeline (as in Sterling''s "Mozart in Mirrorshades," Anderson''s "Eutopia," and Jack L. Chalker''s surreal ferry ride through "Dance Band on the\n <em>\n  Titanic\n </em>\n ").\n</p>\n<p>\n All but four of these stories were written in the last two decades of the century--before then, Turtledove suggests in part, we weren''t scientifically certain about whether Martians and "oceans on Venus full of reptilian monsters" might exist, so we were satisfied by more conventional, planet-faring SF. But the ideas that the contributors wrestle with here, and that irresistible human urge to speculate about the implications of our actions (and whether our decisions matter at all), prove timeless.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A ghostly ferry makes passages between coexisting "different Earths"; a 20th-century man describes his impact on the Civil War, brought about by time-machine tricks; and Mozart, Thomas Jefferson and Marie Antoinette end up as employees at an oil refinery in The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg. Contributors include Poul Anderson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ward Moore and Susan Shwartz.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5204'),
(10176, 'The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  What if\n </em>\n ? Harry Turtledove, renowned alt-historian and the editor of this anthology, calls that question "those two mournful little words." But little though they might be, they inspired some of the previous century''s most brilliant speculative fiction, including the 14 short stories collected here.\n</p>\n<p>\n And with contributors like Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Larry Niven, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling, and Turtledove himself, there''s truly not a clunker in the bunch. All of these stories revolve around Turtledove''s central beard-tugging question, but they vary wildly in style, mood, and approach. Many toy with how the future might be altered had some particular event turned out differently (what if the Confederates had won at Gettysburg, or the\n <em>\n  Enola Gay\n </em>\n had crashed before making its fateful flight?), while others follow dimension-hoppers traveling through tangled branches of our timeline (as in Sterling''s "Mozart in Mirrorshades," Anderson''s "Eutopia," and Jack L. Chalker''s surreal ferry ride through "Dance Band on the\n <em>\n  Titanic\n </em>\n ").\n</p>\n<p>\n All but four of these stories were written in the last two decades of the century--before then, Turtledove suggests in part, we weren''t scientifically certain about whether Martians and "oceans on Venus full of reptilian monsters" might exist, so we were satisfied by more conventional, planet-faring SF. But the ideas that the contributors wrestle with here, and that irresistible human urge to speculate about the implications of our actions (and whether our decisions matter at all), prove timeless.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A ghostly ferry makes passages between coexisting "different Earths"; a 20th-century man describes his impact on the Civil War, brought about by time-machine tricks; and Mozart, Thomas Jefferson and Marie Antoinette end up as employees at an oil refinery in The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg. Contributors include Poul Anderson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ward Moore and Susan Shwartz.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13117'),
(10177, 'The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  What if\n </em>\n ? Harry Turtledove, renowned alt-historian and the editor of this anthology, calls that question "those two mournful little words." But little though they might be, they inspired some of the previous century''s most brilliant speculative fiction, including the 14 short stories collected here.\n</p>\n<p>\n And with contributors like Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Larry Niven, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling, and Turtledove himself, there''s truly not a clunker in the bunch. All of these stories revolve around Turtledove''s central beard-tugging question, but they vary wildly in style, mood, and approach. Many toy with how the future might be altered had some particular event turned out differently (what if the Confederates had won at Gettysburg, or the\n <em>\n  Enola Gay\n </em>\n had crashed before making its fateful flight?), while others follow dimension-hoppers traveling through tangled branches of our timeline (as in Sterling''s "Mozart in Mirrorshades," Anderson''s "Eutopia," and Jack L. Chalker''s surreal ferry ride through "Dance Band on the\n <em>\n  Titanic\n </em>\n ").\n</p>\n<p>\n All but four of these stories were written in the last two decades of the century--before then, Turtledove suggests in part, we weren''t scientifically certain about whether Martians and "oceans on Venus full of reptilian monsters" might exist, so we were satisfied by more conventional, planet-faring SF. But the ideas that the contributors wrestle with here, and that irresistible human urge to speculate about the implications of our actions (and whether our decisions matter at all), prove timeless.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A ghostly ferry makes passages between coexisting "different Earths"; a 20th-century man describes his impact on the Civil War, brought about by time-machine tricks; and Mozart, Thomas Jefferson and Marie Antoinette end up as employees at an oil refinery in The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg. Contributors include Poul Anderson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ward Moore and Susan Shwartz.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19462'),
(10178, 'The Best American Crime Reporting 2009', 'Jeffrey Toobin &amp; Otto Penzler &amp; Thomas H. Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Thieves, liars, and killersâ€”it''s a criminal world out there, and someone has to write about it. A thrilling collection of the year''s best reportage by the aces of the true-crime genre,\n  <em>\n   The Best American Crime Reporting 2009\n  </em>\n  brings together the mysteries and missteps of an eclectic and unforgettable set of criminals. Gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant, this latest addition to the highly acclaimed series features guest editor Jeffrey Toobin,\n  <em>\n   New Yorker\n  </em>\n  staff writer, CNN senior legal analyst, and bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Nine\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jeffrey Toobin has been a staff writer at\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  since 1993 and is the senior legal analyst for CNN. In 2000 he received an Emmy Award for his coverage of the EliÃn GonzÃlez case. He is the author of\n  <em>\n   The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court\n  </em>\n  , which spent more than four months on the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller list. Before joining\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , Toobin served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Brooklyn, New York. He lives in Manhattan.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4472'),
(10179, 'The Best American Crime Reporting 2009', 'Jeffrey Toobin &amp; Otto Penzler &amp; Thomas H. Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Thieves, liars, and killersâ€”it''s a criminal world out there, and someone has to write about it. A thrilling collection of the year''s best reportage by the aces of the true-crime genre,\n  <em>\n   The Best American Crime Reporting 2009\n  </em>\n  brings together the mysteries and missteps of an eclectic and unforgettable set of criminals. Gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant, this latest addition to the highly acclaimed series features guest editor Jeffrey Toobin,\n  <em>\n   New Yorker\n  </em>\n  staff writer, CNN senior legal analyst, and bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   The Nine\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jeffrey Toobin has been a staff writer at\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  since 1993 and is the senior legal analyst for CNN. In 2000 he received an Emmy Award for his coverage of the EliÃn GonzÃlez case. He is the author of\n  <em>\n   The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court\n  </em>\n  , which spent more than four months on the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller list. Before joining\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , Toobin served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Brooklyn, New York. He lives in Manhattan.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13100');
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(10180, 'The Best and the Brightest', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Every year, Starfleet Academy in San Francisco attracts many of the most talented and ambitious young people in the Federation. They come from all over the Alpha Quadrant, from hundreds of worlds and species, to prepare themselves for the challenges of the final frontier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meet a new generation of cadets: a newly joined Trill just beginning the first of many lives; a Bajoran Vedek who finds himself torn between his vows and an unspoken love; a reckless young man fond of pushing the limits; a feline alien raised among humans; a brilliant but immature young woman with a lot to learn; and a native-born Earth woman with a talent for engineering.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Together they will learn about courage, life, teamwork, and themselves. Their future is just beginning -- but one of them will not survive!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/902'),
(10181, 'The Best and the Brightest', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Every year, Starfleet Academy in San Francisco attracts many of the most talented and ambitious young people in the Federation. They come from all over the Alpha Quadrant, from hundreds of worlds and species, to prepare themselves for the challenges of the final frontier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meet a new generation of cadets: a newly joined Trill just beginning the first of many lives; a Bajoran Vedek who finds himself torn between his vows and an unspoken love; a reckless young man fond of pushing the limits; a feline alien raised among humans; a brilliant but immature young woman with a lot to learn; and a native-born Earth woman with a talent for engineering.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Together they will learn about courage, life, teamwork, and themselves. Their future is just beginning -- but one of them will not survive!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23936'),
(10182, 'Best detective short stories', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24938'),
(10183, 'Best Detective Stories of Agatha Christie', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/56'),
(10184, 'Best detective stories of Agatha Christie', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17177'),
(10185, 'The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction â€¢ Head and Shoulders â€¢ Bernice Bobs Her Hair â€¢ The Ice Palace â€¢ The Offshore Pirate â€¢ May Day â€¢ The Jelly Bean â€¢ The Diamond as Big as the Ritz â€¢ Winter Dreams â€¢ AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flapperâ€™s historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten stories that appear in this unique collection. Exploring characters and themes that would appear in his later works, such as The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby, these early selections are among the very best of Fitzgeraldâ€™s many short stories. This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes notes, an appendix of nonfiction essays by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and their contemporaries, and vintage magazine illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5663'),
(10186, 'The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction â€¢ Head and Shoulders â€¢ Bernice Bobs Her Hair â€¢ The Ice Palace â€¢ The Offshore Pirate â€¢ May Day â€¢ The Jelly Bean â€¢ The Diamond as Big as the Ritz â€¢ Winter Dreams â€¢ AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flapperâ€™s historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten stories that appear in this unique collection. Exploring characters and themes that would appear in his later works, such as The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby, these early selections are among the very best of Fitzgeraldâ€™s many short stories. This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes notes, an appendix of nonfiction essays by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and their contemporaries, and vintage magazine illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9704'),
(10187, 'The best early stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald', 'Francis Scott Fitzgerald; Bryant Mangum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction â€¢ Head and Shoulders â€¢ Bernice Bobs Her Hair â€¢ The Ice Palace â€¢ The Offshore Pirate â€¢ May Day â€¢ The Jelly Bean â€¢ The Diamond as Big as the Ritz â€¢ Winter Dreams â€¢ AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flapperâ€™s historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten stories that appear in this unique collection. Exploring characters and themes that would appear in his later works, such as The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby, these early selections are among the very best of Fitzgeraldâ€™s many short stories. This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes notes, an appendix of nonfiction essays by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and their contemporaries, and vintage magazine illustrations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19111'),
(10188, 'Best Food Writing 2010', 'Holly Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mourning the demise of Gourmet magazine, series editor Hughes asks "is food writing a dying art?" Readers of this year''s anthology will offer a resounding "nowhere close." Ethical concerns of organic and locavore movements and free range meats are tidily summed up by now-famous vegetarian Jonathan Safran Foer. Whereas MIT grad J. Kenji Lopez-Alt shares a recipe for making French fries as good as what McDonalds makes: "salty, crisp, light, and not greasy." At the other end of the spectrum, New York Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton offers a version of Nora Ephron''s meat loaf recipe to die for. Pulitzer prize winner Jonathan Gold tracks the shifting locations of Los Angeles'' street vendors and Tod Kliman hunts down Peter Chang, the elusive "perfect chef" who moves between Chinese restaurants, from D.C. to Atlanta, to avoid celebrity. Along the way Kliman learns that innocuous Chinese restaurants can have secret menus for the cognoscenti and experiences the exquisite pleasure of hot peppers that scorch and even numb. And travelling to Tokyo, Kevin Pang discovered to his great surprise that eating a bowl of ramen "satisfied every taste sense man is blessed to experience." A sparkling collection.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a time where the most elemental of activitiesâ€”consuming sustenanceâ€”is an increasingly political act, itâ€™s not surprising that there might be more attention paid to talking about eating food than there is in actually eating food. Series editor Hughes sheds a tear for the shuttering of the venerable Gourmet, but maintains that â€œthe rumors of food writingâ€™s death have been greatly exaggerated.â€ Big changes in the culinary world are visible here, from Michael Steinbergerâ€™s lament over the passing of Franceâ€™s reign of culinary mastery (all hail Spain) to Tim Carmanâ€™s plea to put Zagat out of its misery. But the trend du jour continues to be locavorism, evidenced by Carla Capalboâ€™s take on the epicenter of molecular gastronomy, El Bulli, getting dethroned as best restaurant in the world by a small Copenhagen joint that focuses on seasonal, place-specific ingredients. Despite all the delicious food fussiness on parade, though, the best of the best might just be Jason Sheehanâ€™s hilarious (if youâ€™re an industry insider) or terrifying (if youâ€™re an unsuspecting patron) account of flash-defrosting 80-pound blocks of haddock on a frantic fish-fry Friday. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5086'),
(10189, 'Best Food Writing 2010', 'Holly Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mourning the demise of Gourmet magazine, series editor Hughes asks "is food writing a dying art?" Readers of this year''s anthology will offer a resounding "nowhere close." Ethical concerns of organic and locavore movements and free range meats are tidily summed up by now-famous vegetarian Jonathan Safran Foer. Whereas MIT grad J. Kenji Lopez-Alt shares a recipe for making French fries as good as what McDonalds makes: "salty, crisp, light, and not greasy." At the other end of the spectrum, New York Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton offers a version of Nora Ephron''s meat loaf recipe to die for. Pulitzer prize winner Jonathan Gold tracks the shifting locations of Los Angeles'' street vendors and Tod Kliman hunts down Peter Chang, the elusive "perfect chef" who moves between Chinese restaurants, from D.C. to Atlanta, to avoid celebrity. Along the way Kliman learns that innocuous Chinese restaurants can have secret menus for the cognoscenti and experiences the exquisite pleasure of hot peppers that scorch and even numb. And travelling to Tokyo, Kevin Pang discovered to his great surprise that eating a bowl of ramen "satisfied every taste sense man is blessed to experience." A sparkling collection.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a time where the most elemental of activitiesâ€”consuming sustenanceâ€”is an increasingly political act, itâ€™s not surprising that there might be more attention paid to talking about eating food than there is in actually eating food. Series editor Hughes sheds a tear for the shuttering of the venerable Gourmet, but maintains that â€œthe rumors of food writingâ€™s death have been greatly exaggerated.â€ Big changes in the culinary world are visible here, from Michael Steinbergerâ€™s lament over the passing of Franceâ€™s reign of culinary mastery (all hail Spain) to Tim Carmanâ€™s plea to put Zagat out of its misery. But the trend du jour continues to be locavorism, evidenced by Carla Capalboâ€™s take on the epicenter of molecular gastronomy, El Bulli, getting dethroned as best restaurant in the world by a small Copenhagen joint that focuses on seasonal, place-specific ingredients. Despite all the delicious food fussiness on parade, though, the best of the best might just be Jason Sheehanâ€™s hilarious (if youâ€™re an industry insider) or terrifying (if youâ€™re an unsuspecting patron) account of flash-defrosting 80-pound blocks of haddock on a frantic fish-fry Friday. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10405'),
(10190, 'Best Food Writing 2010', 'Holly Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mourning the demise of Gourmet magazine, series editor Hughes asks "is food writing a dying art?" Readers of this year''s anthology will offer a resounding "nowhere close." Ethical concerns of organic and locavore movements and free range meats are tidily summed up by now-famous vegetarian Jonathan Safran Foer. Whereas MIT grad J. Kenji Lopez-Alt shares a recipe for making French fries as good as what McDonalds makes: "salty, crisp, light, and not greasy." At the other end of the spectrum, New York Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton offers a version of Nora Ephron''s meat loaf recipe to die for. Pulitzer prize winner Jonathan Gold tracks the shifting locations of Los Angeles'' street vendors and Tod Kliman hunts down Peter Chang, the elusive "perfect chef" who moves between Chinese restaurants, from D.C. to Atlanta, to avoid celebrity. Along the way Kliman learns that innocuous Chinese restaurants can have secret menus for the cognoscenti and experiences the exquisite pleasure of hot peppers that scorch and even numb. And travelling to Tokyo, Kevin Pang discovered to his great surprise that eating a bowl of ramen "satisfied every taste sense man is blessed to experience." A sparkling collection.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a time where the most elemental of activitiesâ€”consuming sustenanceâ€”is an increasingly political act, itâ€™s not surprising that there might be more attention paid to talking about eating food than there is in actually eating food. Series editor Hughes sheds a tear for the shuttering of the venerable Gourmet, but maintains that â€œthe rumors of food writingâ€™s death have been greatly exaggerated.â€ Big changes in the culinary world are visible here, from Michael Steinbergerâ€™s lament over the passing of Franceâ€™s reign of culinary mastery (all hail Spain) to Tim Carmanâ€™s plea to put Zagat out of its misery. But the trend du jour continues to be locavorism, evidenced by Carla Capalboâ€™s take on the epicenter of molecular gastronomy, El Bulli, getting dethroned as best restaurant in the world by a small Copenhagen joint that focuses on seasonal, place-specific ingredients. Despite all the delicious food fussiness on parade, though, the best of the best might just be Jason Sheehanâ€™s hilarious (if youâ€™re an industry insider) or terrifying (if youâ€™re an unsuspecting patron) account of flash-defrosting 80-pound blocks of haddock on a frantic fish-fry Friday. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19549'),
(10191, 'Best Friends for Never', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Clique is back ...Massie Block - Still gorgeous. Still trendsetting. Still ruling the social scene at school...she hopes. To keep her spot at the top, Massie decides to throw the school''s first boy/girl Halloween party. But her parents are making her invite the entire grade AND share the party with Claire.  She''s not sure which is scarier...Dylan Marvil - Lost the weight. Kept the attitude. Plans to use her new look to snag a cute guy.  Kristen Gregory - Clothes are for sharing. Guys aren''t. Likes the same guy Dylan does. Will do whatever it takes to get him.  Alicia Rivera - With the Clique unravelling faster than last season''s Burberry sweater, is it time for Alicia to stage her takeover? Claire Lyons: Still out. Wants in. Seriously needs to lose those Keds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3313'),
(10192, 'Best Friends for Never', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Clique is back ...Massie Block - Still gorgeous. Still trendsetting. Still ruling the social scene at school...she hopes. To keep her spot at the top, Massie decides to throw the school''s first boy/girl Halloween party. But her parents are making her invite the entire grade AND share the party with Claire.  She''s not sure which is scarier...Dylan Marvil - Lost the weight. Kept the attitude. Plans to use her new look to snag a cute guy.  Kristen Gregory - Clothes are for sharing. Guys aren''t. Likes the same guy Dylan does. Will do whatever it takes to get him.  Alicia Rivera - With the Clique unravelling faster than last season''s Burberry sweater, is it time for Alicia to stage her takeover? Claire Lyons: Still out. Wants in. Seriously needs to lose those Keds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10148'),
(10193, 'Best Friends for Never', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Clique is back ...Massie Block - Still gorgeous. Still trendsetting. Still ruling the social scene at school...she hopes. To keep her spot at the top, Massie decides to throw the school''s first boy/girl Halloween party. But her parents are making her invite the entire grade AND share the party with Claire. She''s not sure which is scarier...Dylan Marvil - Lost the weight. Kept the attitude. Plans to use her new look to snag a cute guy. Kristen Gregory - Clothes are for sharing. Guys aren''t. Likes the same guy Dylan does. Will do whatever it takes to get him. Alicia Rivera - With the Clique unravelling faster than last season''s Burberry sweater, is it time for Alicia to stage her takeover? Claire Lyons: Still out. Wants in. Seriously needs to lose those Keds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21153'),
(10194, 'Best Laid Plans', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n She was the sexiest thing in a hard hat that architect Cody Johnson had ever seen, but structural engineer Abra Wilson also had a will as strong as a steel girder - and just about as flexible. But Cody had plans for Abra that not even this spirited beauty could resist...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2545'),
(10195, 'Best Laid Plans', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: She was the sexiest thing in a hard hat that architect Cody Johnson had ever seen, but structural engineer Abra Wilson also had a will as strong as a steel girder - and just about as flexible. But Cody had plans for Abra that not even this spirited beauty could resist...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22330'),
(10196, 'The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s not merely a task that''s thankless--it''s impossible. How can you hope to pick out the best of anything, let alone from such a contentious category as SF (and military SF, at that)? But this 13-story collection really\n <em>\n  does\n </em>\n pull together at least\n <em>\n  some\n </em>\n of the best short stories penned for the genre in the last century. Thanks to editors Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg, you''ll find some of science fiction''s biggest names--and most influential shorts--in this expertly chosen anthology.\n</p>\n<p>\n Chronologically, the entries range from ''50s pieces like Philip K. Dick''s "Second Variety" and Arthur C. Clarke''s "Superiority" to more modern ruminations on war like "The Scapegoat" by C.J. Cherryh and "To the Storming Gulf" by Gregory Benford. But rather than quality (all these stories are of inarguable pedigree) or even breadth, what might recommend these most to readers new to them are the ideas and other works they later inspired: Anne McCaffrey''s "Dragonrider" and Orson Scott Card''s "Ender''s Game" both gave rise to phenomenally successful series, Joe W. Haldeman''s "Hero" preceded __, and Philip K. Dick''s "Second Variety" became the SF thriller\n <em>\n  Screamers\n </em>\n . The collection also gives you a glimpse of what dark thoughts were rattling around the heads of prolific writers like David Drake and George R.R. Martin in the ''70s.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century, edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg, musters 13 tales by such top brass of this popular subgenre as Orson Scott Card, David Drake, George R.R. Martin, Arthur C. Clarke and editor Turtledove, who provides an introduction. SF military addicts won''t need a direct order to seize a copy of this one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5207'),
(10197, 'The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s not merely a task that''s thankless--it''s impossible. How can you hope to pick out the best of anything, let alone from such a contentious category as SF (and military SF, at that)? But this 13-story collection really\n <em>\n  does\n </em>\n pull together at least\n <em>\n  some\n </em>\n of the best short stories penned for the genre in the last century. Thanks to editors Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg, you''ll find some of science fiction''s biggest names--and most influential shorts--in this expertly chosen anthology.\n</p>\n<p>\n Chronologically, the entries range from ''50s pieces like Philip K. Dick''s "Second Variety" and Arthur C. Clarke''s "Superiority" to more modern ruminations on war like "The Scapegoat" by C.J. Cherryh and "To the Storming Gulf" by Gregory Benford. But rather than quality (all these stories are of inarguable pedigree) or even breadth, what might recommend these most to readers new to them are the ideas and other works they later inspired: Anne McCaffrey''s "Dragonrider" and Orson Scott Card''s "Ender''s Game" both gave rise to phenomenally successful series, Joe W. Haldeman''s "Hero" preceded __, and Philip K. Dick''s "Second Variety" became the SF thriller\n <em>\n  Screamers\n </em>\n . The collection also gives you a glimpse of what dark thoughts were rattling around the heads of prolific writers like David Drake and George R.R. Martin in the ''70s.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century, edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg, musters 13 tales by such top brass of this popular subgenre as Orson Scott Card, David Drake, George R.R. Martin, Arthur C. Clarke and editor Turtledove, who provides an introduction. SF military addicts won''t need a direct order to seize a copy of this one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13123'),
(10198, 'The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s not merely a task that''s thankless--it''s impossible. How can you hope to pick out the best of anything, let alone from such a contentious category as SF (and military SF, at that)? But this 13-story collection really\n <em>\n  does\n </em>\n pull together at least\n <em>\n  some\n </em>\n of the best short stories penned for the genre in the last century. Thanks to editors Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg, you''ll find some of science fiction''s biggest names--and most influential shorts--in this expertly chosen anthology.\n</p>\n<p>\n Chronologically, the entries range from ''50s pieces like Philip K. Dick''s "Second Variety" and Arthur C. Clarke''s "Superiority" to more modern ruminations on war like "The Scapegoat" by C.J. Cherryh and "To the Storming Gulf" by Gregory Benford. But rather than quality (all these stories are of inarguable pedigree) or even breadth, what might recommend these most to readers new to them are the ideas and other works they later inspired: Anne McCaffrey''s "Dragonrider" and Orson Scott Card''s "Ender''s Game" both gave rise to phenomenally successful series, Joe W. Haldeman''s "Hero" preceded __, and Philip K. Dick''s "Second Variety" became the SF thriller\n <em>\n  Screamers\n </em>\n . The collection also gives you a glimpse of what dark thoughts were rattling around the heads of prolific writers like David Drake and George R.R. Martin in the ''70s.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century, edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg, musters 13 tales by such top brass of this popular subgenre as Orson Scott Card, David Drake, George R.R. Martin, Arthur C. Clarke and editor Turtledove, who provides an introduction. SF military addicts won''t need a direct order to seize a copy of this one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19457'),
(10199, 'The Best of Cordwainer Smith', 'Cordwainer Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">\n <h2 style="font-size: 14px; ">\n  The Plot\n </h2>\n</span>\n<p style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; ">\n The twelve stories in this collection, written separately and published between 1950 and 1964, fit into a consistent future history that covers human development from the Second Age of Space to the era of rights for underpeople and the Rediscovery of Man. Many of the stories involve the Instrumentality, a ruling bureau- cracy that is not always admirable but ultimately manages â€œto keep man man.â€\n</p>\n<p style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; ">\n Set in the Second Age of Space, â€œScanners Live in Vainâ€ concerns the scanners, men surgically cut off from their senses in order to endure the pain of space...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6631'),
(10200, 'The Best of Cordwainer Smith', 'Cordwainer Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">\n <h2 style="font-size: 14px; ">\n  The Plot\n </h2>\n</span>\n<p style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; ">\n The twelve stories in this collection, written separately and published between 1950 and 1964, fit into a consistent future history that covers human development from the Second Age of Space to the era of rights for underpeople and the Rediscovery of Man. Many of the stories involve the Instrumentality, a ruling bureau- cracy that is not always admirable but ultimately manages â€œto keep man man.â€\n</p>\n<p style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; ">\n Set in the Second Age of Space, â€œScanners Live in Vainâ€ concerns the scanners, men surgically cut off from their senses in order to endure the pain of space...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12704'),
(10201, 'The Best of Cordwainer Smith', 'Cordwainer Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">\n <h2 style="font-size: 14px; ">\n  The Plot\n </h2>\n</span>\n<p style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; ">\n The twelve stories in this collection, written separately and published between 1950 and 1964, fit into a consistent future history that covers human development from the Second Age of Space to the era of rights for underpeople and the Rediscovery of Man. Many of the stories involve the Instrumentality, a ruling bureau- cracy that is not always admirable but ultimately manages â€œto keep man man.â€\n</p>\n<p style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; ">\n Set in the Second Age of Space, â€œScanners Live in Vainâ€ concerns the scanners, men surgically cut off from their senses in order to endure the pain of space...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17458'),
(10202, 'Best of Isaac Asimov', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Featuring Asimov''s personal choices, this collection offers a variety of science fiction stories that cover the period from 1949 to the present, each accompanied by a brief introduction\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18288'),
(10203, 'The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson', 'Johnathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kim Stanley Robinson has been an ongoing force in the Science Fiction genre for over twenty years, with his novels (Year''s of Rice and Salt, Forty Signs of Rain) crossing over to the mainstream, and routinely appearing on the New York Times best sellers list. During the 80s and early nineties, his short fiction continued to push the boundaries of science fiction, defining the science-focused side of the science fiction genre. Award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan worked with Kim Stanley Robinson to select the stories that make up this landmark volume. In addition to these reprints, The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson features a brand-new short story, "The Timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20107'),
(10204, 'The Best of Times', 'Penny Vincenzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Everything can change in the blink of an eye. . . On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion. As loved ones wait to hear news and the hospital prepares to receive the injured, a dozen lives hang in the balance. A doctor is torn between helping the injured and hiding his young mistress; a bridegroom hopes to get to the church on time; a widow waiting to reunite with a lost love ponders whether she''ll ever see him again; and the mysterious hitchhiker, the only person who knows what really happened, is nowhere to be found. Filled with suspense, romance, and more twists than a country highway, The Best of Times proves once again why Penny Vincenzi is the queen of happy endings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2178'),
(10205, 'The Best of Times', 'Penny Vincenzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everything can change in the blink of an eye. . . On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion. As loved ones wait to hear news and the hospital prepares to receive the injured, a dozen lives hang in the balance. A doctor is torn between helping the injured and hiding his young mistress; a bridegroom hopes to get to the church on time; a widow waiting to reunite with a lost love ponders whether she''ll ever see him again; and the mysterious hitchhiker, the only person who knows what really happened, is nowhere to be found. Filled with suspense, romance, and more twists than a country highway, The Best of Times proves once again why Penny Vincenzi is the queen of happy endings.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22627'),
(10206, 'The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Mark Bittman is cooking--in every sense of the word--he gets results without fuss. Author of the almost subversively approachable\n  <em>\n   The Best Recipes in the World\n  </em>\n  , a collection of more than 1,000 international recipes, with winners like Chinese Black Bean and Garlic Spareribs; Pan-Seared Swordfish with Tomatoes, Olives, and Capers; and Stewed Lamb Shanks with Mushrooms and Pasilla Chile Sauce, he''s done it again. The selection, which covers cooking from Europe and Asia equally, is all can-do and instantly appealing--readers will want to "cook through" the whole chicken section, for example. But Bittman, a master distiller, also knows when more is more, with one caveat: "I don''t mind spending a long time cooking a single dish as long as I don''t have to pay too much attention to what''s going on," he writes. Thus, even fuller-dress recipes like the Indian Red Fish Stew, Fast and Spicy, and Tea-Smoked Duck or Chicken can work for time-deprived cooks. A dessert section that includes the tempting likes of Orange Custard, Walnut Tart, and Caramelized Pars Poached in Red Wine, caps this incisive collection.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Included also are brief but enlightening notes on ingredients and techniques such as "On Pureeing Soups," which compares all approaches thoughtfully. Symbols indicate a recipe''s potential to be made ahead or in less than 30 minutes (true of most), among other variables. With a beverage chapter and menu suggestions that are actually useful, the book will appeal to a wide audience, not only for its recipes but as a source of relaxed instruction. It''s an exploration of culinary essentials from a true essentialist.\n  <em>\n   --Arthur Boehm\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Bittman thinks big, as we saw in his Great Wall of Recipes,\n  <em>\n   How to Cook Everything\n  </em>\n  . That doorstop of a title sold big, too; there are now more than 1.7 million copies in print. This volume, in the same I-can''t-believe-I-wrote-the-whole-thing vein, collects recipes from 44 countries. Bittman successfully avoids the usual suspects, drawing as heavily from places like North Africa (home of Harira, a satisfying soup traditionally used to end Ramadan fasting) and India (Marinated Lamb "Popsicles" with Fenugreek Cream) as he does from easy targets like Italy and France. The recipes are terrific in both their variety and execution. Bittman, who writes the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  ''s "Minimalist" column, has a steady authorial voice and a knack for offering clear instructions, and he smoothly makes the exotic seem easy, or at least familiar (e.g., he compares Moroccan Chicken B''stilla to chicken pot pie). The everything-in-one-place format works differently here than it did in his earlier book, which was, ultimately, about technique, not individual recipes, so while there are more than 1,000 recipes here, the reader doesn''t acquire quite the same "take-away." Still, for one-stop-shopping on the world''s cuisine, it''d be tough to find a better book.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3070'),
(10207, 'The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Mark Bittman is cooking--in every sense of the word--he gets results without fuss. Author of the almost subversively approachable\n  <em>\n   The Best Recipes in the World\n  </em>\n  , a collection of more than 1,000 international recipes, with winners like Chinese Black Bean and Garlic Spareribs; Pan-Seared Swordfish with Tomatoes, Olives, and Capers; and Stewed Lamb Shanks with Mushrooms and Pasilla Chile Sauce, he''s done it again. The selection, which covers cooking from Europe and Asia equally, is all can-do and instantly appealing--readers will want to "cook through" the whole chicken section, for example. But Bittman, a master distiller, also knows when more is more, with one caveat: "I don''t mind spending a long time cooking a single dish as long as I don''t have to pay too much attention to what''s going on," he writes. Thus, even fuller-dress recipes like the Indian Red Fish Stew, Fast and Spicy, and Tea-Smoked Duck or Chicken can work for time-deprived cooks. A dessert section that includes the tempting likes of Orange Custard, Walnut Tart, and Caramelized Pars Poached in Red Wine, caps this incisive collection.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Included also are brief but enlightening notes on ingredients and techniques such as "On Pureeing Soups," which compares all approaches thoughtfully. Symbols indicate a recipe''s potential to be made ahead or in less than 30 minutes (true of most), among other variables. With a beverage chapter and menu suggestions that are actually useful, the book will appeal to a wide audience, not only for its recipes but as a source of relaxed instruction. It''s an exploration of culinary essentials from a true essentialist.\n  <em>\n   --Arthur Boehm\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Bittman thinks big, as we saw in his Great Wall of Recipes,\n  <em>\n   How to Cook Everything\n  </em>\n  . That doorstop of a title sold big, too; there are now more than 1.7 million copies in print. This volume, in the same I-can''t-believe-I-wrote-the-whole-thing vein, collects recipes from 44 countries. Bittman successfully avoids the usual suspects, drawing as heavily from places like North Africa (home of Harira, a satisfying soup traditionally used to end Ramadan fasting) and India (Marinated Lamb "Popsicles" with Fenugreek Cream) as he does from easy targets like Italy and France. The recipes are terrific in both their variety and execution. Bittman, who writes the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  ''s "Minimalist" column, has a steady authorial voice and a knack for offering clear instructions, and he smoothly makes the exotic seem easy, or at least familiar (e.g., he compares Moroccan Chicken B''stilla to chicken pot pie). The everything-in-one-place format works differently here than it did in his earlier book, which was, ultimately, about technique, not individual recipes, so while there are more than 1,000 recipes here, the reader doesn''t acquire quite the same "take-away." Still, for one-stop-shopping on the world''s cuisine, it''d be tough to find a better book.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8556'),
(10208, 'The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Mark Bittman is cooking--in every sense of the word--he gets results without fuss. Author of the almost subversively approachable\n  <em>\n   The Best Recipes in the World\n  </em>\n  , a collection of more than 1,000 international recipes, with winners like Chinese Black Bean and Garlic Spareribs; Pan-Seared Swordfish with Tomatoes, Olives, and Capers; and Stewed Lamb Shanks with Mushrooms and Pasilla Chile Sauce, he''s done it again. The selection, which covers cooking from Europe and Asia equally, is all can-do and instantly appealing--readers will want to "cook through" the whole chicken section, for example. But Bittman, a master distiller, also knows when more is more, with one caveat: "I don''t mind spending a long time cooking a single dish as long as I don''t have to pay too much attention to what''s going on," he writes. Thus, even fuller-dress recipes like the Indian Red Fish Stew, Fast and Spicy, and Tea-Smoked Duck or Chicken can work for time-deprived cooks. A dessert section that includes the tempting likes of Orange Custard, Walnut Tart, and Caramelized Pars Poached in Red Wine, caps this incisive collection.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Included also are brief but enlightening notes on ingredients and techniques such as "On Pureeing Soups," which compares all approaches thoughtfully. Symbols indicate a recipe''s potential to be made ahead or in less than 30 minutes (true of most), among other variables. With a beverage chapter and menu suggestions that are actually useful, the book will appeal to a wide audience, not only for its recipes but as a source of relaxed instruction. It''s an exploration of culinary essentials from a true essentialist.\n  <em>\n   --Arthur Boehm\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Bittman thinks big, as we saw in his Great Wall of Recipes,\n  <em>\n   How to Cook Everything\n  </em>\n  . That doorstop of a title sold big, too; there are now more than 1.7 million copies in print. This volume, in the same I-can''t-believe-I-wrote-the-whole-thing vein, collects recipes from 44 countries. Bittman successfully avoids the usual suspects, drawing as heavily from places like North Africa (home of Harira, a satisfying soup traditionally used to end Ramadan fasting) and India (Marinated Lamb "Popsicles" with Fenugreek Cream) as he does from easy targets like Italy and France. The recipes are terrific in both their variety and execution. Bittman, who writes the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  ''s "Minimalist" column, has a steady authorial voice and a knack for offering clear instructions, and he smoothly makes the exotic seem easy, or at least familiar (e.g., he compares Moroccan Chicken B''stilla to chicken pot pie). The everything-in-one-place format works differently here than it did in his earlier book, which was, ultimately, about technique, not individual recipes, so while there are more than 1,000 recipes here, the reader doesn''t acquire quite the same "take-away." Still, for one-stop-shopping on the world''s cuisine, it''d be tough to find a better book.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21767'),
(10209, 'The Best Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy of the Year', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The depth and breadth of science fiction and fantasy fiction continues to change with every passing year. The twenty-nine stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully map this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7946'),
(10210, 'The Best Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy of the Year', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The depth and breadth of science fiction and fantasy fiction continues to change with every passing year. The twenty-nine stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully map this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12967'),
(10211, 'The Best Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy of the Year', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The depth and breadth of science fiction and fantasy fiction continues to change with every passing year. The twenty-nine stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully map this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20370'),
(10212, 'The best science fiction of Isaac Asimov', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Featuring Asimov''s personal choices, this collection offers a variety of science fiction stories that cover the period from 1949 to the present, each accompanied by a brief introduction\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25616'),
(10213, 'Betrayal at Lisson Grove', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Another fantastic Pitt novel from the master storyteller of the Victorian mystery. 1895 and an increasingly violent tide of political unrest is rising fast all over Europe. Special Branchâ€™s Inspector Thomas Pitt knows that they must find those responsible before England is overrun by reformists intent on overthrowing the government. When he finds himself in pursuit of a suspected terrorist, Pitt has no hesitation in following the chase all the way to France. But events take a sinister turn when Narraway, Pittâ€™s superior, is accused of involvement in the death of an Irish informant and abruptly removed from office. Aware that her husbandâ€™s own career is also in jeopardy if he is not reinstated, Pittâ€™s wife Charlotte determines to help Narraway clear his name. As Charlotte and Narraway depart for Ireland and Pitt is drawn deeper into the investigation in France, it becomes clear that outside forces have conspired to separate them at a crucial time in the countryâ€™s history. With no one else to trust can they make it back to England and stop the revolt before itâ€™s too late?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7506'),
(10214, 'Betrayal at Lisson Grove', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Another fantastic Pitt novel from the master storyteller of the Victorian mystery. 1895 and an increasingly violent tide of political unrest is rising fast all over Europe. Special Branchâ€™s Inspector Thomas Pitt knows that they must find those responsible before England is overrun by reformists intent on overthrowing the government. When he finds himself in pursuit of a suspected terrorist, Pitt has no hesitation in following the chase all the way to France. But events take a sinister turn when Narraway, Pittâ€™s superior, is accused of involvement in the death of an Irish informant and abruptly removed from office. Aware that her husbandâ€™s own career is also in jeopardy if he is not reinstated, Pittâ€™s wife Charlotte determines to help Narraway clear his name. As Charlotte and Narraway depart for Ireland and Pitt is drawn deeper into the investigation in France, it becomes clear that outside forces have conspired to separate them at a crucial time in the countryâ€™s history. With no one else to trust can they make it back to England and stop the revolt before itâ€™s too late?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11857'),
(10215, 'Betrayal at Lisson Grove', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Another fantastic Pitt novel from the master storyteller of the Victorian mystery. 1895 and an increasingly violent tide of political unrest is rising fast all over Europe. Special Branchâ€™s Inspector Thomas Pitt knows that they must find those responsible before England is overrun by reformists intent on overthrowing the government. When he finds himself in pursuit of a suspected terrorist, Pitt has no hesitation in following the chase all the way to France. But events take a sinister turn when Narraway, Pittâ€™s superior, is accused of involvement in the death of an Irish informant and abruptly removed from office. Aware that her husbandâ€™s own career is also in jeopardy if he is not reinstated, Pittâ€™s wife Charlotte determines to help Narraway clear his name. As Charlotte and Narraway depart for Ireland and Pitt is drawn deeper into the investigation in France, it becomes clear that outside forces have conspired to separate them at a crucial time in the countryâ€™s history. With no one else to trust can they make it back to England and stop the revolt before itâ€™s too late?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16362'),
(10216, 'Betrayal in Death', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n &gt;''However the act of murder was committed, in cold blood or hot, Eve Dallas was sworn to pursue it to its root. and serve the dead.''&gt;At the luxurious Roarke Palace Hotel, a maid walks into suite 4602 for the nightly turndown - and steps into her worst nightmare. A killer leaves her dead, strangled by a thin, silver wire. He''s Sly Yost, a virtuoso of music and murder; a hit man for the elite. Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows him well. But in this twisted case, knowing the killer doesn''t help solve the crime. Because there''s someone else involved. Someone with a very personal motive. and Eve must face a terrifying possibility that the real target may, in fact, be her husband, Roarke...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2546'),
(10217, 'Betrayal in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: &gt;''However the act of murder was committed, in cold blood or hot, Eve Dallas was sworn to pursue it to its root. and serve the dead.''&gt;At the luxurious Roarke Palace Hotel, a maid walks into suite 4602 for the nightly turndown - and steps into her worst nightmare. A killer leaves her dead, strangled by a thin, silver wire. He''s Sly Yost, a virtuoso of music and murder; a hit man for the elite. Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows him well. But in this twisted case, knowing the killer doesn''t help solve the crime. Because there''s someone else involved. Someone with a very personal motive. and Eve must face a terrifying possibility that the real target may, in fact, be her husband, Roarke...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14103');
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(10218, 'Betrayal in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: &gt;''However the act of murder was committed, in cold blood or hot, Eve Dallas was sworn to pursue it to its root. and serve the dead.''&gt;At the luxurious Roarke Palace Hotel, a maid walks into suite 4602 for the nightly turndown - and steps into her worst nightmare. A killer leaves her dead, strangled by a thin, silver wire. He''s Sly Yost, a virtuoso of music and murder; a hit man for the elite. Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows him well. But in this twisted case, knowing the killer doesn''t help solve the crime. Because there''s someone else involved. Someone with a very personal motive. and Eve must face a terrifying possibility that the real target may, in fact, be her husband, Roarke...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22329'),
(10219, 'Betrayed: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Betrayed," the second installment in the bestselling House of Night series, is dark and sexy, and as thrilling as it is utterly shocking.Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She''s come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters, the school''s most elite group. Best of all, Zoey''s made some new friends and she finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend...or two. And despite the best efforts of her mother and step-loser John to humiliate her publically during parent visitation, she''s earned the respect of her professors and High Priestess, Neferet.Then the unthinkable happens: human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night, straining human-vamp tensions in Tulsa to a breaking point. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey''s old life, she finds herself drawn into an intoxicating forbidden flirtation that threatens to distract her from the growing crisis. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night. Too late, Zoey begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves, and she must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world. PC Cast is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author, as well as an experienced speaker and teacher. Her novels have been awarded the prestigious Prism, Daphne du Maurier, Affaire Du Coeur, and other awards. She lives and teaches in Oklahoma. Kristin Cast has won awards for her poetry and journalism. She attends Northeastern State University, where she is working toward fulfilling her goal of becoming a biology teacher. Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She''s come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend . . . or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey''s old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2282'),
(10220, 'Betrayed: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Betrayed," the second installment in the bestselling House of Night series, is dark and sexy, and as thrilling as it is utterly shocking.Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She''s come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters, the school''s most elite group. Best of all, Zoey''s made some new friends and she finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend...or two. And despite the best efforts of her mother and step-loser John to humiliate her publically during parent visitation, she''s earned the respect of her professors and High Priestess, Neferet.Then the unthinkable happens: human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night, straining human-vamp tensions in Tulsa to a breaking point. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey''s old life, she finds herself drawn into an intoxicating forbidden flirtation that threatens to distract her from the growing crisis. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night. Too late, Zoey begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves, and she must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world. PC Cast is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author, as well as an experienced speaker and teacher. Her novels have been awarded the prestigious Prism, Daphne du Maurier, Affaire Du Coeur, and other awards. She lives and teaches in Oklahoma. Kristin Cast has won awards for her poetry and journalism. She attends Northeastern State University, where she is working toward fulfilling her goal of becoming a biology teacher. Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She''s come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend . . . or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey''s old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8764'),
(10221, 'Betrayed: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Betrayed," the second installment in the bestselling House of Night series, is dark and sexy, and as thrilling as it is utterly shocking.Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She''s come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters, the school''s most elite group. Best of all, Zoey''s made some new friends and she finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend...or two. And despite the best efforts of her mother and step-loser John to humiliate her publically during parent visitation, she''s earned the respect of her professors and High Priestess, Neferet.Then the unthinkable happens: human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night, straining human-vamp tensions in Tulsa to a breaking point. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey''s old life, she finds herself drawn into an intoxicating forbidden flirtation that threatens to distract her from the growing crisis. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night. Too late, Zoey begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves, and she must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world. PC Cast is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author, as well as an experienced speaker and teacher. Her novels have been awarded the prestigious Prism, Daphne du Maurier, Affaire Du Coeur, and other awards. She lives and teaches in Oklahoma. Kristin Cast has won awards for her poetry and journalism. She attends Northeastern State University, where she is working toward fulfilling her goal of becoming a biology teacher. Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She''s come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend . . . or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey''s old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22431'),
(10222, 'Betrayer', 'C J Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15512'),
(10223, 'Betrayer of Worlds', 'Larry Niven; Edward M. Lerner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the cowardly Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds have---just barely---survived. Theyâ€™ve stumbled from one crisis to the next: The rebellion of their human slaves. The relentless questing of the species of Known Space. The spectacular rise of the starfish-like Gwâ€™oth. The onslaught of the genocidal Pak. Catastrophe looms again as past crises return---and converge. Who can possibly save the Fleet of Worlds from its greatest peril yet? **Louis Wu?** Trapped in the Wunderland civil war, all he wants is to go home---but the only possible escape will plunge him into unknowable danger. **Olâ€™tâ€™ro****? **The Gwâ€™oth ensemble mind fled across the stars to establish a colony world free from tyranny. But some problems cannot be left behind, and other problems---like the Fleet of Worlds itself---are racing straight at them. **Achilles?** Despite past disgrace, the charismatic Puppeteer politician *knows* he is destined for greatness. He will do anything to seize power---and to take his revenge on everyone who ever stood in his way. **Nessus?** The insane Puppeteer scout is out of ideas, out of resources, with only desperation left to guide him. Their hopes and fears, dreams and ambitions are about to collide. And the winner takes . . . worlds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20093'),
(10224, 'Better Love Next Time: How the Relationship That Didn&#39;t Last Can Lead You to the One That Will', 'J. M. Kearns', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n How to Heal Your Romantic Soul Whether your breakup was last month, last year, or farther back, there "is "a way to undo its harm and unlock its lessons--a way to heal your romantic soul. "Better Love Next Time "offers help in coping with the pain and heartache of a breakup, but more than that, it reveals how to overcome the lingering damage that a broken relationship can leave behind. It then presents a simple (and entertaining) way to diagnose what went wrong--so history won''t have to repeat itself--and explains how to decode the "guide to compatibility" written in your own past. Witty, frank, and full of real-life stories, "Better Love Next Time "ensures that when you do find a new love, you will arrive whole, renewed, and empowered to make it the one that lasts. "Better Love Next Time "reveals: the best ways to deal with a broken heart the hidden dangers of a breakup, and how to overcome them how your ego tries to hijack your heart how to stop betrayal from making you choose the wrong partner again how a mismatch can trick you into feeling inadequate how to find the partner who''s really right for you, and make that love last\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18250'),
(10225, 'The Better to Hold You', 'Alisa Sheckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œThe sort of book that makes you want to invest in silver bullets before meeting the author.â€ â€“Neil Gaiman\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SHE KNOWS WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Manhattan veterinarian Abra Barrow has more sense about animals than shehas about men. So when her adored journalist husband returns from a research trip to Romania and starts pacing their apartment like a caged wolf, Abra agrees to move with him to a rural mansion upstate in order to save her marriage.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But while there are perks to her new life, particularly in the bedroom, Abra soon discovers that nothing in the bucolic town of Northside is what it seems. The local tavern serves a dangerous, predatory underworld.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Her husband has developed feral new appetites and a roving eye, and his lack of humanity isnâ€™t entirely emotional. As the moon waxes full, Abra must choose between trusting the man she married, taking a chance on a seductive stranger, or following her own animal instincts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7757'),
(10226, 'The Better to Hold You', 'Alisa Sheckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œThe sort of book that makes you want to invest in silver bullets before meeting the author.â€ â€“Neil Gaiman\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SHE KNOWS WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Manhattan veterinarian Abra Barrow has more sense about animals than shehas about men. So when her adored journalist husband returns from a research trip to Romania and starts pacing their apartment like a caged wolf, Abra agrees to move with him to a rural mansion upstate in order to save her marriage.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But while there are perks to her new life, particularly in the bedroom, Abra soon discovers that nothing in the bucolic town of Northside is what it seems. The local tavern serves a dangerous, predatory underworld.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Her husband has developed feral new appetites and a roving eye, and his lack of humanity isnâ€™t entirely emotional. As the moon waxes full, Abra must choose between trusting the man she married, taking a chance on a seductive stranger, or following her own animal instincts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12642'),
(10227, 'The Better to Hold You', 'Alisa Sheckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œThe sort of book that makes you want to invest in silver bullets before meeting the author.â€ â€“Neil Gaiman SHE KNOWS WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. Manhattan veterinarian Abra Barrow has more sense about animals than shehas about men. So when her adored journalist husband returns from a research trip to Romania and starts pacing their apartment like a caged wolf, Abra agrees to move with him to a rural mansion upstate in order to save her marriage. But while there are perks to her new life, particularly in the bedroom, Abra soon discovers that nothing in the bucolic town of Northside is what it seems. The local tavern serves a dangerous, predatory underworld. Her husband has developed feral new appetites and a roving eye, and his lack of humanity isnâ€™t entirely emotional. As the moon waxes full, Abra must choose between trusting the man she married, taking a chance on a seductive stranger, or following her own animal instincts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16201'),
(10228, 'The Better to Hold You', 'Alisa Sheckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œThe sort of book that makes you want to invest in silver bullets before meeting the author.â€ â€“Neil Gaiman SHE KNOWS WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. Manhattan veterinarian Abra Barrow has more sense about animals than shehas about men. So when her adored journalist husband returns from a research trip to Romania and starts pacing their apartment like a caged wolf, Abra agrees to move with him to a rural mansion upstate in order to save her marriage. But while there are perks to her new life, particularly in the bedroom, Abra soon discovers that nothing in the bucolic town of Northside is what it seems. The local tavern serves a dangerous, predatory underworld. Her husband has developed feral new appetites and a roving eye, and his lack of humanity isnâ€™t entirely emotional. As the moon waxes full, Abra must choose between trusting the man she married, taking a chance on a seductive stranger, or following her own animal instincts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26363'),
(10229, 'Better to Rest', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Alaska''s finest mystery writer" (*Anchorage Daily News*) has given readers a hero to cheer for. Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WWII army plane found mysteriously frozen in a glacier.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Alaska''s finest mystery writer" (Anchorage Daily News) has given readers a hero to cheer for. Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WWII army plane found mysteriously frozen in a glacier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6521'),
(10230, 'Better to rest', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Alaska''s finest mystery writer" (*Anchorage Daily News*) has given readers a hero to cheer for. Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WWII army plane found mysteriously frozen in a glacier. SUMMARY: "Alaska''s finest mystery writer" (Anchorage Daily News) has given readers a hero to cheer for. Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WWII army plane found mysteriously frozen in a glacier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17545'),
(10231, 'Better to rest', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Alaska''s finest mystery writer" (*Anchorage Daily News*) has given readers a hero to cheer for. Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WWII army plane found mysteriously frozen in a glacier. SUMMARY: "Alaska''s finest mystery writer" (Anchorage Daily News) has given readers a hero to cheer for. Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WWII army plane found mysteriously frozen in a glacier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27138'),
(10232, 'Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir', 'Pat Benatar &amp; Patsi Bale Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For more than thirty years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most iconic women in rock music, with songs like "Heartbreaker," "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," and "Love Is a Battlefield" becoming anthems for multiple generations of fans. Now, in this intimate and uncompromising memoir, one of the bestselling female rock artists of all time shares the story of her extraordinary career, telling the truth about her life, her struggles, and how she won thingsâ€”her way.   From her early days in the New York club scene of the 1970s to headlining sold-out arena tours, Benatar offers a fascinating account of a life spent behind the microphone. As the first female artist ever to be played on MTV, she speaks candidly about the realities of breaking into the boys'' club of rock and roll at a time when people everywhere still believed a woman''s only place in popular music was as a girlfriend, a groupie, or a sex symbol. And though her fiery edge and aggressive swagger produced instant success, they also led to fights over her image that would linger for years to come.   Going backstage and into the studio, Benatar sets the record straight about how her music evolved, illustrating the visionary role that her guitarist, producer, and eventual husband, Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, played in combining her classically trained voice with razor-sharp guitar to create her unique hard-rock sound. Together they formed a musical and spiritual bond that would last a lifetime, helping her stay true to herself while avoiding the pitfalls and excesses of rock stardom.   Written with the attitude and defiance that embodies Pat Benatar''s music, Between a Heart and a Rock Place is a rock-and-roll story unlike any other, a remarkable tale of playing by your own rules, even if that means breaking a few of theirs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2321'),
(10233, 'Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir', 'Pat Benatar &amp; Patsi Bale Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For more than thirty years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most iconic women in rock music, with songs like "Heartbreaker," "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," and "Love Is a Battlefield" becoming anthems for multiple generations of fans. Now, in this intimate and uncompromising memoir, one of the bestselling female rock artists of all time shares the story of her extraordinary career, telling the truth about her life, her struggles, and how she won thingsâ€”her way.   From her early days in the New York club scene of the 1970s to headlining sold-out arena tours, Benatar offers a fascinating account of a life spent behind the microphone. As the first female artist ever to be played on MTV, she speaks candidly about the realities of breaking into the boys'' club of rock and roll at a time when people everywhere still believed a woman''s only place in popular music was as a girlfriend, a groupie, or a sex symbol. And though her fiery edge and aggressive swagger produced instant success, they also led to fights over her image that would linger for years to come.   Going backstage and into the studio, Benatar sets the record straight about how her music evolved, illustrating the visionary role that her guitarist, producer, and eventual husband, Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, played in combining her classically trained voice with razor-sharp guitar to create her unique hard-rock sound. Together they formed a musical and spiritual bond that would last a lifetime, helping her stay true to herself while avoiding the pitfalls and excesses of rock stardom.   Written with the attitude and defiance that embodies Pat Benatar''s music, Between a Heart and a Rock Place is a rock-and-roll story unlike any other, a remarkable tale of playing by your own rules, even if that means breaking a few of theirs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8408'),
(10234, 'Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir', 'Pat Benatar; Patsi Bale Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For more than thirty years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most iconic women in rock music, with songs like "Heartbreaker," "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," and "Love Is a Battlefield" becoming anthems for multiple generations of fans. Now, in this intimate and uncompromising memoir, one of the bestselling female rock artists of all time shares the story of her extraordinary career, telling the truth about her life, her struggles, and how she won thingsâ€”her way. From her early days in the New York club scene of the 1970s to headlining sold-out arena tours, Benatar offers a fascinating account of a life spent behind the microphone. As the first female artist ever to be played on MTV, she speaks candidly about the realities of breaking into the boys'' club of rock and roll at a time when people everywhere still believed a woman''s only place in popular music was as a girlfriend, a groupie, or a sex symbol. And though her fiery edge and aggressive swagger produced instant success, they also led to fights over her image that would linger for years to come. Going backstage and into the studio, Benatar sets the record straight about how her music evolved, illustrating the visionary role that her guitarist, producer, and eventual husband, Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, played in combining her classically trained voice with razor-sharp guitar to create her unique hard-rock sound. Together they formed a musical and spiritual bond that would last a lifetime, helping her stay true to herself while avoiding the pitfalls and excesses of rock stardom. Written with the attitude and defiance that embodies Pat Benatar''s music, Between a Heart and a Rock Place is a rock-and-roll story unlike any other, a remarkable tale of playing by your own rules, even if that means breaking a few of theirs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22502'),
(10235, 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place', 'Aron Ralston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a moving account of strength in the face of adversity, Ralston presents the full story behind the 2003 event that became worldwide news: his self-amputation of his right arm after it was caught between a boulder and a canyon wall during what began as a routine day hike in the Utah Canyons. An experienced climber, Ralston, 28, effectively shows he wasn''t a risk-taker, and alternates between describing how his jaunt turned into a nightmare when a huge stone suddenly came unstuck as he used it to climb down a ledge, and recalling early experiences that changed his novice attitudes toward hiking, which he admits "were not intrinsically safe." Ralston candidly renders the details of six days of entrapment, using transcribed monologues from videotapes he made while trapped, including his increasingly exhausted thoughts as well as poignant farewells to his family. But his best writing details his self-amputation and his subsequent march to safety, in which he rappelled one-armed down a hill and then hiked six miles before someone found him. Ralston''s prose is never gruesome, nor is it used to shock, even as he describes first breaking his forearm, and then slipping "into some sort of autopilot" as he cuts through muscle fibers to detach the arm. It''s truly thrilling when he finishes and is free: "A crystalline moment shatters and the world is a different place." 16 pages of color photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School - From midday Saturday, April 26, 2003, until midday Thursday, May 1, Ralston was pinned between a boulder and a canyon wall in a remote area of Canyonlands National Park in Utah. He had little food and water. No one would even wonder where he was until he didn''t show up for work on Tuesday. Unable to sit, lie down, use his right arm (that was the part between the rock and the wall), or sleep, he knew right away that he was in for an excruciatingly difficult time. Those 120 hours of what he calls "uninterrupted experience" tested to the fullest his physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual being. His eventual rescue led to international headlines, partially due to his dramatic means of escape: he severed his arm with a cheap, dull, dirty knife. This is a searing and amazingly detailed rendition of his ordeal, along with accounts of several of Ralston''s previous wilderness adventures. He is one active and tough guy, but readers never get the sense that he is boastful or seeking notoriety. Rather, he seems genuinely intrigued, even mildly befuddled, by his insatiable drive to be active in the wild. One could say he takes too many risks, and that he has a tendency toward carelessness. He himself notes this. But the man''s drive and devotion to his calling are nothing but admirable. Sixteen pages of color photographs add considerably to readers'' experience of this nuanced, gripping survival story that belongs in most collections._ - Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7444'),
(10236, 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place', 'Aron Ralston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a moving account of strength in the face of adversity, Ralston presents the full story behind the 2003 event that became worldwide news: his self-amputation of his right arm after it was caught between a boulder and a canyon wall during what began as a routine day hike in the Utah Canyons. An experienced climber, Ralston, 28, effectively shows he wasn''t a risk-taker, and alternates between describing how his jaunt turned into a nightmare when a huge stone suddenly came unstuck as he used it to climb down a ledge, and recalling early experiences that changed his novice attitudes toward hiking, which he admits "were not intrinsically safe." Ralston candidly renders the details of six days of entrapment, using transcribed monologues from videotapes he made while trapped, including his increasingly exhausted thoughts as well as poignant farewells to his family. But his best writing details his self-amputation and his subsequent march to safety, in which he rappelled one-armed down a hill and then hiked six miles before someone found him. Ralston''s prose is never gruesome, nor is it used to shock, even as he describes first breaking his forearm, and then slipping "into some sort of autopilot" as he cuts through muscle fibers to detach the arm. It''s truly thrilling when he finishes and is free: "A crystalline moment shatters and the world is a different place." 16 pages of color photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School - From midday Saturday, April 26, 2003, until midday Thursday, May 1, Ralston was pinned between a boulder and a canyon wall in a remote area of Canyonlands National Park in Utah. He had little food and water. No one would even wonder where he was until he didn''t show up for work on Tuesday. Unable to sit, lie down, use his right arm (that was the part between the rock and the wall), or sleep, he knew right away that he was in for an excruciatingly difficult time. Those 120 hours of what he calls "uninterrupted experience" tested to the fullest his physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual being. His eventual rescue led to international headlines, partially due to his dramatic means of escape: he severed his arm with a cheap, dull, dirty knife. This is a searing and amazingly detailed rendition of his ordeal, along with accounts of several of Ralston''s previous wilderness adventures. He is one active and tough guy, but readers never get the sense that he is boastful or seeking notoriety. Rather, he seems genuinely intrigued, even mildly befuddled, by his insatiable drive to be active in the wild. One could say he takes too many risks, and that he has a tendency toward carelessness. He himself notes this. But the man''s drive and devotion to his calling are nothing but admirable. Sixteen pages of color photographs add considerably to readers'' experience of this nuanced, gripping survival story that belongs in most collections._ - Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12085'),
(10237, 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place', 'Aron Ralston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a moving account of strength in the face of adversity, Ralston presents the full story behind the 2003 event that became worldwide news: his self-amputation of his right arm after it was caught between a boulder and a canyon wall during what began as a routine day hike in the Utah Canyons. An experienced climber, Ralston, 28, effectively shows he wasn''t a risk-taker, and alternates between describing how his jaunt turned into a nightmare when a huge stone suddenly came unstuck as he used it to climb down a ledge, and recalling early experiences that changed his novice attitudes toward hiking, which he admits "were not intrinsically safe." Ralston candidly renders the details of six days of entrapment, using transcribed monologues from videotapes he made while trapped, including his increasingly exhausted thoughts as well as poignant farewells to his family. But his best writing details his self-amputation and his subsequent march to safety, in which he rappelled one-armed down a hill and then hiked six miles before someone found him. Ralston''s prose is never gruesome, nor is it used to shock, even as he describes first breaking his forearm, and then slipping "into some sort of autopilot" as he cuts through muscle fibers to detach the arm. It''s truly thrilling when he finishes and is free: "A crystalline moment shatters and the world is a different place." 16 pages of color photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School - From midday Saturday, April 26, 2003, until midday Thursday, May 1, Ralston was pinned between a boulder and a canyon wall in a remote area of Canyonlands National Park in Utah. He had little food and water. No one would even wonder where he was until he didn''t show up for work on Tuesday. Unable to sit, lie down, use his right arm (that was the part between the rock and the wall), or sleep, he knew right away that he was in for an excruciatingly difficult time. Those 120 hours of what he calls "uninterrupted experience" tested to the fullest his physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual being. His eventual rescue led to international headlines, partially due to his dramatic means of escape: he severed his arm with a cheap, dull, dirty knife. This is a searing and amazingly detailed rendition of his ordeal, along with accounts of several of Ralston''s previous wilderness adventures. He is one active and tough guy, but readers never get the sense that he is boastful or seeking notoriety. Rather, he seems genuinely intrigued, even mildly befuddled, by his insatiable drive to be active in the wild. One could say he takes too many risks, and that he has a tendency toward carelessness. He himself notes this. But the man''s drive and devotion to his calling are nothing but admirable. Sixteen pages of color photographs add considerably to readers'' experience of this nuanced, gripping survival story that belongs in most collections._ - Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15976'),
(10238, 'Between Planets', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Don Harvey was attending school on Earth when his parents suddenly and urgently called him home to Mars. He had been skeptical about the talk of interplanetary war breaking out if Mars and Venus followed through on their threats to declare independence from Earth, but he was wrong. War broke out, and he was stuck on Venus, with no way of getting home. Then there was the ring that an old family friend had given him just before he had left Earth. Shortly afterward, the friend had been questioned by Earthâ€™s secret police and had diedâ€”from â€œheart failure,â€ they claimed. When Earth troops landed on Venus and started looking for Don and that mysterious ring, he realized that he was trapped in the center of a war between worlds that could change the fate of the Solar System forever!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22723'),
(10239, 'Between Sisters', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Differences between siblings couldn''t be more extreme than they are in this overwrought feel-good novel by Hannah (Distant Shores), a tale about two estranged sisters. Meghann Dontess is a hotshot, well-to-do Seattle divorce lawyer in her 30s, entirely focused on her career. Her younger sister, Claire Cavenaugh, a single mom living in a backwater town in the Pacific Northwest, takes care of her five-year-old daughter and helps her father run his low-key lakeside resort. The half-sisters were raised by a neglectful mother, who finally abandoned them for Hollywood when she won a starring role in a science fiction series. Meghann was 16 and Claire was nine; Meghann had already essentially raised Claire herself, and after their mother left, she tracked down Claire''s biological father. Sam Cavenaugh was thrilled to be reunited with Claire, but Meghann suddenly found herself motherless and sisterless all at once, and numbed the pain by pouring herself into school, college and career. Now she''s horrified because Claire has recklessly fallen in love with a country singer whom she''s about to marry. Their absentee mom suddenly steps in to get him a recording contract, but before there can be a happy mother-daughter reunion, Claire is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Only Meghann, with her worldly connections, can come to the rescue. The melodramatic plot is something of a stretch, especially when Hannah ties it all together with a happy ending. Some devoted fans will enjoy the sisterly bonding, but the broad-strokes characters will disappoint more demanding readers of women''s fiction.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hannah returns to a minor character, Meghann, from\n <em>\n  Distant Shores\n </em>\n [BKL My 1 02], and explores her life in-depth as she and her sister confront the past in order to have a better future relationship. They share a bitter childhood and find it difficult to trust each other, but for Meghann it goes deeper as her inability to trust anyone leads to a dangerously promiscuous lifestyle. Both sisters feel betrayed by the other, and now lead very different lives. Meghann, a shark of a Seattle divorce attorney, has been in therapy for years. Claire leads a simple, small-town life, and now tells her sister that she''s getting married. Meghann initially tries to save her sister from what she believes will be a disaster since she doesn''t believe in love, only in prenups, but eventually she adopts a more positive attitude and takes the first step toward healing the rift. Then Joe arrives, a wanderer with his own issues. Change comes gradually but with such finesse that the reader will enter the characters'' relationships and make them her own as Hannah transcends the mundane in this gratifying, five-hankie story.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3563'),
(10240, 'Between Sisters', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Differences between siblings couldn''t be more extreme than they are in this overwrought feel-good novel by Hannah (Distant Shores), a tale about two estranged sisters. Meghann Dontess is a hotshot, well-to-do Seattle divorce lawyer in her 30s, entirely focused on her career. Her younger sister, Claire Cavenaugh, a single mom living in a backwater town in the Pacific Northwest, takes care of her five-year-old daughter and helps her father run his low-key lakeside resort. The half-sisters were raised by a neglectful mother, who finally abandoned them for Hollywood when she won a starring role in a science fiction series. Meghann was 16 and Claire was nine; Meghann had already essentially raised Claire herself, and after their mother left, she tracked down Claire''s biological father. Sam Cavenaugh was thrilled to be reunited with Claire, but Meghann suddenly found herself motherless and sisterless all at once, and numbed the pain by pouring herself into school, college and career. Now she''s horrified because Claire has recklessly fallen in love with a country singer whom she''s about to marry. Their absentee mom suddenly steps in to get him a recording contract, but before there can be a happy mother-daughter reunion, Claire is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Only Meghann, with her worldly connections, can come to the rescue. The melodramatic plot is something of a stretch, especially when Hannah ties it all together with a happy ending. Some devoted fans will enjoy the sisterly bonding, but the broad-strokes characters will disappoint more demanding readers of women''s fiction.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hannah returns to a minor character, Meghann, from\n <em>\n  Distant Shores\n </em>\n [BKL My 1 02], and explores her life in-depth as she and her sister confront the past in order to have a better future relationship. They share a bitter childhood and find it difficult to trust each other, but for Meghann it goes deeper as her inability to trust anyone leads to a dangerously promiscuous lifestyle. Both sisters feel betrayed by the other, and now lead very different lives. Meghann, a shark of a Seattle divorce attorney, has been in therapy for years. Claire leads a simple, small-town life, and now tells her sister that she''s getting married. Meghann initially tries to save her sister from what she believes will be a disaster since she doesn''t believe in love, only in prenups, but eventually she adopts a more positive attitude and takes the first step toward healing the rift. Then Joe arrives, a wanderer with his own issues. Change comes gradually but with such finesse that the reader will enter the characters'' relationships and make them her own as Hannah transcends the mundane in this gratifying, five-hankie story.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10132'),
(10241, 'Between Sisters', 'Kristin Hannah', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Differences between siblings couldn''t be more extreme than they are in this overwrought feel-good novel by Hannah (Distant Shores), a tale about two estranged sisters. Meghann Dontess is a hotshot, well-to-do Seattle divorce lawyer in her 30s, entirely focused on her career. Her younger sister, Claire Cavenaugh, a single mom living in a backwater town in the Pacific Northwest, takes care of her five-year-old daughter and helps her father run his low-key lakeside resort. The half-sisters were raised by a neglectful mother, who finally abandoned them for Hollywood when she won a starring role in a science fiction series. Meghann was 16 and Claire was nine; Meghann had already essentially raised Claire herself, and after their mother left, she tracked down Claire''s biological father. Sam Cavenaugh was thrilled to be reunited with Claire, but Meghann suddenly found herself motherless and sisterless all at once, and numbed the pain by pouring herself into school, college and career. Now she''s horrified because Claire has recklessly fallen in love with a country singer whom she''s about to marry. Their absentee mom suddenly steps in to get him a recording contract, but before there can be a happy mother-daughter reunion, Claire is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Only Meghann, with her worldly connections, can come to the rescue. The melodramatic plot is something of a stretch, especially when Hannah ties it all together with a happy ending. Some devoted fans will enjoy the sisterly bonding, but the broad-strokes characters will disappoint more demanding readers of women''s fiction.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hannah returns to a minor character, Meghann, from\n <em>\n  Distant Shores\n </em>\n [BKL My 1 02], and explores her life in-depth as she and her sister confront the past in order to have a better future relationship. They share a bitter childhood and find it difficult to trust each other, but for Meghann it goes deeper as her inability to trust anyone leads to a dangerously promiscuous lifestyle. Both sisters feel betrayed by the other, and now lead very different lives. Meghann, a shark of a Seattle divorce attorney, has been in therapy for years. Claire leads a simple, small-town life, and now tells her sister that she''s getting married. Meghann initially tries to save her sister from what she believes will be a disaster since she doesn''t believe in love, only in prenups, but eventually she adopts a more positive attitude and takes the first step toward healing the rift. Then Joe arrives, a wanderer with his own issues. Change comes gradually but with such finesse that the reader will enter the characters'' relationships and make them her own as Hannah transcends the mundane in this gratifying, five-hankie story.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20903');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(10242, 'Beware of Cat: And Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier', 'Vincent Wyckoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "In letter carrier nightmares, it''s always getting dark out," observes Wyckoff, a 15-year veteran of the postal service, in his sweet, uncomplicated memoir about life as a mailman. He has spent his whole career in one Minneapolis neighborhood, and the book covers everything he goes through there, from encounters with hostile pets to neighborhood gatherings where no one recognizes the civvies-clad postman. The people along Wyckoff''s route, and his take on them, make engaging case studies: the struggling Native American family that still puts out a bag for the annual Letter Carrier''s Food Drive, the five-year-old boy who can''t find his way home, the 99-year-old woman whom Wyckoff kisses on her birthday. Wyckoff may not be typical of all mailmen (he carries dog biscuits and dresses up like Santa Claus at Christmas) but his experiences illuminate the challenges faced by postal workers-and neighbors-across the nation. Wyckoff''s writing is accessible, if a bit bland; this is clearly a first effort, and the dialogue doesn''t always ring true. Though there''s no real plotline, or any major characters aside from Wyckoff himself, this loving portrait of an average American community should give readers a new way of looking at the civil servants in their lives.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One sunny day on his postal route, Vincent Wyckoff crosses the path of an elderly gentleman whistling for his lost parakeet. The old man is upset, and Wyckoff moves down the block slowly, looking high and low, hoping to spot the little bird. He reaches the manâ€™s house and offers sympathy to his wife, who smiles sadly and says, â€œWe havenâ€™t had that bird for twenty-five years.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Letter carriers like Wyckoff walk through the same neighborhood each day, observing the lives and routines of its residents. They learn its stories, make connections between people, and, in many ways, become the common thread that connects neighbors to one another. Along Wyckoffâ€™s mail route, Native American children teach him about totems. He finds assistance for a reclusive chain-smoking book collector who canâ€™t maintain his property. He delivers a much-delayed registered letter mailed from Saigon in 1976. Over the years, Wyckoff sees the neighborhood of blue-collar retirees change as a diverse group of younger people move in and raise their families.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Celebrating the triumphs in everyday life and demonstrating the danger of trusting first impressions,\n  <em>\n   Beware of Cat\n  </em>\n  reveals the inner workings of an ordinary place of extraordinary interest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vincent Wyckoff\n  </strong>\n  was a laborer, a construction worker, and a sheetmetal worker before he became a letter carrier in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1990. This is his first book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/395'),
(10243, 'Beware of Cat: And Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier', 'Vincent Wyckoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "In letter carrier nightmares, it''s always getting dark out," observes Wyckoff, a 15-year veteran of the postal service, in his sweet, uncomplicated memoir about life as a mailman. He has spent his whole career in one Minneapolis neighborhood, and the book covers everything he goes through there, from encounters with hostile pets to neighborhood gatherings where no one recognizes the civvies-clad postman. The people along Wyckoff''s route, and his take on them, make engaging case studies: the struggling Native American family that still puts out a bag for the annual Letter Carrier''s Food Drive, the five-year-old boy who can''t find his way home, the 99-year-old woman whom Wyckoff kisses on her birthday. Wyckoff may not be typical of all mailmen (he carries dog biscuits and dresses up like Santa Claus at Christmas) but his experiences illuminate the challenges faced by postal workers-and neighbors-across the nation. Wyckoff''s writing is accessible, if a bit bland; this is clearly a first effort, and the dialogue doesn''t always ring true. Though there''s no real plotline, or any major characters aside from Wyckoff himself, this loving portrait of an average American community should give readers a new way of looking at the civil servants in their lives.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One sunny day on his postal route, Vincent Wyckoff crosses the path of an elderly gentleman whistling for his lost parakeet. The old man is upset, and Wyckoff moves down the block slowly, looking high and low, hoping to spot the little bird. He reaches the manâ€™s house and offers sympathy to his wife, who smiles sadly and says, â€œWe havenâ€™t had that bird for twenty-five years.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Letter carriers like Wyckoff walk through the same neighborhood each day, observing the lives and routines of its residents. They learn its stories, make connections between people, and, in many ways, become the common thread that connects neighbors to one another. Along Wyckoffâ€™s mail route, Native American children teach him about totems. He finds assistance for a reclusive chain-smoking book collector who canâ€™t maintain his property. He delivers a much-delayed registered letter mailed from Saigon in 1976. Over the years, Wyckoff sees the neighborhood of blue-collar retirees change as a diverse group of younger people move in and raise their families.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Celebrating the triumphs in everyday life and demonstrating the danger of trusting first impressions,\n  <em>\n   Beware of Cat\n  </em>\n  reveals the inner workings of an ordinary place of extraordinary interest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vincent Wyckoff\n  </strong>\n  was a laborer, a construction worker, and a sheetmetal worker before he became a letter carrier in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1990. This is his first book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13473'),
(10244, 'Beware of Cat: And Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier', 'Vincent Wyckoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "In letter carrier nightmares, it''s always getting dark out," observes Wyckoff, a 15-year veteran of the postal service, in his sweet, uncomplicated memoir about life as a mailman. He has spent his whole career in one Minneapolis neighborhood, and the book covers everything he goes through there, from encounters with hostile pets to neighborhood gatherings where no one recognizes the civvies-clad postman. The people along Wyckoff''s route, and his take on them, make engaging case studies: the struggling Native American family that still puts out a bag for the annual Letter Carrier''s Food Drive, the five-year-old boy who can''t find his way home, the 99-year-old woman whom Wyckoff kisses on her birthday. Wyckoff may not be typical of all mailmen (he carries dog biscuits and dresses up like Santa Claus at Christmas) but his experiences illuminate the challenges faced by postal workers-and neighbors-across the nation. Wyckoff''s writing is accessible, if a bit bland; this is clearly a first effort, and the dialogue doesn''t always ring true. Though there''s no real plotline, or any major characters aside from Wyckoff himself, this loving portrait of an average American community should give readers a new way of looking at the civil servants in their lives.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One sunny day on his postal route, Vincent Wyckoff crosses the path of an elderly gentleman whistling for his lost parakeet. The old man is upset, and Wyckoff moves down the block slowly, looking high and low, hoping to spot the little bird. He reaches the manâ€™s house and offers sympathy to his wife, who smiles sadly and says, â€œWe havenâ€™t had that bird for twenty-five years.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  Letter carriers like Wyckoff walk through the same neighborhood each day, observing the lives and routines of its residents. They learn its stories, make connections between people, and, in many ways, become the common thread that connects neighbors to one another. Along Wyckoffâ€™s mail route, Native American children teach him about totems. He finds assistance for a reclusive chain-smoking book collector who canâ€™t maintain his property. He delivers a much-delayed registered letter mailed from Saigon in 1976. Over the years, Wyckoff sees the neighborhood of blue-collar retirees change as a diverse group of younger people move in and raise their families.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Celebrating the triumphs in everyday life and demonstrating the danger of trusting first impressions,\n  <em>\n   Beware of Cat\n  </em>\n  reveals the inner workings of an ordinary place of extraordinary interest.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vincent Wyckoff\n  </strong>\n  was a laborer, a construction worker, and a sheetmetal worker before he became a letter carrier in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1990. This is his first book.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24600'),
(10245, 'Beyond Band of Brothers', 'Richard D. Winters &amp; Cole Christian Kingseed', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his well-intentioned but impersonal memoirs, Winters tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries, but Winters''s memoir is disappointingly sparse on details unrelated to troop position. It is in the battles and tactical maneuvers of Easy Company that Winters is most at home: on D-Day, when Easy Company''s commanding officer is killed, Winters takes charge minutes after landing deep in German territory and leads an assault against a German battery. He carefully explicates the reasoning behind his strategy, leading the reader along as the Company attacks German machine gun and mortar outposts. The narrative is laced with Winters''s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades'' bravery: "My God, it''s beautiful when you think of a guy who was so dedicated to his company that he apologizes for getting hit." Although the intrepidness of the group induces more than a tinge of pride, the memoir is devoid of powerful reflections. In the last, sluggish chapters, Winters devotes an excessive amount of time to letters he has received and to expositions on leadership. Winters is too humble for a genre that requires a little bit of conceit.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen Ambrose''s\n  <em>\n   Band of Brothers\n  </em>\n  (1992) and the HBO miniseries based on it made Easy Company--the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which fought from D-Day to the end of World War II, with 150 percent casualties--well known to more than -military-history buffs. After both publication and broadcast, Winters, Easy Company''s commanding officer, received many requests for more information. Feeling that much of the material Ambrose didn''t use deserved an audience, he chose to air it and satisfy all those requests in his memoirs. For those to whom the story is familiar, the major and his collaborator developed an excellent narrative voice to recount Winters'' experiences, actions, and thoughts during everything from training to deployment to battle to subsequent occupation. Winters has been praised as an exemplar of leadership, and here he shows what he did to earn that praise and how he did it. Very well done, book as well as war service.\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1818'),
(10246, 'Beyond Band of Brothers', 'Richard D. Winters &amp; Cole Christian Kingseed', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In his well-intentioned but impersonal memoirs, Winters tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries, but Winters''s memoir is disappointingly sparse on details unrelated to troop position. It is in the battles and tactical maneuvers of Easy Company that Winters is most at home: on D-Day, when Easy Company''s commanding officer is killed, Winters takes charge minutes after landing deep in German territory and leads an assault against a German battery. He carefully explicates the reasoning behind his strategy, leading the reader along as the Company attacks German machine gun and mortar outposts. The narrative is laced with Winters''s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades'' bravery: "My God, it''s beautiful when you think of a guy who was so dedicated to his company that he apologizes for getting hit." Although the intrepidness of the group induces more than a tinge of pride, the memoir is devoid of powerful reflections. In the last, sluggish chapters, Winters devotes an excessive amount of time to letters he has received and to expositions on leadership. Winters is too humble for a genre that requires a little bit of conceit.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen Ambrose''s\n  <em>\n   Band of Brothers\n  </em>\n  (1992) and the HBO miniseries based on it made Easy Company--the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which fought from D-Day to the end of World War II, with 150 percent casualties--well known to more than -military-history buffs. After both publication and broadcast, Winters, Easy Company''s commanding officer, received many requests for more information. Feeling that much of the material Ambrose didn''t use deserved an audience, he chose to air it and satisfy all those requests in his memoirs. For those to whom the story is familiar, the major and his collaborator developed an excellent narrative voice to recount Winters'' experiences, actions, and thoughts during everything from training to deployment to battle to subsequent occupation. Winters has been praised as an exemplar of leadership, and here he shows what he did to earn that praise and how he did it. Very well done, book as well as war service.\n  <em>\n   Frieda Murray\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13441'),
(10247, 'Beyond Belief', 'Roy Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n TheNew York Times Book Reviewhailed Roy Johansen''s debut,The Answer Man, as "offbeat [and] fascinating." Now the Edgar Award winner and Shamus Award finalist once again "keeps the pages turning" (Los Angeles Times) in a new thriller that pits a professional skeptic against something inexplicable â€” and undeniably lethal. Joe Bailey is the Spirit Basher. Formerly a professional magician, he''s become an ace police detective in Atlanta, debunking phony psychics and spiritualists who prey on the gullible. And he''s just caught his first sensational murder case. The victim is someone Joe knew. Dr. Robert Nelson was a professor at Landwyn University, head of the parapsychology program. He was killed in his own home, a sculpture of massive chrome spikes driven through his body and into a wall. A sculpture that no one could possibly have lifted. But Nelson''s girlfriend claims to know the murderer: an eight-year-old boy. Jesse Randall is not just any child. Some people say he can move objects using nothing more than his will. Nelson had been studying the boy, and Jesse''s anger at the professor was erupting in "shadow storms" â€” violent telekinetic activity â€” while Jesse slept. Nelson''s girlfriend swears that one of these episodes was responsible for Nelson''s brutal death. Joe is far from convinced. He''s certain that Jesse''s power is a hoax and Nelson''s killer is a master of deception. Driven to seek out the truth that surely lies behind the psychic fakery, Joe must rely on his wits to separate what''s real from what''s illusion â€” even if it means drawing Jesse''s anger on himself. Soon mysterious incidents thrust him and his own child into grave peril. Are they examples of Jesse''s shadow storms? Or deadly warnings from someone who cannot allow the Spirit Basher to discover the truth? Joe cannot abandon his search for answers. And he''d better find them fast before whoever â€” or whatever â€” impaled Robert Nelson like an insect does the same to him and his daughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1495'),
(10248, 'Beyond belief', 'Roy Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: TheNew York Times Book Reviewhailed Roy Johansen''s debut,The Answer Man, as "offbeat [and] fascinating." Now the Edgar Award winner and Shamus Award finalist once again "keeps the pages turning" (Los Angeles Times) in a new thriller that pits a professional skeptic against something inexplicable â€” and undeniably lethal. Joe Bailey is the Spirit Basher. Formerly a professional magician, he''s become an ace police detective in Atlanta, debunking phony psychics and spiritualists who prey on the gullible. And he''s just caught his first sensational murder case. The victim is someone Joe knew. Dr. Robert Nelson was a professor at Landwyn University, head of the parapsychology program. He was killed in his own home, a sculpture of massive chrome spikes driven through his body and into a wall. A sculpture that no one could possibly have lifted. But Nelson''s girlfriend claims to know the murderer: an eight-year-old boy. Jesse Randall is not just any child. Some people say he can move objects using nothing more than his will. Nelson had been studying the boy, and Jesse''s anger at the professor was erupting in "shadow storms" â€” violent telekinetic activity â€” while Jesse slept. Nelson''s girlfriend swears that one of these episodes was responsible for Nelson''s brutal death. Joe is far from convinced. He''s certain that Jesse''s power is a hoax and Nelson''s killer is a master of deception. Driven to seek out the truth that surely lies behind the psychic fakery, Joe must rely on his wits to separate what''s real from what''s illusion â€” even if it means drawing Jesse''s anger on himself. Soon mysterious incidents thrust him and his own child into grave peril. Are they examples of Jesse''s shadow storms? Or deadly warnings from someone who cannot allow the Spirit Basher to discover the truth? Joe cannot abandon his search for answers. And he''d better find them fast before whoever â€” or whatever â€” impaled Robert Nelson like an insect does the same to him and his daughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23411'),
(10249, 'Beyond Exile: Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The first book ofÂ *Day by Day Armageddon*Â took us deep into the mind of a military officer and survivor as he made a New Year''s resolution to start keeping a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity, *day by day*. We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve. The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling underground cult classic,Â *Day by Day Armageddon*Â begins where the first novel left off.**BEGIN INTERCEPT******Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe;there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.**INTERCEPT COMPLETE**Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm captureÂ the desperation--and the will to survive--as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility.But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?** *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4952'),
(10250, 'Beyond Exile: Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The first book ofÂ *Day by Day Armageddon*Â took us deep into the mind of a military officer and survivor as he made a New Year''s resolution to start keeping a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity, *day by day*. We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve. The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling underground cult classic,Â *Day by Day Armageddon*Â begins where the first novel left off.**BEGIN INTERCEPT******Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe;there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.**INTERCEPT COMPLETE**Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm captureÂ the desperation--and the will to survive--as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility.But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?** *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8559'),
(10251, 'Beyond Exile: Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The first book ofÂ *Day by Day Armageddon*Â took us deep into the mind of a military officer and survivor as he made a New Year''s resolution to start keeping a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity, *day by day*. We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve. The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling underground cult classic,Â *Day by Day Armageddon*Â begins where the first novel left off.**BEGIN INTERCEPT******Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe;there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.**INTERCEPT COMPLETE**Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm captureÂ the desperation--and the will to survive--as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility.But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?** *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15164'),
(10252, 'Beyond Exile: Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The first book ofÂ *Day by Day Armageddon*Â took us deep into the mind of a military officer and survivor as he made a New Year''s resolution to start keeping a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity, *day by day*. We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve. The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling underground cult classic,Â *Day by Day Armageddon*Â begins where the first novel left off.**BEGIN INTERCEPT******Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe;there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.**INTERCEPT COMPLETE**Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm captureÂ the desperation--and the will to survive--as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility.But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?** *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19686'),
(10253, 'Beyond Exile: Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The first book ofÂ *Day by Day Armageddon*Â took us deep into the mind of a military officer and survivor as he made a New Year''s resolution to start keeping a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity, *day by day*. We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve. The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling underground cult classic,Â *Day by Day Armageddon*Â begins where the first novel left off.**BEGIN INTERCEPT******Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe;there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.**INTERCEPT COMPLETE**Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm captureÂ the desperation--and the will to survive--as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility.But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?** *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28307'),
(10254, 'Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink', 'David Margolick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fought with thunderclouds of war on the horizon, the 1938 heavyweight rematch between Detroit''s Joe Louis and Germany''s Max Schmeling qualifies as the sort of sporting event that coalesces into a symbolic moment with much larger themes. The African-American Louis''s success and demeanor were an unsubtle rebuke to the Aryan theories of race; the affable Schmeling, for his part, would be shoehorned into the role of "Nazi Max," despite the uneasiness of the fitâ€”later that year, on Kristallnacht, he would courageously protect two German Jews. _Vanity Fair\n <em>\n  contributor Margolick (\n </em>\n Strange Fruit_) keeps his bold, colorful focus squarely on the hubbub leading up to the bout; the all-consuming welter of hypeâ€”almost every utterance in the book is tinged by race or geopoliticsâ€”makes for compelling reading. The fight pitted talent against tactics: Schmeling''s previous defeat of the hitherto "unbeatable" Louis depended on Schmeling''s shrewd perception of a flaw in Louis''s technique. Louis was a critical transitional figure between the controversial first African-American champ, Jack Johnson, and the equally polarizing Muhammad Ali. Schmeling, in turn, was truly the antithesis of the thugs who were running his country. Every chapter in the company of such estimable and likable stalwarts is an unalloyed pleasure. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In 1938, radio announcer Clem McCarthy called the rematch between German Max Schmeling and American Joe Louis "the greatest fight of our generation." The greatest fight, as it turned out, was still to come and would be contested outside the boxing ring. This new book examines a world near war and grapple with the lasting importance of Louis versus Schmeling. Margolick provides a roaring ride through Nazi Germany and Depression-era America, as seen in the lives of Louis and Schmeling. Written with all the verve and wit of the best 1930s sportswriters (whom Margolis often quotes to great effect),\n <em>\n  Beyond Glory\n </em>\n contains gripping accounts of Louis and Schmeling''s two fights with each other and their bouts with other top contenders. But the greatest strength of Margolick''s narrative is the larger history it supplies. For two boxers who claimed no interest in politics, Schmeling and Louis got caught up in one of the great political conflicts of the century. Margolick magnificently captures the tension--between white and black, American and German, Jew and Gentile, Fascist and Democrat--that defined the time. Readers emerge with nuanced characterizations of the fighters and the nations they represented. With its balance of popular history and riveting comeback story,\n <em>\n  Beyond Glory\n </em>\n will be the definitive account of Louis versus Schmeling. And it''s a hell of a good read besides.\n <em>\n  John Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6197'),
(10255, 'Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink', 'David Margolick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fought with thunderclouds of war on the horizon, the 1938 heavyweight rematch between Detroit''s Joe Louis and Germany''s Max Schmeling qualifies as the sort of sporting event that coalesces into a symbolic moment with much larger themes. The African-American Louis''s success and demeanor were an unsubtle rebuke to the Aryan theories of race; the affable Schmeling, for his part, would be shoehorned into the role of "Nazi Max," despite the uneasiness of the fitâ€”later that year, on Kristallnacht, he would courageously protect two German Jews. _Vanity Fair\n <em>\n  contributor Margolick (\n </em>\n Strange Fruit_) keeps his bold, colorful focus squarely on the hubbub leading up to the bout; the all-consuming welter of hypeâ€”almost every utterance in the book is tinged by race or geopoliticsâ€”makes for compelling reading. The fight pitted talent against tactics: Schmeling''s previous defeat of the hitherto "unbeatable" Louis depended on Schmeling''s shrewd perception of a flaw in Louis''s technique. Louis was a critical transitional figure between the controversial first African-American champ, Jack Johnson, and the equally polarizing Muhammad Ali. Schmeling, in turn, was truly the antithesis of the thugs who were running his country. Every chapter in the company of such estimable and likable stalwarts is an unalloyed pleasure. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In 1938, radio announcer Clem McCarthy called the rematch between German Max Schmeling and American Joe Louis "the greatest fight of our generation." The greatest fight, as it turned out, was still to come and would be contested outside the boxing ring. This new book examines a world near war and grapple with the lasting importance of Louis versus Schmeling. Margolick provides a roaring ride through Nazi Germany and Depression-era America, as seen in the lives of Louis and Schmeling. Written with all the verve and wit of the best 1930s sportswriters (whom Margolis often quotes to great effect),\n <em>\n  Beyond Glory\n </em>\n contains gripping accounts of Louis and Schmeling''s two fights with each other and their bouts with other top contenders. But the greatest strength of Margolick''s narrative is the larger history it supplies. For two boxers who claimed no interest in politics, Schmeling and Louis got caught up in one of the great political conflicts of the century. Margolick magnificently captures the tension--between white and black, American and German, Jew and Gentile, Fascist and Democrat--that defined the time. Readers emerge with nuanced characterizations of the fighters and the nations they represented. With its balance of popular history and riveting comeback story,\n <em>\n  Beyond Glory\n </em>\n will be the definitive account of Louis versus Schmeling. And it''s a hell of a good read besides.\n <em>\n  John Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11300'),
(10256, 'Beyond Glory: Joe Louis Vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink', 'David Margolick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fought with thunderclouds of war on the horizon, the 1938 heavyweight rematch between Detroit''s Joe Louis and Germany''s Max Schmeling qualifies as the sort of sporting event that coalesces into a symbolic moment with much larger themes. The African-American Louis''s success and demeanor were an unsubtle rebuke to the Aryan theories of race; the affable Schmeling, for his part, would be shoehorned into the role of "Nazi Max," despite the uneasiness of the fitâ€”later that year, on Kristallnacht, he would courageously protect two German Jews. _Vanity Fair\n <em>\n  contributor Margolick (\n </em>\n Strange Fruit_) keeps his bold, colorful focus squarely on the hubbub leading up to the bout; the all-consuming welter of hypeâ€”almost every utterance in the book is tinged by race or geopoliticsâ€”makes for compelling reading. The fight pitted talent against tactics: Schmeling''s previous defeat of the hitherto "unbeatable" Louis depended on Schmeling''s shrewd perception of a flaw in Louis''s technique. Louis was a critical transitional figure between the controversial first African-American champ, Jack Johnson, and the equally polarizing Muhammad Ali. Schmeling, in turn, was truly the antithesis of the thugs who were running his country. Every chapter in the company of such estimable and likable stalwarts is an unalloyed pleasure. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In 1938, radio announcer Clem McCarthy called the rematch between German Max Schmeling and American Joe Louis "the greatest fight of our generation." The greatest fight, as it turned out, was still to come and would be contested outside the boxing ring. This new book examines a world near war and grapple with the lasting importance of Louis versus Schmeling. Margolick provides a roaring ride through Nazi Germany and Depression-era America, as seen in the lives of Louis and Schmeling. Written with all the verve and wit of the best 1930s sportswriters (whom Margolis often quotes to great effect),\n <em>\n  Beyond Glory\n </em>\n contains gripping accounts of Louis and Schmeling''s two fights with each other and their bouts with other top contenders. But the greatest strength of Margolick''s narrative is the larger history it supplies. For two boxers who claimed no interest in politics, Schmeling and Louis got caught up in one of the great political conflicts of the century. Margolick magnificently captures the tension--between white and black, American and German, Jew and Gentile, Fascist and Democrat--that defined the time. Readers emerge with nuanced characterizations of the fighters and the nations they represented. With its balance of popular history and riveting comeback story,\n <em>\n  Beyond Glory\n </em>\n will be the definitive account of Louis versus Schmeling. And it''s a hell of a good read besides.\n <em>\n  John Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17793'),
(10257, 'Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nietzsche''s mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women''s emancipation. A superb new translation by Marion Faber, this highly annotated edition is complemented by a lucid introduction by one of the most eminent of Nietzsche scholars, Robert C. Holub.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5471'),
(10258, 'Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nietzsche''s mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women''s emancipation. A superb new translation by Marion Faber, this highly annotated edition is complemented by a lucid introduction by one of the most eminent of Nietzsche scholars, Robert C. Holub.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14300'),
(10259, 'Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nietzsche''s mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women''s emancipation. A superb new translation by Marion Faber, this highly annotated edition is complemented by a lucid introduction by one of the most eminent of Nietzsche scholars, Robert C. Holub.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19137'),
(10260, 'Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future', 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nietzsche''s mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women''s emancipation. A superb new translation by Marion Faber, this highly annotated edition is complemented by a lucid introduction by one of the most eminent of Nietzsche scholars, Robert C. Holub.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27926'),
(10261, 'Beyond Lie the Wub', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jonathan Lethem, editor "The most outre science fiction writer of the 20th century has finally entered the canon," exclaimed "Wired Magazine" upon The Library of America''s May 2007 publication of "Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s," edited by Jonathan Lethem. Now comes a companion volume collecting five novels that offer a breathtaking overview of the range of this science-fiction master. Philip K. Dick (1928-82) was a writer of incandescent imagination who made and unmade world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. "The floor joists of the universe," he once wrote, "are visible in my novels." "Martian Time-Slip" (1964) unfolds on a parched and thinly colonized Red Planet where schizophrenia is a contagion and the unscrupulous seek to profit from a troubled child''s time-fracturing visions. "Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb" (1965) chronicles the deeply-interwoven stories of a multi-racial community of survivors, including the scientist who may have been responsible for World War III. Famous, among other reasons, for a therapy session involving a talking taxicab, "Now Wait for Last Year" (1966) explores the effects of JJ-180, a hallucinogen that alters not only perception, but reality. In "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said "(1974), a television star seeks to unravel a mystery that has left him stripped of his identity. "A Scanner Darkly" (1977), the basis for the 2006 film, envisions a drug-addled world in which a narcotics officer''s tenuous hold on sanity is strained by his new surveillance assignment: himself. Mixing metaphysics and madness, phantasmagoric visions of a post-nuclear world and invading extraterrestrial authoritarians, and all-too-real evocations of the drugged-out America of the 70s, Dick''s work remains exhilarating and unsettling in equal measure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8048'),
(10262, 'Beyond Lies the Wub', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Originally published in Planet Stories in 1951, here is Philip K. Dick''s classic tale of humanity''s discovery of a strange alien race . . . the Wub.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21514'),
(10263, 'Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English', 'Bhante Henepola Gunaratana', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every meditation tradition explains that there are two aspects to any effective meditation practice: insight and concentration. In\n <em>\n  Mindfulness in Plain English,\n </em>\n author Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, a monk from Sri Lanka and venerated teacher of Buddhism, offered basic instruction on the meaning of insight (or vipassana) meditation through concepts that could be applied to any tradition. In\n <em>\n  Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English,\n </em>\n he presents the levels of concentration with the same simplicity and humor that made the previous book so successful. The focus here is on the Jhanas, those meditative states of profound stillness and concentration in which the mind becomes fully immersed and absorbed in the chosen object of attention. Using the Jhanas to guide readers along the path to joy, happiness, equanimity, and one-pointedness, the author provides all of the instruction necessary to utilize meditation as a tool for building a more fulfilling life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7270'),
(10264, 'Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English', 'Bhante Henepola Gunaratana', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every meditation tradition explains that there are two aspects to any effective meditation practice: insight and concentration. In\n <em>\n  Mindfulness in Plain English,\n </em>\n author Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, a monk from Sri Lanka and venerated teacher of Buddhism, offered basic instruction on the meaning of insight (or vipassana) meditation through concepts that could be applied to any tradition. In\n <em>\n  Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English,\n </em>\n he presents the levels of concentration with the same simplicity and humor that made the previous book so successful. The focus here is on the Jhanas, those meditative states of profound stillness and concentration in which the mind becomes fully immersed and absorbed in the chosen object of attention. Using the Jhanas to guide readers along the path to joy, happiness, equanimity, and one-pointedness, the author provides all of the instruction necessary to utilize meditation as a tool for building a more fulfilling life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10094'),
(10265, 'Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English', 'Bhante Henepola Gunaratana', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every meditation tradition explains that there are two aspects to any effective meditation practice: insight and concentration. In\n <em>\n  Mindfulness in Plain English,\n </em>\n author Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, a monk from Sri Lanka and venerated teacher of Buddhism, offered basic instruction on the meaning of insight (or vipassana) meditation through concepts that could be applied to any tradition. In\n <em>\n  Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English,\n </em>\n he presents the levels of concentration with the same simplicity and humor that made the previous book so successful. The focus here is on the Jhanas, those meditative states of profound stillness and concentration in which the mind becomes fully immersed and absorbed in the chosen object of attention. Using the Jhanas to guide readers along the path to joy, happiness, equanimity, and one-pointedness, the author provides all of the instruction necessary to utilize meditation as a tool for building a more fulfilling life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16625'),
(10266, 'Beyond Seduction', 'Kathleen O&#39;Reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Sex didn''t scare her**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Despite the success of her sultry Red Choo sex blog, it would take serious buzz to put Mercedes Brooks''s first book of erotic fantasies on the bestseller list. And that meant agreeing to another showdown with her nemesis, the super-sexy TV pundit Sam Porter.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **This thing beyond seduction did.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This time, though, the on-air innuendos were just a dress rehearsal. What happened later between the sheets was actually the main event. If the tabloids got wind of their night together, Sam''s career would self-destruct. But the real shocker was that even with a prime-time scandal hanging over their heads, one night was not enough!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3785'),
(10267, 'Beyond Seduction', 'Kathleen O&#39;Reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Sex didn''t scare her** Despite the success of her sultry Red Choo sex blog, it would take serious buzz to put Mercedes Brooks''s first book of erotic fantasies on the bestseller list. And that meant agreeing to another showdown with her nemesis, the super-sexy TV pundit Sam Porter. **This thing beyond seduction did.** This time, though, the on-air innuendos were just a dress rehearsal. What happened later between the sheets was actually the main event. If the tabloids got wind of their night together, Sam''s career would self-destruct. But the real shocker was that even with a prime-time scandal hanging over their heads, one night was not enough!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20632'),
(10268, 'Beyond Temptation', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Beyond Duty...    A proud yet haunted warriorï¼Œ Sir Richard de Cantor left his past behind when he joined the secret brotherhood of Templar Knights.  Now he is returning home to face a challenge greater than any he has ever known: a forbidden promise of ecstasy that dwells in the gentle heart of a fallen noblewoman...    Beyond Desire...    Lady Margaret Newcomb has paid dearly for her sins of long agoï¼Œ her good name stripped away as she was forced into seclusion.  Yet such torment is nothing compared to what she suffers when Richard de Cantor enters her world of penance.  Here is a manï¼Œ brave and strong yet tenderï¼Œ whose breathtaking masculinity tempts her to sin once more.  To want him is dangerous and taboo.  But to deny her passion is to deny life itself and the one chance for a love beyond limitsï¼Œ beyond rapture...    BEYOND TEMPTATION\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7123'),
(10269, 'Beyond Temptation', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Beyond Duty...    A proud yet haunted warriorï¼Œ Sir Richard de Cantor left his past behind when he joined the secret brotherhood of Templar Knights.  Now he is returning home to face a challenge greater than any he has ever known: a forbidden promise of ecstasy that dwells in the gentle heart of a fallen noblewoman...    Beyond Desire...    Lady Margaret Newcomb has paid dearly for her sins of long agoï¼Œ her good name stripped away as she was forced into seclusion.  Yet such torment is nothing compared to what she suffers when Richard de Cantor enters her world of penance.  Here is a manï¼Œ brave and strong yet tenderï¼Œ whose breathtaking masculinity tempts her to sin once more.  To want him is dangerous and taboo.  But to deny her passion is to deny life itself and the one chance for a love beyond limitsï¼Œ beyond rapture...    BEYOND TEMPTATION\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10517');
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(10270, 'Beyond Temptation', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Beyond Duty... A proud yet haunted warrior, Sir Richard de Cantor left his past behind when he joined the secret brotherhood of Templar Knights. Now he is returning home to face a challenge greater than any he has ever known: a forbidden promise of ecstasy that dwells in the gentle heart of a fallen noblewoman... Beyond Desire... Lady Margaret Newcomb has paid dearly for her sins of long ago, her good name stripped away as she was forced into seclusion. Yet such torment is nothing compared to what she suffers when Richard de Cantor enters her world of penance. Here is a man, brave and strong yet tender, whose breathtaking masculinity tempts her to sin once more. To want him is dangerous and taboo. But to deny her passion is to deny life itself and the one chance for a love beyond limits, beyond rapture... BEYOND TEMPTATION\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16721'),
(10271, 'Beyond the Blue Event Horizon', 'Frederik Pohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18449'),
(10272, 'Beyond the Hanging Wall', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this stand-alone high fantasy set in the same universe as her Wayfarer Redemption series (Enchanter, etc.), Australian Douglass fashions a promising milieu of elemental Gnostic magic within a rugged coastal setting. Unfortunately, stock characters wending their way down standard plot-lines to a foregone conclusion obscure her world-building. Garth Baxtor, an apprentice healer who''s inherited an extra helping of "the Touch" (the ability to feel-and, to some degree, alleviate-his patients'' pain), journeys to the Veins, a complex of underground mines. While tending condemned workers in the shafts, Garth happens upon prisoner 859, whom Garth''s Touch reveals to be Prince Maximilian, the missing heir to the throne of Escator. Later, in the Land of Dreams, Garth has a conversation with the ancient heraldic beast of Escator, the droll monster Manteceros, who agrees to confirm the identity of the true king if Garth can rescue prisoner 859 from the Veins and have him challenge the vile pretender, King Cavos. In an overly complicated finale Manteceros administers a moral test of worthiness to the two kingly claimants. Maximilian''s near-instantaneous transformation after 17 years'' hard labor from broken-minded wretch to dashing, lighthearted prince strains credibility, while a spate of hand-waving mystical exposition at book''s end does more to confuse than resolve the story. Still, the atmosphere of maritime magic is diverting, and, for fans of the author''s Redemption books, this may be enough.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fourteen-year-old Garth and his father are healers gifted with "the Touch." Because the physicians of Escator are required to spend three weeks each year ministering to the prisoners confined in the dank, underground mine called the Veins, Garth''s father brings his son, still an apprentice, along when he goes to fulfill his obligation. Using his own powers to heal, Garth senses the king''s mark on a prisoner and suspects that beneath layers of dirt lies the young prince who disappeared 17 years ago and had been presumed dead. Aided by a marsh witch, a mythical creature, an order of monks, and his own courage, Garth sets out to rescue the prince and restore him to his kingdom. Australian Douglass'' latest American release is packed with sympathetic characters and heroic challenges. Lacking the violence and sex of Douglass''\n <em>\n  Hades Daughter\n </em>\n [BKL Ja 1 &amp; 15 03], this is a rousing fantasy for all ages.\n <em>\n  Candace Smith\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1374'),
(10273, 'Beyond the Hanging Wall', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this stand-alone high fantasy set in the same universe as her Wayfarer Redemption series (Enchanter, etc.), Australian Douglass fashions a promising milieu of elemental Gnostic magic within a rugged coastal setting. Unfortunately, stock characters wending their way down standard plot-lines to a foregone conclusion obscure her world-building. Garth Baxtor, an apprentice healer who''s inherited an extra helping of "the Touch" (the ability to feel-and, to some degree, alleviate-his patients'' pain), journeys to the Veins, a complex of underground mines. While tending condemned workers in the shafts, Garth happens upon prisoner 859, whom Garth''s Touch reveals to be Prince Maximilian, the missing heir to the throne of Escator. Later, in the Land of Dreams, Garth has a conversation with the ancient heraldic beast of Escator, the droll monster Manteceros, who agrees to confirm the identity of the true king if Garth can rescue prisoner 859 from the Veins and have him challenge the vile pretender, King Cavos. In an overly complicated finale Manteceros administers a moral test of worthiness to the two kingly claimants. Maximilian''s near-instantaneous transformation after 17 years'' hard labor from broken-minded wretch to dashing, lighthearted prince strains credibility, while a spate of hand-waving mystical exposition at book''s end does more to confuse than resolve the story. Still, the atmosphere of maritime magic is diverting, and, for fans of the author''s Redemption books, this may be enough.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fourteen-year-old Garth and his father are healers gifted with "the Touch." Because the physicians of Escator are required to spend three weeks each year ministering to the prisoners confined in the dank, underground mine called the Veins, Garth''s father brings his son, still an apprentice, along when he goes to fulfill his obligation. Using his own powers to heal, Garth senses the king''s mark on a prisoner and suspects that beneath layers of dirt lies the young prince who disappeared 17 years ago and had been presumed dead. Aided by a marsh witch, a mythical creature, an order of monks, and his own courage, Garth sets out to rescue the prince and restore him to his kingdom. Australian Douglass'' latest American release is packed with sympathetic characters and heroic challenges. Lacking the violence and sex of Douglass''\n <em>\n  Hades Daughter\n </em>\n [BKL Ja 1 &amp; 15 03], this is a rousing fantasy for all ages.\n <em>\n  Candace Smith\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10870'),
(10274, 'Beyond the Hanging Wall', 'Sara Douglass', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this stand-alone high fantasy set in the same universe as her Wayfarer Redemption series (Enchanter, etc.), Australian Douglass fashions a promising milieu of elemental Gnostic magic within a rugged coastal setting. Unfortunately, stock characters wending their way down standard plot-lines to a foregone conclusion obscure her world-building. Garth Baxtor, an apprentice healer who''s inherited an extra helping of "the Touch" (the ability to feel-and, to some degree, alleviate-his patients'' pain), journeys to the Veins, a complex of underground mines. While tending condemned workers in the shafts, Garth happens upon prisoner 859, whom Garth''s Touch reveals to be Prince Maximilian, the missing heir to the throne of Escator. Later, in the Land of Dreams, Garth has a conversation with the ancient heraldic beast of Escator, the droll monster Manteceros, who agrees to confirm the identity of the true king if Garth can rescue prisoner 859 from the Veins and have him challenge the vile pretender, King Cavos. In an overly complicated finale Manteceros administers a moral test of worthiness to the two kingly claimants. Maximilian''s near-instantaneous transformation after 17 years'' hard labor from broken-minded wretch to dashing, lighthearted prince strains credibility, while a spate of hand-waving mystical exposition at book''s end does more to confuse than resolve the story. Still, the atmosphere of maritime magic is diverting, and, for fans of the author''s Redemption books, this may be enough.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fourteen-year-old Garth and his father are healers gifted with "the Touch." Because the physicians of Escator are required to spend three weeks each year ministering to the prisoners confined in the dank, underground mine called the Veins, Garth''s father brings his son, still an apprentice, along when he goes to fulfill his obligation. Using his own powers to heal, Garth senses the king''s mark on a prisoner and suspects that beneath layers of dirt lies the young prince who disappeared 17 years ago and had been presumed dead. Aided by a marsh witch, a mythical creature, an order of monks, and his own courage, Garth sets out to rescue the prince and restore him to his kingdom. Australian Douglass'' latest American release is packed with sympathetic characters and heroic challenges. Lacking the violence and sex of Douglass''\n <em>\n  Hades Daughter\n </em>\n [BKL Ja 1 &amp; 15 03], this is a rousing fantasy for all ages.\n <em>\n  Candace Smith\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23509'),
(10275, 'Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West', 'Wallace Earle Stegner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . . --Books of the Southwest\n</p>\n<p>\n This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose. --Ivan Doig\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. "No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . ."-- Books of the Southwest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/350'),
(10276, 'Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West', 'Wallace Earle Stegner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . . --Books of the Southwest\n</p>\n<p>\n This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose. --Ivan Doig\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. "No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . ."-- Books of the Southwest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12842'),
(10277, 'Beyond the hundredth meridian: John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West', 'Wallace Earle Stegner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . . --Books of the Southwest\n</p>\n<p>\n This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose. --Ivan Doig\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. "No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . ."-- Books of the Southwest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24633'),
(10278, 'Beyond the Pale', 'Savannah Russe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The government knows that Daphne Urban is a vampire, and they have an ultimatum: spy for them, or be killed. The choice is easy. She can speak 13 languages, has a genius IQ, and has escaped detection for nearly five hundred years-making her perfect for Team Darkwing. Her first mission is to get close to Bonaventure, a shady arms dealer with an unexpected gift for seduction. But when Darius, a darkly sexy vampire slayer, begins chasing her, Darius is torn between desire and duty. For his lithe, young prey is also his ultimate temptation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1303'),
(10279, 'Beyond the pale', 'Savannah Russe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The government knows that Daphne Urban is a vampire, and they have an ultimatum: spy for them, or be killed. The choice is easy. She can speak 13 languages, has a genius IQ, and has escaped detection for nearly five hundred years-making her perfect for Team Darkwing. Her first mission is to get close to Bonaventure, a shady arms dealer with an unexpected gift for seduction. But when Darius, a darkly sexy vampire slayer, begins chasing her, Darius is torn between desire and duty. For his lithe, young prey is also his ultimate temptation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23553'),
(10280, 'Beyond the Shadows', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Logan Gyre is king of Cenaria, a country under siege, with a threadbare army and little hope. He has one chance - a desperate gamble, but one that could destroy his kingdom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the north, the new Godking has a plan. If it comes to fruition, no one will have the power to stop him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kylar Stern has no choice. To save his friends-and perhaps his enemies-he must accomplish the impossible: assassinate a goddess.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  Beyond the Shadows_ is the action-packed conclusion to the Night Angel Trilogy.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brent Weeks was born and raised in Montana. After getting his paper keys from HillsdaleCollege, Brent had brief stints walking the earth like Caine from\n  <em>\n   Kung Fu\n  </em>\n  , tending bar, and corrupting the youth. (Not at the same time.) He started writing on bar napkins, then on lesson plans, then full time. Eventually, someone paid him for it. Brent lives in Oregon with his wife, Kristi. He doesn''t own cats or wear a ponytail. Find more about the author at www.brentweeks.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7179'),
(10281, 'Beyond the Shadows', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Logan Gyre is king of Cenaria, a country under siege, with a threadbare army and little hope. He has one chance - a desperate gamble, but one that could destroy his kingdom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the north, the new Godking has a plan. If it comes to fruition, no one will have the power to stop him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kylar Stern has no choice. To save his friends-and perhaps his enemies-he must accomplish the impossible: assassinate a goddess.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  Beyond the Shadows_ is the action-packed conclusion to the Night Angel Trilogy.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brent Weeks was born and raised in Montana. After getting his paper keys from HillsdaleCollege, Brent had brief stints walking the earth like Caine from\n  <em>\n   Kung Fu\n  </em>\n  , tending bar, and corrupting the youth. (Not at the same time.) He started writing on bar napkins, then on lesson plans, then full time. Eventually, someone paid him for it. Brent lives in Oregon with his wife, Kristi. He doesn''t own cats or wear a ponytail. Find more about the author at www.brentweeks.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13303'),
(10282, 'Beyond the Shadows', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Logan Gyre is king of Cenaria, a country under siege, with a threadbare army and little hope. He has one chance - a desperate gamble, but one that could destroy his kingdom. In the north, the new Godking has a plan. If it comes to fruition, no one will have the power to stop him. Kylar Stern has no choice. To save his friends-and perhaps his enemies-he must accomplish the impossible: assassinate a goddess. * Beyond the Shadows* is the action-packed conclusion to the Night Angel Trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13903'),
(10283, 'Beyond the Shadows', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Logan Gyre is king of Cenaria, a country under siege, with a threadbare army and little hope. He has one chance - a desperate gamble, but one that could destroy his kingdom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the north, the new Godking has a plan. If it comes to fruition, no one will have the power to stop him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kylar Stern has no choice. To save his friends-and perhaps his enemies-he must accomplish the impossible: assassinate a goddess.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  Beyond the Shadows_ is the action-packed conclusion to the Night Angel Trilogy.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brent Weeks was born and raised in Montana. After getting his paper keys from HillsdaleCollege, Brent had brief stints walking the earth like Caine from\n  <em>\n   Kung Fu\n  </em>\n  , tending bar, and corrupting the youth. (Not at the same time.) He started writing on bar napkins, then on lesson plans, then full time. Eventually, someone paid him for it. Brent lives in Oregon with his wife, Kristi. He doesn''t own cats or wear a ponytail. Find more about the author at www.brentweeks.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16773'),
(10284, 'Beyond the Shadows', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Logan Gyre is king of Cenaria, a country under siege, with a threadbare army and little hope. He has one chance - a desperate gamble, but one that could destroy his kingdom. In the north, the new Godking has a plan. If it comes to fruition, no one will have the power to stop him. Kylar Stern has no choice. To save his friends-and perhaps his enemies-he must accomplish the impossible: assassinate a goddess. * Beyond the Shadows* is the action-packed conclusion to the Night Angel Trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26763'),
(10285, 'Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan', 'Jamie Zeppa', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As a teacher of English literature, Jamie Zeppa would understand how the story of her journey into Bhutan could be fit into the convenient box of "coming-of-age romance," a romance with a landscape, a people, a religion, and a dark, irresistible student. An innocent, young Catholic woman from a Canadian mining town who had "never been anywhere," Zeppa signed up for a two-year stint teaching in a remote corner of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Despite the initial shock of material privation and such minor inconveniences as giardia, boils, and leeches, Zeppa felt herself growing into the vast spaces of simplicity that opened up beyond the clutter of modern life. Alongside her burgeoning enchantment, a parallel realization that all was not right in Shangri-La arose, especially after her transfer to a college campus charged with the politics of ethnic division. Still she maintained her center by devouring the library''s Buddhist tracts and persevering in an increasingly fruitful meditation practice. When the time came for her to leave, she had undergone a personal transformation and found herself caught between two worlds that were incompatible and mutually incomprehensible. Zeppa''s candid, witty account is a spiritual memoir, a travel diary, and, more than anything, a romance that retraces the vicissitudes of ineluctable passion.\n  <em>\n   --Brian Bruya\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Zeppa''s story is nearly an inversion of the ancient Buddhist tale of Siddhartha (in which a prince ventures from the paradise of his father''s palace only to find the suffering and decay that he never knew existed) in that the author, at the age of 22, abruptly leaves a stale life in Canada to become a volunteer teacher in the remote and largely undisturbed Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan. Cloaked in the airy mountains between India and China, Bhutan initially frustrates but eventually captivates Zeppa with its rudimentary lifestyle that forces her to question former values and plans for the future. Though the story line would seem to open itself to cloying romanticization, Zeppa''s telling of her clumsy attempts to adapt rings with sincerity and inspires sympathy. She thinks to herself upon visiting a local house: "In one shadowy corner, there is a skinny chicken. I blink several times but it does not vanish. Is it a pet? Is it dinner?" Zeppa''s lucid descriptions of the craggy terrain and honest respect for the daily struggles of the natives bring the tiny land to life in a way that is reverent but real. Though she tries to avoid what a friend terms "that Shangri-La-Di-Da business" and grapples with the poverty, sexism and political squabbles in Bhutan that bother her, there is little doubt that she sees the place in a largely positive light and is tempted to remain. In the end, Zeppa''s is a lively tale of her earnest efforts to reconcile what she has learned with what she has known. (June)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4694'),
(10286, 'Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan', 'Jamie Zeppa', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As a teacher of English literature, Jamie Zeppa would understand how the story of her journey into Bhutan could be fit into the convenient box of "coming-of-age romance," a romance with a landscape, a people, a religion, and a dark, irresistible student. An innocent, young Catholic woman from a Canadian mining town who had "never been anywhere," Zeppa signed up for a two-year stint teaching in a remote corner of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Despite the initial shock of material privation and such minor inconveniences as giardia, boils, and leeches, Zeppa felt herself growing into the vast spaces of simplicity that opened up beyond the clutter of modern life. Alongside her burgeoning enchantment, a parallel realization that all was not right in Shangri-La arose, especially after her transfer to a college campus charged with the politics of ethnic division. Still she maintained her center by devouring the library''s Buddhist tracts and persevering in an increasingly fruitful meditation practice. When the time came for her to leave, she had undergone a personal transformation and found herself caught between two worlds that were incompatible and mutually incomprehensible. Zeppa''s candid, witty account is a spiritual memoir, a travel diary, and, more than anything, a romance that retraces the vicissitudes of ineluctable passion.\n  <em>\n   --Brian Bruya\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Zeppa''s story is nearly an inversion of the ancient Buddhist tale of Siddhartha (in which a prince ventures from the paradise of his father''s palace only to find the suffering and decay that he never knew existed) in that the author, at the age of 22, abruptly leaves a stale life in Canada to become a volunteer teacher in the remote and largely undisturbed Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan. Cloaked in the airy mountains between India and China, Bhutan initially frustrates but eventually captivates Zeppa with its rudimentary lifestyle that forces her to question former values and plans for the future. Though the story line would seem to open itself to cloying romanticization, Zeppa''s telling of her clumsy attempts to adapt rings with sincerity and inspires sympathy. She thinks to herself upon visiting a local house: "In one shadowy corner, there is a skinny chicken. I blink several times but it does not vanish. Is it a pet? Is it dinner?" Zeppa''s lucid descriptions of the craggy terrain and honest respect for the daily struggles of the natives bring the tiny land to life in a way that is reverent but real. Though she tries to avoid what a friend terms "that Shangri-La-Di-Da business" and grapples with the poverty, sexism and political squabbles in Bhutan that bother her, there is little doubt that she sees the place in a largely positive light and is tempted to remain. In the end, Zeppa''s is a lively tale of her earnest efforts to reconcile what she has learned with what she has known. (June)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13422'),
(10287, 'Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan', 'Jamie Zeppa', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As a teacher of English literature, Jamie Zeppa would understand how the story of her journey into Bhutan could be fit into the convenient box of "coming-of-age romance," a romance with a landscape, a people, a religion, and a dark, irresistible student. An innocent, young Catholic woman from a Canadian mining town who had "never been anywhere," Zeppa signed up for a two-year stint teaching in a remote corner of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Despite the initial shock of material privation and such minor inconveniences as giardia, boils, and leeches, Zeppa felt herself growing into the vast spaces of simplicity that opened up beyond the clutter of modern life. Alongside her burgeoning enchantment, a parallel realization that all was not right in Shangri-La arose, especially after her transfer to a college campus charged with the politics of ethnic division. Still she maintained her center by devouring the library''s Buddhist tracts and persevering in an increasingly fruitful meditation practice. When the time came for her to leave, she had undergone a personal transformation and found herself caught between two worlds that were incompatible and mutually incomprehensible. Zeppa''s candid, witty account is a spiritual memoir, a travel diary, and, more than anything, a romance that retraces the vicissitudes of ineluctable passion.\n  <em>\n   --Brian Bruya\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Zeppa''s story is nearly an inversion of the ancient Buddhist tale of Siddhartha (in which a prince ventures from the paradise of his father''s palace only to find the suffering and decay that he never knew existed) in that the author, at the age of 22, abruptly leaves a stale life in Canada to become a volunteer teacher in the remote and largely undisturbed Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan. Cloaked in the airy mountains between India and China, Bhutan initially frustrates but eventually captivates Zeppa with its rudimentary lifestyle that forces her to question former values and plans for the future. Though the story line would seem to open itself to cloying romanticization, Zeppa''s telling of her clumsy attempts to adapt rings with sincerity and inspires sympathy. She thinks to herself upon visiting a local house: "In one shadowy corner, there is a skinny chicken. I blink several times but it does not vanish. Is it a pet? Is it dinner?" Zeppa''s lucid descriptions of the craggy terrain and honest respect for the daily struggles of the natives bring the tiny land to life in a way that is reverent but real. Though she tries to avoid what a friend terms "that Shangri-La-Di-Da business" and grapples with the poverty, sexism and political squabbles in Bhutan that bother her, there is little doubt that she sees the place in a largely positive light and is tempted to remain. In the end, Zeppa''s is a lively tale of her earnest efforts to reconcile what she has learned with what she has known. (June)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19947'),
(10288, 'Biba&#39;s Northern Italian Cooking', 'Biba Caggiano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Biba Caggiano, Bologna-born and raised in the Emiglia-Romagna region, gives her audience the chance to cook like a native in Biba''s Northern Italian Cooking. The author of six cookbooks and owner and chef of Biba restaurant in Sacramento, Calif., prepares simple to sumptuous meals, from antipasto to dessert, with dishes for all occasions. First she discusses essential Italian ingredients and equivalents and begins each course section with a brief account of what it entails. Her Green Lasagne Bologna Style, Shellfish Risotto, Pheasant with Gin and Juniper Berries and Pears Poached in Red Wine will lure eager diners to a bounteous table.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Italian-born Biba Caggiano takes readers under her wing with more than 200 recipes from Northern Italy-the center of great cooking. Simple-to-master recipes cover tortellini from scratch, authentic pasta sauces, savory meat dishes, luscious desserts and more. This new edition features everything from simple dishes for a family meal to more elaborate recipes for special occasions, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Homemade Minestrome\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tagliatelle Bolognese Style\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shellfish Risotto\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bruschetta with Fresh Tomatoes and Basil\n </li>\n <li>\n  Roasted Leg of Lamb with Garlic and Rosemary\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7275'),
(10289, 'Biba&#39;s Northern Italian Cooking', 'Biba Caggiano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Biba Caggiano, Bologna-born and raised in the Emiglia-Romagna region, gives her audience the chance to cook like a native in Biba''s Northern Italian Cooking. The author of six cookbooks and owner and chef of Biba restaurant in Sacramento, Calif., prepares simple to sumptuous meals, from antipasto to dessert, with dishes for all occasions. First she discusses essential Italian ingredients and equivalents and begins each course section with a brief account of what it entails. Her Green Lasagne Bologna Style, Shellfish Risotto, Pheasant with Gin and Juniper Berries and Pears Poached in Red Wine will lure eager diners to a bounteous table.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Italian-born Biba Caggiano takes readers under her wing with more than 200 recipes from Northern Italy-the center of great cooking. Simple-to-master recipes cover tortellini from scratch, authentic pasta sauces, savory meat dishes, luscious desserts and more. This new edition features everything from simple dishes for a family meal to more elaborate recipes for special occasions, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Homemade Minestrome\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tagliatelle Bolognese Style\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shellfish Risotto\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bruschetta with Fresh Tomatoes and Basil\n </li>\n <li>\n  Roasted Leg of Lamb with Garlic and Rosemary\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8713'),
(10290, 'Biba&#39;s Northern Italian Cooking', 'Biba Caggiano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Biba Caggiano, Bologna-born and raised in the Emiglia-Romagna region, gives her audience the chance to cook like a native in Biba''s Northern Italian Cooking. The author of six cookbooks and owner and chef of Biba restaurant in Sacramento, Calif., prepares simple to sumptuous meals, from antipasto to dessert, with dishes for all occasions. First she discusses essential Italian ingredients and equivalents and begins each course section with a brief account of what it entails. Her Green Lasagne Bologna Style, Shellfish Risotto, Pheasant with Gin and Juniper Berries and Pears Poached in Red Wine will lure eager diners to a bounteous table.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Italian-born Biba Caggiano takes readers under her wing with more than 200 recipes from Northern Italy-the center of great cooking. Simple-to-master recipes cover tortellini from scratch, authentic pasta sauces, savory meat dishes, luscious desserts and more. This new edition features everything from simple dishes for a family meal to more elaborate recipes for special occasions, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Homemade Minestrome\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tagliatelle Bolognese Style\n </li>\n <li>\n  Shellfish Risotto\n </li>\n <li>\n  Bruschetta with Fresh Tomatoes and Basil\n </li>\n <li>\n  Roasted Leg of Lamb with Garlic and Rosemary\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16620'),
(10291, 'The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version', 'The Bible', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13699'),
(10292, 'The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version', 'The Bible', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24235'),
(10293, 'Biblia hazlie', 'Leo Taxil', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25427'),
(10294, 'The Bicentennial Man and other stories', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This classic collection includes the title story, acclaimed as Asimov''s single finest Robot tale, and now made into a Hollywood movie starring Robin Williams. Each of the eleven stories here sparkle with characteristic Asimov inventiveness and imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18301'),
(10295, 'The Bicentennial Man and other stories', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This classic collection includes the title story, acclaimed as Asimov''s single finest Robot tale, and now made into a Hollywood movie starring Robin Williams. Each of the eleven stories here sparkle with characteristic Asimov inventiveness and imagination.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This classic collection includes the title story, acclaimed as Asimov''s single finest Robot tale, and now made into a Hollywood movie starring Robin Williams. Each of the eleven stories here sparkle with characteristic Asimov inventiveness and imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28304'),
(10296, 'Bicycle Diaries', 'David Byrne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-thehandlebars view of the world''s cities**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them on tour. Byrne''s choice was made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation it provided. Convinced that urban biking opens one''s eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city''s geography and population, Byrne began keeping a journal of his observations and insights.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An account of what he sees and whom he meets as he pedals through metropoles from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, *Bicycle Diaries* also records Byrne''s thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more, all conveyed with a highly personal mixture of humor, curiosity, and humility. Part travelogue, part journal, part photo album, *Bicycle Diaries* is an eye-opening celebration of seeing the world from the seat of a bike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6311'),
(10297, 'Bicycle Diaries', 'David Byrne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-thehandlebars view of the world''s cities**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them on tour. Byrne''s choice was made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation it provided. Convinced that urban biking opens one''s eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city''s geography and population, Byrne began keeping a journal of his observations and insights.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An account of what he sees and whom he meets as he pedals through metropoles from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, *Bicycle Diaries* also records Byrne''s thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more, all conveyed with a highly personal mixture of humor, curiosity, and humility. Part travelogue, part journal, part photo album, *Bicycle Diaries* is an eye-opening celebration of seeing the world from the seat of a bike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8717'),
(10298, 'Bicycle diaries', 'David Byrne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-thehandlebars view of the world''s cities** Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them on tour. Byrne''s choice was made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation it provided. Convinced that urban biking opens one''s eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city''s geography and population, Byrne began keeping a journal of his observations and insights. An account of what he sees and whom he meets as he pedals through metropoles from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, *Bicycle Diaries* also records Byrne''s thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more, all conveyed with a highly personal mixture of humor, curiosity, and humility. Part travelogue, part journal, part photo album, *Bicycle Diaries* is an eye-opening celebration of seeing the world from the seat of a bike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17707'),
(10299, 'Bicycle diaries', 'David Byrne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-thehandlebars view of the world''s cities** Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them on tour. Byrne''s choice was made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation it provided. Convinced that urban biking opens one''s eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city''s geography and population, Byrne began keeping a journal of his observations and insights. An account of what he sees and whom he meets as he pedals through metropoles from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, *Bicycle Diaries* also records Byrne''s thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more, all conveyed with a highly personal mixture of humor, curiosity, and humility. Part travelogue, part journal, part photo album, *Bicycle Diaries* is an eye-opening celebration of seeing the world from the seat of a bike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27230'),
(10300, 'The Big Bad Wolf', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as "the Wolf. "Alex Cross''s first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves. Even as he admires the FBI''s vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau''s clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4736'),
(10301, 'The Big Bad Wolf', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as "the Wolf. "Alex Cross''s first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves. Even as he admires the FBI''s vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau''s clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13945'),
(10302, 'The Big Bad Wolf', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as "the Wolf. "Alex Cross''s first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves. Even as he admires the FBI''s vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau''s clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19922'),
(10303, 'The Big Bite', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6876'),
(10304, 'The Big Bite', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13378'),
(10305, 'The Big Bite', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17020'),
(10306, 'The Big Bite', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26872'),
(10307, 'The Big Black Mark', 'A. Bertram Chandler &amp; Bertram A. Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A mutiny aboard the Discovery ends John Grimes'' military career with the Galactic Federation\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3'),
(10308, 'The Big Black Mark', 'A. Bertram Chandler; Bertram A. Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A mutiny aboard the Discovery ends John Grimes'' military career with the Galactic Federation\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17222');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(10309, 'The Big Book of Parenting Solutions: 101 Answers to Your Everyday Challenges and Wildest Worries', 'Michele Borba Ed.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In this down-to-earth guide, parenting expert Michele Borba offers advice for dealing with children''s difficult behavior and hot button issues including biting, temper tantrums, cheating, bad friends, inappropriate clothing, sex, drugs, peer pressure, and much more. Written for parents of kids age 3-13, this book offers easy-to-implement advice for the most important challenges parents face with kids from toddlers to tweens.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Includes immediate solutions to the most common childhood problems and challenges\n </li>\n <li>\n  Written by\n  <em>\n   Today Show''s\n  </em>\n  resident parenting expert Michele Borba\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers clear step-by-step guidance for solving difficult childhood behaviors and family conflicts\n </li>\n <li>\n  Contains a wealth of advice that is easy-to-follow and gets quick results\n </li>\n <li>\n  Author has written outstanding parenting books including\n  <em>\n   Building Moral Intelligence, No More Misbehavin'', Don''t Give Me that Attitude\n  </em>\n  , and more\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Each of the 101 issues includes clear questions, specific step-by-step solutions, and advice that is age appropriate.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Top Ten Proven Parenting Solutions\n </strong>\n <br />\n Content from Dr. Michele Borba\n</p>\n<p>\n Here is just a sample of the hundreds of proven and simple tips from Dr. Borbaâ€™s latest book,\n <em>\n  The Big Book of Parenting Solutions\n </em>\n . The best news is that these solutions work for all ages, take less than a minute to do, are based on proven research and when consistently used will reap lasting change.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  1. Get attention:\n </strong>\n Lower your voice almost to a whisper and then say your request. Kids arenâ€™t used to a quiet request.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  2. Increase positive behavior:\n </strong>\n Research shows that giving kids the right kind of praise (called â€œpositive reinforcementâ€) is one of the best ways to shape new behavior. So, catch your kid doing the action you want. Just make sure your praise is specific and tells your child exactly what he did right. (Adding â€œbecauseâ€ or â€œthatâ€ takes your praise up a notch. â€œIâ€™m so impressed that you started your homework all by yourself this time.â€)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  3. Stretch persistence:\n </strong>\n Praising the childâ€™s effort (â€œYouâ€™re working so hardâ€) and not inherent intelligence (â€Youâ€™re so smartâ€) is proven to enhance perseverance and performance, but the child is also more likely to bounce back from a mistakeâ€”all because he feels success is not mixed.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  4. Reduce fear:\n </strong>\n Expose your child to a fear in small manageable doses and help them develop a statement to speak back to the worry (â€œGo away worry!â€ or â€œI can do this!â€)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  5. Curb a tantrum:\n </strong>\n The longer you give attention to a tantrum the longer it lasts. Ignore, ignore, ignore!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  6. Nurture kindness:\n </strong>\n Encourage your child to use the Two Praise Rule everyday. â€œSay or do at least two kind things to someone.â€ Random acts of kindness really are catchy!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  7. Increase assertiveness:\n </strong>\n Stress: â€œLook at the color of the talkerâ€™s eyes.â€ Using eye contact helps kids appear confident. Strong body posture also helps a child be less likely to be bullied.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  8. Friendship builder:\n </strong>\n The two most commonly used traits of well-liked kids are â€œsmilingâ€ and â€œencouraging.â€ Reinforce those traits in your child to boost his friendship quotient.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  9. Develop healthy eating habits.\n </strong>\n Eating relaxed family meals regularly enhances kidsâ€™ psychosocial well- being, boosts grades and deters behaviors like smoking and drinking and eating disorders as well as teaches the child healthy eating habits.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  10. Curb nagging.\n </strong>\n Say "no" the first time and donâ€™t back down. The average kid nags nine times knowing the parent will give in.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Borba, author and\n <em>\n  Today Show\n </em>\n regular, employs a cookbooklike approach in her latest volume: rather than read through the entire tome, parents can flip to topics pertinent to their family. Borba opens with a friendly overview, noting that contemporary parents feel more stressed and find their roles increasingly difficult (June Cleaver, she points out, didn''t have to deal with cyberbullying or Facebook). With characteristic wit, Borba identifies the seven deadly parenting styles, including helicopter, buddy, incubator, bandage, paranoid, accessory parenting (judging themselves by their kids'' accolades) and secondary parenting (relinquishing power to such outsiders as marketers or the media). In nine sections on family, behavior, character, emotions, social scene, school, special needs, day-to-day and electronics, the author urges readers to roll up their sleeves and get back to basic, instinctual parenting. As she tackles 101 issues ranging from sibling rivalry, lying and peer pressure to cell-phone use and TV addiction, Borba helps readers identify the reason underlying the behavior or problem, and work with 10 essential principles of change. With her no-nonsense yet compassionate voice, Borba once again delivers an indispensable resource for parents of toddlers to 13-year-olds.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21638'),
(10310, 'The Big Bounce', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Elmore Leonard is our greatest crime novelist...the best in the business."\n <br />\n --_The Washington Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Elmore Leonard is an awfully good writer of the sneaky sort; he is so good, you don''t notice what he''s up to."\n <br />\n --_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Leonard does crime fiction better than anyone since Raymond Chandler."\n <br />\n --_The Cleveland Plain Dealer_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!"\n <br />\n --_The New York Times Book Review_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jack Ryan always wanted to play pro ball. But he couldn''t hit a curveball, so he turned his attention to less legal pursuits. A tough guy who likes walking the razor''s edge, he''s just met his match -- and more -- in Nancy. She''s a rich man''s plaything, seriously into thrills and risk, and together she and Jack are pure heat ready to explode. But when simple housebreaking and burglary give way to the deadly pursuit of a really big score, the stakes suddenly skyrocket. Because violence and double-cross are the name of this game -- and it''s going to take every ounce of cunning Jack and Nancy possess to survive . . . each other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18572'),
(10311, 'Big City Girl', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6857'),
(10312, 'Big City Girl', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13389'),
(10313, 'Big city girl', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17041'),
(10314, 'Big city girl', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26885'),
(10315, 'The Big Four', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination...Framed in the doorway of Poirot''s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man''s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about ''Number Four''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7883'),
(10316, 'The Big Four', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination...Framed in the doorway of Poirot''s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man''s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about ''Number Four''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16001'),
(10317, 'The Big Four', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination...Framed in the doorway of Poirot''s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man''s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about ''Number Four''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26242'),
(10318, 'The Big Gamble', 'Michael Mcgarrity', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Michael McGarrity''s acclaimed Santa Fe police chief, Kevin Kerney is back-with his estranged son. Two bodies have been found in a burned building. One is a missing person from Kerney''s cold case files. The other is a more recent homicide. Both will lead father and son into a vast network of crime...and the darkest places of the soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2859'),
(10319, 'The Big Gamble', 'Michael Mcgarrity', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Michael McGarrity''s acclaimed Santa Fe police chief, Kevin Kerney is back-with his estranged son. Two bodies have been found in a burned building. One is a missing person from Kerney''s cold case files. The other is a more recent homicide. Both will lead father and son into a vast network of crime...and the darkest places of the soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11375'),
(10320, 'The Big Gamble', 'Michael Mcgarrity', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Michael McGarrity''s acclaimed Santa Fe police chief, Kevin Kerney is back-with his estranged son. Two bodies have been found in a burned building. One is a missing person from Kerney''s cold case files. The other is a more recent homicide. Both will lead father and son into a vast network of crime...and the darkest places of the soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21970'),
(10321, 'Big Girl: A Novel', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Household name Steel (_Going Home_) falls short of her best in her latest. Victoria Dawson has always felt like an outcast. When her little sister Grace is born, father Jim tells Victoria she was the tester cake, and they finally got it right with the beautiful Gracie. Victoria grows up in her sister''s shadow, and though she loves Gracie dearly, she''s anxious to leave home. The pain doesn''t stop there, though. Her father calls her first job at a prestigious private school in Manhattan pathetic, and Victoria begins a battle with her weight and her belief that she is unlovable (even though men pursue her). The premise of the story is sound, but it doesn''t ring true: the parents are two-dimensional, cruel monsters and Victoria seems to have everything: fantastic job, amazing apartment, perfect best friends. It''s hard to believe that her parents would still wield such power. Steel barely grazes the surface of an important topic, but it''s not reality that has positioned her at the top of bestseller lists.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â  A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is tall and slender, and her mother, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their daughterâ€™s looks. When Victoria is six, she sees a photograph of Queen Victoria, and her father has always said she looks just like her. After the birth of Victoriaâ€™s perfect younger sister, Gracie, her father liked to refer to his firstborn as â€œour tester cake.â€ With Gracie, everyone agreed that Jim and Christina got it right.\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â  While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her fatherâ€™s belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is that she has to get away from home, and after college in Chicago, she moves to New York City.\n</p>\n<p>\n Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister. And though they couldnâ€™t be more different in looks, they love each other unconditionally. But regardless of her accomplishments, Victoriaâ€™s parents know just what to say to bring her down. She will always be her fatherâ€™s â€œbig girl,â€ and her motherâ€™s constant disapproval is equally unkind.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their narcissistic father, Victoria worries about her sisterâ€™s future happiness, and with no man of her own, she feels like a failure once again. As the wedding draws near, a chance encounter, an act of stunning betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point.\n</p>\n<p>\n Behind Victoria is a lifetime of hurt and neglect she has tried to forget, and even ice cream can no longer dull the pain. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and claim the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big girl or not, she is terrific and discovers that herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6529'),
(10322, 'Big Girl: A Novel', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Household name Steel (_Going Home_) falls short of her best in her latest. Victoria Dawson has always felt like an outcast. When her little sister Grace is born, father Jim tells Victoria she was the tester cake, and they finally got it right with the beautiful Gracie. Victoria grows up in her sister''s shadow, and though she loves Gracie dearly, she''s anxious to leave home. The pain doesn''t stop there, though. Her father calls her first job at a prestigious private school in Manhattan pathetic, and Victoria begins a battle with her weight and her belief that she is unlovable (even though men pursue her). The premise of the story is sound, but it doesn''t ring true: the parents are two-dimensional, cruel monsters and Victoria seems to have everything: fantastic job, amazing apartment, perfect best friends. It''s hard to believe that her parents would still wield such power. Steel barely grazes the surface of an important topic, but it''s not reality that has positioned her at the top of bestseller lists.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â  A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is tall and slender, and her mother, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their daughterâ€™s looks. When Victoria is six, she sees a photograph of Queen Victoria, and her father has always said she looks just like her. After the birth of Victoriaâ€™s perfect younger sister, Gracie, her father liked to refer to his firstborn as â€œour tester cake.â€ With Gracie, everyone agreed that Jim and Christina got it right.\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â  While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her fatherâ€™s belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is that she has to get away from home, and after college in Chicago, she moves to New York City.\n</p>\n<p>\n Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister. And though they couldnâ€™t be more different in looks, they love each other unconditionally. But regardless of her accomplishments, Victoriaâ€™s parents know just what to say to bring her down. She will always be her fatherâ€™s â€œbig girl,â€ and her motherâ€™s constant disapproval is equally unkind.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their narcissistic father, Victoria worries about her sisterâ€™s future happiness, and with no man of her own, she feels like a failure once again. As the wedding draws near, a chance encounter, an act of stunning betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point.\n</p>\n<p>\n Behind Victoria is a lifetime of hurt and neglect she has tried to forget, and even ice cream can no longer dull the pain. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and claim the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big girl or not, she is terrific and discovers that herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12883'),
(10323, 'Big Girl: A Novel', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Household name Steel (_Going Home_) falls short of her best in her latest. Victoria Dawson has always felt like an outcast. When her little sister Grace is born, father Jim tells Victoria she was the tester cake, and they finally got it right with the beautiful Gracie. Victoria grows up in her sister''s shadow, and though she loves Gracie dearly, she''s anxious to leave home. The pain doesn''t stop there, though. Her father calls her first job at a prestigious private school in Manhattan pathetic, and Victoria begins a battle with her weight and her belief that she is unlovable (even though men pursue her). The premise of the story is sound, but it doesn''t ring true: the parents are two-dimensional, cruel monsters and Victoria seems to have everything: fantastic job, amazing apartment, perfect best friends. It''s hard to believe that her parents would still wield such power. Steel barely grazes the surface of an important topic, but it''s not reality that has positioned her at the top of bestseller lists.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â  A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is tall and slender, and her mother, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their daughterâ€™s looks. When Victoria is six, she sees a photograph of Queen Victoria, and her father has always said she looks just like her. After the birth of Victoriaâ€™s perfect younger sister, Gracie, her father liked to refer to his firstborn as â€œour tester cake.â€ With Gracie, everyone agreed that Jim and Christina got it right.\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â  While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her fatherâ€™s belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is that she has to get away from home, and after college in Chicago, she moves to New York City.\n</p>\n<p>\n Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister. And though they couldnâ€™t be more different in looks, they love each other unconditionally. But regardless of her accomplishments, Victoriaâ€™s parents know just what to say to bring her down. She will always be her fatherâ€™s â€œbig girl,â€ and her motherâ€™s constant disapproval is equally unkind.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their narcissistic father, Victoria worries about her sisterâ€™s future happiness, and with no man of her own, she feels like a failure once again. As the wedding draws near, a chance encounter, an act of stunning betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point.\n</p>\n<p>\n Behind Victoria is a lifetime of hurt and neglect she has tried to forget, and even ice cream can no longer dull the pain. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and claim the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big girl or not, she is terrific and discovers that herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17607'),
(10324, 'The Big Honey Hunt', 'Stan Berenstain &amp; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Carried along by rhyme and rhythm, enlivened by humorous, colorful illustrations."--_Chicago Tribune. _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n According to Papa Bear, a bear must use his â€œsmartsâ€ to search for honey. When he brings Brother Bear along on a hunt for honey, it takes more than a few missteps to outsmart the Bears.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1225'),
(10325, 'The Big Honey Hunt', 'Stan Berenstain &amp; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Carried along by rhyme and rhythm, enlivened by humorous, colorful illustrations."--_Chicago Tribune. _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n According to Papa Bear, a bear must use his â€œsmartsâ€ to search for honey. When he brings Brother Bear along on a hunt for honey, it takes more than a few missteps to outsmart the Bears.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8484'),
(10326, 'The Big Honey Hunt', 'Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Carried along by rhyme and rhythm, enlivened by humorous, colorful illustrations."--_Chicago Tribune. _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n According to Papa Bear, a bear must use his â€œsmartsâ€ to search for honey. When he brings Brother Bear along on a hunt for honey, it takes more than a few missteps to outsmart the Bears.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23691'),
(10327, 'Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing', 'Alan Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this entertaining memoir, Paul recounts an unanticipated life-changing experience that began when his wife accepted a three-year work assignment in Beijing. After resettling their three young children from suburban New Jersey to China, Paul, a music and basketball journalist who played guitar only as a hobby, embarked on an exploration of local culture and music. The search prompted his transition from writing about music to being a bona fide rock star in the band Woodie Alan, a cross-cultural blues group named after Alan and his Chinese band member, Woodie Wu, a guitarist with a Stevie Ray Vaughn tattoo. Paul blogged about his Chinese experience and also wrote a column on it for the Wall Street Journal''s Web site. His story, however, is much more than a musical and journalistic victory dance. It''s equal parts family memoir, travelogue, personal analysis of globalization and expatriate communities, and a view of the world''s most populous nation through American eyes. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  In this funny, poignant, and entertaining memoir, Alan Paul tells his improbable story of an American music journalist unwittingly becoming a rock star in China with grace and good humor. Whatï¿½s more, his Chinese American blues rock band, Woodie Alan, earns the title ï¿½Beijingï¿½s best band.ï¿½ This achievement was an accidental by-product of his journalist-wife Rebeccaï¿½s position as China bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. He writes with enthusiasm about his new life as an expatriate American in China with three children in tow, the difficulty of learning Chinese (he concludes he has a better chance of communicating with dolphins than mastering its strange words and sounds), getting a driverï¿½s license, and understanding Chinese rules of the road, which, he theorizes, means never having to stop unless you absolutely have to. His experiences playing in a mostly Chinese band offer plenty of entertaining anecdotes that offer culture-shock insights. His Chinese sojourn ending after his wife returned to New York as the paperï¿½s international news editor, Paul looks back with equal doses of regret for the unforgettable opportunities that came his way and anticipation toward a new American future. Immensely enjoyable. --June Sawyers\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7830'),
(10328, 'Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing', 'Alan Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this entertaining memoir, Paul recounts an unanticipated life-changing experience that began when his wife accepted a three-year work assignment in Beijing. After resettling their three young children from suburban New Jersey to China, Paul, a music and basketball journalist who played guitar only as a hobby, embarked on an exploration of local culture and music. The search prompted his transition from writing about music to being a bona fide rock star in the band Woodie Alan, a cross-cultural blues group named after Alan and his Chinese band member, Woodie Wu, a guitarist with a Stevie Ray Vaughn tattoo. Paul blogged about his Chinese experience and also wrote a column on it for the Wall Street Journal''s Web site. His story, however, is much more than a musical and journalistic victory dance. It''s equal parts family memoir, travelogue, personal analysis of globalization and expatriate communities, and a view of the world''s most populous nation through American eyes. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  In this funny, poignant, and entertaining memoir, Alan Paul tells his improbable story of an American music journalist unwittingly becoming a rock star in China with grace and good humor. Whatï¿½s more, his Chinese American blues rock band, Woodie Alan, earns the title ï¿½Beijingï¿½s best band.ï¿½ This achievement was an accidental by-product of his journalist-wife Rebeccaï¿½s position as China bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. He writes with enthusiasm about his new life as an expatriate American in China with three children in tow, the difficulty of learning Chinese (he concludes he has a better chance of communicating with dolphins than mastering its strange words and sounds), getting a driverï¿½s license, and understanding Chinese rules of the road, which, he theorizes, means never having to stop unless you absolutely have to. His experiences playing in a mostly Chinese band offer plenty of entertaining anecdotes that offer culture-shock insights. His Chinese sojourn ending after his wife returned to New York as the paperï¿½s international news editor, Paul looks back with equal doses of regret for the unforgettable opportunities that came his way and anticipation toward a new American future. Immensely enjoyable. --June Sawyers\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11890'),
(10329, 'Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing', 'Alan Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this entertaining memoir, Paul recounts an unanticipated life-changing experience that began when his wife accepted a three-year work assignment in Beijing. After resettling their three young children from suburban New Jersey to China, Paul, a music and basketball journalist who played guitar only as a hobby, embarked on an exploration of local culture and music. The search prompted his transition from writing about music to being a bona fide rock star in the band Woodie Alan, a cross-cultural blues group named after Alan and his Chinese band member, Woodie Wu, a guitarist with a Stevie Ray Vaughn tattoo. Paul blogged about his Chinese experience and also wrote a column on it for the Wall Street Journal''s Web site. His story, however, is much more than a musical and journalistic victory dance. It''s equal parts family memoir, travelogue, personal analysis of globalization and expatriate communities, and a view of the world''s most populous nation through American eyes. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  In this funny, poignant, and entertaining memoir, Alan Paul tells his improbable story of an American music journalist unwittingly becoming a rock star in China with grace and good humor. Whatï¿½s more, his Chinese American blues rock band, Woodie Alan, earns the title ï¿½Beijingï¿½s best band.ï¿½ This achievement was an accidental by-product of his journalist-wife Rebeccaï¿½s position as China bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. He writes with enthusiasm about his new life as an expatriate American in China with three children in tow, the difficulty of learning Chinese (he concludes he has a better chance of communicating with dolphins than mastering its strange words and sounds), getting a driverï¿½s license, and understanding Chinese rules of the road, which, he theorizes, means never having to stop unless you absolutely have to. His experiences playing in a mostly Chinese band offer plenty of entertaining anecdotes that offer culture-shock insights. His Chinese sojourn ending after his wife returned to New York as the paperï¿½s international news editor, Paul looks back with equal doses of regret for the unforgettable opportunities that came his way and anticipation toward a new American future. Immensely enjoyable. --June Sawyers\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16023'),
(10330, 'Big Jack', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist...someone who''s willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is used to travelling in the shadowy corners outside the law. And in a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, she will attempt to track down the diamonds once and for all-and stop the danger and death that have surrounded them for years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2547'),
(10331, 'Big Jack', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist...someone who''s willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is used to travelling in the shadowy corners outside the law. And in a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, she will attempt to track down the diamonds once and for all-and stop the danger and death that have surrounded them for years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13501'),
(10332, 'Big Jack', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist...someone who''s willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is used to travelling in the shadowy corners outside the law. And in a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, she will attempt to track down the diamonds once and for all-and stop the danger and death that have surrounded them for years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22328'),
(10333, 'A Big Little Life', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dean Koontz''s first ever nonfiction book, the deeply moving story of his life with his good dog TrixieDean Koontz is known for exploring the dark side of human nature in his fiction. But his softer, playful side comes out when he talks about his beloved dog, Trixie, a golden retriever.Trixie had a special place in Dean''s heart. And now, in this, his first non-fiction book, Dean opens his heart to his readers to give us memories of Trixie, of the glorious dog who changed him and changed his life.There''s everything in this memoir: adventure, mischief, emotion, and sadness too. Dean will talk with joy about the many gifts Trixie gave him '' and the lessons she taught '' and he''ll talk with sadness at losing his beloved pet.The loss of a dog is a heartbreak that''s been experienced by a great many people, and Dean''s delving into that loss is a powerful part of this book, and a cathartic experience for those of us who have loved and lost an animal companion.Trixie had a big little life and lives for ever in Dean''s heart ''Åš and in these pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6062'),
(10334, 'A Big Little Life', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dean Koontz''s first ever nonfiction book, the deeply moving story of his life with his good dog TrixieDean Koontz is known for exploring the dark side of human nature in his fiction. But his softer, playful side comes out when he talks about his beloved dog, Trixie, a golden retriever.Trixie had a special place in Dean''s heart. And now, in this, his first non-fiction book, Dean opens his heart to his readers to give us memories of Trixie, of the glorious dog who changed him and changed his life.There''s everything in this memoir: adventure, mischief, emotion, and sadness too. Dean will talk with joy about the many gifts Trixie gave him '' and the lessons she taught '' and he''ll talk with sadness at losing his beloved pet.The loss of a dog is a heartbreak that''s been experienced by a great many people, and Dean''s delving into that loss is a powerful part of this book, and a cathartic experience for those of us who have loved and lost an animal companion.Trixie had a big little life and lives for ever in Dean''s heart ''Åš and in these pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10841'),
(10335, 'A Big Little Life', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dean Koontz''s first ever nonfiction book, the deeply moving story of his life with his good dog TrixieDean Koontz is known for exploring the dark side of human nature in his fiction. But his softer, playful side comes out when he talks about his beloved dog, Trixie, a golden retriever.Trixie had a special place in Dean''s heart. And now, in this, his first non-fiction book, Dean opens his heart to his readers to give us memories of Trixie, of the glorious dog who changed him and changed his life.There''s everything in this memoir: adventure, mischief, emotion, and sadness too. Dean will talk with joy about the many gifts Trixie gave him '' and the lessons she taught '' and he''ll talk with sadness at losing his beloved pet.The loss of a dog is a heartbreak that''s been experienced by a great many people, and Dean''s delving into that loss is a powerful part of this book, and a cathartic experience for those of us who have loved and lost an animal companion.Trixie had a big little life and lives for ever in Dean''s heart ''Åš and in these pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17859'),
(10336, 'A Big Little Life', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dean Koontz''s first ever nonfiction book, the deeply moving story of his life with his good dog TrixieDean Koontz is known for exploring the dark side of human nature in his fiction. But his softer, playful side comes out when he talks about his beloved dog, Trixie, a golden retriever.Trixie had a special place in Dean''s heart. And now, in this, his first non-fiction book, Dean opens his heart to his readers to give us memories of Trixie, of the glorious dog who changed him and changed his life.There''s everything in this memoir: adventure, mischief, emotion, and sadness too. Dean will talk with joy about the many gifts Trixie gave him '' and the lessons she taught '' and he''ll talk with sadness at losing his beloved pet.The loss of a dog is a heartbreak that''s been experienced by a great many people, and Dean''s delving into that loss is a powerful part of this book, and a cathartic experience for those of us who have loved and lost an animal companion.Trixie had a big little life and lives for ever in Dean''s heart ''Åš and in these pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27421'),
(10337, 'The Big Nowhere', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Author of the bestselling Black Dahlia, James Ellroy, pens another thriller--a noir epic of three men caught in a web of ambition, perversion and deceit during the fifties in L.A. Each is on a collision course with the Commie scare and a string of brutal murders.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14647'),
(10338, 'The Big Nowhere', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Los Angeles, 1950 Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. Danny Upshaw is a Sheriff''s deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they''re his chance to make his name as a cop...and to sate his darkest curiosities. Mal Considine is D.A.''s Bureau brass. He''s climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and to gain custody of his adopted son, a child he saved from the horror of postwar Europe. Buzz Meeks-bagman, ex-Narco goon, and pimp for Howard Hughes-is fighting communism for the money. All three men have purchased tickets to a nightmare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19836'),
(10339, 'Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir', 'Susie Bright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    "Susie Bright is a one-woman counterculture, a teenaged socialist revolutionary turned Reagan-era sexual freedom fighter. In this lively, bittersweet memoir, she recounts a life full of political and erotic adventures and betrayals, a life at once deeply subversive and totally American, defined as it is by the idea that people should be free to express and pursue their own visions of happiness, no matter how uncomfortable it makes the prigs and scolds among us." â€” Tom Perotta, author of\n    <i>\n     Little Children\n    </i>\n    and\n    <i>\n     Election\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "Susie Bright''s real life is just as compellingâ€”more compellingâ€”than her sex life. And that''s saying something." â€” Dan Savage\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "I have a very scary feeling Susie Bright is not making any of this up. Guns, drugs, threesomes, socialist factionalism, a stabbing . . . all before she got her G.E.D.?" â€” Alison Bechdel, author of\n    <i>\n     Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    <i>\n     "Big Sex Little Death\n    </i>\n    is subtle, hot, enthralling, raw and tenderâ€”I loved it. Susie Bright is a national treasure." â€” Josh Marshall, Editor and Publisher,\n    <i>\n     Talking Points Memo\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "The best-named writer in America, Susie Bright has written a witty, wise, and enlightening memoir." â€” Erica Jong\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    Ever wondered why thereâ€™s no female voice as bold, erotic, unflinching, and revealing as Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, or Philip Roth? There is. It belongs to Susie Bright.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    In this stunning and courageous coming-of-age story, Susie Bright opens her heart and her life. From fearful Irish Catholic Girl Scout to gun-toting teenage revolutionaryâ€”and finally the "The Avatar of American Erotica"\n    <i>\n     (NYTimes)\n    </i>\n    â€”Brightâ€™s life story is shaped as much by Americaâ€™s sexual awakening as the national sexual landscape was altered by Bright herself.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    In\n    <i>\n     Big Sex Little Death,\n    </i>\n    Bright introduces us to her influences and experiences, including her early involvement with notorious high school radicals\n    <i>\n     The Red Tide\n    </i>\n    as well as the magazine she co-founded in the 1980s,\n    <i>\n     On Our Backs\n    </i>\n    â€”the first-ever erotic magazine created by women, which turned the lesbian and bisexual community upside down before it took the "straight" world by storm.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    <i>\n     Big Sex Little Death\n    </i>\n    is an explosive yet intimate memoir thatâ€™s pure Susie: bold, free-spirited, unpredictableâ€”larger than life, yet utterly true to life.\n   </div>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/907');
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(10340, 'Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir', 'Susie Bright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    "Susie Bright is a one-woman counterculture, a teenaged socialist revolutionary turned Reagan-era sexual freedom fighter. In this lively, bittersweet memoir, she recounts a life full of political and erotic adventures and betrayals, a life at once deeply subversive and totally American, defined as it is by the idea that people should be free to express and pursue their own visions of happiness, no matter how uncomfortable it makes the prigs and scolds among us." â€” Tom Perotta, author of\n    <i>\n     Little Children\n    </i>\n    and\n    <i>\n     Election\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "Susie Bright''s real life is just as compellingâ€”more compellingâ€”than her sex life. And that''s saying something." â€” Dan Savage\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "I have a very scary feeling Susie Bright is not making any of this up. Guns, drugs, threesomes, socialist factionalism, a stabbing . . . all before she got her G.E.D.?" â€” Alison Bechdel, author of\n    <i>\n     Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    <i>\n     "Big Sex Little Death\n    </i>\n    is subtle, hot, enthralling, raw and tenderâ€”I loved it. Susie Bright is a national treasure." â€” Josh Marshall, Editor and Publisher,\n    <i>\n     Talking Points Memo\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "The best-named writer in America, Susie Bright has written a witty, wise, and enlightening memoir." â€” Erica Jong\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    Ever wondered why thereâ€™s no female voice as bold, erotic, unflinching, and revealing as Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, or Philip Roth? There is. It belongs to Susie Bright.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    In this stunning and courageous coming-of-age story, Susie Bright opens her heart and her life. From fearful Irish Catholic Girl Scout to gun-toting teenage revolutionaryâ€”and finally the "The Avatar of American Erotica"\n    <i>\n     (NYTimes)\n    </i>\n    â€”Brightâ€™s life story is shaped as much by Americaâ€™s sexual awakening as the national sexual landscape was altered by Bright herself.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    In\n    <i>\n     Big Sex Little Death,\n    </i>\n    Bright introduces us to her influences and experiences, including her early involvement with notorious high school radicals\n    <i>\n     The Red Tide\n    </i>\n    as well as the magazine she co-founded in the 1980s,\n    <i>\n     On Our Backs\n    </i>\n    â€”the first-ever erotic magazine created by women, which turned the lesbian and bisexual community upside down before it took the "straight" world by storm.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    <i>\n     Big Sex Little Death\n    </i>\n    is an explosive yet intimate memoir thatâ€™s pure Susie: bold, free-spirited, unpredictableâ€”larger than life, yet utterly true to life.\n   </div>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8583'),
(10341, 'Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir', 'Susie Bright', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    "Susie Bright is a one-woman counterculture, a teenaged socialist revolutionary turned Reagan-era sexual freedom fighter. In this lively, bittersweet memoir, she recounts a life full of political and erotic adventures and betrayals, a life at once deeply subversive and totally American, defined as it is by the idea that people should be free to express and pursue their own visions of happiness, no matter how uncomfortable it makes the prigs and scolds among us." â€” Tom Perotta, author of\n    <i>\n     Little Children\n    </i>\n    and\n    <i>\n     Election\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "Susie Bright''s real life is just as compellingâ€”more compellingâ€”than her sex life. And that''s saying something." â€” Dan Savage\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "I have a very scary feeling Susie Bright is not making any of this up. Guns, drugs, threesomes, socialist factionalism, a stabbing . . . all before she got her G.E.D.?" â€” Alison Bechdel, author of\n    <i>\n     Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    <i>\n     "Big Sex Little Death\n    </i>\n    is subtle, hot, enthralling, raw and tenderâ€”I loved it. Susie Bright is a national treasure." â€” Josh Marshall, Editor and Publisher,\n    <i>\n     Talking Points Memo\n    </i>\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    "The best-named writer in America, Susie Bright has written a witty, wise, and enlightening memoir." â€” Erica Jong\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    Ever wondered why thereâ€™s no female voice as bold, erotic, unflinching, and revealing as Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, or Philip Roth? There is. It belongs to Susie Bright.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    In this stunning and courageous coming-of-age story, Susie Bright opens her heart and her life. From fearful Irish Catholic Girl Scout to gun-toting teenage revolutionaryâ€”and finally the "The Avatar of American Erotica"\n    <i>\n     (NYTimes)\n    </i>\n    â€”Brightâ€™s life story is shaped as much by Americaâ€™s sexual awakening as the national sexual landscape was altered by Bright herself.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    In\n    <i>\n     Big Sex Little Death,\n    </i>\n    Bright introduces us to her influences and experiences, including her early involvement with notorious high school radicals\n    <i>\n     The Red Tide\n    </i>\n    as well as the magazine she co-founded in the 1980s,\n    <i>\n     On Our Backs\n    </i>\n    â€”the first-ever erotic magazine created by women, which turned the lesbian and bisexual community upside down before it took the "straight" world by storm.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    <i>\n     Big Sex Little Death\n    </i>\n    is an explosive yet intimate memoir thatâ€™s pure Susie: bold, free-spirited, unpredictableâ€”larger than life, yet utterly true to life.\n   </div>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23929'),
(10342, 'The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant accountâ€”character-rich and darkly humorousâ€”of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesnâ€™t shine, and the SEC doesnâ€™t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who canâ€™t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they werenâ€™t talking. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liarâ€™s Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikelyâ€”really unlikelyâ€”heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2846'),
(10343, 'The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant accountâ€”character-rich and darkly humorousâ€”of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesnâ€™t shine, and the SEC doesnâ€™t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who canâ€™t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they werenâ€™t talking. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liarâ€™s Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikelyâ€”really unlikelyâ€”heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11102'),
(10344, 'The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant accountâ€”character-rich and darkly humorousâ€”of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesnâ€™t shine, and the SEC doesnâ€™t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who canâ€™t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they werenâ€™t talking. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liarâ€™s Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikelyâ€”really unlikelyâ€”heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14447'),
(10345, 'The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant accountâ€”character-rich and darkly humorousâ€”of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesnâ€™t shine, and the SEC doesnâ€™t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who canâ€™t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they werenâ€™t talking. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liarâ€™s Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikelyâ€”really unlikelyâ€”heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21977'),
(10346, 'Big Sky Standoff', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There was a standoff brewing between Dillon Savage and cattle inspector Jacklyn Wilde. Toe to toe, they were an equal match, but together they were an imperfect pair. After four long years, they were hitting the open range again, to bring justice to a lawless land. Attached at the hip until a rustling ring was busted, they had to make the best of a bad situation. But the real trouble was Dillon Savage. The cowboy was as cocksure and adventurous as ever. He had old scores to settle, and Jacklyn was there to make sure he didn''t stray from his path. Only she didn''t know that she was first in line.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7421'),
(10347, 'Big Sky Standoff', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There was a standoff brewing between Dillon Savage and cattle inspector Jacklyn Wilde. Toe to toe, they were an equal match, but together they were an imperfect pair. After four long years, they were hitting the open range again, to bring justice to a lawless land. Attached at the hip until a rustling ring was busted, they had to make the best of a bad situation. But the real trouble was Dillon Savage. The cowboy was as cocksure and adventurous as ever. He had old scores to settle, and Jacklyn was there to make sure he didn''t stray from his path. Only she didn''t know that she was first in line.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9185'),
(10348, 'Big Sky Standoff', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There was a standoff brewing between Dillon Savage and cattle inspector Jacklyn Wilde. Toe to toe, they were an equal match, but together they were an imperfect pair. After four long years, they were hitting the open range again, to bring justice to a lawless land. Attached at the hip until a rustling ring was busted, they had to make the best of a bad situation. But the real trouble was Dillon Savage. The cowboy was as cocksure and adventurous as ever. He had old scores to settle, and Jacklyn was there to make sure he didn''t stray from his path. Only she didn''t know that she was first in line.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16486'),
(10349, 'Big Sky Standoff', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There was a standoff brewing between Dillon Savage and cattle inspector Jacklyn Wilde. Toe to toe, they were an equal match, but together they were an imperfect pair. After four long years, they were hitting the open range again, to bring justice to a lawless land. Attached at the hip until a rustling ring was busted, they had to make the best of a bad situation. But the real trouble was Dillon Savage. The cowboy was as cocksure and adventurous as ever. He had old scores to settle, and Jacklyn was there to make sure he didn''t stray from his path. Only she didn''t know that she was first in line.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26529'),
(10350, 'The big sleep', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in."Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence."--Ross Macdonald\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14606'),
(10351, 'The big sleep', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in."Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence."--Ross Macdonald\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21713'),
(10352, 'Big Snake the Hunt for the Worlds Larges', 'Robert Twigger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n About to be married, Robert Twigger decides on his last great adventure as a bachelor. Surfing the net, he discovers the Roosevelt Prize - worth $50,000 - for the capture of a live 30 foot python. Armed only with a tin of High Toast Snuff (deadly if sniffed by a snake), Twigger sets off into the remote jungles of Indonesia in search of his prey. Along the way, he investigates the legendarily beautiful women of Sulawesi, treads in Nabokov''s footsteps, looks for giant snakes beneath the sewers of Kuala Lumpur, and spends time with a variety of snake catchers and cults. After being caught up in anti-Chinese riots and surviving on greasy civet cat in the jungle, Twigger finally comes face to face with the big one; but the final capture is not quite what he had in mind.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert Twigger won the Newdigate prize for poetry in 1985. He is the author of Angry White Pyjamas, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, Big Snake, The Extinction Club, Being a Man and Voyageur.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12337'),
(10353, 'The Big Thaw', 'Donald Harstad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Don''t let the title of this dry suspense novel fool you. It''s very cold in January in Iowa, the setting for Donald Harstad''s third outing in his series featuring Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman and his partner Hester Gorse. The only thing mild is the humor in this spare procedural, which involves the usual turf battle between the white hats (local law enforcement) and the black hats (the FBI) as a sidebar to the main plot. Instead of the mean streets and criminal underclass of urban thrillers, we get the militant extremists who frequent the vast, empty reaches of the Midwest. In this case, the black hats are onto the crazies, and the local good guy, Deputy Carl, is caught in the crossfire. The crazies want enough money to blow the heartland (who wouldn''t, in January?), and to get it, they''re prepared to blow up Iowa''s biggest economic asset, a riverboat casino on the Mississippi. They''re being manipulated by a chief crazy (or maybe an arch crazy) named Gabriel, and (naturally) the feds have been a few steps behind Gabriel for a while now. Deputy Carl is a nice guy, but irony is not his strong suit, and he''s not particularly fast on the uptake, either. Eventually he does save the day in this somewhat pedestrian and slow-motion regional mystery. If you liked the movie\n <em>\n  Fargo\n </em>\n , you''ll love\n <em>\n  The Big Thaw\n </em>\n . --_Jane Adams_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anthony Award nominee Harstad (Eleven Days and Known Dead) makes a third foray to the town of Nation County, Iowa, in this compelling police procedural. One cold winter night, Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman gets a call to join the pursuit of a burglary suspect who''s leading the police on a merry car chase. When the suspect drives into a snowy ditch, Houseman digs him out and recognizes him as Fred Grothler, a bored kid who''s committed petty crimes in the past. Fred confesses that he and his two cousins, Dirk and Royce Colson, have been responsible for a spate of recent break-ins into the homes of wealthy residents staying warm in Florida. Two nights earlier he dropped his cousins off at Cletus Borglan''s palatial farmhouse, but they never came out. Maybe they froze? Houseman visits the farm and indeed finds Dirk and Royce frozen stiffAafter having been shot dead. Hardly any of the characters in this busy novel are what they seem. Upstanding citizen Borglan keeps a library whose contents betray his extreme antigovernment views. Even the FBI special agent who takes charge of the case has some strange associates for a lawman. A retired deputy sheriff, Harstad writes "cop talk" that''s not only believable but often (intentionally) funny. He also supplies plenty of interesting trivia. For instance, half a million quarters, stacked, stretch 4.2 miles and weigh 25,000 pounds. That''s what Houseman and Hester Gorse, his second in command, have to secure on the Beauregard, Nation County''s floating casino and scene of the book''s spectacular finale. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5946'),
(10354, 'The Big Thaw', 'Donald Harstad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Don''t let the title of this dry suspense novel fool you. It''s very cold in January in Iowa, the setting for Donald Harstad''s third outing in his series featuring Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman and his partner Hester Gorse. The only thing mild is the humor in this spare procedural, which involves the usual turf battle between the white hats (local law enforcement) and the black hats (the FBI) as a sidebar to the main plot. Instead of the mean streets and criminal underclass of urban thrillers, we get the militant extremists who frequent the vast, empty reaches of the Midwest. In this case, the black hats are onto the crazies, and the local good guy, Deputy Carl, is caught in the crossfire. The crazies want enough money to blow the heartland (who wouldn''t, in January?), and to get it, they''re prepared to blow up Iowa''s biggest economic asset, a riverboat casino on the Mississippi. They''re being manipulated by a chief crazy (or maybe an arch crazy) named Gabriel, and (naturally) the feds have been a few steps behind Gabriel for a while now. Deputy Carl is a nice guy, but irony is not his strong suit, and he''s not particularly fast on the uptake, either. Eventually he does save the day in this somewhat pedestrian and slow-motion regional mystery. If you liked the movie\n <em>\n  Fargo\n </em>\n , you''ll love\n <em>\n  The Big Thaw\n </em>\n . --_Jane Adams_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anthony Award nominee Harstad (Eleven Days and Known Dead) makes a third foray to the town of Nation County, Iowa, in this compelling police procedural. One cold winter night, Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman gets a call to join the pursuit of a burglary suspect who''s leading the police on a merry car chase. When the suspect drives into a snowy ditch, Houseman digs him out and recognizes him as Fred Grothler, a bored kid who''s committed petty crimes in the past. Fred confesses that he and his two cousins, Dirk and Royce Colson, have been responsible for a spate of recent break-ins into the homes of wealthy residents staying warm in Florida. Two nights earlier he dropped his cousins off at Cletus Borglan''s palatial farmhouse, but they never came out. Maybe they froze? Houseman visits the farm and indeed finds Dirk and Royce frozen stiffAafter having been shot dead. Hardly any of the characters in this busy novel are what they seem. Upstanding citizen Borglan keeps a library whose contents betray his extreme antigovernment views. Even the FBI special agent who takes charge of the case has some strange associates for a lawman. A retired deputy sheriff, Harstad writes "cop talk" that''s not only believable but often (intentionally) funny. He also supplies plenty of interesting trivia. For instance, half a million quarters, stacked, stretch 4.2 miles and weigh 25,000 pounds. That''s what Houseman and Hester Gorse, his second in command, have to secure on the Beauregard, Nation County''s floating casino and scene of the book''s spectacular finale. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10254'),
(10355, 'The Big Thaw', 'Donald Harstad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Don''t let the title of this dry suspense novel fool you. It''s very cold in January in Iowa, the setting for Donald Harstad''s third outing in his series featuring Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman and his partner Hester Gorse. The only thing mild is the humor in this spare procedural, which involves the usual turf battle between the white hats (local law enforcement) and the black hats (the FBI) as a sidebar to the main plot. Instead of the mean streets and criminal underclass of urban thrillers, we get the militant extremists who frequent the vast, empty reaches of the Midwest. In this case, the black hats are onto the crazies, and the local good guy, Deputy Carl, is caught in the crossfire. The crazies want enough money to blow the heartland (who wouldn''t, in January?), and to get it, they''re prepared to blow up Iowa''s biggest economic asset, a riverboat casino on the Mississippi. They''re being manipulated by a chief crazy (or maybe an arch crazy) named Gabriel, and (naturally) the feds have been a few steps behind Gabriel for a while now. Deputy Carl is a nice guy, but irony is not his strong suit, and he''s not particularly fast on the uptake, either. Eventually he does save the day in this somewhat pedestrian and slow-motion regional mystery. If you liked the movie\n <em>\n  Fargo\n </em>\n , you''ll love\n <em>\n  The Big Thaw\n </em>\n . --_Jane Adams_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anthony Award nominee Harstad (Eleven Days and Known Dead) makes a third foray to the town of Nation County, Iowa, in this compelling police procedural. One cold winter night, Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman gets a call to join the pursuit of a burglary suspect who''s leading the police on a merry car chase. When the suspect drives into a snowy ditch, Houseman digs him out and recognizes him as Fred Grothler, a bored kid who''s committed petty crimes in the past. Fred confesses that he and his two cousins, Dirk and Royce Colson, have been responsible for a spate of recent break-ins into the homes of wealthy residents staying warm in Florida. Two nights earlier he dropped his cousins off at Cletus Borglan''s palatial farmhouse, but they never came out. Maybe they froze? Houseman visits the farm and indeed finds Dirk and Royce frozen stiffAafter having been shot dead. Hardly any of the characters in this busy novel are what they seem. Upstanding citizen Borglan keeps a library whose contents betray his extreme antigovernment views. Even the FBI special agent who takes charge of the case has some strange associates for a lawman. A retired deputy sheriff, Harstad writes "cop talk" that''s not only believable but often (intentionally) funny. He also supplies plenty of interesting trivia. For instance, half a million quarters, stacked, stretch 4.2 miles and weigh 25,000 pounds. That''s what Houseman and Hester Gorse, his second in command, have to secure on the Beauregard, Nation County''s floating casino and scene of the book''s spectacular finale. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18682'),
(10356, 'Big Trouble', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dave Barry makes his fiction debut with a ferociously funny novel of love and mayhem in south Florida.In his career, Dave Barry has done just about everything--written bestselling nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize, seen his life turned into a television series. And now, at last, he has joined the long list of literary figures from Jane Austen to Tolstoy who have made the transition from humor columnist to novelist...and done it with a style and inventiveness that establishes that, yes, he is very good at that, too.In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills a Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer. Matt''s intended victim, Jenny Herk, sits down in front of the TV with her mom for what she hopes will be a peaceful evening for once. Jenny''s alcoholic and secretly embezzling stepfather, Arthur, emerges from the maid''s room, angry at being rebuffed. Henry and Leonard, two hit men from New Jersey, pull up to the Herks'' house for a real game of Killer, Arthur''s embezzlement apparently not having been quite so secret to his employers after all. And a homeless man named Puggy settles down for the night in a treehouse just inside the Herks'' yard.In a few minutes, a chain of events that will change the lives of each and every one of them will begin, and will leave some of them wiser, some of them deader, and some of them definitely looking for a new line of work. With a wicked wit, razor-sharp observations, rich characters, and a plot with more twists than the Inland Waterway, Dave Barry makes his debut a complete and utter triumph."The funniest book I''ve read in fifty years."--Elmore Leonard"Despite wealth, fame and a tendency to undermedicate himself, Dave Barry remains one of the funniest writers alive. Big Trouble is outrageously warped, cheerfully depraved--and harrowingly close to true life in Florida. This book will do for our tourism industry what Dennis Rodman did for bridal wear."--Carl Hiaasen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14728'),
(10357, 'Big Trouble', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dave Barry makes his fiction debut with a ferociously funny novel of love and mayhem in south Florida.In his career, Dave Barry has done just about everything--written bestselling nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize, seen his life turned into a television series. And now, at last, he has joined the long list of literary figures from Jane Austen to Tolstoy who have made the transition from humor columnist to novelist...and done it with a style and inventiveness that establishes that, yes, he is very good at that, too.In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills a Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer. Matt''s intended victim, Jenny Herk, sits down in front of the TV with her mom for what she hopes will be a peaceful evening for once. Jenny''s alcoholic and secretly embezzling stepfather, Arthur, emerges from the maid''s room, angry at being rebuffed. Henry and Leonard, two hit men from New Jersey, pull up to the Herks'' house for a real game of Killer, Arthur''s embezzlement apparently not having been quite so secret to his employers after all. And a homeless man named Puggy settles down for the night in a treehouse just inside the Herks'' yard.In a few minutes, a chain of events that will change the lives of each and every one of them will begin, and will leave some of them wiser, some of them deader, and some of them definitely looking for a new line of work. With a wicked wit, razor-sharp observations, rich characters, and a plot with more twists than the Inland Waterway, Dave Barry makes his debut a complete and utter triumph."The funniest book I''ve read in fifty years."--Elmore Leonard"Despite wealth, fame and a tendency to undermedicate himself, Dave Barry remains one of the funniest writers alive. Big Trouble is outrageously warped, cheerfully depraved--and harrowingly close to true life in Florida. This book will do for our tourism industry what Dennis Rodman did for bridal wear."--Carl Hiaasen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17566'),
(10358, 'Big Trouble', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dave Barry makes his fiction debut with a ferociously funny novel of love and mayhem in south Florida.In his career, Dave Barry has done just about everything--written bestselling nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize, seen his life turned into a television series. And now, at last, he has joined the long list of literary figures from Jane Austen to Tolstoy who have made the transition from humor columnist to novelist...and done it with a style and inventiveness that establishes that, yes, he is very good at that, too.In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills a Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer. Matt''s intended victim, Jenny Herk, sits down in front of the TV with her mom for what she hopes will be a peaceful evening for once. Jenny''s alcoholic and secretly embezzling stepfather, Arthur, emerges from the maid''s room, angry at being rebuffed. Henry and Leonard, two hit men from New Jersey, pull up to the Herks'' house for a real game of Killer, Arthur''s embezzlement apparently not having been quite so secret to his employers after all. And a homeless man named Puggy settles down for the night in a treehouse just inside the Herks'' yard.In a few minutes, a chain of events that will change the lives of each and every one of them will begin, and will leave some of them wiser, some of them deader, and some of them definitely looking for a new line of work. With a wicked wit, razor-sharp observations, rich characters, and a plot with more twists than the Inland Waterway, Dave Barry makes his debut a complete and utter triumph."The funniest book I''ve read in fifty years."--Elmore Leonard"Despite wealth, fame and a tendency to undermedicate himself, Dave Barry remains one of the funniest writers alive. Big Trouble is outrageously warped, cheerfully depraved--and harrowingly close to true life in Florida. This book will do for our tourism industry what Dennis Rodman did for bridal wear."--Carl Hiaasen\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27278'),
(10359, 'The Big U', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An entertaining and sometimes murderous satire on campus life." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Satire is Stephenson''s major." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  called Neal Stephenson''s most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious".Â  but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic\n  <em>\n   Cryptonomicon\n  </em>\n  , it''s back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print,\n  <em>\n   The Big U\n  </em>\n  is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2602'),
(10360, 'The Big U', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An entertaining and sometimes murderous satire on campus life." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Satire is Stephenson''s major." --\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n  called Neal Stephenson''s most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious".Â  but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic\n  <em>\n   Cryptonomicon\n  </em>\n  , it''s back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print,\n  <em>\n   The Big U\n  </em>\n  is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12919'),
(10361, 'The Big U', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "An entertaining and sometimes murderous satire on campus life." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Satire is Stephenson''s major." --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n called Neal Stephenson''s most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic\n <em>\n  Cryptonomicon\n </em>\n , it''s back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print,\n <em>\n  The Big U\n </em>\n is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22172'),
(10362, 'The Biggest Loser 30-Day Jump Start: Lose Weight, Get in Shape, and Start Living the Biggest Loser Lifestyle Today!', 'Cheryl Forberg &amp; Melissa Roberson &amp; Lisa Wheeler &amp; Biggest Loser Experts &amp; Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over the last six seasons of\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser,\n  </em>\n  you''ve watched as contestants shed pounds, got healthy, and dramatically changed their lives for the better. In fact, you may have been so inspired by the showâ€™s remarkable success stories that you''ve considered embarking on your own weight loss journey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you''re looking to get healthy now, thereâ€™s good news: You don''t have to spend time at the ranch to benefit from\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  magic.\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    THE BIGGEST LOSER: 30 DAY JUMP STAR\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  T brings all of the secrets of the ranch right into your own home.\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  expertsâ€”the same ones who advise the contestantsâ€”are here to walk you through a 30-day plan that will kick off your weight loss and help you build new, healthy habits.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this book youâ€™ll find easy-to-follow menus, recipes, exercise plans, and motivation for each day of the week. Youâ€™ll also find helpful tips and advice from past\n  <em>\n   Biggest Losers\n  </em>\n  who have been in your shoes, including the nine contestants from Season 7 who left the ranch early to follow this very plan at home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So far, the Biggest Losers have lost more than a combined 10,000 pounds. But for each of them, the journey started with a commitment: to health, to weight loss, and to themselves. The first steps toward a healthier future are in this bookâ€”what are you waiting for? Make the commitment, take the leapâ€”and begin your 30 day jump start today!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cheryl Forberg, RD,\n  </strong>\n  is the nutritionist for\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  . As co-creator of the eating plan, she has counseled each season''s contestants on reaching their fitness and nutrition goals. A James Beard award-winning chef, Cheryl brings a flavorful and fresh approach to eating for weight loss with a special emphasis on anti-aging. She is the author of\n  <em>\n   Positively Ageless: A 28-Day Plan for a Younger, Slimmer Sexier You\n  </em>\n  (Rodale, 2008). Cheryl is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Napa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Melissa Roberson\n  </strong>\n  is the editor of BiggestLoserClub.com, the website that offers food, fitness, and exercise tips. She often visits the ranch and interviews trainers and contestants about their inspiring weight loss journeys. She is a web veteran, having worked on new media projects for Time Inc.,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  , News Corps., Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. She lives in Hoboken, NJ.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lisa Wheeler\n  </strong>\n  , an international dance/fitness professional based in New York City, is the National Creative Manager for Equinox Group Fitness, a Contributing Editor for\n  <em>\n   Shape\n  </em>\n  Magazine and Choreographer for Cal Pozo''s Fit Vid Productions, where clients include The Biggest Loser, Dancing with the Stars, American Gladiators and Denise Austin. She has appeared in more than 20 fitness videos, FiT TV, and hosted The Method Fitness Show. Lisa leads the Westin Workout segments on SPG TV and has hosted fitness programs for the NFL Channel, CNN Headline News, The View and QVC. She holds NASM, ACSM, ACE, and AFAA certifications.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6782'),
(10363, 'The Biggest Loser 30-Day Jump Start: Lose Weight, Get in Shape, and Start Living the Biggest Loser Lifestyle Today!', 'Cheryl Forberg &amp; Melissa Roberson &amp; Lisa Wheeler &amp; Biggest Loser Experts &amp; Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over the last six seasons of\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser,\n  </em>\n  you''ve watched as contestants shed pounds, got healthy, and dramatically changed their lives for the better. In fact, you may have been so inspired by the showâ€™s remarkable success stories that you''ve considered embarking on your own weight loss journey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you''re looking to get healthy now, thereâ€™s good news: You don''t have to spend time at the ranch to benefit from\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  magic.\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    THE BIGGEST LOSER: 30 DAY JUMP STAR\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  T brings all of the secrets of the ranch right into your own home.\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  expertsâ€”the same ones who advise the contestantsâ€”are here to walk you through a 30-day plan that will kick off your weight loss and help you build new, healthy habits.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this book youâ€™ll find easy-to-follow menus, recipes, exercise plans, and motivation for each day of the week. Youâ€™ll also find helpful tips and advice from past\n  <em>\n   Biggest Losers\n  </em>\n  who have been in your shoes, including the nine contestants from Season 7 who left the ranch early to follow this very plan at home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So far, the Biggest Losers have lost more than a combined 10,000 pounds. But for each of them, the journey started with a commitment: to health, to weight loss, and to themselves. The first steps toward a healthier future are in this bookâ€”what are you waiting for? Make the commitment, take the leapâ€”and begin your 30 day jump start today!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cheryl Forberg, RD,\n  </strong>\n  is the nutritionist for\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  . As co-creator of the eating plan, she has counseled each season''s contestants on reaching their fitness and nutrition goals. A James Beard award-winning chef, Cheryl brings a flavorful and fresh approach to eating for weight loss with a special emphasis on anti-aging. She is the author of\n  <em>\n   Positively Ageless: A 28-Day Plan for a Younger, Slimmer Sexier You\n  </em>\n  (Rodale, 2008). Cheryl is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Napa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Melissa Roberson\n  </strong>\n  is the editor of BiggestLoserClub.com, the website that offers food, fitness, and exercise tips. She often visits the ranch and interviews trainers and contestants about their inspiring weight loss journeys. She is a web veteran, having worked on new media projects for Time Inc.,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  , News Corps., Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. She lives in Hoboken, NJ.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lisa Wheeler\n  </strong>\n  , an international dance/fitness professional based in New York City, is the National Creative Manager for Equinox Group Fitness, a Contributing Editor for\n  <em>\n   Shape\n  </em>\n  Magazine and Choreographer for Cal Pozo''s Fit Vid Productions, where clients include The Biggest Loser, Dancing with the Stars, American Gladiators and Denise Austin. She has appeared in more than 20 fitness videos, FiT TV, and hosted The Method Fitness Show. Lisa leads the Westin Workout segments on SPG TV and has hosted fitness programs for the NFL Channel, CNN Headline News, The View and QVC. She holds NASM, ACSM, ACE, and AFAA certifications.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9701');
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(10364, 'The Biggest Loser 30-Day Jump Start: Lose Weight, Get in Shape, and Start Living the Biggest Loser Lifestyle Today!', 'Cheryl Forberg; Melissa Roberson; Lisa Wheeler; Biggest Loser Experts; Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Over the last six seasons of\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser,\n  </em>\n  you''ve watched as contestants shed pounds, got healthy, and dramatically changed their lives for the better. In fact, you may have been so inspired by the showâ€™s remarkable success stories that you''ve considered embarking on your own weight loss journey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you''re looking to get healthy now, thereâ€™s good news: You don''t have to spend time at the ranch to benefit from\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  magic.\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    THE BIGGEST LOSER: 30 DAY JUMP STAR\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  T brings all of the secrets of the ranch right into your own home.\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  expertsâ€”the same ones who advise the contestantsâ€”are here to walk you through a 30-day plan that will kick off your weight loss and help you build new, healthy habits.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this book youâ€™ll find easy-to-follow menus, recipes, exercise plans, and motivation for each day of the week. Youâ€™ll also find helpful tips and advice from past\n  <em>\n   Biggest Losers\n  </em>\n  who have been in your shoes, including the nine contestants from Season 7 who left the ranch early to follow this very plan at home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So far, the Biggest Losers have lost more than a combined 10,000 pounds. But for each of them, the journey started with a commitment: to health, to weight loss, and to themselves. The first steps toward a healthier future are in this bookâ€”what are you waiting for? Make the commitment, take the leapâ€”and begin your 30 day jump start today!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Cheryl Forberg, RD,\n  </strong>\n  is the nutritionist for\n  <em>\n   The Biggest Loser\n  </em>\n  . As co-creator of the eating plan, she has counseled each season''s contestants on reaching their fitness and nutrition goals. A James Beard award-winning chef, Cheryl brings a flavorful and fresh approach to eating for weight loss with a special emphasis on anti-aging. She is the author of\n  <em>\n   Positively Ageless: A 28-Day Plan for a Younger, Slimmer Sexier You\n  </em>\n  (Rodale, 2008). Cheryl is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Napa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Melissa Roberson\n  </strong>\n  is the editor of BiggestLoserClub.com, the website that offers food, fitness, and exercise tips. She often visits the ranch and interviews trainers and contestants about their inspiring weight loss journeys. She is a web veteran, having worked on new media projects for Time Inc.,\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  , News Corps., Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. She lives in Hoboken, NJ.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lisa Wheeler\n  </strong>\n  , an international dance/fitness professional based in New York City, is the National Creative Manager for Equinox Group Fitness, a Contributing Editor for\n  <em>\n   Shape\n  </em>\n  Magazine and Choreographer for Cal Pozo''s Fit Vid Productions, where clients include The Biggest Loser, Dancing with the Stars, American Gladiators and Denise Austin. She has appeared in more than 20 fitness videos, FiT TV, and hosted The Method Fitness Show. Lisa leads the Westin Workout segments on SPG TV and has hosted fitness programs for the NFL Channel, CNN Headline News, The View and QVC. She holds NASM, ACSM, ACE, and AFAA certifications.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17100'),
(10365, 'Biggie and the Devil Diet', 'Nancy Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 02 Biggie is back! Nancy Bell returns with another delicious installment in her series of rural Texas mysteries featuring local doyen Biggie Weatherford as amateur detective. Once again, young J.R. faithfully narrates the humorous exploits of Biggie, his grandmother. Filled with plenty of quirky characters and down-home Texas flair, Bell''s stories continue to delight. An old friend of Biggie comes back to Job''s Crossing. Rex Barnwell and his young wife have returned to convert his father''s ranch into a retreat for overweight teenage girls, and Biggie is forced to reveal a secret that she has always kept from J.R. Not long after this startling revelation, Rex is murdered. Knowing full well that he won''t be able to keep Biggie away, the Texas Ranger in charge of the case enlists her help.While Biggie pursues her investigation, J.R. has his hands full with troubles of his own. These troubles don''t involve any murders-though it might be easier for J.R. if they did. As an extra treat for the reader, Willie Mae shares her recipe for King Ranch Casserole. Biggie is back! Nancy Bell returns with another delicious installment in her series of rural Texas mysteries featuring local doyen Biggie Weatherford as amateur detective. Once again, young J.R. faithfully narrates the humorous exploits of Biggie, his grandmother. Filled with plenty of quirky characters and down-home Texas flair, Bell''s stories continue to delight. An old friend of Biggie comes back to Job''s Crossing. Rex Barnwell and his young wife have returned to convert his father''s ranch into a retreat for overweight teenage girls, and Biggie is forced to reveal a secret that she has always kept from J.R. Not long after this startling revelation, Rex is murdered. Knowing full well that he won''t be able to keep Biggie away, the Texas Ranger in charge of the case enlists her help.While Biggie pursues her investigation, J.R. has his hands full with troubles of his own. These troubles don''t involve any murders-though it might be easier for J.R. if they did. As an extra treat for the reader, Willie Mae shares her recipe for King Ranch Casserole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2699'),
(10366, 'Biggie and the Devil Diet', 'Nancy Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 02 Biggie is back! Nancy Bell returns with another delicious installment in her series of rural Texas mysteries featuring local doyen Biggie Weatherford as amateur detective. Once again, young J.R. faithfully narrates the humorous exploits of Biggie, his grandmother. Filled with plenty of quirky characters and down-home Texas flair, Bell''s stories continue to delight. An old friend of Biggie comes back to Job''s Crossing. Rex Barnwell and his young wife have returned to convert his father''s ranch into a retreat for overweight teenage girls, and Biggie is forced to reveal a secret that she has always kept from J.R. Not long after this startling revelation, Rex is murdered. Knowing full well that he won''t be able to keep Biggie away, the Texas Ranger in charge of the case enlists her help.While Biggie pursues her investigation, J.R. has his hands full with troubles of his own. These troubles don''t involve any murders-though it might be easier for J.R. if they did. As an extra treat for the reader, Willie Mae shares her recipe for King Ranch Casserole. Biggie is back! Nancy Bell returns with another delicious installment in her series of rural Texas mysteries featuring local doyen Biggie Weatherford as amateur detective. Once again, young J.R. faithfully narrates the humorous exploits of Biggie, his grandmother. Filled with plenty of quirky characters and down-home Texas flair, Bell''s stories continue to delight. An old friend of Biggie comes back to Job''s Crossing. Rex Barnwell and his young wife have returned to convert his father''s ranch into a retreat for overweight teenage girls, and Biggie is forced to reveal a secret that she has always kept from J.R. Not long after this startling revelation, Rex is murdered. Knowing full well that he won''t be able to keep Biggie away, the Texas Ranger in charge of the case enlists her help.While Biggie pursues her investigation, J.R. has his hands full with troubles of his own. These troubles don''t involve any murders-though it might be easier for J.R. if they did. As an extra treat for the reader, Willie Mae shares her recipe for King Ranch Casserole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8415'),
(10367, 'Biggie and the Devil Diet', 'Nancy Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 02 Biggie is back! Nancy Bell returns with another delicious installment in her series of rural Texas mysteries featuring local doyen Biggie Weatherford as amateur detective. Once again, young J.R. faithfully narrates the humorous exploits of Biggie, his grandmother. Filled with plenty of quirky characters and down-home Texas flair, Bell''s stories continue to delight. An old friend of Biggie comes back to Job''s Crossing. Rex Barnwell and his young wife have returned to convert his father''s ranch into a retreat for overweight teenage girls, and Biggie is forced to reveal a secret that she has always kept from J.R. Not long after this startling revelation, Rex is murdered. Knowing full well that he won''t be able to keep Biggie away, the Texas Ranger in charge of the case enlists her help.While Biggie pursues her investigation, J.R. has his hands full with troubles of his own. These troubles don''t involve any murders-though it might be easier for J.R. if they did. As an extra treat for the reader, Willie Mae shares her recipe for King Ranch Casserole. Biggie is back! Nancy Bell returns with another delicious installment in her series of rural Texas mysteries featuring local doyen Biggie Weatherford as amateur detective. Once again, young J.R. faithfully narrates the humorous exploits of Biggie, his grandmother. Filled with plenty of quirky characters and down-home Texas flair, Bell''s stories continue to delight. An old friend of Biggie comes back to Job''s Crossing. Rex Barnwell and his young wife have returned to convert his father''s ranch into a retreat for overweight teenage girls, and Biggie is forced to reveal a secret that she has always kept from J.R. Not long after this startling revelation, Rex is murdered. Knowing full well that he won''t be able to keep Biggie away, the Texas Ranger in charge of the case enlists her help.While Biggie pursues her investigation, J.R. has his hands full with troubles of his own. These troubles don''t involve any murders-though it might be easier for J.R. if they did. As an extra treat for the reader, Willie Mae shares her recipe for King Ranch Casserole.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22115'),
(10368, 'Biggles Flies South', 'Captain W E Johns', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15481'),
(10369, 'The Bike Lesson', 'Stan Berenstain &amp; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Brother Bear gets a brand-new bike, heâ€™s all set to ride itâ€“that is, after Papa Bear shows him the rules of the road.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Papa teaches Junior to ride a bicycle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1227'),
(10370, 'The Bike Lesson', 'Stan Berenstain &amp; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Brother Bear gets a brand-new bike, heâ€™s all set to ride itâ€“that is, after Papa Bear shows him the rules of the road.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Papa teaches Junior to ride a bicycle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8483'),
(10371, 'The Bike Lesson', 'Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Brother Bear gets a brand-new bike, heâ€™s all set to ride itâ€“that is, after Papa Bear shows him the rules of the road.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Illus. in full color. Papa teaches Junior to ride a bicycle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23690'),
(10372, 'Bike Snob', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  BILL STRICKLAND, EDITOR-AT-LARGE OF BICYCLING\n  <br />\n  Bike Snob should be lovingly gifted to all new cyclers - and forcefully smacked against the heads of all the jaded know-it-alls who take the sport way too seriously.\n </p>\n <p>\n  CHRISTIAN LANDER, AUTHOR OF STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE\n  <br />\n  After reading Bike Snob I put a brake on my fixie, started wearing a helmet, then punched myself in the stomach for spending so much time as a stupid hipster. This is a social manual that should be bundled with every bike shipped in America.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ROBERT LANHAM, AUTHOR OF THE HIPSTER HANDBOOK\n  <br />\n  As any avid biker will attest, cycling isn t just a form of transportation. It s a complicated culture with its own slang, taxonomy, and preferred tat styles. If you haven t read Bike Snob, you should consider reattaching those training wheels to your overpriced fixie.\n </p>\n <p>\n  LANCE ARMSTRONG\n  <br />\n  I like to think I know a thing or two (or three) about being ruthless and relentless - either trying to win the Tour or fighting cancer. The Snob knows it too. Keeping us dorks in line is tough work. I take pleasure in getting picked on by the Snob, slightly more pleasure in reading his writing, but take the most pleasure punishing his ass (my payback) on the bike either in Central Park or on 9W/River Road. Long live the Snob.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ELDEN "FATTY" NELSON, FATCYCLIST.COM\n  <br />\n  First you ll think the Snob is funny. Then you ll think he s smart. Eventually you ll probably think that he s seen far too many movies for his own good. At some point during this book, however, you re going to say to yourself: Holy crap. He is right. Believe me, that is one disconcerting moment.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cycling is exploding in a good way. Urbanites everywhere, from ironic hipsters to earth-conscious commuters, are taking to the bike like aquatic mammals to water. BikeSnobNYC cycling''s most prolific, well-known, hilarious, and anonymous blogger brings a fresh and humorous perspective to the most important vehicle to hit personal transportation since the horse.\n  <em>\n   Bike Snob\n  </em>\n  treats readers to a laugh-out-loud rant and rave about the world of bikes and their riders, and offers a unique look at the ins and outs of cycling, from its history and hallmarks to its wide range of bizarre practitioners. Throughout, the author lampoons the missteps, pretensions, and absurdities of bike culture while maintaining a contagious enthusiasm for cycling itself.\n  <em>\n   Bike Snob\n  </em>\n  is an essential volume for anyone who knows, is, or wants to become a cyclist.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7475'),
(10373, 'Bike Snob', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  BILL STRICKLAND, EDITOR-AT-LARGE OF BICYCLING\n  <br />\n  Bike Snob should be lovingly gifted to all new cyclers - and forcefully smacked against the heads of all the jaded know-it-alls who take the sport way too seriously.\n </p>\n <p>\n  CHRISTIAN LANDER, AUTHOR OF STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE\n  <br />\n  After reading Bike Snob I put a brake on my fixie, started wearing a helmet, then punched myself in the stomach for spending so much time as a stupid hipster. This is a social manual that should be bundled with every bike shipped in America.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ROBERT LANHAM, AUTHOR OF THE HIPSTER HANDBOOK\n  <br />\n  As any avid biker will attest, cycling isn t just a form of transportation. It s a complicated culture with its own slang, taxonomy, and preferred tat styles. If you haven t read Bike Snob, you should consider reattaching those training wheels to your overpriced fixie.\n </p>\n <p>\n  LANCE ARMSTRONG\n  <br />\n  I like to think I know a thing or two (or three) about being ruthless and relentless - either trying to win the Tour or fighting cancer. The Snob knows it too. Keeping us dorks in line is tough work. I take pleasure in getting picked on by the Snob, slightly more pleasure in reading his writing, but take the most pleasure punishing his ass (my payback) on the bike either in Central Park or on 9W/River Road. Long live the Snob.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ELDEN "FATTY" NELSON, FATCYCLIST.COM\n  <br />\n  First you ll think the Snob is funny. Then you ll think he s smart. Eventually you ll probably think that he s seen far too many movies for his own good. At some point during this book, however, you re going to say to yourself: Holy crap. He is right. Believe me, that is one disconcerting moment.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cycling is exploding in a good way. Urbanites everywhere, from ironic hipsters to earth-conscious commuters, are taking to the bike like aquatic mammals to water. BikeSnobNYC cycling''s most prolific, well-known, hilarious, and anonymous blogger brings a fresh and humorous perspective to the most important vehicle to hit personal transportation since the horse.\n  <em>\n   Bike Snob\n  </em>\n  treats readers to a laugh-out-loud rant and rave about the world of bikes and their riders, and offers a unique look at the ins and outs of cycling, from its history and hallmarks to its wide range of bizarre practitioners. Throughout, the author lampoons the missteps, pretensions, and absurdities of bike culture while maintaining a contagious enthusiasm for cycling itself.\n  <em>\n   Bike Snob\n  </em>\n  is an essential volume for anyone who knows, is, or wants to become a cyclist.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8191'),
(10374, 'Bike Snob', 'BikeSnobNYC', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  BILL STRICKLAND, EDITOR-AT-LARGE OF BICYCLING\n  <br />\n  Bike Snob should be lovingly gifted to all new cyclers - and forcefully smacked against the heads of all the jaded know-it-alls who take the sport way too seriously.\n </p>\n <p>\n  CHRISTIAN LANDER, AUTHOR OF STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE\n  <br />\n  After reading Bike Snob I put a brake on my fixie, started wearing a helmet, then punched myself in the stomach for spending so much time as a stupid hipster. This is a social manual that should be bundled with every bike shipped in America.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ROBERT LANHAM, AUTHOR OF THE HIPSTER HANDBOOK\n  <br />\n  As any avid biker will attest, cycling isn t just a form of transportation. It s a complicated culture with its own slang, taxonomy, and preferred tat styles. If you haven t read Bike Snob, you should consider reattaching those training wheels to your overpriced fixie.\n </p>\n <p>\n  LANCE ARMSTRONG\n  <br />\n  I like to think I know a thing or two (or three) about being ruthless and relentless - either trying to win the Tour or fighting cancer. The Snob knows it too. Keeping us dorks in line is tough work. I take pleasure in getting picked on by the Snob, slightly more pleasure in reading his writing, but take the most pleasure punishing his ass (my payback) on the bike either in Central Park or on 9W/River Road. Long live the Snob.\n </p>\n <p>\n  ELDEN "FATTY" NELSON, FATCYCLIST.COM\n  <br />\n  First you ll think the Snob is funny. Then you ll think he s smart. Eventually you ll probably think that he s seen far too many movies for his own good. At some point during this book, however, you re going to say to yourself: Holy crap. He is right. Believe me, that is one disconcerting moment.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Cycling is exploding in a good way. Urbanites everywhere, from ironic hipsters to earth-conscious commuters, are taking to the bike like aquatic mammals to water. BikeSnobNYC cycling''s most prolific, well-known, hilarious, and anonymous blogger brings a fresh and humorous perspective to the most important vehicle to hit personal transportation since the horse.\n  <em>\n   Bike Snob\n  </em>\n  treats readers to a laugh-out-loud rant and rave about the world of bikes and their riders, and offers a unique look at the ins and outs of cycling, from its history and hallmarks to its wide range of bizarre practitioners. Throughout, the author lampoons the missteps, pretensions, and absurdities of bike culture while maintaining a contagious enthusiasm for cycling itself.\n  <em>\n   Bike Snob\n  </em>\n  is an essential volume for anyone who knows, is, or wants to become a cyclist.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16619'),
(10375, 'Bill Bryson - Made in America', 'AP1', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13624'),
(10376, 'Bill Bryson - Made in America', 'AP1', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26482'),
(10377, 'Bill Warrington&#39;s Last Chance', 'James King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A magnificent debut about a man''s odyssey toward family redemption- with his granddaughter along for the ride **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bill Warrington realizes he has Alzheimer''s and his lucid days are numbered. Determined to repair a lifetime of damage to his estranged adult children, Bill takes off with his fifteen-year-old granddaughter April on a cross-country drive, bound for San Francisco, where she dreams of becoming a rock star. As the unlikely pair heads west, Bill leaves clues intended to force his three children-including April''s frantic mother-to overcome their mutual distrust and long-held grievances to work together to find them.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this dazzling road trip novel, James King masterfully explores themes of aging, sibling rivalry, family dysfunction, and coming of age, against a backdrop of the American heartland. Unflinching, funny, and poignant, *Bill Warrington''s Last Chance* speaks to that universal longing for familial reconciliation, love, and forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4886'),
(10378, 'Bill Warrington&#39;s Last Chance', 'James King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A magnificent debut about a man''s odyssey toward family redemption- with his granddaughter along for the ride **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bill Warrington realizes he has Alzheimer''s and his lucid days are numbered. Determined to repair a lifetime of damage to his estranged adult children, Bill takes off with his fifteen-year-old granddaughter April on a cross-country drive, bound for San Francisco, where she dreams of becoming a rock star. As the unlikely pair heads west, Bill leaves clues intended to force his three children-including April''s frantic mother-to overcome their mutual distrust and long-held grievances to work together to find them.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this dazzling road trip novel, James King masterfully explores themes of aging, sibling rivalry, family dysfunction, and coming of age, against a backdrop of the American heartland. Unflinching, funny, and poignant, *Bill Warrington''s Last Chance* speaks to that universal longing for familial reconciliation, love, and forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10740'),
(10379, 'Bill Warrington&#39;s Last Chance', 'James King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A magnificent debut about a man''s odyssey toward family redemption- with his granddaughter along for the ride ** Bill Warrington realizes he has Alzheimer''s and his lucid days are numbered. Determined to repair a lifetime of damage to his estranged adult children, Bill takes off with his fifteen-year-old granddaughter April on a cross-country drive, bound for San Francisco, where she dreams of becoming a rock star. As the unlikely pair heads west, Bill leaves clues intended to force his three children-including April''s frantic mother-to overcome their mutual distrust and long-held grievances to work together to find them. In this dazzling road trip novel, James King masterfully explores themes of aging, sibling rivalry, family dysfunction, and coming of age, against a backdrop of the American heartland. Unflinching, funny, and poignant, *Bill Warrington''s Last Chance* speaks to that universal longing for familial reconciliation, love, and forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19883'),
(10380, 'The Billionaire&#39;s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World&#39;s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine', 'Benjamin Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The titular bottle, from a cache of allegedly fine, allegedly French wine, allegedly owned by Thomas Jefferson in the 1780s, set a record price when auctioned in 1985. The subsequent brouhaha over the cache''s authenticity takes wine journalist Wallace on a piquant journey into the mirage-like world of rare wines. At its center are Hardy Rodenstock, an enigmatic German collector with a suspicious knack for unearthing implausibly old and drinkable wines, and Michael Broadbent, a Christie''s wine expert, who auctioned Rodenstock''s lucrative finds. The argument over the Jefferson bottles and other rarities aged for decades, flummoxed a wine establishment desperate to keep the cork in a controversy that might deflate the market for antique vintages. (In the author''s telling, a 2006 lawsuit almost settles the issue.) Wallace sips the story slowly, taking leisurely digressions into techniques for faking wine and detecting same with everything from Monticello scholarship to nuclear physics. He paints a colorful backdrop of eccentric oenophiles, decadent tastings and overripe flavor rhetoric (Broadbent describes one wine as redolent of chocolate and schoolgirls'' uniforms). Investigating wines so old and rare they could taste like anything, he playfully questions the very foundations of connoisseurship.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Benjamin Wallaceâ€™s magazine background helps him keep the many narrative threads in\n <em>\n  The Billionaireâ€™s Vinegar\n </em>\n tight and engaging. In addition, Wallace exhibits a sharp eye for detail and character: Hardy Rodenstock, in particular,comes across as deliciously deceptive. Exploring what Jeffersonâ€™s European tour of 1787 must have been like will likely interest even readers without a taste for wine, though connoisseurs will savor the authorâ€™s descriptions of the clubby (and sometimes comically extravagant) society of high-dollar wine collectors. Wallace raises questions about the wineâ€™s authenticity that will linger on the palate, despite a perhaps unsatisfying ending. Or, as collector Ed Lazarus wrote of his experience with the discovered cache, â€œI had never experienced anything remotely similar in an older Bordeaux, or in fact anywhere else, except perhaps at a Baskin-Robbins.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12316'),
(10381, 'Billy Bathgate', 'E. L. Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. Schultz becomes an unlikely surrogate parent to the boy, introducing him to the ways of the world and training Billy to follow in his footsteps. After Billy falls for Schulz''s latest girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to join. As he seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. E.L Doctorow won the 1990\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Doctorow''s mesmerizing odyssey about a teenage, fatherless street kid adopted by mobsters makes its first appearance in trade paper.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5784'),
(10382, 'Billy Bathgate', 'E. L. Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. Schultz becomes an unlikely surrogate parent to the boy, introducing him to the ways of the world and training Billy to follow in his footsteps. After Billy falls for Schulz''s latest girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to join. As he seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. E.L Doctorow won the 1990\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Doctorow''s mesmerizing odyssey about a teenage, fatherless street kid adopted by mobsters makes its first appearance in trade paper.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10929'),
(10383, 'Billy Bathgate', 'E. L. Doctorow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. Schultz becomes an unlikely surrogate parent to the boy, introducing him to the ways of the world and training Billy to follow in his footsteps. After Billy falls for Schulz''s latest girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to join. As he seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. E.L Doctorow won the 1990\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Doctorow''s mesmerizing odyssey about a teenage, fatherless street kid adopted by mobsters makes its first appearance in trade paper.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18821'),
(10384, 'Billy Budd', 'Herman Melville', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 9781434001085\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25719'),
(10385, 'Billy Budd &amp; Other Stories', 'Herman Melville &amp; Frederick Busch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Melville''s short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and great pathos that explores human relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made justice. Tales such as Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning Rod Man, The Tartarus of Maids or I and My Chimney, show the timeless poetic power of Melville''s writing as he consciously uses the disguise of allegory in various ways and to various ends.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Founded in 1906 by J.M. Dent, the Everyman Library has always tried to make the best books ever written available to the greatest number of people at the lowest possible price. Unique editorial features that help Everyman Paperback Classics stand out from the crowd include: a leading scholar or literary critic''s introduction to the text, a biography of the author, a chronology of her or his life and times, a historical selection of criticism, and a concise plot summary. All books published since 1993 have also been completely restyled: all type has been reset, to offer a clarity and ease of reading unique among editions of the classics; a vibrant, full-color cover design now complements these great texts with beautiful contemporary works of art. But the best feature must be Everyman''s uniquely low price. Each Everyman title offers these extensive materials at a price that competes with the most inexpensive editions on the market-but Everyman Paperbacks have durable binding, quality paper, and the highest editorial and scholarly standards.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11028'),
(10386, 'Binary', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2777'),
(10387, 'Binary', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21936'),
(10388, 'Binecuvantati animalele si copii', 'Glendon Swarthout', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25768'),
(10389, 'Bio-Strike', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Jerome Preisler &amp; Martin Harry Greenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Global stability and the New World order are in peril, and American businessman Roger Gordian, star of POLITIKA and SHADOW WATCH, must again mobilize the full resources of his multinatinoal corporation to counter the threat. Bearing all the hallmarks of classic Tom Clancy, the fifth Powerplays novel serves up another dose of international intrigue and political brinkmanship. Intricate plotting, exceptional authenticity and knife-edge suspense will see this book repeat the massive success of its four predecessors.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tom Clancy lives in Maryland, USA. His bestselling books include RAINBOW SIX and THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/645'),
(10390, 'Bio-Strike', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Jerome Preisler &amp; Martin Harry Greenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Global stability and the New World order are in peril, and American businessman Roger Gordian, star of POLITIKA and SHADOW WATCH, must again mobilize the full resources of his multinatinoal corporation to counter the threat. Bearing all the hallmarks of classic Tom Clancy, the fifth Powerplays novel serves up another dose of international intrigue and political brinkmanship. Intricate plotting, exceptional authenticity and knife-edge suspense will see this book repeat the massive success of its four predecessors.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tom Clancy lives in Maryland, USA. His bestselling books include RAINBOW SIX and THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8980'),
(10391, 'Bio-Strike', 'Tom Clancy; Jerome Preisler; Martin Harry Greenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Global stability and the New World order are in peril, and American businessman Roger Gordian, star of POLITIKA and SHADOW WATCH, must again mobilize the full resources of his multinatinoal corporation to counter the threat. Bearing all the hallmarks of classic Tom Clancy, the fifth Powerplays novel serves up another dose of international intrigue and political brinkmanship. Intricate plotting, exceptional authenticity and knife-edge suspense will see this book repeat the massive success of its four predecessors.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tom Clancy lives in Maryland, USA. His bestselling books include RAINBOW SIX and THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24353'),
(10392, 'The Biofab War', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Harrison and Zahava, intelligence agents, and Greg Farnesworth, explore an ancient temple and discover a matter transmitter that transports them to an alien spacecraft\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1118'),
(10393, 'The Biofab War', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John Harrison and Zahava, intelligence agents, and Greg Farnesworth, explore an ancient temple and discover a matter transmitter that transports them to an alien spacecraft\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23743'),
(10394, 'Birchwood', 'John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThis is one of the most startling of the century''s varied achievements in Irish writing.â€\n <br />\n â€”Seamus Deane\n</p>\n<p>\n "John Banville is one of the greatest masters of the English language.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Scotsman_\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Birchwoo_d represents a watershed in contemporary Irish writing..â€\n <br />\n â€”Colm Toibin\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An early classic from the Man Booker-prize winning author of\n <em>\n  The Sea\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  I am therefore I think\n </em>\n . So starts John Banvilleâ€™s 1973 novel\n <em>\n  Birchwood\n </em>\n , a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secretsâ€”a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmotherâ€”Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. At once a novel of a family, of isolation, and of a blighted Ireland,\n <em>\n  Birchwood\n </em>\n is a remarkable and complex story about the end of innocence for one boy and his country, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4399'),
(10395, 'Birchwood', 'John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThis is one of the most startling of the century''s varied achievements in Irish writing.â€\n <br />\n â€”Seamus Deane\n</p>\n<p>\n "John Banville is one of the greatest masters of the English language.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Scotsman_\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Birchwoo_d represents a watershed in contemporary Irish writing..â€\n <br />\n â€”Colm Toibin\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An early classic from the Man Booker-prize winning author of\n <em>\n  The Sea\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  I am therefore I think\n </em>\n . So starts John Banvilleâ€™s 1973 novel\n <em>\n  Birchwood\n </em>\n , a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secretsâ€”a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmotherâ€”Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. At once a novel of a family, of isolation, and of a blighted Ireland,\n <em>\n  Birchwood\n </em>\n is a remarkable and complex story about the end of innocence for one boy and his country, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8332'),
(10396, 'Birchwood', 'John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThis is one of the most startling of the century''s varied achievements in Irish writing.â€\n <br />\n â€”Seamus Deane\n</p>\n<p>\n "John Banville is one of the greatest masters of the English language.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Scotsman_\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Birchwoo_d represents a watershed in contemporary Irish writing..â€\n <br />\n â€”Colm Toibin\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An early classic from the Man Booker-prize winning author of\n <em>\n  The Sea\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  I am therefore I think\n </em>\n . So starts John Banvilleâ€™s 1973 novel\n <em>\n  Birchwood\n </em>\n , a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secretsâ€”a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmotherâ€”Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. At once a novel of a family, of isolation, and of a blighted Ireland,\n <em>\n  Birchwood\n </em>\n is a remarkable and complex story about the end of innocence for one boy and his country, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21433'),
(10397, 'Bird Eating Bird: Poems', 'Kristin Naca', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vigorous, self-assured, self-consciously youthful and proudly bilingual, Naca''s debut should get many times the attention afforded most poets'' first books. Poems short and long, made of family anecdotes and (like Neruda''s) of impressionistic lists, poems of remembered place (The Adoration at El Montan, set in San Antonio, Tex.) and poems of sexual joy between women give uncommon variety to the collection, even as Naca''s fast pace, mixed English and Spanish (with bits of Tagalog), and first-person emphasis give it obvious unity. Spanish means there''s another person/ inside you, she remembers her father saying. Poems composed originally in English mix with poems composed in Spanish and printed with her English translations. The next-to-last poem finds Naca in Mexico City, City so high that passion lacks heat... City where I spoke a word of Spanish, and like a spigot, my dreams squeezed shut. She also takes up, repeatedly, her Filipino-American background, the Pittsburgh of her youth, and the wide-open spaces she saw as an optimistic young writer in Nebraska. Chosen for the National Poetry Series'' new mtvU award by Yusef Komunyakaa, the volume might be noticed by young people who may not otherwise purchase poetry but may discover Naca on cable TV.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series mtvU Prize as selected by Yusef Komunyakaa (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Kristinâ€²s work perpetuates NPSâ€²s tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser known poets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her poems are playful and serious all at once. They explore the richness of her cultural and linguistic heritage, which spans the globe from Mexico to the Philippines. They defend with vigor and humor the color purple. And they analyze the insecurities of the letter â€²hâ€² -- among other things.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For thirty years, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and emerging voices and has been instrumental in launching the careers of poets and writers such as Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Cole Swensen, Thylias Moss, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3571'),
(10398, 'Bird Eating Bird: Poems', 'Kristin Naca', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vigorous, self-assured, self-consciously youthful and proudly bilingual, Naca''s debut should get many times the attention afforded most poets'' first books. Poems short and long, made of family anecdotes and (like Neruda''s) of impressionistic lists, poems of remembered place (The Adoration at El Montan, set in San Antonio, Tex.) and poems of sexual joy between women give uncommon variety to the collection, even as Naca''s fast pace, mixed English and Spanish (with bits of Tagalog), and first-person emphasis give it obvious unity. Spanish means there''s another person/ inside you, she remembers her father saying. Poems composed originally in English mix with poems composed in Spanish and printed with her English translations. The next-to-last poem finds Naca in Mexico City, City so high that passion lacks heat... City where I spoke a word of Spanish, and like a spigot, my dreams squeezed shut. She also takes up, repeatedly, her Filipino-American background, the Pittsburgh of her youth, and the wide-open spaces she saw as an optimistic young writer in Nebraska. Chosen for the National Poetry Series'' new mtvU award by Yusef Komunyakaa, the volume might be noticed by young people who may not otherwise purchase poetry but may discover Naca on cable TV.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series mtvU Prize as selected by Yusef Komunyakaa (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Kristinâ€²s work perpetuates NPSâ€²s tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser known poets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her poems are playful and serious all at once. They explore the richness of her cultural and linguistic heritage, which spans the globe from Mexico to the Philippines. They defend with vigor and humor the color purple. And they analyze the insecurities of the letter â€²hâ€² -- among other things.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For thirty years, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and emerging voices and has been instrumental in launching the careers of poets and writers such as Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Cole Swensen, Thylias Moss, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11658'),
(10399, 'Bird Eating Bird: Poems', 'Kristin Naca', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vigorous, self-assured, self-consciously youthful and proudly bilingual, Naca''s debut should get many times the attention afforded most poets'' first books. Poems short and long, made of family anecdotes and (like Neruda''s) of impressionistic lists, poems of remembered place (The Adoration at El Montan, set in San Antonio, Tex.) and poems of sexual joy between women give uncommon variety to the collection, even as Naca''s fast pace, mixed English and Spanish (with bits of Tagalog), and first-person emphasis give it obvious unity. Spanish means there''s another person/ inside you, she remembers her father saying. Poems composed originally in English mix with poems composed in Spanish and printed with her English translations. The next-to-last poem finds Naca in Mexico City, City so high that passion lacks heat... City where I spoke a word of Spanish, and like a spigot, my dreams squeezed shut. She also takes up, repeatedly, her Filipino-American background, the Pittsburgh of her youth, and the wide-open spaces she saw as an optimistic young writer in Nebraska. Chosen for the National Poetry Series'' new mtvU award by Yusef Komunyakaa, the volume might be noticed by young people who may not otherwise purchase poetry but may discover Naca on cable TV.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series mtvU Prize as selected by Yusef Komunyakaa (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Kristinâ€²s work perpetuates NPSâ€²s tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser known poets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her poems are playful and serious all at once. They explore the richness of her cultural and linguistic heritage, which spans the globe from Mexico to the Philippines. They defend with vigor and humor the color purple. And they analyze the insecurities of the letter â€²hâ€² -- among other things.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For thirty years, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and emerging voices and has been instrumental in launching the careers of poets and writers such as Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Cole Swensen, Thylias Moss, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20896');
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(10400, 'Bird in Hand', 'Christina Baker Kline', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her fourth novel (after\n <em>\n  The Way Life Should Be\n </em>\n ), Kline traces the construction and collapse of two long-term relationships. On her way home to New Jersey after an awkward party for her lifelong friend Claire''s highly autobiographical first novel, Alison gets into a car accident that kills a boy in the other car. Even though the accident wasn''t her fault, Allison, a mother of two young children, is wracked with grief and guilt. Her husband, Charlie, also struggles with the impulse to blame his wife, especially as he longs for any excuse to escalate his nascent affair with Claire and end his marriage. Episodes detailing the inevitable collapse of Alison and Charlie''s marriage, as well as Claire''s marriage to her well-meaning husband, Ben, are interspersed with vignettes revealing the four friends'' 10-plusâ€“year history together. Shifting perspectives and thoughtful interior monologues reveal just how isolated, and in some cases misguided, the characters are. Kline''s unflinching gaze and lovely prose sets Kline''s novel apart from the herd of infidelity/marital ennui novels. It''s well-done, thoughtful and thought provoking.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œChristina Baker Kline is a relentless storyteller. Once she sets her hook and starts reeling you in, struggle becomes counterproductive. The narrative line is too taut, the angler at the other end too skillful.â€ (Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and That Old Cape Magic )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKlineâ€™s razor-sharp novel about love, marriage and obligation is a beach book only because you could zip through it anywhere.â€ (More magazine )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is both thrilling and terrifying to read this powerful new novel and think: this could be me. Christina Baker Kline takes us on an intimate journey with her characters, one that brings us dangerously close to the hidden truths about love, trust and friendship.â€ (Ellen Sussman, author of Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex; Bad Girls: 25 Writers Misbehave; and On a Night Like This )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKlineâ€™s unflinching gaze and lovely prose set [BIRD IN HAND] apart from the herd of infidelity/marital ennui novels. Itâ€™s well-done, thoughtful and thought-provoking.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Bird in Hand] exhibits an unsparing eye for the telling details that reveal how people think and act.â€ (Library Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKline explores the complications of the lines and bonds between marriage and friendship with honest and complex emotions on all four narrative fronts.â€ (Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA gripping tale about two crumbling marriages, [BIRD IN HAND] offers a realistic and, at times, heartbreaking look at love and friendship.â€ (RealSimple.com, Entertainment Pick )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn BIRD IN HAND, Christina Baker Kline looks at marriage, at parents and children, pain and sorrow, and at all the questions that life asks us. This is a wise and lovely book.â€ (Roxana Robinson, author of Cost )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6763'),
(10401, 'Bird in Hand', 'Christina Baker Kline', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her fourth novel (after\n <em>\n  The Way Life Should Be\n </em>\n ), Kline traces the construction and collapse of two long-term relationships. On her way home to New Jersey after an awkward party for her lifelong friend Claire''s highly autobiographical first novel, Alison gets into a car accident that kills a boy in the other car. Even though the accident wasn''t her fault, Allison, a mother of two young children, is wracked with grief and guilt. Her husband, Charlie, also struggles with the impulse to blame his wife, especially as he longs for any excuse to escalate his nascent affair with Claire and end his marriage. Episodes detailing the inevitable collapse of Alison and Charlie''s marriage, as well as Claire''s marriage to her well-meaning husband, Ben, are interspersed with vignettes revealing the four friends'' 10-plusâ€“year history together. Shifting perspectives and thoughtful interior monologues reveal just how isolated, and in some cases misguided, the characters are. Kline''s unflinching gaze and lovely prose sets Kline''s novel apart from the herd of infidelity/marital ennui novels. It''s well-done, thoughtful and thought provoking.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œChristina Baker Kline is a relentless storyteller. Once she sets her hook and starts reeling you in, struggle becomes counterproductive. The narrative line is too taut, the angler at the other end too skillful.â€ (Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and That Old Cape Magic )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKlineâ€™s razor-sharp novel about love, marriage and obligation is a beach book only because you could zip through it anywhere.â€ (More magazine )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is both thrilling and terrifying to read this powerful new novel and think: this could be me. Christina Baker Kline takes us on an intimate journey with her characters, one that brings us dangerously close to the hidden truths about love, trust and friendship.â€ (Ellen Sussman, author of Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex; Bad Girls: 25 Writers Misbehave; and On a Night Like This )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKlineâ€™s unflinching gaze and lovely prose set [BIRD IN HAND] apart from the herd of infidelity/marital ennui novels. Itâ€™s well-done, thoughtful and thought-provoking.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Bird in Hand] exhibits an unsparing eye for the telling details that reveal how people think and act.â€ (Library Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKline explores the complications of the lines and bonds between marriage and friendship with honest and complex emotions on all four narrative fronts.â€ (Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA gripping tale about two crumbling marriages, [BIRD IN HAND] offers a realistic and, at times, heartbreaking look at love and friendship.â€ (RealSimple.com, Entertainment Pick )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn BIRD IN HAND, Christina Baker Kline looks at marriage, at parents and children, pain and sorrow, and at all the questions that life asks us. This is a wise and lovely book.â€ (Roxana Robinson, author of Cost )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10770'),
(10402, 'Bird in Hand', 'Christina Baker Kline', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her fourth novel (after\n <em>\n  The Way Life Should Be\n </em>\n ), Kline traces the construction and collapse of two long-term relationships. On her way home to New Jersey after an awkward party for her lifelong friend Claire''s highly autobiographical first novel, Alison gets into a car accident that kills a boy in the other car. Even though the accident wasn''t her fault, Allison, a mother of two young children, is wracked with grief and guilt. Her husband, Charlie, also struggles with the impulse to blame his wife, especially as he longs for any excuse to escalate his nascent affair with Claire and end his marriage. Episodes detailing the inevitable collapse of Alison and Charlie''s marriage, as well as Claire''s marriage to her well-meaning husband, Ben, are interspersed with vignettes revealing the four friends'' 10-plusâ€“year history together. Shifting perspectives and thoughtful interior monologues reveal just how isolated, and in some cases misguided, the characters are. Kline''s unflinching gaze and lovely prose sets Kline''s novel apart from the herd of infidelity/marital ennui novels. It''s well-done, thoughtful and thought provoking.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œChristina Baker Kline is a relentless storyteller. Once she sets her hook and starts reeling you in, struggle becomes counterproductive. The narrative line is too taut, the angler at the other end too skillful.â€ (Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and That Old Cape Magic )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKlineâ€™s razor-sharp novel about love, marriage and obligation is a beach book only because you could zip through it anywhere.â€ (More magazine )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is both thrilling and terrifying to read this powerful new novel and think: this could be me. Christina Baker Kline takes us on an intimate journey with her characters, one that brings us dangerously close to the hidden truths about love, trust and friendship.â€ (Ellen Sussman, author of Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex; Bad Girls: 25 Writers Misbehave; and On a Night Like This )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKlineâ€™s unflinching gaze and lovely prose set [BIRD IN HAND] apart from the herd of infidelity/marital ennui novels. Itâ€™s well-done, thoughtful and thought-provoking.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Bird in Hand] exhibits an unsparing eye for the telling details that reveal how people think and act.â€ (Library Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKline explores the complications of the lines and bonds between marriage and friendship with honest and complex emotions on all four narrative fronts.â€ (Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA gripping tale about two crumbling marriages, [BIRD IN HAND] offers a realistic and, at times, heartbreaking look at love and friendship.â€ (RealSimple.com, Entertainment Pick )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn BIRD IN HAND, Christina Baker Kline looks at marriage, at parents and children, pain and sorrow, and at all the questions that life asks us. This is a wise and lovely book.â€ (Roxana Robinson, author of Cost )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18081'),
(10403, 'Birdsong', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man''s Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as **A Farewell to Arms** and as sensuous as **The English Patient**. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, **Birdsong** is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1365'),
(10404, 'Birdsong', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man''s Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as **A Farewell to Arms** and as sensuous as **The English Patient**. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, **Birdsong** is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23593'),
(10405, 'BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting (2nd Edition) (Eclipse Series)', 'Diana Peh &amp; Nola Hague &amp; Jane Tatchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The world-wide developer community has downloaded over three million copies of BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) from the Eclipse web site. Built on the open-source Eclipse platform, BIRT is a powerful reporting system that provides an end-to-end solution, from creating and deploying reports to integrating report capabilities in enterprise applications.The first in a two-book series about this exciting technology, ***BIRT, Second Edition: A Field Guide to Reporting*** is the authoritative guide to using BIRT Report Designer, the graphical tool that enables users of all levels to build reports, simple to sophisticated, without any programming.***BIRT, Second Edition: A Field Guide to Reporting*** is an essential resource for users who want to create presentation quality reports from day one. The extensive examples, step-by-step instructions, and abundant illustrations help new users develop their report design skills quickly. Power users can find the information they need to make the most of the productâ€™s rich set of features to build complex and compelling reports. By the time you finish this book, you learn the following and moreDesign effective business and corporate reports that convey information through images, charts, tables, and cross tabsBuild reports using data from a variety of sources, including databases, XML documents, spreadsheets, and web servicesEnliven reports with interactive features, such as hyperlinks, Tooltips, and highlightingCreate consistently styled reports and collaborate with other report designers through the use of templates and libraries of reusable elementsLocalize reports for an international audience This second edition, revised and expanded, adds updated examples and covers all the new and improved product features, includingCross tabs and OLAP cubesNew chart types, including Gantt, bubble, tube, and cone chartsWeb services as a new data sourceNew report output formats, including doc, ppt, xls, and PostScriptThe capability for reports to reference CSSLocalization of report parameter and data values\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25883'),
(10406, 'Birth by Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe', 'Raymond de Vries; Cecilia Benoit; Edwin van Teijlingen; Sirpa Wrede', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Through their comparative and multi-leveled analyses, the editors and contributors remind readers that while birth is a natural physiological phenomenon, our understandings of birth, the birthing process, and how and from whom mothers should receive maternity care are culturally based and are continually constructed and reconstructed. By re-focusing our attention on birth outcomes as women''s experiences and the reproduction of societies and culture, the editors and contributors of\n <em>\n  Birth by Design\n </em>\n do problematize all contexts of maternity care, and by doing so, challenge birthing mothers, caregivers, and policy makers in our thinking about the birthing process..\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“Canadian Journal of Sociology Online (CJS Online), March - April 2002\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This collection brings together the leading research in maternity care from the United States, Canada and Europe to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. The essays focus on the practical side of "good" social science and "feminist-friendly" research. The text not only looks at maternity, but also the act of childbirth, with the goal of providing not just comparative perspectives of care, but also to integrate the differences in care within each essay for a truly international understanding of maternity care.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21470'),
(10407, 'Birth of the Kingdom', 'Jan Guillou', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The third volume of the crusades trilogy from bestselling Swedish author Jan Guillou. Arn de Gotha has become one of the most feared warriors of the Knights Templar fighting to liberate Palestine with the Crusaders. At the great battle for Jerusalem, a mammoth and bloody struggle where the Christians were finally defeated, Arn is saved from certain death by Saladin, his longtime enemy and trusted friend. Ravaged by wounds and sickness, Arn is at last granted his wish: to return at last to his homeland, it plagued by endless wars. Arn is determined to find her - the woman for whom he was exiled. He must discover if their love could endure so long a separation, and if it can sustain his new quest: the create a new people, a new society, both Christian and Muslim, both craftsmen and warriors, with Arn at its helm, fighting for peace in a savage land. A fitting conclusion to a great trilogy, a bestseller all over Europe, and now the basis for a major film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4696'),
(10408, 'Birth of the Kingdom', 'Jan Guillou', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The third volume of the crusades trilogy from bestselling Swedish author Jan Guillou. Arn de Gotha has become one of the most feared warriors of the Knights Templar fighting to liberate Palestine with the Crusaders. At the great battle for Jerusalem, a mammoth and bloody struggle where the Christians were finally defeated, Arn is saved from certain death by Saladin, his longtime enemy and trusted friend. Ravaged by wounds and sickness, Arn is at last granted his wish: to return at last to his homeland, it plagued by endless wars. Arn is determined to find her - the woman for whom he was exiled. He must discover if their love could endure so long a separation, and if it can sustain his new quest: the create a new people, a new society, both Christian and Muslim, both craftsmen and warriors, with Arn at its helm, fighting for peace in a savage land. A fitting conclusion to a great trilogy, a bestseller all over Europe, and now the basis for a major film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10096'),
(10409, 'Birth of the Kingdom', 'Jan Guillou', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The third volume of the crusades trilogy from bestselling Swedish author Jan Guillou. Arn de Gotha has become one of the most feared warriors of the Knights Templar fighting to liberate Palestine with the Crusaders. At the great battle for Jerusalem, a mammoth and bloody struggle where the Christians were finally defeated, Arn is saved from certain death by Saladin, his longtime enemy and trusted friend. Ravaged by wounds and sickness, Arn is at last granted his wish: to return at last to his homeland, it plagued by endless wars. Arn is determined to find her - the woman for whom he was exiled. He must discover if their love could endure so long a separation, and if it can sustain his new quest: the create a new people, a new society, both Christian and Muslim, both craftsmen and warriors, with Arn at its helm, fighting for peace in a savage land. A fitting conclusion to a great trilogy, a bestseller all over Europe, and now the basis for a major film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19941'),
(10410, 'Birthright: The Book of Man', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21599'),
(10411, 'Bismarck: A Life', 'Jonathan Steinberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Otto von Bismarck transformed Europe more completely than anybody in the nineteenth century--except for Napoleon. He unified--and indeed, created--the country at the center of two world wars that would transform the world. This riveting biography illuminates the life of the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck''s friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with the constitution of an ox, a brutal tyrant who could easily shed tears, a convert to an extreme form of evangelical Protestantism who secularized schools and introduced civil divorce. Bismarck may have been in sheer ability the most intelligent man to direct a great state in modern times. His brilliance and insight dazzled his contemporaries. But all agreed there was also something demonic, diabolical, overwhelming, beyond human attributes, in Bismarck''s personality. He was a kind of malign genius who, behind the various postures, concealed an ice-cold contempt for his fellow human beings and a drive to control and rule them. As one contemporary noted: "the Bismarck regime was a constant orgy of scorn and abuse of mankind, collectively and individually." In this comprehensive and expansive biography--a brilliant study in power--Jonathan Steinberg brings Bismarck to life, revealing the stark contrast between the "Iron Chancellor''s" unmatched political skills and his profoundly flawed human character.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12363'),
(10412, 'A Bit on the Side', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The protagonists of this haunting, emotionally bleak collection of storiesâ€”a new widow confessing to two surprised Legion of Mary sisters the secrets of her marriage to a hateful man in "Sitting with the Dead"; a woman stalked by her lonely, possibly violent ex-husband in "On the Streets"; an heiress who compulsively recounts her tragic life story to total strangers in "Solitude"; and a couple who exploit each other on a blind date in "An Evening Out"â€”are generally 50-ish, usually childless and almost always burdened by regret over relationships decayed or forgone. They live in the aftermath of irremediable mistakes, ruefully cognizant that hope and romance are often delusory covers for self-interest and survival. Even the youngâ€”an 18-year-old girl who weeps with regret over future betrayals, an Irish woman who calls off her wedding after realizing she loves the dream of America more than her intendedâ€”are melancholy and introspective. Trevor reveals his native Ireland as a world sandwiched between modernity and its accompanying wealth, secularism and vulgarity, and a past that was more soulful and pious but also more restrictive. The much-lauded Trevor (_Felicia''s Journey_;\n  <em>\n   The Story of Lucy Gault\n  </em>\n  ; etc.) explores the many sources and shadings of regret with his usual delicate but brilliant psychological nuance, brightened occasionally by nostalgia for the lost love that once impelled his characters forward.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "If one were to pick a single word to characterize\n  <em>\n   A Bit on the Side\n  </em>\n  , it would be forlorn," writes Michael Dirda in the\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  . Here, as in his two dozen or so collections of short fiction and novels (see\n  <em>\n   The Story of Lucy Gault\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  1/2 Jan/Feb 2003), Trevor introduces credible characters beset by hopelessness. But these Chekhovian stories, many previously published in\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , offer anything but hopeless reading. Trevor is a master of simple, quiet prose and psychological intuition, and, even if you donâ€™t identify with each characterâ€™s plight, youâ€™ll recognize familiar patterns of behavior. That critics laud the relative merits of each story attests to the great power of this collection as a whole. It only proves, as\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  claims, that Trevor may be "the greatest living writer of short stories."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/149'),
(10413, 'A Bit on the Side', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The protagonists of this haunting, emotionally bleak collection of storiesâ€”a new widow confessing to two surprised Legion of Mary sisters the secrets of her marriage to a hateful man in "Sitting with the Dead"; a woman stalked by her lonely, possibly violent ex-husband in "On the Streets"; an heiress who compulsively recounts her tragic life story to total strangers in "Solitude"; and a couple who exploit each other on a blind date in "An Evening Out"â€”are generally 50-ish, usually childless and almost always burdened by regret over relationships decayed or forgone. They live in the aftermath of irremediable mistakes, ruefully cognizant that hope and romance are often delusory covers for self-interest and survival. Even the youngâ€”an 18-year-old girl who weeps with regret over future betrayals, an Irish woman who calls off her wedding after realizing she loves the dream of America more than her intendedâ€”are melancholy and introspective. Trevor reveals his native Ireland as a world sandwiched between modernity and its accompanying wealth, secularism and vulgarity, and a past that was more soulful and pious but also more restrictive. The much-lauded Trevor (_Felicia''s Journey_;\n  <em>\n   The Story of Lucy Gault\n  </em>\n  ; etc.) explores the many sources and shadings of regret with his usual delicate but brilliant psychological nuance, brightened occasionally by nostalgia for the lost love that once impelled his characters forward.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "If one were to pick a single word to characterize\n  <em>\n   A Bit on the Side\n  </em>\n  , it would be forlorn," writes Michael Dirda in the\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  . Here, as in his two dozen or so collections of short fiction and novels (see\n  <em>\n   The Story of Lucy Gault\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  1/2 Jan/Feb 2003), Trevor introduces credible characters beset by hopelessness. But these Chekhovian stories, many previously published in\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , offer anything but hopeless reading. Trevor is a master of simple, quiet prose and psychological intuition, and, even if you donâ€™t identify with each characterâ€™s plight, youâ€™ll recognize familiar patterns of behavior. That critics laud the relative merits of each story attests to the great power of this collection as a whole. It only proves, as\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  claims, that Trevor may be "the greatest living writer of short stories."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13072'),
(10414, 'A Bit on the Side', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The protagonists of this haunting, emotionally bleak collection of storiesâ€”a new widow confessing to two surprised Legion of Mary sisters the secrets of her marriage to a hateful man in "Sitting with the Dead"; a woman stalked by her lonely, possibly violent ex-husband in "On the Streets"; an heiress who compulsively recounts her tragic life story to total strangers in "Solitude"; and a couple who exploit each other on a blind date in "An Evening Out"â€”are generally 50-ish, usually childless and almost always burdened by regret over relationships decayed or forgone. They live in the aftermath of irremediable mistakes, ruefully cognizant that hope and romance are often delusory covers for self-interest and survival. Even the youngâ€”an 18-year-old girl who weeps with regret over future betrayals, an Irish woman who calls off her wedding after realizing she loves the dream of America more than her intendedâ€”are melancholy and introspective. Trevor reveals his native Ireland as a world sandwiched between modernity and its accompanying wealth, secularism and vulgarity, and a past that was more soulful and pious but also more restrictive. The much-lauded Trevor (_Felicia''s Journey_;\n  <em>\n   The Story of Lucy Gault\n  </em>\n  ; etc.) explores the many sources and shadings of regret with his usual delicate but brilliant psychological nuance, brightened occasionally by nostalgia for the lost love that once impelled his characters forward.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "If one were to pick a single word to characterize\n  <em>\n   A Bit on the Side\n  </em>\n  , it would be forlorn," writes Michael Dirda in the\n  <em>\n   Washington Post\n  </em>\n  . Here, as in his two dozen or so collections of short fiction and novels (see\n  <em>\n   The Story of Lucy Gault\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  1/2 Jan/Feb 2003), Trevor introduces credible characters beset by hopelessness. But these Chekhovian stories, many previously published in\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , offer anything but hopeless reading. Trevor is a master of simple, quiet prose and psychological intuition, and, even if you donâ€™t identify with each characterâ€™s plight, youâ€™ll recognize familiar patterns of behavior. That critics laud the relative merits of each story attests to the great power of this collection as a whole. It only proves, as\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  claims, that Trevor may be "the greatest living writer of short stories."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24709'),
(10415, 'Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir', 'Helena Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meet Helena Andrews, sassy, single, smart, and, yes, a bitchâ€”but Tina Fey said it best, bitch is the new black!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Helena Andrews heard this declaration on *Saturday Night Live*, her first reaction was How daaare you? But after a commercial break and some thought, she decided to poke at the stereotype that says "successful" and "bitch" are synonyms. Unafraid and frank, she comes to realize that being a bitch is sometimes the best way to beâ€”except, of course, when it''s not.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Bitch Is the New Black* follows Andrewsâ€”sexy, single, and a self-described smart-assâ€”on her trip from kidnapped daughter of a lesbian to Washington, D.C., political reporter who can''t remember a single senator''s name. Told in Andrews''s singular voice, this addictive memoir explores the roller coaster of being educated and single while trying to become an "actual adult" and find love.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In these candid yet heartfelt essays, she chronicles that ride from beginning to end: a childhood spent on an all-white island, escaping via episodes of *The Cosby Show*; being set up with Obama''s "body guy" Reggie Love by Maureen Dowd; and the shocking suicide of a best friend. Through it all, Andrews and her gang of girlfriends urge each other to "keep it moving." But no one can stay strong all the timeâ€”not even the women we believe do so without trying.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Andrews says, "Despite the fact that the most recognizable woman in the United States is black, popular culture still hasn''t moved past the only adjective apparently meant to describe usâ€” "strong." She is also flawed, tired, naive, greedy, gutsy, frightened, and kind: secret sides that come out in honest detail here.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5135'),
(10416, 'Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir', 'Helena Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meet Helena Andrews, sassy, single, smart, and, yes, a bitchâ€”but Tina Fey said it best, bitch is the new black!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Helena Andrews heard this declaration on *Saturday Night Live*, her first reaction was How daaare you? But after a commercial break and some thought, she decided to poke at the stereotype that says "successful" and "bitch" are synonyms. Unafraid and frank, she comes to realize that being a bitch is sometimes the best way to beâ€”except, of course, when it''s not.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Bitch Is the New Black* follows Andrewsâ€”sexy, single, and a self-described smart-assâ€”on her trip from kidnapped daughter of a lesbian to Washington, D.C., political reporter who can''t remember a single senator''s name. Told in Andrews''s singular voice, this addictive memoir explores the roller coaster of being educated and single while trying to become an "actual adult" and find love.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In these candid yet heartfelt essays, she chronicles that ride from beginning to end: a childhood spent on an all-white island, escaping via episodes of *The Cosby Show*; being set up with Obama''s "body guy" Reggie Love by Maureen Dowd; and the shocking suicide of a best friend. Through it all, Andrews and her gang of girlfriends urge each other to "keep it moving." But no one can stay strong all the timeâ€”not even the women we believe do so without trying.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Andrews says, "Despite the fact that the most recognizable woman in the United States is black, popular culture still hasn''t moved past the only adjective apparently meant to describe usâ€” "strong." She is also flawed, tired, naive, greedy, gutsy, frightened, and kind: secret sides that come out in honest detail here.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8206'),
(10417, 'Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir', 'Helena Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Meet Helena Andrews, sassy, single, smart, and, yes, a bitchâ€”but Tina Fey said it best, bitch is the new black! When Helena Andrews heard this declaration on *Saturday Night Live*, her first reaction was How daaare you? But after a commercial break and some thought, she decided to poke at the stereotype that says "successful" and "bitch" are synonyms. Unafraid and frank, she comes to realize that being a bitch is sometimes the best way to beâ€”except, of course, when it''s not. *Bitch Is the New Black* follows Andrewsâ€”sexy, single, and a self-described smart-assâ€”on her trip from kidnapped daughter of a lesbian to Washington, D.C., political reporter who can''t remember a single senator''s name. Told in Andrews''s singular voice, this addictive memoir explores the roller coaster of being educated and single while trying to become an "actual adult" and find love. In these candid yet heartfelt essays, she chronicles that ride from beginning to end: a childhood spent on an all-white island, escaping via episodes of *The Cosby Show*; being set up with Obama''s "body guy" Reggie Love by Maureen Dowd; and the shocking suicide of a best friend. Through it all, Andrews and her gang of girlfriends urge each other to "keep it moving." But no one can stay strong all the timeâ€”not even the women we believe do so without trying. As Andrews says, "Despite the fact that the most recognizable woman in the United States is black, popular culture still hasn''t moved past the only adjective apparently meant to describe usâ€” "strong." She is also flawed, tired, naive, greedy, gutsy, frightened, and kind: secret sides that come out in honest detail here.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19475'),
(10418, 'Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir', 'Helena Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Meet Helena Andrews, sassy, single, smart, and, yes, a bitchâ€”but Tina Fey said it best, bitch is the new black! When Helena Andrews heard this declaration on *Saturday Night Live*, her first reaction was How daaare you? But after a commercial break and some thought, she decided to poke at the stereotype that says "successful" and "bitch" are synonyms. Unafraid and frank, she comes to realize that being a bitch is sometimes the best way to beâ€”except, of course, when it''s not. *Bitch Is the New Black* follows Andrewsâ€”sexy, single, and a self-described smart-assâ€”on her trip from kidnapped daughter of a lesbian to Washington, D.C., political reporter who can''t remember a single senator''s name. Told in Andrews''s singular voice, this addictive memoir explores the roller coaster of being educated and single while trying to become an "actual adult" and find love. In these candid yet heartfelt essays, she chronicles that ride from beginning to end: a childhood spent on an all-white island, escaping via episodes of *The Cosby Show*; being set up with Obama''s "body guy" Reggie Love by Maureen Dowd; and the shocking suicide of a best friend. Through it all, Andrews and her gang of girlfriends urge each other to "keep it moving." But no one can stay strong all the timeâ€”not even the women we believe do so without trying. As Andrews says, "Despite the fact that the most recognizable woman in the United States is black, popular culture still hasn''t moved past the only adjective apparently meant to describe usâ€” "strong." She is also flawed, tired, naive, greedy, gutsy, frightened, and kind: secret sides that come out in honest detail here.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28142'),
(10419, 'Bite Me: A Love Story', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMooreâ€™s most hysterical â€˜love storyâ€™ to date.â€ (Booklist )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI canâ€™t emphasize enough how funny BITE ME is.â€ (Bookreporter.com )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMooreâ€™s twisted take on the undead comes as a welcome respite from the recent spate of TV, film and book offerings to bombard us.â€ (Edmonton Journal on BITE ME )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoore proves he has few rivals on the humour-opus front with this high-larious romp that just might have driven the final nail into old Nosferatuâ€™s coffin.â€ (Ottawa Citizen on BITE ME )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoore carved a niche in the horror-comedy genre, and anyone with a fiendish sense of humor will love his writing.â€ (Florida Times-Union on BITE ME )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. ''Cept there''s no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they''re vampires. Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Abby wants to be a bloodsucking fiend, too, but right now she''s really busy with other stuff, like breaking in a pair of red vinyl thigh-high SkankensteinÂ® platform boots and wrangling her Ph.D.-candidate boyfriend, Steve (the love monkey). And then there''s that vampire cat Chet, who''s getting bigger and smarterâ€”and thirstierâ€”by the minute. Abby thought she and Steve could handle the kitty cat on their own,\n  <em>\n   mais non\n  </em>\n  . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before you can say "OMG! WTF?" Tommy and Jody are sprung from captivity, and join forces with Abby, Steve, the frozen-turkey-bowling Safeway crew, the Emperor of San Francisco and his trusty dogs Lazarus and Bummer, Abby''s gay Goth friend Jared, and SF''s finest Cavuto and Rivera to hunt big cat and save the city. And that''s when the fun really begins.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6686'),
(10420, 'Bite Me: A Love Story', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMooreâ€™s most hysterical â€˜love storyâ€™ to date.â€ (Booklist )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI canâ€™t emphasize enough how funny BITE ME is.â€ (Bookreporter.com )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMooreâ€™s twisted take on the undead comes as a welcome respite from the recent spate of TV, film and book offerings to bombard us.â€ (Edmonton Journal on BITE ME )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoore proves he has few rivals on the humour-opus front with this high-larious romp that just might have driven the final nail into old Nosferatuâ€™s coffin.â€ (Ottawa Citizen on BITE ME )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoore carved a niche in the horror-comedy genre, and anyone with a fiendish sense of humor will love his writing.â€ (Florida Times-Union on BITE ME )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. ''Cept there''s no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they''re vampires. Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Abby wants to be a bloodsucking fiend, too, but right now she''s really busy with other stuff, like breaking in a pair of red vinyl thigh-high SkankensteinÂ® platform boots and wrangling her Ph.D.-candidate boyfriend, Steve (the love monkey). And then there''s that vampire cat Chet, who''s getting bigger and smarterâ€”and thirstierâ€”by the minute. Abby thought she and Steve could handle the kitty cat on their own,\n  <em>\n   mais non\n  </em>\n  . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before you can say "OMG! WTF?" Tommy and Jody are sprung from captivity, and join forces with Abby, Steve, the frozen-turkey-bowling Safeway crew, the Emperor of San Francisco and his trusty dogs Lazarus and Bummer, Abby''s gay Goth friend Jared, and SF''s finest Cavuto and Rivera to hunt big cat and save the city. And that''s when the fun really begins.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11488'),
(10421, 'Bite Me: A Love Story', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. ''Cept there''s no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they''re vampires. Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Abby wants to be a bloodsucking fiend, too, but right now she''s really busy with other stuff, like breaking in a pair of red vinyl thigh-high SkankensteinÂ® platform boots and wrangling her Ph.D.-candidate boyfriend, Steve (the love monkey). And then there''s that vampire cat Chet, who''s getting bigger and smarterâ€”and thirstierâ€”by the minute. Abby thought she and Steve could handle the kitty cat on their own, *mais non* . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Before you can say "OMG! WTF?" Tommy and Jody are sprung from captivity, and join forces with Abby, Steve, the frozen-turkey-bowling Safeway crew, the Emperor of San Francisco and his trusty dogs Lazarus and Bummer, Abby''s gay Goth friend Jared, and SF''s finest Cavuto and Rivera to hunt big cat and save the city. And that''s when the fun really begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14377'),
(10422, 'Bite Me: A Love Story', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMooreâ€™s most hysterical â€˜love storyâ€™ to date.â€ (Booklist )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI canâ€™t emphasize enough how funny BITE ME is.â€ (Bookreporter.com )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMooreâ€™s twisted take on the undead comes as a welcome respite from the recent spate of TV, film and book offerings to bombard us.â€ (Edmonton Journal on BITE ME )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoore proves he has few rivals on the humour-opus front with this high-larious romp that just might have driven the final nail into old Nosferatuâ€™s coffin.â€ (Ottawa Citizen on BITE ME )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMoore carved a niche in the horror-comedy genre, and anyone with a fiendish sense of humor will love his writing.â€ (Florida Times-Union on BITE ME )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. ''Cept there''s no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they''re vampires. Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Abby wants to be a bloodsucking fiend, too, but right now she''s really busy with other stuff, like breaking in a pair of red vinyl thigh-high SkankensteinÂ® platform boots and wrangling her Ph.D.-candidate boyfriend, Steve (the love monkey). And then there''s that vampire cat Chet, who''s getting bigger and smarterâ€”and thirstierâ€”by the minute. Abby thought she and Steve could handle the kitty cat on their own,\n  <em>\n   mais non\n  </em>\n  . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Before you can say "OMG! WTF?" Tommy and Jody are sprung from captivity, and join forces with Abby, Steve, the frozen-turkey-bowling Safeway crew, the Emperor of San Francisco and his trusty dogs Lazarus and Bummer, Abby''s gay Goth friend Jared, and SF''s finest Cavuto and Rivera to hunt big cat and save the city. And that''s when the fun really begins.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18071'),
(10423, 'Bite Me: A Love Story', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. ''Cept there''s no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they''re vampires. Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Abby wants to be a bloodsucking fiend, too, but right now she''s really busy with other stuff, like breaking in a pair of red vinyl thigh-high SkankensteinÂ® platform boots and wrangling her Ph.D.-candidate boyfriend, Steve (the love monkey). And then there''s that vampire cat Chet, who''s getting bigger and smarterâ€”and thirstierâ€”by the minute. Abby thought she and Steve could handle the kitty cat on their own, *mais non* . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Before you can say "OMG! WTF?" Tommy and Jody are sprung from captivity, and join forces with Abby, Steve, the frozen-turkey-bowling Safeway crew, the Emperor of San Francisco and his trusty dogs Lazarus and Bummer, Abby''s gay Goth friend Jared, and SF''s finest Cavuto and Rivera to hunt big cat and save the city. And that''s when the fun really begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27003');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(10424, 'Bitten', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An erotically charged, addictive thriller from the future queen of suspense.Living in Toronto for a year, Elena is leading the normal life she has always dreamed of, including a stable job as a journalist and a nice apartment shared with her boyfriend. As the lone female werewolf in existence, only her secret midnight prowls and her occasional inhuman cravings set her apart. Just one year ago, life was very different. Adopted by the Pack when bitten, Elena had spent years struggling with her resentment at having her life stolen away. Torn between two worlds, and overwhelmed by the new passions coursing through her body, her only option for control was to deny her awakening needs and escape.But now the Pack has called Elena home to help them fight an alliance of renegade werewolves who are bent on exposing and annihilating the Pack. And although Elena is obliged to rejoin her "family," she vows not to be swept up in Pack life again, no matter how natural it might feel. She has made her choice. Trouble is, she''s increasingly uncertain if it''s the right one.An erotically charged thriller, **Bitten** will awaken the voracious appetite of every reader, as the age-old battle between man and beast, between human and inhuman forces, comes to a head in one small town and within one woman''s body.*From the Paperback edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3774'),
(10425, 'Bitten', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: An erotically charged, addictive thriller from the future queen of suspense.Living in Toronto for a year, Elena is leading the normal life she has always dreamed of, including a stable job as a journalist and a nice apartment shared with her boyfriend. As the lone female werewolf in existence, only her secret midnight prowls and her occasional inhuman cravings set her apart. Just one year ago, life was very different. Adopted by the Pack when bitten, Elena had spent years struggling with her resentment at having her life stolen away. Torn between two worlds, and overwhelmed by the new passions coursing through her body, her only option for control was to deny her awakening needs and escape.But now the Pack has called Elena home to help them fight an alliance of renegade werewolves who are bent on exposing and annihilating the Pack. And although Elena is obliged to rejoin her "family," she vows not to be swept up in Pack life again, no matter how natural it might feel. She has made her choice. Trouble is, she''s increasingly uncertain if it''s the right one.An erotically charged thriller, **Bitten** will awaken the voracious appetite of every reader, as the age-old battle between man and beast, between human and inhuman forces, comes to a head in one small town and within one woman''s body.*From the Paperback edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20776'),
(10426, 'Bitter Gold Hearts', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Stormwarden''s children have been kidnapped and Garrett, P.I. is on the case. But caught between the bewitching beauty of a half-elf and the fearsome power of a horde of ogres, Garrett has to think twice before sacrificing all for a fortune in gold--after all, even in this enchanted land, he''s only human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5338'),
(10427, 'Bitter Gold Hearts', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Stormwarden''s children have been kidnapped and Garrett, P.I. is on the case. But caught between the bewitching beauty of a half-elf and the fearsome power of a horde of ogres, Garrett has to think twice before sacrificing all for a fortune in gold--after all, even in this enchanted land, he''s only human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19327'),
(10428, 'Bitter Gold Hearts', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Stormwarden''s children have been kidnapped and Garrett, P.I. is on the case. But caught between the bewitching beauty of a half-elf and the fearsome power of a horde of ogres, Garrett has to think twice before sacrificing all for a fortune in gold--after all, even in this enchanted land, he''s only human.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28020'),
(10429, 'Bittersweet', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like the rest of her novels, Steel''s 46th testifies to the insatiable appetite for unrequited love and the success of TV''s\n <em>\n  Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous\n </em>\n . Meet India Taylor, the coulda-woulda-shoulda been a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist if it wasn''t for her meddling husband. Although they met in the Peace Corps 20 years prior, Doug insisted she put down the camera, pick up a broom, and raise four kids in the comfy Connecticut burbs. However, after 17 years of carpooling, Little League, and Doug''s revelation that he''s happy with a platonic marriage, India moves on to greener pastures. She finds her cash cow in the form of Paul Ward, a.k.a. "Lion of Wall Street," who has a yacht called the\n <em>\n  Sea Star\n </em>\n and likes to coo such things as "I think I''m a little crazy, but I love you." Although he may be senile and she is still married, the duo seem destined for each other as Paul slowly helps India reclaim her past and follow her passion. What''s not to love about Danielle Steel? She starts so many sentences with the word\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n that you start to do it yourself. And there''s a run-on quality to the narrator''s consciousness. But she drips glamour, drops famous names better than Robin Leach, and makes those pages fly so fast they cool your face on the hottest beach.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Many a stay-at-home mom''s worst nightmare is realized in Steel''s latest novel when India Taylor''s husband, Doug, threatens to end their 17-year marriage if she dares to pursue her long-abandoned photojournalism career. Doug repetitively intones that marriage is by necessity an unromantic contract in which the wife''s sole purpose is to care for the home, kids and husband, and if she reneges on her end of the deal with a pipe dream of independence, that is the ultimate "deal breaker." But in tried-and-true Steel (Mirror Image, etc.) fashion, India has a handsome Wall Street billionaire, Paul Ward, in the wings. His glamorous wifeAan internationally bestselling authorAdies in a plane crash several months after he and India have struck up a close friendship. But then Paul turns guilty and skittish about the budding romance, leaving India alone to face the harsh realities of being a single mom of four. Predictably, India''s desolation is brief, punctuated by travel, adventure, a thrilling new career and a near-tragedy to put everything into perspective. As usual, Steel takes a theme of interest or concern to manyAin this case, a woman striking out on her ownAand turns it into a compulsively readable tale. With its swiftly moving story line and tidy love-conquers-all ending, Steel''s latest should gratify her millions of fans. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6530'),
(10430, 'Bittersweet', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like the rest of her novels, Steel''s 46th testifies to the insatiable appetite for unrequited love and the success of TV''s\n <em>\n  Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous\n </em>\n . Meet India Taylor, the coulda-woulda-shoulda been a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist if it wasn''t for her meddling husband. Although they met in the Peace Corps 20 years prior, Doug insisted she put down the camera, pick up a broom, and raise four kids in the comfy Connecticut burbs. However, after 17 years of carpooling, Little League, and Doug''s revelation that he''s happy with a platonic marriage, India moves on to greener pastures. She finds her cash cow in the form of Paul Ward, a.k.a. "Lion of Wall Street," who has a yacht called the\n <em>\n  Sea Star\n </em>\n and likes to coo such things as "I think I''m a little crazy, but I love you." Although he may be senile and she is still married, the duo seem destined for each other as Paul slowly helps India reclaim her past and follow her passion. What''s not to love about Danielle Steel? She starts so many sentences with the word\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n that you start to do it yourself. And there''s a run-on quality to the narrator''s consciousness. But she drips glamour, drops famous names better than Robin Leach, and makes those pages fly so fast they cool your face on the hottest beach.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Many a stay-at-home mom''s worst nightmare is realized in Steel''s latest novel when India Taylor''s husband, Doug, threatens to end their 17-year marriage if she dares to pursue her long-abandoned photojournalism career. Doug repetitively intones that marriage is by necessity an unromantic contract in which the wife''s sole purpose is to care for the home, kids and husband, and if she reneges on her end of the deal with a pipe dream of independence, that is the ultimate "deal breaker." But in tried-and-true Steel (Mirror Image, etc.) fashion, India has a handsome Wall Street billionaire, Paul Ward, in the wings. His glamorous wifeAan internationally bestselling authorAdies in a plane crash several months after he and India have struck up a close friendship. But then Paul turns guilty and skittish about the budding romance, leaving India alone to face the harsh realities of being a single mom of four. Predictably, India''s desolation is brief, punctuated by travel, adventure, a thrilling new career and a near-tragedy to put everything into perspective. As usual, Steel takes a theme of interest or concern to manyAin this case, a woman striking out on her ownAand turns it into a compulsively readable tale. With its swiftly moving story line and tidy love-conquers-all ending, Steel''s latest should gratify her millions of fans. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12856'),
(10431, 'Bittersweet', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like the rest of her novels, Steel''s 46th testifies to the insatiable appetite for unrequited love and the success of TV''s\n <em>\n  Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous\n </em>\n . Meet India Taylor, the coulda-woulda-shoulda been a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist if it wasn''t for her meddling husband. Although they met in the Peace Corps 20 years prior, Doug insisted she put down the camera, pick up a broom, and raise four kids in the comfy Connecticut burbs. However, after 17 years of carpooling, Little League, and Doug''s revelation that he''s happy with a platonic marriage, India moves on to greener pastures. She finds her cash cow in the form of Paul Ward, a.k.a. "Lion of Wall Street," who has a yacht called the\n <em>\n  Sea Star\n </em>\n and likes to coo such things as "I think I''m a little crazy, but I love you." Although he may be senile and she is still married, the duo seem destined for each other as Paul slowly helps India reclaim her past and follow her passion. What''s not to love about Danielle Steel? She starts so many sentences with the word\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n that you start to do it yourself. And there''s a run-on quality to the narrator''s consciousness. But she drips glamour, drops famous names better than Robin Leach, and makes those pages fly so fast they cool your face on the hottest beach.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Many a stay-at-home mom''s worst nightmare is realized in Steel''s latest novel when India Taylor''s husband, Doug, threatens to end their 17-year marriage if she dares to pursue her long-abandoned photojournalism career. Doug repetitively intones that marriage is by necessity an unromantic contract in which the wife''s sole purpose is to care for the home, kids and husband, and if she reneges on her end of the deal with a pipe dream of independence, that is the ultimate "deal breaker." But in tried-and-true Steel (Mirror Image, etc.) fashion, India has a handsome Wall Street billionaire, Paul Ward, in the wings. His glamorous wifeAan internationally bestselling authorAdies in a plane crash several months after he and India have struck up a close friendship. But then Paul turns guilty and skittish about the budding romance, leaving India alone to face the harsh realities of being a single mom of four. Predictably, India''s desolation is brief, punctuated by travel, adventure, a thrilling new career and a near-tragedy to put everything into perspective. As usual, Steel takes a theme of interest or concern to manyAin this case, a woman striking out on her ownAand turns it into a compulsively readable tale. With its swiftly moving story line and tidy love-conquers-all ending, Steel''s latest should gratify her millions of fans. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17606'),
(10432, 'Bitterwood', 'James Maxey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Starred Review.\n  </i>\n  In the distant futureâ€”year 1070 of the Dragon Age, to be exactâ€”Earth has been commandeered by dragons, who subject their human inferiors to lives of misery and squalor, either as slaves or pets. Human Bant Bitterwood, consumed with thoughts of vengeance against the dragons he believes murdered his family, goes on a dragon-killing spree that makes him a folk hero among the oppressed human populace. When Bitterwood slays the dragons'' crown prince, Bodiel, their king vows to exterminate humankindâ€”the only way he can be certain of victory over Bitterwood. To that end, the king enlists his murderous brother Blasphiel to build a city that will serve as humanity''s abattoir. Maxey''s world is stunningly imaginative, a landscape both familiar and alien, and packed with thoughtful treats for readers. Skillfully examining themes of faith, martyrdom and heroism, Maxey maintains an unflagging believability even while borrowing some of the most generic elements from science fiction and fantasy. The dragons are wonderfully written, as is the tormented hero; it is almost a shame that the story is so self-contained, as many readers will pine for a whole series of Dragon Age titles.\n  <i>\n   (July)\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Bitterwood has spent the past twenty years hunting down dragons, one at a time. But he is getting old and the hate that he has carried in his heart since a group of dragon-soldiers killed his family is beginning to fade. When he kills the royal prince dragon, the king decides the only retribution is genocide of the human race. Bitterwood is forced to enter the Free City, the grand trap designed to eradicate mankind, with thousands of others. Can he lead from within, or can a select few dragons unite to stop the king''s madness from becoming reality. Full of rich characters and drama, this is an amazingly astute vision of our own culture by way of a feudal kingdom where dragons rule, and humans are used as workers or pets.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4798'),
(10433, 'Bitterwood', 'James Maxey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Starred Review.\n  </i>\n  In the distant futureâ€”year 1070 of the Dragon Age, to be exactâ€”Earth has been commandeered by dragons, who subject their human inferiors to lives of misery and squalor, either as slaves or pets. Human Bant Bitterwood, consumed with thoughts of vengeance against the dragons he believes murdered his family, goes on a dragon-killing spree that makes him a folk hero among the oppressed human populace. When Bitterwood slays the dragons'' crown prince, Bodiel, their king vows to exterminate humankindâ€”the only way he can be certain of victory over Bitterwood. To that end, the king enlists his murderous brother Blasphiel to build a city that will serve as humanity''s abattoir. Maxey''s world is stunningly imaginative, a landscape both familiar and alien, and packed with thoughtful treats for readers. Skillfully examining themes of faith, martyrdom and heroism, Maxey maintains an unflagging believability even while borrowing some of the most generic elements from science fiction and fantasy. The dragons are wonderfully written, as is the tormented hero; it is almost a shame that the story is so self-contained, as many readers will pine for a whole series of Dragon Age titles.\n  <i>\n   (July)\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Bitterwood has spent the past twenty years hunting down dragons, one at a time. But he is getting old and the hate that he has carried in his heart since a group of dragon-soldiers killed his family is beginning to fade. When he kills the royal prince dragon, the king decides the only retribution is genocide of the human race. Bitterwood is forced to enter the Free City, the grand trap designed to eradicate mankind, with thousands of others. Can he lead from within, or can a select few dragons unite to stop the king''s madness from becoming reality. Full of rich characters and drama, this is an amazingly astute vision of our own culture by way of a feudal kingdom where dragons rule, and humans are used as workers or pets.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19854'),
(10434, 'Black', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14599'),
(10435, 'Black', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24059'),
(10436, 'Black Alice', 'Thomas M. Disch &amp; John Sladek', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Held for a million dollars in ransom, Alice, a blonde, is disguised by her kidnappers as a young Black girl\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/653'),
(10437, 'Black Alice', 'Thomas M. Disch; John Sladek', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Held for a million dollars in ransom, Alice, a blonde, is disguised by her kidnappers as a young Black girl\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24270'),
(10438, 'Black and White', 'Jackie Kessler &amp; Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s the ultimate battle of good versus good. They were best friends at an elite academy for superheroes in training, but now Callie Bradford, code name Iridium, and Joannie Greene, code name Jet, are mortal enemies. Jet is a by-the-book hero, using her Shadow power to protect the citizens of New Chicago. Iridium, with her mastery of light, runs the city''s underworld. For the past five years the two have played an elaborate, and frustrating, game of cat and mouse. But now playtime''s over. Separately Jet and Iridium uncover clues that point to a looming evil, one that is entwined within the Academy. As Jet works with Bruce Hunter--a normal man with an extraordinary ability to make her weak in the knees--she becomes convinced that Iridium is involved in a scheme that will level the power structure of America itself. And Iridium, teaming with the mysterious vigilante called Taser, uncovers an insidious plot that''s been a decade in the making...a plot in which Jet is key. They''re both right. And they''re both wrong. Because nothing is as simple as Black and White.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4910'),
(10439, 'Black and White', 'Jackie Kessler &amp; Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s the ultimate battle of good versus good. They were best friends at an elite academy for superheroes in training, but now Callie Bradford, code name Iridium, and Joannie Greene, code name Jet, are mortal enemies. Jet is a by-the-book hero, using her Shadow power to protect the citizens of New Chicago. Iridium, with her mastery of light, runs the city''s underworld. For the past five years the two have played an elaborate, and frustrating, game of cat and mouse. But now playtime''s over. Separately Jet and Iridium uncover clues that point to a looming evil, one that is entwined within the Academy. As Jet works with Bruce Hunter--a normal man with an extraordinary ability to make her weak in the knees--she becomes convinced that Iridium is involved in a scheme that will level the power structure of America itself. And Iridium, teaming with the mysterious vigilante called Taser, uncovers an insidious plot that''s been a decade in the making...a plot in which Jet is key. They''re both right. And they''re both wrong. Because nothing is as simple as Black and White.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10665'),
(10440, 'Black and White', 'Jackie Kessler; Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s the ultimate battle of good versus good. They were best friends at an elite academy for superheroes in training, but now Callie Bradford, code name Iridium, and Joannie Greene, code name Jet, are mortal enemies. Jet is a by-the-book hero, using her Shadow power to protect the citizens of New Chicago. Iridium, with her mastery of light, runs the city''s underworld. For the past five years the two have played an elaborate, and frustrating, game of cat and mouse. But now playtime''s over. Separately Jet and Iridium uncover clues that point to a looming evil, one that is entwined within the Academy. As Jet works with Bruce Hunter--a normal man with an extraordinary ability to make her weak in the knees--she becomes convinced that Iridium is involved in a scheme that will level the power structure of America itself. And Iridium, teaming with the mysterious vigilante called Taser, uncovers an insidious plot that''s been a decade in the making...a plot in which Jet is key. They''re both right. And they''re both wrong. Because nothing is as simple as Black and White.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19801'),
(10441, 'Black As He&#39;s Painted', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One of Ngaio Marsh''s most popular novels, this time featuring one of her best creations -- Lucy Lockett, the crime-solving cat.  When the exuberant president of Ng''ombwana proposes to dispense with the usual security arrangements on an official visit to London, his old school mate, Chief Superintendent Alleyn, is called in to persuade him otherwise.  Consequently, on the night of the embassy''s reception the house and grounds are stiff with police. Nevertheless, an assassin does strike, and Alleyn finds he has no shortage of help, from Special Branch to a tribal court -- and a small black cat named Lucy Lockett who out-detects them all...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25300'),
(10442, 'Black Boy', 'Richard Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Autobiography by Richard Wright, published in 1945 and considered to be one of his finest works. The book is sometimes considered a fictionalized autobiography or an autobiographical novel because of its use of novelistic techniques.\n <em>\n  Black Boy\n </em>\n describes vividly Wright''s often harsh, hardscrabble boyhood and youth in rural Mississippi and in Memphis, Tenn. When the work was first published, many white critics viewed\n <em>\n  Black Boy\n </em>\n primarily as an attack on racist Southern white society. From the 1960s the work came to be understood as the story of Wright''s coming of age and development as a writer whose race, though a primary component of his life, was but one of many that formed him as an artist. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Black Boy\n </em>\n is Richard Wright''s powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictmentâ€”a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12285'),
(10443, 'Black Cathedral', 'L. H. Maynard &amp; M. P. N. Sims', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a group of people vanish without a trace from an old manse on an island off the Scottish coast, the British government sends in a team from Department 18, a unit designed to investigate paranormal activity. What they find is far worse than any mere haunted house!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3637'),
(10444, 'Black Cathedral', 'L. H. Maynard &amp; M. P. N. Sims', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a group of people vanish without a trace from an old manse on an island off the Scottish coast, the British government sends in a team from Department 18, a unit designed to investigate paranormal activity. What they find is far worse than any mere haunted house!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11364'),
(10445, 'Black Cathedral', 'L. H. Maynard; M. P. N. Sims', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a group of people vanish without a trace from an old manse on an island off the Scottish coast, the British government sends in a team from Department 18, a unit designed to investigate paranormal activity. What they find is far worse than any mere haunted house!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20919'),
(10446, 'The Black Cauldron', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly Doliâ€”all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for â€œthe most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3347'),
(10447, 'The Black Cauldron', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly Doliâ€”all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for â€œthe most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9354'),
(10448, 'The Black Cauldron', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!** Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly Doliâ€”all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise. *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for â€œthe most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€ Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time. In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21260'),
(10449, 'The Black Cloud', 'Fred Hoyle &amp; Fred Hoyle (Sir.)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5560'),
(10450, 'The Black Cloud', 'Fred Hoyle &amp; Fred Hoyle (Sir.)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10420'),
(10451, 'The Black Cloud', 'Fred Hoyle; Fred Hoyle (Sir.)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19148'),
(10452, 'Black Coffee', 'Agatha Christie &amp; Charles Osborne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nearly a quarter-century after her death, Agatha Christie remains the most popular mystery writer of all time. Now, in a celebrated publishing event, fans and newcomers alike are treated to another Christie novel. Created in 1930 as a stage play and faithfully adapted by Charles Osborne, Black Coffee brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his "little grey cells" one more deliciously deductive time... An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wants to steal a secret formula destined for the Ministry of Defense. But Poirot arrives too late. The formula is missing. Worse, Sir Claud has been poisoned by his after-dinner coffee. Poirot soon identifies a potent brew of despair, treachery, and deception amid the mansion''s occupants. Now he must find the formula and the killer...while letting no poison slip ''twix his low lips.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/60'),
(10453, 'Black Coffee', 'Agatha Christie; Charles Osborne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nearly a quarter-century after her death, Agatha Christie remains the most popular mystery writer of all time. Now, in a celebrated publishing event, fans and newcomers alike are treated to another Christie novel. Created in 1930 as a stage play and faithfully adapted by Charles Osborne, Black Coffee brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his "little grey cells" one more deliciously deductive time... An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wants to steal a secret formula destined for the Ministry of Defense. But Poirot arrives too late. The formula is missing. Worse, Sir Claud has been poisoned by his after-dinner coffee. Poirot soon identifies a potent brew of despair, treachery, and deception amid the mansion''s occupants. Now he must find the formula and the killer...while letting no poison slip ''twix his low lips.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17176'),
(10454, 'Black Coffee', 'Agatha Christie; Charles Osborne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nearly a quarter-century after her death, Agatha Christie remains the most popular mystery writer of all time. Now, in a celebrated publishing event, fans and newcomers alike are treated to another Christie novel. Created in 1930 as a stage play and faithfully adapted by Charles Osborne, Black Coffee brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his "little grey cells" one more deliciously deductive time... An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wants to steal a secret formula destined for the Ministry of Defense. But Poirot arrives too late. The formula is missing. Worse, Sir Claud has been poisoned by his after-dinner coffee. Poirot soon identifies a potent brew of despair, treachery, and deception amid the mansion''s occupants. Now he must find the formula and the killer...while letting no poison slip ''twix his low lips.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her first novel to appear in over twenty years, perhaps Agatha Christie''s most famous and beloved detective, Hercule Poirot, returns to bring his "little gray cells" to bear on one more case. In the spring of 1934, Poirot is summoned by England''s most prominent physicist, Sir Claud Amory. Amory fears that someone in his household is attempting to steal his latest discovery, a formula critical to England''s defense. Poirot, with Captain Hastings at his side, rushes to Surrey but arrives too late. Amory has died, his formula is missing, and everyone in this country house, full of relatives and guests, could have been responsible. Originally written by Agatha Christie in 1930 as a three-act play, now adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne (an expert on Christie''s life and work), Black Coffee is classic Christie at its finest, sure to delight newcomers and devotees alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26197'),
(10455, 'The Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for theBlack Companyto find her... Glen Cook was born in 1944 and began writing SF in 1967. He published his first novel,The Heirs of Babylon, in 1972. His many other books includeAn Ill Fate Marshalling,Reap the East Wind,The Swordbearer,The Tower of Fear, and the popularBlack Companyseries of novels. Here is the first installment in Cook''s popularBlack Companyseries of fantasy novels. Some feel that the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel that she is evil itself. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. That is, until they hear the prophecy:The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. Could there be a waysomehow, sometimefor the Black Company to find her?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5366'),
(10456, 'The Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for theBlack Companyto find her... Glen Cook was born in 1944 and began writing SF in 1967. He published his first novel,The Heirs of Babylon, in 1972. His many other books includeAn Ill Fate Marshalling,Reap the East Wind,The Swordbearer,The Tower of Fear, and the popularBlack Companyseries of novels. Here is the first installment in Cook''s popularBlack Companyseries of fantasy novels. Some feel that the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel that she is evil itself. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. That is, until they hear the prophecy:The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. Could there be a waysomehow, sometimefor the Black Company to find her?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15116'),
(10457, 'The Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for theBlack Companyto find her... Glen Cook was born in 1944 and began writing SF in 1967. He published his first novel,The Heirs of Babylon, in 1972. His many other books includeAn Ill Fate Marshalling,Reap the East Wind,The Swordbearer,The Tower of Fear, and the popularBlack Companyseries of novels. Here is the first installment in Cook''s popularBlack Companyseries of fantasy novels. Some feel that the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel that she is evil itself. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. That is, until they hear the prophecy:The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. Could there be a waysomehow, sometimefor the Black Company to find her?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19291'),
(10458, 'The Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for theBlack Companyto find her... Glen Cook was born in 1944 and began writing SF in 1967. He published his first novel,The Heirs of Babylon, in 1972. His many other books includeAn Ill Fate Marshalling,Reap the East Wind,The Swordbearer,The Tower of Fear, and the popularBlack Companyseries of novels. Here is the first installment in Cook''s popularBlack Companyseries of fantasy novels. Some feel that the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel that she is evil itself. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. That is, until they hear the prophecy:The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. Could there be a waysomehow, sometimefor the Black Company to find her?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27986'),
(10459, 'The Black Dahlia', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: El 15 de enero de 1947, en un solar de Los Angeles, aparecio el cadaver desnudo y seccionado en dos de una mujer joven. El medico forense determino que la habian torturado durante dias. Elizabeth Short, de 22 aÃƒÂ±os, llamada la Dalia Negra, llevara a los detectives a los bajos fondos de Hollywood, para asi involucrar a ciertas personas adineradas de Los Angeles. Ambos estan obsesionados por lo que fue la vida de la Dalia Negra, y, sobre todo, por capturar al individuo que la asesino / On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history. In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl''s twisted life.""Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre."" (Los Angeles Times)""Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit."" (Publishers Weekly)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14755'),
(10460, 'The Black Dahlia', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Los Angeles, 1947: The mutilated body of a beautiful young woman -- dubbed the Black Dahlia by the press -- is found, spawning the greatest manhunt in California history. Warrants Squad cops Buckeye Bleacher and Lee Blanched are on the case, and soon become obsessed with the victim. They are driven to learn everything about her, and find that their pursuit of her killer and her twisted past lead them on a hellish tour of post-war Hollywood and into a region of total madness."Brutal and at the same time believable". -- The New York Times"Turgid with passion, violence, and frustration...imaginative and bizarre". -- Los Angeles Times"Fine attention to detail and a dead-on sense of the period...Ellroy has established himself as one of the finest practitioners of noir fiction". -- Cleveland Plain Dealer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19835'),
(10461, 'Black Dogs', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this slim, provocative novel, McEwan ( The Innocent ) examines the conflict between intellect and feeling, as dramatized in one couple''s troubled relationship. The narrator is fascinated by his wife''s estranged parents, The lives of June and Bernard Tremaine, whose lives epitomize the tug-of-war between political engagement and a private search for ultimate meaning: their ideological and spiritual differences force them apart but never diminish their mutual love. The catalytic event in the Tremaines'' lives occurs on their honeymoon in France in 1946. With the characteristic idealism of their generation, both had joined the Communist Party, but June is already becoming disenchanted with its claims. In an encounter with two huge, ferocious dogs--incarnations of the savagely irrational eruptions that recur throughout history--she has an insight that illumines for her the possibility of redemption. Liberally foreshadowed, --the bloodthirsty beasts are used as an overarching metaphor for the presence of evil in the world-- the actual episode with the dogs is not depicted until the book''s final section, where its impact requires the reader to take a leap of faith similar to June''s. For some this pivotal scene may not be fully convincing. Indeed, McEwan is rather too didactic in the exposition of his theme, so one may expect too much from the novel''s dramatic main event. Yet the work is impressive; McEwan''s meticulous prose, his shaping of his material to create suspense, and his adept use of specific settings--Poland''s Majdanek concentration camp, Berlin during the dismantling of the Wall, a primitive area of the French countryside--produce a haunting fable about the fragility of civilization, always threatened by the cruelty latent in humankind.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Having lost his parents in an auto accident when he was eight years old, the narrator of McEwan''s splendid new novel is fascinated with other people''s parents--particularly his remarkable in-laws, indissolubly linked yet estranged and combative almost since their wedding. A man of reason who was once a Communist, Bernard Tremaine cannot understand why his wife, June, rejected political activism for spiritual quest after "an encounter with evil" in the form of two fierce black dogs. McEwan does not so much tell their story as the story of the son-in-law''s efforts to understand them better by writing about them. Though Bernard and June represent diametrically opposed ways of looking at the world--two views beautifully and succinctly captured by McEwan--they are not mere vessels of thought but lively, distinctive characters in their own right. As the narrator returns to the French countryside where June fatefully encountered the dogs, the deceptively simple buildup makes her brush with violence all the more shocking. A novel of ideas with the hard edge of a thriller; highly recommended.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   -Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25701');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(10462, 'The Black Echo - The Black Ice - The Concrete Blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE BLACK ECHOOne Sunday Harry Bosch gets a call out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel off Mullholland Drive, Hollywood. And Harry knows him. Billy Meadows was a fellow tunnel rat out in Vietnam, running against the VC and against the fear they used to call the Black Echo. Harry let Meadows down once. He won''t do it again.''THE BLACK ECHO is one of the most authentic pieces of crime writing I''ve ever read. It is an extraordinary story, one that engages the reader on the first page and never lets go'' James Lee BurkeTHE BLACK ICEThe corpse in the hotel room appears to be that of a missing LAPD narcotics officer. Rumours abound that the cop had crossed over - selling a new drug called Black Ice that had been infiltrating LA from Mexico - and the LAPD brass are quick to declare his death a suicide. Harry Bosch isn''t so sure ...''Connelly has, with great skill, given us a detective who inhabits a world filled with torment, fear and danger'' People MagazineTHE CONCRETE BLONDEWhen Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the police were convinced it marked the end of the hunt for the Dollmaker - LA''s most bizarre serial killer. But now Church''s widow is accusing Harry of killing the wrong man, and to make things worse, Harry has just received a taunting note that appears to be from the Dollmaker himself ...''A cracker ... it fairly coruscates with all that goes to make a good crime thriller'' Irish Times\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE BLACK ECHO One Sunday LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call-out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel. It looks like another OD, but Bosch isn''t convinced. What''s more, he knows the victim. Billy Meadows was a fellow tunnel rat out in Vietnam. Bosch let Meadows down once - he won''t do it again ...THE BLACK ICE The corpse in the hotel room appears to be a missing LAPD narcotics officer. Rumour has it that the cop had crossed over, and was selling a new drug called Black Ice.  But Bosch''s investigation  takes him in an unexpected direction ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25346'),
(10463, 'The Black Echo', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Connelly, a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel. Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch--former hero cop bumped from the L.A. homicide desk to the lowly Beverly Hills squad--gets the call on a drug death at Mulholland Dam. Harry recognizes the corpse as that of a fellow soldier in Vietnam; both were "tunnel rats" who searched for Viet Cong in the network of burrows beneath Vietnamese villages. Investigation connects his old pal to an unsolved bank job--the vault was tunneled into from the storm drains below--and Harry takes his information to the FBI. The Bureau alerts the LAPD, which reactivates internal affairs surveillance (the previous IAD episode is explained throughout the narrative), only to have the FBI backtrack and request Harry as liaison on the case. Paired with beautiful FBI agent Eleanor Wish, Harry makes sense of the Vietnam connection to the bank job--a discovery that puts them both in danger from deadly ex-Marines and a powerful insider from either the LAPD or the FBI itself. Police higher-ups are somewhat cliched, but Connelly avoids L.A. stereotypes and delivers this front-page story with military precision.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- Harry Bosch likes order, contends that there are no coincidences, and keeps meticulous records in his\n <code>\n  murder book.'''' When the body of a former\n </code>\n tunnel rat'''' from Vietnam is found in a drainpipe, Harry is the detective on duty and is called to the scene. His identification of the body begins an investigation that leads to more murder, bank robbery, heroin, diamonds, and betrayal. Connelly''s descriptions of autopsies, murder scenes, and police procedure are vivid and realistic. The use of acronyms and police jargon puts readers in the middle of the action. A real page turner with gutty realism and an unusual twist.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Debbie Hyman, R. E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2902'),
(10464, 'The Black Echo', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Connelly, a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel. Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch--former hero cop bumped from the L.A. homicide desk to the lowly Beverly Hills squad--gets the call on a drug death at Mulholland Dam. Harry recognizes the corpse as that of a fellow soldier in Vietnam; both were "tunnel rats" who searched for Viet Cong in the network of burrows beneath Vietnamese villages. Investigation connects his old pal to an unsolved bank job--the vault was tunneled into from the storm drains below--and Harry takes his information to the FBI. The Bureau alerts the LAPD, which reactivates internal affairs surveillance (the previous IAD episode is explained throughout the narrative), only to have the FBI backtrack and request Harry as liaison on the case. Paired with beautiful FBI agent Eleanor Wish, Harry makes sense of the Vietnam connection to the bank job--a discovery that puts them both in danger from deadly ex-Marines and a powerful insider from either the LAPD or the FBI itself. Police higher-ups are somewhat cliched, but Connelly avoids L.A. stereotypes and delivers this front-page story with military precision.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- Harry Bosch likes order, contends that there are no coincidences, and keeps meticulous records in his\n <code>\n  murder book.'''' When the body of a former\n </code>\n tunnel rat'''' from Vietnam is found in a drainpipe, Harry is the detective on duty and is called to the scene. His identification of the body begins an investigation that leads to more murder, bank robbery, heroin, diamonds, and betrayal. Connelly''s descriptions of autopsies, murder scenes, and police procedure are vivid and realistic. The use of acronyms and police jargon puts readers in the middle of the action. A real page turner with gutty realism and an unusual twist.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Debbie Hyman, R. E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8952'),
(10465, 'The Black Echo', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15359'),
(10466, 'The black echo', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Connelly, a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel. Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch--former hero cop bumped from the L.A. homicide desk to the lowly Beverly Hills squad--gets the call on a drug death at Mulholland Dam. Harry recognizes the corpse as that of a fellow soldier in Vietnam; both were "tunnel rats" who searched for Viet Cong in the network of burrows beneath Vietnamese villages. Investigation connects his old pal to an unsolved bank job--the vault was tunneled into from the storm drains below--and Harry takes his information to the FBI. The Bureau alerts the LAPD, which reactivates internal affairs surveillance (the previous IAD episode is explained throughout the narrative), only to have the FBI backtrack and request Harry as liaison on the case. Paired with beautiful FBI agent Eleanor Wish, Harry makes sense of the Vietnam connection to the bank job--a discovery that puts them both in danger from deadly ex-Marines and a powerful insider from either the LAPD or the FBI itself. Police higher-ups are somewhat cliched, but Connelly avoids L.A. stereotypes and delivers this front-page story with military precision.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- Harry Bosch likes order, contends that there are no coincidences, and keeps meticulous records in his\n <code>\n  murder book.'''' When the body of a former\n </code>\n tunnel rat'''' from Vietnam is found in a drainpipe, Harry is the detective on duty and is called to the scene. His identification of the body begins an investigation that leads to more murder, bank robbery, heroin, diamonds, and betrayal. Connelly''s descriptions of autopsies, murder scenes, and police procedure are vivid and realistic. The use of acronyms and police jargon puts readers in the middle of the action. A real page turner with gutty realism and an unusual twist.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Debbie Hyman, R. E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21966'),
(10467, 'Black Friday', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the busiest shopping day of the year, some idealistic college students believe theyâ€™re about to carry out an elaborate media stunt at the largest mall in America. They think the jamming devices in their backpacks will disrupt storesâ€™ computer systems, causing delays and chaos. What they donâ€™t realize is that instead of jamming devices, their backpacks are stuffed with explosives, ready to be detonated by remote control and turning them into suicide bombers.Caught up in a political nightmare, battling a new interim director and still mourning the death of her boss A. D. Cunningham, FBI profiler Maggie Oâ€™Dell must put her own troubles aside and fly to Minnesota to help figure out whatâ€™s behind this terrorist attack â€” a massacre that is all the more frightening because no group has claimed responsibility.The search becomes personal when a tip reveals that one of the college students involved is Patrick, Maggieâ€™s brother. Afraid and on the run, Patrick must decide if he can finally trust Maggie enough to help her unravel this horrifying nightmare.Sifting through the debris for answers, Maggie is joined by Nick Morrelli, who has recently taken a job with a national security company that oversees security for the mall. Although Maggie and Nick have investigated several cases together in the past, theyâ€™ve never investigated a relationship with each other. Nick would like to change that.When an informant confides in Maggie that there are other attacks on the secret agenda, she knows that sheâ€™s running out of time. In less than twenty-four hours sheâ€™ll need to figure out exactly when and where the second attack will take place, who to look for and how to keep her brother from becoming one of the casualties.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7791'),
(10468, 'Black Friday', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the busiest shopping day of the year, some idealistic college students believe theyâ€™re about to carry out an elaborate media stunt at the largest mall in America. They think the jamming devices in their backpacks will disrupt storesâ€™ computer systems, causing delays and chaos. What they donâ€™t realize is that instead of jamming devices, their backpacks are stuffed with explosives, ready to be detonated by remote control and turning them into suicide bombers.Caught up in a political nightmare, battling a new interim director and still mourning the death of her boss A. D. Cunningham, FBI profiler Maggie Oâ€™Dell must put her own troubles aside and fly to Minnesota to help figure out whatâ€™s behind this terrorist attack â€” a massacre that is all the more frightening because no group has claimed responsibility.The search becomes personal when a tip reveals that one of the college students involved is Patrick, Maggieâ€™s brother. Afraid and on the run, Patrick must decide if he can finally trust Maggie enough to help her unravel this horrifying nightmare.Sifting through the debris for answers, Maggie is joined by Nick Morrelli, who has recently taken a job with a national security company that oversees security for the mall. Although Maggie and Nick have investigated several cases together in the past, theyâ€™ve never investigated a relationship with each other. Nick would like to change that.When an informant confides in Maggie that there are other attacks on the secret agenda, she knows that sheâ€™s running out of time. In less than twenty-four hours sheâ€™ll need to figure out exactly when and where the second attack will take place, who to look for and how to keep her brother from becoming one of the casualties.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10643'),
(10469, 'Black Friday', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the busiest shopping day of the year, some idealistic college students believe theyâ€™re about to carry out an elaborate media stunt at the largest mall in America. They think the jamming devices in their backpacks will disrupt storesâ€™ computer systems, causing delays and chaos. What they donâ€™t realize is that instead of jamming devices, their backpacks are stuffed with explosives, ready to be detonated by remote control and turning them into suicide bombers.Caught up in a political nightmare, battling a new interim director and still mourning the death of her boss A. D. Cunningham, FBI profiler Maggie Oâ€™Dell must put her own troubles aside and fly to Minnesota to help figure out whatâ€™s behind this terrorist attack â€” a massacre that is all the more frightening because no group has claimed responsibility.The search becomes personal when a tip reveals that one of the college students involved is Patrick, Maggieâ€™s brother. Afraid and on the run, Patrick must decide if he can finally trust Maggie enough to help her unravel this horrifying nightmare.Sifting through the debris for answers, Maggie is joined by Nick Morrelli, who has recently taken a job with a national security company that oversees security for the mall. Although Maggie and Nick have investigated several cases together in the past, theyâ€™ve never investigated a relationship with each other. Nick would like to change that.When an informant confides in Maggie that there are other attacks on the secret agenda, she knows that sheâ€™s running out of time. In less than twenty-four hours sheâ€™ll need to figure out exactly when and where the second attack will take place, who to look for and how to keep her brother from becoming one of the casualties.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16078'),
(10470, 'Black Friday', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the busiest shopping day of the year, some idealistic college students believe theyâ€™re about to carry out an elaborate media stunt at the largest mall in America. They think the jamming devices in their backpacks will disrupt storesâ€™ computer systems, causing delays and chaos. What they donâ€™t realize is that instead of jamming devices, their backpacks are stuffed with explosives, ready to be detonated by remote control and turning them into suicide bombers.Caught up in a political nightmare, battling a new interim director and still mourning the death of her boss A. D. Cunningham, FBI profiler Maggie Oâ€™Dell must put her own troubles aside and fly to Minnesota to help figure out whatâ€™s behind this terrorist attack â€” a massacre that is all the more frightening because no group has claimed responsibility.The search becomes personal when a tip reveals that one of the college students involved is Patrick, Maggieâ€™s brother. Afraid and on the run, Patrick must decide if he can finally trust Maggie enough to help her unravel this horrifying nightmare.Sifting through the debris for answers, Maggie is joined by Nick Morrelli, who has recently taken a job with a national security company that oversees security for the mall. Although Maggie and Nick have investigated several cases together in the past, theyâ€™ve never investigated a relationship with each other. Nick would like to change that.When an informant confides in Maggie that there are other attacks on the secret agenda, she knows that sheâ€™s running out of time. In less than twenty-four hours sheâ€™ll need to figure out exactly when and where the second attack will take place, who to look for and how to keep her brother from becoming one of the casualties.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26231'),
(10471, 'Black Hawk Down', 'Mark Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The acclaimed *New York Times* bestseller *Black Hawk Down* is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" (*San Francisco Chronicle*) Destined to become a classic of war reporting, *Black Hawk Down* is Mark Bowden''s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly injured.Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowden''s minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever written--a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle."*Black Hawk Down* ranks among the best books ever written about infantry combat. . . . A descendent of books like *The Killer Angels* and *We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young*."-- Bob Shacochis, *The New York Observer*"If *Black Hawk Down* were fiction we''d rank it up there with the best war novels: *The Naked* and *the Dead* by Norman Mailer, or *The Things They Carried*, by Tim O''Brien."-- Tom Walker, *The Denver Post*"Stands in a league with Shelby Foote''s stirring Civil War Diary, *Shiloh*."-- Jim Haner, *The Baltimore Sun*"One of the most gripping and authoritative accounts of combat ever written."-- Kirk Spitzer, *USA Today*"Amazing . . . One of the most intense, visceral reading experiences imaginable."-- *The Philadelphia Inquirer* A *New York Times* bestseller for 14 weeks Bowden''s *Black Hawk Down* series, which appeared in the *Philadelphia Inquirer* was awarded the Overseas Press Club''s Hal Boyle Award for best foreign reporting\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14843'),
(10472, 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War', 'Mark Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The acclaimed *New York Times* bestseller *Black Hawk Down* is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" (*San Francisco Chronicle*) Destined to become a classic of war reporting, *Black Hawk Down* is Mark Bowden''s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly injured.Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowden''s minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever written--a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle."*Black Hawk Down* ranks among the best books ever written about infantry combat. . . . A descendent of books like *The Killer Angels* and *We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young*."-- Bob Shacochis, *The New York Observer*"If *Black Hawk Down* were fiction we''d rank it up there with the best war novels: *The Naked* and *the Dead* by Norman Mailer, or *The Things They Carried*, by Tim O''Brien."-- Tom Walker, *The Denver Post*"Stands in a league with Shelby Foote''s stirring Civil War Diary, *Shiloh*."-- Jim Haner, *The Baltimore Sun*"One of the most gripping and authoritative accounts of combat ever written."-- Kirk Spitzer, *USA Today*"Amazing . . . One of the most intense, visceral reading experiences imaginable."-- *The Philadelphia Inquirer* A *New York Times* bestseller for 14 weeks Bowden''s *Black Hawk Down* series, which appeared in the *Philadelphia Inquirer* was awarded the Overseas Press Club''s Hal Boyle Award for best foreign reporting\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3072'),
(10473, 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War', 'Mark Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The acclaimed *New York Times* bestseller *Black Hawk Down* is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" (*San Francisco Chronicle*) Destined to become a classic of war reporting, *Black Hawk Down* is Mark Bowden''s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly injured.Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowden''s minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever written--a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle."*Black Hawk Down* ranks among the best books ever written about infantry combat. . . . A descendent of books like *The Killer Angels* and *We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young*."-- Bob Shacochis, *The New York Observer*"If *Black Hawk Down* were fiction we''d rank it up there with the best war novels: *The Naked* and *the Dead* by Norman Mailer, or *The Things They Carried*, by Tim O''Brien."-- Tom Walker, *The Denver Post*"Stands in a league with Shelby Foote''s stirring Civil War Diary, *Shiloh*."-- Jim Haner, *The Baltimore Sun*"One of the most gripping and authoritative accounts of combat ever written."-- Kirk Spitzer, *USA Today*"Amazing . . . One of the most intense, visceral reading experiences imaginable."-- *The Philadelphia Inquirer* A *New York Times* bestseller for 14 weeks Bowden''s *Black Hawk Down* series, which appeared in the *Philadelphia Inquirer* was awarded the Overseas Press Club''s Hal Boyle Award for best foreign reporting\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21765'),
(10474, 'Black Hearts', 'Jim Frederick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division''s fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment--a unit known as "the Black Heart Brigade." Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq''s so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the country''s most dangerous location at its most dangerous time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks, suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring a chronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heart platoon--1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion--descended, over their year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Four 1st Platoon soldiers would perpetrate one of the most heinous war crimes U.S. forces have committed during the Iraq War--the rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-blooded execution of her and her family. Three other 1st Platoon soldiers would be overrun at a remote outpost--one killed immediately and two taken from the scene, their mutilated corpses found days later booby-trapped with explosives.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Black Hearts\n </em>\n is an unflinching account of the epic, tragic deployment of 1st Platoon. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with Black Heart soldiers and first-hand reporting from the Triangle of Death,\n <em>\n  Black Hearts\n </em>\n is a timeless story about men in combat and the fragility of character in the savage crucible of warfare. But it is also a timely warning of new dangers emerging in the way American soldiers are led on the battlefields of the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9491'),
(10475, 'Black Hole Sun', 'David Macinnis Gill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the planet Mars, 16-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders. 35,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6184'),
(10476, 'Black Hole Sun', 'David Macinnis Gill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the planet Mars, 16-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders. 35,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10007'),
(10477, 'Black Hole Sun', 'David Macinnis Gill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the planet Mars, 16-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders. 35,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17809'),
(10478, 'Black Hole Sun', 'David Macinnis Gill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the planet Mars, 16-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders. 35,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27261'),
(10479, 'Black Horses for the King', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This fast-moving historical fantasy by bestselling author Anne McCaffrey traces the beginnings of the British cavalry, as recounted by a boy growing up in exciting and perilous times.After his fatherâ€™s death, young Galwyn Varianus is apprenticed to his uncle, who puts the boy to work on the high seas. But horses, not ships, are Galwynâ€™s passion. Luckily, a passenger aboard, Lord Artos (later to rule as the legendary King Arthur), is bound for the great horse fair at Septimania. Risking his life, Galwyn abandons his uncle to serve the gallant leader. Galywnâ€™s calming way with horses quickly impresses Lord Artos and his men. But what no one expects is how crucial Galwyn will be to their upcoming battlesâ€”as he masters the secrets of the iron shoes that will protect the exotic horsesâ€™ delicate hooves. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15773'),
(10480, 'Black House', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial killer in a neighboring town. Of course, this is no ordinary policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub''s 1984 fantasy The Talisman. At the end of that book, the 13-year-old Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate realm called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a terrible enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her counterpart in the Territories. Now in his 30s, Jack remembers nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn''t entirely forgotten: When these faces rise or those voices mutter, he has until now told himself the old lie, that once there was a frightened boy who caught his mother''s neurotic terror like a cold and made up a story, a grand fantasy with good old Mom-saving Jack Sawyer at its center. None of it was real, and it was forgotten by the time he was sixteen. By then he was calm. Just as he''s calm now, running across his north field like a lunatic, leaving that dark track and those clouds of startled moths behind him, but doing it calmly. Jack is abruptly pulled into the case--and back into the Territories--by the Fisherman himself, who sends Jack a child''s shoe, foot still attached. As Jack flips back and forth between French Landing and the Territories, aided by his 20-years-forgotten friend Speedy Parker and a host of other oddballs (including a blind disk jockey, the beautiful mother of one of the missing children, and a motorcycle gang calling itself the "Hegelian Scum"), he tracks both the Fisherman and a much bigger fish: the abbalah, the Crimson King who seeks to destroy the axle of worlds. While The Talisman was a straightforward myth in 1980s packaging, Black House is richer and more complex, a fantasy wrapped in a horror story inside a mystery, sporting a clever tangle of references to Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, jazz, baseball, and King''s own Dark Tower saga. Talisman fans will find the sure-footed Jack has worn well--as has the King/Straub writing style, which is much improved with the passage of two decades. --Barrie Trinkle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1077'),
(10481, 'Black House', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial killer in a neighboring town. Of course, this is no ordinary policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub''s 1984 fantasy The Talisman. At the end of that book, the 13-year-old Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate realm called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a terrible enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her counterpart in the Territories. Now in his 30s, Jack remembers nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn''t entirely forgotten: When these faces rise or those voices mutter, he has until now told himself the old lie, that once there was a frightened boy who caught his mother''s neurotic terror like a cold and made up a story, a grand fantasy with good old Mom-saving Jack Sawyer at its center. None of it was real, and it was forgotten by the time he was sixteen. By then he was calm. Just as he''s calm now, running across his north field like a lunatic, leaving that dark track and those clouds of startled moths behind him, but doing it calmly. Jack is abruptly pulled into the case--and back into the Territories--by the Fisherman himself, who sends Jack a child''s shoe, foot still attached. As Jack flips back and forth between French Landing and the Territories, aided by his 20-years-forgotten friend Speedy Parker and a host of other oddballs (including a blind disk jockey, the beautiful mother of one of the missing children, and a motorcycle gang calling itself the "Hegelian Scum"), he tracks both the Fisherman and a much bigger fish: the abbalah, the Crimson King who seeks to destroy the axle of worlds. While The Talisman was a straightforward myth in 1980s packaging, Black House is richer and more complex, a fantasy wrapped in a horror story inside a mystery, sporting a clever tangle of references to Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, jazz, baseball, and King''s own Dark Tower saga. Talisman fans will find the sure-footed Jack has worn well--as has the King/Straub writing style, which is much improved with the passage of two decades. --Barrie Trinkle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10817'),
(10482, 'Black House', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial killer in a neighboring town. Of course, this is no ordinary policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub''s 1984 fantasy The Talisman. At the end of that book, the 13-year-old Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate realm called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a terrible enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her counterpart in the Territories. Now in his 30s, Jack remembers nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn''t entirely forgotten: When these faces rise or those voices mutter, he has until now told himself the old lie, that once there was a frightened boy who caught his mother''s neurotic terror like a cold and made up a story, a grand fantasy with good old Mom-saving Jack Sawyer at its center. None of it was real, and it was forgotten by the time he was sixteen. By then he was calm. Just as he''s calm now, running across his north field like a lunatic, leaving that dark track and those clouds of startled moths behind him, but doing it calmly. Jack is abruptly pulled into the case--and back into the Territories--by the Fisherman himself, who sends Jack a child''s shoe, foot still attached. As Jack flips back and forth between French Landing and the Territories, aided by his 20-years-forgotten friend Speedy Parker and a host of other oddballs (including a blind disk jockey, the beautiful mother of one of the missing children, and a motorcycle gang calling itself the "Hegelian Scum"), he tracks both the Fisherman and a much bigger fish: the abbalah, the Crimson King who seeks to destroy the axle of worlds. While The Talisman was a straightforward myth in 1980s packaging, Black House is richer and more complex, a fantasy wrapped in a horror story inside a mystery, sporting a clever tangle of references to Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, jazz, baseball, and King''s own Dark Tower saga. Talisman fans will find the sure-footed Jack has worn well--as has the King/Straub writing style, which is much improved with the passage of two decades. --Barrie Trinkle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14316'),
(10483, 'Black House', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial killer in a neighboring town. Of course, this is no ordinary policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub''s 1984 fantasy The Talisman. At the end of that book, the 13-year-old Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate realm called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a terrible enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her counterpart in the Territories. Now in his 30s, Jack remembers nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn''t entirely forgotten: When these faces rise or those voices mutter, he has until now told himself the old lie, that once there was a frightened boy who caught his mother''s neurotic terror like a cold and made up a story, a grand fantasy with good old Mom-saving Jack Sawyer at its center. None of it was real, and it was forgotten by the time he was sixteen. By then he was calm. Just as he''s calm now, running across his north field like a lunatic, leaving that dark track and those clouds of startled moths behind him, but doing it calmly. Jack is abruptly pulled into the case--and back into the Territories--by the Fisherman himself, who sends Jack a child''s shoe, foot still attached. As Jack flips back and forth between French Landing and the Territories, aided by his 20-years-forgotten friend Speedy Parker and a host of other oddballs (including a blind disk jockey, the beautiful mother of one of the missing children, and a motorcycle gang calling itself the "Hegelian Scum"), he tracks both the Fisherman and a much bigger fish: the abbalah, the Crimson King who seeks to destroy the axle of worlds. While The Talisman was a straightforward myth in 1980s packaging, Black House is richer and more complex, a fantasy wrapped in a horror story inside a mystery, sporting a clever tangle of references to Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, jazz, baseball, and King''s own Dark Tower saga. Talisman fans will find the sure-footed Jack has worn well--as has the King/Straub writing style, which is much improved with the passage of two decades. --Barrie Trinkle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23761'),
(10484, 'The Black Ice', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, protagonist of the highly praised mystery The Black Echo , returns in a procedural thriller set in and around the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner-city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico. When Bosch arrives at a sleazy hotel room where a fellow officer has committed suicide, he senses that something is awry. Noncommittal superior officers, a diffident widow and tales linking the dead man to a newly created street drug called "black ice" (heroin, crack and PCP rolled into one) send Bosch down a winding trail of forensic impossibilities, brutally violent drug traffickers and an ultimately shocking case of mistaken identity. Award-winning Connelly''s second fictional effort is strong and sure. His pacing could be better--too often he conveys the same information twice--but his plot and characters more than make up for a slow start. This novel establishes him as a writer with a superior talent for storytelling.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Second tense, tightly wound tangle of a case for Hieronymous Bosch (The Black Echo, 1991). This time out, the LAPD homicide cop, who''s been exiled to Hollywood Division for his bumptious behavior, sniffs out the bloody trail of the designer drug\n <code>\n </code>\n black ice.'''' Connelly (who covers crime for the Los Angeles Times) again flexes his knowledge of cop ways--and of cop-novel clichâ€šs. Cast from the hoary mold of the maverick cop, Bosch pushes his way onto the story''s core case--the apparent suicide of a narc--despite warnings by top brass to lay off. Meanwhile, Bosch''s boss, a prototypical pencil-pushing bureaucrat hoping to close out a majority of Hollywood''s murder cases by New Year''s Day, a week hence, assigns the detective a pile of open cases belonging to a useless drunk, Lou Porter. One of the cases, the slaying of an unidentified Hispanic, seems to tie in to the death of the narc, which Bosch begins to read as murder stemming from the narc''s dirty involvement in black ice. When Porter is murdered shortly after Bosch speaks to him, and then the detective''s love affair with an ambitious pathologist crashes, Bosch decides to head for Mexico, where clues to all three murders point. There, the well-oiled, ten- gear narrative really picks up speed as Bosch duels with corrupt cops; attends the bullfights; breaks into a fly-breeding lab that''s the distribution center for Mexico''s black-ice kingpin; and takes part in a raid on the kingpin''s ranch that concludes with Bosch waving his jacket like a matador''s cape at a killer bull on the rampage. But the kingpin escapes, leading to a not wholly unexpected twist--and to a touching assignation with the dead narc''s widow. Expertly told, and involving enough--but lacking the sheer artistry and heart-clutching thrills of, say, David Lindsay''s comparable Stuart Haydon series (Body of Evidence, etc.). --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2903'),
(10485, 'The Black Ice', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, protagonist of the highly praised mystery The Black Echo , returns in a procedural thriller set in and around the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner-city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico. When Bosch arrives at a sleazy hotel room where a fellow officer has committed suicide, he senses that something is awry. Noncommittal superior officers, a diffident widow and tales linking the dead man to a newly created street drug called "black ice" (heroin, crack and PCP rolled into one) send Bosch down a winding trail of forensic impossibilities, brutally violent drug traffickers and an ultimately shocking case of mistaken identity. Award-winning Connelly''s second fictional effort is strong and sure. His pacing could be better--too often he conveys the same information twice--but his plot and characters more than make up for a slow start. This novel establishes him as a writer with a superior talent for storytelling.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Second tense, tightly wound tangle of a case for Hieronymous Bosch (The Black Echo, 1991). This time out, the LAPD homicide cop, who''s been exiled to Hollywood Division for his bumptious behavior, sniffs out the bloody trail of the designer drug\n <code>\n </code>\n black ice.'''' Connelly (who covers crime for the Los Angeles Times) again flexes his knowledge of cop ways--and of cop-novel clichâ€šs. Cast from the hoary mold of the maverick cop, Bosch pushes his way onto the story''s core case--the apparent suicide of a narc--despite warnings by top brass to lay off. Meanwhile, Bosch''s boss, a prototypical pencil-pushing bureaucrat hoping to close out a majority of Hollywood''s murder cases by New Year''s Day, a week hence, assigns the detective a pile of open cases belonging to a useless drunk, Lou Porter. One of the cases, the slaying of an unidentified Hispanic, seems to tie in to the death of the narc, which Bosch begins to read as murder stemming from the narc''s dirty involvement in black ice. When Porter is murdered shortly after Bosch speaks to him, and then the detective''s love affair with an ambitious pathologist crashes, Bosch decides to head for Mexico, where clues to all three murders point. There, the well-oiled, ten- gear narrative really picks up speed as Bosch duels with corrupt cops; attends the bullfights; breaks into a fly-breeding lab that''s the distribution center for Mexico''s black-ice kingpin; and takes part in a raid on the kingpin''s ranch that concludes with Bosch waving his jacket like a matador''s cape at a killer bull on the rampage. But the kingpin escapes, leading to a not wholly unexpected twist--and to a touching assignation with the dead narc''s widow. Expertly told, and involving enough--but lacking the sheer artistry and heart-clutching thrills of, say, David Lindsay''s comparable Stuart Haydon series (Body of Evidence, etc.). --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8945'),
(10486, 'The Black Ice', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15351'),
(10487, 'The Black Ice', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, protagonist of the highly praised mystery The Black Echo , returns in a procedural thriller set in and around the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner-city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico. When Bosch arrives at a sleazy hotel room where a fellow officer has committed suicide, he senses that something is awry. Noncommittal superior officers, a diffident widow and tales linking the dead man to a newly created street drug called "black ice" (heroin, crack and PCP rolled into one) send Bosch down a winding trail of forensic impossibilities, brutally violent drug traffickers and an ultimately shocking case of mistaken identity. Award-winning Connelly''s second fictional effort is strong and sure. His pacing could be better--too often he conveys the same information twice--but his plot and characters more than make up for a slow start. This novel establishes him as a writer with a superior talent for storytelling.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Second tense, tightly wound tangle of a case for Hieronymous Bosch (The Black Echo, 1991). This time out, the LAPD homicide cop, who''s been exiled to Hollywood Division for his bumptious behavior, sniffs out the bloody trail of the designer drug\n <code>\n </code>\n black ice.'''' Connelly (who covers crime for the Los Angeles Times) again flexes his knowledge of cop ways--and of cop-novel clichâ€šs. Cast from the hoary mold of the maverick cop, Bosch pushes his way onto the story''s core case--the apparent suicide of a narc--despite warnings by top brass to lay off. Meanwhile, Bosch''s boss, a prototypical pencil-pushing bureaucrat hoping to close out a majority of Hollywood''s murder cases by New Year''s Day, a week hence, assigns the detective a pile of open cases belonging to a useless drunk, Lou Porter. One of the cases, the slaying of an unidentified Hispanic, seems to tie in to the death of the narc, which Bosch begins to read as murder stemming from the narc''s dirty involvement in black ice. When Porter is murdered shortly after Bosch speaks to him, and then the detective''s love affair with an ambitious pathologist crashes, Bosch decides to head for Mexico, where clues to all three murders point. There, the well-oiled, ten- gear narrative really picks up speed as Bosch duels with corrupt cops; attends the bullfights; breaks into a fly-breeding lab that''s the distribution center for Mexico''s black-ice kingpin; and takes part in a raid on the kingpin''s ranch that concludes with Bosch waving his jacket like a matador''s cape at a killer bull on the rampage. But the kingpin escapes, leading to a not wholly unexpected twist--and to a touching assignation with the dead narc''s widow. Expertly told, and involving enough--but lacking the sheer artistry and heart-clutching thrills of, say, David Lindsay''s comparable Stuart Haydon series (Body of Evidence, etc.). --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21964');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(10488, 'Black Is the Colour of My True Love&#39;s Heart', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Singers and musicians are gathered for a course in folk music that will occupy a weekend in the fantastic country mansion called Follymead. Most come only to sing or to listen, but one or two have non-musical scores to settle. When brilliantly talented Liri Palmer sings " Black, black, black is the color of my true-love''s heart!" she clearly has a message for someone in the audience. Passions run high, and there is murder brewing at Follymead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5668'),
(10489, 'Black Is The Colour Of My True Love&#39;s Heart', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Singers and musicians are gathered for a course in folk music that will occupy a weekend in the fantastic country mansion called Follymead. Most come only to sing or to listen, but one or two have non-musical scores to settle. When brilliantly talented Liri Palmer sings " Black, black, black is the color of my true-love''s heart!" she clearly has a message for someone in the audience. Passions run high, and there is murder brewing at Follymead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18915'),
(10490, 'Black Is the New White', 'Paul Mooney &amp; Dave Chappelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A fascinating and fearless memoir from an enduring comedy genius -- the legendary, controversial, inimitable Paul Mooney.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Most comedians tell jokes. Paul Mooney tells the truth. And for more than forty years -- whether writing for Richard Pryor and *Saturday Night Live*, creating *In Living Color''s* Homey D. Clown and *Chappelle''s Show''s* Negrodamus, or performing stand-up to sold-out crowds around the country -- he''s been provocative, incisive, and always absolutely hilarious.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Black Is the New White* is an unapologetically candid memoir from a talent whose influence has ranged far wider than his fame -- mostly by his own design. As head writer for *The Richard Pryor Show*, he helped tear down racial barriers and change the course of comedy. He helped Robin Williams and Sandra Bernhard break into show business. He paved the way for superstars like Eddie Murphy. And at every turn he''s shunned the easy set-up and punch line in favor of comedy that''s indisputably real and raw, reflecting the reality of race issues in America even when it''s generated outrage.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While other stars soared only to crash and burn, Paul Mooney has stayed chiefly behind the scenes, and he''s got a lifetime of stories to show for it. Few have witnessed as much comedy history as Mooney; even fewer could recount it with such riotous honesty and depth of insight. He reveals the truth about his celebrated partnership with the brilliant, self-destructive Richard Pryor, from their first meeting to the very last joke, and reflects on some of his most notorious moments, including organizing a performers'' strike on the iconic Comedy Store and publicly giving up the n-word in his act after Michael Richards''s onstage outbursts. Decades ago, Paul Mooney set out not just to make audiences laugh but to make them think. *Black Is the New White* is the blisteringly funny, no-holds-barred story of how he continues to succeed wildly at both.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2222'),
(10491, 'Black Is the New White', 'Paul Mooney &amp; Dave Chappelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A fascinating and fearless memoir from an enduring comedy genius -- the legendary, controversial, inimitable Paul Mooney.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Most comedians tell jokes. Paul Mooney tells the truth. And for more than forty years -- whether writing for Richard Pryor and *Saturday Night Live*, creating *In Living Color''s* Homey D. Clown and *Chappelle''s Show''s* Negrodamus, or performing stand-up to sold-out crowds around the country -- he''s been provocative, incisive, and always absolutely hilarious.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Black Is the New White* is an unapologetically candid memoir from a talent whose influence has ranged far wider than his fame -- mostly by his own design. As head writer for *The Richard Pryor Show*, he helped tear down racial barriers and change the course of comedy. He helped Robin Williams and Sandra Bernhard break into show business. He paved the way for superstars like Eddie Murphy. And at every turn he''s shunned the easy set-up and punch line in favor of comedy that''s indisputably real and raw, reflecting the reality of race issues in America even when it''s generated outrage.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While other stars soared only to crash and burn, Paul Mooney has stayed chiefly behind the scenes, and he''s got a lifetime of stories to show for it. Few have witnessed as much comedy history as Mooney; even fewer could recount it with such riotous honesty and depth of insight. He reveals the truth about his celebrated partnership with the brilliant, self-destructive Richard Pryor, from their first meeting to the very last joke, and reflects on some of his most notorious moments, including organizing a performers'' strike on the iconic Comedy Store and publicly giving up the n-word in his act after Michael Richards''s onstage outbursts. Decades ago, Paul Mooney set out not just to make audiences laugh but to make them think. *Black Is the New White* is the blisteringly funny, no-holds-barred story of how he continues to succeed wildly at both.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11500'),
(10492, 'Black Is the New White', 'Paul Mooney; Dave Chappelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A fascinating and fearless memoir from an enduring comedy genius -- the legendary, controversial, inimitable Paul Mooney.** Most comedians tell jokes. Paul Mooney tells the truth. And for more than forty years -- whether writing for Richard Pryor and *Saturday Night Live*, creating *In Living Color''s* Homey D. Clown and *Chappelle''s Show''s* Negrodamus, or performing stand-up to sold-out crowds around the country -- he''s been provocative, incisive, and always absolutely hilarious. *Black Is the New White* is an unapologetically candid memoir from a talent whose influence has ranged far wider than his fame -- mostly by his own design. As head writer for *The Richard Pryor Show*, he helped tear down racial barriers and change the course of comedy. He helped Robin Williams and Sandra Bernhard break into show business. He paved the way for superstars like Eddie Murphy. And at every turn he''s shunned the easy set-up and punch line in favor of comedy that''s indisputably real and raw, reflecting the reality of race issues in America even when it''s generated outrage. While other stars soared only to crash and burn, Paul Mooney has stayed chiefly behind the scenes, and he''s got a lifetime of stories to show for it. Few have witnessed as much comedy history as Mooney; even fewer could recount it with such riotous honesty and depth of insight. He reveals the truth about his celebrated partnership with the brilliant, self-destructive Richard Pryor, from their first meeting to the very last joke, and reflects on some of his most notorious moments, including organizing a performers'' strike on the iconic Comedy Store and publicly giving up the n-word in his act after Michael Richards''s onstage outbursts. Decades ago, Paul Mooney set out not just to make audiences laugh but to make them think. *Black Is the New White* is the blisteringly funny, no-holds-barred story of how he continues to succeed wildly at both.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22558'),
(10493, 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia', 'Rebecca West &amp; Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca West''s\n <em>\n  Black Lamb and Grey Falcon\n </em>\n is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics, or culture--with, in fact, any other book--is its unashamed depth of feeling: think\n <strong>\n  crossed with\n </strong>\n . West visited Yugoslavia for the first time in 1936. What she saw there affected her so much that she had to return--partly, she writes, because it most resembled "the country I have always seen between sleeping and waking," and partly because "it was like picking up a strand of wool that would lead me out of a labyrinth in which, to my surprise, I had found myself immured."\n <em>\n  Black Lamb\n </em>\n is the chronicle of her travels, but above all it is West following that strand of wool: through countless historical digressions; through winding narratives of battles, slavery, and assassinations; through Shakespeare and Augustine and into the very heart of human frailty.\n</p>\n<p>\n West wrote on the brink of World War II, when she was "already convinced of the inevitability of the second Anglo-German war." The resulting book is colored by that impending conflict, and by West''s search for universals amid the complex particulars of Balkan history. In the end, she saw the region''s doom--and our own--in a double infatuation with sacrifice, the "black lamb and grey falcon" of her title. It''s the story of Abraham and Isaac without the last-minute reprieve: those who hate are all too ready to martyr the innocent in order to procure their own advantage, and the innocent themselves are all too eager to be martyred. To West, in 1941, "the whole world is a vast Kossovo, an abominable blood-logged plain." Unfortunately, little has happened since then to prove her wrong.\n <em>\n  --Mary Park\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A masterpiece . . . as astonishing in its range, in the subtlety and power of its judgment, as it is brilliant in expression. (_The Times_, London)\n</p>\n<p>\n Surely one of the great books of our century. (Diana Trilling)\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebecca Westâ€™s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time. (Clifton Fadiman,\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1922'),
(10494, 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia', 'Rebecca West &amp; Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca West''s\n <em>\n  Black Lamb and Grey Falcon\n </em>\n is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics, or culture--with, in fact, any other book--is its unashamed depth of feeling: think\n <strong>\n  crossed with\n </strong>\n . West visited Yugoslavia for the first time in 1936. What she saw there affected her so much that she had to return--partly, she writes, because it most resembled "the country I have always seen between sleeping and waking," and partly because "it was like picking up a strand of wool that would lead me out of a labyrinth in which, to my surprise, I had found myself immured."\n <em>\n  Black Lamb\n </em>\n is the chronicle of her travels, but above all it is West following that strand of wool: through countless historical digressions; through winding narratives of battles, slavery, and assassinations; through Shakespeare and Augustine and into the very heart of human frailty.\n</p>\n<p>\n West wrote on the brink of World War II, when she was "already convinced of the inevitability of the second Anglo-German war." The resulting book is colored by that impending conflict, and by West''s search for universals amid the complex particulars of Balkan history. In the end, she saw the region''s doom--and our own--in a double infatuation with sacrifice, the "black lamb and grey falcon" of her title. It''s the story of Abraham and Isaac without the last-minute reprieve: those who hate are all too ready to martyr the innocent in order to procure their own advantage, and the innocent themselves are all too eager to be martyred. To West, in 1941, "the whole world is a vast Kossovo, an abominable blood-logged plain." Unfortunately, little has happened since then to prove her wrong.\n <em>\n  --Mary Park\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A masterpiece . . . as astonishing in its range, in the subtlety and power of its judgment, as it is brilliant in expression. (_The Times_, London)\n</p>\n<p>\n Surely one of the great books of our century. (Diana Trilling)\n</p>\n<p>\n Rebecca Westâ€™s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time. (Clifton Fadiman,\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12426'),
(10495, 'Black Light', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forty years ago, Bob Lee Swagger''s father, a state trooper, was killed by two robbers in an Arkansas shoot-out. Now a young writer has arrived at Swagger''s door with some penetrating and troubling questions. What really happened that long-ago Arkansas night? The powers that be don''t want that question answered, but Swagger, to his surprise, finds that he does -- even if it means having to use his long-abandoned combat skills and cunning to find out. Like the infrared "black light" that exposes a sniper''s target in the night, Swagger homes in on the shadowy figures desperate to keep the secret of his father''s murder buried.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a flourish of authorial prestidigitation, through this action-packed tale of revenge Hunter transforms the seemingly unrelated Point of Impact and Dirty White Boys, his most recent-and most critically acclaimed-novels, into parts one and two of a trilogy. In the process, Hunter confirms his status as one of the most skilled hands in the thriller business. Former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger has put his past behind him until he meets Russell Pewtie, who wants to write a book about Bob Lee''s father, Earl, a state trooper who died in a shoot-out in Blue Eye, Ark., in 1955. The link between Pewtie and Bob Lee, which ties the three novels together, is that Lamar Pye, the escaped con who almost killed Pewtie''s father in Dirty White Boys, turns out to be the son of one of the men who killed Earl. Behind that death, it''s revealed here, lies a 40-year-old conspiracy that is somehow tied to the brutal murder of a young black girl that Earl was investigating on the day he died. The plot is fast-paced, well-constructed and builds to a pulse-pounding night ambush that echoes the finale of Point of Impact but that stands on its own as a classic one-on-one confrontation. Other echoes of the earlier novels sound as well, giving this one the feel of a recapitulation, or a farewell. But then Hunter has set a high standard for himself-and while this novel doesn''t match the escalating craziness of Dirty White Boys or the stone-cold efficiency of Point of Impact, it should seal his reputation as an author who not only can write bestselling thrillers, but write them exceedingly well. Literary Guild main selection; major ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1066'),
(10496, 'Black Light', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forty years ago, Bob Lee Swagger''s father, a state trooper, was killed by two robbers in an Arkansas shoot-out. Now a young writer has arrived at Swagger''s door with some penetrating and troubling questions. What really happened that long-ago Arkansas night? The powers that be don''t want that question answered, but Swagger, to his surprise, finds that he does -- even if it means having to use his long-abandoned combat skills and cunning to find out. Like the infrared "black light" that exposes a sniper''s target in the night, Swagger homes in on the shadowy figures desperate to keep the secret of his father''s murder buried.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a flourish of authorial prestidigitation, through this action-packed tale of revenge Hunter transforms the seemingly unrelated Point of Impact and Dirty White Boys, his most recent-and most critically acclaimed-novels, into parts one and two of a trilogy. In the process, Hunter confirms his status as one of the most skilled hands in the thriller business. Former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger has put his past behind him until he meets Russell Pewtie, who wants to write a book about Bob Lee''s father, Earl, a state trooper who died in a shoot-out in Blue Eye, Ark., in 1955. The link between Pewtie and Bob Lee, which ties the three novels together, is that Lamar Pye, the escaped con who almost killed Pewtie''s father in Dirty White Boys, turns out to be the son of one of the men who killed Earl. Behind that death, it''s revealed here, lies a 40-year-old conspiracy that is somehow tied to the brutal murder of a young black girl that Earl was investigating on the day he died. The plot is fast-paced, well-constructed and builds to a pulse-pounding night ambush that echoes the finale of Point of Impact but that stands on its own as a classic one-on-one confrontation. Other echoes of the earlier novels sound as well, giving this one the feel of a recapitulation, or a farewell. But then Hunter has set a high standard for himself-and while this novel doesn''t match the escalating craziness of Dirty White Boys or the stone-cold efficiency of Point of Impact, it should seal his reputation as an author who not only can write bestselling thrillers, but write them exceedingly well. Literary Guild main selection; major ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10477'),
(10497, 'Black Light', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forty years ago, Bob Lee Swagger''s father, a state trooper, was killed by two robbers in an Arkansas shoot-out. Now a young writer has arrived at Swagger''s door with some penetrating and troubling questions. What really happened that long-ago Arkansas night? The powers that be don''t want that question answered, but Swagger, to his surprise, finds that he does -- even if it means having to use his long-abandoned combat skills and cunning to find out. Like the infrared "black light" that exposes a sniper''s target in the night, Swagger homes in on the shadowy figures desperate to keep the secret of his father''s murder buried.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a flourish of authorial prestidigitation, through this action-packed tale of revenge Hunter transforms the seemingly unrelated Point of Impact and Dirty White Boys, his most recent-and most critically acclaimed-novels, into parts one and two of a trilogy. In the process, Hunter confirms his status as one of the most skilled hands in the thriller business. Former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger has put his past behind him until he meets Russell Pewtie, who wants to write a book about Bob Lee''s father, Earl, a state trooper who died in a shoot-out in Blue Eye, Ark., in 1955. The link between Pewtie and Bob Lee, which ties the three novels together, is that Lamar Pye, the escaped con who almost killed Pewtie''s father in Dirty White Boys, turns out to be the son of one of the men who killed Earl. Behind that death, it''s revealed here, lies a 40-year-old conspiracy that is somehow tied to the brutal murder of a young black girl that Earl was investigating on the day he died. The plot is fast-paced, well-constructed and builds to a pulse-pounding night ambush that echoes the finale of Point of Impact but that stands on its own as a classic one-on-one confrontation. Other echoes of the earlier novels sound as well, giving this one the feel of a recapitulation, or a farewell. But then Hunter has set a high standard for himself-and while this novel doesn''t match the escalating craziness of Dirty White Boys or the stone-cold efficiency of Point of Impact, it should seal his reputation as an author who not only can write bestselling thrillers, but write them exceedingly well. Literary Guild main selection; major ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23768'),
(10498, 'Black Lightning', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fast pacing and skillful narrative misdirection make this supernatural thriller one of Saul''s (The Homing) best?and one of his few not to focus on children in peril. Richard Kraven, the novel''s heavy, is as nasty as they come: he eviscerates his victims before they die, in the misguided hope of learning the mystery of life. He also seems to be extending his murder spree after his execution in the electric chair. At least that''s what reporter Anne Jeffers tries to prove to the incredulous Seattle police as the killings strike ever closer to her home and family, apparently in retaliation for her help in putting Kraven behind bars. Saul ratchets up the suspense by intercutting chapters told from the points of view of Anne, detective Mark Blakemoor and a serial murderer who thinks of himself as "The Experimenter." He complicates matters by introducing another murderer and by raising suspicions about Anne''s husband, Glen, who suffered a heart attack at the moment Kraven died and now experiences blackouts that coincide with the killings. Saul depends on remarkably unobservant cops and a contrived occult explanation to tie all the subplots together, but he sustains the mystery of the killer''s identity and motives throughout. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection; major ad/promo; simultaneous Random House AudioBook; simultaneous release of The Homing in mass market paper.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Sufficient detail is provided to enable participation in this horror puzzle. The last person convicted-murderer Richard Kraven asks to see before dying is Ann Jeffers, the newspaper woman who had kept his name and crimes in the public consciousness for five years. "Today won''t end it...I''m sorry I won''t be here to see you suffer when you finally realize you were wrong about me," he says. Brutal murders, perhaps copycat, perhaps at the hands of an accomplice, resume. At first, Ann accepts the changes in her husband following his heart attack. Gradually, they both begin to question what is happening. Soon readers will be more concerned with how things transpire than with who is responsible. Teens seeking a deliberately told tale that promises to raise them to the edge of their seats should find satisfaction in this story.?Barbara Hawkins, Oakton High School, Fairfax, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4165'),
(10499, 'Black Lightning', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fast pacing and skillful narrative misdirection make this supernatural thriller one of Saul''s (The Homing) best?and one of his few not to focus on children in peril. Richard Kraven, the novel''s heavy, is as nasty as they come: he eviscerates his victims before they die, in the misguided hope of learning the mystery of life. He also seems to be extending his murder spree after his execution in the electric chair. At least that''s what reporter Anne Jeffers tries to prove to the incredulous Seattle police as the killings strike ever closer to her home and family, apparently in retaliation for her help in putting Kraven behind bars. Saul ratchets up the suspense by intercutting chapters told from the points of view of Anne, detective Mark Blakemoor and a serial murderer who thinks of himself as "The Experimenter." He complicates matters by introducing another murderer and by raising suspicions about Anne''s husband, Glen, who suffered a heart attack at the moment Kraven died and now experiences blackouts that coincide with the killings. Saul depends on remarkably unobservant cops and a contrived occult explanation to tie all the subplots together, but he sustains the mystery of the killer''s identity and motives throughout. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection; major ad/promo; simultaneous Random House AudioBook; simultaneous release of The Homing in mass market paper.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Sufficient detail is provided to enable participation in this horror puzzle. The last person convicted-murderer Richard Kraven asks to see before dying is Ann Jeffers, the newspaper woman who had kept his name and crimes in the public consciousness for five years. "Today won''t end it...I''m sorry I won''t be here to see you suffer when you finally realize you were wrong about me," he says. Brutal murders, perhaps copycat, perhaps at the hands of an accomplice, resume. At first, Ann accepts the changes in her husband following his heart attack. Gradually, they both begin to question what is happening. Soon readers will be more concerned with how things transpire than with who is responsible. Teens seeking a deliberately told tale that promises to raise them to the edge of their seats should find satisfaction in this story.?Barbara Hawkins, Oakton High School, Fairfax, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12585'),
(10500, 'Black Lightning', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fast pacing and skillful narrative misdirection make this supernatural thriller one of Saul''s (The Homing) best?and one of his few not to focus on children in peril. Richard Kraven, the novel''s heavy, is as nasty as they come: he eviscerates his victims before they die, in the misguided hope of learning the mystery of life. He also seems to be extending his murder spree after his execution in the electric chair. At least that''s what reporter Anne Jeffers tries to prove to the incredulous Seattle police as the killings strike ever closer to her home and family, apparently in retaliation for her help in putting Kraven behind bars. Saul ratchets up the suspense by intercutting chapters told from the points of view of Anne, detective Mark Blakemoor and a serial murderer who thinks of himself as "The Experimenter." He complicates matters by introducing another murderer and by raising suspicions about Anne''s husband, Glen, who suffered a heart attack at the moment Kraven died and now experiences blackouts that coincide with the killings. Saul depends on remarkably unobservant cops and a contrived occult explanation to tie all the subplots together, but he sustains the mystery of the killer''s identity and motives throughout. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection; major ad/promo; simultaneous Random House AudioBook; simultaneous release of The Homing in mass market paper.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Sufficient detail is provided to enable participation in this horror puzzle. The last person convicted-murderer Richard Kraven asks to see before dying is Ann Jeffers, the newspaper woman who had kept his name and crimes in the public consciousness for five years. "Today won''t end it...I''m sorry I won''t be here to see you suffer when you finally realize you were wrong about me," he says. Brutal murders, perhaps copycat, perhaps at the hands of an accomplice, resume. At first, Ann accepts the changes in her husband following his heart attack. Gradually, they both begin to question what is happening. Soon readers will be more concerned with how things transpire than with who is responsible. Teens seeking a deliberately told tale that promises to raise them to the edge of their seats should find satisfaction in this story.?Barbara Hawkins, Oakton High School, Fairfax, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20279'),
(10501, 'Black Lotus', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When veteran samurai-detective Sano Ichiro, the Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, is called on to investigate the burning of a cottage belonging to the Black Lotus Temple, he makes a shocking discovery. The three victims of the blaze did not die in the fire, but were brutally murdered before the fire even began. With a triple homicide on his hands, Sano''s search for a killer leads him to Haru, an orphan girl found at the scene of the crime. But Sano''s wife, Reiko, investigating the case against Sano''s wishes, is convinced of Haru''s innocence. Reiko''s investigation leads her behind the walls of the Black Lotus Temple, where she discovers a sect involved in extortion, prostitution, and hedonistic rituals. Could one of the sect''s members be the killer? Now Reiko must risk her marriage to Sano in order to prove Haru''s innocence...Set in the luscious finery of the samurai court of medieval Japan, this latest installment in the bestselling series by Laura Joh Rowland is filled with shocking surprises and suspense as readers are once again allowed access into the world of Sano Ichiro.AUTHORBIO: LAURA JOH ROWLAND is the granddaughter of Chinese and Korean immigrants. She grew up in Michigan and was educated at the University of Michigan, where she graduated with a B.S. in microbiology and a master''s in public health. She lives in New Orleans with her husband, Marty, and their three cats. Her previous novels include The Samurai''s Wife, The Concubine''s Tattoo, and Shinju, all of which feature the samurai-detective Sano Ichiro.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3616'),
(10502, 'Black Lotus', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When veteran samurai-detective Sano Ichiro, the Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, is called on to investigate the burning of a cottage belonging to the Black Lotus Temple, he makes a shocking discovery. The three victims of the blaze did not die in the fire, but were brutally murdered before the fire even began. With a triple homicide on his hands, Sano''s search for a killer leads him to Haru, an orphan girl found at the scene of the crime. But Sano''s wife, Reiko, investigating the case against Sano''s wishes, is convinced of Haru''s innocence. Reiko''s investigation leads her behind the walls of the Black Lotus Temple, where she discovers a sect involved in extortion, prostitution, and hedonistic rituals. Could one of the sect''s members be the killer? Now Reiko must risk her marriage to Sano in order to prove Haru''s innocence...Set in the luscious finery of the samurai court of medieval Japan, this latest installment in the bestselling series by Laura Joh Rowland is filled with shocking surprises and suspense as readers are once again allowed access into the world of Sano Ichiro.AUTHORBIO: LAURA JOH ROWLAND is the granddaughter of Chinese and Korean immigrants. She grew up in Michigan and was educated at the University of Michigan, where she graduated with a B.S. in microbiology and a master''s in public health. She lives in New Orleans with her husband, Marty, and their three cats. Her previous novels include The Samurai''s Wife, The Concubine''s Tattoo, and Shinju, all of which feature the samurai-detective Sano Ichiro.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20963'),
(10503, 'Black Magic Sanction', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The latest stirring instalment of the urban fantasy-thriller series starring Rachel Morgan. A pacey and addictive novel of sexy bounty-hunting witches, cunning demons and vicious vampires.Having barely escaped being skewered by the criminal vampire overlord of Cinncinati, Rachel now has even bigger problems to contend with.The demon, Algaliarept, although banished back into the everafter has infected others of his kind with his interest in a witch who can channel demon magic. Rachel soon finds herself with not one but three hellions on her tail; and one of them is even crazier and more dangerous than all the fairy assassins, weres and vampires on the planet.Published as ''The Outlaw Demon Wails'' in the US.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14852'),
(10504, 'Black Magic Sanction', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The latest stirring instalment of the urban fantasy-thriller series starring Rachel Morgan. A pacey and addictive novel of sexy bounty-hunting witches, cunning demons and vicious vampires.Having barely escaped being skewered by the criminal vampire overlord of Cinncinati, Rachel now has even bigger problems to contend with.The demon, Algaliarept, although banished back into the everafter has infected others of his kind with his interest in a witch who can channel demon magic. Rachel soon finds herself with not one but three hellions on her tail; and one of them is even crazier and more dangerous than all the fairy assassins, weres and vampires on the planet.Published as ''The Outlaw Demon Wails'' in the US.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20845'),
(10505, 'Black Milk', 'Elif Shafak', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An acclaimed Turkish novelist''s personal account of balancing a writer''s life with a mother''s life.   After the birth of her first child in 2006, Turkish writer Elif Shafek suffered from postpartum depression that triggered a profound personal crisis. Infused with guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment about whether she could ever be a good mother, Shafak stopped writing and lost her faith in words altogether. In this elegantly written memoir, she retraces her journey from free-spirited, nomadic artist to dedicated by emotionally wrought mother. Identifying a constantly bickering harem of women who live inside of her, each with her own characteristics-the cynical intellectual, the goal-oriented go-getter, the practical-rational, the spiritual, the maternal, and the lustful-she craves harmony, or at least a unifying identity. As she intersperses her own experience with the lives of prominent authors such as Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, Ayn Rand, and Zelda Fitzgerald, Shafak looks for a solution to the inherent conflict between artistic creation and responsible parenting.  With searing emotional honesty and an incisive examination of cultural mores within patriarchal societies, Shafak has rendered an important work about literature, motherhood, and spiritual well-being.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12408'),
(10506, 'The Black Minutes', 'Solares, Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21773'),
(10507, 'The Black Nile', 'Dan Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea\n <br />\n With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who''d never been off American soil and set out from Uganda, paddling the White Nile on a quest to reach Cairo-a trip that tyranny and war had made impossible for decades.\n <br />\n Morrison''s chronicle is a mashup of travel narrative and reportage, packed with flights into the frightful and the absurd. Through river mud that engulfs him and burning marshlands that darken the sky, he tracks the snarl of commonalities and conflicts that bleed across the Nile valley, bringing to life the waters that connect the hardscrabble fishing villages of Lake Victoria to the floating Cairo nightclubs where headscarved mothers are entertained by gyrating male dancers. In between are places and lives invisible to cable news and opinion blogs: a hidden oil war that has erased entire towns, secret dams that will flood still more and contested borderlands where acts of compassion and ingenuity defy appalling hardship and waste of life. As Morrison dodges every imaginable hazard, from militia gunfire to squalls of sand, his mishaps unfold in strange harmony with the breathtaking range of individuals he meets along the way. Relaying the voices of Sudanese freedom fighters and escaped Ugandan sex slaves, desert tribesmen and Egyptian tomb raiders, The Black Nile culminates in a visceral understanding of one of the world''s most elusive hotspots, where millions strive to claw their way from war and poverty to something better-if only they could agree what that something is, whom to share it with, and how to get there.\n <br />\n With the propulsive force of a thriller, The Black Nile is rife with humor, humanity and fervid insight-an unparalleled portrait of a complex territory in profound transition.\n <br />\n "Part travelogue, part crazy adventure tale, part political reportage . . . Morrison''s African river journey is a paradoxical mixture of awe-inspiring discoveries, eye-opening human interactions and perilous escapes."\n <br />\n -Chuck Leddy, Minneapolis Star-Tribune\n <br />\n "An unorthodox travelogue . . . packed with illuminating, gritty detail."\n <br />\n -Kirkus\n <br />\n "Dan Morrison takes the reader on an incredible journey in The Black Nile. Weaving together intense travel writing and history, he has produced a supremely entertaining work, and also an important one."\n <br />\n -David Grann, best-selling author of The Lost City of Z and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes\n <br />\n "Dan Morrison is too young to have been part of the Gonzo movement. But if Hunter Thompson decided to travel the Nile, from its Ugandan source to Alexandria, encountering gun-toting whackos, crazed religious zealots, scary profiteers and a rich cast of characters in one of the world''s most contested regions-well, I think he would have loved to share his trek with Morrison. Fasten your seat belts, readers!"\n <br />\n -Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Coming Plague\n <br />\n "Part On the Road, part Fear and Loathing in Africa, Dan Morrison takes us with him on his journey down the Nile-teaching us, by example, to be explorers of both the world and ourselves."\n <br />\n -Kevin Sites, author of In the Hot Zone\n <br />\n "The Black Nile reveals a traveler of dark humor and insight, equal parts Paul Theroux and Bill Buford."\n <br />\n -Robert Twigger, author of Dr. Ragab''s Universal Language and Angry White Pyjamas\n <br />\n "The only thing more vivid would be traveling the river yourself. Then again, you may be a little more skittish about contested borders, rampaging militias and tiny plank-board boats than Dan Morrison is. The Black Nile is eye- opening, breath-taking, heart-pounding and, frankly, all the adventure I''m up for now."\n <br />\n -Ellis Henican, Fox News Channel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6460'),
(10508, 'The Black Nile', 'Dan Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea\n <br />\n With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who''d never been off American soil and set out from Uganda, paddling the White Nile on a quest to reach Cairo-a trip that tyranny and war had made impossible for decades.\n <br />\n Morrison''s chronicle is a mashup of travel narrative and reportage, packed with flights into the frightful and the absurd. Through river mud that engulfs him and burning marshlands that darken the sky, he tracks the snarl of commonalities and conflicts that bleed across the Nile valley, bringing to life the waters that connect the hardscrabble fishing villages of Lake Victoria to the floating Cairo nightclubs where headscarved mothers are entertained by gyrating male dancers. In between are places and lives invisible to cable news and opinion blogs: a hidden oil war that has erased entire towns, secret dams that will flood still more and contested borderlands where acts of compassion and ingenuity defy appalling hardship and waste of life. As Morrison dodges every imaginable hazard, from militia gunfire to squalls of sand, his mishaps unfold in strange harmony with the breathtaking range of individuals he meets along the way. Relaying the voices of Sudanese freedom fighters and escaped Ugandan sex slaves, desert tribesmen and Egyptian tomb raiders, The Black Nile culminates in a visceral understanding of one of the world''s most elusive hotspots, where millions strive to claw their way from war and poverty to something better-if only they could agree what that something is, whom to share it with, and how to get there.\n <br />\n With the propulsive force of a thriller, The Black Nile is rife with humor, humanity and fervid insight-an unparalleled portrait of a complex territory in profound transition.\n <br />\n "Part travelogue, part crazy adventure tale, part political reportage . . . Morrison''s African river journey is a paradoxical mixture of awe-inspiring discoveries, eye-opening human interactions and perilous escapes."\n <br />\n -Chuck Leddy, Minneapolis Star-Tribune\n <br />\n "An unorthodox travelogue . . . packed with illuminating, gritty detail."\n <br />\n -Kirkus\n <br />\n "Dan Morrison takes the reader on an incredible journey in The Black Nile. Weaving together intense travel writing and history, he has produced a supremely entertaining work, and also an important one."\n <br />\n -David Grann, best-selling author of The Lost City of Z and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes\n <br />\n "Dan Morrison is too young to have been part of the Gonzo movement. But if Hunter Thompson decided to travel the Nile, from its Ugandan source to Alexandria, encountering gun-toting whackos, crazed religious zealots, scary profiteers and a rich cast of characters in one of the world''s most contested regions-well, I think he would have loved to share his trek with Morrison. Fasten your seat belts, readers!"\n <br />\n -Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Coming Plague\n <br />\n "Part On the Road, part Fear and Loathing in Africa, Dan Morrison takes us with him on his journey down the Nile-teaching us, by example, to be explorers of both the world and ourselves."\n <br />\n -Kevin Sites, author of In the Hot Zone\n <br />\n "The Black Nile reveals a traveler of dark humor and insight, equal parts Paul Theroux and Bill Buford."\n <br />\n -Robert Twigger, author of Dr. Ragab''s Universal Language and Angry White Pyjamas\n <br />\n "The only thing more vivid would be traveling the river yourself. Then again, you may be a little more skittish about contested borders, rampaging militias and tiny plank-board boats than Dan Morrison is. The Black Nile is eye- opening, breath-taking, heart-pounding and, frankly, all the adventure I''m up for now."\n <br />\n -Ellis Henican, Fox News Channel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11530'),
(10509, 'The Black Nile', 'Dan Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who''d never been off American soil and set out from Uganda, paddling the White Nile on a quest to reach Cairo-a trip that tyranny and war had made impossible for decades. Morrison''s chronicle is a mashup of travel narrative and reportage, packed with flights into the frightful and the absurd. Through river mud that engulfs him and burning marshlands that darken the sky, he tracks the snarl of commonalities and conflicts that bleed across the Nile valley, bringing to life the waters that connect the hardscrabble fishing villages of Lake Victoria to the floating Cairo nightclubs where headscarved mothers are entertained by gyrating male dancers. In between are places and lives invisible to cable news and opinion blogs: a hidden oil war that has erased entire towns, secret dams that will flood still more and contested borderlands where acts of compassion and ingenuity defy appalling hardship and waste of life. As Morrison dodges every imaginable hazard, from militia gunfire to squalls of sand, his mishaps unfold in strange harmony with the breathtaking range of individuals he meets along the way. Relaying the voices of Sudanese freedom fighters and escaped Ugandan sex slaves, desert tribesmen and Egyptian tomb raiders, The Black Nile culminates in a visceral understanding of one of the world''s most elusive hotspots, where millions strive to claw their way from war and poverty to something better-if only they could agree what that something is, whom to share it with, and how to get there. With the propulsive force of a thriller, The Black Nile is rife with humor, humanity and fervid insight-an unparalleled portrait of a complex territory in profound transition. "Part travelogue, part crazy adventure tale, part political reportage . . . Morrison''s African river journey is a paradoxical mixture of awe-inspiring discoveries, eye-opening human interactions and perilous escapes." -Chuck Leddy, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "An unorthodox travelogue . . . packed with illuminating, gritty detail." -Kirkus "Dan Morrison takes the reader on an incredible journey in The Black Nile. Weaving together intense travel writing and history, he has produced a supremely entertaining work, and also an important one." -David Grann, best-selling author of The Lost City of Z and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes "Dan Morrison is too young to have been part of the Gonzo movement. But if Hunter Thompson decided to travel the Nile, from its Ugandan source to Alexandria, encountering gun-toting whackos, crazed religious zealots, scary profiteers and a rich cast of characters in one of the world''s most contested regions-well, I think he would have loved to share his trek with Morrison. Fasten your seat belts, readers!" -Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Coming Plague "Part On the Road, part Fear and Loathing in Africa, Dan Morrison takes us with him on his journey down the Nile-teaching us, by example, to be explorers of both the world and ourselves." -Kevin Sites, author of In the Hot Zone "The Black Nile reveals a traveler of dark humor and insight, equal parts Paul Theroux and Bill Buford." -Robert Twigger, author of Dr. Ragab''s Universal Language and Angry White Pyjamas "The only thing more vivid would be traveling the river yourself. Then again, you may be a little more skittish about contested borders, rampaging militias and tiny plank-board boats than Dan Morrison is. The Black Nile is eye- opening, breath-taking, heart-pounding and, frankly, all the adventure I''m up for now." -Ellis Henican, Fox News Channel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17505');
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(10510, 'The Black Nile', 'Dan Morrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who''d never been off American soil and set out from Uganda, paddling the White Nile on a quest to reach Cairo-a trip that tyranny and war had made impossible for decades. Morrison''s chronicle is a mashup of travel narrative and reportage, packed with flights into the frightful and the absurd. Through river mud that engulfs him and burning marshlands that darken the sky, he tracks the snarl of commonalities and conflicts that bleed across the Nile valley, bringing to life the waters that connect the hardscrabble fishing villages of Lake Victoria to the floating Cairo nightclubs where headscarved mothers are entertained by gyrating male dancers. In between are places and lives invisible to cable news and opinion blogs: a hidden oil war that has erased entire towns, secret dams that will flood still more and contested borderlands where acts of compassion and ingenuity defy appalling hardship and waste of life. As Morrison dodges every imaginable hazard, from militia gunfire to squalls of sand, his mishaps unfold in strange harmony with the breathtaking range of individuals he meets along the way. Relaying the voices of Sudanese freedom fighters and escaped Ugandan sex slaves, desert tribesmen and Egyptian tomb raiders, The Black Nile culminates in a visceral understanding of one of the world''s most elusive hotspots, where millions strive to claw their way from war and poverty to something better-if only they could agree what that something is, whom to share it with, and how to get there. With the propulsive force of a thriller, The Black Nile is rife with humor, humanity and fervid insight-an unparalleled portrait of a complex territory in profound transition. "Part travelogue, part crazy adventure tale, part political reportage . . . Morrison''s African river journey is a paradoxical mixture of awe-inspiring discoveries, eye-opening human interactions and perilous escapes." -Chuck Leddy, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "An unorthodox travelogue . . . packed with illuminating, gritty detail." -Kirkus "Dan Morrison takes the reader on an incredible journey in The Black Nile. Weaving together intense travel writing and history, he has produced a supremely entertaining work, and also an important one." -David Grann, best-selling author of The Lost City of Z and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes "Dan Morrison is too young to have been part of the Gonzo movement. But if Hunter Thompson decided to travel the Nile, from its Ugandan source to Alexandria, encountering gun-toting whackos, crazed religious zealots, scary profiteers and a rich cast of characters in one of the world''s most contested regions-well, I think he would have loved to share his trek with Morrison. Fasten your seat belts, readers!" -Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Coming Plague "Part On the Road, part Fear and Loathing in Africa, Dan Morrison takes us with him on his journey down the Nile-teaching us, by example, to be explorers of both the world and ourselves." -Kevin Sites, author of In the Hot Zone "The Black Nile reveals a traveler of dark humor and insight, equal parts Paul Theroux and Bill Buford." -Robert Twigger, author of Dr. Ragab''s Universal Language and Angry White Pyjamas "The only thing more vivid would be traveling the river yourself. Then again, you may be a little more skittish about contested borders, rampaging militias and tiny plank-board boats than Dan Morrison is. The Black Nile is eye- opening, breath-taking, heart-pounding and, frankly, all the adventure I''m up for now." -Ellis Henican, Fox News Channel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27175'),
(10511, 'Black Out: A Novel', 'Lisa Unger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Annie Powers leads the perfect life in Florida with her husband, Gray, and their four-year-old daughter in this stellar character-driven stand-alone from bestseller Unger (_A Sliver of Truth_). Less than a decade earlier, however, Annie was Ophelia March, the teenage captiveâ€”or accompliceâ€”of spree killer Marlowe Geary. Gray, a partner in his father''s private security consultant firm, tracked Marlowe and rescued Ophelia after sending the killer''s car over a cliff. Reinventing herself with Gray''s help, Annie can''t remember all that happened during her years with Marlowe, and she''s prone to panic attacks and blackouts. When a strange man appears on her property, Annie''s sure Marlowe is back. As a shady police detective digs into her past, Annie must try to recover the memories she buried if she''s ever going to be free from Marlowe. Unger expertly turns what could have been a routine serial-killer story into a haunting odyssey for Annie, dropping red herrings and clues along the way until the reader feels as unsettled as Annie.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Annie Powers seems to lead an idyllic suburban life. She has a devoted husband, a cherubic young daughter, and a beautiful home with sweeping views of the Gulf of Florida. But not so many years ago, Annie was entangled in a scenario that was anything but serene. Her emotionally twisted relationship with serial killer Marlowe Geary had turned her from a moody teen into a criminal accomplice with a hardened heart. Only by faking her death and taking on a new identity was Annie able to jettison her pastâ€”or so she thought. Her husband, Gray, had long insisted that Marlowe was dead. But after an eerie encounter on the beach, Annie is not so sure. As the cracks in her carefully constructed facade deepen, she flees her family, determined to learn the truth. Annieâ€™s mental state becomes more precarious with each passing day, until she can no longer distinguish whatâ€™s imaginary from whatâ€™s real. Thereâ€™s a bit too much shifting between present and past in this stand-alone psychological thriller by Unger, author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed Ridley Jones series. But the author makes up for an occasionally awkward narrative with the compelling character of Annie: dark, troubled, and teetering on the brink. --Allison Block\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3306'),
(10512, 'Black Out: A Novel', 'Lisa Unger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Annie Powers leads the perfect life in Florida with her husband, Gray, and their four-year-old daughter in this stellar character-driven stand-alone from bestseller Unger (_A Sliver of Truth_). Less than a decade earlier, however, Annie was Ophelia March, the teenage captiveâ€”or accompliceâ€”of spree killer Marlowe Geary. Gray, a partner in his father''s private security consultant firm, tracked Marlowe and rescued Ophelia after sending the killer''s car over a cliff. Reinventing herself with Gray''s help, Annie can''t remember all that happened during her years with Marlowe, and she''s prone to panic attacks and blackouts. When a strange man appears on her property, Annie''s sure Marlowe is back. As a shady police detective digs into her past, Annie must try to recover the memories she buried if she''s ever going to be free from Marlowe. Unger expertly turns what could have been a routine serial-killer story into a haunting odyssey for Annie, dropping red herrings and clues along the way until the reader feels as unsettled as Annie.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Annie Powers seems to lead an idyllic suburban life. She has a devoted husband, a cherubic young daughter, and a beautiful home with sweeping views of the Gulf of Florida. But not so many years ago, Annie was entangled in a scenario that was anything but serene. Her emotionally twisted relationship with serial killer Marlowe Geary had turned her from a moody teen into a criminal accomplice with a hardened heart. Only by faking her death and taking on a new identity was Annie able to jettison her pastâ€”or so she thought. Her husband, Gray, had long insisted that Marlowe was dead. But after an eerie encounter on the beach, Annie is not so sure. As the cracks in her carefully constructed facade deepen, she flees her family, determined to learn the truth. Annieâ€™s mental state becomes more precarious with each passing day, until she can no longer distinguish whatâ€™s imaginary from whatâ€™s real. Thereâ€™s a bit too much shifting between present and past in this stand-alone psychological thriller by Unger, author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed Ridley Jones series. But the author makes up for an occasionally awkward narrative with the compelling character of Annie: dark, troubled, and teetering on the brink. --Allison Block\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13075'),
(10513, 'The Black Prince', 'Iris Murdoch; Martha C. Nussbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley''s friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fertile invention is put to the service of an expansive sense of character; and since the book also has Miss Murdoch''s usual narrative energy and intellectual weight, it is the best novel she has written in years." (_The New York Times Book Review_)\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Martha C. Nussbaum, one of America''s most prominent philosophers and public intellectuals, is a professor of classics and law at the University of Chicago. Her books include\n <em>\n  Love''s Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Therapy of Desire\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18281'),
(10514, 'The Black Prince', 'Iris Murdoch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley''s friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded. "Fertile invention is put to the service of an expansive sense of character; and since the book also has Miss Murdoch''s usual narrative energy and intellectual weight, it is the best novel she has written in years." (The New York Times Book Review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28266'),
(10515, 'The Black Prism', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live: Five years to achieve five impossible goals. But when Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he''s willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7181'),
(10516, 'The Black Prism', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live: Five years to achieve five impossible goals. But when Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he''s willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13302'),
(10517, 'The Black Prism', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live: Five years to achieve five impossible goals. But when Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he''s willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16771'),
(10518, 'The Black Prism', 'Brent Weeks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live: Five years to achieve five impossible goals. But when Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he''s willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26757'),
(10519, 'Black Rain: A Thriller', 'Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Covert government operative Danielle Laidlaw leads an expedition into the deepest reaches of the Amazon in search of a legendary Mayan city. Assisted by a renowned university professor and protected by a mercenary named Hawker, her team journeys into the tangled rain forestâ€”unaware that they are replacements for a group that vanished weeks before, and that the treasure they are seeking is no mere artifact but a breakthrough discovery that could transform the world. Shadowed by a ruthless billionaire, threatened by a violent indigenous tribe, and stalked by an unseen enemy that leaves battered corpses in its wake, the group desperately seeks the connection between the deadly reality of the Mayan legend, the nomadic tribe that haunts them, and the chilling secret buried beneath the ancient ruins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5289'),
(10520, 'Black Rain: A Thriller', 'Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Covert government operative Danielle Laidlaw leads an expedition into the deepest reaches of the Amazon in search of a legendary Mayan city. Assisted by a renowned university professor and protected by a mercenary named Hawker, her team journeys into the tangled rain forestâ€”unaware that they are replacements for a group that vanished weeks before, and that the treasure they are seeking is no mere artifact but a breakthrough discovery that could transform the world. Shadowed by a ruthless billionaire, threatened by a violent indigenous tribe, and stalked by an unseen enemy that leaves battered corpses in its wake, the group desperately seeks the connection between the deadly reality of the Mayan legend, the nomadic tribe that haunts them, and the chilling secret buried beneath the ancient ruins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8631'),
(10521, 'Black Rain: A Thriller', 'Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Covert government operative Danielle Laidlaw leads an expedition into the deepest reaches of the Amazon in search of a legendary Mayan city. Assisted by a renowned university professor and protected by a mercenary named Hawker, her team journeys into the tangled rain forestâ€”unaware that they are replacements for a group that vanished weeks before, and that the treasure they are seeking is no mere artifact but a breakthrough discovery that could transform the world. Shadowed by a ruthless billionaire, threatened by a violent indigenous tribe, and stalked by an unseen enemy that leaves battered corpses in its wake, the group desperately seeks the connection between the deadly reality of the Mayan legend, the nomadic tribe that haunts them, and the chilling secret buried beneath the ancient ruins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19356'),
(10522, 'Black Rain: A Thriller', 'Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Covert government operative Danielle Laidlaw leads an expedition into the deepest reaches of the Amazon in search of a legendary Mayan city. Assisted by a renowned university professor and protected by a mercenary named Hawker, her team journeys into the tangled rain forestâ€”unaware that they are replacements for a group that vanished weeks before, and that the treasure they are seeking is no mere artifact but a breakthrough discovery that could transform the world. Shadowed by a ruthless billionaire, threatened by a violent indigenous tribe, and stalked by an unseen enemy that leaves battered corpses in its wake, the group desperately seeks the connection between the deadly reality of the Mayan legend, the nomadic tribe that haunts them, and the chilling secret buried beneath the ancient ruins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27960'),
(10523, 'Black River', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There is no stronger argument for the death penalty than Nicholas Balagula, the bloodthirsty West Coast crime boss who has been charged with sixty-three counts of homicide, many of them children. And now reclusive rogue journalist Frank Corso -- the only non-participant invited to observe the closed court proceedings -- stands uncomfortably in the center of the most crazed media circus to hit Seattle in years . . . until a personal tragedy diverts his attention. When photojournalist Meg Dougherty -- once Corso''s lover and still his dearest friend -- comes face-to-face with a pair of cold-blooded executioners and ends up clinging weakly to life in the I.C.U., the angry lone-wolf reporter vows to make all the guilty parties pay, by his own hand if necessary. But the black river of lies, secrets, corruption, and murder surrounding both the Balagula trial and Meg''s "accident" is much deeper and more dangerous than even Frank Corso anticipated. And if he wades in over his head, the undertow could drag him to his death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5489'),
(10524, 'Black River', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There is no stronger argument for the death penalty than Nicholas Balagula, the bloodthirsty West Coast crime boss who has been charged with sixty-three counts of homicide, many of them children. And now reclusive rogue journalist Frank Corso -- the only non-participant invited to observe the closed court proceedings -- stands uncomfortably in the center of the most crazed media circus to hit Seattle in years . . . until a personal tragedy diverts his attention. When photojournalist Meg Dougherty -- once Corso''s lover and still his dearest friend -- comes face-to-face with a pair of cold-blooded executioners and ends up clinging weakly to life in the I.C.U., the angry lone-wolf reporter vows to make all the guilty parties pay, by his own hand if necessary. But the black river of lies, secrets, corruption, and murder surrounding both the Balagula trial and Meg''s "accident" is much deeper and more dangerous than even Frank Corso anticipated. And if he wades in over his head, the undertow could drag him to his death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9698'),
(10525, 'Black River', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There is no stronger argument for the death penalty than Nicholas Balagula, the bloodthirsty West Coast crime boss who has been charged with sixty-three counts of homicide, many of them children. And now reclusive rogue journalist Frank Corso -- the only non-participant invited to observe the closed court proceedings -- stands uncomfortably in the center of the most crazed media circus to hit Seattle in years . . . until a personal tragedy diverts his attention. When photojournalist Meg Dougherty -- once Corso''s lover and still his dearest friend -- comes face-to-face with a pair of cold-blooded executioners and ends up clinging weakly to life in the I.C.U., the angry lone-wolf reporter vows to make all the guilty parties pay, by his own hand if necessary. But the black river of lies, secrets, corruption, and murder surrounding both the Balagula trial and Meg''s "accident" is much deeper and more dangerous than even Frank Corso anticipated. And if he wades in over his head, the undertow could drag him to his death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19127'),
(10526, 'Black rose', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Number-one bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the second novel of her *In the Garden* trilogy (following *Blue Dahlia*), as three women must discover the secrets from the past contained within their historic home... Three women meet at a crossroads in their lives, each searching for new ways to grow-and find in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future. Roz is a woman of independent means who thought love was behind her, but when romance takes her by surprise; she won''t allow anything to keep her from her second chance at happiness. *A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night...* At forty-five, Rosalind Harper is a woman whose experiences have made her strong enough to bend without breaking-and weather any storm. A widow with three grown sons, she survived a disastrous second marriage, and built her In the Garden nursery from the ground up. Through the years, In the Garden has become more than just a thriving business-it is a symbol of hope and independence to Roz, and to the two women she shares it with. Newlywed Stella and new mother Hayley are the sisters of her heart, and together, the three of them are the future of In the Garden. But now that future is under attack, and Roz knows they can''t fight this battle alone. Hired to investigate Roz''s Harper ancestors, Dr. Mitchell Carnagie finds himself just as intrigued with Roz herself. And as they begin to unravel the puzzle of the Harper Bride''s identity, Roz is shocked to find herself falling for the fascinating genealogist. Now it is a desperate race to discover the truth before the unpredictable apparition lashes out at the one woman who can help her rest in peace...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21572'),
(10527, 'Black Seconds', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off toward town. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother starts to worry. She phones store owners, Idaâ€™s friends, anyone who could have seen her. But no one has. Suspicion immediately falls on Emil Mork, a local character who lives alone and hasnâ€™t spoken since childhood. His mother insists on cleaning his house weeklyâ€”although sheâ€™s sometimes afraid of what she might find there. A motherâ€™s worst nightmare in either case: to lose a child or to think a child capable of murder. As Idaâ€™s relatives reach the breaking point and the media frenzy surrounding the case begins, Inspector Konrad Sejer is his usual calm and reassuring self. But heâ€™s puzzled. And disturbed. This is the strangest case heâ€™s seen in years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3887'),
(10528, 'Black Seconds', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off toward town. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother starts to worry. She phones store owners, Idaâ€™s friends, anyone who could have seen her. But no one has. Suspicion immediately falls on Emil Mork, a local character who lives alone and hasnâ€™t spoken since childhood. His mother insists on cleaning his house weeklyâ€”although sheâ€™s sometimes afraid of what she might find there. A motherâ€™s worst nightmare in either case: to lose a child or to think a child capable of murder. As Idaâ€™s relatives reach the breaking point and the media frenzy surrounding the case begins, Inspector Konrad Sejer is his usual calm and reassuring self. But heâ€™s puzzled. And disturbed. This is the strangest case heâ€™s seen in years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20648'),
(10529, 'Black Sheep', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Abigail Wendover, on the shelf at 28, is kept busy when her niece falls head over heels in love with a handsome fortune hunter and Abbie is forced into a confrontation with his scandalous uncle.\n</p>\n<p>\n Miles Calvery is the black sheep of his family- enormously rich from a long sojourn in India, disconcertingly blunt and brash. But he turns out to be Abbie''s most important ally in keeping her niece out of trouble.\n</p>\n<p>\n But how can he possibly be considered eligible when she has worked so hard to rebuff his own nephew''s suit for her niece? And how can she possibly detach from an ailing sister who needs her? This is a heroine who has to be, literally, swept off her feet . . . (20080505)\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or private life. It is known that she was born in Wimbledon in August 1902, and her first novel, The Black Moth, was published in 1921.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer published 56 books over the next 53 years, until her death from lung cancer in 1974. Heyer''s large volume of works included Regency romances, mysteries and historical fiction. Known also as the Queen of Regency romance, Heyer was legendary for her research, historical accuracy and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. Her last book, My Lord John, was published posthumously in 1975. She was married to George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer, and they had one son together, Richard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18370'),
(10530, 'Black Shrike', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15909'),
(10531, 'Black Sun: A Thriller', 'Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the heart of the Amazon, NRI operative Danielle Laidlaw makes an incredible discovery: a translucent Mayan stone generating massive waves of energy while counting down toward the infamous apocalyptic date: December 21, 2012. And somewhere, there are three more just like it.What power will be unleashed if all four stones come together? Who created themâ€”and who has them now? Using a cryptic Mayan map and a prophecy that points to the end of the world, Danielle and her team race toward answers. But one staggering question remains: Were these artifacts meant to save usâ€”or to destroy us once and for all?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5290'),
(10532, 'Black Sun: A Thriller', 'Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the heart of the Amazon, NRI operative Danielle Laidlaw makes an incredible discovery: a translucent Mayan stone generating massive waves of energy while counting down toward the infamous apocalyptic date: December 21, 2012. And somewhere, there are three more just like it.What power will be unleashed if all four stones come together? Who created themâ€”and who has them now? Using a cryptic Mayan map and a prophecy that points to the end of the world, Danielle and her team race toward answers. But one staggering question remains: Were these artifacts meant to save usâ€”or to destroy us once and for all?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8632'),
(10533, 'Black Sun: A Thriller', 'Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the heart of the Amazon, NRI operative Danielle Laidlaw makes an incredible discovery: a translucent Mayan stone generating massive waves of energy while counting down toward the infamous apocalyptic date: December 21, 2012. And somewhere, there are three more just like it.What power will be unleashed if all four stones come together? Who created themâ€”and who has them now? Using a cryptic Mayan map and a prophecy that points to the end of the world, Danielle and her team race toward answers. But one staggering question remains: Were these artifacts meant to save usâ€”or to destroy us once and for all?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19355'),
(10534, 'Black Sun: A Thriller', 'Graham Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the heart of the Amazon, NRI operative Danielle Laidlaw makes an incredible discovery: a translucent Mayan stone generating massive waves of energy while counting down toward the infamous apocalyptic date: December 21, 2012. And somewhere, there are three more just like it.What power will be unleashed if all four stones come together? Who created themâ€”and who has them now? Using a cryptic Mayan map and a prophecy that points to the end of the world, Danielle and her team race toward answers. But one staggering question remains: Were these artifacts meant to save usâ€”or to destroy us once and for all?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27957'),
(10535, 'Black Swan Green', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From highly acclaimed two-time Man Booker finalist David Mitchell comes a glorious, sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. In his previous novels, David Mitchell dazzled us with his narrative scope and his virtuosic command of multiple voices and stories.The New York Times Book Reviewsaid, â€œMitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across [Cloud Atlasâ€™s] every page.â€ Black Swan Greeninverts the telescopic vision ofCloud Atlasto track a single year in what is, for 13-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the 13 chapters create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. Pointed, funny, profound, left field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life,Black Swan Greenis David Mitchellâ€™s subtlest yet most accessible achievement to date. Excerpt fromBlack Swan Green: Picked-on kids act invisible to reduce the chances of being noticed and picked on. Stammerers act invisible to reduce the chances of being made to say something we canâ€™t. Kids whose parents argue act invisible in case we trigger another skirmish. The Triple Invisible Boy, thatâ€™s Jason Taylor. Even I donâ€™t see the real Jason Taylor much these days, â€™cept for when weâ€™re writing a poem, or occasionally in a mirror, or just before sleep. But he comes out in woods. Ankley branches, knuckly roots, paths that only might be, earthworks by badgers or Romans, a pond thatâ€™ll ice over come January, a wooden cigar box nailed behind the ear of a secret sycamore where we once planned a treehouse, birdstuffedtwigsnapped silence, toothy bracken, and places you canâ€™t find if youâ€™re not alone. Time in woodsâ€™s older than time in clocks, and truer. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6222'),
(10536, 'Black Swan Green', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From highly acclaimed two-time Man Booker finalist David Mitchell comes a glorious, sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. In his previous novels, David Mitchell dazzled us with his narrative scope and his virtuosic command of multiple voices and stories.The New York Times Book Reviewsaid, â€œMitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across [Cloud Atlasâ€™s] every page.â€ Black Swan Greeninverts the telescopic vision ofCloud Atlasto track a single year in what is, for 13-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the 13 chapters create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. Pointed, funny, profound, left field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life,Black Swan Greenis David Mitchellâ€™s subtlest yet most accessible achievement to date. Excerpt fromBlack Swan Green: Picked-on kids act invisible to reduce the chances of being noticed and picked on. Stammerers act invisible to reduce the chances of being made to say something we canâ€™t. Kids whose parents argue act invisible in case we trigger another skirmish. The Triple Invisible Boy, thatâ€™s Jason Taylor. Even I donâ€™t see the real Jason Taylor much these days, â€™cept for when weâ€™re writing a poem, or occasionally in a mirror, or just before sleep. But he comes out in woods. Ankley branches, knuckly roots, paths that only might be, earthworks by badgers or Romans, a pond thatâ€™ll ice over come January, a wooden cigar box nailed behind the ear of a secret sycamore where we once planned a treehouse, birdstuffedtwigsnapped silence, toothy bracken, and places you canâ€™t find if youâ€™re not alone. Time in woodsâ€™s older than time in clocks, and truer. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11089'),
(10537, 'Black Swan Green', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From highly acclaimed two-time Man Booker finalist David Mitchell comes a glorious, sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. In his previous novels, David Mitchell dazzled us with his narrative scope and his virtuosic command of multiple voices and stories.The New York Times Book Reviewsaid, â€œMitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across [Cloud Atlasâ€™s] every page.â€ Black Swan Greeninverts the telescopic vision ofCloud Atlasto track a single year in what is, for 13-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the 13 chapters create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. Pointed, funny, profound, left field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life,Black Swan Greenis David Mitchellâ€™s subtlest yet most accessible achievement to date. Excerpt fromBlack Swan Green: Picked-on kids act invisible to reduce the chances of being noticed and picked on. Stammerers act invisible to reduce the chances of being made to say something we canâ€™t. Kids whose parents argue act invisible in case we trigger another skirmish. The Triple Invisible Boy, thatâ€™s Jason Taylor. Even I donâ€™t see the real Jason Taylor much these days, â€™cept for when weâ€™re writing a poem, or occasionally in a mirror, or just before sleep. But he comes out in woods. Ankley branches, knuckly roots, paths that only might be, earthworks by badgers or Romans, a pond thatâ€™ll ice over come January, a wooden cigar box nailed behind the ear of a secret sycamore where we once planned a treehouse, birdstuffedtwigsnapped silence, toothy bracken, and places you canâ€™t find if youâ€™re not alone. Time in woodsâ€™s older than time in clocks, and truer. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17767'),
(10538, 'Black Swan Green', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From highly acclaimed two-time Man Booker finalist David Mitchell comes a glorious, sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. In his previous novels, David Mitchell dazzled us with his narrative scope and his virtuosic command of multiple voices and stories.The New York Times Book Reviewsaid, â€œMitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across [Cloud Atlasâ€™s] every page.â€ Black Swan Greeninverts the telescopic vision ofCloud Atlasto track a single year in what is, for 13-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the 13 chapters create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. Pointed, funny, profound, left field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life,Black Swan Greenis David Mitchellâ€™s subtlest yet most accessible achievement to date. Excerpt fromBlack Swan Green: Picked-on kids act invisible to reduce the chances of being noticed and picked on. Stammerers act invisible to reduce the chances of being made to say something we canâ€™t. Kids whose parents argue act invisible in case we trigger another skirmish. The Triple Invisible Boy, thatâ€™s Jason Taylor. Even I donâ€™t see the real Jason Taylor much these days, â€™cept for when weâ€™re writing a poem, or occasionally in a mirror, or just before sleep. But he comes out in woods. Ankley branches, knuckly roots, paths that only might be, earthworks by badgers or Romans, a pond thatâ€™ll ice over come January, a wooden cigar box nailed behind the ear of a secret sycamore where we once planned a treehouse, birdstuffedtwigsnapped silence, toothy bracken, and places you canâ€™t find if youâ€™re not alone. Time in woodsâ€™s older than time in clocks, and truer. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27361'),
(10539, 'The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable', 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we-especially the experts-are blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay,On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world. *2nd Edition, With a new essay: "On Robustness and Fragility"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2733'),
(10540, 'The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable', 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we-especially the experts-are blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay,On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world. *2nd Edition, With a new essay: "On Robustness and Fragility"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13001'),
(10541, 'The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable', 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we-especially the experts-are blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay,On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world. *2nd Edition, With a new essay: "On Robustness and Fragility"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22205'),
(10542, 'The Black Tattoo', 'Sam Enthoven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jacks best friend, Charlie, is in serious trouble, possessed by an ancient demon called the Scourge who plans to use Charlie to bring about its evil endswhich, unfortunately, involve the destruction of the entire universe. Now Jack and the butt-kicking, sword-wielding Esme must contend with floating sharks, intelligent jelly, oversized centipedes, gladiator pits, and vomiting bats, all for the sake of saving Charlie from the Scourge. And, hopefully, saving the universe from total and utter annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1462'),
(10543, 'The Black Tattoo', 'Sam Enthoven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jacks best friend, Charlie, is in serious trouble, possessed by an ancient demon called the Scourge who plans to use Charlie to bring about its evil endswhich, unfortunately, involve the destruction of the entire universe. Now Jack and the butt-kicking, sword-wielding Esme must contend with floating sharks, intelligent jelly, oversized centipedes, gladiator pits, and vomiting bats, all for the sake of saving Charlie from the Scourge. And, hopefully, saving the universe from total and utter annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23542'),
(10544, 'The Black Tide', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18330'),
(10545, 'Black Widow', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Ford''s 15th Doc Ford thriller (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Hunter''s Moon\n </em>\n ) may baffle newcomers with a backstory relating to the murder of Ford''s parents. Ford, a marine biologist and covert operative who lives on Florida''s Sanibel Island, is busy serving his shadowy U.S. government masters by researching the potential use by terrorists of jellyfish and other venomous sea creatures when he receives a desperate appeal for help from an old friend. Shay Money, a successful 26-year-old businesswoman who''s about to be married, fears her future happiness is in jeopardy because an extortionist has videotaped her and three female friends in sexually compromising situations. While Ford manages to get the tape in exchange for a sizable payment, his suspicions that the criminal isn''t done with Money are soon confirmed. His efforts to protect her lead him to the Caribbean and a sophisticated blackmail racket with a lengthy list of victims. Despite some awkward prose (The combination of flesh and death, the orderly geometrics of my wound, struck me as indefinably profound), series fans should enjoy the ride.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n What happens in the Caribbeanâ€”at least on the tiny island of Saint Arcâ€”definitely doesnâ€™t stay there. Especially if you happen to be a rich, young woman out for a final fling with your girlfriends before tying the knot. That demographic is likely to snag you in the web of Saint Arcâ€™s resident voodoo queen, the Widow, a sexually ambiguous dragon lady who runs a sophisticated blackmail enterprise. In this fifteenth outing for Whiteâ€™s beloved hero, marine biologist and special-ops agent Doc Ford, the Widow meets her match when she targets Fordâ€™s goddaughter, Shay. Feeling a bit out of sorts since he retired from the clandestine services, Ford is ready to mix it up a little and heads off to the island to confront the blackmailers. He finds much more of a challenge than he expected and is happy to join forces with a mysterious island resident, a seventysomething Brit who appears to be a former special-ops type himself. White makes the most of this pairing (imagine Michael Caine as the Brit), injecting some bantering fun into the high-octane action. As always in this consistently entertaining series, the plot offers a fascinating mix of headline-grabbing crime (CaribbeanÂ vacations gone bad) and history (island archaeology, with a touch of those ever-popular Knights Templar). Like Robert B. Parker and John D. MacDonald at their best, White draws readers into his world with characters youâ€™d pay just to hang out with andÂ then hooks us with straight-ahead action.Â Itâ€™s an old-school combination, but it still works just fine. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1927');
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(10546, 'Black Widow', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Ford''s 15th Doc Ford thriller (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Hunter''s Moon\n </em>\n ) may baffle newcomers with a backstory relating to the murder of Ford''s parents. Ford, a marine biologist and covert operative who lives on Florida''s Sanibel Island, is busy serving his shadowy U.S. government masters by researching the potential use by terrorists of jellyfish and other venomous sea creatures when he receives a desperate appeal for help from an old friend. Shay Money, a successful 26-year-old businesswoman who''s about to be married, fears her future happiness is in jeopardy because an extortionist has videotaped her and three female friends in sexually compromising situations. While Ford manages to get the tape in exchange for a sizable payment, his suspicions that the criminal isn''t done with Money are soon confirmed. His efforts to protect her lead him to the Caribbean and a sophisticated blackmail racket with a lengthy list of victims. Despite some awkward prose (The combination of flesh and death, the orderly geometrics of my wound, struck me as indefinably profound), series fans should enjoy the ride.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n What happens in the Caribbeanâ€”at least on the tiny island of Saint Arcâ€”definitely doesnâ€™t stay there. Especially if you happen to be a rich, young woman out for a final fling with your girlfriends before tying the knot. That demographic is likely to snag you in the web of Saint Arcâ€™s resident voodoo queen, the Widow, a sexually ambiguous dragon lady who runs a sophisticated blackmail enterprise. In this fifteenth outing for Whiteâ€™s beloved hero, marine biologist and special-ops agent Doc Ford, the Widow meets her match when she targets Fordâ€™s goddaughter, Shay. Feeling a bit out of sorts since he retired from the clandestine services, Ford is ready to mix it up a little and heads off to the island to confront the blackmailers. He finds much more of a challenge than he expected and is happy to join forces with a mysterious island resident, a seventysomething Brit who appears to be a former special-ops type himself. White makes the most of this pairing (imagine Michael Caine as the Brit), injecting some bantering fun into the high-octane action. As always in this consistently entertaining series, the plot offers a fascinating mix of headline-grabbing crime (CaribbeanÂ vacations gone bad) and history (island archaeology, with a touch of those ever-popular Knights Templar). Like Robert B. Parker and John D. MacDonald at their best, White draws readers into his world with characters youâ€™d pay just to hang out with andÂ then hooks us with straight-ahead action.Â Itâ€™s an old-school combination, but it still works just fine. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13330'),
(10547, 'Black Wind', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Dirk Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Clive Cussler''s dazzling new Dirk Pitt(r) adventure.    Clive the Mighty!" hailed Kirkus Reviews about Cussler''s last Dirk Pitt(r) novel, *Trojan Odyssey*. "Hurricane Clive at his most tumultuous." Nobody has been able to match Cussler yet for the intricate plotting and sheer audacity of his work, and *Black Wind* sets the bar even higher.    In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese tried a last desperate measure-a different kind of kamikaze mission, this one carried out by two submarines bound for the West Coast of the United States, their cargo a revolutionary new strain of biological virus. Neither sub made it to the designated target.    But that does not mean they were lost.    Someone knows about the subs and what they bore, knows too where they might be, and has an extraordinary plan in store for the prize inside-a scheme that could reshape the world as we know it. All that stands in the way are three people: a marine biologist named Summer, a marine engineer named Dirk, and their father, Dirk Pitt, the new head of NUMA.  Pitt has faced devastating enemies before, and has even teamed up with his children to track them down. But never has he looked upon the face of pure evil . . . until now.    Filled with dazzling suspense and breathtaking action, *Black Wind* is Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6704'),
(10548, 'Black Wind', 'Clive Cussler; Dirk Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Clive Cussler''s dazzling new Dirk Pitt(r) adventure. Clive the Mighty!" hailed Kirkus Reviews about Cussler''s last Dirk Pitt(r) novel, *Trojan Odyssey*. "Hurricane Clive at his most tumultuous." Nobody has been able to match Cussler yet for the intricate plotting and sheer audacity of his work, and *Black Wind* sets the bar even higher. In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese tried a last desperate measure-a different kind of kamikaze mission, this one carried out by two submarines bound for the West Coast of the United States, their cargo a revolutionary new strain of biological virus. Neither sub made it to the designated target. But that does not mean they were lost. Someone knows about the subs and what they bore, knows too where they might be, and has an extraordinary plan in store for the prize inside-a scheme that could reshape the world as we know it. All that stands in the way are three people: a marine biologist named Summer, a marine engineer named Dirk, and their father, Dirk Pitt, the new head of NUMA. Pitt has faced devastating enemies before, and has even teamed up with his children to track them down. But never has he looked upon the face of pure evil . . . until now. Filled with dazzling suspense and breathtaking action, *Black Wind* is Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17350'),
(10549, 'Black Wind', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Dirk Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Clive Cussler''s dazzling new Dirk Pitt(r) adventure.    Clive the Mighty!" hailed Kirkus Reviews about Cussler''s last Dirk Pitt(r) novel, *Trojan Odyssey*. "Hurricane Clive at his most tumultuous." Nobody has been able to match Cussler yet for the intricate plotting and sheer audacity of his work, and *Black Wind* sets the bar even higher.    In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese tried a last desperate measure-a different kind of kamikaze mission, this one carried out by two submarines bound for the West Coast of the United States, their cargo a revolutionary new strain of biological virus. Neither sub made it to the designated target.    But that does not mean they were lost.    Someone knows about the subs and what they bore, knows too where they might be, and has an extraordinary plan in store for the prize inside-a scheme that could reshape the world as we know it. All that stands in the way are three people: a marine biologist named Summer, a marine engineer named Dirk, and their father, Dirk Pitt, the new head of NUMA.  Pitt has faced devastating enemies before, and has even teamed up with his children to track them down. But never has he looked upon the face of pure evil . . . until now.    Filled with dazzling suspense and breathtaking action, *Black Wind* is Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Clive Cussler''s dazzling new Dirk Pitt(r) adventure. Clive the Mighty!" hailed Kirkus Reviews about Cussler''s last Dirk Pitt(r) novel, *Trojan Odyssey*. "Hurricane Clive at his most tumultuous." Nobody has been able to match Cussler yet for the intricate plotting and sheer audacity of his work, and *Black Wind* sets the bar even higher. In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese tried a last desperate measure-a different kind of kamikaze mission, this one carried out by two submarines bound for the West Coast of the United States, their cargo a revolutionary new strain of biological virus. Neither sub made it to the designated target. But that does not mean they were lost. Someone knows about the subs and what they bore, knows too where they might be, and has an extraordinary plan in store for the prize inside-a scheme that could reshape the world as we know it. All that stands in the way are three people: a marine biologist named Summer, a marine engineer named Dirk, and their father, Dirk Pitt, the new head of NUMA. Pitt has faced devastating enemies before, and has even teamed up with his children to track them down. But never has he looked upon the face of pure evil . . . until now. Filled with dazzling suspense and breathtaking action, *Black Wind* is Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27016'),
(10550, 'Black Wings - Tales of Lovecraftian Horror', 'Mollie L Burleson, Caitin R. Kiernan &amp; Nicholas Royle, Donald R. Burleson &amp; Jonathann Thomas, Joseph S. Pulver Sr. &amp; Darrell Schweitzer, Michael Shea &amp; Brian Stableford, Sam Gafford &amp; Philip Haldeman, Laird Barron &amp; Michael Marshall Smith, William Browning Spencer &amp; Jason Van Hollander, David J. Schow &amp; Adam Niswander, W.H. Pugmire &amp; Joshi, S.T.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23086'),
(10551, 'Blackout', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds-great and small-of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide-and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening. Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser, Mr. Dunworthy, into letting her go to VE Day. Polly Churchill''s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London''s Blitz. And seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who has a major crush on Polly, is determined to go to the Crusades so that he can "catch up" to her in age. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments for no apparent reason and switching around everyone''s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history-to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past. From the people sheltering in the tube stations of London to the retired sailors who set off across the Channel to rescue the stranded British Army from Dunkirk, from shopgirls to ambulance drivers, from spies to hospital nurses to Shakespearean actors, Blackout reveals a side of World War II seldom seen before: a dangerous, desperate world in which there are no civilians and in which everybody-from the Queen down to the lowliest barmaid-is determined to do their bit to help a beleaguered nation survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6624'),
(10552, 'Blackout', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds-great and small-of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide-and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening. Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser, Mr. Dunworthy, into letting her go to VE Day. Polly Churchill''s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London''s Blitz. And seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who has a major crush on Polly, is determined to go to the Crusades so that he can "catch up" to her in age. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments for no apparent reason and switching around everyone''s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history-to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past. From the people sheltering in the tube stations of London to the retired sailors who set off across the Channel to rescue the stranded British Army from Dunkirk, from shopgirls to ambulance drivers, from spies to hospital nurses to Shakespearean actors, Blackout reveals a side of World War II seldom seen before: a dangerous, desperate world in which there are no civilians and in which everybody-from the Queen down to the lowliest barmaid-is determined to do their bit to help a beleaguered nation survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13365'),
(10553, 'Blackout', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds-great and small-of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide-and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening. Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser, Mr. Dunworthy, into letting her go to VE Day. Polly Churchill''s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London''s Blitz. And seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who has a major crush on Polly, is determined to go to the Crusades so that he can "catch up" to her in age. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments for no apparent reason and switching around everyone''s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history-to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past. From the people sheltering in the tube stations of London to the retired sailors who set off across the Channel to rescue the stranded British Army from Dunkirk, from shopgirls to ambulance drivers, from spies to hospital nurses to Shakespearean actors, Blackout reveals a side of World War II seldom seen before: a dangerous, desperate world in which there are no civilians and in which everybody-from the Queen down to the lowliest barmaid-is determined to do their bit to help a beleaguered nation survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17464'),
(10554, 'Blackout', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser, Mr. Dunworthy, into letting her go to VE Day. Polly Churchillâ€™s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of Londonâ€™s Blitz. And seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who has a major crush on Polly, is determined to go to the Crusades so that he can â€œcatch upâ€ to her in age.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments for no apparent reason and switching around everyoneâ€™s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of historyâ€”to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the people sheltering in the tube stations of London to the retired sailors who set off across the Channel to rescue the stranded British Army from Dunkirk, from shopgirls to ambulance drivers, from spies to hospital nurses to Shakespearean actors, Blackout reveals a side of World War II seldom seen before: a dangerous, desperate world in which there are no civilians and in which everybodyâ€”from the Queen down to the lowliest barmaidâ€”is determined to do their bit to help a beleaguered nation survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27117'),
(10555, 'Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel', 'Rob Thurman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When half-human Cal Leandros wakes up on a beach littered with the slaughtered remains if a variety of hideous creatures, he''s not that concerned. In fact, he can''t remember anything-including who he is.\n</p>\n<p>\n And that''s just the way his deadly enemies like it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1713'),
(10556, 'Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel', 'Rob Thurman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When half-human Cal Leandros wakes up on a beach littered with the slaughtered remains if a variety of hideous creatures, he''s not that concerned. In fact, he can''t remember anything-including who he is.\n</p>\n<p>\n And that''s just the way his deadly enemies like it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13031'),
(10557, 'Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel', 'Rob Thurman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When half-human Cal Leandros wakes up on a beach littered with the slaughtered remains if a variety of hideous creatures, he''s not that concerned. In fact, he can''t remember anything-including who he is.\n</p>\n<p>\n And that''s just the way his deadly enemies like it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24865'),
(10558, 'The Blackstone Chronicles', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oliver Metcalf is the editor of the Blackstone Chronicle in Blackstone, NH. His father had been the director of the Blackstone Asylum before his death. Oliver had grown up in a cottage on the asylum''s grounds. A sense of evil and darkness pervades the now empty asylum. The Chronicle reports that the asylum is to be torn down and replaced with an upscale mall. About the time the wrecking ball makes its first swing, the funding for the project falls through. Residents of the town begin to receive mysterious gifts that seem to have the power to visit evil on the recipients. An accidental fall, a suicide, a kidnapping, and an explosion leave the town reeling. Metcalf knows he must remember something key to understanding the mystery and halting the terrible chain of accidents. This abridgment causes the "accidents" to appear with very little plot or character development. This, in turn, causes the terror to become somewhat tedious. The story is read with feeling and skill by Lee Meriwether. Recommended for large library collections.AJoanna M. Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island Coll. of Continuing Education Lib., Providence\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now, for the first time, the New York Times bestselling serial thriller is complete in one terrifying volume. John Saul, the master of supernatural suspense, John Saul, brings to chilling life the small New England town of Blackstone--and the secrets and sins that lay buried there. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n From atop Blackstone''s highest hill, the old Asylum casts its shadow over the village. Built in the 1890s to house the insane, the Asylum has stood vacant for decades. But now, the wrecker''s ball is about to strike--and unleash an ominous evil. Strange gifts begin to appear on the doorsteps of Blackstone''s finest citizens.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each bears a mysterious history.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each brings a horrifying power to harm.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each reveals another thread in the suspensefully woven web of . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n THE BLACKSTONE CHRONICLES\n</p>\n<p>\n Part I--An Eye for an Eye: The Doll\n <br />\n Part II--Twist of Fate: The Locket\n <br />\n Part III--Ashes to Ashes: The Dragon''s Flame\n <br />\n Part IV--In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief\n <br />\n Part V--Day of Reckoning: The Stereoscope\n <br />\n Part VI--Asylum\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4201'),
(10559, 'The Blackstone Chronicles', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oliver Metcalf is the editor of the Blackstone Chronicle in Blackstone, NH. His father had been the director of the Blackstone Asylum before his death. Oliver had grown up in a cottage on the asylum''s grounds. A sense of evil and darkness pervades the now empty asylum. The Chronicle reports that the asylum is to be torn down and replaced with an upscale mall. About the time the wrecking ball makes its first swing, the funding for the project falls through. Residents of the town begin to receive mysterious gifts that seem to have the power to visit evil on the recipients. An accidental fall, a suicide, a kidnapping, and an explosion leave the town reeling. Metcalf knows he must remember something key to understanding the mystery and halting the terrible chain of accidents. This abridgment causes the "accidents" to appear with very little plot or character development. This, in turn, causes the terror to become somewhat tedious. The story is read with feeling and skill by Lee Meriwether. Recommended for large library collections.AJoanna M. Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island Coll. of Continuing Education Lib., Providence\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now, for the first time, the New York Times bestselling serial thriller is complete in one terrifying volume. John Saul, the master of supernatural suspense, John Saul, brings to chilling life the small New England town of Blackstone--and the secrets and sins that lay buried there. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n From atop Blackstone''s highest hill, the old Asylum casts its shadow over the village. Built in the 1890s to house the insane, the Asylum has stood vacant for decades. But now, the wrecker''s ball is about to strike--and unleash an ominous evil. Strange gifts begin to appear on the doorsteps of Blackstone''s finest citizens.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each bears a mysterious history.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each brings a horrifying power to harm.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each reveals another thread in the suspensefully woven web of . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n THE BLACKSTONE CHRONICLES\n</p>\n<p>\n Part I--An Eye for an Eye: The Doll\n <br />\n Part II--Twist of Fate: The Locket\n <br />\n Part III--Ashes to Ashes: The Dragon''s Flame\n <br />\n Part IV--In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief\n <br />\n Part V--Day of Reckoning: The Stereoscope\n <br />\n Part VI--Asylum\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12580'),
(10560, 'The Blackstone Chronicles', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oliver Metcalf is the editor of the Blackstone Chronicle in Blackstone, NH. His father had been the director of the Blackstone Asylum before his death. Oliver had grown up in a cottage on the asylum''s grounds. A sense of evil and darkness pervades the now empty asylum. The Chronicle reports that the asylum is to be torn down and replaced with an upscale mall. About the time the wrecking ball makes its first swing, the funding for the project falls through. Residents of the town begin to receive mysterious gifts that seem to have the power to visit evil on the recipients. An accidental fall, a suicide, a kidnapping, and an explosion leave the town reeling. Metcalf knows he must remember something key to understanding the mystery and halting the terrible chain of accidents. This abridgment causes the "accidents" to appear with very little plot or character development. This, in turn, causes the terror to become somewhat tedious. The story is read with feeling and skill by Lee Meriwether. Recommended for large library collections.AJoanna M. Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island Coll. of Continuing Education Lib., Providence\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now, for the first time, the New York Times bestselling serial thriller is complete in one terrifying volume. John Saul, the master of supernatural suspense, John Saul, brings to chilling life the small New England town of Blackstone--and the secrets and sins that lay buried there. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n From atop Blackstone''s highest hill, the old Asylum casts its shadow over the village. Built in the 1890s to house the insane, the Asylum has stood vacant for decades. But now, the wrecker''s ball is about to strike--and unleash an ominous evil. Strange gifts begin to appear on the doorsteps of Blackstone''s finest citizens.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each bears a mysterious history.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each brings a horrifying power to harm.\n</p>\n<p>\n Each reveals another thread in the suspensefully woven web of . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n THE BLACKSTONE CHRONICLES\n</p>\n<p>\n Part I--An Eye for an Eye: The Doll\n <br />\n Part II--Twist of Fate: The Locket\n <br />\n Part III--Ashes to Ashes: The Dragon''s Flame\n <br />\n Part IV--In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief\n <br />\n Part V--Day of Reckoning: The Stereoscope\n <br />\n Part VI--Asylum\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20244'),
(10561, 'Blackwater', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A dark, chilling psychological thriller from the number one bestselling author of the Emperor series. Blackwater is being published as part of the Quick Reads initiative on World Book Day 2006.How do you know when you''re in too deep?Davey has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, a smiling sociopath who will stop at nothing to protect himself and his family. But when the shadowy figure of Denis Tanter comes into Davey''s life, how far will the bond of brotherhood reach?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6604'),
(10562, 'Blackwater', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A dark, chilling psychological thriller from the number one bestselling author of the Emperor series. Blackwater is being published as part of the Quick Reads initiative on World Book Day 2006.How do you know when you''re in too deep?Davey has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, a smiling sociopath who will stop at nothing to protect himself and his family. But when the shadowy figure of Denis Tanter comes into Davey''s life, how far will the bond of brotherhood reach?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10462'),
(10563, 'Blackwater', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A dark, chilling psychological thriller from the number one bestselling author of the Emperor series. Blackwater is being published as part of the Quick Reads initiative on World Book Day 2006.How do you know when you''re in too deep?Davey has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, a smiling sociopath who will stop at nothing to protect himself and his family. But when the shadowy figure of Denis Tanter comes into Davey''s life, how far will the bond of brotherhood reach?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17391'),
(10564, 'Blackwater', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A dark, chilling psychological thriller from the number one bestselling author of the Emperor series. Blackwater is being published as part of the Quick Reads initiative on World Book Day 2006.How do you know when you''re in too deep?Davey has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, a smiling sociopath who will stop at nothing to protect himself and his family. But when the shadowy figure of Denis Tanter comes into Davey''s life, how far will the bond of brotherhood reach?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27031'),
(10565, 'Blackwood Farm', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgÃ¤nger, â€œGoblin,â€ a spirit from a dream world that Quinn canâ€™t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgÃ¤nger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinnâ€™s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds. A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7544'),
(10566, 'Blackwood Farm', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgÃ¤nger, â€œGoblin,â€ a spirit from a dream world that Quinn canâ€™t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgÃ¤nger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinnâ€™s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds. A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14007'),
(10567, 'Blackwood Farm', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgÃ¤nger, â€œGoblin,â€ a spirit from a dream world that Quinn canâ€™t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgÃ¤nger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinnâ€™s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds. A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16325'),
(10568, 'Blackwood Farm', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgÃ¤nger, â€œGoblin,â€ a spirit from a dream world that Quinn canâ€™t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgÃ¤nger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinnâ€™s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds. A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26365'),
(10569, 'The Blade Itself', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he''s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian - leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, Captain Jezal dan Luthar has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it. Enter the wizard, Bayaz. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he''s about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glotka a whole lot more difficult. Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood. Unpredictable, compelling, wickedly funny, and packed with unforgettable characters, The Blade Itself is noir fantasy with a real cutting edge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4347'),
(10570, 'The Blade Itself', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he''s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian - leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, Captain Jezal dan Luthar has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it. Enter the wizard, Bayaz. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he''s about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glotka a whole lot more difficult. Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood. Unpredictable, compelling, wickedly funny, and packed with unforgettable characters, The Blade Itself is noir fantasy with a real cutting edge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15201'),
(10571, 'Blameless', 'Gail Carriger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Quitting her husband''s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London''s vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they''re armed with pesto.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5516'),
(10572, 'Blameless', 'Gail Carriger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Quitting her husband''s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London''s vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they''re armed with pesto.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8802'),
(10573, 'Blameless', 'Gail Carriger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Quitting her husband''s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London''s vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they''re armed with pesto.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19214'),
(10574, 'Blameless', 'Gail Carriger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Quitting her husband''s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London''s vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they''re armed with pesto.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27875'),
(10575, 'Blaze', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There was a time when admirers of Stephen King would seek out every scrap from the Masterâ€™s work bench, and it was a cause for celebration when it was discovered that the writer Richard Bachman was, in fact, a pseudonym for King. There were more King novels available than we had all thought! And it was even more an occasion for celebration when it was discovered just how good these Bachman books were.\n <br />\n With Blaze (issued here with a new foreword by Stephen King), we have one of the most adroit entries in the series. King had written the book in 1973 and it had subsequently vanished from his personal radar as he busied himself writing Carrie and Salem''s Lot, two of the books that were to both make his fortune and establish him as the greatest modern master of horror fiction. When Blaze turned up among his papers in the library of the University of Maine, he looked at it again, and (fortunately for King aficionados) sanctioned its publication.\n <br />\n Clay Blaisdell is a hulking 6'' 7'''' petty criminal who encounters another lowlife with large ambitions: George Rackley has a fund of criminal schemes, but his Big Idea is to kidnap the children of rich parents and hold them to ransom. What ensues is shot through with the masterly orchestration of tension that is Stephen King''s mÃ©tier. If there are some undigested influences here (the two protagonists -- one massive and powerful, the other the brains of the duo -- owe more than a little to George and Lenny in John Steinbeck''s Of Mice and Men), the personality that comes through (leaving aside the Richard Bachman nom-de-plume) is Stephen King, and followers of his work will need no persuasion to pick up this one. --Barry Forshaw\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n ''BLAZE feels like an essential missing piece in King''s oeuvre...compelling''  -- Independent on Sunday   ''King''s brilliance is in making his readers root for the kidnapper rather than the authorities''  -- Daily Telegraph   ''Tightly written and compelling''  -- Daily Express  ''Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift. Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades'' -- The Times on CELL   ''Thrilling, genuinely terrifying, beautifully textured and full of wonderful invention''  -- Daily Mail on LISEY''S STORY   ''A consummate and compassionate novel -- one of King''s very best''  -- Guardian on LISEY''S STORY\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n <br />\n ''BLAZE feels like an essential missing piece in King''s oeuvre...compelling''\n <br />\n (Independent on Sunday )\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n ''King''s brilliance is in making his readers root for the kidnapper rather than the authorities''\n <br />\n (Daily Telegraph )\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n ''Tightly written and compelling''\n <br />\n (Daily Express )\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift. Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades'' (The Times on CELL )\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n â€˜Thrilling, genuinely terrifying, beautifully textured and full of wonderful inventionâ€™\n <br />\n (Daily Mail on LISEY''S STORY )\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n ''A consummate and compassionate novel â€“ one of Kingâ€™s very best''\n <br />\n (Guardian on LISEY''S STORY )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1080');
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(10576, 'Blaze', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There was a time when admirers of Stephen King would seek out every scrap from the Masterâ€™s work bench, and it was a cause for celebration when it was discovered that the writer Richard Bachman was, in fact, a pseudonym for King. There were more King novels available than we had all thought! And it was even more an occasion for celebration when it was discovered just how good these Bachman books were. With Blaze (issued here with a new foreword by Stephen King), we have one of the most adroit entries in the series. King had written the book in 1973 and it had subsequently vanished from his personal radar as he busied himself writing Carrie and Salem''s Lot, two of the books that were to both make his fortune and establish him as the greatest modern master of horror fiction. When Blaze turned up among his papers in the library of the University of Maine, he looked at it again, and (fortunately for King aficionados) sanctioned its publication. Clay Blaisdell is a hulking 6'' 7'''' petty criminal who encounters another lowlife with large ambitions: George Rackley has a fund of criminal schemes, but his Big Idea is to kidnap the children of rich parents and hold them to ransom. What ensues is shot through with the masterly orchestration of tension that is Stephen King''s mÃ©tier. If there are some undigested influences here (the two protagonists -- one massive and powerful, the other the brains of the duo -- owe more than a little to George and Lenny in John Steinbeck''s Of Mice and Men), the personality that comes through (leaving aside the Richard Bachman nom-de-plume) is Stephen King, and followers of his work will need no persuasion to pick up this one. --Barry Forshaw ''BLAZE feels like an essential missing piece in King''s oeuvre...compelling'' -- Independent on Sunday ''King''s brilliance is in making his readers root for the kidnapper rather than the authorities'' -- Daily Telegraph ''Tightly written and compelling'' -- Daily Express ''Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift. Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades'' -- The Times on CELL ''Thrilling, genuinely terrifying, beautifully textured and full of wonderful invention'' -- Daily Mail on LISEY''S STORY ''A consummate and compassionate novel -- one of King''s very best'' -- Guardian on LISEY''S STORY ''BLAZE feels like an essential missing piece in King''s oeuvre...compelling'' (Independent on Sunday ) ''King''s brilliance is in making his readers root for the kidnapper rather than the authorities'' (Daily Telegraph ) ''Tightly written and compelling'' (Daily Express ) ''Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift. Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades'' (The Times on CELL ) â€˜Thrilling, genuinely terrifying, beautifully textured and full of wonderful inventionâ€™ (Daily Mail on LISEY''S STORY ) ''A consummate and compassionate novel â€“ one of Kingâ€™s very best'' (Guardian on LISEY''S STORY )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23759'),
(10577, 'Blaze of Glory', 'Simon Hawke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The "U.S.S. Enterprise"(TM) is assigned to the planet K''Trall -- a planet just coming out rom under the heel of barbarous suppression. When the planet''s newly emerging freedom is threatened by a rouge ship attacking Federation shipping, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew put their lives on the line to protect K''Trall from the raids. &gt; But the planet itself holds a deadly secret, one that could lead to a ressurgence of the despotic cruelty they have suffered for centuries. With time running out, Captain Picard must see his way past a maze of deadly deception, with billions of lives hanging in the balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1239'),
(10578, 'Blaze of Glory', 'Simon Hawke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The "U.S.S. Enterprise"(TM) is assigned to the planet K''Trall -- a planet just coming out rom under the heel of barbarous suppression. When the planet''s newly emerging freedom is threatened by a rouge ship attacking Federation shipping, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew put their lives on the line to protect K''Trall from the raids. &gt; But the planet itself holds a deadly secret, one that could lead to a ressurgence of the despotic cruelty they have suffered for centuries. With time running out, Captain Picard must see his way past a maze of deadly deception, with billions of lives hanging in the balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23680'),
(10579, 'Bleachers', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With\n  <em>\n   Bleachers\n  </em>\n  John Grisham departs again from the legal thriller to experiment with a character-driven tale of reunion, broken high school dreams, and missed chances. While the book falls short of the compelling storytelling that has made Grisham a bestselling author, it is nonetheless a diverting novella that succeeds as light fiction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story centers on the impending death of the Messina Spartans'' football coach Eddie Rake. One of the most victorious coaches in high school football history, Rake is a man both loved and feared by his players and by a town that relishes his 13 state titles. The hero of the novel is Neely Crenshaw, a former Rake All-American whose NFL prospects ended abruptly after a cheap shot to the knees. Neely has returned home for the first time in years to join a nightly vigil for Rake at the Messina stadium. Having wandered through life with little focus since his college days, he struggles to reconcile his conflicted feelings towards his former coach, and he assays to rekindle love in the ex-girlfriend he abandoned long ago. For Messina and for Neely, the homecoming offers the prospect of building a life after Rake.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Physically a narrow book,\n  <em>\n   Bleachers\n  </em>\n  is a modest fiction in many respects. The emotional scope is akin to that of a short story, with a single-minded focus on explorations of nostalgia and regret. The dialogue, especially that of Neely''s friend Paul Curry, is sometimes wooden as characters recall Messina history in paragraphs that were perhaps better left to the narrator. But Grisham has otherwise written a well-made, entertaining--if a bit sentimental--story.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grisham demonstrated he could produce bestsellers without legal aid with The Painted House and Skipping Christmas, and he''ll undoubtedly do so again with this slight but likable novel of high school football, a legendary coach and the perils of too early fame. Fifteen years after graduation, Neely Crenshaw, one-time star quarterback of the Messina Spartans, returns home on hearing news of the impending death of tough-as-nails coach Eddie Rake. Neely knows the score: "When you''re famous at eighteen, you spend the rest of your life fading away." It''s a lesson he''s learned the hard way after destroying his knee playing college ball and drifting through life in an ever-downward spiral. He and his former teammates sit in the bleachers at the high school stadium waiting for Rake to die, drinking beer and reminiscing. There is a mystery involving the legendary ''87 championship, and Neely has unfinished business with an old high school sweetheart, but neither story line comes to much. Readers will guess the solution to the mystery, as does the town police chief when it''s divulged to him (" `We sorta figured it out,'' said Mal") and Neely''s former girlfriend doesn''t want to have anything to do with his protestations of love ("You''ll get over it. Takes about ten years"). The stirring funeral scene may elicit a few tears, but Neely''s eulogy falls curiously flat. After living through four hard days in Messina, the lessons Neely learns are unremarkable ("Those days are gone now"). Many readers will come away having enjoyed the time spent, but wishing there had been a more sympathetic lead character, more originality, more pages, more story and more depth.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4302'),
(10580, 'Bleachers', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With\n  <em>\n   Bleachers\n  </em>\n  John Grisham departs again from the legal thriller to experiment with a character-driven tale of reunion, broken high school dreams, and missed chances. While the book falls short of the compelling storytelling that has made Grisham a bestselling author, it is nonetheless a diverting novella that succeeds as light fiction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story centers on the impending death of the Messina Spartans'' football coach Eddie Rake. One of the most victorious coaches in high school football history, Rake is a man both loved and feared by his players and by a town that relishes his 13 state titles. The hero of the novel is Neely Crenshaw, a former Rake All-American whose NFL prospects ended abruptly after a cheap shot to the knees. Neely has returned home for the first time in years to join a nightly vigil for Rake at the Messina stadium. Having wandered through life with little focus since his college days, he struggles to reconcile his conflicted feelings towards his former coach, and he assays to rekindle love in the ex-girlfriend he abandoned long ago. For Messina and for Neely, the homecoming offers the prospect of building a life after Rake.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Physically a narrow book,\n  <em>\n   Bleachers\n  </em>\n  is a modest fiction in many respects. The emotional scope is akin to that of a short story, with a single-minded focus on explorations of nostalgia and regret. The dialogue, especially that of Neely''s friend Paul Curry, is sometimes wooden as characters recall Messina history in paragraphs that were perhaps better left to the narrator. But Grisham has otherwise written a well-made, entertaining--if a bit sentimental--story.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grisham demonstrated he could produce bestsellers without legal aid with The Painted House and Skipping Christmas, and he''ll undoubtedly do so again with this slight but likable novel of high school football, a legendary coach and the perils of too early fame. Fifteen years after graduation, Neely Crenshaw, one-time star quarterback of the Messina Spartans, returns home on hearing news of the impending death of tough-as-nails coach Eddie Rake. Neely knows the score: "When you''re famous at eighteen, you spend the rest of your life fading away." It''s a lesson he''s learned the hard way after destroying his knee playing college ball and drifting through life in an ever-downward spiral. He and his former teammates sit in the bleachers at the high school stadium waiting for Rake to die, drinking beer and reminiscing. There is a mystery involving the legendary ''87 championship, and Neely has unfinished business with an old high school sweetheart, but neither story line comes to much. Readers will guess the solution to the mystery, as does the town police chief when it''s divulged to him (" `We sorta figured it out,'' said Mal") and Neely''s former girlfriend doesn''t want to have anything to do with his protestations of love ("You''ll get over it. Takes about ten years"). The stirring funeral scene may elicit a few tears, but Neely''s eulogy falls curiously flat. After living through four hard days in Messina, the lessons Neely learns are unremarkable ("Those days are gone now"). Many readers will come away having enjoyed the time spent, but wishing there had been a more sympathetic lead character, more originality, more pages, more story and more depth.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10033'),
(10581, 'Bleachers', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.Now, as Coach Rakeâ€™s â€œboysâ€ sit in the bleachers waiting for the dimming field lights to signal his passing, they replay the old games, relive the old glories, and try to decide once and for all whether they love Eddie Rake â€“ or hate him. For Neely Crenshaw, a man who must finally forgive his coach â€“ and himself â€“ before he can get on with his life, the stakes are especially high.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15012'),
(10582, 'Bleachers', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With\n  <em>\n   Bleachers\n  </em>\n  John Grisham departs again from the legal thriller to experiment with a character-driven tale of reunion, broken high school dreams, and missed chances. While the book falls short of the compelling storytelling that has made Grisham a bestselling author, it is nonetheless a diverting novella that succeeds as light fiction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story centers on the impending death of the Messina Spartans'' football coach Eddie Rake. One of the most victorious coaches in high school football history, Rake is a man both loved and feared by his players and by a town that relishes his 13 state titles. The hero of the novel is Neely Crenshaw, a former Rake All-American whose NFL prospects ended abruptly after a cheap shot to the knees. Neely has returned home for the first time in years to join a nightly vigil for Rake at the Messina stadium. Having wandered through life with little focus since his college days, he struggles to reconcile his conflicted feelings towards his former coach, and he assays to rekindle love in the ex-girlfriend he abandoned long ago. For Messina and for Neely, the homecoming offers the prospect of building a life after Rake.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Physically a narrow book,\n  <em>\n   Bleachers\n  </em>\n  is a modest fiction in many respects. The emotional scope is akin to that of a short story, with a single-minded focus on explorations of nostalgia and regret. The dialogue, especially that of Neely''s friend Paul Curry, is sometimes wooden as characters recall Messina history in paragraphs that were perhaps better left to the narrator. But Grisham has otherwise written a well-made, entertaining--if a bit sentimental--story.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grisham demonstrated he could produce bestsellers without legal aid with The Painted House and Skipping Christmas, and he''ll undoubtedly do so again with this slight but likable novel of high school football, a legendary coach and the perils of too early fame. Fifteen years after graduation, Neely Crenshaw, one-time star quarterback of the Messina Spartans, returns home on hearing news of the impending death of tough-as-nails coach Eddie Rake. Neely knows the score: "When you''re famous at eighteen, you spend the rest of your life fading away." It''s a lesson he''s learned the hard way after destroying his knee playing college ball and drifting through life in an ever-downward spiral. He and his former teammates sit in the bleachers at the high school stadium waiting for Rake to die, drinking beer and reminiscing. There is a mystery involving the legendary ''87 championship, and Neely has unfinished business with an old high school sweetheart, but neither story line comes to much. Readers will guess the solution to the mystery, as does the town police chief when it''s divulged to him (" `We sorta figured it out,'' said Mal") and Neely''s former girlfriend doesn''t want to have anything to do with his protestations of love ("You''ll get over it. Takes about ten years"). The stirring funeral scene may elicit a few tears, but Neely''s eulogy falls curiously flat. After living through four hard days in Messina, the lessons Neely learns are unremarkable ("Those days are gone now"). Many readers will come away having enjoyed the time spent, but wishing there had been a more sympathetic lead character, more originality, more pages, more story and more depth.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21397'),
(10583, 'The Bleachers', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25497'),
(10584, 'Bleak History', 'John Shirley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **CLASSIFIED: APPARENT SUPERNATURAL**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Subject: Gabriel Bleak. Status: Civilian. Paranormal skills: Powerful. Able to manipulate AS energies and communicate with UBEs (e.g. "ghosts" and other entities). Psychological profile: Extremely independent, potentially dangerous. *Caution is urged....***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As far as Gabriel Bleak is concerned, talking to the dead is just another way of making a living. It gives him the competitive edge to survive as a bounty hunter, or "skip tracer," in the psychic minefield known as New York City. Unfortunately, his gift also makes him a prime target. A top-secret division of Homeland Security has been monitoring the recent emergence of human supernaturals, with Gabriel Bleak being the strongest on record. If they control Gabriel, they''ll gain access to the Hidden -- the entity-based energy field that connects all life on Earth. But Gabriel''s got other ideas. With a growing underground movement called the Shadow Community -- and an uneasy alliance of spirits, elementals, and other beings -- Gabriel''s about to face the greatest demonic uprising since the Dark Ages. But this time, history is not going to repeat itself. This time, the future is Bleak. *Gabriel Bleak.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4213'),
(10585, 'Bleak History', 'John Shirley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **CLASSIFIED: APPARENT SUPERNATURAL**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Subject: Gabriel Bleak. Status: Civilian. Paranormal skills: Powerful. Able to manipulate AS energies and communicate with UBEs (e.g. "ghosts" and other entities). Psychological profile: Extremely independent, potentially dangerous. *Caution is urged....***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As far as Gabriel Bleak is concerned, talking to the dead is just another way of making a living. It gives him the competitive edge to survive as a bounty hunter, or "skip tracer," in the psychic minefield known as New York City. Unfortunately, his gift also makes him a prime target. A top-secret division of Homeland Security has been monitoring the recent emergence of human supernaturals, with Gabriel Bleak being the strongest on record. If they control Gabriel, they''ll gain access to the Hidden -- the entity-based energy field that connects all life on Earth. But Gabriel''s got other ideas. With a growing underground movement called the Shadow Community -- and an uneasy alliance of spirits, elementals, and other beings -- Gabriel''s about to face the greatest demonic uprising since the Dark Ages. But this time, history is not going to repeat itself. This time, the future is Bleak. *Gabriel Bleak.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12616'),
(10586, 'Bleak History', 'John Shirley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **CLASSIFIED: APPARENT SUPERNATURAL** **Subject: Gabriel Bleak. Status: Civilian. Paranormal skills: Powerful. Able to manipulate AS energies and communicate with UBEs (e.g. "ghosts" and other entities). Psychological profile: Extremely independent, potentially dangerous. *Caution is urged....*** As far as Gabriel Bleak is concerned, talking to the dead is just another way of making a living. It gives him the competitive edge to survive as a bounty hunter, or "skip tracer," in the psychic minefield known as New York City. Unfortunately, his gift also makes him a prime target. A top-secret division of Homeland Security has been monitoring the recent emergence of human supernaturals, with Gabriel Bleak being the strongest on record. If they control Gabriel, they''ll gain access to the Hidden -- the entity-based energy field that connects all life on Earth. But Gabriel''s got other ideas. With a growing underground movement called the Shadow Community -- and an uneasy alliance of spirits, elementals, and other beings -- Gabriel''s about to face the greatest demonic uprising since the Dark Ages. But this time, history is not going to repeat itself. This time, the future is Bleak. *Gabriel Bleak.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20343'),
(10587, 'Bleak House', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Considered one of Dickens''s greatest works, "Bleak House" scathingly portrays his belief: "The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself." Peopled with both comic and tragic characters, including one of literature''s first detectives, this classic celebrates the 150th anniversary of its first publication. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6925'),
(10588, 'Bleak House', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Considered one of Dickens''s greatest works, "Bleak House" scathingly portrays his belief: "The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself." Peopled with both comic and tragic characters, including one of literature''s first detectives, this classic celebrates the 150th anniversary of its first publication. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9246'),
(10589, 'Bleak House', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Considered one of Dickens''s greatest works, "Bleak House" scathingly portrays his belief: "The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself." Peopled with both comic and tragic characters, including one of literature''s first detectives, this classic celebrates the 150th anniversary of its first publication. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15106'),
(10590, 'Bleak House', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Considered one of Dickens''s greatest works, "Bleak House" scathingly portrays his belief: "The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself." Peopled with both comic and tragic characters, including one of literature''s first detectives, this classic celebrates the 150th anniversary of its first publication. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16988'),
(10591, 'Bleak House', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Nicola Bradbury.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26927'),
(10592, 'Bleak Seasons', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive....I am Murgen, Standard bearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead., One-Eye won''t, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end..."So writes Murgen, seasoned veteran of the Black Company. The Company has taken the fortress of Stormgard from the evil Shadowlanders, lords of darkness from the far reaches of the earth. Now the waiting begins.Exhausted from the siege, beset by sorcery, and vastly outnumbered, the Company have risked their souls as well as their lives to hold their prize. But this is the end of an age, and great forces are at work. The ancient race known as the Nyueng Bao swear that ancient gods are stirring. the Company''s commander has gone mad and flirts with the forces of darkness. Only Murgen, touched by a spell that has set his soul adrift in time, begins at last to comprehend the dark design that has made pawns of men and god alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5340'),
(10593, 'Bleak Seasons', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive....I am Murgen, Standard bearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead., One-Eye won''t, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end..."So writes Murgen, seasoned veteran of the Black Company. The Company has taken the fortress of Stormgard from the evil Shadowlanders, lords of darkness from the far reaches of the earth. Now the waiting begins.Exhausted from the siege, beset by sorcery, and vastly outnumbered, the Company have risked their souls as well as their lives to hold their prize. But this is the end of an age, and great forces are at work. The ancient race known as the Nyueng Bao swear that ancient gods are stirring. the Company''s commander has gone mad and flirts with the forces of darkness. Only Murgen, touched by a spell that has set his soul adrift in time, begins at last to comprehend the dark design that has made pawns of men and god alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19324'),
(10594, 'Bleak Seasons', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive....I am Murgen, Standard bearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead., One-Eye won''t, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end..."So writes Murgen, seasoned veteran of the Black Company. The Company has taken the fortress of Stormgard from the evil Shadowlanders, lords of darkness from the far reaches of the earth. Now the waiting begins.Exhausted from the siege, beset by sorcery, and vastly outnumbered, the Company have risked their souls as well as their lives to hold their prize. But this is the end of an age, and great forces are at work. The ancient race known as the Nyueng Bao swear that ancient gods are stirring. the Company''s commander has gone mad and flirts with the forces of darkness. Only Murgen, touched by a spell that has set his soul adrift in time, begins at last to comprehend the dark design that has made pawns of men and god alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28019'),
(10595, 'The Blessings of the Animals: A Novel', 'Katrina Kittle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Katrina Kittle, critically acclaimed author of The Kindness of Strangers, comes a wry and moving story of forgiveness, flexibility, happiness, and the art of moving on.   Veterinarian Cami Anderson has hit a rough patch. Stymied by her recent divorce, she wonders if there are secret ingredients to a happy, long-lasting marriage or if the entire institution is outdated and obsolete. Couples all around her are approaching important milestones. Her parents are preparing to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary. Her brother and his partner find their marriage dreams legally blocked. Her former sister-in-lawâ€”still her best friendâ€”is newly engaged. The youthfully exuberant romance of her teenage daughter is developing complications. And three separate menâ€”including her ex-husbandâ€”are becoming entangled in Cami''s messy post-marital love life.   But as she struggles to come to terms with her own doubts amid this chaotic circus of relationships, Cami finds strange comfort in an unexpected confidant: an angry, unpredictable horse in her care. With the help of her equine soul mate, she begins to make sense of marriage''s great mysteriesâ€”and its disconnects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3806'),
(10596, 'The Blessings of the Animals: A Novel', 'Katrina Kittle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Katrina Kittle, critically acclaimed author of The Kindness of Strangers, comes a wry and moving story of forgiveness, flexibility, happiness, and the art of moving on.   Veterinarian Cami Anderson has hit a rough patch. Stymied by her recent divorce, she wonders if there are secret ingredients to a happy, long-lasting marriage or if the entire institution is outdated and obsolete. Couples all around her are approaching important milestones. Her parents are preparing to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary. Her brother and his partner find their marriage dreams legally blocked. Her former sister-in-lawâ€”still her best friendâ€”is newly engaged. The youthfully exuberant romance of her teenage daughter is developing complications. And three separate menâ€”including her ex-husbandâ€”are becoming entangled in Cami''s messy post-marital love life.   But as she struggles to come to terms with her own doubts amid this chaotic circus of relationships, Cami finds strange comfort in an unexpected confidant: an angry, unpredictable horse in her care. With the help of her equine soul mate, she begins to make sense of marriage''s great mysteriesâ€”and its disconnects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10784'),
(10597, 'The Blessings of the Animals: A Novel', 'Katrina Kittle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Katrina Kittle, critically acclaimed author of The Kindness of Strangers, comes a wry and moving story of forgiveness, flexibility, happiness, and the art of moving on. Veterinarian Cami Anderson has hit a rough patch. Stymied by her recent divorce, she wonders if there are secret ingredients to a happy, long-lasting marriage or if the entire institution is outdated and obsolete. Couples all around her are approaching important milestones. Her parents are preparing to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary. Her brother and his partner find their marriage dreams legally blocked. Her former sister-in-lawâ€”still her best friendâ€”is newly engaged. The youthfully exuberant romance of her teenage daughter is developing complications. And three separate menâ€”including her ex-husbandâ€”are becoming entangled in Cami''s messy post-marital love life. But as she struggles to come to terms with her own doubts amid this chaotic circus of relationships, Cami finds strange comfort in an unexpected confidant: an angry, unpredictable horse in her care. With the help of her equine soul mate, she begins to make sense of marriage''s great mysteriesâ€”and its disconnects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20751'),
(10598, 'Blind Alley', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan returns in this far-fetched but expertly plotted, eminently entertaining novel. When detective Joe Quinn is called to investigate the murder of a young woman whose skin has been peeled away from her skull, he presses the overloaded Eve to work her grisly magic. Eve is shocked to realize that the victim bears an uncanny resemblance to Jane MacGuire, the headstrong 17-year-old she and Joe have adopted, and who was already menaced by another serial killer in 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Killing Game\n </em>\n . Then a suspicious inspector from Scotland Yard, Mark Trevor, arrives with the grim news that a string of women with similar features have been murdered in Italy, England and Spain. A serial killer he calls Aldo has been working his way around the globe, butchering women who look like Cira, a beautiful young actress from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum (which was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius), whom he holds responsible for his father''s death (such is the logic of the insane). Since Jane looks like Cira (and, incidentally, has been having nightmares about being her and trying to escape the volcano''s destruction) she will be his preyâ€”or bait. Johansen fans will recall that Eve lost her biological daughter, Bonnie, to a serial killer, so her desire to bring Aldo to justice is tied up with her still-sharp grief. Meanwhile, Jane behaves like a typical teenager, living in denial of her own mortality while feeling intoxicated by the sexy air of peril that now surrounds her. Aldo never comes fully into focus as a villain, but that doesn''t matter much, since one of the real engines of fear in the novel is Jane''s burgeoning sexuality.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her latest thriller about Atlanta detective Joe Quinn and the love of his life, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, Joe gives Eve a skull to reconstruct. Eerily enough, the face resembles 17-year-old Jane MacGuire, who has been offered sanctuary by Eve and Joe after surviving a rough-and-tumble life on the streets. Now it seems that a killer is trying to erase all evidence of her face because it is identical to that of a statue of a woman who died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Several look-alikes have already been killed in Europe, and Scotland Yard sends in hunky Mark Trevor to help. Eve mistrusts him, but Jane, who has had recurring nightmares related to the killings, believes that he''s there to help her. Eve and Joe want to protect Jane, but the intrepid teenager knows that unless she confronts the killer, she will live the rest of her life in fear. Johansen has become adept at mixing supernatural elements with intriguing suspense, and her new tale will please both fans and new converts with its unpredictable journey from Atlanta to the archaeological digs of Herculaneum in Italy. REVWR\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4999'),
(10599, 'Blind Alley', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan returns in this far-fetched but expertly plotted, eminently entertaining novel. When detective Joe Quinn is called to investigate the murder of a young woman whose skin has been peeled away from her skull, he presses the overloaded Eve to work her grisly magic. Eve is shocked to realize that the victim bears an uncanny resemblance to Jane MacGuire, the headstrong 17-year-old she and Joe have adopted, and who was already menaced by another serial killer in 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Killing Game\n </em>\n . Then a suspicious inspector from Scotland Yard, Mark Trevor, arrives with the grim news that a string of women with similar features have been murdered in Italy, England and Spain. A serial killer he calls Aldo has been working his way around the globe, butchering women who look like Cira, a beautiful young actress from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum (which was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius), whom he holds responsible for his father''s death (such is the logic of the insane). Since Jane looks like Cira (and, incidentally, has been having nightmares about being her and trying to escape the volcano''s destruction) she will be his preyâ€”or bait. Johansen fans will recall that Eve lost her biological daughter, Bonnie, to a serial killer, so her desire to bring Aldo to justice is tied up with her still-sharp grief. Meanwhile, Jane behaves like a typical teenager, living in denial of her own mortality while feeling intoxicated by the sexy air of peril that now surrounds her. Aldo never comes fully into focus as a villain, but that doesn''t matter much, since one of the real engines of fear in the novel is Jane''s burgeoning sexuality.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her latest thriller about Atlanta detective Joe Quinn and the love of his life, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, Joe gives Eve a skull to reconstruct. Eerily enough, the face resembles 17-year-old Jane MacGuire, who has been offered sanctuary by Eve and Joe after surviving a rough-and-tumble life on the streets. Now it seems that a killer is trying to erase all evidence of her face because it is identical to that of a statue of a woman who died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Several look-alikes have already been killed in Europe, and Scotland Yard sends in hunky Mark Trevor to help. Eve mistrusts him, but Jane, who has had recurring nightmares related to the killings, believes that he''s there to help her. Eve and Joe want to protect Jane, but the intrepid teenager knows that unless she confronts the killer, she will live the rest of her life in fear. Johansen has become adept at mixing supernatural elements with intriguing suspense, and her new tale will please both fans and new converts with its unpredictable journey from Atlanta to the archaeological digs of Herculaneum in Italy. REVWR\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10523'),
(10600, 'Blind Alley', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan returns in this far-fetched but expertly plotted, eminently entertaining novel. When detective Joe Quinn is called to investigate the murder of a young woman whose skin has been peeled away from her skull, he presses the overloaded Eve to work her grisly magic. Eve is shocked to realize that the victim bears an uncanny resemblance to Jane MacGuire, the headstrong 17-year-old she and Joe have adopted, and who was already menaced by another serial killer in 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Killing Game\n </em>\n . Then a suspicious inspector from Scotland Yard, Mark Trevor, arrives with the grim news that a string of women with similar features have been murdered in Italy, England and Spain. A serial killer he calls Aldo has been working his way around the globe, butchering women who look like Cira, a beautiful young actress from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum (which was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius), whom he holds responsible for his father''s death (such is the logic of the insane). Since Jane looks like Cira (and, incidentally, has been having nightmares about being her and trying to escape the volcano''s destruction) she will be his preyâ€”or bait. Johansen fans will recall that Eve lost her biological daughter, Bonnie, to a serial killer, so her desire to bring Aldo to justice is tied up with her still-sharp grief. Meanwhile, Jane behaves like a typical teenager, living in denial of her own mortality while feeling intoxicated by the sexy air of peril that now surrounds her. Aldo never comes fully into focus as a villain, but that doesn''t matter much, since one of the real engines of fear in the novel is Jane''s burgeoning sexuality.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her latest thriller about Atlanta detective Joe Quinn and the love of his life, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, Joe gives Eve a skull to reconstruct. Eerily enough, the face resembles 17-year-old Jane MacGuire, who has been offered sanctuary by Eve and Joe after surviving a rough-and-tumble life on the streets. Now it seems that a killer is trying to erase all evidence of her face because it is identical to that of a statue of a woman who died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Several look-alikes have already been killed in Europe, and Scotland Yard sends in hunky Mark Trevor to help. Eve mistrusts him, but Jane, who has had recurring nightmares related to the killings, believes that he''s there to help her. Eve and Joe want to protect Jane, but the intrepid teenager knows that unless she confronts the killer, she will live the rest of her life in fear. Johansen has become adept at mixing supernatural elements with intriguing suspense, and her new tale will please both fans and new converts with its unpredictable journey from Atlanta to the archaeological digs of Herculaneum in Italy. REVWR\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19675'),
(10601, 'The Blind Assassin', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister''s death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura?s story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3081'),
(10602, 'The Blind Assassin', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister''s death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura?s story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8233'),
(10603, 'The Blind Assassin', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  The Blind Assassin\n </b>\n opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister''s death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura?s story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled\n <b>\n  The Blind Assassin\n </b>\n <i>\n  ,\n </i>\n it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </i>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15051');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(10604, 'Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth', 'James M. Tabor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made: both poles by 1912, Everest in 1958, the Challenger Deep in 1961. In 1969 we even walked on the moon. And yet as late as 2000, the earthâ€™s deepest caveâ€”the supercaveâ€”remained undiscovered. This is the story of the men and women who risked everything to find it, earning their place in history beside the likes of Peary, Amundsen, Hillary, and Armstrong.Â In 2004, two great scientist-explorers are attempting to find the bottom of the world. Bold, heroic American Bill Stone is committed to the vast Cheve Cave, located in southern Mexico and deadly even by supercave standards. On the other side of the globe, legendary Ukrainian explorer Alexander Klimchoukâ€”Stoneâ€™s polar opposite in temperament and style, but every bit his equal in scientific expertise, physical bravery, and sheer determinationâ€”has targeted Krubera, a freezing nightmare of a supercave in the Republic of Georgia, where underground dangers are compounded by the horrors of separatist war in this former Soviet republic.Blind Descent explores both the brightest and darkest aspects of the timeless human urge to discoverâ€”to be first. It is also a thrilling epic about a pursuit that makes even extreme mountaineering and ocean exploration pale by comparison. These supercavers spent months in multiple camps almost two vertical miles deep and many more miles from their cavesâ€™ exits. They had to contend with thousand-foot drops, deadly flooded tunnels, raging whitewater rivers, monstrous waterfalls, mile-long belly crawls, and much more. Perhaps even worse were the psychological horrors produced by weeks plunged into absolute, perpetual darkness, beyond all hope of rescue, including a particularly insidious derangement called The Rapture. James M. Tabor was granted unprecedented access to logs, journals, photographs, and video footage of these expeditions, as well as many hours of personal interviews with surviving participants. Blind Descent is an unforgettable addition to the classic literature of discovery and adventure. It is also a testament to human survival and enduranceâ€”and to two extraordinary men whose relentless pursuit of greatness led them to heights of triumph and depths of tragedy neither could have imagined.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made: both poles by 1912, Everest in 1958, the Challenger Deep in 1961. In 1969 we even walked on the moon. And yet as late as 2000, the earthâ€™s deepest caveâ€”the supercaveâ€”remained undiscovered. This is the story of the men and women who risked everything to find it, earning their place in history beside the likes of Peary, Amundsen, Hillary, and Armstrong.Â In 2004, two great scientist-explorers are attempting to find the bottom of the world. Bold, heroic American Bill Stone is committed to the vast Cheve Cave, located in southern Mexico and deadly even by supercave standards. On the other side of the globe, legendary Ukrainian explorer Alexander Klimchoukâ€”Stoneâ€™s polar opposite in temperament and style, but every bit his equal in scientific expertise, physical bravery, and sheer determinationâ€”has targeted Krubera, a freezing nightmare of a supercave in the Republic of Georgia, where underground dangers are compounded by the horrors of separatist war in this former Soviet republic.Blind Descent explores both the brightest and darkest aspects of the timeless human urge to discoverâ€”to be first. It is also a thrilling epic about a pursuit that makes even extreme mountaineering and ocean exploration pale by comparison. These supercavers spent months in multiple camps almost two vertical miles deep and many more miles from their cavesâ€™ exits. They had to contend with thousand-foot drops, deadly flooded tunnels, raging whitewater rivers, monstrous waterfalls, mile-long belly crawls, and much more. Perhaps even worse were the psychological horrors produced by weeks plunged into absolute, perpetual darkness, beyond all hope of rescue, including a particularly insidious derangement called The Rapture. James M. Tabor was granted unprecedented access to logs, journals, photographs, and video footage of these expeditions, as well as many hours of personal interviews with surviving participants. Blind Descent is an unforgettable addition to the classic literature of discovery and adventure. It is also a testament to human survival and enduranceâ€”and to two extraordinary men whose relentless pursuit of greatness led them to heights of triumph and depths of tragedy neither could have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4795'),
(10605, 'Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth', 'James M. Tabor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made: both poles by 1912, Everest in 1958, the Challenger Deep in 1961. In 1969 we even walked on the moon. And yet as late as 2000, the earthâ€™s deepest caveâ€”the supercaveâ€”remained undiscovered. This is the story of the men and women who risked everything to find it, earning their place in history beside the likes of Peary, Amundsen, Hillary, and Armstrong.Â In 2004, two great scientist-explorers are attempting to find the bottom of the world. Bold, heroic American Bill Stone is committed to the vast Cheve Cave, located in southern Mexico and deadly even by supercave standards. On the other side of the globe, legendary Ukrainian explorer Alexander Klimchoukâ€”Stoneâ€™s polar opposite in temperament and style, but every bit his equal in scientific expertise, physical bravery, and sheer determinationâ€”has targeted Krubera, a freezing nightmare of a supercave in the Republic of Georgia, where underground dangers are compounded by the horrors of separatist war in this former Soviet republic.Blind Descent explores both the brightest and darkest aspects of the timeless human urge to discoverâ€”to be first. It is also a thrilling epic about a pursuit that makes even extreme mountaineering and ocean exploration pale by comparison. These supercavers spent months in multiple camps almost two vertical miles deep and many more miles from their cavesâ€™ exits. They had to contend with thousand-foot drops, deadly flooded tunnels, raging whitewater rivers, monstrous waterfalls, mile-long belly crawls, and much more. Perhaps even worse were the psychological horrors produced by weeks plunged into absolute, perpetual darkness, beyond all hope of rescue, including a particularly insidious derangement called The Rapture. James M. Tabor was granted unprecedented access to logs, journals, photographs, and video footage of these expeditions, as well as many hours of personal interviews with surviving participants. Blind Descent is an unforgettable addition to the classic literature of discovery and adventure. It is also a testament to human survival and enduranceâ€”and to two extraordinary men whose relentless pursuit of greatness led them to heights of triumph and depths of tragedy neither could have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13009'),
(10606, 'A Blind Eye', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frank Corso already survived a defrocking by\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n , following his alleged fabrication of a major crime story. Having since re-created himself as a true-crime writer, he can ill afford to have his credibility questioned again. So when, in G.M. Ford''s\n <em>\n  A Blind Eye\n </em>\n , he is subpoenaed to back up his book-selling boast about a Texas high-society murder, Corso disappears into the upper Midwest with his photographer (and former lover), Meg Dougherty--only to stumble onto one of the most horrific stories of his career.\n</p>\n<p>\n Seeking shelter after an SUV accident in tiny, blizzard-racked Avalon, Wisconsin, Corso discovers the bones of Eldred Holmes and his sons shoved beneath an abandoned barn. Neighbors thought the family had moved away 15 years before; instead, its males had been murdered. Bargaining with Avalon''s sheriff to stay free of the Texas authorities, Corso agrees to investigate these killings. The solution may lie with Eldred''s wife, Sissy, an exotic seductress whose skeleton isn''t among the pile, and whose deliberately obscured--and bloody--trail leads the author and Dougherty to a slain nun in Pennsylvania, a family-destroying fire among isolated hill folk in New York, and a desperate, deadly ambush in northern Michigan. It doesn''t take the rangy Corso long to realize that he''s dealing with a protean and controlling killer, immune to remorse.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ford is adept at dribbling out the sort of revelations that build fictional suspense. He enhances that with a mordant wit, oddball secondary players, and a protagonist whose gruffness is infrequently but intriguingly undermined by a warmth born of loyalty. Yet\n <em>\n  A Blind Eye\n </em>\n , for all of its gripping darkness, pales beside its predecessors,\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n . The super-secret information source to which Corso turns here whenever he loses his quarry''s scent is a contrivance beneath Ford''s talents. And the assassination of an Avalon deputy, for which Corso is held responsible, is a complication with little purpose and no satisfactions. Fortunately, this book''s chilling close makes the whole thing go down easier.\n <em>\n  --J. Kingston Pierce\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bestselling true-crime writer Frank Corso and his tattoo-covered Girl Friday, Meg Dougherty, literally fall into the hunt for a bizarre serial killer in this suspenseful fun-and-gun adventure from Ford (Fury; Black River). Snowed in for days at O''Hare, Corso impulsively decides to rent an SUV and drive out of the storm zone, but when he gets to Avalon, Wis., he plunges off the icy road and over a cliff. Tearing up the flooring for firewood in the abandoned farm they take refuge in, Corso uncovers the corpses of a family, merely one set of victims in a killing spree spanning 30 years. Following in the tradition of John D. MacDonald and the Travis McGee romps, Ford''s eclectic plot sends his hero from state to state, from an inbred mountain enclave in New Jersey to a nunnery with a murder. Deep into the book, he pointedly has a cop say, "This is like something out of science fiction." Corso and Dougherty alternate between acting like ruthless hard cases and giddy teenagers sneaking a joint-any excuse for a good scene, an entertaining moment (such as the guy who "looked like he''d been captured by vampires and was being kept as a pet"). When Corso falls into the hands of the killer and faces torture, though, Ford achieves fever pitch ("Corso began to make noises in his chest like a gored animal"). This is a thrill ride, sure to please readers looking for fast-paced suspense.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5487'),
(10607, 'A Blind Eye', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frank Corso already survived a defrocking by\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n , following his alleged fabrication of a major crime story. Having since re-created himself as a true-crime writer, he can ill afford to have his credibility questioned again. So when, in G.M. Ford''s\n <em>\n  A Blind Eye\n </em>\n , he is subpoenaed to back up his book-selling boast about a Texas high-society murder, Corso disappears into the upper Midwest with his photographer (and former lover), Meg Dougherty--only to stumble onto one of the most horrific stories of his career.\n</p>\n<p>\n Seeking shelter after an SUV accident in tiny, blizzard-racked Avalon, Wisconsin, Corso discovers the bones of Eldred Holmes and his sons shoved beneath an abandoned barn. Neighbors thought the family had moved away 15 years before; instead, its males had been murdered. Bargaining with Avalon''s sheriff to stay free of the Texas authorities, Corso agrees to investigate these killings. The solution may lie with Eldred''s wife, Sissy, an exotic seductress whose skeleton isn''t among the pile, and whose deliberately obscured--and bloody--trail leads the author and Dougherty to a slain nun in Pennsylvania, a family-destroying fire among isolated hill folk in New York, and a desperate, deadly ambush in northern Michigan. It doesn''t take the rangy Corso long to realize that he''s dealing with a protean and controlling killer, immune to remorse.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ford is adept at dribbling out the sort of revelations that build fictional suspense. He enhances that with a mordant wit, oddball secondary players, and a protagonist whose gruffness is infrequently but intriguingly undermined by a warmth born of loyalty. Yet\n <em>\n  A Blind Eye\n </em>\n , for all of its gripping darkness, pales beside its predecessors,\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n . The super-secret information source to which Corso turns here whenever he loses his quarry''s scent is a contrivance beneath Ford''s talents. And the assassination of an Avalon deputy, for which Corso is held responsible, is a complication with little purpose and no satisfactions. Fortunately, this book''s chilling close makes the whole thing go down easier.\n <em>\n  --J. Kingston Pierce\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bestselling true-crime writer Frank Corso and his tattoo-covered Girl Friday, Meg Dougherty, literally fall into the hunt for a bizarre serial killer in this suspenseful fun-and-gun adventure from Ford (Fury; Black River). Snowed in for days at O''Hare, Corso impulsively decides to rent an SUV and drive out of the storm zone, but when he gets to Avalon, Wis., he plunges off the icy road and over a cliff. Tearing up the flooring for firewood in the abandoned farm they take refuge in, Corso uncovers the corpses of a family, merely one set of victims in a killing spree spanning 30 years. Following in the tradition of John D. MacDonald and the Travis McGee romps, Ford''s eclectic plot sends his hero from state to state, from an inbred mountain enclave in New Jersey to a nunnery with a murder. Deep into the book, he pointedly has a cop say, "This is like something out of science fiction." Corso and Dougherty alternate between acting like ruthless hard cases and giddy teenagers sneaking a joint-any excuse for a good scene, an entertaining moment (such as the guy who "looked like he''d been captured by vampires and was being kept as a pet"). When Corso falls into the hands of the killer and faces torture, though, Ford achieves fever pitch ("Corso began to make noises in his chest like a gored animal"). This is a thrill ride, sure to please readers looking for fast-paced suspense.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9696'),
(10608, 'A Blind Eye', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Frank Corso already survived a defrocking by\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n , following his alleged fabrication of a major crime story. Having since re-created himself as a true-crime writer, he can ill afford to have his credibility questioned again. So when, in G.M. Ford''s\n <em>\n  A Blind Eye\n </em>\n , he is subpoenaed to back up his book-selling boast about a Texas high-society murder, Corso disappears into the upper Midwest with his photographer (and former lover), Meg Dougherty--only to stumble onto one of the most horrific stories of his career.\n</p>\n<p>\n Seeking shelter after an SUV accident in tiny, blizzard-racked Avalon, Wisconsin, Corso discovers the bones of Eldred Holmes and his sons shoved beneath an abandoned barn. Neighbors thought the family had moved away 15 years before; instead, its males had been murdered. Bargaining with Avalon''s sheriff to stay free of the Texas authorities, Corso agrees to investigate these killings. The solution may lie with Eldred''s wife, Sissy, an exotic seductress whose skeleton isn''t among the pile, and whose deliberately obscured--and bloody--trail leads the author and Dougherty to a slain nun in Pennsylvania, a family-destroying fire among isolated hill folk in New York, and a desperate, deadly ambush in northern Michigan. It doesn''t take the rangy Corso long to realize that he''s dealing with a protean and controlling killer, immune to remorse.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ford is adept at dribbling out the sort of revelations that build fictional suspense. He enhances that with a mordant wit, oddball secondary players, and a protagonist whose gruffness is infrequently but intriguingly undermined by a warmth born of loyalty. Yet\n <em>\n  A Blind Eye\n </em>\n , for all of its gripping darkness, pales beside its predecessors,\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n . The super-secret information source to which Corso turns here whenever he loses his quarry''s scent is a contrivance beneath Ford''s talents. And the assassination of an Avalon deputy, for which Corso is held responsible, is a complication with little purpose and no satisfactions. Fortunately, this book''s chilling close makes the whole thing go down easier.\n <em>\n  --J. Kingston Pierce\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bestselling true-crime writer Frank Corso and his tattoo-covered Girl Friday, Meg Dougherty, literally fall into the hunt for a bizarre serial killer in this suspenseful fun-and-gun adventure from Ford (Fury; Black River). Snowed in for days at O''Hare, Corso impulsively decides to rent an SUV and drive out of the storm zone, but when he gets to Avalon, Wis., he plunges off the icy road and over a cliff. Tearing up the flooring for firewood in the abandoned farm they take refuge in, Corso uncovers the corpses of a family, merely one set of victims in a killing spree spanning 30 years. Following in the tradition of John D. MacDonald and the Travis McGee romps, Ford''s eclectic plot sends his hero from state to state, from an inbred mountain enclave in New Jersey to a nunnery with a murder. Deep into the book, he pointedly has a cop say, "This is like something out of science fiction." Corso and Dougherty alternate between acting like ruthless hard cases and giddy teenagers sneaking a joint-any excuse for a good scene, an entertaining moment (such as the guy who "looked like he''d been captured by vampires and was being kept as a pet"). When Corso falls into the hands of the killer and faces torture, though, Ford achieves fever pitch ("Corso began to make noises in his chest like a gored animal"). This is a thrill ride, sure to please readers looking for fast-paced suspense.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19128'),
(10609, 'Blind Fire', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4762'),
(10610, 'Blind Fire', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19904'),
(10611, 'Blind man with a pistol', 'Chester B. Himes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is dose to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace-their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidence-Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that threaten to tear Harlem apart. "The word is out on the street, and the hopheads and whores and flimflam artists are running scared: Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are back in print."-- Newsweek\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25984'),
(10612, 'Blind Man&#39;s Alley', 'Justin Peacock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the author of the Edgar Awardâ€“nominated legal thriller *A Cure for Night*, an ambitious and compulsively readable novel set in the cutthroat world of New York real estate. ** A concrete floor three hundred feet up in the Aurora Tower condo development in SoHo has collapsed, hurling three workers to their deaths. The developer, Roth Properties (owned by the famously abrasive Simon Roth), faces a vast tangle of legal problems, including allegations of mob connections. Rothâ€™s longtime lawyers, the elite midtown law firm of Blake and Wolcott, is assigned the task of cleaning up the mess. Much of the work lands on the plate of smart, cynical, and seaÂ­soned associate Duncan Riley; as a result, he falls into the powÂ­erful orbit of Leah Roth, the beautiful daughter of Simon Roth and the designated inheritor of his real estate empire. Meanwhile, Riley pursues a seemingly small pro bono case in which he attempts to forestall the eviction of Rafael Nazario and his grandmother from public housing in the wake of a pot bust. One night Rafael is picked up and charged with the murÂ­der of the private security cop who caught him, a murder that took place in another controversial â€œmixed incomeâ€ housing development being built by . . . Roth Properties. Duncan Riley is now walking the knife edge of legal ethics and personal morality. *Blind Manâ€™s Alley *is a suspenseful and kaleidoscopic journey through a world where the only rule is self- preservation. The *New York Times Book Review *said of *A Cure for Night *that â€œ[Peacock] heads toward Scott Turow country . . . heâ€™s got a good chance to make partner.â€ This taut, topical, and socially alert thriller delivers on that promise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4043'),
(10613, 'Blind Man&#39;s Alley', 'Justin Peacock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the author of the Edgar Awardâ€“nominated legal thriller *A Cure for Night*, an ambitious and compulsively readable novel set in the cutthroat world of New York real estate. ** A concrete floor three hundred feet up in the Aurora Tower condo development in SoHo has collapsed, hurling three workers to their deaths. The developer, Roth Properties (owned by the famously abrasive Simon Roth), faces a vast tangle of legal problems, including allegations of mob connections. Rothâ€™s longtime lawyers, the elite midtown law firm of Blake and Wolcott, is assigned the task of cleaning up the mess. Much of the work lands on the plate of smart, cynical, and seaÂ­soned associate Duncan Riley; as a result, he falls into the powÂ­erful orbit of Leah Roth, the beautiful daughter of Simon Roth and the designated inheritor of his real estate empire. Meanwhile, Riley pursues a seemingly small pro bono case in which he attempts to forestall the eviction of Rafael Nazario and his grandmother from public housing in the wake of a pot bust. One night Rafael is picked up and charged with the murÂ­der of the private security cop who caught him, a murder that took place in another controversial â€œmixed incomeâ€ housing development being built by . . . Roth Properties. Duncan Riley is now walking the knife edge of legal ethics and personal morality. *Blind Manâ€™s Alley *is a suspenseful and kaleidoscopic journey through a world where the only rule is self- preservation. The *New York Times Book Review *said of *A Cure for Night *that â€œ[Peacock] heads toward Scott Turow country . . . heâ€™s got a good chance to make partner.â€ This taut, topical, and socially alert thriller delivers on that promise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11853'),
(10614, 'Blind Man&#39;s Alley', 'Justin Peacock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the author of the Edgar Awardâ€“nominated legal thriller *A Cure for Night*, an ambitious and compulsively readable novel set in the cutthroat world of New York real estate. ** A concrete floor three hundred feet up in the Aurora Tower condo development in SoHo has collapsed, hurling three workers to their deaths. The developer, Roth Properties (owned by the famously abrasive Simon Roth), faces a vast tangle of legal problems, including allegations of mob connections. Rothâ€™s longtime lawyers, the elite midtown law firm of Blake and Wolcott, is assigned the task of cleaning up the mess. Much of the work lands on the plate of smart, cynical, and seaÂ­soned associate Duncan Riley; as a result, he falls into the powÂ­erful orbit of Leah Roth, the beautiful daughter of Simon Roth and the designated inheritor of his real estate empire. Meanwhile, Riley pursues a seemingly small pro bono case in which he attempts to forestall the eviction of Rafael Nazario and his grandmother from public housing in the wake of a pot bust. One night Rafael is picked up and charged with the murÂ­der of the private security cop who caught him, a murder that took place in another controversial â€œmixed incomeâ€ housing development being built by . . . Roth Properties. Duncan Riley is now walking the knife edge of legal ethics and personal morality. *Blind Manâ€™s Alley *is a suspenseful and kaleidoscopic journey through a world where the only rule is self- preservation. The *New York Times Book Review *said of *A Cure for Night *that â€œ[Peacock] heads toward Scott Turow country . . . heâ€™s got a good chance to make partner.â€ This taut, topical, and socially alert thriller delivers on that promise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20610'),
(10615, 'The Blind Side of the Heart', 'Julia Franck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3964'),
(10616, 'The Blind Side of the Heart', 'Julia Franck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9839'),
(10617, 'The blind side of the heart', 'Julia Franck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20586'),
(10618, 'The Blind Side', 'Lewis, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14178'),
(10619, 'The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The book behind the Academy award-winning film starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw.  Opening in theaters November 20, 2009, The Blind Side is a feature movie based on Michaelâ€™s Lewisâ€™s New York Times bestseller, produced by Alcon Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The Blind Side tells the inspirational story of Michael Oher, a homeless black teen taken under the wing of the Touhys, a wealthy white Memphis family. Oherâ€™s size and speed on the football field bring him accolades. But learning the gameâ€™s strategy and making it as a student take the help of his new family, coaches, and tutor.    Sandra Bullock stars as Leigh Anne Touhy, the sharp-witted and compassionate matriarch. Tim McGraw stars as her sports-enthusiast husband. Oscar winner Kathy Bates plays Miss Sue, Oherâ€™s indefatigable tutor. Quinton Aaron has his first major role as Oher. John Lee Hancock, who directed The Rookie and The Alamo, writes and directs the film.    Michael Oher was just drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens. This edition includes a new afterword bringing Oherâ€™s life up to date through college and the NFL.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2847'),
(10620, 'The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game', 'Michael Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The book behind the Academy award-winning film starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw. Opening in theaters November 20, 2009, The Blind Side is a feature movie based on Michaelâ€™s Lewisâ€™s New York Times bestseller, produced by Alcon Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The Blind Side tells the inspirational story of Michael Oher, a homeless black teen taken under the wing of the Touhys, a wealthy white Memphis family. Oherâ€™s size and speed on the football field bring him accolades. But learning the gameâ€™s strategy and making it as a student take the help of his new family, coaches, and tutor. Sandra Bullock stars as Leigh Anne Touhy, the sharp-witted and compassionate matriarch. Tim McGraw stars as her sports-enthusiast husband. Oscar winner Kathy Bates plays Miss Sue, Oherâ€™s indefatigable tutor. Quinton Aaron has his first major role as Oher. John Lee Hancock, who directed The Rookie and The Alamo, writes and directs the film. Michael Oher was just drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens. This edition includes a new afterword bringing Oherâ€™s life up to date through college and the NFL.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21976'),
(10621, 'Blind Willie', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23159'),
(10622, 'Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakamiâ€™s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday life, Murakamiâ€™s characters confront grievous loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distances between those who ought to be closest of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5235'),
(10623, 'Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakamiâ€™s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday life, Murakamiâ€™s characters confront grievous loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distances between those who ought to be closest of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11617'),
(10624, 'Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakamiâ€™s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday life, Murakamiâ€™s characters confront grievous loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distances between those who ought to be closest of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18665'),
(10625, 'Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakamiâ€™s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday life, Murakamiâ€™s characters confront grievous loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distances between those who ought to be closest of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28040'),
(10626, 'Blindatele mortii', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25073'),
(10627, 'Blindfold Game', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Thailand, a bomb destroys a tourist spot while two North Korean terrorists casually walk away from the site to plan the next phase of their plot against the United States. In Washington, CIA analyst Hugh Rincon catches the chatter about something big being planned along the Pacific rim, and his best agent says its linked to the Thailand blast. Now Hugh is beginning to connect the dots between missing radioactive material, a SCUD missile sold on the black market, and a Russian ship sailing toward the Alaskan coast...but the Administration refuses to heed his warning. In the Bering Sea, Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth is on routine patrol. On board is Hugh''s estranged wife, executive officer Sara Lange. Sara and her ship are Hugh''s only hope for stopping the terrorists...if she''s willing to believe her ex-husband''s story and risk her own careerand her crew''s livesto hunt down a death ship....\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Thailand, a bomb destroys a tourist spot while two North Korean terrorists casually walk away from the site to plan the next phase of their plot against the United States. In Washington, CIA analyst Hugh Rincon catches the chatter about something big being planned along the Pacific rim, and his best agent says its linked to the Thailand blast. Now Hugh is beginning to connect the dots between missing radioactive material, a SCUD missile sold on the black market, and a Russian ship sailing toward the Alaskan coast...but the Administration refuses to heed his warning. In the Bering Sea, Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth is on routine patrol. On board is Hugh''s estranged wife, executive officer Sara Lange. Sara and her ship are Hugh''s only hope for stopping the terrorists...if she''s willing to believe her ex-husband''s story and risk her own careerand her crew''s livesto hunt down a death ship....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6523'),
(10628, 'Blindfold Game', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Thailand, a bomb destroys a tourist spot while two North Korean terrorists casually walk away from the site to plan the next phase of their plot against the United States. In Washington, CIA analyst Hugh Rincon catches the chatter about something big being planned along the Pacific rim, and his best agent says its linked to the Thailand blast. Now Hugh is beginning to connect the dots between missing radioactive material, a SCUD missile sold on the black market, and a Russian ship sailing toward the Alaskan coast...but the Administration refuses to heed his warning. In the Bering Sea, Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth is on routine patrol. On board is Hugh''s estranged wife, executive officer Sara Lange. Sara and her ship are Hugh''s only hope for stopping the terrorists...if she''s willing to believe her ex-husband''s story and risk her own careerand her crew''s livesto hunt down a death ship.... SUMMARY: In Thailand, a bomb destroys a tourist spot while two North Korean terrorists casually walk away from the site to plan the next phase of their plot against the United States. In Washington, CIA analyst Hugh Rincon catches the chatter about something big being planned along the Pacific rim, and his best agent says its linked to the Thailand blast. Now Hugh is beginning to connect the dots between missing radioactive material, a SCUD missile sold on the black market, and a Russian ship sailing toward the Alaskan coast...but the Administration refuses to heed his warning. In the Bering Sea, Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth is on routine patrol. On board is Hugh''s estranged wife, executive officer Sara Lange. Sara and her ship are Hugh''s only hope for stopping the terrorists...if she''s willing to believe her ex-husband''s story and risk her own careerand her crew''s livesto hunt down a death ship....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17544'),
(10629, 'Blindfold Game', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Thailand, a bomb destroys a tourist spot while two North Korean terrorists casually walk away from the site to plan the next phase of their plot against the United States. In Washington, CIA analyst Hugh Rincon catches the chatter about something big being planned along the Pacific rim, and his best agent says its linked to the Thailand blast. Now Hugh is beginning to connect the dots between missing radioactive material, a SCUD missile sold on the black market, and a Russian ship sailing toward the Alaskan coast...but the Administration refuses to heed his warning. In the Bering Sea, Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth is on routine patrol. On board is Hugh''s estranged wife, executive officer Sara Lange. Sara and her ship are Hugh''s only hope for stopping the terrorists...if she''s willing to believe her ex-husband''s story and risk her own careerand her crew''s livesto hunt down a death ship.... SUMMARY: In Thailand, a bomb destroys a tourist spot while two North Korean terrorists casually walk away from the site to plan the next phase of their plot against the United States. In Washington, CIA analyst Hugh Rincon catches the chatter about something big being planned along the Pacific rim, and his best agent says its linked to the Thailand blast. Now Hugh is beginning to connect the dots between missing radioactive material, a SCUD missile sold on the black market, and a Russian ship sailing toward the Alaskan coast...but the Administration refuses to heed his warning. In the Bering Sea, Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth is on routine patrol. On board is Hugh''s estranged wife, executive officer Sara Lange. Sara and her ship are Hugh''s only hope for stopping the terrorists...if she''s willing to believe her ex-husband''s story and risk her own careerand her crew''s livesto hunt down a death ship....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27137'),
(10630, 'Blindsight', 'Robin Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cook''s lack of ability as a stylist generally has been masked by his talent for fashioning a solid medical drama--often ripped from current headlines--that keeps readers turning pages. Unfortuately, that''s not the case in his 12th novel (after Vital Signs ), which has a plot so ludicrous that the weak characters and silly dialogue are all too obvious. Most offensive in the latter category are the stilted, out-of-kilter exchanges between a pair of Mafia hitmen who run about New York City "whacking" (murdering) people with increasing frequency. Meanwhile, Dr. Laurie Montgomery, a forensic pathologist in the NYC Medical Examiner''s office, finds a pattern of unrelated cocaine overdose deaths among career-oriented people never known to have used drugs. Despite the obvious evidence that she''s onto something, her boss couldn''t care less, while the homicide detective she becomes involved with is more concerned about the mob killings, and, like her boss, cannot understand why she is outraged by the behavior of two corrupt, thieving uniformed cops in her department. As luck would have it, there''s also another man in Laurie''s life, a self-centered ophthalmologist whose patients just happen to include the mob boss behind both the cocaine deaths and the murder spree. Readers who plow through this amateurish effort will guess the ending long before any of the characters has a clue.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n An ironically revealing title for ophthalmologist Cook''s fuzziest novel in years--an awesomely inept medical/crime thriller about a forensic pathologist up against the mob. As the story opens, the mind of one Duncan Andrews is\n <code>\n </code>\n racing like a runaway train,'''' his lethargy having\n <code>\n  evaporated like a drip of water falling onto a sizzling skillet.'''' Hours and several more clichâ€šs later, the\n </code>\n Wall Street whiz kid'''' is dead of a cocaine overdose and lying on the autopsy table of generic Cook heroine (young, spunky, pretty doc) Laurie Montgomery, an N.Y.C. medical examiner. Days and several more dead yuppies later, Laurie is convinced that someone is flooding the upscale market with bad cocaine. Of course, no one will listen to her--not her boss, who wants to chill this political hot potato; not silver-tongued, gold- plated ophthalmologist Jordan Scheffield, who''s wooing her with limos and swank dinners; not cop Lou Soldano (\n <code>\n  a bit like Colombo''''), to whom Laurie explains the exact difference between ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians and who wants to woo her with his sedan and spaghetti but can''t match Jordan''s glitz and anyway is busy worrying about the mob-related corpses stacking up next to the yuppies in Laurie''s morgue. For meanwhile, in scenes stiff with clichâ€š, two mobsters are blowing away a seemingly random group of citizens on orders from mob kingpin Paul Cerino, who, Laurie learns, is one of Jordan''s patients--and who deals coke. Laurie sleuths; the mobsters lock her in a coffin; Laurie sobs; the mobsters let her out; Laurie remembers the flammable properties of ethylene, handily within reach, and blows up the mobsters. Finally, Laurie dumps Jordan for Lou, and she and the cop talk about the motives behind the whole\n </code>\n horrid affair''''--which owe more than a little to Coma. A slack and ragged retread, with Cook parodying himself in a tale that''s about as stylish and suspenseful as an eye-chart. (Literary Guild Dual Selection for February) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8072'),
(10631, 'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren''t as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren''t those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"-filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3172'),
(10632, 'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren''t as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren''t those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"-filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9994'),
(10633, 'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren''t as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren''t those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"-filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14932');
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(10634, 'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking', 'Malcolm Gladwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren''t as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren''t those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"-filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21348'),
(10635, 'The Blithedale Romance', 'Nathaniel Hawthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the readerdecipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a diffi\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21578'),
(10636, 'Blockade Billy', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **From *New York Times* bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of *Blockade Billy*, the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Even the most die-hard baseball fans don''t know the true story of William â€œBlockade Billyâ€ Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game''s history.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse... and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Originally published through Cemetery Dance Publications on April 20, 2010 as a $25.00 limited-edition hardcover, Stephen King and Cemetery Dance have made an arrangement with Scribner to make available a less expensive hardcover edition of ***Blockade Billy****, *with an on-sale date of May 25th, the same date the audiobook goes on sale. The Scribner edition will be available in all U.S. and Canadian retail outlets. Both the Scribner book and the Simon &amp; Schuster audiobook will feature a bonus short story ("Morality").\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1081'),
(10637, 'Blockade Billy', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **From *New York Times* bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of *Blockade Billy*, the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Even the most die-hard baseball fans don''t know the true story of William â€œBlockade Billyâ€ Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game''s history.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse... and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Originally published through Cemetery Dance Publications on April 20, 2010 as a $25.00 limited-edition hardcover, Stephen King and Cemetery Dance have made an arrangement with Scribner to make available a less expensive hardcover edition of ***Blockade Billy****, *with an on-sale date of May 25th, the same date the audiobook goes on sale. The Scribner edition will be available in all U.S. and Canadian retail outlets. Both the Scribner book and the Simon &amp; Schuster audiobook will feature a bonus short story ("Morality").\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10721'),
(10638, 'Blockade Billy', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Even the most diehard baseball fans don''t know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game''s history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse... and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all. This original, never-before-published novella represents Stephen King at his very best, and this Cemetery Dance hardcover edition brings it into print for the very first time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23835'),
(10639, 'Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith&#39;s Death', 'Rita Cosby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n YOU PROBABLY THINK YOU KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW.\n</p>\n<p>\n ANNA NICOLE SMITH LOST HER SON.\n</p>\n<p>\n SHE ACCIDENTALLY OVERDOSED. SHE WAS A DRUG ADDICT.\n</p>\n<p>\n YOU DON''T KNOW A THING...\n</p>\n<p>\n She was famous for being famous-Americana at its Scarlet Letter-wearing best. A bodacious young girl from Texas, Anna remade herself into the centerfold of the world. She was a "dumb blonde," a stripper, a Playboy Playmate, who boldly took her case against her billionaire husband''s family all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her tragic life and untimely death evoke an odd mix of fascination, shock, and dismay. And through it all, there still exists a voracious thirst to discover more about who she actually was...and how she\n <em>\n  really\n </em>\n died.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a book that is sure to surprise even the most avid pop culture junkies, Rita Cosby blows the lid off this astounding story. After an in-depth investigation, this is the definitive journalistic account of the Anna Nicole Smith saga-with unearthed secrets and explosive, never-before-told information.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n An Emmy-award winning journalist, Rita Cosby hosted the top-rated show on MSNBC, "Rita Cosby: Live &amp; Direct." She also hosted Fox New Channel''s highly rated programs, "Fox News Live with Rita Cosby" and "The Big Story Weekend Edition with Rita Cosby." Some of her groundbreaking interviews include: an exclusive interview with Slobodan Milosevic while he was imprisoned at The Hague; an exclusive interview with Yasser Arafat when his compound was under siege; she was the first journalist to see the suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo and witness an actual interrogation; and a rare, private meeting with Pope John Paul II after receiving an exclusive letter from Timothy McVeigh explaining why he carried out the Oklahoma City bombing. Having interviewed more than a dozen world leaders and four US Presidents, she also made headlines for her interviews with Michael Jackson, David Berkowitz and Dr. Jack Kevorkian. She has been a featured guest on hundreds of television and radio shows worldwide and earned her two bachelors'' degrees from the University of South Carolina.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1804'),
(10640, 'Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith&#39;s Death', 'Rita Cosby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n YOU PROBABLY THINK YOU KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW.\n</p>\n<p>\n ANNA NICOLE SMITH LOST HER SON.\n</p>\n<p>\n SHE ACCIDENTALLY OVERDOSED. SHE WAS A DRUG ADDICT.\n</p>\n<p>\n YOU DON''T KNOW A THING...\n</p>\n<p>\n She was famous for being famous-Americana at its Scarlet Letter-wearing best. A bodacious young girl from Texas, Anna remade herself into the centerfold of the world. She was a "dumb blonde," a stripper, a Playboy Playmate, who boldly took her case against her billionaire husband''s family all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her tragic life and untimely death evoke an odd mix of fascination, shock, and dismay. And through it all, there still exists a voracious thirst to discover more about who she actually was...and how she\n <em>\n  really\n </em>\n died.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a book that is sure to surprise even the most avid pop culture junkies, Rita Cosby blows the lid off this astounding story. After an in-depth investigation, this is the definitive journalistic account of the Anna Nicole Smith saga-with unearthed secrets and explosive, never-before-told information.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n An Emmy-award winning journalist, Rita Cosby hosted the top-rated show on MSNBC, "Rita Cosby: Live &amp; Direct." She also hosted Fox New Channel''s highly rated programs, "Fox News Live with Rita Cosby" and "The Big Story Weekend Edition with Rita Cosby." Some of her groundbreaking interviews include: an exclusive interview with Slobodan Milosevic while he was imprisoned at The Hague; an exclusive interview with Yasser Arafat when his compound was under siege; she was the first journalist to see the suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo and witness an actual interrogation; and a rare, private meeting with Pope John Paul II after receiving an exclusive letter from Timothy McVeigh explaining why he carried out the Oklahoma City bombing. Having interviewed more than a dozen world leaders and four US Presidents, she also made headlines for her interviews with Michael Jackson, David Berkowitz and Dr. Jack Kevorkian. She has been a featured guest on hundreds of television and radio shows worldwide and earned her two bachelors'' degrees from the University of South Carolina.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9105'),
(10641, 'Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith&#39;s Death', 'Rita Cosby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n YOU PROBABLY THINK YOU KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW.\n</p>\n<p>\n ANNA NICOLE SMITH LOST HER SON.\n</p>\n<p>\n SHE ACCIDENTALLY OVERDOSED. SHE WAS A DRUG ADDICT.\n</p>\n<p>\n YOU DON''T KNOW A THING...\n</p>\n<p>\n She was famous for being famous-Americana at its Scarlet Letter-wearing best. A bodacious young girl from Texas, Anna remade herself into the centerfold of the world. She was a "dumb blonde," a stripper, a Playboy Playmate, who boldly took her case against her billionaire husband''s family all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her tragic life and untimely death evoke an odd mix of fascination, shock, and dismay. And through it all, there still exists a voracious thirst to discover more about who she actually was...and how she\n <em>\n  really\n </em>\n died.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a book that is sure to surprise even the most avid pop culture junkies, Rita Cosby blows the lid off this astounding story. After an in-depth investigation, this is the definitive journalistic account of the Anna Nicole Smith saga-with unearthed secrets and explosive, never-before-told information.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n An Emmy-award winning journalist, Rita Cosby hosted the top-rated show on MSNBC, "Rita Cosby: Live &amp; Direct." She also hosted Fox New Channel''s highly rated programs, "Fox News Live with Rita Cosby" and "The Big Story Weekend Edition with Rita Cosby." Some of her groundbreaking interviews include: an exclusive interview with Slobodan Milosevic while he was imprisoned at The Hague; an exclusive interview with Yasser Arafat when his compound was under siege; she was the first journalist to see the suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo and witness an actual interrogation; and a rare, private meeting with Pope John Paul II after receiving an exclusive letter from Timothy McVeigh explaining why he carried out the Oklahoma City bombing. Having interviewed more than a dozen world leaders and four US Presidents, she also made headlines for her interviews with Michael Jackson, David Berkowitz and Dr. Jack Kevorkian. She has been a featured guest on hundreds of television and radio shows worldwide and earned her two bachelors'' degrees from the University of South Carolina.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24850'),
(10642, 'Blood and Gold', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the best Anne Rice tradition, the great Vampire Marius returns to tell us the mesmerizing story of his life through the ages, from the time of Caesar Augustus to the present. The Vampire Marius, child of the Millenea, has lived two thousand years. He tells his story to Thorne, a lone vampire who was a Viking in a mortal life tells of his birth into the Senatorial Class at the time of Caesar Augustus, and how he was transformed into a "dark god" by Druids in the forests of Gaul; how he created the Vampire Armand and became guardian of Akasha and Enkil, the Queen and the King of Vampires, who hold within themselves the secret core of the life of the undead "destroy them and you destroy all vampires." He relates how he became the voice of reason among the vampires, and how he created Pandora, the vampire he still grieves for... We see Marius as a mortal boy in the teeming streets of second-century Rome, and in young manhood in the time of Constantine and his battle to save Rome from the Visigoths. We follow him through the Dark Ages and the Black Death, and through another thousand years to Venice and to Florence, where he seeks out the great Botticelli and becomes a painter, working in a glorious palazzo a blood drinker in the thick of a rich and brilliant mortal life. Worlds within worlds unfold historic, fantastic, cultural, vampiric, from the London of Henry VIII to 17th-century Paris and Weimar as the novel moves to its splendid finale in an Aegean kingdom ruled by the great vampire: the magician Marius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7545'),
(10643, 'Blood and Gold', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the best Anne Rice tradition, the great Vampire Marius returns to tell us the mesmerizing story of his life through the ages, from the time of Caesar Augustus to the present. The Vampire Marius, child of the Millenea, has lived two thousand years. He tells his story to Thorne, a lone vampire who was a Viking in a mortal life tells of his birth into the Senatorial Class at the time of Caesar Augustus, and how he was transformed into a "dark god" by Druids in the forests of Gaul; how he created the Vampire Armand and became guardian of Akasha and Enkil, the Queen and the King of Vampires, who hold within themselves the secret core of the life of the undead "destroy them and you destroy all vampires." He relates how he became the voice of reason among the vampires, and how he created Pandora, the vampire he still grieves for... We see Marius as a mortal boy in the teeming streets of second-century Rome, and in young manhood in the time of Constantine and his battle to save Rome from the Visigoths. We follow him through the Dark Ages and the Black Death, and through another thousand years to Venice and to Florence, where he seeks out the great Botticelli and becomes a painter, working in a glorious palazzo a blood drinker in the thick of a rich and brilliant mortal life. Worlds within worlds unfold historic, fantastic, cultural, vampiric, from the London of Henry VIII to 17th-century Paris and Weimar as the novel moves to its splendid finale in an Aegean kingdom ruled by the great vampire: the magician Marius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13846'),
(10644, 'Blood and Gold', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the best Anne Rice tradition, the great Vampire Marius returns to tell us the mesmerizing story of his life through the ages, from the time of Caesar Augustus to the present. The Vampire Marius, child of the Millenea, has lived two thousand years. He tells his story to Thorne, a lone vampire who was a Viking in a mortal life tells of his birth into the Senatorial Class at the time of Caesar Augustus, and how he was transformed into a "dark god" by Druids in the forests of Gaul; how he created the Vampire Armand and became guardian of Akasha and Enkil, the Queen and the King of Vampires, who hold within themselves the secret core of the life of the undead "destroy them and you destroy all vampires." He relates how he became the voice of reason among the vampires, and how he created Pandora, the vampire he still grieves for... We see Marius as a mortal boy in the teeming streets of second-century Rome, and in young manhood in the time of Constantine and his battle to save Rome from the Visigoths. We follow him through the Dark Ages and the Black Death, and through another thousand years to Venice and to Florence, where he seeks out the great Botticelli and becomes a painter, working in a glorious palazzo a blood drinker in the thick of a rich and brilliant mortal life. Worlds within worlds unfold historic, fantastic, cultural, vampiric, from the London of Henry VIII to 17th-century Paris and Weimar as the novel moves to its splendid finale in an Aegean kingdom ruled by the great vampire: the magician Marius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16324'),
(10645, 'Blood and Gold', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the best Anne Rice tradition, the great Vampire Marius returns to tell us the mesmerizing story of his life through the ages, from the time of Caesar Augustus to the present. The Vampire Marius, child of the Millenea, has lived two thousand years. He tells his story to Thorne, a lone vampire who was a Viking in a mortal life tells of his birth into the Senatorial Class at the time of Caesar Augustus, and how he was transformed into a "dark god" by Druids in the forests of Gaul; how he created the Vampire Armand and became guardian of Akasha and Enkil, the Queen and the King of Vampires, who hold within themselves the secret core of the life of the undead "destroy them and you destroy all vampires." He relates how he became the voice of reason among the vampires, and how he created Pandora, the vampire he still grieves for... We see Marius as a mortal boy in the teeming streets of second-century Rome, and in young manhood in the time of Constantine and his battle to save Rome from the Visigoths. We follow him through the Dark Ages and the Black Death, and through another thousand years to Venice and to Florence, where he seeks out the great Botticelli and becomes a painter, working in a glorious palazzo a blood drinker in the thick of a rich and brilliant mortal life. Worlds within worlds unfold historic, fantastic, cultural, vampiric, from the London of Henry VIII to 17th-century Paris and Weimar as the novel moves to its splendid finale in an Aegean kingdom ruled by the great vampire: the magician Marius.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26364'),
(10646, 'Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism', 'Michael Burleigh', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Burleigh (_Earthly Powers_), one of the leading English-language scholars of the role of ideas in the modern world, makes another major contribution in this pull-no-punches cultural study of terrorism as it has been lived and practiced for a century and a half. Burleigh sees modern terrorism''s roots in the midâ€“19th century, with the emergence of the Irish Fenians, the Russian nihilists, the Western anarchists who used fear induced by violence to compensate for their lack of political power. Their tactics were adopted in the midâ€“20th century by movements seeking decolonization, like the Palestinian Black September, Italy''s Red Brigades and Germany''s Red Army Faction. By century''s end, terrorism further mutated into a tool for marginalized local nations like the Basques. Most recently, terrorism has become identified with what Burleigh calls the world rage of Islamism. Burleigh''s case studies demonstrate mercilessly that terrorism is a career, a culture, and a way of life attractive for its own sake as well as its ostensible objectives. The terrorist milieu, the author demonstrates convincingly, is morally squalid, intellectually bankrupt and politically barren. Burleigh considers the lessons history has to teach us, though he eschews policy recommendations.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sweeping and deeply penetrating work, distinguished historian Michael Burleigh explores the nature of terrorism from its origins in the West to the current global threat fueled by fundamentalists. Burleigh takes us from the roots of terrorism in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Russian Nihilists, and the London-based anarchists of Black International to the various terrorist campaigns that exist today. He also explores the lives of people engaged in careers of political violence and those who are most affected by the scourge of terrorism. Authoritative, illuminating, and masterfully written,\n <em>\n  Blood and Rage\n </em>\n sheds an unflinching light on the global threat that we are likely to face for decades to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2872'),
(10647, 'Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism', 'Michael Burleigh', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Burleigh (_Earthly Powers_), one of the leading English-language scholars of the role of ideas in the modern world, makes another major contribution in this pull-no-punches cultural study of terrorism as it has been lived and practiced for a century and a half. Burleigh sees modern terrorism''s roots in the midâ€“19th century, with the emergence of the Irish Fenians, the Russian nihilists, the Western anarchists who used fear induced by violence to compensate for their lack of political power. Their tactics were adopted in the midâ€“20th century by movements seeking decolonization, like the Palestinian Black September, Italy''s Red Brigades and Germany''s Red Army Faction. By century''s end, terrorism further mutated into a tool for marginalized local nations like the Basques. Most recently, terrorism has become identified with what Burleigh calls the world rage of Islamism. Burleigh''s case studies demonstrate mercilessly that terrorism is a career, a culture, and a way of life attractive for its own sake as well as its ostensible objectives. The terrorist milieu, the author demonstrates convincingly, is morally squalid, intellectually bankrupt and politically barren. Burleigh considers the lessons history has to teach us, though he eschews policy recommendations.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sweeping and deeply penetrating work, distinguished historian Michael Burleigh explores the nature of terrorism from its origins in the West to the current global threat fueled by fundamentalists. Burleigh takes us from the roots of terrorism in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Russian Nihilists, and the London-based anarchists of Black International to the various terrorist campaigns that exist today. He also explores the lives of people engaged in careers of political violence and those who are most affected by the scourge of terrorism. Authoritative, illuminating, and masterfully written,\n <em>\n  Blood and Rage\n </em>\n sheds an unflinching light on the global threat that we are likely to face for decades to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8681'),
(10648, 'Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism', 'Michael Burleigh', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Burleigh (_Earthly Powers_), one of the leading English-language scholars of the role of ideas in the modern world, makes another major contribution in this pull-no-punches cultural study of terrorism as it has been lived and practiced for a century and a half. Burleigh sees modern terrorism''s roots in the midâ€“19th century, with the emergence of the Irish Fenians, the Russian nihilists, the Western anarchists who used fear induced by violence to compensate for their lack of political power. Their tactics were adopted in the midâ€“20th century by movements seeking decolonization, like the Palestinian Black September, Italy''s Red Brigades and Germany''s Red Army Faction. By century''s end, terrorism further mutated into a tool for marginalized local nations like the Basques. Most recently, terrorism has become identified with what Burleigh calls the world rage of Islamism. Burleigh''s case studies demonstrate mercilessly that terrorism is a career, a culture, and a way of life attractive for its own sake as well as its ostensible objectives. The terrorist milieu, the author demonstrates convincingly, is morally squalid, intellectually bankrupt and politically barren. Burleigh considers the lessons history has to teach us, though he eschews policy recommendations.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sweeping and deeply penetrating work, distinguished historian Michael Burleigh explores the nature of terrorism from its origins in the West to the current global threat fueled by fundamentalists. Burleigh takes us from the roots of terrorism in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Russian Nihilists, and the London-based anarchists of Black International to the various terrorist campaigns that exist today. He also explores the lives of people engaged in careers of political violence and those who are most affected by the scourge of terrorism. Authoritative, illuminating, and masterfully written,\n <em>\n  Blood and Rage\n </em>\n sheds an unflinching light on the global threat that we are likely to face for decades to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21903'),
(10649, 'Blood Beast', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _"Locked inside Dervish''s study. Breath coming quickly, raggedly. Trembling wildly. I still feel sick and dizzy, but maybe that''s fear. I force myself to breathe normally, evenly. When I''m in control, I study my reflection, looking for telltale signs. Am I turning into a werewolf? I don''t know..."\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n Grubbs Grady has so far escaped the family curse, but when he begins to experience alarming symptoms at the onset of the full moon, he is scared that the jaws of fate are opening and about to swallow him whole.\n</p>\n<p>\n He has cheated death, defeated demons, moved on with his life. But Grubbs is torn between the world of magic and his wolfen genes. Can he fight the beast inside or will he fall victim to his tainted blood?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is currently working on his sixth novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in May 2008.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6350'),
(10650, 'Blood Beast', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _"Locked inside Dervish''s study. Breath coming quickly, raggedly. Trembling wildly. I still feel sick and dizzy, but maybe that''s fear. I force myself to breathe normally, evenly. When I''m in control, I study my reflection, looking for telltale signs. Am I turning into a werewolf? I don''t know..."\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n Grubbs Grady has so far escaped the family curse, but when he begins to experience alarming symptoms at the onset of the full moon, he is scared that the jaws of fate are opening and about to swallow him whole.\n</p>\n<p>\n He has cheated death, defeated demons, moved on with his life. But Grubbs is torn between the world of magic and his wolfen genes. Can he fight the beast inside or will he fall victim to his tainted blood?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is currently working on his sixth novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in May 2008.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12664'),
(10651, 'Blood Beast', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _"Locked inside Dervish''s study. Breath coming quickly, raggedly. Trembling wildly. I still feel sick and dizzy, but maybe that''s fear. I force myself to breathe normally, evenly. When I''m in control, I study my reflection, looking for telltale signs. Am I turning into a werewolf? I don''t know..."\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n Grubbs Grady has so far escaped the family curse, but when he begins to experience alarming symptoms at the onset of the full moon, he is scared that the jaws of fate are opening and about to swallow him whole.\n</p>\n<p>\n He has cheated death, defeated demons, moved on with his life. But Grubbs is torn between the world of magic and his wolfen genes. Can he fight the beast inside or will he fall victim to his tainted blood?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is currently working on his sixth novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in May 2008.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17596'),
(10652, 'Blood Brothers', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of pre-pubescent celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred year curse.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Twenty-one years later, Cal Hawkins and his friends have seen their town plagued by a week of unexplainable evil events two more times - every seven years. With the clock winding down on the third set of seven years, someone else has taken an interest in the town''s folklore. Quinn is a well known scholar of local legends, and despite Cal''s protests, insists on delving in the mystery. But when the first signs of evil appear months early, it''s not only the town Cal tries to protect, but also his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2548'),
(10653, 'Blood Brothers', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of pre-pubescent celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred year curse. Twenty-one years later, Cal Hawkins and his friends have seen their town plagued by a week of unexplainable evil events two more times - every seven years. With the clock winding down on the third set of seven years, someone else has taken an interest in the town''s folklore. Quinn is a well known scholar of local legends, and despite Cal''s protests, insists on delving in the mystery. But when the first signs of evil appear months early, it''s not only the town Cal tries to protect, but also his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22327'),
(10654, 'Blood Canticle', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins whereBlackwood Farmleft off and tells the story of Lestat''s quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair. Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who''s come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to the all-powerful Lestat; her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat''s help with the temporary madness of his wife; Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos who has taken Mona''s child; and Patsy, the country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood. Delightfully, at the book''s centre is the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil, now pursuing the transformation set in motion withMemnoch the Devil. He struggles with his vampirism and yearns for goodness, purity and love, as he saves Patsy''s ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, uncovers the mystery of the Taltos and unselfishly decides the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair. A story of love and loyalty, of the search for passion and promise,Blood Canticleis Anne Rice at her finest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7546'),
(10655, 'Blood canticle', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins whereBlackwood Farmleft off and tells the story of Lestat''s quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair. Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who''s come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to the all-powerful Lestat; her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat''s help with the temporary madness of his wife; Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos who has taken Mona''s child; and Patsy, the country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood. Delightfully, at the book''s centre is the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil, now pursuing the transformation set in motion withMemnoch the Devil. He struggles with his vampirism and yearns for goodness, purity and love, as he saves Patsy''s ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, uncovers the mystery of the Taltos and unselfishly decides the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair. A story of love and loyalty, of the search for passion and promise,Blood Canticleis Anne Rice at her finest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13847'),
(10656, 'Blood canticle', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins whereBlackwood Farmleft off and tells the story of Lestat''s quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair. Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who''s come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to the all-powerful Lestat; her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat''s help with the temporary madness of his wife; Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos who has taken Mona''s child; and Patsy, the country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood. Delightfully, at the book''s centre is the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil, now pursuing the transformation set in motion withMemnoch the Devil. He struggles with his vampirism and yearns for goodness, purity and love, as he saves Patsy''s ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, uncovers the mystery of the Taltos and unselfishly decides the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair. A story of love and loyalty, of the search for passion and promise,Blood Canticleis Anne Rice at her finest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16323'),
(10657, 'Blood canticle', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins whereBlackwood Farmleft off and tells the story of Lestat''s quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair. Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who''s come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to the all-powerful Lestat; her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat''s help with the temporary madness of his wife; Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos who has taken Mona''s child; and Patsy, the country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood. Delightfully, at the book''s centre is the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil, now pursuing the transformation set in motion withMemnoch the Devil. He struggles with his vampirism and yearns for goodness, purity and love, as he saves Patsy''s ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, uncovers the mystery of the Taltos and unselfishly decides the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair. A story of love and loyalty, of the search for passion and promise,Blood Canticleis Anne Rice at her finest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26360'),
(10658, 'Blood Contact', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Through three centuries of interstellar travel, intelligent alien life- forms had never been encountered . . . until now.When a scientific team exploring an obscure planet fails to make its regular communications check, the Marines of third platoon are sent to investigate. They prepare for a routine rescue operation, but what they find on Society 437 is a horror beyond description. Only a handful of ragtag pirates who were in the wrong place at the very worst time have survived, and there is little trace of the scientists.What happened to the scientists? Why have the pirates been spared?Â Â Gunnery Sergeant Bass and the men of third platoon are about to find out, and the answer carries a terrifying implication for the Marines--and the entire human race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17258'),
(10659, 'Blood Contact', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Through three centuries of interstellar travel, intelligent alien life- forms had never been encountered . . . until now.When a scientific team exploring an obscure planet fails to make its regular communications check, the Marines of third platoon are sent to investigate. They prepare for a routine rescue operation, but what they find on Society 437 is a horror beyond description. Only a handful of ragtag pirates who were in the wrong place at the very worst time have survived, and there is little trace of the scientists.What happened to the scientists? Why have the pirates been spared?Â Â Gunnery Sergeant Bass and the men of third platoon are about to find out, and the answer carries a terrifying implication for the Marines--and the entire human race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27325');
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(10660, 'Blood Crimes', 'Dave Zeltserman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Blood Crimes is a genre-bending collision of dark urban fantasy and crime that rides shot-gun with Jim and Carol as they carve a homicidal path cross-country. Jim is infected with the vampire virus. Carol isn''t. Yet. But they''re united in their hunt for societyâ€™s most dangerous predators for Jim''s dinner -- so he can feed without harming the innocent. What they don''t know is that they''re not alone. There are others on their trail, and the climax of Blood Crimes is a shocking jolt of pure mayhem and rock ''n roll violence.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€˜I''ve just read the manuscript of Dave Zeltserman''s new novel, Blood Crimes. This is one of the few fresh takes on vampirism I''ve read in years. It''s as if Charles Bukowski sat down and said, OK, Bram Stoker, how about this?â€™ -- Ed Gorman, author of Cage of Night and The Poker Club.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   ''Blood Crimes is fast. It''s visceral. It''s definitely not your fourteen-year-old sister''s dreamy vampire fantasy. This book grabs you by the guttiwuts, wrenches hard, and doesn''t let go... But don''t get me wrong, this isn''t your run-of-the-mill shock literature. Zeltserman weaves a disturbing noir with a passionate craftsman''s hand over his characters.'' Mindy MacKay\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Praise for OUTSOURCED\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A dark, lightening-paced read" Financial Times\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A small gem of crime fiction" Booklist\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Outsourced is a dryly witty take on the heist caper genre... fast-paced action romp" London Times\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Bodies mount up as the double dealing and revenge gather apace. The blurb on the book describes it as a "fast-paced, edge-of-your seat crime novel," and it really does live up to the hype. Add this to your holiday reading list for a piece of escapism." Morning Star\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A finely paced, witty and stylish take on the heist caper novel. More than most authors churning out mysteries, Zeltserman is fully steeped in the conventions of crime fiction. He remains absolutely his own hard man." The Australian\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Dave Zeltserman''s OUTSOURCED is a speedy, gritty, hardboiled bank robbery tale that bops and weaves along as a group of out-of-work computer programmers decide to get their hands dirty and find they like it a lot. As with Zeltserman''s previous novels SMALL CRIMES, PARIAH, and KILLER, his greatest storytelling skill is in the small true, emotional details that every reader will understand. He will definitely keep you flipping pages as fast you can, and once you finish one book you''ll be racing on to the next." Tom Piccirilli, author of Shadow Season and The Cold Spot\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Praise for THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "delicious horror-ish novel" Newsday\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Superb mix of humor and horror" Publishers Weekly, starred review\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "superbly crafted horror story" Booklist\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Harrowing. Zeltserman colors it black with the best of them." Kirkus Reviews\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "a very darkly funny dark fantasy" Locus Magazine\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD succeeds as a horror novel, a psychological thriller and a haunting parable, even in some ways that Zeltserman may not have intended. There are dark levels to this work, some of which are immediately evident and others of which reveal themselves only upon later reflection. I donâ€™t know if the book will come to be regarded as a classic, either now or at some point in the future, but it deserves to be." BookReporter\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€˜Blood Crimes: Book Oneâ€™ is approximately 68,000 words long and has an additional 20,000 words of bonus material .\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Dave Zeltserman won the 2010 Shamus Award for ''Julius Katz'' and is the acclaimed author of the â€˜man out of prisonâ€™ crime trilogy: Small Crimes, Pariah and Killer, where Small Crimes (2008) and Pariah (2009) were both picked by the Washington Post as best books of the year. His recent The Caretaker of Lorne Field received a starred review from Publisher''s Weekly, calling it a ''superb mix of humor and horror'', has been shortlisted by ALA for best horror novel of 2010, Outsourced (2011) has already been called ''a small gem of crime fiction'' by Booklist and has been optioned by Impact Pictures and Constantin Film.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6414'),
(10661, 'Blood Crimes', 'Dave Zeltserman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Blood Crimes is a genre-bending collision of dark urban fantasy and crime that rides shot-gun with Jim and Carol as they carve a homicidal path cross-country. Jim is infected with the vampire virus. Carol isn''t. Yet. But they''re united in their hunt for societyâ€™s most dangerous predators for Jim''s dinner -- so he can feed without harming the innocent. What they don''t know is that they''re not alone. There are others on their trail, and the climax of Blood Crimes is a shocking jolt of pure mayhem and rock ''n roll violence.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€˜I''ve just read the manuscript of Dave Zeltserman''s new novel, Blood Crimes. This is one of the few fresh takes on vampirism I''ve read in years. It''s as if Charles Bukowski sat down and said, OK, Bram Stoker, how about this?â€™ -- Ed Gorman, author of Cage of Night and The Poker Club.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   ''Blood Crimes is fast. It''s visceral. It''s definitely not your fourteen-year-old sister''s dreamy vampire fantasy. This book grabs you by the guttiwuts, wrenches hard, and doesn''t let go... But don''t get me wrong, this isn''t your run-of-the-mill shock literature. Zeltserman weaves a disturbing noir with a passionate craftsman''s hand over his characters.'' Mindy MacKay\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Praise for OUTSOURCED\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A dark, lightening-paced read" Financial Times\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A small gem of crime fiction" Booklist\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Outsourced is a dryly witty take on the heist caper genre... fast-paced action romp" London Times\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Bodies mount up as the double dealing and revenge gather apace. The blurb on the book describes it as a "fast-paced, edge-of-your seat crime novel," and it really does live up to the hype. Add this to your holiday reading list for a piece of escapism." Morning Star\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A finely paced, witty and stylish take on the heist caper novel. More than most authors churning out mysteries, Zeltserman is fully steeped in the conventions of crime fiction. He remains absolutely his own hard man." The Australian\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Dave Zeltserman''s OUTSOURCED is a speedy, gritty, hardboiled bank robbery tale that bops and weaves along as a group of out-of-work computer programmers decide to get their hands dirty and find they like it a lot. As with Zeltserman''s previous novels SMALL CRIMES, PARIAH, and KILLER, his greatest storytelling skill is in the small true, emotional details that every reader will understand. He will definitely keep you flipping pages as fast you can, and once you finish one book you''ll be racing on to the next." Tom Piccirilli, author of Shadow Season and The Cold Spot\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Praise for THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "delicious horror-ish novel" Newsday\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Superb mix of humor and horror" Publishers Weekly, starred review\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "superbly crafted horror story" Booklist\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Harrowing. Zeltserman colors it black with the best of them." Kirkus Reviews\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "a very darkly funny dark fantasy" Locus Magazine\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD succeeds as a horror novel, a psychological thriller and a haunting parable, even in some ways that Zeltserman may not have intended. There are dark levels to this work, some of which are immediately evident and others of which reveal themselves only upon later reflection. I donâ€™t know if the book will come to be regarded as a classic, either now or at some point in the future, but it deserves to be." BookReporter\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€˜Blood Crimes: Book Oneâ€™ is approximately 68,000 words long and has an additional 20,000 words of bonus material .\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Dave Zeltserman won the 2010 Shamus Award for ''Julius Katz'' and is the acclaimed author of the â€˜man out of prisonâ€™ crime trilogy: Small Crimes, Pariah and Killer, where Small Crimes (2008) and Pariah (2009) were both picked by the Washington Post as best books of the year. His recent The Caretaker of Lorne Field received a starred review from Publisher''s Weekly, calling it a ''superb mix of humor and horror'', has been shortlisted by ALA for best horror novel of 2010, Outsourced (2011) has already been called ''a small gem of crime fiction'' by Booklist and has been optioned by Impact Pictures and Constantin Film.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13423'),
(10662, 'Blood Crimes', 'Dave Zeltserman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Blood Crimes is a genre-bending collision of dark urban fantasy and crime that rides shot-gun with Jim and Carol as they carve a homicidal path cross-country. Jim is infected with the vampire virus. Carol isn''t. Yet. But they''re united in their hunt for societyâ€™s most dangerous predators for Jim''s dinner -- so he can feed without harming the innocent. What they don''t know is that they''re not alone. There are others on their trail, and the climax of Blood Crimes is a shocking jolt of pure mayhem and rock ''n roll violence.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€˜I''ve just read the manuscript of Dave Zeltserman''s new novel, Blood Crimes. This is one of the few fresh takes on vampirism I''ve read in years. It''s as if Charles Bukowski sat down and said, OK, Bram Stoker, how about this?â€™ -- Ed Gorman, author of Cage of Night and The Poker Club.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   ''Blood Crimes is fast. It''s visceral. It''s definitely not your fourteen-year-old sister''s dreamy vampire fantasy. This book grabs you by the guttiwuts, wrenches hard, and doesn''t let go... But don''t get me wrong, this isn''t your run-of-the-mill shock literature. Zeltserman weaves a disturbing noir with a passionate craftsman''s hand over his characters.'' Mindy MacKay\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Praise for OUTSOURCED\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A dark, lightening-paced read" Financial Times\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A small gem of crime fiction" Booklist\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Outsourced is a dryly witty take on the heist caper genre... fast-paced action romp" London Times\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Bodies mount up as the double dealing and revenge gather apace. The blurb on the book describes it as a "fast-paced, edge-of-your seat crime novel," and it really does live up to the hype. Add this to your holiday reading list for a piece of escapism." Morning Star\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "A finely paced, witty and stylish take on the heist caper novel. More than most authors churning out mysteries, Zeltserman is fully steeped in the conventions of crime fiction. He remains absolutely his own hard man." The Australian\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Dave Zeltserman''s OUTSOURCED is a speedy, gritty, hardboiled bank robbery tale that bops and weaves along as a group of out-of-work computer programmers decide to get their hands dirty and find they like it a lot. As with Zeltserman''s previous novels SMALL CRIMES, PARIAH, and KILLER, his greatest storytelling skill is in the small true, emotional details that every reader will understand. He will definitely keep you flipping pages as fast you can, and once you finish one book you''ll be racing on to the next." Tom Piccirilli, author of Shadow Season and The Cold Spot\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Praise for THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "delicious horror-ish novel" Newsday\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Superb mix of humor and horror" Publishers Weekly, starred review\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "superbly crafted horror story" Booklist\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "Harrowing. Zeltserman colors it black with the best of them." Kirkus Reviews\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "a very darkly funny dark fantasy" Locus Magazine\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD succeeds as a horror novel, a psychological thriller and a haunting parable, even in some ways that Zeltserman may not have intended. There are dark levels to this work, some of which are immediately evident and others of which reveal themselves only upon later reflection. I donâ€™t know if the book will come to be regarded as a classic, either now or at some point in the future, but it deserves to be." BookReporter\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   â€˜Blood Crimes: Book Oneâ€™ is approximately 68,000 words long and has an additional 20,000 words of bonus material .\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Dave Zeltserman won the 2010 Shamus Award for ''Julius Katz'' and is the acclaimed author of the â€˜man out of prisonâ€™ crime trilogy: Small Crimes, Pariah and Killer, where Small Crimes (2008) and Pariah (2009) were both picked by the Washington Post as best books of the year. His recent The Caretaker of Lorne Field received a starred review from Publisher''s Weekly, calling it a ''superb mix of humor and horror'', has been shortlisted by ALA for best horror novel of 2010, Outsourced (2011) has already been called ''a small gem of crime fiction'' by Booklist and has been optioned by Impact Pictures and Constantin Film.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17687'),
(10663, 'Blood From a Stone', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Atlantic Monthly Press relaunched her Commissario Guido Brunetti series. Donna Leon was hailed as "the best mystery writer you''ve never heard of...She uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexual styles and--best of all--the kind of ingrown business and political corruption that seems to lurk just below the surface" ("Chicago Tribune). Now "Blood from a Stone brings her celebrated character Commissario Guido Brunetti back on the scene: On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man''s wares before his death--fake handbags of every designer label. The dead man had been working as a "vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours, trading without work permits. Commissario Brunetti''s response is that of everybody involved: Why would anyone kill an illegal immigrant? With few social connections and little money, infighting among these workers is the obvious answer. But once Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the secretive society. Warned by Patta, his superior, to resist further involvement in the case, Brunetti only becomes more determined to unearth the truth behind this mysterious killing. Reluctant as he is to let this event be smugly relegated to the category of "not worth dealing with," how far will Brunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture in this illegal community? "Blood from a Stone is an exquisite and irresistible mystery offering anunexpected take on life in contemporary Venice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5869'),
(10664, 'Blood From a Stone', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Atlantic Monthly Press relaunched her Commissario Guido Brunetti series. Donna Leon was hailed as "the best mystery writer you''ve never heard of...She uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexual styles and--best of all--the kind of ingrown business and political corruption that seems to lurk just below the surface" ("Chicago Tribune). Now "Blood from a Stone brings her celebrated character Commissario Guido Brunetti back on the scene: On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man''s wares before his death--fake handbags of every designer label. The dead man had been working as a "vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours, trading without work permits. Commissario Brunetti''s response is that of everybody involved: Why would anyone kill an illegal immigrant? With few social connections and little money, infighting among these workers is the obvious answer. But once Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the secretive society. Warned by Patta, his superior, to resist further involvement in the case, Brunetti only becomes more determined to unearth the truth behind this mysterious killing. Reluctant as he is to let this event be smugly relegated to the category of "not worth dealing with," how far will Brunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture in this illegal community? "Blood from a Stone is an exquisite and irresistible mystery offering anunexpected take on life in contemporary Venice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11131'),
(10665, 'Blood from a stone', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Atlantic Monthly Press relaunched her Commissario Guido Brunetti series. Donna Leon was hailed as "the best mystery writer you''ve never heard of...She uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexual styles and--best of all--the kind of ingrown business and political corruption that seems to lurk just below the surface" ("Chicago Tribune). Now "Blood from a Stone brings her celebrated character Commissario Guido Brunetti back on the scene: On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man''s wares before his death--fake handbags of every designer label. The dead man had been working as a "vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours, trading without work permits. Commissario Brunetti''s response is that of everybody involved: Why would anyone kill an illegal immigrant? With few social connections and little money, infighting among these workers is the obvious answer. But once Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the secretive society. Warned by Patta, his superior, to resist further involvement in the case, Brunetti only becomes more determined to unearth the truth behind this mysterious killing. Reluctant as he is to let this event be smugly relegated to the category of "not worth dealing with," how far will Brunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture in this illegal community? "Blood from a Stone is an exquisite and irresistible mystery offering anunexpected take on life in contemporary Venice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18752'),
(10666, 'Blood from a stone', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Atlantic Monthly Press relaunched her Commissario Guido Brunetti series. Donna Leon was hailed as "the best mystery writer you''ve never heard of...She uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexual styles and--best of all--the kind of ingrown business and political corruption that seems to lurk just below the surface" ("Chicago Tribune). Now "Blood from a Stone brings her celebrated character Commissario Guido Brunetti back on the scene: On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man''s wares before his death--fake handbags of every designer label. The dead man had been working as a "vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours, trading without work permits. Commissario Brunetti''s response is that of everybody involved: Why would anyone kill an illegal immigrant? With few social connections and little money, infighting among these workers is the obvious answer. But once Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the secretive society. Warned by Patta, his superior, to resist further involvement in the case, Brunetti only becomes more determined to unearth the truth behind this mysterious killing. Reluctant as he is to let this event be smugly relegated to the category of "not worth dealing with," how far will Brunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture in this illegal community? "Blood from a Stone is an exquisite and irresistible mystery offering anunexpected take on life in contemporary Venice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27478'),
(10667, 'Blood Harvest', 'S. J. Bolton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Fletchers'' beautiful new house is everything they dreamed it would be. Built between two churches in Heptonclough, a small village on the moors that time forgot, it ought to be paradise for this young family of five, but they barely have a chance to settle in before they find that theyâ€™re anything but welcome. Someone seems to be trying to drive them away--at first with silly pranks but then with threats that become increasingly dangerous, especially to the oldest child, ten-year-old Tom Fletcher, who begins to believe that someone is always watching him.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The adults in Tomâ€™s life are trying to help, including his parents; the vicar next door, younger and more dashing than youâ€™d expect a vicar to be; and a therapist, Evi Oliver, who believes him more than she wants to.  But there are other clues that something isnâ€™t quite right in Heptonclough, including the mysterious accidental deaths of three toddlers over the last ten years.  It is not until Tomâ€™s siblings, two-year-old Milly and five-year-old Joe Fletcher, go missing in turn that the little villageâ€™s evil secret turns the Fletchersâ€™ dreams into a nightmare.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With *Sacrifice*, *Awakening*, and now *Blood Harvest*, S. J. Bolton displays time and time again her remarkable talent as a beguiling storyteller, a master of thrills, and the mistress of her own brand of modern Gothic tale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1414'),
(10668, 'Blood Harvest', 'S. J. Bolton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Fletchers'' beautiful new house is everything they dreamed it would be. Built between two churches in Heptonclough, a small village on the moors that time forgot, it ought to be paradise for this young family of five, but they barely have a chance to settle in before they find that theyâ€™re anything but welcome. Someone seems to be trying to drive them away--at first with silly pranks but then with threats that become increasingly dangerous, especially to the oldest child, ten-year-old Tom Fletcher, who begins to believe that someone is always watching him.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The adults in Tomâ€™s life are trying to help, including his parents; the vicar next door, younger and more dashing than youâ€™d expect a vicar to be; and a therapist, Evi Oliver, who believes him more than she wants to.  But there are other clues that something isnâ€™t quite right in Heptonclough, including the mysterious accidental deaths of three toddlers over the last ten years.  It is not until Tomâ€™s siblings, two-year-old Milly and five-year-old Joe Fletcher, go missing in turn that the little villageâ€™s evil secret turns the Fletchersâ€™ dreams into a nightmare.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With *Sacrifice*, *Awakening*, and now *Blood Harvest*, S. J. Bolton displays time and time again her remarkable talent as a beguiling storyteller, a master of thrills, and the mistress of her own brand of modern Gothic tale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8573'),
(10669, 'Blood Harvest', 'S. J. Bolton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Fletchers'' beautiful new house is everything they dreamed it would be. Built between two churches in Heptonclough, a small village on the moors that time forgot, it ought to be paradise for this young family of five, but they barely have a chance to settle in before they find that theyâ€™re anything but welcome. Someone seems to be trying to drive them away--at first with silly pranks but then with threats that become increasingly dangerous, especially to the oldest child, ten-year-old Tom Fletcher, who begins to believe that someone is always watching him. The adults in Tomâ€™s life are trying to help, including his parents; the vicar next door, younger and more dashing than youâ€™d expect a vicar to be; and a therapist, Evi Oliver, who believes him more than she wants to. But there are other clues that something isnâ€™t quite right in Heptonclough, including the mysterious accidental deaths of three toddlers over the last ten years. It is not until Tomâ€™s siblings, two-year-old Milly and five-year-old Joe Fletcher, go missing in turn that the little villageâ€™s evil secret turns the Fletchersâ€™ dreams into a nightmare. With *Sacrifice*, *Awakening*, and now *Blood Harvest*, S. J. Bolton displays time and time again her remarkable talent as a beguiling storyteller, a master of thrills, and the mistress of her own brand of modern Gothic tale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23473'),
(10670, 'The Blood Knight', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of the third book in Keyes''s Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series (_The Briar King_, etc.), princess Anne Dare''s father, the king of Crotheny, is dead and her mother, Muriele, is the prisoner of her mad uncle, Robert Dare, who now rules the kingdom. Anne does her best to elude her uncle''s clutches as she flees across a well-developed landscape reminiscent of Renaissance northern Italy (rugged terrain and priests who belong to an established church) and medieval Germany (thick forests and ogres). The scenes and viewpoints shift often enough to be somewhat confusing, but the occasional well-handled erotic episode or magic duel can startle with its originality. This volume closes with a climactic grand battle in which Anne''s cohorts appear to be victorious. Readers curious about the fate of Robert Dare, who has vanished, must await the fourth and final volume in this sophisticated and intelligent high fantasy epic.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Greg Keyes and his novels of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone\n</p>\n<p>\n The Charnel Prince\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere is adventure and intrigue, swordplay and dark sorcery aplenty.â€\n <br />\n â€“Realms of Fantasy\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeyesâ€™s world is rich, detailed and always believable; the twisty plot is delightful and frightening in turns.â€\n <br />\n â€“Locus\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStrong world building and superior storytelling.â€\n <br />\n â€“Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n The Briar King\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA wonderful tale . . . It crackles with suspense and excitement from start to finish.â€\n <br />\n â€“Terry Brooks\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA graceful, artful tale from a master storyteller . . . [The novel] starts off with a bang, spinning a snare of terse imagery and compelling characters that grips tightly and never lets up.â€\n <br />\n â€“Elizabeth Haydon, bestselling author of Prophecy: Child of Earth\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEpic high fantasy . . . Keyes mixes cultures, religions, institutions, and languages with rare skill.â€\n <br />\n â€“Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4931'),
(10671, 'The Blood Knight', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of the third book in Keyes''s Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series (_The Briar King_, etc.), princess Anne Dare''s father, the king of Crotheny, is dead and her mother, Muriele, is the prisoner of her mad uncle, Robert Dare, who now rules the kingdom. Anne does her best to elude her uncle''s clutches as she flees across a well-developed landscape reminiscent of Renaissance northern Italy (rugged terrain and priests who belong to an established church) and medieval Germany (thick forests and ogres). The scenes and viewpoints shift often enough to be somewhat confusing, but the occasional well-handled erotic episode or magic duel can startle with its originality. This volume closes with a climactic grand battle in which Anne''s cohorts appear to be victorious. Readers curious about the fate of Robert Dare, who has vanished, must await the fourth and final volume in this sophisticated and intelligent high fantasy epic.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Greg Keyes and his novels of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone\n</p>\n<p>\n The Charnel Prince\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere is adventure and intrigue, swordplay and dark sorcery aplenty.â€\n <br />\n â€“Realms of Fantasy\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeyesâ€™s world is rich, detailed and always believable; the twisty plot is delightful and frightening in turns.â€\n <br />\n â€“Locus\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStrong world building and superior storytelling.â€\n <br />\n â€“Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n The Briar King\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA wonderful tale . . . It crackles with suspense and excitement from start to finish.â€\n <br />\n â€“Terry Brooks\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA graceful, artful tale from a master storyteller . . . [The novel] starts off with a bang, spinning a snare of terse imagery and compelling characters that grips tightly and never lets up.â€\n <br />\n â€“Elizabeth Haydon, bestselling author of Prophecy: Child of Earth\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEpic high fantasy . . . Keyes mixes cultures, religions, institutions, and languages with rare skill.â€\n <br />\n â€“Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10754'),
(10672, 'The Blood Knight', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of the third book in Keyes''s Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series (_The Briar King_, etc.), princess Anne Dare''s father, the king of Crotheny, is dead and her mother, Muriele, is the prisoner of her mad uncle, Robert Dare, who now rules the kingdom. Anne does her best to elude her uncle''s clutches as she flees across a well-developed landscape reminiscent of Renaissance northern Italy (rugged terrain and priests who belong to an established church) and medieval Germany (thick forests and ogres). The scenes and viewpoints shift often enough to be somewhat confusing, but the occasional well-handled erotic episode or magic duel can startle with its originality. This volume closes with a climactic grand battle in which Anne''s cohorts appear to be victorious. Readers curious about the fate of Robert Dare, who has vanished, must await the fourth and final volume in this sophisticated and intelligent high fantasy epic.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Greg Keyes and his novels of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone\n</p>\n<p>\n The Charnel Prince\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere is adventure and intrigue, swordplay and dark sorcery aplenty.â€\n <br />\n â€“Realms of Fantasy\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeyesâ€™s world is rich, detailed and always believable; the twisty plot is delightful and frightening in turns.â€\n <br />\n â€“Locus\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStrong world building and superior storytelling.â€\n <br />\n â€“Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n The Briar King\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA wonderful tale . . . It crackles with suspense and excitement from start to finish.â€\n <br />\n â€“Terry Brooks\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA graceful, artful tale from a master storyteller . . . [The novel] starts off with a bang, spinning a snare of terse imagery and compelling characters that grips tightly and never lets up.â€\n <br />\n â€“Elizabeth Haydon, bestselling author of Prophecy: Child of Earth\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEpic high fantasy . . . Keyes mixes cultures, religions, institutions, and languages with rare skill.â€\n <br />\n â€“Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19706'),
(10673, 'Blood Memories', 'Barb Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A bold new series from the USA Today bestselling co-author of the Noble Dead saga. Eleisha Clevon has the face of a teen angel, but she is no angel. Unlike most vampires, she doesn''t like to kill, but self-preservation comes first. When an old friend destroys himself by walking into sunlight right in front of her, Eleisha is shocked. And what she finds afterwards points to how very sick of his existence her friend had become-piling drained corpses in the basement and keeping records of other vampires'' real names and addresses. That''s a problem. Because now, there are policemen on the case: two very special humans with some gifts of their own. They know who Eleisha is, and, even more dangerous, what she is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7326'),
(10674, 'Blood Memories', 'Barb Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A bold new series from the USA Today bestselling co-author of the Noble Dead saga. Eleisha Clevon has the face of a teen angel, but she is no angel. Unlike most vampires, she doesn''t like to kill, but self-preservation comes first. When an old friend destroys himself by walking into sunlight right in front of her, Eleisha is shocked. And what she finds afterwards points to how very sick of his existence her friend had become-piling drained corpses in the basement and keeping records of other vampires'' real names and addresses. That''s a problem. Because now, there are policemen on the case: two very special humans with some gifts of their own. They know who Eleisha is, and, even more dangerous, what she is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10301'),
(10675, 'Blood Memories', 'Barb Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A bold new series from the USA Today bestselling co-author of the Noble Dead saga. Eleisha Clevon has the face of a teen angel, but she is no angel. Unlike most vampires, she doesn''t like to kill, but self-preservation comes first. When an old friend destroys himself by walking into sunlight right in front of her, Eleisha is shocked. And what she finds afterwards points to how very sick of his existence her friend had become-piling drained corpses in the basement and keeping records of other vampires'' real names and addresses. That''s a problem. Because now, there are policemen on the case: two very special humans with some gifts of their own. They know who Eleisha is, and, even more dangerous, what she is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16561'),
(10676, 'Blood Memories', 'Barb Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A bold new series from the USA Today bestselling co-author of the Noble Dead saga. Eleisha Clevon has the face of a teen angel, but she is no angel. Unlike most vampires, she doesn''t like to kill, but self-preservation comes first. When an old friend destroys himself by walking into sunlight right in front of her, Eleisha is shocked. And what she finds afterwards points to how very sick of his existence her friend had become-piling drained corpses in the basement and keeping records of other vampires'' real names and addresses. That''s a problem. Because now, there are policemen on the case: two very special humans with some gifts of their own. They know who Eleisha is, and, even more dangerous, what she is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26603'),
(10677, 'Blood Meridian', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America''s westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."  Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14173'),
(10678, 'Blood Meridian', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America''s westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."  Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27105'),
(10679, 'Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America''s westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."Â Â Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6633'),
(10680, 'Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America''s westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."Â Â Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11330'),
(10681, 'Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America''s westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."Â Â Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17453'),
(10682, 'Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America''s westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."Â Â Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America''s westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."  Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27104'),
(10683, 'Blood Money and Other Stories', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, the incomparable Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America''s nineteenth-century western frontier-elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue. For every story of inspiring moral courage in America''s untamed West, there''s one of greed and duplicity, of corrupted souls willingly sacrificed to a merciless deity of ill-gotten gold. The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master brings us seven unforgettable western tales of noble stands and cowardly compromises-and battles of will more devastating than a blazing gunfight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18546'),
(10684, 'Blood Music', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n An unusual ''invasion'' by intelligent smaller beings who are changing the structure and definition of ''humanity'' are at the heart of Bear''s classic story which has been newly reprinted in paper for new audiences. Blood Music is one of his finest works and its appearance in this new edition assures that new audiences will relish his talents. --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void of nuclear fear. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bear''s treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5301'),
(10685, 'Blood Music', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n An unusual ''invasion'' by intelligent smaller beings who are changing the structure and definition of ''humanity'' are at the heart of Bear''s classic story which has been newly reprinted in paper for new audiences. Blood Music is one of his finest works and its appearance in this new edition assures that new audiences will relish his talents. --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void of nuclear fear. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bear''s treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8462'),
(10686, 'Blood Music', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n An unusual ''invasion'' by intelligent smaller beings who are changing the structure and definition of ''humanity'' are at the heart of Bear''s classic story which has been newly reprinted in paper for new audiences. Blood Music is one of his finest works and its appearance in this new edition assures that new audiences will relish his talents. --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void of nuclear fear. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bear''s treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19334');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(10687, 'Blood Noir', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Readers canâ€™t get enough of the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A favor for Jason, vampire hunter Anita Blakeâ€™s werewolf lover, puts her in the center of a fullblown scandal that threatens master-vampire Jean- Claudeâ€™s reignâ€”and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queenâ€™s new rise to power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3474'),
(10688, 'Blood Noir', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Readers canâ€™t get enough of the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author.** A favor for Jason, vampire hunter Anita Blakeâ€™s werewolf lover, puts her in the center of a fullblown scandal that threatens master-vampire Jean- Claudeâ€™s reignâ€”and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queenâ€™s new rise to power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15333'),
(10689, 'Blood Noir', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Readers canâ€™t get enough of the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author.** A favor for Jason, vampire hunter Anita Blakeâ€™s werewolf lover, puts her in the center of a fullblown scandal that threatens master-vampire Jean- Claudeâ€™s reignâ€”and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queenâ€™s new rise to power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21013'),
(10690, 'Blood of Amber', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Merle Corey, hero of Trumps of Doom (1985), escapes from prison with the help of a woman who has many shapes. Merle Corey escapes from prison into Amber, a world of wonders and confusions where friends and foes are sometimes indistinguishable, where a man is out to kill him and a woman to help him. This is the seventh Amber novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23102'),
(10691, 'Blood of Angels', 'Michael Marshall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Since aiding in the capture of his brother, the serial killer known as the Upright Man, Ward Hopkins, has been avoiding his demons holed up in a log cabin with his girlfriend, FBI agent Nina Baynam. But when Nina''s boss turns up with an intriguing new serial-killer case for her, the couple realize they can''t hide forever. Especially when they learn that the Upright Man has escaped from custody." "Ward''s brother must have had help. The most likely candidates are the Straw Men, the shadowy organization founded on murder as a way of life that killed Ward''s parents. Former homicide cop John Zandt is obsessed with tracking them down following their murder of his daughter, and as he digs deeper he discovers extraordinary secrets about American history and society." "The shadows are gathering, and across America sinister forces are stirring. Only Ward, Nina and John stand against the Upright Man and his terrifying allies. It''s just a question of when the next killings will start...and whether they will ever stop."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2849'),
(10692, 'Blood Of Angels', 'Michael Marshall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Since aiding in the capture of his brother, the serial killer known as the Upright Man, Ward Hopkins, has been avoiding his demons holed up in a log cabin with his girlfriend, FBI agent Nina Baynam. But when Nina''s boss turns up with an intriguing new serial-killer case for her, the couple realize they can''t hide forever. Especially when they learn that the Upright Man has escaped from custody." "Ward''s brother must have had help. The most likely candidates are the Straw Men, the shadowy organization founded on murder as a way of life that killed Ward''s parents. Former homicide cop John Zandt is obsessed with tracking them down following their murder of his daughter, and as he digs deeper he discovers extraordinary secrets about American history and society." "The shadows are gathering, and across America sinister forces are stirring. Only Ward, Nina and John stand against the Upright Man and his terrifying allies. It''s just a question of when the next killings will start...and whether they will ever stop."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21975'),
(10693, 'Blood of the Fold', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a fantasy world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell stand against the ancient forces which besiege the New World - forces so terrible that when last they threatened, they could only be withstood by sealing off the Old World from whence they came. Now the barrier has been breached, and the New World is again beset by their evil power. War, monsters, and treachery plague the world, and only Richard and Kahlan can save it from an armageddon of unimaginable savagery and destruction.Terry Goodkind, author of the brilliant fantasy bestsellers of the Sword of Truth series, has created his most masterful epic yet, a sumptuous feast of magic and excitement replete with the wonders of his unique fantasy vision.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/758'),
(10694, 'Blood of the Fold', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a fantasy world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell stand against the ancient forces which besiege the New World - forces so terrible that when last they threatened, they could only be withstood by sealing off the Old World from whence they came. Now the barrier has been breached, and the New World is again beset by their evil power. War, monsters, and treachery plague the world, and only Richard and Kahlan can save it from an armageddon of unimaginable savagery and destruction.Terry Goodkind, author of the brilliant fantasy bestsellers of the Sword of Truth series, has created his most masterful epic yet, a sumptuous feast of magic and excitement replete with the wonders of his unique fantasy vision.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15154'),
(10695, 'Blood of the Fold', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a fantasy world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell stand against the ancient forces which besiege the New World - forces so terrible that when last they threatened, they could only be withstood by sealing off the Old World from whence they came. Now the barrier has been breached, and the New World is again beset by their evil power. War, monsters, and treachery plague the world, and only Richard and Kahlan can save it from an armageddon of unimaginable savagery and destruction.Terry Goodkind, author of the brilliant fantasy bestsellers of the Sword of Truth series, has created his most masterful epic yet, a sumptuous feast of magic and excitement replete with the wonders of his unique fantasy vision.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24226'),
(10696, 'Blood of the Mantis', 'Adrian Tchaikovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon, Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez, but he has only days before the magical box is lost to him forever.  Meanwhile, the forces of the Empire are mustering over winter for their great offensive, gathering their soldiers and perfecting their new weapons. Stenwold and his followers have only a short time to gather what allies they can before the Wasp armies march again, conquering everything in their path. If they cannot throw back the Wasps this spring then the imperial black-and-gold flag will fly over every city in the Lowlands before the year''s end.  In Jerez begins a fierce struggle over the Shadow Box, as lake creatures, secret police and renegade magicians compete to take possession. If it falls into the hands of the Wasp Emperor, however, then no amount of fighting will suffice to save the world from his relentless ambition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21'),
(10697, 'Blood of the Mantis', 'Adrian Tchaikovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon, Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez, but he has only days before the magical box is lost to him forever. Meanwhile, the forces of the Empire are mustering over winter for their great offensive, gathering their soldiers and perfecting their new weapons. Stenwold and his followers have only a short time to gather what allies they can before the Wasp armies march again, conquering everything in their path. If they cannot throw back the Wasps this spring then the imperial black-and-gold flag will fly over every city in the Lowlands before the year''s end. In Jerez begins a fierce struggle over the Shadow Box, as lake creatures, secret police and renegade magicians compete to take possession. If it falls into the hands of the Wasp Emperor, however, then no amount of fighting will suffice to save the world from his relentless ambition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17206'),
(10698, 'Blood on My Hands', 'Todd Strasser', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Todd Strasser is the author of such popular and diverse titles as the middle-grade series, "Help, I''m Trapped...," "The Wave," and the contemporary YAs, "Give a Boy a Gun" and "Boot Camp." His books vary widely from one another, but they all share two things - humor and loyal fans.Â  Todd lives just outside New York City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/618'),
(10699, 'Blood on My Hands', 'Todd Strasser', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Todd Strasser is the author of such popular and diverse titles as the middle-grade series, "Help, I''m Trapped...," "The Wave," and the contemporary YAs, "Give a Boy a Gun" and "Boot Camp." His books vary widely from one another, but they all share two things - humor and loyal fans.Â  Todd lives just outside New York City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12959'),
(10700, 'Blood on My Hands', 'Todd Strasser', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Todd Strasser is the author of such popular and diverse titles as the middle-grade series, "Help, I''m Trapped...," "The Wave," and the contemporary YAs, "Give a Boy a Gun" and "Boot Camp." His books vary widely from one another, but they all share two things - humor and loyal fans.Â  Todd lives just outside New York City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24376'),
(10701, 'Blood on the Sand', 'Pauline Rowson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a new Detective Inspector Horton mystery, Inspector Andy Horton''s holiday peace is shattered when, stepping out across an abandoned golf course on the Isle of Wight on a cold, grey January morning, he finds himself facing a distraught young woman with a gun in her hand, leaning over a corpse. When she professes to be the dead man''s psychic, Horton''s old adversary, DCI Birch, is convinced she is a mentally disturbed killer, but Horton is not so sure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2262'),
(10702, 'Blood on the Sand', 'Pauline Rowson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a new Detective Inspector Horton mystery, Inspector Andy Horton''s holiday peace is shattered when, stepping out across an abandoned golf course on the Isle of Wight on a cold, grey January morning, he finds himself facing a distraught young woman with a gun in her hand, leaning over a corpse. When she professes to be the dead man''s psychic, Horton''s old adversary, DCI Birch, is convinced she is a mentally disturbed killer, but Horton is not so sure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12490'),
(10703, 'Blood on the Sand', 'Pauline Rowson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a new Detective Inspector Horton mystery, Inspector Andy Horton''s holiday peace is shattered when, stepping out across an abandoned golf course on the Isle of Wight on a cold, grey January morning, he finds himself facing a distraught young woman with a gun in her hand, leaning over a corpse. When she professes to be the dead man''s psychic, Horton''s old adversary, DCI Birch, is convinced she is a mentally disturbed killer, but Horton is not so sure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22521'),
(10704, 'Blood Risk', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Four men waited on the narrow mountain road for the Cadillac carrying 341,890, the biweekly taking of a Mafia cell. Four men who had never failed in a heist before, on their fourteenth operation in three years: Shirillo, watching in the long grass; Pete Harris with a submachine gun; Bachman in the getaway car; and Mike Tucker, art dealer and professional thief; the perfectionist. As the big Cadillac slewed round the bend, none of them realized that this time Tucker had made a fatal miscalcuation that would plunge them all into a blood war against the Mafia\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6074'),
(10705, 'Blood risk', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Four men waited on the narrow mountain road for the Cadillac carrying 341,890, the biweekly taking of a Mafia cell. Four men who had never failed in a heist before, on their fourteenth operation in three years: Shirillo, watching in the long grass; Pete Harris with a submachine gun; Bachman in the getaway car; and Mike Tucker, art dealer and professional thief; the perfectionist. As the big Cadillac slewed round the bend, none of them realized that this time Tucker had made a fatal miscalcuation that would plunge them all into a blood war against the Mafia\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17851'),
(10706, 'Blood risk', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Four men waited on the narrow mountain road for the Cadillac carrying 341,890, the biweekly taking of a Mafia cell. Four men who had never failed in a heist before, on their fourteenth operation in three years: Shirillo, watching in the long grass; Pete Harris with a submachine gun; Bachman in the getaway car; and Mike Tucker, art dealer and professional thief; the perfectionist. As the big Cadillac slewed round the bend, none of them realized that this time Tucker had made a fatal miscalcuation that would plunge them all into a blood war against the Mafia\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27417'),
(10707, 'Blood Rites', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **New in hardcover from the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of the Dresden Files series. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Harry Dresden, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Still, there''s something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film''s producer believes he''s the target of a sinister curse-but it''s the women around him who are dying.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Harry''s even more frustrated because he only got involved with this bizarre mystery as a favor to Thomas-his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious integrity. Thomas has a personal stake in the case Harry can''t quite figure out. But Harry is about to discover that Thomas'' family tree has been hiding a shocking revelation that will change his life forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4504'),
(10708, 'Blood Rites', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **New in hardcover from the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of the Dresden Files series. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Harry Dresden, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Still, there''s something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film''s producer believes he''s the target of a sinister curse-but it''s the women around him who are dying.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Harry''s even more frustrated because he only got involved with this bizarre mystery as a favor to Thomas-his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious integrity. Thomas has a personal stake in the case Harry can''t quite figure out. But Harry is about to discover that Thomas'' family tree has been hiding a shocking revelation that will change his life forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8733'),
(10709, 'Blood Rites', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **New in hardcover from the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of the Dresden Files series. ** For Harry Dresden, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Still, there''s something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film''s producer believes he''s the target of a sinister curse-but it''s the women around him who are dying. Harry''s even more frustrated because he only got involved with this bizarre mystery as a favor to Thomas-his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious integrity. Thomas has a personal stake in the case Harry can''t quite figure out. But Harry is about to discover that Thomas'' family tree has been hiding a shocking revelation that will change his life forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15327'),
(10710, 'The Blood Spilt', 'Asa Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Itâ€™s midsummer in Swedenâ€”when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priestâ€”who made enemies and acolytes in equal numberâ€”has been found hanging in her church. And a big-city lawyer quite acquainted with death enters the scene as police and parishioners try to pick up the pieces....Not long ago, attorney Rebecka Martinsson had to kill three men in order to stop an eerily similar murder spreeâ€”one that also involved a priest. Now she is back in Kiruna, the region of her birth, while a determined policewoman gnaws on the case and people who loved or loathed the victim mourn or revel in her demise. The further Rebecka is drawn into the mysteryâ€”a mystery that will soon take another victimâ€”the more the dead womanâ€™s world clutches her: a world of hurt and healing, sin and sexuality, and, above all, of sacrifice.In prose that is both lyrical and visceral, Ã…sa Larsson has crafted a novel of pure entertainment, a taut, atmospheric mystery that will hold you in thrall until the last, unforgettable page is turnedFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7352'),
(10711, 'The Blood Spilt', 'Asa Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Itâ€™s midsummer in Swedenâ€”when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priestâ€”who made enemies and acolytes in equal numberâ€”has been found hanging in her church. And a big-city lawyer quite acquainted with death enters the scene as police and parishioners try to pick up the pieces....Not long ago, attorney Rebecka Martinsson had to kill three men in order to stop an eerily similar murder spreeâ€”one that also involved a priest. Now she is back in Kiruna, the region of her birth, while a determined policewoman gnaws on the case and people who loved or loathed the victim mourn or revel in her demise. The further Rebecka is drawn into the mysteryâ€”a mystery that will soon take another victimâ€”the more the dead womanâ€™s world clutches her: a world of hurt and healing, sin and sexuality, and, above all, of sacrifice.In prose that is both lyrical and visceral, Ã…sa Larsson has crafted a novel of pure entertainment, a taut, atmospheric mystery that will hold you in thrall until the last, unforgettable page is turnedFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12194'),
(10712, 'The Blood Spilt', 'Asa Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Itâ€™s midsummer in Swedenâ€”when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priestâ€”who made enemies and acolytes in equal numberâ€”has been found hanging in her church. And a big-city lawyer quite acquainted with death enters the scene as police and parishioners try to pick up the pieces....Not long ago, attorney Rebecka Martinsson had to kill three men in order to stop an eerily similar murder spreeâ€”one that also involved a priest. Now she is back in Kiruna, the region of her birth, while a determined policewoman gnaws on the case and people who loved or loathed the victim mourn or revel in her demise. The further Rebecka is drawn into the mysteryâ€”a mystery that will soon take another victimâ€”the more the dead womanâ€™s world clutches her: a world of hurt and healing, sin and sexuality, and, above all, of sacrifice.In prose that is both lyrical and visceral, Ã…sa Larsson has crafted a novel of pure entertainment, a taut, atmospheric mystery that will hold you in thrall until the last, unforgettable page is turnedFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16458'),
(10713, 'The Blood Spilt', 'Asa Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Itâ€™s midsummer in Swedenâ€”when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priestâ€”who made enemies and acolytes in equal numberâ€”has been found hanging in her church. And a big-city lawyer quite acquainted with death enters the scene as police and parishioners try to pick up the pieces....Not long ago, attorney Rebecka Martinsson had to kill three men in order to stop an eerily similar murder spreeâ€”one that also involved a priest. Now she is back in Kiruna, the region of her birth, while a determined policewoman gnaws on the case and people who loved or loathed the victim mourn or revel in her demise. The further Rebecka is drawn into the mysteryâ€”a mystery that will soon take another victimâ€”the more the dead womanâ€™s world clutches her: a world of hurt and healing, sin and sexuality, and, above all, of sacrifice.In prose that is both lyrical and visceral, Ã…sa Larsson has crafted a novel of pure entertainment, a taut, atmospheric mystery that will hold you in thrall until the last, unforgettable page is turnedFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26473'),
(10714, 'Blood Sport', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18100'),
(10715, 'Blood Sunset', 'Jarad Henry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a young runaway is found dead one morning, a syringe hanging out of his arm, no one is terribly shocked. A known junkie, even local detective Rubens McCauley is quick to conclude that Dallas Boyd died of an accidental overdose. But anomalies in the boy''s deathand the haunting memory of a childhood friendcontinue to nag at McCauley. Unable to shake his unease, he soon digs deeper into the case and finds himself enmeshed in a secret network of pedophiles, child abusers, and underage prostitutes. Forced to look evil in the eye, McCauley must conquer his own demons as he battles to find justice for a young boy he never even met.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4679'),
(10716, 'Blood Sunset', 'Jarad Henry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a young runaway is found dead one morning, a syringe hanging out of his arm, no one is terribly shocked. A known junkie, even local detective Rubens McCauley is quick to conclude that Dallas Boyd died of an accidental overdose. But anomalies in the boy''s deathand the haunting memory of a childhood friendcontinue to nag at McCauley. Unable to shake his unease, he soon digs deeper into the case and finds himself enmeshed in a secret network of pedophiles, child abusers, and underage prostitutes. Forced to look evil in the eye, McCauley must conquer his own demons as he battles to find justice for a young boy he never even met.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10294'),
(10717, 'The Blood That Bonds', 'Christopher Buecheler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two is trapped: hooked on heroin and forced to sell her body to feed the addiction. Her vampire lover Theroen can lift her from this dark life, but his plans conflict with those of the dangerous elder Abraham, to whom he is bonded by both blood and a long-held promise. Two enters a world of darkness, violence, and despair. She must fight for freedom, both for herself and for those she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6784'),
(10718, 'The Blood That Bonds', 'Christopher Buecheler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two is trapped: hooked on heroin and forced to sell her body to feed the addiction. Her vampire lover Theroen can lift her from this dark life, but his plans conflict with those of the dangerous elder Abraham, to whom he is bonded by both blood and a long-held promise. Two enters a world of darkness, violence, and despair. She must fight for freedom, both for herself and for those she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8719'),
(10719, 'The Blood That Bonds', 'Christopher Buecheler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two is trapped: hooked on heroin and forced to sell her body to feed the addiction. Her vampire lover Theroen can lift her from this dark life, but his plans conflict with those of the dangerous elder Abraham, to whom he is bonded by both blood and a long-held promise. Two enters a world of darkness, violence, and despair. She must fight for freedom, both for herself and for those she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18063'),
(10720, 'The Blood That Bonds', 'Christopher Buecheler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two is trapped: hooked on heroin and forced to sell her body to feed the addiction. Her vampire lover Theroen can lift her from this dark life, but his plans conflict with those of the dangerous elder Abraham, to whom he is bonded by both blood and a long-held promise. Two enters a world of darkness, violence, and despair. She must fight for freedom, both for herself and for those she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26890'),
(10721, 'Blood Ties', 'Gabriella Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An Ã©lite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. This term the secretive Darke Academy has moved to New York, and Cassie Bell is no longer the innocent new girl. Now she is strong, determined, and hiding secrets of her own. For Cassie has been introduced to the world of the Few and is struggling to come to terms with her astonishing powers, a dangerous romance and the malevolent spirit inside her, demanding to be fed. When an old enemy returns, bent on revenge, Cassie is tested to the limit. Can she rescue her friends from a horrific fate, or will she end up destroying them to save herself? Wherever the Darke Academy goes, death is never far behind ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5503'),
(10722, 'Blood Ties', 'Gabriella Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An Ã©lite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. This term the secretive Darke Academy has moved to New York, and Cassie Bell is no longer the innocent new girl. Now she is strong, determined, and hiding secrets of her own. For Cassie has been introduced to the world of the Few and is struggling to come to terms with her astonishing powers, a dangerous romance and the malevolent spirit inside her, demanding to be fed. When an old enemy returns, bent on revenge, Cassie is tested to the limit. Can she rescue her friends from a horrific fate, or will she end up destroying them to save herself? Wherever the Darke Academy goes, death is never far behind ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19121'),
(10723, 'Blood Ties', 'Gabriella Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An Ã©lite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. This term the secretive Darke Academy has moved to New York, and Cassie Bell is no longer the innocent new girl. Now she is strong, determined, and hiding secrets of her own. For Cassie has been introduced to the world of the Few and is struggling to come to terms with her astonishing powers, a dangerous romance and the malevolent spirit inside her, demanding to be fed. When an old enemy returns, bent on revenge, Cassie is tested to the limit. Can she rescue her friends from a horrific fate, or will she end up destroying them to save herself? Wherever the Darke Academy goes, death is never far behind ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27881'),
(10724, 'Blood Trail', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When an elk hunter is shot and gruesomely gutted in Box''s solid eighth Joe Pickett novel (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Free Fire\n </em>\n ), Wyoming governor Spencer Rulon assigns Joe to the investigative team headed by Joe''s nemesis, game and fish director Randy Pope. The authorities suspect a group led by antihunting activist Klamath Moore, but Joe thinks an enigmatic clue near the body points to a serial killer. As usual, Joe stands alone against official protocol, placing his career and life in peril by following his hunches. He persuades Rulon to release his pal, iconoclast Nate Romanowski, who''s awaiting trial on spurious charges, to help him on the case. Writing beautifully about the mountain West and its people, Box takes care to present both sides of the controversial issue of hunting. The narrative alternates between the searchers and the killer, whose identity will keep readers guessing up to the surprising climax.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In January, Box branched out from his popular Joe Pickett series with a stand-alone thriller, Blue Heaven (2008). His publisher for that book seems to be pushing him toward a broader audienceâ€”even ditching his familiar black Stetson in the author photo. Longtime fans might have wondered whether Pickett would soon be an also-ran. But thereâ€™s no need to worry just yet. Although Blood Trail is a mite slimmer than its predecessors (two books a year will do that to a writer), Box is clearly still comfortable in the saddle. And his game wardenâ€”now a special agent reporting directly to the governorâ€”is still as dogged on the trail as he is hard on government-issued vehicles. Thereâ€™s a little less family time for Joe, but there are some interesting developments in his friendship with the enigmatic Nate Romanowski. Joe needs Nateâ€™s help and some luck besides, because itâ€™s elk season, and someone is hunting elk hunters. And with a flamboyant anti-hunting activist coming to town with his supporters, itâ€™s looking like another classic standoff: implacable ideologues on both sides and a pondering Pickett caught in the middle. Box always addresses a New West issue, but thereâ€™s something great about the way heâ€™s waited until the eighth installment to tackle the one that would seem most obvious, given his heroâ€™s occupation. We prefer Box with the cowboy hat, but whether hatted or bareheaded, he continues to be red hotâ€”and now thereâ€™s twice as much of him to go around. --Keir Graff\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7055'),
(10725, 'Blood Trail', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When an elk hunter is shot and gruesomely gutted in Box''s solid eighth Joe Pickett novel (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Free Fire\n </em>\n ), Wyoming governor Spencer Rulon assigns Joe to the investigative team headed by Joe''s nemesis, game and fish director Randy Pope. The authorities suspect a group led by antihunting activist Klamath Moore, but Joe thinks an enigmatic clue near the body points to a serial killer. As usual, Joe stands alone against official protocol, placing his career and life in peril by following his hunches. He persuades Rulon to release his pal, iconoclast Nate Romanowski, who''s awaiting trial on spurious charges, to help him on the case. Writing beautifully about the mountain West and its people, Box takes care to present both sides of the controversial issue of hunting. The narrative alternates between the searchers and the killer, whose identity will keep readers guessing up to the surprising climax.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In January, Box branched out from his popular Joe Pickett series with a stand-alone thriller, Blue Heaven (2008). His publisher for that book seems to be pushing him toward a broader audienceâ€”even ditching his familiar black Stetson in the author photo. Longtime fans might have wondered whether Pickett would soon be an also-ran. But thereâ€™s no need to worry just yet. Although Blood Trail is a mite slimmer than its predecessors (two books a year will do that to a writer), Box is clearly still comfortable in the saddle. And his game wardenâ€”now a special agent reporting directly to the governorâ€”is still as dogged on the trail as he is hard on government-issued vehicles. Thereâ€™s a little less family time for Joe, but there are some interesting developments in his friendship with the enigmatic Nate Romanowski. Joe needs Nateâ€™s help and some luck besides, because itâ€™s elk season, and someone is hunting elk hunters. And with a flamboyant anti-hunting activist coming to town with his supporters, itâ€™s looking like another classic standoff: implacable ideologues on both sides and a pondering Pickett caught in the middle. Box always addresses a New West issue, but thereâ€™s something great about the way heâ€™s waited until the eighth installment to tackle the one that would seem most obvious, given his heroâ€™s occupation. We prefer Box with the cowboy hat, but whether hatted or bareheaded, he continues to be red hotâ€”and now thereâ€™s twice as much of him to go around. --Keir Graff\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8180'),
(10726, 'Blood Trail', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When an elk hunter is shot and gruesomely gutted in Box''s solid eighth Joe Pickett novel (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Free Fire\n </em>\n ), Wyoming governor Spencer Rulon assigns Joe to the investigative team headed by Joe''s nemesis, game and fish director Randy Pope. The authorities suspect a group led by antihunting activist Klamath Moore, but Joe thinks an enigmatic clue near the body points to a serial killer. As usual, Joe stands alone against official protocol, placing his career and life in peril by following his hunches. He persuades Rulon to release his pal, iconoclast Nate Romanowski, who''s awaiting trial on spurious charges, to help him on the case. Writing beautifully about the mountain West and its people, Box takes care to present both sides of the controversial issue of hunting. The narrative alternates between the searchers and the killer, whose identity will keep readers guessing up to the surprising climax.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In January, Box branched out from his popular Joe Pickett series with a stand-alone thriller, Blue Heaven (2008). His publisher for that book seems to be pushing him toward a broader audienceâ€”even ditching his familiar black Stetson in the author photo. Longtime fans might have wondered whether Pickett would soon be an also-ran. But thereâ€™s no need to worry just yet. Although Blood Trail is a mite slimmer than its predecessors (two books a year will do that to a writer), Box is clearly still comfortable in the saddle. And his game wardenâ€”now a special agent reporting directly to the governorâ€”is still as dogged on the trail as he is hard on government-issued vehicles. Thereâ€™s a little less family time for Joe, but there are some interesting developments in his friendship with the enigmatic Nate Romanowski. Joe needs Nateâ€™s help and some luck besides, because itâ€™s elk season, and someone is hunting elk hunters. And with a flamboyant anti-hunting activist coming to town with his supporters, itâ€™s looking like another classic standoff: implacable ideologues on both sides and a pondering Pickett caught in the middle. Box always addresses a New West issue, but thereâ€™s something great about the way heâ€™s waited until the eighth installment to tackle the one that would seem most obvious, given his heroâ€™s occupation. We prefer Box with the cowboy hat, but whether hatted or bareheaded, he continues to be red hotâ€”and now thereâ€™s twice as much of him to go around. --Keir Graff\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16809'),
(10727, 'Blood Will Tell', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Professor Everett Land is found dead, detective Brandy Mather has a puzzle on her hands. The body is definitely his; dental records confirm his identity. But Professor Land is in his forties and the body is that of a very old man. What could have caused him to age so rapidly? Why is the corpse smiling? Brandy enlists the aid of computer scientist Dan Martin, who is smart, handsome, and anxious to help. Dan is almost too good to be true, and Brandy soon falls in love. But something is off about Dan. . . very off. Brandyâ€™s investigation soon throws her into the midst of small-town politics, bank robberies, and vampires.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dana Stabenow once again returns to Alaska, America''s last frontier, where her unforgettable Aleut investigator, Kate Shugak, faces one of the most painful cases of her reluctant career. Kate was formerly the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A.''s office; now all she wants to do is enjoy the first weeks of autumn on her isolated homestead. Alone. But duty calls, in the form of Ekaterina Shugak, Kate''s grandmother, the imposing matriarch of her extended family. It''s the week of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, and everyone who''s anyone - as well as a few nobodies - has gathered in Anchorage for a week of shopping, gossiping, bragging, and more than a little wheeling and dealing. But there''s more happening this year than what''s on the official agenda. A vote is coming up on the future of tribal lands, and the arguments are heated. Heated enough to raise suspicions about the recent death of a Native Association board member. Kate has always refused to get involved with tribal politics. But the dead woman was a relative, and the one true weakness Kate Shugak has is for her family. Reluctantly agreeing to investigate, she is drawn into a whirlpool of deceit, lies, and secrets; she is torn not only between the modern world and the traditional, but also between opposing factions within each group. And the more Kate investigates, the more she discovers how deeply she is tied to the land, and to what lengths she will go in order to protect it...\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At the request of her grandmother, a matriarch of her Aleut   clan, Kate Shugak travels to Anchorage to investigate the mysterious   deaths of several Council members just before a crucial meeting to   determine the fate of some disputed tribal lands. Reprint. *AB.   *"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6525'),
(10728, 'Blood Will Tell', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Professor Everett Land is found dead, detective Brandy Mather has a puzzle on her hands. The body is definitely his; dental records confirm his identity. But Professor Land is in his forties and the body is that of a very old man. What could have caused him to age so rapidly? Why is the corpse smiling? Brandy enlists the aid of computer scientist Dan Martin, who is smart, handsome, and anxious to help. Dan is almost too good to be true, and Brandy soon falls in love. But something is off about Dan. . . very off. Brandyâ€™s investigation soon throws her into the midst of small-town politics, bank robberies, and vampires. SUMMARY: Dana Stabenow once again returns to Alaska, America''s last frontier, where her unforgettable Aleut investigator, Kate Shugak, faces one of the most painful cases of her reluctant career. Kate was formerly the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A.''s office; now all she wants to do is enjoy the first weeks of autumn on her isolated homestead. Alone. But duty calls, in the form of Ekaterina Shugak, Kate''s grandmother, the imposing matriarch of her extended family. It''s the week of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, and everyone who''s anyone - as well as a few nobodies - has gathered in Anchorage for a week of shopping, gossiping, bragging, and more than a little wheeling and dealing. But there''s more happening this year than what''s on the official agenda. A vote is coming up on the future of tribal lands, and the arguments are heated. Heated enough to raise suspicions about the recent death of a Native Association board member. Kate has always refused to get involved with tribal politics. But the dead woman was a relative, and the one true weakness Kate Shugak has is for her family. Reluctantly agreeing to investigate, she is drawn into a whirlpool of deceit, lies, and secrets; she is torn not only between the modern world and the traditional, but also between opposing factions within each group. And the more Kate investigates, the more she discovers how deeply she is tied to the land, and to what lengths she will go in order to protect it... EDITORIAL REVIEW: At the request of her grandmother, a matriarch of her Aleut clan, Kate Shugak travels to Anchorage to investigate the mysterious deaths of several Council members just before a crucial meeting to determine the fate of some disputed tribal lands. Reprint. *AB. *"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17541'),
(10729, 'Blood Will Tell', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Professor Everett Land is found dead, detective Brandy Mather has a puzzle on her hands. The body is definitely his; dental records confirm his identity. But Professor Land is in his forties and the body is that of a very old man. What could have caused him to age so rapidly? Why is the corpse smiling? Brandy enlists the aid of computer scientist Dan Martin, who is smart, handsome, and anxious to help. Dan is almost too good to be true, and Brandy soon falls in love. But something is off about Dan. . . very off. Brandyâ€™s investigation soon throws her into the midst of small-town politics, bank robberies, and vampires. SUMMARY: Dana Stabenow once again returns to Alaska, America''s last frontier, where her unforgettable Aleut investigator, Kate Shugak, faces one of the most painful cases of her reluctant career. Kate was formerly the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A.''s office; now all she wants to do is enjoy the first weeks of autumn on her isolated homestead. Alone. But duty calls, in the form of Ekaterina Shugak, Kate''s grandmother, the imposing matriarch of her extended family. It''s the week of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, and everyone who''s anyone - as well as a few nobodies - has gathered in Anchorage for a week of shopping, gossiping, bragging, and more than a little wheeling and dealing. But there''s more happening this year than what''s on the official agenda. A vote is coming up on the future of tribal lands, and the arguments are heated. Heated enough to raise suspicions about the recent death of a Native Association board member. Kate has always refused to get involved with tribal politics. But the dead woman was a relative, and the one true weakness Kate Shugak has is for her family. Reluctantly agreeing to investigate, she is drawn into a whirlpool of deceit, lies, and secrets; she is torn not only between the modern world and the traditional, but also between opposing factions within each group. And the more Kate investigates, the more she discovers how deeply she is tied to the land, and to what lengths she will go in order to protect it... EDITORIAL REVIEW: At the request of her grandmother, a matriarch of her Aleut clan, Kate Shugak travels to Anchorage to investigate the mysterious deaths of several Council members just before a crucial meeting to determine the fate of some disputed tribal lands. Reprint. *AB. *"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27136'),
(10730, 'Blood Work', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry McCaleb, one of the most effective serial-killer investigators in the history of the FBI, hunts down his heart donor''s killer. In Blood Work, Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn''t looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria''s death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb''s chest is Gloria''s. As McCaleb investigates the evidence in the case, the suspected randomness of the crime gives way to an unsettling suspicion of a twisted intelligence behind the murder. Soon McCaleb finds himself on the trail of a killer more horrifying than anything he ever encountered before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14805'),
(10731, 'Blood Work', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry McCaleb, one of the most effective serial-killer investigators in the history of the FBI, hunts down his heart donor''s killer. In Blood Work, Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn''t looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria''s death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb''s chest is Gloria''s. As McCaleb investigates the evidence in the case, the suspected randomness of the crime gives way to an unsettling suspicion of a twisted intelligence behind the murder. Soon McCaleb finds himself on the trail of a killer more horrifying than anything he ever encountered before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21983');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(10732, 'Blood Wyne', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The D''Artigo sisters have just turned in their badges to the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Now that they''re free agents they''re hoping things will be easier, but when you''re half-human, half-Fae, things can go astray at the most inopportune times...especially if you''re attempting to go undercover and penetrate the underworld of a vamp society on the brink of war.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Yasmine Galenorn knows the Tarot. She has been a professional Tarot reader for ten years and has practiced the Craft since 1980, studying intensively both as a solitary and with others. As a Priestess of Mielikki and Tapio, she has led numerous public and private rituals. Furthermore, she is a multi-talented author, and public speaker, currently residing in Washington with her cats and husband Samwise.\n  <br />\n  Galenorn holds a degree in Theatrical Management and Creative Writing and has a background in the performing arts. In addition, she has authored several books on the subjects of witchcraft and magic. Including, Trancing the Witch''s Wheel, Embracing the Moon, and Dancing With the Sun--all of which have been Llewellyn titles. She also served as key note speaker for a memorial honoring those killed during the Salem Witch Trials and has also appeared on several radio and television shows in the Washington area.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/189'),
(10733, 'Blood Wyne', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The D''Artigo sisters have just turned in their badges to the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Now that they''re free agents they''re hoping things will be easier, but when you''re half-human, half-Fae, things can go astray at the most inopportune times...especially if you''re attempting to go undercover and penetrate the underworld of a vamp society on the brink of war.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Yasmine Galenorn knows the Tarot. She has been a professional Tarot reader for ten years and has practiced the Craft since 1980, studying intensively both as a solitary and with others. As a Priestess of Mielikki and Tapio, she has led numerous public and private rituals. Furthermore, she is a multi-talented author, and public speaker, currently residing in Washington with her cats and husband Samwise.\n  <br />\n  Galenorn holds a degree in Theatrical Management and Creative Writing and has a background in the performing arts. In addition, she has authored several books on the subjects of witchcraft and magic. Including, Trancing the Witch''s Wheel, Embracing the Moon, and Dancing With the Sun--all of which have been Llewellyn titles. She also served as key note speaker for a memorial honoring those killed during the Salem Witch Trials and has also appeared on several radio and television shows in the Washington area.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9866'),
(10734, 'Blood Wyne', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The D''Artigo sisters have just turned in their badges to the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Now that they''re free agents they''re hoping things will be easier, but when you''re half-human, half-Fae, things can go astray at the most inopportune times...especially if you''re attempting to go undercover and penetrate the underworld of a vamp society on the brink of war.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Yasmine Galenorn knows the Tarot. She has been a professional Tarot reader for ten years and has practiced the Craft since 1980, studying intensively both as a solitary and with others. As a Priestess of Mielikki and Tapio, she has led numerous public and private rituals. Furthermore, she is a multi-talented author, and public speaker, currently residing in Washington with her cats and husband Samwise.\n  <br />\n  Galenorn holds a degree in Theatrical Management and Creative Writing and has a background in the performing arts. In addition, she has authored several books on the subjects of witchcraft and magic. Including, Trancing the Witch''s Wheel, Embracing the Moon, and Dancing With the Sun--all of which have been Llewellyn titles. She also served as key note speaker for a memorial honoring those killed during the Salem Witch Trials and has also appeared on several radio and television shows in the Washington area.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24778'),
(10735, 'Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef', 'Gabrielle Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef\n  </em>\n  , is just what a chef''s story should be--delectable, dripping with flavor, tinged with adrenaline and years of too-little sleep. What sets Hamilton apart, though, is her ability to write with as much grace as vitriol, a distinct tenderness marbling her meaty story. Hamilton spent her idyllic childhood on a wild farm in rural Pennsylvania with an exhilarant father--an artist and set builder--and French mother, both "incredibly special and outrageously handsome." As she entered her teens, however, her family unexpectedly dissolved. She moved to New York City at 16, living off loose change and eating ketchup packets from McDonaldâ€™s; worked 20-hour days at a soulless catering company; traveled, often half-starved, through Europe; and cooked cooked for allergy-riddled children at a summer camp. The constant thread running through this patchwork tale, which culminates with the opening of her New York City restaurant, Prune, is Hamilton''s slow simmering passion for cooking and the comfort it can bring. "To be picked up and fed, often by strangers, when you are in that state of fear and hunger, became the single most important food experience I came back to over and over," Hamilton writes, and it''s this poignant understanding of the link between food and kindness that makes\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter\n  </em>\n  so satisfying to read.\n  <em>\n   --Lynette Mong\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain on\n   <em>\n    Blood, Bones, and Butter\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Anthony Bourdain\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the novels\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  , in addition to the bestseller\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  His work has appeared in the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , and he is a contributing authority for\n  <em>\n   Food Arts\n  </em>\n  magazine. He is also the host of the Emmy Award-winning television show _No Reservations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Very quickly after meeting Gabrielle Hamilton, I understood why she was a terrific and much-admired chef. I knew that her restaurant, Prune, was ground-breaking, that she seemed to have come out of nowhere, instead of being a product of the "system" (she''d emerged from the invisible subculture of catering), to open one of the most quirky, totally uncompromising, and quickly-embraced restaurants in New York City. Her purportedly (but not really) Franco-phobic menus were intensely, notoriously personal, her early embrace of the nose-to-tail attitude was way, way ahead the times, and chefs--all chefs--seemed to like and respect her. Almost as quickly, it became apparent that this chef could write.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Short pieces appeared here and there over the years and they were sharp, funny, incisive, unsparing of both author and subjects--straight to the point and pretense-free, like Hamilton herself. She could write really well. And she had, from all accounts, a story to tell. So when it was announced that\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  was in the works, I was very excited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a long wait.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Five years later, I finally got my hands on an advance copy and eagerly devoured it. It was of course brilliant. I expected it to be. But I wasn''t prepared for exactly how goddamn brilliant the thing was, or how enchanted, difficult, strange, rich, inspiring and just plain hard her life and career--her long road to Prune--had been. I was unprepared for page after page of such sharp, carefully-crafted, ballistically-precise sentences. I was, frankly, devastated. I put this amazing memoir down and wanted to crawl under the bed, retroactively withdraw every book, every page I''d ever written. And burn them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  is, quite simply, the far-and-away best chef or food-genre memoir...ever. EVER. It certainly kicked the hell out of my\n  <em>\n   Kitchen Confidential\n  </em>\n  , which suddenly, in a second, felt shallow, sophomoric and ultimately lightweight next to this...this monster of a book, this--at times--truly hardscrabble lifeâ€¦_Blood, Bones, and Butter_ is deeper, better written, more hardcore, more fully fleshed-out; a more well-rounded story than every sunflower-and-saffron account of soft-core food porn in France. It''s as bullshit and pretense-free as AJ Leibling--and at least as well written, but more poignant, romantic--even thrilling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It makes any "as told to" account of famous chef''s lives look instantly ludicrous and bloodless. I''ve struggled to think of somebody/anybody who''s written a better account of the journey to chefdom and can''t think of anyone who''s come even close.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Writing a memoir of one''s life as a chef--or even writing about one''s relationship with food--has, with the publication of this book, become much more difficult. Hamilton has raised the bar higher than most of us could ever hope to reach. This book will sell a gazillion copies. It will be a bestseller. It will be an enduring classic. It will inspire generation after generation of young cooks, and anyone who really loves food and understands the context in which it is best enjoyed, NOT as some isolated, over-valued object of desire, but as only one important aspect of a larger, richer spectrum of experiences. Each plate of food--like the menu at Prune--is the end result of a long and sometimes very difficult struggle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read this book and prepare to clean your system of all that''s come before. It''s a game-changer and a truly great work by a great writer and great chef.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Owner and chef of New York''s Prune restaurant, Hamilton also happens to be a trained writer (M.F.A., University of Michigan) and fashions an addictive memoir of her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef. The youngest of five siblings born to a French mother who cooked "tails, claws, and marrow-filled bones" in a good skirt, high heels, and apron, and an artist father who made the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Hamilton spent her early years in a vast old house on the rural Pennsylvaniaâ€“New Jersey border. With the divorce of her parents when she was an adolescent, the author was largely left to her own devices, working at odd jobs in restaurants. Peeling potatoes and scraping plates-"And that, just like that, is how a whole life can start." At age 16, in 1981, she got a job waiting tables at New York''s Lone Star Cafe, and when caught stealing another waitress''s check, she was nearly charged with grand larceny. After years of working as a "grunt" freelance caterer and going back to school to learn to write (inspired by a National Book Foundation conference she was catering), Hamilton unexpectedly started up her no-nonsense, comfort-food Prune in a charming space in the East Village in 1999. Hamilton can be refreshingly thorny (especially when it comes to her reluctance to embrace the "foodie" world), yet she is also as frank and unpretentious as her menu-and speaks openly about marrying an Italian man (despite being a lesbian), mostly to cook with his priceless Old World mother in Italy. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5511'),
(10736, 'Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef', 'Gabrielle Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef\n  </em>\n  , is just what a chef''s story should be--delectable, dripping with flavor, tinged with adrenaline and years of too-little sleep. What sets Hamilton apart, though, is her ability to write with as much grace as vitriol, a distinct tenderness marbling her meaty story. Hamilton spent her idyllic childhood on a wild farm in rural Pennsylvania with an exhilarant father--an artist and set builder--and French mother, both "incredibly special and outrageously handsome." As she entered her teens, however, her family unexpectedly dissolved. She moved to New York City at 16, living off loose change and eating ketchup packets from McDonaldâ€™s; worked 20-hour days at a soulless catering company; traveled, often half-starved, through Europe; and cooked cooked for allergy-riddled children at a summer camp. The constant thread running through this patchwork tale, which culminates with the opening of her New York City restaurant, Prune, is Hamilton''s slow simmering passion for cooking and the comfort it can bring. "To be picked up and fed, often by strangers, when you are in that state of fear and hunger, became the single most important food experience I came back to over and over," Hamilton writes, and it''s this poignant understanding of the link between food and kindness that makes\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter\n  </em>\n  so satisfying to read.\n  <em>\n   --Lynette Mong\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain on\n   <em>\n    Blood, Bones, and Butter\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Anthony Bourdain\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the novels\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  , in addition to the bestseller\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  His work has appeared in the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , and he is a contributing authority for\n  <em>\n   Food Arts\n  </em>\n  magazine. He is also the host of the Emmy Award-winning television show _No Reservations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Very quickly after meeting Gabrielle Hamilton, I understood why she was a terrific and much-admired chef. I knew that her restaurant, Prune, was ground-breaking, that she seemed to have come out of nowhere, instead of being a product of the "system" (she''d emerged from the invisible subculture of catering), to open one of the most quirky, totally uncompromising, and quickly-embraced restaurants in New York City. Her purportedly (but not really) Franco-phobic menus were intensely, notoriously personal, her early embrace of the nose-to-tail attitude was way, way ahead the times, and chefs--all chefs--seemed to like and respect her. Almost as quickly, it became apparent that this chef could write.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Short pieces appeared here and there over the years and they were sharp, funny, incisive, unsparing of both author and subjects--straight to the point and pretense-free, like Hamilton herself. She could write really well. And she had, from all accounts, a story to tell. So when it was announced that\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  was in the works, I was very excited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a long wait.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Five years later, I finally got my hands on an advance copy and eagerly devoured it. It was of course brilliant. I expected it to be. But I wasn''t prepared for exactly how goddamn brilliant the thing was, or how enchanted, difficult, strange, rich, inspiring and just plain hard her life and career--her long road to Prune--had been. I was unprepared for page after page of such sharp, carefully-crafted, ballistically-precise sentences. I was, frankly, devastated. I put this amazing memoir down and wanted to crawl under the bed, retroactively withdraw every book, every page I''d ever written. And burn them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  is, quite simply, the far-and-away best chef or food-genre memoir...ever. EVER. It certainly kicked the hell out of my\n  <em>\n   Kitchen Confidential\n  </em>\n  , which suddenly, in a second, felt shallow, sophomoric and ultimately lightweight next to this...this monster of a book, this--at times--truly hardscrabble lifeâ€¦_Blood, Bones, and Butter_ is deeper, better written, more hardcore, more fully fleshed-out; a more well-rounded story than every sunflower-and-saffron account of soft-core food porn in France. It''s as bullshit and pretense-free as AJ Leibling--and at least as well written, but more poignant, romantic--even thrilling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It makes any "as told to" account of famous chef''s lives look instantly ludicrous and bloodless. I''ve struggled to think of somebody/anybody who''s written a better account of the journey to chefdom and can''t think of anyone who''s come even close.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Writing a memoir of one''s life as a chef--or even writing about one''s relationship with food--has, with the publication of this book, become much more difficult. Hamilton has raised the bar higher than most of us could ever hope to reach. This book will sell a gazillion copies. It will be a bestseller. It will be an enduring classic. It will inspire generation after generation of young cooks, and anyone who really loves food and understands the context in which it is best enjoyed, NOT as some isolated, over-valued object of desire, but as only one important aspect of a larger, richer spectrum of experiences. Each plate of food--like the menu at Prune--is the end result of a long and sometimes very difficult struggle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read this book and prepare to clean your system of all that''s come before. It''s a game-changer and a truly great work by a great writer and great chef.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Owner and chef of New York''s Prune restaurant, Hamilton also happens to be a trained writer (M.F.A., University of Michigan) and fashions an addictive memoir of her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef. The youngest of five siblings born to a French mother who cooked "tails, claws, and marrow-filled bones" in a good skirt, high heels, and apron, and an artist father who made the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Hamilton spent her early years in a vast old house on the rural Pennsylvaniaâ€“New Jersey border. With the divorce of her parents when she was an adolescent, the author was largely left to her own devices, working at odd jobs in restaurants. Peeling potatoes and scraping plates-"And that, just like that, is how a whole life can start." At age 16, in 1981, she got a job waiting tables at New York''s Lone Star Cafe, and when caught stealing another waitress''s check, she was nearly charged with grand larceny. After years of working as a "grunt" freelance caterer and going back to school to learn to write (inspired by a National Book Foundation conference she was catering), Hamilton unexpectedly started up her no-nonsense, comfort-food Prune in a charming space in the East Village in 1999. Hamilton can be refreshingly thorny (especially when it comes to her reluctance to embrace the "foodie" world), yet she is also as frank and unpretentious as her menu-and speaks openly about marrying an Italian man (despite being a lesbian), mostly to cook with his priceless Old World mother in Italy. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10167'),
(10737, 'Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef', 'Gabrielle Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef\n  </em>\n  , is just what a chef''s story should be--delectable, dripping with flavor, tinged with adrenaline and years of too-little sleep. What sets Hamilton apart, though, is her ability to write with as much grace as vitriol, a distinct tenderness marbling her meaty story. Hamilton spent her idyllic childhood on a wild farm in rural Pennsylvania with an exhilarant father--an artist and set builder--and French mother, both "incredibly special and outrageously handsome." As she entered her teens, however, her family unexpectedly dissolved. She moved to New York City at 16, living off loose change and eating ketchup packets from McDonaldâ€™s; worked 20-hour days at a soulless catering company; traveled, often half-starved, through Europe; and cooked cooked for allergy-riddled children at a summer camp. The constant thread running through this patchwork tale, which culminates with the opening of her New York City restaurant, Prune, is Hamilton''s slow simmering passion for cooking and the comfort it can bring. "To be picked up and fed, often by strangers, when you are in that state of fear and hunger, became the single most important food experience I came back to over and over," Hamilton writes, and it''s this poignant understanding of the link between food and kindness that makes\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones &amp; Butter\n  </em>\n  so satisfying to read.\n  <em>\n   --Lynette Mong\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain on\n   <em>\n    Blood, Bones, and Butter\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Anthony Bourdain\n  </strong>\n  is the author of the novels\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  , in addition to the bestseller\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  His work has appeared in the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The New Yorker\n  </em>\n  , and he is a contributing authority for\n  <em>\n   Food Arts\n  </em>\n  magazine. He is also the host of the Emmy Award-winning television show _No Reservations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Very quickly after meeting Gabrielle Hamilton, I understood why she was a terrific and much-admired chef. I knew that her restaurant, Prune, was ground-breaking, that she seemed to have come out of nowhere, instead of being a product of the "system" (she''d emerged from the invisible subculture of catering), to open one of the most quirky, totally uncompromising, and quickly-embraced restaurants in New York City. Her purportedly (but not really) Franco-phobic menus were intensely, notoriously personal, her early embrace of the nose-to-tail attitude was way, way ahead the times, and chefs--all chefs--seemed to like and respect her. Almost as quickly, it became apparent that this chef could write.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Short pieces appeared here and there over the years and they were sharp, funny, incisive, unsparing of both author and subjects--straight to the point and pretense-free, like Hamilton herself. She could write really well. And she had, from all accounts, a story to tell. So when it was announced that\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  was in the works, I was very excited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a long wait.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Five years later, I finally got my hands on an advance copy and eagerly devoured it. It was of course brilliant. I expected it to be. But I wasn''t prepared for exactly how goddamn brilliant the thing was, or how enchanted, difficult, strange, rich, inspiring and just plain hard her life and career--her long road to Prune--had been. I was unprepared for page after page of such sharp, carefully-crafted, ballistically-precise sentences. I was, frankly, devastated. I put this amazing memoir down and wanted to crawl under the bed, retroactively withdraw every book, every page I''d ever written. And burn them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Blood, Bones, and Butter\n  </em>\n  is, quite simply, the far-and-away best chef or food-genre memoir...ever. EVER. It certainly kicked the hell out of my\n  <em>\n   Kitchen Confidential\n  </em>\n  , which suddenly, in a second, felt shallow, sophomoric and ultimately lightweight next to this...this monster of a book, this--at times--truly hardscrabble life..._Blood, Bones, and Butter_ is deeper, better written, more hardcore, more fully fleshed-out; a more well-rounded story than every sunflower-and-saffron account of soft-core food porn in France. It''s as bullshit and pretense-free as AJ Leibling--and at least as well written, but more poignant, romantic--even thrilling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It makes any "as told to" account of famous chef''s lives look instantly ludicrous and bloodless. I''ve struggled to think of somebody/anybody who''s written a better account of the journey to chefdom and can''t think of anyone who''s come even close.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Writing a memoir of one''s life as a chef--or even writing about one''s relationship with food--has, with the publication of this book, become much more difficult. Hamilton has raised the bar higher than most of us could ever hope to reach. This book will sell a gazillion copies. It will be a bestseller. It will be an enduring classic. It will inspire generation after generation of young cooks, and anyone who really loves food and understands the context in which it is best enjoyed, NOT as some isolated, over-valued object of desire, but as only one important aspect of a larger, richer spectrum of experiences. Each plate of food--like the menu at Prune--is the end result of a long and sometimes very difficult struggle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read this book and prepare to clean your system of all that''s come before. It''s a game-changer and a truly great work by a great writer and great chef.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Owner and chef of New York''s Prune restaurant, Hamilton also happens to be a trained writer (M.F.A., University of Michigan) and fashions an addictive memoir of her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef. The youngest of five siblings born to a French mother who cooked "tails, claws, and marrow-filled bones" in a good skirt, high heels, and apron, and an artist father who made the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Hamilton spent her early years in a vast old house on the rural Pennsylvaniaâ€“New Jersey border. With the divorce of her parents when she was an adolescent, the author was largely left to her own devices, working at odd jobs in restaurants. Peeling potatoes and scraping plates-"And that, just like that, is how a whole life can start." At age 16, in 1981, she got a job waiting tables at New York''s Lone Star Cafe, and when caught stealing another waitress''s check, she was nearly charged with grand larceny. After years of working as a "grunt" freelance caterer and going back to school to learn to write (inspired by a National Book Foundation conference she was catering), Hamilton unexpectedly started up her no-nonsense, comfort-food Prune in a charming space in the East Village in 1999. Hamilton can be refreshingly thorny (especially when it comes to her reluctance to embrace the "foodie" world), yet she is also as frank and unpretentious as her menu-and speaks openly about marrying an Italian man (despite being a lesbian), mostly to cook with his priceless Old World mother in Italy. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19118'),
(10738, 'Bloodfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I used to think my sister and I were just two nice southern girls who''d get married in a few years and settle down to a quiet life. Then I discovered that Alina and I descend, not from good wholesome southern stock, but from an ancient Celtic bloodline of powerful sidhe-seers, people who can see the Fae. Not only can I see the terrifying otherworldly race, but I can sense the sacred Fae relics that hold the deadliest of their magic.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When my sister was found dead in a trash-filled alley in Dublin, I came over to get answers. Now all I want is revenge. And after everything I''ve learned about myself, I know I have the power to get it....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n MacKayla Lane''s ordinary life underwent a complete makeover when she landed on Ireland''s shores and was plunged into a world of deadly sorcery and ancient secrets.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In her fight to stay alive, Mac must find the Sinsar Dubh-a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable, which holds the key to power over both the worlds of the Fae and of Man. Pursued by Fae assassins, surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she cannot trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and irresistible men: V''lane, the insatiable Fae who can turn sensual arousal into an obsession for any woman, and the ever-inscrutable Jericho Barrons, a man as alluring as he is mysterious.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For centuries the shadowy realm of the Fae has coexisted with that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3945'),
(10739, 'Bloodfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I used to think my sister and I were just two nice southern girls who''d get married in a few years and settle down to a quiet life. Then I discovered that Alina and I descend, not from good wholesome southern stock, but from an ancient Celtic bloodline of powerful sidhe-seers, people who can see the Fae. Not only can I see the terrifying otherworldly race, but I can sense the sacred Fae relics that hold the deadliest of their magic.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When my sister was found dead in a trash-filled alley in Dublin, I came over to get answers. Now all I want is revenge. And after everything I''ve learned about myself, I know I have the power to get it....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n MacKayla Lane''s ordinary life underwent a complete makeover when she landed on Ireland''s shores and was plunged into a world of deadly sorcery and ancient secrets.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In her fight to stay alive, Mac must find the Sinsar Dubh-a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable, which holds the key to power over both the worlds of the Fae and of Man. Pursued by Fae assassins, surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she cannot trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and irresistible men: V''lane, the insatiable Fae who can turn sensual arousal into an obsession for any woman, and the ever-inscrutable Jericho Barrons, a man as alluring as he is mysterious.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For centuries the shadowy realm of the Fae has coexisted with that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11526'),
(10740, 'Bloodfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14327'),
(10741, 'Bloodfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: I used to think my sister and I were just two nice southern girls who''d get married in a few years and settle down to a quiet life. Then I discovered that Alina and I descend, not from good wholesome southern stock, but from an ancient Celtic bloodline of powerful sidhe-seers, people who can see the Fae. Not only can I see the terrifying otherworldly race, but I can sense the sacred Fae relics that hold the deadliest of their magic. When my sister was found dead in a trash-filled alley in Dublin, I came over to get answers. Now all I want is revenge. And after everything I''ve learned about myself, I know I have the power to get it.... MacKayla Lane''s ordinary life underwent a complete makeover when she landed on Ireland''s shores and was plunged into a world of deadly sorcery and ancient secrets. In her fight to stay alive, Mac must find the Sinsar Dubh-a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable, which holds the key to power over both the worlds of the Fae and of Man. Pursued by Fae assassins, surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she cannot trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and irresistible men: V''lane, the insatiable Fae who can turn sensual arousal into an obsession for any woman, and the ever-inscrutable Jericho Barrons, a man as alluring as he is mysterious. For centuries the shadowy realm of the Fae has coexisted with that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20676'),
(10742, 'Bloodlands', 'Timothy Snyder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Americans call the Second World War Â“The Good War.â€ But before it even began, Americaâ€™s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizensÂ—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At warâ€™s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bloodlands\n </em>\n is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive,\n <em>\n  Bloodlands\n </em>\n will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12374'),
(10743, 'Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin', 'Timothy Snyder', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n If there is an explanation for the political killing perpetrated in eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, historian Snyder roots it in agriculture. Stalin wanted to collectivize farmers; Hitler wanted to eliminate them so Germans could colonize the land. The dictators wielded frightening power to advance such fantasies toward reality, and the despots toted up about 14 million corpses between them, so stupefying a figure that Snyder sets himself three goals here: to break down the number into the various actions of murder that comprise it, from liquidation of the kulaks to the final solution; to restore humanity to the victims via surviving testimony to their fates; and to deny Hitler and Stalin any historical justification for their policies, which at the time had legions of supporters and have some even today. Such scope may render Snyderâ€™s project too imposing to casual readers, but it would engage those exposed to the periodâ€™s chronology and major interpretive issues, such as the extent to which the Nazi and Soviet systems may be compared. Solid and judicious scholarship for large WWII collections. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tony Judt\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œFor over a decade in the middle of twentieth century, the lands between Russia and Germany were the killing fields of Europe. Tens of millions of civilians from Poland to Ukraine, Lithuania to Belarus were starved, beaten, shot and gassed to death by the authorities and armies of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. We think we know this story and we assign it shorthand labels: Auschwitz, the Gulag. But neither the concentration camps (which were mostly not death camps) nor the Soviet network of labor camps in Siberia (from which many survived) were representative of the worst crimes committed in these years. Jews were without question the supreme victim (and in the Nazi case, the dominant target); but there were many other victims with whom western readers are far less familiar. Without a better grasp of the scale and breadth of the suffering experienced in these lands, we cannot hope to appreciate the true impact of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn his path-breaking and often courageous study of Europeâ€™s â€˜bloodlands,â€™ Timothy Snyder shows how very much more complicated the story was. His account of the methods and motives of murderous regimes, both at home and in foreign war, will radically revise our appreciation of the implications of mass extermination in the recent past.\n <em>\n  Bloodlands\n </em>\n â€“ impeccably researched and appropriately sensitive to its volatile material â€“ is the most important book to appear on this subject for decades and will surely become the reference in its field.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHistorians of Nazi Germany have analyzed Hitlerâ€™s war of destruction in the East, Final Solution, and vast racial revolution and colonization project outlined in the\n <em>\n  Generalplan Ost\n </em>\n .Â  Historians of the Soviet Union have analyzed Stalinâ€™s collectivization, Great Terror, Gulag archipelago, deportation and exile of mistrusted minorities, and rapid sovietization of newly-annexed territories on the western border.Â  In both cases the focus has been more often on the politics and decision-making of the dictatorships than on the fate of their victims.Â  The stunning contribution of Tim Snyderâ€™s book is to present a synthetic account by an East European historian in which the focus is on the geographic zone where the lethal policies of Hitler and Stalin interacted, overlapped, and mutually escalated one another.Â  As Snyder vividly demonstrates, their combined impact on the people living in the â€˜bloodlandsâ€™ was quite simply the greatest man-made demographic catastrophe and human tragedy in European history.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Professor Norman Davies, F.B.A., author of _Europe: A History\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œNearly seventy years after VE-Day, World War Two continues to be perceived through a narrow Western perspective, and many basic problems about the war of 1939-45 remain unresolved. In\n <em>\n  Bloodlands\n </em>\n â€“ which refers to the huge belt of territory between Germany and Russia â€“ Timothy Snyder examines the little known tract of the European continent that was scourged by Stalin as well as Hitler, and reaches some disturbing conclusions.Â  Combining formidable linguistic and detective skills with a fine sense of impartiality, he tackles vital questions which have deterred less courageous historians: Where and when were the largest casualties inflicted?Â Â  Who were the perpetrators, and which ethnic and national groups were victimized? How can one calculate and verify the numbers?Â  This is a book which will force its readers to rethink history.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, and author of\n  <em>\n   The File\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTimothy Snyder has written a nuanced, original and penetrating analysis of Europeâ€™s twentieth century killing fields between Russia and Germany, drawing on many little-known sources. History of a high order,\n <em>\n  Bloodlands\n </em>\n may also point us towards lessons for our own time.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , Starred Review\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œA chillingly systematic study of the mass murder mutually perpetrated by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germanyâ€¦. A significant work of staggering figures and scholarship.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSolid and judicious scholarship.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Sunday Times\n  </em>\n  Â (London)\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis is a superb work of scholarship, full of revealing detail, cleverly compiled from a number of previously little-known sources, and in places beautifully writtenâ€¦. He searched hidden archives in five countries and judiciously mined unknown memoirs and diaries. . . . Snyder does justice to the horror of his subject through the power of his storytelling.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n Guardian\n <strong>\n  _\n </strong>\n (London)\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ[_Bloodlands_] modifies our view of this appalling period. . . . Snyder insists that the colossal atrocities in his â€˜bloodlandsâ€™ have to be set inside a single historical frame. To look at them separately â€“ for instance, to see Hitlerâ€™s crimes as â€˜so great as to stand outside historyâ€™, or Stalinâ€™s as a monstrous device to achieve modernisation â€“ is to let the two dictators â€˜define their own works for usâ€™. . . .This bookâ€™s unforgettable account of the Ukraine famine shows conclusively that Stalin knew what was happening in the countryside and chose to let it run its course. . . . The figures are so huge and so awful that grief could grow numb. But Snyder, who is a noble writer as well as a great researcher, knows that. He asks us not to think in those round numbers.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Economist\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œ[G]ripping and comprehensiveâ€¦. Mr. Snyderâ€™s book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europeâ€™s modern historyâ€¦. Even those who pride themselves on knowing their history will find themselves repeatedly brought up short by his insights, contrasts and comparisonsâ€¦. Mr. Snyderâ€™s scrupulous and nuanced book steers clear of the sterile, sloganising exchanges about whether Stalin was as bad as Hitler, or whether Soviet mass murder in Ukraine or elsewhere is a moral equivalent of the Nazisâ€™ extermination of the Jews. What it does do, admirably, is to explain and record. Both totalitarian empires turned human beings into statistics, and their deaths into a necessary step towards a better future. Mr. Snyderâ€™s book explains, with sympathy, fairness and insight, how that happened, and to whom.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Anne Applebaum,\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <strong>\n  New York Review of Books\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œ[A] brave and original history of mass killing in the twentieth centuryâ€¦. Snyderâ€™s original contribution is to treat all of these episodesâ€”the Ukrainian famine, the Holocaust, Stalinâ€™s mass executions, the planned starvation of Soviet POWs, postwar ethnic cleansingâ€”as different facets of the same phenomenon. Instead of studying Nazi atrocities or Soviet atrocities separately, as many others have done, he looks at them together. Yet Snyder does not exactly compare the two systems either. His intention, rather, is to show that the two systems committed the same kinds of crimes at the same times and in the same places, that they aided and abetted one another, and above all that their interaction with one another led to more mass killing than either might have carried out alone.â€\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n The Wall Street Journal\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œThe story of World War II, like that of most wars, usually gets told by the victors. Diplomatic and military accounts are set largely in the West and star the morally upright Alliesâ€”the U.S., Britain and Soviet Unionâ€”in battles against fascism. The Holocaust gets its own separate history, as a case apart in its genocidal intent and human tragedy. Timothy\n <em>\n  Snyderâ€™s Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin\n </em>\n forces a dramatic shift in these perceptionsâ€¦. Among his other goals in Bloodlands, Mr. Snyder attempts to put the Holocaust in contextâ€”to restore it, in a sense, to the history of the wider European conflict. This is a task that no historian can attempt without risking controversy. Yet far from minimizing Jewish suffering, Bloodlands gives a fuller picture of the Nazi killing machine.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Economist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n _â€œ[G]ripping and comprehensiveâ€¦. Mr. Snyderâ€™s book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europeâ€™s modern historyâ€¦. Even those who pride themselves on knowing their history will find themselves repeatedly brought up short by his insights, contrasts and comparisonsâ€¦. Mr. Snyderâ€™s scrupulous and nuanced book steers clear of the sterile, sloganising exchanges about whether Stalin was as bad as Hitler, or whether Soviet mass murder in Ukraine or elsewhere is a moral equivalent of the Nazisâ€™ extermination of the Jews. What it does do, admirably, is to explain and record. Both totalitarian empires turned human beings into statistics, and their deaths into a necessary step towards a better future. Mr. Snyderâ€™s book explains, with sympathy, fairness and insight, how that happened, and to whom.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anne Applebaum,Â _New York__Â Review of Books_\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n _â€œ[A] brave and original history of mass killing in the twentieth centuryâ€¦. Snyderâ€™s original contribution is to treat all of these episodesâ€”the Ukrainian famin...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/594'),
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(10745, 'Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin', 'Timothy Synder', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24288'),
(10746, 'Bloodline', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It starts off simply enough. Jack is hired by Christy Pickering, whose 18-year-old daughter is dating sinister and shady Jerry Bethlehem, a man twice her age.Â  Christy neither likes nor trusts Bethlehem and hires Jack to find out if her instincts are correct.Â  As Jack delves into the manâ€™s past, he finds connections between Bethlehem and the Creighton Institute, a government-funded facility researching a newly discovered and frightening variation on human DNA.Â  Bethlehem is not who he pretends to be.As the bodies pile up, Jack discovers another horrific piece of the puzzle of his own identity, and why heâ€™s been drafted into a cosmic shadow war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5634'),
(10747, 'Bloodline', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It starts off simply enough. Jack is hired by Christy Pickering, whose 18-year-old daughter is dating sinister and shady Jerry Bethlehem, a man twice her age.Â  Christy neither likes nor trusts Bethlehem and hires Jack to find out if her instincts are correct.Â  As Jack delves into the manâ€™s past, he finds connections between Bethlehem and the Creighton Institute, a government-funded facility researching a newly discovered and frightening variation on human DNA.Â  Bethlehem is not who he pretends to be.As the bodies pile up, Jack discovers another horrific piece of the puzzle of his own identity, and why heâ€™s been drafted into a cosmic shadow war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19042'),
(10748, 'Bloodline', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It starts off simply enough. Jack is hired by Christy Pickering, whose 18-year-old daughter is dating sinister and shady Jerry Bethlehem, a man twice her age.Â  Christy neither likes nor trusts Bethlehem and hires Jack to find out if her instincts are correct.Â  As Jack delves into the manâ€™s past, he finds connections between Bethlehem and the Creighton Institute, a government-funded facility researching a newly discovered and frightening variation on human DNA.Â  Bethlehem is not who he pretends to be.As the bodies pile up, Jack discovers another horrific piece of the puzzle of his own identity, and why heâ€™s been drafted into a cosmic shadow war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27860');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(10749, 'Bloodshot', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Cherie Priestâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Boneshaker\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA steampunk-zombie-airship adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions . . . this book is made of irresistible.â€â€”Scott Westerfeld\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShould be sought out by readers of fantasy and horror alike.â€â€”Chiaroscuro\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of 2009â€™s best novels . . . .is not to be missed.â€â€”Joe Sherry,\n <em>\n  Fantasy Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  VAMPIRE FOR HIRE\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Raylene Pendle (AKA Cheshire Red), a vampire and world-renowned thief, doesnâ€™t usually hang with her own kind. Sheâ€™s too busy stealing priceless art and rare jewels. But when the infuriatingly charming Ian Stott asks for help, Raylene finds him impossible to resistâ€”even though Ian doesnâ€™t want precious artifacts. He wants her to retrieve missing government filesâ€”documents that deal with the secret biological experiments that left Ian blind. What Raylene doesnâ€™t bargain for is a case that takes her from the wilds of Minneapolis to the mean streets of Atlanta. And with a psychotic, power-hungry scientist on her trail, a kick-ass drag queen on her side, and Men in Black popping up at the most inconvenient moments, the case proves to be one hell of a ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6773'),
(10750, 'Bloodshot', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Cherie Priestâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Boneshaker\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA steampunk-zombie-airship adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions . . . this book is made of irresistible.â€â€”Scott Westerfeld\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShould be sought out by readers of fantasy and horror alike.â€â€”Chiaroscuro\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of 2009â€™s best novels . . . .is not to be missed.â€â€”Joe Sherry,\n <em>\n  Fantasy Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  VAMPIRE FOR HIRE\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Raylene Pendle (AKA Cheshire Red), a vampire and world-renowned thief, doesnâ€™t usually hang with her own kind. Sheâ€™s too busy stealing priceless art and rare jewels. But when the infuriatingly charming Ian Stott asks for help, Raylene finds him impossible to resistâ€”even though Ian doesnâ€™t want precious artifacts. He wants her to retrieve missing government filesâ€”documents that deal with the secret biological experiments that left Ian blind. What Raylene doesnâ€™t bargain for is a case that takes her from the wilds of Minneapolis to the mean streets of Atlanta. And with a psychotic, power-hungry scientist on her trail, a kick-ass drag queen on her side, and Men in Black popping up at the most inconvenient moments, the case proves to be one hell of a ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12034'),
(10751, 'Bloodshot', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for Cherie Priestâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Boneshaker\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA steampunk-zombie-airship adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions . . . this book is made of irresistible.â€â€”Scott Westerfeld\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShould be sought out by readers of fantasy and horror alike.â€â€”Chiaroscuro\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of 2009â€™s best novels . . . .is not to be missed.â€â€”Joe Sherry,\n <em>\n  Fantasy Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  VAMPIRE FOR HIRE\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Raylene Pendle (AKA Cheshire Red), a vampire and world-renowned thief, doesnâ€™t usually hang with her own kind. Sheâ€™s too busy stealing priceless art and rare jewels. But when the infuriatingly charming Ian Stott asks for help, Raylene finds him impossible to resistâ€”even though Ian doesnâ€™t want precious artifacts. He wants her to retrieve missing government filesâ€”documents that deal with the secret biological experiments that left Ian blind. What Raylene doesnâ€™t bargain for is a case that takes her from the wilds of Minneapolis to the mean streets of Atlanta. And with a psychotic, power-hungry scientist on her trail, a kick-ass drag queen on her side, and Men in Black popping up at the most inconvenient moments, the case proves to be one hell of a ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17105'),
(10752, 'Bloodstone', 'Barbara Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New trouble lies ahead for Darak and Griane, now the Memory-Keeper and Healer of their tribe. Keirith, the eldest of their three children, has been apprenticed to the Tree-Father but is dismissed when his master learns that he has been riding the spirits of other living creatures. Convinced that his parents will also view him as an abomination, Keirith flees, only to be captured by slavers. Carried to the heart of a distant civilization, Keirith must confront the truth about himself and his powers, even while Darak, following the kidnappers'' trail, must struggle with his darkest fears if he is to have any hope of saving his son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7345'),
(10753, 'Bloodstone', 'Barbara Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New trouble lies ahead for Darak and Griane, now the Memory-Keeper and Healer of their tribe. Keirith, the eldest of their three children, has been apprenticed to the Tree-Father but is dismissed when his master learns that he has been riding the spirits of other living creatures. Convinced that his parents will also view him as an abomination, Keirith flees, only to be captured by slavers. Carried to the heart of a distant civilization, Keirith must confront the truth about himself and his powers, even while Darak, following the kidnappers'' trail, must struggle with his darkest fears if he is to have any hope of saving his son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16546'),
(10754, 'Bloodstone', 'Barbara Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New trouble lies ahead for Darak and Griane, now the Memory-Keeper and Healer of their tribe. Keirith, the eldest of their three children, has been apprenticed to the Tree-Father but is dismissed when his master learns that he has been riding the spirits of other living creatures. Convinced that his parents will also view him as an abomination, Keirith flees, only to be captured by slavers. Carried to the heart of a distant civilization, Keirith must confront the truth about himself and his powers, even while Darak, following the kidnappers'' trail, must struggle with his darkest fears if he is to have any hope of saving his son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26585'),
(10755, 'Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A budding young writer falls in love with a vampire. He is Tommy of Indiana who moved to San Francisco in search of inspiration and is working in a supermarket. Shopping there is Jody, a secretary still trying to adjust to her new vampire status, after being bitten by one on her way home. A zany tale by the author of Coyote Blue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6687'),
(10756, 'Bloodsucking fiends: a love story', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A budding young writer falls in love with a vampire. He is Tommy of Indiana who moved to San Francisco in search of inspiration and is working in a supermarket. Shopping there is Jody, a secretary still trying to adjust to her new vampire status, after being bitten by one on her way home. A zany tale by the author of Coyote Blue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14304'),
(10757, 'Bloodsucking fiends: a love story', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A budding young writer falls in love with a vampire. He is Tommy of Indiana who moved to San Francisco in search of inspiration and is working in a supermarket. Shopping there is Jody, a secretary still trying to adjust to her new vampire status, after being bitten by one on her way home. A zany tale by the author of Coyote Blue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18067'),
(10758, 'Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching back, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her.Making the transition from the nine-to-five grind to an eternity of nocturnal prowlings is going to take some doing, however, and that''s where C. Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, Indiana, Tommy (to his friends) is biding his time night-clerking and frozen-turkey bowling in a San Francisco Safeway. But all that changes when a beautiful undead redhead walks through the door...and proceeds to rock Tommy''s life -- and afterlife -- in ways he never thought possible.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A budding young writer falls in love with a vampire. He is Tommy of Indiana who moved to San Francisco in search of inspiration and is working in a supermarket. Shopping there is Jody, a secretary still trying to adjust to her new vampire status, after being bitten by one on her way home. A zany tale by the author of Coyote Blue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27002'),
(10759, 'Bloodthirsty', 'Flynn Meaney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Some vampires are good. Some are evil. Some are faking it to get girls.\n </em>\n Awkward and allergic to the sun, sixteen-year-old Finbar Frame never gets the girl. But when he notices that all the female students at his school are obsessed with a vampire romance novel_ called Bloodthirsty_, Finbar decides to boldly go where no sane guy has gone before-he becomes a vampire, minus the whole blood sucking part. With his brooding nature and weirdly pale skin, it''s surprisingly easy for Finbar to pretend to be paranormal. But, when he meets the one girl who just might like him for who he really is, he discovers that his life as a pseudo-vampire is more complicated than he expected. This hilarious debut novel is for anyone who believes that sometimes even nice guys-without sharp teeth or sparkly skin-- can get the girl.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Flynn Meaney lives in Mamaroneck, New York. She is an alumna of the University of Notre Dame and is currently a poetry student in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing program.\n <em>\n  Bloodthirsty\n </em>\n emerged out of Flynn''s broad love of pop culture vampires and her friend Lucila''s comment: "Now that vampires are so hot, we can stop tanning." Lucila''s observation made Flynn think about how the paranormal craze would benefit the pale and thin teens who would have suffered during the\n <em>\n  Baywatch\n </em>\n years.\n</p>\n<p>\n Flynn is currently working on her second novel, coming Fall 2011.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5505'),
(10760, 'Bloodthirsty', 'Flynn Meaney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Some vampires are good. Some are evil. Some are faking it to get girls.\n </em>\n Awkward and allergic to the sun, sixteen-year-old Finbar Frame never gets the girl. But when he notices that all the female students at his school are obsessed with a vampire romance novel_ called Bloodthirsty_, Finbar decides to boldly go where no sane guy has gone before-he becomes a vampire, minus the whole blood sucking part. With his brooding nature and weirdly pale skin, it''s surprisingly easy for Finbar to pretend to be paranormal. But, when he meets the one girl who just might like him for who he really is, he discovers that his life as a pseudo-vampire is more complicated than he expected. This hilarious debut novel is for anyone who believes that sometimes even nice guys-without sharp teeth or sparkly skin-- can get the girl.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Flynn Meaney lives in Mamaroneck, New York. She is an alumna of the University of Notre Dame and is currently a poetry student in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing program.\n <em>\n  Bloodthirsty\n </em>\n emerged out of Flynn''s broad love of pop culture vampires and her friend Lucila''s comment: "Now that vampires are so hot, we can stop tanning." Lucila''s observation made Flynn think about how the paranormal craze would benefit the pale and thin teens who would have suffered during the\n <em>\n  Baywatch\n </em>\n years.\n</p>\n<p>\n Flynn is currently working on her second novel, coming Fall 2011.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11435'),
(10761, 'Bloodthirsty', 'Flynn Meaney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Some vampires are good. Some are evil. Some are faking it to get girls.\n </em>\n Awkward and allergic to the sun, sixteen-year-old Finbar Frame never gets the girl. But when he notices that all the female students at his school are obsessed with a vampire romance novel_ called Bloodthirsty_, Finbar decides to boldly go where no sane guy has gone before-he becomes a vampire, minus the whole blood sucking part. With his brooding nature and weirdly pale skin, it''s surprisingly easy for Finbar to pretend to be paranormal. But, when he meets the one girl who just might like him for who he really is, he discovers that his life as a pseudo-vampire is more complicated than he expected. This hilarious debut novel is for anyone who believes that sometimes even nice guys-without sharp teeth or sparkly skin-- can get the girl.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Flynn Meaney lives in Mamaroneck, New York. She is an alumna of the University of Notre Dame and is currently a poetry student in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing program.\n <em>\n  Bloodthirsty\n </em>\n emerged out of Flynn''s broad love of pop culture vampires and her friend Lucila''s comment: "Now that vampires are so hot, we can stop tanning." Lucila''s observation made Flynn think about how the paranormal craze would benefit the pale and thin teens who would have suffered during the\n <em>\n  Baywatch\n </em>\n years.\n</p>\n<p>\n Flynn is currently working on her second novel, coming Fall 2011.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19083'),
(10762, 'Bloody Bones', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** A look that kills for the fifth Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here''s a job to strain even Anita Blake''s capabilities: raising an entire graveyard of two-hundred-year-old corpses.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3476'),
(10763, 'Bloody Bones', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A look that kills for the fifth Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel. ** Here''s a job to strain even Anita Blake''s capabilities: raising an entire graveyard of two-hundred-year-old corpses.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15238'),
(10764, 'Bloody Bones', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A look that kills for the fifth Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel. ** Here''s a job to strain even Anita Blake''s capabilities: raising an entire graveyard of two-hundred-year-old corpses.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21012'),
(10765, 'Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln&#39;s Corpse', 'James L. Swanson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more timeâ€”the Yankees are coming, it warned. Shortly before midnight, Davis boarded a train from Richmond and fled the capital, setting off an intense and thrilling chase in which Union cavalry hunted the Confederate president.   Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime. Lincoln''s murder, autopsy, and White House funeral transfixed the nation. His final journey began when soldiers placed his corpse aboard a special train that would carry him home on the 1,600-mile trip to Springfield. Along the way, more than a million Americans looked upon their martyr''s face, and several million watched the funeral train roll by. It was the largest and most magnificent funeral pageant in American history.   To the Union, Davis was no longer merely a traitor. He became a murderer, a wanted man with a $100,000 bounty on his head. Davis was hunted down and placed in captivity, the beginning of an intense and dramatic odyssey that would transform him into a martyr of the South''s Lost Cause.   The saga that began with Manhunt continues with the suspenseful and electrifying Bloody Crimes. James Swanson masterfully weaves together the stories of two fallen leaders as they made their last expeditions through the bloody landscape of a wounded nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12364'),
(10766, 'Bloody Valentine', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This year Valentine''s Day isn''t for romance. It''s for murder. Mega rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine''s Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder. Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much? There are plenty of suspects living in Jack''s fancy block of flats. Is it them, or could it be the work of an outsider with a twisted mind? One thing''s for sure, the police have got their work cut out solving this bloody mess.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past decade - the Alex Cross, Women''s Murder Club and Detective Michael Bennett novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. He lives in Florida with his wife and son. James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books specifically for young readers. James has formed a partnership with the National Literacy Trust, an independent, UK-based charity that changes lives through literacy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4822'),
(10767, 'Bloody Valentine', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This year Valentine''s Day isn''t for romance. It''s for murder. Mega rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine''s Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder. Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much? There are plenty of suspects living in Jack''s fancy block of flats. Is it them, or could it be the work of an outsider with a twisted mind? One thing''s for sure, the police have got their work cut out solving this bloody mess.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past decade - the Alex Cross, Women''s Murder Club and Detective Michael Bennett novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. He lives in Florida with his wife and son. James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books specifically for young readers. James has formed a partnership with the National Literacy Trust, an independent, UK-based charity that changes lives through literacy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11916'),
(10768, 'Bloody Valentine', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This year Valentine''s Day isn''t for romance. It''s for murder. Mega rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine''s Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder. Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much? There are plenty of suspects living in Jack''s fancy block of flats. Is it them, or could it be the work of an outsider with a twisted mind? One thing''s for sure, the police have got their work cut out solving this bloody mess.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past decade - the Alex Cross, Women''s Murder Club and Detective Michael Bennett novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. He lives in Florida with his wife and son. James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books specifically for young readers. James has formed a partnership with the National Literacy Trust, an independent, UK-based charity that changes lives through literacy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19832'),
(10769, 'Blossom', 'Andrew H. Vachss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given contemporary crime fiction one of its most mesmerizing characters. An abused child raised in orphanages, foster homes, and prisons, Burke is a career criminal and outlaw who steals and scams for a living. In Blossom,an old cellmate has summoned Burke to a fading Indiana mill town, where a young boy is charged with a crime he didn''t commit and a twisted serial sniper has turned a local lovers'' lane into a killing field. And it''s here that Burke meets Blossom, the brilliant, beautiful young woman who has her own reasons for finding the murderer-and her own idea of vengeance. Dense with atmosphere, savagely convincing, this is Vachss at his uncompromising best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12332'),
(10770, 'Blott on the Landscape', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper, the whole is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a motorway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude. Sir Giles recruits to his side Hoskins, a corrupt local official, Lord Leakham, the environmental equivalent of a hanging judge, and Dundridge, a troublesome bureaucrat with an unhealthy passion for order. Against this powerful lobby are ranged a mere handful of local residents led by Lady Maude. Hardly at first sight a team to withstand the batteries of official inertia, Compulsory Purchase Orders and bulldozer blades. But Lady Maude enlists a surprising ally in her enigmatic gardener Blott, the Dresden born, ex-Italian naturalised Englishman, in whom adopted patriotism burns bright. Lady Maude''s dynamism and Blott''s concealed talents enable them to meet pressure with mimicry, loaded tribunals with publicity and chilli powder, requisition orders with wickedly spiked beer. To every official ploy Blott and Lady Maude oppose their own ingenious and unprincipled countermove until in a spectacular finale Blott, with four hundred tins of baked beans among his armoury, takes on the army single-handed. This explosively comic novel will gladden the heart of everyone who has ever confronted a bureaucrat, and spells out in riotous detail how the forces of virtue play an exceedingly dirty game when the issue is close to home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/503'),
(10771, 'Blott on the Landscape', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper, the whole is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a motorway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude. Sir Giles recruits to his side Hoskins, a corrupt local official, Lord Leakham, the environmental equivalent of a hanging judge, and Dundridge, a troublesome bureaucrat with an unhealthy passion for order. Against this powerful lobby are ranged a mere handful of local residents led by Lady Maude. Hardly at first sight a team to withstand the batteries of official inertia, Compulsory Purchase Orders and bulldozer blades. But Lady Maude enlists a surprising ally in her enigmatic gardener Blott, the Dresden born, ex-Italian naturalised Englishman, in whom adopted patriotism burns bright. Lady Maude''s dynamism and Blott''s concealed talents enable them to meet pressure with mimicry, loaded tribunals with publicity and chilli powder, requisition orders with wickedly spiked beer. To every official ploy Blott and Lady Maude oppose their own ingenious and unprincipled countermove until in a spectacular finale Blott, with four hundred tins of baked beans among his armoury, takes on the army single-handed. This explosively comic novel will gladden the heart of everyone who has ever confronted a bureaucrat, and spells out in riotous detail how the forces of virtue play an exceedingly dirty game when the issue is close to home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24469'),
(10772, 'Blow Him Away: How to Give Him Mind-Blowing Oral Sex', 'Marcy Michaels &amp; Marie Desalle', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Most people suck performing oral sex," writes Marcy Michaels, and "a simple want of skill and knowledge is to blame."\n <em>\n  Blow Him Away\n </em>\n aims to supply that skill and knowledge and teach you how to give your man earth-shaking pleasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n Speech therapist and voice coach Marcy Michaels is "a doctor of the mouth." It''s not such a stretch (pardon the pun) that she can guide you towards "mastery over your lips and tongue" for performing fellatio. Before you practice on a warm body, you''ll do solitary exercises for jaw control, proper breathing, easing tension, swallowing, and "tonguemanship." Work out "lazy lips" with kissing exercises such as Saltwater Pump, Monkey Face, and Jug of Plenty. Twenty-seven tongue exercises are next--both basic and intermediate level--for flexibility, suppleness, and dexterity of this love muscle. By the time you bring your partner into the picture in Chapter 10, you''re ready to give your man oral sex that will leave him cross-eyed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Twenty line drawings illustrate positions and techniques. This earthy, graphic guide to fellatio is lively, clever, and fun to read. And your partner will appreciate it!\n <em>\n  --Joan Price\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keep him begging for more . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s nothing to be ashamed of.Â  When it comes to performing oral sex, most people fall somewhere between fumbling and clueless. But now, in\n <em>\n  Blow Him Away\n </em>\n youâ€™ll find practical, easy-to-master techniques that will give you the confidence and skills you need to become an expert in the delicate art of fellatio.\n</p>\n<p>\n Inside youâ€™ll find:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Exercises to whip your tongue, lips, and jaw into shape so you can perform with exquisite control.\n <br />\n â€¢ An anatomy class you need to pass.\n <br />\n â€¢ Sensual kisses to get you both ready for the main event.\n <br />\n â€¢ No-nonsense instructions for how to perform sensational oral sex, blow-by-blow.\n <br />\n â€¢ Advice on how to keep your mind from spoiling your head.\n <br />\n â€¢ Advanced techniques to wake up the neighbors.\n <br />\n â€¢ Positions that will make his knees melt.\n</p>\n<p>\n Read\n <em>\n  Blow Him Away\n </em>\n alone or with the companion edition,\n <em>\n  The Lowdown on Going Down\n </em>\n , for knee-buckling oral sexâ€”every time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11023'),
(10773, 'Blue Adept', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Book Two of the epic adventure that began in SPLIT INFINITY, Stile discovers life on Proton and Phaze is getting more difficult. On Proton he''s a serf trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. And on Phaze, where only magic worked, he was the Blue Adept trying to master the powers of sorcery. On both worlds, someone was trying to assassinate him. And as if that weren''t enough, he has to win the love of Lady Blue, fight a dragon, discover the ultimate weapon, and of course, seek out the all-powerful Citizen who was trying to kill him!\n <br />\n THE APPRENTICE ADEPT SERIES\n <br />\n Book One: SPLIT INFINITY\n <br />\n Book Two: BLUE ADEPT\n <br />\n Book Three: JUXTAPOSITION\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Book Two of the epic adventure that began in SPLIT INFINITY, Stile discovers life on Proton and Phaze is getting more difficult. On Proton he''s a serf trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. And on Phaze, where only magic worked, he was the Blue Adept trying to master the powers of sorcery. On both worlds, someone was trying to assassinate him. And as if that weren''t enough, he has to win the love of Lady Blue, fight a dragon, discover the ultimate weapon, and of course, seek out the all-powerful Citizen who was trying to kill him!\n <br />\n THE APPRENTICE ADEPT SERIES\n <br />\n Book One: SPLIT INFINITY\n <br />\n Book Two: BLUE ADEPT\n <br />\n Book Three: JUXTAPOSITION\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1992'),
(10774, 'Blue Adept', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Book Two of the epic adventure that began in SPLIT INFINITY, Stile discovers life on Proton and Phaze is getting more difficult. On Proton he''s a serf trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. And on Phaze, where only magic worked, he was the Blue Adept trying to master the powers of sorcery. On both worlds, someone was trying to assassinate him. And as if that weren''t enough, he has to win the love of Lady Blue, fight a dragon, discover the ultimate weapon, and of course, seek out the all-powerful Citizen who was trying to kill him!\n <br />\n THE APPRENTICE ADEPT SERIES\n <br />\n Book One: SPLIT INFINITY\n <br />\n Book Two: BLUE ADEPT\n <br />\n Book Three: JUXTAPOSITION\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Book Two of the epic adventure that began in SPLIT INFINITY, Stile discovers life on Proton and Phaze is getting more difficult. On Proton he''s a serf trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. And on Phaze, where only magic worked, he was the Blue Adept trying to master the powers of sorcery. On both worlds, someone was trying to assassinate him. And as if that weren''t enough, he has to win the love of Lady Blue, fight a dragon, discover the ultimate weapon, and of course, seek out the all-powerful Citizen who was trying to kill him!\n <br />\n THE APPRENTICE ADEPT SERIES\n <br />\n Book One: SPLIT INFINITY\n <br />\n Book Two: BLUE ADEPT\n <br />\n Book Three: JUXTAPOSITION\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22718'),
(10775, 'The Blue Air Compressor', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22970'),
(10776, 'Blue at the Mizzen', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The brand new Aubrey-Maturin novel, the twentieth in this classic series. ''If we had only two or three of Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin series, we would count ourselves lucky; with six or seven the author would be safely among the greats of historical fiction...This is great writing by an undiminished talent. Now on to Volume Twenty, and the liberation of Chile.'' WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE, Literary Review This is the twentieth book in Patrick O''Brian''s highly acclaimed, bestselling series chronicling the adventures of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part ship''s doctor, part secret agent. The novel''s stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon''s hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level admiral. He and Maturin have -- at last -- set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. Vivid with the salty tang of life at sea, O''Brian''s writing is as powerful as ever whether he writes of naval hierarchies, night-actions or the most celebrated fictional friendship since that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Blue at the Mizzen also brings alive the sights and sounds of revolutionary South America in a story as exciting as any O''Brian has written.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2354'),
(10777, 'Blue at the Mizzen', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The brand new Aubrey-Maturin novel, the twentieth in this classic series. ''If we had only two or three of Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin series, we would count ourselves lucky; with six or seven the author would be safely among the greats of historical fiction...This is great writing by an undiminished talent. Now on to Volume Twenty, and the liberation of Chile.'' WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE, Literary Review This is the twentieth book in Patrick O''Brian''s highly acclaimed, bestselling series chronicling the adventures of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part ship''s doctor, part secret agent. The novel''s stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon''s hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level admiral. He and Maturin have -- at last -- set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. Vivid with the salty tang of life at sea, O''Brian''s writing is as powerful as ever whether he writes of naval hierarchies, night-actions or the most celebrated fictional friendship since that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Blue at the Mizzen also brings alive the sights and sounds of revolutionary South America in a story as exciting as any O''Brian has written.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14398'),
(10778, 'Blue at the Mizzen', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The brand new Aubrey-Maturin novel, the twentieth in this classic series. ''If we had only two or three of Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin series, we would count ourselves lucky; with six or seven the author would be safely among the greats of historical fiction...This is great writing by an undiminished talent. Now on to Volume Twenty, and the liberation of Chile.'' WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE, Literary Review This is the twentieth book in Patrick O''Brian''s highly acclaimed, bestselling series chronicling the adventures of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part ship''s doctor, part secret agent. The novel''s stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon''s hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level admiral. He and Maturin have -- at last -- set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. Vivid with the salty tang of life at sea, O''Brian''s writing is as powerful as ever whether he writes of naval hierarchies, night-actions or the most celebrated fictional friendship since that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Blue at the Mizzen also brings alive the sights and sounds of revolutionary South America in a story as exciting as any O''Brian has written.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22461'),
(10779, 'Blue Belle', 'Andrew Vachss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York Cityâ€™s bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children.\n</p>\n<p>\n In Andrew Vachssâ€™s tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to fnd the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitutes in the hood. He also gets help in the form of a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by what she can do in a getaway car. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that is behind the Ghost Van or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a cadaverous karate expert who enjoys killing so much that he has named himself after death.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA book so ferocious, with characters so venal and actions so breakneck, that you dare not get in the way . . . . First rate.â€ â€” Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12329'),
(10780, 'Blue Collar &amp; Proud of It', 'Joe Lamacchia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The All-in-One Resource for Infrastructure Jobs, Green Careers, Reliable Blue-Collar Work, and More!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Not everyone is suited to a white-collar career or wants to get the four-year degree\n <br />\n that these jobs typically require. But that doesn''t mean you have to turn your back\n <br />\n on a great salary, exciting work, and a profession that commands respect.\n <br />\n Joe Lamacchia is proof. After graduating high school, he said no to college--"and found\n <br />\n personal and professional success as the owner of a thriving landscaping company. He also started BlueCollarandProudofIt.com, a resource for people who want to find work in the skilled trades. Blue-collar workers build and maintain our bridges, keep our cars running, fix our plumbing, and provide vital services to every home. That''s why Lamacchia\n <br />\n calls these ''necessary jobs.'' Most blue-collar work simply cannot be outsourced to foreign\n <br />\n countries and it''s often recession-proof. As Baby Boomers retire,...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4360'),
(10781, 'Blue Collar &amp; Proud of It', 'Joe Lamacchia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The All-in-One Resource for Infrastructure Jobs, Green Careers, Reliable Blue-Collar Work, and More!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Not everyone is suited to a white-collar career or wants to get the four-year degree\n <br />\n that these jobs typically require. But that doesn''t mean you have to turn your back\n <br />\n on a great salary, exciting work, and a profession that commands respect.\n <br />\n Joe Lamacchia is proof. After graduating high school, he said no to college--"and found\n <br />\n personal and professional success as the owner of a thriving landscaping company. He also started BlueCollarandProudofIt.com, a resource for people who want to find work in the skilled trades. Blue-collar workers build and maintain our bridges, keep our cars running, fix our plumbing, and provide vital services to every home. That''s why Lamacchia\n <br />\n calls these ''necessary jobs.'' Most blue-collar work simply cannot be outsourced to foreign\n <br />\n countries and it''s often recession-proof. As Baby Boomers retire,...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12242'),
(10782, 'Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar', 'Richard Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This vital and compelling collection of stories about work, compiled by novelist and short-story writer Richard Ford, explores tales of how we Americans are employed; how we find work and leave it; how it excites, ennobles, occasionally debilitates, but often defines us.\n</p>\n<p>\n Contributing writers for\n <em>\n  Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar\n </em>\n range from contemporary Pulitzer Prize winners Edward P. Jones and Jhumpa Lahiri to iconic short-story masters Tobias Wolff, Annie Proulx, and Joyce Carol Oates, as well as emerging writers such as Lewis Robinson. Encompassing a wide range of contemporary literary styles, ages, ethnic backgrounds, and geographical locations,\n <em>\n  Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar\n </em>\n is a masterful, exhilarating, and timely fictional exploration of work and its relationship to the human spirit.\n</p>\n<p>\n All author proceeds from\n <em>\n  Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work\n </em>\n will go directly to fund the free youth writing, tutoring, and publishing programs offered by 826michigan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9502'),
(10783, 'Blue Dahlia', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the first novel in the new *In the Garden* trilogy. Against the backdrop of a house steeped in history and a thriving new gardening business, three women unearth the memories of the past and uncover a dangerous secret-finding in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future.    Stella has a passion for planning that keeps her from taking too many risks.  But when she opens her heart to a new love,   she discovers that she will fight to the death to protect what''s hers.     Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee-and into her new life at Harper House and In the Garden nursery. She isn''t intimidated by the house-nor its mistress, local legend Roz Harper. Despite a reputation for being difficult, Roz has been nothing but kind to Stella, offering her a comfortable new place to live and a challenging new job as manager of the flourishing nursery. As Stella settles comfortably into her new life, she finds a nurturing friendship with Roz and with expectant mother Hayley. And she discovers a fierce attraction with ruggedly handsome landscaper Logan Kitridge    But someone isn''t happy about the budding romance...the Harper Bride. As the women dig into the history of Harper House, they discover that grief and rage have kept the Bride''s spirit alive long past her death. And now, she will do anything to destroy the passion that Logan and Stella share...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2549'),
(10784, 'Blue Dahlia', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the first novel in the new *In the Garden* trilogy. Against the backdrop of a house steeped in history and a thriving new gardening business, three women unearth the memories of the past and uncover a dangerous secret-finding in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future. Stella has a passion for planning that keeps her from taking too many risks. But when she opens her heart to a new love, she discovers that she will fight to the death to protect what''s hers. Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee-and into her new life at Harper House and In the Garden nursery. She isn''t intimidated by the house-nor its mistress, local legend Roz Harper. Despite a reputation for being difficult, Roz has been nothing but kind to Stella, offering her a comfortable new place to live and a challenging new job as manager of the flourishing nursery. As Stella settles comfortably into her new life, she finds a nurturing friendship with Roz and with expectant mother Hayley. And she discovers a fierce attraction with ruggedly handsome landscaper Logan Kitridge But someone isn''t happy about the budding romance...the Harper Bride. As the women dig into the history of Harper House, they discover that grief and rage have kept the Bride''s spirit alive long past her death. And now, she will do anything to destroy the passion that Logan and Stella share...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22326'),
(10785, 'Blue Dragon', 'Kylie Chan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The forces of Hell are poised to strike''Åš Emma''s beloved, John Chen, is a 3000 year old Chinese god. He is becoming weaker by the day in his battle to protect her and his daughter from the Demons who pursue them relentlessly. But it is Emma who is nagged by doubts about her own nature, and must find the courage to save them all''ÅšDark Heavens, Book One.Emma Donahue went to Hong Kong to become a nanny to John Chen''s daughter. But John''s world is different, and he is no ordinary businessman - all the gods, demons and dragons in hell want him dead. And though she doesn''t know it, Emma holds the power to save them all''ÅšKylie Chan''s Dark Heavens trilogy is the most exciting Urban Fantasy debut of 2010. Already a smash-hit in the author''s native Australia it brings a world of Oriental Gods, martial arts action and romance to the genre.FILE UNDER: Modern Fantasy [Martial arts / Chinese Gods / Magical action / Save the child!]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3622'),
(10786, 'Blue Dragon', 'Kylie Chan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The forces of Hell are poised to strike''Åš Emma''s beloved, John Chen, is a 3000 year old Chinese god. He is becoming weaker by the day in his battle to protect her and his daughter from the Demons who pursue them relentlessly. But it is Emma who is nagged by doubts about her own nature, and must find the courage to save them all''ÅšDark Heavens, Book One.Emma Donahue went to Hong Kong to become a nanny to John Chen''s daughter. But John''s world is different, and he is no ordinary businessman - all the gods, demons and dragons in hell want him dead. And though she doesn''t know it, Emma holds the power to save them all''ÅšKylie Chan''s Dark Heavens trilogy is the most exciting Urban Fantasy debut of 2010. Already a smash-hit in the author''s native Australia it brings a world of Oriental Gods, martial arts action and romance to the genre.FILE UNDER: Modern Fantasy [Martial arts / Chinese Gods / Magical action / Save the child!]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20860');
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(10787, 'The Blue Edge of Midnight', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick,\n </strong>\n This is the first entry in what I hope will be a series by journalist Jonathon King, who has written for the\n <em>\n  Philadelphia Daily News\n </em>\n and the\n <em>\n  South Florida Sun-Sentinel\n </em>\n . The story features Max Freeman, who was a cop in Philadelphia until he shot and killed a 12-year-old boy who was helping to rob a convenience store. Max was shot in the neck himself and now he keeps away from most people, living in a cabin in the backwaters of South Florida.\n</p>\n<p>\n While canoeing on the river near his home, Max spies a bundle floating near the shore which turns out to be a dead child wrapped in a sheet. Max''s first reaction is that the nightmare he thought he left behind has caught up with him. Pulling the bundle into his canoe, Max paddles downstream to the ranger station where he is met by the head ranger together with three detectives--almost as if they were waiting for him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Billy Manchester, a lawyer and friend to Max, tells him that the body of the girl he found is the third in a series of abductions that is terrifying South Florida communities. Because of his training as a cop, Max wants to help out with the investigation, but his offer of help is rebuffed by local law enforcement. He discovers that the killer is leaving global positioning system addresses with the bodies, which is why there was a team of detectives at the ranger station--they were on their way up-river to where they knew a body would be when Max brought it in.\n</p>\n<p>\n Max himself is now a suspect and, when he returns to his cabin to discover that a GPS unit has been planted, he knows he is going to get involved anyway. If he doesn''t find the murderer, the police are going to charge him. His search takes him deep into the Everglades, off the beaten track into communities closed to outsiders and hostile to questions.\n</p>\n<p>\n King gives a vivid portrayal of a Florida still not exploited by developers and also treats us to a wonderful cast of characters--Max and Billy especially, but also to some folks who have hardly been touched by the modern world.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With his first novel, King jumps into James W. Hall territory and lands firmly on his feet. Ex-Philadelphia cop Max Freeman, haunted by his killing of an adolescent robber, has retreated to an isolated cabin in the Florida Everglades. When he discovers the body of a kidnapped youngster, the victim of a serial killer, Freeman becomes a suspect who can clear his name only by finding the murderer. Although this is an often-used plot device, the author''s stylish prose and insider''s knowledge of the sinuous, dangerous Everglades give the gimmick a fresh twist. Especially fine are the passages showing the different faces of Florida as Freeman travels between his austere cabin and the plush penthouse apartment of his Palm Beach lawyer, Billy Manchester. A scene in which Freeman seeks out a group of furtive Everglades natives in their natural habitat reeks with atmosphere. In fact, King uses descriptions of places and environment to reveal character and attitude, much as Hall, James Lee Burke and Robert B. Parker do, if not as smoothly as those established masters. While fans of Carl Hiaasen''s black humor or Lawrence Shames''s wacky characters may not find this novel to their taste, most readers should hail Freeman as an appealing addition to the already large roster of independent-minded Florida investigators. Skillful writing, original characters and evocative settings initiate a welcome new series. (Apr. 1)Forecast: With a prominent blurb from Michael Connelly, this crime debut by a feature writer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel should get off to a strong start. Based on his ruggedly masculine author photo, King would seem a natural for the TV talk show circuit.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4054'),
(10788, 'The Blue Edge of Midnight', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick,\n </strong>\n This is the first entry in what I hope will be a series by journalist Jonathon King, who has written for the\n <em>\n  Philadelphia Daily News\n </em>\n and the\n <em>\n  South Florida Sun-Sentinel\n </em>\n . The story features Max Freeman, who was a cop in Philadelphia until he shot and killed a 12-year-old boy who was helping to rob a convenience store. Max was shot in the neck himself and now he keeps away from most people, living in a cabin in the backwaters of South Florida.\n</p>\n<p>\n While canoeing on the river near his home, Max spies a bundle floating near the shore which turns out to be a dead child wrapped in a sheet. Max''s first reaction is that the nightmare he thought he left behind has caught up with him. Pulling the bundle into his canoe, Max paddles downstream to the ranger station where he is met by the head ranger together with three detectives--almost as if they were waiting for him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Billy Manchester, a lawyer and friend to Max, tells him that the body of the girl he found is the third in a series of abductions that is terrifying South Florida communities. Because of his training as a cop, Max wants to help out with the investigation, but his offer of help is rebuffed by local law enforcement. He discovers that the killer is leaving global positioning system addresses with the bodies, which is why there was a team of detectives at the ranger station--they were on their way up-river to where they knew a body would be when Max brought it in.\n</p>\n<p>\n Max himself is now a suspect and, when he returns to his cabin to discover that a GPS unit has been planted, he knows he is going to get involved anyway. If he doesn''t find the murderer, the police are going to charge him. His search takes him deep into the Everglades, off the beaten track into communities closed to outsiders and hostile to questions.\n</p>\n<p>\n King gives a vivid portrayal of a Florida still not exploited by developers and also treats us to a wonderful cast of characters--Max and Billy especially, but also to some folks who have hardly been touched by the modern world.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With his first novel, King jumps into James W. Hall territory and lands firmly on his feet. Ex-Philadelphia cop Max Freeman, haunted by his killing of an adolescent robber, has retreated to an isolated cabin in the Florida Everglades. When he discovers the body of a kidnapped youngster, the victim of a serial killer, Freeman becomes a suspect who can clear his name only by finding the murderer. Although this is an often-used plot device, the author''s stylish prose and insider''s knowledge of the sinuous, dangerous Everglades give the gimmick a fresh twist. Especially fine are the passages showing the different faces of Florida as Freeman travels between his austere cabin and the plush penthouse apartment of his Palm Beach lawyer, Billy Manchester. A scene in which Freeman seeks out a group of furtive Everglades natives in their natural habitat reeks with atmosphere. In fact, King uses descriptions of places and environment to reveal character and attitude, much as Hall, James Lee Burke and Robert B. Parker do, if not as smoothly as those established masters. While fans of Carl Hiaasen''s black humor or Lawrence Shames''s wacky characters may not find this novel to their taste, most readers should hail Freeman as an appealing addition to the already large roster of independent-minded Florida investigators. Skillful writing, original characters and evocative settings initiate a welcome new series. (Apr. 1)Forecast: With a prominent blurb from Michael Connelly, this crime debut by a feature writer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel should get off to a strong start. Based on his ruggedly masculine author photo, King would seem a natural for the TV talk show circuit.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10737'),
(10789, 'The blue edge of midnight', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick,\n </strong>\n This is the first entry in what I hope will be a series by journalist Jonathon King, who has written for the\n <em>\n  Philadelphia Daily News\n </em>\n and the\n <em>\n  South Florida Sun-Sentinel\n </em>\n . The story features Max Freeman, who was a cop in Philadelphia until he shot and killed a 12-year-old boy who was helping to rob a convenience store. Max was shot in the neck himself and now he keeps away from most people, living in a cabin in the backwaters of South Florida.\n</p>\n<p>\n While canoeing on the river near his home, Max spies a bundle floating near the shore which turns out to be a dead child wrapped in a sheet. Max''s first reaction is that the nightmare he thought he left behind has caught up with him. Pulling the bundle into his canoe, Max paddles downstream to the ranger station where he is met by the head ranger together with three detectives--almost as if they were waiting for him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Billy Manchester, a lawyer and friend to Max, tells him that the body of the girl he found is the third in a series of abductions that is terrifying South Florida communities. Because of his training as a cop, Max wants to help out with the investigation, but his offer of help is rebuffed by local law enforcement. He discovers that the killer is leaving global positioning system addresses with the bodies, which is why there was a team of detectives at the ranger station--they were on their way up-river to where they knew a body would be when Max brought it in.\n</p>\n<p>\n Max himself is now a suspect and, when he returns to his cabin to discover that a GPS unit has been planted, he knows he is going to get involved anyway. If he doesn''t find the murderer, the police are going to charge him. His search takes him deep into the Everglades, off the beaten track into communities closed to outsiders and hostile to questions.\n</p>\n<p>\n King gives a vivid portrayal of a Florida still not exploited by developers and also treats us to a wonderful cast of characters--Max and Billy especially, but also to some folks who have hardly been touched by the modern world.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With his first novel, King jumps into James W. Hall territory and lands firmly on his feet. Ex-Philadelphia cop Max Freeman, haunted by his killing of an adolescent robber, has retreated to an isolated cabin in the Florida Everglades. When he discovers the body of a kidnapped youngster, the victim of a serial killer, Freeman becomes a suspect who can clear his name only by finding the murderer. Although this is an often-used plot device, the author''s stylish prose and insider''s knowledge of the sinuous, dangerous Everglades give the gimmick a fresh twist. Especially fine are the passages showing the different faces of Florida as Freeman travels between his austere cabin and the plush penthouse apartment of his Palm Beach lawyer, Billy Manchester. A scene in which Freeman seeks out a group of furtive Everglades natives in their natural habitat reeks with atmosphere. In fact, King uses descriptions of places and environment to reveal character and attitude, much as Hall, James Lee Burke and Robert B. Parker do, if not as smoothly as those established masters. While fans of Carl Hiaasen''s black humor or Lawrence Shames''s wacky characters may not find this novel to their taste, most readers should hail Freeman as an appealing addition to the already large roster of independent-minded Florida investigators. Skillful writing, original characters and evocative settings initiate a welcome new series. (Apr. 1)Forecast: With a prominent blurb from Michael Connelly, this crime debut by a feature writer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel should get off to a strong start. Based on his ruggedly masculine author photo, King would seem a natural for the TV talk show circuit.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20520'),
(10790, 'Blue Gold', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A Kurt Austin Adventure**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Serpent,* his *New York Times* bestseller, Clive Cussler introduced Kurt Austin, a hero for the new millennium, and "created a new bunch of NUMA supersleuths who infused his work with a...jolt of energy" *(The Denver Post).* Now Austin and his crew slake their thirst for action as they attempt to drown an eco-extortionist''s plan to control the world''s freshwater supply.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **BLUE GOLD**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A Novel from the NUMA Files**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments. Few believe the tribe exists -- and even fewer suspect its deity may hold knowledge that can change the course of history.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency crew leader Kurt Austin, an investigation into the sudden deaths of rare whales leads him to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission. Meanwhile, in South America''s lush hills, a specially assigned NUMA crew turns up the white-goddess legend -- and a murderous cadre of bio-pirates intent on stealing medicinal secrets worth millions. Soon Austin and his crew realize they''re working the opposite ends of the same grand scheme. A billionaire California tycoon is poised to rise to power by monopolizing the earth''s vastly depleted freshwater reserves and ultimately dominate the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Austin has a hunch Venezuela''s mythical tribal goddess has some real roots in science, and may be the key to locating a secret formula that could turn vast amounts of seawater into fresh. But with each step into the bush, he and his NUMA team feel like fish out of water -- and must fight a deadly, twisting trail of enemies through a dense jungle of treachery, blackmail, and murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6705'),
(10791, 'Blue Gold', 'Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A Kurt Austin Adventure** In *Serpent,* his *New York Times* bestseller, Clive Cussler introduced Kurt Austin, a hero for the new millennium, and "created a new bunch of NUMA supersleuths who infused his work with a...jolt of energy" *(The Denver Post).* Now Austin and his crew slake their thirst for action as they attempt to drown an eco-extortionist''s plan to control the world''s freshwater supply. **BLUE GOLD** **A Novel from the NUMA Files** From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments. Few believe the tribe exists -- and even fewer suspect its deity may hold knowledge that can change the course of history. For National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency crew leader Kurt Austin, an investigation into the sudden deaths of rare whales leads him to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission. Meanwhile, in South America''s lush hills, a specially assigned NUMA crew turns up the white-goddess legend -- and a murderous cadre of bio-pirates intent on stealing medicinal secrets worth millions. Soon Austin and his crew realize they''re working the opposite ends of the same grand scheme. A billionaire California tycoon is poised to rise to power by monopolizing the earth''s vastly depleted freshwater reserves and ultimately dominate the world. Austin has a hunch Venezuela''s mythical tribal goddess has some real roots in science, and may be the key to locating a secret formula that could turn vast amounts of seawater into fresh. But with each step into the bush, he and his NUMA team feel like fish out of water -- and must fight a deadly, twisting trail of enemies through a dense jungle of treachery, blackmail, and murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17349'),
(10792, 'Blue Gold', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A Kurt Austin Adventure**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Serpent,* his *New York Times* bestseller, Clive Cussler introduced Kurt Austin, a hero for the new millennium, and "created a new bunch of NUMA supersleuths who infused his work with a...jolt of energy" *(The Denver Post).* Now Austin and his crew slake their thirst for action as they attempt to drown an eco-extortionist''s plan to control the world''s freshwater supply.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **BLUE GOLD**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A Novel from the NUMA Files**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments. Few believe the tribe exists -- and even fewer suspect its deity may hold knowledge that can change the course of history.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency crew leader Kurt Austin, an investigation into the sudden deaths of rare whales leads him to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission. Meanwhile, in South America''s lush hills, a specially assigned NUMA crew turns up the white-goddess legend -- and a murderous cadre of bio-pirates intent on stealing medicinal secrets worth millions. Soon Austin and his crew realize they''re working the opposite ends of the same grand scheme. A billionaire California tycoon is poised to rise to power by monopolizing the earth''s vastly depleted freshwater reserves and ultimately dominate the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Austin has a hunch Venezuela''s mythical tribal goddess has some real roots in science, and may be the key to locating a secret formula that could turn vast amounts of seawater into fresh. But with each step into the bush, he and his NUMA team feel like fish out of water -- and must fight a deadly, twisting trail of enemies through a dense jungle of treachery, blackmail, and murder.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A Kurt Austin Adventure** In *Serpent,* his *New York Times* bestseller, Clive Cussler introduced Kurt Austin, a hero for the new millennium, and "created a new bunch of NUMA supersleuths who infused his work with a...jolt of energy" *(The Denver Post).* Now Austin and his crew slake their thirst for action as they attempt to drown an eco-extortionist''s plan to control the world''s freshwater supply. **BLUE GOLD** **A Novel from the NUMA Files** From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments. Few believe the tribe exists -- and even fewer suspect its deity may hold knowledge that can change the course of history. For National Underwater &amp; Marine Agency crew leader Kurt Austin, an investigation into the sudden deaths of rare whales leads him to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission. Meanwhile, in South America''s lush hills, a specially assigned NUMA crew turns up the white-goddess legend -- and a murderous cadre of bio-pirates intent on stealing medicinal secrets worth millions. Soon Austin and his crew realize they''re working the opposite ends of the same grand scheme. A billionaire California tycoon is poised to rise to power by monopolizing the earth''s vastly depleted freshwater reserves and ultimately dominate the world. Austin has a hunch Venezuela''s mythical tribal goddess has some real roots in science, and may be the key to locating a secret formula that could turn vast amounts of seawater into fresh. But with each step into the bush, he and his NUMA team feel like fish out of water -- and must fight a deadly, twisting trail of enemies through a dense jungle of treachery, blackmail, and murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27014'),
(10793, 'The Blue Helmet', 'William Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Winner of the 2007 CLA young adult canadian book award\n <br />\n An OLA top ten best bet for schools and libraries\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWilliam Bell is arguably one of the most wide-ranging and reliable of Canadian authors. His range is impressive. So is the high quality of his writing.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Books in Canada_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  The Blue Helmet\n </strong>\n reminds the reader that all actions have consequences, and that one must take responsibility. . . . Bell has created a fast-paced and moving story of a teen trying to find his place in the world.â€\n <br />\n â€” (Highly Recommended)\n <em>\n  CM magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lee wants to be a Tarantula â€“ a member of the biggest, most powerful gang in his neighbourhood. But when his initiation goes wrong and the police catch him robbing an auto supply store, Leeâ€™s father sends him to live with his aunt in New Toronto.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lee feels more lost than ever. His motherâ€™s death from cancer, and his fatherâ€™s constant absence working two jobs mean he has practically had to raise himself. But though he initially resists his Aunt Reena and the customers of Reenaâ€™s Unique CafÃ© â€“ a ragtag collection of the unusual, the unkempt and the deeply eccentric â€“ Lee gradually learns to open himself up to his new surroundings. When Lee strikes up an unlikely friendship he is suddenly confronted by the ravages of violence, and is forced to face the consequences of his own aggression.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Blue Helmet\n </strong>\n is a powerful portrait of one young manâ€™s struggle to come into his own, and the peace that comes from the achievement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/202'),
(10794, 'The Blue Helmet', 'William Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Winner of the 2007 CLA young adult canadian book award\n <br />\n An OLA top ten best bet for schools and libraries\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWilliam Bell is arguably one of the most wide-ranging and reliable of Canadian authors. His range is impressive. So is the high quality of his writing.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Books in Canada_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  The Blue Helmet\n </strong>\n reminds the reader that all actions have consequences, and that one must take responsibility. . . . Bell has created a fast-paced and moving story of a teen trying to find his place in the world.â€\n <br />\n â€” (Highly Recommended)\n <em>\n  CM magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lee wants to be a Tarantula â€“ a member of the biggest, most powerful gang in his neighbourhood. But when his initiation goes wrong and the police catch him robbing an auto supply store, Leeâ€™s father sends him to live with his aunt in New Toronto.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lee feels more lost than ever. His motherâ€™s death from cancer, and his fatherâ€™s constant absence working two jobs mean he has practically had to raise himself. But though he initially resists his Aunt Reena and the customers of Reenaâ€™s Unique CafÃ© â€“ a ragtag collection of the unusual, the unkempt and the deeply eccentric â€“ Lee gradually learns to open himself up to his new surroundings. When Lee strikes up an unlikely friendship he is suddenly confronted by the ravages of violence, and is forced to face the consequences of his own aggression.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Blue Helmet\n </strong>\n is a powerful portrait of one young manâ€™s struggle to come into his own, and the peace that comes from the achievement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8410'),
(10795, 'The Blue Helmet', 'William Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Winner of the 2007 CLA young adult canadian book award\n <br />\n An OLA top ten best bet for schools and libraries\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWilliam Bell is arguably one of the most wide-ranging and reliable of Canadian authors. His range is impressive. So is the high quality of his writing.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Books in Canada_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  The Blue Helmet\n </strong>\n reminds the reader that all actions have consequences, and that one must take responsibility. . . . Bell has created a fast-paced and moving story of a teen trying to find his place in the world.â€\n <br />\n â€” (Highly Recommended)\n <em>\n  CM magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lee wants to be a Tarantula â€“ a member of the biggest, most powerful gang in his neighbourhood. But when his initiation goes wrong and the police catch him robbing an auto supply store, Leeâ€™s father sends him to live with his aunt in New Toronto.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lee feels more lost than ever. His motherâ€™s death from cancer, and his fatherâ€™s constant absence working two jobs mean he has practically had to raise himself. But though he initially resists his Aunt Reena and the customers of Reenaâ€™s Unique CafÃ© â€“ a ragtag collection of the unusual, the unkempt and the deeply eccentric â€“ Lee gradually learns to open himself up to his new surroundings. When Lee strikes up an unlikely friendship he is suddenly confronted by the ravages of violence, and is forced to face the consequences of his own aggression.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Blue Helmet\n </strong>\n is a powerful portrait of one young manâ€™s struggle to come into his own, and the peace that comes from the achievement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24687'),
(10796, 'Blue Ice', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18337'),
(10797, 'Blue Mars', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Red Mars, the kickoff to Robinson''s epic Mars trilogy, won the Nebula for best SF novel of 1992; its follow-up, Green Mars, won the parallel Hugo for 1994. The conclusion to the saga is not unlike the terrain of Robinson''s Red Planet: fertile and fully developed in some spots, vast and arid in others?but, ultimately, it''s an impressive achievement. Using the last 200 years of American history as his template for Martian history, Robinson projects his tale of Mars''s colonization from the 21st century, in which settlers successfully revolt against Earth, into the next century, when various interests on Mars work out their differences on issues ranging from government to the terraforming of the planet and immigration. Sax Russell, Maya Toitovna and others reprise their roles from the first two novels, but the dominant "personality" is the planet itself, which Robinson describes in exhaustive naturalistic detail. Characters look repeatedly for sermons in its stones and are nearly overwhelmed by textbook abstracts on the biological and geological minutiae of their environment. Not until the closing chapters, when they begin confronting their mortality, does the human dimension of the story balance out its awesome ecological extrapolations. Robinson''s achievement here is on a par with Bradbury''s The Martian Chronicles and Herbert''s Dune, even if his clinical detachment may leave some readers wondering whether there really is life on Mars. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This third book in Robinson''s hard-science Mars trilogy follows 1992 Nebula winner Red Mars (LJ 11/15/92) and 1994 Hugo winner Green Mars (LJ 3/15/94). In the 21st century, colonists almost succeed in terraforming Mars. While they fight for independence from Earth and attempt to avert a civil war, they find their new civilization threatened by an ice age. A well-written, thoughtful conclusion to the trilogy. Highly recommended for sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3694'),
(10798, 'Blue Mars', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Red Mars, the kickoff to Robinson''s epic Mars trilogy, won the Nebula for best SF novel of 1992; its follow-up, Green Mars, won the parallel Hugo for 1994. The conclusion to the saga is not unlike the terrain of Robinson''s Red Planet: fertile and fully developed in some spots, vast and arid in others?but, ultimately, it''s an impressive achievement. Using the last 200 years of American history as his template for Martian history, Robinson projects his tale of Mars''s colonization from the 21st century, in which settlers successfully revolt against Earth, into the next century, when various interests on Mars work out their differences on issues ranging from government to the terraforming of the planet and immigration. Sax Russell, Maya Toitovna and others reprise their roles from the first two novels, but the dominant "personality" is the planet itself, which Robinson describes in exhaustive naturalistic detail. Characters look repeatedly for sermons in its stones and are nearly overwhelmed by textbook abstracts on the biological and geological minutiae of their environment. Not until the closing chapters, when they begin confronting their mortality, does the human dimension of the story balance out its awesome ecological extrapolations. Robinson''s achievement here is on a par with Bradbury''s The Martian Chronicles and Herbert''s Dune, even if his clinical detachment may leave some readers wondering whether there really is life on Mars. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This third book in Robinson''s hard-science Mars trilogy follows 1992 Nebula winner Red Mars (LJ 11/15/92) and 1994 Hugo winner Green Mars (LJ 3/15/94). In the 21st century, colonists almost succeed in terraforming Mars. While they fight for independence from Earth and attempt to avert a civil war, they find their new civilization threatened by an ice age. A well-written, thoughtful conclusion to the trilogy. Highly recommended for sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13569'),
(10799, 'Blue Mars', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20825'),
(10800, 'Blue Moon', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel ''Richard was an alpha werewolf. It was his only serious flaw. We''d broken up after I''d seen him eat somebody.'' You never forget your ex-fiance. And when the call came at three in the morning, I thought for a moment it was him. It wasn''t. It was his brother. And it wasn''t good news. Apparently the former love of my life had got himself thrown into jail for assaulting a woman. Since I make my living as a preternatural expert, I tend to believe almost anything''s possible. But though he may be one of the monsters, Richard would never harm a woman. So it''s Anita Blake to the rescue. I''ve got just a few days to spring Richard and find out who framed him '' and why. There''s a full moon coming, and if my werewolf love is still behind bars when it rises, he''ll be facing a lot worse than an assault charge...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3479'),
(10801, 'Blue Moon', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel ''Richard was an alpha werewolf. It was his only serious flaw. We''d broken up after I''d seen him eat somebody.'' You never forget your ex-fiance. And when the call came at three in the morning, I thought for a moment it was him. It wasn''t. It was his brother. And it wasn''t good news. Apparently the former love of my life had got himself thrown into jail for assaulting a woman. Since I make my living as a preternatural expert, I tend to believe almost anything''s possible. But though he may be one of the monsters, Richard would never harm a woman. So it''s Anita Blake to the rescue. I''ve got just a few days to spring Richard and find out who framed him '' and why. There''s a full moon coming, and if my werewolf love is still behind bars when it rises, he''ll be facing a lot worse than an assault charge...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14922'),
(10802, 'Blue Moon', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel ''Richard was an alpha werewolf. It was his only serious flaw. We''d broken up after I''d seen him eat somebody.'' You never forget your ex-fiance. And when the call came at three in the morning, I thought for a moment it was him. It wasn''t. It was his brother. And it wasn''t good news. Apparently the former love of my life had got himself thrown into jail for assaulting a woman. Since I make my living as a preternatural expert, I tend to believe almost anything''s possible. But though he may be one of the monsters, Richard would never harm a woman. So it''s Anita Blake to the rescue. I''ve got just a few days to spring Richard and find out who framed him '' and why. There''s a full moon coming, and if my werewolf love is still behind bars when it rises, he''ll be facing a lot worse than an assault charge...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21009'),
(10803, 'Blue Noon', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Upâ€“There is something evil brewing in Bixby, and the teens from the previous Midnighters titles must save the world from the darklings. The monsters have found a way to expand midnight so that all humans will enter the blue time and become prey. Complicating the crisis is Rex''s residual darkling characteristics that leave him with the unsettling notion that other humans are food, Jonathan''s secret desire that the midnight hour could last forever so that he would always be free of the confining flatland gravity, and the fact that no one has yet figured out why the darklings wish to dispose of Jessica Day.\n <em>\n  Blue Noon\n </em>\n has an end of the world premise that will appeal to Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans. Even though the characters are not completely developed, they all have distinct skills that set them apart from one another. Westerfeld doesn''t rehash all the events of the earlier books. Instead, he subtly includes the information that is needed to follow the story. Since the characters'' schemes never proceed according to plan, the plot maintains an exciting pace. However, it is never fully explained why everything works out the way it does. Despite this minor flaw, this is fun recreational reading._â€“Heather M. Campbell, Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n the darklings will hunt once again\n</p>\n<p>\n The secret hour when time freezes arrives every night at midnight in Bixby, Oklahoma. It''s a dangerous time, when five teenagers are the only humans awake and dark creatures crawl out of the shadows, but at least the midnight hour is regular and predictable.\n</p>\n<p>\n Until suddenly, the blue time comes . . . in the middle of the day.\n</p>\n<p>\n The noise of school stops. Cheerleaders are frozen in midair, teachers brought to a standstill. Everything is the haunted blue color of the midnight hour.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Midnighters can''t understand what''s happening, but as they scramble for answers, they discover that the walls between the secret hour and real time are crumbling. Soon the dark creatures will have a chance to feed after centuries of waiting, unless these five teenagers can find a way to stop them.\n</p>\n<p>\n A desperate race against time, a mind-blowing mystery of paranormal logic, a tale of ancient evil and spine-chilling sacrifice: blue noon is the exhilarating third volume in the Midnighters series by acclaimed author Scott Westerfeld.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1340'),
(10804, 'Blue Noon', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Upâ€“There is something evil brewing in Bixby, and the teens from the previous Midnighters titles must save the world from the darklings. The monsters have found a way to expand midnight so that all humans will enter the blue time and become prey. Complicating the crisis is Rex''s residual darkling characteristics that leave him with the unsettling notion that other humans are food, Jonathan''s secret desire that the midnight hour could last forever so that he would always be free of the confining flatland gravity, and the fact that no one has yet figured out why the darklings wish to dispose of Jessica Day.\n <em>\n  Blue Noon\n </em>\n has an end of the world premise that will appeal to Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans. Even though the characters are not completely developed, they all have distinct skills that set them apart from one another. Westerfeld doesn''t rehash all the events of the earlier books. Instead, he subtly includes the information that is needed to follow the story. Since the characters'' schemes never proceed according to plan, the plot maintains an exciting pace. However, it is never fully explained why everything works out the way it does. Despite this minor flaw, this is fun recreational reading._â€“Heather M. Campbell, Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n the darklings will hunt once again\n</p>\n<p>\n The secret hour when time freezes arrives every night at midnight in Bixby, Oklahoma. It''s a dangerous time, when five teenagers are the only humans awake and dark creatures crawl out of the shadows, but at least the midnight hour is regular and predictable.\n</p>\n<p>\n Until suddenly, the blue time comes . . . in the middle of the day.\n</p>\n<p>\n The noise of school stops. Cheerleaders are frozen in midair, teachers brought to a standstill. Everything is the haunted blue color of the midnight hour.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Midnighters can''t understand what''s happening, but as they scramble for answers, they discover that the walls between the secret hour and real time are crumbling. Soon the dark creatures will have a chance to feed after centuries of waiting, unless these five teenagers can find a way to stop them.\n</p>\n<p>\n A desperate race against time, a mind-blowing mystery of paranormal logic, a tale of ancient evil and spine-chilling sacrifice: blue noon is the exhilarating third volume in the Midnighters series by acclaimed author Scott Westerfeld.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13353'),
(10805, 'Blue noon', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Upâ€“There is something evil brewing in Bixby, and the teens from the previous Midnighters titles must save the world from the darklings. The monsters have found a way to expand midnight so that all humans will enter the blue time and become prey. Complicating the crisis is Rex''s residual darkling characteristics that leave him with the unsettling notion that other humans are food, Jonathan''s secret desire that the midnight hour could last forever so that he would always be free of the confining flatland gravity, and the fact that no one has yet figured out why the darklings wish to dispose of Jessica Day.\n <em>\n  Blue Noon\n </em>\n has an end of the world premise that will appeal to Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans. Even though the characters are not completely developed, they all have distinct skills that set them apart from one another. Westerfeld doesn''t rehash all the events of the earlier books. Instead, he subtly includes the information that is needed to follow the story. Since the characters'' schemes never proceed according to plan, the plot maintains an exciting pace. However, it is never fully explained why everything works out the way it does. Despite this minor flaw, this is fun recreational reading._â€“Heather M. Campbell, Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n the darklings will hunt once again\n</p>\n<p>\n The secret hour when time freezes arrives every night at midnight in Bixby, Oklahoma. It''s a dangerous time, when five teenagers are the only humans awake and dark creatures crawl out of the shadows, but at least the midnight hour is regular and predictable.\n</p>\n<p>\n Until suddenly, the blue time comes . . . in the middle of the day.\n</p>\n<p>\n The noise of school stops. Cheerleaders are frozen in midair, teachers brought to a standstill. Everything is the haunted blue color of the midnight hour.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Midnighters can''t understand what''s happening, but as they scramble for answers, they discover that the walls between the secret hour and real time are crumbling. Soon the dark creatures will have a chance to feed after centuries of waiting, unless these five teenagers can find a way to stop them.\n</p>\n<p>\n A desperate race against time, a mind-blowing mystery of paranormal logic, a tale of ancient evil and spine-chilling sacrifice: blue noon is the exhilarating third volume in the Midnighters series by acclaimed author Scott Westerfeld.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23622'),
(10806, 'The Blue Notebook', 'James A. Levine &amp; James Levine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dear Reader:Every now and then, we come across a novel that moves us like no other, that seems like a miracle of the imagination, and that haunts us long after the book is closed. James Levineâ€™s The Blue Notebook is that kind of book. It is the story of Batuk, an Indian girl who is taken to Mumbai from the countryside and sold into prostitution by her father; the blue notebook is her diary, in which she recalls her early childhood, records her life on the Common Street, and makes up beautiful and fantastic tales about a silver-eyed leopard and a poor boy who fells a giant with a single gold coin. How did Levine, a British-born doctor at the Mayo Clinic, manage to conjure the voice of a fifteen-year-old female Indian prostitute? It all began, he told me, when, as part of his medical research, he was interviewing homeless children on a street in Mumbai known as the Street of Cages, where child prostitutes work. A young woman writing in a notebook outside her cage caught Levineâ€™s attention. The powerful image of a young prostitute engaged in the act of writing haunted him, and he himself began to write.The Blue Notebook brings us into the life of a young woman for whom stories are not just entertainment but a means of survival. Even as the novel humanizes and addresses the devastating global issue of child prostitution, it also delivers an inspiring message about the uplifting power of words and readingâ€“a message that is so important to hold on to, especially in difficult times. Dr. Levine is donating all his U.S. proceeds from this book to help exploited children. Batukâ€™s story can make a difference.Sincerely,Celina SpiegelPublisherFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4937'),
(10807, 'The Blue Notebook', 'James A. Levine; James Levine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dear Reader:Every now and then, we come across a novel that moves us like no other, that seems like a miracle of the imagination, and that haunts us long after the book is closed. James Levineâ€™s The Blue Notebook is that kind of book. It is the story of Batuk, an Indian girl who is taken to Mumbai from the countryside and sold into prostitution by her father; the blue notebook is her diary, in which she recalls her early childhood, records her life on the Common Street, and makes up beautiful and fantastic tales about a silver-eyed leopard and a poor boy who fells a giant with a single gold coin. How did Levine, a British-born doctor at the Mayo Clinic, manage to conjure the voice of a fifteen-year-old female Indian prostitute? It all began, he told me, when, as part of his medical research, he was interviewing homeless children on a street in Mumbai known as the Street of Cages, where child prostitutes work. A young woman writing in a notebook outside her cage caught Levineâ€™s attention. The powerful image of a young prostitute engaged in the act of writing haunted him, and he himself began to write.The Blue Notebook brings us into the life of a young woman for whom stories are not just entertainment but a means of survival. Even as the novel humanizes and addresses the devastating global issue of child prostitution, it also delivers an inspiring message about the uplifting power of words and readingâ€“a message that is so important to hold on to, especially in difficult times. Dr. Levine is donating all his U.S. proceeds from this book to help exploited children. Batukâ€™s story can make a difference.Sincerely,Celina SpiegelPublisherFrom the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19785'),
(10808, 'Bluebeard', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man''s compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3585'),
(10809, 'Bluebeard', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man''s compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13271'),
(10810, 'Bluebeard', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man''s compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20880'),
(10811, 'Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City', 'Nelson Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''When I was first approached by HBO to use Nelson Johnson''s book as the basis for a TV series, my biggest challenge was choosing a time period in which to set it. Ultimately I settled on the 1920s of Atlantic City''s legendary treasurer Nucky Johnson. A place of spectacle, shady politics, fast women and backroom deals'' -Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of The Sopranos and Executive Producer of Boardwalk Empire From its humble beginnings as a fledgling seaside resort, Atlantic City grew to be America''s playground - loud, brash, and dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure. In 1920 alcohol was banned across the States under Prohibition, yet, thanks to racketeers and corrupt politicians, the liquor in Atlantic City never stopped flowing. As the brothels, bars and gambling rooms flourished, the reputation of both the city itself and its most famous resident grew. Enoch ''Nucky'' Johnson was a powerful political force and leading figure in organised crime. His corrupt alliance created a city where the rules just didn''t apply, the dollar ruled and the law could be bought. The book that inspired the HBO series, Boardwalk Empire brings to life Nucky and the whole cast of his shady associates. Recounting the life of this fascinating city and its most colourful residents, it''s a brilliantly told story of a city built on cards and dice, booze and broads.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2563');
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(10812, 'Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City', 'Nelson Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''When I was first approached by HBO to use Nelson Johnson''s book as the basis for a TV series, my biggest challenge was choosing a time period in which to set it. Ultimately I settled on the 1920s of Atlantic City''s legendary treasurer Nucky Johnson. A place of spectacle, shady politics, fast women and backroom deals'' -Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of The Sopranos and Executive Producer of Boardwalk Empire From its humble beginnings as a fledgling seaside resort, Atlantic City grew to be America''s playground - loud, brash, and dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure. In 1920 alcohol was banned across the States under Prohibition, yet, thanks to racketeers and corrupt politicians, the liquor in Atlantic City never stopped flowing. As the brothels, bars and gambling rooms flourished, the reputation of both the city itself and its most famous resident grew. Enoch ''Nucky'' Johnson was a powerful political force and leading figure in organised crime. His corrupt alliance created a city where the rules just didn''t apply, the dollar ruled and the law could be bought. The book that inspired the HBO series, Boardwalk Empire brings to life Nucky and the whole cast of his shady associates. Recounting the life of this fascinating city and its most colourful residents, it''s a brilliantly told story of a city built on cards and dice, booze and broads.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22226'),
(10813, 'The Boat of a Million Years', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Others have written SF on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on, unaging, undying, through the centuries and millenia. We follow them through over 2000 years, up to our time and beyond-to the promise of utopia, and to the challenge of the stars.A milestone in modern science fiction, a New York Times Notable Book on its first publication in 1989, this is one of a great writer''s finest works.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21503'),
(10814, 'Boats of the Glen Carrig and Other Nautical Adve: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson', 'William Hope Hodgson &amp; Jeremy Lassen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures: Being the First Volume of the Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, edited by Jeremy Lassen, collects all the series sea fiction of this British fantasist, much of it long unavailable. As the 23 short stories show, Hodgson (1877-1918), best known for his novels of cosmic vision, could write quite successfully for the commercial magazine market of his day.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Volume one of the Hodgson''s collected fiction starts the project well, for it contains much of his best work. Hodgson was a professional merchant mariner for much of his life until his death in World War I, and his career began during the last days of seafaring under sail and without radio. His mostreprinted work is the novella\n  <em>\n   The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"\n  </em>\n  , a compelling compounding of survival at sea and the supernatural. In his Sargasso Sea stories, corralled in the book''s second section, Hodgson takes the legendary endless mass of weeds in the North Atlantic, which imprisoned ships eternally, as the pretext for six Lovecraftian-before-Lovecraft, undeniably effective tales. The 13 adventures of Captain Gault and the two of Captain Jat are more classic pulp-mystery thrillers; they reflect the era when a captain was "master under God" in fact and in law, and also Anglo-German tensions before World War I. For historically minded genre fans, especially if they savor some sea salt in their fantasy.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/242'),
(10815, 'Boats of the Glen Carrig and Other Nautical Adve: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson', 'William Hope Hodgson &amp; Jeremy Lassen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures: Being the First Volume of the Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, edited by Jeremy Lassen, collects all the series sea fiction of this British fantasist, much of it long unavailable. As the 23 short stories show, Hodgson (1877-1918), best known for his novels of cosmic vision, could write quite successfully for the commercial magazine market of his day.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Volume one of the Hodgson''s collected fiction starts the project well, for it contains much of his best work. Hodgson was a professional merchant mariner for much of his life until his death in World War I, and his career began during the last days of seafaring under sail and without radio. His mostreprinted work is the novella\n  <em>\n   The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"\n  </em>\n  , a compelling compounding of survival at sea and the supernatural. In his Sargasso Sea stories, corralled in the book''s second section, Hodgson takes the legendary endless mass of weeds in the North Atlantic, which imprisoned ships eternally, as the pretext for six Lovecraftian-before-Lovecraft, undeniably effective tales. The 13 adventures of Captain Gault and the two of Captain Jat are more classic pulp-mystery thrillers; they reflect the era when a captain was "master under God" in fact and in law, and also Anglo-German tensions before World War I. For historically minded genre fans, especially if they savor some sea salt in their fantasy.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10371'),
(10816, 'Boats of the Glen Carrig and Other Nautical Adve: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson', 'William Hope Hodgson; Jeremy Lassen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures: Being the First Volume of the Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, edited by Jeremy Lassen, collects all the series sea fiction of this British fantasist, much of it long unavailable. As the 23 short stories show, Hodgson (1877-1918), best known for his novels of cosmic vision, could write quite successfully for the commercial magazine market of his day.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Volume one of the Hodgson''s collected fiction starts the project well, for it contains much of his best work. Hodgson was a professional merchant mariner for much of his life until his death in World War I, and his career began during the last days of seafaring under sail and without radio. His mostreprinted work is the novella\n  <em>\n   The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"\n  </em>\n  , a compelling compounding of survival at sea and the supernatural. In his Sargasso Sea stories, corralled in the book''s second section, Hodgson takes the legendary endless mass of weeds in the North Atlantic, which imprisoned ships eternally, as the pretext for six Lovecraftian-before-Lovecraft, undeniably effective tales. The 13 adventures of Captain Gault and the two of Captain Jat are more classic pulp-mystery thrillers; they reflect the era when a captain was "master under God" in fact and in law, and also Anglo-German tensions before World War I. For historically minded genre fans, especially if they savor some sea salt in their fantasy.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24758'),
(10817, 'Bob Dylan in America', 'Sean Wilentz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Among those who write regularly about Dylan,\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Wilentz possesses the rare virtues of modesty, nuance, and lucidity\n  <strong>\n   , and for that\n  </strong>\n  he should be celebrated and treasured\n  <strong>\n   ....Wilentz is very, very good on the actual music.Â  In fact, the centerpiece of his book is a vivid look at the ''Blonde on Blonde'' sessions, during which the musicians teased and groped their way toward the album''s ''thin, wild mercury sound,'' in Dylan''s famous description."â€”Bruce Handy in\n  </strong>\n  _The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "In this\n  <strong>\n   often revelatory\n  </strong>\n  new study, Wilentz locates Dylan''s work in the context of some surprising influences....The greatest gift for Dylan fans, however, is Wilentz''s detailed account of the making of 1966''s ''Blonde on Blonde''....Unless Dylan himself writes about it in the fabled\n  <em>\n   Chronicles: Volume Two\n  </em>\n  , this is\n  <strong>\n   the definitive word on the creation of his greatest album.\n  </strong>\n  "â€”Andy Green in\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Rolling Stone\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Bob Dylan in America,_ a new biography of the singer-songwriter by distinguished cultural [and] political historian Sean Wilentz, gives an\n  <strong>\n   enjoyably thorough, convincing\n  </strong>\n  explanation of why Dylan''s new music has gone on finding new audiences ever since he burst upon the New York folk scene of the early 1960s, fresh from the iron range of northern Minnesorta and ferociously ambitious for his art. It''s an\n  <strong>\n   extraordinary, resonant intersection of subject and biographer.\n  </strong>\n  ...Where\n  <strong>\n   Wilentz excels\n  </strong>\n  is in teasing out the origins of Dylan''s artistic impulses, the context in which they arose and flowered, the multiple sources of his art."â€”Tim Rutten in _\n  <strong>\n   The Los Angeles Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Another book about Bob Dylan!Â  Is there any more to be said?Â  The answer is, of course, yes, and\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  who better to say it than Sean Wilentz, a Princeton professor of American history?...\n  <strong>\n   What this book finally does -- this is me, not Wilentz -- is establish Dylan as the 20th century''s Walt Whitman.Â  Like Whitman he sings the songs of America in the conviction that they can be said in no other way.Â  And, like Whitman, he commits himself to travelling the roads of America, looking and remembering.Â  From the shelves full of Dylan books this and one other -- Christopher Ricks''s\n   <em>\n    Dylan''s Visions of Sin\n   </em>\n   -- are\n  </strong>\n  the ones to read\n  <strong>\n   .Â  This is also one to look at:\n  </strong>\n  the pictures are cunningly well chosen\n  <strong>\n   ."â€”Bryan Appleyard in\n  </strong>\n  _The Sunday Times (UK)\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Like many\n  <strong>\n   a quirkily brilliant music critic\n  </strong>\n  ...Mr. Wilentz chooses pet aspects of his subject''s career and then invests them with the requisite importance....Mr. Wilentz''s vast knowledge of Dylan performances touchingly conveys his nearly lifelong reverence for his subject."â€”Janet Maslin in _\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n  <em>\n   BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentzâ€™\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Martin Scorsese\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "All the American connections that Wilentz draws to explain the appearance of Dylanâ€™s music are fascinating, particularly at the outset the connection to Aaron Copland. The writing is strong, the thinking is strong â€“ the book is dense and strong everywhere you look."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Philip Roth\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony â€˜encyclopediaâ€™ compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Al Kooper\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "This should have been impossible. Writing about Bob Dylan''s music, and fitting it into the great crazy quilt of American culture, Sean Wilentz sews a whole new critical fabric, part history, part close analysis, and all heart. What he writes, as well as anyone ever has, helps us enlarge Dylan''s music by reckoning its roots, its influences, its allusive spiritual contours. This isn''t\n  <em>\n   Cliff Notes\n  </em>\n  or footnotes or any kind of academic exercise. It''s not a critic chinning on the high bar. It''s one artist meeting another, kickstarting a dazzling conversation."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Jay Cocks\n  </strong>\n  , screenwriter for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE GANGS OF NEW YORK\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentz is one of the few great American historians. His political and social histories of American Democracy are masterful and magisterial. In this work, he turns his attention to the artistic genius of Bob Dylan â€“ and the result is a masterpiece of cultural history that tells us much about who we have been and who we are."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Cornel West\n  </strong>\n  , Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentz makes us think about Bob Dylanâ€™s half-century of work in new ways. Combining a scholarâ€™s depth with a sense of mischief appropriate to the subject, Wilentz hears new associations in famous songs and sends us back to listen to Dylanâ€™s less familiar music with fresh insights. By focusing on the parts of Dylanâ€™s canon that most move him, Wilentz gets\n  <br />\n  straight to the heart of the matter. If you thought there was nothing new to say about Bob Dylanâ€™s impact on America, this book will make you think twice."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Bill Flanagan\n  </strong>\n  , author of A&amp;R and EVENINGâ€™S EMPIRE\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  and Editorial Director, MTV Networks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentzâ€™s beautiful book sets a new standard for the cultural history of popular music in America. He loves the music and he loves America, but his loves do not blind him, they open his eyes. In Wilentzâ€™s erudite and lively account, Dylanâ€™s music, and folk music, and rock music, are all indelibly woven into the whole story of an entire country. This book is chocked with new contexts for old pleasures. There are surprises and illuminations on almost every page. A great historian has written a history of the culture that formed him. Like Dylan, Wilentz is a deep and probing American voice. Bob Dylanâ€™s America is Bob Dylanâ€™s good luck, and ours. It is an extraordinary affirmation of singing and strumming and feeling and learning and believing."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”Leon Wieseltier\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   One of Americaâ€™s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the countryâ€™s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovÂ­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylanâ€™s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentzâ€™s essays as â€œhistorian in residenceâ€ of Dylanâ€™s official website,\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinityâ€”a book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentzâ€™s approach places Dylanâ€™s music in the context of its time, including the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a songÂ­writer and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylanâ€™s story and that of such masterpieces as\n  <em>\n   Blonde on Blonde\n  </em>\n  with an unprecedented authenticity and richness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  â€”groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally absorbingâ€”is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1352'),
(10818, 'Bob Dylan in America', 'Sean Wilentz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Among those who write regularly about Dylan,\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Wilentz possesses the rare virtues of modesty, nuance, and lucidity\n  <strong>\n   , and for that\n  </strong>\n  he should be celebrated and treasured\n  <strong>\n   ....Wilentz is very, very good on the actual music.Â  In fact, the centerpiece of his book is a vivid look at the ''Blonde on Blonde'' sessions, during which the musicians teased and groped their way toward the album''s ''thin, wild mercury sound,'' in Dylan''s famous description."â€”Bruce Handy in\n  </strong>\n  _The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "In this\n  <strong>\n   often revelatory\n  </strong>\n  new study, Wilentz locates Dylan''s work in the context of some surprising influences....The greatest gift for Dylan fans, however, is Wilentz''s detailed account of the making of 1966''s ''Blonde on Blonde''....Unless Dylan himself writes about it in the fabled\n  <em>\n   Chronicles: Volume Two\n  </em>\n  , this is\n  <strong>\n   the definitive word on the creation of his greatest album.\n  </strong>\n  "â€”Andy Green in\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Rolling Stone\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Bob Dylan in America,_ a new biography of the singer-songwriter by distinguished cultural [and] political historian Sean Wilentz, gives an\n  <strong>\n   enjoyably thorough, convincing\n  </strong>\n  explanation of why Dylan''s new music has gone on finding new audiences ever since he burst upon the New York folk scene of the early 1960s, fresh from the iron range of northern Minnesorta and ferociously ambitious for his art. It''s an\n  <strong>\n   extraordinary, resonant intersection of subject and biographer.\n  </strong>\n  ...Where\n  <strong>\n   Wilentz excels\n  </strong>\n  is in teasing out the origins of Dylan''s artistic impulses, the context in which they arose and flowered, the multiple sources of his art."â€”Tim Rutten in _\n  <strong>\n   The Los Angeles Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Another book about Bob Dylan!Â  Is there any more to be said?Â  The answer is, of course, yes, and\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  who better to say it than Sean Wilentz, a Princeton professor of American history?...\n  <strong>\n   What this book finally does -- this is me, not Wilentz -- is establish Dylan as the 20th century''s Walt Whitman.Â  Like Whitman he sings the songs of America in the conviction that they can be said in no other way.Â  And, like Whitman, he commits himself to travelling the roads of America, looking and remembering.Â  From the shelves full of Dylan books this and one other -- Christopher Ricks''s\n   <em>\n    Dylan''s Visions of Sin\n   </em>\n   -- are\n  </strong>\n  the ones to read\n  <strong>\n   .Â  This is also one to look at:\n  </strong>\n  the pictures are cunningly well chosen\n  <strong>\n   ."â€”Bryan Appleyard in\n  </strong>\n  _The Sunday Times (UK)\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Like many\n  <strong>\n   a quirkily brilliant music critic\n  </strong>\n  ...Mr. Wilentz chooses pet aspects of his subject''s career and then invests them with the requisite importance....Mr. Wilentz''s vast knowledge of Dylan performances touchingly conveys his nearly lifelong reverence for his subject."â€”Janet Maslin in _\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n  <em>\n   BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentzâ€™\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Martin Scorsese\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "All the American connections that Wilentz draws to explain the appearance of Dylanâ€™s music are fascinating, particularly at the outset the connection to Aaron Copland. The writing is strong, the thinking is strong â€“ the book is dense and strong everywhere you look."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Philip Roth\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony â€˜encyclopediaâ€™ compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Al Kooper\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "This should have been impossible. Writing about Bob Dylan''s music, and fitting it into the great crazy quilt of American culture, Sean Wilentz sews a whole new critical fabric, part history, part close analysis, and all heart. What he writes, as well as anyone ever has, helps us enlarge Dylan''s music by reckoning its roots, its influences, its allusive spiritual contours. This isn''t\n  <em>\n   Cliff Notes\n  </em>\n  or footnotes or any kind of academic exercise. It''s not a critic chinning on the high bar. It''s one artist meeting another, kickstarting a dazzling conversation."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Jay Cocks\n  </strong>\n  , screenwriter for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE GANGS OF NEW YORK\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentz is one of the few great American historians. His political and social histories of American Democracy are masterful and magisterial. In this work, he turns his attention to the artistic genius of Bob Dylan â€“ and the result is a masterpiece of cultural history that tells us much about who we have been and who we are."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Cornel West\n  </strong>\n  , Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentz makes us think about Bob Dylanâ€™s half-century of work in new ways. Combining a scholarâ€™s depth with a sense of mischief appropriate to the subject, Wilentz hears new associations in famous songs and sends us back to listen to Dylanâ€™s less familiar music with fresh insights. By focusing on the parts of Dylanâ€™s canon that most move him, Wilentz gets\n  <br />\n  straight to the heart of the matter. If you thought there was nothing new to say about Bob Dylanâ€™s impact on America, this book will make you think twice."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Bill Flanagan\n  </strong>\n  , author of A&amp;R and EVENINGâ€™S EMPIRE\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  and Editorial Director, MTV Networks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentzâ€™s beautiful book sets a new standard for the cultural history of popular music in America. He loves the music and he loves America, but his loves do not blind him, they open his eyes. In Wilentzâ€™s erudite and lively account, Dylanâ€™s music, and folk music, and rock music, are all indelibly woven into the whole story of an entire country. This book is chocked with new contexts for old pleasures. There are surprises and illuminations on almost every page. A great historian has written a history of the culture that formed him. Like Dylan, Wilentz is a deep and probing American voice. Bob Dylanâ€™s America is Bob Dylanâ€™s good luck, and ours. It is an extraordinary affirmation of singing and strumming and feeling and learning and believing."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”Leon Wieseltier\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   One of Americaâ€™s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the countryâ€™s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovÂ­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylanâ€™s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentzâ€™s essays as â€œhistorian in residenceâ€ of Dylanâ€™s official website,\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinityâ€”a book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentzâ€™s approach places Dylanâ€™s music in the context of its time, including the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a songÂ­writer and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylanâ€™s story and that of such masterpieces as\n  <em>\n   Blonde on Blonde\n  </em>\n  with an unprecedented authenticity and richness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  â€”groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally absorbingâ€”is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13299'),
(10819, 'Bob Dylan in America', 'Sean Wilentz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Among those who write regularly about Dylan,\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Wilentz possesses the rare virtues of modesty, nuance, and lucidity\n  <strong>\n   , and for that\n  </strong>\n  he should be celebrated and treasured\n  <strong>\n   ....Wilentz is very, very good on the actual music. In fact, the centerpiece of his book is a vivid look at the ''Blonde on Blonde'' sessions, during which the musicians teased and groped their way toward the album''s ''thin, wild mercury sound,'' in Dylan''s famous description."â€”Bruce Handy in\n  </strong>\n  _The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "In this\n  <strong>\n   often revelatory\n  </strong>\n  new study, Wilentz locates Dylan''s work in the context of some surprising influences....The greatest gift for Dylan fans, however, is Wilentz''s detailed account of the making of 1966''s ''Blonde on Blonde''....Unless Dylan himself writes about it in the fabled\n  <em>\n   Chronicles: Volume Two\n  </em>\n  , this is\n  <strong>\n   the definitive word on the creation of his greatest album.\n  </strong>\n  "â€”Andy Green in\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Rolling Stone\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Bob Dylan in America,_ a new biography of the singer-songwriter by distinguished cultural [and] political historian Sean Wilentz, gives an\n  <strong>\n   enjoyably thorough, convincing\n  </strong>\n  explanation of why Dylan''s new music has gone on finding new audiences ever since he burst upon the New York folk scene of the early 1960s, fresh from the iron range of northern Minnesorta and ferociously ambitious for his art. It''s an\n  <strong>\n   extraordinary, resonant intersection of subject and biographer.\n  </strong>\n  ...Where\n  <strong>\n   Wilentz excels\n  </strong>\n  is in teasing out the origins of Dylan''s artistic impulses, the context in which they arose and flowered, the multiple sources of his art."â€”Tim Rutten in _\n  <strong>\n   The Los Angeles Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Another book about Bob Dylan! Is there any more to be said? The answer is, of course, yes, and\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  who better to say it than Sean Wilentz, a Princeton professor of American history?...\n  <strong>\n   What this book finally does -- this is me, not Wilentz -- is establish Dylan as the 20th century''s Walt Whitman. Like Whitman he sings the songs of America in the conviction that they can be said in no other way. And, like Whitman, he commits himself to travelling the roads of America, looking and remembering. From the shelves full of Dylan books this and one other -- Christopher Ricks''s\n   <em>\n    Dylan''s Visions of Sin\n   </em>\n   -- are\n  </strong>\n  the ones to read\n  <strong>\n   . This is also one to look at:\n  </strong>\n  the pictures are cunningly well chosen\n  <strong>\n   ."â€”Bryan Appleyard in\n  </strong>\n  _The Sunday Times (UK)\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  "Like many\n  <strong>\n   a quirkily brilliant music critic\n  </strong>\n  ...Mr. Wilentz chooses pet aspects of his subject''s career and then invests them with the requisite importance....Mr. Wilentz''s vast knowledge of Dylan performances touchingly conveys his nearly lifelong reverence for his subject."â€”Janet Maslin in _\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n  <em>\n   BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentzâ€™\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Martin Scorsese\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "All the American connections that Wilentz draws to explain the appearance of Dylanâ€™s music are fascinating, particularly at the outset the connection to Aaron Copland. The writing is strong, the thinking is strong â€“ the book is dense and strong everywhere you look."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Philip Roth\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony â€˜encyclopediaâ€™ compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Al Kooper\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "This should have been impossible. Writing about Bob Dylan''s music, and fitting it into the great crazy quilt of American culture, Sean Wilentz sews a whole new critical fabric, part history, part close analysis, and all heart. What he writes, as well as anyone ever has, helps us enlarge Dylan''s music by reckoning its roots, its influences, its allusive spiritual contours. This isn''t\n  <em>\n   Cliff Notes\n  </em>\n  or footnotes or any kind of academic exercise. It''s not a critic chinning on the high bar. It''s one artist meeting another, kickstarting a dazzling conversation."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Jay Cocks\n  </strong>\n  , screenwriter for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE GANGS OF NEW YORK\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentz is one of the few great American historians. His political and social histories of American Democracy are masterful and magisterial. In this work, he turns his attention to the artistic genius of Bob Dylan â€“ and the result is a masterpiece of cultural history that tells us much about who we have been and who we are."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Cornel West\n  </strong>\n  , Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentz makes us think about Bob Dylanâ€™s half-century of work in new ways. Combining a scholarâ€™s depth with a sense of mischief appropriate to the subject, Wilentz hears new associations in famous songs and sends us back to listen to Dylanâ€™s less familiar music with fresh insights. By focusing on the parts of Dylanâ€™s canon that most move him, Wilentz gets\n  <br />\n  straight to the heart of the matter. If you thought there was nothing new to say about Bob Dylanâ€™s impact on America, this book will make you think twice."\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   â€”Bill Flanagan\n  </strong>\n  , author of A&amp;R and EVENINGâ€™S EMPIRE\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  and Editorial Director, MTV Networks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sean Wilentzâ€™s beautiful book sets a new standard for the cultural history of popular music in America. He loves the music and he loves America, but his loves do not blind him, they open his eyes. In Wilentzâ€™s erudite and lively account, Dylanâ€™s music, and folk music, and rock music, are all indelibly woven into the whole story of an entire country. This book is chocked with new contexts for old pleasures. There are surprises and illuminations on almost every page. A great historian has written a history of the culture that formed him. Like Dylan, Wilentz is a deep and probing American voice. Bob Dylanâ€™s America is Bob Dylanâ€™s good luck, and ours. It is an extraordinary affirmation of singing and strumming and feeling and learning and believing."\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”Leon Wieseltier\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   One of Americaâ€™s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the countryâ€™s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovÂ­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylanâ€™s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentzâ€™s essays as â€œhistorian in residenceâ€ of Dylanâ€™s official website,\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinityâ€”a book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentzâ€™s approach places Dylanâ€™s music in the context of its time, including the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a songÂ­writer and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylanâ€™s story and that of such masterpieces as\n  <em>\n   Blonde on Blonde\n  </em>\n  with an unprecedented authenticity and richness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bob Dylan in America\n  </em>\n  â€”groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally absorbingâ€”is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23599'),
(10820, 'Bobby Flay&#39;s Mesa Grill Cookbook: Explosive Flavors From the Southwestern Kitchen', 'Bobby Flay &amp; Stephanie Banyas &amp; Sally Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You''ve got to hand it to Bobby Flay. He opened his first restaurant, the inventive "new southwestern" Mesa Grill, in 1991--and he''s still celebrating the sweet, hot and spicy at that Manhattan outpost, not to mention on his TV shows and in other cookbooks like\n  <em>\n   Bobby Flay''s Mesa Grill Cookbook\n  </em>\n  offers 140-plus recipes for a wide range of new "signature dishes," such as BBQ Duck Filled Blue Corn Pancakes with HabaÃ±ero Sauce; Chile Rubbed Short Ribs with Creamy Polenta and Cotija Cheese; and Grilled Red Snapper with Tomato-New Mexico Red Chile Sauce. He also includes idiosyncratic takes on old favorites, like Whipped Potatoes with Cilantro Pesto, and desserts including Milk Chocolate-Peanut Butter CrÃ¨me BrÃ»lÃ©e, and Caramel Apple Shortcakes. Even drinks get the Flay treatment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His food (at least in moderation) is difficult not to like. Cooks will find the recipes eminently doable if they''re willing to cull the necessary ingredients--there''s a fine ingredients glossary--and put aside a bit of time. This is great "occasion cooking" and should appeal to dyed-in-the-grill Flay fans, as well as those whose curiosity has been tickled by his winning culinary hegemony.\n  <em>\n   --Arthur Boehm\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Flay is everywhere: overseeing six restaurants, appearing on four TV shows plus his own Web site and now assembling his seventh cookbook in 13 years. Flay preps the reader for culinary adventure with a tequila guide followed by four different margarita recipes, and then sets off on a whirlwind tour of flavorful dishes inspired by the American Southwest. Flay''s trademark is flavoring a perfectly grilled or roasted hunk of protein with smoke or chili or fruit, exemplified by Pan-Roasted Venison with Tangerineâ€“Roasted JalapeÃ±o Sauce and the slightly tamer Coffee-Rubbed Filets Mignons with Ancho-Mushroom Sauce. Shrimp, snapper and tuna dominate the seafood section, though there is also the quintessentially Flayvian Grilled Swordfish with Pineapple-Mustard Glaze and Cilantro-Mint Chimichurri. A chapter on brunches turns up the heat with dishes like Egg and Aged Sirloin Tortillas with Three-Pepper Relish. Coming full circle by drawing upon recipes from Mesa Grill, his first eatery, Flay also slyly opens the door for a series of cookbooks based on his other properties. 100 color photos not seen by\n  <em>\n   PW\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7194'),
(10821, 'Bobby Flay&#39;s Mesa Grill Cookbook: Explosive Flavors From the Southwestern Kitchen', 'Bobby Flay &amp; Stephanie Banyas &amp; Sally Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You''ve got to hand it to Bobby Flay. He opened his first restaurant, the inventive "new southwestern" Mesa Grill, in 1991--and he''s still celebrating the sweet, hot and spicy at that Manhattan outpost, not to mention on his TV shows and in other cookbooks like\n  <em>\n   Bobby Flay''s Mesa Grill Cookbook\n  </em>\n  offers 140-plus recipes for a wide range of new "signature dishes," such as BBQ Duck Filled Blue Corn Pancakes with HabaÃ±ero Sauce; Chile Rubbed Short Ribs with Creamy Polenta and Cotija Cheese; and Grilled Red Snapper with Tomato-New Mexico Red Chile Sauce. He also includes idiosyncratic takes on old favorites, like Whipped Potatoes with Cilantro Pesto, and desserts including Milk Chocolate-Peanut Butter CrÃ¨me BrÃ»lÃ©e, and Caramel Apple Shortcakes. Even drinks get the Flay treatment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His food (at least in moderation) is difficult not to like. Cooks will find the recipes eminently doable if they''re willing to cull the necessary ingredients--there''s a fine ingredients glossary--and put aside a bit of time. This is great "occasion cooking" and should appeal to dyed-in-the-grill Flay fans, as well as those whose curiosity has been tickled by his winning culinary hegemony.\n  <em>\n   --Arthur Boehm\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Flay is everywhere: overseeing six restaurants, appearing on four TV shows plus his own Web site and now assembling his seventh cookbook in 13 years. Flay preps the reader for culinary adventure with a tequila guide followed by four different margarita recipes, and then sets off on a whirlwind tour of flavorful dishes inspired by the American Southwest. Flay''s trademark is flavoring a perfectly grilled or roasted hunk of protein with smoke or chili or fruit, exemplified by Pan-Roasted Venison with Tangerineâ€“Roasted JalapeÃ±o Sauce and the slightly tamer Coffee-Rubbed Filets Mignons with Ancho-Mushroom Sauce. Shrimp, snapper and tuna dominate the seafood section, though there is also the quintessentially Flayvian Grilled Swordfish with Pineapple-Mustard Glaze and Cilantro-Mint Chimichurri. A chapter on brunches turns up the heat with dishes like Egg and Aged Sirloin Tortillas with Three-Pepper Relish. Coming full circle by drawing upon recipes from Mesa Grill, his first eatery, Flay also slyly opens the door for a series of cookbooks based on his other properties. 100 color photos not seen by\n  <em>\n   PW\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9684');
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(10822, 'Bobby Flay&#39;s Throwdown!: More Than 100 Recipes From Food Network&#39;s Ultimate Cooking Challenge', 'Bobby Flay &amp; Stephanie Banyas &amp; Miriam Garron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Fall into Cooking Featured Recipes from\n  <em>\n   Bobby Flay''s Throwdown!\n  </em>\n  : Pumpkin Pie\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bobby Flay: Pumpkin Pie with Cinnamon Crunch and Bourbon-Maple Whipped Cream\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Makes 1 10-inch pie\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cinnamon Crunch\n </strong>\n <br />\n 1/2 cup all-purpose flour\n <br />\n 1/2 cup quick-cooking rolled oats\n <br />\n 1/2 cup light muscovado sugar\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small cubes, cold\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crust\n </strong>\n <br />\n 2 cups graham cracker crumbs\n <br />\n 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted\n <br />\n 1â„8 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 1 large egg, lightly beaten\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Filling\n </strong>\n <br />\n 3 large eggs\n <br />\n 3 large egg yolks\n <br />\n 3/4 cup dark muscovado sugar\n <br />\n 1/4 cup granulated sugar\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons molasses\n <br />\n 11/2 cups canned pumpkin puree\n <br />\n 11/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon, plus more for the top\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon ground ginger\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg\n <br />\n 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon fine salt\n <br />\n 1 cup heavy cream\n <br />\n 1/2 cup whole milk\n <br />\n 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise, seeds scraped out and reserved, or 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract\n <br />\n 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted\n <br />\n Bourbon-Maple Whipped Cream (recipe follows) for serving\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the cinnamon crunch, preheat the oven to 350ÂºF.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combine the flour, oats, muscovado sugar, and cinnamon in a food processor, and process a few times to combine. Add the butter and pulse until combined. Pat the mixture evenly into a 4-inch square on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake until golden brown and crisp, about 15 minutes. Remove and let cool. Transfer to a cutting board and chop into small pieces. Keep the oven on.\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the crust, combine the graham cracker crumbs, butter, and cinnamon in a bowl and mix until combined. Press evenly onto the bottom and sides of a 10-inch pie plate. Brush with the beaten egg. Bake until light golden brown and firm, about 12 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reduce the oven temperature to 300ÂºF.\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the filling, whisk the eggs, egg yolks, both sugars, and the molasses together in a medium bowl. Mix in the pumpkin puree, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and salt. Whisk in the heavy cream, milk, and vanilla seeds or extract. Strain the mixture through a coarse strainer into a bowl. Whisk in the butter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Place the pie plate on a baking sheet, pour the pumpkin mixture into the shell, and sprinkle additional cinnamon over the top. Bake until the filling is set around edges but the center still jiggles slightly when shaken, 45 to 60 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and cool to room temperature, about 2 hours.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cut the pie into slices and top each with a large dollop of whipped cream and some of the cinnamon crunch.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bourbon-Maple Whipped Cream\n </strong>\n <br />\n 1 1/4 cups heavy cream, very cold\n <br />\n 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise, seeds scraped out and reserved\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons Grade B maple syrup\n <br />\n 1 to 2 tablespoons bourbon, to taste\n</p>\n<p>\n Combine the cream, vanilla seeds, maple syrup, and bourbon in a large chilled bowl, and whip until soft peaks form.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Challenger: Michele Albano''s Maple Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Streusel\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Makes 1 9-inch pie\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pie Crust\n </strong>\n <br />\n 11/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon fine salt\n <br />\n 1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening, very cold\n <br />\n 1 to 2 tablespoons heavy cream, for brushing\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pecan Streusel\n </strong>\n <br />\n 3/4 cup pecans, toasted and chopped\n <br />\n 1/4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, diced, cold\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Filling\n </strong>\n <br />\n 2 cups pumpkin puree, preferably fresh\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour\n <br />\n 1/3 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon fine salt\n <br />\n 1 1/4 cups heavy cream\n <br />\n 1 cup Grade B maple syrup\n <br />\n 3 large eggs, beaten\n <br />\n Maple Whipped Cream (recipe follows), for serving\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the crust, combine the flour and salt in a medium bowl and mix well. Break up the shortening and toss it with the flour mixture to coat. Using a pastry blender or your fingertips, mix the ingredients together until the dough forms coarse crumbs. Add 3 to 4 tablespoons ice-cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the dough easily forms a ball that can hold itself together. Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes and as long as overnight.\n</p>\n<p>\n While the dough is resting, make the streusel: Toss the pecans with the brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Add the butter, and using a pastry blender or your fingertips, work in until you have small clumps. Set aside.\n</p>\n<p>\n Preheat the oven to 425ÂºF.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sprinkle flour generously over a hard surface and roll the dough out with a rolling pin until it forms an 11-inch round. Fold the round in half, place it in a 9-inch pie plate, and then unfold the dough to completely cover the pie plate with a bit of an overhang. Tuck the overhang under to make a double-thick rim, and then use your fingers to crimp the edges of the pie shell. Brush the heavy cream over the crimped edges, and refrigerate until the filling is complete.\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the filling, mix the pumpkin, flour, brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt together with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth, scraping the sides of the bowl well. Add the heavy cream and maple syrup, scraping the bowl several times while mixing. Mix in the beaten eggs.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pour the filling mixture into the pie shell, and bake for 15 minutes. Then lower the oven temperature to 350ÂºF and bake until the filling is almost firm, about 30 minutes. Remove the pie from the oven and sprinkle the pecan streusel over the top, covering the pie completely. Return the pie to the oven and bake until the filling is just a bit wobbly in the middle and the pecan streusel is golden, 10 to 15 minutes. The total baking time should be 55 to 60 minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cool the pie on a wire rack. The pie is best served at either at room temperature or cold. Before serving, garnish the pie with the Maple Whipped Cream.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Maple Whipped Cream\n </strong>\n <br />\n 2 cups heavy cream\n <br />\n 1/3 cup confectionersâ€™ sugar\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract\n <br />\n 1/2 cup Grade B maple syrup, or to taste\n</p>\n<p>\n Place the metal bowl of an electric mixer in the freezer to chill for at least 15 minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combine the cream, confectionersâ€™ sugar, and vanilla in the chilled bowl, and beat on high speed until the mixture thickens. Add the maple syrup and beat on high speed until the cream holds firm peaks.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A famous chef walks into an eatery and says, "Hey, prepare your signature dish and let''s see if I can make a variation worth televising." That, in essence, is the concept behind Throwdown! the Food Network reality show that premiered in 2006, the fifth of seven Flay vehicles to appear on the network. This companion volume is one part recap and one part cookbook. For true fans of the show, Flay recounts each episode in his trademark cocky prose ("I heat things up with Jamaican jerk jockey Nigel Spence") and in doing so provides a tasty travelogue of eateries, from Asian dumplings at the Good Fork in Brooklyn, N.Y., to chile cheeseburgers at the Buckhorn Tavern in San Antonio, Tex. Whether by accident or by design, his cook-off lineup is a treasure trove of comfort food. Meatloaf, mac ''n'' cheese, wings, lasagna, cupcakes, and matzo ball soup are all in the battle: 51 items in total, with Flay and a competing chef each providing their own recipe, for a total of 102 recipes. The author has never met a dish that he didn''t want to sauce, and this proclivity is much in evidence, including a black pepper vinegar sauce over pulled pork and a balsamic glaze over a roasted vegetable meatloaf. (Oct.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7195'),
(10823, 'Bobby Flay&#39;s Throwdown!: More Than 100 Recipes From Food Network&#39;s Ultimate Cooking Challenge', 'Bobby Flay &amp; Stephanie Banyas &amp; Miriam Garron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Fall into Cooking Featured Recipes from\n  <em>\n   Bobby Flay''s Throwdown!\n  </em>\n  : Pumpkin Pie\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bobby Flay: Pumpkin Pie with Cinnamon Crunch and Bourbon-Maple Whipped Cream\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Makes 1 10-inch pie\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Cinnamon Crunch\n </strong>\n <br />\n 1/2 cup all-purpose flour\n <br />\n 1/2 cup quick-cooking rolled oats\n <br />\n 1/2 cup light muscovado sugar\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small cubes, cold\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Crust\n </strong>\n <br />\n 2 cups graham cracker crumbs\n <br />\n 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted\n <br />\n 1â„8 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 1 large egg, lightly beaten\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Filling\n </strong>\n <br />\n 3 large eggs\n <br />\n 3 large egg yolks\n <br />\n 3/4 cup dark muscovado sugar\n <br />\n 1/4 cup granulated sugar\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons molasses\n <br />\n 11/2 cups canned pumpkin puree\n <br />\n 11/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon, plus more for the top\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon ground ginger\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg\n <br />\n 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon fine salt\n <br />\n 1 cup heavy cream\n <br />\n 1/2 cup whole milk\n <br />\n 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise, seeds scraped out and reserved, or 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract\n <br />\n 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted\n <br />\n Bourbon-Maple Whipped Cream (recipe follows) for serving\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the cinnamon crunch, preheat the oven to 350ÂºF.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combine the flour, oats, muscovado sugar, and cinnamon in a food processor, and process a few times to combine. Add the butter and pulse until combined. Pat the mixture evenly into a 4-inch square on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake until golden brown and crisp, about 15 minutes. Remove and let cool. Transfer to a cutting board and chop into small pieces. Keep the oven on.\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the crust, combine the graham cracker crumbs, butter, and cinnamon in a bowl and mix until combined. Press evenly onto the bottom and sides of a 10-inch pie plate. Brush with the beaten egg. Bake until light golden brown and firm, about 12 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack.\n</p>\n<p>\n Reduce the oven temperature to 300ÂºF.\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the filling, whisk the eggs, egg yolks, both sugars, and the molasses together in a medium bowl. Mix in the pumpkin puree, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and salt. Whisk in the heavy cream, milk, and vanilla seeds or extract. Strain the mixture through a coarse strainer into a bowl. Whisk in the butter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Place the pie plate on a baking sheet, pour the pumpkin mixture into the shell, and sprinkle additional cinnamon over the top. Bake until the filling is set around edges but the center still jiggles slightly when shaken, 45 to 60 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and cool to room temperature, about 2 hours.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cut the pie into slices and top each with a large dollop of whipped cream and some of the cinnamon crunch.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bourbon-Maple Whipped Cream\n </strong>\n <br />\n 1 1/4 cups heavy cream, very cold\n <br />\n 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise, seeds scraped out and reserved\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons Grade B maple syrup\n <br />\n 1 to 2 tablespoons bourbon, to taste\n</p>\n<p>\n Combine the cream, vanilla seeds, maple syrup, and bourbon in a large chilled bowl, and whip until soft peaks form.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Challenger: Michele Albano''s Maple Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Streusel\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Makes 1 9-inch pie\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pie Crust\n </strong>\n <br />\n 11/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon fine salt\n <br />\n 1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening, very cold\n <br />\n 1 to 2 tablespoons heavy cream, for brushing\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pecan Streusel\n </strong>\n <br />\n 3/4 cup pecans, toasted and chopped\n <br />\n 1/4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, diced, cold\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Filling\n </strong>\n <br />\n 2 cups pumpkin puree, preferably fresh\n <br />\n 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour\n <br />\n 1/3 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon fine salt\n <br />\n 1 1/4 cups heavy cream\n <br />\n 1 cup Grade B maple syrup\n <br />\n 3 large eggs, beaten\n <br />\n Maple Whipped Cream (recipe follows), for serving\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the crust, combine the flour and salt in a medium bowl and mix well. Break up the shortening and toss it with the flour mixture to coat. Using a pastry blender or your fingertips, mix the ingredients together until the dough forms coarse crumbs. Add 3 to 4 tablespoons ice-cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the dough easily forms a ball that can hold itself together. Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes and as long as overnight.\n</p>\n<p>\n While the dough is resting, make the streusel: Toss the pecans with the brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Add the butter, and using a pastry blender or your fingertips, work in until you have small clumps. Set aside.\n</p>\n<p>\n Preheat the oven to 425ÂºF.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sprinkle flour generously over a hard surface and roll the dough out with a rolling pin until it forms an 11-inch round. Fold the round in half, place it in a 9-inch pie plate, and then unfold the dough to completely cover the pie plate with a bit of an overhang. Tuck the overhang under to make a double-thick rim, and then use your fingers to crimp the edges of the pie shell. Brush the heavy cream over the crimped edges, and refrigerate until the filling is complete.\n</p>\n<p>\n To make the filling, mix the pumpkin, flour, brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt together with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth, scraping the sides of the bowl well. Add the heavy cream and maple syrup, scraping the bowl several times while mixing. Mix in the beaten eggs.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pour the filling mixture into the pie shell, and bake for 15 minutes. Then lower the oven temperature to 350ÂºF and bake until the filling is almost firm, about 30 minutes. Remove the pie from the oven and sprinkle the pecan streusel over the top, covering the pie completely. Return the pie to the oven and bake until the filling is just a bit wobbly in the middle and the pecan streusel is golden, 10 to 15 minutes. The total baking time should be 55 to 60 minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Cool the pie on a wire rack. The pie is best served at either at room temperature or cold. Before serving, garnish the pie with the Maple Whipped Cream.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Maple Whipped Cream\n </strong>\n <br />\n 2 cups heavy cream\n <br />\n 1/3 cup confectionersâ€™ sugar\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract\n <br />\n 1/2 cup Grade B maple syrup, or to taste\n</p>\n<p>\n Place the metal bowl of an electric mixer in the freezer to chill for at least 15 minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combine the cream, confectionersâ€™ sugar, and vanilla in the chilled bowl, and beat on high speed until the mixture thickens. Add the maple syrup and beat on high speed until the cream holds firm peaks.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A famous chef walks into an eatery and says, "Hey, prepare your signature dish and let''s see if I can make a variation worth televising." That, in essence, is the concept behind Throwdown! the Food Network reality show that premiered in 2006, the fifth of seven Flay vehicles to appear on the network. This companion volume is one part recap and one part cookbook. For true fans of the show, Flay recounts each episode in his trademark cocky prose ("I heat things up with Jamaican jerk jockey Nigel Spence") and in doing so provides a tasty travelogue of eateries, from Asian dumplings at the Good Fork in Brooklyn, N.Y., to chile cheeseburgers at the Buckhorn Tavern in San Antonio, Tex. Whether by accident or by design, his cook-off lineup is a treasure trove of comfort food. Meatloaf, mac ''n'' cheese, wings, lasagna, cupcakes, and matzo ball soup are all in the battle: 51 items in total, with Flay and a competing chef each providing their own recipe, for a total of 102 recipes. The author has never met a dish that he didn''t want to sauce, and this proclivity is much in evidence, including a black pepper vinegar sauce over pulled pork and a balsamic glaze over a roasted vegetable meatloaf. (Oct.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9685'),
(10824, 'The Bobby Gold Stories', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Author Anthony Bourdain is a talented chef whose two previous thrillers (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ) were seasoned with the kind of culinary details that delighted the Food Channel-loving fans of his successful nonfiction books. The foodies will slaver over a wonderfully wrought scene in his latest caper novel--it''s set at a chic Manhattan restaurant where a gourmand gangster with a picky palate turns the chef''s menu upside down and stiffs the poor waiter who has to accommodate him. But the rest of this otherwise slight and unseasoned novel doesn''t live up to that wonderful appetizer. Its protagonist is Bobby Gold, an ex-con who works as a security guard at Eddie Fish''s Nightclub and is involved with a sexy sous-chef named Nikki whose preparation of a special meal for her lover reads like Bourdain''s version of foreplay. But when Nikki rips off the restaurant receipts and Bobby gets on the wrong side of a mob plan to kill Eddie''s appetite for good while recouping the money, Bourdain''s plotting goes sour and the ending fails to satisfy. Still, it''s a nice side dish to go with a good cookbook, or even one of the author''s zany true stories of what goes on behind the swinging doors of many real-life restaurants (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ).\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the same explosive energy and irreverent humor with which he described the behind-the-scenes affairs of the restaurant industry in Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain revisits some of the themes that made him famous: passion, food and violence. The novel (Bourdain''s third, after Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo) tells the story of Bobby Gold, probably the world''s most unlikely gangster. A nice Jewish pre-med student implicated in a drug deal gone bad, Bobby goes to prison for 10 years and emerges with an entirely different set of uses for his knowledge of anatomy. Once released, he goes to work for his old friend Eddie Fish, a mobster turned nightclub owner, and falls in love with Nikki, a boisterous sous-chef with dangerous ambitions. Bobby and Nikki get involved in a botched robbery, forcing both to run for their lives. Their seedy shenanigans are wittily chronicled by Bourdain, in his nouveau hard-boiled prose ("''You want truffle jiz? Get your own truffle jiz, cabron'' "). In one memorable set piece, Bobby engages in multiple pages of rueful conversation with an old fish wholesaler who''s late on a payment to Eddie and knows he''s about to be worked over (" `I get to pick the arm?''\n <code>\n  Sure,'' said Bobby.\n </code>\n Your choice. You pick it'' "). Readers will once again be delighted by Bourdain''s charming, rugged sensibility, like a modern-day Damon Runyon, and his gourmet blend of wit, suspense and style.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7490'),
(10825, 'The Bobby Gold Stories', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Author Anthony Bourdain is a talented chef whose two previous thrillers (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ) were seasoned with the kind of culinary details that delighted the Food Channel-loving fans of his successful nonfiction books. The foodies will slaver over a wonderfully wrought scene in his latest caper novel--it''s set at a chic Manhattan restaurant where a gourmand gangster with a picky palate turns the chef''s menu upside down and stiffs the poor waiter who has to accommodate him. But the rest of this otherwise slight and unseasoned novel doesn''t live up to that wonderful appetizer. Its protagonist is Bobby Gold, an ex-con who works as a security guard at Eddie Fish''s Nightclub and is involved with a sexy sous-chef named Nikki whose preparation of a special meal for her lover reads like Bourdain''s version of foreplay. But when Nikki rips off the restaurant receipts and Bobby gets on the wrong side of a mob plan to kill Eddie''s appetite for good while recouping the money, Bourdain''s plotting goes sour and the ending fails to satisfy. Still, it''s a nice side dish to go with a good cookbook, or even one of the author''s zany true stories of what goes on behind the swinging doors of many real-life restaurants (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ).\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the same explosive energy and irreverent humor with which he described the behind-the-scenes affairs of the restaurant industry in Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain revisits some of the themes that made him famous: passion, food and violence. The novel (Bourdain''s third, after Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo) tells the story of Bobby Gold, probably the world''s most unlikely gangster. A nice Jewish pre-med student implicated in a drug deal gone bad, Bobby goes to prison for 10 years and emerges with an entirely different set of uses for his knowledge of anatomy. Once released, he goes to work for his old friend Eddie Fish, a mobster turned nightclub owner, and falls in love with Nikki, a boisterous sous-chef with dangerous ambitions. Bobby and Nikki get involved in a botched robbery, forcing both to run for their lives. Their seedy shenanigans are wittily chronicled by Bourdain, in his nouveau hard-boiled prose ("''You want truffle jiz? Get your own truffle jiz, cabron'' "). In one memorable set piece, Bobby engages in multiple pages of rueful conversation with an old fish wholesaler who''s late on a payment to Eddie and knows he''s about to be worked over (" `I get to pick the arm?''\n <code>\n  Sure,'' said Bobby.\n </code>\n Your choice. You pick it'' "). Readers will once again be delighted by Bourdain''s charming, rugged sensibility, like a modern-day Damon Runyon, and his gourmet blend of wit, suspense and style.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8561'),
(10826, 'The Bobby Gold stories', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Author Anthony Bourdain is a talented chef whose two previous thrillers (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ) were seasoned with the kind of culinary details that delighted the Food Channel-loving fans of his successful nonfiction books. The foodies will slaver over a wonderfully wrought scene in his latest caper novel--it''s set at a chic Manhattan restaurant where a gourmand gangster with a picky palate turns the chef''s menu upside down and stiffs the poor waiter who has to accommodate him. But the rest of this otherwise slight and unseasoned novel doesn''t live up to that wonderful appetizer. Its protagonist is Bobby Gold, an ex-con who works as a security guard at Eddie Fish''s Nightclub and is involved with a sexy sous-chef named Nikki whose preparation of a special meal for her lover reads like Bourdain''s version of foreplay. But when Nikki rips off the restaurant receipts and Bobby gets on the wrong side of a mob plan to kill Eddie''s appetite for good while recouping the money, Bourdain''s plotting goes sour and the ending fails to satisfy. Still, it''s a nice side dish to go with a good cookbook, or even one of the author''s zany true stories of what goes on behind the swinging doors of many real-life restaurants (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ).\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With the same explosive energy and irreverent humor with which he described the behind-the-scenes affairs of the restaurant industry in Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain revisits some of the themes that made him famous: passion, food and violence. The novel (Bourdain''s third, after Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo) tells the story of Bobby Gold, probably the world''s most unlikely gangster. A nice Jewish pre-med student implicated in a drug deal gone bad, Bobby goes to prison for 10 years and emerges with an entirely different set of uses for his knowledge of anatomy. Once released, he goes to work for his old friend Eddie Fish, a mobster turned nightclub owner, and falls in love with Nikki, a boisterous sous-chef with dangerous ambitions. Bobby and Nikki get involved in a botched robbery, forcing both to run for their lives. Their seedy shenanigans are wittily chronicled by Bourdain, in his nouveau hard-boiled prose ("''You want truffle jiz? Get your own truffle jiz, cabron'' "). In one memorable set piece, Bobby engages in multiple pages of rueful conversation with an old fish wholesaler who''s late on a payment to Eddie and knows he''s about to be worked over (" `I get to pick the arm?''\n <code>\n  Sure,'' said Bobby.\n </code>\n Your choice. You pick it'' "). Readers will once again be delighted by Bourdain''s charming, rugged sensibility, like a modern-day Damon Runyon, and his gourmet blend of wit, suspense and style.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16346'),
(10827, 'The Bodies Left Behind: A Novel', 'Deaver, Jeffery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, offduty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her husband and son at the dinner table and drives up to Lake Mondac to investigate. Was it a misdial or an aborted crime report?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18168'),
(10828, 'Body Count', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Major Revell and his Special Combat Company, a new breed of super-warriors waging the war of the future in a land wasted by nuclear destruction, must reclaim the blood-soaked city of Frankfurt, but they find themselves outgunned by an insidious new force from inside the Zone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4763'),
(10829, 'Body Count', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Major Revell and his Special Combat Company, a new breed of super-warriors waging the war of the future in a land wasted by nuclear destruction, must reclaim the blood-soaked city of Frankfurt, but they find themselves outgunned by an insidious new force from inside the Zone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19903'),
(10830, 'A Body in the Bath House', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In another classical crime romp - this time in Roman Britain - Falco investigates a spate of killings, only to find himself next on the assassins'' list. Marcus Didius Falco, once a common informer, now middle class, discovers that newly acquired rank brings associated problems, the most gruesome of which is a corpse buried under the tiles of his new bath house. The contractors have fled to Britain where, as the Fates have it, Falco is ordered. A local chief and ally of the Romans is having a palace built by the Emperor Vespasian. However, the project is running late, work is slipshod, and fatal accidents keep happening. Somewhere on the site are the murderers who may be behind this latest spate of killings. Somewhere in the forefront, troubleshooting for the Emperor, is Falco, without an ally and now next on the list for assassination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3389'),
(10831, 'A Body in the Bath House', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In another classical crime romp - this time in Roman Britain - Falco investigates a spate of killings, only to find himself next on the assassins'' list. Marcus Didius Falco, once a common informer, now middle class, discovers that newly acquired rank brings associated problems, the most gruesome of which is a corpse buried under the tiles of his new bath house. The contractors have fled to Britain where, as the Fates have it, Falco is ordered. A local chief and ally of the Romans is having a palace built by the Emperor Vespasian. However, the project is running late, work is slipshod, and fatal accidents keep happening. Somewhere on the site are the murderers who may be behind this latest spate of killings. Somewhere in the forefront, troubleshooting for the Emperor, is Falco, without an ally and now next on the list for assassination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21130'),
(10832, 'The Body in the Library', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Agatha Christie''s genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.The Body in the LibraryThe body of a beautiful blonde is found in the library of Gossington Hall. What the young woman was doing in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead is precisely what Jane Marple means to find out. Amid rumors of scandal, Miss Marple baits a clever trap to catch a ruthless killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7884'),
(10833, 'The body in the library', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Agatha Christie''s genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.The Body in the LibraryThe body of a beautiful blonde is found in the library of Gossington Hall. What the young woman was doing in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead is precisely what Jane Marple means to find out. Amid rumors of scandal, Miss Marple baits a clever trap to catch a ruthless killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16000'),
(10834, 'The body in the library', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Agatha Christie''s genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.The Body in the LibraryThe body of a beautiful blonde is found in the library of Gossington Hall. What the young woman was doing in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead is precisely what Jane Marple means to find out. Amid rumors of scandal, Miss Marple baits a clever trap to catch a ruthless killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26241'),
(10835, 'Body language: how to read others&#39; thoughts by their gestures', 'Allan Pease', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15902'),
(10836, 'The Body of Jonah Boyd', 'David Leavitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Denny is a secretary who has just begun an affair with her boss, while also maintaining a friendship with his wife. Invited to the family''s house for Thanksgiving dinner, she enters into a chain of events that will change everyone''s lives in ways that none can imagine. Hilarious, scorching, and full of surprises, The Body of Jonah Boyd is a tribute to the power of home, the lure of success, and, above all, the sisterhood of secretaries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6330'),
(10837, 'The Body of Jonah Boyd', 'David Leavitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Denny is a secretary who has just begun an affair with her boss, while also maintaining a friendship with his wife. Invited to the family''s house for Thanksgiving dinner, she enters into a chain of events that will change everyone''s lives in ways that none can imagine. Hilarious, scorching, and full of surprises, The Body of Jonah Boyd is a tribute to the power of home, the lure of success, and, above all, the sisterhood of secretaries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12213'),
(10838, 'The Body Of Jonah Boyd', 'David Leavitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Denny is a secretary who has just begun an affair with her boss, while also maintaining a friendship with his wife. Invited to the family''s house for Thanksgiving dinner, she enters into a chain of events that will change everyone''s lives in ways that none can imagine. Hilarious, scorching, and full of surprises, The Body of Jonah Boyd is a tribute to the power of home, the lure of success, and, above all, the sisterhood of secretaries.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17827'),
(10839, 'Body Work', 'Sara Paretsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Paretsky''s superb 14th novel featuring PI V.I. Warshawski (after Hardball) delves into Chicago''s avant-garde art scene. At the trendy Club Gouge, where Warshawski is keeping an eye on Petra, a young cousin who caused trouble in the previous book, performance artist Karen Buckley (aka the Body Artist) invites members of the audience to step on stage to paint her nude body. The intricate design that one woman paints on Karen''s back provokes a violent outburst from Chad Vishneski, a troubled Iraqi war veteran. When two nights later, someone shoots the woman who upset Chad outside the club, Chad is the logical murder suspect. Hired by Chad''s estranged parents to clear his name, Warshawski straddles a minefield that reaches from the Windy City''s neighborhoods to the Gulf War battlefields. Scenes with her aging neighbor and a new love interest give a much needed balance to the serious plot. This strong outing shows why the tough, fiercely independent, dog-loving private detective continues to survive.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n V. I. Warshawski is "like Spider-Man with a P.I. License," claimed the\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n of its home-based heroine, and critics agreed that, despite her age, Warshawski is no Miss Marple. Reviewers had little but praise for this newest entry in the popular series; of particular note is Paretsky''s deep exploration of social and political issues--notably, homophobia; domestic violence; and the misdeeds spawned by the Iraq War. However, critics diverged in their opinion of these thematic strands. The\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n called the plotting "ingenious," while the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n described it as "bloated." For readers interested in a complex, multistrand story,\n <em>\n  Body Work\n </em>\n is another thoughtful, timely entry in the series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1382'),
(10840, 'Body Work', 'Sara Paretsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Paretsky''s superb 14th novel featuring PI V.I. Warshawski (after Hardball) delves into Chicago''s avant-garde art scene. At the trendy Club Gouge, where Warshawski is keeping an eye on Petra, a young cousin who caused trouble in the previous book, performance artist Karen Buckley (aka the Body Artist) invites members of the audience to step on stage to paint her nude body. The intricate design that one woman paints on Karen''s back provokes a violent outburst from Chad Vishneski, a troubled Iraqi war veteran. When two nights later, someone shoots the woman who upset Chad outside the club, Chad is the logical murder suspect. Hired by Chad''s estranged parents to clear his name, Warshawski straddles a minefield that reaches from the Windy City''s neighborhoods to the Gulf War battlefields. Scenes with her aging neighbor and a new love interest give a much needed balance to the serious plot. This strong outing shows why the tough, fiercely independent, dog-loving private detective continues to survive.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n V. I. Warshawski is "like Spider-Man with a P.I. License," claimed the\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n of its home-based heroine, and critics agreed that, despite her age, Warshawski is no Miss Marple. Reviewers had little but praise for this newest entry in the popular series; of particular note is Paretsky''s deep exploration of social and political issues--notably, homophobia; domestic violence; and the misdeeds spawned by the Iraq War. However, critics diverged in their opinion of these thematic strands. The\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n called the plotting "ingenious," while the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n described it as "bloated." For readers interested in a complex, multistrand story,\n <em>\n  Body Work\n </em>\n is another thoughtful, timely entry in the series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11753'),
(10841, 'Body Work', 'Sara Paretsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Paretsky''s superb 14th novel featuring PI V.I. Warshawski (after Hardball) delves into Chicago''s avant-garde art scene. At the trendy Club Gouge, where Warshawski is keeping an eye on Petra, a young cousin who caused trouble in the previous book, performance artist Karen Buckley (aka the Body Artist) invites members of the audience to step on stage to paint her nude body. The intricate design that one woman paints on Karen''s back provokes a violent outburst from Chad Vishneski, a troubled Iraqi war veteran. When two nights later, someone shoots the woman who upset Chad outside the club, Chad is the logical murder suspect. Hired by Chad''s estranged parents to clear his name, Warshawski straddles a minefield that reaches from the Windy City''s neighborhoods to the Gulf War battlefields. Scenes with her aging neighbor and a new love interest give a much needed balance to the serious plot. This strong outing shows why the tough, fiercely independent, dog-loving private detective continues to survive.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n V. I. Warshawski is "like Spider-Man with a P.I. License," claimed the\n <em>\n  Chicago Sun-Times\n </em>\n of its home-based heroine, and critics agreed that, despite her age, Warshawski is no Miss Marple. Reviewers had little but praise for this newest entry in the popular series; of particular note is Paretsky''s deep exploration of social and political issues--notably, homophobia; domestic violence; and the misdeeds spawned by the Iraq War. However, critics diverged in their opinion of these thematic strands. The\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n called the plotting "ingenious," while the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n described it as "bloated." For readers interested in a complex, multistrand story,\n <em>\n  Body Work\n </em>\n is another thoughtful, timely entry in the series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23503'),
(10842, 'Boeing 787 Dreamliner', 'Mark Wagner &amp; Guy Norris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With the launch of its superjumbo, the A380, Airbus made what looked like an unbeatable bid for commercial aviation supremacy. But archrival Boeing responded: Not so fast. Boeing''s 787 Dreamliner has already generated more excitementâ€”and more ordersâ€”than any commercial airplane in the company''s history.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the first all-new airplane developed by Boeing since its 1990 launch of the 777. With hundreds of photographs, Boeing 787 Dreamliner closely details the design and building of Boeing''s new twin-engine jet airliner, as well as the drama behind its launch.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here are the key players, the controversies, the critical decisions about materials and technologyâ€”the plastic reinforced with carbon fiber that will make this mid-sized widebody super lightweight. And here, from every angle, is the Dreamliner itself, in all its gleaming readiness to rule the air.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3014'),
(10843, 'Boeing 787 Dreamliner', 'Mark Wagner &amp; Guy Norris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With the launch of its superjumbo, the A380, Airbus made what looked like an unbeatable bid for commercial aviation supremacy. But archrival Boeing responded: Not so fast. Boeing''s 787 Dreamliner has already generated more excitementâ€”and more ordersâ€”than any commercial airplane in the company''s history.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the first all-new airplane developed by Boeing since its 1990 launch of the 777. With hundreds of photographs, Boeing 787 Dreamliner closely details the design and building of Boeing''s new twin-engine jet airliner, as well as the drama behind its launch.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here are the key players, the controversies, the critical decisions about materials and technologyâ€”the plastic reinforced with carbon fiber that will make this mid-sized widebody super lightweight. And here, from every angle, is the Dreamliner itself, in all its gleaming readiness to rule the air.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13256'),
(10844, 'Boeing 787 Dreamliner', 'Mark Wagner; Guy Norris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With the launch of its superjumbo, the A380, Airbus made what looked like an unbeatable bid for commercial aviation supremacy. But archrival Boeing responded: Not so fast. Boeing''s 787 Dreamliner has already generated more excitementâ€”and more ordersâ€”than any commercial airplane in the company''s history.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the first all-new airplane developed by Boeing since its 1990 launch of the 777. With hundreds of photographs, Boeing 787 Dreamliner closely details the design and building of Boeing''s new twin-engine jet airliner, as well as the drama behind its launch.\n</p>\n<p>\n Here are the key players, the controversies, the critical decisions about materials and technologyâ€”the plastic reinforced with carbon fiber that will make this mid-sized widebody super lightweight. And here, from every angle, is the Dreamliner itself, in all its gleaming readiness to rule the air.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21800'),
(10845, 'The Bohemian Girl', 'Kenneth Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Denton, the famous American author and expatriate in turn-of-the-century London, receives a letter from a young woman saying shers"s in danger and needs his help, he doubts therers"s anything he can do. The letter is months old, and was only forwarded to him when the buyer of a painting found it stuck behind the frame. But why did she hide the note instead of sending it? The search for answers leads Denton into the heart of Bohemian London''the world of artists and their models, of brilliance and depravity, where the border between genius and madness is hard to discern but easy to cross. And before he has learned the shocking truth, Denton will discover what itrs"s like to be the object of a lethal obsession and endure a terrifying confrontation with his own demons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3664'),
(10846, 'The Bohemian Girl', 'Kenneth Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Denton, the famous American author and expatriate in turn-of-the-century London, receives a letter from a young woman saying shers"s in danger and needs his help, he doubts therers"s anything he can do. The letter is months old, and was only forwarded to him when the buyer of a painting found it stuck behind the frame. But why did she hide the note instead of sending it? The search for answers leads Denton into the heart of Bohemian London''the world of artists and their models, of brilliance and depravity, where the border between genius and madness is hard to discern but easy to cross. And before he has learned the shocking truth, Denton will discover what itrs"s like to be the object of a lethal obsession and endure a terrifying confrontation with his own demons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8836'),
(10847, 'The Bohemian Girl', 'Kenneth Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Denton, the famous American author and expatriate in turn-of-the-century London, receives a letter from a young woman saying shers"s in danger and needs his help, he doubts therers"s anything he can do. The letter is months old, and was only forwarded to him when the buyer of a painting found it stuck behind the frame. But why did she hide the note instead of sending it? The search for answers leads Denton into the heart of Bohemian London''the world of artists and their models, of brilliance and depravity, where the border between genius and madness is hard to discern but easy to cross. And before he has learned the shocking truth, Denton will discover what itrs"s like to be the object of a lethal obsession and endure a terrifying confrontation with his own demons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20701');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(10848, 'The Boleyn Inheritance', 'Philippa Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  THREE WOMEN WHO SHARE ONE FATE: THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  ANNE OF CLEVES\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead. King Henry VIII, her new husband, instantly dislikes her. Without friends, family, or even an understanding of the language being spoken around her, she must literally save her neck in a court ruled by a deadly game of politics and the terror of an unpredictable and vengeful king. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witnesses.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  KATHERINE HOWARD\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  She catches the king''s eye within moments of arriving at court, setting in motion the dreadful machine of politics, intrigue, and treason that she does not understand. She only knows that she is beautiful, that men desire her, that she is young and in love -- but not with the diseased old man who made her queen, beds her night after night, and killed her cousin Anne. Her Boleyn Inheritance: the threat of the axe.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  JANE ROCHFORD\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  She is the Boleyn girl whose testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to their deaths. She is the trusted friend of two threatened queens, the perfectly loyal spy for her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, and a canny survivor in the murderous court of a most dangerous king. Throughout Europe, her name is a byword for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust. Her Boleyn Inheritance: a fortune and a title, in exchange for her soul.The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about a court ruled by the gallows and three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Once again, Philippa Gregory has brought a vanished world to life -- the whisper of a silk skirt on a stone stair, the yellow glow of candlelight illuminating a hastily written note, the murmurs of the crowd gathering on Tower Green below the newly built scaffold. In The Boleyn Inheritance Gregory is at her intelligent and page-turning best.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14846'),
(10849, 'Bolt', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his smashing sequel to Break In, Francis shows his old racing colors to advantage. Champion jockey Kit Fielding again proves his mettle when Henri Nanterre, the ruthless business partner of his fiancee''s uncle, tries to convert their road construction company into an armaments enterprise. Nanterre threatens the life of Princess Casilia, his partner''s wife, who also owns many of Kit''s mounts. Nanterre is foiled, but then some of the princess''s horses are found dead, killed, ironically, by captive-bullet bolt guns designed for "humane" deaths. Next come several near-lethal attacks against humans, including Kit''s Danielle, and our Kit must devise a plan to thwart Nanterre for good. Soon Danielle has second thoughts about sharing the dangers of a steeplechaser''s life. Maynard Allardeck, racing steward and hereditary enemy of the Fielding family, reappears and makes Kit''s life even more difficult. The characterization isn''t especially profound, but the plot races along wonderfully well, right up to a jolting twist at the end. BOMC featured alternate; Reader''s Digest Condensed Books and Detective Book Club selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kit Fielding will do whatever it takes to stop the killing of racehorses. Not an easy task considering that the woman he adores is leaving him, an international arms dealer is threatening him, and Kit''s nemesis has plans to knock him off the track--and plant him under it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6006'),
(10850, 'Bolt', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his smashing sequel to Break In, Francis shows his old racing colors to advantage. Champion jockey Kit Fielding again proves his mettle when Henri Nanterre, the ruthless business partner of his fiancee''s uncle, tries to convert their road construction company into an armaments enterprise. Nanterre threatens the life of Princess Casilia, his partner''s wife, who also owns many of Kit''s mounts. Nanterre is foiled, but then some of the princess''s horses are found dead, killed, ironically, by captive-bullet bolt guns designed for "humane" deaths. Next come several near-lethal attacks against humans, including Kit''s Danielle, and our Kit must devise a plan to thwart Nanterre for good. Soon Danielle has second thoughts about sharing the dangers of a steeplechaser''s life. Maynard Allardeck, racing steward and hereditary enemy of the Fielding family, reappears and makes Kit''s life even more difficult. The characterization isn''t especially profound, but the plot races along wonderfully well, right up to a jolting twist at the end. BOMC featured alternate; Reader''s Digest Condensed Books and Detective Book Club selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kit Fielding will do whatever it takes to stop the killing of racehorses. Not an easy task considering that the woman he adores is leaving him, an international arms dealer is threatening him, and Kit''s nemesis has plans to knock him off the track--and plant him under it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9758'),
(10851, 'Bomb Scare', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22824'),
(10852, 'Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4221'),
(10853, 'Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12831'),
(10854, 'Bombs away: the story of a bomber team', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20337'),
(10855, 'Bond 1 - Casino Royale', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25845'),
(10856, 'Bond 10 - The Spy Who Loved Me', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25846'),
(10857, 'Bond 11 - On Her Majesty&#39;s Secret Service', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25847'),
(10858, 'Bond 12 - You Only Live Twice', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26110'),
(10859, 'Bond 13 - The Man With The Golden Gun', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25808'),
(10860, 'Bond 2 - Live and Let Die', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25809'),
(10861, 'Bond 3 - Moonraker', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25810'),
(10862, 'Bond 4 - Diamonds Are Forever', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25811'),
(10863, 'Bond 5 - From Russia with Love', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25812'),
(10864, 'Bond 6 - Dr. No', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25813'),
(10865, 'Bond 7 - Goldfinger', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25814'),
(10866, 'Bond 8 - For Your Eyes Only', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25815'),
(10867, 'Bond 9 - Thunderball', 'Fleming, Ian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25816'),
(10868, 'The Bone Chamber', 'Robin Burcell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mysteriously summoned to Quantico to help re-create the face of a murdered, mutilated young woman, FBI forensic artist Special Agent Sydney Fitzpatrick knows immediately this is no ordinary crime. The hit-and-run death of the forensic anthropologist assisting herâ€”a close friendâ€”and Sydney''s abrupt dismissal from the case by covert government investigators only strengthen her need for answers. Now her hunt for a killer is carrying her from Washington to Rome to the hidden chamber of a legendary tombâ€”on the trail of a fabled treasure of the Knights Templar . . . and a curse. For buried deep in the mysteries of the Freemasons and the Vatican''s Holy See is a secret that could rock the world. Suddenly an ancient map is pointing Sydney toward something the Templars wished to hide away foreverâ€”something that could unleash an unstoppable tide of blood and devastation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1638'),
(10869, 'The Bone Chamber', 'Robin Burcell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mysteriously summoned to Quantico to help re-create the face of a murdered, mutilated young woman, FBI forensic artist Special Agent Sydney Fitzpatrick knows immediately this is no ordinary crime. The hit-and-run death of the forensic anthropologist assisting herâ€”a close friendâ€”and Sydney''s abrupt dismissal from the case by covert government investigators only strengthen her need for answers. Now her hunt for a killer is carrying her from Washington to Rome to the hidden chamber of a legendary tombâ€”on the trail of a fabled treasure of the Knights Templar . . . and a curse. For buried deep in the mysteries of the Freemasons and the Vatican''s Holy See is a secret that could rock the world. Suddenly an ancient map is pointing Sydney toward something the Templars wished to hide away foreverâ€”something that could unleash an unstoppable tide of blood and devastation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8695'),
(10870, 'The Bone Chamber', 'Robin Burcell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mysteriously summoned to Quantico to help re-create the face of a murdered, mutilated young woman, FBI forensic artist Special Agent Sydney Fitzpatrick knows immediately this is no ordinary crime. The hit-and-run death of the forensic anthropologist assisting herâ€”a close friendâ€”and Sydney''s abrupt dismissal from the case by covert government investigators only strengthen her need for answers. Now her hunt for a killer is carrying her from Washington to Rome to the hidden chamber of a legendary tombâ€”on the trail of a fabled treasure of the Knights Templar . . . and a curse. For buried deep in the mysteries of the Freemasons and the Vatican''s Holy See is a secret that could rock the world. Suddenly an ancient map is pointing Sydney toward something the Templars wished to hide away foreverâ€”something that could unleash an unstoppable tide of blood and devastation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23333'),
(10871, 'The Bone Conjurer', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the ashes of an ancient holy order comes an unholy relic...In the time of the Crusades, the Knights Templars were holy warriors who seemed to be blessed by God himself. But over the years, the order dissolved into mysteries both sacred and profane--creating an object whose power bends to the true nature of its owner....But until she held it in her hands, archaeologist Annja Creed hadn''t heard of the Skull of Sidon nor the twisted tale of its origins. Even now, she''s still not convinced. Yet someone wants it badly enough to hire a man who wields power beyond her imagining. Power enough to prevent Annja from protecting the mysterious skull. And power enough to kill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7772'),
(10872, 'The Bone Conjurer', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the ashes of an ancient holy order comes an unholy relic...In the time of the Crusades, the Knights Templars were holy warriors who seemed to be blessed by God himself. But over the years, the order dissolved into mysteries both sacred and profane--creating an object whose power bends to the true nature of its owner....But until she held it in her hands, archaeologist Annja Creed hadn''t heard of the Skull of Sidon nor the twisted tale of its origins. Even now, she''s still not convinced. Yet someone wants it badly enough to hire a man who wields power beyond her imagining. Power enough to prevent Annja from protecting the mysterious skull. And power enough to kill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16105'),
(10873, 'The Bone Conjurer', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the ashes of an ancient holy order comes an unholy relic...In the time of the Crusades, the Knights Templars were holy warriors who seemed to be blessed by God himself. But over the years, the order dissolved into mysteries both sacred and profane--creating an object whose power bends to the true nature of its owner....But until she held it in her hands, archaeologist Annja Creed hadn''t heard of the Skull of Sidon nor the twisted tale of its origins. Even now, she''s still not convinced. Yet someone wants it badly enough to hire a man who wields power beyond her imagining. Power enough to prevent Annja from protecting the mysterious skull. And power enough to kill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26261'),
(10874, 'Bone Fire', 'Mark Spragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ishawooa, Wyoming, is far from bucolic nowadays. The sheriff, Crane Carlson, needs no reminder of this but gets one anyway when he finds a kid not yet twenty murdered in a meth lab. His other troubles include a wife who''s going off the rails with bourbon and pot, and his own symptoms of the disease that killed his grandfather. Einar Gilkyson, taking stock at eighty, counts among his dead a lifelong friend, a wife and--far too young--their only child; and his long-absent sister has lately returned home from Chicago after watching her soul mate die. His granddaughter, Griff, has dropped out of college to look after him, though Einar would rather she continue with her studies and her boyfriend, Paul. Completing this extended family are Barnum McEban and his ward, Kenneth, a ten-year-old whose mother--Paul''s sister--is off marketing spiritual enlightenment. What these characters have to contend with on a daily basis is bracing enough, involving car accidents, runaway children, strokes and Lou Gehrig''s disease, not to mention the motorcycle rallies and rodeos that flood the tiny local jail. But as their lives become even more strained, hardship foments exceptional compassion and generosity, and those caught in their own sorrow alleviate the same in others, changing themselves as they do so. In this gripping story, along with harsh truths and difficult consolation come moments of hilarity and surprise and beauty. No one writes more compellingly about the modern West than Mark Spragg, and in "Bone Fire "he is at the very height of his powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2987'),
(10875, 'Bone Fire', 'Mark Spragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ishawooa, Wyoming, is far from bucolic nowadays. The sheriff, Crane Carlson, needs no reminder of this but gets one anyway when he finds a kid not yet twenty murdered in a meth lab. His other troubles include a wife who''s going off the rails with bourbon and pot, and his own symptoms of the disease that killed his grandfather. Einar Gilkyson, taking stock at eighty, counts among his dead a lifelong friend, a wife and--far too young--their only child; and his long-absent sister has lately returned home from Chicago after watching her soul mate die. His granddaughter, Griff, has dropped out of college to look after him, though Einar would rather she continue with her studies and her boyfriend, Paul. Completing this extended family are Barnum McEban and his ward, Kenneth, a ten-year-old whose mother--Paul''s sister--is off marketing spiritual enlightenment. What these characters have to contend with on a daily basis is bracing enough, involving car accidents, runaway children, strokes and Lou Gehrig''s disease, not to mention the motorcycle rallies and rodeos that flood the tiny local jail. But as their lives become even more strained, hardship foments exceptional compassion and generosity, and those caught in their own sorrow alleviate the same in others, changing themselves as they do so. In this gripping story, along with harsh truths and difficult consolation come moments of hilarity and surprise and beauty. No one writes more compellingly about the modern West than Mark Spragg, and in "Bone Fire "he is at the very height of his powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12824'),
(10876, 'Bone Fire', 'Mark Spragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ishawooa, Wyoming, is far from bucolic nowadays. The sheriff, Crane Carlson, needs no reminder of this but gets one anyway when he finds a kid not yet twenty murdered in a meth lab. His other troubles include a wife who''s going off the rails with bourbon and pot, and his own symptoms of the disease that killed his grandfather. Einar Gilkyson, taking stock at eighty, counts among his dead a lifelong friend, a wife and--far too young--their only child; and his long-absent sister has lately returned home from Chicago after watching her soul mate die. His granddaughter, Griff, has dropped out of college to look after him, though Einar would rather she continue with her studies and her boyfriend, Paul. Completing this extended family are Barnum McEban and his ward, Kenneth, a ten-year-old whose mother--Paul''s sister--is off marketing spiritual enlightenment. What these characters have to contend with on a daily basis is bracing enough, involving car accidents, runaway children, strokes and Lou Gehrig''s disease, not to mention the motorcycle rallies and rodeos that flood the tiny local jail. But as their lives become even more strained, hardship foments exceptional compassion and generosity, and those caught in their own sorrow alleviate the same in others, changing themselves as they do so. In this gripping story, along with harsh truths and difficult consolation come moments of hilarity and surprise and beauty. No one writes more compellingly about the modern West than Mark Spragg, and in "Bone Fire "he is at the very height of his powers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21825'),
(10877, 'The Bone Fire: A Mystery', 'Christine Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Christine Barber is new to the Southwest in the sense that *The Replacement Child* is her first novel. But she has a great feel for the territory and for the family connections that enforce its strong community bonds."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€”*THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Every year, the people of Santa Fe gather together for the burning of a four-story-tall figure called Zozobra, a local custom that that takes place during the Fiesta de Santa Fe. Early the next morning, as the sounds of the Fiesta celebration still echo through the streets, skull is discovered in the ashes of Zozobra.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya starts to investigate the case, disturbing displays of human bones begin appearing at religious sites around the city. With a possible psychopath on the loose, Gil goes to newspaper editor Lucy Newroe for help to find the person responsible in a case that will take them into the highest and lowest levels of Santa Fe society.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Christine Barber was highly praised for her first book, *The Replacement Child*, which won the first annual Tony Hillerman Prize and was named a *New York Times* Notable Book.Â An intriguing, impressive new mystery, *The Bone Fire* captures the colorful New Mexican landscape and the unique world of Santa Fe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6767'),
(10878, 'The Bone Fire: A Mystery', 'Christine Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Christine Barber is new to the Southwest in the sense that *The Replacement Child* is her first novel. But she has a great feel for the territory and for the family connections that enforce its strong community bonds."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€”*THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Every year, the people of Santa Fe gather together for the burning of a four-story-tall figure called Zozobra, a local custom that that takes place during the Fiesta de Santa Fe. Early the next morning, as the sounds of the Fiesta celebration still echo through the streets, skull is discovered in the ashes of Zozobra.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya starts to investigate the case, disturbing displays of human bones begin appearing at religious sites around the city. With a possible psychopath on the loose, Gil goes to newspaper editor Lucy Newroe for help to find the person responsible in a case that will take them into the highest and lowest levels of Santa Fe society.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Christine Barber was highly praised for her first book, *The Replacement Child*, which won the first annual Tony Hillerman Prize and was named a *New York Times* Notable Book.Â An intriguing, impressive new mystery, *The Bone Fire* captures the colorful New Mexican landscape and the unique world of Santa Fe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8329'),
(10879, 'The Bone Fire: A Mystery', 'Christine Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Christine Barber is new to the Southwest in the sense that *The Replacement Child* is her first novel. But she has a great feel for the territory and for the family connections that enforce its strong community bonds." â€”*THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW* Â  Every year, the people of Santa Fe gather together for the burning of a four-story-tall figure called Zozobra, a local custom that that takes place during the Fiesta de Santa Fe. Early the next morning, as the sounds of the Fiesta celebration still echo through the streets, skull is discovered in the ashes of Zozobra. Â  As Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya starts to investigate the case, disturbing displays of human bones begin appearing at religious sites around the city. With a possible psychopath on the loose, Gil goes to newspaper editor Lucy Newroe for help to find the person responsible in a case that will take them into the highest and lowest levels of Santa Fe society. Â  Christine Barber was highly praised for her first book, *The Replacement Child*, which won the first annual Tony Hillerman Prize and was named a *New York Times* Notable Book.Â An intriguing, impressive new mystery, *The Bone Fire* captures the colorful New Mexican landscape and the unique world of Santa Fe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18077'),
(10880, 'The Bone Fire: A Mystery', 'Christine Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Christine Barber is new to the Southwest in the sense that *The Replacement Child* is her first novel. But she has a great feel for the territory and for the family connections that enforce its strong community bonds." â€”*THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW* Â  Every year, the people of Santa Fe gather together for the burning of a four-story-tall figure called Zozobra, a local custom that that takes place during the Fiesta de Santa Fe. Early the next morning, as the sounds of the Fiesta celebration still echo through the streets, skull is discovered in the ashes of Zozobra. Â  As Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya starts to investigate the case, disturbing displays of human bones begin appearing at religious sites around the city. With a possible psychopath on the loose, Gil goes to newspaper editor Lucy Newroe for help to find the person responsible in a case that will take them into the highest and lowest levels of Santa Fe society. Â  Christine Barber was highly praised for her first book, *The Replacement Child*, which won the first annual Tony Hillerman Prize and was named a *New York Times* Notable Book.Â An intriguing, impressive new mystery, *The Bone Fire* captures the colorful New Mexican landscape and the unique world of Santa Fe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26900'),
(10881, 'Bone Harvest', 'Mary Logue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A series of malicious pranks prompts Fort St. Antoine deputy sheriff Claire Watkins to collaborate with forensic experts to solve a mystery with links to the brutal murders of a farming family fifty years earlier. By the author of Glare Ice and Dark Coulee.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2957'),
(10882, 'Bone Harvest', 'Mary Logue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A series of malicious pranks prompts Fort St. Antoine deputy sheriff Claire Watkins to collaborate with forensic experts to solve a mystery with links to the brutal murders of a farming family fifty years earlier. By the author of Glare Ice and Dark Coulee.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11142'),
(10883, 'Bone Harvest', 'Mary Logue', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A series of malicious pranks prompts Fort St. Antoine deputy sheriff Claire Watkins to collaborate with forensic experts to solve a mystery with links to the brutal murders of a farming family fifty years earlier. By the author of Glare Ice and Dark Coulee.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21862'),
(10884, 'The Bone House', 'Brian Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of this solid stand-alone from Freeman (Immoral and three other titles in his Duluth, Minn., crime series), former high school teacher Mark Bradley is on vacation in Florida with his wife, Hilary. The previous year, accusations of an affair with a female student ruined Mark''s teaching career in Wisconsin''s Door County, where he and Hilary had moved to escape Chicago. Even though Tresa Fischer insisted that her crush on Mark was nothing more than that, the tight-knit community shunned the Bradleys and labeled Mark a predator. When 16-year-old Glory, Tresa''s wild-child younger sister, turns up dead on a beach near Mark and Hilary''s hotel, Mark becomes the number one murder suspect. Det. Cab Bolton, who isn''t one to jump to conclusions, travels from Florida to Wisconsin to unravel Markâ€”and Glory''sâ€”complicated lives. Well-developed characters and a thrilling climax help compensate for a plot that relies on too many coincidences. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hilary and Mark Bradley are trapped in a web of suspicion. Last year, accusations of a torrid affair with a student cost Mark his teaching job and made the young couple into outcasts in their remote island town off the Lake Michigan coast. Now another teenage girl is found dead on a deserted beach. . . and once again, Mark faces a hostile town convinced of his guilt.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hilary Bradley is determined to prove that Mark is innocent, but sheâ€™s on a lonely, dangerous quest. Even when she discovers that the murdered girl was witness to a horrific crime years earlier, the police are certain sheâ€™s throwing up a smoke screen to protect her husband. Only a quirky detective named Cab Bolton seems willing to believe Hilaryâ€™s story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hilary and Cab soon find that people in this community are willing to kill to keep their secrets hiddenâ€”and to make sure Mark doesnâ€™t get away with murder. And with each shocking revelation, even Hilary begins to wonder whether her husband is truly innocent. Freemanâ€™s first stand-alone thriller since his Stride novels is a knockout.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7079'),
(10885, 'The Bone House', 'Brian Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of this solid stand-alone from Freeman (Immoral and three other titles in his Duluth, Minn., crime series), former high school teacher Mark Bradley is on vacation in Florida with his wife, Hilary. The previous year, accusations of an affair with a female student ruined Mark''s teaching career in Wisconsin''s Door County, where he and Hilary had moved to escape Chicago. Even though Tresa Fischer insisted that her crush on Mark was nothing more than that, the tight-knit community shunned the Bradleys and labeled Mark a predator. When 16-year-old Glory, Tresa''s wild-child younger sister, turns up dead on a beach near Mark and Hilary''s hotel, Mark becomes the number one murder suspect. Det. Cab Bolton, who isn''t one to jump to conclusions, travels from Florida to Wisconsin to unravel Markâ€”and Glory''sâ€”complicated lives. Well-developed characters and a thrilling climax help compensate for a plot that relies on too many coincidences. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hilary and Mark Bradley are trapped in a web of suspicion. Last year, accusations of a torrid affair with a student cost Mark his teaching job and made the young couple into outcasts in their remote island town off the Lake Michigan coast. Now another teenage girl is found dead on a deserted beach. . . and once again, Mark faces a hostile town convinced of his guilt.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hilary Bradley is determined to prove that Mark is innocent, but sheâ€™s on a lonely, dangerous quest. Even when she discovers that the murdered girl was witness to a horrific crime years earlier, the police are certain sheâ€™s throwing up a smoke screen to protect her husband. Only a quirky detective named Cab Bolton seems willing to believe Hilaryâ€™s story.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hilary and Cab soon find that people in this community are willing to kill to keep their secrets hiddenâ€”and to make sure Mark doesnâ€™t get away with murder. And with each shocking revelation, even Hilary begins to wonder whether her husband is truly innocent. Freemanâ€™s first stand-alone thriller since his Stride novels is a knockout.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16748'),
(10886, 'Bone House: A Novel', 'Betsy Tobin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gothic, elegant, and suspenseful, "Bone House" vividly evokes seventeenth-century rural England. It is the tale of two women. One is Dora -- large, voluptuous, and charismatic -- a prostitute to whom men are drawn for pleasure, women for friendship. Her strange death in an icy ravine affects everyone in the tiny village: her enormous, slow-minded son; an embittered midwife; the hunchbacked lord of the manor; his decaying mother; and an itin- erant portrait painter, whose arrival in the village unearths secrets and passions beyond anyone''s expectations.  The other -- young, slight, and solitary -- is a dutiful chambermaid to the mistress of the manor until Dora''s accident begins to distract her from her daily tasks. Her quest to uncover the truth about the prostitute''s mysterious life and sudden death leads her to a terrible discovery, and the beginnings of a future.  A novel about murder, flesh, fertility, desire, medicine, and art, "Bone House" transports readers to stratified Elizabethan England, where the body -- or "bone house" -- had a primary role in deter-mining one''s destiny. Sensual, sophisticated, and fiercely compelling, this is an uncommonly assured debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7248'),
(10887, 'Bone House: A Novel', 'Betsy Tobin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gothic, elegant, and suspenseful, "Bone House" vividly evokes seventeenth-century rural England. It is the tale of two women. One is Dora -- large, voluptuous, and charismatic -- a prostitute to whom men are drawn for pleasure, women for friendship. Her strange death in an icy ravine affects everyone in the tiny village: her enormous, slow-minded son; an embittered midwife; the hunchbacked lord of the manor; his decaying mother; and an itin- erant portrait painter, whose arrival in the village unearths secrets and passions beyond anyone''s expectations.  The other -- young, slight, and solitary -- is a dutiful chambermaid to the mistress of the manor until Dora''s accident begins to distract her from her daily tasks. Her quest to uncover the truth about the prostitute''s mysterious life and sudden death leads her to a terrible discovery, and the beginnings of a future.  A novel about murder, flesh, fertility, desire, medicine, and art, "Bone House" transports readers to stratified Elizabethan England, where the body -- or "bone house" -- had a primary role in deter-mining one''s destiny. Sensual, sophisticated, and fiercely compelling, this is an uncommonly assured debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13027'),
(10888, 'Bone House: A Novel', 'Betsy Tobin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gothic, elegant, and suspenseful, "Bone House" vividly evokes seventeenth-century rural England. It is the tale of two women. One is Dora -- large, voluptuous, and charismatic -- a prostitute to whom men are drawn for pleasure, women for friendship. Her strange death in an icy ravine affects everyone in the tiny village: her enormous, slow-minded son; an embittered midwife; the hunchbacked lord of the manor; his decaying mother; and an itin- erant portrait painter, whose arrival in the village unearths secrets and passions beyond anyone''s expectations. The other -- young, slight, and solitary -- is a dutiful chambermaid to the mistress of the manor until Dora''s accident begins to distract her from her daily tasks. Her quest to uncover the truth about the prostitute''s mysterious life and sudden death leads her to a terrible discovery, and the beginnings of a future. A novel about murder, flesh, fertility, desire, medicine, and art, "Bone House" transports readers to stratified Elizabethan England, where the body -- or "bone house" -- had a primary role in deter-mining one''s destiny. Sensual, sophisticated, and fiercely compelling, this is an uncommonly assured debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16642'),
(10889, 'Bone in the Throat', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First-time author Bourdain presents a savory portion of gangster tartare spiced with salty mobspeak, coked-up chefs, wild entrepreneurs and foul-mouthed feds, served up in the colorful ambience of Manhattan''s Little Italy. The FBI is using a former dentist to open and run a restaurant in a sting operation designed to catch 280-pound loan shark "Sally Wig" Patera-a crazed mafioso assigned to do the Don''s dirty work. The deluded dentist thinks he really runs the Dreadnaught Grill and blows FBI cash on dumb marketing schemes instead of paying Sally''s dues and vig. Meanwhile, Sally''s nephew, Tommy Pagano, sous chef at the Dreadnaught, who loathes both his uncle and mob life, still feels loyal to the Family and so gives Sally after-hours use of the kitchen to "talk some business." But Tommy isn''t happy when Sally and Skinny di Milito-who strips naked before his hits to cut down on blood-spatter cleanup-kill a fellow mobster and cut up the body with the chef''s knife. Though the FBI pressures Tommy hard to sell out his uncle, he stays loyal, at least until the restaurant, the chef and his cooking career are threatened by Sally and Skinny, pushing him into unexpected action. The cast of this dark-humored, street-smart novel romps through Greenwich Village and Little Italy on a testosterone high in a perfect sendup of macho mobsters and feebs alike, while the kitchen antics reveal a real love for-and knowledge of-cooking, including a mouth-watering recipe for Portuguese Seafood Chowder, complete with squid, lobster, swordfish and cherrystone clams. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bourdain''s tongue-in-cheek wiseguy novel features an up-and-coming young chef who owes his position in a New York restaurant to his uncle, a Mob collector^-hit man who has loaned a considerable sum to the restaurant owner. Mobster Sal the Wig and Tommy, the sous-chef, are both unaware that state and federal agents have set up the owner, Harvey, as a plant to uncover extortion, murder, and whatever other criminal activities occur in Harvey''s presence or the eaterie. The combination of fine food and sordid slayings makes an irresistible novel, but perhaps not one to savor while dining.\n <em>\n  Denise Perry Donavin\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7487'),
(10890, 'Bone in the Throat', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First-time author Bourdain presents a savory portion of gangster tartare spiced with salty mobspeak, coked-up chefs, wild entrepreneurs and foul-mouthed feds, served up in the colorful ambience of Manhattan''s Little Italy. The FBI is using a former dentist to open and run a restaurant in a sting operation designed to catch 280-pound loan shark "Sally Wig" Patera-a crazed mafioso assigned to do the Don''s dirty work. The deluded dentist thinks he really runs the Dreadnaught Grill and blows FBI cash on dumb marketing schemes instead of paying Sally''s dues and vig. Meanwhile, Sally''s nephew, Tommy Pagano, sous chef at the Dreadnaught, who loathes both his uncle and mob life, still feels loyal to the Family and so gives Sally after-hours use of the kitchen to "talk some business." But Tommy isn''t happy when Sally and Skinny di Milito-who strips naked before his hits to cut down on blood-spatter cleanup-kill a fellow mobster and cut up the body with the chef''s knife. Though the FBI pressures Tommy hard to sell out his uncle, he stays loyal, at least until the restaurant, the chef and his cooking career are threatened by Sally and Skinny, pushing him into unexpected action. The cast of this dark-humored, street-smart novel romps through Greenwich Village and Little Italy on a testosterone high in a perfect sendup of macho mobsters and feebs alike, while the kitchen antics reveal a real love for-and knowledge of-cooking, including a mouth-watering recipe for Portuguese Seafood Chowder, complete with squid, lobster, swordfish and cherrystone clams. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bourdain''s tongue-in-cheek wiseguy novel features an up-and-coming young chef who owes his position in a New York restaurant to his uncle, a Mob collector^-hit man who has loaned a considerable sum to the restaurant owner. Mobster Sal the Wig and Tommy, the sous-chef, are both unaware that state and federal agents have set up the owner, Harvey, as a plant to uncover extortion, murder, and whatever other criminal activities occur in Harvey''s presence or the eaterie. The combination of fine food and sordid slayings makes an irresistible novel, but perhaps not one to savor while dining.\n <em>\n  Denise Perry Donavin\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8560'),
(10891, 'Bone in the Throat', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First-time author Bourdain presents a savory portion of gangster tartare spiced with salty mobspeak, coked-up chefs, wild entrepreneurs and foul-mouthed feds, served up in the colorful ambience of Manhattan''s Little Italy. The FBI is using a former dentist to open and run a restaurant in a sting operation designed to catch 280-pound loan shark "Sally Wig" Patera-a crazed mafioso assigned to do the Don''s dirty work. The deluded dentist thinks he really runs the Dreadnaught Grill and blows FBI cash on dumb marketing schemes instead of paying Sally''s dues and vig. Meanwhile, Sally''s nephew, Tommy Pagano, sous chef at the Dreadnaught, who loathes both his uncle and mob life, still feels loyal to the Family and so gives Sally after-hours use of the kitchen to "talk some business." But Tommy isn''t happy when Sally and Skinny di Milito-who strips naked before his hits to cut down on blood-spatter cleanup-kill a fellow mobster and cut up the body with the chef''s knife. Though the FBI pressures Tommy hard to sell out his uncle, he stays loyal, at least until the restaurant, the chef and his cooking career are threatened by Sally and Skinny, pushing him into unexpected action. The cast of this dark-humored, street-smart novel romps through Greenwich Village and Little Italy on a testosterone high in a perfect sendup of macho mobsters and feebs alike, while the kitchen antics reveal a real love for-and knowledge of-cooking, including a mouth-watering recipe for Portuguese Seafood Chowder, complete with squid, lobster, swordfish and cherrystone clams. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bourdain''s tongue-in-cheek wiseguy novel features an up-and-coming young chef who owes his position in a New York restaurant to his uncle, a Mob collector^-hit man who has loaned a considerable sum to the restaurant owner. Mobster Sal the Wig and Tommy, the sous-chef, are both unaware that state and federal agents have set up the owner, Harvey, as a plant to uncover extortion, murder, and whatever other criminal activities occur in Harvey''s presence or the eaterie. The combination of fine food and sordid slayings makes an irresistible novel, but perhaps not one to savor while dining.\n <em>\n  Denise Perry Donavin\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16351'),
(10892, 'Bone Magic', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The *New York Times* bestselling author of *Demon Mistress* returns with a new sensual Otherworld paranormal... ** Another equinox is here, and life''s getting more tumultuous for the D''Artigo sisters. Smoky, the dragon of Camille''s dreams, must choose between his family and her. Plus, the sisters can''t locate the new demon general in town. And Camille''s summoned to Otherworld, thinking she''ll reunite with her long-lost soul mate Trillian. But once there, she must undergo a drastic ritual that will forever change her and those she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/193'),
(10893, 'Bone Magic', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The *New York Times* bestselling author of *Demon Mistress* returns with a new sensual Otherworld paranormal... ** Another equinox is here, and life''s getting more tumultuous for the D''Artigo sisters. Smoky, the dragon of Camille''s dreams, must choose between his family and her. Plus, the sisters can''t locate the new demon general in town. And Camille''s summoned to Otherworld, thinking she''ll reunite with her long-lost soul mate Trillian. But once there, she must undergo a drastic ritual that will forever change her and those she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9862'),
(10894, 'Bone Magic', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The *New York Times* bestselling author of *Demon Mistress* returns with a new sensual Otherworld paranormal... ** Another equinox is here, and life''s getting more tumultuous for the D''Artigo sisters. Smoky, the dragon of Camille''s dreams, must choose between his family and her. Plus, the sisters can''t locate the new demon general in town. And Camille''s summoned to Otherworld, thinking she''ll reunite with her long-lost soul mate Trillian. But once there, she must undergo a drastic ritual that will forever change her and those she loves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24777'),
(10895, 'The Bone Palace', 'Amanda Downum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Death is no stranger in the city of ErisÃ­n, but some deaths attract more attention than others.When a prostitute dies carrying a royal signet, Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and agent of the Crown, is called to investigate. Her search leads to desecrated tombs below the palace, and the lightless vaults of the vampiric vrykoloi. But worse things than vampires are plotting in ErisÃ­n - a long-dead sorceress is making a bid not only for renewed life but for the throne as well, and Isyllt''s former lover is caught in her schemes. As a sorcerous plague sweeps the city, Isyllt must decide who she''s prepared to betray - the man she still loves, or the royal family she''s sworn to defend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7685'),
(10896, 'The Bone Palace', 'Amanda Downum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Death is no stranger in the city of ErisÃ­n, but some deaths attract more attention than others.When a prostitute dies carrying a royal signet, Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and agent of the Crown, is called to investigate. Her search leads to desecrated tombs below the palace, and the lightless vaults of the vampiric vrykoloi. But worse things than vampires are plotting in ErisÃ­n - a long-dead sorceress is making a bid not only for renewed life but for the throne as well, and Isyllt''s former lover is caught in her schemes. As a sorcerous plague sweeps the city, Isyllt must decide who she''s prepared to betray - the man she still loves, or the royal family she''s sworn to defend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10862'),
(10897, 'The Bone Palace', 'Downum, Amanda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16193'),
(10898, 'Bone Thief', 'Thomas O&#39;Callaghan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his extraordinary debut novel of psychological suspense, Thomas Oâ€™Callaghan proves himself a worthy successor to Thomas Harris as he introduces one of the most compelling and terrifying serial killers since Hannibal Lecter in a book where every harrowing page crackles with the white-knuckle feel of a race against time and the gritty authenticity of a real forensic investigation.\n</p>\n<p>\n A housewife snatched in broad daylight. A tattooed drifter displayed under a boardwalk. A wealthy, high-society heiress left in a city dump. A busy, young mother on her last errand.\n</p>\n<p>\n The women seem to have no connection except one: they have all been the victims of the Bone Thief, a twisted madman who slays his victims and steals their bones as gruesome trophies.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since tragedy struck his own family, Lieutenant John W. Driscoll has been a man on the edge of both sanity and life. But now, with New York City in the grip of panic, Driscoll is needed more than ever. With time running out and the stakes rising every hour, heâ€™ll have to guide a troubled team while battling his own demons in order to hunt and catch the most cunning predator heâ€™s ever facedâ€”a serial killer who is the very soul of evil and whose most shocking revelation is yet to comeâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/660');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(10899, 'Bone Thief', 'Thomas O&#39;Callaghan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his extraordinary debut novel of psychological suspense, Thomas Oâ€™Callaghan proves himself a worthy successor to Thomas Harris as he introduces one of the most compelling and terrifying serial killers since Hannibal Lecter in a book where every harrowing page crackles with the white-knuckle feel of a race against time and the gritty authenticity of a real forensic investigation.\n</p>\n<p>\n A housewife snatched in broad daylight. A tattooed drifter displayed under a boardwalk. A wealthy, high-society heiress left in a city dump. A busy, young mother on her last errand.\n</p>\n<p>\n The women seem to have no connection except one: they have all been the victims of the Bone Thief, a twisted madman who slays his victims and steals their bones as gruesome trophies.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since tragedy struck his own family, Lieutenant John W. Driscoll has been a man on the edge of both sanity and life. But now, with New York City in the grip of panic, Driscoll is needed more than ever. With time running out and the stakes rising every hour, heâ€™ll have to guide a troubled team while battling his own demons in order to hunt and catch the most cunning predator heâ€™s ever facedâ€”a serial killer who is the very soul of evil and whose most shocking revelation is yet to comeâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11660'),
(10900, 'Bone Thief', 'Thomas O&#39;Callaghan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his extraordinary debut novel of psychological suspense, Thomas Oâ€™Callaghan proves himself a worthy successor to Thomas Harris as he introduces one of the most compelling and terrifying serial killers since Hannibal Lecter in a book where every harrowing page crackles with the white-knuckle feel of a race against time and the gritty authenticity of a real forensic investigation.\n</p>\n<p>\n A housewife snatched in broad daylight. A tattooed drifter displayed under a boardwalk. A wealthy, high-society heiress left in a city dump. A busy, young mother on her last errand.\n</p>\n<p>\n The women seem to have no connection except one: they have all been the victims of the Bone Thief, a twisted madman who slays his victims and steals their bones as gruesome trophies.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since tragedy struck his own family, Lieutenant John W. Driscoll has been a man on the edge of both sanity and life. But now, with New York City in the grip of panic, Driscoll is needed more than ever. With time running out and the stakes rising every hour, heâ€™ll have to guide a troubled team while battling his own demons in order to hunt and catch the most cunning predator heâ€™s ever facedâ€”a serial killer who is the very soul of evil and whose most shocking revelation is yet to come...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24262'),
(10901, 'A Bone to Pick', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Aurora Teagarden''s life was pretty much in order, though she wouldn''t have objected to a nice relationship. All things considered, however, there wasn''t anything to complain about. Then Jane Engle died. Aurora and Jane had been friends - not particularly close friends, but they''d both been members of the Real Murder Society and on occasion had shared tea, as well as an interest in crime. So Aurora was surprised to discover that she was named in Jane''s will as the heir to her home and some money . . . about a half million dollars, in fact. A nice house, a lot of money . . . things were looking up nicely. But the house held a secret - a fact that was frighteningly obvious the first time Aurora went there and realized that someone had broken in, had been searching for something. It didn''t take long to discover the secret: Jane had hidden a skull, and Aurora had just found it. Aurora Teagarden was no stranger to a good mystery, but she wasn''t quite certain what to do with this one. Before she has a chance to consider her next move, someone decides that she already knows too much. Now she has a few more questions to answer: Whodunit? Who was it done to? And who seemed to keep on wanting to do it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6989'),
(10902, 'A Bone to Pick', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Aurora Teagarden''s life was pretty much in order, though she wouldn''t have objected to a nice relationship. All things considered, however, there wasn''t anything to complain about. Then Jane Engle died. Aurora and Jane had been friends - not particularly close friends, but they''d both been members of the Real Murder Society and on occasion had shared tea, as well as an interest in crime. So Aurora was surprised to discover that she was named in Jane''s will as the heir to her home and some money . . . about a half million dollars, in fact. A nice house, a lot of money . . . things were looking up nicely. But the house held a secret - a fact that was frighteningly obvious the first time Aurora went there and realized that someone had broken in, had been searching for something. It didn''t take long to discover the secret: Jane had hidden a skull, and Aurora had just found it. Aurora Teagarden was no stranger to a good mystery, but she wasn''t quite certain what to do with this one. Before she has a chance to consider her next move, someone decides that she already knows too much. Now she has a few more questions to answer: Whodunit? Who was it done to? And who seemed to keep on wanting to do it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16933'),
(10903, 'A Bone to Pick', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Aurora Teagarden''s life was pretty much in order, though she wouldn''t have objected to a nice relationship. All things considered, however, there wasn''t anything to complain about. Then Jane Engle died. Aurora and Jane had been friends - not particularly close friends, but they''d both been members of the Real Murder Society and on occasion had shared tea, as well as an interest in crime. So Aurora was surprised to discover that she was named in Jane''s will as the heir to her home and some money . . . about a half million dollars, in fact. A nice house, a lot of money . . . things were looking up nicely. But the house held a secret - a fact that was frighteningly obvious the first time Aurora went there and realized that someone had broken in, had been searching for something. It didn''t take long to discover the secret: Jane had hidden a skull, and Aurora had just found it. Aurora Teagarden was no stranger to a good mystery, but she wasn''t quite certain what to do with this one. Before she has a chance to consider her next move, someone decides that she already knows too much. Now she has a few more questions to answer: Whodunit? Who was it done to? And who seemed to keep on wanting to do it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26844'),
(10904, 'Bonecrack', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18101'),
(10905, 'The Bonehunters', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sixth volume in Steven Erikson''s truly epic fantasy sequence, The Malazan Book of the Fallen. Thereâ€™s nothing like sweeping up tag-ends to change the world. The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Shaâ€™ik slain by Tavore, the Malazan forces pacifying city after city on the troubled subcontinent, and one last rebel army, under the reluctant, embittered command of Leoman of the Flails, is pursued to the ancient and infamous city of Yâ€™Ghatan by Tavore and the Fourteenth Army. Dogged by self-doubt and ill omens, the 14th must lay siege to the city, and Adjunct Tavore must seek to outwit Leoman of the Flails, the deadliest foe she has ever faced. Into this fraught scenario come both new and familiar characters. Among the latter, Heboric Ghost Hands, journeying to redress an old wrong. Apsalar, haunted by possession and now the principal agent of Cotillion, Patron of Assassins, marking a trail with blood and dripping daggers. Cutter, the killer who had once been a thief in Darujhistan, fleeing a shattered heart. Karsa Orlong, a warrior hunting his destiny. And two old friends, traveling companions, Mappo and Icarium, wandering once more the ravaged wastelands, Icarium seeking the ancient truths of his own life, Mappo seeking to keep those truths from him, at all costs. All, searching for such fates as they might fashion with their own hands, guided by their own will. If only the gods would leave them alone. Alas, the gods are disinclined to be kind, now that knives have been unsheathed, and there shall be war, war in the heavens. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14734'),
(10906, 'Bones in London', 'Edgar Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born illegitimately in Greenwich, London, in 1875to actors Mary Jane Richards and T. H. Edgar. As an infant he wasadopted by George Freeman, a porter at Billingsgate fish market. Aged eleven, Wallace sold newspapers at Ludgate Circus and upon leaving school took a job with a printer. He later enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment, beforetransferring to the Medical Staff Corps, and was sent to South Africa. In 1898 he published a collection of poems called The Mission that Failed, and subsequently left the army to become acorrespondent for Reuters.South African war correspondent for The Daily Mail followed and hisarticles were later published as Unofficial Dispatches. His outspokenness infuriated Lord Kitchener, who removed his credentialsas a war correspondent. He thenedited the Rand Daily Mail, but gambled disastrously on the South African Stock Market. Returning to England, he at first reportedon crimes and hanging trials, before becomingeditor of The Evening News. It was in 1905 that he founded the Tallis Press, publishing Smithy, a collection of soldier stories, and The Four Just Men. The latter waspublished with the ending removed as anadvertising stunt and he offered Â£500 to readers who could successfully guess the ending. Unfortunately, many did and he was almost bankrupted. At various times Wallacealso worked as a journalist on The Standard, The Star, The Week-End Racing Supplement and The Story Journal. In 1917, he became a Special Constable at Lincoln''s Inn and also a special interrogator for the War Office. The Daily Mail sent Wallace to investigate atrocities in the Belgian Congo, a trip that provided material for his Sanders of the River books. In 1923 he became Chairman of the Press Club and in 1931 stood as a Liberal Parliamentary candidatefor Blackpool. mHis first marriage in 1901 to Ivy Caldecott, daughter of a missionary, ended in divorce in 1918 and he later married his much younger secretary, Violet King. Along with countlessarticles, some 23 screenplays and many short stories,Wallacewrote more than 170 books, which have been translated into 28 languages and sales of which have exceeded 50 million copies. Over 160 films have been made from his books - more than any other author. In the 1920''s one of Wallace''s many publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. His sales were exceeded only by The Bible. He died in 1932 whilst workingon the screenplay for King Kong,\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5831'),
(10907, 'Bones in London', 'Edgar Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born illegitimately in Greenwich, London, in 1875to actors Mary Jane Richards and T. H. Edgar. As an infant he wasadopted by George Freeman, a porter at Billingsgate fish market. Aged eleven, Wallace sold newspapers at Ludgate Circus and upon leaving school took a job with a printer. He later enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment, beforetransferring to the Medical Staff Corps, and was sent to South Africa. In 1898 he published a collection of poems called The Mission that Failed, and subsequently left the army to become acorrespondent for Reuters.South African war correspondent for The Daily Mail followed and hisarticles were later published as Unofficial Dispatches. His outspokenness infuriated Lord Kitchener, who removed his credentialsas a war correspondent. He thenedited the Rand Daily Mail, but gambled disastrously on the South African Stock Market. Returning to England, he at first reportedon crimes and hanging trials, before becomingeditor of The Evening News. It was in 1905 that he founded the Tallis Press, publishing Smithy, a collection of soldier stories, and The Four Just Men. The latter waspublished with the ending removed as anadvertising stunt and he offered Â£500 to readers who could successfully guess the ending. Unfortunately, many did and he was almost bankrupted. At various times Wallacealso worked as a journalist on The Standard, The Star, The Week-End Racing Supplement and The Story Journal. In 1917, he became a Special Constable at Lincoln''s Inn and also a special interrogator for the War Office. The Daily Mail sent Wallace to investigate atrocities in the Belgian Congo, a trip that provided material for his Sanders of the River books. In 1923 he became Chairman of the Press Club and in 1931 stood as a Liberal Parliamentary candidatefor Blackpool. mHis first marriage in 1901 to Ivy Caldecott, daughter of a missionary, ended in divorce in 1918 and he later married his much younger secretary, Violet King. Along with countlessarticles, some 23 screenplays and many short stories,Wallacewrote more than 170 books, which have been translated into 28 languages and sales of which have exceeded 50 million copies. Over 160 films have been made from his books - more than any other author. In the 1920''s one of Wallace''s many publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. His sales were exceeded only by The Bible. He died in 1932 whilst workingon the screenplay for King Kong,\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13246'),
(10908, 'Bones in London', 'Edgar Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born illegitimately in Greenwich, London, in 1875to actors Mary Jane Richards and T. H. Edgar. As an infant he wasadopted by George Freeman, a porter at Billingsgate fish market. Aged eleven, Wallace sold newspapers at Ludgate Circus and upon leaving school took a job with a printer. He later enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment, beforetransferring to the Medical Staff Corps, and was sent to South Africa. In 1898 he published a collection of poems called The Mission that Failed, and subsequently left the army to become acorrespondent for Reuters.South African war correspondent for The Daily Mail followed and hisarticles were later published as Unofficial Dispatches. His outspokenness infuriated Lord Kitchener, who removed his credentialsas a war correspondent. He thenedited the Rand Daily Mail, but gambled disastrously on the South African Stock Market. Returning to England, he at first reportedon crimes and hanging trials, before becomingeditor of The Evening News. It was in 1905 that he founded the Tallis Press, publishing Smithy, a collection of soldier stories, and The Four Just Men. The latter waspublished with the ending removed as anadvertising stunt and he offered Â£500 to readers who could successfully guess the ending. Unfortunately, many did and he was almost bankrupted. At various times Wallacealso worked as a journalist on The Standard, The Star, The Week-End Racing Supplement and The Story Journal. In 1917, he became a Special Constable at Lincoln''s Inn and also a special interrogator for the War Office. The Daily Mail sent Wallace to investigate atrocities in the Belgian Congo, a trip that provided material for his Sanders of the River books. In 1923 he became Chairman of the Press Club and in 1931 stood as a Liberal Parliamentary candidatefor Blackpool. mHis first marriage in 1901 to Ivy Caldecott, daughter of a missionary, ended in divorce in 1918 and he later married his much younger secretary, Violet King. Along with countlessarticles, some 23 screenplays and many short stories,Wallacewrote more than 170 books, which have been translated into 28 languages and sales of which have exceeded 50 million copies. Over 160 films have been made from his books - more than any other author. In the 1920''s one of Wallace''s many publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. His sales were exceeded only by The Bible. He died in 1932 whilst workingon the screenplay for King Kong,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18775'),
(10909, 'Bones of Faerie', 'Janni Lee Simner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The war between humanity and Faerie devastated both sides. Or so 15-year-old Liza has been told. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Lizaâ€™s world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Trees move with sinister intention, and the town Liza calls home is surrounded by a forest that threatens to harm all those who wander into it. Then Liza discovers she has the Faerie ability to seeâ€”into the past, into the futureâ€”and she has no choice but to flee her town. Lizaâ€™s quest will take her into Faerie and back again, and what she finds along the way may be the key to healing both worlds.Janni Lee Simnerâ€™s first novel for young adults is a dark fairy-tale twist on apocalyptic fictionâ€”as familiar as a nightmare, yet altogether unique.\n </p>\n The war between humanity and Faerie devastated both sides. Or so 15-year-old Liza has been told. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Liza''s world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Trees move with sinister intention, and the town Liza calls home is surrounded by a forest that threatens to harm all those who wander into it. Then Liza discovers she has the Faerie ability to see--into the past, into the future--and she has no choice but to flee her town. Liza''s quest will take her into Faerie and back again, and what she finds along the way may be the key to healing both worlds.\n <br />\n <br />\n Janni Lee Simner''s first novel for young adults is a dark fairy-tale twist on apocalyptic fiction--as familiar as a nightmare, yet altogether unique.\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </i>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4676'),
(10910, 'Bones of Faerie', 'Janni Lee Simner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The war between humanity and Faerie devastated both sides. Or so 15-year-old Liza has been told. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Lizaâ€™s world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Trees move with sinister intention, and the town Liza calls home is surrounded by a forest that threatens to harm all those who wander into it. Then Liza discovers she has the Faerie ability to seeâ€”into the past, into the futureâ€”and she has no choice but to flee her town. Lizaâ€™s quest will take her into Faerie and back again, and what she finds along the way may be the key to healing both worlds.Janni Lee Simnerâ€™s first novel for young adults is a dark fairy-tale twist on apocalyptic fictionâ€”as familiar as a nightmare, yet altogether unique.\n </p>\n The war between humanity and Faerie devastated both sides. Or so 15-year-old Liza has been told. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Liza''s world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Trees move with sinister intention, and the town Liza calls home is surrounded by a forest that threatens to harm all those who wander into it. Then Liza discovers she has the Faerie ability to see--into the past, into the future--and she has no choice but to flee her town. Liza''s quest will take her into Faerie and back again, and what she finds along the way may be the key to healing both worlds.\n <br />\n <br />\n Janni Lee Simner''s first novel for young adults is a dark fairy-tale twist on apocalyptic fiction--as familiar as a nightmare, yet altogether unique.\n <br />\n <br />\n <i>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </i>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12637'),
(10911, 'Bones of the Dragon', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Bones of the Dragon\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Weis and Hickman, known for their Dragonlance role-playing game and novels, the "Darksword" series, and the Death Gate cycle, again demonstrate their talent for world building and for creating likable yet flawed heroes. This Norse-flavored series opener should have a large following."\n <br />\n --_Library JournalÂ _\n</p>\n<p>\n __Â \n</p>\n<p>\n "Weis and Hickman (_Dragons of the Highlord Skies_) have created a believably human story out of their mix of saga and sorcery."\n</p>\n<p>\n --_Publishers Weeky _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Welcome to the World of Dragonships!\n</p>\n<p>\n Skylan Ivorson is a sea-raider of the Vindras and eventually becomes the Chief of Chiefs of all Vindras clans, an honor he truly feels he deserves as one who has been blessed by Skoval, the god of war.\n</p>\n<p>\n But sometimes a blessing is a curse in disguise.\n</p>\n<p>\n Skoval and the other ancient gods are under siege from a new generation of gods who are challenging them for the powers of creationâ€¦ and the only way to stop these brash interlopers lies within the mysterious and hidden Five Bones of the Vektan Dragons.\n</p>\n<p>\n It will be up to the Vindras people, as the dragon-goddessâ€™s champions, to undertake the quest to recover all Five. The fate of the Old Gods and the Vindras rests on their recovery--for this is not only a quest to save the world. It is also a quest for redemption.\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with heroes and heroines young and old andÂ exotic adventure in a magic-forged world, this is a series that fully illustrates the mastery of world-building and storytelling that has made Weis and Hickman into\n <em>\n  the\n </em>\n bestselling fantasy co-authors of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3113'),
(10912, 'Bones of the Dragon', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Bones of the Dragon\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Weis and Hickman, known for their Dragonlance role-playing game and novels, the "Darksword" series, and the Death Gate cycle, again demonstrate their talent for world building and for creating likable yet flawed heroes. This Norse-flavored series opener should have a large following."\n <br />\n --_Library JournalÂ _\n</p>\n<p>\n __Â \n</p>\n<p>\n "Weis and Hickman (_Dragons of the Highlord Skies_) have created a believably human story out of their mix of saga and sorcery."\n</p>\n<p>\n --_Publishers Weeky _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Welcome to the World of Dragonships!\n</p>\n<p>\n Skylan Ivorson is a sea-raider of the Vindras and eventually becomes the Chief of Chiefs of all Vindras clans, an honor he truly feels he deserves as one who has been blessed by Skoval, the god of war.\n</p>\n<p>\n But sometimes a blessing is a curse in disguise.\n</p>\n<p>\n Skoval and the other ancient gods are under siege from a new generation of gods who are challenging them for the powers of creationâ€¦ and the only way to stop these brash interlopers lies within the mysterious and hidden Five Bones of the Vektan Dragons.\n</p>\n<p>\n It will be up to the Vindras people, as the dragon-goddessâ€™s champions, to undertake the quest to recover all Five. The fate of the Old Gods and the Vindras rests on their recovery--for this is not only a quest to save the world. It is also a quest for redemption.\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with heroes and heroines young and old andÂ exotic adventure in a magic-forged world, this is a series that fully illustrates the mastery of world-building and storytelling that has made Weis and Hickman into\n <em>\n  the\n </em>\n bestselling fantasy co-authors of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13283'),
(10913, 'Bones of the River', 'Edgar Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Taking the little paper from the pigeon''s leg, Hamilton saw it was from Sanders and marked URGENT. Send Bones instantly to Lujamalababa... Arrest and bring to head-quarters the witch doctor.'' It is a time when the world''s most powerful nations are vying for colonial honour, a time of trading steamers and tribal chiefs. In the mysterious African territories administered by Commissioner Sanders, Bones persistently manages to create his own unique style of innocent and endearing mischief.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born illegitimately in Greenwich, London, in 1875to actors Mary Jane Richards and T. H. Edgar. As an infant he wasadopted by George Freeman, a porter at Billingsgate fish market. Aged eleven, Wallace sold newspapers at Ludgate Circus and upon leaving school took a job with a printer. He later enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment, beforetransferring to the Medical Staff Corps, and was sent to South Africa. In 1898 he published a collection of poems called The Mission that Failed, and subsequently left the army to become acorrespondent for Reuters.South African war correspondent for The Daily Mail followed and hisarticles were later published as Unofficial Dispatches. His outspokenness infuriated Lord Kitchener, who removed his credentialsas a war correspondent. He thenedited the Rand Daily Mail, but gambled disastrously on the South African Stock Market. Returning to England, he at first reportedon crimes and hanging trials, before becomingeditor of The Evening News. It was in 1905 that he founded the Tallis Press, publishing Smithy, a collection of soldier stories, and The Four Just Men. The latter waspublished with the ending removed as anadvertising stunt and he offered Â£500 to readers who could successfully guess the ending. Unfortunately, many did and he was almost bankrupted. At various times Wallacealso worked as a journalist on The Standard, The Star, The Week-End Racing Supplement and The Story Journal. In 1917, he became a Special Constable at Lincoln''s Inn and also a special interrogator for the War Office. The Daily Mail sent Wallace to investigate atrocities in the Belgian Congo, a trip that provided material for his Sanders of the River books. In 1923 he became Chairman of the Press Club and in 1931 stood as a Liberal Parliamentary candidatefor Blackpool. mHis first marriage in 1901 to Ivy Caldecott, daughter of a missionary, ended in divorce in 1918 and he later married his much younger secretary, Violet King. Along with countlessarticles, some 23 screenplays and many short stories,Wallacewrote more than 170 books, which have been translated into 28 languages and sales of which have exceeded 50 million copies. Over 160 films have been made from his books - more than any other author. In the 1920''s one of Wallace''s many publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. His sales were exceeded only by The Bible. He died in 1932 whilst workingon the screenplay for King Kong,\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5832'),
(10914, 'Bones of the River', 'Edgar Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Taking the little paper from the pigeon''s leg, Hamilton saw it was from Sanders and marked URGENT. Send Bones instantly to Lujamalababa... Arrest and bring to head-quarters the witch doctor.'' It is a time when the world''s most powerful nations are vying for colonial honour, a time of trading steamers and tribal chiefs. In the mysterious African territories administered by Commissioner Sanders, Bones persistently manages to create his own unique style of innocent and endearing mischief.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born illegitimately in Greenwich, London, in 1875to actors Mary Jane Richards and T. H. Edgar. As an infant he wasadopted by George Freeman, a porter at Billingsgate fish market. Aged eleven, Wallace sold newspapers at Ludgate Circus and upon leaving school took a job with a printer. He later enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment, beforetransferring to the Medical Staff Corps, and was sent to South Africa. In 1898 he published a collection of poems called The Mission that Failed, and subsequently left the army to become acorrespondent for Reuters.South African war correspondent for The Daily Mail followed and hisarticles were later published as Unofficial Dispatches. His outspokenness infuriated Lord Kitchener, who removed his credentialsas a war correspondent. He thenedited the Rand Daily Mail, but gambled disastrously on the South African Stock Market. Returning to England, he at first reportedon crimes and hanging trials, before becomingeditor of The Evening News. It was in 1905 that he founded the Tallis Press, publishing Smithy, a collection of soldier stories, and The Four Just Men. The latter waspublished with the ending removed as anadvertising stunt and he offered Â£500 to readers who could successfully guess the ending. Unfortunately, many did and he was almost bankrupted. At various times Wallacealso worked as a journalist on The Standard, The Star, The Week-End Racing Supplement and The Story Journal. In 1917, he became a Special Constable at Lincoln''s Inn and also a special interrogator for the War Office. The Daily Mail sent Wallace to investigate atrocities in the Belgian Congo, a trip that provided material for his Sanders of the River books. In 1923 he became Chairman of the Press Club and in 1931 stood as a Liberal Parliamentary candidatefor Blackpool. mHis first marriage in 1901 to Ivy Caldecott, daughter of a missionary, ended in divorce in 1918 and he later married his much younger secretary, Violet King. Along with countlessarticles, some 23 screenplays and many short stories,Wallacewrote more than 170 books, which have been translated into 28 languages and sales of which have exceeded 50 million copies. Over 160 films have been made from his books - more than any other author. In the 1920''s one of Wallace''s many publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. His sales were exceeded only by The Bible. He died in 1932 whilst workingon the screenplay for King Kong,\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13247'),
(10915, 'Bones of the River', 'Edgar Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Taking the little paper from the pigeon''s leg, Hamilton saw it was from Sanders and marked URGENT. Send Bones instantly to Lujamalababa... Arrest and bring to head-quarters the witch doctor.'' It is a time when the world''s most powerful nations are vying for colonial honour, a time of trading steamers and tribal chiefs. In the mysterious African territories administered by Commissioner Sanders, Bones persistently manages to create his own unique style of innocent and endearing mischief.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born illegitimately in Greenwich, London, in 1875to actors Mary Jane Richards and T. H. Edgar. As an infant he wasadopted by George Freeman, a porter at Billingsgate fish market. Aged eleven, Wallace sold newspapers at Ludgate Circus and upon leaving school took a job with a printer. He later enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment, beforetransferring to the Medical Staff Corps, and was sent to South Africa. In 1898 he published a collection of poems called The Mission that Failed, and subsequently left the army to become acorrespondent for Reuters.South African war correspondent for The Daily Mail followed and hisarticles were later published as Unofficial Dispatches. His outspokenness infuriated Lord Kitchener, who removed his credentialsas a war correspondent. He thenedited the Rand Daily Mail, but gambled disastrously on the South African Stock Market. Returning to England, he at first reportedon crimes and hanging trials, before becomingeditor of The Evening News. It was in 1905 that he founded the Tallis Press, publishing Smithy, a collection of soldier stories, and The Four Just Men. The latter waspublished with the ending removed as anadvertising stunt and he offered Â£500 to readers who could successfully guess the ending. Unfortunately, many did and he was almost bankrupted. At various times Wallacealso worked as a journalist on The Standard, The Star, The Week-End Racing Supplement and The Story Journal. In 1917, he became a Special Constable at Lincoln''s Inn and also a special interrogator for the War Office. The Daily Mail sent Wallace to investigate atrocities in the Belgian Congo, a trip that provided material for his Sanders of the River books. In 1923 he became Chairman of the Press Club and in 1931 stood as a Liberal Parliamentary candidatefor Blackpool. mHis first marriage in 1901 to Ivy Caldecott, daughter of a missionary, ended in divorce in 1918 and he later married his much younger secretary, Violet King. Along with countlessarticles, some 23 screenplays and many short stories,Wallacewrote more than 170 books, which have been translated into 28 languages and sales of which have exceeded 50 million copies. Over 160 films have been made from his books - more than any other author. In the 1920''s one of Wallace''s many publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. His sales were exceeded only by The Bible. He died in 1932 whilst workingon the screenplay for King Kong,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18774'),
(10916, 'Bones to ashes', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In bestseller Reichs''s entertaining 10th Temperance Brennan forensic thriller (after\n  <em>\n   Break No Bones\n  </em>\n  ), Brennan, her relationship with Det. Andrew Ryan on the rocks, welcomes the distraction of an unidentified New Brunswick skeleton from QuÃ©bec''s cold case unit. But when the bones are determined to be that of an adolescent girl, Brennan is convinced they belong to her childhood friend, Ã‰vangÃ©line Landry, who disappeared at age 15. Now Brennan must come to terms with Ã‰vangÃ©line''s possible death, while trying to ignore her feelings for Ryan as they investigate a series of teenage abduction murders that could be tied to the mysterious bones. With her usual blend of cutting-edge forensic science, nail-biting suspense and characters that pop off the page, Reichs, who''s vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists and the producer of Fox''s\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  , has produced another winner in one of the genre''s most satisfying series._ (Aug.)_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With crisp prose, well-drawn characters, unflagging attention to detail, and a resonant emotional angle, Reichs'' tenth Temperance Brennan mystery (after Break No Bones, 2006) featuring the forensic anthropologist finds the forensic anthropologist in top form. This time it''s personal, when the skeleton of a young girl evokes memories of a deep, decades-old friendship with10-year-old Evangeline Landry, who sustained 8-year-old Tempe at a time of great personal loss only to disappear several years later. As Tempe works to identify the skeletal remains and cause of death, Detective Andrew Ryan seeks her help with several cases involving missing girls and unidentified bodies, raising the possibility of a serial killer. With her workload overwhelming, Tempe''s life starts falling apart: her visiting sister''s impulsiveness puts both of them at risk; her long-estranged husband, Pete, announces unsettling plans; and Ryanâ€”the man in her lifeâ€”makes a difficult personal decision. Reichs deftly provides enough background to make this a successful stand-alone, at the same time advancing relationships between characters for her increasing legion of fans, who won''t want to miss this one. Leber, Michele\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13581'),
(10917, 'Bones to ashes', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In bestseller Reichs''s entertaining 10th Temperance Brennan forensic thriller (after\n  <em>\n   Break No Bones\n  </em>\n  ), Brennan, her relationship with Det. Andrew Ryan on the rocks, welcomes the distraction of an unidentified New Brunswick skeleton from QuÃ©bec''s cold case unit. But when the bones are determined to be that of an adolescent girl, Brennan is convinced they belong to her childhood friend, Ã‰vangÃ©line Landry, who disappeared at age 15. Now Brennan must come to terms with Ã‰vangÃ©line''s possible death, while trying to ignore her feelings for Ryan as they investigate a series of teenage abduction murders that could be tied to the mysterious bones. With her usual blend of cutting-edge forensic science, nail-biting suspense and characters that pop off the page, Reichs, who''s vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists and the producer of Fox''s\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  , has produced another winner in one of the genre''s most satisfying series._ (Aug.)_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With crisp prose, well-drawn characters, unflagging attention to detail, and a resonant emotional angle, Reichs'' tenth Temperance Brennan mystery (after Break No Bones, 2006) featuring the forensic anthropologist finds the forensic anthropologist in top form. This time it''s personal, when the skeleton of a young girl evokes memories of a deep, decades-old friendship with10-year-old Evangeline Landry, who sustained 8-year-old Tempe at a time of great personal loss only to disappear several years later. As Tempe works to identify the skeletal remains and cause of death, Detective Andrew Ryan seeks her help with several cases involving missing girls and unidentified bodies, raising the possibility of a serial killer. With her workload overwhelming, Tempe''s life starts falling apart: her visiting sister''s impulsiveness puts both of them at risk; her long-estranged husband, Pete, announces unsettling plans; and Ryanâ€”the man in her lifeâ€”makes a difficult personal decision. Reichs deftly provides enough background to make this a successful stand-alone, at the same time advancing relationships between characters for her increasing legion of fans, who won''t want to miss this one. Leber, Michele\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20619'),
(10918, 'Bones Would Rain From the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships With Dogs', 'Suzanne Clothier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Definitely not a training book full of stale dos and donts, BONES WOULD RAIN FROM THE SKY is a beautifully written exploration of the ways in which humans can establish a better rapport with their dogs. Positing that owners relationships with their canine companions have the power to make them more humanand humanethe author examines the way owner/dog relationships go wrong, and how owners can make them right. Profound and practical, the book offers new insights into behavioral problems, improved communication, and mutual respect and trust, while challenging readers to re-examine their own attitudes and discover the joy in a genuine partnership.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/913'),
(10919, 'Bones Would Rain from the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships with Dogs', 'Suzanne Clothier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Definitely not a training book full of stale dos and donts, BONES WOULD RAIN FROM THE SKY is a beautifully written exploration of the ways in which humans can establish a better rapport with their dogs. Positing that owners relationships with their canine companions have the power to make them more humanand humanethe author examines the way owner/dog relationships go wrong, and how owners can make them right. Profound and practical, the book offers new insights into behavioral problems, improved communication, and mutual respect and trust, while challenging readers to re-examine their own attitudes and discover the joy in a genuine partnership.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23924'),
(10920, 'Bones: Recipes, History, and Lore', 'Jennifer McLagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There''s a lot more going on in\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  than the glorification of beef marrow. True, you will want to serve roasted marrow bones after even a casual reading. Jennifer McLagan, chef, food stylist, food writer, and now cookbook author says this is where it all began for her, this journey that has become a singular determination to rehabilitate bones in the family kitchen: "Scooping out the soft, warm marrow and spreading it on crisp toast is a sensual delight. A touch of salt, and all is right with the world."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  is about meat on the bone, plain and simple. Beef or veal, lamb, game, poultry, fish--it matters not. If the meat is on the bone as it enters the cooking process, be that roasting, braising, steaming, baking, or grilling, it has every chance of being far superior to meat divorced of the skeleton. Think how boring skinless, boneless chicken breasts can be. But McLagan''s underlying theme is about taking time to treat a product like meat with the respect it deserves. If you demand that it morphs into some sort of time-and-labor-saving protein package you end up with chicken fingers, not food. If it is about anything,\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  is about good food, and good food takes time. And time is the most precious ingredient any cook can add to the broth. The time it takes isn''t a burden, it''s where the cook truly learns and grows and matures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  McLagan divides\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  into sections devoted to Beef and Veal, Pork, Lamb, Poultry, Fish, and Game. Each section begins with a precise description of the basic animal from the skeleton on out before moving on to stocks, concentrated stocks, and consommÃ©s. As for recipe enticements you''ll find Beer-Glazed Beef Ribs, Osso Buco with Fennel and Blood Orange Sauce, Spicy Korean Pork Soup, Roast Leg of Pork with Crackling, Olive-Crusted Lamb Racks, Lamb Shanks in Pomegranate Sauce, Poached Chicken with Seasonal Vegetables, Grilled Quail with Sage Butter, Coconut Curry Chicken, Sardines on Toast, Cantonese-style Steamed Fish, and Herb-Roasted Rabbit (one of four rabbit recipes!).\n </p>\n <p>\n  While the novice cook should not shy away from\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  , a firm foundation in basic western cooking technique is a plus. There''s a lot of learning available between these two covers. Some of it is about meat and bones, some about cooking and serving, and some is about an attitude to bring to the kitchen: If you take a little time the rewards will be far superior to any shortcuts along the way. All of which makes Jennifer McLagan something of a revolutionary in our midst.\n  <em>\n   --Schuyler Ingle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this expansive tome, food stylist and writer McLagan offers an alternative to the rubbery chicken breasts and fish filets now standard in Western cookery. By eliminating bones (and fat) from our diet, McLagan passionately argues, we''ve traded flavor for health and efficiency. Indeed, her book operates on the premise that the pleasure of gnawing on a lamb chop cannot be underestimated. More than a cookbook, this is a compendium of folklore, literary quotes and historical facts that refer to bones'' significance across cultures from ancient times to today. There are chapters on beef, pork, lamb, poultry, fish and game, each with an introductory section explaining anatomy and recommended cooking temperatures. Sidebars offer suggestions for carving, using unlikely parts, and recovering endangered bone-cooking arts like "spatchcocking," or removing the wishbone from a bird. McLagan''s recipes range from arcane (Lancashire Hot Pot, which traditionally consists of a deep dish of stew covered with a potato crust, and long lamb bones piercing through the topping) to contemporary continental (Osso Bucco with Fennel and Blood Orange Sauce). While some recipes are time-consuming, McLagan''s instructions are generally clear and precise. With its emphasis on tradition and technique, this work won''t appeal to the 20-minute chef, but it will be a welcome addition to the slow-food aficionado''s library. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4497');
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(10921, 'Bones: Recipes, History, and Lore', 'Jennifer McLagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There''s a lot more going on in\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  than the glorification of beef marrow. True, you will want to serve roasted marrow bones after even a casual reading. Jennifer McLagan, chef, food stylist, food writer, and now cookbook author says this is where it all began for her, this journey that has become a singular determination to rehabilitate bones in the family kitchen: "Scooping out the soft, warm marrow and spreading it on crisp toast is a sensual delight. A touch of salt, and all is right with the world."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  is about meat on the bone, plain and simple. Beef or veal, lamb, game, poultry, fish--it matters not. If the meat is on the bone as it enters the cooking process, be that roasting, braising, steaming, baking, or grilling, it has every chance of being far superior to meat divorced of the skeleton. Think how boring skinless, boneless chicken breasts can be. But McLagan''s underlying theme is about taking time to treat a product like meat with the respect it deserves. If you demand that it morphs into some sort of time-and-labor-saving protein package you end up with chicken fingers, not food. If it is about anything,\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  is about good food, and good food takes time. And time is the most precious ingredient any cook can add to the broth. The time it takes isn''t a burden, it''s where the cook truly learns and grows and matures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  McLagan divides\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  into sections devoted to Beef and Veal, Pork, Lamb, Poultry, Fish, and Game. Each section begins with a precise description of the basic animal from the skeleton on out before moving on to stocks, concentrated stocks, and consommÃ©s. As for recipe enticements you''ll find Beer-Glazed Beef Ribs, Osso Buco with Fennel and Blood Orange Sauce, Spicy Korean Pork Soup, Roast Leg of Pork with Crackling, Olive-Crusted Lamb Racks, Lamb Shanks in Pomegranate Sauce, Poached Chicken with Seasonal Vegetables, Grilled Quail with Sage Butter, Coconut Curry Chicken, Sardines on Toast, Cantonese-style Steamed Fish, and Herb-Roasted Rabbit (one of four rabbit recipes!).\n </p>\n <p>\n  While the novice cook should not shy away from\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  , a firm foundation in basic western cooking technique is a plus. There''s a lot of learning available between these two covers. Some of it is about meat and bones, some about cooking and serving, and some is about an attitude to bring to the kitchen: If you take a little time the rewards will be far superior to any shortcuts along the way. All of which makes Jennifer McLagan something of a revolutionary in our midst.\n  <em>\n   --Schuyler Ingle\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this expansive tome, food stylist and writer McLagan offers an alternative to the rubbery chicken breasts and fish filets now standard in Western cookery. By eliminating bones (and fat) from our diet, McLagan passionately argues, we''ve traded flavor for health and efficiency. Indeed, her book operates on the premise that the pleasure of gnawing on a lamb chop cannot be underestimated. More than a cookbook, this is a compendium of folklore, literary quotes and historical facts that refer to bones'' significance across cultures from ancient times to today. There are chapters on beef, pork, lamb, poultry, fish and game, each with an introductory section explaining anatomy and recommended cooking temperatures. Sidebars offer suggestions for carving, using unlikely parts, and recovering endangered bone-cooking arts like "spatchcocking," or removing the wishbone from a bird. McLagan''s recipes range from arcane (Lancashire Hot Pot, which traditionally consists of a deep dish of stew covered with a potato crust, and long lamb bones piercing through the topping) to contemporary continental (Osso Bucco with Fennel and Blood Orange Sauce). While some recipes are time-consuming, McLagan''s instructions are generally clear and precise. With its emphasis on tradition and technique, this work won''t appeal to the 20-minute chef, but it will be a welcome addition to the slow-food aficionado''s library. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11338'),
(10922, 'The Bonesetter&#39;s Daughter', 'Amy Tan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13605'),
(10923, 'The Bonesetter&#39;s Daughter', 'Amy Tan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16167'),
(10924, 'The Bonesetter&#39;s Daughter', 'Amy Tan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26326'),
(10925, 'Boneshaker', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaskaâ€™s ice. Thus was Dr. Blueâ€™s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blueâ€™s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6774'),
(10926, 'Boneshaker', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaskaâ€™s ice. Thus was Dr. Blueâ€™s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blueâ€™s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12035'),
(10927, 'Boneshaker', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaskaâ€™s ice. Thus was Dr. Blueâ€™s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. Â  But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Â  Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blueâ€™s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. Â  His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14037'),
(10928, 'Boneshaker', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaskaâ€™s ice. Thus was Dr. Blueâ€™s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. Â  But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Â  Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blueâ€™s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. Â  His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17104'),
(10929, 'Boneshaker', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaskaâ€™s ice. Thus was Dr. Blueâ€™s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. Â  But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Â  Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blueâ€™s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. Â  His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26939'),
(10930, 'The Bonfire of the Vanities', 'Tom Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n After Tom Wolfe defined the ''60s in\n <em>\n  The Bonfire of the Vanities\n </em>\n arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."\n</p>\n<p>\n He wasn''t aging; he was growing up.\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n ''s pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn''t just Wolfe''s best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from the fiery combatants of the South Bronx to the bubbling scum at the top of Wall Street. Sherman McCoy, a farcically arrogant investment banker (dubbed a "Master of the Universe," Wolfe''s brilliant metaphorical co-opting of a then-important toy for boys), hits a black guy in the Bronx with his Mercedes and runs--right into a nightmare peopled by vicious mistresses, thin wives like "social x-rays," slime-bag politicos, tabloid hacks, and Dantesque denizens of the "justice" system. If the Coen and Marx brothers together dramatized\n <em>\n  The Great Gatsby\n </em>\n , Wolfe''s\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n would probably be funnier. Many think his second novel,\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n will never die down.\n</p>\n<p>\n You might find it interesting to compare the film\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his spellbinding first novel, Wolfe proves that he has the right stuff to write propulsively engrossing fiction. Both his cynical irony and sense of the ridiculous are perfectly suited to his subject: the roiling, corrupt, savage, ethnic melting pot that is New York City. Ranging from the rarefied atmosphere of Park Avenue to the dingy courtrooms of the Bronx, this is a totally credible tale of how the communities uneasily coexist and what happens when they collide. On a clandestine date with his mistress one night, top Wall Street investment banker and snobbish WASP Sherman McCoy misses his turn on the thruway and gets lost in the South Bronx; his Mercedes hits and seriously injures a young black man. The incident is inflated by a manipulative black leader, a district attorney seeking reelection and a sleazy tabloid reporter into a full-blown scandal, a political football and a hokey morality play. Wolfe adroitly swings his focus from one to another of the people involved: the protagonist McCoy; Kramer, the assistant D.A.; two detectivesone Irish, the other Jewish; a slimy, alcoholic British journalist; an outraged judge, etc. He has an infallible, mocking ear for New York voices, rendering with equal precision the defense lawyer''s "gedoutdahere," the deliberate bad grammar ("that don''t help matters") of the wily "reverend" and the clenched-teeth WASP locution (''howjado"). His reporter''s eye has seized every gritty detail of the criminal justice system, and he is also acute in rendering the hierarchy at a society party. He convincingly equates the jungles of Wall Street and the Bronx: in both places men casually use the same four-letter expletives and, no matter what their standing on the social ladder, find that power kindles their lust for nubile young women. Erupting from the first line with noise, color, tension and immediacy, this immensely entertaining novel accurately mirrors a system that has broken down: from the social code of basic good manners to the fair practices of the law. It is safe to predict that the book will stand as a brilliant evocation of New York''s class, racial and political structure in the 1980s. 200,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild dual main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/524'),
(10931, 'The Bonfire of the Vanities', 'Tom Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n After Tom Wolfe defined the ''60s in\n <em>\n  The Bonfire of the Vanities\n </em>\n arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."\n</p>\n<p>\n He wasn''t aging; he was growing up.\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n ''s pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn''t just Wolfe''s best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from the fiery combatants of the South Bronx to the bubbling scum at the top of Wall Street. Sherman McCoy, a farcically arrogant investment banker (dubbed a "Master of the Universe," Wolfe''s brilliant metaphorical co-opting of a then-important toy for boys), hits a black guy in the Bronx with his Mercedes and runs--right into a nightmare peopled by vicious mistresses, thin wives like "social x-rays," slime-bag politicos, tabloid hacks, and Dantesque denizens of the "justice" system. If the Coen and Marx brothers together dramatized\n <em>\n  The Great Gatsby\n </em>\n , Wolfe''s\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n would probably be funnier. Many think his second novel,\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n will never die down.\n</p>\n<p>\n You might find it interesting to compare the film\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his spellbinding first novel, Wolfe proves that he has the right stuff to write propulsively engrossing fiction. Both his cynical irony and sense of the ridiculous are perfectly suited to his subject: the roiling, corrupt, savage, ethnic melting pot that is New York City. Ranging from the rarefied atmosphere of Park Avenue to the dingy courtrooms of the Bronx, this is a totally credible tale of how the communities uneasily coexist and what happens when they collide. On a clandestine date with his mistress one night, top Wall Street investment banker and snobbish WASP Sherman McCoy misses his turn on the thruway and gets lost in the South Bronx; his Mercedes hits and seriously injures a young black man. The incident is inflated by a manipulative black leader, a district attorney seeking reelection and a sleazy tabloid reporter into a full-blown scandal, a political football and a hokey morality play. Wolfe adroitly swings his focus from one to another of the people involved: the protagonist McCoy; Kramer, the assistant D.A.; two detectivesone Irish, the other Jewish; a slimy, alcoholic British journalist; an outraged judge, etc. He has an infallible, mocking ear for New York voices, rendering with equal precision the defense lawyer''s "gedoutdahere," the deliberate bad grammar ("that don''t help matters") of the wily "reverend" and the clenched-teeth WASP locution (''howjado"). His reporter''s eye has seized every gritty detail of the criminal justice system, and he is also acute in rendering the hierarchy at a society party. He convincingly equates the jungles of Wall Street and the Bronx: in both places men casually use the same four-letter expletives and, no matter what their standing on the social ladder, find that power kindles their lust for nubile young women. Erupting from the first line with noise, color, tension and immediacy, this immensely entertaining novel accurately mirrors a system that has broken down: from the social code of basic good manners to the fair practices of the law. It is safe to predict that the book will stand as a brilliant evocation of New York''s class, racial and political structure in the 1980s. 200,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild dual main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13427'),
(10932, 'The Bonfire of the Vanities', 'Tom Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n After Tom Wolfe defined the ''60s in\n <em>\n  The Bonfire of the Vanities\n </em>\n arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."\n</p>\n<p>\n He wasn''t aging; he was growing up.\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n ''s pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn''t just Wolfe''s best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from the fiery combatants of the South Bronx to the bubbling scum at the top of Wall Street. Sherman McCoy, a farcically arrogant investment banker (dubbed a "Master of the Universe," Wolfe''s brilliant metaphorical co-opting of a then-important toy for boys), hits a black guy in the Bronx with his Mercedes and runs--right into a nightmare peopled by vicious mistresses, thin wives like "social x-rays," slime-bag politicos, tabloid hacks, and Dantesque denizens of the "justice" system. If the Coen and Marx brothers together dramatized\n <em>\n  The Great Gatsby\n </em>\n , Wolfe''s\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n would probably be funnier. Many think his second novel,\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n will never die down.\n</p>\n<p>\n You might find it interesting to compare the film\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his spellbinding first novel, Wolfe proves that he has the right stuff to write propulsively engrossing fiction. Both his cynical irony and sense of the ridiculous are perfectly suited to his subject: the roiling, corrupt, savage, ethnic melting pot that is New York City. Ranging from the rarefied atmosphere of Park Avenue to the dingy courtrooms of the Bronx, this is a totally credible tale of how the communities uneasily coexist and what happens when they collide. On a clandestine date with his mistress one night, top Wall Street investment banker and snobbish WASP Sherman McCoy misses his turn on the thruway and gets lost in the South Bronx; his Mercedes hits and seriously injures a young black man. The incident is inflated by a manipulative black leader, a district attorney seeking reelection and a sleazy tabloid reporter into a full-blown scandal, a political football and a hokey morality play. Wolfe adroitly swings his focus from one to another of the people involved: the protagonist McCoy; Kramer, the assistant D.A.; two detectivesone Irish, the other Jewish; a slimy, alcoholic British journalist; an outraged judge, etc. He has an infallible, mocking ear for New York voices, rendering with equal precision the defense lawyer''s "gedoutdahere," the deliberate bad grammar ("that don''t help matters") of the wily "reverend" and the clenched-teeth WASP locution (''howjado"). His reporter''s eye has seized every gritty detail of the criminal justice system, and he is also acute in rendering the hierarchy at a society party. He convincingly equates the jungles of Wall Street and the Bronx: in both places men casually use the same four-letter expletives and, no matter what their standing on the social ladder, find that power kindles their lust for nubile young women. Erupting from the first line with noise, color, tension and immediacy, this immensely entertaining novel accurately mirrors a system that has broken down: from the social code of basic good manners to the fair practices of the law. It is safe to predict that the book will stand as a brilliant evocation of New York''s class, racial and political structure in the 1980s. 200,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild dual main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14032'),
(10933, 'The Bonfire of the Vanities', 'Tom Wolfe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n After Tom Wolfe defined the ''60s in\n <em>\n  The Bonfire of the Vanities\n </em>\n arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."\n</p>\n<p>\n He wasn''t aging; he was growing up.\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n ''s pyrotechnic satire of 1980s New York wasn''t just Wolfe''s best book, it was the best bestselling fiction debut of the decade, a miraculously realistic study of an unbelievably status-mad society, from the fiery combatants of the South Bronx to the bubbling scum at the top of Wall Street. Sherman McCoy, a farcically arrogant investment banker (dubbed a "Master of the Universe," Wolfe''s brilliant metaphorical co-opting of a then-important toy for boys), hits a black guy in the Bronx with his Mercedes and runs--right into a nightmare peopled by vicious mistresses, thin wives like "social x-rays," slime-bag politicos, tabloid hacks, and Dantesque denizens of the "justice" system. If the Coen and Marx brothers together dramatized\n <em>\n  The Great Gatsby\n </em>\n , Wolfe''s\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n would probably be funnier. Many think his second novel,\n <em>\n  Bonfire\n </em>\n will never die down.\n</p>\n<p>\n You might find it interesting to compare the film\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his spellbinding first novel, Wolfe proves that he has the right stuff to write propulsively engrossing fiction. Both his cynical irony and sense of the ridiculous are perfectly suited to his subject: the roiling, corrupt, savage, ethnic melting pot that is New York City. Ranging from the rarefied atmosphere of Park Avenue to the dingy courtrooms of the Bronx, this is a totally credible tale of how the communities uneasily coexist and what happens when they collide. On a clandestine date with his mistress one night, top Wall Street investment banker and snobbish WASP Sherman McCoy misses his turn on the thruway and gets lost in the South Bronx; his Mercedes hits and seriously injures a young black man. The incident is inflated by a manipulative black leader, a district attorney seeking reelection and a sleazy tabloid reporter into a full-blown scandal, a political football and a hokey morality play. Wolfe adroitly swings his focus from one to another of the people involved: the protagonist McCoy; Kramer, the assistant D.A.; two detectivesone Irish, the other Jewish; a slimy, alcoholic British journalist; an outraged judge, etc. He has an infallible, mocking ear for New York voices, rendering with equal precision the defense lawyer''s "gedoutdahere," the deliberate bad grammar ("that don''t help matters") of the wily "reverend" and the clenched-teeth WASP locution (''howjado"). His reporter''s eye has seized every gritty detail of the criminal justice system, and he is also acute in rendering the hierarchy at a society party. He convincingly equates the jungles of Wall Street and the Bronx: in both places men casually use the same four-letter expletives and, no matter what their standing on the social ladder, find that power kindles their lust for nubile young women. Erupting from the first line with noise, color, tension and immediacy, this immensely entertaining novel accurately mirrors a system that has broken down: from the social code of basic good manners to the fair practices of the law. It is safe to predict that the book will stand as a brilliant evocation of New York''s class, racial and political structure in the 1980s. 200,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild dual main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24446'),
(10934, 'Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. The Third Reich', 'Eric Metaxas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas (Amazing Grace) offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research to unpack the confluence of circumstances and personalities that led Germany from the defeat of WWI to the atrocities of WWII. Abundant source documentation (sermons, letters, journal entries, lectures, the Barman Declaration) brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped Bonhoeffer: his highly intellectual, musical family; theologically liberal professors, pastoral colleagues and students; his extensive study, work, and travel abroad. Tracing Bonhoeffer''s developing call to be a Jeremiah-like prophet in his own time and a growing understanding that the church was called "to speak for those who could not speak," Metaxas details Bonhoeffer''s role in religious resistance to Nazism, and provides a compelling account of the faith journey that eventually involved the Lutheran pastor in unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler. Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history and theology.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''In Hitler''s Germany, a Lutheran pastor chooses resistance and pays with his life. . . Eric Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer''s story with passion and theological sophistication, often challenging revisionist accounts that make Bonhoeffer out to be a ''humanist'' or ethicist for whom religious doctrine was easily disposable. . . Metaxas reminds us that there are forms of religion -- respectable, domesticated, timid -- that may end up doing the devil''s work for him. --_Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural, and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research. . . Abundant source documentation brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped BonhoefferÃ¢â‚¬Â¦Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history, and theology.'''' --_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''A welcome new biography of one of the twentieth century''s leading lights. Metaxas magnificently captures the life of theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who ''thought it the plain duty of the Christian-and the privilege and honor-to suffer with those who suffered.'' In the finest treatment of the man since Eberhard Bethge''s\n <em>\n  Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage\n </em>\n (1970), Metaxas presents a complete, accessible picture of this important figure, whose story is inspiring, instructive, and international in scope. . . Metaxas rightly focuses on his subject''s life, not his theology, though readers will learn plenty about his theology as well. The author makes liberal use of primary sources, which bring Bonhoeffer and other characters to vivid life. For the most part, Metaxas allows this epic story to play itself out, unhindered by commentary; where he does add his own voice, the conclusions are sage. A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the twenty-first century.'''' --_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5653'),
(10935, 'Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. The Third Reich', 'Eric Metaxas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas (Amazing Grace) offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research to unpack the confluence of circumstances and personalities that led Germany from the defeat of WWI to the atrocities of WWII. Abundant source documentation (sermons, letters, journal entries, lectures, the Barman Declaration) brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped Bonhoeffer: his highly intellectual, musical family; theologically liberal professors, pastoral colleagues and students; his extensive study, work, and travel abroad. Tracing Bonhoeffer''s developing call to be a Jeremiah-like prophet in his own time and a growing understanding that the church was called "to speak for those who could not speak," Metaxas details Bonhoeffer''s role in religious resistance to Nazism, and provides a compelling account of the faith journey that eventually involved the Lutheran pastor in unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler. Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history and theology.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''In Hitler''s Germany, a Lutheran pastor chooses resistance and pays with his life. . . Eric Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer''s story with passion and theological sophistication, often challenging revisionist accounts that make Bonhoeffer out to be a ''humanist'' or ethicist for whom religious doctrine was easily disposable. . . Metaxas reminds us that there are forms of religion -- respectable, domesticated, timid -- that may end up doing the devil''s work for him. --_Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural, and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research. . . Abundant source documentation brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped BonhoefferÃ¢â‚¬Â¦Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history, and theology.'''' --_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''A welcome new biography of one of the twentieth century''s leading lights. Metaxas magnificently captures the life of theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who ''thought it the plain duty of the Christian-and the privilege and honor-to suffer with those who suffered.'' In the finest treatment of the man since Eberhard Bethge''s\n <em>\n  Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage\n </em>\n (1970), Metaxas presents a complete, accessible picture of this important figure, whose story is inspiring, instructive, and international in scope. . . Metaxas rightly focuses on his subject''s life, not his theology, though readers will learn plenty about his theology as well. The author makes liberal use of primary sources, which bring Bonhoeffer and other characters to vivid life. For the most part, Metaxas allows this epic story to play itself out, unhindered by commentary; where he does add his own voice, the conclusions are sage. A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the twenty-first century.'''' --_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11404'),
(10936, 'Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. The Third Reich', 'Eric Metaxas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas (Amazing Grace) offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research to unpack the confluence of circumstances and personalities that led Germany from the defeat of WWI to the atrocities of WWII. Abundant source documentation (sermons, letters, journal entries, lectures, the Barman Declaration) brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped Bonhoeffer: his highly intellectual, musical family; theologically liberal professors, pastoral colleagues and students; his extensive study, work, and travel abroad. Tracing Bonhoeffer''s developing call to be a Jeremiah-like prophet in his own time and a growing understanding that the church was called "to speak for those who could not speak," Metaxas details Bonhoeffer''s role in religious resistance to Nazism, and provides a compelling account of the faith journey that eventually involved the Lutheran pastor in unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler. Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history and theology.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''In Hitler''s Germany, a Lutheran pastor chooses resistance and pays with his life. . . Eric Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer''s story with passion and theological sophistication, often challenging revisionist accounts that make Bonhoeffer out to be a ''humanist'' or ethicist for whom religious doctrine was easily disposable. . . Metaxas reminds us that there are forms of religion -- respectable, domesticated, timid -- that may end up doing the devil''s work for him. --_Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural, and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research. . . Abundant source documentation brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped BonhoefferÃ¢â‚¬Â¦Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history, and theology.'''' --_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''A welcome new biography of one of the twentieth century''s leading lights. Metaxas magnificently captures the life of theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who ''thought it the plain duty of the Christian-and the privilege and honor-to suffer with those who suffered.'' In the finest treatment of the man since Eberhard Bethge''s\n <em>\n  Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage\n </em>\n (1970), Metaxas presents a complete, accessible picture of this important figure, whose story is inspiring, instructive, and international in scope. . . Metaxas rightly focuses on his subject''s life, not his theology, though readers will learn plenty about his theology as well. The author makes liberal use of primary sources, which bring Bonhoeffer and other characters to vivid life. For the most part, Metaxas allows this epic story to play itself out, unhindered by commentary; where he does add his own voice, the conclusions are sage. A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the twenty-first century.'''' --_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14405'),
(10937, 'Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. The Third Reich', 'Eric Metaxas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas (Amazing Grace) offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research to unpack the confluence of circumstances and personalities that led Germany from the defeat of WWI to the atrocities of WWII. Abundant source documentation (sermons, letters, journal entries, lectures, the Barman Declaration) brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped Bonhoeffer: his highly intellectual, musical family; theologically liberal professors, pastoral colleagues and students; his extensive study, work, and travel abroad. Tracing Bonhoeffer''s developing call to be a Jeremiah-like prophet in his own time and a growing understanding that the church was called "to speak for those who could not speak," Metaxas details Bonhoeffer''s role in religious resistance to Nazism, and provides a compelling account of the faith journey that eventually involved the Lutheran pastor in unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler. Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history and theology.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''In Hitler''s Germany, a Lutheran pastor chooses resistance and pays with his life. . . Eric Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer''s story with passion and theological sophistication, often challenging revisionist accounts that make Bonhoeffer out to be a ''humanist'' or ethicist for whom religious doctrine was easily disposable. . . Metaxas reminds us that there are forms of religion -- respectable, domesticated, timid -- that may end up doing the devil''s work for him. --_Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural, and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research. . . Abundant source documentation brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped BonhoefferÃ¢â‚¬Â¦Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history, and theology.'''' --_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''A welcome new biography of one of the twentieth century''s leading lights. Metaxas magnificently captures the life of theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who ''thought it the plain duty of the Christian-and the privilege and honor-to suffer with those who suffered.'' In the finest treatment of the man since Eberhard Bethge''s\n <em>\n  Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage\n </em>\n (1970), Metaxas presents a complete, accessible picture of this important figure, whose story is inspiring, instructive, and international in scope. . . Metaxas rightly focuses on his subject''s life, not his theology, though readers will learn plenty about his theology as well. The author makes liberal use of primary sources, which bring Bonhoeffer and other characters to vivid life. For the most part, Metaxas allows this epic story to play itself out, unhindered by commentary; where he does add his own voice, the conclusions are sage. A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the twenty-first century.'''' --_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18980'),
(10938, 'Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. The Third Reich', 'Eric Metaxas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas (Amazing Grace) offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research to unpack the confluence of circumstances and personalities that led Germany from the defeat of WWI to the atrocities of WWII. Abundant source documentation (sermons, letters, journal entries, lectures, the Barman Declaration) brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped Bonhoeffer: his highly intellectual, musical family; theologically liberal professors, pastoral colleagues and students; his extensive study, work, and travel abroad. Tracing Bonhoeffer''s developing call to be a Jeremiah-like prophet in his own time and a growing understanding that the church was called "to speak for those who could not speak," Metaxas details Bonhoeffer''s role in religious resistance to Nazism, and provides a compelling account of the faith journey that eventually involved the Lutheran pastor in unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler. Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history and theology.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''In Hitler''s Germany, a Lutheran pastor chooses resistance and pays with his life. . . Eric Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer''s story with passion and theological sophistication, often challenging revisionist accounts that make Bonhoeffer out to be a ''humanist'' or ethicist for whom religious doctrine was easily disposable. . . Metaxas reminds us that there are forms of religion -- respectable, domesticated, timid -- that may end up doing the devil''s work for him. --_Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''In this weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas offers a comprehensive review of one of history''s darkest eras, along with a fascinating exploration of the familial, cultural, and religious influences that formed one of the world''s greatest contemporary theologians. A passionate narrative voice combines with meticulous research. . . Abundant source documentation brings to life the personalities and experiences that shaped BonhoefferÃ¢â‚¬Â¦Insightful and illuminating, this tome makes a powerful contribution to biography, history, and theology.'''' --_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''A welcome new biography of one of the twentieth century''s leading lights. Metaxas magnificently captures the life of theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who ''thought it the plain duty of the Christian-and the privilege and honor-to suffer with those who suffered.'' In the finest treatment of the man since Eberhard Bethge''s\n <em>\n  Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage\n </em>\n (1970), Metaxas presents a complete, accessible picture of this important figure, whose story is inspiring, instructive, and international in scope. . . Metaxas rightly focuses on his subject''s life, not his theology, though readers will learn plenty about his theology as well. The author makes liberal use of primary sources, which bring Bonhoeffer and other characters to vivid life. For the most part, Metaxas allows this epic story to play itself out, unhindered by commentary; where he does add his own voice, the conclusions are sage. A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the twenty-first century.'''' --_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27788'),
(10939, 'Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, But Some Actual Journalism!', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The New York Times calls him â€œthe funniest man in America,â€ and his legions of fans agree, laughing and snorting as they put his books on bestseller lists nationwide.In **Boogers Are My Beat**, Dave gives us the real scoop on:â€¢ The scientific search for the worldâ€™s funniest joke (you can bet it includes the word â€œweaselâ€)â€¢ RV camping in the Wal-Mart parking lotâ€¢ Outwitting â€œsmartâ€ kitchen appliances and service contractsâ€¢ Elections in Florida (â€œYou canâ€™t spell Florida without â€˜duhâ€™â€)â€¢ The Olympics, where people from all over the world come together to accuse each other of cheatingâ€¢ The truth about the Dakotas, the Lone Ranger, and feng shuiâ€¢ The choice between death and taxesAnd much, much moreâ€”including some truths about journalism and serious thoughts about 9/11.Dave Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1988, and his columns are syndicated in more than 500 newspapers. His most recent books, **Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down** and the novels** Big Trouble** and **Tricky Business**, were national bestsellers. He lives in Miami, Floriduh.Also available as an eBook*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25899'),
(10940, 'Boogeymen', 'Mel Gilden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eric Baldwin is the Federation''s premier exologist, a specialist in all manner of alien life forms -- and one of Captain Picard''s oldest, most trusted friends. But Baldwin''s discoveries have made him enemies across the galaxy, and now he wants Picard to help him by erasing all traces of his existence.  but Picard soon finds himself with little time to worry about Baldwin''s problems. For the "U.S.S. Enterprise(TM)." has suddenly become a strange and dangerous place -- a ship where assassins lurk in every corner, and even old trusted friends are not what they seem. Threats all masterminded by the strangest race of aliens Picard and his crew have yet encountered...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2931'),
(10941, 'Boogeymen', 'Mel Gilden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eric Baldwin is the Federation''s premier exologist, a specialist in all manner of alien life forms -- and one of Captain Picard''s oldest, most trusted friends. But Baldwin''s discoveries have made him enemies across the galaxy, and now he wants Picard to help him by erasing all traces of his existence. but Picard soon finds himself with little time to worry about Baldwin''s problems. For the "U.S.S. Enterprise(TM)." has suddenly become a strange and dangerous place -- a ship where assassins lurk in every corner, and even old trusted friends are not what they seem. Threats all masterminded by the strangest race of aliens Picard and his crew have yet encountered...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21841');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(10942, 'Boojum', 'Elizabeth Bear; Sarah Monette', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-size: 14px; ">\n  Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger -- and, yes, plunder. Oh, the Devil does love a pirate -- and so do readers everywhere.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Fast Ships, Black Sails presents an incredibly entertaining volume of original swashbuckling stories from the past to the present and beyond.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Come along on the voyage with bestselling authors Naomi Novik, Garth Nix, Carrie Vaughn, Eric Flint &amp; David Firer, and. Michael Moorcock, as well as such other stellar talents as Kage Baker, Elizabeth Bear &amp; Sarah Monette, Steve Aylett, and Conrad Williams -- all offering up a veritable treasure chest of piratical adventure, the likes of which have never been seen in the four corners of the Earth.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Highlights include a brand-new Garth Nix "Sir Hereward tic Mister Fitz" novella, as the two clever ne''er-do-wells storm the seagate of the scholar-pirates of Sarkoe.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  If ever you had a yearning for adventure on the high seas, now''s the time to indulge it, with Fast Ships, Black Sails. You''ll return with a sword shoved through your sash, booty in a safe harbor, and beer on your breath. We promise.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5842'),
(10943, 'Boojum', 'Elizabeth Bear; Sarah Monette', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18893'),
(10944, 'Book 1 of The Christmas Stories: A Christmas Carol', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25985'),
(10945, 'The Book Lover&#39;s Cookbook', 'Shaunda Kennedy Wenger &amp; Janet Jensen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE BOOK LOVERâ€™S COOKBOOKRecipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature and the Passages that Feature ThemShaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay JensenWake up to a perfect breakfast with Mrs. Dalbyâ€™s Buttermilk Scones, courtesy of James Herriotâ€™s All Things Bright and Beautiful and Ichabodâ€™s Slapjacks, as featured in Washington Irvingâ€™s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Thereâ€™s homey comfort food like Connie May''s Tomato Pie, created with and inspired by Connie May Fowler (Remembering Blue); Thanksgiving Spinach Casserole (Elizabeth Bergâ€™s Open House); and Amish Chicken and Dumplings (Jodi Picoult''s Plain Truth) . . . Sample salads, breads, and such soul-warming soups as Nearly-a-Meal Potato Soup (Terry Kayâ€™s Shadow Song); Mr. Casaubonâ€™s Chicken Noodle Soup (George Eliotâ€™s Middlemarch); and Mrs. Leibowitzâ€™s Lentil-Vegetable Soup (Frank McCourtâ€™s Angelaâ€™s Ashes) . . . After relishing appetizers and entrees, thereâ€™s a dazzling array of desserts, including Carrot Pudding (Charles Dickensâ€™s A Christmas Carol); Effie Belleâ€™s Coconut Cake (Olive Ann Burnsâ€™s Cold Sassy Tree); and the kids will love C.S. Lewis''s Turkish Delight from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.Sprinkled throughout with marvelous anecdotes about writers and writing, The Book Loverâ€™s Cookbook is a culinary and literary delight, a browserâ€™s cornucopia of reading pleasure, and a true inspiration in the kitchen.Shaunda Kennedy Wenger enjoys creative cooking and writing childrenâ€™s stories and articles. She is currently working on a novel. Her work has been published in Babybug, Ladybug, Wonder Years, American Careers, South Valley Living, and Short-Short Stories for Reading Aloud (The Education Center, 2000). She is an active member of the League of Utah Writers and the Society of Childrenâ€™s Book Writers and Illustrators. She regards her monthly book club meeting as one lifeâ€™s essential ingredients.Janet Kay Jensen is published in Healing Ministry journal and The Magic of Stories. She has received numerous awards for essays, poetry, and short stories, including three ByLine Magazine honorable mentions. A speech-language pathologist, she holds degrees from Utah State University and Northwestern University. She is writing a novel, teaches poetry classes to jail inmates, and is a literacy tutor. Married and the mother of three sons, she is a consultant at Utah State University.TASTY RECIPES AND THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THEMJoâ€™s Best Omelette . . . Little Women by Louisa May AlcottNo Dieterâ€™s Delight Chicken Neapolitan . . . Thinner by Stephen KingExtra-Special Rhubarb Pie . . . The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra DallasGrand Feast Crab Meat Casserole . . . At Home in Mitford by Jan KaronPersian Cucumber and Yogurt . . . House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus IIITamales . . . Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelBev''s No-Fuss Crab Cakes . . . Unnatural Exposure by Patricia CornwellMacaroni and Cheese . . . The Accidental Tourist by Anne TylerVeteran Split Pea Soup . . . The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen CraneAlternative Carrot-Raisin-Pineapple Salad . . . Midwives by Chris BohjalianSummerâ€™s Day Cucumber-Tomato Sandwiches . . . Women in Love by D. H. LawrenceRefreshing Black Cows . . . The Book of Ruth by Jane HamiltonDump Punch . . . Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenNot Violet, But Blueberry Pie . . . Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlInnocent Sweet Bread . . . The Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonDaddy''s Rich Chocolate Cake . . . Fatherhood by Bill Cosby. . . and many other delectable dishes for the literary palate!From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12312'),
(10946, 'The Book of Air and Shadows', 'Michael Gruber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n In this ingenious literary thriller from Gruber (_The Witch''s Boy_), the lives of two men are changed forever by William Shakespeare and the letters of Richard Bracegirdle, a 16th-century English spy and soldier. Jake Mishkin, a Manhattan intellectual property attorney and a bit of a rake, goes on the run from Russian gangsters. Albert Crosetti, an aspiring filmmaker working for an antiquarian bookstore, finds that life is more exciting than moviesâ€”perhaps too exciting. Together, Mishkin and Crosetti travel to England in search of a previously unknown Shakespeare manuscript mentioned by Bracegirdle. Though the pace sometimes slows to allow Mishkin, Crosetti and Bracegirdle to divulge interesting aspects of their personal lives, these digressions only make the story more engaging. The suspense created around the double-crosses and triple-crosses works because of the close connection readers forge with Crosetti in particular. The mysterious murder of a Shakespearean scholar, shootouts in the streets of Queens and an unlikely romance all combine to make for a gripping, satisfying read.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With literary-historical thrillers still piling up on bookstore shelves, Michael Gruber (_Night of the Jaguar_, *\n <em>\n </em>\n 1/2 July/Aug 2006) took a risk with\n <em>\n  The Book of Air and Shadows\n </em>\n . While the novel will appeal to those who enjoyed\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  The Rule of Four\n </em>\n , critics agree that its lively dialogue, compellingly flawed characters, sense of humor, and intelligent exploration of religion and cryptology elevate it far above the genre''s standard fare. Readers expecting car chases, kidnappings, globe trotting, sex, and murder won''t be disappointed, either. A few reviewers stumbled a bit over the excerpts of the Jacobean-style letters, but all agreed that the novel "hits the ground running ? until disparate plot threads are brought together in a heart-stopping climax" (_Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2819'),
(10947, 'The Book of Air and Shadows', 'Michael Gruber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n In this ingenious literary thriller from Gruber (_The Witch''s Boy_), the lives of two men are changed forever by William Shakespeare and the letters of Richard Bracegirdle, a 16th-century English spy and soldier. Jake Mishkin, a Manhattan intellectual property attorney and a bit of a rake, goes on the run from Russian gangsters. Albert Crosetti, an aspiring filmmaker working for an antiquarian bookstore, finds that life is more exciting than moviesâ€”perhaps too exciting. Together, Mishkin and Crosetti travel to England in search of a previously unknown Shakespeare manuscript mentioned by Bracegirdle. Though the pace sometimes slows to allow Mishkin, Crosetti and Bracegirdle to divulge interesting aspects of their personal lives, these digressions only make the story more engaging. The suspense created around the double-crosses and triple-crosses works because of the close connection readers forge with Crosetti in particular. The mysterious murder of a Shakespearean scholar, shootouts in the streets of Queens and an unlikely romance all combine to make for a gripping, satisfying read.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With literary-historical thrillers still piling up on bookstore shelves, Michael Gruber (_Night of the Jaguar_, *\n <em>\n </em>\n 1/2 July/Aug 2006) took a risk with\n <em>\n  The Book of Air and Shadows\n </em>\n . While the novel will appeal to those who enjoyed\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  The Rule of Four\n </em>\n , critics agree that its lively dialogue, compellingly flawed characters, sense of humor, and intelligent exploration of religion and cryptology elevate it far above the genre''s standard fare. Readers expecting car chases, kidnappings, globe trotting, sex, and murder won''t be disappointed, either. A few reviewers stumbled a bit over the excerpts of the Jacobean-style letters, but all agreed that the novel "hits the ground running ? until disparate plot threads are brought together in a heart-stopping climax" (_Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10107'),
(10948, 'The Book of Air and Shadows', 'Michael Gruber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n In this ingenious literary thriller from Gruber (_The Witch''s Boy_), the lives of two men are changed forever by William Shakespeare and the letters of Richard Bracegirdle, a 16th-century English spy and soldier. Jake Mishkin, a Manhattan intellectual property attorney and a bit of a rake, goes on the run from Russian gangsters. Albert Crosetti, an aspiring filmmaker working for an antiquarian bookstore, finds that life is more exciting than moviesâ€”perhaps too exciting. Together, Mishkin and Crosetti travel to England in search of a previously unknown Shakespeare manuscript mentioned by Bracegirdle. Though the pace sometimes slows to allow Mishkin, Crosetti and Bracegirdle to divulge interesting aspects of their personal lives, these digressions only make the story more engaging. The suspense created around the double-crosses and triple-crosses works because of the close connection readers forge with Crosetti in particular. The mysterious murder of a Shakespearean scholar, shootouts in the streets of Queens and an unlikely romance all combine to make for a gripping, satisfying read.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With literary-historical thrillers still piling up on bookstore shelves, Michael Gruber (_Night of the Jaguar_, *\n <em>\n </em>\n 1/2 July/Aug 2006) took a risk with\n <em>\n  The Book of Air and Shadows\n </em>\n . While the novel will appeal to those who enjoyed\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  The Rule of Four\n </em>\n , critics agree that its lively dialogue, compellingly flawed characters, sense of humor, and intelligent exploration of religion and cryptology elevate it far above the genre''s standard fare. Readers expecting car chases, kidnappings, globe trotting, sex, and murder won''t be disappointed, either. A few reviewers stumbled a bit over the excerpts of the Jacobean-style letters, but all agreed that the novel "hits the ground running ? until disparate plot threads are brought together in a heart-stopping climax" (_Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22007'),
(10949, 'The Book of Animal Ignorance', 'John Lloyd;John Mitchinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fast on the heels of the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance comes The Book of Animal Ignorance, a fun, fact-ï¬lled bestiary that is sure to delight animal lovers everywhere. Arranged alphabetically from aardvark to worm, here are one hundred of the most interesting members of the animal kingdom explained, dissected, and illustrated, with the trademark wit and wisdom of John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.Did you know, for instance, thatâ€¢ when a young albatross takes wing, it may stay aloft for ten yearsâ€¢ vampire bat salivaâ€”unsurprisingly, when you think about itâ€”is the source of the worldâ€™s most powerful blood thinning drug, appropriately called draculinâ€¢ bombardier beetles fire a boiling chemical spray out of their rears at 300 pulses per secondâ€¢ a bald eagleâ€™s feathers weigh twice as much as its bonesâ€¢ a giant tortoise recently died at the documented age of 255â€¢ octopuses are dexterous enough to unscrew tops from jarsâ€¢ spider silk is so light that a strand long enough to circle the world would weigh as much as a bar of soap?So meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and woodpeckers that have ears on the ends of their tongues.If you still think a pangolin is a musical instrument, that hyenas are dogs, or that sheep are pointless and stupid, The Book of Animal Ignorance has arrived just in time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25484'),
(10950, 'The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy', 'Bill Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.comâ€™s Sports Guy, is that writer. And **The Book of Basketball **is that book. Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opensâ€“and then closes, once and for allâ€“every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmonsâ€™s one-of-a-kind, five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), **The Book of Basketball **offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the gameâ€™s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.** More to the point, heâ€™s the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7174'),
(10951, 'The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy', 'Bill Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.comâ€™s Sports Guy, is that writer. And **The Book of Basketball **is that book. Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opensâ€“and then closes, once and for allâ€“every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmonsâ€™s one-of-a-kind, five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), **The Book of Basketball **offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the gameâ€™s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.** More to the point, heâ€™s the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12658'),
(10952, 'The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy', 'Bill Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.comâ€™s Sports Guy, is that writer. And **The Book of Basketball **is that book. Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opensâ€“and then closes, once and for allâ€“every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmonsâ€™s one-of-a-kind, five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), **The Book of Basketball **offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the gameâ€™s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.** More to the point, heâ€™s the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16689'),
(10953, 'The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy', 'Bill Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.comâ€™s Sports Guy, is that writer. And **The Book of Basketball **is that book. Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opensâ€“and then closes, once and for allâ€“every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmonsâ€™s one-of-a-kind, five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), **The Book of Basketball **offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the gameâ€™s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.** More to the point, heâ€™s the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26688'),
(10954, 'The Book of Counted Sorrows', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Limited Edition #100 of 1250\n <br />\n Signed By Koontz\n <br />\n Excellent condition in slipcase\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17249'),
(10955, 'The Book of Counted Sorrows', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Limited Edition #100 of 1250\n <br />\n Signed By Koontz\n <br />\n Excellent condition in slipcase\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27443'),
(10956, 'Book of Days: A Novel', 'James L. Rubart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  _"â€¦ in Your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed\n  <em>\n   _before they had come into being."\n  </em>\n  â€”Psalm 139:16 Young Cameron Vauxâ€™s mind is slipping. Memories of his wife, killed two years earlier in a car accident, are vanishing just as his dad predicted they would. Memories he knows he has to remember. His father tells Cameron that to save his mind he must find "the book with all days in it" â€”the past and future record of every soul on earth. When an obscure clue leads Cameron to a small central Oregon town, he meets enigmatic Taylor Stone, a possible guide to finding the book who seems to carry secrets far deeper than anyone imagines. Local hotshot TV personality Ann Bannister thinks the legend of the book is a farce, but she has her reasons to join Cameronâ€™s search anyway. Finally, there is fanatical New Age guru Jason Judah, who will stop at nothing to find the book of days before Cameron does.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Acclaim for\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "I devoured\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  in one sitting. It is an exciting but poignant novel about how truly important our memories and choices are to who we become. It''s still resonating in my heart."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Colleen Coble\n  </strong>\n  , best-selling author of _The Lightkeeper''s Bride\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "_Book of Days_ is actually better than Rubart''s best-selling debut,\n  <em>\n   Rooms\n  </em>\n  . . . a terrific story that is equal parts fast-paced thriller, thought-provoking allegory, and moving drama."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Rick Acker\n  </strong>\n  , author of _When the Devil Whistles\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "James L. Rubart is officially now one of my favorite writers.\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  is a great read, why people buy novels."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dan Walsh\n  </strong>\n  , award-winning author of\n  <em>\n   The Unfinished Gift\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   James L. Rubart\n  </strong>\n  is a professional marketer, speaker, and writer. He serves on the board of the Northwest Christian Writers Association and lives with his wife and sons in Seattle, Washington.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4887'),
(10957, 'Book of Days: A Novel', 'James L. Rubart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  _"â€¦ in Your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed\n  <em>\n   _before they had come into being."\n  </em>\n  â€”Psalm 139:16 Young Cameron Vauxâ€™s mind is slipping. Memories of his wife, killed two years earlier in a car accident, are vanishing just as his dad predicted they would. Memories he knows he has to remember. His father tells Cameron that to save his mind he must find "the book with all days in it" â€”the past and future record of every soul on earth. When an obscure clue leads Cameron to a small central Oregon town, he meets enigmatic Taylor Stone, a possible guide to finding the book who seems to carry secrets far deeper than anyone imagines. Local hotshot TV personality Ann Bannister thinks the legend of the book is a farce, but she has her reasons to join Cameronâ€™s search anyway. Finally, there is fanatical New Age guru Jason Judah, who will stop at nothing to find the book of days before Cameron does.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Acclaim for\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "I devoured\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  in one sitting. It is an exciting but poignant novel about how truly important our memories and choices are to who we become. It''s still resonating in my heart."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Colleen Coble\n  </strong>\n  , best-selling author of _The Lightkeeper''s Bride\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "_Book of Days_ is actually better than Rubart''s best-selling debut,\n  <em>\n   Rooms\n  </em>\n  . . . a terrific story that is equal parts fast-paced thriller, thought-provoking allegory, and moving drama."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Rick Acker\n  </strong>\n  , author of _When the Devil Whistles\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "James L. Rubart is officially now one of my favorite writers.\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  is a great read, why people buy novels."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dan Walsh\n  </strong>\n  , award-winning author of\n  <em>\n   The Unfinished Gift\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   James L. Rubart\n  </strong>\n  is a professional marketer, speaker, and writer. He serves on the board of the Northwest Christian Writers Association and lives with his wife and sons in Seattle, Washington.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12462'),
(10958, 'Book of Days: A Novel', 'James L. Rubart', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  _"â€¦ in Your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed\n  <em>\n   _before they had come into being."\n  </em>\n  â€”Psalm 139:16 Young Cameron Vauxâ€™s mind is slipping. Memories of his wife, killed two years earlier in a car accident, are vanishing just as his dad predicted they would. Memories he knows he has to remember. His father tells Cameron that to save his mind he must find "the book with all days in it" â€”the past and future record of every soul on earth. When an obscure clue leads Cameron to a small central Oregon town, he meets enigmatic Taylor Stone, a possible guide to finding the book who seems to carry secrets far deeper than anyone imagines. Local hotshot TV personality Ann Bannister thinks the legend of the book is a farce, but she has her reasons to join Cameronâ€™s search anyway. Finally, there is fanatical New Age guru Jason Judah, who will stop at nothing to find the book of days before Cameron does.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Acclaim for\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "I devoured\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  in one sitting. It is an exciting but poignant novel about how truly important our memories and choices are to who we become. It''s still resonating in my heart."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Colleen Coble\n  </strong>\n  , best-selling author of _The Lightkeeper''s Bride\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "_Book of Days_ is actually better than Rubart''s best-selling debut,\n  <em>\n   Rooms\n  </em>\n  . . . a terrific story that is equal parts fast-paced thriller, thought-provoking allegory, and moving drama."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Rick Acker\n  </strong>\n  , author of _When the Devil Whistles\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "James L. Rubart is officially now one of my favorite writers.\n  <em>\n   Book of Days\n  </em>\n  is a great read, why people buy novels."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dan Walsh\n  </strong>\n  , award-winning author of\n  <em>\n   The Unfinished Gift\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   James L. Rubart\n  </strong>\n  is a professional marketer, speaker, and writer. He serves on the board of the Northwest Christian Writers Association and lives with his wife and sons in Seattle, Washington.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19882'),
(10959, 'The Book of Disquiet', 'Fernando Pessoa', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Pessoa died in 1935, a few years short of 50, he left behind a trunk of mostly unpublished writing in a variety of languages; his Lisbon publishers and variously translators are still sifting them. This perpetually unclassifiable and unfinished book of self-reflective fragments was first published in Portuguese in 1982, and it is arguably Pessoa''s masterpiece. Four previous English translations, all published in 1991, were compromised either by abridgement, poor translation or error-laden source texts. While he''s now a Pessoa veteran-having edited and translated Fernando Pessoa &amp; Co.: Selected Poems, the 1999 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation winner-Zenith''s first pass at this book was one of the four misses. He bases this new translation on his own Portuguese edition of 1998, and has done an admirable job in bringing out the force and clarity in Pessoa''s serpentine and sometimes opaque meditations. Pessoa often wrote as various personae (as Pessoa &amp; Co. carefully demonstrated); Disquiet is no exception, being putatively the work of "Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon." Thus it is impossible to ascribe the book''s anti-humanist logophilia directly to the author: "I weep over nothing that life brings or takes away, but there are pages of prose that have made me cry." That is just one of many permutations of similar sentiments, but the genius of Pessoa and his personae is that readers are left weighing each and every such sentence for sincerity and truth value.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. The Portuguese author attributed his work to literary alter egos that he called "heteronyms," each of which had a fully developed identity. When Pessoa died, he left behind a trunk filled with disorderly scraps of unpublished poems and unfinished works, among which was\n <em>\n  The Book of Disquiet\n </em>\n . Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa''s alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith,\n <em>\n  The Book of Disquiet\n </em>\n is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n<p>\n Edited and Translated with an Introduction by Richard Zenith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5498'),
(10960, 'The Book of Disquiet', 'Fernando Pessoa', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Pessoa died in 1935, a few years short of 50, he left behind a trunk of mostly unpublished writing in a variety of languages; his Lisbon publishers and variously translators are still sifting them. This perpetually unclassifiable and unfinished book of self-reflective fragments was first published in Portuguese in 1982, and it is arguably Pessoa''s masterpiece. Four previous English translations, all published in 1991, were compromised either by abridgement, poor translation or error-laden source texts. While he''s now a Pessoa veteran-having edited and translated Fernando Pessoa &amp; Co.: Selected Poems, the 1999 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation winner-Zenith''s first pass at this book was one of the four misses. He bases this new translation on his own Portuguese edition of 1998, and has done an admirable job in bringing out the force and clarity in Pessoa''s serpentine and sometimes opaque meditations. Pessoa often wrote as various personae (as Pessoa &amp; Co. carefully demonstrated); Disquiet is no exception, being putatively the work of "Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon." Thus it is impossible to ascribe the book''s anti-humanist logophilia directly to the author: "I weep over nothing that life brings or takes away, but there are pages of prose that have made me cry." That is just one of many permutations of similar sentiments, but the genius of Pessoa and his personae is that readers are left weighing each and every such sentence for sincerity and truth value.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. The Portuguese author attributed his work to literary alter egos that he called "heteronyms," each of which had a fully developed identity. When Pessoa died, he left behind a trunk filled with disorderly scraps of unpublished poems and unfinished works, among which was\n <em>\n  The Book of Disquiet\n </em>\n . Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa''s alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith,\n <em>\n  The Book of Disquiet\n </em>\n is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n<p>\n Edited and Translated with an Introduction by Richard Zenith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11999'),
(10961, 'The Book of Disquiet', 'Fernando Pessoa', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Pessoa died in 1935, a few years short of 50, he left behind a trunk of mostly unpublished writing in a variety of languages; his Lisbon publishers and variously translators are still sifting them. This perpetually unclassifiable and unfinished book of self-reflective fragments was first published in Portuguese in 1982, and it is arguably Pessoa''s masterpiece. Four previous English translations, all published in 1991, were compromised either by abridgement, poor translation or error-laden source texts. While he''s now a Pessoa veteran-having edited and translated Fernando Pessoa &amp; Co.: Selected Poems, the 1999 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation winner-Zenith''s first pass at this book was one of the four misses. He bases this new translation on his own Portuguese edition of 1998, and has done an admirable job in bringing out the force and clarity in Pessoa''s serpentine and sometimes opaque meditations. Pessoa often wrote as various personae (as Pessoa &amp; Co. carefully demonstrated); Disquiet is no exception, being putatively the work of "Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon." Thus it is impossible to ascribe the book''s anti-humanist logophilia directly to the author: "I weep over nothing that life brings or takes away, but there are pages of prose that have made me cry." That is just one of many permutations of similar sentiments, but the genius of Pessoa and his personae is that readers are left weighing each and every such sentence for sincerity and truth value.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. The Portuguese author attributed his work to literary alter egos that he called "heteronyms," each of which had a fully developed identity. When Pessoa died, he left behind a trunk filled with disorderly scraps of unpublished poems and unfinished works, among which was\n <em>\n  The Book of Disquiet\n </em>\n . Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa''s alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith,\n <em>\n  The Book of Disquiet\n </em>\n is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.\n</p>\n<p>\n Edited and Translated with an Introduction by Richard Zenith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19092'),
(10962, 'The Book of Fate', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set against a backdrop of Oval Office corruption, bestseller Meltzer''s overblown thriller opens with a frantic assassination attempt on President Leland Manning, who manages to elude the gunfire. Manning''s deputy chief of staff, Ron Boyle, is killed, and his top aide, the cocky, ambitious Wes Holloway, is left facially disfigured. Eight years later, his motivation and confidence drained by his handicap, Holloway still toils away for the out-of-office Manning, fetching refreshments and handling the daily social calendar. On a goodwill junket to Malaysia, however, Holloway spots Boyle, surgically altered, but unmistakably the same man who was supposed to be dead and gone. From this turning point, Meltzer (_The Zero Game_) follows Holloway step by excruciatingly slow step as he tries to find out what really happened eight years earlier. Authentic details about Washington politics and historical mysteries enliven the predictable path. While readers looking for efficient plotting may be disappointed, Meltzer''s many fans will enjoy this substantial meal of a book.\n <em>\n  15-city author tour. (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wes Holloway, a hotshot presidential aide, is wounded in an assassination attempt that kills the president''s close friend. Eight years later, the dead man reappears, disfigured but very much alive and apparently stalking the former president. Wes thinks he can figure out what''s going on, but to do so he must decipher a two-century-old code and penetrate the secrets of Masonic history. From his first novel,\n <em>\n  The Tenth Justice\n </em>\n (1997), through his sixth,\n <em>\n  Identity Crisis\n </em>\n (2005), Meltzer has served up exciting thrillers that take readers behind the scenes of American politics. The pattern doesn''t change this time. Like the television series\n <em>\n  The West Wing\n </em>\n , Meltzer''s novels focus on the political people the public never sees and tells the stories we never hear. He could be accused here of jumping on the\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n bandwagon, but that wouldn''t really be fair. He''s too good a writer to waste his time imitating someone else''s work, and this novel is much more skillfully written--and far more plausible--than Dan Brown''s tedious best-seller. The characters are genuine human beings--not all that common in the world of high-concept thrillers--and the plot fluidly integrates historical fact and fiction, which is even less common. Fans of thrillers that reach far back into history will be, well, . . . thrilled.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7205'),
(10963, 'The Book of Fate', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set against a backdrop of Oval Office corruption, bestseller Meltzer''s overblown thriller opens with a frantic assassination attempt on President Leland Manning, who manages to elude the gunfire. Manning''s deputy chief of staff, Ron Boyle, is killed, and his top aide, the cocky, ambitious Wes Holloway, is left facially disfigured. Eight years later, his motivation and confidence drained by his handicap, Holloway still toils away for the out-of-office Manning, fetching refreshments and handling the daily social calendar. On a goodwill junket to Malaysia, however, Holloway spots Boyle, surgically altered, but unmistakably the same man who was supposed to be dead and gone. From this turning point, Meltzer (_The Zero Game_) follows Holloway step by excruciatingly slow step as he tries to find out what really happened eight years earlier. Authentic details about Washington politics and historical mysteries enliven the predictable path. While readers looking for efficient plotting may be disappointed, Meltzer''s many fans will enjoy this substantial meal of a book.\n <em>\n  15-city author tour. (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wes Holloway, a hotshot presidential aide, is wounded in an assassination attempt that kills the president''s close friend. Eight years later, the dead man reappears, disfigured but very much alive and apparently stalking the former president. Wes thinks he can figure out what''s going on, but to do so he must decipher a two-century-old code and penetrate the secrets of Masonic history. From his first novel,\n <em>\n  The Tenth Justice\n </em>\n (1997), through his sixth,\n <em>\n  Identity Crisis\n </em>\n (2005), Meltzer has served up exciting thrillers that take readers behind the scenes of American politics. The pattern doesn''t change this time. Like the television series\n <em>\n  The West Wing\n </em>\n , Meltzer''s novels focus on the political people the public never sees and tells the stories we never hear. He could be accused here of jumping on the\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n bandwagon, but that wouldn''t really be fair. He''s too good a writer to waste his time imitating someone else''s work, and this novel is much more skillfully written--and far more plausible--than Dan Brown''s tedious best-seller. The characters are genuine human beings--not all that common in the world of high-concept thrillers--and the plot fluidly integrates historical fact and fiction, which is even less common. Fans of thrillers that reach far back into history will be, well, . . . thrilled.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11415'),
(10964, 'The Book of Fate', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set against a backdrop of Oval Office corruption, bestseller Meltzer''s overblown thriller opens with a frantic assassination attempt on President Leland Manning, who manages to elude the gunfire. Manning''s deputy chief of staff, Ron Boyle, is killed, and his top aide, the cocky, ambitious Wes Holloway, is left facially disfigured. Eight years later, his motivation and confidence drained by his handicap, Holloway still toils away for the out-of-office Manning, fetching refreshments and handling the daily social calendar. On a goodwill junket to Malaysia, however, Holloway spots Boyle, surgically altered, but unmistakably the same man who was supposed to be dead and gone. From this turning point, Meltzer (_The Zero Game_) follows Holloway step by excruciatingly slow step as he tries to find out what really happened eight years earlier. Authentic details about Washington politics and historical mysteries enliven the predictable path. While readers looking for efficient plotting may be disappointed, Meltzer''s many fans will enjoy this substantial meal of a book.\n <em>\n  15-city author tour. (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wes Holloway, a hotshot presidential aide, is wounded in an assassination attempt that kills the president''s close friend. Eight years later, the dead man reappears, disfigured but very much alive and apparently stalking the former president. Wes thinks he can figure out what''s going on, but to do so he must decipher a two-century-old code and penetrate the secrets of Masonic history. From his first novel,\n <em>\n  The Tenth Justice\n </em>\n (1997), through his sixth,\n <em>\n  Identity Crisis\n </em>\n (2005), Meltzer has served up exciting thrillers that take readers behind the scenes of American politics. The pattern doesn''t change this time. Like the television series\n <em>\n  The West Wing\n </em>\n , Meltzer''s novels focus on the political people the public never sees and tells the stories we never hear. He could be accused here of jumping on the\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n bandwagon, but that wouldn''t really be fair. He''s too good a writer to waste his time imitating someone else''s work, and this novel is much more skillfully written--and far more plausible--than Dan Brown''s tedious best-seller. The characters are genuine human beings--not all that common in the world of high-concept thrillers--and the plot fluidly integrates historical fact and fiction, which is even less common. Fans of thrillers that reach far back into history will be, well, . . . thrilled.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16650'),
(10965, 'The Book of Fathers', 'Miklos Vamos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2753'),
(10966, 'The Book of Fathers', 'Miklos Vamos', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22077'),
(10967, 'The Book of Fires', 'Jane Borodale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A stunning historical novel, ''The Book of Fires'' is the unforgettable story of Agnes Trussel '' and love, fireworks and redemption.Brought up in rural Sussex, seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel is carrying an unwanted child. Taking advantage of the death of her elderly neighbour, Agnes steals her savings and runs away to London. On her way she encounters the intriguing Lettice Talbot who promises that she will help Agnes upon their arrival. But Agnes soon becomes lost in the dark, labyrinthine city. She ends up at the household of John Blacklock, laconic firework-maker, becoming his first female assistant.The months pass and it becomes increasingly difficult for Agnes to conceal her secret. Soon she meets Cornelius Soul, seller of gunpowder, and hatches a plan which could save her from ruin. Yet why does John Blacklock so vehemently disapprove of Mr Soul? And what exactly is he keeping from her? Could the housekeeper, Mrs Blight, with her thirst for accounts of hangings, suspect her crime or condition?Historical fiction at its very best, ''The Book of Fires'' is utterly intriguing, completely compelling and impossible to put down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4710');
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(10968, 'The Book of Fires', 'Jane Borodale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A stunning historical novel, ''The Book of Fires'' is the unforgettable story of Agnes Trussel '' and love, fireworks and redemption.Brought up in rural Sussex, seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel is carrying an unwanted child. Taking advantage of the death of her elderly neighbour, Agnes steals her savings and runs away to London. On her way she encounters the intriguing Lettice Talbot who promises that she will help Agnes upon their arrival. But Agnes soon becomes lost in the dark, labyrinthine city. She ends up at the household of John Blacklock, laconic firework-maker, becoming his first female assistant.The months pass and it becomes increasingly difficult for Agnes to conceal her secret. Soon she meets Cornelius Soul, seller of gunpowder, and hatches a plan which could save her from ruin. Yet why does John Blacklock so vehemently disapprove of Mr Soul? And what exactly is he keeping from her? Could the housekeeper, Mrs Blight, with her thirst for accounts of hangings, suspect her crime or condition?Historical fiction at its very best, ''The Book of Fires'' is utterly intriguing, completely compelling and impossible to put down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8568'),
(10969, 'The Book of Fires', 'Jane Borodale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A stunning historical novel, ''The Book of Fires'' is the unforgettable story of Agnes Trussel '' and love, fireworks and redemption.Brought up in rural Sussex, seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel is carrying an unwanted child. Taking advantage of the death of her elderly neighbour, Agnes steals her savings and runs away to London. On her way she encounters the intriguing Lettice Talbot who promises that she will help Agnes upon their arrival. But Agnes soon becomes lost in the dark, labyrinthine city. She ends up at the household of John Blacklock, laconic firework-maker, becoming his first female assistant.The months pass and it becomes increasingly difficult for Agnes to conceal her secret. Soon she meets Cornelius Soul, seller of gunpowder, and hatches a plan which could save her from ruin. Yet why does John Blacklock so vehemently disapprove of Mr Soul? And what exactly is he keeping from her? Could the housekeeper, Mrs Blight, with her thirst for accounts of hangings, suspect her crime or condition?Historical fiction at its very best, ''The Book of Fires'' is utterly intriguing, completely compelling and impossible to put down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19918'),
(10970, 'The Book of General Ignorance', 'John Lloyd &amp; John Mitchinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you think you''re a trivia expert, British TV men Lloyd (producer of the hit comedy shows Spitting Image and Black Adder) and Mitchinson (writer for Quite Interesting) may disabuse you of the notion that you''re a true scholar of random facts-and quickly. Their surprisingly lengthy tome is jam-packed with real answers to a number of less-than-burning questions-camels store fat, not water, in their humps; only five out of every 100,000 paper clips are used to clip papers; the first American president was in fact Peyton Randolph-that you nevertheless may be embarrassed to have completely wrong. Although some of the entries rely on technicality more than actual excavation of obscure fact (Honolulu is technically the world''s largest city, despite the fact that 72% of its 2,127 square miles is underwater), these page-length entries prove entertaining and informative, perfect for trivia buffs and know-it-alls; it also makes a fine coffee table conversation piece and a handy resource for prepping clever cocktail party banter.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œTrivia buffs and know-it-alls alike will exult to find so much repeatable wisdom gathered in one place.â€\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”_New York Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_The Book of General Ignorance_ wonâ€™t make you feel dumb. Itâ€™s really a call to be more curious.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_The Associated Press_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIgnorance may be bliss, but so is learning surprising information.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Hartford Courant_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYou, too, can banish social awdwardness by having its endless count of facts and factoids at the ready. Or you could just read it and keep what you learned to yourself. Betcha canâ€™t.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_New York Daily News_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTo impress friends with your cleverness, beg, borrow or buy John Lloyd and John Mitchinsonâ€™s The Book of General Ignorance, an extraordinary collection of 230 common misperceptions compiled for the BBC panel game QI (Quite Interesting).â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Financial Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œThis book would make even Edison feel small and silly, for it offers answers to questions you never thought to ask or had no need of asking as you already knew, or thought you knew, the answer.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_The Economist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTrivia books, like any kind of mental or physical addiction, are both irresistible and unsatisfying. By the standards of the genre, this one has something approaching the force of revelation. Answering silly questions suddenly seems less important than taking the trouble to ask a few.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”Melbourne Age\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEye-watering, eyebrow-raising, terrific . . . moving slightly faster than your brain does, so that you havenâ€™t quite absorbed the full import of one blissful item of trivial information before two or three more come along. Such fine and creative research genuinely deserves to be captured in print.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Daily Mail_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis UK bestseller redefines â€˜common knowledgeâ€™ with factoids that will inform and entertain (or at least liven up your next cocktail party).â€\n  <br />\n  â€“_OK! Magazine_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4269'),
(10971, 'The Book of General Ignorance', 'John Lloyd &amp; John Mitchinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If you think you''re a trivia expert, British TV men Lloyd (producer of the hit comedy shows Spitting Image and Black Adder) and Mitchinson (writer for Quite Interesting) may disabuse you of the notion that you''re a true scholar of random facts-and quickly. Their surprisingly lengthy tome is jam-packed with real answers to a number of less-than-burning questions-camels store fat, not water, in their humps; only five out of every 100,000 paper clips are used to clip papers; the first American president was in fact Peyton Randolph-that you nevertheless may be embarrassed to have completely wrong. Although some of the entries rely on technicality more than actual excavation of obscure fact (Honolulu is technically the world''s largest city, despite the fact that 72% of its 2,127 square miles is underwater), these page-length entries prove entertaining and informative, perfect for trivia buffs and know-it-alls; it also makes a fine coffee table conversation piece and a handy resource for prepping clever cocktail party banter.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œTrivia buffs and know-it-alls alike will exult to find so much repeatable wisdom gathered in one place.â€\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  â€”_New York Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_The Book of General Ignorance_ wonâ€™t make you feel dumb. Itâ€™s really a call to be more curious.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_The Associated Press_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIgnorance may be bliss, but so is learning surprising information.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Hartford Courant_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYou, too, can banish social awdwardness by having its endless count of facts and factoids at the ready. Or you could just read it and keep what you learned to yourself. Betcha canâ€™t.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_New York Daily News_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTo impress friends with your cleverness, beg, borrow or buy John Lloyd and John Mitchinsonâ€™s The Book of General Ignorance, an extraordinary collection of 230 common misperceptions compiled for the BBC panel game QI (Quite Interesting).â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Financial Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œThis book would make even Edison feel small and silly, for it offers answers to questions you never thought to ask or had no need of asking as you already knew, or thought you knew, the answer.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_The Economist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTrivia books, like any kind of mental or physical addiction, are both irresistible and unsatisfying. By the standards of the genre, this one has something approaching the force of revelation. Answering silly questions suddenly seems less important than taking the trouble to ask a few.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€”Melbourne Age\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œEye-watering, eyebrow-raising, terrific . . . moving slightly faster than your brain does, so that you havenâ€™t quite absorbed the full import of one blissful item of trivial information before two or three more come along. Such fine and creative research genuinely deserves to be captured in print.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_Daily Mail_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis UK bestseller redefines â€˜common knowledgeâ€™ with factoids that will inform and entertain (or at least liven up your next cocktail party).â€\n  <br />\n  â€“_OK! Magazine_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11153'),
(10972, 'The Book of Lies', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Meltzer (_The Book of Fate_) deserves credit for an audacious conceitâ€”wedding the biblical fratricide of Abel by his brother Cain with the unsolved 1932 homicide of the father of Jerry Siegel, the creator of iconic comic book hero Supermanâ€”but the results are less than convincing. A highly tenuous link between the two murders revolves around the mysterious weapon Cain (the world''s greatest villain) used to kill his brother. One of numerous theories is that the weapon was a divine book containing the secrets of immortality. After coming to the aid of a shooting victim, Calvin Harper, a homeless volunteer working in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., soon finds himself hopelessly caught up in a life-and-death quest for the ancient artifact that includes the obligatory secret societies, Nazi conspiracies, enigmatic villains and cryptographic riddles Ã  la\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n . A glut of two-dimensional characters and a plot riddled with coincidences don''t help.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Meltzer builds suspenseful fiction on a previously little-explored historical nugget: Jerry Siegel, the teenage creator of Superman, lost his father in an unsolved murder in 1932. The author offers a compelling theoretical solution by way of an adult protagonist who is dealing with his conflicted feelings about his own father. Cal works for a rescue mission, picking up vagrants in need of shelter, when he stumbles across a man who turns out to be the father who abandoned him in childhood. The two men join forces in pursuit of what they believe is the lost Book of Cain, the weapon used in the Bibles original murder scene. Meltzer invokes multiple viewpoints as Cal, his father, a mysterious young woman who seems to have befriended the father, a rogue ex-cop, and a hot Federal agent converge on Cleveland in search of the biblical treasure. Teens with a taste for international conspiracies, religion-spouting bad guys, and identity-switching will enjoy this fast ride that leaves some solid and intriguing questions in the wake of its driving plot. Suggest this one to kids who enjoy the likes of Dan Brown, as well as superhero comics._â€“Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7208'),
(10973, 'The Book of Lies', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Meltzer (_The Book of Fate_) deserves credit for an audacious conceitâ€”wedding the biblical fratricide of Abel by his brother Cain with the unsolved 1932 homicide of the father of Jerry Siegel, the creator of iconic comic book hero Supermanâ€”but the results are less than convincing. A highly tenuous link between the two murders revolves around the mysterious weapon Cain (the world''s greatest villain) used to kill his brother. One of numerous theories is that the weapon was a divine book containing the secrets of immortality. After coming to the aid of a shooting victim, Calvin Harper, a homeless volunteer working in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., soon finds himself hopelessly caught up in a life-and-death quest for the ancient artifact that includes the obligatory secret societies, Nazi conspiracies, enigmatic villains and cryptographic riddles Ã  la\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n . A glut of two-dimensional characters and a plot riddled with coincidences don''t help.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Meltzer builds suspenseful fiction on a previously little-explored historical nugget: Jerry Siegel, the teenage creator of Superman, lost his father in an unsolved murder in 1932. The author offers a compelling theoretical solution by way of an adult protagonist who is dealing with his conflicted feelings about his own father. Cal works for a rescue mission, picking up vagrants in need of shelter, when he stumbles across a man who turns out to be the father who abandoned him in childhood. The two men join forces in pursuit of what they believe is the lost Book of Cain, the weapon used in the Bibles original murder scene. Meltzer invokes multiple viewpoints as Cal, his father, a mysterious young woman who seems to have befriended the father, a rogue ex-cop, and a hot Federal agent converge on Cleveland in search of the biblical treasure. Teens with a taste for international conspiracies, religion-spouting bad guys, and identity-switching will enjoy this fast ride that leaves some solid and intriguing questions in the wake of its driving plot. Suggest this one to kids who enjoy the likes of Dan Brown, as well as superhero comics._â€“Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11420'),
(10974, 'The Book of Lies', 'Brad Meltzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Meltzer (_The Book of Fate_) deserves credit for an audacious conceitâ€”wedding the biblical fratricide of Abel by his brother Cain with the unsolved 1932 homicide of the father of Jerry Siegel, the creator of iconic comic book hero Supermanâ€”but the results are less than convincing. A highly tenuous link between the two murders revolves around the mysterious weapon Cain (the world''s greatest villain) used to kill his brother. One of numerous theories is that the weapon was a divine book containing the secrets of immortality. After coming to the aid of a shooting victim, Calvin Harper, a homeless volunteer working in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., soon finds himself hopelessly caught up in a life-and-death quest for the ancient artifact that includes the obligatory secret societies, Nazi conspiracies, enigmatic villains and cryptographic riddles Ã  la\n <em>\n  The Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n . A glut of two-dimensional characters and a plot riddled with coincidences don''t help.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“Meltzer builds suspenseful fiction on a previously little-explored historical nugget: Jerry Siegel, the teenage creator of Superman, lost his father in an unsolved murder in 1932. The author offers a compelling theoretical solution by way of an adult protagonist who is dealing with his conflicted feelings about his own father. Cal works for a rescue mission, picking up vagrants in need of shelter, when he stumbles across a man who turns out to be the father who abandoned him in childhood. The two men join forces in pursuit of what they believe is the lost Book of Cain, the weapon used in the Bibles original murder scene. Meltzer invokes multiple viewpoints as Cal, his father, a mysterious young woman who seems to have befriended the father, a rogue ex-cop, and a hot Federal agent converge on Cleveland in search of the biblical treasure. Teens with a taste for international conspiracies, religion-spouting bad guys, and identity-switching will enjoy this fast ride that leaves some solid and intriguing questions in the wake of its driving plot. Suggest this one to kids who enjoy the likes of Dan Brown, as well as superhero comics._â€“Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16649'),
(10975, 'The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "One marvels anew at the depth, breadth, and persistence of J.R.R. Tolkien''s labor. No one sympathetic to his aims, the invention of a secondary universe, will want to miss this chance to be present at the creation." Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This second part of THE BOOK OF LOST TALES includes the tale of Beneren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, Necklace of the Dwarves, and the Fall of Gondolin. Each tale is followed by a commentary in the form of a short essay, together with the texts of associated poems, as well as information on names and vocabulary in the earliest Elvish languages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12353'),
(10976, 'The Book Of Lost Things', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author John Connolly''s unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love, and the redemptive power of stories. High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book... The Book of Lost Things. An imaginative tribute to the journey we must all make through the loss of innocence into adulthood, John Connolly''s latest novel is a book for every adult who can recall the moment when childhood began to fade, and for every adult about to face that moment. The Book of Lost Things is a story of hope for all who have lost, and for all who have yet to lose. It is an exhilarating tale that reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14580'),
(10977, 'The Book Of Lost Things', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author John Connolly''s unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love, and the redemptive power of stories. High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book... The Book of Lost Things. An imaginative tribute to the journey we must all make through the loss of innocence into adulthood, John Connolly''s latest novel is a book for every adult who can recall the moment when childhood began to fade, and for every adult about to face that moment. The Book of Lost Things is a story of hope for all who have lost, and for all who have yet to lose. It is an exhilarating tale that reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21396'),
(10978, 'Book of Lost Threads', 'Tess Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the small town of Opportunity, four mismatched people discover the unexpected power of kindness. Tender, funny and memorable, Book of Lost Threads is a story about love and loss, parents and children, hope, faith and the value of simple kindness. Moss has run away from Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man she knows only by name. But her arrival sets in train events that disturb the long-held secrets of three of the town'' s inhabitants: Finn, a brilliant mathematician, who has become a recluse; Lily Pargetter, eighty-three-year-old knitter of tea cosies; and Sandy, the town buffoon, who dreams of a Great Galah. It is only as Moss, Finn, Lily and Sandy develop unlikely friendships that they find a way to lay their sorrows to rest and knit together the threads that will restore them to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/718'),
(10979, 'Book of Lost Threads', 'Tess Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the small town of Opportunity, four mismatched people discover the unexpected power of kindness. Tender, funny and memorable, Book of Lost Threads is a story about love and loss, parents and children, hope, faith and the value of simple kindness. Moss has run away from Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man she knows only by name. But her arrival sets in train events that disturb the long-held secrets of three of the town'' s inhabitants: Finn, a brilliant mathematician, who has become a recluse; Lily Pargetter, eighty-three-year-old knitter of tea cosies; and Sandy, the town buffoon, who dreams of a Great Galah. It is only as Moss, Finn, Lily and Sandy develop unlikely friendships that they find a way to lay their sorrows to rest and knit together the threads that will restore them to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9588'),
(10980, 'Book of Lost Threads', 'Tess Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the small town of Opportunity, four mismatched people discover the unexpected power of kindness. Tender, funny and memorable, Book of Lost Threads is a story about love and loss, parents and children, hope, faith and the value of simple kindness. Moss has run away from Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man she knows only by name. But her arrival sets in train events that disturb the long-held secrets of three of the town'' s inhabitants: Finn, a brilliant mathematician, who has become a recluse; Lily Pargetter, eighty-three-year-old knitter of tea cosies; and Sandy, the town buffoon, who dreams of a Great Galah. It is only as Moss, Finn, Lily and Sandy develop unlikely friendships that they find a way to lay their sorrows to rest and knit together the threads that will restore them to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24243'),
(10981, 'A Book of Mediterranean Food', 'Elizabeth David', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David''s passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. In bleak postwar Great Britain, when basics were rationed and fresh food a fantasy, David set about to cheer herself --and her audience-- up with dishes from the south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and the Middle East. Some are sumptuous, many are simple, most are sublime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5671'),
(10982, 'A Book of Mediterranean Food', 'Elizabeth David', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David''s passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. In bleak postwar Great Britain, when basics were rationed and fresh food a fantasy, David set about to cheer herself --and her audience-- up with dishes from the south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and the Middle East. Some are sumptuous, many are simple, most are sublime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9138'),
(10983, 'A Book of Mediterranean Food', 'Elizabeth David', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David''s passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. In bleak postwar Great Britain, when basics were rationed and fresh food a fantasy, David set about to cheer herself --and her audience-- up with dishes from the south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and the Middle East. Some are sumptuous, many are simple, most are sublime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18874'),
(10984, 'A Book of Mediterranean Food', 'Elizabeth David', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David''s passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. In bleak postwar Great Britain, when basics were rationed and fresh food a fantasy, David set about to cheer herself --and her audience-- up with dishes from the south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and the Middle East. Some are sumptuous, many are simple, most are sublime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27660'),
(10985, 'The Book of Murder', 'Guillermo Martinez &amp; Sonia Soto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A chilling new tale of literary intrigue from the author of the international sensation *The Oxford Murders*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Guillermo MartÃ­nez ''s novel *The Oxford Murders* was first published in the United States, *The New York Times Book Review* called it "a scholarly whodunit [for] anyone who loves a good mystery." Now MartÃ­nez returns with a worthy followup: the mesmerizing *The Book of Murder*. A young writer finds himself unexpectedly tangled up in the story of Luciana, his former assistant and Kloster, bestselling author and rival. What he discovers about the deaths surrounding Luciana will make him question everything he had always believed-and taken for granted-about chance and calculation, cause and effect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5216'),
(10986, 'The Book of Murder', 'Guillermo Martinez &amp; Sonia Soto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A chilling new tale of literary intrigue from the author of the international sensation *The Oxford Murders*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Guillermo MartÃ­nez ''s novel *The Oxford Murders* was first published in the United States, *The New York Times Book Review* called it "a scholarly whodunit [for] anyone who loves a good mystery." Now MartÃ­nez returns with a worthy followup: the mesmerizing *The Book of Murder*. A young writer finds himself unexpectedly tangled up in the story of Luciana, his former assistant and Kloster, bestselling author and rival. What he discovers about the deaths surrounding Luciana will make him question everything he had always believed-and taken for granted-about chance and calculation, cause and effect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11238'),
(10987, 'The Book of Murder', 'Guillermo Martinez; Sonia Soto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A chilling new tale of literary intrigue from the author of the international sensation *The Oxford Murders* When Guillermo MartÃ­nez ''s novel *The Oxford Murders* was first published in the United States, *The New York Times Book Review* called it "a scholarly whodunit [for] anyone who loves a good mystery." Now MartÃ­nez returns with a worthy followup: the mesmerizing *The Book of Murder*. A young writer finds himself unexpectedly tangled up in the story of Luciana, his former assistant and Kloster, bestselling author and rival. What he discovers about the deaths surrounding Luciana will make him question everything he had always believed-and taken for granted-about chance and calculation, cause and effect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19401'),
(10988, 'The Book of Murder', 'Guillermo Martinez; Sonia Soto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A chilling new tale of literary intrigue from the author of the international sensation *The Oxford Murders* When Guillermo MartÃ­nez ''s novel *The Oxford Murders* was first published in the United States, *The New York Times Book Review* called it "a scholarly whodunit [for] anyone who loves a good mystery." Now MartÃ­nez returns with a worthy followup: the mesmerizing *The Book of Murder*. A young writer finds himself unexpectedly tangled up in the story of Luciana, his former assistant and Kloster, bestselling author and rival. What he discovers about the deaths surrounding Luciana will make him question everything he had always believed-and taken for granted-about chance and calculation, cause and effect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28043'),
(10989, 'The Book of Other People', 'Zadie Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. "The instruction was simple: make somebody up," explains novelist Smith in her introduction to this marvelous compendium of 23 distinct, pungent stories that attack the question of "character" from all angles. From David Mitchell''s hilarious rendering of one menopausal woman''s fantasy internet love-affair to ZZ Packer''s heart-wrenching Jewish guy-black girl romance, each story is, as Smith puts it, "its own thing entirely." There are moments of prosaic precision (Andrew O''Hagan''s eerily incisive "Gordon" is introduced "in the talcum-powdered air of the bathroom muttering calculations and strange moral sums about the cause of Hamlet''s unhappiness"), but this volume is more than a showcase for deft prose and quirky souls. Toby Litt''s lovely, lyrical "Monster," for example, playfully upends notions of personhood, as does Dave Eggers'' surprising "Theo," a moving tale of a mountain who falls in love. Also on hand are a number of wonderful graphic shorts: Daniel Clowe shrewdly explores an insufferable critic''s solipsistic lapses, Nick Hornby''s "A Writing Life" gives a knowing wink with a series of writer bios and mock headshots, and "Jordan Wellington Lint" by Chris Ware cleverly chronicles the first 13 years of its hero''s life. With so much to savor-the sensuality of Adam Thirlwell''s "Nigora," the knowingness of George Saunder''s "Puppy"-this anthology will sate even the most famished short story fan. Sales benefit Eggers''s nonprofit literary organization 826 NYC.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...But just when you''re ready to howl in frustration at the anthologification of the book world-_I''ve seen the best minds of my generation, live blogging about recipes that inspire them_-along comes\n <em>\n  The Book of Other People...Other People\n </em>\n collects 23 pieces by a who''s who of 21st-century geniuses and wunderkinds, from Dave Eggers to Edwidge Dandicat...Smith sent her contributors just one instruction: Make somebody up."\n <br />\n -_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Truly hip."\n <br />\n -_The Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Whether they are old-fashioned narratives, playful improvisations or comic- strip-like tales told in pictures, these stories force us to re-evaluate that old chestnut "Character is destiny." They remind us that an individual''s life is itself a narrative with a beginning, a middle and at least the intimations of an end. And they showcase the many time-honored techniques that writers use to limn their characters'' predicaments, from straight-up ventriloquism to the use of unreliable narrators to a "Rashomon"-like splitting of perspectives."\n <br />\n -Michiko Kakutani,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "From its strange, graphic-novelesque cover-an array of cartoonish sketches of odd-looking faces in profile, stacked like ladder rungs-to its uncommonly eye- catching lineup of contributors, "The Book of Other People," a 2008 paperback from Penguin Books, is extraordinary."\n <br />\n -_Charlotte Observer_\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you only read one book, make it this dazzling selection of short stories..."\n <br />\n -Eve Magazine UK\n</p>\n<p>\n "...Some of the wittiest and wisest stories you''ll read all year..."\n <br />\n -Elle UK\n</p>\n<p>\n "Character provides the thematic key to these stories, all new to this collection, from some of our finest younger contemporary fiction writers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Editor and contributor Smith (On Beauty, 2005, etc.) invited 22 other authors, many of them (like her) better known for novels than short fiction, to write a story inspired by the creation of a character. "The instruction was simple," she writes in her introduction, "make somebody up." Yet the stories correspond to no consensus about the role of character in fiction, or a return to realism, or the responsibility of fiction to mirror society. To the contrary, what Smith believes the stories show is that "there are as many ways to create ''character'' (or deny the possibility of ''character'') as there are writers." The title of each story comes from the name of a character or type ("The Monster") with the selections sequenced alphabetically. Many of the writers, including Smith, come from the McSweeney''s and/or Believer literary circle (Dave Eggers, Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits, Chris Ware, Nick Hornby et al.) and most of the contributions range from the short to the very short (Toby Litt''s "The Monster" is a four-page paragraph). With proceeds benefiting 826 New York (a nonprofit organization for the inspiration and development of student writing), none of the writers were paid for their work, with the results sometimes more playful (and occasionally slighter) than one has come to expect from them. Jonathan Lethem''s Dickensian titled "Perkus Tooth" offers a hilarious dismissal of rock critics. A.L. Kennedy''s "Frank" provides an existential parable about a man who isn''t who he thinks he is. Though many of the stories have a first-person perspective, the narrator is rarely the title character, and some of the challenge for the reader can be determining whom a story is really about. In Colm T~ib"n''s "Donal Webster," the name of the title character is never even mentioned, leaving the reader to guess who is addressing whom.\n</p>\n<p>\n While the quality inevitably varies, the spirit of the anthology is that reading should be fun rather than work. -_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/140'),
(10990, 'The Book of Other People', 'Zadie Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. "The instruction was simple: make somebody up," explains novelist Smith in her introduction to this marvelous compendium of 23 distinct, pungent stories that attack the question of "character" from all angles. From David Mitchell''s hilarious rendering of one menopausal woman''s fantasy internet love-affair to ZZ Packer''s heart-wrenching Jewish guy-black girl romance, each story is, as Smith puts it, "its own thing entirely." There are moments of prosaic precision (Andrew O''Hagan''s eerily incisive "Gordon" is introduced "in the talcum-powdered air of the bathroom muttering calculations and strange moral sums about the cause of Hamlet''s unhappiness"), but this volume is more than a showcase for deft prose and quirky souls. Toby Litt''s lovely, lyrical "Monster," for example, playfully upends notions of personhood, as does Dave Eggers'' surprising "Theo," a moving tale of a mountain who falls in love. Also on hand are a number of wonderful graphic shorts: Daniel Clowe shrewdly explores an insufferable critic''s solipsistic lapses, Nick Hornby''s "A Writing Life" gives a knowing wink with a series of writer bios and mock headshots, and "Jordan Wellington Lint" by Chris Ware cleverly chronicles the first 13 years of its hero''s life. With so much to savor-the sensuality of Adam Thirlwell''s "Nigora," the knowingness of George Saunder''s "Puppy"-this anthology will sate even the most famished short story fan. Sales benefit Eggers''s nonprofit literary organization 826 NYC.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...But just when you''re ready to howl in frustration at the anthologification of the book world-_I''ve seen the best minds of my generation, live blogging about recipes that inspire them_-along comes\n <em>\n  The Book of Other People...Other People\n </em>\n collects 23 pieces by a who''s who of 21st-century geniuses and wunderkinds, from Dave Eggers to Edwidge Dandicat...Smith sent her contributors just one instruction: Make somebody up."\n <br />\n -_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Truly hip."\n <br />\n -_The Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Whether they are old-fashioned narratives, playful improvisations or comic- strip-like tales told in pictures, these stories force us to re-evaluate that old chestnut "Character is destiny." They remind us that an individual''s life is itself a narrative with a beginning, a middle and at least the intimations of an end. And they showcase the many time-honored techniques that writers use to limn their characters'' predicaments, from straight-up ventriloquism to the use of unreliable narrators to a "Rashomon"-like splitting of perspectives."\n <br />\n -Michiko Kakutani,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "From its strange, graphic-novelesque cover-an array of cartoonish sketches of odd-looking faces in profile, stacked like ladder rungs-to its uncommonly eye- catching lineup of contributors, "The Book of Other People," a 2008 paperback from Penguin Books, is extraordinary."\n <br />\n -_Charlotte Observer_\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you only read one book, make it this dazzling selection of short stories..."\n <br />\n -Eve Magazine UK\n</p>\n<p>\n "...Some of the wittiest and wisest stories you''ll read all year..."\n <br />\n -Elle UK\n</p>\n<p>\n "Character provides the thematic key to these stories, all new to this collection, from some of our finest younger contemporary fiction writers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Editor and contributor Smith (On Beauty, 2005, etc.) invited 22 other authors, many of them (like her) better known for novels than short fiction, to write a story inspired by the creation of a character. "The instruction was simple," she writes in her introduction, "make somebody up." Yet the stories correspond to no consensus about the role of character in fiction, or a return to realism, or the responsibility of fiction to mirror society. To the contrary, what Smith believes the stories show is that "there are as many ways to create ''character'' (or deny the possibility of ''character'') as there are writers." The title of each story comes from the name of a character or type ("The Monster") with the selections sequenced alphabetically. Many of the writers, including Smith, come from the McSweeney''s and/or Believer literary circle (Dave Eggers, Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits, Chris Ware, Nick Hornby et al.) and most of the contributions range from the short to the very short (Toby Litt''s "The Monster" is a four-page paragraph). With proceeds benefiting 826 New York (a nonprofit organization for the inspiration and development of student writing), none of the writers were paid for their work, with the results sometimes more playful (and occasionally slighter) than one has come to expect from them. Jonathan Lethem''s Dickensian titled "Perkus Tooth" offers a hilarious dismissal of rock critics. A.L. Kennedy''s "Frank" provides an existential parable about a man who isn''t who he thinks he is. Though many of the stories have a first-person perspective, the narrator is rarely the title character, and some of the challenge for the reader can be determining whom a story is really about. In Colm T~ib"n''s "Donal Webster," the name of the title character is never even mentioned, leaving the reader to guess who is addressing whom.\n</p>\n<p>\n While the quality inevitably varies, the spirit of the anthology is that reading should be fun rather than work. -_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12782'),
(10991, 'The book of other people', 'Zadie Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. "The instruction was simple: make somebody up," explains novelist Smith in her introduction to this marvelous compendium of 23 distinct, pungent stories that attack the question of "character" from all angles. From David Mitchell''s hilarious rendering of one menopausal woman''s fantasy internet love-affair to ZZ Packer''s heart-wrenching Jewish guy-black girl romance, each story is, as Smith puts it, "its own thing entirely." There are moments of prosaic precision (Andrew O''Hagan''s eerily incisive "Gordon" is introduced "in the talcum-powdered air of the bathroom muttering calculations and strange moral sums about the cause of Hamlet''s unhappiness"), but this volume is more than a showcase for deft prose and quirky souls. Toby Litt''s lovely, lyrical "Monster," for example, playfully upends notions of personhood, as does Dave Eggers'' surprising "Theo," a moving tale of a mountain who falls in love. Also on hand are a number of wonderful graphic shorts: Daniel Clowe shrewdly explores an insufferable critic''s solipsistic lapses, Nick Hornby''s "A Writing Life" gives a knowing wink with a series of writer bios and mock headshots, and "Jordan Wellington Lint" by Chris Ware cleverly chronicles the first 13 years of its hero''s life. With so much to savor-the sensuality of Adam Thirlwell''s "Nigora," the knowingness of George Saunder''s "Puppy"-this anthology will sate even the most famished short story fan. Sales benefit Eggers''s nonprofit literary organization 826 NYC.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...But just when you''re ready to howl in frustration at the anthologification of the book world-_I''ve seen the best minds of my generation, live blogging about recipes that inspire them_-along comes\n <em>\n  The Book of Other People...Other People\n </em>\n collects 23 pieces by a who''s who of 21st-century geniuses and wunderkinds, from Dave Eggers to Edwidge Dandicat...Smith sent her contributors just one instruction: Make somebody up."\n <br />\n -_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Truly hip."\n <br />\n -_The Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Whether they are old-fashioned narratives, playful improvisations or comic- strip-like tales told in pictures, these stories force us to re-evaluate that old chestnut "Character is destiny." They remind us that an individual''s life is itself a narrative with a beginning, a middle and at least the intimations of an end. And they showcase the many time-honored techniques that writers use to limn their characters'' predicaments, from straight-up ventriloquism to the use of unreliable narrators to a "Rashomon"-like splitting of perspectives."\n <br />\n -Michiko Kakutani,\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "From its strange, graphic-novelesque cover-an array of cartoonish sketches of odd-looking faces in profile, stacked like ladder rungs-to its uncommonly eye- catching lineup of contributors, "The Book of Other People," a 2008 paperback from Penguin Books, is extraordinary."\n <br />\n -_Charlotte Observer_\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you only read one book, make it this dazzling selection of short stories..."\n <br />\n -Eve Magazine UK\n</p>\n<p>\n "...Some of the wittiest and wisest stories you''ll read all year..."\n <br />\n -Elle UK\n</p>\n<p>\n "Character provides the thematic key to these stories, all new to this collection, from some of our finest younger contemporary fiction writers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Editor and contributor Smith (On Beauty, 2005, etc.) invited 22 other authors, many of them (like her) better known for novels than short fiction, to write a story inspired by the creation of a character. "The instruction was simple," she writes in her introduction, "make somebody up." Yet the stories correspond to no consensus about the role of character in fiction, or a return to realism, or the responsibility of fiction to mirror society. To the contrary, what Smith believes the stories show is that "there are as many ways to create ''character'' (or deny the possibility of ''character'') as there are writers." The title of each story comes from the name of a character or type ("The Monster") with the selections sequenced alphabetically. Many of the writers, including Smith, come from the McSweeney''s and/or Believer literary circle (Dave Eggers, Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits, Chris Ware, Nick Hornby et al.) and most of the contributions range from the short to the very short (Toby Litt''s "The Monster" is a four-page paragraph). With proceeds benefiting 826 New York (a nonprofit organization for the inspiration and development of student writing), none of the writers were paid for their work, with the results sometimes more playful (and occasionally slighter) than one has come to expect from them. Jonathan Lethem''s Dickensian titled "Perkus Tooth" offers a hilarious dismissal of rock critics. A.L. Kennedy''s "Frank" provides an existential parable about a man who isn''t who he thinks he is. Though many of the stories have a first-person perspective, the narrator is rarely the title character, and some of the challenge for the reader can be determining whom a story is really about. In Colm T~ib"n''s "Donal Webster," the name of the title character is never even mentioned, leaving the reader to guess who is addressing whom.\n</p>\n<p>\n While the quality inevitably varies, the spirit of the anthology is that reading should be fun rather than work. -_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24809'),
(10992, 'A Book of Remarkable Criminals', 'John Irving', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20196'),
(10993, 'The Book of Revelation for Dummies (ISBN', '0470045213)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20075');
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(10994, 'The Book of Secrets', 'Deepak Chopra', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Crafted with all the skills that have made his previous books bestsellers, The Book of Secrets will be essential reading for Deepak Chopra''s huge number of followers worldwide, and also appeal to everyone searching for the meaning of life, and looking for answers to the questions: Who Am I? Where Did I Come From? and Why Am I Here? Each of the fifteen chapters discusses a ''secret'' - such as: The World Is In You; Transformation Is Not The Same As Change; Death Is Conquered By Dying Every Day; Everything Is Pure Essence. Chopra believes that ''Every life is a book of secrets ready to be opened'', and that the only way to discover the answers to these secrets is to delve inside yourself, and cease to be a mystery to yourself. Only by going to ''the still point inside'' can you see life as it really is. ''The rock star of the new spirituality'' GUARDIAN ''The poet-prophet of alternative medicine'' TIME ''Undoubtedly one of the most lucid and inspired philosophers of our time'' MIKHAIL GORBACHEV\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5985'),
(10995, 'The Book of Secrets', 'Deepak Chopra', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Crafted with all the skills that have made his previous books bestsellers, The Book of Secrets will be essential reading for Deepak Chopra''s huge number of followers worldwide, and also appeal to everyone searching for the meaning of life, and looking for answers to the questions: Who Am I? Where Did I Come From? and Why Am I Here? Each of the fifteen chapters discusses a ''secret'' - such as: The World Is In You; Transformation Is Not The Same As Change; Death Is Conquered By Dying Every Day; Everything Is Pure Essence. Chopra believes that ''Every life is a book of secrets ready to be opened'', and that the only way to discover the answers to these secrets is to delve inside yourself, and cease to be a mystery to yourself. Only by going to ''the still point inside'' can you see life as it really is. ''The rock star of the new spirituality'' GUARDIAN ''The poet-prophet of alternative medicine'' TIME ''Undoubtedly one of the most lucid and inspired philosophers of our time'' MIKHAIL GORBACHEV\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8923'),
(10996, 'The Book of Secrets', 'Deepak Chopra', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Crafted with all the skills that have made his previous books bestsellers, The Book of Secrets will be essential reading for Deepak Chopra''s huge number of followers worldwide, and also appeal to everyone searching for the meaning of life, and looking for answers to the questions: Who Am I? Where Did I Come From? and Why Am I Here? Each of the fifteen chapters discusses a ''secret'' - such as: The World Is In You; Transformation Is Not The Same As Change; Death Is Conquered By Dying Every Day; Everything Is Pure Essence. Chopra believes that ''Every life is a book of secrets ready to be opened'', and that the only way to discover the answers to these secrets is to delve inside yourself, and cease to be a mystery to yourself. Only by going to ''the still point inside'' can you see life as it really is. ''The rock star of the new spirituality'' GUARDIAN ''The poet-prophet of alternative medicine'' TIME ''Undoubtedly one of the most lucid and inspired philosophers of our time'' MIKHAIL GORBACHEV\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17948'),
(10997, 'Book of Shadows', 'Alexandra Sokoloff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of Sokoloff''s solid crime thriller, the discovery in a landfill of the mutilated corpse of Erin Carmody, the 18-year-old daughter of a prominent Boston businessman, presents homicide detective Adam Garrett with a particularly sensitive case. Marks on the body suggest the killer was conducting Satanic rituals. When Adam and his partner, Carl Landauer, question the prime suspect, Jason Moncrief, a college friend of Erin''s, Jason chants the name of the demon Choronzon, then assaults Carl. Despite what appears to be an open-and-shut case, Adam can''t discount the claim that Jason is innocent made by Tanith Cabarrus, an attractive witch who comes to police headquarters to report that she dreamed of other murdersâ€”and who believes that supernatural forces are behind the slaughter. As usual, Sokoloff (_The Unseen_) does a good job keeping the reader guessing whether a supernatural agency is really at work.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA wonderfully dark thriller with amazing is-it-isn''t-it suspense all the way to the end. Highly recommended.â€---Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Unseen\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSokoloff keeps her story enticingly ambiguous, never clarifying until the climax whether the unfolding weirdness might be the result of the investigatorsâ€™ psychic sensitivities or the mischievous handiwork of a human villain.â€_---Publishers WeeklyÂ _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe suspense starts on page one, tightening the noose on every page with increasing velocity to a stunning, fearsome climax. Ms. Sokoloff has created a chilling, fantastic supernatural thriller that will have you fearing what you canâ€™t see.â€---Allison Brennan,\n <em>\n  New York\n </em>\n _ Times _bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Sudden Death\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA spine-tingling story that has every indication of becoming a horror classic . . . this is a chillingly dark look into the unknown. 4 1/2 stars.â€_---RT Book Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA masterful blend of fascinating fact and chilling fiction . . . an unsettling and highly entertaining horror/thriller read.â€---_BookBitch.com_Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7724'),
(10998, 'Book of Shadows', 'Alexandra Sokoloff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of Sokoloff''s solid crime thriller, the discovery in a landfill of the mutilated corpse of Erin Carmody, the 18-year-old daughter of a prominent Boston businessman, presents homicide detective Adam Garrett with a particularly sensitive case. Marks on the body suggest the killer was conducting Satanic rituals. When Adam and his partner, Carl Landauer, question the prime suspect, Jason Moncrief, a college friend of Erin''s, Jason chants the name of the demon Choronzon, then assaults Carl. Despite what appears to be an open-and-shut case, Adam can''t discount the claim that Jason is innocent made by Tanith Cabarrus, an attractive witch who comes to police headquarters to report that she dreamed of other murdersâ€”and who believes that supernatural forces are behind the slaughter. As usual, Sokoloff (_The Unseen_) does a good job keeping the reader guessing whether a supernatural agency is really at work.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA wonderfully dark thriller with amazing is-it-isn''t-it suspense all the way to the end. Highly recommended.â€---Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Unseen\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSokoloff keeps her story enticingly ambiguous, never clarifying until the climax whether the unfolding weirdness might be the result of the investigatorsâ€™ psychic sensitivities or the mischievous handiwork of a human villain.â€_---Publishers WeeklyÂ _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe suspense starts on page one, tightening the noose on every page with increasing velocity to a stunning, fearsome climax. Ms. Sokoloff has created a chilling, fantastic supernatural thriller that will have you fearing what you canâ€™t see.â€---Allison Brennan,\n <em>\n  New York\n </em>\n _ Times _bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Sudden Death\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA spine-tingling story that has every indication of becoming a horror classic . . . this is a chillingly dark look into the unknown. 4 1/2 stars.â€_---RT Book Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA masterful blend of fascinating fact and chilling fiction . . . an unsettling and highly entertaining horror/thriller read.â€---_BookBitch.com_Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12771'),
(10999, 'Book of Shadows', 'Sokoloff, Alexandra', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16121'),
(11000, 'Book of Sketches, 1952-57', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Somewhere between diary, verbal sketchbook and play-by-play account of whatever passed before his eyes, this collection of poems transcribed from notebooks Kerouac kept in his pocket between 1952 and 1954 turns out to rank with his most interesting work. From clipped descriptions of America''s underbelly ("a pile of junk, â€”&amp; the/ girders of the viaduct have / great black bolt heads/ like knobs of a / sweating steel black/ city") to vague hipster prophesying ("The next great con-/ flict will be between/ Hip &amp; Christ"), Whitmanesque embraces of his fellow man ("...I have cared/ for ye dutchmen"), love notes to famous beatnik friends ("O Allen Sad Allen Ah / Mystery") and sad, self-deprecating prayers ("Drink is good for/ love â€” good for/ music â€” let it/ be good for writing"), Kerouac hits all the notes for which he and his fellow beats are known. While not everything here is golden, the immediacy and unpretentiousness of this off-the-cuff writing makes it an intimate glimpse into the consciousness of a man who simply couldn''t stop observing. A short, aggrandizing introduction by painter George Condo sets the tone.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kerouac admirers know of the legendary writer''s habit of carrying a small notebook in his shirt pocket to jot down his impressions. But it is not common knowledge that this peripatetic observer typed up the contents of the journals he filled from mid-1952 through 1954 to create a manuscript he titled\n <em>\n  Book of Sketches.\n </em>\n This collection of in-the-moment jottings, the literary equivalent of rapidly executed drawings, is now published for the first time. Whitmanesque in his embrace of life, painterly in his details, and enthralled by the texture of language, Kerouac describes the "longroar of sea," hitchhiking in North Carolina, and finding himself naked among trees in Mexico, suffering "the terrible benzedrine / depression after big / night of drinking." He remembers "childhood dreams," wishes for a woman, marvels over the unexpected beauty of a Denver barbershop, and frets over "TV stupidities" and "Americans / who only think in / terms of paranoia &amp; oil." Restless, receptive, and hungry for divinity, Kerouac continues to feed our collective imagination in yet another treasure from his precious archives.\n <em>\n  Donna Seaman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4888'),
(11001, 'Book of Sketches, 1952-57', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Somewhere between diary, verbal sketchbook and play-by-play account of whatever passed before his eyes, this collection of poems transcribed from notebooks Kerouac kept in his pocket between 1952 and 1954 turns out to rank with his most interesting work. From clipped descriptions of America''s underbelly ("a pile of junk, â€”&amp; the/ girders of the viaduct have / great black bolt heads/ like knobs of a / sweating steel black/ city") to vague hipster prophesying ("The next great con-/ flict will be between/ Hip &amp; Christ"), Whitmanesque embraces of his fellow man ("...I have cared/ for ye dutchmen"), love notes to famous beatnik friends ("O Allen Sad Allen Ah / Mystery") and sad, self-deprecating prayers ("Drink is good for/ love â€” good for/ music â€” let it/ be good for writing"), Kerouac hits all the notes for which he and his fellow beats are known. While not everything here is golden, the immediacy and unpretentiousness of this off-the-cuff writing makes it an intimate glimpse into the consciousness of a man who simply couldn''t stop observing. A short, aggrandizing introduction by painter George Condo sets the tone.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kerouac admirers know of the legendary writer''s habit of carrying a small notebook in his shirt pocket to jot down his impressions. But it is not common knowledge that this peripatetic observer typed up the contents of the journals he filled from mid-1952 through 1954 to create a manuscript he titled\n <em>\n  Book of Sketches.\n </em>\n This collection of in-the-moment jottings, the literary equivalent of rapidly executed drawings, is now published for the first time. Whitmanesque in his embrace of life, painterly in his details, and enthralled by the texture of language, Kerouac describes the "longroar of sea," hitchhiking in North Carolina, and finding himself naked among trees in Mexico, suffering "the terrible benzedrine / depression after big / night of drinking." He remembers "childhood dreams," wishes for a woman, marvels over the unexpected beauty of a Denver barbershop, and frets over "TV stupidities" and "Americans / who only think in / terms of paranoia &amp; oil." Restless, receptive, and hungry for divinity, Kerouac continues to feed our collective imagination in yet another treasure from his precious archives.\n <em>\n  Donna Seaman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10674'),
(11002, 'Book of Sketches, 1952-57', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Somewhere between diary, verbal sketchbook and play-by-play account of whatever passed before his eyes, this collection of poems transcribed from notebooks Kerouac kept in his pocket between 1952 and 1954 turns out to rank with his most interesting work. From clipped descriptions of America''s underbelly ("a pile of junk, â€”&amp; the/ girders of the viaduct have / great black bolt heads/ like knobs of a / sweating steel black/ city") to vague hipster prophesying ("The next great con-/ flict will be between/ Hip &amp; Christ"), Whitmanesque embraces of his fellow man ("...I have cared/ for ye dutchmen"), love notes to famous beatnik friends ("O Allen Sad Allen Ah / Mystery") and sad, self-deprecating prayers ("Drink is good for/ love â€” good for/ music â€” let it/ be good for writing"), Kerouac hits all the notes for which he and his fellow beats are known. While not everything here is golden, the immediacy and unpretentiousness of this off-the-cuff writing makes it an intimate glimpse into the consciousness of a man who simply couldn''t stop observing. A short, aggrandizing introduction by painter George Condo sets the tone.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kerouac admirers know of the legendary writer''s habit of carrying a small notebook in his shirt pocket to jot down his impressions. But it is not common knowledge that this peripatetic observer typed up the contents of the journals he filled from mid-1952 through 1954 to create a manuscript he titled\n <em>\n  Book of Sketches.\n </em>\n This collection of in-the-moment jottings, the literary equivalent of rapidly executed drawings, is now published for the first time. Whitmanesque in his embrace of life, painterly in his details, and enthralled by the texture of language, Kerouac describes the "longroar of sea," hitchhiking in North Carolina, and finding himself naked among trees in Mexico, suffering "the terrible benzedrine / depression after big / night of drinking." He remembers "childhood dreams," wishes for a woman, marvels over the unexpected beauty of a Denver barbershop, and frets over "TV stupidities" and "Americans / who only think in / terms of paranoia &amp; oil." Restless, receptive, and hungry for divinity, Kerouac continues to feed our collective imagination in yet another treasure from his precious archives.\n <em>\n  Donna Seaman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19784'),
(11003, 'The Book of Spies', 'Gayle Lynds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For centuries, emperors, historians, and even the Vatican have tried to locate Ivan the Terribleâ€™s magnificent Library of Gold â€” a long-missing archive containing gold-covered, bejeweled books dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks.  Now one of the volumes, The Book of Spies, has surfaced, and along with it the highly secret book club that owns the Library of Gold.  They form a cabal of the globeâ€™s most powerful men â€“ men who will do anything to achieve their aims and protect their interests.  When the CIA discovers a connection between the legendary library and a bank account linked to terrorists, they turn to rare books curator Eva Blake for help.  Soon an attempt is made on Evaâ€™s life. Determined not only to survive but to uncover the truth, Eva turns to the only person she can trustâ€”Judd Ryder, a former intelligence agent with his own agenda and a troubled past.  Together, Judd and Eva embark on an international adventure from London to Rome, Istanbul, and Athens.  Somehow they must do what no one else has been able to do â€“ find the library and stay alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5451'),
(11004, 'The Book of Spies', 'Gayle Lynds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For centuries, emperors, historians, and even the Vatican have tried to locate Ivan the Terribleâ€™s magnificent Library of Gold â€” a long-missing archive containing gold-covered, bejeweled books dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks.  Now one of the volumes, The Book of Spies, has surfaced, and along with it the highly secret book club that owns the Library of Gold.  They form a cabal of the globeâ€™s most powerful men â€“ men who will do anything to achieve their aims and protect their interests.  When the CIA discovers a connection between the legendary library and a bank account linked to terrorists, they turn to rare books curator Eva Blake for help.  Soon an attempt is made on Evaâ€™s life. Determined not only to survive but to uncover the truth, Eva turns to the only person she can trustâ€”Judd Ryder, a former intelligence agent with his own agenda and a troubled past.  Together, Judd and Eva embark on an international adventure from London to Rome, Istanbul, and Athens.  Somehow they must do what no one else has been able to do â€“ find the library and stay alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11173'),
(11005, 'The Book of Spies', 'Gayle Lynds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For centuries, emperors, historians, and even the Vatican have tried to locate Ivan the Terribleâ€™s magnificent Library of Gold â€” a long-missing archive containing gold-covered, bejeweled books dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Now one of the volumes, The Book of Spies, has surfaced, and along with it the highly secret book club that owns the Library of Gold. They form a cabal of the globeâ€™s most powerful men â€“ men who will do anything to achieve their aims and protect their interests. When the CIA discovers a connection between the legendary library and a bank account linked to terrorists, they turn to rare books curator Eva Blake for help. Soon an attempt is made on Evaâ€™s life. Determined not only to survive but to uncover the truth, Eva turns to the only person she can trustâ€”Judd Ryder, a former intelligence agent with his own agenda and a troubled past. Together, Judd and Eva embark on an international adventure from London to Rome, Istanbul, and Athens. Somehow they must do what no one else has been able to do â€“ find the library and stay alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19174'),
(11006, 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I', 'Anonymous; John Payne', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Payne (1842 - 1916) was an English poet and translator, from Devon. Initially he pursued a legal career, and associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later he became involved with limited edition publishing, and the Villon Society. He is now best known for his translation of Boccaccio''s Decameron and The Arabian Nights. Amongst his other works are The Masque of Shadows and other poems (1870), Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp (1889), The Quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nisahpour (1898), The Poems of Hafiz (1901), The Descent of the Dove and Other Poems (1902), Stories of Boccaccio (1903) and Hamid the Luckless and Other Tales in Verse (1904).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15700'),
(11007, 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26431'),
(11008, 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume Ii', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folklore\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15701'),
(11009, 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III', 'Anonymous; John Payne', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Payne (1842-1916) was an English poet and translator, from Devon. Initially he pursued a legal career, and associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later he became involved with limited edition publishing, and the Villon Society. He is now best known for his translation of Boccaccio''s Decameron and The Arabian Nights. Amongst his other works are The Masque of Shadows and Other poems (1870), Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp (1889), The Quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nisahpour (1898), The Poems of Hafiz (1901), The Descent of the Dove and Other Poems (1902), Stories of Boccaccio (1903) and Hamid the Luckless and Other Tales in Verse (1904).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15702'),
(11010, 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There came one day to Khalid ibn Abdallah el Kesri,3 governor of Bassora, a company of men dragging a youth of exceeding beauty and lofty bearing, whose aspect expressed good breeding and dignity and abundant wit\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15703'),
(11011, 'The Book of Three', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly DoliÂ—all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for Â“the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3348'),
(11012, 'The Book of Three', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly DoliÂ—all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for Â“the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9351'),
(11013, 'The Book of Three', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!** Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly DoliÂ—all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise. *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for Â“the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€ Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time. In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21259'),
(11014, 'The Book of Useless Information', 'Noel Botham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Thousands of things you didn''t think you needed to know-and probably don''t.    **All you never needed to know, and couldn''t be bothered to ask.**    One person''s useless information could prove invaluable to someone else. Then again, maybe not. But to The Useless Information Society, any fact that passes its gasp-inducing, "not-a-lot-of-people-know- that" test merits inclusion in this fascinating but ultimately useless book.    Did you know...  - That fish scales are used to make lipstick?  - Why organized crime accounts for ten percent of the United States''s annual income?  - The name of the first CD pressed in the U.S.?  - The shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar?  - How much Elvis weighed at the time of his death?  - What the suits in a deck of cards represent?  - How many Quarter Pounders can be made from one cow?  - How interesting useless information can be?    *The Book of Useless Information* answers these teasers and will captivate readers with the joy of pursuing pointless knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25274'),
(11015, 'The Book of Xen', 'Chris Takemura; Luke S. Crawford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Xen allows administrators to run many virtual operating systems on one physical server, including Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, and Microsoft Windows.\n  <i>\n   The Book of Xen\n  </i>\n  explains everything a sysadmin needs to know to use this powerful technology, with coverage of installation, networking, virtualized storage, and managing guest and host operating systems.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6744'),
(11016, 'The Book of Xen', 'Chris Takemura; Luke S. Crawford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Xen allows administrators to run many virtual operating systems on one physical server, including Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, and Microsoft Windows.\n  <i>\n   The Book of Xen\n  </i>\n  explains everything a sysadmin needs to know to use this powerful technology, with coverage of installation, networking, virtualized storage, and managing guest and host operating systems.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9041'),
(11017, 'The Book of Xen', 'Chris Takemura; Luke S. Crawford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Xen allows administrators to run many virtual operating systems on one physical server, including Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, and Microsoft Windows.\n  <i>\n   The Book of Xen\n  </i>\n  explains everything a sysadmin needs to know to use this powerful technology, with coverage of installation, networking, virtualized storage, and managing guest and host operating systems.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15969'),
(11018, 'The Book on the Bookshelf', 'Henry Petroski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Consider the book. Though\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  differ considerably in content and intended audience, they do share some basic characteristics. They have pages, they''re roughly the same shape, and whether in a bookstore, library, or private home, they are generally stored vertically on shelves. Indeed, this is so much the norm that in these days of high-tech printing presses and chain bookstores, it''s easy to believe that the book, like the cockroach, remains much the same as it ever was. But as Henry Petroski makes abundantly clear in\n  <em>\n   Book on the Bookshelf\n  </em>\n  , books as we know them have had a long and complex evolution. Indeed, he takes us from the scroll to the codex to the hand-lettered illuminated texts that were so rare and valuable they were chained to lecterns to prevent theft. Along the way he provides plenty of amusing anecdotes about libraries (according to one possibly apocryphal account, the library at Alexandria borrowed the works of the great Greek authors from Athens, had them copied, and then sent the copies back, keeping the originals), book collectors, and the care of books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Book-lover though he may be, however, Henry Petroski is, first and foremost, an engineer and so, in the end, it is the evolution of bookshelves even more than of books that fascinates him. Pigeonholes for scrolls, book presses containing thousands of chained volumes, rotating lecterns that allowed scholars to peruse more than one book at a time--these are just a few of the ingenious methods readers have devised over the centuries for storing their books: "in cabinets beneath the desks, on shelves in front of them, in triangular attic-like spaces formed under the back-to-back sloped surfaces of desktops or small tabletop lecterns that rested upon a horizontal surface." Placing books vertically on shelves, spines facing outward, is a fairly recent invention, it would seem. Well written as it is, if\n  <em>\n   Book on the Bookshelf\n  </em>\n  were\n  <em>\n   only\n  </em>\n  about books-as-furniture, it would have little appeal to the general reader. Petroski, however, uses this treatise on design to examine the very human motivations that lie behind it. From the example of Samuel Pepys, who refused to have more titles than his library could hold (about 3,000), to an appendix detailing all the ways people organize their collections (by sentimental value, by size, by color, and by price, to name a few of the more unconventional methods), Petroski peppers his account with enough human interest to keep his audience reading from cover to cover.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  That bookshelves might harbor secret and enchanting lives is a thrilling prospect for any serious reader. What laws of human nature govern our sturdy cases of books? What damning quirks of character glare from a few casually stowed volumes? In this disappointing study, however, Petroski''s effort to reveal the "evolution of the bookshelf as we know it" yields few rewards. Pondering the physics of the bookend and the genealogy of the library carrel, this Duke University scholar observes the bookshelf as a piece of the infrastructure undergirding our civilization. We learn that medieval books were chained to their shelves to prevent theft, and that beverage stains have plagued bibliophiles almost since the dawn of the printed word. Admirers of Petroski''s earlier works (The Evolution of Useful Things, Remaking the World, etc.) will not be surprised by his exquisite research, or by the gusto with which he plunges into the dustiest of library bins. But the bookshelf proves a more oblique topic than bridges or even pencils, two of Petroski''s other interests. The practical construction principles of bookshelves make for rather dull reading, and conjecture about lectern usage in the Middle Ages wears thin. This book is most successful when delving into the gritty aspects of engineering, whether it be the cantilevered forces of library book stacks or the architecture of the British Museum Reading Room. After lingering among such fusty stacks, readers will welcome the whimsical appendix, which proposes arranging one''s books alphabetically by the author''s first name, or even by the first word of the antepenultimate sentence. (Sept.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5175'),
(11019, 'The Book on the Bookshelf', 'Henry Petroski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Consider the book. Though\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  differ considerably in content and intended audience, they do share some basic characteristics. They have pages, they''re roughly the same shape, and whether in a bookstore, library, or private home, they are generally stored vertically on shelves. Indeed, this is so much the norm that in these days of high-tech printing presses and chain bookstores, it''s easy to believe that the book, like the cockroach, remains much the same as it ever was. But as Henry Petroski makes abundantly clear in\n  <em>\n   Book on the Bookshelf\n  </em>\n  , books as we know them have had a long and complex evolution. Indeed, he takes us from the scroll to the codex to the hand-lettered illuminated texts that were so rare and valuable they were chained to lecterns to prevent theft. Along the way he provides plenty of amusing anecdotes about libraries (according to one possibly apocryphal account, the library at Alexandria borrowed the works of the great Greek authors from Athens, had them copied, and then sent the copies back, keeping the originals), book collectors, and the care of books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Book-lover though he may be, however, Henry Petroski is, first and foremost, an engineer and so, in the end, it is the evolution of bookshelves even more than of books that fascinates him. Pigeonholes for scrolls, book presses containing thousands of chained volumes, rotating lecterns that allowed scholars to peruse more than one book at a time--these are just a few of the ingenious methods readers have devised over the centuries for storing their books: "in cabinets beneath the desks, on shelves in front of them, in triangular attic-like spaces formed under the back-to-back sloped surfaces of desktops or small tabletop lecterns that rested upon a horizontal surface." Placing books vertically on shelves, spines facing outward, is a fairly recent invention, it would seem. Well written as it is, if\n  <em>\n   Book on the Bookshelf\n  </em>\n  were\n  <em>\n   only\n  </em>\n  about books-as-furniture, it would have little appeal to the general reader. Petroski, however, uses this treatise on design to examine the very human motivations that lie behind it. From the example of Samuel Pepys, who refused to have more titles than his library could hold (about 3,000), to an appendix detailing all the ways people organize their collections (by sentimental value, by size, by color, and by price, to name a few of the more unconventional methods), Petroski peppers his account with enough human interest to keep his audience reading from cover to cover.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  That bookshelves might harbor secret and enchanting lives is a thrilling prospect for any serious reader. What laws of human nature govern our sturdy cases of books? What damning quirks of character glare from a few casually stowed volumes? In this disappointing study, however, Petroski''s effort to reveal the "evolution of the bookshelf as we know it" yields few rewards. Pondering the physics of the bookend and the genealogy of the library carrel, this Duke University scholar observes the bookshelf as a piece of the infrastructure undergirding our civilization. We learn that medieval books were chained to their shelves to prevent theft, and that beverage stains have plagued bibliophiles almost since the dawn of the printed word. Admirers of Petroski''s earlier works (The Evolution of Useful Things, Remaking the World, etc.) will not be surprised by his exquisite research, or by the gusto with which he plunges into the dustiest of library bins. But the bookshelf proves a more oblique topic than bridges or even pencils, two of Petroski''s other interests. The practical construction principles of bookshelves make for rather dull reading, and conjecture about lectern usage in the Middle Ages wears thin. This book is most successful when delving into the gritty aspects of engineering, whether it be the cantilevered forces of library book stacks or the architecture of the British Museum Reading Room. After lingering among such fusty stacks, readers will welcome the whimsical appendix, which proposes arranging one''s books alphabetically by the author''s first name, or even by the first word of the antepenultimate sentence. (Sept.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11983'),
(11020, 'The book on the bookshelf', 'Henry Petroski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Consider the book. Though\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  differ considerably in content and intended audience, they do share some basic characteristics. They have pages, they''re roughly the same shape, and whether in a bookstore, library, or private home, they are generally stored vertically on shelves. Indeed, this is so much the norm that in these days of high-tech printing presses and chain bookstores, it''s easy to believe that the book, like the cockroach, remains much the same as it ever was. But as Henry Petroski makes abundantly clear in\n  <em>\n   Book on the Bookshelf\n  </em>\n  , books as we know them have had a long and complex evolution. Indeed, he takes us from the scroll to the codex to the hand-lettered illuminated texts that were so rare and valuable they were chained to lecterns to prevent theft. Along the way he provides plenty of amusing anecdotes about libraries (according to one possibly apocryphal account, the library at Alexandria borrowed the works of the great Greek authors from Athens, had them copied, and then sent the copies back, keeping the originals), book collectors, and the care of books.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Book-lover though he may be, however, Henry Petroski is, first and foremost, an engineer and so, in the end, it is the evolution of bookshelves even more than of books that fascinates him. Pigeonholes for scrolls, book presses containing thousands of chained volumes, rotating lecterns that allowed scholars to peruse more than one book at a time--these are just a few of the ingenious methods readers have devised over the centuries for storing their books: "in cabinets beneath the desks, on shelves in front of them, in triangular attic-like spaces formed under the back-to-back sloped surfaces of desktops or small tabletop lecterns that rested upon a horizontal surface." Placing books vertically on shelves, spines facing outward, is a fairly recent invention, it would seem. Well written as it is, if\n  <em>\n   Book on the Bookshelf\n  </em>\n  were\n  <em>\n   only\n  </em>\n  about books-as-furniture, it would have little appeal to the general reader. Petroski, however, uses this treatise on design to examine the very human motivations that lie behind it. From the example of Samuel Pepys, who refused to have more titles than his library could hold (about 3,000), to an appendix detailing all the ways people organize their collections (by sentimental value, by size, by color, and by price, to name a few of the more unconventional methods), Petroski peppers his account with enough human interest to keep his audience reading from cover to cover.\n  <em>\n   --Alix Wilber\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  That bookshelves might harbor secret and enchanting lives is a thrilling prospect for any serious reader. What laws of human nature govern our sturdy cases of books? What damning quirks of character glare from a few casually stowed volumes? In this disappointing study, however, Petroski''s effort to reveal the "evolution of the bookshelf as we know it" yields few rewards. Pondering the physics of the bookend and the genealogy of the library carrel, this Duke University scholar observes the bookshelf as a piece of the infrastructure undergirding our civilization. We learn that medieval books were chained to their shelves to prevent theft, and that beverage stains have plagued bibliophiles almost since the dawn of the printed word. Admirers of Petroski''s earlier works (The Evolution of Useful Things, Remaking the World, etc.) will not be surprised by his exquisite research, or by the gusto with which he plunges into the dustiest of library bins. But the bookshelf proves a more oblique topic than bridges or even pencils, two of Petroski''s other interests. The practical construction principles of bookshelves make for rather dull reading, and conjecture about lectern usage in the Middle Ages wears thin. This book is most successful when delving into the gritty aspects of engineering, whether it be the cantilevered forces of library book stacks or the architecture of the British Museum Reading Room. After lingering among such fusty stacks, readers will welcome the whimsical appendix, which proposes arranging one''s books alphabetically by the author''s first name, or even by the first word of the antepenultimate sentence. (Sept.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19576'),
(11021, 'The Book Thief', 'Markus Zusak', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Itâ€™s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusakâ€™s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she canâ€™t resistâ€“books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3017'),
(11022, 'The Book Thief', 'Zusak, Markus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14060'),
(11023, 'The Book Thief', 'Markus Zusak', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Itâ€™s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusakâ€™s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she canâ€™t resistâ€“books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21798');
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(11024, 'The Book Without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic', 'Avi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5-8â€“At the dawning of the Middle Ages, Thorston, an old alchemist, works feverishly to create gold and to dose himself with a concoction that will enable him to live forever. The key to his success lies in a mysterious book with blank pages that can only be read by desperate, green-eyed people. Master Bashcroft, enforcer of law and order for the city, desires Thorston''s secrets for himself. Brother Wilfrid, a priest with green eyes, knows the dangers of the book and seeks to retrieve it. To this mix add Odo, a talking raven, and Sybil, a poor orphan girl whom Thorston has taken in as his servant, and you have an intriguing tale in which goodness ultimately triumphs. Avi''s compelling language creates a dreary foreboding, a grim backdrop against which the characters work out their fate. The old city always seems enshrouded in nasty fog and disgusting odors. Thorston keeps consuming part of his life-giving formula and repeatedly appears to die before resuscitating as a younger person. This, plus the fact that after each "death" Sybil and the others bury him, only to have him tromp up the basement steps covered in grime, will surely keep readers turning pages. Odo''s cleverness and cynicism make him a likable character, while Sybil''s innate goodness will endear her to readers. Clearly this is a story with a message, a true fable. Thoughtful readers will devour its absorbing plot and humorous elements, and learn a "useful truth" along the way._â€“Bruce Anne Shook, Mendenhall Middle School, Greensboro, NC_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 5-8. Avi''s name on the cover of a new novel is enough to provoke shivers of anticipation in many readers, and in this "Fable of Medieval Magic" set in eleventh-century England, shivers are certainly warranted. Thirteen-year-old Sybil is the servant of Thorston, an alchemist who attempts to steal her "life''s breath" but dies before the magic can take effect. Thorston''s companion, a talking raven, convinces Sybil to help him seek the secret of alchemy, contained within an enchanted book--a task that''s complicated by a flurry of visitors ("A sniff of gold makes everyone sneeze") and by Thorston''s stubborn refusal to stay quietly in his grave. Avi reigns supreme in building gothic atmosphere, and children will be thrilled by the ghastly scenes of fog-shrouded cemeteries and villains reduced "to a foul lump of putrid muck." Less certain is how they''ll respond to the unconventional structure; though unflappable, compassionate Sybil comes closest to a central protagonist, the narrative ricochets among numerous perspectives and is fractured into terse, dialogue-heavy episodes. Many fans of Avi''s 2003 Newbery Award winner\n  <em>\n   Crispin\n  </em>\n  (2002) will miss the feeling of immersion in a narrative conferred by a single point of view even as they ponder the sweeping messages about the transience of life and the evils of avarice.\n  <em>\n   Jennifer Mattson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7383'),
(11025, 'The Book Without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic', 'Avi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5-8â€“At the dawning of the Middle Ages, Thorston, an old alchemist, works feverishly to create gold and to dose himself with a concoction that will enable him to live forever. The key to his success lies in a mysterious book with blank pages that can only be read by desperate, green-eyed people. Master Bashcroft, enforcer of law and order for the city, desires Thorston''s secrets for himself. Brother Wilfrid, a priest with green eyes, knows the dangers of the book and seeks to retrieve it. To this mix add Odo, a talking raven, and Sybil, a poor orphan girl whom Thorston has taken in as his servant, and you have an intriguing tale in which goodness ultimately triumphs. Avi''s compelling language creates a dreary foreboding, a grim backdrop against which the characters work out their fate. The old city always seems enshrouded in nasty fog and disgusting odors. Thorston keeps consuming part of his life-giving formula and repeatedly appears to die before resuscitating as a younger person. This, plus the fact that after each "death" Sybil and the others bury him, only to have him tromp up the basement steps covered in grime, will surely keep readers turning pages. Odo''s cleverness and cynicism make him a likable character, while Sybil''s innate goodness will endear her to readers. Clearly this is a story with a message, a true fable. Thoughtful readers will devour its absorbing plot and humorous elements, and learn a "useful truth" along the way._â€“Bruce Anne Shook, Mendenhall Middle School, Greensboro, NC_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 5-8. Avi''s name on the cover of a new novel is enough to provoke shivers of anticipation in many readers, and in this "Fable of Medieval Magic" set in eleventh-century England, shivers are certainly warranted. Thirteen-year-old Sybil is the servant of Thorston, an alchemist who attempts to steal her "life''s breath" but dies before the magic can take effect. Thorston''s companion, a talking raven, convinces Sybil to help him seek the secret of alchemy, contained within an enchanted book--a task that''s complicated by a flurry of visitors ("A sniff of gold makes everyone sneeze") and by Thorston''s stubborn refusal to stay quietly in his grave. Avi reigns supreme in building gothic atmosphere, and children will be thrilled by the ghastly scenes of fog-shrouded cemeteries and villains reduced "to a foul lump of putrid muck." Less certain is how they''ll respond to the unconventional structure; though unflappable, compassionate Sybil comes closest to a central protagonist, the narrative ricochets among numerous perspectives and is fractured into terse, dialogue-heavy episodes. Many fans of Avi''s 2003 Newbery Award winner\n  <em>\n   Crispin\n  </em>\n  (2002) will miss the feeling of immersion in a narrative conferred by a single point of view even as they ponder the sweeping messages about the transience of life and the evils of avarice.\n  <em>\n   Jennifer Mattson\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8305'),
(11026, 'The Book Without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic', 'Avi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-8â€“At the dawning of the Middle Ages, Thorston, an old alchemist, works feverishly to create gold and to dose himself with a concoction that will enable him to live forever. The key to his success lies in a mysterious book with blank pages that can only be read by desperate, green-eyed people. Master Bashcroft, enforcer of law and order for the city, desires Thorston''s secrets for himself. Brother Wilfrid, a priest with green eyes, knows the dangers of the book and seeks to retrieve it. To this mix add Odo, a talking raven, and Sybil, a poor orphan girl whom Thorston has taken in as his servant, and you have an intriguing tale in which goodness ultimately triumphs. Avi''s compelling language creates a dreary foreboding, a grim backdrop against which the characters work out their fate. The old city always seems enshrouded in nasty fog and disgusting odors. Thorston keeps consuming part of his life-giving formula and repeatedly appears to die before resuscitating as a younger person. This, plus the fact that after each "death" Sybil and the others bury him, only to have him tromp up the basement steps covered in grime, will surely keep readers turning pages. Odo''s cleverness and cynicism make him a likable character, while Sybil''s innate goodness will endear her to readers. Clearly this is a story with a message, a true fable. Thoughtful readers will devour its absorbing plot and humorous elements, and learn a "useful truth" along the way._â€“Bruce Anne Shook, Mendenhall Middle School, Greensboro, NC_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr. 5-8. Avi''s name on the cover of a new novel is enough to provoke shivers of anticipation in many readers, and in this "Fable of Medieval Magic" set in eleventh-century England, shivers are certainly warranted. Thirteen-year-old Sybil is the servant of Thorston, an alchemist who attempts to steal her "life''s breath" but dies before the magic can take effect. Thorston''s companion, a talking raven, convinces Sybil to help him seek the secret of alchemy, contained within an enchanted book--a task that''s complicated by a flurry of visitors ("A sniff of gold makes everyone sneeze") and by Thorston''s stubborn refusal to stay quietly in his grave. Avi reigns supreme in building gothic atmosphere, and children will be thrilled by the ghastly scenes of fog-shrouded cemeteries and villains reduced "to a foul lump of putrid muck." Less certain is how they''ll respond to the unconventional structure; though unflappable, compassionate Sybil comes closest to a central protagonist, the narrative ricochets among numerous perspectives and is fractured into terse, dialogue-heavy episodes. Many fans of Avi''s 2003 Newbery Award winner\n <em>\n  Crispin\n </em>\n (2002) will miss the feeling of immersion in a narrative conferred by a single point of view even as they ponder the sweeping messages about the transience of life and the evils of avarice.\n <em>\n  Jennifer Mattson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16510'),
(11027, 'The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are', 'Alan Watts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Modern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest of the world. In this classic book, Watts provides a lucid and simple presentation of an alternative view based on Hindi and Vedantic philosophy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical objects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7835'),
(11028, 'The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are', 'Alan Watts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Modern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest of the world. In this classic book, Watts provides a lucid and simple presentation of an alternative view based on Hindi and Vedantic philosophy.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical objects.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16021'),
(11029, 'Booked for Murder', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the Carolina Rhapsody Emerald is displayed at the Hatteras West Inn, Innkeeper Alex Winston can''t wait to see it leave.  There''s just too much stress having the valuable jewel there.  Just before the exhibit is scheduled to end, the emerald is stolen, and the guard is murdered with Alex''s lighthouse-shaped letter opener!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/707'),
(11030, 'Booked for Murder', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the Carolina Rhapsody Emerald is displayed at the Hatteras West Inn, Innkeeper Alex Winston can''t wait to see it leave. There''s just too much stress having the valuable jewel there. Just before the exhibit is scheduled to end, the emerald is stolen, and the guard is murdered with Alex''s lighthouse-shaped letter opener!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24311'),
(11031, 'The Bookman', 'Lavie Tidhar', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Readers will enjoy watching Tidhar''s imagination throwing off sparks like a Roman candle." -\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Bookman_ pokes at the fat and waddled body of steampunk with its walking cane and leaves it on the roadside with its fresh take on Victorian London without loosing any steam on its way." -\n  <em>\n   Loudmouth Man\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Bookman_ is a delight, crammed with gorgeous period detail, seat-of-the-pants adventure and fabulous set-pieces." -\n  <em>\n   The Guardian\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is a steampunk gem... Bring on a sequel, Tidhar! I''m craving to know what happens after the ending!" - _SFF World\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "An emerging master" _- LOCUS Magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Praise for Lavie Tidhar''s Previous Works:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Tidhar beautifully evokes the power of technology " -\n  <em>\n   The Fix\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "The Dying World" fromÂ _Clarkesworld Magazine_)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...richly detailed characters in a well paced and well thought out story" -\n  <em>\n   Tangent\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "The Pattern Makers of Zanzibar" from\n  <em>\n   Murky Depths)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Tidhar''s story reads like a drug-infused John Le Carre novel, if Le Carre wrote science fiction and dropped LSD as he pounded on the typewriter... an amazing accomplishment, and highly recommended." -\n  <em>\n   The Fix\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "The Shangri-La Affair" fromÂ _Strange Horizons_)Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s stomach churning and very sweet at the same time, bizarreness and beauty like most of Tidhar''s stories." -\n  <em>\n   The Fix\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "The Butcher and The Flykeeper - A Christmas Love Story"Â from\n  <em>\n   Murky Depths\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The strength of this work is the setting. It is incredibly inventive and fun... a wonderful story, especially for those who enjoy the more surreal edges of speculative fiction." -\n  <em>\n   Tangent (\n  </em>\n  reviewing "High Noon in Clown Town" from\n  <em>\n   Postscripts)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Tidhar''s story is classic noir, but with its tongue firmly in its cheek from beginning to end. A very enjoyable read." -\n  <em>\n   The Fix\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "Hard Rain at the Fortean Cafe" from\n  <em>\n   Aeon\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LATE EXTRA!\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   BOMB OUTRAGE IN LONDON!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A masked terrorist has brought London to its knees -- there are bombs inside books, and nobody knows which ones. On the day of the launch of the first expedition to Mars, by giant cannon, he outdoes himself with an audacious attack.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For young poet Orphan, trapped in the screaming audience, it seems his destiny is entwined with that of the shadowy terrorist, but how? His quest to uncover the truth takes him from the hidden catacombs of London on the brink of revolution, through pirate-infested seas, to the mysterious island that may hold the secret to the origin not only of the shadowy Bookman, but of Orphan himself...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like a steam-powered take on\n  <em>\n   V for Vendetta\n  </em>\n  , rich with satire and slashed through with automatons, giant lizards, pirates, airships and wild adventure.\n  <em>\n   The Bookman\n  </em>\n  is the first of a series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  File Under: Steampunk [ Alternate History! | Reptilian Royalty! | Diabolical Anarchists! | Extraordinary Adventure! ]\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3463'),
(11032, 'The Bookman', 'Lavie Tidhar', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Readers will enjoy watching Tidhar''s imagination throwing off sparks like a Roman candle." -\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Bookman_ pokes at the fat and waddled body of steampunk with its walking cane and leaves it on the roadside with its fresh take on Victorian London without loosing any steam on its way." -\n  <em>\n   Loudmouth Man\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Bookman_ is a delight, crammed with gorgeous period detail, seat-of-the-pants adventure and fabulous set-pieces." -\n  <em>\n   The Guardian\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is a steampunk gem... Bring on a sequel, Tidhar! I''m craving to know what happens after the ending!" - _SFF World\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "An emerging master" _- LOCUS Magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Praise for Lavie Tidhar''s Previous Works:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Tidhar beautifully evokes the power of technology " -\n  <em>\n   The Fix\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "The Dying World" fromÂ _Clarkesworld Magazine_)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...richly detailed characters in a well paced and well thought out story" -\n  <em>\n   Tangent\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "The Pattern Makers of Zanzibar" from\n  <em>\n   Murky Depths)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Tidhar''s story reads like a drug-infused John Le Carre novel, if Le Carre wrote science fiction and dropped LSD as he pounded on the typewriter... an amazing accomplishment, and highly recommended." -\n  <em>\n   The Fix\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "The Shangri-La Affair" fromÂ _Strange Horizons_)Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s stomach churning and very sweet at the same time, bizarreness and beauty like most of Tidhar''s stories." -\n  <em>\n   The Fix\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "The Butcher and The Flykeeper - A Christmas Love Story"Â from\n  <em>\n   Murky Depths\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The strength of this work is the setting. It is incredibly inventive and fun... a wonderful story, especially for those who enjoy the more surreal edges of speculative fiction." -\n  <em>\n   Tangent (\n  </em>\n  reviewing "High Noon in Clown Town" from\n  <em>\n   Postscripts)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Tidhar''s story is classic noir, but with its tongue firmly in its cheek from beginning to end. A very enjoyable read." -\n  <em>\n   The Fix\n  </em>\n  (reviewing "Hard Rain at the Fortean Cafe" from\n  <em>\n   Aeon\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   LATE EXTRA!\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   BOMB OUTRAGE IN LONDON!\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A masked terrorist has brought London to its knees -- there are bombs inside books, and nobody knows which ones. On the day of the launch of the first expedition to Mars, by giant cannon, he outdoes himself with an audacious attack.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For young poet Orphan, trapped in the screaming audience, it seems his destiny is entwined with that of the shadowy terrorist, but how? His quest to uncover the truth takes him from the hidden catacombs of London on the brink of revolution, through pirate-infested seas, to the mysterious island that may hold the secret to the origin not only of the shadowy Bookman, but of Orphan himself...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like a steam-powered take on\n  <em>\n   V for Vendetta\n  </em>\n  , rich with satire and slashed through with automatons, giant lizards, pirates, airships and wild adventure.\n  <em>\n   The Bookman\n  </em>\n  is the first of a series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  File Under: Steampunk [ Alternate History! | Reptilian Royalty! | Diabolical Anarchists! | Extraordinary Adventure! ]\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13030'),
(11033, 'The Bookman', 'Lavie Tidhar', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <b>\n  LATE EXTRA!\n </b>\n <br />\n <b>\n  BOMB OUTRAGE IN LONDON!\n </b>\n <br />\n <br />\n A masked terrorist has brought London to its knees -- there are bombs inside books, and nobody knows which ones. On the day of the launch of the first expedition to Mars, by giant cannon, he outdoes himself with an audacious attack.\n <br />\n <br />\n For young poet Orphan, trapped in the screaming audience, it seems his destiny is entwined with that of the shadowy terrorist, but how? His quest to uncover the truth takes him from the hidden catacombs of London on the brink of revolution, through pirate-infested seas, to the mysterious island that may hold the secret to the origin not only of the shadowy Bookman, but of Orphan himself...\n <br />\n <br />\n Like a steam-powered take onÂ \n <i>\n  V for Vendetta\n </i>\n , rich with satire and slashed through with automatons, giant lizards, pirates, airships and wild adventure.Â \n <i>\n  The Bookman\n </i>\n is the first of a series.\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   â€œThe Bookman is without a doubt the most enjoyable, fascinating and captivating book I have read in a long time. It has managed to claim the throne as my favorite steampunk novel from Moorcockâ€™s A Nomad of the Time Streamsâ€¦ Not only because of the plot and the world with its automatons, simulacra and the giant space cannon, it is also in itself an intricate work of art, very much like clockwork. The storyâ€™s depth is revealed piece by piece, gear by gear, during the entire length of the novel up until the end, which makes for a very exciting and captivating read. It took me very much until the last chapter to piece all the details together, combine all the different gears and cogwheels to one beautiful apparatus, to grasp the full expanse of what was actually going on right from the start of the novel. Finally in the end I understood and was left with the images of a truly fascinating story and world in my mind. But it is not only the depth of the plot, its many twists and mysteries which kept me glued to its pages, it is also the cast of characters and the many striking details of the world, which make this book so enjoyable.â€\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   - Dailysteampunk.com\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21082'),
(11034, 'Books Do Furnish a Room', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anthony Powell''s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this climactic volume of *A Dance to the Music of Time*, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Includes these novels:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Books Do Furnish a Room *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Temporary Kings *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Hearing Secret Harmonies *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."â€”*Chicago Tribune*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell''s world is as large and as complex as Proust''s."â€”Elizabeth Janeway, *New York Times*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."â€”Naomi Bliven, *New Yorker *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7507'),
(11035, 'books do furnish a room', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Anthony Powell''s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. In this climactic volume of *A Dance to the Music of Time*, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age. Includes these novels: *Books Do Furnish a Room * *Temporary Kings * *Hearing Secret Harmonies * "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."â€”*Chicago Tribune* "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell''s world is as large and as complex as Proust''s."â€”Elizabeth Janeway, *New York Times* "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."â€”Naomi Bliven, *New Yorker *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16443'),
(11036, 'books do furnish a room', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Anthony Powell''s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. In this climactic volume of *A Dance to the Music of Time*, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age. Includes these novels: *Books Do Furnish a Room * *Temporary Kings * *Hearing Secret Harmonies * "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."â€”*Chicago Tribune* "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell''s world is as large and as complex as Proust''s."â€”Elizabeth Janeway, *New York Times* "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."â€”Naomi Bliven, *New Yorker *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26408'),
(11037, 'Books of Blood', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, the horrors will come, skipping, to fetch them off to the highway of the damned ...Gathered together for the first time in one volume, here are fifteen mind-shattering stories from the awesome imagination of World Fantasy Award winning author Clive Barker. They will take you to the brink - and beyond ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17331'),
(11038, 'Books of Blood', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, the horrors will come, skipping, to fetch them off to the highway of the damned ...Gathered together for the first time in one volume, here are fifteen mind-shattering stories from the awesome imagination of World Fantasy Award winning author Clive Barker. They will take you to the brink - and beyond ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27025'),
(11039, 'Books of Blood Six', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25968'),
(11040, 'Books of Blood Three', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Five stories of otherworldly murder and terror include, ""Son of   Celluloid,"" ""Rawhead Rex,"" ""Confessions of a Pornographer''s   Shroud,"" ""Scape-Goats,"" and ""Human Remains."" Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17330'),
(11041, 'Books of Blood Three', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Five stories of otherworldly murder and terror include, ""Son of   Celluloid,"" ""Rawhead Rex,"" ""Confessions of a Pornographer''s   Shroud,"" ""Scape-Goats,"" and ""Human Remains."" Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27024'),
(11042, 'Books of Blood Two', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Five stories of horror and intrigue include, "Dread," "Hell''s   Event," "Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament," "The Skins of the   Fathers," and "New Murders in the Rue Morgue." Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25969'),
(11043, 'Bookwyrm', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20094'),
(11044, 'Boon Island', 'Kenneth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This classic tale of shipwreck and survival is reprinted in a new edition, with essays that provide a historical perspective and trace the sources from which Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) drew his tale. A native Mainer, Roberts, whose historical novels include Northwest Passage and Arundel, was intrigued by the story of the December 1710 wreck of the Nottingham. After running aground a dozen miles offshore, the ship broke up, stranding her crew with minimal tools, scant shelter, and a few pieces of cheese. The men survived nearly a month of screeching gales, sub-freezing temperatures, and driving snowstorms. During their ordeal they resorted to cannibalism and were finally rescued after one of them made it ashore on a crude raft. Included here are contemporary accounts from crew members, offering dramatically different versions of the true-life traumatic event and a fascinating counterpoint to Roberts'' fictionalized version. A bestseller when published in 1956, Boon Island is a story of the ways that crisis can inspire the best - and worst - in human nature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12278'),
(11045, 'Border Princes', 'Dan Abnett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations: Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. Stars Captain Jack Harkness last seen in Doctor Who. This novel is a brand-new Torchwood story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17309'),
(11046, 'Border Princes', 'Dan Abnett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations: Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. Stars Captain Jack Harkness last seen in Doctor Who. This novel is a brand-new Torchwood story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26180'),
(11047, 'Border Songs', 'Jim Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n By the acclaimed author of The Highest Tide, a story of contrary destinies that are further complicated by the border that separates them.Brandon Vanderkoolâ€™s extreme dyslexia and height give him a peculiar perspective, which proves handy once his father pushes him off their Washington dairy farm into the Border Patrol. Though he used to just jump over the ditch into British Columbia, heâ€™s uncomfortable in this uniformed role and instead indulges his obsession with birds and art while incidentally spotting smugglers and illegal immigrants who are provoking an already paranoid society. Drug mansions in the Canadian highlands peer down into berry farms that might offer convenient routes into the American market, where politicians clamor for increased security. Closer to home, Brandonâ€™s father battles disease in his herd and his mother something far worse. Madeline Rousseau, who grew up right across the ditch, has seen her gardening skills turn lucrative, while her father replicates great past inventions and rails against imperialism. And overseeing everything is a mysterious masseuse who knows everybodyâ€™s secrets.Rich in characters contending with a swiftly changing world and their own elusive hopes and dreams, Border Songs is at once comic, tender, and momentousâ€”a riveting portrait of a distinctive community, an inventive love story, and fiction of the highest order.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4373'),
(11048, 'Border Songs', 'Jim Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n By the acclaimed author of The Highest Tide, a story of contrary destinies that are further complicated by the border that separates them.Brandon Vanderkoolâ€™s extreme dyslexia and height give him a peculiar perspective, which proves handy once his father pushes him off their Washington dairy farm into the Border Patrol. Though he used to just jump over the ditch into British Columbia, heâ€™s uncomfortable in this uniformed role and instead indulges his obsession with birds and art while incidentally spotting smugglers and illegal immigrants who are provoking an already paranoid society. Drug mansions in the Canadian highlands peer down into berry farms that might offer convenient routes into the American market, where politicians clamor for increased security. Closer to home, Brandonâ€™s father battles disease in his herd and his mother something far worse. Madeline Rousseau, who grew up right across the ditch, has seen her gardening skills turn lucrative, while her father replicates great past inventions and rails against imperialism. And overseeing everything is a mysterious masseuse who knows everybodyâ€™s secrets.Rich in characters contending with a swiftly changing world and their own elusive hopes and dreams, Border Songs is at once comic, tender, and momentousâ€”a riveting portrait of a distinctive community, an inventive love story, and fiction of the highest order.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11180'),
(11049, 'Border Trilogy 1 - All the Pretty Horses', 'McCarthy, Cormac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25354'),
(11050, 'Border Trilogy 2 - The Crossing', 'McCarthy, Cormac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25355'),
(11051, 'Border Trilogy 3 - Cities of The Plain', 'McCarthy, Cormac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25356'),
(11052, 'The Border Trilogy: All the pretty horses ; Vol. 3, Cities of the plain', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy''sBorder Trilogy,All the Pretty Horsesis the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25952'),
(11053, 'Borders of Infinity', 'Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hugo and Nebula Award winner! Miles Vorkosigan in all his guises: prodigal son, back-country judge, lover, spy, diplomat (not his strong suit), strategist, scapegoat, mercenary commander, and -- always -- hero.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20032'),
(11054, 'Born in Death', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers-both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm-are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn''t leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but that''s supposedly what friends are for.    Now Mavis needs another favor. Tandy Willowby, one of the moms-to-be in Mavis''s birthing class, didn''t show up for the shower. A recent emigrant from London, Tandy has few friends in New York, and no family-and she was really looking forward to the party. And when Eve enters Tandy''s apartment and finds a gift for Mavis''s shower wrapped and ready on the table-and a packed bag for the hospital still on the floor next to it-tingling runs up and down her spine.    Normally, such a case would be turned over to Missing Persons. But Mavis wants no one else on the job but Eve-and Eve can''t say no. She''ll have to track Tandy down while simultaneously unearthing the deals and double-crosses hidden in the files of some of the city''s richest and most secretive citizens, in a race against this particularly vicious killer. Luckily, her multimillionaire husband Roarke''s expertise comes in handy with the number crunching. But as he mines the crucial data that will break the case wide open, Eve faces an all too real danger in the world of flesh and blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2550'),
(11055, 'Born in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers-both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm-are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn''t leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but that''s supposedly what friends are for. Now Mavis needs another favor. Tandy Willowby, one of the moms-to-be in Mavis''s birthing class, didn''t show up for the shower. A recent emigrant from London, Tandy has few friends in New York, and no family-and she was really looking forward to the party. And when Eve enters Tandy''s apartment and finds a gift for Mavis''s shower wrapped and ready on the table-and a packed bag for the hospital still on the floor next to it-tingling runs up and down her spine. Normally, such a case would be turned over to Missing Persons. But Mavis wants no one else on the job but Eve-and Eve can''t say no. She''ll have to track Tandy down while simultaneously unearthing the deals and double-crosses hidden in the files of some of the city''s richest and most secretive citizens, in a race against this particularly vicious killer. Luckily, her multimillionaire husband Roarke''s expertise comes in handy with the number crunching. But as he mines the crucial data that will break the case wide open, Eve faces an all too real danger in the world of flesh and blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14061'),
(11056, 'Born in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers-both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm-are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn''t leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but that''s supposedly what friends are for. Now Mavis needs another favor. Tandy Willowby, one of the moms-to-be in Mavis''s birthing class, didn''t show up for the shower. A recent emigrant from London, Tandy has few friends in New York, and no family-and she was really looking forward to the party. And when Eve enters Tandy''s apartment and finds a gift for Mavis''s shower wrapped and ready on the table-and a packed bag for the hospital still on the floor next to it-tingling runs up and down her spine. Normally, such a case would be turned over to Missing Persons. But Mavis wants no one else on the job but Eve-and Eve can''t say no. She''ll have to track Tandy down while simultaneously unearthing the deals and double-crosses hidden in the files of some of the city''s richest and most secretive citizens, in a race against this particularly vicious killer. Luckily, her multimillionaire husband Roarke''s expertise comes in handy with the number crunching. But as he mines the crucial data that will break the case wide open, Eve faces an all too real danger in the world of flesh and blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22325'),
(11057, 'Born in Exile', 'George Gissing', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25799'),
(11058, 'Born of Shadows', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon boldly goes where no author has gone before and claims yet another genre as her own. With her League series, she has created a new, addictive universe and proven herself the undisputed master of the cross-genre novel." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] publishing phenomenon...[Sherrilyn Kenyon is] the reigning queen of the wildly successful paranormal scene." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon''s writing is brisk, ironic, sexy, and relentless imaginative." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Boston Globe\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon delivers the goods readers have come to expect, and more." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In a world where the League and its assassins rule, where betrayal and treachery are everywhere . . . the only survivors are those ones who are . . .\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   BORN OF SHADOWS\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Caillen Dagan, a defiant soldier of fortune, survival isn''t a right, it''s a brutal daily battle. Moving through the Ichidaian universe like a wraith, his brushes with the law and death are legendary. But when an act of rare heroism reveals his hidden birthright, he''s forced into a world much more dangerous and cold-hearted than the bloody streets where he was raised-one of obscene wealth and lethal politics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ferocious and determined, Desideria serves as an official bodyguard for her queen. Born of questionable genetics, she will do anything to prove herself worthy of the weapons she carries and the position she''s won by combat. But when she uncovers a ruthless plot to assassinate the queen and overthrow her country''s government, Desideria is caught in the crosshairs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With assassination contracts out on both of them, Caillen and Desideria must learn to fight together or die alone. And if they fail, their governments will fall into the hands of an unimaginable evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1290');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11059, 'Born of Shadows', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon boldly goes where no author has gone before and claims yet another genre as her own. With her League series, she has created a new, addictive universe and proven herself the undisputed master of the cross-genre novel." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] publishing phenomenon...[Sherrilyn Kenyon is] the reigning queen of the wildly successful paranormal scene." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon''s writing is brisk, ironic, sexy, and relentless imaginative." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Boston Globe\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon delivers the goods readers have come to expect, and more." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In a world where the League and its assassins rule, where betrayal and treachery are everywhere . . . the only survivors are those ones who are . . .\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   BORN OF SHADOWS\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Caillen Dagan, a defiant soldier of fortune, survival isn''t a right, it''s a brutal daily battle. Moving through the Ichidaian universe like a wraith, his brushes with the law and death are legendary. But when an act of rare heroism reveals his hidden birthright, he''s forced into a world much more dangerous and cold-hearted than the bloody streets where he was raised-one of obscene wealth and lethal politics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ferocious and determined, Desideria serves as an official bodyguard for her queen. Born of questionable genetics, she will do anything to prove herself worthy of the weapons she carries and the position she''s won by combat. But when she uncovers a ruthless plot to assassinate the queen and overthrow her country''s government, Desideria is caught in the crosshairs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With assassination contracts out on both of them, Caillen and Desideria must learn to fight together or die alone. And if they fail, their governments will fall into the hands of an unimaginable evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10680'),
(11060, 'Born of Shadows', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon boldly goes where no author has gone before and claims yet another genre as her own. With her League series, she has created a new, addictive universe and proven herself the undisputed master of the cross-genre novel." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] publishing phenomenon...[Sherrilyn Kenyon is] the reigning queen of the wildly successful paranormal scene." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Publishers Weekly\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon''s writing is brisk, ironic, sexy, and relentless imaginative." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Boston Globe\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Kenyon delivers the goods readers have come to expect, and more." (\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Booklist\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In a world where the League and its assassins rule, where betrayal and treachery are everywhere . . . the only survivors are those ones who are . . .\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   BORN OF SHADOWS\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Caillen Dagan, a defiant soldier of fortune, survival isn''t a right, it''s a brutal daily battle. Moving through the Ichidaian universe like a wraith, his brushes with the law and death are legendary. But when an act of rare heroism reveals his hidden birthright, he''s forced into a world much more dangerous and cold-hearted than the bloody streets where he was raised-one of obscene wealth and lethal politics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ferocious and determined, Desideria serves as an official bodyguard for her queen. Born of questionable genetics, she will do anything to prove herself worthy of the weapons she carries and the position she''s won by combat. But when she uncovers a ruthless plot to assassinate the queen and overthrow her country''s government, Desideria is caught in the crosshairs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With assassination contracts out on both of them, Caillen and Desideria must learn to fight together or die alone. And if they fail, their governments will fall into the hands of an unimaginable evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23654'),
(11061, 'The Born Queen', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Greg Keyes has crafted a brilliant saga of magic, adventure, and love set against a backdrop of clashing empires and an ancient, reawakened evil. Now, with The Born Queen, Keyes brings his epic to a masterly close, gathering the strands of plot and character into a stunning climax that both completes and transcends all that has gone before.The Briar King is dead, and the world itself follows him to ruin. Aspar White, wounded and tired, must embark on one last quest to save the forest and the people he loves, but he has little hope of success.Anne Dare at last sits on the throne of Crotheny, but for how long? The Church, now led by the corrupt and powerful MarchÃ© Hespero, has declared a holy war against her, giving the king of Hansa the pretext he needs to unleash his vast might on the young queen and her unready army.But Hansa is the least of Anneâ€™s worries. The Hellrune, war seer of Hansa, strikes at her through vision and prophecy. The Keptâ€“last of the elder Skasloi lordsâ€“weaves his own dark webs. Anneâ€™s teacher and ally in the sedos world might also be her worst enemy, and Anneâ€™s own mounting strength compels her toward madness.Surviving these dangers and mastering her eldritch abilities are merely prelude to the real struggle. There are manyâ€“some with power matching or even exceeding Anneâ€™s ownâ€“who are willing to kill in order to seize control. For whoever sits upon the throne will have the ultimate command to bring about the worldâ€™s salvationâ€“or its apocalypse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4934'),
(11062, 'The Born Queen', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Greg Keyes has crafted a brilliant saga of magic, adventure, and love set against a backdrop of clashing empires and an ancient, reawakened evil. Now, with The Born Queen, Keyes brings his epic to a masterly close, gathering the strands of plot and character into a stunning climax that both completes and transcends all that has gone before.The Briar King is dead, and the world itself follows him to ruin. Aspar White, wounded and tired, must embark on one last quest to save the forest and the people he loves, but he has little hope of success.Anne Dare at last sits on the throne of Crotheny, but for how long? The Church, now led by the corrupt and powerful MarchÃ© Hespero, has declared a holy war against her, giving the king of Hansa the pretext he needs to unleash his vast might on the young queen and her unready army.But Hansa is the least of Anneâ€™s worries. The Hellrune, war seer of Hansa, strikes at her through vision and prophecy. The Keptâ€“last of the elder Skasloi lordsâ€“weaves his own dark webs. Anneâ€™s teacher and ally in the sedos world might also be her worst enemy, and Anneâ€™s own mounting strength compels her toward madness.Surviving these dangers and mastering her eldritch abilities are merely prelude to the real struggle. There are manyâ€“some with power matching or even exceeding Anneâ€™s ownâ€“who are willing to kill in order to seize control. For whoever sits upon the throne will have the ultimate command to bring about the worldâ€™s salvationâ€“or its apocalypse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10752'),
(11063, 'The Born Queen', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Greg Keyes has crafted a brilliant saga of magic, adventure, and love set against a backdrop of clashing empires and an ancient, reawakened evil. Now, with The Born Queen, Keyes brings his epic to a masterly close, gathering the strands of plot and character into a stunning climax that both completes and transcends all that has gone before.The Briar King is dead, and the world itself follows him to ruin. Aspar White, wounded and tired, must embark on one last quest to save the forest and the people he loves, but he has little hope of success.Anne Dare at last sits on the throne of Crotheny, but for how long? The Church, now led by the corrupt and powerful MarchÃ© Hespero, has declared a holy war against her, giving the king of Hansa the pretext he needs to unleash his vast might on the young queen and her unready army.But Hansa is the least of Anneâ€™s worries. The Hellrune, war seer of Hansa, strikes at her through vision and prophecy. The Keptâ€“last of the elder Skasloi lordsâ€“weaves his own dark webs. Anneâ€™s teacher and ally in the sedos world might also be her worst enemy, and Anneâ€™s own mounting strength compels her toward madness.Surviving these dangers and mastering her eldritch abilities are merely prelude to the real struggle. There are manyâ€“some with power matching or even exceeding Anneâ€™s ownâ€“who are willing to kill in order to seize control. For whoever sits upon the throne will have the ultimate command to bring about the worldâ€™s salvationâ€“or its apocalypse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19705'),
(11064, 'Born Standing Up: A Comic&#39;s Life', 'Steve Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away." Emmy and Grammy Award winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Martin has always been awriter. His memoir of his years in stand-up is candid, spectacularly amusing, and beautifully written. At age ten Martin started his career at Disneyland, selling guidebooks in the newly opened theme park. In the decade that followed, he worked in the Disney magic shop and the Bird Cage Theatre at Knott''s Berry Farm, performing his first magic/comedy act a dozen times a week. The story of these years, during which he practiced and honed his craft, is moving and revelatory. The dedication to excellence and innovation is formed at an astonishingly early age and never wavers or wanes. Martin illuminates the sacrifice, discipline, and originality that made him an icon and informs his work to this day. To be this good, to perform so frequently, was isolating and lonely. It took Martin decades to reconnect with his parents and sister, and he tells that story with great tenderness. Martin also paints a portrait of his times -- the era of free love and protests against the war in Vietnam, the heady irreverence of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late sixties, and the transformative new voice of Saturday Night Live in the seventies. Throughout the text, Martin has placed photographs, many never seen before. Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14235'),
(11065, 'Born Standing Up: A Comic&#39;s Life', 'Steve Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away." Emmy and Grammy Award winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Martin has always been awriter. His memoir of his years in stand-up is candid, spectacularly amusing, and beautifully written. At age ten Martin started his career at Disneyland, selling guidebooks in the newly opened theme park. In the decade that followed, he worked in the Disney magic shop and the Bird Cage Theatre at Knott''s Berry Farm, performing his first magic/comedy act a dozen times a week. The story of these years, during which he practiced and honed his craft, is moving and revelatory. The dedication to excellence and innovation is formed at an astonishingly early age and never wavers or wanes. Martin illuminates the sacrifice, discipline, and originality that made him an icon and informs his work to this day. To be this good, to perform so frequently, was isolating and lonely. It took Martin decades to reconnect with his parents and sister, and he tells that story with great tenderness. Martin also paints a portrait of his times -- the era of free love and protests against the war in Vietnam, the heady irreverence of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late sixties, and the transformative new voice of Saturday Night Live in the seventies. Throughout the text, Martin has placed photographs, many never seen before. Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23983'),
(11066, 'Born to Be Riled', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jeremy Clarkson, it has to be said, sometimes finds the world a maddening place. And nowhere more so than from behind the wheel of a car, where you can see any number of people acting like lunatics while in control (or not) of a ton of metal. In Born to be Riled, Clarkson takes a look at the world through his windscreeen, shakes his head at what he sees and then puts the boot in. Among other things, he explains: bull; why Surrey is worse than Wales bull; how crossing your legs in America can lead to arrest bull; the reason cable TV salesmen must be punched bull; that divorce can be blamed on the birth of Jesus Raving politicians, pointless celebrities, ridiculous ls"personalitiesrs" and the Germans all get it in the neck, together with the stupid, the daft and ludicrous in a tour de force of comic writing guaranteed to have Clarksonrs"s postman wheezing under sackfuls of letters from the easily offended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4512'),
(11067, 'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen', 'Christopher McDougall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, *Born to Run *is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: *Why does my foot hurt? *In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world?s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico?s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. *Born to Run* is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6681'),
(11068, 'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen', 'Christopher McDougall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, *Born to Run *is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: *Why does my foot hurt? *In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world?s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico?s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. *Born to Run* is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11384'),
(11069, 'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen', 'Christopher McDougall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, *Born to Run *is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: *Why does my foot hurt? *In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world?s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico?s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. *Born to Run* is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14321'),
(11070, 'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen', 'Christopher McDougall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, *Born to Run *is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: *Why does my foot hurt? *In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world?s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico?s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. *Born to Run* is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18075'),
(11071, 'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen', 'Christopher McDougall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, *Born to Run *is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: *Why does my foot hurt? *In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world?s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico?s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. *Born to Run* is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27009'),
(11072, 'Borrower of the Night: The First Vicky Bliss Mystery', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Meet art historian Vicky Bliss, She is as beautiful as she is brainy--with unassailable courage, insatiable curiosity, and an expertise in lost museum treasures that often leads her into the most dangerous of situations.A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long forgotten damned stains ancient stones, Vicky must face two equally perilous possibilities. Either a powerful supernatural evil inhabits this place. . .or someone frighteningly real is willing to kill for what Vicky is determined to find.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5717'),
(11073, 'Borrower of the Night: The First Vicky Bliss Mystery', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Meet art historian Vicky Bliss, She is as beautiful as she is brainy--with unassailable courage, insatiable curiosity, and an expertise in lost museum treasures that often leads her into the most dangerous of situations.A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long forgotten damned stains ancient stones, Vicky must face two equally perilous possibilities. Either a powerful supernatural evil inhabits this place. . .or someone frighteningly real is willing to kill for what Vicky is determined to find.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18829'),
(11074, 'Borrower of the Night: The First Vicky Bliss Mystery', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Meet art historian Vicky Bliss, She is as beautiful as she is brainy--with unassailable courage, insatiable curiosity, and an expertise in lost museum treasures that often leads her into the most dangerous of situations.A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long forgotten damned stains ancient stones, Vicky must face two equally perilous possibilities. Either a powerful supernatural evil inhabits this place. . .or someone frighteningly real is willing to kill for what Vicky is determined to find.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27634'),
(11075, 'The Boscombe Valley Mystery', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15628'),
(11076, 'Bossypants', 'Tina Fey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on\n <em>\n  Saturday Night Live\n </em>\n , Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funniest chapters feature the differences between male and female comedy writers ("men urinate in cups"), her cruise ship honeymoon ("itâ€™s very\n <em>\n  Poseidon Adventure\n </em>\n "), and advice about breastfeeding ("I had an obligation to my child to pretend to try"). But the chaos of Feyâ€™s life is best detailed when sheâ€™s dividing her efforts equally between rehearsing her Sarah Palin impression, trying to get Oprah to appear on\n <em>\n  30 Rock\n </em>\n , and planning her daughterâ€™s Peter Pan-themed birthday.\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n gets to the heart of why Tina Fey remains universally adored: she embodies the hectic, too-many-things-to-juggle lifestyle we all have, but instead of complaining about it, she can just laugh it off.\n <em>\n  --Kevin Nguyen\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her.\n</p>\n<p>\n PRAISE FOR TINA FEY:\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''d be really pretty if you lost weight." (\n <strong>\n  College Boyfriend, 1990\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, overrated troll." (\n <strong>\n  The Internet\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mommy, where are my pretzels?" (\n <strong>\n  Tracy Morgan\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n <em>\n  BOSSYPANTS\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hope that''s not really the cover. That''s really going to hurt sales." (\n <strong>\n  Don Fey, Father of Tina Fey\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Absolutely delicious!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Who Eats Books\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Totally worth it." (\n <strong>\n  Trees\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Do not print this glowing recommendation of Tina Fey''s book until I''ve been dead a hundred years." (\n <strong>\n  Mark Twain\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hilarious and insightful. Laugh-out-loud funny -- oh no, a full moon. No! Arrgh! Get away from me! Save yourself!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Turning into a Werewolf\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/609'),
(11077, 'Bossypants', 'Tina Fey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on\n <em>\n  Saturday Night Live\n </em>\n , Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funniest chapters feature the differences between male and female comedy writers ("men urinate in cups"), her cruise ship honeymoon ("itâ€™s very\n <em>\n  Poseidon Adventure\n </em>\n "), and advice about breastfeeding ("I had an obligation to my child to pretend to try"). But the chaos of Feyâ€™s life is best detailed when sheâ€™s dividing her efforts equally between rehearsing her Sarah Palin impression, trying to get Oprah to appear on\n <em>\n  30 Rock\n </em>\n , and planning her daughterâ€™s Peter Pan-themed birthday.\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n gets to the heart of why Tina Fey remains universally adored: she embodies the hectic, too-many-things-to-juggle lifestyle we all have, but instead of complaining about it, she can just laugh it off.\n <em>\n  --Kevin Nguyen\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her.\n</p>\n<p>\n PRAISE FOR TINA FEY:\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''d be really pretty if you lost weight." (\n <strong>\n  College Boyfriend, 1990\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, overrated troll." (\n <strong>\n  The Internet\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mommy, where are my pretzels?" (\n <strong>\n  Tracy Morgan\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n <em>\n  BOSSYPANTS\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hope that''s not really the cover. That''s really going to hurt sales." (\n <strong>\n  Don Fey, Father of Tina Fey\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Absolutely delicious!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Who Eats Books\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Totally worth it." (\n <strong>\n  Trees\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Do not print this glowing recommendation of Tina Fey''s book until I''ve been dead a hundred years." (\n <strong>\n  Mark Twain\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hilarious and insightful. Laugh-out-loud funny -- oh no, a full moon. No! Arrgh! Get away from me! Save yourself!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Turning into a Werewolf\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9744'),
(11078, 'Bossypants', 'Tina Fey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bossypants\n  </em>\n  is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on\n  <em>\n   Saturday Night Live\n  </em>\n  , Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funniest chapters feature the differences between male and female comedy writers ("men urinate in cups"), her cruise ship honeymoon ("itâ€™s very\n  <em>\n   Poseidon Adventure\n  </em>\n  "), and advice about breastfeeding ("I had an obligation to my child to pretend to try"). But the chaos of Feyâ€™s life is best detailed when sheâ€™s dividing her efforts equally between rehearsing her Sarah Palin impression, trying to get Oprah to appear on\n  <em>\n   30 Rock\n  </em>\n  , and planning her daughterâ€™s Peter Pan-themed birthday.\n  <em>\n   Bossypants\n  </em>\n  gets to the heart of why Tina Fey remains universally adored: she embodies the hectic, too-many-things-to-juggle lifestyle we all have, but instead of complaining about it, she can just laugh it off.\n  <em>\n   --Kevin Nguyen\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  PRAISE FOR TINA FEY:\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You''d be really pretty if you lost weight." (\n  <strong>\n   College Boyfriend, 1990\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, overrated troll." (\n  <strong>\n   The Internet\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mommy, where are my pretzels?" (\n  <strong>\n   Tracy Morgan\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n  <em>\n   BOSSYPANTS\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I hope that''s not really the cover. That''s really going to hurt sales." (\n  <strong>\n   Don Fey, Father of Tina Fey\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Absolutely delicious!" (\n  <strong>\n   A Guy Who Eats Books\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Totally worth it." (\n  <strong>\n   Trees\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Do not print this glowing recommendation of Tina Fey''s book until I''ve been dead a hundred years." (\n  <strong>\n   Mark Twain\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Hilarious and insightful. Laugh-out-loud funny -- oh no, a full moon. No! Arrgh! Get away from me! Save yourself!" (\n  <strong>\n   A Guy Turning into a Werewolf\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15142'),
(11079, 'Bossypants', 'Tina Fey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on\n <em>\n  Saturday Night Live\n </em>\n , Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funniest chapters feature the differences between male and female comedy writers ("men urinate in cups"), her cruise ship honeymoon ("itâ€™s very\n <em>\n  Poseidon Adventure\n </em>\n "), and advice about breastfeeding ("I had an obligation to my child to pretend to try"). But the chaos of Feyâ€™s life is best detailed when sheâ€™s dividing her efforts equally between rehearsing her Sarah Palin impression, trying to get Oprah to appear on\n <em>\n  30 Rock\n </em>\n , and planning her daughterâ€™s Peter Pan-themed birthday.\n <em>\n  Bossypants\n </em>\n gets to the heart of why Tina Fey remains universally adored: she embodies the hectic, too-many-things-to-juggle lifestyle we all have, but instead of complaining about it, she can just laugh it off.\n <em>\n  --Kevin Nguyen\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her.\n</p>\n<p>\n PRAISE FOR TINA FEY:\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''d be really pretty if you lost weight." (\n <strong>\n  College Boyfriend, 1990\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, overrated troll." (\n <strong>\n  The Internet\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Mommy, where are my pretzels?" (\n <strong>\n  Tracy Morgan\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n ADVANCE PRAISE FOR\n <em>\n  BOSSYPANTS\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hope that''s not really the cover. That''s really going to hurt sales." (\n <strong>\n  Don Fey, Father of Tina Fey\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Absolutely delicious!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Who Eats Books\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Totally worth it." (\n <strong>\n  Trees\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Do not print this glowing recommendation of Tina Fey''s book until I''ve been dead a hundred years." (\n <strong>\n  Mark Twain\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hilarious and insightful. Laugh-out-loud funny -- oh no, a full moon. No! Arrgh! Get away from me! Save yourself!" (\n <strong>\n  A Guy Turning into a Werewolf\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24390'),
(11080, 'Boston Blitz', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He rarely kills in anger; his is a war of cold methodology and precise maneuvers - but in this Boston campaign we find our warrior moving with a blazing determination to shake that town apart and to reduce its underworld to ashes. His only fear is that he may also destroy the only two persons in the world who are near and dear to him. Johnny and Val. They have been snatched by the mob.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is a hellish nightmare come to flesh. The one and only pressure point which the mob could ever use against Bolan has now been found. . . and he sees confronting him not only the certain loss of these two cherished people but also the loss of a very important war.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There is only one strategy, and Bolan knows it. Boston is to be the site of the Executioners most daring and deadly battle yet. There would be no ending this one until Bolan was victorious, or dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5886'),
(11081, 'Boston Blitz', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He rarely kills in anger; his is a war of cold methodology and precise maneuvers - but in this Boston campaign we find our warrior moving with a blazing determination to shake that town apart and to reduce its underworld to ashes. His only fear is that he may also destroy the only two persons in the world who are near and dear to him. Johnny and Val. They have been snatched by the mob. It is a hellish nightmare come to flesh. The one and only pressure point which the mob could ever use against Bolan has now been found. . . and he sees confronting him not only the certain loss of these two cherished people but also the loss of a very important war. There is only one strategy, and Bolan knows it. Boston is to be the site of the Executioners most daring and deadly battle yet. There would be no ending this one until Bolan was victorious, or dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18725'),
(11082, 'Boston Blitz', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He rarely kills in anger; his is a war of cold methodology and precise maneuvers - but in this Boston campaign we find our warrior moving with a blazing determination to shake that town apart and to reduce its underworld to ashes. His only fear is that he may also destroy the only two persons in the world who are near and dear to him. Johnny and Val. They have been snatched by the mob. It is a hellish nightmare come to flesh. The one and only pressure point which the mob could ever use against Bolan has now been found. . . and he sees confronting him not only the certain loss of these two cherished people but also the loss of a very important war. There is only one strategy, and Bolan knows it. Boston is to be the site of the Executioners most daring and deadly battle yet. There would be no ending this one until Bolan was victorious, or dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27529'),
(11083, 'Boston Noir', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œDennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys...[Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has...left people feeling crushed.â€â€”New York Times Book Review Brand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O''Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron. Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, The Given Day) has proven himself to be a master of both crime fiction and literary fiction. Here, he extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the cityâ€”the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between. Lehaneâ€™s own contributionâ€”the longest story in the volumeâ€”is set in his beloved home neighborhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul, and throat of the reader. In 2003, Lehaneâ€™s novel Mystic River was adapted into film and quickly garnered six Academy Award nominations (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each winning Academy Awards). Boston Noir launches in November 2009 just as Shutter Island, the film based on Lehaneâ€™s best-selling 2003 novel of the same title, hits the big screen. Dennis Lehane is the author of The New York Times bestseller Mystic River (also an Academy Awardâ€“winning major motion picture); Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone (also a major motion picture); Sacred; Darkness, Take My Hand; A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; and, most recently, The Given Day. A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he splits his time between the Boston area and Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6011'),
(11084, 'Boston Noir', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œDennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys...[Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has...left people feeling crushed.â€â€”New York Times Book Review Brand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O''Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron. Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, The Given Day) has proven himself to be a master of both crime fiction and literary fiction. Here, he extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the cityâ€”the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between. Lehaneâ€™s own contributionâ€”the longest story in the volumeâ€”is set in his beloved home neighborhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul, and throat of the reader. In 2003, Lehaneâ€™s novel Mystic River was adapted into film and quickly garnered six Academy Award nominations (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each winning Academy Awards). Boston Noir launches in November 2009 just as Shutter Island, the film based on Lehaneâ€™s best-selling 2003 novel of the same title, hits the big screen. Dennis Lehane is the author of The New York Times bestseller Mystic River (also an Academy Awardâ€“winning major motion picture); Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone (also a major motion picture); Sacred; Darkness, Take My Hand; A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; and, most recently, The Given Day. A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he splits his time between the Boston area and Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12181'),
(11085, 'Boston Noir', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œDennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys...[Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has...left people feeling crushed.â€â€”New York Times Book Review Brand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O''Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron. Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, The Given Day) has proven himself to be a master of both crime fiction and literary fiction. Here, he extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the cityâ€”the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between. Lehaneâ€™s own contributionâ€”the longest story in the volumeâ€”is set in his beloved home neighborhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul, and throat of the reader. In 2003, Lehaneâ€™s novel Mystic River was adapted into film and quickly garnered six Academy Award nominations (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each winning Academy Awards). Boston Noir launches in November 2009 just as Shutter Island, the film based on Lehaneâ€™s best-selling 2003 novel of the same title, hits the big screen. Dennis Lehane is the author of The New York Times bestseller Mystic River (also an Academy Awardâ€“winning major motion picture); Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone (also a major motion picture); Sacred; Darkness, Take My Hand; A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; and, most recently, The Given Day. A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he splits his time between the Boston area and Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18002');
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(11086, 'Boston Noir', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Brand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O''Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron.Dennis Lehane ( Mystic River , The Given Day ) has proven himself to be a master of both crime fiction and literary fiction. Here, he extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the cityâ€”the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between.Lehaneâ€™s own contributionâ€”the longest story in the volumeâ€”is set in his beloved home neighborhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul, and throat of the reader.In 2003, Lehaneâ€™s novel Mystic River was adapted into film and quickly garnered six Academy Award nominations (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each winning Academy Awards). Boston Noir launches in November 2009 just as Shutter Island , the film based on Lehaneâ€™s best-selling 2003 novel of the same title, hits the big screen.Dennis Lehane is the author of The New York Times bestseller Mystic River (also an Academy Awardâ€“winning major motion picture); Prayers for Rain ; Gone, Baby, Gone (also a major motion picture); Sacred ; Darkness, Take My Hand ; A Drink Before the War , which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; and, most recently, The Given Day . A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he splits his time between the Boston area and Florida.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27513'),
(11087, 'The Bostonians', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <div>\n   <i>\n    The Bostonians\n   </i>\n   , byÂ \n   <b>\n    Henry James\n   </b>\n   , is part of theÂ \n   <i>\n    Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    Â \n   </i>\n   series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features ofÂ \n   <i>\n    Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n   </i>\n   :\n   <div>\n    <ul type="disc" style="list-style-type: disc; margin-top: 1.12em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n     <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; ">\n     </li>\n    </ul>\n    All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.Â \n    <i>\n     Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ \n    </i>\n    pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  Â \n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  Nearly a century before the birth of the contemporary feminist movement,Â \n  <b>\n   Henry James\n  </b>\n  Â dealt with its nineteenth-century forerunner inÂ \n  <i>\n   The Bostonians.\n  </i>\n  Â Mixing acute social observation and psychological analysis with mordant humor, James hangs his story on a unique instance of the traditional romantic triangle. At its apex stands the vibrantly beautiful Verena Tarrant, an intense public speaker who arouses the passions of two very different people. Olive Chancellor, a Boston-bred suffragette, dreams of turning Verena into a fiery campaigner for womenâ€™s rights. Basil Ransom, a Mississippi-bred lawyer, dreams of turning her into his wife. As these two struggle for possession of Verenaâ€™s soulâ€”and bodyâ€”their confusions, crises, and conflicts begin almost preternaturally to prefigure todayâ€™s sexual politics. In fact, Jamesâ€™s complex portrait of Olive and her ideals, savagely satirical yet sympathetic and so controversial when it first appeared, continues to evoke both anger and admiration. But he treats Verena and Basil with equal complexity, climaxed by the novelâ€™s quietly haunting final sentence.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  <b>\n   Siri Hustvedt\n  </b>\n  Â earned a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University in 1986 and is the author of a book of poetry,Â \n  <i>\n   Reading to You;\n  </i>\n  Â three novels:Â \n  <i>\n   The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl,\n  </i>\n  Â andÂ \n  <i>\n   What I Loved;\n  </i>\n  Â and a book of essays,\n  <i>\n   Yonder\n  </i>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5168'),
(11088, 'The Bostonians', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <div>\n   <i>\n    The Bostonians\n   </i>\n   , byÂ \n   <b>\n    Henry James\n   </b>\n   , is part of theÂ \n   <i>\n    Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    Â \n   </i>\n   series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features ofÂ \n   <i>\n    Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n   </i>\n   :\n   <div>\n    <ul type="disc" style="list-style-type: disc; margin-top: 1.12em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n     <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; ">\n     </li>\n    </ul>\n    All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.Â \n    <i>\n     Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ \n    </i>\n    pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  Â \n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  Nearly a century before the birth of the contemporary feminist movement,Â \n  <b>\n   Henry James\n  </b>\n  Â dealt with its nineteenth-century forerunner inÂ \n  <i>\n   The Bostonians.\n  </i>\n  Â Mixing acute social observation and psychological analysis with mordant humor, James hangs his story on a unique instance of the traditional romantic triangle. At its apex stands the vibrantly beautiful Verena Tarrant, an intense public speaker who arouses the passions of two very different people. Olive Chancellor, a Boston-bred suffragette, dreams of turning Verena into a fiery campaigner for womenâ€™s rights. Basil Ransom, a Mississippi-bred lawyer, dreams of turning her into his wife. As these two struggle for possession of Verenaâ€™s soulâ€”and bodyâ€”their confusions, crises, and conflicts begin almost preternaturally to prefigure todayâ€™s sexual politics. In fact, Jamesâ€™s complex portrait of Olive and her ideals, savagely satirical yet sympathetic and so controversial when it first appeared, continues to evoke both anger and admiration. But he treats Verena and Basil with equal complexity, climaxed by the novelâ€™s quietly haunting final sentence.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  <b>\n   Siri Hustvedt\n  </b>\n  Â earned a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University in 1986 and is the author of a book of poetry,Â \n  <i>\n   Reading to You;\n  </i>\n  Â three novels:Â \n  <i>\n   The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl,\n  </i>\n  Â andÂ \n  <i>\n   What I Loved;\n  </i>\n  Â and a book of essays,\n  <i>\n   Yonder\n  </i>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10484'),
(11089, 'The Bostonians', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <div>\n   <i>\n    The Bostonians\n   </i>\n   , byÂ \n   <b>\n    Henry James\n   </b>\n   , is part of theÂ \n   <i>\n    Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    Â \n   </i>\n   series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features ofÂ \n   <i>\n    Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n   </i>\n   :\n   <div>\n    <ul type="disc" style="list-style-type: disc; margin-top: 1.12em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n     <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; ">\n     </li>\n    </ul>\n    All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.Â \n    <i>\n     Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ \n    </i>\n    pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  Â \n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  Nearly a century before the birth of the contemporary feminist movement,Â \n  <b>\n   Henry James\n  </b>\n  Â dealt with its nineteenth-century forerunner inÂ \n  <i>\n   The Bostonians.\n  </i>\n  Â Mixing acute social observation and psychological analysis with mordant humor, James hangs his story on a unique instance of the traditional romantic triangle. At its apex stands the vibrantly beautiful Verena Tarrant, an intense public speaker who arouses the passions of two very different people. Olive Chancellor, a Boston-bred suffragette, dreams of turning Verena into a fiery campaigner for womenâ€™s rights. Basil Ransom, a Mississippi-bred lawyer, dreams of turning her into his wife. As these two struggle for possession of Verenaâ€™s soulâ€”and bodyâ€”their confusions, crises, and conflicts begin almost preternaturally to prefigure todayâ€™s sexual politics. In fact, Jamesâ€™s complex portrait of Olive and her ideals, savagely satirical yet sympathetic and so controversial when it first appeared, continues to evoke both anger and admiration. But he treats Verena and Basil with equal complexity, climaxed by the novelâ€™s quietly haunting final sentence.\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">\n  <b>\n   Siri Hustvedt\n  </b>\n  Â earned a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University in 1986 and is the author of a book of poetry,Â \n  <i>\n   Reading to You;\n  </i>\n  Â three novels:Â \n  <i>\n   The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl,\n  </i>\n  Â andÂ \n  <i>\n   What I Loved;\n  </i>\n  Â and a book of essays,\n  <i>\n   Yonder\n  </i>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19588'),
(11090, 'Boswell: A Modern Comedy', 'Stanley Elkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Elkin''s striking debut: The story of one man''s comic attempts at immortality James Boswell is a professional strongman and a wrestler. He is also a loveable leech who amasses friends of wealth and influence as his own insurance policy against death, an obsession that leads him from coast to coast, crashing parties and mentioning any celebrity whose name will grant him an ounce of social currency. But when those around him begin dying, Boswell is forced to confront his own mortality and determine once and for all how to find permanence in an ephemeral world. Poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, Boswell is Elkin''s engaging novel of one man''s desperate attempts to outmaneuver death, and an acerbic take on the follies of the American Dream. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9528'),
(11091, 'The Botany of Desire: A Plant&#39;s-Eye View of the World', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowersâ€™ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desiresâ€”sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and controlâ€”with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankindâ€™s most basic yearnings. And just as weâ€™ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2789'),
(11092, 'The Botany of Desire: A Plant&#39;s-Eye View of the World', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowersâ€™ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desiresâ€”sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and controlâ€”with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankindâ€™s most basic yearnings. And just as weâ€™ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11987'),
(11093, 'The botany of desire: a plant&#39;s-eye view of the world', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowersâ€™ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desiresâ€”sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and controlâ€”with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankindâ€™s most basic yearnings. And just as weâ€™ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13916'),
(11094, 'The botany of desire: a plant&#39;s-eye view of the world', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowersâ€™ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desiresâ€”sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and controlâ€”with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankindâ€™s most basic yearnings. And just as weâ€™ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22016'),
(11095, 'The Botticelli Secret', 'Marina Fiorato', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Botticelli in a rip-roaring novel that blends enticing mystery, historical intrigue and romantic adventure. Gloriously fresh and vivid, with a deliciously irreverent heroine, ''The Botticelli Secret'' is a masterful concoction of enticing mystery, historical intrigue and romantic adventure. Resplendent fifteenth-century Italy is seen through the eyes of the gorgeous Luciana Vetra, part-time model and full-time prostitute. After a request from one of her most exalted clients to pose for a painter friend, Luciana agrees to model for the central figure of Flora in Botticelli''s masterpiece ''Primavera'' But when the artist dismisses her without payment, Luciana impulsively steals an unfinished version of the painting - only to find that friends and clients are slaughtered around her in an attempt to get it back. So Luciana turns to the one man who has never desired her beauty, novice monk Brother Guido Della Torre, to discover what could be so valuable about the painting. Fleeing Florence together, Luciana and Guido race through the seven cities of Renaissance Italy pursued by ruthless enemies who are determined to keep them from decoding the painting''s secrets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3149'),
(11096, 'The Botticelli Secret', 'Marina Fiorato', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Botticelli in a rip-roaring novel that blends enticing mystery, historical intrigue and romantic adventure. Gloriously fresh and vivid, with a deliciously irreverent heroine, ''The Botticelli Secret'' is a masterful concoction of enticing mystery, historical intrigue and romantic adventure. Resplendent fifteenth-century Italy is seen through the eyes of the gorgeous Luciana Vetra, part-time model and full-time prostitute. After a request from one of her most exalted clients to pose for a painter friend, Luciana agrees to model for the central figure of Flora in Botticelli''s masterpiece ''Primavera'' But when the artist dismisses her without payment, Luciana impulsively steals an unfinished version of the painting - only to find that friends and clients are slaughtered around her in an attempt to get it back. So Luciana turns to the one man who has never desired her beauty, novice monk Brother Guido Della Torre, to discover what could be so valuable about the painting. Fleeing Florence together, Luciana and Guido race through the seven cities of Renaissance Italy pursued by ruthless enemies who are determined to keep them from decoding the painting''s secrets.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9715'),
(11097, 'The Bottle Factory Outing', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal. Beryl Bainbridge will dazzle readers in this offbeat, haunting yet hilarious novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7236'),
(11098, 'The Bottle Factory Outing', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal. Beryl Bainbridge will dazzle readers in this offbeat, haunting yet hilarious novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8275'),
(11099, 'The Bottle Factory Outing', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal. Beryl Bainbridge will dazzle readers in this offbeat, haunting yet hilarious novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16655'),
(11100, 'Bottlemania', 'Elizabeth Royte', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Royte (_Garbage Land_) plunges into America''s mighty thirst for bottled water in an investigation of one of the greatest marketing coups of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As tap water has become cleaner and better-tasting, the bottled water industry has exploded into a $60 billion business; consumers guzzle more high-priced designer water than milk or beer and spend billions on brands such as Pepsi''s Aquafina and Coke''s Dasani that are essentially processed municipal water. It''s an unparalleledâ€”and almost exclusively Americanâ€”social phenomenon. With journalistic zeal, Royte chronicles the questionable practices of Nestle-owned Poland Springs and documents the environmental impact of discarded plastic bottles, the carbon footprint of water shipped long distances and health concerns around the leaching of plastic compounds from bottles. Not all tap water is perfectly pure, writes Royte, still, 92% of the nation''s 53,000 local water systems meet or exceed federal safety standards and it is the devil we know, at least as good and often better than bottled water. This portrait of the science, commerce and politics of potable water is an entertaining and eye-opening narrative.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€”With a seamless blend of first-person observation, detailed anecdotes, and hard research, Royte explores the history and ramifications of those ubiquitous plastic and glass bottles. She addresses the economic, ecological, and cultural weight of water as she visits massive New York aqueducts, struggling rural villages in Maine, and high-tech treatment plants in Missouri. Her findings reflect the distressing trend of our heavy footprint on the environment and its resources. From petroleum-laden bottles and gas-guzzling shipping containers to serious flora and fauna shifts in small-town ponds, the "purity" of bottled water may be murkier than you might have imagined. This book will intrigue a younger generation of readers who might ask, "Wait, major corporations didn''t always own water?"â€”_Shannon Peterson, Kitsap Regional Library, WA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12418'),
(11101, 'Bought, the Penniless Lady', 'Deborah Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Her new husband may be handsome - but his heart is black Desperate to safeguard the future of her precious nephew, penniless Lady Artemis Dearing will do anything - even marry the man whose brother ruined her darling sister! Forced to wed a gold-digger - or a loving wife? Calculating and deceitful as Lady Artemis may be, Hadrian Northmore will marry her if he must! But he isn-t prepared for overwhelming desire, or his new wife-s sweet disposition-his hard-built defences are crumbling before his very eyes! Gentlemen of Fortune Three men with money, power and success- Looking to share life with the right woman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6145'),
(11102, 'Bought, the Penniless Lady', 'Deborah Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Her new husband may be handsome - but his heart is black Desperate to safeguard the future of her precious nephew, penniless Lady Artemis Dearing will do anything - even marry the man whose brother ruined her darling sister! Forced to wed a gold-digger - or a loving wife? Calculating and deceitful as Lady Artemis may be, Hadrian Northmore will marry her if he must! But he isn-t prepared for overwhelming desire, or his new wife-s sweet disposition-his hard-built defences are crumbling before his very eyes! Gentlemen of Fortune Three men with money, power and success- Looking to share life with the right woman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10046'),
(11103, 'Bought, the Penniless Lady', 'Deborah Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Her new husband may be handsome - but his heart is black Desperate to safeguard the future of her precious nephew, penniless Lady Artemis Dearing will do anything - even marry the man whose brother ruined her darling sister! Forced to wed a gold-digger - or a loving wife? Calculating and deceitful as Lady Artemis may be, Hadrian Northmore will marry her if he must! But he isn-t prepared for overwhelming desire, or his new wife-s sweet disposition-his hard-built defences are crumbling before his very eyes! Gentlemen of Fortune Three men with money, power and success- Looking to share life with the right woman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17967'),
(11104, 'Bought, the Penniless Lady', 'Deborah Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Her new husband may be handsome - but his heart is black Desperate to safeguard the future of her precious nephew, penniless Lady Artemis Dearing will do anything - even marry the man whose brother ruined her darling sister! Forced to wed a gold-digger - or a loving wife? Calculating and deceitful as Lady Artemis may be, Hadrian Northmore will marry her if he must! But he isn-t prepared for overwhelming desire, or his new wife-s sweet disposition-his hard-built defences are crumbling before his very eyes! Gentlemen of Fortune Three men with money, power and success- Looking to share life with the right woman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27391'),
(11105, 'Bound, Branded, &amp; Brazen', 'Jaci Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** Three sisters reveal their most intimate secrets in an erotic romance from "an undoubted master". **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the wilds of Oklahoma, three sisters have a date with destiny...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Bound*: When Valerie left for the big city, she kissed her foreman husband goodbye-along with the best sex she ever had. Now, seeing him brings back sizzling memories.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Branded*: Watching Gage wrangle untamed horses leaves Brea hot and bothered. But can she live out her fantasy with a man who may ask for more than she''s willing to give?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Brazen*: Ranch hand Walker Morgan can''t afford to get too close to his new boss, Jolene, no matter how she tempts him. But Jolene''s prepared to take the first step.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the style of *Wild, Wicked, &amp; Wanton*, national bestselling author Jaci Burton, delivers a threesome that no reader will ever forget in these steamy stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4866'),
(11106, 'Bound, Branded, &amp; Brazen', 'Jaci Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** Three sisters reveal their most intimate secrets in an erotic romance from "an undoubted master". **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the wilds of Oklahoma, three sisters have a date with destiny...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Bound*: When Valerie left for the big city, she kissed her foreman husband goodbye-along with the best sex she ever had. Now, seeing him brings back sizzling memories.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Branded*: Watching Gage wrangle untamed horses leaves Brea hot and bothered. But can she live out her fantasy with a man who may ask for more than she''s willing to give?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Brazen*: Ranch hand Walker Morgan can''t afford to get too close to his new boss, Jolene, no matter how she tempts him. But Jolene''s prepared to take the first step.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the style of *Wild, Wicked, &amp; Wanton*, national bestselling author Jaci Burton, delivers a threesome that no reader will ever forget in these steamy stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8753'),
(11107, 'Bound, Branded, &amp; Brazen', 'Jaci Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Three sisters reveal their most intimate secrets in an erotic romance from "an undoubted master". ** In the wilds of Oklahoma, three sisters have a date with destiny... *Bound*: When Valerie left for the big city, she kissed her foreman husband goodbye-along with the best sex she ever had. Now, seeing him brings back sizzling memories. *Branded*: Watching Gage wrangle untamed horses leaves Brea hot and bothered. But can she live out her fantasy with a man who may ask for more than she''s willing to give? *Brazen*: Ranch hand Walker Morgan can''t afford to get too close to his new boss, Jolene, no matter how she tempts him. But Jolene''s prepared to take the first step. In the style of *Wild, Wicked, &amp; Wanton*, national bestselling author Jaci Burton, delivers a threesome that no reader will ever forget in these steamy stories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19707'),
(11108, 'Boundaries With Kids Leader&#39;s Guide: When to Say Yes, How to Say No', 'Henry Cloud; John Townsend; John Sims Townsend', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Boundaries with Kids will help parents: Recognize the boundary issues underlying child behavior problems Set boundaries and establish consequences with kids Get out of the â€œnaggingâ€ trap Stop controlling their kidsâ€”and instead help their children develop self-control Apply the ten laws of boundaries to parenting Take six practical steps for implementing boundaries with their kidsWant to Paint a Happy Future for Your Children? Start Drawing the Line Today.One of the most loving things parents can do for their children is set firm boundaries with them. Boundaries with Kids will help the parents in your group raise their kids to take responsibility for their own actions, attitudes, and emotions. In eight sessions, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend offer tools and insights for bringing order to problematic circumstances and cultivating healthier parent-child relationships in the home.This leaderâ€™s guide gives you the clear, step-by-step instructions you need to maximize interaction, support, and insights within your group. Most of the preparation has been done for youâ€”just follow the easy-to-use lesson plan, complete with helpful tips. Because this book includes the full text of the participantâ€™s guide, itâ€™s the only guidebook you need to track page-for-page with your group.[Sidebar] Boundaries with Kids sessions: 1. Building Character in Kids 2. Kids Need Parents with Boundaries 3. The Law of Sowing and Reaping and the Law of Responsibility 4. The Laws of Power and Respect 5. The Laws of Motivation and Evaluation 6. The Laws of Proactivity and Envy 7. The Laws of Activity and Exposure 8. Six Steps to Implementing Boundaries with Your KidsBoundaries in Marriage kit includes: 1 â€“ 120-minute VHS &amp; DVD included (use either format) 1 â€“ Leaderâ€™s guide* 1 â€“ Participantâ€™s guide* 1 â€“ Boundaries with Kids softcover book*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18308'),
(11109, 'The Bounty Hunter Wars 1: The Mandalorian Armor', 'K. W. Jeter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He''s the most feared and successful bounty hunter in the galaxy. He is Boba Fett, and even the most hardened criminals tremble at his name. Now he faces the deadliest challenge of his infamous careerâ€”an all-out war against his most dangerous enemies.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As the Rebellion gathers force, Prince Xizor proposes a cunning plan to the Emperor and Darth Vader: smash the power of the Bounty Hunters Guild by turning its members against each other. Only the strongest and most ruthless will survive, and they can be used against the Rebellion. It''s a job for the fiercely independent Boba Fett, who jumps at the chance to destroy his rivals. But Fett soon realizes the game is rigged, as he finds himself the target of murderous factions, criminal conspiracies, and the evil at the Empire''s dark heart. Boba Fett has always finished first. And in this game, anything less is death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3901'),
(11110, 'The Bourne Betrayal', 'Robert Ludlum &amp; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Already devastated by loss, Bourne is shattered by a report that his last friend in the world, Martin Lindros, has gone missing. A CI deputy director, Lindros was in Ethiopia tracking suspicious shipments of yellowcake uranium and atomic bomb weaponry. His last lifeline to humanity, Bourne will not let Lindros go. Despite his hatred for CI, Bourne sets out to rescue his friend and finish the job: dismantling a terrorist network determined to build nuclear armaments by cutting off their source of money. But Bourne doesn''t realize that these men, Islamic supremacists, are leaders of an incredibly dangerous, technologically savvy group with ties from Africa, across the Middle East, and into Eastern Europe and Russia. They have predicted Bourne''s every move, and are counting on his unwitting help in their plans to destroy America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1655'),
(11111, 'The Bourne Betrayal', 'Robert Ludlum; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Already devastated by loss, Bourne is shattered by a report that his last friend in the world, Martin Lindros, has gone missing. A CI deputy director, Lindros was in Ethiopia tracking suspicious shipments of yellowcake uranium and atomic bomb weaponry. His last lifeline to humanity, Bourne will not let Lindros go. Despite his hatred for CI, Bourne sets out to rescue his friend and finish the job: dismantling a terrorist network determined to build nuclear armaments by cutting off their source of money. But Bourne doesn''t realize that these men, Islamic supremacists, are leaders of an incredibly dangerous, technologically savvy group with ties from Africa, across the Middle East, and into Eastern Europe and Russia. They have predicted Bourne''s every move, and are counting on his unwitting help in their plans to destroy America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23309'),
(11112, 'The Bourne Betrayal', 'Robert Ludlum &amp; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Already devastated by loss, Bourne is shattered by a report that his last friend in the world, Martin Lindros, has gone missing. A CI deputy director, Lindros was in Ethiopia tracking suspicious shipments of yellowcake uranium and atomic bomb weaponry. His last lifeline to humanity, Bourne will not let Lindros go. Despite his hatred for CI, Bourne sets out to rescue his friend and finish the job: dismantling a terrorist network determined to build nuclear armaments by cutting off their source of money. But Bourne doesn''t realize that these men, Islamic supremacists, are leaders of an incredibly dangerous, technologically savvy group with ties from Africa, across the Middle East, and into Eastern Europe and Russia. They have predicted Bourne''s every move, and are counting on his unwitting help in their plans to destroy America.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Already devastated by loss, Bourne is shattered by a report that his last friend in the world, Martin Lindros, has gone missing. A CI deputy director, Lindros was in Ethiopia tracking suspicious shipments of yellowcake uranium and atomic bomb weaponry. His last lifeline to humanity, Bourne will not let Lindros go. Despite his hatred for CI, Bourne sets out to rescue his friend and finish the job: dismantling a terrorist network determined to build nuclear armaments by cutting off their source of money. But Bourne doesn''t realize that these men, Islamic supremacists, are leaders of an incredibly dangerous, technologically savvy group with ties from Africa, across the Middle East, and into Eastern Europe and Russia. They have predicted Bourne''s every move, and are counting on his unwitting help in their plans to destroy America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26137'),
(11113, 'The Bourne Deception', 'Robert Ludlum &amp; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jason Bourne''s nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted. When Bourne is ambushed and badly wounded, he fakes his death and goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a new identity, and begins a mission to find out who tried to assassinate him. Jason begins to question who he really is, how much of him is tied up in the Bourne identity, and what he would become if that was suddenly taken away from him. Meanwhile, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt by what seems to be an Iranian missile. A massive global investigative team is assembled to get at the truth of the situation before it can escalate into an international scandal. Jason Bourne''s search for the man who shot him intersects with the search for the people that brought down the airliner, leading Bourne into one of the most deadly and challenging situations he has ever encountered. With the threat of a new world war brewing, Bourne finds himself in a race against time to uncover the truth and find the person behind his assault, all the while being stalked by his unknown nemesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1656'),
(11114, 'The Bourne Deception', 'Robert Ludlum &amp; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jason Bourne''s nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted. When Bourne is ambushed and badly wounded, he fakes his death and goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a new identity, and begins a mission to find out who tried to assassinate him. Jason begins to question who he really is, how much of him is tied up in the Bourne identity, and what he would become if that was suddenly taken away from him. Meanwhile, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt by what seems to be an Iranian missile. A massive global investigative team is assembled to get at the truth of the situation before it can escalate into an international scandal. Jason Bourne''s search for the man who shot him intersects with the search for the people that brought down the airliner, leading Bourne into one of the most deadly and challenging situations he has ever encountered. With the threat of a new world war brewing, Bourne finds himself in a race against time to uncover the truth and find the person behind his assault, all the while being stalked by his unknown nemesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11202'),
(11115, 'The Bourne Deception', 'Robert Ludlum; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jason Bourne''s nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted. When Bourne is ambushed and badly wounded, he fakes his death and goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a new identity, and begins a mission to find out who tried to assassinate him. Jason begins to question who he really is, how much of him is tied up in the Bourne identity, and what he would become if that was suddenly taken away from him. Meanwhile, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt by what seems to be an Iranian missile. A massive global investigative team is assembled to get at the truth of the situation before it can escalate into an international scandal. Jason Bourne''s search for the man who shot him intersects with the search for the people that brought down the airliner, leading Bourne into one of the most deadly and challenging situations he has ever encountered. With the threat of a new world war brewing, Bourne finds himself in a race against time to uncover the truth and find the person behind his assault, all the while being stalked by his unknown nemesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23308'),
(11116, 'The Bourne Identity', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no  future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he  was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body  riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A  frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the  flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has  altered his face. Strange things that he says in  his deliriumâ€” maybe code words.  Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that  leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four  million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne.  But now he is marked for death, caught in a  maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep  layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of  murderous conspiratorsâ€”led by Carlos, the world''s  most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason  Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape  him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1657'),
(11117, 'The Bourne Identity', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no  future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he  was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body  riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A  frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the  flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has  altered his face. Strange things that he says in  his deliriumâ€” maybe code words.  Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that  leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four  million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne.  But now he is marked for death, caught in a  maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep  layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of  murderous conspiratorsâ€”led by Carlos, the world''s  most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason  Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape  him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11209'),
(11118, 'The Bourne Identity', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no  future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he  was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body  riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A  frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the  flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has  altered his face. Strange things that he says in  his deliriumâ€” maybe code words.  Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that  leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four  million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne.  But now he is marked for death, caught in a  maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep  layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of  murderous conspiratorsâ€”led by Carlos, the world''s  most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason  Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape  him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14522'),
(11119, 'The Bourne Identity', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his deliriumâ€” maybe code words. Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne. But now he is marked for death, caught in a maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of murderous conspiratorsâ€”led by Carlos, the world''s most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23307'),
(11120, 'The Bourne Objective', 'Eric van Lustbader &amp; Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne''s impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring - an artifact of such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now he''s determined to find the ring''s owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he''ll discover he committed when he digs into the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5570'),
(11121, 'The Bourne Objective', 'Eric van Lustbader &amp; Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne''s impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring - an artifact of such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now he''s determined to find the ring''s owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he''ll discover he committed when he digs into the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11192'),
(11122, 'The Bourne Objective', 'Eric van Lustbader; Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne''s impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring - an artifact of such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now he''s determined to find the ring''s owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he''ll discover he committed when he digs into the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18962');
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(11123, 'The Bourne Objective', 'Eric van Lustbader; Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne''s impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring - an artifact of such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now he''s determined to find the ring''s owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he''ll discover he committed when he digs into the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27787'),
(11124, 'The Bourne Sanction', 'Robert Ludlum &amp; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n University professor David Webb - forever caught between two identities - is still haunted by the splintered nightmares his former life - as Jason Bourne.Soon he finds himself embroiled in a CIA operation to hunt down a terrorist organisation, and is plunged into the deadliest and most tangled assignment of his double life. With his own side trying to take him down, all the while an assassin as brilliant and damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1659'),
(11125, 'The Bourne Sanction', 'Robert Ludlum &amp; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n University professor David Webb - forever caught between two identities - is still haunted by the splintered nightmares his former life - as Jason Bourne.Soon he finds himself embroiled in a CIA operation to hunt down a terrorist organisation, and is plunged into the deadliest and most tangled assignment of his double life. With his own side trying to take him down, all the while an assassin as brilliant and damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11201'),
(11126, 'The Bourne Sanction', 'Robert Ludlum; Eric van Lustbader', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n University professor David Webb - forever caught between two identities - is still haunted by the splintered nightmares his former life - as Jason Bourne.Soon he finds himself embroiled in a CIA operation to hunt down a terrorist organisation, and is plunged into the deadliest and most tangled assignment of his double life. With his own side trying to take him down, all the while an assassin as brilliant and damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18961'),
(11127, 'The Bourne Supremacy', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a Kowloon Cabaret, scrawled in a pool of blood, is a name the world wanted to forget: Jason Bourne.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Chinese vice-premier has been brutally slain by a legendary assassin. World leaders ask the same fearful questions: *Why has Jason Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is the next to die?* But U.S. officials know the shocking truth: There *is* no Jason Bourne. The name was created as cover for David Webb on his search for the notorious killer Carlos. Someone else has taken the Bourne identity--and unless he is stopped, the world will pay a devastating price. So Jason Bourne must live again. Once again, Webb must utilize his lethal skills--because once again, like a nightmare relived, the woman he loves is suddenly torn from his life. To find her, trap his own impostor, and uncover an explosive secret plan, Webb must lauch a desperate oddyssey into the espionage killing fields. But this time, survival will not be enough. This time Bourne must reign supreme.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1660'),
(11128, 'The Bourne Supremacy', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A KILLER WITH NO FACE, NO IDENTITY, AND A NAME THE WORLD WANTED TO FORGET: JASON BOURNEReenter the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin still plagued by the splintered nightmares of his former life. This time the stakes are higher than ever. For someone else has taken on the Bourne identity-a ruthless killer who must be stopped or the world will pay a devastating price. To succeed, the real Jason Bourne must maneuver through the dangerous labyrinth of international espionage-an exotic world filled with CIA plots, turncoat agents, and ever-shifting alliances-all the while hoping to find the truth behind his haunted memories and the answers to his own fragmented past. This time there are two Bournes-and one must die.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14310'),
(11129, 'The Bourne supremacy', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a Kowloon Cabaret, scrawled in a pool of blood, is a name the world wanted to forget: Jason Bourne. The Chinese vice-premier has been brutally slain by a legendary assassin. World leaders ask the same fearful questions: *Why has Jason Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is the next to die?* But U.S. officials know the shocking truth: There *is* no Jason Bourne. The name was created as cover for David Webb on his search for the notorious killer Carlos. Someone else has taken the Bourne identity--and unless he is stopped, the world will pay a devastating price. So Jason Bourne must live again. Once again, Webb must utilize his lethal skills--because once again, like a nightmare relived, the woman he loves is suddenly torn from his life. To find her, trap his own impostor, and uncover an explosive secret plan, Webb must lauch a desperate oddyssey into the espionage killing fields. But this time, survival will not be enough. This time Bourne must reign supreme.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23306'),
(11130, 'Bourne Trilogy 2 - The Bourne Supremacy', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A KILLER WITH NO FACE, NO IDENTITY, AND A NAME THE WORLD WANTED TO FORGET: JASON BOURNEReenter the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin still plagued by the splintered nightmares of his former life. This time the stakes are higher than ever. For someone else has taken on the Bourne identity-a ruthless killer who must be stopped or the world will pay a devastating price. To succeed, the real Jason Bourne must maneuver through the dangerous labyrinth of international espionage-an exotic world filled with CIA plots, turncoat agents, and ever-shifting alliances-all the while hoping to find the truth behind his haunted memories and the answers to his own fragmented past. This time there are two Bournes-and one must die.From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a Kowloon Cabaret, scrawled in a pool of blood, is a name the world wanted to forget: Jason Bourne.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Chinese vice-premier has been brutally slain by a legendary assassin. World leaders ask the same fearful questions: *Why has Jason Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is the next to die?* But U.S. officials know the shocking truth: There *is* no Jason Bourne. The name was created as cover for David Webb on his search for the notorious killer Carlos. Someone else has taken the Bourne identity--and unless he is stopped, the world will pay a devastating price. So Jason Bourne must live again. Once again, Webb must utilize his lethal skills--because once again, like a nightmare relived, the woman he loves is suddenly torn from his life. To find her, trap his own impostor, and uncover an explosive secret plan, Webb must lauch a desperate oddyssey into the espionage killing fields. But this time, survival will not be enough. This time Bourne must reign supreme.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25400'),
(11131, 'The Bourne Ultimatum', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The world''s two deadliest spies in the ultimate  showdown. At a small-town carnival two men, each  mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre  killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne.  Only they know Bourne''s true identity and understand  the telegram is really a message from Bourne''s  mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the  world''s deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And  furthermore, they know that the Jackal wants: a  final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb,  professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father,  must do what he hoped he would never have to do  again -- assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne.  His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically  and economically Medusan group and use himself as  bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trap  -- a trap from which only one of them will escape.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1663'),
(11132, 'The Bourne Ultimatum', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The world''s two deadliest spies in the ultimate  showdown. At a small-town carnival two men, each  mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre  killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne.  Only they know Bourne''s true identity and understand  the telegram is really a message from Bourne''s  mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the  world''s deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And  furthermore, they know that the Jackal wants: a  final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb,  professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father,  must do what he hoped he would never have to do  again -- assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne.  His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically  and economically Medusan group and use himself as  bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trap  -- a trap from which only one of them will escape.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11203'),
(11133, 'The Bourne Ultimatum', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The world''s two deadliest spies in the ultimate  showdown. At a small-town carnival two men, each  mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre  killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne.  Only they know Bourne''s true identity and understand  the telegram is really a message from Bourne''s  mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the  world''s deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And  furthermore, they know that the Jackal wants: a  final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb,  professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father,  must do what he hoped he would never have to do  againâ€”assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne.  His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically  and economically Medusan group and use himself as  bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trapâ€”a trap from which only one of them will escape.*From the Paperback edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14378'),
(11134, 'The Bourne Ultimatum', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The world''s two deadliest spies in the ultimate  showdown. At a small-town carnival two men, each  mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre  killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne.  Only they know Bourne''s true identity and understand  the telegram is really a message from Bourne''s  mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the  world''s deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And  furthermore, they know that the Jackal wants: a  final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb,  professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father,  must do what he hoped he would never have to do  againâ€”assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne.  His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically  and economically Medusan group and use himself as  bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trapâ€”a trap from which only one of them will escape.*From the Paperback edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23305'),
(11135, 'Bouvard and Pecuchet: A Tragi Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life', 'Gustave Flaubert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Although unfinished during Flaubert''s lifetime, Bouvard and Pecuchet is now considered to be one of his greatest masterpieces. In his own words, the novel is "a kid of encyclopedia made into farce...A book in which I shall spit out my bile." At the center of this novel are Bouvard and Pecuchet, two retired clerks who set out in a search for truth and knowledge with persistent optimism in light of the fact that each new attempt at learning about the world ends with a disaster. In the literary tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes, and Swift, this story is told in that blend of satire and sympathy that only genius can compound, and the reader becomes genuinely fond of these two Don Quixotes of Ideas. In addition to being a new translation, this edition includes Flaubert''s Dictionary of Received Ideas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18346'),
(11136, 'The Box Garden', 'Carol Shields', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Charleen, a divorced woman attending her widowed mother''s second wedding, makes startling discoveries about other family members attending the reunion and achieves a new understanding of herself and her own life. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6922'),
(11137, 'The Box Garden', 'Carol Shields', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Charleen, a divorced woman attending her widowed mother''s second wedding, makes startling discoveries about other family members attending the reunion and achieves a new understanding of herself and her own life. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12619'),
(11138, 'The box garden', 'Carol Shields', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Charleen, a divorced woman attending her widowed mother''s second wedding, makes startling discoveries about other family members attending the reunion and achieves a new understanding of herself and her own life. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16914'),
(11139, 'The box garden', 'Carol Shields', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Charleen, a divorced woman attending her widowed mother''s second wedding, makes startling discoveries about other family members attending the reunion and achieves a new understanding of herself and her own life. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26794'),
(11140, 'The Box', 'Marc Levinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A book about the history of the shipping container? At first, one has to wonder why. (An eventuality not lost on the author, who muses "What is it about the container that is so important? Surely not the thing itself...the standard container has all the romance of a tin can.") The catch, though, is that Levinson, an economist, "treats containerization not as shipping news, but as a development that has sweeping consequences for workers and consumers all around the globe." That latter statement drives this book, which is about the economic ramifications of the shipping container-from the closing of traditional (and antiquated) ports to the rise of Asia as the world''s preeminent provider of inexpensive consumer goods (distributed, naturally, using mammoth shipping containers). Levinson maintains his focus on the economics of shipping vast quantities of merchandise, organizing the book into snappy, thematic chapters on different facets of shipping ("The Trucker," and "Union Disunion," for instance), an approach that lends itself well to spot-reading. Throughout, the writing is clean-more informal than rigidly academic (union boss Teddy Gleason is "a voluble Irishman born hard by the New York docks")-making the book suitable for casual readers as well as students looking for a different take on the evolution of 20th-century world economics.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of the most significant, yet least noticed, economic developments of the last few decades [was] the transformation of international shipping. . . . The idea of containerization was simple: to move trailer-size loads of goods seamlessly among trucks, trains and ships, without breaking bulk. . . . Along the way, even the most foresighted people made mistakes and lost millions. . . . [A] classic tale of trial and error, and of creative destruction. -- Virginia Postrel, The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n Marc Levinson''s concern is business history on a grand scale. He tells a moral tale. There are villains ... and there is one larger than life hero: Malcom McLean. . . . Levinson has produced a fascinating exposition of the romance of the steel container. I''ll never look at a truck in the same way again. -- Howard Davies, The Times\n</p>\n<p>\n Like much of today''s international cargo, Marc Levinson''s\n <em>\n  The Box\n </em>\n arrives ''just in time.''. . . It is a tribute to the box itself that far-off places matter so much to us now: It has eased trade, sped up delivery, lowered prices and widened the offering of goods everywhere. Not bad for something so simple and self-contained. -- Tim W. Ferguson, The Wall Street Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n [A] smart, engaging book. . . . Mr. Levinson makes a persuasive case that the container has been woefully underappreciated. . . . [T]he story he tells is that of a classic disruptive technology: the world worked in one fashion before the container came onto the scene, and in a completely different fashion after it took hold. -- Joe Nocera, The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n Mr Levinson. . . . makes a strong case that it was McLean''s thinking that led to modern-day containerisation. It altered the economics of shipping and with that the flow of world trade. Without the container, there would be no globalization. -- The Economist\n</p>\n<p>\n A fascinating new book. . . . [I]t shows vividly how resistance to technological change caused shipping movements to migrate away from the Hudson river to other East Coast ports. -- Management Today\n</p>\n<p>\n Marc Levinson''s\n <em>\n  The Box\n </em>\n . . . illustrates clearly how great risks are taken by entrepreneurs when entrenched interests and government regulators conspire against them. Even after these opponents are dispatched, technological and economic uncertainty plague the entrepreneur just as much as the vaunted ''first-mover advantage'' blesses him, perhaps more. The story of the shipping container is the story of the opponents of innovation. -- Chris Berg, Institute of Public Affairs Review\n</p>\n<p>\n International trade . . . owes its exponential growth to something utterly ordinary and overlooked, says author Marc Levinson: the metal shipping container....\n <em>\n  The Box\n </em>\n makes a strong argument. . . . Levinson . . . spins yarns of the men who fought to retain the old\n <em>\n  On the Waterfront\n </em>\n ways and of those who made the box ubiquitous. -- Michael Arndt, BusinessWeek\n</p>\n<p>\n [An] enlightening new history. . . . [The shipping container] was the real-world equivalent of the Internet revolution. -- Justin Fox, Fortune\n</p>\n<p>\n Marc Levinson''s\n <em>\n  The Box\n </em>\n is . . . broad-ranging and . . . readable. It describes not just the amazing course of the container-ship phenomenon but the turmoil of human affairs in its wake. -- Bob Simmons, The Seattle Times\n</p>\n<p>\n Author and economist Marc Levinson recounts the little-known story of how the humble shipping container has revolutionized world commerce. He tells his tale using just the right blend of hard economic data and human interest. . . . Mr. Levinson''s elegant weave of transportation economics, innovation, and geography is economic history at its accessible best. -- David K. Hurst, Strategy + Business\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Box\n </em>\n is . . . an engrossing read. . . . The book is well-written, with detailed notes and an index. I found it absorbing and informative from the first page. -- Graham Williams, Sydney Morning Herald\n</p>\n<p>\n This well-researched and highly readable book about the ubiquitous containers that carry so much of the world''s freight will no doubt surprise most readers with its description of the immensity of the impact this simple rectangular steel box has had on global and regional economics, employment, labor relations, and the environment. . . .\n <em>\n  The Box\n </em>\n makes for an excellent primer on innovation, risk taking, and strategic thinking. It''s also a thoroughly good read. -- Craig B. Grossgart, Taiwan Business Topics\n</p>\n<p>\n The ubiquitous shipping container . . . as Mark Levinson''s multilayered study shows . . . has transformed the global economy. -- The Australian\n</p>\n<p>\n By artfully weaving together the nuts and bolts of what happened at which port with the grand sweep of economic history, Levinson has produced a marvelous read for anyone who cares about how the interconnected world economy came to be. -- Neil Irwin, Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n Here''s another item we see every day that had a revolutionary effect. The shipping container didn''t just rearrange the shipping industry, or make winners of some ports (Seattle and Tacoma among them). It changed the dynamics and economics of where goods are made and shipped to. -- Bill Virgin, Seattle Post-Intelligencer\n</p>\n<p>\n Excellent. -- J Bradford DeLong, The Edge Financial Daily\n</p>\n<p>\n An engrossing read. . . . The book is well written, with detailed notes and an index. I found it absorbing and informative from the first page. -- Sydney Morning Herald\n</p>\n<p>\n A fascinating history of the shipping container. -- Richard N. Cooper, Foreign Affairs\n</p>\n<p>\n For sheer originality . . . [this book] by Marc Levinson, is hard to beat. The Box explains how the modern era of globalization was made possible, not by politicians agreeing to cut trade tariffs and quotas, but by the humble shipping container. -- David Smith, The Sunday Times\n</p>\n<p>\n Ingenious analysis of the phenomenon of containerism. -- Stefan Stern, Financial Times\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a smoothly written history of the ocean shipping container. . . . Marc Levinson turns it into a fascinating economic history of the last 50 years that helps us to understand globalization and industrial growth in North America. -- Harvey Schachter, Globe and Mail\n</p>\n<p>\n This is an ingenious analysis of containerization--a process that, Levinson argues, in fact made globalization possible. -- Business Voice\n</p>\n<p>\n Using a blend of hard economic data and financial projections, combined with human interest, Levinson manages to provide insights into a revolution that changed transport forever and transformed world trade. -- Leon Gettler, The Age\n</p>\n<p>\n There is much to like about Marc Levinson''s recent book,\n <em>\n  The Box\n </em>\n . . . . Levinson uses rich detail, a combination of archival and anecdotal data to build his story, and is constantly moving across levels of observation. . . . And the story of the box is a very good read. -- Administrative Science Quarterly\n</p>\n<p>\n A lively and entertaining history of the shipping container. . . .\n <em>\n  The Box\n </em>\n does a fine job of demonstrating how exciting the container industry is, and how much economists stand to lose by ignoring it. -- William Sjostrom, EH.Net\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Box\n </em>\n is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in understanding the emergence of our contemporary ''globalized'' world economy. -- Pierre Desrochers, Independent Review\n</p>\n<p>\n [T]he insights the book provides make it a worthwhile read for anyone interested in how international trade in goods has evolved over the last 50 years. -- Meredith A. Crowley, World Trade Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Box\n </em>\n reveals the subject to be interesting and powerful, shedding light on all kinds of issues, from the role of trade unions to the Vietnam War. -- NUMAST Telegraph\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11074'),
(11141, 'The Boy in the Moon: A Father&#39;s Search for His Disabled Son', 'Ian Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can''t speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can''t continually hit himself. ''Sometimes watching him,'' Brown writes, ''is like looking at the man in the moon - but you know there is actually no man there. But if Walker is so insubstantial, why does he feel so important? What is he trying to show me?''In The Boy in the Moon, Brown sets out to answer that question, a journey that takes him into deeply touching and troubling territory. ''All I really want to know is what goes on inside his off-shaped head,'' he writes, ''But every time I ask, he somehow persuades me to look into my own.''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5047'),
(11142, 'The Boy in the Moon: A Father&#39;s Search for His Disabled Son', 'Ian Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can''t speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can''t continually hit himself. ''Sometimes watching him,'' Brown writes, ''is like looking at the man in the moon - but you know there is actually no man there. But if Walker is so insubstantial, why does he feel so important? What is he trying to show me?''In The Boy in the Moon, Brown sets out to answer that question, a journey that takes him into deeply touching and troubling territory. ''All I really want to know is what goes on inside his off-shaped head,'' he writes, ''But every time I ask, he somehow persuades me to look into my own.''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19529'),
(11143, 'The Boy in the Moon: A Father&#39;s Search for His Disabled Son', 'Ian Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can''t speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can''t continually hit himself. ''Sometimes watching him,'' Brown writes, ''is like looking at the man in the moon - but you know there is actually no man there. But if Walker is so insubstantial, why does he feel so important? What is he trying to show me?''In The Boy in the Moon, Brown sets out to answer that question, a journey that takes him into deeply touching and troubling territory. ''All I really want to know is what goes on inside his off-shaped head,'' he writes, ''But every time I ask, he somehow persuades me to look into my own.''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28232'),
(11144, 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas', 'John Boyne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This work was set in Berlin, 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But, Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than what meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4414'),
(11145, 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas', 'John Boyne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This work was set in Berlin, 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But, Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than what meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8636'),
(11146, 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas', 'John Boyne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This work was set in Berlin, 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But, Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than what meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21421'),
(11147, 'Boy Lost Girl Lost', 'Lost Boy Lost Girl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21528'),
(11148, 'Boy Soldier', 'Andy McNab &amp; Robert Rigby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Danny Watts''s grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor. One of the worst sort. An SAS explosives expert who betrayed his country and his regiment for money. Drug money. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Columbian jail. At least, that''s what seventeen year-old Danny is told when his hopes of becoming a soldier are destroyed for ever. But he knows something the army doesn''t seem to know. Fergus Watts is alive and in the UK, living in secret under an assumed name - but where? Fergus is Danny''s only living relative. Burning with fury and desire for revenge, Danny sets out to track down his grandfather and expose him. In doing so he sets in train an explosive sequence of events which throw Danny and Fergus together on the run from the people who want Fergus, and now Danny, dead. Packed with breathtaking action, SAS procedures, surveillance and survival techniques, this is a fast-moving, action-packed thriller for teenagers. There will be several books in the BOY SOLDIER sequence. TV rights have been sold to Zenith, makers of Inspector Morse, Hamish McBeth and Byker Grove.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was ''badged'' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, ''will remain in regimental history for ever''. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army''s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in two phenomenal bestsellers, Bravo Two Zero, which was filmed in 1998 starring Sean Bean, and Immediate Action. He is the author of the bestselling novels, Remote Control, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light, Liberation Day and Dark Winter. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK. Robert Rigby began his career as a journalist, then spent several years in the music business as a songwriter and session musician. He turned to writing for radio, television and the theatre and has also directed and performed in children''s theatre throughout the country. He has become an established young people''s playwright and his award-winning work with youth theatre companies has been seen in Britain, Europe, the USA and Africa. He now works mainly in television and his scripts include the long-running BBC children''s drama series Byker Grove.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7637'),
(11149, 'Boy Soldier', 'Andy McNab &amp; Robert Rigby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Danny Watts''s grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor. One of the worst sort. An SAS explosives expert who betrayed his country and his regiment for money. Drug money. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Columbian jail. At least, that''s what seventeen year-old Danny is told when his hopes of becoming a soldier are destroyed for ever. But he knows something the army doesn''t seem to know. Fergus Watts is alive and in the UK, living in secret under an assumed name - but where? Fergus is Danny''s only living relative. Burning with fury and desire for revenge, Danny sets out to track down his grandfather and expose him. In doing so he sets in train an explosive sequence of events which throw Danny and Fergus together on the run from the people who want Fergus, and now Danny, dead. Packed with breathtaking action, SAS procedures, surveillance and survival techniques, this is a fast-moving, action-packed thriller for teenagers. There will be several books in the BOY SOLDIER sequence. TV rights have been sold to Zenith, makers of Inspector Morse, Hamish McBeth and Byker Grove.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was ''badged'' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, ''will remain in regimental history for ever''. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army''s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in two phenomenal bestsellers, Bravo Two Zero, which was filmed in 1998 starring Sean Bean, and Immediate Action. He is the author of the bestselling novels, Remote Control, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light, Liberation Day and Dark Winter. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK. Robert Rigby began his career as a journalist, then spent several years in the music business as a songwriter and session musician. He turned to writing for radio, television and the theatre and has also directed and performed in children''s theatre throughout the country. He has become an established young people''s playwright and his award-winning work with youth theatre companies has been seen in Britain, Europe, the USA and Africa. He now works mainly in television and his scripts include the long-running BBC children''s drama series Byker Grove.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11451'),
(11150, 'Boy soldier', 'Andy McNab; Robert Rigby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Danny Watts''s grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor. One of the worst sort. An SAS explosives expert who betrayed his country and his regiment for money. Drug money. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Columbian jail. At least, that''s what seventeen year-old Danny is told when his hopes of becoming a soldier are destroyed for ever. But he knows something the army doesn''t seem to know. Fergus Watts is alive and in the UK, living in secret under an assumed name - but where? Fergus is Danny''s only living relative. Burning with fury and desire for revenge, Danny sets out to track down his grandfather and expose him. In doing so he sets in train an explosive sequence of events which throw Danny and Fergus together on the run from the people who want Fergus, and now Danny, dead. Packed with breathtaking action, SAS procedures, surveillance and survival techniques, this is a fast-moving, action-packed thriller for teenagers. There will be several books in the BOY SOLDIER sequence. TV rights have been sold to Zenith, makers of Inspector Morse, Hamish McBeth and Byker Grove.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was ''badged'' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, ''will remain in regimental history for ever''. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army''s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in two phenomenal bestsellers, Bravo Two Zero, which was filmed in 1998 starring Sean Bean, and Immediate Action. He is the author of the bestselling novels, Remote Control, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light, Liberation Day and Dark Winter. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK. Robert Rigby began his career as a journalist, then spent several years in the music business as a songwriter and session musician. He turned to writing for radio, television and the theatre and has also directed and performed in children''s theatre throughout the country. He has become an established young people''s playwright and his award-winning work with youth theatre companies has been seen in Britain, Europe, the USA and Africa. He now works mainly in television and his scripts include the long-running BBC children''s drama series Byker Grove.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16228'),
(11151, 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life Beyond This World', 'Kevin Malarkey &amp; Alex Malarkey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 2004, Kevin Malarkey and his six-year-old son, Alex, suffered a horrific car accident. The impact from the crash paralyzed Alex-and medically speaking, it was unlikely that he could survive. "I think Alex has gone to be with Jesus," a friend told the stricken dad. But two months later, Alex awoke from a coma with an incredible story to share - of events at the accident scene and in the hospital while he was unconscious, of the angels that took him through the gates of heaven itself, of the unearthly music that sounded just terrible to a six-year-old. But, most amazing of all . . . of meeting and talking to Jesus. The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven is the true story of an ordinary boy''s most extraordinary journey. As you see heaven and earth through Alex''s eyes, you''ll come away with new insights on miracles, life beyond this world, and the power of a father''s love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3657'),
(11152, 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life Beyond This World', 'Kevin Malarkey &amp; Alex Malarkey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 2004, Kevin Malarkey and his six-year-old son, Alex, suffered a horrific car accident. The impact from the crash paralyzed Alex-and medically speaking, it was unlikely that he could survive. "I think Alex has gone to be with Jesus," a friend told the stricken dad. But two months later, Alex awoke from a coma with an incredible story to share - of events at the accident scene and in the hospital while he was unconscious, of the angels that took him through the gates of heaven itself, of the unearthly music that sounded just terrible to a six-year-old. But, most amazing of all . . . of meeting and talking to Jesus. The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven is the true story of an ordinary boy''s most extraordinary journey. As you see heaven and earth through Alex''s eyes, you''ll come away with new insights on miracles, life beyond this world, and the power of a father''s love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11251'),
(11153, 'The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life Beyond This World', 'Kevin Malarkey; Alex Malarkey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 2004, Kevin Malarkey and his six-year-old son, Alex, suffered a horrific car accident. The impact from the crash paralyzed Alex-and medically speaking, it was unlikely that he could survive. "I think Alex has gone to be with Jesus," a friend told the stricken dad. But two months later, Alex awoke from a coma with an incredible story to share - of events at the accident scene and in the hospital while he was unconscious, of the angels that took him through the gates of heaven itself, of the unearthly music that sounded just terrible to a six-year-old. But, most amazing of all . . . of meeting and talking to Jesus. The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven is the true story of an ordinary boy''s most extraordinary journey. As you see heaven and earth through Alex''s eyes, you''ll come away with new insights on miracles, life beyond this world, and the power of a father''s love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20784'),
(11154, 'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind', 'William Kamkwamba;Bryan Mealer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old his parents told him that he must leave school and come and work on the family farm as they could no longer afford to $80 a year tuition fees. This is the story of his refusal to give up on learning and reading. A story of passion, determination and remarkable achievements.Malawi is a country battling AIDS, drought and famine, and in 2002, a season of floods, followed by the most severe famine in fifty years, brought it to its knees. Like the majority of the population, William''s family were farmers. They were totally reliant of the maize crop. By the end of 2001, after many lean and difficult years, there was no more crop. They were running out of food - had nothing to sell - and had months until they would be able to harvest their crop again.Forced to leave school at 14 years old, with no hope of raising the funds to go again, William resorted to borrowing books from the small local library to continue his education. One day, browsing the titles, he picked up a book about energy, with a picture of a wind turbine on the front cover. Fascinated by science and electricity, but knowing little more about the technology, William decided to build his own. Ridiculed by those around him, and exhausted from his work in the fields every day, and using nothing more than bits of scrap metal, old bicycle parts and wood from the blue gum tree, he slowly built his very own windmill.This windmill has changed the world in which William and his family live. Only 2 per cent of Malawi has electricity; William''s windmill now powers the lightbulbs and radio for his compound. He has since built more windmills for his school and his village.When news of William''s invention spread, people from across the globe offered to help him. Soon he was re-enrolled in college and travelling to America to visit wind farms. This is his incredible story.William''s dream is that other African''s will learn to help themselves '' one windmill and one light bulb at a time '' and that maybe one day they will be able to power their own computers, and use the internet, and see for themselves how his life has changed after picking up that book in the library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24959'),
(11155, 'The Boy With the Cuckoo-Clock Heart', 'Mathias Malzieu &amp; Sarah Ardizzone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n FIRSTLY: donâ€™t touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. SECONDLY: master your anger. THIRDLY: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more.Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleineâ€”witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphansâ€”who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine.As Jack gets older, Dr. Madeleine warns him that his heart is too fragile for strong emotions: he must never, ever fall in love. And, of course, this is exactly what he does: on his tenth birthday and with head-over-heels abandon. The object of his ardor is Miss Acaciaâ€”a bespectacled young street performer with a soul-stirring voice. But now Jackâ€™s life is doubly at riskâ€”his heart is in danger and so is his safety after he injures the school bully in a fight for the affections of the beautiful singer.Now begins a journey of escape and pursuit, from Edinburgh to Paris to Miss Acaciaâ€™s home in Andalusia. Mathias Malzieuâ€™s The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a fantastical, wildly inventive tale of love and heartbreakâ€”by turns poignant and funnyâ€”in which Jack finally learns the great joys, and ultimately the greater costs, of owning a fully formed heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2974'),
(11156, 'The Boy With the Cuckoo-Clock Heart', 'Mathias Malzieu &amp; Sarah Ardizzone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n FIRSTLY: donâ€™t touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. SECONDLY: master your anger. THIRDLY: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more.Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleineâ€”witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphansâ€”who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine.As Jack gets older, Dr. Madeleine warns him that his heart is too fragile for strong emotions: he must never, ever fall in love. And, of course, this is exactly what he does: on his tenth birthday and with head-over-heels abandon. The object of his ardor is Miss Acaciaâ€”a bespectacled young street performer with a soul-stirring voice. But now Jackâ€™s life is doubly at riskâ€”his heart is in danger and so is his safety after he injures the school bully in a fight for the affections of the beautiful singer.Now begins a journey of escape and pursuit, from Edinburgh to Paris to Miss Acaciaâ€™s home in Andalusia. Mathias Malzieuâ€™s The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a fantastical, wildly inventive tale of love and heartbreakâ€”by turns poignant and funnyâ€”in which Jack finally learns the great joys, and ultimately the greater costs, of owning a fully formed heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11247');
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(11157, 'The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart', 'Mathias Malzieu; Sarah Ardizzone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FIRSTLY: donâ€™t touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. SECONDLY: master your anger. THIRDLY: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more.Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleineâ€”witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphansâ€”who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine.As Jack gets older, Dr. Madeleine warns him that his heart is too fragile for strong emotions: he must never, ever fall in love. And, of course, this is exactly what he does: on his tenth birthday and with head-over-heels abandon. The object of his ardor is Miss Acaciaâ€”a bespectacled young street performer with a soul-stirring voice. But now Jackâ€™s life is doubly at riskâ€”his heart is in danger and so is his safety after he injures the school bully in a fight for the affections of the beautiful singer.Now begins a journey of escape and pursuit, from Edinburgh to Paris to Miss Acaciaâ€™s home in Andalusia. Mathias Malzieuâ€™s The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a fantastical, wildly inventive tale of love and heartbreakâ€”by turns poignant and funnyâ€”in which Jack finally learns the great joys, and ultimately the greater costs, of owning a fully formed heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21828'),
(11158, 'Boy-Crazy Stacey', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15828'),
(11159, 'Boy&#39;s Life', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson -- a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake -- and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible vision of death that will haunt him forever.  As Cory struggles to understand his father''s pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that are manifested in Zephyr. From an ancient, mystical woman who can hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the shadows of his hometown -- for his father''s sanity and his own life hang in the\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1584'),
(11160, 'Boy&#39;s Life', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson -- a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake -- and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible vision of death that will haunt him forever. As Cory struggles to understand his father''s pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that are manifested in Zephyr. From an ancient, mystical woman who can hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the shadows of his hometown -- for his father''s sanity and his own life hang in the\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14531'),
(11161, 'Boy&#39;s Life', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson -- a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake -- and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible vision of death that will haunt him forever.  As Cory struggles to understand his father''s pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that are manifested in Zephyr. From an ancient, mystical woman who can hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the shadows of his hometown -- for his father''s sanity and his own life hang in the\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23376'),
(11162, 'Boys and Their Toys: Understanding Men by Understanding Their Relationship With Gadgets', 'Bill Adler Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n First he showed readers how to outwit squirrels in the runaway bestseller Outwitting Squirrels, now he''s going to show them how to outwit their men. The key to understanding men is in understanding how they relate to their gadgets. In Boys and Their Toys, bestselling author Bill Adler, Jr. explains how men use toys to assert their independence and freedom, relieve stress, connect to their lost childhood and even express their nurturing side (without having to admit it). Written in Adler''s fun, humorous style, the book reveals how women can learn how a man''s interest in particular "toys" can be used to predict his behaviour , to identify when a guy''s passion for gadgets crosses the line into obsession and what to do about it, and how to take advantage of the human-gadget relationship to improve the human-human relationship.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15560'),
(11163, 'Boys R Us', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The trials and tribulations of the girls at Westchester County''s most exclusive private middle school continue in this 11th novel in the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling series. Follow Massie, Kristen, Layne, Alicia, and Claire as these members of the Pretty Committee attempt to survive their school''s boy-swap intact, or risk tearing the Clique apart at the seams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3316'),
(11164, 'Boys R Us', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The trials and tribulations of the girls at Westchester County''s most exclusive private middle school continue in this 11th novel in the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling series. Follow Massie, Kristen, Layne, Alicia, and Claire as these members of the Pretty Committee attempt to survive their school''s boy-swap intact, or risk tearing the Clique apart at the seams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10149'),
(11165, 'Boys R Us', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The trials and tribulations of the girls at Westchester County''s most exclusive private middle school continue in this 11th novel in the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling series. Follow Massie, Kristen, Layne, Alicia, and Claire as these members of the Pretty Committee attempt to survive their school''s boy-swap intact, or risk tearing the Clique apart at the seams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21152'),
(11166, 'Brain Child', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California.Â Â Until the horrifying car accident.Â Â Until a brilliant doctor''s medical miracle brought him back from the brink of death.Â Â Now, Alex seems the same.Â Â but in his eyes there is a blankness.Â Â In his hear there is coldness.Â Â If his parents, his friends, his girlfriend could see inside his brain, inside his dreams, they would be terrified.Â Â One hundred years ago in La Paloma, a terrible deed was done.Â Â A cry for vengeance pierced the night.Â Â That evil still lives.Â Â That vengeance still waits.Â Â Waits for Alex Lonsdale.Â Â Waits for the..._Brainchild_.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California. Until the horrifying car accident. Until a brilliant doctor''s medical miracle brought him back from the brink of death. Now, Alex seems the same. but in his eyes there is a blankness. In his hear there is coldness. If his parents, his friends, his girlfriend could see inside his brain, inside his dreams, they would be terrified. One hundred years ago in La Paloma, a terrible deed was done. A cry for vengeance pierced the night. That evil still lives. That vengeance still waits. Waits for Alex Lonsdale. Waits for the..._Brainchild_.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4167'),
(11167, 'Brain Child', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California.Â Â Until the horrifying car accident.Â Â Until a brilliant doctor''s medical miracle brought him back from the brink of death.Â Â Now, Alex seems the same.Â Â but in his eyes there is a blankness.Â Â In his hear there is coldness.Â Â If his parents, his friends, his girlfriend could see inside his brain, inside his dreams, they would be terrified.Â Â One hundred years ago in La Paloma, a terrible deed was done.Â Â A cry for vengeance pierced the night.Â Â That evil still lives.Â Â That vengeance still waits.Â Â Waits for Alex Lonsdale.Â Â Waits for the..._Brainchild_.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California. Until the horrifying car accident. Until a brilliant doctor''s medical miracle brought him back from the brink of death. Now, Alex seems the same. but in his eyes there is a blankness. In his hear there is coldness. If his parents, his friends, his girlfriend could see inside his brain, inside his dreams, they would be terrified. One hundred years ago in La Paloma, a terrible deed was done. A cry for vengeance pierced the night. That evil still lives. That vengeance still waits. Waits for Alex Lonsdale. Waits for the..._Brainchild_.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12571'),
(11168, 'Brain Child', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California.Â Â Until the horrifying car accident.Â Â Until a brilliant doctor''s medical miracle brought him back from the brink of death.Â Â Now, Alex seems the same.Â Â but in his eyes there is a blankness.Â Â In his hear there is coldness.Â Â If his parents, his friends, his girlfriend could see inside his brain, inside his dreams, they would be terrified.Â Â One hundred years ago in La Paloma, a terrible deed was done.Â Â A cry for vengeance pierced the night.Â Â That evil still lives.Â Â That vengeance still waits.Â Â Waits for Alex Lonsdale.Â Â Waits for the..._Brainchild_.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California. Until the horrifying car accident. Until a brilliant doctor''s medical miracle brought him back from the brink of death. Now, Alex seems the same. but in his eyes there is a blankness. In his hear there is coldness. If his parents, his friends, his girlfriend could see inside his brain, inside his dreams, they would be terrified. One hundred years ago in La Paloma, a terrible deed was done. A cry for vengeance pierced the night. That evil still lives. That vengeance still waits. Waits for Alex Lonsdale. Waits for the..._Brainchild_.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20278'),
(11169, 'Brain Droppings', 'Carlin, George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14618'),
(11170, 'Brain Droppings', 'Carlin, George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19276'),
(11171, 'Brain Droppings', 'Carlin, George', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26814'),
(11172, 'Brain Jack', 'Brian Falkner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a not terribly distant future, teen Sam Wilson catches the eye of the Homeland Security Cyber Defense Division because of his preternatural hacking instincts; he is given the classic work-for-us-or-go-to-prison-forever nonchoice. The department is reluctant to use the newfangled neuro-headset technology (which lets users interface directly with their computers and the Net through brain waves), but the advantage they give to the bad guys is too much to discount. What they donâ€™t fully consider, though, are the implications of such unfettered access to the human consciousness. The hacking scenes are relentlessly paced, and Falknerâ€™s stimulating mix of technobabble (â€œIâ€™m going to crash the shell with a buffer overflow and get in via the rhosts fileâ€) and metaphor (â€œA trapdoor in the firewall, Sam thought as he hurled a frag grenade at a murky pool of the intruderâ€™s codeâ€) should appeal to geeks but carry the less savvy as well. Think of this as the high-octane, adrenalized sibling of Cory Doctorowâ€™s more lesson-laden Little Brother (2008). Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Another terrifying sci-fi page-turner from the author of\n <em>\n  The Tomorrow Code\n </em>\n !\n</p>\n<p>\n Las Vegas is goneâ€”destroyed in a terrorist attack. Black Hawk helicopters patrol the skies over New York City. And immersive online gaming is the most dangerous street drug around. In this dystopic near-future, technology has leapt forward once again, and neuro-headsets have replaced computer keyboards. Just slip on a headset, and itâ€™s the Internet at the speed of thought.\n</p>\n<p>\n For teen hacker Sam Wilson, a headset is a must. But as he becomes familiar with the new technology, he has a terrifying realization. If anything on his computer is vulnerable to a hack, what happens when his mind is linked to the system? Could consciousness itself be hijacked? Before he realizes whatâ€™s happened, Samâ€™s incursion against the worldâ€™s largest telecommunications company leads him to the heart of the nationâ€™s cyberdefense network and brings him face to face with a terrifying and unforeseen threat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brian Falkner, author of\n <em>\n  The Tomorrow Code\n </em>\n , has created an action-packed and thought-provoking science fiction adventure in which a brilliant young computer hacker fights to prevent the human race from being deleted.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fans of Cory Doctorowâ€™s\n <em>\n  Little Brother\n </em>\n and M. T. Andersonâ€™s\n <em>\n  Feed\n </em>\n will love this high-octane techno thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7076'),
(11173, 'Brain Jack', 'Brian Falkner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a not terribly distant future, teen Sam Wilson catches the eye of the Homeland Security Cyber Defense Division because of his preternatural hacking instincts; he is given the classic work-for-us-or-go-to-prison-forever nonchoice. The department is reluctant to use the newfangled neuro-headset technology (which lets users interface directly with their computers and the Net through brain waves), but the advantage they give to the bad guys is too much to discount. What they donâ€™t fully consider, though, are the implications of such unfettered access to the human consciousness. The hacking scenes are relentlessly paced, and Falknerâ€™s stimulating mix of technobabble (â€œIâ€™m going to crash the shell with a buffer overflow and get in via the rhosts fileâ€) and metaphor (â€œA trapdoor in the firewall, Sam thought as he hurled a frag grenade at a murky pool of the intruderâ€™s codeâ€) should appeal to geeks but carry the less savvy as well. Think of this as the high-octane, adrenalized sibling of Cory Doctorowâ€™s more lesson-laden Little Brother (2008). Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Another terrifying sci-fi page-turner from the author of\n <em>\n  The Tomorrow Code\n </em>\n !\n</p>\n<p>\n Las Vegas is goneâ€”destroyed in a terrorist attack. Black Hawk helicopters patrol the skies over New York City. And immersive online gaming is the most dangerous street drug around. In this dystopic near-future, technology has leapt forward once again, and neuro-headsets have replaced computer keyboards. Just slip on a headset, and itâ€™s the Internet at the speed of thought.\n</p>\n<p>\n For teen hacker Sam Wilson, a headset is a must. But as he becomes familiar with the new technology, he has a terrifying realization. If anything on his computer is vulnerable to a hack, what happens when his mind is linked to the system? Could consciousness itself be hijacked? Before he realizes whatâ€™s happened, Samâ€™s incursion against the worldâ€™s largest telecommunications company leads him to the heart of the nationâ€™s cyberdefense network and brings him face to face with a terrifying and unforeseen threat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brian Falkner, author of\n <em>\n  The Tomorrow Code\n </em>\n , has created an action-packed and thought-provoking science fiction adventure in which a brilliant young computer hacker fights to prevent the human race from being deleted.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fans of Cory Doctorowâ€™s\n <em>\n  Little Brother\n </em>\n and M. T. Andersonâ€™s\n <em>\n  Feed\n </em>\n will love this high-octane techno thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9660'),
(11174, 'Brain Jack', 'Brian Falkner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a not terribly distant future, teen Sam Wilson catches the eye of the Homeland Security Cyber Defense Division because of his preternatural hacking instincts; he is given the classic work-for-us-or-go-to-prison-forever nonchoice. The department is reluctant to use the newfangled neuro-headset technology (which lets users interface directly with their computers and the Net through brain waves), but the advantage they give to the bad guys is too much to discount. What they donâ€™t fully consider, though, are the implications of such unfettered access to the human consciousness. The hacking scenes are relentlessly paced, and Falknerâ€™s stimulating mix of technobabble (â€œIâ€™m going to crash the shell with a buffer overflow and get in via the rhosts fileâ€) and metaphor (â€œA trapdoor in the firewall, Sam thought as he hurled a frag grenade at a murky pool of the intruderâ€™s codeâ€) should appeal to geeks but carry the less savvy as well. Think of this as the high-octane, adrenalized sibling of Cory Doctorowâ€™s more lesson-laden Little Brother (2008). Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Another terrifying sci-fi page-turner from the author of\n <em>\n  The Tomorrow Code\n </em>\n !\n</p>\n<p>\n Las Vegas is goneâ€”destroyed in a terrorist attack. Black Hawk helicopters patrol the skies over New York City. And immersive online gaming is the most dangerous street drug around. In this dystopic near-future, technology has leapt forward once again, and neuro-headsets have replaced computer keyboards. Just slip on a headset, and itâ€™s the Internet at the speed of thought.\n</p>\n<p>\n For teen hacker Sam Wilson, a headset is a must. But as he becomes familiar with the new technology, he has a terrifying realization. If anything on his computer is vulnerable to a hack, what happens when his mind is linked to the system? Could consciousness itself be hijacked? Before he realizes whatâ€™s happened, Samâ€™s incursion against the worldâ€™s largest telecommunications company leads him to the heart of the nationâ€™s cyberdefense network and brings him face to face with a terrifying and unforeseen threat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brian Falkner, author of\n <em>\n  The Tomorrow Code\n </em>\n , has created an action-packed and thought-provoking science fiction adventure in which a brilliant young computer hacker fights to prevent the human race from being deleted.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fans of Cory Doctorowâ€™s\n <em>\n  Little Brother\n </em>\n and M. T. Andersonâ€™s\n <em>\n  Feed\n </em>\n will love this high-octane techno thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16750'),
(11175, 'Brain Ships', 'Anne McCaffrey &amp; Mercedes Lackey &amp; Margaret Ball', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Combines the texts of two sequels to the best-selling The Ship Who Sang in a single volume, following the adventures of Tia and Nancia, who overcome paralysis by becoming starship-controlling "brains" that respectively protect other young people from suffering a similar fate and preserve the interests of the Central Worlds Courier Service.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7627'),
(11176, 'Brain Ships', 'Anne McCaffrey &amp; Mercedes Lackey &amp; Margaret Ball', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Combines the texts of two sequels to the best-selling The Ship Who Sang in a single volume, following the adventures of Tia and Nancia, who overcome paralysis by becoming starship-controlling "brains" that respectively protect other young people from suffering a similar fate and preserve the interests of the Central Worlds Courier Service.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11343'),
(11177, 'Brain Ships', 'Anne McCaffrey; Mercedes Lackey; Margaret Ball', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Combines the texts of two sequels to the best-selling The Ship Who Sang in a single volume, following the adventures of Tia and Nancia, who overcome paralysis by becoming starship-controlling "brains" that respectively protect other young people from suffering a similar fate and preserve the interests of the Central Worlds Courier Service.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15978'),
(11178, 'Brains: A Zombie Memoir', 'Becker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n College-professor-cum-zombie Jack Barnes is a different breed of undeadâ€”he can think. In fact, he can even write. And the story he has to tell is a truly disturbingâ€”yet strangely heartwarmingâ€”one.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Convinced he''ll bring about a peaceful coexistence between zombies and humans if he can demonstrate his unique condition to Howard Stein, the man responsible for the zombie virus, Barnes sets off on a grueling cross-country journey to meet his maker. Along the way he recruits a small army of "super" zombies that will stop at nothing to reach their goal. There''s Guts, the dreadlocked boy who can run like the wind; Joan, the matronly nurse adept at reattaching decaying appendages; Annie, the young girl with a fierce quick-draw; and Ros, who can actually speak. United they embark on an epic quest to attain what all men, womenâ€”and, apparently, zombiesâ€”yearn for: equality.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Brains* is a blood-soaked, darkly humorous story that will have readers rooting for Barnes and his zombie posse to the very end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7296'),
(11179, 'Brains: A Zombie Memoir', 'Becker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n College-professor-cum-zombie Jack Barnes is a different breed of undeadâ€”he can think. In fact, he can even write. And the story he has to tell is a truly disturbingâ€”yet strangely heartwarmingâ€”one.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Convinced he''ll bring about a peaceful coexistence between zombies and humans if he can demonstrate his unique condition to Howard Stein, the man responsible for the zombie virus, Barnes sets off on a grueling cross-country journey to meet his maker. Along the way he recruits a small army of "super" zombies that will stop at nothing to reach their goal. There''s Guts, the dreadlocked boy who can run like the wind; Joan, the matronly nurse adept at reattaching decaying appendages; Annie, the young girl with a fierce quick-draw; and Ros, who can actually speak. United they embark on an epic quest to attain what all men, womenâ€”and, apparently, zombiesâ€”yearn for: equality.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Brains* is a blood-soaked, darkly humorous story that will have readers rooting for Barnes and his zombie posse to the very end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8440'),
(11180, 'Brains: A Zombie Memoir', 'Becker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: College-professor-cum-zombie Jack Barnes is a different breed of undeadâ€”he can think. In fact, he can even write. And the story he has to tell is a truly disturbingâ€”yet strangely heartwarmingâ€”one. Convinced he''ll bring about a peaceful coexistence between zombies and humans if he can demonstrate his unique condition to Howard Stein, the man responsible for the zombie virus, Barnes sets off on a grueling cross-country journey to meet his maker. Along the way he recruits a small army of "super" zombies that will stop at nothing to reach their goal. There''s Guts, the dreadlocked boy who can run like the wind; Joan, the matronly nurse adept at reattaching decaying appendages; Annie, the young girl with a fierce quick-draw; and Ros, who can actually speak. United they embark on an epic quest to attain what all men, womenâ€”and, apparently, zombiesâ€”yearn for: equality. *Brains* is a blood-soaked, darkly humorous story that will have readers rooting for Barnes and his zombie posse to the very end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23339'),
(11181, 'Brains: A Zombie Memoir', 'Becker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: College-professor-cum-zombie Jack Barnes is a different breed of undeadâ€”he can think. In fact, he can even write. And the story he has to tell is a truly disturbingâ€”yet strangely heartwarmingâ€”one. Convinced he''ll bring about a peaceful coexistence between zombies and humans if he can demonstrate his unique condition to Howard Stein, the man responsible for the zombie virus, Barnes sets off on a grueling cross-country journey to meet his maker. Along the way he recruits a small army of "super" zombies that will stop at nothing to reach their goal. There''s Guts, the dreadlocked boy who can run like the wind; Joan, the matronly nurse adept at reattaching decaying appendages; Annie, the young girl with a fierce quick-draw; and Ros, who can actually speak. United they embark on an epic quest to attain what all men, womenâ€”and, apparently, zombiesâ€”yearn for: equality. *Brains* is a blood-soaked, darkly humorous story that will have readers rooting for Barnes and his zombie posse to the very end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26554'),
(11182, 'Bram Stoker&#39;s Dracula', 'Bram Stoker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 9781434000743\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26019'),
(11183, 'Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me', 'Marlon Brando &amp; Robert Lindsey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The publisher reportedly paid $5 million for this book but expects to recoup its investment; after all, this will be the only Brando autobiography available. Lindsey, who authored the prize-winning The Falcon and the Snowman, also helped Ronald Reagan when he faced writer''s block over his autobiography. A 500,000-copy first printing.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Marlon Brando, playing Terry Malloy in\n <em>\n  On the Waterfront\n </em>\n , bemoaned the fact that he "coulda been somebody," audiences hung onto his words, but according to Brando, the role "was actor-proof, a scene that demonstrated how audiences often do much of the acting themselves in an effectively told story. " Brando''s evaluation of his acting and that of other celebrated actors, e.g., Olivier in\n <em>\n  Wuthering Heights\n </em>\n , mark this rumination on his life. In his analysis of his films, from\n <em>\n  Streetcar\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  The Freshman\n </em>\n , the master tries hard to demonstrate hubris and to provide public lessons. At the same time, he claims that luck, physical desires, and the need to make money motivate him. The book, which the publisher would not release in galleys, strikes the reader as a confession, an attempt to set the record straight, to circumvent "a carrion press that has an insatiable appetite for salaciousness and abhors being denied access to anyone, from pimps to presidents." Is it coincidence that Manso''s unauthorized\n <em>\n  Brando\n </em>\n and this book are being published a month apart? Whatever its raison d''{Ë†}etre,\n <em>\n  Songs My Mother Taught Me\n </em>\n has much to offer. First, it''s beautifully illustrated, beginning before the text with 24 pages of photographs covering Brando''s early life, continuing with a number of well-placed photos documenting various film shoots, and concluding with 32 pages of photographs near the end. Brando''s account of his early years rings true as he records the frailties of his alcoholic parents. His anecdotes about work and play are entertaining and memorable, and he addresses the many social causes he has championed. It''s an interesting, albeit incomplete, work: according to coauthor Lindsey, Brando promised to "hide nothing . . . except his marriages and his children." (So many marriages, so many children.) Readers of Manso can''t come here to find Brando''s side of his marital troubles or the perplexing murder of his daughter''s husband at the hands of his son. But they will find insight into the life of a man who was definitely a contender.\n <em>\n  Bonnie Smothers\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3024'),
(11184, 'Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me', 'Marlon Brando &amp; Robert Lindsey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The publisher reportedly paid $5 million for this book but expects to recoup its investment; after all, this will be the only Brando autobiography available. Lindsey, who authored the prize-winning The Falcon and the Snowman, also helped Ronald Reagan when he faced writer''s block over his autobiography. A 500,000-copy first printing.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Marlon Brando, playing Terry Malloy in\n <em>\n  On the Waterfront\n </em>\n , bemoaned the fact that he "coulda been somebody," audiences hung onto his words, but according to Brando, the role "was actor-proof, a scene that demonstrated how audiences often do much of the acting themselves in an effectively told story. " Brando''s evaluation of his acting and that of other celebrated actors, e.g., Olivier in\n <em>\n  Wuthering Heights\n </em>\n , mark this rumination on his life. In his analysis of his films, from\n <em>\n  Streetcar\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  The Freshman\n </em>\n , the master tries hard to demonstrate hubris and to provide public lessons. At the same time, he claims that luck, physical desires, and the need to make money motivate him. The book, which the publisher would not release in galleys, strikes the reader as a confession, an attempt to set the record straight, to circumvent "a carrion press that has an insatiable appetite for salaciousness and abhors being denied access to anyone, from pimps to presidents." Is it coincidence that Manso''s unauthorized\n <em>\n  Brando\n </em>\n and this book are being published a month apart? Whatever its raison d''{Ë†}etre,\n <em>\n  Songs My Mother Taught Me\n </em>\n has much to offer. First, it''s beautifully illustrated, beginning before the text with 24 pages of photographs covering Brando''s early life, continuing with a number of well-placed photos documenting various film shoots, and concluding with 32 pages of photographs near the end. Brando''s account of his early years rings true as he records the frailties of his alcoholic parents. His anecdotes about work and play are entertaining and memorable, and he addresses the many social causes he has championed. It''s an interesting, albeit incomplete, work: according to coauthor Lindsey, Brando promised to "hide nothing . . . except his marriages and his children." (So many marriages, so many children.) Readers of Manso can''t come here to find Brando''s side of his marital troubles or the perplexing murder of his daughter''s husband at the hands of his son. But they will find insight into the life of a man who was definitely a contender.\n <em>\n  Bonnie Smothers\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8601'),
(11185, 'Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me', 'Marlon Brando; Robert Lindsey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The publisher reportedly paid $5 million for this book but expects to recoup its investment; after all, this will be the only Brando autobiography available. Lindsey, who authored the prize-winning The Falcon and the Snowman, also helped Ronald Reagan when he faced writer''s block over his autobiography. A 500,000-copy first printing.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Marlon Brando, playing Terry Malloy in\n <em>\n  On the Waterfront\n </em>\n , bemoaned the fact that he "coulda been somebody," audiences hung onto his words, but according to Brando, the role "was actor-proof, a scene that demonstrated how audiences often do much of the acting themselves in an effectively told story. " Brando''s evaluation of his acting and that of other celebrated actors, e.g., Olivier in\n <em>\n  Wuthering Heights\n </em>\n , mark this rumination on his life. In his analysis of his films, from\n <em>\n  Streetcar\n </em>\n to\n <em>\n  The Freshman\n </em>\n , the master tries hard to demonstrate hubris and to provide public lessons. At the same time, he claims that luck, physical desires, and the need to make money motivate him. The book, which the publisher would not release in galleys, strikes the reader as a confession, an attempt to set the record straight, to circumvent "a carrion press that has an insatiable appetite for salaciousness and abhors being denied access to anyone, from pimps to presidents." Is it coincidence that Manso''s unauthorized\n <em>\n  Brando\n </em>\n and this book are being published a month apart? Whatever its raison d''{Ë†}etre,\n <em>\n  Songs My Mother Taught Me\n </em>\n has much to offer. First, it''s beautifully illustrated, beginning before the text with 24 pages of photographs covering Brando''s early life, continuing with a number of well-placed photos documenting various film shoots, and concluding with 32 pages of photographs near the end. Brando''s account of his early years rings true as he records the frailties of his alcoholic parents. His anecdotes about work and play are entertaining and memorable, and he addresses the many social causes he has championed. It''s an interesting, albeit incomplete, work: according to coauthor Lindsey, Brando promised to "hide nothing . . . except his marriages and his children." (So many marriages, so many children.) Readers of Manso can''t come here to find Brando''s side of his marital troubles or the perplexing murder of his daughter''s husband at the hands of his son. But they will find insight into the life of a man who was definitely a contender.\n <em>\n  Bonnie Smothers\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21795'),
(11186, 'The Brass Verdict', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A bullet speaks louder than words . . . when Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch team up in the new novel by Michael Connelly. Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch team up in this new novel by Michael Connelly. Things are finally looking up for defence attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent''s killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent''s killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realise their only choice is to work together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2904'),
(11187, 'The Brass Verdict', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A bullet speaks louder than words . . . when Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch team up in the new novel by Michael Connelly. Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch team up in this new novel by Michael Connelly. Things are finally looking up for defence attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent''s killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent''s killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realise their only choice is to work together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15338'),
(11188, 'The Brass Verdict', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A bullet speaks louder than words . . . when Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch team up in the new novel by Michael Connelly. Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch team up in this new novel by Michael Connelly. Things are finally looking up for defence attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent''s killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent''s killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realise their only choice is to work together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21963'),
(11189, 'Bratfest at Tiffany&#39;s', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Watch out, boys... here comes The Clique!The Briarwood boys have invaded the school and are taking over everything. So Clique captain Massie lays down the New Pretty Committee law: anyone caught with a crush on a boy will be thrown out of the gang for ever. But will she be able to stick to her own rules?For Alicia, the boy-fast is a total disaster - she just can''t keep away from irresistible Josh. Meanwhile Claire''s spent all summer dreaming about Cam, but he''s moved on faster than you can say cuh-yutest couple. At least she finally has a secure spot in the Committee - unlessalousy flirting breaks the boy-fast...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3318'),
(11190, 'Bratfest at Tiffany&#39;s', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Watch out, boys... here comes The Clique!The Briarwood boys have invaded the school and are taking over everything. So Clique captain Massie lays down the New Pretty Committee law: anyone caught with a crush on a boy will be thrown out of the gang for ever. But will she be able to stick to her own rules?For Alicia, the boy-fast is a total disaster - she just can''t keep away from irresistible Josh. Meanwhile Claire''s spent all summer dreaming about Cam, but he''s moved on faster than you can say cuh-yutest couple. At least she finally has a secure spot in the Committee - unlessalousy flirting breaks the boy-fast...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10147'),
(11191, 'Bratfest At Tiffany&#39;s', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Watch out, boys... here comes The Clique!The Briarwood boys have invaded the school and are taking over everything. So Clique captain Massie lays down the New Pretty Committee law: anyone caught with a crush on a boy will be thrown out of the gang for ever. But will she be able to stick to her own rules?For Alicia, the boy-fast is a total disaster - she just can''t keep away from irresistible Josh. Meanwhile Claire''s spent all summer dreaming about Cam, but he''s moved on faster than you can say cuh-yutest couple. At least she finally has a secure spot in the Committee - unlessalousy flirting breaks the boy-fast...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21149'),
(11192, 'The Brave and the Bold Book Two', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Product Description\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  CONTINUING THE ALL-NEW ADVENTURE SPANNING ALL OF\n  <em>\n   STAR TREK\n  </em>\n  Â® HISTORY!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two of the Malkus Artifacts -- used as deadly weapons millennia ago -- have been uncovered since their discovery in the 22nd century. Now in the 24th century, two more artifacts lie in wait, ready to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting galaxy...\n </p>\n <p>\n  While on their shakedown cruise, Captain Kathryn Janeway and the\n  <em>\n   Starship Voyager\n  </em>\n  â„¢ discover the third artifact in the Demilitarized Zone -- in the hands of the Maquis! With the aid of Captain Robert DeSoto of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Hood, Voyager\n  </em>\n  security chief Lieutenant Tuvok infiltrates the Maquis, and must gain the trust of cell leaders Chakotay and Cal Hudson before the terrorists use the artifact to throw the DMZ into chaos!\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the final artifact is unearthed on Narendra III, it leads to several mysterious disappearances throughout Federation and Klingonâ„¢ space -- including Federation Ambassadors Spock and Worf. Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢ joins forces with Captain Klag of the I.K.S. Gorkon -- but even the greatest vessels of two nations may not be enough when the deadly secret of the final artifact is revealed!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keith R.A. Decandido is the author of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelization, The Xander Years Volume One, and is known to Star Trek fans as the author of Perchance to Dream, a Star Trek: The Next Generation comicbook miniseries published by Wildstorm. He is the editor of Marvel Comics'' tie-in novels and of several science-fiction and fantasy anthologies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3752'),
(11193, 'The Brave and the Bold Book Two', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Product Description\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  CONTINUING THE ALL-NEW ADVENTURE SPANNING ALL OF\n  <em>\n   STAR TREK\n  </em>\n  Â® HISTORY!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two of the Malkus Artifacts -- used as deadly weapons millennia ago -- have been uncovered since their discovery in the 22nd century. Now in the 24th century, two more artifacts lie in wait, ready to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting galaxy...\n </p>\n <p>\n  While on their shakedown cruise, Captain Kathryn Janeway and the\n  <em>\n   Starship Voyager\n  </em>\n  TM discover the third artifact in the Demilitarized Zone -- in the hands of the Maquis! With the aid of Captain Robert DeSoto of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Hood, Voyager\n  </em>\n  security chief Lieutenant Tuvok infiltrates the Maquis, and must gain the trust of cell leaders Chakotay and Cal Hudson before the terrorists use the artifact to throw the DMZ into chaos!\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the final artifact is unearthed on Narendra III, it leads to several mysterious disappearances throughout Federation and KlingonTM space -- including Federation Ambassadors Spock and Worf. Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM joins forces with Captain Klag of the I.K.S. Gorkon -- but even the greatest vessels of two nations may not be enough when the deadly secret of the final artifact is revealed!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keith R.A. Decandido is the author of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelization, The Xander Years Volume One, and is known to Star Trek fans as the author of Perchance to Dream, a Star Trek: The Next Generation comicbook miniseries published by Wildstorm. He is the editor of Marvel Comics'' tie-in novels and of several science-fiction and fantasy anthologies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20698'),
(11194, 'Brave Girl Eating: A Family&#39;s Struggle With Anorexia', 'Harriet Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n I''ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the bony chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I''ve come to recognize the flat look of despair, the hopelessness that follows, inevitably, from years of starvation. I think: "That could have been my daughter." It wasn''t. It''s not. If I have anything to say about it, it won''t be.  Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families'' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the family and insists that "it''s not about the food," even as a family watches a child waste away before their eyes. Harriet Brown shows how counterproductive--and heartbreaking--this approach is by telling her daughter''s story of anorexia. She describes how her family, with the support of an open-minded pediatrician and a therapist, helped her daughter recover using family-based treatment, also known as the Maudsley approach.  Chronicling her daughter Kitty''s illness from the earliest warning signs, through its terrifying progression, and on toward recovery, Brown takes us on one family''s journey into the world of anorexia nervosa, where starvation threatened her daughter''s body and mind. But hope and love--of the ordinary, family-focused kind--shine through every decision and action she and her family took. "Brave Girl Eating" is essential reading for families and professionals alike, a guiding light for anyone who''s coping with this devastating disease.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5182');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11195, 'Brave Girl Eating: A Family&#39;s Struggle With Anorexia', 'Harriet Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n I''ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the bony chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I''ve come to recognize the flat look of despair, the hopelessness that follows, inevitably, from years of starvation. I think: "That could have been my daughter." It wasn''t. It''s not. If I have anything to say about it, it won''t be.  Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families'' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the family and insists that "it''s not about the food," even as a family watches a child waste away before their eyes. Harriet Brown shows how counterproductive--and heartbreaking--this approach is by telling her daughter''s story of anorexia. She describes how her family, with the support of an open-minded pediatrician and a therapist, helped her daughter recover using family-based treatment, also known as the Maudsley approach.  Chronicling her daughter Kitty''s illness from the earliest warning signs, through its terrifying progression, and on toward recovery, Brown takes us on one family''s journey into the world of anorexia nervosa, where starvation threatened her daughter''s body and mind. But hope and love--of the ordinary, family-focused kind--shine through every decision and action she and her family took. "Brave Girl Eating" is essential reading for families and professionals alike, a guiding light for anyone who''s coping with this devastating disease.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8630'),
(11196, 'Brave Girl Eating: A Family&#39;s Struggle with Anorexia', 'Harriet Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I''ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the bony chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I''ve come to recognize the flat look of despair, the hopelessness that follows, inevitably, from years of starvation. I think: "That could have been my daughter." It wasn''t. It''s not. If I have anything to say about it, it won''t be. Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families'' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the family and insists that "it''s not about the food," even as a family watches a child waste away before their eyes. Harriet Brown shows how counterproductive--and heartbreaking--this approach is by telling her daughter''s story of anorexia. She describes how her family, with the support of an open-minded pediatrician and a therapist, helped her daughter recover using family-based treatment, also known as the Maudsley approach. Chronicling her daughter Kitty''s illness from the earliest warning signs, through its terrifying progression, and on toward recovery, Brown takes us on one family''s journey into the world of anorexia nervosa, where starvation threatened her daughter''s body and mind. But hope and love--of the ordinary, family-focused kind--shine through every decision and action she and her family took. "Brave Girl Eating" is essential reading for families and professionals alike, a guiding light for anyone who''s coping with this devastating disease.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19492'),
(11197, 'Brave Girl Eating: A Family&#39;s Struggle with Anorexia', 'Harriet Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I''ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the bony chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I''ve come to recognize the flat look of despair, the hopelessness that follows, inevitably, from years of starvation. I think: "That could have been my daughter." It wasn''t. It''s not. If I have anything to say about it, it won''t be. Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families'' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the family and insists that "it''s not about the food," even as a family watches a child waste away before their eyes. Harriet Brown shows how counterproductive--and heartbreaking--this approach is by telling her daughter''s story of anorexia. She describes how her family, with the support of an open-minded pediatrician and a therapist, helped her daughter recover using family-based treatment, also known as the Maudsley approach. Chronicling her daughter Kitty''s illness from the earliest warning signs, through its terrifying progression, and on toward recovery, Brown takes us on one family''s journey into the world of anorexia nervosa, where starvation threatened her daughter''s body and mind. But hope and love--of the ordinary, family-focused kind--shine through every decision and action she and her family took. "Brave Girl Eating" is essential reading for families and professionals alike, a guiding light for anyone who''s coping with this devastating disease.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28046'),
(11198, 'Brave New World', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Aldous Huxley''s tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" futureâ€”where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7844'),
(11199, 'Brave New World', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Aldous Huxley''s tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" futureâ€”where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10468'),
(11200, 'Brave New World', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Aldous Huxley''s tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" futureâ€”where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14353'),
(11201, 'Brave New World', 'Huxley, Aldous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16015'),
(11202, 'Brave New World', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley''s most enduring masterpiece.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist''s faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n --*Saturday Review of Literature*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n --*Forum*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive ads the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art...This is surely Huxley''s best book."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n --Martin Green\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Aldous Huxley''s tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" futureâ€”where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26286'),
(11203, 'Brave New World Revisited', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Huxley looks backward and forward in this brilliant extended essay published a quarter of a century after his controversial, dark visionary novel. Analyzing America at mid-century against the tomorrow of the BRAVE NEW WORLD, Huxley finds some answers and\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7845'),
(11204, 'Brave New World Revisited', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Huxley looks backward and forward in this brilliant extended essay published a quarter of a century after his controversial, dark visionary novel. Analyzing America at mid-century against the tomorrow of the BRAVE NEW WORLD, Huxley finds some answers and\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10469'),
(11205, 'Brave New World Revisited', 'Huxley, Aldous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16014'),
(11206, 'A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare&#39;s the Tempest', 'Hobson Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A gripping tale of shipwreck and survival that changed the fate of the colonies and enriched our literary legacy**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the *Sea Venture*, bound for the New World. Caught in a hurricane, the ship separated from its fleet and wrecked on uninhabited Bermuda, a bountiful island paradise its passengers would inhabit for nearly a year before reaching their intended destination, the famine-stricken colony of Jamestown. Strachey''s meticulous account of the wreck, the castaways'' time on Bermuda, and their arrival in a devastated Jamestown was read by his contemporaries and remains among the most vivid writings of the early colonial period. Following the life of this ordinary man, Hobson Woodward tells one of the neglected but defining stories of America''s founding.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Strachey had literary aspirations and sought to capitalize on his epic experience, but his writings did not bring him the acclaim he sought. Only in the hands of *another* William would his tale of the wreck and its aftermath make history as *The Tempest*.* A Brave Vessel* is the fascinating account of a near-miss in the settling of Virginia, the true story behind one of Shakespeare''s great plays, and the tragedy of the man who failed as an author but who contributed to the creation of a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5075'),
(11207, 'A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare&#39;s the Tempest', 'Hobson Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A gripping tale of shipwreck and survival that changed the fate of the colonies and enriched our literary legacy**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the *Sea Venture*, bound for the New World. Caught in a hurricane, the ship separated from its fleet and wrecked on uninhabited Bermuda, a bountiful island paradise its passengers would inhabit for nearly a year before reaching their intended destination, the famine-stricken colony of Jamestown. Strachey''s meticulous account of the wreck, the castaways'' time on Bermuda, and their arrival in a devastated Jamestown was read by his contemporaries and remains among the most vivid writings of the early colonial period. Following the life of this ordinary man, Hobson Woodward tells one of the neglected but defining stories of America''s founding.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Strachey had literary aspirations and sought to capitalize on his epic experience, but his writings did not bring him the acclaim he sought. Only in the hands of *another* William would his tale of the wreck and its aftermath make history as *The Tempest*.* A Brave Vessel* is the fascinating account of a near-miss in the settling of Virginia, the true story behind one of Shakespeare''s great plays, and the tragedy of the man who failed as an author but who contributed to the creation of a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13396'),
(11208, 'A brave vessel: the true tale of the castaways who rescued Jamestown and inspired Shakespeare&#39;s The tempest', 'Hobson Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A gripping tale of shipwreck and survival that changed the fate of the colonies and enriched our literary legacy** In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the *Sea Venture*, bound for the New World. Caught in a hurricane, the ship separated from its fleet and wrecked on uninhabited Bermuda, a bountiful island paradise its passengers would inhabit for nearly a year before reaching their intended destination, the famine-stricken colony of Jamestown. Strachey''s meticulous account of the wreck, the castaways'' time on Bermuda, and their arrival in a devastated Jamestown was read by his contemporaries and remains among the most vivid writings of the early colonial period. Following the life of this ordinary man, Hobson Woodward tells one of the neglected but defining stories of America''s founding. Strachey had literary aspirations and sought to capitalize on his epic experience, but his writings did not bring him the acclaim he sought. Only in the hands of *another* William would his tale of the wreck and its aftermath make history as *The Tempest*.* A Brave Vessel* is the fascinating account of a near-miss in the settling of Virginia, the true story behind one of Shakespeare''s great plays, and the tragedy of the man who failed as an author but who contributed to the creation of a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19556'),
(11209, 'A brave vessel: the true tale of the castaways who rescued Jamestown and inspired Shakespeare&#39;s The tempest', 'Hobson Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A gripping tale of shipwreck and survival that changed the fate of the colonies and enriched our literary legacy** In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the *Sea Venture*, bound for the New World. Caught in a hurricane, the ship separated from its fleet and wrecked on uninhabited Bermuda, a bountiful island paradise its passengers would inhabit for nearly a year before reaching their intended destination, the famine-stricken colony of Jamestown. Strachey''s meticulous account of the wreck, the castaways'' time on Bermuda, and their arrival in a devastated Jamestown was read by his contemporaries and remains among the most vivid writings of the early colonial period. Following the life of this ordinary man, Hobson Woodward tells one of the neglected but defining stories of America''s founding. Strachey had literary aspirations and sought to capitalize on his epic experience, but his writings did not bring him the acclaim he sought. Only in the hands of *another* William would his tale of the wreck and its aftermath make history as *The Tempest*.* A Brave Vessel* is the fascinating account of a near-miss in the settling of Virginia, the true story behind one of Shakespeare''s great plays, and the tragedy of the man who failed as an author but who contributed to the creation of a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28249'),
(11210, 'Bravo Two Zero', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a secret mission that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Under the command of Seargent Andy McNab, they were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and north-east Iraq, and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. Their call sign: BRAVO TWO-ZEROBravo Two-Zero is a breathtaking account of Sepcial Forces soldiering: a chronicle of superhuman courage, endurance and dark humour in the face of overwhelming odds. Believed to be the most highly decorated patrol since the Boer War, Bravo Two-Zero is already part of SAS legend\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7638'),
(11211, 'Bravo two zero', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a secret mission that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Under the command of Seargent Andy McNab, they were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and north-east Iraq, and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. Their call sign: BRAVO TWO-ZEROBravo Two-Zero is a breathtaking account of Sepcial Forces soldiering: a chronicle of superhuman courage, endurance and dark humour in the face of overwhelming odds. Believed to be the most highly decorated patrol since the Boer War, Bravo Two-Zero is already part of SAS legend\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16227'),
(11212, 'Bravo two zero', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a secret mission that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Under the command of Seargent Andy McNab, they were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and north-east Iraq, and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. Their call sign: BRAVO TWO-ZEROBravo Two-Zero is a breathtaking account of Sepcial Forces soldiering: a chronicle of superhuman courage, endurance and dark humour in the face of overwhelming odds. Believed to be the most highly decorated patrol since the Boer War, Bravo Two-Zero is already part of SAS legend\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26311'),
(11213, 'The Brazen Gambit', 'Lynn Abbey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Pavek of Urik, templar of Hamanu and lower-level bureaucrat, has grown accustomed to the benefits of his station. Neither aggressive nor rebellious, he accepts his position, follows orders, and doesn''t usually ask questions. Then one day he uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy that permeates all of Urik, even the ranks of his templar superiors, and now he is on the run. Forced to flee the comforts of his station, Pavek must take to the desert in search of a new way of life and a new system of beliefs, or meet death in the blood-soaked alleys of Urik at the hands of those he used to trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3180'),
(11214, 'The Brazen Gambit', 'Lynn Abbey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Pavek of Urik, templar of Hamanu and lower-level bureaucrat, has grown accustomed to the benefits of his station. Neither aggressive nor rebellious, he accepts his position, follows orders, and doesn''t usually ask questions. Then one day he uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy that permeates all of Urik, even the ranks of his templar superiors, and now he is on the run. Forced to flee the comforts of his station, Pavek must take to the desert in search of a new way of life and a new system of beliefs, or meet death in the blood-soaked alleys of Urik at the hands of those he used to trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9378'),
(11215, 'The brazen gambit', 'Lynn Abbey; Brom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Pavek of Urik, templar of Hamanu and lower-level bureaucrat, has grown accustomed to the benefits of his station. Neither aggressive nor rebellious, he accepts his position, follows orders, and doesn''t usually ask questions. Then one day he uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy that permeates all of Urik, even the ranks of his templar superiors, and now he is on the run. Forced to flee the comforts of his station, Pavek must take to the desert in search of a new way of life and a new system of beliefs, or meet death in the blood-soaked alleys of Urik at the hands of those he used to trust.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21247'),
(11216, 'Brazen Virtue', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe decides to visit her sister, Kathleen, whors"s embroiled in a custody battle after a bitter divorce. Arriving in D.C., Grace is shocked to find Kathleen living in a run-down neighborhood and, hoping to afford a hotshot lawyer, supplementing her meager teacherrs"s salary by moonlighting as a phone sex operator. According to Kathleen, Fantasy, Inc., guarantees its employees ironclad anonymity. But Grace has her doubts-which are confirmed one horrifying cherry-blossom-scented night when one of Fantasy, Inc.rs"s operators is murdered. As Grace is drawn to help solve the crime, her life turns into a scene from one of her own books. Yet as one of her biggest fans, investigator Ed Jackson, warns her: This isnrs"t fiction. Real people die-and Grace could be next. For shers"s setting a trap for a killer more twisted than anything she could imagine. And not even Ed may be able to protect her from a rendezvous with lust and death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2551'),
(11217, 'Brazen Virtue', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe decides to visit her sister, Kathleen, whors"s embroiled in a custody battle after a bitter divorce. Arriving in D.C., Grace is shocked to find Kathleen living in a run-down neighborhood and, hoping to afford a hotshot lawyer, supplementing her meager teacherrs"s salary by moonlighting as a phone sex operator. According to Kathleen, Fantasy, Inc., guarantees its employees ironclad anonymity. But Grace has her doubts-which are confirmed one horrifying cherry-blossom-scented night when one of Fantasy, Inc.rs"s operators is murdered. As Grace is drawn to help solve the crime, her life turns into a scene from one of her own books. Yet as one of her biggest fans, investigator Ed Jackson, warns her: This isnrs"t fiction. Real people die-and Grace could be next. For shers"s setting a trap for a killer more twisted than anything she could imagine. And not even Ed may be able to protect her from a rendezvous with lust and death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13510'),
(11218, 'Brazen virtue', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe decides to visit her sister, Kathleen, whors"s embroiled in a custody battle after a bitter divorce. Arriving in D.C., Grace is shocked to find Kathleen living in a run-down neighborhood and, hoping to afford a hotshot lawyer, supplementing her meager teacherrs"s salary by moonlighting as a phone sex operator. According to Kathleen, Fantasy, Inc., guarantees its employees ironclad anonymity. But Grace has her doubts-which are confirmed one horrifying cherry-blossom-scented night when one of Fantasy, Inc.rs"s operators is murdered. As Grace is drawn to help solve the crime, her life turns into a scene from one of her own books. Yet as one of her biggest fans, investigator Ed Jackson, warns her: This isnrs"t fiction. Real people die-and Grace could be next. For shers"s setting a trap for a killer more twisted than anything she could imagine. And not even Ed may be able to protect her from a rendezvous with lust and death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22324'),
(11219, 'A Breach of Promise', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Simon Jones\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Anne Perry sets her magic pen to paper, Victorian England awakens from her long sleep to vibrant, teeming life. Firelight flickers in luxurious withdrawing rooms. Ambitious ladies gossip and scheme. Horse-drawn carriages clatter over cobblestones while cries of flower sellers and newsboys ring out in crowded streets. In this magnificent new novel featuring investigator William Monk, however, it is the breathless hush of a London courtroom that first holds readers enthralled.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The plaintiffs in a sensational breach of promise suit are wealthy social climbers Barton and Delphine Lambert, suing on behalf of their beautiful daughter, Zillah. The defendant is Zillah''s alleged fiancÃ©, brilliant young architect Killian Melville, who adamantly declares that he will not, cannot, marry her. Not even to his baffled counsel, distinguished barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone, will Killian explain his rejection of rich and charming Zillah.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Utterly baffled, Rathbone turns for help to his old comrades in crime--Monk, the private investigator who knows his city like the back of his hand, and fearless nurse Hester Latterly. But even as they scout London for clues, from Mayfair to sordid Devil''s Acre, the case suddenly and tragically ends. An outcome that no one--except a ruthless murderer--could have foreseen.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Stripping away the pretty masks that conceal society''s darkest transgressions, Anne Perry unflinchingly exposes the human heart''s deepest hiding places--and creates the most mesmerizing courtroom drama of her distinguished career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7644'),
(11220, 'A Breach of Promise', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Simon Jones When Anne Perry sets her magic pen to paper, Victorian England awakens from her long sleep to vibrant, teeming life. Firelight flickers in luxurious withdrawing rooms. Ambitious ladies gossip and scheme. Horse-drawn carriages clatter over cobblestones while cries of flower sellers and newsboys ring out in crowded streets. In this magnificent new novel featuring investigator William Monk, however, it is the breathless hush of a London courtroom that first holds readers enthralled. The plaintiffs in a sensational breach of promise suit are wealthy social climbers Barton and Delphine Lambert, suing on behalf of their beautiful daughter, Zillah. The defendant is Zillah''s alleged fiancÃ©, brilliant young architect Killian Melville, who adamantly declares that he will not, cannot, marry her. Not even to his baffled counsel, distinguished barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone, will Killian explain his rejection of rich and charming Zillah. Utterly baffled, Rathbone turns for help to his old comrades in crime--Monk, the private investigator who knows his city like the back of his hand, and fearless nurse Hester Latterly. But even as they scout London for clues, from Mayfair to sordid Devil''s Acre, the case suddenly and tragically ends. An outcome that no one--except a ruthless murderer--could have foreseen. Stripping away the pretty masks that conceal society''s darkest transgressions, Anne Perry unflinchingly exposes the human heart''s deepest hiding places--and creates the most mesmerizing courtroom drama of her distinguished career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16378'),
(11221, 'A Breach of Promise', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: 2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Simon Jones When Anne Perry sets her magic pen to paper, Victorian England awakens from her long sleep to vibrant, teeming life. Firelight flickers in luxurious withdrawing rooms. Ambitious ladies gossip and scheme. Horse-drawn carriages clatter over cobblestones while cries of flower sellers and newsboys ring out in crowded streets. In this magnificent new novel featuring investigator William Monk, however, it is the breathless hush of a London courtroom that first holds readers enthralled. The plaintiffs in a sensational breach of promise suit are wealthy social climbers Barton and Delphine Lambert, suing on behalf of their beautiful daughter, Zillah. The defendant is Zillah''s alleged fiancÃ©, brilliant young architect Killian Melville, who adamantly declares that he will not, cannot, marry her. Not even to his baffled counsel, distinguished barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone, will Killian explain his rejection of rich and charming Zillah. Utterly baffled, Rathbone turns for help to his old comrades in crime--Monk, the private investigator who knows his city like the back of his hand, and fearless nurse Hester Latterly. But even as they scout London for clues, from Mayfair to sordid Devil''s Acre, the case suddenly and tragically ends. An outcome that no one--except a ruthless murderer--could have foreseen. Stripping away the pretty masks that conceal society''s darkest transgressions, Anne Perry unflinchingly exposes the human heart''s deepest hiding places--and creates the most mesmerizing courtroom drama of her distinguished career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26381'),
(11222, 'The Bread Lover&#39;s Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker&#39;s 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread, From Every Kind of Machine', 'Beth Hensperger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Unlike electric ice cream makers and pasta machines, the bread machine hasn''t really enjoyed wholehearted acceptance in the culinary world. There are hordes of enthusiasts, no question about it, but many who consider themselves serious bakers look upon the machine with a skeptical eye. However, the newer generation of machines turns out excellent bread, and after being bombarded with know-how by this James Beard Award-winning writer, even the most reluctant may be inspired to give it a go. The book opens with an excellent orientation to both the machine and the basics of bread making. Step-by-step instructions are given for a few basic loaves. (Less helpful is a "what went wrong" section, which displays a firm grasp of the obvious.) The 300-plus recipes are so far-ranging it''s hard to believe a bread exists that isn''t included here. There are white breads and sourdoughs, all manner of whole wheat and grain breads and breads featuring nuts and dried fruits, cheese and savory flavorings. There are crusty ciabattas, a sturdy Irish Potato Brown Bread and a variety of challahs. Hensperger also includes dozens of sweet breads, including croissants, coffee cakes and traditional holiday confections. There are recipes for pizza and flatbreads, as well as selections from a variety of traditions, from Alsatian kugelhopf to Zuni Indian bread. She even offers instructions for using bread machines to make pasta, jams and chutneys. By the end, Hensperger (The Bread Bible, etc.) will have convinced readers that it''s time to overcome any qualms and get to work. The bread machine is here to stay. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hensperger''s smaller quick breads book includes 100 recipes from her earlier Art of Quick Breads, now out of print, as well as 50 new ones. In addition to quick loaves, both sweet and savory, there are waffles, dumplings, biscuits, popovers, and a variety of other easy baked goods, along with some tasty accompaniments, such as the Fruit Salsa for her Hopi Blue Corn Hotcakes. For most collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7241'),
(11223, 'The Bread Lover&#39;s Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker&#39;s 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread, From Every Kind of Machine', 'Beth Hensperger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Unlike electric ice cream makers and pasta machines, the bread machine hasn''t really enjoyed wholehearted acceptance in the culinary world. There are hordes of enthusiasts, no question about it, but many who consider themselves serious bakers look upon the machine with a skeptical eye. However, the newer generation of machines turns out excellent bread, and after being bombarded with know-how by this James Beard Award-winning writer, even the most reluctant may be inspired to give it a go. The book opens with an excellent orientation to both the machine and the basics of bread making. Step-by-step instructions are given for a few basic loaves. (Less helpful is a "what went wrong" section, which displays a firm grasp of the obvious.) The 300-plus recipes are so far-ranging it''s hard to believe a bread exists that isn''t included here. There are white breads and sourdoughs, all manner of whole wheat and grain breads and breads featuring nuts and dried fruits, cheese and savory flavorings. There are crusty ciabattas, a sturdy Irish Potato Brown Bread and a variety of challahs. Hensperger also includes dozens of sweet breads, including croissants, coffee cakes and traditional holiday confections. There are recipes for pizza and flatbreads, as well as selections from a variety of traditions, from Alsatian kugelhopf to Zuni Indian bread. She even offers instructions for using bread machines to make pasta, jams and chutneys. By the end, Hensperger (The Bread Bible, etc.) will have convinced readers that it''s time to overcome any qualms and get to work. The bread machine is here to stay. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hensperger''s smaller quick breads book includes 100 recipes from her earlier Art of Quick Breads, now out of print, as well as 50 new ones. In addition to quick loaves, both sweet and savory, there are waffles, dumplings, biscuits, popovers, and a variety of other easy baked goods, along with some tasty accompaniments, such as the Fruit Salsa for her Hopi Blue Corn Hotcakes. For most collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10290'),
(11224, 'Bread Machine', 'Hensperger, Beth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15557'),
(11225, 'Break In', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Francis''s 25th thriller is suavely handled and full of suspense. The narrator, Kit Fielding, wins handily as a steeple-chase jockey and enjoys the friendship of the princess who owns the horses he races. But trouble threatening his twin Holly and her husband Bobby Allardeck interrupts Kit''s routine. As horse trainers, the Allardecks are about to go bankrupt after a scandal sheet prints the false report that they can''t pay their debts. Determined to discover the motive for the attack, Kit enlists the help of people in the princess''s circle, which includes her niece, Danielle. A romance develops between the jockey and Danielle, interrupted by villains sent to kill him. Thanks to Kit, the Allardecks'' business is saved and he outwits the perpetrators of a shameful conspiracy. The love story, as well as the author''s colorful descriptions of English jump racing and newspaper tycoons, add zest to the intricate novel. Literary Guild and Reader''s Digest Condensed Books selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Suavely handled and full of suspense. --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6009'),
(11226, 'Break In', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Francis''s 25th thriller is suavely handled and full of suspense. The narrator, Kit Fielding, wins handily as a steeple-chase jockey and enjoys the friendship of the princess who owns the horses he races. But trouble threatening his twin Holly and her husband Bobby Allardeck interrupts Kit''s routine. As horse trainers, the Allardecks are about to go bankrupt after a scandal sheet prints the false report that they can''t pay their debts. Determined to discover the motive for the attack, Kit enlists the help of people in the princess''s circle, which includes her niece, Danielle. A romance develops between the jockey and Danielle, interrupted by villains sent to kill him. Thanks to Kit, the Allardecks'' business is saved and he outwits the perpetrators of a shameful conspiracy. The love story, as well as the author''s colorful descriptions of English jump racing and newspaper tycoons, add zest to the intricate novel. Literary Guild and Reader''s Digest Condensed Books selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Suavely handled and full of suspense. --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9845'),
(11227, 'Break No Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The success of the Fox TV show\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  , based on bestseller Reichs''s series featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (_Cross Bones_, etc.), bodes well for this latest installment, in which Brennan once again stumbles on a modern-day mystery inadvertently. While supervising a dig of Native American burial grounds in Charleston, S.C., Brennan finds more recent remains. Soon, her ex-husband, who''s a lawyer, appears in town, pursuing leads in a missing persons case connected with a local church. Bodies start piling up at an alarming rate, and Brennan begins to suspect that the deaths are linked to each otherâ€”and her ex-husband''s inquiry. Reichs''s down-to-earth heroine is an appealing creation, who deftly juggles personal problems with professional challenges. Despite the somewhat obvious solution, this novel confirms the series'' place in the front rank of the ever-expanding forensic thriller subgenre.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this ninth in the popular series, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is spending two weeks in May on Dewees, a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, where she is leading a student excavation of a prehistoric site when one of the bodies they find isn''t so ancient. After reporting her find to her friend Emma Rousseau, coroner at the Charleston County Coroner''s Office, Tempe learns that Emma is ill and unable to investigate; so Tempe fills in for her as a consultant. When another body is found in a different location, the forensic examination of the bones shows a similarity in the manner of death. As Tempe investigates further, another body turns up, leading her to a horrifying conclusion about the motive for these deaths. Complicating matters, Tempe''s estranged husband moves into the house she has borrowed, and her boyfriend arrives unexpectedly from Montreal. Tempe must work through her ambivalence about divorcing her unfaithful husband, for whom she still has feelings, but she also cares for her boyfriend. Readers who enjoy Patricia Cornwell''s mysteries will appreciate the forensic detail here, and more character-oriented readers will respond to Reichs'' likable and well-developed cast, from the local sheriff to Tempe herself, a dedicated woman who feels compelled to provide justice for those who can no longer speak for themselves. An engrossing entry in a widely read series.\n  <em>\n   Sue O''Brien\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13597'),
(11228, 'Break No Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The success of the Fox TV show\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  , based on bestseller Reichs''s series featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (_Cross Bones_, etc.), bodes well for this latest installment, in which Brennan once again stumbles on a modern-day mystery inadvertently. While supervising a dig of Native American burial grounds in Charleston, S.C., Brennan finds more recent remains. Soon, her ex-husband, who''s a lawyer, appears in town, pursuing leads in a missing persons case connected with a local church. Bodies start piling up at an alarming rate, and Brennan begins to suspect that the deaths are linked to each otherâ€”and her ex-husband''s inquiry. Reichs''s down-to-earth heroine is an appealing creation, who deftly juggles personal problems with professional challenges. Despite the somewhat obvious solution, this novel confirms the series'' place in the front rank of the ever-expanding forensic thriller subgenre.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this ninth in the popular series, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is spending two weeks in May on Dewees, a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, where she is leading a student excavation of a prehistoric site when one of the bodies they find isn''t so ancient. After reporting her find to her friend Emma Rousseau, coroner at the Charleston County Coroner''s Office, Tempe learns that Emma is ill and unable to investigate; so Tempe fills in for her as a consultant. When another body is found in a different location, the forensic examination of the bones shows a similarity in the manner of death. As Tempe investigates further, another body turns up, leading her to a horrifying conclusion about the motive for these deaths. Complicating matters, Tempe''s estranged husband moves into the house she has borrowed, and her boyfriend arrives unexpectedly from Montreal. Tempe must work through her ambivalence about divorcing her unfaithful husband, for whom she still has feelings, but she also cares for her boyfriend. Readers who enjoy Patricia Cornwell''s mysteries will appreciate the forensic detail here, and more character-oriented readers will respond to Reichs'' likable and well-developed cast, from the local sheriff to Tempe herself, a dedicated woman who feels compelled to provide justice for those who can no longer speak for themselves. An engrossing entry in a widely read series.\n  <em>\n   Sue O''Brien\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20616'),
(11229, 'Breakfast at Tiffany&#39;s', 'Truman Capote', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: it''s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany''s. And nice girls don''t, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly ''top banana in the shock department'', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction. This edition also contains three stories: ''House of Flowers'', ''A Diamond Guitar'' and ''A Christmas Memory''. ''One of the twentieth century''s most gorgeously romantic fictions.'' Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/378'),
(11230, 'Breakfast at Tiffany&#39;s', 'Truman Capote', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: it''s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany''s. And nice girls don''t, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly ''top banana in the shock department'', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction. This edition also contains three stories: ''House of Flowers'', ''A Diamond Guitar'' and ''A Christmas Memory''. ''One of the twentieth century''s most gorgeously romantic fictions.'' Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15187'),
(11231, 'Breakfast at Tiffany&#39;s', 'Truman Capote', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: it''s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany''s. And nice girls don''t, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly ''top banana in the shock department'', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction. This edition also contains three stories: ''House of Flowers'', ''A Diamond Guitar'' and ''A Christmas Memory''. ''One of the twentieth century''s most gorgeously romantic fictions.'' Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24447'),
(11232, 'Breakfast in Bed', 'Robin Kaye', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The third funny, sexy, contemporary romance from a fresh new voice in romance fiction "Delightfully fun...a writer to watch."  Booklist Rich, the epitome of "anti-domestic," can''t cook to save his life, and his idea of cleaning his apartment is to invite his mother over. But he''s ready to settle down, and he can''t stop thinking about the ex-girlfriend who got away. When he notices that his soon-to-be-married friends cooked and cleaned their way into their women''s hearts, he asks his friend Becca to help transform him into a nurturing man to win back his ex. Rich is the only guy who''s taken the time to know Becca for herself. She decides she''ll give him the makeover he''s asking for, though she''ll be damned if she''s going to turn him into a domestic god for another woman. She wants Rich for herself, but how can she convince him that her kitchen and her bedroom are the only domestic locales he desires? PRAISE FOR TOO HOT TO HANDLE " Robin Kaye is a master at romance, and her second novel is even better than the first."  Armchair Interviews " Robin Kaye has proved herself a master of romantic comedy."  Night Owl Romance Praise for Romeo, Romeo  " Debut author Kaye provides a pleasing romantic romp mixing Italian Brooklyn family values, hot sex, and plenty of food." Publishers Weekly " The main characters in this all-around feel-good read have so much personality they almost jump off the page." Romantic Times "A rollicking romance that''s sure to please!"  Novel Thought Comments " Kaye''s writing is just about perfect for this kind of story as she balances a fine line between romance, sex, and family, all of which come together with ease."  A Book Blogger''s Diary " Robin Kaye''s Romeo, Romeo is sensational! I loved everything about this novel. The story, characters and writing are all five star material."  Crave More Romances\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1535');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11233, 'Breakfast in Bed', 'Robin Kaye', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The third funny, sexy, contemporary romance from a fresh new voice in romance fiction "Delightfully fun...a writer to watch."  Booklist Rich, the epitome of "anti-domestic," can''t cook to save his life, and his idea of cleaning his apartment is to invite his mother over. But he''s ready to settle down, and he can''t stop thinking about the ex-girlfriend who got away. When he notices that his soon-to-be-married friends cooked and cleaned their way into their women''s hearts, he asks his friend Becca to help transform him into a nurturing man to win back his ex. Rich is the only guy who''s taken the time to know Becca for herself. She decides she''ll give him the makeover he''s asking for, though she''ll be damned if she''s going to turn him into a domestic god for another woman. She wants Rich for herself, but how can she convince him that her kitchen and her bedroom are the only domestic locales he desires? PRAISE FOR TOO HOT TO HANDLE " Robin Kaye is a master at romance, and her second novel is even better than the first."  Armchair Interviews " Robin Kaye has proved herself a master of romantic comedy."  Night Owl Romance Praise for Romeo, Romeo  " Debut author Kaye provides a pleasing romantic romp mixing Italian Brooklyn family values, hot sex, and plenty of food." Publishers Weekly " The main characters in this all-around feel-good read have so much personality they almost jump off the page." Romantic Times "A rollicking romance that''s sure to please!"  Novel Thought Comments " Kaye''s writing is just about perfect for this kind of story as she balances a fine line between romance, sex, and family, all of which come together with ease."  A Book Blogger''s Diary " Robin Kaye''s Romeo, Romeo is sensational! I loved everything about this novel. The story, characters and writing are all five star material."  Crave More Romances\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10626'),
(11234, 'Breakfast in Bed', 'Robin Kaye', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The third funny, sexy, contemporary romance from a fresh new voice in romance fiction "Delightfully fun...a writer to watch." Booklist Rich, the epitome of "anti-domestic," can''t cook to save his life, and his idea of cleaning his apartment is to invite his mother over. But he''s ready to settle down, and he can''t stop thinking about the ex-girlfriend who got away. When he notices that his soon-to-be-married friends cooked and cleaned their way into their women''s hearts, he asks his friend Becca to help transform him into a nurturing man to win back his ex. Rich is the only guy who''s taken the time to know Becca for herself. She decides she''ll give him the makeover he''s asking for, though she''ll be damned if she''s going to turn him into a domestic god for another woman. She wants Rich for herself, but how can she convince him that her kitchen and her bedroom are the only domestic locales he desires? PRAISE FOR TOO HOT TO HANDLE " Robin Kaye is a master at romance, and her second novel is even better than the first." Armchair Interviews " Robin Kaye has proved herself a master of romantic comedy." Night Owl Romance Praise for Romeo, Romeo " Debut author Kaye provides a pleasing romantic romp mixing Italian Brooklyn family values, hot sex, and plenty of food." Publishers Weekly " The main characters in this all-around feel-good read have so much personality they almost jump off the page." Romantic Times "A rollicking romance that''s sure to please!" Novel Thought Comments " Kaye''s writing is just about perfect for this kind of story as she balances a fine line between romance, sex, and family, all of which come together with ease." A Book Blogger''s Diary " Robin Kaye''s Romeo, Romeo is sensational! I loved everything about this novel. The story, characters and writing are all five star material." Crave More Romances\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23407'),
(11235, 'Breakfast of Champions', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3588'),
(11236, 'Breakfast of Champions', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13173'),
(11237, 'Breakfast of Champions', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14114'),
(11238, 'Breakfast of Champions', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20878'),
(11239, 'Breaking Dawn', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?  To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella''s life-first discovered in "Twilight," then scattered and torn in "New Moon" and "Eclipse"-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever? The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, "Breaking Dawn" illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1065'),
(11240, 'Breaking Dawn', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?  To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella''s life-first discovered in "Twilight," then scattered and torn in "New Moon" and "Eclipse"-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever? The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, "Breaking Dawn" illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11400'),
(11241, 'Breaking Dawn', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella''s life-first discovered in "Twilight," then scattered and torn in "New Moon" and "Eclipse"-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever? The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, "Breaking Dawn" illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14439'),
(11242, 'Breaking Dawn', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella''s life-first discovered in "Twilight," then scattered and torn in "New Moon" and "Eclipse"-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever? The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, "Breaking Dawn" illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23898'),
(11243, 'Breaking Loose', 'Tara Janzen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n SIN AND DANGER COLLIDE WHEN THE WORLDâ€™S HOTTEST SECRET AGENTS COMPETE FOR THE PRIZE EVERYONEâ€™S LUSTING AFTERâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n No oneâ€™s ever seen it. Everybody wants it. Thatâ€™s why the government has just unleashed its secret weapon. Drop-dead-gorgeous art dealer Suzi Toussi has been tapped for the toughest mission of her career: to locate the Memphis Sphinx, an ancient artifact rumored to possess otherworldly powers. Tracking it to Paraguay means going up against Dax Killian, the sexy special ops agent whoâ€™s planning to snatch the coveted relic right out of her hot little hands. If he can find it firstâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n Dax first spotted her outside a seedy barâ€”in three-inch heels and a too-tight dress. Heâ€™d know those curves anywhere. But what was Suzi doing in a hellhole like Ciudad del Este? Dax knows the answer: the Sphinx. Suddenly the game is onâ€”and only one of them will walk away with the prize. With the Sphinx surfacing and passion taking Suzi and Dax under, theyâ€™re headed for a showdown that could reveal the secrets of the agesâ€¦or expose them to the hottest danger of all.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tara Janzen lives in Colorado where she is at work on her next novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/830'),
(11244, 'Breaking Loose', 'Tara Janzen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n SIN AND DANGER COLLIDE WHEN THE WORLDâ€™S HOTTEST SECRET AGENTS COMPETE FOR THE PRIZE EVERYONEâ€™S LUSTING AFTERâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n No oneâ€™s ever seen it. Everybody wants it. Thatâ€™s why the government has just unleashed its secret weapon. Drop-dead-gorgeous art dealer Suzi Toussi has been tapped for the toughest mission of her career: to locate the Memphis Sphinx, an ancient artifact rumored to possess otherworldly powers. Tracking it to Paraguay means going up against Dax Killian, the sexy special ops agent whoâ€™s planning to snatch the coveted relic right out of her hot little hands. If he can find it firstâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n Dax first spotted her outside a seedy barâ€”in three-inch heels and a too-tight dress. Heâ€™d know those curves anywhere. But what was Suzi doing in a hellhole like Ciudad del Este? Dax knows the answer: the Sphinx. Suddenly the game is onâ€”and only one of them will walk away with the prize. With the Sphinx surfacing and passion taking Suzi and Dax under, theyâ€™re headed for a showdown that could reveal the secrets of the agesâ€¦or expose them to the hottest danger of all.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tara Janzen lives in Colorado where she is at work on her next novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10561'),
(11245, 'Breaking Loose', 'Tara Janzen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n SIN AND DANGER COLLIDE WHEN THE WORLDâ€™S HOTTEST SECRET AGENTS COMPETE FOR THE PRIZE EVERYONEâ€™S LUSTING AFTER....\n</p>\n<p>\n No oneâ€™s ever seen it. Everybody wants it. Thatâ€™s why the government has just unleashed its secret weapon. Drop-dead-gorgeous art dealer Suzi Toussi has been tapped for the toughest mission of her career: to locate the Memphis Sphinx, an ancient artifact rumored to possess otherworldly powers. Tracking it to Paraguay means going up against Dax Killian, the sexy special ops agent whoâ€™s planning to snatch the coveted relic right out of her hot little hands. If he can find it first...\n</p>\n<p>\n Dax first spotted her outside a seedy barâ€”in three-inch heels and a too-tight dress. Heâ€™d know those curves anywhere. But what was Suzi doing in a hellhole like Ciudad del Este? Dax knows the answer: the Sphinx. Suddenly the game is onâ€”and only one of them will walk away with the prize. With the Sphinx surfacing and passion taking Suzi and Dax under, theyâ€™re headed for a showdown that could reveal the secrets of the ages...or expose them to the hottest danger of all.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tara Janzen lives in Colorado where she is at work on her next novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24087'),
(11246, 'Breaking Night', 'Liz Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "*Breaking Night* reads more like an adventure story than an addiction-morality tale. It''s a white-knuckle account of survival. . . . By age 6, Murray knew how to mainline drugs (though she never took them) and how to care for her strung-out parents. She showed uncanny maturity, even as a child, and later managed to avoid that malady of teenagers and memoir writers, self-pity. . . . Murray''s stoicism has been hard-earned; it serves her well as a writer. *Breaking Night* itself is full of heart, without a sliver of ice, and deeply moving." (*The New York Times Book Review*)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Liz Murray shows us that the human spirit has infinite ability to grow and  can never be limited by circumstance. *Breaking Night* is a beautifully  written, heartfelt memoir that will change the way you look your community, the  obstacles in your own life and the American Dream. An inspiration, a must read."  (Robert Redford)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "[Liz Murray] reminds us that the greatest acts of love and failure can  occur side by side; that isolation and loss can give way to accomplishment and  promise. She offers the awesome hope that, regardless of its past, a life can go  beyond endurance and reach for triumph. She leave us with the memory of a child who  clung to and refused to surrender the dignity of her soul." (Andrew Bridge, author  of the *New York Times* bestseller *Hope''s Boy*)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "As much as it is a memoir, *Breaking Night* is a primer on how poverty and drug abuse create a heartbreaking underclass of children, one that goes largely unnoticed. By the truly uplifting ending, Liz Murray has shown us the worst, and the very best, of America." (Haven Kimmel, author of *A Girl Named Zippy* and *She Got Up Off the Couch*)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the vein of *The Glass Castle, Breaking Night* is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls'' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Liz''s mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a *New York Times* scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. *Breaking Night* is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman''s indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3342'),
(11247, 'Breaking Night', 'Liz Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "*Breaking Night* reads more like an adventure story than an addiction-morality tale. It''s a white-knuckle account of survival. . . . By age 6, Murray knew how to mainline drugs (though she never took them) and how to care for her strung-out parents. She showed uncanny maturity, even as a child, and later managed to avoid that malady of teenagers and memoir writers, self-pity. . . . Murray''s stoicism has been hard-earned; it serves her well as a writer. *Breaking Night* itself is full of heart, without a sliver of ice, and deeply moving." (*The New York Times Book Review*)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Liz Murray shows us that the human spirit has infinite ability to grow and  can never be limited by circumstance. *Breaking Night* is a beautifully  written, heartfelt memoir that will change the way you look your community, the  obstacles in your own life and the American Dream. An inspiration, a must read."  (Robert Redford)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "[Liz Murray] reminds us that the greatest acts of love and failure can  occur side by side; that isolation and loss can give way to accomplishment and  promise. She offers the awesome hope that, regardless of its past, a life can go  beyond endurance and reach for triumph. She leave us with the memory of a child who  clung to and refused to surrender the dignity of her soul." (Andrew Bridge, author  of the *New York Times* bestseller *Hope''s Boy*)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "As much as it is a memoir, *Breaking Night* is a primer on how poverty and drug abuse create a heartbreaking underclass of children, one that goes largely unnoticed. By the truly uplifting ending, Liz Murray has shown us the worst, and the very best, of America." (Haven Kimmel, author of *A Girl Named Zippy* and *She Got Up Off the Couch*)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the vein of *The Glass Castle, Breaking Night* is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls'' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Liz''s mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a *New York Times* scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. *Breaking Night* is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman''s indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11590'),
(11248, 'Breaking Night', 'Liz Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "*Breaking Night* reads more like an adventure story than an addiction-morality tale. It''s a white-knuckle account of survival. . . . By age 6, Murray knew how to mainline drugs (though she never took them) and how to care for her strung-out parents. She showed uncanny maturity, even as a child, and later managed to avoid that malady of teenagers and memoir writers, self-pity. . . . Murray''s stoicism has been hard-earned; it serves her well as a writer. *Breaking Night* itself is full of heart, without a sliver of ice, and deeply moving." (*The New York Times Book Review*) "Liz Murray shows us that the human spirit has infinite ability to grow and can never be limited by circumstance. *Breaking Night* is a beautifully written, heartfelt memoir that will change the way you look your community, the obstacles in your own life and the American Dream. An inspiration, a must read." (Robert Redford) "[Liz Murray] reminds us that the greatest acts of love and failure can occur side by side; that isolation and loss can give way to accomplishment and promise. She offers the awesome hope that, regardless of its past, a life can go beyond endurance and reach for triumph. She leave us with the memory of a child who clung to and refused to surrender the dignity of her soul." (Andrew Bridge, author of the *New York Times* bestseller *Hope''s Boy*) "As much as it is a memoir, *Breaking Night* is a primer on how poverty and drug abuse create a heartbreaking underclass of children, one that goes largely unnoticed. By the truly uplifting ending, Liz Murray has shown us the worst, and the very best, of America." (Haven Kimmel, author of *A Girl Named Zippy* and *She Got Up Off the Couch*) In the vein of *The Glass Castle, Breaking Night* is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard. Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls'' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. When Liz''s mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a *New York Times* scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. *Breaking Night* is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman''s indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21267'),
(11249, 'Breaking Point', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Perry &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  While struggling to recover from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels races against time to find the culprits responsible for stealing plans to a top-secret atmospheric weapon that uses low-frequency wave generation to drive people mad. Original.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint Air Force-Navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability to drive half a country into madness using low frequency wave generation. Now the technology has fallen into the wrong hands -- and testing has begun...\n </p>\n <p>\n  A powerful examination of America''s defense and intelligence systems of the future,\n  <em>\n   Tom Clancy''s Net Force TM\n  </em>\n  is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read by Stephen Lang\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Clancy is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including\n  <em>\n   Rainbow Six, Executive Orders\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Debt of Honor.\n  </em>\n  Steve Pieczenik is the author of\n  <em>\n   State of Emergency\n  </em>\n  and co-creator of\n  <em>\n   Tom Clancy''s Op-Center\n  </em>\n  series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/511'),
(11250, 'Breaking Point', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Perry &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  While struggling to recover from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels races against time to find the culprits responsible for stealing plans to a top-secret atmospheric weapon that uses low-frequency wave generation to drive people mad. Original.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint Air Force-Navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability to drive half a country into madness using low frequency wave generation. Now the technology has fallen into the wrong hands -- and testing has begun...\n </p>\n <p>\n  A powerful examination of America''s defense and intelligence systems of the future,\n  <em>\n   Tom Clancy''s Net Force TM\n  </em>\n  is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read by Stephen Lang\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Clancy is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including\n  <em>\n   Rainbow Six, Executive Orders\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Debt of Honor.\n  </em>\n  Steve Pieczenik is the author of\n  <em>\n   State of Emergency\n  </em>\n  and co-creator of\n  <em>\n   Tom Clancy''s Op-Center\n  </em>\n  series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9012'),
(11251, 'Breaking point', 'Tom Clancy; Steve Perry; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  While struggling to recover from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels races against time to find the culprits responsible for stealing plans to a top-secret atmospheric weapon that uses low-frequency wave generation to drive people mad. Original.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint Air Force-Navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability to drive half a country into madness using low frequency wave generation. Now the technology has fallen into the wrong hands -- and testing has begun...\n </p>\n <p>\n  A powerful examination of America''s defense and intelligence systems of the future,\n  <em>\n   Tom Clancy''s Net Force TM\n  </em>\n  is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Read by Stephen Lang\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Clancy is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including\n  <em>\n   Rainbow Six, Executive Orders\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Debt of Honor.\n  </em>\n  Steve Pieczenik is the author of\n  <em>\n   State of Emergency\n  </em>\n  and co-creator of\n  <em>\n   Tom Clancy''s Op-Center\n  </em>\n  series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24352'),
(11252, 'Breaking the Rules: A Novel', 'Suzanne Brockmann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In the powerful 16th Troubleshooter title, Brockman (Infamous) masterfully weaves the stories of the four Gillman siblings into a single narrative that reaffirms the importance of family. Ben, the youngest, asks Danny and Eden to come to Las Vegas and rescue him from their stepfather. Ben befriends Neesha, a teen running away from years of imprisonment in a brothel, as Eden struggles to prove she''s not as messed up as Danny thinks she is. Eden is also dodging her estranged husband, Izzy, who served in the Navy with Danny; he and Danny''s fabulous girlfriend, Jennilyn, are rare voices of sanity as the Gillmans try to forget the past and learn to get along while saving Ben and Neesha from their pursuers. The slowly rekindled attraction between Izzy and Eden is steamy, and Jennilyn is a rock for Danny, giving romance fans two delightful relationships for the price of one. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Breaking the Rules\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "In the powerful 16th Troubleshooter title, Brockman masterfully weaves the stories of the four Gillman siblings into a single narrative that reaffirms the importance of family." --\n </em>\n Publisher''s Weekly, starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  PRAISE FOR SUZANNE BROCKMANN\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann strikes the perfect balance between white-knuckle suspense and richly emotional romance.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe reigning queen of military suspense.â€â€”_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann is an undisputed master at writing military and suspense fiction [with] action, danger and passion all rolled into one.â€â€”Curled Up with a Good Book\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann is a master of adventure, drama, passion and suspense.â€â€”_The Tampa Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Brockmann] brilliantly combines superbly crafted, realistically complex characters with white-knuckle plotting.â€â€”_Booklist\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/909'),
(11253, 'Breaking the Rules: A Novel', 'Suzanne Brockmann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In the powerful 16th Troubleshooter title, Brockman (Infamous) masterfully weaves the stories of the four Gillman siblings into a single narrative that reaffirms the importance of family. Ben, the youngest, asks Danny and Eden to come to Las Vegas and rescue him from their stepfather. Ben befriends Neesha, a teen running away from years of imprisonment in a brothel, as Eden struggles to prove she''s not as messed up as Danny thinks she is. Eden is also dodging her estranged husband, Izzy, who served in the Navy with Danny; he and Danny''s fabulous girlfriend, Jennilyn, are rare voices of sanity as the Gillmans try to forget the past and learn to get along while saving Ben and Neesha from their pursuers. The slowly rekindled attraction between Izzy and Eden is steamy, and Jennilyn is a rock for Danny, giving romance fans two delightful relationships for the price of one. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Breaking the Rules\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "In the powerful 16th Troubleshooter title, Brockman masterfully weaves the stories of the four Gillman siblings into a single narrative that reaffirms the importance of family." --\n </em>\n Publisher''s Weekly, starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  PRAISE FOR SUZANNE BROCKMANN\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann strikes the perfect balance between white-knuckle suspense and richly emotional romance.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe reigning queen of military suspense.â€â€”_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann is an undisputed master at writing military and suspense fiction [with] action, danger and passion all rolled into one.â€â€”Curled Up with a Good Book\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann is a master of adventure, drama, passion and suspense.â€â€”_The Tampa Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Brockmann] brilliantly combines superbly crafted, realistically complex characters with white-knuckle plotting.â€â€”_Booklist\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8671'),
(11254, 'Breaking the Rules: A Novel', 'Suzanne Brockmann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In the powerful 16th Troubleshooter title, Brockman (Infamous) masterfully weaves the stories of the four Gillman siblings into a single narrative that reaffirms the importance of family. Ben, the youngest, asks Danny and Eden to come to Las Vegas and rescue him from their stepfather. Ben befriends Neesha, a teen running away from years of imprisonment in a brothel, as Eden struggles to prove she''s not as messed up as Danny thinks she is. Eden is also dodging her estranged husband, Izzy, who served in the Navy with Danny; he and Danny''s fabulous girlfriend, Jennilyn, are rare voices of sanity as the Gillmans try to forget the past and learn to get along while saving Ben and Neesha from their pursuers. The slowly rekindled attraction between Izzy and Eden is steamy, and Jennilyn is a rock for Danny, giving romance fans two delightful relationships for the price of one. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Breaking the Rules\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "In the powerful 16th Troubleshooter title, Brockman masterfully weaves the stories of the four Gillman siblings into a single narrative that reaffirms the importance of family." --\n </em>\n Publisher''s Weekly, starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  PRAISE FOR SUZANNE BROCKMANN\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann strikes the perfect balance between white-knuckle suspense and richly emotional romance.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe reigning queen of military suspense.â€â€”_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann is an undisputed master at writing military and suspense fiction [with] action, danger and passion all rolled into one.â€â€”Curled Up with a Good Book\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrockmann is a master of adventure, drama, passion and suspense.â€â€”_The Tampa Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Brockmann] brilliantly combines superbly crafted, realistically complex characters with white-knuckle plotting.â€â€”_Booklist\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23927'),
(11255, 'Breaking the Spell', 'Daniel C. Dennett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17310'),
(11256, 'Breakout', 'Richard Stark', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tired of do-gooder heroes saving the day? Meet Parker--just Parker to you, bub--a one-man wrecking crew, cunning, fearless, and more than just a little cold-blooded. Writing again under hard-boiled alter-ego Richard Stark, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake returns to the violent world of his legendary criminal creation with\n <em>\n  Breakout\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n This time around Parker has picked certain members of his crew wrong and the job goes south right into the county lockup. Alone and isolated, the antihero finds himself without much wiggle room. But experienced Stark readers know, wiggling is what the slippery Parker does best. In\n <em>\n  Breakout\n </em>\n , he wiggles himself out of jail and right into an even more dangerous situation involving an armory, a tunnel, and a jewelry wholesaler.\n</p>\n<p>\n While there are rough spots here and there,\n <em>\n  Breakout\n </em>\n is simply another fun-to-read Parker novel, taking readers again to the flip side where the bad guys win and the good guys are never as good as they should be. Call it a great escape because, with this Parker novel in particular, that''s just what it is.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fifth book about master criminal Parker since his welcome return from a 20-year hiatus is packed so tightly with the painstaking details of everything from the dank tedium of prison life to the architecture and construction of a Midwestern shopping complex that it comes as a shock to realize the volume isn''t bigger than it is. Stark, the nom de crime adopted for this series by MWA Grand Master Donald Westlake, is an artist of compression, with the ability to create a complex, frightening character in very few words. Of an Asian lawyer visiting Parker in prison, he writes, "Li was amused, not by Parker in particular but by his own entire life; it made him easy to be around, but suggested there were circumstances when he might not be completely reliable." But Stark is also remarkable because he seems to know how everything works and can explain it without slowing down the story. Stuck in a fortress-like holding prison "on the outskirts of the only large city in this big empty midwestern state" after a robbery goes bad, Parker links up with two other prisoners in a totally logical way, then plans a breakout (the first of several in the book) so credible that we''re swept up in its mechanics. But before he can return to his haven in rural New Jersey, Parker has to pay off the help he received by taking part in another robbery that falls apart in a different way that''s just as exhilarating. Watching artists like Stark and Parker at work is a great pleasure, which an increasing audience will be delighted to share.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1873'),
(11257, 'Breakout', 'Richard Stark', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tired of do-gooder heroes saving the day? Meet Parker--just Parker to you, bub--a one-man wrecking crew, cunning, fearless, and more than just a little cold-blooded. Writing again under hard-boiled alter-ego Richard Stark, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake returns to the violent world of his legendary criminal creation with\n <em>\n  Breakout\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n This time around Parker has picked certain members of his crew wrong and the job goes south right into the county lockup. Alone and isolated, the antihero finds himself without much wiggle room. But experienced Stark readers know, wiggling is what the slippery Parker does best. In\n <em>\n  Breakout\n </em>\n , he wiggles himself out of jail and right into an even more dangerous situation involving an armory, a tunnel, and a jewelry wholesaler.\n</p>\n<p>\n While there are rough spots here and there,\n <em>\n  Breakout\n </em>\n is simply another fun-to-read Parker novel, taking readers again to the flip side where the bad guys win and the good guys are never as good as they should be. Call it a great escape because, with this Parker novel in particular, that''s just what it is.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fifth book about master criminal Parker since his welcome return from a 20-year hiatus is packed so tightly with the painstaking details of everything from the dank tedium of prison life to the architecture and construction of a Midwestern shopping complex that it comes as a shock to realize the volume isn''t bigger than it is. Stark, the nom de crime adopted for this series by MWA Grand Master Donald Westlake, is an artist of compression, with the ability to create a complex, frightening character in very few words. Of an Asian lawyer visiting Parker in prison, he writes, "Li was amused, not by Parker in particular but by his own entire life; it made him easy to be around, but suggested there were circumstances when he might not be completely reliable." But Stark is also remarkable because he seems to know how everything works and can explain it without slowing down the story. Stuck in a fortress-like holding prison "on the outskirts of the only large city in this big empty midwestern state" after a robbery goes bad, Parker links up with two other prisoners in a totally logical way, then plans a breakout (the first of several in the book) so credible that we''re swept up in its mechanics. But before he can return to his haven in rural New Jersey, Parker has to pay off the help he received by taking part in another robbery that falls apart in a different way that''s just as exhilarating. Watching artists like Stark and Parker at work is a great pleasure, which an increasing audience will be delighted to share.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12809'),
(11258, 'Breakthrough!: How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World', 'Jon Queijo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This very well-written, cogent, and accessible book by freelance writer Queijo will be an important resource, especially for a lay audience. Each of the ten medical discoveries mentioned in the title is really a chapter delimiting the history of medicine. Chapters range from The World[HTML_REMOVED]s First Physician: Hippocrates and the Discovery of Medicine[HTML_REMOVED] to [HTML_REMOVED]A Return to Tradition: The Rediscovery of Alternative Medicine.[HTML_REMOVED] This book deserves a very wide readership. Especially useful for general readers, it also will be applicable in undergraduate education across a surprising range of disciplines."\n <strong>\n  Summing Up:\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates, general readers, and researchers/faculty\n </strong>\n . Reprinted with permission from CHOICE, copyright by the American Library Association.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully clear account of the great moments in medicine and a powerful reminder of the possibility of improvement in the fight against illness."Â  -â€“\n <strong>\n  Matt Ridley\n </strong>\n , author of\n <em>\n  Genome\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  10 World-Changing Revolutions in Medicine...\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  and the Remarkable Human Discoveries That Made Them Possible\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Â Â Â Â  The unforgettable life-or-death stories behind antibiotics, vaccines, DNA, X-rays, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Â Â Â Â  What happened, how it happened, and what it means to you today\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Â Â Â Â  A colorful cast of characters whose discoveries were often driven not only by personal tragedy, curiosity, and hard work, but petty bickering, dumb luck, and a healthy dose of humor\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Â Â Â Â  For anyone interested in science, medicine, and beyond...\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Why are you alive right now?\n </strong>\n Chances are, you owe your life to one of the remarkable medical discoveries in this book. Maybe it was vaccines. Or antibiotics. Or X-rays. Revolutionary medical breakthroughs like these havenâ€™t just changed the way we treat disease, theyâ€™ve transformed how we understand ourselves and the world we live in. In _\n <strong>\n  Breakthrough!\n </strong>\n _, Jon Queijo tells the hidden stories behind 10 of historyâ€™s most amazing medical discoveries. This isnâ€™t dry history: These are life-and-death mysteries uncovered, tales of passionate, often-mocked individuals who stood their ground and were proven right. From germs to genetics, the ancient Hippocrates to the cutting edge, these are stories that have changed the worldâ€“and, quite likely, saved your life.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4073');
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(11259, 'Breakthrough!: How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World', 'Jon Queijo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This very well-written, cogent, and accessible book by freelance writer Queijo will be an important resource, especially for a lay audience. Each of the ten medical discoveries mentioned in the title is really a chapter delimiting the history of medicine. Chapters range from The World[HTML_REMOVED]s First Physician: Hippocrates and the Discovery of Medicine[HTML_REMOVED] to [HTML_REMOVED]A Return to Tradition: The Rediscovery of Alternative Medicine.[HTML_REMOVED] This book deserves a very wide readership. Especially useful for general readers, it also will be applicable in undergraduate education across a surprising range of disciplines."\n <strong>\n  Summing Up:\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates, general readers, and researchers/faculty\n </strong>\n . Reprinted with permission from CHOICE, copyright by the American Library Association.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully clear account of the great moments in medicine and a powerful reminder of the possibility of improvement in the fight against illness."Â  -â€“\n <strong>\n  Matt Ridley\n </strong>\n , author of\n <em>\n  Genome\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  10 World-Changing Revolutions in Medicine...\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  and the Remarkable Human Discoveries That Made Them Possible\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Â Â Â Â  The unforgettable life-or-death stories behind antibiotics, vaccines, DNA, X-rays, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Â Â Â Â  What happened, how it happened, and what it means to you today\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Â Â Â Â  A colorful cast of characters whose discoveries were often driven not only by personal tragedy, curiosity, and hard work, but petty bickering, dumb luck, and a healthy dose of humor\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢Â Â Â Â  For anyone interested in science, medicine, and beyond...\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Why are you alive right now?\n </strong>\n Chances are, you owe your life to one of the remarkable medical discoveries in this book. Maybe it was vaccines. Or antibiotics. Or X-rays. Revolutionary medical breakthroughs like these havenâ€™t just changed the way we treat disease, theyâ€™ve transformed how we understand ourselves and the world we live in. In _\n <strong>\n  Breakthrough!\n </strong>\n _, Jon Queijo tells the hidden stories behind 10 of historyâ€™s most amazing medical discoveries. This isnâ€™t dry history: These are life-and-death mysteries uncovered, tales of passionate, often-mocked individuals who stood their ground and were proven right. From germs to genetics, the ancient Hippocrates to the cutting edge, these are stories that have changed the worldâ€“and, quite likely, saved your life.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12098'),
(11260, 'Breakthrough!: How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World', 'Jon Queijo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This very well-written, cogent, and accessible book by freelance writer Queijo will be an important resource, especially for a lay audience. Each of the ten medical discoveries mentioned in the title is really a chapter delimiting the history of medicine. Chapters range from The World[HTML_REMOVED]s First Physician: Hippocrates and the Discovery of Medicine[HTML_REMOVED] to [HTML_REMOVED]A Return to Tradition: The Rediscovery of Alternative Medicine.[HTML_REMOVED] This book deserves a very wide readership. Especially useful for general readers, it also will be applicable in undergraduate education across a surprising range of disciplines."\n <strong>\n  Summing Up:\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates, general readers, and researchers/faculty\n </strong>\n . Reprinted with permission from CHOICE, copyright by the American Library Association.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully clear account of the great moments in medicine and a powerful reminder of the possibility of improvement in the fight against illness." -â€“\n <strong>\n  Matt Ridley\n </strong>\n , author of\n <em>\n  Genome\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  10 World-Changing Revolutions in Medicine...\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  and the Remarkable Human Discoveries That Made Them Possible\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ The unforgettable life-or-death stories behind antibiotics, vaccines, DNA, X-rays, and more\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ What happened, how it happened, and what it means to you today\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ A colorful cast of characters whose discoveries were often driven not only by personal tragedy, curiosity, and hard work, but petty bickering, dumb luck, and a healthy dose of humor\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ For anyone interested in science, medicine, and beyond...\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Why are you alive right now?\n </strong>\n Chances are, you owe your life to one of the remarkable medical discoveries in this book. Maybe it was vaccines. Or antibiotics. Or X-rays. Revolutionary medical breakthroughs like these havenâ€™t just changed the way we treat disease, theyâ€™ve transformed how we understand ourselves and the world we live in. In _\n <strong>\n  Breakthrough!\n </strong>\n _, Jon Queijo tells the hidden stories behind 10 of historyâ€™s most amazing medical discoveries. This isnâ€™t dry history: These are life-and-death mysteries uncovered, tales of passionate, often-mocked individuals who stood their ground and were proven right. From germs to genetics, the ancient Hippocrates to the cutting edge, these are stories that have changed the worldâ€“and, quite likely, saved your life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20435'),
(11261, 'Breakup', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Breakup, Kate Shugak''s loyalties - to the land, her heritage, her home - are put to the test when a series of mishaps lead to murder. April in Alaska is typically a period of rebirth and renewal, and after the long winter Kate has nothing more strenuous on her agenda than paying her taxes. But mayhem abounds as the meltoff flows; this year''s thaw is accompanied by rampaging bears, family feuds, and a plane crash quite literally in Kate''s own backyard. What begins as a series of headaches escalates into possible murder when a dead body is found near her homestead. Initially unwilling to involve herself in the investigation, preferring instead to write off each odd occurrence as a breakup-related peculiarity, Kate is drawn irresistibly to seek the truth. Compelled by her friends to act as problem solver and guided by the spirit of her Aleut grandmother, she finds herself slowly taking on the role of clan leader, a post she is bound to by honor and blood. As breakup becomes increasingly fraught with danger and destruction, Kate must decide whether she can cross the line from passive observer to instrument of change, assuming the role of elder as the mantle of responsibility is passed.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Breakup, Kate Shugak''s loyalties - to the land, her heritage, her home - are put to the test when a series of mishaps lead to murder. April in Alaska is typically a period of rebirth and renewal, and after the long winter Kate has nothing more strenuous on her agenda than paying her taxes. But mayhem abounds as the meltoff flows; this year''s thaw is accompanied by rampaging bears, family feuds, and a plane crash quite literally in Kate''s own backyard. What begins as a series of headaches escalates into possible murder when a dead body is found near her homestead. Initially unwilling to involve herself in the investigation, preferring instead to write off each odd occurrence as a breakup-related peculiarity, Kate is drawn irresistibly to seek the truth. Compelled by her friends to act as problem solver and guided by the spirit of her Aleut grandmother, she finds herself slowly taking on the role of clan leader, a post she is bound to by honor and blood. As breakup becomes increasingly fraught with danger and destruction, Kate must decide whether she can cross the line from passive observer to instrument of change, assuming the role of elder as the mantle of responsibility is passed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6526'),
(11262, 'Breakup', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Breakup, Kate Shugak''s loyalties - to the land, her heritage, her home - are put to the test when a series of mishaps lead to murder. April in Alaska is typically a period of rebirth and renewal, and after the long winter Kate has nothing more strenuous on her agenda than paying her taxes. But mayhem abounds as the meltoff flows; this year''s thaw is accompanied by rampaging bears, family feuds, and a plane crash quite literally in Kate''s own backyard. What begins as a series of headaches escalates into possible murder when a dead body is found near her homestead. Initially unwilling to involve herself in the investigation, preferring instead to write off each odd occurrence as a breakup-related peculiarity, Kate is drawn irresistibly to seek the truth. Compelled by her friends to act as problem solver and guided by the spirit of her Aleut grandmother, she finds herself slowly taking on the role of clan leader, a post she is bound to by honor and blood. As breakup becomes increasingly fraught with danger and destruction, Kate must decide whether she can cross the line from passive observer to instrument of change, assuming the role of elder as the mantle of responsibility is passed. SUMMARY: In Breakup, Kate Shugak''s loyalties - to the land, her heritage, her home - are put to the test when a series of mishaps lead to murder. April in Alaska is typically a period of rebirth and renewal, and after the long winter Kate has nothing more strenuous on her agenda than paying her taxes. But mayhem abounds as the meltoff flows; this year''s thaw is accompanied by rampaging bears, family feuds, and a plane crash quite literally in Kate''s own backyard. What begins as a series of headaches escalates into possible murder when a dead body is found near her homestead. Initially unwilling to involve herself in the investigation, preferring instead to write off each odd occurrence as a breakup-related peculiarity, Kate is drawn irresistibly to seek the truth. Compelled by her friends to act as problem solver and guided by the spirit of her Aleut grandmother, she finds herself slowly taking on the role of clan leader, a post she is bound to by honor and blood. As breakup becomes increasingly fraught with danger and destruction, Kate must decide whether she can cross the line from passive observer to instrument of change, assuming the role of elder as the mantle of responsibility is passed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17540'),
(11263, 'Breakup', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Breakup, Kate Shugak''s loyalties - to the land, her heritage, her home - are put to the test when a series of mishaps lead to murder. April in Alaska is typically a period of rebirth and renewal, and after the long winter Kate has nothing more strenuous on her agenda than paying her taxes. But mayhem abounds as the meltoff flows; this year''s thaw is accompanied by rampaging bears, family feuds, and a plane crash quite literally in Kate''s own backyard. What begins as a series of headaches escalates into possible murder when a dead body is found near her homestead. Initially unwilling to involve herself in the investigation, preferring instead to write off each odd occurrence as a breakup-related peculiarity, Kate is drawn irresistibly to seek the truth. Compelled by her friends to act as problem solver and guided by the spirit of her Aleut grandmother, she finds herself slowly taking on the role of clan leader, a post she is bound to by honor and blood. As breakup becomes increasingly fraught with danger and destruction, Kate must decide whether she can cross the line from passive observer to instrument of change, assuming the role of elder as the mantle of responsibility is passed. SUMMARY: In Breakup, Kate Shugak''s loyalties - to the land, her heritage, her home - are put to the test when a series of mishaps lead to murder. April in Alaska is typically a period of rebirth and renewal, and after the long winter Kate has nothing more strenuous on her agenda than paying her taxes. But mayhem abounds as the meltoff flows; this year''s thaw is accompanied by rampaging bears, family feuds, and a plane crash quite literally in Kate''s own backyard. What begins as a series of headaches escalates into possible murder when a dead body is found near her homestead. Initially unwilling to involve herself in the investigation, preferring instead to write off each odd occurrence as a breakup-related peculiarity, Kate is drawn irresistibly to seek the truth. Compelled by her friends to act as problem solver and guided by the spirit of her Aleut grandmother, she finds herself slowly taking on the role of clan leader, a post she is bound to by honor and blood. As breakup becomes increasingly fraught with danger and destruction, Kate must decide whether she can cross the line from passive observer to instrument of change, assuming the role of elder as the mantle of responsibility is passed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27239'),
(11264, 'Breakup Reversed', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15699'),
(11265, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14842'),
(11266, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldonâ€™s bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time.Since the initial publication of **Outlander** fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldonâ€™s *New York Times* bestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over â€” and sold more than twelve million books. Now, **A Breath of Snow and Ashes** continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest.With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence â€” with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from *The Wilmington Gazette*, dated 1776, which reports Jamieâ€™s death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27473'),
(11267, 'Breath, Eyes, Memory', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Oprah Book ClubÂ® Selection, May 1998\n </strong>\n : "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to." The place is Haiti and the speaker is Sophie, the heroine of Edwidge Danticat''s novel, "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Like her protagonist, Danticat is also Haitian; like her, she was raised in Haiti by an aunt until she came to the United States at age 12. Indeed, in her short stories, Danticat has often drawn on her background to fund her fiction, and she continues to do so in her debut novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story begins in Haiti, on Mother''s Day, when young Sophie discovers that she is about to leave the only home she has ever known with her Tante Atie in Croix-des-Rosets, Haiti, to go live with her mother in New York City. These early chapters in Haiti are lovely, subtly evoking the tender, painful relationship between the motherless child and the childless woman who feels honor bound to guard the natural mother''s rights to the girl''s affections above her own. Presented with a Mother''s Day card, Tante Atie responds: "''It is for a mother, your mother.'' She motioned me away with a wave of her hand. ''When it is Aunt''s Day, you can make me one.''" Danticat also uses these pages to limn a vibrant portrait of life in Haiti from the cups of ginger tea and baskets of cassava bread served at community potlucks to the folk tales of a "people in Guinea who carry the sky on their heads."\n</p>\n<p>\n With Sophie''s transition from a fairly happy existence with her aunt and grandmother in rural Haiti to life in New York with a mother she has never seen, Danticat''s roots as a short-story writer become more evident; "Breath, Eyes, Memory" begins to read more like a collection of connected stories than a seamlessly evolved novel. In a couple of short chapters, Sophie arrives in New York, meets her mother, makes the acquaintance of her mother''s new boyfriend, Marc, and discovers that she was the product of a rape when her mother was a teenager in Haiti. The novel then jumps several years ahead to Sophie''s graduation from high school and her infatuation with an older man who lives next door. Unfortunately, this is also the point in the novel where Danticat begins to lay her themes on with a trowel instead of a brush: Sophie''s mother becomes obsessed with protecting her daughter''s virginity, going so far as to administer physical "tests" on a regular basis--testing which leads eventually to a rift in their relationship and to Sophie''s struggle with her own sexuality. Soon the litany of victimization is flying thick and fast: female genital mutilation, incest, rape, frigidity, breast cancer, and abortion are the issues that arise in the final third of the novel, eventually drowning both fine writing and perceptive characterization under a deluge of angst.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still, there is much to admire about "Breath, Eyes, Memory," and if at times the plot becomes overheated, Danticat''s lyrical, vivid prose offers some real delight. If nothing else, this novel is sure to entice readers to look for Danticat''s short stories--and possibly to sample other fiction from the West Indies as well.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A distinctive new voice with a sensitive insight into Haitian culture distinguishes this graceful debut novel about a young girl''s coming of age under difficult circumstances. "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place where you carry your past like the hair on your head," says narrator Sophie Caco, ruminating on the chains of duty and love that bind the courageous women in her family. The burden of being a woman in Haiti, where purity and chastity are a matter of family honor, and where "nightmares are passed on through generations like heirlooms," is Danticat''s theme. Born after her mother Martine was raped, Sophie is raised by her Tante Atie in a small town in Haiti. At 12 she joins Martine in New York, while Atie returns to her native village to care for indomitable Grandmother Ife. Neither Sophie nor Martine can escape the weight of the past, resulting in a pattern of insomnia, bulimia, sexual trauma and mental anguish that afflicts both of them and leads inexorably to tragedy. Though her tale is permeated with a haunting sadness, Danticat also imbues it with color and magic, beautifully evoking the pace and character of Creole life, the feel of both village and farm communities, where the omnipresent Tontons Macoute mean daily terror, where voudon rituals and superstitions still dominate even as illiterate inhabitants utilize such 20th-century conveniences as cassettes to correspond with emigres in America. In simple, lyrical prose enriched by an elegiac tone and piquant observations, she makes Sophie''s confusion and guilt, her difficult assimilation into American culture and her eventual emotional liberation palpably clear. Paperback rights to Vintage; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5785'),
(11268, 'Breath, Eyes, Memory', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Oprah Book ClubÂ® Selection, May 1998\n </strong>\n : "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to." The place is Haiti and the speaker is Sophie, the heroine of Edwidge Danticat''s novel, "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Like her protagonist, Danticat is also Haitian; like her, she was raised in Haiti by an aunt until she came to the United States at age 12. Indeed, in her short stories, Danticat has often drawn on her background to fund her fiction, and she continues to do so in her debut novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story begins in Haiti, on Mother''s Day, when young Sophie discovers that she is about to leave the only home she has ever known with her Tante Atie in Croix-des-Rosets, Haiti, to go live with her mother in New York City. These early chapters in Haiti are lovely, subtly evoking the tender, painful relationship between the motherless child and the childless woman who feels honor bound to guard the natural mother''s rights to the girl''s affections above her own. Presented with a Mother''s Day card, Tante Atie responds: "''It is for a mother, your mother.'' She motioned me away with a wave of her hand. ''When it is Aunt''s Day, you can make me one.''" Danticat also uses these pages to limn a vibrant portrait of life in Haiti from the cups of ginger tea and baskets of cassava bread served at community potlucks to the folk tales of a "people in Guinea who carry the sky on their heads."\n</p>\n<p>\n With Sophie''s transition from a fairly happy existence with her aunt and grandmother in rural Haiti to life in New York with a mother she has never seen, Danticat''s roots as a short-story writer become more evident; "Breath, Eyes, Memory" begins to read more like a collection of connected stories than a seamlessly evolved novel. In a couple of short chapters, Sophie arrives in New York, meets her mother, makes the acquaintance of her mother''s new boyfriend, Marc, and discovers that she was the product of a rape when her mother was a teenager in Haiti. The novel then jumps several years ahead to Sophie''s graduation from high school and her infatuation with an older man who lives next door. Unfortunately, this is also the point in the novel where Danticat begins to lay her themes on with a trowel instead of a brush: Sophie''s mother becomes obsessed with protecting her daughter''s virginity, going so far as to administer physical "tests" on a regular basis--testing which leads eventually to a rift in their relationship and to Sophie''s struggle with her own sexuality. Soon the litany of victimization is flying thick and fast: female genital mutilation, incest, rape, frigidity, breast cancer, and abortion are the issues that arise in the final third of the novel, eventually drowning both fine writing and perceptive characterization under a deluge of angst.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still, there is much to admire about "Breath, Eyes, Memory," and if at times the plot becomes overheated, Danticat''s lyrical, vivid prose offers some real delight. If nothing else, this novel is sure to entice readers to look for Danticat''s short stories--and possibly to sample other fiction from the West Indies as well.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A distinctive new voice with a sensitive insight into Haitian culture distinguishes this graceful debut novel about a young girl''s coming of age under difficult circumstances. "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place where you carry your past like the hair on your head," says narrator Sophie Caco, ruminating on the chains of duty and love that bind the courageous women in her family. The burden of being a woman in Haiti, where purity and chastity are a matter of family honor, and where "nightmares are passed on through generations like heirlooms," is Danticat''s theme. Born after her mother Martine was raped, Sophie is raised by her Tante Atie in a small town in Haiti. At 12 she joins Martine in New York, while Atie returns to her native village to care for indomitable Grandmother Ife. Neither Sophie nor Martine can escape the weight of the past, resulting in a pattern of insomnia, bulimia, sexual trauma and mental anguish that afflicts both of them and leads inexorably to tragedy. Though her tale is permeated with a haunting sadness, Danticat also imbues it with color and magic, beautifully evoking the pace and character of Creole life, the feel of both village and farm communities, where the omnipresent Tontons Macoute mean daily terror, where voudon rituals and superstitions still dominate even as illiterate inhabitants utilize such 20th-century conveniences as cassettes to correspond with emigres in America. In simple, lyrical prose enriched by an elegiac tone and piquant observations, she makes Sophie''s confusion and guilt, her difficult assimilation into American culture and her eventual emotional liberation palpably clear. Paperback rights to Vintage; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9172'),
(11269, 'Breath, Eyes, Memory', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Oprah Book ClubÂ® Selection, May 1998\n </strong>\n : "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to." The place is Haiti and the speaker is Sophie, the heroine of Edwidge Danticat''s novel, "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Like her protagonist, Danticat is also Haitian; like her, she was raised in Haiti by an aunt until she came to the United States at age 12. Indeed, in her short stories, Danticat has often drawn on her background to fund her fiction, and she continues to do so in her debut novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story begins in Haiti, on Mother''s Day, when young Sophie discovers that she is about to leave the only home she has ever known with her Tante Atie in Croix-des-Rosets, Haiti, to go live with her mother in New York City. These early chapters in Haiti are lovely, subtly evoking the tender, painful relationship between the motherless child and the childless woman who feels honor bound to guard the natural mother''s rights to the girl''s affections above her own. Presented with a Mother''s Day card, Tante Atie responds: "''It is for a mother, your mother.'' She motioned me away with a wave of her hand. ''When it is Aunt''s Day, you can make me one.''" Danticat also uses these pages to limn a vibrant portrait of life in Haiti from the cups of ginger tea and baskets of cassava bread served at community potlucks to the folk tales of a "people in Guinea who carry the sky on their heads."\n</p>\n<p>\n With Sophie''s transition from a fairly happy existence with her aunt and grandmother in rural Haiti to life in New York with a mother she has never seen, Danticat''s roots as a short-story writer become more evident; "Breath, Eyes, Memory" begins to read more like a collection of connected stories than a seamlessly evolved novel. In a couple of short chapters, Sophie arrives in New York, meets her mother, makes the acquaintance of her mother''s new boyfriend, Marc, and discovers that she was the product of a rape when her mother was a teenager in Haiti. The novel then jumps several years ahead to Sophie''s graduation from high school and her infatuation with an older man who lives next door. Unfortunately, this is also the point in the novel where Danticat begins to lay her themes on with a trowel instead of a brush: Sophie''s mother becomes obsessed with protecting her daughter''s virginity, going so far as to administer physical "tests" on a regular basis--testing which leads eventually to a rift in their relationship and to Sophie''s struggle with her own sexuality. Soon the litany of victimization is flying thick and fast: female genital mutilation, incest, rape, frigidity, breast cancer, and abortion are the issues that arise in the final third of the novel, eventually drowning both fine writing and perceptive characterization under a deluge of angst.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still, there is much to admire about "Breath, Eyes, Memory," and if at times the plot becomes overheated, Danticat''s lyrical, vivid prose offers some real delight. If nothing else, this novel is sure to entice readers to look for Danticat''s short stories--and possibly to sample other fiction from the West Indies as well.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A distinctive new voice with a sensitive insight into Haitian culture distinguishes this graceful debut novel about a young girl''s coming of age under difficult circumstances. "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place where you carry your past like the hair on your head," says narrator Sophie Caco, ruminating on the chains of duty and love that bind the courageous women in her family. The burden of being a woman in Haiti, where purity and chastity are a matter of family honor, and where "nightmares are passed on through generations like heirlooms," is Danticat''s theme. Born after her mother Martine was raped, Sophie is raised by her Tante Atie in a small town in Haiti. At 12 she joins Martine in New York, while Atie returns to her native village to care for indomitable Grandmother Ife. Neither Sophie nor Martine can escape the weight of the past, resulting in a pattern of insomnia, bulimia, sexual trauma and mental anguish that afflicts both of them and leads inexorably to tragedy. Though her tale is permeated with a haunting sadness, Danticat also imbues it with color and magic, beautifully evoking the pace and character of Creole life, the feel of both village and farm communities, where the omnipresent Tontons Macoute mean daily terror, where voudon rituals and superstitions still dominate even as illiterate inhabitants utilize such 20th-century conveniences as cassettes to correspond with emigres in America. In simple, lyrical prose enriched by an elegiac tone and piquant observations, she makes Sophie''s confusion and guilt, her difficult assimilation into American culture and her eventual emotional liberation palpably clear. Paperback rights to Vintage; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18856'),
(11270, 'Breathe', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An original and horrific slice of urban terror from one of the masters of the genre...  All is not well at SymaxCorp. The work is piled high, people are toiling overnight to meet deadlines, and the supervisors are keeping their beady eyes on everyone. But staff are complaining of feeling sick, and the last health and safety officer disappeared one evening never to be seen again.  Itâ€™s down to new boy Ben, together with temp Miranda, kick-boxing Meera and overweight June to try and get to the bottom of the problem.  As colleagues are progressively transformed into mindless, blood crazed zombies, Ben and his friends discover that there really is something in the air...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6808'),
(11271, 'Breathe', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An original and horrific slice of urban terror from one of the masters of the genre...  All is not well at SymaxCorp. The work is piled high, people are toiling overnight to meet deadlines, and the supervisors are keeping their beady eyes on everyone. But staff are complaining of feeling sick, and the last health and safety officer disappeared one evening never to be seen again.  Itâ€™s down to new boy Ben, together with temp Miranda, kick-boxing Meera and overweight June to try and get to the bottom of the problem.  As colleagues are progressively transformed into mindless, blood crazed zombies, Ben and his friends discover that there really is something in the air...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9797'),
(11272, 'Breathe', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An original and horrific slice of urban terror from one of the masters of the genre... All is not well at SymaxCorp. The work is piled high, people are toiling overnight to meet deadlines, and the supervisors are keeping their beady eyes on everyone. But staff are complaining of feeling sick, and the last health and safety officer disappeared one evening never to be seen again. Itâ€™s down to new boy Ben, together with temp Miranda, kick-boxing Meera and overweight June to try and get to the bottom of the problem. As colleagues are progressively transformed into mindless, blood crazed zombies, Ben and his friends discover that there really is something in the air...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18030'),
(11273, 'Breathing Room', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips &amp; Susan Elizabeth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Isabel Favor is a life-style coach whose life is falling apart. Her accountant has run off with her money, her reputation is in tatters and her fiance has just dumped her for an older woman. Isabel needs to escape so she heads for Tuscany determined to find a little perspective - breathing room - and start over.Instead she ends up in a hotel room with Hollywood bad boy, Lorenzo Gage. He makes his living killing people on the screen at least. Ren''s reputation is blacker than black. But when you''re everyone''s favourite villain, it goes with the territory. Isabel''s always prided herself on her neatly ordered life. But look where being good has got her. Maybe it''s time to live a little...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/982'),
(11274, 'Breathing Room', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips &amp; Susan Elizabeth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Isabel Favor is a life-style coach whose life is falling apart. Her accountant has run off with her money, her reputation is in tatters and her fiance has just dumped her for an older woman. Isabel needs to escape so she heads for Tuscany determined to find a little perspective - breathing room - and start over.Instead she ends up in a hotel room with Hollywood bad boy, Lorenzo Gage. He makes his living killing people on the screen at least. Ren''s reputation is blacker than black. But when you''re everyone''s favourite villain, it goes with the territory. Isabel''s always prided herself on her neatly ordered life. But look where being good has got her. Maybe it''s time to live a little...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11936'),
(11275, 'Breathing Room', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23990'),
(11276, 'Breathless', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a thrilling novel of suspense and adventure, as the lives of strangers converge around a mystery unfolding high in the Colorado mountainsâ€”and the balance of the world begins to tiltâ€¦.  In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his magnificent Irish wolfhound Merlin step from shadow into lightâ€¦and into an encounter with enchantment. That night, through the trees, under the moon, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady''s isolated home, waiting to make their approach.  A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring all the forces of a government in peril to her door. At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come together to begin a descent into darknessâ€¦In Las Vegas, a specialist in chaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowableâ€¦On a Seattle golf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements for murderâ€¦Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the past begins a trek toward his destinyâ€¦ In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless, fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the moment between one turn of the world and the next, across the border between knowing and mystery. It is a journey that will leave all who take it **Breathless***.   **From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6075'),
(11277, 'Breathless', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a thrilling novel of suspense and adventure, as the lives of strangers converge around a mystery unfolding high in the Colorado mountainsâ€”and the balance of the world begins to tiltâ€¦.  In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his magnificent Irish wolfhound Merlin step from shadow into lightâ€¦and into an encounter with enchantment. That night, through the trees, under the moon, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady''s isolated home, waiting to make their approach.  A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring all the forces of a government in peril to her door. At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come together to begin a descent into darknessâ€¦In Las Vegas, a specialist in chaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowableâ€¦On a Seattle golf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements for murderâ€¦Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the past begins a trek toward his destinyâ€¦ In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless, fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the moment between one turn of the world and the next, across the border between knowing and mystery. It is a journey that will leave all who take it **Breathless***.   **From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10839'),
(11278, 'Breathless', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Relentless.In the Colorado mountains something miraculous comes into the life of Grady Adams, a strong, gentle man whose past experiences have alienated him from the modern world and driven him to live in the wilds. When he sees it, he knows that one of Nature''s great mysteries has been revealed to him.He takes his friend Cammy Rivers to bear witness to the phenomenal presence. As a scientist, she is stunned and awed. She emails photos to colleagues in far places to try and find a name for the wonderful beings. Before they know what is happening, Homeland Security has quarantined the wilderness around them and sent in assorted scientists to track down and ''neutralize'' the threat to the known world.Grady and Cammy aren''t sticking around to be mere witnesses to this atrocity '' determined to prevent it, they go on the run, and a pursuit of hair-raising suspense is under way, with no happy ending in prospect''å†°reathless is a unique and riveting thriller from the master of suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17850'),
(11279, 'Breathless', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Relentless.In the Colorado mountains something miraculous comes into the life of Grady Adams, a strong, gentle man whose past experiences have alienated him from the modern world and driven him to live in the wilds. When he sees it, he knows that one of Nature''s great mysteries has been revealed to him.He takes his friend Cammy Rivers to bear witness to the phenomenal presence. As a scientist, she is stunned and awed. She emails photos to colleagues in far places to try and find a name for the wonderful beings. Before they know what is happening, Homeland Security has quarantined the wilderness around them and sent in assorted scientists to track down and ''neutralize'' the threat to the known world.Grady and Cammy aren''t sticking around to be mere witnesses to this atrocity '' determined to prevent it, they go on the run, and a pursuit of hair-raising suspense is under way, with no happy ending in prospect''å†°reathless is a unique and riveting thriller from the master of suspense.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27416'),
(11280, 'Breed to Come', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15937'),
(11281, 'Breeder', 'Douglas Clegg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Douglas Clegg, award-winning author of The Priest of Blood and Afterlife, comes a nightmarish vision of Washington, D.C.-where shadows and mystery linger in the alleys, and where the haunts of the past come to life. This House has a Name . . . Rachel Adair thought Draper House in Washington, D.C, would be the perfect place for her and her husband, Hugh, to try and start a family. But as soon they moved into the century-old townhouse, the nightmares began: horrific images of the child Rachel lost; the unforgivable sins of Hugh''s father; scenes of blood-curdling rituals . . . and the scraping sounds of an even greater terror that lives within the walls . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5933'),
(11282, 'Breeder', 'Douglas Clegg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Douglas Clegg, award-winning author of The Priest of Blood and Afterlife, comes a nightmarish vision of Washington, D.C.-where shadows and mystery linger in the alleys, and where the haunts of the past come to life. This House has a Name . . . Rachel Adair thought Draper House in Washington, D.C, would be the perfect place for her and her husband, Hugh, to try and start a family. But as soon they moved into the century-old townhouse, the nightmares began: horrific images of the child Rachel lost; the unforgivable sins of Hugh''s father; scenes of blood-curdling rituals . . . and the scraping sounds of an even greater terror that lives within the walls . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18701'),
(11283, 'Breeder', 'Douglas Clegg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Douglas Clegg, award-winning author of The Priest of Blood and Afterlife, comes a nightmarish vision of Washington, D.C.-where shadows and mystery linger in the alleys, and where the haunts of the past come to life. This House has a Name . . . Rachel Adair thought Draper House in Washington, D.C, would be the perfect place for her and her husband, Hugh, to try and start a family. But as soon they moved into the century-old townhouse, the nightmares began: horrific images of the child Rachel lost; the unforgivable sins of Hugh''s father; scenes of blood-curdling rituals . . . and the scraping sounds of an even greater terror that lives within the walls . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27579'),
(11284, 'Breeder Reaction', 'Winston K. Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely, radiant, atomic lookâ€”just the way the advertisements said it would. In fact, it also gave you a little something more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/173'),
(11285, 'Breeder Reaction', 'Winston K. Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely, radiant, atomic lookâ€”just the way the advertisements said it would. In fact, it also gave you a little something more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24786'),
(11286, 'The Brethren', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong.Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich -- very fast. And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam ... while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips -- and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren, the timing couldn''t be better. Because they''ve just found the perfect victim...From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4313'),
(11287, 'The Brethren', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong.Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich -- very fast. And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam ... while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips -- and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren, the timing couldn''t be better. Because they''ve just found the perfect victim...From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14976'),
(11288, 'The Brethren', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong.Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich -- very fast. And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam ... while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips -- and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren, the timing couldn''t be better. Because they''ve just found the perfect victim...From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21385');
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(11289, 'Brian&#39;s Hunt', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The multitudes of __ fans) will be thrilled to find that the author has penned yet another story about Brian Robeson. Although Paulsen once claimed that he would "write no more about Brian," he seems to have been softened by the "staggering amounts of mail from readers" begging for more about the teen who is more at home alone in the wilderness than in the hustle and bustle of city life. In\n <em>\n  Brianâ€™s Hunt\n </em>\n , the 16-year-old returns to the remote woods and lakes of Canada, where he encounters a mysteriously injured dog. His experiences two years earlier, after surviving a plane crash and months alone with only a hatchet to protect and provide for himself (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n , etc.), have prepared him well to survive now. But can anything prime him for the horror that awaits him on an island campsite where he intends to meet his Cree friends?\n</p>\n<p>\n This short episode is rife with the kind of gritty--even gruesome--details readers have come to expect from the Newbery Honor author. In an afterword, Paulsen reminds readers that he bases his stories on personal experiences and his extensive knowledge of the wild side of nature.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confidential to avid fans: an intimation of romance amid all the rugged drama hints that\n <em>\n  this\n </em>\n will not be the last\n <em>\n  Brian\n </em>\n book, either. (Ages 10 to 13)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6-9-In an author''s note, Paulsen explains why he decided to reopen the story first begun in Hatchet (Bradbury, 1987). In this short installment, Brian, now 16, is back in the wilderness and encounters a savagely wounded dog. He makes his way to the lake island home of the Cree man he met in Brian''s Return (Delacorte, 1999), where he discovers the tragedy that led to the dog''s liberation. David and his wife have been partially eaten by a bear, which necessitates the hunt mentioned in the title and described in the final chapter. Throughout, the protagonist frequently remembers events from his original stranding, alludes to the problems he had faced trying to return to "civilization," and ultimately explains the special arrangement by which he has returned to the "bush" instead of high school. Although the story does stand alone, these many references will make the audience want to read (or reread) the earlier books. This story is not as well developed as the other episodes but it is a must-read for the hordes of existing Hatchet fans out there, and it may also serve to draw some new readers into the fold. An afterword discusses bear behavior and Paulsen''s experiences with these animals.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Sean George, Memphis-Shelby County Public Library &amp; Information Center, Memphis, TN\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5391'),
(11290, 'Brian&#39;s Hunt', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The multitudes of __ fans) will be thrilled to find that the author has penned yet another story about Brian Robeson. Although Paulsen once claimed that he would "write no more about Brian," he seems to have been softened by the "staggering amounts of mail from readers" begging for more about the teen who is more at home alone in the wilderness than in the hustle and bustle of city life. In\n <em>\n  Brianâ€™s Hunt\n </em>\n , the 16-year-old returns to the remote woods and lakes of Canada, where he encounters a mysteriously injured dog. His experiences two years earlier, after surviving a plane crash and months alone with only a hatchet to protect and provide for himself (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n , etc.), have prepared him well to survive now. But can anything prime him for the horror that awaits him on an island campsite where he intends to meet his Cree friends?\n</p>\n<p>\n This short episode is rife with the kind of gritty--even gruesome--details readers have come to expect from the Newbery Honor author. In an afterword, Paulsen reminds readers that he bases his stories on personal experiences and his extensive knowledge of the wild side of nature.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confidential to avid fans: an intimation of romance amid all the rugged drama hints that\n <em>\n  this\n </em>\n will not be the last\n <em>\n  Brian\n </em>\n book, either. (Ages 10 to 13)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6-9-In an author''s note, Paulsen explains why he decided to reopen the story first begun in Hatchet (Bradbury, 1987). In this short installment, Brian, now 16, is back in the wilderness and encounters a savagely wounded dog. He makes his way to the lake island home of the Cree man he met in Brian''s Return (Delacorte, 1999), where he discovers the tragedy that led to the dog''s liberation. David and his wife have been partially eaten by a bear, which necessitates the hunt mentioned in the title and described in the final chapter. Throughout, the protagonist frequently remembers events from his original stranding, alludes to the problems he had faced trying to return to "civilization," and ultimately explains the special arrangement by which he has returned to the "bush" instead of high school. Although the story does stand alone, these many references will make the audience want to read (or reread) the earlier books. This story is not as well developed as the other episodes but it is a must-read for the hordes of existing Hatchet fans out there, and it may also serve to draw some new readers into the fold. An afterword discusses bear behavior and Paulsen''s experiences with these animals.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Sean George, Memphis-Shelby County Public Library &amp; Information Center, Memphis, TN\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11881'),
(11291, 'Brian&#39;s Hunt', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The multitudes of __ fans) will be thrilled to find that the author has penned yet another story about Brian Robeson. Although Paulsen once claimed that he would "write no more about Brian," he seems to have been softened by the "staggering amounts of mail from readers" begging for more about the teen who is more at home alone in the wilderness than in the hustle and bustle of city life. In\n <em>\n  Brianâ€™s Hunt\n </em>\n , the 16-year-old returns to the remote woods and lakes of Canada, where he encounters a mysteriously injured dog. His experiences two years earlier, after surviving a plane crash and months alone with only a hatchet to protect and provide for himself (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n , etc.), have prepared him well to survive now. But can anything prime him for the horror that awaits him on an island campsite where he intends to meet his Cree friends?\n</p>\n<p>\n This short episode is rife with the kind of gritty--even gruesome--details readers have come to expect from the Newbery Honor author. In an afterword, Paulsen reminds readers that he bases his stories on personal experiences and his extensive knowledge of the wild side of nature.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confidential to avid fans: an intimation of romance amid all the rugged drama hints that\n <em>\n  this\n </em>\n will not be the last\n <em>\n  Brian\n </em>\n book, either. (Ages 10 to 13)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6-9-In an author''s note, Paulsen explains why he decided to reopen the story first begun in Hatchet (Bradbury, 1987). In this short installment, Brian, now 16, is back in the wilderness and encounters a savagely wounded dog. He makes his way to the lake island home of the Cree man he met in Brian''s Return (Delacorte, 1999), where he discovers the tragedy that led to the dog''s liberation. David and his wife have been partially eaten by a bear, which necessitates the hunt mentioned in the title and described in the final chapter. Throughout, the protagonist frequently remembers events from his original stranding, alludes to the problems he had faced trying to return to "civilization," and ultimately explains the special arrangement by which he has returned to the "bush" instead of high school. Although the story does stand alone, these many references will make the audience want to read (or reread) the earlier books. This story is not as well developed as the other episodes but it is a must-read for the hordes of existing Hatchet fans out there, and it may also serve to draw some new readers into the fold. An afterword discusses bear behavior and Paulsen''s experiences with these animals.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Sean George, Memphis-Shelby County Public Library &amp; Information Center, Memphis, TN\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19225'),
(11292, 'Brian&#39;s Return', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A deer in his canoe, a bear attack, a leg stabbed with an arrowhead--it''s just another week in the life of 16-year-old Brian Robeson. In his opinion, this beats a date at Mackey''s Pizza Den, a fight with a bully, and a video game at the mall any day. After having survived a plane crash and 54 days in the Canadian wilderness several years earlier, Brian can''t seem to fit into "civilization." The world of high school and family life makes no sense anymore. So Brian begins to plan. It''s time to return to the woods. This time, though, he makes no plans to come back home.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gary Paulsen, the popular author of many critically acclaimed books for young people and winner of the 1997 Margaret A. Edward Award, has written another sequel to the Newbery Honor Book __. (\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n were earlier sequels.) Paulsen''s graphic and detailed descriptions of Brian''s adventures demonstrate a deep familiarity and connection to the wilderness; and in fact the author has spent much of his life in the bush, living almost entirely off the land. Brian''s experiences in nature parallel his growing independence and maturity; readers who don''t feel like they "fit in" will easily relate to the young protagonist''s search for identity and purity. (Ages 11 and older)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The appearance of yet another sequel to Hatchet may raise a few eyebrows, but Paulsen delivers a vigorous, stirring story that stands on its own merits. Whereas the previous continuations, The River and Brian''s Winter, essentially offer more of the same survivalist thrills that have made Hatchet so popular, this novel goes further, posing a more profound question: How does someone go from living on the edge to polite membership in ordinary society? (Paulsen addresses the same theme, albeit more grimly, in his Civil War novel Soldier''s Heart.) Here, Brian has returned to his mother''s house and can barely reconcile the seemingly arbitrary demands of high school with the life-or-death challenges he surmounted during his months alone in the wilderness. With the aid of a counselor, Brian formulates what had been an almost instinctual, unacknowledged plan to revisit the bush, and this solo trip, not his interlude with his mother, marks the true "return" of the title. The few cliff-hangers are almost beside the point: the great adventure here is the embrace of the wild, the knowledge of life at its most elemental. Aside from its occasional use of YA conventions (e.g., the preternaturally sensitive counselor; jejune rhapsodies over the relevance of Shakespeare), this work is bold, confident and persuasive, its transcendental themes powerfully seductive. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5393'),
(11293, 'Brian&#39;s Return', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A deer in his canoe, a bear attack, a leg stabbed with an arrowhead--it''s just another week in the life of 16-year-old Brian Robeson. In his opinion, this beats a date at Mackey''s Pizza Den, a fight with a bully, and a video game at the mall any day. After having survived a plane crash and 54 days in the Canadian wilderness several years earlier, Brian can''t seem to fit into "civilization." The world of high school and family life makes no sense anymore. So Brian begins to plan. It''s time to return to the woods. This time, though, he makes no plans to come back home.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gary Paulsen, the popular author of many critically acclaimed books for young people and winner of the 1997 Margaret A. Edward Award, has written another sequel to the Newbery Honor Book __. (\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n were earlier sequels.) Paulsen''s graphic and detailed descriptions of Brian''s adventures demonstrate a deep familiarity and connection to the wilderness; and in fact the author has spent much of his life in the bush, living almost entirely off the land. Brian''s experiences in nature parallel his growing independence and maturity; readers who don''t feel like they "fit in" will easily relate to the young protagonist''s search for identity and purity. (Ages 11 and older)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The appearance of yet another sequel to Hatchet may raise a few eyebrows, but Paulsen delivers a vigorous, stirring story that stands on its own merits. Whereas the previous continuations, The River and Brian''s Winter, essentially offer more of the same survivalist thrills that have made Hatchet so popular, this novel goes further, posing a more profound question: How does someone go from living on the edge to polite membership in ordinary society? (Paulsen addresses the same theme, albeit more grimly, in his Civil War novel Soldier''s Heart.) Here, Brian has returned to his mother''s house and can barely reconcile the seemingly arbitrary demands of high school with the life-or-death challenges he surmounted during his months alone in the wilderness. With the aid of a counselor, Brian formulates what had been an almost instinctual, unacknowledged plan to revisit the bush, and this solo trip, not his interlude with his mother, marks the true "return" of the title. The few cliff-hangers are almost beside the point: the great adventure here is the embrace of the wild, the knowledge of life at its most elemental. Aside from its occasional use of YA conventions (e.g., the preternaturally sensitive counselor; jejune rhapsodies over the relevance of Shakespeare), this work is bold, confident and persuasive, its transcendental themes powerfully seductive. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11882'),
(11294, 'Brian&#39;s Return', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A deer in his canoe, a bear attack, a leg stabbed with an arrowhead--it''s just another week in the life of 16-year-old Brian Robeson. In his opinion, this beats a date at Mackey''s Pizza Den, a fight with a bully, and a video game at the mall any day. After having survived a plane crash and 54 days in the Canadian wilderness several years earlier, Brian can''t seem to fit into "civilization." The world of high school and family life makes no sense anymore. So Brian begins to plan. It''s time to return to the woods. This time, though, he makes no plans to come back home.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gary Paulsen, the popular author of many critically acclaimed books for young people and winner of the 1997 Margaret A. Edward Award, has written another sequel to the Newbery Honor Book __. (\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n were earlier sequels.) Paulsen''s graphic and detailed descriptions of Brian''s adventures demonstrate a deep familiarity and connection to the wilderness; and in fact the author has spent much of his life in the bush, living almost entirely off the land. Brian''s experiences in nature parallel his growing independence and maturity; readers who don''t feel like they "fit in" will easily relate to the young protagonist''s search for identity and purity. (Ages 11 and older)\n <em>\n  --Emilie Coulter\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The appearance of yet another sequel to Hatchet may raise a few eyebrows, but Paulsen delivers a vigorous, stirring story that stands on its own merits. Whereas the previous continuations, The River and Brian''s Winter, essentially offer more of the same survivalist thrills that have made Hatchet so popular, this novel goes further, posing a more profound question: How does someone go from living on the edge to polite membership in ordinary society? (Paulsen addresses the same theme, albeit more grimly, in his Civil War novel Soldier''s Heart.) Here, Brian has returned to his mother''s house and can barely reconcile the seemingly arbitrary demands of high school with the life-or-death challenges he surmounted during his months alone in the wilderness. With the aid of a counselor, Brian formulates what had been an almost instinctual, unacknowledged plan to revisit the bush, and this solo trip, not his interlude with his mother, marks the true "return" of the title. The few cliff-hangers are almost beside the point: the great adventure here is the embrace of the wild, the knowledge of life at its most elemental. Aside from its occasional use of YA conventions (e.g., the preternaturally sensitive counselor; jejune rhapsodies over the relevance of Shakespeare), this work is bold, confident and persuasive, its transcendental themes powerfully seductive. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19224'),
(11295, 'Brian&#39;s Winter', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First there was Hatchet, Paulsen''s classic tale of a boy''s survival in the north woods after a plane crash. Then came a sequel, The River, and, last year, Father Water, Mother Woods, a collection of autobiographical essays introduced as the nonfiction counterpart to Hatchet. Now Paulsen backs up and asks readers to imagine that Brian, the hero, hadn''t been rescued after all. His many fans will be only too glad to comply, revisiting Brian at the onset of a punishing Canadian winter. The pace never relents-the story begins, as it were, in the middle, with Brian already toughened up and his reflexes primed for crisis. Paulsen serves up one cliffhanger after another (a marauding bear, a charging elk), and always there are the supreme challenges of obtaining food and protection against the cold. Authoritative narration makes it easy for readers to join Brian vicariously as he wields his hatchet to whittle arrows and arrowheads and a lance, hunts game, and devises clothes out of animal skins; while teasers at the ends of chapters keep the tension high ("He would hunt big tomorrow, he thought.... But as it happened he very nearly never hunted again"). The moral of the story: it pays to write your favorite author and ask for another helping. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-9-At the conclusion of Hatchet (Macmillan, 1987), Brian Robeson is rescued after surviving a plane crash and summer alone in the north Canadian woods. Now, in this second sequel, Paulsen shows what would have happened if the 13-year-old boy had been forced to endure the harsh winter. For a brief time, Brian lives in relative luxury, living off the contents of the recently recovered survival pack, which included a gun for hunting. Then, his freeze-dried food runs out and his rifle fails, and he realizes how careless and complacent he has become. Suddenly aware of the changing seasons, he works frantically to winterize his shelter, fashion warmer clothes from animal skins, and construct a more powerful bow and arrow. About the time he has mastered winter survival, he discovers a dog-sled trail that leads him to a trapper and final rescue. The same formula that worked before is successful here: the driving pace of the narration, the breathtaking descriptions of nature, and the boy who triumphs on the merits of efficient problem solving. The author''s ability to cast a spell, mesmerize his audience, and provide a clinic in winter survival is reason enough to buy this novel. Although the plot is both familiar and predictable, Paulsen fans will not be disappointed.?Tim Rausch, Crescent View Middle School, Sandy, UT\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5394'),
(11296, 'Brian&#39;s Winter', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First there was Hatchet, Paulsen''s classic tale of a boy''s survival in the north woods after a plane crash. Then came a sequel, The River, and, last year, Father Water, Mother Woods, a collection of autobiographical essays introduced as the nonfiction counterpart to Hatchet. Now Paulsen backs up and asks readers to imagine that Brian, the hero, hadn''t been rescued after all. His many fans will be only too glad to comply, revisiting Brian at the onset of a punishing Canadian winter. The pace never relents-the story begins, as it were, in the middle, with Brian already toughened up and his reflexes primed for crisis. Paulsen serves up one cliffhanger after another (a marauding bear, a charging elk), and always there are the supreme challenges of obtaining food and protection against the cold. Authoritative narration makes it easy for readers to join Brian vicariously as he wields his hatchet to whittle arrows and arrowheads and a lance, hunts game, and devises clothes out of animal skins; while teasers at the ends of chapters keep the tension high ("He would hunt big tomorrow, he thought.... But as it happened he very nearly never hunted again"). The moral of the story: it pays to write your favorite author and ask for another helping. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-9-At the conclusion of Hatchet (Macmillan, 1987), Brian Robeson is rescued after surviving a plane crash and summer alone in the north Canadian woods. Now, in this second sequel, Paulsen shows what would have happened if the 13-year-old boy had been forced to endure the harsh winter. For a brief time, Brian lives in relative luxury, living off the contents of the recently recovered survival pack, which included a gun for hunting. Then, his freeze-dried food runs out and his rifle fails, and he realizes how careless and complacent he has become. Suddenly aware of the changing seasons, he works frantically to winterize his shelter, fashion warmer clothes from animal skins, and construct a more powerful bow and arrow. About the time he has mastered winter survival, he discovers a dog-sled trail that leads him to a trapper and final rescue. The same formula that worked before is successful here: the driving pace of the narration, the breathtaking descriptions of nature, and the boy who triumphs on the merits of efficient problem solving. The author''s ability to cast a spell, mesmerize his audience, and provide a clinic in winter survival is reason enough to buy this novel. Although the plot is both familiar and predictable, Paulsen fans will not be disappointed.?Tim Rausch, Crescent View Middle School, Sandy, UT\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11873'),
(11297, 'Brian&#39;s Winter', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n First there was Hatchet, Paulsen''s classic tale of a boy''s survival in the north woods after a plane crash. Then came a sequel, The River, and, last year, Father Water, Mother Woods, a collection of autobiographical essays introduced as the nonfiction counterpart to Hatchet. Now Paulsen backs up and asks readers to imagine that Brian, the hero, hadn''t been rescued after all. His many fans will be only too glad to comply, revisiting Brian at the onset of a punishing Canadian winter. The pace never relents-the story begins, as it were, in the middle, with Brian already toughened up and his reflexes primed for crisis. Paulsen serves up one cliffhanger after another (a marauding bear, a charging elk), and always there are the supreme challenges of obtaining food and protection against the cold. Authoritative narration makes it easy for readers to join Brian vicariously as he wields his hatchet to whittle arrows and arrowheads and a lance, hunts game, and devises clothes out of animal skins; while teasers at the ends of chapters keep the tension high ("He would hunt big tomorrow, he thought.... But as it happened he very nearly never hunted again"). The moral of the story: it pays to write your favorite author and ask for another helping. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-9-At the conclusion of Hatchet (Macmillan, 1987), Brian Robeson is rescued after surviving a plane crash and summer alone in the north Canadian woods. Now, in this second sequel, Paulsen shows what would have happened if the 13-year-old boy had been forced to endure the harsh winter. For a brief time, Brian lives in relative luxury, living off the contents of the recently recovered survival pack, which included a gun for hunting. Then, his freeze-dried food runs out and his rifle fails, and he realizes how careless and complacent he has become. Suddenly aware of the changing seasons, he works frantically to winterize his shelter, fashion warmer clothes from animal skins, and construct a more powerful bow and arrow. About the time he has mastered winter survival, he discovers a dog-sled trail that leads him to a trapper and final rescue. The same formula that worked before is successful here: the driving pace of the narration, the breathtaking descriptions of nature, and the boy who triumphs on the merits of efficient problem solving. The author''s ability to cast a spell, mesmerize his audience, and provide a clinic in winter survival is reason enough to buy this novel. Although the plot is both familiar and predictable, Paulsen fans will not be disappointed.?Tim Rausch, Crescent View Middle School, Sandy, UT\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19223'),
(11298, 'The Bricklayer', 'Noah Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *People are dying* . . . Each victim has been a thorn in the side of the FBI, and, inexplicably, domestic terrorists who claim to be anti-Bureau are claiming responsibilityâ€”and threatening more murders if their huge financial demands aren''t met.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The trap has been set. The Bureau''s best agents attempt to follow the detailed demands of the blackmailers, only to be drawn into intricate mazes which are ingeniously riddled with hazards, ensuring that no one will emerge alive. The FBI has used every technological secret at their disposal to beat the killers at their gameâ€”and they have failed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The clock is ticking. Deputy Assistant Director Kate Bannon knows that the solution will not be found by following the rules. It''s time to call in someone from her past, someone who has routinely handled the impossibleâ€”a loose cannon ex-agent fired for insubordination but still the very best she has ever seen.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s time to call in Steve Vail . . . *The Bricklayer*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2521'),
(11299, 'The Bricklayer', 'Noah Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *People are dying* . . . Each victim has been a thorn in the side of the FBI, and, inexplicably, domestic terrorists who claim to be anti-Bureau are claiming responsibilityâ€”and threatening more murders if their huge financial demands aren''t met.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The trap has been set. The Bureau''s best agents attempt to follow the detailed demands of the blackmailers, only to be drawn into intricate mazes which are ingeniously riddled with hazards, ensuring that no one will emerge alive. The FBI has used every technological secret at their disposal to beat the killers at their gameâ€”and they have failed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The clock is ticking. Deputy Assistant Director Kate Bannon knows that the solution will not be found by following the rules. It''s time to call in someone from her past, someone who has routinely handled the impossibleâ€”a loose cannon ex-agent fired for insubordination but still the very best she has ever seen.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s time to call in Steve Vail . . . *The Bricklayer*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8652'),
(11300, 'The Bricklayer', 'Noah Boyd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *People are dying* . . . Each victim has been a thorn in the side of the FBI, and, inexplicably, domestic terrorists who claim to be anti-Bureau are claiming responsibilityâ€”and threatening more murders if their huge financial demands aren''t met. The trap has been set. The Bureau''s best agents attempt to follow the detailed demands of the blackmailers, only to be drawn into intricate mazes which are ingeniously riddled with hazards, ensuring that no one will emerge alive. The FBI has used every technological secret at their disposal to beat the killers at their gameâ€”and they have failed. The clock is ticking. Deputy Assistant Director Kate Bannon knows that the solution will not be found by following the rules. It''s time to call in someone from her past, someone who has routinely handled the impossibleâ€”a loose cannon ex-agent fired for insubordination but still the very best she has ever seen. It''s time to call in Steve Vail . . . *The Bricklayer*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22242'),
(11301, 'The Bride Collector', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n FBI Special Agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he''s picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellbeing and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals who are extraordinarily gifted. It''s there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person''s life when she touches the dead body. In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise''s help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most ''sane people'' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls...or inside. As the Bride Collector increases the pace and volume of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector''s next target. The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it''s too late?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/852'),
(11302, 'The Bride Collector', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n FBI Special Agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he''s picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellbeing and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals who are extraordinarily gifted. It''s there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person''s life when she touches the dead body. In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise''s help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most ''sane people'' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls...or inside. As the Bride Collector increases the pace and volume of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector''s next target. The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it''s too late?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9260'),
(11303, 'The Bride Collector', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FBI Special Agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he''s picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellbeing and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals who are extraordinarily gifted. It''s there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person''s life when she touches the dead body. In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise''s help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most ''sane people'' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls...or inside. As the Bride Collector increases the pace and volume of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector''s next target. The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it''s too late?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24057'),
(11304, 'The Bride&#39;s Awakening', 'Kate Hewitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He-s going to teach her how to be a woman! Vittorio Ralfino, the Count of Cazlevara, is back in Italy to find a traditional wife. Anamaria Viale, a good local girl, loyal and scandal-free, is perfect. Anamaria-s stunned that her teenage crush is proposing to her-an ugly duckling! Tall, voluptuous and awkward, she-s stoically resigned herself to singledom. But Vittorio is persuasive - and passionate! He offered marriage as a business proposition - but very soon unlocks a deep, powerful need in Ana-s untouched body that only he can sate-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3925'),
(11305, 'The Bride&#39;s Awakening', 'Kate Hewitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He-s going to teach her how to be a woman! Vittorio Ralfino, the Count of Cazlevara, is back in Italy to find a traditional wife. Anamaria Viale, a good local girl, loyal and scandal-free, is perfect. Anamaria-s stunned that her teenage crush is proposing to her-an ugly duckling! Tall, voluptuous and awkward, she-s stoically resigned herself to singledom. But Vittorio is persuasive - and passionate! He offered marriage as a business proposition - but very soon unlocks a deep, powerful need in Ana-s untouched body that only he can sate-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10257'),
(11306, 'The Bride&#39;s Awakening', 'Kate Hewitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: He-s going to teach her how to be a woman! Vittorio Ralfino, the Count of Cazlevara, is back in Italy to find a traditional wife. Anamaria Viale, a good local girl, loyal and scandal-free, is perfect. Anamaria-s stunned that her teenage crush is proposing to her-an ugly duckling! Tall, voluptuous and awkward, she-s stoically resigned herself to singledom. But Vittorio is persuasive - and passionate! He offered marriage as a business proposition - but very soon unlocks a deep, powerful need in Ana-s untouched body that only he can sate-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20683'),
(11307, 'Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder', 'Evelyn Waugh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh''s most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous plea?sures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, "Brideshead Revisited" transcends Waugh''s familiar satiric exploration of his cast of lords and ladies, Catholics and eccentrics, artists and misfits, revealing him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity. The edition reprinted here contains Waugh''s revisions, made in 1959, and his preface to the revised edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25823'),
(11308, 'Bridge of Birds', 'Barry Hughart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox found master Li Kao. Together they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure, and together they discover adventure and legend, and the power of belief....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7274'),
(11309, 'Bridge of Birds', 'Barry Hughart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox found master Li Kao. Together they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure, and together they discover adventure and legend, and the power of belief....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16592'),
(11310, 'Bridge of Birds', 'Barry Hughart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox found master Li Kao. Together they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure, and together they discover adventure and legend, and the power of belief....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26564'),
(11311, 'Bridge to Terabithia', 'Katherine Paterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The story starts out simply enough: Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade--he wants it so bad he can taste it. He''s been practicing all summer, running in the fields around his farmhouse until he collapses in a sweat. Then a tomboy named Leslie Burke moves into the farmhouse next door and changes his life forever. Not only does Leslie not look or act like any girls Jess knows, but she also turns out to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. After getting over the shock and humiliation of being beaten by a girl, Jess begins to think Leslie might be okay. Despite their superficial differences, it''s clear that Jess and Leslie are soul mates. The two create a secret kingdom in the woods named Terabithia, where the only way to get into the castle is by swinging out over a gully on an enchanted rope. Here they reign as king and queen, fighting off imaginary giants and the walking dead, sharing stories and dreams, and plotting against the schoolmates who tease them. Jess and Leslie find solace in the sanctuary of Terabithia until a tragedy strikes and the two are separated forever. In a style that is both plain and powerful, Katherine Paterson''s characters will stir your heart and put a lump in your throat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3776'),
(11312, 'Bridge to Terabithia', 'Katherine Paterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The story starts out simply enough: Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade--he wants it so bad he can taste it. He''s been practicing all summer, running in the fields around his farmhouse until he collapses in a sweat. Then a tomboy named Leslie Burke moves into the farmhouse next door and changes his life forever. Not only does Leslie not look or act like any girls Jess knows, but she also turns out to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. After getting over the shock and humiliation of being beaten by a girl, Jess begins to think Leslie might be okay. Despite their superficial differences, it''s clear that Jess and Leslie are soul mates. The two create a secret kingdom in the woods named Terabithia, where the only way to get into the castle is by swinging out over a gully on an enchanted rope. Here they reign as king and queen, fighting off imaginary giants and the walking dead, sharing stories and dreams, and plotting against the schoolmates who tease them. Jess and Leslie find solace in the sanctuary of Terabithia until a tragedy strikes and the two are separated forever. In a style that is both plain and powerful, Katherine Paterson''s characters will stir your heart and put a lump in your throat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20639'),
(11313, 'A Bridge to the Stars', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This poignant novel explores how a unilateral decision can change a life.Two things are hard for Joel Gustafson to cope with: not knowing why, and not being able to do anything about it. Joelâ€™s father was once a sailor who lived by the sea. Joelâ€™s mother once lived with them. Joelâ€™s father abandoned the sea. Joelâ€™s mother abandoned Joel and his father. While looking out his window one night, Joel sees a lonely dog on the street. Joel spots the animal again and begins sneaking out night after night, trying to find it. During these nocturnal outings, Joel discovers aspects of life he has never imagined. And then one night he discovers that his fatherâ€™s bed, too, is empty.As Joel investigates his fatherâ€™s mysterious absences and continues to search for the dog, he discovers his own inner strength and learns about adult disappointments and needs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5142'),
(11314, 'A Bridge to the Stars', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This poignant novel explores how a unilateral decision can change a life.Two things are hard for Joel Gustafson to cope with: not knowing why, and not being able to do anything about it. Joelâ€™s father was once a sailor who lived by the sea. Joelâ€™s mother once lived with them. Joelâ€™s father abandoned the sea. Joelâ€™s mother abandoned Joel and his father. While looking out his window one night, Joel sees a lonely dog on the street. Joel spots the animal again and begins sneaking out night after night, trying to find it. During these nocturnal outings, Joel discovers aspects of life he has never imagined. And then one night he discovers that his fatherâ€™s bed, too, is empty.As Joel investigates his fatherâ€™s mysterious absences and continues to search for the dog, he discovers his own inner strength and learns about adult disappointments and needs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11242'),
(11315, 'A Bridge to the Stars', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This poignant novel explores how a unilateral decision can change a life.Two things are hard for Joel Gustafson to cope with: not knowing why, and not being able to do anything about it. Joelâ€™s father was once a sailor who lived by the sea. Joelâ€™s mother once lived with them. Joelâ€™s father abandoned the sea. Joelâ€™s mother abandoned Joel and his father. While looking out his window one night, Joel sees a lonely dog on the street. Joel spots the animal again and begins sneaking out night after night, trying to find it. During these nocturnal outings, Joel discovers aspects of life he has never imagined. And then one night he discovers that his fatherâ€™s bed, too, is empty.As Joel investigates his fatherâ€™s mysterious absences and continues to search for the dog, he discovers his own inner strength and learns about adult disappointments and needs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19466'),
(11316, 'A Bridge to the Stars', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This poignant novel explores how a unilateral decision can change a life.Two things are hard for Joel Gustafson to cope with: not knowing why, and not being able to do anything about it. Joelâ€™s father was once a sailor who lived by the sea. Joelâ€™s mother once lived with them. Joelâ€™s father abandoned the sea. Joelâ€™s mother abandoned Joel and his father. While looking out his window one night, Joel sees a lonely dog on the street. Joel spots the animal again and begins sneaking out night after night, trying to find it. During these nocturnal outings, Joel discovers aspects of life he has never imagined. And then one night he discovers that his fatherâ€™s bed, too, is empty.As Joel investigates his fatherâ€™s mysterious absences and continues to search for the dog, he discovers his own inner strength and learns about adult disappointments and needs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28134');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11317, 'The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama', 'David Remnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: No story has been more central to Americaâ€™s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that** **fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamaâ€™s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.** **Those familiar with Obamaâ€™s own best-selling memoir** **or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowâ€”from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance** **of unfolding events is without peerâ€”we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,** **nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,** **and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.*The Bridge* offers the most complete account yet of** **Obamaâ€™s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned** **his family and ended his life as a beaten man;** **of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,** **who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;** **and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama** **to the social tensions and intellectual currents** **that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,** **David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man** **created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an** **experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamaâ€™s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagoâ€™s history, Remnick shows us how that cityâ€™s complex racial legacy would make Obamaâ€™s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyâ€”from both sidesâ€”of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.** **By looking at Obamaâ€™s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,** **heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.*The Bridge* revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamaâ€™s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No story has been more central to Americaâ€™s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that** **fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamaâ€™s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.** **Those familiar with Obamaâ€™s own best-selling memoir** **or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowâ€”from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance** **of unfolding events is without peerâ€”we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,** **nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,** **and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.*The Bridge* offers the most complete account yet of** **Obamaâ€™s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned** **his family and ended his life as a beaten man;** **of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,** **who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;** **and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama** **to the social tensions and intellectual currents** **that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,** **David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man** **created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an** **experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamaâ€™s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagoâ€™s history, Remnick shows us how that cityâ€™s complex racial legacy would make Obamaâ€™s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyâ€”from both sidesâ€”of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.** **By looking at Obamaâ€™s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,** **heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.*The Bridge* revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamaâ€™s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6153'),
(11318, 'The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama', 'David Remnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: No story has been more central to Americaâ€™s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that** **fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamaâ€™s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.** **Those familiar with Obamaâ€™s own best-selling memoir** **or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowâ€”from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance** **of unfolding events is without peerâ€”we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,** **nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,** **and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.*The Bridge* offers the most complete account yet of** **Obamaâ€™s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned** **his family and ended his life as a beaten man;** **of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,** **who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;** **and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama** **to the social tensions and intellectual currents** **that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,** **David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man** **created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an** **experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamaâ€™s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagoâ€™s history, Remnick shows us how that cityâ€™s complex racial legacy would make Obamaâ€™s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyâ€”from both sidesâ€”of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.** **By looking at Obamaâ€™s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,** **heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.*The Bridge* revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamaâ€™s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No story has been more central to Americaâ€™s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that** **fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamaâ€™s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.** **Those familiar with Obamaâ€™s own best-selling memoir** **or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowâ€”from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance** **of unfolding events is without peerâ€”we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,** **nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,** **and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.*The Bridge* offers the most complete account yet of** **Obamaâ€™s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned** **his family and ended his life as a beaten man;** **of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,** **who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;** **and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama** **to the social tensions and intellectual currents** **that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,** **David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man** **created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an** **experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamaâ€™s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagoâ€™s history, Remnick shows us how that cityâ€™s complex racial legacy would make Obamaâ€™s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyâ€”from both sidesâ€”of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.** **By looking at Obamaâ€™s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,** **heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.*The Bridge* revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamaâ€™s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12176'),
(11319, 'The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama', 'David Remnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: No story has been more central to Americaâ€™s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that** **fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamaâ€™s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.** **Those familiar with Obamaâ€™s own best-selling memoir** **or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowâ€”from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance** **of unfolding events is without peerâ€”we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,** **nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,** **and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.*The Bridge* offers the most complete account yet of** **Obamaâ€™s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned** **his family and ended his life as a beaten man;** **of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,** **who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;** **and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama** **to the social tensions and intellectual currents** **that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,** **David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man** **created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an** **experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamaâ€™s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagoâ€™s history, Remnick shows us how that cityâ€™s complex racial legacy would make Obamaâ€™s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyâ€”from both sidesâ€”of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.** **By looking at Obamaâ€™s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,** **heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.*The Bridge* revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamaâ€™s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives. EDITORIAL REVIEW: No story has been more central to Americaâ€™s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that** **fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamaâ€™s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.** **Those familiar with Obamaâ€™s own best-selling memoir** **or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowâ€”from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance** **of unfolding events is without peerâ€”we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,** **nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,** **and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.*The Bridge* offers the most complete account yet of** **Obamaâ€™s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned** **his family and ended his life as a beaten man;** **of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,** **who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;** **and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama** **to the social tensions and intellectual currents** **that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,** **David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man** **created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an** **experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamaâ€™s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagoâ€™s history, Remnick shows us how that cityâ€™s complex racial legacy would make Obamaâ€™s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyâ€”from both sidesâ€”of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.** **By looking at Obamaâ€™s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,** **heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.*The Bridge* revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamaâ€™s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17882'),
(11320, 'The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama', 'David Remnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: No story has been more central to Americaâ€™s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that** **fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamaâ€™s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.** **Those familiar with Obamaâ€™s own best-selling memoir** **or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowâ€”from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance** **of unfolding events is without peerâ€”we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,** **nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,** **and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.*The Bridge* offers the most complete account yet of** **Obamaâ€™s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned** **his family and ended his life as a beaten man;** **of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,** **who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;** **and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama** **to the social tensions and intellectual currents** **that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,** **David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man** **created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an** **experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamaâ€™s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagoâ€™s history, Remnick shows us how that cityâ€™s complex racial legacy would make Obamaâ€™s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyâ€”from both sidesâ€”of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.** **By looking at Obamaâ€™s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,** **heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.*The Bridge* revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamaâ€™s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives. EDITORIAL REVIEW: No story has been more central to Americaâ€™s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that** **fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obamaâ€™s life or explores the ambition behind his rise.** **Those familiar with Obamaâ€™s own best-selling memoir** **or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but nowâ€”from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance** **of unfolding events is without peerâ€”we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh,** **nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself,** **and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.*The Bridge* offers the most complete account yet of** **Obamaâ€™s tragic father, a brilliant economist who abandoned** **his family and ended his life as a beaten man;** **of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,** **who had a child as a teenager and then built her career as an anthropologist living and studying in Indonesia;** **and of the succession of elite institutions that first exposed Obama** **to the social tensions and intellectual currents** **that would force him to imagine and fashion an identity for himself. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself,** **David Remnick allows us to see how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man** **created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, an** **experience that would not only shape his urge to work in politics but give him a home and a community, and that would propel him to Harvard Law School, where his sense of a greater mission emerged.Deftly setting Obamaâ€™s political career against the galvanizing intersection of race and politics in Chicagoâ€™s history, Remnick shows us how that cityâ€™s complex racial legacy would make Obamaâ€™s forays into politics a source of controversy and bare-knuckle tactics: his clashes with older black politicians in the Illinois State Senate, his disastrous decision to challenge the former Black Panther Bobby Rush for Congress in 2000, the sex scandals that would decimate his more experienced opponents in the 2004 Senate race, and the storyâ€”from both sidesâ€”of his confrontation with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.** **By looking at Obamaâ€™s political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of men like Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Joseph Lowery,** **heroes of the civil rights movement, who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorities of a new generation of African-American leaders.*The Bridge* revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obamaâ€™s quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27352'),
(11321, 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They were young and innocent. Arriving in a place they had barely heard of, they prepared for the ritual many men had endured before them -- war. They were American fighter pilots, and they came on a huge ship that also carried their helicopters. Trained as professionals, but as frightened as every man before them who had ever gone to war, they would face an enemy they couldn''t understand and wage a war they had to win.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4946'),
(11322, 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They were young and innocent. Arriving in a place they had barely heard of, they prepared for the ritual many men had endured before them -- war. They were American fighter pilots, and they came on a huge ship that also carried their helicopters. Trained as professionals, but as frightened as every man before them who had ever gone to war, they would face an enemy they couldn''t understand and wage a war they had to win.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19776'),
(11323, 'A Brief History of Time', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the microâ€”and the macrocosmic worldâ€”observations that have confirmed many of Hawking''s theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book.Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and a new introduction. It make vividly clear why A Brief History of Time has transformed our view of the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1181'),
(11324, 'A brief history of time', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the microâ€”and the macrocosmic worldâ€”observations that have confirmed many of Hawking''s theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book.Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and a new introduction. It make vividly clear why A Brief History of Time has transformed our view of the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15298'),
(11325, 'A brief history of time', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the microâ€”and the macrocosmic worldâ€”observations that have confirmed many of Hawking''s theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book.Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and a new introduction. It make vividly clear why A Brief History of Time has transformed our view of the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23776'),
(11326, 'Brief Interviews With Hideous Men', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Amid the screams of adulation for bandanna-clad wunderkind David Foster  Wallace, you might hear a small peep. It is the cry for some restraint. On  occasion the reader is left in the dust wondering where the story went, as  the author, literary turbochargers on full-blast, suddenly accelerates into  the wild-blue-footnoted yonder in pursuit of some obscure metafictional  fancy. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Wallace''s latest  collection, is at least in part a response to the distress signal put out  by the many readers who want to ride along with him, if he''d only  slow down for a second.\n <br />\n The intellectual gymnastics and ceaseless rumination endure (if you don''t  have a tolerance for that kind of thing, your nose doesn''t belong in this  book), but they are for the most part couched in simpler, less frenzied  narratives. The book''s four-piece namesake takes the form of interview  transcripts, in which the conniving horror that is the male gender is  revealed in all of its licentious glory. In the short, two-part "The Devil  Is a Busy Man," Wallace strolls through the Hall of Mirrors that is human  motivation. (Is it possible to completely rid an act of generosity of any  self-serving benefits? And why is it easier to sell a couch for five  dollars than it is to give it away for free?) The even shorter glimpse into  modern-day social ritual, "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial  Life," stretches the seams of its total of seven lines with scathing  economy: "She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove  home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their  faces." Wallace also imbues his extreme observational skills with a  haunting poetic sensibility. Witness what he does to a diving board and the  two darkened patches at the end of it in "Forever Overhead":    It''s going to send you someplace which its own  length keeps you from seeing, which seems wrong to submit to without  even  thinking.... They are skin abraded from feet by the violence of the disappearance of  people with real weight.    Of course, not every piece is an absolute winner. "The Depressed Person"  slips from purposefully clinical to unintentionally boring. "Tri-Stan: I  Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko" reimagines an Arthurian tale in MTV terms and  holds your attention for about as long as you''d imagine from such a  description. Ultimately, however, even these failed experiments are a  testament to Mr. Wallace''s endless if unbridled talent. Once he gets the  reins completely around that sucker, it''s going to be quite a ride.  --Bob Michaels  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Some of the 23 stories in Wallace''s bold, uneven, bitterly satirical second collection seem bound for best-of-the-year anthologies; a few others will leave even devoted Wallace fans befuddled. The rest of the stories fall between perplexing and brilliant, but what is most striking about this volume as a whole are the gloomy moral obsessions at the heart of Wallace''s new work. Like his recent essays, these stories (many of which have been serialized in Harper''s, Esquire and the Paris Review) are largely an attack on the sexual heroics of mainstream postwar fiction, an almost religious attempt to rescue (when not exposing as a fraud) the idea of romantic love. In the "interviews," that make up the title story, one man after anotherAspeaking to a woman whose voice we never hearAreveals the pathetic creepiness of his romantic conquests and fantasies. These hideous men aren''t the collection''s only monsters of isolation. In "Adult World," Wallace writes of a young wife obsessed with fears that her husband is secretly, compulsively masturbating; in "The Depressed Person," one of Wallace''s (rare) female narcissists whines that she is a "solipsistic, self-consumed, endless emotional vacuum"Athis, to a dying friend. If MacArthur Fellowship-winner Wallace''s rendition of our verbal tics and trash is less astonishing now than in earlier work (Infinite Jest; A Supposedly Fun Thing I''ll Never Do Again), that is because it has already become the way we hear ourselves talk. Wallace seems to have stripped down his prose in order to more pointedly probe distinct structures (i.e., footnoted psychotherapy journal, a pop quiz format). Yet these stories, at their best, show an erotic savagery and intellectual depth that will confound, fascinate and disturb the most unsuspecting reader as well as devoted fans of this talented writer. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Following the success of his massive, much-acclaimed novel, Infinite Jest (LJ 1/96), Wallace returns to fiction with a similarly dense, cerebral, and self-reflexive set of short works. Wallace''s characters are psychological grotesques, emotionally detached and sometimes, as with the na?ve young wife in "Adult World," finding an odd freedom in their distance. While the inauthenticity of male/female relations is a recurrent motif, the central theme is the nature of narrative itself, as in "Octet," where the author turns self-reflexiveness on itself, creating something that might be termed meta-meta-fiction. Fans of Thomas Pynchon and Donald Barthelme will find comparable challenges here. For libraries where Infinite Jest was popular.ALawrence Rungren, Merrimack Valley Lib. Consortium, Andover, MA\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n The structure of the short story intrigues and piques Wallace, prompting him to subvert it. He imitates academic writing by attaching substantial footnotes to "The Depressed Person," thus creating a contrapuntal story within the story. "Datum Centurio" is a set of definitions of the word date, purportedly found in Leckie &amp; Webster''s Connotationally Gender-Specific Lexicon of Contemporary Usage, copyright 2076. The title story, appearing in four installments, consists of a string of monologues in which men talk about women. Sex in its more disturbing modes is the collection''s underlying theme. A man listens intently as a woman describes being raped. Another man goes into explicit detail in his rant against men''s sexual selfishness, and a woman worries that her husband doesn''t enjoy their lovemaking. Like Stephen Dixon, Wallace is adept at generating streams of consciousness, rendering mental states in almost psychedelic detail. And he practices this art to perfection in "Forever Overhead," in which a 13-year-old boy is nearly overwhelmed by sensory overload while awaiting his turn at the high dive.  Donna Seaman  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n A stimulating, if intermittently opaque, collection of discursive stories and even less fully fictionalized humorous pieces from the savvy-surrealistic author of Infinite Jest (1996), etc. Though few of the tales here contain conventionally developed characters or narrative situations, most feature instantly recognizable generic figures. Embattled parents and siblings dominate such eerie concoctions as ``Signifying Nothing,'''' in which a primal scene perhaps expressing male dominance has a lasting effect on a son''s relationship with his father; and a powerfully imaginative torrent of Oedipal rivalry spoken ``On his Deathbed . . . [by] the Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright''s Father . . . ,'''' The Depressed Person'''' blandly skewers the culture of self-absorption and psychotherapy (while neatly mocking the latter''s passion for clinical precision), and ``Datum Centurio'''' gets impressive comic mileage out of its brief parody of an etymological dictionary entry. Sex rears its comely, come-hither head in the chronicling (in Forever Overhead) of the perplexing sensations of adolescence in full eruption, and particularly in ``Adult World,'''' a deliriously expanding Robert Cooverlike fantasy spun from a young wife''s fretful confusion about pleasing-vs.- offending her docile husband. Most interesting are the title ``stories,'''' divided into four installments scattered throughout, and variously delineating men''s alienation from, and misunderstanding of, women: the amputee who considers his mutilated arm a ``Sexual Asset''''; the self-consciousness of a hotel men''s-room attendant (wreathed in ``The ghastly metastasized odors of continental breakfasts and business dinners''''); the loves of Tristan and Isolde and Narcissus and Echo reshaped for the cable-TV audience by network executive ``Agon M. Nar.'''' Postadolescent whimsy mingled with postmodernist horseplay: this isn''t a book that can be consumed in sizable chunks. Still, Wallace is a witty guide to the fragmented, paranoid Way We Live Now, someone perhaps poised to become the 21st-century''s Robert Benchley or James Thurberboth a frightening and a beguiling prospect.  -- Copyright Â©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n ...a mixed bag of 23 essays and short stories that display a  range of intellect and talent that is unseemly for any one writer to  have, let alone show off.  -- Time, R.Z. Sheppard\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ...in his wild hits and misses, his eccentric obsessions and  his sinister experiments, he is beginning to resemble another mad  scientist of American literature: Edgar Allan Poe. -- The New York Times Book Review, Adam Goodheart\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this book he demonstrates his strengths as a stylist,  humorist and thinker.... None of these stories is easy, but all  display an intelligence and a swagger that make them hard to put down. -- The Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6266');
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(11327, 'Brief Interviews With Hideous Men', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Amid the screams of adulation for bandanna-clad wunderkind David Foster  Wallace, you might hear a small peep. It is the cry for some restraint. On  occasion the reader is left in the dust wondering where the story went, as  the author, literary turbochargers on full-blast, suddenly accelerates into  the wild-blue-footnoted yonder in pursuit of some obscure metafictional  fancy. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Wallace''s latest  collection, is at least in part a response to the distress signal put out  by the many readers who want to ride along with him, if he''d only  slow down for a second.\n <br />\n The intellectual gymnastics and ceaseless rumination endure (if you don''t  have a tolerance for that kind of thing, your nose doesn''t belong in this  book), but they are for the most part couched in simpler, less frenzied  narratives. The book''s four-piece namesake takes the form of interview  transcripts, in which the conniving horror that is the male gender is  revealed in all of its licentious glory. In the short, two-part "The Devil  Is a Busy Man," Wallace strolls through the Hall of Mirrors that is human  motivation. (Is it possible to completely rid an act of generosity of any  self-serving benefits? And why is it easier to sell a couch for five  dollars than it is to give it away for free?) The even shorter glimpse into  modern-day social ritual, "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial  Life," stretches the seams of its total of seven lines with scathing  economy: "She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove  home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their  faces." Wallace also imbues his extreme observational skills with a  haunting poetic sensibility. Witness what he does to a diving board and the  two darkened patches at the end of it in "Forever Overhead":    It''s going to send you someplace which its own  length keeps you from seeing, which seems wrong to submit to without  even  thinking.... They are skin abraded from feet by the violence of the disappearance of  people with real weight.    Of course, not every piece is an absolute winner. "The Depressed Person"  slips from purposefully clinical to unintentionally boring. "Tri-Stan: I  Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko" reimagines an Arthurian tale in MTV terms and  holds your attention for about as long as you''d imagine from such a  description. Ultimately, however, even these failed experiments are a  testament to Mr. Wallace''s endless if unbridled talent. Once he gets the  reins completely around that sucker, it''s going to be quite a ride.  --Bob Michaels  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Some of the 23 stories in Wallace''s bold, uneven, bitterly satirical second collection seem bound for best-of-the-year anthologies; a few others will leave even devoted Wallace fans befuddled. The rest of the stories fall between perplexing and brilliant, but what is most striking about this volume as a whole are the gloomy moral obsessions at the heart of Wallace''s new work. Like his recent essays, these stories (many of which have been serialized in Harper''s, Esquire and the Paris Review) are largely an attack on the sexual heroics of mainstream postwar fiction, an almost religious attempt to rescue (when not exposing as a fraud) the idea of romantic love. In the "interviews," that make up the title story, one man after anotherAspeaking to a woman whose voice we never hearAreveals the pathetic creepiness of his romantic conquests and fantasies. These hideous men aren''t the collection''s only monsters of isolation. In "Adult World," Wallace writes of a young wife obsessed with fears that her husband is secretly, compulsively masturbating; in "The Depressed Person," one of Wallace''s (rare) female narcissists whines that she is a "solipsistic, self-consumed, endless emotional vacuum"Athis, to a dying friend. If MacArthur Fellowship-winner Wallace''s rendition of our verbal tics and trash is less astonishing now than in earlier work (Infinite Jest; A Supposedly Fun Thing I''ll Never Do Again), that is because it has already become the way we hear ourselves talk. Wallace seems to have stripped down his prose in order to more pointedly probe distinct structures (i.e., footnoted psychotherapy journal, a pop quiz format). Yet these stories, at their best, show an erotic savagery and intellectual depth that will confound, fascinate and disturb the most unsuspecting reader as well as devoted fans of this talented writer. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Following the success of his massive, much-acclaimed novel, Infinite Jest (LJ 1/96), Wallace returns to fiction with a similarly dense, cerebral, and self-reflexive set of short works. Wallace''s characters are psychological grotesques, emotionally detached and sometimes, as with the na?ve young wife in "Adult World," finding an odd freedom in their distance. While the inauthenticity of male/female relations is a recurrent motif, the central theme is the nature of narrative itself, as in "Octet," where the author turns self-reflexiveness on itself, creating something that might be termed meta-meta-fiction. Fans of Thomas Pynchon and Donald Barthelme will find comparable challenges here. For libraries where Infinite Jest was popular.ALawrence Rungren, Merrimack Valley Lib. Consortium, Andover, MA\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n The structure of the short story intrigues and piques Wallace, prompting him to subvert it. He imitates academic writing by attaching substantial footnotes to "The Depressed Person," thus creating a contrapuntal story within the story. "Datum Centurio" is a set of definitions of the word date, purportedly found in Leckie &amp; Webster''s Connotationally Gender-Specific Lexicon of Contemporary Usage, copyright 2076. The title story, appearing in four installments, consists of a string of monologues in which men talk about women. Sex in its more disturbing modes is the collection''s underlying theme. A man listens intently as a woman describes being raped. Another man goes into explicit detail in his rant against men''s sexual selfishness, and a woman worries that her husband doesn''t enjoy their lovemaking. Like Stephen Dixon, Wallace is adept at generating streams of consciousness, rendering mental states in almost psychedelic detail. And he practices this art to perfection in "Forever Overhead," in which a 13-year-old boy is nearly overwhelmed by sensory overload while awaiting his turn at the high dive.  Donna Seaman  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n A stimulating, if intermittently opaque, collection of discursive stories and even less fully fictionalized humorous pieces from the savvy-surrealistic author of Infinite Jest (1996), etc. Though few of the tales here contain conventionally developed characters or narrative situations, most feature instantly recognizable generic figures. Embattled parents and siblings dominate such eerie concoctions as ``Signifying Nothing,'''' in which a primal scene perhaps expressing male dominance has a lasting effect on a son''s relationship with his father; and a powerfully imaginative torrent of Oedipal rivalry spoken ``On his Deathbed . . . [by] the Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright''s Father . . . ,'''' The Depressed Person'''' blandly skewers the culture of self-absorption and psychotherapy (while neatly mocking the latter''s passion for clinical precision), and ``Datum Centurio'''' gets impressive comic mileage out of its brief parody of an etymological dictionary entry. Sex rears its comely, come-hither head in the chronicling (in Forever Overhead) of the perplexing sensations of adolescence in full eruption, and particularly in ``Adult World,'''' a deliriously expanding Robert Cooverlike fantasy spun from a young wife''s fretful confusion about pleasing-vs.- offending her docile husband. Most interesting are the title ``stories,'''' divided into four installments scattered throughout, and variously delineating men''s alienation from, and misunderstanding of, women: the amputee who considers his mutilated arm a ``Sexual Asset''''; the self-consciousness of a hotel men''s-room attendant (wreathed in ``The ghastly metastasized odors of continental breakfasts and business dinners''''); the loves of Tristan and Isolde and Narcissus and Echo reshaped for the cable-TV audience by network executive ``Agon M. Nar.'''' Postadolescent whimsy mingled with postmodernist horseplay: this isn''t a book that can be consumed in sizable chunks. Still, Wallace is a witty guide to the fragmented, paranoid Way We Live Now, someone perhaps poised to become the 21st-century''s Robert Benchley or James Thurberboth a frightening and a beguiling prospect.  -- Copyright Â©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n ...a mixed bag of 23 essays and short stories that display a  range of intellect and talent that is unseemly for any one writer to  have, let alone show off.  -- Time, R.Z. Sheppard\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ...in his wild hits and misses, his eccentric obsessions and  his sinister experiments, he is beginning to resemble another mad  scientist of American literature: Edgar Allan Poe. -- The New York Times Book Review, Adam Goodheart\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this book he demonstrates his strengths as a stylist,  humorist and thinker.... None of these stories is easy, but all  display an intelligence and a swagger that make them hard to put down. -- The Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13252'),
(11328, 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n David Foster Wallace has made an art of taking readers into places no other writer ever gets near. In the pages of his novels INFINITE JEST and THE BROOM OF THE SYSTEM and the collections GIRL WITH CURIOUS HAIR and A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING I''LL NEVER DO AGAIN, he had created as unique a voice and vies as any writer at work today, rendering a dazzling array of interior states with delicious insight and humor. In this new collection, the author extends his range and craft in twenty-two stories that intertwine hilarity with an escalating disquiet to create almos unbearable tensions. Three stories venture inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognizable and utterly strange: a boy paralyzed by fear atop a high diving board ("Forever Overhead"), a poet lounging contented beside his pool ("Death Is Not the End"), a young couple experiencing sexual uncertainties ("Adult World"), a depressed woman soliciting comfort from her threadbare support network ("The Depressed Person", chosen for Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards). The series of stories from which the book takes its title is a tour de force sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. These portraits of men at thier most self-justifying, loquacious, and benighted explore poignantly and hilariously the agonies of sexual connection. BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN gives us men and women, celebrity and bitter loneliness, sexual posturing and naked honesty, erudition and apeman babble - a world whose emotional complexity and outright comedy closely resemble our own. In these remarkable stories, David Foster Wallace reaffirms his reputation a a "passionate and deeply serious wrtier" (San Francisco Chronicle) who again expands our ideas of the pleasures of fiction can afford.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14115'),
(11329, 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Amid the screams of adulation for bandanna-clad wunderkind David Foster Wallace, you might hear a small peep. It is the cry for some restraint. On occasion the reader is left in the dust wondering where the story went, as the author, literary turbochargers on full-blast, suddenly accelerates into the wild-blue-footnoted yonder in pursuit of some obscure metafictional fancy. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Wallace''s latest collection, is at least in part a response to the distress signal put out by the many readers who want to ride along with him, if he''d only slow down for a second. The intellectual gymnastics and ceaseless rumination endure (if you don''t have a tolerance for that kind of thing, your nose doesn''t belong in this book), but they are for the most part couched in simpler, less frenzied narratives. The book''s four-piece namesake takes the form of interview transcripts, in which the conniving horror that is the male gender is revealed in all of its licentious glory. In the short, two-part "The Devil Is a Busy Man," Wallace strolls through the Hall of Mirrors that is human motivation. (Is it possible to completely rid an act of generosity of any self-serving benefits? And why is it easier to sell a couch for five dollars than it is to give it away for free?) The even shorter glimpse into modern-day social ritual, "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life," stretches the seams of its total of seven lines with scathing economy: "She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces." Wallace also imbues his extreme observational skills with a haunting poetic sensibility. Witness what he does to a diving board and the two darkened patches at the end of it in "Forever Overhead": It''s going to send you someplace which its own length keeps you from seeing, which seems wrong to submit to without even thinking.... They are skin abraded from feet by the violence of the disappearance of people with real weight. Of course, not every piece is an absolute winner. "The Depressed Person" slips from purposefully clinical to unintentionally boring. "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko" reimagines an Arthurian tale in MTV terms and holds your attention for about as long as you''d imagine from such a description. Ultimately, however, even these failed experiments are a testament to Mr. Wallace''s endless if unbridled talent. Once he gets the reins completely around that sucker, it''s going to be quite a ride. --Bob Michaels --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Some of the 23 stories in Wallace''s bold, uneven, bitterly satirical second collection seem bound for best-of-the-year anthologies; a few others will leave even devoted Wallace fans befuddled. The rest of the stories fall between perplexing and brilliant, but what is most striking about this volume as a whole are the gloomy moral obsessions at the heart of Wallace''s new work. Like his recent essays, these stories (many of which have been serialized in Harper''s, Esquire and the Paris Review) are largely an attack on the sexual heroics of mainstream postwar fiction, an almost religious attempt to rescue (when not exposing as a fraud) the idea of romantic love. In the "interviews," that make up the title story, one man after anotherAspeaking to a woman whose voice we never hearAreveals the pathetic creepiness of his romantic conquests and fantasies. These hideous men aren''t the collection''s only monsters of isolation. In "Adult World," Wallace writes of a young wife obsessed with fears that her husband is secretly, compulsively masturbating; in "The Depressed Person," one of Wallace''s (rare) female narcissists whines that she is a "solipsistic, self-consumed, endless emotional vacuum"Athis, to a dying friend. If MacArthur Fellowship-winner Wallace''s rendition of our verbal tics and trash is less astonishing now than in earlier work (Infinite Jest; A Supposedly Fun Thing I''ll Never Do Again), that is because it has already become the way we hear ourselves talk. Wallace seems to have stripped down his prose in order to more pointedly probe distinct structures (i.e., footnoted psychotherapy journal, a pop quiz format). Yet these stories, at their best, show an erotic savagery and intellectual depth that will confound, fascinate and disturb the most unsuspecting reader as well as devoted fans of this talented writer. Author tour. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Following the success of his massive, much-acclaimed novel, Infinite Jest (LJ 1/96), Wallace returns to fiction with a similarly dense, cerebral, and self-reflexive set of short works. Wallace''s characters are psychological grotesques, emotionally detached and sometimes, as with the na?ve young wife in "Adult World," finding an odd freedom in their distance. While the inauthenticity of male/female relations is a recurrent motif, the central theme is the nature of narrative itself, as in "Octet," where the author turns self-reflexiveness on itself, creating something that might be termed meta-meta-fiction. Fans of Thomas Pynchon and Donald Barthelme will find comparable challenges here. For libraries where Infinite Jest was popular.ALawrence Rungren, Merrimack Valley Lib. Consortium, Andover, MA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. The structure of the short story intrigues and piques Wallace, prompting him to subvert it. He imitates academic writing by attaching substantial footnotes to "The Depressed Person," thus creating a contrapuntal story within the story. "Datum Centurio" is a set of definitions of the word date, purportedly found in Leckie &amp; Webster''s Connotationally Gender-Specific Lexicon of Contemporary Usage, copyright 2076. The title story, appearing in four installments, consists of a string of monologues in which men talk about women. Sex in its more disturbing modes is the collection''s underlying theme. A man listens intently as a woman describes being raped. Another man goes into explicit detail in his rant against men''s sexual selfishness, and a woman worries that her husband doesn''t enjoy their lovemaking. Like Stephen Dixon, Wallace is adept at generating streams of consciousness, rendering mental states in almost psychedelic detail. And he practices this art to perfection in "Forever Overhead," in which a 13-year-old boy is nearly overwhelmed by sensory overload while awaiting his turn at the high dive. Donna Seaman --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. A stimulating, if intermittently opaque, collection of discursive stories and even less fully fictionalized humorous pieces from the savvy-surrealistic author of Infinite Jest (1996), etc. Though few of the tales here contain conventionally developed characters or narrative situations, most feature instantly recognizable generic figures. Embattled parents and siblings dominate such eerie concoctions as ``Signifying Nothing,'''' in which a primal scene perhaps expressing male dominance has a lasting effect on a son''s relationship with his father; and a powerfully imaginative torrent of Oedipal rivalry spoken ``On his Deathbed . . . [by] the Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright''s Father . . . ,'''' The Depressed Person'''' blandly skewers the culture of self-absorption and psychotherapy (while neatly mocking the latter''s passion for clinical precision), and ``Datum Centurio'''' gets impressive comic mileage out of its brief parody of an etymological dictionary entry. Sex rears its comely, come-hither head in the chronicling (in Forever Overhead) of the perplexing sensations of adolescence in full eruption, and particularly in ``Adult World,'''' a deliriously expanding Robert Cooverlike fantasy spun from a young wife''s fretful confusion about pleasing-vs.- offending her docile husband. Most interesting are the title ``stories,'''' divided into four installments scattered throughout, and variously delineating men''s alienation from, and misunderstanding of, women: the amputee who considers his mutilated arm a ``Sexual Asset''''; the self-consciousness of a hotel men''s-room attendant (wreathed in ``The ghastly metastasized odors of continental breakfasts and business dinners''''); the loves of Tristan and Isolde and Narcissus and Echo reshaped for the cable-TV audience by network executive ``Agon M. Nar.'''' Postadolescent whimsy mingled with postmodernist horseplay: this isn''t a book that can be consumed in sizable chunks. Still, Wallace is a witty guide to the fragmented, paranoid Way We Live Now, someone perhaps poised to become the 21st-century''s Robert Benchley or James Thurberboth a frightening and a beguiling prospect. -- Copyright Â©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. ...a mixed bag of 23 essays and short stories that display a range of intellect and talent that is unseemly for any one writer to have, let alone show off. -- Time, R.Z. Sheppard ...in his wild hits and misses, his eccentric obsessions and his sinister experiments, he is beginning to resemble another mad scientist of American literature: Edgar Allan Poe. -- The New York Times Book Review, Adam Goodheart In this book he demonstrates his strengths as a stylist, humorist and thinker.... None of these stories is easy, but all display an intelligence and a swagger that make them hard to put down. -- The Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17789'),
(11330, 'Brief Interviews With Hideous Men', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27304'),
(11331, 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao', 'Junot Diaz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Korean edition of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - a brilliant debut novel and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize by a Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz. Diaz satirizes the bloody history of violence, suppression under Trujillo''s tyrannical power through the life of a immigrant family and the surviving struggles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4037'),
(11332, 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao', 'Junot Diaz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Korean edition of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - a brilliant debut novel and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize by a Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz. Diaz satirizes the bloody history of violence, suppression under Trujillo''s tyrannical power through the life of a immigrant family and the surviving struggles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9291'),
(11333, 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao', 'Junot Diaz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Korean edition of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - a brilliant debut novel and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize by a Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz. Diaz satirizes the bloody history of violence, suppression under Trujillo''s tyrannical power through the life of a immigrant family and the surviving struggles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15031'),
(11334, 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao', 'Junot Diaz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Korean edition of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - a brilliant debut novel and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize by a Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz. Diaz satirizes the bloody history of violence, suppression under Trujillo''s tyrannical power through the life of a immigrant family and the surviving struggles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20540'),
(11335, 'A Briefer History of Time', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From One of the Most Brilliant Minds of Our TimeComes a Book that Clarifies His Most Important Ideas****Stephen Hawkingâ€™s worldwide bestseller, **A Brief History of Time***,* remains one of the landmark volumes in scientific writing of our time. But for years readers have asked for a more accessible formulation of its key conceptsâ€”the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, and the history and future of the universe. Professor Hawkingâ€™s response is this new work that will guide nonscientists everywhere in the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space.â€¦ ****Although â€œbriefer,â€ this book is much more than a mere explanation of Hawkingâ€™s earlier work. **A Briefer History of Time** both clarifies and expands on the great subjects of the original, and records the latest developments in the fieldâ€”from string theory to the search for a unified theory of all the forces of physics. Thirty-seven full-color illustrations enhance the text and make** A Briefer History of Time** an exhilarating and must-have addition in its own right to the great literature of science and ideas.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1183'),
(11336, 'A Briefer History of Time', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From One of the Most Brilliant Minds of Our TimeComes a Book that Clarifies His Most Important Ideas****Stephen Hawkingâ€™s worldwide bestseller, **A Brief History of Time***,* remains one of the landmark volumes in scientific writing of our time. But for years readers have asked for a more accessible formulation of its key conceptsâ€”the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, and the history and future of the universe. Professor Hawkingâ€™s response is this new work that will guide nonscientists everywhere in the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space.â€¦ ****Although â€œbriefer,â€ this book is much more than a mere explanation of Hawkingâ€™s earlier work. **A Briefer History of Time** both clarifies and expands on the great subjects of the original, and records the latest developments in the fieldâ€”from string theory to the search for a unified theory of all the forces of physics. Thirty-seven full-color illustrations enhance the text and make** A Briefer History of Time** an exhilarating and must-have addition in its own right to the great literature of science and ideas.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10232'),
(11337, 'A Briefer History of Time', 'Stephen Hawking', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From One of the Most Brilliant Minds of Our TimeComes a Book that Clarifies His Most Important Ideas****Stephen Hawkingâ€™s worldwide bestseller, **A Brief History of Time***,* remains one of the landmark volumes in scientific writing of our time. But for years readers have asked for a more accessible formulation of its key conceptsâ€”the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, and the history and future of the universe. Professor Hawkingâ€™s response is this new work that will guide nonscientists everywhere in the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space.â€¦ ****Although â€œbriefer,â€ this book is much more than a mere explanation of Hawkingâ€™s earlier work. **A Briefer History of Time** both clarifies and expands on the great subjects of the original, and records the latest developments in the fieldâ€”from string theory to the search for a unified theory of all the forces of physics. Thirty-seven full-color illustrations enhance the text and make** A Briefer History of Time** an exhilarating and must-have addition in its own right to the great literature of science and ideas.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23775'),
(11338, 'Bright Air', 'Barry Maitland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n She stood panting on the narrow ledge, pressing herself back against the hard surface of the rock heard a voice, far below, calling her name. She tried to answer, but her throat was parched and no sound came. They had heard the stone, clattering down the cliff to the sea, and now they knew where she was Secrets, lies and a deathbed confession lead to a deadly, dangerous trail.On a cliff-face in New Zealand, two men fall to their deaths. Four years before, another member of the same close group of university climbing friends, the bright and beautiful Luce, disappeared - supposedly in a climbing accident. As the circle of friends dwindles, two of the surviving members of the group, Luce''s ex-lover Josh and best friend Anna, see a new significance in her death. In an attempt to uncover the truth, Josh and Anna follow the trail to Lord Howe Island, where they begin to suspect an island-wide conspiracy to hide what really happened. Had Luce uncovered a dangerous secret - one that was still worth killing for?A nail-biting, fast-paced page-turner, Bright Airis the compelling new mystery from the master of crime writing, Barry Maitland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7288'),
(11339, 'Bright Air', 'Barry Maitland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n She stood panting on the narrow ledge, pressing herself back against the hard surface of the rock heard a voice, far below, calling her name. She tried to answer, but her throat was parched and no sound came. They had heard the stone, clattering down the cliff to the sea, and now they knew where she was Secrets, lies and a deathbed confession lead to a deadly, dangerous trail.On a cliff-face in New Zealand, two men fall to their deaths. Four years before, another member of the same close group of university climbing friends, the bright and beautiful Luce, disappeared - supposedly in a climbing accident. As the circle of friends dwindles, two of the surviving members of the group, Luce''s ex-lover Josh and best friend Anna, see a new significance in her death. In an attempt to uncover the truth, Josh and Anna follow the trail to Lord Howe Island, where they begin to suspect an island-wide conspiracy to hide what really happened. Had Luce uncovered a dangerous secret - one that was still worth killing for?A nail-biting, fast-paced page-turner, Bright Airis the compelling new mystery from the master of crime writing, Barry Maitland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11258'),
(11340, 'Bright Air', 'Barry Maitland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n She stood panting on the narrow ledge, pressing herself back against the hard surface of the rock heard a voice, far below, calling her name. She tried to answer, but her throat was parched and no sound came. They had heard the stone, clattering down the cliff to the sea, and now they knew where she was Secrets, lies and a deathbed confession lead to a deadly, dangerous trail.On a cliff-face in New Zealand, two men fall to their deaths. Four years before, another member of the same close group of university climbing friends, the bright and beautiful Luce, disappeared - supposedly in a climbing accident. As the circle of friends dwindles, two of the surviving members of the group, Luce''s ex-lover Josh and best friend Anna, see a new significance in her death. In an attempt to uncover the truth, Josh and Anna follow the trail to Lord Howe Island, where they begin to suspect an island-wide conspiracy to hide what really happened. Had Luce uncovered a dangerous secret - one that was still worth killing for?A nail-biting, fast-paced page-turner, Bright Airis the compelling new mystery from the master of crime writing, Barry Maitland.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16581'),
(11341, 'Bright Shiny Morning', 'James Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers an extraordinary novelâ€”a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass through the reader''s sight linesâ€”some never to be seen againâ€”but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA''s lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives. A dazzling tour de force, Bright Shiny Morning illuminates the joys, horrors, and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14733'),
(11342, 'Bright Shiny Morning', 'James Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers an extraordinary novelâ€”a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass through the reader''s sight linesâ€”some never to be seen againâ€”but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA''s lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives. A dazzling tour de force, Bright Shiny Morning illuminates the joys, horrors, and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19825'),
(11343, 'Bright Young Things', 'Anna Godbersen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties.\n</p>\n<p>\n Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York''s glittering metropolis. All Letty wants is to see her name in lights, but she quickly discovers Manhattan is filled with pretty girls who will do anything to be a starâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n Cordelia is searching for the father she''s never known, a man as infamous for his wild parties as he is for his shadowy schemes. Overnight, she enters a world more thrilling and glamorous than she ever could have imaginedâ€”and more dangerous. It''s a life anyone would kill for . . . and someone will.\n</p>\n<p>\n The only person Cordelia can trust is Astrid Donal, a flapper who seems to have it all: money, looks, and the love of Cordelia''s brother, Charlie. But Astrid''s perfect veneer hides a score of family secrets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Across the vast lawns of Long Island, in the illicit speakeasies of Manhattan, and on the blindingly lit stages of Broadway, the three girls'' fortunes will rise and fallâ€”together and apart. From the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Luxe\n </em>\n comes an epic new series set in the dizzying last summer of the Jazz Age.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anna Godbersonâ€™s Playlist\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n Bright Young Things_ may take place during the Jazz Age, but author Anna Godberson shows us that the tunes she prefers range from Cat Power to Prince. Check out what she loves and why. (Click on the song name to listen to a sample)\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n I spend a lot of time in a chair in front of my computer obsessively reworking sentences. This song is ecstatic and full of life and whenever I hear it I want to get up and move.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song sounds to me like the wise, sad, tired, wired, voice of experience, the kind of beauty that you can only see after youâ€™ve been worn down. Thatâ€™s what\n <em>\n  Bright Young Things\n </em>\n is all about.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This one is like an exquisite\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n story, perfect in its simplicity and specificity but universal in what it expresses.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Thatâ€™s where Iâ€™m from, and this is the soundtrack of my homesickness. Plus, the lyrics are literary and whip-smart and impossible for a California girl to forget.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n People like to make fun of Liz Phair these days, but her voice was the voice of my young womanhood, and â€œGo Westâ€ was the anthem of all to-hell-with-men, bridge-burning episodes.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n The title says it all, and it just gets better from there.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Awesome plea for romantic decency, but in that raw, lusty, commanding voice. After at least four thousand listens, I still nod along like the first time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Not to date myself, but around the time I graduated from college, this was the coolest band to mock. Who cares? In my opinion, this is the ultimate jogging song.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This is also an instant dance party number for meâ€”is anyone as weird and cool as Prince?\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n To me, this is the ultimate expression of an artistâ€™s belief in self. There is something bleak, but also really clear-eyed and uplifting about. Plus, itâ€™s gorgeous.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n If I could curl up in Sam Cookeâ€™s voice and sleep forever, Iâ€™d do it. This one is just so desperate and romantic and it sounds just like what it means.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n My parents were hippies, and I grew up in the Church Of Dylan. For a guaranteed good time, get on the freeway, roll the window down, step on the gas, and turn the volume up on this number. Please be prepared to sing along.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for the Luxe series:â€œCharacters are vividly sketched, and the suspenseful story is propelled by interwoven scandals and wellâ€“supported plot twists. A compulsively readable romance about young women who strain against societal conventions.â€ (ALA Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMystery, romance, jealousy, betrayal, humor, and gorgeous, historically accurate details. I couldnâ€™t put The Luxe down!â€ (Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Gossip Girl series )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders will clamor for this sharp, smart drama of friends, lovers, lies and betrayal.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7589'),
(11344, 'Bright Young Things', 'Anna Godbersen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties.\n</p>\n<p>\n Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York''s glittering metropolis. All Letty wants is to see her name in lights, but she quickly discovers Manhattan is filled with pretty girls who will do anything to be a starâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n Cordelia is searching for the father she''s never known, a man as infamous for his wild parties as he is for his shadowy schemes. Overnight, she enters a world more thrilling and glamorous than she ever could have imaginedâ€”and more dangerous. It''s a life anyone would kill for . . . and someone will.\n</p>\n<p>\n The only person Cordelia can trust is Astrid Donal, a flapper who seems to have it all: money, looks, and the love of Cordelia''s brother, Charlie. But Astrid''s perfect veneer hides a score of family secrets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Across the vast lawns of Long Island, in the illicit speakeasies of Manhattan, and on the blindingly lit stages of Broadway, the three girls'' fortunes will rise and fallâ€”together and apart. From the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Luxe\n </em>\n comes an epic new series set in the dizzying last summer of the Jazz Age.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anna Godbersonâ€™s Playlist\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n Bright Young Things_ may take place during the Jazz Age, but author Anna Godberson shows us that the tunes she prefers range from Cat Power to Prince. Check out what she loves and why. (Click on the song name to listen to a sample)\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n I spend a lot of time in a chair in front of my computer obsessively reworking sentences. This song is ecstatic and full of life and whenever I hear it I want to get up and move.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song sounds to me like the wise, sad, tired, wired, voice of experience, the kind of beauty that you can only see after youâ€™ve been worn down. Thatâ€™s what\n <em>\n  Bright Young Things\n </em>\n is all about.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This one is like an exquisite\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n story, perfect in its simplicity and specificity but universal in what it expresses.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Thatâ€™s where Iâ€™m from, and this is the soundtrack of my homesickness. Plus, the lyrics are literary and whip-smart and impossible for a California girl to forget.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n People like to make fun of Liz Phair these days, but her voice was the voice of my young womanhood, and â€œGo Westâ€ was the anthem of all to-hell-with-men, bridge-burning episodes.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n The title says it all, and it just gets better from there.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Awesome plea for romantic decency, but in that raw, lusty, commanding voice. After at least four thousand listens, I still nod along like the first time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Not to date myself, but around the time I graduated from college, this was the coolest band to mock. Who cares? In my opinion, this is the ultimate jogging song.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This is also an instant dance party number for meâ€”is anyone as weird and cool as Prince?\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n To me, this is the ultimate expression of an artistâ€™s belief in self. There is something bleak, but also really clear-eyed and uplifting about. Plus, itâ€™s gorgeous.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n If I could curl up in Sam Cookeâ€™s voice and sleep forever, Iâ€™d do it. This one is just so desperate and romantic and it sounds just like what it means.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n My parents were hippies, and I grew up in the Church Of Dylan. For a guaranteed good time, get on the freeway, roll the window down, step on the gas, and turn the volume up on this number. Please be prepared to sing along.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for the Luxe series:â€œCharacters are vividly sketched, and the suspenseful story is propelled by interwoven scandals and wellâ€“supported plot twists. A compulsively readable romance about young women who strain against societal conventions.â€ (ALA Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMystery, romance, jealousy, betrayal, humor, and gorgeous, historically accurate details. I couldnâ€™t put The Luxe down!â€ (Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Gossip Girl series )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders will clamor for this sharp, smart drama of friends, lovers, lies and betrayal.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9973'),
(11345, 'Bright Young Things', 'Anna Godbersen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties.\n</p>\n<p>\n Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York''s glittering metropolis. All Letty wants is to see her name in lights, but she quickly discovers Manhattan is filled with pretty girls who will do anything to be a starâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n Cordelia is searching for the father she''s never known, a man as infamous for his wild parties as he is for his shadowy schemes. Overnight, she enters a world more thrilling and glamorous than she ever could have imaginedâ€”and more dangerous. It''s a life anyone would kill for . . . and someone will.\n</p>\n<p>\n The only person Cordelia can trust is Astrid Donal, a flapper who seems to have it all: money, looks, and the love of Cordelia''s brother, Charlie. But Astrid''s perfect veneer hides a score of family secrets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Across the vast lawns of Long Island, in the illicit speakeasies of Manhattan, and on the blindingly lit stages of Broadway, the three girls'' fortunes will rise and fallâ€”together and apart. From the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Luxe\n </em>\n comes an epic new series set in the dizzying last summer of the Jazz Age.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anna Godbersonâ€™s Playlist\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n Bright Young Things_ may take place during the Jazz Age, but author Anna Godberson shows us that the tunes she prefers range from Cat Power to Prince. Check out what she loves and why. (Click on the song name to listen to a sample)\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n I spend a lot of time in a chair in front of my computer obsessively reworking sentences. This song is ecstatic and full of life and whenever I hear it I want to get up and move.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song sounds to me like the wise, sad, tired, wired, voice of experience, the kind of beauty that you can only see after youâ€™ve been worn down. Thatâ€™s what\n <em>\n  Bright Young Things\n </em>\n is all about.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This one is like an exquisite\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n story, perfect in its simplicity and specificity but universal in what it expresses.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Thatâ€™s where Iâ€™m from, and this is the soundtrack of my homesickness. Plus, the lyrics are literary and whip-smart and impossible for a California girl to forget.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n People like to make fun of Liz Phair these days, but her voice was the voice of my young womanhood, and â€œGo Westâ€ was the anthem of all to-hell-with-men, bridge-burning episodes.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n The title says it all, and it just gets better from there.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Awesome plea for romantic decency, but in that raw, lusty, commanding voice. After at least four thousand listens, I still nod along like the first time.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Not to date myself, but around the time I graduated from college, this was the coolest band to mock. Who cares? In my opinion, this is the ultimate jogging song.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This is also an instant dance party number for meâ€”is anyone as weird and cool as Prince?\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n To me, this is the ultimate expression of an artistâ€™s belief in self. There is something bleak, but also really clear-eyed and uplifting about. Plus, itâ€™s gorgeous.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n If I could curl up in Sam Cookeâ€™s voice and sleep forever, Iâ€™d do it. This one is just so desperate and romantic and it sounds just like what it means.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n My parents were hippies, and I grew up in the Church Of Dylan. For a guaranteed good time, get on the freeway, roll the window down, step on the gas, and turn the volume up on this number. Please be prepared to sing along.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for the Luxe series:â€œCharacters are vividly sketched, and the suspenseful story is propelled by interwoven scandals and wellâ€“supported plot twists. A compulsively readable romance about young women who strain against societal conventions.â€ (ALA Booklist )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMystery, romance, jealousy, betrayal, humor, and gorgeous, historically accurate details. I couldnâ€™t put The Luxe down!â€ (Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Gossip Girl series )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders will clamor for this sharp, smart drama of friends, lovers, lies and betrayal.â€ (Kirkus Reviews )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16314'),
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(11349, 'Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America', 'Barbara Ehrenreich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Ehrenreich (_Nickel and Dimed_) delivers a trenchant look into the burgeoning business of positive thinking. A bout with breast cancer puts the author face to face with this new breed of frenetic positive thinking promoted by everyone from scientists to gurus and activists. Chided for her anger and distress by doctors and fellow cancer patients and survivors, Ehrenreich explores the insistence upon optimism as a cultural and national trait, discovering its symbiotic relationship with American capitalism and how poverty, obesity, unemployment and relationship problems are being marketed as obstacles that can be overcome with the right (read: positive) mindset. Building on Max Weber''s insights into the relationship between Calvinism and capitalism, Ehrenreich sees the dark roots of positive thinking emerging from 19th-century religious movements. Mary Baker Eddy, William James and Norman Vincent Peale paved the path for today''s secular $9.6 billion self-improvement industry and positive psychology institutes. The author concludes by suggesting that the bungled invasion of Iraq and current economic mess may be intricately tied to this reckless national penchant for self-delusion and a lack of anxious vigilance, necessary to societal survival.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n No critic completely dismissed Ehrenreich''s critique of America''s "happiness" culture. But reviewers'' enthusiasm for her critique seemed to depend on their assessment of the book''s moral urgency. Several critics felt that the message of\n <em>\n  Bright-Sided\n </em>\n was essential to readers in the aftermath of last year''s economic meltdown. But others felt that Ehrenreich''s ideas, while relevant, had been better expressed by others. They also criticized the author for "cheap shots" and outdated research. For example, she criticizes the book\n <em>\n  Who Moved My Cheese?\n </em>\n , which has long been superseded by other, even sillier titles. But many readers may react like Hanna Rosin, who wrote in the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n that even when she did not agree with Ehrenreich''s arguments, she felt less guilty about not sharing in our smiley :-) culture.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7347'),
(11350, 'Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America', 'Barbara Ehrenreich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Ehrenreich (_Nickel and Dimed_) delivers a trenchant look into the burgeoning business of positive thinking. A bout with breast cancer puts the author face to face with this new breed of frenetic positive thinking promoted by everyone from scientists to gurus and activists. Chided for her anger and distress by doctors and fellow cancer patients and survivors, Ehrenreich explores the insistence upon optimism as a cultural and national trait, discovering its symbiotic relationship with American capitalism and how poverty, obesity, unemployment and relationship problems are being marketed as obstacles that can be overcome with the right (read: positive) mindset. Building on Max Weber''s insights into the relationship between Calvinism and capitalism, Ehrenreich sees the dark roots of positive thinking emerging from 19th-century religious movements. Mary Baker Eddy, William James and Norman Vincent Peale paved the path for today''s secular $9.6 billion self-improvement industry and positive psychology institutes. The author concludes by suggesting that the bungled invasion of Iraq and current economic mess may be intricately tied to this reckless national penchant for self-delusion and a lack of anxious vigilance, necessary to societal survival.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n No critic completely dismissed Ehrenreich''s critique of America''s "happiness" culture. But reviewers'' enthusiasm for her critique seemed to depend on their assessment of the book''s moral urgency. Several critics felt that the message of\n <em>\n  Bright-Sided\n </em>\n was essential to readers in the aftermath of last year''s economic meltdown. But others felt that Ehrenreich''s ideas, while relevant, had been better expressed by others. They also criticized the author for "cheap shots" and outdated research. For example, she criticizes the book\n <em>\n  Who Moved My Cheese?\n </em>\n , which has long been superseded by other, even sillier titles. But many readers may react like Hanna Rosin, who wrote in the\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n that even when she did not agree with Ehrenreich''s arguments, she felt less guilty about not sharing in our smiley :-) culture.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9573'),
(11351, 'Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America', 'Barbara Ehrenreich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A sharp-witted knockdown of Americaâ€™s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a â€œpositiveâ€ peopleâ€”cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key to success and prosperity. In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude. Evangelical mega-churches preach the good news that you only have to want something to get it, because God wants to â€œprosperâ€ you. The medical profession prescribes positive thinking for its presumed health benefits. Academia has made room for new departments of â€œpositive psychologyâ€ and the â€œscience of happiness.â€ Nowhere, though, has bright-siding taken firmer root than within the business community, where, as Ehrenreich shows, the refusal even to consider negative outcomesâ€”like mortgage defaultsâ€”contributed directly to the current economic crisis. With the mythbusting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of Americaâ€™s penchant for positive thinking: On a personal level, it leads to self-blame and a morbid preoccupation with stamping out â€œnegativeâ€ thoughts. On a national level, itâ€™s brought us an era of irrational optimism resulting in disaster. This is Ehrenreich at her provocative bestâ€”poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science, and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage. Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of numerous books, including Dancing in the Streets and The New York Times bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. A frequent contributor to Harperâ€™s and The Nation, she has also been a columnist at The New York Times and Time magazine. In Bright-sided, Barbara Ehrenreich reveals how the positive thinking movement, though seemingly harmless, has in fact deluded America and played a role in some of the most destructive events in recent U.S. history. Far from just a â€œhealthy mindset,â€ bright-siding is an epidemic of self-deception that has spread to all circles of American life, from preachers who celebrate the power of prayer, to doctors who promote optimismâ€™s healing abilities. It led officials to overlook clues of 9/11 and overestimate the strength of New Orleansâ€™ levees, and enabled the business world to make egregiously unsafe loans that caused the worst financial crisis since World War II. Ehrenreich exposes the consequences of the belief that positive thinking is the key to achieving success and prosperityâ€”a notion which, at its most dangerous, prevents people from even considering the negative outcomes of major events or their own actions.   â€œIn this hard-hitting but honest appraisal, Americaâ€™s cultural skeptic Barbara Ehrenreich turns her focus on the muddled American phenomenon of positive thinking. She exposes the pseudoscience and pseudointellectual foundation of the positive-thinking movement for what it is: a house of cards. This is a mind-opening read.â€â€”Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time "Barbara Ehrenreich wants to make clear that she is not a spoilsport. ''No one can call me a sourpuss,'' she declared. ''I have a big foot in the joy camp.'' She is the author of Dancing in the Streets, a history of ''collective joy,'' she notes, and a lot of fun at parties. So her new book, Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, should not be mistaken for a curmudgeonly rant. It is serious social history.Many of the 17 books that Ms. Ehrenreich has written during the past three and half decades have taken her into alien worlds. In her fantastically successful 2001 book, Nickel and Dimed, for example, she details her experience of trying to get by on the salary of an unskilled, minimum-wage worker. By contrast, this newest volume is based on her stay in a world that she became intimately familiar with: the smiley-faced, pink-ribboned, positive-thinking culture that surrounds breast cancer patients . . . In Bright-sided, she traces the roots of the nationâ€™s blithe sunniness to a reaction against Calvinist gloom and the limits of medical science in the first half of the 19th century. Starting with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, perhaps one of the first American New Age faith healers, she draws a line to Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science; the psychologist William James; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Norman Vincent Peale, who published The Power of Positive Thinking in 1952; and the toothy television minister Joel Osteen, who preaches the gospel of prosperity."â€”Patricia Cohen, The New York Times"When I finished Barbara Ehrenreich''s Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, I went in search of a stiff drinkâ€”or something that would allow me to escape, if only briefly, the feeling that I have been blind to the unyielding grip that positive thinking has on our culture. Very little I have read elsewhere has suggested that the current recession is good for us, but Ehrenreich implies that the implosion of our economy may bring us to our senses and that reason and common sense might have a chance to disempower the foolish, self-serving and dangerous promotion of positive thinking reaching into all areas of our lives: our health, jobs, science, religion, politics. She is relentlessâ€”and persuasiveâ€”in her determination to convince us of this. Her notes run to 15 pages of titles of papers, articles, books and television interviews she has researched to support her contention that the unwarranted optimism urged on us by church and corporations, by medical and psychological ''experts,'' has distorted the reality of the disaster we now find ourselves facing . . . So what''s with all this negativity Ehrenreich forces on us? Isn''t positive thinking better than being a spoilsport? In a voice urgent and passionate, Ehrenreich offers us neither extreme but instead balance: joy, happiness, yes; sadness, anger, yes. She favors life with a clear head, eyes wide open."â€”Jane Juska, San Francisco Chronicleâ€œWe''re always being told that looking on the bright side is good for us, but now we see that it''s a great way to brush off poverty, disease, and unemployment, to rationalize an order where all the rewards go to those on top. The people who are sick or joblessâ€”why, they just aren''t thinking positively. They have no one to blame but themselves. Barbara Ehrenreich has put the menace of positive thinking under the microscope. Anyone who''s ever been told to brighten up needs to read this book.â€â€”Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew and What''s the Matter with Kansas?â€œUnless you keep on saying that you believe in fairies, Tinker Bell will check out, and whatâ€™s more, her sad demise will be your fault! Barbara Ehrenreich scores again for the independent-minded in resisting this drool and all those who wallow in it.â€â€”Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everythingâ€œIn this hard-hitting but honest appraisal, Americaâ€™s cultural skeptic Barbara Ehrenreich turns her focus on the muddled American phenomenon of positive thinking. She exposes the pseudoscience and pseudointellectual foundation of the positive-thinking movement for what it is: a house of cards. This is a mind-opening read.â€â€”Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Timeâ€œOnce again, Barbara Ehrenreich has written an invaluable and timely book, offering a brilliant analysis of the causes and dimensions of our current cultural and economic crises. She shows how deeply positive thinking is embedded in our history and how crippling it is as a habit of mind.â€â€”Thomas Bender, author of A Nation Among Nations: Americaâ€™s Place in World Historyâ€œOprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra, Andrew Weil: please read this relentlessly sensible book. Itâ€™s never too late to begin thinking clearly.â€â€”Frederick Crews, author of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essaysâ€œBarbara Ehrenreichâ€™s skeptical common sense is just what we need to penetrate the cloying fog that passes for happiness in America.â€â€”Alan Wolfe, author of The Future of Liberalismâ€œIn this hilarious and devastating critique, Barbara Ehrenreich applies some much needed negativity to the zillion-dollar business of positive thinking. This is truly a text for the times.â€â€”Katha Pollitt, author of The Mind-Body Problem: Poems"In Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Notion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, Barbara Ehrenreich reprises her role as Dorothy swishing back the curtain on a great and powerful given: â€˜Americans are a â€œpositiveâ€ people.â€™ Sunny, self-confident optimism defines us as individuals and as a nation. Humbug. Ehrenreich wants us to pay close attention to the truth behind the hypeâ€”positive thinking is hurting America, from obliging one another to turn that frown upside-down, to 2008''s financial meltdown . . . â€˜Flapdoodle,â€™ crows Ehrenreich, and the fun begins. Like flying monkeys tearing apart the Scarecrow, she shreds theories based on quantum physics (neuronal impulses are far too large to be influenced by quantum effects), magnetism (the magnetic properties of thought are swamped by competing magnetisms -- like the Earth''s!), and magic (pay no attention to that man behind the curtain). Ehrenreich likewise thrashes from top to bottom â€˜the motivators and gurus of positivity,â€™ from Rhonda Byrne, author of The Secret, to prosperity preachers like Joel Osteen. Osteen makes a juicy target, sidestepping as he does sin and salvation in favor of the â€˜prosperity gospelâ€™â€”â€˜You can have that new car or house or necklace, because God wants to â€œprosper you.â€â€™ In spurning Osteen as a heretical fake, Ehrenreich fights dirty, mocking Osteen''s height (he''s shorter in person) and his mullet (it''s longer). Ehrenreich claims she approached her initial meeting with Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, â€˜with trepidation,â€™ yet we almost expect her to say, â€˜Just one more thing . . .â€™ Ã  la Lt. Columbo, as she tries to pin down the exact measurements of Seligman''s "equation" for happiness, a contrivance that makes him â€˜look like the Wizard of Oz.â€™ The refutation and character assassination, while entertaining, serve to show how positive thinking is as rickety a construct as the Wizard, merely masking insecurities about a world we can''t really control. So complete is Ehrenreich''s argument that she plays her own devil''s advocate: positive thinking requires self-deception, â€˜a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and â€œnegativeâ€ thoughtsâ€™â€”like those created by scathing social critiques . . . Those readers who''ve â€˜gone so far down this yellow brick road that â€œpositiveâ€ seems to us the way you should beâ€™ may bite their nails over the demystification in Bright-Sided. Ehrenreich''s advice on where to go from here is a workable antidote to the pursuit of secret formulas that don''t exist.â€â€”Kassten Alonso, The Oregonian (Portland)"Two-thirds of the way into the book, its theme shines through like sunlight in an old-time Baptist window, the kind they don''t make anymore because nobody knows how and even if they did they wouldn''t have the patience. It''s much easier and faster these days simply to visualize it and wish for it according to the directives of the positive-thinking life coaches of the prosperity-gospel churches. And while you''re about it, you might as well visualize a big house in the suburbs with an adjustable-rate mortgage or a diamond necklace instead, or any other nice piece of bling . . . In precisely crafted, hard-hitting language throughout, she explains how hordes of optimistic American consumers, under the spell of ''new age'' authors and psychologists, television preachers and celebrities, visualized and wished (with a lot of help from credit cards) for so much stuff that now they are enmeshed in unwished-for bankruptcy in record numbers . . . This hard-boiled analysis of the national mass fantasy of wishful thinking contributed, says the author, to the economic collapse of 2008. It represents her hope for recovery from ''the mass delusion that is positive thinking.'' Her personal vision, she says, is composed of better jobs and better health care for all, and a chance for everyone to contribute through clear thinking and hard work, not through the notion that we can ''levitate ourselves into that blessed condition by wishing it.''"â€”Tom Dodge, The Dallas Morning News"Ehrenreich, author of the best-selling Nickel and Dimed, delivers her indictments of the happiness industry with both authority and wit. . . . Others have critiqued the positivity movement, but Ehrenreich does an impressive job of analyzing its broader social impact."â€”Kristin Ohlson, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)"Ehrenreich convinced me completely. . . I hesitate to say anything so positive as that this book will change the way you see absolutely everything; but it just might."â€”Nora Ephron, The Daily Beast"Positive thinking should never be the same after Barbara Ehrenreichâ€™s Bright-Sided . . . Ehrenreich is a sharp and reliable student of the divided middle class, as good as the American left can boast. In attacking the thick irrationality of our public lives, [this book] homes in on a particularly salient line of argumentâ€”that positive thinking is not only preposterous but pernicious."â€”John Summers, Bookforum"Accomplished social critic Ehrenreich eviscerates the positive-thinking movement, which she blames for encouraging us to ''deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate.'' The author argues that the promotion of unwarranted optimism began in the early days of the American republic, was taken up by 19th-century philosophers and mysticsâ€”William James urged people to repeat to themselves ''Youth, health, vigor!'' while dressing in the morningâ€”and entered the American mainstream in the 20th century, when it became an integral part of consumer culture. Ehrenreich''s quarrel is not with feeling upbeat but rather with the ''inescapable pseudoscientific flapdoodle'' of life coaches and self-improvement products claiming that thinking positively will result in wealth, success and other joyful outcomes. Such magical thinking has become a means of social control in the workplaceâ€”where uncheerful employees are ostracizedâ€”and prevents action to achieve social change. With life coaches, business motivators and evangelical preachers promoting delusional expectations . . . positive thinking can claim partial credit for a major role in such recent disastrous events as the Iraq war and the financial meltdown. Ehrenreich''s many interviews include meetings with psychologist Martin Seligman, whose ''positive psychology,'' she finds, offers little credible evidence to make it any different from the wishing-will-make-it-so thinking of writers from Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends &amp; Influence People) to Rhonda Byrne (The Secret). The author''s tough-minded and convincing broadside raises troubling questions about many aspects of contemporary American life, and she provides an antidote to the pervasive culture of cheerfulnessâ€”reality-based critical thinking that will encourage people to alter social arrangements in ways that improve their lives. Bright, incisive, provocative thinking from a top-notch nonfiction writer."â€”Kirkus Reviews"Ehrenreich delivers a trenchant look into the burgeoning business of positive thinking. A bout with breast cancer puts the author face to face with this new breed of frenetic positive thinking promoted by everyone from scientists to gurus and activists. Chided for her anger and distress by doctors and fellow cancer patients and survivors, Ehrenreich explores the insistence upon optimism as a cultural and national trait, discovering its ''symbiotic relationship with American capitalism'' and how poverty, obesity, unemployment and relationship problems are being marketed as obstacles that can be overcome with the right (read: positive) mindset. Building on Max Weber''s insights into the relationship between Calvinism and capitalism, Ehrenreich sees the dark roots of positive thinking emerging from 19th-century religious movements. Mary Baker Eddy, William James and Norman Vincent Peale paved the path for today''s secular $9.6 billion self-improvement industry and positive psychology institutes. The author concludes by suggesting that the bungled invasion of Iraq and current economic mess may be intricately tied to this ''reckless'' national penchant for self-delusion and a lack of anxious vigilance, necessary to societal survival."â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7348'),
(11352, 'Bright-sided: how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America', 'Barbara Ehrenreich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A sharp-witted knockdown of Americaâ€™s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a â€œpositiveâ€ peopleâ€”cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key to success and prosperity. In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude. Evangelical mega-churches preach the good news that you only have to want something to get it, because God wants to â€œprosperâ€ you. The medical profession prescribes positive thinking for its presumed health benefits. Academia has made room for new departments of â€œpositive psychologyâ€ and the â€œscience of happiness.â€ Nowhere, though, has bright-siding taken firmer root than within the business community, where, as Ehrenreich shows, the refusal even to consider negative outcomesâ€”like mortgage defaultsâ€”contributed directly to the current economic crisis. With the mythbusting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of Americaâ€™s penchant for positive thinking: On a personal level, it leads to self-blame and a morbid preoccupation with stamping out â€œnegativeâ€ thoughts. On a national level, itâ€™s brought us an era of irrational optimism resulting in disaster. This is Ehrenreich at her provocative bestâ€”poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science, and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage. Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of numerous books, including Dancing in the Streets and The New York Times bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. A frequent contributor to Harperâ€™s and The Nation, she has also been a columnist at The New York Times and Time magazine. In Bright-sided, Barbara Ehrenreich reveals how the positive thinking movement, though seemingly harmless, has in fact deluded America and played a role in some of the most destructive events in recent U.S. history. Far from just a â€œhealthy mindset,â€ bright-siding is an epidemic of self-deception that has spread to all circles of American life, from preachers who celebrate the power of prayer, to doctors who promote optimismâ€™s healing abilities. It led officials to overlook clues of 9/11 and overestimate the strength of New Orleansâ€™ levees, and enabled the business world to make egregiously unsafe loans that caused the worst financial crisis since World War II. Ehrenreich exposes the consequences of the belief that positive thinking is the key to achieving success and prosperityâ€”a notion which, at its most dangerous, prevents people from even considering the negative outcomes of major events or their own actions. â€œIn this hard-hitting but honest appraisal, Americaâ€™s cultural skeptic Barbara Ehrenreich turns her focus on the muddled American phenomenon of positive thinking. She exposes the pseudoscience and pseudointellectual foundation of the positive-thinking movement for what it is: a house of cards. This is a mind-opening read.â€â€”Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time "Barbara Ehrenreich wants to make clear that she is not a spoilsport. ''No one can call me a sourpuss,'' she declared. ''I have a big foot in the joy camp.'' She is the author of Dancing in the Streets, a history of ''collective joy,'' she notes, and a lot of fun at parties. So her new book, Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, should not be mistaken for a curmudgeonly rant. It is serious social history.Many of the 17 books that Ms. Ehrenreich has written during the past three and half decades have taken her into alien worlds. In her fantastically successful 2001 book, Nickel and Dimed, for example, she details her experience of trying to get by on the salary of an unskilled, minimum-wage worker. By contrast, this newest volume is based on her stay in a world that she became intimately familiar with: the smiley-faced, pink-ribboned, positive-thinking culture that surrounds breast cancer patients . . . In Bright-sided, she traces the roots of the nationâ€™s blithe sunniness to a reaction against Calvinist gloom and the limits of medical science in the first half of the 19th century. Starting with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, perhaps one of the first American New Age faith healers, she draws a line to Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science; the psychologist William James; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Norman Vincent Peale, who published The Power of Positive Thinking in 1952; and the toothy television minister Joel Osteen, who preaches the gospel of prosperity."â€”Patricia Cohen, The New York Times"When I finished Barbara Ehrenreich''s Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, I went in search of a stiff drinkâ€”or something that would allow me to escape, if only briefly, the feeling that I have been blind to the unyielding grip that positive thinking has on our culture. Very little I have read elsewhere has suggested that the current recession is good for us, but Ehrenreich implies that the implosion of our economy may bring us to our senses and that reason and common sense might have a chance to disempower the foolish, self-serving and dangerous promotion of positive thinking reaching into all areas of our lives: our health, jobs, science, religion, politics. She is relentlessâ€”and persuasiveâ€”in her determination to convince us of this. Her notes run to 15 pages of titles of papers, articles, books and television interviews she has researched to support her contention that the unwarranted optimism urged on us by church and corporations, by medical and psychological ''experts,'' has distorted the reality of the disaster we now find ourselves facing . . . So what''s with all this negativity Ehrenreich forces on us? Isn''t positive thinking better than being a spoilsport? In a voice urgent and passionate, Ehrenreich offers us neither extreme but instead balance: joy, happiness, yes; sadness, anger, yes. She favors life with a clear head, eyes wide open."â€”Jane Juska, San Francisco Chronicleâ€œWe''re always being told that looking on the bright side is good for us, but now we see that it''s a great way to brush off poverty, disease, and unemployment, to rationalize an order where all the rewards go to those on top. The people who are sick or joblessâ€”why, they just aren''t thinking positively. They have no one to blame but themselves. Barbara Ehrenreich has put the menace of positive thinking under the microscope. Anyone who''s ever been told to brighten up needs to read this book.â€â€”Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew and What''s the Matter with Kansas?â€œUnless you keep on saying that you believe in fairies, Tinker Bell will check out, and whatâ€™s more, her sad demise will be your fault! Barbara Ehrenreich scores again for the independent-minded in resisting this drool and all those who wallow in it.â€â€”Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everythingâ€œIn this hard-hitting but honest appraisal, Americaâ€™s cultural skeptic Barbara Ehrenreich turns her focus on the muddled American phenomenon of positive thinking. She exposes the pseudoscience and pseudointellectual foundation of the positive-thinking movement for what it is: a house of cards. This is a mind-opening read.â€â€”Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Timeâ€œOnce again, Barbara Ehrenreich has written an invaluable and timely book, offering a brilliant analysis of the causes and dimensions of our current cultural and economic crises. She shows how deeply positive thinking is embedded in our history and how crippling it is as a habit of mind.â€â€”Thomas Bender, author of A Nation Among Nations: Americaâ€™s Place in World Historyâ€œOprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra, Andrew Weil: please read this relentlessly sensible book. Itâ€™s never too late to begin thinking clearly.â€â€”Frederick Crews, author of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essaysâ€œBarbara Ehrenreichâ€™s skeptical common sense is just what we need to penetrate the cloying fog that passes for happiness in America.â€â€”Alan Wolfe, author of The Future of Liberalismâ€œIn this hilarious and devastating critique, Barbara Ehrenreich applies some much needed negativity to the zillion-dollar business of positive thinking. This is truly a text for the times.â€â€”Katha Pollitt, author of The Mind-Body Problem: Poems"In Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Notion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, Barbara Ehrenreich reprises her role as Dorothy swishing back the curtain on a great and powerful given: â€˜Americans are a â€œpositiveâ€ people.â€™ Sunny, self-confident optimism defines us as individuals and as a nation. Humbug. Ehrenreich wants us to pay close attention to the truth behind the hypeâ€”positive thinking is hurting America, from obliging one another to turn that frown upside-down, to 2008''s financial meltdown . . . â€˜Flapdoodle,â€™ crows Ehrenreich, and the fun begins. Like flying monkeys tearing apart the Scarecrow, she shreds theories based on quantum physics (neuronal impulses are far too large to be influenced by quantum effects), magnetism (the magnetic properties of thought are swamped by competing magnetisms -- like the Earth''s!), and magic (pay no attention to that man behind the curtain). Ehrenreich likewise thrashes from top to bottom â€˜the motivators and gurus of positivity,â€™ from Rhonda Byrne, author of The Secret, to prosperity preachers like Joel Osteen. Osteen makes a juicy target, sidestepping as he does sin and salvation in favor of the â€˜prosperity gospelâ€™â€”â€˜You can have that new car or house or necklace, because God wants to â€œprosper you.â€â€™ In spurning Osteen as a heretical fake, Ehrenreich fights dirty, mocking Osteen''s height (he''s shorter in person) and his mullet (it''s longer). Ehrenreich claims she approached her initial meeting with Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, â€˜with trepidation,â€™ yet we almost expect her to say, â€˜Just one more thing . . .â€™ Ã  la Lt. Columbo, as she tries to pin down the exact measurements of Seligman''s "equation" for happiness, a contrivance that makes him â€˜look like the Wizard of Oz.â€™ The refutation and character assassination, while entertaining, serve to show how positive thinking is as rickety a construct as the Wizard, merely masking insecurities about a world we can''t really control. So complete is Ehrenreich''s argument that she plays her own devil''s advocate: positive thinking requires self-deception, â€˜a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and â€œnegativeâ€ thoughtsâ€™â€”like those created by scathing social critiques . . . Those readers who''ve â€˜gone so far down this yellow brick road that â€œpositiveâ€ seems to us the way you should beâ€™ may bite their nails over the demystification in Bright-Sided. Ehrenreich''s advice on where to go from here is a workable antidote to the pursuit of secret formulas that don''t exist.â€â€”Kassten Alonso, The Oregonian (Portland)"Two-thirds of the way into the book, its theme shines through like sunlight in an old-time Baptist window, the kind they don''t make anymore because nobody knows how and even if they did they wouldn''t have the patience. It''s much easier and faster these days simply to visualize it and wish for it according to the directives of the positive-thinking life coaches of the prosperity-gospel churches. And while you''re about it, you might as well visualize a big house in the suburbs with an adjustable-rate mortgage or a diamond necklace instead, or any other nice piece of bling . . . In precisely crafted, hard-hitting language throughout, she explains how hordes of optimistic American consumers, under the spell of ''new age'' authors and psychologists, television preachers and celebrities, visualized and wished (with a lot of help from credit cards) for so much stuff that now they are enmeshed in unwished-for bankruptcy in record numbers . . . This hard-boiled analysis of the national mass fantasy of wishful thinking contributed, says the author, to the economic collapse of 2008. It represents her hope for recovery from ''the mass delusion that is positive thinking.'' Her personal vision, she says, is composed of better jobs and better health care for all, and a chance for everyone to contribute through clear thinking and hard work, not through the notion that we can ''levitate ourselves into that blessed condition by wishing it.''"â€”Tom Dodge, The Dallas Morning News"Ehrenreich, author of the best-selling Nickel and Dimed, delivers her indictments of the happiness industry with both authority and wit. . . . Others have critiqued the positivity movement, but Ehrenreich does an impressive job of analyzing its broader social impact."â€”Kristin Ohlson, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)"Ehrenreich convinced me completely. . . I hesitate to say anything so positive as that this book will change the way you see absolutely everything; but it just might."â€”Nora Ephron, The Daily Beast"Positive thinking should never be the same after Barbara Ehrenreichâ€™s Bright-Sided . . . Ehrenreich is a sharp and reliable student of the divided middle class, as good as the American left can boast. In attacking the thick irrationality of our public lives, [this book] homes in on a particularly salient line of argumentâ€”that positive thinking is not only preposterous but pernicious."â€”John Summers, Bookforum"Accomplished social critic Ehrenreich eviscerates the positive-thinking movement, which she blames for encouraging us to ''deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate.'' The author argues that the promotion of unwarranted optimism began in the early days of the American republic, was taken up by 19th-century philosophers and mysticsâ€”William James urged people to repeat to themselves ''Youth, health, vigor!'' while dressing in the morningâ€”and entered the American mainstream in the 20th century, when it became an integral part of consumer culture. Ehrenreich''s quarrel is not with feeling upbeat but rather with the ''inescapable pseudoscientific flapdoodle'' of life coaches and self-improvement products claiming that thinking positively will result in wealth, success and other joyful outcomes. Such magical thinking has become a means of social control in the workplaceâ€”where uncheerful employees are ostracizedâ€”and prevents action to achieve social change. With life coaches, business motivators and evangelical preachers promoting delusional expectations . . . positive thinking can claim partial credit for a major role in such recent disastrous events as the Iraq war and the financial meltdown. Ehrenreich''s many interviews include meetings with psychologist Martin Seligman, whose ''positive psychology,'' she finds, offers little credible evidence to make it any different from the wishing-will-make-it-so thinking of writers from Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends &amp; Influence People) to Rhonda Byrne (The Secret). The author''s tough-minded and convincing broadside raises troubling questions about many aspects of contemporary American life, and she provides an antidote to the pervasive culture of cheerfulnessâ€”reality-based critical thinking that will encourage people to alter social arrangements in ways that improve their lives. Bright, incisive, provocative thinking from a top-notch nonfiction writer."â€”Kirkus Reviews"Ehrenreich delivers a trenchant look into the burgeoning business of positive thinking. A bout with breast cancer puts the author face to face with this new breed of frenetic positive thinking promoted by everyone from scientists to gurus and activists. Chided for her anger and distress by doctors and fellow cancer patients and survivors, Ehrenreich explores the insistence upon optimism as a cultural and national trait, discovering its ''symbiotic relationship with American capitalism'' and how poverty, obesity, unemployment and relationship problems are being marketed as obstacles that can be overcome with the right (read: positive) mindset. Building on Max Weber''s insights into the relationship between Calvinism and capitalism, Ehrenreich sees the dark roots of positive thinking emerging from 19th-century religious movements. Mary Baker Eddy, William James and Norman Vincent Peale paved the path for today''s secular $9.6 billion self-improvement industry and positive psychology institutes. The author concludes by suggesting that the bungled invasion of Iraq and current economic mess may be intricately tied to this ''reckless'' national penchant for self-delusion and a lack of anxious vigilance, necessary to societal survival."â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26581'),
(11353, 'Brightness Reef', 'David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: David Brin''s Uplift novels--Sundiver, Hugo award winner The Uplift War, and Hugo and Nebula winner Startide Rising--are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction tales ever written. Now David Brin returns to this future universe for a new Uplift trilogy, packed with adventure, passion and wit.The planet Jijo is forbidden to settlers, its ecology protected by guardians of the Five Galaxies. But over the centuries it has been resettled, populated by refugees of six intelligent races. Together they have woven a new society in the wilderness, drawn together by their fear of Judgment Day, when the Five Galaxies will discover their illegal colony. Then a strange starship arrives on Jijo. Does it bring the long-dreaded judgment, or worse--a band of criminals willing to destroy the six races of Jijo in order to cover their own crimes?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17287'),
(11354, 'Brigid of Kildare: A Novel', 'Heather Terrell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bookish appraiser Alexandra Patterson uncovers the secret history of a renegade saint in Terrell''s subdued third novel (after\n <em>\n  The Map Thief\n </em>\n ). In need of funds to spread their saint''s message, the Sisters of St. Brigid decide to sell off a clutch of gold and jeweled relics. In her assessment of their value, Alexandra discovers an ancient manuscript that just might be the lost Book of Kildare, an illuminated manuscript that surpasses in beauty the Book of Kells. She confers with Trinity College professor and old flame Declan Lamb, who backs her hunch. As these contemporary amateur sleuths uncover the manuscript''s mysterious origins, Terrell traces in a second plot line the life of Brigid and her faithful scribe, Decius. Despite a promising premise, Terrell''s matter-of-fact storytelling and dry weaving of past and present leaves little mystery or magic for readers to pursue.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Brimming with historical detail, Brigid of Kildare is authentically told with a fascinating premise. Through interwoven and parallel stories, Heather Terrell imagines the discovery of one of history''s lost Celtic treasures in an immediate and highly enjoyable fashion."â€”Susan Fraser King, author of\n <em>\n  Lady Macbeth\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12358'),
(11355, 'Brilliance of the Moon', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n åœ¨çº¿é˜…è¯»æœ¬ä¹¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn''s imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor delves deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth. Filled with adventure and surprising twists of plot and fortune, this final volume travels beyond the Three Countries, to the outside influences that threaten to intrude upon this isolated realm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3363'),
(11356, 'Brilliance of the Moon', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: åœ¨çº¿é˜…è¯»æœ¬ä¹¦ A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn''s imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor delves deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth. Filled with adventure and surprising twists of plot and fortune, this final volume travels beyond the Three Countries, to the outside influences that threaten to intrude upon this isolated realm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21156'),
(11357, 'Bringing Adam Home', 'Les Standiford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the ultimate cold caseï¿½tragic, high-profile, and, finally, successfully solved. Six-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a crowded Sears store in Hollywood, Florida, in 1981. Later, he was murdered and decapitated. Identifying Adamï¿½s killer took 25 years. His parents turned into tireless advocates for missing and abused children; Adamï¿½s father, John Walsh, moved from a sales job to being the executive producer and host of Americaï¿½s Most Wanted. This forceful account, written with Matthews, former sergeant with the Miami Beach Police Department, who worked the case for years, gives readers the ultimate insiderï¿½s account of the grueling search for Adamï¿½s killer and for the evidence to convict him. While many true-crime books claim to shine a light on society by examining one particular case, this account actually does. No reader can come away from this without appreciating what it takes to keep pursuing an investigation, against the obstacles of police politics and bureaucracy. Wrenching and riveting. --Connie Fletcher\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œBRINGING ADAM HOME is a maddening, terrifying and ultimately triumphant book. Les Standiford explores the injustice and finally justice surrounding the murder of Adam Walsh. You will cry and rage but you will not be able to put this book down until you finish it. My God! What a book!â€ (Ann Hood, author of THE RED THREAD and THE KNITTING CIRCLE )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLes Standifordâ€™s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything Iâ€™ve ever read. A triumph in every way.â€ (Dennis Lehane, author of MYSTIC RIVER and SHUTTER ISLAND )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI didnâ€™t live far from the mall where Adam Walsh was kidnapped. I remember that story as if it were yesterday. It terrified me as a kid. But itâ€™s the details that Les Standiford has found that terrify me as an adult. Insightful, horrifying, and just beautifully written.â€ (Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling author of THE BOOK OF FATE )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBRINGING ADAM HOME is a riveting account of a child abduction and murder that goes unsolved for twenty-seven yearsâ€”both an unsettling expose of police incompetence and a portrait of an extraordinary and dedicated detective.â€ (Joyce Carol Oates )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis tale of the most significant missing child case since the Lindberghâ€™sâ€”that of TV host John Walshâ€™s son Adam and the 25 year search for his killerâ€”is truly terrific.A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice.â€ (Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNot since IN COLD BLOOD has the story of a terrible crime been told with such elegance and power....Heartbreaking and hypnotically suspenseful.â€ (Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of VANISHED )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3421');
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(11358, 'Bringing Adam Home', 'Les Standiford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the ultimate cold caseï¿½tragic, high-profile, and, finally, successfully solved. Six-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a crowded Sears store in Hollywood, Florida, in 1981. Later, he was murdered and decapitated. Identifying Adamï¿½s killer took 25 years. His parents turned into tireless advocates for missing and abused children; Adamï¿½s father, John Walsh, moved from a sales job to being the executive producer and host of Americaï¿½s Most Wanted. This forceful account, written with Matthews, former sergeant with the Miami Beach Police Department, who worked the case for years, gives readers the ultimate insiderï¿½s account of the grueling search for Adamï¿½s killer and for the evidence to convict him. While many true-crime books claim to shine a light on society by examining one particular case, this account actually does. No reader can come away from this without appreciating what it takes to keep pursuing an investigation, against the obstacles of police politics and bureaucracy. Wrenching and riveting. --Connie Fletcher\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œBRINGING ADAM HOME is a maddening, terrifying and ultimately triumphant book. Les Standiford explores the injustice and finally justice surrounding the murder of Adam Walsh. You will cry and rage but you will not be able to put this book down until you finish it. My God! What a book!â€ (Ann Hood, author of THE RED THREAD and THE KNITTING CIRCLE )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLes Standifordâ€™s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything Iâ€™ve ever read. A triumph in every way.â€ (Dennis Lehane, author of MYSTIC RIVER and SHUTTER ISLAND )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI didnâ€™t live far from the mall where Adam Walsh was kidnapped. I remember that story as if it were yesterday. It terrified me as a kid. But itâ€™s the details that Les Standiford has found that terrify me as an adult. Insightful, horrifying, and just beautifully written.â€ (Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling author of THE BOOK OF FATE )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBRINGING ADAM HOME is a riveting account of a child abduction and murder that goes unsolved for twenty-seven yearsâ€”both an unsettling expose of police incompetence and a portrait of an extraordinary and dedicated detective.â€ (Joyce Carol Oates )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis tale of the most significant missing child case since the Lindberghâ€™sâ€”that of TV host John Walshâ€™s son Adam and the 25 year search for his killerâ€”is truly terrific.A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice.â€ (Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNot since IN COLD BLOOD has the story of a terrible crime been told with such elegance and power....Heartbreaking and hypnotically suspenseful.â€ (Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of VANISHED )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12813'),
(11359, 'Bringing Adam Home', 'Les Standiford', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is the ultimate cold caseï¿½tragic, high-profile, and, finally, successfully solved. Six-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a crowded Sears store in Hollywood, Florida, in 1981. Later, he was murdered and decapitated. Identifying Adamï¿½s killer took 25 years. His parents turned into tireless advocates for missing and abused children; Adamï¿½s father, John Walsh, moved from a sales job to being the executive producer and host of Americaï¿½s Most Wanted. This forceful account, written with Matthews, former sergeant with the Miami Beach Police Department, who worked the case for years, gives readers the ultimate insiderï¿½s account of the grueling search for Adamï¿½s killer and for the evidence to convict him. While many true-crime books claim to shine a light on society by examining one particular case, this account actually does. No reader can come away from this without appreciating what it takes to keep pursuing an investigation, against the obstacles of police politics and bureaucracy. Wrenching and riveting. --Connie Fletcher\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œBRINGING ADAM HOME is a maddening, terrifying and ultimately triumphant book. Les Standiford explores the injustice and finally justice surrounding the murder of Adam Walsh. You will cry and rage but you will not be able to put this book down until you finish it. My God! What a book!â€ (Ann Hood, author of THE RED THREAD and THE KNITTING CIRCLE )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œLes Standifordâ€™s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything Iâ€™ve ever read. A triumph in every way.â€ (Dennis Lehane, author of MYSTIC RIVER and SHUTTER ISLAND )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI didnâ€™t live far from the mall where Adam Walsh was kidnapped. I remember that story as if it were yesterday. It terrified me as a kid. But itâ€™s the details that Les Standiford has found that terrify me as an adult. Insightful, horrifying, and just beautifully written.â€ (Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling author of THE BOOK OF FATE )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBRINGING ADAM HOME is a riveting account of a child abduction and murder that goes unsolved for twenty-seven yearsâ€”both an unsettling expose of police incompetence and a portrait of an extraordinary and dedicated detective.â€ (Joyce Carol Oates )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis tale of the most significant missing child case since the Lindberghâ€™sâ€”that of TV host John Walshâ€™s son Adam and the 25 year search for his killerâ€”is truly terrific.A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice.â€ (Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œNot since IN COLD BLOOD has the story of a terrible crime been told with such elegance and power....Heartbreaking and hypnotically suspenseful.â€ (Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of VANISHED )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21053'),
(11360, 'Brisingr', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Oaths sworn . . . loyalties tested . . . forces collide.It''s been only months since Eragon first uttered "brisingr," the ancient language term for fire. Since then, he''s not only learned to create magic with words-he''s been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empire''s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.First is Eragon''s oath to his cousin, Roran: to help rescue Roran''s beloved from King Galbatorix''s clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength-as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices-choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6703'),
(11361, 'Brisingr', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Oaths sworn . . . loyalties tested . . . forces collide.It''s been only months since Eragon first uttered "brisingr," the ancient language term for fire. Since then, he''s not only learned to create magic with words-he''s been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empire''s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.First is Eragon''s oath to his cousin, Roran: to help rescue Roran''s beloved from King Galbatorix''s clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength-as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices-choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11759'),
(11362, 'Brisingr', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Oaths sworn . . . loyalties tested . . . forces collide.It''s been only months since Eragon first uttered "brisingr," the ancient language term for fire. Since then, he''s not only learned to create magic with words-he''s been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empire''s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.First is Eragon''s oath to his cousin, Roran: to help rescue Roran''s beloved from King Galbatorix''s clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength-as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices-choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14112'),
(11363, 'Brisingr', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Oaths sworn . . . loyalties tested . . . forces collide.It''s been only months since Eragon first uttered "brisingr," the ancient language term for fire. Since then, he''s not only learned to create magic with words-he''s been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empire''s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.First is Eragon''s oath to his cousin, Roran: to help rescue Roran''s beloved from King Galbatorix''s clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength-as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices-choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18051'),
(11364, 'Brisingr', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Oaths sworn . . . loyalties tested . . . forces collide.It''s been only months since Eragon first uttered "brisingr," the ancient language term for fire. Since then, he''s not only learned to create magic with words-he''s been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empire''s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.First is Eragon''s oath to his cousin, Roran: to help rescue Roran''s beloved from King Galbatorix''s clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength-as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices-choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26977'),
(11365, 'The Bro Code', 'Barney Stinson &amp; Matt Kuhn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Everyone''s life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail the Bro Code.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Historically a spoken tradition passed from one generation to the next, the official code of conduct for Bros appears here in its published form for the first time ever. By upholding the tenets of this sacred and legendary document, any dude can learn to achieve Bro-dom.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Barney Stinson\n  </strong>\n  works at a corporation, and regularly â€œsuits upâ€ to help his lovelorn and altogether pathetic bro Ted Mosby. Basically the coolest dude ever, Barney Stinson has been compared to the Fonzâ€”but Barney is much, much more awesome. Stinson lives in New York, New Yorkâ€”and appears weekly on the hit CBS show â€œHow I Met Your Motherâ€ with his friends Ted, Robin, Lily and Marshall.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7269'),
(11366, 'The Bro Code', 'Barney Stinson &amp; Matt Kuhn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Everyone''s life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail the Bro Code.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Historically a spoken tradition passed from one generation to the next, the official code of conduct for Bros appears here in its published form for the first time ever. By upholding the tenets of this sacred and legendary document, any dude can learn to achieve Bro-dom.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Barney Stinson\n  </strong>\n  works at a corporation, and regularly â€œsuits upâ€ to help his lovelorn and altogether pathetic bro Ted Mosby. Basically the coolest dude ever, Barney Stinson has been compared to the Fonzâ€”but Barney is much, much more awesome. Stinson lives in New York, New Yorkâ€”and appears weekly on the hit CBS show â€œHow I Met Your Motherâ€ with his friends Ted, Robin, Lily and Marshall.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12891'),
(11367, 'The Bro Code', 'Barney Stinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Everyone''s life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail the Bro Code. Historically a spoken tradition passed from one generation to the next, the official code of conduct for Bros appears here in its published form for the first time ever. By upholding the tenets of this sacred and legendary document, any dude can learn to achieve Bro-dom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16595'),
(11368, 'Broken', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on twenty-first-centuryâ€”and become his next target.Ever since she discovered sheâ€™s pregnant, Elena Michaels has been on edge. After all, sheâ€™s never heard of another living female werewolf, let alone one whoâ€™s given birth. But thankfully, her expertise is needed to retrieve a stolen letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper. As a distraction, the job seems simple enoughâ€”only the letter contains a portal to Victorian Londonâ€™s underworld, which Elena inadvertently triggersâ€”unleashing a vicious killer and a pair of zombie thugs. Now Elena must find a way to seal the portal before the unwelcome visitors get what theyâ€™re looking forâ€”which, for some unknown reason, is Elena.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3775'),
(11369, 'Broken', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on twenty-first-centuryâ€”and become his next target.Ever since she discovered sheâ€™s pregnant, Elena Michaels has been on edge. After all, sheâ€™s never heard of another living female werewolf, let alone one whoâ€™s given birth. But thankfully, her expertise is needed to retrieve a stolen letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper. As a distraction, the job seems simple enoughâ€”only the letter contains a portal to Victorian Londonâ€™s underworld, which Elena inadvertently triggersâ€”unleashing a vicious killer and a pair of zombie thugs. Now Elena must find a way to seal the portal before the unwelcome visitors get what theyâ€™re looking forâ€”which, for some unknown reason, is Elena.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20775'),
(11370, 'Broken Angels', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fifty years after the events of ALTERED CARBON, Takeshi Kovacs is serving as a mercenary in the Procterate-sponsored war to put down Joshuah Kemp''s revolution on the planet Sanction IV. He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is limitless -- and whose dangers are endless. Here is a novel that takes mankind to the brink.A breakneck-paced crime thriller, ALTERED CARBON took its readers deep into the universe Morgan had so compellingly realised without ever letting them escape the onward rush of the plot. BROKEN ANGELS melds SF, the war novel and the spy thriller to take the reader below the surface of this future and lay bare the treacheries, betrayals and follies that leave man so ill-prepared for the legacy he has been given: the stars. This is SF at its dizzying best: superb, yet subtle, world-building; strong yet sensitive characterisation; awesome yet believable technology, thilling yet profound writing. Richard Morgan is set to join the genre''s world-wide elite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1859'),
(11371, 'Broken Angels', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fifty years after the events of ALTERED CARBON, Takeshi Kovacs is serving as a mercenary in the Procterate-sponsored war to put down Joshuah Kemp''s revolution on the planet Sanction IV. He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is limitless -- and whose dangers are endless. Here is a novel that takes mankind to the brink.A breakneck-paced crime thriller, ALTERED CARBON took its readers deep into the universe Morgan had so compellingly realised without ever letting them escape the onward rush of the plot. BROKEN ANGELS melds SF, the war novel and the spy thriller to take the reader below the surface of this future and lay bare the treacheries, betrayals and follies that leave man so ill-prepared for the legacy he has been given: the stars. This is SF at its dizzying best: superb, yet subtle, world-building; strong yet sensitive characterisation; awesome yet believable technology, thilling yet profound writing. Richard Morgan is set to join the genre''s world-wide elite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11553'),
(11372, 'Broken Angels', 'Richard Morgan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fifty years after the events of ALTERED CARBON, Takeshi Kovacs is serving as a mercenary in the Procterate-sponsored war to put down Joshuah Kemp''s revolution on the planet Sanction IV. He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is limitless -- and whose dangers are endless. Here is a novel that takes mankind to the brink.A breakneck-paced crime thriller, ALTERED CARBON took its readers deep into the universe Morgan had so compellingly realised without ever letting them escape the onward rush of the plot. BROKEN ANGELS melds SF, the war novel and the spy thriller to take the reader below the surface of this future and lay bare the treacheries, betrayals and follies that leave man so ill-prepared for the legacy he has been given: the stars. This is SF at its dizzying best: superb, yet subtle, world-building; strong yet sensitive characterisation; awesome yet believable technology, thilling yet profound writing. Richard Morgan is set to join the genre''s world-wide elite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14456'),
(11373, 'The Broken Blade', 'Simon Hawke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sorak had known that discovering his past would come at a price, but he had not guessed the pice would be so dear. He learned of his parents, of his slaughtered tribe, of the destiny he bears, but this knowledge came at the cost of the voices that had guided him across the burning sands. For the first time in his memory, he feels alone. And still more will be lost... bearing Galdra, the fabled blade of elven kings, and accompanied by his love Ryana, Sorak sets out on a quest assigned him by the Sage. He seeks the Veiled Alliance in Altaruk, hoping to marshal its forces against a growing circle of defilers. But the legend of the Nomad has preceded him, and the defilers plan an end to the legend, and the Nomad.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1242'),
(11374, 'The Broken Blade', 'Simon Hawke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sorak had known that discovering his past would come at a price, but he had not guessed the pice would be so dear. He learned of his parents, of his slaughtered tribe, of the destiny he bears, but this knowledge came at the cost of the voices that had guided him across the burning sands. For the first time in his memory, he feels alone. And still more will be lost... bearing Galdra, the fabled blade of elven kings, and accompanied by his love Ryana, Sorak sets out on a quest assigned him by the Sage. He seeks the Veiled Alliance in Altaruk, hoping to marshal its forces against a growing circle of defilers. But the legend of the Nomad has preceded him, and the defilers plan an end to the legend, and the Nomad.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10236'),
(11375, 'The Broken Blade', 'Simon Hawke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sorak had known that discovering his past would come at a price, but he had not guessed the pice would be so dear. He learned of his parents, of his slaughtered tribe, of the destiny he bears, but this knowledge came at the cost of the voices that had guided him across the burning sands. For the first time in his memory, he feels alone. And still more will be lost... bearing Galdra, the fabled blade of elven kings, and accompanied by his love Ryana, Sorak sets out on a quest assigned him by the Sage. He seeks the Veiled Alliance in Altaruk, hoping to marshal its forces against a growing circle of defilers. But the legend of the Nomad has preceded him, and the defilers plan an end to the legend, and the Nomad.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23679'),
(11376, 'The Broken Cycle', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5'),
(11377, 'The Broken Cycle', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17221'),
(11378, 'Broken Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the wake of a series of killings that disturbingly emulates the works of a trio of inmates currently being held at the Minnesota Security Hospital, Lucas Davenport investigates a missing man who was released from the hospital weeks earlier. By the author of Hidden Prey. Lit Guild Main. BOMC Main. Doubleday Main. Mystery Guild Main.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4157'),
(11379, 'Broken Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the wake of a series of killings that disturbingly emulates the works of a trio of inmates currently being held at the Minnesota Security Hospital, Lucas Davenport investigates a missing man who was released from the hospital weeks earlier. By the author of Hidden Prey. Lit Guild Main. BOMC Main. Doubleday Main. Mystery Guild Main.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12467'),
(11380, 'Broken prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the wake of a series of killings that disturbingly emulates the works of a trio of inmates currently being held at the Minnesota Security Hospital, Lucas Davenport investigates a missing man who was released from the hospital weeks earlier. By the author of Hidden Prey. Lit Guild Main. BOMC Main. Doubleday Main. Mystery Guild Main.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20283'),
(11381, 'The Broken Teaglass', 'Emily Arsenault', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher . . . a hidden cache of coded clues . . . a story written by a phantom author . . . an unsolved murder in a gritty urban parkâ€“all collide memorably in Emily Arsenaultâ€™s magnificent debut, at once a teasing literary puzzle, an ingenious suspense novel, and an exploration of definitions: of words, of who we are, and of the stories we choose to define us.****In the maze of cubicles at Samuelson Company, editors toil away in silence, studying the English language, poring over new expressions and freshly coined wordsâ€“all in preparation for the next new edition of the Samuelson Dictionary. Among them is editorial assistant Billy Webb, just out of college, struggling to stay awake and appear competent. But there are a few distractions. His intriguing coworker Mona Minot may or may not be flirting with him. And heâ€™s starting to sense something suspicious going on beneath this companyâ€™s academic facade.Mona has just made a startling discovery: a trove of puzzling citations, all taken from the same book, **The Broken Teaglass**. Billy and Mona soon learn that no such book exists. And the quotations from it are far too long, twisting, and bizarre for any dictionary. They read like a confessional, coyly hinting at a hidden identity, a secret liaison, a crime. As Billy and Mona ransack the office files, a chilling story begins to emerge: a story about a lonely young woman, a long-unsolved mystery, a moment of shattering violence. And as they piece together its fragments, the puzzle begins to take on bigger personal meaning for both of them, compelling them to redefine their notions of themselves and each other.Charged with wit and intelligence, set against a sweetly cautious love story, **The Broken Teaglass** is a tale that will delight lovers of words, lovers of mysteries, and fans of smart, funny, brilliantly inventive fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5731'),
(11382, 'The Broken Teaglass', 'Emily Arsenault', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher . . . a hidden cache of coded clues . . . a story written by a phantom author . . . an unsolved murder in a gritty urban parkâ€“all collide memorably in Emily Arsenaultâ€™s magnificent debut, at once a teasing literary puzzle, an ingenious suspense novel, and an exploration of definitions: of words, of who we are, and of the stories we choose to define us.****In the maze of cubicles at Samuelson Company, editors toil away in silence, studying the English language, poring over new expressions and freshly coined wordsâ€“all in preparation for the next new edition of the Samuelson Dictionary. Among them is editorial assistant Billy Webb, just out of college, struggling to stay awake and appear competent. But there are a few distractions. His intriguing coworker Mona Minot may or may not be flirting with him. And heâ€™s starting to sense something suspicious going on beneath this companyâ€™s academic facade.Mona has just made a startling discovery: a trove of puzzling citations, all taken from the same book, **The Broken Teaglass**. Billy and Mona soon learn that no such book exists. And the quotations from it are far too long, twisting, and bizarre for any dictionary. They read like a confessional, coyly hinting at a hidden identity, a secret liaison, a crime. As Billy and Mona ransack the office files, a chilling story begins to emerge: a story about a lonely young woman, a long-unsolved mystery, a moment of shattering violence. And as they piece together its fragments, the puzzle begins to take on bigger personal meaning for both of them, compelling them to redefine their notions of themselves and each other.Charged with wit and intelligence, set against a sweetly cautious love story, **The Broken Teaglass** is a tale that will delight lovers of words, lovers of mysteries, and fans of smart, funny, brilliantly inventive fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19009'),
(11383, 'The Broken Teaglass', 'Emily Arsenault', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher . . . a hidden cache of coded clues . . . a story written by a phantom author . . . an unsolved murder in a gritty urban parkâ€“all collide memorably in Emily Arsenaultâ€™s magnificent debut, at once a teasing literary puzzle, an ingenious suspense novel, and an exploration of definitions: of words, of who we are, and of the stories we choose to define us.****In the maze of cubicles at Samuelson Company, editors toil away in silence, studying the English language, poring over new expressions and freshly coined wordsâ€“all in preparation for the next new edition of the Samuelson Dictionary. Among them is editorial assistant Billy Webb, just out of college, struggling to stay awake and appear competent. But there are a few distractions. His intriguing coworker Mona Minot may or may not be flirting with him. And heâ€™s starting to sense something suspicious going on beneath this companyâ€™s academic facade.Mona has just made a startling discovery: a trove of puzzling citations, all taken from the same book, **The Broken Teaglass**. Billy and Mona soon learn that no such book exists. And the quotations from it are far too long, twisting, and bizarre for any dictionary. They read like a confessional, coyly hinting at a hidden identity, a secret liaison, a crime. As Billy and Mona ransack the office files, a chilling story begins to emerge: a story about a lonely young woman, a long-unsolved mystery, a moment of shattering violence. And as they piece together its fragments, the puzzle begins to take on bigger personal meaning for both of them, compelling them to redefine their notions of themselves and each other.Charged with wit and intelligence, set against a sweetly cautious love story, **The Broken Teaglass** is a tale that will delight lovers of words, lovers of mysteries, and fans of smart, funny, brilliantly inventive fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27773'),
(11384, 'The Broker', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the worldâ€™s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will surviveâ€”there is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4315'),
(11385, 'The Broker', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the worldâ€™s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will surviveâ€”there is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15335'),
(11386, 'The Broker', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the worldâ€™s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will surviveâ€”there is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21384'),
(11387, 'Bronx Noir', 'S. J. Rozan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Akashic''s latest city-themed crime anthology successfully captures the immense diversity of the Bronx, from the mean streets of the South Bronx to affluent Riverdale, in 19 tales by authors both well known and obscure. The most imaginative entry, Joseph Wallace''s The Big Five, about a hunter who targets his prey in the Bronx Zoo as part of a national contest, concludes with a satisfying noir twist. Lawrence Block''s Riverdale story, Rude Awakening, also surprises the reader with its clever resolution of a one-night stand. Particularly inventive is Kevin Baker''s grim The Cheers Like Waves, set in the shadow of Yankee Stadium. Rozan, herself a contributor, has put together one of the series'' better entries, with memorable tales of betrayal and despair that reflect the borough''s varied ethnic populations and geography.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brand-new stories by: Thomas Adcock, Kevin Baker, Thomas Bentil, Lawrence Block, Jerome Charyn, Suzanne Chazin, Terrence Cheng, Ed Dee, Joanne Dobson, Robert Hughes, Marlon James, Sandra Kitt, Rita Laken, Miles Marshall Lewis, Pat Picciarelli, Abraham Rodriguez Jr., S.J. Rozan, Steven Torres, and Joe Wallace.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   S.J. Rozan\n  </strong>\n  was born and raised in the Bronx and is a lifelong New Yorker. Sheâ€™s the author of eight novels in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series, and of the stand-alones\n  <em>\n   Absent Friends\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   In This Rain\n  </em>\n  (forthcoming). Her books have won Edgar, Nero, Macavity, and Shamus awards for best novel. Sheâ€™s at work on another series novel,\n  <em>\n   Shanghai Moon.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1420'),
(11388, 'Bronx Noir', 'S. J. Rozan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Akashic''s latest city-themed crime anthology successfully captures the immense diversity of the Bronx, from the mean streets of the South Bronx to affluent Riverdale, in 19 tales by authors both well known and obscure. The most imaginative entry, Joseph Wallace''s The Big Five, about a hunter who targets his prey in the Bronx Zoo as part of a national contest, concludes with a satisfying noir twist. Lawrence Block''s Riverdale story, Rude Awakening, also surprises the reader with its clever resolution of a one-night stand. Particularly inventive is Kevin Baker''s grim The Cheers Like Waves, set in the shadow of Yankee Stadium. Rozan, herself a contributor, has put together one of the series'' better entries, with memorable tales of betrayal and despair that reflect the borough''s varied ethnic populations and geography.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brand-new stories by: Thomas Adcock, Kevin Baker, Thomas Bentil, Lawrence Block, Jerome Charyn, Suzanne Chazin, Terrence Cheng, Ed Dee, Joanne Dobson, Robert Hughes, Marlon James, Sandra Kitt, Rita Laken, Miles Marshall Lewis, Pat Picciarelli, Abraham Rodriguez Jr., S.J. Rozan, Steven Torres, and Joe Wallace.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   S.J. Rozan\n  </strong>\n  was born and raised in the Bronx and is a lifelong New Yorker. Sheâ€™s the author of eight novels in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series, and of the stand-alones\n  <em>\n   Absent Friends\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   In This Rain\n  </em>\n  (forthcoming). Her books have won Edgar, Nero, Macavity, and Shamus awards for best novel. Sheâ€™s at work on another series novel,\n  <em>\n   Shanghai Moon.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12475'),
(11389, 'Bronx Noir', 'S. J. Rozan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Akashic''s latest city-themed crime anthology successfully captures the immense diversity of the Bronx, from the mean streets of the South Bronx to affluent Riverdale, in 19 tales by authors both well known and obscure. The most imaginative entry, Joseph Wallace''s The Big Five, about a hunter who targets his prey in the Bronx Zoo as part of a national contest, concludes with a satisfying noir twist. Lawrence Block''s Riverdale story, Rude Awakening, also surprises the reader with its clever resolution of a one-night stand. Particularly inventive is Kevin Baker''s grim The Cheers Like Waves, set in the shadow of Yankee Stadium. Rozan, herself a contributor, has put together one of the series'' better entries, with memorable tales of betrayal and despair that reflect the borough''s varied ethnic populations and geography.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Brand-new stories by: Thomas Adcock, Kevin Baker, Thomas Bentil, Lawrence Block, Jerome Charyn, Suzanne Chazin, Terrence Cheng, Ed Dee, Joanne Dobson, Robert Hughes, Marlon James, Sandra Kitt, Rita Laken, Miles Marshall Lewis, Pat Picciarelli, Abraham Rodriguez Jr., S.J. Rozan, Steven Torres, and Joe Wallace.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   S.J. Rozan\n  </strong>\n  was born and raised in the Bronx and is a lifelong New Yorker. Sheâ€™s the author of eight novels in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series, and of the stand-alones\n  <em>\n   Absent Friends\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   In This Rain\n  </em>\n  (forthcoming). Her books have won Edgar, Nero, Macavity, and Shamus awards for best novel. Sheâ€™s at work on another series novel,\n  <em>\n   Shanghai Moon.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23470'),
(11390, 'The Bronze Axe', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The first book in the Richard Blade series (1969)   Blasted into a fantastic new world, Richard Blade woke at the feet of a strange and beautiful woman, Taleen, Princess of Voth. Running for her life from the savage Albs who had kidnapped her. Without clothes or weapons of any kind, Blade was in trouble himself - but the seductive Taleen needed help... Strange experiences were nothing new to Blade, but he was ill-prepared for his trial by fire and sword, the secret cannibal rites of the Drus, the unquenchable lusts of the evil Queen Beata, and the maddening teasing of the virgin Taleen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4600'),
(11391, 'The Bronze Horseman', 'Paullina Simons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler''s armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad.   Yet there is light in the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. Strong and self-confident, yet guarding a mysterious and troubled past, he is drawn to Tatianaâ€”and she to him. Starvation, desperation, and fear soon grip their city during the terrible winter of the merciless German siege. Tatiana and Alexander''s impossible love threatens to tear the Metanova family apart and expose the dangerous secret Alexander so carefully protectsâ€”a secret as devastating as the war itselfâ€”as the lovers are swept up in the brutal tides that will change the world and their lives forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2264'),
(11392, 'The Bronze Horseman', 'Paullina Simons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler''s armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad. Yet there is light in the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. Strong and self-confident, yet guarding a mysterious and troubled past, he is drawn to Tatianaâ€”and she to him. Starvation, desperation, and fear soon grip their city during the terrible winter of the merciless German siege. Tatiana and Alexander''s impossible love threatens to tear the Metanova family apart and expose the dangerous secret Alexander so carefully protectsâ€”a secret as devastating as the war itselfâ€”as the lovers are swept up in the brutal tides that will change the world and their lives forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22519'),
(11393, 'Brooklyn Noir', 'Tim McLoughlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In McLoughlin''s entertaining if uneven anthology of 19 brand new hard-boiled and twisted tales, each set in a different Brooklyn neighborhood, the best way to get to know New York City''s most diverse borough is either to be dead or to cause someone else to assume that state in as grisly a manner as possible. This might be achieved via the old school methodâ€”for instance, with a nickel-plated revolver and a heart full of malice, as in "The Book Signing," Pete Hamill''s lyrical opener about a Park Slope "ex-pat" writer who revisits his now-gentrified neighborhood only to step inadvertently into a past he''d long thought buried and forgotten. Or death might arrive in a new-fangled mode, with a scalpel and an Internet connection, as in Arthur Nersesian''s compelling "Hunter/ Trapper," in which a Brooklyn Heights Web stalker makes the serious mistake of failing to secure his stalkee securely before ravishment. If a few weaker entries exploit the borough as an arbitrary setting for standard cops-and-robbers fare, the best stories concern people in the present coming to terms with the past. In McLoughlin''s evocative "When All This Was Bay Ridge," a Sunset Park cop''s son struggles with his dead father''s secret history, while Maggie Estep''s "Triple Harrison," depicting a squatter who tends a broken-down race horse in the abandoned wastes of East New York, takes the prize as the book''s weirdest tale.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s all Brooklyn--Bensonhurst and Brighton Beach, Red Hook and Crown Heights--in this atmospheric collection of noir tales. The sound is right, too, from the understated staccato of old lost souls to the jiving rap of younger ones. Abraham Pearl manages a Jewish gumshoe in "Hasidic Noir," and Neal Pollack makes a carousel ride and a scavenger hunt as sinister as midnight. Thomas Morrissey does a weird tale of vampire cookies in "Can''t Catch Me." The language is richly foul, and so is much of the sex in these 19 stories, divided into four sections from "Old School Brooklyn" to "Cops &amp; Robbers." Brooklyn''s Italian and Irish belly up to the bar with Russians, Puerto Ricans, and Rastas. Pete Hamill, probably the biggest name here, opens with a signature tale for both himself and the genre, deceptively called "The Book Signing."\n <em>\n  GraceAnne DeCandido\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/701');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11394, 'Brooklyn Noir', 'Tim McLoughlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In McLoughlin''s entertaining if uneven anthology of 19 brand new hard-boiled and twisted tales, each set in a different Brooklyn neighborhood, the best way to get to know New York City''s most diverse borough is either to be dead or to cause someone else to assume that state in as grisly a manner as possible. This might be achieved via the old school methodâ€”for instance, with a nickel-plated revolver and a heart full of malice, as in "The Book Signing," Pete Hamill''s lyrical opener about a Park Slope "ex-pat" writer who revisits his now-gentrified neighborhood only to step inadvertently into a past he''d long thought buried and forgotten. Or death might arrive in a new-fangled mode, with a scalpel and an Internet connection, as in Arthur Nersesian''s compelling "Hunter/ Trapper," in which a Brooklyn Heights Web stalker makes the serious mistake of failing to secure his stalkee securely before ravishment. If a few weaker entries exploit the borough as an arbitrary setting for standard cops-and-robbers fare, the best stories concern people in the present coming to terms with the past. In McLoughlin''s evocative "When All This Was Bay Ridge," a Sunset Park cop''s son struggles with his dead father''s secret history, while Maggie Estep''s "Triple Harrison," depicting a squatter who tends a broken-down race horse in the abandoned wastes of East New York, takes the prize as the book''s weirdest tale.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s all Brooklyn--Bensonhurst and Brighton Beach, Red Hook and Crown Heights--in this atmospheric collection of noir tales. The sound is right, too, from the understated staccato of old lost souls to the jiving rap of younger ones. Abraham Pearl manages a Jewish gumshoe in "Hasidic Noir," and Neal Pollack makes a carousel ride and a scavenger hunt as sinister as midnight. Thomas Morrissey does a weird tale of vampire cookies in "Can''t Catch Me." The language is richly foul, and so is much of the sex in these 19 stories, divided into four sections from "Old School Brooklyn" to "Cops &amp; Robbers." Brooklyn''s Italian and Irish belly up to the bar with Russians, Puerto Ricans, and Rastas. Pete Hamill, probably the biggest name here, opens with a signature tale for both himself and the genre, deceptively called "The Book Signing."\n <em>\n  GraceAnne DeCandido\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11328'),
(11395, 'Brooklyn Noir', 'Tim McLoughlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In McLoughlin''s entertaining if uneven anthology of 19 brand new hard-boiled and twisted tales, each set in a different Brooklyn neighborhood, the best way to get to know New York City''s most diverse borough is either to be dead or to cause someone else to assume that state in as grisly a manner as possible. This might be achieved via the old school methodâ€”for instance, with a nickel-plated revolver and a heart full of malice, as in "The Book Signing," Pete Hamill''s lyrical opener about a Park Slope "ex-pat" writer who revisits his now-gentrified neighborhood only to step inadvertently into a past he''d long thought buried and forgotten. Or death might arrive in a new-fangled mode, with a scalpel and an Internet connection, as in Arthur Nersesian''s compelling "Hunter/ Trapper," in which a Brooklyn Heights Web stalker makes the serious mistake of failing to secure his stalkee securely before ravishment. If a few weaker entries exploit the borough as an arbitrary setting for standard cops-and-robbers fare, the best stories concern people in the present coming to terms with the past. In McLoughlin''s evocative "When All This Was Bay Ridge," a Sunset Park cop''s son struggles with his dead father''s secret history, while Maggie Estep''s "Triple Harrison," depicting a squatter who tends a broken-down race horse in the abandoned wastes of East New York, takes the prize as the book''s weirdest tale.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s all Brooklyn--Bensonhurst and Brighton Beach, Red Hook and Crown Heights--in this atmospheric collection of noir tales. The sound is right, too, from the understated staccato of old lost souls to the jiving rap of younger ones. Abraham Pearl manages a Jewish gumshoe in "Hasidic Noir," and Neal Pollack makes a carousel ride and a scavenger hunt as sinister as midnight. Thomas Morrissey does a weird tale of vampire cookies in "Can''t Catch Me." The language is richly foul, and so is much of the sex in these 19 stories, divided into four sections from "Old School Brooklyn" to "Cops &amp; Robbers." Brooklyn''s Italian and Irish belly up to the bar with Russians, Puerto Ricans, and Rastas. Pete Hamill, probably the biggest name here, opens with a signature tale for both himself and the genre, deceptively called "The Book Signing."\n <em>\n  GraceAnne DeCandido\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24314'),
(11396, 'The Broom of the System', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, *The Broom of the   System* stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new   talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is   the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the   place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenoreâ€™s great-grandmother has   disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home.   Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad   the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-  babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut   from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores   the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6274'),
(11397, 'The Broom of the System', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, *The Broom of the   System* stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new   talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is   the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the   place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenoreâ€™s great-grandmother has   disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home.   Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad   the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-  babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut   from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores   the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13248'),
(11398, 'The Broom of the System', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, *The Broom of the System* stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenoreâ€™s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho- babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17782'),
(11399, 'The Broom of the System', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, *The Broom of the System* stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenoreâ€™s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho- babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27298'),
(11400, 'Brother Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Loop me in, odd one. *The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker natureThrough two *New York Times* bestselling novels Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictional heroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontz follows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make a fresh beginningâ€”but where he will meet an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself. St. Bartholomewâ€™s Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of Californiaâ€™s high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again, and among the eccentric monks, their other guests, and the nuns and young students of the attached convent school, he has begun to find his way. The silent spirits of the dead who visited him in his earlier life are mercifully absent, save for the bell-ringing Brother Constantine and Oddâ€™s steady companion, the King of Rock ''n'' Roll.But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the black shades who herald death and disaster, and who come late one December night to hover above the abbeyâ€™s most precious charges. For Odd is about to face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and sheer suspense that surpasses all that has come before.*******From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6076'),
(11401, 'Brother Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Loop me in, odd one. *The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker natureThrough two *New York Times* bestselling novels Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictional heroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontz follows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make a fresh beginningâ€”but where he will meet an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself. St. Bartholomewâ€™s Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of Californiaâ€™s high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again, and among the eccentric monks, their other guests, and the nuns and young students of the attached convent school, he has begun to find his way. The silent spirits of the dead who visited him in his earlier life are mercifully absent, save for the bell-ringing Brother Constantine and Oddâ€™s steady companion, the King of Rock ''n'' Roll.But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the black shades who herald death and disaster, and who come late one December night to hover above the abbeyâ€™s most precious charges. For Odd is about to face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and sheer suspense that surpasses all that has come before.*******From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14364'),
(11402, 'Brother Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Loop me in, odd one. *The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker natureThrough two *New York Times* bestselling novels Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictional heroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontz follows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make a fresh beginningâ€”but where he will meet an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself. St. Bartholomewâ€™s Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of Californiaâ€™s high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again, and among the eccentric monks, their other guests, and the nuns and young students of the attached convent school, he has begun to find his way. The silent spirits of the dead who visited him in his earlier life are mercifully absent, save for the bell-ringing Brother Constantine and Oddâ€™s steady companion, the King of Rock ''n'' Roll.But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the black shades who herald death and disaster, and who come late one December night to hover above the abbeyâ€™s most precious charges. For Odd is about to face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and sheer suspense that surpasses all that has come before.*******From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17849'),
(11403, 'Brother Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Loop me in, odd one. *The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker natureThrough two *New York Times* bestselling novels Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictional heroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontz follows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make a fresh beginningâ€”but where he will meet an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself. St. Bartholomewâ€™s Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of Californiaâ€™s high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again, and among the eccentric monks, their other guests, and the nuns and young students of the attached convent school, he has begun to find his way. The silent spirits of the dead who visited him in his earlier life are mercifully absent, save for the bell-ringing Brother Constantine and Oddâ€™s steady companion, the King of Rock ''n'' Roll.But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the black shades who herald death and disaster, and who come late one December night to hover above the abbeyâ€™s most precious charges. For Odd is about to face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and sheer suspense that surpasses all that has come before.*******From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27411'),
(11404, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls', 'Jane Lindskold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Magic That Doesnâ€™t Go AwayCutbacks have forced Sarah out of the asylum in which she was raisedâ€”and into a strange new place where the Head Wolf rules the beautiful and the doomed. But Sarah can never truly assimilate, for she possesses wild talents. Walls tell her their secrets. Safes tell her their combinations. And a favorite toy dragon whispers dire warnings about those who would exploit her for their own malevolent purposes. Thereâ€™s no place Sarah can hide, from her pursuers or from her pastâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4726'),
(11405, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls', 'Jane Lindskold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Magic That Doesnâ€™t Go AwayCutbacks have forced Sarah out of the asylum in which she was raisedâ€”and into a strange new place where the Head Wolf rules the beautiful and the doomed. But Sarah can never truly assimilate, for she possesses wild talents. Walls tell her their secrets. Safes tell her their combinations. And a favorite toy dragon whispers dire warnings about those who would exploit her for their own malevolent purposes. Thereâ€™s no place Sarah can hide, from her pursuers or from her pastâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11194'),
(11406, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls', 'Jane Lindskold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Magic That Doesnâ€™t Go AwayCutbacks have forced Sarah out of the asylum in which she was raisedâ€”and into a strange new place where the Head Wolf rules the beautiful and the doomed. But Sarah can never truly assimilate, for she possesses wild talents. Walls tell her their secrets. Safes tell her their combinations. And a favorite toy dragon whispers dire warnings about those who would exploit her for their own malevolent purposes. Thereâ€™s no place Sarah can hide, from her pursuers or from her past...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19890'),
(11407, 'Brother to Shadows', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15962'),
(11408, 'Brother, I&#39;m Dying', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In a single day in 2004, Danticat (_Breath, Eyes, Memory_;\n  <em>\n   The Farming of Bones\n  </em>\n  ) learns that she''s pregnant and that her father, AndrÃ©, is dyingâ€”a stirring constellation of events that frames this Haitian immigrant family''s story, rife with premature departures and painful silences. When Danticat was two, AndrÃ© left Haiti for the U.S., and her mother followed when Danticat was four. The author and her brother could not join their parents for eight years, during which AndrÃ©''s brother Joseph raised them. When Danticat was nine, Josephâ€”a pastor and gifted oratorâ€”lost his voice to throat cancer, making their eventual separation that much harder, as he wouldn''t be able to talk with the children on the phone. Both AndrÃ© and Joseph maintained a certain emotional distance through these transitions. Danticat writes of a Haitian adage, Ã‚Â ''When you bathe other people''s children, you should wash one side and leave the other side dirty.'' I suppose this saying cautions those who care for other people''s children not to give over their whole hearts. In the end, as Danticat prepares to lose her ailing father and give birth to her daughter, Joseph is threatened by a volatile sociopolitical clash and forced to flee Haiti. He''s then detained by U.S. Customs and neglected for days. He unexpectedly dies a prisoner while loved ones await news of his release. Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Edwidge Danticat''s father and uncle chose very different paths: the former struggled to make a new life for himself in America, while the latter remained in the homeland he paradoxically loved. In following their lives and their impact on future generations, Danticat''s powerful family memoir explores how the private and the political, the past and the present, intersect. The most poignant section focuses on Joseph''s tragic trip to the United States at age 81, but Danticat also tells a wider story about family and exile, the Haitian diaspora, the Duvalier regime, and post-9/11 immigration policy. Emotionally resonant and exceptionally clear-eyed,\n  <em>\n   Brother, I''m Dying\n  </em>\n  offers insight into a talented writer, her family history, and the injustices of the modern world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5788'),
(11409, 'Brother, I&#39;m Dying', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In a single day in 2004, Danticat (_Breath, Eyes, Memory_;\n  <em>\n   The Farming of Bones\n  </em>\n  ) learns that she''s pregnant and that her father, AndrÃ©, is dyingâ€”a stirring constellation of events that frames this Haitian immigrant family''s story, rife with premature departures and painful silences. When Danticat was two, AndrÃ© left Haiti for the U.S., and her mother followed when Danticat was four. The author and her brother could not join their parents for eight years, during which AndrÃ©''s brother Joseph raised them. When Danticat was nine, Josephâ€”a pastor and gifted oratorâ€”lost his voice to throat cancer, making their eventual separation that much harder, as he wouldn''t be able to talk with the children on the phone. Both AndrÃ© and Joseph maintained a certain emotional distance through these transitions. Danticat writes of a Haitian adage, Ã‚Â ''When you bathe other people''s children, you should wash one side and leave the other side dirty.'' I suppose this saying cautions those who care for other people''s children not to give over their whole hearts. In the end, as Danticat prepares to lose her ailing father and give birth to her daughter, Joseph is threatened by a volatile sociopolitical clash and forced to flee Haiti. He''s then detained by U.S. Customs and neglected for days. He unexpectedly dies a prisoner while loved ones await news of his release. Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Edwidge Danticat''s father and uncle chose very different paths: the former struggled to make a new life for himself in America, while the latter remained in the homeland he paradoxically loved. In following their lives and their impact on future generations, Danticat''s powerful family memoir explores how the private and the political, the past and the present, intersect. The most poignant section focuses on Joseph''s tragic trip to the United States at age 81, but Danticat also tells a wider story about family and exile, the Haitian diaspora, the Duvalier regime, and post-9/11 immigration policy. Emotionally resonant and exceptionally clear-eyed,\n  <em>\n   Brother, I''m Dying\n  </em>\n  offers insight into a talented writer, her family history, and the injustices of the modern world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9164'),
(11410, 'Brother, I&#39;m Dying', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In a single day in 2004, Danticat (_Breath, Eyes, Memory_;\n  <em>\n   The Farming of Bones\n  </em>\n  ) learns that she''s pregnant and that her father, AndrÃ©, is dyingâ€”a stirring constellation of events that frames this Haitian immigrant family''s story, rife with premature departures and painful silences. When Danticat was two, AndrÃ© left Haiti for the U.S., and her mother followed when Danticat was four. The author and her brother could not join their parents for eight years, during which AndrÃ©''s brother Joseph raised them. When Danticat was nine, Josephâ€”a pastor and gifted oratorâ€”lost his voice to throat cancer, making their eventual separation that much harder, as he wouldn''t be able to talk with the children on the phone. Both AndrÃ© and Joseph maintained a certain emotional distance through these transitions. Danticat writes of a Haitian adage, Ã‚ ''When you bathe other people''s children, you should wash one side and leave the other side dirty.'' I suppose this saying cautions those who care for other people''s children not to give over their whole hearts. In the end, as Danticat prepares to lose her ailing father and give birth to her daughter, Joseph is threatened by a volatile sociopolitical clash and forced to flee Haiti. He''s then detained by U.S. Customs and neglected for days. He unexpectedly dies a prisoner while loved ones await news of his release. Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Edwidge Danticat''s father and uncle chose very different paths: the former struggled to make a new life for himself in America, while the latter remained in the homeland he paradoxically loved. In following their lives and their impact on future generations, Danticat''s powerful family memoir explores how the private and the political, the past and the present, intersect. The most poignant section focuses on Joseph''s tragic trip to the United States at age 81, but Danticat also tells a wider story about family and exile, the Haitian diaspora, the Duvalier regime, and post-9/11 immigration policy. Emotionally resonant and exceptionally clear-eyed,\n  <em>\n   Brother, I''m Dying\n  </em>\n  offers insight into a talented writer, her family history, and the injustices of the modern world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18855'),
(11411, 'A Brother&#39;s Price', 'Wen Spencer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a world where males are rarely born, they''ve become a commodity-traded and sold like property. Jerin Whistler has come of age for marriage and his handsome features have come to the attention of the royal princesses. But such attentions can be dangerous-especially as Jerin uncovers the dark mysteries the royal family is hiding.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/251'),
(11412, 'A Brother&#39;s Price', 'Wen Spencer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a world where males are rarely born, they''ve become a commodity-traded and sold like property. Jerin Whistler has come of age for marriage and his handsome features have come to the attention of the royal princesses. But such attentions can be dangerous-especially as Jerin uncovers the dark mysteries the royal family is hiding.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24579'),
(11413, 'Brotherhood of the Wolf', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Volume Two of The RunelordsRaj Ahtan, ruler of Indhopal, has used enough forcibles to transform himself into the ultimate warrior: The Sum of All Men. Ahtan seeks to bring all of humanity under his rule-destroying anything and anyone that stood in his path, including many friends and allies of young Prince Gaborn Val Orden. But Gaborn has fulfilled a two-thousand-year-old prophecy, becoming the Earth King-a mythic figure who can unleash the forces of the Earth itself. And now the struggle continues. Gaborn has managed to drive off Raj Ahtan, but Ahtan is far from defeated. Striking at far-flung cities and fortresses and killing dedicates, Ahtan seeks to draw out the Earth King from his seat of power, to crush him. But as they weaken each other''s forces in battle, the armies of an ancient and implacable inhuman enemy issue forth from the very bowels of the Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6249'),
(11414, 'Brotherhood of the Wolf', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Volume Two of The RunelordsRaj Ahtan, ruler of Indhopal, has used enough forcibles to transform himself into the ultimate warrior: The Sum of All Men. Ahtan seeks to bring all of humanity under his rule-destroying anything and anyone that stood in his path, including many friends and allies of young Prince Gaborn Val Orden. But Gaborn has fulfilled a two-thousand-year-old prophecy, becoming the Earth King-a mythic figure who can unleash the forces of the Earth itself. And now the struggle continues. Gaborn has managed to drive off Raj Ahtan, but Ahtan is far from defeated. Striking at far-flung cities and fortresses and killing dedicates, Ahtan seeks to draw out the Earth King from his seat of power, to crush him. But as they weaken each other''s forces in battle, the armies of an ancient and implacable inhuman enemy issue forth from the very bowels of the Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17806'),
(11415, 'Brotherhood of the Wolf', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Volume Two of The RunelordsRaj Ahtan, ruler of Indhopal, has used enough forcibles to transform himself into the ultimate warrior: The Sum of All Men. Ahtan seeks to bring all of humanity under his rule-destroying anything and anyone that stood in his path, including many friends and allies of young Prince Gaborn Val Orden. But Gaborn has fulfilled a two-thousand-year-old prophecy, becoming the Earth King-a mythic figure who can unleash the forces of the Earth itself. And now the struggle continues. Gaborn has managed to drive off Raj Ahtan, but Ahtan is far from defeated. Striking at far-flung cities and fortresses and killing dedicates, Ahtan seeks to draw out the Earth King from his seat of power, to crush him. But as they weaken each other''s forces in battle, the armies of an ancient and implacable inhuman enemy issue forth from the very bowels of the Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27327'),
(11416, 'Brothers &amp; Sisters', 'Charlotte Wood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Love, envy, resentment, regret, tenderness - established, bestselling and award-winning writers explore the tensions, alliances and affections between siblings in this dazzling collection of stories with contributions from Robert Drewe, Roger McDonald, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Cate Kennedy and many more. ''Your brother or sister, it might be said, is your other self - your grander, sadder, braver, shrewder, uglier, slenderer self ... Your sibling is your most severe judge and your fiercest defender. You must always rescue them. They always abandon you ... You recognise one another, this is your relief and your ruin. They are your duty. They stun you with the sudden presence and force of their goodness. They give you Christmas presents that show you are strangers. You are strangers.'' You love them; it cannot be explained why or how.'' -From Charlotte Woods'' Introduction to Brothers and Sisters. Critics and readers alike have long commented on Charlotte Wood''s acute ability to dissect sibling relationships in her novels. Life-long resentments, tensions, alliances and affections between brothers and sisters play out in her books to brilliant effect. Here, Charlotte brings her skills to an anthology of stories by well-known and new writers - Tony Birch, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Robert Drewe, Ashley Hay, Cate Kennedy, Nam Le, Roger McDonald, Paddy O''Reilly, Virginia Peters, Michael Sala, Christos Tsiolkas, Charlotte Wood - who have written about an element of sister/brother relationships, both in fictional and non-fictional forms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6757'),
(11417, 'Brothers &amp; Sisters', 'Charlotte Wood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Love, envy, resentment, regret, tenderness - established, bestselling and award-winning writers explore the tensions, alliances and affections between siblings in this dazzling collection of stories with contributions from Robert Drewe, Roger McDonald, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Cate Kennedy and many more. ''Your brother or sister, it might be said, is your other self - your grander, sadder, braver, shrewder, uglier, slenderer self ... Your sibling is your most severe judge and your fiercest defender. You must always rescue them. They always abandon you ... You recognise one another, this is your relief and your ruin. They are your duty. They stun you with the sudden presence and force of their goodness. They give you Christmas presents that show you are strangers. You are strangers.'' You love them; it cannot be explained why or how.'' -From Charlotte Woods'' Introduction to Brothers and Sisters. Critics and readers alike have long commented on Charlotte Wood''s acute ability to dissect sibling relationships in her novels. Life-long resentments, tensions, alliances and affections between brothers and sisters play out in her books to brilliant effect. Here, Charlotte brings her skills to an anthology of stories by well-known and new writers - Tony Birch, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Robert Drewe, Ashley Hay, Cate Kennedy, Nam Le, Roger McDonald, Paddy O''Reilly, Virginia Peters, Michael Sala, Christos Tsiolkas, Charlotte Wood - who have written about an element of sister/brother relationships, both in fictional and non-fictional forms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13418'),
(11418, 'Brothers &amp; Sisters', 'Charlotte Wood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Love, envy, resentment, regret, tenderness - established, bestselling and award-winning writers explore the tensions, alliances and affections between siblings in this dazzling collection of stories with contributions from Robert Drewe, Roger McDonald, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Cate Kennedy and many more. ''Your brother or sister, it might be said, is your other self - your grander, sadder, braver, shrewder, uglier, slenderer self ... Your sibling is your most severe judge and your fiercest defender. You must always rescue them. They always abandon you ... You recognise one another, this is your relief and your ruin. They are your duty. They stun you with the sudden presence and force of their goodness. They give you Christmas presents that show you are strangers. You are strangers.'' You love them; it cannot be explained why or how.'' -From Charlotte Woods'' Introduction to Brothers and Sisters. Critics and readers alike have long commented on Charlotte Wood''s acute ability to dissect sibling relationships in her novels. Life-long resentments, tensions, alliances and affections between brothers and sisters play out in her books to brilliant effect. Here, Charlotte brings her skills to an anthology of stories by well-known and new writers - Tony Birch, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Robert Drewe, Ashley Hay, Cate Kennedy, Nam Le, Roger McDonald, Paddy O''Reilly, Virginia Peters, Michael Sala, Christos Tsiolkas, Charlotte Wood - who have written about an element of sister/brother relationships, both in fictional and non-fictional forms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17112'),
(11419, 'Brothers in Arms', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: If his enemies would just leave him alone, Miles Vorkosigan (alias Admiral Naismith) decided bitterly, the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet would collapse all on its own. But his enemies were plotting a more deadly fall. For some unexplained reason the Dendarii payroll is missing and the orders from the Barrayaran Imperial Command are being delayed by Milesâ€™s superior, Captain Galeni. What connects the impeccable insufferable Captain Galeni and the Komarran rebel expatriates on Earth anyway? But the most deadly question of all before Miles is more personal: are Milesâ€™s two identities, Admiral Naismith of the Dendarii and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan of Barrayar, splitting apart along the lines of his divided loyalties? And who is trying to assassinate which version of him? When Miles unravels the answers, then the complications really *begin*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20033'),
(11420, 'The Brothers Karamazov', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky &amp; Andrew R. MacAndrew', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man''s eternal questions, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5475'),
(11421, 'The Brothers Karamazov', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Andrew R. MacAndrew', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man''s eternal questions, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19132'),
(11422, 'The Brothers Karamazov', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 9781434000712\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27907'),
(11423, 'The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky &amp; Richard Pevear &amp; Larissa Volokhonsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Dostoevsky is] at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great . . .\n  <em>\n   The Brothers Karamazov\n  </em>\n  stands as the culmination of his artâ€“his last, longest, richest, and most capacious book. [This] scrupulous rendition can only be welcomed. It returns us to a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again.â€ â€“_Washington Post Book World_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA miracle . . . Every page of the new Karamazov is a permanent standard, and an inspiration.â€ â€“_The Times_ (London)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevskyâ€™s original.â€ â€“_New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAbsolutely faithful . . . Fulfills in remarkable measure most of the criteria for an ideal translation . . . The stylistic accuracy and versatility of registers used . . . bring out the richness and depth of the original in a way similar to a faithful and sensitive restoration of a painting.â€ â€“_The Independent_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt may well be that Dostoevskyâ€™s [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only nowâ€“and through the medium of [this] new translationâ€“beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader.â€ â€“_New York Review of Books_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHeartily recommended to any reader who wishes to come as close to Dostoevskyâ€™s Russian as it is possible.â€ â€“Joseph Frank, Princeton University\n </p>\n <p>\n  With an Introduction by Malcolm V. Jones\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. This acclaimed new English version of Dostoevsky''s last novel does justice to all its levels of artistry and intention.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5478'),
(11424, 'The Brothers&#39; Lot', 'Kevin Holohan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kevin Holohan''s strange yet disconcertingly recognizable world has echoes of Flann O''Brien''s and Monty Python''s, but there is rage as well as absurdist comedy. THE BROTHERS'' LOT is a memorable, skillfully wrought, and evocative satire of an Ireland that has collapsed under the weight of its contradictions. --Joseph O''Connor, author of STAR OF THE SEA\n</p>\n<p>\n "Kevin Holohan''s wickedly funny debut novel, set in a rundown Dublin religious school where the spirits are low but the Gaelic pride runs high, will make you laugh almost as much as it makes you weep, for beyond their almost comical incompetence and a thin veneer of piety the Brothers who run the place are sad, flawed men, whose weaknesses range from sadism to depravity. They educate by cudgel and dole out discipline with a leather strap, while protagonist Finbar Sullivan and the other long-suffering students bear it all with the kind of wise-cracking cynicism, irreverence, and pranks that one would expect at that age." --Preston Allen, author of Jesus Boy\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Kevin Holohan''s strange yet disconcertingly recognizable world has echoes of Flann O''Brien''s and Monty Python''s, but there is rage as well as absurdist comedy.\n <em>\n  The Brothers'' Lot\n </em>\n is a memorable, skillfully wrought, and evocative satire of an Ireland that has collapsed under the weight of its contradictions."\n <br />\n --Joseph O''Connor, author of\n <em>\n  Star of the Sea\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Combining the spirit of Kingsley Amis''s\n <em>\n  Lucky Jim\n </em>\n with a bawdy evisceration of hypocrisy in old-school Catholic education,\n <em>\n  The Brothers'' Lot\n </em>\n is a comic satire that tells the story of the Brothers of Godly Coercion School for Young Boys of Meager Means, a dilapidated Dickensian institution run by an assemblage of eccentric, insane, and often nasty celibate Brothers. The school is in decline and the Brothers hunger for a miracle to move their founder, the Venerable Saorseach O''Rahilly, along the path to Sainthood.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a possible miracle presents itself, the Brothers fervently seize on it with the help of the ethically pliant Diocesan Investigator, himself hungry for a miracle to boost his career. The school simultaneously comes under threat from strange outside forces. The harder the Brothers try to defend the school, the worse things seem to get. It takes an outsider, Finbar Sullivan, a young student newly arrived at the school, to see that the source of the threat may in fact lie inside the school itself. As the miracle unravels, the Brothers'' efforts to preserve it unleash a disastrous chain of events.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tackling a serious subject from the oblique viewpoint of satire,\n <em>\n  The Brothers'' Lot\n </em>\n explores the culture that allowed abuses within church-run institutions in Ireland to go unchecked for decades. The novel inhabits a space where\n <em>\n  Angela''s Ashes\n </em>\n meets the work of Flann O''Brien and Mervyn Peake, while providing a look at a regrettable era that still haunts many countries across the globe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9443'),
(11425, 'Brought In Dead', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18271'),
(11426, 'Brunswick Gardens', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <div>\n  This reading of Anne Perry''s sixth Victorian mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt (Defend and Betray, Audio Reviews, LJ 6/15/96) is skillfully rendered by David McCallum, who gives an impeccable performance. Here Perry explores the social and moral issues of the day. Unity Bellwood, assistant to Reverend Ramsey Parmenter, falls down a flight of stairs to her death; her last words are: "No, no, Reverend!" He is suspected of pushing the young woman to her death. There are, however, other people in the house. Thomas, commander of the Bow Street police station, will not be satisfied until the whole truth can be unearthed. Engrossing and enjoyable for lovers of traditional mystery novels, although it holds few surprises for the discerning. Recommended for public library collections.?Jacqueline Seewald, Red Bank Reg. H.S., Little Silver, NJ.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <br />\n  In London''s affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle over Charles Darwin''s revolutionary theory of evolution intensifies as the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood--a "new woman" whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling.\n  <p>\n   When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles down the staircase to her death, superintendent Thomas Pitt is virtually certain that one of the three deeply devout men in the house committed murder. Could it have been the Reverend Parmenter, his handsome curate, or his Roman Catholic son? Pitt and his clever wife, Charlotte, refuse to settle for less than the truth--and justice. . . .\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7509');
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(11427, 'Brunswick Gardens', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <div>\n  This reading of Anne Perry''s sixth Victorian mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt (Defend and Betray, Audio Reviews, LJ 6/15/96) is skillfully rendered by David McCallum, who gives an impeccable performance. Here Perry explores the social and moral issues of the day. Unity Bellwood, assistant to Reverend Ramsey Parmenter, falls down a flight of stairs to her death; her last words are: "No, no, Reverend!" He is suspected of pushing the young woman to her death. There are, however, other people in the house. Thomas, commander of the Bow Street police station, will not be satisfied until the whole truth can be unearthed. Engrossing and enjoyable for lovers of traditional mystery novels, although it holds few surprises for the discerning. Recommended for public library collections.?Jacqueline Seewald, Red Bank Reg. H.S., Little Silver, NJ.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <br />\n  In London''s affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle over Charles Darwin''s revolutionary theory of evolution intensifies as the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood--a "new woman" whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling.\n  <p>\n   When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles down the staircase to her death, superintendent Thomas Pitt is virtually certain that one of the three deeply devout men in the house committed murder. Could it have been the Reverend Parmenter, his handsome curate, or his Roman Catholic son? Pitt and his clever wife, Charlotte, refuse to settle for less than the truth--and justice. . . .\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11859'),
(11428, 'Brunswick Gardens', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <div>\n  This reading of Anne Perry''s sixth Victorian mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt (Defend and Betray, Audio Reviews, LJ 6/15/96) is skillfully rendered by David McCallum, who gives an impeccable performance. Here Perry explores the social and moral issues of the day. Unity Bellwood, assistant to Reverend Ramsey Parmenter, falls down a flight of stairs to her death; her last words are: "No, no, Reverend!" He is suspected of pushing the young woman to her death. There are, however, other people in the house. Thomas, commander of the Bow Street police station, will not be satisfied until the whole truth can be unearthed. Engrossing and enjoyable for lovers of traditional mystery novels, although it holds few surprises for the discerning. Recommended for public library collections.?Jacqueline Seewald, Red Bank Reg. H.S., Little Silver, NJ.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <br />\n  In London''s affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle over Charles Darwin''s revolutionary theory of evolution intensifies as the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood--a "new woman" whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling.\n  <p>\n   When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles down the staircase to her death, superintendent Thomas Pitt is virtually certain that one of the three deeply devout men in the house committed murder. Could it have been the Reverend Parmenter, his handsome curate, or his Roman Catholic son? Pitt and his clever wife, Charlotte, refuse to settle for less than the truth--and justice. . . .\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16361'),
(11429, 'A Brush With Death: A Penny Brannigan Mystery', 'Elizabeth J. Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Penny Brannigan inherits a charming, old-fashioned cottage in the North Wales town of Llanelen, she soon realizes she has come into more than what real estate agents like to describe as a desirable period property: Sheâ€™s also acquired memories, mystery, and an unsolved, decades-old crime.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Penny sorts through the belongings of her benefactor, a deceased teacher, she comes upon a packet of letters from a promising young Liverpool artist, A. Jones, who was killed in an accident in 1970. An artist herself, Penny sets out to discover who killed this painter, and is helped by a small group of townsfolk, including her business partner, Victoria Hopkirk. While at a retrospective art exhibition in Liverpool, Penny recognizes what she believes to be a watercolor painted by Jones. But it is attributed to another artist, leading her to suspect that art theft was at the heart of the case, and that Jonesâ€™s death was no accident.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In her eagerly awaited sequel* *Duncan wonderfully revisits the bustling Welsh town and vibrant characters introduced in *The Cold Light of Mourning*. With its lyrical prose and tantalizing puzzle, this new mystery is a treat on many levels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5701'),
(11430, 'A Brush With Death: A Penny Brannigan Mystery', 'Elizabeth J. Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Penny Brannigan inherits a charming, old-fashioned cottage in the North Wales town of Llanelen, she soon realizes she has come into more than what real estate agents like to describe as a desirable period property: Sheâ€™s also acquired memories, mystery, and an unsolved, decades-old crime.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Penny sorts through the belongings of her benefactor, a deceased teacher, she comes upon a packet of letters from a promising young Liverpool artist, A. Jones, who was killed in an accident in 1970. An artist herself, Penny sets out to discover who killed this painter, and is helped by a small group of townsfolk, including her business partner, Victoria Hopkirk. While at a retrospective art exhibition in Liverpool, Penny recognizes what she believes to be a watercolor painted by Jones. But it is attributed to another artist, leading her to suspect that art theft was at the heart of the case, and that Jonesâ€™s death was no accident.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In her eagerly awaited sequel* *Duncan wonderfully revisits the bustling Welsh town and vibrant characters introduced in *The Cold Light of Mourning*. With its lyrical prose and tantalizing puzzle, this new mystery is a treat on many levels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10885'),
(11431, 'A Brush with Death: A Penny Brannigan Mystery', 'Elizabeth J. Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Penny Brannigan inherits a charming, old-fashioned cottage in the North Wales town of Llanelen, she soon realizes she has come into more than what real estate agents like to describe as a desirable period property: Sheâ€™s also acquired memories, mystery, and an unsolved, decades-old crime. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  As Penny sorts through the belongings of her benefactor, a deceased teacher, she comes upon a packet of letters from a promising young Liverpool artist, A. Jones, who was killed in an accident in 1970. An artist herself, Penny sets out to discover who killed this painter, and is helped by a small group of townsfolk, including her business partner, Victoria Hopkirk. While at a retrospective art exhibition in Liverpool, Penny recognizes what she believes to be a watercolor painted by Jones. But it is attributed to another artist, leading her to suspect that art theft was at the heart of the case, and that Jonesâ€™s death was no accident. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  In her eagerly awaited sequel* *Duncan wonderfully revisits the bustling Welsh town and vibrant characters introduced in *The Cold Light of Mourning*. With its lyrical prose and tantalizing puzzle, this new mystery is a treat on many levels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18848'),
(11432, 'A Brush with Death: A Penny Brannigan Mystery', 'Elizabeth J. Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Penny Brannigan inherits a charming, old-fashioned cottage in the North Wales town of Llanelen, she soon realizes she has come into more than what real estate agents like to describe as a desirable period property: Sheâ€™s also acquired memories, mystery, and an unsolved, decades-old crime. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  As Penny sorts through the belongings of her benefactor, a deceased teacher, she comes upon a packet of letters from a promising young Liverpool artist, A. Jones, who was killed in an accident in 1970. An artist herself, Penny sets out to discover who killed this painter, and is helped by a small group of townsfolk, including her business partner, Victoria Hopkirk. While at a retrospective art exhibition in Liverpool, Penny recognizes what she believes to be a watercolor painted by Jones. But it is attributed to another artist, leading her to suspect that art theft was at the heart of the case, and that Jonesâ€™s death was no accident. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  In her eagerly awaited sequel* *Duncan wonderfully revisits the bustling Welsh town and vibrant characters introduced in *The Cold Light of Mourning*. With its lyrical prose and tantalizing puzzle, this new mystery is a treat on many levels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27639'),
(11433, 'The Brush-Off: A Hair-Raising Mystery', 'Laura Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Make an appointment for intrigue at Reyn Marten Sawyer''s hair salon! Outrageous, flirtatious, and as colorful as a magenta mohawk, Reyn tracks twisted crimes, untangles tight knots, and never, ever leaves loose ends.  Someone clearly meant business when they targeted San Antonio''s hair salon king, Ricardo, who was fatally stabbed with a one-of-a-kind weapon: a sharp plastic hair pick. Reyn had loaned Ricardo the tool -- and now she''s not only mourning her friend and mentor''s murder: she''s also a suspect. And in the eyes of sexy detective Jackson Scythe, she''s one alluring stylist who should drop her insistent sleuthing like a hot roller. But Reyn''s wound a little too tight to stay out of the thick of things, including teasing and taming the stubbornly single Scythe while taking short cuts to catch a killer -- and uncovering the past of a dead man, whose secrets will make Reyn''s hair curl....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3606'),
(11434, 'The Brush-Off: A Hair-Raising Mystery', 'Laura Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Make an appointment for intrigue at Reyn Marten Sawyer''s hair salon! Outrageous, flirtatious, and as colorful as a magenta mohawk, Reyn tracks twisted crimes, untangles tight knots, and never, ever leaves loose ends.  Someone clearly meant business when they targeted San Antonio''s hair salon king, Ricardo, who was fatally stabbed with a one-of-a-kind weapon: a sharp plastic hair pick. Reyn had loaned Ricardo the tool -- and now she''s not only mourning her friend and mentor''s murder: she''s also a suspect. And in the eyes of sexy detective Jackson Scythe, she''s one alluring stylist who should drop her insistent sleuthing like a hot roller. But Reyn''s wound a little too tight to stay out of the thick of things, including teasing and taming the stubbornly single Scythe while taking short cuts to catch a killer -- and uncovering the past of a dead man, whose secrets will make Reyn''s hair curl....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8605'),
(11435, 'The Brush-Off: A Hair-Raising Mystery', 'Laura Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Make an appointment for intrigue at Reyn Marten Sawyer''s hair salon! Outrageous, flirtatious, and as colorful as a magenta mohawk, Reyn tracks twisted crimes, untangles tight knots, and never, ever leaves loose ends. Someone clearly meant business when they targeted San Antonio''s hair salon king, Ricardo, who was fatally stabbed with a one-of-a-kind weapon: a sharp plastic hair pick. Reyn had loaned Ricardo the tool -- and now she''s not only mourning her friend and mentor''s murder: she''s also a suspect. And in the eyes of sexy detective Jackson Scythe, she''s one alluring stylist who should drop her insistent sleuthing like a hot roller. But Reyn''s wound a little too tight to stay out of the thick of things, including teasing and taming the stubbornly single Scythe while taking short cuts to catch a killer -- and uncovering the past of a dead man, whose secrets will make Reyn''s hair curl....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20975'),
(11436, 'Bruta', 'Guy de Cars', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25760'),
(11437, 'Brute Force', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nick Stone''s eleventh adventure is McNab at his explosive best! A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain, loaded to the gunwales with enough arms and ammunition to start a war... Twenty years later, an unknown aggressor seems intent on eradicating those responsible for the treachery, one by one. And Nick Stone ex-SAS, tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained is next on the killer''s list... The fuse is lit... and Stone is catapulted into his most daunting mission yet a quest that takes him across two continents, and into the darker recesses of his own complex past. But first he must find a man who shared that past, and who may know more about the present threat than he is prepared to reveal. As the two find themselves pursued across sea and desert, they become ever more enmeshed in a deadly network of betrayal, to which Stone himself unwittingly holds the key. And in a final confrontation that echoes his worst nightmares, only he can stop the unthinkable and save the lives of those he holds most dear. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7639'),
(11438, 'Brute Force', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nick Stone''s eleventh adventure is McNab at his explosive best! A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain, loaded to the gunwales with enough arms and ammunition to start a war... Twenty years later, an unknown aggressor seems intent on eradicating those responsible for the treachery, one by one. And Nick Stone ex-SAS, tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained is next on the killer''s list... The fuse is lit... and Stone is catapulted into his most daunting mission yet a quest that takes him across two continents, and into the darker recesses of his own complex past. But first he must find a man who shared that past, and who may know more about the present threat than he is prepared to reveal. As the two find themselves pursued across sea and desert, they become ever more enmeshed in a deadly network of betrayal, to which Stone himself unwittingly holds the key. And in a final confrontation that echoes his worst nightmares, only he can stop the unthinkable and save the lives of those he holds most dear. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16226'),
(11439, 'Brute Force', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nick Stone''s eleventh adventure is McNab at his explosive best! A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain, loaded to the gunwales with enough arms and ammunition to start a war... Twenty years later, an unknown aggressor seems intent on eradicating those responsible for the treachery, one by one. And Nick Stone ex-SAS, tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained is next on the killer''s list... The fuse is lit... and Stone is catapulted into his most daunting mission yet a quest that takes him across two continents, and into the darker recesses of his own complex past. But first he must find a man who shared that past, and who may know more about the present threat than he is prepared to reveal. As the two find themselves pursued across sea and desert, they become ever more enmeshed in a deadly network of betrayal, to which Stone himself unwittingly holds the key. And in a final confrontation that echoes his worst nightmares, only he can stop the unthinkable and save the lives of those he holds most dear. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26310'),
(11440, 'Bryant &amp; May on the Loose: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Fowler''s unique blend of the comic and the grotesque is on full display in his excellent seventh Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  The Victoria Vanishes\n </em>\n ). With the special police unit shut down, Arthur Bryant is feeling withdrawn and depressed while his partner, John May, is considering PI work.Ã‚Â WhenÃ‚Â a former team member stumbles on a beheaded corpse in the heart of London''s King''s Cross neighborhood,Ã‚Â May artfully uses the discovery to gain the PCU another lease on life. He persuades the higherups that unsolved gang crimes in the area could threaten the economic benefit anticipated from the 2012 Olympics. Given one week to solve the case, without any official sanction or access to police resources, May pulls Bryant out of his doldrums and reassembles the unit. To May''s dismay, his colleague is more interested in reports that a man wearing a stag''s head has been seen in the area. The pacing, prose, planting of clues and characterizations are all top-notch.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The efforts of various officials in the London police have finally succeeded in breaking up the Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU). While most of the team have started remaking their lives, brilliant, eccentric Arthur Bryant has become a morose recluse. His old friend John May is definitely concerned. Then along comes a case that May thinks might pique Arthurâ€™s interest and put the unit back in business: a headless corpse is found stuffed in an old freezer. Strangely, itâ€™s not the unfortunate dead guy that calls to the elderly Bryant. Heâ€™s more interested in the oddly dressed man causing havoc around a Kingâ€™s Cross renovation project. With the groupâ€™s future at stake, which case will win out? With a liberal dose of regional history and some surprising humor, this ensemble crime story has lots to offerâ€”not the least of which are a couple of great, unexpected twists that not only change the makeup of the PCU but also lead its members straight into adventures to come. --Stephanie Zvirin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6810'),
(11441, 'Bryant &amp; May on the Loose: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Fowler''s unique blend of the comic and the grotesque is on full display in his excellent seventh Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  The Victoria Vanishes\n </em>\n ). With the special police unit shut down, Arthur Bryant is feeling withdrawn and depressed while his partner, John May, is considering PI work.Ã‚Â WhenÃ‚Â a former team member stumbles on a beheaded corpse in the heart of London''s King''s Cross neighborhood,Ã‚Â May artfully uses the discovery to gain the PCU another lease on life. He persuades the higherups that unsolved gang crimes in the area could threaten the economic benefit anticipated from the 2012 Olympics. Given one week to solve the case, without any official sanction or access to police resources, May pulls Bryant out of his doldrums and reassembles the unit. To May''s dismay, his colleague is more interested in reports that a man wearing a stag''s head has been seen in the area. The pacing, prose, planting of clues and characterizations are all top-notch.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The efforts of various officials in the London police have finally succeeded in breaking up the Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU). While most of the team have started remaking their lives, brilliant, eccentric Arthur Bryant has become a morose recluse. His old friend John May is definitely concerned. Then along comes a case that May thinks might pique Arthurâ€™s interest and put the unit back in business: a headless corpse is found stuffed in an old freezer. Strangely, itâ€™s not the unfortunate dead guy that calls to the elderly Bryant. Heâ€™s more interested in the oddly dressed man causing havoc around a Kingâ€™s Cross renovation project. With the groupâ€™s future at stake, which case will win out? With a liberal dose of regional history and some surprising humor, this ensemble crime story has lots to offerâ€”not the least of which are a couple of great, unexpected twists that not only change the makeup of the PCU but also lead its members straight into adventures to come. --Stephanie Zvirin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9799'),
(11442, 'Bryant &amp; May on the Loose: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Fowler''s unique blend of the comic and the grotesque is on full display in his excellent seventh Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  The Victoria Vanishes\n </em>\n ). With the special police unit shut down, Arthur Bryant is feeling withdrawn and depressed while his partner, John May, is considering PI work.Ã‚Â WhenÃ‚Â a former team member stumbles on a beheaded corpse in the heart of London''s King''s Cross neighborhood,Ã‚Â May artfully uses the discovery to gain the PCU another lease on life. He persuades the higherups that unsolved gang crimes in the area could threaten the economic benefit anticipated from the 2012 Olympics. Given one week to solve the case, without any official sanction or access to police resources, May pulls Bryant out of his doldrums and reassembles the unit. To May''s dismay, his colleague is more interested in reports that a man wearing a stag''s head has been seen in the area. The pacing, prose, planting of clues and characterizations are all top-notch.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The efforts of various officials in the London police have finally succeeded in breaking up the Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU). While most of the team have started remaking their lives, brilliant, eccentric Arthur Bryant has become a morose recluse. His old friend John May is definitely concerned. Then along comes a case that May thinks might pique Arthurâ€™s interest and put the unit back in business: a headless corpse is found stuffed in an old freezer. Strangely, itâ€™s not the unfortunate dead guy that calls to the elderly Bryant. Heâ€™s more interested in the oddly dressed man causing havoc around a Kingâ€™s Cross renovation project. With the groupâ€™s future at stake, which case will win out? With a liberal dose of regional history and some surprising humor, this ensemble crime story has lots to offerâ€”not the least of which are a couple of great, unexpected twists that not only change the makeup of the PCU but also lead its members straight into adventures to come. --Stephanie Zvirin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18029'),
(11443, 'Bryson&#39;s Dictionary for Writers and Editors', 'Bill Bryson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Brysonâ€™s Dictionary of Troublesome Words:\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the best guides to usage there is. I cannot imagine an English-speaking person [who] would not rejoice in [it].â€ â€”Katherine A. Powers, _Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œA worthwhile addition to any writerâ€™s or editorâ€™s reference library.â€ â€”\n </em>\n Los Angeles Times_\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _â€œ[Bryson is] a world-class grammar maven.â€\n <br />\n â€”Michael Upchurch, _Seattle Times\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA usage book with a nice sense of differentiation.â€\n <br />\n â€”William Safire,\n <em>\n  New York Times Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrysonâ€™s erudition is evident and refreshingâ€¦a straightforward, concise, utilitarian guide.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From one of America''s most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers.\n</p>\n<p>\n What is the difference between â€œimmanentâ€ and â€œimminentâ€? What is the singular form of graffiti? What is the difference between â€œacuteâ€ and â€œchronicâ€? What is the former name of â€œMoldovaâ€? What is the difference between a cardinal number and an ordinal number? One of the English language''s most skilled writers answers these and many other questions and guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage. Covering spelling, capitalization, plurals, hyphens, abbreviations, and foreign names and phrases,\n <em>\n  Bryson''s Dictionary for Writers and Editors\n </em>\n will be an indispensable companion for all who care enough about our language not to maul, misuse, or contort it.\n</p>\n<p>\n This dictionary is an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. As Bill Bryson notes, it will provide you with â€œthe answers to all those points of written usage that you kind of know or ought to know but canâ€™t quite remember.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8105'),
(11444, 'BS-Pygmalion', 'Bernard Shaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13781'),
(11445, 'BS-Pygmalion', 'Bernard Shaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26622'),
(11446, 'Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family', 'Thomas Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann''s first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity -- seductions that are at variance with its own traditions -- its downfall becomes certain.In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modem family chronicles; it has, indeed, proved a model for most of them. Judged as the greatest of Mann''s novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22908'),
(11447, 'Buddha', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With such bestsellers as *A History of God and Islam*, Karen Armstrong has   consistently delivered "penetrating, readable, and prescient" (*The New York   Times*) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and   religious   issues. In *Buddha* she turns to a figure whose thought is still   reverberating   throughout the world 2,500 years after his death.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Many know the Buddha only from seeing countless serene, iconic images. But what   of   the man himself and the world he lived in? What did he actually do in his   roughly eighty   years on earth that spawned one of the greatest religions in world history?   Armstrong   tackles these questions and more by examining the life and times of the Buddha   in this   engrossing philosophical biography. Against the tumultuous cultural background   of his   world, she blends history, philosophy, mythology, and biography to create a   compelling   and illuminating portrait of a man whose awakening continues to inspire   millions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3926'),
(11448, 'Buddha', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With such bestsellers as *A History of God and Islam*, Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered "penetrating, readable, and prescient" (*The New York Times*) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues. In *Buddha* she turns to a figure whose thought is still reverberating throughout the world 2,500 years after his death. Many know the Buddha only from seeing countless serene, iconic images. But what of the man himself and the world he lived in? What did he actually do in his roughly eighty years on earth that spawned one of the greatest religions in world history? Armstrong tackles these questions and more by examining the life and times of the Buddha in this engrossing philosophical biography. Against the tumultuous cultural background of his world, she blends history, philosophy, mythology, and biography to create a compelling and illuminating portrait of a man whose awakening continues to inspire millions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20533'),
(11449, 'Buddha: The Gospel', 'Paul Carus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is for Christians who wish to grasp the message and principle beliefs of Buddhism. Carus presents the Buddha''s life in a collection of stories from his birth, attainment of enlightenment, teaching, to his death. Well written, it emulates the biblical style of the King Jame''s Bible, occasionally puncuated with Ye, Thou, Thy, and so on. The stories are enjoyable but short and somewhat numerous. Also included is a glossary of terms and a concordance with passages in the New Testament.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21539'),
(11450, 'The Bug Wars', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23150'),
(11451, 'Building Facebook Applications for Dummies (ISBN', '0470277955)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21466'),
(11452, 'Building Homebrew Equipment', 'Karl F. Lutzen &amp; Mark Stevens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since 1973, Storey''s Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since the 1973 publication of Storey''s first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Storey''s Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey''s Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3898'),
(11453, 'Building Homebrew Equipment', 'Karl F. Lutzen &amp; Mark Stevens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since 1973, Storey''s Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since the 1973 publication of Storey''s first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Storey''s Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey''s Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11182'),
(11454, 'Building homebrew equipment', 'Karl F. Lutzen; Mark Stevens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since 1973, Storey''s Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since the 1973 publication of Storey''s first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Storey''s Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey''s Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20641'),
(11455, 'Bullet', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The music came back up and the next group of little girls, slightly older, came out. There was a lot of that in the next hour and change. I liked dance, and it was no reflection on the kids, but my will to live began to seep away on about the fifth group of sequined children... ***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anita Blake is back in St. Louis and trying to live a normal life-as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a U. S. Marshal. There are lovers, friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all the ordinary happiness a vampire from Anita''s past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, killed in an explosion, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, their dark creator. It''s hard to kill a god. This dark goddess has reached out to her here-in St. Louis, home of everyone Anita loves most. The Mother of All Darkness has decided she has to act now or never, to control Anita, and all the vampires in America.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with Anita and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to immigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken. Anita is about to learn a whole new meaning to sharing her body, one that has nothing to do with the bedroom. And if the Mother of All Darkness can''t succeed in taking over Anita''s body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again.  Even Belle Morte, not always a friend to Anita, has sent word:  "Run if you can..."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3481'),
(11456, 'Bullet', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The music came back up and the next group of little girls, slightly older, came out. There was a lot of that in the next hour and change. I liked dance, and it was no reflection on the kids, but my will to live began to seep away on about the fifth group of sequined children... ***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anita Blake is back in St. Louis and trying to live a normal life-as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a U. S. Marshal. There are lovers, friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all the ordinary happiness a vampire from Anita''s past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, killed in an explosion, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, their dark creator. It''s hard to kill a god. This dark goddess has reached out to her here-in St. Louis, home of everyone Anita loves most. The Mother of All Darkness has decided she has to act now or never, to control Anita, and all the vampires in America.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with Anita and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to immigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken. Anita is about to learn a whole new meaning to sharing her body, one that has nothing to do with the bedroom. And if the Mother of All Darkness can''t succeed in taking over Anita''s body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again.  Even Belle Morte, not always a friend to Anita, has sent word:  "Run if you can..."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10166'),
(11457, 'Bullet', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***The music came back up and the next group of little girls, slightly older, came out. There was a lot of that in the next hour and change. I liked dance, and it was no reflection on the kids, but my will to live began to seep away on about the fifth group of sequined children... *** Anita Blake is back in St. Louis and trying to live a normal life-as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a U. S. Marshal. There are lovers, friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all the ordinary happiness a vampire from Anita''s past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, killed in an explosion, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, their dark creator. It''s hard to kill a god. This dark goddess has reached out to her here-in St. Louis, home of everyone Anita loves most. The Mother of All Darkness has decided she has to act now or never, to control Anita, and all the vampires in America. The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with Anita and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to immigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken. Anita is about to learn a whole new meaning to sharing her body, one that has nothing to do with the bedroom. And if the Mother of All Darkness can''t succeed in taking over Anita''s body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again. Even Belle Morte, not always a friend to Anita, has sent word: "Run if you can..."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15305'),
(11458, 'Bullet', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***The music came back up and the next group of little girls, slightly older, came out. There was a lot of that in the next hour and change. I liked dance, and it was no reflection on the kids, but my will to live began to seep away on about the fifth group of sequined children... *** Anita Blake is back in St. Louis and trying to live a normal life-as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a U. S. Marshal. There are lovers, friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all the ordinary happiness a vampire from Anita''s past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, killed in an explosion, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, their dark creator. It''s hard to kill a god. This dark goddess has reached out to her here-in St. Louis, home of everyone Anita loves most. The Mother of All Darkness has decided she has to act now or never, to control Anita, and all the vampires in America. The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with Anita and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to immigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken. Anita is about to learn a whole new meaning to sharing her body, one that has nothing to do with the bedroom. And if the Mother of All Darkness can''t succeed in taking over Anita''s body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again. Even Belle Morte, not always a friend to Anita, has sent word: "Run if you can..."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21008'),
(11459, 'Bullet Park', 'John Cheever', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his luminous short stories and in incomparable novels like\n <strong>\n  Bullet Park\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Falconer\n </strong>\n , is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature." â€”Philip Roth\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cheever''s deepest, most challenging book. It has the tone of a summing-up and the tension of a vision." â€”_The New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A master American storyteller." â€”_Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "In a class by itself, not only among Cheever''s work but among all the novels I know." â€”Joseph Heller\n</p>\n<p>\n "John Cheever''s prose is always a pleasure to read because it is both graceful and governed." â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Welcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage to terrify themselves simply by looking in the mirror. In these exemplary environs John Cheever traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and Paul Hammer, a bastard named after a common household tool, who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with one objectiveâ€”to murder Nailles''s son. Here is the lyrical and mordantly funny hymn to the American suburbâ€”and to all the dubious normalcy it representsâ€”delivered with unparalleled artistry and assurance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8083'),
(11460, 'Bulletproof Bride', 'Diana Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6039'),
(11461, 'Bulletproof Bride', 'Diana Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10886'),
(11462, 'Bulletproof Bride', 'Diana Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27475'),
(11463, 'The Bullies: Understanding Bullies and Bullying', 'Dennis Lines', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Is there a particular type of person who becomes a bully? Why do bullies behave like they do? How can we interpret and understand bullying within relationships?\n <br />\n The Bullies attempts to get inside the minds of the bully and the victim - the child, the adolescent and the adult - across a wide range of ''closed'' situations including the home, school, workplace, prisons and the armed services. By listening to the voices of bullies and victims from all kinds of backgrounds without making judgments, counselor Dennis Lines provides unique insights into bullying and what makes such domineering and aggressive behavior so complex. He discusses controversial issues such as genetic predisposition towards abusive behavior and draws on his counseling knowledge to provide insights on how to understand and treat bullies to change their behavior.\n <br />\n The Bullies offers a unique and illustrated perspective on a widespread phenomenon, and will be essential reading for psychologists, sociologists, counselors, teachers, social workers, probation officers, students and researchers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dennis Lines holds a BPhil Ed (Counseling) and is MBACP affiliated. He has been a youth leader for 12 years, an RE teacher in secondary school for 11 years and has for the past 22 years worked as a School Counselor in a large secondary school in Birmingham. He has published widely and given lectures and conducted workshops on adolescent development and related topics nationally.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17242'),
(11464, 'Bump in the Night', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Enter a world where no boundaries exist - and where every seduction is supernatural...*    Follow four of today''s most provocative authors to a place where love can transform reality-and anything can happen. Here they present stories of ethereal circumstances, magical romance, and otherworldy suspense. Beginning with an all-new tale from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb-and featuring lieutenant-of-the-future Eve Dallas-this collection will take you on a breathtaking journey through the passion of the heart and its power to transcend the everyday...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2552'),
(11465, 'Bump in the Night', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Enter a world where no boundaries exist - and where every seduction is supernatural...* Follow four of today''s most provocative authors to a place where love can transform reality-and anything can happen. Here they present stories of ethereal circumstances, magical romance, and otherworldy suspense. Beginning with an all-new tale from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb-and featuring lieutenant-of-the-future Eve Dallas-this collection will take you on a breathtaking journey through the passion of the heart and its power to transcend the everyday...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22323');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11466, 'Bundle of Trouble', 'Diana Orgain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **"Cigars all around"( LOUISE URE, SHAMUS AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR) for the new Maternal Instincts mystery series.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n First-time mom Kate Connelly is bringing up baby- and bringing down a killer.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Kate Connelly may have found the perfect work-from-home Mommy job: private investigator. After all, the hours are flexible, she can bring the baby along on stake-outs, and if you''re going to be up all night anyway, you might as well solve some crimes. But when a body is pulled from San Francisco Bay that may be her brother-in-law, Kate must crack the case faster than you can say "diaper rash" in order to keep her family together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6049'),
(11467, 'Bundle of Trouble', 'Diana Orgain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **"Cigars all around"( LOUISE URE, SHAMUS AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR) for the new Maternal Instincts mystery series.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n First-time mom Kate Connelly is bringing up baby- and bringing down a killer.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Kate Connelly may have found the perfect work-from-home Mommy job: private investigator. After all, the hours are flexible, she can bring the baby along on stake-outs, and if you''re going to be up all night anyway, you might as well solve some crimes. But when a body is pulled from San Francisco Bay that may be her brother-in-law, Kate must crack the case faster than you can say "diaper rash" in order to keep her family together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11829'),
(11468, 'Bundle of Trouble', 'Diana Orgain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **"Cigars all around"( LOUISE URE, SHAMUS AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR) for the new Maternal Instincts mystery series. First-time mom Kate Connelly is bringing up baby- and bringing down a killer.** Kate Connelly may have found the perfect work-from-home Mommy job: private investigator. After all, the hours are flexible, she can bring the baby along on stake-outs, and if you''re going to be up all night anyway, you might as well solve some crimes. But when a body is pulled from San Francisco Bay that may be her brother-in-law, Kate must crack the case faster than you can say "diaper rash" in order to keep her family together.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27463'),
(11469, 'Bundori', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is early spring, 1679, and the feudal Japanese capital, Edo, is beginning to blossom. But along its peaceful, misty streets evil lurks. With one stroke, the favored vassal of the ruling family is decapitated, his head taken for a bundori -- a war trophy. Sano Ichiro, the shogun''s Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, is called to find the culprit. In a city where danger and deceit lie just below the lush surface, Sano must rely on his mind, his instincts, and his noble training in Bushido -- the Way of the Warrior -- to solve this case that could bring him glory...or everlasting shame. Set against a backdrop of sumptuous castles, tawdry pleasure districts, and serene temples, and filled with unforgettable, rich characters, Bundori is breathtaking entertainment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3617'),
(11470, 'Bundori', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is early spring, 1679, and the feudal Japanese capital, Edo, is beginning to blossom. But along its peaceful, misty streets evil lurks. With one stroke, the favored vassal of the ruling family is decapitated, his head taken for a bundori -- a war trophy. Sano Ichiro, the shogun''s Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, is called to find the culprit. In a city where danger and deceit lie just below the lush surface, Sano must rely on his mind, his instincts, and his noble training in Bushido -- the Way of the Warrior -- to solve this case that could bring him glory...or everlasting shame. Set against a backdrop of sumptuous castles, tawdry pleasure districts, and serene temples, and filled with unforgettable, rich characters, Bundori is breathtaking entertainment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20962'),
(11471, 'Bungalow 2', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Steel''s latest, 42-year-old Tanya Harris loves her life as a mother of three, wife of a dashing San Francisco lawyer and moderately successful writer of short stories and soap opera scripts. She has long given up on her dream of writing a screenplay, but then her agent calls with a dream offer: a major director wants her and her alone to write the script for a new high-profile film. Tanya''s first reaction is distress (her twin daughters are about to start their senior year, and her son is making the transition to his freshman year at UC Santa Barbara; how can she leave them?), but her detailed deliberations are cut short by her husband, who convinces her that this is her big opportunity. In Hollywood, Tanya''s cosseted in every possible way, and she takes to the work immediately. But the weekend flights home aren''t enough, and her worst fear is realized when her husband strays. Steel follows Tanya as she copes with domestic upheaval, all the time pushing ahead with her blossoming screenwriting career. Steel''s characters spend a lot of time contemplating problems, and Tanya is especially adept at hand-wringing. Steel''s many loyal readers will be entertained by this story of a dedicated mother and wife who embarks on a series of life-altering adventures in Hollywood._ (June)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel''s latest novel follows the travails of a demure Marin County housewife who finds herself caught up in the glamorous world of Hollywood. Tanya Harris is a contented wife and mother (beautiful for her age, of course) whose children will soon be heading off to college. With that hole in her life looming, she accepts an offer from her agent (she is also a free-lance writer) to work on a Hollywood script for a big-time producer and director. For Tanya, returning to the work world full time is a tough choice, but after a lot of hand-wringing and platitudes about leaving her family, she decides to do it. She plans to work in Hollywood during the week (residing at the swanky Beverly Hills Hotel, in Bungalow 2) and return home every weekend. Of course, she finds herself working on weekends, and before long, her husband begins an affair with their next-door neighbor, and Tanya herself has begun to take a romantic interest in the producer she is working for. Not surprisingly, their marriage unravels, and Tanya begins a series of fruitless Hollywood relationships, all while trying to maintain her bond with her children. But this is a Steel novel, after all, and eventually she finds her man, works things out with her kids, and wins an Academy Award, no less.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6532'),
(11472, 'Bungalow 2', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Steel''s latest, 42-year-old Tanya Harris loves her life as a mother of three, wife of a dashing San Francisco lawyer and moderately successful writer of short stories and soap opera scripts. She has long given up on her dream of writing a screenplay, but then her agent calls with a dream offer: a major director wants her and her alone to write the script for a new high-profile film. Tanya''s first reaction is distress (her twin daughters are about to start their senior year, and her son is making the transition to his freshman year at UC Santa Barbara; how can she leave them?), but her detailed deliberations are cut short by her husband, who convinces her that this is her big opportunity. In Hollywood, Tanya''s cosseted in every possible way, and she takes to the work immediately. But the weekend flights home aren''t enough, and her worst fear is realized when her husband strays. Steel follows Tanya as she copes with domestic upheaval, all the time pushing ahead with her blossoming screenwriting career. Steel''s characters spend a lot of time contemplating problems, and Tanya is especially adept at hand-wringing. Steel''s many loyal readers will be entertained by this story of a dedicated mother and wife who embarks on a series of life-altering adventures in Hollywood._ (June)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel''s latest novel follows the travails of a demure Marin County housewife who finds herself caught up in the glamorous world of Hollywood. Tanya Harris is a contented wife and mother (beautiful for her age, of course) whose children will soon be heading off to college. With that hole in her life looming, she accepts an offer from her agent (she is also a free-lance writer) to work on a Hollywood script for a big-time producer and director. For Tanya, returning to the work world full time is a tough choice, but after a lot of hand-wringing and platitudes about leaving her family, she decides to do it. She plans to work in Hollywood during the week (residing at the swanky Beverly Hills Hotel, in Bungalow 2) and return home every weekend. Of course, she finds herself working on weekends, and before long, her husband begins an affair with their next-door neighbor, and Tanya herself has begun to take a romantic interest in the producer she is working for. Not surprisingly, their marriage unravels, and Tanya begins a series of fruitless Hollywood relationships, all while trying to maintain her bond with her children. But this is a Steel novel, after all, and eventually she finds her man, works things out with her kids, and wins an Academy Award, no less.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12859'),
(11473, 'Bungalow 2', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Steel''s latest, 42-year-old Tanya Harris loves her life as a mother of three, wife of a dashing San Francisco lawyer and moderately successful writer of short stories and soap opera scripts. She has long given up on her dream of writing a screenplay, but then her agent calls with a dream offer: a major director wants her and her alone to write the script for a new high-profile film. Tanya''s first reaction is distress (her twin daughters are about to start their senior year, and her son is making the transition to his freshman year at UC Santa Barbara; how can she leave them?), but her detailed deliberations are cut short by her husband, who convinces her that this is her big opportunity. In Hollywood, Tanya''s cosseted in every possible way, and she takes to the work immediately. But the weekend flights home aren''t enough, and her worst fear is realized when her husband strays. Steel follows Tanya as she copes with domestic upheaval, all the time pushing ahead with her blossoming screenwriting career. Steel''s characters spend a lot of time contemplating problems, and Tanya is especially adept at hand-wringing. Steel''s many loyal readers will be entertained by this story of a dedicated mother and wife who embarks on a series of life-altering adventures in Hollywood._ (June)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel''s latest novel follows the travails of a demure Marin County housewife who finds herself caught up in the glamorous world of Hollywood. Tanya Harris is a contented wife and mother (beautiful for her age, of course) whose children will soon be heading off to college. With that hole in her life looming, she accepts an offer from her agent (she is also a free-lance writer) to work on a Hollywood script for a big-time producer and director. For Tanya, returning to the work world full time is a tough choice, but after a lot of hand-wringing and platitudes about leaving her family, she decides to do it. She plans to work in Hollywood during the week (residing at the swanky Beverly Hills Hotel, in Bungalow 2) and return home every weekend. Of course, she finds herself working on weekends, and before long, her husband begins an affair with their next-door neighbor, and Tanya herself has begun to take a romantic interest in the producer she is working for. Not surprisingly, their marriage unravels, and Tanya begins a series of fruitless Hollywood relationships, all while trying to maintain her bond with her children. But this is a Steel novel, after all, and eventually she finds her man, works things out with her kids, and wins an Academy Award, no less.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17605'),
(11474, 'Bunner Sisters', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25870'),
(11475, 'Bunner Sisters (Webster&#39;s French Thesaurus Edition)', 'Icon Group International, Inc. Staff; Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher a wordsmeaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is n\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18307'),
(11476, 'The Burglar in the Closet', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Secrecy and a deft touch are the hallmarks of every successful burglar. Or so thinks Bernie Rhodenbarr before he gets a shocking proposal from his dentist. Sitting back in the chair, vulnerable thanks to a dental instrument in his mouth, he discovers that Dr. Sheldrake needs a burglar. "Like you, Bernie", the good dentist says. So much for leading a secret life of crime. Bernie, smart guy that he is, turns the dentist down flat. So why is Bernie picking the locks on the posh apartment of Crystal Sheldrake, the dentist''s ex-wife? Because he''s a burglar. Plus, Crystal has a cache of jewels worth any burglar''s time. Trouble is, Crystal comes home early - and she''s not alone. Bernie quickly hides in a closet, which Crystal promptly and inconveniently locks. As time goes by, Crystal rids herself of her companion and Bernie manages to pick his way out of the closet -- only to discover Crystal dead on the floor and the jewels gone. Bernie must sleuth his way out of a real mess. The Burglar in the Closet is a terrific read! --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s hard to ignore someone with his hands in your mouth. Bernie Rhodenbarr''s all ears when Dr. Sheldrake, his dentist, starts complaining about his detestable, soon-to-be-ex wife, and happens to mention the valuable diamonds she keeps lying around the apartment. Since Bernie''s been known to supplement his income as a bookstore owner with the not-so-occasional bout of high-rise burglary, a couple of nights later he''s in the Sheldrake apartment with larceny on his mind -- and has to duck into a closet when the lady of the house makes an unexpected entrance. Unfortunately he''s still there when an unseen assailant does Mrs. Sheldrake in . . . and then vanishes with the jewels.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bernie''s got to come out of the closet some time. But when he does, he''ll be facing a rap for a murder he didn''t commit -- and for a burglary he certainly attempted -- unless he can hunt down the killer who left him hanging.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3477'),
(11477, 'The Burglar in the Closet', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Secrecy and a deft touch are the hallmarks of every successful burglar. Or so thinks Bernie Rhodenbarr before he gets a shocking proposal from his dentist. Sitting back in the chair, vulnerable thanks to a dental instrument in his mouth, he discovers that Dr. Sheldrake needs a burglar. "Like you, Bernie", the good dentist says. So much for leading a secret life of crime. Bernie, smart guy that he is, turns the dentist down flat. So why is Bernie picking the locks on the posh apartment of Crystal Sheldrake, the dentist''s ex-wife? Because he''s a burglar. Plus, Crystal has a cache of jewels worth any burglar''s time. Trouble is, Crystal comes home early - and she''s not alone. Bernie quickly hides in a closet, which Crystal promptly and inconveniently locks. As time goes by, Crystal rids herself of her companion and Bernie manages to pick his way out of the closet -- only to discover Crystal dead on the floor and the jewels gone. Bernie must sleuth his way out of a real mess. The Burglar in the Closet is a terrific read! --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s hard to ignore someone with his hands in your mouth. Bernie Rhodenbarr''s all ears when Dr. Sheldrake, his dentist, starts complaining about his detestable, soon-to-be-ex wife, and happens to mention the valuable diamonds she keeps lying around the apartment. Since Bernie''s been known to supplement his income as a bookstore owner with the not-so-occasional bout of high-rise burglary, a couple of nights later he''s in the Sheldrake apartment with larceny on his mind -- and has to duck into a closet when the lady of the house makes an unexpected entrance. Unfortunately he''s still there when an unseen assailant does Mrs. Sheldrake in . . . and then vanishes with the jewels.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bernie''s got to come out of the closet some time. But when he does, he''ll be facing a rap for a murder he didn''t commit -- and for a burglary he certainly attempted -- unless he can hunt down the killer who left him hanging.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8496'),
(11478, 'The Burglar in the Closet', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Secrecy and a deft touch are the hallmarks of every successful burglar. Or so thinks Bernie Rhodenbarr before he gets a shocking proposal from his dentist. Sitting back in the chair, vulnerable thanks to a dental instrument in his mouth, he discovers that Dr. Sheldrake needs a burglar. "Like you, Bernie", the good dentist says. So much for leading a secret life of crime. Bernie, smart guy that he is, turns the dentist down flat. So why is Bernie picking the locks on the posh apartment of Crystal Sheldrake, the dentist''s ex-wife? Because he''s a burglar. Plus, Crystal has a cache of jewels worth any burglar''s time. Trouble is, Crystal comes home early - and she''s not alone. Bernie quickly hides in a closet, which Crystal promptly and inconveniently locks. As time goes by, Crystal rids herself of her companion and Bernie manages to pick his way out of the closet -- only to discover Crystal dead on the floor and the jewels gone. Bernie must sleuth his way out of a real mess. The Burglar in the Closet is a terrific read! --\n <em>\n  Midwest Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s hard to ignore someone with his hands in your mouth. Bernie Rhodenbarr''s all ears when Dr. Sheldrake, his dentist, starts complaining about his detestable, soon-to-be-ex wife, and happens to mention the valuable diamonds she keeps lying around the apartment. Since Bernie''s been known to supplement his income as a bookstore owner with the not-so-occasional bout of high-rise burglary, a couple of nights later he''s in the Sheldrake apartment with larceny on his mind -- and has to duck into a closet when the lady of the house makes an unexpected entrance. Unfortunately he''s still there when an unseen assailant does Mrs. Sheldrake in . . . and then vanishes with the jewels.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bernie''s got to come out of the closet some time. But when he does, he''ll be facing a rap for a murder he didn''t commit -- and for a burglary he certainly attempted -- unless he can hunt down the killer who left him hanging.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21069'),
(11479, 'The Burglar in the Library', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bookseller and New-Yorker-to-the-bone, Bernie Rhodenbarr rarely ventures out of Manhattan, but he''s excited about the romantic getaway he has planned for himself and current lady love Lettice at the Cuttleford House, a remote upstate b&amp;b. Unfortunately, Lettice has a prior engagementâ€”she''s getting married . . . and not to Bernieâ€”so he decides to take best buddy Carolyn instead. A restful respite from the big city''s bustle would be too good to waste. Besides, there''s a very valuable first edition shelved in the Cuttleford''s library that Bernie''s just itching to get his hands on. Did we neglect to mention that Bernie''s a burglar?   But first he''s got to get around a very dead body on the library floor. The plot''s thickened by an isolating snowstorm, downed phone lines, the surprise arrival of Lettice and her reprehensible new hubby, and a steadily increasing corpse count. And it''s Bernie who''ll have to figure out whodunit . . . or die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3478'),
(11480, 'The Burglar in the Library', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bookseller and New-Yorker-to-the-bone, Bernie Rhodenbarr rarely ventures out of Manhattan, but he''s excited about the romantic getaway he has planned for himself and current lady love Lettice at the Cuttleford House, a remote upstate b&amp;b. Unfortunately, Lettice has a prior engagementâ€”she''s getting married . . . and not to Bernieâ€”so he decides to take best buddy Carolyn instead. A restful respite from the big city''s bustle would be too good to waste. Besides, there''s a very valuable first edition shelved in the Cuttleford''s library that Bernie''s just itching to get his hands on. Did we neglect to mention that Bernie''s a burglar?   But first he''s got to get around a very dead body on the library floor. The plot''s thickened by an isolating snowstorm, downed phone lines, the surprise arrival of Lettice and her reprehensible new hubby, and a steadily increasing corpse count. And it''s Bernie who''ll have to figure out whodunit . . . or die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8494'),
(11481, 'The Burglar in the Library', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bookseller and New-Yorker-to-the-bone, Bernie Rhodenbarr rarely ventures out of Manhattan, but he''s excited about the romantic getaway he has planned for himself and current lady love Lettice at the Cuttleford House, a remote upstate b&amp;b. Unfortunately, Lettice has a prior engagementâ€”she''s getting married . . . and not to Bernieâ€”so he decides to take best buddy Carolyn instead. A restful respite from the big city''s bustle would be too good to waste. Besides, there''s a very valuable first edition shelved in the Cuttleford''s library that Bernie''s just itching to get his hands on. Did we neglect to mention that Bernie''s a burglar? But first he''s got to get around a very dead body on the library floor. The plot''s thickened by an isolating snowstorm, downed phone lines, the surprise arrival of Lettice and her reprehensible new hubby, and a steadily increasing corpse count. And it''s Bernie who''ll have to figure out whodunit . . . or die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21068'),
(11482, 'The Burglar in the Rye', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lawrence Block is such a gifted writer that even a native New Yorker will be fooled into thinking that the Paddington Hotel, described in the opening pages of\n <em>\n  Burglar in the Rye\n </em>\n , is a real institution. Block''s descriptions of this enclave of artists, writers, and rock musicians is thoroughly convincing--although in actuality, the Paddington is a combination of the real-life Chelsea Hotel and Block''s outrageous imagination.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is Bernie Rhodenbarr''s ninth heist. Bernie is a gentleman burglar who runs a used bookstore in between criminal acts, steals mostly from the rich, and only hurts people when it becomes\n <em>\n  absolutely\n </em>\n necessary.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Paddington is where Bernie goes to liberate the letters of a reclusive writer named Gulliver Fairborn from a literary agent. Fairborn''s resemblance to J.D. Salinger and, of course, the fact that the woman who hired Bernie to steal the letters had an affair with Fairborn when she was a teenager, no doubt lend the book its title. But by the time Bernie gets to the Paddington, the agent has been shot, the letters already liberated--and a cop in the lobby recognizes our favorite burglar from a previous encounter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now all Bernie has to do is find out who else wanted those letters badly enough to kill for them. In typical Rhodenbarr tradition, the plot is less interesting than the trappings: the books Bernie reads, the fascinating objects he picks up along the way. The reader also learns about some mind-expanding facts, such as the existence of a tiny South American fish that swims up a man''s urine stream and lodges in his private parts! Or did Block make that up, too?\n</p>\n<p>\n Other Bernie picks include:\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Block''s addictive series about bookseller/burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr (The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian, etc.) continues as our hero invades the hotel suite of an aged literary agent in search of a cache of letters, by a respected and reclusive writer, that are wanted by people both legitimate and not. As he usually does, Bernie finds a corpse on the other side of the locked door he so neatly opens, and he is immediately suspected of murder by his nemesis, sticky-fingered Ray Kirschmann of the NYPD. More murder ensues before Bernie, with the help of his lesbian buddy Carolyn, can get a handle on the proceedings. But when he does, and has gathered all the principals into a room for the inevitable explanatory/accusatory windup ("I suppose you''re wondering why I summoned you all here," he gets to say, to his and the reader''s delight, time and again), he hits on a solution that fingers a most unlikely suspect, satisfies all the claimants to the letters and leaves him (and Ray) richer. Block''s effortless mastery of his material, his relaxed ease, are as pleasurable as always, and he has some splendid fun with an author not unlike J.D. Salinger. This is the prolific Block''s only new novel of the year, and it''s a steal at any price. (July)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3480'),
(11483, 'The Burglar in the Rye', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lawrence Block is such a gifted writer that even a native New Yorker will be fooled into thinking that the Paddington Hotel, described in the opening pages of\n <em>\n  Burglar in the Rye\n </em>\n , is a real institution. Block''s descriptions of this enclave of artists, writers, and rock musicians is thoroughly convincing--although in actuality, the Paddington is a combination of the real-life Chelsea Hotel and Block''s outrageous imagination.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is Bernie Rhodenbarr''s ninth heist. Bernie is a gentleman burglar who runs a used bookstore in between criminal acts, steals mostly from the rich, and only hurts people when it becomes\n <em>\n  absolutely\n </em>\n necessary.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Paddington is where Bernie goes to liberate the letters of a reclusive writer named Gulliver Fairborn from a literary agent. Fairborn''s resemblance to J.D. Salinger and, of course, the fact that the woman who hired Bernie to steal the letters had an affair with Fairborn when she was a teenager, no doubt lend the book its title. But by the time Bernie gets to the Paddington, the agent has been shot, the letters already liberated--and a cop in the lobby recognizes our favorite burglar from a previous encounter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now all Bernie has to do is find out who else wanted those letters badly enough to kill for them. In typical Rhodenbarr tradition, the plot is less interesting than the trappings: the books Bernie reads, the fascinating objects he picks up along the way. The reader also learns about some mind-expanding facts, such as the existence of a tiny South American fish that swims up a man''s urine stream and lodges in his private parts! Or did Block make that up, too?\n</p>\n<p>\n Other Bernie picks include:\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Block''s addictive series about bookseller/burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr (The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian, etc.) continues as our hero invades the hotel suite of an aged literary agent in search of a cache of letters, by a respected and reclusive writer, that are wanted by people both legitimate and not. As he usually does, Bernie finds a corpse on the other side of the locked door he so neatly opens, and he is immediately suspected of murder by his nemesis, sticky-fingered Ray Kirschmann of the NYPD. More murder ensues before Bernie, with the help of his lesbian buddy Carolyn, can get a handle on the proceedings. But when he does, and has gathered all the principals into a room for the inevitable explanatory/accusatory windup ("I suppose you''re wondering why I summoned you all here," he gets to say, to his and the reader''s delight, time and again), he hits on a solution that fingers a most unlikely suspect, satisfies all the claimants to the letters and leaves him (and Ray) richer. Block''s effortless mastery of his material, his relaxed ease, are as pleasurable as always, and he has some splendid fun with an author not unlike J.D. Salinger. This is the prolific Block''s only new novel of the year, and it''s a steal at any price. (July)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8507'),
(11484, 'The Burglar in the Rye', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lawrence Block is such a gifted writer that even a native New Yorker will be fooled into thinking that the Paddington Hotel, described in the opening pages of\n <em>\n  Burglar in the Rye\n </em>\n , is a real institution. Block''s descriptions of this enclave of artists, writers, and rock musicians is thoroughly convincing--although in actuality, the Paddington is a combination of the real-life Chelsea Hotel and Block''s outrageous imagination.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is Bernie Rhodenbarr''s ninth heist. Bernie is a gentleman burglar who runs a used bookstore in between criminal acts, steals mostly from the rich, and only hurts people when it becomes\n <em>\n  absolutely\n </em>\n necessary.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Paddington is where Bernie goes to liberate the letters of a reclusive writer named Gulliver Fairborn from a literary agent. Fairborn''s resemblance to J.D. Salinger and, of course, the fact that the woman who hired Bernie to steal the letters had an affair with Fairborn when she was a teenager, no doubt lend the book its title. But by the time Bernie gets to the Paddington, the agent has been shot, the letters already liberated--and a cop in the lobby recognizes our favorite burglar from a previous encounter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now all Bernie has to do is find out who else wanted those letters badly enough to kill for them. In typical Rhodenbarr tradition, the plot is less interesting than the trappings: the books Bernie reads, the fascinating objects he picks up along the way. The reader also learns about some mind-expanding facts, such as the existence of a tiny South American fish that swims up a man''s urine stream and lodges in his private parts! Or did Block make that up, too?\n</p>\n<p>\n Other Bernie picks include:\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Block''s addictive series about bookseller/burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr (The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian, etc.) continues as our hero invades the hotel suite of an aged literary agent in search of a cache of letters, by a respected and reclusive writer, that are wanted by people both legitimate and not. As he usually does, Bernie finds a corpse on the other side of the locked door he so neatly opens, and he is immediately suspected of murder by his nemesis, sticky-fingered Ray Kirschmann of the NYPD. More murder ensues before Bernie, with the help of his lesbian buddy Carolyn, can get a handle on the proceedings. But when he does, and has gathered all the principals into a room for the inevitable explanatory/accusatory windup ("I suppose you''re wondering why I summoned you all here," he gets to say, to his and the reader''s delight, time and again), he hits on a solution that fingers a most unlikely suspect, satisfies all the claimants to the letters and leaves him (and Ray) richer. Block''s effortless mastery of his material, his relaxed ease, are as pleasurable as always, and he has some splendid fun with an author not unlike J.D. Salinger. This is the prolific Block''s only new novel of the year, and it''s a steal at any price. (July)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21067'),
(11485, 'The Burglar on the Prowl', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bernie Rhodenbarr, burglar with a heart of gold, returns for this 10th installment in a reliable\n <em>\n  Burglar on the Prowl\n </em>\n , Bernie is recruited by an old friend to burgle the home of a crooked plastic surgeon, removing some off-the-books cash from a wall safe. A simple enough job, but Bernie complicates matters by going "on the prowl" one restless eveningâ€•-randomly cruising for an easy job. While he''s pawing through a woman''s empty apartment, she returns home; Bernie hides hastily, only to overhear an act of violence that draws him into a hunt for the perpetrator and a deepening role in the victim''s life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lawrence Block''s prose is merely serviceable, but his plotting and storytelling are first-rate. He constructs a complex puzzle, yet weaves in each new development so seamlessly that you almost don''t see it happen. Like its Bernie predecessors,\n <em>\n  The Burglar on the Prowl\n </em>\n is droll and charming, and at times you can feel Block trying a bit too hard with the charm. However, a few truly horrific bad guys and some ugly violence keep the sweetness from cloying. And it''s impossible not to like Bernie, a gentleman criminal with few peers in contemporary fiction.\n <em>\n  --Nicholas H. Allison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n You''d think that Block, with more than 50 books to his credit, would run out of ideas, but as this 10th in his Burglar series shows (after 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Burglar in the Rye\n </em>\n ), he''s as fresh, witty and inventive as ever. The author builds his plot on stupefying coincidences, but not to worryâ€”everything eventually meshes. A friend asks Bernie Rhodenbarr, confirmed New Yorker, used-book dealer and gentleman burglar, to rob a mob-connected plastic surgeon who stole the friend''s mistress. He agrees, and cases the doctor''s house in Riverdale, the Bronx. But Bernie is restive and, uncharacteristically (because he plans carefully), he breaks into a Manhattan apartment on a whim and almost gets caught, hiding under the bed while a woman is date-raped. Next day a customer is shot near his bookstore, a mysterious Ã©migrÃ© couple is murdered, a former Latvian war criminal is reported in New York and Bernie''s apartment is ransacked. These crimes seem unrelated in such a large city, but Bernie finds a common thread. In the end, Bernie assembles 22 people (including lawmen) in the surgeon''s living room and, Charlie Chan style, explains each participant''s role and, where appropriate, crime. Lesser hands would not bring off this breathtaking performance, but in Block''s it''s seamless and hilarious. Quirky characters like Bernie''s pals Carolyn Kaiser, the dog groomer, and cop Ray Kirschmann; an insider''s love of New York; and a slew of wonderful puns add to the fun.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3482'),
(11486, 'The Burglar on the Prowl', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bernie Rhodenbarr, burglar with a heart of gold, returns for this 10th installment in a reliable\n <em>\n  Burglar on the Prowl\n </em>\n , Bernie is recruited by an old friend to burgle the home of a crooked plastic surgeon, removing some off-the-books cash from a wall safe. A simple enough job, but Bernie complicates matters by going "on the prowl" one restless eveningâ€•-randomly cruising for an easy job. While he''s pawing through a woman''s empty apartment, she returns home; Bernie hides hastily, only to overhear an act of violence that draws him into a hunt for the perpetrator and a deepening role in the victim''s life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lawrence Block''s prose is merely serviceable, but his plotting and storytelling are first-rate. He constructs a complex puzzle, yet weaves in each new development so seamlessly that you almost don''t see it happen. Like its Bernie predecessors,\n <em>\n  The Burglar on the Prowl\n </em>\n is droll and charming, and at times you can feel Block trying a bit too hard with the charm. However, a few truly horrific bad guys and some ugly violence keep the sweetness from cloying. And it''s impossible not to like Bernie, a gentleman criminal with few peers in contemporary fiction.\n <em>\n  --Nicholas H. Allison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n You''d think that Block, with more than 50 books to his credit, would run out of ideas, but as this 10th in his Burglar series shows (after 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Burglar in the Rye\n </em>\n ), he''s as fresh, witty and inventive as ever. The author builds his plot on stupefying coincidences, but not to worryâ€”everything eventually meshes. A friend asks Bernie Rhodenbarr, confirmed New Yorker, used-book dealer and gentleman burglar, to rob a mob-connected plastic surgeon who stole the friend''s mistress. He agrees, and cases the doctor''s house in Riverdale, the Bronx. But Bernie is restive and, uncharacteristically (because he plans carefully), he breaks into a Manhattan apartment on a whim and almost gets caught, hiding under the bed while a woman is date-raped. Next day a customer is shot near his bookstore, a mysterious Ã©migrÃ© couple is murdered, a former Latvian war criminal is reported in New York and Bernie''s apartment is ransacked. These crimes seem unrelated in such a large city, but Bernie finds a common thread. In the end, Bernie assembles 22 people (including lawmen) in the surgeon''s living room and, Charlie Chan style, explains each participant''s role and, where appropriate, crime. Lesser hands would not bring off this breathtaking performance, but in Block''s it''s seamless and hilarious. Quirky characters like Bernie''s pals Carolyn Kaiser, the dog groomer, and cop Ray Kirschmann; an insider''s love of New York; and a slew of wonderful puns add to the fun.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8504'),
(11487, 'The Burglar on the Prowl', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bernie Rhodenbarr, burglar with a heart of gold, returns for this 10th installment in a reliable\n <em>\n  Burglar on the Prowl\n </em>\n , Bernie is recruited by an old friend to burgle the home of a crooked plastic surgeon, removing some off-the-books cash from a wall safe. A simple enough job, but Bernie complicates matters by going "on the prowl" one restless eveningâ€•-randomly cruising for an easy job. While he''s pawing through a woman''s empty apartment, she returns home; Bernie hides hastily, only to overhear an act of violence that draws him into a hunt for the perpetrator and a deepening role in the victim''s life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lawrence Block''s prose is merely serviceable, but his plotting and storytelling are first-rate. He constructs a complex puzzle, yet weaves in each new development so seamlessly that you almost don''t see it happen. Like its Bernie predecessors,\n <em>\n  The Burglar on the Prowl\n </em>\n is droll and charming, and at times you can feel Block trying a bit too hard with the charm. However, a few truly horrific bad guys and some ugly violence keep the sweetness from cloying. And it''s impossible not to like Bernie, a gentleman criminal with few peers in contemporary fiction.\n <em>\n  --Nicholas H. Allison\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n You''d think that Block, with more than 50 books to his credit, would run out of ideas, but as this 10th in his Burglar series shows (after 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Burglar in the Rye\n </em>\n ), he''s as fresh, witty and inventive as ever. The author builds his plot on stupefying coincidences, but not to worryâ€”everything eventually meshes. A friend asks Bernie Rhodenbarr, confirmed New Yorker, used-book dealer and gentleman burglar, to rob a mob-connected plastic surgeon who stole the friend''s mistress. He agrees, and cases the doctor''s house in Riverdale, the Bronx. But Bernie is restive and, uncharacteristically (because he plans carefully), he breaks into a Manhattan apartment on a whim and almost gets caught, hiding under the bed while a woman is date-raped. Next day a customer is shot near his bookstore, a mysterious Ã©migrÃ© couple is murdered, a former Latvian war criminal is reported in New York and Bernie''s apartment is ransacked. These crimes seem unrelated in such a large city, but Bernie finds a common thread. In the end, Bernie assembles 22 people (including lawmen) in the surgeon''s living room and, Charlie Chan style, explains each participant''s role and, where appropriate, crime. Lesser hands would not bring off this breathtaking performance, but in Block''s it''s seamless and hilarious. Quirky characters like Bernie''s pals Carolyn Kaiser, the dog groomer, and cop Ray Kirschmann; an insider''s love of New York; and a slew of wonderful puns add to the fun.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21066'),
(11488, 'The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those who long for another new exploit of the immortal Bernie Rhodenbarr, Greenwich Village bookseller by profession and burglar by avocation, should be warned that their wait must be extended. For this is a reissue, after 17 years, of what was originally the third in the series. It''s therefore likely to be a new pleasure to Rhodenbarr fans won over by his recent rebirth (The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart) and to fans of Block''s Matt Scudder novels. In it, Bernie has just opened Barnegat Books, has just got to know his deeply endearing friend, the lesbian dog groomer Carolyn, and is pressed into service to steal a rare book, allegedly a lost anti-Semitic work of Rudyard Kipling. As usual, he finds himself saddled with a dead body and a maze of twisted motives. And also as usual, Block''s stylish narrative flow, humor and pitch-perfect feeling for New York life make getting to the end much more fun than the ultimate solution of the mystery. Until then, it''s unalloyed pleasure?and, yes, we''re ready for another new one.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Block seems to relish the chance to write about the other side of the law when he''s not detailing the straight-and-narrow exploits of investigator Matthew Scudder (e.g., A Long Line of Dead Men, Morrow, 1994). Here, the literature-loving burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr (e.g., The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart, Dutton, 1995) is framed for murder after pilfering a Kipling manuscript.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3483'),
(11489, 'The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those who long for another new exploit of the immortal Bernie Rhodenbarr, Greenwich Village bookseller by profession and burglar by avocation, should be warned that their wait must be extended. For this is a reissue, after 17 years, of what was originally the third in the series. It''s therefore likely to be a new pleasure to Rhodenbarr fans won over by his recent rebirth (The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart) and to fans of Block''s Matt Scudder novels. In it, Bernie has just opened Barnegat Books, has just got to know his deeply endearing friend, the lesbian dog groomer Carolyn, and is pressed into service to steal a rare book, allegedly a lost anti-Semitic work of Rudyard Kipling. As usual, he finds himself saddled with a dead body and a maze of twisted motives. And also as usual, Block''s stylish narrative flow, humor and pitch-perfect feeling for New York life make getting to the end much more fun than the ultimate solution of the mystery. Until then, it''s unalloyed pleasure?and, yes, we''re ready for another new one.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Block seems to relish the chance to write about the other side of the law when he''s not detailing the straight-and-narrow exploits of investigator Matthew Scudder (e.g., A Long Line of Dead Men, Morrow, 1994). Here, the literature-loving burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr (e.g., The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart, Dutton, 1995) is framed for murder after pilfering a Kipling manuscript.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8498');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11490, 'The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those who long for another new exploit of the immortal Bernie Rhodenbarr, Greenwich Village bookseller by profession and burglar by avocation, should be warned that their wait must be extended. For this is a reissue, after 17 years, of what was originally the third in the series. It''s therefore likely to be a new pleasure to Rhodenbarr fans won over by his recent rebirth (The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart) and to fans of Block''s Matt Scudder novels. In it, Bernie has just opened Barnegat Books, has just got to know his deeply endearing friend, the lesbian dog groomer Carolyn, and is pressed into service to steal a rare book, allegedly a lost anti-Semitic work of Rudyard Kipling. As usual, he finds himself saddled with a dead body and a maze of twisted motives. And also as usual, Block''s stylish narrative flow, humor and pitch-perfect feeling for New York life make getting to the end much more fun than the ultimate solution of the mystery. Until then, it''s unalloyed pleasure?and, yes, we''re ready for another new one.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Block seems to relish the chance to write about the other side of the law when he''s not detailing the straight-and-narrow exploits of investigator Matthew Scudder (e.g., A Long Line of Dead Men, Morrow, 1994). Here, the literature-loving burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr (e.g., The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart, Dutton, 1995) is framed for murder after pilfering a Kipling manuscript.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21065'),
(11491, 'The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If the only side of Lawrence Block you know is the dark and gloomy Matt Scudder books, such as the\n <em>\n  noir\n </em>\n classic __, then you might be surprised to hear that he''s also one of the most delightfully droll writers in the mystery business.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hurried uptown and changed into chinos and a short-sleeved shirt that would have been an Alligator except that the embroidered device on the breast was not that reptile but a bird in flight. I guess it was supposed to be a swallow, either winging its way back to Capistrano or not quite making a summer, because the brand name was Swallowtail. It had never quite caught on and I can understand why." That''s Bernie Rhodenbarr, used book dealer and gentleman burglar, making a literary fashion statement in this latest return to print of one of Block''s best books about him.\n</p>\n<p>\n As with the other entries in this admirable series--__,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n --Block manages to be very amusing, moderately suspenseful, and impressively erudite all at the same time. The plot is a complicated tangle of double-cross and deceit surrounding the theft of a valuable painting and two murders. Mondrian isn''t the only artist being framed here: Bernie has to use all of his skills--as burglar, lover, and art expert--to prove his (relative) innocence.\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s not that used bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr believes the less legal of his two professions is particularly ethical. (It is, however, a rush, and he is very good at it.) He just thinks it''s unfair to face a prison term for his legitimate activities. After appraising the worth of a rich man''s library -- conveniently leaving his fingerprints everywhere in the process -- Bernie finds he''s the cops'' prime suspect when his client is murdered.\n</p>\n<p>\n Someone has framed Bernie Rhodenbarr better than they do it at the Whitney. And if he wants to get out of this corner he''s been masterfully painted into, he''ll have to get to the bottom of a rather artful -- if multiply murderous -- scam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3486'),
(11492, 'The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If the only side of Lawrence Block you know is the dark and gloomy Matt Scudder books, such as the\n <em>\n  noir\n </em>\n classic __, then you might be surprised to hear that he''s also one of the most delightfully droll writers in the mystery business.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hurried uptown and changed into chinos and a short-sleeved shirt that would have been an Alligator except that the embroidered device on the breast was not that reptile but a bird in flight. I guess it was supposed to be a swallow, either winging its way back to Capistrano or not quite making a summer, because the brand name was Swallowtail. It had never quite caught on and I can understand why." That''s Bernie Rhodenbarr, used book dealer and gentleman burglar, making a literary fashion statement in this latest return to print of one of Block''s best books about him.\n</p>\n<p>\n As with the other entries in this admirable series--__,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n --Block manages to be very amusing, moderately suspenseful, and impressively erudite all at the same time. The plot is a complicated tangle of double-cross and deceit surrounding the theft of a valuable painting and two murders. Mondrian isn''t the only artist being framed here: Bernie has to use all of his skills--as burglar, lover, and art expert--to prove his (relative) innocence.\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s not that used bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr believes the less legal of his two professions is particularly ethical. (It is, however, a rush, and he is very good at it.) He just thinks it''s unfair to face a prison term for his legitimate activities. After appraising the worth of a rich man''s library -- conveniently leaving his fingerprints everywhere in the process -- Bernie finds he''s the cops'' prime suspect when his client is murdered.\n</p>\n<p>\n Someone has framed Bernie Rhodenbarr better than they do it at the Whitney. And if he wants to get out of this corner he''s been masterfully painted into, he''ll have to get to the bottom of a rather artful -- if multiply murderous -- scam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8500'),
(11493, 'The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If the only side of Lawrence Block you know is the dark and gloomy Matt Scudder books, such as the\n <em>\n  noir\n </em>\n classic __, then you might be surprised to hear that he''s also one of the most delightfully droll writers in the mystery business.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I hurried uptown and changed into chinos and a short-sleeved shirt that would have been an Alligator except that the embroidered device on the breast was not that reptile but a bird in flight. I guess it was supposed to be a swallow, either winging its way back to Capistrano or not quite making a summer, because the brand name was Swallowtail. It had never quite caught on and I can understand why." That''s Bernie Rhodenbarr, used book dealer and gentleman burglar, making a literary fashion statement in this latest return to print of one of Block''s best books about him.\n</p>\n<p>\n As with the other entries in this admirable series--__,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n --Block manages to be very amusing, moderately suspenseful, and impressively erudite all at the same time. The plot is a complicated tangle of double-cross and deceit surrounding the theft of a valuable painting and two murders. Mondrian isn''t the only artist being framed here: Bernie has to use all of his skills--as burglar, lover, and art expert--to prove his (relative) innocence.\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s not that used bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr believes the less legal of his two professions is particularly ethical. (It is, however, a rush, and he is very good at it.) He just thinks it''s unfair to face a prison term for his legitimate activities. After appraising the worth of a rich man''s library -- conveniently leaving his fingerprints everywhere in the process -- Bernie finds he''s the cops'' prime suspect when his client is murdered.\n</p>\n<p>\n Someone has framed Bernie Rhodenbarr better than they do it at the Whitney. And if he wants to get out of this corner he''s been masterfully painted into, he''ll have to get to the bottom of a rather artful -- if multiply murderous -- scam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21064'),
(11494, 'The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this classic Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery, long out of print, sneaky thief Bernie turns up a 1913 V-nickel that gets his Spinoza-reading fence, Abel, murdered.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn''t generally get philosophical about his criminal career. He''s good at it, it''s addictively excitingâ€”and it pays a whole lot better than pushing old tomes. He steals therefore he is, period.\n</p>\n<p>\n He might well ponder, however, the deeper meaning of events at the luxurious Chelsea brownstone of Herb and Wanda Colcannon, which is apparently burgled\n <em>\n  three times\n </em>\n on the night Bernie breaks in: once before his visit and once after. Fortunately he still manages to lift some fair jewelry and an extremely valuable coin. Unfortunately burglar or burglars number three leave Herb unconscious and Wanda dead . . . and the cops think Rhodenbarr dunnit.\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s no time to get all existential about itâ€”especially after the coin vanishes and the fence fencing it meets with a most severe end. But Bernie\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n going to have to do some deep thinking to find a way out of this homicidal conundrum.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3487'),
(11495, 'The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this classic Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery, long out of print, sneaky thief Bernie turns up a 1913 V-nickel that gets his Spinoza-reading fence, Abel, murdered.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn''t generally get philosophical about his criminal career. He''s good at it, it''s addictively excitingâ€”and it pays a whole lot better than pushing old tomes. He steals therefore he is, period.\n</p>\n<p>\n He might well ponder, however, the deeper meaning of events at the luxurious Chelsea brownstone of Herb and Wanda Colcannon, which is apparently burgled\n <em>\n  three times\n </em>\n on the night Bernie breaks in: once before his visit and once after. Fortunately he still manages to lift some fair jewelry and an extremely valuable coin. Unfortunately burglar or burglars number three leave Herb unconscious and Wanda dead . . . and the cops think Rhodenbarr dunnit.\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s no time to get all existential about itâ€”especially after the coin vanishes and the fence fencing it meets with a most severe end. But Bernie\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n going to have to do some deep thinking to find a way out of this homicidal conundrum.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8501'),
(11496, 'The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this classic Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery, long out of print, sneaky thief Bernie turns up a 1913 V-nickel that gets his Spinoza-reading fence, Abel, murdered.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn''t generally get philosophical about his criminal career. He''s good at it, it''s addictively excitingâ€”and it pays a whole lot better than pushing old tomes. He steals therefore he is, period.\n</p>\n<p>\n He might well ponder, however, the deeper meaning of events at the luxurious Chelsea brownstone of Herb and Wanda Colcannon, which is apparently burgled\n <em>\n  three times\n </em>\n on the night Bernie breaks in: once before his visit and once after. Fortunately he still manages to lift some fair jewelry and an extremely valuable coin. Unfortunately burglar or burglars number three leave Herb unconscious and Wanda dead . . . and the cops think Rhodenbarr dunnit.\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s no time to get all existential about itâ€”especially after the coin vanishes and the fence fencing it meets with a most severe end. But Bernie\n <em>\n  is\n </em>\n going to have to do some deep thinking to find a way out of this homicidal conundrum.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21063'),
(11497, 'The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr''s in loveâ€”with an exotic Eastern European beauty who shares his obsession with Humphrey Bogart movies. He''s in heaven, munching popcorn with his new amour every night at a Bogart Film Festivalâ€”until their Casablanca-esque idyll is cut short by his other secret passion: burglary.   When he''s hired to pilfer a portfolio of valuable documents from a Park Avenue apartment, Bernie can hardly refuse. But the occupant''s early return forces Bernie to flee empty-handedâ€”and he soon finds himself implicated in a murder. Before you can say "who stole the strawberries?" he''s hunting for a killer, up to his neck in the outrageous intrigues of a tiny Balkan nation . . . and menaced by more sinister fat men and unsavory toadies than the great Bogie himself butted heads with in pursuit of that darn bird!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3490'),
(11498, 'The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr''s in loveâ€”with an exotic Eastern European beauty who shares his obsession with Humphrey Bogart movies. He''s in heaven, munching popcorn with his new amour every night at a Bogart Film Festivalâ€”until their Casablanca-esque idyll is cut short by his other secret passion: burglary.   When he''s hired to pilfer a portfolio of valuable documents from a Park Avenue apartment, Bernie can hardly refuse. But the occupant''s early return forces Bernie to flee empty-handedâ€”and he soon finds himself implicated in a murder. Before you can say "who stole the strawberries?" he''s hunting for a killer, up to his neck in the outrageous intrigues of a tiny Balkan nation . . . and menaced by more sinister fat men and unsavory toadies than the great Bogie himself butted heads with in pursuit of that darn bird!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8495'),
(11499, 'The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr''s in loveâ€”with an exotic Eastern European beauty who shares his obsession with Humphrey Bogart movies. He''s in heaven, munching popcorn with his new amour every night at a Bogart Film Festivalâ€”until their Casablanca-esque idyll is cut short by his other secret passion: burglary. When he''s hired to pilfer a portfolio of valuable documents from a Park Avenue apartment, Bernie can hardly refuse. But the occupant''s early return forces Bernie to flee empty-handedâ€”and he soon finds himself implicated in a murder. Before you can say "who stole the strawberries?" he''s hunting for a killer, up to his neck in the outrageous intrigues of a tiny Balkan nation . . . and menaced by more sinister fat men and unsavory toadies than the great Bogie himself butted heads with in pursuit of that darn bird!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21062'),
(11500, 'The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It''s been an entire year since he''s entered anyone''s abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord''s threat to increase Bernie''s rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back to a life of crime -- though, in all fairness, it''s a very short trip. And when the cops wrongly accuse him of stealing a priceless collection of baseball cards, Bernie''s stuck with a worthless alibi since he was busy burgling a different apartment at the time . . . one that happened to contain a dead body locked inside a bathroom.   So Bernie has a dilemma. He can trade a burglary charge for a murder rap. Or he can shuffle all the cards himself and try to find the joker in the deck -- someone, perhaps, who believes that homicide is the real Great American Pastime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3492'),
(11501, 'The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It''s been an entire year since he''s entered anyone''s abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord''s threat to increase Bernie''s rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back to a life of crime -- though, in all fairness, it''s a very short trip. And when the cops wrongly accuse him of stealing a priceless collection of baseball cards, Bernie''s stuck with a worthless alibi since he was busy burgling a different apartment at the time . . . one that happened to contain a dead body locked inside a bathroom.   So Bernie has a dilemma. He can trade a burglary charge for a murder rap. Or he can shuffle all the cards himself and try to find the joker in the deck -- someone, perhaps, who believes that homicide is the real Great American Pastime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8505'),
(11502, 'The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It''s been an entire year since he''s entered anyone''s abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord''s threat to increase Bernie''s rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back to a life of crime -- though, in all fairness, it''s a very short trip. And when the cops wrongly accuse him of stealing a priceless collection of baseball cards, Bernie''s stuck with a worthless alibi since he was busy burgling a different apartment at the time . . . one that happened to contain a dead body locked inside a bathroom. So Bernie has a dilemma. He can trade a burglary charge for a murder rap. Or he can shuffle all the cards himself and try to find the joker in the deck -- someone, perhaps, who believes that homicide is the real Great American Pastime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21061'),
(11503, 'Burglars Can&#39;t Be Choosers', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin Hood. (The poor, as Bernie would be the first to tell you, alas, have nothing worth stealing.) He''s not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes. Like accepting a paid assignment from a total stranger to retrieve a particular item from a rich man''s apartment. Like still being there when the cops arrive. Like having a freshly slain corpse lying in the next room, and no proof that Bernie isn''t the killer. Now he''s really got his hands full, having to locate the true perpetrator while somehow eluding the police -- a dirty job indeed, but if Bernie doesn''t do it, who will?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3471'),
(11504, 'Burglars Can&#39;t Be Choosers', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin Hood. (The poor, as Bernie would be the first to tell you, alas, have nothing worth stealing.) He''s not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes. Like accepting a paid assignment from a total stranger to retrieve a particular item from a rich man''s apartment. Like still being there when the cops arrive. Like having a freshly slain corpse lying in the next room, and no proof that Bernie isn''t the killer. Now he''s really got his hands full, having to locate the true perpetrator while somehow eluding the police -- a dirty job indeed, but if Bernie doesn''t do it, who will?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8497'),
(11505, 'Burglars Can&#39;t Be Choosers', 'Lawrence Block', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin Hood. (The poor, as Bernie would be the first to tell you, alas, have nothing worth stealing.) He''s not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes. Like accepting a paid assignment from a total stranger to retrieve a particular item from a rich man''s apartment. Like still being there when the cops arrive. Like having a freshly slain corpse lying in the next room, and no proof that Bernie isn''t the killer. Now he''s really got his hands full, having to locate the true perpetrator while somehow eluding the police -- a dirty job indeed, but if Bernie doesn''t do it, who will?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21073'),
(11506, 'Burial To Follow', 'Scott Nicholson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When Jacob Ridgehorn dies, it''s up to Roby Snow to help Ridgehorn''s soul move on to its eternal rest. Roby can only accomplish this by serving the grieving family a special pie. And if he fails, then his own soul will be roasting... Keep both hands on your pants, because Nicholson is about to scare them off.--JA Konrath, author of Origin Includes bonus excerpts and essay\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23075'),
(11507, 'The Buried Circle', 'Jenni Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A pacy literary thriller, ''The Buried Circle'' is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, peopled with extraordinary characters.The village of Avebury is one of the most mysterious places in the English countryside. Surrounded by ancient standing stones, crop circles and burial mounds, this is a place where all is not as it seems.In 1938, the archaeologist Alexander Keiller '' a millionaire playboy with a passion for ritual magic '' plans to reconstruct the 5,000-year-old stone circle at Avebury. As war looms, Frannie Robinson and her boyfriend Davey are among those who fall under Keiller''s spell, with fatal results.Seventy years later, Frannie''s granddaughter India, filming in the area, survives a helicopter crash. Devastated, she decides to move back to Avebury and to her grandmother, setting out on a quest to discover the truth about her family. But why is her grandmother so reluctant to talk about Keiller and the war? And exactly whose past is India unearthing''Åš?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4479'),
(11508, 'The Buried Circle', 'Jenni Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A pacy literary thriller, ''The Buried Circle'' is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, peopled with extraordinary characters.The village of Avebury is one of the most mysterious places in the English countryside. Surrounded by ancient standing stones, crop circles and burial mounds, this is a place where all is not as it seems.In 1938, the archaeologist Alexander Keiller '' a millionaire playboy with a passion for ritual magic '' plans to reconstruct the 5,000-year-old stone circle at Avebury. As war looms, Frannie Robinson and her boyfriend Davey are among those who fall under Keiller''s spell, with fatal results.Seventy years later, Frannie''s granddaughter India, filming in the area, survives a helicopter crash. Devastated, she decides to move back to Avebury and to her grandmother, setting out on a quest to discover the truth about her family. But why is her grandmother so reluctant to talk about Keiller and the war? And exactly whose past is India unearthing''Åš?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11424'),
(11509, 'Buried Deep', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the fourth entry of this series, the skeletal remains of a human woman missing for 20 years is discovered on Mars. To determine what happened to her, Retrieval Artist Miles Flint must locate the woman''s children, who have been in hiding ever since their mother vanished. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20081'),
(11510, 'Buried Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Some secrets just can''t stay buried, in the brilliant new Lucas Davenport thriller from the number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  - bestselling author.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the best," said\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n of\n <em>\n  Storm Prey\n </em>\n . "Razor-sharp dialogue, a tautly controlled pace and enough homicides for a miniseries. What more could fans want?"\n</p>\n<p>\n A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis-the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they''ve been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1985, Davenport was a young cop with a reputation for recklessness, and the girls'' disappearance was a big deal. His bosses ultimately declared the case closed, but he never agreed with that. Now that he has a chance to investigate it all over again, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: It wasn''t just the bodies that were buried. It was the truth.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John Sandford\n </strong>\n is the author of twenty-one Prey novels and ten other books of fiction, most recently the Virgil Flowers novel\n <em>\n  Bad Blood\n </em>\n . He lives in Minnesota.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4158'),
(11511, 'Buried Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Some secrets just can''t stay buried, in the brilliant new Lucas Davenport thriller from the number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  - bestselling author.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the best," said\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n of\n <em>\n  Storm Prey\n </em>\n . "Razor-sharp dialogue, a tautly controlled pace and enough homicides for a miniseries. What more could fans want?"\n</p>\n<p>\n A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis-the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they''ve been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1985, Davenport was a young cop with a reputation for recklessness, and the girls'' disappearance was a big deal. His bosses ultimately declared the case closed, but he never agreed with that. Now that he has a chance to investigate it all over again, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: It wasn''t just the bodies that were buried. It was the truth.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John Sandford\n </strong>\n is the author of twenty-one Prey novels and ten other books of fiction, most recently the Virgil Flowers novel\n <em>\n  Bad Blood\n </em>\n . He lives in Minnesota.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12469'),
(11512, 'Buried Prey', 'John Sandford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Some secrets just can''t stay buried, in the brilliant new Lucas Davenport thriller from the number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  - bestselling author.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the best," said\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n of\n <em>\n  Storm Prey\n </em>\n . "Razor-sharp dialogue, a tautly controlled pace and enough homicides for a miniseries. What more could fans want?"\n</p>\n<p>\n A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis-the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they''ve been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1985, Davenport was a young cop with a reputation for recklessness, and the girls'' disappearance was a big deal. His bosses ultimately declared the case closed, but he never agreed with that. Now that he has a chance to investigate it all over again, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: It wasn''t just the bodies that were buried. It was the truth.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  John Sandford\n </strong>\n is the author of twenty-one Prey novels and ten other books of fiction, most recently the Virgil Flowers novel\n <em>\n  Bad Blood\n </em>\n . He lives in Minnesota.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20282'),
(11513, 'Burmese Days', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Imagine crossing E.M. Forster with Jane Austen. Stir in a bit of socialist doctrine, a sprig of satire, strong Indian curry, and a couple quarts of good English gin and you get something close to the flavor of George Orwell''s intensely readable and deftly plotted\n <em>\n  Burmese Days\n </em>\n . In 1930, Kyauktada, Upper Burma, is one of the least auspicious postings in the ailing British Empire--and then the order comes that the European Club, previously for whites only, must elect one token native member. This edict brings out the worst in this woefully enclosed society, not to mention among the natives who would become the One. Orwell mines his own Anglo-Indian background to evoke both the suffocating heat and the stifling pettiness that are the central facts of colonial life: "Mr. MacGregor told his anecdote about Prome, which could be produced in almost any context. And then the conversation veered back to the old, never-palling subject--the insolence of the natives, the supineness of the Government, the dear dead days when the British Raj\n <em>\n  was\n </em>\n the Raj and please give the bearer fifteen lashes. The topic was never let alone for long, partly because of Ellis''s obsession. Besides, you could forgive the Europeans a great deal of their bitterness. Living and working among Orientals would try the temper of a saint."\n</p>\n<p>\n Protagonist James Flory is a timber merchant, whose facial birthmark serves as an outward expression of the ironic and left-leaning habits of mind that make him inwardly different from his coevals. Flory appreciates the local culture, has native allegiances, and detests the racist machinations of his fellow Club members. Alas, he doesn''t always possess the moral courage, or the energy, to stand against them. His almost embarrassingly Anglophile friend, Dr. Veraswami, the highest-ranking native official, seems a shoo-in for Club membership, until Machiavellian magistrate U Po Kyin launches a campaign to discredit him that results, ultimately, in the loss not just of reputations but of lives. Whether to endorse Veraswami or to betray him becomes a kind of litmus test of Flory''s character.\n</p>\n<p>\n Against this backdrop of politics and ethics, Orwell throws the shadow of romance. The arrival of the bobbed blonde, marriageable, and resolutely anti-intellectual Elizabeth Lackersteen not only casts Flory as hapless suitor but gives Orwell the chance to show that he''s as astute a reporter of nuanced social interactions as he is of political intrigues. In fact, his combination of an astringently populist sensibility, dead-on observations of human behavior, formidable conjuring skills, and no-frills prose make for historical fiction that stands triumphantly outside of time.\n <em>\n  --Joyce Thompson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''A well integrated, fast-moving story of what life was like in a remote backcountry Asiatic station.'''' --_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''An absorbing story . . . The character of Lieutenant Verrall (who despised the club members from his own superior heaven of army and blue blood) is a masterpiece of acid delineation.'''' --_New York Herald Tribune_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''Orwell is a master at telling stories with bitter, satiric tone, and these adapt well to audio. Frederick Davidson reads with competence and just the right amount of affectation. '''' --_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''Can take an honorable place beside\n <em>\n  A Passage to India.\n </em>\n '''' --_Saturday Review_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18400'),
(11514, 'Burmese Days', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A corrupt Burmese politician uses the powers of his office to win membership in a British club\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27880'),
(11515, 'Burned', 'P. C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for the House of Night series:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On TEMPTED, House of Night Book 6:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCast and Cast pull out all the stops and take this story to shattering new heights with devastating consequences!â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_Romantic Times_ (4 Â½ stars)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œP. C. And Kristin Cast havef made an absolutely amazing [YA] series. The visuals offered by this fantastic duo are entertaining and imaginative, with nonstop actionâ€¦ This is easily a [YA] series that can entertain adults with action, hot Vampyres, true friendship, budding romance, a loving Goddess, and a twist of the unexpected.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“HowlingGoodBooks.com (5 stars)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI loved every one of the books in the [House of Night] series. Tempted is my definite favoriteâ€¦. This book had me ripping through the pages.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  Teen review on Flamingnet.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On HUNTED, House of Night Book 5:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMove over, Stephenie Meyer.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_People_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œZoey Redbirdâ€™s first-person adventures take on added danger and importance in the latest House of Night release. Forced by circumstance to grow up quickly, Zoeyâ€™s emotional and spiritual evolution is fascinating. The Cast duo breathes life and vibrancy into the characters and makes each one an integral part of the saga. Awesome and unforgettable as always!â€ --\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n (4.5 stars)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Cast duo has done it again!Â  These ladies appear to be an unstoppable force within the world of YA literatureâ€¦ Teenage readers will be drawn to Zoeyâ€™s everyday, angst-riddled life.Â  Not only does she need to save the world, Zoey needs to solve some major vampyre/human boy drama.Â  These stories are surreal, yet shockingly accurate when it comes to teenagers and their lives.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  TeensReadToo.com\n </strong>\n (5 stars)Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most masterful part of the writing lies in how the authors take on serious issues sex, peer pressure, bullying, parental alienation, religion, and substance abuse and weave them into the text.Â  It is a refreshing perspective that doesnâ€™t feel like preaching.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Tulsa\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ World_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI absolutely loved this bookâ€¦. I enjoyed the story line very much and thought that the authors had correctly portrayed the mind of a teenagerâ€¦. I would recommend this book to vampyre fans and anyone who would enjoy a wondrous fantasy story.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  Teen review on Flamingnet.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exceptional vampire taleâ€¦ P.C. and Kristin Cast do a phenomenal job.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“Darquereviews.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHunted is an appealing supernatural thrillerâ€¦ The exciting storyline is filled with teenage angst as Zoey struggles with choices that would cause PTSD in most adultsâ€¦. This fine entry casts a strong spell on readers.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“Thebestreviews.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA richly nuanced standoutâ€¦ Even when sheâ€™s confused, even when sheâ€™s embroiled in teen-angst, Zoeyâ€™s choices, delivered in fresh first person, seem believable.Â  Even better?Â  They seem smartâ€¦. This series has dark themes and subject matter, but the Cast team delivers them with sparkling dialogue, wry humor, and realistic characters driven by genuine humanity.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“Fictionistas.blogspot.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On for\n  <em>\n   Untamed\n  </em>\n  , House of Night Book 4:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou have a set up that feels a bit like X-Men meets Harry Potter meets Interview with the Vampire all told in a voice as engaging and spirited as anything recounted by Meg Cabot.â€\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“ JanuaryMagazine.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is a series that should not be missed!â€Â \n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“ EnchantingReviews.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUntamed is a fast moving and adventure filled read, with engaging characters and just a touch of romantic chemistry to keep fans guessing. This is a well-written young adult series that should easily appeal to both teens and adults.â€\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“ Darque Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe mother and daughter writing team have created a believable world with characters that you can''t let go of. The story is addictive and the cliffhanger ending in this installment has me wishing the months till March will fly by! The fifth book Haunted will surely be another great book in this amazing series.â€Â \n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“ParaNormalRomance.org\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On\n  <em>\n   Chosen\n  </em>\n  , House of Night Book 3:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTeenage issues can seem like life or death, but in this haunting series, House of Night, thatâ€™s really the case. Through Zoeyâ€™s eyes readers are led into a world thatâ€™s getting more complicated by the minute, where friends and enemies can switch positions in a heartbeat. The remarkable Cast duo continues to build a world that you wonâ€™t soon forget!â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n (4.5 stars)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Chosen_, The House of Night series book 3, is like the cream in an Oreo cookie holding the two ends together. This story is gearing up for the final showdown between Zoey and Nepheret and mother and daughter team, P.C. and Kristen Cast are setting the stage perfectly for thisâ€¦.Again, P.C. Cast is an auto-buy author for me and this series is also on that auto-buy list.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_Paranormal Romance Reviews_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On\n  <em>\n   Betrayed\n  </em>\n  , House of Night Book 2:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural worldâ€¦.The issues faced by these teens are not child''s play, and the stakes are life and death. This is extremely craveable reading!â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n (4.5 stars)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSome would find it hard to write the sequel to a great book like\n <em>\n  Marked\n </em>\n , but the Cast women obviously didn''t have that problem. I laughed, sighed, and definitely cried. I thought that I knew where this series was headed but the authors took me completely by surprise. Congrats to P.C. and Kristin Cast, on a fantastic job. Bring on\n <em>\n  Chosen\n </em>\n !â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_Night Owl Romance Reviews_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt does not matter if you are male or female, this seriesÂ will enthrall youâ€¦Authors P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast are a dangerous writing duo with poisonous pens. Highly recommended.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Huntress Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Betrayed_ continues the House of Night series in a chilling fashion.Â  PC and Kristin Cast once again prove their talent in telling a tale filled with all the normal teenage angst compounded with becoming a Vampyreâ€¦.If you liked the first book in the series, youâ€™ll love this one!â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Paranormal Romance Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œP.C. and Kristin Cast make a fantastic writing team.Â  This enchanting tale is filled with non-stop action, strong relationships, and sweet blossoming romance.Â  Whether youâ€™re a teen or an adult who loves a great paranormal read, this is a series not to be missed.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Darque Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œ\n </strong>\n This highly addicting series offers a unique twist on the standard vampyre story and is sure to please a wide variety of readers.Â  Although she is a vampyre, Zoey Redbirdâ€™s journey is one for every teen.Â  Her voice is genuine and â€¦ captures the sincerity and frankness of a teenager in search of a new home and a place where she truly belongs. The emotional portrayal of Zoeyâ€™s trouble and tribulations enhances the quality of these books. True to life, she struggles with issues of truest, loyalty, love, sexuality, and identity and moves though a myriad of conflicting emotions from happiness to confusion to grief.Â  These books will have the reader laughing hysterically and sobbing unreservedlyâ€”sometimes all at once.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_VOYA_ (on both\n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Betrayed\n  </em>\n  )\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On\n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n  , House of Night Book 1:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œZoey Redbirdâ€¦ is basically the most relatable vampire â€” sorry, fledgling vampyre â€” I''ve ever read about.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“MTV.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Casts have put a very interesting new spin on vampire lore. The action is fast paced and absorbing, interspersing light moments among the intensity. When you reach the climax of the tale, you''ll be on the edge of your seat. Though this is labeled a young adult novel, I strongly suspect adults of any age will enjoy it.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  Huntress.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Casts, mother and daughter, have written a delightful book thatâ€™s aimed at teens but will be enjoyed by readers of all ages. The trials of growing up are presented in the new and original context of a vampire society, and theyâ€™re woven into a thoroughly entertaining story. Zoey is a dynamic and spunky heroine who has an amusing and realistic voice. Sheâ€™s surrounded by secondary characters who are just as engaging. The dialogue is sharp and the references to real people and pop culture add to the story. This promises to be a highly addictive series.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n (4.5 stars)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fantastic, fun-paced read.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  RomanceJunkies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hintonâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Outsiders\n </em>\n . It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Beltane Papers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders will identify with many of the characters, especially the protagonist â€¦ A good choice for those libraries serving fans of the occultâ€¦â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFrom the moment I stuck my face in this book it hooked me!Â  Totally awesome new take on vampires!Â \n <em>\n  Marked\n </em>\n is hot and dark and funny.Â  It rocks!â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  Gena Showalter\n </strong>\n , author of MTVâ€™s\n <em>\n  Oh My Goth\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCast reeled me in from para...\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When friends stop trusting each other, Darkness is there to fan the flamesâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbirdâ€™s soul has shattered. With everything sheâ€™s ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoeyâ€™s fading fast. Itâ€™s seeming more and more doubtful thatÂ she will be able pull herself back together in time to rejoin her friends and set the world to rights. As the only living person who can reach her, Stark must find a way to get to her.Â  But how?Â  He will have to die to do so, the Vampyre High Council stipulates.Â  And then Zoey will give up for sure. There are only 7 days leftâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n Enter Â BFF Stevie Rae.Â  She wants to help Z but she has massive problems of her own.Â  The rogue Red Fledglings are acting up, and this time not even Stevie Rae can protect them from the consequences.Â  Her kinda boyfriend, Dallas, is sweet but too nosy for his own good.Â  The truth is,Â Stevie Raeâ€™s hiding a secret thatÂ might be the key to getting Zoey homeÂ but also threatens to explode her whole world.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the middle of the whole mess is Aphrodite:Â ex-Fledgling, trust-fund baby, total hag from Hell (and proud of it).Â  Sheâ€™s always been blessed (if you could call it that) with visions that can reveal the future, but now it seems Nyx has decided to speak through her with the goddessâ€™s own voice, whether she wants it or not.Â  Aphroditeâ€™s loyalty can swing a lot of different ways, but right now Zoeyâ€™s fate hangs in the balance.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three girlsâ€¦ playing with fireâ€¦ if they donâ€™t watch out, everyone will get\n <em>\n  Burned.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2284');
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(11516, 'Burned', 'P. C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for the House of Night series:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On TEMPTED, House of Night Book 6:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCast and Cast pull out all the stops and take this story to shattering new heights with devastating consequences!â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_Romantic Times_ (4 Â½ stars)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œP. C. And Kristin Cast havef made an absolutely amazing [YA] series. The visuals offered by this fantastic duo are entertaining and imaginative, with nonstop actionâ€¦ This is easily a [YA] series that can entertain adults with action, hot Vampyres, true friendship, budding romance, a loving Goddess, and a twist of the unexpected.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“HowlingGoodBooks.com (5 stars)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI loved every one of the books in the [House of Night] series. Tempted is my definite favoriteâ€¦. This book had me ripping through the pages.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  Teen review on Flamingnet.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On HUNTED, House of Night Book 5:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMove over, Stephenie Meyer.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_People_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œZoey Redbirdâ€™s first-person adventures take on added danger and importance in the latest House of Night release. Forced by circumstance to grow up quickly, Zoeyâ€™s emotional and spiritual evolution is fascinating. The Cast duo breathes life and vibrancy into the characters and makes each one an integral part of the saga. Awesome and unforgettable as always!â€ --\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n (4.5 stars)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Cast duo has done it again!Â  These ladies appear to be an unstoppable force within the world of YA literatureâ€¦ Teenage readers will be drawn to Zoeyâ€™s everyday, angst-riddled life.Â  Not only does she need to save the world, Zoey needs to solve some major vampyre/human boy drama.Â  These stories are surreal, yet shockingly accurate when it comes to teenagers and their lives.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  TeensReadToo.com\n </strong>\n (5 stars)Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most masterful part of the writing lies in how the authors take on serious issues sex, peer pressure, bullying, parental alienation, religion, and substance abuse and weave them into the text.Â  It is a refreshing perspective that doesnâ€™t feel like preaching.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Tulsa\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ World_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI absolutely loved this bookâ€¦. I enjoyed the story line very much and thought that the authors had correctly portrayed the mind of a teenagerâ€¦. I would recommend this book to vampyre fans and anyone who would enjoy a wondrous fantasy story.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  Teen review on Flamingnet.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exceptional vampire taleâ€¦ P.C. and Kristin Cast do a phenomenal job.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“Darquereviews.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHunted is an appealing supernatural thrillerâ€¦ The exciting storyline is filled with teenage angst as Zoey struggles with choices that would cause PTSD in most adultsâ€¦. This fine entry casts a strong spell on readers.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“Thebestreviews.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA richly nuanced standoutâ€¦ Even when sheâ€™s confused, even when sheâ€™s embroiled in teen-angst, Zoeyâ€™s choices, delivered in fresh first person, seem believable.Â  Even better?Â  They seem smartâ€¦. This series has dark themes and subject matter, but the Cast team delivers them with sparkling dialogue, wry humor, and realistic characters driven by genuine humanity.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“Fictionistas.blogspot.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On for\n  <em>\n   Untamed\n  </em>\n  , House of Night Book 4:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou have a set up that feels a bit like X-Men meets Harry Potter meets Interview with the Vampire all told in a voice as engaging and spirited as anything recounted by Meg Cabot.â€\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“ JanuaryMagazine.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is a series that should not be missed!â€Â \n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“ EnchantingReviews.com\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUntamed is a fast moving and adventure filled read, with engaging characters and just a touch of romantic chemistry to keep fans guessing. This is a well-written young adult series that should easily appeal to both teens and adults.â€\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“ Darque Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe mother and daughter writing team have created a believable world with characters that you can''t let go of. The story is addictive and the cliffhanger ending in this installment has me wishing the months till March will fly by! The fifth book Haunted will surely be another great book in this amazing series.â€Â \n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€“ParaNormalRomance.org\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On\n  <em>\n   Chosen\n  </em>\n  , House of Night Book 3:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTeenage issues can seem like life or death, but in this haunting series, House of Night, thatâ€™s really the case. Through Zoeyâ€™s eyes readers are led into a world thatâ€™s getting more complicated by the minute, where friends and enemies can switch positions in a heartbeat. The remarkable Cast duo continues to build a world that you wonâ€™t soon forget!â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n (4.5 stars)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Chosen_, The House of Night series book 3, is like the cream in an Oreo cookie holding the two ends together. This story is gearing up for the final showdown between Zoey and Nepheret and mother and daughter team, P.C. and Kristen Cast are setting the stage perfectly for thisâ€¦.Again, P.C. Cast is an auto-buy author for me and this series is also on that auto-buy list.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_Paranormal Romance Reviews_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On\n  <em>\n   Betrayed\n  </em>\n  , House of Night Book 2:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural worldâ€¦.The issues faced by these teens are not child''s play, and the stakes are life and death. This is extremely craveable reading!â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n (4.5 stars)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSome would find it hard to write the sequel to a great book like\n <em>\n  Marked\n </em>\n , but the Cast women obviously didn''t have that problem. I laughed, sighed, and definitely cried. I thought that I knew where this series was headed but the authors took me completely by surprise. Congrats to P.C. and Kristin Cast, on a fantastic job. Bring on\n <em>\n  Chosen\n </em>\n !â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_Night Owl Romance Reviews_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt does not matter if you are male or female, this seriesÂ will enthrall youâ€¦Authors P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast are a dangerous writing duo with poisonous pens. Highly recommended.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Huntress Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Betrayed_ continues the House of Night series in a chilling fashion.Â  PC and Kristin Cast once again prove their talent in telling a tale filled with all the normal teenage angst compounded with becoming a Vampyreâ€¦.If you liked the first book in the series, youâ€™ll love this one!â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Paranormal Romance Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œP.C. and Kristin Cast make a fantastic writing team.Â  This enchanting tale is filled with non-stop action, strong relationships, and sweet blossoming romance.Â  Whether youâ€™re a teen or an adult who loves a great paranormal read, this is a series not to be missed.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Darque Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œ\n </strong>\n This highly addicting series offers a unique twist on the standard vampyre story and is sure to please a wide variety of readers.Â  Although she is a vampyre, Zoey Redbirdâ€™s journey is one for every teen.Â  Her voice is genuine and â€¦ captures the sincerity and frankness of a teenager in search of a new home and a place where she truly belongs. The emotional portrayal of Zoeyâ€™s trouble and tribulations enhances the quality of these books. True to life, she struggles with issues of truest, loyalty, love, sexuality, and identity and moves though a myriad of conflicting emotions from happiness to confusion to grief.Â  These books will have the reader laughing hysterically and sobbing unreservedlyâ€”sometimes all at once.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“_VOYA_ (on both\n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Betrayed\n  </em>\n  )\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  On\n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n  , House of Night Book 1:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œZoey Redbirdâ€¦ is basically the most relatable vampire â€” sorry, fledgling vampyre â€” I''ve ever read about.â€\n <strong>\n  â€“MTV.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Casts have put a very interesting new spin on vampire lore. The action is fast paced and absorbing, interspersing light moments among the intensity. When you reach the climax of the tale, you''ll be on the edge of your seat. Though this is labeled a young adult novel, I strongly suspect adults of any age will enjoy it.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  Huntress.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Casts, mother and daughter, have written a delightful book thatâ€™s aimed at teens but will be enjoyed by readers of all ages. The trials of growing up are presented in the new and original context of a vampire society, and theyâ€™re woven into a thoroughly entertaining story. Zoey is a dynamic and spunky heroine who has an amusing and realistic voice. Sheâ€™s surrounded by secondary characters who are just as engaging. The dialogue is sharp and the references to real people and pop culture add to the story. This promises to be a highly addictive series.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Romantic Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n (4.5 stars)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fantastic, fun-paced read.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  RomanceJunkies.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hintonâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Outsiders\n </em>\n . It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Beltane Papers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders will identify with many of the characters, especially the protagonist â€¦ A good choice for those libraries serving fans of the occultâ€¦â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFrom the moment I stuck my face in this book it hooked me!Â  Totally awesome new take on vampires!Â \n <em>\n  Marked\n </em>\n is hot and dark and funny.Â  It rocks!â€ â€“\n <strong>\n  Gena Showalter\n </strong>\n , author of MTVâ€™s\n <em>\n  Oh My Goth\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCast reeled me in from para...\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When friends stop trusting each other, Darkness is there to fan the flamesâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p>\n Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbirdâ€™s soul has shattered. With everything sheâ€™s ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoeyâ€™s fading fast. Itâ€™s seeming more and more doubtful thatÂ she will be able pull herself back together in time to rejoin her friends and set the world to rights. As the only living person who can reach her, Stark must find a way to get to her.Â  But how?Â  He will have to die to do so, the Vampyre High Council stipulates.Â  And then Zoey will give up for sure. There are only 7 days leftâ€¦\n</p>\n<p>\n Enter Â BFF Stevie Rae.Â  She wants to help Z but she has massive problems of her own.Â  The rogue Red Fledglings are acting up, and this time not even Stevie Rae can protect them from the consequences.Â  Her kinda boyfriend, Dallas, is sweet but too nosy for his own good.Â  The truth is,Â Stevie Raeâ€™s hiding a secret thatÂ might be the key to getting Zoey homeÂ but also threatens to explode her whole world.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the middle of the whole mess is Aphrodite:Â ex-Fledgling, trust-fund baby, total hag from Hell (and proud of it).Â  Sheâ€™s always been blessed (if you could call it that) with visions that can reveal the future, but now it seems Nyx has decided to speak through her with the goddessâ€™s own voice, whether she wants it or not.Â  Aphroditeâ€™s loyalty can swing a lot of different ways, but right now Zoeyâ€™s fate hangs in the balance.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three girlsâ€¦ playing with fireâ€¦ if they donâ€™t watch out, everyone will get\n <em>\n  Burned.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8766'),
(11517, 'Burned: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Praise for the House of Night series:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On TEMPTED, House of Night Book 6:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCast and Cast pull out all the stops and take this story to shattering new heights with devastating consequences!â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_Romantic Times_ (4 Â½ stars)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œP. C. And Kristin Cast havef made an absolutely amazing [YA] series. The visuals offered by this fantastic duo are entertaining and imaginative, with nonstop actionâ€¦ This is easily a [YA] series that can entertain adults with action, hot Vampyres, true friendship, budding romance, a loving Goddess, and a twist of the unexpected.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“HowlingGoodBooks.com (5 stars)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI loved every one of the books in the [House of Night] series. Tempted is my definite favoriteâ€¦. This book had me ripping through the pages.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   Teen review on Flamingnet.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On HUNTED, House of Night Book 5:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMove over, Stephenie Meyer.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_People_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œZoey Redbirdâ€™s first-person adventures take on added danger and importance in the latest House of Night release. Forced by circumstance to grow up quickly, Zoeyâ€™s emotional and spiritual evolution is fascinating. The Cast duo breathes life and vibrancy into the characters and makes each one an integral part of the saga. Awesome and unforgettable as always!â€ --\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Romantic Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (4.5 stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Cast duo has done it again!Â  These ladies appear to be an unstoppable force within the world of YA literatureâ€¦ Teenage readers will be drawn to Zoeyâ€™s everyday, angst-riddled life.Â  Not only does she need to save the world, Zoey needs to solve some major vampyre/human boy drama.Â  These stories are surreal, yet shockingly accurate when it comes to teenagers and their lives.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   TeensReadToo.com\n  </strong>\n  (5 stars)Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe most masterful part of the writing lies in how the authors take on serious issues sex, peer pressure, bullying, parental alienation, religion, and substance abuse and weave them into the text.Â  It is a refreshing perspective that doesnâ€™t feel like preaching.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Tulsa\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   _ World_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI absolutely loved this bookâ€¦. I enjoyed the story line very much and thought that the authors had correctly portrayed the mind of a teenagerâ€¦. I would recommend this book to vampyre fans and anyone who would enjoy a wondrous fantasy story.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   Teen review on Flamingnet.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn exceptional vampire taleâ€¦ P.C. and Kristin Cast do a phenomenal job.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“Darquereviews.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHunted is an appealing supernatural thrillerâ€¦ The exciting storyline is filled with teenage angst as Zoey struggles with choices that would cause PTSD in most adultsâ€¦. This fine entry casts a strong spell on readers.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“Thebestreviews.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA richly nuanced standoutâ€¦ Even when sheâ€™s confused, even when sheâ€™s embroiled in teen-angst, Zoeyâ€™s choices, delivered in fresh first person, seem believable.Â  Even better?Â  They seem smartâ€¦. This series has dark themes and subject matter, but the Cast team delivers them with sparkling dialogue, wry humor, and realistic characters driven by genuine humanity.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“Fictionistas.blogspot.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On for\n   <em>\n    Untamed\n   </em>\n   , House of Night Book 4:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œYou have a set up that feels a bit like X-Men meets Harry Potter meets Interview with the Vampire all told in a voice as engaging and spirited as anything recounted by Meg Cabot.â€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“ JanuaryMagazine.com\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is a series that should not be missed!â€Â \n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“ EnchantingReviews.com\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œUntamed is a fast moving and adventure filled read, with engaging characters and just a touch of romantic chemistry to keep fans guessing. This is a well-written young adult series that should easily appeal to both teens and adults.â€\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“ Darque Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe mother and daughter writing team have created a believable world with characters that you can''t let go of. The story is addictive and the cliffhanger ending in this installment has me wishing the months till March will fly by! The fifth book Haunted will surely be another great book in this amazing series.â€Â \n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“ParaNormalRomance.org\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On\n   <em>\n    Chosen\n   </em>\n   , House of Night Book 3:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTeenage issues can seem like life or death, but in this haunting series, House of Night, thatâ€™s really the case. Through Zoeyâ€™s eyes readers are led into a world thatâ€™s getting more complicated by the minute, where friends and enemies can switch positions in a heartbeat. The remarkable Cast duo continues to build a world that you wonâ€™t soon forget!â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Romantic Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (4.5 stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Chosen_, The House of Night series book 3, is like the cream in an Oreo cookie holding the two ends together. This story is gearing up for the final showdown between Zoey and Nepheret and mother and daughter team, P.C. and Kristen Cast are setting the stage perfectly for thisâ€¦.Again, P.C. Cast is an auto-buy author for me and this series is also on that auto-buy list.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_Paranormal Romance Reviews_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On\n   <em>\n    Betrayed\n   </em>\n   , House of Night Book 2:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural worldâ€¦.The issues faced by these teens are not child''s play, and the stakes are life and death. This is extremely craveable reading!â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Romantic Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (4.5 stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSome would find it hard to write the sequel to a great book like\n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n  , but the Cast women obviously didn''t have that problem. I laughed, sighed, and definitely cried. I thought that I knew where this series was headed but the authors took me completely by surprise. Congrats to P.C. and Kristin Cast, on a fantastic job. Bring on\n  <em>\n   Chosen\n  </em>\n  !â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_Night Owl Romance Reviews_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt does not matter if you are male or female, this seriesÂ will enthrall youâ€¦Authors P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast are a dangerous writing duo with poisonous pens. Highly recommended.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Huntress Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Betrayed_ continues the House of Night series in a chilling fashion.Â  PC and Kristin Cast once again prove their talent in telling a tale filled with all the normal teenage angst compounded with becoming a Vampyreâ€¦.If you liked the first book in the series, youâ€™ll love this one!â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Paranormal Romance Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œP.C. and Kristin Cast make a fantastic writing team.Â  This enchanting tale is filled with non-stop action, strong relationships, and sweet blossoming romance.Â  Whether youâ€™re a teen or an adult who loves a great paranormal read, this is a series not to be missed.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Darque Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   â€œ\n  </strong>\n  This highly addicting series offers a unique twist on the standard vampyre story and is sure to please a wide variety of readers.Â  Although she is a vampyre, Zoey Redbirdâ€™s journey is one for every teen.Â  Her voice is genuine and â€¦ captures the sincerity and frankness of a teenager in search of a new home and a place where she truly belongs. The emotional portrayal of Zoeyâ€™s trouble and tribulations enhances the quality of these books. True to life, she struggles with issues of truest, loyalty, love, sexuality, and identity and moves though a myriad of conflicting emotions from happiness to confusion to grief.Â  These books will have the reader laughing hysterically and sobbing unreservedlyâ€”sometimes all at once.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“_VOYA_ (on both\n   <em>\n    Marked\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    Betrayed\n   </em>\n   )\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   On\n   <em>\n    Marked\n   </em>\n   , House of Night Book 1:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œZoey Redbirdâ€¦ is basically the most relatable vampire â€” sorry, fledgling vampyre â€” I''ve ever read about.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€“MTV.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Casts have put a very interesting new spin on vampire lore. The action is fast paced and absorbing, interspersing light moments among the intensity. When you reach the climax of the tale, you''ll be on the edge of your seat. Though this is labeled a young adult novel, I strongly suspect adults of any age will enjoy it.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   Huntress.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Casts, mother and daughter, have written a delightful book thatâ€™s aimed at teens but will be enjoyed by readers of all ages. The trials of growing up are presented in the new and original context of a vampire society, and theyâ€™re woven into a thoroughly entertaining story. Zoey is a dynamic and spunky heroine who has an amusing and realistic voice. Sheâ€™s surrounded by secondary characters who are just as engaging. The dialogue is sharp and the references to real people and pop culture add to the story. This promises to be a highly addictive series.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Romantic Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  (4.5 stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA fantastic, fun-paced read.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   RomanceJunkies.com\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hintonâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Outsiders\n  </em>\n  . It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    The Beltane Papers\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReaders will identify with many of the characters, especially the protagonist â€¦ A good choice for those libraries serving fans of the occultâ€¦â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Library Journal\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFrom the moment I stuck my face in this book it hooked me!Â  Totally awesome new take on vampires!Â \n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n  is hot and dark and funny.Â  It rocks!â€ â€“\n  <strong>\n   Gena Showalter\n  </strong>\n  , author of MTVâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Oh My Goth\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCast reeled me in from para...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When friends stop trusting each other, Darkness is there to fan the flamesâ€¦.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbirdâ€™s soul has shattered. With everything sheâ€™s ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoeyâ€™s fading fast. Itâ€™s seeming more and more doubtful thatÂ she will be able pull herself back together in time to rejoin her friends and set the world to rights. As the only living person who can reach her, Stark must find a way to get to her.Â  But how?Â  He will have to die to do so, the Vampyre High Council stipulates.Â  And then Zoey will give up for sure. There are only 7 days leftâ€¦\n </p>\n <p>\n  Enter Â BFF Stevie Rae.Â  She wants to help Z but she has massive problems of her own.Â  The rogue Red Fledglings are acting up, and this time not even Stevie Rae can protect them from the consequences.Â  Her kinda boyfriend, Dallas, is sweet but too nosy for his own good.Â  The truth is,Â Stevie Raeâ€™s hiding a secret thatÂ might be the key to getting Zoey homeÂ but also threatens to explode her whole world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the middle of the whole mess is Aphrodite:Â ex-Fledgling, trust-fund baby, total hag from Hell (and proud of it).Â  Sheâ€™s always been blessed (if you could call it that) with visions that can reveal the future, but now it seems Nyx has decided to speak through her with the goddessâ€™s own voice, whether she wants it or not.Â  Aphroditeâ€™s loyalty can swing a lot of different ways, but right now Zoeyâ€™s fate hangs in the balance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Three girlsâ€¦ playing with fireâ€¦ if they donâ€™t watch out, everyone will get\n  <em>\n   Burned.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21559'),
(11518, 'The Burning Bridge', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For years, the Kingdom of Araluen has prospered, with the evil lord Morgarath safely behind the impassable mountains. For years, its people have felt secure. but the scheming hand of the dark lord has not been idle. . . . on a special mission for the rangers, will and his friend Horace, an apprentice knight, travel to a neighboring village and discover the unsettling truth: All the villagers have either been slain or captured. but why? Could it be that Morgarath has finally devised a plan to bring his legions over the supposedly insurmountable pass? if so, the king''s army is in imminent danger of being crushed in a fierce ambush. And will and Horace are the only ones who can save them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4281'),
(11519, 'The Burning Bridge', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For years, the Kingdom of Araluen has prospered, with the evil lord Morgarath safely behind the impassable mountains. For years, its people have felt secure. but the scheming hand of the dark lord has not been idle. . . . on a special mission for the rangers, will and his friend Horace, an apprentice knight, travel to a neighboring village and discover the unsettling truth: All the villagers have either been slain or captured. but why? Could it be that Morgarath has finally devised a plan to bring his legions over the supposedly insurmountable pass? if so, the king''s army is in imminent danger of being crushed in a fierce ambush. And will and Horace are the only ones who can save them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14926'),
(11520, 'The Burning Bridge', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For years, the Kingdom of Araluen has prospered, with the evil lord Morgarath safely behind the impassable mountains. For years, its people have felt secure. but the scheming hand of the dark lord has not been idle. . . . on a special mission for the rangers, will and his friend Horace, an apprentice knight, travel to a neighboring village and discover the unsettling truth: All the villagers have either been slain or captured. but why? Could it be that Morgarath has finally devised a plan to bring his legions over the supposedly insurmountable pass? if so, the king''s army is in imminent danger of being crushed in a fierce ambush. And will and Horace are the only ones who can save them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21416'),
(11521, 'Burning Bright', 'Ron Rash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is "a storyteller of the highest rank" (Jeffrey Lent) and has won comparisons to John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel GarcÃa MÃrquez. It is rare that an author can capture the complexities of a place as though it were a person, and rarer still that one can reveal a land as dichotomous and fractious as Appalachiaâ€”a muse; a siren; a rugged, brutal landscape of exceptional beauty, promise, and sufferingâ€”with the honesty and precision of a photograph. "If you haven''t heard of the Southern writer Ron Rash, it is time you should" (The Plain Dealer).   In Burning Bright, the stories span the years from the Civil War to the present day, and Rash''s historical and modern settings are sewn together in a hauntingly beautiful patchwork of suspense and myth, populated by raw and unforgettable characters mined from the landscape of Appalachia. In "Back of Beyond," a pawnshop owner who profits from the stolen goods of local meth addictsâ€”including his own nephewâ€”comes to the aid of his brother and sister-in-law when they are threatened by their son. The pregnant wife of a Lincoln sympathizer alone in Confederate territory takes revenge to protect her family in "Lincolnites." And in the title story, a woman from a small town marries an outsider; when an unknown arsonist starts fires in the Smoky Mountains, her husband becomes the key suspect.   In these stories, Rash brings to light a previously unexplored territory, hidden in plain sightâ€”first a landscape, and then the dark yet lyrical heart and the alluringly melancholy soul of his characters and their home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1582'),
(11522, 'Burning Bright', 'Ron Rash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is "a storyteller of the highest rank" (Jeffrey Lent) and has won comparisons to John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel GarcÃa MÃrquez. It is rare that an author can capture the complexities of a place as though it were a person, and rarer still that one can reveal a land as dichotomous and fractious as Appalachiaâ€”a muse; a siren; a rugged, brutal landscape of exceptional beauty, promise, and sufferingâ€”with the honesty and precision of a photograph. "If you haven''t heard of the Southern writer Ron Rash, it is time you should" (The Plain Dealer).   In Burning Bright, the stories span the years from the Civil War to the present day, and Rash''s historical and modern settings are sewn together in a hauntingly beautiful patchwork of suspense and myth, populated by raw and unforgettable characters mined from the landscape of Appalachia. In "Back of Beyond," a pawnshop owner who profits from the stolen goods of local meth addictsâ€”including his own nephewâ€”comes to the aid of his brother and sister-in-law when they are threatened by their son. The pregnant wife of a Lincoln sympathizer alone in Confederate territory takes revenge to protect her family in "Lincolnites." And in the title story, a woman from a small town marries an outsider; when an unknown arsonist starts fires in the Smoky Mountains, her husband becomes the key suspect.   In these stories, Rash brings to light a previously unexplored territory, hidden in plain sightâ€”first a landscape, and then the dark yet lyrical heart and the alluringly melancholy soul of his characters and their home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12169'),
(11523, 'Burning Bright', 'Ron Rash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is "a storyteller of the highest rank" (Jeffrey Lent) and has won comparisons to John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel GarcÃa MÃrquez. It is rare that an author can capture the complexities of a place as though it were a person, and rarer still that one can reveal a land as dichotomous and fractious as Appalachiaâ€”a muse; a siren; a rugged, brutal landscape of exceptional beauty, promise, and sufferingâ€”with the honesty and precision of a photograph. "If you haven''t heard of the Southern writer Ron Rash, it is time you should" (The Plain Dealer).   In Burning Bright, the stories span the years from the Civil War to the present day, and Rash''s historical and modern settings are sewn together in a hauntingly beautiful patchwork of suspense and myth, populated by raw and unforgettable characters mined from the landscape of Appalachia. In "Back of Beyond," a pawnshop owner who profits from the stolen goods of local meth addictsâ€”including his own nephewâ€”comes to the aid of his brother and sister-in-law when they are threatened by their son. The pregnant wife of a Lincoln sympathizer alone in Confederate territory takes revenge to protect her family in "Lincolnites." And in the title story, a woman from a small town marries an outsider; when an unknown arsonist starts fires in the Smoky Mountains, her husband becomes the key suspect.   In these stories, Rash brings to light a previously unexplored territory, hidden in plain sightâ€”first a landscape, and then the dark yet lyrical heart and the alluringly melancholy soul of his characters and their home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23444'),
(11524, 'Burning Chrome', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson''s characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of "Johnny Mnemonic" to the street-tech melancholy of "Burning Chrome."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14630'),
(11525, 'Burning Chrome', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson''s characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of "Johnny Mnemonic" to the street-tech melancholy of "Burning Chrome."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24662'),
(11526, 'Burning Heart', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the self-contained Habitat on Dramos, things are getting out of control. The Church of Adjudication holds absolute power over the people, with the consequences that come from absolute power...corruption. The Doctor is imprisoned and chaos looms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6396'),
(11527, 'Burning Heart', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the self-contained Habitat on Dramos, things are getting out of control. The Church of Adjudication holds absolute power over the people, with the consequences that come from absolute power...corruption. The Doctor is imprisoned and chaos looms.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17710'),
(11528, 'The Burning Skies', 'David J. Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "David J. Williams writes on the finest edge of science fiction. The Autumn Rain novels are driving and relentless, full of rock ''em sock ''em cyber warfare, space commandos, cutthroat politics and one stunning reversal after another. Strap yourself in. These books start fast and never let up."â€”Jeff Carlson, author of\n </em>\n Plague War\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œStellar hard SF.â€ â€”_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his electrifying debut,\n <strong>\n  The Mirrored Heavens\n </strong>\n <em>\n  ,\n </em>\n David J. Williams created a dark futuristic world grounded in the military rivalries, terror tactics, and political wrangling of our own time. Now he takes his masterful blend of military SF, espionage thriller, and dystopian cyberpunk one step furtherâ€”to the edge of annihilation . . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Life as U.S. counterintelligence agent Claire Haskell once knew it is in tattersâ€”her mission betrayed, her lover dead, and her memories of the past suspect. Worse, the defeat of the mysterious insurgent group known as Autumn Rain was not as complete as many believed. It is quickly becoming clear that the groupâ€™s ultimate goal is not simply to destroy the tenuous global alliances of the 22nd centuryâ€”but to rule all of humanity. And theyâ€™re starting with the violent destruction of the Net and the assassination of the U.S. president. Now itâ€™s up to Claire, with her ability to jack her brain into the systems of the enemy, to win this impossible war.\n</p>\n<p>\n Battling ferociously across the Earth-Moon system, and navigating a complex world filled with both steadfast loyalists and ruthless traitors, Claire must be ready for the Rainâ€™s next move. But the true enemy may already be one step ahead of her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6319'),
(11529, 'The Burning Skies', 'David J. Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "David J. Williams writes on the finest edge of science fiction. The Autumn Rain novels are driving and relentless, full of rock ''em sock ''em cyber warfare, space commandos, cutthroat politics and one stunning reversal after another. Strap yourself in. These books start fast and never let up."â€”Jeff Carlson, author of\n </em>\n Plague War\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œStellar hard SF.â€ â€”_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his electrifying debut,\n <strong>\n  The Mirrored Heavens\n </strong>\n <em>\n  ,\n </em>\n David J. Williams created a dark futuristic world grounded in the military rivalries, terror tactics, and political wrangling of our own time. Now he takes his masterful blend of military SF, espionage thriller, and dystopian cyberpunk one step furtherâ€”to the edge of annihilation . . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Life as U.S. counterintelligence agent Claire Haskell once knew it is in tattersâ€”her mission betrayed, her lover dead, and her memories of the past suspect. Worse, the defeat of the mysterious insurgent group known as Autumn Rain was not as complete as many believed. It is quickly becoming clear that the groupâ€™s ultimate goal is not simply to destroy the tenuous global alliances of the 22nd centuryâ€”but to rule all of humanity. And theyâ€™re starting with the violent destruction of the Net and the assassination of the U.S. president. Now itâ€™s up to Claire, with her ability to jack her brain into the systems of the enemy, to win this impossible war.\n</p>\n<p>\n Battling ferociously across the Earth-Moon system, and navigating a complex world filled with both steadfast loyalists and ruthless traitors, Claire must be ready for the Rainâ€™s next move. But the true enemy may already be one step ahead of her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13373'),
(11530, 'The Burning Skies', 'David J. Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "David J. Williams writes on the finest edge of science fiction. The Autumn Rain novels are driving and relentless, full of rock ''em sock ''em cyber warfare, space commandos, cutthroat politics and one stunning reversal after another. Strap yourself in. These books start fast and never let up."â€”Jeff Carlson, author of\n </em>\n Plague War\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œStellar hard SF.â€ â€”_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his electrifying debut,\n <strong>\n  The Mirrored Heavens\n </strong>\n <em>\n  ,\n </em>\n David J. Williams created a dark futuristic world grounded in the military rivalries, terror tactics, and political wrangling of our own time. Now he takes his masterful blend of military SF, espionage thriller, and dystopian cyberpunk one step furtherâ€”to the edge of annihilation . . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Life as U.S. counterintelligence agent Claire Haskell once knew it is in tattersâ€”her mission betrayed, her lover dead, and her memories of the past suspect. Worse, the defeat of the mysterious insurgent group known as Autumn Rain was not as complete as many believed. It is quickly becoming clear that the groupâ€™s ultimate goal is not simply to destroy the tenuous global alliances of the 22nd centuryâ€”but to rule all of humanity. And theyâ€™re starting with the violent destruction of the Net and the assassination of the U.S. president. Now itâ€™s up to Claire, with her ability to jack her brain into the systems of the enemy, to win this impossible war.\n</p>\n<p>\n Battling ferociously across the Earth-Moon system, and navigating a complex world filled with both steadfast loyalists and ruthless traitors, Claire must be ready for the Rainâ€™s next move. But the true enemy may already be one step ahead of her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17742'),
(11531, 'The Burning Tower', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20095'),
(11532, 'Burning Up', 'Angela Knight &amp; Nalini Singh &amp; Virginia Kantra &amp; Meljean Brook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Bring these four authors together and it''s sure to ignite a spark... **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Angela Knight** pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Nalini Singh** returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman in lethal danger finds an unlikely protector-and lover.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Virginia Kantra** continues the haunting tales of the Children of the Sea in her story of a wounded soldier rescued by an enigmatic young woman.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Meljean Brook** launches a bold new steampunk series about a woman who strikes a provocative-and terrifying-bargain for freedom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7673'),
(11533, 'Burning Up', 'Angela Knight &amp; Nalini Singh &amp; Virginia Kantra &amp; Meljean Brook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Bring these four authors together and it''s sure to ignite a spark... **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Angela Knight** pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Nalini Singh** returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman in lethal danger finds an unlikely protector-and lover.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Virginia Kantra** continues the haunting tales of the Children of the Sea in her story of a wounded soldier rescued by an enigmatic young woman.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Meljean Brook** launches a bold new steampunk series about a woman who strikes a provocative-and terrifying-bargain for freedom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10761'),
(11534, 'Burning Up', 'Angela Knight; Nalini Singh; Virginia Kantra; Meljean Brook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Bring these four authors together and it''s sure to ignite a spark... ** **Angela Knight** pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. **Nalini Singh** returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman in lethal danger finds an unlikely protector-and lover. **Virginia Kantra** continues the haunting tales of the Children of the Sea in her story of a wounded soldier rescued by an enigmatic young woman. **Meljean Brook** launches a bold new steampunk series about a woman who strikes a provocative-and terrifying-bargain for freedom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16273'),
(11535, 'Burning Up', 'Angela Knight; Nalini Singh; Virginia Kantra; Meljean Brook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Bring these four authors together and it''s sure to ignite a spark... ** **Angela Knight** pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. **Nalini Singh** returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman in lethal danger finds an unlikely protector-and lover. **Virginia Kantra** continues the haunting tales of the Children of the Sea in her story of a wounded soldier rescued by an enigmatic young woman. **Meljean Brook** launches a bold new steampunk series about a woman who strikes a provocative-and terrifying-bargain for freedom.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26425'),
(11536, 'Burnt Offerings', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "You can''t trust anyone who sleeps with monsters."  That''s what Anita Blake had always believed. But now she was sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So when an arsonist began to target vampire victims, the creatures of the night turned to their former enemy. For now only "The Executioner" could save them from the inferno...  The Anita Blake novels have become more than just a cult hit-- "The Killing Dance" was an instant national bestseller Like Anne Rice''s Lestat, Anita Blake has a loyal following that eagerly awaits each new novel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3484'),
(11537, 'Burnt Offerings', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "You can''t trust anyone who sleeps with monsters." That''s what Anita Blake had always believed. But now she was sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So when an arsonist began to target vampire victims, the creatures of the night turned to their former enemy. For now only "The Executioner" could save them from the inferno... The Anita Blake novels have become more than just a cult hit-- "The Killing Dance" was an instant national bestseller Like Anne Rice''s Lestat, Anita Blake has a loyal following that eagerly awaits each new novel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15170');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11538, 'Burnt Offerings', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "You can''t trust anyone who sleeps with monsters." That''s what Anita Blake had always believed. But now she was sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So when an arsonist began to target vampire victims, the creatures of the night turned to their former enemy. For now only "The Executioner" could save them from the inferno... The Anita Blake novels have become more than just a cult hit-- "The Killing Dance" was an instant national bestseller Like Anne Rice''s Lestat, Anita Blake has a loyal following that eagerly awaits each new novel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21007'),
(11539, 'Burnt Offerings', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "You can''t trust anyone who sleeps with monsters." That''s what Anita Blake had always believed. But now she was sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So when an arsonist began to target vampire victims, the creatures of the night turned to their former enemy. For now only "The Executioner" could save them from the inferno... The Anita Blake novels have become more than just a cult hit-- "The Killing Dance" was an instant national bestseller Like Anne Rice''s Lestat, Anita Blake has a loyal following that eagerly awaits each new novel\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26153'),
(11540, 'Burnt Shadows', 'Kamila Shamsie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn Orange Prize Finalist Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. Sunlight streams across Urakami Valley, and then the world goes white. In the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb, Hiroko leaves Japan in search of new beginnings. From Delhi, amid India''s cry for independence from British colonial rule, to New York City in the immediate wake of 9/11, to the novel''s astonishing climax in Afghanistan, a violent history casts its shadow the entire world over. Sweeping in its scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time and place, this is a tale of love and war, of three generations, and three world-changing historic events. Burnt Shadows is a story for our time by "a writer of immense ambition and strength. . . . This is an absorbing novel that commands in the reader a powerful emotional and intellectual response" (Salman Rushdie). Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Karachi. She has studied and taught in the United States. Two of her previous novels, "Kartography "and "Broken Verses," have won awards from Pakistan''s Academy of Letters. She writes for "The Guardian" (UK) and frequently broadcasts on the BBC. Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize Winner for FictionShortlisted for the Orange Prize for FictionHiroko Tanaka is twenty-one and in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. As she steps onto her veranda, wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, her world is suddenly and irrevocably altered. In the numbing aftermath of the atomic bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost. In search of new beginnings, two years later, Hiroko travels to Delhi. It is there that her life will become intertwined with that of Konrad''s half sister, Elizabeth, her husband, James Burton, and their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to learn Urdu. With the partition of India, and the creation of Pakistan, Hiroko will find herself displaced once again, in a world where old wars are replaced by new conflicts. But the shadows of history--personal and political--are cast over the interrelated worlds of the Burtons, the Ashrafs, and the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York and, in the novel''s astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. The ties that have bound these families together over decades and generations are tested by wars and disasters, with unforeseeable consequences. "Shamsie stitches together a sweeping saga that begins with a young Japanese woman in wartime Nagasaki and ends, more than half a century later, with a Pakistani prisoner about to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. The tale unfolds through the lives of two unusually multinational (and multilingual) families: the Weiss-Burtons (German, British and American) and the Ashraf-Tanakas (Indian/Pakistani and Japanese). Not counting minor detours, their triumphs and tragedies span five countries and, without giving too much away, at least three world-changing historical events. On the face of it, collapsing so broad a canvas in a relatively slender novel is a recipe for chaos worthy of a subcontinental urban planner. But in Ms. Shamsie''s self-assured hands this does not come to pass. The story line remains taut, the characters vividly etched. Even the implausible romance at the heart of the novel--between Hiroko Tanaka, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and Sajjad Ashraf, a young aesthete forced to emigrate from Delhi to Karachi in the wake of the 1947 partition of British India--is somehow rendered believable. Ms. Shamsie is . . . as a cartographer of culture. She notes, for instance, that in Indo-Muslim society the emotional terrain of mourning is often communal rather than personal; Urdu contains no phrase for leaving a person alone with his grief. The siren call of modernity--with its implicit privileging of the nuclear family over the extended clan--can be deeply disturbing. As the matriarch of the undivided Ashraf family in pre-partition Delhi declares archly, ''maa-dern'' is a word ''created only to cut you off from your people and your past.'' Sajjad''s failure to try sushi after 35 years with Hiroko tells you all you need to know about the persistence of inherited attitudes that span everything from the loyalty of taste buds to the mental geography of marriage. In the end, for all its insights into the cultural and familial, this is above all a political novel. The choice of a Japanese protagonist allows the author to question much of the received wisdom of what used to be called the War on Terror. As a young teacher in Nagasaki, Hiroko has known adolescent boys as eager to embrace the cult of martyrdom as any young mujahideen. In General Zia''s concerted effort to drag Islam out of the home and into the public square, she sees the echo of Japanese emperor worship. The implication of these observations, of course, is that criticism of Islam is unwarranted. Not that long ago it was followers of Shintoism who were turning aircraft into missiles while dreaming of immortality . . . A cleverly constructed and powerfully imagined novel. Ultimately, as with any work of the imagination, the color of the politics matters much less than the quality of the prose."--"The"" ""Wall Street Journal Online, "Asia edition "Kamila Shamsie is a writer of immense ambition and strength. She understands a great deal about the ways in which the world''s many tragedies and histories shape one another, and about how human beings can try to avoid being crushed by their fate and can discover their humanity, even in the fiercest combat zones of the age. "Burnt Shadows" is an absorbing novel that commands, in the reader, a powerful emotional and intellectual response."--Salman Rushdie ""Burnt Shadows" is audacious in its ambition, epic in its scope. A startling expansion of the author''s intentions, imagination and craftsmanship. One can only admire the huge advances she has made, and helped us to make, in understanding the new global tensions."--Anita Desai "In this brilliant book Kamila Shamsie opens a vista onto the century we have just lived through--pointing out its terror and its solace. She is so extraordinary a writer that she also offers hints about the century we are living through--the dark corners that contain challenges, as well as the paths that lead to beauty''s lair."--Nadeem Aslam, author of "Maps for Lost Lovers """Burnt Shadows" is a beautiful, beautiful book. I was entirely swept up in the story, and I feel, now that I''ve (so reluctantly) put it down, that I have traveled the world and spent the past six decades with Hiroko and her family. The book speaks boldly and powerfully of our age; I know it will stay with me for a long time to come."--Tahmima Anam, author of "The Golden Age ""An epic tale of two families whose lives are intertwined by conflict. As a young woman, Hiroko Tanaka survives the bombing of Nagasaki, which takes the life of her first love, German-born Konrad Weiss. Physically and mentally scarred, Hiroko flees to Konrad''s sister Elizabeth, who lives with her English husband James Burton in Delhi. Sajjad Ashraf, who frequents the Burton household, gives Urdu lessons to Hiroko, and they fall in love. But arranged marriages are traditional in his Muslim family, so the couple elopes and flees to Istanbul. Later, after Partition ends Sajjad''s hopes of returning to Delhi, they move to Karachi. There Hiroko bears a son, Raza, who grows into a precocious youth with a passion for languages. With the appearance at their door of James and Elizabeth''s son Harry, the lines of the two families cross once more. Raza flubs a final exam and deviates from his college-bound path to befriend a young Afghani smuggler, with whom he attempts to join the mujahideen. Shamsie builds vivid contemporary scenes on a rich and sometimes sordid history; the modern characters'' struggles attain tragic, even mythic resonance as parents'' ordeals are visited on their children. Wit, formidable imagination and intricate, well-worked characterizations distinguish the twisty narrative. Raza experiences mixed emotions as he travels through the blasted hinterlands with Afghani arms smugglers. In a world fraught with duplicity and inside deals among militant tribesmen, military contractors and CIA operatives, he learns that morality is anything but straightforward. But the struggles of zealots and mercenaries are dwarfed by Hiroko''s titanic journey. Having survived and suffered so much, she finds herself sitting with a crossword puzzle in a West Village bistro, contemplating the grand and hellish pattern of her loved ones'' lives as she considers with horror the threat of nuclear proliferation between India and Pakistan. With a rare combination of skill and sensitivity, Shamsie generates pathos for outsiders and the displaced."--"Kirkus Reviews ""An engrossing story of resilience and humanity in the face of crushing tragedy, Shamsie''s fifth novel follows the interconnected lives of two families brought together in Nagasaki near the end of World War II. Their fates are linked for 60 years through several countries and ultimately to a somewhat paranoid New York following 9/11. The allusion to recent historical events is not simply an overt device on which to hang a particular political viewpoint; these events are integral to the personal narratives presented here. Shamsie explores the meanings of cultural identity through characters who endure sacrifice, betrayal, and human-made disaster as they live and work in countries foreign to them. This critically acclaimed Pakistani author, who writes in English, is a powerful storyteller who deserves a wider U.S. audience. Readers who appreciate the cross-cultural scope and insight into global tensions in the works of Khaled Hosseini and Salman Rushdie will thoroughly enjoy this novel. Highly recommended."--Gwen Vredevoogd, "Library Journal" "Shamsie takes readers on a tour de force in this examination of the impact of war, following a trajectory from the devastation of Nagasaki in WWII through the conflict-ridden formation of Pakistan in the late 1940s to post-9/11 Manhattan and war-torn Afghanistan. Konrad Weiss, living in Nagasaki in the summer of 1945, hires a local woman, Hiroko Tanaka, to help him write a book about the city. The romance that blossoms is cut short when the atom bomb falls, killing Konrad, and after a while, Hiroko, feeling she can no longer stay in her country, travels to India to find Konrad''s sister, Ilse, the wife of a British lawyer enjoying the privileges of the British raj''s final days. From there, Shamsie brilliantly interweaves the lives of an array of characters as she brings the story forward to the 1980s, then to the beginning of the 21st century, exploring the clashes between loyalty to family, homeland and cause. Shamsie''s unsparing look at how individuals respond when war affects their world makes for an intriguing, heartrending tale of human connection."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3916'),
(11541, 'Burnt Shadows', 'Kamila Shamsie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn Orange Prize Finalist Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. Sunlight streams across Urakami Valley, and then the world goes white. In the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb, Hiroko leaves Japan in search of new beginnings. From Delhi, amid India''s cry for independence from British colonial rule, to New York City in the immediate wake of 9/11, to the novel''s astonishing climax in Afghanistan, a violent history casts its shadow the entire world over. Sweeping in its scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time and place, this is a tale of love and war, of three generations, and three world-changing historic events. Burnt Shadows is a story for our time by "a writer of immense ambition and strength. . . . This is an absorbing novel that commands in the reader a powerful emotional and intellectual response" (Salman Rushdie). Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Karachi. She has studied and taught in the United States. Two of her previous novels, "Kartography "and "Broken Verses," have won awards from Pakistan''s Academy of Letters. She writes for "The Guardian" (UK) and frequently broadcasts on the BBC. Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize Winner for FictionShortlisted for the Orange Prize for FictionHiroko Tanaka is twenty-one and in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. As she steps onto her veranda, wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, her world is suddenly and irrevocably altered. In the numbing aftermath of the atomic bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost. In search of new beginnings, two years later, Hiroko travels to Delhi. It is there that her life will become intertwined with that of Konrad''s half sister, Elizabeth, her husband, James Burton, and their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to learn Urdu. With the partition of India, and the creation of Pakistan, Hiroko will find herself displaced once again, in a world where old wars are replaced by new conflicts. But the shadows of history--personal and political--are cast over the interrelated worlds of the Burtons, the Ashrafs, and the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York and, in the novel''s astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. The ties that have bound these families together over decades and generations are tested by wars and disasters, with unforeseeable consequences. "Shamsie stitches together a sweeping saga that begins with a young Japanese woman in wartime Nagasaki and ends, more than half a century later, with a Pakistani prisoner about to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. The tale unfolds through the lives of two unusually multinational (and multilingual) families: the Weiss-Burtons (German, British and American) and the Ashraf-Tanakas (Indian/Pakistani and Japanese). Not counting minor detours, their triumphs and tragedies span five countries and, without giving too much away, at least three world-changing historical events. On the face of it, collapsing so broad a canvas in a relatively slender novel is a recipe for chaos worthy of a subcontinental urban planner. But in Ms. Shamsie''s self-assured hands this does not come to pass. The story line remains taut, the characters vividly etched. Even the implausible romance at the heart of the novel--between Hiroko Tanaka, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and Sajjad Ashraf, a young aesthete forced to emigrate from Delhi to Karachi in the wake of the 1947 partition of British India--is somehow rendered believable. Ms. Shamsie is . . . as a cartographer of culture. She notes, for instance, that in Indo-Muslim society the emotional terrain of mourning is often communal rather than personal; Urdu contains no phrase for leaving a person alone with his grief. The siren call of modernity--with its implicit privileging of the nuclear family over the extended clan--can be deeply disturbing. As the matriarch of the undivided Ashraf family in pre-partition Delhi declares archly, ''maa-dern'' is a word ''created only to cut you off from your people and your past.'' Sajjad''s failure to try sushi after 35 years with Hiroko tells you all you need to know about the persistence of inherited attitudes that span everything from the loyalty of taste buds to the mental geography of marriage. In the end, for all its insights into the cultural and familial, this is above all a political novel. The choice of a Japanese protagonist allows the author to question much of the received wisdom of what used to be called the War on Terror. As a young teacher in Nagasaki, Hiroko has known adolescent boys as eager to embrace the cult of martyrdom as any young mujahideen. In General Zia''s concerted effort to drag Islam out of the home and into the public square, she sees the echo of Japanese emperor worship. The implication of these observations, of course, is that criticism of Islam is unwarranted. Not that long ago it was followers of Shintoism who were turning aircraft into missiles while dreaming of immortality . . . A cleverly constructed and powerfully imagined novel. Ultimately, as with any work of the imagination, the color of the politics matters much less than the quality of the prose."--"The"" ""Wall Street Journal Online, "Asia edition "Kamila Shamsie is a writer of immense ambition and strength. She understands a great deal about the ways in which the world''s many tragedies and histories shape one another, and about how human beings can try to avoid being crushed by their fate and can discover their humanity, even in the fiercest combat zones of the age. "Burnt Shadows" is an absorbing novel that commands, in the reader, a powerful emotional and intellectual response."--Salman Rushdie ""Burnt Shadows" is audacious in its ambition, epic in its scope. A startling expansion of the author''s intentions, imagination and craftsmanship. One can only admire the huge advances she has made, and helped us to make, in understanding the new global tensions."--Anita Desai "In this brilliant book Kamila Shamsie opens a vista onto the century we have just lived through--pointing out its terror and its solace. She is so extraordinary a writer that she also offers hints about the century we are living through--the dark corners that contain challenges, as well as the paths that lead to beauty''s lair."--Nadeem Aslam, author of "Maps for Lost Lovers """Burnt Shadows" is a beautiful, beautiful book. I was entirely swept up in the story, and I feel, now that I''ve (so reluctantly) put it down, that I have traveled the world and spent the past six decades with Hiroko and her family. The book speaks boldly and powerfully of our age; I know it will stay with me for a long time to come."--Tahmima Anam, author of "The Golden Age ""An epic tale of two families whose lives are intertwined by conflict. As a young woman, Hiroko Tanaka survives the bombing of Nagasaki, which takes the life of her first love, German-born Konrad Weiss. Physically and mentally scarred, Hiroko flees to Konrad''s sister Elizabeth, who lives with her English husband James Burton in Delhi. Sajjad Ashraf, who frequents the Burton household, gives Urdu lessons to Hiroko, and they fall in love. But arranged marriages are traditional in his Muslim family, so the couple elopes and flees to Istanbul. Later, after Partition ends Sajjad''s hopes of returning to Delhi, they move to Karachi. There Hiroko bears a son, Raza, who grows into a precocious youth with a passion for languages. With the appearance at their door of James and Elizabeth''s son Harry, the lines of the two families cross once more. Raza flubs a final exam and deviates from his college-bound path to befriend a young Afghani smuggler, with whom he attempts to join the mujahideen. Shamsie builds vivid contemporary scenes on a rich and sometimes sordid history; the modern characters'' struggles attain tragic, even mythic resonance as parents'' ordeals are visited on their children. Wit, formidable imagination and intricate, well-worked characterizations distinguish the twisty narrative. Raza experiences mixed emotions as he travels through the blasted hinterlands with Afghani arms smugglers. In a world fraught with duplicity and inside deals among militant tribesmen, military contractors and CIA operatives, he learns that morality is anything but straightforward. But the struggles of zealots and mercenaries are dwarfed by Hiroko''s titanic journey. Having survived and suffered so much, she finds herself sitting with a crossword puzzle in a West Village bistro, contemplating the grand and hellish pattern of her loved ones'' lives as she considers with horror the threat of nuclear proliferation between India and Pakistan. With a rare combination of skill and sensitivity, Shamsie generates pathos for outsiders and the displaced."--"Kirkus Reviews ""An engrossing story of resilience and humanity in the face of crushing tragedy, Shamsie''s fifth novel follows the interconnected lives of two families brought together in Nagasaki near the end of World War II. Their fates are linked for 60 years through several countries and ultimately to a somewhat paranoid New York following 9/11. The allusion to recent historical events is not simply an overt device on which to hang a particular political viewpoint; these events are integral to the personal narratives presented here. Shamsie explores the meanings of cultural identity through characters who endure sacrifice, betrayal, and human-made disaster as they live and work in countries foreign to them. This critically acclaimed Pakistani author, who writes in English, is a powerful storyteller who deserves a wider U.S. audience. Readers who appreciate the cross-cultural scope and insight into global tensions in the works of Khaled Hosseini and Salman Rushdie will thoroughly enjoy this novel. Highly recommended."--Gwen Vredevoogd, "Library Journal" "Shamsie takes readers on a tour de force in this examination of the impact of war, following a trajectory from the devastation of Nagasaki in WWII through the conflict-ridden formation of Pakistan in the late 1940s to post-9/11 Manhattan and war-torn Afghanistan. Konrad Weiss, living in Nagasaki in the summer of 1945, hires a local woman, Hiroko Tanaka, to help him write a book about the city. The romance that blossoms is cut short when the atom bomb falls, killing Konrad, and after a while, Hiroko, feeling she can no longer stay in her country, travels to India to find Konrad''s sister, Ilse, the wife of a British lawyer enjoying the privileges of the British raj''s final days. From there, Shamsie brilliantly interweaves the lives of an array of characters as she brings the story forward to the 1980s, then to the beginning of the 21st century, exploring the clashes between loyalty to family, homeland and cause. Shamsie''s unsparing look at how individuals respond when war affects their world makes for an intriguing, heartrending tale of human connection."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20542'),
(11542, 'Bury the Lead', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n I watch sixteen football games over nine hours. It''s an extraordinary accomplishment...With the remote secure in the palm of my hand, or more often resting on my chest, I am all powerful. I haven''t missed an important play since the Carter administration. His streak of murder case acquittals made him a regular on cable talk shows. His recent $22 million inheritance bought him a dog rescue operation named after his beloved golden retriever. Now after turning down cases left and right, attorney Andy Carpenter feels like he''s facing a midlife crisis. And just when he decides he needs some real work, a newspaper owner friend asks Andy to protect his star reporter. Daniel Cummings is being used as a mouthpiece by a serial killer...but the reporter gets way too close to his story when he''s found near the murderer''s latest victim. Quickly working to save what''s left of Cummings''s rep, Andy soon makes news himself when he starts receiving death threats-and moves dangerously close to becoming tomorrow''s big obituary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6157'),
(11543, 'Bury the Lead', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n I watch sixteen football games over nine hours. It''s an extraordinary accomplishment...With the remote secure in the palm of my hand, or more often resting on my chest, I am all powerful. I haven''t missed an important play since the Carter administration. His streak of murder case acquittals made him a regular on cable talk shows. His recent $22 million inheritance bought him a dog rescue operation named after his beloved golden retriever. Now after turning down cases left and right, attorney Andy Carpenter feels like he''s facing a midlife crisis. And just when he decides he needs some real work, a newspaper owner friend asks Andy to protect his star reporter. Daniel Cummings is being used as a mouthpiece by a serial killer...but the reporter gets way too close to his story when he''s found near the murderer''s latest victim. Quickly working to save what''s left of Cummings''s rep, Andy soon makes news himself when he starts receiving death threats-and moves dangerously close to becoming tomorrow''s big obituary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13502'),
(11544, 'Bury the Lead', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I watch sixteen football games over nine hours. It''s an extraordinary accomplishment...With the remote secure in the palm of my hand, or more often resting on my chest, I am all powerful. I haven''t missed an important play since the Carter administration. His streak of murder case acquittals made him a regular on cable talk shows. His recent $22 million inheritance bought him a dog rescue operation named after his beloved golden retriever. Now after turning down cases left and right, attorney Andy Carpenter feels like he''s facing a midlife crisis. And just when he decides he needs some real work, a newspaper owner friend asks Andy to protect his star reporter. Daniel Cummings is being used as a mouthpiece by a serial killer...but the reporter gets way too close to his story when he''s found near the murderer''s latest victim. Quickly working to save what''s left of Cummings''s rep, Andy soon makes news himself when he starts receiving death threats-and moves dangerously close to becoming tomorrow''s big obituary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17877'),
(11545, 'Bury the Lead', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n I watch sixteen football games over nine hours. It''s an extraordinary accomplishment...With the remote secure in the palm of my hand, or more often resting on my chest, I am all powerful. I haven''t missed an important play since the Carter administration. His streak of murder case acquittals made him a regular on cable talk shows. His recent $22 million inheritance bought him a dog rescue operation named after his beloved golden retriever. Now after turning down cases left and right, attorney Andy Carpenter feels like he''s facing a midlife crisis. And just when he decides he needs some real work, a newspaper owner friend asks Andy to protect his star reporter. Daniel Cummings is being used as a mouthpiece by a serial killer...but the reporter gets way too close to his story when he''s found near the murderer''s latest victim. Quickly working to save what''s left of Cummings''s rep, Andy soon makes news himself when he starts receiving death threats-and moves dangerously close to becoming tomorrow''s big obituary.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27350'),
(11546, 'Bush At War', 'Bob Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13749'),
(11547, 'Bush At War', 'Bob Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16674'),
(11548, 'Bush At War', 'Bob Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26679'),
(11549, 'The Business of Dying', 'Simon Kernick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Detective Dennis Milne is waiting to kill three unarmed men. Cynical and jaded, Milne likes to think that he''s hurting only those who deserve it. But this time he''s been duped. Instead of shooting drug dealers, he kills two respectable customs officers and an accountant -- suddenly Milne, his lucrative sideline and what remains of his conscience are heading for trouble. Twelve hours later he''s back on duty in London''s King''s Cross. Eighteen-year-old Miriam Fox has been found dead -- her throat slashed. Milne''s dogged enquiries into the murky world of the teenage vice trade soon implicate fellow police officers and the manager of the hostel where Miriam once stayed. With his own crimes returning to haunt him, Milne uncovers a web of depravity more shocking than he could ever have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1251'),
(11550, 'The Business of Dying', 'Simon Kernick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Detective Dennis Milne is waiting to kill three unarmed men. Cynical and jaded, Milne likes to think that he''s hurting only those who deserve it. But this time he''s been duped. Instead of shooting drug dealers, he kills two respectable customs officers and an accountant -- suddenly Milne, his lucrative sideline and what remains of his conscience are heading for trouble. Twelve hours later he''s back on duty in London''s King''s Cross. Eighteen-year-old Miriam Fox has been found dead -- her throat slashed. Milne''s dogged enquiries into the murky world of the teenage vice trade soon implicate fellow police officers and the manager of the hostel where Miriam once stayed. With his own crimes returning to haunt him, Milne uncovers a web of depravity more shocking than he could ever have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10675'),
(11551, 'The Business Of Dying', 'Simon Kernick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Detective Dennis Milne is waiting to kill three unarmed men. Cynical and jaded, Milne likes to think that he''s hurting only those who deserve it. But this time he''s been duped. Instead of shooting drug dealers, he kills two respectable customs officers and an accountant -- suddenly Milne, his lucrative sideline and what remains of his conscience are heading for trouble. Twelve hours later he''s back on duty in London''s King''s Cross. Eighteen-year-old Miriam Fox has been found dead -- her throat slashed. Milne''s dogged enquiries into the murky world of the teenage vice trade soon implicate fellow police officers and the manager of the hostel where Miriam once stayed. With his own crimes returning to haunt him, Milne uncovers a web of depravity more shocking than he could ever have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23671'),
(11552, 'Busted Flush', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sequel to 2008''s\n <em>\n  Inside Straight\n </em>\n , a revamp of the shared Wild Cards universe, features crises ripped directly from today''s newspaper headlines and summer blockbusters. A burgeoning gas shortage has sparked an invasion into the Middle East; New Orleans is hurricane-beset and zombie-ravaged; someone has set off a nuclear explosion in Texas; and genocide rages in Nigeria. The conflicts between the compellingly human superheroes on the U.N.''s Committee shape this fast-paced alternate history. Veteran contributor and now assistant editor Melinda M. Snodgrass pens standout chapters featuring British triple-agent Double Helix, who drives the plot while posing as both seductive Committee member Lilith and Middle Eastern assassin Bahir. While those unfamiliar with the Wild Cards mosaic novels will flounder, the clever twists on today''s political landscape and the unique powers of several new aces will lure back past readers.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Wild Cards revival continues in a second round of the TV show American Hero, a playoff contest between superheroes created by a mostly lethal alien virus and set in a realistically tangled and bloody world. Some players are troubleshooters, others cause trouble and shoot back, and a govement agency wants to get its hands on newcomer Drake, who can generate nuclear explosions out of his body. Drakeâ€™s jailbreak is one plotline in this installment of the multi-authored (one scribe or scribe-team per chapter) series, and it ropes in a Barbarian Days festival in Cross Plains, Texas, home of Conan creator Robert E. Howard. Others include an action-packed civil war in Nigeria and the effort to rescue humans and, this time, zombies from another New Orleansâ€“bound hurricane. Somehow, characters remain the foci of a busy book that mixes the comic and the grim to good effect. For readers who canâ€™t get enough, thereâ€™s an interactive Wild Cards Web site, too. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5414'),
(11553, 'Busted Flush', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sequel to 2008''s\n <em>\n  Inside Straight\n </em>\n , a revamp of the shared Wild Cards universe, features crises ripped directly from today''s newspaper headlines and summer blockbusters. A burgeoning gas shortage has sparked an invasion into the Middle East; New Orleans is hurricane-beset and zombie-ravaged; someone has set off a nuclear explosion in Texas; and genocide rages in Nigeria. The conflicts between the compellingly human superheroes on the U.N.''s Committee shape this fast-paced alternate history. Veteran contributor and now assistant editor Melinda M. Snodgrass pens standout chapters featuring British triple-agent Double Helix, who drives the plot while posing as both seductive Committee member Lilith and Middle Eastern assassin Bahir. While those unfamiliar with the Wild Cards mosaic novels will flounder, the clever twists on today''s political landscape and the unique powers of several new aces will lure back past readers.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Wild Cards revival continues in a second round of the TV show American Hero, a playoff contest between superheroes created by a mostly lethal alien virus and set in a realistically tangled and bloody world. Some players are troubleshooters, others cause trouble and shoot back, and a govement agency wants to get its hands on newcomer Drake, who can generate nuclear explosions out of his body. Drakeâ€™s jailbreak is one plotline in this installment of the multi-authored (one scribe or scribe-team per chapter) series, and it ropes in a Barbarian Days festival in Cross Plains, Texas, home of Conan creator Robert E. Howard. Others include an action-packed civil war in Nigeria and the effort to rescue humans and, this time, zombies from another New Orleansâ€“bound hurricane. Somehow, characters remain the foci of a busy book that mixes the comic and the grim to good effect. For readers who canâ€™t get enough, thereâ€™s an interactive Wild Cards Web site, too. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11266'),
(11554, 'Busted Flush', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sequel to 2008''s\n <em>\n  Inside Straight\n </em>\n , a revamp of the shared Wild Cards universe, features crises ripped directly from today''s newspaper headlines and summer blockbusters. A burgeoning gas shortage has sparked an invasion into the Middle East; New Orleans is hurricane-beset and zombie-ravaged; someone has set off a nuclear explosion in Texas; and genocide rages in Nigeria. The conflicts between the compellingly human superheroes on the U.N.''s Committee shape this fast-paced alternate history. Veteran contributor and now assistant editor Melinda M. Snodgrass pens standout chapters featuring British triple-agent Double Helix, who drives the plot while posing as both seductive Committee member Lilith and Middle Eastern assassin Bahir. While those unfamiliar with the Wild Cards mosaic novels will flounder, the clever twists on today''s political landscape and the unique powers of several new aces will lure back past readers.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Wild Cards revival continues in a second round of the TV show American Hero, a playoff contest between superheroes created by a mostly lethal alien virus and set in a realistically tangled and bloody world. Some players are troubleshooters, others cause trouble and shoot back, and a govement agency wants to get its hands on newcomer Drake, who can generate nuclear explosions out of his body. Drakeâ€™s jailbreak is one plotline in this installment of the multi-authored (one scribe or scribe-team per chapter) series, and it ropes in a Barbarian Days festival in Cross Plains, Texas, home of Conan creator Robert E. Howard. Others include an action-packed civil war in Nigeria and the effort to rescue humans and, this time, zombies from another New Orleansâ€“bound hurricane. Somehow, characters remain the foci of a busy book that mixes the comic and the grim to good effect. For readers who canâ€™t get enough, thereâ€™s an interactive Wild Cards Web site, too. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19241'),
(11555, 'Butcher Bird: A Novel of the Dominion', 'Richard Kadrey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Buffyand\n <em>\n  Angel\n </em>\n fans are likely to enjoy Kadrey''s offbeat supernatural romp, which blends demonic evil and quirky humor. The relatively normal life of San Francisco tattoo artist Spyder Lee goes thoroughly crazy when he''s rescued from a mugger by Shrike, a mysterious blind woman who reveals that Lee''s assailant was actually a demon. The wounds he suffered in the assault give him the ability to see the Dominions, other spheres of existence that regular mortals are unaware of. Soon Spyder finds himself hip-deep in demonic trouble, protecting his friend Lulu by offering his body to the organ-collecting Black and then dragging her off to join Shrike on a madcap journey to Hell, where they encounter monsters, Lucifer and even an alternate-time version of Lee himself. Kadrey (_Kamikaze L''Amour_) juxtaposes gore and brash insouciance in the face of apocalyptic evil, a blend that may not suit everyone''s taste.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Spyder Lee is a happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a tattoo shop. One night an angry demon tries to bite his head off before he''s saved by a stranger. The demon infected Spyder with something awful - the truth. He can suddenly see the world as it really is: full of angels and demons and monsters and monster-hunters. A world full of black magic and mysteries. These are the Dominions, parallel worlds full of wonder, beauty and horror. The Black Clerks, infinitely old and infinitely powerful beings whose job it is to keep the Dominions in balance, seem to have new interests and a whole new agenda. Dropped into the middle of a conflict between the Black Clerks and other forces he doesn''t fully understand, Spyder finds himself looking for a magic book with the blind swordswoman who saved him. Their journey will take them from deserts to lush palaces, to underground caverns, to the heart of Hell itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1834'),
(11556, 'Butcher Bird: A Novel of the Dominion', 'Richard Kadrey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Buffyand\n <em>\n  Angel\n </em>\n fans are likely to enjoy Kadrey''s offbeat supernatural romp, which blends demonic evil and quirky humor. The relatively normal life of San Francisco tattoo artist Spyder Lee goes thoroughly crazy when he''s rescued from a mugger by Shrike, a mysterious blind woman who reveals that Lee''s assailant was actually a demon. The wounds he suffered in the assault give him the ability to see the Dominions, other spheres of existence that regular mortals are unaware of. Soon Spyder finds himself hip-deep in demonic trouble, protecting his friend Lulu by offering his body to the organ-collecting Black and then dragging her off to join Shrike on a madcap journey to Hell, where they encounter monsters, Lucifer and even an alternate-time version of Lee himself. Kadrey (_Kamikaze L''Amour_) juxtaposes gore and brash insouciance in the face of apocalyptic evil, a blend that may not suit everyone''s taste.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Spyder Lee is a happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a tattoo shop. One night an angry demon tries to bite his head off before he''s saved by a stranger. The demon infected Spyder with something awful - the truth. He can suddenly see the world as it really is: full of angels and demons and monsters and monster-hunters. A world full of black magic and mysteries. These are the Dominions, parallel worlds full of wonder, beauty and horror. The Black Clerks, infinitely old and infinitely powerful beings whose job it is to keep the Dominions in balance, seem to have new interests and a whole new agenda. Dropped into the middle of a conflict between the Black Clerks and other forces he doesn''t fully understand, Spyder finds himself looking for a magic book with the blind swordswoman who saved him. Their journey will take them from deserts to lush palaces, to underground caverns, to the heart of Hell itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10579'),
(11557, 'The Butlerian Jihad', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sands of time have not diminished the impact Dune has had on the evolution of SF, and this new prequel by Frank Herbert''s son and bestseller Anderson, following 2001''s Dune: House Corrino (the concluding volume of their "House" trilogy), offers the kind of intricate plotting and philosophical musings that would make the elder Herbert proud. Reaching back into the beginnings of Arrakis, the authors show us Selim, a boy cast out by his tribe who discovers how to ride the fearsome giant sandworms. Selim tastes and learns the visionary power of the magical spice, melange, and how the future of Arrakis hinges on who controls it. At the same time, on planets far removed from the desolate dunes of Arrakis, others are involved in a Great Revolt. Free League World humans, led by Tercero Xavier Harkonnen and Serena Butler of Salusa Secundus, battle Omnius, a computer "evermind" intent on extending its dominion. The ominous Omnius seeks to conquer all planets not yet incorporated into his Synchronized Worlds system with the help of servile robotic extensions and colleagues, including Erasmus, a Thinking Machine "Hannibal Lecter" whose whimsical Mr. Spock-ish meditations enliven the proceedings immeasurably. Throughout, key revelations regarding the Zensunni Wanderers and their fight for freedom and other historical Dune elements lend an air of discovery to this fast-paced tale.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ten thousand years before the fall of the Imperial House Corrino, two grand interplanetary organizations ruled the known universe: the Synchronized Worlds, presided over by thinking machines led by the evermind called Omnius, and the League of Nobles, beleaguered survivors of the machines'' revolt against the Old Empire. In this era, a few individuals determined to overturn the rule of the machines sought every opportunity to gain insights into ways to defeat the human race''s most intractable enemy. Herbert and Anderson (Dune: House Atreides; Dune: House Harkonnen; Dune: House Corrino) continue their prehistory of Frank Herbert''s "Dune" series with a new trilogy opener set in the distant past of Herbert''s galactic saga. The authors reveal the origins of the Spacing Guild and the Bene Gesserit, as well as the root of the ancient feud between Houses Atreides and Harkonnen. This compelling saga of men and women struggling for their freedom is required reading for Dune fans and an essential purchase for libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7107'),
(11558, 'The Butlerian Jihad', 'Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sands of time have not diminished the impact Dune has had on the evolution of SF, and this new prequel by Frank Herbert''s son and bestseller Anderson, following 2001''s Dune: House Corrino (the concluding volume of their "House" trilogy), offers the kind of intricate plotting and philosophical musings that would make the elder Herbert proud. Reaching back into the beginnings of Arrakis, the authors show us Selim, a boy cast out by his tribe who discovers how to ride the fearsome giant sandworms. Selim tastes and learns the visionary power of the magical spice, melange, and how the future of Arrakis hinges on who controls it. At the same time, on planets far removed from the desolate dunes of Arrakis, others are involved in a Great Revolt. Free League World humans, led by Tercero Xavier Harkonnen and Serena Butler of Salusa Secundus, battle Omnius, a computer "evermind" intent on extending its dominion. The ominous Omnius seeks to conquer all planets not yet incorporated into his Synchronized Worlds system with the help of servile robotic extensions and colleagues, including Erasmus, a Thinking Machine "Hannibal Lecter" whose whimsical Mr. Spock-ish meditations enliven the proceedings immeasurably. Throughout, key revelations regarding the Zensunni Wanderers and their fight for freedom and other historical Dune elements lend an air of discovery to this fast-paced tale.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ten thousand years before the fall of the Imperial House Corrino, two grand interplanetary organizations ruled the known universe: the Synchronized Worlds, presided over by thinking machines led by the evermind called Omnius, and the League of Nobles, beleaguered survivors of the machines'' revolt against the Old Empire. In this era, a few individuals determined to overturn the rule of the machines sought every opportunity to gain insights into ways to defeat the human race''s most intractable enemy. Herbert and Anderson (Dune: House Atreides; Dune: House Harkonnen; Dune: House Corrino) continue their prehistory of Frank Herbert''s "Dune" series with a new trilogy opener set in the distant past of Herbert''s galactic saga. The authors reveal the origins of the Spacing Guild and the Bene Gesserit, as well as the root of the ancient feud between Houses Atreides and Harkonnen. This compelling saga of men and women struggling for their freedom is required reading for Dune fans and an essential purchase for libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10284'),
(11559, 'The Butlerian Jihad', 'Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16844');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11560, 'The Butterfly', 'James M. Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The life of an Appalachian coal miner, who has been separated from his family for years, is drastically changed and complicated as he seeks revenge when his daughter suddenly appears in his cabin, and he discovers the true identity of her illegitimate chi\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4794'),
(11561, 'The Butterfly', 'James M. Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The life of an Appalachian coal miner, who has been separated from his family for years, is drastically changed and complicated as he seeks revenge when his daughter suddenly appears in his cabin, and he discovers the true identity of her illegitimate chi\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19863'),
(11562, 'Butterfly&#39;s Shadow', 'Lee Langley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In a Japan still rigid with tradition, an apprehensive fifteen-year-old tea-house girl prepares to welcome her first client. In his gleaming white uniform, Lieutenant Pinkerton walks up the hill to a house in Nagasaki to find the female he has purchased for a few weeks. When he sails away, she waits, aching for his return.It is one of the world''s great love stories. And, as the curtain falls on Madame Butterfly, Cho-Cho hands over her son to his American father, before killing herself. In a daring imaginative leap, Lee Langley takes this searing moment as a springboard, sending Puccini''s characters spinning into a future undreamed of in the original. In America with his father and new step-mother, Joey grows up torn between two cultures. And in different ways, they are all haunted by that fateful day, by a secret that, once revealed, will change everything.Struggling towards self-discovery they are caught in the shifting perspectives of the twentieth century -- the...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3372'),
(11563, 'Butterfly&#39;s Shadow', 'Lee Langley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In a Japan still rigid with tradition, an apprehensive fifteen-year-old tea-house girl prepares to welcome her first client. In his gleaming white uniform, Lieutenant Pinkerton walks up the hill to a house in Nagasaki to find the female he has purchased for a few weeks. When he sails away, she waits, aching for his return.It is one of the world''s great love stories. And, as the curtain falls on Madame Butterfly, Cho-Cho hands over her son to his American father, before killing herself. In a daring imaginative leap, Lee Langley takes this searing moment as a springboard, sending Puccini''s characters spinning into a future undreamed of in the original. In America with his father and new step-mother, Joey grows up torn between two cultures. And in different ways, they are all haunted by that fateful day, by a secret that, once revealed, will change everything.Struggling towards self-discovery they are caught in the shifting perspectives of the twentieth century -- the...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12219'),
(11564, 'Butterfly&#39;s Shadow', 'Lee Langley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In a Japan still rigid with tradition, an apprehensive fifteen-year-old tea-house girl prepares to welcome her first client. In his gleaming white uniform, Lieutenant Pinkerton walks up the hill to a house in Nagasaki to find the female he has purchased for a few weeks. When he sails away, she waits, aching for his return.It is one of the world''s great love stories. And, as the curtain falls on Madame Butterfly, Cho-Cho hands over her son to his American father, before killing herself. In a daring imaginative leap, Lee Langley takes this searing moment as a springboard, sending Puccini''s characters spinning into a future undreamed of in the original. In America with his father and new step-mother, Joey grows up torn between two cultures. And in different ways, they are all haunted by that fateful day, by a secret that, once revealed, will change everything.Struggling towards self-discovery they are caught in the shifting perspectives of the twentieth century -- the...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21105'),
(11565, 'Buy Jupiter and other stories', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From backyard miracles to cosmic conundrums, enter the incredible world of Isaac Asimov.  Spanning twenty-three years of Asimov''s amazing career, these stories display to the full the exhilarating power of one of science fiction''s most  astonishing writers. Each tale is accompanied by Asimov''s own intriguing account of how and why it came to be written.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twenty-four tales set in diverse locations are accompanied by critical and autobiographical commentary\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25681'),
(11566, 'Buy Jupiter, and other stories', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twenty-four tales set in diverse locations are accompanied by critical and autobiographical commentary\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18289'),
(11567, 'A Buyer&#39;s Market: A Novel', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7501'),
(11568, 'A buyer&#39;s market: a novel', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16329'),
(11569, 'A buyer&#39;s market: a novel', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26411'),
(11570, 'Buzz Off', 'Hannah Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s September - National Honey Month - in Moraine, Wisconsin. After her mentor in the honey business is found suspiciously stung to death in his apiary, beekeeper Story Fischer must sort through a swarm of suspects, including her ex-husband.**"You won''t want to put it down." ~ **Julie Hyzy, award-winning author of *Eggsecutive Orders *and *Grace Under Pressure*******"Action, adventure, a touch of romance, and a cast of delightful characters." ~ **Lorna Barrett, New York Times bestselling author of the Booktown Mysteries**"Once readers get a taste of the Queen Bee Mysteries, they will be swarming for more." ~** Cleo Coyle, national bestselling author of the Coffeehouse Mysteries* *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5267'),
(11571, 'Buzz Off', 'Hannah Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s September - National Honey Month - in Moraine, Wisconsin. After her mentor in the honey business is found suspiciously stung to death in his apiary, beekeeper Story Fischer must sort through a swarm of suspects, including her ex-husband.**"You won''t want to put it down." ~ **Julie Hyzy, award-winning author of *Eggsecutive Orders *and *Grace Under Pressure*******"Action, adventure, a touch of romance, and a cast of delightful characters." ~ **Lorna Barrett, New York Times bestselling author of the Booktown Mysteries**"Once readers get a taste of the Queen Bee Mysteries, they will be swarming for more." ~** Cleo Coyle, national bestselling author of the Coffeehouse Mysteries* *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12122'),
(11572, 'Buzz Off', 'Hannah Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s September - National Honey Month - in Moraine, Wisconsin. After her mentor in the honey business is found suspiciously stung to death in his apiary, beekeeper Story Fischer must sort through a swarm of suspects, including her ex-husband.**"You won''t want to put it down." ~ **Julie Hyzy, award-winning author of *Eggsecutive Orders *and *Grace Under Pressure*******"Action, adventure, a touch of romance, and a cast of delightful characters." ~ **Lorna Barrett, New York Times bestselling author of the Booktown Mysteries**"Once readers get a taste of the Queen Bee Mysteries, they will be swarming for more." ~** Cleo Coyle, national bestselling author of the Coffeehouse Mysteries* *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19399'),
(11573, 'Buzz Off', 'Hannah Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s September - National Honey Month - in Moraine, Wisconsin. After her mentor in the honey business is found suspiciously stung to death in his apiary, beekeeper Story Fischer must sort through a swarm of suspects, including her ex-husband.**"You won''t want to put it down." ~ **Julie Hyzy, award-winning author of *Eggsecutive Orders *and *Grace Under Pressure*******"Action, adventure, a touch of romance, and a cast of delightful characters." ~ **Lorna Barrett, New York Times bestselling author of the Booktown Mysteries**"Once readers get a taste of the Queen Bee Mysteries, they will be swarming for more." ~** Cleo Coyle, national bestselling author of the Coffeehouse Mysteries* *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28072'),
(11574, 'By Reason of Insanity', 'Randy Singer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After a series of kidnappings and murders in Virginia Beach, newspaper reporter Catherine O''Rourke experiences disturbing dreams that detail each crime. In an effort to aid the investigation, she shares them with her confidential sourceâ€”a detective working on the case. Catherine''s intimate knowledge of the crimes immediately makes her a prime suspect. When scientific evidence corroborates her guilt, she''s arrested and charged with murder. As she begins to doubt her own innocence, Catherine turns to Las Vegas lawyer Quinn Newberg, a high-priced specialist in the insanity defense. Quinn believes in justice, Vegas-style. But he doesn''t believe in the supernatural, or that Catherine''s dreams are anything other than the result of a fractured personality disorder. *Who can understand the human mind?* Quinn knows that insanity cases are unpredictable, but nothing had prepared him for *this!* To win, or even survive, Quinn will need more than his famed legal maneuvering and biting skepticism. On this case, he needs a miracle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1924'),
(11575, 'By Reason of Insanity', 'Randy Singer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After a series of kidnappings and murders in Virginia Beach, newspaper reporter Catherine O''Rourke experiences disturbing dreams that detail each crime. In an effort to aid the investigation, she shares them with her confidential sourceâ€”a detective working on the case. Catherine''s intimate knowledge of the crimes immediately makes her a prime suspect. When scientific evidence corroborates her guilt, she''s arrested and charged with murder. As she begins to doubt her own innocence, Catherine turns to Las Vegas lawyer Quinn Newberg, a high-priced specialist in the insanity defense. Quinn believes in justice, Vegas-style. But he doesn''t believe in the supernatural, or that Catherine''s dreams are anything other than the result of a fractured personality disorder. *Who can understand the human mind?* Quinn knows that insanity cases are unpredictable, but nothing had prepared him for *this!* To win, or even survive, Quinn will need more than his famed legal maneuvering and biting skepticism. On this case, he needs a miracle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12734'),
(11576, 'By the Light of the Moon', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€(*Rolling Stone*) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique. Author of one *#1 New York Times* bestseller after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning mysteries and miracles, enthralling tales that speak directly to todayâ€™s readers, balm for the heart and fire for the mind. In this stunning new novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense and brilliant revelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure, chills, riddles, humor, heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a climax that will leave you clamoring for more.Dylan Oâ€™Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. Heâ€™s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious â€œdoctor,â€ injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctorâ€™s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shepâ€™s path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that theyâ€™ll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jillyâ€™s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air. Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom theyâ€™re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is thatâ€™s coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place. What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work â€œby the light of the moon.â€**By the Light of the Moon** is a novel of heart-stopping suspense and transcendent beauty, of how evil can destroy us and love can redeem us--a masterwork of the imagination in which the surprises come page after page and the spell of sublime storytelling triumphs throughout.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6079'),
(11577, 'By the Light of the Moon', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€(*Rolling Stone*) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique. Author of one *#1 New York Times* bestseller after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning mysteries and miracles, enthralling tales that speak directly to todayâ€™s readers, balm for the heart and fire for the mind. In this stunning new novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense and brilliant revelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure, chills, riddles, humor, heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a climax that will leave you clamoring for more.Dylan Oâ€™Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. Heâ€™s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious â€œdoctor,â€ injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctorâ€™s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shepâ€™s path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that theyâ€™ll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jillyâ€™s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air. Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom theyâ€™re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is thatâ€™s coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place. What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work â€œby the light of the moon.â€**By the Light of the Moon** is a novel of heart-stopping suspense and transcendent beauty, of how evil can destroy us and love can redeem us--a masterwork of the imagination in which the surprises come page after page and the spell of sublime storytelling triumphs throughout.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10825'),
(11578, 'By the light of the moon', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€(*Rolling Stone*) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique. Author of one *#1 New York Times* bestseller after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning mysteries and miracles, enthralling tales that speak directly to todayâ€™s readers, balm for the heart and fire for the mind. In this stunning new novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense and brilliant revelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure, chills, riddles, humor, heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a climax that will leave you clamoring for more.Dylan Oâ€™Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. Heâ€™s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious â€œdoctor,â€ injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctorâ€™s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shepâ€™s path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that theyâ€™ll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jillyâ€™s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air. Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom theyâ€™re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is thatâ€™s coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place. What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work â€œby the light of the moon.â€**By the Light of the Moon** is a novel of heart-stopping suspense and transcendent beauty, of how evil can destroy us and love can redeem us--a masterwork of the imagination in which the surprises come page after page and the spell of sublime storytelling triumphs throughout.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14477'),
(11579, 'By the light of the moon', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€(*Rolling Stone*) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique. Author of one *#1 New York Times* bestseller after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning mysteries and miracles, enthralling tales that speak directly to todayâ€™s readers, balm for the heart and fire for the mind. In this stunning new novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense and brilliant revelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure, chills, riddles, humor, heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a climax that will leave you clamoring for more.Dylan Oâ€™Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. Heâ€™s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious â€œdoctor,â€ injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctorâ€™s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shepâ€™s path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that theyâ€™ll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jillyâ€™s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air. Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom theyâ€™re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is thatâ€™s coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place. What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work â€œby the light of the moon.â€**By the Light of the Moon** is a novel of heart-stopping suspense and transcendent beauty, of how evil can destroy us and love can redeem us--a masterwork of the imagination in which the surprises come page after page and the spell of sublime storytelling triumphs throughout.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17848'),
(11580, 'By the Light of the Moon', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€(*Rolling Stone*) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique. Author of one *#1 New York Times* bestseller after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning mysteries and miracles, enthralling tales that speak directly to todayâ€™s readers, balm for the heart and fire for the mind. In this stunning new novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense and brilliant revelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure, chills, riddles, humor, heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a climax that will leave you clamoring for more.Dylan Oâ€™Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. Heâ€™s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious â€œdoctor,â€ injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctorâ€™s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shepâ€™s path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that theyâ€™ll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jillyâ€™s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air. Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom theyâ€™re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is thatâ€™s coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place. What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work â€œby the light of the moon.â€**By the Light of the Moon** is a novel of heart-stopping suspense and transcendent beauty, of how evil can destroy us and love can redeem us--a masterwork of the imagination in which the surprises come page after page and the spell of sublime storytelling triumphs throughout.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27410'),
(11581, 'By the Pricking of My Thumbs', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace...When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about ''something behind the fireplace'', Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/61'),
(11582, 'By the pricking of my thumbs', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace...When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about ''something behind the fireplace'', Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17175'),
(11583, 'By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life.   Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar into a strong and independent woman, while her devoted childhood friend has grown into a handsome and charismatic spiritual leader. She has learned well how to bury her feelings . . . and he has turned to religion as a refuge from his raging inner conflicts.   Now they are together once again, embarking on a journey fraught with difficulties, as long-buried demons of blame and resentment resurface after more than a decade. But in a small village in the French Pyrenees, by the waters of the River Piedra, a most special relationship will be reexamined in the dazzling light of some of life''s biggest questions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2265'),
(11584, 'By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar into a strong and independent woman, while her devoted childhood friend has grown into a handsome and charismatic spiritual leader. She has learned well how to bury her feelings . . . and he has turned to religion as a refuge from his raging inner conflicts. Now they are together once again, embarking on a journey fraught with difficulties, as long-buried demons of blame and resentment resurface after more than a decade. But in a small village in the French Pyrenees, by the waters of the River Piedra, a most special relationship will be reexamined in the dazzling light of some of life''s biggest questions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21716'),
(11585, 'By the Rivers of Babylon', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n " Not since Exodus has there been such a raw powerful story of the Middle East" - Harold Robbins "A first-class suspense thriller" - Harrison E. Salisbury\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind.\n</p>\n<p>\n Suddenly they''re forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos -- while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission. In a land of blood and tears, in a windswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets and courage, and a war to the last death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2651'),
(11586, 'By the Rivers of Babylon', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n " Not since Exodus has there been such a raw powerful story of the Middle East" - Harold Robbins "A first-class suspense thriller" - Harrison E. Salisbury\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind.\n</p>\n<p>\n Suddenly they''re forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos -- while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission. In a land of blood and tears, in a windswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets and courage, and a war to the last death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9244'),
(11587, 'By the Rivers of Babylon', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n " Not since Exodus has there been such a raw powerful story of the Middle East" - Harold Robbins "A first-class suspense thriller" - Harrison E. Salisbury\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind.\n</p>\n<p>\n Suddenly they''re forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos -- while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission. In a land of blood and tears, in a windswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets and courage, and a war to the last death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22251'),
(11588, 'By the Sword: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack is hired to find a legendary Japanese sword, a katana stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum and brought to New York City. To get it back, he maneuvers his rivals for possession of the sword--the members of a weird Japanese cult, a young Japanese businessman and his three Yakuza bodyguards, and Kicker Cult leader Hank Thompson--into a bloody melee from which Jack plans to waltz away with the fabled artifact. Also in the mix is a pregnant teenager whose unborn child, loaded with abnormal DNA, will be a decisive force in the cosmic shadow war raging behind the scenes. A pawn in the game, she is hunted by both sides. Of course, when things donâ€™t go as planned, Jack must improvise (and he hates to improvise).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5637'),
(11589, 'By the Sword: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack is hired to find a legendary Japanese sword, a katana stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum and brought to New York City. To get it back, he maneuvers his rivals for possession of the sword--the members of a weird Japanese cult, a young Japanese businessman and his three Yakuza bodyguards, and Kicker Cult leader Hank Thompson--into a bloody melee from which Jack plans to waltz away with the fabled artifact. Also in the mix is a pregnant teenager whose unborn child, loaded with abnormal DNA, will be a decisive force in the cosmic shadow war raging behind the scenes. A pawn in the game, she is hunted by both sides. Of course, when things donâ€™t go as planned, Jack must improvise (and he hates to improvise).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19041'),
(11590, 'By the Sword: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack is hired to find a legendary Japanese sword, a katana stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum and brought to New York City. To get it back, he maneuvers his rivals for possession of the sword--the members of a weird Japanese cult, a young Japanese businessman and his three Yakuza bodyguards, and Kicker Cult leader Hank Thompson--into a bloody melee from which Jack plans to waltz away with the fabled artifact. Also in the mix is a pregnant teenager whose unborn child, loaded with abnormal DNA, will be a decisive force in the cosmic shadow war raging behind the scenes. A pawn in the game, she is hunted by both sides. Of course, when things donâ€™t go as planned, Jack must improvise (and he hates to improvise).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27859'),
(11591, 'C Is for Corpse', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory? Itâ€™s one of Kinseyâ€™s toughest cases yet, but she never backs down from a challenge. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan is lucky to be alive after a car forced his Porsche over a bridge and into a canyon. The crash left Bobby with a clouded memory. But he canâ€™t shake the feeling it was no random accident and that heâ€™s still in dangerâ€¦The only clues Kinsey has to go on are a little red address book and the name â€œBlackman.â€ Bobby canâ€™t remember who he gave the address book to for safekeeping. And any chances of Bobby regaining his memory are dashed when heâ€™s killed in another automobile accident just three days after he hires Kinsey. As Kinsey digs deeper into her investigation, she discovers Bobby had a secret worth killing forâ€”and unearthing that secret could send Kinsey to her own early deathâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/946'),
(11592, 'C Is for Corpse', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory? Itâ€™s one of Kinseyâ€™s toughest cases yet, but she never backs down from a challenge. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan is lucky to be alive after a car forced his Porsche over a bridge and into a canyon. The crash left Bobby with a clouded memory. But he canâ€™t shake the feeling it was no random accident and that heâ€™s still in dangerâ€¦The only clues Kinsey has to go on are a little red address book and the name â€œBlackman.â€ Bobby canâ€™t remember who he gave the address book to for safekeeping. And any chances of Bobby regaining his memory are dashed when heâ€™s killed in another automobile accident just three days after he hires Kinsey. As Kinsey digs deeper into her investigation, she discovers Bobby had a secret worth killing forâ€”and unearthing that secret could send Kinsey to her own early deathâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15171'),
(11593, 'C Is for Corpse', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory? Itâ€™s one of Kinseyâ€™s toughest cases yet, but she never backs down from a challenge. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan is lucky to be alive after a car forced his Porsche over a bridge and into a canyon. The crash left Bobby with a clouded memory. But he canâ€™t shake the feeling it was no random accident and that heâ€™s still in dangerâ€¦The only clues Kinsey has to go on are a little red address book and the name â€œBlackman.â€ Bobby canâ€™t remember who he gave the address book to for safekeeping. And any chances of Bobby regaining his memory are dashed when heâ€™s killed in another automobile accident just three days after he hires Kinsey. As Kinsey digs deeper into her investigation, she discovers Bobby had a secret worth killing forâ€”and unearthing that secret could send Kinsey to her own early deathâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24029'),
(11594, 'C# 2010 All-in-One for Dummies (ISBN', '0470563486)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15548'),
(11595, 'C++ All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies', 'John Paul Mueller &amp; Jeff Cogswell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Hereâ€™s the easy way to learn how to use C++\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n C++, developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs, is one of the most widely used programming languages, with close to four million C++ programmers and growing. C++â€™s popularity has earned it a spot as part of the Standard Library.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fully updated for the new C++ 2009 standard,\n <em>\n  C++ All-in-One for Dummies, 2nd Edition\n </em>\n compiles seven books into one. This guidebook covers key topics like an introduction to C++, understanding objects and classes, fixing problems, advanced programming, reading and writing files, advanced C++, and building applications with Microsoft MFC. If you''re a C++ newbie, start with Book I. But if youâ€™re experienced with C++, simply jump in anywhere to learn more! This all-in-one reference helps you learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Use C++ for Windows, Mac, and Linux by using the CodeBlocks compiler\n </li>\n <li>\n  Understand object-oriented programming\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use various diagrams to design your programs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recognize how local variables are stored\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use packages, notes, and tags effectively\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make a class persistent\n </li>\n <li>\n  Handle constructors and destructors\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n With over 25,000 sold of the previous bestselling edition, this second edition with a bonus CD makes C++ easier to understand. Itâ€™s a perfect introduction for new programmers and guide for advanced programmers.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Note:\n </strong>\n CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  C++ is the "in" language!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Find out why, andhow to use it, right here\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n C++ is fast, powerful, and fully compiled â€” three great reasons why it''s #1. There are more reasons, and in this guide you discover them as you dig in and really learn to use C++. Each handy minibook covers what you need to know about a key aspect of C++. If you''re a C++ newbie, start with Book I; experienced folks can jump in anywhere to learn more!\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   One size fits most â€” see how to use C++ for Windows, Mac, and Linux, using the CodeBlocks compiler\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore objects and classes â€” understand object-oriented programming and how to use various diagrams to design your programs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Banish bugs â€” learn to use a debugger and how the CodeBlocks debugger ferrets out problems in your applications\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Reading and writing â€” Minibook V covers it all, including stream programming\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advance to the Library â€” understand how to create your own templates and build a full set of libraries for your own use\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Open the book and find:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on managing arrays of data\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to do with constructors and destructors\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How local variables are stored\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What packages, notes, and tags are for\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Secrets of architecting the Standard Library\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The difference between deque and vector\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to make a class persistent\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Where to obtain the free Visual Studio Express\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bonus CD Includes:\n </strong>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   All source code from the examples used in the book\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   CodeBlocks compiler\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Please see the CD appendix for details and complete system requirements.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11002'),
(11596, 'C++ Timesaving Techniques for Dummies (ISBN', '076457986X)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21680'),
(11597, 'The Cabal', 'David Hagberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Cabal\n <br />\n (Book 14 in the McGarvey series)\n <br />\n (2010)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Washington, CIA operative Todd Van Buren meets with a Washington Post investigative reporter who has uncovered strong evidence that a powerful lobbyist has formed a shadowy group called the Friday Club, a cabal whose members include high-ranking men inside the government: a White House adviser, a three star general at the Pentagon, deputy secretaries at the State Department, Homeland Security, the FBI and even the CIA. That afternoon Van Buren, son-in-law of the legendary spy Kirk McGarvey, is brutally gunned down.and that evening, the reporter and his family are killed, all traces of the shadow group erased. A grief stricken McGarvey is drawn into the most far-reaching and bizarre investigation of his career, the stakes of which could destabilize the US government and shake the foundations of the world financial order.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6304');
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(11598, 'The Cabal', 'David Hagberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Cabal\n <br />\n (Book 14 in the McGarvey series)\n <br />\n (2010)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Washington, CIA operative Todd Van Buren meets with a Washington Post investigative reporter who has uncovered strong evidence that a powerful lobbyist has formed a shadowy group called the Friday Club, a cabal whose members include high-ranking men inside the government: a White House adviser, a three star general at the Pentagon, deputy secretaries at the State Department, Homeland Security, the FBI and even the CIA. That afternoon Van Buren, son-in-law of the legendary spy Kirk McGarvey, is brutally gunned down.and that evening, the reporter and his family are killed, all traces of the shadow group erased. A grief stricken McGarvey is drawn into the most far-reaching and bizarre investigation of his career, the stakes of which could destabilize the US government and shake the foundations of the world financial order.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10065'),
(11599, 'The Cabal', 'David Hagberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Cabal (Book 14 in the McGarvey series) (2010) In Washington, CIA operative Todd Van Buren meets with a Washington Post investigative reporter who has uncovered strong evidence that a powerful lobbyist has formed a shadowy group called the Friday Club, a cabal whose members include high-ranking men inside the government: a White House adviser, a three star general at the Pentagon, deputy secretaries at the State Department, Homeland Security, the FBI and even the CIA. That afternoon Van Buren, son-in-law of the legendary spy Kirk McGarvey, is brutally gunned down.and that evening, the reporter and his family are killed, all traces of the shadow group erased. A grief stricken McGarvey is drawn into the most far-reaching and bizarre investigation of his career, the stakes of which could destabilize the US government and shake the foundations of the world financial order.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17752'),
(11600, 'The Cabal', 'David Hagberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Cabal (Book 14 in the McGarvey series) (2010) In Washington, CIA operative Todd Van Buren meets with a Washington Post investigative reporter who has uncovered strong evidence that a powerful lobbyist has formed a shadowy group called the Friday Club, a cabal whose members include high-ranking men inside the government: a White House adviser, a three star general at the Pentagon, deputy secretaries at the State Department, Homeland Security, the FBI and even the CIA. That afternoon Van Buren, son-in-law of the legendary spy Kirk McGarvey, is brutally gunned down.and that evening, the reporter and his family are killed, all traces of the shadow group erased. A grief stricken McGarvey is drawn into the most far-reaching and bizarre investigation of his career, the stakes of which could destabilize the US government and shake the foundations of the world financial order.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27288'),
(11601, 'The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind-And Almost Found Myself-On the Pacific Crest Trail', 'Dan White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Traversing broiling deserts, snowy mountain passes and dank rain forests on its crooked way from Mexico to Canada, the Pacific Coast Trail is an epic challenge for die-hard backpackers. White and his girlfriend, Melissa, set out, late in the season and bereft of experience, to tread all 2,650 miles of it, leaving behind lousy reporting jobs and hoping to find self-definition and a deepened relationship. (They call their trek the Lois and Clark Expedition.) Hilarious greenhorn misadventures ensueâ€”including the author''s ill-advised chomp, while dizzy with dehydration, into a reputedly moisture-laden prickly-pear cactusâ€”that tested their survival skills and commitment as a couple. The trail becomes less an itinerary than a world unto itself, full of squalor, discomfort and majestic scenery, and peopled by charismatic misfits and an austere cult of ultra-light speed-hikers, as the couple rely on arcane camping gear and bizarre gummy-bear-and-marshmallow diets. The wilderness authenticity the author seeks proves elusive; all journey and no destination, the story itself eventually trails off with the hero even more callow and confused than when he started. Still, White''s vivid prose and hangdog humor make readers want to keep up.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Drawing on diaries he kept at the time, White polishes up these memories, serving them forth with brio and dashâ€¦[The Cactus Eaters] brings a fresh perspective to the timeworn adventure-travel genre." --\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the well-written, laugh-out-loud, self-deprecating spirit of Bill Brysonâ€™s A Walk In The Woods and Nora Ephronâ€™s When Harry Met Sally, Dan White takes us along for a walk on the wild side of adventure and love. I could not put it down." --\n <em>\n  Eric Blehm, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of THE LAST SEASON.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is a funny, frequently harrowing, and altogether mesmerizing memoir about just how wrong a backpacking expedition can goâ€¦.â€˜The Cactus Eatersâ€™ is far more than a Sierra Club-approved romp. Itâ€™s gorp for the soul, a fascinating and surprisingly moving testament to the call of the wild." --\n <em>\n  Steve Almond, Boston Globe\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6497'),
(11602, 'The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind-And Almost Found Myself-On the Pacific Crest Trail', 'Dan White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Traversing broiling deserts, snowy mountain passes and dank rain forests on its crooked way from Mexico to Canada, the Pacific Coast Trail is an epic challenge for die-hard backpackers. White and his girlfriend, Melissa, set out, late in the season and bereft of experience, to tread all 2,650 miles of it, leaving behind lousy reporting jobs and hoping to find self-definition and a deepened relationship. (They call their trek the Lois and Clark Expedition.) Hilarious greenhorn misadventures ensueâ€”including the author''s ill-advised chomp, while dizzy with dehydration, into a reputedly moisture-laden prickly-pear cactusâ€”that tested their survival skills and commitment as a couple. The trail becomes less an itinerary than a world unto itself, full of squalor, discomfort and majestic scenery, and peopled by charismatic misfits and an austere cult of ultra-light speed-hikers, as the couple rely on arcane camping gear and bizarre gummy-bear-and-marshmallow diets. The wilderness authenticity the author seeks proves elusive; all journey and no destination, the story itself eventually trails off with the hero even more callow and confused than when he started. Still, White''s vivid prose and hangdog humor make readers want to keep up.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Drawing on diaries he kept at the time, White polishes up these memories, serving them forth with brio and dashâ€¦[The Cactus Eaters] brings a fresh perspective to the timeworn adventure-travel genre." --\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the well-written, laugh-out-loud, self-deprecating spirit of Bill Brysonâ€™s A Walk In The Woods and Nora Ephronâ€™s When Harry Met Sally, Dan White takes us along for a walk on the wild side of adventure and love. I could not put it down." --\n <em>\n  Eric Blehm, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of THE LAST SEASON.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is a funny, frequently harrowing, and altogether mesmerizing memoir about just how wrong a backpacking expedition can goâ€¦.â€˜The Cactus Eatersâ€™ is far more than a Sierra Club-approved romp. Itâ€™s gorp for the soul, a fascinating and surprisingly moving testament to the call of the wild." --\n <em>\n  Steve Almond, Boston Globe\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13339'),
(11603, 'The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind-and Almost Found Myself-on the Pacific Crest Trail', 'Dan White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Traversing broiling deserts, snowy mountain passes and dank rain forests on its crooked way from Mexico to Canada, the Pacific Coast Trail is an epic challenge for die-hard backpackers. White and his girlfriend, Melissa, set out, late in the season and bereft of experience, to tread all 2,650 miles of it, leaving behind lousy reporting jobs and hoping to find self-definition and a deepened relationship. (They call their trek the Lois and Clark Expedition.) Hilarious greenhorn misadventures ensueâ€”including the author''s ill-advised chomp, while dizzy with dehydration, into a reputedly moisture-laden prickly-pear cactusâ€”that tested their survival skills and commitment as a couple. The trail becomes less an itinerary than a world unto itself, full of squalor, discomfort and majestic scenery, and peopled by charismatic misfits and an austere cult of ultra-light speed-hikers, as the couple rely on arcane camping gear and bizarre gummy-bear-and-marshmallow diets. The wilderness authenticity the author seeks proves elusive; all journey and no destination, the story itself eventually trails off with the hero even more callow and confused than when he started. Still, White''s vivid prose and hangdog humor make readers want to keep up.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Drawing on diaries he kept at the time, White polishes up these memories, serving them forth with brio and dashâ€¦[The Cactus Eaters] brings a fresh perspective to the timeworn adventure-travel genre." --\n <em>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the well-written, laugh-out-loud, self-deprecating spirit of Bill Brysonâ€™s A Walk In The Woods and Nora Ephronâ€™s When Harry Met Sally, Dan White takes us along for a walk on the wild side of adventure and love. I could not put it down." --\n <em>\n  Eric Blehm, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of THE LAST SEASON.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is a funny, frequently harrowing, and altogether mesmerizing memoir about just how wrong a backpacking expedition can goâ€¦.â€˜The Cactus Eatersâ€™ is far more than a Sierra Club-approved romp. Itâ€™s gorp for the soul, a fascinating and surprisingly moving testament to the call of the wild." --\n <em>\n  Steve Almond, Boston Globe\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17472'),
(11604, 'Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water', 'Marc Reisner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The definitive history of water resources in the American West, and a very illuminating lesson in the political economy of limited resources anywhere. Highly recommended!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this stunning work of history and investigative journalism, Reisner tells the story of conflicts over water policy in the West and the resulting damage to the land, wildlife and Indians. PW stated that this "timely and important book should be required reading for all citizens."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3227'),
(11605, 'Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water', 'Marc Reisner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The definitive history of water resources in the American West, and a very illuminating lesson in the political economy of limited resources anywhere. Highly recommended!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this stunning work of history and investigative journalism, Reisner tells the story of conflicts over water policy in the West and the resulting damage to the land, wildlife and Indians. PW stated that this "timely and important book should be required reading for all citizens."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12178'),
(11606, 'Caesar and Cleopatra Caesar and Cleopatra', 'George Bernard Shaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Egypt; Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5373'),
(11607, 'Caesar and Cleopatra Caesar and Cleopatra', 'George Bernard Shaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Egypt; Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19279'),
(11608, 'Caesar and Cleopatra Caesar and Cleopatra', 'George Bernard Shaw', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Egypt; Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27901'),
(11609, 'Caesar Remember', 'Ben Bova - Remember Caesar', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15597'),
(11610, 'Caesarean: Just Another Way of Birth?', 'Rosemary Mander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A meticulous and exhaustively referenced study...Rosemary Mander tackles evidence from randomised controlled trials as well as legend, myth and fiction, and throughout her book places the discussion surrounding Caesareans in a social context. This makes for a fascinating read." --\n <em>\n  Sheila Kitzinger, birth activist and midwife\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "\n </em>\n A short review cannot do justice to the book''s richness, precision, and compassion. Rosemary Mander combines attention to language, meticulous organization of each topic, knowledge of medical issues, and critiques of available research and research methodology with a positive view of the benefits of midwifery and an accurate perception of women''s rights and needs, among them comfort, appropriate care, attention to the whole picture, and truly informed consent. Implicit in the text is a plea for practitioners to reorient their studies, attitudes, and practice so as to meet those crucial needs." --\n <em>\n  Jane Pincus, Co-Author of Our Bodies Ourselves, Birth, Vol. 35, No. 1, March 2008\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n __\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book critically analyzes the place of caesarean in childbearing at the beginning of the twenty first century. It questions the changes that are taking place in childbirth and, in particular, the effects and implications of an increase in caesarean births.\n</p>\n<p>\n This controversial work by a practising midwife and researcher, includes discussion of:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  the context of the operation and description of it\n </li>\n <li>\n  health systems around the world and their caesarean incidence rates\n </li>\n <li>\n  decision-making and cultural/medical constraints\n </li>\n <li>\n  the short and long term implications of caesarean for baby and mother.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Using up-to-date research, Rosemary Mander bases her argument on a firm evidence-base and argues that the rapidly rising caesarean section rate may not be for the benefit of either the woman giving birth or her baby. Rather, the beneficiaries may actually be those professionals whose investment is in extending the range of their influence and thus increasing the medicalization of normal life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23089'),
(11611, 'Cain His Brother', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "A TRIUMPH . . . A model of the richness and subtleties of relationships, characters, and story construction." --Chicago Sun-Times In his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business, a man of probity; and in his relationship with his twin brother, Caleb, a virtual saint. Now Angus is missing, and it appears more than possible that Caleb--a creature long since abandoned to depravity--has murdered him. Hired to find the missing man, William Monk puts himself into his shoes, searching for clues to Angus''s fate and his vicious brother''s whereabouts. Slowly, Monk inches toward the truth--and also, unwittingly, toward the destruction of his good name and livelihood. . . . "MASTERFUL . . . DARKLY CHILLING . . . Perry eloquently delivers to her readers the flavor of Victorian England. . . . Readers will be kept entertained and guessing--right up to the final pages." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU HAVE IT FIGURED OUT, THINK AGAIN! No one can capture and bring to life the drama, excitement, and feel of Victorian England like Perry." --Mostly Murder A Main Selection of the Mystery Guild\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7512'),
(11612, 'Cain His Brother', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A TRIUMPH . . . A model of the richness and subtleties of relationships, characters, and story construction." --Chicago Sun-Times In his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business, a man of probity; and in his relationship with his twin brother, Caleb, a virtual saint. Now Angus is missing, and it appears more than possible that Caleb--a creature long since abandoned to depravity--has murdered him. Hired to find the missing man, William Monk puts himself into his shoes, searching for clues to Angus''s fate and his vicious brother''s whereabouts. Slowly, Monk inches toward the truth--and also, unwittingly, toward the destruction of his good name and livelihood. . . . "MASTERFUL . . . DARKLY CHILLING . . . Perry eloquently delivers to her readers the flavor of Victorian England. . . . Readers will be kept entertained and guessing--right up to the final pages." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU HAVE IT FIGURED OUT, THINK AGAIN! No one can capture and bring to life the drama, excitement, and feel of Victorian England like Perry." --Mostly Murder A Main Selection of the Mystery Guild\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16360'),
(11613, 'Cain His Brother', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A TRIUMPH . . . A model of the richness and subtleties of relationships, characters, and story construction." --Chicago Sun-Times In his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business, a man of probity; and in his relationship with his twin brother, Caleb, a virtual saint. Now Angus is missing, and it appears more than possible that Caleb--a creature long since abandoned to depravity--has murdered him. Hired to find the missing man, William Monk puts himself into his shoes, searching for clues to Angus''s fate and his vicious brother''s whereabouts. Slowly, Monk inches toward the truth--and also, unwittingly, toward the destruction of his good name and livelihood. . . . "MASTERFUL . . . DARKLY CHILLING . . . Perry eloquently delivers to her readers the flavor of Victorian England. . . . Readers will be kept entertained and guessing--right up to the final pages." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU HAVE IT FIGURED OUT, THINK AGAIN! No one can capture and bring to life the drama, excitement, and feel of Victorian England like Perry." --Mostly Murder A Main Selection of the Mystery Guild\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26378'),
(11614, 'Cainii negri', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25702'),
(11615, 'Cairo Modern', 'Naguib Mahfouz &amp; William M. Hutichins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The novelist''s camera pans from the dome of King Fuad University (now Cairo University) to students streaming out of the campus, focusing on four students in their twenties, each representing a different trend in Egypt in the 1930s. Finally the camera comes to rest on Mahgub Abd al-DaÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢im. A scamp, he fancies himself a nihilist, a hedonist, an egotist, but his personal vulnerability is soon revealed by a family crisis back home in al-Qanatir, a dusty, provincial town on the Nile that is also a popular destination for Cairene day-trippers. Mahgub, like many characters in works by Naguib Mahfouz, has a hard time finding the correct setting on his ambition gauge. His emotional life also fluctuates between the extremes of a street girl, who makes her living gathering cigarette butts, and his wealthy cousin Tahiya. Since he thinks that virtue is merely a social construct, how far will our would-be nihilist go in trying to fulfill his unbridled ambitions? What if he discovers that high society is more corrupt and cynical than he is? With a wink back at Goethe''s Faust and Henry Fielding''s Joseph Andrews, Mahgub becomes a willing collaborator in his own corruption. Published in Arabic in the 1940s, this cautionary morality tale about self-defeating egoism and ill-digested foreign philosophies comes from the same period as one of the writer''s best-known works, Midaq Alley. Both novels are comic and heart-felt indictments not so much of Egyptian society between the world wars as of human nature and our paltry attempts to establish just societies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11049'),
(11616, 'Calamity and Other Stories', 'Daphne Kalotay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Twelve luminous stories alive with friendship and secrets introduce a remarkable writer. Daphne Kalotay''s characters confront regrets and unrealized hopes in tales tinged with gentle humor. A newly independent woman finds herself in bed with an ex-husband of long ago. A little girl gets a surprising glimpse into adulthood when she catches her mother in a moment of uninhibited pleasure. A thirteen-year-old boy contends with the unwanted attentions of a younger girl. And for two older women, a tie formed in their youth sustains them through varied twists of fate. These are dazzling intertwined tales of love, failure, and the comedy of human relationships.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6347'),
(11617, 'Calamity and Other Stories', 'Daphne Kalotay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Twelve luminous stories alive with friendship and secrets introduce a remarkable writer. Daphne Kalotay''s characters confront regrets and unrealized hopes in tales tinged with gentle humor. A newly independent woman finds herself in bed with an ex-husband of long ago. A little girl gets a surprising glimpse into adulthood when she catches her mother in a moment of uninhibited pleasure. A thirteen-year-old boy contends with the unwanted attentions of a younger girl. And for two older women, a tie formed in their youth sustains them through varied twists of fate. These are dazzling intertwined tales of love, failure, and the comedy of human relationships.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10569'),
(11618, 'Calamity and Other Stories', 'Daphne Kalotay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Twelve luminous stories alive with friendship and secrets introduce a remarkable writer. Daphne Kalotay''s characters confront regrets and unrealized hopes in tales tinged with gentle humor. A newly independent woman finds herself in bed with an ex-husband of long ago. A little girl gets a surprising glimpse into adulthood when she catches her mother in a moment of uninhibited pleasure. A thirteen-year-old boy contends with the unwanted attentions of a younger girl. And for two older women, a tie formed in their youth sustains them through varied twists of fate. These are dazzling intertwined tales of love, failure, and the comedy of human relationships.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17613'),
(11619, 'Calamity Jayne', 'Kathleen Bacus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A finalist in the American Title Contest sponsored by Dorchester and "Romantic Times." When Jayne Turner mistakenly drives away from a parking lot in the wrong car, finding a body in the trunk throws her into an even bigger pickle: romance with the sexy park ranger who must help her survive. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3780'),
(11620, 'Calamity Jayne', 'Kathleen Bacus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A finalist in the American Title Contest sponsored by Dorchester and "Romantic Times." When Jayne Turner mistakenly drives away from a parking lot in the wrong car, finding a body in the trunk throws her into an even bigger pickle: romance with the sexy park ranger who must help her survive. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8297'),
(11621, 'Calamity Jayne', 'Kathleen Bacus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A finalist in the American Title Contest sponsored by Dorchester and "Romantic Times." When Jayne Turner mistakenly drives away from a parking lot in the wrong car, finding a body in the trunk throws her into an even bigger pickle: romance with the sexy park ranger who must help her survive. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20635'),
(11622, 'Calatoria spre Soare-Rasare', 'Hermann Hesse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25720'),
(11623, 'Calatoriile lui Gulliver', 'Jonathan Swift', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25468'),
(11624, 'Calculating God', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13738'),
(11625, 'Calculating God', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges and says, in perfect English, â€œTake me to a paleontologist.â€ In the distant past, Earth, the alienâ€™s home planet, and the home planet of another alien species, all experienced the same five cataclysmic events at the same time (one example: the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs). Both alien races believe this proves the existence of God: i.e., heâ€™s obviously been playing with the evolution of life on each of these planets. From this provocative launch point, Sawyer tells a fast-paced, morally and intellectually challenging story of ambitious scope and touching humanity. Calculating God is SF on a grand scale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23252'),
(11626, 'The Calculus Diaries', 'Jennifer Ouellette', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kiss My Math meets A Tour of the Calculus   Jennifer Ouellette never took math in college, mostly because she-like most people-assumed that she wouldn''t need it in real life. But then the English-major-turned-award-winning-science-writer had a change of heart and decided to revisit the equations and formulas that had haunted her for years. The Calculus Diaries is the fun and fascinating account of her year spent confronting her math phobia head on. With wit and verve, Ouellette shows how she learned to apply calculus to everything from gas mileage to dieting, from the rides at Disneyland to shooting craps in Vegas-proving that even the mathematically challenged can learn the fundamentals of the universal language.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10982'),
(11627, 'Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are', 'William Godwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24977'),
(11628, 'Caleb&#39;s Crossing', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  , Brooks offers a compelling answer to the riddle of how--in an era that considered him an intellectually impaired savage--he left the island to compete with the sons of the Puritanical elite. She relates his story through the impassioned voice of the daughter of the island''s Calvinist minister, a brilliant young woman who aches for the education her father wastes on her dull brother. Bethia Mayfield meets Caleb at twelve, and their mutual affinity for nature and knowledge evolves into a clandestine, lifelong bond. Bethia''s father soon realizes Caleb''s genius for letters and prepares him for study at Harvard, while Bethia travels to Cambridge under much less auspicious circumstances. This window on early academia fascinates, but the book breathes most thrillingly in the island''s salt-stung air, and in the end, its questions of the power and cost of knowledge resound most profoundly not in Harvard''s halls, but in the fire of a Wampanoag medicine man. --_Mari Malcolm_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A richly imagined new novel from the author of the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestseller,\n   <em>\n    People of the Book\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha''s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The narrator of\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island''s glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia''s minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe''s shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb''s crossing of cultures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like Brooks''s beloved narrator Anna in\n  <em>\n   Year of Wonders\n  </em>\n  , Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha''s Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing,\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  further establishes Brooks''s place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5450'),
(11629, 'Caleb&#39;s Crossing', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  , Brooks offers a compelling answer to the riddle of how--in an era that considered him an intellectually impaired savage--he left the island to compete with the sons of the Puritanical elite. She relates his story through the impassioned voice of the daughter of the island''s Calvinist minister, a brilliant young woman who aches for the education her father wastes on her dull brother. Bethia Mayfield meets Caleb at twelve, and their mutual affinity for nature and knowledge evolves into a clandestine, lifelong bond. Bethia''s father soon realizes Caleb''s genius for letters and prepares him for study at Harvard, while Bethia travels to Cambridge under much less auspicious circumstances. This window on early academia fascinates, but the book breathes most thrillingly in the island''s salt-stung air, and in the end, its questions of the power and cost of knowledge resound most profoundly not in Harvard''s halls, but in the fire of a Wampanoag medicine man. --_Mari Malcolm_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A richly imagined new novel from the author of the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestseller,\n   <em>\n    People of the Book\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha''s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The narrator of\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island''s glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia''s minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe''s shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb''s crossing of cultures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like Brooks''s beloved narrator Anna in\n  <em>\n   Year of Wonders\n  </em>\n  , Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha''s Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing,\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  further establishes Brooks''s place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8662'),
(11630, 'Caleb&#39;s Crossing', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  , Brooks offers a compelling answer to the riddle of how--in an era that considered him an intellectually impaired savage--he left the island to compete with the sons of the Puritanical elite. She relates his story through the impassioned voice of the daughter of the island''s Calvinist minister, a brilliant young woman who aches for the education her father wastes on her dull brother. Bethia Mayfield meets Caleb at twelve, and their mutual affinity for nature and knowledge evolves into a clandestine, lifelong bond. Bethia''s father soon realizes Caleb''s genius for letters and prepares him for study at Harvard, while Bethia travels to Cambridge under much less auspicious circumstances. This window on early academia fascinates, but the book breathes most thrillingly in the island''s salt-stung air, and in the end, its questions of the power and cost of knowledge resound most profoundly not in Harvard''s halls, but in the fire of a Wampanoag medicine man. --_Mari Malcolm_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A richly imagined new novel from the author of the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestseller,\n   <em>\n    People of the Book\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha''s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The narrator of\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island''s glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia''s minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe''s shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb''s crossing of cultures.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like Brooks''s beloved narrator Anna in\n  <em>\n   Year of Wonders\n  </em>\n  , Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha''s Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing,\n  <em>\n   Caleb''s Crossing\n  </em>\n  further establishes Brooks''s place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19256'),
(11631, 'The Calhouns: Suzanna and Megan: Suzanna&#39;s Surrender\\\\Megan&#39;s Mate', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Atop the rocky coast of Maine sits the Towers, a magnificent family mansion that is home to a legend of long-lost love, hidden emeralds -- and four sisters determined to save their home against all odds.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts brings you the Calhoun Women -- **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Suzanna''s Surrender** -- Burned-out and tired as hell, all ex-cop Holt Bradford wanted to do was relax. But when beautiful single mom Suzanna invaded his solitude to search for the missing Calhoun emeralds, he couldn''t say no. Holt had changed from a bad-boy teen to a dangerously sexy man, but Suzanna couldn''t risk her well-ordered life for a man who made her mouth go dry . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Megan''s Mate** -- Calhoun sister-in-law Megan O''Riley and her young son had traveled far to become the Towers'' newest residents. Cool as an Atlantic breeze, Megan buried her passions and vowed never to let her heart control her life. But when boat captain Nate Fury set his course for her, the practical lady was swept away by his formidable charm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2410'),
(11632, 'The Calhouns: Suzanna And Megan: Suzanna&#39;s Surrender\\\\Megan&#39;s Mate', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Atop the rocky coast of Maine sits the Towers, a magnificent family mansion that is home to a legend of long-lost love, hidden emeralds -- and four sisters determined to save their home against all odds. ***New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts brings you the Calhoun Women -- ** **Suzanna''s Surrender** -- Burned-out and tired as hell, all ex-cop Holt Bradford wanted to do was relax. But when beautiful single mom Suzanna invaded his solitude to search for the missing Calhoun emeralds, he couldn''t say no. Holt had changed from a bad-boy teen to a dangerously sexy man, but Suzanna couldn''t risk her well-ordered life for a man who made her mouth go dry . . . **Megan''s Mate** -- Calhoun sister-in-law Megan O''Riley and her young son had traveled far to become the Towers'' newest residents. Cool as an Atlantic breeze, Megan buried her passions and vowed never to let her heart control her life. But when boat captain Nate Fury set his course for her, the practical lady was swept away by his formidable charm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22342'),
(11633, 'Caliban', 'Isaac Asimov - Caliban1 - Caliban', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23097'),
(11634, 'Caliban', 'Isaac Asimov &amp; Roger MacBride Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28257'),
(11635, 'Calibre Quick Start Guide', 'John Schember', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20189'),
(11636, 'California for Dummies (ISBN', '0470068639)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21682'),
(11637, 'California Hit', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The sunny Golden Gate city finds out what the Executioner is all about when he explodes into their midst, hot on the trail of the inner enemy and "Mr. King," the behind-the-scenes boss of all that moves and breathes in the western states.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bolans assault blazes a wide swath, zeroing in on the kingpins home base. A deadly Chinese Communist cell, some misled ecology freaks and a group of militant leftists all find themselves in danger of being burned by the swiftly racing torch of the Executioner. No one is going to stop him this time. No way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5887'),
(11638, 'California Hit', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The sunny Golden Gate city finds out what the Executioner is all about when he explodes into their midst, hot on the trail of the inner enemy and "Mr. King," the behind-the-scenes boss of all that moves and breathes in the western states. Bolans assault blazes a wide swath, zeroing in on the kingpins home base. A deadly Chinese Communist cell, some misled ecology freaks and a group of militant leftists all find themselves in danger of being burned by the swiftly racing torch of the Executioner. No one is going to stop him this time. No way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18724'),
(11639, 'California Hit', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The sunny Golden Gate city finds out what the Executioner is all about when he explodes into their midst, hot on the trail of the inner enemy and "Mr. King," the behind-the-scenes boss of all that moves and breathes in the western states. Bolans assault blazes a wide swath, zeroing in on the kingpins home base. A deadly Chinese Communist cell, some misled ecology freaks and a group of militant leftists all find themselves in danger of being burned by the swiftly racing torch of the Executioner. No one is going to stop him this time. No way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27528'),
(11640, 'The California Roll', 'John Vorhaus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vorhaus''s amusing thriller about the misadventures of a con man in Los Angeles hums along for a while through gags and gaffes and witty dialogue, but never gels as a whole. Radar Hoverlander, a longtime grifter whose tool box of cons is deep and wide, is looking for the California Roll, the holy grail of cons that will set him for life. He thinks he''s found it in the form of the Merlin Game, a complicated pyramid scheme. Then Radar runs into Allie Quinn, a sexy, slick fellow grifter who lures him into a con of her own. Vorhaus, author of\n <em>\n  The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even if You''re Not\n </em>\n and the Killer Poker series (_Killer Poker Online_, etc.), has put more effort into generating laughs than developing the plot. Like a lot of comic novels, this one suffers from extended expository passages in which the narrator falls in love with his own voice at the expense of the action.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Master of the snuke and its bafflegab and the scourge of every mook, con artist Radar Hoverlander wonders if heâ€™s met his match in Allie Quinn. Sheâ€™s dazzling and highly intelligent and seems to be setting him up for a con. She also leads a brittle, beautiful Australian cop and a bent FBI agent to him, and everyone but Radar has multiple agendas. Radar simply wants to avoid prison or being killed and to work toward the grand snuke, the California Roll, the last payday heâ€™ll ever need. The California Roll is grand entertainment. Radar, Allie, the law-enforcement odd couple, and hapless grifter Vic Mirplo are all cleverly developed. Double and triple crosses abound in the careening plot, and Vorhaus, who writes primarily about poker, really seems to understand the bedrock mendacity of the grift. Itâ€™s in the blood, like peanut allergy, he writes. The writing is tight and wonderfully glib, and Vorhaus slyly, shrewdly hints that heâ€™s snuking the reader. No caper-novel fan should miss this one. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4161'),
(11641, 'The California Roll', 'John Vorhaus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vorhaus''s amusing thriller about the misadventures of a con man in Los Angeles hums along for a while through gags and gaffes and witty dialogue, but never gels as a whole. Radar Hoverlander, a longtime grifter whose tool box of cons is deep and wide, is looking for the California Roll, the holy grail of cons that will set him for life. He thinks he''s found it in the form of the Merlin Game, a complicated pyramid scheme. Then Radar runs into Allie Quinn, a sexy, slick fellow grifter who lures him into a con of her own. Vorhaus, author of\n <em>\n  The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even if You''re Not\n </em>\n and the Killer Poker series (_Killer Poker Online_, etc.), has put more effort into generating laughs than developing the plot. Like a lot of comic novels, this one suffers from extended expository passages in which the narrator falls in love with his own voice at the expense of the action.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Master of the snuke and its bafflegab and the scourge of every mook, con artist Radar Hoverlander wonders if heâ€™s met his match in Allie Quinn. Sheâ€™s dazzling and highly intelligent and seems to be setting him up for a con. She also leads a brittle, beautiful Australian cop and a bent FBI agent to him, and everyone but Radar has multiple agendas. Radar simply wants to avoid prison or being killed and to work toward the grand snuke, the California Roll, the last payday heâ€™ll ever need. The California Roll is grand entertainment. Radar, Allie, the law-enforcement odd couple, and hapless grifter Vic Mirplo are all cleverly developed. Double and triple crosses abound in the careening plot, and Vorhaus, who writes primarily about poker, really seems to understand the bedrock mendacity of the grift. Itâ€™s in the blood, like peanut allergy, he writes. The writing is tight and wonderfully glib, and Vorhaus slyly, shrewdly hints that heâ€™s snuking the reader. No caper-novel fan should miss this one. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13264');
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(11642, 'The California Roll', 'John Vorhaus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vorhaus''s amusing thriller about the misadventures of a con man in Los Angeles hums along for a while through gags and gaffes and witty dialogue, but never gels as a whole. Radar Hoverlander, a longtime grifter whose tool box of cons is deep and wide, is looking for the California Roll, the holy grail of cons that will set him for life. He thinks he''s found it in the form of the Merlin Game, a complicated pyramid scheme. Then Radar runs into Allie Quinn, a sexy, slick fellow grifter who lures him into a con of her own. Vorhaus, author of\n <em>\n  The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even if You''re Not\n </em>\n and the Killer Poker series (_Killer Poker Online_, etc.), has put more effort into generating laughs than developing the plot. Like a lot of comic novels, this one suffers from extended expository passages in which the narrator falls in love with his own voice at the expense of the action.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Master of the snuke and its bafflegab and the scourge of every mook, con artist Radar Hoverlander wonders if heâ€™s met his match in Allie Quinn. Sheâ€™s dazzling and highly intelligent and seems to be setting him up for a con. She also leads a brittle, beautiful Australian cop and a bent FBI agent to him, and everyone but Radar has multiple agendas. Radar simply wants to avoid prison or being killed and to work toward the grand snuke, the California Roll, the last payday heâ€™ll ever need. The California Roll is grand entertainment. Radar, Allie, the law-enforcement odd couple, and hapless grifter Vic Mirplo are all cleverly developed. Double and triple crosses abound in the careening plot, and Vorhaus, who writes primarily about poker, really seems to understand the bedrock mendacity of the grift. Itâ€™s in the blood, like peanut allergy, he writes. The writing is tight and wonderfully glib, and Vorhaus slyly, shrewdly hints that heâ€™s snuking the reader. No caper-novel fan should miss this one. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20291'),
(11643, 'California Wine for Dummies (ISBN', '0470376074)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18614'),
(11644, 'Caliphate', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œSlavery is a part of Islam . . . Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.â€ â€”Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, author of the religious textbook At-Tawhid (â€œMonotheismâ€) and senior Saudi cleric.Demography is destiny. In the 22nd century European deathbed demographics have turned the continent over to the more fertile Moslems. Atheism in Europe has been exterminated. Homosexuals are hanged, stoned or crucified. Such Christians as remain are relegated to dhimmitude, a form of second class citizenship. They are denied arms, denied civil rights, denied a voice, and specially taxed via the Koranic yizya. Their sons are taken as conscripted soldiers while their daughters are subject to the depredations of the continentâ€™s new masters. In that world, Petra, a German girl sold into prostitution as a slave at the age of nine to pay her familyâ€™s yizya, dreams of escape. Unlike most girls of the day, Petra can read. And in her only real possession, her grandmotherâ€™s diary, a diary detailing the fall of European civilization, Petra has learned of a magic place across the sea: America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/491'),
(11645, 'Caliphate', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œSlavery is a part of Islam . . . Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.â€ â€”Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, author of the religious textbook At-Tawhid (â€œMonotheismâ€) and senior Saudi cleric.Demography is destiny. In the 22nd century European deathbed demographics have turned the continent over to the more fertile Moslems. Atheism in Europe has been exterminated. Homosexuals are hanged, stoned or crucified. Such Christians as remain are relegated to dhimmitude, a form of second class citizenship. They are denied arms, denied civil rights, denied a voice, and specially taxed via the Koranic yizya. Their sons are taken as conscripted soldiers while their daughters are subject to the depredations of the continentâ€™s new masters. In that world, Petra, a German girl sold into prostitution as a slave at the age of nine to pay her familyâ€™s yizya, dreams of escape. Unlike most girls of the day, Petra can read. And in her only real possession, her grandmotherâ€™s diary, a diary detailing the fall of European civilization, Petra has learned of a magic place across the sea: America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24368'),
(11646, 'Call for the Dead', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense ... excellent writing'' -- Observer ''Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard'' -- Sunday Telegraph\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   John le CarrÃ© classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service Agent George Smiley, who is introduced in this, his first novel -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n George smiley had liked Samuel Fennan, and now Fennan was dead from an apparent suicide. But why? Fennan, a Foreign Office man, had been under investigation for alleged Communist Party activities, but Smiley had made it clear that the investigation -- little more than a routine security check -- was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed. The very next day, Fennan was found dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn''t go on. Smiley was puzzled...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20209'),
(11647, 'Call Me Irresistible', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Susan Elizabeth Phillips to Jennifer Crusie\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n Dear Jenny,\n</p>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s once again time to talk about how wonderful you are. No, waitâ€¦ My new book,\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n , is coming out on January 18, 2011, so itâ€™s time to talk about how wonderful I am. Except I shamefully tried to do exactly that in our last interview, which was about you and your fabulous\n</p>\n<p>\n Back to me. So go ahead. Ask me some questions. Make them easy. Iâ€™m not half as smart as you. But Iâ€™ll put my banana bread up against yours any day.\n</p>\n<p>\n Love,\n <br />\n Susan\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Jennifer Crusie to Susan Elizabeth Phillips\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n Dear Susan,\n</p>\n<p>\n My banana bread leaves your banana bread sniveling in the pan from its inadequacy. However, I might write another book again someday and then youâ€™ll owe ME an interview, so I wonâ€™t mention that. HA. And I will be Adult and not make the interview about me.\n</p>\n<p>\n Love,\n <br />\n Jenny\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Jennifer Crusie Interviews Susan Elizabeth Phillips\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Jennifer Crusie:\n <em>\n </em>\n Welcome to Jennifer Crusieâ€™s interview with her Close Personal Friend, Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Iâ€™m Jenny Crusie and Iâ€™m thrilled to be interviewing Susan because sheâ€™s not only my Close Personal Friend, sheâ€™s also the Queen of Romantic Comedy! Oh, and because she has a new book coming out. And because thatâ€™s what Close Personal Friends do. So Susan, tell us about\n <em>\n  Maybe This Time\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Susan Elizabeth Phillips:\n </strong>\n Sighâ€¦ Once you tell your Close Personal Friend how much you love her book, she never lets you forget it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  JC:\n </strong>\n Sorry, sorry, I meant\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n . What was I thinking? Probably that â€œirresistibleâ€ is a bitch to spell, unlike â€œMaybe,â€ â€œThis,â€ and â€œTime.â€ So you have a new novel coming out FINALLY. Not that Iâ€™ve been impatient or anything, but ye gods, woman, you have fans and none of us are getting any younger. What took you so long? And when do I get my Close Personal Friend of Susan Elizabeth Phillips copy?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  SEP:\n </strong>\n So glad you pointed out the difficulty of spelling â€œirresistible.â€ Where was my brain? As for taking so longâ€¦ Writing is hard! Didnâ€™t anybody ever tell you that? (An advanced copy of the book is coming to you in the mail. Along with a truly superb loaf of banana bread.)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  JC:\n </strong>\n Sorry, sorry, Iâ€™m just thrilled that\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n is coming out. Finally. For one thing, I get to see some of my favorite characters again like Meg from\n <strong>\n  and Lucy from\n </strong>\n , not to mention Ted from\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n . Is it fun for you to revisit them? (Not that I care, itâ€™s fun for me, so bring them back anyway, thatâ€™s what I say.) Oh, and will readers have to have read all those books to understand this one? Because if so, good marketing.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  SEP:\n </strong>\n I love revisiting old characters. Just like revisiting old friends. (Not that weâ€™re old. Or even remotely mature.) The thing about my books is that they all stand alone, even those with familiar characters. And, boy, does\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n have a lot of familiar characters. If readers want to pick up the older books, more power to them. But they donâ€™t have to. That would be like homework. Except more fun.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n You remember back when I told you not to marry Charles and you got all huffy about it? Meg does the same thing to Lucy in this book and she listens. What kind of heroine tries to break up her palâ€™s wedding? (Tell Charles I said hi.)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n My husbandâ€™s name is Bill, not Charles. (This interview isnâ€™t going nearly as well as Iâ€™d hoped.) Meg, the heroine of\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n , sees clearly what Lucy Jorik, the bride, canâ€™tâ€”that Lucy and Ted Beaudine arenâ€™t the perfect match everyone believes them to be. Lucy flees her wedding just as sheâ€™s supposed to be saying, â€œI do,â€ leaving Meg to face the wrath of Wynette, Texasâ€¦ and Ted Beaudine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n Okay, the last time I saw Ted he was a kid, so his appeal as a leading man wasnâ€™t evident (cute, though) but now he sounds like The Perfect Man: a civic minded, athletic, sweet, rich genius. Did Meg turn into superwoman in between books to earn this paragon? Because Iâ€™m feeling inadequate enough without having to live up to a Perfect Heroine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n Not to worry. As you pointed out, Ted really does have it all: looks, money, charm, and that annoying genius I.Q. As for Megâ€¦ Unlike our sexy paragon of a hero, Meg is so deliciously imperfect. Kind of a screw-up, although her heartâ€™s in the right place. She also has big problems. Sheâ€™s broke, stranded, and unemployed in a town where everybodyâ€™s out to get herâ€¦and where Ted Beaudine holds all the power.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n What is it with you and Texans? Not that I have anything against Texas except, you know, politics, but youâ€™re practically a tumbleweed groupie. Did you have a great one-night stand there that youâ€™ve never quite let go of? Did you look across a room and meet the eyes of a tall, dark ranger and then Charles made you play golf? Because your erotic fascination with that state is well-documented. Give us all the details. And pictures. Pictures or it didnâ€™t happen.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n My husbandâ€™s name is NOT CHARLES, itâ€™s BILL! And who are you calling a groupie? I seem to remember a certain wild night, a certain famous rockerâ€¦ Iâ€™ll say no more. As for my Texas settingsâ€”and no offense to my Lone Star friendsâ€”but that state is a writerâ€™s dream. You can make any dang fool thing happen in Texas and readers will believe it. Thank you Sam Houston and all your fine descendents.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n I never had a chance to be a groupie once you told him I threw rolls at you. You asked me some really good questions in our last Amazon interview (smart, talented, and beautiful; you really do have it all, oh Queen of the RomCom), so Iâ€™m throwing two of the best back at you: â€œHow do the stories you want to tell now differ from the ones you wanted to tell when you started writing? How are they the same?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n Do I detect a little sarcasm with all these Queen references? I should never have borrowed your tiara. Great, insightful questions, by the way! (Please donâ€™t bring up the roll incident.) My core story will, I think, always be the same. I love books that make me laugh and get a lump in my throat, sometimes on the same page. I love sexy heroes, funny heroines, and happy endings. Basically, thereâ€™s not much difference between what I used to write and what I write now. Except now Iâ€™m a lot better speller.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n Thank you, Susan for these insightful and fascinating answers. And now for our last question: WHATâ€™S NEXT? Tell me all about what youâ€™re working on so I can harass you so you can finish it faster and I can read it. And because Iâ€™m a pal, proofread it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n Iâ€™m not giving too much away by saying that, by page thirty of\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n , Lucy Jorik has fled her wedding, and we donâ€™t see her again for the rest of the book. Leaving us to wonderâ€¦ Exactly what happened to our runaway bride?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Phillips crafts a laugh-out-loud and romantic story with panache that mostly makes up for some gaping plot holes. Onetime PGA star and smalltown mayor Ted Beaudine (met in 2005''s Fancy Pants) is about to marry Lucy Jorik, the daughter of a former president, when she''s persuaded to break it off by her best friend, Meg Koranda (2008''s Glitter Baby), the aimless daughter of Hollywood royalty. Everyone in Wynette, Tex., loves Ted, but Meg feels Lucy deserves a passionate partner, not a god of self-control. After the disaster of calling off the wedding at the last minute, Meg''s parents cut her off, stranding her in the hostile town. As Meg finds her own path and helps Ted discover his heart, the townspeople stoutly (and hilariously) defend their golden boy. However, some readers may not appreciate that Meg''s good deed is punished so often and severely en route to happiness. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/983'),
(11648, 'Call Me Irresistible', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Susan Elizabeth Phillips to Jennifer Crusie\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n Dear Jenny,\n</p>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s once again time to talk about how wonderful you are. No, waitâ€¦ My new book,\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n , is coming out on January 18, 2011, so itâ€™s time to talk about how wonderful I am. Except I shamefully tried to do exactly that in our last interview, which was about you and your fabulous\n</p>\n<p>\n Back to me. So go ahead. Ask me some questions. Make them easy. Iâ€™m not half as smart as you. But Iâ€™ll put my banana bread up against yours any day.\n</p>\n<p>\n Love,\n <br />\n Susan\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Jennifer Crusie to Susan Elizabeth Phillips\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n Dear Susan,\n</p>\n<p>\n My banana bread leaves your banana bread sniveling in the pan from its inadequacy. However, I might write another book again someday and then youâ€™ll owe ME an interview, so I wonâ€™t mention that. HA. And I will be Adult and not make the interview about me.\n</p>\n<p>\n Love,\n <br />\n Jenny\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Jennifer Crusie Interviews Susan Elizabeth Phillips\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Jennifer Crusie:\n <em>\n </em>\n Welcome to Jennifer Crusieâ€™s interview with her Close Personal Friend, Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Iâ€™m Jenny Crusie and Iâ€™m thrilled to be interviewing Susan because sheâ€™s not only my Close Personal Friend, sheâ€™s also the Queen of Romantic Comedy! Oh, and because she has a new book coming out. And because thatâ€™s what Close Personal Friends do. So Susan, tell us about\n <em>\n  Maybe This Time\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Susan Elizabeth Phillips:\n </strong>\n Sighâ€¦ Once you tell your Close Personal Friend how much you love her book, she never lets you forget it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  JC:\n </strong>\n Sorry, sorry, I meant\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n . What was I thinking? Probably that â€œirresistibleâ€ is a bitch to spell, unlike â€œMaybe,â€ â€œThis,â€ and â€œTime.â€ So you have a new novel coming out FINALLY. Not that Iâ€™ve been impatient or anything, but ye gods, woman, you have fans and none of us are getting any younger. What took you so long? And when do I get my Close Personal Friend of Susan Elizabeth Phillips copy?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  SEP:\n </strong>\n So glad you pointed out the difficulty of spelling â€œirresistible.â€ Where was my brain? As for taking so longâ€¦ Writing is hard! Didnâ€™t anybody ever tell you that? (An advanced copy of the book is coming to you in the mail. Along with a truly superb loaf of banana bread.)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  JC:\n </strong>\n Sorry, sorry, Iâ€™m just thrilled that\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n is coming out. Finally. For one thing, I get to see some of my favorite characters again like Meg from\n <strong>\n  and Lucy from\n </strong>\n , not to mention Ted from\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n . Is it fun for you to revisit them? (Not that I care, itâ€™s fun for me, so bring them back anyway, thatâ€™s what I say.) Oh, and will readers have to have read all those books to understand this one? Because if so, good marketing.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  SEP:\n </strong>\n I love revisiting old characters. Just like revisiting old friends. (Not that weâ€™re old. Or even remotely mature.) The thing about my books is that they all stand alone, even those with familiar characters. And, boy, does\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n have a lot of familiar characters. If readers want to pick up the older books, more power to them. But they donâ€™t have to. That would be like homework. Except more fun.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n You remember back when I told you not to marry Charles and you got all huffy about it? Meg does the same thing to Lucy in this book and she listens. What kind of heroine tries to break up her palâ€™s wedding? (Tell Charles I said hi.)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n My husbandâ€™s name is Bill, not Charles. (This interview isnâ€™t going nearly as well as Iâ€™d hoped.) Meg, the heroine of\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n , sees clearly what Lucy Jorik, the bride, canâ€™tâ€”that Lucy and Ted Beaudine arenâ€™t the perfect match everyone believes them to be. Lucy flees her wedding just as sheâ€™s supposed to be saying, â€œI do,â€ leaving Meg to face the wrath of Wynette, Texasâ€¦ and Ted Beaudine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n Okay, the last time I saw Ted he was a kid, so his appeal as a leading man wasnâ€™t evident (cute, though) but now he sounds like The Perfect Man: a civic minded, athletic, sweet, rich genius. Did Meg turn into superwoman in between books to earn this paragon? Because Iâ€™m feeling inadequate enough without having to live up to a Perfect Heroine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n Not to worry. As you pointed out, Ted really does have it all: looks, money, charm, and that annoying genius I.Q. As for Megâ€¦ Unlike our sexy paragon of a hero, Meg is so deliciously imperfect. Kind of a screw-up, although her heartâ€™s in the right place. She also has big problems. Sheâ€™s broke, stranded, and unemployed in a town where everybodyâ€™s out to get herâ€¦and where Ted Beaudine holds all the power.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n What is it with you and Texans? Not that I have anything against Texas except, you know, politics, but youâ€™re practically a tumbleweed groupie. Did you have a great one-night stand there that youâ€™ve never quite let go of? Did you look across a room and meet the eyes of a tall, dark ranger and then Charles made you play golf? Because your erotic fascination with that state is well-documented. Give us all the details. And pictures. Pictures or it didnâ€™t happen.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n My husbandâ€™s name is NOT CHARLES, itâ€™s BILL! And who are you calling a groupie? I seem to remember a certain wild night, a certain famous rockerâ€¦ Iâ€™ll say no more. As for my Texas settingsâ€”and no offense to my Lone Star friendsâ€”but that state is a writerâ€™s dream. You can make any dang fool thing happen in Texas and readers will believe it. Thank you Sam Houston and all your fine descendents.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n I never had a chance to be a groupie once you told him I threw rolls at you. You asked me some really good questions in our last Amazon interview (smart, talented, and beautiful; you really do have it all, oh Queen of the RomCom), so Iâ€™m throwing two of the best back at you: â€œHow do the stories you want to tell now differ from the ones you wanted to tell when you started writing? How are they the same?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n Do I detect a little sarcasm with all these Queen references? I should never have borrowed your tiara. Great, insightful questions, by the way! (Please donâ€™t bring up the roll incident.) My core story will, I think, always be the same. I love books that make me laugh and get a lump in my throat, sometimes on the same page. I love sexy heroes, funny heroines, and happy endings. Basically, thereâ€™s not much difference between what I used to write and what I write now. Except now Iâ€™m a lot better speller.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n JC:\n <em>\n </em>\n Thank you, Susan for these insightful and fascinating answers. And now for our last question: WHATâ€™S NEXT? Tell me all about what youâ€™re working on so I can harass you so you can finish it faster and I can read it. And because Iâ€™m a pal, proofread it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n SEP:\n <em>\n </em>\n Iâ€™m not giving too much away by saying that, by page thirty of\n <em>\n  Call Me Irresistible\n </em>\n , Lucy Jorik has fled her wedding, and we donâ€™t see her again for the rest of the book. Leaving us to wonderâ€¦ Exactly what happened to our runaway bride?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Phillips crafts a laugh-out-loud and romantic story with panache that mostly makes up for some gaping plot holes. Onetime PGA star and smalltown mayor Ted Beaudine (met in 2005''s Fancy Pants) is about to marry Lucy Jorik, the daughter of a former president, when she''s persuaded to break it off by her best friend, Meg Koranda (2008''s Glitter Baby), the aimless daughter of Hollywood royalty. Everyone in Wynette, Tex., loves Ted, but Meg feels Lucy deserves a passionate partner, not a god of self-control. After the disaster of calling off the wedding at the last minute, Meg''s parents cut her off, stranding her in the hostile town. As Meg finds her own path and helps Ted discover his heart, the townspeople stoutly (and hilariously) defend their golden boy. However, some readers may not appreciate that Meg''s good deed is punished so often and severely en route to happiness. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11956'),
(11649, 'Call Me Irresistible', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24047'),
(11650, 'The Call of Earth', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Call of Earth continues the story of Nafai, his family, and the few other people selected by the Oversoul to leave the city of Basilica, and their former lives. When the human refugees from a ruined Earth founded a colony on the planet Harmony, they determined that this world would not be devastated by the endless cycle of vicious warfare that had characterized human life from the beginning. They didn''t try to change human nature. Instead they installed a powerful computer, called the Oversoul, and gave it the task of governing human affairs by subtly influencing human minds. That was millions of years ago. Now the Oversoul is growing weak, breaking down. It must be returned to Earth, to the master computer called the Keeper of Earth, to be repaired. The Oversoul must have human help to make that journey. But as the Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen, stronger, smarter perhaps, than Nafai and his allies. His name is Moozh, and he is deliberately flouting the will of the Oversoul. He has won control of an army using forbidden technology. Now he is aiming his soldiers straight at Basilica, that strong fortress above the Plains. Who will stop him? Basilica remains in turmoil. Wetchik and his sons, Nafai and Issib, Elemak and Mebbekew, are not strong enough to resist alone. Can Rasa and her allies defeat him through intrigue, or will Moozh take the city and all who are in it? And meanwhile, in their dreams, the most sensitive people of the planet Harmony hear the call of the Keeper of Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2418'),
(11651, 'The Call of Earth', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Call of Earth continues the story of Nafai, his family, and the few other people selected by the Oversoul to leave the city of Basilica, and their former lives. When the human refugees from a ruined Earth founded a colony on the planet Harmony, they determined that this world would not be devastated by the endless cycle of vicious warfare that had characterized human life from the beginning. They didn''t try to change human nature. Instead they installed a powerful computer, called the Oversoul, and gave it the task of governing human affairs by subtly influencing human minds. That was millions of years ago. Now the Oversoul is growing weak, breaking down. It must be returned to Earth, to the master computer called the Keeper of Earth, to be repaired. The Oversoul must have human help to make that journey. But as the Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen, stronger, smarter perhaps, than Nafai and his allies. His name is Moozh, and he is deliberately flouting the will of the Oversoul. He has won control of an army using forbidden technology. Now he is aiming his soldiers straight at Basilica, that strong fortress above the Plains. Who will stop him? Basilica remains in turmoil. Wetchik and his sons, Nafai and Issib, Elemak and Mebbekew, are not strong enough to resist alone. Can Rasa and her allies defeat him through intrigue, or will Moozh take the city and all who are in it? And meanwhile, in their dreams, the most sensitive people of the planet Harmony hear the call of the Keeper of Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22459'),
(11652, 'The Call of Kerberos: Twilight of Kerberos', 'Jonathan Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Within the call of Kerberos, lies the destiny of humankind!Silus is a fisherman working the Nurn Coast, a simple man leading a simple life. But there is more to Silus than even he himself realises. When a mysterious man on the run from the Final Faith tries to persuade Silus on an extraordinary voyage, his world begins to change. And when an ancient and evil race burts from the sea to try and claim Silus as one of their own, he is forced to flee his home. Soon Silus becomes a pawn in a deadly game played between ancient races. On the forbidding Twilight seas, Silus begins to discover the extraordinary truth behinf his burgeoning preternatural abilities. As he battles alongside the crew of the magical galleon the Llothriall, Silus will find out more about his legacy than he could ever have imagined. Hearing the call of Kerberos, he will fight to save existence itself!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4136'),
(11653, 'The Call of Kerberos: Twilight of Kerberos', 'Jonathan Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Within the call of Kerberos, lies the destiny of humankind!Silus is a fisherman working the Nurn Coast, a simple man leading a simple life. But there is more to Silus than even he himself realises. When a mysterious man on the run from the Final Faith tries to persuade Silus on an extraordinary voyage, his world begins to change. And when an ancient and evil race burts from the sea to try and claim Silus as one of their own, he is forced to flee his home. Soon Silus becomes a pawn in a deadly game played between ancient races. On the forbidding Twilight seas, Silus begins to discover the extraordinary truth behinf his burgeoning preternatural abilities. As he battles alongside the crew of the magical galleon the Llothriall, Silus will find out more about his legacy than he could ever have imagined. Hearing the call of Kerberos, he will fight to save existence itself!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11684'),
(11654, 'The Call of Kerberos: Twilight of Kerberos', 'Jonathan Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Within the call of Kerberos, lies the destiny of humankind!Silus is a fisherman working the Nurn Coast, a simple man leading a simple life. But there is more to Silus than even he himself realises. When a mysterious man on the run from the Final Faith tries to persuade Silus on an extraordinary voyage, his world begins to change. And when an ancient and evil race burts from the sea to try and claim Silus as one of their own, he is forced to flee his home. Soon Silus becomes a pawn in a deadly game played between ancient races. On the forbidding Twilight seas, Silus begins to discover the extraordinary truth behinf his burgeoning preternatural abilities. As he battles alongside the crew of the magical galleon the Llothriall, Silus will find out more about his legacy than he could ever have imagined. Hearing the call of Kerberos, he will fight to save existence itself!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20381'),
(11655, 'Call of the Veld', 'Anne Hampson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7613'),
(11656, 'Call of the veld', 'Anne Hampson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16297'),
(11657, 'Call of the veld', 'Anne Hampson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26387'),
(11658, 'The Call of the Wild and White Fang', 'Jack London', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Call of the Wild and White Fang*, by **Jack London**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.**** **Jack London**â€™s two greatest novels, *The Call of the Wild* and *White Fang*â€”originally intended as companionsâ€”are here compiled in one volume. *The Call of the Wild* centers on a domesticated dog, Buck, who is kidnapped and sold to Klondike gold hunters. To survive Buck must listen to the Call and learn the ways of his wolf-ancestors, who guide him from within.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *White Fang* tells the story of a half-wolf, half-dog nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men. Brought to the very brink of his existence, White Fang is lucky enough to experience the one thing that can save himâ€”human love.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Adventurer and activist, philosopher and alcoholic, Jack London was a man of great contradictions and greater talent. Both of these novels are written in a simple, direct, and powerful style that decades of readers have admired and that writers have imitated.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **** **Tina Gianquitto**** holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Columbia University and currently teaches at The College of the Mines in Colorado.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4903'),
(11659, 'The Call of the Wild and White Fang', 'Jack London', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Call of the Wild and White Fang*, by **Jack London**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.**** **Jack London**â€™s two greatest novels, *The Call of the Wild* and *White Fang*â€”originally intended as companionsâ€”are here compiled in one volume. *The Call of the Wild* centers on a domesticated dog, Buck, who is kidnapped and sold to Klondike gold hunters. To survive Buck must listen to the Call and learn the ways of his wolf-ancestors, who guide him from within.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *White Fang* tells the story of a half-wolf, half-dog nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men. Brought to the very brink of his existence, White Fang is lucky enough to experience the one thing that can save himâ€”human love.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Adventurer and activist, philosopher and alcoholic, Jack London was a man of great contradictions and greater talent. Both of these novels are written in a simple, direct, and powerful style that decades of readers have admired and that writers have imitated.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **** **Tina Gianquitto**** holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Columbia University and currently teaches at The College of the Mines in Colorado.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11141'),
(11660, 'The Call of the Wild and White Fang', 'Jack London', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Call of the Wild and White Fang*, by **Jack London**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.**** **Jack London**â€™s two greatest novels, *The Call of the Wild* and *White Fang*â€”originally intended as companionsâ€”are here compiled in one volume. *The Call of the Wild* centers on a domesticated dog, Buck, who is kidnapped and sold to Klondike gold hunters. To survive Buck must listen to the Call and learn the ways of his wolf-ancestors, who guide him from within. *White Fang* tells the story of a half-wolf, half-dog nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men. Brought to the very brink of his existence, White Fang is lucky enough to experience the one thing that can save himâ€”human love. Adventurer and activist, philosopher and alcoholic, Jack London was a man of great contradictions and greater talent. Both of these novels are written in a simple, direct, and powerful style that decades of readers have admired and that writers have imitated. **** **Tina Gianquitto**** holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Columbia University and currently teaches at The College of the Mines in Colorado.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14491'),
(11661, 'The Call of the Wild and White Fang', 'Jack London', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Call of the Wild and White Fang*, by **Jack London**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.**** **Jack London**â€™s two greatest novels, *The Call of the Wild* and *White Fang*â€”originally intended as companionsâ€”are here compiled in one volume. *The Call of the Wild* centers on a domesticated dog, Buck, who is kidnapped and sold to Klondike gold hunters. To survive Buck must listen to the Call and learn the ways of his wolf-ancestors, who guide him from within. *White Fang* tells the story of a half-wolf, half-dog nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men. Brought to the very brink of his existence, White Fang is lucky enough to experience the one thing that can save himâ€”human love. Adventurer and activist, philosopher and alcoholic, Jack London was a man of great contradictions and greater talent. Both of these novels are written in a simple, direct, and powerful style that decades of readers have admired and that writers have imitated. **** **Tina Gianquitto**** holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Columbia University and currently teaches at The College of the Mines in Colorado.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19763'),
(11662, 'A Call to Darkness', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The "Enterprise" discovers a lifeless Federation research vessel, orbibting a planet hidden behind a mysterious energy shield. Over the strong objections of his senior officers, Captain Picard and an away team beam over in search of the missing crew --  And vanish.  But soon his captain''s disappearance is not the only problem facing Commander Riker. For a mysterious disease has begun ravaging the "Enterprise" crew. Now Riker must uravel the secrets of the planet below in order to rescue Picard -- a prevent the starship''s destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2832'),
(11663, 'A Call to Darkness', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The "Enterprise" discovers a lifeless Federation research vessel, orbibting a planet hidden behind a mysterious energy shield. Over the strong objections of his senior officers, Captain Picard and an away team beam over in search of the missing crew -- And vanish. But soon his captain''s disappearance is not the only problem facing Commander Riker. For a mysterious disease has begun ravaging the "Enterprise" crew. Now Riker must uravel the secrets of the planet below in order to rescue Picard -- a prevent the starship''s destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22000'),
(11664, 'The Call', 'Michael Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Tongue firmly planted in cheek, Grant sends a lad with a serious case of mediumness up against not only the minions of an ageless and evil Pale Queen but also a truly impressive list of phobias in this opener to the Magnificent 12 series. Prompted by the urgent warnings of an ancient, spectral mage (In just a few months the Dread Foe will be loosed in all her fury, all her rage, all her sphincter-clenching, heart-clutching, throat-gobbling, spit-drying, blood-freezing, bowel-loosening terror!), a murder attempt, and the arrival of plane tickets with a million-dollar debit card, Mack sets out for Australia. This is just the first leg of a mission to gather the other 11 supposed Magnifica necessary to defeat the evil that is about to escape 3,000 years of imprisonment. Hooking up with the first of his allies entails not only long, screaming drops into the ocean (Mack is powerfully thalassophobic) and down a shaft into a cave beneath Uluru (he is also awfully claustrophobic) but also battles with a variety of the queenâ€™s magical warriors and an encounter with her daughter, Ereskigalâ€”an insanely beautiful young sorceress with the eating habits of a female praying mantis. Grant fills out the historical backstory for this promising scenario in alternating flashback chapters, provides a sturdy supporting cast for his reluctant young hero, and keeps up the rapid pace from first page to last. A terrific start, with an elaborate website festooned with games and contests to ease the wait for sequels. Grades 5-8. --John Peters\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Twelve-year-old Mack MacAvoy suffers from a serious case of mediumness. Medium looks. Medium grades. Medium parents who barely notice him. With a list of phobias that could make anyone crazy, Mack never would have guessed that he is destined for a more-than-medium life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then, one day, something incredibly strange happens to Mack. A three-thousand-year-old man named Grimluk appears in the boysâ€™ bathroom to deliver some startling news: Mack is one of the Magnificent Twelve, called the Magnifica in ancient times, whatever that means. An evil force is on its way, and itâ€™s up to Mack to track down eleven other twelve-year-olds in order to stop it. He must travel across the world to battle the wicked Pale Queenâ€™s dangerous daughter, Ereskigalâ€”also known as Risky. But Risky sounds a little scary, and Mack doesnâ€™t want to be a hero. Will he answer the call?\n </p>\n <p>\n  A laugh-out-loud story filled with excitement and magic,\n  <em>\n   The Magnificent Twelve: The Call\n  </em>\n  is the first book in bestselling author Michael Grantâ€™s hilarious new fantasy adventure series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2816');
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(11665, 'The Call', 'Michael Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Tongue firmly planted in cheek, Grant sends a lad with a serious case of mediumness up against not only the minions of an ageless and evil Pale Queen but also a truly impressive list of phobias in this opener to the Magnificent 12 series. Prompted by the urgent warnings of an ancient, spectral mage (In just a few months the Dread Foe will be loosed in all her fury, all her rage, all her sphincter-clenching, heart-clutching, throat-gobbling, spit-drying, blood-freezing, bowel-loosening terror!), a murder attempt, and the arrival of plane tickets with a million-dollar debit card, Mack sets out for Australia. This is just the first leg of a mission to gather the other 11 supposed Magnifica necessary to defeat the evil that is about to escape 3,000 years of imprisonment. Hooking up with the first of his allies entails not only long, screaming drops into the ocean (Mack is powerfully thalassophobic) and down a shaft into a cave beneath Uluru (he is also awfully claustrophobic) but also battles with a variety of the queenâ€™s magical warriors and an encounter with her daughter, Ereskigalâ€”an insanely beautiful young sorceress with the eating habits of a female praying mantis. Grant fills out the historical backstory for this promising scenario in alternating flashback chapters, provides a sturdy supporting cast for his reluctant young hero, and keeps up the rapid pace from first page to last. A terrific start, with an elaborate website festooned with games and contests to ease the wait for sequels. Grades 5-8. --John Peters\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Twelve-year-old Mack MacAvoy suffers from a serious case of mediumness. Medium looks. Medium grades. Medium parents who barely notice him. With a list of phobias that could make anyone crazy, Mack never would have guessed that he is destined for a more-than-medium life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then, one day, something incredibly strange happens to Mack. A three-thousand-year-old man named Grimluk appears in the boysâ€™ bathroom to deliver some startling news: Mack is one of the Magnificent Twelve, called the Magnifica in ancient times, whatever that means. An evil force is on its way, and itâ€™s up to Mack to track down eleven other twelve-year-olds in order to stop it. He must travel across the world to battle the wicked Pale Queenâ€™s dangerous daughter, Ereskigalâ€”also known as Risky. But Risky sounds a little scary, and Mack doesnâ€™t want to be a hero. Will he answer the call?\n </p>\n <p>\n  A laugh-out-loud story filled with excitement and magic,\n  <em>\n   The Magnificent Twelve: The Call\n  </em>\n  is the first book in bestselling author Michael Grantâ€™s hilarious new fantasy adventure series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10001'),
(11666, 'The Call', 'Michael Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Tongue firmly planted in cheek, Grant sends a lad with a serious case of mediumness up against not only the minions of an ageless and evil Pale Queen but also a truly impressive list of phobias in this opener to the Magnificent 12 series. Prompted by the urgent warnings of an ancient, spectral mage (In just a few months the Dread Foe will be loosed in all her fury, all her rage, all her sphincter-clenching, heart-clutching, throat-gobbling, spit-drying, blood-freezing, bowel-loosening terror!), a murder attempt, and the arrival of plane tickets with a million-dollar debit card, Mack sets out for Australia. This is just the first leg of a mission to gather the other 11 supposed Magnifica necessary to defeat the evil that is about to escape 3,000 years of imprisonment. Hooking up with the first of his allies entails not only long, screaming drops into the ocean (Mack is powerfully thalassophobic) and down a shaft into a cave beneath Uluru (he is also awfully claustrophobic) but also battles with a variety of the queenâ€™s magical warriors and an encounter with her daughter, Ereskigalâ€”an insanely beautiful young sorceress with the eating habits of a female praying mantis. Grant fills out the historical backstory for this promising scenario in alternating flashback chapters, provides a sturdy supporting cast for his reluctant young hero, and keeps up the rapid pace from first page to last. A terrific start, with an elaborate website festooned with games and contests to ease the wait for sequels. Grades 5-8. --John Peters\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Twelve-year-old Mack MacAvoy suffers from a serious case of mediumness. Medium looks. Medium grades. Medium parents who barely notice him. With a list of phobias that could make anyone crazy, Mack never would have guessed that he is destined for a more-than-medium life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then, one day, something incredibly strange happens to Mack. A three-thousand-year-old man named Grimluk appears in the boysâ€™ bathroom to deliver some startling news: Mack is one of the Magnificent Twelve, called the Magnifica in ancient times, whatever that means. An evil force is on its way, and itâ€™s up to Mack to track down eleven other twelve-year-olds in order to stop it. He must travel across the world to battle the wicked Pale Queenâ€™s dangerous daughter, Ereskigalâ€”also known as Risky. But Risky sounds a little scary, and Mack doesnâ€™t want to be a hero. Will he answer the call?\n </p>\n <p>\n  A laugh-out-loud story filled with excitement and magic,\n  <em>\n   The Magnificent Twelve: The Call\n  </em>\n  is the first book in bestselling author Michael Grantâ€™s hilarious new fantasy adventure series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22009'),
(11667, 'Callahan&#39;s Lady', 'Spider Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23034'),
(11668, 'The Calligrapher&#39;s Daughter: A Novel', 'Eugenia Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This debut novel, inspired by the life of the author''s Korean mother, is a beautiful, deliberate and satisfying story spanning 30 years of Korean history. The tradition-bound aristocratic calligrapher Han refuses to name his daughter because she is born just as the Japanese occupy Korea early in the 20th century. When Han finds a husband for Najin (nicknamed after her mother''s birthplace) at 14, her mother objects and instead sends her to the court of the doomed royal Yi family to learn refinement. Najin goes to college and becomes a teacher, proving herself not only as a scholar but as a patriot and humanitarian. She returns home to marry, but her new husband goes without her to study in America when she is denied a visa. As the Japanese systematically obliterate ancient Korean culture and the political climate worsens, so do Najin''s fortunes. Her family is reduced to poverty, their home is seized and Najin is imprisoned as a spy while WWII escalates. The author writes at a languorous pace, choosing not to sully her elegant pages with raw brutality, but the key to the story is Korea''s monumental suffering at the hands of the Japanese.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€”In 1910 Gaesong, Korea, a female child is born to a learned scholar and calligrapher and his wife. The child, unnamed by her father, who is despondent over the recent annexing of Korea by Japan, names herself\n <em>\n  Najin\n </em>\n . She proceeds to forge her own destiny, struggling to be an obedient daughter in the Confucian tradition of her father and the Christian faith embraced by her mother. To escape an arranged marriage, Najin goes to the emperor''s palace to be a companion to the princess. With the collapse of the Joseon dynasty, she loses her position. She finds ways to further her studies in education and medicine and helps support her parents and younger, shiftless brother with work as a teacher and physician. When her father arranges another marriage, to a student minister, Najin agrees. Immediately she is left with his family to act as a servant while he studies in the U.S. Accused of spying after she returns to her own now-impoverished family, Najin spends months in prison. The novel, based on the life of the author''s mother, comes to a satisfying conclusion with the surrender of Japan and the reunion of the couple. Descriptive imagery communicates Najin''s philosophical musings, dreams, and appreciation of nature. Readers are left with greater understanding of the horrors of Japanese occupation and of the cultural, political, and religious upheaval that Korean families faced as they negotiated the modern world. Delicate black-and-white illustrations complement the prose. A compelling narrative about an intellectually curious and brave heroine.â€”_Jackie Gropman, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library System, Fairfax, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5613'),
(11669, 'The Calligrapher&#39;s Daughter: A Novel', 'Eugenia Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This debut novel, inspired by the life of the author''s Korean mother, is a beautiful, deliberate and satisfying story spanning 30 years of Korean history. The tradition-bound aristocratic calligrapher Han refuses to name his daughter because she is born just as the Japanese occupy Korea early in the 20th century. When Han finds a husband for Najin (nicknamed after her mother''s birthplace) at 14, her mother objects and instead sends her to the court of the doomed royal Yi family to learn refinement. Najin goes to college and becomes a teacher, proving herself not only as a scholar but as a patriot and humanitarian. She returns home to marry, but her new husband goes without her to study in America when she is denied a visa. As the Japanese systematically obliterate ancient Korean culture and the political climate worsens, so do Najin''s fortunes. Her family is reduced to poverty, their home is seized and Najin is imprisoned as a spy while WWII escalates. The author writes at a languorous pace, choosing not to sully her elegant pages with raw brutality, but the key to the story is Korea''s monumental suffering at the hands of the Japanese.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€”In 1910 Gaesong, Korea, a female child is born to a learned scholar and calligrapher and his wife. The child, unnamed by her father, who is despondent over the recent annexing of Korea by Japan, names herself\n <em>\n  Najin\n </em>\n . She proceeds to forge her own destiny, struggling to be an obedient daughter in the Confucian tradition of her father and the Christian faith embraced by her mother. To escape an arranged marriage, Najin goes to the emperor''s palace to be a companion to the princess. With the collapse of the Joseon dynasty, she loses her position. She finds ways to further her studies in education and medicine and helps support her parents and younger, shiftless brother with work as a teacher and physician. When her father arranges another marriage, to a student minister, Najin agrees. Immediately she is left with his family to act as a servant while he studies in the U.S. Accused of spying after she returns to her own now-impoverished family, Najin spends months in prison. The novel, based on the life of the author''s mother, comes to a satisfying conclusion with the surrender of Japan and the reunion of the couple. Descriptive imagery communicates Najin''s philosophical musings, dreams, and appreciation of nature. Readers are left with greater understanding of the horrors of Japanese occupation and of the cultural, political, and religious upheaval that Korean families faced as they negotiated the modern world. Delicate black-and-white illustrations complement the prose. A compelling narrative about an intellectually curious and brave heroine.â€”_Jackie Gropman, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library System, Fairfax, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10745'),
(11670, 'The calligrapher&#39;s daughter: a novel', 'Eugenia Kim', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This debut novel, inspired by the life of the author''s Korean mother, is a beautiful, deliberate and satisfying story spanning 30 years of Korean history. The tradition-bound aristocratic calligrapher Han refuses to name his daughter because she is born just as the Japanese occupy Korea early in the 20th century. When Han finds a husband for Najin (nicknamed after her mother''s birthplace) at 14, her mother objects and instead sends her to the court of the doomed royal Yi family to learn refinement. Najin goes to college and becomes a teacher, proving herself not only as a scholar but as a patriot and humanitarian. She returns home to marry, but her new husband goes without her to study in America when she is denied a visa. As the Japanese systematically obliterate ancient Korean culture and the political climate worsens, so do Najin''s fortunes. Her family is reduced to poverty, their home is seized and Najin is imprisoned as a spy while WWII escalates. The author writes at a languorous pace, choosing not to sully her elegant pages with raw brutality, but the key to the story is Korea''s monumental suffering at the hands of the Japanese.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€”In 1910 Gaesong, Korea, a female child is born to a learned scholar and calligrapher and his wife. The child, unnamed by her father, who is despondent over the recent annexing of Korea by Japan, names herself\n <em>\n  Najin\n </em>\n . She proceeds to forge her own destiny, struggling to be an obedient daughter in the Confucian tradition of her father and the Christian faith embraced by her mother. To escape an arranged marriage, Najin goes to the emperor''s palace to be a companion to the princess. With the collapse of the Joseon dynasty, she loses her position. She finds ways to further her studies in education and medicine and helps support her parents and younger, shiftless brother with work as a teacher and physician. When her father arranges another marriage, to a student minister, Najin agrees. Immediately she is left with his family to act as a servant while he studies in the U.S. Accused of spying after she returns to her own now-impoverished family, Najin spends months in prison. The novel, based on the life of the author''s mother, comes to a satisfying conclusion with the surrender of Japan and the reunion of the couple. Descriptive imagery communicates Najin''s philosophical musings, dreams, and appreciation of nature. Readers are left with greater understanding of the horrors of Japanese occupation and of the cultural, political, and religious upheaval that Korean families faced as they negotiated the modern world. Delicate black-and-white illustrations complement the prose. A compelling narrative about an intellectually curious and brave heroine.â€”_Jackie Gropman, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library System, Fairfax, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19052'),
(11671, 'Calling Out for You', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Inspector Konrad Sejer is on the trail of a violent killer in small-town Norway. Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride is due to join him, he is called to his sister''s bedside at the hospital. A local taxi driver is sent instead to meet the bride at the airport, but returns without her. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow. Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre head the murder inquiry, cross-examining the townsfolk and planting seeds of suspicion in a community that has always believed itself to be simple, safe and trusting. For what can only have been an unpremeditated and motiveless act of violence, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3890'),
(11672, 'Calling Out for You', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Inspector Konrad Sejer is on the trail of a violent killer in small-town Norway. Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride is due to join him, he is called to his sister''s bedside at the hospital. A local taxi driver is sent instead to meet the bride at the airport, but returns without her. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow. Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre head the murder inquiry, cross-examining the townsfolk and planting seeds of suspicion in a community that has always believed itself to be simple, safe and trusting. For what can only have been an unpremeditated and motiveless act of violence, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20647'),
(11673, 'Camarazi de front', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25074'),
(11674, 'Cambridge Blue', 'Alison Bruce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gary Goodhew is intelligent, intuitive, and the youngest detective at Cambridge''s Parkside Station. When Gary discovers the first body in a series of murders involving an eccentric Cambridge family, he gets his chance to work on a homicide investigation. He must use his own initiative to flush out the killer, even though it means risking his job and discovering the truth about the one person he hopes is innocent.Alison Bruce was born in Surrey, United Kingdom, and now lives in Cambridge. She is the author of two previous nonfiction books, "Cambridgeshire Murders" and "The Billingtons, Death in the Family."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7761'),
(11675, 'Cambridge Blue', 'Alison Bruce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gary Goodhew is intelligent, intuitive, and the youngest detective at Cambridge''s Parkside Station. When Gary discovers the first body in a series of murders involving an eccentric Cambridge family, he gets his chance to work on a homicide investigation. He must use his own initiative to flush out the killer, even though it means risking his job and discovering the truth about the one person he hopes is innocent.Alison Bruce was born in Surrey, United Kingdom, and now lives in Cambridge. She is the author of two previous nonfiction books, "Cambridgeshire Murders" and "The Billingtons, Death in the Family."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8749'),
(11676, 'Cambridge Blue', 'Alison Bruce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gary Goodhew is intelligent, intuitive, and the youngest detective at Cambridge''s Parkside Station. When Gary discovers the first body in a series of murders involving an eccentric Cambridge family, he gets his chance to work on a homicide investigation. He must use his own initiative to flush out the killer, even though it means risking his job and discovering the truth about the one person he hopes is innocent.Alison Bruce was born in Surrey, United Kingdom, and now lives in Cambridge. She is the author of two previous nonfiction books, "Cambridgeshire Murders" and "The Billingtons, Death in the Family."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16196'),
(11677, 'The Cambridge Companion To Atheism', 'Michael Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21655'),
(11678, 'The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust', 'Adam A. Watt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Proust''s A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913-27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust''s life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to individual images and the intricacies of Proust''s finely-stitched prose. The book reaches beyond stale commonplaces of madeleines and memory, alerting readers to Proust''s verbal virtuosity, his preoccupations with the fleeting and the unforeseeable, with desire, jealousy and the nature of reality. Lively, informative chapters on Proust criticism and the work''s afterlives in contemporary culture provide a multitude of paths to follow. The book charges readers with the energy and confidence to move beyond anecdote and hearsay and to read Proust''s novel for themselves.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Book Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Informative coverage of Proust''s life, the social and cultural contexts of his work and a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, as well as chapters on the novel''s critical reception and its afterlives in contemporary culture.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12302'),
(11679, 'The Camel Club', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House, hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But the stakes are raised when he and his friends, a group of conspiracy theorist misfits known as The Camel Club, accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst. Especially when the authorities are seemingly happy to write it off as a suicide. For Secret Service agent Alex Ford, monitoring the ''investigation'', the suicide verdict doesn''t ring true. As punishment for sticking his nose where it doesn''t belong, he is reassigned to bodyguard duties. His abilities are tested to the limit when he is sent to protect the President during a visit to his hometown, where a terrorist cell has spent months plotting an event that will shake the world. Meanwhile, America''s powerful intelligence chief Carter Gray is unnerved when he glimpses the face of an old acquaintance in Arlington Cemetery - but it is the face of a man supposedly long dead ...And as "The Camel Club" is poised to expose a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of Washington''s highly secretive corridors of power, Alex Ford finds out that his worst nightmare is about to happen .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6278'),
(11680, 'The Camel Club', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House, hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But the stakes are raised when he and his friends, a group of conspiracy theorist misfits known as The Camel Club, accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst. Especially when the authorities are seemingly happy to write it off as a suicide. For Secret Service agent Alex Ford, monitoring the ''investigation'', the suicide verdict doesn''t ring true. As punishment for sticking his nose where it doesn''t belong, he is reassigned to bodyguard duties. His abilities are tested to the limit when he is sent to protect the President during a visit to his hometown, where a terrorist cell has spent months plotting an event that will shake the world. Meanwhile, America''s powerful intelligence chief Carter Gray is unnerved when he glimpses the face of an old acquaintance in Arlington Cemetery - but it is the face of a man supposedly long dead ...And as "The Camel Club" is poised to expose a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of Washington''s highly secretive corridors of power, Alex Ford finds out that his worst nightmare is about to happen .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17735'),
(11681, 'The Camel Club', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House, hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But the stakes are raised when he and his friends, a group of conspiracy theorist misfits known as The Camel Club, accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst. Especially when the authorities are seemingly happy to write it off as a suicide. For Secret Service agent Alex Ford, monitoring the ''investigation'', the suicide verdict doesn''t ring true. As punishment for sticking his nose where it doesn''t belong, he is reassigned to bodyguard duties. His abilities are tested to the limit when he is sent to protect the President during a visit to his hometown, where a terrorist cell has spent months plotting an event that will shake the world. Meanwhile, America''s powerful intelligence chief Carter Gray is unnerved when he glimpses the face of an old acquaintance in Arlington Cemetery - but it is the face of a man supposedly long dead ...And as "The Camel Club" is poised to expose a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of Washington''s highly secretive corridors of power, Alex Ford finds out that his worst nightmare is about to happen .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27248'),
(11682, 'Camera mortii', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25495'),
(11683, 'Caminante', 'Octavian Paler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25265'),
(11684, 'Camouflage', 'Joe Haldeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two aliens have wandered Earth for centuries. The Changeling has survived by adapting the forms of many different organisms. The Chameleon destroys anything or anyone that threatens it.  Now, a sunken relic that holds the key to their origins calls to them to take them home--but the Chameleon has decided there''s only room for one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18135'),
(11685, 'Campbell&#39;s Kingdom', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18331'),
(11686, 'Can You Keep a Secret?', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:Secrets from her mother:I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.Sammy the goldfish in my parentsâ€™ kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt.Secrets from her boyfriend:I weigh one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. Not one eighteen, like Connor thinks.Iâ€™ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.From her colleagues:When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.) It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times.Secrets she wouldnâ€™t share with anyone in the world:My G-string is hurting me.I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.But come Monday morning, Emmaâ€™s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the companyâ€™s elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldnâ€™t possibly get worseâ€”Until they do.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1195'),
(11687, 'Can You Keep a Secret?', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:Secrets from her mother:I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.Sammy the goldfish in my parentsâ€™ kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt.Secrets from her boyfriend:I weigh one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. Not one eighteen, like Connor thinks.Iâ€™ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.From her colleagues:When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.) It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times.Secrets she wouldnâ€™t share with anyone in the world:My G-string is hurting me.I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.But come Monday morning, Emmaâ€™s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the companyâ€™s elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldnâ€™t possibly get worseâ€”Until they do.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10797'),
(11688, 'Can you keep a secret?', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:Secrets from her mother:I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.Sammy the goldfish in my parentsâ€™ kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt.Secrets from her boyfriend:I weigh one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. Not one eighteen, like Connor thinks.Iâ€™ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.From her colleagues:When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.) It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times.Secrets she wouldnâ€™t share with anyone in the world:My G-string is hurting me.I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.But come Monday morning, Emmaâ€™s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the companyâ€™s elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldnâ€™t possibly get worseâ€”Until they do.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14492'),
(11689, 'Can you keep a secret?', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:Secrets from her mother:I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.Sammy the goldfish in my parentsâ€™ kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt.Secrets from her boyfriend:I weigh one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. Not one eighteen, like Connor thinks.Iâ€™ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.From her colleagues:When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.) It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times.Secrets she wouldnâ€™t share with anyone in the world:My G-string is hurting me.I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.But come Monday morning, Emmaâ€™s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the companyâ€™s elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldnâ€™t possibly get worseâ€”Until they do.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23720'),
(11690, 'Can&#39;t Stand the Heat', 'Louisa Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œExceptional culinary detail and page-singeing sexual chemistry combine with a fascinating group of characters to produce a sophisticated modern romance that ties into the current foodie craze. This debutâ€”first in a projected "Recipe for Love" seriesâ€”will win over most contemporary romance fans.â€”_Library Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn her wickedly entertaining debut, Edwards dishes up a captivating contemporary romance expertly seasoned with plenty of sizzling sexual chemistry and deliciously tart humor.â€ â€“_Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe simmering chemistry comes to a boil in this deliciously sensual and delightfully amusing debut.â€Â  --_Orlando__ Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis playful culinary confection is a lighthearted and entertaining romance that will delight readers. With all the behind the scenes revelations, youâ€™ll never look at cooking and meal preparation in the same way again. Steamy and satisfying fare, indeedâ€ â€“_Fresh Fiction_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œ\n  </em>\n  From start to finish, I devoured and enjoyed every moment of this book. Miranda and Adam worked well together likeâ€¦honey and cayenne pepperâ€¦a little sweet and a little spicy with an end result to make you say â€œWowâ€.â€ â€“_Cherylâ€™s Book Nook_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI LOVED\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand The Heat\n  </em>\n  . Louisa Edwards has written a great debut novel, and I look forward to reading more of the Recipe for Love series.â€ â€“_Beautiful Reads_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe strength of this novel is substantialâ€¦. The writing, the other characters, the setting, the nuances, and the imagery are marvelousâ€¦.Food and its various meanings and permutations are a fluid and discernible part of the writing in this book. It includes themes of home, heart, family, and nourishment, what people need to survive, and how the food we eat can communicate more than words can provide.â€ â€“_Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA deliciously fun read. The plot and eccentric characters are well written, and the kitchen sizzles with hot passion.â€ â€“_Romance Reviews Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is a delightful blend of chemistry, competition, and cooking, and it was just what I was looking for. I loved the fast-paced scenes that make you feel the controlled chaos of a restaurant during dinner hour, as well as the slower-paced scenes such as Adam teaching Miranda how to cookâ€¦Iâ€™m am eagerly awaiting Edwardsâ€™ next release in the series. Hereâ€™s hoping itâ€™s as good a read as this terrific debut.â€ â€“_All About Romance___\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSnappy, exciting, adventurous, and totally unexpected.\n  <em>\n   Can''t Stand the Heat\n  </em>\n  ... is one of the best light-hearted culinary, romantic novels this reviewer has read in a very long time! Grand job, Louisa Edwards.â€ â€“_Crystal__ Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is the first novel in her â€œRecipe for Loveâ€ series, and what a start it is. All of the characters are portrayed in such a revealing light that you will remember them for quite some time. I love the sensuality as well as the conflict. I have become a fan of this author and cannot wait to read more in her series, along with any other works she comes out with!â€ â€“_Coffee Time Romance_ (5 Stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMake sure that you have a good lazy day to spend with\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand The Heat\n  </em>\n  , and donâ€™t start reading this one in the evening, or I guarantee you will be up all night!â€Â  --_The Romance Reader_Â  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe author blends love and recipes into a fun rompâ€¦Fans will enjoy the pizzazz and flavor that Louisa Edwards brings to her warm tale.â€ â€“_Genre Go Round Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA funny, lovable story about two unlikely people falling for each other. The plot, characters, and setting comes together to form a wonderful, light-hearted, culinary romance that is a blast to read and I can''t wait for the next â€œRecipe for Loveâ€ novel!â€ â€“_The Book Lush_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDelish! Creative debut author Louisa Edwards will have you eating out of her hand as you read her witty, insightful, foodie romanceâ€¦_ Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is filled with steamy passion, realistically described settings, a distinctive plot and characters that beg for their own stories.Â  Watch for more to come from this talented new author.â€Â  --_SingleTitles.com_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMmmm... Louisa Edwards'' debut effort--_Can''t Stand the Heat_--is\n  <em>\n   yummy\n  </em>\n  !! The witty repartee between Miranda and Adam, the snappy dialog between Adam and his staff, make this a fun, sizzling, readâ€¦ And all the food talk in between these covers? Make sure you''re not reading while hungry.â€ â€“_Dreyâ€™s Library_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe mainÂ charactersÂ to feltÂ like friends and the secondary romance involving Miranda''s brother helped keep things moving.Â One ofÂ the best parts was discoveringÂ an excerpt of Edwards''s next bookÂ featuring aÂ minor character from this one--giving me another book to look forward toâ€¦Can''t Stand the Heat? I say, get into this kitchen!â€Â  --\n  <em>\n   PublishersWeekly.com\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ An exquisitely prepared romance seasoned with scorching hot love scenes,\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand the Heat\n  </em>\n  is truly an unforgettable dish. You canâ€™t miss this delectable and mouthwatering debut!â€ â€“_New York Times_ bestsellilng author Kresley Cole\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smokin'' hot chefs, sizzling passion, and a big dash of charm--no reservations required for this smart, stylish romance!"---_New York Times_ bestselling author Gena Showalter\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is HOT in the kitchen and everywhere else!â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Carly Phillips\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For sharp-tongued food critic Miranda Wake, the chance to spend a month in Adam Templeâ€™s kitchen to write an exposÃ© is a journalistic dream come true. Surely Miranda can find a way to cut the hotshot chef down to size once she learns what _really\n  <em>\n   goes on at his trendy Manhattan restaurant. But she never expected Adam to find out her most embarrassing secret: she has no idea how to cook.\n  </em>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  Adamâ€™s not about to have his reputation burned by a critic who doesnâ€™t even know the difference between poaching and paring.Â  Heâ€™ll just have to give the tempting redhead a few private lessons of his ownâ€”teaching her what it means to cook with passionâ€¦and doing more with his hands than simply preparing sumptuous food.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3291'),
(11691, 'Can&#39;t Stand the Heat', 'Louisa Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œExceptional culinary detail and page-singeing sexual chemistry combine with a fascinating group of characters to produce a sophisticated modern romance that ties into the current foodie craze. This debutâ€”first in a projected "Recipe for Love" seriesâ€”will win over most contemporary romance fans.â€”_Library Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn her wickedly entertaining debut, Edwards dishes up a captivating contemporary romance expertly seasoned with plenty of sizzling sexual chemistry and deliciously tart humor.â€ â€“_Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe simmering chemistry comes to a boil in this deliciously sensual and delightfully amusing debut.â€Â  --_Orlando__ Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis playful culinary confection is a lighthearted and entertaining romance that will delight readers. With all the behind the scenes revelations, youâ€™ll never look at cooking and meal preparation in the same way again. Steamy and satisfying fare, indeedâ€ â€“_Fresh Fiction_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œ\n  </em>\n  From start to finish, I devoured and enjoyed every moment of this book. Miranda and Adam worked well together likeâ€¦honey and cayenne pepperâ€¦a little sweet and a little spicy with an end result to make you say â€œWowâ€.â€ â€“_Cherylâ€™s Book Nook_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI LOVED\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand The Heat\n  </em>\n  . Louisa Edwards has written a great debut novel, and I look forward to reading more of the Recipe for Love series.â€ â€“_Beautiful Reads_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe strength of this novel is substantialâ€¦. The writing, the other characters, the setting, the nuances, and the imagery are marvelousâ€¦.Food and its various meanings and permutations are a fluid and discernible part of the writing in this book. It includes themes of home, heart, family, and nourishment, what people need to survive, and how the food we eat can communicate more than words can provide.â€ â€“_Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA deliciously fun read. The plot and eccentric characters are well written, and the kitchen sizzles with hot passion.â€ â€“_Romance Reviews Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is a delightful blend of chemistry, competition, and cooking, and it was just what I was looking for. I loved the fast-paced scenes that make you feel the controlled chaos of a restaurant during dinner hour, as well as the slower-paced scenes such as Adam teaching Miranda how to cookâ€¦Iâ€™m am eagerly awaiting Edwardsâ€™ next release in the series. Hereâ€™s hoping itâ€™s as good a read as this terrific debut.â€ â€“_All About Romance___\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSnappy, exciting, adventurous, and totally unexpected.\n  <em>\n   Can''t Stand the Heat\n  </em>\n  ... is one of the best light-hearted culinary, romantic novels this reviewer has read in a very long time! Grand job, Louisa Edwards.â€ â€“_Crystal__ Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is the first novel in her â€œRecipe for Loveâ€ series, and what a start it is. All of the characters are portrayed in such a revealing light that you will remember them for quite some time. I love the sensuality as well as the conflict. I have become a fan of this author and cannot wait to read more in her series, along with any other works she comes out with!â€ â€“_Coffee Time Romance_ (5 Stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMake sure that you have a good lazy day to spend with\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand The Heat\n  </em>\n  , and donâ€™t start reading this one in the evening, or I guarantee you will be up all night!â€Â  --_The Romance Reader_Â  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe author blends love and recipes into a fun rompâ€¦Fans will enjoy the pizzazz and flavor that Louisa Edwards brings to her warm tale.â€ â€“_Genre Go Round Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA funny, lovable story about two unlikely people falling for each other. The plot, characters, and setting comes together to form a wonderful, light-hearted, culinary romance that is a blast to read and I can''t wait for the next â€œRecipe for Loveâ€ novel!â€ â€“_The Book Lush_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDelish! Creative debut author Louisa Edwards will have you eating out of her hand as you read her witty, insightful, foodie romanceâ€¦_ Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is filled with steamy passion, realistically described settings, a distinctive plot and characters that beg for their own stories.Â  Watch for more to come from this talented new author.â€Â  --_SingleTitles.com_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMmmm... Louisa Edwards'' debut effort--_Can''t Stand the Heat_--is\n  <em>\n   yummy\n  </em>\n  !! The witty repartee between Miranda and Adam, the snappy dialog between Adam and his staff, make this a fun, sizzling, readâ€¦ And all the food talk in between these covers? Make sure you''re not reading while hungry.â€ â€“_Dreyâ€™s Library_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe mainÂ charactersÂ to feltÂ like friends and the secondary romance involving Miranda''s brother helped keep things moving.Â One ofÂ the best parts was discoveringÂ an excerpt of Edwards''s next bookÂ featuring aÂ minor character from this one--giving me another book to look forward toâ€¦Can''t Stand the Heat? I say, get into this kitchen!â€Â  --\n  <em>\n   PublishersWeekly.com\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ An exquisitely prepared romance seasoned with scorching hot love scenes,\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand the Heat\n  </em>\n  is truly an unforgettable dish. You canâ€™t miss this delectable and mouthwatering debut!â€ â€“_New York Times_ bestsellilng author Kresley Cole\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smokin'' hot chefs, sizzling passion, and a big dash of charm--no reservations required for this smart, stylish romance!"---_New York Times_ bestselling author Gena Showalter\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is HOT in the kitchen and everywhere else!â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Carly Phillips\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For sharp-tongued food critic Miranda Wake, the chance to spend a month in Adam Templeâ€™s kitchen to write an exposÃ© is a journalistic dream come true. Surely Miranda can find a way to cut the hotshot chef down to size once she learns what _really\n  <em>\n   goes on at his trendy Manhattan restaurant. But she never expected Adam to find out her most embarrassing secret: she has no idea how to cook.\n  </em>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  Adamâ€™s not about to have his reputation burned by a critic who doesnâ€™t even know the difference between poaching and paring.Â  Heâ€™ll just have to give the tempting redhead a few private lessons of his ownâ€”teaching her what it means to cook with passionâ€¦and doing more with his hands than simply preparing sumptuous food.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9547');
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(11692, 'Can&#39;t Stand the Heat', 'Louisa Edwards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œExceptional culinary detail and page-singeing sexual chemistry combine with a fascinating group of characters to produce a sophisticated modern romance that ties into the current foodie craze. This debutâ€”first in a projected "Recipe for Love" seriesâ€”will win over most contemporary romance fans.â€”_Library Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIn her wickedly entertaining debut, Edwards dishes up a captivating contemporary romance expertly seasoned with plenty of sizzling sexual chemistry and deliciously tart humor.â€ â€“_Booklist_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe simmering chemistry comes to a boil in this deliciously sensual and delightfully amusing debut.â€Â  --_Orlando__ Sentinel_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis playful culinary confection is a lighthearted and entertaining romance that will delight readers. With all the behind the scenes revelations, youâ€™ll never look at cooking and meal preparation in the same way again. Steamy and satisfying fare, indeedâ€ â€“_Fresh Fiction_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œ\n  </em>\n  From start to finish, I devoured and enjoyed every moment of this book. Miranda and Adam worked well together likeâ€¦honey and cayenne pepperâ€¦a little sweet and a little spicy with an end result to make you say â€œWowâ€.â€ â€“_Cherylâ€™s Book Nook_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œI LOVED\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand The Heat\n  </em>\n  . Louisa Edwards has written a great debut novel, and I look forward to reading more of the Recipe for Love series.â€ â€“_Beautiful Reads_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe strength of this novel is substantialâ€¦. The writing, the other characters, the setting, the nuances, and the imagery are marvelousâ€¦.Food and its various meanings and permutations are a fluid and discernible part of the writing in this book. It includes themes of home, heart, family, and nourishment, what people need to survive, and how the food we eat can communicate more than words can provide.â€ â€“_Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels_\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA deliciously fun read. The plot and eccentric characters are well written, and the kitchen sizzles with hot passion.â€ â€“_Romance Reviews Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is a delightful blend of chemistry, competition, and cooking, and it was just what I was looking for. I loved the fast-paced scenes that make you feel the controlled chaos of a restaurant during dinner hour, as well as the slower-paced scenes such as Adam teaching Miranda how to cookâ€¦Iâ€™m am eagerly awaiting Edwardsâ€™ next release in the series. Hereâ€™s hoping itâ€™s as good a read as this terrific debut.â€ â€“_All About Romance___\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSnappy, exciting, adventurous, and totally unexpected.\n  <em>\n   Can''t Stand the Heat\n  </em>\n  ... is one of the best light-hearted culinary, romantic novels this reviewer has read in a very long time! Grand job, Louisa Edwards.â€ â€“_Crystal__ Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is the first novel in her â€œRecipe for Loveâ€ series, and what a start it is. All of the characters are portrayed in such a revealing light that you will remember them for quite some time. I love the sensuality as well as the conflict. I have become a fan of this author and cannot wait to read more in her series, along with any other works she comes out with!â€ â€“_Coffee Time Romance_ (5 Stars)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMake sure that you have a good lazy day to spend with\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand The Heat\n  </em>\n  , and donâ€™t start reading this one in the evening, or I guarantee you will be up all night!â€Â  --_The Romance Reader_Â  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe author blends love and recipes into a fun rompâ€¦Fans will enjoy the pizzazz and flavor that Louisa Edwards brings to her warm tale.â€ â€“_Genre Go Round Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA funny, lovable story about two unlikely people falling for each other. The plot, characters, and setting comes together to form a wonderful, light-hearted, culinary romance that is a blast to read and I can''t wait for the next â€œRecipe for Loveâ€ novel!â€ â€“_The Book Lush_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDelish! Creative debut author Louisa Edwards will have you eating out of her hand as you read her witty, insightful, foodie romanceâ€¦_ Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is filled with steamy passion, realistically described settings, a distinctive plot and characters that beg for their own stories.Â  Watch for more to come from this talented new author.â€Â  --_SingleTitles.com_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMmmm... Louisa Edwards'' debut effort--_Can''t Stand the Heat_--is\n  <em>\n   yummy\n  </em>\n  !! The witty repartee between Miranda and Adam, the snappy dialog between Adam and his staff, make this a fun, sizzling, readâ€¦ And all the food talk in between these covers? Make sure you''re not reading while hungry.â€ â€“_Dreyâ€™s Library_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe mainÂ charactersÂ to feltÂ like friends and the secondary romance involving Miranda''s brother helped keep things moving.Â One ofÂ the best parts was discoveringÂ an excerpt of Edwards''s next bookÂ featuring aÂ minor character from this one--giving me another book to look forward toâ€¦Can''t Stand the Heat? I say, get into this kitchen!â€Â  --\n  <em>\n   PublishersWeekly.com\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ An exquisitely prepared romance seasoned with scorching hot love scenes,\n  <em>\n   Canâ€™t Stand the Heat\n  </em>\n  is truly an unforgettable dish. You canâ€™t miss this delectable and mouthwatering debut!â€ â€“_New York Times_ bestsellilng author Kresley Cole\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smokin'' hot chefs, sizzling passion, and a big dash of charm--no reservations required for this smart, stylish romance!"---_New York Times_ bestselling author Gena Showalter\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Canâ€™t Stand the Heat_ is HOT in the kitchen and everywhere else!â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Carly Phillips\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For sharp-tongued food critic Miranda Wake, the chance to spend a month in Adam Templeâ€™s kitchen to write an exposÃ© is a journalistic dream come true. Surely Miranda can find a way to cut the hotshot chef down to size once she learns what _really\n  <em>\n   goes on at his trendy Manhattan restaurant. But she never expected Adam to find out her most embarrassing secret: she has no idea how to cook.\n  </em>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  Adamâ€™s not about to have his reputation burned by a critic who doesnâ€™t even know the difference between poaching and paring.Â  Heâ€™ll just have to give the tempting redhead a few private lessons of his ownâ€”teaching her what it means to cook with passionâ€¦and doing more with his hands than simply preparing sumptuous food.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21276'),
(11693, 'Candide, Or, Optimism', 'Voltaire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Candide*, by **Voltaire**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesÂ—biographical, historical, and literaryÂ—to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One of the finest satires ever written, **Voltaire**â€™s *Candide* savagely skewers this very Â“optimisticâ€ approach to life as a shamefully inadequate response to human suffering. The swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved CunÃ©gonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide experiences and witnesses calamity upon calamity, he begins to discover thatÂ—contrary to the teachings of his tutor, Dr. PanglossÂ—all is perhaps not always for the best. After many trials, travails, and incredible reversals of fortune, Candide and his friends finally retire together to a small farm, where they discover that the secret of happiness is simply Â“to cultivate one''s garden,â€ a philosophy that rejects excessive optimism and metaphysical speculation in favor of the most basic pragmatism.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Filled with wit, intelligence, and an abundance of dark humor, *Candide* is relentless and unsparing in its attacks upon corruption and hypocrisyÂ—in religion, government, philosophy, science, and even romance. Ultimately, this celebrated work says that it is possible to challenge blind optimism without losing the will to live and pursue a happy life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Gita May** is Professor of French at Columbia University. She has published extensively on the French Enlightenment, eighteenth-century aesthetics, the novel and autobiography, and women in literature, history, and the arts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/295'),
(11694, 'Candide, Or, Optimism', 'Voltaire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Candide*, by **Voltaire**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesÂ—biographical, historical, and literaryÂ—to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One of the finest satires ever written, **Voltaire**â€™s *Candide* savagely skewers this very Â“optimisticâ€ approach to life as a shamefully inadequate response to human suffering. The swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved CunÃ©gonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide experiences and witnesses calamity upon calamity, he begins to discover thatÂ—contrary to the teachings of his tutor, Dr. PanglossÂ—all is perhaps not always for the best. After many trials, travails, and incredible reversals of fortune, Candide and his friends finally retire together to a small farm, where they discover that the secret of happiness is simply Â“to cultivate one''s garden,â€ a philosophy that rejects excessive optimism and metaphysical speculation in favor of the most basic pragmatism.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Filled with wit, intelligence, and an abundance of dark humor, *Candide* is relentless and unsparing in its attacks upon corruption and hypocrisyÂ—in religion, government, philosophy, science, and even romance. Ultimately, this celebrated work says that it is possible to challenge blind optimism without losing the will to live and pursue a happy life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Gita May** is Professor of French at Columbia University. She has published extensively on the French Enlightenment, eighteenth-century aesthetics, the novel and autobiography, and women in literature, history, and the arts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13193'),
(11695, 'Candide, or, Optimism', 'Voltaire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Candide*, by **Voltaire**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesÂ—biographical, historical, and literaryÂ—to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the finest satires ever written, **Voltaire**â€™s *Candide* savagely skewers this very Â“optimisticâ€ approach to life as a shamefully inadequate response to human suffering. The swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved CunÃ©gonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide experiences and witnesses calamity upon calamity, he begins to discover thatÂ—contrary to the teachings of his tutor, Dr. PanglossÂ—all is perhaps not always for the best. After many trials, travails, and incredible reversals of fortune, Candide and his friends finally retire together to a small farm, where they discover that the secret of happiness is simply Â“to cultivate one''s garden,â€ a philosophy that rejects excessive optimism and metaphysical speculation in favor of the most basic pragmatism. Filled with wit, intelligence, and an abundance of dark humor, *Candide* is relentless and unsparing in its attacks upon corruption and hypocrisyÂ—in religion, government, philosophy, science, and even romance. Ultimately, this celebrated work says that it is possible to challenge blind optimism without losing the will to live and pursue a happy life. **Gita May** is Professor of French at Columbia University. She has published extensively on the French Enlightenment, eighteenth-century aesthetics, the novel and autobiography, and women in literature, history, and the arts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13971'),
(11696, 'Candide, or, Optimism', 'Voltaire', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Candide*, by **Voltaire**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesÂ—biographical, historical, and literaryÂ—to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the finest satires ever written, **Voltaire**â€™s *Candide* savagely skewers this very Â“optimisticâ€ approach to life as a shamefully inadequate response to human suffering. The swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved CunÃ©gonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide experiences and witnesses calamity upon calamity, he begins to discover thatÂ—contrary to the teachings of his tutor, Dr. PanglossÂ—all is perhaps not always for the best. After many trials, travails, and incredible reversals of fortune, Candide and his friends finally retire together to a small farm, where they discover that the secret of happiness is simply Â“to cultivate one''s garden,â€ a philosophy that rejects excessive optimism and metaphysical speculation in favor of the most basic pragmatism. Filled with wit, intelligence, and an abundance of dark humor, *Candide* is relentless and unsparing in its attacks upon corruption and hypocrisyÂ—in religion, government, philosophy, science, and even romance. Ultimately, this celebrated work says that it is possible to challenge blind optimism without losing the will to live and pursue a happy life. **Gita May** is Professor of French at Columbia University. She has published extensively on the French Enlightenment, eighteenth-century aesthetics, the novel and autobiography, and women in literature, history, and the arts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24584'),
(11697, 'Candle in the Darkness', 'Lynn N. Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the time she was 12, Caroline Fletcher, daughter of a wealthy Richmond, VA, slave-holding family, knew she was different, for she knew that the household slaves were human beings, not mere property. When her mother commits suicide, Caroline is sent first to the Fletcher plantation and then to relatives in Philadelphia. Three years later, as the nation teeters on the brink of civil war, her father brings her home. Caroline is now a determined abolitionist, and she struggles to live in a culture where people believe that slavery is ordained by God. With her fiancâ€š, father, and cousin off fighting in the war, Caroline embarks on a dangerous path of spying and intrigue that tests her faith and demands risk and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Caroline is the only fully developed character in this work, and the African American characters are all too good to be true; despite these flaws, Austin (Hidden Places; Eve''s Daughters; Wings of Refuge) has written a thoroughly engrossing and exciting tale that will appeal to fans of Virginia Gaffney''s "Richmond Chronicles" and historical romances. Purchase where historical novels and Austin''s other books are in demand.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Book 1 in the Refinerâ€™s Fire series. The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Carolineâ€™s eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her. Her journey of maturity and faith will draw her into the abolitionist movement, where she is confronted with the risks and sacrifices her beliefs entail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3190'),
(11698, 'Candle in the Darkness', 'Lynn N. Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the time she was 12, Caroline Fletcher, daughter of a wealthy Richmond, VA, slave-holding family, knew she was different, for she knew that the household slaves were human beings, not mere property. When her mother commits suicide, Caroline is sent first to the Fletcher plantation and then to relatives in Philadelphia. Three years later, as the nation teeters on the brink of civil war, her father brings her home. Caroline is now a determined abolitionist, and she struggles to live in a culture where people believe that slavery is ordained by God. With her fiancâ€š, father, and cousin off fighting in the war, Caroline embarks on a dangerous path of spying and intrigue that tests her faith and demands risk and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Caroline is the only fully developed character in this work, and the African American characters are all too good to be true; despite these flaws, Austin (Hidden Places; Eve''s Daughters; Wings of Refuge) has written a thoroughly engrossing and exciting tale that will appeal to fans of Virginia Gaffney''s "Richmond Chronicles" and historical romances. Purchase where historical novels and Austin''s other books are in demand.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Book 1 in the Refinerâ€™s Fire series. The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Carolineâ€™s eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her. Her journey of maturity and faith will draw her into the abolitionist movement, where she is confronted with the risks and sacrifices her beliefs entail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8307'),
(11699, 'Candle in the Darkness', 'Lynn N. Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the time she was 12, Caroline Fletcher, daughter of a wealthy Richmond, VA, slave-holding family, knew she was different, for she knew that the household slaves were human beings, not mere property. When her mother commits suicide, Caroline is sent first to the Fletcher plantation and then to relatives in Philadelphia. Three years later, as the nation teeters on the brink of civil war, her father brings her home. Caroline is now a determined abolitionist, and she struggles to live in a culture where people believe that slavery is ordained by God. With her fiancâ€š, father, and cousin off fighting in the war, Caroline embarks on a dangerous path of spying and intrigue that tests her faith and demands risk and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Caroline is the only fully developed character in this work, and the African American characters are all too good to be true; despite these flaws, Austin (Hidden Places; Eve''s Daughters; Wings of Refuge) has written a thoroughly engrossing and exciting tale that will appeal to fans of Virginia Gaffney''s "Richmond Chronicles" and historical romances. Purchase where historical novels and Austin''s other books are in demand.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Book 1 in the Refinerâ€™s Fire series. The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Carolineâ€™s eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her. Her journey of maturity and faith will draw her into the abolitionist movement, where she is confronted with the risks and sacrifices her beliefs entail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21242'),
(11700, 'Candyfreak', 'Steve Almond', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Perhaps you remember the whipped splendor of the Choco-Lite, or the luscious Caravelle bar, or maybe the sublime and perfectly balanced Hershey''s Cookies ''n Mint. The Marathon, an inimitable rope of caramel covered in chocolate. Oompahs. Bit-O-Choc. The Kit Kat Dark.  Steve Almond certainly does. In fact, he was so obsessed by the inexplicable disappearance of these bars--where''d they go?--that he embarked on a nationwide journey to uncover the truth about the candy business. There, he found an industry ruled by huge conglomerates, where the little guys, the last remaining link to the glorious boom years of the candy bar in America, struggle to survive.  Visiting the candy factories that produce the Twin Bing, the Idaho Spud, the Goo Goo Cluster, the Valomilk, and a dozen other quirky bars, Almond finds that the world of candy is no longer a sweet haven. Today''s precious few regional candy makers mount daily battles against corporate greed, paranoia, and that good old American compulsion: crushing the little guy.  Part candy porn, part candy polemic, part social history, part confession, Candyfreak explores the role candy plays in our lives as both source of pleasure and escape from pain. By turns ecstatic, comic, and bittersweet, Candyfreak is the story of how Steve Almond grew up on candy--and how, for better and worse, candy has grown up, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8045'),
(11701, 'Cane River', 'Lalita Tademy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lalita Tademy was a corporate vice president at a Fortune(r) 500 company when she decided to give notice and embark upon an odyssey to uncover her family''s past. Through her exhaustive research, she would find herself transported back to the early 1800s, to an isolated, close-knit rural community on Louisiana''s Cane River. Here, Tademy takes historical fact and mingles it with fiction to weave a vivid  account of what life was like for the four remarkable women who came before her. The result is a family saga that sweeps from the early days of slavery into a pre-Civil Rights South-a unique and moving slice of America''s past that will resonate with readers for generations to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3555'),
(11702, 'Cane River', 'Lalita Tademy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lalita Tademy was a corporate vice president at a Fortune(r) 500 company when she decided to give notice and embark upon an odyssey to uncover her family''s past. Through her exhaustive research, she would find herself transported back to the early 1800s, to an isolated, close-knit rural community on Louisiana''s Cane River. Here, Tademy takes historical fact and mingles it with fiction to weave a vivid  account of what life was like for the four remarkable women who came before her. The result is a family saga that sweeps from the early days of slavery into a pre-Civil Rights South-a unique and moving slice of America''s past that will resonate with readers for generations to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13008'),
(11703, 'Cane River', 'Lalita Tademy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Lalita Tademy was a corporate vice president at a Fortune(r) 500 company when she decided to give notice and embark upon an odyssey to uncover her family''s past. Through her exhaustive research, she would find herself transported back to the early 1800s, to an isolated, close-knit rural community on Louisiana''s Cane River. Here, Tademy takes historical fact and mingles it with fiction to weave a vivid account of what life was like for the four remarkable women who came before her. The result is a family saga that sweeps from the early days of slavery into a pre-Civil Rights South-a unique and moving slice of America''s past that will resonate with readers for generations to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20901'),
(11704, 'Cannery Row', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Amid the honky-tonks and sardine canneries of Monterey, California, a motley band forms a colorfulâ€”even idyllicâ€”world of its own. Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood''s bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist who ministers to sick puppies and unhappy souls, unexpectedly finds true love. Cannery Row is just a few blocks long, but the story it harbors is suffused with warmth, understanding, and a great fund of human values. First published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it isâ€”both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. John Steinbeck draws on his memories of the...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4222'),
(11705, 'Cannery Row', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Amid the honky-tonks and sardine canneries of Monterey, California, a motley band forms a colorfulâ€”even idyllicâ€”world of its own. Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood''s bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist who ministers to sick puppies and unhappy souls, unexpectedly finds true love. Cannery Row is just a few blocks long, but the story it harbors is suffused with warmth, understanding, and a great fund of human values. First published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it isâ€”both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. John Steinbeck draws on his memories of the...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12839'),
(11706, 'Cannery Row', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Amid the honky-tonks and sardine canneries of Monterey, California, a motley band forms a colorfulâ€”even idyllicâ€”world of its own. Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood''s bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist who ministers to sick puppies and unhappy souls, unexpectedly finds true love. Cannery Row is just a few blocks long, but the story it harbors is suffused with warmth, understanding, and a great fund of human values. First published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it isâ€”both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. John Steinbeck draws on his memories of the...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13913'),
(11707, 'Cannery Row', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Amid the honky-tonks and sardine canneries of Monterey, California, a motley band forms a colorfulâ€”even idyllicâ€”world of its own. Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood''s bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist who ministers to sick puppies and unhappy souls, unexpectedly finds true love. Cannery Row is just a few blocks long, but the story it harbors is suffused with warmth, understanding, and a great fund of human values. First published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it isâ€”both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. John Steinbeck draws on his memories of the...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20336'),
(11708, 'Canning &amp; Preserving for Dummies 2nd Edition', 'Amelia Jeanroy &amp; Karen Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Provides step-by-step instructions on canning and preserving a variety of fruits and vegetables, and includes one hundred recipes for such items as pear-raspberry jam, chicken stock, and baked beans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7696'),
(11709, 'Canning &amp; Preserving for Dummies 2nd Edition', 'Amelia Jeanroy &amp; Karen Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Provides step-by-step instructions on canning and preserving a variety of fruits and vegetables, and includes one hundred recipes for such items as pear-raspberry jam, chicken stock, and baked beans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10554'),
(11710, 'Canning &amp; Preserving for Dummies 2nd Edition', 'Amelia Jeanroy; Karen Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Provides step-by-step instructions on canning and preserving a variety of fruits and vegetables, and includes one hundred recipes for such items as pear-raspberry jam, chicken stock, and baked beans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16175'),
(11711, 'Canning &amp; Preserving for Dummies 2nd Edition', 'Amelia Jeanroy; Karen Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Provides step-by-step instructions on canning and preserving a variety of fruits and vegetables, and includes one hundred recipes for such items as pear-raspberry jam, chicken stock, and baked beans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26334'),
(11712, 'Cannot Wait to Get to Heaven', 'Fannie Flagg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Returning to Elmwood Springs, Mo., (where her sprawling 2002 novel, Standing in the Rainbow, chronicled the small town''s inhabitants over five decades), Flagg keeps this outing much more tightly-focused; most of the novel takes place over a few days. Octogenarian Elner Shimfissle falls off a ladder after accidentally disturbing a hornets'' nest while picking figs. After she dies at the hospital, the novel''s bite-size chapters alternate between funny and touching vignettes showing how Elner''s death and life has affected dozens of people in town, interspersed with scenes of Elner''s laugh-out-loud assent into the hereafter. From there, the plot offers readers a series of delightful surprises. Perhaps Flagg''s funniest novel since her debut, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, she''s created a charming, life-affirming tale and a full cast of memorable characters, including Elner''s late sister, Ida, who greets her in heaven still carrying her purse and a grudge about the bad hair styling she got for her funeral. Flagg is an expert at balancing pathos with plenty of Southern sass, and this could very well be the feel-good read of the summer.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?\n</p>\n<p>\n Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elnerâ€™s nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elnerâ€™s neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditchâ€“and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, â€œWhat is life all about, anyway?â€ Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Totâ€™s Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful: Heaven is actually right here, right now, with people you love, neighbors you help, friendships you keep.\n <em>\n  Canâ€™t Wait to Get to Heaven\n </em>\n is proof once more that Fannie Flagg â€œwas put on this earth to writeâ€ (Southern Living), spinning tales as sweet and refreshing as iced tea on a summer day, with a little extra kick thrown in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5481'),
(11713, 'Cannot Wait to Get to Heaven', 'Fannie Flagg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Returning to Elmwood Springs, Mo., (where her sprawling 2002 novel, Standing in the Rainbow, chronicled the small town''s inhabitants over five decades), Flagg keeps this outing much more tightly-focused; most of the novel takes place over a few days. Octogenarian Elner Shimfissle falls off a ladder after accidentally disturbing a hornets'' nest while picking figs. After she dies at the hospital, the novel''s bite-size chapters alternate between funny and touching vignettes showing how Elner''s death and life has affected dozens of people in town, interspersed with scenes of Elner''s laugh-out-loud assent into the hereafter. From there, the plot offers readers a series of delightful surprises. Perhaps Flagg''s funniest novel since her debut, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, she''s created a charming, life-affirming tale and a full cast of memorable characters, including Elner''s late sister, Ida, who greets her in heaven still carrying her purse and a grudge about the bad hair styling she got for her funeral. Flagg is an expert at balancing pathos with plenty of Southern sass, and this could very well be the feel-good read of the summer.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?\n</p>\n<p>\n Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elnerâ€™s nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elnerâ€™s neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditchâ€“and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, â€œWhat is life all about, anyway?â€ Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Totâ€™s Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful: Heaven is actually right here, right now, with people you love, neighbors you help, friendships you keep.\n <em>\n  Canâ€™t Wait to Get to Heaven\n </em>\n is proof once more that Fannie Flagg â€œwas put on this earth to writeâ€ (Southern Living), spinning tales as sweet and refreshing as iced tea on a summer day, with a little extra kick thrown in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9694'),
(11714, 'Cannot Wait to Get to Heaven', 'Fannie Flagg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Returning to Elmwood Springs, Mo., (where her sprawling 2002 novel, Standing in the Rainbow, chronicled the small town''s inhabitants over five decades), Flagg keeps this outing much more tightly-focused; most of the novel takes place over a few days. Octogenarian Elner Shimfissle falls off a ladder after accidentally disturbing a hornets'' nest while picking figs. After she dies at the hospital, the novel''s bite-size chapters alternate between funny and touching vignettes showing how Elner''s death and life has affected dozens of people in town, interspersed with scenes of Elner''s laugh-out-loud assent into the hereafter. From there, the plot offers readers a series of delightful surprises. Perhaps Flagg''s funniest novel since her debut, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, she''s created a charming, life-affirming tale and a full cast of memorable characters, including Elner''s late sister, Ida, who greets her in heaven still carrying her purse and a grudge about the bad hair styling she got for her funeral. Flagg is an expert at balancing pathos with plenty of Southern sass, and this could very well be the feel-good read of the summer.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?\n</p>\n<p>\n Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elnerâ€™s nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elnerâ€™s neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditchâ€“and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, â€œWhat is life all about, anyway?â€ Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Totâ€™s Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful: Heaven is actually right here, right now, with people you love, neighbors you help, friendships you keep.\n <em>\n  Canâ€™t Wait to Get to Heaven\n </em>\n is proof once more that Fannie Flagg â€œwas put on this earth to writeâ€ (Southern Living), spinning tales as sweet and refreshing as iced tea on a summer day, with a little extra kick thrown in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19107'),
(11715, 'Canonicatul Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25826'),
(11716, 'Cantica pentru Leibowitz', 'Walter M. MIller Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24986'),
(11717, 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', 'Walter M. Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.''s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature -- a chilling and still-provocative look at a post-apocalyptic future.   In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes. Seriously funny, stunning, and tragic, eternally fresh, imaginative, and altogether remarkable, A Canticle for Leibowitz retains its ability to enthrall and amaze. It is now, as it always has been, a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/220'),
(11718, 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', 'Walter M. Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.''s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature -- a chilling and still-provocative look at a post-apocalyptic future. In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes. Seriously funny, stunning, and tragic, eternally fresh, imaginative, and altogether remarkable, A Canticle for Leibowitz retains its ability to enthrall and amaze. It is now, as it always has been, a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14414'),
(11719, 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', 'Walter M. Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.''s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature -- a chilling and still-provocative look at a post-apocalyptic future. In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes. Seriously funny, stunning, and tragic, eternally fresh, imaginative, and altogether remarkable, A Canticle for Leibowitz retains its ability to enthrall and amaze. It is now, as it always has been, a masterpiece.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24616'),
(11720, 'Capcana pentru vise', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25118'),
(11721, 'Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As an interesting relic of the past, this outlandish piece of propaganda is worth the listener''s time, even though the author''s overconfident sense of her own rightness and persistence at pressing her points with little respect for opposing views can quickly become more than a little annoying. Using outdated words such as "altruists" to represent the forces of evil who would overburden the poor, beleaguered American business community, Rand "protesteth" far too much. Americans have seen many of the abuses come to pass that Rand, writing in 1946, claimed would never happen if free enterprise were just left to its own devices, so many of her arguments will be lost on a modern listener. For instance, the antitrust laws forced railroad barons to use illegal payoffs to forge ahead with expansion, and they shouldn''t, therefore, be blamed the antitrust laws are the real problem. Narrator Anna Field''s cold, crisp voice is actually well suited to such a heartless piece as this. Recommended. Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, NC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7392');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11722, 'Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As an interesting relic of the past, this outlandish piece of propaganda is worth the listener''s time, even though the author''s overconfident sense of her own rightness and persistence at pressing her points with little respect for opposing views can quickly become more than a little annoying. Using outdated words such as "altruists" to represent the forces of evil who would overburden the poor, beleaguered American business community, Rand "protesteth" far too much. Americans have seen many of the abuses come to pass that Rand, writing in 1946, claimed would never happen if free enterprise were just left to its own devices, so many of her arguments will be lost on a modern listener. For instance, the antitrust laws forced railroad barons to use illegal payoffs to forge ahead with expansion, and they shouldn''t, therefore, be blamed the antitrust laws are the real problem. Narrator Anna Field''s cold, crisp voice is actually well suited to such a heartless piece as this. Recommended. Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, NC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12065'),
(11723, 'Capitalism: the unknown ideal', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As an interesting relic of the past, this outlandish piece of propaganda is worth the listener''s time, even though the author''s overconfident sense of her own rightness and persistence at pressing her points with little respect for opposing views can quickly become more than a little annoying. Using outdated words such as "altruists" to represent the forces of evil who would overburden the poor, beleaguered American business community, Rand "protesteth" far too much. Americans have seen many of the abuses come to pass that Rand, writing in 1946, claimed would never happen if free enterprise were just left to its own devices, so many of her arguments will be lost on a modern listener. For instance, the antitrust laws forced railroad barons to use illegal payoffs to forge ahead with expansion, and they shouldn''t, therefore, be blamed the antitrust laws are the real problem. Narrator Anna Field''s cold, crisp voice is actually well suited to such a heartless piece as this. Recommended. Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, NC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16506'),
(11724, 'Capitalism: the unknown ideal', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As an interesting relic of the past, this outlandish piece of propaganda is worth the listener''s time, even though the author''s overconfident sense of her own rightness and persistence at pressing her points with little respect for opposing views can quickly become more than a little annoying. Using outdated words such as "altruists" to represent the forces of evil who would overburden the poor, beleaguered American business community, Rand "protesteth" far too much. Americans have seen many of the abuses come to pass that Rand, writing in 1946, claimed would never happen if free enterprise were just left to its own devices, so many of her arguments will be lost on a modern listener. For instance, the antitrust laws forced railroad barons to use illegal payoffs to forge ahead with expansion, and they shouldn''t, therefore, be blamed the antitrust laws are the real problem. Narrator Anna Field''s cold, crisp voice is actually well suited to such a heartless piece as this. Recommended. Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, NC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26567'),
(11725, 'The Capitol Game', 'Brian Haig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *New York Times* bestselling author Brian Haig returns with a riveting new thriller about a man caught between the politics of big government and the corruption of big business.**The Capitol Game**It was the deal of the decade, if not the century.  A small, insignificant company on the edge of bankruptcy had discovered an alchemist''s dream; a miraculous polymer, that when coated on any vehicle, was the equivalent of 30 inches of steel.  With bloody conflicts surging in Iraq and Afghanistan, the polymer promises to save thousands of lives and change the course of *both *wars.  Jack Wiley, a successful Wall Street banker, believes he has a found a dream come true when he mysteriously learns of this miraculous polymer. His plan: enlist the help of the Capitol Group, one of the country''s largest and most powerful corporations in a quick, bloodless takeover of the small company that developed the polymer.  It seems like a partnership made in heaven...until the Pentagon''s investigative service begins nosing around, and the deal turns into a nightmare. Now, Jack''s back is up against the wall and he and the Capitol Group find themselves embroiled in the greatest scandal the government and corporate America have ever seen...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7094'),
(11726, 'The Capitol Game', 'Brian Haig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *New York Times* bestselling author Brian Haig returns with a riveting new thriller about a man caught between the politics of big government and the corruption of big business.**The Capitol Game**It was the deal of the decade, if not the century.  A small, insignificant company on the edge of bankruptcy had discovered an alchemist''s dream; a miraculous polymer, that when coated on any vehicle, was the equivalent of 30 inches of steel.  With bloody conflicts surging in Iraq and Afghanistan, the polymer promises to save thousands of lives and change the course of *both *wars.  Jack Wiley, a successful Wall Street banker, believes he has a found a dream come true when he mysteriously learns of this miraculous polymer. His plan: enlist the help of the Capitol Group, one of the country''s largest and most powerful corporations in a quick, bloodless takeover of the small company that developed the polymer.  It seems like a partnership made in heaven...until the Pentagon''s investigative service begins nosing around, and the deal turns into a nightmare. Now, Jack''s back is up against the wall and he and the Capitol Group find themselves embroiled in the greatest scandal the government and corporate America have ever seen...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10053'),
(11727, 'The Capitol Game', 'Brian Haig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *New York Times* bestselling author Brian Haig returns with a riveting new thriller about a man caught between the politics of big government and the corruption of big business.**The Capitol Game**It was the deal of the decade, if not the century. A small, insignificant company on the edge of bankruptcy had discovered an alchemist''s dream; a miraculous polymer, that when coated on any vehicle, was the equivalent of 30 inches of steel. With bloody conflicts surging in Iraq and Afghanistan, the polymer promises to save thousands of lives and change the course of *both *wars. Jack Wiley, a successful Wall Street banker, believes he has a found a dream come true when he mysteriously learns of this miraculous polymer. His plan: enlist the help of the Capitol Group, one of the country''s largest and most powerful corporations in a quick, bloodless takeover of the small company that developed the polymer. It seems like a partnership made in heaven...until the Pentagon''s investigative service begins nosing around, and the deal turns into a nightmare. Now, Jack''s back is up against the wall and he and the Capitol Group find themselves embroiled in the greatest scandal the government and corporate America have ever seen...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16738'),
(11728, 'The Capitol Game', 'Brian Haig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *New York Times* bestselling author Brian Haig returns with a riveting new thriller about a man caught between the politics of big government and the corruption of big business.**The Capitol Game**It was the deal of the decade, if not the century. A small, insignificant company on the edge of bankruptcy had discovered an alchemist''s dream; a miraculous polymer, that when coated on any vehicle, was the equivalent of 30 inches of steel. With bloody conflicts surging in Iraq and Afghanistan, the polymer promises to save thousands of lives and change the course of *both *wars. Jack Wiley, a successful Wall Street banker, believes he has a found a dream come true when he mysteriously learns of this miraculous polymer. His plan: enlist the help of the Capitol Group, one of the country''s largest and most powerful corporations in a quick, bloodless takeover of the small company that developed the polymer. It seems like a partnership made in heaven...until the Pentagon''s investigative service begins nosing around, and the deal turns into a nightmare. Now, Jack''s back is up against the wall and he and the Capitol Group find themselves embroiled in the greatest scandal the government and corporate America have ever seen...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26728'),
(11729, 'Capitol Threat', 'William Bernhardt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in a near future in which "the Christian Congregation, one of the most powerful lobbies in the country... helped put the last three Presidents in office," Bernhardt''s 15th political thriller (after\n <em>\n  Capitol Murder\n </em>\n ) to feature Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid opens with an intriguing premise, but rapidly devolves into a series of improbable twists and turns. Thaddeus Roush, the Supreme Court nominee of Republican President Blake, confounds his natural base on the right by coming out of the closet ("Ladies and gentlemen, I am a gay American") during the Rose Garden ceremony announcing his selection. The reverberations from this shock wave are still being felt when Roush finds an unknown woman''s corpse in his home during a televised press conference. The Democratic Party leadership turns to Kincaid, newly appointed to complete the term of a former Oklahoma senator, for help in saving Roush''s nomination. Unfortunately, the book lacks the credible insider information that might offset the unlikely plot developments, while too many supporting details (tokens in the D.C. Metro?) ring false.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ben Kincaid is now a U.S. senator, but he barely has time to settle into his office before he has another murder to solve. Thaddeus Roush, Supreme Court nominee, has just revealed he is gay, and when the body of a woman is discovered during Roush''s press conference--and Roush''s partner is implicated in her death--Ben comes to the man''s defense. Bernhardt has his formula down pat by now (the first Kincaid novel,\n <em>\n  Primary Justice\n </em>\n , appeared in 1992), and those familiar with the series won''t encounter many surprises. This one will feel either tired or comfortable, depending on whether readers think of Kincaid as an old friend.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/203'),
(11730, 'Capitol Threat', 'William Bernhardt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in a near future in which "the Christian Congregation, one of the most powerful lobbies in the country... helped put the last three Presidents in office," Bernhardt''s 15th political thriller (after\n <em>\n  Capitol Murder\n </em>\n ) to feature Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid opens with an intriguing premise, but rapidly devolves into a series of improbable twists and turns. Thaddeus Roush, the Supreme Court nominee of Republican President Blake, confounds his natural base on the right by coming out of the closet ("Ladies and gentlemen, I am a gay American") during the Rose Garden ceremony announcing his selection. The reverberations from this shock wave are still being felt when Roush finds an unknown woman''s corpse in his home during a televised press conference. The Democratic Party leadership turns to Kincaid, newly appointed to complete the term of a former Oklahoma senator, for help in saving Roush''s nomination. Unfortunately, the book lacks the credible insider information that might offset the unlikely plot developments, while too many supporting details (tokens in the D.C. Metro?) ring false.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ben Kincaid is now a U.S. senator, but he barely has time to settle into his office before he has another murder to solve. Thaddeus Roush, Supreme Court nominee, has just revealed he is gay, and when the body of a woman is discovered during Roush''s press conference--and Roush''s partner is implicated in her death--Ben comes to the man''s defense. Bernhardt has his formula down pat by now (the first Kincaid novel,\n <em>\n  Primary Justice\n </em>\n , appeared in 1992), and those familiar with the series won''t encounter many surprises. This one will feel either tired or comfortable, depending on whether readers think of Kincaid as an old friend.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8456'),
(11731, 'Capitol Threat', 'William Bernhardt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in a near future in which "the Christian Congregation, one of the most powerful lobbies in the country... helped put the last three Presidents in office," Bernhardt''s 15th political thriller (after\n <em>\n  Capitol Murder\n </em>\n ) to feature Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid opens with an intriguing premise, but rapidly devolves into a series of improbable twists and turns. Thaddeus Roush, the Supreme Court nominee of Republican President Blake, confounds his natural base on the right by coming out of the closet ("Ladies and gentlemen, I am a gay American") during the Rose Garden ceremony announcing his selection. The reverberations from this shock wave are still being felt when Roush finds an unknown woman''s corpse in his home during a televised press conference. The Democratic Party leadership turns to Kincaid, newly appointed to complete the term of a former Oklahoma senator, for help in saving Roush''s nomination. Unfortunately, the book lacks the credible insider information that might offset the unlikely plot developments, while too many supporting details (tokens in the D.C. Metro?) ring false.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ben Kincaid is now a U.S. senator, but he barely has time to settle into his office before he has another murder to solve. Thaddeus Roush, Supreme Court nominee, has just revealed he is gay, and when the body of a woman is discovered during Roush''s press conference--and Roush''s partner is implicated in her death--Ben comes to the man''s defense. Bernhardt has his formula down pat by now (the first Kincaid novel,\n <em>\n  Primary Justice\n </em>\n , appeared in 1992), and those familiar with the series won''t encounter many surprises. This one will feel either tired or comfortable, depending on whether readers think of Kincaid as an old friend.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24686'),
(11732, 'Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius', 'Kevin J Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Most readers know Capain Nemo only as the enigmatic protagonist of Jules Verne''s classic novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." But what if Nemo was a real man, whose actual life was more fantastic and adventurous than all the fictions it inspired?Here is the epic tale of Andre Nemo, the man behind the myth. The free-spirited and inventive son of a French shipbuilder, Nemo goes to sea as a cabin boy, faces marauding pirates and bloodthirsty sharks, is marooned for years on a mysterious island, battles prehistoric monsters long believed extinct, journeys to the center of the Earth, balloons across Africa, escapes from Arab slavers, discovers the fabled city of Timbuktu, endures a plague of locusts, survives the Charge of the Light Brigade, tends to the wounded with Florence Nightingale, is pressed into service by the ruthless Robert the Conqueror, and, ultimately, wages war on War itself as the captain of his greatest creation: the legendary underwater vessel known as the "Nautilus.""Captain Nemo" is also the story of Nemo''s childhood friend, Jules Verne, who would bestow immortality upon the captain''s exploits, and of the remarkable woman they both loved to the very end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3688'),
(11733, 'Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius', 'Kevin J Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Most readers know Capain Nemo only as the enigmatic protagonist of Jules Verne''s classic novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." But what if Nemo was a real man, whose actual life was more fantastic and adventurous than all the fictions it inspired?Here is the epic tale of Andre Nemo, the man behind the myth. The free-spirited and inventive son of a French shipbuilder, Nemo goes to sea as a cabin boy, faces marauding pirates and bloodthirsty sharks, is marooned for years on a mysterious island, battles prehistoric monsters long believed extinct, journeys to the center of the Earth, balloons across Africa, escapes from Arab slavers, discovers the fabled city of Timbuktu, endures a plague of locusts, survives the Charge of the Light Brigade, tends to the wounded with Florence Nightingale, is pressed into service by the ruthless Robert the Conqueror, and, ultimately, wages war on War itself as the captain of his greatest creation: the legendary underwater vessel known as the "Nautilus.""Captain Nemo" is also the story of Nemo''s childhood friend, Jules Verne, who would bestow immortality upon the captain''s exploits, and of the remarkable woman they both loved to the very end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8211'),
(11734, 'Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius', 'Kevin J Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Most readers know Capain Nemo only as the enigmatic protagonist of Jules Verne''s classic novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." But what if Nemo was a real man, whose actual life was more fantastic and adventurous than all the fictions it inspired?Here is the epic tale of Andre Nemo, the man behind the myth. The free-spirited and inventive son of a French shipbuilder, Nemo goes to sea as a cabin boy, faces marauding pirates and bloodthirsty sharks, is marooned for years on a mysterious island, battles prehistoric monsters long believed extinct, journeys to the center of the Earth, balloons across Africa, escapes from Arab slavers, discovers the fabled city of Timbuktu, endures a plague of locusts, survives the Charge of the Light Brigade, tends to the wounded with Florence Nightingale, is pressed into service by the ruthless Robert the Conqueror, and, ultimately, wages war on War itself as the captain of his greatest creation: the legendary underwater vessel known as the "Nautilus.""Captain Nemo" is also the story of Nemo''s childhood friend, Jules Verne, who would bestow immortality upon the captain''s exploits, and of the remarkable woman they both loved to the very end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20828'),
(11735, 'The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15629'),
(11736, 'Captain&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the elemental forces of nature take physical form and are used for protection. Now, as enemies become allies and friends become bitter foes, a danger beyond reckoning looms for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4506'),
(11737, 'Captain&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the elemental forces of nature take physical form and are used for protection. Now, as enemies become allies and friends become bitter foes, a danger beyond reckoning looms for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15194'),
(11738, 'The Captain&#39;s Honor', 'David Dvorkin &amp; Dvorkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A series of vicious attacks by the enigmatic M''Dok Empire has devastated the planet Tenara -- bringing the U.S.S Enterpriseâ„¢ and another Federation starship, the Centurion, to the planet''s aid. The Centurion''s captain is Lucius Sejanus -- a powerful, magnetic man who favors taking a far stronger stance against the M''Dok than Captain Picard. And as the conflict escalates, Sejanus''s instincts seem to be correct...for it appears only extreme measures can stop the murderous raids on Tenara.  Now the people of Tenara must decide which pathe they will follow -- the way of peace, or the road to war. But unknown to any one of the Centurion''s officers has made that decision for them -- and plans to provoke a full-scale war between the Federation and the M''Dok Empire!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6334'),
(11739, 'The Captain&#39;s Honor', 'David Dvorkin; Dvorkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A series of vicious attacks by the enigmatic M''Dok Empire has devastated the planet Tenara -- bringing the U.S.S EnterpriseTM and another Federation starship, the Centurion, to the planet''s aid. The Centurion''s captain is Lucius Sejanus -- a powerful, magnetic man who favors taking a far stronger stance against the M''Dok than Captain Picard. And as the conflict escalates, Sejanus''s instincts seem to be correct...for it appears only extreme measures can stop the murderous raids on Tenara. Now the people of Tenara must decide which pathe they will follow -- the way of peace, or the road to war. But unknown to any one of the Centurion''s officers has made that decision for them -- and plans to provoke a full-scale war between the Federation and the M''Dok Empire!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17691'),
(11740, 'Captain&#39;s Table 02: Dujonian&#39;s Hoard', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There''s a bar called "The Captain''s Table," where those who have commanded mighty vessels of every shape and era can meet, relax, and share a friendly drink or two with others of their calling. Sometimes a brawl may break out but it''s all in the family, more or less. Just remember, the first round of drinks is always paid for with a story...even if you''re Jean-Luc Picard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more than two hundred years archaeologists and treasure hunters have dreamed of Dujonian''s Hoard, a fabled trove of priceless historical artifacts that may contain technology that will shift the galactic balance of power. A dream was all the hoard seemed -- until a former Starfleet officer goes in search of the treasure and turns up missing. Now everyone from Romulans to Cardassians to an enigmatic female starship captain is looking for Richard Brant, including Worf and Captain Picard, who have gone deep undercover on a secret Starfleet mission to rescue Brant, if he''s even still alive....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2834'),
(11741, 'Captain&#39;s Table 02: Dujonian&#39;s Hoard', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There''s a bar called "The Captain''s Table," where those who have commanded mighty vessels of every shape and era can meet, relax, and share a friendly drink or two with others of their calling. Sometimes a brawl may break out but it''s all in the family, more or less. Just remember, the first round of drinks is always paid for with a story...even if you''re Jean-Luc Picard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more than two hundred years archaeologists and treasure hunters have dreamed of Dujonian''s Hoard, a fabled trove of priceless historical artifacts that may contain technology that will shift the galactic balance of power. A dream was all the hoard seemed -- until a former Starfleet officer goes in search of the treasure and turns up missing. Now everyone from Romulans to Cardassians to an enigmatic female starship captain is looking for Richard Brant, including Worf and Captain Picard, who have gone deep undercover on a secret Starfleet mission to rescue Brant, if he''s even still alive....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21998'),
(11742, 'Captivated', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A classic novel from the enchanting series *The Donovan Legacy*.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only the phenomenal Nora Roberts could have created the remarkable Donovan clan. Fascinating and irresistible, the mysterious Donovan cousins share a secret that''s been handed down through generations -- a secret that sets them apart from ordinary beings.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Captivated***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His interest in her was purely professional . . . Or so he told himself. Nash Kirkland had sought out the alluring Morgana Dovovan to help him research his latest screenplay, though the hardheaded skeptic didn''t believe for a minute she was what she professed to be. But, as Morgana revealed herself to him, Nash found himself falling under her bewitching spell. Nash had never trusted his feelings and always kept them in check. So how could he be sure the irresistible passion he felt for Morgana was real and not just some conjurer''s trick?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The Donovan Legacy* continues with *Entranced*, coming soon from Silhouette Books.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2553'),
(11743, 'Captivated', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A classic novel from the enchanting series *The Donovan Legacy*.** Only the phenomenal Nora Roberts could have created the remarkable Donovan clan. Fascinating and irresistible, the mysterious Donovan cousins share a secret that''s been handed down through generations -- a secret that sets them apart from ordinary beings. ***Captivated*** His interest in her was purely professional . . . Or so he told himself. Nash Kirkland had sought out the alluring Morgana Dovovan to help him research his latest screenplay, though the hardheaded skeptic didn''t believe for a minute she was what she professed to be. But, as Morgana revealed herself to him, Nash found himself falling under her bewitching spell. Nash had never trusted his feelings and always kept them in check. So how could he be sure the irresistible passion he felt for Morgana was real and not just some conjurer''s trick? ***The Donovan Legacy* continues with *Entranced*, coming soon from Silhouette Books.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22319'),
(11744, 'The Captive &amp; the Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. V', 'Marcel Proust; D. J. Enright; C. K. Scott Moncrieff; Terence Kilmartin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œProust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.â€ â€”Graham Greene\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Modern Libraryâ€™s fifth volume of\n <em>\n  In Search of Lost Time\n </em>\n contains both\n <em>\n  The Captive\n </em>\n (1923) and\n <em>\n  The Fugitive\n </em>\n (1925). In\n <em>\n  The Captive\n </em>\n , Proustâ€™s narrator describes living in his motherâ€™s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In\n <em>\n  The Fugitive\n </em>\n , the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection.\n</p>\n<p>\n For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartinâ€™s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffâ€™s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of\n <em>\n  Ã la recherchÃ© du temps perdu\n </em>\n (the final volume of these new editions was published by the BibliothÃ¨que de la PlÃ©iade in 1989).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21447'),
(11745, 'Captive Market', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25253'),
(11746, 'Captive Moon', 'C. T. Adams &amp; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n World-class entertainer and Sazi councilman, Antoine Monier, has taken his big cats all over the world without any troubleâ€”until his latest trip to Stuttgart, where one of his tigers is stolen and killed. to Antoineâ€™s surprise, the German police have another tiger in custodyâ€”a tiger who is actually a lovely Turkish American woman, Tahira Kuric.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Like Antoine, Tahira is a shapeshifter, but of the Hayalet Kabile, the ghost tribe of shapeshifters. And despite their immediate attraction, Tahira wants nothing to do with Antoineâ€”the Sazi are the enemy of the Hayalet Kabile.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Tahira doesnâ€™t have a choice, because she and Antoine have discovered that she is a fabled "power well," able to store magical energy from other shapeshiftersâ€”and something is hunting her, eager to use her powers for itself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only if they can set aside their peoplesâ€™ ancient rivalry and rely completely on each otherâ€”body and soulâ€”can Tahira and Antoine save themselves and their people.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6966'),
(11747, 'Captive Moon', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n World-class entertainer and Sazi councilman, Antoine Monier, has taken his big cats all over the world without any troubleâ€”until his latest trip to Stuttgart, where one of his tigers is stolen and killed. to Antoineâ€™s surprise, the German police have another tiger in custodyâ€”a tiger who is actually a lovely Turkish American woman, Tahira Kuric. Like Antoine, Tahira is a shapeshifter, but of the Hayalet Kabile, the ghost tribe of shapeshifters. And despite their immediate attraction, Tahira wants nothing to do with Antoineâ€”the Sazi are the enemy of the Hayalet Kabile. But Tahira doesnâ€™t have a choice, because she and Antoine have discovered that she is a fabled "power well," able to store magical energy from other shapeshiftersâ€”and something is hunting her, eager to use her powers for itself. Only if they can set aside their peoplesâ€™ ancient rivalry and rely completely on each otherâ€”body and soulâ€”can Tahira and Antoine save themselves and their people.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16876'),
(11748, 'Captive Moon', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n World-class entertainer and Sazi councilman, Antoine Monier, has taken his big cats all over the world without any troubleâ€”until his latest trip to Stuttgart, where one of his tigers is stolen and killed. to Antoineâ€™s surprise, the German police have another tiger in custodyâ€”a tiger who is actually a lovely Turkish American woman, Tahira Kuric. Like Antoine, Tahira is a shapeshifter, but of the Hayalet Kabile, the ghost tribe of shapeshifters. And despite their immediate attraction, Tahira wants nothing to do with Antoineâ€”the Sazi are the enemy of the Hayalet Kabile. But Tahira doesnâ€™t have a choice, because she and Antoine have discovered that she is a fabled "power well," able to store magical energy from other shapeshiftersâ€”and something is hunting her, eager to use her powers for itself. Only if they can set aside their peoplesâ€™ ancient rivalry and rely completely on each otherâ€”body and soulâ€”can Tahira and Antoine save themselves and their people.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26768'),
(11749, 'The Captive', 'Joanne Rock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Women should be sweet, mild manneredhellip;docile. Unfortunately, Lady Gwendolyn, a rich Saxon widow, is none of those things.And Viking warrior Wulf Geirsson wants her desperately! One glimpse of the brazen beauty scrambling over the castle ramparts, and he knows he has to have her. Especially when she takes a tumble and lands at his feet.But Wulf quickly finds that taking Gwendolyn and keeping her are two different things. And once she decides to engage in a seductive assault of her own, he''s the one captivatedhellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4415'),
(11750, 'The Captive', 'Joanne Rock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Women should be sweet, mild manneredhellip;docile. Unfortunately, Lady Gwendolyn, a rich Saxon widow, is none of those things.And Viking warrior Wulf Geirsson wants her desperately! One glimpse of the brazen beauty scrambling over the castle ramparts, and he knows he has to have her. Especially when she takes a tumble and lands at his feet.But Wulf quickly finds that taking Gwendolyn and keeping her are two different things. And once she decides to engage in a seductive assault of her own, he''s the one captivatedhellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13550'),
(11751, 'Car Hacks and Mods for Dummies (ISBN', '0764571427)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17250'),
(11752, 'Cara MIA - Book One of the Immortyl Revolution', 'Denise Verrico', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vampires Mia and Kurt become involved in a deadly mission to harness the power of immortality. Mia Disantini is a vampire whose greatest desire is to walk in the sun again. She is enslaved by her charismatic master, Ethan, and plunged into an ancient, unenlightened Immortyl culture. As Mia struggles for the freedom to live as she chooses, she is trained as Ethan''s Bird of Prey. Soon she becomes the pawn of their powerful, enigmatic elder, Brovik, in his deadly games of deception and intrigue against his rival, Gaius, concerning their forbidden science experiments. When Mia is cast out by Ethan she joins forces with Kurt, and together the lovers steal fire from the gods and deliver it to Genpath Laboratories. The company CEO Lee Brooks deceives and imprisons the pair. While held captive, Mia calls upon the aid of Dr. Joe Ansari. The couple is hunted for their crime and time is running out. Will Mia and Kurt escape with their lives and succeed in their mission before their Immortyl enemies harness the power of immortality for evil purposes?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6007'),
(11753, 'Cara MIA - Book One of the Immortyl Revolution', 'Denise Verrico', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vampires Mia and Kurt become involved in a deadly mission to harness the power of immortality. Mia Disantini is a vampire whose greatest desire is to walk in the sun again. She is enslaved by her charismatic master, Ethan, and plunged into an ancient, unenlightened Immortyl culture. As Mia struggles for the freedom to live as she chooses, she is trained as Ethan''s Bird of Prey. Soon she becomes the pawn of their powerful, enigmatic elder, Brovik, in his deadly games of deception and intrigue against his rival, Gaius, concerning their forbidden science experiments. When Mia is cast out by Ethan she joins forces with Kurt, and together the lovers steal fire from the gods and deliver it to Genpath Laboratories. The company CEO Lee Brooks deceives and imprisons the pair. While held captive, Mia calls upon the aid of Dr. Joe Ansari. The couple is hunted for their crime and time is running out. Will Mia and Kurt escape with their lives and succeed in their mission before their Immortyl enemies harness the power of immortality for evil purposes?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13210'),
(11754, 'Cara MIA - Book One of the Immortyl Revolution', 'Denise Verrico', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vampires Mia and Kurt become involved in a deadly mission to harness the power of immortality. Mia Disantini is a vampire whose greatest desire is to walk in the sun again. She is enslaved by her charismatic master, Ethan, and plunged into an ancient, unenlightened Immortyl culture. As Mia struggles for the freedom to live as she chooses, she is trained as Ethan''s Bird of Prey. Soon she becomes the pawn of their powerful, enigmatic elder, Brovik, in his deadly games of deception and intrigue against his rival, Gaius, concerning their forbidden science experiments. When Mia is cast out by Ethan she joins forces with Kurt, and together the lovers steal fire from the gods and deliver it to Genpath Laboratories. The company CEO Lee Brooks deceives and imprisons the pair. While held captive, Mia calls upon the aid of Dr. Joe Ansari. The couple is hunted for their crime and time is running out. Will Mia and Kurt escape with their lives and succeed in their mission before their Immortyl enemies harness the power of immortality for evil purposes?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18005'),
(11755, 'Caravan to Vaccares', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From all over Europe, even from behind the Iron Curtain, gypsies make an annual pilgrimage to the holy shrine of their patron saint in the Provence region of southern France. But something is different about this year''s gathering, with many suspicious deaths.Cecile Dubois and Neil Bowman decide to investigate. Eavesdropping, Bowman discovers that a man named Gaiuse Strome is financing the gypsies, and his suspicions on the real identity of Strome center on a highly wealthy aristocrat, distinguished folklorist and gastronome, Le Grand Duc Charles de Croytor, whose girlfriend Lila Delafont is a friend of Cecile. As they follow the caravan, Bowman and Cecile find that their lives in danger many times in an effort to uncover the secret the gypsies are so determined to hide, and before long are running for their lives.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15910'),
(11756, 'The Cardinal of the Kremlin', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Two men possess vital data on Russia''s Star Wars missile defense system. One isted by the KGB. The other is Jack Ryan, hero of The Hunt for Red October,ld to peace. A 4-month #1 New York Times bestseller, with 1.3 million hardcover copies in print. HC: Putnam.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/567'),
(11757, 'The Cardinal of the Kremlin', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Two men possess vital data on Russia''s Star Wars missile defense system. One isted by the KGB. The other is Jack Ryan, hero of The Hunt for Red October,ld to peace. A 4-month #1 New York Times bestseller, with 1.3 million hardcover copies in print. HC: Putnam.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8878'),
(11758, 'The Cardinal of the Kremlin', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Two men possess vital data on Russia''s Star Wars missile defense system. One isted by the KGB. The other is Jack Ryan, hero of The Hunt for Red October,ld to peace. A 4-month #1 New York Times bestseller, with 1.3 million hardcover copies in print. HC: Putnam.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24408'),
(11759, 'The Cardinal&#39;s Blades', 'Pierre Pevel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Cardinal''s Blades is part historical novel, part old-fashioned swashbuckling high-action adventure, and part classic fantasy. Pierre Pevel has woven some of the best-loved fantasy tropes - musketeer-style adventuring, daring swordsmen, political intrigue, non-stop action and dragons - into a stunning new fantasy series. Paris, 1633. Louis XIII reigns over France ...and Cardinal Richelieu governs the country. One of the most dangerous and most powerful men in Europe, Richelieu keeps a constant, sharp eye on the enemies of the Crown to avoid their assassination attempts, thwart their spies and avert their warmongering. But he''s up against people who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals, even going so far as to forge alliances with France''s oldest and deadliest enemies. Spain, and the Court of Dragons. The nobility keep tiny dragonnets as pets; royal couriers ride tame wyverns, and lethal man-shaped scaled dracs ropam the country. But the power rising from the Court of Dragons is anything but mundane; the Black Claw sect draws on dragons as they once were: ancient, terrible, utterly merciless ...and poised to move against France. Faced with the growing threat from Spain, Richelieu summons Captain la Fargue, an exceptional swordsman, devoted officer and brilliant leader. If he''s to turn aside the Black Claw''s schemes, La Fargue and his legenday company of swashbucklers and rogues must be persuaded to once again risk their lives, fortunes and reputations for Richelieu, and for France. It''s the biggest challenge yet for The Cardinal''s Blades - and they''ll need to be sharp ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1987'),
(11760, 'The Cardinal&#39;s Blades', 'Pierre Pevel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Cardinal''s Blades is part historical novel, part old-fashioned swashbuckling high-action adventure, and part classic fantasy. Pierre Pevel has woven some of the best-loved fantasy tropes - musketeer-style adventuring, daring swordsmen, political intrigue, non-stop action and dragons - into a stunning new fantasy series. Paris, 1633. Louis XIII reigns over France ...and Cardinal Richelieu governs the country. One of the most dangerous and most powerful men in Europe, Richelieu keeps a constant, sharp eye on the enemies of the Crown to avoid their assassination attempts, thwart their spies and avert their warmongering. But he''s up against people who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals, even going so far as to forge alliances with France''s oldest and deadliest enemies. Spain, and the Court of Dragons. The nobility keep tiny dragonnets as pets; royal couriers ride tame wyverns, and lethal man-shaped scaled dracs ropam the country. But the power rising from the Court of Dragons is anything but mundane; the Black Claw sect draws on dragons as they once were: ancient, terrible, utterly merciless ...and poised to move against France. Faced with the growing threat from Spain, Richelieu summons Captain la Fargue, an exceptional swordsman, devoted officer and brilliant leader. If he''s to turn aside the Black Claw''s schemes, La Fargue and his legenday company of swashbucklers and rogues must be persuaded to once again risk their lives, fortunes and reputations for Richelieu, and for France. It''s the biggest challenge yet for The Cardinal''s Blades - and they''ll need to be sharp ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11977'),
(11761, 'Cards on the Table', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, with Stephanie Cole and Donald Sinden. Hercule Poirot, along with three other luminaries from the world of crime detection, is invited to dinner by the renowned London socialite Dr. Shaitana. Also on the guest list are four members of what Shaitana calls his Black Museum--a collection of murderers who have each succeeded in "getting away with it." After midnight, when the guests prepare to leave, they make a terrible discovery. Their host is dead in his armchair, stabbed in the chest. The four sleuths are thus faced with one murder and a quartet of likely suspects. Working both together and independently, they investigate the past of the Black Museum''s finest in order to determine the most likely killer. Poirot finds that many distractions are thrown in his way, as he attempts to read the meaning of the cards which each suspect has placed on the table.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/62'),
(11762, 'Cards on the Table', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, with Stephanie Cole and Donald Sinden. Hercule Poirot, along with three other luminaries from the world of crime detection, is invited to dinner by the renowned London socialite Dr. Shaitana. Also on the guest list are four members of what Shaitana calls his Black Museum--a collection of murderers who have each succeeded in "getting away with it." After midnight, when the guests prepare to leave, they make a terrible discovery. Their host is dead in his armchair, stabbed in the chest. The four sleuths are thus faced with one murder and a quartet of likely suspects. Working both together and independently, they investigate the past of the Black Museum''s finest in order to determine the most likely killer. Poirot finds that many distractions are thrown in his way, as he attempts to read the meaning of the cards which each suspect has placed on the table.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17174');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11763, 'The Cardturner', 'Louis Sachar', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Alton Richards is resigned to spending a slow summer on his own after his girlfriend leaves him for his best friend and he finds himself with no money and no job. Unfortunately, his mother insists that he become his blind great-uncle''s chauffeur and cardturner at local bridge tournaments. Though the 17-year-old has only met Lester Trapp on a few occasions, his mother hopes that this connection will inspire the wealthy old man to write the family into his will. Alton reluctantly agrees, even though he knows nothing about bridge and has no interest in learning the game. He meets Toni Castaneda at the tournaments and soon discovers that he''s not the only long-lost relative intent on winning over Trapp and his inheritance. What transpires is an intriguing glimpse into a crazy family full of secrets and unusual quirks. The characters are well limned, and the narrative is laced with Sachar''s trademark wry humor. Most teens have very little knowledge about bridge, a fact that Alton acknowledges several times throughout the novel. At times, the story line becomes thick with technical game descriptions, though he does offer an option to skip these sections by providing a symbol to indicate more in-depth card instructions. This well-written novel contains a rewarding intergenerational friendship and a sweetly appealing romance in the making. Nonetheless it may require an additional nudge to hook readers. It''s a nudge worth giving for motivated teens and those who enjoy Sachar''s novels.â€”_Stephanie Malosh, Donoghue Elementary School, Chicago, IL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n With his latest novel, the Newbery-winning author of Holes (1998) fulfills a need the world probably didn''t even know it had: the great teen bridge novel. Alton Richard''s great-uncle Lester Trapp is rich and ailing, a combo that leads Alton''s parents to hatch a plan for the teen to cozy up to the old man and carve out a chunk of inheritance. Though blind, Trapp is a brilliant, world-class bridge player and needs someone to read him his cards and make his plays. Enter Alton, who wouldn''t begin to know how to decipher questions like â€œOne banana, pass, pass, two no-trump. Is that unusual?â€ But he withstands the constant barbs from his irascible uncle and grows more intrigued by the game (in no small part due to the cute, kind-of-crazy girl who also plays). Sachar liberally doles out detailed commentary on the basics and then nuances of the game, and in a nod to the famously dull Moby-Dick chapter on the minutiae of whaling, a little whale image appears when the bridge talk is about to get deep so readers can skip right ahead to a pithy wrap-up. But don''t be fooled: it is astonishing how Sachar can make blow-by-blow accounts of bridge not only interesting but exciting, treating each play like a clue to unravel the riddle of each hand. An obvious windfall for smart and puzzle-minded teens, this is a great story to boot, with genuine characters (save the scheming parents) and real relationships, balanced by casual, confident storytelling. Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3287'),
(11764, 'The Cardturner', 'Louis Sachar', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Alton Richards is resigned to spending a slow summer on his own after his girlfriend leaves him for his best friend and he finds himself with no money and no job. Unfortunately, his mother insists that he become his blind great-uncle''s chauffeur and cardturner at local bridge tournaments. Though the 17-year-old has only met Lester Trapp on a few occasions, his mother hopes that this connection will inspire the wealthy old man to write the family into his will. Alton reluctantly agrees, even though he knows nothing about bridge and has no interest in learning the game. He meets Toni Castaneda at the tournaments and soon discovers that he''s not the only long-lost relative intent on winning over Trapp and his inheritance. What transpires is an intriguing glimpse into a crazy family full of secrets and unusual quirks. The characters are well limned, and the narrative is laced with Sachar''s trademark wry humor. Most teens have very little knowledge about bridge, a fact that Alton acknowledges several times throughout the novel. At times, the story line becomes thick with technical game descriptions, though he does offer an option to skip these sections by providing a symbol to indicate more in-depth card instructions. This well-written novel contains a rewarding intergenerational friendship and a sweetly appealing romance in the making. Nonetheless it may require an additional nudge to hook readers. It''s a nudge worth giving for motivated teens and those who enjoy Sachar''s novels.â€”_Stephanie Malosh, Donoghue Elementary School, Chicago, IL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n With his latest novel, the Newbery-winning author of Holes (1998) fulfills a need the world probably didn''t even know it had: the great teen bridge novel. Alton Richard''s great-uncle Lester Trapp is rich and ailing, a combo that leads Alton''s parents to hatch a plan for the teen to cozy up to the old man and carve out a chunk of inheritance. Though blind, Trapp is a brilliant, world-class bridge player and needs someone to read him his cards and make his plays. Enter Alton, who wouldn''t begin to know how to decipher questions like â€œOne banana, pass, pass, two no-trump. Is that unusual?â€ But he withstands the constant barbs from his irascible uncle and grows more intrigued by the game (in no small part due to the cute, kind-of-crazy girl who also plays). Sachar liberally doles out detailed commentary on the basics and then nuances of the game, and in a nod to the famously dull Moby-Dick chapter on the minutiae of whaling, a little whale image appears when the bridge talk is about to get deep so readers can skip right ahead to a pithy wrap-up. But don''t be fooled: it is astonishing how Sachar can make blow-by-blow accounts of bridge not only interesting but exciting, treating each play like a clue to unravel the riddle of each hand. An obvious windfall for smart and puzzle-minded teens, this is a great story to boot, with genuine characters (save the scheming parents) and real relationships, balanced by casual, confident storytelling. Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12507'),
(11765, 'The Cardturner', 'Louis Sachar', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Alton Richards is resigned to spending a slow summer on his own after his girlfriend leaves him for his best friend and he finds himself with no money and no job. Unfortunately, his mother insists that he become his blind great-uncle''s chauffeur and cardturner at local bridge tournaments. Though the 17-year-old has only met Lester Trapp on a few occasions, his mother hopes that this connection will inspire the wealthy old man to write the family into his will. Alton reluctantly agrees, even though he knows nothing about bridge and has no interest in learning the game. He meets Toni Castaneda at the tournaments and soon discovers that he''s not the only long-lost relative intent on winning over Trapp and his inheritance. What transpires is an intriguing glimpse into a crazy family full of secrets and unusual quirks. The characters are well limned, and the narrative is laced with Sachar''s trademark wry humor. Most teens have very little knowledge about bridge, a fact that Alton acknowledges several times throughout the novel. At times, the story line becomes thick with technical game descriptions, though he does offer an option to skip these sections by providing a symbol to indicate more in-depth card instructions. This well-written novel contains a rewarding intergenerational friendship and a sweetly appealing romance in the making. Nonetheless it may require an additional nudge to hook readers. It''s a nudge worth giving for motivated teens and those who enjoy Sachar''s novels.â€”_Stephanie Malosh, Donoghue Elementary School, Chicago, IL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n With his latest novel, the Newbery-winning author of Holes (1998) fulfills a need the world probably didn''t even know it had: the great teen bridge novel. Alton Richard''s great-uncle Lester Trapp is rich and ailing, a combo that leads Alton''s parents to hatch a plan for the teen to cozy up to the old man and carve out a chunk of inheritance. Though blind, Trapp is a brilliant, world-class bridge player and needs someone to read him his cards and make his plays. Enter Alton, who wouldn''t begin to know how to decipher questions like â€œOne banana, pass, pass, two no-trump. Is that unusual?â€ But he withstands the constant barbs from his irascible uncle and grows more intrigued by the game (in no small part due to the cute, kind-of-crazy girl who also plays). Sachar liberally doles out detailed commentary on the basics and then nuances of the game, and in a nod to the famously dull Moby-Dick chapter on the minutiae of whaling, a little whale image appears when the bridge talk is about to get deep so readers can skip right ahead to a pithy wrap-up. But don''t be fooled: it is astonishing how Sachar can make blow-by-blow accounts of bridge not only interesting but exciting, treating each play like a clue to unravel the riddle of each hand. An obvious windfall for smart and puzzle-minded teens, this is a great story to boot, with genuine characters (save the scheming parents) and real relationships, balanced by casual, confident storytelling. Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21278'),
(11766, 'A Caress of Twilight', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œI am Princess Meredith, heir to a throneâ€”if I can stay alive long enough to claim it.â€ After eluding relentless assassination attempts by Prince Cel, her cousin and rival for the Faerie crown, Meredith Gentry, Los Angeles private eye, has a whole new set of problems. To become queen, she must bear a child before Cel can father one of his own. But havoc lies on the horizon: people are dying in mysterious, frightening ways, and suddenly the very existence of the place known as Faerie is at grave risk. So now, while she enjoys the greatest pleasures of her life attempting to conceive a baby with the warriors of her royal guard, she must fend off an ancient evil that could destroy the very fabric of reality. And thatâ€™s just her day job. . . .From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14831'),
(11767, 'A Caress of Twilight', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œI am Princess Meredith, heir to a throneâ€”if I can stay alive long enough to claim it.â€ After eluding relentless assassination attempts by Prince Cel, her cousin and rival for the Faerie crown, Meredith Gentry, Los Angeles private eye, has a whole new set of problems. To become queen, she must bear a child before Cel can father one of his own. But havoc lies on the horizon: people are dying in mysterious, frightening ways, and suddenly the very existence of the place known as Faerie is at grave risk. So now, while she enjoys the greatest pleasures of her life attempting to conceive a baby with the warriors of her royal guard, she must fend off an ancient evil that could destroy the very fabric of reality. And thatâ€™s just her day job. . . .From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21017'),
(11768, 'The Caretaker of Lorne Field', 'Dave Zeltserman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Zeltserman''s superb mix of humor and horror focuses on Jack Durkin, the ninth generation of firstborn sons in his family who have daily weeded Lorne Field to purge it of Aukowies, bloodthirsty plants that could overrun the world in weeks if not attended to. Though Jack takes his job seriously, no one else does: his oldest son doesn''t want to follow in his footsteps; his wife is tired of living poorly on his caretaker''s salary; and the townspeople who subsidize him are increasingly skeptical of purported menaces that no one has ever seen because Jack diligently nips them in the bud. With his support dwindling, Jack finds himself driven to desperate measures to prove that he''s truly saving the world. Zeltserman (_Pariah_) orchestrates events perfectly, making it impossible to tell if Jack is genuinely humankind''s unsung hero or merely the latest descendant of a family of superstitious loonies. Readers will keep turning the pages to see how the ambiguous plot resolves.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This superbly crafted horror story explores the dichotomy between belief and rationality. Why has a small town maintained a contract since the eighteenth century with a member of the community and his heirs to pull weeds in Lorne Field? Jack Durkin, the current and ninth generation of Lorne Field caretakers, says the things he pulls from the ground aren''t weeds; they are something called Aukowies, and if they''re not pulled up by the roots and burned every day, the world will end. Under pressure from his wife to get a real job; from the town fathers (looking to save a few bucks and end the contract); and from his sons, who don''t see themselves as career weed-pullers, Durkin is finally out of a job. No more weed pulling. So is he just a nut case, or does the novel segue into another Little Shop of Horrors? Sorry, we don''t do spoilers. Horror fans will have to read this first-class cautionary tale themselves. --Elliott Swanson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6415'),
(11769, 'The Caretaker of Lorne Field', 'Dave Zeltserman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Zeltserman''s superb mix of humor and horror focuses on Jack Durkin, the ninth generation of firstborn sons in his family who have daily weeded Lorne Field to purge it of Aukowies, bloodthirsty plants that could overrun the world in weeks if not attended to. Though Jack takes his job seriously, no one else does: his oldest son doesn''t want to follow in his footsteps; his wife is tired of living poorly on his caretaker''s salary; and the townspeople who subsidize him are increasingly skeptical of purported menaces that no one has ever seen because Jack diligently nips them in the bud. With his support dwindling, Jack finds himself driven to desperate measures to prove that he''s truly saving the world. Zeltserman (_Pariah_) orchestrates events perfectly, making it impossible to tell if Jack is genuinely humankind''s unsung hero or merely the latest descendant of a family of superstitious loonies. Readers will keep turning the pages to see how the ambiguous plot resolves.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This superbly crafted horror story explores the dichotomy between belief and rationality. Why has a small town maintained a contract since the eighteenth century with a member of the community and his heirs to pull weeds in Lorne Field? Jack Durkin, the current and ninth generation of Lorne Field caretakers, says the things he pulls from the ground aren''t weeds; they are something called Aukowies, and if they''re not pulled up by the roots and burned every day, the world will end. Under pressure from his wife to get a real job; from the town fathers (looking to save a few bucks and end the contract); and from his sons, who don''t see themselves as career weed-pullers, Durkin is finally out of a job. No more weed pulling. So is he just a nut case, or does the novel segue into another Little Shop of Horrors? Sorry, we don''t do spoilers. Horror fans will have to read this first-class cautionary tale themselves. --Elliott Swanson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13424'),
(11770, 'The Caretaker of Lorne Field', 'Dave Zeltserman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Zeltserman''s superb mix of humor and horror focuses on Jack Durkin, the ninth generation of firstborn sons in his family who have daily weeded Lorne Field to purge it of Aukowies, bloodthirsty plants that could overrun the world in weeks if not attended to. Though Jack takes his job seriously, no one else does: his oldest son doesn''t want to follow in his footsteps; his wife is tired of living poorly on his caretaker''s salary; and the townspeople who subsidize him are increasingly skeptical of purported menaces that no one has ever seen because Jack diligently nips them in the bud. With his support dwindling, Jack finds himself driven to desperate measures to prove that he''s truly saving the world. Zeltserman (_Pariah_) orchestrates events perfectly, making it impossible to tell if Jack is genuinely humankind''s unsung hero or merely the latest descendant of a family of superstitious loonies. Readers will keep turning the pages to see how the ambiguous plot resolves.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This superbly crafted horror story explores the dichotomy between belief and rationality. Why has a small town maintained a contract since the eighteenth century with a member of the community and his heirs to pull weeds in Lorne Field? Jack Durkin, the current and ninth generation of Lorne Field caretakers, says the things he pulls from the ground aren''t weeds; they are something called Aukowies, and if they''re not pulled up by the roots and burned every day, the world will end. Under pressure from his wife to get a real job; from the town fathers (looking to save a few bucks and end the contract); and from his sons, who don''t see themselves as career weed-pullers, Durkin is finally out of a job. No more weed pulling. So is he just a nut case, or does the novel segue into another Little Shop of Horrors? Sorry, we don''t do spoilers. Horror fans will have to read this first-class cautionary tale themselves. --Elliott Swanson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17684'),
(11771, 'Caribbean Kill', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan, the one-man army, tracks the Mafia to their island hideaways - and the lush vacation isles were never hotter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5889'),
(11772, 'Caribbean Kill', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan, the one-man army, tracks the Mafia to their island hideaways - and the lush vacation isles were never hotter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18720'),
(11773, 'Caribbean Kill', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan, the one-man army, tracks the Mafia to their island hideaways - and the lush vacation isles were never hotter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27527'),
(11774, 'A Caribbean Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Would you like to see a picture of a murderer?" So asks a stranger of Miss Jane Marple while she is vacationing on luxurious St. Honore. Before she has a chance to answer, the mystery man vanishes, only to be found dead the following day. Now Miss Marple is asking the questions: What happened to the curious photo: Why is the hotelier prone to nightmares? Why doesn''t the most-talked-about guest, a reclusive millionaire, ever leave his room? Any why is Miss Marple fearing for her own life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/38'),
(11775, 'A Caribbean Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Would you like to see a picture of a murderer?" So asks a stranger of Miss Jane Marple while she is vacationing on luxurious St. Honore. Before she has a chance to answer, the mystery man vanishes, only to be found dead the following day. Now Miss Marple is asking the questions: What happened to the curious photo: Why is the hotelier prone to nightmares? Why doesn''t the most-talked-about guest, a reclusive millionaire, ever leave his room? Any why is Miss Marple fearing for her own life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17188'),
(11776, 'Caribou Island: A Novel', 'David Vann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n The prize-winning author of\n <em>\n  Legend of a Suicide\n </em>\n delivers his highly anticipated debut novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska''s Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unraveling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following the outline of Gary''s old dream, they''re hauling logs to Caribou Island in good weather and in terrible storms, in sickness and in health, to build the kind of cabin that drew them to Alaska in the first place.\n</p>\n<p>\n But this island is not right for Irene. They are building without plans or advice, and when winter comes early, the overwhelming isolation of the prehistoric wilderness threatens their bond to the core. Caught in the emotional maelstrom is their adult daughter, Rhoda, who is wrestling with the hopes and disappointments of her own life. Devoted to her parents, she watches helplessly as they drift further apart.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brilliantly drawn and fiercely honest,\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n captures the drama and pathos of a husband and wife whose bitter love, failed dreams, and tragic past push them to the edge of destruction. A portrait of desolation, violence, and the darkness of the soul, it is an explosive and unforgettable novel from a writer of limitless possibility.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with David Vann\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Set in Alaska,\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n is the story of a marriageâ€™s unraveling and the tragic events it precipitates. How does your setting reflect and shape the novelâ€™s plot and the characters, especially Irene and Gary?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n I think wilderness has no meaning on its own. Itâ€™s a giant mirror. So as I was writing\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n , I kept focusing on Alaska, and as I described the landscape I was indirectly describing and discovering the interior lives of Irene and Gary. The island and lake are constantly shifting in shape and mood, and even the storms that come down off the glacier feel like they belong to Irene. She resents taking care of this man for thirty years and receiving only his vacancy in return, and the desolation of the place increases the pressure on her. There are no distractions, and no escape is possible.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You were born in Alaska and spent your childhood there. What was that experience like? What are your impressions of this state that has become such a focus of public consciousness?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n Alaska is magnificent, and the cold rainforest of Ketchikan, where I spent my childhood, is still mythic in my imagination. In that forest, I always felt I was being watched, and we really did have bears and wolves. There was so much undergrowth and deadfall, Iâ€™d sometimes fall through the forest floor to a second floor and disappear completely. And the ocean was even more impossible. The first king salmon I caught was taller than I was, and my grandfather caught a 250-lb halibut. I remember watching it slowly rising to the surface, growing until it became bigger than my imagination. I write about Alaska because itâ€™s in that landscape that I can find some sense of self and possibility and freedom.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You have been very open about your family tragedies, including your fatherâ€™s suicide. Was it difficult approaching such a sensitive topic? How has using the raw material of these events affected you?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n It took me ten years to write\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n there are again several true family stories in the background, but farther away than my fatherâ€™s suicide, and my focus again was on seeing how the stories would shift and become something else.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n As a male writer, did you face any challenges capturing the voice of your female characters?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n I didnâ€™t expect to write about marriage, and I didnâ€™t expect to write from the viewpoint of a woman, but I saw that Irene was the center of the story, and that her daughter Rhoda was also vitally important. I didnâ€™t struggle with voice or point of view at all for some reason, perhaps because my sympathies were with Irene and Rhoda and less with Gary and Jim. To me, Irene and Rhoda make the best sense of the world and are the most honest, and this follows what Iâ€™ve experienced in real life, also. I was raised by women, and I trusted their accounts more than menâ€™s accounts.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How would you assess your evolution as a writer from your award-winning collection\n <em>\n  Legend of a Suicide\n </em>\n to this, your first novel? Did you find your voice naturally, or was it a struggle to find the right sound and rhythm?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n With\n <em>\n  Legend of a Suicide\n </em>\n , I was learning how to write. The book is a short novel framed by five short stories, and I was tremendously influenced by various writers during that ten-year period, so the style and voice vary from story to story and form a kind of debate. This makes sense for the material, because no one in my family could agree on who my father was, what happened, or what his suicide meant. There was no one story or one voice to find anywhere. But\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n is a far more cohesive piece, and I wrote two pages per day in a kind of extended dream, hoping it would feel like it was written in one sitting. And I didnâ€™t struggle at all with voice, because I think of writing as being mostly unconscious and out of control. All I have to do is get out of the way and avoid having plans and ideas. As long as I return each day to focus on place and character, the book writes itself. The final published version is almost exactly the same as my first draft, and it just is what it is. I donâ€™t think authors really get to choose what they write.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Who are the writers you admire?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n My favorite writers focus on landscape. Cormac McCarthyâ€™s\n <em>\n  Blood Meridian\n </em>\n , for instance, we find mountains â€œwhose true geology was not stone but fear.â€ We focus on the real mountains and then they slip and shift and describe what we fear and desire and who we imagine ourselves to be. We shape ourselves through place.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n People haunted by their own failures and lost dreams drive Vann''s earnest but uneven first novel, which opens with Irene, an ailing middle-aged Alaskan woman, telling her grown daughter, Rhoda, about coming home and finding her mother "hanging from the rafters" one day when she was 10 years old. Irene also tells Rhoda that she believes her husband, Gary, wants to leave her. Gary, "a champion of regret," wanted to be an academic, but ekes out a living fishing and building boats while planning a self-imposed exile with Irene on an island in Alaska''s Skilak Lake, where he''s building a crude log cabin. Rhoda envisions marital bliss with her boyfriend, Jim, a philandering, selfish dentist. Their internal monologues rage with ideas and desires that read like authorial conceits, not the thoughts of real people. The only true character is Alaska itself, and Vann, author of the story collection Legend of a Suicide, is at his best depicting the harsh, rugged landscape of the Alaskan wilderness. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6208'),
(11777, 'Caribou Island: A Novel', 'David Vann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n The prize-winning author of\n <em>\n  Legend of a Suicide\n </em>\n delivers his highly anticipated debut novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska''s Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unraveling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following the outline of Gary''s old dream, they''re hauling logs to Caribou Island in good weather and in terrible storms, in sickness and in health, to build the kind of cabin that drew them to Alaska in the first place.\n</p>\n<p>\n But this island is not right for Irene. They are building without plans or advice, and when winter comes early, the overwhelming isolation of the prehistoric wilderness threatens their bond to the core. Caught in the emotional maelstrom is their adult daughter, Rhoda, who is wrestling with the hopes and disappointments of her own life. Devoted to her parents, she watches helplessly as they drift further apart.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brilliantly drawn and fiercely honest,\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n captures the drama and pathos of a husband and wife whose bitter love, failed dreams, and tragic past push them to the edge of destruction. A portrait of desolation, violence, and the darkness of the soul, it is an explosive and unforgettable novel from a writer of limitless possibility.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Q&amp;A with David Vann\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Set in Alaska,\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n is the story of a marriageâ€™s unraveling and the tragic events it precipitates. How does your setting reflect and shape the novelâ€™s plot and the characters, especially Irene and Gary?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n I think wilderness has no meaning on its own. Itâ€™s a giant mirror. So as I was writing\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n , I kept focusing on Alaska, and as I described the landscape I was indirectly describing and discovering the interior lives of Irene and Gary. The island and lake are constantly shifting in shape and mood, and even the storms that come down off the glacier feel like they belong to Irene. She resents taking care of this man for thirty years and receiving only his vacancy in return, and the desolation of the place increases the pressure on her. There are no distractions, and no escape is possible.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You were born in Alaska and spent your childhood there. What was that experience like? What are your impressions of this state that has become such a focus of public consciousness?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n Alaska is magnificent, and the cold rainforest of Ketchikan, where I spent my childhood, is still mythic in my imagination. In that forest, I always felt I was being watched, and we really did have bears and wolves. There was so much undergrowth and deadfall, Iâ€™d sometimes fall through the forest floor to a second floor and disappear completely. And the ocean was even more impossible. The first king salmon I caught was taller than I was, and my grandfather caught a 250-lb halibut. I remember watching it slowly rising to the surface, growing until it became bigger than my imagination. I write about Alaska because itâ€™s in that landscape that I can find some sense of self and possibility and freedom.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n You have been very open about your family tragedies, including your fatherâ€™s suicide. Was it difficult approaching such a sensitive topic? How has using the raw material of these events affected you?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n It took me ten years to write\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n there are again several true family stories in the background, but farther away than my fatherâ€™s suicide, and my focus again was on seeing how the stories would shift and become something else.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n As a male writer, did you face any challenges capturing the voice of your female characters?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n I didnâ€™t expect to write about marriage, and I didnâ€™t expect to write from the viewpoint of a woman, but I saw that Irene was the center of the story, and that her daughter Rhoda was also vitally important. I didnâ€™t struggle with voice or point of view at all for some reason, perhaps because my sympathies were with Irene and Rhoda and less with Gary and Jim. To me, Irene and Rhoda make the best sense of the world and are the most honest, and this follows what Iâ€™ve experienced in real life, also. I was raised by women, and I trusted their accounts more than menâ€™s accounts.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How would you assess your evolution as a writer from your award-winning collection\n <em>\n  Legend of a Suicide\n </em>\n to this, your first novel? Did you find your voice naturally, or was it a struggle to find the right sound and rhythm?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n With\n <em>\n  Legend of a Suicide\n </em>\n , I was learning how to write. The book is a short novel framed by five short stories, and I was tremendously influenced by various writers during that ten-year period, so the style and voice vary from story to story and form a kind of debate. This makes sense for the material, because no one in my family could agree on who my father was, what happened, or what his suicide meant. There was no one story or one voice to find anywhere. But\n <em>\n  Caribou Island\n </em>\n is a far more cohesive piece, and I wrote two pages per day in a kind of extended dream, hoping it would feel like it was written in one sitting. And I didnâ€™t struggle at all with voice, because I think of writing as being mostly unconscious and out of control. All I have to do is get out of the way and avoid having plans and ideas. As long as I return each day to focus on place and character, the book writes itself. The final published version is almost exactly the same as my first draft, and it just is what it is. I donâ€™t think authors really get to choose what they write.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Who are the writers you admire?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vann:\n </strong>\n My favorite writers focus on landscape. Cormac McCarthyâ€™s\n <em>\n  Blood Meridian\n </em>\n , for instance, we find mountains â€œwhose true geology was not stone but fear.â€ We focus on the real mountains and then they slip and shift and describe what we fear and desire and who we imagine ourselves to be. We shape ourselves through place.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n People haunted by their own failures and lost dreams drive Vann''s earnest but uneven first novel, which opens with Irene, an ailing middle-aged Alaskan woman, telling her grown daughter, Rhoda, about coming home and finding her mother "hanging from the rafters" one day when she was 10 years old. Irene also tells Rhoda that she believes her husband, Gary, wants to leave her. Gary, "a champion of regret," wanted to be an academic, but ekes out a living fishing and building boats while planning a self-imposed exile with Irene on an island in Alaska''s Skilak Lake, where he''s building a crude log cabin. Rhoda envisions marital bliss with her boyfriend, Jim, a philandering, selfish dentist. Their internal monologues rage with ideas and desires that read like authorial conceits, not the thoughts of real people. The only true character is Alaska itself, and Vann, author of the story collection Legend of a Suicide, is at his best depicting the harsh, rugged landscape of the Alaskan wilderness. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13161'),
(11778, 'Caribou Island: A Novel', 'David Vann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17900'),
(11779, 'Carlo Ancelotti: The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius', 'Alessandro Alciato &amp; Carlo Ancelotti &amp; Paolo Maldini', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The bookâ€™s a riot; frank, anecdotal, dripping with hilarious self-deprecation..." ~Jonathan Northcroft,\n  <em>\n   Sunday Times\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "hugely entertaining" ~Henry Winter,\n  <em>\n   Daily Telegraph\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "smart and surprising" ~Paul Doyle,\n  <em>\n   Guardian\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "For those with an interest in football (soccer), for those with an interest in a well told tale, ''Carlo Ancelotti'' by ''Carlo Ancelotti'' with Alessandro Alciato (Rizzoli New York, $25.00, 264 pages, 35 photographs) fits the bill. The former star player, the famed coach of top teams in Italy and England, the outspoken Ancelotti touches all bases in this illuminating autobiography. There is something to learn on each page about ''the beautiful game'' and the man some call ''the ordinary genius''." ~_Frommer Luxury Travel\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"For the first time in English, Ancelotti''s autobiography,\n  <em>\n   Carlo Ancelotti: The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius\n  </em>\n  , released yesterday. The book offers candid insight on the difference between the Italian and English games. Ancelotti''s playing days at Parma, Roma and Milan are well covered, as are his recent managerial triumphs. Friend, and former teammate, Palo Maldini offers the forword."_~Selectism_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The entertaining, revealing, and controversial bestselling autobiography of one of the most respected figures in the world of soccer. Carlo Ancelotti is one of only six people to have won the Champions Leagueâ€”European soccerâ€™s most coveted trophyâ€”as both player and coach. After a successful career playing for several of the most important teams in Italyâ€”and for the Italian national teamâ€”Ancelotti went on to become one of the most acclaimed and outspoken coaches in European football, managing Italian giants Parma, Juventus, and Milan before moving to Chelsea, one of the Premier Leagueâ€™s most successful clubs, in 2009. The book moves from anecdotes of his life growing up in Reggio Emilia to stories of his time playing among the best footballers in the world. With a characteristic mixture of sharp insight and humor, Ancelotti explores the differences between the Italian and the English games, shares his thoughts on soccerâ€™s future with the MLS in America, and reflects on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. With a preface by the legendary former captain of the Italian national team, Paolo Maldini, this book is at once a tacticianâ€™s bible from one of the worldâ€™s most celebrated footballing minds, the fascinating story of an ordinary man reaching great heights, and in part a revealing tell-all from an outspoken insider in the cut-throat world of European soccer. The perfect book for anyone with a passion for the beautiful game.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7848'),
(11780, 'Carlo Ancelotti: The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius', 'Alessandro Alciato &amp; Carlo Ancelotti &amp; Paolo Maldini', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The bookâ€™s a riot; frank, anecdotal, dripping with hilarious self-deprecation..." ~Jonathan Northcroft,\n  <em>\n   Sunday Times\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "hugely entertaining" ~Henry Winter,\n  <em>\n   Daily Telegraph\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "smart and surprising" ~Paul Doyle,\n  <em>\n   Guardian\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "For those with an interest in football (soccer), for those with an interest in a well told tale, ''Carlo Ancelotti'' by ''Carlo Ancelotti'' with Alessandro Alciato (Rizzoli New York, $25.00, 264 pages, 35 photographs) fits the bill. The former star player, the famed coach of top teams in Italy and England, the outspoken Ancelotti touches all bases in this illuminating autobiography. There is something to learn on each page about ''the beautiful game'' and the man some call ''the ordinary genius''." ~_Frommer Luxury Travel\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"For the first time in English, Ancelotti''s autobiography,\n  <em>\n   Carlo Ancelotti: The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius\n  </em>\n  , released yesterday. The book offers candid insight on the difference between the Italian and English games. Ancelotti''s playing days at Parma, Roma and Milan are well covered, as are his recent managerial triumphs. Friend, and former teammate, Palo Maldini offers the forword."_~Selectism_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The entertaining, revealing, and controversial bestselling autobiography of one of the most respected figures in the world of soccer. Carlo Ancelotti is one of only six people to have won the Champions Leagueâ€”European soccerâ€™s most coveted trophyâ€”as both player and coach. After a successful career playing for several of the most important teams in Italyâ€”and for the Italian national teamâ€”Ancelotti went on to become one of the most acclaimed and outspoken coaches in European football, managing Italian giants Parma, Juventus, and Milan before moving to Chelsea, one of the Premier Leagueâ€™s most successful clubs, in 2009. The book moves from anecdotes of his life growing up in Reggio Emilia to stories of his time playing among the best footballers in the world. With a characteristic mixture of sharp insight and humor, Ancelotti explores the differences between the Italian and the English games, shares his thoughts on soccerâ€™s future with the MLS in America, and reflects on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. With a preface by the legendary former captain of the Italian national team, Paolo Maldini, this book is at once a tacticianâ€™s bible from one of the worldâ€™s most celebrated footballing minds, the fascinating story of an ordinary man reaching great heights, and in part a revealing tell-all from an outspoken insider in the cut-throat world of European soccer. The perfect book for anyone with a passion for the beautiful game.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9376'),
(11781, 'Carlo Ancelotti: The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius', 'Alessandro Alciato; Carlo Ancelotti; Paolo Maldini', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The bookâ€™s a riot; frank, anecdotal, dripping with hilarious self-deprecation..." ~Jonathan Northcroft,\n  <em>\n   Sunday Times\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "hugely entertaining" ~Henry Winter,\n  <em>\n   Daily Telegraph\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "smart and surprising" ~Paul Doyle,\n  <em>\n   Guardian\n  </em>\n  (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "For those with an interest in football (soccer), for those with an interest in a well told tale, ''Carlo Ancelotti'' by ''Carlo Ancelotti'' with Alessandro Alciato (Rizzoli New York, $25.00, 264 pages, 35 photographs) fits the bill. The former star player, the famed coach of top teams in Italy and England, the outspoken Ancelotti touches all bases in this illuminating autobiography. There is something to learn on each page about ''the beautiful game'' and the man some call ''the ordinary genius''." ~_Frommer Luxury Travel\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"For the first time in English, Ancelotti''s autobiography,\n  <em>\n   Carlo Ancelotti: The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius\n  </em>\n  , released yesterday. The book offers candid insight on the difference between the Italian and English games. Ancelotti''s playing days at Parma, Roma and Milan are well covered, as are his recent managerial triumphs. Friend, and former teammate, Palo Maldini offers the forword."_~Selectism_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The entertaining, revealing, and controversial bestselling autobiography of one of the most respected figures in the world of soccer. Carlo Ancelotti is one of only six people to have won the Champions Leagueâ€”European soccerâ€™s most coveted trophyâ€”as both player and coach. After a successful career playing for several of the most important teams in Italyâ€”and for the Italian national teamâ€”Ancelotti went on to become one of the most acclaimed and outspoken coaches in European football, managing Italian giants Parma, Juventus, and Milan before moving to Chelsea, one of the Premier Leagueâ€™s most successful clubs, in 2009. The book moves from anecdotes of his life growing up in Reggio Emilia to stories of his time playing among the best footballers in the world. With a characteristic mixture of sharp insight and humor, Ancelotti explores the differences between the Italian and the English games, shares his thoughts on soccerâ€™s future with the MLS in America, and reflects on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. With a preface by the legendary former captain of the Italian national team, Paolo Maldini, this book is at once a tacticianâ€™s bible from one of the worldâ€™s most celebrated footballing minds, the fascinating story of an ordinary man reaching great heights, and in part a revealing tell-all from an outspoken insider in the cut-throat world of European soccer. The perfect book for anyone with a passion for the beautiful game.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16140'),
(11782, 'Carnal Innocence', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Old favorite. Bestselling author Nora Roberts grabs her readers from page one. Innocence, Mississippi, isn''t innocent for long when a murderer strikes the sleepy town. Concert violinist Caroline Waverly has returned to her deceased grandparents home to escape high-pressured concert tours. She is soon caught up by the irresistible charm of Southerner Tucker Longstreet. The dark secrets of Innocence soon begin to surface and together Caroline and Tucker not only face a murderer but discover secrets from the past.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Roberts ( Genuine Lies ) plunks a pair of likable lovers into an equally likable rural Southern community; she then keeps the story from turning sweeter than blackstrap molasses by setting loose a serial killer. World-class violinist Caroline Waverly, recovering from a breakdown and an affair gone bad, arrives at her grandparents'' house in Innocence, Miss., looking for peace and quiet; what she discovers is the naked, mutilated corpse of Edda Lou Hatinger. Only days earlier, Edda Lou had thrilled local gossips by publicly blowing up at Tucker Longstreet: he wanted out of their affair; she wanted marriage. Edda Lou is the third woman stabbed to death recently, so local police call in Matthew Burns, a federal investigator who specializes in tracking serial killers. In the meantime, Tucker decides to be right neighborly to Caroline, and after her initial resistance crumbles, she responds to his Southern charm. Tucker is on Matthew''s list of suspects, and soon a fourth dead woman is found on the Longstreet family property. Caroline, too, faces the knife as she is drawn into a confrontation in which she learns who is behind the deaths.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2554');
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(11783, 'Carnal Innocence', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Old favorite. Bestselling author Nora Roberts grabs her readers from page one. Innocence, Mississippi, isn''t innocent for long when a murderer strikes the sleepy town. Concert violinist Caroline Waverly has returned to her deceased grandparents home to escape high-pressured concert tours. She is soon caught up by the irresistible charm of Southerner Tucker Longstreet. The dark secrets of Innocence soon begin to surface and together Caroline and Tucker not only face a murderer but discover secrets from the past.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Roberts ( Genuine Lies ) plunks a pair of likable lovers into an equally likable rural Southern community; she then keeps the story from turning sweeter than blackstrap molasses by setting loose a serial killer. World-class violinist Caroline Waverly, recovering from a breakdown and an affair gone bad, arrives at her grandparents'' house in Innocence, Miss., looking for peace and quiet; what she discovers is the naked, mutilated corpse of Edda Lou Hatinger. Only days earlier, Edda Lou had thrilled local gossips by publicly blowing up at Tucker Longstreet: he wanted out of their affair; she wanted marriage. Edda Lou is the third woman stabbed to death recently, so local police call in Matthew Burns, a federal investigator who specializes in tracking serial killers. In the meantime, Tucker decides to be right neighborly to Caroline, and after her initial resistance crumbles, she responds to his Southern charm. Tucker is on Matthew''s list of suspects, and soon a fourth dead woman is found on the Longstreet family property. Caroline, too, faces the knife as she is drawn into a confrontation in which she learns who is behind the deaths.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13508'),
(11784, 'Carnal Innocence', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Old favorite. Bestselling author Nora Roberts grabs her readers from page one. Innocence, Mississippi, isn''t innocent for long when a murderer strikes the sleepy town. Concert violinist Caroline Waverly has returned to her deceased grandparents home to escape high-pressured concert tours. She is soon caught up by the irresistible charm of Southerner Tucker Longstreet. The dark secrets of Innocence soon begin to surface and together Caroline and Tucker not only face a murderer but discover secrets from the past.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Roberts ( Genuine Lies ) plunks a pair of likable lovers into an equally likable rural Southern community; she then keeps the story from turning sweeter than blackstrap molasses by setting loose a serial killer. World-class violinist Caroline Waverly, recovering from a breakdown and an affair gone bad, arrives at her grandparents'' house in Innocence, Miss., looking for peace and quiet; what she discovers is the naked, mutilated corpse of Edda Lou Hatinger. Only days earlier, Edda Lou had thrilled local gossips by publicly blowing up at Tucker Longstreet: he wanted out of their affair; she wanted marriage. Edda Lou is the third woman stabbed to death recently, so local police call in Matthew Burns, a federal investigator who specializes in tracking serial killers. In the meantime, Tucker decides to be right neighborly to Caroline, and after her initial resistance crumbles, she responds to his Southern charm. Tucker is on Matthew''s list of suspects, and soon a fourth dead woman is found on the Longstreet family property. Caroline, too, faces the knife as she is drawn into a confrontation in which she learns who is behind the deaths.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22318'),
(11785, 'Carnifex', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Revenge: it won''t bring your wife and kids back, but it might help with the nightmares.Patricio Carrera has been waging what amounts to a private world war to bring to justice the murderers of his family. He''s raised an army and air force and used them. He''s raised a fleet and he''s about to use that. He''s suborned one republic and is about to undermine another. He''s tracked his enemies across half a world, breaking, in the process, any notion of international law that stood in his way.Now he''s deployed his legions to Pashtia, penultimate hideout of the Salafi Ikhwan who have made him what he has become. But with each step further from his home, revenge seems no closer. And with each step he leaves behind him a little of his dwindling humanity. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Yet the trail itself grows cold, as cold as the snow-capped, windswept mountains of Pashtia. Only Carrera''s hate still burns hot, and that''s a fire that is slowly consuming him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/494'),
(11786, 'Carnifex', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Revenge: it won''t bring your wife and kids back, but it might help with the nightmares.Patricio Carrera has been waging what amounts to a private world war to bring to justice the murderers of his family. He''s raised an army and air force and used them. He''s raised a fleet and he''s about to use that. He''s suborned one republic and is about to undermine another. He''s tracked his enemies across half a world, breaking, in the process, any notion of international law that stood in his way.Now he''s deployed his legions to Pashtia, penultimate hideout of the Salafi Ikhwan who have made him what he has become. But with each step further from his home, revenge seems no closer. And with each step he leaves behind him a little of his dwindling humanity. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Yet the trail itself grows cold, as cold as the snow-capped, windswept mountains of Pashtia. Only Carrera''s hate still burns hot, and that''s a fire that is slowly consuming him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24367'),
(11787, 'Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger', 'Margaret Mittelbach &amp; Michael Crewdson &amp; Alexis Rockman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson, along with renowned artist Alexis Rockman, take off on a postmodern safari. Their mission? Tracking down the elusive Tasmanian tiger. Tragically, this mysterious, striped predator was hunted into extinction in the early part of the twentieth century. Or was it? Journeying first to the Australian mainland and then south to the wild island of Tasmania, these young naturalists brave a series of bizarre misadventures and uproarious wildlife encounters in their obsessive search for the long-lost beast. Filled with Rockman''s stunning drawings of flora and fauna originally crafted from river mud, wombat scat, and even the artist''s own blood, Carnivorous Nights is a hip and hilarious account of an unhinged safari, as well as a fascinating portrayal of a wildly unique part of the world. Carniverous Nights is: One of the New York Public Library''s "25 Books to Remember from 2005" A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, 2006 selection\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3103'),
(11788, 'Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger', 'Margaret Mittelbach &amp; Michael Crewdson &amp; Alexis Rockman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson, along with renowned artist Alexis Rockman, take off on a postmodern safari. Their mission? Tracking down the elusive Tasmanian tiger. Tragically, this mysterious, striped predator was hunted into extinction in the early part of the twentieth century. Or was it? Journeying first to the Australian mainland and then south to the wild island of Tasmania, these young naturalists brave a series of bizarre misadventures and uproarious wildlife encounters in their obsessive search for the long-lost beast. Filled with Rockman''s stunning drawings of flora and fauna originally crafted from river mud, wombat scat, and even the artist''s own blood, Carnivorous Nights is a hip and hilarious account of an unhinged safari, as well as a fascinating portrayal of a wildly unique part of the world. Carniverous Nights is: One of the New York Public Library''s "25 Books to Remember from 2005" A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, 2006 selection\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11556'),
(11789, 'Carpe Corpus', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Dump Stephenie Meyer''s Twilight books and replace them with the Morganvilles'' SFX Magazine\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace-until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He''s kept a death grip on the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is brewing, and in order to contain it, Bishop must go to even greater lengths. He vows to obliterate the town and all its inhabitants-the living and the undead. Claire Danvers and her friends are the only ones who stand in his way. But even if they defeat Bishop, will the vampires ever be content to go back to the old rules, after having such a taste of power?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2024'),
(11790, 'Carpe Corpus', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Dump Stephenie Meyer''s Twilight books and replace them with the Morganvilles'' SFX Magazine\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace-until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He''s kept a death grip on the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is brewing, and in order to contain it, Bishop must go to even greater lengths. He vows to obliterate the town and all its inhabitants-the living and the undead. Claire Danvers and her friends are the only ones who stand in his way. But even if they defeat Bishop, will the vampires ever be content to go back to the old rules, after having such a taste of power?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8700'),
(11791, 'Carpe Corpus: The Morganville Vampires, Book 6', 'Caine, Rachel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21490'),
(11792, 'Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom', 'Julie Kenner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n What would happen if Buffy the Vampire Slayer got married, moved to the suburbs and became a stay-at-home mom? She''d be a lot like Kate Connor, once a demon/vampire/zombie killer and now "a glorified chauffeur for drill-team practice and Gymboree play dates" in San Diablo, Calif., that''s what. But in Kenner''s sprightly, fast-paced ode to kick-ass housewives, Kate finds herself battling evil once again. First a demon tries to kill Kate while she''s making rigatoni for an important dinner party that her sweet second husband, Stuart, has scheduledâ€”at the last possible minuteâ€”to butter up potential allies in his run for county attorney. Kate dispatches the demon handily enough, but she learns that Goramesh, one of the terrible High Demons, has come to town looking for something. Where''s he hiding and what does he want? Can she defeat him without exposing her past to Stuartâ€”and without putting two-year-old Timmy in day care? Though Kenner starts off her story by dropping so many brand names the book reads like a how-to manual for product placement, she settles down to the action soon enough, and readers will find spunky Kate hard not to root for in spheres both domestic and demonic.\n <em>\n  Film rights sold to 1942 Pictures and Warner Brothers\n </em>\n ._ (July)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Retired demon hunter Kate Connor must go back to work when she spots a demon lurking in the local Wal-Mart. But she''d better not arouse suspicion. This kind of thing could really hurt her husband''s political career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4010'),
(11793, 'Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom', 'Julie Kenner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n What would happen if Buffy the Vampire Slayer got married, moved to the suburbs and became a stay-at-home mom? She''d be a lot like Kate Connor, once a demon/vampire/zombie killer and now "a glorified chauffeur for drill-team practice and Gymboree play dates" in San Diablo, Calif., that''s what. But in Kenner''s sprightly, fast-paced ode to kick-ass housewives, Kate finds herself battling evil once again. First a demon tries to kill Kate while she''s making rigatoni for an important dinner party that her sweet second husband, Stuart, has scheduledâ€”at the last possible minuteâ€”to butter up potential allies in his run for county attorney. Kate dispatches the demon handily enough, but she learns that Goramesh, one of the terrible High Demons, has come to town looking for something. Where''s he hiding and what does he want? Can she defeat him without exposing her past to Stuartâ€”and without putting two-year-old Timmy in day care? Though Kenner starts off her story by dropping so many brand names the book reads like a how-to manual for product placement, she settles down to the action soon enough, and readers will find spunky Kate hard not to root for in spheres both domestic and demonic.\n <em>\n  Film rights sold to 1942 Pictures and Warner Brothers\n </em>\n ._ (July)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Retired demon hunter Kate Connor must go back to work when she spots a demon lurking in the local Wal-Mart. But she''d better not arouse suspicion. This kind of thing could really hurt her husband''s political career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10683'),
(11794, 'Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom', 'Julie Kenner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n What would happen if Buffy the Vampire Slayer got married, moved to the suburbs and became a stay-at-home mom? She''d be a lot like Kate Connor, once a demon/vampire/zombie killer and now "a glorified chauffeur for drill-team practice and Gymboree play dates" in San Diablo, Calif., that''s what. But in Kenner''s sprightly, fast-paced ode to kick-ass housewives, Kate finds herself battling evil once again. First a demon tries to kill Kate while she''s making rigatoni for an important dinner party that her sweet second husband, Stuart, has scheduledâ€”at the last possible minuteâ€”to butter up potential allies in his run for county attorney. Kate dispatches the demon handily enough, but she learns that Goramesh, one of the terrible High Demons, has come to town looking for something. Where''s he hiding and what does he want? Can she defeat him without exposing her past to Stuartâ€”and without putting two-year-old Timmy in day care? Though Kenner starts off her story by dropping so many brand names the book reads like a how-to manual for product placement, she settles down to the action soon enough, and readers will find spunky Kate hard not to root for in spheres both domestic and demonic.\n <em>\n  Film rights sold to 1942 Pictures and Warner Brothers\n </em>\n ._ (July)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Retired demon hunter Kate Connor must go back to work when she spots a demon lurking in the local Wal-Mart. But she''d better not arouse suspicion. This kind of thing could really hurt her husband''s political career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20558'),
(11795, 'Carpe Jugulum', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England''s best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate every aspect of life, modern and ancient, sacred and profane. Consistent number-one bestsellers in England, they have garnered him a secure position in the pantheon of humor along with Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Matt Groening, and Jonathan Swift.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Even so distinguished an author as A. S. Byatt has sung his praises, calling Pratchett''s intricate and delightful fictional Discworld "more complicated and satisfying than Oz."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His latest satiric triumph, * Carpe Jugulum,* involves an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald''s undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. * Ever.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only an uneasy alliance between a nervous young priest and the argumentative local witches can save the country from being taken over by people with a cultivated bloodlust and bad taste in silk waistcoats. For them, there''s only one way to fight.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Go for the throat, or as the * vampyres* themselves say...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Carpe Jugulum\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/799'),
(11796, 'Carpe Jugulum', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England''s best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue. Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate every aspect of life, modern and ancient, sacred and profane. Consistent number-one bestsellers in England, they have garnered him a secure position in the pantheon of humor along with Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Matt Groening, and Jonathan Swift. Even so distinguished an author as A. S. Byatt has sung his praises, calling Pratchett''s intricate and delightful fictional Discworld "more complicated and satisfying than Oz." His latest satiric triumph, * Carpe Jugulum,* involves an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald''s undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. * Ever.* Only an uneasy alliance between a nervous young priest and the argumentative local witches can save the country from being taken over by people with a cultivated bloodlust and bad taste in silk waistcoats. For them, there''s only one way to fight. Go for the throat, or as the * vampyres* themselves say... Carpe Jugulum\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14059'),
(11797, 'Carpe Jugulum', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England''s best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue. Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate every aspect of life, modern and ancient, sacred and profane. Consistent number-one bestsellers in England, they have garnered him a secure position in the pantheon of humor along with Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Matt Groening, and Jonathan Swift. Even so distinguished an author as A. S. Byatt has sung his praises, calling Pratchett''s intricate and delightful fictional Discworld "more complicated and satisfying than Oz." His latest satiric triumph, * Carpe Jugulum,* involves an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald''s undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. * Ever.* Only an uneasy alliance between a nervous young priest and the argumentative local witches can save the country from being taken over by people with a cultivated bloodlust and bad taste in silk waistcoats. For them, there''s only one way to fight. Go for the throat, or as the * vampyres* themselves say... Carpe Jugulum\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24206'),
(11798, 'Carpe Jugulum', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England''s best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate every aspect of life, modern and ancient, sacred and profane. Consistent number-one bestsellers in England, they have garnered him a secure position in the pantheon of humor along with Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Matt Groening, and Jonathan Swift.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Even so distinguished an author as A. S. Byatt has sung his praises, calling Pratchett''s intricate and delightful fictional Discworld "more complicated and satisfying than Oz."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n His latest satiric triumph, * Carpe Jugulum,* involves an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald''s undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. * Ever.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only an uneasy alliance between a nervous young priest and the argumentative local witches can save the country from being taken over by people with a cultivated bloodlust and bad taste in silk waistcoats. For them, there''s only one way to fight.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Go for the throat, or as the * vampyres* themselves say...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Carpe Jugulum\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26128'),
(11799, 'carpetta 15 - Book of the Dead', 'Cornwell Patricia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13658'),
(11800, 'carpetta 15 - Book of the Dead', 'Cornwell Patricia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27098'),
(11801, 'Carrie', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1085'),
(11802, 'Carrie', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10824'),
(11803, 'Carrie', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14386'),
(11804, 'Carrie', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23834'),
(11805, 'Carrier: A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n They are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I: air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a region is an automatic display of strength that sends a message no potential enemy can ignore. Now, Tom Clancy welcomes you aboard for a detailed look at how these floating behemoths function. With his trademark style and eye for detail, Clancy brings you naval combat strategy like no one else can. Carrier includes: * Takeoffs and landings: flying into the danger zone\n <br />\n * The aircraft onboard: their range, their power, their weaponry\n <br />\n * The role of the carrier in modern naval warfare\n <br />\n * Exclusive photographs, illustrations and diagrams\n <br />\n Plus: An interview with the U.S. Navy''s Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jay Johnson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/515'),
(11806, 'Carrier: A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n They are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I: air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a region is an automatic display of strength that sends a message no potential enemy can ignore. Now, Tom Clancy welcomes you aboard for a detailed look at how these floating behemoths function. With his trademark style and eye for detail, Clancy brings you naval combat strategy like no one else can. Carrier includes: * Takeoffs and landings: flying into the danger zone\n <br />\n * The aircraft onboard: their range, their power, their weaponry\n <br />\n * The role of the carrier in modern naval warfare\n <br />\n * Exclusive photographs, illustrations and diagrams\n <br />\n Plus: An interview with the U.S. Navy''s Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jay Johnson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8864'),
(11807, 'Carrier: A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n They are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I: air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a region is an automatic display of strength that sends a message no potential enemy can ignore. Now, Tom Clancy welcomes you aboard for a detailed look at how these floating behemoths function. With his trademark style and eye for detail, Clancy brings you naval combat strategy like no one else can. Carrier includes: * Takeoffs and landings: flying into the danger zone\n <br />\n * The aircraft onboard: their range, their power, their weaponry\n <br />\n * The role of the carrier in modern naval warfare\n <br />\n * Exclusive photographs, illustrations and diagrams\n <br />\n Plus: An interview with the U.S. Navy''s Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jay Johnson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24351'),
(11808, 'Carrion Comfort', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œCARRION COMFORT is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that.â€ --**Stephen King**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, CARRION COMFORT spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever.  A true classic." --**Guillermo del Toro**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "CARRION COMFORT* *is one of the scariest books ever written.  Whenever I get the question asked *Who''s your favorite author? *my answer is always Dan Simmons." --**James Rollins**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "One of the few major reinventions of the vampire concept, on a par with Jack Finneyâ€™s *Invasion of the Body Snatchers*, Richard Mathesonâ€™s *I Am Legend*, and Stephen Kingâ€™s *Salemâ€™s Lot*. --**David Morrell**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE PAST...  Caught behind the lines of Hitlerâ€™s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp.  Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Naziâ€™s themselvesâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE PRESENT...  Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world''s most horrible and violent events.  Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to ''use'' humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression.  Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction.  But this reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Saulâ€™s quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankindâ€™s attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itselfâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6472'),
(11809, 'Carrion Comfort', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œCARRION COMFORT is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that.â€ --**Stephen King**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, CARRION COMFORT spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever.  A true classic." --**Guillermo del Toro**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "CARRION COMFORT* *is one of the scariest books ever written.  Whenever I get the question asked *Who''s your favorite author? *my answer is always Dan Simmons." --**James Rollins**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "One of the few major reinventions of the vampire concept, on a par with Jack Finneyâ€™s *Invasion of the Body Snatchers*, Richard Mathesonâ€™s *I Am Legend*, and Stephen Kingâ€™s *Salemâ€™s Lot*. --**David Morrell**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE PAST...  Caught behind the lines of Hitlerâ€™s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp.  Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Naziâ€™s themselvesâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE PRESENT...  Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world''s most horrible and violent events.  Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to ''use'' humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression.  Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction.  But this reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Saulâ€™s quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankindâ€™s attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itselfâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12643'),
(11810, 'Carrion Comfort', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The second novel by World Fantasy Award-winner Simmons ( The Song of Kali ) is a 636-page epic that draws on a variety of genres--horror, science fiction, political thriller, Hollywood roman a clef. It centers around a small number of "mind vampires" who can subjugate other people to their wills, read their minds, experience through their senses. The immensely powerful vampires use others, often bloodily, and often in frivolous "games" (hunting human prey, chess games with human pieces, and so on). Opposing them are Saul Laski, a psychologist and concentration-camp survivor, who is devoted to tracking down the Nazi vampire von Borchert; Natalie Preston, whose father inadvertently and fatally crossed the path of a pawn of the ancient, dotty vampire Melanie Fuller; Sheriff Bobby Joe Gentry, dragged in while investigating the multiple murders that marked the departure of Melanie Fuller from Charleston; and a host of other normals and vampires whose lives impinge on those of the principals. While he could profitably have trimmed the novel by a third, Simmons has produced, overall, a compelling thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13920'),
(11811, 'Carrion Comfort', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: â€œCARRION COMFORT is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that.â€ --**Stephen King** "Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, CARRION COMFORT spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever. A true classic." --**Guillermo del Toro** "CARRION COMFORT* *is one of the scariest books ever written. Whenever I get the question asked *Who''s your favorite author? *my answer is always Dan Simmons." --**James Rollins** "One of the few major reinventions of the vampire concept, on a par with Jack Finneyâ€™s *Invasion of the Body Snatchers*, Richard Mathesonâ€™s *I Am Legend*, and Stephen Kingâ€™s *Salemâ€™s Lot*. --**David Morrell** THE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitlerâ€™s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Naziâ€™s themselvesâ€¦ THE PRESENT... Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world''s most horrible and violent events. Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to ''use'' humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression. Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction. But this reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Saulâ€™s quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankindâ€™s attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itselfâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17492'),
(11812, 'Carrion Comfort', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The second novel by World Fantasy Award-winner Simmons ( The Song of Kali ) is a 636-page epic that draws on a variety of genres--horror, science fiction, political thriller, Hollywood roman a clef. It centers around a small number of "mind vampires" who can subjugate other people to their wills, read their minds, experience through their senses. The immensely powerful vampires use others, often bloodily, and often in frivolous "games" (hunting human prey, chess games with human pieces, and so on). Opposing them are Saul Laski, a psychologist and concentration-camp survivor, who is devoted to tracking down the Nazi vampire von Borchert; Natalie Preston, whose father inadvertently and fatally crossed the path of a pawn of the ancient, dotty vampire Melanie Fuller; Sheriff Bobby Joe Gentry, dragged in while investigating the multiple murders that marked the departure of Melanie Fuller from Charleston; and a host of other normals and vampires whose lives impinge on those of the principals. While he could profitably have trimmed the novel by a third, Simmons has produced, overall, a compelling thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27168'),
(11813, 'Carte Blanche', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Olen Steinhauer Reviews\n   <em>\n    Carte Blanche\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Olen Steinhauer''s latest novel,\n   <em>\n    The Nearest Exit\n   </em>\n   features former CIA agent Milo Weaver, whose story began in the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling thriller,\n   <em>\n    The Tourist\n   </em>\n   . His previous work includes a pentalogy of thrillers set during the Cold War, beginning with\n   <em>\n    The Bridge of Sighs\n   </em>\n   and concluding with\n   <em>\n    Victory Square\n   </em>\n   .\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  How do you bring a character created in 1953 into the modern world without disappointing that characterâ€™s millions of followers in the process? This was the challenge faced by Jeffery Deaver when Ian Fleming Publications handed him the responsibility of writing the next official James Bond novel,\n  <em>\n   Carte Blanche\n  </em>\n  . I donâ€™t know how I would have done it, but I do know one thingâ€”Deaver, a specialist in the art of crafting nail-biting suspense, has done it better than I ever could have.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Itâ€™s a tightrope walk, balancing the tradition with the requirements of contemporary life, and Deaver handles it with panache. Beautiful women with unlikely but mesmerizing names? Check. (See Ophelia Maidenstone and Felicity Willing.) A top-drawer set of wheels with occasional soliloquies to its grace and power? Check. (The Bentley Continental GT coupÃ©, in this case.) M, Moneypenny, Mary Goodnight, Bill Tanner, Felix Leiter? Check on all counts. A drink on hand that requires extra care from a bartender, but has yet to be named? Check. License to kill? Check, but under a different name: carte blanche.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How about the subtly and unsubtly perverse villains? Naturally, and they come in two sharply defined forms: Niall Dunne, "The Irishman," a brilliant tactician who brings to mind\n  <em>\n   From Russia With Love\n  </em>\n  â€™s Kronsteen, and his boss, Severan Hydt, the head of a global refuse-collection empire, whose love of decay in all its forms borders on necrophilia. Time spent with Hydt will make you long for a shower.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But what the Fleming aficionado will inevitably notice here are the differences, which turn this latest escapade into what feels, and should feel, like one of those things that are very popular these days: a reboot.\n </p>\n <p>\n  James Bond, a veteran of Afghanistan, is an ex-smoker. Despite run-ins with an MI5 twit named Percy Osborne-Smith, this Bond is more of a team player than I remember him ever being. But where one really notices the encroachment of the contemporary world is in his relations with women. James Bond has become . . .\n  <em>\n   sensitive\n  </em>\n  ?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Actually, yes, but never to the point of priggishness. The hard Bond remains, but itâ€™s a different world than it was in 1953, and the women in\n  <em>\n   Carte Blanche\n  </em>\n  â€”the Bond girls, if you willâ€”are of equal measure to the men. Ophelia Maidenstone, a coworker at ODG (Overseas Development Group, tenuously connected to MI6), besides being ravishingly beautiful, is indispensibleâ€”without her, Bond would be dead in the water. And when romance begins to bloom between them we find that, even after heâ€™s left town, she remains, haunting his thoughts so much that after a night with another woman Bond feels, of all unlikely things, guilt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If this seems very un-Bond, it is, but itâ€™s a testament to Deaverâ€™s strength as a storyteller that the reader so easily accepts that this is Flemingâ€™s world 2.0, and itâ€™s just as dangerous and exciting as it was when Le Chiffre glared from across a card table.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Donâ€™t run from this new world, aficionado, for youâ€™ll be rewarded. Not only with a gripping installment, but with a fascinating subplot concerning Bondâ€™s parents, one that not only piques the readerâ€™s interest but, by the end of the novel, begs for a continuation in the next Bond adventure. This new Bond may be a modern man, but his roots are deep in the past, and if\n  <em>\n   Carte Blanche\n  </em>\n  is any indication, the past will soon catch up with him. I, for one, will gladly be on hand to witness that confrontation.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œDeaver, as fans of his Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance thrillers would expect, has clearly done his homework. . . . the most impressive feature of\n  <em>\n   Carte Blanche\n  </em>\n  is the ingenuity of the breathless, blood-thirsty plot. A master of misdirection, Deaver manufactures more surprises than anyone flogging an old warhorse can be expected to produce. . . . Kingsley Amis, John Gardner and Sebastian Faulks are among those who have tried to bring Bond back to life. Deaver, though, is in a class of his own: nobody''s done it better.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”_The Evening Standard_ (London)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThere have been other Fleming impersonators, including Kingsley Amis and Sebastian Faulks, but the author of\n  <em>\n   The Bone Collector\n  </em>\n  is the biggest international name to take the job. He is also one of the worldâ€™s smoothest, most devious, thriller writers â€“ a far better craftsman than Fleming, in fact. So could he assume Flemingâ€™s identity rather than write another Jeffery Deaver novel only with a hero called Bond? And could he, for that matter, resist thriller publishingâ€™s current obsession with relentless action inspired by the success of the Bourne movie franchise â€“ and indeed\n  <em>\n   Quantum Of Solace\n  </em>\n  ? The answers are emphatically â€œYes.â€ Deaver preserves his bookâ€™s timeless feel by largely ignoring modern geopolitics and pitting Bond against a traditionally barking villain . . . [and] adds a series of twists that reveal a Bond with more Sherlockian intelligence than Flemingâ€™s.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”_The Telegraph_ (London)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFleming was a master of succinct plotting and deft characterization, his books deceptively slim but containing so much. Deaver too is a genius and this publishing marriage was truly made in heaven. Bond fans will enjoy Deaverâ€™s slightly mischievous take on Ian Fleming. Deaver fans will enjoy the taut plotting and the action scenes and, by the way, it is going to make a great movie.â€\n  <strong>\n   â€”_The Sunday Express_ (London)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8047'),
(11814, 'Cartea noptilor', 'Sylvia Germain', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25086'),
(11815, 'Carved in Bone', 'Jefferson Bass', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n On the campus of the University of Tennessee lies a patch of ground unlike any in the world. The "Body Farm" is a place where human corpses are left to the elements, and every manner of decay is fully explored -- for the sake of science and the cause of justice. The scientist who created the Body Farm has broken cold cases and revolutionized forensics, and now, in this heart-stopping novel, he spins an astonishing tale inspired by his own experiences.\n</p>\n<p>\n A woman''s corpse lies hidden in a cave in the mountains of East Tennessee. Undiscovered for thirty years, her body has been transformed by the cave''s chemistry into a near-perfect mummy -- one that discloses an explosive secret to renowned anthropologist Bill Brockton. Dr. Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death and decay at the Body Farm, but even he is baffled by this case unfolding in a unique environment where nothing is quite what it seems.\n</p>\n<p>\n The surreal setting is Cooke County, a remote mountain community that''s clannish, insular, and distrustful of outsiders. The heartbreaking discovery of the young woman''s corpse reopens old wounds and rekindles feuds dating back decades. The county''s powerful and uncooperative sheriff and his inept deputy threaten to derail Brockton''s investigation altogether. So do Brockton''s other nemeses: his lingering guilt over the death of his wife, and the fury of a medical examiner whom Brockton dares to oppose in court.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Carved in Bone\n </em>\n is a richly atmospheric, superbly suspenseful, and magnificently rendered trip into the world of forensic science, the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, and the dark passageways of the human psyche. Full of vivid characters and startling twists and turns, this thrilling novel heralds the debut of a major new voice in crime fiction -- and an unforgettable work from the hand of a scientific legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4547');
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(11816, 'Carved in Bone', 'Jefferson Bass', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n On the campus of the University of Tennessee lies a patch of ground unlike any in the world. The "Body Farm" is a place where human corpses are left to the elements, and every manner of decay is fully explored -- for the sake of science and the cause of justice. The scientist who created the Body Farm has broken cold cases and revolutionized forensics, and now, in this heart-stopping novel, he spins an astonishing tale inspired by his own experiences.\n</p>\n<p>\n A woman''s corpse lies hidden in a cave in the mountains of East Tennessee. Undiscovered for thirty years, her body has been transformed by the cave''s chemistry into a near-perfect mummy -- one that discloses an explosive secret to renowned anthropologist Bill Brockton. Dr. Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death and decay at the Body Farm, but even he is baffled by this case unfolding in a unique environment where nothing is quite what it seems.\n</p>\n<p>\n The surreal setting is Cooke County, a remote mountain community that''s clannish, insular, and distrustful of outsiders. The heartbreaking discovery of the young woman''s corpse reopens old wounds and rekindles feuds dating back decades. The county''s powerful and uncooperative sheriff and his inept deputy threaten to derail Brockton''s investigation altogether. So do Brockton''s other nemeses: his lingering guilt over the death of his wife, and the fury of a medical examiner whom Brockton dares to oppose in court.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Carved in Bone\n </em>\n is a richly atmospheric, superbly suspenseful, and magnificently rendered trip into the world of forensic science, the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, and the dark passageways of the human psyche. Full of vivid characters and startling twists and turns, this thrilling novel heralds the debut of a major new voice in crime fiction -- and an unforgettable work from the hand of a scientific legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8377'),
(11817, 'The Caryatids', 'Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Signature_Reviewed by_ Greg BearCaryatids, in Greek architecture, are stone women who support massive buildings. The Caryatids of Bruce Sterling''s shimmering new novelâ€”Vera, Radmila and Sonjaâ€”support the weight of a near-future world. They are the last of seven clone sisters created by a mother accused of Balkan war crimes, now exiled in orbit. We''re 50-some years into the future, and the planet is split into an international, symbiotic competition between the hypernetworked Acquis, who train distressed, abandoned children into tight-knit cadres of activists, and the Dispensation, more sedate, mannered and cosmo-business in its orientation.Vera works with an Acquis team remediating the Croatian island of Mljet, laid waste by toxic dumping and the rising waters of global warming. The Acquis technology is extreme but humanly adapted: the users wear bonewear (amplified skeletal suits that allow tremendous feats of speed and strength) and spex (laser-equipped eyeshades that hook their wearers into a postencyclopedic wonderworld of information. In a beautifully realized and Huxleyan Los Angeles, Radmila has fit too snugly into a Dispensation Family, but California is being squeezed between a geological devil and the surging deep blue sea. The Family sees these changes in terms of economic potential, and they track real estate values by the second: Norwalk is glamorous; beach property is cheap.Sonja, dotted with the shrapnel of her own self-destructive past, performs medical and social work in the middle of a constantly rebirthing China. Due to female infanticide, there are far more men than women in Chinaâ€”the reverse of Russia, where men die youngâ€”and Sonja hooks up with a Gobi jihadist who indulges both her sexual appetites and her political ambitions. Sterling''s language is kaleidoscopic. We swim into a chapter, and his ideas and language flash and dance like sunlight off the Adriatic, then coalesce in a moment of plot; the effect is unsettling, but suited to the world he reveals spark by hammered spark. Dispersed around the world, the sisters mirror Earth''s difficulties: traumatized by their origin, they hate each other. Their solutions may be Earth''s solutions as well. In John Brunner''s 1968 masterpiece,\n <em>\n  Stand on Zanzibar\n </em>\n , excerpts from fictional author Chad C. Mulligan''s The Hipcrime Vocab provide sharp, street-smart and world-wise commentary on the culture of 2010. Bruce Sterling is the closest we''ve come to Mulligan in the actual 21st century. His international perspective is rare in science fiction, which often suffers from Amerocentric bias. A new novel from Sterling is a guarantee of something wild and tasty, and\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n amply fulfills that promise._ (Mar.)__Greg Bear''s latest science fiction novel,_ City at the End of Time_, was published by Del Rey in August._\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Books of Big Ideas often polarize reviewers, and Bruce Sterling''s latest novel is no exception. Either the best SF book of this or any other year (Cory Doctorow) or "a mess of a book about the mess of the world" (John Clute),\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n , at the very least, illustrates Sterling''s ability to raise voices (in praise or protest) 30 years after he laid the groundwork for the cyberpunk movement, without which contemporary SF would be a much rockier -- and much less diverse -- landscape. Sterling''s complex, controversial vision of our future invites comparison to Neal Stephenson (_Cryptonomicon_,\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n ) and William Gibson (_Neuromancer_). Love him or hate him, Bruce Sterling always has something important to say, and\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n is worth a look.Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7015'),
(11818, 'The Caryatids', 'Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Signature_Reviewed by_ Greg BearCaryatids, in Greek architecture, are stone women who support massive buildings. The Caryatids of Bruce Sterling''s shimmering new novelâ€”Vera, Radmila and Sonjaâ€”support the weight of a near-future world. They are the last of seven clone sisters created by a mother accused of Balkan war crimes, now exiled in orbit. We''re 50-some years into the future, and the planet is split into an international, symbiotic competition between the hypernetworked Acquis, who train distressed, abandoned children into tight-knit cadres of activists, and the Dispensation, more sedate, mannered and cosmo-business in its orientation.Vera works with an Acquis team remediating the Croatian island of Mljet, laid waste by toxic dumping and the rising waters of global warming. The Acquis technology is extreme but humanly adapted: the users wear bonewear (amplified skeletal suits that allow tremendous feats of speed and strength) and spex (laser-equipped eyeshades that hook their wearers into a postencyclopedic wonderworld of information. In a beautifully realized and Huxleyan Los Angeles, Radmila has fit too snugly into a Dispensation Family, but California is being squeezed between a geological devil and the surging deep blue sea. The Family sees these changes in terms of economic potential, and they track real estate values by the second: Norwalk is glamorous; beach property is cheap.Sonja, dotted with the shrapnel of her own self-destructive past, performs medical and social work in the middle of a constantly rebirthing China. Due to female infanticide, there are far more men than women in Chinaâ€”the reverse of Russia, where men die youngâ€”and Sonja hooks up with a Gobi jihadist who indulges both her sexual appetites and her political ambitions. Sterling''s language is kaleidoscopic. We swim into a chapter, and his ideas and language flash and dance like sunlight off the Adriatic, then coalesce in a moment of plot; the effect is unsettling, but suited to the world he reveals spark by hammered spark. Dispersed around the world, the sisters mirror Earth''s difficulties: traumatized by their origin, they hate each other. Their solutions may be Earth''s solutions as well. In John Brunner''s 1968 masterpiece,\n <em>\n  Stand on Zanzibar\n </em>\n , excerpts from fictional author Chad C. Mulligan''s The Hipcrime Vocab provide sharp, street-smart and world-wise commentary on the culture of 2010. Bruce Sterling is the closest we''ve come to Mulligan in the actual 21st century. His international perspective is rare in science fiction, which often suffers from Amerocentric bias. A new novel from Sterling is a guarantee of something wild and tasty, and\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n amply fulfills that promise._ (Mar.)__Greg Bear''s latest science fiction novel,_ City at the End of Time_, was published by Del Rey in August._\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Books of Big Ideas often polarize reviewers, and Bruce Sterling''s latest novel is no exception. Either the best SF book of this or any other year (Cory Doctorow) or "a mess of a book about the mess of the world" (John Clute),\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n , at the very least, illustrates Sterling''s ability to raise voices (in praise or protest) 30 years after he laid the groundwork for the cyberpunk movement, without which contemporary SF would be a much rockier -- and much less diverse -- landscape. Sterling''s complex, controversial vision of our future invites comparison to Neal Stephenson (_Cryptonomicon_,\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n ) and William Gibson (_Neuromancer_). Love him or hate him, Bruce Sterling always has something important to say, and\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n is worth a look.Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12908'),
(11819, 'The Caryatids', 'Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Signature_Reviewed by_ Greg BearCaryatids, in Greek architecture, are stone women who support massive buildings. The Caryatids of Bruce Sterling''s shimmering new novelâ€”Vera, Radmila and Sonjaâ€”support the weight of a near-future world. They are the last of seven clone sisters created by a mother accused of Balkan war crimes, now exiled in orbit. We''re 50-some years into the future, and the planet is split into an international, symbiotic competition between the hypernetworked Acquis, who train distressed, abandoned children into tight-knit cadres of activists, and the Dispensation, more sedate, mannered and cosmo-business in its orientation.Vera works with an Acquis team remediating the Croatian island of Mljet, laid waste by toxic dumping and the rising waters of global warming. The Acquis technology is extreme but humanly adapted: the users wear bonewear (amplified skeletal suits that allow tremendous feats of speed and strength) and spex (laser-equipped eyeshades that hook their wearers into a postencyclopedic wonderworld of information. In a beautifully realized and Huxleyan Los Angeles, Radmila has fit too snugly into a Dispensation Family, but California is being squeezed between a geological devil and the surging deep blue sea. The Family sees these changes in terms of economic potential, and they track real estate values by the second: Norwalk is glamorous; beach property is cheap.Sonja, dotted with the shrapnel of her own self-destructive past, performs medical and social work in the middle of a constantly rebirthing China. Due to female infanticide, there are far more men than women in Chinaâ€”the reverse of Russia, where men die youngâ€”and Sonja hooks up with a Gobi jihadist who indulges both her sexual appetites and her political ambitions. Sterling''s language is kaleidoscopic. We swim into a chapter, and his ideas and language flash and dance like sunlight off the Adriatic, then coalesce in a moment of plot; the effect is unsettling, but suited to the world he reveals spark by hammered spark. Dispersed around the world, the sisters mirror Earth''s difficulties: traumatized by their origin, they hate each other. Their solutions may be Earth''s solutions as well. In John Brunner''s 1968 masterpiece,\n <em>\n  Stand on Zanzibar\n </em>\n , excerpts from fictional author Chad C. Mulligan''s The Hipcrime Vocab provide sharp, street-smart and world-wise commentary on the culture of 2010. Bruce Sterling is the closest we''ve come to Mulligan in the actual 21st century. His international perspective is rare in science fiction, which often suffers from Amerocentric bias. A new novel from Sterling is a guarantee of something wild and tasty, and\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n amply fulfills that promise._ (Mar.)__Greg Bear''s latest science fiction novel,_ City at the End of Time_, was published by Del Rey in August._\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Books of Big Ideas often polarize reviewers, and Bruce Sterling''s latest novel is no exception. Either the best SF book of this or any other year (Cory Doctorow) or "a mess of a book about the mess of the world" (John Clute),\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n , at the very least, illustrates Sterling''s ability to raise voices (in praise or protest) 30 years after he laid the groundwork for the cyberpunk movement, without which contemporary SF would be a much rockier -- and much less diverse -- landscape. Sterling''s complex, controversial vision of our future invites comparison to Neal Stephenson (_Cryptonomicon_,\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n ) and William Gibson (_Neuromancer_). Love him or hate him, Bruce Sterling always has something important to say, and\n <em>\n  The Caryatids\n </em>\n is worth a look.Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16855'),
(11820, 'Casa somnului', 'Jonathan Coe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25485'),
(11821, 'Casanova&#39;s Chinese Restaurant', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7508'),
(11822, 'Casanova&#39;s Chinese Restaurant', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16442'),
(11823, 'Casanova&#39;s Chinese Restaurant', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26405'),
(11824, 'Cascadia&#39;s Fault', 'Jerry Thompson &amp; Simon Winchester', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Cascadia''s Fault\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Reporter Jerry Thompson puts the history of subduction earthquakes and the resultant tsunamis into clear perspective. In\n <em>\n  Cascadiaâ€™s Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America\n </em>\n , Thompson has written a very readable tale of how plate tectonics and earthquake science works, and what we need to know if we insist on being Left Coasters." â€”_Sacramento News &amp; Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A level-headed look at a potentially devastating natural disaster . . . fascinating." â€”_Booklist_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thereâ€™s a crack in the earthâ€™s crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated massive earthquakes over and over again throughout geologic timeâ€”at least 36 major events in the last 10,000 years. This fault generates a monster earthquake about every 500 years. And the monster is due to return at any time. It could happen 200 years from now, or it could be tonight.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Cascadia Subduction Zone is virtually identical to the offshore fault that wrecked Sumatra in 2004. It will generate the same earthquake we saw in Sumatra, at magnitude 9 or higher, sending crippling shockwaves across a far wider area than any California quake. Slamming into Sacramento, Portland, Seattle, Victoria, and Vancouver, it will send tidal waves to the shores of Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, damaging the economies of the Pacific Rim countries and their trading partners for years to come.\n</p>\n<p>\n In light of recent massive quakes in Haiti, Chile, and Mexico,\n <em>\n  Cascadiaâ€™s Fault\n </em>\n not only tells the story of this potentially devastating earthquake and the tsunamis it will spawn, it also warns us about the impending crisis almost unprecedented in modern history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12346'),
(11825, 'The Case for God', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all her acclaimed books, Armstrong makes clear how the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level. And she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age. Yet she cautions us that religion was never supposed to provide answers that lie within the competence of human reason; that, she says, is the role of "logos." The task of religion is "to help us live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there are no easy explanations." She emphasizes, too, that religion will not work automatically. It is, she says, a practical discipline: its insights are derived not from abstract speculation but from "dedicated intellectual endeavor" and a "compassionate lifestyle that enables us to break out of the prism of selfhood." "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3928'),
(11826, 'The Case for God', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all her acclaimed books, Armstrong makes clear how the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level. And she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age. Yet she cautions us that religion was never supposed to provide answers that lie within the competence of human reason; that, she says, is the role of "logos." The task of religion is "to help us live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there are no easy explanations." She emphasizes, too, that religion will not work automatically. It is, she says, a practical discipline: its insights are derived not from abstract speculation but from "dedicated intellectual endeavor" and a "compassionate lifestyle that enables us to break out of the prism of selfhood." "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8272'),
(11827, 'The Case for God', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all her acclaimed books, Armstrong makes clear how the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level. And she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age. Yet she cautions us that religion was never supposed to provide answers that lie within the competence of human reason; that, she says, is the role of "logos." The task of religion is "to help us live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there are no easy explanations." She emphasizes, too, that religion will not work automatically. It is, she says, a practical discipline: its insights are derived not from abstract speculation but from "dedicated intellectual endeavor" and a "compassionate lifestyle that enables us to break out of the prism of selfhood." "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20532'),
(11828, 'A Case of Conscience', 'James Blish', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief. Confronted with a profound scientific riddle and ethical quandary, Father Ruiz-Sanchez soon finds himself torn between the teachings of his faith, the teachings of his science, and the inner promptings of his humanity. There is only one solution: He must accept an ancient and unforgivable heresy--and risk the futures of both worlds . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4832'),
(11829, 'A case of conscience', 'James Blish', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief. Confronted with a profound scientific riddle and ethical quandary, Father Ruiz-Sanchez soon finds himself torn between the teachings of his faith, the teachings of his science, and the inner promptings of his humanity. There is only one solution: He must accept an ancient and unforgivable heresy--and risk the futures of both worlds . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19871'),
(11830, 'A Case of Exploding Mangoes', 'Mohammed Hanif', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A *Washington Post*, *Rocky Mountain News*, *Boston Globe* Best Book of the Year**Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen.Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of the Fury Squadron, is on a mission to avenge his father''s suspicious death, which the government calls a suicide.Ali''s target is none other than General Zia ul-Haq, dictator of Pakistani. Enlisting a rag-tag group of conspirators, including his cologne-bathed roommate, a hash-smoking American lieutenant, and a mango-besotted crow, Ali sets his elaborate plan in motion. There''s only one problem: the line of would-be Zia assassins is longer than he could have possibly known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2673'),
(11831, 'A Case of Exploding Mangoes', 'Mohammed Hanif', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A *Washington Post*, *Rocky Mountain News*, *Boston Globe* Best Book of the Year**Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen.Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of the Fury Squadron, is on a mission to avenge his father''s suspicious death, which the government calls a suicide.Ali''s target is none other than General Zia ul-Haq, dictator of Pakistani. Enlisting a rag-tag group of conspirators, including his cologne-bathed roommate, a hash-smoking American lieutenant, and a mango-besotted crow, Ali sets his elaborate plan in motion. There''s only one problem: the line of would-be Zia assassins is longer than he could have possibly known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22136'),
(11832, 'A Case of Identity', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15660'),
(11833, 'Case of Lies', 'Perri O&#39;Shaughnessy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A math genius, a tough courtroom adversary and an even tougher judge make the 11th legal thriller in the Nina Reilly series (_Unlucky in Law_, etc.) the most intriguing yet. Back in Lake Tahoe, Nina gets her next case from a masseuse whose aunt was killed during a motel robbery. Unless Nina acts, the lawsuit filed against the Ace High Lodge will be dismissed, as no one has been able to locate the witnesses. Reluctant to call on ex-lover PI Paul van Wagoner for help, Nina hires her assistant''s PI son, Wish, who discovers that the witnesses are MIT students with a sideline counting cards. While the old case takes on new life, people connected to it are threatened and worse. O''Shaughnessy (lawyer Pamela and editor Mary O''Shaughnessy) takes the reader inside the beautiful mind of emotionally immature, occasionally delusional, quantitatively inspired Elliott Wakefield as he solves equations, cares for his father and plays blackjack. In thrillers as in math proofs, neatness counts. Here, the Internet and national security bring Elliott''s story to an almost too-neat conclusion, while Nina ingeniously solves the problem of replacing Paul in her personal life. As always, O''Shaughnessy keeps legal procedure straight, language crisp and plot consistently absorbing.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n David Hanna witnessed the murder of his wife (and her unborn fetus) outside a hotel on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. Now it''s two years later, and Hanna enlists the help of Nina Reilly, a formidable attorney of some local notoriety (and star of 10 previous O''Shaughnessy adventures). The plan is to hold the hotel accountable for its lack of security, which made possible the robbery that produced the stray bullet that, in turn, killed Hanna''s wife. The perp was never caught, and the three robbery victims, who Nina feels are the key to the case, have been no help, purposely staying in California so that the Nevada court has no jurisdiction over them. Nina''s search for the truth takes her all the way to Europe--and into the arms of her former husband. O''Shaunessy (pseudonym for a sister team) has a knack for plotting and for combining suspenseful action with a light and playful tone. Another fine addition to an appealing and popular series.\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22621'),
(11834, 'A Case of Need', 'Michael Crichton &amp; Jeffrey Hudson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Case of Need is Michael Crichton''s award-winning debut novel, written shortly after he completed his medical internship. Set against the ever-building pressure and pace of a large Boston medical center, the tensions flare-and explode-when a surgical operation tragically ends in death, raising countless questions. Was it accidental malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic oath? Or cold-blooded murder?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2930'),
(11835, 'A Case of Need', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Case of Need is Michael Crichton''s award-winning debut novel, written shortly after he completed his medical internship. Set against the ever-building pressure and pace of a large Boston medical center, the tensions flare-and explode-when a surgical operation tragically ends in death, raising countless questions. Was it accidental malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic oath? Or cold-blooded murder?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21938'),
(11836, 'Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences', 'Alexander L. George &amp; Andrew Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The more widely this book is read, the better future social science will be."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Stephen M. Walt\n </strong>\n , Robert and RenÃ©e Belfer Professor of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University\n</p>\n<p>\n "I teach qualitative methods. If I could only have one text in my classroom, this would be it."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Colin Elman\n </strong>\n , Executive Director, Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University\n</p>\n<p>\n "This superb book will improve enormously our disciplinary debates and help all of us in our research and teaching."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Peter J. Katzenstein\n </strong>\n , Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor of International Studies, Cornell University\n</p>\n<p>\n "In scope, clarity, and erudition, this book sets a new standard not just in the analysis of case-study methods, but in the study of social science methods more broadly."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  David Dessler\n </strong>\n , Associate Professor of Government, College of William and Mary\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is the sort of book scholarsâ€”and not just graduate studentsâ€”will want to come back to over and over again."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Marc Trachtenberg\n </strong>\n , Professor of Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles\n</p>\n<p>\n "The beauty of George and Bennett''s approach is their careful integration of theory and method and their conviction that the pursuit of empirical knowledge is profoundly theory dependent."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Charles Ragin\n </strong>\n , Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences_ makes an indispensable contribution to the growing literature on qualitative methods in the social sciences."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Jack S. Levy\n </strong>\n , Board of Governors'' Professor, Rutgers University\n</p>\n<p>\n "An immensely helpful practical guide to the case method."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Stephen Van Evera\n </strong>\n , Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the 2006 Giovanni Sartori Book Award, given by the American Political Science Association''s Qualitative Methods Section.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The use of case studies to build and test theories in political science and the other social sciences has increased in recent years. Many scholars have argued that the social sciences rely too heavily on quantitative research and formal models and thus have attempted to develop and refine rigorous methods for using case studies. This text presents a comprehensive analysis of research methods using case studies and examines the place of case studies in social science methodology. It argues that case studies, statistical methods, and formal models are complementary rather than competitive.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book explains how to design case study research that will produce results useful to policymakers and it emphasizes the importance of developing policy-relevant theories. It offers three major contributions to case study methodology: an emphasis on the importance of within-case analysis, a detailed discussion of process tracing, and development of the concept of typological theories.\n <em>\n  Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences\n </em>\n will be particularly useful to graduate students and scholars in social science methodology and the philosophy of science, as well as to those designing new research projects, and will contribute greatly to the broader debate about scientific methods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7837'),
(11837, 'Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences', 'Alexander L. George &amp; Andrew Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The more widely this book is read, the better future social science will be."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Stephen M. Walt\n </strong>\n , Robert and RenÃ©e Belfer Professor of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University\n</p>\n<p>\n "I teach qualitative methods. If I could only have one text in my classroom, this would be it."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Colin Elman\n </strong>\n , Executive Director, Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University\n</p>\n<p>\n "This superb book will improve enormously our disciplinary debates and help all of us in our research and teaching."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Peter J. Katzenstein\n </strong>\n , Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor of International Studies, Cornell University\n</p>\n<p>\n "In scope, clarity, and erudition, this book sets a new standard not just in the analysis of case-study methods, but in the study of social science methods more broadly."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  David Dessler\n </strong>\n , Associate Professor of Government, College of William and Mary\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is the sort of book scholarsâ€”and not just graduate studentsâ€”will want to come back to over and over again."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Marc Trachtenberg\n </strong>\n , Professor of Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles\n</p>\n<p>\n "The beauty of George and Bennett''s approach is their careful integration of theory and method and their conviction that the pursuit of empirical knowledge is profoundly theory dependent."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Charles Ragin\n </strong>\n , Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences_ makes an indispensable contribution to the growing literature on qualitative methods in the social sciences."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Jack S. Levy\n </strong>\n , Board of Governors'' Professor, Rutgers University\n</p>\n<p>\n "An immensely helpful practical guide to the case method."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Stephen Van Evera\n </strong>\n , Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the 2006 Giovanni Sartori Book Award, given by the American Political Science Association''s Qualitative Methods Section.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The use of case studies to build and test theories in political science and the other social sciences has increased in recent years. Many scholars have argued that the social sciences rely too heavily on quantitative research and formal models and thus have attempted to develop and refine rigorous methods for using case studies. This text presents a comprehensive analysis of research methods using case studies and examines the place of case studies in social science methodology. It argues that case studies, statistical methods, and formal models are complementary rather than competitive.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book explains how to design case study research that will produce results useful to policymakers and it emphasizes the importance of developing policy-relevant theories. It offers three major contributions to case study methodology: an emphasis on the importance of within-case analysis, a detailed discussion of process tracing, and development of the concept of typological theories.\n <em>\n  Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences\n </em>\n will be particularly useful to graduate students and scholars in social science methodology and the philosophy of science, as well as to those designing new research projects, and will contribute greatly to the broader debate about scientific methods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9919'),
(11838, 'Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences', 'Alexander L. George; Andrew Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The more widely this book is read, the better future social science will be."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Stephen M. Walt\n </strong>\n , Robert and RenÃ©e Belfer Professor of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University\n</p>\n<p>\n "I teach qualitative methods. If I could only have one text in my classroom, this would be it."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Colin Elman\n </strong>\n , Executive Director, Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University\n</p>\n<p>\n "This superb book will improve enormously our disciplinary debates and help all of us in our research and teaching."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Peter J. Katzenstein\n </strong>\n , Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor of International Studies, Cornell University\n</p>\n<p>\n "In scope, clarity, and erudition, this book sets a new standard not just in the analysis of case-study methods, but in the study of social science methods more broadly."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  David Dessler\n </strong>\n , Associate Professor of Government, College of William and Mary\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is the sort of book scholarsâ€”and not just graduate studentsâ€”will want to come back to over and over again."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Marc Trachtenberg\n </strong>\n , Professor of Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles\n</p>\n<p>\n "The beauty of George and Bennett''s approach is their careful integration of theory and method and their conviction that the pursuit of empirical knowledge is profoundly theory dependent."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Charles Ragin\n </strong>\n , Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences_ makes an indispensable contribution to the growing literature on qualitative methods in the social sciences."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Jack S. Levy\n </strong>\n , Board of Governors'' Professor, Rutgers University\n</p>\n<p>\n "An immensely helpful practical guide to the case method."\n <br />\n â€”\n <strong>\n  Stephen Van Evera\n </strong>\n , Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the 2006 Giovanni Sartori Book Award, given by the American Political Science Association''s Qualitative Methods Section.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The use of case studies to build and test theories in political science and the other social sciences has increased in recent years. Many scholars have argued that the social sciences rely too heavily on quantitative research and formal models and thus have attempted to develop and refine rigorous methods for using case studies. This text presents a comprehensive analysis of research methods using case studies and examines the place of case studies in social science methodology. It argues that case studies, statistical methods, and formal models are complementary rather than competitive.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book explains how to design case study research that will produce results useful to policymakers and it emphasizes the importance of developing policy-relevant theories. It offers three major contributions to case study methodology: an emphasis on the importance of within-case analysis, a detailed discussion of process tracing, and development of the concept of typological theories.\n <em>\n  Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences\n </em>\n will be particularly useful to graduate students and scholars in social science methodology and the philosophy of science, as well as to those designing new research projects, and will contribute greatly to the broader debate about scientific methods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16153'),
(11839, 'The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (1859-1930) was a Scottish author. He is most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. His first significant work was A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton''s Christmas Annual for 1887 and featured the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes, who was partially modelled after his former university professor, Joseph Bell. Other works include The Firm of Girdlestone (1890), The Captain of the Polestar (1890), The Doings of Raffles Haw (1892), Beyond the City (1892), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896), The Great Boer War (1900), The Green Flag (1900), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), and The Lost World (1912).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25115'),
(11840, 'Casebook of the Black Widowers', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25682'),
(11841, 'Cash: The Autobiography', 'Johnny Cash', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as never before. In his unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash tells the truth about the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs, and the people who shaped him. In his own words, Cash set the record straight -- and dispelled a few myths -- as he looked unsparingly at his remarkable life: from the joys of his boyhood in Dyess, Arkansas to superstardom in Nashville, Tennessee, the road of Cash''s life has been anything but smooth. Cash writes of the thrill of playing with Elvis, the comfort of praying with Billy Graham; of his battles with addiction and of the devotion of his wife, June; of his gratitude for life, and of his thoughts on what the afterlife may bring. Here, too, are the friends of a lifetime, including Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Kris Kristofferson. As powerful and memorable as one of his classic songs, Cash is filled with the candor, wit, and wisdom of a man who truly "walked the line."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14739'),
(11842, 'Cash: The Autobiography', 'Johnny Cash', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as never before. In his unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash tells the truth about the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs, and the people who shaped him. In his own words, Cash set the record straight -- and dispelled a few myths -- as he looked unsparingly at his remarkable life: from the joys of his boyhood in Dyess, Arkansas to superstardom in Nashville, Tennessee, the road of Cash''s life has been anything but smooth. Cash writes of the thrill of playing with Elvis, the comfort of praying with Billy Graham; of his battles with addiction and of the devotion of his wife, June; of his gratitude for life, and of his thoughts on what the afterlife may bring. Here, too, are the friends of a lifetime, including Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Kris Kristofferson. As powerful and memorable as one of his classic songs, Cash is filled with the candor, wit, and wisdom of a man who truly "walked the line."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20369'),
(11843, 'Casino Royale: A James Bond Novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the first of Ian Fleming''s James Bond novels, 007 declares war on Le Chiffre, French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH.  The battle begins with a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat, gains momentum during Bond''s fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy, and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist. For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills, and extraordinary danger, nothing can beat James Bond in his inaugural adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5051'),
(11844, 'Casino royale: a James Bond novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the first of Ian Fleming''s James Bond novels, 007 declares war on Le Chiffre, French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH. The battle begins with a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat, gains momentum during Bond''s fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy, and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist. For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills, and extraordinary danger, nothing can beat James Bond in his inaugural adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19672'),
(11845, 'Casino royale: a James Bond novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the first of Ian Fleming''s James Bond novels, 007 declares war on Le Chiffre, French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH.  The battle begins with a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat, gains momentum during Bond''s fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy, and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist. For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills, and extraordinary danger, nothing can beat James Bond in his inaugural adventure.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bond is sent to a casino in Royal-les-Eaux to disgrace the lethal Russian agent ''Le Chiffre'' by ruining him at baccarat and forcing his Soviet spymasters to ''retire'' him, but he soon finds that his quarry is not content to go without a fight. Preferring to work alone, 007 is annoyed to be assigned a female assistant, but his compelling attraction to the enigmatic Vesper Lynd only leads him into further danger . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28226');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11846, 'The Cassandra Compact', 'Robert Ludlum &amp; Philip Shelby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Yuri Danko, an officer in the medical division of Russia''s security service, is murdered by a spray of assassin''s bullets. Now Covert-One''s Jon Smith has Danko''s classified papers, and he''s unearthed a terrifying global conspiracy. A Serb terrorist has been despatched from Russia to smuggle hazardous vials of a deadly bacteria into the United States. His mission: to deliver them to an unknown US government agent. Then both men are murdered, and the deadly bacteria is stolen... It''s up to Lt Col Smith to find the madman who possesses it, before he holds a defenceless world hostage with the power to render the human race extinct.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1665'),
(11847, 'The Cassandra Compact', 'Robert Ludlum; Philip Shelby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Yuri Danko, an officer in the medical division of Russia''s security service, is murdered by a spray of assassin''s bullets. Now Covert-One''s Jon Smith has Danko''s classified papers, and he''s unearthed a terrifying global conspiracy. A Serb terrorist has been despatched from Russia to smuggle hazardous vials of a deadly bacteria into the United States. His mission: to deliver them to an unknown US government agent. Then both men are murdered, and the deadly bacteria is stolen... It''s up to Lt Col Smith to find the madman who possesses it, before he holds a defenceless world hostage with the power to render the human race extinct.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23304'),
(11848, 'The Cassandra Complex', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran British author Stableford''s Emortality series of future history novels (Inherit the Earth, Architects of Emortality and Fountains of Youth, which start in the 22nd century and end in the 26th) receives a near-future underpinning in this mid-21st-century puzzle of maneuvers in the face of impending doom. Police forensic scientist Lisa Friemann wakes one night to armed intruders in her highly secure dwelling. Nothing in all the information storage media the thieves steal seems important, or even work related. Events are hardly clarified by the news that prominent geneticist Morgan Miller, her graduate supervisor and longtime colleague, is missing. Does someone think Miller made a discovery that, contrary to usual practice, he had shared with no one in his field? And why would anyone want to bomb Mouseworld, the half-million-strong genetic library of rodent strains? Lisa''s cityplex police and university colleagues enter the story one by one, followed by a confusing (to all concerned) array of other agencies and factions. Could there be a secret that will avert or postpone the expected world catastrophe, or at least give some people advantages over others? Stableford''s background in biological and social sciences makes for convincing behavior and dialogue among the scientists, while long practice in the novelist''s trade ensures a smooth and involving read. This series should remain more visible in the U.S. than his large stable of unjustly neglected past work.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the world hovers on the brink of a biotech war and social breakdown, an attack on forensic researcher Lisa Frieman, along with the disappearance of scientist Jordan Miller, leads to a search for a dangerous secret that could determine humanity''s future. The author of Architects of Emortality and The Fountains of Youth continues to explore his vision of the future with this latest tale of technology gone awry and the efforts of ordinary heroes to put things right. Stableford balances issue-oriented sf with suspense-filled action to create a story that belongs in most sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7139'),
(11849, 'The Cassandra Complex', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran British author Stableford''s Emortality series of future history novels (Inherit the Earth, Architects of Emortality and Fountains of Youth, which start in the 22nd century and end in the 26th) receives a near-future underpinning in this mid-21st-century puzzle of maneuvers in the face of impending doom. Police forensic scientist Lisa Friemann wakes one night to armed intruders in her highly secure dwelling. Nothing in all the information storage media the thieves steal seems important, or even work related. Events are hardly clarified by the news that prominent geneticist Morgan Miller, her graduate supervisor and longtime colleague, is missing. Does someone think Miller made a discovery that, contrary to usual practice, he had shared with no one in his field? And why would anyone want to bomb Mouseworld, the half-million-strong genetic library of rodent strains? Lisa''s cityplex police and university colleagues enter the story one by one, followed by a confusing (to all concerned) array of other agencies and factions. Could there be a secret that will avert or postpone the expected world catastrophe, or at least give some people advantages over others? Stableford''s background in biological and social sciences makes for convincing behavior and dialogue among the scientists, while long practice in the novelist''s trade ensures a smooth and involving read. This series should remain more visible in the U.S. than his large stable of unjustly neglected past work.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the world hovers on the brink of a biotech war and social breakdown, an attack on forensic researcher Lisa Frieman, along with the disappearance of scientist Jordan Miller, leads to a search for a dangerous secret that could determine humanity''s future. The author of Architects of Emortality and The Fountains of Youth continues to explore his vision of the future with this latest tale of technology gone awry and the efforts of ordinary heroes to put things right. Stableford balances issue-oriented sf with suspense-filled action to create a story that belongs in most sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12817'),
(11850, 'The Cassandra Complex', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran British author Stableford''s Emortality series of future history novels (Inherit the Earth, Architects of Emortality and Fountains of Youth, which start in the 22nd century and end in the 26th) receives a near-future underpinning in this mid-21st-century puzzle of maneuvers in the face of impending doom. Police forensic scientist Lisa Friemann wakes one night to armed intruders in her highly secure dwelling. Nothing in all the information storage media the thieves steal seems important, or even work related. Events are hardly clarified by the news that prominent geneticist Morgan Miller, her graduate supervisor and longtime colleague, is missing. Does someone think Miller made a discovery that, contrary to usual practice, he had shared with no one in his field? And why would anyone want to bomb Mouseworld, the half-million-strong genetic library of rodent strains? Lisa''s cityplex police and university colleagues enter the story one by one, followed by a confusing (to all concerned) array of other agencies and factions. Could there be a secret that will avert or postpone the expected world catastrophe, or at least give some people advantages over others? Stableford''s background in biological and social sciences makes for convincing behavior and dialogue among the scientists, while long practice in the novelist''s trade ensures a smooth and involving read. This series should remain more visible in the U.S. than his large stable of unjustly neglected past work.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the world hovers on the brink of a biotech war and social breakdown, an attack on forensic researcher Lisa Frieman, along with the disappearance of scientist Jordan Miller, leads to a search for a dangerous secret that could determine humanity''s future. The author of Architects of Emortality and The Fountains of Youth continues to explore his vision of the future with this latest tale of technology gone awry and the efforts of ordinary heroes to put things right. Stableford balances issue-oriented sf with suspense-filled action to create a story that belongs in most sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16793'),
(11851, 'The Castle of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What is the secret of the old castle on the hill, and why are the locals so afraid of it? When flashing lights are seen in a distant tower, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack decide to investigate - and discover a very sinister plot concealed within its hidden rooms and gloomy underground passages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5593'),
(11852, 'The Castle of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What is the secret of the old castle on the hill, and why are the locals so afraid of it? When flashing lights are seen in a distant tower, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack decide to investigate - and discover a very sinister plot concealed within its hidden rooms and gloomy underground passages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19029'),
(11853, 'The Castle of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What is the secret of the old castle on the hill, and why are the locals so afraid of it? When flashing lights are seen in a distant tower, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack decide to investigate - and discover a very sinister plot concealed within its hidden rooms and gloomy underground passages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27733'),
(11854, 'The Castle of Llyr', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly DoliÂ—all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for Â“the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3349'),
(11855, 'The Castle of Llyr', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly DoliÂ—all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for Â“the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9353'),
(11856, 'The Castle of Llyr', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!** Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly DoliÂ—all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise. *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for Â“the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€ Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time. In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21255'),
(11857, 'The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story', 'Horace Walpole; W. S. Lewis; E. J. Clery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n `with each volume having an introduction by an acknowledged expert, and exhaustive notes, the World''s Classics are surely the most desirable series and, all-round, the best value for money'' Oxford Times\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n First published pseudonymously in 1764,\n <em>\n  The Castle of Otranto\n </em>\n purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole''s own favorite among his numerous works. The novel is reprinted here from a text of 1798, the last that Walpole himself prepared for the press.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18318'),
(11858, 'The castle of Otranto: a Gothic story', 'Horace Walpole', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28229'),
(11859, 'Castle of Wizardry', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n END OF THE QUEST It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer. Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide. After that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished. But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion--and for the little princess Ce''Nedra. This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad,Â Â begun in Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, and Magician''s Gambit--a fantasy set against a background of the war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years--a novel of fate, strange lands, and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6337'),
(11860, 'Castle of Wizardry', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: END OF THE QUEST It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer. Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide. After that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished. But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion--and for the little princess Ce''Nedra. This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad,Â Â begun in Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, and Magician''s Gambit--a fantasy set against a background of the war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years--a novel of fate, strange lands, and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15132'),
(11861, 'Castle of Wizardry', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: END OF THE QUEST It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer. Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide. After that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished. But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion--and for the little princess Ce''Nedra. This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad,Â Â begun in Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, and Magician''s Gambit--a fantasy set against a background of the war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years--a novel of fate, strange lands, and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17686'),
(11862, 'Castle of Wizardry', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n END OF THE QUEST It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer. Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide. After that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished. But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion--and for the little princess Ce''Nedra. This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad,Â Â begun in Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, and Magician''s Gambit--a fantasy set against a background of the war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years--a novel of fate, strange lands, and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27212'),
(11863, 'Castle Rackrent', 'Maria Edgeworth', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25394'),
(11864, 'Castle Richmond', 'Anthony Trollope', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26072'),
(11865, 'Castle Roogna', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Millie, a ghost for 800 years wants only one man--Jonathan, and he''s a zombie. To prove himself, Magician Dor volunteers to get the potion that can restore Jonathan to full life. But he has to go back through time to do it, to a peril-haunted, ancient Xanth, where danger lurks at every turn....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1993'),
(11866, 'Castle Roogna', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Millie, a ghost for 800 years wants only one man--Jonathan, and he''s a zombie. To prove himself, Magician Dor volunteers to get the potion that can restore Jonathan to full life. But he has to go back through time to do it, to a peril-haunted, ancient Xanth, where danger lurks at every turn....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22715'),
(11867, 'Castle to Castle (French Literature)', 'Louis-Ferdinand Celine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published in English seven years after his death (LJ 11/15/68), this is considered one of Celine''s darkest novels. It is also autobiographical. Like the author, the novel''s central character is a Nazi collaborator who is nonetheless destroyed by them. This translation won a National Book Award.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Castle to Castle [is] a literary event of the first order." --\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Castle to Castle proves how appallingly up to date its dead appalling author is. . . . Cline''s style consists of outcries and exclamations, groans and curses, all in white heat, separated by dots which like machine-gun bullets mow down even the mitigating orderliness of grammar." --\n <em>\n  Nation\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Celine''s mastery in creating one of the truly cathartic experiences of contemporary literature is indisputable." --\n <em>\n  Saturday Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cline walks into great literature as other men walk into their own homes." --\n <em>\n  Atlantic Monthly\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cline''s experiences have not mellowed him. Here, as in all his novels, . . . he hates everybody, regardless of race, creed or color. If anyone is singled out, it is his publishers, whose limousines, he says, grow even longer, while their authors, in rags, cling behind like pitiful hitchhikers. . . . the translation is a masterpiece." --\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3288'),
(11868, 'Castle to Castle (French Literature)', 'Louis-Ferdinand Celine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published in English seven years after his death (LJ 11/15/68), this is considered one of Celine''s darkest novels. It is also autobiographical. Like the author, the novel''s central character is a Nazi collaborator who is nonetheless destroyed by them. This translation won a National Book Award.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Castle to Castle [is] a literary event of the first order." --\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Castle to Castle proves how appallingly up to date its dead appalling author is. . . . Cline''s style consists of outcries and exclamations, groans and curses, all in white heat, separated by dots which like machine-gun bullets mow down even the mitigating orderliness of grammar." --\n <em>\n  Nation\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Celine''s mastery in creating one of the truly cathartic experiences of contemporary literature is indisputable." --\n <em>\n  Saturday Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cline walks into great literature as other men walk into their own homes." --\n <em>\n  Atlantic Monthly\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cline''s experiences have not mellowed him. Here, as in all his novels, . . . he hates everybody, regardless of race, creed or color. If anyone is singled out, it is his publishers, whose limousines, he says, grow even longer, while their authors, in rags, cling behind like pitiful hitchhikers. . . . the translation is a masterpiece." --\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8931'),
(11869, 'Castle to Castle (French Literature)', 'Louis-Ferdinand Celine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published in English seven years after his death (LJ 11/15/68), this is considered one of Celine''s darkest novels. It is also autobiographical. Like the author, the novel''s central character is a Nazi collaborator who is nonetheless destroyed by them. This translation won a National Book Award.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Castle to Castle [is] a literary event of the first order." --\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Castle to Castle proves how appallingly up to date its dead appalling author is. . . . Cline''s style consists of outcries and exclamations, groans and curses, all in white heat, separated by dots which like machine-gun bullets mow down even the mitigating orderliness of grammar." --\n <em>\n  Nation\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Celine''s mastery in creating one of the truly cathartic experiences of contemporary literature is indisputable." --\n <em>\n  Saturday Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cline walks into great literature as other men walk into their own homes." --\n <em>\n  Atlantic Monthly\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cline''s experiences have not mellowed him. Here, as in all his novels, . . . he hates everybody, regardless of race, creed or color. If anyone is singled out, it is his publishers, whose limousines, he says, grow even longer, while their authors, in rags, cling behind like pitiful hitchhikers. . . . the translation is a masterpiece." --\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21277'),
(11870, 'Castles in Spain', 'Rebecca Stratton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1916'),
(11871, 'Cat &amp; Mouse', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alex Cross is back-and so is a raging and suicidal Gary Soneji. Out of prison and dying from the AIDS virus he contracted there, he will get revenge on Cross before he dies. In addition, we are introduced to a new pair of rivals whose paths cross that of Alex and Soneji. Thomas Augustine Pierce has been chasing his demon, Mr. Smith, since the savage murder of his fiancee. Mr. Smith is a unique monster, with actions toward his victims so insane-so unimaginable-that he is thought of as "not of the earth." Pierce, known in the business as St. Augustine because of his track record for catching killers and his invaluable status to the FBI and Interpol, may even be better than Cross.When things heat up and Alex is in a near-death coma following an attack in his own home, Pierce goes to Washington to help with the investigation. But just as he begins to piece together the mystery of how Gary Soneji could have mortally wounded Cross after he was believed to be dead, he is summoned to Paris with a postcard from Mr. Smith inviting him to a very special killing.The body count is high, the tension the highest, and the two killers on the loose are watching every move their pursuers make. Who is the cat, and who is the mouse? What and where is the final trap? And who survives?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4823'),
(11872, 'Cat &amp; Mouse', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alex Cross is back-and so is a raging and suicidal Gary Soneji. Out of prison and dying from the AIDS virus he contracted there, he will get revenge on Cross before he dies. In addition, we are introduced to a new pair of rivals whose paths cross that of Alex and Soneji. Thomas Augustine Pierce has been chasing his demon, Mr. Smith, since the savage murder of his fiancee. Mr. Smith is a unique monster, with actions toward his victims so insane-so unimaginable-that he is thought of as "not of the earth." Pierce, known in the business as St. Augustine because of his track record for catching killers and his invaluable status to the FBI and Interpol, may even be better than Cross.When things heat up and Alex is in a near-death coma following an attack in his own home, Pierce goes to Washington to help with the investigation. But just as he begins to piece together the mystery of how Gary Soneji could have mortally wounded Cross after he was believed to be dead, he is summoned to Paris with a postcard from Mr. Smith inviting him to a very special killing.The body count is high, the tension the highest, and the two killers on the loose are watching every move their pursuers make. Who is the cat, and who is the mouse? What and where is the final trap? And who survives?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13969'),
(11873, 'Cat &amp; Mouse', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alex Cross is back-and so is a raging and suicidal Gary Soneji. Out of prison and dying from the AIDS virus he contracted there, he will get revenge on Cross before he dies. In addition, we are introduced to a new pair of rivals whose paths cross that of Alex and Soneji. Thomas Augustine Pierce has been chasing his demon, Mr. Smith, since the savage murder of his fiancee. Mr. Smith is a unique monster, with actions toward his victims so insane-so unimaginable-that he is thought of as "not of the earth." Pierce, known in the business as St. Augustine because of his track record for catching killers and his invaluable status to the FBI and Interpol, may even be better than Cross.When things heat up and Alex is in a near-death coma following an attack in his own home, Pierce goes to Washington to help with the investigation. But just as he begins to piece together the mystery of how Gary Soneji could have mortally wounded Cross after he was believed to be dead, he is summoned to Paris with a postcard from Mr. Smith inviting him to a very special killing.The body count is high, the tension the highest, and the two killers on the loose are watching every move their pursuers make. Who is the cat, and who is the mouse? What and where is the final trap? And who survives?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19828'),
(11874, 'Cat Among the Pigeons', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls - things like murder!  Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress -- shot through the heart from point blank range.  The school is thrown into chaos when the ''cat'' strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot''s help, she will be the next victim!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/66'),
(11875, 'Cat Among the Pigeons', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls - things like murder! Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress -- shot through the heart from point blank range. The school is thrown into chaos when the ''cat'' strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot''s help, she will be the next victim!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17173'),
(11876, 'Cat Chaser', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the world of Elmore Leonard novels, two ex-soldiers can sit around a hotel swimming pool in Florida and, as if it were perfectly natural, chat about a friendly fire incident during an "interventionist action" in Santo Domingo. His characters have learned the futility of complaining about a life where deadly violence and moral obligations are all too frequently intertwined. In\n <em>\n  Cat Chaser\n </em>\n George Moran is the hotel manager who got shot at back then; now, he''s rekindling his intimate acquaintance with the wife of Andres de Boya, a former Dominican military enforcer who currently invests in real estate with a healthy sideline in drugs.\n</p>\n<p>\n A dizzying series of plot twists involving various grifters and strongmen (both hired and freelance) leads to the grimly comic suspense action that Elmore Leonard fans have come to know and love. But as always, it''s Leonard''s impressive ear for dialogue that raises\n <em>\n  Cat Chaser\n </em>\n above the herd of crime novels. An example:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "That''s correct," Scully said, "I''m a consultant... I advise people on business matters, act as a go-between, bring people together that want to make deals... things like that. You want to know any more, come by my office, we''ll have a coffee sometime. Okay? Right now I''m going to see Mr. Pradi. Where you come in--I''m gonna knock on his door, he don''t open it then I might have to kick it in. I mean the business I got with him is that pressing. So you can give me a key and maybe save yourself a door. What do you think?"\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Well, what do you think?\n <em>\n  --Ron Hogan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The last time Florida motel owner George Moran was in the Dominican Republic he was in a uniform and people were shooting at him. Years later he''s back looking for a girl he lost -- and finding one he''d be better off without. But that doesn''t matter to George while he''s sleeping with beautiful Mary de Boya -- only when he discovers his lover is the wife of a former death squad general in exile with solid mob connections. Now George is bringing big trouble back with him to the Sunshine State -- as his nostalgic trip down memory lane has tangled him up in a cat''s cradle of drug deals, swindles, vengeance and murder . . . and a love that''s not only blind but lethal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18548'),
(11877, 'The Cat From Hell', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22971'),
(11878, 'The Cat Who Walks Through Walls', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his table, Dr. Richard Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions, where a plot to rescue a sentient computer could alter human history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22735'),
(11879, 'Cat&#39;s Claw', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The world''s most powerful leaders are gathering in Los Angeles for the G-8 summit, unaware that they have been targeted by two separate terrorist groups, each with its own lethal agenda. Uncovering and disarming one bomb would be difficult enough; eliminating both will be nearly impossible.\n</p>\n<p>\n On the trail of a rabid Islamic assassin, rogue CTU agent Jack Bauer doesn''t know that another conspiracy is brewing around himâ€”a poisonous plot to violently dictate the future of the free world. If Bauer does nothing, in twenty-four hours the entire planet may be plunged into chaos, its primary heads of state ruthlessly destroyed. But if he acts, his daughter Kim will die instead.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Whitman is the author of numerous books and projects, including the "Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear" series,\n <em>\n  Zorro and the Witch''s Curse\n </em>\n , and, most recently, the trading cards for "24 Day 3." He is a 4th-degree black belt and defensive tactics instructor in Krav Maga, the official hand-to-hand combat system of the Israeli military, has trained in protective services and defensive tactics in both the United States and in Israel, and has served as an instructor of U.S. law enforcement agencies and military anti-terrorist units.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4191'),
(11880, 'Cat&#39;s Claw', 'Amber Benson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Calliope Reaper-Jones is Death''s Daughter. She owes a debt to Cerberus, the three headed dog that guards the gate''s of hell-a debt that involves a trip to Purgatory, Las Vegas, ancient Egypt, and a discount department store that''s more frightening than any supernatural creature she''ll ever encounter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15071'),
(11881, 'Cat&#39;s Claw', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The world''s most powerful leaders are gathering in Los Angeles for the G-8 summit, unaware that they have been targeted by two separate terrorist groups, each with its own lethal agenda. Uncovering and disarming one bomb would be difficult enough; eliminating both will be nearly impossible.\n</p>\n<p>\n On the trail of a rabid Islamic assassin, rogue CTU agent Jack Bauer doesn''t know that another conspiracy is brewing around himâ€”a poisonous plot to violently dictate the future of the free world. If Bauer does nothing, in twenty-four hours the entire planet may be plunged into chaos, its primary heads of state ruthlessly destroyed. But if he acts, his daughter Kim will die instead.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Whitman is the author of numerous books and projects, including the "Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear" series,\n <em>\n  Zorro and the Witch''s Curse\n </em>\n , and, most recently, the trading cards for "24 Day 3." He is a 4th-degree black belt and defensive tactics instructor in Krav Maga, the official hand-to-hand combat system of the Israeli military, has trained in protective services and defensive tactics in both the United States and in Israel, and has served as an instructor of U.S. law enforcement agencies and military anti-terrorist units.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20398'),
(11882, 'Cat&#39;s Claw', 'Amber Benson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Calliope Reaper-Jones is Death''s Daughter. She owes a debt to Cerberus, the three headed dog that guards the gate''s of hell-a debt that involves a trip to Purgatory, Las Vegas, ancient Egypt, and a discount department store that''s more frightening than any supernatural creature she''ll ever encounter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26341'),
(11883, 'Cat&#39;s Cradle', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cat''s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut''s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet''s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat''s Cradle is one of the twentieth century''s most important works--and Vonnegut at his very best. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3589'),
(11884, 'Cat&#39;s Cradle', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cat''s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut''s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet''s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat''s Cradle is one of the twentieth century''s most important works--and Vonnegut at his very best. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13192'),
(11885, 'Cat&#39;s Cradle', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The third and final book in the Cat''s Cradle series. The Tardis''s link with Eye of Harmony is becoming ever more tenuous and is in urgent need of repair. But the time machine takes the Doctor and Ace to a village in rural Wales, and a gateway to another world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13910'),
(11886, 'Cat&#39;s cradle', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cat''s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut''s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet''s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat''s Cradle is one of the twentieth century''s most important works--and Vonnegut at his very best. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20877'),
(11887, 'Cat&#39;s Eye', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15844'),
(11888, 'Cat&#39;s Karma', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17235'),
(11889, 'Cat&#39;s Karma', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26999'),
(11890, 'A Catalogue of Books Relating to the Discovery and Early History of North and South America V3', 'Cole, George Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Witchcraft in Early North America investigates European, African, and Indian witchcraft beliefs and their expression in colonial America. Alison Games''s engaging book takes us beyond the infamous outbreak at Salem, Massachusetts, to look at how witchcraft was a central feature of colonial societies in North America. Her substantial and lively introduction orients readers to the subject and to the rich selection of documents that follows. The documents begin with first encounters between European missionaries and Native Americans in New France and New Mexico, and they conclude with witch hunts among Native Americans in the years of the early American republic. The documents--some of which have never been published previously--include excerpts from trials in Virginia, New Mexico, and Massachusetts; accounts of outbreaks in Salem, Abiquiu (New Mexico), and among the Delaware Indians; descriptions of possession; legal codes; and allegations of poisoning by slaves. The documents...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8075'),
(11891, 'Catalyst: A Tale of the Barque Cats', 'Anne McCaffrey &amp; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Pilot, navigator, engineer, doctor, scientistâ€”ship''s cat? All are essential to the well-staffed space vessel. Since the early days of interstellar travel, when Tuxedo Thomas, a Maine coon cat, showed what a cat could do for a ship and its crew, the so-called Barque Cats have become highly prized crew members. Thomas''s carefully bred progeny, ably assisted by humansâ€”Cat Personsâ€”with whom they share a deep and loving bond, now travel the galaxy, responsible for keeping spacecraft free of vermin, for alerting human crews to potential environmental hazards, and for acting as morale officers.Even among Barque Cats, Chessie is something special. Her pedigree, skills, and intelligence, as well as the close rapport she has with her human, Janina, make her the most valuable crew member aboard the Molly Daise. And the litter of kittens in her belly only adds to her value.Then the unthinkable happens. Chessie is kidnappedâ€”er, catnappedâ€”from Dr. Jared Vlast''s vet clinic at Hood Station by a grizzled spacer named Carl Poindexter. But Chessie''s newborn kittens turn out to be even more extraordinary than their mother. For while Chessie''s connection to Janina is close and intuitive, the bond that the kitten Chester forms with Carl''s son, Jubal, is downright telepathic. And when Chester is sent into space to learn his trade, neither he nor Jubal will rest until they''re reunited.Â Â Â  But the announcement of a widespread epidemic affecting livestock on numerous planets throws their future into doubt. Suddenly the galactic government announces a plan to impound and possibly destroy all exposed animals. Not even the Barque Cats will be spared.Â Â Â  With the clock racing against them, Janina, Jubal, Dr. Vlast, and a handful of very special kittens will join forces with the mysterious Pshaw-Raâ€”an alien-looking cat with a hidden agendaâ€”to save the Barque Cats, other animals, and quite possibly the universe as they know it from total destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7630');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(11892, 'Catalyst: A Tale of the Barque Cats', 'Anne McCaffrey &amp; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Pilot, navigator, engineer, doctor, scientistâ€”ship''s cat? All are essential to the well-staffed space vessel. Since the early days of interstellar travel, when Tuxedo Thomas, a Maine coon cat, showed what a cat could do for a ship and its crew, the so-called Barque Cats have become highly prized crew members. Thomas''s carefully bred progeny, ably assisted by humansâ€”Cat Personsâ€”with whom they share a deep and loving bond, now travel the galaxy, responsible for keeping spacecraft free of vermin, for alerting human crews to potential environmental hazards, and for acting as morale officers.Even among Barque Cats, Chessie is something special. Her pedigree, skills, and intelligence, as well as the close rapport she has with her human, Janina, make her the most valuable crew member aboard the Molly Daise. And the litter of kittens in her belly only adds to her value.Then the unthinkable happens. Chessie is kidnappedâ€”er, catnappedâ€”from Dr. Jared Vlast''s vet clinic at Hood Station by a grizzled spacer named Carl Poindexter. But Chessie''s newborn kittens turn out to be even more extraordinary than their mother. For while Chessie''s connection to Janina is close and intuitive, the bond that the kitten Chester forms with Carl''s son, Jubal, is downright telepathic. And when Chester is sent into space to learn his trade, neither he nor Jubal will rest until they''re reunited.Â Â Â  But the announcement of a widespread epidemic affecting livestock on numerous planets throws their future into doubt. Suddenly the galactic government announces a plan to impound and possibly destroy all exposed animals. Not even the Barque Cats will be spared.Â Â Â  With the clock racing against them, Janina, Jubal, Dr. Vlast, and a handful of very special kittens will join forces with the mysterious Pshaw-Raâ€”an alien-looking cat with a hidden agendaâ€”to save the Barque Cats, other animals, and quite possibly the universe as they know it from total destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11342'),
(11893, 'Catalyst: A Tale of the Barque Cats', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pilot, navigator, engineer, doctor, scientistâ€”ship''s cat? All are essential to the well-staffed space vessel. Since the early days of interstellar travel, when Tuxedo Thomas, a Maine coon cat, showed what a cat could do for a ship and its crew, the so-called Barque Cats have become highly prized crew members. Thomas''s carefully bred progeny, ably assisted by humansâ€”Cat Personsâ€”with whom they share a deep and loving bond, now travel the galaxy, responsible for keeping spacecraft free of vermin, for alerting human crews to potential environmental hazards, and for acting as morale officers.Even among Barque Cats, Chessie is something special. Her pedigree, skills, and intelligence, as well as the close rapport she has with her human, Janina, make her the most valuable crew member aboard the Molly Daise. And the litter of kittens in her belly only adds to her value.Then the unthinkable happens. Chessie is kidnappedâ€”er, catnappedâ€”from Dr. Jared Vlast''s vet clinic at Hood Station by a grizzled spacer named Carl Poindexter. But Chessie''s newborn kittens turn out to be even more extraordinary than their mother. For while Chessie''s connection to Janina is close and intuitive, the bond that the kitten Chester forms with Carl''s son, Jubal, is downright telepathic. And when Chester is sent into space to learn his trade, neither he nor Jubal will rest until they''re reunited.Â Â Â  But the announcement of a widespread epidemic affecting livestock on numerous planets throws their future into doubt. Suddenly the galactic government announces a plan to impound and possibly destroy all exposed animals. Not even the Barque Cats will be spared.Â Â Â  With the clock racing against them, Janina, Jubal, Dr. Vlast, and a handful of very special kittens will join forces with the mysterious Pshaw-Raâ€”an alien-looking cat with a hidden agendaâ€”to save the Barque Cats, other animals, and quite possibly the universe as they know it from total destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16320'),
(11894, 'Catarul', 'Stanislaw Lem', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25130'),
(11895, 'Catastrophe', 'Dick Morris &amp; Eileen McGann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s time to take back our country.   Now. It''s that simple. It''s that urgent.   So begins Dick Morris and Eileen McGann''s latest and most important book. They say that we must act before President Barack Obama fully implements his radical political agenda. Because after Obama has won his war on prosperity and canceled the war on terror, it will be too late to regain our liberty or our security.   At a time when we needed a pragmatic centrist to lead us out of recession, we got a doctrinaire socialist who wants to use the crisis to put the government in charge of the economy and enact European socialism here in the United States.   Cars, banksâ€”what''s next? He will keep at it until Washington governs every major business in America and sets all our salaries.   It''s a catastrophe.   Dick Morris and Eileen McGann saw the meltdown coming. In their book Outrage, they called out the house of cards that was Fannie Mae. In Fleeced, they went after the credit card companies, the subprime mortgage lenders, and the hedge fund billionaires who conspired to wreck the economyâ€”and Barack Obama, whose policies, they predicted last summer, would "trigger a stock market crash."   Now, in Catastrophe, Morris and McGann take a hard look at America in free fallâ€”and at how Obama is transforming a vulnerable America into a socialist state.   They tell the truth about Obama and his radical policies:   He will destroy our health care system so that no one gets adequate care.  He designed his bank rescue plan to pave the way for nation-alization of the banks and socialization of the economy. He firmly believes in government control of our major industriesâ€”he''s already commandeered the banks and the automobile industry. He plans to reshape the political landscape to keep the left in power for decades by cooking the census, enfranchising illegal immigrants, muzzling talk radio, and coercing workers into unions. He is attacking those who fight terrorism while letting the terrorists go free. He gives aid to Hamas while Shariah Law threatens to take over America. He has repealed the Declaration of Independence and put us under a worldwide, European-dominated financial regulatory system.   But Obama is not working alone. Morris and McGann spell out how Congress is complicit:   How Senator Chris Dodd and Congressman Charlie Rangel use special interests and special friends for their own enrichment and glorification. How Ted Kennedy Jr. is exploiting his father''s health care power.   "This is no time for apathy or alienation or hopelessness," Morris and McGann remind us. "It''s a time for action." And that action must begin nowâ€”before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6050'),
(11896, 'Catastrophe', 'Dick Morris &amp; Eileen McGann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s time to take back our country.   Now. It''s that simple. It''s that urgent.   So begins Dick Morris and Eileen McGann''s latest and most important book. They say that we must act before President Barack Obama fully implements his radical political agenda. Because after Obama has won his war on prosperity and canceled the war on terror, it will be too late to regain our liberty or our security.   At a time when we needed a pragmatic centrist to lead us out of recession, we got a doctrinaire socialist who wants to use the crisis to put the government in charge of the economy and enact European socialism here in the United States.   Cars, banksâ€”what''s next? He will keep at it until Washington governs every major business in America and sets all our salaries.   It''s a catastrophe.   Dick Morris and Eileen McGann saw the meltdown coming. In their book Outrage, they called out the house of cards that was Fannie Mae. In Fleeced, they went after the credit card companies, the subprime mortgage lenders, and the hedge fund billionaires who conspired to wreck the economyâ€”and Barack Obama, whose policies, they predicted last summer, would "trigger a stock market crash."   Now, in Catastrophe, Morris and McGann take a hard look at America in free fallâ€”and at how Obama is transforming a vulnerable America into a socialist state.   They tell the truth about Obama and his radical policies:   He will destroy our health care system so that no one gets adequate care.  He designed his bank rescue plan to pave the way for nation-alization of the banks and socialization of the economy. He firmly believes in government control of our major industriesâ€”he''s already commandeered the banks and the automobile industry. He plans to reshape the political landscape to keep the left in power for decades by cooking the census, enfranchising illegal immigrants, muzzling talk radio, and coercing workers into unions. He is attacking those who fight terrorism while letting the terrorists go free. He gives aid to Hamas while Shariah Law threatens to take over America. He has repealed the Declaration of Independence and put us under a worldwide, European-dominated financial regulatory system.   But Obama is not working alone. Morris and McGann spell out how Congress is complicit:   How Senator Chris Dodd and Congressman Charlie Rangel use special interests and special friends for their own enrichment and glorification. How Ted Kennedy Jr. is exploiting his father''s health care power.   "This is no time for apathy or alienation or hopelessness," Morris and McGann remind us. "It''s a time for action." And that action must begin nowâ€”before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11546'),
(11897, 'Catch Him Keep Him Meeting the One', 'Christian Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n</h3>\n<p>\n 4 DVD Program about Meeting "The One" entitled Catch Him Keep Him. Christian Carter offers to tell women how to avoid the ten fatal mistakes most women make with men, or how to engage and attract a man right after you meet in person. The worst mistake a woman can make is not seeking help. Because men are so hard to understand, and Christian Carter has spent years reading every relationship book ever published, and he has thought deeply about the psychology of men and women when they are dating. And he can help!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17228'),
(11898, 'Catch Me If You Can', 'Frank W. Abagnale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history.  In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot''s uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a college sociology professor, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks, all before he was twenty-one. Known by the police of twenty-six foreign countries and all fifty states as "The Skywayman," Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the lam-until the law caught up with him.  Now recognized as the nation''s leading authority on financial foul play, Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious, stranger-than-fiction international escapades, and ingenious escapes-including one from an airplane-make Catch Me If You Can an irresistible tale of deceit. The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world''s most sought-after con man currently in development as a DreamWorks feature film. "I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies.  I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world''s most famous beaches." From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14726'),
(11899, 'Catch Me If You Can', 'Frank W. Abagnale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history.  In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot''s uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a college sociology professor, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks, all before he was twenty-one. Known by the police of twenty-six foreign countries and all fifty states as "The Skywayman," Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the lam-until the law caught up with him.  Now recognized as the nation''s leading authority on financial foul play, Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious, stranger-than-fiction international escapades, and ingenious escapes-including one from an airplane-make Catch Me If You Can an irresistible tale of deceit. The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world''s most sought-after con man currently in development as a DreamWorks feature film. "I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies.  I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world''s most famous beaches." From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19146'),
(11900, 'Catch Me If You Can', 'Frank W. Abagnale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history.  In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot''s uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a college sociology professor, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks, all before he was twenty-one. Known by the police of twenty-six foreign countries and all fifty states as "The Skywayman," Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the lam-until the law caught up with him.  Now recognized as the nation''s leading authority on financial foul play, Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious, stranger-than-fiction international escapades, and ingenious escapes-including one from an airplane-make Catch Me If You Can an irresistible tale of deceit. The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world''s most sought-after con man currently in development as a DreamWorks feature film. "I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies.  I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world''s most famous beaches." From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27823'),
(11901, 'Catch of the Day', 'Kristan Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **This catch of the day could be the dish of a lifetime!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **First Date Ã  la Maggie**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Take one lovelorn diner owner (me)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A generous helping of nosy local gossips\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A dollop of envy at married sister''s perfect life\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A splash of divine intervention (my matchmaking priest)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Combine ingredients with one adorable puppy, add a strong but silent lobsterman with a hidden heart of gold . . . and watch the sparks fly.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3745'),
(11902, 'Catch of the Day', 'Kristan Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **This catch of the day could be the dish of a lifetime!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **First Date Ã  la Maggie**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Take one lovelorn diner owner (me)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A generous helping of nosy local gossips\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A dollop of envy at married sister''s perfect life\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A splash of divine intervention (my matchmaking priest)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Combine ingredients with one adorable puppy, add a strong but silent lobsterman with a hidden heart of gold . . . and watch the sparks fly.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10349'),
(11903, 'Catch of the Day', 'Kristan Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **This catch of the day could be the dish of a lifetime!** **First Date Ã  la Maggie** Take one lovelorn diner owner (me) A generous helping of nosy local gossips A dollop of envy at married sister''s perfect life A splash of divine intervention (my matchmaking priest) *Combine ingredients with one adorable puppy, add a strong but silent lobsterman with a hidden heart of gold . . . and watch the sparks fly.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20913'),
(11904, 'Catch-22', 'Joseph Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Catch-22* is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At the heart of *Catch-22* resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of people he hasn''t even met are trying to kill him. His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions that he is committed to flying, he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade, the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the book takes its title: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Catch-22* is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to some one dangerously sane -- a masterpiece of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4083'),
(11905, 'Catch-22', 'Joseph Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Catch-22* is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary. At the heart of *Catch-22* resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of people he hasn''t even met are trying to kill him. His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions that he is committed to flying, he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade, the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the book takes its title: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. *Catch-22* is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to some one dangerously sane -- a masterpiece of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15265'),
(11906, 'Catch-22', 'Joseph Heller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Catch-22* is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary. At the heart of *Catch-22* resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of people he hasn''t even met are trying to kill him. His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions that he is committed to flying, he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade, the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the book takes its title: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. *Catch-22* is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to some one dangerously sane -- a masterpiece of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20484'),
(11907, 'The Catcher in the Rye', 'Jerome David Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger''s New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children''s voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden''s voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4531'),
(11908, 'The Catcher in the Rye', 'J.D. Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he''s been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you''ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don''t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them." His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14116'),
(11909, 'Catching Fire', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/916'),
(11910, 'Catching Fire', 'Suzanne Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23923'),
(11911, 'Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human', 'Richard Wrangham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ever since Darwin and *The Descent of Man*, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in *Catching Fire*, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution. When our ancestors adapted to using fire, humanity began. Once our hominid ancestors began cooking their food, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew. Time once spent chewing tough raw food could be sued instead to hunt and to tend camp. Cooking became the basis for pair bonding and marriage, created the household, and even led to a sexual division of labor. Tracing the contemporary implications of our ancestorsâ€™ diets, *Catching Fire* sheds new light on how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. A pathbreaking new theory of human evolution, *Catching Fire* will provoke controversy and fascinate anyone interested in our ancient originsâ€”or in our modern eating habits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1756'),
(11912, 'Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human', 'Richard Wrangham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ever since Darwin and *The Descent of Man*, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in *Catching Fire*, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution. When our ancestors adapted to using fire, humanity began. Once our hominid ancestors began cooking their food, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew. Time once spent chewing tough raw food could be sued instead to hunt and to tend camp. Cooking became the basis for pair bonding and marriage, created the household, and even led to a sexual division of labor. Tracing the contemporary implications of our ancestorsâ€™ diets, *Catching Fire* sheds new light on how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. A pathbreaking new theory of human evolution, *Catching Fire* will provoke controversy and fascinate anyone interested in our ancient originsâ€”or in our modern eating habits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13480'),
(11913, 'Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity', 'David Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.**  Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch''s  *Catching the Big Fish* provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker''s methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.  *Catching the Big Fish* comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch''s personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity.  **Catching Ideas**  * Ideas are like fish.  If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you''ve got to go deeper.  Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They''re huge and abstract. And they''re very beautiful.  I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything.  Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch.*  -from *Catching the Big Fish*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6183'),
(11914, 'Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity', 'David Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.**  Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch''s  *Catching the Big Fish* provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker''s methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.  *Catching the Big Fish* comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch''s personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity.  **Catching Ideas**  * Ideas are like fish.  If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you''ve got to go deeper.  Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They''re huge and abstract. And they''re very beautiful.  I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything.  Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch.*  -from *Catching the Big Fish*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11181'),
(11915, 'Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity', 'David Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.** Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch''s *Catching the Big Fish* provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker''s methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. *Catching the Big Fish* comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch''s personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity. **Catching Ideas** * Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you''ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They''re huge and abstract. And they''re very beautiful. I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything. Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch.* -from *Catching the Big Fish*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17810'),
(11916, 'Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity', 'David Lynch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.** Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch''s *Catching the Big Fish* provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker''s methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. *Catching the Big Fish* comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch''s personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity. **Catching Ideas** * Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you''ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They''re huge and abstract. And they''re very beautiful. I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything. Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch.* -from *Catching the Big Fish*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27265'),
(11917, 'Cate of the Lost Colony', 'Lisa Klein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Upâ€”Cate, 14, is a maid for Queen Elizabeth until her emotions get the best of her. When a romance develops between Cate and Sir Walter Ralegh, the jealous queen declares, "He. Is. Mine" and sends her to the Tower.However, the smooth-talking Ralegh is able to convince the queen that the young woman should be sent to America, thinking that he will eventually join her. Clearly this forbidden relationship doesn''t evolve, and Cate''s life becomes consumed with surviving in Roanoke with hostile Natives threatening to attack. She enlists the help of Manteo to learn their language and, predictably, a romance grows from that. Chapters containing Ralegh''s writings and memorandums alternate with those about Cate and Manteo, who is educated in English and charged with negotiations with the Natives. While the writing is smooth and easy to follow, only true American-history enthusiasts will find this novel interesting enough to read in its entirety. The author''s note is helpful in clarifying fact from fiction. Celia Rees''s\n  <em>\n   Witch Child\n  </em>\n  (Candlewick, 2001) is a more interesting story about this period in history.â€”_Jessica Lorentz Smith, Bend Senior High School, OR_\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lady Catherine incurs the queenâ€™s jealousy when the young noblewoman catches the wandering eye of Sir Walter Ralegh. Banished to the Virginia Roanoke colony as a result, Cate first looks forward to adventure and a new start. Nothing can prepare her or her shipmates for the hardship of the ordeal. Expected supplies do not arrive, and the settlement is tossed into survival mode complete with political wrangling, disease, and clashes with the native people. As Cate comes of age, she compares her feelings for the handsome, clever Manteo of Roanoke with the dashing, opportunistic Ralegh. Klein deftly balances the romantic appeal with the grueling reality of survival, the lives of original inhabitants, and factual background of English colonization. In a departure from historic detail, Ralegh, who never visited the colony, sails to Roanoke near the end of the story to try to reclaim his lady. Readers will eagerly await her decision. Grades 7-10. --Anne O''Malley\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3284'),
(11918, 'Cate of the Lost Colony', 'Lisa Klein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Upâ€”Cate, 14, is a maid for Queen Elizabeth until her emotions get the best of her. When a romance develops between Cate and Sir Walter Ralegh, the jealous queen declares, "He. Is. Mine" and sends her to the Tower.However, the smooth-talking Ralegh is able to convince the queen that the young woman should be sent to America, thinking that he will eventually join her. Clearly this forbidden relationship doesn''t evolve, and Cate''s life becomes consumed with surviving in Roanoke with hostile Natives threatening to attack. She enlists the help of Manteo to learn their language and, predictably, a romance grows from that. Chapters containing Ralegh''s writings and memorandums alternate with those about Cate and Manteo, who is educated in English and charged with negotiations with the Natives. While the writing is smooth and easy to follow, only true American-history enthusiasts will find this novel interesting enough to read in its entirety. The author''s note is helpful in clarifying fact from fiction. Celia Rees''s\n  <em>\n   Witch Child\n  </em>\n  (Candlewick, 2001) is a more interesting story about this period in history.â€”_Jessica Lorentz Smith, Bend Senior High School, OR_\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lady Catherine incurs the queenâ€™s jealousy when the young noblewoman catches the wandering eye of Sir Walter Ralegh. Banished to the Virginia Roanoke colony as a result, Cate first looks forward to adventure and a new start. Nothing can prepare her or her shipmates for the hardship of the ordeal. Expected supplies do not arrive, and the settlement is tossed into survival mode complete with political wrangling, disease, and clashes with the native people. As Cate comes of age, she compares her feelings for the handsome, clever Manteo of Roanoke with the dashing, opportunistic Ralegh. Klein deftly balances the romantic appeal with the grueling reality of survival, the lives of original inhabitants, and factual background of English colonization. In a departure from historic detail, Ralegh, who never visited the colony, sails to Roanoke near the end of the story to try to reclaim his lady. Readers will eagerly await her decision. Grades 7-10. --Anne O''Malley\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10772'),
(11919, 'Cate of the Lost Colony', 'Lisa Klein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Upâ€”Cate, 14, is a maid for Queen Elizabeth until her emotions get the best of her. When a romance develops between Cate and Sir Walter Ralegh, the jealous queen declares, "He. Is. Mine" and sends her to the Tower.However, the smooth-talking Ralegh is able to convince the queen that the young woman should be sent to America, thinking that he will eventually join her. Clearly this forbidden relationship doesn''t evolve, and Cate''s life becomes consumed with surviving in Roanoke with hostile Natives threatening to attack. She enlists the help of Manteo to learn their language and, predictably, a romance grows from that. Chapters containing Ralegh''s writings and memorandums alternate with those about Cate and Manteo, who is educated in English and charged with negotiations with the Natives. While the writing is smooth and easy to follow, only true American-history enthusiasts will find this novel interesting enough to read in its entirety. The author''s note is helpful in clarifying fact from fiction. Celia Rees''s\n  <em>\n   Witch Child\n  </em>\n  (Candlewick, 2001) is a more interesting story about this period in history.â€”_Jessica Lorentz Smith, Bend Senior High School, OR_\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lady Catherine incurs the queenâ€™s jealousy when the young noblewoman catches the wandering eye of Sir Walter Ralegh. Banished to the Virginia Roanoke colony as a result, Cate first looks forward to adventure and a new start. Nothing can prepare her or her shipmates for the hardship of the ordeal. Expected supplies do not arrive, and the settlement is tossed into survival mode complete with political wrangling, disease, and clashes with the native people. As Cate comes of age, she compares her feelings for the handsome, clever Manteo of Roanoke with the dashing, opportunistic Ralegh. Klein deftly balances the romantic appeal with the grueling reality of survival, the lives of original inhabitants, and factual background of English colonization. In a departure from historic detail, Ralegh, who never visited the colony, sails to Roanoke near the end of the story to try to reclaim his lady. Readers will eagerly await her decision. Grades 7-10. --Anne O''Malley\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21184'),
(11920, 'Cathedral', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''A bulldozer of a book, expertly, relentlessly terrifying.'' Cosmopolitan. ''It is a book which grips from the opening words ... a hugh enthralling novel.'' Manchester Evening News. ''Chillingly believable, peopled with recognizable characters. Cathedral entertains with the unimaginable.'' Publishers Weekly. ''Strong, long, well-sustained suspense ... a chaotic, explosive finale.'' Kirkus Reviews\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  St. Patrick''s Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act -- the seizure of Saint Patrick''s Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The cops face a booby-trapped, perfectly laid out killing zone inside the church. The hostages face death. Flynn faces his own demons, in an electrifying duel of nerves, honor, and betrayal....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2652'),
(11921, 'Cathedral', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''A bulldozer of a book, expertly, relentlessly terrifying.'' Cosmopolitan. ''It is a book which grips from the opening words ... a hugh enthralling novel.'' Manchester Evening News. ''Chillingly believable, peopled with recognizable characters. Cathedral entertains with the unimaginable.'' Publishers Weekly. ''Strong, long, well-sustained suspense ... a chaotic, explosive finale.'' Kirkus Reviews\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  St. Patrick''s Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act -- the seizure of Saint Patrick''s Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The cops face a booby-trapped, perfectly laid out killing zone inside the church. The hostages face death. Flynn faces his own demons, in an electrifying duel of nerves, honor, and betrayal....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9233'),
(11922, 'Cathedral', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''A bulldozer of a book, expertly, relentlessly terrifying.'' Cosmopolitan. ''It is a book which grips from the opening words ... a hugh enthralling novel.'' Manchester Evening News. ''Chillingly believable, peopled with recognizable characters. Cathedral entertains with the unimaginable.'' Publishers Weekly. ''Strong, long, well-sustained suspense ... a chaotic, explosive finale.'' Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n St. Patrick''s Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act -- the seizure of Saint Patrick''s Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The cops face a booby-trapped, perfectly laid out killing zone inside the church. The hostages face death. Flynn faces his own demons, in an electrifying duel of nerves, honor, and betrayal....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15068'),
(11923, 'Cathedral', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''A bulldozer of a book, expertly, relentlessly terrifying.'' Cosmopolitan. ''It is a book which grips from the opening words ... a hugh enthralling novel.'' Manchester Evening News. ''Chillingly believable, peopled with recognizable characters. Cathedral entertains with the unimaginable.'' Publishers Weekly. ''Strong, long, well-sustained suspense ... a chaotic, explosive finale.'' Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n St. Patrick''s Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act -- the seizure of Saint Patrick''s Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The cops face a booby-trapped, perfectly laid out killing zone inside the church. The hostages face death. Flynn faces his own demons, in an electrifying duel of nerves, honor, and betrayal....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22246');
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(11924, 'Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages', 'Frances Gies &amp; Joseph Gies', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Historians, write Frances and Joseph Gies, have long tended to view the Middle Ages as a period of intellectual and scientific stagnation, a long era of backwardness, ignorance, and inertia. Many scholars of the Renaissance era, however, thought otherwise; the mathematician Jerome Cardan, for one, held that three medieval inventions--the magnetic compass, the printing press, and gunpowder--were of such significance that "the whole of antiquity has nothing equal to show."\n </p>\n <p>\n  In their lively history of medieval technology, the Gies team writes of such advances as the heavy plow, the Gothic flying buttress, linen undergarments, water pumps, and the lateen sail. During the medieval millennium, they suggest, a great technological and social revolution occurred "with the disappearance of mass slavery, the shift to water- and wind-power, the introduction of the open-field system of agriculture, and the importation, adaptation, or invention of an array of devices, from the wheelbarrow to double-entry bookkeeping." Many of those inventions or adaptations, brought into Europe from China and the Middle East, have scarcely been improved on today.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The medieval technological revolution, the authors conclude, came at a cost: much of Europe was deforested to make room for cropland and to fire kilns and furnaces, and mechanization made obsolete many handicraft skills. Yet, they add, the workers and inventors of the Middle Ages "all transformed the world, on balance very much to the world''s advantage."\n  <em>\n   --Gregory McNamee\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Moving chronologically through a millennium (500-1500 A.D.), the authors (who have written numerous books on medieval life, including Life in a Medieval City , LJ 2/1/70) show that the term "Dark Ages" is a misnomer by deftly tracing the period''s "main technological elements, . . . their known or probable sources, and their principal impacts." In addition to the technological developments highlighted in the book''s title, the authors cover such topics as the textile industry and shipbuilding/rigging, plus obligatory topics like printing, engineering, and gunpowder. Throughout, they nimbly weave medieval cultural history into the discussion. Informative, readable, enjoyable, and well written, this work is directed to general readers. Highly recommended for all collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Michael D. Cramer, Virginia Polytechnic &amp; State Univ. Libs . , Blacksburg\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5510'),
(11925, 'Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages', 'Frances Gies &amp; Joseph Gies', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Historians, write Frances and Joseph Gies, have long tended to view the Middle Ages as a period of intellectual and scientific stagnation, a long era of backwardness, ignorance, and inertia. Many scholars of the Renaissance era, however, thought otherwise; the mathematician Jerome Cardan, for one, held that three medieval inventions--the magnetic compass, the printing press, and gunpowder--were of such significance that "the whole of antiquity has nothing equal to show."\n </p>\n <p>\n  In their lively history of medieval technology, the Gies team writes of such advances as the heavy plow, the Gothic flying buttress, linen undergarments, water pumps, and the lateen sail. During the medieval millennium, they suggest, a great technological and social revolution occurred "with the disappearance of mass slavery, the shift to water- and wind-power, the introduction of the open-field system of agriculture, and the importation, adaptation, or invention of an array of devices, from the wheelbarrow to double-entry bookkeeping." Many of those inventions or adaptations, brought into Europe from China and the Middle East, have scarcely been improved on today.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The medieval technological revolution, the authors conclude, came at a cost: much of Europe was deforested to make room for cropland and to fire kilns and furnaces, and mechanization made obsolete many handicraft skills. Yet, they add, the workers and inventors of the Middle Ages "all transformed the world, on balance very much to the world''s advantage."\n  <em>\n   --Gregory McNamee\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Moving chronologically through a millennium (500-1500 A.D.), the authors (who have written numerous books on medieval life, including Life in a Medieval City , LJ 2/1/70) show that the term "Dark Ages" is a misnomer by deftly tracing the period''s "main technological elements, . . . their known or probable sources, and their principal impacts." In addition to the technological developments highlighted in the book''s title, the authors cover such topics as the textile industry and shipbuilding/rigging, plus obligatory topics like printing, engineering, and gunpowder. Throughout, they nimbly weave medieval cultural history into the discussion. Informative, readable, enjoyable, and well written, this work is directed to general readers. Highly recommended for all collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Michael D. Cramer, Virginia Polytechnic &amp; State Univ. Libs . , Blacksburg\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9880'),
(11926, 'Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages', 'Frances Gies; Joseph Gies', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Historians, write Frances and Joseph Gies, have long tended to view the Middle Ages as a period of intellectual and scientific stagnation, a long era of backwardness, ignorance, and inertia. Many scholars of the Renaissance era, however, thought otherwise; the mathematician Jerome Cardan, for one, held that three medieval inventions--the magnetic compass, the printing press, and gunpowder--were of such significance that "the whole of antiquity has nothing equal to show."\n </p>\n <p>\n  In their lively history of medieval technology, the Gies team writes of such advances as the heavy plow, the Gothic flying buttress, linen undergarments, water pumps, and the lateen sail. During the medieval millennium, they suggest, a great technological and social revolution occurred "with the disappearance of mass slavery, the shift to water- and wind-power, the introduction of the open-field system of agriculture, and the importation, adaptation, or invention of an array of devices, from the wheelbarrow to double-entry bookkeeping." Many of those inventions or adaptations, brought into Europe from China and the Middle East, have scarcely been improved on today.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The medieval technological revolution, the authors conclude, came at a cost: much of Europe was deforested to make room for cropland and to fire kilns and furnaces, and mechanization made obsolete many handicraft skills. Yet, they add, the workers and inventors of the Middle Ages "all transformed the world, on balance very much to the world''s advantage."\n  <em>\n   --Gregory McNamee\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Moving chronologically through a millennium (500-1500 A.D.), the authors (who have written numerous books on medieval life, including Life in a Medieval City , LJ 2/1/70) show that the term "Dark Ages" is a misnomer by deftly tracing the period''s "main technological elements, . . . their known or probable sources, and their principal impacts." In addition to the technological developments highlighted in the book''s title, the authors cover such topics as the textile industry and shipbuilding/rigging, plus obligatory topics like printing, engineering, and gunpowder. Throughout, they nimbly weave medieval cultural history into the discussion. Informative, readable, enjoyable, and well written, this work is directed to general readers. Highly recommended for all collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Michael D. Cramer, Virginia Polytechnic &amp; State Univ. Libs . , Blacksburg\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19076'),
(11927, 'Catherine the Great', 'Simon Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Catherine II of Russia (1729â€“96) might have been forgotten as a German-born Romanov brood mare but for her unscrupulous seizure of the Russian throne in 1762 and subsequent lengthy reign as the quintessential Enlightenment monarchâ€”achievements that have fascinated posterity ever since. For her remarkable story, British historian Dixon, steeped in Catherineâ€™s setting, positions his work between the scholarly and the salacious and accents courtier politics and the autocratâ€™s sensibilities. After recounting the palace coup that brought Catherine to power, Dixon develops her approach to wielding it through her interactions with builders, diplomats, generals, lackeys, and pen pals, such as Voltaire, on the receiving end of her reforming zeal. With the building boom in St. Petersburg, constitutional changes, and territorial expansion that accompanied her reign as backdrops to his portrait, Dixon sympathetically educes Catherineâ€™s personal life; that is, the train of swains caught up in herâ€”as one chapter title puts itâ€”â€œsearch for emotional stability.â€ An appreciation of the person Catherine the Great that is full of insightful perceptions. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThere is lots new in this superb biography . . . [Dixon] manages to be scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times.â€ (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Sashenka and Young Stalin )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLike Catherine herself, Simon Dixonâ€™s new biography is attractive, engaging, and very intelligent. It wears its scholarship lightly, too, but established fans of the Russian empress will find plenty of new material and those who are meeting her for the first time will be dazzled.â€ (Catherine Merridale, author of Ivan''s War and Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1232'),
(11928, 'Catherine the Great', 'Simon Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Catherine II of Russia (1729â€“96) might have been forgotten as a German-born Romanov brood mare but for her unscrupulous seizure of the Russian throne in 1762 and subsequent lengthy reign as the quintessential Enlightenment monarchâ€”achievements that have fascinated posterity ever since. For her remarkable story, British historian Dixon, steeped in Catherineâ€™s setting, positions his work between the scholarly and the salacious and accents courtier politics and the autocratâ€™s sensibilities. After recounting the palace coup that brought Catherine to power, Dixon develops her approach to wielding it through her interactions with builders, diplomats, generals, lackeys, and pen pals, such as Voltaire, on the receiving end of her reforming zeal. With the building boom in St. Petersburg, constitutional changes, and territorial expansion that accompanied her reign as backdrops to his portrait, Dixon sympathetically educes Catherineâ€™s personal life; that is, the train of swains caught up in herâ€”as one chapter title puts itâ€”â€œsearch for emotional stability.â€ An appreciation of the person Catherine the Great that is full of insightful perceptions. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThere is lots new in this superb biography . . . [Dixon] manages to be scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times.â€ (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Sashenka and Young Stalin )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLike Catherine herself, Simon Dixonâ€™s new biography is attractive, engaging, and very intelligent. It wears its scholarship lightly, too, but established fans of the Russian empress will find plenty of new material and those who are meeting her for the first time will be dazzled.â€ (Catherine Merridale, author of Ivan''s War and Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10933'),
(11929, 'Catherine the Great', 'Simon Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Catherine II of Russia (1729â€“96) might have been forgotten as a German-born Romanov brood mare but for her unscrupulous seizure of the Russian throne in 1762 and subsequent lengthy reign as the quintessential Enlightenment monarchâ€”achievements that have fascinated posterity ever since. For her remarkable story, British historian Dixon, steeped in Catherineâ€™s setting, positions his work between the scholarly and the salacious and accents courtier politics and the autocratâ€™s sensibilities. After recounting the palace coup that brought Catherine to power, Dixon develops her approach to wielding it through her interactions with builders, diplomats, generals, lackeys, and pen pals, such as Voltaire, on the receiving end of her reforming zeal. With the building boom in St. Petersburg, constitutional changes, and territorial expansion that accompanied her reign as backdrops to his portrait, Dixon sympathetically educes Catherineâ€™s personal life; that is, the train of swains caught up in herâ€”as one chapter title puts itâ€”â€œsearch for emotional stability.â€ An appreciation of the person Catherine the Great that is full of insightful perceptions. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThere is lots new in this superb biography . . . [Dixon] manages to be scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times.â€ (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Sashenka and Young Stalin )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLike Catherine herself, Simon Dixonâ€™s new biography is attractive, engaging, and very intelligent. It wears its scholarship lightly, too, but established fans of the Russian empress will find plenty of new material and those who are meeting her for the first time will be dazzled.â€ (Catherine Merridale, author of Ivan''s War and Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23683'),
(11930, 'Catrene', 'Omar Khayyam', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25270'),
(11931, 'a Catskill Eagle (1985)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 12', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13735'),
(11932, 'a Catskill Eagle (1985)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 12', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23188'),
(11933, 'A Catskill Eagle', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It was nearly midnight and I was just getting home from detecting. I had followed an embezzler around on a warm day in early summer trying to observe him spending his ill-gotten gain. The best I''d been able to do was catch him eating a veal cutlet sandwich in a sub shop in Danvers Square across from Security National Bank.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1749'),
(11934, 'Catwalk', 'Melody Carlson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Big Apple. Bigger Problems.    The success of the Forrester sisters'' On the Runway TV show lands them a hot ticket to Fashion Week in New York City. Paige is determined to garner the attention of New York''s top designers, but her newfound fame threatens to go to her head. Erin wants to help promote the work of some eco-minded designers, but struggles to be taken seriously. Can Paige keep her prima donna behavior in check? Will Erin''s involvement hurt the people she''s really trying to help? Success in the big city comes with even bigger challenges, and as the pressure grows, so does the drama.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2945'),
(11935, 'Catwalk', 'Melody Carlson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Big Apple. Bigger Problems. The success of the Forrester sisters'' On the Runway TV show lands them a hot ticket to Fashion Week in New York City. Paige is determined to garner the attention of New York''s top designers, but her newfound fame threatens to go to her head. Erin wants to help promote the work of some eco-minded designers, but struggles to be taken seriously. Can Paige keep her prima donna behavior in check? Will Erin''s involvement hurt the people she''s really trying to help? Success in the big city comes with even bigger challenges, and as the pressure grows, so does the drama.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21939'),
(11936, 'Catwoman - Tiger Hunt', 'Robert Aspirin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23128'),
(11937, 'Caught', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **From the #1 *New York Times* bestselling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission, to identify and bring down sexual predators via elaborateâ€”and nationally televisedâ€”sting operations. Working with local police on her news program Caught in the Act, Wendy and her team have publicly shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a novel that challenges as much as it thrills, filled with the astonishing tension and unseen suburban machinations that have become Cobenâ€™s trademark, *Caught* tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she canâ€™t trust her own instincts about this storyâ€”or the motives of the people around her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Praise for *Long Lost*:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Coben is one of the best authors around at writing page-turning suspense, as   *Long Lost* makes clear."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -*Chicago Sun-Times*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Roller-coaster plot and savvy dialogue...All the ingredients of a good old-  fashioned thriller: murder, action and wit."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -*New York Daily News*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7935'),
(11938, 'Caught', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **From the #1 *New York Times* bestselling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission, to identify and bring down sexual predators via elaborateâ€”and nationally televisedâ€”sting operations. Working with local police on her news program Caught in the Act, Wendy and her team have publicly shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a novel that challenges as much as it thrills, filled with the astonishing tension and unseen suburban machinations that have become Cobenâ€™s trademark, *Caught* tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she canâ€™t trust her own instincts about this storyâ€”or the motives of the people around her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Praise for *Long Lost*:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Coben is one of the best authors around at writing page-turning suspense, as   *Long Lost* makes clear."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -*Chicago Sun-Times*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Roller-coaster plot and savvy dialogue...All the ingredients of a good old-  fashioned thriller: murder, action and wit."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -*New York Daily News*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9027'),
(11939, 'Caught', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the #1 *New York Times* bestselling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive** 17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission, to identify and bring down sexual predators via elaborateâ€”and nationally televisedâ€”sting operations. Working with local police on her news program Caught in the Act, Wendy and her team have publicly shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined. In a novel that challenges as much as it thrills, filled with the astonishing tension and unseen suburban machinations that have become Cobenâ€™s trademark, *Caught* tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she canâ€™t trust her own instincts about this storyâ€”or the motives of the people around her. Praise for *Long Lost*: "Coben is one of the best authors around at writing page-turning suspense, as *Long Lost* makes clear." -*Chicago Sun-Times* "Roller-coaster plot and savvy dialogue...All the ingredients of a good old- fashioned thriller: murder, action and wit." -*New York Daily News*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28061'),
(11940, 'Caught (2010)', 'Coben, Harlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14789'),
(11941, 'Caught (2010)', 'Coben, Harlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19387'),
(11942, 'Caught (2010)', 'Coben, Harlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27076'),
(11943, 'Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Celebrated outdoorsman-turned-author Gary Paulsen relates his lifelong romance with open water to teen readers with this short and salty memoir,\n  <em>\n   Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats\n  </em>\n  . Paulsen packs adventure into every sentence of this 100-page book. He grabs our attention within the first few pages with a shocking childhood memory of watching from the saftey of a troopship as sharks attacked plane-wreck victims. Strangely, this doesn''t scare Paulsen off as much as it challenges him to conquer the ocean''s power. He remembers disastrous first sailing attempts, unsteady vessels, and frightening tropical storms that reminded him of his frail mortality. Still, he fondly recalls that every boat he ever knew had valuable lessons to impart: "To show me the sea. To show me myself. And never, ever look back." Though some of the stories are told out of context, and he often takes for granted that his audience has some background knowledge of shipboard vocabulary, fans of Paulsen''s wildly popular survivor tales will no doubt be caught by this one as well. (Ages 12 and older)\n  <em>\n   --Jennifer Hubert\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr 7 Up-On the coattails of Guts (Delacorte, 2001) comes another collection of Paulsen''s autobiographical vignettes, this time about sailing. His love for the sea began at age seven, aboard a troopship headed to the Philippine Islands. A plane crashed into the water and Paulsen watched as sharks attacked the women and children. Though gruesome, the account is typical of the author''s unaffected, matter-of-fact writing style. The rest of the stories are dull in comparison, however, as Paulsen chronicles his experiences with various sailboats over the years. He tries to define the sailing terminology as he uses it, but it is complicated stuff for landlubbers. His writing is adult in tone and he often looks back and reflects on his adventures. The passages about food, reminiscent of those in Father Water, Mother Woods (Doubleday, 1995), are better. When he describes the taste of double-stuffed Oreo cookies, readers taste them, too. It is quintessential Paulsen to describe the number one law of the sea: "If given a chance a container of oatmeal will open, mix with a container of coffee grounds, further combine itself with eight or ten gallons of sea water and then find its way into your sleeping bag." At book''s end, Paulsen refers to his age and current heart condition but dangles a carrot in front of readers about a sailing trip around Cape Horn. Stay tuned.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Vicki Reutter, Cazenovia High School, NY\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10978'),
(11944, 'Caught Stealing (2004)', 'Huston, Charlie - Henry Thompson 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14251'),
(11945, 'Caught Stealing (2004)', 'Huston, Charlie - Henry Thompson 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17003'),
(11946, 'Caught Stealing (2004)', 'Huston, Charlie - Henry Thompson 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28174'),
(11947, 'The Cave', 'Kate Mosse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A QUICK READ - part of the WORLD BOOK DAY 2009 literacy initiative for emergent readers.March 1928. Freddie Smith is on a motoring holiday in the mountains of south west France. He is caught in a violent storm and his car crashes. He is forced to seek shelter in a boarding house in the nearby village of Axat.There he meets another guest in the tiny hotel, a pale and beautiful young woman called Marie. As the storm rages outside, she explains how the region was ripped apart by wars of religion in the 14th century. She tells how, one terrible night in March 1328, all the inhabitants of Axat were forced to flee from the soldiers into the mountains. The villagers took refuge in a cave, but when the fighting was over, no one came back. Their bodies were never found. Axat itself became a ghost town.When Freddie wakes the following morning, Marie has gone. Worse still, his car will take several days to repair and he has to stay at the boarding house for a few days more. To pass the time, he explores the mountains. Then he realises it is almost 600 years to the day since the villagers disappeared. He decides to go and look for the cave himself. Perhaps, he thinks, he might even find Marie? It is a decision he will live to regret.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3933'),
(11948, 'The Cave', 'Kate Mosse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A QUICK READ - part of the WORLD BOOK DAY 2009 literacy initiative for emergent readers.March 1928. Freddie Smith is on a motoring holiday in the mountains of south west France. He is caught in a violent storm and his car crashes. He is forced to seek shelter in a boarding house in the nearby village of Axat.There he meets another guest in the tiny hotel, a pale and beautiful young woman called Marie. As the storm rages outside, she explains how the region was ripped apart by wars of religion in the 14th century. She tells how, one terrible night in March 1328, all the inhabitants of Axat were forced to flee from the soldiers into the mountains. The villagers took refuge in a cave, but when the fighting was over, no one came back. Their bodies were never found. Axat itself became a ghost town.When Freddie wakes the following morning, Marie has gone. Worse still, his car will take several days to repair and he has to stay at the boarding house for a few days more. To pass the time, he explores the mountains. Then he realises it is almost 600 years to the day since the villagers disappeared. He decides to go and look for the cave himself. Perhaps, he thinks, he might even find Marie? It is a decision he will live to regret.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11496'),
(11949, 'The cave', 'Kate Mosse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A QUICK READ - part of the WORLD BOOK DAY 2009 literacy initiative for emergent readers.March 1928. Freddie Smith is on a motoring holiday in the mountains of south west France. He is caught in a violent storm and his car crashes. He is forced to seek shelter in a boarding house in the nearby village of Axat.There he meets another guest in the tiny hotel, a pale and beautiful young woman called Marie. As the storm rages outside, she explains how the region was ripped apart by wars of religion in the 14th century. She tells how, one terrible night in March 1328, all the inhabitants of Axat were forced to flee from the soldiers into the mountains. The villagers took refuge in a cave, but when the fighting was over, no one came back. Their bodies were never found. Axat itself became a ghost town.When Freddie wakes the following morning, Marie has gone. Worse still, his car will take several days to repair and he has to stay at the boarding house for a few days more. To pass the time, he explores the mountains. Then he realises it is almost 600 years to the day since the villagers disappeared. He decides to go and look for the cave himself. Perhaps, he thinks, he might even find Marie? It is a decision he will live to regret.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20669'),
(11950, 'A Cavern of Black Ice', 'J. V. Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Cavern of Black Ice opens J.V. Jones''s Sword of Shadows trilogy. (Her first novel was The Baker''s Boy.) The story is set in a land divided among small warring clans of hunters and more sophisticated southern cities whose lords covet the clan territories. Young clansman Raif has a touch of "old blood" magic that guides his arrows to the heart. Bad times come when a hunting party that includes his father and clan chief is wiped out by a supernaturally aided attack, and Raif''s open suspicion of the brutal new leader eventually drives him into exile. Meanwhile, Iss, overlord of Spire Vanis city, keeps a chained-up sorcerer whose powers he channels by revolting means, and has unexplained but shuddersome plans for his "foster daughter" Ash--herself an unwilling focus of dread forces. Raif and Ash find themselves fleeing together through wintry, hostile clanlands, pursued by Iss''s vilest henchmen, seeking the dubious goal of the Cavern of Black Ice. What lifts this tale far above routine quest fantasy is Jones''s deft characterization, relentless intensity, and unsparing depiction of pain and slow-healing injury. She has a flair for memorably horrid images. Here a sorcerer gloats over one of his nastier tricks: "A man could not fight when his corneas were snapped from his eyes like badges from a chest." This hefty volume is over 800 pages long, but the narrative grips hard once it''s gained momentum, and the pages turn increasingly fast. Strong meat. Next comes book two, A Fortress of Grey Ice. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4995'),
(11951, 'A Cavern of Black Ice', 'J. V. Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Cavern of Black Ice opens J.V. Jones''s Sword of Shadows trilogy. (Her first novel was The Baker''s Boy.) The story is set in a land divided among small warring clans of hunters and more sophisticated southern cities whose lords covet the clan territories. Young clansman Raif has a touch of "old blood" magic that guides his arrows to the heart. Bad times come when a hunting party that includes his father and clan chief is wiped out by a supernaturally aided attack, and Raif''s open suspicion of the brutal new leader eventually drives him into exile. Meanwhile, Iss, overlord of Spire Vanis city, keeps a chained-up sorcerer whose powers he channels by revolting means, and has unexplained but shuddersome plans for his "foster daughter" Ash--herself an unwilling focus of dread forces. Raif and Ash find themselves fleeing together through wintry, hostile clanlands, pursued by Iss''s vilest henchmen, seeking the dubious goal of the Cavern of Black Ice. What lifts this tale far above routine quest fantasy is Jones''s deft characterization, relentless intensity, and unsparing depiction of pain and slow-healing injury. She has a flair for memorably horrid images. Here a sorcerer gloats over one of his nastier tricks: "A man could not fight when his corneas were snapped from his eyes like badges from a chest." This hefty volume is over 800 pages long, but the narrative grips hard once it''s gained momentum, and the pages turn increasingly fast. Strong meat. Next comes book two, A Fortress of Grey Ice. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19708'),
(11952, 'Cavernele de Otel', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25684'),
(11953, 'Cavernele de pe Wolf', 'Jimmy Guieu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25509'),
(11954, 'The Caves of Steel', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history:  the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.  Isaac Asimov''s *Robot* novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.  Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions.  But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer.  The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start.  Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner:  R. Daneel Olivaw.  Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18302'),
(11955, 'The caves of steel', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history:Â Â the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.Â Â Isaac Asimov''s *Robot* novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.Â Â Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions.Â Â But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer.Â Â The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start.Â Â Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner:Â Â R. Daneel Olivaw.Â Â Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history:  the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.  Isaac Asimov''s *Robot* novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.  Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions.  But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer.  The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start.  Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner:  R. Daneel Olivaw.  Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28303'),
(11956, 'CB_Pleaser', 'Cameo Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15452'),
(11957, 'Ce le pasa damelor', 'Peter Cheyney', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25246'),
(11958, 'Cei 45 vol.1', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26087'),
(11959, 'Cei trei muschetari', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26088'),
(11960, 'CEK_GingerBread', 'Celia Kyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15437'),
(11961, 'CEK_Tri-ed', 'Celia Kyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15438'),
(11962, 'Cel din urma raspuns', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25685'),
(11963, 'Cel mai iubit dintre pamanteni', 'Marin Preda', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25373'),
(11964, 'Cell', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Witness Stephen King''s triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, the king of horror''s homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George A. Romero) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most intensely paced. Casting aside his love of elaborate character and town histories and penchant for delayed gratification, King yanks readers off their feet within the first few pages; dragging them into the fray and offering no chance catch their breath until the very last page.\n <br />\n In Cell King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only aggressive and destructive impulses behind. Those without cell phones, like illustrator Clayton Riddell and his small band of "normies," must fight for survival, and their journey to find Clayton''s estranged wife and young son rockets the book toward resolution.\n <br />\n Fans that have followed King from the beginning will recognize and appreciate Cell as a departure--King''s writing has not been so pure of heart and free of hang-ups in years (wrapping up his phenomenal Dark Tower series and receiving a medal from the National Book Foundation doesn''t hurt either). "Retirement" clearly suits King, and lucky for us, having nothing left to prove frees him up to write frenzied, juiced-up horror-thrillers like Cell.  --Daphne Durham  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Starred Review. It''s probably a good idea not to use your cell phone while you listen to Scott''s beautifully understated reading of terrormeister King''s latest take on technology run amok: you might just toss it down the nearest storm drain. The excellent film actor (who catches the power of his late father George C. Scott''s voice but smooths off the rough edges) adds an important elementâ€”quiet believabilityâ€”to King''s bloody, occasionally over-the-top story of a short but lethal electronic signal that seriously damages everyone in the world using a cell phone at that moment. The Pulse, as it comes to be known, turns idle chatterers into weirdly rewired killing machines. Scott makes the lead characterâ€”a comic book artist from Maine (where else?) named Clayton Riddell, who is in Boston with his phone off and in his pocketâ€”a touching and surprisingly tough survivor, much like the nonpods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. He also resists the temptation to make the "phoners" (those affected by the Pulse) sound unusually strange or dangerousâ€”until their real motives become obvious. Simultaneous release with the Scribner hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 2). (Jan.)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.  --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Fans have offered their horror-fiction idol unfaltering loyalty since the publication of his first novel, Carrie, three decades ago. More than 50 books later, Stephen King''s stock-in-trade remains stinging, darkly humorous social commentary. His latest effort, a nod to gore-meisters George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) and Richard Matheson (I Am Legend), among others, is no different. The result, though entertaining, is uneven. Some reviewers appreciate King for his prodigious imagination and his storytelling abilities, while others take issue with his two-dimensional characters, scattershot plotting, and the too-obvious echoes of past novels. For longtime fans of King''s work, Cell may bring to mind a more compact (though ultimately less satisfying) version of the author''s epic The Stand.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1086'),
(11965, 'Cell', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Witness Stephen King''s triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, the king of horror''s homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George A. Romero) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most intensely paced. Casting aside his love of elaborate character and town histories and penchant for delayed gratification, King yanks readers off their feet within the first few pages; dragging them into the fray and offering no chance catch their breath until the very last page. In Cell King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only aggressive and destructive impulses behind. Those without cell phones, like illustrator Clayton Riddell and his small band of "normies," must fight for survival, and their journey to find Clayton''s estranged wife and young son rockets the book toward resolution. Fans that have followed King from the beginning will recognize and appreciate Cell as a departure--King''s writing has not been so pure of heart and free of hang-ups in years (wrapping up his phenomenal Dark Tower series and receiving a medal from the National Book Foundation doesn''t hurt either). "Retirement" clearly suits King, and lucky for us, having nothing left to prove frees him up to write frenzied, juiced-up horror-thrillers like Cell. --Daphne Durham --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Starred Review. It''s probably a good idea not to use your cell phone while you listen to Scott''s beautifully understated reading of terrormeister King''s latest take on technology run amok: you might just toss it down the nearest storm drain. The excellent film actor (who catches the power of his late father George C. Scott''s voice but smooths off the rough edges) adds an important elementâ€”quiet believabilityâ€”to King''s bloody, occasionally over-the-top story of a short but lethal electronic signal that seriously damages everyone in the world using a cell phone at that moment. The Pulse, as it comes to be known, turns idle chatterers into weirdly rewired killing machines. Scott makes the lead characterâ€”a comic book artist from Maine (where else?) named Clayton Riddell, who is in Boston with his phone off and in his pocketâ€”a touching and surprisingly tough survivor, much like the nonpods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. He also resists the temptation to make the "phoners" (those affected by the Pulse) sound unusually strange or dangerousâ€”until their real motives become obvious. Simultaneous release with the Scribner hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 2). (Jan.) Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. Fans have offered their horror-fiction idol unfaltering loyalty since the publication of his first novel, Carrie, three decades ago. More than 50 books later, Stephen King''s stock-in-trade remains stinging, darkly humorous social commentary. His latest effort, a nod to gore-meisters George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) and Richard Matheson (I Am Legend), among others, is no different. The result, though entertaining, is uneven. Some reviewers appreciate King for his prodigious imagination and his storytelling abilities, while others take issue with his two-dimensional characters, scattershot plotting, and the too-obvious echoes of past novels. For longtime fans of King''s work, Cell may bring to mind a more compact (though ultimately less satisfying) version of the author''s epic The Stand. Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14517');
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(11966, 'Cell', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Witness Stephen King''s triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, the king of horror''s homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George A. Romero) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most intensely paced. Casting aside his love of elaborate character and town histories and penchant for delayed gratification, King yanks readers off their feet within the first few pages; dragging them into the fray and offering no chance catch their breath until the very last page. In Cell King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only aggressive and destructive impulses behind. Those without cell phones, like illustrator Clayton Riddell and his small band of "normies," must fight for survival, and their journey to find Clayton''s estranged wife and young son rockets the book toward resolution. Fans that have followed King from the beginning will recognize and appreciate Cell as a departure--King''s writing has not been so pure of heart and free of hang-ups in years (wrapping up his phenomenal Dark Tower series and receiving a medal from the National Book Foundation doesn''t hurt either). "Retirement" clearly suits King, and lucky for us, having nothing left to prove frees him up to write frenzied, juiced-up horror-thrillers like Cell. --Daphne Durham --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Starred Review. It''s probably a good idea not to use your cell phone while you listen to Scott''s beautifully understated reading of terrormeister King''s latest take on technology run amok: you might just toss it down the nearest storm drain. The excellent film actor (who catches the power of his late father George C. Scott''s voice but smooths off the rough edges) adds an important elementâ€”quiet believabilityâ€”to King''s bloody, occasionally over-the-top story of a short but lethal electronic signal that seriously damages everyone in the world using a cell phone at that moment. The Pulse, as it comes to be known, turns idle chatterers into weirdly rewired killing machines. Scott makes the lead characterâ€”a comic book artist from Maine (where else?) named Clayton Riddell, who is in Boston with his phone off and in his pocketâ€”a touching and surprisingly tough survivor, much like the nonpods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. He also resists the temptation to make the "phoners" (those affected by the Pulse) sound unusually strange or dangerousâ€”until their real motives become obvious. Simultaneous release with the Scribner hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 2). (Jan.) Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. Fans have offered their horror-fiction idol unfaltering loyalty since the publication of his first novel, Carrie, three decades ago. More than 50 books later, Stephen King''s stock-in-trade remains stinging, darkly humorous social commentary. His latest effort, a nod to gore-meisters George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) and Richard Matheson (I Am Legend), among others, is no different. The result, though entertaining, is uneven. Some reviewers appreciate King for his prodigious imagination and his storytelling abilities, while others take issue with his two-dimensional characters, scattershot plotting, and the too-obvious echoes of past novels. For longtime fans of King''s work, Cell may bring to mind a more compact (though ultimately less satisfying) version of the author''s epic The Stand. Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23833'),
(11967, 'Celtic Fire', 'Joy Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a Roman commander travels through Britannia to investigate a haunting vision, an ambush by hostile Celts leaves him with an unexpected prize--a beautifully enchanting witch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4133'),
(11968, 'Celtic Fire', 'Joy Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a Roman commander travels through Britannia to investigate a haunting vision, an ambush by hostile Celts leaves him with an unexpected prize--a beautifully enchanting witch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11626'),
(11969, 'Celtic Fire', 'Joy Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a Roman commander travels through Britannia to investigate a haunting vision, an ambush by hostile Celts leaves him with an unexpected prize--a beautifully enchanting witch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20440'),
(11970, 'The Cement Garden', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A novel and a collection of short stories by English writer McEwan offer chilling portraits of sexual obsession.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œDarkly impressive.â€ --\n <em>\n  The Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right.â€ -- Tom Paulin\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMarvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable.â€ -- Sunday Times\n</p>\n<p>\n "A shocking book, morbid, full of repellant imagery - and irresistibly readable...The effect achieved by McEwan''s quiet, precise and sensuous touch is that of magic realism -- a transfiguration of the ordinary that has far stronger retinal and visceral impact than the flabby surrealism of so many experimental novels." -- _New York Review of Books\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing." -- _The Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "The Maestro." -- _New Statesman\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "McEwan has--a style and a vision of life of his own...No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford not to read him." -- John Fowles\n</p>\n<p>\n "A sparkling and adventurous writer." -- Dennis Potter\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18305'),
(11971, 'The cement garden', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this tour de force of psychological uneaseâ€”now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusackâ€”McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgettingâ€”or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."â€”Washington Post Book World.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p class="description">\n   A novel and a collection of short stories by English writer McEwan offer chilling portraits of sexual obsession.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <p class="description">\n   â€œDarkly impressive.â€ â€”\n   <em>\n    The Times\n   </em>\n   <br />\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   â€œA superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right.â€ â€” Tom Paulin\n   <br />\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   â€œMarvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable.â€ â€” Sunday Times\n   <br />\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   "A shocking book, morbid, full of repellant imagery - and irresistibly readable...The effect achieved by McEwan''s quiet, precise and sensuous touch is that of magic realism â€” a transfiguration of the ordinary that has far stronger retinal and visceral impact than the flabby surrealism of so many experimental novels." â€”\n   <em>\n    New York Review of Books\n    <br />\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   "His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing." â€”\n   <em>\n    The Times\n    <br />\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   "The Maestro." â€”\n   <em>\n    New Statesman\n    <br />\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   "McEwan hasâ€”a style and a vision of life of his own...No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford not to read him." â€” John Fowles\n   <br />\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   "A sparkling and adventurous writer." â€” Dennis Potter\n  </p>\n </div>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28171'),
(11972, 'Censoring an Iranian Love Story', 'Shahriar Mandanipour &amp; Sara Khalili', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n If conducting a love affair in modern Iran is not a simple undertaking, then telling the story of that love may be even more difficult. In a country where mere proximity between a man and a woman may be the prologue to deadly sin, where illicit passion is punished by imprisonment, or even death, telling that most redemptive of human narratives becomes the greatest literary challenge. Shahriar Mandanipour evokes a pair of young lovers who find each other despite surreal persecution and repressive parents through coded messages and internet chat rooms; and triumphantly their story entwines with an account of their creatorrs"s struggle. Inventive, darkly comic and profoundly touching,Censoring an Iranian Love Storycelebrates both the unquenchable power of the written word and a love that is doomed, glorious, and utterly real.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1260'),
(11973, 'Censoring an Iranian Love Story', 'Shahriar Mandanipour; Sara Khalili', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If conducting a love affair in modern Iran is not a simple undertaking, then telling the story of that love may be even more difficult. In a country where mere proximity between a man and a woman may be the prologue to deadly sin, where illicit passion is punished by imprisonment, or even death, telling that most redemptive of human narratives becomes the greatest literary challenge. Shahriar Mandanipour evokes a pair of young lovers who find each other despite surreal persecution and repressive parents through coded messages and internet chat rooms; and triumphantly their story entwines with an account of their creatorrs"s struggle. Inventive, darkly comic and profoundly touching,Censoring an Iranian Love Storycelebrates both the unquenchable power of the written word and a love that is doomed, glorious, and utterly real.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23577'),
(11974, 'Centaur Aisle', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dor agreed to act as King of Xanth so long as Trent was gone for a week. But the weeks passed and Trent did not return. Dor knew he had to rescue his king but with no magic powers, how could it be done...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1996'),
(11975, 'Centaur Aisle', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dor agreed to act as King of Xanth so long as Trent was gone for a week. But the weeks passed and Trent did not return. Dor knew he had to rescue his king but with no magic powers, how could it be done...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22714'),
(11976, 'The Centaur', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lost touch with his life. Interwoven with the myth of Chiron, the noblest centaur, and his own relationship to Prometheus, The Centaur is one of John Updike''s most brilliant and unusual novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25478'),
(11977, 'Centennial', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Michener is America''s best writer, and he proves it once again in CENTENNIAL."THE PITTSBURGH PRESSA stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migrating white men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a story of trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters--all caught up in the dramatic events and violent conflicts that shaped the destiny of our legendary West.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4941'),
(11978, 'Centennial', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Michener is America''s best writer, and he proves it once again in CENTENNIAL."THE PITTSBURGH PRESSA stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migrating white men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a story of trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters--all caught up in the dramatic events and violent conflicts that shaped the destiny of our legendary West.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19783'),
(11979, 'The Center of Everything', 'Laura Moriarty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Now in paperback, Laura Moriarty''s breakthrough novel of growing up and growing wise.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Critics and readers everywhere stood up and took notice when Laura Moriarty''s captivating debut novel hit the stores in June ''03. Janet Maslin of the *New York Times* praised *The Center of Everything* as "warm" and "beguiling." *USA Today* compared the scrappy yet tenderhearted Evelyn Bucknow to Scout Finch in *To Kill a Mockingbird*. It garnered extensive national attention; from *Entertainment Weekly* to the *Boston Globe* and the *San Francisco Chronicle*, the press raved about the wisdom and poignancy of Moriarty''s writing. The Book-of-the-Month Club snatched it up as a Main Selection, as did the Literary Guild. It was a *USA Today* Summer Reading Pick, a BookSense Top 10 Pick, and a BN.com book club feature title. And still, months after *The Center of Everything''s* original publication date, reviews and features of the book continue to run nationwide.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With a reading group guide bound into the book and a stellar hardcover publication behind it, the paperback edition of *The Center of Everything* is poised to explode onto the scene again, and Evelyn Bucknow is ready to steal more hearts than ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3460'),
(11980, 'The Center of Everything', 'Laura Moriarty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Now in paperback, Laura Moriarty''s breakthrough novel of growing up and growing wise.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Critics and readers everywhere stood up and took notice when Laura Moriarty''s captivating debut novel hit the stores in June ''03. Janet Maslin of the *New York Times* praised *The Center of Everything* as "warm" and "beguiling." *USA Today* compared the scrappy yet tenderhearted Evelyn Bucknow to Scout Finch in *To Kill a Mockingbird*. It garnered extensive national attention; from *Entertainment Weekly* to the *Boston Globe* and the *San Francisco Chronicle*, the press raved about the wisdom and poignancy of Moriarty''s writing. The Book-of-the-Month Club snatched it up as a Main Selection, as did the Literary Guild. It was a *USA Today* Summer Reading Pick, a BookSense Top 10 Pick, and a BN.com book club feature title. And still, months after *The Center of Everything''s* original publication date, reviews and features of the book continue to run nationwide.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With a reading group guide bound into the book and a stellar hardcover publication behind it, the paperback edition of *The Center of Everything* is poised to explode onto the scene again, and Evelyn Bucknow is ready to steal more hearts than ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11551'),
(11981, 'The Center of Everything', 'Laura Moriarty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now in paperback, Laura Moriarty''s breakthrough novel of growing up and growing wise.** Critics and readers everywhere stood up and took notice when Laura Moriarty''s captivating debut novel hit the stores in June ''03. Janet Maslin of the *New York Times* praised *The Center of Everything* as "warm" and "beguiling." *USA Today* compared the scrappy yet tenderhearted Evelyn Bucknow to Scout Finch in *To Kill a Mockingbird*. It garnered extensive national attention; from *Entertainment Weekly* to the *Boston Globe* and the *San Francisco Chronicle*, the press raved about the wisdom and poignancy of Moriarty''s writing. The Book-of-the-Month Club snatched it up as a Main Selection, as did the Literary Guild. It was a *USA Today* Summer Reading Pick, a BookSense Top 10 Pick, and a BN.com book club feature title. And still, months after *The Center of Everything''s* original publication date, reviews and features of the book continue to run nationwide. With a reading group guide bound into the book and a stellar hardcover publication behind it, the paperback edition of *The Center of Everything* is poised to explode onto the scene again, and Evelyn Bucknow is ready to steal more hearts than ever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20936'),
(11982, 'Center of Gravity: Star Carrier: Book Two', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  In the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The warlike Shâ€™daar are determined that this monumental milestone will never be achieved by the creatures known as human.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n On the far side of known human space, the Marines are under siege, battling the relentless servant races of the Sh''daar aggressor. With a task force stripped to the bone and the Terran Confederation of States racked by dissent, rogue Admiral Alexander Koenig must make the momentous decision that will seal his fate and the fate of humankind. A strong defensive posture is futile, so Koenig will seize the initiative and turn the gargantuan Star Carrier\n <em>\n  America\n </em>\n toward the unknown. For the element of surprise is the only hope of stalling the Sh''daar assault on Earth''s solar systemâ€”and the war for humankind''s survival must be taken directly to the enemy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ian Douglas is the author of the popular military SF?series\n <em>\n  The Heritage Trilogy\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Legacy Trilogy\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Inheritance Trilogy\n </em>\n . A former naval corpsman, he lives in Pennsylvania.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5049'),
(11983, 'Center of Gravity: Star Carrier: Book Two', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  In the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The warlike Shâ€™daar are determined that this monumental milestone will never be achieved by the creatures known as human.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n On the far side of known human space, the Marines are under siege, battling the relentless servant races of the Sh''daar aggressor. With a task force stripped to the bone and the Terran Confederation of States racked by dissent, rogue Admiral Alexander Koenig must make the momentous decision that will seal his fate and the fate of humankind. A strong defensive posture is futile, so Koenig will seize the initiative and turn the gargantuan Star Carrier\n <em>\n  America\n </em>\n toward the unknown. For the element of surprise is the only hope of stalling the Sh''daar assault on Earth''s solar systemâ€”and the war for humankind''s survival must be taken directly to the enemy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ian Douglas is the author of the popular military SF?series\n <em>\n  The Heritage Trilogy\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Legacy Trilogy\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Inheritance Trilogy\n </em>\n . A former naval corpsman, he lives in Pennsylvania.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10879'),
(11984, 'Center of Gravity: Star Carrier: Book Two', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  In the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The warlike Shâ€™daar are determined that this monumental milestone will never be achieved by the creatures known as human.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n On the far side of known human space, the Marines are under siege, battling the relentless servant races of the Sh''daar aggressor. With a task force stripped to the bone and the Terran Confederation of States racked by dissent, rogue Admiral Alexander Koenig must make the momentous decision that will seal his fate and the fate of humankind. A strong defensive posture is futile, so Koenig will seize the initiative and turn the gargantuan Star Carrier\n <em>\n  America\n </em>\n toward the unknown. For the element of surprise is the only hope of stalling the Sh''daar assault on Earth''s solar systemâ€”and the war for humankind''s survival must be taken directly to the enemy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ian Douglas is the author of the popular military SF?series\n <em>\n  The Heritage Trilogy\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Legacy Trilogy\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Inheritance Trilogy\n </em>\n . A former naval corpsman, he lives in Pennsylvania.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19678'),
(11985, 'Ceremony', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Marika, leader of the silth, who are known for their psychic powers, challenges her enemies with a plan to use solar mirrors in space to end the world''s permanent winter\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5341'),
(11986, 'Ceremony', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Marika, leader of the silth, who are known for their psychic powers, challenges her enemies with a plan to use solar mirrors in space to end the world''s permanent winter\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19323'),
(11987, 'Ceremony', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Marika, leader of the silth, who are known for their psychic powers, challenges her enemies with a plan to use solar mirrors in space to end the world''s permanent winter\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28018'),
(11988, 'Ceremony (1982)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 09', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13793'),
(11989, 'Ceremony in Death', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2555'),
(11990, 'Ceremony in death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14042'),
(11991, 'Ceremony in death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22317'),
(11992, 'Cerulean Sins', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel ''People don''t like dealing with people who raise the dead. Don''t ask me why, but we make them nervous.'' There''s something about Leo Harlan that I don''t like. He''s asked me to reanimate his long-dead ancestor, and it seems like a perfectly ordinary case for someone like me: Anita Blake, preternatural expert, vampire hunter and raiser of the dead. So I agree '' sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don''t, someone else will. But what he hasn''t told me is that the corpse may hold the secret to an ancient crime that not everyone wants to be remembered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3485'),
(11993, 'Cerulean Sins', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel ''People don''t like dealing with people who raise the dead. Don''t ask me why, but we make them nervous.'' There''s something about Leo Harlan that I don''t like. He''s asked me to reanimate his long-dead ancestor, and it seems like a perfectly ordinary case for someone like me: Anita Blake, preternatural expert, vampire hunter and raiser of the dead. So I agree '' sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don''t, someone else will. But what he hasn''t told me is that the corpse may hold the secret to an ancient crime that not everyone wants to be remembered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15278'),
(11994, 'Cerulean Sins', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel ''People don''t like dealing with people who raise the dead. Don''t ask me why, but we make them nervous.'' There''s something about Leo Harlan that I don''t like. He''s asked me to reanimate his long-dead ancestor, and it seems like a perfectly ordinary case for someone like me: Anita Blake, preternatural expert, vampire hunter and raiser of the dead. So I agree '' sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don''t, someone else will. But what he hasn''t told me is that the corpse may hold the secret to an ancient crime that not everyone wants to be remembered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21006'),
(11995, 'Cetaganda', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The hero, Miles Vorkosigan, is sent to represent his planet at the funeral of the empress of the planet Cetaganda. While there he becomes involved in a power struggle for the control of software used by Cetaganda''s rulers to genetically engineer an entire people. By the author of Mirror Dance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20034'),
(11996, 'Chad Oliver &amp; Wilson Tucker &amp; Poul Anderson', 'Three in time', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The stories we tell are not limited to monsters and harsh otherworlds. Yet the fiction books in the Borealis imprint certainly belong to a world other than our own. This line encompasses our science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and anthologies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15440'),
(11997, 'Chainfire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive.  For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end.As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn''t soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation.  But Kahlan learns that if she ever were to unlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finally possess her, body and soul.If she is to survive in a murky world of deception and betrayal, where life is not only cheap but fleeting, Kahlan must find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn world swirling around her.  What she uncovers are secrets darker than she could ever have imagined.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With Wizard''s First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination.After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself....if she is even still alive. If she was ever even real.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/760'),
(11998, 'Chainfire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end.As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn''t soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation. But Kahlan learns that if she ever were to unlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finally possess her, body and soul.If she is to survive in a murky world of deception and betrayal, where life is not only cheap but fleeting, Kahlan must find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn world swirling around her. What she uncovers are secrets darker than she could ever have imagined. SUMMARY: With Wizard''s First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination.After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself....if she is even still alive. If she was ever even real.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15014'),
(11999, 'Chainfire', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end.As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn''t soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation. But Kahlan learns that if she ever were to unlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finally possess her, body and soul.If she is to survive in a murky world of deception and betrayal, where life is not only cheap but fleeting, Kahlan must find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn world swirling around her. What she uncovers are secrets darker than she could ever have imagined. SUMMARY: With Wizard''s First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination.After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself....if she is even still alive. If she was ever even real.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24225'),
(12000, 'Chains of Command', 'W.A. McCay &amp; E.L. Flood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While exploring a group of devastated class-M planets in a remote sector of space, the crew of the U.S.S. "Enterprise (TM)" is shocked to discover a group of human slaves on a forbidding, glacial world. When the slaves revolt against their human overseers, Captain Picard and his crew sympathize with the slaves plight but cannot interfere in the conflict.  After the revolt is a success, Captain Picard learns that both the slaves and the overseers were controlled by a mysterious bird-like race called the Tseetsk, who are coming to reclaim their property. With the time running out, the rebels kidnap Captain Picard and Counsellor Troi -- drawing the U.S.S. "Enterprise" into the middle of their deadly plan of vengeance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/308'),
(12001, 'Chains of Command', 'W.A. McCay; E.L. Flood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While exploring a group of devastated class-M planets in a remote sector of space, the crew of the U.S.S. "Enterprise (TM)" is shocked to discover a group of human slaves on a forbidding, glacial world. When the slaves revolt against their human overseers, Captain Picard and his crew sympathize with the slaves plight but cannot interfere in the conflict. After the revolt is a success, Captain Picard learns that both the slaves and the overseers were controlled by a mysterious bird-like race called the Tseetsk, who are coming to reclaim their property. With the time running out, the rebels kidnap Captain Picard and Counsellor Troi -- drawing the U.S.S. "Enterprise" into the middle of their deadly plan of vengeance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24637'),
(12002, 'Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction From Today&#39;s China', 'Howard Goldblatt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In contrast to the utopian official literature of Communist China, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty village politics and frequent violence. Translated ably enough to keep up with the colloquial tone, most tales are told with straightforward familiarity, drawing readers into small communities and personal histories that are anything but heroic. "The Brothers Shu," by Su Tong (Raise the Red Lantern), is an urban tale of young lust and sibling rivalry in a sordid neighborhood around the ironically named Fragrant Cedar Street. That story''s earthiness is matched by Wang Xiangfu''s folksy "Fritter Hollow Chronicles," about peasants'' vendettas and local politics, and by "The Cure," by Mo Yan (Red Sorghum; The Garlic Ballads), which details the fringe benefits of an execution. Personal alienation and disaffection are as likely to appear in stories with rural settings (Li Rui''s "Sham Marriage") as they are to poison the lives of urban characters (Chen Cun''s "Footsteps on the Roof"). Comedy takes an elegant and elaborate form in "A String of Choices," Wang Meng''s tale of a toothache cure, and it assumes the burlesque of small-town propaganda fodder in Li Xiao''s "Grass on the Rooftop." Editor Goldblatt has chosen not to expand the contributors'' biographies or elaborate on the collection''s post-Tiananmen context. He lets the stories speak for themselves, which, fortunately, they do, quietly and effectively.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 20 authors represented here range from Wang Meng, the former minister of culture, to Su Tong, whose Raise the Red Lantern has been immortalized on screen.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5098'),
(12003, 'Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction From Today&#39;s China', 'Howard Goldblatt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In contrast to the utopian official literature of Communist China, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty village politics and frequent violence. Translated ably enough to keep up with the colloquial tone, most tales are told with straightforward familiarity, drawing readers into small communities and personal histories that are anything but heroic. "The Brothers Shu," by Su Tong (Raise the Red Lantern), is an urban tale of young lust and sibling rivalry in a sordid neighborhood around the ironically named Fragrant Cedar Street. That story''s earthiness is matched by Wang Xiangfu''s folksy "Fritter Hollow Chronicles," about peasants'' vendettas and local politics, and by "The Cure," by Mo Yan (Red Sorghum; The Garlic Ballads), which details the fringe benefits of an execution. Personal alienation and disaffection are as likely to appear in stories with rural settings (Li Rui''s "Sham Marriage") as they are to poison the lives of urban characters (Chen Cun''s "Footsteps on the Roof"). Comedy takes an elegant and elaborate form in "A String of Choices," Wang Meng''s tale of a toothache cure, and it assumes the burlesque of small-town propaganda fodder in Li Xiao''s "Grass on the Rooftop." Editor Goldblatt has chosen not to expand the contributors'' biographies or elaborate on the collection''s post-Tiananmen context. He lets the stories speak for themselves, which, fortunately, they do, quietly and effectively.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 20 authors represented here range from Wang Meng, the former minister of culture, to Su Tong, whose Raise the Red Lantern has been immortalized on screen.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9962'),
(12004, 'Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction From Today&#39;s China', 'Howard Goldblatt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In contrast to the utopian official literature of Communist China, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty village politics and frequent violence. Translated ably enough to keep up with the colloquial tone, most tales are told with straightforward familiarity, drawing readers into small communities and personal histories that are anything but heroic. "The Brothers Shu," by Su Tong (Raise the Red Lantern), is an urban tale of young lust and sibling rivalry in a sordid neighborhood around the ironically named Fragrant Cedar Street. That story''s earthiness is matched by Wang Xiangfu''s folksy "Fritter Hollow Chronicles," about peasants'' vendettas and local politics, and by "The Cure," by Mo Yan (Red Sorghum; The Garlic Ballads), which details the fringe benefits of an execution. Personal alienation and disaffection are as likely to appear in stories with rural settings (Li Rui''s "Sham Marriage") as they are to poison the lives of urban characters (Chen Cun''s "Footsteps on the Roof"). Comedy takes an elegant and elaborate form in "A String of Choices," Wang Meng''s tale of a toothache cure, and it assumes the burlesque of small-town propaganda fodder in Li Xiao''s "Grass on the Rooftop." Editor Goldblatt has chosen not to expand the contributors'' biographies or elaborate on the collection''s post-Tiananmen context. He lets the stories speak for themselves, which, fortunately, they do, quietly and effectively.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 20 authors represented here range from Wang Meng, the former minister of culture, to Su Tong, whose Raise the Red Lantern has been immortalized on screen.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19617'),
(12005, 'The Chairman', 'Stephen Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Diminished by dull prose, but distinguished by colorful, well-drawn characters and an arresting, labyrinthine plot, this 10th novel by Frey (after\n  <em>\n   Silent Partner\n  </em>\n  ) illuminates the machinations of big business and high finance. Frey introduces Christian Gillette, who will be a continuing character in this inaugural volume of a projected series. As 36-year-old Gillette walks out of a Park Avenue church after delivering the eulogy following the suspicious "accidental" drowning of the late chairman of Everest Capital, he is nearly killed when a firebomb obliterates his waiting limo. Undaunted, newly elected chairman Gillette steps into another car and carries on with his planning: he''s determined to make the company''s new equity fund, Everest Eight, the biggest in the history of private equity and to eliminate his competition within the firm. Corporate chicanery, boardroom sex and backstabbing abound, and conspiracies proliferate, as Gillette enters into a deal with the chief of a mega-insurance company to increase Everest Eight''s capital to $15 billion in a bold attempt to surpass rival Paul Strazzi at Apex Equity and become the nation''s dominant private equity firm. Sadly, a perfunctory denouement does no justice to the clever plot.\n  <em>\n   Agent, Cynthia Manson. (Mar. 29)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After the chairman of Everest Capital dies and private-fund manager Christian Gillette is elected successor, Gillette finds himself wielding previously unimagined power and exposed to equally unimagined danger (he barely averts being assassinated when his limo explodes). He doesn''t mind wielding his might, first by firing one of the managing partners, then by snubbing a U.S. senator; however, accumulating enemies does not stop Gillette from planning the biggest venture fund in history. Frey does not characterize Gillette as a purely evil money-grubber; he is also shown to have a weakness for the downtrodden and gives generously to many needy families--even going so far as to buy them homes and establish trust funds for their children. Frey tries a bit too hard with this fast-paced financial thriller, and his plot contains a few glaringly implausible scenarios--would billionaire Gillette really frequent pool halls in seedy neighborhoods just to win $5,000? This is Frey''s first series so perhaps the next Gillette venture will be a bit smoother.\n  <em>\n   Mary Frances Wilkens\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1168'),
(12006, 'The Chairman', 'Stephen Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Diminished by dull prose, but distinguished by colorful, well-drawn characters and an arresting, labyrinthine plot, this 10th novel by Frey (after\n  <em>\n   Silent Partner\n  </em>\n  ) illuminates the machinations of big business and high finance. Frey introduces Christian Gillette, who will be a continuing character in this inaugural volume of a projected series. As 36-year-old Gillette walks out of a Park Avenue church after delivering the eulogy following the suspicious "accidental" drowning of the late chairman of Everest Capital, he is nearly killed when a firebomb obliterates his waiting limo. Undaunted, newly elected chairman Gillette steps into another car and carries on with his planning: he''s determined to make the company''s new equity fund, Everest Eight, the biggest in the history of private equity and to eliminate his competition within the firm. Corporate chicanery, boardroom sex and backstabbing abound, and conspiracies proliferate, as Gillette enters into a deal with the chief of a mega-insurance company to increase Everest Eight''s capital to $15 billion in a bold attempt to surpass rival Paul Strazzi at Apex Equity and become the nation''s dominant private equity firm. Sadly, a perfunctory denouement does no justice to the clever plot.\n  <em>\n   Agent, Cynthia Manson. (Mar. 29)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After the chairman of Everest Capital dies and private-fund manager Christian Gillette is elected successor, Gillette finds himself wielding previously unimagined power and exposed to equally unimagined danger (he barely averts being assassinated when his limo explodes). He doesn''t mind wielding his might, first by firing one of the managing partners, then by snubbing a U.S. senator; however, accumulating enemies does not stop Gillette from planning the biggest venture fund in history. Frey does not characterize Gillette as a purely evil money-grubber; he is also shown to have a weakness for the downtrodden and gives generously to many needy families--even going so far as to buy them homes and establish trust funds for their children. Frey tries a bit too hard with this fast-paced financial thriller, and his plot contains a few glaringly implausible scenarios--would billionaire Gillette really frequent pool halls in seedy neighborhoods just to win $5,000? This is Frey''s first series so perhaps the next Gillette venture will be a bit smoother.\n  <em>\n   Mary Frances Wilkens\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9806');
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(12007, 'The chairman: a novel', 'Stephen W. Frey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Diminished by dull prose, but distinguished by colorful, well-drawn characters and an arresting, labyrinthine plot, this 10th novel by Frey (after\n <em>\n  Silent Partner\n </em>\n ) illuminates the machinations of big business and high finance. Frey introduces Christian Gillette, who will be a continuing character in this inaugural volume of a projected series. As 36-year-old Gillette walks out of a Park Avenue church after delivering the eulogy following the suspicious "accidental" drowning of the late chairman of Everest Capital, he is nearly killed when a firebomb obliterates his waiting limo. Undaunted, newly elected chairman Gillette steps into another car and carries on with his planning: he''s determined to make the company''s new equity fund, Everest Eight, the biggest in the history of private equity and to eliminate his competition within the firm. Corporate chicanery, boardroom sex and backstabbing abound, and conspiracies proliferate, as Gillette enters into a deal with the chief of a mega-insurance company to increase Everest Eight''s capital to $15 billion in a bold attempt to surpass rival Paul Strazzi at Apex Equity and become the nation''s dominant private equity firm. Sadly, a perfunctory denouement does no justice to the clever plot.\n <em>\n  Agent, Cynthia Manson. (Mar. 29)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the chairman of Everest Capital dies and private-fund manager Christian Gillette is elected successor, Gillette finds himself wielding previously unimagined power and exposed to equally unimagined danger (he barely averts being assassinated when his limo explodes). He doesn''t mind wielding his might, first by firing one of the managing partners, then by snubbing a U.S. senator; however, accumulating enemies does not stop Gillette from planning the biggest venture fund in history. Frey does not characterize Gillette as a purely evil money-grubber; he is also shown to have a weakness for the downtrodden and gives generously to many needy families--even going so far as to buy them homes and establish trust funds for their children. Frey tries a bit too hard with this fast-paced financial thriller, and his plot contains a few glaringly implausible scenarios--would billionaire Gillette really frequent pool halls in seedy neighborhoods just to win $5,000? This is Frey''s first series so perhaps the next Gillette venture will be a bit smoother.\n <em>\n  Mary Frances Wilkens\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22998'),
(12008, 'Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLeckie puts you in the foxhole.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œFast-paced and informative . . . Characters are very much alive on the printed page.â€â€”_Navy Times _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] stirring story of Americaâ€™s survival in its grimmest hour . . . as readable and gripping as a novel.â€â€”_Patriot Ledger_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n New York Times_ bestselling author of\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Helmet for My Pillow_, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Pacific_, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the Japanese soldiersâ€™ carefully calculatedâ€”and ultimately foiledâ€”attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemyâ€™s plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease.\n</p>\n<p>\n Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war.\n <em>\n  Challenge for the PacificÂ \n </em>\n is an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that foreverÂ changed our world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1645'),
(12009, 'Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLeckie puts you in the foxhole.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œFast-paced and informative . . . Characters are very much alive on the printed page.â€â€”_Navy Times _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] stirring story of Americaâ€™s survival in its grimmest hour . . . as readable and gripping as a novel.â€â€”_Patriot Ledger_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n New York Times_ bestselling author of\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Helmet for My Pillow_, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Pacific_, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the Japanese soldiersâ€™ carefully calculatedâ€”and ultimately foiledâ€”attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemyâ€™s plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease.\n</p>\n<p>\n Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war.\n <em>\n  Challenge for the PacificÂ \n </em>\n is an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that foreverÂ changed our world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12203'),
(12010, 'Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLeckie puts you in the foxhole.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œFast-paced and informative . . . Characters are very much alive on the printed page.â€â€”_Navy Times _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] stirring story of Americaâ€™s survival in its grimmest hour . . . as readable and gripping as a novel.â€â€”_Patriot Ledger_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n New York Times_ bestselling author of\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Helmet for My Pillow_, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The Pacific_, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the Japanese soldiersâ€™ carefully calculatedâ€”and ultimately foiledâ€”attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemyâ€™s plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease.\n</p>\n<p>\n Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war.\n <em>\n  Challenge for the Pacific\n </em>\n is an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that forever changed our world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23325'),
(12011, 'Chamber Music', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its highly controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce''s fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin, providing the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. In particular, his tempestuous early relationship with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected through a similar inner conflict in his recurrent alter ego Stephen Dedalus. As the result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his self-imposed exile and influence throughout Europe, Joyce became simultaneously one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most local of all the great English language writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4873'),
(12012, 'Chamber Music', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its highly controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce''s fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin, providing the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. In particular, his tempestuous early relationship with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected through a similar inner conflict in his recurrent alter ego Stephen Dedalus. As the result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his self-imposed exile and influence throughout Europe, Joyce became simultaneously one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most local of all the great English language writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19811'),
(12013, 'The Chamber of Ten', 'Christopher Golden &amp; Tim Lebbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From two masters of dark fantasy comes a chilling tale of magic and possession, set in-and beneath-fabulous Venice, a city slowly being swallowed by the very waters that have made it one of the wonders of the world. Geena Hodge is an American archaeologist working to salvage Venicers"s past from the encroaching Adriatic Sea. When she and her lover, Nico, discover the lost library of Petrarch under the Piazza San Marco, they rejoice not only at the historical significance of the find but at the opportunity to bring worldwide attention-and much-needed funding-to their endeavors. But that find soon leads to another, a room buried more deeply still: the fabledChamber of Ten, where centuries ago the secret rulers of Venice, in their quest for absolute power, met to plot betrayals and murders. After entering the Chamber, Geena and Nico are thrust into the midst of an ancient feud, a deadly battle of wills and black magic that threatens to poison the cityrs"s future with the evils of its past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6653'),
(12014, 'The Chamber of Ten', 'Christopher Golden &amp; Tim Lebbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From two masters of dark fantasy comes a chilling tale of magic and possession, set in-and beneath-fabulous Venice, a city slowly being swallowed by the very waters that have made it one of the wonders of the world. Geena Hodge is an American archaeologist working to salvage Venicers"s past from the encroaching Adriatic Sea. When she and her lover, Nico, discover the lost library of Petrarch under the Piazza San Marco, they rejoice not only at the historical significance of the find but at the opportunity to bring worldwide attention-and much-needed funding-to their endeavors. But that find soon leads to another, a room buried more deeply still: the fabledChamber of Ten, where centuries ago the secret rulers of Venice, in their quest for absolute power, met to plot betrayals and murders. After entering the Chamber, Geena and Nico are thrust into the midst of an ancient feud, a deadly battle of wills and black magic that threatens to poison the cityrs"s future with the evils of its past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9952'),
(12015, 'The Chamber of Ten', 'Christopher Golden; Tim Lebbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From two masters of dark fantasy comes a chilling tale of magic and possession, set in-and beneath-fabulous Venice, a city slowly being swallowed by the very waters that have made it one of the wonders of the world. Geena Hodge is an American archaeologist working to salvage Venicers"s past from the encroaching Adriatic Sea. When she and her lover, Nico, discover the lost library of Petrarch under the Piazza San Marco, they rejoice not only at the historical significance of the find but at the opportunity to bring worldwide attention-and much-needed funding-to their endeavors. But that find soon leads to another, a room buried more deeply still: the fabledChamber of Ten, where centuries ago the secret rulers of Venice, in their quest for absolute power, met to plot betrayals and murders. After entering the Chamber, Geena and Nico are thrust into the midst of an ancient feud, a deadly battle of wills and black magic that threatens to poison the cityrs"s future with the evils of its past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18023'),
(12016, 'The Chamber of Ten', 'Christopher Golden; Tim Lebbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From two masters of dark fantasy comes a chilling tale of magic and possession, set in-and beneath-fabulous Venice, a city slowly being swallowed by the very waters that have made it one of the wonders of the world. Geena Hodge is an American archaeologist working to salvage Venicers"s past from the encroaching Adriatic Sea. When she and her lover, Nico, discover the lost library of Petrarch under the Piazza San Marco, they rejoice not only at the historical significance of the find but at the opportunity to bring worldwide attention-and much-needed funding-to their endeavors. But that find soon leads to another, a room buried more deeply still: the fabledChamber of Ten, where centuries ago the secret rulers of Venice, in their quest for absolute power, met to plot betrayals and murders. After entering the Chamber, Geena and Nico are thrust into the midst of an ancient feud, a deadly battle of wills and black magic that threatens to poison the cityrs"s future with the evils of its past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26889'),
(12017, 'The Chamber', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the corridors of Chicago''s top law firm:Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison:Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets -- including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall''s life... or cost Adam his.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4317'),
(12018, 'The Chamber', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the corridors of Chicago''s top law firm:Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison:Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets -- including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall''s life... or cost Adam his.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10119'),
(12019, 'The Chamber', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the corridors of Chicago''s top law firm:Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison:Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets -- including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall''s life... or cost Adam his.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15349'),
(12020, 'The Chamber', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the corridors of Chicago''s top law firm:Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison:Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets -- including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall''s life... or cost Adam his.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21383'),
(12021, 'Champion of the Gods', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4559'),
(12022, 'Chance', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mafia princess Shirley Meeker wants her husband back. So does her father, kingpin Julius Ventura, and a few other shady characters. Spenser and Hawk head to Vegas to find Anthony Meeker--and confirm their suspicion that all these people aren''t just missing Anthony''s smile. And when bodies start turning up, Spenser has to make sense of some very disorganized crime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1758'),
(12023, 'Chance (1996)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 23', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13705'),
(12024, 'Chance (1996)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 23', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23184'),
(12025, 'A Change in Altitude', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Newlyweds Margaret and Patrick set off on a great adventure -- a year living in Kenya in a dizzying and sometimes dangerous city. Shuttling between expat suburbs and squalid shantytowns, Margaret realizes there is a great deal she doesn''t know about the complex culture of her new home, and about her husband. The newlyweds eagerly take part in a climbing expedition to the summit of Mount Kenya. But during their arduous ascent a horrific accident occurs. In its aftermath, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how it has transformed her and her marriage, perhaps for ever.When small actions have unintended, catastrophic consequences, where does responsibility lie, and can blame ever truly be laid to rest? With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy and the elusive nature of forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7563'),
(12026, 'A Change in Altitude', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Newlyweds Margaret and Patrick set off on a great adventure -- a year living in Kenya in a dizzying and sometimes dangerous city. Shuttling between expat suburbs and squalid shantytowns, Margaret realizes there is a great deal she doesn''t know about the complex culture of her new home, and about her husband. The newlyweds eagerly take part in a climbing expedition to the summit of Mount Kenya. But during their arduous ascent a horrific accident occurs. In its aftermath, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how it has transformed her and her marriage, perhaps for ever.When small actions have unintended, catastrophic consequences, where does responsibility lie, and can blame ever truly be laid to rest? With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy and the elusive nature of forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12691'),
(12027, 'A Change in Altitude', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Newlyweds Margaret and Patrick set off on a great adventure -- a year living in Kenya in a dizzying and sometimes dangerous city. Shuttling between expat suburbs and squalid shantytowns, Margaret realizes there is a great deal she doesn''t know about the complex culture of her new home, and about her husband. The newlyweds eagerly take part in a climbing expedition to the summit of Mount Kenya. But during their arduous ascent a horrific accident occurs. In its aftermath, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how it has transformed her and her marriage, perhaps for ever.When small actions have unintended, catastrophic consequences, where does responsibility lie, and can blame ever truly be laid to rest? With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy and the elusive nature of forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16268'),
(12028, 'A Change in Altitude', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Newlyweds Margaret and Patrick set off on a great adventure -- a year living in Kenya in a dizzying and sometimes dangerous city. Shuttling between expat suburbs and squalid shantytowns, Margaret realizes there is a great deal she doesn''t know about the complex culture of her new home, and about her husband. The newlyweds eagerly take part in a climbing expedition to the summit of Mount Kenya. But during their arduous ascent a horrific accident occurs. In its aftermath, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how it has transformed her and her marriage, perhaps for ever.When small actions have unintended, catastrophic consequences, where does responsibility lie, and can blame ever truly be laid to rest? With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy and the elusive nature of forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26420'),
(12029, 'Change of Heart', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One day June Nealon was happily anticipating a lifetime of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. Waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, something happens one day that changes everything for him. Now he has one last chance for salvation, and it lies with June''s twelve-year-old daughter, Claire. But between Shay and Claire stretches an ocean of bitter regrets, past crimes and the rage of a mother who has lost her child. Once again, Jodi Picoult mesmerises and enthralls readers with a story of justice, love and redemption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4423'),
(12030, 'Change of Heart', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One day June Nealon was happily anticipating a lifetime of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. Waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, something happens one day that changes everything for him. Now he has one last chance for salvation, and it lies with June''s twelve-year-old daughter, Claire. But between Shay and Claire stretches an ocean of bitter regrets, past crimes and the rage of a mother who has lost her child. Once again, Jodi Picoult mesmerises and enthralls readers with a story of justice, love and redemption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11083'),
(12031, 'Change of heart: a novel', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The acclaimed #1 *New York Times* bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother''s tragic loss and one man''s last chance at gaining salvation.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, something happens that changes everything for him. Now, he has one last chance for salvation, and it lies with June''s eleven-year-old daughter, Claire. But between Shay and Claire stretches an ocean of bitter regrets, past crimes, and the rage of a mother who has lost her child.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy''s dying wish?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Once again, Jodi Picoult mesmerizes and enthralls readers with this story of redemption, justice, and love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25512'),
(12032, 'Changeling', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The first in an engrossing new series, [Witchlingwas] a whimsical reminder of fantasy''s importance in life" (Publishers Weekly). Now comes Changeling-again featuring Camille, the good witch, Menolly, the vampire, and Delilah, a feline shapeshifter. They''re the D''Artigo sisters, half-human, half-Faerie supernatural agents who are now enlisted to find the fiends responsible for slaughtering the weres of Rainier Puma Pride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/102'),
(12033, 'Changeling', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The first in an engrossing new series, [Witchlingwas] a whimsical reminder of fantasy''s importance in life" (Publishers Weekly). Now comes Changeling-again featuring Camille, the good witch, Menolly, the vampire, and Delilah, a feline shapeshifter. They''re the D''Artigo sisters, half-human, half-Faerie supernatural agents who are now enlisted to find the fiends responsible for slaughtering the weres of Rainier Puma Pride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9868'),
(12034, 'Changeling', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "The first in an engrossing new series, [Witchlingwas] a whimsical reminder of fantasy''s importance in life" (Publishers Weekly). Now comes Changeling-again featuring Camille, the good witch, Menolly, the vampire, and Delilah, a feline shapeshifter. They''re the D''Artigo sisters, half-human, half-Faerie supernatural agents who are now enlisted to find the fiends responsible for slaughtering the weres of Rainier Puma Pride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24776'),
(12035, 'Changeling', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28254'),
(12036, 'Changes', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** The new novel in the #1 *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files series. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden''s lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it-against Harry. To prevail this time, he may have no choice but to embrace the raging fury of his own untapped dark power. Because Harry''s not fighting to save the world...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He''s fighting to save his *child*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4508'),
(12037, 'Changes', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Top TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams had given up on love after a failed marriage and an unhappy affair. With her two teenage children and her television news career, she had no room in her life for a man. Then she met famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam, a widower with three children of his own. Suddenly Melanie was experiencing feelings she thought were gone forever. But two families (one in New York and one in Los Angeles), two exciting careers, and two strong-willed people were too much to handle. And Melanie faced a painful choice between her glamorous life in the public eye, her private life, the needs of her family, and the new family she took on. Changes lead each of them to new places, new problems, new people, and the new life they begin.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Top TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams had given up on love after a failed marriage and an unhappy affair. With her two teenage children and her television news career, she had no room in her life for a man. Then she met famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam, a widower with three children of his own. Suddenly Melanie was experiencing feelings she thought were gone forever. But two families (one in New York and one in Los Angeles), two exciting careers, and two strong-willed people were too much to handle. And Melanie faced a painful choice between her glamorous life in the public eye, her private life, the needs of her family, and the new family she took on. Changes lead each of them to new places, new problems, new people, and the new life they begin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7999'),
(12038, 'Changes', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** The new novel in the #1 *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files series. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden''s lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it-against Harry. To prevail this time, he may have no choice but to embrace the raging fury of his own untapped dark power. Because Harry''s not fighting to save the world...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He''s fighting to save his *child*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8734'),
(12039, 'Changes', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Top TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams had given up on love after a failed marriage and an unhappy affair. With her two teenage children and her television news career, she had no room in her life for a man. Then she met famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam, a widower with three children of his own. Suddenly Melanie was experiencing feelings she thought were gone forever. But two families (one in New York and one in Los Angeles), two exciting careers, and two strong-willed people were too much to handle. And Melanie faced a painful choice between her glamorous life in the public eye, her private life, the needs of her family, and the new family she took on. Changes lead each of them to new places, new problems, new people, and the new life they begin.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Top TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams had given up on love after a failed marriage and an unhappy affair. With her two teenage children and her television news career, she had no room in her life for a man. Then she met famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam, a widower with three children of his own. Suddenly Melanie was experiencing feelings she thought were gone forever. But two families (one in New York and one in Los Angeles), two exciting careers, and two strong-willed people were too much to handle. And Melanie faced a painful choice between her glamorous life in the public eye, her private life, the needs of her family, and the new family she took on. Changes lead each of them to new places, new problems, new people, and the new life they begin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12795'),
(12040, 'Changes', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15268'),
(12041, 'Changes', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Top TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams had given up on love after a failed marriage and an unhappy affair. With her two teenage children and her television news career, she had no room in her life for a man. Then she met famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam, a widower with three children of his own. Suddenly Melanie was experiencing feelings she thought were gone forever. But two families (one in New York and one in Los Angeles), two exciting careers, and two strong-willed people were too much to handle. And Melanie faced a painful choice between her glamorous life in the public eye, her private life, the needs of her family, and the new family she took on. Changes lead each of them to new places, new problems, new people, and the new life they begin.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Top TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams had given up on love after a failed marriage and an unhappy affair. With her two teenage children and her television news career, she had no room in her life for a man. Then she met famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam, a widower with three children of his own. Suddenly Melanie was experiencing feelings she thought were gone forever. But two families (one in New York and one in Los Angeles), two exciting careers, and two strong-willed people were too much to handle. And Melanie faced a painful choice between her glamorous life in the public eye, her private life, the needs of her family, and the new family she took on. Changes lead each of them to new places, new problems, new people, and the new life they begin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17604'),
(12042, 'Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays', 'Zadie Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  White Teeth\n </em>\n in her early twenties, but what kind she''ll be (or will be next) seems open to change. Which all, along with her consistent intelligence, grace, and wit, makes her an ideal essayist too, especially for the sort of "occasional essays" collected for the first time in\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n . She can make the case equally for the cozy "middle way" of E.M. Forster and the most purposefully demanding of David Foster Wallace''s stories, both as a reader and, you imagine, as a writer who is considering their methods for her own. The occasions in this book didn''t only bring her to write about writers, though: she also investigates, among other subjects, Katherine Hepburn, Liberia, and Barack Obama (through the lens of\n <em>\n  Pygmalion\n </em>\n ), and, in the collection''s finest piece, recalls her late father and their shared comedy snobbery. One wishes more occasions upon her.\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith''s nonfiction over the past decade.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.\n</p>\n<p>\n Split into four sections-"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling"-_Changing My Mind_ invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith''s unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays-some published here for the first time-on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her investigations Smith also reveals much of herself. Her literary criticism shares the wealth of her experiences as a reader and exposes the tremendous influence diverse writers-E. M. Forster, Zora Neale Hurston, George Eliot, and others-have had on her writing life and her self-understanding. Smith also speaks directly to writers as a craftsman, offering precious practical lessons on process. Here and throughout, readers will learn of the wide-ranging experiences-in novels, travel, philosophy, politics, and beyond-that have nourished Smith''s rich life of the mind. Her probing analysis offers tremendous food for thought, encouraging readers to attend to the slippery questions of identity, art, love, and vocation that so often go neglected.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n announces Zadie Smith as one of our most important contemporary essayists, a writer with the rare ability to turn the world on its side with both fact and fiction.\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n is a gift to readers, writers, and all who want to look at life more expansively.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/139'),
(12043, 'Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays', 'Zadie Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  White Teeth\n </em>\n in her early twenties, but what kind she''ll be (or will be next) seems open to change. Which all, along with her consistent intelligence, grace, and wit, makes her an ideal essayist too, especially for the sort of "occasional essays" collected for the first time in\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n . She can make the case equally for the cozy "middle way" of E.M. Forster and the most purposefully demanding of David Foster Wallace''s stories, both as a reader and, you imagine, as a writer who is considering their methods for her own. The occasions in this book didn''t only bring her to write about writers, though: she also investigates, among other subjects, Katherine Hepburn, Liberia, and Barack Obama (through the lens of\n <em>\n  Pygmalion\n </em>\n ), and, in the collection''s finest piece, recalls her late father and their shared comedy snobbery. One wishes more occasions upon her.\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith''s nonfiction over the past decade.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.\n</p>\n<p>\n Split into four sections-"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling"-_Changing My Mind_ invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith''s unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays-some published here for the first time-on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her investigations Smith also reveals much of herself. Her literary criticism shares the wealth of her experiences as a reader and exposes the tremendous influence diverse writers-E. M. Forster, Zora Neale Hurston, George Eliot, and others-have had on her writing life and her self-understanding. Smith also speaks directly to writers as a craftsman, offering precious practical lessons on process. Here and throughout, readers will learn of the wide-ranging experiences-in novels, travel, philosophy, politics, and beyond-that have nourished Smith''s rich life of the mind. Her probing analysis offers tremendous food for thought, encouraging readers to attend to the slippery questions of identity, art, love, and vocation that so often go neglected.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n announces Zadie Smith as one of our most important contemporary essayists, a writer with the rare ability to turn the world on its side with both fact and fiction.\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n is a gift to readers, writers, and all who want to look at life more expansively.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12779'),
(12044, 'Changing my mind: occasional essays', 'Zadie Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  White Teeth\n </em>\n in her early twenties, but what kind she''ll be (or will be next) seems open to change. Which all, along with her consistent intelligence, grace, and wit, makes her an ideal essayist too, especially for the sort of "occasional essays" collected for the first time in\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n . She can make the case equally for the cozy "middle way" of E.M. Forster and the most purposefully demanding of David Foster Wallace''s stories, both as a reader and, you imagine, as a writer who is considering their methods for her own. The occasions in this book didn''t only bring her to write about writers, though: she also investigates, among other subjects, Katherine Hepburn, Liberia, and Barack Obama (through the lens of\n <em>\n  Pygmalion\n </em>\n ), and, in the collection''s finest piece, recalls her late father and their shared comedy snobbery. One wishes more occasions upon her.\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith''s nonfiction over the past decade.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.\n</p>\n<p>\n Split into four sections-"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling"-_Changing My Mind_ invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith''s unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays-some published here for the first time-on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani.\n</p>\n<p>\n In her investigations Smith also reveals much of herself. Her literary criticism shares the wealth of her experiences as a reader and exposes the tremendous influence diverse writers-E. M. Forster, Zora Neale Hurston, George Eliot, and others-have had on her writing life and her self-understanding. Smith also speaks directly to writers as a craftsman, offering precious practical lessons on process. Here and throughout, readers will learn of the wide-ranging experiences-in novels, travel, philosophy, politics, and beyond-that have nourished Smith''s rich life of the mind. Her probing analysis offers tremendous food for thought, encouraging readers to attend to the slippery questions of identity, art, love, and vocation that so often go neglected.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n announces Zadie Smith as one of our most important contemporary essayists, a writer with the rare ability to turn the world on its side with both fact and fiction.\n <em>\n  Changing My Mind\n </em>\n is a gift to readers, writers, and all who want to look at life more expansively.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24736'),
(12045, 'Changing of the Guard', 'Steve Perry &amp; Tom Clancy &amp; Larry Segriff &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Though the head of a major multinational corporation -- and a key player in world affairs -- Samuel Walker Cox has a past that few people know about. But that group is about to get bigger. A computer disk has fallen into the hands of the Net Force, outing the powerful American businessman as a former Russian spy. Cox is willing to see the world in ruins to protect his name. Lucky for the United States that Net Force is on the job -- and is about to prove that no man is above the law ...\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Tom Clancy is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including\n   <em>\n    Rainbow Six, Executive Orders\n   </em>\n   , and\n   <em>\n    Debt of Honor.\n   </em>\n   Steve Pieczenik is the author of\n   <em>\n    State of Emergency\n   </em>\n   and co-creator of\n   <em>\n    Tom Clancy''s Op-Center\n   </em>\n   series.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  <br />\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/998');
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(12046, 'Changing of the Guard', 'Steve Perry &amp; Tom Clancy &amp; Larry Segriff &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Though the head of a major multinational corporation -- and a key player in world affairs -- Samuel Walker Cox has a past that few people know about. But that group is about to get bigger. A computer disk has fallen into the hands of the Net Force, outing the powerful American businessman as a former Russian spy. Cox is willing to see the world in ruins to protect his name. Lucky for the United States that Net Force is on the job -- and is about to prove that no man is above the law ...\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Tom Clancy is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including\n   <em>\n    Rainbow Six, Executive Orders\n   </em>\n   , and\n   <em>\n    Debt of Honor.\n   </em>\n   Steve Pieczenik is the author of\n   <em>\n    State of Emergency\n   </em>\n   and co-creator of\n   <em>\n    Tom Clancy''s Op-Center\n   </em>\n   series.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  <br />\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12004'),
(12047, 'Changing of the guard', 'Steve Perry; Tom Clancy; Larry Segriff; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Though the head of a major multinational corporation -- and a key player in world affairs -- Samuel Walker Cox has a past that few people know about. But that group is about to get bigger. A computer disk has fallen into the hands of the Net Force, outing the powerful American businessman as a former Russian spy. Cox is willing to see the world in ruins to protect his name. Lucky for the United States that Net Force is on the job -- and is about to prove that no man is above the law ...\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   About the Author\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Tom Clancy is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including\n   <em>\n    Rainbow Six, Executive Orders\n   </em>\n   , and\n   <em>\n    Debt of Honor.\n   </em>\n   Steve Pieczenik is the author of\n   <em>\n    State of Emergency\n   </em>\n   and co-creator of\n   <em>\n    Tom Clancy''s Op-Center\n   </em>\n   series.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  <br />\n </h3>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23982'),
(12048, 'Chanur&#39;s Homecoming', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When those aliens entities called "humans" sent their first exploration ship into Compact space, the traditional power alliances of the seven Compact races were catastrophically disrupted. And, giving shelter to Tully, the only surviving human, Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew were pitched into the center of a galactic maelstrom, becoming key players in a power game which could cause an intersteller war, or bring the last hope for peace between eight barely compatible alien races.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15513'),
(12049, 'Chanur&#39;s Venture', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15515'),
(12050, 'Chaos and Order: The Gap Into Madness', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Punisher\n </em>\n is on the run from Billingate Space Station, as well as other predators that follow: UMCP Enforcement Division director Min Donner aboard a crippled\n <em>\n  Punisher\n </em>\n , Nick''s archenemy (and slave to the aliens) Sorus Chatelaine aboard\n <em>\n  Soar\n </em>\n , and the mysterious hired gun,\n <em>\n  Free Lunch\n </em>\n . Corrupt cyborg Angus Thermopyle and ruthless Nick Succorso battle for control of the ship and the situation. Their trail leads to Valdor Industrial, where geneticist/engineer Vector Shaheed seeks to redeem himself by manufacturing an antidote to the mutagen used by the alien Amnioni to mutate human beings against their will. Brutalized yet resilient Morn Hyland, her clone/son Davies, tough officer Mikki, Pup, Sib, and the rest continue their suffering and sacrificing.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, back in Earth space, police and politicians battle for power as UMCP director Dios continues his grim revolution against the Dragon. Assassin kazes, political fears, and provocative bills threaten to paralyze the Governing Council for Earth and Space.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ships battling in space? Laboratory space stations developing antimutagen antidotes against the aliens who seek to conquer humankind by mutation? Outrage, brutality, betrayal, and secrets? Donaldson lays it all out with sharp dialogue, tense scenes, and zippy action.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fourth installment of Donaldson''s Gap series may at first confuse even those who have read the previous volumes, since there''s no summary of what has gone before and the plot is extremely convoluted. Once it gets going, though, the action moves forward like a juggernaut. Pursued by a police battle cruiser, by a bounty hunter and by a ship commanded by human agents of the dreaded Amnion, an alien race, Angus Thermopyle heads his ship, Trumpet , for an illegal lab hidden in a chaotic asteroid belt. There, Thermopyle, once a fearsome pirate, now a cyborg partially controlled by police programming, plans to have the secret "antimutagen," which protects humans against the forced mutation practiced by the Amnion, replicated for mass distribution. Aboard Trumpet are the survivors from the pirate ship Captain''s Fancy , including Morn Hyland (the series'' long-suffering heroine) and her erstwhile tormentor, Nick Succorso. The larger conflict between Warden Dios, head of the United Mining Companies police, and Holt Fasner, CEO of the powerful megacorporation, moves closer to its climax; but the real excitement comes with the extended chase and battle in the asteroid swarm. Series readers will be glad to see that this installment, which at last begins to resolve the overall plot, offers plenty of thrills and an exciting finish that will leave them eager for the fifth and final volume.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1055'),
(12051, 'Chaos and Order: The Gap Into Madness', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Punisher\n </em>\n is on the run from Billingate Space Station, as well as other predators that follow: UMCP Enforcement Division director Min Donner aboard a crippled\n <em>\n  Punisher\n </em>\n , Nick''s archenemy (and slave to the aliens) Sorus Chatelaine aboard\n <em>\n  Soar\n </em>\n , and the mysterious hired gun,\n <em>\n  Free Lunch\n </em>\n . Corrupt cyborg Angus Thermopyle and ruthless Nick Succorso battle for control of the ship and the situation. Their trail leads to Valdor Industrial, where geneticist/engineer Vector Shaheed seeks to redeem himself by manufacturing an antidote to the mutagen used by the alien Amnioni to mutate human beings against their will. Brutalized yet resilient Morn Hyland, her clone/son Davies, tough officer Mikki, Pup, Sib, and the rest continue their suffering and sacrificing.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, back in Earth space, police and politicians battle for power as UMCP director Dios continues his grim revolution against the Dragon. Assassin kazes, political fears, and provocative bills threaten to paralyze the Governing Council for Earth and Space.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ships battling in space? Laboratory space stations developing antimutagen antidotes against the aliens who seek to conquer humankind by mutation? Outrage, brutality, betrayal, and secrets? Donaldson lays it all out with sharp dialogue, tense scenes, and zippy action.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fourth installment of Donaldson''s Gap series may at first confuse even those who have read the previous volumes, since there''s no summary of what has gone before and the plot is extremely convoluted. Once it gets going, though, the action moves forward like a juggernaut. Pursued by a police battle cruiser, by a bounty hunter and by a ship commanded by human agents of the dreaded Amnion, an alien race, Angus Thermopyle heads his ship, Trumpet , for an illegal lab hidden in a chaotic asteroid belt. There, Thermopyle, once a fearsome pirate, now a cyborg partially controlled by police programming, plans to have the secret "antimutagen," which protects humans against the forced mutation practiced by the Amnion, replicated for mass distribution. Aboard Trumpet are the survivors from the pirate ship Captain''s Fancy , including Morn Hyland (the series'' long-suffering heroine) and her erstwhile tormentor, Nick Succorso. The larger conflict between Warden Dios, head of the United Mining Companies police, and Holt Fasner, CEO of the powerful megacorporation, moves closer to its climax; but the real excitement comes with the extended chase and battle in the asteroid swarm. Series readers will be glad to see that this installment, which at last begins to resolve the overall plot, offers plenty of thrills and an exciting finish that will leave them eager for the fifth and final volume.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10917'),
(12052, 'Chaos and Order: The Gap Into Madness', 'Stephen R. Donaldson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Punisher\n </em>\n is on the run from Billingate Space Station, as well as other predators that follow: UMCP Enforcement Division director Min Donner aboard a crippled\n <em>\n  Punisher\n </em>\n , Nick''s archenemy (and slave to the aliens) Sorus Chatelaine aboard\n <em>\n  Soar\n </em>\n , and the mysterious hired gun,\n <em>\n  Free Lunch\n </em>\n . Corrupt cyborg Angus Thermopyle and ruthless Nick Succorso battle for control of the ship and the situation. Their trail leads to Valdor Industrial, where geneticist/engineer Vector Shaheed seeks to redeem himself by manufacturing an antidote to the mutagen used by the alien Amnioni to mutate human beings against their will. Brutalized yet resilient Morn Hyland, her clone/son Davies, tough officer Mikki, Pup, Sib, and the rest continue their suffering and sacrificing.\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, back in Earth space, police and politicians battle for power as UMCP director Dios continues his grim revolution against the Dragon. Assassin kazes, political fears, and provocative bills threaten to paralyze the Governing Council for Earth and Space.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ships battling in space? Laboratory space stations developing antimutagen antidotes against the aliens who seek to conquer humankind by mutation? Outrage, brutality, betrayal, and secrets? Donaldson lays it all out with sharp dialogue, tense scenes, and zippy action.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fourth installment of Donaldson''s Gap series may at first confuse even those who have read the previous volumes, since there''s no summary of what has gone before and the plot is extremely convoluted. Once it gets going, though, the action moves forward like a juggernaut. Pursued by a police battle cruiser, by a bounty hunter and by a ship commanded by human agents of the dreaded Amnion, an alien race, Angus Thermopyle heads his ship, Trumpet , for an illegal lab hidden in a chaotic asteroid belt. There, Thermopyle, once a fearsome pirate, now a cyborg partially controlled by police programming, plans to have the secret "antimutagen," which protects humans against the forced mutation practiced by the Amnion, replicated for mass distribution. Aboard Trumpet are the survivors from the pirate ship Captain''s Fancy , including Morn Hyland (the series'' long-suffering heroine) and her erstwhile tormentor, Nick Succorso. The larger conflict between Warden Dios, head of the United Mining Companies police, and Holt Fasner, CEO of the powerful megacorporation, moves closer to its climax; but the real excitement comes with the extended chase and battle in the asteroid swarm. Series readers will be glad to see that this installment, which at last begins to resolve the overall plot, offers plenty of thrills and an exciting finish that will leave them eager for the fifth and final volume.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23837'),
(12053, 'The Chaos Curse', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The prequel series to\n  <em>\n   The Ghost King\n  </em>\n  comes to an explosive end!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cadderly journeys home to the Edificant Library, hoping to rebuild his shattered life--but the chaos curse has one last surprise in store for him. Failure means the loss of his beloved Danica, success might usher in a new era for the followers of Denier.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1977'),
(12054, 'The Chaos Curse', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The prequel series to\n  <em>\n   The Ghost King\n  </em>\n  comes to an explosive end!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cadderly journeys home to the Edificant Library, hoping to rebuild his shattered life--but the chaos curse has one last surprise in store for him. Failure means the loss of his beloved Danica, success might usher in a new era for the followers of Denier.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12496'),
(12055, 'Chaos Theory', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A brilliant madman dedicated to anarchy has dark plans for the U.S. In twenty-four hours, America will be plunged into chaosâ€”the result of an unthinkable assassination to be carried out flawlesslyâ€”and the government has no inkling of the catastrophe that is about to occur.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Only one man can prevent the nightmare: disgraced rogue CTU operative Jack Bauer. But Bauer''s been cut loose, is wanted for murder, and is running from the police, who have orders to shoot to kill. And there''s no one he can turn to for helpâ€”because a high-level traitor in CTU wants Jack Bauer dead.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Whitman is the author of numerous books and projects, including the "Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear" series,\n  <em>\n   Zorro and the Witch''s Curse\n  </em>\n  , and, most recently, the trading cards for "24 Day 3." He is a 4th-degree black belt and defensive tactics instructor in Krav Maga, the official hand-to-hand combat system of the Israeli military, has trained in protective services and defensive tactics in both the United States and in Israel, and has served as an instructor of U.S. law enforcement agencies and military anti-terrorist units.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4192'),
(12056, 'Chaos Theory', 'John Whitman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A brilliant madman dedicated to anarchy has dark plans for the U.S. In twenty-four hours, America will be plunged into chaosâ€”the result of an unthinkable assassination to be carried out flawlesslyâ€”and the government has no inkling of the catastrophe that is about to occur.\n</p>\n<p>\n Only one man can prevent the nightmare: disgraced rogue CTU operative Jack Bauer. But Bauer''s been cut loose, is wanted for murder, and is running from the police, who have orders to shoot to kill. And there''s no one he can turn to for helpâ€”because a high-level traitor in CTU wants Jack Bauer dead.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Whitman is the author of numerous books and projects, including the "Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear" series,\n <em>\n  Zorro and the Witch''s Curse\n </em>\n , and, most recently, the trading cards for "24 Day 3." He is a 4th-degree black belt and defensive tactics instructor in Krav Maga, the official hand-to-hand combat system of the Israeli military, has trained in protective services and defensive tactics in both the United States and in Israel, and has served as an instructor of U.S. law enforcement agencies and military anti-terrorist units.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20397'),
(12057, 'Chaosbound', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The world of the Runelords has been combined by magic with another parallel world to form a new one, the beginning of a process that may unify all worlds into the one true world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This story picks up after the events of *The Wyrmling Horde* and follows two of Farlandâ€™s well-known heroes, Borenson and Myrrima, on a quest to save their devastated land and the people of the new world from certain destruction. But the land is not the only thing that has been altered forever: in the change, Borenson has merged with a mighty and monstrous creature from the other world, Aaath Ulber.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He begins to be a different person, a berserker warrior, as well as having a huge new body because of the transformation of worlds. Thousands have died, lands have sunk below the sea and, elsewhere, risen from it. The supernatural rulers of the world are part of a universal evil, yet play a Byzantine game of dark power politics among themselves. And Aaath Ulber is now the most significant pawn in that game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6250'),
(12058, 'Chaosbound', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The world of the Runelords has been combined by magic with another parallel world to form a new one, the beginning of a process that may unify all worlds into the one true world. This story picks up after the events of *The Wyrmling Horde* and follows two of Farlandâ€™s well-known heroes, Borenson and Myrrima, on a quest to save their devastated land and the people of the new world from certain destruction. But the land is not the only thing that has been altered forever: in the change, Borenson has merged with a mighty and monstrous creature from the other world, Aaath Ulber. He begins to be a different person, a berserker warrior, as well as having a huge new body because of the transformation of worlds. Thousands have died, lands have sunk below the sea and, elsewhere, risen from it. The supernatural rulers of the world are part of a universal evil, yet play a Byzantine game of dark power politics among themselves. And Aaath Ulber is now the most significant pawn in that game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17805'),
(12059, 'Chaosbound: The Eighth Book of the Runelords', 'David Farland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The world of the Runelords has been combined by magic with another parallel world to form a new one, the beginning of a process that may unify all worlds into the one true world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This story picks up after the events of *The Wyrmling Horde* and follows two of Farlandâ€™s well-known heroes, Borenson and Myrrima, on a quest to save their devastated land and the people of the new world from certain destruction. But the land is not the only thing that has been altered forever: in the change, Borenson has merged with a mighty and monstrous creature from the other world, Aaath Ulber.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He begins to be a different person, a berserker warrior, as well as having a huge new body because of the transformation of worlds. Thousands have died, lands have sunk below the sea and, elsewhere, risen from it. The supernatural rulers of the world are part of a universal evil, yet play a Byzantine game of dark power politics among themselves. And Aaath Ulber is now the most significant pawn in that game.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The world of the Runelords has been combined by magic with another parallel world to form a new one, the beginning of a process that may unify all worlds into the one true world. This story picks up after the events of *The Wyrmling Horde* and follows two of Farlandâ€™s well-known heroes, Borenson and Myrrima, on a quest to save their devastated land and the people of the new world from certain destruction. But the land is not the only thing that has been altered forever: in the change, Borenson has merged with a mighty and monstrous creature from the other world, Aaath Ulber. He begins to be a different person, a berserker warrior, as well as having a huge new body because of the transformation of worlds. Thousands have died, lands have sunk below the sea and, elsewhere, risen from it. The supernatural rulers of the world are part of a universal evil, yet play a Byzantine game of dark power politics among themselves. And Aaath Ulber is now the most significant pawn in that game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25895'),
(12060, 'Chapterhouse, Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A beautiful new hardcover package for the "exciting and gripping" (*Kirkus Reviews*) *New York Times* bestselling science fiction classic.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest-the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune''s power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse, and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they''ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy-the spice Melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes-a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad''Dib.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25827'),
(12061, 'Chapterhouse: Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A beautiful new hardcover package for the "exciting and gripping" (*Kirkus Reviews*) *New York Times* bestselling science fiction classic.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest-the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune''s power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse, and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they''ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy-the spice Melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes-a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad''Dib.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5533'),
(12062, 'Chapterhouse: Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A beautiful new hardcover package for the "exciting and gripping" (*Kirkus Reviews*) *New York Times* bestselling science fiction classic.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest-the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune''s power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse, and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they''ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy-the spice Melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes-a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad''Dib.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10276'),
(12063, 'Chapterhouse: Dune', 'Herbert, Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15029'),
(12064, 'Chapterhouse: Dune', 'Herbert, Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19061'),
(12065, 'Chapterhouse: Dune', 'Herbert, Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28141'),
(12066, 'Charity Girl', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer, in her inimitable style, explores the lengths to which a gentleman must go to avoid scandal when confronted by a very young runaway lady.\n</p>\n<p>\n When Viscount Desford encounters Charity Steane walking to London alone, he feels honor bound to assist her. Dashing about the countryside to find Charity''s elusive grandfather, the Viscount must somehow prevent his exasperating charge from bringing ruin upon herself-and him.\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is the most delightful new Georgette Heyer Regency romance in several years. It is witty, full of dashing period slang, and it trifles with the affairs of several maids and men with such style and gentle irony that readers of good ''ton,'' as Miss Heyer herself might put it, will find reading it a very ''comfortable cose'' indeed." -Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or private life. It is known that she was born in Wimbledon in August 1902, and her first novel, The Black Moth, was published in 1921.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer published 56 books over the next 53 years, until her death from lung cancer in 1974. Heyer''s large volume of works included Regency romances, mysteries and historical fiction. Known also as the Queen of Regency romance, Heyer was legendary for her research, historical accuracy and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. Her last book, My Lord John, was published posthumously in 1975. She was married to George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer, and they had one son together, Richard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18371'),
(12067, 'Charlatan', 'Pope Brock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In 1917, after years of selling worthless patent remedies throughout the Southeast, John R. Brinkley -- America''s most brazen young con man -- arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. He set up a medical practice and introduced an outlandish surgical method using goat glands to restore the fading virility of local farmers.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was all nonsense, of course, but thousands of paying customers quickly turned "Dr." Brinkley into America''s richest and most famous surgeon. His notoriety captured the attention of the great quackbuster Morris Fishbein, who vowed to put the country''s "most daring and dangerous" charlatan out of business.\n</p>\n<p>\n Their cat-and-mouse game lasted throughout the 1920s and ''30s, but despite Fishbein''s efforts Brinkley prospered wildly. When he ran for governor of Kansas, he invented campaigning techniques still used in modern politics. Thumbing his nose at American regulators, he built the world''s most powerful radio transmitter just across the Rio Grande to offer sundry cures, and killed or maimed patients by the score, yet his warped genius produced innovations in broadcasting that endure to this day. By introducing country music and blues to the nation, Brinkley also became a seminal force in rock ''n'' roll. In short, he is the most creative criminal this country has ever produced.\n</p>\n<p>\n Culminating in a decisive courtroom confrontation that pitted Brinkley against his nemesis Fishbein,\n <em>\n  Charlatan\n </em>\n is a marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America that was ripe for the bamboozling.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  About the Author\n </strong>\n <br />\n POPE BROCK is the author of the critically acclaimed\n <em>\n  Indiana Gothic,\n </em>\n the story of his great-grandfather''s murder in 1908. Brock has written for numerous publications, including\n <em>\n  Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ,\n </em>\n and the London\n <em>\n  Sunday Times Magazine\n </em>\n . He lives in upstate New York with his twin daughters, Molly and Hannah.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8115'),
(12068, 'The Charlemagne Pursuit', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In bestseller Berry''s fourth thriller to feature exâ€“Justice Department agent Cotton Malone (after\n <em>\n  The Venetian Betrayal\n </em>\n ), Malone embarks on a search for answers about his father, Capt. Forrest Malone, after learning that instead of dying in 1971 in a nuclear sub accident in the North Atlantic, his father actually died while on a secret submarine mission to the Antarctic. Meanwhile, bad guy Adm. Langford Ramsey schemes to become the next ranking officer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The two story lines merge as a group led by Malone races to Antarctica, where they find a strange underground city belonging to the Aryans, an advanced race who inhabited the earth at the dawn of our own civilization. A meticulous researcher, Berry carefully integrates such elements as Charlemagne, Nazis, ancient manuscripts, historical puzzles and scientific surprises into the plot. Those who relish suspense in the\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n vein will snap this one up, the best yet in the series.\n <em>\n  10-city author tour. (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Berry outdoes himself in his latest Cotton Malone adventure (after\n <em>\n  The Venetian Betrayal\n </em>\n ). Using his connections in the federal government, Cotton asks to see a classified file that details the mission that resulted in his father''s death. He knew his father died on a submarine but none of the shocking details about where or why he died. But Cotton is not the only person who wants this file, and they kill to get it. Nazi missions to the Antarctic, ancient societies, and a valuable artifact from Charlemagne''s tomb all play key roles as Malone uncovers the truth. So much is going on that there is enough material for two good books, let alone one great one. Mixed in with the complicated action, Berry finds the time to explore the characters as well, making this his most personal and best book to date. For all fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 8/08.]â€”Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1084'),
(12069, 'The Charlemagne Pursuit', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In bestseller Berry''s fourth thriller to feature exâ€“Justice Department agent Cotton Malone (after\n <em>\n  The Venetian Betrayal\n </em>\n ), Malone embarks on a search for answers about his father, Capt. Forrest Malone, after learning that instead of dying in 1971 in a nuclear sub accident in the North Atlantic, his father actually died while on a secret submarine mission to the Antarctic. Meanwhile, bad guy Adm. Langford Ramsey schemes to become the next ranking officer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The two story lines merge as a group led by Malone races to Antarctica, where they find a strange underground city belonging to the Aryans, an advanced race who inhabited the earth at the dawn of our own civilization. A meticulous researcher, Berry carefully integrates such elements as Charlemagne, Nazis, ancient manuscripts, historical puzzles and scientific surprises into the plot. Those who relish suspense in the\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n vein will snap this one up, the best yet in the series.\n <em>\n  10-city author tour. (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Berry outdoes himself in his latest Cotton Malone adventure (after\n <em>\n  The Venetian Betrayal\n </em>\n ). Using his connections in the federal government, Cotton asks to see a classified file that details the mission that resulted in his father''s death. He knew his father died on a submarine but none of the shocking details about where or why he died. But Cotton is not the only person who wants this file, and they kill to get it. Nazi missions to the Antarctic, ancient societies, and a valuable artifact from Charlemagne''s tomb all play key roles as Malone uncovers the truth. So much is going on that there is enough material for two good books, let alone one great one. Mixed in with the complicated action, Berry finds the time to explore the characters as well, making this his most personal and best book to date. For all fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 8/08.]â€”Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8451'),
(12070, 'The Charlemagne Pursuit', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In bestseller Berry''s fourth thriller to feature exâ€“Justice Department agent Cotton Malone (after\n <em>\n  The Venetian Betrayal\n </em>\n ), Malone embarks on a search for answers about his father, Capt. Forrest Malone, after learning that instead of dying in 1971 in a nuclear sub accident in the North Atlantic, his father actually died while on a secret submarine mission to the Antarctic. Meanwhile, bad guy Adm. Langford Ramsey schemes to become the next ranking officer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The two story lines merge as a group led by Malone races to Antarctica, where they find a strange underground city belonging to the Aryans, an advanced race who inhabited the earth at the dawn of our own civilization. A meticulous researcher, Berry carefully integrates such elements as Charlemagne, Nazis, ancient manuscripts, historical puzzles and scientific surprises into the plot. Those who relish suspense in the\n <em>\n  Da Vinci Code\n </em>\n vein will snap this one up, the best yet in the series.\n <em>\n  10-city author tour. (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Berry outdoes himself in his latest Cotton Malone adventure (after\n <em>\n  The Venetian Betrayal\n </em>\n ). Using his connections in the federal government, Cotton asks to see a classified file that details the mission that resulted in his father''s death. He knew his father died on a submarine but none of the shocking details about where or why he died. But Cotton is not the only person who wants this file, and they kill to get it. Nazi missions to the Antarctic, ancient societies, and a valuable artifact from Charlemagne''s tomb all play key roles as Malone uncovers the truth. So much is going on that there is enough material for two good books, let alone one great one. Mixed in with the complicated action, Berry finds the time to explore the characters as well, making this his most personal and best book to date. For all fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 8/08.]â€”Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23888'),
(12071, 'Charley&#39;s Web', 'Joy Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jill Rohmer, a convicted child killer with a borderline personality disorder, lures Charlotte Charley Webb, a popular columnist for the\n <em>\n  Palm Beach Post\n </em>\n and single mom, into a web of danger and deceit in this spine-tingler from bestseller Fielding (_Heartstopper_). When Jill invites Charley to collaborate on the true story of what really happened to the three children she was convicted of murdering, Charley at first thinks it sounds like a great idea. Her sister Anne is, after all, a bestselling romance author, so why couldn''t Charley have a nonfiction bestseller? Charley meets with Jill''s attractive lawyer, Alex Prescott, who secures a book contract. After committing to the project, Charley begins dating Alex. Then Charley learns Jill had an accomplice, someone on the loose whom Jill calls Jack. Fielding pulls out all the stops as the identity of the ruthless murderer becomes obvious, and Charley must race against time to catch the horrible Jack and save his next targetâ€”her son.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fresh offÂ the solid thriller Heartstopper (2007), prolific, perennially best-selling Fielding delivers another suspenseful tale. Feisty Charley Webb is forever stirring up controversy with her popular column for the Palm Beach Post. But while her career is going great guns, her personal life is something of a struggle. Sheâ€™s raising two children on her own,Â her satiricalÂ columns about her neighborsâ€™ hobbies and opinions have not made herÂ very popular in her residential community, andÂ she has only recently reestablished a relationship with her mother, who abandoned the family when Charley was eight. When she is asked to write a biography ofÂ notorious femaleÂ serial killer Jill Rohmer, whose victims were children, she sees it as a chance to take her career to the next level. However, she is unprepared for the emotional toll that her interviews with the wily felon will exact, and she begins to receive a series of e-mails threatening harm to her own children. Despite the repetitive and, at times, inane dialogue, FieldingÂ turnsÂ her latestÂ page-turnerÂ into a chillingly tense read while creating another winning lead in the smart-mouthed Charley. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4125'),
(12072, 'Charley&#39;s Web', 'Joy Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jill Rohmer, a convicted child killer with a borderline personality disorder, lures Charlotte Charley Webb, a popular columnist for the\n <em>\n  Palm Beach Post\n </em>\n and single mom, into a web of danger and deceit in this spine-tingler from bestseller Fielding (_Heartstopper_). When Jill invites Charley to collaborate on the true story of what really happened to the three children she was convicted of murdering, Charley at first thinks it sounds like a great idea. Her sister Anne is, after all, a bestselling romance author, so why couldn''t Charley have a nonfiction bestseller? Charley meets with Jill''s attractive lawyer, Alex Prescott, who secures a book contract. After committing to the project, Charley begins dating Alex. Then Charley learns Jill had an accomplice, someone on the loose whom Jill calls Jack. Fielding pulls out all the stops as the identity of the ruthless murderer becomes obvious, and Charley must race against time to catch the horrible Jack and save his next targetâ€”her son.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fresh offÂ the solid thriller Heartstopper (2007), prolific, perennially best-selling Fielding delivers another suspenseful tale. Feisty Charley Webb is forever stirring up controversy with her popular column for the Palm Beach Post. But while her career is going great guns, her personal life is something of a struggle. Sheâ€™s raising two children on her own,Â her satiricalÂ columns about her neighborsâ€™ hobbies and opinions have not made herÂ very popular in her residential community, andÂ she has only recently reestablished a relationship with her mother, who abandoned the family when Charley was eight. When she is asked to write a biography ofÂ notorious femaleÂ serial killer Jill Rohmer, whose victims were children, she sees it as a chance to take her career to the next level. However, she is unprepared for the emotional toll that her interviews with the wily felon will exact, and she begins to receive a series of e-mails threatening harm to her own children. Despite the repetitive and, at times, inane dialogue, FieldingÂ turnsÂ her latestÂ page-turnerÂ into a chillingly tense read while creating another winning lead in the smart-mouthed Charley. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9730'),
(12073, 'Charley&#39;s Web', 'Joy Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jill Rohmer, a convicted child killer with a borderline personality disorder, lures Charlotte Charley Webb, a popular columnist for the\n <em>\n  Palm Beach Post\n </em>\n and single mom, into a web of danger and deceit in this spine-tingler from bestseller Fielding (_Heartstopper_). When Jill invites Charley to collaborate on the true story of what really happened to the three children she was convicted of murdering, Charley at first thinks it sounds like a great idea. Her sister Anne is, after all, a bestselling romance author, so why couldn''t Charley have a nonfiction bestseller? Charley meets with Jill''s attractive lawyer, Alex Prescott, who secures a book contract. After committing to the project, Charley begins dating Alex. Then Charley learns Jill had an accomplice, someone on the loose whom Jill calls Jack. Fielding pulls out all the stops as the identity of the ruthless murderer becomes obvious, and Charley must race against time to catch the horrible Jack and save his next targetâ€”her son.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fresh off the solid thriller Heartstopper (2007), prolific, perennially best-selling Fielding delivers another suspenseful tale. Feisty Charley Webb is forever stirring up controversy with her popular column for the Palm Beach Post. But while her career is going great guns, her personal life is something of a struggle. Sheâ€™s raising two children on her own, her satirical columns about her neighborsâ€™ hobbies and opinions have not made her very popular in her residential community, and she has only recently reestablished a relationship with her mother, who abandoned the family when Charley was eight. When she is asked to write a biography of notorious female serial killer Jill Rohmer, whose victims were children, she sees it as a chance to take her career to the next level. However, she is unprepared for the emotional toll that her interviews with the wily felon will exact, and she begins to receive a series of e-mails threatening harm to her own children. Despite the repetitive and, at times, inane dialogue, Fielding turns her latest page-turner into a chillingly tense read while creating another winning lead in the smart-mouthed Charley. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20444'),
(12074, 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  What happens when the five luckiest children in the entire world walk through the doors of Willy Wonka''s famous, mysterious chocolate factory? What happens when, one by one, the children disobey Mr. Wonka''s orders? In Dahl''s most popular story, the nasty are punished and the good are deliciously, sumptuously rewarded.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14679'),
(12075, 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', 'Dahl, Roald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24835'),
(12076, 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator', 'Roald Dahl &amp; Quentin Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Picking right up where\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\n </em>\n left off,\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator\n </em>\n continues the adventures of Charlie Bucket, his family, and Willy Wonka, the eccentric candy maker. As the book begins, our heroes are shooting into the sky in a glass elevator, headed for destinations unknown. What follows is exactly the kind of high-spirited magical madness and mayhem we''ve all come to expect from Willy Wonka and his creator Roald Dahl. The American space race gets a send-up, as does the President, and Charlie''s family gets a second chance at childhood. Throw in the Vermicious Knids, Gnoolies, and Minusland and we once again witness pure genius.\n <em>\n  (Ages 9 to 12)\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dahlâ€™s phenomenal popularity among children speaks for his breathless storytelling charms. --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1822'),
(12077, 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator', 'Roald Dahl &amp; Quentin Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Picking right up where\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\n </em>\n left off,\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator\n </em>\n continues the adventures of Charlie Bucket, his family, and Willy Wonka, the eccentric candy maker. As the book begins, our heroes are shooting into the sky in a glass elevator, headed for destinations unknown. What follows is exactly the kind of high-spirited magical madness and mayhem we''ve all come to expect from Willy Wonka and his creator Roald Dahl. The American space race gets a send-up, as does the President, and Charlie''s family gets a second chance at childhood. Throw in the Vermicious Knids, Gnoolies, and Minusland and we once again witness pure genius.\n <em>\n  (Ages 9 to 12)\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dahlâ€™s phenomenal popularity among children speaks for his breathless storytelling charms. --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9202'),
(12078, 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator', 'Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Picking right up where\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\n </em>\n left off,\n <em>\n  Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator\n </em>\n continues the adventures of Charlie Bucket, his family, and Willy Wonka, the eccentric candy maker. As the book begins, our heroes are shooting into the sky in a glass elevator, headed for destinations unknown. What follows is exactly the kind of high-spirited magical madness and mayhem we''ve all come to expect from Willy Wonka and his creator Roald Dahl. The American space race gets a send-up, as does the President, and Charlie''s family gets a second chance at childhood. Throw in the Vermicious Knids, Gnoolies, and Minusland and we once again witness pure genius.\n <em>\n  (Ages 9 to 12)\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dahlâ€™s phenomenal popularity among children speaks for his breathless storytelling charms. --\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24834'),
(12079, 'Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors', 'Jenny Nimmo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a dark laboratory at BloorÅ¼s Academy, somebody is brewing up trouble...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4503');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(12080, 'Charlie Bone and the Hidden King', 'Jenny Nimmo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Charlie Bone awakes one morning to find the city covered with snow and all the animals gone. Where have they gone - and why? Blessed the dog tells Billy there was a terrible shuddering of the earth and immediately after, he saw a witch with two shadows crossing the hall in the Bloor''s Academy. Could the discovery of an ancient mirror, and the movement of the shadow in the Red King''s portrait have something to do with it? And a strange girl appears outside Charlie''s house. She tells him he must follow her to find the animals. Can he trust her, and will she perhaps lead him to find someone he lost long before the animals?The spellbinding final book in the best-selling series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4505'),
(12081, 'Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy', 'Jenny Nimmo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the ruins of the castle of the Red King, Charlie and Tancred discover a tree-girl that whispers secrets to them and asks for their help in restoring her to a real girl. When Charlie returns to help her, he finds that the tree has been destroyed. Meanwhile, the Yewbeam sisters are trying to marry Amy Bone, Charlie begins to hear portraits speaking, and a new music teacher has arrived at Bloor''s Academy. Soon Emma discovers that the invisible boy living upstairs in the attic is her older brother, and when Manfred finds out their plans, he threatens to lock up Emma.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4507'),
(12082, 'Charlie Bone and the Time Twister', 'Jenny Nimmo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n January 1916. On the coldest night in memory, Henry Yewbeam''s cousin Zeke tricks him into using the Time Twister, a beautiful marble full of shining colours that draws him into the future. January 2002. Charlie meets Henry reappearing at Bloor''s in the twenty-first century, and realises Henry''s cousin is none other than old Ezekiel Bloor. Charlie and Fidelio are joined by Cook and the Flames in their attempts to hide Henry from Ezekiel''s spies. But Manfred captures Henry, and although Mrs Bloor tried to save him, she vanishes with the Time Twister. With the help of the endowed, Charlie must enter the portrait of Skarpo the sorceror and retrieve the wand of a Welsh wizard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4509'),
(12083, 'Charlie Parker 01 - Every Dead Thing', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14669'),
(12084, 'Charlie Parker 01 - Every Dead Thing', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21402'),
(12085, 'Charlie si fabrica de ciocolata', 'Ronald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25183'),
(12086, 'Charlie St. Cloud', 'Ben Sherwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a snug New England fishing village, Charlie St. Cloud tends the lawns and monuments of an ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. After surviving the car accident that claimed his brother''s life, Charlie is graced with an extraordinary gift: He can see, talk to, and even play catch with Sam''s spirit. Into this magical world comes Tess Carroll, a captivating woman training for a solo sailing trip around the globe. Fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm that propels her into Charlie''s life. Their beautiful and uncommon connection leads to a race against time and a choice between death and life, between the past and the future, between holding on and letting go â€” and the discovery that miracles can happen if we simply open our hearts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7323'),
(12087, 'Charlie St. Cloud', 'Ben Sherwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a snug New England fishing village, Charlie St. Cloud tends the lawns and monuments of an ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. After surviving the car accident that claimed his brother''s life, Charlie is graced with an extraordinary gift: He can see, talk to, and even play catch with Sam''s spirit. Into this magical world comes Tess Carroll, a captivating woman training for a solo sailing trip around the globe. Fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm that propels her into Charlie''s life. Their beautiful and uncommon connection leads to a race against time and a choice between death and life, between the past and the future, between holding on and letting go â€” and the discovery that miracles can happen if we simply open our hearts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12620'),
(12088, 'Charlie St. Cloud', 'Ben Sherwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a snug New England fishing village, Charlie St. Cloud tends the lawns and monuments of an ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. After surviving the car accident that claimed his brother''s life, Charlie is graced with an extraordinary gift: He can see, talk to, and even play catch with Sam''s spirit. Into this magical world comes Tess Carroll, a captivating woman training for a solo sailing trip around the globe. Fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm that propels her into Charlie''s life. Their beautiful and uncommon connection leads to a race against time and a choice between death and life, between the past and the future, between holding on and letting go â€” and the discovery that miracles can happen if we simply open our hearts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16618'),
(12089, 'Charlie St. Cloud', 'Ben Sherwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a snug New England fishing village, Charlie St. Cloud tends the lawns and monuments of an ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. After surviving the car accident that claimed his brother''s life, Charlie is graced with an extraordinary gift: He can see, talk to, and even play catch with Sam''s spirit. Into this magical world comes Tess Carroll, a captivating woman training for a solo sailing trip around the globe. Fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm that propels her into Charlie''s life. Their beautiful and uncommon connection leads to a race against time and a choice between death and life, between the past and the future, between holding on and letting go â€” and the discovery that miracles can happen if we simply open our hearts.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26533'),
(12090, 'Charlotte Gray', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the bestselling author ofBirdsongcomesCharlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own. In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when he fails to return from a daring flight into France she is determined to find him. In the service of the Resistance, she travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. Here she will come face-to-face with the harrowing truth of what took place during Europe''s darkest years, and will confront a terrifying secret that threatens to cast its shadow over the remainder of her days. Vividly rendered, tremendously moving, and with a narrative sweep and power reminiscent of his novelBirdsong,Charlotte Grayconfirms Sebastian Faulks as one of the finest novelists working today. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1366'),
(12091, 'Charlotte Gray', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the bestselling author ofBirdsongcomesCharlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own. In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when he fails to return from a daring flight into France she is determined to find him. In the service of the Resistance, she travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. Here she will come face-to-face with the harrowing truth of what took place during Europe''s darkest years, and will confront a terrifying secret that threatens to cast its shadow over the remainder of her days. Vividly rendered, tremendously moving, and with a narrative sweep and power reminiscent of his novelBirdsong,Charlotte Grayconfirms Sebastian Faulks as one of the finest novelists working today. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9636'),
(12092, 'Charlotte Gray', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the bestselling author ofBirdsongcomesCharlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own. In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when he fails to return from a daring flight into France she is determined to find him. In the service of the Resistance, she travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. Here she will come face-to-face with the harrowing truth of what took place during Europe''s darkest years, and will confront a terrifying secret that threatens to cast its shadow over the remainder of her days. Vividly rendered, tremendously moving, and with a narrative sweep and power reminiscent of his novelBirdsong,Charlotte Grayconfirms Sebastian Faulks as one of the finest novelists working today. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23592'),
(12093, 'The Charm School', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This highly charged espionage thriller gets off to a stunning start. On the road from Smolensk to Moscow, an American tourist, Gregory Fisher, is confronted by a man on the run: an Air Force major who was shot down over appears from his hotel and soon turns up dead, the victim of a suspicious car crash. Intelligence officer Sam Hollis, press attache Lisa Rhodes and CIA bureau chief Seth Alevy must discover for themselves what is going on at the Charm School. They must also decide whether public revelation of a horrifying KGB operation during the new era of glasnost might not damage American/Soviet relations. In this exciting, polemic novel, DeMille (Word of Honor) limns an authentic portrait of Russian society. He conveys the claustrophobic life of American Embassy officials impossibly restricted in movement, and he creates spirited American agents who dodge and spar wittily with coarse KGB men. Once DeMille brings readers into the Charm School itself, however, he cannot sustain the magic that has propelled the narrative for two-thirds of its generous length. At this point, the plot becomes predictable, and the finale differs little from standard adventure escapes, with a cruel resolution to boot. Still, it''s riveting reading most of the way. 100,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sustained action of this chilling vision of modern Russia starts with a young American tourist phoning the U.S. embassy in Moscow to report an unusual encounter with a U.S. Air Force major in the forest near Borodino. The tourist then vanishes and the officer is identified as a Vietnam MIA. Attaches Sam Hollis and Lisa Rhodes eventually uncover a spy school graduating several hundred "Americans" each year and staffed by an unwilling faculty made up of American servicemen missing from Vietnam. The blockbuster ends after a maverick CIA agent pulls off a hair-raising escape to the West, carrying proof of the camp''s existence. John North, L.R.C., Ryerson Polytechnical Inst., Toronto\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2658'),
(12094, 'The Charm School', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This highly charged espionage thriller gets off to a stunning start. On the road from Smolensk to Moscow, an American tourist, Gregory Fisher, is confronted by a man on the run: an Air Force major who was shot down over appears from his hotel and soon turns up dead, the victim of a suspicious car crash. Intelligence officer Sam Hollis, press attache Lisa Rhodes and CIA bureau chief Seth Alevy must discover for themselves what is going on at the Charm School. They must also decide whether public revelation of a horrifying KGB operation during the new era of glasnost might not damage American/Soviet relations. In this exciting, polemic novel, DeMille (Word of Honor) limns an authentic portrait of Russian society. He conveys the claustrophobic life of American Embassy officials impossibly restricted in movement, and he creates spirited American agents who dodge and spar wittily with coarse KGB men. Once DeMille brings readers into the Charm School itself, however, he cannot sustain the magic that has propelled the narrative for two-thirds of its generous length. At this point, the plot becomes predictable, and the finale differs little from standard adventure escapes, with a cruel resolution to boot. Still, it''s riveting reading most of the way. 100,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sustained action of this chilling vision of modern Russia starts with a young American tourist phoning the U.S. embassy in Moscow to report an unusual encounter with a U.S. Air Force major in the forest near Borodino. The tourist then vanishes and the officer is identified as a Vietnam MIA. Attaches Sam Hollis and Lisa Rhodes eventually uncover a spy school graduating several hundred "Americans" each year and staffed by an unwilling faculty made up of American servicemen missing from Vietnam. The blockbuster ends after a maverick CIA agent pulls off a hair-raising escape to the West, carrying proof of the camp''s existence. John North, L.R.C., Ryerson Polytechnical Inst., Toronto\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9236'),
(12095, 'The charm school', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This highly charged espionage thriller gets off to a stunning start. On the road from Smolensk to Moscow, an American tourist, Gregory Fisher, is confronted by a man on the run: an Air Force major who was shot down over appears from his hotel and soon turns up dead, the victim of a suspicious car crash. Intelligence officer Sam Hollis, press attache Lisa Rhodes and CIA bureau chief Seth Alevy must discover for themselves what is going on at the Charm School. They must also decide whether public revelation of a horrifying KGB operation during the new era of glasnost might not damage American/Soviet relations. In this exciting, polemic novel, DeMille (Word of Honor) limns an authentic portrait of Russian society. He conveys the claustrophobic life of American Embassy officials impossibly restricted in movement, and he creates spirited American agents who dodge and spar wittily with coarse KGB men. Once DeMille brings readers into the Charm School itself, however, he cannot sustain the magic that has propelled the narrative for two-thirds of its generous length. At this point, the plot becomes predictable, and the finale differs little from standard adventure escapes, with a cruel resolution to boot. Still, it''s riveting reading most of the way. 100,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sustained action of this chilling vision of modern Russia starts with a young American tourist phoning the U.S. embassy in Moscow to report an unusual encounter with a U.S. Air Force major in the forest near Borodino. The tourist then vanishes and the officer is identified as a Vietnam MIA. Attaches Sam Hollis and Lisa Rhodes eventually uncover a spy school graduating several hundred "Americans" each year and staffed by an unwilling faculty made up of American servicemen missing from Vietnam. The blockbuster ends after a maverick CIA agent pulls off a hair-raising escape to the West, carrying proof of the camp''s existence. John North, L.R.C., Ryerson Polytechnical Inst., Toronto\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22239'),
(12096, 'Charmed', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anastasia Donovan knew that her gift marked her as different, special -perhaps even dangerous. She had pent year hiding her eli from the world,crrified about the can equences of revealing what she really waÂ·. VI''hen Boone Sav.yer came into her life, bent on finding out the ITuth about her, Anastasia had to protect herself and her magic at all costs, She would keep her secrets whatever it look. Then -he was confronted with a terrifying thl-eat to everything he had learned Lo love. With a child''s future at take, Anasla ia could not deny he powers, even if it meant ri king her own life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2556'),
(12097, 'Charmed', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anastasia Donovan knew that her gift marked her as different, special -perhaps even dangerous. She had pent year hiding her eli from the world,crrified about the can equences of revealing what she really waÂ·. VI''hen Boone Sav.yer came into her life, bent on finding out the ITuth about her, Anastasia had to protect herself and her magic at all costs, She would keep her secrets whatever it look. Then -he was confronted with a terrifying thl-eat to everything he had learned Lo love. With a child''s future at take, Anasla ia could not deny he powers, even if it meant ri king her own life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22316'),
(12098, 'The Charmed Sphere', 'Catherine Asaro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15431'),
(12099, 'Charmed to Death: An Ophelia and Abby Mystery', 'Shirley Damsgaard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ophelia Jensen''s good witch granny Abigail revels in her paranormal powers. But Ophelia never asked for her bothersome psychic abilities -- especially since they proved worthless when the thirty-something librarian''s best friend Brian was murdered by a still-unknown assailant. Now, five years later, another friend is gone, killed in almost identical fashion. Even dear old Abby isn''t safe, distracted as she is by her fight to prevent a massive, mega-polluting pig-farming operation from invading their small Iowa town. And Ophelia can''t count on her snarling, scoffing nemesis, police detective Henry Comacho, to get the job done, so she''ll have to take matters into her own hands. Because a common thread to the crimes -- and a possible next victim -- is suddenly becoming troublingly apparent . . . and it''s Ophelia Jensen herself!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1315'),
(12100, 'Charmed to death: an Ophelia and Abby mystery', 'Shirley Damsgaard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ophelia Jensen''s good witch granny Abigail revels in her paranormal powers. But Ophelia never asked for her bothersome psychic abilities -- especially since they proved worthless when the thirty-something librarian''s best friend Brian was murdered by a still-unknown assailant. Now, five years later, another friend is gone, killed in almost identical fashion. Even dear old Abby isn''t safe, distracted as she is by her fight to prevent a massive, mega-polluting pig-farming operation from invading their small Iowa town. And Ophelia can''t count on her snarling, scoffing nemesis, police detective Henry Comacho, to get the job done, so she''ll have to take matters into her own hands. Because a common thread to the crimes -- and a possible next victim -- is suddenly becoming troublingly apparent . . . and it''s Ophelia Jensen herself!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23629'),
(12101, 'Charmides', 'Platon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25230'),
(12102, 'The Charnel Prince', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  The Charnel Prince\n </em>\n , author Greg Keyes keeps up the pace set by __ with a second taut entry in his series--the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone. The Briar King has awoken and mythical beasts roam the land. Crotheny''s king and his daughters are dead by betrayal. His bereaved wife Murielle keeps tenuous hold on the throne and the hope that her headstrong daughter, Anne Dare, has escaped the assassins'' blades. The queen sends her most trusted and lethal knight, Sir Neil MeqVren, on a quest to discover her daughter''s fate. He will find Anne has narrowly escaped the massacre at Saint Cer and lives on the run in the company of her maid, Austra, and the duel-prone swordsman Cazio. Meanwhile, woodsman Aspar White is sent on a mission to slay the Briar King. All will fight for their lives in the wake of dark forces emerging from shadow to force a dangerously forgotten prophecy into the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Keyes is among authors like George R.R. Martin whose work is reinvigorating the often tired genre of high fantasy with rich, dark, and mature storytelling. His characters are vibrant and range far beyond Dungeons &amp; Dragons clichÃ©. He places these starkly drawn men and women into a world built upon a squirming foundation of myth, legend, prophecy, and folklore, which, to their own peril, they are only beginning to understand.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The age of Everon is ending in the elegiac second installment of bestseller Keyes''s fresh and imaginative high fantasy saga that began with 2003''s\n <em>\n  The Briar King\n </em>\n . Told in a inventive prose often as disturbing as it is beautiful, Keyes''s sprawling multiple-viewpoint narrative explores a weird landscape fraught with "ancient evils and fresh curses." Black briars spurt up "like slow fountains" wherever the Briar King walks in the King''s Forest. As the Briar King turns villagers into unholy monsters, creatures such as greffyns and manticores once deemed the stuff of myth attack anyone who dares challenge him. In a land on the brink of civil war, assassins have claimed most of Queen Muriel''s family except for her gifted youngest daughter, Anne Dare, who escaped death with her servant Austra, and is now struggling to return home to fulfill a prophecy. Other well-drawn characters include Sir Neil MeqVren, the queen''s protector, and Leovigild "Leoff" Ackenzal, a talented composer. Those who haven''t read\n <em>\n  The Briar King\n </em>\n may have problems at first following the plot, but Keyes''s lyricism, pacing and deft handling of eternally important topicsâ€”the dance between church and state, man and woman, life and deathâ€”make this a thought-provoking entertainment.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4936'),
(12103, 'The Charnel Prince', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  The Charnel Prince\n </em>\n , author Greg Keyes keeps up the pace set by __ with a second taut entry in his series--the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone. The Briar King has awoken and mythical beasts roam the land. Crotheny''s king and his daughters are dead by betrayal. His bereaved wife Murielle keeps tenuous hold on the throne and the hope that her headstrong daughter, Anne Dare, has escaped the assassins'' blades. The queen sends her most trusted and lethal knight, Sir Neil MeqVren, on a quest to discover her daughter''s fate. He will find Anne has narrowly escaped the massacre at Saint Cer and lives on the run in the company of her maid, Austra, and the duel-prone swordsman Cazio. Meanwhile, woodsman Aspar White is sent on a mission to slay the Briar King. All will fight for their lives in the wake of dark forces emerging from shadow to force a dangerously forgotten prophecy into the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Keyes is among authors like George R.R. Martin whose work is reinvigorating the often tired genre of high fantasy with rich, dark, and mature storytelling. His characters are vibrant and range far beyond Dungeons &amp; Dragons clichÃ©. He places these starkly drawn men and women into a world built upon a squirming foundation of myth, legend, prophecy, and folklore, which, to their own peril, they are only beginning to understand.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The age of Everon is ending in the elegiac second installment of bestseller Keyes''s fresh and imaginative high fantasy saga that began with 2003''s\n <em>\n  The Briar King\n </em>\n . Told in a inventive prose often as disturbing as it is beautiful, Keyes''s sprawling multiple-viewpoint narrative explores a weird landscape fraught with "ancient evils and fresh curses." Black briars spurt up "like slow fountains" wherever the Briar King walks in the King''s Forest. As the Briar King turns villagers into unholy monsters, creatures such as greffyns and manticores once deemed the stuff of myth attack anyone who dares challenge him. In a land on the brink of civil war, assassins have claimed most of Queen Muriel''s family except for her gifted youngest daughter, Anne Dare, who escaped death with her servant Austra, and is now struggling to return home to fulfill a prophecy. Other well-drawn characters include Sir Neil MeqVren, the queen''s protector, and Leovigild "Leoff" Ackenzal, a talented composer. Those who haven''t read\n <em>\n  The Briar King\n </em>\n may have problems at first following the plot, but Keyes''s lyricism, pacing and deft handling of eternally important topicsâ€”the dance between church and state, man and woman, life and deathâ€”make this a thought-provoking entertainment.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10753'),
(12104, 'The Charnel Prince', 'J. Gregory Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  The Charnel Prince\n </em>\n , author Greg Keyes keeps up the pace set by __ with a second taut entry in his series--the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone. The Briar King has awoken and mythical beasts roam the land. Crotheny''s king and his daughters are dead by betrayal. His bereaved wife Murielle keeps tenuous hold on the throne and the hope that her headstrong daughter, Anne Dare, has escaped the assassins'' blades. The queen sends her most trusted and lethal knight, Sir Neil MeqVren, on a quest to discover her daughter''s fate. He will find Anne has narrowly escaped the massacre at Saint Cer and lives on the run in the company of her maid, Austra, and the duel-prone swordsman Cazio. Meanwhile, woodsman Aspar White is sent on a mission to slay the Briar King. All will fight for their lives in the wake of dark forces emerging from shadow to force a dangerously forgotten prophecy into the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Keyes is among authors like George R.R. Martin whose work is reinvigorating the often tired genre of high fantasy with rich, dark, and mature storytelling. His characters are vibrant and range far beyond Dungeons &amp; Dragons clichÃ©. He places these starkly drawn men and women into a world built upon a squirming foundation of myth, legend, prophecy, and folklore, which, to their own peril, they are only beginning to understand.\n <em>\n  --Jeremy Pugh\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The age of Everon is ending in the elegiac second installment of bestseller Keyes''s fresh and imaginative high fantasy saga that began with 2003''s\n <em>\n  The Briar King\n </em>\n . Told in a inventive prose often as disturbing as it is beautiful, Keyes''s sprawling multiple-viewpoint narrative explores a weird landscape fraught with "ancient evils and fresh curses." Black briars spurt up "like slow fountains" wherever the Briar King walks in the King''s Forest. As the Briar King turns villagers into unholy monsters, creatures such as greffyns and manticores once deemed the stuff of myth attack anyone who dares challenge him. In a land on the brink of civil war, assassins have claimed most of Queen Muriel''s family except for her gifted youngest daughter, Anne Dare, who escaped death with her servant Austra, and is now struggling to return home to fulfill a prophecy. Other well-drawn characters include Sir Neil MeqVren, the queen''s protector, and Leovigild "Leoff" Ackenzal, a talented composer. Those who haven''t read\n <em>\n  The Briar King\n </em>\n may have problems at first following the plot, but Keyes''s lyricism, pacing and deft handling of eternally important topicsâ€”the dance between church and state, man and woman, life and deathâ€”make this a thought-provoking entertainment.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19704'),
(12105, 'Chase: Roman', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ben Chase is a war hero with bitter memories. Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown -- and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to get him? When society is sick, the mad are sane -- and persecution is a killer''s game!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6080'),
(12106, 'Chase: Roman', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ben Chase is a war hero with bitter memories. Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown -- and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to get him? When society is sick, the mad are sane -- and persecution is a killer''s game!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17847'),
(12107, 'Chase: Roman', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ben Chase is a war hero with bitter memories. Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown -- and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to get him? When society is sick, the mad are sane -- and persecution is a killer''s game!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27409'),
(12108, 'Chasing Darkness (2008)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 11', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14604'),
(12109, 'Chasing Darkness (2008)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 11', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23191'),
(12110, 'Chasing Darkness (2008)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 11', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27059'),
(12111, 'Chasing Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This searing stand-alone from bestseller Roberts (The Search) celebrates the smoke jumpers of Missoula, Mont., who routinely risk life and limb to beat down raging forest fires. As close knit as any military combat unit, the "Zulies" include veteran Rowan Tripp, haunted by the loss of Jim Brayner, her onetime jump partner who was killed the previous season in a fall, and rookie Gulliver Curry, who soon earns the nickname "Fast Feet" for his speed and prowess. Threatening trouble is cook Dolly Brakeman, Jim''s girlfriend, who blames Rowan for his deathâ€”and whose new baby may well be Jim''s. Rowan and Gull grow closer as the team battles fires from Montana and Idaho to California and Alaska. Meanwhile, the Zulies are plagued by vandalism and sabotage as well as a killer with arson among his crimes. Roberts fans can expect another bestseller. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline-men and women who wouldn''t know how to live life if it wasn''t on the edge.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s little as thrilling as firefighting-at least to Rowan Tripp. The Missoula smoke jumpers are in Rowan''s blood: her father is a legend. She''s been fighting fires since her eighteenth birthday. At this point, returning to the wilds of Montana for the season feels like coming home-even with reminders of the partner she lost last season still lingering.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fortunately, this year''s rookie crop is one of the strongest ever-and Gulliver Curry''s one of the best. He''s also a walking contradiction, a hotshot firefighter with a big vocabulary and a winter job at a kids'' arcade.\n</p>\n<p>\n Everything is thrown off balance when a dark presence lashes out against Rowan, looking to blame someone for last year''s tragedy. Rowan knows she can''t complicate things with Gull-any distractions in the air or on the ground could mean the end-but if she doesn''t find someone she can lean on, she may not make it through the summer. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2557'),
(12112, 'Chasing Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This searing stand-alone from bestseller Roberts (The Search) celebrates the smoke jumpers of Missoula, Mont., who routinely risk life and limb to beat down raging forest fires. As close knit as any military combat unit, the "Zulies" include veteran Rowan Tripp, haunted by the loss of Jim Brayner, her onetime jump partner who was killed the previous season in a fall, and rookie Gulliver Curry, who soon earns the nickname "Fast Feet" for his speed and prowess. Threatening trouble is cook Dolly Brakeman, Jim''s girlfriend, who blames Rowan for his deathâ€”and whose new baby may well be Jim''s. Rowan and Gull grow closer as the team battles fires from Montana and Idaho to California and Alaska. Meanwhile, the Zulies are plagued by vandalism and sabotage as well as a killer with arson among his crimes. Roberts fans can expect another bestseller. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline-men and women who wouldn''t know how to live life if it wasn''t on the edge.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s little as thrilling as firefighting-at least to Rowan Tripp. The Missoula smoke jumpers are in Rowan''s blood: her father is a legend. She''s been fighting fires since her eighteenth birthday. At this point, returning to the wilds of Montana for the season feels like coming home-even with reminders of the partner she lost last season still lingering.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fortunately, this year''s rookie crop is one of the strongest ever-and Gulliver Curry''s one of the best. He''s also a walking contradiction, a hotshot firefighter with a big vocabulary and a winter job at a kids'' arcade.\n</p>\n<p>\n Everything is thrown off balance when a dark presence lashes out against Rowan, looking to blame someone for last year''s tragedy. Rowan knows she can''t complicate things with Gull-any distractions in the air or on the ground could mean the end-but if she doesn''t find someone she can lean on, she may not make it through the summer. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13516'),
(12113, 'Chasing Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This searing stand-alone from bestseller Roberts (The Search) celebrates the smoke jumpers of Missoula, Mont., who routinely risk life and limb to beat down raging forest fires. As close knit as any military combat unit, the "Zulies" include veteran Rowan Tripp, haunted by the loss of Jim Brayner, her onetime jump partner who was killed the previous season in a fall, and rookie Gulliver Curry, who soon earns the nickname "Fast Feet" for his speed and prowess. Threatening trouble is cook Dolly Brakeman, Jim''s girlfriend, who blames Rowan for his deathâ€”and whose new baby may well be Jim''s. Rowan and Gull grow closer as the team battles fires from Montana and Idaho to California and Alaska. Meanwhile, the Zulies are plagued by vandalism and sabotage as well as a killer with arson among his crimes. Roberts fans can expect another bestseller. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The number-one\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline-men and women who wouldn''t know how to live life if it wasn''t on the edge.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There''s little as thrilling as firefighting-at least to Rowan Tripp. The Missoula smoke jumpers are in Rowan''s blood: her father is a legend. She''s been fighting fires since her eighteenth birthday. At this point, returning to the wilds of Montana for the season feels like coming home-even with reminders of the partner she lost last season still lingering.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fortunately, this year''s rookie crop is one of the strongest ever-and Gulliver Curry''s one of the best. He''s also a walking contradiction, a hotshot firefighter with a big vocabulary and a winter job at a kids'' arcade.\n</p>\n<p>\n Everything is thrown off balance when a dark presence lashes out against Rowan, looking to blame someone for last year''s tragedy. Rowan knows she can''t complicate things with Gull-any distractions in the air or on the ground could mean the end-but if she doesn''t find someone she can lean on, she may not make it through the summer. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22313'),
(12114, 'Chasing Greatness', 'Lazarus, Adam &amp; Schlossman, Steve', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15382'),
(12115, 'Chasing Greatness: Johnny Miller, Arnold Palmer, and the Miracle at Oakmont', 'Adam Lazarus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The unforgettable story of the 1973 U.S. Open-and the unknown young golfer who astonished the world... **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1973, a Who''s Who of golf''s greats gathered at the Oakmont Country Club for the U.S. Open. Among those favored to win were Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. Instead, Johnny Miller-a 26-year-old oneÂ­time phenom from San Francisco-astonished the golfing world by edging out the legends and crafting a record-setting 63 to win by a single stroke.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Featuring extensive archival and video research and candid interviews with leading golfers of the era, *Chasing Greatness* beautifully captures one of the unlikeliest victories and dramatic sports triumphs of the past half century. Authors Adam Lazarus and Steve Schlossman also chronicle the careers and the lives of six extraordinary figures during golf''s modern-day golden era: Miller, Palmer, Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Tom Weiskopf, and John Schlee.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/96'),
(12116, 'Chasing Greatness: Johnny Miller, Arnold Palmer, and the Miracle at Oakmont', 'Adam Lazarus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The unforgettable story of the 1973 U.S. Open-and the unknown young golfer who astonished the world... **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1973, a Who''s Who of golf''s greats gathered at the Oakmont Country Club for the U.S. Open. Among those favored to win were Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. Instead, Johnny Miller-a 26-year-old oneÂ­time phenom from San Francisco-astonished the golfing world by edging out the legends and crafting a record-setting 63 to win by a single stroke.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Featuring extensive archival and video research and candid interviews with leading golfers of the era, *Chasing Greatness* beautifully captures one of the unlikeliest victories and dramatic sports triumphs of the past half century. Authors Adam Lazarus and Steve Schlossman also chronicle the careers and the lives of six extraordinary figures during golf''s modern-day golden era: Miller, Palmer, Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Tom Weiskopf, and John Schlee.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12226'),
(12117, 'Chasing Silver', 'Jamie Craig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Born in 2057, Remy Capra never expected a second chance at life in Los Angeles, or her only chance at love in 2007. On the run from a cop who cares more about pain than justice, Remy inadvertently goes 75 years back in time and abruptly arrives at the feet of P.I. Nathan Pierce. Remy needs help, and Nathan finds he wants to offer her even more. There are threats from all sides - are their street smarts and unexpected passion enough to keep them together... and alive?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4685'),
(12118, 'Chasing Silver', 'Jamie Craig', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Born in 2057, Remy Capra never expected a second chance at life in Los Angeles, or her only chance at love in 2007. On the run from a cop who cares more about pain than justice, Remy inadvertently goes 75 years back in time and abruptly arrives at the feet of P.I. Nathan Pierce. Remy needs help, and Nathan finds he wants to offer her even more. There are threats from all sides - are their street smarts and unexpected passion enough to keep them together... and alive?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19951'),
(12119, 'Chasing Sophea: A Novel', 'Gabrielle Pina', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite her cushy Pasadena life and marriage to the preciously nicknamed "Milky," part-time college teacher Dahlia Chang suffers blackouts and headaches, can''t remember a thing about her childhood except her mother dying suddenly and is subject to the malicious jealousy of mysterious bad girl Phoebe. Gradually, Pina (_Bliss_) reveals what the reader guesses early onâ€”that Phoebe is an alter ego, the product of a mental trauma Dahlia suffered as a girl. Enter Dahlia''s Aunt Baby, who resolves to heal Dahlia, even if it means hauling Dahlia to the plantationlike home in Dallas where she grew up to confront the past. Meanwhile, unaware of his wife''s journey, Milky strikes out for Dallas on his own to investigate her mysterious condition and learns from resident grave digger Percival Tweed about Dahlia''s sordid family history. Emotions drive this novel; the characters often amount to little more than convenient vehicles that speak and think in either hoary dialect or wooden exchanges. When the living and the dead finally reunite, the book picks up a small bit of suspenseful steam and becomes an affecting story about the power of family love to mend old wounds.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dahlia Chang is suffering a crushing depression, robbing her of the joy of having a devoted husband, loving daughter, and successful career. Her past? Her family? She doesn''t remember, and she doesn''t want to. As her depression deepens and threatens to completely alienate Dahlia from her family, her husband, Michael, decides to visit Dahlia''s family in Dallas. Sensing the danger Dahlia is in, a long-lost great-aunt, who knows the secret behind Dahlia''s disappearance and 20-plus-year estrangement from the family, travels to Los Angeles to rescue her great-niece. Dahlia''s secret is tied to a family history of mental and emotional instability and the fateful day that tornado Sophea wrecked their lives. Pina, author of_Bliss _(2002), delivers strong characters and an intricate plot.\n <em>\n  Vanessa Bush\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5512'),
(12120, 'Chasing Sophea: A Novel', 'Gabrielle Pina', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite her cushy Pasadena life and marriage to the preciously nicknamed "Milky," part-time college teacher Dahlia Chang suffers blackouts and headaches, can''t remember a thing about her childhood except her mother dying suddenly and is subject to the malicious jealousy of mysterious bad girl Phoebe. Gradually, Pina (_Bliss_) reveals what the reader guesses early onâ€”that Phoebe is an alter ego, the product of a mental trauma Dahlia suffered as a girl. Enter Dahlia''s Aunt Baby, who resolves to heal Dahlia, even if it means hauling Dahlia to the plantationlike home in Dallas where she grew up to confront the past. Meanwhile, unaware of his wife''s journey, Milky strikes out for Dallas on his own to investigate her mysterious condition and learns from resident grave digger Percival Tweed about Dahlia''s sordid family history. Emotions drive this novel; the characters often amount to little more than convenient vehicles that speak and think in either hoary dialect or wooden exchanges. When the living and the dead finally reunite, the book picks up a small bit of suspenseful steam and becomes an affecting story about the power of family love to mend old wounds.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dahlia Chang is suffering a crushing depression, robbing her of the joy of having a devoted husband, loving daughter, and successful career. Her past? Her family? She doesn''t remember, and she doesn''t want to. As her depression deepens and threatens to completely alienate Dahlia from her family, her husband, Michael, decides to visit Dahlia''s family in Dallas. Sensing the danger Dahlia is in, a long-lost great-aunt, who knows the secret behind Dahlia''s disappearance and 20-plus-year estrangement from the family, travels to Los Angeles to rescue her great-niece. Dahlia''s secret is tied to a family history of mental and emotional instability and the fateful day that tornado Sophea wrecked their lives. Pina, author of_Bliss _(2002), delivers strong characters and an intricate plot.\n <em>\n  Vanessa Bush\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12013');
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(12121, 'Chasing Sophea: a novel', 'Gabrielle Pina', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite her cushy Pasadena life and marriage to the preciously nicknamed "Milky," part-time college teacher Dahlia Chang suffers blackouts and headaches, can''t remember a thing about her childhood except her mother dying suddenly and is subject to the malicious jealousy of mysterious bad girl Phoebe. Gradually, Pina (_Bliss_) reveals what the reader guesses early onâ€”that Phoebe is an alter ego, the product of a mental trauma Dahlia suffered as a girl. Enter Dahlia''s Aunt Baby, who resolves to heal Dahlia, even if it means hauling Dahlia to the plantationlike home in Dallas where she grew up to confront the past. Meanwhile, unaware of his wife''s journey, Milky strikes out for Dallas on his own to investigate her mysterious condition and learns from resident grave digger Percival Tweed about Dahlia''s sordid family history. Emotions drive this novel; the characters often amount to little more than convenient vehicles that speak and think in either hoary dialect or wooden exchanges. When the living and the dead finally reunite, the book picks up a small bit of suspenseful steam and becomes an affecting story about the power of family love to mend old wounds.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dahlia Chang is suffering a crushing depression, robbing her of the joy of having a devoted husband, loving daughter, and successful career. Her past? Her family? She doesn''t remember, and she doesn''t want to. As her depression deepens and threatens to completely alienate Dahlia from her family, her husband, Michael, decides to visit Dahlia''s family in Dallas. Sensing the danger Dahlia is in, a long-lost great-aunt, who knows the secret behind Dahlia''s disappearance and 20-plus-year estrangement from the family, travels to Los Angeles to rescue her great-niece. Dahlia''s secret is tied to a family history of mental and emotional instability and the fateful day that tornado Sophea wrecked their lives. Pina, author of_Bliss _(2002), delivers strong characters and an intricate plot.\n <em>\n  Vanessa Bush\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19219'),
(12122, 'Chasing the Bear: A Young Spenser Novel', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For almost forty years, Robert B. Parkerâ€™s inimitable private investigator Spenser has been solving cases and selling millions of books worldwide. Now, for the first time, see how it all began as the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master sheds light on Spenserâ€™s formative years spent with his father and two uncles out West. This is an event book for every fan of Spenser, and a revelation for teens about to discover an American icon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1759'),
(12123, 'Chasing the Bear: A Young Spenser Novel', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For almost forty years, Robert B. Parkerâ€™s inimitable private investigator Spenser has been solving cases and selling millions of books worldwide. Now, for the first time, see how it all began as the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master sheds light on Spenserâ€™s formative years spent with his father and two uncles out West. This is an event book for every fan of Spenser, and a revelation for teens about to discover an American icon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11799'),
(12124, 'Chasing the Bear: A Young Spenser Novel', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For almost forty years, Robert B. Parkerâ€™s inimitable private investigator Spenser has been solving cases and selling millions of books worldwide. Now, for the first time, see how it all began as the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master sheds light on Spenserâ€™s formative years spent with his father and two uncles out West. This is an event book for every fan of Spenser, and a revelation for teens about to discover an American icon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23183'),
(12125, 'Chasing the dime', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren''t for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It''s on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he''s been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can''t get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions. A world where his success and expertise mean nothing...and where he becomes the chief suspect in a murder case, trapped in the fight of his life. SUMMARY: The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren''t for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It''s on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he''s been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can''t get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions. A world where his success and expertise mean nothing...and where he becomes the chief suspect in a murder case, trapped in the fight of his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14636'),
(12126, 'Chasing the dime', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren''t for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It''s on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he''s been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can''t get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions. A world where his success and expertise mean nothing...and where he becomes the chief suspect in a murder case, trapped in the fight of his life. SUMMARY: The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren''t for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It''s on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he''s been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can''t get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions. A world where his success and expertise mean nothing...and where he becomes the chief suspect in a murder case, trapped in the fight of his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21982'),
(12127, 'Chasing the Night', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for the novels of Iris Johansen\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed!â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an imaginative plot and gut-wrenching actionâ€¦this novel packs a wallop and is impossible to put down.â€â€”_Tucson__ Citizen _on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™ll want to keep the lights on while reading!â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews_ on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n __\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œJohansen is becoming a master of the macabre and paranormal thriller, and her latest riveting Eve Duncan tale has it all, from ghosts and secret cults to supernatural avengers.â€\n <em>\n  â€”Booklist\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders wonâ€™t soon forget either the enigmatic hero or the monstrous villain. This oneâ€™s chilling to the bone!â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews _on\n <em>\n  Deadlock\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohansenâ€™s knack for delivering robust action and commanding characters kicks into high gear.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Dark Summer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed, adrenaline-fueledâ€¦will keep [you] eagerly turning the pages.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeeping the tension high and the pace relentless, prolific and compelling Johansen adds depth to her popular characters as she continues this suspenseful series.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBestselling author Johansen captivates readers with her latest suspense thrillerâ€¦the suspense escalates toward an explosive conclusion.â€â€”_Library Journal_ on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exhilarating thrillerâ€¦suspense that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fast-paced, non-stop, clever plot in which Johansen mixes political intrigue, murder, and suspense.â€â€”_USA__ Today_ on\n <em>\n  The Face of Deception\n </em>\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œ[A] thrill rideâ€¦Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idahoâ€”what more could Johansen fans want?â€â€”\n </em>\n Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Countdown\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIntriguing suspenseâ€¦her new tale will please both fans and new converts.â€â€”_Booklist_ on\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThoroughly gripping and with a number of shocking plot twistsâ€¦packed all the right elements into this latest work: intriguing characters; creepy, crazy villain; a variety of exotic locations.â€\n <br />\n â€”_New York__ Post_ on\n <em>\n  The Search\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A CIA agentâ€™s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she canâ€™t. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help herâ€” and that person is Eve Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie. Now, Eve must take her talents as a forensic sculptor to another level, using age progression as a way to unite Catherine with her child. As Eve gets drawn deeper into Catherineâ€™s horror, she must face looming demons of her own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bonnieâ€™s killer is still out there. And a new killer is taunting Eve and Catherine at every turn. Is Catherineâ€™s son alive, or not? These two women endure the worst fear any mother can imagine in Iris Johansenâ€™s latest thrill ride, a gut-wrenching journey into the darkest places of the soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5000'),
(12128, 'Chasing the Night', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for the novels of Iris Johansen\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed!â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an imaginative plot and gut-wrenching actionâ€¦this novel packs a wallop and is impossible to put down.â€â€”_Tucson__ Citizen _on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™ll want to keep the lights on while reading!â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews_ on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n __\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œJohansen is becoming a master of the macabre and paranormal thriller, and her latest riveting Eve Duncan tale has it all, from ghosts and secret cults to supernatural avengers.â€\n <em>\n  â€”Booklist\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders wonâ€™t soon forget either the enigmatic hero or the monstrous villain. This oneâ€™s chilling to the bone!â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews _on\n <em>\n  Deadlock\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohansenâ€™s knack for delivering robust action and commanding characters kicks into high gear.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Dark Summer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed, adrenaline-fueledâ€¦will keep [you] eagerly turning the pages.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeeping the tension high and the pace relentless, prolific and compelling Johansen adds depth to her popular characters as she continues this suspenseful series.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBestselling author Johansen captivates readers with her latest suspense thrillerâ€¦the suspense escalates toward an explosive conclusion.â€â€”_Library Journal_ on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exhilarating thrillerâ€¦suspense that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fast-paced, non-stop, clever plot in which Johansen mixes political intrigue, murder, and suspense.â€â€”_USA__ Today_ on\n <em>\n  The Face of Deception\n </em>\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œ[A] thrill rideâ€¦Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idahoâ€”what more could Johansen fans want?â€â€”\n </em>\n Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Countdown\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIntriguing suspenseâ€¦her new tale will please both fans and new converts.â€â€”_Booklist_ on\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThoroughly gripping and with a number of shocking plot twistsâ€¦packed all the right elements into this latest work: intriguing characters; creepy, crazy villain; a variety of exotic locations.â€\n <br />\n â€”_New York__ Post_ on\n <em>\n  The Search\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A CIA agentâ€™s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she canâ€™t. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help herâ€” and that person is Eve Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie. Now, Eve must take her talents as a forensic sculptor to another level, using age progression as a way to unite Catherine with her child. As Eve gets drawn deeper into Catherineâ€™s horror, she must face looming demons of her own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bonnieâ€™s killer is still out there. And a new killer is taunting Eve and Catherine at every turn. Is Catherineâ€™s son alive, or not? These two women endure the worst fear any mother can imagine in Iris Johansenâ€™s latest thrill ride, a gut-wrenching journey into the darkest places of the soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10529'),
(12129, 'Chasing the Night', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for the novels of Iris Johansen\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed!â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an imaginative plot and gut-wrenching action...this novel packs a wallop and is impossible to put down.â€â€”_Tucson__ Citizen _on\n <em>\n  Eight Days to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™ll want to keep the lights on while reading!â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews_ on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n __\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohansen is becoming a master of the macabre and paranormal thriller, and her latest riveting Eve Duncan tale has it all, from ghosts and secret cults to supernatural avengers.â€\n <em>\n  â€”Booklist\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  Blood Game\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReaders wonâ€™t soon forget either the enigmatic hero or the monstrous villain. This oneâ€™s chilling to the bone!â€â€”_Romantic Times BOOKreviews _on\n <em>\n  Deadlock\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohansenâ€™s knack for delivering robust action and commanding characters kicks into high gear.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Dark Summer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAction-packed, adrenaline-fueled...will keep [you] eagerly turning the pages.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œKeeping the tension high and the pace relentless, prolific and compelling Johansen adds depth to her popular characters as she continues this suspenseful series.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Quicksand\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBestselling author Johansen captivates readers with her latest suspense thriller...the suspense escalates toward an explosive conclusion.â€â€”_Library Journal_ on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn exhilarating thriller...suspense that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.â€â€”_Booklist _on\n <em>\n  Pandoraâ€™s Daughter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fast-paced, non-stop, clever plot in which Johansen mixes political intrigue, murder, and suspense.â€â€”_USA__ Today_ on\n <em>\n  The Face of Deception\n </em>\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œ[A] thrill ride...Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idahoâ€”what more could Johansen fans want?â€â€”\n </em>\n Publishers Weekly _on\n <em>\n  Countdown\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIntriguing suspense...her new tale will please both fans and new converts.â€â€”_Booklist_ on\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThoroughly gripping and with a number of shocking plot twists...packed all the right elements into this latest work: intriguing characters; creepy, crazy villain; a variety of exotic locations.â€\n <br />\n â€”_New York__ Post_ on\n <em>\n  The Search\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A CIA agentâ€™s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she canâ€™t. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help herâ€” and that person is Eve Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie. Now, Eve must take her talents as a forensic sculptor to another level, using age progression as a way to unite Catherine with her child. As Eve gets drawn deeper into Catherineâ€™s horror, she must face looming demons of her own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bonnieâ€™s killer is still out there. And a new killer is taunting Eve and Catherine at every turn. Is Catherineâ€™s son alive, or not? These two women endure the worst fear any mother can imagine in Iris Johansenâ€™s latest thrill ride, a gut-wrenching journey into the darkest places of the soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19674'),
(12130, 'The Chasm: A Journey to the Edge of Life', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alcorn offers a companion to his novel, Edge of Eternity, in this Pilgrim''s Progressâ€“style allegory about a man who comes to see his own wasted life through a series of misadventures, battles, and sins. These lead him to a chasm he cannot cross without the help of trustedâ€”should he trust them?â€”guides, most importantly a Christ figure, the Woodsman, and a tempter, Joshua. The end is not utopia, but a life with unexpected joys and faithful companions. For those who appreciate allegory, Alcorn''s fills the bill even as it also includes the realities of contemporary life: "I gazed into the emptiness of my daughter''s eyes. I started pushing and shoving. I wanted to kill the men who lusted after herâ€”vile men whose daughters I lusted after." Nothing here tops classic Christian allegories, but noteworthy is a "new creation" view of afterlife: "You will live on a new earthâ€”the old earth made new.... I came not to destroy but to redeem my fallen creation." (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   A Journey He Couldnâ€™t Missâ€¦ and a Step He Couldnâ€™t Take\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n He found himself a traveler in the strangest of lands. Where invisible secrets come starkly into sight. Where the fairest of companions leads the way into unsuspected danger and darkness. Where hidden battles burst into the open. Where so much is graspedâ€¦and so much more seems unattainable.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Driven by a yearning he doesnâ€™t understand, compelled toward a destination he canâ€™t quite see, the traveler navigates the inhospitable landscape with determination and a flicker of something like hopeâ€”despite the obstacles that seem to unerringly block his path.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Best-selling novelist Randy Alcorn weaves a supernatural interplay of wills and motives, lusts and longings, love and sacrifice. Itâ€™s a potent mix that leaves every reader wondering: _Do I really understand this world I live in? Do I really understand myself? Is there more to all this than Iâ€™ve ever dared hope?\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  INCLUDES 12 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1918'),
(12131, 'The Chasm: A Journey to the Edge of Life', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alcorn offers a companion to his novel, Edge of Eternity, in this Pilgrim''s Progressâ€“style allegory about a man who comes to see his own wasted life through a series of misadventures, battles, and sins. These lead him to a chasm he cannot cross without the help of trustedâ€”should he trust them?â€”guides, most importantly a Christ figure, the Woodsman, and a tempter, Joshua. The end is not utopia, but a life with unexpected joys and faithful companions. For those who appreciate allegory, Alcorn''s fills the bill even as it also includes the realities of contemporary life: "I gazed into the emptiness of my daughter''s eyes. I started pushing and shoving. I wanted to kill the men who lusted after herâ€”vile men whose daughters I lusted after." Nothing here tops classic Christian allegories, but noteworthy is a "new creation" view of afterlife: "You will live on a new earthâ€”the old earth made new.... I came not to destroy but to redeem my fallen creation." (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   A Journey He Couldnâ€™t Missâ€¦ and a Step He Couldnâ€™t Take\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n He found himself a traveler in the strangest of lands. Where invisible secrets come starkly into sight. Where the fairest of companions leads the way into unsuspected danger and darkness. Where hidden battles burst into the open. Where so much is graspedâ€¦and so much more seems unattainable.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Driven by a yearning he doesnâ€™t understand, compelled toward a destination he canâ€™t quite see, the traveler navigates the inhospitable landscape with determination and a flicker of something like hopeâ€”despite the obstacles that seem to unerringly block his path.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Best-selling novelist Randy Alcorn weaves a supernatural interplay of wills and motives, lusts and longings, love and sacrifice. Itâ€™s a potent mix that leaves every reader wondering: _Do I really understand this world I live in? Do I really understand myself? Is there more to all this than Iâ€™ve ever dared hope?\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  INCLUDES 12 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9369'),
(12132, 'Chat', 'Archer Mayor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Relationships always drive Mayor''s plots, but never more so than in this intricate, suspense-filled 18th Joe Gunther novel (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   The Second Mouse\n  </em>\n  ). When Gunther''s mother and brother are almost killed in a suspicious car accident, he helps Deputy Sheriff Rob Barrows narrow in on a local, lawless family with a grievance against the Gunthers. Meanwhile, the investigation of two similar but seemingly unrelated deaths leads Gunther''s colleagues at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation to online chat rooms where older men pick up teen girls. Gunther''s former lover, Gail Zigman, makes an appearance, but Lyn Silva, last seen in 2004''s\n  <em>\n   The Surrogate Thief\n  </em>\n  , takes center stage as his new love interest. This book takes Gunther all over Vermont, offering occasional breaks from the tension with evocative descriptions of mountains and snow. Though Mayor is considered a regional writer, his books intelligently deal with subjects of national concern, and Gunther''s crime-solving skills and personal charisma have broad appeal.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The writing is strong, with sharp social observations throughout. Gunther grows on you from novel to novel." (\n  <strong>\n   Washington Post Book World\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The strength of this durable series has always been its insularity: local settings; sharp small-town characterizations; home-grown police procedures." (\n  <strong>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  HIGH PRAISE FOR MAYOR AND THE JOE GUNTHER SERIES\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Archer Mayor''s unassuming voice and down-to-earth style stamp his regional crime novels with a sense of integrity." (\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mayor''s skills are equal to the vigor of his imagination, and we take his word for every twist, every turn, every thunderbolt." (\n  <strong>\n   The New Yorker\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mayor''s Joe Gunther novels are among the best cop stories being written today." (\n  <strong>\n   Booklist\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7418'),
(12133, 'Chat', 'Archer Mayor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Relationships always drive Mayor''s plots, but never more so than in this intricate, suspense-filled 18th Joe Gunther novel (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   The Second Mouse\n  </em>\n  ). When Gunther''s mother and brother are almost killed in a suspicious car accident, he helps Deputy Sheriff Rob Barrows narrow in on a local, lawless family with a grievance against the Gunthers. Meanwhile, the investigation of two similar but seemingly unrelated deaths leads Gunther''s colleagues at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation to online chat rooms where older men pick up teen girls. Gunther''s former lover, Gail Zigman, makes an appearance, but Lyn Silva, last seen in 2004''s\n  <em>\n   The Surrogate Thief\n  </em>\n  , takes center stage as his new love interest. This book takes Gunther all over Vermont, offering occasional breaks from the tension with evocative descriptions of mountains and snow. Though Mayor is considered a regional writer, his books intelligently deal with subjects of national concern, and Gunther''s crime-solving skills and personal charisma have broad appeal.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The writing is strong, with sharp social observations throughout. Gunther grows on you from novel to novel." (\n  <strong>\n   Washington Post Book World\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The strength of this durable series has always been its insularity: local settings; sharp small-town characterizations; home-grown police procedures." (\n  <strong>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  HIGH PRAISE FOR MAYOR AND THE JOE GUNTHER SERIES\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Archer Mayor''s unassuming voice and down-to-earth style stamp his regional crime novels with a sense of integrity." (\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mayor''s skills are equal to the vigor of his imagination, and we take his word for every twist, every turn, every thunderbolt." (\n  <strong>\n   The New Yorker\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mayor''s Joe Gunther novels are among the best cop stories being written today." (\n  <strong>\n   Booklist\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11356'),
(12134, 'Chat', 'Archer Mayor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Relationships always drive Mayor''s plots, but never more so than in this intricate, suspense-filled 18th Joe Gunther novel (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   The Second Mouse\n  </em>\n  ). When Gunther''s mother and brother are almost killed in a suspicious car accident, he helps Deputy Sheriff Rob Barrows narrow in on a local, lawless family with a grievance against the Gunthers. Meanwhile, the investigation of two similar but seemingly unrelated deaths leads Gunther''s colleagues at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation to online chat rooms where older men pick up teen girls. Gunther''s former lover, Gail Zigman, makes an appearance, but Lyn Silva, last seen in 2004''s\n  <em>\n   The Surrogate Thief\n  </em>\n  , takes center stage as his new love interest. This book takes Gunther all over Vermont, offering occasional breaks from the tension with evocative descriptions of mountains and snow. Though Mayor is considered a regional writer, his books intelligently deal with subjects of national concern, and Gunther''s crime-solving skills and personal charisma have broad appeal.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The writing is strong, with sharp social observations throughout. Gunther grows on you from novel to novel." (\n  <strong>\n   Washington Post Book World\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The strength of this durable series has always been its insularity: local settings; sharp small-town characterizations; home-grown police procedures." (\n  <strong>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  HIGH PRAISE FOR MAYOR AND THE JOE GUNTHER SERIES\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Archer Mayor''s unassuming voice and down-to-earth style stamp his regional crime novels with a sense of integrity." (\n  <strong>\n   The New York Times Book Review\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mayor''s skills are equal to the vigor of his imagination, and we take his word for every twist, every turn, every thunderbolt." (\n  <strong>\n   The New Yorker\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mayor''s Joe Gunther novels are among the best cop stories being written today." (\n  <strong>\n   Booklist\n  </strong>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16410'),
(12135, 'The Cheating Curve', 'Paula T. Renfroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When two friends come clean about infidelity, what they learn will change everything.  .  .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Every other Sunday, best friends Aminah Anderson and Langston "Lang" Rogers get their nails done in trendy downtown Brooklyn and then go out for brunch. -The two share everything with each other--almost. Lang''s been keeping a secret from Aminah. She''s cheating on her husband. When Aminah learns about the affair, the news hits too close to home. For Aminah''s husband has also been unfaithful. She thought Lang understood the hurt and humiliation infidelity causes. She was wrong.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lang can see the disappointment in Aminah''s eyes when she comes clean. But she and Aminah have different views. Lang only calls it cheating if she gets caught. Her spouse is devoted to her, yet she needs more. Though Aminah doesn''t understand, her friend''s admission leads her to finally confront her husband. Now their friendship, their marriages, and their self-respect, will be put to the ultimate test.  .  .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2251'),
(12136, 'The Cheating Curve', 'Paula T. Renfroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When two friends come clean about infidelity, what they learn will change everything.  .  .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Every other Sunday, best friends Aminah Anderson and Langston "Lang" Rogers get their nails done in trendy downtown Brooklyn and then go out for brunch. -The two share everything with each other--almost. Lang''s been keeping a secret from Aminah. She''s cheating on her husband. When Aminah learns about the affair, the news hits too close to home. For Aminah''s husband has also been unfaithful. She thought Lang understood the hurt and humiliation infidelity causes. She was wrong.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lang can see the disappointment in Aminah''s eyes when she comes clean. But she and Aminah have different views. Lang only calls it cheating if she gets caught. Her spouse is devoted to her, yet she needs more. Though Aminah doesn''t understand, her friend''s admission leads her to finally confront her husband. Now their friendship, their marriages, and their self-respect, will be put to the ultimate test.  .  .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12161'),
(12137, 'The Cheating Curve', 'Paula T. Renfroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When two friends come clean about infidelity, what they learn will change everything. . . Every other Sunday, best friends Aminah Anderson and Langston "Lang" Rogers get their nails done in trendy downtown Brooklyn and then go out for brunch. -The two share everything with each other--almost. Lang''s been keeping a secret from Aminah. She''s cheating on her husband. When Aminah learns about the affair, the news hits too close to home. For Aminah''s husband has also been unfaithful. She thought Lang understood the hurt and humiliation infidelity causes. She was wrong. Lang can see the disappointment in Aminah''s eyes when she comes clean. But she and Aminah have different views. Lang only calls it cheating if she gets caught. Her spouse is devoted to her, yet she needs more. Though Aminah doesn''t understand, her friend''s admission leads her to finally confront her husband. Now their friendship, their marriages, and their self-respect, will be put to the ultimate test. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22528'),
(12138, 'The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right', 'Atul Gawande', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A New York TimesBestsellerIn his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it.The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry---in almost every realm of organized activity. And the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people---consistently, correctly, safely. We train longer, specialize more, use ever-advancing technologies, and still we fail. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of methods: the checklist. In riveting stories, he reveals what checklists can do, what they can''t, and how they could bring about striking improvements in a variety of fields, from medicine and disaster recovery to professions and businesses of all kinds. And the insights are making a difference. Already, a simple surgical checklist from the World Health Organization designed by following the ideas described here has been adopted in more than twenty countries as a standard for care and has been heralded as the biggest clinical invention in thirty years (The Independent).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7360'),
(12139, 'The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right', 'Atul Gawande', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A New York TimesBestsellerIn his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it.The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry---in almost every realm of organized activity. And the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people---consistently, correctly, safely. We train longer, specialize more, use ever-advancing technologies, and still we fail. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of methods: the checklist. In riveting stories, he reveals what checklists can do, what they can''t, and how they could bring about striking improvements in a variety of fields, from medicine and disaster recovery to professions and businesses of all kinds. And the insights are making a difference. Already, a simple surgical checklist from the World Health Organization designed by following the ideas described here has been adopted in more than twenty countries as a standard for care and has been heralded as the biggest clinical invention in thirty years (The Independent).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9932'),
(12140, 'The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right', 'Gawande, Atul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16454'),
(12141, 'Checkmate', 'David Michaels &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n All in a day''s work for a Splinter CellÂ®He is Sam Fisher: Third Echelon special operative. And when a cargo freighter loaded down with radioactive material is headed towards the coast of the United States, he has minutes to disable the ship - or die trying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6209'),
(12142, 'Checkmate', 'David Michaels &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n All in a day''s work for a Splinter CellÂ®He is Sam Fisher: Third Echelon special operative. And when a cargo freighter loaded down with radioactive material is headed towards the coast of the United States, he has minutes to disable the ship - or die trying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11483'),
(12143, 'Checkmate', 'David Michaels; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n All in a day''s work for a Splinter CellÂ®He is Sam Fisher: Third Echelon special operative. And when a cargo freighter loaded down with radioactive material is headed towards the coast of the United States, he has minutes to disable the ship - or die trying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17781'),
(12144, 'Cheever: A Life', 'Blake Bailey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cheever: A Life\n </em>\n , the author of\n <em>\n  Cheever\n </em>\n is rich with detail and chronicles the mournful arc of a lifetime struggling with a core duplicity that ached throughout his writing life--despite a 41-year marriage, Cheever was a closeted bisexual who simmered with self-loathing. Bailey covers the author''s childhood, his time in the army, his life as a writer and his literary rivals (Salinger, in particular, seemed to irritate him), his alcoholism (he would struggle against taking that first "scoop" of gin from the pantry every morning while he was writing), and his struggle to play the role of suburban family man. The book is peppered with literary cameos: Updike, Bellow, and Roth are there, along with his Iowa Writers'' Workshop students T.C. Boyle, Ron Hansen, and Allan Gurganus. (While at Iowa Cheever made it a weekly ritual to watch\n <em>\n  Monday Night Football\n </em>\n and eat homemade pasta with fellow instructor John Irving.) Bailey also edited two Library of America editions of Cheever''s\n <em>\n  --Brad Thomas Parsons\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rebellious Yankee son of a father who fell victim to the Depression and a doo-gooder-turned-businesswoman mother, father to three competitive children he rode mercilessly but adored, chronicler par excellence of the 1950s American suburban scene while deploring all forms of conformity: John Cheever (1912â€“1982) was a mass of contradictions. In this overlong but always entertaining biography, composed with a novelist''s eye, Bailey, biographer of Richard Yates and editor of two volumes of Cheever''s work for Library of America (also due in March), was given access to unpublished portions of Cheever''s famous journals and to family members and friends. Bailey''s book is fine in descriptions of Cheever''s reactions to other writers, such as his adored Bellow and detested Salinger. Bailey is also sensitive in describing the prickly dynamic of Cheever''s domestic life, lived through a haze of alcoholism and under the shadow of extramarital heterosexual and homosexual relationships. This Ovid in Ossining, who published 121 stories in the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n as well as several bestselling novels, has probably yet to find a definitive position in American letters among academicians. This thoroughly researched and heartfelt biography may help redress that situation. 24 pages of photos.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 12)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7182'),
(12145, 'Cheever: A Life', 'Blake Bailey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cheever: A Life\n </em>\n , the author of\n <em>\n  Cheever\n </em>\n is rich with detail and chronicles the mournful arc of a lifetime struggling with a core duplicity that ached throughout his writing life--despite a 41-year marriage, Cheever was a closeted bisexual who simmered with self-loathing. Bailey covers the author''s childhood, his time in the army, his life as a writer and his literary rivals (Salinger, in particular, seemed to irritate him), his alcoholism (he would struggle against taking that first "scoop" of gin from the pantry every morning while he was writing), and his struggle to play the role of suburban family man. The book is peppered with literary cameos: Updike, Bellow, and Roth are there, along with his Iowa Writers'' Workshop students T.C. Boyle, Ron Hansen, and Allan Gurganus. (While at Iowa Cheever made it a weekly ritual to watch\n <em>\n  Monday Night Football\n </em>\n and eat homemade pasta with fellow instructor John Irving.) Bailey also edited two Library of America editions of Cheever''s\n <em>\n  --Brad Thomas Parsons\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rebellious Yankee son of a father who fell victim to the Depression and a doo-gooder-turned-businesswoman mother, father to three competitive children he rode mercilessly but adored, chronicler par excellence of the 1950s American suburban scene while deploring all forms of conformity: John Cheever (1912â€“1982) was a mass of contradictions. In this overlong but always entertaining biography, composed with a novelist''s eye, Bailey, biographer of Richard Yates and editor of two volumes of Cheever''s work for Library of America (also due in March), was given access to unpublished portions of Cheever''s famous journals and to family members and friends. Bailey''s book is fine in descriptions of Cheever''s reactions to other writers, such as his adored Bellow and detested Salinger. Bailey is also sensitive in describing the prickly dynamic of Cheever''s domestic life, lived through a haze of alcoholism and under the shadow of extramarital heterosexual and homosexual relationships. This Ovid in Ossining, who published 121 stories in the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n as well as several bestselling novels, has probably yet to find a definitive position in American letters among academicians. This thoroughly researched and heartfelt biography may help redress that situation. 24 pages of photos.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 12)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8287'),
(12146, 'Cheever: A Life', 'Blake Bailey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cheever: A Life\n </em>\n , the author of\n <em>\n  Cheever\n </em>\n is rich with detail and chronicles the mournful arc of a lifetime struggling with a core duplicity that ached throughout his writing life--despite a 41-year marriage, Cheever was a closeted bisexual who simmered with self-loathing. Bailey covers the author''s childhood, his time in the army, his life as a writer and his literary rivals (Salinger, in particular, seemed to irritate him), his alcoholism (he would struggle against taking that first "scoop" of gin from the pantry every morning while he was writing), and his struggle to play the role of suburban family man. The book is peppered with literary cameos: Updike, Bellow, and Roth are there, along with his Iowa Writers'' Workshop students T.C. Boyle, Ron Hansen, and Allan Gurganus. (While at Iowa Cheever made it a weekly ritual to watch\n <em>\n  Monday Night Football\n </em>\n and eat homemade pasta with fellow instructor John Irving.) Bailey also edited two Library of America editions of Cheever''s\n <em>\n  --Brad Thomas Parsons\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rebellious Yankee son of a father who fell victim to the Depression and a doo-gooder-turned-businesswoman mother, father to three competitive children he rode mercilessly but adored, chronicler par excellence of the 1950s American suburban scene while deploring all forms of conformity: John Cheever (1912â€“1982) was a mass of contradictions. In this overlong but always entertaining biography, composed with a novelist''s eye, Bailey, biographer of Richard Yates and editor of two volumes of Cheever''s work for Library of America (also due in March), was given access to unpublished portions of Cheever''s famous journals and to family members and friends. Bailey''s book is fine in descriptions of Cheever''s reactions to other writers, such as his adored Bellow and detested Salinger. Bailey is also sensitive in describing the prickly dynamic of Cheever''s domestic life, lived through a haze of alcoholism and under the shadow of extramarital heterosexual and homosexual relationships. This Ovid in Ossining, who published 121 stories in the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n as well as several bestselling novels, has probably yet to find a definitive position in American letters among academicians. This thoroughly researched and heartfelt biography may help redress that situation. 24 pages of photos.\n <em>\n  (Mar. 12)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16685');
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(12147, 'Chef', 'Jaspreet Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kirpal Singh is travelling on the slow train to Kashmir. As India passes by the window in a stream of tiny lights, glistening fields and huddled, noisy towns, he reflects on his destination, which is also his past: a military camp to which he has not returned for fourteen years... Kirpal, Kip to his friends, is timorous and barely twenty when he arrives for the first time at General Kumar''s camp, nestled in the shadow of the mighty Siachen Glacier that claimed his father''s life. He is placed under the supervision of Chef Kishen, a fiery, anarchic mentor with long earlobes and a caustic tongue, who guides Kip towards the heady spheres of food and women. ''The smell of a woman is a thousand times better than cooking the most sumptuous dinner, kid,'' he muses, over an evening beer. Kip is embarrassed - he has never slept with a woman, though a loose-limbed nurse in the local hospital has caught his eye. In Srinagar, Kashmir, a contradictory place of erratic violence, extremes of temperature and high-altitude privilege, Kip learns to prepare indulgent Kashmiri dishes such as Mughlai mutton and slow-cooked Nahari, as well as delicacies from Florence, Madrid, Athens and Tokyo. Months pass and, though he is Sikh, Kip feels secure in his allegiance to India, the right side of this interminable conflict. Then, one muggy day, a Pakistani ''terrorist'' with long, flowing hair is swept up on the banks of the river, and changes everything. Mesmeric, mournful and intensely lyrical, Chefis a brave and compassionate debut about hope, love and memory, set against the devastatingly beautiful, war-scarred backdrop of occupied Kashmir.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4580'),
(12148, 'Chef', 'Jaspreet Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kirpal Singh is travelling on the slow train to Kashmir. As India passes by the window in a stream of tiny lights, glistening fields and huddled, noisy towns, he reflects on his destination, which is also his past: a military camp to which he has not returned for fourteen years... Kirpal, Kip to his friends, is timorous and barely twenty when he arrives for the first time at General Kumar''s camp, nestled in the shadow of the mighty Siachen Glacier that claimed his father''s life. He is placed under the supervision of Chef Kishen, a fiery, anarchic mentor with long earlobes and a caustic tongue, who guides Kip towards the heady spheres of food and women. ''The smell of a woman is a thousand times better than cooking the most sumptuous dinner, kid,'' he muses, over an evening beer. Kip is embarrassed - he has never slept with a woman, though a loose-limbed nurse in the local hospital has caught his eye. In Srinagar, Kashmir, a contradictory place of erratic violence, extremes of temperature and high-altitude privilege, Kip learns to prepare indulgent Kashmiri dishes such as Mughlai mutton and slow-cooked Nahari, as well as delicacies from Florence, Madrid, Athens and Tokyo. Months pass and, though he is Sikh, Kip feels secure in his allegiance to India, the right side of this interminable conflict. Then, one muggy day, a Pakistani ''terrorist'' with long, flowing hair is swept up on the banks of the river, and changes everything. Mesmeric, mournful and intensely lyrical, Chefis a brave and compassionate debut about hope, love and memory, set against the devastatingly beautiful, war-scarred backdrop of occupied Kashmir.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12733'),
(12149, 'Chef', 'Jaspreet Singh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kirpal Singh is travelling on the slow train to Kashmir. As India passes by the window in a stream of tiny lights, glistening fields and huddled, noisy towns, he reflects on his destination, which is also his past: a military camp to which he has not returned for fourteen years... Kirpal, Kip to his friends, is timorous and barely twenty when he arrives for the first time at General Kumar''s camp, nestled in the shadow of the mighty Siachen Glacier that claimed his father''s life. He is placed under the supervision of Chef Kishen, a fiery, anarchic mentor with long earlobes and a caustic tongue, who guides Kip towards the heady spheres of food and women. ''The smell of a woman is a thousand times better than cooking the most sumptuous dinner, kid,'' he muses, over an evening beer. Kip is embarrassed - he has never slept with a woman, though a loose-limbed nurse in the local hospital has caught his eye. In Srinagar, Kashmir, a contradictory place of erratic violence, extremes of temperature and high-altitude privilege, Kip learns to prepare indulgent Kashmiri dishes such as Mughlai mutton and slow-cooked Nahari, as well as delicacies from Florence, Madrid, Athens and Tokyo. Months pass and, though he is Sikh, Kip feels secure in his allegiance to India, the right side of this interminable conflict. Then, one muggy day, a Pakistani ''terrorist'' with long, flowing hair is swept up on the banks of the river, and changes everything. Mesmeric, mournful and intensely lyrical, Chefis a brave and compassionate debut about hope, love and memory, set against the devastatingly beautiful, war-scarred backdrop of occupied Kashmir.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20001'),
(12150, 'Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show?  Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood.   Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors.   It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk.  And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild.  Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good!  CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**:  "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend:  **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother:  **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6764'),
(12151, 'Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show?  Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood.   Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors.   It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk.  And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild.  Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good!  CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**:  "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend:  **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother:  **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10138'),
(12152, 'Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14934'),
(12153, 'Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."**** Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."**** Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17108'),
(12154, 'Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang', 'Chelsea Handler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show?  Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood.   Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors.   It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk.  And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild.  Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good!  CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**:  "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend:  **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother:  **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Life doesn''t get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of *Are You There, Vodka? It''s Me, Chelsea* delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it''s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It''s open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn''t talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG is good good good good! CHELSEA HANDLER ON...**Being unpopular**: "My parents couldn''t have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren''t purchased at a pharmacy."**Living with her boyfriend: **"He''s similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn''t cry when he wakes up."**Appreciating her brother: **"He''s a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."**Arm-wrestling a maid of honor:**"It wasn''t her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."****\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26942'),
(12155, 'Chesapeake', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Michener''s most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER"Brilliantly written."ASSOCIATED PRESSOnce again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of America''s great bay and its Eastern Shore. Following Edmund Steed and his remarkable family, who parallel the settling and forming of the nation, CHESAPEAKE sweeps readers from the unspoiled world of the Native Americans to the voyages of Captain John Smith, the Revolutionary War, and right up to modern times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4942'),
(12156, 'Chesapeake', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Michener''s most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER"Brilliantly written."ASSOCIATED PRESSOnce again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of America''s great bay and its Eastern Shore. Following Edmund Steed and his remarkable family, who parallel the settling and forming of the nation, CHESAPEAKE sweeps readers from the unspoiled world of the Native Americans to the voyages of Captain John Smith, the Revolutionary War, and right up to modern times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19782'),
(12157, 'Chesapeake Blue', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nora Roberts returns to Chesapeake Bay and her beloved Quinn family for the story of Seth Quinn. The conclusion to the breathtaking saga.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25275'),
(12158, 'Chicago Wipe-Out', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan faces the battle of his life as he invades the nerve-center of the Mafias powerful U.S. Operations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5892'),
(12159, 'Chicago Wipe-Out', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan faces the battle of his life as he invades the nerve-center of the Mafias powerful U.S. Operations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18719'),
(12160, 'Chicago Wipe-Out', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolan faces the battle of his life as he invades the nerve-center of the Mafias powerful U.S. Operations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27526'),
(12161, 'Chicken Big', 'Keith Graves', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PreS-Gr 2â€“The pint-size poultry are as brainless as ever in this quirky revision of the classic â€œChicken Littleâ€ tale, but the hero here is mysterious Chicken Big. Is he an elephant? The smaller chickens are sure that he could not be one of them and exclude him from the coop. When an acorn falls on the smallest one''s head, she thinks the sky is falling. But when clear-headed Chicken Big explains what it is and pops it into his mouth, the other chickens decide that he must really be a squirrel. Chicken Big''s unwilling companions arrive at one ridiculous conclusion after another. He protects them from the rain, so he could be an umbrella. He keeps them warm in a cold breeze, so he could be a sweater. When all the eggs go missing and Chicken Big saves the day, the others realize that â€œonly one thing could be so smart, so kind, so warm, and so brave.â€ (A chicken, of course.) Graves''s pastel-hued illustrations with comic-style panels have a spontaneous and quirky quality reminiscent of Mo Willems''s Pigeon and Leonardo books, and thoughtful design plays up the disproportionate size of Chicken Big. An amusing tale that will draw giggles from preschool and early elementary read-aloud audiences, this is a fun addition to any collection or comparative folklore unit._Jayne Damron, Farmington Community Library, MI_\n  <br />\n  Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a sort of mash-up of â€œChicken Littleâ€ and â€œBlind Men and the Elephant,â€ henhouse residents are set aflutter by the arrival of an enormous new hatchling. What is it? An elephant, opines the smallest chicken. But when that same hen (â€œnot the sharpest beak in the flockâ€) is hit in succession by an acorn (â€œThe sky is falling!â€), a drop of rain (â€œThe sky is leaking!â€), and a cold breeze (â€œSomeone has put the world in the refrigerator! Weâ€™re all going to freeze!â€), the monster provides both common sense and protective bulkâ€”and in return is identified as a squirrel, then an umbrella, then a sweater. Graves illustrates this crowd-pleaser with simple cartoon scenes in which the new chick looms hugely, rolling its eyes at the antics of a quartet of scraggly, pop-eyed, appropriately silly-looking poultry. In a satisfying resolution, the chick dashes off heroically to rescue a clutch of stolen eggs from a marauding fox, earning proper recognition, acceptanceâ€”and, most likely, loud requests for repeat readings from delighted audiences. Grades 1-3. --John Peters\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9478'),
(12162, 'Child 44', 'Tom Rob Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A propulsive, relentless page-turner.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *"There is no crime."*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Stalin''s Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its citizens live free from the fear of ordinary crime and criminals.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But in this society, millions do live in fear . . . of the State. Death is a whisper away. The mere suspicion of ideological disloyalty-owning a book from the decadent West, the wrong word at the wrong time-sends millions of innocents into the Gulags or to their executions. Defending the system from its citizens is the MGB, the State Security Force. And no MGB officer is more courageous, conscientious, or idealistic than Leo Demidov.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A war hero with a beautiful wife, Leo lives in relative luxury in Moscow, even providing a decent apartment for his parents. His only ambition has been to serve his country. For this greater good, he has arrested and interrogated.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Then the impossible happens. A different kind of criminal-a murderer-is on the loose, killing at will. At the same time, Leo finds himself demoted and denounced by his enemies, his world turned upside down, and every belief he''s ever held shattered. The only way to save his life and the lives of his family is to uncover this criminal. But in a society that is officially paradise, it''s a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer-much less a serial killer-is in their midst. Exiled from his home, with only his wife, Raisa, remaining at his side, Leo must confront the vast resources and reach of the MBG to find and stop a criminal that the State won''t admit even exists.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tom Rob Smith graduated from Cambridge in 2001 and lives in London. Child 44 is his first novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/502'),
(12163, 'Child 44', 'Tom Rob Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A propulsive, relentless page-turner.** **A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted.** **A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience.** **CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read.** *"There is no crime."* Stalin''s Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its citizens live free from the fear of ordinary crime and criminals. But in this society, millions do live in fear . . . of the State. Death is a whisper away. The mere suspicion of ideological disloyalty-owning a book from the decadent West, the wrong word at the wrong time-sends millions of innocents into the Gulags or to their executions. Defending the system from its citizens is the MGB, the State Security Force. And no MGB officer is more courageous, conscientious, or idealistic than Leo Demidov. A war hero with a beautiful wife, Leo lives in relative luxury in Moscow, even providing a decent apartment for his parents. His only ambition has been to serve his country. For this greater good, he has arrested and interrogated. Then the impossible happens. A different kind of criminal-a murderer-is on the loose, killing at will. At the same time, Leo finds himself demoted and denounced by his enemies, his world turned upside down, and every belief he''s ever held shattered. The only way to save his life and the lives of his family is to uncover this criminal. But in a society that is officially paradise, it''s a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer-much less a serial killer-is in their midst. Exiled from his home, with only his wife, Raisa, remaining at his side, Leo must confront the vast resources and reach of the MBG to find and stop a criminal that the State won''t admit even exists. Tom Rob Smith graduated from Cambridge in 2001 and lives in London. Child 44 is his first novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24470'),
(12164, 'A CHILD AL CONFINO', 'Lamet, Eric', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18529'),
(12165, 'A Child Al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini&#39;s Italy', 'Eric Lamet', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Most accounts of Holocaust survival are centered on central or eastern Europe, in which the Nazi program of genocide was so explicit. Although Mussolini and his Fascist minions were not necessarily genocidal in intention, they were still virulently anti-Semitic as this engrossing and moving account reveals. Lamet was born in Vienna. When he was seven, his familyâ€™s middle-class existence was shattered by the Nazi seizure of Austria. His father fled to Poland, where he presumably perished in a death camp. Lamet and his mother made a harrowing escape to Italy, where they spent months seeking refuge in various isolated mountain villages. They resided in a southern rural hamlet east of Naples until the Allied liberation in 1943. Lamet recounts his motherâ€™s struggles to provide a secure home for her child while both attempt to adjust from their urban, relatively sophisticated background to life in what initially appears to be a bleak, primitive setting. This memoir will be an excellent addition to Holocaust collections. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna--and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marches, Eric Lamet and his parents flee for their lives. His father goes back to his native Poland--and never comes back. His mother hides out in Italy, on the run from place to place, taking her son deeper and deeper into the mountains to avoid capture.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this remarkable feat of memory and imagination, Lamet recreates the Italy he knew from the perspective of the scared and lonely child he once was. We not only see the hardships and terrors faced by foreign Jews in Fascist Italy, but also the friends Eric makes and his mother''s valiant efforts to make a home for him.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a style as original as his story, the author vividly recalls a dark time yet imbues his recollections with humor, humanity, and wit. Very few Holocaust memoirs address the plight of Jews sent into internal exile in Mussolini''s Italy. Lamet offers a rare and historically important portrait, one you will not soon forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5650'),
(12166, 'A Child Al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini&#39;s Italy', 'Eric Lamet', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Most accounts of Holocaust survival are centered on central or eastern Europe, in which the Nazi program of genocide was so explicit. Although Mussolini and his Fascist minions were not necessarily genocidal in intention, they were still virulently anti-Semitic as this engrossing and moving account reveals. Lamet was born in Vienna. When he was seven, his familyâ€™s middle-class existence was shattered by the Nazi seizure of Austria. His father fled to Poland, where he presumably perished in a death camp. Lamet and his mother made a harrowing escape to Italy, where they spent months seeking refuge in various isolated mountain villages. They resided in a southern rural hamlet east of Naples until the Allied liberation in 1943. Lamet recounts his motherâ€™s struggles to provide a secure home for her child while both attempt to adjust from their urban, relatively sophisticated background to life in what initially appears to be a bleak, primitive setting. This memoir will be an excellent addition to Holocaust collections. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna--and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marches, Eric Lamet and his parents flee for their lives. His father goes back to his native Poland--and never comes back. His mother hides out in Italy, on the run from place to place, taking her son deeper and deeper into the mountains to avoid capture.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this remarkable feat of memory and imagination, Lamet recreates the Italy he knew from the perspective of the scared and lonely child he once was. We not only see the hardships and terrors faced by foreign Jews in Fascist Italy, but also the friends Eric makes and his mother''s valiant efforts to make a home for him.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a style as original as his story, the author vividly recalls a dark time yet imbues his recollections with humor, humanity, and wit. Very few Holocaust memoirs address the plight of Jews sent into internal exile in Mussolini''s Italy. Lamet offers a rare and historically important portrait, one you will not soon forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12239'),
(12167, 'The Child in Time', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Child in Time\n  </em>\n  opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children''s books, takes his 3-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself: "It was a wonder there could be so much movement, so much purpose, all the time. He himself had none." This beautifully haunting book won a 1987 Whitbread Prize.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A sense of loss pervades this fine, provocative new novel by the author of The Comfort of Strangers. The protagonist, Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children''s books, is introduced to us in a scene more frightening than any from a horror novel: while he is shopping with Kate, his three-year-old daughter, the child is kidnapped. Stephen''s mounting terror as he combs the store for Katetrying in vain to recall the face of the dark-clad stranger he glimpsed behind themis palpable. As the story moves forward, it focuses not only on Stephen''s search for his daughter, but also on his attempts to come to terms with his loss and the likely collapse of his marriage to Julie, a musician. Woven through the narrative is a subplot that deals with childhood and loss of a different sort. It is the innocence of youth that Stephen''s friend and former editor, Charles Darke, longs for and ultimately recaptures at a terrible price. This is a beautifully rendered, very disturbing novel. First serial to Esquire.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25708'),
(12168, 'Child of a Dead God', 'Barb Hendee &amp; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For years, Magiere and Leesil have sought a long-forgotten artifact, even though its purpose has been shrouded in mystery. All Magiere knows is that she must keep the orb from falling into the hands of a murdering Noble Dead, her half-brother Welstiel. And now, dreams of a castle locked in ice lead her south, on a journey that has become nothing less than an obsession. Accompanying Magiere and Leesil are the sage Wynn, their canine protector Chap, and two elven assassins-turned-guardians who must fight their distrust of this sister of the dead. For forces more powerful than they are rallying around Magiere, arming her for the conflict to come. Because finding the orb may be just the beginning of the challenges that await her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7327'),
(12169, 'Child of a Dead God', 'Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For years, Magiere and Leesil have sought a long-forgotten artifact, even though its purpose has been shrouded in mystery. All Magiere knows is that she must keep the orb from falling into the hands of a murdering Noble Dead, her half-brother Welstiel. And now, dreams of a castle locked in ice lead her south, on a journey that has become nothing less than an obsession. Accompanying Magiere and Leesil are the sage Wynn, their canine protector Chap, and two elven assassins-turned-guardians who must fight their distrust of this sister of the dead. For forces more powerful than they are rallying around Magiere, arming her for the conflict to come. Because finding the orb may be just the beginning of the challenges that await her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16560'),
(12170, 'Child of a Dead God', 'Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For years, Magiere and Leesil have sought a long-forgotten artifact, even though its purpose has been shrouded in mystery. All Magiere knows is that she must keep the orb from falling into the hands of a murdering Noble Dead, her half-brother Welstiel. And now, dreams of a castle locked in ice lead her south, on a journey that has become nothing less than an obsession. Accompanying Magiere and Leesil are the sage Wynn, their canine protector Chap, and two elven assassins-turned-guardians who must fight their distrust of this sister of the dead. For forces more powerful than they are rallying around Magiere, arming her for the conflict to come. Because finding the orb may be just the beginning of the challenges that await her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26596'),
(12171, 'Child of the Northern Spring: Book One of the Guinevere Trilogy', 'Persia Woolley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The story of a queen who deserves to become a legend-a startlingly original tale of Arthur &amp; Guinevere** Often portrayed as spoiled, in Persia Woolley''s hands Guinevere comes alive as a high-spirited, passionate woman. When she is chosen by Arthur to be his wife, Guinevere''s independence wars with her family loyalty. As the wedding approaches and hints of rebellion abound, she learns that the old gods are in revolt against the new Christian church, and that scattered kingdoms are stirring from their uneasy peace. This is Arthurian epic at its best, filled with romance, adventure, authentic historical detail, and a landscape alive with the mystery of Britain in the Dark Ages. "This is truly original. As a re-creation of the legend in a version closer to the realities, it''s far better than anything else I''ve read." -Geoffrey Ashe, author of *The Discovery of King Arthur* "This richly detailed novel is romantic, its characters are vivdly drawn, and Woolley''s clear styles flows as smoothly as her unfolding story." -Morgan Llywelyn, author of *Lion of Ireland *and *The Horse Goddess.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21529');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(12172, 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came', 'Robert Browning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Written in 1855 and first published in the collection "Men and Women", Browning''s narrative poem later served as the inspiration for Stephen King''s "Dark Tower" series.  The poem tells the tale of Roland, a knight, who comes as last to the object of his quest:  the Dark Tower.  His comrades have all fallen, and he is the last.  He endures, marching on and on, until he comes at last to the Tower.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1691'),
(12173, 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came', 'Robert Browning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Written in 1855 and first published in the collection "Men and Women", Browning''s narrative poem later served as the inspiration for Stephen King''s "Dark Tower" series. The poem tells the tale of Roland, a knight, who comes as last to the object of his quest: the Dark Tower. His comrades have all fallen, and he is the last. He endures, marching on and on, until he comes at last to the Tower.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23202'),
(12174, 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came', 'Robert Browning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Written in 1855 and first published in the collection "Men and Women", Browning''s narrative poem later served as the inspiration for Stephen King''s "Dark Tower" series. The poem tells the tale of Roland, a knight, who comes as last to the object of his quest: the Dark Tower. His comrades have all fallen, and he is the last. He endures, marching on and on, until he comes at last to the Tower.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26138'),
(12175, 'Childhood&#39;s End', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A FIRST-RATE TOUR DE FORCE."\n  <br />\n  --The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A FRIGHTENINGLY LOGICAL, BELIEVABLE, AND GRIMLY PROPHETIC TALE . . . CLARKE IS A MASTER."\n  <br />\n  --Los Angeles Times --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7453'),
(12176, 'Childhood&#39;s end', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15149'),
(12177, 'Childhood&#39;s End', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the all-time classics of science fiction by the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey features a race of aliens who offers mankind a golden age of peace and prosperity, but at the cost of freedom. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16447'),
(12178, 'Childhood&#39;s end', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26450'),
(12179, 'Childhood&#39;s end', 'Arthur Charles Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the all-time classics of science fiction by the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey features a race of aliens who offers mankind a golden age of peace and prosperity, but at the cost of freedom. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26502'),
(12180, 'Children of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The science fiction masterpiece continues in the â€œmajor event,â€(* Los Angeles Times*) *Children of Dune*.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbertâ€™s Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muadâ€™Dib, disappeared in the deserts of Arrakis. Like their father, they possess supernormal abilitiesâ€”making them valuable to their aunt Alia, who rules the Empire. If Alia can obtain the secrets of the twinsâ€™ prophetic visions, her rule will be absolute. But the twins have their own plans for their destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5534'),
(12181, 'Children of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The science fiction masterpiece continues in the â€œmajor event,â€(* Los Angeles Times*) *Children of Dune*.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbertâ€™s Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muadâ€™Dib, disappeared in the deserts of Arrakis. Like their father, they possess supernormal abilitiesâ€”making them valuable to their aunt Alia, who rules the Empire. If Alia can obtain the secrets of the twinsâ€™ prophetic visions, her rule will be absolute. But the twins have their own plans for their destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10278'),
(12182, 'Children of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The science fiction masterpiece continues in the â€œmajor event,â€(* Los Angeles Times*) *Children of Dune*.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbertâ€™s Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muadâ€™Dib, disappeared in the deserts of Arrakis. Like their father, they possess supernormal abilitiesâ€”making them valuable to their aunt Alia, who rules the Empire. If Alia can obtain the secrets of the twinsâ€™ prophetic visions, her rule will be absolute. But the twins have their own plans for their destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15165'),
(12183, 'Children of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The science fiction masterpiece continues in the â€œmajor event,â€(* Los Angeles Times*) *Children of Dune*.** With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbertâ€™s Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muadâ€™Dib, disappeared in the deserts of Arrakis. Like their father, they possess supernormal abilitiesâ€”making them valuable to their aunt Alia, who rules the Empire. If Alia can obtain the secrets of the twinsâ€™ prophetic visions, her rule will be absolute. But the twins have their own plans for their destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19057'),
(12184, 'Children of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The science fiction masterpiece continues in the â€œmajor event,â€(* Los Angeles Times*) *Children of Dune*.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbertâ€™s Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muadâ€™Dib, disappeared in the deserts of Arrakis. Like their father, they possess supernormal abilitiesâ€”making them valuable to their aunt Alia, who rules the Empire. If Alia can obtain the secrets of the twinsâ€™ prophetic visions, her rule will be absolute. But the twins have their own plans for their destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27839'),
(12185, 'Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan', 'Ali Eteraz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ali Eteraz''s *Children of Dust *is a spellbinding portrayal of a life that few Americans can imagine. From his schooling in a madrassa in Pakistan to his teenage years as a Muslim American in the Bible Belt, and back to Pakistan to find a pious Muslim wife, this lyrical, penetrating saga from a brilliant new literary voice captures the heart of our universal quest for identity.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Children of Dust *begins in rural Islam at the lowest levels of Pakistani society in the turbulent eighties. This intimate portrayal of rustic village life is revealed through a young boy''s eyes as he discovers magic, women, and friendship.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After immigrating with his family to the United States, Eteraz struggles to be a normal American teenager under the rules of a strict Muslim household.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1999, he returns to Pakistan to find the villages of his youth dominated by the ideology of the Taliban, filled with young men spouting militant rhetoric, and his extended family under threat. Eteraz becomes the target of a mysterious abduction plot when he is purported to be a CIA agent, and eventually has to escape under military escort.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Back in the United States, with his fundamentalist illusions now shattered, Eteraz tries to find a middle way within American Islam. At each stage of Eteraz''s life, he takes on a different identity to signal his evolution. From being pledged to Islam in Mecca as an infant, through Salafi fundamentalism, to liberal reformer, Eteraz desperately struggles to come to terms with being a Pakistani and a Muslim.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Astonishingly honest, darkly comic, and beautifully told, *Children of Dust *is an extraordinary adventure that reveals the diversity of Islamic beliefs, the vastness of the Pakistani diaspora, and the very human search for home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7746'),
(12186, 'Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan', 'Ali Eteraz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ali Eteraz''s *Children of Dust *is a spellbinding portrayal of a life that few Americans can imagine. From his schooling in a madrassa in Pakistan to his teenage years as a Muslim American in the Bible Belt, and back to Pakistan to find a pious Muslim wife, this lyrical, penetrating saga from a brilliant new literary voice captures the heart of our universal quest for identity.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Children of Dust *begins in rural Islam at the lowest levels of Pakistani society in the turbulent eighties. This intimate portrayal of rustic village life is revealed through a young boy''s eyes as he discovers magic, women, and friendship.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After immigrating with his family to the United States, Eteraz struggles to be a normal American teenager under the rules of a strict Muslim household.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1999, he returns to Pakistan to find the villages of his youth dominated by the ideology of the Taliban, filled with young men spouting militant rhetoric, and his extended family under threat. Eteraz becomes the target of a mysterious abduction plot when he is purported to be a CIA agent, and eventually has to escape under military escort.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Back in the United States, with his fundamentalist illusions now shattered, Eteraz tries to find a middle way within American Islam. At each stage of Eteraz''s life, he takes on a different identity to signal his evolution. From being pledged to Islam in Mecca as an infant, through Salafi fundamentalism, to liberal reformer, Eteraz desperately struggles to come to terms with being a Pakistani and a Muslim.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Astonishingly honest, darkly comic, and beautifully told, *Children of Dust *is an extraordinary adventure that reveals the diversity of Islamic beliefs, the vastness of the Pakistani diaspora, and the very human search for home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9617'),
(12187, 'Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan', 'Ali Eteraz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ali Eteraz''s *Children of Dust *is a spellbinding portrayal of a life that few Americans can imagine. From his schooling in a madrassa in Pakistan to his teenage years as a Muslim American in the Bible Belt, and back to Pakistan to find a pious Muslim wife, this lyrical, penetrating saga from a brilliant new literary voice captures the heart of our universal quest for identity. *Children of Dust *begins in rural Islam at the lowest levels of Pakistani society in the turbulent eighties. This intimate portrayal of rustic village life is revealed through a young boy''s eyes as he discovers magic, women, and friendship. After immigrating with his family to the United States, Eteraz struggles to be a normal American teenager under the rules of a strict Muslim household. In 1999, he returns to Pakistan to find the villages of his youth dominated by the ideology of the Taliban, filled with young men spouting militant rhetoric, and his extended family under threat. Eteraz becomes the target of a mysterious abduction plot when he is purported to be a CIA agent, and eventually has to escape under military escort. Back in the United States, with his fundamentalist illusions now shattered, Eteraz tries to find a middle way within American Islam. At each stage of Eteraz''s life, he takes on a different identity to signal his evolution. From being pledged to Islam in Mecca as an infant, through Salafi fundamentalism, to liberal reformer, Eteraz desperately struggles to come to terms with being a Pakistani and a Muslim. Astonishingly honest, darkly comic, and beautifully told, *Children of Dust *is an extraordinary adventure that reveals the diversity of Islamic beliefs, the vastness of the Pakistani diaspora, and the very human search for home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16092'),
(12188, 'Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan', 'Ali Eteraz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ali Eteraz''s *Children of Dust *is a spellbinding portrayal of a life that few Americans can imagine. From his schooling in a madrassa in Pakistan to his teenage years as a Muslim American in the Bible Belt, and back to Pakistan to find a pious Muslim wife, this lyrical, penetrating saga from a brilliant new literary voice captures the heart of our universal quest for identity. *Children of Dust *begins in rural Islam at the lowest levels of Pakistani society in the turbulent eighties. This intimate portrayal of rustic village life is revealed through a young boy''s eyes as he discovers magic, women, and friendship. After immigrating with his family to the United States, Eteraz struggles to be a normal American teenager under the rules of a strict Muslim household. In 1999, he returns to Pakistan to find the villages of his youth dominated by the ideology of the Taliban, filled with young men spouting militant rhetoric, and his extended family under threat. Eteraz becomes the target of a mysterious abduction plot when he is purported to be a CIA agent, and eventually has to escape under military escort. Back in the United States, with his fundamentalist illusions now shattered, Eteraz tries to find a middle way within American Islam. At each stage of Eteraz''s life, he takes on a different identity to signal his evolution. From being pledged to Islam in Mecca as an infant, through Salafi fundamentalism, to liberal reformer, Eteraz desperately struggles to come to terms with being a Pakistani and a Muslim. Astonishingly honest, darkly comic, and beautifully told, *Children of Dust *is an extraordinary adventure that reveals the diversity of Islamic beliefs, the vastness of the Pakistani diaspora, and the very human search for home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26280'),
(12189, 'The Children of Dynmouth', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  William Trevor''s The Children of Dynmouth was first published in 1976. In it we follow awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland south-coast seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realize the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late. This brilliant novel is eerily prescient as it shows a young person''s obsession with fame and his capacity for evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/152'),
(12190, 'The Children of Dynmouth', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  William Trevor''s The Children of Dynmouth was first published in 1976. In it we follow awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland south-coast seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realize the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late. This brilliant novel is eerily prescient as it shows a young person''s obsession with fame and his capacity for evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13070'),
(12191, 'The Children Of Dynmouth', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  William Trevor''s The Children of Dynmouth was first published in 1976. In it we follow awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland south-coast seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realize the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late. This brilliant novel is eerily prescient as it shows a young person''s obsession with fame and his capacity for evil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24703'),
(12192, 'The Children of Hamlin', 'Carmen Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Hamlin Massacre -- every Starfleet officer knows the tale. The tiny Federation outpost of hamlin was destroyed, its entire adult population ruthlessly slaughtered, before the first defense shield could be raised. Even worse, the colony''s children disappeared without a trace, abducted by the aliens who attacked with a ferocity and speed that outmatched their Starfleet pursuers.  Now, fifty years later, the Choraii ships have appeared again. But this time the Federation is ready; this time the Choraii must pay for what they need. The precious metals can only be bought with the Hamlin children still living with their captors.  This time, the Choraii must face Captain Jean-Luc Picard -- and the crew of the starship Enterprise...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7050'),
(12193, 'The Children of Hamlin', 'Carmen Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Hamlin Massacre -- every Starfleet officer knows the tale. The tiny Federation outpost of hamlin was destroyed, its entire adult population ruthlessly slaughtered, before the first defense shield could be raised. Even worse, the colony''s children disappeared without a trace, abducted by the aliens who attacked with a ferocity and speed that outmatched their Starfleet pursuers. Now, fifty years later, the Choraii ships have appeared again. But this time the Federation is ready; this time the Choraii must pay for what they need. The precious metals can only be bought with the Hamlin children still living with their captors. This time, the Choraii must face Captain Jean-Luc Picard -- and the crew of the starship Enterprise...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16919'),
(12194, 'Children of Henry VIII', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does full justice to the subject."--The Philadelphia InquirerAt his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife Katherine of Aragon; the Lady Elizabeth, the teenage daughter of his second wife Anne Boleyn; and his young great-niece, the Lady Jane Grey. In this riveting account Alison Weir paints a unique portrait of these extraordinary rulers, examining their intricate relationships to each other and to history. She traces the tumult that followed Henry''s death, from the brief intrigue-filled reigns of the boy king Edward VI and the fragile Lady Jane Grey, to the savagery of "Bloody Mary," and finally the accession of the politically adroit Elizabeth I.As always, Weir offers a fresh perspective on a period that has spawned many of the most enduring myths in English history, combining the best of the historian''s and the biographer''s art."Like anthropology, history and biography can demonstrate unfamiliar ways of feeling and being. Alison Weir''s sympathetic collective biography, The Children of Henry VIII does just that, reminding us that human nature has changed--and for the better. . . . Weir imparts movement and coherence while re-creating the suspense her characters endured and the suffering they inflicted."--The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7763'),
(12195, 'Children of Henry VIII', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does full justice to the subject."--The Philadelphia InquirerAt his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife Katherine of Aragon; the Lady Elizabeth, the teenage daughter of his second wife Anne Boleyn; and his young great-niece, the Lady Jane Grey. In this riveting account Alison Weir paints a unique portrait of these extraordinary rulers, examining their intricate relationships to each other and to history. She traces the tumult that followed Henry''s death, from the brief intrigue-filled reigns of the boy king Edward VI and the fragile Lady Jane Grey, to the savagery of "Bloody Mary," and finally the accession of the politically adroit Elizabeth I.As always, Weir offers a fresh perspective on a period that has spawned many of the most enduring myths in English history, combining the best of the historian''s and the biographer''s art."Like anthropology, history and biography can demonstrate unfamiliar ways of feeling and being. Alison Weir''s sympathetic collective biography, The Children of Henry VIII does just that, reminding us that human nature has changed--and for the better. . . . Weir imparts movement and coherence while re-creating the suspense her characters endured and the suffering they inflicted."--The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16191'),
(12196, 'Children of Henry VIII', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does full justice to the subject."--The Philadelphia InquirerAt his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife Katherine of Aragon; the Lady Elizabeth, the teenage daughter of his second wife Anne Boleyn; and his young great-niece, the Lady Jane Grey. In this riveting account Alison Weir paints a unique portrait of these extraordinary rulers, examining their intricate relationships to each other and to history. She traces the tumult that followed Henry''s death, from the brief intrigue-filled reigns of the boy king Edward VI and the fragile Lady Jane Grey, to the savagery of "Bloody Mary," and finally the accession of the politically adroit Elizabeth I.As always, Weir offers a fresh perspective on a period that has spawned many of the most enduring myths in English history, combining the best of the historian''s and the biographer''s art."Like anthropology, history and biography can demonstrate unfamiliar ways of feeling and being. Alison Weir''s sympathetic collective biography, The Children of Henry VIII does just that, reminding us that human nature has changed--and for the better. . . . Weir imparts movement and coherence while re-creating the suspense her characters endured and the suffering they inflicted."--The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26361'),
(12197, 'The Children of Men', 'P. D. James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Told with P. D. Jamesâ€™s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2291'),
(12198, 'The Children of Men', 'P. D. James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Told with P. D. Jamesâ€™s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22429'),
(12199, 'Children of the Mind', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender''s Game, who as a man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and restore the Hive Queen to life. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Lusitania is home to three sentient species: The Pequeninos, a strange race native to Lusitania; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But the Starways Congress fears Lusitania and a strange virus that it harbors, and they have gathered a fleet to destroy the planet. Ender''s oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over three thousand years, allowed the Starways Congress to discover her existence when she tried t stop the fleet. Now they are trying to kill her as well, by shutting down the network of computers and ansibles in which she lives. They are afraid of her and of her control over all human communications. Jane can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by world. Soon she will not be able to move the ships. But there is hope: during the first trip outside, Ender''s mind briefly took control and created two new beings - replicas of his brother Peter, who was the Hegemon, and his sister Valentine. These two children of Ender''s mind, together with his adopted children from Lusitania, are racing against time to discover new worlds, to influence the Starways Congress to recall the fleet, and to save Jane by finding a home for her disembodied intelligence once the Human Network is closed off to her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2369'),
(12200, 'Children of the Mind', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender''s Game, who as a man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and restore the Hive Queen to life. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Lusitania is home to three sentient species: The Pequeninos, a strange race native to Lusitania; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But the Starways Congress fears Lusitania and a strange virus that it harbors, and they have gathered a fleet to destroy the planet. Ender''s oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over three thousand years, allowed the Starways Congress to discover her existence when she tried t stop the fleet. Now they are trying to kill her as well, by shutting down the network of computers and ansibles in which she lives. They are afraid of her and of her control over all human communications. Jane can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by world. Soon she will not be able to move the ships. But there is hope: during the first trip outside, Ender''s mind briefly took control and created two new beings - replicas of his brother Peter, who was the Hegemon, and his sister Valentine. These two children of Ender''s mind, together with his adopted children from Lusitania, are racing against time to discover new worlds, to influence the Starways Congress to recall the fleet, and to save Jane by finding a home for her disembodied intelligence once the Human Network is closed off to her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8788'),
(12201, 'Children of the Mind', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender''s Game, who as a man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and restore the Hive Queen to life. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Lusitania is home to three sentient species: The Pequeninos, a strange race native to Lusitania; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But the Starways Congress fears Lusitania and a strange virus that it harbors, and they have gathered a fleet to destroy the planet. Ender''s oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over three thousand years, allowed the Starways Congress to discover her existence when she tried t stop the fleet. Now they are trying to kill her as well, by shutting down the network of computers and ansibles in which she lives. They are afraid of her and of her control over all human communications. Jane can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by world. Soon she will not be able to move the ships. But there is hope: during the first trip outside, Ender''s mind briefly took control and created two new beings - replicas of his brother Peter, who was the Hegemon, and his sister Valentine. These two children of Ender''s mind, together with his adopted children from Lusitania, are racing against time to discover new worlds, to influence the Starways Congress to recall the fleet, and to save Jane by finding a home for her disembodied intelligence once the Human Network is closed off to her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14916'),
(12202, 'Children of the Mind', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender''s Game, who as a man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and restore the Hive Queen to life. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Lusitania is home to three sentient species: The Pequeninos, a strange race native to Lusitania; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But the Starways Congress fears Lusitania and a strange virus that it harbors, and they have gathered a fleet to destroy the planet. Ender''s oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over three thousand years, allowed the Starways Congress to discover her existence when she tried t stop the fleet. Now they are trying to kill her as well, by shutting down the network of computers and ansibles in which she lives. They are afraid of her and of her control over all human communications. Jane can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by world. Soon she will not be able to move the ships. But there is hope: during the first trip outside, Ender''s mind briefly took control and created two new beings - replicas of his brother Peter, who was the Hegemon, and his sister Valentine. These two children of Ender''s mind, together with his adopted children from Lusitania, are racing against time to discover new worlds, to influence the Starways Congress to recall the fleet, and to save Jane by finding a home for her disembodied intelligence once the Human Network is closed off to her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22366'),
(12203, 'Children of the Storm', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Great War has ended, but evil still casts a long shadow over a violence-scarred land. One woman -- an adventurer and archaeologist with a brilliant mind -- must now confront a dreadful adversary more fiendish and formidable than any she has ever encountered. But by doing so, she may be feeding the flames of a devastating firestorm that threatens the fragile lives of the tender and innocent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5721'),
(12204, 'Children of the Storm', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n t was hard for Sonya Carter to believe that she was only half an hour from civilization, for the feeling of isolation from the world on this tiny island in the Caribbean was almost complete. The people in the two houses on the island could have been cast adrift from reality, inhabiting a universe of their own. Sonya had come to Distingue to escape the dark days of her recent past; the offer of a job as tutor to the Dougherty children seemed heaven- sent. And for a time Distingue seemed to live up to the promise of its name--a place of elegance. But there was a darker force on the island, an insane power that sought to bring terror to the most innocent victims of all, the children. Someone was determined to murder them--and only Sonya stood in his way!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8008'),
(12205, 'Children of the Storm', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n t was hard for Sonya Carter to believe that she was only half an hour from civilization, for the feeling of isolation from the world on this tiny island in the Caribbean was almost complete. The people in the two houses on the island could have been cast adrift from reality, inhabiting a universe of their own. Sonya had come to Distingue to escape the dark days of her recent past; the offer of a job as tutor to the Dougherty children seemed heaven- sent. And for a time Distingue seemed to live up to the promise of its name--a place of elegance. But there was a darker force on the island, an insane power that sought to bring terror to the most innocent victims of all, the children. Someone was determined to murder them--and only Sonya stood in his way!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17844'),
(12206, 'Children of the Storm', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Great War has ended, but evil still casts a long shadow over a violence-scarred land. One woman -- an adventurer and archaeologist with a brilliant mind -- must now confront a dreadful adversary more fiendish and formidable than any she has ever encountered. But by doing so, she may be feeding the flames of a devastating firestorm that threatens the fragile lives of the tender and innocent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18828'),
(12207, 'Children of the Storm', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n t was hard for Sonya Carter to believe that she was only half an hour from civilization, for the feeling of isolation from the world on this tiny island in the Caribbean was almost complete. The people in the two houses on the island could have been cast adrift from reality, inhabiting a universe of their own. Sonya had come to Distingue to escape the dark days of her recent past; the offer of a job as tutor to the Dougherty children seemed heaven- sent. And for a time Distingue seemed to live up to the promise of its name--a place of elegance. But there was a darker force on the island, an insane power that sought to bring terror to the most innocent victims of all, the children. Someone was determined to murder them--and only Sonya stood in his way!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27406'),
(12208, 'Children of the Storm', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Great War has ended, but evil still casts a long shadow over a violence-scarred land. One woman -- an adventurer and archaeologist with a brilliant mind -- must now confront a dreadful adversary more fiendish and formidable than any she has ever encountered. But by doing so, she may be feeding the flames of a devastating firestorm that threatens the fragile lives of the tender and innocent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27633'),
(12209, 'Chill of Night', 'John Lutz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Against the backdrop of a terrorized city, Lutz delivers a solid thriller with typical skill and style. Ex-NYPD homicide detective Artemis Beam made his reputation by running down serial killers. Now retiredâ€”in part because of a gunshot wound, in part his disrespect for the police hierarchyâ€”Beam morosely deals with the inactivity of retirement, tragically complicated by the recent suicide of his wife. When Deputy Chief Andy da Vinci asks for his help in catching a serial murderer dubbed the Justice Killerâ€”each of his victims at one time served as foreman on a jury that acquitted an "obviously" guilty defendantâ€”Beam is lured back to the fold. As the adversary stays one step ahead of the investigation, Beam''s team get the feeling that the Justice Killer may be looking to add them to his growing list of victims. Though it''s a familiar setup, Lutz breathes fresh life into this genre piece by keeping the suspense high and populating his story with a collection of unique characters that resonate with the reader, making this one an ideal beach read.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a twisted serial killer stalking the streets of New York City, dealing his own perverse version of justice. He kills swiftly and silently, leaving his calling card - a red "J" - on the bodies of his prey. His victims have one thing in common: they''ve all been jurors in the city''s most infamous cases - cases in which the killer was found "not guilty." Overnight, the Justice Killer has the city in a stranglehold. And there''s only one man who has a shot at finding him. Homicide detective Artemis Beam made his reputation hunting down serial killers. After getting shot by an armed robber - and stepping on the wrong toes in the NYPD - he''s been retired. The city needs him now, and finding the killer is his chance to get back into the life he loves. As the body count climbs and the city''s legal system fails, the Justice Killer thinks he''s outsmarted the cops. But Beam isn''t officially a cop anymore...and he doesn''t have to play by the rules.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4280'),
(12210, 'Chill of Night', 'John Lutz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Against the backdrop of a terrorized city, Lutz delivers a solid thriller with typical skill and style. Ex-NYPD homicide detective Artemis Beam made his reputation by running down serial killers. Now retiredâ€”in part because of a gunshot wound, in part his disrespect for the police hierarchyâ€”Beam morosely deals with the inactivity of retirement, tragically complicated by the recent suicide of his wife. When Deputy Chief Andy da Vinci asks for his help in catching a serial murderer dubbed the Justice Killerâ€”each of his victims at one time served as foreman on a jury that acquitted an "obviously" guilty defendantâ€”Beam is lured back to the fold. As the adversary stays one step ahead of the investigation, Beam''s team get the feeling that the Justice Killer may be looking to add them to his growing list of victims. Though it''s a familiar setup, Lutz breathes fresh life into this genre piece by keeping the suspense high and populating his story with a collection of unique characters that resonate with the reader, making this one an ideal beach read.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a twisted serial killer stalking the streets of New York City, dealing his own perverse version of justice. He kills swiftly and silently, leaving his calling card - a red "J" - on the bodies of his prey. His victims have one thing in common: they''ve all been jurors in the city''s most infamous cases - cases in which the killer was found "not guilty." Overnight, the Justice Killer has the city in a stranglehold. And there''s only one man who has a shot at finding him. Homicide detective Artemis Beam made his reputation hunting down serial killers. After getting shot by an armed robber - and stepping on the wrong toes in the NYPD - he''s been retired. The city needs him now, and finding the killer is his chance to get back into the life he loves. As the body count climbs and the city''s legal system fails, the Justice Killer thinks he''s outsmarted the cops. But Beam isn''t officially a cop anymore...and he doesn''t have to play by the rules.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11189');
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(12211, 'Chill of Night', 'John Lutz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Against the backdrop of a terrorized city, Lutz delivers a solid thriller with typical skill and style. Ex-NYPD homicide detective Artemis Beam made his reputation by running down serial killers. Now retiredâ€”in part because of a gunshot wound, in part his disrespect for the police hierarchyâ€”Beam morosely deals with the inactivity of retirement, tragically complicated by the recent suicide of his wife. When Deputy Chief Andy da Vinci asks for his help in catching a serial murderer dubbed the Justice Killerâ€”each of his victims at one time served as foreman on a jury that acquitted an "obviously" guilty defendantâ€”Beam is lured back to the fold. As the adversary stays one step ahead of the investigation, Beam''s team get the feeling that the Justice Killer may be looking to add them to his growing list of victims. Though it''s a familiar setup, Lutz breathes fresh life into this genre piece by keeping the suspense high and populating his story with a collection of unique characters that resonate with the reader, making this one an ideal beach read.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a twisted serial killer stalking the streets of New York City, dealing his own perverse version of justice. He kills swiftly and silently, leaving his calling card - a red "J" - on the bodies of his prey. His victims have one thing in common: they''ve all been jurors in the city''s most infamous cases - cases in which the killer was found "not guilty." Overnight, the Justice Killer has the city in a stranglehold. And there''s only one man who has a shot at finding him. Homicide detective Artemis Beam made his reputation hunting down serial killers. After getting shot by an armed robber - and stepping on the wrong toes in the NYPD - he''s been retired. The city needs him now, and finding the killer is his chance to get back into the life he loves. As the body count climbs and the city''s legal system fails, the Justice Killer thinks he''s outsmarted the cops. But Beam isn''t officially a cop anymore...and he doesn''t have to play by the rules.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20348'),
(12212, 'The Chill', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure," wrote Ross Macdonald in his 1981 Self-Portrait. Nowhere in his work does he better demonstrate this principle than in The Chill, first published in 1964. The plot is one of Macdonald''s most masterfully constructed. Private detective Lew Archer is engaged to trace a missing spouse, who has vanished--apparently of her own free will--only a day into her honeymoon. Archer begins pulling at the threads of the case, and by page 25 they''re already starting to reveal a deeper, darker story involving two murders 20 years apart. As usual, Macdonald''s economical prose propels the reader forward from one action-packed scene to another, while the scenes in turn pile up to paint a rich, complex picture of buried memories, anguished relations between parents and children, the arrogance of the rich, and the search for identity. Then, at the end, one of the author''s best surprise reversals changes the picture''s colors entirely. Even if you''re one of those discerning readers who find Macdonald''s lesser work superior to most other mystery writing (as does this reviewer), The Chill stands out among his books. --Nicholas H. Allison\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11044'),
(12213, 'Chimaera', 'Ian Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fantasy fiction. All resistance has been crushed. In a few minutes of overwhelming violence the Council''s air-dreadnought fleet has destroyed Fiz Gorgo''s defences. Xervish Flydd, Irisis and their rallies have been condemned to die in a brutal aerial spectacle designed to reinforce Chief Scrutator Ghorr''s power and majesty. The only one left uncaptured is Nish, but he is trapped in a burning watchtower, and hunted by both the scrutators and his former lover, Ullii, whose twin brother he accidentally killed. Before Nish can hope to rescue his friends, he must convince Ullii to spare him, then overcome the most powerful cabal of mancers in the world as well as the Council''s four hundred crack guards. And even if he succeeds, to win the war the allies still have to defeat the scrutators and overthrow Nennifer, the corrupt Council''s dread bastion, before the rampaging lyrinx overwhelm all Santhenar.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5064'),
(12214, 'Chimaera', 'Ian Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fantasy fiction. All resistance has been crushed. In a few minutes of overwhelming violence the Council''s air-dreadnought fleet has destroyed Fiz Gorgo''s defences. Xervish Flydd, Irisis and their rallies have been condemned to die in a brutal aerial spectacle designed to reinforce Chief Scrutator Ghorr''s power and majesty. The only one left uncaptured is Nish, but he is trapped in a burning watchtower, and hunted by both the scrutators and his former lover, Ullii, whose twin brother he accidentally killed. Before Nish can hope to rescue his friends, he must convince Ullii to spare him, then overcome the most powerful cabal of mancers in the world as well as the Council''s four hundred crack guards. And even if he succeeds, to win the war the allies still have to defeat the scrutators and overthrow Nennifer, the corrupt Council''s dread bastion, before the rampaging lyrinx overwhelm all Santhenar.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10432'),
(12215, 'Chimaera', 'Ian Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fantasy fiction. All resistance has been crushed. In a few minutes of overwhelming violence the Council''s air-dreadnought fleet has destroyed Fiz Gorgo''s defences. Xervish Flydd, Irisis and their rallies have been condemned to die in a brutal aerial spectacle designed to reinforce Chief Scrutator Ghorr''s power and majesty. The only one left uncaptured is Nish, but he is trapped in a burning watchtower, and hunted by both the scrutators and his former lover, Ullii, whose twin brother he accidentally killed. Before Nish can hope to rescue his friends, he must convince Ullii to spare him, then overcome the most powerful cabal of mancers in the world as well as the Council''s four hundred crack guards. And even if he succeeds, to win the war the allies still have to defeat the scrutators and overthrow Nennifer, the corrupt Council''s dread bastion, before the rampaging lyrinx overwhelm all Santhenar.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19652'),
(12216, 'Chimaera', 'Ian Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fantasy fiction. All resistance has been crushed. In a few minutes of overwhelming violence the Council''s air-dreadnought fleet has destroyed Fiz Gorgo''s defences. Xervish Flydd, Irisis and their rallies have been condemned to die in a brutal aerial spectacle designed to reinforce Chief Scrutator Ghorr''s power and majesty. The only one left uncaptured is Nish, but he is trapped in a burning watchtower, and hunted by both the scrutators and his former lover, Ullii, whose twin brother he accidentally killed. Before Nish can hope to rescue his friends, he must convince Ullii to spare him, then overcome the most powerful cabal of mancers in the world as well as the Council''s four hundred crack guards. And even if he succeeds, to win the war the allies still have to defeat the scrutators and overthrow Nennifer, the corrupt Council''s dread bastion, before the rampaging lyrinx overwhelm all Santhenar.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28202'),
(12217, 'Chimera', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25686'),
(12218, 'China Witness', 'Xinran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the acclaimed author of The Good Women of China and Sky Burial, traveled across China in 2005 and 2006, seeking out the nationâ€™s grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who have experienced, firsthand, the vast changes of the modern era. In cities and remote villages, Xinran spoke with members of these generations from all tiers of society, interviewing them for the first and perhaps the last time. Although many of them feared repercussions for speaking freely, they spoke to Xinran with stunning candor about their hopes, fears, and struggles, and about what they have witnessed: from the Long March to land reform, from Mao to marriage, from revolution to Westernization. While the West has commonly viewed the last one hundred years in China through the single narrative lens of Maoâ€™s rise and rule, the experience of this same period for the Chinese themselves has been infinitely more complex. In the same way that Studs Terkelâ€™s Working and Tom Brokawâ€™s The Greatest Generation gave us the essence of very particular times, China Witness gives us the essence of modern Chinaâ€“a portrait more intimate, nuanced, and revelatory than any we have had before.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/184'),
(12219, 'China Witness', 'Xinran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the acclaimed author of The Good Women of China and Sky Burial, traveled across China in 2005 and 2006, seeking out the nationâ€™s grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who have experienced, firsthand, the vast changes of the modern era. In cities and remote villages, Xinran spoke with members of these generations from all tiers of society, interviewing them for the first and perhaps the last time. Although many of them feared repercussions for speaking freely, they spoke to Xinran with stunning candor about their hopes, fears, and struggles, and about what they have witnessed: from the Long March to land reform, from Mao to marriage, from revolution to Westernization. While the West has commonly viewed the last one hundred years in China through the single narrative lens of Maoâ€™s rise and rule, the experience of this same period for the Chinese themselves has been infinitely more complex. In the same way that Studs Terkelâ€™s Working and Tom Brokawâ€™s The Greatest Generation gave us the essence of very particular times, China Witness gives us the essence of modern Chinaâ€“a portrait more intimate, nuanced, and revelatory than any we have had before.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13468'),
(12220, 'China Witness', 'Xinran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the acclaimed author of The Good Women of China and Sky Burial, traveled across China in 2005 and 2006, seeking out the nationâ€™s grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who have experienced, firsthand, the vast changes of the modern era. In cities and remote villages, Xinran spoke with members of these generations from all tiers of society, interviewing them for the first and perhaps the last time. Although many of them feared repercussions for speaking freely, they spoke to Xinran with stunning candor about their hopes, fears, and struggles, and about what they have witnessed: from the Long March to land reform, from Mao to marriage, from revolution to Westernization. While the West has commonly viewed the last one hundred years in China through the single narrative lens of Maoâ€™s rise and rule, the experience of this same period for the Chinese themselves has been infinitely more complex. In the same way that Studs Terkelâ€™s Working and Tom Brokawâ€™s The Greatest Generation gave us the essence of very particular times, China Witness gives us the essence of modern Chinaâ€“a portrait more intimate, nuanced, and revelatory than any we have had before.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24781'),
(12221, 'China&#39;s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy', 'Minxin Pei', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Minxin Pei is unquestionably one of this country''s best informed and most insightful analysts of contemporary Chinese politics. This well-written, provocative bookÂ­-a sobering picture of a China beset by severe social problems yet resistant to the political reforms needed to resolve them-Â­directly challenges much of the conventional wisdom about the rise of China. It is certain to be welcomed by scholars, policymakers, and general readers alike.\n  <br />\n  --Elizabeth J. Perry, author of\n  <em>\n   Patrolling the Revolution\n  </em>\n  (20060531)\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this superb work, Pei asks penetrating questions about the course of China''s development. He offers a very effective critique of the gradualist approach to reform, explaining that the problems China faces are not incidental to but an integral part of that approach. Powerfully argued, this is a major contribution sure to stir debate.\n  <br />\n  --Joseph Fewsmith, author of\n  <em>\n   China since Tiananmen\n  </em>\n  (20060612)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei''s notion of a ''trapped transition'' will prove valuableÂ­-and not just for its application to China. It serves to challenge the deterministic and evolutionary assumptions behind much of the literature on democratization.\n  <br />\n  --Philippe C. Schmitter, European University Institute (20060901)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not only does Minxin Pei make the case that the Chinese reforms are partial and self-limiting, but he also calls into question the hopeful view that rapid growth will ultimately generate political reform. His important book has implications for current debates about the United States-China relationship, but will also force a rethinking of the broader comparative literature on the developmental state.\n  <br />\n  --Stephan Haggard, co-author of\n  <em>\n   The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions\n  </em>\n  (20061001)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thought-provoking...Mr. Pei argues, persuasively, that China''s gradualism, often favourably contrasted with the former Soviet Union''s flirtation with radical reforms, is as much a political as an economic strategy.\n  <br />\n  --Martin Wolf (_Financial Times_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei does not have much time for the optimistic assumption that democracy in China is just around the corner...For Pei, there is little chance of dethroning the Communist party behemoth in spite of the heroic efforts of the dissidents and democracy campaigners.\n  <br />\n  --Chris Patten (_Financial Times_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Pei sees it, big trouble looms [for China]. Continued progress toward a more modern economy will require the establishment of a true rule of law, which in turn will require ''institutional curbs'' on governmental action. These two limitations on power are incompatible with the party''s insistence on dominating society. So long as the current political framework remains in place, then, China is effectively, and perhaps fatally, trapped in its state of transition...[_China''s Trapped Transition_ presents a] comprehensive and, I believe, compelling understanding of present-day China.\n  <br />\n  --Gordon G. Chang (_Commentary_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  [An] acute and insightful examination of China''s ongoing transition.\n  <br />\n  --Chris Hunter (_China Economic Review_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei''s most significant contribution lies in his lucid exposition of the causal links between the structural logic of China''s "illiberal adaptation" and its manifest socio-economic and political consequences...He has arguably--like Elvin before him--raised the level of debate and altered the terms of engagement.\n  <br />\n  --Richard Baum (_China Journal_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, Chinaâ€™s prospects remain uncertain. In a book sure to provoke debate, Minxin Pei examines the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Partyâ€™s reform strategyâ€”pursuing pro-market economic policies under one-party rule.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei casts doubt on three central explanations for why Chinaâ€™s strategy works: sustained economic development will lead to political liberalization and democratization; gradualist economic transition is a strategy superior to the â€œshock therapyâ€ prescribed for the former Soviet Union; and a neo-authoritarian developmental state is essential to economic take-off. Pei argues that because the Communist Party must retain significant economic control to ensure its political survival, gradualism will ultimately fail.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The lack of democratic reforms in China has led to pervasive corruption and a breakdown in political accountability. What has emerged is a decentralized predatory state in which local party bosses have effectively privatized the stateâ€™s authority. Collusive corruption is widespread and governance is deteriorating. Instead of evolving toward a full market economy, China is trapped in partial economic and political reforms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Combining powerful insights with empirical research,\n  <em>\n   Chinaâ€™s Trapped Transition\n  </em>\n  offers a provocative assessment of Chinaâ€™s future as a great power.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (20070101)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2760'),
(12222, 'China&#39;s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy', 'Minxin Pei', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Minxin Pei is unquestionably one of this country''s best informed and most insightful analysts of contemporary Chinese politics. This well-written, provocative bookÂ­-a sobering picture of a China beset by severe social problems yet resistant to the political reforms needed to resolve them-Â­directly challenges much of the conventional wisdom about the rise of China. It is certain to be welcomed by scholars, policymakers, and general readers alike.\n  <br />\n  --Elizabeth J. Perry, author of\n  <em>\n   Patrolling the Revolution\n  </em>\n  (20060531)\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this superb work, Pei asks penetrating questions about the course of China''s development. He offers a very effective critique of the gradualist approach to reform, explaining that the problems China faces are not incidental to but an integral part of that approach. Powerfully argued, this is a major contribution sure to stir debate.\n  <br />\n  --Joseph Fewsmith, author of\n  <em>\n   China since Tiananmen\n  </em>\n  (20060612)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei''s notion of a ''trapped transition'' will prove valuableÂ­-and not just for its application to China. It serves to challenge the deterministic and evolutionary assumptions behind much of the literature on democratization.\n  <br />\n  --Philippe C. Schmitter, European University Institute (20060901)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not only does Minxin Pei make the case that the Chinese reforms are partial and self-limiting, but he also calls into question the hopeful view that rapid growth will ultimately generate political reform. His important book has implications for current debates about the United States-China relationship, but will also force a rethinking of the broader comparative literature on the developmental state.\n  <br />\n  --Stephan Haggard, co-author of\n  <em>\n   The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions\n  </em>\n  (20061001)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thought-provoking...Mr. Pei argues, persuasively, that China''s gradualism, often favourably contrasted with the former Soviet Union''s flirtation with radical reforms, is as much a political as an economic strategy.\n  <br />\n  --Martin Wolf (_Financial Times_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei does not have much time for the optimistic assumption that democracy in China is just around the corner...For Pei, there is little chance of dethroning the Communist party behemoth in spite of the heroic efforts of the dissidents and democracy campaigners.\n  <br />\n  --Chris Patten (_Financial Times_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Pei sees it, big trouble looms [for China]. Continued progress toward a more modern economy will require the establishment of a true rule of law, which in turn will require ''institutional curbs'' on governmental action. These two limitations on power are incompatible with the party''s insistence on dominating society. So long as the current political framework remains in place, then, China is effectively, and perhaps fatally, trapped in its state of transition...[_China''s Trapped Transition_ presents a] comprehensive and, I believe, compelling understanding of present-day China.\n  <br />\n  --Gordon G. Chang (_Commentary_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  [An] acute and insightful examination of China''s ongoing transition.\n  <br />\n  --Chris Hunter (_China Economic Review_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei''s most significant contribution lies in his lucid exposition of the causal links between the structural logic of China''s "illiberal adaptation" and its manifest socio-economic and political consequences...He has arguably--like Elvin before him--raised the level of debate and altered the terms of engagement.\n  <br />\n  --Richard Baum (_China Journal_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, Chinaâ€™s prospects remain uncertain. In a book sure to provoke debate, Minxin Pei examines the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Partyâ€™s reform strategyâ€”pursuing pro-market economic policies under one-party rule.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei casts doubt on three central explanations for why Chinaâ€™s strategy works: sustained economic development will lead to political liberalization and democratization; gradualist economic transition is a strategy superior to the â€œshock therapyâ€ prescribed for the former Soviet Union; and a neo-authoritarian developmental state is essential to economic take-off. Pei argues that because the Communist Party must retain significant economic control to ensure its political survival, gradualism will ultimately fail.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The lack of democratic reforms in China has led to pervasive corruption and a breakdown in political accountability. What has emerged is a decentralized predatory state in which local party bosses have effectively privatized the stateâ€™s authority. Collusive corruption is widespread and governance is deteriorating. Instead of evolving toward a full market economy, China is trapped in partial economic and political reforms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Combining powerful insights with empirical research,\n  <em>\n   Chinaâ€™s Trapped Transition\n  </em>\n  offers a provocative assessment of Chinaâ€™s future as a great power.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (20070101)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11929'),
(12223, 'China&#39;s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy', 'Minxin Pei', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Minxin Pei is unquestionably one of this country''s best informed and most insightful analysts of contemporary Chinese politics. This well-written, provocative bookÂ­-a sobering picture of a China beset by severe social problems yet resistant to the political reforms needed to resolve them-Â­directly challenges much of the conventional wisdom about the rise of China. It is certain to be welcomed by scholars, policymakers, and general readers alike.\n  <br />\n  --Elizabeth J. Perry, author of\n  <em>\n   Patrolling the Revolution\n  </em>\n  (20060531)\n </p>\n <p>\n  In this superb work, Pei asks penetrating questions about the course of China''s development. He offers a very effective critique of the gradualist approach to reform, explaining that the problems China faces are not incidental to but an integral part of that approach. Powerfully argued, this is a major contribution sure to stir debate.\n  <br />\n  --Joseph Fewsmith, author of\n  <em>\n   China since Tiananmen\n  </em>\n  (20060612)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei''s notion of a ''trapped transition'' will prove valuableÂ­-and not just for its application to China. It serves to challenge the deterministic and evolutionary assumptions behind much of the literature on democratization.\n  <br />\n  --Philippe C. Schmitter, European University Institute (20060901)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not only does Minxin Pei make the case that the Chinese reforms are partial and self-limiting, but he also calls into question the hopeful view that rapid growth will ultimately generate political reform. His important book has implications for current debates about the United States-China relationship, but will also force a rethinking of the broader comparative literature on the developmental state.\n  <br />\n  --Stephan Haggard, co-author of\n  <em>\n   The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions\n  </em>\n  (20061001)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thought-provoking...Mr. Pei argues, persuasively, that China''s gradualism, often favourably contrasted with the former Soviet Union''s flirtation with radical reforms, is as much a political as an economic strategy.\n  <br />\n  --Martin Wolf (_Financial Times_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei does not have much time for the optimistic assumption that democracy in China is just around the corner...For Pei, there is little chance of dethroning the Communist party behemoth in spite of the heroic efforts of the dissidents and democracy campaigners.\n  <br />\n  --Chris Patten (_Financial Times_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Pei sees it, big trouble looms [for China]. Continued progress toward a more modern economy will require the establishment of a true rule of law, which in turn will require ''institutional curbs'' on governmental action. These two limitations on power are incompatible with the party''s insistence on dominating society. So long as the current political framework remains in place, then, China is effectively, and perhaps fatally, trapped in its state of transition...[_China''s Trapped Transition_ presents a] comprehensive and, I believe, compelling understanding of present-day China.\n  <br />\n  --Gordon G. Chang (_Commentary_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  [An] acute and insightful examination of China''s ongoing transition.\n  <br />\n  --Chris Hunter (_China Economic Review_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei''s most significant contribution lies in his lucid exposition of the causal links between the structural logic of China''s "illiberal adaptation" and its manifest socio-economic and political consequences...He has arguably--like Elvin before him--raised the level of debate and altered the terms of engagement.\n  <br />\n  --Richard Baum (_China Journal_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, Chinaâ€™s prospects remain uncertain. In a book sure to provoke debate, Minxin Pei examines the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Partyâ€™s reform strategyâ€”pursuing pro-market economic policies under one-party rule.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pei casts doubt on three central explanations for why Chinaâ€™s strategy works: sustained economic development will lead to political liberalization and democratization; gradualist economic transition is a strategy superior to the â€œshock therapyâ€ prescribed for the former Soviet Union; and a neo-authoritarian developmental state is essential to economic take-off. Pei argues that because the Communist Party must retain significant economic control to ensure its political survival, gradualism will ultimately fail.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The lack of democratic reforms in China has led to pervasive corruption and a breakdown in political accountability. What has emerged is a decentralized predatory state in which local party bosses have effectively privatized the stateâ€™s authority. Collusive corruption is widespread and governance is deteriorating. Instead of evolving toward a full market economy, China is trapped in partial economic and political reforms.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Combining powerful insights with empirical research,\n  <em>\n   Chinaâ€™s Trapped Transition\n  </em>\n  offers a provocative assessment of Chinaâ€™s future as a great power.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (20070101)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22073'),
(12224, 'Chinaberry Sidewalks', 'Rodney Crowell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Singer-songwriter Crowell''s upbringing in Texas had all the prerequisite elements of a hardscrabble country music story--drinking, guns, fistfights, fierce spankings, infidelity, Pentecostal preachers, fishing, love, hate, laughter, tears, sex, drugs, and of course, music. But Crowell''s storytelling abilities and narrative flair elevate this book far above the average music memoir. Born in 1950 to a blue-collar, hard-drinking, country-singing father and religious mother, Crowell lived in Jacinto City, east of Houston, in a shoddily constructed house cursed with leaks, mosquitoes, and vermin. He recalls hurricanes, fishing trips, rock throwing fights, and bow-and-arrow mishaps, all with the enthusiasm of a hyper 10-year-old pedaling at full speed (something he and neighborhood kids did when following the "Mosquito Dope Truck," a DDT spraying vehicle that they chased on their bicycles). Crowell touches on his early musical influences, including a Hank Williams concert when he was only two, and an outdoor show by Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash in a thunderstorm, as well as his first time playing music with his father''s band. It''s not music that''s at the heart of this book, however, but his loving and turbulent relationships with his parents and their often strained but deep love for one another. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Crowell is among the best storytellers to emerge from Nashville. Up to now, he told his stories in song, but with this heartfelt memoir, he can now be called a writer of the first order. Houston, where Crowell grew up in the 1950s and early 1960s, was a city full of characters found in stereotypical country songs: hard-drinking fathers and long-suffering mothers singing along to the beer-soaked ballads of Hank Williams. But this is not fiction; Crowell actually lived the life, soaking up its exhilarating and disturbing atmosphere. Crowell is unsparingly honest, yet there is an admirable restraint here, too. He clearly loves his family, accepting their bountiful deficiencies even when he criticizes them or wishes them harm. He can now see the kind of lives his parents wanted to live, and how they fell woefully short. He calls his father an enigma and savant; he admires his mother, who suffered from double dyslexia and epilepsy, for her towering instinct for survival. But he also discusses lighter topics, such as his early days in a rock â€™nâ€™ roll band, making for an exceptional memoir. --June Sawyers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1553'),
(12225, 'Chinaberry Sidewalks', 'Rodney Crowell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Singer-songwriter Crowell''s upbringing in Texas had all the prerequisite elements of a hardscrabble country music story--drinking, guns, fistfights, fierce spankings, infidelity, Pentecostal preachers, fishing, love, hate, laughter, tears, sex, drugs, and of course, music. But Crowell''s storytelling abilities and narrative flair elevate this book far above the average music memoir. Born in 1950 to a blue-collar, hard-drinking, country-singing father and religious mother, Crowell lived in Jacinto City, east of Houston, in a shoddily constructed house cursed with leaks, mosquitoes, and vermin. He recalls hurricanes, fishing trips, rock throwing fights, and bow-and-arrow mishaps, all with the enthusiasm of a hyper 10-year-old pedaling at full speed (something he and neighborhood kids did when following the "Mosquito Dope Truck," a DDT spraying vehicle that they chased on their bicycles). Crowell touches on his early musical influences, including a Hank Williams concert when he was only two, and an outdoor show by Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash in a thunderstorm, as well as his first time playing music with his father''s band. It''s not music that''s at the heart of this book, however, but his loving and turbulent relationships with his parents and their often strained but deep love for one another. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Crowell is among the best storytellers to emerge from Nashville. Up to now, he told his stories in song, but with this heartfelt memoir, he can now be called a writer of the first order. Houston, where Crowell grew up in the 1950s and early 1960s, was a city full of characters found in stereotypical country songs: hard-drinking fathers and long-suffering mothers singing along to the beer-soaked ballads of Hank Williams. But this is not fiction; Crowell actually lived the life, soaking up its exhilarating and disturbing atmosphere. Crowell is unsparingly honest, yet there is an admirable restraint here, too. He clearly loves his family, accepting their bountiful deficiencies even when he criticizes them or wishes them harm. He can now see the kind of lives his parents wanted to live, and how they fell woefully short. He calls his father an enigma and savant; he admires his mother, who suffered from double dyslexia and epilepsy, for her towering instinct for survival. But he also discusses lighter topics, such as his early days in a rock â€™nâ€™ roll band, making for an exceptional memoir. --June Sawyers\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9160'),
(12226, 'Chinaberry Sidewalks', 'Rodney Crowell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23381'),
(12227, 'Chinga', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22978'),
(12228, 'Chipul raului', 'William Diehl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24974'),
(12229, 'Chocky', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Matthews parents are worried. At eleven, hes much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence Chocky causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress. Then, when Matthew does something incredible, it seems there is more than the imaginary about Chocky. Which is when others become interested and ask questions of their own: who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy? A story of innocence and alien contact, Chocky is a sinister tale of manipulation and experimentation from afar.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25480'),
(12230, 'Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder', 'Joanne Fluke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Discover the delicious mystery that started it all!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No one cooks up a delectable, suspense-filled mystery quite like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Flukeâ€™s dessert-baking, red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks, and whose penchant for solving crimesâ€”one delicious clue at a timeâ€”has made her a bestselling favorite. And it all began on these pages, with a bakery, a murder, and some suddenly scandalous chocolate-chip crunchies. Featuring a bonus short story and brand new, mouthwatering recipes, this limited edition of the very first Hannah Swensen mystery is sure to have readers coming back for secondsâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hannah Swenson already has her hands full trying to dodge her motherâ€™s attempts to marry her off while running The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden, Minnesotaâ€™s most popular bakery. But once Ron LaSalle, the beloved delivery man from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery with Hannahâ€™s famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him, her life just canâ€™t get any worse. Determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, she sets out to track down a killer.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Who would have the sheer audacityâ€”and the motiveâ€”to kill the most punctual delivery man Hannah ever had? Topping the list is the high school football coach. What exactly was his wife doing, making the rounds with the milkman? Could Max Turner, owner of Cozy Cow Dairy, have had a secret he didnâ€™t want to share with his top employee? The more Hannah snoops, the more suspects turn up. Why has Lake Edenâ€™s most prominent prodigal son, Benton Woodley, just resurfaced? And what about the mysterious Mr. Harris who seemed interested in buying the property next to the dairy, but then disappeared? This is one murder thatâ€™s starting to leave a very bad taste in Hannahâ€™s mouth. And if she doesnâ€™t watch her back, Hannahâ€™s sweet life may get burned to a crisp.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Filled with a healthy sprinkling of humor and a delightful assortment of nuts, CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE MURDER serves up a great new mystery series and introduces a delicious, down-home sleuth that mystery readers will surely savor for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4409'),
(12231, 'Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder', 'Joanne Fluke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Discover the delicious mystery that started it all!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No one cooks up a delectable, suspense-filled mystery quite like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Flukeâ€™s dessert-baking, red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks, and whose penchant for solving crimesâ€”one delicious clue at a timeâ€”has made her a bestselling favorite. And it all began on these pages, with a bakery, a murder, and some suddenly scandalous chocolate-chip crunchies. Featuring a bonus short story and brand new, mouthwatering recipes, this limited edition of the very first Hannah Swensen mystery is sure to have readers coming back for secondsâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hannah Swenson already has her hands full trying to dodge her motherâ€™s attempts to marry her off while running The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden, Minnesotaâ€™s most popular bakery. But once Ron LaSalle, the beloved delivery man from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery with Hannahâ€™s famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him, her life just canâ€™t get any worse. Determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, she sets out to track down a killer.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Who would have the sheer audacityâ€”and the motiveâ€”to kill the most punctual delivery man Hannah ever had? Topping the list is the high school football coach. What exactly was his wife doing, making the rounds with the milkman? Could Max Turner, owner of Cozy Cow Dairy, have had a secret he didnâ€™t want to share with his top employee? The more Hannah snoops, the more suspects turn up. Why has Lake Edenâ€™s most prominent prodigal son, Benton Woodley, just resurfaced? And what about the mysterious Mr. Harris who seemed interested in buying the property next to the dairy, but then disappeared? This is one murder thatâ€™s starting to leave a very bad taste in Hannahâ€™s mouth. And if she doesnâ€™t watch her back, Hannahâ€™s sweet life may get burned to a crisp.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Filled with a healthy sprinkling of humor and a delightful assortment of nuts, CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE MURDER serves up a great new mystery series and introduces a delicious, down-home sleuth that mystery readers will surely savor for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9543'),
(12232, 'Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World&#39;s Greatest Chocolate Makers', 'Deborah Cadbury', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A descendant of the Cadbury family of chocolatiers, author Cadbury is also an award-winning documentary producer for the BBC and has seven other books to her credit. The history of chocolate, from its origins as an exotic Aztec beverage to the most prized confectionery in the world, is told here through the eyes of the British Quaker family that transformed a gritty, oily brew into one of the most sought-after delectable treats on the planet. In doing so, the Cadbury brothers turned their fatherâ€™s humble and nearly bankrupt business into a globally dominant corporation in the span of two generations. The path to success was not easy, and Cadbury tells the story of fierce competition from names like Fry, NestlÃ©, Hershey, and Mars, as well as the Dutch and Swiss entrepreneurs who were so crucial in cracking the food chemistry of the cacao bean. Cadbury chronicles 150 years of chocolate wars that only heated up further into a global-merger competition, which saw the venerated Cadbury brand get swallowed up by the food giant Kraft in 2009. This tale of capitalist rivalry mixed with Quaker values makes for a very sweet journey. --David Siegfried\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  , October 1, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis tale of capitalist rivalry mixed with Quaker values makes for a very sweet journey.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Washington Post\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œThis is a delicious book, seductive as a tray of bonbons, a Fancy Box in every way.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The New Yorker Book Bench\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œFor chocolate lovers and Roald Dahl fans, some heartening news: Willy Wonkaâ€™s factory â€“ or at least something that sounds very much like it â€“ was a real place... Though Cadbury begins with teasingly enviable childhood recollections... the story she tells is really about Quakers, and one familyâ€™s continuous struggle to reconcile religious values â€“ pacifism, austerity, sobriety â€“ with the indulgent nature of their product and the ruthlessly competitive capitalism of the world in which they made their fortune... Itâ€™s hard not to root for these guys and the story is all the more bittersweet because we know how it ends.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Daily Telegraph\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œEngaging and scholarly, confident and compassionate,\n <em>\n  Chocolate Wars\n </em>\n is less a family biography than an impressively thought provoking parable for our times... A vibrant history.â€Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Business Times\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œFascinating..._Chocolate Wars_ presents narrative history at its most absorbing, peopled by colourful characters: the true story of the chocolate pioneers, the visions and ideals that inspired them and the mouth-watering concoctions they created... Deborah gives readers an insider look, fleshing out the stories around her family with her familiar competence as a bestselling historian and award winning documentary maker.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Kirkus\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n Â â€œA fine pocket history of corporate confectionery... Cadbury has a knack for capturing the driven personalities who launched these [chocolate] empires.â€Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Library Journal\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œAlthough written by proud Cadbury kin, the narrative is balanced and fair. This is a well written and well researched look at chocolate and the Quaker business tradition that any food or history buff will enjoy.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Sunday Times\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œ_Chocolate Wars_ â€“ clear, readable and richly detailed â€“ is at least as much about Quakers as it is about chocolate... enjoyable.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Financial Times\n  </em>\n  , November 15, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œDeborah Cadburyâ€™s branch of the Cadbury family wasnâ€™t involved in the chocolate business but she garnered a deep impression from a childhood visit to her cousinsâ€™ company and the reader ofÂ _Chocolate Wars_Â feels they are getting an insiderâ€™s view. Her own background as a historian and TV documentary maker means that this book communicates in an episodic and visual style, making what risks being a dull subject gripping as it flips back and forth around the world documenting parallel events in the emergence of the chocolate industry.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Examiner.com, November 14, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe 150-year rivalry among the worldâ€™s greatest chocolate making families, is told by a descendant of one of the families.Â Just think what sweetness came out of these families'' rivalries, depicted deliciously in this new book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n  , November 14, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œDeborah Cadbury begins with a brief description of Quaker aims and humane business practices before moving on through the history of the family business. This takes in the truly exciting race to put Cadburyâ€™s chocolate candy in every mouth, to the exclusion of that made by rival English Quaker firms, Rowntree and Fry, to say nothing of the Swiss Lindt and NestlÃ©. Her many faceted account takes in technology, distribution, and industrial espionage, advertising and packaging, labor relations and model housing for workers, the role of the firm and its owners in wartime and international expansion.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gulfnews.com, November 26, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œEngaging and scholarly, Chocolate Wars is less a family biography than an impressively thought-provoking parable for our times.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  , November 28, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œFascinatingâ€¦Read this excellent book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Philadelphia Inquirer\n  </em>\n  , November 28, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe inside story of the 150-year rivalry among Cadbury, Hershey, NestlÃ©, and Mars is a fascinating and luscious tale. Deborah Cadbury, great-great-great-granddaughter of 19th-century chocolate maker John Cadbury, tells it eloquently inÂ _Chocolate Wars_, drawing the reader into her epic of family and industry with clear love for her subject.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Christian Science Monitor\n  </em>\n  , December 1, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[_Chocolate Wars_] pits idealism against capitalism, religious piety against the forces of greed and cutthroat competition. Though, like great fiction, it defies belief, itâ€™s the true story of our favorite guilty pleasure. Cadburyâ€™s book, like her namesakeâ€™s famous sampler, is full of surprises and delights.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bnreview.com, December 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis engaging history of the 150-year rivalry among the world''s greatest chocolate makersâ€”the English firms Fry, Rowntree, and Cadbury (to which the author, Deborah Cadbury, is an heiress), their European competitors Lindt and NestlÃ©, and the American upstarts Hershey and Marsâ€”is delightful, especially for its fascinating portrait of the 19th-century success of Quaker capitalism, built quite remuneratively on the ideal that wealth creation entails responsibilities beyond personal gain.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6130');
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(12233, 'Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World&#39;s Greatest Chocolate Makers', 'Deborah Cadbury', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A descendant of the Cadbury family of chocolatiers, author Cadbury is also an award-winning documentary producer for the BBC and has seven other books to her credit. The history of chocolate, from its origins as an exotic Aztec beverage to the most prized confectionery in the world, is told here through the eyes of the British Quaker family that transformed a gritty, oily brew into one of the most sought-after delectable treats on the planet. In doing so, the Cadbury brothers turned their fatherâ€™s humble and nearly bankrupt business into a globally dominant corporation in the span of two generations. The path to success was not easy, and Cadbury tells the story of fierce competition from names like Fry, NestlÃ©, Hershey, and Mars, as well as the Dutch and Swiss entrepreneurs who were so crucial in cracking the food chemistry of the cacao bean. Cadbury chronicles 150 years of chocolate wars that only heated up further into a global-merger competition, which saw the venerated Cadbury brand get swallowed up by the food giant Kraft in 2009. This tale of capitalist rivalry mixed with Quaker values makes for a very sweet journey. --David Siegfried\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  , October 1, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis tale of capitalist rivalry mixed with Quaker values makes for a very sweet journey.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Washington Post\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œThis is a delicious book, seductive as a tray of bonbons, a Fancy Box in every way.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The New Yorker Book Bench\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œFor chocolate lovers and Roald Dahl fans, some heartening news: Willy Wonkaâ€™s factory â€“ or at least something that sounds very much like it â€“ was a real place... Though Cadbury begins with teasingly enviable childhood recollections... the story she tells is really about Quakers, and one familyâ€™s continuous struggle to reconcile religious values â€“ pacifism, austerity, sobriety â€“ with the indulgent nature of their product and the ruthlessly competitive capitalism of the world in which they made their fortune... Itâ€™s hard not to root for these guys and the story is all the more bittersweet because we know how it ends.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Daily Telegraph\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œEngaging and scholarly, confident and compassionate,\n <em>\n  Chocolate Wars\n </em>\n is less a family biography than an impressively thought provoking parable for our times... A vibrant history.â€Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Business Times\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œFascinating..._Chocolate Wars_ presents narrative history at its most absorbing, peopled by colourful characters: the true story of the chocolate pioneers, the visions and ideals that inspired them and the mouth-watering concoctions they created... Deborah gives readers an insider look, fleshing out the stories around her family with her familiar competence as a bestselling historian and award winning documentary maker.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Kirkus\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n Â â€œA fine pocket history of corporate confectionery... Cadbury has a knack for capturing the driven personalities who launched these [chocolate] empires.â€Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Library Journal\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œAlthough written by proud Cadbury kin, the narrative is balanced and fair. This is a well written and well researched look at chocolate and the Quaker business tradition that any food or history buff will enjoy.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Sunday Times\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œ_Chocolate Wars_ â€“ clear, readable and richly detailed â€“ is at least as much about Quakers as it is about chocolate... enjoyable.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Financial Times\n  </em>\n  , November 15, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œDeborah Cadburyâ€™s branch of the Cadbury family wasnâ€™t involved in the chocolate business but she garnered a deep impression from a childhood visit to her cousinsâ€™ company and the reader ofÂ _Chocolate Wars_Â feels they are getting an insiderâ€™s view. Her own background as a historian and TV documentary maker means that this book communicates in an episodic and visual style, making what risks being a dull subject gripping as it flips back and forth around the world documenting parallel events in the emergence of the chocolate industry.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Examiner.com, November 14, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe 150-year rivalry among the worldâ€™s greatest chocolate making families, is told by a descendant of one of the families.Â Just think what sweetness came out of these families'' rivalries, depicted deliciously in this new book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n  , November 14, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œDeborah Cadbury begins with a brief description of Quaker aims and humane business practices before moving on through the history of the family business. This takes in the truly exciting race to put Cadburyâ€™s chocolate candy in every mouth, to the exclusion of that made by rival English Quaker firms, Rowntree and Fry, to say nothing of the Swiss Lindt and NestlÃ©. Her many faceted account takes in technology, distribution, and industrial espionage, advertising and packaging, labor relations and model housing for workers, the role of the firm and its owners in wartime and international expansion.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gulfnews.com, November 26, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œEngaging and scholarly, Chocolate Wars is less a family biography than an impressively thought-provoking parable for our times.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  , November 28, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œFascinatingâ€¦Read this excellent book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Philadelphia Inquirer\n  </em>\n  , November 28, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe inside story of the 150-year rivalry among Cadbury, Hershey, NestlÃ©, and Mars is a fascinating and luscious tale. Deborah Cadbury, great-great-great-granddaughter of 19th-century chocolate maker John Cadbury, tells it eloquently inÂ _Chocolate Wars_, drawing the reader into her epic of family and industry with clear love for her subject.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Christian Science Monitor\n  </em>\n  , December 1, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[_Chocolate Wars_] pits idealism against capitalism, religious piety against the forces of greed and cutthroat competition. Though, like great fiction, it defies belief, itâ€™s the true story of our favorite guilty pleasure. Cadburyâ€™s book, like her namesakeâ€™s famous sampler, is full of surprises and delights.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bnreview.com, December 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis engaging history of the 150-year rivalry among the world''s greatest chocolate makersâ€”the English firms Fry, Rowntree, and Cadbury (to which the author, Deborah Cadbury, is an heiress), their European competitors Lindt and NestlÃ©, and the American upstarts Hershey and Marsâ€”is delightful, especially for its fascinating portrait of the 19th-century success of Quaker capitalism, built quite remuneratively on the ideal that wealth creation entails responsibilities beyond personal gain.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8714'),
(12234, 'Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World&#39;s Greatest Chocolate Makers', 'Deborah Cadbury', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A descendant of the Cadbury family of chocolatiers, author Cadbury is also an award-winning documentary producer for the BBC and has seven other books to her credit. The history of chocolate, from its origins as an exotic Aztec beverage to the most prized confectionery in the world, is told here through the eyes of the British Quaker family that transformed a gritty, oily brew into one of the most sought-after delectable treats on the planet. In doing so, the Cadbury brothers turned their fatherâ€™s humble and nearly bankrupt business into a globally dominant corporation in the span of two generations. The path to success was not easy, and Cadbury tells the story of fierce competition from names like Fry, NestlÃ©, Hershey, and Mars, as well as the Dutch and Swiss entrepreneurs who were so crucial in cracking the food chemistry of the cacao bean. Cadbury chronicles 150 years of chocolate wars that only heated up further into a global-merger competition, which saw the venerated Cadbury brand get swallowed up by the food giant Kraft in 2009. This tale of capitalist rivalry mixed with Quaker values makes for a very sweet journey. --David Siegfried\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n  , October 1, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis tale of capitalist rivalry mixed with Quaker values makes for a very sweet journey.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Washington Post\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œThis is a delicious book, seductive as a tray of bonbons, a Fancy Box in every way.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The New Yorker Book Bench\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œFor chocolate lovers and Roald Dahl fans, some heartening news: Willy Wonkaâ€™s factory â€“ or at least something that sounds very much like it â€“ was a real place... Though Cadbury begins with teasingly enviable childhood recollections... the story she tells is really about Quakers, and one familyâ€™s continuous struggle to reconcile religious values â€“ pacifism, austerity, sobriety â€“ with the indulgent nature of their product and the ruthlessly competitive capitalism of the world in which they made their fortune... Itâ€™s hard not to root for these guys and the story is all the more bittersweet because we know how it ends.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Daily Telegraph\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œEngaging and scholarly, confident and compassionate,\n <em>\n  Chocolate Wars\n </em>\n is less a family biography than an impressively thought provoking parable for our times... A vibrant history.â€Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Business Times\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œFascinating..._Chocolate Wars_ presents narrative history at its most absorbing, peopled by colourful characters: the true story of the chocolate pioneers, the visions and ideals that inspired them and the mouth-watering concoctions they created... Deborah gives readers an insider look, fleshing out the stories around her family with her familiar competence as a bestselling historian and award winning documentary maker.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Kirkus\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n Â â€œA fine pocket history of corporate confectionery... Cadbury has a knack for capturing the driven personalities who launched these [chocolate] empires.â€Â \n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Library Journal\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œAlthough written by proud Cadbury kin, the narrative is balanced and fair. This is a well written and well researched look at chocolate and the Quaker business tradition that any food or history buff will enjoy.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Sunday Times\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œ_Chocolate Wars_ â€“ clear, readable and richly detailed â€“ is at least as much about Quakers as it is about chocolate... enjoyable.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Financial Times\n  </em>\n  , November 15, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œDeborah Cadburyâ€™s branch of the Cadbury family wasnâ€™t involved in the chocolate business but she garnered a deep impression from a childhood visit to her cousinsâ€™ company and the reader ofÂ _Chocolate Wars_Â feels they are getting an insiderâ€™s view. Her own background as a historian and TV documentary maker means that this book communicates in an episodic and visual style, making what risks being a dull subject gripping as it flips back and forth around the world documenting parallel events in the emergence of the chocolate industry.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Examiner.com, November 14, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe 150-year rivalry among the worldâ€™s greatest chocolate making families, is told by a descendant of one of the families.Â Just think what sweetness came out of these families'' rivalries, depicted deliciously in this new book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n  , November 14, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œDeborah Cadbury begins with a brief description of Quaker aims and humane business practices before moving on through the history of the family business. This takes in the truly exciting race to put Cadburyâ€™s chocolate candy in every mouth, to the exclusion of that made by rival English Quaker firms, Rowntree and Fry, to say nothing of the Swiss Lindt and NestlÃ©. Her many faceted account takes in technology, distribution, and industrial espionage, advertising and packaging, labor relations and model housing for workers, the role of the firm and its owners in wartime and international expansion.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Gulfnews.com, November 26, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œEngaging and scholarly, Chocolate Wars is less a family biography than an impressively thought-provoking parable for our times.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  , November 28, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œFascinatingâ€¦Read this excellent book.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Philadelphia Inquirer\n  </em>\n  , November 28, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe inside story of the 150-year rivalry among Cadbury, Hershey, NestlÃ©, and Mars is a fascinating and luscious tale. Deborah Cadbury, great-great-great-granddaughter of 19th-century chocolate maker John Cadbury, tells it eloquently inÂ _Chocolate Wars_, drawing the reader into her epic of family and industry with clear love for her subject.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Christian Science Monitor\n  </em>\n  , December 1, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[_Chocolate Wars_] pits idealism against capitalism, religious piety against the forces of greed and cutthroat competition. Though, like great fiction, it defies belief, itâ€™s the true story of our favorite guilty pleasure. Cadburyâ€™s book, like her namesakeâ€™s famous sampler, is full of surprises and delights.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Bnreview.com, December 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThis engaging history of the 150-year rivalry among the world''s greatest chocolate makersâ€”the English firms Fry, Rowntree, and Cadbury (to which the author, Deborah Cadbury, is an heiress), their European competitors Lindt and NestlÃ©, and the American upstarts Hershey and Marsâ€”is delightful, especially for its fascinating portrait of the 19th-century success of Quaker capitalism, built quite remuneratively on the ideal that wealth creation entails responsibilities beyond personal gain.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17975'),
(12235, 'The Choice', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his 13th book, bestselling Sparks (At First Sight, etc.) limns the far-reaching implications of several seemingly ordinary choices made by Beaufort, N.C. veterinarian Travis Parker and his next-door neighbor Gabrielle Holland, a physician''s assistant and recent arrival. After an inauspicious first meeting where Gabby accuses Travis''s boxer of impregnating her purebred collie, the two fall hard for each other. Already dating someone else seriously, Gabby is faced with a dilemma: whether to stick with longtime boyfriend Kevin, or get involved with Travis. The first part of the tale paints a vivid picture of her decision-making process and its effects on Travis and Gabby''s lives. That sets up Part II, which takes place 11 years later when Travis faces a life and death decision following a car accident. A tender and moving love story and a quick read, Sparks''s latest does not disappoint.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Holter Graham gives a polished performance with his versatile skills and vocal range as he embraces the roles of Travis Parker, local veterinarian, and Gabby Holland, physician''s assistant. In Part One, Graham captures the exquisite story of their attraction, love, and marriage with a warmth and rhythm that breathes life into the characters. Ten years later in Part Two, Graham portrays Travis''s torment when Gabby falls into a coma after a car accident that is his fault. As Gabby fails to recover, Graham captures Travis''s conflict over a decision he must make--a decision based on a promise Gabby extracted from him before her life took its tragic turn. A compelling story. G.D.W. Â© AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/ MAY 08]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2612'),
(12236, 'The Choice', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his 13th book, bestselling Sparks (At First Sight, etc.) limns the far-reaching implications of several seemingly ordinary choices made by Beaufort, N.C. veterinarian Travis Parker and his next-door neighbor Gabrielle Holland, a physician''s assistant and recent arrival. After an inauspicious first meeting where Gabby accuses Travis''s boxer of impregnating her purebred collie, the two fall hard for each other. Already dating someone else seriously, Gabby is faced with a dilemma: whether to stick with longtime boyfriend Kevin, or get involved with Travis. The first part of the tale paints a vivid picture of her decision-making process and its effects on Travis and Gabby''s lives. That sets up Part II, which takes place 11 years later when Travis faces a life and death decision following a car accident. A tender and moving love story and a quick read, Sparks''s latest does not disappoint.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Holter Graham gives a polished performance with his versatile skills and vocal range as he embraces the roles of Travis Parker, local veterinarian, and Gabby Holland, physician''s assistant. In Part One, Graham captures the exquisite story of their attraction, love, and marriage with a warmth and rhythm that breathes life into the characters. Ten years later in Part Two, Graham portrays Travis''s torment when Gabby falls into a coma after a car accident that is his fault. As Gabby fails to recover, Graham captures Travis''s conflict over a decision he must make--a decision based on a promise Gabby extracted from him before her life took its tragic turn. A compelling story. G.D.W. Â© AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/ MAY 08]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12750'),
(12237, 'The Choice', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his 13th book, bestselling Sparks (At First Sight, etc.) limns the far-reaching implications of several seemingly ordinary choices made by Beaufort, N.C. veterinarian Travis Parker and his next-door neighbor Gabrielle Holland, a physician''s assistant and recent arrival. After an inauspicious first meeting where Gabby accuses Travis''s boxer of impregnating her purebred collie, the two fall hard for each other. Already dating someone else seriously, Gabby is faced with a dilemma: whether to stick with longtime boyfriend Kevin, or get involved with Travis. The first part of the tale paints a vivid picture of her decision-making process and its effects on Travis and Gabby''s lives. That sets up Part II, which takes place 11 years later when Travis faces a life and death decision following a car accident. A tender and moving love story and a quick read, Sparks''s latest does not disappoint.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Holter Graham gives a polished performance with his versatile skills and vocal range as he embraces the roles of Travis Parker, local veterinarian, and Gabby Holland, physician''s assistant. In Part One, Graham captures the exquisite story of their attraction, love, and marriage with a warmth and rhythm that breathes life into the characters. Ten years later in Part Two, Graham portrays Travis''s torment when Gabby falls into a coma after a car accident that is his fault. As Gabby fails to recover, Graham captures Travis''s conflict over a decision he must make--a decision based on a promise Gabby extracted from him before her life took its tragic turn. A compelling story. G.D.W. Â© AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/ MAY 08]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22186'),
(12238, 'Choke', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be â€œsavedâ€ by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victorâ€™s life, go on to send checks to support him. When heâ€™s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Victor Mancini, obsÃ©dÃ© sexuel nt fils modÃ¨le, est ruinÃ© par l''hospitalisation de sa mÃ¨re, atteinte de la maladie d''Alzheimer. Pour faire face Ã  ses dÃ©penses, il met au point un stratagÃ¨me extravagant : faire mine de s''asphyxier avec la nourriture en dÃ®nant dans des restaurants chic et gagner la compassion d''une clientÃ¨le de luxe. Entre deux crises d''Ã©touffement au caviar, Victor travaille comme figurant dans un parc Ã  thÃ¨me historique et participe Ã  des sÃ©ances de thÃ©rapie collective pour droguÃ©s du sexe incurables. Mais c''est au chevet de sa mÃ¨re qu''il retrouve intacte la folie galopante qui a ravagÃ© son enfance. DerriÃ¨re le dÃ©lire sÃ©nile de cette vieille dame indigne, parviendra-t-il Ã  percer Ã  jour l''hallucinant secret de ses origines ? Une AmÃ©rique schizophrÃ¨ne est la toile de fond de cette tragi-comÃ©die brillante et fÃ©roce, oÃ¹ Palahniuk s''affirme au croisement de John Kennedy Toole et de Bret Easton Ellis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25975'),
(12239, 'Choke: A Novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Victor Mancini, obsÃ©dÃ© sexuel nt fils modÃ¨le, est ruinÃ© par l''hospitalisation de sa mÃ¨re, atteinte de la maladie d''Alzheimer. Pour faire face Ã  ses dÃ©penses, il met au point un stratagÃ¨me extravagant : faire mine de s''asphyxier avec la nourriture en dÃ®nant dans des restaurants chic et gagner la compassion d''une clientÃ¨le de luxe. Entre deux crises d''Ã©touffement au caviar, Victor travaille comme figurant dans un parc Ã  thÃ¨me historique et participe Ã  des sÃ©ances de thÃ©rapie collective pour droguÃ©s du sexe incurables. Mais c''est au chevet de sa mÃ¨re qu''il retrouve intacte la folie galopante qui a ravagÃ© son enfance. DerriÃ¨re le dÃ©lire sÃ©nile de cette vieille dame indigne, parviendra-t-il Ã  percer Ã  jour l''hallucinant secret de ses origines ? Une AmÃ©rique schizophrÃ¨ne est la toile de fond de cette tragi-comÃ©die brillante et fÃ©roce, oÃ¹ Palahniuk s''affirme au croisement de John Kennedy Toole et de Bret Easton Ellis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6637'),
(12240, 'Choke: A Novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Victor Mancini, obsÃ©dÃ© sexuel nt fils modÃ¨le, est ruinÃ© par l''hospitalisation de sa mÃ¨re, atteinte de la maladie d''Alzheimer. Pour faire face Ã  ses dÃ©penses, il met au point un stratagÃ¨me extravagant : faire mine de s''asphyxier avec la nourriture en dÃ®nant dans des restaurants chic et gagner la compassion d''une clientÃ¨le de luxe. Entre deux crises d''Ã©touffement au caviar, Victor travaille comme figurant dans un parc Ã  thÃ¨me historique et participe Ã  des sÃ©ances de thÃ©rapie collective pour droguÃ©s du sexe incurables. Mais c''est au chevet de sa mÃ¨re qu''il retrouve intacte la folie galopante qui a ravagÃ© son enfance. DerriÃ¨re le dÃ©lire sÃ©nile de cette vieille dame indigne, parviendra-t-il Ã  percer Ã  jour l''hallucinant secret de ses origines ? Une AmÃ©rique schizophrÃ¨ne est la toile de fond de cette tragi-comÃ©die brillante et fÃ©roce, oÃ¹ Palahniuk s''affirme au croisement de John Kennedy Toole et de Bret Easton Ellis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11776'),
(12241, 'Choke: a novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Victor Mancini, obsÃ©dÃ© sexuel nt fils modÃ¨le, est ruinÃ© par l''hospitalisation de sa mÃ¨re, atteinte de la maladie d''Alzheimer. Pour faire face Ã  ses dÃ©penses, il met au point un stratagÃ¨me extravagant : faire mine de s''asphyxier avec la nourriture en dÃ®nant dans des restaurants chic et gagner la compassion d''une clientÃ¨le de luxe. Entre deux crises d''Ã©touffement au caviar, Victor travaille comme figurant dans un parc Ã  thÃ¨me historique et participe Ã  des sÃ©ances de thÃ©rapie collective pour droguÃ©s du sexe incurables. Mais c''est au chevet de sa mÃ¨re qu''il retrouve intacte la folie galopante qui a ravagÃ© son enfance. DerriÃ¨re le dÃ©lire sÃ©nile de cette vieille dame indigne, parviendra-t-il Ã  percer Ã  jour l''hallucinant secret de ses origines ? Une AmÃ©rique schizophrÃ¨ne est la toile de fond de cette tragi-comÃ©die brillante et fÃ©roce, oÃ¹ Palahniuk s''affirme au croisement de John Kennedy Toole et de Bret Easton Ellis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14319'),
(12242, 'Choke: a novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Victor Mancini, obsÃ©dÃ© sexuel nt fils modÃ¨le, est ruinÃ© par l''hospitalisation de sa mÃ¨re, atteinte de la maladie d''Alzheimer. Pour faire face Ã  ses dÃ©penses, il met au point un stratagÃ¨me extravagant : faire mine de s''asphyxier avec la nourriture en dÃ®nant dans des restaurants chic et gagner la compassion d''une clientÃ¨le de luxe. Entre deux crises d''Ã©touffement au caviar, Victor travaille comme figurant dans un parc Ã  thÃ¨me historique et participe Ã  des sÃ©ances de thÃ©rapie collective pour droguÃ©s du sexe incurables. Mais c''est au chevet de sa mÃ¨re qu''il retrouve intacte la folie galopante qui a ravagÃ© son enfance. DerriÃ¨re le dÃ©lire sÃ©nile de cette vieille dame indigne, parviendra-t-il Ã  percer Ã  jour l''hallucinant secret de ses origines ? Une AmÃ©rique schizophrÃ¨ne est la toile de fond de cette tragi-comÃ©die brillante et fÃ©roce, oÃ¹ Palahniuk s''affirme au croisement de John Kennedy Toole et de Bret Easton Ellis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18011'),
(12243, 'Choke: a novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Victor Mancini, obsÃ©dÃ© sexuel nt fils modÃ¨le, est ruinÃ© par l''hospitalisation de sa mÃ¨re, atteinte de la maladie d''Alzheimer. Pour faire face Ã  ses dÃ©penses, il met au point un stratagÃ¨me extravagant : faire mine de s''asphyxier avec la nourriture en dÃ®nant dans des restaurants chic et gagner la compassion d''une clientÃ¨le de luxe. Entre deux crises d''Ã©touffement au caviar, Victor travaille comme figurant dans un parc Ã  thÃ¨me historique et participe Ã  des sÃ©ances de thÃ©rapie collective pour droguÃ©s du sexe incurables. Mais c''est au chevet de sa mÃ¨re qu''il retrouve intacte la folie galopante qui a ravagÃ© son enfance. DerriÃ¨re le dÃ©lire sÃ©nile de cette vieille dame indigne, parviendra-t-il Ã  percer Ã  jour l''hallucinant secret de ses origines ? Une AmÃ©rique schizophrÃ¨ne est la toile de fond de cette tragi-comÃ©die brillante et fÃ©roce, oÃ¹ Palahniuk s''affirme au croisement de John Kennedy Toole et de Bret Easton Ellis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26970'),
(12244, 'The Chomsky Reader', 'Noam Chomsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the 1960s to the present, linguist Chomsky has been a prominent critic of American foreign policy, influential in radical and scholarly circles. This collection offers a broad sampling of Chomsky''s best writing on the subject. The essays are typical Chomsky: long, analytical, probing, and controversial. Some have appeared in earlier collections; others are expanded transcripts of recent lectures. The most familiar are concerned with U.S. policy in Vietnam, Central America, and the Middle East. Editor Peck gives us an overview of Chomsky''s writings in his useful introduction, though he tends to be extravagant in his praise. Even more useful is a long interview with Chomsky himself. Highly recommended for all academic libraries. Thomas A. Karel, Franklin &amp; Marshall Coll. Lib., Lancaster, Pa.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The political and linguistic writings of America''s leading dissident intellectual. He relates his political ideals to his theories about language.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2532'),
(12245, 'The Chomsky Reader', 'Noam Chomsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the 1960s to the present, linguist Chomsky has been a prominent critic of American foreign policy, influential in radical and scholarly circles. This collection offers a broad sampling of Chomsky''s best writing on the subject. The essays are typical Chomsky: long, analytical, probing, and controversial. Some have appeared in earlier collections; others are expanded transcripts of recent lectures. The most familiar are concerned with U.S. policy in Vietnam, Central America, and the Middle East. Editor Peck gives us an overview of Chomsky''s writings in his useful introduction, though he tends to be extravagant in his praise. Even more useful is a long interview with Chomsky himself. Highly recommended for all academic libraries. Thomas A. Karel, Franklin &amp; Marshall Coll. Lib., Lancaster, Pa.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The political and linguistic writings of America''s leading dissident intellectual. He relates his political ideals to his theories about language.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8928'),
(12246, 'The Chomsky Reader', 'Noam Chomsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the 1960s to the present, linguist Chomsky has been a prominent critic of American foreign policy, influential in radical and scholarly circles. This collection offers a broad sampling of Chomsky''s best writing on the subject. The essays are typical Chomsky: long, analytical, probing, and controversial. Some have appeared in earlier collections; others are expanded transcripts of recent lectures. The most familiar are concerned with U.S. policy in Vietnam, Central America, and the Middle East. Editor Peck gives us an overview of Chomsky''s writings in his useful introduction, though he tends to be extravagant in his praise. Even more useful is a long interview with Chomsky himself. Highly recommended for all academic libraries. Thomas A. Karel, Franklin &amp; Marshall Coll. Lib., Lancaster, Pa.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The political and linguistic writings of America''s leading dissident intellectual. He relates his political ideals to his theories about language.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15264'),
(12247, 'The Chomsky Reader', 'Noam Chomsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the 1960s to the present, linguist Chomsky has been a prominent critic of American foreign policy, influential in radical and scholarly circles. This collection offers a broad sampling of Chomsky''s best writing on the subject. The essays are typical Chomsky: long, analytical, probing, and controversial. Some have appeared in earlier collections; others are expanded transcripts of recent lectures. The most familiar are concerned with U.S. policy in Vietnam, Central America, and the Middle East. Editor Peck gives us an overview of Chomsky''s writings in his useful introduction, though he tends to be extravagant in his praise. Even more useful is a long interview with Chomsky himself. Highly recommended for all academic libraries. Thomas A. Karel, Franklin &amp; Marshall Coll. Lib., Lancaster, Pa.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The political and linguistic writings of America''s leading dissident intellectual. He relates his political ideals to his theories about language.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22230'),
(12248, 'Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance', 'David Archuleta &amp; Monica Haim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Singing sensation and *American Idol* favorite David Archuleta tells his inspiring personal story. Includes full-color photos! **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A runner-up on American Idol and successful music artist, David Archuleta was named one of the "breakout stars of 2008" by *Forbes* magazine and landed the number two spot on the Billboard charts.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Chords of Strength* David shares his unexpected and inspiring journey, including how he overcame vocal cord paralysis to achieve his dream of being a singer. He reveals insecurities he felt about his voice-before he realized that he loved the way singing made him feel more than he disliked the way he sounded. In this personal memoir, David opens up about the strength he draws from his unshakable faith and unyielding family. He pays tribute to those who continue to inspire him and through their example help him believe in himself, his talent, and his abilities.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Intimate and uplifting, *Chords of Strength* allows a unique glimpse of the man behind the music and offers hope to anyone with a passion and a dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6263'),
(12249, 'Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance', 'David Archuleta &amp; Monica Haim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Singing sensation and *American Idol* favorite David Archuleta tells his inspiring personal story. Includes full-color photos! **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A runner-up on American Idol and successful music artist, David Archuleta was named one of the "breakout stars of 2008" by *Forbes* magazine and landed the number two spot on the Billboard charts.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Chords of Strength* David shares his unexpected and inspiring journey, including how he overcame vocal cord paralysis to achieve his dream of being a singer. He reveals insecurities he felt about his voice-before he realized that he loved the way singing made him feel more than he disliked the way he sounded. In this personal memoir, David opens up about the strength he draws from his unshakable faith and unyielding family. He pays tribute to those who continue to inspire him and through their example help him believe in himself, his talent, and his abilities.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Intimate and uplifting, *Chords of Strength* allows a unique glimpse of the man behind the music and offers hope to anyone with a passion and a dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8286'),
(12250, 'Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance', 'David Archuleta; Monica Haim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Singing sensation and *American Idol* favorite David Archuleta tells his inspiring personal story. Includes full-color photos! ** A runner-up on American Idol and successful music artist, David Archuleta was named one of the "breakout stars of 2008" by *Forbes* magazine and landed the number two spot on the Billboard charts. In *Chords of Strength* David shares his unexpected and inspiring journey, including how he overcame vocal cord paralysis to achieve his dream of being a singer. He reveals insecurities he felt about his voice-before he realized that he loved the way singing made him feel more than he disliked the way he sounded. In this personal memoir, David opens up about the strength he draws from his unshakable faith and unyielding family. He pays tribute to those who continue to inspire him and through their example help him believe in himself, his talent, and his abilities. Intimate and uplifting, *Chords of Strength* allows a unique glimpse of the man behind the music and offers hope to anyone with a passion and a dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17661'),
(12251, 'Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance', 'David Archuleta; Monica Haim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Singing sensation and *American Idol* favorite David Archuleta tells his inspiring personal story. Includes full-color photos! ** A runner-up on American Idol and successful music artist, David Archuleta was named one of the "breakout stars of 2008" by *Forbes* magazine and landed the number two spot on the Billboard charts. In *Chords of Strength* David shares his unexpected and inspiring journey, including how he overcame vocal cord paralysis to achieve his dream of being a singer. He reveals insecurities he felt about his voice-before he realized that he loved the way singing made him feel more than he disliked the way he sounded. In this personal memoir, David opens up about the strength he draws from his unshakable faith and unyielding family. He pays tribute to those who continue to inspire him and through their example help him believe in himself, his talent, and his abilities. Intimate and uplifting, *Chords of Strength* allows a unique glimpse of the man behind the music and offers hope to anyone with a passion and a dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27256'),
(12252, 'Chosen', 'P. C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 10 Upâ€”This installment picks up exactly where\n <em>\n  Betrayed\n </em>\n (St. Martin''s, 2007) left off. Zoey Redbird, leader of the Dark Daughters and vampyre fledgling extraordinaire, has discovered some mysterious and disturbing events occurring at her vampyre finishing school. Her ex-roommate and best friend, Stevie Rae, is "undead" and only due to Zoey''s love and belief that she still possesses some humanity has Stevie Rae not become a true monster. Zoey must quickly find a way to reverse what has been done to her before it is too late. To complicate matters, Zoey is forced to keep this a secret from her friends and has been betrayed by her mentor and advisor, Neferet. Zoey knows that Neferet is behind the creation of these "undead" creatures and is not at all what she seems. For help, she turns to her rival, Aphrodite, who becomes her confidante and partner in crime. Horror strikes the House of Night when two professors end up brutally murdered. Cast takes the series up a notch with this installment, and readers will be on the edge of their seats waiting for its continuation. This book is a must for any library with a vampire followingâ€”but it does contain explicit language and sexual situations.â€”_Donna Rosenblum, Floral Park Memorial High School, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for The House of Night:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural worldâ€¦.The issues faced by these teens are not child''s play, and the stakes are life and death.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€“_Romantic Times_ (4 Â½ stars) on\n <em>\n  Betrayed\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCast reeled me in from paragraph one. Iâ€¦devoured it in one sitting.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€“MaryJanice Davidson,\n <em>\n  New York\n </em>\n _ Times_ bestselling author of the Undead series on\n <em>\n  Marked\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œ_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hintonâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Outsiders\n </em>\n . It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€“_The Beltane Papers_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2285'),
(12253, 'Chosen', 'P. C. Cast &amp; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 10 Upâ€”This installment picks up exactly where\n <em>\n  Betrayed\n </em>\n (St. Martin''s, 2007) left off. Zoey Redbird, leader of the Dark Daughters and vampyre fledgling extraordinaire, has discovered some mysterious and disturbing events occurring at her vampyre finishing school. Her ex-roommate and best friend, Stevie Rae, is "undead" and only due to Zoey''s love and belief that she still possesses some humanity has Stevie Rae not become a true monster. Zoey must quickly find a way to reverse what has been done to her before it is too late. To complicate matters, Zoey is forced to keep this a secret from her friends and has been betrayed by her mentor and advisor, Neferet. Zoey knows that Neferet is behind the creation of these "undead" creatures and is not at all what she seems. For help, she turns to her rival, Aphrodite, who becomes her confidante and partner in crime. Horror strikes the House of Night when two professors end up brutally murdered. Cast takes the series up a notch with this installment, and readers will be on the edge of their seats waiting for its continuation. This book is a must for any library with a vampire followingâ€”but it does contain explicit language and sexual situations.â€”_Donna Rosenblum, Floral Park Memorial High School, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for The House of Night:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural worldâ€¦.The issues faced by these teens are not child''s play, and the stakes are life and death.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€“_Romantic Times_ (4 Â½ stars) on\n <em>\n  Betrayed\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCast reeled me in from paragraph one. Iâ€¦devoured it in one sitting.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€“MaryJanice Davidson,\n <em>\n  New York\n </em>\n _ Times_ bestselling author of the Undead series on\n <em>\n  Marked\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â â€œ_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hintonâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Outsiders\n </em>\n . It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€“_The Beltane Papers_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8763'),
(12254, 'A Chosen Few', 'Mark Kurlansky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIRFifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish communities are revitalizing the ancient centers of Budapest, Prague, and Amsterdam. These brave, determined Jewish men and women have chosen to settleâ€“or remainâ€“in Europe after the devastation of the Holocaust, but they have paid a price. Among the unexpected dangers, they have had to cope with an alarming resurgence of Nazism in Europe, the spread of Arab terrorism, and the impact of the Jewish state on European life.Delving into the intimate stories of European Jews from all walks of life, Kurlansky weaves together a vivid tapestry of individuals sustaining their traditions, and flourishing, in the shadow of history. An inspiring story of a tenacious people who have rebuilt their lives in the face of incomprehensible horror, A Chosen Few is a testament to cultural survival and a celebration of the deep bonds that endure between Jews and European civilization.â€œConsistently absorbing . . . A Chosen Few investigates the relatively uncharted territory of an encouraging phenomenon.â€â€“Los Angeles Times â€œI can think of no book that portrays with such intelligence, historical understanding, and journalistic flair what life has been like for Jews determined to build lives in Europe.â€â€“SUSAN MIRON Forward\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9401'),
(12255, 'Chosen of the Gods', 'Chris Pierson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15386'),
(12256, 'The Chosen', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Archaeologist Annja Creed believes there''s more to the apparitions of Santo NiÃ±o--the Holy Child--luring thousands of pilgrims to Santa Fe. Other sightings of strange and anomalous creatures in the area indicate a mystery more profane than sacred--with links, perhaps, to Annja''s own fate. But she is not alone in her quest to separate reliquaries from unholy minds who dare to harness sinister power. A dangerous yet enigmatic Jesuit, sworn to protect the Vatican at any cost, a brilliant young artist whose genius portrays a truth too potent for words and a famed monster hunter with a terrifying agenda are the keys to the secrets that lie in the heart of Los Alamos--and unlocking the door to the very fabric of time itself .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7773'),
(12257, 'The Chosen', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Archaeologist Annja Creed believes there''s more to the apparitions of Santo NiÃ±o--the Holy Child--luring thousands of pilgrims to Santa Fe. Other sightings of strange and anomalous creatures in the area indicate a mystery more profane than sacred--with links, perhaps, to Annja''s own fate. But she is not alone in her quest to separate reliquaries from unholy minds who dare to harness sinister power. A dangerous yet enigmatic Jesuit, sworn to protect the Vatican at any cost, a brilliant young artist whose genius portrays a truth too potent for words and a famed monster hunter with a terrifying agenda are the keys to the secrets that lie in the heart of Los Alamos--and unlocking the door to the very fabric of time itself .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16101');
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(12258, 'The Chosen', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Archaeologist Annja Creed believes there''s more to the apparitions of Santo NiÃ±o--the Holy Child--luring thousands of pilgrims to Santa Fe. Other sightings of strange and anomalous creatures in the area indicate a mystery more profane than sacred--with links, perhaps, to Annja''s own fate. But she is not alone in her quest to separate reliquaries from unholy minds who dare to harness sinister power. A dangerous yet enigmatic Jesuit, sworn to protect the Vatican at any cost, a brilliant young artist whose genius portrays a truth too potent for words and a famed monster hunter with a terrifying agenda are the keys to the secrets that lie in the heart of Los Alamos--and unlocking the door to the very fabric of time itself .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26260'),
(12259, 'Chosen: A House of Night Novel', 'P. C. Cast; Kristin Cast', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 10 Upâ€”This installment picks up exactly where\n  <em>\n   Betrayed\n  </em>\n  (St. Martin''s, 2007) left off. Zoey Redbird, leader of the Dark Daughters and vampyre fledgling extraordinaire, has discovered some mysterious and disturbing events occurring at her vampyre finishing school. Her ex-roommate and best friend, Stevie Rae, is "undead" and only due to Zoey''s love and belief that she still possesses some humanity has Stevie Rae not become a true monster. Zoey must quickly find a way to reverse what has been done to her before it is too late. To complicate matters, Zoey is forced to keep this a secret from her friends and has been betrayed by her mentor and advisor, Neferet. Zoey knows that Neferet is behind the creation of these "undead" creatures and is not at all what she seems. For help, she turns to her rival, Aphrodite, who becomes her confidante and partner in crime. Horror strikes the House of Night when two professors end up brutally murdered. Cast takes the series up a notch with this installment, and readers will be on the edge of their seats waiting for its continuation. This book is a must for any library with a vampire followingâ€”but it does contain explicit language and sexual situations.â€”_Donna Rosenblum, Floral Park Memorial High School, NY_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for The House of Night:\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural worldâ€¦.The issues faced by these teens are not child''s play, and the stakes are life and death.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“_Romantic Times_ (4 Â½ stars) on\n  <em>\n   Betrayed\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCast reeled me in from paragraph one. Iâ€¦devoured it in one sitting.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“MaryJanice Davidson,\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n  _ Times_ bestselling author of the Undead series on\n  <em>\n   Marked\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œ_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hintonâ€™s\n  <em>\n   The Outsiders\n  </em>\n  . It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€“_The Beltane Papers_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21560'),
(12260, 'Chosen: A Novel', 'Chandra Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Chosen*, a young caseworker becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents, with devastating results.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It all begins with a fantasy: the caseworker in her "signing paperwork" charcoal suit standing alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn, set against a fluorescent-lit delivery-room backdrop. It''s this blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of the Chosen Child''s domestic-adoption program, happy while juggling the high demands of her boss and the incessant needs of both adoptive and biological parents.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the very job that offers her refuge from her turbulent personal life and Portland''s winter rains soon becomes a battleground involving three very different couples: the Novas, well-off college sweethearts who suffered fertility problems but are now expecting their own baby; the McAdoos, a wealthy husband and desperate wife for whom adoption is a last chance; and Jason and Penny, an impoverished couple who have nothingâ€”except the baby everyone wants. When a child goes missing, dreams dissolve into nightmares, and everyone is forced to examine what he or she really wants and where it all went wrong.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Told from alternating points of view, *Chosen* reveals the desperate nature of desire across social backgrounds and how far people will go to get the one thing they think will be the answer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6985'),
(12261, 'Chosen: A Novel', 'Chandra Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Chosen*, a young caseworker becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents, with devastating results.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It all begins with a fantasy: the caseworker in her "signing paperwork" charcoal suit standing alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn, set against a fluorescent-lit delivery-room backdrop. It''s this blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of the Chosen Child''s domestic-adoption program, happy while juggling the high demands of her boss and the incessant needs of both adoptive and biological parents.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the very job that offers her refuge from her turbulent personal life and Portland''s winter rains soon becomes a battleground involving three very different couples: the Novas, well-off college sweethearts who suffered fertility problems but are now expecting their own baby; the McAdoos, a wealthy husband and desperate wife for whom adoption is a last chance; and Jason and Penny, an impoverished couple who have nothingâ€”except the baby everyone wants. When a child goes missing, dreams dissolve into nightmares, and everyone is forced to examine what he or she really wants and where it all went wrong.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Told from alternating points of view, *Chosen* reveals the desperate nature of desire across social backgrounds and how far people will go to get the one thing they think will be the answer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10366'),
(12262, 'Chosen: A Novel', 'Chandra Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In *Chosen*, a young caseworker becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents, with devastating results. It all begins with a fantasy: the caseworker in her "signing paperwork" charcoal suit standing alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn, set against a fluorescent-lit delivery-room backdrop. It''s this blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of the Chosen Child''s domestic-adoption program, happy while juggling the high demands of her boss and the incessant needs of both adoptive and biological parents. But the very job that offers her refuge from her turbulent personal life and Portland''s winter rains soon becomes a battleground involving three very different couples: the Novas, well-off college sweethearts who suffered fertility problems but are now expecting their own baby; the McAdoos, a wealthy husband and desperate wife for whom adoption is a last chance; and Jason and Penny, an impoverished couple who have nothingâ€”except the baby everyone wants. When a child goes missing, dreams dissolve into nightmares, and everyone is forced to examine what he or she really wants and where it all went wrong. Told from alternating points of view, *Chosen* reveals the desperate nature of desire across social backgrounds and how far people will go to get the one thing they think will be the answer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16935'),
(12263, 'Chosen: A Novel', 'Chandra Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In *Chosen*, a young caseworker becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents, with devastating results. It all begins with a fantasy: the caseworker in her "signing paperwork" charcoal suit standing alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn, set against a fluorescent-lit delivery-room backdrop. It''s this blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of the Chosen Child''s domestic-adoption program, happy while juggling the high demands of her boss and the incessant needs of both adoptive and biological parents. But the very job that offers her refuge from her turbulent personal life and Portland''s winter rains soon becomes a battleground involving three very different couples: the Novas, well-off college sweethearts who suffered fertility problems but are now expecting their own baby; the McAdoos, a wealthy husband and desperate wife for whom adoption is a last chance; and Jason and Penny, an impoverished couple who have nothingâ€”except the baby everyone wants. When a child goes missing, dreams dissolve into nightmares, and everyone is forced to examine what he or she really wants and where it all went wrong. Told from alternating points of view, *Chosen* reveals the desperate nature of desire across social backgrounds and how far people will go to get the one thing they think will be the answer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26848'),
(12264, 'Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years', 'Diarmaid MacCulloch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of *The Reformation* returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read-a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill. Diarmaid MacCulloch''s *Christianity* is such a book. Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Christianity* will teach modern readers things that have been lost in time about how Jesus'' message spread and how the New Testament was formed. We follow the Christian story to all corners of the globe, filling in often neglected accounts of conversions and confrontations in Africa and Asia. And we discover the roots of the faith that galvanized America, charting the rise of the evangelical movement from its origins in Germany and England. This book encompasses all of intellectual history-we meet monks and crusaders, heretics and saints, slave traders and abolitionists, and discover Christianity''s essential role in driving the enlightenment and the age of exploration, and shaping the course of World War I and World War II.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n We are living in a time of tremendous religious awareness, when both believers and non-believers are deeply engaged by questions of religion and tradition, seeking to understand the violence sometimes perpetrated in the name of God. The son of an Anglican clergyman, MacCulloch writes with deep feeling about faith. His last book, *The Reformation*, was chosen by dozens of publications as Best Book of the Year and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This awe-inspiring follow-up is a landmark new history of the faith that continues to shape the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5999'),
(12265, 'Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years', 'Diarmaid MacCulloch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of *The Reformation* returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read-a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill. Diarmaid MacCulloch''s *Christianity* is such a book. Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Christianity* will teach modern readers things that have been lost in time about how Jesus'' message spread and how the New Testament was formed. We follow the Christian story to all corners of the globe, filling in often neglected accounts of conversions and confrontations in Africa and Asia. And we discover the roots of the faith that galvanized America, charting the rise of the evangelical movement from its origins in Germany and England. This book encompasses all of intellectual history-we meet monks and crusaders, heretics and saints, slave traders and abolitionists, and discover Christianity''s essential role in driving the enlightenment and the age of exploration, and shaping the course of World War I and World War II.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n We are living in a time of tremendous religious awareness, when both believers and non-believers are deeply engaged by questions of religion and tradition, seeking to understand the violence sometimes perpetrated in the name of God. The son of an Anglican clergyman, MacCulloch writes with deep feeling about faith. His last book, *The Reformation*, was chosen by dozens of publications as Best Book of the Year and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This awe-inspiring follow-up is a landmark new history of the faith that continues to shape the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11161'),
(12266, 'Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years', 'Diarmaid MacCulloch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of *The Reformation* returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read-a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill. Diarmaid MacCulloch''s *Christianity* is such a book. Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Christianity* will teach modern readers things that have been lost in time about how Jesus'' message spread and how the New Testament was formed. We follow the Christian story to all corners of the globe, filling in often neglected accounts of conversions and confrontations in Africa and Asia. And we discover the roots of the faith that galvanized America, charting the rise of the evangelical movement from its origins in Germany and England. This book encompasses all of intellectual history-we meet monks and crusaders, heretics and saints, slave traders and abolitionists, and discover Christianity''s essential role in driving the enlightenment and the age of exploration, and shaping the course of World War I and World War II.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n We are living in a time of tremendous religious awareness, when both believers and non-believers are deeply engaged by questions of religion and tradition, seeking to understand the violence sometimes perpetrated in the name of God. The son of an Anglican clergyman, MacCulloch writes with deep feeling about faith. His last book, *The Reformation*, was chosen by dozens of publications as Best Book of the Year and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This awe-inspiring follow-up is a landmark new history of the faith that continues to shape the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27546'),
(12267, 'Christine', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It was love at first sight. From the moment seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham saw Christine, he knew he would do anything to possess her. But Christine is no lady. She is Stephen King''s ultimate vehicle of terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1088'),
(12268, 'Christine', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It was love at first sight. From the moment seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham saw Christine, he knew he would do anything to possess her. But Christine is no lady. She is Stephen King''s ultimate vehicle of terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14495'),
(12269, 'Christine', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It was love at first sight. From the moment seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham saw Christine, he knew he would do anything to possess her. But Christine is no lady. She is Stephen King''s ultimate vehicle of terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23832'),
(12270, 'Christine Falls', 'Benjamin Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgue to find his brother-in-law tampering with the records on a young woman''s corpse. The next morning, when his hangover has worn off, Quirke reluctantly begins looking into the woman''s history. He discovers a plot that spans two continents, implicates the Catholic Church, and may just involve members of his own family. He is warned-first subtly, then with violence-to lay off, but Quirke is a stubborn man. The first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of John Banville''s writing to the dark, menacing atmosphere of a first-class thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7328'),
(12271, 'Christine Falls', 'Benjamin Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgue to find his brother-in-law tampering with the records on a young woman''s corpse. The next morning, when his hangover has worn off, Quirke reluctantly begins looking into the woman''s history. He discovers a plot that spans two continents, implicates the Catholic Church, and may just involve members of his own family. He is warned-first subtly, then with violence-to lay off, but Quirke is a stubborn man. The first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of John Banville''s writing to the dark, menacing atmosphere of a first-class thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16615'),
(12272, 'Christine Falls', 'Benjamin Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgue to find his brother-in-law tampering with the records on a young woman''s corpse. The next morning, when his hangover has worn off, Quirke reluctantly begins looking into the woman''s history. He discovers a plot that spans two continents, implicates the Catholic Church, and may just involve members of his own family. He is warned-first subtly, then with violence-to lay off, but Quirke is a stubborn man. The first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of John Banville''s writing to the dark, menacing atmosphere of a first-class thriller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26671'),
(12273, 'A Christmas Carol', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This new selection of Dickens''s Christmas writings confirms his lasting influence upon our idea of the Christmas spirit: that Christmas is a time for celebration, charity, and memory. In addition to the beloved A Christmas Carol, this volume includes such festive works as "Christmas Festivities," "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," "A Christmas Tree," "The Seven Poor Travellers," The Haunted Man and the Ghost''s Bargain, and a Christmas episode from Master Humphrey''s Clock.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6919'),
(12274, 'A Christmas Carol', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This new selection of Dickens''s Christmas writings confirms his lasting influence upon our idea of the Christmas spirit: that Christmas is a time for celebration, charity, and memory. In addition to the beloved A Christmas Carol, this volume includes such festive works as "Christmas Festivities," "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," "A Christmas Tree," "The Seven Poor Travellers," The Haunted Man and the Ghost''s Bargain, and a Christmas episode from Master Humphrey''s Clock.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9238'),
(12275, 'A Christmas carol', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This new selection of Dickens''s Christmas writings confirms his lasting influence upon our idea of the Christmas spirit: that Christmas is a time for celebration, charity, and memory. In addition to the beloved A Christmas Carol, this volume includes such festive works as "Christmas Festivities," "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," "A Christmas Tree," "The Seven Poor Travellers," The Haunted Man and the Ghost''s Bargain, and a Christmas episode from Master Humphrey''s Clock.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14977'),
(12276, 'A Christmas carol', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This new selection of Dickens''s Christmas writings confirms his lasting influence upon our idea of the Christmas spirit: that Christmas is a time for celebration, charity, and memory. In addition to the beloved A Christmas Carol, this volume includes such festive works as "Christmas Festivities," "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," "A Christmas Tree," "The Seven Poor Travellers," The Haunted Man and the Ghost''s Bargain, and a Christmas episode from Master Humphrey''s Clock.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16990'),
(12277, 'A Christmas carol', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This new selection of Dickens''s Christmas writings confirms his lasting influence upon our idea of the Christmas spirit: that Christmas is a time for celebration, charity, and memory. In addition to the beloved A Christmas Carol, this volume includes such festive works as "Christmas Festivities," "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," "A Christmas Tree," "The Seven Poor Travellers," The Haunted Man and the Ghost''s Bargain, and a Christmas episode from Master Humphrey''s Clock.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26933'),
(12278, 'A Christmas Promise', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While bestseller Perry doesn''t offer much of a puzzle in her seventh Christmas-themed Victorian historical (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  A Christmas Grace\n </em>\n ), she does a highly credible job of evoking Dickens, especially in the opening scenes set in Whitechapel. As the 1883 holiday season nears in London''s East End, 13-year-old Gracie Phipps, a supporting character in Perry''s Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series (_Buckingham Palace Gardens_, etc.), encounters a woebegone younger child, Minnie Maude Mudway, on the mean streets of her neighborhood. Minnie is looking for a missing donkey, Charlie, which belonged to her beloved uncle Alf. The animal disappeared the day before, around the same time Alf, a bone-and-rag dealer, was killed. The two girls turn detective in an effort to find Charlie as well as the truth about how Alf died. Mr. Balthasar, a shopkeeper who assists in the sleuthing, lends an appealing Holmesian touch.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne Perryâ€™s Victorian Christmas novels have attracted as many faithful readers as her two_ New York Times_ bestselling series featuring investigators Thomas Pitt and William Monk.\n <strong>\n  A Christmas Promise\n </strong>\n is the seventh in Perryâ€™s holiday series, and it will surely bring joy to this special season.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of Londonâ€™s East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters Minnie Maude Mudway, who is only eight, alone, and determined to find her friend Charlie.\n</p>\n<p>\n However Charlie is no ordinary companion: He is a donkey who belonged to Minnie Maudeâ€™s Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who pulled it. Now, come hell or high water, Minnie Maude means to rescue Charlieâ€“and Gracie decides to help. But the path that Uncle Alf had taken to his death was not his regular route, and in his cart were not just the usual bits of worn silver and china but also, the children are told, a dazzling golden box. What its contents may have been no one can say, for, like Charlie and the cart, it too has vanished.\n</p>\n<p>\n Uncertain where their four-legged friend may be, the children are drawn into an adult world far beyond their innocent imaginings. And in a shop gleaming with beautiful objects, they recruit an unexpected ally: Mr. Balthasar, who warns them that the shining prize may be a Pandoraâ€™s box of evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set in the Victorian world where Anne Perry reigns supreme,\n <strong>\n  A Christmas Promise\n </strong>\n culminates in a radiant finale that will remain with you long after the final page is turned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7646'),
(12279, 'A Christmas Promise', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While bestseller Perry doesn''t offer much of a puzzle in her seventh Christmas-themed Victorian historical (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  A Christmas Grace\n </em>\n ), she does a highly credible job of evoking Dickens, especially in the opening scenes set in Whitechapel. As the 1883 holiday season nears in London''s East End, 13-year-old Gracie Phipps, a supporting character in Perry''s Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series (_Buckingham Palace Gardens_, etc.), encounters a woebegone younger child, Minnie Maude Mudway, on the mean streets of her neighborhood. Minnie is looking for a missing donkey, Charlie, which belonged to her beloved uncle Alf. The animal disappeared the day before, around the same time Alf, a bone-and-rag dealer, was killed. The two girls turn detective in an effort to find Charlie as well as the truth about how Alf died. Mr. Balthasar, a shopkeeper who assists in the sleuthing, lends an appealing Holmesian touch.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne Perryâ€™s Victorian Christmas novels have attracted as many faithful readers as her two_ New York Times_ bestselling series featuring investigators Thomas Pitt and William Monk.\n <strong>\n  A Christmas Promise\n </strong>\n is the seventh in Perryâ€™s holiday series, and it will surely bring joy to this special season.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of Londonâ€™s East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters Minnie Maude Mudway, who is only eight, alone, and determined to find her friend Charlie.\n</p>\n<p>\n However Charlie is no ordinary companion: He is a donkey who belonged to Minnie Maudeâ€™s Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who pulled it. Now, come hell or high water, Minnie Maude means to rescue Charlieâ€“and Gracie decides to help. But the path that Uncle Alf had taken to his death was not his regular route, and in his cart were not just the usual bits of worn silver and china but also, the children are told, a dazzling golden box. What its contents may have been no one can say, for, like Charlie and the cart, it too has vanished.\n</p>\n<p>\n Uncertain where their four-legged friend may be, the children are drawn into an adult world far beyond their innocent imaginings. And in a shop gleaming with beautiful objects, they recruit an unexpected ally: Mr. Balthasar, who warns them that the shining prize may be a Pandoraâ€™s box of evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set in the Victorian world where Anne Perry reigns supreme,\n <strong>\n  A Christmas Promise\n </strong>\n culminates in a radiant finale that will remain with you long after the final page is turned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11905'),
(12280, 'A Christmas Promise', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n While bestseller Perry doesn''t offer much of a puzzle in her seventh Christmas-themed Victorian historical (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  A Christmas Grace\n </em>\n ), she does a highly credible job of evoking Dickens, especially in the opening scenes set in Whitechapel. As the 1883 holiday season nears in London''s East End, 13-year-old Gracie Phipps, a supporting character in Perry''s Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series (_Buckingham Palace Gardens_, etc.), encounters a woebegone younger child, Minnie Maude Mudway, on the mean streets of her neighborhood. Minnie is looking for a missing donkey, Charlie, which belonged to her beloved uncle Alf. The animal disappeared the day before, around the same time Alf, a bone-and-rag dealer, was killed. The two girls turn detective in an effort to find Charlie as well as the truth about how Alf died. Mr. Balthasar, a shopkeeper who assists in the sleuthing, lends an appealing Holmesian touch.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne Perryâ€™s Victorian Christmas novels have attracted as many faithful readers as her two_ New York Times_ bestselling series featuring investigators Thomas Pitt and William Monk.\n <strong>\n  A Christmas Promise\n </strong>\n is the seventh in Perryâ€™s holiday series, and it will surely bring joy to this special season.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of Londonâ€™s East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters Minnie Maude Mudway, who is only eight, alone, and determined to find her friend Charlie.\n</p>\n<p>\n However Charlie is no ordinary companion: He is a donkey who belonged to Minnie Maudeâ€™s Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who pulled it. Now, come hell or high water, Minnie Maude means to rescue Charlieâ€“and Gracie decides to help. But the path that Uncle Alf had taken to his death was not his regular route, and in his cart were not just the usual bits of worn silver and china but also, the children are told, a dazzling golden box. What its contents may have been no one can say, for, like Charlie and the cart, it too has vanished.\n</p>\n<p>\n Uncertain where their four-legged friend may be, the children are drawn into an adult world far beyond their innocent imaginings. And in a shop gleaming with beautiful objects, they recruit an unexpected ally: Mr. Balthasar, who warns them that the shining prize may be a Pandoraâ€™s box of evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set in the Victorian world where Anne Perry reigns supreme,\n <strong>\n  A Christmas Promise\n </strong>\n culminates in a radiant finale that will remain with you long after the final page is turned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16374'),
(12281, 'The Christmas Train', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6281'),
(12282, 'The Christmas train', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17734'),
(12283, 'The Christmas train', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27247'),
(12284, 'Chrome', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24976'),
(12285, 'Chronic City', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The acclaimed author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies. Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan''s social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called "Martyr &amp; Pesty." Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancee, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in Earth''s stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties. Into Chase''s cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers, and a desperate ache for meaning. Perkus''s countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake, and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Along with Oona Laszlo, a self-loathing ghostwriter, and Richard Abneg, a hero of the Tompkins Square Park riot now working as a fixer for the billionaire mayor, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the answers to several mysteries that seem to offer that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought: Truth. Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem''s masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4118'),
(12286, 'Chronic City', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The acclaimed author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies. Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan''s social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called "Martyr &amp; Pesty." Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancee, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in Earth''s stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties. Into Chase''s cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers, and a desperate ache for meaning. Perkus''s countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake, and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Along with Oona Laszlo, a self-loathing ghostwriter, and Richard Abneg, a hero of the Tompkins Square Park riot now working as a fixer for the billionaire mayor, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the answers to several mysteries that seem to offer that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought: Truth. Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem''s masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11120'),
(12287, 'Chronic City', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The acclaimed author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies. Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan''s social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called "Martyr &amp; Pesty." Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancee, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in Earth''s stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties. Into Chase''s cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers, and a desperate ache for meaning. Perkus''s countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake, and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Along with Oona Laszlo, a self-loathing ghostwriter, and Richard Abneg, a hero of the Tompkins Square Park riot now working as a fixer for the billionaire mayor, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the answers to several mysteries that seem to offer that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought: Truth. Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem''s masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20396'),
(12288, 'Chronicler of the Winds', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A haunting and powerful story about war-torn Africa, a mystical orphan boy, and the power of narrative to give a chaotic world order. In the hot African night a single gunshot cracks the silence. Jose Antonio traces the sound to the stage of the local theatre company, where he finds Nelio, the young prophetical leader of the city''s street kids, crumpled in blood. Nelio refuses to be taken to the hospital but instead tells Jose his life''s story: how bandits raided his village, his daring escape, and his struggle to survive on the streets. Jose is irrevocably changed. He becomes the Chronicler of the Winds, revealing Nelios''s magical tale to all who will listen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5146'),
(12289, 'Chronicler of the Winds', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A haunting and powerful story about war-torn Africa, a mystical orphan boy, and the power of narrative to give a chaotic world order. In the hot African night a single gunshot cracks the silence. Jose Antonio traces the sound to the stage of the local theatre company, where he finds Nelio, the young prophetical leader of the city''s street kids, crumpled in blood. Nelio refuses to be taken to the hospital but instead tells Jose his life''s story: how bandits raided his village, his daring escape, and his struggle to survive on the streets. Jose is irrevocably changed. He becomes the Chronicler of the Winds, revealing Nelios''s magical tale to all who will listen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11231'),
(12290, 'Chronicler of the Winds', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A haunting and powerful story about war-torn Africa, a mystical orphan boy, and the power of narrative to give a chaotic world order. In the hot African night a single gunshot cracks the silence. Jose Antonio traces the sound to the stage of the local theatre company, where he finds Nelio, the young prophetical leader of the city''s street kids, crumpled in blood. Nelio refuses to be taken to the hospital but instead tells Jose his life''s story: how bandits raided his village, his daring escape, and his struggle to survive on the streets. Jose is irrevocably changed. He becomes the Chronicler of the Winds, revealing Nelios''s magical tale to all who will listen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19465'),
(12291, 'Chronicler of the Winds', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A haunting and powerful story about war-torn Africa, a mystical orphan boy, and the power of narrative to give a chaotic world order. In the hot African night a single gunshot cracks the silence. Jose Antonio traces the sound to the stage of the local theatre company, where he finds Nelio, the young prophetical leader of the city''s street kids, crumpled in blood. Nelio refuses to be taken to the hospital but instead tells Jose his life''s story: how bandits raided his village, his daring escape, and his struggle to survive on the streets. Jose is irrevocably changed. He becomes the Chronicler of the Winds, revealing Nelios''s magical tale to all who will listen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28133');
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(12292, 'The Chronicles of Riddick', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.INo matter how long or how hard they strive, no matter how extensive their education as a species, no matter what they experience of the small heavens and larger hells they create for themselves, it seems that humans are destined to see their technological accomplishments always exceed their ability to understand themselves.Certainly there was no understanding, no meeting of the minds, on the world called Aquila Major. There was only the devastation of one mind-set by another. Proof of it took the form of a statue fashioned of advanced, reinforced preformata resin. It was an imposing piece of work, for all that it had been reproduced by its originators on many other worlds. Too many other worlds, according to some. Not nearly enough, according to those who had put it in place, its massive footing firmly rammed into the resistant soil of Aquila Major. It was a Conquest Icon of the Necromongers. Over five hundred meters tall, it gaped openmouthed at the utter desolation and wreckage that spread outward from its base. Whether it was seen as wailing in despair at its surroundings or moaning in triumph depended on whether one was a surviving citizen of that world''s once-splendid capital city, now reduced to waste and ruin, or a member of that peculiar space-dwelling group who called themselves followers of the faith known as Necroism. They had been preparing for such moments for a very long time. They had burst out of the great darkness to impose themselves on the civilized worlds with a forcefulness and cool brutality that was as stunning in its single-mindedness as it was in its efficiency. Aquila Major was not the first of their conquests, nor would it be the last. As long as there were worlds to be freed, as long as humans lived who dwelled in ignorance of their true destiny, the Necromongers would continue with their work.Unlike so much of the humankind who had spread explosively throughout the galaxy, the Necromongers were driven by genuine purpose beyond the need to merely exist. They believed fervently in their work, and went about it with a determination and competence that was breathtaking to behold. In the majority of cases, literally breathtaking. Furthermore, there was no meanness in them, no suggestion of brutality for its own sake or of sadism. Like all true believers since the beginning of time, they saw only good arising out of the destruction they inflicted. Everything they did was for the benefit of the destroyed, they knew. Nor was their great work devoid of irony.For it was the dead who triumphed by passing on, while only the most dedicated forced themselves to carry on the work by continuing to live until due time.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I\n </p>\n <p>\n  No matter how long or how hard they strive, no matter how extensive their education as a species, no matter what they experience of the small heavens and larger hells they create for themselves, it seems that humans are destined to see their technological accomplishments always exceed their ability to understand themselves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Certainly there was no understanding, no meeting of the minds, on the world called Aquila Major. There was only the devastation of one mind-set by another. Proof of it took the form of a statue fashioned of advanced, reinforced preformata resin. It was an imposing piece of work, for all that it had been reproduced by its originators on many other worlds. Too many other worlds, according to some. Not nearly enough, according to those who had put it in place, its massive footing firmly rammed into the resistant soil of Aquila Major.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a Conquest Icon of the Necromongers. Over five hundred meters tall, it gaped openmouthed at the utter desolation and wreckage that spread outward from its base. Whether it was seen as wailing in despair at its surroundings or moaning in triumph depended on whether one was a surviving citizen of that world''s once-splendid capital city, now reduced to waste and ruin, or a member of that peculiar space-dwelling group who called themselves followers of the faith known as Necroism.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They had been preparing for such moments for a very long time. They had burst out of the great darkness to impose themselves on the civilized worlds with a forcefulness and cool brutality that was as stunning in its single-mindedness as it was in its efficiency. Aquila Major was not the first of their conquests, nor would it be the last. As long as there were worlds to be freed, as long as humans lived who dwelled in ignorance of their true destiny, the Necromongers would continue with their work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unlike so much of the humankind who had spread explosively throughout the galaxy, the Necromongers were driven by genuine purpose beyond the need to merely exist. They believed fervently in their work, and went about it with a determination and competence that was breathtaking to behold. In the majority of cases, literally breathtaking. Furthermore, there was no meanness in them, no suggestion of brutality for its own sake or of sadism. Like all true believers since the beginning of time, they saw only good arising out of the destruction they inflicted. Everything they did was for the benefit of the destroyed, they knew. Nor was their great work devoid of irony.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For it was the dead who triumphed by passing on, while only the most dedicated forced themselves to carry on the work by continuing to live--until due time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Lord Marshal knew this better than anyone. While longing for his own time of passing to arrive, he continued to consecrate his continuing existence on the present plane of existence by seeing to it that as many as possible of his unaware, improperly informed fellow humans preceded him onward toward bliss. During the preceding days, many had done so here on Aquila Major. A great many.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clad in battle armor that was intended as much to instill fear and intimidate any who cast eyes upon it as it was to protect its wearer, he stood scowling thoughtfully at the scene of desolation and redemption that flamed below him. The fires were beginning to die out. While the capital had been taken, opposition to the balm and comfort his people brought remained strong in other cities and in isolated pockets across the planet. There was still much work to be done on Aquila Major.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As to its final outcome, the Lord Marshal had no doubt. Some worlds resisted the bringing of the message more obstinately than others. A few proved sensible and buckled under at the mere sight of the Necromongers'' ships. Such worlds were much more to the Lord Marshal''s taste. While they were to be admired for having reached a newer, higher state of being, dead resistance fighters were no use to the great cause. The deceased were to be envied, but could not be recruited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nevertheless, by craft or cajoling, by force or by bribery, the faith was advanced. Aquila Major was only the latest, not the last. No time was to be wasted here. As soon as the last pockets of resistance had been eliminated, the armada would move to the next, carrying enlightenment and revelation to the disbelieving. How he longed for his own moment of finality, for his turn to be done with this sordid, unnatural temporal plane!\n </p>\n <p>\n  But he could not simply embrace that of which he knew so much. Having striven to rise to the exalted position of lord marshal, it did not behoove him to surrender it voluntarily. By the edicts of his kind he was compelled to master all that it offered, by offering his talents to the cause. This he would continue to do. That he would not be the one to finish the work he knew well, as had the various lord marshals who had preceded him. That he would be joining them eventually he also knew.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But first, there was much work to be done.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vaako stood nearby. A fine commander, as dedicated as one could ask for and a superb solo fighter in his own right. While his attention was focused on the Lord Marshal, that of the saintly Purifier, who stood nearby, was directed at the destruction below. Neither man spoke. There was no need. They had done what needed to be done, and saw no reason to comment on it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nor did the Lord Marshal have anything to say. The fire and smoke, the ruined buildings and flaming vegetation beneath them were more eloquent than anything those beholding it could have voiced. There were times when it was best to say nothing, he knew. Time enough for discussion later, when the last of Aquila Major''s resistance had been eliminated.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Turning, he moved up the steps on which he stood. His commanders and the chief spiritual adviser of their people followed. Once they were within the Basilica, the massive portal, through which they had briefly emerged to view in person the horrendous yet beautiful vista below, closed tightly behind them, sealing them in the ship that was their home and their purpose.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rumbling to itself, the immense Basilica vessel that had been hovering over the once-striking and now thrice-struck capital city lifted skyward. Slowly at first, but with a gathering speed and momentum that were as formidable as the purpose for which it had been built.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are habitable worlds, and there are uninhabitable worlds. There are also worlds that can be rendered marginally habitable, but never should be. Foremost among the latter was a hellish, geologically schizoid, melted and re-formed planetary body of unremarkable size and appearance whose astronomical designation no one bothered to repeat because it had long since been supplanted in the vernacular by the name that had been given to it by its inhabitants. Or rather, its inmates.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Crematoria.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On most worlds, the time just before sunrise is a period of calm and preparation. Of quiet introspection and looking-forward. A time to awaken and gather oneself in readiness for a bright, new day. On Crematoria, pre-sunrise was a time to be denied, avoided, shunned. This was one world where dawn killed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The two prison guards lugging their burden along the rough path that wound its tortured way through the scarred, twisted lava field knew that. They moved with the urgency of men assigned to an unpleasant duty that they had tried, and failed, to avoid. The fact that their load consisted of one of their own engendered no special feelings of additional sympathy on their part, even though they knew it could just as easily have been one of them. The fact that the dead man was a former colleague and friend did not make his demised corpus any less heavy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Relieved at having reached their destination, they finally halted near a shallow depression that had been machine gouged from reluctant rock. The small hollow was not empty. It was filled with ash, from which protruded a few angular objects. On closer inspection, one became recognizable as a human femur, another as part of a skull. The rest were well on their way to being reduced to the powder that was slowly engulfing them. No artificial agency had been employed to reduce these remnants of what had once been human beings to their constituent chemical components. None was needed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They only had to wait for sunrise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the container they had been carrying, the two men extracted the body of a third and dumped him unceremoniously onto the pile, sending up a small cloud of dust. The body was not intact. It was marred by deep bruises and multiple lacerations. One glance was enough to tell that these wounds had not been incurred in a fall or some other accident. The unfortunate had been involved in a fight that, as clear as the sharp-edged horizon, he had lost. Among the few effects that still adorned his corpse was a visual ident that read "V. Pavlov." Some wag back in the prison had ventured to say that the guard had died like a dog. No one had laughed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The anxious pair who had been charged with conveying the former V. Pavlov to his final resting place looked around uneasily, plainly in a hurry to get away from where they were. There was no thought of digging a grave. It would be a wasted exercise. None would arrive to bear witness over it or view it. Anything they might erect over such an excavation would quickly go the way of the body itself. Crematoria would see to that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Should we, uh, say something? I mean, I knew Vladimir pretty well. He wasn''t a bad guy." On Crematoria, this might be considered a high\n  <br />\n  compliment: one that could be applied equally to guard or prisoner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His companion was gazing nervously eastward. The dull maroon glow that had been seeping over the ragged, distant mountains was beginning to pale toward crimson. Very soon now it would fade to pink, then yellow, and then to white. When it turned white, anything organic would do well to be as far underground as possible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sure. Recite a whole sermon, if you want.&amp;...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7820'),
(12293, 'The Chronicles of Riddick', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.INo matter how long or how hard they strive, no matter how extensive their education as a species, no matter what they experience of the small heavens and larger hells they create for themselves, it seems that humans are destined to see their technological accomplishments always exceed their ability to understand themselves.Certainly there was no understanding, no meeting of the minds, on the world called Aquila Major. There was only the devastation of one mind-set by another. Proof of it took the form of a statue fashioned of advanced, reinforced preformata resin. It was an imposing piece of work, for all that it had been reproduced by its originators on many other worlds. Too many other worlds, according to some. Not nearly enough, according to those who had put it in place, its massive footing firmly rammed into the resistant soil of Aquila Major. It was a Conquest Icon of the Necromongers. Over five hundred meters tall, it gaped openmouthed at the utter desolation and wreckage that spread outward from its base. Whether it was seen as wailing in despair at its surroundings or moaning in triumph depended on whether one was a surviving citizen of that world''s once-splendid capital city, now reduced to waste and ruin, or a member of that peculiar space-dwelling group who called themselves followers of the faith known as Necroism. They had been preparing for such moments for a very long time. They had burst out of the great darkness to impose themselves on the civilized worlds with a forcefulness and cool brutality that was as stunning in its single-mindedness as it was in its efficiency. Aquila Major was not the first of their conquests, nor would it be the last. As long as there were worlds to be freed, as long as humans lived who dwelled in ignorance of their true destiny, the Necromongers would continue with their work.Unlike so much of the humankind who had spread explosively throughout the galaxy, the Necromongers were driven by genuine purpose beyond the need to merely exist. They believed fervently in their work, and went about it with a determination and competence that was breathtaking to behold. In the majority of cases, literally breathtaking. Furthermore, there was no meanness in them, no suggestion of brutality for its own sake or of sadism. Like all true believers since the beginning of time, they saw only good arising out of the destruction they inflicted. Everything they did was for the benefit of the destroyed, they knew. Nor was their great work devoid of irony.For it was the dead who triumphed by passing on, while only the most dedicated forced themselves to carry on the work by continuing to live until due time.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I\n </p>\n <p>\n  No matter how long or how hard they strive, no matter how extensive their education as a species, no matter what they experience of the small heavens and larger hells they create for themselves, it seems that humans are destined to see their technological accomplishments always exceed their ability to understand themselves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Certainly there was no understanding, no meeting of the minds, on the world called Aquila Major. There was only the devastation of one mind-set by another. Proof of it took the form of a statue fashioned of advanced, reinforced preformata resin. It was an imposing piece of work, for all that it had been reproduced by its originators on many other worlds. Too many other worlds, according to some. Not nearly enough, according to those who had put it in place, its massive footing firmly rammed into the resistant soil of Aquila Major.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a Conquest Icon of the Necromongers. Over five hundred meters tall, it gaped openmouthed at the utter desolation and wreckage that spread outward from its base. Whether it was seen as wailing in despair at its surroundings or moaning in triumph depended on whether one was a surviving citizen of that world''s once-splendid capital city, now reduced to waste and ruin, or a member of that peculiar space-dwelling group who called themselves followers of the faith known as Necroism.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They had been preparing for such moments for a very long time. They had burst out of the great darkness to impose themselves on the civilized worlds with a forcefulness and cool brutality that was as stunning in its single-mindedness as it was in its efficiency. Aquila Major was not the first of their conquests, nor would it be the last. As long as there were worlds to be freed, as long as humans lived who dwelled in ignorance of their true destiny, the Necromongers would continue with their work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unlike so much of the humankind who had spread explosively throughout the galaxy, the Necromongers were driven by genuine purpose beyond the need to merely exist. They believed fervently in their work, and went about it with a determination and competence that was breathtaking to behold. In the majority of cases, literally breathtaking. Furthermore, there was no meanness in them, no suggestion of brutality for its own sake or of sadism. Like all true believers since the beginning of time, they saw only good arising out of the destruction they inflicted. Everything they did was for the benefit of the destroyed, they knew. Nor was their great work devoid of irony.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For it was the dead who triumphed by passing on, while only the most dedicated forced themselves to carry on the work by continuing to live--until due time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Lord Marshal knew this better than anyone. While longing for his own time of passing to arrive, he continued to consecrate his continuing existence on the present plane of existence by seeing to it that as many as possible of his unaware, improperly informed fellow humans preceded him onward toward bliss. During the preceding days, many had done so here on Aquila Major. A great many.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clad in battle armor that was intended as much to instill fear and intimidate any who cast eyes upon it as it was to protect its wearer, he stood scowling thoughtfully at the scene of desolation and redemption that flamed below him. The fires were beginning to die out. While the capital had been taken, opposition to the balm and comfort his people brought remained strong in other cities and in isolated pockets across the planet. There was still much work to be done on Aquila Major.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As to its final outcome, the Lord Marshal had no doubt. Some worlds resisted the bringing of the message more obstinately than others. A few proved sensible and buckled under at the mere sight of the Necromongers'' ships. Such worlds were much more to the Lord Marshal''s taste. While they were to be admired for having reached a newer, higher state of being, dead resistance fighters were no use to the great cause. The deceased were to be envied, but could not be recruited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nevertheless, by craft or cajoling, by force or by bribery, the faith was advanced. Aquila Major was only the latest, not the last. No time was to be wasted here. As soon as the last pockets of resistance had been eliminated, the armada would move to the next, carrying enlightenment and revelation to the disbelieving. How he longed for his own moment of finality, for his turn to be done with this sordid, unnatural temporal plane!\n </p>\n <p>\n  But he could not simply embrace that of which he knew so much. Having striven to rise to the exalted position of lord marshal, it did not behoove him to surrender it voluntarily. By the edicts of his kind he was compelled to master all that it offered, by offering his talents to the cause. This he would continue to do. That he would not be the one to finish the work he knew well, as had the various lord marshals who had preceded him. That he would be joining them eventually he also knew.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But first, there was much work to be done.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vaako stood nearby. A fine commander, as dedicated as one could ask for and a superb solo fighter in his own right. While his attention was focused on the Lord Marshal, that of the saintly Purifier, who stood nearby, was directed at the destruction below. Neither man spoke. There was no need. They had done what needed to be done, and saw no reason to comment on it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nor did the Lord Marshal have anything to say. The fire and smoke, the ruined buildings and flaming vegetation beneath them were more eloquent than anything those beholding it could have voiced. There were times when it was best to say nothing, he knew. Time enough for discussion later, when the last of Aquila Major''s resistance had been eliminated.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Turning, he moved up the steps on which he stood. His commanders and the chief spiritual adviser of their people followed. Once they were within the Basilica, the massive portal, through which they had briefly emerged to view in person the horrendous yet beautiful vista below, closed tightly behind them, sealing them in the ship that was their home and their purpose.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rumbling to itself, the immense Basilica vessel that had been hovering over the once-striking and now thrice-struck capital city lifted skyward. Slowly at first, but with a gathering speed and momentum that were as formidable as the purpose for which it had been built.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are habitable worlds, and there are uninhabitable worlds. There are also worlds that can be rendered marginally habitable, but never should be. Foremost among the latter was a hellish, geologically schizoid, melted and re-formed planetary body of unremarkable size and appearance whose astronomical designation no one bothered to repeat because it had long since been supplanted in the vernacular by the name that had been given to it by its inhabitants. Or rather, its inmates.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Crematoria.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On most worlds, the time just before sunrise is a period of calm and preparation. Of quiet introspection and looking-forward. A time to awaken and gather oneself in readiness for a bright, new day. On Crematoria, pre-sunrise was a time to be denied, avoided, shunned. This was one world where dawn killed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The two prison guards lugging their burden along the rough path that wound its tortured way through the scarred, twisted lava field knew that. They moved with the urgency of men assigned to an unpleasant duty that they had tried, and failed, to avoid. The fact that their load consisted of one of their own engendered no special feelings of additional sympathy on their part, even though they knew it could just as easily have been one of them. The fact that the dead man was a former colleague and friend did not make his demised corpus any less heavy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Relieved at having reached their destination, they finally halted near a shallow depression that had been machine gouged from reluctant rock. The small hollow was not empty. It was filled with ash, from which protruded a few angular objects. On closer inspection, one became recognizable as a human femur, another as part of a skull. The rest were well on their way to being reduced to the powder that was slowly engulfing them. No artificial agency had been employed to reduce these remnants of what had once been human beings to their constituent chemical components. None was needed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They only had to wait for sunrise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the container they had been carrying, the two men extracted the body of a third and dumped him unceremoniously onto the pile, sending up a small cloud of dust. The body was not intact. It was marred by deep bruises and multiple lacerations. One glance was enough to tell that these wounds had not been incurred in a fall or some other accident. The unfortunate had been involved in a fight that, as clear as the sharp-edged horizon, he had lost. Among the few effects that still adorned his corpse was a visual ident that read "V. Pavlov." Some wag back in the prison had ventured to say that the guard had died like a dog. No one had laughed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The anxious pair who had been charged with conveying the former V. Pavlov to his final resting place looked around uneasily, plainly in a hurry to get away from where they were. There was no thought of digging a grave. It would be a wasted exercise. None would arrive to bear witness over it or view it. Anything they might erect over such an excavation would quickly go the way of the body itself. Crematoria would see to that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Should we, uh, say something? I mean, I knew Vladimir pretty well. He wasn''t a bad guy." On Crematoria, this might be considered a high\n  <br />\n  compliment: one that could be applied equally to guard or prisoner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His companion was gazing nervously eastward. The dull maroon glow that had been seeping over the ragged, distant mountains was beginning to pale toward crimson. Very soon now it would fade to pink, then yellow, and then to white. When it turned white, anything organic would do well to be as far underground as possible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sure. Recite a whole sermon, if you want.&amp;...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9815'),
(12294, 'The Chronicles of Riddick', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.INo matter how long or how hard they strive, no matter how extensive their education as a species, no matter what they experience of the small heavens and larger hells they create for themselves, it seems that humans are destined to see their technological accomplishments always exceed their ability to understand themselves.Certainly there was no understanding, no meeting of the minds, on the world called Aquila Major. There was only the devastation of one mind-set by another. Proof of it took the form of a statue fashioned of advanced, reinforced preformata resin. It was an imposing piece of work, for all that it had been reproduced by its originators on many other worlds. Too many other worlds, according to some. Not nearly enough, according to those who had put it in place, its massive footing firmly rammed into the resistant soil of Aquila Major. It was a Conquest Icon of the Necromongers. Over five hundred meters tall, it gaped openmouthed at the utter desolation and wreckage that spread outward from its base. Whether it was seen as wailing in despair at its surroundings or moaning in triumph depended on whether one was a surviving citizen of that world''s once-splendid capital city, now reduced to waste and ruin, or a member of that peculiar space-dwelling group who called themselves followers of the faith known as Necroism. They had been preparing for such moments for a very long time. They had burst out of the great darkness to impose themselves on the civilized worlds with a forcefulness and cool brutality that was as stunning in its single-mindedness as it was in its efficiency. Aquila Major was not the first of their conquests, nor would it be the last. As long as there were worlds to be freed, as long as humans lived who dwelled in ignorance of their true destiny, the Necromongers would continue with their work.Unlike so much of the humankind who had spread explosively throughout the galaxy, the Necromongers were driven by genuine purpose beyond the need to merely exist. They believed fervently in their work, and went about it with a determination and competence that was breathtaking to behold. In the majority of cases, literally breathtaking. Furthermore, there was no meanness in them, no suggestion of brutality for its own sake or of sadism. Like all true believers since the beginning of time, they saw only good arising out of the destruction they inflicted. Everything they did was for the benefit of the destroyed, they knew. Nor was their great work devoid of irony.For it was the dead who triumphed by passing on, while only the most dedicated forced themselves to carry on the work by continuing to live until due time.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I\n </p>\n <p>\n  No matter how long or how hard they strive, no matter how extensive their education as a species, no matter what they experience of the small heavens and larger hells they create for themselves, it seems that humans are destined to see their technological accomplishments always exceed their ability to understand themselves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Certainly there was no understanding, no meeting of the minds, on the world called Aquila Major. There was only the devastation of one mind-set by another. Proof of it took the form of a statue fashioned of advanced, reinforced preformata resin. It was an imposing piece of work, for all that it had been reproduced by its originators on many other worlds. Too many other worlds, according to some. Not nearly enough, according to those who had put it in place, its massive footing firmly rammed into the resistant soil of Aquila Major.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It was a Conquest Icon of the Necromongers. Over five hundred meters tall, it gaped openmouthed at the utter desolation and wreckage that spread outward from its base. Whether it was seen as wailing in despair at its surroundings or moaning in triumph depended on whether one was a surviving citizen of that world''s once-splendid capital city, now reduced to waste and ruin, or a member of that peculiar space-dwelling group who called themselves followers of the faith known as Necroism.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They had been preparing for such moments for a very long time. They had burst out of the great darkness to impose themselves on the civilized worlds with a forcefulness and cool brutality that was as stunning in its single-mindedness as it was in its efficiency. Aquila Major was not the first of their conquests, nor would it be the last. As long as there were worlds to be freed, as long as humans lived who dwelled in ignorance of their true destiny, the Necromongers would continue with their work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unlike so much of the humankind who had spread explosively throughout the galaxy, the Necromongers were driven by genuine purpose beyond the need to merely exist. They believed fervently in their work, and went about it with a determination and competence that was breathtaking to behold. In the majority of cases, literally breathtaking. Furthermore, there was no meanness in them, no suggestion of brutality for its own sake or of sadism. Like all true believers since the beginning of time, they saw only good arising out of the destruction they inflicted. Everything they did was for the benefit of the destroyed, they knew. Nor was their great work devoid of irony.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For it was the dead who triumphed by passing on, while only the most dedicated forced themselves to carry on the work by continuing to live--until due time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Lord Marshal knew this better than anyone. While longing for his own time of passing to arrive, he continued to consecrate his continuing existence on the present plane of existence by seeing to it that as many as possible of his unaware, improperly informed fellow humans preceded him onward toward bliss. During the preceding days, many had done so here on Aquila Major. A great many.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clad in battle armor that was intended as much to instill fear and intimidate any who cast eyes upon it as it was to protect its wearer, he stood scowling thoughtfully at the scene of desolation and redemption that flamed below him. The fires were beginning to die out. While the capital had been taken, opposition to the balm and comfort his people brought remained strong in other cities and in isolated pockets across the planet. There was still much work to be done on Aquila Major.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As to its final outcome, the Lord Marshal had no doubt. Some worlds resisted the bringing of the message more obstinately than others. A few proved sensible and buckled under at the mere sight of the Necromongers'' ships. Such worlds were much more to the Lord Marshal''s taste. While they were to be admired for having reached a newer, higher state of being, dead resistance fighters were no use to the great cause. The deceased were to be envied, but could not be recruited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nevertheless, by craft or cajoling, by force or by bribery, the faith was advanced. Aquila Major was only the latest, not the last. No time was to be wasted here. As soon as the last pockets of resistance had been eliminated, the armada would move to the next, carrying enlightenment and revelation to the disbelieving. How he longed for his own moment of finality, for his turn to be done with this sordid, unnatural temporal plane!\n </p>\n <p>\n  But he could not simply embrace that of which he knew so much. Having striven to rise to the exalted position of lord marshal, it did not behoove him to surrender it voluntarily. By the edicts of his kind he was compelled to master all that it offered, by offering his talents to the cause. This he would continue to do. That he would not be the one to finish the work he knew well, as had the various lord marshals who had preceded him. That he would be joining them eventually he also knew.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But first, there was much work to be done.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vaako stood nearby. A fine commander, as dedicated as one could ask for and a superb solo fighter in his own right. While his attention was focused on the Lord Marshal, that of the saintly Purifier, who stood nearby, was directed at the destruction below. Neither man spoke. There was no need. They had done what needed to be done, and saw no reason to comment on it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nor did the Lord Marshal have anything to say. The fire and smoke, the ruined buildings and flaming vegetation beneath them were more eloquent than anything those beholding it could have voiced. There were times when it was best to say nothing, he knew. Time enough for discussion later, when the last of Aquila Major''s resistance had been eliminated.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Turning, he moved up the steps on which he stood. His commanders and the chief spiritual adviser of their people followed. Once they were within the Basilica, the massive portal, through which they had briefly emerged to view in person the horrendous yet beautiful vista below, closed tightly behind them, sealing them in the ship that was their home and their purpose.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rumbling to itself, the immense Basilica vessel that had been hovering over the once-striking and now thrice-struck capital city lifted skyward. Slowly at first, but with a gathering speed and momentum that were as formidable as the purpose for which it had been built.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are habitable worlds, and there are uninhabitable worlds. There are also worlds that can be rendered marginally habitable, but never should be. Foremost among the latter was a hellish, geologically schizoid, melted and re-formed planetary body of unremarkable size and appearance whose astronomical designation no one bothered to repeat because it had long since been supplanted in the vernacular by the name that had been given to it by its inhabitants. Or rather, its inmates.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Crematoria.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On most worlds, the time just before sunrise is a period of calm and preparation. Of quiet introspection and looking-forward. A time to awaken and gather oneself in readiness for a bright, new day. On Crematoria, pre-sunrise was a time to be denied, avoided, shunned. This was one world where dawn killed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The two prison guards lugging their burden along the rough path that wound its tortured way through the scarred, twisted lava field knew that. They moved with the urgency of men assigned to an unpleasant duty that they had tried, and failed, to avoid. The fact that their load consisted of one of their own engendered no special feelings of additional sympathy on their part, even though they knew it could just as easily have been one of them. The fact that the dead man was a former colleague and friend did not make his demised corpus any less heavy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Relieved at having reached their destination, they finally halted near a shallow depression that had been machine gouged from reluctant rock. The small hollow was not empty. It was filled with ash, from which protruded a few angular objects. On closer inspection, one became recognizable as a human femur, another as part of a skull. The rest were well on their way to being reduced to the powder that was slowly engulfing them. No artificial agency had been employed to reduce these remnants of what had once been human beings to their constituent chemical components. None was needed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They only had to wait for sunrise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From the container they had been carrying, the two men extracted the body of a third and dumped him unceremoniously onto the pile, sending up a small cloud of dust. The body was not intact. It was marred by deep bruises and multiple lacerations. One glance was enough to tell that these wounds had not been incurred in a fall or some other accident. The unfortunate had been involved in a fight that, as clear as the sharp-edged horizon, he had lost. Among the few effects that still adorned his corpse was a visual ident that read "V. Pavlov." Some wag back in the prison had ventured to say that the guard had died like a dog. No one had laughed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The anxious pair who had been charged with conveying the former V. Pavlov to his final resting place looked around uneasily, plainly in a hurry to get away from where they were. There was no thought of digging a grave. It would be a wasted exercise. None would arrive to bear witness over it or view it. Anything they might erect over such an excavation would quickly go the way of the body itself. Crematoria would see to that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Should we, uh, say something? I mean, I knew Vladimir pretty well. He wasn''t a bad guy." On Crematoria, this might be considered a high\n  <br />\n  compliment: one that could be applied equally to guard or prisoner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His companion was gazing nervously eastward. The dull maroon glow that had been seeping over the ragged, distant mountains was beginning to pale toward crimson. Very soon now it would fade to pink, then yellow, and then to white. When it turned white, anything organic would do well to be as far underground as possible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sure. Recite a whole sermon, if you want.&amp;...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16039'),
(12295, 'Chronicles of the Area Man', 'The Onion', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Take a look back at the Onion''s coverage of this generation''s most prominent newsmaker -- the Area Man. The Onion is already universally known for providing the best and most ground-breaking coverage of national and international events, but local reporting has always been at the core of America''s Finest News Source. In this incisive and timeless collection, Chronicles Of The Area Man includes such stirring reports as "Area Man Has Far Greater Knowledge Of Marvel Universe Than Own Family Tree," "Area Woman To Get By On Looks For Six More Years," "Area Grandparents Still Have No Idea What Grandson Does For A Living," and the classic story of perseverance, "Area Man Makes It Through Day." With this collection of the Onion''s best local coverage, you''ll see there''s a little bit of the Area Man inside us all.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/740'),
(12296, 'Chronicles of the Area Man', 'The Onion', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Take a look back at the Onion''s coverage of this generation''s most prominent newsmaker -- the Area Man. The Onion is already universally known for providing the best and most ground-breaking coverage of national and international events, but local reporting has always been at the core of America''s Finest News Source. In this incisive and timeless collection, Chronicles Of The Area Man includes such stirring reports as "Area Man Has Far Greater Knowledge Of Marvel Universe Than Own Family Tree," "Area Woman To Get By On Looks For Six More Years," "Area Grandparents Still Have No Idea What Grandson Does For A Living," and the classic story of perseverance, "Area Man Makes It Through Day." With this collection of the Onion''s best local coverage, you''ll see there''s a little bit of the Area Man inside us all.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11834'),
(12297, 'Chronicles Of The Area Man', 'The Onion', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   Take a look back at the Onion''s coverage of this generation''s most prominent newsmaker -- the Area Man. The Onion is already universally known for providing the best and most ground-breaking coverage of national and international events, but local reporting has always been at the core of America''s Finest News Source. In this incisive and timeless collection, Chronicles Of The Area Man includes such stirring reports as "Area Man Has Far Greater Knowledge Of Marvel Universe Than Own Family Tree," "Area Woman To Get By On Looks For Six More Years," "Area Grandparents Still Have No Idea What Grandson Does For A Living," and the classic story of perseverance, "Area Man Makes It Through Day." With this collection of the Onion''s best local coverage, you''ll see there''s a little bit of the Area Man inside us all.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24229'),
(12298, 'Chronicles of the Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The series that brought grittiness to Fantasy and became a bestseller in the US finally comes to the UK. Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead.\n <br />\n Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more . . .\n <br />\n This is fantasy for all fans of Steven Erikson, Joe Abercrombie and David Gemmell. Available for the first time in a UK edition.\n <br />\n Contains the first three Black Company novels: THE BLACK COMPANY, SHADOWS LINGER and THE WHITE ROSE\n <br />\n With the Black Company series, Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy - something a lot of people didnâ€™t notice, and maybe still donâ€™t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliche archetypes of princes, kings and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff is like reading Vietnam fiction on Peyoteâ€™ STEVEN ERIKSON\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5344'),
(12299, 'Chronicles of the Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The series that brought grittiness to Fantasy and became a bestseller in the US finally comes to the UK. Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead.\n <br />\n Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more . . .\n <br />\n This is fantasy for all fans of Steven Erikson, Joe Abercrombie and David Gemmell. Available for the first time in a UK edition.\n <br />\n Contains the first three Black Company novels: THE BLACK COMPANY, SHADOWS LINGER and THE WHITE ROSE\n <br />\n With the Black Company series, Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy - something a lot of people didnâ€™t notice, and maybe still donâ€™t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliche archetypes of princes, kings and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff is like reading Vietnam fiction on Peyoteâ€™ STEVEN ERIKSON\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9059'),
(12300, 'Chronicles of the Black Company', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The series that brought grittiness to Fantasy and became a bestseller in the US finally comes to the UK. Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead. Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more . . . This is fantasy for all fans of Steven Erikson, Joe Abercrombie and David Gemmell. Available for the first time in a UK edition. Contains the first three Black Company novels: THE BLACK COMPANY, SHADOWS LINGER and THE WHITE ROSE With the Black Company series, Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy - something a lot of people didnâ€™t notice, and maybe still donâ€™t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliche archetypes of princes, kings and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff is like reading Vietnam fiction on Peyoteâ€™ STEVEN ERIKSON\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19322');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(12301, 'The Chrysalids', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Sometimes you just need a bit of soft-core sci-fi, and Wyndhamâ€™s 1950â€™s classic, newly back in print, fully delivers." --_Thicket Magazine_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It is quite simply a page-turner, maintaining suspense to the very end and vividly conjuring the circumstances of a crippled and menacing world, and of the fear and sense of betrayal that pervade it. The ending, a salvation of an extremely dubious sort, leaves the reader pondering how truly ephemeral our version of civilization is..." --_The Boston Globe_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Wyndham] was responsible for a series of eerily terrifying tales of destroyed civilisations; created several of the twentieth century''s most imaginative monsters; and wrote a handful of novels that are rightly regarded as modern classics.â€ â€“_The Observer_ (London)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œScience fiction always tells you more about the present than the future. John Wyndham''s classroom favourite might be set in some desolate landscape still to come, but it is rooted in the concerns of the mid-1950s. Published in 1955, it''s a novel driven by the twin anxieties of the cold war and the atomic bombâ€¦Fifty years on, when our enemy has changed and our fear of nuclear catastrophe has subsided, his analysis of our tribal instinct is as pertinent as ever.â€ â€“_The Guardian_ (London)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A]bsolutely and completely brilliantâ€¦_The Chrysalids_ is a top-notch piece of sci-fi that should be enjoyed for generations yet to come.â€ â€“_The Ottawa Citizen_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJohn Wyndham''s novel\n  <em>\n   The Chrysalids\n  </em>\n  is a famous example of 1950s Cold War science fiction, but its portrait of a community driven to authoritarian madness by its overwhelming fear of difference - in this case, of genetic mutations in the aftermath of nuclear war - finds its echoes in every society.â€ â€“_The Scotsman_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Chrysalids comes heart-wrenchingly close to being John Wyndham''s most powerful and profound work.â€ â€“SFReview.net\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Re-Birth (The Chrysalids)_ was one of the first science fiction novels I read as a youth, and several times tempted me to take a piggy census. Returning to it now, more than 30 years later, I find that I remember vast parts of it with perfect clarityâ€¦a book to kindle the joy of reading science fiction. â€“SciFi.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA remarkably tender story of a post-nuclear childhoodâ€¦It has, of course, always seemed a classic to most of its three generations of readers...It has become part of a canon of good books.â€ â€“_The Guardian, _September 15, 2000\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Chyrsalids\n  </em>\n  is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of Godâ€™s creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much singing of hymns. Abnormal humans (who are not really human) are also condemned to destructionâ€”unless they succeed in fleeing to the Fringes, that Wild Country where, as the authorities say, nothing is reliable and the devil does his work. David grows up ringed by admonitions: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At first he does not question. Then, however, he realizes that the he too is out of the ordinary, in possession of a power that could doom him to death or introduce h im to a new, hitherto unimagined world of freedom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Chrysalids\n  </em>\n  is a perfectly conceived and constructed work form the classic era o science fiction, a Voltairean philosophical tale that has as much resonance in our own day, when religious and scientific dogmatism are both on the march, as when it was written during the cold war.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4220'),
(12302, 'The Chrysalids', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of Godâ€™s creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much singing of hymns. Abnormal humans (who are not really human) are also condemned to destructionâ€”unless they succeed in fleeing to the Fringes, that Wild Country where, as the authorities say, nothing is reliable and the devil does his work. David grows up ringed by admonitions: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT.At first he does not question. Then, however, he realizes that the he too is out of the ordinary, in possession of a power that could doom him to death or introduce h im to a new, hitherto unimagined world of freedom.The Chrysalids is a perfectly conceived and constructed work form the classic era o science fiction, a Voltairean philosophical tale that has as much resonance in our own day, when religious and scientific dogmatism are both on the march, as when it was written during the cold war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13955'),
(12303, 'The Chrysalids', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Sometimes you just need a bit of soft-core sci-fi, and Wyndhamâ€™s 1950â€™s classic, newly back in print, fully delivers." --_Thicket Magazine_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It is quite simply a page-turner, maintaining suspense to the very end and vividly conjuring the circumstances of a crippled and menacing world, and of the fear and sense of betrayal that pervade it. The ending, a salvation of an extremely dubious sort, leaves the reader pondering how truly ephemeral our version of civilization is..." --_The Boston Globe_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Wyndham] was responsible for a series of eerily terrifying tales of destroyed civilisations; created several of the twentieth century''s most imaginative monsters; and wrote a handful of novels that are rightly regarded as modern classics.â€ â€“_The Observer_ (London)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œScience fiction always tells you more about the present than the future. John Wyndham''s classroom favourite might be set in some desolate landscape still to come, but it is rooted in the concerns of the mid-1950s. Published in 1955, it''s a novel driven by the twin anxieties of the cold war and the atomic bombâ€¦Fifty years on, when our enemy has changed and our fear of nuclear catastrophe has subsided, his analysis of our tribal instinct is as pertinent as ever.â€ â€“_The Guardian_ (London)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A]bsolutely and completely brilliantâ€¦_The Chrysalids_ is a top-notch piece of sci-fi that should be enjoyed for generations yet to come.â€ â€“_The Ottawa Citizen_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJohn Wyndham''s novel\n  <em>\n   The Chrysalids\n  </em>\n  is a famous example of 1950s Cold War science fiction, but its portrait of a community driven to authoritarian madness by its overwhelming fear of difference - in this case, of genetic mutations in the aftermath of nuclear war - finds its echoes in every society.â€ â€“_The Scotsman_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Chrysalids comes heart-wrenchingly close to being John Wyndham''s most powerful and profound work.â€ â€“SFReview.net\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Re-Birth (The Chrysalids)_ was one of the first science fiction novels I read as a youth, and several times tempted me to take a piggy census. Returning to it now, more than 30 years later, I find that I remember vast parts of it with perfect clarityâ€¦a book to kindle the joy of reading science fiction. â€“SciFi.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA remarkably tender story of a post-nuclear childhoodâ€¦It has, of course, always seemed a classic to most of its three generations of readers...It has become part of a canon of good books.â€ â€“_The Guardian, _September 15, 2000\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Chyrsalids\n  </em>\n  is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of Godâ€™s creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much singing of hymns. Abnormal humans (who are not really human) are also condemned to destructionâ€”unless they succeed in fleeing to the Fringes, that Wild Country where, as the authorities say, nothing is reliable and the devil does his work. David grows up ringed by admonitions: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At first he does not question. Then, however, he realizes that the he too is out of the ordinary, in possession of a power that could doom him to death or introduce h im to a new, hitherto unimagined world of freedom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Chrysalids\n  </em>\n  is a perfectly conceived and constructed work form the classic era o science fiction, a Voltairean philosophical tale that has as much resonance in our own day, when religious and scientific dogmatism are both on the march, as when it was written during the cold war.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20383'),
(12304, 'Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6727'),
(12305, 'Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10768'),
(12306, 'Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television', 'Klosterman, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18032'),
(12307, 'Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6728'),
(12308, 'Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10764'),
(12309, 'Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture', 'Klosterman, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18031'),
(12310, 'Chuck Klosterman on Pop', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6729'),
(12311, 'Chuck Klosterman on Pop', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10766'),
(12312, 'Chuck Klosterman on Pop', 'Klosterman, Chuck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18022'),
(12313, 'Chuck Klosterman on Rock', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Essays Include:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Jack Factor\n <br />\n Appetite for Replication\n <br />\n That ''70s Cruise\n <br />\n In the Beginning, There Was Zoso Not a Whole Lotta Love\n <br />\n Band on the Couch\n <br />\n Unbuttoning the Hardest Button to Button\n <br />\n Dude Rocks Like a Lady\n <br />\n Fargo Rock City, for Real\n <br />\n Singularity\n <br />\n Oh, the Guilt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6730'),
(12314, 'Chuck Klosterman on Rock', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Essays Include:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Jack Factor\n <br />\n Appetite for Replication\n <br />\n That ''70s Cruise\n <br />\n In the Beginning, There Was Zoso Not a Whole Lotta Love\n <br />\n Band on the Couch\n <br />\n Unbuttoning the Hardest Button to Button\n <br />\n Dude Rocks Like a Lady\n <br />\n Fargo Rock City, for Real\n <br />\n Singularity\n <br />\n Oh, the Guilt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10769'),
(12315, 'Chuck Klosterman on Rock', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Essays Include: The Jack Factor Appetite for Replication That ''70s Cruise In the Beginning, There Was Zoso Not a Whole Lotta Love Band on the Couch Unbuttoning the Hardest Button to Button Dude Rocks Like a Lady Fargo Rock City, for Real Singularity Oh, the Guilt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18021'),
(12316, 'Chuck Klosterman on Rock', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Essays Include: The Jack Factor Appetite for Replication That ''70s Cruise In the Beginning, There Was Zoso Not a Whole Lotta Love Band on the Couch Unbuttoning the Hardest Button to Button Dude Rocks Like a Lady Fargo Rock City, for Real Singularity Oh, the Guilt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26972'),
(12317, 'Chump Change: A Novel', 'Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A blackout brought on by a Mad Dog binge that ended with a self-inflicted steak knife wound bought Bruno Dante another stint in the nuthouse, no different from all the rest. Now it''s done, and his wife, Agnesâ€”taking time off from her personal-trainer loverâ€”has come to pick Bruno up and to deliver a message from the West Coast: his screenwriter father is in the hospital in a coma and is not expected to live. So Bruno heads back to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion, where the tension and stress force him to dull the pain the only way he knows howâ€”with alcohol. And when he wakes up naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet, Bruno realizes the trip has just begun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6449'),
(12318, 'Chump Change: A Novel', 'Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A blackout brought on by a Mad Dog binge that ended with a self-inflicted steak knife wound bought Bruno Dante another stint in the nuthouse, no different from all the rest. Now it''s done, and his wife, Agnesâ€”taking time off from her personal-trainer loverâ€”has come to pick Bruno up and to deliver a message from the West Coast: his screenwriter father is in the hospital in a coma and is not expected to live. So Bruno heads back to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion, where the tension and stress force him to dull the pain the only way he knows howâ€”with alcohol. And when he wakes up naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet, Bruno realizes the trip has just begun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9651'),
(12319, 'Chump Change: A Novel', 'Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A blackout brought on by a Mad Dog binge that ended with a self-inflicted steak knife wound bought Bruno Dante another stint in the nuthouse, no different from all the rest. Now it''s done, and his wife, Agnesâ€”taking time off from her personal-trainer loverâ€”has come to pick Bruno up and to deliver a message from the West Coast: his screenwriter father is in the hospital in a coma and is not expected to live. So Bruno heads back to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion, where the tension and stress force him to dull the pain the only way he knows howâ€”with alcohol. And when he wakes up naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet, Bruno realizes the trip has just begun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17514'),
(12320, 'Chump Change: A Novel', 'Dan Fante', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A blackout brought on by a Mad Dog binge that ended with a self-inflicted steak knife wound bought Bruno Dante another stint in the nuthouse, no different from all the rest. Now it''s done, and his wife, Agnesâ€”taking time off from her personal-trainer loverâ€”has come to pick Bruno up and to deliver a message from the West Coast: his screenwriter father is in the hospital in a coma and is not expected to live. So Bruno heads back to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion, where the tension and stress force him to dull the pain the only way he knows howâ€”with alcohol. And when he wakes up naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet, Bruno realizes the trip has just begun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27183'),
(12321, 'Churchill', 'Paul Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **An elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of the inimitable leader. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Paul Johnson''s books are acknowledged as masterpieces of historical analysis. In *Churchill*, he offers a lively, succinct exploration of one of the most complex and fascinating personalities in history. Winston Churchill''s hold on contemporary readers has never slackened, and this exploration of his life casts new light on one of history''s most intriguing figures. Johnson illuminates the various phases of Churchill''s career-from his adventures as a young cavalry officer in the service of the empire to his role as an elder statesman prophesying the advent of the Cold War-and shows how Churchill''s immense adaptability and innate pugnacity made him a formidable leader for the better part of a century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2192'),
(12322, 'Churchill', 'Paul Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **An elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of the inimitable leader. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Paul Johnson''s books are acknowledged as masterpieces of historical analysis. In *Churchill*, he offers a lively, succinct exploration of one of the most complex and fascinating personalities in history. Winston Churchill''s hold on contemporary readers has never slackened, and this exploration of his life casts new light on one of history''s most intriguing figures. Johnson illuminates the various phases of Churchill''s career-from his adventures as a young cavalry officer in the service of the empire to his role as an elder statesman prophesying the advent of the Cold War-and shows how Churchill''s immense adaptability and innate pugnacity made him a formidable leader for the better part of a century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10495'),
(12323, 'Churchill', 'Paul Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of the inimitable leader. ** Paul Johnson''s books are acknowledged as masterpieces of historical analysis. In *Churchill*, he offers a lively, succinct exploration of one of the most complex and fascinating personalities in history. Winston Churchill''s hold on contemporary readers has never slackened, and this exploration of his life casts new light on one of history''s most intriguing figures. Johnson illuminates the various phases of Churchill''s career-from his adventures as a young cavalry officer in the service of the empire to his role as an elder statesman prophesying the advent of the Cold War-and shows how Churchill''s immense adaptability and innate pugnacity made him a formidable leader for the better part of a century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22585'),
(12324, 'Ciara&#39;s Song', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15845'),
(12325, 'Ciberiada', 'Stanislaw Lem', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26121'),
(12326, 'Cinderella Ate My Daughter', 'Peggy Orenstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21526'),
(12327, 'Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture', 'Peggy Orenstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller\n <em>\n  Schoolgirls\n </em>\n reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pink and pretty or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as a sourceâ€”the sourceâ€”of female empowerment. And commercialization has spread the message faster and farther, reaching girls at ever-younger ages.\n</p>\n<p>\n But, realistically, how many times can you say no when your daughter begs for a pint-size wedding gown or the latest Hannah Montana CD? And how dangerous is pink and pretty anywayâ€”especially given girls'' successes in the classroom and on the playing field? Being a princess is just make-believe, after all; eventually they grow out of it. Or do they? Does playing Cinderella shield girls from early sexualizationâ€”or prime them for it? Could today''s little princess become tomorrow''s sexting teen? And what if she does? Would that make her in charge of her sexualityâ€”or an unwitting captive to it?\n</p>\n<p>\n Those questions hit home with Peggy Orenstein, so she went sleuthing. She visited Disneyland and the international toy fair, trolled American Girl Place and Pottery Barn Kids, and met beauty pageant parents with preschoolers tricked out like Vegas showgirls. She dissected the science, created an online avatar, and parsed the original fairy tales. The stakes turn out to be higher than sheâ€”or weâ€”ever imagined: nothing less than the health, development, and futures of our girls. From premature sexualization to the risk of depression to rising rates of narcissism, the potential negative impact of this new girlie-girl culture is undeniableâ€”yet armed with awareness and recognition, parents can effectively counterbalance its influence in their daughters'' lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cinderella Ate My Daughter\n </em>\n is a must-read for anyone who cares about girls, and for parents helping their daughters navigate the rocky road to adulthood.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An Exclusive Note from Peggy Orenstein\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n As a mom, I admit, I was initially tempted to give the new culture of pink and pretty a pass. There are already so many things to be vigilant about as a parent; my energy was stretched to its limit. So my daughter slept in a Cinderella gown for a few years. Girls will be girls, right?\n</p>\n<p>\n They willâ€”and that is exactly why we need to pay more, rather than less, attention to whatâ€™s happening in their world. According to the American Psychological Association, the emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness at ever-younger ages is increasing girlsâ€™ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: eating disorders, negative body image, depression, risky sexual behavior. Yet here we are with nearly half of six-year-old girls regularly using lipstick or lip gloss. The percentage of eight- to twelve-year-old girls wearing eyeliner or mascara has doubled in the last TWO years (I ask you: shouldnâ€™t the percentage of eight-year-olds wearing eyeliner be zero?). A researcher told me that when she asks teenage girls how a sexual experience felt to them they respond by telling her how they think they looked. Meanwhile, the marketing of pink, pretty, and â€œsassyâ€ has become a gigantic business: the Disney Princesses alone are pulling in four BILLION dollars in revenue annually.\n</p>\n<p>\n As I immersed myself in the research for this book, I began to trace a line from the innocence of Cinderella to the struggles Miley Cyrus has faced in trying to â€œage up,â€ which in turn was connected to how regular girls present themselves on Facebook (where identity itself becomes a performance, crafted in response to your audience of 322 BFFs). It seemed that even as new educational and professional opportunities unfurled before my daughter and her peers, so did the path that encouraged them to equate identity with image, self-expression with appearance, femininity with performance, pleasure with pleasing, and sexuality with sexualization.\n</p>\n<p>\n So much is at stake, for mothers with girls of all ages: How do we define girlhood? What about femininity? Beauty? Sexuality? Our choices will tell our girls how we see them, who we want them to be, our values, expectations, hopes, and dreams. Do we want them to be judged by the content of their character or the color of their lip gloss?\n</p>\n<p>\n Iâ€™m the first to admit that I do not have all the answers. Who could? But as a mother who also happens to be a journalist (or perhaps vice versa), I wanted to lay out the contextâ€”the marketing, science, history, cultureâ€”in which we make our choices, to provide information and insight that might help parents, educators, and all of us who care about girls guide them toward their true happily-ever-afters.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Orenstein, who has written about girls for nearly two decades (Schoolgirls), finds today''s pink and princess-obsessed girl culture grating when it threatens to lure her own young daughter, Daisy. In her quest to determine whether princess mania is merely a passing phase or a more sinister marketing plot with long-term negative impact, Orenstein travels to Disneyland, American Girl Place, the American International Toy Fair; visits a children''s beauty pageant; attends a Miley Cyrus concert; tools around the Internet; and interviews parents, historians, psychologists, marketers, and others. While she uncovers some disturbing news (such as the American Psychological Association''s assertion that the "girlie-girl" culture''s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls'' susceptibility to depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, and risky sexual behavior), she also finds that locking one''s daughter away in a tower like a modern-day Rapunzel may not be necessary. Orenstein concludes that parents who think through their values early on and set reasonable limits, encourage dialogue and skepticism, and are canny about the consumer culture can combat the 24/7 "media machine" aimed at girls and hold off the focus on beauty, materialism, and the color pink somewhat. With insight and biting humor, the author explores her own conflicting feelings as a mother as she protects her offspring and probes the roots and tendrils of the girlie-girl movement. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2173'),
(12328, 'Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture', 'Peggy Orenstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller\n <em>\n  Schoolgirls\n </em>\n reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pink and pretty or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as a sourceâ€”the sourceâ€”of female empowerment. And commercialization has spread the message faster and farther, reaching girls at ever-younger ages.\n</p>\n<p>\n But, realistically, how many times can you say no when your daughter begs for a pint-size wedding gown or the latest Hannah Montana CD? And how dangerous is pink and pretty anywayâ€”especially given girls'' successes in the classroom and on the playing field? Being a princess is just make-believe, after all; eventually they grow out of it. Or do they? Does playing Cinderella shield girls from early sexualizationâ€”or prime them for it? Could today''s little princess become tomorrow''s sexting teen? And what if she does? Would that make her in charge of her sexualityâ€”or an unwitting captive to it?\n</p>\n<p>\n Those questions hit home with Peggy Orenstein, so she went sleuthing. She visited Disneyland and the international toy fair, trolled American Girl Place and Pottery Barn Kids, and met beauty pageant parents with preschoolers tricked out like Vegas showgirls. She dissected the science, created an online avatar, and parsed the original fairy tales. The stakes turn out to be higher than sheâ€”or weâ€”ever imagined: nothing less than the health, development, and futures of our girls. From premature sexualization to the risk of depression to rising rates of narcissism, the potential negative impact of this new girlie-girl culture is undeniableâ€”yet armed with awareness and recognition, parents can effectively counterbalance its influence in their daughters'' lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cinderella Ate My Daughter\n </em>\n is a must-read for anyone who cares about girls, and for parents helping their daughters navigate the rocky road to adulthood.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An Exclusive Note from Peggy Orenstein\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n As a mom, I admit, I was initially tempted to give the new culture of pink and pretty a pass. There are already so many things to be vigilant about as a parent; my energy was stretched to its limit. So my daughter slept in a Cinderella gown for a few years. Girls will be girls, right?\n</p>\n<p>\n They willâ€”and that is exactly why we need to pay more, rather than less, attention to whatâ€™s happening in their world. According to the American Psychological Association, the emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness at ever-younger ages is increasing girlsâ€™ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: eating disorders, negative body image, depression, risky sexual behavior. Yet here we are with nearly half of six-year-old girls regularly using lipstick or lip gloss. The percentage of eight- to twelve-year-old girls wearing eyeliner or mascara has doubled in the last TWO years (I ask you: shouldnâ€™t the percentage of eight-year-olds wearing eyeliner be zero?). A researcher told me that when she asks teenage girls how a sexual experience felt to them they respond by telling her how they think they looked. Meanwhile, the marketing of pink, pretty, and â€œsassyâ€ has become a gigantic business: the Disney Princesses alone are pulling in four BILLION dollars in revenue annually.\n</p>\n<p>\n As I immersed myself in the research for this book, I began to trace a line from the innocence of Cinderella to the struggles Miley Cyrus has faced in trying to â€œage up,â€ which in turn was connected to how regular girls present themselves on Facebook (where identity itself becomes a performance, crafted in response to your audience of 322 BFFs). It seemed that even as new educational and professional opportunities unfurled before my daughter and her peers, so did the path that encouraged them to equate identity with image, self-expression with appearance, femininity with performance, pleasure with pleasing, and sexuality with sexualization.\n</p>\n<p>\n So much is at stake, for mothers with girls of all ages: How do we define girlhood? What about femininity? Beauty? Sexuality? Our choices will tell our girls how we see them, who we want them to be, our values, expectations, hopes, and dreams. Do we want them to be judged by the content of their character or the color of their lip gloss?\n</p>\n<p>\n Iâ€™m the first to admit that I do not have all the answers. Who could? But as a mother who also happens to be a journalist (or perhaps vice versa), I wanted to lay out the contextâ€”the marketing, science, history, cultureâ€”in which we make our choices, to provide information and insight that might help parents, educators, and all of us who care about girls guide them toward their true happily-ever-afters.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Orenstein, who has written about girls for nearly two decades (Schoolgirls), finds today''s pink and princess-obsessed girl culture grating when it threatens to lure her own young daughter, Daisy. In her quest to determine whether princess mania is merely a passing phase or a more sinister marketing plot with long-term negative impact, Orenstein travels to Disneyland, American Girl Place, the American International Toy Fair; visits a children''s beauty pageant; attends a Miley Cyrus concert; tools around the Internet; and interviews parents, historians, psychologists, marketers, and others. While she uncovers some disturbing news (such as the American Psychological Association''s assertion that the "girlie-girl" culture''s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls'' susceptibility to depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, and risky sexual behavior), she also finds that locking one''s daughter away in a tower like a modern-day Rapunzel may not be necessary. Orenstein concludes that parents who think through their values early on and set reasonable limits, encourage dialogue and skepticism, and are canny about the consumer culture can combat the 24/7 "media machine" aimed at girls and hold off the focus on beauty, materialism, and the color pink somewhat. With insight and biting humor, the author explores her own conflicting feelings as a mother as she protects her offspring and probes the roots and tendrils of the girlie-girl movement. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11833'),
(12329, 'Cine l-a ucis pe Palomino Molero', 'Mario Vargas Llosa', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25378'),
(12330, 'Cinnabar Shadows', 'Lynn Abbey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Water. On Athas, it is life, it is currency, it is power... The watery caverns beneath Urik have become a haven for political refugees and runaway slaves, a place safe from the ravages of Athas and her defilers. Until one such defiler brings destruction to the haven. Mahtra, who fled sunlit Urik for the dark undercity, must now emerge to set all to right. Her quest leads her to the palace of a sorcerer-king, to an ancient druidic grove, and beyond...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3179'),
(12331, 'Cinnabar Shadows', 'Lynn Abbey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Water. On Athas, it is life, it is currency, it is power... The watery caverns beneath Urik have become a haven for political refugees and runaway slaves, a place safe from the ravages of Athas and her defilers. Until one such defiler brings destruction to the haven. Mahtra, who fled sunlit Urik for the dark undercity, must now emerge to set all to right. Her quest leads her to the palace of a sorcerer-king, to an ancient druidic grove, and beyond...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9374'),
(12332, 'Cinnabar Shadows', 'Lynn Abbey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Water. On Athas, it is life, it is currency, it is power... The watery caverns beneath Urik have become a haven for political refugees and runaway slaves, a place safe from the ravages of Athas and her defilers. Until one such defiler brings destruction to the haven. Mahtra, who fled sunlit Urik for the dark undercity, must now emerge to set all to right. Her quest leads her to the palace of a sorcerer-king, to an ancient druidic grove, and beyond...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21248'),
(12333, 'Circle of Friends', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Bennythe only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Evethe orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother''s wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Bennythey knew the sins and secrets behind every villager''s lace curtains...except their own. It widened at Dublin, at the university where Benny and Eve met beautiful Nan Mahlon and Jack Foley, a doctor''s handsome son. But heartbreak and betrayal would bring the worlds of Knockglen and Dublin into explosive collision. Long-hidden lies would emerge to test the meaning of love and the strength of ties held within the fragile gold bands of a...Circle Of Friends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14828'),
(12334, 'Circle of Friends', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Bennythe only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Evethe orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother''s wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Bennythey knew the sins and secrets behind every villager''s lace curtains...except their own. It widened at Dublin, at the university where Benny and Eve met beautiful Nan Mahlon and Jack Foley, a doctor''s handsome son. But heartbreak and betrayal would bring the worlds of Knockglen and Dublin into explosive collision. Long-hidden lies would emerge to test the meaning of love and the strength of ties held within the fragile gold bands of a...Circle Of Friends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21291'),
(12335, 'The Circus of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Why on earth did Bill have to bring Gustavus on vacation? Neither Jack nor Kiki the parrot like the boy at all, but when Gustavus is kidnapped, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, and Jack must bravely travel to a faraway country and unravel a plot to kill the king.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5594'),
(12336, 'The Circus of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Why on earth did Bill have to bring Gustavus on vacation? Neither Jack nor Kiki the parrot like the boy at all, but when Gustavus is kidnapped, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, and Jack must bravely travel to a faraway country and unravel a plot to kill the king.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19028'),
(12337, 'The Circus of Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Why on earth did Bill have to bring Gustavus on vacation? Neither Jack nor Kiki the parrot like the boy at all, but when Gustavus is kidnapped, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, and Jack must bravely travel to a faraway country and unravel a plot to kill the king.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27732'),
(12338, 'Circus of the Damned', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a powerful centuries-old vampire hits Anita Blake''s town, a battle of the undead ensues.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3488'),
(12339, 'Circus of the Damned', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a powerful centuries-old vampire hits Anita Blake''s town, a battle of the undead ensues.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15324'),
(12340, 'Circus of the Damned', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a powerful centuries-old vampire hits Anita Blake''s town, a battle of the undead ensues.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21005'),
(12341, 'Ciresarii 5 - Drum bun, ciresari', 'Constantin Chirita', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25949'),
(12342, 'Cirque Du Freak', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anyone who loves the humorous but hair-raising horror in R.L. Stine''s Goosebumps series will devour British author Darren Shan''s first novel with equal zeal. Some books are born with a surrounding buzz; this one even has Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling''s stamp of approval: "Fast-paced and compelling, full of satisfying macabre touches," she writes. Warner Brothers will be making it into a movie, and the rest of the series is already in the works. Given all that, you''d expect a tour de force! Really, though,\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n is a thrill ride that will keep even the most reluctant readers turning pages, but will never take its place in the literary canon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren Shan, author and narrator, sets the book up as a true story, warning readers: "Real life''s nasty. It''s cruel.... Evil often wins." Indeed, evil begins to win when Darren and his buddies find a flier for "Cirque Du Freak," a traveling freak show promising performances by the snake-boy, the wolf-man, and Larten Crepsley and his giant spider, Madame Octa. Darren and his friend Steve wouldn''t miss it for the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n So, Saturday night they sneak out to the old theater, tall and dark, with broken windows. "Every act you see tonight is real," croaks Mr. Tall. "Each performer is unique. And none are harmless." That''s for sure. (A werewolf bites off the hand of someone in the audience, for instance.) Things grow very serious for the two boys when Steve not only recognizes Mr. Crepsley as a famous vampire, but professes his true desire to join him! To make matters worse, the spider-obsessed Darren goes back to the old theater to steal Madame Octa so he can teach her tricks in his room. (He does, with mixed results.) The plot further coagulates as Darren is faced with some terrible decisions about what to do to save his bloodthirsty friend Steve.\n</p>\n<p>\n Readers may be too enthralled to notice some clumsy editing (the aforementioned bitten-off hand is later referred to as an arm, Darren stops dead in his tracks when he''s already stopped, etc.). They may also not notice that the boys constantly use adult-sounding expressions like "his breath stank to the high heavens," though the book is clearly set in the 21st century. If this book gets under your kids'' skin (and it probably will), they''re in luck--we haven''t heard the last of the Saga of Darren Shan. (Ages 10 and older, not for the faint of heart)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With strong sales overseas and a movie deal in the works, book one in The Saga of Darren Shan series is poised to capture a wide audience of series horror readers. After a rather slow buildup, a boy with the same name as the author sneaks out with best friend Steve to an illicit freak show, and his life becomes entangled with a vampire spider-wrangler, Mr. Crepsley. "This is a true story," writes Shan. "In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins." The scenario is compelling, and the author mines the exploitative history of early 20th-century sideshows to create an artfully macabre "Cirque du Freak." But Darren''s actions are often undermotivated: "I can''t explain why Madam Octa [the spider] meant so much to me, or why I was placing my life in such danger to have her. Looking back, I''m no longer sure what drove me on." Also his intermittent attraction to and repulsion by the vampire is never fully explored. His behavior may be explained in the sequel, The Vampire''s Assistant (due in Sept.), but the open ending leaves so many loose ends that readers may leave more frustrated than intrigued, especially since the characters'' wooden dialogue drains them of personality ("I''m upset," says Steve. "It hurt, what Mr. Crepsley said, and you ignoring me at school... If you break up our friendship, I don''t know what I''ll do"). Readers interested in boys becoming vampires would be better served by M.T. Anderson''s Thirsty and those fascinated with freaks by Iain Lawrence''s Ghost Boy. Ages 10-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6351'),
(12343, 'Cirque Du Freak', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anyone who loves the humorous but hair-raising horror in R.L. Stine''s Goosebumps series will devour British author Darren Shan''s first novel with equal zeal. Some books are born with a surrounding buzz; this one even has Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling''s stamp of approval: "Fast-paced and compelling, full of satisfying macabre touches," she writes. Warner Brothers will be making it into a movie, and the rest of the series is already in the works. Given all that, you''d expect a tour de force! Really, though,\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n is a thrill ride that will keep even the most reluctant readers turning pages, but will never take its place in the literary canon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren Shan, author and narrator, sets the book up as a true story, warning readers: "Real life''s nasty. It''s cruel.... Evil often wins." Indeed, evil begins to win when Darren and his buddies find a flier for "Cirque Du Freak," a traveling freak show promising performances by the snake-boy, the wolf-man, and Larten Crepsley and his giant spider, Madame Octa. Darren and his friend Steve wouldn''t miss it for the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n So, Saturday night they sneak out to the old theater, tall and dark, with broken windows. "Every act you see tonight is real," croaks Mr. Tall. "Each performer is unique. And none are harmless." That''s for sure. (A werewolf bites off the hand of someone in the audience, for instance.) Things grow very serious for the two boys when Steve not only recognizes Mr. Crepsley as a famous vampire, but professes his true desire to join him! To make matters worse, the spider-obsessed Darren goes back to the old theater to steal Madame Octa so he can teach her tricks in his room. (He does, with mixed results.) The plot further coagulates as Darren is faced with some terrible decisions about what to do to save his bloodthirsty friend Steve.\n</p>\n<p>\n Readers may be too enthralled to notice some clumsy editing (the aforementioned bitten-off hand is later referred to as an arm, Darren stops dead in his tracks when he''s already stopped, etc.). They may also not notice that the boys constantly use adult-sounding expressions like "his breath stank to the high heavens," though the book is clearly set in the 21st century. If this book gets under your kids'' skin (and it probably will), they''re in luck--we haven''t heard the last of the Saga of Darren Shan. (Ages 10 and older, not for the faint of heart)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With strong sales overseas and a movie deal in the works, book one in The Saga of Darren Shan series is poised to capture a wide audience of series horror readers. After a rather slow buildup, a boy with the same name as the author sneaks out with best friend Steve to an illicit freak show, and his life becomes entangled with a vampire spider-wrangler, Mr. Crepsley. "This is a true story," writes Shan. "In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins." The scenario is compelling, and the author mines the exploitative history of early 20th-century sideshows to create an artfully macabre "Cirque du Freak." But Darren''s actions are often undermotivated: "I can''t explain why Madam Octa [the spider] meant so much to me, or why I was placing my life in such danger to have her. Looking back, I''m no longer sure what drove me on." Also his intermittent attraction to and repulsion by the vampire is never fully explored. His behavior may be explained in the sequel, The Vampire''s Assistant (due in Sept.), but the open ending leaves so many loose ends that readers may leave more frustrated than intrigued, especially since the characters'' wooden dialogue drains them of personality ("I''m upset," says Steve. "It hurt, what Mr. Crepsley said, and you ignoring me at school... If you break up our friendship, I don''t know what I''ll do"). Readers interested in boys becoming vampires would be better served by M.T. Anderson''s Thirsty and those fascinated with freaks by Iain Lawrence''s Ghost Boy. Ages 10-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12663');
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(12344, 'Cirque du Freak', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anyone who loves the humorous but hair-raising horror in R.L. Stine''s Goosebumps series will devour British author Darren Shan''s first novel with equal zeal. Some books are born with a surrounding buzz; this one even has Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling''s stamp of approval: "Fast-paced and compelling, full of satisfying macabre touches," she writes. Warner Brothers will be making it into a movie, and the rest of the series is already in the works. Given all that, you''d expect a tour de force! Really, though,\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n is a thrill ride that will keep even the most reluctant readers turning pages, but will never take its place in the literary canon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren Shan, author and narrator, sets the book up as a true story, warning readers: "Real life''s nasty. It''s cruel.... Evil often wins." Indeed, evil begins to win when Darren and his buddies find a flier for "Cirque Du Freak," a traveling freak show promising performances by the snake-boy, the wolf-man, and Larten Crepsley and his giant spider, Madame Octa. Darren and his friend Steve wouldn''t miss it for the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n So, Saturday night they sneak out to the old theater, tall and dark, with broken windows. "Every act you see tonight is real," croaks Mr. Tall. "Each performer is unique. And none are harmless." That''s for sure. (A werewolf bites off the hand of someone in the audience, for instance.) Things grow very serious for the two boys when Steve not only recognizes Mr. Crepsley as a famous vampire, but professes his true desire to join him! To make matters worse, the spider-obsessed Darren goes back to the old theater to steal Madame Octa so he can teach her tricks in his room. (He does, with mixed results.) The plot further coagulates as Darren is faced with some terrible decisions about what to do to save his bloodthirsty friend Steve.\n</p>\n<p>\n Readers may be too enthralled to notice some clumsy editing (the aforementioned bitten-off hand is later referred to as an arm, Darren stops dead in his tracks when he''s already stopped, etc.). They may also not notice that the boys constantly use adult-sounding expressions like "his breath stank to the high heavens," though the book is clearly set in the 21st century. If this book gets under your kids'' skin (and it probably will), they''re in luck--we haven''t heard the last of the Saga of Darren Shan. (Ages 10 and older, not for the faint of heart)\n <em>\n  --Karin Snelson\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With strong sales overseas and a movie deal in the works, book one in The Saga of Darren Shan series is poised to capture a wide audience of series horror readers. After a rather slow buildup, a boy with the same name as the author sneaks out with best friend Steve to an illicit freak show, and his life becomes entangled with a vampire spider-wrangler, Mr. Crepsley. "This is a true story," writes Shan. "In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins." The scenario is compelling, and the author mines the exploitative history of early 20th-century sideshows to create an artfully macabre "Cirque du Freak." But Darren''s actions are often undermotivated: "I can''t explain why Madam Octa [the spider] meant so much to me, or why I was placing my life in such danger to have her. Looking back, I''m no longer sure what drove me on." Also his intermittent attraction to and repulsion by the vampire is never fully explored. His behavior may be explained in the sequel, The Vampire''s Assistant (due in Sept.), but the open ending leaves so many loose ends that readers may leave more frustrated than intrigued, especially since the characters'' wooden dialogue drains them of personality ("I''m upset," says Steve. "It hurt, what Mr. Crepsley said, and you ignoring me at school... If you break up our friendship, I don''t know what I''ll do"). Readers interested in boys becoming vampires would be better served by M.T. Anderson''s Thirsty and those fascinated with freaks by Iain Lawrence''s Ghost Boy. Ages 10-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17595'),
(12345, 'Cisco Routers for the Desperate, 2nd Edition', 'Michael W. Lucas; Michael W. Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  Cisco Routers for the Desperate\n </i>\n is a brief, meaty introduction to Cisco routers and switches designed to get you comfortable with the Cisco environment, teach you how to troubleshoot problems, and take you through the basics of switch and router maintenance and integration into an existing network.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2691'),
(12346, 'Cisco Routers for the Desperate, 2nd Edition', 'Michael W. Lucas; Michael W. Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  Cisco Routers for the Desperate\n </i>\n is a brief, meaty introduction to Cisco routers and switches designed to get you comfortable with the Cisco environment, teach you how to troubleshoot problems, and take you through the basics of switch and router maintenance and integration into an existing network.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11212'),
(12347, 'Cisco Routers for the Desperate, 2nd Edition', 'Michael W. Lucas; Michael W. Lucas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <i>\n  Cisco Routers for the Desperate\n </i>\n is a brief, meaty introduction to Cisco routers and switches designed to get you comfortable with the Cisco environment, teach you how to troubleshoot problems, and take you through the basics of switch and router maintenance and integration into an existing network.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22046'),
(12348, 'Cities of the Plain', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier.Â Â The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. It is a life that is about to change forever, and John Grady and Billy both know it. The catalyst for that change appears in the form of a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute.Â Â When John Grady falls in love, Billy agrees--against his better judgment--to help him rescue the girl from her suavely brutal pimp. The ensuing events resonate with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy.Â Â  Hauntingly beautiful, filled with sorrow, humor and awe, Cities of the Plain is a genuine American epic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6634'),
(12349, 'Cities of the Plain', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier.Â Â The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. It is a life that is about to change forever, and John Grady and Billy both know it. The catalyst for that change appears in the form of a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute.Â Â When John Grady falls in love, Billy agrees--against his better judgment--to help him rescue the girl from her suavely brutal pimp. The ensuing events resonate with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy.Â Â  Hauntingly beautiful, filled with sorrow, humor and awe, Cities of the Plain is a genuine American epic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17452'),
(12350, 'Cities of the Plain', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham--nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know--are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north, at Alamogordo, by the military. To the south, always on the horizon are the mountains of Mexico, looming over El Paso, Ciudad JuÃ¡rez and all the cities of the plain. Bound by nature to horses and cattle and range, these two discover that ranchlife domesticity is compromised, for them and the men they work with, by a geometry of loss afflicting old and young alike, those who have survived it and anyone about to try. And what draws one of them across the border again and again, what would bind "those disparate but fragile worlds," is a girl seized by ill fortune, and a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.This story of friendship and passion is enfolded in a narrative replete with character and place and event--a blind musician, a marauding pack of dogs, curio shops and ancient petroglyphs, a precocious shoe-shine boy, trail drives from the century before, midnight on the highway--and with landforms and wildlife and horses and men, most of all men and the women they love and mourn, men and their persistence and memories and dreams.With the terrible beauty of Cities of the Plain--with its magisterial prose, humor both wry and out-right, fierce conviction and unwavering humanity--Cormac McCarthy has completed a landmark of our literature and times, an epic that reaches from tales of the old west, the world past, into the new millennium, the world to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27103'),
(12351, 'Citizen of the Galaxy', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: SLAVE: Brought to Sargon in chains as a child -- unwanted by all save a one-legged beggar -- Thorby learned well the wiles of the street people and the mysterious ways of his crippledmaster . . .OUTLAW: Hunted by the police for some unknown treasonous acts committed by his beloved owner, Thorby risked his life to deliver a dead man''s message and found himself both guest and prisoner aboard an alien spaceship . . .CITIZEN: Unaware of his role in an ongoing intrigue, Thorby became one of the freest of the free in the entire galaxy as the adopted son of a noble space captain . . . until he became a captive in an interstellar prison that offered everything but the hope of escape!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22724'),
(12352, 'Citizen Soldiers', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller "D-Day". Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25106'),
(12353, 'Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army From the Normandy Beaches to the Buldge to the Surrender of Germany Jun 7, 1994-May 7, 1945', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller "D-Day". Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1160'),
(12354, 'Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Buldge to the Surrender of Germany Jun 7, 1994-May 7, 1945', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller "D-Day". Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15207'),
(12355, 'Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Buldge to the Surrender of Germany Jun 7, 1994-May 7, 1945', 'Stephen E. Ambrose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller "D-Day". Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23786'),
(12356, 'Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution', 'Simon Schama', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI''s France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n The author devotes his considerable narrative and scholarly gifts to the French revolution and to the transformation that permanently altered the face of Europe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12411'),
(12357, 'The City and the Stars and the Sands of Mars', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke''s recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not necessarily liking what they find. The religious images that run throughout Clarke''s work also are present here.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The City and the Stars: The 10-billion-year-old metropolis of Diaspar is humanity''s last home. Alone among immortals, the only man born in 10 million years desperately wants to find what lies beyond the city. The Sands Of Mars: Science fiction writer Martin Gibson finally gets a chance to visit the research colony on the Red planet. Its a dream come true, until he discovers the perils of survival on another world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7456'),
(12358, 'The City and the Stars and the Sands of Mars', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke''s recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not necessarily liking what they find. The religious images that run throughout Clarke''s work also are present here.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The City and the Stars: The 10-billion-year-old metropolis of Diaspar is humanity''s last home. Alone among immortals, the only man born in 10 million years desperately wants to find what lies beyond the city. The Sands Of Mars: Science fiction writer Martin Gibson finally gets a chance to visit the research colony on the Red planet. Its a dream come true, until he discovers the perils of survival on another world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8956'),
(12359, 'The City and the Stars and the Sands of Mars', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Published in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke''s recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not necessarily liking what they find. The religious images that run throughout Clarke''s work also are present here.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The City and the Stars: The 10-billion-year-old metropolis of Diaspar is humanity''s last home. Alone among immortals, the only man born in 10 million years desperately wants to find what lies beyond the city. The Sands Of Mars: Science fiction writer Martin Gibson finally gets a chance to visit the research colony on the Red planet. Its a dream come true, until he discovers the perils of survival on another world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16437'),
(12360, 'The City in the Lake', 'Rachel Neumeier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The City is beautiful at sunset, almost as beautiful as the Lake itself. The waters of the Lake run with crimson and flame-orange and deep lavender as the sun sinks beyond its farther shore, colors pouring across the water all the way to Tiger Bridge. At that moment the exotic lilies carved into the Bridge, crumbling with age, look whole and alive in the moving light and cerulean shadows. But after darkness falls, it will be the tigers of the Bridge that look real and alive. They shake themselves out of stone and come down from their pedestals, the lambent fires of sunset in their eyes, to stalk on great velvet paws through the night--so it is said. At the moment between sunset and dark, the wind off the Lake sometimes dies and the air becomes utterly still. If that pause lasts long enough, it is said, the water becomes a mirror in which a man may see his true face reflected, as well as the reflection of the eternal City. Few would linger at Tiger Bridge to look into the still Lake at that moment, both because truth can be a dangerous thing and because of the tigers that wake out of stone in the night. But that is the story that people in the City tell. That, at least, is a true story. The Bastard, who did not fear velvet-footed hunters, came to Tiger Bridge sometimes to watch the sun set and look into the glass-still Lake. The face he saw in the water was indeed not the face the simple mirror in his Palace apartments reflected. The Bastard could not have explained even to himself where, precisely, the difference lay. But it was to try to find out that he came to Tiger Bridge. The Bastard had a name: Neill. He had a place in the court as elder brother to Prince Cassiel and son of Drustan, who was King. But he was not the son of Ellis, the Queen. The Bastard''s mother had been a woman who had wandered into the City and the King''s bed from some far country beyond the shores of the Lake, beyond the farthest borders of the Kingdom. She had given her son her fine ivory skin, her ash-pale hair, and her dark secretive eyes. And she had given him a heritage that ran outside the bounds of the Kingdom, a mixed blessing at best. The woman had lived in the City for a season, for a year--long enough to carry and bear the King''s son. Then she had walked out of the City. Though I go, this child will keep my presence always near you, she had said to the King, laying the baby in his hands--so the tale went. May he flourish in this Kingdom. Possibly the King did not appreciate reminders of his dalliance, especially once he married his Queen. It was well known he did not favor his illegitimate first-born son. Still, if he did not love Neill, he acknowledged him and kept him close to power. Kings have no need to be ashamed of the evidence of their indiscretions as other men may, and more than one royal bastard has grown up to rule when all the children born on the right side of the blanket have been sickly, or girls. From childhood, then, the court had called the boy Lord Neill to his face with careful deference, and, behind his back, sometimes with no less respect, Lord Bastard. When the Bastard was twelve years old, the true Prince was born, merry and bold even as a baby and beloved by all the City. By that time, folk in both the Palace and the City had learned well the habit of respect toward his elder half brother. The Bastard, even as a child, had a way of kee\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2043'),
(12361, 'The City in the Lake', 'Rachel Neumeier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The City is beautiful at sunset, almost as beautiful as the Lake itself. The waters of the Lake run with crimson and flame-orange and deep lavender as the sun sinks beyond its farther shore, colors pouring across the water all the way to Tiger Bridge. At that moment the exotic lilies carved into the Bridge, crumbling with age, look whole and alive in the moving light and cerulean shadows. But after darkness falls, it will be the tigers of the Bridge that look real and alive. They shake themselves out of stone and come down from their pedestals, the lambent fires of sunset in their eyes, to stalk on great velvet paws through the night--so it is said. At the moment between sunset and dark, the wind off the Lake sometimes dies and the air becomes utterly still. If that pause lasts long enough, it is said, the water becomes a mirror in which a man may see his true face reflected, as well as the reflection of the eternal City. Few would linger at Tiger Bridge to look into the still Lake at that moment, both because truth can be a dangerous thing and because of the tigers that wake out of stone in the night. But that is the story that people in the City tell. That, at least, is a true story. The Bastard, who did not fear velvet-footed hunters, came to Tiger Bridge sometimes to watch the sun set and look into the glass-still Lake. The face he saw in the water was indeed not the face the simple mirror in his Palace apartments reflected. The Bastard could not have explained even to himself where, precisely, the difference lay. But it was to try to find out that he came to Tiger Bridge. The Bastard had a name: Neill. He had a place in the court as elder brother to Prince Cassiel and son of Drustan, who was King. But he was not the son of Ellis, the Queen. The Bastard''s mother had been a woman who had wandered into the City and the King''s bed from some far country beyond the shores of the Lake, beyond the farthest borders of the Kingdom. She had given her son her fine ivory skin, her ash-pale hair, and her dark secretive eyes. And she had given him a heritage that ran outside the bounds of the Kingdom, a mixed blessing at best. The woman had lived in the City for a season, for a year--long enough to carry and bear the King''s son. Then she had walked out of the City. Though I go, this child will keep my presence always near you, she had said to the King, laying the baby in his hands--so the tale went. May he flourish in this Kingdom. Possibly the King did not appreciate reminders of his dalliance, especially once he married his Queen. It was well known he did not favor his illegitimate first-born son. Still, if he did not love Neill, he acknowledged him and kept him close to power. Kings have no need to be ashamed of the evidence of their indiscretions as other men may, and more than one royal bastard has grown up to rule when all the children born on the right side of the blanket have been sickly, or girls. From childhood, then, the court had called the boy Lord Neill to his face with careful deference, and, behind his back, sometimes with no less respect, Lord Bastard. When the Bastard was twelve years old, the true Prince was born, merry and bold even as a baby and beloved by all the City. By that time, folk in both the Palace and the City had learned well the habit of respect toward his elder half brother. The Bastard, even as a child, had a way of kee\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11588'),
(12362, 'The City in the Lake', 'Rachel Neumeier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The City is beautiful at sunset, almost as beautiful as the Lake itself. The waters of the Lake run with crimson and flame-orange and deep lavender as the sun sinks beyond its farther shore, colors pouring across the water all the way to Tiger Bridge. At that moment the exotic lilies carved into the Bridge, crumbling with age, look whole and alive in the moving light and cerulean shadows. But after darkness falls, it will be the tigers of the Bridge that look real and alive. They shake themselves out of stone and come down from their pedestals, the lambent fires of sunset in their eyes, to stalk on great velvet paws through the night--so it is said. At the moment between sunset and dark, the wind off the Lake sometimes dies and the air becomes utterly still. If that pause lasts long enough, it is said, the water becomes a mirror in which a man may see his true face reflected, as well as the reflection of the eternal City. Few would linger at Tiger Bridge to look into the still Lake at that moment, both because truth can be a dangerous thing and because of the tigers that wake out of stone in the night. But that is the story that people in the City tell. That, at least, is a true story. The Bastard, who did not fear velvet-footed hunters, came to Tiger Bridge sometimes to watch the sun set and look into the glass-still Lake. The face he saw in the water was indeed not the face the simple mirror in his Palace apartments reflected. The Bastard could not have explained even to himself where, precisely, the difference lay. But it was to try to find out that he came to Tiger Bridge. The Bastard had a name: Neill. He had a place in the court as elder brother to Prince Cassiel and son of Drustan, who was King. But he was not the son of Ellis, the Queen. The Bastard''s mother had been a woman who had wandered into the City and the King''s bed from some far country beyond the shores of the Lake, beyond the farthest borders of the Kingdom. She had given her son her fine ivory skin, her ash-pale hair, and her dark secretive eyes. And she had given him a heritage that ran outside the bounds of the Kingdom, a mixed blessing at best. The woman had lived in the City for a season, for a year--long enough to carry and bear the King''s son. Then she had walked out of the City. Though I go, this child will keep my presence always near you, she had said to the King, laying the baby in his hands--so the tale went. May he flourish in this Kingdom. Possibly the King did not appreciate reminders of his dalliance, especially once he married his Queen. It was well known he did not favor his illegitimate first-born son. Still, if he did not love Neill, he acknowledged him and kept him close to power. Kings have no need to be ashamed of the evidence of their indiscretions as other men may, and more than one royal bastard has grown up to rule when all the children born on the right side of the blanket have been sickly, or girls. From childhood, then, the court had called the boy Lord Neill to his face with careful deference, and, behind his back, sometimes with no less respect, Lord Bastard. When the Bastard was twelve years old, the true Prince was born, merry and bold even as a baby and beloved by all the City. By that time, folk in both the Palace and the City had learned well the habit of respect toward his elder half brother. The Bastard, even as a child, had a way of kee\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21714'),
(12363, 'City of Bones', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Since his first appearance in 1992''s Edgar-winning __, Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   City of Bones\n  </em>\n  , Connelly''s eighth Bosch title, Bosch and his well-dressed partner, Jerry Edgar, are working to identify a child''s skeleton, buried for 20 years in the forest off Hollywood''s Wonderland Drive, and to bring the killer to belated justice. For Bosch this is more than just another homicide, as the mystery child, beaten and abandoned, comes to represent much of what he sees as evil in his city. Add in a tragic love affair with a fellow cop, complications from overzealous media, and the growing feeling that he''s fighting a losing battle about which no one cares, and the usually stoic Bosch is pushed to his limits. This isn''t the strongest plot Connelly has concocted for Bosch, but it leads to an ending the whole series has been building toward. The conclusion may not shock longtime fans, but it will leave them wondering where the series will go from here.\n  <em>\n   --Benjamin Reese\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Harry Bosch is at the top of his form which is great news for Connelly fans who might have been wondering how much life the dour, haunted LAPD veteran had left in him. His latest adventure is as dark and angst-ridden as any of Bosch''s past outings, but it also crackles with energy especially in the details of police procedure and internal politics that animate virtually every page. What other crime writer could make such dramatic use of the fact that the front door of a house trailer swings out rather than in, creating problems for a two-man team of detectives? Who else would create to such credible narrative effect an egotistic celebrity coroner who jeopardizes an investigation because she lets a TV camera crew from Court TV follow her around, or an overage female rookie cop so in love with danger that she commits an unthinkable act? When the bones of an abused 12-year-old boy who disappeared in 1980 turn up in the woods above Hollywood (near a street named Wonderland, where former governor Jerry Brown used to live), the case stirs up Bosch''s memories of his own troubled childhood. Also, as his captain so aptly points out, Harry is the LAPD''s prime "shit magnet," an investigator who attracts muck and trouble wherever he goes. So it''s no great surprise when the investigation takes a couple of nasty turns, right up through the last chapter. Connelly is such a careful, quiet writer that he can slow down the story to sketch in some relatively minor characters a retired doctor, a couple who lived through their foster children without missing a beat. (One-day laydown Apr. 16)Forecast: Connelly doesn''t need much help in hitting the charts, but Little, Brown is going all out anyway, with a massive television, radio and print ad campaign, transit ads in New York and a 10-city author tour. Expect blockbuster sales and blockbuster satisfaction.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2892'),
(12364, 'City of Bones', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Since his first appearance in 1992''s Edgar-winning __, Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   City of Bones\n  </em>\n  , Connelly''s eighth Bosch title, Bosch and his well-dressed partner, Jerry Edgar, are working to identify a child''s skeleton, buried for 20 years in the forest off Hollywood''s Wonderland Drive, and to bring the killer to belated justice. For Bosch this is more than just another homicide, as the mystery child, beaten and abandoned, comes to represent much of what he sees as evil in his city. Add in a tragic love affair with a fellow cop, complications from overzealous media, and the growing feeling that he''s fighting a losing battle about which no one cares, and the usually stoic Bosch is pushed to his limits. This isn''t the strongest plot Connelly has concocted for Bosch, but it leads to an ending the whole series has been building toward. The conclusion may not shock longtime fans, but it will leave them wondering where the series will go from here.\n  <em>\n   --Benjamin Reese\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Harry Bosch is at the top of his form which is great news for Connelly fans who might have been wondering how much life the dour, haunted LAPD veteran had left in him. His latest adventure is as dark and angst-ridden as any of Bosch''s past outings, but it also crackles with energy especially in the details of police procedure and internal politics that animate virtually every page. What other crime writer could make such dramatic use of the fact that the front door of a house trailer swings out rather than in, creating problems for a two-man team of detectives? Who else would create to such credible narrative effect an egotistic celebrity coroner who jeopardizes an investigation because she lets a TV camera crew from Court TV follow her around, or an overage female rookie cop so in love with danger that she commits an unthinkable act? When the bones of an abused 12-year-old boy who disappeared in 1980 turn up in the woods above Hollywood (near a street named Wonderland, where former governor Jerry Brown used to live), the case stirs up Bosch''s memories of his own troubled childhood. Also, as his captain so aptly points out, Harry is the LAPD''s prime "shit magnet," an investigator who attracts muck and trouble wherever he goes. So it''s no great surprise when the investigation takes a couple of nasty turns, right up through the last chapter. Connelly is such a careful, quiet writer that he can slow down the story to sketch in some relatively minor characters a retired doctor, a couple who lived through their foster children without missing a beat. (One-day laydown Apr. 16)Forecast: Connelly doesn''t need much help in hitting the charts, but Little, Brown is going all out anyway, with a massive television, radio and print ad campaign, transit ads in New York and a 10-city author tour. Expect blockbuster sales and blockbuster satisfaction.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8953'),
(12365, 'City of Bones', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15252'),
(12366, 'City of bones', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Since his first appearance in 1992''s Edgar-winning __, Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   City of Bones\n  </em>\n  , Connelly''s eighth Bosch title, Bosch and his well-dressed partner, Jerry Edgar, are working to identify a child''s skeleton, buried for 20 years in the forest off Hollywood''s Wonderland Drive, and to bring the killer to belated justice. For Bosch this is more than just another homicide, as the mystery child, beaten and abandoned, comes to represent much of what he sees as evil in his city. Add in a tragic love affair with a fellow cop, complications from overzealous media, and the growing feeling that he''s fighting a losing battle about which no one cares, and the usually stoic Bosch is pushed to his limits. This isn''t the strongest plot Connelly has concocted for Bosch, but it leads to an ending the whole series has been building toward. The conclusion may not shock longtime fans, but it will leave them wondering where the series will go from here.\n  <em>\n   --Benjamin Reese\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Harry Bosch is at the top of his form which is great news for Connelly fans who might have been wondering how much life the dour, haunted LAPD veteran had left in him. His latest adventure is as dark and angst-ridden as any of Bosch''s past outings, but it also crackles with energy especially in the details of police procedure and internal politics that animate virtually every page. What other crime writer could make such dramatic use of the fact that the front door of a house trailer swings out rather than in, creating problems for a two-man team of detectives? Who else would create to such credible narrative effect an egotistic celebrity coroner who jeopardizes an investigation because she lets a TV camera crew from Court TV follow her around, or an overage female rookie cop so in love with danger that she commits an unthinkable act? When the bones of an abused 12-year-old boy who disappeared in 1980 turn up in the woods above Hollywood (near a street named Wonderland, where former governor Jerry Brown used to live), the case stirs up Bosch''s memories of his own troubled childhood. Also, as his captain so aptly points out, Harry is the LAPD''s prime "shit magnet," an investigator who attracts muck and trouble wherever he goes. So it''s no great surprise when the investigation takes a couple of nasty turns, right up through the last chapter. Connelly is such a careful, quiet writer that he can slow down the story to sketch in some relatively minor characters a retired doctor, a couple who lived through their foster children without missing a beat. (One-day laydown Apr. 16)Forecast: Connelly doesn''t need much help in hitting the charts, but Little, Brown is going all out anyway, with a massive television, radio and print ad campaign, transit ads in New York and a 10-city author tour. Expect blockbuster sales and blockbuster satisfaction.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21981'),
(12367, 'City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi', 'William Dalrymple', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Delhi has a richly layered past, and Dalrymple (In Xanadu, McKay, 1990) deftly peels away each layer to reveal how the city came to be what it is today. Djinns are spirits said to be seen only after prolonged fasting and prayer; they too are integral to understanding the city. The author, a young Scot carrying on the fine British tradition of travel writing, has a knack for meeting fascinating people and capturing their most revealing remarks. He introduces us to dervishes, eunuchs, partridge fighting, weddings, and expatriates. His wife contributes sketches that nicely complement his text. Considering the importance of Delhi, the capital of the world''s second most populous nation, this book deserves to be in most public and academic libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Delightful ... Surely one of the funniest books about India'' TLS ''Now read by Tim Pigott-Smith, City of Djinns gets a wonderful new lease of life. Dalrymple has a rare gift for historical narrative and catches the engaging, Anglo-Indian speech of his cast with telling accuracy.'' Independent 23/5/98\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/223'),
(12368, 'City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi', 'William Dalrymple', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Delhi has a richly layered past, and Dalrymple (In Xanadu, McKay, 1990) deftly peels away each layer to reveal how the city came to be what it is today. Djinns are spirits said to be seen only after prolonged fasting and prayer; they too are integral to understanding the city. The author, a young Scot carrying on the fine British tradition of travel writing, has a knack for meeting fascinating people and capturing their most revealing remarks. He introduces us to dervishes, eunuchs, partridge fighting, weddings, and expatriates. His wife contributes sketches that nicely complement his text. Considering the importance of Delhi, the capital of the world''s second most populous nation, this book deserves to be in most public and academic libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Delightful ... Surely one of the funniest books about India'' TLS ''Now read by Tim Pigott-Smith, City of Djinns gets a wonderful new lease of life. Dalrymple has a rare gift for historical narrative and catches the engaging, Anglo-Indian speech of his cast with telling accuracy.'' Independent 23/5/98\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9198'),
(12369, 'City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi', 'William Dalrymple', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Delhi has a richly layered past, and Dalrymple (In Xanadu, McKay, 1990) deftly peels away each layer to reveal how the city came to be what it is today. Djinns are spirits said to be seen only after prolonged fasting and prayer; they too are integral to understanding the city. The author, a young Scot carrying on the fine British tradition of travel writing, has a knack for meeting fascinating people and capturing their most revealing remarks. He introduces us to dervishes, eunuchs, partridge fighting, weddings, and expatriates. His wife contributes sketches that nicely complement his text. Considering the importance of Delhi, the capital of the world''s second most populous nation, this book deserves to be in most public and academic libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Delightful ... Surely one of the funniest books about India'' TLS ''Now read by Tim Pigott-Smith, City of Djinns gets a wonderful new lease of life. Dalrymple has a rare gift for historical narrative and catches the engaging, Anglo-Indian speech of his cast with telling accuracy.'' Independent 23/5/98\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24670'),
(12370, 'City of Dreams and Nightmare', 'Ian Whates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first in a series of novels set in one of the most extraordinary fantasy settings since Gormenghast '' the vertical city of Thaiburley.From its towering palatial heights to the dregs who dwell in The City Below, it''s an incredible creation. When Tom, a teenage street thief from the depths, ventures into the uppermost levels to impress a girl, the last thing he expects to do is witness a murder.Accused of the crime, he must use all of his knowledge of the ancient city to flee certain death.File under: Fantasy [ Tall City / Class Divide / Murder Witness / Assassination ]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4982'),
(12371, 'City of Dreams and Nightmare', 'Ian Whates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first in a series of novels set in one of the most extraordinary fantasy settings since Gormenghast '' the vertical city of Thaiburley.From its towering palatial heights to the dregs who dwell in The City Below, it''s an incredible creation. When Tom, a teenage street thief from the depths, ventures into the uppermost levels to impress a girl, the last thing he expects to do is witness a murder.Accused of the crime, he must use all of his knowledge of the ancient city to flee certain death.File under: Fantasy [ Tall City / Class Divide / Murder Witness / Assassination ]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13343'),
(12372, 'City of Dreams and Nightmare', 'Ian Whates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first in a series of novels set in one of the most extraordinary fantasy settings since Gormenghast '' the vertical city of Thaiburley.From its towering palatial heights to the dregs who dwell in The City Below, it''s an incredible creation. When Tom, a teenage street thief from the depths, ventures into the uppermost levels to impress a girl, the last thing he expects to do is witness a murder.Accused of the crime, he must use all of his knowledge of the ancient city to flee certain death.File under: Fantasy [ Tall City / Class Divide / Murder Witness / Assassination ]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19620'),
(12373, 'City of Dreams and Nightmare', 'Ian Whates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first in a series of novels set in one of the most extraordinary fantasy settings since Gormenghast '' the vertical city of Thaiburley.From its towering palatial heights to the dregs who dwell in The City Below, it''s an incredible creation. When Tom, a teenage street thief from the depths, ventures into the uppermost levels to impress a girl, the last thing he expects to do is witness a murder.Accused of the crime, he must use all of his knowledge of the ancient city to flee certain death.File under: Fantasy [ Tall City / Class Divide / Murder Witness / Assassination ]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28276'),
(12374, 'The City of Ember: Book 1', 'Jeanne DuPrau', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is always night in the city of Ember. But there is no moon, no stars. The only light during the regular twelve hours of "day" comes from floodlamps that cast a yellowish glow over the streets of the city. Beyond are the pitch-black Unknown Regions, which no one has ever explored because an understanding of fire and electricity has been lost, and with it the idea of a Moveable Light. "Besides," they tell each other, "there is nowhere but here" Among the many other things the people of Ember have forgotten is their past and a direction for their future. For 250 years they have lived pleasantly, because there has been plenty of everything in the vast storerooms. But now there are more and more empty shelves--and more and more times when the lights flicker and go out, leaving them in terrifying blackness for long minutes. What will happen when the generator finally fails?\n</p>\n<p>\n Twelve-year-old Doon Harrow and Lina Mayfleet seem to be the only people who are worried. They have just been assigned their life jobs--Lina as a messenger, which leads her to knowledge of some unsettling secrets, and Doon as a Pipeworker, repairing the plumbing in the tunnels under the city where a river roars through the darkness. But when Lina finds a very old paper with enigmatic "Instructions for Egress," they use the advantages of their jobs to begin to puzzle out the frightening and dangerous way to the city of light of which Lina has dreamed. As they set out on their mission, the haunting setting and breathless action of this stunning first novel will have teens clamoring for a sequel. (Ages 10 to 14)\n <em>\n  --Patty Campbell\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-7â€“This truly superb audio recording of the novel by Jeane DuPrau (Random, 2003) takes place in the dark city of Ember, a decaying place with no natural light surrounded by the vast Unknown. Although ancestors had arranged for information on leaving Ember to be made available after the inhabitants have spent 200 years there, a corrupt mayor lost the information many years before the novel begins. Two hundred and forty-one years later, Ember''s electrical lighting frequently fails, supplies are dwindling, and the populace is growing increasingly frightened. Twelve-year-old Doon and his acquaintance Lina are intent on finding a way to save Ember. After Lina finds a mysterious and fragmented paper titled "Instructions for Egress," they think they have a way out. Can they escape from the villainous mayor and his soldiers? Can they figure out the missing letters and words in the message? Do they find their way out of Ember and up to a post-apocalyptic Earth? Wendy Dillon, one of the most talented readers of audiobooks, does an amazing job of creating different voices for each character, has absolutely perfect diction, and skillfully conveys the building suspense. Exceptional care has been taken to faithfully convey the author''s excellent tale through a combination of a superior narrator and evocative sound effects. This engaging novel is an exceptional audiobook.â€“_B.Allison Gray, John Jermain Memorial Library, Sag Harbor, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4619');
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(12375, 'The City of Ember: Book 1', 'Jeanne DuPrau', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is always night in the city of Ember. But there is no moon, no stars. The only light during the regular twelve hours of "day" comes from floodlamps that cast a yellowish glow over the streets of the city. Beyond are the pitch-black Unknown Regions, which no one has ever explored because an understanding of fire and electricity has been lost, and with it the idea of a Moveable Light. "Besides," they tell each other, "there is nowhere but here" Among the many other things the people of Ember have forgotten is their past and a direction for their future. For 250 years they have lived pleasantly, because there has been plenty of everything in the vast storerooms. But now there are more and more empty shelves--and more and more times when the lights flicker and go out, leaving them in terrifying blackness for long minutes. What will happen when the generator finally fails?\n</p>\n<p>\n Twelve-year-old Doon Harrow and Lina Mayfleet seem to be the only people who are worried. They have just been assigned their life jobs--Lina as a messenger, which leads her to knowledge of some unsettling secrets, and Doon as a Pipeworker, repairing the plumbing in the tunnels under the city where a river roars through the darkness. But when Lina finds a very old paper with enigmatic "Instructions for Egress," they use the advantages of their jobs to begin to puzzle out the frightening and dangerous way to the city of light of which Lina has dreamed. As they set out on their mission, the haunting setting and breathless action of this stunning first novel will have teens clamoring for a sequel. (Ages 10 to 14)\n <em>\n  --Patty Campbell\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-7â€“This truly superb audio recording of the novel by Jeane DuPrau (Random, 2003) takes place in the dark city of Ember, a decaying place with no natural light surrounded by the vast Unknown. Although ancestors had arranged for information on leaving Ember to be made available after the inhabitants have spent 200 years there, a corrupt mayor lost the information many years before the novel begins. Two hundred and forty-one years later, Ember''s electrical lighting frequently fails, supplies are dwindling, and the populace is growing increasingly frightened. Twelve-year-old Doon and his acquaintance Lina are intent on finding a way to save Ember. After Lina finds a mysterious and fragmented paper titled "Instructions for Egress," they think they have a way out. Can they escape from the villainous mayor and his soldiers? Can they figure out the missing letters and words in the message? Do they find their way out of Ember and up to a post-apocalyptic Earth? Wendy Dillon, one of the most talented readers of audiobooks, does an amazing job of creating different voices for each character, has absolutely perfect diction, and skillfully conveys the building suspense. Exceptional care has been taken to faithfully convey the author''s excellent tale through a combination of a superior narrator and evocative sound effects. This engaging novel is an exceptional audiobook.â€“_B.Allison Gray, John Jermain Memorial Library, Sag Harbor, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10876'),
(12376, 'City of Falling Angels', 'John Berendt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The author of the record-breaking bestseller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil unveils the enigmatic Venice as only he can Twelve years ago, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil exploded into a monumental success, residing a record-breaking four years on the New York Times bestseller list (longer than any work of fiction or nonfiction had before) and turning John Berendt into a household name. The City of Falling Angels is Berendtâ€™s first book since Midnight, and it immediately reminds one what all the fuss was about. Turning to the magic, mystery, and decadence of Venice, Berendt gradually reveals the truth behind a sensational fire that in 1996 destroyed the historic Fenice opera house. Encountering a rich cast of characters, Berendt tells a tale full of atmosphere and surprise as the stories build, one after the other, ultimately coming together to portray a world as finely drawn as a still-life painting.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8130'),
(12377, 'City of Gold and Shadows', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ancient Roman city exuded evil. From the moment she entered the walls of Aurae Phiala, Chrlotte Rossignol knew her life was in danger. But she coudn''t turn back. As the only surviving heir of Dr. Alan Morris, she would never rest until her missing relative was found.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5670'),
(12378, 'City of Gold and Shadows', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ancient Roman city exuded evil. From the moment she entered the walls of Aurae Phiala, Chrlotte Rossignol knew her life was in danger. But she coudn''t turn back. As the only surviving heir of Dr. Alan Morris, she would never rest until her missing relative was found.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18913'),
(12379, 'City of Hope &amp; Despair: City of a Hundred Rows', 'Ian Whates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A SECOND VISIT TO THAIBURLEY: THE CITY OF DREAMS, THE FABLED CITY OF A HUNDRED ROWS. Dark forces are gathering in the shadowy depths, and the whole city is under threat. The former street-nick, Tom, embarks on a journey to discover the source of the great river Thair, said to be the ultimate power behind all of Thaiburley. Accompanying him are the assassin Dewar and the young Thaistess Mildra. It soon becomes evident that their journey has more significance than any of them realise, as past secrets catch up with them and unknown adversaries hunt them... to the death! File Under: Fantasy [ Towering City | Ancient Secrets | Assassins &amp; Gods | Soul Thief! ]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4984'),
(12380, 'City of Hope &amp; Despair: City of a Hundred Rows', 'Ian Whates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A SECOND VISIT TO THAIBURLEY: THE CITY OF DREAMS, THE FABLED CITY OF A HUNDRED ROWS. Dark forces are gathering in the shadowy depths, and the whole city is under threat. The former street-nick, Tom, embarks on a journey to discover the source of the great river Thair, said to be the ultimate power behind all of Thaiburley. Accompanying him are the assassin Dewar and the young Thaistess Mildra. It soon becomes evident that their journey has more significance than any of them realise, as past secrets catch up with them and unknown adversaries hunt them... to the death! File Under: Fantasy [ Towering City | Ancient Secrets | Assassins &amp; Gods | Soul Thief! ]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13342'),
(12381, 'City of Hope &amp; Despair: City of a Hundred Rows', 'Ian Whates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A SECOND VISIT TO THAIBURLEY: THE CITY OF DREAMS, THE FABLED CITY OF A HUNDRED ROWS. Dark forces are gathering in the shadowy depths, and the whole city is under threat. The former street-nick, Tom, embarks on a journey to discover the source of the great river Thair, said to be the ultimate power behind all of Thaiburley. Accompanying him are the assassin Dewar and the young Thaistess Mildra. It soon becomes evident that their journey has more significance than any of them realise, as past secrets catch up with them and unknown adversaries hunt them... to the death! File Under: Fantasy [ Towering City | Ancient Secrets | Assassins &amp; Gods | Soul Thief! ]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19619'),
(12382, 'City of Lies', 'R. J. Ellory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Harper has always been alone. His mother died when he was just seven years old and he was raised in New York by an aunt he barely knew. He never even made his father''s acquaintance - a man who died shortly after he was born. After leaving the Big Apple as soon as he was old enough, his life consisted of one moderately successful book, a collection affectionately received newspaper columns and a comfortable existence in Miami. Then everything changes. A liquor store heist goes wrong - and turns John''s existence on its head. It seems that his father didn''t die all those years ago. In fact, he has thrived in the New York underworld. But now the man himself lies critically injured in a Manhattan hospital and it''s time for father and son to meet at last . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1991'),
(12383, 'City of Lies', 'R. J. Ellory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n John Harper has always been alone. His mother died when he was just seven years old and he was raised in New York by an aunt he barely knew. He never even made his father''s acquaintance - a man who died shortly after he was born. After leaving the Big Apple as soon as he was old enough, his life consisted of one moderately successful book, a collection affectionately received newspaper columns and a comfortable existence in Miami. Then everything changes. A liquor store heist goes wrong - and turns John''s existence on its head. It seems that his father didn''t die all those years ago. In fact, he has thrived in the New York underworld. But now the man himself lies critically injured in a Manhattan hospital and it''s time for father and son to meet at last . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9553'),
(12384, 'City of Night', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. The mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic continue. . . . They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever createdand they must be destroyed. Not even Victor Heliosonce Frankensteincan stop the engineered killers hers"s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Only the one-time "monster" Deucalion and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson Ors"Connor and Michael Maddison, stand in their way. But as the three race to uncover the true dimensions of an age-old conspiracy, they will discover that Victorrs"s new, improved models have infiltrated every level of the cityrs"s society . . . and far beyond.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6084'),
(12385, 'City of Night', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. The mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic continue. . . . They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever createdand they must be destroyed. Not even Victor Heliosonce Frankensteincan stop the engineered killers hers"s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Only the one-time "monster" Deucalion and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson Ors"Connor and Michael Maddison, stand in their way. But as the three race to uncover the true dimensions of an age-old conspiracy, they will discover that Victorrs"s new, improved models have infiltrated every level of the cityrs"s society . . . and far beyond.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17843'),
(12386, 'City of Night', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. The mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic continue. . . . They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever createdand they must be destroyed. Not even Victor Heliosonce Frankensteincan stop the engineered killers hers"s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Only the one-time "monster" Deucalion and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson Ors"Connor and Michael Maddison, stand in their way. But as the three race to uncover the true dimensions of an age-old conspiracy, they will discover that Victorrs"s new, improved models have infiltrated every level of the cityrs"s society . . . and far beyond.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27405'),
(12387, 'City of Ruin', 'Mark Charan Newton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Villiren: a city of sin that is being torn apart from the inside. Hybrid creatures shamble through shadows and barely human gangs fight turf wars for control of the streets. Amidst this chaos, Commander Brynd Lathraea, commander of the Night Guard, must plan the defence of Viliren against a race that has broken through from some other realm and already slaughtered hundreds of thousands of the Empire''s people. When a Night Guard soldier goes missing, Brynd requests help from the recently arrived Inqusitor Jeryd. He discovers this is not the only disappearance the streets of Villiren. It seems that a serial killer of the most horrific kind is on the loose, taking hundreds of people from their own homes. A killer that cannot possibly be human. The entire population of Villiren must unite to face an impossible surge of violent and unnatural enemies or the city will fall. But how can anyone save a city that is already a ruin?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mark Charan Newton was born in 1981, and holds a degree in Environmental Science. After working in bookselling, he moved into editorial positions at imprints covering film and media tie-in fiction, and later, science fiction and fantasy. He currently lives and works in Nottingham. For more information and updates, visit his website www.markcnewton.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3079'),
(12388, 'City of Ruin', 'Mark Charan Newton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Villiren: a city of sin that is being torn apart from the inside. Hybrid creatures shamble through shadows and barely human gangs fight turf wars for control of the streets. Amidst this chaos, Commander Brynd Lathraea, commander of the Night Guard, must plan the defence of Viliren against a race that has broken through from some other realm and already slaughtered hundreds of thousands of the Empire''s people. When a Night Guard soldier goes missing, Brynd requests help from the recently arrived Inqusitor Jeryd. He discovers this is not the only disappearance the streets of Villiren. It seems that a serial killer of the most horrific kind is on the loose, taking hundreds of people from their own homes. A killer that cannot possibly be human. The entire population of Villiren must unite to face an impossible surge of violent and unnatural enemies or the city will fall. But how can anyone save a city that is already a ruin?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mark Charan Newton was born in 1981, and holds a degree in Environmental Science. After working in bookselling, he moved into editorial positions at imprints covering film and media tie-in fiction, and later, science fiction and fantasy. He currently lives and works in Nottingham. For more information and updates, visit his website www.markcnewton.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11739'),
(12389, 'City of Ruin', 'Mark Charan Newton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Villiren: a city of sin that is being torn apart from the inside. Hybrid creatures shamble through shadows and barely human gangs fight turf wars for control of the streets. Amidst this chaos, Commander Brynd Lathraea, commander of the Night Guard, must plan the defence of Viliren against a race that has broken through from some other realm and already slaughtered hundreds of thousands of the Empire''s people. When a Night Guard soldier goes missing, Brynd requests help from the recently arrived Inqusitor Jeryd. He discovers this is not the only disappearance the streets of Villiren. It seems that a serial killer of the most horrific kind is on the loose, taking hundreds of people from their own homes. A killer that cannot possibly be human. The entire population of Villiren must unite to face an impossible surge of violent and unnatural enemies or the city will fall. But how can anyone save a city that is already a ruin?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mark Charan Newton was born in 1981, and holds a degree in Environmental Science. After working in bookselling, he moved into editorial positions at imprints covering film and media tie-in fiction, and later, science fiction and fantasy. He currently lives and works in Nottingham. For more information and updates, visit his website www.markcnewton.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21762'),
(12390, 'City of the Living Dead', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4560'),
(12391, 'City of Time', 'Eoin McNamee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ; illustrated by Jon Goodell EDITORIAL REVIEW: CATI, THE BOLD Watcher readers met in *The Navigator*, returns from the shadows of time to summon Owen and Dr. Diamond, for time is literally running out. The moon is coming closer to the earth, causing havoc with weather, tides, and other natural cycles; people fear the world will end. To discover whatâ€™s gone wrong, Cati, Owen, and the Doctor must take an astonishing journey to the City of Time, where time is bought and sold. There, Owen begins to understand his great responsibility and power as the Navigator.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18525'),
(12392, 'City of Time', 'Eoin McNamee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ; illustrated by Jon Goodell EDITORIAL REVIEW: CATI, THE BOLD Watcher readers met in *The Navigator*, returns from the shadows of time to summon Owen and Dr. Diamond, for time is literally running out. The moon is coming closer to the earth, causing havoc with weather, tides, and other natural cycles; people fear the world will end. To discover whatâ€™s gone wrong, Cati, Owen, and the Doctor must take an astonishing journey to the City of Time, where time is bought and sold. There, Owen begins to understand his great responsibility and power as the Navigator.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27804'),
(12393, 'City of Towers: The Dreaming Dark', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The City of Towers launches a brand new novel line set in the world of Eberron, Wizards of the Coastâ€™s newest D&amp;D&amp;#174; campaign setting.  Author Keith Bakerâ€™s proposal for the exciting world of Eberron was chosen from 11,000 submissions, and he is the co-author of the Eberron Campaign Setting, the RPG product that launched the setting. The Eberron world will continue to grow through new roleplaying game products, novels, miniatures, and electronic games.  AUTHOR BIO: Keith Baker is a freelance writer and game designer. In 2003 his proposal for the world of Eberron was selected as the winner in the Wizards of the Coast fantasy setting search. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3826'),
(12394, 'City of Towers: The Dreaming Dark', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The City of Towers launches a brand new novel line set in the world of Eberron, Wizards of the Coastâ€™s newest D&amp;D&amp;#174; campaign setting.  Author Keith Bakerâ€™s proposal for the exciting world of Eberron was chosen from 11,000 submissions, and he is the co-author of the Eberron Campaign Setting, the RPG product that launched the setting. The Eberron world will continue to grow through new roleplaying game products, novels, miniatures, and electronic games.  AUTHOR BIO: Keith Baker is a freelance writer and game designer. In 2003 his proposal for the world of Eberron was selected as the winner in the Wizards of the Coast fantasy setting search. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8255'),
(12395, 'City of Towers: The Dreaming Dark', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The City of Towers launches a brand new novel line set in the world of Eberron, Wizards of the Coastâ€™s newest D&amp;D&amp;#174; campaign setting. Author Keith Bakerâ€™s proposal for the exciting world of Eberron was chosen from 11,000 submissions, and he is the co-author of the Eberron Campaign Setting, the RPG product that launched the setting. The Eberron world will continue to grow through new roleplaying game products, novels, miniatures, and electronic games. AUTHOR BIO: Keith Baker is a freelance writer and game designer. In 2003 his proposal for the world of Eberron was selected as the winner in the Wizards of the Coast fantasy setting search. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20729'),
(12396, 'City of War', 'Neil Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Russell''s uneven debut pits hunky billionaire adventurer Rail Black against an unlikely combo of villains. Stuck in L.A. freeway gridlock, Rail is shocked to see drop-dead gorgeous Kimberly York, entirely naked, escape from a nearby van. She winds up in his Rolls-Royce and soon reveals that she possesses information of a highly sensitive nature, which has made her a target. Rail wants to help her, but his only lead is the enigmatic phrase city of war, and there''s little excitement in his efforts to glean further clues from the kind of offbeat friends and colleagues that only billionaire adventurers seem to have. There''s not enough action for a thriller and not enough intrigue for a mystery, and a glut of description and dialogue will leave readers snoozing.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel City of War is a first novel for Neil Russell and if this thriller is any indication of the style of writing that he has I canâ€™t wait to read more...This is a must read for anyone who loves a smart, sexy thriller.â€ (Bestsellersworld.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLike a James Bond thriller, Neil Russellâ€™s City of War takes readers on an extreme rollercoaster ride of jet set thrills and chills... It would make quite the movie.â€ (Bookloons.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUtterly gripping, City of War balances brutal murder, fascinating mystery, and unforgettable characters on a knifeâ€™s edge of exciting suspense that doesnâ€™t release the reader until the last page. (Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Spymaster )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNeil Russell has to be one of the finest, skilled, and accomplished writers in the country, a true master of intrigue.â€ (Clive Cussler )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2646'),
(12397, 'City of War', 'Neil Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Russell''s uneven debut pits hunky billionaire adventurer Rail Black against an unlikely combo of villains. Stuck in L.A. freeway gridlock, Rail is shocked to see drop-dead gorgeous Kimberly York, entirely naked, escape from a nearby van. She winds up in his Rolls-Royce and soon reveals that she possesses information of a highly sensitive nature, which has made her a target. Rail wants to help her, but his only lead is the enigmatic phrase city of war, and there''s little excitement in his efforts to glean further clues from the kind of offbeat friends and colleagues that only billionaire adventurers seem to have. There''s not enough action for a thriller and not enough intrigue for a mystery, and a glut of description and dialogue will leave readers snoozing.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel City of War is a first novel for Neil Russell and if this thriller is any indication of the style of writing that he has I canâ€™t wait to read more...This is a must read for anyone who loves a smart, sexy thriller.â€ (Bestsellersworld.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLike a James Bond thriller, Neil Russellâ€™s City of War takes readers on an extreme rollercoaster ride of jet set thrills and chills... It would make quite the movie.â€ (Bookloons.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUtterly gripping, City of War balances brutal murder, fascinating mystery, and unforgettable characters on a knifeâ€™s edge of exciting suspense that doesnâ€™t release the reader until the last page. (Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Spymaster )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNeil Russell has to be one of the finest, skilled, and accomplished writers in the country, a true master of intrigue.â€ (Clive Cussler )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12525'),
(12398, 'City of War', 'Neil Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Russell''s uneven debut pits hunky billionaire adventurer Rail Black against an unlikely combo of villains. Stuck in L.A. freeway gridlock, Rail is shocked to see drop-dead gorgeous Kimberly York, entirely naked, escape from a nearby van. She winds up in his Rolls-Royce and soon reveals that she possesses information of a highly sensitive nature, which has made her a target. Rail wants to help her, but his only lead is the enigmatic phrase city of war, and there''s little excitement in his efforts to glean further clues from the kind of offbeat friends and colleagues that only billionaire adventurers seem to have. There''s not enough action for a thriller and not enough intrigue for a mystery, and a glut of description and dialogue will leave readers snoozing.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel City of War is a first novel for Neil Russell and if this thriller is any indication of the style of writing that he has I canâ€™t wait to read more...This is a must read for anyone who loves a smart, sexy thriller.â€ (Bestsellersworld.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œLike a James Bond thriller, Neil Russellâ€™s City of War takes readers on an extreme rollercoaster ride of jet set thrills and chills... It would make quite the movie.â€ (Bookloons.com )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUtterly gripping, City of War balances brutal murder, fascinating mystery, and unforgettable characters on a knifeâ€™s edge of exciting suspense that doesnâ€™t release the reader until the last page. (Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Spymaster )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNeil Russell has to be one of the finest, skilled, and accomplished writers in the country, a true master of intrigue.â€ (Clive Cussler )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22145'),
(12399, 'City primeval: high noon in Detroit', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clement Mansell knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The seriously crazed killer is already back on the Detroit streets -- thanks to some nifty courtroom moves by his crafty looker of a lawyer -- and he''s feeling invincible enough to execute a crooked Motown judge on a whim. Homicide Detective Raymond Cruz thinks the "Oklahoma Wildman" crossed the line long before this latest outrage, and he''s determined to see that the hayseed psycho does not slip through the legal system''s loopholes a second time. But that means a good cop is going to have to play somewhat fast and loose with the rules -- in order to maneuver Mansell into a wild Midwest showdown that he won''t be walking away from.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books including\n <em>\n  Cuba Libre, Rum Punch,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Get Shorty,\n </em>\n and numerous screenplays. He has an unparalleled reputation among lovers of mayhem, suspense, and just plain wonderful writing. A Grand Master Award winner of the Mystery Writers of America, he has been likened to everyone from Balzac to Dostoevsky to Dickens to Dashiell Hammett -- but he is, in fact, entirely and entertainingly\n <em>\n  sui generis\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n He lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18549'),
(12400, 'City the &amp; Stars The', 'Arthur C Clarke - City; The Stars', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15652'),
(12401, 'The City Who Fought', 'Anne McCaffrey; S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15763'),
(12402, 'Ciuma', 'Albert Camus', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26106'),
(12403, 'Ciuma alba', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25828'),
(12404, 'The Civil War a Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This beautifully written trilogy of books on the American Civil War is not only a piece of first-rate history, but also a marvelous work of literature. Shelby Foote brings a skilled novelist''s narrative power to this great epic. Many know Foote for his prominent role as a commentator on Ken Burns''s PBS series about the Civil War. These three books, however, are his legacy. His southern sympathies are apparent: the first volume opens by introducing Confederate President Jefferson Davis, rather than Abraham Lincoln. But they hardly get in the way of the great story Foote tells. This hefty three volume set should be on the bookshelf of any Civil War buff.\n  <em>\n   --John Miller\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Foote''s comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox. Collected together in a handsome boxed set, this is the perfect gift for any Civil War buff.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Fort Sumter to Perryville\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters." â€”Van Allen Bradley,\n  <em>\n   Chicago Daily News\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Anyone who wants to relive the Civil War, as thousands of Americans apparently do, will go through this volume with pleasure.... Years from now, Foote''s monumental narrative most likely will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind." â€”_New York Herald Tribune Book Review _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Fredericksburg to Meridian\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "This, then, is narrative historyâ€”a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time." â€”_The Washington Post Book World _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist''s skill in directing the reader''s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be bettered." â€”_Atlantic _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Red River to Appomattox\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  "An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist." â€”Walker Percy\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant''s and Lee''s armies.... Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject.... It stands alongside the work of the best of them." â€”_New Republic_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14594'),
(12405, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1954, Shelby Foote was a young novelist with a contract to write a short history of the Civil War. It soon became clear, however, that he had undertaken a long-term project. Twenty years later Foote finally completed his massive and essential trilogy on the War Between the States. His three books are prose masterpieces with lively characterizations and gripping action. Although Foote never sacrifices the truth of what happened to his penchant for artistry, his skills as a novelist serve him well. Reading all three of these books will take some time, but they are worth the investment--especially if you, like Foote, have a touch of sympathy for the South''s lost cause.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Walter Millis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1279'),
(12406, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1954, Shelby Foote was a young novelist with a contract to write a short history of the Civil War. It soon became clear, however, that he had undertaken a long-term project. Twenty years later Foote finally completed his massive and essential trilogy on the War Between the States. His three books are prose masterpieces with lively characterizations and gripping action. Although Foote never sacrifices the truth of what happened to his penchant for artistry, his skills as a novelist serve him well. Reading all three of these books will take some time, but they are worth the investment--especially if you, like Foote, have a touch of sympathy for the South''s lost cause.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Walter Millis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9710'),
(12407, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1954, Shelby Foote was a young novelist with a contract to write a short history of the Civil War. It soon became clear, however, that he had undertaken a long-term project. Twenty years later Foote finally completed his massive and essential trilogy on the War Between the States. His three books are prose masterpieces with lively characterizations and gripping action. Although Foote never sacrifices the truth of what happened to his penchant for artistry, his skills as a novelist serve him well. Reading all three of these books will take some time, but they are worth the investment--especially if you, like Foote, have a touch of sympathy for the South''s lost cause.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Walter Millis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15348'),
(12408, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1954, Shelby Foote was a young novelist with a contract to write a short history of the Civil War. It soon became clear, however, that he had undertaken a long-term project. Twenty years later Foote finally completed his massive and essential trilogy on the War Between the States. His three books are prose masterpieces with lively characterizations and gripping action. Although Foote never sacrifices the truth of what happened to his penchant for artistry, his skills as a novelist serve him well. Reading all three of these books will take some time, but they are worth the investment--especially if you, like Foote, have a touch of sympathy for the South''s lost cause.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Walter Millis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23667'),
(12409, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Red River to Appomattox', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Walter Millis --_Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Walter Millis\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant''s and Lee''s armies.... Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject.... It stands alongside the work of the best of them."--_New Republic_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1280'),
(12410, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Red River to Appomattox', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Walter Millis --_Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Walter Millis\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant''s and Lee''s armies.... Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject.... It stands alongside the work of the best of them."--_New Republic_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9712');
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(12411, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Red River to Appomattox', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Walter Millis --_Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Walter Millis\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant''s and Lee''s armies.... Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject.... It stands alongside the work of the best of them."--_New Republic_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15233'),
(12412, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Red River to Appomattox', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Walter Millis --_Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters... a stirring and stupendous synthesis of history."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grand, sweeping narrative... will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Richard N. Current, N.Y. Herald Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n The Civil War:\n</p>\n<p>\n A Narrative\n</p>\n<p>\n Fredericksburg to Meridian\n</p>\n<p>\n "This, then, is narrative history -- a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition... The writing is superb ... one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- T. Harry Williams, Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n "The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist''s feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian''s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Walter Millis\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant''s and Lee''s armies.... Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject.... It stands alongside the work of the best of them."--_New Republic_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23664'),
(12413, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Shelby Foote', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; ">\n  FREDERICKSBURG TO MERIDIAN\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist''s skill in directing the reader''s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better."--\n  <em>\n   Atlantic\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Focused on the pivotal year of 1863 the second volume of Shelby Foote''s masterful narrative history brings to life some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War including the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant"s Vicksburg campaign. "Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist"s skill in directing the reader"s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better." -The Atlantic "Though the events of this middle year of the Civil War have been recounted hundreds of times they have rarely been re-created with such vigor and such picturesque detail." -The New York Times Book Review "The lucidity of the battle narratives the vigor of the prose the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting are all controlled by constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist"s feeling for character and situation without losing the historian"s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequaled." -Walter Mills\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1282'),
(12414, 'The Civil War, a Narrative: Shelby Foote', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; ">\n  FREDERICKSBURG TO MERIDIAN\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist''s skill in directing the reader''s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better."--\n  <em>\n   Atlantic\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Focused on the pivotal year of 1863 the second volume of Shelby Foote''s masterful narrative history brings to life some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War including the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant"s Vicksburg campaign. "Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist"s skill in directing the reader"s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better." -The Atlantic "Though the events of this middle year of the Civil War have been recounted hundreds of times they have rarely been re-created with such vigor and such picturesque detail." -The New York Times Book Review "The lucidity of the battle narratives the vigor of the prose the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting are all controlled by constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist"s feeling for character and situation without losing the historian"s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequaled." -Walter Mills\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9711'),
(12415, 'The Civil War: A Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian', 'Shelby Foote', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; ">\n  FREDERICKSBURG TO MERIDIAN\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist''s skill in directing the reader''s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better."--\n  <em>\n   Atlantic\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Focused on the pivotal year of 1863 the second volume of Shelby Foote''s masterful narrative history brings to life some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War including the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant"s Vicksburg campaign. "Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist"s skill in directing the reader"s attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better." -The Atlantic "Though the events of this middle year of the Civil War have been recounted hundreds of times they have rarely been re-created with such vigor and such picturesque detail." -The New York Times Book Review "The lucidity of the battle narratives the vigor of the prose the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting are all controlled by constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist"s feeling for character and situation without losing the historian"s scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequaled." -Walter Mills\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23042'),
(12416, 'Civilian Slaughter', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A shaky truce has been called, and Major Revell''s Special Combat Company has been assigned mundane duties. But when evidence turns up of civilians being slaughtered by a KGB battalion, Revell and his men take matters into their own hands, waging merciless war on the vicious Reds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4764'),
(12417, 'Civilian Slaughter', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A shaky truce has been called, and Major Revell''s Special Combat Company has been assigned mundane duties. But when evidence turns up of civilians being slaughtered by a KGB battalion, Revell and his men take matters into their own hands, waging merciless war on the vicious Reds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19897'),
(12418, 'Civilization: The West and the Rest', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ferguson is the most brilliant British historian of his generation ... he writes with splendid panache The Times  One of the world''s leading historians -- Hamish McRae Independent  [Praise for The Ascent of Money] Beautifully written... Breathtakingly clever -- Martin Van Weyer Sunday Telegraph  [Praise for The Ascent of Money] The tales he tells of boom and bust, of triumph and disaster, of bubbles that inflate... are the very essence of financial history -- Bill Emmott Financial Times  [Praise for The Ascent of Money]  An often enlightening and enjoyable tour through the underside of great events, a lesson in how the most successful great powers have always been underpinned by smart money\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2568'),
(12419, 'Civilization: The West and the Rest', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ferguson is the most brilliant British historian of his generation ... he writes with splendid panache The Times  One of the world''s leading historians -- Hamish McRae Independent  [Praise for The Ascent of Money] Beautifully written... Breathtakingly clever -- Martin Van Weyer Sunday Telegraph  [Praise for The Ascent of Money] The tales he tells of boom and bust, of triumph and disaster, of bubbles that inflate... are the very essence of financial history -- Bill Emmott Financial Times  [Praise for The Ascent of Money]  An often enlightening and enjoyable tour through the underside of great events, a lesson in how the most successful great powers have always been underpinned by smart money\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9610'),
(12420, 'Civilization: The West and the Rest', 'Niall Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Ferguson is the most brilliant British historian of his generation ... he writes with splendid panache The Times One of the world''s leading historians -- Hamish McRae Independent [Praise for The Ascent of Money] Beautifully written... Breathtakingly clever -- Martin Van Weyer Sunday Telegraph [Praise for The Ascent of Money] The tales he tells of boom and bust, of triumph and disaster, of bubbles that inflate... are the very essence of financial history -- Bill Emmott Financial Times [Praise for The Ascent of Money] An often enlightening and enjoyable tour through the underside of great events, a lesson in how the most successful great powers have always been underpinned by smart money\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22219'),
(12421, 'Claimed by a Scottish Lord', 'Melody Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Dragon''s Captive\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Raised behind the walls of Hope Abbey, Rose Lancaster''s sheltered upbringing never prepared her for a man like Lord Roxburghe. The fabled "Black Dragon," Ruark Kerr hasn''t been seen in his Scottish homeland for more than a decadeâ€”and now he has burst into Rose''s world to take her hostage, intending to trade her for the life of his young brother. But Rose does not fear this savage, powerful lord . . . and she guards a dangerous secret.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Villainy called Ruark back to the borderlands, but now that he''s claimed his "prize" his path is less certain. If he does not turn her over to his enemy, a boy may die. Yet gentle, lovely Rose soothes his vengeful spirit, and the longer she remains with him, the hotter his passion for her burns.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2948'),
(12422, 'Claimed by a Scottish Lord', 'Melody Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Dragon''s Captive Raised behind the walls of Hope Abbey, Rose Lancaster''s sheltered upbringing never prepared her for a man like Lord Roxburghe. The fabled "Black Dragon," Ruark Kerr hasn''t been seen in his Scottish homeland for more than a decadeâ€”and now he has burst into Rose''s world to take her hostage, intending to trade her for the life of his young brother. But Rose does not fear this savage, powerful lord . . . and she guards a dangerous secret. Villainy called Ruark back to the borderlands, but now that he''s claimed his "prize" his path is less certain. If he does not turn her over to his enemy, a boy may die. Yet gentle, lovely Rose soothes his vengeful spirit, and the longer she remains with him, the hotter his passion for her burns.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21934'),
(12423, 'The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty', 'Anne Rice &amp; A. N. Roquelaure', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The first of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty\n</p>\n<p>\n "Something very special...at once so light and yet so haunting." -The Advocate\n</p>\n<p>\n In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind''s unconscious. Now Anne Rice''s retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty''s complete and total enslavement to him...as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic." -Playboy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7559'),
(12424, 'The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty', 'Anne Rice &amp; A. N. Roquelaure', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The first of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty\n</p>\n<p>\n "Something very special...at once so light and yet so haunting." -The Advocate\n</p>\n<p>\n In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind''s unconscious. Now Anne Rice''s retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty''s complete and total enslavement to him...as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic." -Playboy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12127'),
(12425, 'The claiming of Sleeping Beauty', 'Anne Rice; A. N. Roquelaure', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The first of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty\n</p>\n<p>\n "Something very special...at once so light and yet so haunting." -The Advocate\n</p>\n<p>\n In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind''s unconscious. Now Anne Rice''s retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty''s complete and total enslavement to him...as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic." -Playboy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16391'),
(12426, 'The Clan of the Cave Bear', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14671'),
(12427, 'The Clan of the Cave Bear: A Novel', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although\n  <em>\n   --Sara Nickerson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Imaginative, exciting."\n  <br />\n  --_The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Jean Auel has performed a minor miracle."\n  <br />\n  --_San Francisco Chronicle\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4605'),
(12428, 'The Clan of the Cave Bear: A Novel', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although\n  <em>\n   --Sara Nickerson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Imaginative, exciting."\n  <br />\n  --_The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Jean Auel has performed a minor miracle."\n  <br />\n  --_San Francisco Chronicle\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8231'),
(12429, 'The clan of the cave bear: a novel', 'Jean M. Auel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although\n  <em>\n   --Sara Nickerson\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Imaginative, exciting."\n  <br />\n  --_The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Jean Auel has performed a minor miracle."\n  <br />\n  --_San Francisco Chronicle\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19983'),
(12430, 'Clandestine', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950''s -- a town blinded to its own grime by Hollywood glitter; a society nourished by newspaper lies that wants its heroes all-American and squeaky clean. A chance to lead on a possible serial killing is all it takes to fuel Underhill''s reckless ambition - and it propels him into a dangerous alliance with certain mad and unstable elements of the law enforcement hierarchy. When the case implodes with disastrous consequences, it is Fred Underhill who takes the fall. His life is in ruins, his promising future suddenly a dream of the past. And his good and pure love for a crusading woman lawyer has been corrupted and may not survive. But even without the authority of a badge, Fred Underhill knows that his only hope for redemption lies in following the investigation to its grim conclusion. And the Hell to which he has been consigned for his sins is the perfect place to hunt for a killer who hungers but has no soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18193'),
(12431, 'Clans of the Alphane Moon', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks theyâ€™ll be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward. Nor do they suspect that Chuckâ€™s new employer, the famous TV comedian Bunny Hentman, will also be there aiming his own laser gun. How things came to such a darkly hilarious pass is the subject of Clans of the Alphane Moon, an astutely shrewd and acerbic tale that blurs all conventional distinctions between sanity and madness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2060'),
(12432, 'Clans of the Alphane Moon', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks theyâ€™ll be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward. Nor do they suspect that Chuckâ€™s new employer, the famous TV comedian Bunny Hentman, will also be there aiming his own laser gun. How things came to such a darkly hilarious pass is the subject of Clans of the Alphane Moon, an astutely shrewd and acerbic tale that blurs all conventional distinctions between sanity and madness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9251'),
(12433, 'Clans of the Alphane moon', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks theyâ€™ll be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward. Nor do they suspect that Chuckâ€™s new employer, the famous TV comedian Bunny Hentman, will also be there aiming his own laser gun. How things came to such a darkly hilarious pass is the subject of Clans of the Alphane Moon, an astutely shrewd and acerbic tale that blurs all conventional distinctions between sanity and madness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22702'),
(12434, 'Clans of the Alphane moon', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks theyâ€™ll be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward. Nor do they suspect that Chuckâ€™s new employer, the famous TV comedian Bunny Hentman, will also be there aiming his own laser gun. How things came to such a darkly hilarious pass is the subject of Clans of the Alphane Moon, an astutely shrewd and acerbic tale that blurs all conventional distinctions between sanity and madness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26142'),
(12435, 'Clap Hands &amp; Sing', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Clap Hands and Sing" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection Maps in a Mirror. It was later published in his book Posing as People along with a play based on it by Scott Brick.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2370'),
(12436, 'Clap Hands &amp; Sing', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Clap Hands and Sing" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection Maps in a Mirror. It was later published in his book Posing as People along with a play based on it by Scott Brick.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22365'),
(12437, 'Clapton: The Autobiography', 'Eric Clapton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œI found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.â€With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, he is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys. Born illegitimate in 1945 and raised by his grandparents, Eric never knew his father and, until the age of nine, believed his actual mother to be his sister. In his early teens his solace was the guitar, and his incredible talent would make him a cult hero in the clubs of Britain and inspire devoted fans to scrawl â€œClapton is Godâ€ on the walls of Londonâ€™s Underground. With the formation of Cream, the world''s first supergroup, he became a worldwide superstar, but conflicting personalities tore the band apart within two years. His stints in Blind Faith, in Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, and in Derek and the Dominos were also short-lived but yielded some of the most enduring songs in history, including the classic â€œLayla.â€ During the late sixties he played as a guest with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, as well as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and longtime friend George Harrison. It was while working with the latter that he fell for Georgeâ€™s wife, Pattie Boyd, a seemingly unrequited love that led him to the depths of despair, self-imposed seclusion, and drug addiction. By the early seventies he had overcome his addiction and released the bestselling album 461 Ocean Boulevard, with its massive hit â€œI Shot the Sheriff.â€ He followed that with the platinum album Slowhand, which included â€œWonderful Tonight,â€ the touching love song to Pattie, whom he finally married at the end of 1979. A short time later, however, Eric had replaced heroin with alcohol as his preferred vice, following a pattern of behavior that not only was detrimental to his music but contributed to the eventual breakup of his marriage. In the eighties he would battle and begin his recovery from alcoholism and become a father. But just as his life was coming together, he was struck by a terrible blow: His beloved four-year-old son, Conor, died in a freak accident. At an earlier time Eric might have coped with this tragedy by fleeing into a world of addiction. But now a much stronger man, he took refuge in music, responding with the achingly beautiful â€œTears in Heaven.â€Clapton is the powerfully written story of a survivor, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success despite extraordinary demons. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5635'),
(12438, 'Clapton: The Autobiography', 'Eric Clapton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œI found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.â€With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, he is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys. Born illegitimate in 1945 and raised by his grandparents, Eric never knew his father and, until the age of nine, believed his actual mother to be his sister. In his early teens his solace was the guitar, and his incredible talent would make him a cult hero in the clubs of Britain and inspire devoted fans to scrawl â€œClapton is Godâ€ on the walls of Londonâ€™s Underground. With the formation of Cream, the world''s first supergroup, he became a worldwide superstar, but conflicting personalities tore the band apart within two years. His stints in Blind Faith, in Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, and in Derek and the Dominos were also short-lived but yielded some of the most enduring songs in history, including the classic â€œLayla.â€ During the late sixties he played as a guest with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, as well as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and longtime friend George Harrison. It was while working with the latter that he fell for Georgeâ€™s wife, Pattie Boyd, a seemingly unrequited love that led him to the depths of despair, self-imposed seclusion, and drug addiction. By the early seventies he had overcome his addiction and released the bestselling album 461 Ocean Boulevard, with its massive hit â€œI Shot the Sheriff.â€ He followed that with the platinum album Slowhand, which included â€œWonderful Tonight,â€ the touching love song to Pattie, whom he finally married at the end of 1979. A short time later, however, Eric had replaced heroin with alcohol as his preferred vice, following a pattern of behavior that not only was detrimental to his music but contributed to the eventual breakup of his marriage. In the eighties he would battle and begin his recovery from alcoholism and become a father. But just as his life was coming together, he was struck by a terrible blow: His beloved four-year-old son, Conor, died in a freak accident. At an earlier time Eric might have coped with this tragedy by fleeing into a world of addiction. But now a much stronger man, he took refuge in music, responding with the achingly beautiful â€œTears in Heaven.â€Clapton is the powerfully written story of a survivor, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success despite extraordinary demons. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8967'),
(12439, 'Clapton: The Autobiography', 'Eric Clapton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œI found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.â€With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, he is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys. Born illegitimate in 1945 and raised by his grandparents, Eric never knew his father and, until the age of nine, believed his actual mother to be his sister. In his early teens his solace was the guitar, and his incredible talent would make him a cult hero in the clubs of Britain and inspire devoted fans to scrawl â€œClapton is Godâ€ on the walls of Londonâ€™s Underground. With the formation of Cream, the world''s first supergroup, he became a worldwide superstar, but conflicting personalities tore the band apart within two years. His stints in Blind Faith, in Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, and in Derek and the Dominos were also short-lived but yielded some of the most enduring songs in history, including the classic â€œLayla.â€ During the late sixties he played as a guest with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, as well as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and longtime friend George Harrison. It was while working with the latter that he fell for Georgeâ€™s wife, Pattie Boyd, a seemingly unrequited love that led him to the depths of despair, self-imposed seclusion, and drug addiction. By the early seventies he had overcome his addiction and released the bestselling album 461 Ocean Boulevard, with its massive hit â€œI Shot the Sheriff.â€ He followed that with the platinum album Slowhand, which included â€œWonderful Tonight,â€ the touching love song to Pattie, whom he finally married at the end of 1979. A short time later, however, Eric had replaced heroin with alcohol as his preferred vice, following a pattern of behavior that not only was detrimental to his music but contributed to the eventual breakup of his marriage. In the eighties he would battle and begin his recovery from alcoholism and become a father. But just as his life was coming together, he was struck by a terrible blow: His beloved four-year-old son, Conor, died in a freak accident. At an earlier time Eric might have coped with this tragedy by fleeing into a world of addiction. But now a much stronger man, he took refuge in music, responding with the achingly beautiful â€œTears in Heaven.â€Clapton is the powerfully written story of a survivor, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success despite extraordinary demons. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18992'),
(12440, 'Clarissa Oakes', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The fifteenth Aubrey-Maturin novel in which Jack finds himself re-united with the Surprise, but dangerously out of touch with his crew. All the elements that have made Patrick O''Brian''s astonishing series one of the most highly praised works in contemporary fiction are here in Clarissa Oakes -- the narrative grip, the impeccable ear for dialogue, the humour and the unsurpassed capacity to create and recreate a rich and true friendship between two men in the late eighteenth-century. Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age and sexual frustration. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship: to his astonishment he finds that in spite of a lifetime''s experience he does not know what the foremost hands or even his own officers are thinking. They know, as he does not, that the Surprise has a stranger aboard: and what they, for their part, do not know is that the stranger is potentially as dangerous as a light in the powder magazine itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2355'),
(12441, 'Clarissa Oakes', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The fifteenth Aubrey-Maturin novel in which Jack finds himself re-united with the Surprise, but dangerously out of touch with his crew. All the elements that have made Patrick O''Brian''s astonishing series one of the most highly praised works in contemporary fiction are here in Clarissa Oakes -- the narrative grip, the impeccable ear for dialogue, the humour and the unsurpassed capacity to create and recreate a rich and true friendship between two men in the late eighteenth-century. Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age and sexual frustration. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship: to his astonishment he finds that in spite of a lifetime''s experience he does not know what the foremost hands or even his own officers are thinking. They know, as he does not, that the Surprise has a stranger aboard: and what they, for their part, do not know is that the stranger is potentially as dangerous as a light in the powder magazine itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14541'),
(12442, 'Clarissa Oakes', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The fifteenth Aubrey-Maturin novel in which Jack finds himself re-united with the Surprise, but dangerously out of touch with his crew. All the elements that have made Patrick O''Brian''s astonishing series one of the most highly praised works in contemporary fiction are here in Clarissa Oakes -- the narrative grip, the impeccable ear for dialogue, the humour and the unsurpassed capacity to create and recreate a rich and true friendship between two men in the late eighteenth-century. Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age and sexual frustration. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship: to his astonishment he finds that in spite of a lifetime''s experience he does not know what the foremost hands or even his own officers are thinking. They know, as he does not, that the Surprise has a stranger aboard: and what they, for their part, do not know is that the stranger is potentially as dangerous as a light in the powder magazine itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22458'),
(12443, 'Clarkson on Cars', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jeremy Clarkson is the second-best motoring writer in Britain. For twenty years, he''s been driving cars, writing about them and occasionally voicing his opinions about them on the BBC''s Top Gear. No one in the business is taller. Here, he''s collected his best car columns and stories in which he waxes lyrical on topics as useful and diverse as: bull; the perils of bicycle ownership bull; why Australians - not Brits - need bull bars bull; why soon only geriatrics will be driving BMW''s bull; the difficulty of deciding on the best car for your wedding bull; why Jesus''s dad would have owned a Nissan Bluebird bull; and why it is bus lanes that cause traffic jams Irreverent, damn funny and offensive to almost everyone, this is writing with its foot to the floor, the brake lines cut and the speed limit smashed to smithereens. Sit back and enjoy the ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4514'),
(12444, 'A Clash of Kings', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is the second volume in GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S magnificent cycle of novels that includes **A Game of Thrones** and **A Storm of Swords**. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.**A CLASH OF KINGS**A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leadersâ€”Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheonâ€”who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5407');
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(12446, 'A Clash of Kings', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14505'),
(12447, 'A Clash of Kings', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Here is the second volume in GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S magnificent cycle of novels that includes **A Game of Thrones** and **A Storm of Swords**. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.**A CLASH OF KINGS**A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leadersâ€”Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheonâ€”who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19251'),
(12448, 'A Clash of Kings', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is the second volume in GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S magnificent cycle of novels that includes **A Game of Thrones** and **A Storm of Swords**. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.**A CLASH OF KINGS**A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leadersâ€”Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheonâ€”who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27988'),
(12449, 'A Clash of Kings', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Here is the second volume in GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S magnificent cycle of novels that includes **A Game of Thrones** and **A Storm of Swords**. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.**A CLASH OF KINGS**A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leadersâ€”Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheonâ€”who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28006'),
(12450, 'Clash of the Geeks', 'John Scalzi;Wil Wheaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi and Subterranean Press are proud to announce the publication of Clash of the Geeks, a special and fantastical electronic chapbook featuring stories by Wheaton, Scalzi, New York Times bestseller Patrick Rothfuss, Norton Award winner and Hugo Best Novel nominee Catherynne M. Valente, Hugo and Nebula Award nominee Rachel Swirsky and others, for the benefit of the Michigan/Indiana affiliate of the Lupus Alliance of America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25490'),
(12451, 'Classic English Mystery and Detective Stories', 'Julian Hawthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When you''re in the mood for suspense, nothing delivers like a collection of mystery and detective stories. These tales have been culled from the golden age of the genre, when masters like Charles Dickens, Thomas De Quincey, Laurence Sterne, and William Makepeace Thackeray were producing stories at a rapid clip to satisfy millions of devoted readers. Curl up with Classic English Mystery and Detective Stories tonight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20155'),
(12452, 'Classic Mystery Collection - Illustrated - Crime, Suspense, Detective fiction. (100+ works) including The Complete Collection of Sherlock Holmes, ... Agatha Christie, Sax Rohmer &amp; more (mobi)', 'Christie, Agatha &amp; Collins, Wilkie &amp; Chesterton, Gilbert Keith &amp; Balzac, Honore de &amp; Others', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Indulge Yourself with the best Illustrated Classic Mystery Collection on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Free stories in the trial version.\n</p>\n<p>\n <b>\n  Features\n </b>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Intuitive navigation.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Searchable and interlinked.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Open the book you want to read with one click.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Illustrations by Signey Paget, Alonzo Kimball, Aubrey Beardsley and more.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Make bookmarks, notes, highlights.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Text annotation and mark-up.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Access the guide anytime, anywhere.\n </li>\n <li>\n  Automatic synchronization between the handheld and the desktop PC. You could read half of the book on the handheld, then finish reading on the desktop. Annotations and drawings are also synchronized.\n  <br />\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <b>\n  Table of Contents\n </b>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  List of Works by Author\n </li>\n <li>\n  List of Works in Alphabetical Order\n </li>\n <li>\n  List of Illustrations\n </li>\n <li>\n  Authors'' Biographies\n </li>\n <li>\n  About and Navigation\n </li>\n</ul>\n<b>\n List of Works by Author\n</b>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Honore De Balzac\n  </b>\n  An Historical Mystery\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   John Buchan\n  </b>\n  The Thirty-Nine Steps\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Egerton Castle\n  </b>\n  The Baron''s Quarry\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Edmund Clerihew Bentley\n  </b>\n  Trent''s Last Case\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Gilbert Keith Chesterton\n   <br />\n  </b>\n  The Man Who Knew Too Much\n  <br />\n  The Man Who Was Thursday\n  <b>\n   <br />\n   Father Brown:\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  The Innocence of Father Brown\n  <br />\n  The Wisdom of Father Brown\n  <br />\n  The Incredulity of Father Brown\n  <br />\n  The Secret of Father Brown\n  <br />\n  The Scandal of Father Brown\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Robert Erskine Childers\n  </b>\n  Riddle of the Sands\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Agatha Christie\n   <br />\n  </b>\n  The Mysterious Affair at Styles\n  <i>\n   <br />\n  </i>\n  The Secret Adversary\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Wilkie Collins\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  The Dream Woman\n  <br />\n  The Haunted Hotel\n  <br />\n  "I Say No."\n  <br />\n  The Moonstone\n  <br />\n  Miss or Mrs.?\n  <br />\n  The Queen of Hearts\n  <br />\n  The Traveller''s Story of a Very Strange Bed\n  <br />\n  The Woman in White\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Charles Dickens\n  </b>\n  The Mystery of Edwin Drood\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Arthur Conan Doyle\n  </b>\n </li>\n <li>\n  The Mystery of Cloomber\n  <br />\n  <b>\n   The Complete Collection of Sherlock Holmes\n   <br />\n  </b>\n  A Study in Scarlet\n  <br />\n  The Sign of Four\n  <br />\n  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes\n  <br />\n  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes\n  <br />\n  The Hound of the Baskervilles\n  <br />\n  The Return of Sherlock Holmes\n  <br />\n  The Valley of Fear\n  <br />\n  His Last Bow\n  <br />\n  The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Anna Katharine Green\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  Agatha Webb\n  <br />\n  Initials Only\n  <br />\n  The Millionaire Baby\n  <br />\n  The Mill Mystery\n  <br />\n  The Mystery Of The Hasty Arrow\n  <br />\n  A Strange Disappearance\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Arthur Griffiths\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  The Rome Express\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Thomas Hardy\n  </b>\n  The Three Strangers\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Jacques Futrelle\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  Elusive Isabel\n  <br />\n  The Problem of Cell 13\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Gaston Leroux\n  </b>\n  The Mystery of the Yellow Room\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Marie Belloc Lowndes\n  </b>\n  The Lodger\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Alan Alexander Milne\n  </b>\n  The Red House Mystery\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Edgar Allan Poe\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  The Murders in the Rue Morgue\n  <br />\n  The Mystery of Marie RogÃªt\n  <br />\n  The Purloined Letter\n  <br />\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Ernest Robertson Punshon\n  </b>\n  The Bittermeads Mystery\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood\n  </b>\n  <br />\n  The Bat\n  <br />\n  The Circular Staircase\n  <br />\n  The Confession\n  <br />\n  Dangerous Days\n  <br />\n  The Man In Lower Ten\n  <br />\n  The Street Of Seven Stars\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Sax Rohmer\n   <br />\n  </b>\n  Bat Wing\n  <br />\n  Dope\n  <br />\n  The Insidious Dr. Fu-manchu\n  <br />\n  The Return of Dr. Fu-manchu\n  <br />\n  The Golden Scorpion\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Melvin Linwood\n  </b>\n  <b>\n   Severy\n  </b>\n  The Darrow Enigma\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Chester K. Steele\n  </b>\n  The Golf Course Mystery\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Burton Egbert Stevenson\n  </b>\n  The Gloved Hand\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Robert Louis Stevenson\n  </b>\n  The Pavilion on the Links\n </li>\n <li>\n  <b>\n   Rex Stout\n  </b>\n  Under The Andes\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15630'),
(12453, 'The Classic Mystery Collection', 'Arthur Conan Doyle &amp; Agatha Christie &amp; Charles Dickens &amp; Honore De Balzac &amp; Wilkie Collins &amp; Mary Roberts Rinehart &amp; Edgar Allan Poe &amp; Gilbert Keith Chesterton &amp; Sax Rohmer &amp; Anna Katharine Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With ATOC (active table of contents):\n</p>\n<p>\n An Historical Mystery Honore De Balzac\n <br />\n The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan\n <br />\n The Baron''s Quarry Egerton Castle\n <br />\n Trent''s Last Case Edmund Clerihew Bentley\n <br />\n Gilbert Keith Chesterton\n <br />\n The Man Who Knew Too Much\n <br />\n The Man Who Was Thursday\n <br />\n Father Brown:\n <br />\n The Innocence of Father Brown\n <br />\n The Wisdom of Father Brown\n <br />\n Riddle of the Sands Robert Erskine Childers\n <br />\n Agatha Christie\n <br />\n The Mysterious Affair at Styles\n <br />\n The Secret Adversary\n <br />\n Wilkie Collins\n <br />\n The Dream Woman\n <br />\n The Haunted Hotel\n <br />\n The Moonstone\n <br />\n The Queen of Hearts\n <br />\n The Woman in White\n <br />\n The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens\n <br />\n Arthur Conan Doyle\n <br />\n The Mystery of Cloomber\n <br />\n The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes\n <br />\n The Return of Sherlock Holmes\n <br />\n Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes\n <br />\n A Study in Scarlet\n <br />\n The Sign of the Four\n <br />\n The Hound of the Baskervilles\n <br />\n The Valley of Fear\n <br />\n His Last Bow\n <br />\n Anna Katharine Green\n <br />\n Agatha Webb\n <br />\n Initials Only\n <br />\n The Millionaire Baby\n <br />\n The Mill Mystery\n <br />\n The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow\n <br />\n A Strange Disappearance\n <br />\n The Rome Express Arthur Griffiths\n <br />\n The Three Strangers Thomas Hardy\n <br />\n Elusive Isabel Jacques Futrelle\n <br />\n The Mystery of the Yellow Room Gaston Leroux\n <br />\n The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes\n <br />\n The Red House Mystery Alan Alexander Milne\n <br />\n Edgar Allan Poe\n <br />\n The Murders in the Rue Morgue\n <br />\n The Mystery of Marie Roget\n <br />\n The Purloined Letter\n <br />\n The Bittermeads Mystery Ernest Robertson Punshon\n <br />\n Mary Roberts Rinehart\n <br />\n The Bat\n <br />\n The Circular Staircase\n <br />\n The Confession\n <br />\n Dangerous Days\n <br />\n The Man in Lower Ten\n <br />\n The Street of Seven Stars\n <br />\n Sax Rohmer\n <br />\n Bat Wing\n <br />\n The Hand Of Fu-Manchu\n <br />\n The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu\n <br />\n The Golden Scorpion\n <br />\n The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy\n <br />\n The Golf Course Mystery Chester K. Steele\n <br />\n The Pavilion on the Links Robert Louis Stevenson\n <br />\n Under the Andes Rex Stout\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7461'),
(12454, 'The Classical World', 'Robin Lane Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Robin Lane Fox''s The Classical World brings together the epic histories of Greece and Rome. His panoramic account spans centuries of change, from the foundation of the world''s first democracy to the expansion of the Roman Empire, and brings to life such great figures as Homer, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus. Spellbinding and stimulating, it illuminates two civilizations that dominated the ancient world and still inspire and enlighten us today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1539'),
(12455, 'The Classical World', 'Robin Lane Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Robin Lane Fox''s The Classical World brings together the epic histories of Greece and Rome. His panoramic account spans centuries of change, from the foundation of the world''s first democracy to the expansion of the Roman Empire, and brings to life such great figures as Homer, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus. Spellbinding and stimulating, it illuminates two civilizations that dominated the ancient world and still inspire and enlighten us today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9777'),
(12456, 'The Classical World', 'Robin Lane Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Robin Lane Fox''s The Classical World brings together the epic histories of Greece and Rome. His panoramic account spans centuries of change, from the foundation of the world''s first democracy to the expansion of the Roman Empire, and brings to life such great figures as Homer, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus. Spellbinding and stimulating, it illuminates two civilizations that dominated the ancient world and still inspire and enlighten us today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23401'),
(12457, 'Clauda Kishi, Middle School Dropout', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15829'),
(12458, 'Claudia Kishi, Live from Wsto!', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15775'),
(12459, 'Claudia,Mean Janine', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15830'),
(12460, 'Claudia,The Bad Joke', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15831'),
(12461, 'Claudia,the First Thanksgiving', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15832'),
(12462, 'Claudia,The Genius On Elm Street', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15833'),
(12463, 'Claudia,the Middle School Mystery', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15834'),
(12464, 'Claudia,The Mystery At The Museum', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15835'),
(12465, 'Claudia,The New Girl', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15836'),
(12466, 'Claudia,The Phantom Phone Calls', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15837'),
(12467, 'Claudia,The Sad Goodbye', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15838'),
(12468, 'Claudia,The Terrible Truth', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15774'),
(12469, 'Claudia&#39;s Big Party', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15776'),
(12470, 'Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Working up the corporate ladder is all well and good for most people, but you are not "most people." You are a highly motivated individual who wants to be on the fast track, and you cannot afford to fritter away valuable time working diligently and competently on the job. You need Dave Barry''s surefire tips in Claw Your Way to the Top!* "A good resume is more than just a piece of paper. It can mean the difference between not getting a job and not even coming close."* "Can you get a job in business? Heck yes! Don''t you listen to those Negative Nellies who tell you there aren''t any good jobs anymore, just because the steel, automobile, shoe, clothing, railroad, and agricultural industries have all collapsed!"* "I don''t mean to suggest for a moment that all it takes to be a top executive is a custom-tailored European suit. You also need the correct shirt and tie."* "Remember, your subordinates are not machines. They are human beings with the same dreams as you. OK, maybe not all the same dreams. Probably they don''t have the one where you''re naked in a vat of Yoo-Hoo with the Soviet gymnastics team."* "Ask any business school professor, and he''ll tell you a good memo is clear, concise, and well-organized. Now ask him what his annual salary is. It''s probably less than most top executives spend in a month on shoe maintenance."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25900'),
(12471, 'Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body&#39;s Natural Ability to Heal Itself', 'Alejandro Junger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA whole-body, whole-foods plan...designed by a cleansing expert.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlejandro Junger, a hypercharismatic Uruguayan, is poised to become the detox movementâ€™s It Boyâ€ (Elle )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThrough â€œCleanâ€ Dr. Junger teaches us methods of cleansing, not only our physical bodies but also cleansing as a way of life-he shows us the power we have on a day-to-day basis to strive to be the healthiest, positive most beautiful beings possible.â€ (Donna Karan )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Clean program works.... I have turned many of my friends on to this program and each one has experienced profound benefits, from weight loss to mental clarity to the end of chronic depression. The wisdom and information contained in this book is deeply helpful and life changing.â€ (Gwyneth Paltrow )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have seen the incredible results of the CLEAN program with hundreds of patients, from changing their relationship to food, to weight loss to improving health to enjoying life again. If you want to achieve any of these, CLEAN is the book for you.â€ (Frank Lipman, M.D. author of SPENT )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an acute understanding of the interconnectedness of body and mind, CLEAN presents a view of detoxification as a spiritual as well as physical necessity. Dr. Junger has given us a roadmap not only to greater health but also to greater joy.â€ (Marianne Williamson, author of The Age of Miracles )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œClean is a masterpiece of healing... Dr. Junger shows us how we donâ€™t have to suffer any longer, nor feel tired, sick and weighed down with the sludge of modern life. You will discover that you didnâ€™t know how badly you felt, once you have gotten Clean.â€ (Mark Hyman, MD, Author of the New York Times best-seller The UltraMind Solution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI am a /CLEAN/ believer, and I recommend its study and practice with the greatest confidence and enthusiasm.â€ (Robert Thurman, author of Inner Revolution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlejandro Junger, M.D., is his message â€“ brilliant, compassionate and embodied. Clean is visionary medicine, an initiation into the spirit of healing and its authorâ€™s credentials prove that science and spirituality are finally dancing cheek to cheek. â€ (Gabrielle Roth, author of Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How many of us can honestly say we do not suffer from at least one of the following:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Colds or viruses each year\n </li>\n <li>\n  Allergies or hay fever\n </li>\n <li>\n  Extra pounds that won''t come off\n </li>\n <li>\n  Restless nights\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recurrent indigestion, constipation, or irritable bowel syndrome\n </li>\n <li>\n  Itchy skin, acne, or any other troubling skin condition\n </li>\n <li>\n  Depression, anxiety, or frequent fatigue\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you were to seek medical advice for any of the above, you would likely be prescribed pills, topical lotions, injections, or even surgery. Such treatments are used to manage the symptoms and do not address the root of the problem. Too often, doctors treat these common ailments as inevitable costs of living a modern life. The result is a patchwork approach to health care that has become the norm.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n , a New York City cardiologist and a leader in the field of integrative medicine, Dr. Alejandro Junger offers a major medical breakthrough. Dr. Junger argues that the majority of these common ailments are the direct result of toxic buildup in our systems accumulated through the course of our daily lives. As the toxicity of modern life increases and disrupts our systems on a daily basis, bombarding us through our standard American diet and chemical-filled environments, our ability to handle the load hasn''t accelerated at the same rapid pace. The toxins are everywhere, but\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n offers a solution.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n is an M.D.''s program that provides all the tools necessary to support and reactivate our detoxification system to its fullest capabilities, and can be easily incorporated into a busy schedule. The effect is transformative: nagging health problems will suddenly disappear, extra weight will drop away, and for the first time in our lives we will experience what it truly means to feel healthy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Every day spent on the Clean program is a major step in healing not just the symptom but the root of the problem, effectively and simply. Dr. Junger''s life-changing program restores what rightfully belongs to youâ€”your health, vitality, and peace of mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7846'),
(12472, 'Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body&#39;s Natural Ability to Heal Itself', 'Alejandro Junger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA whole-body, whole-foods plan...designed by a cleansing expert.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlejandro Junger, a hypercharismatic Uruguayan, is poised to become the detox movementâ€™s It Boyâ€ (Elle )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThrough â€œCleanâ€ Dr. Junger teaches us methods of cleansing, not only our physical bodies but also cleansing as a way of life-he shows us the power we have on a day-to-day basis to strive to be the healthiest, positive most beautiful beings possible.â€ (Donna Karan )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Clean program works.... I have turned many of my friends on to this program and each one has experienced profound benefits, from weight loss to mental clarity to the end of chronic depression. The wisdom and information contained in this book is deeply helpful and life changing.â€ (Gwyneth Paltrow )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have seen the incredible results of the CLEAN program with hundreds of patients, from changing their relationship to food, to weight loss to improving health to enjoying life again. If you want to achieve any of these, CLEAN is the book for you.â€ (Frank Lipman, M.D. author of SPENT )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an acute understanding of the interconnectedness of body and mind, CLEAN presents a view of detoxification as a spiritual as well as physical necessity. Dr. Junger has given us a roadmap not only to greater health but also to greater joy.â€ (Marianne Williamson, author of The Age of Miracles )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œClean is a masterpiece of healing... Dr. Junger shows us how we donâ€™t have to suffer any longer, nor feel tired, sick and weighed down with the sludge of modern life. You will discover that you didnâ€™t know how badly you felt, once you have gotten Clean.â€ (Mark Hyman, MD, Author of the New York Times best-seller The UltraMind Solution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI am a /CLEAN/ believer, and I recommend its study and practice with the greatest confidence and enthusiasm.â€ (Robert Thurman, author of Inner Revolution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlejandro Junger, M.D., is his message â€“ brilliant, compassionate and embodied. Clean is visionary medicine, an initiation into the spirit of healing and its authorâ€™s credentials prove that science and spirituality are finally dancing cheek to cheek. â€ (Gabrielle Roth, author of Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How many of us can honestly say we do not suffer from at least one of the following:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Colds or viruses each year\n </li>\n <li>\n  Allergies or hay fever\n </li>\n <li>\n  Extra pounds that won''t come off\n </li>\n <li>\n  Restless nights\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recurrent indigestion, constipation, or irritable bowel syndrome\n </li>\n <li>\n  Itchy skin, acne, or any other troubling skin condition\n </li>\n <li>\n  Depression, anxiety, or frequent fatigue\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you were to seek medical advice for any of the above, you would likely be prescribed pills, topical lotions, injections, or even surgery. Such treatments are used to manage the symptoms and do not address the root of the problem. Too often, doctors treat these common ailments as inevitable costs of living a modern life. The result is a patchwork approach to health care that has become the norm.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n , a New York City cardiologist and a leader in the field of integrative medicine, Dr. Alejandro Junger offers a major medical breakthrough. Dr. Junger argues that the majority of these common ailments are the direct result of toxic buildup in our systems accumulated through the course of our daily lives. As the toxicity of modern life increases and disrupts our systems on a daily basis, bombarding us through our standard American diet and chemical-filled environments, our ability to handle the load hasn''t accelerated at the same rapid pace. The toxins are everywhere, but\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n offers a solution.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n is an M.D.''s program that provides all the tools necessary to support and reactivate our detoxification system to its fullest capabilities, and can be easily incorporated into a busy schedule. The effect is transformative: nagging health problems will suddenly disappear, extra weight will drop away, and for the first time in our lives we will experience what it truly means to feel healthy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Every day spent on the Clean program is a major step in healing not just the symptom but the root of the problem, effectively and simply. Dr. Junger''s life-changing program restores what rightfully belongs to youâ€”your health, vitality, and peace of mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10584'),
(12473, 'Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body&#39;s Natural Ability to Heal Itself', 'Alejandro Junger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA whole-body, whole-foods plan...designed by a cleansing expert.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlejandro Junger, a hypercharismatic Uruguayan, is poised to become the detox movementâ€™s It Boyâ€ (Elle )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThrough â€œCleanâ€ Dr. Junger teaches us methods of cleansing, not only our physical bodies but also cleansing as a way of life-he shows us the power we have on a day-to-day basis to strive to be the healthiest, positive most beautiful beings possible.â€ (Donna Karan )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Clean program works.... I have turned many of my friends on to this program and each one has experienced profound benefits, from weight loss to mental clarity to the end of chronic depression. The wisdom and information contained in this book is deeply helpful and life changing.â€ (Gwyneth Paltrow )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have seen the incredible results of the CLEAN program with hundreds of patients, from changing their relationship to food, to weight loss to improving health to enjoying life again. If you want to achieve any of these, CLEAN is the book for you.â€ (Frank Lipman, M.D. author of SPENT )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an acute understanding of the interconnectedness of body and mind, CLEAN presents a view of detoxification as a spiritual as well as physical necessity. Dr. Junger has given us a roadmap not only to greater health but also to greater joy.â€ (Marianne Williamson, author of The Age of Miracles )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œClean is a masterpiece of healing... Dr. Junger shows us how we donâ€™t have to suffer any longer, nor feel tired, sick and weighed down with the sludge of modern life. You will discover that you didnâ€™t know how badly you felt, once you have gotten Clean.â€ (Mark Hyman, MD, Author of the New York Times best-seller The UltraMind Solution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI am a /CLEAN/ believer, and I recommend its study and practice with the greatest confidence and enthusiasm.â€ (Robert Thurman, author of Inner Revolution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlejandro Junger, M.D., is his message â€“ brilliant, compassionate and embodied. Clean is visionary medicine, an initiation into the spirit of healing and its authorâ€™s credentials prove that science and spirituality are finally dancing cheek to cheek. â€ (Gabrielle Roth, author of Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How many of us can honestly say we do not suffer from at least one of the following:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Colds or viruses each year\n </li>\n <li>\n  Allergies or hay fever\n </li>\n <li>\n  Extra pounds that won''t come off\n </li>\n <li>\n  Restless nights\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recurrent indigestion, constipation, or irritable bowel syndrome\n </li>\n <li>\n  Itchy skin, acne, or any other troubling skin condition\n </li>\n <li>\n  Depression, anxiety, or frequent fatigue\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you were to seek medical advice for any of the above, you would likely be prescribed pills, topical lotions, injections, or even surgery. Such treatments are used to manage the symptoms and do not address the root of the problem. Too often, doctors treat these common ailments as inevitable costs of living a modern life. The result is a patchwork approach to health care that has become the norm.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n , a New York City cardiologist and a leader in the field of integrative medicine, Dr. Alejandro Junger offers a major medical breakthrough. Dr. Junger argues that the majority of these common ailments are the direct result of toxic buildup in our systems accumulated through the course of our daily lives. As the toxicity of modern life increases and disrupts our systems on a daily basis, bombarding us through our standard American diet and chemical-filled environments, our ability to handle the load hasn''t accelerated at the same rapid pace. The toxins are everywhere, but\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n offers a solution.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n is an M.D.''s program that provides all the tools necessary to support and reactivate our detoxification system to its fullest capabilities, and can be easily incorporated into a busy schedule. The effect is transformative: nagging health problems will suddenly disappear, extra weight will drop away, and for the first time in our lives we will experience what it truly means to feel healthy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Every day spent on the Clean program is a major step in healing not just the symptom but the root of the problem, effectively and simply. Dr. Junger''s life-changing program restores what rightfully belongs to youâ€”your health, vitality, and peace of mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14558'),
(12474, 'Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body&#39;s Natural Ability to Heal Itself', 'Alejandro Junger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA whole-body, whole-foods plan...designed by a cleansing expert.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlejandro Junger, a hypercharismatic Uruguayan, is poised to become the detox movementâ€™s It Boyâ€ (Elle )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThrough â€œCleanâ€ Dr. Junger teaches us methods of cleansing, not only our physical bodies but also cleansing as a way of life-he shows us the power we have on a day-to-day basis to strive to be the healthiest, positive most beautiful beings possible.â€ (Donna Karan )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Clean program works.... I have turned many of my friends on to this program and each one has experienced profound benefits, from weight loss to mental clarity to the end of chronic depression. The wisdom and information contained in this book is deeply helpful and life changing.â€ (Gwyneth Paltrow )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have seen the incredible results of the CLEAN program with hundreds of patients, from changing their relationship to food, to weight loss to improving health to enjoying life again. If you want to achieve any of these, CLEAN is the book for you.â€ (Frank Lipman, M.D. author of SPENT )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an acute understanding of the interconnectedness of body and mind, CLEAN presents a view of detoxification as a spiritual as well as physical necessity. Dr. Junger has given us a roadmap not only to greater health but also to greater joy.â€ (Marianne Williamson, author of The Age of Miracles )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œClean is a masterpiece of healing... Dr. Junger shows us how we donâ€™t have to suffer any longer, nor feel tired, sick and weighed down with the sludge of modern life. You will discover that you didnâ€™t know how badly you felt, once you have gotten Clean.â€ (Mark Hyman, MD, Author of the New York Times best-seller The UltraMind Solution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI am a /CLEAN/ believer, and I recommend its study and practice with the greatest confidence and enthusiasm.â€ (Robert Thurman, author of Inner Revolution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlejandro Junger, M.D., is his message â€“ brilliant, compassionate and embodied. Clean is visionary medicine, an initiation into the spirit of healing and its authorâ€™s credentials prove that science and spirituality are finally dancing cheek to cheek. â€ (Gabrielle Roth, author of Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How many of us can honestly say we do not suffer from at least one of the following:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Colds or viruses each year\n </li>\n <li>\n  Allergies or hay fever\n </li>\n <li>\n  Extra pounds that won''t come off\n </li>\n <li>\n  Restless nights\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recurrent indigestion, constipation, or irritable bowel syndrome\n </li>\n <li>\n  Itchy skin, acne, or any other troubling skin condition\n </li>\n <li>\n  Depression, anxiety, or frequent fatigue\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you were to seek medical advice for any of the above, you would likely be prescribed pills, topical lotions, injections, or even surgery. Such treatments are used to manage the symptoms and do not address the root of the problem. Too often, doctors treat these common ailments as inevitable costs of living a modern life. The result is a patchwork approach to health care that has become the norm.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n , a New York City cardiologist and a leader in the field of integrative medicine, Dr. Alejandro Junger offers a major medical breakthrough. Dr. Junger argues that the majority of these common ailments are the direct result of toxic buildup in our systems accumulated through the course of our daily lives. As the toxicity of modern life increases and disrupts our systems on a daily basis, bombarding us through our standard American diet and chemical-filled environments, our ability to handle the load hasn''t accelerated at the same rapid pace. The toxins are everywhere, but\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n offers a solution.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n is an M.D.''s program that provides all the tools necessary to support and reactivate our detoxification system to its fullest capabilities, and can be easily incorporated into a busy schedule. The effect is transformative: nagging health problems will suddenly disappear, extra weight will drop away, and for the first time in our lives we will experience what it truly means to feel healthy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Every day spent on the Clean program is a major step in healing not just the symptom but the root of the problem, effectively and simply. Dr. Junger''s life-changing program restores what rightfully belongs to youâ€”your health, vitality, and peace of mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16013'),
(12475, 'Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body&#39;s Natural Ability to Heal Itself', 'Alejandro Junger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA whole-body, whole-foods plan...designed by a cleansing expert.â€ (Chicago Tribune )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlejandro Junger, a hypercharismatic Uruguayan, is poised to become the detox movementâ€™s It Boyâ€ (Elle )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThrough â€œCleanâ€ Dr. Junger teaches us methods of cleansing, not only our physical bodies but also cleansing as a way of life-he shows us the power we have on a day-to-day basis to strive to be the healthiest, positive most beautiful beings possible.â€ (Donna Karan )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe Clean program works.... I have turned many of my friends on to this program and each one has experienced profound benefits, from weight loss to mental clarity to the end of chronic depression. The wisdom and information contained in this book is deeply helpful and life changing.â€ (Gwyneth Paltrow )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have seen the incredible results of the CLEAN program with hundreds of patients, from changing their relationship to food, to weight loss to improving health to enjoying life again. If you want to achieve any of these, CLEAN is the book for you.â€ (Frank Lipman, M.D. author of SPENT )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWith an acute understanding of the interconnectedness of body and mind, CLEAN presents a view of detoxification as a spiritual as well as physical necessity. Dr. Junger has given us a roadmap not only to greater health but also to greater joy.â€ (Marianne Williamson, author of The Age of Miracles )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œClean is a masterpiece of healing... Dr. Junger shows us how we donâ€™t have to suffer any longer, nor feel tired, sick and weighed down with the sludge of modern life. You will discover that you didnâ€™t know how badly you felt, once you have gotten Clean.â€ (Mark Hyman, MD, Author of the New York Times best-seller The UltraMind Solution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI am a /CLEAN/ believer, and I recommend its study and practice with the greatest confidence and enthusiasm.â€ (Robert Thurman, author of Inner Revolution )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlejandro Junger, M.D., is his message â€“ brilliant, compassionate and embodied. Clean is visionary medicine, an initiation into the spirit of healing and its authorâ€™s credentials prove that science and spirituality are finally dancing cheek to cheek. â€ (Gabrielle Roth, author of Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n How many of us can honestly say we do not suffer from at least one of the following:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Colds or viruses each year\n </li>\n <li>\n  Allergies or hay fever\n </li>\n <li>\n  Extra pounds that won''t come off\n </li>\n <li>\n  Restless nights\n </li>\n <li>\n  Recurrent indigestion, constipation, or irritable bowel syndrome\n </li>\n <li>\n  Itchy skin, acne, or any other troubling skin condition\n </li>\n <li>\n  Depression, anxiety, or frequent fatigue\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n If you were to seek medical advice for any of the above, you would likely be prescribed pills, topical lotions, injections, or even surgery. Such treatments are used to manage the symptoms and do not address the root of the problem. Too often, doctors treat these common ailments as inevitable costs of living a modern life. The result is a patchwork approach to health care that has become the norm.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n , a New York City cardiologist and a leader in the field of integrative medicine, Dr. Alejandro Junger offers a major medical breakthrough. Dr. Junger argues that the majority of these common ailments are the direct result of toxic buildup in our systems accumulated through the course of our daily lives. As the toxicity of modern life increases and disrupts our systems on a daily basis, bombarding us through our standard American diet and chemical-filled environments, our ability to handle the load hasn''t accelerated at the same rapid pace. The toxins are everywhere, but\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n offers a solution.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Clean\n </em>\n is an M.D.''s program that provides all the tools necessary to support and reactivate our detoxification system to its fullest capabilities, and can be easily incorporated into a busy schedule. The effect is transformative: nagging health problems will suddenly disappear, extra weight will drop away, and for the first time in our lives we will experience what it truly means to feel healthy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Every day spent on the Clean program is a major step in healing not just the symptom but the root of the problem, effectively and simply. Dr. Junger''s life-changing program restores what rightfully belongs to youâ€”your health, vitality, and peace of mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26282'),
(12476, 'Clear and Present Danger', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The controversial bestseller from Tom Clancy, the all-time master of the techno-thriller. CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan joins the war on drugs. And when three American officials are assassinated in Colombia, the U.S. response is swift-and shocking.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/516'),
(12477, 'Clear and Present Danger', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The controversial bestseller from Tom Clancy, the all-time master of the techno-thriller. CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan joins the war on drugs. And when three American officials are assassinated in Colombia, the U.S. response is swift-and shocking.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8867'),
(12478, 'Clear and Present Danger', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The controversial bestseller from Tom Clancy, the all-time master of the techno-thriller. CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan joins the war on drugs. And when three American officials are assassinated in Colombia, the U.S. response is swift-and shocking.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14939'),
(12479, 'Clear and present danger', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The controversial bestseller from Tom Clancy, the all-time master of the techno-thriller. CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan joins the war on drugs. And when three American officials are assassinated in Colombia, the U.S. response is swift-and shocking.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24350');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(12480, 'Cleaving', 'Julie Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child''s Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she''d ever do-- until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir, CLEAVING. Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer''s, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs--tough, physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts. The camaraderie at Fleischer''s leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world-- from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4032'),
(12481, 'Cleaving', 'Julie Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child''s Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she''d ever do-- until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir, CLEAVING. Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer''s, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs--tough, physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts. The camaraderie at Fleischer''s leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world-- from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11952'),
(12482, 'Cleaving', 'Julie Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child''s Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she''d ever do--until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir, CLEAVING. Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer''s, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs--tough, physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts. The camaraderie at Fleischer''s leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world--from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20551'),
(12483, 'Clementine', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Maria Isabella Boyd''s success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short, a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies and Uncle Sam isn''t pleased. The Clementine is carrying a top secret load of military essentials--essentials which must be delivered to Louisville, Kentucky, without delay.Intelligence suggests that the unrelenting pursuer is a runaway slave who''s been wanted by authorities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon for fifteen years. In that time, Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey has felonied his way back and forth across the continent, leaving a trail of broken banks, stolen war machines, and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to shining sea.And now it s Maria''s job to go get him.He''s dangerous quarry and she''s a dangerous woman, but when forces conspire against them both, they take a chance and form an alliance. She joins his crew, and he uses her connections. She follows his orders. He takes her advice.And somebody, somewhere, is going to rue the day he crossed either one of them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6776'),
(12484, 'Clementine', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Maria Isabella Boyd''s success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short, a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies and Uncle Sam isn''t pleased. The Clementine is carrying a top secret load of military essentials--essentials which must be delivered to Louisville, Kentucky, without delay.Intelligence suggests that the unrelenting pursuer is a runaway slave who''s been wanted by authorities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon for fifteen years. In that time, Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey has felonied his way back and forth across the continent, leaving a trail of broken banks, stolen war machines, and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to shining sea.And now it s Maria''s job to go get him.He''s dangerous quarry and she''s a dangerous woman, but when forces conspire against them both, they take a chance and form an alliance. She joins his crew, and he uses her connections. She follows his orders. He takes her advice.And somebody, somewhere, is going to rue the day he crossed either one of them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12036'),
(12485, 'Clementine', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Maria Isabella Boyd''s success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short, a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies and Uncle Sam isn''t pleased. The Clementine is carrying a top secret load of military essentials--essentials which must be delivered to Louisville, Kentucky, without delay.Intelligence suggests that the unrelenting pursuer is a runaway slave who''s been wanted by authorities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon for fifteen years. In that time, Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey has felonied his way back and forth across the continent, leaving a trail of broken banks, stolen war machines, and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to shining sea.And now it s Maria''s job to go get him.He''s dangerous quarry and she''s a dangerous woman, but when forces conspire against them both, they take a chance and form an alliance. She joins his crew, and he uses her connections. She follows his orders. He takes her advice.And somebody, somewhere, is going to rue the day he crossed either one of them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17103'),
(12486, 'Clementine', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Maria Isabella Boyd''s success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short, a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies and Uncle Sam isn''t pleased. The Clementine is carrying a top secret load of military essentials--essentials which must be delivered to Louisville, Kentucky, without delay.Intelligence suggests that the unrelenting pursuer is a runaway slave who''s been wanted by authorities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon for fifteen years. In that time, Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey has felonied his way back and forth across the continent, leaving a trail of broken banks, stolen war machines, and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to shining sea.And now it s Maria''s job to go get him.He''s dangerous quarry and she''s a dangerous woman, but when forces conspire against them both, they take a chance and form an alliance. She joins his crew, and he uses her connections. She follows his orders. He takes her advice.And somebody, somewhere, is going to rue the day he crossed either one of them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26938'),
(12487, 'Cleopatra 7.2', 'Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Nebula Award-winning author continues the tale of Cleopatra''s resurrection as the Queen of the Nile''s DNA is blended with two present day hosts, forensic anthropologist Leda Hubbard and Egyptologist Gabriella Farouk--Cleopatra 7.1 and 7.2 respectively.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5838'),
(12488, 'Cleopatra 7.2', 'Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Nebula Award-winning author continues the tale of Cleopatra''s resurrection as the Queen of the Nile''s DNA is blended with two present day hosts, forensic anthropologist Leda Hubbard and Egyptologist Gabriella Farouk--Cleopatra 7.1 and 7.2 respectively.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18895'),
(12489, 'Cleopatra 7.2', 'Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Nebula Award-winning author continues the tale of Cleopatra''s resurrection as the Queen of the Nile''s DNA is blended with two present day hosts, forensic anthropologist Leda Hubbard and Egyptologist Gabriella Farouk--Cleopatra 7.1 and 7.2 respectively.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27693'),
(12490, 'Cleopatra: A Life', 'Stacy Schiff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cleopatras palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and she poisoned the second.Incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men.They happen, however to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a son with Caesar and - after his murder, three more with his prot_g_.Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way the supple personality has been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiffs is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1215'),
(12491, 'Cleopatra: A Life', 'Stacy Schiff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cleopatras palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and she poisoned the second.Incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men.They happen, however to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a son with Caesar and - after his murder, three more with his prot_g_.Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way the supple personality has been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiffs is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12536'),
(12492, 'Cleopatra: A Life', 'Stacy Schiff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Cleopatras palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and she poisoned the second.Incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men.They happen, however to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a son with Caesar and - after his murder, three more with his prot_g_.Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way the supple personality has been lost.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiffs is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14045'),
(12493, 'Cleopatra: A Life', 'Stacy Schiff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cleopatras palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and she poisoned the second.Incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men.They happen, however to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a son with Caesar and - after his murder, three more with his prot_g_.Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way the supple personality has been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiffs is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23704'),
(12494, 'Cleopatra&#39;s Daughter', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. Feared and hunted by the powers in Rome, the lovers choose to die by their own hands as the triumphant armies of Antony''s revengeful rival, Octavian, sweep into Egypt. Their three orphaned children are taken in chains to Rome; only two- the ten-year-old twins Selene and Alexander-survive the journey. Delivered to the household of Octavian''s sister, the siblings cling to each other and to the hope that they will return one day to their rightful place on the throne of Egypt. As they come of age, they are buffeted by the personal ambitions of Octavian''s family and court, by the ever-present threat of slave rebellion, and by the longings and desires deep within their own hearts. The fateful tale of Selene and Alexander is brought brilliantly to life in "Cleopatra''s Daughter. "Recounted in Selene''s youthful and engaging voice, it introduces a compelling cast of historical characters: Octavia, the emperor Octavian''s kind and compassionate sister, abandoned by Marc Antony for Cleopatra; Livia, Octavian''s bitter and jealous wife; Marcellus, Octavian''s handsome, flirtatious nephew and heir apparent; Tiberius, Livia''s sardonic son and Marcellus''s great rival for power; and Juba, Octavian''s watchful aide, whose honored position at court has far-reaching effects on the lives of the young Egyptian royals. Selene''s narrative is animated by the concerns of a young girl in any time and place-the possibility of finding love, the pull of friendship and family, and the pursuit of her unique interests and talents. While coping with the loss of both her family and her ancestral kingdom, Selene must find a path around the dangers of a foreign land. Her accounts of life in Rome are filled with historical details that vividly capture both the glories and horrors of the times. She dines with the empire''s most illustrious poets and politicians, witnesses the creation of the Pantheon, and navigates the colorful, crowded marketplaces of the city where Roman-style justice is meted out with merciless authority. Based on meticulous research, "Cleopatra''s Daughter "is a fascinating portrait of imperial Rome and of the people and events of this glorious and most tumultuous period in human history. Emerging from the shadows of the past, Selene, a young woman of irresistible charm and preternatural intelligence, will capture your heart. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2702'),
(12495, 'Cleopatra&#39;s Daughter', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. Feared and hunted by the powers in Rome, the lovers choose to die by their own hands as the triumphant armies of Antony''s revengeful rival, Octavian, sweep into Egypt. Their three orphaned children are taken in chains to Rome; only two- the ten-year-old twins Selene and Alexander-survive the journey. Delivered to the household of Octavian''s sister, the siblings cling to each other and to the hope that they will return one day to their rightful place on the throne of Egypt. As they come of age, they are buffeted by the personal ambitions of Octavian''s family and court, by the ever-present threat of slave rebellion, and by the longings and desires deep within their own hearts. The fateful tale of Selene and Alexander is brought brilliantly to life in "Cleopatra''s Daughter. "Recounted in Selene''s youthful and engaging voice, it introduces a compelling cast of historical characters: Octavia, the emperor Octavian''s kind and compassionate sister, abandoned by Marc Antony for Cleopatra; Livia, Octavian''s bitter and jealous wife; Marcellus, Octavian''s handsome, flirtatious nephew and heir apparent; Tiberius, Livia''s sardonic son and Marcellus''s great rival for power; and Juba, Octavian''s watchful aide, whose honored position at court has far-reaching effects on the lives of the young Egyptian royals. Selene''s narrative is animated by the concerns of a young girl in any time and place-the possibility of finding love, the pull of friendship and family, and the pursuit of her unique interests and talents. While coping with the loss of both her family and her ancestral kingdom, Selene must find a path around the dangers of a foreign land. Her accounts of life in Rome are filled with historical details that vividly capture both the glories and horrors of the times. She dines with the empire''s most illustrious poets and politicians, witnesses the creation of the Pantheon, and navigates the colorful, crowded marketplaces of the city where Roman-style justice is meted out with merciless authority. Based on meticulous research, "Cleopatra''s Daughter "is a fascinating portrait of imperial Rome and of the people and events of this glorious and most tumultuous period in human history. Emerging from the shadows of the past, Selene, a young woman of irresistible charm and preternatural intelligence, will capture your heart. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11566'),
(12496, 'Cleopatra&#39;s Daughter', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. Feared and hunted by the powers in Rome, the lovers choose to die by their own hands as the triumphant armies of Antony''s revengeful rival, Octavian, sweep into Egypt. Their three orphaned children are taken in chains to Rome; only two- the ten-year-old twins Selene and Alexander-survive the journey. Delivered to the household of Octavian''s sister, the siblings cling to each other and to the hope that they will return one day to their rightful place on the throne of Egypt. As they come of age, they are buffeted by the personal ambitions of Octavian''s family and court, by the ever-present threat of slave rebellion, and by the longings and desires deep within their own hearts. The fateful tale of Selene and Alexander is brought brilliantly to life in "Cleopatra''s Daughter. "Recounted in Selene''s youthful and engaging voice, it introduces a compelling cast of historical characters: Octavia, the emperor Octavian''s kind and compassionate sister, abandoned by Marc Antony for Cleopatra; Livia, Octavian''s bitter and jealous wife; Marcellus, Octavian''s handsome, flirtatious nephew and heir apparent; Tiberius, Livia''s sardonic son and Marcellus''s great rival for power; and Juba, Octavian''s watchful aide, whose honored position at court has far-reaching effects on the lives of the young Egyptian royals. Selene''s narrative is animated by the concerns of a young girl in any time and place-the possibility of finding love, the pull of friendship and family, and the pursuit of her unique interests and talents. While coping with the loss of both her family and her ancestral kingdom, Selene must find a path around the dangers of a foreign land. Her accounts of life in Rome are filled with historical details that vividly capture both the glories and horrors of the times. She dines with the empire''s most illustrious poets and politicians, witnesses the creation of the Pantheon, and navigates the colorful, crowded marketplaces of the city where Roman-style justice is meted out with merciless authority. Based on meticulous research, "Cleopatra''s Daughter "is a fascinating portrait of imperial Rome and of the people and events of this glorious and most tumultuous period in human history. Emerging from the shadows of the past, Selene, a young woman of irresistible charm and preternatural intelligence, will capture your heart. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22036'),
(12497, 'Click: The Magic of Instant Connections', 'Ori Brafman;Rom Brafman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n You know the feeling. You meet someone new--at a party or at work--and you just hit it off. There is an instant sense of camaraderie. In a word, you "click." From the bestselling authors of "Sway, " "Click "is a fascinating psychological investigation of the forces behind what makes us click with certain people, or become fully immersed in whatever activity or situation we''re involved in. From two co-workers who fall head over heels for each other while out to dinner and are married a month later (and fifteen years later remain just as in love), to a team of scientists who changed the world with the magic of their invention, these kinds of peak experiences, when our senses are completely focused on the moment, are something that individuals--and companies--strive to achieve. After all, when you''re in the "zone," you''re happier and more productive. Why is it that we click in certain situations and with certain people, but not with others? Can this kind of magical connection be consciously encouraged? Is there a way to create such peak experiences, whether on a date or in your job? According to Ori and Rom Brafman, there is." " In a powerful, story-driven narrative that weaves together cutting-edge research in psychology and sociology, the Brafmans explore what it means to "click": the common factors present when our brain and senses are fully engaged. They identify five "accelerators" that increase the likelihood of these kinds of magic connections in our work and relationships. From actors vying for a role on a popular TV series to police officers negotiating with hostage takers, we learn how one can foster an environment where we can click with another person and shape our thinking, behavior, and emotions. A fascinating journey into how we engage with the world around us, "Click "will transform our thinking about those moments when we are in the zone and everything seems to fall into place. Acclaim for "Sway": "A provocative new book about the psychological forces that lead us to disregard facts or logic and behave in surprisingly irrational ways." -"New York Times" "A unique and compulsively readable look at unseen behavioral trends." -"Fortune""A breathtaking book that will challenge your every thought, "Sway" hovers above the intersection of "Blink" and "Freakonomics.""--Tom Rath, coauthor of the "New York Times" #1 bestseller "How Full Is Your Bucket?""[An] engaging journey through the workings--and failings--of the mind...Their stories of senselessness...are as fascinating as the lessons we learn from them." -"Fast Company""Count me swayed--but in this instance by the pull of entirely rational forces. Ori and Rom Brafman have done a terrific job of illuminating deep-seated tendencies that skew our behavior in ways that can range from silly to deadly. We''d be fools not to learn what they have to teach us."--Robert B. Cialdini, author of "New York Times "bestseller "Influence""If you think you know how you think, you''d better think again! Take this insightful, delightful trip to the sweet spot where economics, psychology, and sociology converge, and you''ll discover how our all-too-human minds actually work."--Alan M. Webber, founding editor of "Fast Company"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21567'),
(12498, 'The Client', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, twoÂ Â boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to theÂ Â curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brotherÂ Â were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chanceÂ Â encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowingÂ Â a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts ofÂ Â the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caughtÂ Â between a legal system gone mad and a mob killerÂ Â desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally isÂ Â a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyerÂ Â for all of four years. Prosecutors areÂ Â willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. TheÂ Â mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. AndÂ Â Reggie will do anything to protect her client --Â Â even take a last, desperate gamble that could winÂ Â Mark his freedom... or cost them both theirÂ Â lives.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4318'),
(12499, 'The client', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, twoÂ Â boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to theÂ Â curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brotherÂ Â were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chanceÂ Â encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowingÂ Â a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts ofÂ Â the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caughtÂ Â between a legal system gone mad and a mob killerÂ Â desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally isÂ Â a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyerÂ Â for all of four years. Prosecutors areÂ Â willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. TheÂ Â mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. AndÂ Â Reggie will do anything to protect her client --Â Â even take a last, desperate gamble that could winÂ Â Mark his freedom... or cost them both theirÂ Â lives.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15289'),
(12500, 'The client', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, twoÂ Â boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to theÂ Â curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brotherÂ Â were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chanceÂ Â encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowingÂ Â a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts ofÂ Â the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caughtÂ Â between a legal system gone mad and a mob killerÂ Â desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally isÂ Â a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyerÂ Â for all of four years. Prosecutors areÂ Â willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. TheÂ Â mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. AndÂ Â Reggie will do anything to protect her client --Â Â even take a last, desperate gamble that could winÂ Â Mark his freedom... or cost them both theirÂ Â lives.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21378'),
(12501, 'The Clique: Charmed and Dangerous: The Clique Prequel', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Happy New Clique! Once upon a time, in Westchester and Orlando, there were four betas just waiting for their alpha. It took a miracle to bring the Pretty Committee together--or rather, a New Year''s Yves party. Because sometimes when you meet someone, it just cliques.Massie Block: Is destined to lead, but trapped as a beta in the Ahnabees, the top clique at PMS (Presbyterian Middle School). She has ah-mazing ideas--Friday night sleepovers, Gossip Points, and atching charm bracelets. When will it be her time to rule?Alicia Rivera: Is dying to lead the Body Alive Dance Studio Squad. With the captain on vacaÂ­tion, BADSS''s live performance on Merri Lee Marvil''s New Year''s Yves show is her chance to shine. Will she prove herself alpha-worthy--or will she need to find a whole new clique?Dylan Marvil: Is done, done, and done with people kissing her teeny-tiny butt just because her mom is famous. But who would be brave enough to stand up to someone so Marvilous?Kristen Gregory: Has made a New Year''s resoÂ­lution to make friends and get a life. Escape from Planet Loser starts . . . now!Claire Lyons: Is psyched times ten to win a last-minute invitation to the New Year''s Yves satellite party in Orlando. But first she needs to sneak out of the house. And the countdown to midnight begins in ten . . . nine . . . eight . . .The Clique . . . the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3335'),
(12502, 'The Clique: Charmed and Dangerous: The Clique Prequel', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Happy New Clique! Once upon a time, in Westchester and Orlando, there were four betas just waiting for their alpha. It took a miracle to bring the Pretty Committee together--or rather, a New Year''s Yves party. Because sometimes when you meet someone, it just cliques.Massie Block: Is destined to lead, but trapped as a beta in the Ahnabees, the top clique at PMS (Presbyterian Middle School). She has ah-mazing ideas--Friday night sleepovers, Gossip Points, and atching charm bracelets. When will it be her time to rule?Alicia Rivera: Is dying to lead the Body Alive Dance Studio Squad. With the captain on vacaÂ­tion, BADSS''s live performance on Merri Lee Marvil''s New Year''s Yves show is her chance to shine. Will she prove herself alpha-worthy--or will she need to find a whole new clique?Dylan Marvil: Is done, done, and done with people kissing her teeny-tiny butt just because her mom is famous. But who would be brave enough to stand up to someone so Marvilous?Kristen Gregory: Has made a New Year''s resoÂ­lution to make friends and get a life. Escape from Planet Loser starts . . . now!Claire Lyons: Is psyched times ten to win a last-minute invitation to the New Year''s Yves satellite party in Orlando. But first she needs to sneak out of the house. And the countdown to midnight begins in ten . . . nine . . . eight . . .The Clique . . . the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10268'),
(12503, 'The Clique: Charmed and Dangerous: The Clique Prequel', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Happy New Clique! Once upon a time, in Westchester and Orlando, there were four betas just waiting for their alpha. It took a miracle to bring the Pretty Committee together--or rather, a New Year''s Yves party. Because sometimes when you meet someone, it just cliques.Massie Block: Is destined to lead, but trapped as a beta in the Ahnabees, the top clique at PMS (Presbyterian Middle School). She has ah-mazing ideas--Friday night sleepovers, Gossip Points, and atching charm bracelets. When will it be her time to rule?Alicia Rivera: Is dying to lead the Body Alive Dance Studio Squad. With the captain on vacaÂ­tion, BADSS''s live performance on Merri Lee Marvil''s New Year''s Yves show is her chance to shine. Will she prove herself alpha-worthy--or will she need to find a whole new clique?Dylan Marvil: Is done, done, and done with people kissing her teeny-tiny butt just because her mom is famous. But who would be brave enough to stand up to someone so Marvilous?Kristen Gregory: Has made a New Year''s resoÂ­lution to make friends and get a life. Escape from Planet Loser starts . . . now!Claire Lyons: Is psyched times ten to win a last-minute invitation to the New Year''s Yves satellite party in Orlando. But first she needs to sneak out of the house. And the countdown to midnight begins in ten . . . nine . . . eight . . .The Clique . . . the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21133'),
(12504, 'Cloaked', 'Alex Flinn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 6-9-Flinn reimagines a fairy-tale world in her latest novel. Teenaged Johnny works as a cobbler in his mother''s shoe repair shop in a posh hotel in South Beach. He spends his days with his friend Meg and designs his own line of shoes while dreaming of wealth to free his family from the confines of poverty. Unexpectedly, the striking Princess Victoriana of Aloria comes to the swanky Miami hotel for a royal visit. The super-hot partying princess pleads for Johnny''s help in finding her missing brother, and offers of money and a royal marriage convince him to take her seriously-even when she explains that the prince has been turned into a frog. With the aid of a magical cloak and some headphones that allow him to hear animals speak, Johnny embarks on a journey wherein he encounters talking swans, a fox named Todd, and two angry giants. When he lands in hot water with an evil witch bent on destroying him, Meg comes to his rescue. The pair journey from South Beach to Key West, to Europe, and to Manhattan; and in the end, Johnny finds wealth, fame, and true love. Flinn cleverly plays on some lesser-known fairy tales to make this book a fun, romantic adventure with likable characters. Rapid action and amusing situations make it a quick read that will easily entice even reluctant readers.-Tara Kehoe, Plainsboro Public Library, NJ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A princess, a cobbler, a witch, and modern-day South Beach mash up in Flinnï¿½s latest fairy-tale retelling. Johnny works tirelessly in a luxury hotelï¿½s shoe-repair shop, dreaming of becoming a high-end shoe designer. He sees an opportunity to get his shoes on famous feet when a hard-partying European princess moves in. Victoriana notices Johnny, too, and thinks he is just the one to find her brother, Prince Philippe, who was turned into a frog as blackmail for Victorianaï¿½s hand in marriage. She gives Johnny a fistful of cash, a transporting cloak, and an earpiece that allows him to understand animals that used to be human, which are a lot more plentiful in Florida than he ever imagined. Instead of a well-known classic, several lesser-known tales combine here to give the book a nice blend of the familiar (the frog who needs a kiss to transform) and the novel (how will a puny kid best two giants?). Readers will keep turning pages to figure out just how many transmogrifications Johnny can resolve, and whose dreams will come true. Grades 6-10. --Heather Booth\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7783'),
(12505, 'Cloaked', 'Alex Flinn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 6-9-Flinn reimagines a fairy-tale world in her latest novel. Teenaged Johnny works as a cobbler in his mother''s shoe repair shop in a posh hotel in South Beach. He spends his days with his friend Meg and designs his own line of shoes while dreaming of wealth to free his family from the confines of poverty. Unexpectedly, the striking Princess Victoriana of Aloria comes to the swanky Miami hotel for a royal visit. The super-hot partying princess pleads for Johnny''s help in finding her missing brother, and offers of money and a royal marriage convince him to take her seriously-even when she explains that the prince has been turned into a frog. With the aid of a magical cloak and some headphones that allow him to hear animals speak, Johnny embarks on a journey wherein he encounters talking swans, a fox named Todd, and two angry giants. When he lands in hot water with an evil witch bent on destroying him, Meg comes to his rescue. The pair journey from South Beach to Key West, to Europe, and to Manhattan; and in the end, Johnny finds wealth, fame, and true love. Flinn cleverly plays on some lesser-known fairy tales to make this book a fun, romantic adventure with likable characters. Rapid action and amusing situations make it a quick read that will easily entice even reluctant readers.-Tara Kehoe, Plainsboro Public Library, NJ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A princess, a cobbler, a witch, and modern-day South Beach mash up in Flinnï¿½s latest fairy-tale retelling. Johnny works tirelessly in a luxury hotelï¿½s shoe-repair shop, dreaming of becoming a high-end shoe designer. He sees an opportunity to get his shoes on famous feet when a hard-partying European princess moves in. Victoriana notices Johnny, too, and thinks he is just the one to find her brother, Prince Philippe, who was turned into a frog as blackmail for Victorianaï¿½s hand in marriage. She gives Johnny a fistful of cash, a transporting cloak, and an earpiece that allows him to understand animals that used to be human, which are a lot more plentiful in Florida than he ever imagined. Instead of a well-known classic, several lesser-known tales combine here to give the book a nice blend of the familiar (the frog who needs a kiss to transform) and the novel (how will a puny kid best two giants?). Readers will keep turning pages to figure out just how many transmogrifications Johnny can resolve, and whose dreams will come true. Grades 6-10. --Heather Booth\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9678'),
(12506, 'Cloaked', 'Alex Flinn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 6-9-Flinn reimagines a fairy-tale world in her latest novel. Teenaged Johnny works as a cobbler in his mother''s shoe repair shop in a posh hotel in South Beach. He spends his days with his friend Meg and designs his own line of shoes while dreaming of wealth to free his family from the confines of poverty. Unexpectedly, the striking Princess Victoriana of Aloria comes to the swanky Miami hotel for a royal visit. The super-hot partying princess pleads for Johnny''s help in finding her missing brother, and offers of money and a royal marriage convince him to take her seriously-even when she explains that the prince has been turned into a frog. With the aid of a magical cloak and some headphones that allow him to hear animals speak, Johnny embarks on a journey wherein he encounters talking swans, a fox named Todd, and two angry giants. When he lands in hot water with an evil witch bent on destroying him, Meg comes to his rescue. The pair journey from South Beach to Key West, to Europe, and to Manhattan; and in the end, Johnny finds wealth, fame, and true love. Flinn cleverly plays on some lesser-known fairy tales to make this book a fun, romantic adventure with likable characters. Rapid action and amusing situations make it a quick read that will easily entice even reluctant readers.-Tara Kehoe, Plainsboro Public Library, NJ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A princess, a cobbler, a witch, and modern-day South Beach mash up in Flinnï¿½s latest fairy-tale retelling. Johnny works tirelessly in a luxury hotelï¿½s shoe-repair shop, dreaming of becoming a high-end shoe designer. He sees an opportunity to get his shoes on famous feet when a hard-partying European princess moves in. Victoriana notices Johnny, too, and thinks he is just the one to find her brother, Prince Philippe, who was turned into a frog as blackmail for Victorianaï¿½s hand in marriage. She gives Johnny a fistful of cash, a transporting cloak, and an earpiece that allows him to understand animals that used to be human, which are a lot more plentiful in Florida than he ever imagined. Instead of a well-known classic, several lesser-known tales combine here to give the book a nice blend of the familiar (the frog who needs a kiss to transform) and the novel (how will a puny kid best two giants?). Readers will keep turning pages to figure out just how many transmogrifications Johnny can resolve, and whose dreams will come true. Grades 6-10. --Heather Booth\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16085'),
(12507, 'Clock Winder', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don''t have to be a perfect match to work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Anne Tyler is a magical writer."\n </p>\n <p>\n  LOS ANGELES TIMES\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don''t have to be a perfect match to work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Anne Tyler is a magical writer."\n </p>\n <p>\n  LOS ANGELES TIMES\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7574'),
(12508, 'Clock Winder', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don''t have to be a perfect match to work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Anne Tyler is a magical writer."\n </p>\n <p>\n  LOS ANGELES TIMES\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don''t have to be a perfect match to work.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Anne Tyler is a magical writer."\n </p>\n <p>\n  LOS ANGELES TIMES\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13098'),
(12509, 'Clock Winder', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don''t have to be a perfect match to work.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Anne Tyler is a magical writer."\n</p>\n<p>\n LOS ANGELES TIMES\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don''t have to be a perfect match to work.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Anne Tyler is a magical writer."\n</p>\n<p>\n LOS ANGELES TIMES\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16382'),
(12510, 'The Clocks', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Queen of Crime clocks in with a  classic of untimely demise.    At her new job, Sheila Webb finds a corpse surrounded by five clocks, each set to a different time.  Fortunately, Hercule Poirot has nothing but time to piece together one of his most puzzling cases.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7885'),
(12511, 'The Clocks', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Queen of Crime clocks in with a classic of untimely demise. At her new job, Sheila Webb finds a corpse surrounded by five clocks, each set to a different time. Fortunately, Hercule Poirot has nothing but time to piece together one of his most puzzling cases.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15999'),
(12512, 'The Clocks', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Queen of Crime clocks in with a  classic of untimely demise.    At her new job, Sheila Webb finds a corpse surrounded by five clocks, each set to a different time.  Fortunately, Hercule Poirot has nothing but time to piece together one of his most puzzling cases.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26240');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(12513, 'Clockwork Angel', 'Cassandra Clare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Magic is dangerous--but love is more dangerous still. When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London''s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos. Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What''s more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa''s power for his own. Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by--and torn between--two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm''s length . . . everyone, that is, but Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world. . . . and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6945'),
(12514, 'Clockwork Angel', 'Cassandra Clare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Magic is dangerous--but love is more dangerous still. When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London''s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos. Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What''s more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa''s power for his own. Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by--and torn between--two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm''s length . . . everyone, that is, but Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world. . . . and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16974'),
(12515, 'Clockwork Angel', 'Cassandra Clare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Magic is dangerous--but love is more dangerous still. When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London''s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos. Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What''s more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa''s power for his own. Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by--and torn between--two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm''s length . . . everyone, that is, but Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world. . . . and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26786'),
(12516, 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Anthony Burgess', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The screenplay for Stanley Kubrickâ€™s disturbing and exhilarating masterpiece, featuring 800 film stills chosen by the director.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This unique illustrated screenplay features 800 still images from â€œA Clockwork Orange,â€ selected by Stanley Kubrick when the film was first released in 1971. As Kubrick comments in his introduction: â€œI have always wondered if there might be a more meaningful way to present a book about a film. To make, as it were, a complete graphic representation of the film, cut by cut, with the dialogue printed in the proper place in relation to the cuts, so that within the limits of still photos and words, an accurate (and I hope interesting) record of a film might be availableâ€¦ This book represents that attempt.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7491'),
(12517, 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Anthony Burgess', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The screenplay for Stanley Kubrickâ€™s disturbing and exhilarating masterpiece, featuring 800 film stills chosen by the director. This unique illustrated screenplay features 800 still images from â€œA Clockwork Orange,â€ selected by Stanley Kubrick when the film was first released in 1971. As Kubrick comments in his introduction: â€œI have always wondered if there might be a more meaningful way to present a book about a film. To make, as it were, a complete graphic representation of the film, cut by cut, with the dialogue printed in the proper place in relation to the cuts, so that within the limits of still photos and words, an accurate (and I hope interesting) record of a film might be availableâ€¦ This book represents that attempt.â€ Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15267'),
(12518, 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Anthony Burgess', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Novel by Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. Set in a dismal dystopia, it is the first-person account of a juvenile delinquent who undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior. The novel satirizes extreme political systems that are based on opposing models of the perfectibility or incorrigibility of humanity. Written in a futuristic slang vocabulary invented by Burgess, in part by adaptation of Russian words, it was his most original and best-known work. Alex, the protagonist, has a passion for classical music and is a member of a vicious teenage gang that commits random acts of brutality. Captured and imprisoned, he is transformed through behavioral conditioning into a model citizen, but his taming also leaves him defenseless. He ultimately reverts to his former behavior. The final chapter of the original British edition, in which Alex renounces his amoral past, was removed when the novel was first published in the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16345'),
(12519, 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Anthony Burgess', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The screenplay for Stanley Kubrickâ€™s disturbing and exhilarating masterpiece, featuring 800 film stills chosen by the director.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This unique illustrated screenplay features 800 still images from â€œA Clockwork Orange,â€ selected by Stanley Kubrick when the film was first released in 1971. As Kubrick comments in his introduction: â€œI have always wondered if there might be a more meaningful way to present a book about a film. To make, as it were, a complete graphic representation of the film, cut by cut, with the dialogue printed in the proper place in relation to the cuts, so that within the limits of still photos and words, an accurate (and I hope interesting) record of a film might be availableâ€¦ This book represents that attempt.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Novel by Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. Set in a dismal dystopia, it is the first-person account of a juvenile delinquent who undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior. The novel satirizes extreme political systems that are based on opposing models of the perfectibility or incorrigibility of humanity. Written in a futuristic slang vocabulary invented by Burgess, in part by adaptation of Russian words, it was his most original and best-known work. Alex, the protagonist, has a passion for classical music and is a member of a vicious teenage gang that commits random acts of brutality. Captured and imprisoned, he is transformed through behavioral conditioning into a model citizen, but his taming also leaves him defenseless. He ultimately reverts to his former behavior. The final chapter of the original British edition, in which Alex renounces his amoral past, was removed when the novel was first published in the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26423'),
(12520, 'The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World', 'Edward Dolnick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For this narrative of the seventeenth centuryâ€™s scientific revolution, Dolnick embeds the mathematical discoveries of Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz in the prevailing outlook of their time. God was presumed integral to the universe, so discerning how it worked was a quest as theological as it was intellectual. By directing readers to the deistic drive in their famous achievements, Dolnick accents what otherwise strikes moderns as strange, such as Newtonâ€™s obsession with alchemy and biblical hermeneutics. Those pursuits held codes to Godâ€™s mind, as did motion and, especially, planetary motion, and Dolnickâ€™s substance follows the greatsâ€™ progress in code-breaking, depicting Keplerâ€™s mathematical thought process in devising his laws, Galileoâ€™s in breaking out the vectors of falling objects, Newtonâ€™s and Leibnizâ€™s in inventing calculus, and Newtonâ€™s in formulating his laws of gravitation. Including apt biographical detail, Dolnick humanizes the group, socializes them by means of their connections to such coevals as the members of the nascent Royal Society, and captures their mental coexistence in mysticism and rationality. A concise explainer, Dolnick furnishes a fine survey introduction to a fertile field of scientific biography and history. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAn engrossing read.â€ (_Library Journal_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA lively account of early science. . . . Colorful, entertainingly written and nicely paced.â€ (_Kirkus Reviews_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA character-rich, historical narrative.â€ (_Wall Street Journal_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Dolnick] offers penetrating portraits of the geniuses of the day . . . who offer fertile ground for entertaining writing. [He] has an eye for vivid details in aid of historical recreation, and an affection for his subjects . . . [An] informative read.â€ (_Publishers Weekly_ )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5862'),
(12521, 'The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World', 'Edward Dolnick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For this narrative of the seventeenth centuryâ€™s scientific revolution, Dolnick embeds the mathematical discoveries of Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz in the prevailing outlook of their time. God was presumed integral to the universe, so discerning how it worked was a quest as theological as it was intellectual. By directing readers to the deistic drive in their famous achievements, Dolnick accents what otherwise strikes moderns as strange, such as Newtonâ€™s obsession with alchemy and biblical hermeneutics. Those pursuits held codes to Godâ€™s mind, as did motion and, especially, planetary motion, and Dolnickâ€™s substance follows the greatsâ€™ progress in code-breaking, depicting Keplerâ€™s mathematical thought process in devising his laws, Galileoâ€™s in breaking out the vectors of falling objects, Newtonâ€™s and Leibnizâ€™s in inventing calculus, and Newtonâ€™s in formulating his laws of gravitation. Including apt biographical detail, Dolnick humanizes the group, socializes them by means of their connections to such coevals as the members of the nascent Royal Society, and captures their mental coexistence in mysticism and rationality. A concise explainer, Dolnick furnishes a fine survey introduction to a fertile field of scientific biography and history. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAn engrossing read.â€ (_Library Journal_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA lively account of early science. . . . Colorful, entertainingly written and nicely paced.â€ (_Kirkus Reviews_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA character-rich, historical narrative.â€ (_Wall Street Journal_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Dolnick] offers penetrating portraits of the geniuses of the day . . . who offer fertile ground for entertaining writing. [He] has an eye for vivid details in aid of historical recreation, and an affection for his subjects . . . [An] informative read.â€ (_Publishers Weekly_ )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10922'),
(12522, 'The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World', 'Edward Dolnick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n For this narrative of the seventeenth centuryâ€™s scientific revolution, Dolnick embeds the mathematical discoveries of Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz in the prevailing outlook of their time. God was presumed integral to the universe, so discerning how it worked was a quest as theological as it was intellectual. By directing readers to the deistic drive in their famous achievements, Dolnick accents what otherwise strikes moderns as strange, such as Newtonâ€™s obsession with alchemy and biblical hermeneutics. Those pursuits held codes to Godâ€™s mind, as did motion and, especially, planetary motion, and Dolnickâ€™s substance follows the greatsâ€™ progress in code-breaking, depicting Keplerâ€™s mathematical thought process in devising his laws, Galileoâ€™s in breaking out the vectors of falling objects, Newtonâ€™s and Leibnizâ€™s in inventing calculus, and Newtonâ€™s in formulating his laws of gravitation. Including apt biographical detail, Dolnick humanizes the group, socializes them by means of their connections to such coevals as the members of the nascent Royal Society, and captures their mental coexistence in mysticism and rationality. A concise explainer, Dolnick furnishes a fine survey introduction to a fertile field of scientific biography and history. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAn engrossing read.â€ (_Library Journal_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA lively account of early science. . . . Colorful, entertainingly written and nicely paced.â€ (_Kirkus Reviews_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA character-rich, historical narrative.â€ (_Wall Street Journal_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Dolnick] offers penetrating portraits of the geniuses of the day . . . who offer fertile ground for entertaining writing. [He] has an eye for vivid details in aid of historical recreation, and an affection for his subjects . . . [An] informative read.â€ (_Publishers Weekly_ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18760'),
(12523, 'The Cloister Walk', 'Kathleen Norris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celibate men whose days are centered around a rigid schedule of prayer, work, and scripture? This is the question that Kathleen Norris herself asks as, somewhat to her own surprise, she found herself on two extended residencies at a Benedictine monastery. Yet upon leaving the monastery, she began to feel herself transformed, and the daily events of her life on the Great Plains - from her morning walk to her going to sleep at night - gradually took on new meaning. She found that in the monastery, time slowed down, offering a new perspective on community, family, and even small-town life. By coming to understand the Benedictine practice of celibacy, she felt her own marriage enriched; through the communal reading aloud of the psalms every day, her notion of the ancient oral tradition of poetry came to life; and even the mundane task of laundry took on new meaning through the lens of Benedictine ritual. Writing with lyrical grace, Kathleen Norris here takes us through a liturgical year, as she experienced it both within the monastery and outside it. She shows us, from the rare perspective of someone who is both insider and outsider, how immersion in the cloistered world - its liturgy, its rituals, its sense of community - can impart meaning to everyday events and deepen our secular lives. Through her masterly prose and rare insight, the monastery, often considered archaic or otherworldly, becomes immediate, accessible, and relevant to us, no matter what our faith may be.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n The New York Times bestseller by the author of Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. After spending two extended residences at a Benedictine monastery, Kathleen Norris takes readers through one liturgical year--its rituals, its prayers, its daily activities. Through her accessible prose, a seemingly archaic world becomes immediate, accessible, and relevant to people of all faiths. 400 pp. Author tour. National media publicity. 85,000 print. (Inspirational)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10998'),
(12524, 'Close to Shore', 'Michael Capuzzo &amp; Mike Capuzzo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history. During the summer before the United States entered World War I, when ocean swimming was just becoming popular and luxurious Jersey Shore resorts were thriving as a chic playland for an opulent yet still innocent era''s new leisure class, Americans were abruptly introduced to the terror of sharks. In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual deep-ocean habitat and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, near the towns of Beach Haven and Spring Lake-and, incredibly, a farming community eleven miles inland-the most ferocious and unpredictable of predators began a deadly rampage: the first shark attacks on swimmers in U.S. history. For Americans celebrating an astoundingly prosperous epoch much like our own, fueled by the wizardry of revolutionary inventions, the arrival of this violent predator symbolized the limits of mankind''s power against nature.Interweaving a vivid portrait of the era and meticulously drawn characters with chilling accounts of the shark''s five attacks and the frenzied hunt that ensued, Michael Capuzzo has created a nonfiction historical thriller with the texture of Ragtime and the tension of Jaws. From the unnerving inevitability of the first attack on the esteemed son of a prosperous Philadelphia physician to the spine-tingling moment when a farm boy swimming in Matawan Creek feels the sandpaper-like skin of the passing shark, Close to Shore is an undeniably gripping saga.Heightening the drama are stories of the resulting panic in the citizenry, press and politicians, and of colorful personalities such as Herman Oelrichs, a flamboyant millionaire who made a bet that a shark was no match for a man (and set out to prove it); Museum of Natural History ichthyologist John Treadwell Nichols, faced with the challenge of stopping a mythic sea creature about which little was known; and, most memorable, the rogue Great White itself moving through a world that couldn''t conceive of either its destructive power or its moral right to destroy.Scrupulously researched and superbly written, Close to Shore brings to life a breathtaking, pivotal moment in American history. Masterfully written and suffused with fascinating period detail and insights into the science and behavior of sharks, Close to Shore recounts a breathtaking, pivotal moment in American history with startling immediacy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8096'),
(12525, 'Closer Than Blood', 'Gregg Olsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat." (Lee Child)"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first time was easy. No one ever suspected the victim had been murdered. The crime long buried, the dark passions guiding the killer''s hand are still alive. But the need for revenge cannot be denied. Only one person can stop the killing. Only one person can identify the killer. Only one person knows the face of death - is as close as the face in the mirror...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5329'),
(12526, 'Closer Than Blood', 'Gregg Olsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat." (Lee Child)"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first time was easy. No one ever suspected the victim had been murdered. The crime long buried, the dark passions guiding the killer''s hand are still alive. But the need for revenge cannot be denied. Only one person can stop the killing. Only one person can identify the killer. Only one person knows the face of death - is as close as the face in the mirror...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11675'),
(12527, 'Closer Than Blood', 'Gregg Olsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat." (Lee Child)"\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first time was easy. No one ever suspected the victim had been murdered. The crime long buried, the dark passions guiding the killer''s hand are still alive. But the need for revenge cannot be denied. Only one person can stop the killing. Only one person can identify the killer. Only one person knows the face of death - is as close as the face in the mirror...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19295'),
(12528, 'The Closers', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Harry Bosch is back with a badge. Teaming with former partner Kizmin Rider, Harry is assigned to the Open-Unsolved team. After three years out of the LAPD, Harry Bosch returns, to find the department a different place from the one he left. A new Police Chief has been brought over from New York to give the place a thorough clean up from top to bottom. Working with his former partner, Kiz Rider, Harry is assigned to the department''s Open-Unsolved Unit, working on the thousands of cold cases that haunt the LAPD''s files. These detectives are the Closers - they put a shovel in the dirt and turn over the past. By applying new techniques to old evidence they aim to unearth some hidden killers and bring them to justice, for ''a city that forgets its murder victims is a city lost.'' Harry and Kiz are given a politically sensitive case when a DNA match connects a white supremacist to the 1988 murder of Rebecca Verloren, a sixteen-year-old girl. Becky was of mixed race, and the case appears to have a racial angle. This was LA before the riots and Rodney King; the city was a powder keg waiting for a match. The detectives who worked the case all those years ago seem to have done a decent job, but something doesn''t fit. Meanwhile Harry''s nemesis, Deputy Chief Irving, is watching him. In the new ''clean'' LAPD Irving has been sidelined to a meaningless job. Compelled by vengeance, he hopes that Harry will make a slip.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14575'),
(12529, 'The closers', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Three years after leaving the LAPD, Harry is back, working with his former cop ally and partner, Kizmin Rider. Assigned to the LAPD''s Open-Unsolved Unit, Harry and Kiz are immediately thrown into a politically sensitive and dangerous case when a DNA match connects a white supremacist to the 1988 murder of a mixed race 16-year-old girl. But there are some people who want the case to remain unsolved\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21962'),
(12530, 'The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason', 'Charles Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine''s adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the Emperor Contstantine converted to Christianity in 368 AD, he changed the course of European history in ways that continue to have repercussions to the present day. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, he turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed authority, whether that of the Bible, or the writings of Ptolemy in astronomy and of Galen and Hippocrates in medicine. Only a thousand years later, with the advent of the Renaissance and the emergence of modern science, did Europe begin to free itself from the effects of Constantine''s decision, yet the effects of his establishment of Christianity as a state religion remain with us, in many respects, today. Brilliantly wide-ranging and ambitious, this is a major work of history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6939'),
(12531, 'The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason', 'Charles Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine''s adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the Emperor Contstantine converted to Christianity in 368 AD, he changed the course of European history in ways that continue to have repercussions to the present day. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, he turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed authority, whether that of the Bible, or the writings of Ptolemy in astronomy and of Galen and Hippocrates in medicine. Only a thousand years later, with the advent of the Renaissance and the emergence of modern science, did Europe begin to free itself from the effects of Constantine''s decision, yet the effects of his establishment of Christianity as a state religion remain with us, in many respects, today. Brilliantly wide-ranging and ambitious, this is a major work of history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9829'),
(12532, 'The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason', 'Charles Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine''s adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the Emperor Contstantine converted to Christianity in 368 AD, he changed the course of European history in ways that continue to have repercussions to the present day. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, he turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed authority, whether that of the Bible, or the writings of Ptolemy in astronomy and of Galen and Hippocrates in medicine. Only a thousand years later, with the advent of the Renaissance and the emergence of modern science, did Europe begin to free itself from the effects of Constantine''s decision, yet the effects of his establishment of Christianity as a state religion remain with us, in many respects, today. Brilliantly wide-ranging and ambitious, this is a major work of history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17082'),
(12533, 'The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American &#39;80s', 'Paul Slansky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A political humorist''s caustically hilarious month-by-month archive of the 1980s includes memorable photographs, newspaper headlines, press clippings, pop quizzes, outrageous quotes, bizarre facts, and implausible yet true events\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2243'),
(12534, 'The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American &#39;80s', 'Paul Slansky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A political humorist''s caustically hilarious month-by-month archive of the 1980s includes memorable photographs, newspaper headlines, press clippings, pop quizzes, outrageous quotes, bizarre facts, and implausible yet true events\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12726'),
(12535, 'The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American &#39;80s', 'Paul Slansky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A political humorist''s caustically hilarious month-by-month archive of the 1980s includes memorable photographs, newspaper headlines, press clippings, pop quizzes, outrageous quotes, bizarre facts, and implausible yet true events\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22537'),
(12536, 'Cloud Atlas: A Novel', 'David Stephen Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell''s third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Like Mitchell''s previous works,\n <em>\n  Ghostwritten\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  number9dream\n </em>\n (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), this latest foray relies on a kaleidoscopic plot structure that showcases the author''s stylistic virtuosity. Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose style, each is broken off mid-action and brought to conclusion in the second half of the book. Among the volume''s most engaging story lines is a witty 1930s-era chronicle, via letters, of a young musician''s effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer and a hilarious account of a modern-day vanity publisher who is institutionalized by a stroke and plans a madcap escape in order to return to his literary empire (such as it is). Mitchell''s ability to throw his voice may remind some readers of David Foster Wallace, though the intermittent hollowness of his ventriloquism frustrates. Still, readers who enjoy the "novel as puzzle" will find much to savor in this original and occasionally very entertaining work.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mitchell''s virtuosic novel presents six narratives that evoke an array of genres, from Melvillean high-seas drama to California noir and dystopian fantasy. There is a naÃ¯ve clerk on a nineteenth-century Polynesian voyage; an aspiring composer who insinuates himself into the home of a syphilitic genius; a journalist investigating a nuclear plant; a publisher with a dangerous best-seller on his hands; and a cloned human being created for slave labor. These five stories are bisected and arranged around a sixth, the oral history of a post-apocalyptic island, which forms the heart of the novel. Only after this do the second halves of the stories fall into place, pulling the novel''s themes into focus: the ease with which one group enslaves another, and the constant rewriting of the past by those who control the present. Against such forces, Mitchell''s characters reveal a quiet tenacity. When the clerk is told that his life amounts to "no more than one drop in a limitless ocean," he asks, "Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6200'),
(12537, 'Cloud Atlas: A Novel', 'David Stephen Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell''s third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Like Mitchell''s previous works,\n <em>\n  Ghostwritten\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  number9dream\n </em>\n (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), this latest foray relies on a kaleidoscopic plot structure that showcases the author''s stylistic virtuosity. Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose style, each is broken off mid-action and brought to conclusion in the second half of the book. Among the volume''s most engaging story lines is a witty 1930s-era chronicle, via letters, of a young musician''s effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer and a hilarious account of a modern-day vanity publisher who is institutionalized by a stroke and plans a madcap escape in order to return to his literary empire (such as it is). Mitchell''s ability to throw his voice may remind some readers of David Foster Wallace, though the intermittent hollowness of his ventriloquism frustrates. Still, readers who enjoy the "novel as puzzle" will find much to savor in this original and occasionally very entertaining work.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mitchell''s virtuosic novel presents six narratives that evoke an array of genres, from Melvillean high-seas drama to California noir and dystopian fantasy. There is a naÃ¯ve clerk on a nineteenth-century Polynesian voyage; an aspiring composer who insinuates himself into the home of a syphilitic genius; a journalist investigating a nuclear plant; a publisher with a dangerous best-seller on his hands; and a cloned human being created for slave labor. These five stories are bisected and arranged around a sixth, the oral history of a post-apocalyptic island, which forms the heart of the novel. Only after this do the second halves of the stories fall into place, pulling the novel''s themes into focus: the ease with which one group enslaves another, and the constant rewriting of the past by those who control the present. Against such forces, Mitchell''s characters reveal a quiet tenacity. When the clerk is told that his life amounts to "no more than one drop in a limitless ocean," he asks, "Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11561'),
(12538, 'Cloud Atlas: A Novel', 'David Stephen Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell''s third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Like Mitchell''s previous works,\n <em>\n  Ghostwritten\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  number9dream\n </em>\n (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), this latest foray relies on a kaleidoscopic plot structure that showcases the author''s stylistic virtuosity. Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose style, each is broken off mid-action and brought to conclusion in the second half of the book. Among the volume''s most engaging story lines is a witty 1930s-era chronicle, via letters, of a young musician''s effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer and a hilarious account of a modern-day vanity publisher who is institutionalized by a stroke and plans a madcap escape in order to return to his literary empire (such as it is). Mitchell''s ability to throw his voice may remind some readers of David Foster Wallace, though the intermittent hollowness of his ventriloquism frustrates. Still, readers who enjoy the "novel as puzzle" will find much to savor in this original and occasionally very entertaining work.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mitchell''s virtuosic novel presents six narratives that evoke an array of genres, from Melvillean high-seas drama to California noir and dystopian fantasy. There is a naÃ¯ve clerk on a nineteenth-century Polynesian voyage; an aspiring composer who insinuates himself into the home of a syphilitic genius; a journalist investigating a nuclear plant; a publisher with a dangerous best-seller on his hands; and a cloned human being created for slave labor. These five stories are bisected and arranged around a sixth, the oral history of a post-apocalyptic island, which forms the heart of the novel. Only after this do the second halves of the stories fall into place, pulling the novel''s themes into focus: the ease with which one group enslaves another, and the constant rewriting of the past by those who control the present. Against such forces, Mitchell''s characters reveal a quiet tenacity. When the clerk is told that his life amounts to "no more than one drop in a limitless ocean," he asks, "Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14356'),
(12539, 'Cloud Atlas: A Novel', 'David Stephen Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell''s third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Like Mitchell''s previous works,\n <em>\n  Ghostwritten\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  number9dream\n </em>\n (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), this latest foray relies on a kaleidoscopic plot structure that showcases the author''s stylistic virtuosity. Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose style, each is broken off mid-action and brought to conclusion in the second half of the book. Among the volume''s most engaging story lines is a witty 1930s-era chronicle, via letters, of a young musician''s effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer and a hilarious account of a modern-day vanity publisher who is institutionalized by a stroke and plans a madcap escape in order to return to his literary empire (such as it is). Mitchell''s ability to throw his voice may remind some readers of David Foster Wallace, though the intermittent hollowness of his ventriloquism frustrates. Still, readers who enjoy the "novel as puzzle" will find much to savor in this original and occasionally very entertaining work.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mitchell''s virtuosic novel presents six narratives that evoke an array of genres, from Melvillean high-seas drama to California noir and dystopian fantasy. There is a naÃ¯ve clerk on a nineteenth-century Polynesian voyage; an aspiring composer who insinuates himself into the home of a syphilitic genius; a journalist investigating a nuclear plant; a publisher with a dangerous best-seller on his hands; and a cloned human being created for slave labor. These five stories are bisected and arranged around a sixth, the oral history of a post-apocalyptic island, which forms the heart of the novel. Only after this do the second halves of the stories fall into place, pulling the novel''s themes into focus: the ease with which one group enslaves another, and the constant rewriting of the past by those who control the present. Against such forces, Mitchell''s characters reveal a quiet tenacity. When the clerk is told that his life amounts to "no more than one drop in a limitless ocean," he asks, "Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17766'),
(12540, 'Cloud Atlas: A Novel', 'David Stephen Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell''s third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Like Mitchell''s previous works,\n <em>\n  Ghostwritten\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  number9dream\n </em>\n (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), this latest foray relies on a kaleidoscopic plot structure that showcases the author''s stylistic virtuosity. Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose style, each is broken off mid-action and brought to conclusion in the second half of the book. Among the volume''s most engaging story lines is a witty 1930s-era chronicle, via letters, of a young musician''s effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer and a hilarious account of a modern-day vanity publisher who is institutionalized by a stroke and plans a madcap escape in order to return to his literary empire (such as it is). Mitchell''s ability to throw his voice may remind some readers of David Foster Wallace, though the intermittent hollowness of his ventriloquism frustrates. Still, readers who enjoy the "novel as puzzle" will find much to savor in this original and occasionally very entertaining work.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mitchell''s virtuosic novel presents six narratives that evoke an array of genres, from Melvillean high-seas drama to California noir and dystopian fantasy. There is a naÃ¯ve clerk on a nineteenth-century Polynesian voyage; an aspiring composer who insinuates himself into the home of a syphilitic genius; a journalist investigating a nuclear plant; a publisher with a dangerous best-seller on his hands; and a cloned human being created for slave labor. These five stories are bisected and arranged around a sixth, the oral history of a post-apocalyptic island, which forms the heart of the novel. Only after this do the second halves of the stories fall into place, pulling the novel''s themes into focus: the ease with which one group enslaves another, and the constant rewriting of the past by those who control the present. Against such forces, Mitchell''s characters reveal a quiet tenacity. When the clerk is told that his life amounts to "no more than one drop in a limitless ocean," he asks, "Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27301'),
(12541, 'The Cloud Maker', 'Patrick Woodhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Clive Cussler meets Dan Brown in this high voltage adventure thriller in which two ambitious young climbers stumble upon a great secret hidden in the depths of the Himalayas and find themselves on the run from the Chinese secret police. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2288'),
(12542, 'The Cloud Maker', 'Patrick Woodhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Clive Cussler meets Dan Brown in this high voltage adventure thriller in which two ambitious young climbers stumble upon a great secret hidden in the depths of the Himalayas and find themselves on the run from the Chinese secret police. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13414'),
(12543, 'The Cloud Maker', 'Patrick Woodhead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Clive Cussler meets Dan Brown in this high voltage adventure thriller in which two ambitious young climbers stumble upon a great secret hidden in the depths of the Himalayas and find themselves on the run from the Chinese secret police. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22554'),
(12544, 'The Cloud Pavilion', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Japan, 1701. A woman is brutally attacked within a bamboo prison as clouds swirl around her head. Meanwhile, at Edo Castle, samurai detective turned chamberlain Sano Ichiro is suspicious of his old rival, Yanagisawa, who has been oddly cooperative since returning from exile.But just as Yanagisawa''s true motives begin to emerge, Sano''s estranged uncle comes to him for help: His daughter has disappeared, and he begs Sano and his wifewho once suffered through the kidnapping of their own sonto find her before it is too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3627'),
(12545, 'The Cloud Pavilion', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Rowland''s masterful 14th historical to feature Sano Ichiro, a year has passed since the events chronicled in 2008''s The Fire Kimono, but the calm that has prevailed since the shogun made Sano and his archrival, Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, co-chamberlains is about to be shattered. Maj. Kumazawa Hiroyuki, Sano''s estranged uncle, comes to him for help after the major''s 33-year-old daughter, Chiyo, disappears. The detective-turned-politician manages to find Chiyo, but not before she has been violated. The search for her assailant becomes more complicated once word reaches Sano that Chiyo was the third in a series of victims, following an elderly nun and a powerful gangster''s teenage daughter. Established fans will be pleased by how Rowland has developed Sano''s son, Masahiro, along with other secondary characters they have become attached to, while newcomers should find the people, plot and early 18th-century Japanese setting hard to resist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20953');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(12546, 'The Clouds Beneath the Sun', 'Mackenzie Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An exotic setting and a passionate, forbidden affair make The Clouds Beneath the Sun an irresistible page-turner that is sure to satisfy readers looking for an intelligent blend of history, romance, and intrigue.  Mackenzie Ford (a nom de plume) was introduced to readers in 2009 with the publication of Gifts of War, which was praised in USA Today as â€œan absorbing, morally complex read.â€ In a starred review, Library Journal said, â€œFord keeps the reader on a knifeâ€™s edge as the lies build and the truth is only a word or misstep away. Highly recommended.â€  Now Ford takes us to Kenya in 1961. As a small plane carrying Natalie Nelson lands at a remote airstrip in the Serengeti, Natalie knows sheâ€™s run just about as far as she can from home. Trained as an archeologist, she accepted an invitation to be included in a famous excavating team, her first opportunity to escape England and the painful memories of her past.  But before she can get her bearings, the dig is surrounded by controversy involving the local Masai peopleâ€”and murder. Compounding the tension, Eleanor Deacon, friend of the Masai, who is leading the excavating mission, watches a rift grow between her two handsome sons. Natalieâ€™s growing attracÂ­tion to Jack Deacon soon becomes a passionate affair that turns dangerous when she must give evidence in a trial that could spark even more violence and turmoil.  The startling beauty of the Kenyan setting, the tension of loomÂ­ing social upheaval, and the dizzying highs and crushing lows of a doomed love affair are all captured brilliantly on every page of this extraordinary and utterly unforgettable novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3248'),
(12547, 'The Clouds Beneath the Sun', 'Mackenzie Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An exotic setting and a passionate, forbidden affair make The Clouds Beneath the Sun an irresistible page-turner that is sure to satisfy readers looking for an intelligent blend of history, romance, and intrigue.  Mackenzie Ford (a nom de plume) was introduced to readers in 2009 with the publication of Gifts of War, which was praised in USA Today as â€œan absorbing, morally complex read.â€ In a starred review, Library Journal said, â€œFord keeps the reader on a knifeâ€™s edge as the lies build and the truth is only a word or misstep away. Highly recommended.â€  Now Ford takes us to Kenya in 1961. As a small plane carrying Natalie Nelson lands at a remote airstrip in the Serengeti, Natalie knows sheâ€™s run just about as far as she can from home. Trained as an archeologist, she accepted an invitation to be included in a famous excavating team, her first opportunity to escape England and the painful memories of her past.  But before she can get her bearings, the dig is surrounded by controversy involving the local Masai peopleâ€”and murder. Compounding the tension, Eleanor Deacon, friend of the Masai, who is leading the excavating mission, watches a rift grow between her two handsome sons. Natalieâ€™s growing attracÂ­tion to Jack Deacon soon becomes a passionate affair that turns dangerous when she must give evidence in a trial that could spark even more violence and turmoil.  The startling beauty of the Kenyan setting, the tension of loomÂ­ing social upheaval, and the dizzying highs and crushing lows of a doomed love affair are all captured brilliantly on every page of this extraordinary and utterly unforgettable novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9688'),
(12548, 'The Clouds Beneath the Sun', 'Mackenzie Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An exotic setting and a passionate, forbidden affair make The Clouds Beneath the Sun an irresistible page-turner that is sure to satisfy readers looking for an intelligent blend of history, romance, and intrigue. Mackenzie Ford (a nom de plume) was introduced to readers in 2009 with the publication of Gifts of War, which was praised in USA Today as â€œan absorbing, morally complex read.â€ In a starred review, Library Journal said, â€œFord keeps the reader on a knifeâ€™s edge as the lies build and the truth is only a word or misstep away. Highly recommended.â€ Now Ford takes us to Kenya in 1961. As a small plane carrying Natalie Nelson lands at a remote airstrip in the Serengeti, Natalie knows sheâ€™s run just about as far as she can from home. Trained as an archeologist, she accepted an invitation to be included in a famous excavating team, her first opportunity to escape England and the painful memories of her past. But before she can get her bearings, the dig is surrounded by controversy involving the local Masai peopleâ€”and murder. Compounding the tension, Eleanor Deacon, friend of the Masai, who is leading the excavating mission, watches a rift grow between her two handsome sons. Natalieâ€™s growing attracÂ­tion to Jack Deacon soon becomes a passionate affair that turns dangerous when she must give evidence in a trial that could spark even more violence and turmoil. The startling beauty of the Kenyan setting, the tension of loomÂ­ing social upheaval, and the dizzying highs and crushing lows of a doomed love affair are all captured brilliantly on every page of this extraordinary and utterly unforgettable novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21308'),
(12549, 'Clown Girl', 'Monica Drake &amp; Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As Drake''s debut opens, Nita, otherwise known as Sniffles the Clown, is tying balloon animals for a horde of greedy, sticky children at a fair. Suffering what may be a cardiac event, she''s rushed to the hospitalâ€”after trying to get help from a clown fetishist, who simply drops his phone number on top of her prone form. Welcome to wacky, stressful Baloneytown, where clown prostitution, stoned dogs and fire jugglingâ€“cumâ€“arson are the norm. Nita struggles to make enough money clowning to keep herself in oversized shoes and squirting daisies, while also saving for Clown College tuition for her boyfriend, handsome clown Rex Galore. But Rex is mostly MIA, and Nita''s longing for him settles on local cop Jerrod. While not much happens, the pace of the narrative is methamphetamine-frantic, as Drake drills down past the face paint and into Nita''s core, often using Nita''s relations with men as the bit. Nita emerges as a fully-realized character, bearing witness to a lot of the emotionally ridiculous and just a hint of the sublime. Some plot threads never quite come together, and a few characters are underdeveloped, but there is a lot more going on here than just clowning around.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n An introduction by novelist Chuck Palahniuk and a rubber chicken on the cover promise lots of nervous laughs for Drake''s dark debut. The tale revolves around Nita (aka Sniffles the Clown), who inhabits Baloneytown, a depressed, crime-infested metropolis where residents peer warily out their windows when a cop car drives by. Nita aspires to high art but finds herself caught in a vicious cycle of corporate clown gigs that creep ever closer to prostitution. She misses her boyfriend (and fellow clown) Rex Galore, who has gone off to interview at Clown College. And now her dog has gone missing, her relationship with her housemates is on the skids, and the only friend she has left is a golden-haired policeman who is surprisingly concerned about her well-being. Drake, who teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art, renders rich, sinewy prose (with heady references to Chaplin, Kafka, da Vinci, and the like), but her offbeat subject matter and plot would play better as a short story.\n <em>\n  Allison Block\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9389'),
(12550, 'Club Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sookie''s boyfriend has been very distant-in another state, distant. Now she''s off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead-a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill-caught in an act of betrayal-she''s not sure whether to save him...or sharpen some stakes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6864'),
(12551, 'Club Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sookie''s boyfriend has been very distant-in another state, distant. Now she''s off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead-a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill-caught in an act of betrayal-she''s not sure whether to save him...or sharpen some stakes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10199'),
(12552, 'Club Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sookie''s boyfriend has been very distant-in another state, distant. Now she''s off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead-a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill-caught in an act of betrayal-she''s not sure whether to save him...or sharpen some stakes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15121'),
(12553, 'Club Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sookie''s boyfriend has been very distant-in another state, distant. Now she''s off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead-a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill-caught in an act of betrayal-she''s not sure whether to save him...or sharpen some stakes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17052'),
(12554, 'Club Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sookie''s boyfriend has been very distant-in another state, distant. Now she''s off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead-a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill-caught in an act of betrayal-she''s not sure whether to save him...or sharpen some stakes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26840'),
(12555, 'The Clue In the Crumbling Wall', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15451'),
(12556, 'The Clue in the Embers', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In solving the mystery of two medallions missing from an inherited curio collection, the Hardys wind up in a desolate area of Guatemala at the mercy of dangerous thugs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18454'),
(12557, 'The Clue of the Broken Blade', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n While searching for the guard end of a broken saber that will solve one mystery, the Hardy brothers become involved with a gang of bank robbers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18455'),
(12558, 'The Clue of the Screeching Owl', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For cliffhanging suspense and thrilling action read THE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES- featuring the thrilling adventures of America''s favorite detective duo, Frank and Joe Hardy. Millions of young readers have teamed up with the Hardy Boys, helping them in their quest to bring criminals to justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18456'),
(12559, 'Clutch of Constables', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Troubled waters...Celebrated painter Troy Alleyn, aboard the Zodiac on a cruise of the English waterways, finds a colorful constellation of personalities on its passengers list. Plus one who missed the boat-found murdered in London. Her letters to her husband, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, relate a string of incidents-capped by a grisly drowning-that convince him that one of the ship''s company is a world-class art forger on the run. But can he unmask this master of disguise in time to save another life-possibly Troy''s?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25301'),
(12560, 'Coalescent (Destiny&#39;s Children S.)', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first in a new trilogy that will chart different evolutionary futures for mankind, COALESCENT is the story of a divergent strain of humanity; a hive mind, that subsumes the individual. It is a story that begins with a vivid depiction of the decline of the Roman Empire and which, down through the years, shows how one woman''s determination to protect her daughter has such frightening consequences for mankind''s future existence. This is at once a stunning historical novel, a superb piece of ideas-driven SF and the intensely felt story of one man''s discovery of the dark secret at the heart of his family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23005'),
(12561, 'The Coalwood Way', 'Homer Hickam', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n It''s fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads.\n</p>\n<p>\n The strains can be felt within the Hickam home, where a beleaguered HomerSr. is resorting to a daring but risky plan to keep the mine alive, and his wife Elsie is feeling increasingly isolated from both her family and the townspeople. And Sonny, despite a blossoming relationship with a local girl whose dreams are as big as his, finds his own mood repeatedly darkened by an unexplainable sadness.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eager to rally the town''s spirits and make her son''s final holiday season at home a memorable one, Elsie enlists Sonny and the Rocket Boys'' aid in making the Coalwood Christmas Pageant the best ever. But trouble at the mine and the arrival of a beautiful young outsider threaten to tear the community apart when it most needs to come together. And when disaster strikes at home, and Elsie''s beloved pet squirrel escapes under his watch, Sonny realizes that helping his town and redeeming himself in his mother''s eyes may be a bigger-and more rewarding-challenge than he has ever faced.\n</p>\n<p>\n The result is pure storytelling magic- a tale of small-town parades and big-hearted preachers, the timeless love of families and unforgettable adventures of boyhood friends-that could only come from the man who brought the world\n <em>\n  Rocket Boys\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9447'),
(12562, 'Coastliners', 'Joanne Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n After three novels which centered around gastronomic pleasures, Joanne Harris''s\n <em>\n  Coastliners\n </em>\n focuses on more astringent joys. Sea, gritty sand, and adverse weather conditions replace __,\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n . Set on a small, blustery fishing island off the coast of France, it tells the story of Mado, a young woman who returns to her childhood home to find the local community torn apart by family feuds, bad tides, and murky political machinations.\n</p>\n<p>\n Passionate, stubborn Mado, whose "head is full of rocks," tries to save the livelihoods of the villagers of Les Salants by urging them to work together to save the beach from erosion, both natural and man-made. The villagers, written with endearing panache by Harris, are an eccentric, curmudgeonly bunch, who eventually cooperate with the help of Flynn, a charismatic stranger with a shady past. He''s not the only man of mystery in Mado''s life; her father, taciturn Grosjean, has a secretive heart that''s as "prickly and tightly layered as an artichoke," and local, wealthy businessman Brismand also seems to be hiding something. Mado does her best to unravel these mysteries, while attempting to keep a hold on her own sense of self in the claustrophobic, close community. It''s not only the shore line that takes a buffeting. The villagers and the island are so vividly described that it''s impossible not to become engrossed in Mado''s story.\n <em>\n  Coastliners\n </em>\n is a book about longing to belong, and Joanne Harris charts that emotional voyage compellingly.\n <em>\n  --Eithne Farry, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Family history meets village rivalry in Harris''s poignant fourth novel, an understated passion play set on the provincial French island of Le Devin. Madeleine Prasteau leaves her Paris apartment to return to the island village of Les Salants, where she discovers that her father, a widowed boat owner, is going downhill along with the village itself as the rival town of La HoussiniÅ re grows and prospers. Despite her father''s chilly greeting, Madeleine spruces up the family home, and when she meets an attractive, mysterious stranger named Flynn she gets involved in a project to save Les Salants by building a homemade reef to restore the fast-eroding beach. The project gets complicated when Madeleine realizes that Flynn has ties to Brismand, a rival of her father''s, who controls local commerce in La HoussiniÅ re. The reef project succeeds, but with a bitter aftertaste when Madeleine''s older sister, Adrienne, moves back to the island and her father becomes infatuated with Adrienne''s children. Sibling rivalry fades to the background when Madeleine learns that Flynn''s ties to Brismand extend into her own family history, and she discovers that Flynn was an integral part of a romantic triangle involving her father and Brismand. Harris develops her beguiling story in layers, drawing Madeleine into the village life she loves and loathes while exploring the nuances of island living. Despite the narrowly focused setting, Harris exposes a wide range of passions and emotions as Madeline gets involved with Flynn against the effective backdrop of the various family and village rivalries. This book lacks the lurid erotic power of Chocolat, but Harris compensates for the lowered levels of passion and eros by writing with power and grace about the family ties that bind.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4412'),
(12563, 'Coastliners', 'Joanne Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n After three novels which centered around gastronomic pleasures, Joanne Harris''s\n <em>\n  Coastliners\n </em>\n focuses on more astringent joys. Sea, gritty sand, and adverse weather conditions replace __,\n <strong>\n  , and\n </strong>\n . Set on a small, blustery fishing island off the coast of France, it tells the story of Mado, a young woman who returns to her childhood home to find the local community torn apart by family feuds, bad tides, and murky political machinations.\n</p>\n<p>\n Passionate, stubborn Mado, whose "head is full of rocks," tries to save the livelihoods of the villagers of Les Salants by urging them to work together to save the beach from erosion, both natural and man-made. The villagers, written with endearing panache by Harris, are an eccentric, curmudgeonly bunch, who eventually cooperate with the help of Flynn, a charismatic stranger with a shady past. He''s not the only man of mystery in Mado''s life; her father, taciturn Grosjean, has a secretive heart that''s as "prickly and tightly layered as an artichoke," and local, wealthy businessman Brismand also seems to be hiding something. Mado does her best to unravel these mysteries, while attempting to keep a hold on her own sense of self in the claustrophobic, close community. It''s not only the shore line that takes a buffeting. The villagers and the island are so vividly described that it''s impossible not to become engrossed in Mado''s story.\n <em>\n  Coastliners\n </em>\n is a book about longing to belong, and Joanne Harris charts that emotional voyage compellingly.\n <em>\n  --Eithne Farry, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Family history meets village rivalry in Harris''s poignant fourth novel, an understated passion play set on the provincial French island of Le Devin. Madeleine Prasteau leaves her Paris apartment to return to the island village of Les Salants, where she discovers that her father, a widowed boat owner, is going downhill along with the village itself as the rival town of La HoussiniÅ re grows and prospers. Despite her father''s chilly greeting, Madeleine spruces up the family home, and when she meets an attractive, mysterious stranger named Flynn she gets involved in a project to save Les Salants by building a homemade reef to restore the fast-eroding beach. The project gets complicated when Madeleine realizes that Flynn has ties to Brismand, a rival of her father''s, who controls local commerce in La HoussiniÅ re. The reef project succeeds, but with a bitter aftertaste when Madeleine''s older sister, Adrienne, moves back to the island and her father becomes infatuated with Adrienne''s children. Sibling rivalry fades to the background when Madeleine learns that Flynn''s ties to Brismand extend into her own family history, and she discovers that Flynn was an integral part of a romantic triangle involving her father and Brismand. Harris develops her beguiling story in layers, drawing Madeleine into the village life she loves and loathes while exploring the nuances of island living. Despite the narrowly focused setting, Harris exposes a wide range of passions and emotions as Madeline gets involved with Flynn against the effective backdrop of the various family and village rivalries. This book lacks the lurid erotic power of Chocolat, but Harris compensates for the lowered levels of passion and eros by writing with power and grace about the family ties that bind.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10170'),
(12564, 'Cobai', 'Alexandru &amp; Vlad Lepadatu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26095'),
(12565, 'The Cobra Event', 'Richard Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Cobra Event is set in motion one spring morning in New York City, when a seventeen-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill. Hours later she is having violent seizures, blood is pouring out of her nose, and she has begun a hideous process of self-cannibalization. Soon, other gruesome deaths of a similar nature have been discovered, and the Centers for Disease Control sends a forensic pathologist to investigate. What she finds precipitates a federal crisis. The details of this story are fictional, but they are based on a scrupulously thorough inquiry into the history of biological weapons and their use by civilian and military terrorists. Richard Preston''s sources include members of the FBI and the United States military, public health officials, intelligence officers in foreign governments, and scientists who have been involved in the testing of strategic bioweapons. The accounts of what they have seen and what they expect to happen are chilling. The Cobra Event is a dramatic, heart-stopping account of a very real threat, told with the skill and authority that made Preston''s The Hot Zone an internationally acclaimed bestseller. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13728'),
(12566, 'The Cobra', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **An extraordinary cutting-edge thriller from the *New York Times*-bestselling grandmaster of international suspense. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meticulous research, crisp narratives, plots as current as today''s headlines-Frederick Forsyth has helped define the international thriller as we know it. And now he does it again.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. No boundaries, no rules, no questions asked.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The war is on-though who the ultimate winner will be, no one can tell...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5564'),
(12567, 'The Cobra', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **An extraordinary cutting-edge thriller from the *New York Times*-bestselling grandmaster of international suspense. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meticulous research, crisp narratives, plots as current as today''s headlines-Frederick Forsyth has helped define the international thriller as we know it. And now he does it again.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. No boundaries, no rules, no questions asked.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The war is on-though who the ultimate winner will be, no one can tell...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9542'),
(12568, 'The Cobra', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An extraordinary cutting-edge thriller from the *New York Times*-bestselling grandmaster of international suspense. ** Meticulous research, crisp narratives, plots as current as today''s headlines-Frederick Forsyth has helped define the international thriller as we know it. And now he does it again. What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. No boundaries, no rules, no questions asked. The war is on-though who the ultimate winner will be, no one can tell...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19142'),
(12569, 'The Cobra', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An extraordinary cutting-edge thriller from the *New York Times*-bestselling grandmaster of international suspense. ** Meticulous research, crisp narratives, plots as current as today''s headlines-Frederick Forsyth has helped define the international thriller as we know it. And now he does it again. What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. No boundaries, no rules, no questions asked. The war is on-though who the ultimate winner will be, no one can tell...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27929'),
(12570, 'The Cobweb', 'Neal Stephenson &amp; J. Frederick George', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n From his triumphant debut with\n <em>\n  Snow Crash\n </em>\n to the stunning success of his latest novel,\n <em>\n  Quicksilver,\n </em>\n Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voice of a generation. In this now-classic political thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a savagely witty, chillingly topical tale set in the tense moments of the Gulf War.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n When a foreign exchange student is found murdered at an Iowa University, Deputy Sheriff Clyde Banks finds that his investigation extends far beyond the small college townâ€”all the way to the Middle East. Shady events at the school reveal that a powerful department is using federal grant money for highly dubious research. And what itâ€™s producing is a very nasty bug.\n</p>\n<p>\n Navigating a plot that leads from his own backyard to Washington, D.C., to the Gulf, where his Army Reservist wife has been called to duty, Banks realizes he may be the only person who can stop the wholesale slaughtering of thousands of Americans. Itâ€™s a lesson in foreign policy heâ€™ll never forget.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Neal Stephenson is the author of\n <em>\n  The System Of The World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash,\n </em>\n and other books and articles.\n</p>\n<p>\n J. Frederick George is a historian and writer living in Paris.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12365'),
(12571, 'The Cocaine Chronicles', 'Gary Phillips &amp; Jervey Tervalon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There are some strong entries in this depressing all-original anthology of 17 stories involving the always powerful, often destructive, effects of cocaine use. The editors call cocaine "the scourge of our times" in their introduction, and that judgment is evident whether the story is about a user, a dealer or someone simply caught up in someone else''s thrall to the drug. Some tales offer a macabre sense of humor, such as Lee Child''s "Ten Keys," in which a drug courier rips off a shipment, and Laura Lippman''s "The Crack Cocaine Habit," in which two white girls venture into a bad neighborhood to make a buy. Children are the focus of Kerry E. West''s shocking "Shame," about a kid who copes with her mother''s habit and the world''s indifference. Another child is the victim of her mother''s habit in Nina Revoyr''s highly effective "Golden Pacific." James Brown''s sobering "The Screenwriter" details the rise and cocaine-induced fall of a screenwriter. Other contributors include editors Phillips and Tervalon, Ken Bruen, Bill Moody and Manuel Ramos. None of the stories glamorize cocaine, but some do exhibit what the editors call "scary charms."\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n NOTHING TO SNORT AT, this ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Phillips and Tervalon. Cocaine, that most troubling and fascinating of substances is the subject, the subtext, the whys and whereofs in COCAINE CHRONICLES, a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. COCAINE CHRONICLES contains tough tales by a cross-section of today''s most thought-provoking writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5402'),
(12572, 'The Cocaine Chronicles', 'Gary Phillips &amp; Jervey Tervalon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There are some strong entries in this depressing all-original anthology of 17 stories involving the always powerful, often destructive, effects of cocaine use. The editors call cocaine "the scourge of our times" in their introduction, and that judgment is evident whether the story is about a user, a dealer or someone simply caught up in someone else''s thrall to the drug. Some tales offer a macabre sense of humor, such as Lee Child''s "Ten Keys," in which a drug courier rips off a shipment, and Laura Lippman''s "The Crack Cocaine Habit," in which two white girls venture into a bad neighborhood to make a buy. Children are the focus of Kerry E. West''s shocking "Shame," about a kid who copes with her mother''s habit and the world''s indifference. Another child is the victim of her mother''s habit in Nina Revoyr''s highly effective "Golden Pacific." James Brown''s sobering "The Screenwriter" details the rise and cocaine-induced fall of a screenwriter. Other contributors include editors Phillips and Tervalon, Ken Bruen, Bill Moody and Manuel Ramos. None of the stories glamorize cocaine, but some do exhibit what the editors call "scary charms."\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n NOTHING TO SNORT AT, this ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Phillips and Tervalon. Cocaine, that most troubling and fascinating of substances is the subject, the subtext, the whys and whereofs in COCAINE CHRONICLES, a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. COCAINE CHRONICLES contains tough tales by a cross-section of today''s most thought-provoking writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11967'),
(12573, 'The Cocaine Chronicles', 'Gary Phillips; Jervey Tervalon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There are some strong entries in this depressing all-original anthology of 17 stories involving the always powerful, often destructive, effects of cocaine use. The editors call cocaine "the scourge of our times" in their introduction, and that judgment is evident whether the story is about a user, a dealer or someone simply caught up in someone else''s thrall to the drug. Some tales offer a macabre sense of humor, such as Lee Child''s "Ten Keys," in which a drug courier rips off a shipment, and Laura Lippman''s "The Crack Cocaine Habit," in which two white girls venture into a bad neighborhood to make a buy. Children are the focus of Kerry E. West''s shocking "Shame," about a kid who copes with her mother''s habit and the world''s indifference. Another child is the victim of her mother''s habit in Nina Revoyr''s highly effective "Golden Pacific." James Brown''s sobering "The Screenwriter" details the rise and cocaine-induced fall of a screenwriter. Other contributors include editors Phillips and Tervalon, Ken Bruen, Bill Moody and Manuel Ramos. None of the stories glamorize cocaine, but some do exhibit what the editors call "scary charms."\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n NOTHING TO SNORT AT, this ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Phillips and Tervalon. Cocaine, that most troubling and fascinating of substances is the subject, the subtext, the whys and whereofs in COCAINE CHRONICLES, a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. COCAINE CHRONICLES contains tough tales by a cross-section of today''s most thought-provoking writers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19218'),
(12574, 'Cocaine&#39;s Son: A Memoir', 'Dave Itzkoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dave Itzkoff on\n   <em>\n    Cocaine''s Son\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whatever the circumstances of our childhoods, we all grow up to become adults with questions about our parents and how they shaped the trajectories of our lives. What lessons were our mothers and fathers trying to impart to us? What pitfalls did they want us to avoid, and what mistakes of theirs did we end up repeating anyway? And how might we treat our parents differently if we were given a second chance with them?\n </p>\n <p>\n  These are all questions I confronted when I wrote about my relationship with my father, except that we were dealt a further challenge: for the first 25 years of my life, beginning in the 1970s, my father was addicted to cocaine. He was outwardly a successful man with a wife, two children, and a thriving business, but he struggled privatelyâ€“-and sometimes not-so-privately-â€“with his drug habit, attempting everything from psychotherapy to voluntary institutionalization to cold-turkey purges to kick his addiction. When he finally got clean, I was an almost full-grown man, desperate to know who my father had been in the time I had missed, and as fascinated to discover who he had since become as he was to learn the same about me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Cocaineâ€™s Son\n  </em>\n  is as much my story as it is my fatherâ€™s: my chronicle of growing up enthralled by a man I could not fully understand, of our sometimes painful efforts, after his drug problem was conquered, to remain in each otherâ€™s lives, and the unexpected twists and turns that invariably led us back to each other. Whether or not your life has been touched by addiction issues, I hope this is a story with something to say about your own experience as someoneâ€™s child or parent.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Itzkoffâ€™s distress and embarrassment at his fatherâ€™s behavior are tangible in this unflinching portrait of a troubled childhood. While the critics generally enjoyed this new addition to the genre, a few flaws hampered that enjoyment. Some thought that Itzkoffâ€™s story, with its rosy, upper-middle-class veneer, lacks the edge of similar memoirs, while others raised objections to Itzkoffâ€™s singular focus on his father, whose larger-than-life personality eclipses the other charactersâ€”including Itzkoff himself. He spends a considerable amount of time analyzing his fatherâ€™s actions in an attempt to understand them, and these frequent ruminations, according to\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  , can be intrusive and redundant. When a fellow journalist publishes a book, the critics often take it easy on him or her. That the reviews were not glowing means thereâ€™s less here than meets the eye.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6392'),
(12575, 'Cocaine&#39;s Son: A Memoir', 'Dave Itzkoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Dave Itzkoff on\n   <em>\n    Cocaine''s Son\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whatever the circumstances of our childhoods, we all grow up to become adults with questions about our parents and how they shaped the trajectories of our lives. What lessons were our mothers and fathers trying to impart to us? What pitfalls did they want us to avoid, and what mistakes of theirs did we end up repeating anyway? And how might we treat our parents differently if we were given a second chance with them?\n </p>\n <p>\n  These are all questions I confronted when I wrote about my relationship with my father, except that we were dealt a further challenge: for the first 25 years of my life, beginning in the 1970s, my father was addicted to cocaine. He was outwardly a successful man with a wife, two children, and a thriving business, but he struggled privatelyâ€“-and sometimes not-so-privately-â€“with his drug habit, attempting everything from psychotherapy to voluntary institutionalization to cold-turkey purges to kick his addiction. When he finally got clean, I was an almost full-grown man, desperate to know who my father had been in the time I had missed, and as fascinated to discover who he had since become as he was to learn the same about me.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Cocaineâ€™s Son\n  </em>\n  is as much my story as it is my fatherâ€™s: my chronicle of growing up enthralled by a man I could not fully understand, of our sometimes painful efforts, after his drug problem was conquered, to remain in each otherâ€™s lives, and the unexpected twists and turns that invariably led us back to each other. Whether or not your life has been touched by addiction issues, I hope this is a story with something to say about your own experience as someoneâ€™s child or parent.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Itzkoffâ€™s distress and embarrassment at his fatherâ€™s behavior are tangible in this unflinching portrait of a troubled childhood. While the critics generally enjoyed this new addition to the genre, a few flaws hampered that enjoyment. Some thought that Itzkoffâ€™s story, with its rosy, upper-middle-class veneer, lacks the edge of similar memoirs, while others raised objections to Itzkoffâ€™s singular focus on his father, whose larger-than-life personality eclipses the other charactersâ€”including Itzkoff himself. He spends a considerable amount of time analyzing his fatherâ€™s actions in an attempt to understand them, and these frequent ruminations, according to\n  <em>\n   Entertainment Weekly\n  </em>\n  , can be intrusive and redundant. When a fellow journalist publishes a book, the critics often take it easy on him or her. That the reviews were not glowing means thereâ€™s less here than meets the eye.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10416'),
(12576, 'Cocaine&#39;s Son: A Memoir', 'Dave Itzkoff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dave Itzkoff on\n  <em>\n   Cocaine''s Son\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Whatever the circumstances of our childhoods, we all grow up to become adults with questions about our parents and how they shaped the trajectories of our lives. What lessons were our mothers and fathers trying to impart to us? What pitfalls did they want us to avoid, and what mistakes of theirs did we end up repeating anyway? And how might we treat our parents differently if we were given a second chance with them?\n</p>\n<p>\n These are all questions I confronted when I wrote about my relationship with my father, except that we were dealt a further challenge: for the first 25 years of my life, beginning in the 1970s, my father was addicted to cocaine. He was outwardly a successful man with a wife, two children, and a thriving business, but he struggled privatelyâ€“-and sometimes not-so-privately-â€“with his drug habit, attempting everything from psychotherapy to voluntary institutionalization to cold-turkey purges to kick his addiction. When he finally got clean, I was an almost full-grown man, desperate to know who my father had been in the time I had missed, and as fascinated to discover who he had since become as he was to learn the same about me.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cocaineâ€™s Son\n </em>\n is as much my story as it is my fatherâ€™s: my chronicle of growing up enthralled by a man I could not fully understand, of our sometimes painful efforts, after his drug problem was conquered, to remain in each otherâ€™s lives, and the unexpected twists and turns that invariably led us back to each other. Whether or not your life has been touched by addiction issues, I hope this is a story with something to say about your own experience as someoneâ€™s child or parent.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Itzkoffâ€™s distress and embarrassment at his fatherâ€™s behavior are tangible in this unflinching portrait of a troubled childhood. While the critics generally enjoyed this new addition to the genre, a few flaws hampered that enjoyment. Some thought that Itzkoffâ€™s story, with its rosy, upper-middle-class veneer, lacks the edge of similar memoirs, while others raised objections to Itzkoffâ€™s singular focus on his father, whose larger-than-life personality eclipses the other charactersâ€”including Itzkoff himself. He spends a considerable amount of time analyzing his fatherâ€™s actions in an attempt to understand them, and these frequent ruminations, according to\n <em>\n  Entertainment Weekly\n </em>\n , can be intrusive and redundant. When a fellow journalist publishes a book, the critics often take it easy on him or her. That the reviews were not glowing means thereâ€™s less here than meets the eye.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17712'),
(12577, 'Cockroach', 'Rawi Hage', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. With a surprising degree of humor, Hage''s second novel (after IMPAC Dublin-winner\n  <em>\n   DeNiro''s Game\n  </em>\n  ) explores the peculiar politics of Montreal''s immigrant communities through the bleak obsessions of a misanthropic thief. After trying and failing to kill himself, an unnamed narrator who believes himself to be part cockroach is compelled to attend counseling sessions with an earnest and alluring therapist. As he unspools his personal historyâ€”from his apprenticeship with the thief Abou-Roro to the tragic miscalculation that led him to flee his home countryâ€”the narrator, reluctant to tell his story (we never learn where the narrator is from, and inconsistencies in his tale cast doubt upon his honesty), scuttles through the stories of others, recounting secrets both confidentially shared and invasively discovered. Unable to support himself on burglary alone, the narrator takes a job as a busboy, but runs into complications after discovering his lover''s connection to the restaurant''s most prominent customer. The novel''s gritty back-alley world gives rise to a host of glorious rogues, each swindling the others at every opportunity, and yet each is capable of great empathy under just the right circumstances.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is something exhilarating about [_Cockroach_''s] relentlessness. . . . The narrator is ambiguous, untrustworthy, sly, and filled with a despair both nasty and noisy; but he is also deeply wounded, oddly lovable, his voice both moving and manipulative. (Colm TÃ³ibÃ­n -\n  <em>\n   New York Review of Books\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1935');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(12578, 'Cockroach', 'Rawi Hage', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. With a surprising degree of humor, Hage''s second novel (after IMPAC Dublin-winner\n  <em>\n   DeNiro''s Game\n  </em>\n  ) explores the peculiar politics of Montreal''s immigrant communities through the bleak obsessions of a misanthropic thief. After trying and failing to kill himself, an unnamed narrator who believes himself to be part cockroach is compelled to attend counseling sessions with an earnest and alluring therapist. As he unspools his personal historyâ€”from his apprenticeship with the thief Abou-Roro to the tragic miscalculation that led him to flee his home countryâ€”the narrator, reluctant to tell his story (we never learn where the narrator is from, and inconsistencies in his tale cast doubt upon his honesty), scuttles through the stories of others, recounting secrets both confidentially shared and invasively discovered. Unable to support himself on burglary alone, the narrator takes a job as a busboy, but runs into complications after discovering his lover''s connection to the restaurant''s most prominent customer. The novel''s gritty back-alley world gives rise to a host of glorious rogues, each swindling the others at every opportunity, and yet each is capable of great empathy under just the right circumstances.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is something exhilarating about [_Cockroach_''s] relentlessness. . . . The narrator is ambiguous, untrustworthy, sly, and filled with a despair both nasty and noisy; but he is also deeply wounded, oddly lovable, his voice both moving and manipulative. (Colm TÃ³ibÃ­n -\n  <em>\n   New York Review of Books\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10064'),
(12579, 'Code 15', 'Gary Birken &amp; M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Code 15s-deaths due to seemingly preventable medical errors-rise at Dade Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Morgan Connolly, Chief of Emergency Medicine, is suspected of losing her edge. But she suspects that someone is cutting a deadly path of vengeance through the hospital-a path that may end with Morgan facing her own demise at the hands of a madman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5558'),
(12580, 'Code 15', 'Gary Birken &amp; M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Code 15s-deaths due to seemingly preventable medical errors-rise at Dade Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Morgan Connolly, Chief of Emergency Medicine, is suspected of losing her edge. But she suspects that someone is cutting a deadly path of vengeance through the hospital-a path that may end with Morgan facing her own demise at the hands of a madman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8424'),
(12581, 'Code 15', 'Gary Birken; M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Code 15s-deaths due to seemingly preventable medical errors-rise at Dade Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Morgan Connolly, Chief of Emergency Medicine, is suspected of losing her edge. But she suspects that someone is cutting a deadly path of vengeance through the hospital-a path that may end with Morgan facing her own demise at the hands of a madman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19160'),
(12582, 'Code 15', 'Gary Birken; M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Code 15s-deaths due to seemingly preventable medical errors-rise at Dade Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Morgan Connolly, Chief of Emergency Medicine, is suspected of losing her edge. But she suspects that someone is cutting a deadly path of vengeance through the hospital-a path that may end with Morgan facing her own demise at the hands of a madman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27940'),
(12583, 'Code 61', 'Donald Harstad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A call to a Peeping Tom incident starts Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman on his strangest case yet in this nicely low-key but compelling page-turner. True, the Iowa lawman encountered Satanists in his debut, Eleven Days (1998), but the perp described hanging in thin air outside the upper story window looks like Bela Lugosi. When a body drained of blood is reported in a rural mansion, Houseman realizes this investigation isn''t going to be routine, or easy. More bodies pile up, in Iowa and across the Mississippi in Wisconsin (with a fellow cop noting, "Vampire. Suspect that weird has to be from your side of the river"). Police radio chatter "Ten-four, Comm. ''I''ll be ten-seventy-six to the scene''" and details of the manhunt could not be more authentic, since the author (Known Dead; The Big Thaw) spent 26 years in law enforcement. He even includes a glossary of ten codes for the curious. With laconic masterstrokes, Harstad complicates his plot with the arrival on the scene of a professional vampire hunter, problems with a disgruntled subordinate and Houseman''s introduction to the sexual underworld of blood sports. Series regulars such as investigator Hester Gorse and Old Knockle do their turns, with officer Sally Wells copping the funniest moments why not bring some garlic on the stake-out, just in case? The suspect is supposed to be a vampire. Harstad has crafted another engrossing entry in one of the best new police procedural series.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carl Houseman, primary detective for the Nation County Sheriff''s Department, is called out to the apparent suicide of his boss''s niece. After a careful crime scene investigation and a thorough autopsy, it is clear that Edie Younger could not have cut her own throat. The wound is very similar to that of a young man found dead in nearby Wisconsin. To complicate matters, the dead man''s girlfriend had reported seeing a vampire-like creature outside her window. As Houseman and Iowa State Special Agent Hester Gorse grapple with people who actually believe that one of them is a real vampire, the story becomes a picture-perfect police procedural. Everything is here the painstaking search for evidence, the questioning of suspects and witnesses, the hours spent in the rain on stakeout, and the attention to the rules of law. This fourth book in the series by Harstad, a former deputy sheriff with 26 years of experience, is packed with suspense, heart-stopping action, and haunting scenes. For all fiction collections. Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-Univ. P.L., Ohio\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5940'),
(12584, 'Code 61', 'Donald Harstad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A call to a Peeping Tom incident starts Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman on his strangest case yet in this nicely low-key but compelling page-turner. True, the Iowa lawman encountered Satanists in his debut, Eleven Days (1998), but the perp described hanging in thin air outside the upper story window looks like Bela Lugosi. When a body drained of blood is reported in a rural mansion, Houseman realizes this investigation isn''t going to be routine, or easy. More bodies pile up, in Iowa and across the Mississippi in Wisconsin (with a fellow cop noting, "Vampire. Suspect that weird has to be from your side of the river"). Police radio chatter "Ten-four, Comm. ''I''ll be ten-seventy-six to the scene''" and details of the manhunt could not be more authentic, since the author (Known Dead; The Big Thaw) spent 26 years in law enforcement. He even includes a glossary of ten codes for the curious. With laconic masterstrokes, Harstad complicates his plot with the arrival on the scene of a professional vampire hunter, problems with a disgruntled subordinate and Houseman''s introduction to the sexual underworld of blood sports. Series regulars such as investigator Hester Gorse and Old Knockle do their turns, with officer Sally Wells copping the funniest moments why not bring some garlic on the stake-out, just in case? The suspect is supposed to be a vampire. Harstad has crafted another engrossing entry in one of the best new police procedural series.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carl Houseman, primary detective for the Nation County Sheriff''s Department, is called out to the apparent suicide of his boss''s niece. After a careful crime scene investigation and a thorough autopsy, it is clear that Edie Younger could not have cut her own throat. The wound is very similar to that of a young man found dead in nearby Wisconsin. To complicate matters, the dead man''s girlfriend had reported seeing a vampire-like creature outside her window. As Houseman and Iowa State Special Agent Hester Gorse grapple with people who actually believe that one of them is a real vampire, the story becomes a picture-perfect police procedural. Everything is here the painstaking search for evidence, the questioning of suspects and witnesses, the hours spent in the rain on stakeout, and the attention to the rules of law. This fourth book in the series by Harstad, a former deputy sheriff with 26 years of experience, is packed with suspense, heart-stopping action, and haunting scenes. For all fiction collections. Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-Univ. P.L., Ohio\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10256'),
(12585, 'Code 61', 'Donald Harstad', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A call to a Peeping Tom incident starts Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman on his strangest case yet in this nicely low-key but compelling page-turner. True, the Iowa lawman encountered Satanists in his debut, Eleven Days (1998), but the perp described hanging in thin air outside the upper story window looks like Bela Lugosi. When a body drained of blood is reported in a rural mansion, Houseman realizes this investigation isn''t going to be routine, or easy. More bodies pile up, in Iowa and across the Mississippi in Wisconsin (with a fellow cop noting, "Vampire. Suspect that weird has to be from your side of the river"). Police radio chatter "Ten-four, Comm. ''I''ll be ten-seventy-six to the scene''" and details of the manhunt could not be more authentic, since the author (Known Dead; The Big Thaw) spent 26 years in law enforcement. He even includes a glossary of ten codes for the curious. With laconic masterstrokes, Harstad complicates his plot with the arrival on the scene of a professional vampire hunter, problems with a disgruntled subordinate and Houseman''s introduction to the sexual underworld of blood sports. Series regulars such as investigator Hester Gorse and Old Knockle do their turns, with officer Sally Wells copping the funniest moments why not bring some garlic on the stake-out, just in case? The suspect is supposed to be a vampire. Harstad has crafted another engrossing entry in one of the best new police procedural series.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carl Houseman, primary detective for the Nation County Sheriff''s Department, is called out to the apparent suicide of his boss''s niece. After a careful crime scene investigation and a thorough autopsy, it is clear that Edie Younger could not have cut her own throat. The wound is very similar to that of a young man found dead in nearby Wisconsin. To complicate matters, the dead man''s girlfriend had reported seeing a vampire-like creature outside her window. As Houseman and Iowa State Special Agent Hester Gorse grapple with people who actually believe that one of them is a real vampire, the story becomes a picture-perfect police procedural. Everything is here the painstaking search for evidence, the questioning of suspects and witnesses, the hours spent in the rain on stakeout, and the attention to the rules of law. This fourth book in the series by Harstad, a former deputy sheriff with 26 years of experience, is packed with suspense, heart-stopping action, and haunting scenes. For all fiction collections. Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-Univ. P.L., Ohio\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18684'),
(12586, 'The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography', 'Singh, Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13586'),
(12587, 'The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography', 'Singh, Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23736'),
(12588, 'Code Complete, 2nd Edition (2004)', 'Steve McConnell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22946'),
(12589, 'Code of the Krillitanes', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''I blame those new Brainy Crisps. Since he started eating them, he''s been too clever by half''. Can eating a bag of crisps really make you more clever? The company that makes the crisps says so, and they seem to be right. But the Doctor is worried. Who would want to make people more brainy? And why? With just his sonic screwdriver and a supermarket trolley full of crisps, the Doctor sets out to find the truth. The answer is scary - the Krillitanes are back on Earth, and everyone is at risk! Last time they took over a school. This time they have hijacked the internet. Whatever they are up to, it''s big and it''s nasty. Only the Doctor can stop them - if he isn''t already too late...A short, sharp shot of adventure, featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Justin Richards is Creative Consultant for BBC Books'' Doctor Who range. He has written many novels, including The Death Collector and The Parliament of Blood, and he works with writer Jack Higgins on his thrillers for young adults. Justin also writes for radio, stage and screen. He is married with two children (both boys) and lives and works in Warwick, within sight of one of Britain''s best castles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4044'),
(12590, 'Code Red 01 - Flash Flood', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15401'),
(12591, 'Code Red 02 - Wildfire', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15384'),
(12592, 'Code Red 03 - Outbreak', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thirteen-year-old Ben Tracey is looking forward to spending the summer in the Democratic Republic of Congo where his father has been hired to examine the valuable mineral Coltan that is being mined there. They soon realize that the people in the village close to the mine are frightened and it doesn''t take long for Ben and his father to discover why: behind the door of every hut there is at least one person dying or seriously ill, and no one seems to be doing anything to help. As Ben''s father falls ill, it is up to Ben and his new friend from the village, Halima, to try and tell the government what''s going on so the village can be isolated to prevent the sickness spreading. Will they be able to prevent disaster?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15395'),
(12593, 'Code Red 04 - Vortex', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ben Tracey is having a well-deserved, restful week of birdwatching with his cousin, Annie. They''re keen to catch a glimpse of the rare, nearly extinct Hen Harrier - and their wish comes true, but not in the way they''d hoped as they witness a man in an RAF uniform shoot one of the beautiful birds dead.When, later that day, Ben and Annie meet an old man full of conspiracy theories about the nearby RAF training base they''re curious to know more and creep into the base - Spadeadam. But little do they know that they are in serious danger . . . Having walked into the middle of the real reason the Hen Harriers are being shot down, Ben and Annie are captured as intruders and taken to a secure unit on a deserted area of the camp. These birds are just helpless victims in a much bigger operation - they attract too many visitors to the area and there''s a top-secret piece of warfare technology being developed that needs to be kept quiet.If this weapon gets into the wrong hands it could have catastrophic worldwide effects . . . Can Ben and Annie get out in time to spread the news?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15968'),
(12594, 'Code Red 05 - Twister', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15420'),
(12595, 'Code Red 06 - Battleground', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15388'),
(12596, 'Code to zero', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n January, 1958: America''s best hope in the space race-the Explorer I satellite-sits on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. And when a man wakes that morning only to discover his memory erased and his life in danger, the only way he can reclaim his own identity-and find those responsible-is to remember the terrible secret that they forced him to forget. A secret that could destroy the Explorer I-and America''s future.    "This spy thriller is Follett at his best..." (*People*)    "Gripping." (*The New York Times*)    "Starts off fast and never slows down...A rousing story that never flags." (*Chicago Tribune*)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25451'),
(12597, 'Codul lui da Vinci', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25908'),
(12598, 'The Coelura', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15705'),
(12599, 'The Coffee Trader: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Edgar Awardwinning novelA Conspiracy of Paperwas one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day. On the world''s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city''s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city''s most envied merchants, Miguel has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living on the charity of his petty younger brother, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation. Miguel enters into a partnership with a seduc-tive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at successa daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called "coffee." To succeed, Miguel must risk everything he values and test the limits of his commercial guile, facing not only the chaos of the markets and the greed of his competitors, but also a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to see him ruined. Miguel will learn that among Amsterdam''s ruthless businessmen, betrayal lurks everywhere, and even friends hide secret agendas. With humor, imagination, and mystery, David Liss depicts a world of subterfuge, danger, and repressed longing, where religious and cultural traditions clash with the demands of a new and exciting way of doing business. Readers of historical suspense and lovers of coffee (even decaf) will be up all night with this beguiling novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6160'),
(12600, 'The Coffee Trader: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Edgar Awardwinning novelA Conspiracy of Paperwas one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day. On the world''s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city''s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city''s most envied merchants, Miguel has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living on the charity of his petty younger brother, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation. Miguel enters into a partnership with a seduc-tive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at successa daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called "coffee." To succeed, Miguel must risk everything he values and test the limits of his commercial guile, facing not only the chaos of the markets and the greed of his competitors, but also a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to see him ruined. Miguel will learn that among Amsterdam''s ruthless businessmen, betrayal lurks everywhere, and even friends hide secret agendas. With humor, imagination, and mystery, David Liss depicts a world of subterfuge, danger, and repressed longing, where religious and cultural traditions clash with the demands of a new and exciting way of doing business. Readers of historical suspense and lovers of coffee (even decaf) will be up all night with this beguiling novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11175'),
(12601, 'The Coffee Trader: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Edgar Awardwinning novelA Conspiracy of Paperwas one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day. On the world''s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city''s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city''s most envied merchants, Miguel has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living on the charity of his petty younger brother, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation. Miguel enters into a partnership with a seduc-tive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at successa daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called "coffee." To succeed, Miguel must risk everything he values and test the limits of his commercial guile, facing not only the chaos of the markets and the greed of his competitors, but also a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to see him ruined. Miguel will learn that among Amsterdam''s ruthless businessmen, betrayal lurks everywhere, and even friends hide secret agendas. With humor, imagination, and mystery, David Liss depicts a world of subterfuge, danger, and repressed longing, where religious and cultural traditions clash with the demands of a new and exciting way of doing business. Readers of historical suspense and lovers of coffee (even decaf) will be up all night with this beguiling novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17819'),
(12602, 'The Coffins of Little Hope', 'Timothy Schaffert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. It''s small town, big drama in Schaffert''s sublime latest (after Devils in the Sugar Shop) as Essie Myles, an 83-year-old widowed obituary writer for a small Nebraska newspaper stumbles onto the story of her life. The paper''s printing press has been working double-time since a New York publisher contracted it to print part of the print run for the final installment of a wildly popular YA novel seriesâ€”part of a plan to keep the book''s contents under wrapsâ€”and Essie kicks into high gear as well when she gets a tip from a local that her daughter, Lenore, has been abducted by her photographer boyfriend. But the more Essie digs, it becomes less evident whether the tale is true or the concoction of a lonely woman desperate for attention. Meanwhile, parts of the YA novel are leaked, the missing person story blows up, and the once quiet town suddenly finds itself on the national stage. Schaffert spins out the story and its offbeat characters with compassion, spoofing the nation''s voracious appetite for "news" and suggesting that perhaps not all stories are created equal. Piercing observations and sharp, subtle wit make this a standout. (May)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n STARRED REVIEW It''s small town, big drama in Schaffert''s sublime latest (after Devils in the Sugar Shop) as Essie Myles, an 83-year-old widowed obituary writer for a small Nebraska newspaper stumbles onto the story of her life. The paper''s printing press has been working double-time since a New York publisher contracted it to print part of the print run for the final installment of a wildly popular YA novel series--part of a plan to keep the book''s contents under wraps--and Essie kicks into high gear as well when she gets a tip from a local that her daughter, Lenore, has been abducted by her photographer boyfriend. But the more Essie digs, it becomes less evident whether the tale is true or the concoction of a lonely woman desperate for attention. Meanwhile, parts of the YA novel are leaked, the missing person story blows up, and the once quiet town suddenly finds itself on the national stage. Schaffert spins out the story and its offbeat characters with compassion, spoofing the nation''s voracious appetite for "news" and suggesting that perhaps not all stories are created equal. Piercing observations and sharp, subtle wit make this a standout. (May) --Publisher''s Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n There s a lot of plot to The Coffins of Little Hope. But Mr. Schaffert s style is so gossamer-light that the story elements don t become cumbersome. His book can accommodate a large cast of characters who bump into one another with an almost screwball regularity ... Mr. Schaffert s sly wit and frank affection for his characters can make him sound like a very American Alexander McCall Smith ... --Janet Maslin, The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n A witty, sometimes profound story about media, mortality and rash acts undertaken in the name of love. --People Magazine\n</p>\n<p>\n Charm buzzes all around Timothy Schaffert s new novel, but don t be fooled. It s the story of a steadfast, multi-generational family in a small Nebraska town . . . that just happens to be obsessed with death and missing children. The Coffins of Little Hope is like an Edward Gorey cartoon stitched in pastel needlepoint. Its creepiness scurries along the edges of these heartwarming pages like some furry creature you keep convincing yourself you didn t see....alluringly strange to the very last page. --Ron Charles, The Washington Post\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12410'),
(12603, 'Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age', 'Clay Shirky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The author of the breakout hit\n  <em>\n   Here Comes Everybody\n  </em>\n  reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential. In\n <em>\n  Cognitive Surplus\n </em>\n , Internet guru Clay Shirky forecasts the thrilling changes we will all enjoy as new digital technology puts our untapped resources of talent and goodwill to use at last.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since we Americans were suburbanized and educated by the postwar boom, we''ve had a surfeit of intellect, energy, and time-what Shirky calls a cognitive surplus. But this abundance had little impact on the common good because television consumed the lion''s share of it-and we consume TV passively, in isolation from one another. Now, for the first time, people are embracing new media that allow us to pool our efforts at vanishingly low cost. The results of this aggregated effort range from mind expanding-reference tools like Wikipedia-to lifesaving-such as Ushahidi.com, which has allowed Kenyans to sidestep government censorship and report on acts of violence in real time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Shirky argues persuasively that this cognitive surplus-rather than being some strange new departure from normal behavior-actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up through the early twentieth century. He also charts the vast effects that our cognitive surplus-aided by new technologies-will have on twenty-first-century society, and how we can best exploit those effects. Shirky envisions an era of lower creative quality on average but greater innovation, an increase in transparency in all areas of society, and a dramatic rise in productivity that will transform our civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n The potential impact of cognitive surplus is enormous. As Shirky points out, Wikipedia was built out of roughly 1 percent of the man-hours that Americans spend watching TV every year. Wikipedia and other current products of cognitive surplus are only the iceberg''s tip. Shirky shows how society and our daily lives will be improved dramatically as we learn to exploit our goodwill and free time like never before.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Clay Shirky\n </strong>\n teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, where he researches the interrelated effects of our social and technological networks. He has consulted with a variety of groups working on network design, including Nokia, the BBC, Newscorp, Microsoft, BP, Global Business Network, the Library of Congress, the U.S. Navy, the Libyan government, and Lego(r). His writings have appeared in\n <em>\n  The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times\n </em>\n (of London),\n <em>\n  Harvard Business Review, Business 2.0\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Wired\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6673'),
(12604, 'Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age', 'Clay Shirky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The author of the breakout hit\n  <em>\n   Here Comes Everybody\n  </em>\n  reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential. In\n <em>\n  Cognitive Surplus\n </em>\n , Internet guru Clay Shirky forecasts the thrilling changes we will all enjoy as new digital technology puts our untapped resources of talent and goodwill to use at last.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since we Americans were suburbanized and educated by the postwar boom, we''ve had a surfeit of intellect, energy, and time-what Shirky calls a cognitive surplus. But this abundance had little impact on the common good because television consumed the lion''s share of it-and we consume TV passively, in isolation from one another. Now, for the first time, people are embracing new media that allow us to pool our efforts at vanishingly low cost. The results of this aggregated effort range from mind expanding-reference tools like Wikipedia-to lifesaving-such as Ushahidi.com, which has allowed Kenyans to sidestep government censorship and report on acts of violence in real time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Shirky argues persuasively that this cognitive surplus-rather than being some strange new departure from normal behavior-actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up through the early twentieth century. He also charts the vast effects that our cognitive surplus-aided by new technologies-will have on twenty-first-century society, and how we can best exploit those effects. Shirky envisions an era of lower creative quality on average but greater innovation, an increase in transparency in all areas of society, and a dramatic rise in productivity that will transform our civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n The potential impact of cognitive surplus is enormous. As Shirky points out, Wikipedia was built out of roughly 1 percent of the man-hours that Americans spend watching TV every year. Wikipedia and other current products of cognitive surplus are only the iceberg''s tip. Shirky shows how society and our daily lives will be improved dramatically as we learn to exploit our goodwill and free time like never before.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Clay Shirky\n </strong>\n teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, where he researches the interrelated effects of our social and technological networks. He has consulted with a variety of groups working on network design, including Nokia, the BBC, Newscorp, Microsoft, BP, Global Business Network, the Library of Congress, the U.S. Navy, the Libyan government, and Lego(r). His writings have appeared in\n <em>\n  The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times\n </em>\n (of London),\n <em>\n  Harvard Business Review, Business 2.0\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Wired\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12617'),
(12605, 'Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age', 'Clay Shirky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The author of the breakout hit\n  <em>\n   Here Comes Everybody\n  </em>\n  reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential. In\n <em>\n  Cognitive Surplus\n </em>\n , Internet guru Clay Shirky forecasts the thrilling changes we will all enjoy as new digital technology puts our untapped resources of talent and goodwill to use at last.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since we Americans were suburbanized and educated by the postwar boom, we''ve had a surfeit of intellect, energy, and time-what Shirky calls a cognitive surplus. But this abundance had little impact on the common good because television consumed the lion''s share of it-and we consume TV passively, in isolation from one another. Now, for the first time, people are embracing new media that allow us to pool our efforts at vanishingly low cost. The results of this aggregated effort range from mind expanding-reference tools like Wikipedia-to lifesaving-such as Ushahidi.com, which has allowed Kenyans to sidestep government censorship and report on acts of violence in real time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Shirky argues persuasively that this cognitive surplus-rather than being some strange new departure from normal behavior-actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up through the early twentieth century. He also charts the vast effects that our cognitive surplus-aided by new technologies-will have on twenty-first-century society, and how we can best exploit those effects. Shirky envisions an era of lower creative quality on average but greater innovation, an increase in transparency in all areas of society, and a dramatic rise in productivity that will transform our civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n The potential impact of cognitive surplus is enormous. As Shirky points out, Wikipedia was built out of roughly 1 percent of the man-hours that Americans spend watching TV every year. Wikipedia and other current products of cognitive surplus are only the iceberg''s tip. Shirky shows how society and our daily lives will be improved dramatically as we learn to exploit our goodwill and free time like never before.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Clay Shirky\n </strong>\n teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, where he researches the interrelated effects of our social and technological networks. He has consulted with a variety of groups working on network design, including Nokia, the BBC, Newscorp, Microsoft, BP, Global Business Network, the Library of Congress, the U.S. Navy, the Libyan government, and Lego(r). His writings have appeared in\n <em>\n  The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times\n </em>\n (of London),\n <em>\n  Harvard Business Review, Business 2.0\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Wired\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17365'),
(12606, 'Coincidence', 'Alan May', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Seventeen-year-old Melissa is having her best year ever.She''s traveling the world on the tall ship "Inspiration," and, along with more than thirty other students, getting credit for a full year of high school in the bargain.And, after her boyless years at a private school, it doesn''t hurt that one of the students on the ship is tall, dark, and handsome Pierre. (She''s most impressed with his height, being close to six feet tall herself.)Melissa is excited to be learning the ropes of crewing the ship as the "Inspiration" completes the first part of its voyage, from San Diego to Mexico and then on to the Galapagos.But then things turn decidedly sour.Before the ship can reach Easter Island, it is taken over by the "Coincidence," a large yacht manned by a ruthless band of smugglers. The band needs the services of the "Inspiration''s" doctor for one of their members, who was shot during a heist in Colombia that netted them more than $100 million worth of cocaine.The future of the "Inspiration" and its passengers â€” and of Melissa and Pierre''s romance â€” hangs in the balance. Will the RCMP, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, and the teachers and crew be able to save Melissa''s perfect year?ALAN MAY is an entrepreneur and sailor. He was inspired to write "Coincidence" after his own daughter sailed the high seas as part of the Class Afloat high school program.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7827'),
(12607, 'Coincidence', 'Alan May', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Seventeen-year-old Melissa is having her best year ever.She''s traveling the world on the tall ship "Inspiration," and, along with more than thirty other students, getting credit for a full year of high school in the bargain.And, after her boyless years at a private school, it doesn''t hurt that one of the students on the ship is tall, dark, and handsome Pierre. (She''s most impressed with his height, being close to six feet tall herself.)Melissa is excited to be learning the ropes of crewing the ship as the "Inspiration" completes the first part of its voyage, from San Diego to Mexico and then on to the Galapagos.But then things turn decidedly sour.Before the ship can reach Easter Island, it is taken over by the "Coincidence," a large yacht manned by a ruthless band of smugglers. The band needs the services of the "Inspiration''s" doctor for one of their members, who was shot during a heist in Colombia that netted them more than $100 million worth of cocaine.The future of the "Inspiration" and its passengers â€” and of Melissa and Pierre''s romance â€” hangs in the balance. Will the RCMP, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, and the teachers and crew be able to save Melissa''s perfect year?ALAN MAY is an entrepreneur and sailor. He was inspired to write "Coincidence" after his own daughter sailed the high seas as part of the Class Afloat high school program.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11367'),
(12608, 'Coincidence', 'Alan May', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Seventeen-year-old Melissa is having her best year ever.She''s traveling the world on the tall ship "Inspiration," and, along with more than thirty other students, getting credit for a full year of high school in the bargain.And, after her boyless years at a private school, it doesn''t hurt that one of the students on the ship is tall, dark, and handsome Pierre. (She''s most impressed with his height, being close to six feet tall herself.)Melissa is excited to be learning the ropes of crewing the ship as the "Inspiration" completes the first part of its voyage, from San Diego to Mexico and then on to the Galapagos.But then things turn decidedly sour.Before the ship can reach Easter Island, it is taken over by the "Coincidence," a large yacht manned by a ruthless band of smugglers. The band needs the services of the "Inspiration''s" doctor for one of their members, who was shot during a heist in Colombia that netted them more than $100 million worth of cocaine.The future of the "Inspiration" and its passengers â€” and of Melissa and Pierre''s romance â€” hangs in the balance. Will the RCMP, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, and the teachers and crew be able to save Melissa''s perfect year?ALAN MAY is an entrepreneur and sailor. He was inspired to write "Coincidence" after his own daughter sailed the high seas as part of the Class Afloat high school program.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16024'),
(12609, 'The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World&#39;s Favorite Soft Drink', 'Michael Blanding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Blanding roots his tale in the birth of the advertising era, and he is particularly effective in telling the story of how Coke fought to monopolize the sale of soft drinks to school children." --Salon.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "Like Morgan Spurlock''s\n <em>\n  Super Size Me\n </em>\n and Eric Schlosser''s\n <em>\n  Fast Food Nation\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n embeds current issues with history, policy, and interviews to reveal the wizard behind the curtain." --Suite101.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "An eye opening expose which blows the plastic lids off a company known to associate itself with love and happiness... The book lays out the case against Coke in startling clarity." --TowerReview.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "The book''s sixty-three pages of notes attest to [Blanding''s] careful research, and lend a vital legitimacy to his allegations--this is much more than an activist''s polemic." --[tk] review\n</p>\n<p>\n "Important and readable... Blanding''s painstakingly reported book reminds us that Coke''s global success--perhaps like all spectacular global success--came at a price" --The Atlantic\n</p>\n<p>\n "Every company has a dark side, and you won''t believe how dark Coca-Cola''s is. After reading this book, good luck having a Coke and smile." --Morgan Spurlock, director of Super Size Me\n</p>\n<p>\n "Coca-Cola wants to teach the world to sing, but in the process they''ve trashed water supplies, peddled sugar to generations of kids, and undermined worker rights around the world. Put down your soda, read\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n and join the global movement to rein in unaccountable corporations." --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of\n <em>\n  Nickel and Dimed\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Brightsided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n , Michael Blanding takes a tough, unsweetened look at the business practices of this iconic American company. His investigations reveal the costs--in ethics, health, public resources, and sometimes even human life--of Coca-Cola''s relentless pressure to expand sales of its products. This book is a terrific introduction to the inner workings of corporate capitalism as it plays out on a global scale." --Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, and author of\n <em>\n  Food Politics\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  What to Eat\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In shocking detail, Blanding uncovers Coke''s numerous transgressions against humanity and nature... Blanding''s thoroughly detailed, stimulating and challenging study will have many readers saying, ''Give me a Pepsi.''" --\n <strong>\n  BookPage\n </strong>\n , September 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n "By this account, Coke''s domination of the market begins to look less like a triumph of advertising and more like a symptom of the dark side of globalisation." --\n <strong>\n  The Financial Times\n </strong>\n , September 20, 2010\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Coke Machine\n  </em>\n  takes readers deep inside the Coca-Cola Company and its international franchisees to reveal how they became the number one brand in the world, and just how far they''ll go to stay there.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever since its "I''d like to teach the world to sing" commercials from the 1970s, Coca-Cola has billed itself as the world''s beverage, uniting all colors and cultures in a mutual love of its caramel-sweet sugar water. The formula has worked incredibly well-making it one of the most profitable companies on the planet and "Coca-Cola" the world''s second- most recognized word after "hello." However, as the company expands its reach into both domestic and foreign markets, an increasing number of the world''s citizens are finding the taste of Coke more bitter than sweet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Journalist Michael Blanding''s\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n probes shocking accusations about the company''s global impact, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Coca-Cola''s history of winning at any cost, even if it meant that its franchisees were making deals with the Nazis and Guatemalan paramilitary squads\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ How Coke has harmed children''s health and contributed to an obesity epidemic through exclusive soda contracts in schools\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ The horrific environmental impact of Coke bottling plants in India and Mexico, where water supplies have been decimated while toxic pollution has escalated\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ That Coke bottlers stand accused of conspiring with paramilitaries to threaten, kidnap, and murder union leaders in their bottling plants in Colombia\n</p>\n<p>\n A disturbing portrait drawn from an award-winning journalist''s daring, in-depth research,\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n is the first comprehensive probe of the company and its secret formula for greed.\n</p>\n<p>\n COKE is a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company.\n <br />\n This book is not authorized by or endorsed by The Coca-Cola Company.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2870');
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(12610, 'The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World&#39;s Favorite Soft Drink', 'Michael Blanding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Blanding roots his tale in the birth of the advertising era, and he is particularly effective in telling the story of how Coke fought to monopolize the sale of soft drinks to school children." --Salon.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "Like Morgan Spurlock''s\n <em>\n  Super Size Me\n </em>\n and Eric Schlosser''s\n <em>\n  Fast Food Nation\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n embeds current issues with history, policy, and interviews to reveal the wizard behind the curtain." --Suite101.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "An eye opening expose which blows the plastic lids off a company known to associate itself with love and happiness... The book lays out the case against Coke in startling clarity." --TowerReview.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "The book''s sixty-three pages of notes attest to [Blanding''s] careful research, and lend a vital legitimacy to his allegations--this is much more than an activist''s polemic." --[tk] review\n</p>\n<p>\n "Important and readable... Blanding''s painstakingly reported book reminds us that Coke''s global success--perhaps like all spectacular global success--came at a price" --The Atlantic\n</p>\n<p>\n "Every company has a dark side, and you won''t believe how dark Coca-Cola''s is. After reading this book, good luck having a Coke and smile." --Morgan Spurlock, director of Super Size Me\n</p>\n<p>\n "Coca-Cola wants to teach the world to sing, but in the process they''ve trashed water supplies, peddled sugar to generations of kids, and undermined worker rights around the world. Put down your soda, read\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n and join the global movement to rein in unaccountable corporations." --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of\n <em>\n  Nickel and Dimed\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Brightsided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n , Michael Blanding takes a tough, unsweetened look at the business practices of this iconic American company. His investigations reveal the costs--in ethics, health, public resources, and sometimes even human life--of Coca-Cola''s relentless pressure to expand sales of its products. This book is a terrific introduction to the inner workings of corporate capitalism as it plays out on a global scale." --Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, and author of\n <em>\n  Food Politics\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  What to Eat\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In shocking detail, Blanding uncovers Coke''s numerous transgressions against humanity and nature... Blanding''s thoroughly detailed, stimulating and challenging study will have many readers saying, ''Give me a Pepsi.''" --\n <strong>\n  BookPage\n </strong>\n , September 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n "By this account, Coke''s domination of the market begins to look less like a triumph of advertising and more like a symptom of the dark side of globalisation." --\n <strong>\n  The Financial Times\n </strong>\n , September 20, 2010\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Coke Machine\n  </em>\n  takes readers deep inside the Coca-Cola Company and its international franchisees to reveal how they became the number one brand in the world, and just how far they''ll go to stay there.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever since its "I''d like to teach the world to sing" commercials from the 1970s, Coca-Cola has billed itself as the world''s beverage, uniting all colors and cultures in a mutual love of its caramel-sweet sugar water. The formula has worked incredibly well-making it one of the most profitable companies on the planet and "Coca-Cola" the world''s second- most recognized word after "hello." However, as the company expands its reach into both domestic and foreign markets, an increasing number of the world''s citizens are finding the taste of Coke more bitter than sweet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Journalist Michael Blanding''s\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n probes shocking accusations about the company''s global impact, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Coca-Cola''s history of winning at any cost, even if it meant that its franchisees were making deals with the Nazis and Guatemalan paramilitary squads\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ How Coke has harmed children''s health and contributed to an obesity epidemic through exclusive soda contracts in schools\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ The horrific environmental impact of Coke bottling plants in India and Mexico, where water supplies have been decimated while toxic pollution has escalated\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ That Coke bottlers stand accused of conspiring with paramilitaries to threaten, kidnap, and murder union leaders in their bottling plants in Colombia\n</p>\n<p>\n A disturbing portrait drawn from an award-winning journalist''s daring, in-depth research,\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n is the first comprehensive probe of the company and its secret formula for greed.\n</p>\n<p>\n COKE is a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company.\n <br />\n This book is not authorized by or endorsed by The Coca-Cola Company.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8515'),
(12611, 'The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World&#39;s Favorite Soft Drink', 'Michael Blanding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Blanding roots his tale in the birth of the advertising era, and he is particularly effective in telling the story of how Coke fought to monopolize the sale of soft drinks to school children." --Salon.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "Like Morgan Spurlock''s\n <em>\n  Super Size Me\n </em>\n and Eric Schlosser''s\n <em>\n  Fast Food Nation\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n embeds current issues with history, policy, and interviews to reveal the wizard behind the curtain." --Suite101.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "An eye opening expose which blows the plastic lids off a company known to associate itself with love and happiness... The book lays out the case against Coke in startling clarity." --TowerReview.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "The book''s sixty-three pages of notes attest to [Blanding''s] careful research, and lend a vital legitimacy to his allegations--this is much more than an activist''s polemic." --[tk] review\n</p>\n<p>\n "Important and readable... Blanding''s painstakingly reported book reminds us that Coke''s global success--perhaps like all spectacular global success--came at a price" --The Atlantic\n</p>\n<p>\n "Every company has a dark side, and you won''t believe how dark Coca-Cola''s is. After reading this book, good luck having a Coke and smile." --Morgan Spurlock, director of Super Size Me\n</p>\n<p>\n "Coca-Cola wants to teach the world to sing, but in the process they''ve trashed water supplies, peddled sugar to generations of kids, and undermined worker rights around the world. Put down your soda, read\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n and join the global movement to rein in unaccountable corporations." --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of\n <em>\n  Nickel and Dimed\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Brightsided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n , Michael Blanding takes a tough, unsweetened look at the business practices of this iconic American company. His investigations reveal the costs--in ethics, health, public resources, and sometimes even human life--of Coca-Cola''s relentless pressure to expand sales of its products. This book is a terrific introduction to the inner workings of corporate capitalism as it plays out on a global scale." --Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, and author of\n <em>\n  Food Politics\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  What to Eat\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In shocking detail, Blanding uncovers Coke''s numerous transgressions against humanity and nature... Blanding''s thoroughly detailed, stimulating and challenging study will have many readers saying, ''Give me a Pepsi.''" --\n <strong>\n  BookPage\n </strong>\n , September 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n "By this account, Coke''s domination of the market begins to look less like a triumph of advertising and more like a symptom of the dark side of globalisation." --\n <strong>\n  The Financial Times\n </strong>\n , September 20, 2010\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Coke Machine\n  </em>\n  takes readers deep inside the Coca-Cola Company and its international franchisees to reveal how they became the number one brand in the world, and just how far they''ll go to stay there.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Ever since its "I''d like to teach the world to sing" commercials from the 1970s, Coca-Cola has billed itself as the world''s beverage, uniting all colors and cultures in a mutual love of its caramel-sweet sugar water. The formula has worked incredibly well-making it one of the most profitable companies on the planet and "Coca-Cola" the world''s second- most recognized word after "hello." However, as the company expands its reach into both domestic and foreign markets, an increasing number of the world''s citizens are finding the taste of Coke more bitter than sweet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Journalist Michael Blanding''s\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n probes shocking accusations about the company''s global impact, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Coca-Cola''s history of winning at any cost, even if it meant that its franchisees were making deals with the Nazis and Guatemalan paramilitary squads\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ How Coke has harmed children''s health and contributed to an obesity epidemic through exclusive soda contracts in schools\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ The horrific environmental impact of Coke bottling plants in India and Mexico, where water supplies have been decimated while toxic pollution has escalated\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ That Coke bottlers stand accused of conspiring with paramilitaries to threaten, kidnap, and murder union leaders in their bottling plants in Colombia\n</p>\n<p>\n A disturbing portrait drawn from an award-winning journalist''s daring, in-depth research,\n <em>\n  The Coke Machine\n </em>\n is the first comprehensive probe of the company and its secret formula for greed.\n</p>\n<p>\n COKE is a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company.\n <br />\n This book is not authorized by or endorsed by The Coca-Cola Company.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21905'),
(12612, 'Cold Case', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/517'),
(12613, 'Cold Case', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8997'),
(12614, 'Cold Case', 'Tom Clancy; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24349'),
(12615, 'Cold Copper Tears', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n She is tall, blonde, and offering Garrett an irresistible fee to take a case that seems open-and-shut. But in a town of elves and humans, thugs and swindlers - a place where magic and religion could prove an all to potent mix - Garrett had learned to take a long, hard look before saying yes. Garret''s doubts are confirmed when the Grand Inquisitor comes looking for his help in the lovely lady''s wake. But even a hard-boiled detective like Garret, with the Dead Man for an ally and the toughest half-elf in town guarding his back, can find that it''s too late to say no. Turns out Garret''s been fingered as the latest sacrifice to a long-dead god - and his only chance to save his neck is to solve the case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5345'),
(12616, 'Cold copper tears', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: She is tall, blonde, and offering Garrett an irresistible fee to take a case that seems open-and-shut. But in a town of elves and humans, thugs and swindlers - a place where magic and religion could prove an all to potent mix - Garrett had learned to take a long, hard look before saying yes. Garret''s doubts are confirmed when the Grand Inquisitor comes looking for his help in the lovely lady''s wake. But even a hard-boiled detective like Garret, with the Dead Man for an ally and the toughest half-elf in town guarding his back, can find that it''s too late to say no. Turns out Garret''s been fingered as the latest sacrifice to a long-dead god - and his only chance to save his neck is to solve the case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19321'),
(12617, 'Cold copper tears', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: She is tall, blonde, and offering Garrett an irresistible fee to take a case that seems open-and-shut. But in a town of elves and humans, thugs and swindlers - a place where magic and religion could prove an all to potent mix - Garrett had learned to take a long, hard look before saying yes. Garret''s doubts are confirmed when the Grand Inquisitor comes looking for his help in the lovely lady''s wake. But even a hard-boiled detective like Garret, with the Dead Man for an ally and the toughest half-elf in town guarding his back, can find that it''s too late to say no. Turns out Garret''s been fingered as the latest sacrifice to a long-dead god - and his only chance to save his neck is to solve the case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28017'),
(12618, 'A Cold Day for Murder', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kate Shugak returns to her roots in the far Alaskan north, after leaving the Anchorage D.A.''s office. Her deductive powers are definitely needed when a ranger disappears. Looking for clues among the Aleutian pipeliners, she begins to realize the fine line between lies and loyalties--between justice served and cold murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6510'),
(12619, 'A cold day for murder', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kate Shugak returns to her roots in the far Alaskan north, after leaving the Anchorage D.A.''s office. Her deductive powers are definitely needed when a ranger disappears. Looking for clues among the Aleutian pipeliners, she begins to realize the fine line between lies and loyalties--between justice served and cold murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17551'),
(12620, 'A cold day for murder', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kate Shugak returns to her roots in the far Alaskan north, after leaving the Anchorage D.A.''s office. Her deductive powers are definitely needed when a ranger disappears. Looking for clues among the Aleutian pipeliners, she begins to realize the fine line between lies and loyalties--between justice served and cold murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27145'),
(12621, 'The Cold Dish', 'Craig Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this outstanding first novel, Craig Johnson draws on his background in law enforcement and his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, and full of memorable characters. Walt Longmire, sheriff of Wyomingâ€™s Absaroka County, knows heâ€™s got trouble when Cody Pritchard is found dead. Two years earlier, Cody and three accomplices had been given suspended sentences for raping a Northern Cheyenne girl. Is someone seeking vengeance? Longmire faces the most volatile and challenging case in his twenty-four years as sheriff and means to see that revenge, a dish that is best served cold, is never served at all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6566'),
(12622, 'The Cold Dish', 'Craig Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this outstanding first novel, Craig Johnson draws on his background in law enforcement and his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, and full of memorable characters. Walt Longmire, sheriff of Wyomingâ€™s Absaroka County, knows heâ€™s got trouble when Cody Pritchard is found dead. Two years earlier, Cody and three accomplices had been given suspended sentences for raping a Northern Cheyenne girl. Is someone seeking vengeance? Longmire faces the most volatile and challenging case in his twenty-four years as sheriff and means to see that revenge, a dish that is best served cold, is never served at all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10498'),
(12623, 'The Cold Dish', 'Craig Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this outstanding first novel, Craig Johnson draws on his background in law enforcement and his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, and full of memorable characters. Walt Longmire, sheriff of Wyomingâ€™s Absaroka County, knows heâ€™s got trouble when Cody Pritchard is found dead. Two years earlier, Cody and three accomplices had been given suspended sentences for raping a Northern Cheyenne girl. Is someone seeking vengeance? Longmire faces the most volatile and challenging case in his twenty-four years as sheriff and means to see that revenge, a dish that is best served cold, is never served at all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17409'),
(12624, 'The Cold Dish', 'Craig Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this outstanding first novel, Craig Johnson draws on his background in law enforcement and his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, and full of memorable characters. Walt Longmire, sheriff of Wyomingâ€™s Absaroka County, knows heâ€™s got trouble when Cody Pritchard is found dead. Two years earlier, Cody and three accomplices had been given suspended sentences for raping a Northern Cheyenne girl. Is someone seeking vengeance? Longmire faces the most volatile and challenging case in his twenty-four years as sheriff and means to see that revenge, a dish that is best served cold, is never served at all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27086'),
(12625, 'Cold Fire', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  On an impulse, schoolteacher Jim Ironheart flies to Portland, Oregon without understanding why. There he saves a boy from being killed by a drunk driver and is observed by Holly Thorne.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  She tracks Jim to California, and their lives intertwine on one of Jim''s lifesaving missions. Surviving a plane crash, terrifying monsters that materialize from Holly''s nightmares, and an uncannily powerful adversary, they search for the source of Jim''s psychic power.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6087'),
(12626, 'Cold Fire', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  On an impulse, schoolteacher Jim Ironheart flies to Portland, Oregon without understanding why. There he saves a boy from being killed by a drunk driver and is observed by Holly Thorne.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  She tracks Jim to California, and their lives intertwine on one of Jim''s lifesaving missions. Surviving a plane crash, terrifying monsters that materialize from Holly''s nightmares, and an uncannily powerful adversary, they search for the source of Jim''s psychic power.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10837'),
(12627, 'Cold Fire', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  On an impulse, schoolteacher Jim Ironheart flies to Portland, Oregon without understanding why. There he saves a boy from being killed by a drunk driver and is observed by Holly Thorne.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  She tracks Jim to California, and their lives intertwine on one of Jim''s lifesaving missions. Surviving a plane crash, terrifying monsters that materialize from Holly''s nightmares, and an uncannily powerful adversary, they search for the source of Jim''s psychic power.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17842'),
(12628, 'Cold Fire', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Reporter Holly Thorne is intrigued by Jim Ironheart, who has saved 12 lives in the past three months. Holly wants to know what kind of power drives him, why terrifying visions of a churning windmill haunt his dreams, and just what he means when he whispers in his sleep that an enemy who will kill everyone is coming. a oeA master storyteller, sometimes humorous, sometimes shocking, but always riveting. His characters sparkle with life. And his fast-paced plots are wonderfully fiendish, taking unexpected twists and turns.a - The San Diego Union-Tribune\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27403'),
(12629, 'Cold Fusion', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The fifth Doctor''s TARDIS is not the only one to have landed on a barren ice world where a dirty civil war is raging. A genuine threat to the universe unfolds and the Doctor finds himself in conflict with his past... and his future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3556'),
(12630, 'Cold Fusion', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The fifth Doctor''s TARDIS is not the only one to have landed on a barren ice world where a dirty civil war is raging. A genuine threat to the universe unfolds and the Doctor finds himself in conflict with his past... and his future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20898'),
(12631, 'The Cold Light of Mourning', 'Elizabeth J. Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Marriage. Murder. Nail polish...One woman''s would-be wedding has an entire Welsh town on edge in Elizabeth J. Duncan''s "The Cold Light of Mourning"--winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition."THERE GOES THE BRIDE...The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day--and turns up dead. WAS SHE LOVED TO DEATH?The last person believed to have seen Meg alive is local manicurist Penny Brannigan, who vows to find the killer. Seems that several people--including those on the guest list--had reasons to wish Meg dead. But when the trail leads Penny to the groom, a red-hot secret threatens to shake the small town to its very core..."Admirable and appealing...a worthy plot, a congenial heroine."--"Richmond-Times Dispatch""""Duncan lulls readers with her depiction of small-town life...then startles them with a shocker."--"Library Journal"""\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5704'),
(12632, 'The Cold Light of Mourning', 'Elizabeth J. Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Marriage. Murder. Nail polish...One woman''s would-be wedding has an entire Welsh town on edge in Elizabeth J. Duncan''s "The Cold Light of Mourning"--winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition."THERE GOES THE BRIDE...The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day--and turns up dead. WAS SHE LOVED TO DEATH?The last person believed to have seen Meg alive is local manicurist Penny Brannigan, who vows to find the killer. Seems that several people--including those on the guest list--had reasons to wish Meg dead. But when the trail leads Penny to the groom, a red-hot secret threatens to shake the small town to its very core..."Admirable and appealing...a worthy plot, a congenial heroine."--"Richmond-Times Dispatch""""Duncan lulls readers with her depiction of small-town life...then startles them with a shocker."--"Library Journal"""\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10884'),
(12633, 'The Cold Light of Mourning', 'Elizabeth J. Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Marriage. Murder. Nail polish...One woman''s would-be wedding has an entire Welsh town on edge in Elizabeth J. Duncan''s "The Cold Light of Mourning"--winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition."THERE GOES THE BRIDE...The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day--and turns up dead. WAS SHE LOVED TO DEATH?The last person believed to have seen Meg alive is local manicurist Penny Brannigan, who vows to find the killer. Seems that several people--including those on the guest list--had reasons to wish Meg dead. But when the trail leads Penny to the groom, a red-hot secret threatens to shake the small town to its very core..."Admirable and appealing...a worthy plot, a congenial heroine."--"Richmond-Times Dispatch""""Duncan lulls readers with her depiction of small-town life...then startles them with a shocker."--"Library Journal"""\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18847'),
(12634, 'The Cold Light of Mourning', 'Elizabeth J. Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Marriage. Murder. Nail polish...One woman''s would-be wedding has an entire Welsh town on edge in Elizabeth J. Duncan''s "The Cold Light of Mourning"--winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition."THERE GOES THE BRIDE...The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day--and turns up dead. WAS SHE LOVED TO DEATH?The last person believed to have seen Meg alive is local manicurist Penny Brannigan, who vows to find the killer. Seems that several people--including those on the guest list--had reasons to wish Meg dead. But when the trail leads Penny to the groom, a red-hot secret threatens to shake the small town to its very core..."Admirable and appealing...a worthy plot, a congenial heroine."--"Richmond-Times Dispatch""""Duncan lulls readers with her depiction of small-town life...then startles them with a shocker."--"Library Journal"""\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27638'),
(12635, 'Cold Midnight', 'Joyce Lamb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After sheâ€™s brutally assaulted, a woman returns to her quiet hometown only to discover that someone wants her dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3962'),
(12636, 'Cold Midnight', 'Joyce Lamb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After sheâ€™s brutally assaulted, a woman returns to her quiet hometown only to discover that someone wants her dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12240'),
(12637, 'Cold Midnight', 'Joyce Lamb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After sheâ€™s brutally assaulted, a woman returns to her quiet hometown only to discover that someone wants her dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20523'),
(12638, 'Cold Moon Rising', 'C. T. Adams &amp; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He''s Baaaaaack.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hired killer Tony Giodone is back in action -- this time, believe it or not, working for the ''good guys.'' Or should that be the ''not quite as bad guys?'' He isn''t sure. One thing is for certain, serving as a newly minted member of Wolven, the Sazi law enforcement agency, certainly does keep a guy busy. AND he gets to do what he does best. Kill things. Of course, Carmine doesn''t plan to let Tony off the hook, particularly when he''s attacked and nearly killed by the boys from the east coast.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Paired up with Ahmad al Narmer Tony''s in danger up to his baby blues, which wouldn''t bother him a bit, if his wife, Sue wasn''t bound and determined to be a part of the action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6967'),
(12639, 'Cold Moon Rising', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He''s Baaaaaack. Hired killer Tony Giodone is back in action -- this time, believe it or not, working for the ''good guys.'' Or should that be the ''not quite as bad guys?'' He isn''t sure. One thing is for certain, serving as a newly minted member of Wolven, the Sazi law enforcement agency, certainly does keep a guy busy. AND he gets to do what he does best. Kill things. Of course, Carmine doesn''t plan to let Tony off the hook, particularly when he''s attacked and nearly killed by the boys from the east coast. Paired up with Ahmad al Narmer Tony''s in danger up to his baby blues, which wouldn''t bother him a bit, if his wife, Sue wasn''t bound and determined to be a part of the action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16875'),
(12640, 'Cold Moon Rising', 'C. T. Adams; Cathy Clamp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n He''s Baaaaaack. Hired killer Tony Giodone is back in action -- this time, believe it or not, working for the ''good guys.'' Or should that be the ''not quite as bad guys?'' He isn''t sure. One thing is for certain, serving as a newly minted member of Wolven, the Sazi law enforcement agency, certainly does keep a guy busy. AND he gets to do what he does best. Kill things. Of course, Carmine doesn''t plan to let Tony off the hook, particularly when he''s attacked and nearly killed by the boys from the east coast. Paired up with Ahmad al Narmer Tony''s in danger up to his baby blues, which wouldn''t bother him a bit, if his wife, Sue wasn''t bound and determined to be a part of the action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26767'),
(12641, 'Cold Mountain', 'Charles Frazier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14624'),
(12642, 'Cold Mountain', 'Charles Frazier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15970'),
(12643, 'Cold Mountain', 'Charles Frazier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26909'),
(12644, 'The Cold Room', 'J. T. Ellison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ellison''s fourth Taylor Jackson thriller finds a serial killer murdering young women in both the United States and Europe. Such an international crime brings New Scotland Yard Detective/profiler James Memphis Highsmythe into the investigation, causing an unexpected hitch in homicide detective Jackson''s romantic involvement with fianceÃŒÃ¼e FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin. But personal feelings or no, the trio must pool their resources to find the serial killer known as the Conductor in the United States and Il Macellaio across the Atlantic, before he can strike again. Joyce Bean is perfectly cast; her narration keeps the book moving at a steady pace and infuses the prose with just the right amount of menace and suspense. Her reading of the killer''s chance encounter with a young woman destined to become his next victim is chilling. Even when the writing may be a little over the top at times, Bean''s performance is down to the ground solid. A Mira paperback.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything a great crime thriller should be. --Allison Brennan on\n <em>\n  All the Pretty Girls\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Fusing gritty cop drama with dark psychological thriller, Ellison distinguishes herself with exceptional character development, consistently breakneck pacing and a sense of authenticity throughout. ----_Chicago Tribune_ on 14\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4993'),
(12645, 'The Cold Room', 'J. T. Ellison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ellison''s fourth Taylor Jackson thriller finds a serial killer murdering young women in both the United States and Europe. Such an international crime brings New Scotland Yard Detective/profiler James Memphis Highsmythe into the investigation, causing an unexpected hitch in homicide detective Jackson''s romantic involvement with fianceÃŒÃ¼e FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin. But personal feelings or no, the trio must pool their resources to find the serial killer known as the Conductor in the United States and Il Macellaio across the Atlantic, before he can strike again. Joyce Bean is perfectly cast; her narration keeps the book moving at a steady pace and infuses the prose with just the right amount of menace and suspense. Her reading of the killer''s chance encounter with a young woman destined to become his next victim is chilling. Even when the writing may be a little over the top at times, Bean''s performance is down to the ground solid. A Mira paperback.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything a great crime thriller should be. --Allison Brennan on\n <em>\n  All the Pretty Girls\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Fusing gritty cop drama with dark psychological thriller, Ellison distinguishes herself with exceptional character development, consistently breakneck pacing and a sense of authenticity throughout. ----_Chicago Tribune_ on 14\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9555'),
(12646, 'The Cold Room', 'J. T. Ellison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ellison''s fourth Taylor Jackson thriller finds a serial killer murdering young women in both the United States and Europe. Such an international crime brings New Scotland Yard Detective/profiler James Memphis Highsmythe into the investigation, causing an unexpected hitch in homicide detective Jackson''s romantic involvement with fianceÃŒÃ¼e FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin. But personal feelings or no, the trio must pool their resources to find the serial killer known as the Conductor in the United States and Il Macellaio across the Atlantic, before he can strike again. Joyce Bean is perfectly cast; her narration keeps the book moving at a steady pace and infuses the prose with just the right amount of menace and suspense. Her reading of the killer''s chance encounter with a young woman destined to become his next victim is chilling. Even when the writing may be a little over the top at times, Bean''s performance is down to the ground solid. A Mira paperback.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything a great crime thriller should be. --Allison Brennan on\n <em>\n  All the Pretty Girls\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Fusing gritty cop drama with dark psychological thriller, Ellison distinguishes herself with exceptional character development, consistently breakneck pacing and a sense of authenticity throughout. ----_Chicago Tribune_ on 14\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19710'),
(12647, 'Cold Service', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When his buddy Hawk is beaten within an inch of his life, Spenser infiltrates a ruthless mob in the name of friendship--and revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1760'),
(12648, 'Cold Service', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When his buddy Hawk is beaten within an inch of his life, Spenser infiltrates a ruthless mob in the name of friendship--and revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11801'),
(12649, 'Cold Service (2005)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 32', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13720'),
(12650, 'Cold Service (2005)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 32', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23182'),
(12651, 'The Cold Spot', 'Tom Piccirilli', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Orphaned at 10â€”his mother murdered, his father a suicideâ€”Chase was raised by his grandfather Jonah, a grifter who has used Chase as a getaway driver. After Jonah shoots one of his crew during a poker game, Chase, at 21, realizing that the icy old man could easily turn on his own grandson, strikes off on his own. He works his way around the country stealing cars and driving for petty thieves until one night in Mississippi he runs up against deputy sheriff Lila Bodeen, who sees something in this brash young outlaw that she likes. Tragedy puts Chase back on the road, where he faces not only the killer but the truthâ€”about himself and his shattered family. Piccirilli (_The Midnight Road_, etc.) tells the gritty, violent and dark tale in an appealingly noirish narrative style, highly economical yet bracingly intimate.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Tom Piccirilliâ€™s] prose has the visceral punch of the best pulp writers of the past centuryâ€¦.\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is both funny and ferocious.â€â€”_San Francisco Chronicle.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "A powerful, hard-hittng, fiercely original writer of suspense. I highly recommend him." â€”David Morrell, author of _Creepers\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Tom Piccirilli''s fiction is visceral and unflinching, yet deeply insightful."â€”F. Paul Wilson, author of\n  <em>\n   The Keep\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Bloodline\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is truly dazzling. Piccirilli has taken the mystery to a whole other level."â€”Ken Bruen, award-winning author of _The Guards\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Blackest noir, the most minimal kind of minimalism, and at the same time deeply emotional: this is not easy to do. I loved\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  ."â€”Peter Abrahams, bestselling author of _Nerve Damage\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Lean, brutal and completely arresting, Tom Piccirilli''s\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is a bull''s-eye hardboiled tale."â€”Megan Abbott, author of _The Song is You\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is crime fiction at its very best, an exceptional revenge story so vivid you feel like you''re in the back seat of a getaway car with a master storyteller at the wheel."â€”Jason Starr, author of _The Follower\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/500'),
(12652, 'The Cold Spot', 'Tom Piccirilli', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Orphaned at 10â€”his mother murdered, his father a suicideâ€”Chase was raised by his grandfather Jonah, a grifter who has used Chase as a getaway driver. After Jonah shoots one of his crew during a poker game, Chase, at 21, realizing that the icy old man could easily turn on his own grandson, strikes off on his own. He works his way around the country stealing cars and driving for petty thieves until one night in Mississippi he runs up against deputy sheriff Lila Bodeen, who sees something in this brash young outlaw that she likes. Tragedy puts Chase back on the road, where he faces not only the killer but the truthâ€”about himself and his shattered family. Piccirilli (_The Midnight Road_, etc.) tells the gritty, violent and dark tale in an appealingly noirish narrative style, highly economical yet bracingly intimate.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Tom Piccirilliâ€™s] prose has the visceral punch of the best pulp writers of the past centuryâ€¦.\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is both funny and ferocious.â€â€”_San Francisco Chronicle.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "A powerful, hard-hittng, fiercely original writer of suspense. I highly recommend him." â€”David Morrell, author of _Creepers\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Tom Piccirilli''s fiction is visceral and unflinching, yet deeply insightful."â€”F. Paul Wilson, author of\n  <em>\n   The Keep\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Bloodline\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is truly dazzling. Piccirilli has taken the mystery to a whole other level."â€”Ken Bruen, award-winning author of _The Guards\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Blackest noir, the most minimal kind of minimalism, and at the same time deeply emotional: this is not easy to do. I loved\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  ."â€”Peter Abrahams, bestselling author of _Nerve Damage\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Lean, brutal and completely arresting, Tom Piccirilli''s\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is a bull''s-eye hardboiled tale."â€”Megan Abbott, author of _The Song is You\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is crime fiction at its very best, an exceptional revenge story so vivid you feel like you''re in the back seat of a getaway car with a master storyteller at the wheel."â€”Jason Starr, author of _The Follower\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11934'),
(12653, 'The Cold Spot', 'Tom Piccirilli', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Orphaned at 10â€”his mother murdered, his father a suicideâ€”Chase was raised by his grandfather Jonah, a grifter who has used Chase as a getaway driver. After Jonah shoots one of his crew during a poker game, Chase, at 21, realizing that the icy old man could easily turn on his own grandson, strikes off on his own. He works his way around the country stealing cars and driving for petty thieves until one night in Mississippi he runs up against deputy sheriff Lila Bodeen, who sees something in this brash young outlaw that she likes. Tragedy puts Chase back on the road, where he faces not only the killer but the truthâ€”about himself and his shattered family. Piccirilli (_The Midnight Road_, etc.) tells the gritty, violent and dark tale in an appealingly noirish narrative style, highly economical yet bracingly intimate.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Tom Piccirilliâ€™s] prose has the visceral punch of the best pulp writers of the past century....\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is both funny and ferocious.â€â€”_San Francisco Chronicle.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "A powerful, hard-hittng, fiercely original writer of suspense. I highly recommend him." â€”David Morrell, author of _Creepers\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Tom Piccirilli''s fiction is visceral and unflinching, yet deeply insightful."â€”F. Paul Wilson, author of\n  <em>\n   The Keep\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Bloodline\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is truly dazzling. Piccirilli has taken the mystery to a whole other level."â€”Ken Bruen, award-winning author of _The Guards\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Blackest noir, the most minimal kind of minimalism, and at the same time deeply emotional: this is not easy to do. I loved\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  ."â€”Peter Abrahams, bestselling author of _Nerve Damage\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Lean, brutal and completely arresting, Tom Piccirilli''s\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is a bull''s-eye hardboiled tale."â€”Megan Abbott, author of _The Song is You\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "\n  <strong>\n   The Cold Spot\n  </strong>\n  is crime fiction at its very best, an exceptional revenge story so vivid you feel like you''re in the back seat of a getaway car with a master storyteller at the wheel."â€”Jason Starr, author of _The Follower\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24474');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(12654, 'Cold Springs', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Aptly subtitled "A Novel of Secrets," this dark, probing tale examines the destructive ripple effects of a child''s death on those around her--especially after doubts arise whether it was accident, suicide, or murder. In the harrowing opening pages, 16-year-old Katherine Chadwick ODs on heroin while babysitting little Mallory, daughter of her parents'' best friends. Then the tale leaps forward nine years: both couples'' marriages are in ruins; Katherine''s father, once a schoolteacher, is now a bruising "escort" for a reform school in the Texas outback called Cold Springs; and his next assignment is to capture none other than Mallory, now 15 and in trouble.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Texas native Riordan, whose\n  </p>\n  <blockquote>\n   <p>\n    Chadwick ... stepped out into the growing gloom of the evening. Down the block, he could hear the lowrider cruising, its stereo setting off car alarms all across the neighborhood like a bloodhound flushing quail.\n   </p>\n  </blockquote>\n  <p>\n   But it''s the book''s complex plot and richly realized people--most notably its troubled teenagers (Riordan is a middle-school teacher)--that give\n   <em>\n    Cold Springs\n   </em>\n   substance and heft. You may need to persist through some tangled exposition in the first 75 pages or so, but the payoff is well worth it. The long climax offers a stunning series of cascading revelations, including a final kicker that changes everything. Riordan is the real deal.\n   <em>\n    --Nicholas H. Allison\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Riordan is a middle-school teacher in San Antonio, which explains why this unorthodox suspense novel-Riordan''s first break from his Edgar-, Shamus- and Anthony-winning series about private detective Tres Navarre (The Devil Went Down to Austin, etc.)-centers around two very different kinds of schools. One is Laurel Heights, a private middle school in San Francisco, where a dedicated staff deals with the needs of the privileged children of the affluent. The other is Cold Springs, a survival school in the mountain country of Texas, where a former army Ranger rescues teenagers who have slipped over the edge. Linking the two schools is Chadwick, a huge man who looks like George Washington; he teaches history at Laurel Heights and then becomes an escort at Cold Springs (run by his old Vietnam buddy) when his own teenaged daughter, Katherine, dies of a drug overdose. Chadwick, who blames himself for Katherine''s death (he was about to leave his wife for Ann Zedman, the woman who runs Laurel Heights), is a complex and interesting character, and the pressures on him are believable and absorbing-especially when Ann''s daughter, Mallory, becomes a Cold Springs candidate. Riordan tilts the playing field by introducing a truly dysfunctional family, the Montroses, and tracing a string of murders related to Katherine''s death. Knife-throwing, wild shooting and hairbreadth escapes up the ante, sometimes to the point of overkill, but Riordan is so good at moving his story along-and showing how fragile children''s lives can be-that most readers will forgive him his excesses.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aptly subtitled "A Novel of Secrets," this dark, probing tale examines the destructive ripple effects of a child''s death on those around her--especially after doubts arise whether it was accident, suicide, or murder. In the harrowing opening pages, 16-year-old Katherine Chadwick ODs on heroin while babysitting little Mallory, daughter of her parents'' best friends. Then the tale leaps forward nine years: both couples'' marriages are in ruins; Katherine''s father, once a schoolteacher, is now a bruising "escort" for a reform school in the Texas outback called Cold Springs; and his next assignment is to capture none other than Mallory, now 15 and in trouble.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Texas native Riordan, whose\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Chadwick ... stepped out into the growing gloom of the evening. Down the block, he could hear the lowrider cruising, its stereo setting off car alarms all across the neighborhood like a bloodhound flushing quail.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  But it''s the book''s complex plot and richly realized people--most notably its troubled teenagers (Riordan is a middle-school teacher)--that give\n  <em>\n   Cold Springs\n  </em>\n  substance and heft. You may need to persist through some tangled exposition in the first 75 pages or so, but the payoff is well worth it. The long climax offers a stunning series of cascading revelations, including a final kicker that changes everything. Riordan is the real deal.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Riordan is a middle-school teacher in San Antonio, which explains why this unorthodox suspense novel-Riordan''s first break from his Edgar-, Shamus- and Anthony-winning series about private detective Tres Navarre (The Devil Went Down to Austin, etc.)-centers around two very different kinds of schools. One is Laurel Heights, a private middle school in San Francisco, where a dedicated staff deals with the needs of the privileged children of the affluent. The other is Cold Springs, a survival school in the mountain country of Texas, where a former army Ranger rescues teenagers who have slipped over the edge. Linking the two schools is Chadwick, a huge man who looks like George Washington; he teaches history at Laurel Heights and then becomes an escort at Cold Springs (run by his old Vietnam buddy) when his own teenaged daughter, Katherine, dies of a drug overdose. Chadwick, who blames himself for Katherine''s death (he was about to leave his wife for Ann Zedman, the woman who runs Laurel Heights), is a complex and interesting character, and the pressures on him are believable and absorbing-especially when Ann''s daughter, Mallory, becomes a Cold Springs candidate. Riordan tilts the playing field by introducing a truly dysfunctional family, the Montroses, and tracing a string of murders related to Katherine''s death. Knife-throwing, wild shooting and hairbreadth escapes up the ante, sometimes to the point of overkill, but Riordan is so good at moving his story along-and showing how fragile children''s lives can be-that most readers will forgive him his excesses.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1779'),
(12655, 'Cold Springs', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Aptly subtitled "A Novel of Secrets," this dark, probing tale examines the destructive ripple effects of a child''s death on those around her--especially after doubts arise whether it was accident, suicide, or murder. In the harrowing opening pages, 16-year-old Katherine Chadwick ODs on heroin while babysitting little Mallory, daughter of her parents'' best friends. Then the tale leaps forward nine years: both couples'' marriages are in ruins; Katherine''s father, once a schoolteacher, is now a bruising "escort" for a reform school in the Texas outback called Cold Springs; and his next assignment is to capture none other than Mallory, now 15 and in trouble.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Texas native Riordan, whose\n  </p>\n  <blockquote>\n   <p>\n    Chadwick ... stepped out into the growing gloom of the evening. Down the block, he could hear the lowrider cruising, its stereo setting off car alarms all across the neighborhood like a bloodhound flushing quail.\n   </p>\n  </blockquote>\n  <p>\n   But it''s the book''s complex plot and richly realized people--most notably its troubled teenagers (Riordan is a middle-school teacher)--that give\n   <em>\n    Cold Springs\n   </em>\n   substance and heft. You may need to persist through some tangled exposition in the first 75 pages or so, but the payoff is well worth it. The long climax offers a stunning series of cascading revelations, including a final kicker that changes everything. Riordan is the real deal.\n   <em>\n    --Nicholas H. Allison\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Riordan is a middle-school teacher in San Antonio, which explains why this unorthodox suspense novel-Riordan''s first break from his Edgar-, Shamus- and Anthony-winning series about private detective Tres Navarre (The Devil Went Down to Austin, etc.)-centers around two very different kinds of schools. One is Laurel Heights, a private middle school in San Francisco, where a dedicated staff deals with the needs of the privileged children of the affluent. The other is Cold Springs, a survival school in the mountain country of Texas, where a former army Ranger rescues teenagers who have slipped over the edge. Linking the two schools is Chadwick, a huge man who looks like George Washington; he teaches history at Laurel Heights and then becomes an escort at Cold Springs (run by his old Vietnam buddy) when his own teenaged daughter, Katherine, dies of a drug overdose. Chadwick, who blames himself for Katherine''s death (he was about to leave his wife for Ann Zedman, the woman who runs Laurel Heights), is a complex and interesting character, and the pressures on him are believable and absorbing-especially when Ann''s daughter, Mallory, becomes a Cold Springs candidate. Riordan tilts the playing field by introducing a truly dysfunctional family, the Montroses, and tracing a string of murders related to Katherine''s death. Knife-throwing, wild shooting and hairbreadth escapes up the ante, sometimes to the point of overkill, but Riordan is so good at moving his story along-and showing how fragile children''s lives can be-that most readers will forgive him his excesses.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aptly subtitled "A Novel of Secrets," this dark, probing tale examines the destructive ripple effects of a child''s death on those around her--especially after doubts arise whether it was accident, suicide, or murder. In the harrowing opening pages, 16-year-old Katherine Chadwick ODs on heroin while babysitting little Mallory, daughter of her parents'' best friends. Then the tale leaps forward nine years: both couples'' marriages are in ruins; Katherine''s father, once a schoolteacher, is now a bruising "escort" for a reform school in the Texas outback called Cold Springs; and his next assignment is to capture none other than Mallory, now 15 and in trouble.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Texas native Riordan, whose\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Chadwick ... stepped out into the growing gloom of the evening. Down the block, he could hear the lowrider cruising, its stereo setting off car alarms all across the neighborhood like a bloodhound flushing quail.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  But it''s the book''s complex plot and richly realized people--most notably its troubled teenagers (Riordan is a middle-school teacher)--that give\n  <em>\n   Cold Springs\n  </em>\n  substance and heft. You may need to persist through some tangled exposition in the first 75 pages or so, but the payoff is well worth it. The long climax offers a stunning series of cascading revelations, including a final kicker that changes everything. Riordan is the real deal.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Riordan is a middle-school teacher in San Antonio, which explains why this unorthodox suspense novel-Riordan''s first break from his Edgar-, Shamus- and Anthony-winning series about private detective Tres Navarre (The Devil Went Down to Austin, etc.)-centers around two very different kinds of schools. One is Laurel Heights, a private middle school in San Francisco, where a dedicated staff deals with the needs of the privileged children of the affluent. The other is Cold Springs, a survival school in the mountain country of Texas, where a former army Ranger rescues teenagers who have slipped over the edge. Linking the two schools is Chadwick, a huge man who looks like George Washington; he teaches history at Laurel Heights and then becomes an escort at Cold Springs (run by his old Vietnam buddy) when his own teenaged daughter, Katherine, dies of a drug overdose. Chadwick, who blames himself for Katherine''s death (he was about to leave his wife for Ann Zedman, the woman who runs Laurel Heights), is a complex and interesting character, and the pressures on him are believable and absorbing-especially when Ann''s daughter, Mallory, becomes a Cold Springs candidate. Riordan tilts the playing field by introducing a truly dysfunctional family, the Montroses, and tracing a string of murders related to Katherine''s death. Knife-throwing, wild shooting and hairbreadth escapes up the ante, sometimes to the point of overkill, but Riordan is so good at moving his story along-and showing how fragile children''s lives can be-that most readers will forgive him his excesses.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13539'),
(12656, 'Cold Springs', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Aptly subtitled "A Novel of Secrets," this dark, probing tale examines the destructive ripple effects of a child''s death on those around her--especially after doubts arise whether it was accident, suicide, or murder. In the harrowing opening pages, 16-year-old Katherine Chadwick ODs on heroin while babysitting little Mallory, daughter of her parents'' best friends. Then the tale leaps forward nine years: both couples'' marriages are in ruins; Katherine''s father, once a schoolteacher, is now a bruising "escort" for a reform school in the Texas outback called Cold Springs; and his next assignment is to capture none other than Mallory, now 15 and in trouble.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Texas native Riordan, whose\n  </p>\n  <blockquote>\n   <p>\n    Chadwick ... stepped out into the growing gloom of the evening. Down the block, he could hear the lowrider cruising, its stereo setting off car alarms all across the neighborhood like a bloodhound flushing quail.\n   </p>\n  </blockquote>\n  <p>\n   But it''s the book''s complex plot and richly realized people--most notably its troubled teenagers (Riordan is a middle-school teacher)--that give\n   <em>\n    Cold Springs\n   </em>\n   substance and heft. You may need to persist through some tangled exposition in the first 75 pages or so, but the payoff is well worth it. The long climax offers a stunning series of cascading revelations, including a final kicker that changes everything. Riordan is the real deal.\n   <em>\n    --Nicholas H. Allison\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Riordan is a middle-school teacher in San Antonio, which explains why this unorthodox suspense novel-Riordan''s first break from his Edgar-, Shamus- and Anthony-winning series about private detective Tres Navarre (The Devil Went Down to Austin, etc.)-centers around two very different kinds of schools. One is Laurel Heights, a private middle school in San Francisco, where a dedicated staff deals with the needs of the privileged children of the affluent. The other is Cold Springs, a survival school in the mountain country of Texas, where a former army Ranger rescues teenagers who have slipped over the edge. Linking the two schools is Chadwick, a huge man who looks like George Washington; he teaches history at Laurel Heights and then becomes an escort at Cold Springs (run by his old Vietnam buddy) when his own teenaged daughter, Katherine, dies of a drug overdose. Chadwick, who blames himself for Katherine''s death (he was about to leave his wife for Ann Zedman, the woman who runs Laurel Heights), is a complex and interesting character, and the pressures on him are believable and absorbing-especially when Ann''s daughter, Mallory, becomes a Cold Springs candidate. Riordan tilts the playing field by introducing a truly dysfunctional family, the Montroses, and tracing a string of murders related to Katherine''s death. Knife-throwing, wild shooting and hairbreadth escapes up the ante, sometimes to the point of overkill, but Riordan is so good at moving his story along-and showing how fragile children''s lives can be-that most readers will forgive him his excesses.\n   <br />\n   Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aptly subtitled "A Novel of Secrets," this dark, probing tale examines the destructive ripple effects of a child''s death on those around her--especially after doubts arise whether it was accident, suicide, or murder. In the harrowing opening pages, 16-year-old Katherine Chadwick ODs on heroin while babysitting little Mallory, daughter of her parents'' best friends. Then the tale leaps forward nine years: both couples'' marriages are in ruins; Katherine''s father, once a schoolteacher, is now a bruising "escort" for a reform school in the Texas outback called Cold Springs; and his next assignment is to capture none other than Mallory, now 15 and in trouble.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Texas native Riordan, whose\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Chadwick ... stepped out into the growing gloom of the evening. Down the block, he could hear the lowrider cruising, its stereo setting off car alarms all across the neighborhood like a bloodhound flushing quail.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  But it''s the book''s complex plot and richly realized people--most notably its troubled teenagers (Riordan is a middle-school teacher)--that give\n  <em>\n   Cold Springs\n  </em>\n  substance and heft. You may need to persist through some tangled exposition in the first 75 pages or so, but the payoff is well worth it. The long climax offers a stunning series of cascading revelations, including a final kicker that changes everything. Riordan is the real deal.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Riordan is a middle-school teacher in San Antonio, which explains why this unorthodox suspense novel-Riordan''s first break from his Edgar-, Shamus- and Anthony-winning series about private detective Tres Navarre (The Devil Went Down to Austin, etc.)-centers around two very different kinds of schools. One is Laurel Heights, a private middle school in San Francisco, where a dedicated staff deals with the needs of the privileged children of the affluent. The other is Cold Springs, a survival school in the mountain country of Texas, where a former army Ranger rescues teenagers who have slipped over the edge. Linking the two schools is Chadwick, a huge man who looks like George Washington; he teaches history at Laurel Heights and then becomes an escort at Cold Springs (run by his old Vietnam buddy) when his own teenaged daughter, Katherine, dies of a drug overdose. Chadwick, who blames himself for Katherine''s death (he was about to leave his wife for Ann Zedman, the woman who runs Laurel Heights), is a complex and interesting character, and the pressures on him are believable and absorbing-especially when Ann''s daughter, Mallory, becomes a Cold Springs candidate. Riordan tilts the playing field by introducing a truly dysfunctional family, the Montroses, and tracing a string of murders related to Katherine''s death. Knife-throwing, wild shooting and hairbreadth escapes up the ante, sometimes to the point of overkill, but Riordan is so good at moving his story along-and showing how fragile children''s lives can be-that most readers will forgive him his excesses.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24877'),
(12657, 'A Cold Treachery', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Integral to most crime tales is the unearthing of concealed and unfavorable facts about suspected malefactors. But the mother-son duo who write under the\n <em>\n  nom de plume\n </em>\n "Charles Todd" are particularly adept, in their historical novels featuring Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, at exploiting painful secrets as tools in developing both character and plot. It''s rare, in a Todd tale, that even the innocent should escape unscathed. The authors demonstrate their skills once more in\n <em>\n  A Cold Treachery\n </em>\n , which sends the shell-shocked and lonely Rutledge to probe the winter massacre of a sheep-farming family in northern England, at the same time as he searches for the missing and only witness to that chilling savagery.\n</p>\n<p>\n "It was beyond comprehension," we''re told of the December 1919 violence, near the rustic Lake District town of Urskdale, that left Gerald and Grace Elcott and three of their progeny shot to death. A fourth child, 10-year-old Josh Robinson, is nowhere to be found. He''s thought to have fled from the scene, only to have perished in a recent blizzard. Coming off the grim proceedings recalled in __, Rutledge--shackled as always to the nattering ghost of Hamish MacLeod, a Scotsman he''d ordered executed on a World War I battlefield--must determine whether the murderer was a passing stranger, or a local who''d previously concealed his or her aptitude for barbarity--and might kill again. Gerald Elcott''s less-successful brother, Paul, has ample motive (heâ€™s next in line to inherit their clan''s farm), as does Grace''s sister, Janet Ashton, who just happens to arrive in Urskdale with a gun in hand (supposedly to protect her sibling from Paul''s anger). Yet there''s another, more frightening possibility--that Josh, Gerald''s stepson, upset by the breakup of his parents, committed these atrocities. Desperate for clues, and with his impatient superior threatening to replace him on this case, Rutledge still can''t claim to know who, or what, was behind the carnage.\n</p>\n<p>\n After their disappointing standalone,\n <strong>\n  , it''s a relief to see the Todd pair return to the "gloomy, defeated and exhausted" postwar England of Ian Rutledge, where no end of dire dramas appear to lurk. Like its half-dozen predecessors, stretching back to\n </strong>\n ,\n <em>\n  A Cold Treachery\n </em>\n satisfies with its copious period details, characters traumatized by fate and failures, and a bedeviled young protagonist who must solve other people''s problems before his own. And even as Hamish seems here to slip further into the background, there''s finally the prospect of Rutledge finding companionship of a more corporeal sort. --_J. Kingston Pierce_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Traditional mystery lovers who prefer their whodunits enriched with psychological insight will heartily embrace Todd''s seventh Inspector Rutledge novel (after 2002''s\n <em>\n  A Fearsome Doubt\n </em>\n ). Still haunted by the ghost of a corporal whose execution for insubordination he ordered during WWI, Rutledge fights a constant battle to hang on to his sanity by devoting himself to his detective work for Scotland Yard. This time, the brutal massacre of the Elcott family, including two adults and three children, takes him to the Lake District town of Urskdale. While the local authorities prefer to blame an outsider for the murders, the inspector quickly finds the hidden passions churning beneath the stolid surface of the small rustic town. Since one family member, a 10-year-old boy, wasn''t found with his relatives'' bloody corpses, Rutledge pursues clues suggesting that the missing lad may be either a potential future victim or the killer himself. Todd''s ear for dialogue is superb, and he effortlessly conjures up the harsh life of a simple farm community through his vivid characters. As with its predecessors, this novel is imbued with tragic sadness, and Rutledge''s struggle with his own demons serves as a moving counterpoint to the searing pain of other characters trapped by circumstances or emotions beyond their control. Perhaps this superb effort will bring Todd an audience to match the deserved critical acclaim he has received. FYI:_Todd is the pseudonym of a mother-son writing team._\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6838'),
(12658, 'A Cold Treachery', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Integral to most crime tales is the unearthing of concealed and unfavorable facts about suspected malefactors. But the mother-son duo who write under the\n <em>\n  nom de plume\n </em>\n "Charles Todd" are particularly adept, in their historical novels featuring Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, at exploiting painful secrets as tools in developing both character and plot. It''s rare, in a Todd tale, that even the innocent should escape unscathed. The authors demonstrate their skills once more in\n <em>\n  A Cold Treachery\n </em>\n , which sends the shell-shocked and lonely Rutledge to probe the winter massacre of a sheep-farming family in northern England, at the same time as he searches for the missing and only witness to that chilling savagery.\n</p>\n<p>\n "It was beyond comprehension," we''re told of the December 1919 violence, near the rustic Lake District town of Urskdale, that left Gerald and Grace Elcott and three of their progeny shot to death. A fourth child, 10-year-old Josh Robinson, is nowhere to be found. He''s thought to have fled from the scene, only to have perished in a recent blizzard. Coming off the grim proceedings recalled in __, Rutledge--shackled as always to the nattering ghost of Hamish MacLeod, a Scotsman he''d ordered executed on a World War I battlefield--must determine whether the murderer was a passing stranger, or a local who''d previously concealed his or her aptitude for barbarity--and might kill again. Gerald Elcott''s less-successful brother, Paul, has ample motive (heâ€™s next in line to inherit their clan''s farm), as does Grace''s sister, Janet Ashton, who just happens to arrive in Urskdale with a gun in hand (supposedly to protect her sibling from Paul''s anger). Yet there''s another, more frightening possibility--that Josh, Gerald''s stepson, upset by the breakup of his parents, committed these atrocities. Desperate for clues, and with his impatient superior threatening to replace him on this case, Rutledge still can''t claim to know who, or what, was behind the carnage.\n</p>\n<p>\n After their disappointing standalone,\n <strong>\n  , it''s a relief to see the Todd pair return to the "gloomy, defeated and exhausted" postwar England of Ian Rutledge, where no end of dire dramas appear to lurk. Like its half-dozen predecessors, stretching back to\n </strong>\n ,\n <em>\n  A Cold Treachery\n </em>\n satisfies with its copious period details, characters traumatized by fate and failures, and a bedeviled young protagonist who must solve other people''s problems before his own. And even as Hamish seems here to slip further into the background, there''s finally the prospect of Rutledge finding companionship of a more corporeal sort. --_J. Kingston Pierce_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Traditional mystery lovers who prefer their whodunits enriched with psychological insight will heartily embrace Todd''s seventh Inspector Rutledge novel (after 2002''s\n <em>\n  A Fearsome Doubt\n </em>\n ). Still haunted by the ghost of a corporal whose execution for insubordination he ordered during WWI, Rutledge fights a constant battle to hang on to his sanity by devoting himself to his detective work for Scotland Yard. This time, the brutal massacre of the Elcott family, including two adults and three children, takes him to the Lake District town of Urskdale. While the local authorities prefer to blame an outsider for the murders, the inspector quickly finds the hidden passions churning beneath the stolid surface of the small rustic town. Since one family member, a 10-year-old boy, wasn''t found with his relatives'' bloody corpses, Rutledge pursues clues suggesting that the missing lad may be either a potential future victim or the killer himself. Todd''s ear for dialogue is superb, and he effortlessly conjures up the harsh life of a simple farm community through his vivid characters. As with its predecessors, this novel is imbued with tragic sadness, and Rutledge''s struggle with his own demons serves as a moving counterpoint to the searing pain of other characters trapped by circumstances or emotions beyond their control. Perhaps this superb effort will bring Todd an audience to match the deserved critical acclaim he has received. FYI:_Todd is the pseudonym of a mother-son writing team._\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13017'),
(12659, 'A cold treachery', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Integral to most crime tales is the unearthing of concealed and unfavorable facts about suspected malefactors. But the mother-son duo who write under the\n <em>\n  nom de plume\n </em>\n "Charles Todd" are particularly adept, in their historical novels featuring Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, at exploiting painful secrets as tools in developing both character and plot. It''s rare, in a Todd tale, that even the innocent should escape unscathed. The authors demonstrate their skills once more in\n <em>\n  A Cold Treachery\n </em>\n , which sends the shell-shocked and lonely Rutledge to probe the winter massacre of a sheep-farming family in northern England, at the same time as he searches for the missing and only witness to that chilling savagery.\n</p>\n<p>\n "It was beyond comprehension," we''re told of the December 1919 violence, near the rustic Lake District town of Urskdale, that left Gerald and Grace Elcott and three of their progeny shot to death. A fourth child, 10-year-old Josh Robinson, is nowhere to be found. He''s thought to have fled from the scene, only to have perished in a recent blizzard. Coming off the grim proceedings recalled in __, Rutledge--shackled as always to the nattering ghost of Hamish MacLeod, a Scotsman he''d ordered executed on a World War I battlefield--must determine whether the murderer was a passing stranger, or a local who''d previously concealed his or her aptitude for barbarity--and might kill again. Gerald Elcott''s less-successful brother, Paul, has ample motive (heâ€™s next in line to inherit their clan''s farm), as does Grace''s sister, Janet Ashton, who just happens to arrive in Urskdale with a gun in hand (supposedly to protect her sibling from Paul''s anger). Yet there''s another, more frightening possibility--that Josh, Gerald''s stepson, upset by the breakup of his parents, committed these atrocities. Desperate for clues, and with his impatient superior threatening to replace him on this case, Rutledge still can''t claim to know who, or what, was behind the carnage.\n</p>\n<p>\n After their disappointing standalone,\n <strong>\n  , it''s a relief to see the Todd pair return to the "gloomy, defeated and exhausted" postwar England of Ian Rutledge, where no end of dire dramas appear to lurk. Like its half-dozen predecessors, stretching back to\n </strong>\n ,\n <em>\n  A Cold Treachery\n </em>\n satisfies with its copious period details, characters traumatized by fate and failures, and a bedeviled young protagonist who must solve other people''s problems before his own. And even as Hamish seems here to slip further into the background, there''s finally the prospect of Rutledge finding companionship of a more corporeal sort. --_J. Kingston Pierce_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Traditional mystery lovers who prefer their whodunits enriched with psychological insight will heartily embrace Todd''s seventh Inspector Rutledge novel (after 2002''s\n <em>\n  A Fearsome Doubt\n </em>\n ). Still haunted by the ghost of a corporal whose execution for insubordination he ordered during WWI, Rutledge fights a constant battle to hang on to his sanity by devoting himself to his detective work for Scotland Yard. This time, the brutal massacre of the Elcott family, including two adults and three children, takes him to the Lake District town of Urskdale. While the local authorities prefer to blame an outsider for the murders, the inspector quickly finds the hidden passions churning beneath the stolid surface of the small rustic town. Since one family member, a 10-year-old boy, wasn''t found with his relatives'' bloody corpses, Rutledge pursues clues suggesting that the missing lad may be either a potential future victim or the killer himself. Todd''s ear for dialogue is superb, and he effortlessly conjures up the harsh life of a simple farm community through his vivid characters. As with its predecessors, this novel is imbued with tragic sadness, and Rutledge''s struggle with his own demons serves as a moving counterpoint to the searing pain of other characters trapped by circumstances or emotions beyond their control. Perhaps this superb effort will bring Todd an audience to match the deserved critical acclaim he has received. FYI:_Todd is the pseudonym of a mother-son writing team._\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17065'),
(12660, 'Cold War', 'Jerome Preisler &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Unspoiled. Uninhabited. Under attack...\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n On the wind-swept, Ice-covered continent of Antartica, Roger Gordian''s UpLink Technologies has established a scientific research facility called Cold Corners. But its testing of potential robotic landing craft for use on Mars is disrupted when one of the rovers disappears -- along with the repair team sent out after it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fear of discovery has prompted a renegade consortium -- that is illegally using Antartica as a nuclear waste dump -- to wipe out the UpLink base. Now, the men and women of Cold Corners have only themselves to rely on as the consortium mounts its decisive strike against the ice station -- and the final sunset plunges them into the total darkness of a polar winter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4535'),
(12661, 'Cold War', 'Jerome Preisler &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Unspoiled. Uninhabited. Under attack...\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n On the wind-swept, Ice-covered continent of Antartica, Roger Gordian''s UpLink Technologies has established a scientific research facility called Cold Corners. But its testing of potential robotic landing craft for use on Mars is disrupted when one of the rovers disappears -- along with the repair team sent out after it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fear of discovery has prompted a renegade consortium -- that is illegally using Antartica as a nuclear waste dump -- to wipe out the UpLink base. Now, the men and women of Cold Corners have only themselves to rely on as the consortium mounts its decisive strike against the ice station -- and the final sunset plunges them into the total darkness of a polar winter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12046'),
(12662, 'Cold Wind', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must try to prove that his despised mother-in-law, Missy Alden, isn''t guilty of murdering Earl Alden, her fifth husband, in Box''s searing 11th Joe Pickett novel (after Nowhere to Run). Pickett''s gruesome discovery of Alden''s body is followed almost immediately by the stage-managed arrest of Missy by Sheriff Kyle McLanahan. Both Missy and Earl have done plenty to earn the enmity of their neighbors, so Missy''s arrest benefits McLanahan''s bid for re-election, but Pickett is surprised to find county attorney Lisa Rich already convinced the case is solid. Pickett could use the help of his friend Nate Romanowski, but they are on the outs. Meanwhile, Romanowski, hunted by the widow of a man he killed, finds his withdrawal from the world has endangered others. Box parlays a heady mix of Wyoming politics and the advent of wind power into a deadly brew. This engaging series just keeps getting better with each new entry. Author tour. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Joe Pickettï¿½s mother-in-law is accused of murdering her latest husband, thereï¿½s a part of him that canï¿½t believe his good luck: the social-climbing harpy has had it in for him ever since he married his beloved Marybeth. Unfortunately, itï¿½s hard for him to believe sheï¿½s guilty. Could a petite woman in her midsixties really hoist a body to the top of a wind turbine and chain it to the spinning blade? Whatï¿½s her motive, anyway? Reluctantly, the dogged Wyoming game warden begins his own investigation, one that seems to ruffle the feathers of just about everybody involved. The eleventh installment in Boxï¿½s superlative series returns Pickett to his old stomping grounds, Twelve Sleep County, and spins a complicated mystery that entangles familiar series characters in new and surprising ways. Despite Joeï¿½s guess that ï¿½things are going to get real Western,ï¿½ they end with a courtroom surprise (ï¿½like fuckinï¿½ Perry Mason!ï¿½ as one old-timer observes). But a closing scene promises plenty of action in the next book, featuring fan favorite Nate Romanowski. Boxï¿½s many fans wonï¿½t be disappointed. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The 75,000-copy first printing may or may not cover all the devoted fans of Boxï¿½s long-running series. --Keir Graff\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7056'),
(12663, 'Cold Wind', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must try to prove that his despised mother-in-law, Missy Alden, isn''t guilty of murdering Earl Alden, her fifth husband, in Box''s searing 11th Joe Pickett novel (after Nowhere to Run). Pickett''s gruesome discovery of Alden''s body is followed almost immediately by the stage-managed arrest of Missy by Sheriff Kyle McLanahan. Both Missy and Earl have done plenty to earn the enmity of their neighbors, so Missy''s arrest benefits McLanahan''s bid for re-election, but Pickett is surprised to find county attorney Lisa Rich already convinced the case is solid. Pickett could use the help of his friend Nate Romanowski, but they are on the outs. Meanwhile, Romanowski, hunted by the widow of a man he killed, finds his withdrawal from the world has endangered others. Box parlays a heady mix of Wyoming politics and the advent of wind power into a deadly brew. This engaging series just keeps getting better with each new entry. Author tour. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Joe Pickettï¿½s mother-in-law is accused of murdering her latest husband, thereï¿½s a part of him that canï¿½t believe his good luck: the social-climbing harpy has had it in for him ever since he married his beloved Marybeth. Unfortunately, itï¿½s hard for him to believe sheï¿½s guilty. Could a petite woman in her midsixties really hoist a body to the top of a wind turbine and chain it to the spinning blade? Whatï¿½s her motive, anyway? Reluctantly, the dogged Wyoming game warden begins his own investigation, one that seems to ruffle the feathers of just about everybody involved. The eleventh installment in Boxï¿½s superlative series returns Pickett to his old stomping grounds, Twelve Sleep County, and spins a complicated mystery that entangles familiar series characters in new and surprising ways. Despite Joeï¿½s guess that ï¿½things are going to get real Western,ï¿½ they end with a courtroom surprise (ï¿½like fuckinï¿½ Perry Mason!ï¿½ as one old-timer observes). But a closing scene promises plenty of action in the next book, featuring fan favorite Nate Romanowski. Boxï¿½s many fans wonï¿½t be disappointed. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The 75,000-copy first printing may or may not cover all the devoted fans of Boxï¿½s long-running series. --Keir Graff\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8518'),
(12664, 'Cold Wind', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must try to prove that his despised mother-in-law, Missy Alden, isn''t guilty of murdering Earl Alden, her fifth husband, in Box''s searing 11th Joe Pickett novel (after Nowhere to Run). Pickett''s gruesome discovery of Alden''s body is followed almost immediately by the stage-managed arrest of Missy by Sheriff Kyle McLanahan. Both Missy and Earl have done plenty to earn the enmity of their neighbors, so Missy''s arrest benefits McLanahan''s bid for re-election, but Pickett is surprised to find county attorney Lisa Rich already convinced the case is solid. Pickett could use the help of his friend Nate Romanowski, but they are on the outs. Meanwhile, Romanowski, hunted by the widow of a man he killed, finds his withdrawal from the world has endangered others. Box parlays a heady mix of Wyoming politics and the advent of wind power into a deadly brew. This engaging series just keeps getting better with each new entry. Author tour. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Joe Pickettï¿½s mother-in-law is accused of murdering her latest husband, thereï¿½s a part of him that canï¿½t believe his good luck: the social-climbing harpy has had it in for him ever since he married his beloved Marybeth. Unfortunately, itï¿½s hard for him to believe sheï¿½s guilty. Could a petite woman in her midsixties really hoist a body to the top of a wind turbine and chain it to the spinning blade? Whatï¿½s her motive, anyway? Reluctantly, the dogged Wyoming game warden begins his own investigation, one that seems to ruffle the feathers of just about everybody involved. The eleventh installment in Boxï¿½s superlative series returns Pickett to his old stomping grounds, Twelve Sleep County, and spins a complicated mystery that entangles familiar series characters in new and surprising ways. Despite Joeï¿½s guess that ï¿½things are going to get real Western,ï¿½ they end with a courtroom surprise (ï¿½like fuckinï¿½ Perry Mason!ï¿½ as one old-timer observes). But a closing scene promises plenty of action in the next book, featuring fan favorite Nate Romanowski. Boxï¿½s many fans wonï¿½t be disappointed. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The 75,000-copy first printing may or may not cover all the devoted fans of Boxï¿½s long-running series. --Keir Graff\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16808'),
(12665, 'A Cold-Blooded Business', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alaskan private detective Kate Shugak goes undercover to expose the illicit drug trade along the TransAlaska pipeline, but the case is threatened when her cover is blown. By the author of Dead in the Water.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Edgar Award-winning author of A Cold Day for Murder continues her success with a new mystery featuring Alaskan P.I. Kate Shugak. Kate goes undercover to get to the bottom of illicit drug trading on the Trans-Alaska pipeline and winds up in a murderous race against time and the elements.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6511'),
(12666, 'A cold-blooded business', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alaskan private detective Kate Shugak goes undercover to expose the illicit drug trade along the TransAlaska pipeline, but the case is threatened when her cover is blown. By the author of Dead in the Water. SUMMARY: The Edgar Award-winning author of A Cold Day for Murder continues her success with a new mystery featuring Alaskan P.I. Kate Shugak. Kate goes undercover to get to the bottom of illicit drug trading on the Trans-Alaska pipeline and winds up in a murderous race against time and the elements.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17550'),
(12667, 'A cold-blooded business', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alaskan private detective Kate Shugak goes undercover to expose the illicit drug trade along the TransAlaska pipeline, but the case is threatened when her cover is blown. By the author of Dead in the Water. SUMMARY: The Edgar Award-winning author of A Cold Day for Murder continues her success with a new mystery featuring Alaskan P.I. Kate Shugak. Kate goes undercover to get to the bottom of illicit drug trading on the Trans-Alaska pipeline and winds up in a murderous race against time and the elements.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27144'),
(12668, 'The Coldest Blood', 'Jim Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A man lies hidden in an abandoned boat. Stifling his own screams, he draws a knife across his arm, letting the blood flow free. Soon heâ€™ll be dead â€“ and life can begin again. Â Three decades later, small-town newspaper reporter Philip Dryden is experiencing a cold, bitter Christmas on the Fens. Drydenâ€™s wife, Laura, is emerging from years in a coma, unsure if she wants to go on living. Meanwhile, people are freezing to death, among them Declan McIlroy, a 39 year old loner found dead in his flat with the windows thrown open. The police rule the death a suicide, but Dryden has his doubts â€“ especially when he finds the body of Declanâ€™s best friend Joe frozen within a shell of ice on the doorstep of his secluded farmhouse. Â At the same time, Dryden is investigating allegations of abuse laid against a Catholic orphanage â€“ a touchy subject, due to his own Catholic upbringing. The incidents seem unrelated until Dryden discovers that Declan was one of the victims. Could his death have been part of a cover-up?Â Soon, Dryden is picking his way along a disturbing trail of cruelty and betrayal to a brilliantly executed crime, and to a chilling, half-remembered mystery from his own childhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4362'),
(12669, 'The Coldest Blood', 'Jim Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A man lies hidden in an abandoned boat. Stifling his own screams, he draws a knife across his arm, letting the blood flow free. Soon heâ€™ll be dead â€“ and life can begin again. Â Three decades later, small-town newspaper reporter Philip Dryden is experiencing a cold, bitter Christmas on the Fens. Drydenâ€™s wife, Laura, is emerging from years in a coma, unsure if she wants to go on living. Meanwhile, people are freezing to death, among them Declan McIlroy, a 39 year old loner found dead in his flat with the windows thrown open. The police rule the death a suicide, but Dryden has his doubts â€“ especially when he finds the body of Declanâ€™s best friend Joe frozen within a shell of ice on the doorstep of his secluded farmhouse. Â At the same time, Dryden is investigating allegations of abuse laid against a Catholic orphanage â€“ a touchy subject, due to his own Catholic upbringing. The incidents seem unrelated until Dryden discovers that Declan was one of the victims. Could his death have been part of a cover-up?Â Soon, Dryden is picking his way along a disturbing trail of cruelty and betrayal to a brilliantly executed crime, and to a chilling, half-remembered mystery from his own childhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10725');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(12670, 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed', 'Jared Diamond', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "A magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm. It''s also the deal of the year---the equivalent of a year''s college course by an engaging, brilliant professor, all for the price of a book."Who Hasn''t Gazed upon the abandoned temples of Angkor Wat or the jungle-choked cities of the Maya and wondered, could the same fate happen to us? In this riveting book, Jared Diamond---whose Guns, Germs, and Steel revolutionized our understanding of history---explores how humankind''s use and abuse of the environment reveal the truth behind the world''s great collapses, from the Anasazi of North America to the Vikings of Greenland to modern Montana. What emerges is a fundamental pattern of environmental catastrophe---one whose warning signs surround us today and that we ignore at our peril. Blending the most recent scientific advances and a vast historical perspective into a narrative that is impossible to put down, Collapse exposes the deepest mysteries of the past even as it offers hope for the future."Diamond''s most influential gift may be his ability to write about geopolitical and environmental systems in ways that don''t just educate and provoke, but entertain.""Extremely persuasive ... replete with fascinating stories, a treasure trove of historical anecdotes [and] haunting statistics.""Essential reading ... Collapse [shows] that resilient societies are nimble ones, capable of long-term planning and of abandoning deeply entrenched but ultimately destructive core values and beliefs.""There are hopeful messages in Collapse. With Diamond''s help, maybe we''ll learn to see our problems a little more clearly before we chop down that last palm tree.""Extraordinarily panoramic ...Diamond''s complex historical web of how human communities either master their environment or become victims of them ... takes a lifetime of research and, in normal English, leads the reader painstakingly where the media and intellectual journals have often refused to go."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8046'),
(12671, 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed', 'Jared M. Diamond', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jared Diamond''s\n  <em>\n   Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed\n  </em>\n  is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning\n  <em>\n   Guns, Germs, and Steel\n  </em>\n  . While\n  <em>\n   Guns, Germs, and Steel\n  </em>\n  explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished,\n  <em>\n   Collapse\n  </em>\n  uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society''s response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster. Still, right from the outset of\n  <em>\n   Collapse\n  </em>\n  , the author makes clear that this is not a mere environmentalist''s diatribe. He begins by setting the book''s main question in the small communities of present-day Montana as they face a decline in living standards and a depletion of natural resources. Once-vital mines now leak toxins into the soil, while prion diseases infect some deer and elk and older hydroelectric dams have become decrepit. On all these issues, and particularly with the hot-button topic of logging and wildfires, Diamond writes with equanimity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Because he''s addressing such significant issues within a vast span of time, Diamond can occasionally speak too briefly and assume too much, and at times his shorthand remarks may cause careful readers to raise an eyebrow. But in general, Diamond provides fine and well-reasoned historical examples, making the case that many times, economic and environmental concerns are one and the same. With\n  <em>\n   Collapse\n  </em>\n  , Diamond hopes to jog our collective memory to keep us from falling for false analogies or forgetting prior experiences, and thereby save us from potential devastations to come. While it might seem a stretch to use medieval Greenland and the Maya to convince a skeptic about the seriousness of global warming, it''s exactly this type of cross-referencing that makes\n  <em>\n   Collapse\n  </em>\n  so compelling.\n  <em>\n   --Jennifer Buckendorff\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the Pulitzer-Prize-winning\n  <em>\n   Guns, Germs, and Steel\n  </em>\n  , Diamond chronicled the rise of human civilizations since the Ice Age. This time, he turns over the log and probes the rotted side--the demise of once-productive societies such as the Maya, Easter Islanders and Greenland Norse. He also sounds the alarm on environmental practices undermining modern societies, including China, Russia, Australia and the United States. Narrator Murney has his work cut out for him, even though this audiobook is abridged. The narrative, which spans the globe and the ages, is dense, overwhelmingly so at times. Diamond parses myriad ecological, geographical and biological impacts, from weather patterns to deforestation to sperm count. But Murney rises to the occasion. His engagement never flags, and he strikes all the proper notes of concern and warning. The delivery feels effortless, his tone a blend of newsreel narrator and professor-at-the-lectern. Diamond teaches geography at UCLA, and his prose style, unsurprisingly, contains shades of the lecture hall. In fact, given such abundant and oft-alarming information, listeners may feel the urge to take notes for the final exam. Though grounding materials such as photographs and maps would have made this audiobook easier to follow, their absence is a minor fault in an overall fine production.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14990'),
(12672, 'Collateral Damage', 'Marc Cerasini', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a remote corner of New Jersey is a nation within a nationâ€”a refuge for fanatical converts and fervent believers. But within the confines of the secluded Islamic community of Kurmastan, plans are underway to spread fear, death, and untold destruction across America . . . and to deliver one fatal blow to the country''s exposed and vulnerable heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n On the East coast to supervise the activation of CTU''s New York office, rogue agent Jack Bauer finds himself in the center of an unleashed hurricane perhaps already too powerful to stop. But if it isn''t, in twenty-four hours the U.S. will be brought to its knees by a secret army grown on its own earth. And there is no one Jack Bauer can trustâ€”because the roots of the terror go very deep . . . and frighteningly high.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marc Cerasini''s writing credits include\n <em>\n  The Complete Idiot''s Guide to U.S. Special Ops Forces and Heroes: U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor Winners\n </em>\n and several projects for Tom Clancy, including creating the bible for the Clancy Power Play series, writing the YA action/adventure thriller\n <em>\n  The Ultimate Escape\n </em>\n for Clancy''s NetForce series, and writing a major essay on Clancy''s contribution to the technothriller genre for the national bestseller\n <em>\n  The Tom Clancy Companion\n </em>\n . Among the movie tie-in novelizations Marc has written are\n <em>\n  Wolverine: Weapon X\n </em>\n , based on the popular X-Men series, the\n <em>\n  USA Today\n </em>\n bestseller\n <em>\n  AVP: Alien Vs. Predator\n </em>\n , based on the motion picture from 20th Century Fox, as well as five original novels based on the Toho Studios classic "Godzilla," and co-authored (with J.D. Lees) a nonfiction look at the film series,\n <em>\n  The Official Godzilla Compendium\n </em>\n . Marc''s other credits include the book\n <em>\n  24: The House Special Subcommittee Investigation of CTU\n </em>\n , which he co-authored with his wife, Alice Alfonsi, and the previous\n <em>\n  24 Declassified\n </em>\n novels\n <em>\n  Operation Hell Gate\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Trojan Horse\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Vanishing Point\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3210'),
(12673, 'Collateral Damage', 'Marc Cerasini', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a remote corner of New Jersey is a nation within a nationâ€”a refuge for fanatical converts and fervent believers. But within the confines of the secluded Islamic community of Kurmastan, plans are underway to spread fear, death, and untold destruction across America . . . and to deliver one fatal blow to the country''s exposed and vulnerable heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n On the East coast to supervise the activation of CTU''s New York office, rogue agent Jack Bauer finds himself in the center of an unleashed hurricane perhaps already too powerful to stop. But if it isn''t, in twenty-four hours the U.S. will be brought to its knees by a secret army grown on its own earth. And there is no one Jack Bauer can trustâ€”because the roots of the terror go very deep . . . and frighteningly high.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Marc Cerasini''s writing credits include\n <em>\n  The Complete Idiot''s Guide to U.S. Special Ops Forces and Heroes: U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor Winners\n </em>\n and several projects for Tom Clancy, including creating the bible for the Clancy Power Play series, writing the YA action/adventure thriller\n <em>\n  The Ultimate Escape\n </em>\n for Clancy''s NetForce series, and writing a major essay on Clancy''s contribution to the technothriller genre for the national bestseller\n <em>\n  The Tom Clancy Companion\n </em>\n . Among the movie tie-in novelizations Marc has written are\n <em>\n  Wolverine: Weapon X\n </em>\n , based on the popular X-Men series, the\n <em>\n  USA Today\n </em>\n bestseller\n <em>\n  AVP: Alien Vs. Predator\n </em>\n , based on the motion picture from 20th Century Fox, as well as five original novels based on the Toho Studios classic "Godzilla," and co-authored (with J.D. Lees) a nonfiction look at the film series,\n <em>\n  The Official Godzilla Compendium\n </em>\n . Marc''s other credits include the book\n <em>\n  24: The House Special Subcommittee Investigation of CTU\n </em>\n , which he co-authored with his wife, Alice Alfonsi, and the previous\n <em>\n  24 Declassified\n </em>\n novels\n <em>\n  Operation Hell Gate\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Trojan Horse\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Vanishing Point\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21312'),
(12674, 'The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson', 'Emily Dickinson &amp; Rachel Wetzsteon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic, outgoing young woman who excelled as a student. However, in her mid-twenties she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room in her fatherâ€™s house. She spent most of her time working on her poetry, largely without encouragement or real interest from her family and peers, and died at age fifty-five. Only a handful of her 1,775 poems had been published during her lifetime. When her poems finally appeared after her death, readers immediately recognized an artist whose immense depth and stylistic complexities would one day make her the most widely recognized female poet to write in the English language. Dickinsonâ€™s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with conventional rhythm and meter, and often used dashes, off rhymes, and unusual metaphorsâ€”techniques that strongly influenced modern poetry. Dickinsonâ€™s idiosyncratic style, along with her deep resonance of thought and her observations about life and death, love and nature, and solitude and society, have firmly established her as one of Americaâ€™s true poetic geniuses.Includes an index of first lines.Rachel Wetzsteon is Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University. She has published two books of poems, The Other Stars and Home and Away.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5735'),
(12675, 'The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson', 'Emily Dickinson &amp; Rachel Wetzsteon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic, outgoing young woman who excelled as a student. However, in her mid-twenties she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room in her fatherâ€™s house. She spent most of her time working on her poetry, largely without encouragement or real interest from her family and peers, and died at age fifty-five. Only a handful of her 1,775 poems had been published during her lifetime. When her poems finally appeared after her death, readers immediately recognized an artist whose immense depth and stylistic complexities would one day make her the most widely recognized female poet to write in the English language. Dickinsonâ€™s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with conventional rhythm and meter, and often used dashes, off rhymes, and unusual metaphorsâ€”techniques that strongly influenced modern poetry. Dickinsonâ€™s idiosyncratic style, along with her deep resonance of thought and her observations about life and death, love and nature, and solitude and society, have firmly established her as one of Americaâ€™s true poetic geniuses.Includes an index of first lines.Rachel Wetzsteon is Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University. She has published two books of poems, The Other Stars and Home and Away.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9228'),
(12676, 'The collected poems of Emily Dickinson', 'Emily Dickinson; Rachel Wetzsteon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic, outgoing young woman who excelled as a student. However, in her mid-twenties she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room in her fatherâ€™s house. She spent most of her time working on her poetry, largely without encouragement or real interest from her family and peers, and died at age fifty-five. Only a handful of her 1,775 poems had been published during her lifetime. When her poems finally appeared after her death, readers immediately recognized an artist whose immense depth and stylistic complexities would one day make her the most widely recognized female poet to write in the English language. Dickinsonâ€™s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with conventional rhythm and meter, and often used dashes, off rhymes, and unusual metaphorsâ€”techniques that strongly influenced modern poetry. Dickinsonâ€™s idiosyncratic style, along with her deep resonance of thought and her observations about life and death, love and nature, and solitude and society, have firmly established her as one of Americaâ€™s true poetic geniuses.Includes an index of first lines.Rachel Wetzsteon is Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University. She has published two books of poems, The Other Stars and Home and Away.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19007'),
(12677, 'The collected poems of Emily Dickinson', 'Emily Dickinson; Rachel Wetzsteon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic, outgoing young woman who excelled as a student. However, in her mid-twenties she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room in her fatherâ€™s house. She spent most of her time working on her poetry, largely without encouragement or real interest from her family and peers, and died at age fifty-five. Only a handful of her 1,775 poems had been published during her lifetime. When her poems finally appeared after her death, readers immediately recognized an artist whose immense depth and stylistic complexities would one day make her the most widely recognized female poet to write in the English language. Dickinsonâ€™s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with conventional rhythm and meter, and often used dashes, off rhymes, and unusual metaphorsâ€”techniques that strongly influenced modern poetry. Dickinsonâ€™s idiosyncratic style, along with her deep resonance of thought and her observations about life and death, love and nature, and solitude and society, have firmly established her as one of Americaâ€™s true poetic geniuses.Includes an index of first lines.Rachel Wetzsteon is Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University. She has published two books of poems, The Other Stars and Home and Away.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27768'),
(12678, 'The collected poems of Emily Dickinson', 'Emily Dickinson &amp; Rachel Wetzsteon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic, outgoing young woman who excelled as a student. However, in her mid-twenties she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room in her fatherâ€™s house. She spent most of her time working on her poetry, largely without encouragement or real interest from her family and peers, and died at age fifty-five. Only a handful of her 1,775 poems had been published during her lifetime. When her poems finally appeared after her death, readers immediately recognized an artist whose immense depth and stylistic complexities would one day make her the most widely recognized female poet to write in the English language. Dickinsonâ€™s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with conventional rhythm and meter, and often used dashes, off rhymes, and unusual metaphorsâ€”techniques that strongly influenced modern poetry. Dickinsonâ€™s idiosyncratic style, along with her deep resonance of thought and her observations about life and death, love and nature, and solitude and society, have firmly established her as one of Americaâ€™s true poetic geniuses.Includes an index of first lines.Rachel Wetzsteon is Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University. She has published two books of poems, The Other Stars and Home and Away.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27769'),
(12679, 'The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty', 'Eudora Welty', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all, including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories. With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  EUDORA WELTY (1909-2001) was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and attended the Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University (where she studied advertising). In addition to short fiction, Welty wrote novels, novellas, essays, and reviews, and was the winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12311'),
(12680, 'The Collected Stories', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n William Trevor is one of the renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as ''the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language'' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is the ultimate collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting. From the penetrating ''Memories of Youghal'' to the bittersweet ''Bodily Secrets'' and the elegiac ''Two More Gallants'', here are masterpieces of insight, depth, drama and humanity, acutely rendered by a modern master.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/154'),
(12681, 'The Collected Stories', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n William Trevor is one of the renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as ''the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language'' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is the ultimate collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting. From the penetrating ''Memories of Youghal'' to the bittersweet ''Bodily Secrets'' and the elegiac ''Two More Gallants'', here are masterpieces of insight, depth, drama and humanity, acutely rendered by a modern master.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13068'),
(12682, 'The Collected Stories', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n William Trevor is one of the renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as ''the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language'' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is the ultimate collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting. From the penetrating ''Memories of Youghal'' to the bittersweet ''Bodily Secrets'' and the elegiac ''Two More Gallants'', here are masterpieces of insight, depth, drama and humanity, acutely rendered by a modern master.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24702'),
(12683, 'The Collected Works of Jules Verne: 36 Novels and Short Stories (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13657'),
(12684, 'The Collected Works of Jules Verne: 36 Novels and Short Stories (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20596'),
(12685, 'The Collected Works of Jules Verne: 36 Novels and Short Stories', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains 36 of Jules Verne''s best known works. Verne (1828-1905) was a French writer who, along with English author H.G. Wells, is regarded as the "Father of Science Fiction." He is best known for his novels A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (1864), FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON (1865), 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1869â€“1870), A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1871) AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS (1873) and THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1875). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. A number of his works have been made into feature films and his books remain popular and in print more than a century after his death.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This ebook is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Contents\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   1. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea\n   <br />\n   2. A Journey To The Center Of The Earth\n   <br />\n   3. Around The World In Eighty Days\n   <br />\n   4. The Mysterious Island\n   <br />\n   5. From The Earth To The Moon\n   <br />\n   6. Around The Moon\n   <br />\n   7. A Voyage In A Balloon\n   <br />\n   8. Doctor Ox''s Experiment\n   <br />\n   9. Master Zacharius\n   <br />\n   10. A Drama In The Air\n   <br />\n   11. A Winter Amid The Ice\n   <br />\n   12. Ascent Of Mont Blanc\n   <br />\n   13. An Antarctic Mystery\n   <br />\n   14. Dick Sand; Or, A Captain At Fifteen\n   <br />\n   15. Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon\n   <br />\n   16. Facing The Flag\n   <br />\n   17. Five Weeks In A Balloon\n   <br />\n   18. Godfrey Morgan\n   <br />\n   19. The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras\n   <br />\n   Part I: The English At The North Pole\n   <br />\n   Part Ii: The Field Of Ice\n   <br />\n   21. In Search Of The Castaways\n   <br />\n   22. Michael Strogoff\n   <br />\n   23. Off On A Comet\n   <br />\n   24. Robur The Conqueror\n   <br />\n   25. The Adventures Of A Special Correspondent\n   <br />\n   26. The Blockade Runners\n   <br />\n   27. The Fur Country\n   <br />\n   28. The Master Of The World\n   <br />\n   29. The Pearl Of Lima\n   <br />\n   30. The Secret Of The Island\n   <br />\n   31. The Survivors Of The Chancellor\n   <br />\n   32. The Underground City\n   <br />\n   33. The Waif Of The Cynthia\n   <br />\n   34. Ticket No. 9262\n   <br />\n   35. Topsy Turvy\n   <br />\n   36. In The Year 2889\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3952'),
(12686, 'The Collected Works of Jules Verne: 36 Novels and Short Stories', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains 36 of Jules Verne''s best known works. Verne (1828-1905) was a French writer who, along with English author H.G. Wells, is regarded as the "Father of Science Fiction." He is best known for his novels A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (1864), FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON (1865), 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1869â€“1870), A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1871) AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS (1873) and THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1875). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. A number of his works have been made into feature films and his books remain popular and in print more than a century after his death.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This ebook is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Contents\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   1. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea\n   <br />\n   2. A Journey To The Center Of The Earth\n   <br />\n   3. Around The World In Eighty Days\n   <br />\n   4. The Mysterious Island\n   <br />\n   5. From The Earth To The Moon\n   <br />\n   6. Around The Moon\n   <br />\n   7. A Voyage In A Balloon\n   <br />\n   8. Doctor Ox''s Experiment\n   <br />\n   9. Master Zacharius\n   <br />\n   10. A Drama In The Air\n   <br />\n   11. A Winter Amid The Ice\n   <br />\n   12. Ascent Of Mont Blanc\n   <br />\n   13. An Antarctic Mystery\n   <br />\n   14. Dick Sand; Or, A Captain At Fifteen\n   <br />\n   15. Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon\n   <br />\n   16. Facing The Flag\n   <br />\n   17. Five Weeks In A Balloon\n   <br />\n   18. Godfrey Morgan\n   <br />\n   19. The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras\n   <br />\n   Part I: The English At The North Pole\n   <br />\n   Part Ii: The Field Of Ice\n   <br />\n   21. In Search Of The Castaways\n   <br />\n   22. Michael Strogoff\n   <br />\n   23. Off On A Comet\n   <br />\n   24. Robur The Conqueror\n   <br />\n   25. The Adventures Of A Special Correspondent\n   <br />\n   26. The Blockade Runners\n   <br />\n   27. The Fur Country\n   <br />\n   28. The Master Of The World\n   <br />\n   29. The Pearl Of Lima\n   <br />\n   30. The Secret Of The Island\n   <br />\n   31. The Survivors Of The Chancellor\n   <br />\n   32. The Underground City\n   <br />\n   33. The Waif Of The Cynthia\n   <br />\n   34. Ticket No. 9262\n   <br />\n   35. Topsy Turvy\n   <br />\n   36. In The Year 2889\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13214'),
(12687, 'The Collective', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1140'),
(12688, 'The Collective', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23887'),
(12689, 'The Collector', 'John Fowles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fowles launched his career with The Collector, which was welcomed with great critical enthusiasm, including that of LJ''s reviewer, who found it "a distinguished first novel" (LJ 8/63). Mantissa, on the other hand, was a departure from the author''s more popular material and received only a marginal response (LJ 9/1/82).\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Collector (1963) is disturbing, engrossing, unforgettable -- the story of an obsessive young man and the girl he kidnaps and holds prisoner in his cellar.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20020'),
(12690, 'The Collectors', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The four mysterious gentlemen who call themselves the Camel Club are back in action for another thrilling adventure in Baldaccis instant "New York Times" bestseller. When the Speaker of the House is assassinated, the Camel Club finds a chilling connection to another murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6282'),
(12691, 'The collectors', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The four mysterious gentlemen who call themselves the Camel Club are back in action for another thrilling adventure in Baldaccis instant "New York Times" bestseller. When the Speaker of the House is assassinated, the Camel Club finds a chilling connection to another murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17733'),
(12692, 'The collectors', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The four mysterious gentlemen who call themselves the Camel Club are back in action for another thrilling adventure in Baldaccis instant "New York Times" bestseller. When the Speaker of the House is assassinated, the Camel Club finds a chilling connection to another murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27246'),
(12693, 'Collider', 'Paul Halpern', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **An accessible look at the hottest topic in physics and the experiments that will transform our understanding of the universe**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world''s largest and most powerful particle-smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the Higgs boson particle. But what is the Higgs boson and why is it often referred to as the God Particle? Why are the Higgs and the LHC so important? Getting a handle on the science behind the LHC can be difficult for anyone without an advanced degree in particle physics, but you don''t need to go back to school to learn about it. In *Collider*, award-winning physicist Paul Halpern provides you with the tools you need to understand what the LHC is and what it hopes to discover.            Comprehensive, accessible guide to the theory, history, and science behind experimental high-energy physics      Explains why particle physics could well be on the verge of some of its greatest breakthroughs, changing what we think we know about quarks, string theory, dark matter, dark energy, and the fundamentals of modern physics      Tells you why the theoretical Higgs boson is often referred to as the God particle and how its discovery could change our understanding of the universe      Clearly explains why fears that the LHC could create a miniature black hole that could swallow up the Earth amount to a tempest in a very tiny teapot      "Best of 2009 Sci-Tech Books (Physics)"*-Library Journal*      "Halpern makes the search for mysterious particles pertinent and exciting by explaining clearly what we don''t know about the universe, and offering a hopeful outlook for future research."-*Publishers Weekly*      Includes a new author preface, "The Fate of the Large Hadron Collider and the Future of High-Energy Physics"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The world will not come to an end any time soon, but we may learn a lot more about it in the blink of an eye. Read *Collider* and find out what, when, and how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2185'),
(12694, 'Collider', 'Paul Halpern', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **An accessible look at the hottest topic in physics and the experiments that will transform our understanding of the universe**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world''s largest and most powerful particle-smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the Higgs boson particle. But what is the Higgs boson and why is it often referred to as the God Particle? Why are the Higgs and the LHC so important? Getting a handle on the science behind the LHC can be difficult for anyone without an advanced degree in particle physics, but you don''t need to go back to school to learn about it. In *Collider*, award-winning physicist Paul Halpern provides you with the tools you need to understand what the LHC is and what it hopes to discover.            Comprehensive, accessible guide to the theory, history, and science behind experimental high-energy physics      Explains why particle physics could well be on the verge of some of its greatest breakthroughs, changing what we think we know about quarks, string theory, dark matter, dark energy, and the fundamentals of modern physics      Tells you why the theoretical Higgs boson is often referred to as the God particle and how its discovery could change our understanding of the universe      Clearly explains why fears that the LHC could create a miniature black hole that could swallow up the Earth amount to a tempest in a very tiny teapot      "Best of 2009 Sci-Tech Books (Physics)"*-Library Journal*      "Halpern makes the search for mysterious particles pertinent and exciting by explaining clearly what we don''t know about the universe, and offering a hopeful outlook for future research."-*Publishers Weekly*      Includes a new author preface, "The Fate of the Large Hadron Collider and the Future of High-Energy Physics"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The world will not come to an end any time soon, but we may learn a lot more about it in the blink of an eye. Read *Collider* and find out what, when, and how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10176'),
(12695, 'Collider', 'Paul Halpern', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An accessible look at the hottest topic in physics and the experiments that will transform our understanding of the universe** The biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world''s largest and most powerful particle-smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the Higgs boson particle. But what is the Higgs boson and why is it often referred to as the God Particle? Why are the Higgs and the LHC so important? Getting a handle on the science behind the LHC can be difficult for anyone without an advanced degree in particle physics, but you don''t need to go back to school to learn about it. In *Collider*, award-winning physicist Paul Halpern provides you with the tools you need to understand what the LHC is and what it hopes to discover. Comprehensive, accessible guide to the theory, history, and science behind experimental high-energy physics Explains why particle physics could well be on the verge of some of its greatest breakthroughs, changing what we think we know about quarks, string theory, dark matter, dark energy, and the fundamentals of modern physics Tells you why the theoretical Higgs boson is often referred to as the God particle and how its discovery could change our understanding of the universe Clearly explains why fears that the LHC could create a miniature black hole that could swallow up the Earth amount to a tempest in a very tiny teapot "Best of 2009 Sci-Tech Books (Physics)"*-Library Journal* "Halpern makes the search for mysterious particles pertinent and exciting by explaining clearly what we don''t know about the universe, and offering a hopeful outlook for future research."-*Publishers Weekly* Includes a new author preface, "The Fate of the Large Hadron Collider and the Future of High-Energy Physics" The world will not come to an end any time soon, but we may learn a lot more about it in the blink of an eye. Read *Collider* and find out what, when, and how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21717');
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(12696, 'Colonel Roosevelt', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Morris completes his fully detailed, correlatively dynamic triptych of the restless, energetic, on-the-move first President Roosevelt, following The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979), the title self-explanatory in terms of its coverage of TRâ€™s life, and Theodore Rex (2001), about his presidency. Now the author presents Colonel Roosevelt, the title by which Roosevelt chose to be called during his postpresidential years (in reference, of course, to his military position during the Spanish-American War). This is the sad part of TRâ€™s life; this is the stage of his life story in which it is most difficult to accept his self-absorption, self-importance, and self-righteousness, but it is the talent of the author, who has shown an immaculate understanding of his subject, to make Roosevelt of continued fascination to his readers. In essence, this volume tells the story of TRâ€™s path of disenchantment with his chosen successor in the White House, William Taft, and his attempt to resecure the presidency for himself. The important theme of TRâ€™s concomitant decline in health is also a part of the narrative. We are made aware most of all that of all retired presidents, TR was the least likely to fade into the background. --Brad Hooper\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   _Praise for\n   <em>\n    Colonel Roosevelt\n   </em>\n   _\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Now with\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  , the magnum opus is complete. And it deserves to stand as the definitive study of its restless, mutable, ever-boyish, erudite and tirelessly energetic subject. Mr. Morris has addressed the toughest and most frustrating part of Rooseveltâ€™s life with the same care and precision that he brought to the two earlier installments. And if this story of a lifetime is his own lifeâ€™s work, he has reason to be immensely proud." â€“Janet Maslin, _The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Exemplaryâ€¦ Consistently rich and on point, with rapidly developing events providing a backdrop for the balanced examination [Morris] presents of his subjectâ€¦The TR trilogy is masterful, and can rightfully take its place among the truly outstanding biographies of the American presidency." â€“\n  </em>\n  LA Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Reading Edmund Morris on Teddy Roosevelt is like listening to Yo-Yo Ma play Bach: You know from the first note youâ€™re in inspired hands. In\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  â€”the final installment in a trilogy that began with\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  â€”Morris registers the Bull Mooseâ€™s last decade in handsome, sweeping prose that avoids the valedictory chord struck by biographers who, nearing the end of their prodigious labors, resort to swooning across the chapters, unwilling to let go of their muse." _â€“ The Washingtonian\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Colonel Roosevelt_, the third part of his three-volume biography of Roosevelt, is a worthy and extremely engaging culmination of Mr. Morris'' work. It is popular history at its best." â€“Claude R. Marx, _The Washington Times\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Praise for the classic biographies by Edmond Morris\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment.â€_â€”The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA towering biography.â€_â€”Time_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  Book Prize for Biography\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA masterpiece . . . A great president has finally found a great biographer.â€_â€”The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a literary work on Theodore Roosevelt, it is unlikely ever to be surpassed. It is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adamsâ€™s volumes on Jefferson and Madison.â€_â€”Times Literary Supplement_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œMagnificent . . .Â  a compulsively readable, beautifully measured and paced account.â€â€”Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5851'),
(12697, 'Colonel Roosevelt', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Morris completes his fully detailed, correlatively dynamic triptych of the restless, energetic, on-the-move first President Roosevelt, following The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979), the title self-explanatory in terms of its coverage of TRâ€™s life, and Theodore Rex (2001), about his presidency. Now the author presents Colonel Roosevelt, the title by which Roosevelt chose to be called during his postpresidential years (in reference, of course, to his military position during the Spanish-American War). This is the sad part of TRâ€™s life; this is the stage of his life story in which it is most difficult to accept his self-absorption, self-importance, and self-righteousness, but it is the talent of the author, who has shown an immaculate understanding of his subject, to make Roosevelt of continued fascination to his readers. In essence, this volume tells the story of TRâ€™s path of disenchantment with his chosen successor in the White House, William Taft, and his attempt to resecure the presidency for himself. The important theme of TRâ€™s concomitant decline in health is also a part of the narrative. We are made aware most of all that of all retired presidents, TR was the least likely to fade into the background. --Brad Hooper\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   _Praise for\n   <em>\n    Colonel Roosevelt\n   </em>\n   _\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Now with\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  , the magnum opus is complete. And it deserves to stand as the definitive study of its restless, mutable, ever-boyish, erudite and tirelessly energetic subject. Mr. Morris has addressed the toughest and most frustrating part of Rooseveltâ€™s life with the same care and precision that he brought to the two earlier installments. And if this story of a lifetime is his own lifeâ€™s work, he has reason to be immensely proud." â€“Janet Maslin, _The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Exemplaryâ€¦ Consistently rich and on point, with rapidly developing events providing a backdrop for the balanced examination [Morris] presents of his subjectâ€¦The TR trilogy is masterful, and can rightfully take its place among the truly outstanding biographies of the American presidency." â€“\n  </em>\n  LA Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Reading Edmund Morris on Teddy Roosevelt is like listening to Yo-Yo Ma play Bach: You know from the first note youâ€™re in inspired hands. In\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  â€”the final installment in a trilogy that began with\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  â€”Morris registers the Bull Mooseâ€™s last decade in handsome, sweeping prose that avoids the valedictory chord struck by biographers who, nearing the end of their prodigious labors, resort to swooning across the chapters, unwilling to let go of their muse." _â€“ The Washingtonian\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Colonel Roosevelt_, the third part of his three-volume biography of Roosevelt, is a worthy and extremely engaging culmination of Mr. Morris'' work. It is popular history at its best." â€“Claude R. Marx, _The Washington Times\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Praise for the classic biographies by Edmond Morris\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment.â€_â€”The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA towering biography.â€_â€”Time_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  Book Prize for Biography\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA masterpiece . . . A great president has finally found a great biographer.â€_â€”The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a literary work on Theodore Roosevelt, it is unlikely ever to be surpassed. It is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adamsâ€™s volumes on Jefferson and Madison.â€_â€”Times Literary Supplement_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œMagnificent . . .Â  a compulsively readable, beautifully measured and paced account.â€â€”Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11543'),
(12698, 'Colonel Roosevelt', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Morris completes his fully detailed, correlatively dynamic triptych of the restless, energetic, on-the-move first President Roosevelt, following The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979), the title self-explanatory in terms of its coverage of TRâ€™s life, and Theodore Rex (2001), about his presidency. Now the author presents Colonel Roosevelt, the title by which Roosevelt chose to be called during his postpresidential years (in reference, of course, to his military position during the Spanish-American War). This is the sad part of TRâ€™s life; this is the stage of his life story in which it is most difficult to accept his self-absorption, self-importance, and self-righteousness, but it is the talent of the author, who has shown an immaculate understanding of his subject, to make Roosevelt of continued fascination to his readers. In essence, this volume tells the story of TRâ€™s path of disenchantment with his chosen successor in the White House, William Taft, and his attempt to resecure the presidency for himself. The important theme of TRâ€™s concomitant decline in health is also a part of the narrative. We are made aware most of all that of all retired presidents, TR was the least likely to fade into the background. --Brad Hooper\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   _Praise for\n   <em>\n    Colonel Roosevelt\n   </em>\n   _\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Now with\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  , the magnum opus is complete. And it deserves to stand as the definitive study of its restless, mutable, ever-boyish, erudite and tirelessly energetic subject. Mr. Morris has addressed the toughest and most frustrating part of Rooseveltâ€™s life with the same care and precision that he brought to the two earlier installments. And if this story of a lifetime is his own lifeâ€™s work, he has reason to be immensely proud." â€“Janet Maslin, _The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Exemplaryâ€¦ Consistently rich and on point, with rapidly developing events providing a backdrop for the balanced examination [Morris] presents of his subjectâ€¦The TR trilogy is masterful, and can rightfully take its place among the truly outstanding biographies of the American presidency." â€“\n  </em>\n  LA Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Reading Edmund Morris on Teddy Roosevelt is like listening to Yo-Yo Ma play Bach: You know from the first note youâ€™re in inspired hands. In\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  â€”the final installment in a trilogy that began with\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  â€”Morris registers the Bull Mooseâ€™s last decade in handsome, sweeping prose that avoids the valedictory chord struck by biographers who, nearing the end of their prodigious labors, resort to swooning across the chapters, unwilling to let go of their muse." _â€“ The Washingtonian\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Colonel Roosevelt_, the third part of his three-volume biography of Roosevelt, is a worthy and extremely engaging culmination of Mr. Morris'' work. It is popular history at its best." â€“Claude R. Marx, _The Washington Times\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Praise for the classic biographies by Edmond Morris\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment.â€_â€”The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA towering biography.â€_â€”Time_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  Book Prize for Biography\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA masterpiece . . . A great president has finally found a great biographer.â€_â€”The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a literary work on Theodore Roosevelt, it is unlikely ever to be surpassed. It is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adamsâ€™s volumes on Jefferson and Madison.â€_â€”Times Literary Supplement_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œMagnificent . . .Â  a compulsively readable, beautifully measured and paced account.â€â€”Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14388'),
(12699, 'Colonel Roosevelt', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Morris completes his fully detailed, correlatively dynamic triptych of the restless, energetic, on-the-move first President Roosevelt, following The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979), the title self-explanatory in terms of its coverage of TRâ€™s life, and Theodore Rex (2001), about his presidency. Now the author presents Colonel Roosevelt, the title by which Roosevelt chose to be called during his postpresidential years (in reference, of course, to his military position during the Spanish-American War). This is the sad part of TRâ€™s life; this is the stage of his life story in which it is most difficult to accept his self-absorption, self-importance, and self-righteousness, but it is the talent of the author, who has shown an immaculate understanding of his subject, to make Roosevelt of continued fascination to his readers. In essence, this volume tells the story of TRâ€™s path of disenchantment with his chosen successor in the White House, William Taft, and his attempt to resecure the presidency for himself. The important theme of TRâ€™s concomitant decline in health is also a part of the narrative. We are made aware most of all that of all retired presidents, TR was the least likely to fade into the background. --Brad Hooper\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   _Praise for\n   <em>\n    Colonel Roosevelt\n   </em>\n   _\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Now with\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  , the magnum opus is complete. And it deserves to stand as the definitive study of its restless, mutable, ever-boyish, erudite and tirelessly energetic subject. Mr. Morris has addressed the toughest and most frustrating part of Rooseveltâ€™s life with the same care and precision that he brought to the two earlier installments. And if this story of a lifetime is his own lifeâ€™s work, he has reason to be immensely proud." â€“Janet Maslin, _The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Exemplaryâ€¦ Consistently rich and on point, with rapidly developing events providing a backdrop for the balanced examination [Morris] presents of his subjectâ€¦The TR trilogy is masterful, and can rightfully take its place among the truly outstanding biographies of the American presidency." â€“\n  </em>\n  LA Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Reading Edmund Morris on Teddy Roosevelt is like listening to Yo-Yo Ma play Bach: You know from the first note youâ€™re in inspired hands. In\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  â€”the final installment in a trilogy that began with\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  â€”Morris registers the Bull Mooseâ€™s last decade in handsome, sweeping prose that avoids the valedictory chord struck by biographers who, nearing the end of their prodigious labors, resort to swooning across the chapters, unwilling to let go of their muse." _â€“ The Washingtonian\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Colonel Roosevelt_, the third part of his three-volume biography of Roosevelt, is a worthy and extremely engaging culmination of Mr. Morris'' work. It is popular history at its best." â€“Claude R. Marx, _The Washington Times\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Praise for the classic biographies by Edmond Morris\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment.â€_â€”The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA towering biography.â€_â€”Time_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  Book Prize for Biography\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA masterpiece . . . A great president has finally found a great biographer.â€_â€”The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a literary work on Theodore Roosevelt, it is unlikely ever to be surpassed. It is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adamsâ€™s volumes on Jefferson and Madison.â€_â€”Times Literary Supplement_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œMagnificent . . .Â  a compulsively readable, beautifully measured and paced account.â€â€”Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18765'),
(12700, 'Colonel Roosevelt', 'Edmund Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Morris completes his fully detailed, correlatively dynamic triptych of the restless, energetic, on-the-move first President Roosevelt, following The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979), the title self-explanatory in terms of its coverage of TRâ€™s life, and Theodore Rex (2001), about his presidency. Now the author presents Colonel Roosevelt, the title by which Roosevelt chose to be called during his postpresidential years (in reference, of course, to his military position during the Spanish-American War). This is the sad part of TRâ€™s life; this is the stage of his life story in which it is most difficult to accept his self-absorption, self-importance, and self-righteousness, but it is the talent of the author, who has shown an immaculate understanding of his subject, to make Roosevelt of continued fascination to his readers. In essence, this volume tells the story of TRâ€™s path of disenchantment with his chosen successor in the White House, William Taft, and his attempt to resecure the presidency for himself. The important theme of TRâ€™s concomitant decline in health is also a part of the narrative. We are made aware most of all that of all retired presidents, TR was the least likely to fade into the background. --Brad Hooper\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   _Praise for\n   <em>\n    Colonel Roosevelt\n   </em>\n   _\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Now with\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  , the magnum opus is complete. And it deserves to stand as the definitive study of its restless, mutable, ever-boyish, erudite and tirelessly energetic subject. Mr. Morris has addressed the toughest and most frustrating part of Rooseveltâ€™s life with the same care and precision that he brought to the two earlier installments. And if this story of a lifetime is his own lifeâ€™s work, he has reason to be immensely proud." â€“Janet Maslin, _The New York Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Exemplaryâ€¦ Consistently rich and on point, with rapidly developing events providing a backdrop for the balanced examination [Morris] presents of his subjectâ€¦The TR trilogy is masterful, and can rightfully take its place among the truly outstanding biographies of the American presidency." â€“\n  </em>\n  LA Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "Reading Edmund Morris on Teddy Roosevelt is like listening to Yo-Yo Ma play Bach: You know from the first note youâ€™re in inspired hands. In\n  <em>\n   Colonel Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  â€”the final installment in a trilogy that began with\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  â€”Morris registers the Bull Mooseâ€™s last decade in handsome, sweeping prose that avoids the valedictory chord struck by biographers who, nearing the end of their prodigious labors, resort to swooning across the chapters, unwilling to let go of their muse." _â€“ The Washingtonian\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Colonel Roosevelt_, the third part of his three-volume biography of Roosevelt, is a worthy and extremely engaging culmination of Mr. Morris'' work. It is popular history at its best." â€“Claude R. Marx, _The Washington Times\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Praise for the classic biographies by Edmond Morris\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œOne of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment.â€_â€”The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA towering biography.â€_â€”Time_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Theodore Rex\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Winner of the\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times\n  </em>\n  Book Prize for Biography\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA masterpiece . . . A great president has finally found a great biographer.â€_â€”The Washington Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a literary work on Theodore Roosevelt, it is unlikely ever to be surpassed. It is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adamsâ€™s volumes on Jefferson and Madison.â€_â€”Times Literary Supplement_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œMagnificent . . .Â  a compulsively readable, beautifully measured and paced account.â€â€”Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27593'),
(12701, 'Colonization: Aftershocks', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the aftermath of World War II and the invasion by the alien Lizards, decades of struggle have led to an uneasy attempt by the aliens to maintain a colony on Earth. Collaboration, rebellion, and attempts at understanding each other bring humans and Lizards to the brink of new hostilities, threatening the destruction of the world but holding out hope for its renewal. This conclusion to Turtledove''s multivolume alternate history features the author''s close attention to detail and his ability to paint broad, panoramic pictures without sacrificing the personal stories of his characters. A good addition to most sf collections, particularly in libraries that own previous series titles.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Colonel Sam Yeager has a terrible secret that he can share with only one person--and no humans. The former shiplord Straha, a lizard now exiled to L.A,, is willing to keep the army officer''s secret as a protective measure for Yeager and his family. But when Yeager goes missing, and Straha decides to take his secret to the colonization fleetlord, the outcome shocks everyone, from the crew of the American spaceship\n <em>\n  Lewis and Clark\n </em>\n to the ginger dealers in Marseille. Turtledove concludes his highly entertaining Worldwar alternate-history saga with a series of deadly nuclear confrontations and happier, more intimate encounters between lizards and humans. Characters once mired in the struggles between the doomed Reich and the Race are now free to travel, and Cockney Jew David Goldfarb finds himself in Edmonton, inventing a caller ID system, while Rance Auerbach moves from South Africa to the south of France. Mao and Molotov remain in power, but new humans and lizards are climbing the ranks to challenge the old guard. Turtledove explores ethics, vengeance, and the duties of familial love versus those of friendship with his trademark wry humor--for instance, the Warren Commission turns out to be a loose gathering of lizards intent on understanding the death of President Earl Warren. If only there were another five books in the series to look forward to!\n <em>\n  Roberta Johnson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5189'),
(12702, 'Colonization: Aftershocks', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the aftermath of World War II and the invasion by the alien Lizards, decades of struggle have led to an uneasy attempt by the aliens to maintain a colony on Earth. Collaboration, rebellion, and attempts at understanding each other bring humans and Lizards to the brink of new hostilities, threatening the destruction of the world but holding out hope for its renewal. This conclusion to Turtledove''s multivolume alternate history features the author''s close attention to detail and his ability to paint broad, panoramic pictures without sacrificing the personal stories of his characters. A good addition to most sf collections, particularly in libraries that own previous series titles.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Colonel Sam Yeager has a terrible secret that he can share with only one person--and no humans. The former shiplord Straha, a lizard now exiled to L.A,, is willing to keep the army officer''s secret as a protective measure for Yeager and his family. But when Yeager goes missing, and Straha decides to take his secret to the colonization fleetlord, the outcome shocks everyone, from the crew of the American spaceship\n <em>\n  Lewis and Clark\n </em>\n to the ginger dealers in Marseille. Turtledove concludes his highly entertaining Worldwar alternate-history saga with a series of deadly nuclear confrontations and happier, more intimate encounters between lizards and humans. Characters once mired in the struggles between the doomed Reich and the Race are now free to travel, and Cockney Jew David Goldfarb finds himself in Edmonton, inventing a caller ID system, while Rance Auerbach moves from South Africa to the south of France. Mao and Molotov remain in power, but new humans and lizards are climbing the ranks to challenge the old guard. Turtledove explores ethics, vengeance, and the duties of familial love versus those of friendship with his trademark wry humor--for instance, the Warren Commission turns out to be a loose gathering of lizards intent on understanding the death of President Earl Warren. If only there were another five books in the series to look forward to!\n <em>\n  Roberta Johnson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13054'),
(12703, 'Colonization: Aftershocks', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the aftermath of World War II and the invasion by the alien Lizards, decades of struggle have led to an uneasy attempt by the aliens to maintain a colony on Earth. Collaboration, rebellion, and attempts at understanding each other bring humans and Lizards to the brink of new hostilities, threatening the destruction of the world but holding out hope for its renewal. This conclusion to Turtledove''s multivolume alternate history features the author''s close attention to detail and his ability to paint broad, panoramic pictures without sacrificing the personal stories of his characters. A good addition to most sf collections, particularly in libraries that own previous series titles.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Colonel Sam Yeager has a terrible secret that he can share with only one person--and no humans. The former shiplord Straha, a lizard now exiled to L.A,, is willing to keep the army officer''s secret as a protective measure for Yeager and his family. But when Yeager goes missing, and Straha decides to take his secret to the colonization fleetlord, the outcome shocks everyone, from the crew of the American spaceship\n <em>\n  Lewis and Clark\n </em>\n to the ginger dealers in Marseille. Turtledove concludes his highly entertaining Worldwar alternate-history saga with a series of deadly nuclear confrontations and happier, more intimate encounters between lizards and humans. Characters once mired in the struggles between the doomed Reich and the Race are now free to travel, and Cockney Jew David Goldfarb finds himself in Edmonton, inventing a caller ID system, while Rance Auerbach moves from South Africa to the south of France. Mao and Molotov remain in power, but new humans and lizards are climbing the ranks to challenge the old guard. Turtledove explores ethics, vengeance, and the duties of familial love versus those of friendship with his trademark wry humor--for instance, the Warren Commission turns out to be a loose gathering of lizards intent on understanding the death of President Earl Warren. If only there were another five books in the series to look forward to!\n <em>\n  Roberta Johnson\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19483'),
(12704, 'Colonization: Down to Earth', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Colonization: Down to Earth\n </em>\n marks part two of part two of Harry Turtledove''s epic alternate history in which WWII gets interrupted--and violently abridged--by a hostile alien invasion. With some of the same characters introduced in the four-volume __, the story arc continues through the 1960s, as the Lizards (along with their second fleet, composed not of soldiers but of colonists) continue to grapple with their not-quite-subdued conquest, Tosev 3 (a.k.a. earth). And Turtledove''s alt-''60s are not--to say the least--about peace, love, and understanding.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now the reptilian ETs must face off against three world superpowers in an uneasy truce: the United States; Molotov''s SSSR; and the psychotic, nuke-wielding Nazis under Himmler. Elsewhere, the U.K. flirts with fascism, Red China (commanded by none other than Chairman Mao) wages a bloody resistance against its scaly oppressors, and the Arab world does likewise under the guidance of Ayatollah Khomeini. As ever with Turtledove, plot takes precedence over characterizations, but his suspenseful twists and turns don''t disappoint. And while\n <em>\n  Down to Earth\n </em>\n proves a bit less martial than its predecessors, the action still satisfies--if nothing else, the bang-up finale is worth the wait.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The alien invasion that transformed the nature of the Second World War into a fight between humans and "Lizards" resulted in a state of uneasy d?tente. Twenty years later, Lizards lay claim to parts of the earth despite a growing state of resistance to their presence. Continuing the story begun in Colonization: Second Contact (LJ 1/99), Turtledove expands on his imaginary history of the 20th century. He demonstrates his talent for crafting drama on a global scale by concentrating on the individual stories that make up the big picture. A good choice for sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5190'),
(12705, 'Colonization: Down to Earth', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Colonization: Down to Earth\n </em>\n marks part two of part two of Harry Turtledove''s epic alternate history in which WWII gets interrupted--and violently abridged--by a hostile alien invasion. With some of the same characters introduced in the four-volume __, the story arc continues through the 1960s, as the Lizards (along with their second fleet, composed not of soldiers but of colonists) continue to grapple with their not-quite-subdued conquest, Tosev 3 (a.k.a. earth). And Turtledove''s alt-''60s are not--to say the least--about peace, love, and understanding.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now the reptilian ETs must face off against three world superpowers in an uneasy truce: the United States; Molotov''s SSSR; and the psychotic, nuke-wielding Nazis under Himmler. Elsewhere, the U.K. flirts with fascism, Red China (commanded by none other than Chairman Mao) wages a bloody resistance against its scaly oppressors, and the Arab world does likewise under the guidance of Ayatollah Khomeini. As ever with Turtledove, plot takes precedence over characterizations, but his suspenseful twists and turns don''t disappoint. And while\n <em>\n  Down to Earth\n </em>\n proves a bit less martial than its predecessors, the action still satisfies--if nothing else, the bang-up finale is worth the wait.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The alien invasion that transformed the nature of the Second World War into a fight between humans and "Lizards" resulted in a state of uneasy d?tente. Twenty years later, Lizards lay claim to parts of the earth despite a growing state of resistance to their presence. Continuing the story begun in Colonization: Second Contact (LJ 1/99), Turtledove expands on his imaginary history of the 20th century. He demonstrates his talent for crafting drama on a global scale by concentrating on the individual stories that make up the big picture. A good choice for sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13135'),
(12706, 'Colonization: Down to Earth', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Colonization: Down to Earth\n </em>\n marks part two of part two of Harry Turtledove''s epic alternate history in which WWII gets interrupted--and violently abridged--by a hostile alien invasion. With some of the same characters introduced in the four-volume __, the story arc continues through the 1960s, as the Lizards (along with their second fleet, composed not of soldiers but of colonists) continue to grapple with their not-quite-subdued conquest, Tosev 3 (a.k.a. earth). And Turtledove''s alt-''60s are not--to say the least--about peace, love, and understanding.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now the reptilian ETs must face off against three world superpowers in an uneasy truce: the United States; Molotov''s SSSR; and the psychotic, nuke-wielding Nazis under Himmler. Elsewhere, the U.K. flirts with fascism, Red China (commanded by none other than Chairman Mao) wages a bloody resistance against its scaly oppressors, and the Arab world does likewise under the guidance of Ayatollah Khomeini. As ever with Turtledove, plot takes precedence over characterizations, but his suspenseful twists and turns don''t disappoint. And while\n <em>\n  Down to Earth\n </em>\n proves a bit less martial than its predecessors, the action still satisfies--if nothing else, the bang-up finale is worth the wait.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The alien invasion that transformed the nature of the Second World War into a fight between humans and "Lizards" resulted in a state of uneasy d?tente. Twenty years later, Lizards lay claim to parts of the earth despite a growing state of resistance to their presence. Continuing the story begun in Colonization: Second Contact (LJ 1/99), Turtledove expands on his imaginary history of the 20th century. He demonstrates his talent for crafting drama on a global scale by concentrating on the individual stories that make up the big picture. A good choice for sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19480'),
(12707, 'Colonization: Second Contact', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Turtledove pays tribute to pulp science fiction, combining a favorite plot--invasion by technologically superior aliens--with an alternate history of WWII and its aftermath. His\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Colonization: Second Contact\n </em>\n continues the saga, but you need not read the previous series to enjoy it. When the colonists arrive in 1962, they''re unprepared for a half-conquered world. After several of their ships are destroyed by a nuclear missile of mysterious origin, they accuse the conquest forces of incompetence. Muslims in the conquered Middle East are staging an Intifada, the Chinese Communists continue guerrilla warfare against the invaders, and everyone''s smuggling ginger, which is powerfully addictive among the Race and has unanticipated effects on the female colonists.\n</p>\n<p>\n Turtledove''s cast of characters includes sharply drawn alien soldiers and civilians as well as a mix of convincing historical and fictional humans from all over the world. He covers all the sixties issues: generational conflict, the drug culture, racial inequality, the threat of atomic apocalypse, and the frustration of soldiers in an unwinnable war. If you enjoy alternate history and old B movies, this book''s for you.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In high fashion, the master of alternative SF launches a sequel series to his acclaimed Worldwar tetralogy (Striking the Balance, etc.). It is 1963, and Earth is divided among five independent powers (the U.S., the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Britain, Japan) and the invading alien Lizards. Human adaptations of Lizard technology (including space flight) and the Lizard leaders'' painful experience of fighting humans have led to an armed truce among all the parties. Now, however, the Lizard colony fleet, with 40 million sleep-frozen colonists, arrives to settle what they expect to be a completely subdued world. That the Tosevites (humans) are still holding out is only the first of several surprises to greet them. The nastiest is probably that ginger, merely addictive to Lizard males, brings Lizard females violently into heat?arousing an irresistible mating urge in the males. The Third Reich, meanwhile, under the leadership of Himmler, continues its odious ways; Jews maintain an uneasy peace with the Lizards, who saved them from the Holocaust; the Soviet Union (under Molotov) survives; and the U.S. is building a huge space station. Characters who have become old friends to readers of the earlier tetralogy abound, and new ones both human and Lizard appear by the double handful. Turtledove handles sexual themes with good taste and appropriate humor. With his fertile imagination running on overdrive, he develops an exciting, often surprising, story that will not only delight his fans but will probably send newcomers back to the Worldwar saga to fill in the backstory.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5191'),
(12708, 'Colonization: Second Contact', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Turtledove pays tribute to pulp science fiction, combining a favorite plot--invasion by technologically superior aliens--with an alternate history of WWII and its aftermath. His\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Colonization: Second Contact\n </em>\n continues the saga, but you need not read the previous series to enjoy it. When the colonists arrive in 1962, they''re unprepared for a half-conquered world. After several of their ships are destroyed by a nuclear missile of mysterious origin, they accuse the conquest forces of incompetence. Muslims in the conquered Middle East are staging an Intifada, the Chinese Communists continue guerrilla warfare against the invaders, and everyone''s smuggling ginger, which is powerfully addictive among the Race and has unanticipated effects on the female colonists.\n</p>\n<p>\n Turtledove''s cast of characters includes sharply drawn alien soldiers and civilians as well as a mix of convincing historical and fictional humans from all over the world. He covers all the sixties issues: generational conflict, the drug culture, racial inequality, the threat of atomic apocalypse, and the frustration of soldiers in an unwinnable war. If you enjoy alternate history and old B movies, this book''s for you.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In high fashion, the master of alternative SF launches a sequel series to his acclaimed Worldwar tetralogy (Striking the Balance, etc.). It is 1963, and Earth is divided among five independent powers (the U.S., the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Britain, Japan) and the invading alien Lizards. Human adaptations of Lizard technology (including space flight) and the Lizard leaders'' painful experience of fighting humans have led to an armed truce among all the parties. Now, however, the Lizard colony fleet, with 40 million sleep-frozen colonists, arrives to settle what they expect to be a completely subdued world. That the Tosevites (humans) are still holding out is only the first of several surprises to greet them. The nastiest is probably that ginger, merely addictive to Lizard males, brings Lizard females violently into heat?arousing an irresistible mating urge in the males. The Third Reich, meanwhile, under the leadership of Himmler, continues its odious ways; Jews maintain an uneasy peace with the Lizards, who saved them from the Holocaust; the Soviet Union (under Molotov) survives; and the U.S. is building a huge space station. Characters who have become old friends to readers of the earlier tetralogy abound, and new ones both human and Lizard appear by the double handful. Turtledove handles sexual themes with good taste and appropriate humor. With his fertile imagination running on overdrive, he develops an exciting, often surprising, story that will not only delight his fans but will probably send newcomers back to the Worldwar saga to fill in the backstory.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13136'),
(12709, 'Colonization: Second Contact', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Turtledove pays tribute to pulp science fiction, combining a favorite plot--invasion by technologically superior aliens--with an alternate history of WWII and its aftermath. His\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Colonization: Second Contact\n </em>\n continues the saga, but you need not read the previous series to enjoy it. When the colonists arrive in 1962, they''re unprepared for a half-conquered world. After several of their ships are destroyed by a nuclear missile of mysterious origin, they accuse the conquest forces of incompetence. Muslims in the conquered Middle East are staging an Intifada, the Chinese Communists continue guerrilla warfare against the invaders, and everyone''s smuggling ginger, which is powerfully addictive among the Race and has unanticipated effects on the female colonists.\n</p>\n<p>\n Turtledove''s cast of characters includes sharply drawn alien soldiers and civilians as well as a mix of convincing historical and fictional humans from all over the world. He covers all the sixties issues: generational conflict, the drug culture, racial inequality, the threat of atomic apocalypse, and the frustration of soldiers in an unwinnable war. If you enjoy alternate history and old B movies, this book''s for you.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In high fashion, the master of alternative SF launches a sequel series to his acclaimed Worldwar tetralogy (Striking the Balance, etc.). It is 1963, and Earth is divided among five independent powers (the U.S., the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Britain, Japan) and the invading alien Lizards. Human adaptations of Lizard technology (including space flight) and the Lizard leaders'' painful experience of fighting humans have led to an armed truce among all the parties. Now, however, the Lizard colony fleet, with 40 million sleep-frozen colonists, arrives to settle what they expect to be a completely subdued world. That the Tosevites (humans) are still holding out is only the first of several surprises to greet them. The nastiest is probably that ginger, merely addictive to Lizard males, brings Lizard females violently into heat?arousing an irresistible mating urge in the males. The Third Reich, meanwhile, under the leadership of Himmler, continues its odious ways; Jews maintain an uneasy peace with the Lizards, who saved them from the Holocaust; the Soviet Union (under Molotov) survives; and the U.S. is building a huge space station. Characters who have become old friends to readers of the earlier tetralogy abound, and new ones both human and Lizard appear by the double handful. Turtledove handles sexual themes with good taste and appropriate humor. With his fertile imagination running on overdrive, he develops an exciting, often surprising, story that will not only delight his fans but will probably send newcomers back to the Worldwar saga to fill in the backstory.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19479'),
(12710, 'The Color of Her Panties', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the fifteenth novel of his Xanth series, Piers Anthony has captured again the fantasy world loved by generations of devoted readers. Brand-new excitement and humor from the author of Question Quest, The Color of Her Panties explodes with phantasmagorical, pun-filled adventure. In the struggle for the Goblin crown, Gwenny Goblin is forced to compete with her awful half brother Gobble in a battle of the wits. To prove herself worthy, Gwenny, with her secret contact lenses, enlists the aid of Che Centaur and Jenny Elf to help her perform the tasks that will win her the chieftainship of the Goblin horde, including bringing back the fabulous egg that sits between the Roc and the hard place. But the most precious secret lies in Mela Merwoman''s undergarments; in particular, their color. But Mela, Ida Human, and Okra Ogress, using Magician Humphrey''s confusing advice, are stuck in a wild-goose chase around Xanth, meeting up with the likes of dragons and the Simurg, and eventually joining the Adult Conspiracy. Meanwhile, Gwenny is still on her quest for the answer to the all-important question: What color are the Merwoman''s panties? With outrageous wit and fantastic escapades, The Color of Her Panties will thrill the fans who have entered before into this fabulous adventure of space and thyme, as well as new discoverers of the world of Xanth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2048'),
(12711, 'The Color of Law: A Novel', 'Mark Gimenez', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mark Gimenez grew up in Galveston County, Texas. Once a partner at a major Dallas firm, Gimenez gave it up in order to start his own practice and to write. He lives outside Fort Worth with his wife and two sons. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3102'),
(12712, 'The Color of Law: A Novel', 'Mark Gimenez', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mark Gimenez grew up in Galveston County, Texas. Once a partner at a major Dallas firm, Gimenez gave it up in order to start his own practice and to write. He lives outside Fort Worth with his wife and two sons. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9999');
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(12713, 'The Color of Law: A Novel', 'Mark Gimenez', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mark Gimenez grew up in Galveston County, Texas. Once a partner at a major Dallas firm, Gimenez gave it up in order to start his own practice and to write. He lives outside Fort Worth with his wife and two sons. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21750'),
(12714, 'The Color Purple', 'Alice Walker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister''s letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13582'),
(12715, 'The Color Purple', 'Alice Walker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister''s letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16205'),
(12716, 'The color purple', 'Alice Walker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister''s letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26371'),
(12717, 'Colorado Abduction', 'Cassie Miles &amp; Marie Ferrarella', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6946'),
(12718, 'Colorado Abduction', 'Cassie Miles &amp; Marie Ferrarella', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11455'),
(12719, 'Colorado Abduction', 'Cassie Miles; Marie Ferrarella', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16972'),
(12720, 'Colorado Abduction', 'Cassie Miles; Marie Ferrarella', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26785'),
(12721, 'Colorado Kid', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There''s no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that''s just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett''s The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world''s great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1089'),
(12722, 'Colorado Kid', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There''s no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that''s just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett''s The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world''s great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14501'),
(12723, 'Colorado Kid', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There''s no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that''s just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett''s The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world''s great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23886'),
(12724, 'The Colorado Kid', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A rookie newspaperwoman learns the true meaning of mystery when she investigates a twenty-five-year-old unsolved and very strange case involving a dead man found on an island off the coast of Maine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25099'),
(12725, 'A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers', 'Lawrence G. McDonald &amp; Patrick Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast. In "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense," Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald''s Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts "gateway to nowhere" housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world''s toughest trading floors. We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nation''s oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it. The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America''s--and the world''s--financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3495'),
(12726, 'A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers', 'Lawrence G. McDonald &amp; Patrick Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast. In "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense," Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald''s Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts "gateway to nowhere" housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world''s toughest trading floors. We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nation''s oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it. The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America''s--and the world''s--financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11386'),
(12727, 'A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers', 'Lawrence G. McDonald; Patrick Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast. In "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense," Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald''s Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts "gateway to nowhere" housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world''s toughest trading floors. We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nation''s oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it. The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America''s--and the world''s--financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21059'),
(12728, 'The Colour of Magic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Discworld is flat, and rides through space on the backs of Berilia, Tubul, Great P''Thon and Jerakeen, the four elephants who stand in turn on the back of Great A''Tuin, the giant turtle. And this is where it all starts, with the naive tourist Twoflower and his incompetent and cynical guide, the wizard Rincewind, forced to flee from the proud and pestilent twin city of Ankh-Morpork. When they meet the barbarian thieves Bravd and Weasel, things that are already bad turn inevitably to the worst . . .This is the second of Terry Pratchett''s Discworld movies for SKY ONE, made by the team who brought THE HOGFATHER to you and featuring The Discworld Players, an ensemble cast including Sir David Jason as Rincewind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/695'),
(12729, 'The Colour of Magic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Discworld is flat, and rides through space on the backs of Berilia, Tubul, Great P''Thon and Jerakeen, the four elephants who stand in turn on the back of Great A''Tuin, the giant turtle. And this is where it all starts, with the naive tourist Twoflower and his incompetent and cynical guide, the wizard Rincewind, forced to flee from the proud and pestilent twin city of Ankh-Morpork. When they meet the barbarian thieves Bravd and Weasel, things that are already bad turn inevitably to the worst . . .This is the second of Terry Pratchett''s Discworld movies for SKY ONE, made by the team who brought THE HOGFATHER to you and featuring The Discworld Players, an ensemble cast including Sir David Jason as Rincewind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13878'),
(12730, 'The Colour of Magic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Discworld is flat, and rides through space on the backs of Berilia, Tubul, Great P''Thon and Jerakeen, the four elephants who stand in turn on the back of Great A''Tuin, the giant turtle. And this is where it all starts, with the naive tourist Twoflower and his incompetent and cynical guide, the wizard Rincewind, forced to flee from the proud and pestilent twin city of Ankh-Morpork. When they meet the barbarian thieves Bravd and Weasel, things that are already bad turn inevitably to the worst . . .This is the second of Terry Pratchett''s Discworld movies for SKY ONE, made by the team who brought THE HOGFATHER to you and featuring The Discworld Players, an ensemble cast including Sir David Jason as Rincewind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24265'),
(12731, 'Colour Scheme', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A spa-goer resorts to murder.Even down in New Zealand, war-fueled spy fever is running wild. Near the decaying sulphur springs of Colonel and Mrs. Claire, the strange lights and signals being sent to foreign ships at sea mean there''s a spy in their midst. Soon an even darker sign appears-a health-seeker with untoward intentions meets his demise in the mud baths. And when meets his demise in the mud baths. And when a new arrival appears, one who possesses the cunning of a criminal and the insight of a psychologist, can Scotland Yard''s Inspector Roderick Alleyn be far behind?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25302'),
(12732, 'Colouring the Captains', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22937'),
(12733, 'Colt Alb', 'Jack London', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25576'),
(12734, 'Columbine', 'Dave Cullen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine." When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat Mafia; we think of Cassie Bernall, the girl we thought professed her faith before she was shot; and we think of the boy pulling himself out of a school window -- the whole world was watching him. Now, in a riveting piece of journalism nearly ten years in the making, comes the story none of us knew. In this revelatory book, Dave Cullen has delivered a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. He lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris, and the quavering, suicidal Dylan Klebold, who went to prom three days earlier and obsessed about love in his journal. The result is an astonishing account of two good students with lots of friends, who came to stockpile a basement cache of weapons, to record their raging hatred, and to manipulate every adult who got in their way. They left signs everywhere, described by Cullen with a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boy''s tapes and diaries, he gives the first complete account of the Columbine tragedy. In the tradition of HELTER SKELTER and IN COLD BLOOD, COLUMBINE is destined to be a classic. A close-up portrait of hatred, a community rendered helpless, and the police blunders and cover-ups, it is a compelling and utterly human portrait of two killers-an unforgettable cautionary tale for our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14735'),
(12735, 'Columbine', 'Dave Cullen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine." When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat Mafia; we think of Cassie Bernall, the girl we thought professed her faith before she was shot; and we think of the boy pulling himself out of a school window -- the whole world was watching him. Now, in a riveting piece of journalism nearly ten years in the making, comes the story none of us knew. In this revelatory book, Dave Cullen has delivered a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. He lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris, and the quavering, suicidal Dylan Klebold, who went to prom three days earlier and obsessed about love in his journal. The result is an astonishing account of two good students with lots of friends, who came to stockpile a basement cache of weapons, to record their raging hatred, and to manipulate every adult who got in their way. They left signs everywhere, described by Cullen with a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boy''s tapes and diaries, he gives the first complete account of the Columbine tragedy. In the tradition of HELTER SKELTER and IN COLD BLOOD, COLUMBINE is destined to be a classic. A close-up portrait of hatred, a community rendered helpless, and the police blunders and cover-ups, it is a compelling and utterly human portrait of two killers-an unforgettable cautionary tale for our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17728'),
(12736, 'Columbine', 'Dave Cullen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine." When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat Mafia; we think of Cassie Bernall, the girl we thought professed her faith before she was shot; and we think of the boy pulling himself out of a school window -- the whole world was watching him. Now, in a riveting piece of journalism nearly ten years in the making, comes the story none of us knew. In this revelatory book, Dave Cullen has delivered a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. He lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris, and the quavering, suicidal Dylan Klebold, who went to prom three days earlier and obsessed about love in his journal. The result is an astonishing account of two good students with lots of friends, who came to stockpile a basement cache of weapons, to record their raging hatred, and to manipulate every adult who got in their way. They left signs everywhere, described by Cullen with a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boy''s tapes and diaries, he gives the first complete account of the Columbine tragedy. In the tradition of HELTER SKELTER and IN COLD BLOOD, COLUMBINE is destined to be a classic. A close-up portrait of hatred, a community rendered helpless, and the police blunders and cover-ups, it is a compelling and utterly human portrait of two killers-an unforgettable cautionary tale for our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27269'),
(12737, 'Comando psi', 'Bruce McAllister', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26016'),
(12738, 'Come Lie With Me', 'Linda Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Blake Remington temporarily loses the ability to walk, he loses his will to live as well, until Dione Kelly, a woman with a broken soul, arrives to heal both him and herself. Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3382'),
(12739, 'Come Lie With Me', 'Linda Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Blake Remington temporarily loses the ability to walk, he loses his will to live as well, until Dione Kelly, a woman with a broken soul, arrives to heal both him and herself. Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10426'),
(12740, 'Come Lie With Me', 'Linda Howard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Blake Remington temporarily loses the ability to walk, he loses his will to live as well, until Dione Kelly, a woman with a broken soul, arrives to heal both him and herself. Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21135'),
(12741, 'Come Out Tonight', 'Richard Laymon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s not a crime novelist around who writes cleaner prose than LaymonAand few who can jack up the tension the way he does. Yet despite his popularity overseas and a minor resurgence here (Bite, Forecasts, May 24), his readership has of late been limited in the States. This new novel, his first since The Midnight Tour, probably won''t change that. Laymon likes to grasp readers by the neck with expert wordsmithery, then haul them into a diabolical situation. Here, foxy substitute teacher Sherry Gates goes searching for her boyfriend, who''s late returning from a condom-run to a local L.A. market, and gets snatched by a homicidal, sex-crazed teen, Toby Bones. Many readers will find that too much of what ensues focuses, graphically, on Toby''s violations of Sherry (and others), including rape, child molestation, slashings, beatings, shootings, a beheading and fratricidal murder by electric drill. Laymon''s outrageousness is part of his appeal, but in his best books it''s leavened by a gratifyingly sardonic sense of humor. That wickedness flashes at times here, as does a surprising tenderness: the series of scenes in which a naked Sherry is aided by two horny teen boys combines both qualities in a dashing display of emotionally complex writing. Once again, Laymon offers unexpected, well-rounded characters blown about in a narrative that moves like the wind. But the many scenes of sadistic torture cross the line from terror to lurid cruelty and will curdle the enjoyment of all but the most dedicated Laymon fans.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n The master of stomach-churning porno-violence (Quake, 1995, etc.) returns, unredeemed and of no social value whatsoever. Laymon fans must always be telling themselves, I''m sick. Im very sick. I must be absolutely worthless to be enjoying this, but, as the authors numerous villainous psychopaths would undoubtedly say, Kill em all! Let God sort em out! This time, the Santa Ana winds are blowing fire toward L.A., and tubby, teenaged Toby Bones, who with his brother murdered his wealthy parents, is on the loose. Teacher Sherry Gates and her boyfriend Duane are just about to make love when his condom falls to pieces. He''ll be right back, Duane says, heading for the nearby convenience store for some fresh booties. He never comes back. After a while, Sherry goes looking for him and eventually is kidnaped by Toby, a student from a recent class. He beats and tries to rape her, then decides they need a bed. Sherry escapes, gets a stranger named Jim to help her get back to Duane''s place. They find Duane in bed, his skull crushed, then Toby offs Jim with two butcher knives into his back, jumps a woman in Duane''s hallway and knifes her in the back, then re-abducts Sherry for some real fun. And that''s just for tasty openers as Laymon''s novel slides in slime toward a big sweet hell of pain and orgasm. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1839'),
(12742, 'Come Out Tonight', 'Richard Laymon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s not a crime novelist around who writes cleaner prose than LaymonAand few who can jack up the tension the way he does. Yet despite his popularity overseas and a minor resurgence here (Bite, Forecasts, May 24), his readership has of late been limited in the States. This new novel, his first since The Midnight Tour, probably won''t change that. Laymon likes to grasp readers by the neck with expert wordsmithery, then haul them into a diabolical situation. Here, foxy substitute teacher Sherry Gates goes searching for her boyfriend, who''s late returning from a condom-run to a local L.A. market, and gets snatched by a homicidal, sex-crazed teen, Toby Bones. Many readers will find that too much of what ensues focuses, graphically, on Toby''s violations of Sherry (and others), including rape, child molestation, slashings, beatings, shootings, a beheading and fratricidal murder by electric drill. Laymon''s outrageousness is part of his appeal, but in his best books it''s leavened by a gratifyingly sardonic sense of humor. That wickedness flashes at times here, as does a surprising tenderness: the series of scenes in which a naked Sherry is aided by two horny teen boys combines both qualities in a dashing display of emotionally complex writing. Once again, Laymon offers unexpected, well-rounded characters blown about in a narrative that moves like the wind. But the many scenes of sadistic torture cross the line from terror to lurid cruelty and will curdle the enjoyment of all but the most dedicated Laymon fans.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n The master of stomach-churning porno-violence (Quake, 1995, etc.) returns, unredeemed and of no social value whatsoever. Laymon fans must always be telling themselves, I''m sick. Im very sick. I must be absolutely worthless to be enjoying this, but, as the authors numerous villainous psychopaths would undoubtedly say, Kill em all! Let God sort em out! This time, the Santa Ana winds are blowing fire toward L.A., and tubby, teenaged Toby Bones, who with his brother murdered his wealthy parents, is on the loose. Teacher Sherry Gates and her boyfriend Duane are just about to make love when his condom falls to pieces. He''ll be right back, Duane says, heading for the nearby convenience store for some fresh booties. He never comes back. After a while, Sherry goes looking for him and eventually is kidnaped by Toby, a student from a recent class. He beats and tries to rape her, then decides they need a bed. Sherry escapes, gets a stranger named Jim to help her get back to Duane''s place. They find Duane in bed, his skull crushed, then Toby offs Jim with two butcher knives into his back, jumps a woman in Duane''s hallway and knifes her in the back, then re-abducts Sherry for some real fun. And that''s just for tasty openers as Laymon''s novel slides in slime toward a big sweet hell of pain and orgasm. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12233'),
(12743, 'Come to Grief', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18102'),
(12744, 'Come to the Edge: A Memoir', 'Christina Haag', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œJohn F. Kennedy Jr.â€™s former love offers glimpses into the last vestiges of Camelot. In actress Haag''s debut memoir, readers get a front-row seat to her on-again/off-again love affair with JFK Jr., President Kennedy''s eldest son. After nine years cloistered in Catholic school, the author was suddenly propelled into the glitzy world of upper-crust New York. Her sepia-toned recounting of evenings shared with an adolescent JFK Jr. are spellbinding, setting the stage for the romance soon to come. After a series of missed connections and serendipitous run-ins, the pair finally fell into sync, two young actors playing opposite one another in a play. In a revealing conversation, a young Haag informed JFK Jr. that if he forgot his lines, he need only, â€˜stop, take a breath, and look into my eyes. It will ground you.â€™ It was sound advice, particularly from the woman JFK Jr. would later call his compass. Haag provides minute details that manage to humanize JFK Jr. in a manner the media never attempted. She recalled the â€˜spaghetti he made with soy sauceâ€™ and â€˜leaping on the benches outside the Museum of Natural Historyâ€™â€”both seemingly innocuous details, yet they offer a new look at an old figure. Equally intriguing are the authorâ€™s romanticized depictions of Jackie Onassis, the widow who could often be spotted riding her bicycle along the trails of Martha''s Vineyard, â€˜her head kerchiefed,â€™ searching the fields for birds. Despite her intimate view, Haag is careful not to exploit the Kennedy clan; instead, she simply returns them to human form. An honest, heartfelt account of love, politics and tragedy.â€â€”_Kirkus Reviews\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œ_Come to the Edge_ perfectly captures what it feels like to be young and in love â€” the giddiness, the lunacy, the madcap swings between exhilaration and despairâ€¦Haag is a beautiful writer, and the book [is] full of wonderfully vivid descriptions.â€â€”_Entertainment Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA piercing portrait of a vibrant, reckless, tender young man so bursting with life that nothing could contain him.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWe know how the story ends, of course.Â  Girl loses boy.Â  Boy loses everything.Â  But in this finely-drawn, indelible portrait of a friendship and love affair, Christina Haag illuminates the private world of one of our nationâ€™s most legendary families.Â  Come to the Edge should be read not only for its fascinating insiderâ€™s view, but because itâ€™s a brave, human, beautiful, wrenching memoir.â€â€”Dani Shapiro, author of\n  <em>\n   Devotion\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith unfailing grace, sensitivity, and tact, Christina Haag recreates in poignant detail her prolonged romance with John F. Kennedy Jr., who struggled to fathom the meaning of his life. The author never stoops to tabloid sensationalism or cheapens this rare glimpse into Americaâ€™s royal family. However charming the hero or scenic the backdrop, the memoir is tinged with the tragic darkness that inevitably shadowed the Kennedy clan, with death and danger forever lurking just beyond camera range. Jackie Kennedy Onassis floats through the narrative as an enchanting presence who is appealing in her wisdom and bounty. This is a beautiful and, in the end, unutterably sad book about fleeting innocence, blighted hope, and the elusive nature of youthful love.â€â€”Ron Chernow, author of\n  <em>\n   Washington: A Life\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œSensual and full of longing, Come to the Edge is a haunting, timeless love letter, a universal tale of romance. Christina Haag has crafted a delicate memoir of love for a man we think we know and lay claim to, but, in truth, she is writing about all of us: our youth, our hopes, our own first kisses and dreams of romance. From the first word, my soul leapt at recognition. Gorgeous!â€â€”Erin Cressida Wilson, award-winning screenwriter ofÂ _Secretary_ and\n  <em>\n   Fur\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A tender tale of lost love that offers a discerning glimpse into the Kennedy family." â€”Fernanda Eberstadt, author of\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  Rat_ and\n  <em>\n   Little Money Street\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Love Story of JFK Jr. and Christina Haag\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An elegy to first love, a lost New York, and a young man who led his life with surprising and abundant grace\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mother and sister on Fifth Avenue and who happened to have a Secret Service detail following him at a discreet distance at all times. A decade later, after they had both graduated from Brown University and were living in New York City, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair. Glamorous and often in the public eye, but also passionate and deeply intimate, their relationship was transformative for both of them. With exquisite prose, Haag paints a portrait of a young man with an enormous capacity for love, and an adventurous spirit that drove him to live life to its fullest.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _A haunting book,\n  <em>\n   Come to the Edge\n  </em>\n  is a lasting evocation of a time and a placeâ€”of the indelible sting of the loss of young love, and of the people who shape you and remain with you, whether in person or in spirit. It is about being young and full of hope, with all the potential of your life as yet unfulfilled, and of coming of age at a moment in New Yorkâ€™s history when the city at once held danger, magic, and endless possibilities for self-discovery.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Rarely has a love story been told so beautifully.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6765'),
(12745, 'Come to the Edge: A Memoir', 'Christina Haag', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œJohn F. Kennedy Jr.â€™s former love offers glimpses into the last vestiges of Camelot. In actress Haag''s debut memoir, readers get a front-row seat to her on-again/off-again love affair with JFK Jr., President Kennedy''s eldest son. After nine years cloistered in Catholic school, the author was suddenly propelled into the glitzy world of upper-crust New York. Her sepia-toned recounting of evenings shared with an adolescent JFK Jr. are spellbinding, setting the stage for the romance soon to come. After a series of missed connections and serendipitous run-ins, the pair finally fell into sync, two young actors playing opposite one another in a play. In a revealing conversation, a young Haag informed JFK Jr. that if he forgot his lines, he need only, â€˜stop, take a breath, and look into my eyes. It will ground you.â€™ It was sound advice, particularly from the woman JFK Jr. would later call his compass. Haag provides minute details that manage to humanize JFK Jr. in a manner the media never attempted. She recalled the â€˜spaghetti he made with soy sauceâ€™ and â€˜leaping on the benches outside the Museum of Natural Historyâ€™â€”both seemingly innocuous details, yet they offer a new look at an old figure. Equally intriguing are the authorâ€™s romanticized depictions of Jackie Onassis, the widow who could often be spotted riding her bicycle along the trails of Martha''s Vineyard, â€˜her head kerchiefed,â€™ searching the fields for birds. Despite her intimate view, Haag is careful not to exploit the Kennedy clan; instead, she simply returns them to human form. An honest, heartfelt account of love, politics and tragedy.â€â€”_Kirkus Reviews\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œ_Come to the Edge_ perfectly captures what it feels like to be young and in love â€” the giddiness, the lunacy, the madcap swings between exhilaration and despairâ€¦Haag is a beautiful writer, and the book [is] full of wonderfully vivid descriptions.â€â€”_Entertainment Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA piercing portrait of a vibrant, reckless, tender young man so bursting with life that nothing could contain him.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWe know how the story ends, of course.Â  Girl loses boy.Â  Boy loses everything.Â  But in this finely-drawn, indelible portrait of a friendship and love affair, Christina Haag illuminates the private world of one of our nationâ€™s most legendary families.Â  Come to the Edge should be read not only for its fascinating insiderâ€™s view, but because itâ€™s a brave, human, beautiful, wrenching memoir.â€â€”Dani Shapiro, author of\n  <em>\n   Devotion\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith unfailing grace, sensitivity, and tact, Christina Haag recreates in poignant detail her prolonged romance with John F. Kennedy Jr., who struggled to fathom the meaning of his life. The author never stoops to tabloid sensationalism or cheapens this rare glimpse into Americaâ€™s royal family. However charming the hero or scenic the backdrop, the memoir is tinged with the tragic darkness that inevitably shadowed the Kennedy clan, with death and danger forever lurking just beyond camera range. Jackie Kennedy Onassis floats through the narrative as an enchanting presence who is appealing in her wisdom and bounty. This is a beautiful and, in the end, unutterably sad book about fleeting innocence, blighted hope, and the elusive nature of youthful love.â€â€”Ron Chernow, author of\n  <em>\n   Washington: A Life\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œSensual and full of longing, Come to the Edge is a haunting, timeless love letter, a universal tale of romance. Christina Haag has crafted a delicate memoir of love for a man we think we know and lay claim to, but, in truth, she is writing about all of us: our youth, our hopes, our own first kisses and dreams of romance. From the first word, my soul leapt at recognition. Gorgeous!â€â€”Erin Cressida Wilson, award-winning screenwriter ofÂ _Secretary_ and\n  <em>\n   Fur\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A tender tale of lost love that offers a discerning glimpse into the Kennedy family." â€”Fernanda Eberstadt, author of\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  Rat_ and\n  <em>\n   Little Money Street\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Love Story of JFK Jr. and Christina Haag\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An elegy to first love, a lost New York, and a young man who led his life with surprising and abundant grace\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mother and sister on Fifth Avenue and who happened to have a Secret Service detail following him at a discreet distance at all times. A decade later, after they had both graduated from Brown University and were living in New York City, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair. Glamorous and often in the public eye, but also passionate and deeply intimate, their relationship was transformative for both of them. With exquisite prose, Haag paints a portrait of a young man with an enormous capacity for love, and an adventurous spirit that drove him to live life to its fullest.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _A haunting book,\n  <em>\n   Come to the Edge\n  </em>\n  is a lasting evocation of a time and a placeâ€”of the indelible sting of the loss of young love, and of the people who shape you and remain with you, whether in person or in spirit. It is about being young and full of hope, with all the potential of your life as yet unfulfilled, and of coming of age at a moment in New Yorkâ€™s history when the city at once held danger, magic, and endless possibilities for self-discovery.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Rarely has a love story been told so beautifully.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10083'),
(12746, 'Come to the Edge: A Memoir', 'Christina Haag', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œJohn F. Kennedy Jr.â€™s former love offers glimpses into the last vestiges of Camelot. In actress Haag''s debut memoir, readers get a front-row seat to her on-again/off-again love affair with JFK Jr., President Kennedy''s eldest son. After nine years cloistered in Catholic school, the author was suddenly propelled into the glitzy world of upper-crust New York. Her sepia-toned recounting of evenings shared with an adolescent JFK Jr. are spellbinding, setting the stage for the romance soon to come. After a series of missed connections and serendipitous run-ins, the pair finally fell into sync, two young actors playing opposite one another in a play. In a revealing conversation, a young Haag informed JFK Jr. that if he forgot his lines, he need only, â€˜stop, take a breath, and look into my eyes. It will ground you.â€™ It was sound advice, particularly from the woman JFK Jr. would later call his compass. Haag provides minute details that manage to humanize JFK Jr. in a manner the media never attempted. She recalled the â€˜spaghetti he made with soy sauceâ€™ and â€˜leaping on the benches outside the Museum of Natural Historyâ€™â€”both seemingly innocuous details, yet they offer a new look at an old figure. Equally intriguing are the authorâ€™s romanticized depictions of Jackie Onassis, the widow who could often be spotted riding her bicycle along the trails of Martha''s Vineyard, â€˜her head kerchiefed,â€™ searching the fields for birds. Despite her intimate view, Haag is careful not to exploit the Kennedy clan; instead, she simply returns them to human form. An honest, heartfelt account of love, politics and tragedy.â€â€”_Kirkus Reviews\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œ_Come to the Edge_ perfectly captures what it feels like to be young and in love â€” the giddiness, the lunacy, the madcap swings between exhilaration and despair...Haag is a beautiful writer, and the book [is] full of wonderfully vivid descriptions.â€â€”_Entertainment Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA piercing portrait of a vibrant, reckless, tender young man so bursting with life that nothing could contain him.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWe know how the story ends, of course. Girl loses boy. Boy loses everything. But in this finely-drawn, indelible portrait of a friendship and love affair, Christina Haag illuminates the private world of one of our nationâ€™s most legendary families. Come to the Edge should be read not only for its fascinating insiderâ€™s view, but because itâ€™s a brave, human, beautiful, wrenching memoir.â€â€”Dani Shapiro, author of\n  <em>\n   Devotion\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith unfailing grace, sensitivity, and tact, Christina Haag recreates in poignant detail her prolonged romance with John F. Kennedy Jr., who struggled to fathom the meaning of his life. The author never stoops to tabloid sensationalism or cheapens this rare glimpse into Americaâ€™s royal family. However charming the hero or scenic the backdrop, the memoir is tinged with the tragic darkness that inevitably shadowed the Kennedy clan, with death and danger forever lurking just beyond camera range. Jackie Kennedy Onassis floats through the narrative as an enchanting presence who is appealing in her wisdom and bounty. This is a beautiful and, in the end, unutterably sad book about fleeting innocence, blighted hope, and the elusive nature of youthful love.â€â€”Ron Chernow, author of\n  <em>\n   Washington: A Life\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSensual and full of longing, Come to the Edge is a haunting, timeless love letter, a universal tale of romance. Christina Haag has crafted a delicate memoir of love for a man we think we know and lay claim to, but, in truth, she is writing about all of us: our youth, our hopes, our own first kisses and dreams of romance. From the first word, my soul leapt at recognition. Gorgeous!â€â€”Erin Cressida Wilson, award-winning screenwriter of _Secretary_ and\n  <em>\n   Fur\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A tender tale of lost love that offers a discerning glimpse into the Kennedy family." â€”Fernanda Eberstadt, author of\n  <em>\n   _\n  </em>\n  Rat_ and\n  <em>\n   Little Money Street\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Love Story of JFK Jr. and Christina Haag\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An elegy to first love, a lost New York, and a young man who led his life with surprising and abundant grace\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mother and sister on Fifth Avenue and who happened to have a Secret Service detail following him at a discreet distance at all times. A decade later, after they had both graduated from Brown University and were living in New York City, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair. Glamorous and often in the public eye, but also passionate and deeply intimate, their relationship was transformative for both of them. With exquisite prose, Haag paints a portrait of a young man with an enormous capacity for love, and an adventurous spirit that drove him to live life to its fullest.\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _A haunting book,\n  <em>\n   Come to the Edge\n  </em>\n  is a lasting evocation of a time and a placeâ€”of the indelible sting of the loss of young love, and of the people who shape you and remain with you, whether in person or in spirit. It is about being young and full of hope, with all the potential of your life as yet unfulfilled, and of coming of age at a moment in New Yorkâ€™s history when the city at once held danger, magic, and endless possibilities for self-discovery.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rarely has a love story been told so beautifully.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18080');
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(12747, 'Comeback Moms: How to Leave Work, Raise Children, and Restart Your Career Even if You Haven&#39;t Had a Job in Years', 'Monica Samuels &amp; J. C. Conklin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What happens when an educated professional wants to become a stay-at-home mom but not end her career forever?Here is a book for the millions of moms who want to do what''s best for their families and for themselves. Monica Samuels and J.C. Conklin show what to do when youâ€™re ready to leave work to be a full-time mother, how to maintain contacts while away from the job, and then how to execute a successful reentry into the workforce anywhere from one to twenty years after you''ve left. Comeback Moms is filled with anecdotes and advice from economists, career counselors, employers and, of course, mothers who have made the transition from the career track to the mommy track and back again. The authors distill the wisdom of the experts and many high profile women--including Ambassador Karen Hughes, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, and former Texas Governor Ann Richards--into a three-tiered battle plan to help any woman get through this life-changing process and come out ahead.â€œYou canâ€™t fall into the trap of thinking you have to do it all or can do it all. You have to take advantage of opportunities when theyâ€™re offered.â€â€” Anne Richards, former Governor of TexasMillions of educated, professional women are quitting their jobs to stay home and raise their children.That would never be you, right? You worked hard for your degree and even harder to get to this point in your career. Quitting now, even for a few years, would kill your career. Right?Thatâ€™s what Monica Samuels thought when she found out she was pregnant and boy, was she wrong. Once you have a baby, your life changes in ways youâ€™d never imagine. Some of your friends and family members may think youâ€™ve gone a little crazyâ€”crazy enough to leave a salary and paid vacations to stay home with your child. Before you go storming into your bossâ€™s office to announce your departure, read this book. Thereâ€™s more to quitting than saying the words. Thereâ€™s strategy involved.Over sixty percent of professional women who leave work to raise children want to go back into the workforce someday. If you even think you might want to go back to work, be it in one year or twenty, you need to lay the groundwork now for a successful reentry or your options will be limited. If you do a little planning, you can reposition yourself professionally and have the choice to one day get back on the same career track, shift gears, accelerate, or change careers entirely. And, if youâ€™ve already been out of the workplace for several years and never thought youâ€™d go back, youâ€™ll learn about the best strategies and resources for jumping back in.Comeback Moms is a practical, commonsense approach to career planning for all mothers. Monica Samuels and J.C. Conklin examine every conceivable angle and obstacle to help you make the best decisions possible before leaving your job, during your time at home, and once you decide to return to work. They offer advice on how to keep one foot in the professional pool, when and if itâ€™s best to go back to school, setting realistic expectations when re-entering an old career, helping your children adjust when you do go back, and on the logistics of rebalancing marital power when a spouse leaves or re-enters the work force. It''s all here in an invaluable guide for every woman who wants it all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2681'),
(12748, 'Comeback Moms: How to Leave Work, Raise Children, and Restart Your Career Even if You Haven&#39;t Had a Job in Years', 'Monica Samuels &amp; J. C. Conklin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What happens when an educated professional wants to become a stay-at-home mom but not end her career forever?Here is a book for the millions of moms who want to do what''s best for their families and for themselves. Monica Samuels and J.C. Conklin show what to do when youâ€™re ready to leave work to be a full-time mother, how to maintain contacts while away from the job, and then how to execute a successful reentry into the workforce anywhere from one to twenty years after you''ve left. Comeback Moms is filled with anecdotes and advice from economists, career counselors, employers and, of course, mothers who have made the transition from the career track to the mommy track and back again. The authors distill the wisdom of the experts and many high profile women--including Ambassador Karen Hughes, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, and former Texas Governor Ann Richards--into a three-tiered battle plan to help any woman get through this life-changing process and come out ahead.â€œYou canâ€™t fall into the trap of thinking you have to do it all or can do it all. You have to take advantage of opportunities when theyâ€™re offered.â€â€” Anne Richards, former Governor of TexasMillions of educated, professional women are quitting their jobs to stay home and raise their children.That would never be you, right? You worked hard for your degree and even harder to get to this point in your career. Quitting now, even for a few years, would kill your career. Right?Thatâ€™s what Monica Samuels thought when she found out she was pregnant and boy, was she wrong. Once you have a baby, your life changes in ways youâ€™d never imagine. Some of your friends and family members may think youâ€™ve gone a little crazyâ€”crazy enough to leave a salary and paid vacations to stay home with your child. Before you go storming into your bossâ€™s office to announce your departure, read this book. Thereâ€™s more to quitting than saying the words. Thereâ€™s strategy involved.Over sixty percent of professional women who leave work to raise children want to go back into the workforce someday. If you even think you might want to go back to work, be it in one year or twenty, you need to lay the groundwork now for a successful reentry or your options will be limited. If you do a little planning, you can reposition yourself professionally and have the choice to one day get back on the same career track, shift gears, accelerate, or change careers entirely. And, if youâ€™ve already been out of the workplace for several years and never thought youâ€™d go back, youâ€™ll learn about the best strategies and resources for jumping back in.Comeback Moms is a practical, commonsense approach to career planning for all mothers. Monica Samuels and J.C. Conklin examine every conceivable angle and obstacle to help you make the best decisions possible before leaving your job, during your time at home, and once you decide to return to work. They offer advice on how to keep one foot in the professional pool, when and if itâ€™s best to go back to school, setting realistic expectations when re-entering an old career, helping your children adjust when you do go back, and on the logistics of rebalancing marital power when a spouse leaves or re-enters the work force. It''s all here in an invaluable guide for every woman who wants it all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12482'),
(12749, 'Comeback Moms: How to Leave Work, Raise Children, and Restart Your Career Even if You Haven&#39;t Had a Job in Years', 'Monica Samuels; J. C. Conklin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What happens when an educated professional wants to become a stay-at-home mom but not end her career forever?Here is a book for the millions of moms who want to do what''s best for their families and for themselves. Monica Samuels and J.C. Conklin show what to do when youâ€™re ready to leave work to be a full-time mother, how to maintain contacts while away from the job, and then how to execute a successful reentry into the workforce anywhere from one to twenty years after you''ve left. Comeback Moms is filled with anecdotes and advice from economists, career counselors, employers and, of course, mothers who have made the transition from the career track to the mommy track and back again. The authors distill the wisdom of the experts and many high profile women--including Ambassador Karen Hughes, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, and former Texas Governor Ann Richards--into a three-tiered battle plan to help any woman get through this life-changing process and come out ahead.â€œYou canâ€™t fall into the trap of thinking you have to do it all or can do it all. You have to take advantage of opportunities when theyâ€™re offered.â€â€” Anne Richards, former Governor of TexasMillions of educated, professional women are quitting their jobs to stay home and raise their children.That would never be you, right? You worked hard for your degree and even harder to get to this point in your career. Quitting now, even for a few years, would kill your career. Right?Thatâ€™s what Monica Samuels thought when she found out she was pregnant and boy, was she wrong. Once you have a baby, your life changes in ways youâ€™d never imagine. Some of your friends and family members may think youâ€™ve gone a little crazyâ€”crazy enough to leave a salary and paid vacations to stay home with your child. Before you go storming into your bossâ€™s office to announce your departure, read this book. Thereâ€™s more to quitting than saying the words. Thereâ€™s strategy involved.Over sixty percent of professional women who leave work to raise children want to go back into the workforce someday. If you even think you might want to go back to work, be it in one year or twenty, you need to lay the groundwork now for a successful reentry or your options will be limited. If you do a little planning, you can reposition yourself professionally and have the choice to one day get back on the same career track, shift gears, accelerate, or change careers entirely. And, if youâ€™ve already been out of the workplace for several years and never thought youâ€™d go back, youâ€™ll learn about the best strategies and resources for jumping back in.Comeback Moms is a practical, commonsense approach to career planning for all mothers. Monica Samuels and J.C. Conklin examine every conceivable angle and obstacle to help you make the best decisions possible before leaving your job, during your time at home, and once you decide to return to work. They offer advice on how to keep one foot in the professional pool, when and if itâ€™s best to go back to school, setting realistic expectations when re-entering an old career, helping your children adjust when you do go back, and on the logistics of rebalancing marital power when a spouse leaves or re-enters the work force. It''s all here in an invaluable guide for every woman who wants it all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22132'),
(12750, 'Comedii in fond', 'George Bacovia', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25788'),
(12751, 'Comes the Blind Fury', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A child cries out . . . in torment--in terror. From out of the past, from outof the mists, a terrible vengeance is born.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n A century ago, a gentle blind girl walked the cliffs of Paradise Point. Then the children came -- taunting, teasing -- until she lost her footing and fell, shrieking her rage to the drowning sea... Now Michelle has come from Boston to live in the big house on Paradise Point. She is excited about her new life, ready to make new friends... until a hand reaches out of the swirling mists -- the hand of blind child. She is asking for friendship... seeking revenge... whispering her name...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4168'),
(12752, 'Comes the Blind Fury', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A child cries out . . . in torment--in terror. From out of the past, from outof the mists, a terrible vengeance is born.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n A century ago, a gentle blind girl walked the cliffs of Paradise Point. Then the children came -- taunting, teasing -- until she lost her footing and fell, shrieking her rage to the drowning sea... Now Michelle has come from Boston to live in the big house on Paradise Point. She is excited about her new life, ready to make new friends... until a hand reaches out of the swirling mists -- the hand of blind child. She is asking for friendship... seeking revenge... whispering her name...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12588'),
(12753, 'Comes the Blind Fury', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A child cries out . . . in torment--in terror. From out of the past, from outof the mists, a terrible vengeance is born.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n A century ago, a gentle blind girl walked the cliffs of Paradise Point. Then the children came -- taunting, teasing -- until she lost her footing and fell, shrieking her rage to the drowning sea... Now Michelle has come from Boston to live in the big house on Paradise Point. She is excited about her new life, ready to make new friends... until a hand reaches out of the swirling mists -- the hand of blind child. She is asking for friendship... seeking revenge... whispering her name...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20277'),
(12754, 'Comes the Dark Stranger', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A former POW hunts for the truth behind a web of murder, betrayal, and treasonIn the midst of the Korean War, Martin Shane and five others were captured as POWs and tormented by the cruel Colonel Li. One of them revealed military secrets in return for freedom, but before Shane could uncover his identity, a violent explosion wiped his memory and confined him to the sterile halls of a mental institution. When he suddenly regains his memory six years later, Shane has only one goal: find out who betrayed them to Colonel Li. Shane seeks out the five men he fought beside all those years ago in order to expose a shocking truth behind the fateful day that changed all of their lives forever."Jack Higgins is the master." -Tom ClancyJack Higgins is the New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty thrillers that have sold over 250 million copies worldwide, including The Eagle Has Landed and The Wolf at the Door. Before beginning his writing career, Higgins served in the British Army along the East German border. He lives in the Channel Islands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4878'),
(12755, 'Comes the Dark Stranger', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A former POW hunts for the truth behind a web of murder, betrayal, and treasonIn the midst of the Korean War, Martin Shane and five others were captured as POWs and tormented by the cruel Colonel Li. One of them revealed military secrets in return for freedom, but before Shane could uncover his identity, a violent explosion wiped his memory and confined him to the sterile halls of a mental institution. When he suddenly regains his memory six years later, Shane has only one goal: find out who betrayed them to Colonel Li. Shane seeks out the five men he fought beside all those years ago in order to expose a shocking truth behind the fateful day that changed all of their lives forever."Jack Higgins is the master." -Tom ClancyJack Higgins is the New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty thrillers that have sold over 250 million copies worldwide, including The Eagle Has Landed and The Wolf at the Door. Before beginning his writing career, Higgins served in the British Army along the East German border. He lives in the Channel Islands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10358'),
(12756, 'Comes the Dark Stranger', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A former POW hunts for the truth behind a web of murder, betrayal, and treasonIn the midst of the Korean War, Martin Shane and five others were captured as POWs and tormented by the cruel Colonel Li. One of them revealed military secrets in return for freedom, but before Shane could uncover his identity, a violent explosion wiped his memory and confined him to the sterile halls of a mental institution. When he suddenly regains his memory six years later, Shane has only one goal: find out who betrayed them to Colonel Li. Shane seeks out the five men he fought beside all those years ago in order to expose a shocking truth behind the fateful day that changed all of their lives forever."Jack Higgins is the master." -Tom ClancyJack Higgins is the New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty thrillers that have sold over 250 million copies worldwide, including The Eagle Has Landed and The Wolf at the Door. Before beginning his writing career, Higgins served in the British Army along the East German border. He lives in the Channel Islands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19692'),
(12757, 'The Comfort of Strangers', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, they become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4966'),
(12758, 'The Comfort of Strangers', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, they become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11382'),
(12759, 'The Comfort of Strangers', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, they become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19627'),
(12760, 'The Comfort of Strangers', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "As the best young writer on this island, McEwan''s evocations of feeling and place and his analysis of mood and relationship remain haunting and compelling."â€”\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As always, McEwan manages his own idiom with remarkable grace and inventiveness; his characters are at home in their dreams, and so is he."â€”\n  <em>\n   Guardian\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing."â€”\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The Maestro."â€”\n  <em>\n   New Statesman\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "McEwan hasâ€”a style and a vision of life of his own...No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford not to read him."â€”John Fowles\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A sparkling and adventurous writer."â€”Dennis Potter\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHaunting and compelling.â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMcEwan, that master of the taciturn macabre, so organizes his narrative that, without insisting anything, every turn and glimpse is another tightening of the noose. The evils of power and the power of evil are transmitted with a steely coolness, and in a prose that has a feline grace.â€ â€“\n  <em>\n   Observer\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, they become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.\n </p>\n</div>\nSUMMARY: As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, they become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28168'),
(12761, 'Coming Home', 'Rosamunde Pilcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set around the time of WW II, Pilcher''s tale of youthful friendship and romance spent 16 weeks on PW''s bestseller list.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pilcher''s novel is big, both in size and scope. Yet its charm is in its details. The book''s heroine is Judith Dunbar, who is a schoolgirl of 13 when the tale begins in 1935. Sent to boarding school in Cornwall because her parents are posted to Singapore, Judith becomes friends with Loveday Carey-Lewis, who introduces her to a family and an estate, Nancherrow, that is to influence her for the rest of her life. Pilcher does a marvelous job of describing life in England before World War II. Readers, especially Anglophiles, will adore the care Pilcher gives to setting her scenes, decorating them with everything from Cornish wildflowers to china dogs to particular tartan plaids. The same care is evident later in the tale, as Pilcher chronicles the changes brought by the war to the fabric of British life. There is, of course, more to the novel than a carefully rendered historical backdrop. There is a story, too, and a quite involving one even if its outlines are familiar from other melodramas set against the dramatic events of history. As Judith makes her way to adulthood in the midst of great wealth, great tragedy, and, naturally, romance, Pilcher effectively balances the demands of plot with the pleasures of revisiting a different place and time. Fans of the author''s previous books, such as\n <em>\n  September\n </em>\n (1990), will know what they''re getting into and willingly plunge in headfirst. A Literary Guild main selection and an 850,000 first printing indicate supreme confidence on the publisher''s part.\n <em>\n  Ilene Cooper\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1479'),
(12762, 'Coming Home', 'Rosamunde Pilcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set around the time of WW II, Pilcher''s tale of youthful friendship and romance spent 16 weeks on PW''s bestseller list.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pilcher''s novel is big, both in size and scope. Yet its charm is in its details. The book''s heroine is Judith Dunbar, who is a schoolgirl of 13 when the tale begins in 1935. Sent to boarding school in Cornwall because her parents are posted to Singapore, Judith becomes friends with Loveday Carey-Lewis, who introduces her to a family and an estate, Nancherrow, that is to influence her for the rest of her life. Pilcher does a marvelous job of describing life in England before World War II. Readers, especially Anglophiles, will adore the care Pilcher gives to setting her scenes, decorating them with everything from Cornish wildflowers to china dogs to particular tartan plaids. The same care is evident later in the tale, as Pilcher chronicles the changes brought by the war to the fabric of British life. There is, of course, more to the novel than a carefully rendered historical backdrop. There is a story, too, and a quite involving one even if its outlines are familiar from other melodramas set against the dramatic events of history. As Judith makes her way to adulthood in the midst of great wealth, great tragedy, and, naturally, romance, Pilcher effectively balances the demands of plot with the pleasures of revisiting a different place and time. Fans of the author''s previous books, such as\n <em>\n  September\n </em>\n (1990), will know what they''re getting into and willingly plunge in headfirst. A Literary Guild main selection and an 850,000 first printing indicate supreme confidence on the publisher''s part.\n <em>\n  Ilene Cooper\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12014'),
(12763, 'Coming Home', 'Rosamunde Pilcher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set around the time of WW II, Pilcher''s tale of youthful friendship and romance spent 16 weeks on PW''s bestseller list.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pilcher''s novel is big, both in size and scope. Yet its charm is in its details. The book''s heroine is Judith Dunbar, who is a schoolgirl of 13 when the tale begins in 1935. Sent to boarding school in Cornwall because her parents are posted to Singapore, Judith becomes friends with Loveday Carey-Lewis, who introduces her to a family and an estate, Nancherrow, that is to influence her for the rest of her life. Pilcher does a marvelous job of describing life in England before World War II. Readers, especially Anglophiles, will adore the care Pilcher gives to setting her scenes, decorating them with everything from Cornish wildflowers to china dogs to particular tartan plaids. The same care is evident later in the tale, as Pilcher chronicles the changes brought by the war to the fabric of British life. There is, of course, more to the novel than a carefully rendered historical backdrop. There is a story, too, and a quite involving one even if its outlines are familiar from other melodramas set against the dramatic events of history. As Judith makes her way to adulthood in the midst of great wealth, great tragedy, and, naturally, romance, Pilcher effectively balances the demands of plot with the pleasures of revisiting a different place and time. Fans of the author''s previous books, such as\n <em>\n  September\n </em>\n (1990), will know what they''re getting into and willingly plunge in headfirst. A Literary Guild main selection and an 850,000 first printing indicate supreme confidence on the publisher''s part.\n <em>\n  Ilene Cooper\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23427'),
(12764, 'Coming of Age in the Milky Way', 'Timothy Ferris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ancient Egyptians regarded the sky as a kind of tent canopy. Thirty centuries later, astronomer William Herschel argued that the sun belongs to a huge cluster of stars (a galaxy, as we call it today) and charted great swaths of intergalactic space through a telescope. How the human species slowly awakened to the vast reaches of space and time is the story absorbingly told by popular science writer Ferris (The Red Limit, Galaxies). His narrative humanizes the scientific enterpriseGalileo emerges here as a careerist, and Johannes Kepler as a self-loathing neurotic. Although it covers well-trod ground, this remarkable synthesis makes broad areas of science accessible to the layperson, from Darwin''s and Lyell''s investigations of the age of the earth to modern physicists'' quest for a perfectly symmetrical, hyperdimensional universe. BOMC alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA In the first section, Ferris uses historical anecdotes to relate astronomical discoveries and the foibles of their discoverers in a successful attempt to show the\n <code>\n </code>\n big names'''' of science as real persons, warts and all. The second section, on the history of space and time, is also well done, if lacking in the human details. The third section, which deals with cosmology and modern physics, uses a philosophical approach to discuss difficult material; the result is not easy to absorb, but it is good base material for students who will ask questions and go further on their own. Throughout the book, introductory quotations are used to advantage to tease readers into the next topic. Bob Fliess, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex .\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/589'),
(12765, 'Coming of Age in the Milky Way', 'Timothy Ferris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ancient Egyptians regarded the sky as a kind of tent canopy. Thirty centuries later, astronomer William Herschel argued that the sun belongs to a huge cluster of stars (a galaxy, as we call it today) and charted great swaths of intergalactic space through a telescope. How the human species slowly awakened to the vast reaches of space and time is the story absorbingly told by popular science writer Ferris (The Red Limit, Galaxies). His narrative humanizes the scientific enterpriseGalileo emerges here as a careerist, and Johannes Kepler as a self-loathing neurotic. Although it covers well-trod ground, this remarkable synthesis makes broad areas of science accessible to the layperson, from Darwin''s and Lyell''s investigations of the age of the earth to modern physicists'' quest for a perfectly symmetrical, hyperdimensional universe. BOMC alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA In the first section, Ferris uses historical anecdotes to relate astronomical discoveries and the foibles of their discoverers in a successful attempt to show the\n <code>\n </code>\n big names'''' of science as real persons, warts and all. The second section, on the history of space and time, is also well done, if lacking in the human details. The third section, which deals with cosmology and modern physics, uses a philosophical approach to discuss difficult material; the result is not easy to absorb, but it is good base material for students who will ask questions and go further on their own. Throughout the book, introductory quotations are used to advantage to tease readers into the next topic. Bob Fliess, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex .\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9604'),
(12766, 'Coming of Age in the Milky Way', 'Timothy Ferris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The ancient Egyptians regarded the sky as a kind of tent canopy. Thirty centuries later, astronomer William Herschel argued that the sun belongs to a huge cluster of stars (a galaxy, as we call it today) and charted great swaths of intergalactic space through a telescope. How the human species slowly awakened to the vast reaches of space and time is the story absorbingly told by popular science writer Ferris (The Red Limit, Galaxies). His narrative humanizes the scientific enterpriseGalileo emerges here as a careerist, and Johannes Kepler as a self-loathing neurotic. Although it covers well-trod ground, this remarkable synthesis makes broad areas of science accessible to the layperson, from Darwin''s and Lyell''s investigations of the age of the earth to modern physicists'' quest for a perfectly symmetrical, hyperdimensional universe. BOMC alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA In the first section, Ferris uses historical anecdotes to relate astronomical discoveries and the foibles of their discoverers in a successful attempt to show the\n <code>\n </code>\n big names'''' of science as real persons, warts and all. The second section, on the history of space and time, is also well done, if lacking in the human details. The third section, which deals with cosmology and modern physics, uses a philosophical approach to discuss difficult material; the result is not easy to absorb, but it is good base material for students who will ask questions and go further on their own. Throughout the book, introductory quotations are used to advantage to tease readers into the next topic. Bob Fliess, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex .\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24295'),
(12767, 'The Coming of the Dragon', 'Rebecca Barnhouse', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 5-8â€“Loosely based on the final years of Beowulf''s kingship, this imaginative retelling fleshes out the story of the only man who truly stands beside the great king to the end. Rune is an infant when he washes ashore in a mysterious boat and is spared death by King Beowulf and Amma, a strange old woman who becomes a mother figure to him. The king protects Rune and trains him to fight, but he remains a threat and a misfit in the minds of most villagers. He is content living a simple life until a vicious dragon is awakened and destroys everyone and everything he loves. Avenging his family leads him to answers about his own heritage as well as some nail-biting suspense as he confronts the dragon more than once. While Rune''s naked insecurity and self-doubt wear thin at times, his innocence and perseverance make him a sympathetic and unlikely hero. An adventure-filled coming-of-age tale.â€“Mandy Lawrence, Fowler Middle School, Frisco, TXÎ±(c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rune has never known his parents, and the villagers who raised him are not completely convinced he isnâ€™t cursed by the gods. But when King Beowulf is in direst need, only Rune stands by his side, finally able to claim his destiny. Barnhouse takes the final section of Beowulf, which focuses on the story of young Wiglaf, and weaves an absorbing tale of a young man finding his courage. Told as a straight narrative, descriptions of settings and plot elements reflect back to the epic itself. Although few characters are fully developed, Rune and the woman who raised himâ€”as well as King Beowulfâ€”emerge as rounded characters. This is a great bridge book to use in a classroom either before or after broaching the Beowulf story. An authorâ€™s note clearly indicates which bits of the novel have been fabricated and which are drawn directly from the poem. This novel would also appeal to those who enjoy Norse mythology in general and to readers of Judson Robertsâ€™ Strongbow Saga. Grades 7-10. --Cindy Welch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1899'),
(12768, 'The Coming of the Dragon', 'Rebecca Barnhouse', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 5-8â€“Loosely based on the final years of Beowulf''s kingship, this imaginative retelling fleshes out the story of the only man who truly stands beside the great king to the end. Rune is an infant when he washes ashore in a mysterious boat and is spared death by King Beowulf and Amma, a strange old woman who becomes a mother figure to him. The king protects Rune and trains him to fight, but he remains a threat and a misfit in the minds of most villagers. He is content living a simple life until a vicious dragon is awakened and destroys everyone and everything he loves. Avenging his family leads him to answers about his own heritage as well as some nail-biting suspense as he confronts the dragon more than once. While Rune''s naked insecurity and self-doubt wear thin at times, his innocence and perseverance make him a sympathetic and unlikely hero. An adventure-filled coming-of-age tale.â€“Mandy Lawrence, Fowler Middle School, Frisco, TXÎ±(c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rune has never known his parents, and the villagers who raised him are not completely convinced he isnâ€™t cursed by the gods. But when King Beowulf is in direst need, only Rune stands by his side, finally able to claim his destiny. Barnhouse takes the final section of Beowulf, which focuses on the story of young Wiglaf, and weaves an absorbing tale of a young man finding his courage. Told as a straight narrative, descriptions of settings and plot elements reflect back to the epic itself. Although few characters are fully developed, Rune and the woman who raised himâ€”as well as King Beowulfâ€”emerge as rounded characters. This is a great bridge book to use in a classroom either before or after broaching the Beowulf story. An authorâ€™s note clearly indicates which bits of the novel have been fabricated and which are drawn directly from the poem. This novel would also appeal to those who enjoy Norse mythology in general and to readers of Judson Robertsâ€™ Strongbow Saga. Grades 7-10. --Cindy Welch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8405'),
(12769, 'The Coming of the Third Reich', 'Richard J. Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitlerâ€™s rise to   power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich,   Richard Evans, one of the worldâ€™s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account   for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new   research and interpretations, Evansâ€™s history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power   of Hitler and the Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a   takeover to occur. *The Coming of the Third Reich* is a masterwork of the historianâ€™s art   and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1832'),
(12770, 'The Coming of the Third Reich', 'Richard J. Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitlerâ€™s rise to   power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich,   Richard Evans, one of the worldâ€™s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account   for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new   research and interpretations, Evansâ€™s history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power   of Hitler and the Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a   takeover to occur. *The Coming of the Third Reich* is a masterwork of the historianâ€™s art   and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9589'),
(12771, 'The Coming of the Third Reich', 'Richard J. Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitlerâ€™s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the worldâ€™s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evansâ€™s history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. *The Coming of the Third Reich* is a masterwork of the historianâ€™s art and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15195'),
(12772, 'The Coming of the Third Reich', 'Richard J. Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitlerâ€™s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the worldâ€™s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evansâ€™s history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. *The Coming of the Third Reich* is a masterwork of the historianâ€™s art and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15280'),
(12773, 'Coming Out', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her 67th novel (following May''s\n <em>\n  The House\n </em>\n ) bestselling author Steel (more than 530 million copies sold) fashions a plot around a single event: an invitation to a debutante ball in New York City. Attorney Olympia Crawford Rubinstein manages to juggle a challenging full-time job; a loving relationship with her second husband, Harry (an appeals court judge who is her former law professor); the care of their five-year-old son, Max, and her three older children from a previous marriage. Olympia''s first husband, Chauncey, is a stereotypical, upper-class snob, with no job but a passion for playing polo. Harry, son of Holocaust survivors, champions liberal causes. When Olympia''s teenage twin daughters, Veronica and Virginia, are invited to an exclusive "coming out" ball, everyone''s lives are thrown into turmoil. Most of the book revolves around the arguments and disagreements spurred by the invitation, and Steel appears overly didactic as she tries to pump life into the simplistic setup: Olympia''s Jewish mother-in-law, Afro-American law partner and gay older son are trotted out like polo ponies at auction. Steel''s mÃ©tier is glamour and romance; her attempt to deal with social injustice falls flat.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her sixty-seventh novel, Steel sticks to what she knows best, the lifestyles of the rich and glamorous. Here "coming out" refers to an exclusive debutante ball in New York, to which the twin daughters of attorney Olympia Crawford Rubinstein have been invited. Olympia, a blue-blooded spawn of New York''s upper class, has three children from a previous marriage and a five-year-old son with her current husband, Harry. To Olympia''s surprise, the invitation has caused turmoil and chaos in her household. Ex-husband Chauncey, a stereotypical polo-playing upper-class lout, is demanding that the girls attend the ball and has threatened to withhold college tuition if both girls do not attend. Olympia''s current husband Harry, the son of Holocaust survivors, and a hard-working man with liberal tendencies, is violently opposed to the event, which he finds racist and elitist. In addition, the twins have their own ideas, with Veronica, a passionate liberal, refusing to attend, and Virginia already shopping for a dress. Olympia, who fondly recalls her own debut, is upset by her husband''s feelings but thinks he''ll come around and gently encourages her daughters to attend. The entire plot of this fairly short novel is focused on the resolution of this family dilemma, and as usual, everything works out for the best in the end.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7921'),
(12774, 'Coming Out', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her 67th novel (following May''s\n <em>\n  The House\n </em>\n ) bestselling author Steel (more than 530 million copies sold) fashions a plot around a single event: an invitation to a debutante ball in New York City. Attorney Olympia Crawford Rubinstein manages to juggle a challenging full-time job; a loving relationship with her second husband, Harry (an appeals court judge who is her former law professor); the care of their five-year-old son, Max, and her three older children from a previous marriage. Olympia''s first husband, Chauncey, is a stereotypical, upper-class snob, with no job but a passion for playing polo. Harry, son of Holocaust survivors, champions liberal causes. When Olympia''s teenage twin daughters, Veronica and Virginia, are invited to an exclusive "coming out" ball, everyone''s lives are thrown into turmoil. Most of the book revolves around the arguments and disagreements spurred by the invitation, and Steel appears overly didactic as she tries to pump life into the simplistic setup: Olympia''s Jewish mother-in-law, Afro-American law partner and gay older son are trotted out like polo ponies at auction. Steel''s mÃ©tier is glamour and romance; her attempt to deal with social injustice falls flat.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her sixty-seventh novel, Steel sticks to what she knows best, the lifestyles of the rich and glamorous. Here "coming out" refers to an exclusive debutante ball in New York, to which the twin daughters of attorney Olympia Crawford Rubinstein have been invited. Olympia, a blue-blooded spawn of New York''s upper class, has three children from a previous marriage and a five-year-old son with her current husband, Harry. To Olympia''s surprise, the invitation has caused turmoil and chaos in her household. Ex-husband Chauncey, a stereotypical polo-playing upper-class lout, is demanding that the girls attend the ball and has threatened to withhold college tuition if both girls do not attend. Olympia''s current husband Harry, the son of Holocaust survivors, and a hard-working man with liberal tendencies, is violently opposed to the event, which he finds racist and elitist. In addition, the twins have their own ideas, with Veronica, a passionate liberal, refusing to attend, and Virginia already shopping for a dress. Olympia, who fondly recalls her own debut, is upset by her husband''s feelings but thinks he''ll come around and gently encourages her daughters to attend. The entire plot of this fairly short novel is focused on the resolution of this family dilemma, and as usual, everything works out for the best in the end.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12845');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(12775, 'Coming Out', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her 67th novel (following May''s\n <em>\n  The House\n </em>\n ) bestselling author Steel (more than 530 million copies sold) fashions a plot around a single event: an invitation to a debutante ball in New York City. Attorney Olympia Crawford Rubinstein manages to juggle a challenging full-time job; a loving relationship with her second husband, Harry (an appeals court judge who is her former law professor); the care of their five-year-old son, Max, and her three older children from a previous marriage. Olympia''s first husband, Chauncey, is a stereotypical, upper-class snob, with no job but a passion for playing polo. Harry, son of Holocaust survivors, champions liberal causes. When Olympia''s teenage twin daughters, Veronica and Virginia, are invited to an exclusive "coming out" ball, everyone''s lives are thrown into turmoil. Most of the book revolves around the arguments and disagreements spurred by the invitation, and Steel appears overly didactic as she tries to pump life into the simplistic setup: Olympia''s Jewish mother-in-law, Afro-American law partner and gay older son are trotted out like polo ponies at auction. Steel''s mÃ©tier is glamour and romance; her attempt to deal with social injustice falls flat.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her sixty-seventh novel, Steel sticks to what she knows best, the lifestyles of the rich and glamorous. Here "coming out" refers to an exclusive debutante ball in New York, to which the twin daughters of attorney Olympia Crawford Rubinstein have been invited. Olympia, a blue-blooded spawn of New York''s upper class, has three children from a previous marriage and a five-year-old son with her current husband, Harry. To Olympia''s surprise, the invitation has caused turmoil and chaos in her household. Ex-husband Chauncey, a stereotypical polo-playing upper-class lout, is demanding that the girls attend the ball and has threatened to withhold college tuition if both girls do not attend. Olympia''s current husband Harry, the son of Holocaust survivors, and a hard-working man with liberal tendencies, is violently opposed to the event, which he finds racist and elitist. In addition, the twins have their own ideas, with Veronica, a passionate liberal, refusing to attend, and Virginia already shopping for a dress. Olympia, who fondly recalls her own debut, is upset by her husband''s feelings but thinks he''ll come around and gently encourages her daughters to attend. The entire plot of this fairly short novel is focused on the resolution of this family dilemma, and as usual, everything works out for the best in the end.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17603'),
(12776, 'Coming Undone', 'Lauren Dane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** A new novel of "toe-curling" erotic romance from the national bestselling author of *Laid Bare*. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After his parents'' death, Brody gave up a promising career to care for his family. Now, with his siblings grown, Brody owns his own business, and for the first time in years he''s alone. Elise has come to Seattle with her daughter to find peace. After years as a world-famous ballerina-and trapped in a marriage gone bad-she''s looking for neither love nor attention. But she finds both in the handsome, honest man who befriends her with no strings attached.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Brody and Elise discover in each other the wild, physical passion they need. But it''ll take a shadow from Elise''s past to make them look beyond what they need-to what they truly *desire*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3526'),
(12777, 'Coming Undone', 'Lauren Dane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A new novel of "toe-curling" erotic romance from the national bestselling author of *Laid Bare*. ** After his parents'' death, Brody gave up a promising career to care for his family. Now, with his siblings grown, Brody owns his own business, and for the first time in years he''s alone. Elise has come to Seattle with her daughter to find peace. After years as a world-famous ballerina-and trapped in a marriage gone bad-she''s looking for neither love nor attention. But she finds both in the handsome, honest man who befriends her with no strings attached. Brody and Elise discover in each other the wild, physical passion they need. But it''ll take a shadow from Elise''s past to make them look beyond what they need-to what they truly *desire*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20971'),
(12778, 'Coming Up for Air', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Insurance salesman George "Fatty" Bowling lives with his humorless wife and their two irritating children in a dull house in a tract development in the historyless London suburb of West Bletchley. The year is 1938; doomsayers are declaring that England will be at war again by 1941.\n</p>\n<p>\n When George bets on an unlikely horse and wins, he finds himself with a little extra cash on his hands. What should he spend it on? "The alternatives, it seemed to me, were either a week-end with a woman or dribbling it quietly away on odds and ends such as cigars and double whiskeys." But a chance encounter with a poster in Charing Cross sets him off on a tremendous journey into his own memories--memories, especially, of a boyhood spent in Lower Binfield, the country village where he grew up. His recollections are pungent and detailed. Touch by touch, he paints for us a whole world that is already nearly lost: a world not yet ruled by the fear of war and not yet blighted by war''s aftermath:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  1913! My God! 1913! The stillness, the green water, the rushing of the weir! It''ll never come again. I don''t mean that 1913 will never come again. I mean the feeling inside you, the feeling of not being in a hurry and not being frightened, the feeling you''ve either had and don''t need to be told about, or haven''t had and won''t ever have the chance to learn.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Alas, George finds that even Lower Binfield has been darkened by the bomber''s shadow.\n</p>\n<p>\n Readers of\n <em>\n  1984\n </em>\n will recognize Orwell''s desperate insistence on the importance of the individual, of memory, of history, and of language; and they will find in Fatty Bowling one of Orwell''s most engaging creations--a warm, witty, thinking, remembering Everyman in a world that is fast learning not to think and not to remember, and thus swiftly losing its mind.\n <em>\n  --Daniel Hintzsche\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''By any standards, a work of rare vigor and imagination . . . Confirms one''s estimate of Mr. Orwell as a major prophet among the world''s still lively minority of thinking men.'''' --_NewYork Herald Tribune Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''Richard Brown reads Orwell''s tale clearly, rhythmically, and deliberately.'''' --_Library Journal_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18403'),
(12779, 'Coming Up for Air', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Purchase one of 1st World Library''s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth. I remember the morning well. At about a quarter to eight I''d nipped out of bed and got into the bathroom just in time to shut the kids out. It was a beastly January morning, with a dirty yellowish-grey sky. Down below, out of the little square of bathroom window, I could see the ten yards by five of grass, with a privet hedge round it and a bare patch in the middle, that we call the back garden. There''s the same back garden, some privets, and same grass, behind every house in Ellesmere Road. Only difference- where there are no kids there''s no bare patch in the middle. I was trying to shave with a bluntish razor-blade while the water ran into the bath. My face looked back at me out of the mirror, and underneath, in a tumbler of water on the little shelf over the washbasin, the teeth that belonged in the face. It was the temporary set that Warner, my dentist, had given me to wear while the new ones were being made. I haven''t such a bad face, really. It''s one of those bricky-red faces that go with butter-coloured hair and pale-blue eyes. I''ve never gone grey or bald, thank God, and when I''ve got my teeth in I probably don''t look my age, which is forty-five.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27879'),
(12780, 'Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who''d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous bad divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which-after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing-gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving into this topic completely, trying with all her might to discover through historical research, interviews, and much personal reflection what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. Told with Gilbert''s trademark wit, intelligence and compassion, Committedattempts to "turn on all the lights" when it comes to matrimony, frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, divorce risks and humbling responsibilities. Gilbert''s memoir is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5683'),
(12781, 'Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who''d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous bad divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which-after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing-gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving into this topic completely, trying with all her might to discover through historical research, interviews, and much personal reflection what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. Told with Gilbert''s trademark wit, intelligence and compassion, Committedattempts to "turn on all the lights" when it comes to matrimony, frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, divorce risks and humbling responsibilities. Gilbert''s memoir is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10014'),
(12782, 'Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who''d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous bad divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which-after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing-gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving into this topic completely, trying with all her might to discover through historical research, interviews, and much personal reflection what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. Told with Gilbert''s trademark wit, intelligence and compassion, Committedattempts to "turn on all the lights" when it comes to matrimony, frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, divorce risks and humbling responsibilities. Gilbert''s memoir is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18867'),
(12783, 'Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who''d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous bad divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which-after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing-gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving into this topic completely, trying with all her might to discover through historical research, interviews, and much personal reflection what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. Told with Gilbert''s trademark wit, intelligence and compassion, Committedattempts to "turn on all the lights" when it comes to matrimony, frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, divorce risks and humbling responsibilities. Gilbert''s memoir is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27650'),
(12784, 'The Commodore', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The seventeenth Aubrey-Maturin novel. Jack Aubrey''s long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore and given a squadron of ships to command. His mission is twofold -- to make a large dent in the slave trade off the coast of Africa and, on his return, to intercept a French fleet set for Bantry Bay with a cargo of weapons for the disaffected among the Irish. Invention and surprise follow at every turn in this tale of nineteenth-century seamanship, as rich, as compelling, as masterly as any of its predecessors.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The 18th Century heroes, Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin of the Royal Navy, are sent to the fever-ridden Gulf of Guinea to disrupt the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland where the French are mounting an invasion, a mission that will test Aubrey''s seamanship and Maturin''s talents as a secret agent. By the author of The Wine-Dark Sea.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2361'),
(12785, 'The Commodore', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The seventeenth Aubrey-Maturin novel. Jack Aubrey''s long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore and given a squadron of ships to command. His mission is twofold -- to make a large dent in the slave trade off the coast of Africa and, on his return, to intercept a French fleet set for Bantry Bay with a cargo of weapons for the disaffected among the Irish. Invention and surprise follow at every turn in this tale of nineteenth-century seamanship, as rich, as compelling, as masterly as any of its predecessors. SUMMARY: The 18th Century heroes, Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin of the Royal Navy, are sent to the fever-ridden Gulf of Guinea to disrupt the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland where the French are mounting an invasion, a mission that will test Aubrey''s seamanship and Maturin''s talents as a secret agent. By the author of The Wine-Dark Sea.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14559'),
(12786, 'The Commodore', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The seventeenth Aubrey-Maturin novel. Jack Aubrey''s long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore and given a squadron of ships to command. His mission is twofold -- to make a large dent in the slave trade off the coast of Africa and, on his return, to intercept a French fleet set for Bantry Bay with a cargo of weapons for the disaffected among the Irish. Invention and surprise follow at every turn in this tale of nineteenth-century seamanship, as rich, as compelling, as masterly as any of its predecessors. SUMMARY: The 18th Century heroes, Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin of the Royal Navy, are sent to the fever-ridden Gulf of Guinea to disrupt the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland where the French are mounting an invasion, a mission that will test Aubrey''s seamanship and Maturin''s talents as a secret agent. By the author of The Wine-Dark Sea.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22453'),
(12787, 'Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine', 'Thomas Paine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thomas Paine''s book "Common Sense" was the written word that inflamed and drove the people of the colonies to the cause of the American Revolution. It was a clear and passionate document for freedom from the English Crown. Over 500,000 ccopies were sold in just a few months from when it was written in January 1776. His book "The Rights of Man" is a clear document for democracy and egalitarianism. It supported all forms of a progressive society and was an inspiration for the patriots of America''s early days. Also, "The Age of Reason" was his last book and almost entirely is centered on religion - Christianity. It puts to test many questions towards faith in order to make valid answers possible. Many essential beliefs are confronted with rational logic. A Cpollector''s Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/664'),
(12788, 'Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine', 'Thomas Paine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thomas Paine''s book "Common Sense" was the written word that inflamed and drove the people of the colonies to the cause of the American Revolution. It was a clear and passionate document for freedom from the English Crown. Over 500,000 ccopies were sold in just a few months from when it was written in January 1776. His book "The Rights of Man" is a clear document for democracy and egalitarianism. It supported all forms of a progressive society and was an inspiration for the patriots of America''s early days. Also, "The Age of Reason" was his last book and almost entirely is centered on religion - Christianity. It puts to test many questions towards faith in order to make valid answers possible. Many essential beliefs are confronted with rational logic. A Cpollector''s Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11785'),
(12789, 'Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine', 'Thomas Paine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thomas Paine''s book "Common Sense" was the written word that inflamed and drove the people of the colonies to the cause of the American Revolution. It was a clear and passionate document for freedom from the English Crown. Over 500,000 ccopies were sold in just a few months from when it was written in January 1776. His book "The Rights of Man" is a clear document for democracy and egalitarianism. It supported all forms of a progressive society and was an inspiration for the patriots of America''s early days. Also, "The Age of Reason" was his last book and almost entirely is centered on religion - Christianity. It puts to test many questions towards faith in order to make valid answers possible. Many essential beliefs are confronted with rational logic. A Cpollector''s Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14479'),
(12790, 'Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine', 'Thomas Paine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thomas Paine''s book "Common Sense" was the written word that inflamed and drove the people of the colonies to the cause of the American Revolution. It was a clear and passionate document for freedom from the English Crown. Over 500,000 ccopies were sold in just a few months from when it was written in January 1776. His book "The Rights of Man" is a clear document for democracy and egalitarianism. It supported all forms of a progressive society and was an inspiration for the patriots of America''s early days. Also, "The Age of Reason" was his last book and almost entirely is centered on religion - Christianity. It puts to test many questions towards faith in order to make valid answers possible. Many essential beliefs are confronted with rational logic. A Cpollector''s Edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24259'),
(12791, 'A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia', 'Thomas Keneally', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keneally (_Schindler''s List_) offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard and administrators arrived in New South Wales. At the book''s center is the relationship between Arthur Phillip, the pragmatic first governor, and Woolawarre Bennelong, the Aborigine who eventually served as a liaison between the settlers and natives. Keneally describes their first meeting "as fateful and defining as that between CortÃ©s and Montezuma, or Pizarro and Atahualpa." Using their relationship as a prism, Keneally depicts the instances of tense commingling between the two communities. His historical narrative is so detailed as to at times feel dutiful. He''s most successful serving up some of the dozens of pithy mini-portraits of the lowborn settlers. Like Robert Hughes in his seminal\n <em>\n  The Fatal Shore\n </em>\n , Keneally seeks to correct some of the clichÃ©s that have arisen. He''s careful to point out that the few thousand convicts sent to the colony were hardly the worst of the worst. Keneally''s new consideration won''t replace Hughes''s definitive work, but with its colorful and eloquent prose, it makes for a compelling companion piece, one that credits Phillip for most of the colony''s success. Maps._ (Oct.)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The versatile Keneally commands a loyal readership no matter what topic he addresses. And here it''s Australia''s origin story of British settlement, which succeeds Robert Hughes''\n <em>\n  The Fatal Shore\n </em>\n (1986). Using the techniques of fiction, accomplished novelist Keneally strives to vivify scenes based on the historical record. From the several thousand convicts and officers who arrived in Australia in 1788-92, the period covered by the narrative, the author brings to the foreground the most interesting individuals. Prime among them, the colony''s enigmatic first governor, naval officer Arthur Phillip. More exuberant characters, such as subordinate officer Watkin Tench, provide Keneally with the means to explore the adjustments of newcomers and natives to their extraordinary situations. Meanwhile, the convicts, many of whose hardships Keneally summarizes, ranged from the incorrigible to the adaptable. Vibrant and fluent, Keneally''s latest will be in high demand.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/650'),
(12792, 'A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia', 'Thomas Keneally', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keneally (_Schindler''s List_) offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard and administrators arrived in New South Wales. At the book''s center is the relationship between Arthur Phillip, the pragmatic first governor, and Woolawarre Bennelong, the Aborigine who eventually served as a liaison between the settlers and natives. Keneally describes their first meeting "as fateful and defining as that between CortÃ©s and Montezuma, or Pizarro and Atahualpa." Using their relationship as a prism, Keneally depicts the instances of tense commingling between the two communities. His historical narrative is so detailed as to at times feel dutiful. He''s most successful serving up some of the dozens of pithy mini-portraits of the lowborn settlers. Like Robert Hughes in his seminal\n <em>\n  The Fatal Shore\n </em>\n , Keneally seeks to correct some of the clichÃ©s that have arisen. He''s careful to point out that the few thousand convicts sent to the colony were hardly the worst of the worst. Keneally''s new consideration won''t replace Hughes''s definitive work, but with its colorful and eloquent prose, it makes for a compelling companion piece, one that credits Phillip for most of the colony''s success. Maps._ (Oct.)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The versatile Keneally commands a loyal readership no matter what topic he addresses. And here it''s Australia''s origin story of British settlement, which succeeds Robert Hughes''\n <em>\n  The Fatal Shore\n </em>\n (1986). Using the techniques of fiction, accomplished novelist Keneally strives to vivify scenes based on the historical record. From the several thousand convicts and officers who arrived in Australia in 1788-92, the period covered by the narrative, the author brings to the foreground the most interesting individuals. Prime among them, the colony''s enigmatic first governor, naval officer Arthur Phillip. More exuberant characters, such as subordinate officer Watkin Tench, provide Keneally with the means to explore the adjustments of newcomers and natives to their extraordinary situations. Meanwhile, the convicts, many of whose hardships Keneally summarizes, ranged from the incorrigible to the adaptable. Vibrant and fluent, Keneally''s latest will be in high demand.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10691'),
(12793, 'A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia', 'Thomas Keneally', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keneally (_Schindler''s List_) offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard and administrators arrived in New South Wales. At the book''s center is the relationship between Arthur Phillip, the pragmatic first governor, and Woolawarre Bennelong, the Aborigine who eventually served as a liaison between the settlers and natives. Keneally describes their first meeting "as fateful and defining as that between CortÃ©s and Montezuma, or Pizarro and Atahualpa." Using their relationship as a prism, Keneally depicts the instances of tense commingling between the two communities. His historical narrative is so detailed as to at times feel dutiful. He''s most successful serving up some of the dozens of pithy mini-portraits of the lowborn settlers. Like Robert Hughes in his seminal\n <em>\n  The Fatal Shore\n </em>\n , Keneally seeks to correct some of the clichÃ©s that have arisen. He''s careful to point out that the few thousand convicts sent to the colony were hardly the worst of the worst. Keneally''s new consideration won''t replace Hughes''s definitive work, but with its colorful and eloquent prose, it makes for a compelling companion piece, one that credits Phillip for most of the colony''s success. Maps._ (Oct.)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The versatile Keneally commands a loyal readership no matter what topic he addresses. And here it''s Australia''s origin story of British settlement, which succeeds Robert Hughes''\n <em>\n  The Fatal Shore\n </em>\n (1986). Using the techniques of fiction, accomplished novelist Keneally strives to vivify scenes based on the historical record. From the several thousand convicts and officers who arrived in Australia in 1788-92, the period covered by the narrative, the author brings to the foreground the most interesting individuals. Prime among them, the colony''s enigmatic first governor, naval officer Arthur Phillip. More exuberant characters, such as subordinate officer Watkin Tench, provide Keneally with the means to explore the adjustments of newcomers and natives to their extraordinary situations. Meanwhile, the convicts, many of whose hardships Keneally summarizes, ranged from the incorrigible to the adaptable. Vibrant and fluent, Keneally''s latest will be in high demand.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24273'),
(12794, 'The Communist Manifesto', 'Karl Marx &amp; Friedrich Engels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of\n  <em>\n   The Communist Manifesto\n  </em>\n  , commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document''s continued relevance. Marx and Engels''s critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the\n  <em>\n   Manifesto\n  </em>\n  ''s vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  May 1 to honor the 150th anniversary of the original publication of Marx and Engels''s masterpiece with this quality, affordable hardcover. This edition contains a new introduction by historian Eric Hobsbawn, who insists that the work should be read not only as a great work of literature but that, 150 years later, it still has much to teach us for the next millennium.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3902'),
(12795, 'The Communist Manifesto', 'Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of\n  <em>\n   The Communist Manifesto\n  </em>\n  , commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document''s continued relevance. Marx and Engels''s critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the\n  <em>\n   Manifesto\n  </em>\n  ''s vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  May 1 to honor the 150th anniversary of the original publication of Marx and Engels''s masterpiece with this quality, affordable hardcover. This edition contains a new introduction by historian Eric Hobsbawn, who insists that the work should be read not only as a great work of literature but that, 150 years later, it still has much to teach us for the next millennium.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20636'),
(12796, 'Commuters: A Novel', 'Emily Gray Tedrowe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At seventy-eight, Winnie Easton has finally found love again with Jerry Trevis, a wealthy Chicago businessman who has moved to the small, upstate town of Hartfield, New York, to begin his life anew. But their decision to buy one of the town''s biggest houses ignites anger and skepticismâ€”as children and grandchildren take drastic actions to secure their own futures and endangered inheritances. With so much riding on Jerry''s wealth, a decline in his physical health forces hard decisions on the family, renewing old loyalties while creating surprising alliances.   A powerfully moving novel told from alternating perspectives, Commuters is an intensely human story of lives profoundly changed by the repercussions of one marriage, and by the complex intertwining of love, money, and family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5749'),
(12797, 'Commuters: A Novel', 'Emily Gray Tedrowe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At seventy-eight, Winnie Easton has finally found love again with Jerry Trevis, a wealthy Chicago businessman who has moved to the small, upstate town of Hartfield, New York, to begin his life anew. But their decision to buy one of the town''s biggest houses ignites anger and skepticismâ€”as children and grandchildren take drastic actions to secure their own futures and endangered inheritances. With so much riding on Jerry''s wealth, a decline in his physical health forces hard decisions on the family, renewing old loyalties while creating surprising alliances.   A powerfully moving novel told from alternating perspectives, Commuters is an intensely human story of lives profoundly changed by the repercussions of one marriage, and by the complex intertwining of love, money, and family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12980'),
(12798, 'Commuters: A Novel', 'Emily Gray Tedrowe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At seventy-eight, Winnie Easton has finally found love again with Jerry Trevis, a wealthy Chicago businessman who has moved to the small, upstate town of Hartfield, New York, to begin his life anew. But their decision to buy one of the town''s biggest houses ignites anger and skepticismâ€”as children and grandchildren take drastic actions to secure their own futures and endangered inheritances. With so much riding on Jerry''s wealth, a decline in his physical health forces hard decisions on the family, renewing old loyalties while creating surprising alliances. A powerfully moving novel told from alternating perspectives, Commuters is an intensely human story of lives profoundly changed by the repercussions of one marriage, and by the complex intertwining of love, money, and family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18994'),
(12799, 'Commuters: A Novel', 'Emily Gray Tedrowe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At seventy-eight, Winnie Easton has finally found love again with Jerry Trevis, a wealthy Chicago businessman who has moved to the small, upstate town of Hartfield, New York, to begin his life anew. But their decision to buy one of the town''s biggest houses ignites anger and skepticismâ€”as children and grandchildren take drastic actions to secure their own futures and endangered inheritances. With so much riding on Jerry''s wealth, a decline in his physical health forces hard decisions on the family, renewing old loyalties while creating surprising alliances. A powerfully moving novel told from alternating perspectives, Commuters is an intensely human story of lives profoundly changed by the repercussions of one marriage, and by the complex intertwining of love, money, and family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27758'),
(12800, 'Companions of Paradise', 'Thalassa Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The final installment of Thalassa''s Paradise Trilogy (following\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Beggar at the Gate\n </em>\n ) finds Mariana Givens living within the confines of the British cantonment at Kabul in 1841, on the eve of the first Afghan war. An assassination attempt in Lahore thwarted by her husband, Hassan Ali Khan (son of a Sufi sheikh), has forced Mariana to leave Lahore, abandoning Hassan (and her stepson, Saboor). Mariana lives miserably in an English microsociety that doesn''t recognize her marriage, full of dinner parties and eager suitors. Hassan, meanwhile, is recovering slowly from wounds, and his family is second-guessing Mariana''s intentions. As tension escalates between the British (who have deposed the Afghan king, Amir Dost Muhammad, and installed a more friendly rival, Shah Shuja) and the Afghans (who are preparing to attack the British army and its 10,000 "camp followers"), Mariana faces dangerous choices. As in the other books, Ali does a highly credible job creating the clannish atmospheres of the British and Sufi subcultures, and makes the strictures that Mariana and Hassan face (and those of their servants) palpable. The detail she offers (including mystic writings from a variety of traditions) is nicely wedded to the plot, which moves with brisk and engaging efficiency.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers first met the brave Englishwoman Mariana Givens in Ali''s exciting debut novel,\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n (2002), and Ali continued Mariana''s incredible adventures in\n <em>\n  A Beggar at the Gate\n </em>\n (2004). The final book of the Paradise trilogy concludes Mariana''s saga. It''s 1841, and Mariana is at the British cantonment in Kabul. The pressure is on to break all ties with Hassan Ali Khan, her Muslim Indian husband (from whom she''s been separated), and marry a British officer as one of her own. Mariana can''t make up her mind. Does Hassan still consider their marriage valid? Does he still love her? To help with her decision, she goes to a mystic, a Sufi seer. But things are never easy in nineteenth-century Afghanistan. Afghan forces have the British cantonment under siege, and Mariana is put in a terrible position. With its incredible detail, historical accuracy, strong sense of place, Sufi mysticism, and fearless heroine who risks her life to do the right thing, this is a perfect ending to an excellent trilogy.\n <em>\n  Shelley Mosley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/728'),
(12801, 'Companions of Paradise', 'Thalassa Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The final installment of Thalassa''s Paradise Trilogy (following\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Beggar at the Gate\n </em>\n ) finds Mariana Givens living within the confines of the British cantonment at Kabul in 1841, on the eve of the first Afghan war. An assassination attempt in Lahore thwarted by her husband, Hassan Ali Khan (son of a Sufi sheikh), has forced Mariana to leave Lahore, abandoning Hassan (and her stepson, Saboor). Mariana lives miserably in an English microsociety that doesn''t recognize her marriage, full of dinner parties and eager suitors. Hassan, meanwhile, is recovering slowly from wounds, and his family is second-guessing Mariana''s intentions. As tension escalates between the British (who have deposed the Afghan king, Amir Dost Muhammad, and installed a more friendly rival, Shah Shuja) and the Afghans (who are preparing to attack the British army and its 10,000 "camp followers"), Mariana faces dangerous choices. As in the other books, Ali does a highly credible job creating the clannish atmospheres of the British and Sufi subcultures, and makes the strictures that Mariana and Hassan face (and those of their servants) palpable. The detail she offers (including mystic writings from a variety of traditions) is nicely wedded to the plot, which moves with brisk and engaging efficiency.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers first met the brave Englishwoman Mariana Givens in Ali''s exciting debut novel,\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n (2002), and Ali continued Mariana''s incredible adventures in\n <em>\n  A Beggar at the Gate\n </em>\n (2004). The final book of the Paradise trilogy concludes Mariana''s saga. It''s 1841, and Mariana is at the British cantonment in Kabul. The pressure is on to break all ties with Hassan Ali Khan, her Muslim Indian husband (from whom she''s been separated), and marry a British officer as one of her own. Mariana can''t make up her mind. Does Hassan still consider their marriage valid? Does he still love her? To help with her decision, she goes to a mystic, a Sufi seer. But things are never easy in nineteenth-century Afghanistan. Afghan forces have the British cantonment under siege, and Mariana is put in a terrible position. With its incredible detail, historical accuracy, strong sense of place, Sufi mysticism, and fearless heroine who risks her life to do the right thing, this is a perfect ending to an excellent trilogy.\n <em>\n  Shelley Mosley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9329'),
(12802, 'Companions of Paradise', 'Thalassa Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The final installment of Thalassa''s Paradise Trilogy (following\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Beggar at the Gate\n </em>\n ) finds Mariana Givens living within the confines of the British cantonment at Kabul in 1841, on the eve of the first Afghan war. An assassination attempt in Lahore thwarted by her husband, Hassan Ali Khan (son of a Sufi sheikh), has forced Mariana to leave Lahore, abandoning Hassan (and her stepson, Saboor). Mariana lives miserably in an English microsociety that doesn''t recognize her marriage, full of dinner parties and eager suitors. Hassan, meanwhile, is recovering slowly from wounds, and his family is second-guessing Mariana''s intentions. As tension escalates between the British (who have deposed the Afghan king, Amir Dost Muhammad, and installed a more friendly rival, Shah Shuja) and the Afghans (who are preparing to attack the British army and its 10,000 "camp followers"), Mariana faces dangerous choices. As in the other books, Ali does a highly credible job creating the clannish atmospheres of the British and Sufi subcultures, and makes the strictures that Mariana and Hassan face (and those of their servants) palpable. The detail she offers (including mystic writings from a variety of traditions) is nicely wedded to the plot, which moves with brisk and engaging efficiency.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers first met the brave Englishwoman Mariana Givens in Ali''s exciting debut novel,\n <em>\n  A Singular Hostage\n </em>\n (2002), and Ali continued Mariana''s incredible adventures in\n <em>\n  A Beggar at the Gate\n </em>\n (2004). The final book of the Paradise trilogy concludes Mariana''s saga. It''s 1841, and Mariana is at the British cantonment in Kabul. The pressure is on to break all ties with Hassan Ali Khan, her Muslim Indian husband (from whom she''s been separated), and marry a British officer as one of her own. Mariana can''t make up her mind. Does Hassan still consider their marriage valid? Does he still love her? To help with her decision, she goes to a mystic, a Sufi seer. But things are never easy in nineteenth-century Afghanistan. Afghan forces have the British cantonment under siege, and Mariana is put in a terrible position. With its incredible detail, historical accuracy, strong sense of place, Sufi mysticism, and fearless heroine who risks her life to do the right thing, this is a perfect ending to an excellent trilogy.\n <em>\n  Shelley Mosley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24238');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(12803, 'Company', 'Max Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With broad strokes, Barry once again satirizes corporate America in his third caustic novel (after\n <em>\n  Jennifer Government\n </em>\n ). This time, he takes aim at the perennial corporate crime of turning people into cogs in a machine. Recent b-school grad Stephen Jones, a fresh-faced new hire at a Seattle-based holding company called Zephyr, jumps on the fast track to success when he''s immediately promoted from sales assistant to sales rep in Zephyr''s training sales department. "Don''t try to understand the company. Just go with it," a colleague advises when Jones is flummoxed to learn his team sells training packages to other internal Zephyr departments. But unlike his co-workers, he won''t accept ignorance of his employer''s business, and his unusual display of initiative catapults him into the ranks of senior management, where he discovers the "customer-free" company''s true, sinister raison d''Ãªtre. The ultracynical management team co-opts Jones with a six-figure salary and blackmail threats, but it''s not long before he throws a wrench into the works. As bitter as break-room coffee, the novel eviscerates demeaning modern management techniques that treat workers as "headcounts." Though Barry''s primary target is corporate dehumanization, he''s at his funniest lampooning the suits that tread the stage, consumed by the sound and fury of office politics that signify nothing.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“By turns amusing and wry, this novel is a pleasure to read. It opens with a view of a large corporation as seen by a new employee whose first day on the job is one of high suspenseâ€“one of the doughnuts for a staff meeting is missing. Moving beyond the usual cheap but funny shots taken at corporate life, Barry takes his tale to the next level. What if this giant maze for laboratory rats in which so many people work was actually just that? The characters are stereotypes but readers will sympathize with them, nonetheless._â€“Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress, Washington, DC_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2887'),
(12804, 'Company', 'Max Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With broad strokes, Barry once again satirizes corporate America in his third caustic novel (after\n <em>\n  Jennifer Government\n </em>\n ). This time, he takes aim at the perennial corporate crime of turning people into cogs in a machine. Recent b-school grad Stephen Jones, a fresh-faced new hire at a Seattle-based holding company called Zephyr, jumps on the fast track to success when he''s immediately promoted from sales assistant to sales rep in Zephyr''s training sales department. "Don''t try to understand the company. Just go with it," a colleague advises when Jones is flummoxed to learn his team sells training packages to other internal Zephyr departments. But unlike his co-workers, he won''t accept ignorance of his employer''s business, and his unusual display of initiative catapults him into the ranks of senior management, where he discovers the "customer-free" company''s true, sinister raison d''Ãªtre. The ultracynical management team co-opts Jones with a six-figure salary and blackmail threats, but it''s not long before he throws a wrench into the works. As bitter as break-room coffee, the novel eviscerates demeaning modern management techniques that treat workers as "headcounts." Though Barry''s primary target is corporate dehumanization, he''s at his funniest lampooning the suits that tread the stage, consumed by the sound and fury of office politics that signify nothing.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“By turns amusing and wry, this novel is a pleasure to read. It opens with a view of a large corporation as seen by a new employee whose first day on the job is one of high suspenseâ€“one of the doughnuts for a staff meeting is missing. Moving beyond the usual cheap but funny shots taken at corporate life, Barry takes his tale to the next level. What if this giant maze for laboratory rats in which so many people work was actually just that? The characters are stereotypes but readers will sympathize with them, nonetheless._â€“Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress, Washington, DC_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8389'),
(12805, 'Company', 'Max Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n With broad strokes, Barry once again satirizes corporate America in his third caustic novel (after\n <em>\n  Jennifer Government\n </em>\n ). This time, he takes aim at the perennial corporate crime of turning people into cogs in a machine. Recent b-school grad Stephen Jones, a fresh-faced new hire at a Seattle-based holding company called Zephyr, jumps on the fast track to success when he''s immediately promoted from sales assistant to sales rep in Zephyr''s training sales department. "Don''t try to understand the company. Just go with it," a colleague advises when Jones is flummoxed to learn his team sells training packages to other internal Zephyr departments. But unlike his co-workers, he won''t accept ignorance of his employer''s business, and his unusual display of initiative catapults him into the ranks of senior management, where he discovers the "customer-free" company''s true, sinister raison d''Ãªtre. The ultracynical management team co-opts Jones with a six-figure salary and blackmail threats, but it''s not long before he throws a wrench into the works. As bitter as break-room coffee, the novel eviscerates demeaning modern management techniques that treat workers as "headcounts." Though Barry''s primary target is corporate dehumanization, he''s at his funniest lampooning the suits that tread the stage, consumed by the sound and fury of office politics that signify nothing.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“By turns amusing and wry, this novel is a pleasure to read. It opens with a view of a large corporation as seen by a new employee whose first day on the job is one of high suspenseâ€“one of the doughnuts for a staff meeting is missing. Moving beyond the usual cheap but funny shots taken at corporate life, Barry takes his tale to the next level. What if this giant maze for laboratory rats in which so many people work was actually just that? The characters are stereotypes but readers will sympathize with them, nonetheless._â€“Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress, Washington, DC_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21876'),
(12806, 'The Company We Keep: A Husband-And-Wife True-Life Spy Story', 'Robert Baer &amp; Dayna Baer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert and Dayna Baer''s initial meeting was slightly unusualâ€”both were on a covert mission in Sarajevo for the CIA. In this intermittently intriguing memoir, they describe their careers in "the Company," their romance, and the difficulty they have in establishing a balanced life outside the world of secret agents. Their travels take them to interesting places in interesting timesâ€”from Bosnia and Lebanon during civil wars, to Syria under the Assads, the mansions of sheiks, and the safe houses of terrorist groups. As the Baers drift away from family and see friends die, they learn the costs of covert life. Told in chapters that alternate between each partner''s perspective, their story is best when discussing the minutiae of agency work. In understated prose, the couple effectively narrate the long bouts of tedium interspersed with moments of paranoia and fear that make up a CIA agent''s life. On most assignments, they never learn if their efforts have any positive resultâ€”often, they don''t even know their co-workers'' real names. When the personal becomes the subject, however, the understatement feels inadequate. The Baers give us so little insight into their mutual attraction that it feels like another state secret. After they leave the agency, they seem adrift, and the book loses focuses as well. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When they met in Croatia in the early 1990s, he didnâ€™t know her real name. His alias was Howard, but he introduced himself as Bob. By that time, he was a seasoned CIA spook, with 15 years of international intrigue under his belt. Dayna, a relatively new field agent, was expecting that her new friend''s veteranâ€™s counsel would increase her quickly growing knowledge of the spy game; she wasnâ€™t expecting to fall in love. This fascinating memoir, written by Bob and Dayna in alternating chapters, traces their lives from before they metâ€”she was carrying out security checks in L.A.; he was in Tajikistan, scoping out the former Soviet republicâ€”and follows them as they fell in love and began to build a life together. The book is full of insight into the world of international intelligence-gathering, and it contains some interesting surprises, too (at one point, after he resigned from the CIA, Bob came awfully close to taking a job in Kabul, working with the Taliban). An engaging narrative that should appeal to readers of spy-themed literature, factual or fictional. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Expect the publisher of this real-life spy and love story to take full advantage of the off-the-book-page human-interest angle. Comparisons to Mr. and Mrs. Smith and to Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson (and the recent biopic starring Sean Pean and Naomi Watts) wonâ€™t hurt a bit. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1689'),
(12807, 'The Company We Keep: A Husband-And-Wife True-Life Spy Story', 'Robert Baer &amp; Dayna Baer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert and Dayna Baer''s initial meeting was slightly unusualâ€”both were on a covert mission in Sarajevo for the CIA. In this intermittently intriguing memoir, they describe their careers in "the Company," their romance, and the difficulty they have in establishing a balanced life outside the world of secret agents. Their travels take them to interesting places in interesting timesâ€”from Bosnia and Lebanon during civil wars, to Syria under the Assads, the mansions of sheiks, and the safe houses of terrorist groups. As the Baers drift away from family and see friends die, they learn the costs of covert life. Told in chapters that alternate between each partner''s perspective, their story is best when discussing the minutiae of agency work. In understated prose, the couple effectively narrate the long bouts of tedium interspersed with moments of paranoia and fear that make up a CIA agent''s life. On most assignments, they never learn if their efforts have any positive resultâ€”often, they don''t even know their co-workers'' real names. When the personal becomes the subject, however, the understatement feels inadequate. The Baers give us so little insight into their mutual attraction that it feels like another state secret. After they leave the agency, they seem adrift, and the book loses focuses as well. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When they met in Croatia in the early 1990s, he didnâ€™t know her real name. His alias was Howard, but he introduced himself as Bob. By that time, he was a seasoned CIA spook, with 15 years of international intrigue under his belt. Dayna, a relatively new field agent, was expecting that her new friend''s veteranâ€™s counsel would increase her quickly growing knowledge of the spy game; she wasnâ€™t expecting to fall in love. This fascinating memoir, written by Bob and Dayna in alternating chapters, traces their lives from before they metâ€”she was carrying out security checks in L.A.; he was in Tajikistan, scoping out the former Soviet republicâ€”and follows them as they fell in love and began to build a life together. The book is full of insight into the world of international intelligence-gathering, and it contains some interesting surprises, too (at one point, after he resigned from the CIA, Bob came awfully close to taking a job in Kabul, working with the Taliban). An engaging narrative that should appeal to readers of spy-themed literature, factual or fictional. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Expect the publisher of this real-life spy and love story to take full advantage of the off-the-book-page human-interest angle. Comparisons to Mr. and Mrs. Smith and to Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson (and the recent biopic starring Sean Pean and Naomi Watts) wonâ€™t hurt a bit. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8294'),
(12808, 'The Company We Keep: A Husband-And-Wife True-Life Spy Story', 'Robert Baer; Dayna Baer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Robert and Dayna Baer''s initial meeting was slightly unusualâ€”both were on a covert mission in Sarajevo for the CIA. In this intermittently intriguing memoir, they describe their careers in "the Company," their romance, and the difficulty they have in establishing a balanced life outside the world of secret agents. Their travels take them to interesting places in interesting timesâ€”from Bosnia and Lebanon during civil wars, to Syria under the Assads, the mansions of sheiks, and the safe houses of terrorist groups. As the Baers drift away from family and see friends die, they learn the costs of covert life. Told in chapters that alternate between each partner''s perspective, their story is best when discussing the minutiae of agency work. In understated prose, the couple effectively narrate the long bouts of tedium interspersed with moments of paranoia and fear that make up a CIA agent''s life. On most assignments, they never learn if their efforts have any positive resultâ€”often, they don''t even know their co-workers'' real names. When the personal becomes the subject, however, the understatement feels inadequate. The Baers give us so little insight into their mutual attraction that it feels like another state secret. After they leave the agency, they seem adrift, and the book loses focuses as well. (Mar.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n When they met in Croatia in the early 1990s, he didnâ€™t know her real name. His alias was Howard, but he introduced himself as Bob. By that time, he was a seasoned CIA spook, with 15 years of international intrigue under his belt. Dayna, a relatively new field agent, was expecting that her new friend''s veteranâ€™s counsel would increase her quickly growing knowledge of the spy game; she wasnâ€™t expecting to fall in love. This fascinating memoir, written by Bob and Dayna in alternating chapters, traces their lives from before they metâ€”she was carrying out security checks in L.A.; he was in Tajikistan, scoping out the former Soviet republicâ€”and follows them as they fell in love and began to build a life together. The book is full of insight into the world of international intelligence-gathering, and it contains some interesting surprises, too (at one point, after he resigned from the CIA, Bob came awfully close to taking a job in Kabul, working with the Taliban). An engaging narrative that should appeal to readers of spy-themed literature, factual or fictional. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Expect the publisher of this real-life spy and love story to take full advantage of the off-the-book-page human-interest angle. Comparisons to Mr. and Mrs. Smith and to Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson (and the recent biopic starring Sean Pean and Naomi Watts) wonâ€™t hurt a bit. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23204'),
(12809, 'The Company: A Novel of the CIA', 'Robert Littell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIA-known as "the Company" to insiders. Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the ''50s, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch, The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy-and each other-in an internecine battle within the Company itself. A brilliant, stunningly conceived epic thriller, The Company confirms Littell''s place among the genre''s elite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1648'),
(12810, 'The company: a novel of the CIA', 'Robert Littell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIA-known as "the Company" to insiders. Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the ''50s, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch, The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy-and each other-in an internecine battle within the Company itself. A brilliant, stunningly conceived epic thriller, The Company confirms Littell''s place among the genre''s elite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23316'),
(12811, 'The complete adventures of Lucky Starr', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25617'),
(12812, 'The Complete Android Guide', 'Kevin Purdy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3662'),
(12813, 'The Complete Android Guide', 'Kevin Purdy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11081'),
(12814, 'The Complete Android Guide', 'Kevin Purdy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20778'),
(12815, 'Complete Books of Blood', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25970'),
(12816, 'Complete Care for Your Aging Cat', 'Amy Shojai', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the last few decades, tremendous advances have been made in veterinary technology--nearly tripling the average life span of many pets. But cats that are seven years and older have special needs and require additional emotional support, nutritional help, and medical care. A longer life also means more cats suffer age-related conditions such as kidney problems, diabetes, and arthritis, all of which can be successfully managed with your loving assistance. Complete Care for Your Aging Cat contains the answers you need to care for your mature cat. Pet expert Amy Shojai explains: * How to entice your older cat into getting more exercise. * What changes to expect as your cat ages--and which changes are natural and which are warning signs that should send you to the veterinarian. * Which pet-specific over-the-counter medications every owner should keep on hand. * How to use the L.O.V.E. Program to keep your cat loving longer and living better. * Tips on everything from choosing the right products and food for your aging cat to performing nursing care at home. Filled with heartwarming stories, the latest developments in geriatric veterinary care, age-defying tips, and comprehensive reference material, this is the definitive guide to turning back the clock on aging--and keeping senior cats vital, happy, and active throughout their golden years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7704'),
(12817, 'Complete Care for Your Aging Cat', 'Amy Shojai', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the last few decades, tremendous advances have been made in veterinary technology--nearly tripling the average life span of many pets. But cats that are seven years and older have special needs and require additional emotional support, nutritional help, and medical care. A longer life also means more cats suffer age-related conditions such as kidney problems, diabetes, and arthritis, all of which can be successfully managed with your loving assistance. Complete Care for Your Aging Cat contains the answers you need to care for your mature cat. Pet expert Amy Shojai explains: * How to entice your older cat into getting more exercise. * What changes to expect as your cat ages--and which changes are natural and which are warning signs that should send you to the veterinarian. * Which pet-specific over-the-counter medications every owner should keep on hand. * How to use the L.O.V.E. Program to keep your cat loving longer and living better. * Tips on everything from choosing the right products and food for your aging cat to performing nursing care at home. Filled with heartwarming stories, the latest developments in geriatric veterinary care, age-defying tips, and comprehensive reference material, this is the definitive guide to turning back the clock on aging--and keeping senior cats vital, happy, and active throughout their golden years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12615'),
(12818, 'Complete Care for Your Aging Cat', 'Amy Shojai', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the last few decades, tremendous advances have been made in veterinary technology--nearly tripling the average life span of many pets. But cats that are seven years and older have special needs and require additional emotional support, nutritional help, and medical care. A longer life also means more cats suffer age-related conditions such as kidney problems, diabetes, and arthritis, all of which can be successfully managed with your loving assistance. Complete Care for Your Aging Cat contains the answers you need to care for your mature cat. Pet expert Amy Shojai explains: * How to entice your older cat into getting more exercise. * What changes to expect as your cat ages--and which changes are natural and which are warning signs that should send you to the veterinarian. * Which pet-specific over-the-counter medications every owner should keep on hand. * How to use the L.O.V.E. Program to keep your cat loving longer and living better. * Tips on everything from choosing the right products and food for your aging cat to performing nursing care at home. Filled with heartwarming stories, the latest developments in geriatric veterinary care, age-defying tips, and comprehensive reference material, this is the definitive guide to turning back the clock on aging--and keeping senior cats vital, happy, and active throughout their golden years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16169'),
(12819, 'The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men &amp; Pilgrims', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n For the first time the complete works of the award-winning author Elizabeth Gilbert are collected together, highlighting her talents as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. In the international best-seller Eat, Pray, Love, Gilbert narrates her struggles after a bitter divorce and turbulent love affair, beginning her quest to rediscover how to be happy. In Rome, she indulges herself and gains nearly two stone. In India, she finds enlightenment through scrubbing temple floors. Finally, in Bali a toothless medicine man reveals a new path to peace, leaving her ready to find love again. In Committed, Gilbert is about to wed the man she fell in love with at the end of Eat, Pray, Love and with wit and intelligence contemplates marriage, trying with all her might to discover what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. In The Last American Man, Gilbert presents a fascinating, intimate portrait of the American naturalist and brilliant modern hero Eustace Conway, who at the age of seventeen ditched the comforts of his suburban existence to escape into the wild. Attempting to instil in people a deeper appreciation of nature, Conway stops at nothing in pursuit of bigger, bolder adventures. In Gilbert''s first novel Stern Men, the eighteen-year-old irredeemably unromantic Ruth Thomas returns home from boarding school determined to join the ''stern-men''. Throwing her education overboard, this feisty and unforgettable American heroine helps work the lobster boats and brushes up on her profanity, eventually falling for a handsome young lobsterman. In Pilgrims, Gilbert''s sharply drawn and tenderly observed collection of twelve short stories, tough heroes and heroines, hardened by their experiences, struggle for their epiphanies and seek companionship as fiercely as they can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9472'),
(12820, 'The Complete Grimm&#39;s Fairy Tales', 'Wilhelm Grimm;Alfred William Hunt;James Stern;Josef Scharl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way childrenâ€”and adultsâ€”learn about the vagaries of the real world. Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, HÃ¤nsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood), and Briar-Rose (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) are only a few of more than 200 enchanting characters included here. Lyrically translated and beautifully illustrated, the tales are presented just as Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm originally set them down: bold, primal, just frightening enough, and endlessly engaging.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14710'),
(12821, 'Complete Guide To Lock Picking.', 'Unknown', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22823'),
(12822, 'The Complete Idiot&#39;s Guide to World History', 'Timothy C. Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Don''t know much about history?\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which societies are the most important? Which periods of time saw the most change? How have cultures differed and remained the same across this vast time and space? This guide gives readers the whole world, and then some! Including key ideas as well as lesser- known facts, salient quotes, and crucial terms defined, it prepares readers not only to excel in exams but to become 21st century citizens of the world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Timothy C. Hall, M.A.,\n  </strong>\n  developed, created, and teaches an online AP World History and Medieval Studies curriculum, and currently teaches AP European History, Sociology, and Civics/Economics at the Franklin Academy in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He earned his M.A. in History from East Carolina University and his B.A. in History from Elon University.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/584'),
(12823, 'The Complete Idiot&#39;s Guide to World History', 'Timothy C. Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Don''t know much about history?\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which societies are the most important? Which periods of time saw the most change? How have cultures differed and remained the same across this vast time and space? This guide gives readers the whole world, and then some! Including key ideas as well as lesser- known facts, salient quotes, and crucial terms defined, it prepares readers not only to excel in exams but to become 21st century citizens of the world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Timothy C. Hall, M.A.,\n  </strong>\n  developed, created, and teaches an online AP World History and Medieval Studies curriculum, and currently teaches AP European History, Sociology, and Civics/Economics at the Franklin Academy in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He earned his M.A. in History from East Carolina University and his B.A. in History from Elon University.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10184'),
(12824, 'The Complete Idiot&#39;s Guide to World History', 'Timothy C. Hall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Don''t know much about history?\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which societies are the most important? Which periods of time saw the most change? How have cultures differed and remained the same across this vast time and space? This guide gives readers the whole world, and then some! Including key ideas as well as lesser- known facts, salient quotes, and crucial terms defined, it prepares readers not only to excel in exams but to become 21st century citizens of the world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Timothy C. Hall, M.A.,\n  </strong>\n  developed, created, and teaches an online AP World History and Medieval Studies curriculum, and currently teaches AP European History, Sociology, and Civics/Economics at the Franklin Academy in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He earned his M.A. in History from East Carolina University and his B.A. in History from Elon University.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24299'),
(12825, 'The Complete Lyonesse', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Elder Isles - an ancient land where chivalry and the realm of fairie exist side by side. A land of mystery, strange beauty, high adventure and arcane magic. Kings are at war, opposing magicians devise ever more cunning stratagems. It is a land where princesses and changelings both can become embroiled in political rivalries and the quest for the grail. The Gollancz Black Books have proved to be an immensely successful formula for getting well loved stories into the hands of people who also love well made books. Jack Vance''s Complete Lyonesse is a perfect addition to the series and contains Madouc the novel for which Vance won the World Fantasy Award.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18204'),
(12826, 'The Complete Mark Twain Collection (Over 300 works, with active table of contents)', 'Twain, Mark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21692'),
(12827, 'The Complete Mark Twain Collection (Over 300 works, with active table of contents)', 'Twain, Mark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21810'),
(12828, 'The Complete Mark Twain Collection', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  The entire Mark Twain anthology with over 300 books and story collections. See the sample for the complete and navigable table of contents.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3000'),
(12829, 'The Complete Mark Twain Collection', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  The entire Mark Twain anthology with over 300 books and story collections. See the sample for the complete and navigable table of contents.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13116'),
(12830, 'The Complete Novels of George Orwell', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Animal FarmBurmese DaysA Clergyman''s DaughterComing Up for AirKeep the Aspidistra FlyingNineteen Eighty-FourDescribed by Anthony Burgess as ''the best-loved of all twentieth-century British writers'', George Orwell still has as much power to move, amuse and provoke today.His best-known novels, Animal Farm, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, portraying a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written. The other novels in this volume also tell stories of people at odds with repressive institutions: the corrupt imperialism of Burmese Days, disaffection with materialistic society in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, the perils of modern suburban living in Coming Up for Air and surviving on the streets in A Clergyman''s Daughter.All the novels brought together here display Orwell''s humour, his understanding of human nature and his great compassion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5390'),
(12831, 'The Complete Novels of George Orwell', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Animal FarmBurmese DaysA Clergyman''s DaughterComing Up for AirKeep the Aspidistra FlyingNineteen Eighty-FourDescribed by Anthony Burgess as ''the best-loved of all twentieth-century British writers'', George Orwell still has as much power to move, amuse and provoke today.His best-known novels, Animal Farm, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, portraying a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written. The other novels in this volume also tell stories of people at odds with repressive institutions: the corrupt imperialism of Burmese Days, disaffection with materialistic society in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, the perils of modern suburban living in Coming Up for Air and surviving on the streets in A Clergyman''s Daughter.All the novels brought together here display Orwell''s humour, his understanding of human nature and his great compassion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11813'),
(12832, 'The Complete Novels Of George Orwell', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Animal FarmBurmese DaysA Clergyman''s DaughterComing Up for AirKeep the Aspidistra FlyingNineteen Eighty-FourDescribed by Anthony Burgess as ''the best-loved of all twentieth-century British writers'', George Orwell still has as much power to move, amuse and provoke today.His best-known novels, Animal Farm, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, portraying a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written. The other novels in this volume also tell stories of people at odds with repressive institutions: the corrupt imperialism of Burmese Days, disaffection with materialistic society in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, the perils of modern suburban living in Coming Up for Air and surviving on the streets in A Clergyman''s Daughter.All the novels brought together here display Orwell''s humour, his understanding of human nature and his great compassion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19264'),
(12833, 'The complete robot', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the definitive anthology of Asimov''s stunning visions of a robotic future...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As well as TN-3 (Tony), AL-76 and other robots, the stories feature the staff of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Inc., and in particular the chief robot-psychologist, the steely Dr Susan Calvin who is in many ways more robot-like than her subjects.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes.  Asimov''s Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with surprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the definitive anthology of Asimov''s stunning visions of a robotic future... In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind. As well as TN-3 (Tony), AL-76 and other robots, the stories feature the staff of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Inc., and in particular the chief robot-psychologist, the steely Dr Susan Calvin who is in many ways more robot-like than her subjects. THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov''s Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with surprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store... THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25618'),
(12834, 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I*, by **Sir Arthur Conan Doyle**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesÂ—biographical, historical, and literaryÂ—to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.** *The Complete Sherlock Holmes* comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worldâ€™s most popular and influential fictional detectiveÂ—the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmesâ€™s comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to exercise that unique combination of detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Volume I* of *The Complete Sherlock Holmes* starts with Holmesâ€™s first appearance, *A Study in Scarlet*, a chilling murder novel complete with bloodstained walls and cryptic clues, followed by the baffling *The Sign of Four*, which introduces Holmesâ€™s cocaine problem and Watsonâ€™s future wife. The story collections *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes* and *The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes* feature such renowned tales as Â“A Scandal in Bohemia,â€ Â“The Red-Headed League,â€ and Â“The Musgrave Ritual.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tired of writing stories about Holmes, his creator, **Sir Arthur Conan Doyle**, killed him off at the end of Â“The Final Problem,â€ the last tale in *The Memoirs*. But the public outcry was so great that eight years later he published the masterful *The Hound of the Baskervilles*, which supposedly takes place before Holmesâ€™s death.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The separate *Volume II* of *The Complete Sherlock Holmes* collects the remaining accounts of Holmesâ€™s exploits, including Â“The Adventure of the Empty House,â€ which reveals the elaborate circumstances behind Holmesâ€™s literary resurrection.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Kyle Freeman**, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1182'),
(12835, 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I*, by **Sir Arthur Conan Doyle**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesÂ—biographical, historical, and literaryÂ—to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.** *The Complete Sherlock Holmes* comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worldâ€™s most popular and influential fictional detectiveÂ—the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmesâ€™s comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to exercise that unique combination of detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Volume I* of *The Complete Sherlock Holmes* starts with Holmesâ€™s first appearance, *A Study in Scarlet*, a chilling murder novel complete with bloodstained walls and cryptic clues, followed by the baffling *The Sign of Four*, which introduces Holmesâ€™s cocaine problem and Watsonâ€™s future wife. The story collections *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes* and *The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes* feature such renowned tales as Â“A Scandal in Bohemia,â€ Â“The Red-Headed League,â€ and Â“The Musgrave Ritual.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tired of writing stories about Holmes, his creator, **Sir Arthur Conan Doyle**, killed him off at the end of Â“The Final Problem,â€ the last tale in *The Memoirs*. But the public outcry was so great that eight years later he published the masterful *The Hound of the Baskervilles*, which supposedly takes place before Holmesâ€™s death.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The separate *Volume II* of *The Complete Sherlock Holmes* collects the remaining accounts of Holmesâ€™s exploits, including Â“The Adventure of the Empty House,â€ which reveals the elaborate circumstances behind Holmesâ€™s literary resurrection.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Kyle Freeman**, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10925'),
(12836, 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle &amp; Kyle Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worldâ€™s most popular and influential fictional detectiveâ€”the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmesâ€™s comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to combine detailed observation and vast knowledge with brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature. Volume II of The Complete Sherlock Holmes begins with The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tired of writing about Holmes, had killed him off at the end of â€œThe Final Problem,â€ the last tale in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (found in Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes). Public demand for new Holmes stories was so great, however, that Conan Doyle eventually resurrected him. The first story in The Return, â€œThe Adventure of the Empty House,â€ features Conan Doyleâ€™s infamously inventive explanation of how Holmes escaped what seemed like certain death.This volume also includes two other collections of Holmes stories, His Last Bow and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes; Conan Doyleâ€™s final full-length Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear; a pair of parodies, â€œThe Field Bazaarâ€ and â€œHow Watson Learned the Trickâ€; and two essays about the â€œprivate lifeâ€ of the beloved sleuth. Kyle Freeman, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1184');
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(12837, 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle &amp; Kyle Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worldâ€™s most popular and influential fictional detectiveâ€”the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmesâ€™s comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to combine detailed observation and vast knowledge with brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature. Volume II of The Complete Sherlock Holmes begins with The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tired of writing about Holmes, had killed him off at the end of â€œThe Final Problem,â€ the last tale in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (found in Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes). Public demand for new Holmes stories was so great, however, that Conan Doyle eventually resurrected him. The first story in The Return, â€œThe Adventure of the Empty House,â€ features Conan Doyleâ€™s infamously inventive explanation of how Holmes escaped what seemed like certain death.This volume also includes two other collections of Holmes stories, His Last Bow and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes; Conan Doyleâ€™s final full-length Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear; a pair of parodies, â€œThe Field Bazaarâ€ and â€œHow Watson Learned the Trickâ€; and two essays about the â€œprivate lifeâ€ of the beloved sleuth. Kyle Freeman, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10923'),
(12838, 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Kyle Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worldâ€™s most popular and influential fictional detectiveâ€”the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmesâ€™s comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to combine detailed observation and vast knowledge with brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature. Volume II of The Complete Sherlock Holmes begins with The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tired of writing about Holmes, had killed him off at the end of â€œThe Final Problem,â€ the last tale in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (found in Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes). Public demand for new Holmes stories was so great, however, that Conan Doyle eventually resurrected him. The first story in The Return, â€œThe Adventure of the Empty House,â€ features Conan Doyleâ€™s infamously inventive explanation of how Holmes escaped what seemed like certain death.This volume also includes two other collections of Holmes stories, His Last Bow and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes; Conan Doyleâ€™s final full-length Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear; a pair of parodies, â€œThe Field Bazaarâ€ and â€œHow Watson Learned the Trickâ€; and two essays about the â€œprivate lifeâ€ of the beloved sleuth. Kyle Freeman, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16491'),
(12839, 'The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The subtitle of this monumental collection refers to the home (Lookout Farm) that Hemingway owned in Cuba from 1939 to 1959. That time frame accounts for most of the short fiction, published and unpublished, that followed the major collection issued in 1938, The First Forty-Nine. There are 60 stories in all. Of the 21 not included in the 1938 collection, the seven heretofore unpublished pieces will interest readers most. Three are especially good. "A Train Trip" and "The Porter" are self-contained excerpts from an abandoned novel that match in tone and appeal the early Hemingway work in which he explored the adolescent sensibility exposed to an adult world that is exciting but at the same time threatening and morally complex. Drawing from the author''s experiences in Europe during World War II, "Black Ass at the Crossroads" is excellent in its detailing of violent action, portraying an ambush of German soldiers from the point of view of an American infantry officer, depressed and angry over the suffering he has inflicted in the course of battle. The other previously unpublished pieces include a Spanish Civil War story reminiscent of Hemingway''s play, The Fifth Column; two quite touching stories about a father''s disappointments with a troubled son; and a long section comprising four chapters from an early version of the novel, Islands in the Stream. Intrinsically readable, the collection is also significant in drawing together much that was unavailable or difficult to access.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A thoughtfully arranged, comprehensive edition of Hemingway''s short fiction justifies publication. This is not it. At best, it offers convenience rather than creativity or even completeness: it omits five stories published two years ago. It reprints the "the first 49" stories (1938), adds 14 subsequently published, and appends seven hitherto unpublished. What is lacking is a fresh reordering of the storiesthematic, chronological, or stylistic. Further, three of the unpublished pieces are not stories but excerpts from novels. None of the new material is artistically significant. Yet each bears the hallmark of Hemingway''s geniuswhich will survive even this. Arthur Waldhorn, City Coll.,\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5598'),
(12840, 'The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The subtitle of this monumental collection refers to the home (Lookout Farm) that Hemingway owned in Cuba from 1939 to 1959. That time frame accounts for most of the short fiction, published and unpublished, that followed the major collection issued in 1938, The First Forty-Nine. There are 60 stories in all. Of the 21 not included in the 1938 collection, the seven heretofore unpublished pieces will interest readers most. Three are especially good. "A Train Trip" and "The Porter" are self-contained excerpts from an abandoned novel that match in tone and appeal the early Hemingway work in which he explored the adolescent sensibility exposed to an adult world that is exciting but at the same time threatening and morally complex. Drawing from the author''s experiences in Europe during World War II, "Black Ass at the Crossroads" is excellent in its detailing of violent action, portraying an ambush of German soldiers from the point of view of an American infantry officer, depressed and angry over the suffering he has inflicted in the course of battle. The other previously unpublished pieces include a Spanish Civil War story reminiscent of Hemingway''s play, The Fifth Column; two quite touching stories about a father''s disappointments with a troubled son; and a long section comprising four chapters from an early version of the novel, Islands in the Stream. Intrinsically readable, the collection is also significant in drawing together much that was unavailable or difficult to access.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A thoughtfully arranged, comprehensive edition of Hemingway''s short fiction justifies publication. This is not it. At best, it offers convenience rather than creativity or even completeness: it omits five stories published two years ago. It reprints the "the first 49" stories (1938), adds 14 subsequently published, and appends seven hitherto unpublished. What is lacking is a fresh reordering of the storiesthematic, chronological, or stylistic. Further, three of the unpublished pieces are not stories but excerpts from novels. None of the new material is artistically significant. Yet each bears the hallmark of Hemingway''s geniuswhich will survive even this. Arthur Waldhorn, City Coll.,\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10303'),
(12841, 'Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway, The', 'Hemingway, Ernest', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18511'),
(12842, 'The Complete Short Stories of Evelyn Waugh', 'Evelyn Waugh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''One of the century''s great masters of English prose . . . It is never too late to read or reread Evelyn Waugh'' Time In this unique collection of short stories composed between 192562, Evelyn Waugh''s stand-alone tales are brought together with some of the pieces which later became the inspirations for his novels. ''Mr Loveday''s Little Outing'' is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; ''Cruise'' sees a hilarious series of letters from a naive young woman as she travels with her family; ''A House of Gentlefolks'' observes a group of elderly eccentric aristocrats and their young heir; and in ''The Sympathetic Passenger'' a radio-loathing retiree picks up exactly the wrong hitchhiker. These witty and immaculately crafted stories display the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5626'),
(12843, 'The Complete Short Stories of Evelyn Waugh', 'Evelyn Waugh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''One of the century''s great masters of English prose . . . It is never too late to read or reread Evelyn Waugh'' Time In this unique collection of short stories composed between 192562, Evelyn Waugh''s stand-alone tales are brought together with some of the pieces which later became the inspirations for his novels. ''Mr Loveday''s Little Outing'' is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; ''Cruise'' sees a hilarious series of letters from a naive young woman as she travels with her family; ''A House of Gentlefolks'' observes a group of elderly eccentric aristocrats and their young heir; and in ''The Sympathetic Passenger'' a radio-loathing retiree picks up exactly the wrong hitchhiker. These witty and immaculately crafted stories display the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13312'),
(12844, 'The Complete Short Stories of Evelyn Waugh', 'Evelyn Waugh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''One of the century''s great masters of English prose . . . It is never too late to read or reread Evelyn Waugh'' Time In this unique collection of short stories composed between 192562, Evelyn Waugh''s stand-alone tales are brought together with some of the pieces which later became the inspirations for his novels. ''Mr Loveday''s Little Outing'' is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; ''Cruise'' sees a hilarious series of letters from a naive young woman as she travels with her family; ''A House of Gentlefolks'' observes a group of elderly eccentric aristocrats and their young heir; and in ''The Sympathetic Passenger'' a radio-loathing retiree picks up exactly the wrong hitchhiker. These witty and immaculately crafted stories display the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19045'),
(12845, 'Complete Short Stories of Miss Marple', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/67'),
(12846, 'Complete Short Stories of Miss Marple', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17172'),
(12847, 'Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe', 'Edgar Allan Poe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n C&amp;C brings you our complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe short stories, comprised of over 60 classic short stories, by one of the most influential writers of the romantic genre. Selections includes, but not limited to the following: "A Tale of Jerusalem" (1832), "Bon-Bon" (1832), "Loss of Breath" (1832), "Metzengerstein" (1832), "The Duc de L''Omelette" (1832), "Four Beasts in One" (1833), "MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833), "The Assignation" (1834),, "Berenice" (1835), "King Pest" (1835), "Lionizing" (1835), "Morella" (1835), "Shadow" (1835), "Mystification" (1837), "A Predicament" (1838), "Ligeia" (1838), "Silence" (1838), "The Devil in the Belfry" (1839), "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), "The Man That Was Used Up" (1839), "William Wilson" (1839), "The Business Man" (1840), "The Man of the Crowd" (1840), "A Descent into the MaelstrÃ¶m" (1841), "Eleonora" (1841), "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" (1841), "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), "Three Sundays in a Week" (1841), "The Gold-Bug" (1842), "The Landscape Garden" (1842), "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842), "The Mystery of Marie RogÃªt" (1842), "The Oval Portrait" (1842), "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842), "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (1843), "The Black Cat" (1843), "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843), "Mesmeric Revelation" (1844), "Thou Art the Man" (1844), "The Angel of the Odd" (1844), "The Balloon-Hoax" (1844), "The Oblong Box" (1844), "The Premature Burial" (1844), "The Purloined Letter" (1844), "The Spectacles" (1844), "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1844), "Some Words with a Mummy" (1845), "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845), "The Imp of the Perverse" (1845), "The Power of Words" (1845), "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846), "The Domain of Arnheim" (1846), "The Sphinx" (1846), "Hop-Frog" (1849), "Landor''s Cottage" (1849), "Mellonta Tauta" (1849), "The Light-House" (1849), "Von Kempelen and His Discovery" (1849),\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18625'),
(12848, 'The Complete Stories', 'Flannery O&#39;Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "What we lost when she died is bitter. What we have is astonishing: the stories burn brighter than ever, and strike deeper." --Walter Clemons,\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the National Book Award\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O''Connor''s monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O''Connor put together in her short lifetime--_Everything That Rises Must Converge _and\n <em>\n  A Good Man Is Hard to Find\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n O''Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master''s degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement Day"--sent to her publisher shortly before her deathâ€”is a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O''Connor''s longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5501'),
(12849, 'The Complete Stories', 'Flannery O&#39;Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "What we lost when she died is bitter. What we have is astonishing: the stories burn brighter than ever, and strike deeper." --Walter Clemons,\n <em>\n  Newsweek\n </em>\n <br />\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Winner of the National Book Award\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O''Connor''s monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O''Connor put together in her short lifetime--_Everything That Rises Must Converge _and\n <em>\n  A Good Man Is Hard to Find\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n O''Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master''s degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement Day"--sent to her publisher shortly before her deathâ€”is a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O''Connor''s longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19085'),
(12850, 'The complete stories', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first book of the definitive three-volume collection of short stories by the prolific Isaac Asimov, whose tales have delighted countless fans for over half a century--a must for every science fiction bookshelf.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28302'),
(12851, 'The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œLeonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever.â€ (USA Today )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEven the earliest of his western yarns show Leonard to be a master storyteller.â€ (Los Angeles Times )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America''s nineteenth-century western frontierâ€”elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue.\n</p>\n<p>\n No author has ever written more evocatively of the dusty, gutsy heyday of the American West than Elmore Leonard. This complete collection of his thirty-one Western tales will thrill lovers of the genre, his die-hard fans, and everyone in between. From his very first story ever publishedâ€”"The Trail of the Apache"â€”through five decades of classic Western tales,\n <em>\n  The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard\n </em>\n demonstrates the superb talent for language and gripping narrative that has made Leonard one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18573'),
(12852, 'Complexity: A Guided Tour', 'Melanie Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. Based on her work at the Santa Fe Institute and drawing on its interdisciplinary strategies, Mitchell brings clarity to the workings of complexity across a broad range of biological, technological, and social phenomena, seeking out the general principles or laws that apply to all of them. Richly illustrated, Complexity: A Guided Tour--winner of the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science--offers a wide-ranging overview of the ideas underlying complex systems science, the current research at the forefront of this field, and the prospects for its contribution to solving some of the most important scientific questions of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11018'),
(12853, 'Complicit', 'Nicci French', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Who is more dangerous? An enemy? A friend? Or a lover?Bonnie Graham is standing in her friendï¿½s flat. She is alone, except for the dead body lying in a pool of blood on the floor. What happened? What will she do? And what role has she played in the murderous events?Bonnie is a music teacher who has spent a long, hot summer in London rehearsing with a band to play at a wedding. It was supposed to be fun, but the band members find the complicated knots of their friendships unravelling as the days themselves unwind. What was meant to be a summer of happiness, love and music turns deadly as lovers betray one another, passions turn murderous and friendship itself becomes a crime. Everyone tells lies. But is anyone prepared to tell the truth to uncover a murderer?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2573'),
(12854, 'Complicit', 'Nicci French', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Who is more dangerous? An enemy? A friend? Or a lover?Bonnie Graham is standing in her friendï¿½s flat. She is alone, except for the dead body lying in a pool of blood on the floor. What happened? What will she do? And what role has she played in the murderous events?Bonnie is a music teacher who has spent a long, hot summer in London rehearsing with a band to play at a wedding. It was supposed to be fun, but the band members find the complicated knots of their friendships unravelling as the days themselves unwind. What was meant to be a summer of happiness, love and music turns deadly as lovers betray one another, passions turn murderous and friendship itself becomes a crime. Everyone tells lies. But is anyone prepared to tell the truth to uncover a murderer?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9809'),
(12855, 'Complicit', 'Nicci French', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Who is more dangerous? An enemy? A friend? Or a lover?Bonnie Graham is standing in her friendï¿½s flat. She is alone, except for the dead body lying in a pool of blood on the floor. What happened? What will she do? And what role has she played in the murderous events?Bonnie is a music teacher who has spent a long, hot summer in London rehearsing with a band to play at a wedding. It was supposed to be fun, but the band members find the complicated knots of their friendships unravelling as the days themselves unwind. What was meant to be a summer of happiness, love and music turns deadly as lovers betray one another, passions turn murderous and friendship itself becomes a crime. Everyone tells lies. But is anyone prepared to tell the truth to uncover a murderer?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22216'),
(12856, 'Complicity', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act Local journalist Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have the same MO -- he commits brutal murders on behalf of the underdog. As the two stories begin to merge, Cameron finds himself inextricably and inexplicably implicated by the killer. When the arms dealer whom Cameron plans to expose is found literally "disarmed" before Cameron can even put pen to paper and the brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold out at the expense of his workers finds himself permanently unemployable, the police become convinced of Cameron''s guilt, as do half his friends and colleagues, forcing Cameron to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25707'),
(12857, 'Compromising Positions', 'Jenna Bayley-Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   <em>\n    Falling in love is the last thing on his busy agendaâ€¦but compromising positions can lead just about anywhere.\n   </em>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   David Strong knows how to do a lot of thingsâ€”run an international fitness company, finesse stock portfolios and stay out of emotional entanglements. That is, until he gets tangled up with Sophie Delfino and her Sensational Sex workout. Heâ€™s supposed to help her demonstrate Kama Sutra positions for her couplesâ€™ yoga class. The rigorous postures require more than just physical control. And his co-instructor unexpectedly tests his control to the limit.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Sophieâ€™s been fantasizing about David since her teens, but she never dreamed sheâ€™d actually be expected to run through her intimate desiresâ€”with an audience! The class is very professional, tame evenâ€”or it would be, if sheâ€™d been in any of the positions before. But she hasnâ€™tâ€”except in her wildest fantasies about David. Sophie knows she wants David in every way, and sheâ€™s flexible enough to use whatever she has to get him.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   David canâ€™t afford any unexpected distractions. Besides the sensual positions he has to endure without embarrassing himself in public, thereâ€™s an embezzler stealing from his company. And then thereâ€™s Sophieâ€”who is well on her way to stealing his well-guarded heart.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Warning: This is one exercise program you wonâ€™t need to consult your doctor before beginningâ€¦unless heâ€™s hot and available for house calls. The Kama Sutra isnâ€™t for the prudish or faint of heart, and neither is this story.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œWith sensual love scenes, flirty repartee, and a man and woman clearly meant to be together, you get everything you could ever want in a romance novel. Overall, I have to say that Compromising Positions is a must read!â€\n  <br />\n  ~ Long and Short Reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Compromising Positions would have to be one of the best contemporary romance novels I have read in a long time. Jenna Bayley-Burke delivers it all, romance, humor, and great chemistry between her hero and heroine. It is so well written. The pace is great, and the story line fantastic."\n  <br />\n  ~ Fallen Angel Reviews\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Falling in love is the last thing on his busy agendaâ€¦but compromising positions can lead just about anywhere.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  David Strong knows how to do a lot of thingsâ€”run an international fitness company, finesse stock portfolios and stay out of emotional entanglements. That is, until he gets tangled up with Sophie Delfino and her Sensational Sex workout. Heâ€™s supposed to help her demonstrate Kama Sutra positions for her couplesâ€™ yoga class. The rigorous postures require more than just physical control. And his co-instructor unexpectedly tests his control to the limit.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sophieâ€™s been fantasizing about David since her teens, but she never dreamed sheâ€™d actually be expected to run through her intimate desiresâ€”with an audience! The class is very professional, tame evenâ€”or it would be, if sheâ€™d been in any of the positions before. But she hasnâ€™tâ€”except in her wildest fantasies about David. Sophie knows she wants David in every way, and sheâ€™s flexible enough to use whatever she has to get him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  David canâ€™t afford any unexpected distractions. Besides the sensual positions he has to endure without embarrassing himself in public, thereâ€™s an embezzler stealing from his company. And then thereâ€™s Sophieâ€”who is well on her way to stealing his well-guarded heart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Warning: This is one exercise program you wonâ€™t need to consult your doctor before beginningâ€¦unless heâ€™s hot and available for house calls. The Kama Sutra isnâ€™t for the prudish or faint of heart, and neither is this story.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25513'),
(12858, 'Computer Forensics for Dummies (ISBN', '0470371919)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20052'),
(12859, 'Concert de muzica de Bach', 'Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25697'),
(12860, 'The Concrete Blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this fiendishly plotted combination of courtroom drama and police procedural, Connelly''s LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, introduced in the Edgar-winning The Black Echo , is up against the law as well as his superiors. The widow of Norman Church, a serial killer identified as the Dollmaker, whom Bosch shot to death four years earlier, is suing Bosch on the grounds that he violated her husband''s civil rights. Strong but not conclusive evidence linked Church to the serial murders and the case was closed, although Bosch was demoted for not following proper procedures. Here, just before the trial targeting Bosch as a reckless cowboy who shot the wrong man gets underway, the body of perhaps another Dollmaker victim is unearthed from the concrete floor of a burnt-out pool hall. Is the real Dollmaker still alive, or is a copycat killer on the loose? Connelly deftly parcels out clues and possibilities while juggling subtle and detailed courtroom scenes with no-nonsense police investigations that turn up new evidence about the original case. A Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , he adroitly laces the plot with twists and turns based on details drawn from Bosch''s previous adventures. The results of this care show on every page, all to the reader''s benefit.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Bosch, hero of the Edgar Award-winning The Black Echo ( LJ 1/92), is in hot water: the family of a serial killer whom Bosch shot during an arrest accuses him of killing the wrong man.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2909'),
(12861, 'The Concrete Blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this fiendishly plotted combination of courtroom drama and police procedural, Connelly''s LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, introduced in the Edgar-winning The Black Echo , is up against the law as well as his superiors. The widow of Norman Church, a serial killer identified as the Dollmaker, whom Bosch shot to death four years earlier, is suing Bosch on the grounds that he violated her husband''s civil rights. Strong but not conclusive evidence linked Church to the serial murders and the case was closed, although Bosch was demoted for not following proper procedures. Here, just before the trial targeting Bosch as a reckless cowboy who shot the wrong man gets underway, the body of perhaps another Dollmaker victim is unearthed from the concrete floor of a burnt-out pool hall. Is the real Dollmaker still alive, or is a copycat killer on the loose? Connelly deftly parcels out clues and possibilities while juggling subtle and detailed courtroom scenes with no-nonsense police investigations that turn up new evidence about the original case. A Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , he adroitly laces the plot with twists and turns based on details drawn from Bosch''s previous adventures. The results of this care show on every page, all to the reader''s benefit.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Bosch, hero of the Edgar Award-winning The Black Echo ( LJ 1/92), is in hot water: the family of a serial killer whom Bosch shot during an arrest accuses him of killing the wrong man.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9093'),
(12862, 'The Concrete Blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15160'),
(12863, 'The concrete blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this fiendishly plotted combination of courtroom drama and police procedural, Connelly''s LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, introduced in the Edgar-winning The Black Echo , is up against the law as well as his superiors. The widow of Norman Church, a serial killer identified as the Dollmaker, whom Bosch shot to death four years earlier, is suing Bosch on the grounds that he violated her husband''s civil rights. Strong but not conclusive evidence linked Church to the serial murders and the case was closed, although Bosch was demoted for not following proper procedures. Here, just before the trial targeting Bosch as a reckless cowboy who shot the wrong man gets underway, the body of perhaps another Dollmaker victim is unearthed from the concrete floor of a burnt-out pool hall. Is the real Dollmaker still alive, or is a copycat killer on the loose? Connelly deftly parcels out clues and possibilities while juggling subtle and detailed courtroom scenes with no-nonsense police investigations that turn up new evidence about the original case. A Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , he adroitly laces the plot with twists and turns based on details drawn from Bosch''s previous adventures. The results of this care show on every page, all to the reader''s benefit.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Bosch, hero of the Edgar Award-winning The Black Echo ( LJ 1/92), is in hot water: the family of a serial killer whom Bosch shot during an arrest accuses him of killing the wrong man.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21961'),
(12864, 'The Concubine&#39;s Daughter', 'Pai Kit Fai', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1906 Southern China, newborn Li-Xia (Li) is nearly murdered by her elderly father because she is a girl, only to be saved by the specter of a fox fairy. Li lives in a rice shed mostly forgotten, as she wonders about her dead mother, who had been an educated concubine. After Li rebels against attempts to bind her feet, she is sold on her eighth birthday to a silk merchant and finds a temporary family among the female laborers while she dreams of learning to read and write. Capt. Benjamin Jean-Paul Devereaux rescues her by buying her freedom and safe passage on his ship, and she is able to fulfill her dream of literacy. They marry, defying societal norms, but in Hong Kong, Li is assaulted by an enemy of her husband, and fearing for her newborn girl, Siu-Sing, she has the child taken to safety in the mountains. Siu-Sing learns about her lineage and returns to face her own tribulations as WWII is about to begin. Fai''s multigenerational tale has predictable elements, but is nonetheless an engaging and entertaining read.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An epic, heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughterâ€™s journey to their destiny.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n L_otus Feet. He would give his daughter the dainty feet of a courtesan. This would enhance her beauty and her price, making her future shine like a new coin. He smiled to himself, pouring fresh tea. And it would stop her from running awayâ€¦_\n</p>\n<p>\n When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a daughter called Li-Xia, or â€œBeautiful One,â€ the child seems destined to become a concubine herself. Li refuses to submit to her fate, outwitting her fatherâ€™s orders to bind her feet and escaping the silk farm with an English sea captain. Li takes her first steps toward fulfilling her motherâ€™s dreams of becoming a scholarâ€”but her final triumph must be left to her daughter, Su Sing, â€œLittle Star,â€ in a journey that will take her from remote mountain refuges to the perils of Hong Kong on the eve of World War II.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2299'),
(12865, 'The Concubine&#39;s Daughter', 'Pai Kit Fai', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1906 Southern China, newborn Li-Xia (Li) is nearly murdered by her elderly father because she is a girl, only to be saved by the specter of a fox fairy. Li lives in a rice shed mostly forgotten, as she wonders about her dead mother, who had been an educated concubine. After Li rebels against attempts to bind her feet, she is sold on her eighth birthday to a silk merchant and finds a temporary family among the female laborers while she dreams of learning to read and write. Capt. Benjamin Jean-Paul Devereaux rescues her by buying her freedom and safe passage on his ship, and she is able to fulfill her dream of literacy. They marry, defying societal norms, but in Hong Kong, Li is assaulted by an enemy of her husband, and fearing for her newborn girl, Siu-Sing, she has the child taken to safety in the mountains. Siu-Sing learns about her lineage and returns to face her own tribulations as WWII is about to begin. Fai''s multigenerational tale has predictable elements, but is nonetheless an engaging and entertaining read.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An epic, heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughterâ€™s journey to their destiny.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n L_otus Feet. He would give his daughter the dainty feet of a courtesan. This would enhance her beauty and her price, making her future shine like a new coin. He smiled to himself, pouring fresh tea. And it would stop her from running awayâ€¦_\n</p>\n<p>\n When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a daughter called Li-Xia, or â€œBeautiful One,â€ the child seems destined to become a concubine herself. Li refuses to submit to her fate, outwitting her fatherâ€™s orders to bind her feet and escaping the silk farm with an English sea captain. Li takes her first steps toward fulfilling her motherâ€™s dreams of becoming a scholarâ€”but her final triumph must be left to her daughter, Su Sing, â€œLittle Star,â€ in a journey that will take her from remote mountain refuges to the perils of Hong Kong on the eve of World War II.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9670'),
(12866, 'The Concubine&#39;s Daughter', 'Pai Kit Fai', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1906 Southern China, newborn Li-Xia (Li) is nearly murdered by her elderly father because she is a girl, only to be saved by the specter of a fox fairy. Li lives in a rice shed mostly forgotten, as she wonders about her dead mother, who had been an educated concubine. After Li rebels against attempts to bind her feet, she is sold on her eighth birthday to a silk merchant and finds a temporary family among the female laborers while she dreams of learning to read and write. Capt. Benjamin Jean-Paul Devereaux rescues her by buying her freedom and safe passage on his ship, and she is able to fulfill her dream of literacy. They marry, defying societal norms, but in Hong Kong, Li is assaulted by an enemy of her husband, and fearing for her newborn girl, Siu-Sing, she has the child taken to safety in the mountains. Siu-Sing learns about her lineage and returns to face her own tribulations as WWII is about to begin. Fai''s multigenerational tale has predictable elements, but is nonetheless an engaging and entertaining read.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  An epic, heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughterâ€™s journey to their destiny.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n L_otus Feet. He would give his daughter the dainty feet of a courtesan. This would enhance her beauty and her price, making her future shine like a new coin. He smiled to himself, pouring fresh tea. And it would stop her from running awayâ€¦_\n</p>\n<p>\n When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a daughter called Li-Xia, or â€œBeautiful One,â€ the child seems destined to become a concubine herself. Li refuses to submit to her fate, outwitting her fatherâ€™s orders to bind her feet and escaping the silk farm with an English sea captain. Li takes her first steps toward fulfilling her motherâ€™s dreams of becoming a scholarâ€”but her final triumph must be left to her daughter, Su Sing, â€œLittle Star,â€ in a journey that will take her from remote mountain refuges to the perils of Hong Kong on the eve of World War II.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22426'),
(12867, 'The Concubine&#39;s Secret', 'Kate Furnivall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n China, 1929. For years Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks. But when she learns he is captive in Stalin-controlled Russia, the fiery-haired girl is willing to leave everything behind - even her Chinese lover, Chang An Lo. Journeying with her half-brother Alexei, Lydia begins a dangerous search. Tension grows between the two, for while Alexei is searching for his past, Lydia is looking for her future. But when Alexei disappears, Lydia is left almost penniless in Soviet Russia - and doubting the choices she has made. Surrounded by dangers, she searches for information and soon finds herself entangled with a Russian officer.But Chang An Lo has not forgotten Lydia. He knows things about her father that she does not. And while he races to protect her, she is prepared to risk treacherous consequences to discover the truth . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3912'),
(12868, 'The Concubine&#39;s Secret', 'Kate Furnivall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n China, 1929. For years Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks. But when she learns he is captive in Stalin-controlled Russia, the fiery-haired girl is willing to leave everything behind - even her Chinese lover, Chang An Lo. Journeying with her half-brother Alexei, Lydia begins a dangerous search. Tension grows between the two, for while Alexei is searching for his past, Lydia is looking for her future. But when Alexei disappears, Lydia is left almost penniless in Soviet Russia - and doubting the choices she has made. Surrounded by dangers, she searches for information and soon finds herself entangled with a Russian officer.But Chang An Lo has not forgotten Lydia. He knows things about her father that she does not. And while he races to protect her, she is prepared to risk treacherous consequences to discover the truth . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9902'),
(12869, 'The Concubine&#39;s Secret', 'Kate Furnivall', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: China, 1929. For years Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks. But when she learns he is captive in Stalin-controlled Russia, the fiery-haired girl is willing to leave everything behind - even her Chinese lover, Chang An Lo. Journeying with her half-brother Alexei, Lydia begins a dangerous search. Tension grows between the two, for while Alexei is searching for his past, Lydia is looking for her future. But when Alexei disappears, Lydia is left almost penniless in Soviet Russia - and doubting the choices she has made. Surrounded by dangers, she searches for information and soon finds herself entangled with a Russian officer.But Chang An Lo has not forgotten Lydia. He knows things about her father that she does not. And while he races to protect her, she is prepared to risk treacherous consequences to discover the truth . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20622'),
(12870, 'The Concubine&#39;s Tattoo', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Twenty months spent as the shogun''s sosakan-sama--most honorable investigator of events, situations, and people--has left Sano Ichiro weary. He looks forward to the comforts that his arranged marriage promises: a private life with a sweet, submissive wife and a month''s holiday to celebrate their union. However, the death of the shogun''s favorite concubine interrupts the couple''s wedding ceremony and shatters any hopes the samurai detective had about enjoying a little peace with his new wife. After Sano traces the cause of Lady Harume''s death to a self-inflicted tattoo, he must travel into the cloistered, forbidden world of the shogun''s women to untangle the complicated web of Harume''s lovers, rivals, and troubled past, and identify her killer. To make matters worse, Reiko, his beautiful young bride, reveals herself to be not a traditional, obedient wife, but instead, a headstrong, intelligent, aspiring detective bent on helping Sano with his new case. Sano is horrified at her unladylike behavior, and the resulting sparks make their budding love as exciting as they mystery surrounding Lady Harume''s death. Amid the heightened tensions and political machinations of feudal Japan, Sano faces a daunting complex investigation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3628');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(12871, 'The Concubine&#39;s Tattoo', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Twenty months spent as the shogun''s sosakan-sama--most honorable investigator of events, situations, and people--has left Sano Ichiro weary. He looks forward to the comforts that his arranged marriage promises: a private life with a sweet, submissive wife and a month''s holiday to celebrate their union. However, the death of the shogun''s favorite concubine interrupts the couple''s wedding ceremony and shatters any hopes the samurai detective had about enjoying a little peace with his new wife. After Sano traces the cause of Lady Harume''s death to a self-inflicted tattoo, he must travel into the cloistered, forbidden world of the shogun''s women to untangle the complicated web of Harume''s lovers, rivals, and troubled past, and identify her killer. To make matters worse, Reiko, his beautiful young bride, reveals herself to be not a traditional, obedient wife, but instead, a headstrong, intelligent, aspiring detective bent on helping Sano with his new case. Sano is horrified at her unladylike behavior, and the resulting sparks make their budding love as exciting as they mystery surrounding Lady Harume''s death. Amid the heightened tensions and political machinations of feudal Japan, Sano faces a daunting complex investigation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20952'),
(12872, 'A Confederacy of Dunces', 'John Kennedy Toole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim. The story of one Ignatius J. Reilly, a "Don Quixote of the French Quarter," it is a masterpiece of human folly and tragedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4265'),
(12873, 'A Confederacy of Dunces', 'John Kennedy Toole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Released by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Rejected by countless publishers and submitted by the author''s mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Today there are almost two million copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages. Now, for the first time, John Kennedy Toole''s comic masterpiece is available in a large print edition. Toole''s lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans, A confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their presence-Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry; Jones the jivecat in spaceage dark glasses. Included here is the introduction that writer and New Orleans resident Andrei Codrescu composed for the book''s twentieth anniversary. Set in oversized type for ease in reading, the large print edition will gratify both first-timers seeking to discover this modern-day classic and longtime afficionados wishing to reread a favorite novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13861'),
(12874, 'A confederacy of dunces', 'John Kennedy Toole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim. The story of one Ignatius J. Reilly, a "Don Quixote of the French Quarter," it is a masterpiece of human folly and tragedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20254'),
(12875, 'Confess, Fletch', 'Gregory Mcdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?Has all the zest, humor and spare lean prose of its forerunner: it has a beautifully complex plot which leaves you squirming at the final sentence and a set of slippery characters who never turn out to be just exactly what they seem.\n <em>\n  Confess, Fletch\n </em>\n is as stimulent slipped into your nightcap that will have you up to dawn no matter what you think you have to do tomorrow.? --Joe Gores --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n The flight from Rome had been pleasant enough, even if the business he was on wasnâ€™t exactly. His Italian fianc?eâ€™s father had been kidnapped and presumably murdered, and Fletch is on the trail of a stolen art collection that is her only patrimony. But when he arrives in his apartment to find a dead body, things start to get complicated.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n Inspector Flynn found him a little glib for someone who seemed to be the only likely suspect in a pretty clear case of homicide. He wasnâ€™t exactly uncooperative, but it wasnâ€™t like he was entirely forthcoming either. And Flynn wasnâ€™t entirely convinced that the nineteenth-century Western artist Edgar Arthur Tharp really occupied most of Fletchâ€™s thoughts.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n With the police on his tail and a few other things to do beside prove his own innocence, Fletch makes himself at home in Boston, renting a van, painting it black, and breaking into a private art gallery. That is when heâ€™s not â€œentertainingâ€ his future mother-in-law\n <br />\n and visiting with the good Inspector Flynn and his family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5205'),
(12876, 'Confess, Fletch', 'Gregory Mcdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?Has all the zest, humor and spare lean prose of its forerunner: it has a beautifully complex plot which leaves you squirming at the final sentence and a set of slippery characters who never turn out to be just exactly what they seem.\n <em>\n  Confess, Fletch\n </em>\n is as stimulent slipped into your nightcap that will have you up to dawn no matter what you think you have to do tomorrow.? --Joe Gores --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n The flight from Rome had been pleasant enough, even if the business he was on wasnâ€™t exactly. His Italian fianc?eâ€™s father had been kidnapped and presumably murdered, and Fletch is on the trail of a stolen art collection that is her only patrimony. But when he arrives in his apartment to find a dead body, things start to get complicated.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n Inspector Flynn found him a little glib for someone who seemed to be the only likely suspect in a pretty clear case of homicide. He wasnâ€™t exactly uncooperative, but it wasnâ€™t like he was entirely forthcoming either. And Flynn wasnâ€™t entirely convinced that the nineteenth-century Western artist Edgar Arthur Tharp really occupied most of Fletchâ€™s thoughts.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n With the police on his tail and a few other things to do beside prove his own innocence, Fletch makes himself at home in Boston, renting a van, painting it black, and breaking into a private art gallery. That is when heâ€™s not â€œentertainingâ€ his future mother-in-law\n <br />\n and visiting with the good Inspector Flynn and his family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11389'),
(12877, 'Confess, Fletch', 'Gregory Mcdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?Has all the zest, humor and spare lean prose of its forerunner: it has a beautifully complex plot which leaves you squirming at the final sentence and a set of slippery characters who never turn out to be just exactly what they seem.\n <em>\n  Confess, Fletch\n </em>\n is as stimulent slipped into your nightcap that will have you up to dawn no matter what you think you have to do tomorrow.? --Joe Gores --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n The flight from Rome had been pleasant enough, even if the business he was on wasnâ€™t exactly. His Italian fianc?eâ€™s father had been kidnapped and presumably murdered, and Fletch is on the trail of a stolen art collection that is her only patrimony. But when he arrives in his apartment to find a dead body, things start to get complicated.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n Inspector Flynn found him a little glib for someone who seemed to be the only likely suspect in a pretty clear case of homicide. He wasnâ€™t exactly uncooperative, but it wasnâ€™t like he was entirely forthcoming either. And Flynn wasnâ€™t entirely convinced that the nineteenth-century Western artist Edgar Arthur Tharp really occupied most of Fletchâ€™s thoughts.\n</p>\n<p>\n Confess, Fletch\n</p>\n<p>\n With the police on his tail and a few other things to do beside prove his own innocence, Fletch makes himself at home in Boston, renting a van, painting it black, and breaking into a private art gallery. That is when heâ€™s not â€œentertainingâ€ his future mother-in-law\n <br />\n and visiting with the good Inspector Flynn and his family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19410'),
(12878, 'The Confession of Brother Haluin', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On his deathbed, Brother Haluin confesses to a shocking act in his past--and then recovers. To atone, Haluin determines to make a journey of expiation with Brother Cadfael and embarks on an arduous journey that leads to discoveries of deceit, betrayal, revenge . . . and murder. "Each addition to the series is a joy."--USA Today. HC: Mysterious Press.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5690'),
(12879, 'The Confession of Brother Haluin', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On his deathbed, Brother Haluin confesses to a shocking act in his past--and then recovers. To atone, Haluin determines to make a journey of expiation with Brother Cadfael and embarks on an arduous journey that leads to discoveries of deceit, betrayal, revenge . . . and murder. "Each addition to the series is a joy."--USA Today. HC: Mysterious Press.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18902'),
(12880, 'The Confession of Brother Haluin', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On his deathbed, Brother Haluin confesses to a shocking act in his past--and then recovers. To atone, Haluin determines to make a journey of expiation with Brother Cadfael and embarks on an arduous journey that leads to discoveries of deceit, betrayal, revenge . . . and murder. "Each addition to the series is a joy."--USA Today. HC: Mysterious Press.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27677'),
(12881, 'The Confession', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grisham''s recent slump continues with another subpar effort whose plot and characters, none of whom are painted in shades of gray, aren''t able to support an earnest protest against the death penalty. In 2007, almost on the eve of the execution of DontÃ© Drumm, an African-American college football star, for the 1998 murder of a white cheerleader whose body was never found, Travis Boyette, a creepy multiple sex offender, confesses that he''s guilty of the crime to Kansas minister Keith Schroeder. With Drumm''s legal options dwindling fast and with the threat of civil unrest in his Texas hometown if the execution proceeds, Schroeder battles to convince Boyette to go public with the truth--and to persuade the condemned man''s attorney that Boyette''s story needs to be taken seriously. While the action progresses with a certain grim realism, Schroeder''s superficial responses to the issues raised undercut the impact. As with The Appeal, the author''s passionate views on serious flaws in the justice system don''t translate well into fiction. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "_The Confession_Â is the kind of grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story that demands to be inhaled as quickly as possible. But it''s also a superb work of social criticism in the literary troublemaker tradition of Upton Sinclair''s "The Jungle....Brilliant"--_Washington Post\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Grisham is the master of the legal thriller."--_USA Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  NO ONE KEEPS YOU IN SUSPENSE LIKE AMERICAâ€™S FAVORITE STORYTELLER\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe secrets of Grishamâ€™s success are no secret at all. There are two of them: his pacing, which ranges from fast to breakneck, and his Themeâ€”little guy takes on big conspiracy with the little guy getting the win in the end.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”Time\n  </em>\n  magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of entertainmentâ€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his feisty critiques of the legal system, his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions.â€ â€”_Entertainment Weekly _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJohn Grisham is about as good a storyteller as weâ€™ve got in the United States these days.â€ â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGrisham is a marvelous storyteller who works readers the way a good trial lawyer works a jury.â€ â€”_Philadelphia Inquirer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œA mighty narrative talent and an unerring eye for hot-button issues.â€ â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA legal literary legend.â€ â€”_USA Today_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4320'),
(12882, 'The Confession', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grisham''s recent slump continues with another subpar effort whose plot and characters, none of whom are painted in shades of gray, aren''t able to support an earnest protest against the death penalty. In 2007, almost on the eve of the execution of DontÃ© Drumm, an African-American college football star, for the 1998 murder of a white cheerleader whose body was never found, Travis Boyette, a creepy multiple sex offender, confesses that he''s guilty of the crime to Kansas minister Keith Schroeder. With Drumm''s legal options dwindling fast and with the threat of civil unrest in his Texas hometown if the execution proceeds, Schroeder battles to convince Boyette to go public with the truth--and to persuade the condemned man''s attorney that Boyette''s story needs to be taken seriously. While the action progresses with a certain grim realism, Schroeder''s superficial responses to the issues raised undercut the impact. As with The Appeal, the author''s passionate views on serious flaws in the justice system don''t translate well into fiction. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "_The Confession_Â is the kind of grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story that demands to be inhaled as quickly as possible. But it''s also a superb work of social criticism in the literary troublemaker tradition of Upton Sinclair''s "The Jungle....Brilliant"--_Washington Post\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Grisham is the master of the legal thriller."--_USA Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  NO ONE KEEPS YOU IN SUSPENSE LIKE AMERICAâ€™S FAVORITE STORYTELLER\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe secrets of Grishamâ€™s success are no secret at all. There are two of them: his pacing, which ranges from fast to breakneck, and his Themeâ€”little guy takes on big conspiracy with the little guy getting the win in the end.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”Time\n  </em>\n  magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of entertainmentâ€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his feisty critiques of the legal system, his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions.â€ â€”_Entertainment Weekly _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJohn Grisham is about as good a storyteller as weâ€™ve got in the United States these days.â€ â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGrisham is a marvelous storyteller who works readers the way a good trial lawyer works a jury.â€ â€”_Philadelphia Inquirer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â â€œA mighty narrative talent and an unerring eye for hot-button issues.â€ â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA legal literary legend.â€ â€”_USA Today_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10038'),
(12883, 'The Confession', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  An innocent man is about to be executed.  Only a guilty man can save him.  For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn''t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn''t care. He just can''t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved when the verdict is guilty. He laughs when the police and prosecutors congratulate themselves. He is content to allow an innocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to be executed.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted DontÃ© Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row.Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; DontÃ© is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what''s right and confess. But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that they''re about to execute an innocent man?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15248'),
(12884, 'The Confession', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grisham''s recent slump continues with another subpar effort whose plot and characters, none of whom are painted in shades of gray, aren''t able to support an earnest protest against the death penalty. In 2007, almost on the eve of the execution of DontÃ© Drumm, an African-American college football star, for the 1998 murder of a white cheerleader whose body was never found, Travis Boyette, a creepy multiple sex offender, confesses that he''s guilty of the crime to Kansas minister Keith Schroeder. With Drumm''s legal options dwindling fast and with the threat of civil unrest in his Texas hometown if the execution proceeds, Schroeder battles to convince Boyette to go public with the truth--and to persuade the condemned man''s attorney that Boyette''s story needs to be taken seriously. While the action progresses with a certain grim realism, Schroeder''s superficial responses to the issues raised undercut the impact. As with The Appeal, the author''s passionate views on serious flaws in the justice system don''t translate well into fiction. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "_The Confession_ is the kind of grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story that demands to be inhaled as quickly as possible. But it''s also a superb work of social criticism in the literary troublemaker tradition of Upton Sinclair''s "The Jungle....Brilliant"--_Washington Post\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Grisham is the master of the legal thriller."--_USA Today_\n </p>\n <p>\n  NO ONE KEEPS YOU IN SUSPENSE LIKE AMERICAâ€™S FAVORITE STORYTELLER\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe secrets of Grishamâ€™s success are no secret at all. There are two of them: his pacing, which ranges from fast to breakneck, and his Themeâ€”little guy takes on big conspiracy with the little guy getting the win in the end.â€\n  <em>\n   â€”Time\n  </em>\n  magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of entertainmentâ€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWith every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his feisty critiques of the legal system, his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions.â€ â€”_Entertainment Weekly _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œJohn Grisham is about as good a storyteller as weâ€™ve got in the United States these days.â€ â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œGrisham is a marvelous storyteller who works readers the way a good trial lawyer works a jury.â€ â€”_Philadelphia Inquirer_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA mighty narrative talent and an unerring eye for hot-button issues.â€ â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA legal literary legend.â€ â€”_USA Today_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21377'),
(12885, 'Confessions of a Crap Artist', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick''s weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen through Jack''s murderously innocent gaze, Charlie and Juddy Hume prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack''s, but a great deal uglier.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction." -- The Sunday Times (London)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Dick is entertaining us about reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation.... We have our own homegrown Barges."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -- Ursula K. LeGuin, New Republic\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Philip K. Dick''s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable? -- The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2063'),
(12886, 'Confessions of a crap artist', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick''s weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen through Jack''s murderously innocent gaze, Charlie and Juddy Hume prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack''s, but a great deal uglier. "One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction." -- The Sunday Times (London) "Dick is entertaining us about reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation.... We have our own homegrown Barges." -- Ursula K. LeGuin, New Republic "Philip K. Dick''s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable? -- The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22701'),
(12887, 'Confessions of a crap artist--Jack Isidore (of Seville, Calif.): a chronicle of verified scientific fact, 1945-1959', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick''s weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen through Jack''s murderously innocent gaze, Charlie and Juddy Hume prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack''s, but a great deal uglier.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction." -- The Sunday Times (London)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Dick is entertaining us about reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation.... We have our own homegrown Barges."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -- Ursula K. LeGuin, New Republic\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Philip K. Dick''s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable? -- The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25225'),
(12888, 'Confessions of a GP', 'Benjamin Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dave Weinstein is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled, and quite frequently, very funny. He is also a general practitioner. These are his confessions. A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80 year-old man who can''t remember why he''s come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to conceive for a while but now finds herself pregnant and isn''t sure she wants to go through with it. A 7-year-old boy with "tummy aches" that don''t really exist. These are his patients. A witty insight into the life of a family doctor, this funny and moving account will change the way you look at yourÂ doctor next time you pop in with the sniffles.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dr Benjamin Daniels is a GP. That is about as much as we can reveal about him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7335'),
(12889, 'Confessions of a GP', 'Benjamin Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dave Weinstein is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled, and quite frequently, very funny. He is also a general practitioner. These are his confessions. A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80 year-old man who can''t remember why he''s come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to conceive for a while but now finds herself pregnant and isn''t sure she wants to go through with it. A 7-year-old boy with "tummy aches" that don''t really exist. These are his patients. A witty insight into the life of a family doctor, this funny and moving account will change the way you look at yourÂ doctor next time you pop in with the sniffles.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dr Benjamin Daniels is a GP. That is about as much as we can reveal about him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9179'),
(12890, 'Confessions of a GP', 'Benjamin Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dave Weinstein is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled, and quite frequently, very funny. He is also a general practitioner. These are his confessions. A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80 year-old man who can''t remember why he''s come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to conceive for a while but now finds herself pregnant and isn''t sure she wants to go through with it. A 7-year-old boy with "tummy aches" that don''t really exist. These are his patients. A witty insight into the life of a family doctor, this funny and moving account will change the way you look at your doctor next time you pop in with the sniffles.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dr Benjamin Daniels is a GP. That is about as much as we can reveal about him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16609'),
(12891, 'Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated', 'Alison Arngrim', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAlison Arngrim is a talented actress and an author who has patched together a meaningful life and created a book whose pagesâ€¦fly.â€ (Phyllis Diller)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a city bitch myself, I loved this book! Itâ€™s nice to see how the other half lives. Alison Arngrimâ€™s memoir is a hilarious, moving, and dishy Hollywood tale.â€ (Margaret Cho)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAlison Arngrim is a fine actress and a true comedienne. She has always been the kind of â€˜Bitchâ€™ who tells it like it is. So, readers beware, you are in for an eye-full of reality told with a remarkable sense of humor.â€ (Carol Channing)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhoa, Nellie! â€œConfessions of a Prairie Bitchâ€ is a book that you will keep stored under a haystack in the barn, to dip into whenever you need a shot of something that will keep you down on the farm.â€ (Bruce Vilanch)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCourage, moxie, chutzpah , cajones. Alison Arngrim has them all in spades. In â€œConfessions of a Prairie Bitch,â€ she bares her soul and manages to share her story with grace, dignity, and her inimitable humor. Simply put, I love this book and I love her. â€ (Melissa Gilbert)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on one of TV history''s most beloved series. Though millions of\n  <em>\n   Little House on the Prairie\n  </em>\n  viewers hated Nellie Oleson and her evil antics, Arngrim grew to love her characterâ€”and the freedom and confidence Nellie inspired in her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Confessions of a Prairie Bitch\n  </em>\n  , Arngrim describes growing up in Hollywood with her eccentric parents: Thor Arngrim, a talent manager to Liberace and others, whose appetite for publicity was insatiable, and legendary voice actress Norma MacMillan, who played both Gumby and Casper the Friendly Ghost. She recalls her most cherished and often wickedly funny moments behind the scenes of\n  <em>\n   Little House\n  </em>\n  : Michael Landon''s "unsaintly" habit of not wearing underwear; how she and Melissa Gilbert (who played her TV nemesis, Laura Ingalls) became best friends and accidentally got drunk on rum cakes at 7-Eleven; and the only time she and Katherine MacGregor (who played Nellie''s mom) appeared in public in costume, provoking a posse of elementary schoolgirls to attack them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Arngrim relays all this and more with biting wit, but she also bravely recounts her life''s challenges: her struggle to survive a history of traumatic abuse, depression, and paralyzing shyness; the "secret" her father kept from her for twenty years; and the devastating loss of her "_Little House_ husband" and best friend, Steve Tracy, to AIDS, which inspired her second career in social and political activism. Arngrim describes how Nellie Oleson taught her to be bold, daring, and determined, and how she is eternally grateful to have had the biggest little bitch on the prairie to show her the way.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7758'),
(12892, 'Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated', 'Alison Arngrim', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAlison Arngrim is a talented actress and an author who has patched together a meaningful life and created a book whose pagesâ€¦fly.â€ (Phyllis Diller)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a city bitch myself, I loved this book! Itâ€™s nice to see how the other half lives. Alison Arngrimâ€™s memoir is a hilarious, moving, and dishy Hollywood tale.â€ (Margaret Cho)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAlison Arngrim is a fine actress and a true comedienne. She has always been the kind of â€˜Bitchâ€™ who tells it like it is. So, readers beware, you are in for an eye-full of reality told with a remarkable sense of humor.â€ (Carol Channing)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhoa, Nellie! â€œConfessions of a Prairie Bitchâ€ is a book that you will keep stored under a haystack in the barn, to dip into whenever you need a shot of something that will keep you down on the farm.â€ (Bruce Vilanch)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCourage, moxie, chutzpah , cajones. Alison Arngrim has them all in spades. In â€œConfessions of a Prairie Bitch,â€ she bares her soul and manages to share her story with grace, dignity, and her inimitable humor. Simply put, I love this book and I love her. â€ (Melissa Gilbert)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on one of TV history''s most beloved series. Though millions of\n  <em>\n   Little House on the Prairie\n  </em>\n  viewers hated Nellie Oleson and her evil antics, Arngrim grew to love her characterâ€”and the freedom and confidence Nellie inspired in her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Confessions of a Prairie Bitch\n  </em>\n  , Arngrim describes growing up in Hollywood with her eccentric parents: Thor Arngrim, a talent manager to Liberace and others, whose appetite for publicity was insatiable, and legendary voice actress Norma MacMillan, who played both Gumby and Casper the Friendly Ghost. She recalls her most cherished and often wickedly funny moments behind the scenes of\n  <em>\n   Little House\n  </em>\n  : Michael Landon''s "unsaintly" habit of not wearing underwear; how she and Melissa Gilbert (who played her TV nemesis, Laura Ingalls) became best friends and accidentally got drunk on rum cakes at 7-Eleven; and the only time she and Katherine MacGregor (who played Nellie''s mom) appeared in public in costume, provoking a posse of elementary schoolgirls to attack them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Arngrim relays all this and more with biting wit, but she also bravely recounts her life''s challenges: her struggle to survive a history of traumatic abuse, depression, and paralyzing shyness; the "secret" her father kept from her for twenty years; and the devastating loss of her "_Little House_ husband" and best friend, Steve Tracy, to AIDS, which inspired her second career in social and political activism. Arngrim describes how Nellie Oleson taught her to be bold, daring, and determined, and how she is eternally grateful to have had the biggest little bitch on the prairie to show her the way.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8265'),
(12893, 'Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated', 'Alison Arngrim', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAlison Arngrim is a talented actress and an author who has patched together a meaningful life and created a book whose pages...fly.â€ (Phyllis Diller)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs a city bitch myself, I loved this book! Itâ€™s nice to see how the other half lives. Alison Arngrimâ€™s memoir is a hilarious, moving, and dishy Hollywood tale.â€ (Margaret Cho)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAlison Arngrim is a fine actress and a true comedienne. She has always been the kind of â€˜Bitchâ€™ who tells it like it is. So, readers beware, you are in for an eye-full of reality told with a remarkable sense of humor.â€ (Carol Channing)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhoa, Nellie! â€œConfessions of a Prairie Bitchâ€ is a book that you will keep stored under a haystack in the barn, to dip into whenever you need a shot of something that will keep you down on the farm.â€ (Bruce Vilanch)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCourage, moxie, chutzpah , cajones. Alison Arngrim has them all in spades. In â€œConfessions of a Prairie Bitch,â€ she bares her soul and manages to share her story with grace, dignity, and her inimitable humor. Simply put, I love this book and I love her. â€ (Melissa Gilbert)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on one of TV history''s most beloved series. Though millions of\n  <em>\n   Little House on the Prairie\n  </em>\n  viewers hated Nellie Oleson and her evil antics, Arngrim grew to love her characterâ€”and the freedom and confidence Nellie inspired in her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Confessions of a Prairie Bitch\n  </em>\n  , Arngrim describes growing up in Hollywood with her eccentric parents: Thor Arngrim, a talent manager to Liberace and others, whose appetite for publicity was insatiable, and legendary voice actress Norma MacMillan, who played both Gumby and Casper the Friendly Ghost. She recalls her most cherished and often wickedly funny moments behind the scenes of\n  <em>\n   Little House\n  </em>\n  : Michael Landon''s "unsaintly" habit of not wearing underwear; how she and Melissa Gilbert (who played her TV nemesis, Laura Ingalls) became best friends and accidentally got drunk on rum cakes at 7-Eleven; and the only time she and Katherine MacGregor (who played Nellie''s mom) appeared in public in costume, provoking a posse of elementary schoolgirls to attack them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Arngrim relays all this and more with biting wit, but she also bravely recounts her life''s challenges: her struggle to survive a history of traumatic abuse, depression, and paralyzing shyness; the "secret" her father kept from her for twenty years; and the devastating loss of her "_Little House_ husband" and best friend, Steve Tracy, to AIDS, which inspired her second career in social and political activism. Arngrim describes how Nellie Oleson taught her to be bold, daring, and determined, and how she is eternally grateful to have had the biggest little bitch on the prairie to show her the way.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16200'),
(12894, 'Confessions of a Public Speaker', 'Scott Berkun', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  In this hilarious and highly practical book, author and professional speaker Scott Berkun reveals the techniques behind what great communicators do, and shows how anyone can learn to use them well. For anyone else who talks and expects someone to listen,\n  <em>\n   Confessions of a Public Speaker\n  </em>\n  provides an insider''s perspective on how to effectively present ideas to anyone. You''ll get new insights into the art of persuasion, based on Scott''s 15 years of experience speaking to crowds of all sizes.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "For those that are contemplating public speaking, or want to improve their current aptitude, it is impossible that after reading the book, that they won''t be a better speaker. For those that simply want to know what goes into, and what makes a really good presentation,\n  <em>\n   Confessions of a Public Speaker\n  </em>\n  is also a worthwhile book to read."\n  <br />\n  --Ben Rothke, Slashdot.org\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ve seen Scott speak a few times before, and he knows his stuff. Add to this his sense of humor, plus the fact that pretty much everyone can stand to learn some new ideas about speaking, and this book is a MUST for your collection."\n  <br />\n  --Chris Brogan, ChrisBrogan.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Loved it! This is a very informative and entertaining look at the important art of public speaking. Anyone who speaks for a living- including teachers - will greatly benefit from this book."\n  <br />\n  --Garr Reynolds, Author of\n  <em>\n   Presentation Zen\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Your next talk will be ten times better if you read this book first."\n  <br />\n  --Gina Trapani, founding editor of Lifehacker.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "With tips on how to combat pre-speech butterflies, battling the "tough room" and how not to bore people silly, this book will ensure your next Powerpoint will be a success."\n  <br />\n  --John Baichtal, Wired\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Even if you prepare well and avoid disaster, of course, you may not charm everyone in the audience. But you can at least--with Mr. Berkun''s help--avoid being cripplingly nervous before that brown-bag presentation and wishing it were tomorrow."\n  <br />\n  --Philip Delves Broughton, The Wall Street Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smart, funny, and provocative, Scott Berkun''s\n  <em>\n   Confessions\n  </em>\n  puts an very modern and wholly relevant spin on the fine art of public speaking."\n  <br />\n  --Suzy Welch, best-selling author and public speaker\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Scott Berkun tells it like it is. Whether you''re speaking to 10 people or 1000 people, you will gain insights to take your presentation skills to the next level. It''s a rare book that will make you think AND laugh."\n  <br />\n  --Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Part confessional, part "how-to," this entertaining book is a godsend for anyone who would rather have an appendectomy without anesthetic than address a group in public."\n  <br />\n  --Virginia Backaitis, The New York Post\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "For those that are contemplating public speaking, or want to improve their current aptitude, it is impossible that after reading the book, that they won''t be a better speaker. For those that simply want to know what goes into, and what makes a really good presentation,\n  <em>\n   Confessions of a Public Speaker\n  </em>\n  is also a worthwhile book to read."\n  <br />\n  --Ben Rothke, Slashdot.org\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ve seen Scott speak a few times before, and he knows his stuff. Add to this his sense of humor, plus the fact that pretty much everyone can stand to learn some new ideas about speaking, and this book is a MUST for your collection."\n  <br />\n  --Chris Brogan, ChrisBrogan.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Loved it! This is a very informative and entertaining look at the important art of public speaking. Anyone who speaks for a living- including teachers - will greatly benefit from this book."\n  <br />\n  --Garr Reynolds, Author of\n  <em>\n   Presentation Zen\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Your next talk will be ten times better if you read this book first."\n  <br />\n  --Gina Trapani, founding editor of Lifehacker.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "With tips on how to combat pre-speech butterflies, battling the "tough room" and how not to bore people silly, this book will ensure your next Powerpoint will be a success."\n  <br />\n  --John Baichtal, Wired\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Even if you prepare well and avoid disaster, of course, you may not charm everyone in the audience. But you can at least--with Mr. Berkun''s help--avoid being cripplingly nervous before that brown-bag presentation and wishing it were tomorrow."\n  <br />\n  --Philip Delves Broughton, The Wall Street Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smart, funny, and provocative, Scott Berkun''s\n  <em>\n   Confessions\n  </em>\n  puts an very modern and wholly relevant spin on the fine art of public speaking."\n  <br />\n  --Suzy Welch, best-selling author and public speaker\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Scott Berkun tells it like it is. Whether you''re speaking to 10 people or 1000 people, you will gain insights to take your presentation skills to the next level. It''s a rare book that will make you think AND laugh."\n  <br />\n  --Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Part confessional, part "how-to," this entertaining book is a godsend for anyone who would rather have an appendectomy without anesthetic than address a group in public."\n  <br />\n  --Virginia Backaitis, The New York Post\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25139'),
(12895, 'Confessions of a Shopaholic', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she''s never looked better....Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London''s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season''s must-haves. The only trouble is that she can''t actually afford itâ€”not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn''t pay much at all. And lately Becky''s been chased by dismal letters from Visa and the Endwich Bankâ€”letters with large red sums she can''t bear to readâ€”and they''re getting ever harder to ignore. She tries cutting back; she even tries making more money. But none of her efforts succeeds. Becky''s only consolation is to buy herself something ... just a little something....Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her lifeâ€”and the lives of those around herâ€”forever. Sophie Kinsella has brilliantly tapped into our collective consumer conscience to deliver a novel of our timesâ€”and a heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens. Becky Bloomwood''s hilarious schemes to pay back her debts are as endearing as they are desperate. Her "confessions" are the perfect pick-me-up when life is hanging in the (bank) balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1196'),
(12896, 'Confessions of a Shopaholic', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she''s never looked better....Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London''s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season''s must-haves. The only trouble is that she can''t actually afford itâ€”not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn''t pay much at all. And lately Becky''s been chased by dismal letters from Visa and the Endwich Bankâ€”letters with large red sums she can''t bear to readâ€”and they''re getting ever harder to ignore. She tries cutting back; she even tries making more money. But none of her efforts succeeds. Becky''s only consolation is to buy herself something ... just a little something....Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her lifeâ€”and the lives of those around herâ€”forever. Sophie Kinsella has brilliantly tapped into our collective consumer conscience to deliver a novel of our timesâ€”and a heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens. Becky Bloomwood''s hilarious schemes to pay back her debts are as endearing as they are desperate. Her "confessions" are the perfect pick-me-up when life is hanging in the (bank) balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14553');
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(12897, 'Confessions of a Shopaholic', 'Sophie Kinsella', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she''s never looked better....Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London''s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season''s must-haves. The only trouble is that she can''t actually afford itâ€”not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn''t pay much at all. And lately Becky''s been chased by dismal letters from Visa and the Endwich Bankâ€”letters with large red sums she can''t bear to readâ€”and they''re getting ever harder to ignore. She tries cutting back; she even tries making more money. But none of her efforts succeeds. Becky''s only consolation is to buy herself something ... just a little something....Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her lifeâ€”and the lives of those around herâ€”forever. Sophie Kinsella has brilliantly tapped into our collective consumer conscience to deliver a novel of our timesâ€”and a heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens. Becky Bloomwood''s hilarious schemes to pay back her debts are as endearing as they are desperate. Her "confessions" are the perfect pick-me-up when life is hanging in the (bank) balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23719'),
(12898, 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen', 'Dyan Sheldon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mary Elizabeth, a.k.a. Lola, is accustomed to playing the starring role in the fascinating production that is her life. Her pottery-making single mom and bratty twin sisters are merely bit players in Lola''s dramatic existence. But all this changes when she is forced to move from her beloved Manhattan to the boring suburbs of New Jersey. According to Lola, "living in the suburbs is like being dead, only with cable TV and pizza delivery." The worst part is that someone has already snagged the coveted Drama Queen of Suburbia title--and that someone is Carla Santini. Carla, who is "sophisticated, beautiful, and radiates confidence the way a towering inferno radiates heat," isn''t about to let anyone take away her hard-earned crown. Undaunted, Lola tries out for and wins the lead in the school play, a role much desired by Carla. In retaliation, Carla makes the entire student body give Lola the silent treatment (and in addition scores tickets to a sold-out concert of Lola''s favorite rock band). Can Lola crash the concert, crush Carla, and still have enough energy to wow everyone in the school production of\n <em>\n  Pygmalion\n </em>\n ? It''s all in a day''s work for Lola, Teenage Drama Queen.\n</p>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen\n </em>\n , Dyan Sheldon has written a classic good girl vs. bad girl story and a rib-tickling romp through the petty kingdom (or in this case, queen-dom) of small-town high school popularity politics. The wide-open ending will have young drama-queens-in-training eagerly searching the shelves for the next installment of Lola''s adventures. (Ages 12 and older)\n <em>\n  --Jennifer Hubert\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When native New Yorker Mary Elizabeth Cep and her "astoundingly unimaginative" family move to New Jersey, Mary Elizabeth, who plans to be an actress some day, changes her name to Lola and zealously begins a campaign to enrich the "humdrum" lives of suburbanites. Unfortunately, Lola''s new classmates are not quite ready to receive her guidance. They are too busy worshipping their reigning "drama queen," snooty Carla Santini, who is not about to share the spotlight on- or offstage with anyone, especially a loudmouthed city slicker named Lola. Thus begins the war between Carla and Lola to be No. 1. Carla is armed with sophistication, beauty, confidence and an entourage of admirers. Lola, on the other hand, has only a handful of weapons: an overactive imagination, the lead role in the school play and one loyal friend, Ella, "a free spirit waitingAno, beggingAto be released." Energetic, almost breathless first-person narrative relates Lola''s bitter defeats and hard-earned triumphs in her rise to stardom at school. Pitting a deliciously despicable villainess against an irresistible heroine glittering with wit and charm, Sheldon (The Boy of My Dreams) pulls off a hilarious comedy of errors. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5778'),
(12899, 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen', 'Dyan Sheldon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mary Elizabeth, a.k.a. Lola, is accustomed to playing the starring role in the fascinating production that is her life. Her pottery-making single mom and bratty twin sisters are merely bit players in Lola''s dramatic existence. But all this changes when she is forced to move from her beloved Manhattan to the boring suburbs of New Jersey. According to Lola, "living in the suburbs is like being dead, only with cable TV and pizza delivery." The worst part is that someone has already snagged the coveted Drama Queen of Suburbia title--and that someone is Carla Santini. Carla, who is "sophisticated, beautiful, and radiates confidence the way a towering inferno radiates heat," isn''t about to let anyone take away her hard-earned crown. Undaunted, Lola tries out for and wins the lead in the school play, a role much desired by Carla. In retaliation, Carla makes the entire student body give Lola the silent treatment (and in addition scores tickets to a sold-out concert of Lola''s favorite rock band). Can Lola crash the concert, crush Carla, and still have enough energy to wow everyone in the school production of\n <em>\n  Pygmalion\n </em>\n ? It''s all in a day''s work for Lola, Teenage Drama Queen.\n</p>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen\n </em>\n , Dyan Sheldon has written a classic good girl vs. bad girl story and a rib-tickling romp through the petty kingdom (or in this case, queen-dom) of small-town high school popularity politics. The wide-open ending will have young drama-queens-in-training eagerly searching the shelves for the next installment of Lola''s adventures. (Ages 12 and older)\n <em>\n  --Jennifer Hubert\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When native New Yorker Mary Elizabeth Cep and her "astoundingly unimaginative" family move to New Jersey, Mary Elizabeth, who plans to be an actress some day, changes her name to Lola and zealously begins a campaign to enrich the "humdrum" lives of suburbanites. Unfortunately, Lola''s new classmates are not quite ready to receive her guidance. They are too busy worshipping their reigning "drama queen," snooty Carla Santini, who is not about to share the spotlight on- or offstage with anyone, especially a loudmouthed city slicker named Lola. Thus begins the war between Carla and Lola to be No. 1. Carla is armed with sophistication, beauty, confidence and an entourage of admirers. Lola, on the other hand, has only a handful of weapons: an overactive imagination, the lead role in the school play and one loyal friend, Ella, "a free spirit waitingAno, beggingAto be released." Energetic, almost breathless first-person narrative relates Lola''s bitter defeats and hard-earned triumphs in her rise to stardom at school. Pitting a deliciously despicable villainess against an irresistible heroine glittering with wit and charm, Sheldon (The Boy of My Dreams) pulls off a hilarious comedy of errors. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12635'),
(12900, 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen', 'Dyan Sheldon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mary Elizabeth, a.k.a. Lola, is accustomed to playing the starring role in the fascinating production that is her life. Her pottery-making single mom and bratty twin sisters are merely bit players in Lola''s dramatic existence. But all this changes when she is forced to move from her beloved Manhattan to the boring suburbs of New Jersey. According to Lola, "living in the suburbs is like being dead, only with cable TV and pizza delivery." The worst part is that someone has already snagged the coveted Drama Queen of Suburbia title--and that someone is Carla Santini. Carla, who is "sophisticated, beautiful, and radiates confidence the way a towering inferno radiates heat," isn''t about to let anyone take away her hard-earned crown. Undaunted, Lola tries out for and wins the lead in the school play, a role much desired by Carla. In retaliation, Carla makes the entire student body give Lola the silent treatment (and in addition scores tickets to a sold-out concert of Lola''s favorite rock band). Can Lola crash the concert, crush Carla, and still have enough energy to wow everyone in the school production of\n <em>\n  Pygmalion\n </em>\n ? It''s all in a day''s work for Lola, Teenage Drama Queen.\n</p>\n<p>\n With\n <em>\n  Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen\n </em>\n , Dyan Sheldon has written a classic good girl vs. bad girl story and a rib-tickling romp through the petty kingdom (or in this case, queen-dom) of small-town high school popularity politics. The wide-open ending will have young drama-queens-in-training eagerly searching the shelves for the next installment of Lola''s adventures. (Ages 12 and older)\n <em>\n  --Jennifer Hubert\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When native New Yorker Mary Elizabeth Cep and her "astoundingly unimaginative" family move to New Jersey, Mary Elizabeth, who plans to be an actress some day, changes her name to Lola and zealously begins a campaign to enrich the "humdrum" lives of suburbanites. Unfortunately, Lola''s new classmates are not quite ready to receive her guidance. They are too busy worshipping their reigning "drama queen," snooty Carla Santini, who is not about to share the spotlight on- or offstage with anyone, especially a loudmouthed city slicker named Lola. Thus begins the war between Carla and Lola to be No. 1. Carla is armed with sophistication, beauty, confidence and an entourage of admirers. Lola, on the other hand, has only a handful of weapons: an overactive imagination, the lead role in the school play and one loyal friend, Ella, "a free spirit waitingAno, beggingAto be released." Energetic, almost breathless first-person narrative relates Lola''s bitter defeats and hard-earned triumphs in her rise to stardom at school. Pitting a deliciously despicable villainess against an irresistible heroine glittering with wit and charm, Sheldon (The Boy of My Dreams) pulls off a hilarious comedy of errors. Ages 12-up.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18787'),
(12901, 'Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market', 'Daniel Reingold &amp; Jennifer Reingold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is the true story of a top Wall Street player''s transformation from a straight-arrow believer to a jaded cynic, who reveals how Wall Street''s insider game is really played.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dan Reingold was a top Wall Street analyst for fourteen years and Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman''s chief competitor in the red-hot sector of telecom. Reingold was part of the "Street" and believed in it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But in this action-packed, highly personal memoir written with accomplished *Fast Company* senior writer Jennifer Reingold the author describes how his enthusiasm gave way to disgust as he learned how deeply corrupted Wall Street and much of corporate America had become during the roaring stock market bubble of the 1990s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* provides a front-row seat at one of the most dramatic -- and ultimately tragic -- periods in financial history. Reingold recounts his introduction to the world of Wall Street leaks and secret deal-making; his experiences with corporate fraud; and Wall Street''s alarming penchant for lavish spending and multimillion-dollar pay packages.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reingold spars with arch rival Grubman; fends off intense pressures from Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs; and is wooed by Morgan Stanley''s CEO, John Mack, and CSFB''s Ã¼ber-banker Frank Quattrone.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reingold describes instances in which confidential deals are whispered days before their official announcement. He recalls the moment he learns that Bernie Ebbers''s WorldCom was massively cooking its books. And he is shocked to have been an unwitting catalyst for a series of sexually explicit e-mails that would rock Wall Street; bring Jack Grubman to his knees; and contribute to the stepping aside of Grubman''s boss, Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Some of Reingold''s stories are outrageous, others hilarious, and many are simply absurd. But, together, they provide a sobering exposÃ© of Wall Street: a jungle of greed and ego, a place brimming with conflicts and inside information, and a business absurdly out of touch with the Main Street it claims to serve.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He shows how government investigators, headlines notwithstanding, never got to the heart of the ethical and legal transgressions of the era. And how they completely overlooked Wall Street''s pervasive use of inside information, leaving investors -- even sophisticated professionals -- cheated. The book ends with a series of important policy recommendations to clean up the investing business.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the tradition of *Liar''s Poker* and *Den of Thieves*, *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* is a no-holds-barred insider''s account that will open the eyes of every investor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6488'),
(12902, 'Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market', 'Daniel Reingold &amp; Jennifer Reingold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is the true story of a top Wall Street player''s transformation from a straight-arrow believer to a jaded cynic, who reveals how Wall Street''s insider game is really played.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dan Reingold was a top Wall Street analyst for fourteen years and Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman''s chief competitor in the red-hot sector of telecom. Reingold was part of the "Street" and believed in it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But in this action-packed, highly personal memoir written with accomplished *Fast Company* senior writer Jennifer Reingold the author describes how his enthusiasm gave way to disgust as he learned how deeply corrupted Wall Street and much of corporate America had become during the roaring stock market bubble of the 1990s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* provides a front-row seat at one of the most dramatic -- and ultimately tragic -- periods in financial history. Reingold recounts his introduction to the world of Wall Street leaks and secret deal-making; his experiences with corporate fraud; and Wall Street''s alarming penchant for lavish spending and multimillion-dollar pay packages.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reingold spars with arch rival Grubman; fends off intense pressures from Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs; and is wooed by Morgan Stanley''s CEO, John Mack, and CSFB''s Ã¼ber-banker Frank Quattrone.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reingold describes instances in which confidential deals are whispered days before their official announcement. He recalls the moment he learns that Bernie Ebbers''s WorldCom was massively cooking its books. And he is shocked to have been an unwitting catalyst for a series of sexually explicit e-mails that would rock Wall Street; bring Jack Grubman to his knees; and contribute to the stepping aside of Grubman''s boss, Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Some of Reingold''s stories are outrageous, others hilarious, and many are simply absurd. But, together, they provide a sobering exposÃ© of Wall Street: a jungle of greed and ego, a place brimming with conflicts and inside information, and a business absurdly out of touch with the Main Street it claims to serve.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He shows how government investigators, headlines notwithstanding, never got to the heart of the ethical and legal transgressions of the era. And how they completely overlooked Wall Street''s pervasive use of inside information, leaving investors -- even sophisticated professionals -- cheated. The book ends with a series of important policy recommendations to clean up the investing business.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the tradition of *Liar''s Poker* and *Den of Thieves*, *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* is a no-holds-barred insider''s account that will open the eyes of every investor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12102'),
(12903, 'Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market', 'Daniel Reingold; Jennifer Reingold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: * Here is the true story of a top Wall Street player''s transformation from a straight-arrow believer to a jaded cynic, who reveals how Wall Street''s insider game is really played.* Dan Reingold was a top Wall Street analyst for fourteen years and Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman''s chief competitor in the red-hot sector of telecom. Reingold was part of the "Street" and believed in it. But in this action-packed, highly personal memoir written with accomplished *Fast Company* senior writer Jennifer Reingold the author describes how his enthusiasm gave way to disgust as he learned how deeply corrupted Wall Street and much of corporate America had become during the roaring stock market bubble of the 1990s. *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* provides a front-row seat at one of the most dramatic -- and ultimately tragic -- periods in financial history. Reingold recounts his introduction to the world of Wall Street leaks and secret deal-making; his experiences with corporate fraud; and Wall Street''s alarming penchant for lavish spending and multimillion-dollar pay packages. Reingold spars with arch rival Grubman; fends off intense pressures from Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs; and is wooed by Morgan Stanley''s CEO, John Mack, and CSFB''s Ã¼ber-banker Frank Quattrone. Reingold describes instances in which confidential deals are whispered days before their official announcement. He recalls the moment he learns that Bernie Ebbers''s WorldCom was massively cooking its books. And he is shocked to have been an unwitting catalyst for a series of sexually explicit e-mails that would rock Wall Street; bring Jack Grubman to his knees; and contribute to the stepping aside of Grubman''s boss, Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill. Some of Reingold''s stories are outrageous, others hilarious, and many are simply absurd. But, together, they provide a sobering exposÃ© of Wall Street: a jungle of greed and ego, a place brimming with conflicts and inside information, and a business absurdly out of touch with the Main Street it claims to serve. He shows how government investigators, headlines notwithstanding, never got to the heart of the ethical and legal transgressions of the era. And how they completely overlooked Wall Street''s pervasive use of inside information, leaving investors -- even sophisticated professionals -- cheated. The book ends with a series of important policy recommendations to clean up the investing business. In the tradition of *Liar''s Poker* and *Den of Thieves*, *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* is a no-holds-barred insider''s account that will open the eyes of every investor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17640'),
(12904, 'Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market', 'Daniel Reingold &amp; Jennifer Reingold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is the true story of a top Wall Street player''s transformation from a straight-arrow believer to a jaded cynic, who reveals how Wall Street''s insider game is really played.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dan Reingold was a top Wall Street analyst for fourteen years and Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman''s chief competitor in the red-hot sector of telecom. Reingold was part of the "Street" and believed in it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But in this action-packed, highly personal memoir written with accomplished *Fast Company* senior writer Jennifer Reingold the author describes how his enthusiasm gave way to disgust as he learned how deeply corrupted Wall Street and much of corporate America had become during the roaring stock market bubble of the 1990s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* provides a front-row seat at one of the most dramatic -- and ultimately tragic -- periods in financial history. Reingold recounts his introduction to the world of Wall Street leaks and secret deal-making; his experiences with corporate fraud; and Wall Street''s alarming penchant for lavish spending and multimillion-dollar pay packages.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reingold spars with arch rival Grubman; fends off intense pressures from Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs; and is wooed by Morgan Stanley''s CEO, John Mack, and CSFB''s Ã¼ber-banker Frank Quattrone.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reingold describes instances in which confidential deals are whispered days before their official announcement. He recalls the moment he learns that Bernie Ebbers''s WorldCom was massively cooking its books. And he is shocked to have been an unwitting catalyst for a series of sexually explicit e-mails that would rock Wall Street; bring Jack Grubman to his knees; and contribute to the stepping aside of Grubman''s boss, Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Some of Reingold''s stories are outrageous, others hilarious, and many are simply absurd. But, together, they provide a sobering exposÃ© of Wall Street: a jungle of greed and ego, a place brimming with conflicts and inside information, and a business absurdly out of touch with the Main Street it claims to serve.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He shows how government investigators, headlines notwithstanding, never got to the heart of the ethical and legal transgressions of the era. And how they completely overlooked Wall Street''s pervasive use of inside information, leaving investors -- even sophisticated professionals -- cheated. The book ends with a series of important policy recommendations to clean up the investing business.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the tradition of *Liar''s Poker* and *Den of Thieves*, *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* is a no-holds-barred insider''s account that will open the eyes of every investor.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: * Here is the true story of a top Wall Street player''s transformation from a straight-arrow believer to a jaded cynic, who reveals how Wall Street''s insider game is really played.* Dan Reingold was a top Wall Street analyst for fourteen years and Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman''s chief competitor in the red-hot sector of telecom. Reingold was part of the "Street" and believed in it. But in this action-packed, highly personal memoir written with accomplished *Fast Company* senior writer Jennifer Reingold the author describes how his enthusiasm gave way to disgust as he learned how deeply corrupted Wall Street and much of corporate America had become during the roaring stock market bubble of the 1990s. *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* provides a front-row seat at one of the most dramatic -- and ultimately tragic -- periods in financial history. Reingold recounts his introduction to the world of Wall Street leaks and secret deal-making; his experiences with corporate fraud; and Wall Street''s alarming penchant for lavish spending and multimillion-dollar pay packages. Reingold spars with arch rival Grubman; fends off intense pressures from Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs; and is wooed by Morgan Stanley''s CEO, John Mack, and CSFB''s Ã¼ber-banker Frank Quattrone. Reingold describes instances in which confidential deals are whispered days before their official announcement. He recalls the moment he learns that Bernie Ebbers''s WorldCom was massively cooking its books. And he is shocked to have been an unwitting catalyst for a series of sexually explicit e-mails that would rock Wall Street; bring Jack Grubman to his knees; and contribute to the stepping aside of Grubman''s boss, Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill. Some of Reingold''s stories are outrageous, others hilarious, and many are simply absurd. But, together, they provide a sobering exposÃ© of Wall Street: a jungle of greed and ego, a place brimming with conflicts and inside information, and a business absurdly out of touch with the Main Street it claims to serve. He shows how government investigators, headlines notwithstanding, never got to the heart of the ethical and legal transgressions of the era. And how they completely overlooked Wall Street''s pervasive use of inside information, leaving investors -- even sophisticated professionals -- cheated. The book ends with a series of important policy recommendations to clean up the investing business. In the tradition of *Liar''s Poker* and *Den of Thieves*, *Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst* is a no-holds-barred insider''s account that will open the eyes of every investor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27202'),
(12905, 'Confessions of an Event Planner: Case Studies From the Real World of Events--How to Handle the Unexpected and How to Be a Master of Discretion', 'Judy Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For anyone planning eventsâ€”student, novice, or experienced professionalâ€”Confessions of an Event Planner is an â€œapprenticeship in a book.â€ This insiderâ€™s guide takes you on a narrative journey, following a fictional event planning company that stages various types of events around the world for many different clients.  Â Â Â Â  While other books, college courses, and training programs give you the theory and how-to of the profession, Confessions of an Event Planner reveals the real world of event planning and what can happenâ€”usually the unexpectedâ€”on an event program when actual participants are added to the event planning design and execution mix. In a climate of media scrutiny and corporate scandals, event planners must be masters of discretion, knowing how to avoid and deal with everything from sexual romps to financial shenanigans, to chainsaw wielding salesmen dead set on â€œre-landscapingâ€ the grounds of the resort theyâ€™re staying at. From an event planner whoâ€™s seen it all and knows how to deal with it all, comes practical first-hand advice delivered in an entertaining and accessible format.  Â Â Â Â  Each chapter is set in a unique location, with a cast of characters, and a host of challenges and problems to overcomeâ€”from the boardroom to the resort guest bedrooms. Readers learn what they can come up against, how to problem solve creatively on the fly, get ideas for staging spectacular events, and see the principles of event planning in action. The scenario in each chapter is introduced by an outline of what will be covered in the chapter, and each chapter concludes with a series of review questions to explore key issues and stimulate reflection or discussion for individuals or groups. Ideal as a companion to Judy Allenâ€™s six other event planning books, as a textbook in event planning courses, or as a professional training tool Confessions of an Event Planner prepares planners for what they can expect once they start working in the world of corporate and social event planning, and will help decision-makers set company policies, procedures and protocol and promoteÂ discussion about codes of conduct in the office and offsite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3948'),
(12906, 'Confessions of an Event Planner: Case Studies From the Real World of Events--How to Handle the Unexpected and How to Be a Master of Discretion', 'Judy Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For anyone planning eventsâ€”student, novice, or experienced professionalâ€”Confessions of an Event Planner is an â€œapprenticeship in a book.â€ This insiderâ€™s guide takes you on a narrative journey, following a fictional event planning company that stages various types of events around the world for many different clients.  Â Â Â Â  While other books, college courses, and training programs give you the theory and how-to of the profession, Confessions of an Event Planner reveals the real world of event planning and what can happenâ€”usually the unexpectedâ€”on an event program when actual participants are added to the event planning design and execution mix. In a climate of media scrutiny and corporate scandals, event planners must be masters of discretion, knowing how to avoid and deal with everything from sexual romps to financial shenanigans, to chainsaw wielding salesmen dead set on â€œre-landscapingâ€ the grounds of the resort theyâ€™re staying at. From an event planner whoâ€™s seen it all and knows how to deal with it all, comes practical first-hand advice delivered in an entertaining and accessible format.  Â Â Â Â  Each chapter is set in a unique location, with a cast of characters, and a host of challenges and problems to overcomeâ€”from the boardroom to the resort guest bedrooms. Readers learn what they can come up against, how to problem solve creatively on the fly, get ideas for staging spectacular events, and see the principles of event planning in action. The scenario in each chapter is introduced by an outline of what will be covered in the chapter, and each chapter concludes with a series of review questions to explore key issues and stimulate reflection or discussion for individuals or groups. Ideal as a companion to Judy Allenâ€™s six other event planning books, as a textbook in event planning courses, or as a professional training tool Confessions of an Event Planner prepares planners for what they can expect once they start working in the world of corporate and social event planning, and will help decision-makers set company policies, procedures and protocol and promoteÂ discussion about codes of conduct in the office and offsite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9316'),
(12907, 'Confessions of an Event Planner: Case Studies From the Real World of Events--How to Handle the Unexpected and How to Be a Master of Discretion', 'Judy Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For anyone planning eventsâ€”student, novice, or experienced professionalâ€”Confessions of an Event Planner is an â€œapprenticeship in a book.â€ This insiderâ€™s guide takes you on a narrative journey, following a fictional event planning company that stages various types of events around the world for many different clients. While other books, college courses, and training programs give you the theory and how-to of the profession, Confessions of an Event Planner reveals the real world of event planning and what can happenâ€”usually the unexpectedâ€”on an event program when actual participants are added to the event planning design and execution mix. In a climate of media scrutiny and corporate scandals, event planners must be masters of discretion, knowing how to avoid and deal with everything from sexual romps to financial shenanigans, to chainsaw wielding salesmen dead set on â€œre-landscapingâ€ the grounds of the resort theyâ€™re staying at. From an event planner whoâ€™s seen it all and knows how to deal with it all, comes practical first-hand advice delivered in an entertaining and accessible format. Each chapter is set in a unique location, with a cast of characters, and a host of challenges and problems to overcomeâ€”from the boardroom to the resort guest bedrooms. Readers learn what they can come up against, how to problem solve creatively on the fly, get ideas for staging spectacular events, and see the principles of event planning in action. The scenario in each chapter is introduced by an outline of what will be covered in the chapter, and each chapter concludes with a series of review questions to explore key issues and stimulate reflection or discussion for individuals or groups. Ideal as a companion to Judy Allenâ€™s six other event planning books, as a textbook in event planning courses, or as a professional training tool Confessions of an Event Planner prepares planners for what they can expect once they start working in the world of corporate and social event planning, and will help decision-makers set company policies, procedures and protocol and promote discussion about codes of conduct in the office and offsite.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20603'),
(12908, 'The Confessions of Nat Turner (1968 Pulitzer Prize)', 'William Styron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region.The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat''s Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August. The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations--and hopes--which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who held his people in bondage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13811'),
(12909, 'The Confessions of Nat Turner (1968 Pulitzer Prize)', 'William Styron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region.The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat''s Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August. The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations--and hopes--which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who held his people in bondage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24713'),
(12910, 'Confessor', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he lovesâ€¦and has lost. Â Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable and memorable journeys ever written. It started with one rule, and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history. When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/761'),
(12911, 'Confessor', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he lovesâ€¦and has lost. Â Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable and memorable journeys ever written. It started with one rule, and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history. When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14915'),
(12912, 'Confessor', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he lovesâ€¦and has lost. Â Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable and memorable journeys ever written. It started with one rule, and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history. When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24224'),
(12913, 'The Confessor', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gabriel Allon, Daniel Silva''s protagonist in an interesting series about a Mossad spy who doubles as an art restorer, returns in a fascinating tale of Vatican complicity in the Holocaust. Author Silva, a political journalist turned espionage writer, has done his homework on some recently unearthed documents and written a fast-paced novel that will reawaken the discussion regarding whether the Catholic Church turned a blind eye to Nazi atrocities against Jews in occupied countries during World War II, and if so, why. Allon remains an enigmatic figure whose desire for revenge against the Leopard, the assassin who killed his wife and child, compels him to put down his paints and brushes and take arms against Israel''s past and present enemies. The Confessor is a solidly plotted, well-crafted story that will appeal to fans of Allen Furst, John le CarrÃ©, and other standouts in the international espionage genre. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6495'),
(12914, 'The Confessor', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gabriel Allon, Daniel Silva''s protagonist in an interesting series about a Mossad spy who doubles as an art restorer, returns in a fascinating tale of Vatican complicity in the Holocaust. Author Silva, a political journalist turned espionage writer, has done his homework on some recently unearthed documents and written a fast-paced novel that will reawaken the discussion regarding whether the Catholic Church turned a blind eye to Nazi atrocities against Jews in occupied countries during World War II, and if so, why. Allon remains an enigmatic figure whose desire for revenge against the Leopard, the assassin who killed his wife and child, compels him to put down his paints and brushes and take arms against Israel''s past and present enemies. The Confessor is a solidly plotted, well-crafted story that will appeal to fans of Allen Furst, John le CarrÃ©, and other standouts in the international espionage genre. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12676'),
(12915, 'The Confessor', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gabriel Allon, Daniel Silva''s protagonist in an interesting series about a Mossad spy who doubles as an art restorer, returns in a fascinating tale of Vatican complicity in the Holocaust. Author Silva, a political journalist turned espionage writer, has done his homework on some recently unearthed documents and written a fast-paced novel that will reawaken the discussion regarding whether the Catholic Church turned a blind eye to Nazi atrocities against Jews in occupied countries during World War II, and if so, why. Allon remains an enigmatic figure whose desire for revenge against the Leopard, the assassin who killed his wife and child, compels him to put down his paints and brushes and take arms against Israel''s past and present enemies. The Confessor is a solidly plotted, well-crafted story that will appeal to fans of Allen Furst, John le CarrÃ©, and other standouts in the international espionage genre. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17632'),
(12916, 'The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper: Woman of the West', 'Kathleen Y&#39;Barbo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This Wild West adventure just might be the life she was meant to live.The future is clearly mapped out for New York socialite Eugenia â€œGennieâ€ Cooper, but she secretly longs to slip into the boots of her favorite dime-novel heroine and experience just one adventure before settling down. When the opportunity arises, Gennie jumps at the chance to experience the Wild West, but her plans go awry when she is drawn into the lives of silver baron Daniel Beck and his daughter and finds herself caring for them more than is prudentâ€“especially as sheâ€™s supposed to go back to New York and marry another man. As Gennie adapts to the rough-and-tumble world of 1880s Colorado, she must decide whether her future lies with the enigmatic Daniel Beck or back home with the life planned for her since birth. The question is whether Danielâ€™s pastâ€“and disgruntled miners bent on revengeâ€“will take that choice away from her.Â â€œThe Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper is a fast-paced story full of fun, action, drama, and love.â€â€“Mary Connealy, author of Calico Canyon, Petticoat Ranch, and Gingham MountainÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€œIf you loved Cathy Marie Hake, give yourself a treat with The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper.â€â€“Lauraine Snelling, author of the Red River Series and One Perfect Day\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3789'),
(12917, 'The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper: Woman of the West', 'Kathleen Y&#39;Barbo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This Wild West adventure just might be the life she was meant to live.The future is clearly mapped out for New York socialite Eugenia â€œGennieâ€ Cooper, but she secretly longs to slip into the boots of her favorite dime-novel heroine and experience just one adventure before settling down. When the opportunity arises, Gennie jumps at the chance to experience the Wild West, but her plans go awry when she is drawn into the lives of silver baron Daniel Beck and his daughter and finds herself caring for them more than is prudentâ€“especially as sheâ€™s supposed to go back to New York and marry another man. As Gennie adapts to the rough-and-tumble world of 1880s Colorado, she must decide whether her future lies with the enigmatic Daniel Beck or back home with the life planned for her since birth. The question is whether Danielâ€™s pastâ€“and disgruntled miners bent on revengeâ€“will take that choice away from her.Â â€œThe Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper is a fast-paced story full of fun, action, drama, and love.â€â€“Mary Connealy, author of Calico Canyon, Petticoat Ranch, and Gingham MountainÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€œIf you loved Cathy Marie Hake, give yourself a treat with The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper.â€â€“Lauraine Snelling, author of the Red River Series and One Perfect Day\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13466'),
(12918, 'The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper: Woman of the West', 'Kathleen Y&#39;Barbo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This Wild West adventure just might be the life she was meant to live.The future is clearly mapped out for New York socialite Eugenia â€œGennieâ€ Cooper, but she secretly longs to slip into the boots of her favorite dime-novel heroine and experience just one adventure before settling down. When the opportunity arises, Gennie jumps at the chance to experience the Wild West, but her plans go awry when she is drawn into the lives of silver baron Daniel Beck and his daughter and finds herself caring for them more than is prudentâ€“especially as sheâ€™s supposed to go back to New York and marry another man. As Gennie adapts to the rough-and-tumble world of 1880s Colorado, she must decide whether her future lies with the enigmatic Daniel Beck or back home with the life planned for her since birth. The question is whether Danielâ€™s pastâ€“and disgruntled miners bent on revengeâ€“will take that choice away from her.Â â€œThe Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper is a fast-paced story full of fun, action, drama, and love.â€â€“Mary Connealy, author of Calico Canyon, Petticoat Ranch, and Gingham MountainÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â â€œIf you loved Cathy Marie Hake, give yourself a treat with The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper.â€â€“Lauraine Snelling, author of the Red River Series and One Perfect Day\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20628'),
(12919, 'Confronting Cyber-Bullying: What Schools Need to Know to Control Misconduct and Avoid Legal Consequences', 'Shaheen Shariff Ph.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Any book entitled "Confronting Cyber-Bullying" would be welcomed eagerly by those to whom this volume is addressed...The subtitle - "What Schools Need to Know to Control Misconduct and Avoid Legal Consequences" - enhances that potential appeal...Shaheen Shariff''s book is not simply the only game in town at this still early stage; it also does something that has rarely been done in the field of cyber-law...timely and cogent scholarship...a most welcome innovation for those of us who savor the legal challenges of electronic and digital communication."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  --Robert O''Neil, Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and Professor of Law Emeritus and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, First Amendment\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "...an interesting overview of cyber-bullying from a legal perspective."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  --Matthew L. Newman, PsycCRITIQUES\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book is directed to academics, educators, and government policy-makers who are concerned about addressing emerging cyber-bullying and anti-authority student expressions through the use of cell phone and Internet technologies. There is a current policy vacuum relating to the extent of educators'' legal responsibilities to intervene when such expression takes place outside of school hours and school grounds on home computers and personal cell phones. Students, teachers, and school officials are often targets of such expression. The author analyzes government and school responses by reviewing positivist paradigms. Her review of a range of legal frameworks and judicial decisions from constitutional, human rights, child protection, and tort law perspectives redirects attention to legally substantive and pluralistic approaches that can help schools balance student free expression, supervision, safety, and learning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23063');
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(12920, 'The Confusion', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe. Meanwhile, back in Europe ... The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France''s most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child. While ... Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2604'),
(12921, 'The Confusion', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe. Meanwhile, back in Europe ... The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France''s most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child. While ... Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12915'),
(12922, 'The confusion', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe. Meanwhile, back in Europe ... The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France''s most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child. While ... Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14046'),
(12923, 'The confusion', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe. Meanwhile, back in Europe ... The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France''s most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child. While ... Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22171'),
(12924, 'Congo', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.   Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies -- all motionless except for one moving image -- a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.   In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition -- along with Amy -- is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2780'),
(12925, 'Congo', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies -- all motionless except for one moving image -- a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur. In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition -- along with Amy -- is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15297'),
(12926, 'Congo', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies -- all motionless except for one moving image -- a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur. In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition -- along with Amy -- is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21933'),
(12927, 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#39;s Court', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur''s Court, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twainâ€™s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâ€™s Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthurâ€™s Camelot.What follows is a culture clash of the first magnitude, as practical-minded Hank, disgusted with the ignorance and superstition of the people, decides to enlighten them with education and technology. Through a series of wonderfully imaginative adventures, Twain celebrates American homespun ingenuity and democracy as compared to the backward ineptitude of a chivalric monarchy. At the same time, however, Twain raises the question of whether material progress necessarily creates a better society. As Hank becomes more powerful and self-righteous, he also becomes more ruthless, more autocratic, and less able to control events, until the only way out is a massively destructive war.While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twainâ€™s later works can be discerned in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâ€™s Court, the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling.With over 200 of the original illustrations by Dan Beard. Stephen Railton teaches American literature at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Mark Twain: A Short Introduction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2994'),
(12928, 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#39;s Court', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur''s Court, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twainâ€™s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâ€™s Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthurâ€™s Camelot.What follows is a culture clash of the first magnitude, as practical-minded Hank, disgusted with the ignorance and superstition of the people, decides to enlighten them with education and technology. Through a series of wonderfully imaginative adventures, Twain celebrates American homespun ingenuity and democracy as compared to the backward ineptitude of a chivalric monarchy. At the same time, however, Twain raises the question of whether material progress necessarily creates a better society. As Hank becomes more powerful and self-righteous, he also becomes more ruthless, more autocratic, and less able to control events, until the only way out is a massively destructive war.While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twainâ€™s later works can be discerned in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâ€™s Court, the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling.With over 200 of the original illustrations by Dan Beard. Stephen Railton teaches American literature at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Mark Twain: A Short Introduction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13114'),
(12929, 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#39;s Court', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur''s Court, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twainâ€™s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâ€™s Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthurâ€™s Camelot.What follows is a culture clash of the first magnitude, as practical-minded Hank, disgusted with the ignorance and superstition of the people, decides to enlighten them with education and technology. Through a series of wonderfully imaginative adventures, Twain celebrates American homespun ingenuity and democracy as compared to the backward ineptitude of a chivalric monarchy. At the same time, however, Twain raises the question of whether material progress necessarily creates a better society. As Hank becomes more powerful and self-righteous, he also becomes more ruthless, more autocratic, and less able to control events, until the only way out is a massively destructive war.While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twainâ€™s later works can be discerned in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâ€™s Court, the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling.With over 200 of the original illustrations by Dan Beard. Stephen Railton teaches American literature at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Mark Twain: A Short Introduction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14006'),
(12930, 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#39;s Court', 'Mark Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur''s Court, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twainâ€™s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâ€™s Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthurâ€™s Camelot.What follows is a culture clash of the first magnitude, as practical-minded Hank, disgusted with the ignorance and superstition of the people, decides to enlighten them with education and technology. Through a series of wonderfully imaginative adventures, Twain celebrates American homespun ingenuity and democracy as compared to the backward ineptitude of a chivalric monarchy. At the same time, however, Twain raises the question of whether material progress necessarily creates a better society. As Hank becomes more powerful and self-righteous, he also becomes more ruthless, more autocratic, and less able to control events, until the only way out is a massively destructive war.While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twainâ€™s later works can be discerned in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurâ€™s Court, the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling.With over 200 of the original illustrations by Dan Beard. Stephen Railton teaches American literature at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Mark Twain: A Short Introduction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21819'),
(12931, 'Conqueror', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Conqueror (The second book in the Time''s Tapestry series) A novel by Stephen Baxter As the comet fills the sky over Britain and rumours of war coming from across the channel spread two young men accompany a lecherous bishop north to the ruins of the ancient Hadrian''s Wall to search for a man known only as ''the last Roman'' and the mysterious prophecy he keeps - the prophecy of Isolde. It is a prophecy that tells of an invasion by a North man and an empire that will last thousands of years, an empire of the Aryans. Stephen Baxter''s new series is full of page-turning action, intriguing mystery and awe-inspiring scientific speculation. Full of evocative historical detail and characters who jump of the page this is history lived by people who''s future is not yet locked as our past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23006'),
(12932, 'Conscious Eating: Second Edition', 'Gabriel Cousens &amp; M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Gabriel Cousens, M.D. is an internationally celebrated spiritual teacher, author, lecturer, world peace worker, and physician of the soul. He is the world''s foremost physician promoting live food nutrition for physical health and spiritual growth. He received his M.D. degree from Columbia Medical School in 1969, and completed his psychiatry residency in 1973. As a leading researcher and practitioner in the field of rejuvenation, he specializes in the healing of many chronic degenerative diseases. To the healing process he also brings experience as a homeopathic physician (M.D. (H)), Diplomate in Ayurveda, family therapist, and live-food nutritionist. Dr. Cousens is also a Doctor of Divinity (D.D.), a Rebbe who has received rabbinical initiation, a student of Ecstatic Kabbalah since 1986, a certified Senior Essene Teacher in the Kabbalistic tradition, a recognized Yogi, a four-year Sundancer adopted into the Lakota Nation, and the White Buffalo Spirit Dance Chief. He is the author of a number of titles, including "Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine, Spiritual Nutrition, Depression-Free for Life, Creating Peace by Being Peace, "and" Tachyon Energy: A New Paradigm in Holistic Healing," co-authored with David Wagner, the creator of the Tachyon process. Dr. Cousens presents seminars worldwide on many topics including health and nutrition, psycho-spiritual healing, meditation, and spiritual awareness. Dr. Cousens founded and directs the Tree of Life Foundation, Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, and Tree of Life Health Practice in Patagonia, Arizona. He is a frequent guest on popular radio talk shows, and has published articles in health journals and popular magazines on a number of health, nutrition, and social topics. Visit his website at www.treeoflife.nu.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5499'),
(12933, 'Conscious Eating: Second Edition', 'Gabriel Cousens &amp; M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Gabriel Cousens, M.D. is an internationally celebrated spiritual teacher, author, lecturer, world peace worker, and physician of the soul. He is the world''s foremost physician promoting live food nutrition for physical health and spiritual growth. He received his M.D. degree from Columbia Medical School in 1969, and completed his psychiatry residency in 1973. As a leading researcher and practitioner in the field of rejuvenation, he specializes in the healing of many chronic degenerative diseases. To the healing process he also brings experience as a homeopathic physician (M.D. (H)), Diplomate in Ayurveda, family therapist, and live-food nutritionist. Dr. Cousens is also a Doctor of Divinity (D.D.), a Rebbe who has received rabbinical initiation, a student of Ecstatic Kabbalah since 1986, a certified Senior Essene Teacher in the Kabbalistic tradition, a recognized Yogi, a four-year Sundancer adopted into the Lakota Nation, and the White Buffalo Spirit Dance Chief. He is the author of a number of titles, including "Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine, Spiritual Nutrition, Depression-Free for Life, Creating Peace by Being Peace, "and" Tachyon Energy: A New Paradigm in Holistic Healing," co-authored with David Wagner, the creator of the Tachyon process. Dr. Cousens presents seminars worldwide on many topics including health and nutrition, psycho-spiritual healing, meditation, and spiritual awareness. Dr. Cousens founded and directs the Tree of Life Foundation, Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, and Tree of Life Health Practice in Patagonia, Arizona. He is a frequent guest on popular radio talk shows, and has published articles in health journals and popular magazines on a number of health, nutrition, and social topics. Visit his website at www.treeoflife.nu.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9090'),
(12934, 'Conscious Eating: Second Edition', 'Cousens Md, Gabriel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19124'),
(12935, 'Consent to Kill: A Thriller', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fearless counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp finds himself directly in the line of fire in the latest riveting political thriller from *New York Times* bestselling author Vince Flynn.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For years, Mitch Rapp''s bold actions have saved the lives of countless Americans. His battles for peace and freedom have made him a hero to many, and an enemy to countless more. In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage, there are those, even among America''s allies, who want to see Mitch Rapp eliminated. They have decided the time has come.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, the powerful father of a dead terrorist demands vengeance in its simplest form -- an eye for an eye, and Rapp instantly becomes the target of an international conspiracy. This time, he must use all of his vigilance and determination to save himself before he can turn his fury on those who have dared to betray him.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Consent to Kill* takes listeners behind the headlines and catapults them to the front lines of the global war on terror. It sizzles "with inside information, military muscle, and CIA secrets" (Dan Brown). Vince Flynn mixes military technology with his exclusive knowledge of Washington politics to create a hero that Americans will wish existed outside the realm of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/372'),
(12936, 'Consent to Kill: A Thriller', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fearless counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp finds himself directly in the line of fire in the latest riveting political thriller from *New York Times* bestselling author Vince Flynn.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For years, Mitch Rapp''s bold actions have saved the lives of countless Americans. His battles for peace and freedom have made him a hero to many, and an enemy to countless more. In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage, there are those, even among America''s allies, who want to see Mitch Rapp eliminated. They have decided the time has come.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, the powerful father of a dead terrorist demands vengeance in its simplest form -- an eye for an eye, and Rapp instantly becomes the target of an international conspiracy. This time, he must use all of his vigilance and determination to save himself before he can turn his fury on those who have dared to betray him.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Consent to Kill* takes listeners behind the headlines and catapults them to the front lines of the global war on terror. It sizzles "with inside information, military muscle, and CIA secrets" (Dan Brown). Vince Flynn mixes military technology with his exclusive knowledge of Washington politics to create a hero that Americans will wish existed outside the realm of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9752'),
(12937, 'Consent to kill: a thriller', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fearless counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp finds himself directly in the line of fire in the latest riveting political thriller from *New York Times* bestselling author Vince Flynn. For years, Mitch Rapp''s bold actions have saved the lives of countless Americans. His battles for peace and freedom have made him a hero to many, and an enemy to countless more. In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage, there are those, even among America''s allies, who want to see Mitch Rapp eliminated. They have decided the time has come. Now, the powerful father of a dead terrorist demands vengeance in its simplest form -- an eye for an eye, and Rapp instantly becomes the target of an international conspiracy. This time, he must use all of his vigilance and determination to save himself before he can turn his fury on those who have dared to betray him. *Consent to Kill* takes listeners behind the headlines and catapults them to the front lines of the global war on terror. It sizzles "with inside information, military muscle, and CIA secrets" (Dan Brown). Vince Flynn mixes military technology with his exclusive knowledge of Washington politics to create a hero that Americans will wish existed outside the realm of fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24612'),
(12938, 'Consequences', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Retrieval Artist Miles Flint brought one of the Disappeared out of hiding, believing she would be safe. But then she''s murdered, plunging Flint into a mystery involving an enigmatic alien race-and the fate of the entire solar system.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20082'),
(12939, 'Consequences', 'Joseph Lidster; James Moran; Andrew Cartmel; David Llewellyn; Sarah Pinborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century. Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable. But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. When an overlooked alien artefact despatches Jack Harkness into the past, how much of the twentieth century will he have to live through again? What links a three-year-old boy in 1994 to the destruction of a shopping centre in 2009? How does a witness to an alien''s reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto''s actions at a local publisher''s have a cost for Torchwood more than half a century earlier? For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20475'),
(12940, 'Conservatives Without Conscience', 'John W. Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **On the heels of his national bestseller *Worse Than Watergate*, John Dean takes a critical look at the current conservative movement**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Conservatives Without Conscience*, John Dean places the conservative movementâ€™s inner circle of leaders in the Republican Party under scrutiny. Dean finds their policies and mind- set to be fundamentally authoritarian, and as such, a danger to democracy. By examining the legacies of such old-line conservatives as J. Edgar Hoover, Spiro Agnew, and Phyllis Schlafly and of such current figures as Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, and leaders of the Religious Right, Dean presents an alarming record of abuses of power. His trenchant analysis of how conservatism has lost its bearings serves as a chilling warning and a stirring inspiration to safeguard constitutional principles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4188'),
(12941, 'Conservatives Without Conscience', 'John W. Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **On the heels of his national bestseller *Worse Than Watergate*, John Dean takes a critical look at the current conservative movement**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Conservatives Without Conscience*, John Dean places the conservative movementâ€™s inner circle of leaders in the Republican Party under scrutiny. Dean finds their policies and mind- set to be fundamentally authoritarian, and as such, a danger to democracy. By examining the legacies of such old-line conservatives as J. Edgar Hoover, Spiro Agnew, and Phyllis Schlafly and of such current figures as Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, and leaders of the Religious Right, Dean presents an alarming record of abuses of power. His trenchant analysis of how conservatism has lost its bearings serves as a chilling warning and a stirring inspiration to safeguard constitutional principles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9271'),
(12942, 'Conservatives Without Conscience', 'John W. Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **On the heels of his national bestseller *Worse Than Watergate*, John Dean takes a critical look at the current conservative movement** In *Conservatives Without Conscience*, John Dean places the conservative movementâ€™s inner circle of leaders in the Republican Party under scrutiny. Dean finds their policies and mind- set to be fundamentally authoritarian, and as such, a danger to democracy. By examining the legacies of such old-line conservatives as J. Edgar Hoover, Spiro Agnew, and Phyllis Schlafly and of such current figures as Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, and leaders of the Religious Right, Dean presents an alarming record of abuses of power. His trenchant analysis of how conservatism has lost its bearings serves as a chilling warning and a stirring inspiration to safeguard constitutional principles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20402'),
(12943, 'Consider Phlebas', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5016'),
(12944, 'Consider Phlebas', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8343'),
(12945, 'Consider Phlebas', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15292'),
(12946, 'Consider Phlebas', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19562'),
(12947, 'Consider Phlebas', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28250'),
(12948, 'Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike''s deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World''s Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6268'),
(12949, 'Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike''s deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World''s Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13253'),
(12950, 'Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike''s deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World''s Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14014'),
(12951, 'Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike''s deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World''s Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17785'),
(12952, 'Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays', 'David Foster Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike''s deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World''s Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27303'),
(12953, 'Considering Kate', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kate Stanislaski Kimball came home to begin a new life. The only thing more perfect than the beautiful, dilapidated building she''d bought for her new dance school is Brody O''Connell, the frustrating and fascinating contractor she''s hired for the renovation. Brody knows Kate is the daughter of Natasha Stanislaski: pampered, perfect, and not at all the right woman for him. But he longs to make her his.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25276'),
(12954, 'Consort', 'Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18147'),
(12955, 'Conspiracies', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Repairman Jack, F. Paul Wilson''s vigilante hero from the *New York Times *bestseller *The Tomb*, returns in a thriller that thrusts him back into the weird, supernatural world that he thrives in.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Looking for clues to the mysterious disappearance of leading conspiracy theorist Melanie Ehler, Jack attends a convention of bizarre and avid conspiracy theorists. It''s a place where aliens are real, the government is out to get you, and the world is hurtling toward an inevitable war of good versus evil incarnate.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jack finds that nobody can be trusted--and that few people are what they seem. Worse yet, Jack''s been having vivid dreams that make him wonder whether he''s headed for a clash with his own past--maybe *The Tomb*''s evil rakoshi beasts aren''t through with him quite yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5638'),
(12956, 'Conspiracies', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Repairman Jack, F. Paul Wilson''s vigilante hero from the *New York Times *bestseller *The Tomb*, returns in a thriller that thrusts him back into the weird, supernatural world that he thrives in. Looking for clues to the mysterious disappearance of leading conspiracy theorist Melanie Ehler, Jack attends a convention of bizarre and avid conspiracy theorists. It''s a place where aliens are real, the government is out to get you, and the world is hurtling toward an inevitable war of good versus evil incarnate. Jack finds that nobody can be trusted--and that few people are what they seem. Worse yet, Jack''s been having vivid dreams that make him wonder whether he''s headed for a clash with his own past--maybe *The Tomb*''s evil rakoshi beasts aren''t through with him quite yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19040'),
(12957, 'Conspiracies', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Repairman Jack, F. Paul Wilson''s vigilante hero from the *New York Times *bestseller *The Tomb*, returns in a thriller that thrusts him back into the weird, supernatural world that he thrives in. Looking for clues to the mysterious disappearance of leading conspiracy theorist Melanie Ehler, Jack attends a convention of bizarre and avid conspiracy theorists. It''s a place where aliens are real, the government is out to get you, and the world is hurtling toward an inevitable war of good versus evil incarnate. Jack finds that nobody can be trusted--and that few people are what they seem. Worse yet, Jack''s been having vivid dreams that make him wonder whether he''s headed for a clash with his own past--maybe *The Tomb*''s evil rakoshi beasts aren''t through with him quite yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27858'),
(12958, 'Conspiracy in Death', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring police lieutenant Eve Dallas. New York City''s most vulnerable citizens fall victim to a ruthless serial killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2558');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(12959, 'Conspiracy in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring police lieutenant Eve Dallas. New York City''s most vulnerable citizens fall victim to a ruthless serial killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13970'),
(12960, 'Conspiracy in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring police lieutenant Eve Dallas. New York City''s most vulnerable citizens fall victim to a ruthless serial killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22312'),
(12961, 'A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A fool and his money are soon parted--and nowhere so quickly as in the stock market, it would seem. In David Liss''s ambitious first novel,\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n , the year is 1719 and the place London, where human greed, apparently, operated then in much the same manner as it does today. Liss focuses his intricate tale of murder, money, and conspiracy on Benjamin Weaver, ex-boxer, self-described "protector, guardian, bailiff, constable-for-hire, and thief-taker," and son of a Portuguese Jewish "stock-jobber." Weaver''s father, from whom he has been estranged, has recently died, the victim of a horse-drawn carriage hit and run. Though his uncle has suggested that the accident wasn''t quite so accidental, Benjamin doesn''t give the idea much credence:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I blush to own I rewarded his efforts to seek my opinion with only a formal reply in which I dismissed his ideas as nonsensical. I did so in part because I did not wish to involve myself with my family and in part because I knew that my uncle, for reasons that eluded me, had loved my father and could not accept the senselessness of so random a death.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n But then Benjamin is hired by two different men to solve two seemingly unrelated cases. One client, Mr. Balfour, claims his own father''s unexpected death "was made to look like self-murder so that a villain or villains could take his money with impunity," and even suggests there might be a link between Balfour senior''s death and that of Weaver''s father. His next customer is Sir Owen Nettleton, an aristocrat who is keen to recover some highly confidential papers that were stolen from him while he cavorted with a prostitute. Weaver takes on the first case with some reluctance, the second with more enthusiasm. In the end, both converge, leading him back to his family even as they take him deep into the underbelly of London''s financial markets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Liss seems right at home in the world he''s created, whether describing the company manners of wealthy Jewish merchants at home or the inner workings of Exchange Alley--the 18th-century version of Wall Street. His London is a dank and filthy place, almost lawless but for the scant protection offered by such rogues as Jonathan Wilde, the sinister head of a gang of thieves who profits by selling back to their owners items stolen by his own men. Though better connected socially, the investors involved with the shady South Sea Company have equally larcenous hearts, and Liss does an admirable job of leading the reader through the intricacies of stock trading, bond selling, and insider trading with as little fuss, muss, and confusion as possible. What really makes the book come alive, however, are the details of 18th-century life--from the boxing matches our hero once participated in to the coffee houses, gin joints, and brothels where he trolls for clues. And then there is the matter of Weaver''s Jewishness, the prejudices of the society he lives in, and his struggle to come to terms with his own ethnicity.\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n weaves all these themes together in a manner reminiscent of the long, gossipy novels of Henry Fielding and Laurence Stern. Indeed, Liss manages to suggest the prose style of those authors while keeping his own, less convoluted style. This is one conspiracy guaranteed to succeed.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This remarkably accomplished first novel, by a young man still completing his doctoral dissertation at Columbia, has a great deal going on. It is at once a penetrating study of the beginnings of stock speculation and the retreat from a mineral-based currency in early 18th-century London, a sympathetic look at the life of a Jew in that time and place and a vision of the struggle between the Bank of England and the upstart South Sea Company to become the repository of the nation''s fiscal faith. If all that sounds daunting, it is above all a headlong adventure yarn full of dastardly villains, brawls, wenches and as commanding a hero as has graced a novel in some time. He is Benjamin Weaver, a Jewish former boxer who had once abandoned his family, and virtually his faith, too, for a life on the fringes of criminal society as a kind of freelance bailiff who brings debtors to book for their creditors. When his uncherished father dies suddenly, however, and he has reason to suspect the apparent accident was actually murder, he plunges himself into a hunt for those responsible, and in the process changes his life. With his native cunning and his brawling skills, he soon finds himself deeply embroiled with the villainous Jonathan Wild, thief-taker par excellence, who has institutionalized criminal mayhem. He also becomes the pawn of some powerful financial giants lurking in the shadows (much like the corporate villains in contemporary thrillers), comes to suspect his glamorous cousin Miriam of actions unbecoming a lady and employs the wiles of his philosophical Scottish friend Elias to decode the mysterious ways of finance and the laws of probability. The period detail is authentic but never obtrusive; the dialogue is a marvel of courtly locution masking murderous bluntness; and the plot, though devious in the extreme, never becomes opaque. It seems clear that Weaver is being set up as a series hero, which can only be good news for lovers of the best in dashing historical fiction. Agent, Liz Darhansoff. (Feb.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6156'),
(12962, 'A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A fool and his money are soon parted--and nowhere so quickly as in the stock market, it would seem. In David Liss''s ambitious first novel,\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n , the year is 1719 and the place London, where human greed, apparently, operated then in much the same manner as it does today. Liss focuses his intricate tale of murder, money, and conspiracy on Benjamin Weaver, ex-boxer, self-described "protector, guardian, bailiff, constable-for-hire, and thief-taker," and son of a Portuguese Jewish "stock-jobber." Weaver''s father, from whom he has been estranged, has recently died, the victim of a horse-drawn carriage hit and run. Though his uncle has suggested that the accident wasn''t quite so accidental, Benjamin doesn''t give the idea much credence:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I blush to own I rewarded his efforts to seek my opinion with only a formal reply in which I dismissed his ideas as nonsensical. I did so in part because I did not wish to involve myself with my family and in part because I knew that my uncle, for reasons that eluded me, had loved my father and could not accept the senselessness of so random a death.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n But then Benjamin is hired by two different men to solve two seemingly unrelated cases. One client, Mr. Balfour, claims his own father''s unexpected death "was made to look like self-murder so that a villain or villains could take his money with impunity," and even suggests there might be a link between Balfour senior''s death and that of Weaver''s father. His next customer is Sir Owen Nettleton, an aristocrat who is keen to recover some highly confidential papers that were stolen from him while he cavorted with a prostitute. Weaver takes on the first case with some reluctance, the second with more enthusiasm. In the end, both converge, leading him back to his family even as they take him deep into the underbelly of London''s financial markets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Liss seems right at home in the world he''s created, whether describing the company manners of wealthy Jewish merchants at home or the inner workings of Exchange Alley--the 18th-century version of Wall Street. His London is a dank and filthy place, almost lawless but for the scant protection offered by such rogues as Jonathan Wilde, the sinister head of a gang of thieves who profits by selling back to their owners items stolen by his own men. Though better connected socially, the investors involved with the shady South Sea Company have equally larcenous hearts, and Liss does an admirable job of leading the reader through the intricacies of stock trading, bond selling, and insider trading with as little fuss, muss, and confusion as possible. What really makes the book come alive, however, are the details of 18th-century life--from the boxing matches our hero once participated in to the coffee houses, gin joints, and brothels where he trolls for clues. And then there is the matter of Weaver''s Jewishness, the prejudices of the society he lives in, and his struggle to come to terms with his own ethnicity.\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n weaves all these themes together in a manner reminiscent of the long, gossipy novels of Henry Fielding and Laurence Stern. Indeed, Liss manages to suggest the prose style of those authors while keeping his own, less convoluted style. This is one conspiracy guaranteed to succeed.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This remarkably accomplished first novel, by a young man still completing his doctoral dissertation at Columbia, has a great deal going on. It is at once a penetrating study of the beginnings of stock speculation and the retreat from a mineral-based currency in early 18th-century London, a sympathetic look at the life of a Jew in that time and place and a vision of the struggle between the Bank of England and the upstart South Sea Company to become the repository of the nation''s fiscal faith. If all that sounds daunting, it is above all a headlong adventure yarn full of dastardly villains, brawls, wenches and as commanding a hero as has graced a novel in some time. He is Benjamin Weaver, a Jewish former boxer who had once abandoned his family, and virtually his faith, too, for a life on the fringes of criminal society as a kind of freelance bailiff who brings debtors to book for their creditors. When his uncherished father dies suddenly, however, and he has reason to suspect the apparent accident was actually murder, he plunges himself into a hunt for those responsible, and in the process changes his life. With his native cunning and his brawling skills, he soon finds himself deeply embroiled with the villainous Jonathan Wild, thief-taker par excellence, who has institutionalized criminal mayhem. He also becomes the pawn of some powerful financial giants lurking in the shadows (much like the corporate villains in contemporary thrillers), comes to suspect his glamorous cousin Miriam of actions unbecoming a lady and employs the wiles of his philosophical Scottish friend Elias to decode the mysterious ways of finance and the laws of probability. The period detail is authentic but never obtrusive; the dialogue is a marvel of courtly locution masking murderous bluntness; and the plot, though devious in the extreme, never becomes opaque. It seems clear that Weaver is being set up as a series hero, which can only be good news for lovers of the best in dashing historical fiction. Agent, Liz Darhansoff. (Feb.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11174'),
(12963, 'A conspiracy of paper: a novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A fool and his money are soon parted--and nowhere so quickly as in the stock market, it would seem. In David Liss''s ambitious first novel,\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n , the year is 1719 and the place London, where human greed, apparently, operated then in much the same manner as it does today. Liss focuses his intricate tale of murder, money, and conspiracy on Benjamin Weaver, ex-boxer, self-described "protector, guardian, bailiff, constable-for-hire, and thief-taker," and son of a Portuguese Jewish "stock-jobber." Weaver''s father, from whom he has been estranged, has recently died, the victim of a horse-drawn carriage hit and run. Though his uncle has suggested that the accident wasn''t quite so accidental, Benjamin doesn''t give the idea much credence:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  I blush to own I rewarded his efforts to seek my opinion with only a formal reply in which I dismissed his ideas as nonsensical. I did so in part because I did not wish to involve myself with my family and in part because I knew that my uncle, for reasons that eluded me, had loved my father and could not accept the senselessness of so random a death.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n But then Benjamin is hired by two different men to solve two seemingly unrelated cases. One client, Mr. Balfour, claims his own father''s unexpected death "was made to look like self-murder so that a villain or villains could take his money with impunity," and even suggests there might be a link between Balfour senior''s death and that of Weaver''s father. His next customer is Sir Owen Nettleton, an aristocrat who is keen to recover some highly confidential papers that were stolen from him while he cavorted with a prostitute. Weaver takes on the first case with some reluctance, the second with more enthusiasm. In the end, both converge, leading him back to his family even as they take him deep into the underbelly of London''s financial markets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Liss seems right at home in the world he''s created, whether describing the company manners of wealthy Jewish merchants at home or the inner workings of Exchange Alley--the 18th-century version of Wall Street. His London is a dank and filthy place, almost lawless but for the scant protection offered by such rogues as Jonathan Wilde, the sinister head of a gang of thieves who profits by selling back to their owners items stolen by his own men. Though better connected socially, the investors involved with the shady South Sea Company have equally larcenous hearts, and Liss does an admirable job of leading the reader through the intricacies of stock trading, bond selling, and insider trading with as little fuss, muss, and confusion as possible. What really makes the book come alive, however, are the details of 18th-century life--from the boxing matches our hero once participated in to the coffee houses, gin joints, and brothels where he trolls for clues. And then there is the matter of Weaver''s Jewishness, the prejudices of the society he lives in, and his struggle to come to terms with his own ethnicity.\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n weaves all these themes together in a manner reminiscent of the long, gossipy novels of Henry Fielding and Laurence Stern. Indeed, Liss manages to suggest the prose style of those authors while keeping his own, less convoluted style. This is one conspiracy guaranteed to succeed.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This remarkably accomplished first novel, by a young man still completing his doctoral dissertation at Columbia, has a great deal going on. It is at once a penetrating study of the beginnings of stock speculation and the retreat from a mineral-based currency in early 18th-century London, a sympathetic look at the life of a Jew in that time and place and a vision of the struggle between the Bank of England and the upstart South Sea Company to become the repository of the nation''s fiscal faith. If all that sounds daunting, it is above all a headlong adventure yarn full of dastardly villains, brawls, wenches and as commanding a hero as has graced a novel in some time. He is Benjamin Weaver, a Jewish former boxer who had once abandoned his family, and virtually his faith, too, for a life on the fringes of criminal society as a kind of freelance bailiff who brings debtors to book for their creditors. When his uncherished father dies suddenly, however, and he has reason to suspect the apparent accident was actually murder, he plunges himself into a hunt for those responsible, and in the process changes his life. With his native cunning and his brawling skills, he soon finds himself deeply embroiled with the villainous Jonathan Wild, thief-taker par excellence, who has institutionalized criminal mayhem. He also becomes the pawn of some powerful financial giants lurking in the shadows (much like the corporate villains in contemporary thrillers), comes to suspect his glamorous cousin Miriam of actions unbecoming a lady and employs the wiles of his philosophical Scottish friend Elias to decode the mysterious ways of finance and the laws of probability. The period detail is authentic but never obtrusive; the dialogue is a marvel of courtly locution masking murderous bluntness; and the plot, though devious in the extreme, never becomes opaque. It seems clear that Weaver is being set up as a series hero, which can only be good news for lovers of the best in dashing historical fiction. Agent, Liz Darhansoff. (Feb.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17821'),
(12964, 'Conspirator', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Readers unfamiliar with Cherryh''s Foreigner series (most recently 2007''s\n  <em>\n   Deliverer\n  </em>\n  ) are likely to be somewhat at sea in this complex and sophisticated 10th installment, but those who persevere will be rewarded with a space opera where ideas are as important as action. This book continues chronicling the experience of Bren Cameron, who serves as the paidhi-aiji, the interpreter for human colonists stranded on the planet of the alien atevi. Cameron''s current concern is the spread of human technology, which has the potential to wreak havoc with the formal communication protocols the atevi rely on to maintain their societal structure. Cameron must engage in subtle diplomacy and political maneuvering while evading attempts on his life and keeping track of a headstrong young atevi nobleman. The lack of basic background may discourage new readers, but fans will be delighted.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   First in a brand-new\n   <em>\n    Foreigner\n   </em>\n   trilogy from Hugo Award winning author C. J. Cherryh.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cajeiri is the young son of the powerful leader of the Western Association-and he has become a target for forces bent on destroying his father''s rule. For Cajeiri is the first\n  <em>\n   ateva\n  </em>\n  youth to have lived in a human environment. And after hundreds of years of fragile atevi-human coexistence, he may very well be the first of his people to ever truly understand the so similar-yet so dangerously different-aliens who share his home planet and threaten the hidebound customs of his race.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15516'),
(12965, 'The Constant Gardener: A Novel', 'JOHN LE CARRE', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n British diplomat Justin Quayle, complacent raiser of freesias and doting husband of the stunning, much younger Tessa, has tended his own garden in Nairobi too long. Tessa is Justin''s opposite, a fiery reformer, "that rarest thing, a lawyer who believes in justice," whose campaigns have earned her a nickname: "the Princess Diana of the African poor." But now Tessa has turned up naked, raped, and dead on a mysterious visit to remote Lake Turkana in Kenya. Her traveling companion (and lover?), the handsome Congolese-Belgian doctor Arnold Bluhm, has vanished. So has Quayle''s complacency.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tessa had been compiling data against a multinational drug company that uses helpless Africans as guinea pigs to test a tuberculosis remedy with unfortunately fatal side effects. Her report was destroyed by her husband''s superiors; was she? It''s all somehow connected to the sinister British firm House of ThreeBees, whose ad boasts that it''s "buzzy for the health of Africa!" John le CarrÃ© symbolically associates ThreeBees with an ominous buzz in the Nairobi morgue: "Over [the corpses], in a swaying, muddy mist, hung the flies, snoring on a single note."\n</p>\n<p>\n The home office tries to take Quayle in out of the cold. He cleverly eludes their clammy embrace, turns spy, and takes off on a global chase to avenge Tessa and solve her murder. Le CarrÃ© has lost none of his gift for setting vivid scenes in far-flung places expertly described: London, Germany, Saskatchewan, Kenya. His sprinting thriller prose remains in great shape. And thanks to his 16 years in the British Foreign Office, his merciless send-up of its cutthroat intrigues and petty self-delusions is unbelievably good--or rather, believably so. This is global do-gooder satire on a literary par with Doris Lessing''s\n <em>\n  The Summer Before the Dark\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n But you want to know if\n <em>\n  The Constant Gardener\n </em>\n is as good as\n <em>\n  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy\n </em>\n . Very nearly. Africa''s nightmare is more complex than the cold war chess match, and the world pharmaceutical circus is tougher to dramatize than the old spy-versus-spy-versus-spymaster game. Still, le CarrÃ© can write a smart, melancholy page-turner, and his moral outrage (the real subject of his books) burns as brightly as ever.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As the world seems to move ever further beyond the comparatively clear-cut choices of the Cold War into a moral morass in which greed and cynicism seem the prime movers, le Carr ''s work has become increasingly radical, and this is by far his most passionately angry novel yet. Its premise is similar to that of Michael Palmer''s Miracle CureDcynical pharmaceutical firm allied with devious doctors attempts to foist on the world a flawed but potentially hugely profitable drugDbut the difference is in the setting and the treatment. Le Carr has placed the prime action in Africa, where the drug is being surreptitiously tested on poor villagers. Tessa Quayle, married to a member of the British High Commission staff in corruption-riddled contemporary Kenya, gets wind of it and tries in vain to blow the whistle on the manufacturer and its smarmy African distributor. She is killed for her pains. At this point Justin Quayle, her older, gentlemanly husband, sets out to find out who killed her, and to stop the dangerous drug himselfDat a terrible cost. Le Carr ''s manifold skills at scene-setting and creating a range of fearsomely convincing English characters, from the bluffly absurd to the irredeemably corrupt, are at their smooth peak here. Both The Tailor of Panama and Single &amp; Single were feeling their way toward this wholehearted assault on the way the world works, by a man who knows much better than most novelists writing today how it works. Now subject and style are one, and the result is heart-wrenching. (Jan. 9) Forecast: Admirers of the author who may have found some of the moral ambiguities and overelaborate set pieces of his last two books less than top-drawer le Carr will welcome a return to his best form. There is a wonderfully charismatic and idealistic heroine, which will bolster female readership, and the appearance of the book shortly after the release of a movie of Tailor (starring Jamie Lee Curtis) is bound to create an extra rush of media attention. Be prepared for the biggest le Carr sales in years.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20218'),
(12966, 'Contact', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they''ve found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects\n  <em>\n   Contact\n  </em>\n  , his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the various countries involved. Sagan meditates on science, religion, and government--the elements that define society--and looks to their impact on and role in the future. His ability to pack an exciting read with such rich content is an unusual talent that makes\n  <em>\n   Contact\n  </em>\n  a modern sci-fi classic.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Who could be better qualified than the author of the highly successful Cosmos to turn the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence, and humankind''s first contact with it, into imaginative reality? This is precisely what Sagan does in this eagerly awaited and, as it turns out, engrossing first novel. The basic plot is very simple. A worldwide system of radio telescopes, in the charge of brilliant astrophysicist Ellie Arroway, picks up a "Message" from outer space. Ellie is instrumental in decoding the message and building the "Machine" for which it gives instructions (despite stiff opposition from religious fundamentalists and those scientists and politicians who fear it may be a Trojan Horse). Then she and fellow members of a small multinational team board the machine, take a startling trip into outer spaceand on their return must convince the scientific community that they are not the perpetrators of a hoax. Sagan''s characters, mostly scientists, are credible without being memorable, and he supplies a love interest that is less than compelling. However, his informed and dramatically enacted speculations into the mysteries of the universe, taken to the point where science and religion touch, make his story an exciting intellectual adventure and science fiction of a high order. First serial to Discover Magazine; BOMC selection. Foreign rights: S &amp; S. October 1\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7035'),
(12967, 'Contact', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there?In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13835'),
(12968, 'Contact', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they''ve found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects\n  <em>\n   Contact\n  </em>\n  , his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the various countries involved. Sagan meditates on science, religion, and government--the elements that define society--and looks to their impact on and role in the future. His ability to pack an exciting read with such rich content is an unusual talent that makes\n  <em>\n   Contact\n  </em>\n  a modern sci-fi classic.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Who could be better qualified than the author of the highly successful Cosmos to turn the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence, and humankind''s first contact with it, into imaginative reality? This is precisely what Sagan does in this eagerly awaited and, as it turns out, engrossing first novel. The basic plot is very simple. A worldwide system of radio telescopes, in the charge of brilliant astrophysicist Ellie Arroway, picks up a "Message" from outer space. Ellie is instrumental in decoding the message and building the "Machine" for which it gives instructions (despite stiff opposition from religious fundamentalists and those scientists and politicians who fear it may be a Trojan Horse). Then she and fellow members of a small multinational team board the machine, take a startling trip into outer spaceand on their return must convince the scientific community that they are not the perpetrators of a hoax. Sagan''s characters, mostly scientists, are credible without being memorable, and he supplies a love interest that is less than compelling. However, his informed and dramatically enacted speculations into the mysteries of the universe, taken to the point where science and religion touch, make his story an exciting intellectual adventure and science fiction of a high order. First serial to Discover Magazine; BOMC selection. Foreign rights: S &amp; S. October 1\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16929'),
(12969, 'Contact', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there?In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there? In "Cosmos," Carl Sagan explained the universe. In "Contact," he predicts its future -- and our own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26822'),
(12970, 'Contagious', 'Scott Sigler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the acclaimed author of *Infected* comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanityâ€™s secret battle against a horrific enemy. Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet after every battle the disease responds, adapts, using sophisticated strategies and brilliant ruses to fool its pursuers. The only possible explanation: the epidemic is driven not by evolution but by some malevolent intelligence.Standing against this unimaginable threat is a small group, assembled under the strictest secrecy. Their best weapon is hulking former football star Perry Dawsey, left psychologically shattered by his own struggles with this terrible enemy, who possesses an unexplainable ability to locate the diseaseâ€™s hosts. Violent and unpredictable, Perry is both the nationâ€™s best hope and a terrifying liability. Hardened CIA veteran Dew Phillips must somehow forge a connection with him if theyâ€™re going to stand a chance against this maddeningly adaptable opponent. Alongside them is Margaret Montoya, a brilliant epidemiologist who fights for a cure even as she reels under the weight of endless horrors. These three and their team have kept humanity in the game, but thatâ€™s not good enough anymore, not when the disease turns contagious, triggering a fast countdown to Armageddon. Meanwhile, other enemies join the battle, and a new threat â€” one that comes from a most unexpected source â€” may ultimately prove the most dangerous of all.Catapulting the reader into a world where humanityâ€™s life span is measured in hours and the presidentâ€™s finger hovers over the nuclear button, rising star Scott Sigler takes us on a breathtaking, hyper-adrenalized ride filled with terror and jaw-dropping action. *Contagious* is a truly grand work of suspense, science, and horror from a new master.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23076'),
(12971, 'Containment', 'Christian Cantrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As Earth''s ability to support human life diminishes, the Global Space Agency is formed with a single mandate: protect humanity from extinction by colonizing the solar system. Venus, being almost the same mass as Earth, is chosen over Mars as humanity''s first permanent steppingstone into the universe.Arik Ockley is part of the first generation to be born and raised off-Earth. After a puzzling accident, Arik wakes up to find that his wife is three months pregnant. Since the colony''s environmental systems cannot safely support any increases in population, Arik immediately resumes his work on AP, or artificial photosynthesis, in order to save the life of his unborn child.Arik''s new and frantic research uncovers startling truths about the planet, and about the distorted reality the founders of the colony have constructed for Arik''s entire generation. Everything Arik has ever known is called into question, and he must figure out the right path for himself, his wife, and his unborn daughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6748'),
(12972, 'Containment', 'Christian Cantrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As Earth''s ability to support human life diminishes, the Global Space Agency is formed with a single mandate: protect humanity from extinction by colonizing the solar system. Venus, being almost the same mass as Earth, is chosen over Mars as humanity''s first permanent steppingstone into the universe.Arik Ockley is part of the first generation to be born and raised off-Earth. After a puzzling accident, Arik wakes up to find that his wife is three months pregnant. Since the colony''s environmental systems cannot safely support any increases in population, Arik immediately resumes his work on AP, or artificial photosynthesis, in order to save the life of his unborn child.Arik''s new and frantic research uncovers startling truths about the planet, and about the distorted reality the founders of the colony have constructed for Arik''s entire generation. Everything Arik has ever known is called into question, and he must figure out the right path for himself, his wife, and his unborn daughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18094'),
(12973, 'Containment', 'Christian Cantrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26908'),
(12974, 'Contamination', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The U.S.S. Enterprise is stunned when famed scientist Lynn Costa is murdered in one of the ship''s science labs. She and her husband Emil were known as science''s greatest ongoing collaboration and, together had received the Federation''s highest honors for their achievements in scientific research. Determined to see the culprit brought to justice, Captain Picard assigns Lt. Worf and Counselor Deanna Troi to the case. Their routine investigation of the ship''s science lab soon reveals a dangerous web of deceit, betrayal, and madness. Now, Worf and Troi find themselves struggling against a ruthless assassin set on revenge, for whom murder is only the beginning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4166'),
(12975, 'Contamination', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The U.S.S. Enterprise is stunned when famed scientist Lynn Costa is murdered in one of the ship''s science labs. She and her husband Emil were known as science''s greatest ongoing collaboration and, together had received the Federation''s highest honors for their achievements in scientific research. Determined to see the culprit brought to justice, Captain Picard assigns Lt. Worf and Counselor Deanna Troi to the case. Their routine investigation of the ship''s science lab soon reveals a dangerous web of deceit, betrayal, and madness. Now, Worf and Troi find themselves struggling against a ruthless assassin set on revenge, for whom murder is only the beginning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20424'),
(12976, 'Contents', 'Chuck Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18203'),
(12977, 'Continental Contract', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The largest private gun squad in history follows Bolan to France, only to find the war has started without them, and 20 dead Frenchmen are mute testimony to the profinciency of the Executioner. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5894'),
(12978, 'Continental Contract', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The largest private gun squad in history follows Bolan to France, only to find the war has started without them, and 20 dead Frenchmen are mute testimony to the profinciency of the Executioner. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18718'),
(12979, 'Continental Contract', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The largest private gun squad in history follows Bolan to France, only to find the war has started without them, and 20 dead Frenchmen are mute testimony to the profinciency of the Executioner. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27525'),
(12980, 'Contract With God', 'Juan Gomez Jurado', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The discovery of a fragment of an ancient map leads Anthony Fowler, priest, CIA operative and member of the Holy Alliance, into an expedition in search of one of the most powerful ancient treasures of all.Anthony Fowler pays a visit to a war criminal living under a pseudonym because of the terrible experiments he performed on Jewish children. Fowler offers him a deal - he will not reveal the man''s true identity in exchange for a huge candle covered in fine filigree gold. But it isn''t the gold Fowler is after - it is the metallic object preserved within the wax, a missing fragment of an ancient map. Soon Fowler is involved in an expedition to Jordan set up by a reclusive billionaire who has links to the highest levels of the Catholic Church. But there is a traitor in the group - and he''s patiently awaiting the moment to strike...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3968'),
(12981, 'Contract With God', 'Juan Gomez Jurado', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The discovery of a fragment of an ancient map leads Anthony Fowler, priest, CIA operative and member of the Holy Alliance, into an expedition in search of one of the most powerful ancient treasures of all.Anthony Fowler pays a visit to a war criminal living under a pseudonym because of the terrible experiments he performed on Jewish children. Fowler offers him a deal - he will not reveal the man''s true identity in exchange for a huge candle covered in fine filigree gold. But it isn''t the gold Fowler is after - it is the metallic object preserved within the wax, a missing fragment of an ancient map. Soon Fowler is involved in an expedition to Jordan set up by a reclusive billionaire who has links to the highest levels of the Catholic Church. But there is a traitor in the group - and he''s patiently awaiting the moment to strike...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10582'),
(12982, 'Contract With God', 'Juan Gomez Jurado', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The discovery of a fragment of an ancient map leads Anthony Fowler, priest, CIA operative and member of the Holy Alliance, into an expedition in search of one of the most powerful ancient treasures of all.Anthony Fowler pays a visit to a war criminal living under a pseudonym because of the terrible experiments he performed on Jewish children. Fowler offers him a deal - he will not reveal the man''s true identity in exchange for a huge candle covered in fine filigree gold. But it isn''t the gold Fowler is after - it is the metallic object preserved within the wax, a missing fragment of an ancient map. Soon Fowler is involved in an expedition to Jordan set up by a reclusive billionaire who has links to the highest levels of the Catholic Church. But there is a traitor in the group - and he''s patiently awaiting the moment to strike...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20518'),
(12983, 'Contrarywise', 'Zohra Greenhalgh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rimble, the Trickster, is a merry god--dancing through streets as a gust of leaves, hobbling along canals as an old hag, roaming through gardens as a wiry dog. And where Rimble travels, trouble follows. Trouble of a most peculiar nature. Advertising in Locus and American Fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/160'),
(12984, 'Contrarywise', 'Zohra Greenhalgh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rimble, the Trickster, is a merry god--dancing through streets as a gust of leaves, hobbling along canals as an old hag, roaming through gardens as a wiry dog. And where Rimble travels, trouble follows. Trouble of a most peculiar nature. Advertising in Locus and American Fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24799'),
(12985, 'Conundrum', 'Jeff Crook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On a dark spring night, nine weeks behind schedule, the MNS Indestructible, a Class C Submersible Deepswimmer, departs Sancrist Isle with a crew of twenty and a callous disregard for the inevitable.Armed with top-secret devices, a band of intrepid gnome explorers sets out on a legendary journey to sub-navigate the continent of Ansalon and determine why very large rocks float. Though the fate of the world does not hang in the balance, theirs certainly does.This is their story--and the story of a single member of that ignoble crew: Conundrum, the heroic gnome featured in Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman''s best-selling War of Souls trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25526'),
(12986, 'The Convenient Marriage', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [T]horoughly enjoyable... I would read this book over 90% of the romances being published today. (Vic Sandborn\n <em>\n  Jane Austen''s World\n </em>\n 20090522)\n</p>\n<p>\n A\n <em>\n  Convenient Marriage\n </em>\n is an amusing romp through Regency England and sure to win your heart. (Keira Gillet\n <em>\n  Love Romance Passion\n </em>\n 20090526)\n</p>\n<p>\n A CONVENIENT MARRIAGE was just a wonderful book. I thought the storyline in this novel was extremely creative. (Julie Peterson\n <em>\n  Booking Mama\n </em>\n 20090526)\n</p>\n<p>\n I also just love the way Heyer writes. She takes us straight back to Regency England and I can feel it in the prose as well as in the historical details. (Meghan Kawka\n <em>\n  Medieval Bookworm\n </em>\n 20090526)\n</p>\n<p>\n The story is funny and the characters are easy to love. (Carrie Zimmerman\n <em>\n  The Book Girl\n </em>\n 20090526)\n</p>\n<p>\n The atmosphere of The\n <em>\n  Convenient Marriage\n </em>\n --much like Heyer''s other novels--is so rich, so detailed, so luxuriously drawn. (Rebecca Laney\n <em>\n  Becky''s Book Reviews\n </em>\n 20090529)\n</p>\n<p>\n I was immediately taken with the premise of this story, and I liked the way that Heyer jumped right into the action. (Nicole Bonia\n <em>\n  LInus'' Blanket\n </em>\n 20090601)\n</p>\n<p>\n [T]his book is the epitome of a comically charming period romance. (Marie Burton\n <em>\n  The Burton Review\n </em>\n 20090601)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is one of those books that you read and think to yourself ''Now why aren''t men really like that?'' Of course there is no shortage of Heyer''s wit and charm. (Shawn Remfry\n <em>\n  Maymay''s Memos\n </em>\n 20090622)\n</p>\n<p>\n If you are a fan of Jane Austen type romances - and haven''t yet tried Georgette Heyer - pick this one up soon. (Kristi Herbrand\n <em>\n  Books and Needlepoint\n </em>\n 20090629)\n</p>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  Convenient Marriage\n </em>\n is certainly a fun and entertaining read that allows fans of Regency books to get a glimpse of what life was like prior to the Regency era. (Wendi Barker\n <em>\n  Wendi''s Book Corner\n </em>\n 20090629)\n</p>\n<p>\n What a fun, light, and sweet read this was. (Naida Milenkovic\n <em>\n  The Bookworm 07\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n a fantastic little historical fiction romp through England... (Heather Fargis\n <em>\n  A Hidden Place\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n For those who are sorely disappointed that Jane Austen''s novels stop at 6, Georgette Heyer''s Regency stories will happily salve the hurt. (Sarah Dollacker\n <em>\n  Red Room Library\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "A writer of great wit and style... I''ve read her books to ragged shreds."\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Horatia Winwood is simply helping her family\n </em>\n <br />\n When the Earl of Rule proposes marriage to her sister Lizzie, Horatia offers herself instead. Her sister is already in love with someone else, and Horatia is willing to sacrifice herself for her family''s happiness. Everyone knows she''s no beauty, but she''ll do her best to keep out of the Earl''s way and make him a good wife. And then the Earl''s archenemy, Sir Robert, sets out to ruin her reputation...\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Earl of Rule has found just the wife he wants\n </em>\n <br />\n Unbeknownst to Horatia, the Earl is enchanted by her. There''s simply no way he''s going to let her get into trouble. Overcoming some misguided help from Horatia''s harebrained brother and a hired highwayman, the Earl routs his old enemy, and wins over his young wife, gifting her with a love that she never thought she could expect.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n WHAT READERS SAY:\n <br />\n "I couldn''t put it down, and I couldn''t stop laughing!"\n</p>\n<p>\n "The story is brilliant, and the characters are easy to fall in love with."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''ve read every novel by Georgette Heyer... this is definitely one of her best... very original and funny."\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of Georgette Heyer''s more intriguing tales."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Horry is an adorable imp while Rule in the best ''Heyerian'' tradition is a rogue turned lovely and you don''t know whether to hit him or kiss him! This is a wonderful book and is one that will be read over and over again."\n</p>\n<p>\n (20090501)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18390'),
(12987, 'Conviction', 'Tom Clancy &amp; David Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Several disastrous missions have depleted the ranks of the Splinter Cells. Third Echelon is training new recruits when a stunning piece of evidence is uncovered. Evidence that points to the mole who sold out his government...Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell(r) operative.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/518'),
(12988, 'Conviction', 'Tom Clancy &amp; David Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Several disastrous missions have depleted the ranks of the Splinter Cells. Third Echelon is training new recruits when a stunning piece of evidence is uncovered. Evidence that points to the mole who sold out his government...Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell(r) operative.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9013'),
(12989, 'Conviction', 'Tom Clancy; David Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Several disastrous missions have depleted the ranks of the Splinter Cells. Third Echelon is training new recruits when a stunning piece of evidence is uncovered. Evidence that points to the mole who sold out his government...Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell(r) operative.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24348');
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(12990, 'The Convicts: The Curse of the Jolly Stone Trilogy', 'Iain Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After seeing his father hauled off to debtorâ€™s prison, Tom Tin sets out to take revenge on Mr. Goodfellow, the man responsible for his familyâ€™s misfortunes. But the fog-filled London streets are teeming with sinister characters. Tom encounters a blind man who scavenges the riverbed for treasureâ€”and wants what Tom digs up; Worms, a body snatcher who reveals a shocking surprise; and a nasty gang of young pickpockets who mistake Tom for someone ominously known as the Smasher. And ultimately, Tom comes up against the cruel hand of the law.\n</p>\n<p>\n Accused of murder, Tom is given a seven-year sentence. He is to be transported to Van Diemenâ€™s Land with other juvenile convicts. But Tom canâ€™t abide life on the Hulk, the old ship where the boys are temporarily held. He decides to escape. But if heâ€™s to succeed, his luck needs to turn. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n I begin my adventure\n</p>\n<p>\n When she was six and I was eight, my little sister, Kitty, died. She fell from a bridge, into the Thames, and drowned before anyone could reach her. My mother was there when it happened. She heard a scream and turned to see my sister spinning through the air. She watched Kitty vanish into the eddies of brown water, and in that instant my mother''s mind unhinged.\n <br />\n She put on mourning clothes of the blackest black and hid herself from head to toe, like a beetle in a shell. As the sun went up, as the sun went down, she stood over Kitty''s grave. Her veils aflutter in the wind, her shawls drooping in the rain, she became a phantom of the churchyard, a figure feared by children. Even I, who had known her all my life, never ventured near the place when the yellow fogs of autumn came swirling round the headstones.\n <br />\n It was a day such as that, an autumn day, when my father had to drag her from my sister''s grave. The fog was thick and putrid, like a vile custard poured among the tombstones. From the iron gate at the street I couldn''t see as far as the church. But I saw the crosses and the marble angels, some distinct, some like shadows, and my father among them, as though battling with a demon. I heard my mother wailing.\n <br />\n Her boots were black, her bonnets black, and the rippling of her clothes made her look more like a beast than a person. She shrieked and fought against him, clinging to the headstone, clawing at the earth. When at last my father brought her through the gate, she was howling like a dog. In her hand was a fistful of dirt. She looked at it, and fainted dead away.\n <br />\n We lifted her into the cart, among the bundles and the chests that represented all our goods. The drayman climbed to his seat. He cracked his whip and swore at his horse, and off we started for Camden Town.\n <br />\n I walked beside my father as we passed our empty house and turned toward the bridge. By chance, the drayman chose the same route that Father took every morning on his useless treks to the Admiralty. I saw him look up at the house, then down at the ground, and we went along in silence. Only a few feet before me, the cart was no more than a gray shape. It seemed to be pulled by an invisible horse that snorted and wheezed as it clopped on the paving stones. My mother woke and sat keening on the cart.\n <br />\n We were nearly at the river before my father spoke. "This is for her own good," he said. "You know that, Tom."\n <br />\n "Yes," I said, though it wasn''t true. We were not leaving Surrey for my mother''s sake, but only to save the two pennies my father spent crossing the bridge every day. We were leaving because Mr. Goodfellow had driven us away, just as he had driven us from a larger house not a year before. I believed he would haunt us forever, chasing us from one shrinking home to the next, until he saw us out on the streets with the beggars and the blind. We were leaving Surrey because my father was a sailor without a ship.\n <br />\n He didn''t walk like a sailor anymore. He didn''t look like one, nor even smell like one, and I wouldn''t have believed he had ever been a sailor if it weren''t for the threadbare uniform he donned every morning, and for the bits of sailory knickknack that had once filled our house but now were nearly gone. In all my life I had watched him sailing out to sea only once, and then in a thing so woeful that it sank before he reached the Medway. That, too, had been Mr. Goodfellow''s doing; that had been the start of it.\n <br />\n When we reached the timber wharfs at the foot of the bridge I could feel the Thames close at hand. Foghorns hooted and moaned, and there came the thumping of a steamboat as it thrashed its way along the river. But I couldn''t smell the water; the stench of the fog hid even that.\n <br />\n We paid our toll and started over the bridge. Father walked at the very edge, his sleeve smearing the soot that had fallen on the rail. Horses and carriages appeared before us, and a cabriolet came rattling up from behind. I had to dodge around people, and step nimbly from a curricle''s path, but my father walked straight ahead with a mind only for the river below us. Ladies on the benches drew in their feet as he passed. One snatched up a little white dog. A man shouted, "Watch where you''re walking." But Father just brushed by them all.\n <br />\n I imagined that he could somehow see the water, and all the life upon it. Sounds that drifted up to me as mere groans and puzzling splashes must, to him, have been visions of boatsmen and bargemen, of oars and sails at work. His head rose; his shoulders straightened for a moment.\n <br />\n I had no wish to know his world, though I had been born by the banks of the Thames, where the river met the sea. We''d left the village before I was two, at the wishes of my mother. The river had taken her father, and the sea had taken her brothers, and ever since my sister''s death she''d taught me to fear them both. I often thought--when I saw the Thames swirling by--that one or the other was waiting to take me too.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5010'),
(12991, 'The Convicts: The Curse of the Jolly Stone Trilogy', 'Iain Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After seeing his father hauled off to debtorâ€™s prison, Tom Tin sets out to take revenge on Mr. Goodfellow, the man responsible for his familyâ€™s misfortunes. But the fog-filled London streets are teeming with sinister characters. Tom encounters a blind man who scavenges the riverbed for treasureâ€”and wants what Tom digs up; Worms, a body snatcher who reveals a shocking surprise; and a nasty gang of young pickpockets who mistake Tom for someone ominously known as the Smasher. And ultimately, Tom comes up against the cruel hand of the law.\n</p>\n<p>\n Accused of murder, Tom is given a seven-year sentence. He is to be transported to Van Diemenâ€™s Land with other juvenile convicts. But Tom canâ€™t abide life on the Hulk, the old ship where the boys are temporarily held. He decides to escape. But if heâ€™s to succeed, his luck needs to turn. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n I begin my adventure\n</p>\n<p>\n When she was six and I was eight, my little sister, Kitty, died. She fell from a bridge, into the Thames, and drowned before anyone could reach her. My mother was there when it happened. She heard a scream and turned to see my sister spinning through the air. She watched Kitty vanish into the eddies of brown water, and in that instant my mother''s mind unhinged.\n <br />\n She put on mourning clothes of the blackest black and hid herself from head to toe, like a beetle in a shell. As the sun went up, as the sun went down, she stood over Kitty''s grave. Her veils aflutter in the wind, her shawls drooping in the rain, she became a phantom of the churchyard, a figure feared by children. Even I, who had known her all my life, never ventured near the place when the yellow fogs of autumn came swirling round the headstones.\n <br />\n It was a day such as that, an autumn day, when my father had to drag her from my sister''s grave. The fog was thick and putrid, like a vile custard poured among the tombstones. From the iron gate at the street I couldn''t see as far as the church. But I saw the crosses and the marble angels, some distinct, some like shadows, and my father among them, as though battling with a demon. I heard my mother wailing.\n <br />\n Her boots were black, her bonnets black, and the rippling of her clothes made her look more like a beast than a person. She shrieked and fought against him, clinging to the headstone, clawing at the earth. When at last my father brought her through the gate, she was howling like a dog. In her hand was a fistful of dirt. She looked at it, and fainted dead away.\n <br />\n We lifted her into the cart, among the bundles and the chests that represented all our goods. The drayman climbed to his seat. He cracked his whip and swore at his horse, and off we started for Camden Town.\n <br />\n I walked beside my father as we passed our empty house and turned toward the bridge. By chance, the drayman chose the same route that Father took every morning on his useless treks to the Admiralty. I saw him look up at the house, then down at the ground, and we went along in silence. Only a few feet before me, the cart was no more than a gray shape. It seemed to be pulled by an invisible horse that snorted and wheezed as it clopped on the paving stones. My mother woke and sat keening on the cart.\n <br />\n We were nearly at the river before my father spoke. "This is for her own good," he said. "You know that, Tom."\n <br />\n "Yes," I said, though it wasn''t true. We were not leaving Surrey for my mother''s sake, but only to save the two pennies my father spent crossing the bridge every day. We were leaving because Mr. Goodfellow had driven us away, just as he had driven us from a larger house not a year before. I believed he would haunt us forever, chasing us from one shrinking home to the next, until he saw us out on the streets with the beggars and the blind. We were leaving Surrey because my father was a sailor without a ship.\n <br />\n He didn''t walk like a sailor anymore. He didn''t look like one, nor even smell like one, and I wouldn''t have believed he had ever been a sailor if it weren''t for the threadbare uniform he donned every morning, and for the bits of sailory knickknack that had once filled our house but now were nearly gone. In all my life I had watched him sailing out to sea only once, and then in a thing so woeful that it sank before he reached the Medway. That, too, had been Mr. Goodfellow''s doing; that had been the start of it.\n <br />\n When we reached the timber wharfs at the foot of the bridge I could feel the Thames close at hand. Foghorns hooted and moaned, and there came the thumping of a steamboat as it thrashed its way along the river. But I couldn''t smell the water; the stench of the fog hid even that.\n <br />\n We paid our toll and started over the bridge. Father walked at the very edge, his sleeve smearing the soot that had fallen on the rail. Horses and carriages appeared before us, and a cabriolet came rattling up from behind. I had to dodge around people, and step nimbly from a curricle''s path, but my father walked straight ahead with a mind only for the river below us. Ladies on the benches drew in their feet as he passed. One snatched up a little white dog. A man shouted, "Watch where you''re walking." But Father just brushed by them all.\n <br />\n I imagined that he could somehow see the water, and all the life upon it. Sounds that drifted up to me as mere groans and puzzling splashes must, to him, have been visions of boatsmen and bargemen, of oars and sails at work. His head rose; his shoulders straightened for a moment.\n <br />\n I had no wish to know his world, though I had been born by the banks of the Thames, where the river met the sea. We''d left the village before I was two, at the wishes of my mother. The river had taken her father, and the sea had taken her brothers, and ever since my sister''s death she''d taught me to fear them both. I often thought--when I saw the Thames swirling by--that one or the other was waiting to take me too.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12236'),
(12992, 'The Convicts: The Curse of the Jolly Stone Trilogy', 'Iain Lawrence', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After seeing his father hauled off to debtorâ€™s prison, Tom Tin sets out to take revenge on Mr. Goodfellow, the man responsible for his familyâ€™s misfortunes. But the fog-filled London streets are teeming with sinister characters. Tom encounters a blind man who scavenges the riverbed for treasureâ€”and wants what Tom digs up; Worms, a body snatcher who reveals a shocking surprise; and a nasty gang of young pickpockets who mistake Tom for someone ominously known as the Smasher. And ultimately, Tom comes up against the cruel hand of the law.\n</p>\n<p>\n Accused of murder, Tom is given a seven-year sentence. He is to be transported to Van Diemenâ€™s Land with other juvenile convicts. But Tom canâ€™t abide life on the Hulk, the old ship where the boys are temporarily held. He decides to escape. But if heâ€™s to succeed, his luck needs to turn. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n I begin my adventure\n</p>\n<p>\n When she was six and I was eight, my little sister, Kitty, died. She fell from a bridge, into the Thames, and drowned before anyone could reach her. My mother was there when it happened. She heard a scream and turned to see my sister spinning through the air. She watched Kitty vanish into the eddies of brown water, and in that instant my mother''s mind unhinged.\n <br />\n She put on mourning clothes of the blackest black and hid herself from head to toe, like a beetle in a shell. As the sun went up, as the sun went down, she stood over Kitty''s grave. Her veils aflutter in the wind, her shawls drooping in the rain, she became a phantom of the churchyard, a figure feared by children. Even I, who had known her all my life, never ventured near the place when the yellow fogs of autumn came swirling round the headstones.\n <br />\n It was a day such as that, an autumn day, when my father had to drag her from my sister''s grave. The fog was thick and putrid, like a vile custard poured among the tombstones. From the iron gate at the street I couldn''t see as far as the church. But I saw the crosses and the marble angels, some distinct, some like shadows, and my father among them, as though battling with a demon. I heard my mother wailing.\n <br />\n Her boots were black, her bonnets black, and the rippling of her clothes made her look more like a beast than a person. She shrieked and fought against him, clinging to the headstone, clawing at the earth. When at last my father brought her through the gate, she was howling like a dog. In her hand was a fistful of dirt. She looked at it, and fainted dead away.\n <br />\n We lifted her into the cart, among the bundles and the chests that represented all our goods. The drayman climbed to his seat. He cracked his whip and swore at his horse, and off we started for Camden Town.\n <br />\n I walked beside my father as we passed our empty house and turned toward the bridge. By chance, the drayman chose the same route that Father took every morning on his useless treks to the Admiralty. I saw him look up at the house, then down at the ground, and we went along in silence. Only a few feet before me, the cart was no more than a gray shape. It seemed to be pulled by an invisible horse that snorted and wheezed as it clopped on the paving stones. My mother woke and sat keening on the cart.\n <br />\n We were nearly at the river before my father spoke. "This is for her own good," he said. "You know that, Tom."\n <br />\n "Yes," I said, though it wasn''t true. We were not leaving Surrey for my mother''s sake, but only to save the two pennies my father spent crossing the bridge every day. We were leaving because Mr. Goodfellow had driven us away, just as he had driven us from a larger house not a year before. I believed he would haunt us forever, chasing us from one shrinking home to the next, until he saw us out on the streets with the beggars and the blind. We were leaving Surrey because my father was a sailor without a ship.\n <br />\n He didn''t walk like a sailor anymore. He didn''t look like one, nor even smell like one, and I wouldn''t have believed he had ever been a sailor if it weren''t for the threadbare uniform he donned every morning, and for the bits of sailory knickknack that had once filled our house but now were nearly gone. In all my life I had watched him sailing out to sea only once, and then in a thing so woeful that it sank before he reached the Medway. That, too, had been Mr. Goodfellow''s doing; that had been the start of it.\n <br />\n When we reached the timber wharfs at the foot of the bridge I could feel the Thames close at hand. Foghorns hooted and moaned, and there came the thumping of a steamboat as it thrashed its way along the river. But I couldn''t smell the water; the stench of the fog hid even that.\n <br />\n We paid our toll and started over the bridge. Father walked at the very edge, his sleeve smearing the soot that had fallen on the rail. Horses and carriages appeared before us, and a cabriolet came rattling up from behind. I had to dodge around people, and step nimbly from a curricle''s path, but my father walked straight ahead with a mind only for the river below us. Ladies on the benches drew in their feet as he passed. One snatched up a little white dog. A man shouted, "Watch where you''re walking." But Father just brushed by them all.\n <br />\n I imagined that he could somehow see the water, and all the life upon it. Sounds that drifted up to me as mere groans and puzzling splashes must, to him, have been visions of boatsmen and bargemen, of oars and sails at work. His head rose; his shoulders straightened for a moment.\n <br />\n I had no wish to know his world, though I had been born by the banks of the Thames, where the river met the sea. We''d left the village before I was two, at the wishes of my mother. The river had taken her father, and the sea had taken her brothers, and ever since my sister''s death she''d taught me to fear them both. I often thought--when I saw the Thames swirling by--that one or the other was waiting to take me too.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19572'),
(12993, 'Convincing Alex', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Alex Stanislaski mistakenly arrested daringly bold soap opera writer Bess McKnee, she decided the sexy detective was absolutely perfect - for her research and for herself. Now all she had to do was convince him she was right...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2460'),
(12994, 'Convincing Alex', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Alex Stanislaski mistakenly arrested daringly bold soap opera writer Bess McKnee, she decided the sexy detective was absolutely perfect - for her research and for herself. Now all she had to do was convince him she was right...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22311'),
(12995, 'Convingere', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25687'),
(12996, 'Cook Yourself Thin: Skinny Meals You Can Make in Minutes', 'Lifetime Television', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lose weight without losing your mind!    *Cook Yourself Thin* is a healthy, delicious way to drop a dress size without  all the gimmicks. The ladies of "Cook Yourself Thin," a new Lifetime reality  show, offer 80 easy, accessible recipes in this companion cookbook that  teaches readers how to cut calories without compromising taste.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For some of us, losing weight has always been a struggle. The challenge:  figuring out how to cook healthy, low-fat foods that won''t leave you hungry,  bored, or running for a gallon of ice cream! *Cook Yourself Thin* shows how to  cut calories, change diets, and improve health without sacrificing the foods  we love.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Cook Yourself Thin* is not a fad diet. It gives skinny alternatives to your  cravings. You can''t live without your chocolate cake or mac ''n'' cheese? You  don''t have to! (See Deep Dark Chocolate Cake, page 197.) There''s never  enough time to cook? *Cook Yourself Thin* keeps it simpleâ”€with easy  instructions and fun recipes you''ll want to make again and again.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What are you waiting for? Cook Yourself Thin!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3380'),
(12997, 'Cook Yourself Thin: Skinny Meals You Can Make in Minutes', 'Lifetime Television', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lose weight without losing your mind!    *Cook Yourself Thin* is a healthy, delicious way to drop a dress size without  all the gimmicks. The ladies of "Cook Yourself Thin," a new Lifetime reality  show, offer 80 easy, accessible recipes in this companion cookbook that  teaches readers how to cut calories without compromising taste.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For some of us, losing weight has always been a struggle. The challenge:  figuring out how to cook healthy, low-fat foods that won''t leave you hungry,  bored, or running for a gallon of ice cream! *Cook Yourself Thin* shows how to  cut calories, change diets, and improve health without sacrificing the foods  we love.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Cook Yourself Thin* is not a fad diet. It gives skinny alternatives to your  cravings. You can''t live without your chocolate cake or mac ''n'' cheese? You  don''t have to! (See Deep Dark Chocolate Cake, page 197.) There''s never  enough time to cook? *Cook Yourself Thin* keeps it simpleâ”€with easy  instructions and fun recipes you''ll want to make again and again.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What are you waiting for? Cook Yourself Thin!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12979'),
(12998, 'Cook Yourself Thin: Skinny Meals You Can Make in Minutes', 'Lifetime Television', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Lose weight without losing your mind! *Cook Yourself Thin* is a healthy, delicious way to drop a dress size without all the gimmicks. The ladies of "Cook Yourself Thin," a new Lifetime reality show, offer 80 easy, accessible recipes in this companion cookbook that teaches readers how to cut calories without compromising taste. For some of us, losing weight has always been a struggle. The challenge: figuring out how to cook healthy, low-fat foods that won''t leave you hungry, bored, or running for a gallon of ice cream! *Cook Yourself Thin* shows how to cut calories, change diets, and improve health without sacrificing the foods we love. *Cook Yourself Thin* is not a fad diet. It gives skinny alternatives to your cravings. You can''t live without your chocolate cake or mac ''n'' cheese? You don''t have to! (See Deep Dark Chocolate Cake, page 197.) There''s never enough time to cook? *Cook Yourself Thin* keeps it simpleâ”€with easy instructions and fun recipes you''ll want to make again and again. What are you waiting for? Cook Yourself Thin!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21141'),
(12999, 'The Cook&#39;s Illustrated How-To-Cook Library', 'The Editors of Cooks Illustrated', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This very special Kindle collection covers all the culinary ground, from barbecue, grilling, garden vegetables, holiday roasts, potatoes, soups, stews, stir-fries, pasta sauces, pizza, appetizers, salads, shrimp and shellfish, to pies, layer cakes, cookies and brownies, holiday desserts, ice cream, simple fruit desserts, and lots more. It''s all you really need in the kitchen and it all sits nice and handy on a Kindle as well. Now your own definitive recipe collection is portable and easy to access, the perfect helper in the kitchen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/734'),
(13000, 'The Cook&#39;s Illustrated How-To-Cook Library', 'The Editors of Cooks Illustrated', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This very special Kindle collection covers all the culinary ground, from barbecue, grilling, garden vegetables, holiday roasts, potatoes, soups, stews, stir-fries, pasta sauces, pizza, appetizers, salads, shrimp and shellfish, to pies, layer cakes, cookies and brownies, holiday desserts, ice cream, simple fruit desserts, and lots more. It''s all you really need in the kitchen and it all sits nice and handy on a Kindle as well. Now your own definitive recipe collection is portable and easy to access, the perfect helper in the kitchen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10456'),
(13001, 'The Cook&#39;s Illustrated How-to-Cook Library', 'The Editors of Cooks Illustrated', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This very special Kindle collection covers all the culinary ground, from barbecue, grilling, garden vegetables, holiday roasts, potatoes, soups, stews, stir-fries, pasta sauces, pizza, appetizers, salads, shrimp and shellfish, to pies, layer cakes, cookies and brownies, holiday desserts, ice cream, simple fruit desserts, and lots more. It''s all you really need in the kitchen and it all sits nice and handy on a Kindle as well. Now your own definitive recipe collection is portable and easy to access, the perfect helper in the kitchen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24234'),
(13002, 'A Cook&#39;s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cook''s Tour\n </em>\n is the written record of Anthony Bourdain''s travels around the world in his search for the perfect meal. All too conscious of the state of his 44-year-old knees after a working life standing at restaurant stoves, but with the unlooked-for jackpot of __ as collateral, Mr. Bourdain evidently concluded he needed a bit more wind under his wings.\n</p>\n<p>\n The idea of "perfect meal" in this context is to be taken to mean not necessarily the most upscale, chi-chi, three-star dining experience, but the ideal combination of food, atmosphere, and company. This would take in fishing villages in Vietnam, bars in Cambodia, and Tuareg camps in Morocco (roasted sheep''s testicle, as it happens); it would stretch to smoked fish and sauna in the frozen Russian countryside and the French Laundry in California''s Napa Valley. It would mean exquisitely refined\n <em>\n  kaiseki\n </em>\n rituals in Japan after yakitori with drunken salarymen. Deep-fried Mars Bars in Glasgow and Gordon Ramsay in London. The still-beating heart of a cobra in Saigon. Drink. Danger. Guns. All with a TV crew in tow for the accompanying series--22 episodes of video gold, we are assured, featuring many don''t-try-this-at-home shots of the author in gastric distress or crawling into yet another storm drain at four in the morning.\n</p>\n<p>\n You are unlikely to lay your hands on a more hectically, strenuously entertaining book for some time. Our hero eats and swashbuckles round the globe with perfect-pitch attitude and liberal use of judiciously placed profanities. Bourdain can write. His timing is great. He is very funny and is under no illusions whatsoever about himself or anyone else. But most of all, he is a chef who got himself out of his kitchen and found, all over the world, people who understand that eating well is the foundation of harmonious living.\n <em>\n  --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this paperback reprint, swashbuckling chef Anthony Bourdain, author of the bestselling Kitchen Confidential (which famously warned restaurant-goers against ordering fish on Mondays), travels where few foodies have thought to travel before in search of the perfect meal: the Sputnik-era kitchen of a "less-than-diminutive" St. Petersburg matron, the provincial farmhouse of a Portuguese pig-slaughterer and the middle of the Moroccan desert, where he dines on "crispy, veiny" lamb testicles. Searching for the "perfect meal," Bourdain writes with humor and intelligence, describing meals of boudin noir and Vietnamese hot vin lon ("essentially a soft-boiled duck embryo") and ''fessing up to a few nights of over-indulgence ("I felt like I''d awakened under a collapsed building," he writes of a night in San Sebastian hopping from tapas bar to tapas bar). Goat''s head soup, lemongrass tripe, and pork-blood cake all make appearances, as does less exotic fare, such as French fries and Mars bars (deep fried, but still). In between meals, Bourdain lets his readers in on the surprises and fears of a well-fed American voyaging to far-off, frugal places, where every part of an animal that can be eaten must be eaten, and the need to preserve food has fueled culinary innovation for centuries. He also reminds his audience of the connections between food and land and human toil, which, in these sterilized days of pre-wrapped sausages, is all too easy to forget.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7486'),
(13003, 'A Cook&#39;s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cook''s Tour\n </em>\n is the written record of Anthony Bourdain''s travels around the world in his search for the perfect meal. All too conscious of the state of his 44-year-old knees after a working life standing at restaurant stoves, but with the unlooked-for jackpot of __ as collateral, Mr. Bourdain evidently concluded he needed a bit more wind under his wings.\n</p>\n<p>\n The idea of "perfect meal" in this context is to be taken to mean not necessarily the most upscale, chi-chi, three-star dining experience, but the ideal combination of food, atmosphere, and company. This would take in fishing villages in Vietnam, bars in Cambodia, and Tuareg camps in Morocco (roasted sheep''s testicle, as it happens); it would stretch to smoked fish and sauna in the frozen Russian countryside and the French Laundry in California''s Napa Valley. It would mean exquisitely refined\n <em>\n  kaiseki\n </em>\n rituals in Japan after yakitori with drunken salarymen. Deep-fried Mars Bars in Glasgow and Gordon Ramsay in London. The still-beating heart of a cobra in Saigon. Drink. Danger. Guns. All with a TV crew in tow for the accompanying series--22 episodes of video gold, we are assured, featuring many don''t-try-this-at-home shots of the author in gastric distress or crawling into yet another storm drain at four in the morning.\n</p>\n<p>\n You are unlikely to lay your hands on a more hectically, strenuously entertaining book for some time. Our hero eats and swashbuckles round the globe with perfect-pitch attitude and liberal use of judiciously placed profanities. Bourdain can write. His timing is great. He is very funny and is under no illusions whatsoever about himself or anyone else. But most of all, he is a chef who got himself out of his kitchen and found, all over the world, people who understand that eating well is the foundation of harmonious living.\n <em>\n  --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this paperback reprint, swashbuckling chef Anthony Bourdain, author of the bestselling Kitchen Confidential (which famously warned restaurant-goers against ordering fish on Mondays), travels where few foodies have thought to travel before in search of the perfect meal: the Sputnik-era kitchen of a "less-than-diminutive" St. Petersburg matron, the provincial farmhouse of a Portuguese pig-slaughterer and the middle of the Moroccan desert, where he dines on "crispy, veiny" lamb testicles. Searching for the "perfect meal," Bourdain writes with humor and intelligence, describing meals of boudin noir and Vietnamese hot vin lon ("essentially a soft-boiled duck embryo") and ''fessing up to a few nights of over-indulgence ("I felt like I''d awakened under a collapsed building," he writes of a night in San Sebastian hopping from tapas bar to tapas bar). Goat''s head soup, lemongrass tripe, and pork-blood cake all make appearances, as does less exotic fare, such as French fries and Mars bars (deep fried, but still). In between meals, Bourdain lets his readers in on the surprises and fears of a well-fed American voyaging to far-off, frugal places, where every part of an animal that can be eaten must be eaten, and the need to preserve food has fueled culinary innovation for centuries. He also reminds his audience of the connections between food and land and human toil, which, in these sterilized days of pre-wrapped sausages, is all too easy to forget.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8564'),
(13004, 'A Cook&#39;s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal', 'Anthony Bourdain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cook''s Tour\n </em>\n is the written record of Anthony Bourdain''s travels around the world in his search for the perfect meal. All too conscious of the state of his 44-year-old knees after a working life standing at restaurant stoves, but with the unlooked-for jackpot of __ as collateral, Mr. Bourdain evidently concluded he needed a bit more wind under his wings.\n</p>\n<p>\n The idea of "perfect meal" in this context is to be taken to mean not necessarily the most upscale, chi-chi, three-star dining experience, but the ideal combination of food, atmosphere, and company. This would take in fishing villages in Vietnam, bars in Cambodia, and Tuareg camps in Morocco (roasted sheep''s testicle, as it happens); it would stretch to smoked fish and sauna in the frozen Russian countryside and the French Laundry in California''s Napa Valley. It would mean exquisitely refined\n <em>\n  kaiseki\n </em>\n rituals in Japan after yakitori with drunken salarymen. Deep-fried Mars Bars in Glasgow and Gordon Ramsay in London. The still-beating heart of a cobra in Saigon. Drink. Danger. Guns. All with a TV crew in tow for the accompanying series--22 episodes of video gold, we are assured, featuring many don''t-try-this-at-home shots of the author in gastric distress or crawling into yet another storm drain at four in the morning.\n</p>\n<p>\n You are unlikely to lay your hands on a more hectically, strenuously entertaining book for some time. Our hero eats and swashbuckles round the globe with perfect-pitch attitude and liberal use of judiciously placed profanities. Bourdain can write. His timing is great. He is very funny and is under no illusions whatsoever about himself or anyone else. But most of all, he is a chef who got himself out of his kitchen and found, all over the world, people who understand that eating well is the foundation of harmonious living.\n <em>\n  --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this paperback reprint, swashbuckling chef Anthony Bourdain, author of the bestselling Kitchen Confidential (which famously warned restaurant-goers against ordering fish on Mondays), travels where few foodies have thought to travel before in search of the perfect meal: the Sputnik-era kitchen of a "less-than-diminutive" St. Petersburg matron, the provincial farmhouse of a Portuguese pig-slaughterer and the middle of the Moroccan desert, where he dines on "crispy, veiny" lamb testicles. Searching for the "perfect meal," Bourdain writes with humor and intelligence, describing meals of boudin noir and Vietnamese hot vin lon ("essentially a soft-boiled duck embryo") and ''fessing up to a few nights of over-indulgence ("I felt like I''d awakened under a collapsed building," he writes of a night in San Sebastian hopping from tapas bar to tapas bar). Goat''s head soup, lemongrass tripe, and pork-blood cake all make appearances, as does less exotic fare, such as French fries and Mars bars (deep fried, but still). In between meals, Bourdain lets his readers in on the surprises and fears of a well-fed American voyaging to far-off, frugal places, where every part of an animal that can be eaten must be eaten, and the need to preserve food has fueled culinary innovation for centuries. He also reminds his audience of the connections between food and land and human toil, which, in these sterilized days of pre-wrapped sausages, is all too easy to forget.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16352'),
(13005, 'Cooking for Friends', 'Gordon Ramsay &amp; Ditte Isager', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "As a chef, I work at a thousand miles an hour, but when I''m at home, I want to slow down."   way from the high-octane energy of the professional kitchen, Gordon Ramsay makes meals at home that are more re-laxed, where cooking is fun and everyone gets involved in preparing food for family and friends. The way Gordon cooks here embodies his strongly held views: use in-season, fresh ingredients at their peak; support local producers and farmers'' markets whenever possible; and celebrate the food culture and its many influences.   And while Gordon loves to celebrate traditional food, he proves that it doesn''t have to be boring, bland, or uninventive. Cooking for Friends is full of Gordon''s best-loved versions of classic dishesâ€”try a slow-cooked dish like Honey Roast Ham or Corn-Fed Chicken Legs with Braised Peas and Onions, or invite people around for a Sunday lunch of Roast Rib-Eye with Caramelized Shallot and Red Wine Gravy. Cook the ultimate in comfort food, Shepherd''s Pie with Branston Pickle or Bakewell Tart, and get the kids involved in making Farfalle with Bacon, Peas, and Sage or Grilled Vegetable Lasagne.   Cooking for Friends contains more than one hundred of Gordon''s favorite recipes that he loves to cook and eat with friends and familyâ€”uncomplicated recipes but all with Gordon''s remarkable feeling for flavor and his extraordinary technical know-how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5283'),
(13006, 'Cooking for Friends', 'Gordon Ramsay &amp; Ditte Isager', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "As a chef, I work at a thousand miles an hour, but when I''m at home, I want to slow down."   way from the high-octane energy of the professional kitchen, Gordon Ramsay makes meals at home that are more re-laxed, where cooking is fun and everyone gets involved in preparing food for family and friends. The way Gordon cooks here embodies his strongly held views: use in-season, fresh ingredients at their peak; support local producers and farmers'' markets whenever possible; and celebrate the food culture and its many influences.   And while Gordon loves to celebrate traditional food, he proves that it doesn''t have to be boring, bland, or uninventive. Cooking for Friends is full of Gordon''s best-loved versions of classic dishesâ€”try a slow-cooked dish like Honey Roast Ham or Corn-Fed Chicken Legs with Braised Peas and Onions, or invite people around for a Sunday lunch of Roast Rib-Eye with Caramelized Shallot and Red Wine Gravy. Cook the ultimate in comfort food, Shepherd''s Pie with Branston Pickle or Bakewell Tart, and get the kids involved in making Farfalle with Bacon, Peas, and Sage or Grilled Vegetable Lasagne.   Cooking for Friends contains more than one hundred of Gordon''s favorite recipes that he loves to cook and eat with friends and familyâ€”uncomplicated recipes but all with Gordon''s remarkable feeling for flavor and his extraordinary technical know-how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12080'),
(13007, 'Cooking for Friends', 'Gordon Ramsay; Ditte Isager', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "As a chef, I work at a thousand miles an hour, but when I''m at home, I want to slow down." way from the high-octane energy of the professional kitchen, Gordon Ramsay makes meals at home that are more re-laxed, where cooking is fun and everyone gets involved in preparing food for family and friends. The way Gordon cooks here embodies his strongly held views: use in-season, fresh ingredients at their peak; support local producers and farmers'' markets whenever possible; and celebrate the food culture and its many influences. And while Gordon loves to celebrate traditional food, he proves that it doesn''t have to be boring, bland, or uninventive. Cooking for Friends is full of Gordon''s best-loved versions of classic dishesâ€”try a slow-cooked dish like Honey Roast Ham or Corn-Fed Chicken Legs with Braised Peas and Onions, or invite people around for a Sunday lunch of Roast Rib-Eye with Caramelized Shallot and Red Wine Gravy. Cook the ultimate in comfort food, Shepherd''s Pie with Branston Pickle or Bakewell Tart, and get the kids involved in making Farfalle with Bacon, Peas, and Sage or Grilled Vegetable Lasagne. Cooking for Friends contains more than one hundred of Gordon''s favorite recipes that he loves to cook and eat with friends and familyâ€”uncomplicated recipes but all with Gordon''s remarkable feeling for flavor and his extraordinary technical know-how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19361'),
(13008, 'Cooking for Friends', 'Gordon Ramsay; Ditte Isager', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "As a chef, I work at a thousand miles an hour, but when I''m at home, I want to slow down." way from the high-octane energy of the professional kitchen, Gordon Ramsay makes meals at home that are more re-laxed, where cooking is fun and everyone gets involved in preparing food for family and friends. The way Gordon cooks here embodies his strongly held views: use in-season, fresh ingredients at their peak; support local producers and farmers'' markets whenever possible; and celebrate the food culture and its many influences. And while Gordon loves to celebrate traditional food, he proves that it doesn''t have to be boring, bland, or uninventive. Cooking for Friends is full of Gordon''s best-loved versions of classic dishesâ€”try a slow-cooked dish like Honey Roast Ham or Corn-Fed Chicken Legs with Braised Peas and Onions, or invite people around for a Sunday lunch of Roast Rib-Eye with Caramelized Shallot and Red Wine Gravy. Cook the ultimate in comfort food, Shepherd''s Pie with Branston Pickle or Bakewell Tart, and get the kids involved in making Farfalle with Bacon, Peas, and Sage or Grilled Vegetable Lasagne. Cooking for Friends contains more than one hundred of Gordon''s favorite recipes that he loves to cook and eat with friends and familyâ€”uncomplicated recipes but all with Gordon''s remarkable feeling for flavor and his extraordinary technical know-how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27966');
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(13009, 'Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food', 'Jeff Potter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you the innovative type, the cook who marches to a different drummer -- used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Are you interested in the science behind what happens to food while it''s cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own unique dish?\n</p>\n<p>\n More than just a cookbook,\n <em>\n  Cooking for Geeks\n </em>\n applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen. Why is medium-rare steak so popular? Why do we bake some things at 350 F/175 C and others at 375 F/190 C? And how quickly does a pizza cook if we overclock an oven to 1,000 F/540 C? Author and cooking geek Jeff Potter provides the answers and offers a unique take on recipes -- from the sweet (a "mean" chocolate chip cookie) to the savory (duck confit sugo).\n</p>\n<p>\n This book is an excellent and intriguing resource for anyone who wants to experiment with cooking, even if you don''t consider yourself a geek.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Initialize your kitchen and calibrate your tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn about the important reactions in cooking, such as protein denaturation, Maillard reactions, and caramelization, and how they impact the foods we cook\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play with your food using hydrocolloids and sous vide cooking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gain firsthand insights from interviews with researchers, food scientists, knife experts, chefs, writers, and more, including author Harold McGee, TV personality Adam Savage, chemist HervÃ© This, and xkcd\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From\n  <em>\n   Cooking for Geeks\n  </em>\n  : Butternut Squash Soup\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n PurÃ©e in a food processor or with an immersion blender:\n <br />\n 2 cups (660g) butternut squash, peeled, cubed, and roasted (about 1 medium squash)\n <br />\n 2 cups (470g) chicken, turkey, or vegetable stock\n <br />\n 1 small (130g) yellow onion, diced and sautÃ©ed\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (1g) salt (adjust to taste)\n</p>\n<p>\n Notes\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The weights are for the prepared ingredients and only rough suggestions. So, prepare each item individually. For example, for the squash, peel it, then coat it with olive oil, sprinkle it with salt, and roast it in the oven at a temperature around 400â€“425 F / 200â€“220 C until it begins to brown. When you go to purÃ©e the ingredients, hold back some of the squash and some of the stock, taste the purÃ©e, and see which you think it needs. Want it thicker? Add more squash. Thinner? Add more stock.\n </li>\n <li>\n  This soup by itself is very basic. Garnish with whatever else you have on hand that you think might go well, such as garlic croutons and bacon. Or top with a small dab of cream, some toasted walnuts, and dried cranberries to give it a feeling of Thanksgiving. How about a teaspoon of maple syrup, a few thin slices of beef, and some fresh oregano? Chives, sour cream, and cheddar cheese? Why not! Instead of purchasing items to follow a recipe exactly, try using leftover ingredients from other meals to complement the squash soup.\n </li>\n <li>\n  If youâ€™re in a rush, you can â€œjump-startâ€ the squash by microwaving it first. Peel and quarter the squash, using a spoon to scoop out the seeds. Then, cube it into 1â€“2â€ / 3â€“5 cm pieces, drop it into a glass baking pan thatâ€™s both oven and microwave safe, and nuke it for four to five minutes to partially heat the mass. Remove from microwave, coat the squash with olive oil and a light sprinkling of salt, and roast it in a preheated oven until done, about 20 to 30 minutes. If youâ€™re not in a rush, you can skip the peeling step entirely: cut the squash in half, scoop out the seeds, add oil and salt, roast it for about an hour (until the flesh is soft), and use a spoon to scoop it out.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pumpkin Cake\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There are two broad types of cake batters: high- ratio cakes--those that have more sugar and water than flour (or by some definitions, just a lot of sugar)--and low-ratio cakesâ€”which tend to have coarser crumbs. For high-ratio cakes, there should be more sugar than flour (by weight) and more eggs than fats (again, by weight), and the liquid mass (eggs, milk, water) should be heavier than the sugar.\n</p>\n<p>\n Consider this pumpkin cake, which is a high-ratio cake (245g of pumpkin contains 220g of water--you can look these sorts of things up in the USDA National Nutrient Database, available online at http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/).\n</p>\n<p>\n In a mixing bowl, measure out and then mix with an electric mixer to thoroughly combine:\n <br />\n 1 cup (245g) pumpkin (canned, or roast and puree your own)\n <br />\n 1 cup (200g) sugar\n <br />\n 3/4 cup (160g) canola oil\n <br />\n 2 large (120g) eggs\n <br />\n 1 1/2 cups (180g) flour\n <br />\n 1/4 cup (40g) raisins\n <br />\n 2 teaspoons (5g) cinnamon\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon (5g) baking powder\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (5g) baking soda\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (3g) salt\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (2g) vanilla extract\n</p>\n<p>\n Transfer to a greased cake pan or spring form and bake in an oven preheated to 350 F / 175 C until a toothpick comes out dry, about 20 minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Notes\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Try adding dried pears soaked in brandy. You can also hold back some of the raisins and sprinkle them on top.\n </li>\n <li>\n  One nice thing about high-ratio cakes is that they donâ€™t have much gluten, so they wonâ€™t turn out like bread, even with excessive beating. With a total weight of 920 grams, of which only roughly 20 grams is gluten, there just isnâ€™t enough gluten present in this cake to give it a bread-like texture. Thereâ€™s also a fair amount of both sugar and fats to interfere with gluten development.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeff Potter has done the cubicle thing, the startup thing, and the entrepreneur thing, and through it all maintained his sanity by cooking for friends. He studied computer science and visual art at Brown University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4537'),
(13010, 'Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food', 'Jeff Potter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Are you the innovative type, the cook who marches to a different drummer -- used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Are you interested in the science behind what happens to food while it''s cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own unique dish?\n</p>\n<p>\n More than just a cookbook,\n <em>\n  Cooking for Geeks\n </em>\n applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen. Why is medium-rare steak so popular? Why do we bake some things at 350 F/175 C and others at 375 F/190 C? And how quickly does a pizza cook if we overclock an oven to 1,000 F/540 C? Author and cooking geek Jeff Potter provides the answers and offers a unique take on recipes -- from the sweet (a "mean" chocolate chip cookie) to the savory (duck confit sugo).\n</p>\n<p>\n This book is an excellent and intriguing resource for anyone who wants to experiment with cooking, even if you don''t consider yourself a geek.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Initialize your kitchen and calibrate your tools\n </li>\n <li>\n  Learn about the important reactions in cooking, such as protein denaturation, Maillard reactions, and caramelization, and how they impact the foods we cook\n </li>\n <li>\n  Play with your food using hydrocolloids and sous vide cooking\n </li>\n <li>\n  Gain firsthand insights from interviews with researchers, food scientists, knife experts, chefs, writers, and more, including author Harold McGee, TV personality Adam Savage, chemist HervÃ© This, and xkcd\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From\n  <em>\n   Cooking for Geeks\n  </em>\n  : Butternut Squash Soup\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n PurÃ©e in a food processor or with an immersion blender:\n <br />\n 2 cups (660g) butternut squash, peeled, cubed, and roasted (about 1 medium squash)\n <br />\n 2 cups (470g) chicken, turkey, or vegetable stock\n <br />\n 1 small (130g) yellow onion, diced and sautÃ©ed\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (1g) salt (adjust to taste)\n</p>\n<p>\n Notes\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  The weights are for the prepared ingredients and only rough suggestions. So, prepare each item individually. For example, for the squash, peel it, then coat it with olive oil, sprinkle it with salt, and roast it in the oven at a temperature around 400â€“425 F / 200â€“220 C until it begins to brown. When you go to purÃ©e the ingredients, hold back some of the squash and some of the stock, taste the purÃ©e, and see which you think it needs. Want it thicker? Add more squash. Thinner? Add more stock.\n </li>\n <li>\n  This soup by itself is very basic. Garnish with whatever else you have on hand that you think might go well, such as garlic croutons and bacon. Or top with a small dab of cream, some toasted walnuts, and dried cranberries to give it a feeling of Thanksgiving. How about a teaspoon of maple syrup, a few thin slices of beef, and some fresh oregano? Chives, sour cream, and cheddar cheese? Why not! Instead of purchasing items to follow a recipe exactly, try using leftover ingredients from other meals to complement the squash soup.\n </li>\n <li>\n  If youâ€™re in a rush, you can â€œjump-startâ€ the squash by microwaving it first. Peel and quarter the squash, using a spoon to scoop out the seeds. Then, cube it into 1â€“2â€ / 3â€“5 cm pieces, drop it into a glass baking pan thatâ€™s both oven and microwave safe, and nuke it for four to five minutes to partially heat the mass. Remove from microwave, coat the squash with olive oil and a light sprinkling of salt, and roast it in a preheated oven until done, about 20 to 30 minutes. If youâ€™re not in a rush, you can skip the peeling step entirely: cut the squash in half, scoop out the seeds, add oil and salt, roast it for about an hour (until the flesh is soft), and use a spoon to scoop it out.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pumpkin Cake\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n There are two broad types of cake batters: high- ratio cakes--those that have more sugar and water than flour (or by some definitions, just a lot of sugar)--and low-ratio cakesâ€”which tend to have coarser crumbs. For high-ratio cakes, there should be more sugar than flour (by weight) and more eggs than fats (again, by weight), and the liquid mass (eggs, milk, water) should be heavier than the sugar.\n</p>\n<p>\n Consider this pumpkin cake, which is a high-ratio cake (245g of pumpkin contains 220g of water--you can look these sorts of things up in the USDA National Nutrient Database, available online at http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/).\n</p>\n<p>\n In a mixing bowl, measure out and then mix with an electric mixer to thoroughly combine:\n <br />\n 1 cup (245g) pumpkin (canned, or roast and puree your own)\n <br />\n 1 cup (200g) sugar\n <br />\n 3/4 cup (160g) canola oil\n <br />\n 2 large (120g) eggs\n <br />\n 1 1/2 cups (180g) flour\n <br />\n 1/4 cup (40g) raisins\n <br />\n 2 teaspoons (5g) cinnamon\n <br />\n 1 teaspoon (5g) baking powder\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (5g) baking soda\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (3g) salt\n <br />\n 1/2 teaspoon (2g) vanilla extract\n</p>\n<p>\n Transfer to a greased cake pan or spring form and bake in an oven preheated to 350 F / 175 C until a toothpick comes out dry, about 20 minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\n Notes\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Try adding dried pears soaked in brandy. You can also hold back some of the raisins and sprinkle them on top.\n </li>\n <li>\n  One nice thing about high-ratio cakes is that they donâ€™t have much gluten, so they wonâ€™t turn out like bread, even with excessive beating. With a total weight of 920 grams, of which only roughly 20 grams is gluten, there just isnâ€™t enough gluten present in this cake to give it a bread-like texture. Thereâ€™s also a fair amount of both sugar and fats to interfere with gluten development.\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jeff Potter has done the cubicle thing, the startup thing, and the entrepreneur thing, and through it all maintained his sanity by cooking for friends. He studied computer science and visual art at Brown University.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11962'),
(13011, 'Cooking Up Murder', 'Miranda Bliss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Annie and Eve are life-long best friends who have absolutely nothing in common-except a lack of skill in the kitchen. So when they sign up for a cooking class at the local gourmet shop, they figure the only things at risk are a few innocent fruits and vegetables. But on the first night, Annie and Eve see their fellow student Beyla arguing with a man-a man who later turns up dead in the parking lot. Now the friends feel bound to uncover whatever secrets she''s hiding, before someone else''s goose-perhaps one of their own-gets cooked.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2657'),
(13012, 'Cooking Up Murder', 'Miranda Bliss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Annie and Eve are life-long best friends who have absolutely nothing in common-except a lack of skill in the kitchen. So when they sign up for a cooking class at the local gourmet shop, they figure the only things at risk are a few innocent fruits and vegetables. But on the first night, Annie and Eve see their fellow student Beyla arguing with a man-a man who later turns up dead in the parking lot. Now the friends feel bound to uncover whatever secrets she''s hiding, before someone else''s goose-perhaps one of their own-gets cooked.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22071'),
(13013, 'Cooking Well: Osteoporosis: Over 75 Easy and Delicious Recipes for Building Strong Bones', 'Marie-Annick Courtier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Can a healthy diet prevent Osteoporosis or make a difference in the health of patients whom already have developed the disease? "In a word, yes. An estimation of 44 million Americans are at risk for Osteoporosis today. The disease eventually affects 1 out of every 2 women and 1 out of every 5 men, which is expected to double in the next 25years. Most physicians encourage not only an active lifestyle, but also a balanced diet to help strengthen bones and reduce the risk of osteoporosis. Indeed, people with Osteoporosis often reportconsiderable improvement in their well-being after changing their eating habits. "Cooking Well: Osteoporosis" features over 100 recipes designed to improve dailyfunctioning and aid in the treatment of this disease. The book also features: * An overview on how to live with osteoporosis* A list of foods to avoid* A meal diary andchecklist to track your progress All recipes and meals in the "Cooking Well" series have been specially created by renowned health and diet expert, Chef Marie-AnnickCourtier, and "Cooking Well: Osteoporosis" is an invaluable resource for your nutritional healing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3147'),
(13014, 'Cooking Well: Osteoporosis: Over 75 Easy and Delicious Recipes for Building Strong Bones', 'Marie-Annick Courtier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "Can a healthy diet prevent Osteoporosis or make a difference in the health of patients whom already have developed the disease? "In a word, yes. An estimation of 44 million Americans are at risk for Osteoporosis today. The disease eventually affects 1 out of every 2 women and 1 out of every 5 men, which is expected to double in the next 25years. Most physicians encourage not only an active lifestyle, but also a balanced diet to help strengthen bones and reduce the risk of osteoporosis. Indeed, people with Osteoporosis often reportconsiderable improvement in their well-being after changing their eating habits. "Cooking Well: Osteoporosis" features over 100 recipes designed to improve dailyfunctioning and aid in the treatment of this disease. The book also features: * An overview on how to live with osteoporosis* A list of foods to avoid* A meal diary andchecklist to track your progress All recipes and meals in the "Cooking Well" series have been specially created by renowned health and diet expert, Chef Marie-AnnickCourtier, and "Cooking Well: Osteoporosis" is an invaluable resource for your nutritional healing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9095'),
(13015, 'Cool Hand Luke', 'Donn Pearce', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pearce''s 1965 novel depicts the lives of chain gang convicts with brutal honesty. The story, of course, was the basis for the film Pearce also wrote the screenplay starring Paul Newman in the lead role.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Out of his experiences working on a chain gang, Donn Pearce created Cool Hand Luke, war hero turned "pretty evil feller," whose refusal to "git his mind right" becomes part of his fellow convicts'' mythology of survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5959'),
(13016, 'Cool Hand Luke', 'Donn Pearce', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pearce''s 1965 novel depicts the lives of chain gang convicts with brutal honesty. The story, of course, was the basis for the film Pearce also wrote the screenplay starring Paul Newman in the lead role.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Out of his experiences working on a chain gang, Donn Pearce created Cool Hand Luke, war hero turned "pretty evil feller," whose refusal to "git his mind right" becomes part of his fellow convicts'' mythology of survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11851'),
(13017, 'Cool Hand Luke', 'Donn Pearce', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pearce''s 1965 novel depicts the lives of chain gang convicts with brutal honesty. The story, of course, was the basis for the film Pearce also wrote the screenplay starring Paul Newman in the lead role.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Out of his experiences working on a chain gang, Donn Pearce created Cool Hand Luke, war hero turned "pretty evil feller," whose refusal to "git his mind right" becomes part of his fellow convicts'' mythology of survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18674'),
(13018, 'A Cool Head', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "My dad used to say to me, ''Try to keep a cool head and a warm heart''. At least I think it was my dad. I don''t really remember him." Gravy worked in the graveyard - hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned up in a car Gravy didn''t recognise. Benjy had a bullet hole in his chest, but lived just long enough to ask Gravy to hide him and look after his gun. Gravy had looked after things for Benjy before, but never a gun. When Gravy looked in the car he found blood, a balaclava and a bag stuffed with money. Gravy''s not too bright but he wants to help his friend. So Gravy finds himself caught up in the middle of a robbery gone wrong, a woman who witnessed a murder, and some very unpleasant men who will do anything to get back the money Benjy stole...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ian Rankin is a regular No.1 bestseller, and has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Diamond Dagger. He lives with his family in Edinburgh, and in 2003 received an OBE for his services to literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4975'),
(13019, 'A Cool Head', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "My dad used to say to me, ''Try to keep a cool head and a warm heart''. At least I think it was my dad. I don''t really remember him." Gravy worked in the graveyard - hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned up in a car Gravy didn''t recognise. Benjy had a bullet hole in his chest, but lived just long enough to ask Gravy to hide him and look after his gun. Gravy had looked after things for Benjy before, but never a gun. When Gravy looked in the car he found blood, a balaclava and a bag stuffed with money. Gravy''s not too bright but he wants to help his friend. So Gravy finds himself caught up in the middle of a robbery gone wrong, a woman who witnessed a murder, and some very unpleasant men who will do anything to get back the money Benjy stole...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ian Rankin is a regular No.1 bestseller, and has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Diamond Dagger. He lives with his family in Edinburgh, and in 2003 received an OBE for his services to literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11080'),
(13020, 'A Cool Head', 'Ian Rankin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "My dad used to say to me, ''Try to keep a cool head and a warm heart''. At least I think it was my dad. I don''t really remember him." Gravy worked in the graveyard - hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned up in a car Gravy didn''t recognise. Benjy had a bullet hole in his chest, but lived just long enough to ask Gravy to hide him and look after his gun. Gravy had looked after things for Benjy before, but never a gun. When Gravy looked in the car he found blood, a balaclava and a bag stuffed with money. Gravy''s not too bright but he wants to help his friend. So Gravy finds himself caught up in the middle of a robbery gone wrong, a woman who witnessed a murder, and some very unpleasant men who will do anything to get back the money Benjy stole...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ian Rankin is a regular No.1 bestseller, and has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Diamond Dagger. He lives with his family in Edinburgh, and in 2003 received an OBE for his services to literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19624'),
(13021, 'Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting', 'Michael Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of\n   <em>\n    Truck: A Love Story\n   </em>\n   gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhoodâ€”his city-bred parents took in more than a hundred foster children while running a ramshackle dairy farmâ€”for clues to how to proceed as a farmer, a husband, and a father.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And when his daughter Amy starts asking about God, Perry is called upon to answer questions for which he''s not quite prepared. He muses on his upbringing in an obscure fundamentalist Christian sect and weighs the long-lost faith of his childhood against the skeptical alternative ("You cannot toss your seven-year-old a copy of\n  <em>\n   Being and Nothingness\n  </em>\n  ").\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether Perry is recalling his childhood ("I first perceived my father as a farmer the night he drove home with a giant lactating Holstein tethered to the bumper of his Ford Falcon") or what it''s like to be bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig ("two firsts in one day"),\n  <em>\n   Coop\n  </em>\n  is filled with the humor his readers have come to expect. But Perry also writes from the quieter corners of his heart, chronicling experiences as joyful as the birth of his child and as devastating as the death of a dear friend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alternately hilarious, tender, and as real as pigs in mud,\n  <em>\n   Coop\n  </em>\n  is suffused with a contemporary desire to reconnect with the earth, with neighbors, with meaning . . . and with chickens.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Marshaling Memories by Mike Perry\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In forming a recollection of that compelling moment when I laid my tongue upon a frozen hammerhead--an act some forty years past--I trust my memory completely. I give this trust based on the electric clarity with which I can resurrect the physical sensation of my taste buds tacking themselves to the subzero steel with a merciless subcellular crinkle. I see no need to verify this reminiscence by licking additional frozen hammers. Still, memory is a notoriously unreliable narrator, and therefore, whenever possible, I rummage around for verification. Sometimes it is as simple as calling Mom. When you took my brother Jud to the Frost-Top Drive-In on his first day with the family after the social worker dropped him off, did he (as I recall) really eat his hamburger, wrapper and all? He ate the wrapper, says Mom, but it was a\n  <em>\n   hot dog\n  </em>\n  . And so the correction is made.* In other instances the verification is archival. Seeming to remember that I experienced my first religious conversion after a spate of bad behavior in third grade, I traveled to the grade school of my childhood and was allowed to rummage through a box in the subterranean boiler room until I found my third grade report cards. The following excerpt served as evidence that yes, the third grade me was in need of spiritual improvement. Also, my third grade teacher wasnâ€™t a top hand with the typewriter:\n </p>\n <p>\n  _Work Habits: Continues to Waste Time. Mike appears to belligerentwhen asked to get to work._\n </p>\n <p>\n  In other cases we strive not for verification but elicitation. In looking at the first photo on the right I can recall what it was like to be a shirtless farm boy in the sun; the straw-like smell of the stubble and how it pricked the soles of my bare feet; and, out of the blue, an unexpected emotional wallop as I recognize my motherâ€™s handwriting and realize that the evocation of a person hardly requires their likeness. Literal traces will do.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sometimes--and I am not speaking here of fabrication--we must construct memories we never retained. Poorly-lit as it is, the secpnd photo tells me much about my world as it was on my third day of life: that my father was the type of man who would grab a sheet of discarded stock from the paper mill of his employment and fashion a sign to welcome his wife and firstborn son home from the hospital; that the big ship painting currently hanging upstairs in my parents farmhouse has been in the family since the beginning; and finally (this required close study until I made out the rocking chair in the shadows, and further realized that the two strips of shininess visible toward the right side of the piano were reflected from the gilded pages of two bibles), I was able to conjure the week-old me, safe in my motherâ€™s arms, the Word of God close at hand, belief and unbelief yet to come.\n </p>\n <p>\n  *_The question of Mom as unreliable narrator is not to be raised. Shame on you._\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Perry (_Population: 485_) is that nowadays rare memoirist whose eccentric upbringing inspires him to humor and sympathetic insight instead of trauma mongering and self-pity. His latest essays chronicle a year on 37 acres of land with his wife, daughters and titular menagerie of livestock (who are fascinating, exasperating personalities in their own right). But these luminous pieces meander back to his childhood on the hardscrabble Wisconsin dairy farm where his parents, members of a tiny fundamentalist Christian sect, raised him and dozens of siblings and foster-siblings, many of them disabled. Perry''s latter-day story is a lifestyle-farming comedy, as he juggles freelance writing assignments with the feedings, chores and construction projects that he hopes will lend him some mud-spattered authenticity. Woven through are tender, uncloying recollections of the homespun virtues of his family and community, from which sprout lessons on the labors and rewards of nurturance (and the occasional need to slaughter what you''ve nurtured). Perry writes vividly about rural life; peck at any sentenceâ€”One of the [chickens] stretches, one leg and one wing back in the manner of a ballet dancer warming up before the barreâ€”and you''ll find a poetic evocation of barnyard grace. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2782'),
(13022, 'Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting', 'Michael Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of\n   <em>\n    Truck: A Love Story\n   </em>\n   gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhoodâ€”his city-bred parents took in more than a hundred foster children while running a ramshackle dairy farmâ€”for clues to how to proceed as a farmer, a husband, and a father.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And when his daughter Amy starts asking about God, Perry is called upon to answer questions for which he''s not quite prepared. He muses on his upbringing in an obscure fundamentalist Christian sect and weighs the long-lost faith of his childhood against the skeptical alternative ("You cannot toss your seven-year-old a copy of\n  <em>\n   Being and Nothingness\n  </em>\n  ").\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether Perry is recalling his childhood ("I first perceived my father as a farmer the night he drove home with a giant lactating Holstein tethered to the bumper of his Ford Falcon") or what it''s like to be bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig ("two firsts in one day"),\n  <em>\n   Coop\n  </em>\n  is filled with the humor his readers have come to expect. But Perry also writes from the quieter corners of his heart, chronicling experiences as joyful as the birth of his child and as devastating as the death of a dear friend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alternately hilarious, tender, and as real as pigs in mud,\n  <em>\n   Coop\n  </em>\n  is suffused with a contemporary desire to reconnect with the earth, with neighbors, with meaning . . . and with chickens.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Marshaling Memories by Mike Perry\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In forming a recollection of that compelling moment when I laid my tongue upon a frozen hammerhead--an act some forty years past--I trust my memory completely. I give this trust based on the electric clarity with which I can resurrect the physical sensation of my taste buds tacking themselves to the subzero steel with a merciless subcellular crinkle. I see no need to verify this reminiscence by licking additional frozen hammers. Still, memory is a notoriously unreliable narrator, and therefore, whenever possible, I rummage around for verification. Sometimes it is as simple as calling Mom. When you took my brother Jud to the Frost-Top Drive-In on his first day with the family after the social worker dropped him off, did he (as I recall) really eat his hamburger, wrapper and all? He ate the wrapper, says Mom, but it was a\n  <em>\n   hot dog\n  </em>\n  . And so the correction is made.* In other instances the verification is archival. Seeming to remember that I experienced my first religious conversion after a spate of bad behavior in third grade, I traveled to the grade school of my childhood and was allowed to rummage through a box in the subterranean boiler room until I found my third grade report cards. The following excerpt served as evidence that yes, the third grade me was in need of spiritual improvement. Also, my third grade teacher wasnâ€™t a top hand with the typewriter:\n </p>\n <p>\n  _Work Habits: Continues to Waste Time. Mike appears to belligerentwhen asked to get to work._\n </p>\n <p>\n  In other cases we strive not for verification but elicitation. In looking at the first photo on the right I can recall what it was like to be a shirtless farm boy in the sun; the straw-like smell of the stubble and how it pricked the soles of my bare feet; and, out of the blue, an unexpected emotional wallop as I recognize my motherâ€™s handwriting and realize that the evocation of a person hardly requires their likeness. Literal traces will do.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sometimes--and I am not speaking here of fabrication--we must construct memories we never retained. Poorly-lit as it is, the secpnd photo tells me much about my world as it was on my third day of life: that my father was the type of man who would grab a sheet of discarded stock from the paper mill of his employment and fashion a sign to welcome his wife and firstborn son home from the hospital; that the big ship painting currently hanging upstairs in my parents farmhouse has been in the family since the beginning; and finally (this required close study until I made out the rocking chair in the shadows, and further realized that the two strips of shininess visible toward the right side of the piano were reflected from the gilded pages of two bibles), I was able to conjure the week-old me, safe in my motherâ€™s arms, the Word of God close at hand, belief and unbelief yet to come.\n </p>\n <p>\n  *_The question of Mom as unreliable narrator is not to be raised. Shame on you._\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Perry (_Population: 485_) is that nowadays rare memoirist whose eccentric upbringing inspires him to humor and sympathetic insight instead of trauma mongering and self-pity. His latest essays chronicle a year on 37 acres of land with his wife, daughters and titular menagerie of livestock (who are fascinating, exasperating personalities in their own right). But these luminous pieces meander back to his childhood on the hardscrabble Wisconsin dairy farm where his parents, members of a tiny fundamentalist Christian sect, raised him and dozens of siblings and foster-siblings, many of them disabled. Perry''s latter-day story is a lifestyle-farming comedy, as he juggles freelance writing assignments with the feedings, chores and construction projects that he hopes will lend him some mud-spattered authenticity. Woven through are tender, uncloying recollections of the homespun virtues of his family and community, from which sprout lessons on the labors and rewards of nurturance (and the occasional need to slaughter what you''ve nurtured). Perry writes vividly about rural life; peck at any sentenceâ€”One of the [chickens] stretches, one leg and one wing back in the manner of a ballet dancer warming up before the barreâ€”and you''ll find a poetic evocation of barnyard grace. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11855'),
(13023, 'Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting', 'Michael Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of\n   <em>\n    Truck: A Love Story\n   </em>\n   gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhoodâ€”his city-bred parents took in more than a hundred foster children while running a ramshackle dairy farmâ€”for clues to how to proceed as a farmer, a husband, and a father.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And when his daughter Amy starts asking about God, Perry is called upon to answer questions for which he''s not quite prepared. He muses on his upbringing in an obscure fundamentalist Christian sect and weighs the long-lost faith of his childhood against the skeptical alternative ("You cannot toss your seven-year-old a copy of\n  <em>\n   Being and Nothingness\n  </em>\n  ").\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whether Perry is recalling his childhood ("I first perceived my father as a farmer the night he drove home with a giant lactating Holstein tethered to the bumper of his Ford Falcon") or what it''s like to be bitten in the butt while wrestling a pig ("two firsts in one day"),\n  <em>\n   Coop\n  </em>\n  is filled with the humor his readers have come to expect. But Perry also writes from the quieter corners of his heart, chronicling experiences as joyful as the birth of his child and as devastating as the death of a dear friend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alternately hilarious, tender, and as real as pigs in mud,\n  <em>\n   Coop\n  </em>\n  is suffused with a contemporary desire to reconnect with the earth, with neighbors, with meaning . . . and with chickens.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Marshaling Memories by Mike Perry\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In forming a recollection of that compelling moment when I laid my tongue upon a frozen hammerhead--an act some forty years past--I trust my memory completely. I give this trust based on the electric clarity with which I can resurrect the physical sensation of my taste buds tacking themselves to the subzero steel with a merciless subcellular crinkle. I see no need to verify this reminiscence by licking additional frozen hammers. Still, memory is a notoriously unreliable narrator, and therefore, whenever possible, I rummage around for verification. Sometimes it is as simple as calling Mom. When you took my brother Jud to the Frost-Top Drive-In on his first day with the family after the social worker dropped him off, did he (as I recall) really eat his hamburger, wrapper and all? He ate the wrapper, says Mom, but it was a\n  <em>\n   hot dog\n  </em>\n  . And so the correction is made.* In other instances the verification is archival. Seeming to remember that I experienced my first religious conversion after a spate of bad behavior in third grade, I traveled to the grade school of my childhood and was allowed to rummage through a box in the subterranean boiler room until I found my third grade report cards. The following excerpt served as evidence that yes, the third grade me was in need of spiritual improvement. Also, my third grade teacher wasnâ€™t a top hand with the typewriter:\n </p>\n <p>\n  _Work Habits: Continues to Waste Time. Mike appears to belligerentwhen asked to get to work._\n </p>\n <p>\n  In other cases we strive not for verification but elicitation. In looking at the first photo on the right I can recall what it was like to be a shirtless farm boy in the sun; the straw-like smell of the stubble and how it pricked the soles of my bare feet; and, out of the blue, an unexpected emotional wallop as I recognize my motherâ€™s handwriting and realize that the evocation of a person hardly requires their likeness. Literal traces will do.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sometimes--and I am not speaking here of fabrication--we must construct memories we never retained. Poorly-lit as it is, the secpnd photo tells me much about my world as it was on my third day of life: that my father was the type of man who would grab a sheet of discarded stock from the paper mill of his employment and fashion a sign to welcome his wife and firstborn son home from the hospital; that the big ship painting currently hanging upstairs in my parents farmhouse has been in the family since the beginning; and finally (this required close study until I made out the rocking chair in the shadows, and further realized that the two strips of shininess visible toward the right side of the piano were reflected from the gilded pages of two bibles), I was able to conjure the week-old me, safe in my motherâ€™s arms, the Word of God close at hand, belief and unbelief yet to come.\n </p>\n <p>\n  *_The question of Mom as unreliable narrator is not to be raised. Shame on you._\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Perry (_Population: 485_) is that nowadays rare memoirist whose eccentric upbringing inspires him to humor and sympathetic insight instead of trauma mongering and self-pity. His latest essays chronicle a year on 37 acres of land with his wife, daughters and titular menagerie of livestock (who are fascinating, exasperating personalities in their own right). But these luminous pieces meander back to his childhood on the hardscrabble Wisconsin dairy farm where his parents, members of a tiny fundamentalist Christian sect, raised him and dozens of siblings and foster-siblings, many of them disabled. Perry''s latter-day story is a lifestyle-farming comedy, as he juggles freelance writing assignments with the feedings, chores and construction projects that he hopes will lend him some mud-spattered authenticity. Woven through are tender, uncloying recollections of the homespun virtues of his family and community, from which sprout lessons on the labors and rewards of nurturance (and the occasional need to slaughter what you''ve nurtured). Perry writes vividly about rural life; peck at any sentenceâ€”One of the [chickens] stretches, one leg and one wing back in the manner of a ballet dancer warming up before the barreâ€”and you''ll find a poetic evocation of barnyard grace. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22024'),
(13024, 'Copiii Dunei', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25829'),
(13025, 'Copiii fiarei', 'Cristian Tudor Popescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25918'),
(13026, 'Coraline', 'Neil Gaiman &amp; Dave McKean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The day after they moved in,  Coraline went exploring....\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In Coraline''s family''s new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Only it''s different.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there''s another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to *change* her and never let her go.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2617'),
(13027, 'Coraline', 'Neil Gaiman &amp; Dave McKean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The day after they moved in,  Coraline went exploring....\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In Coraline''s family''s new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Only it''s different.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there''s another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to *change* her and never let her go.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9875'),
(13028, 'Coraline', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Coraline explores her new home, she steps through a door and into another house just like her own . . . except that it''s different. It''s a marvelous adventure until Coraline discovers that there''s also another mother and another father in the house. They want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to keep her forever!   Coraline must use all of her wits and every ounce of courage in order to save herself and return home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14891'),
(13029, 'Coraline', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Coraline explores her new home, she steps through a door and into another house just like her own . . . except that it''s different. It''s a marvelous adventure until Coraline discovers that there''s also another mother and another father in the house. They want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to keep her forever!   Coraline must use all of her wits and every ounce of courage in order to save herself and return home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22164'),
(13030, 'Corduroy Mansions', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A delightful new settingâ€”Londonâ€”a delightful new cast of characters, and one incredibly clever dog.  Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel, crumbling mansion block in Londonâ€™s vibrant Pimlico neighborhood, and the home turf of a new cast of captivating, quirky, and altogether McCall-Smithian characters. Thereâ€™s the middle-aged wine merchant William, whoâ€™s trying to convince his reluctant twenty-four-year-old son, Eddie, to leave the nest; and Marcia, the restaurant propriatrix who has her sights set on William. Thereâ€™s also the (justifiably) much-loathed member of Parliament, Oedipus Snark; his mother, Berthea, whoâ€™s writing his biography and loathing every minute of him; and his long-suffering girlfriend, Barbara, a literary agent who would like to be his wife (but, then, sheâ€™d like to be almost anyoneâ€™s wife). Thereâ€™s the vitamin evangelist, the psychoanalyst, the art student with a puzzling boyfriend, and the Pimlico terrier, Freddie de la Haye, who can fasten his own seat belt and is almost certainly the only avowed vegetarian canine in London.  The comings and goings, the face-to-face and behind-the-back meetings and misses, the in and outs of neighborliness in all its unexpected variationsâ€”here is a new world for us to enter, filled with all the life, laughter, and humanity that we have come to expect from Alexander McCall Smith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7838');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(13031, 'Corduroy Mansions', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A delightful new settingâ€”Londonâ€”a delightful new cast of characters, and one incredibly clever dog.  Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel, crumbling mansion block in Londonâ€™s vibrant Pimlico neighborhood, and the home turf of a new cast of captivating, quirky, and altogether McCall-Smithian characters. Thereâ€™s the middle-aged wine merchant William, whoâ€™s trying to convince his reluctant twenty-four-year-old son, Eddie, to leave the nest; and Marcia, the restaurant propriatrix who has her sights set on William. Thereâ€™s also the (justifiably) much-loathed member of Parliament, Oedipus Snark; his mother, Berthea, whoâ€™s writing his biography and loathing every minute of him; and his long-suffering girlfriend, Barbara, a literary agent who would like to be his wife (but, then, sheâ€™d like to be almost anyoneâ€™s wife). Thereâ€™s the vitamin evangelist, the psychoanalyst, the art student with a puzzling boyfriend, and the Pimlico terrier, Freddie de la Haye, who can fasten his own seat belt and is almost certainly the only avowed vegetarian canine in London.  The comings and goings, the face-to-face and behind-the-back meetings and misses, the in and outs of neighborliness in all its unexpected variationsâ€”here is a new world for us to enter, filled with all the life, laughter, and humanity that we have come to expect from Alexander McCall Smith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12713'),
(13032, 'Corduroy Mansions', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A delightful new settingâ€”Londonâ€”a delightful new cast of characters, and one incredibly clever dog. Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel, crumbling mansion block in Londonâ€™s vibrant Pimlico neighborhood, and the home turf of a new cast of captivating, quirky, and altogether McCall-Smithian characters. Thereâ€™s the middle-aged wine merchant William, whoâ€™s trying to convince his reluctant twenty-four-year-old son, Eddie, to leave the nest; and Marcia, the restaurant propriatrix who has her sights set on William. Thereâ€™s also the (justifiably) much-loathed member of Parliament, Oedipus Snark; his mother, Berthea, whoâ€™s writing his biography and loathing every minute of him; and his long-suffering girlfriend, Barbara, a literary agent who would like to be his wife (but, then, sheâ€™d like to be almost anyoneâ€™s wife). Thereâ€™s the vitamin evangelist, the psychoanalyst, the art student with a puzzling boyfriend, and the Pimlico terrier, Freddie de la Haye, who can fasten his own seat belt and is almost certainly the only avowed vegetarian canine in London. The comings and goings, the face-to-face and behind-the-back meetings and misses, the in and outs of neighborliness in all its unexpected variationsâ€”here is a new world for us to enter, filled with all the life, laughter, and humanity that we have come to expect from Alexander McCall Smith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16152'),
(13033, 'Corduroy Mansions', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A delightful new settingâ€”Londonâ€”a delightful new cast of characters, and one incredibly clever dog. Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel, crumbling mansion block in Londonâ€™s vibrant Pimlico neighborhood, and the home turf of a new cast of captivating, quirky, and altogether McCall-Smithian characters. Thereâ€™s the middle-aged wine merchant William, whoâ€™s trying to convince his reluctant twenty-four-year-old son, Eddie, to leave the nest; and Marcia, the restaurant propriatrix who has her sights set on William. Thereâ€™s also the (justifiably) much-loathed member of Parliament, Oedipus Snark; his mother, Berthea, whoâ€™s writing his biography and loathing every minute of him; and his long-suffering girlfriend, Barbara, a literary agent who would like to be his wife (but, then, sheâ€™d like to be almost anyoneâ€™s wife). Thereâ€™s the vitamin evangelist, the psychoanalyst, the art student with a puzzling boyfriend, and the Pimlico terrier, Freddie de la Haye, who can fasten his own seat belt and is almost certainly the only avowed vegetarian canine in London. The comings and goings, the face-to-face and behind-the-back meetings and misses, the in and outs of neighborliness in all its unexpected variationsâ€”here is a new world for us to enter, filled with all the life, laughter, and humanity that we have come to expect from Alexander McCall Smith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26331'),
(13034, 'Corespondenta', 'Mihai Eminescu &amp; Veronica Micle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25322'),
(13035, 'The Corfu Trilogy', 'Gerald Durrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods . All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentric English family who moved there. For Gerald, the budding zoologist, Corfu was a natural paradise, teeming with strange birds and beasts that he could collect, watch and care for. But life was not without its problems - his family often objected to his animal-collecting activities, especially when the beasts wound up in the villa or - even worse - the fridge. With hilarious yet endearing portraits of his family and their many unusual hangers-on, The Corfu Trilogy also captures the beginnings of the author''s lifelong love of animals. Recounted with immense humour and charm, this wonderful account of Corfu''s natural history reveals a rare, magical childhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5441'),
(13036, 'The Corfu Trilogy', 'Gerald Durrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods . All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentric English family who moved there. For Gerald, the budding zoologist, Corfu was a natural paradise, teeming with strange birds and beasts that he could collect, watch and care for. But life was not without its problems - his family often objected to his animal-collecting activities, especially when the beasts wound up in the villa or - even worse - the fridge. With hilarious yet endearing portraits of his family and their many unusual hangers-on, The Corfu Trilogy also captures the beginnings of the author''s lifelong love of animals. Recounted with immense humour and charm, this wonderful account of Corfu''s natural history reveals a rare, magical childhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10868'),
(13037, 'The Corfu trilogy', 'Gerald Durrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods . All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentric English family who moved there. For Gerald, the budding zoologist, Corfu was a natural paradise, teeming with strange birds and beasts that he could collect, watch and care for. But life was not without its problems - his family often objected to his animal-collecting activities, especially when the beasts wound up in the villa or - even worse - the fridge. With hilarious yet endearing portraits of his family and their many unusual hangers-on, The Corfu Trilogy also captures the beginnings of the author''s lifelong love of animals. Recounted with immense humour and charm, this wonderful account of Corfu''s natural history reveals a rare, magical childhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19265'),
(13038, 'The Corfu trilogy', 'Gerald Durrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods . All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentric English family who moved there. For Gerald, the budding zoologist, Corfu was a natural paradise, teeming with strange birds and beasts that he could collect, watch and care for. But life was not without its problems - his family often objected to his animal-collecting activities, especially when the beasts wound up in the villa or - even worse - the fridge. With hilarious yet endearing portraits of his family and their many unusual hangers-on, The Corfu Trilogy also captures the beginnings of the author''s lifelong love of animals. Recounted with immense humour and charm, this wonderful account of Corfu''s natural history reveals a rare, magical childhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27974'),
(13039, 'The Corinthian', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  Corinthian\n </em>\n remains one of my favorite Georgette Heyer books... a treat and a keeper. (Lesa Holstine\n <em>\n  Lesa''s Book Critiques\n </em>\n 20090612)\n</p>\n<p>\n hilarious, imaginative, witty, and compelling. (Shawn Remfry\n <em>\n  Maymay''s Memos\n </em>\n 20090626)\n</p>\n<p>\n I enjoyed myself while reading this fast-paced romp... delightful. (Ms. Place\n <em>\n  Jane Austen''s World\n </em>\n 20090701)\n</p>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  Corinthian\n </em>\n is a light-hearted comedy of manners... This is one Heyer I''ll be revisiting soon. (Danielle Torres\n <em>\n  A Work in Progress\n </em>\n 20090701)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a delightfully fun and adventurous romance full of laugh-out-loud moments. (Wendi Barker\n <em>\n  Wendi''s Book Corner\n </em>\n 20090707)\n</p>\n<p>\n Rolicking fun in the form of a Regency-style road trip with romance and intrigue, terrific characters and witty dialogue. (Nancy Horner\n <em>\n  Bookfoolery and Babble\n </em>\n 20090708)\n</p>\n<p>\n I adored this book. I adore Heyer. I want to go out and gobble up everything she ever wrote and I will. Slowly and deliciously. (Heather Fargis\n <em>\n  A Hidden Place\n </em>\n 20090731)\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer was at the top of her game with The\n <em>\n  Corinthian\n </em>\n ... it is one of her best adventure/romances. (Sharon Goforth\n <em>\n  Ex Libris\n </em>\n 20090731)\n</p>\n<p>\n Fascinating... a very enjoyable read. (Jessica West\n <em>\n  The Curious Reader\n </em>\n 20090731)\n</p>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  Corinthian\n </em>\n is a wonderful book... a must read on a rainy day. (Shana Haynes\n <em>\n  Books-are-Life Reviews\n </em>\n 20090824)\n</p>\n<p>\n This one is playful and fun. There''s some adventure thrown in as well--and a murder!--but at it''s heart this is a romantic comedy. (Rebecca Laney\n <em>\n  Becky''s Book Reviews\n </em>\n 20090824)\n</p>\n<p>\n Superbly written, with an undercurrent of humor throughout, THE CORINTHIAN is a sheer joy to read. (Camellia\n <em>\n  The Long and Short of It Reviews\n </em>\n 20090825)\n</p>\n<p>\n Part road romance and all romp, this delicious comedy of manners is filled with adventure and fun, and Heyer''s superb wit and humor, Once you begin this page-turning delight, you will not be able to put it down! (Deborah Hosey\n <em>\n  The Romance Readers Connection\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n [T]he writing is good, the subtle romance is sweet, the adventure is fun. (Ana Grilo\n <em>\n  The Book Smugglers\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Georgette Heyer presents her sparkling wit with a Shakespearean twist.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Walking home at dawn, quite drunk, Sir Richard Wyndham encounters heiress Penelope Creed climbing out her window. She is running away from a dreaded marriage to her fish-lipped cousin, while Sir Richard himself is contemplating a loveless marriage with a woman his friends have compared to a cold poultice. Sir Richard can''t allow her to careen about the countryside unchaperoned, even in the guise of a boy, so he pretends to be her tutor and takes her on a fine adventure. When their stagecoach overturns, they find themselves embroiled with thieves, at the center of a murder investigation, and finally, in love.\n</p>\n<p>\n (20090526)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18391'),
(13040, 'Cormac: The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing', 'Sonny Brewer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the same vein as Marley and Me and My Dog Skip, this â€œmostly trueâ€ novel is at once a whimsical campfire mystery and a universal story about the friendship between a man and his dog.Cormac, a golden retriever who has always been afraid of thunderstorms and lightning flashes, runs away one stormy night while his master is away. So begins a strange adventure that lands Cormac in the back of a red pickup truck driven by a mysterious woman, takes him to a series of dog pounds and rescue shelters, and ultimately brings him to the suburbs of Connecticut. His owner, meanwhile, devastated by Cormacâ€™s disappearance and trying to juggle a family, a book tour, and writing his new novel, becomes determined to solve the â€œdog-nappingâ€ case. With the help of the local veterinarian, bookstore colleagues, animal rescue employees, and old friends, he picks up on Cormacâ€™s trail and watches his small-town community come together in search of his lost companion.Inspired by real events, and embellished only to serve the story through the spirit of imagination, Brewer has, as he says, â€œmainly told the truth in this story of losing my good dog Cormac.â€From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1193'),
(13041, 'Cormac: The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing', 'Sonny Brewer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the same vein as Marley and Me and My Dog Skip, this â€œmostly trueâ€ novel is at once a whimsical campfire mystery and a universal story about the friendship between a man and his dog.Cormac, a golden retriever who has always been afraid of thunderstorms and lightning flashes, runs away one stormy night while his master is away. So begins a strange adventure that lands Cormac in the back of a red pickup truck driven by a mysterious woman, takes him to a series of dog pounds and rescue shelters, and ultimately brings him to the suburbs of Connecticut. His owner, meanwhile, devastated by Cormacâ€™s disappearance and trying to juggle a family, a book tour, and writing his new novel, becomes determined to solve the â€œdog-nappingâ€ case. With the help of the local veterinarian, bookstore colleagues, animal rescue employees, and old friends, he picks up on Cormacâ€™s trail and watches his small-town community come together in search of his lost companion.Inspired by real events, and embellished only to serve the story through the spirit of imagination, Brewer has, as he says, â€œmainly told the truth in this story of losing my good dog Cormac.â€From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8590'),
(13042, 'Cormac: The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing', 'Sonny Brewer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the same vein as Marley and Me and My Dog Skip, this â€œmostly trueâ€ novel is at once a whimsical campfire mystery and a universal story about the friendship between a man and his dog.Cormac, a golden retriever who has always been afraid of thunderstorms and lightning flashes, runs away one stormy night while his master is away. So begins a strange adventure that lands Cormac in the back of a red pickup truck driven by a mysterious woman, takes him to a series of dog pounds and rescue shelters, and ultimately brings him to the suburbs of Connecticut. His owner, meanwhile, devastated by Cormacâ€™s disappearance and trying to juggle a family, a book tour, and writing his new novel, becomes determined to solve the â€œdog-nappingâ€ case. With the help of the local veterinarian, bookstore colleagues, animal rescue employees, and old friends, he picks up on Cormacâ€™s trail and watches his small-town community come together in search of his lost companion.Inspired by real events, and embellished only to serve the story through the spirit of imagination, Brewer has, as he says, â€œmainly told the truth in this story of losing my good dog Cormac.â€From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23723'),
(13043, 'The Cornish Heiress', 'Roberta Gellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Megaera''s father sold her in marriage at fifteen to Edward Devoran. Edward''s extravagance mortgaged her estates and induced him to join a band of smugglers. Meg paid the interest by selling her jewels and when they were gone-Edward was gone too, murdered by his partner Black Bart. Meg became the smuggler Red Meg, took Edward''s place and Edward''s profits and kept paying her mortgages. Philip St. Eyre wanted to fight Napoleon. Raised as a Frenchman and able to pass as French, he was the perfect spy and had a way to reach France through his father''s old friend, the smuggler Pierre. Thus Philip met Red Meg and fell in love. Meg thought Philip was Pierre''s by-blow, Philip thought Meg was a common smuggler. To both gently born lovers the match was impossible. Until Black Bart tried to murder Meg, and Philip had to take her to France where her handiness with a pistol saved his life and his mission and exposed all their secrets. Publisher Note: The book was previously published elsewhere in 1981.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1624'),
(13044, 'The Cornish Heiress', 'Roberta Gellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Megaera''s father sold her in marriage at fifteen to Edward Devoran. Edward''s extravagance mortgaged her estates and induced him to join a band of smugglers. Meg paid the interest by selling her jewels and when they were gone-Edward was gone too, murdered by his partner Black Bart. Meg became the smuggler Red Meg, took Edward''s place and Edward''s profits and kept paying her mortgages. Philip St. Eyre wanted to fight Napoleon. Raised as a Frenchman and able to pass as French, he was the perfect spy and had a way to reach France through his father''s old friend, the smuggler Pierre. Thus Philip met Red Meg and fell in love. Meg thought Philip was Pierre''s by-blow, Philip thought Meg was a common smuggler. To both gently born lovers the match was impossible. Until Black Bart tried to murder Meg, and Philip had to take her to France where her handiness with a pistol saved his life and his mission and exposed all their secrets. Publisher Note: The book was previously published elsewhere in 1981.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23349'),
(13045, 'Cornwell, Patricia - All That Remains', 'All That Remains', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13654'),
(13046, 'Cornwell, Patricia - All That Remains', 'All That Remains', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26349'),
(13047, 'Cornwell, Patricia - Body of Evidence', 'jfiller', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13603'),
(13048, 'Cornwell, Patricia - Cruel and Unusual', 'Cruel &amp; Unusual', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13786'),
(13049, 'Cornwell, Patricia - Cruel and Unusual', 'Cruel &amp; Unusual', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27141'),
(13050, 'Cornwell, Patricia - Last Precinct', 'Last Precinct', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13779'),
(13051, 'Cornwell, Patricia - Point of Origin', 'Point of Origin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13729'),
(13052, 'Cornwell, Patricia - Postmortem', 'Postmortem', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13643'),
(13053, 'Cornwell, Patricia_Cause of Death', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13820'),
(13054, 'Cornwell, Patricia_From Potter&#39;s Field', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13710'),
(13055, 'Cornwell, Patricia_Kay Scarpetta 10 - Black Notice', 'Black Notice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13583'),
(13056, 'Cornwell, Patricia_Kay Scarpetta 10 - Black Notice', 'Black Notice', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26684'),
(13057, 'Cornwell, Patricia_The Body Farm', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13788'),
(13058, 'Cornwell, Patricia_Unnatural.Exprosure', 'Patricia Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13727'),
(13059, 'The Corrections', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jonathan Franzen''s exhilarating novel\n  <em>\n   The Corrections\n  </em>\n  tells a spellbinding story with sexy comic brio, and evokes a quirky family akin to Anne Tyler''s, only bitter. Franzen''s great at describing Christmas homecomings gone awry, cruise-ship follies, self-deluded academics, breast-obsessed screenwriters, stodgy old farts and edgy Tribeca bohemians equally at sea in their lives, and the mad, bad, dangerous worlds of the Internet boom and the fissioning post-Soviet East.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All five members of the Lambert family get their due, as everybody''s lives swirl out of control. Paterfamilias Alfred is slipping into dementia, even as one of his inventions inspires a pharmaceutical giant to revolutionize treatment of his disease. His stubborn wife, Enid, specializes in denial; so do their kids, each in an idiosyncratic way. Their hepcat son, Chip, lost a college sinecure by seducing a student, and his new career as a screenwriter is in peril. Chip''s sister, Denise, is a chic chef perpetually in hot water, romantically speaking; banker brother Gary wonders if his stifling marriage is driving him nuts. We inhabit these troubled minds in turn, sinking into sorrow punctuated by laughter, reveling in Franzen''s satirical eye:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Gary in recent years had observed, with plate tectonically cumulative anxiety, that population was continuing to flow out of the Midwest and toward the cooler coasts.... Gary wished that all further migration [could] be banned and all Midwesterners encouraged to revert to eating pasty foods and wearing dowdy clothes and playing board games, in order that a strategic national reserve of cluelessness might be maintained, a wilderness of taste which would enable people of privilege, like himself, to feel extremely civilized in perpetuity.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Franzen is funny and on the money. This book puts him on the literary map.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If some authors are masters of suspense, others postmodern verbal acrobats, and still others complex-character pointillists, few excel in all three arenas. In his long-awaited third novel, Franzen does. Unlike his previous works, The 27th City (1988) and Strong Motion (1992), which tackled St. Louis and Boston, respectively, this one skips from city to city (New York; St. Jude; Philadelphia; Vilnius, Lithuania) as it follows the delamination of the Lambert family Alfred, once a rigid disciplinarian, flounders against Parkinson''s-induced dementia; Enid, his loyal and embittered wife, lusts for the perfect Midwestern Christmas; Denise, their daughter, launches the hippest restaurant in Philly; and Gary, their oldest son, grapples with depression, while Chip, his brother, attempts to shore his eroding self-confidence by joining forces with a self-mocking, Eastern-Bloc politician. As in his other novels, Franzen blends these personal dramas with expert technical cartwheels and savage commentary on larger social issues, such as the imbecility of laissez-faire parenting and the farcical nature of U.S.-Third World relations. The result is a book made of equal parts fury and humor, one that takes a dry-eyed look at our culture, at our pains and insecurities, while offering hope that, occasionally at least, we can reach some kind of understanding. This is, simply, a masterpiece. Agent, Susan Golomb. (Sept.)Forecast: Franzen has always been a writer''s writer and his previous novels have earned critical admiration, but his sales haven''t yet reached the level of, say, Don DeLillo at his hottest. Still, if the ancillary rights sales and the buzz at BEA are any indication, The Corrections should be his breakout book. Its varied subject matter will endear it to a genre-crossing section of fans (both David Foster Wallace and Michael Cunningham contributed rave blurbs) and FSG''s publicity campaign will guarantee plenty of press. QPB main, BOMC alternate. Foreign rights sold in the U.K., Denmark, Holland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Spain. Nine-city author tour.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4106'),
(13060, 'The Corrections', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jonathan Franzen''s exhilarating novel\n  <em>\n   The Corrections\n  </em>\n  tells a spellbinding story with sexy comic brio, and evokes a quirky family akin to Anne Tyler''s, only bitter. Franzen''s great at describing Christmas homecomings gone awry, cruise-ship follies, self-deluded academics, breast-obsessed screenwriters, stodgy old farts and edgy Tribeca bohemians equally at sea in their lives, and the mad, bad, dangerous worlds of the Internet boom and the fissioning post-Soviet East.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All five members of the Lambert family get their due, as everybody''s lives swirl out of control. Paterfamilias Alfred is slipping into dementia, even as one of his inventions inspires a pharmaceutical giant to revolutionize treatment of his disease. His stubborn wife, Enid, specializes in denial; so do their kids, each in an idiosyncratic way. Their hepcat son, Chip, lost a college sinecure by seducing a student, and his new career as a screenwriter is in peril. Chip''s sister, Denise, is a chic chef perpetually in hot water, romantically speaking; banker brother Gary wonders if his stifling marriage is driving him nuts. We inhabit these troubled minds in turn, sinking into sorrow punctuated by laughter, reveling in Franzen''s satirical eye:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Gary in recent years had observed, with plate tectonically cumulative anxiety, that population was continuing to flow out of the Midwest and toward the cooler coasts.... Gary wished that all further migration [could] be banned and all Midwesterners encouraged to revert to eating pasty foods and wearing dowdy clothes and playing board games, in order that a strategic national reserve of cluelessness might be maintained, a wilderness of taste which would enable people of privilege, like himself, to feel extremely civilized in perpetuity.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Franzen is funny and on the money. This book puts him on the literary map.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If some authors are masters of suspense, others postmodern verbal acrobats, and still others complex-character pointillists, few excel in all three arenas. In his long-awaited third novel, Franzen does. Unlike his previous works, The 27th City (1988) and Strong Motion (1992), which tackled St. Louis and Boston, respectively, this one skips from city to city (New York; St. Jude; Philadelphia; Vilnius, Lithuania) as it follows the delamination of the Lambert family Alfred, once a rigid disciplinarian, flounders against Parkinson''s-induced dementia; Enid, his loyal and embittered wife, lusts for the perfect Midwestern Christmas; Denise, their daughter, launches the hippest restaurant in Philly; and Gary, their oldest son, grapples with depression, while Chip, his brother, attempts to shore his eroding self-confidence by joining forces with a self-mocking, Eastern-Bloc politician. As in his other novels, Franzen blends these personal dramas with expert technical cartwheels and savage commentary on larger social issues, such as the imbecility of laissez-faire parenting and the farcical nature of U.S.-Third World relations. The result is a book made of equal parts fury and humor, one that takes a dry-eyed look at our culture, at our pains and insecurities, while offering hope that, occasionally at least, we can reach some kind of understanding. This is, simply, a masterpiece. Agent, Susan Golomb. (Sept.)Forecast: Franzen has always been a writer''s writer and his previous novels have earned critical admiration, but his sales haven''t yet reached the level of, say, Don DeLillo at his hottest. Still, if the ancillary rights sales and the buzz at BEA are any indication, The Corrections should be his breakout book. Its varied subject matter will endear it to a genre-crossing section of fans (both David Foster Wallace and Michael Cunningham contributed rave blurbs) and FSG''s publicity campaign will guarantee plenty of press. QPB main, BOMC alternate. Foreign rights sold in the U.K., Denmark, Holland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Spain. Nine-city author tour.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9834'),
(13061, 'The Corrections', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Winner of the National Book Award After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson''s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man-or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Jonathan Franzenis the author ofThe Twenty-Seventh City,Strong Motion, and the essay collectionHow to Be Alone. He has been named one of theGranta20 Best Novelists under 40 and is a frequent contributor toThe New YorkerandHarper''s. He lives in New York City. Winner of the National Book Award Pulitzer Prize Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Los Angeles TimesBook Award Finalist New York Times Book ReviewEditors'' Choice American Library Association Notable Book The Correctionsis a grandly entertaining novel for the new centurya comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson''s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married manor so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today,The Correctionsbrings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic and darkly hilarious, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul. "Funny and deeply sad, large-hearted and merciless,The Correctionsis a testament to the range and depth of pleasures great fiction affords."David Foster Wallace "Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole cultureour culture. And he has done it with sympathy and expansiveness that bend the edgy modern temper to a generous breadth of vision."Don DeLillo "In its complexity, its scrutinizing and utterly unsentimental humanity, and its grasp of the subtle relationships between domestic drama and global events,The Correctionsstands in the company of Mann''sBuddenbrooksand DeLillo''sWhite Noise. It is a major accomplishment."Michael Cunningham\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15054'),
(13062, 'The Corrections', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jonathan Franzen''s exhilarating novel\n  <em>\n   The Corrections\n  </em>\n  tells a spellbinding story with sexy comic brio, and evokes a quirky family akin to Anne Tyler''s, only bitter. Franzen''s great at describing Christmas homecomings gone awry, cruise-ship follies, self-deluded academics, breast-obsessed screenwriters, stodgy old farts and edgy Tribeca bohemians equally at sea in their lives, and the mad, bad, dangerous worlds of the Internet boom and the fissioning post-Soviet East.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All five members of the Lambert family get their due, as everybody''s lives swirl out of control. Paterfamilias Alfred is slipping into dementia, even as one of his inventions inspires a pharmaceutical giant to revolutionize treatment of his disease. His stubborn wife, Enid, specializes in denial; so do their kids, each in an idiosyncratic way. Their hepcat son, Chip, lost a college sinecure by seducing a student, and his new career as a screenwriter is in peril. Chip''s sister, Denise, is a chic chef perpetually in hot water, romantically speaking; banker brother Gary wonders if his stifling marriage is driving him nuts. We inhabit these troubled minds in turn, sinking into sorrow punctuated by laughter, reveling in Franzen''s satirical eye:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Gary in recent years had observed, with plate tectonically cumulative anxiety, that population was continuing to flow out of the Midwest and toward the cooler coasts.... Gary wished that all further migration [could] be banned and all Midwesterners encouraged to revert to eating pasty foods and wearing dowdy clothes and playing board games, in order that a strategic national reserve of cluelessness might be maintained, a wilderness of taste which would enable people of privilege, like himself, to feel extremely civilized in perpetuity.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Franzen is funny and on the money. This book puts him on the literary map.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If some authors are masters of suspense, others postmodern verbal acrobats, and still others complex-character pointillists, few excel in all three arenas. In his long-awaited third novel, Franzen does. Unlike his previous works, The 27th City (1988) and Strong Motion (1992), which tackled St. Louis and Boston, respectively, this one skips from city to city (New York; St. Jude; Philadelphia; Vilnius, Lithuania) as it follows the delamination of the Lambert family Alfred, once a rigid disciplinarian, flounders against Parkinson''s-induced dementia; Enid, his loyal and embittered wife, lusts for the perfect Midwestern Christmas; Denise, their daughter, launches the hippest restaurant in Philly; and Gary, their oldest son, grapples with depression, while Chip, his brother, attempts to shore his eroding self-confidence by joining forces with a self-mocking, Eastern-Bloc politician. As in his other novels, Franzen blends these personal dramas with expert technical cartwheels and savage commentary on larger social issues, such as the imbecility of laissez-faire parenting and the farcical nature of U.S.-Third World relations. The result is a book made of equal parts fury and humor, one that takes a dry-eyed look at our culture, at our pains and insecurities, while offering hope that, occasionally at least, we can reach some kind of understanding. This is, simply, a masterpiece. Agent, Susan Golomb. (Sept.)Forecast: Franzen has always been a writer''s writer and his previous novels have earned critical admiration, but his sales haven''t yet reached the level of, say, Don DeLillo at his hottest. Still, if the ancillary rights sales and the buzz at BEA are any indication, The Corrections should be his breakout book. Its varied subject matter will endear it to a genre-crossing section of fans (both David Foster Wallace and Michael Cunningham contributed rave blurbs) and FSG''s publicity campaign will guarantee plenty of press. QPB main, BOMC alternate. Foreign rights sold in the U.K., Denmark, Holland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Spain. Nine-city author tour.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20406'),
(13063, 'The Cosmic Rape', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22930'),
(13064, 'Cosmos', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Cosmos\n  </em>\n  was the first science TV blockbuster, and Carl Sagan was its (human) star. By the time of Sagan''s death in 1996, the series had been seen by half a billion people; Sagan was perhaps the best-known scientist on the planet. Explaining how the series came about, Sagan recalled:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   I was positive from my own experience that an enormous global interest exists in the exploration of the planets and in many kindred scientific topics--the origin of life, the Earth, and the Cosmos, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, our connection with the universe. And I was certain that this interest could be excited through that most powerful communications medium, television.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Sagan''s own interest and enthusiasm for the universe were so vivid and infectious, his screen presence so engaging, that viewers and readers couldn''t help but be caught up in his vision. From stars in their "billions and billions" to the amino acids in the primordial ocean, Sagan communicated a feeling for science as a process of discovery. Inevitably, some of the science in\n  <em>\n   Cosmos\n  </em>\n  has been outdated in the years since 1980--but Sagan''s sense of wonder is ageless.\n  <em>\n   --Mary Ellen Curtin\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Enticing, imaginative, readable, iridescent'' - THE NEW YORK TIMES\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7036'),
(13065, 'Cosmos', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The best-selling science book ever published in the English language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today''s knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly energetic and irresistible way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14062'),
(13066, 'Cosmos', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The best-selling science book ever published in the English language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today''s knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly energetic and irresistible way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16928'),
(13067, 'Cosmos', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The best-selling science book ever published in the English language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today''s knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly energetic and irresistible way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26821'),
(13068, 'Cotillion', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Young Kitty Charing stands to inherit a vast fortune from her irascible great-uncle Matthew--provided she marries one of her cousins. Kitty is not wholly adverse to the plan,\n <em>\n  if\n </em>\n the right nephew proposes. Unfortunately, Kitty has set her heart on Jack Westruther, a confirmed rake, who seems to have no inclination to marry her anytime soon. In an effort to make Jack jealous,\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n to see a little more of the world than her isolated life on her great-uncle''s estate has afforded her, Kitty devises a plan. She convinces yet another of her cousins, the honorable Freddy Standen, to pretend to be engaged to her. Her plan would bring her to London on a visit to Freddy''s family and (hopefully) render the elusive Mr. Westruther madly jealous. Thus begins\n <em>\n  Cotillion\n </em>\n , arguably the funniest, most charming of Georgette Heyer''s many delightful Regency romances.\n</p>\n<p>\n No sooner does Kitty arrive in London than she becomes embroiled in the romantic difficulties of several new acquaintances. Kitty''s French cousin, Camille, a professional gambler, has won the heart of her new friend, Olivia--who also happens to be the object of Jack Westruther''s dishonorable intentions. Meanwhile, Kitty''s doltish cousin Lord Dolphinton has fallen in love with a merchant''s daughter who''s embattled with his mother and needs his help. Finally, there is Kitty herself, who begins to wonder if the dandified Freddy might not be the man for her after all. As in all of Georgette Heyer''s books,\n <em>\n  Cotillion\n </em>\n transcends genre--it is, quite simply, wonderful literature. Historically accurate down to the finest details of dress, deportment, and speech, Heyer was also a master at creating unforgettable, comic characters, and Kitty Charing and Freddy Standen stand out as one of her most charming romantic duos ever.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Miss Catherine Charing is in a difficult situation. Her irascible and eccentric guardian, Mr. Matthew Penicuik, will bestow his entire fortune on her only if she will marry one of his great-nephews, not a choice lot. The Rev. Hugh Rattney is a self-righteous prig; Capt. Claud Rattney is a well-known rake; Lord Dolphinton is none too bright and frightened to death of his Mama; the Honorable Frederick Standon is a useless fribble; and Kitty''s hero, Capt. Jack Westruther, resisting Uncle Matthew''s tyrannical ways, has refused to even show up. If Kitty does not accept one of them, she will be penniless and homeless. Driven to folly by these circumstances, she attempts to flee to London to find a position as a governess. Heyer''s characterizations are at their sharpest as her people change and grow in unexpected directions. The book is a joy to listen to, as Phyllida Nash manages to keep the complicated cast of characters both separate and equal. Highly recommended for all public library collections where romance or the author''s works are popular.ABarbara Rhodes, Northeast Texas Lib. Syst., Garland\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18373'),
(13069, 'A Cotswold Mystery', 'Rebecca Tope', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With beautiful descriptions of the countryside, this excellent thriller marks a compulsive new series of rural adventures. --Good Book Guide\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After three catastrophic house-sitting commissions, filled with murder and intrigue, the Montgomery house in Blockley seems like a welcome break for fearless Thea and her trusty spaniel Hephzibah. The opportunity to explore the lost Cotswold villages, with only the minor hindrance of checking up on the client''s mother, in the adjoining house, promises to be the perfect get away. But Granny Gladys Gardener, with her conveniently erratic memory and series of ailments that disappear as quickly as they arrive, is a force to be reckoned and is soon arousing Thea''s suspicion. After all, why do the Montgomery''s lock her connecting door to the house? And why do they set an alarm that goes off every time Granny goes out?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thea''s concerns, however, soon turn to something more sinister when the arrival of her daughter, trainee policewoman Jessica, prompts the discovery of a body. Slowly the secrets of Blockley begin to unravel themselves to the Osborne women, but nothing in the village is quite what it seems. Up against the clock to try and solve another murder, with the added complications of her elderly charge, her daughter''s career troubles and her deepening relationship with DI Phil Hollis, Thea is beginning to feel well and truly lost in the Cotswolds.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1919'),
(13070, 'A Cotswold Mystery', 'Rebecca Tope', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With beautiful descriptions of the countryside, this excellent thriller marks a compulsive new series of rural adventures. --Good Book Guide\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After three catastrophic house-sitting commissions, filled with murder and intrigue, the Montgomery house in Blockley seems like a welcome break for fearless Thea and her trusty spaniel Hephzibah. The opportunity to explore the lost Cotswold villages, with only the minor hindrance of checking up on the client''s mother, in the adjoining house, promises to be the perfect get away. But Granny Gladys Gardener, with her conveniently erratic memory and series of ailments that disappear as quickly as they arrive, is a force to be reckoned and is soon arousing Thea''s suspicion. After all, why do the Montgomery''s lock her connecting door to the house? And why do they set an alarm that goes off every time Granny goes out?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thea''s concerns, however, soon turn to something more sinister when the arrival of her daughter, trainee policewoman Jessica, prompts the discovery of a body. Slowly the secrets of Blockley begin to unravel themselves to the Osborne women, but nothing in the village is quite what it seems. Up against the clock to try and solve another murder, with the added complications of her elderly charge, her daughter''s career troubles and her deepening relationship with DI Phil Hollis, Thea is beginning to feel well and truly lost in the Cotswolds.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13093');
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(13071, 'A Cotswold Mystery', 'Rebecca Tope', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With beautiful descriptions of the countryside, this excellent thriller marks a compulsive new series of rural adventures. --Good Book Guide\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After three catastrophic house-sitting commissions, filled with murder and intrigue, the Montgomery house in Blockley seems like a welcome break for fearless Thea and her trusty spaniel Hephzibah. The opportunity to explore the lost Cotswold villages, with only the minor hindrance of checking up on the client''s mother, in the adjoining house, promises to be the perfect get away. But Granny Gladys Gardener, with her conveniently erratic memory and series of ailments that disappear as quickly as they arrive, is a force to be reckoned and is soon arousing Thea''s suspicion. After all, why do the Montgomery''s lock her connecting door to the house? And why do they set an alarm that goes off every time Granny goes out?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thea''s concerns, however, soon turn to something more sinister when the arrival of her daughter, trainee policewoman Jessica, prompts the discovery of a body. Slowly the secrets of Blockley begin to unravel themselves to the Osborne women, but nothing in the village is quite what it seems. Up against the clock to try and solve another murder, with the added complications of her elderly charge, her daughter''s career troubles and her deepening relationship with DI Phil Hollis, Thea is beginning to feel well and truly lost in the Cotswolds.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21712'),
(13072, 'The Cottage', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This "cottage" is actually the huge estate of fading movie star Cooper Winslow, who is so down on his luck that he must rent a part of it to make ends meet. But the two fellows who move in introduce Coop to something completely different friendship and of course in the offing there''s the promise of love.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â„¢In her fifty-fourth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of fame and friendship, charmed lives and private struggles...and of three very different men whose lives converge and collide at\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n On a sunny day in Hollywood, a gleaming Rolls-Royce convertible pulls through the gates of the magnificent estate known as\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n . Modeled after the â€œcottagesâ€ of Newport, Rhode Island, the spacious, elegant property, sitting on fourteen acres of lush Bel Air, fits its owner to a T. For the man behind the wheel of the Rolls is Hollywoodâ€™s ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is the stuff of legend, Coop exudes grace, charm, and old-fashioned style. But today Coop Winslow is in for a major surprise. Heâ€™s broke. And with no major roles coming his way, Coop is faced with the heartbreaking prospect of selling his beloved home of forty years, or at least renting out the gatehouse and part of the main house. A huge blow to Coop, whose debonair attitude allows him to escape reality much of the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n His new tenants, Mark Friedman and Jimmy Oâ€™Connor, are busy coping with problems of their own. Markâ€™s wife of sixteen years just walked out, and Jimmy recently lost his own wife to a devastating illness. But everything changes when Markâ€™s teenage son and daughter move in. Suddenly,\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n is transformed, with music blasting from every corner, teenagers on skateboards crashing into vintage cars, and a never-ending parade of young starlets streaming in and out to visit Coop.\n</p>\n<p>\n But amid all the noise and the chaos, something unexpected is happening. Three men who never would have met are becoming friends...and each man finds himself changing in surprising ways, Coop most of all. Because beneath the dazzle and flash, the impeccably tailored suits and the sheer bravado, is a man trying to keep control of his carefully ordered worldâ€”a world that is becoming more and more unpredictable with each passing day.\n</p>\n<p>\n First, a tabloid scandal erupts, threatening Coopâ€™s budding romance with a wealthy debutante....A stranger approaches Coop with stunning news....A devastating accident almost claims the life of one of the housemates....And in the midst of it all,\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n welcomes a new houseguest with a secret of her own, who will change Coopâ€™s life in unexpected ways. Because among the people who share his cottage and his life, Coop Winslowâ€“ loner, bachelor, movie starâ€“may find the rarest of all opportunities: a chance to build a happiness he could never have dreamed of on his own, and to become the kind of human being he has never been.\n</p>\n<p>\n Against a glittering backdrop of celebrity and glamour, Danielle Steel digs deeper to tell a story of friendship and love, tragedy and second chances...of the choices and unexpected turns of fate that can shape characters and lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6422'),
(13073, 'The Cottage', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This "cottage" is actually the huge estate of fading movie star Cooper Winslow, who is so down on his luck that he must rent a part of it to make ends meet. But the two fellows who move in introduce Coop to something completely different friendship and of course in the offing there''s the promise of love.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â„¢In her fifty-fourth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of fame and friendship, charmed lives and private struggles...and of three very different men whose lives converge and collide at\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n On a sunny day in Hollywood, a gleaming Rolls-Royce convertible pulls through the gates of the magnificent estate known as\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n . Modeled after the â€œcottagesâ€ of Newport, Rhode Island, the spacious, elegant property, sitting on fourteen acres of lush Bel Air, fits its owner to a T. For the man behind the wheel of the Rolls is Hollywoodâ€™s ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is the stuff of legend, Coop exudes grace, charm, and old-fashioned style. But today Coop Winslow is in for a major surprise. Heâ€™s broke. And with no major roles coming his way, Coop is faced with the heartbreaking prospect of selling his beloved home of forty years, or at least renting out the gatehouse and part of the main house. A huge blow to Coop, whose debonair attitude allows him to escape reality much of the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n His new tenants, Mark Friedman and Jimmy Oâ€™Connor, are busy coping with problems of their own. Markâ€™s wife of sixteen years just walked out, and Jimmy recently lost his own wife to a devastating illness. But everything changes when Markâ€™s teenage son and daughter move in. Suddenly,\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n is transformed, with music blasting from every corner, teenagers on skateboards crashing into vintage cars, and a never-ending parade of young starlets streaming in and out to visit Coop.\n</p>\n<p>\n But amid all the noise and the chaos, something unexpected is happening. Three men who never would have met are becoming friends...and each man finds himself changing in surprising ways, Coop most of all. Because beneath the dazzle and flash, the impeccably tailored suits and the sheer bravado, is a man trying to keep control of his carefully ordered worldâ€”a world that is becoming more and more unpredictable with each passing day.\n</p>\n<p>\n First, a tabloid scandal erupts, threatening Coopâ€™s budding romance with a wealthy debutante....A stranger approaches Coop with stunning news....A devastating accident almost claims the life of one of the housemates....And in the midst of it all,\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n welcomes a new houseguest with a secret of her own, who will change Coopâ€™s life in unexpected ways. Because among the people who share his cottage and his life, Coop Winslowâ€“ loner, bachelor, movie starâ€“may find the rarest of all opportunities: a chance to build a happiness he could never have dreamed of on his own, and to become the kind of human being he has never been.\n</p>\n<p>\n Against a glittering backdrop of celebrity and glamour, Danielle Steel digs deeper to tell a story of friendship and love, tragedy and second chances...of the choices and unexpected turns of fate that can shape characters and lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12776'),
(13074, 'The Cottage', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This "cottage" is actually the huge estate of fading movie star Cooper Winslow, who is so down on his luck that he must rent a part of it to make ends meet. But the two fellows who move in introduce Coop to something completely different friendship and of course in the offing there''s the promise of love.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â„¢In her fifty-fourth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of fame and friendship, charmed lives and private struggles...and of three very different men whose lives converge and collide at\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n On a sunny day in Hollywood, a gleaming Rolls-Royce convertible pulls through the gates of the magnificent estate known as\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n . Modeled after the â€œcottagesâ€ of Newport, Rhode Island, the spacious, elegant property, sitting on fourteen acres of lush Bel Air, fits its owner to a T. For the man behind the wheel of the Rolls is Hollywoodâ€™s ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is the stuff of legend, Coop exudes grace, charm, and old-fashioned style. But today Coop Winslow is in for a major surprise. Heâ€™s broke. And with no major roles coming his way, Coop is faced with the heartbreaking prospect of selling his beloved home of forty years, or at least renting out the gatehouse and part of the main house. A huge blow to Coop, whose debonair attitude allows him to escape reality much of the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n His new tenants, Mark Friedman and Jimmy Oâ€™Connor, are busy coping with problems of their own. Markâ€™s wife of sixteen years just walked out, and Jimmy recently lost his own wife to a devastating illness. But everything changes when Markâ€™s teenage son and daughter move in. Suddenly,\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n is transformed, with music blasting from every corner, teenagers on skateboards crashing into vintage cars, and a never-ending parade of young starlets streaming in and out to visit Coop.\n</p>\n<p>\n But amid all the noise and the chaos, something unexpected is happening. Three men who never would have met are becoming friends...and each man finds himself changing in surprising ways, Coop most of all. Because beneath the dazzle and flash, the impeccably tailored suits and the sheer bravado, is a man trying to keep control of his carefully ordered worldâ€”a world that is becoming more and more unpredictable with each passing day.\n</p>\n<p>\n First, a tabloid scandal erupts, threatening Coopâ€™s budding romance with a wealthy debutante....A stranger approaches Coop with stunning news....A devastating accident almost claims the life of one of the housemates....And in the midst of it all,\n <strong>\n  The Cottage\n </strong>\n welcomes a new houseguest with a secret of her own, who will change Coopâ€™s life in unexpected ways. Because among the people who share his cottage and his life, Coop Winslowâ€“ loner, bachelor, movie starâ€“may find the rarest of all opportunities: a chance to build a happiness he could never have dreamed of on his own, and to become the kind of human being he has never been.\n</p>\n<p>\n Against a glittering backdrop of celebrity and glamour, Danielle Steel digs deeper to tell a story of friendship and love, tragedy and second chances...of the choices and unexpected turns of fate that can shape characters and lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17643'),
(13075, 'The Council of Dads', 'Bruce Feiler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters'' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would reach out to six men from all the passages in his life, and ask them to be present in the passages in his daughters'' lives. And he would call this group "The Council of Dads."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I believe my daughters will have plenty of opportunities in their lives," he wrote to these men. "They''ll have loving families. They''ll have each other. But they may not have me. They may not have their dad. Will you help be their dad?"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Council of Dads* is the inspiring story of what happened next. Feiler introduces the men in his Council and captures the life lesson he wants each to convey to his daughters--how to see, how to travel, how to question, how to dream. He mixes these with an intimate, highly personal chronicle of his experience battling cancer while raising young children, along with vivid portraits of his father, his two grandfathers, and various father figures in his life that explore the changing role of fathers in America.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is the work of a master storyteller confronting the most difficult experience of his life and emerging with wisdom and hope. *The Council of Dads* is a touching, funny, and ultimately deeply moving book on how to live life, how the human spirit can respond to adversity, and how to deepen and cherish the friendships that enrich our lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7014'),
(13076, 'The Council of Dads', 'Bruce Feiler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters'' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would reach out to six men from all the passages in his life, and ask them to be present in the passages in his daughters'' lives. And he would call this group "The Council of Dads."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I believe my daughters will have plenty of opportunities in their lives," he wrote to these men. "They''ll have loving families. They''ll have each other. But they may not have me. They may not have their dad. Will you help be their dad?"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Council of Dads* is the inspiring story of what happened next. Feiler introduces the men in his Council and captures the life lesson he wants each to convey to his daughters--how to see, how to travel, how to question, how to dream. He mixes these with an intimate, highly personal chronicle of his experience battling cancer while raising young children, along with vivid portraits of his father, his two grandfathers, and various father figures in his life that explore the changing role of fathers in America.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is the work of a master storyteller confronting the most difficult experience of his life and emerging with wisdom and hope. *The Council of Dads* is a touching, funny, and ultimately deeply moving book on how to live life, how the human spirit can respond to adversity, and how to deepen and cherish the friendships that enrich our lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9626'),
(13077, 'The Council of Dads', 'Bruce Feiler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters'' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?" Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would reach out to six men from all the passages in his life, and ask them to be present in the passages in his daughters'' lives. And he would call this group "The Council of Dads." "I believe my daughters will have plenty of opportunities in their lives," he wrote to these men. "They''ll have loving families. They''ll have each other. But they may not have me. They may not have their dad. Will you help be their dad?" *The Council of Dads* is the inspiring story of what happened next. Feiler introduces the men in his Council and captures the life lesson he wants each to convey to his daughters--how to see, how to travel, how to question, how to dream. He mixes these with an intimate, highly personal chronicle of his experience battling cancer while raising young children, along with vivid portraits of his father, his two grandfathers, and various father figures in his life that explore the changing role of fathers in America. This is the work of a master storyteller confronting the most difficult experience of his life and emerging with wisdom and hope. *The Council of Dads* is a touching, funny, and ultimately deeply moving book on how to live life, how the human spirit can respond to adversity, and how to deepen and cherish the friendships that enrich our lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16856'),
(13078, 'The Council of Dads', 'Bruce Feiler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters'' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would reach out to six men from all the passages in his life, and ask them to be present in the passages in his daughters'' lives. And he would call this group "The Council of Dads."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I believe my daughters will have plenty of opportunities in their lives," he wrote to these men. "They''ll have loving families. They''ll have each other. But they may not have me. They may not have their dad. Will you help be their dad?"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Council of Dads* is the inspiring story of what happened next. Feiler introduces the men in his Council and captures the life lesson he wants each to convey to his daughters--how to see, how to travel, how to question, how to dream. He mixes these with an intimate, highly personal chronicle of his experience battling cancer while raising young children, along with vivid portraits of his father, his two grandfathers, and various father figures in his life that explore the changing role of fathers in America.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is the work of a master storyteller confronting the most difficult experience of his life and emerging with wisdom and hope. *The Council of Dads* is a touching, funny, and ultimately deeply moving book on how to live life, how the human spirit can respond to adversity, and how to deepen and cherish the friendships that enrich our lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26711'),
(13079, 'The Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged B&amp;N)', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Dashing young Edmond DantÃ¨s has everything. He is engaged to a beautiful woman, is about to become the captain of a ship, and is well liked by almost everyone. But his perfect life is shattered when he is framed by a jealous rival and thrown into a dark prison cell for 14 years.The greatest tale of betrayal, adventure, and revenge ever written, The Count of Monte Cristo continues to dazzle readers with its thrilling and memorable scenes, including DantÃ¨sâ€™s miraculous escape from prison, his amazing discovery of a vast hidden treasure, and his transformation into the mysterious and wealthy Count of Monte Cristoâ€”a man whose astonishing thirst for vengeance is as cruel as it is just.Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts. He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7731'),
(13080, 'The Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged B&amp;N)', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Dashing young Edmond DantÃ¨s has everything. He is engaged to a beautiful woman, is about to become the captain of a ship, and is well liked by almost everyone. But his perfect life is shattered when he is framed by a jealous rival and thrown into a dark prison cell for 14 years.The greatest tale of betrayal, adventure, and revenge ever written, The Count of Monte Cristo continues to dazzle readers with its thrilling and memorable scenes, including DantÃ¨sâ€™s miraculous escape from prison, his amazing discovery of a vast hidden treasure, and his transformation into the mysterious and wealthy Count of Monte Cristoâ€”a man whose astonishing thirst for vengeance is as cruel as it is just.Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts. He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10893'),
(13081, 'The Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged B&amp;N)', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Dashing young Edmond DantÃ¨s has everything. He is engaged to a beautiful woman, is about to become the captain of a ship, and is well liked by almost everyone. But his perfect life is shattered when he is framed by a jealous rival and thrown into a dark prison cell for 14 years.The greatest tale of betrayal, adventure, and revenge ever written, The Count of Monte Cristo continues to dazzle readers with its thrilling and memorable scenes, including DantÃ¨sâ€™s miraculous escape from prison, his amazing discovery of a vast hidden treasure, and his transformation into the mysterious and wealthy Count of Monte Cristoâ€”a man whose astonishing thirst for vengeance is as cruel as it is just.Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts. He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16112'),
(13082, 'The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics eBook)', 'Dumas, Alexandre', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15945'),
(13083, 'The Count of Monte Cristo (Unabridged Penguin)', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This enduringly popular tale of love and revenge in the post-Napoleonic era follows Edmond Dantes as he prepares to captain his own ship and marry his beloved Mercedes. But on his wedding day, he is betrayed by spiteful enemies and arrested on trumped-up charges. Condemned to lifelong imprisonment, he befriends Faria, a priest and fellow inmate with an escape plan. When Faria dies, Edmond escapes alone. Free at last, and incredibly wealthy, Edmond enters society posing as the Count of Monte Cristo to reclaim his lost love and enact a terrible vengeance on his accusers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Language Notes\n</h3>\n<p>\n Text: English (translation)\n <br />\n Original Language: French\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7735'),
(13084, 'The Count of Monte Cristo (Unabridged Penguin)', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This enduringly popular tale of love and revenge in the post-Napoleonic era follows Edmond Dantes as he prepares to captain his own ship and marry his beloved Mercedes. But on his wedding day, he is betrayed by spiteful enemies and arrested on trumped-up charges. Condemned to lifelong imprisonment, he befriends Faria, a priest and fellow inmate with an escape plan. When Faria dies, Edmond escapes alone. Free at last, and incredibly wealthy, Edmond enters society posing as the Count of Monte Cristo to reclaim his lost love and enact a terrible vengeance on his accusers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Language Notes\n</h3>\n<p>\n Text: English (translation)\n <br />\n Original Language: French\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10892'),
(13085, 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14607'),
(13086, 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'Alexandre Dumas; Robin Buss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumasâ€™ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26291'),
(13087, 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 9781434000767\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26295'),
(13088, 'Count Zero', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautifulwoman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission moredangerous than the one he''s recovering from: Maas-Neotek''s chief of R&amp;D is defecting.Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he''s perfected.But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whomaren''t remotely human. Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unpreparedfor what comes his way when the defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo onthe Net and a price on his head, Newmark thinks he''s only trying to get out alive. Untilhe meets the angel. A stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/229'),
(13089, 'Count Zero', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautifulwoman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission moredangerous than the one he''s recovering from: Maas-Neotek''s chief of R&amp;D is defecting.Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he''s perfected.But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whomaren''t remotely human. Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unpreparedfor what comes his way when the defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo onthe Net and a price on his head, Newmark thinks he''s only trying to get out alive. Untilhe meets the angel. A stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15295'),
(13090, 'Count Zero', 'William Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautifulwoman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission moredangerous than the one he''s recovering from: Maas-Neotek''s chief of R&amp;D is defecting.Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he''s perfected.But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whomaren''t remotely human. Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unpreparedfor what comes his way when the defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo onthe Net and a price on his head, Newmark thinks he''s only trying to get out alive. Untilhe meets the angel. A stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24661'),
(13091, 'Countdown', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prolific bestseller Johansen subjects gutsy Jane Maguire to more troubles in her latest thrill ride. Jane, the adopted daughter of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, was threatened by one serial killer in 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Killing Game\n </em>\n and another in 2004''s\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n , so it''s no surprise that she''s in danger again. The once troubled adolescent is now a brilliant Harvard student and talented artist who spends her summers at far-off archeological digs in Pompeii and Herculaneum, but she''s still haunted by her resemblance to Cira, a woman who lived 2,000 years ago in the latter city. Suddenly she''s being ambushed in alleys. Does the attempted kidnapping have something to do with\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n ''s climax, in which Eve; her husband, Joe Quinn of the Atlanta PD; soldier of fortune Mark Trevor; and Jane, the bait, triumphed over the psychopath who was killing women who looked like Cira? You bet it does, as Trevor turns up in Cambridge, enigmatic but still definitely magnetic, determined to protect Jane from danger due to new developments regarding Cira, "the femme fatale of the ancient world." Seems all kinds of notorious criminals are after Cira''s lost gold, but some people have mass murder on their minds. Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and a booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idahoâ€”what more could Johansen fans want?\n <em>\n  Agent, Andrea Cirillo at the Jane Rotrosen Agency. (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The legend of Cira and her gold intrudes once again on Jane MacGuire''s life. In\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n [BKL Ag 04], the streetwise adopted daughter of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and Atlanta detective Joe Quinn became a serial killer''s pawn. Now she''s a target for terrorists who believe she has the key to a lost treasure. When one of Jane''s childhood friends is killed, she realizes that she must find out why, especially when, as before, Scotland Yard''s handsome Mark Trevor becomes involved. He has tried to keep Jane out of his latest escapade, but he swoops in to the rescue, bringing her to Scotland to keep her safe. Never completely on the right side of the law, Jane questions Trevor''s motives while trying to keep in check the sexual tension between them as they try to quell a deranged madman who is after Trevor and the lost treasure. Along the way, Jane discovers that many people are trying to find the truth about Cira, and that Jane herself is perceived as the reincarnation of that fabled Roman figure. Johansen delivers a top-notch sequel filled with great chases, original characters, and intricate plot twists, creating a unique supernatural twist on the classic thriller.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5001'),
(13092, 'Countdown', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prolific bestseller Johansen subjects gutsy Jane Maguire to more troubles in her latest thrill ride. Jane, the adopted daughter of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, was threatened by one serial killer in 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Killing Game\n </em>\n and another in 2004''s\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n , so it''s no surprise that she''s in danger again. The once troubled adolescent is now a brilliant Harvard student and talented artist who spends her summers at far-off archeological digs in Pompeii and Herculaneum, but she''s still haunted by her resemblance to Cira, a woman who lived 2,000 years ago in the latter city. Suddenly she''s being ambushed in alleys. Does the attempted kidnapping have something to do with\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n ''s climax, in which Eve; her husband, Joe Quinn of the Atlanta PD; soldier of fortune Mark Trevor; and Jane, the bait, triumphed over the psychopath who was killing women who looked like Cira? You bet it does, as Trevor turns up in Cambridge, enigmatic but still definitely magnetic, determined to protect Jane from danger due to new developments regarding Cira, "the femme fatale of the ancient world." Seems all kinds of notorious criminals are after Cira''s lost gold, but some people have mass murder on their minds. Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and a booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idahoâ€”what more could Johansen fans want?\n <em>\n  Agent, Andrea Cirillo at the Jane Rotrosen Agency. (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The legend of Cira and her gold intrudes once again on Jane MacGuire''s life. In\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n [BKL Ag 04], the streetwise adopted daughter of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and Atlanta detective Joe Quinn became a serial killer''s pawn. Now she''s a target for terrorists who believe she has the key to a lost treasure. When one of Jane''s childhood friends is killed, she realizes that she must find out why, especially when, as before, Scotland Yard''s handsome Mark Trevor becomes involved. He has tried to keep Jane out of his latest escapade, but he swoops in to the rescue, bringing her to Scotland to keep her safe. Never completely on the right side of the law, Jane questions Trevor''s motives while trying to keep in check the sexual tension between them as they try to quell a deranged madman who is after Trevor and the lost treasure. Along the way, Jane discovers that many people are trying to find the truth about Cira, and that Jane herself is perceived as the reincarnation of that fabled Roman figure. Johansen delivers a top-notch sequel filled with great chases, original characters, and intricate plot twists, creating a unique supernatural twist on the classic thriller.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10521'),
(13093, 'Countdown', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prolific bestseller Johansen subjects gutsy Jane Maguire to more troubles in her latest thrill ride. Jane, the adopted daughter of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, was threatened by one serial killer in 1999''s\n <em>\n  The Killing Game\n </em>\n and another in 2004''s\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n , so it''s no surprise that she''s in danger again. The once troubled adolescent is now a brilliant Harvard student and talented artist who spends her summers at far-off archeological digs in Pompeii and Herculaneum, but she''s still haunted by her resemblance to Cira, a woman who lived 2,000 years ago in the latter city. Suddenly she''s being ambushed in alleys. Does the attempted kidnapping have something to do with\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n ''s climax, in which Eve; her husband, Joe Quinn of the Atlanta PD; soldier of fortune Mark Trevor; and Jane, the bait, triumphed over the psychopath who was killing women who looked like Cira? You bet it does, as Trevor turns up in Cambridge, enigmatic but still definitely magnetic, determined to protect Jane from danger due to new developments regarding Cira, "the femme fatale of the ancient world." Seems all kinds of notorious criminals are after Cira''s lost gold, but some people have mass murder on their minds. Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and a booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idahoâ€”what more could Johansen fans want?\n <em>\n  Agent, Andrea Cirillo at the Jane Rotrosen Agency. (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The legend of Cira and her gold intrudes once again on Jane MacGuire''s life. In\n <em>\n  Blind Alley\n </em>\n [BKL Ag 04], the streetwise adopted daughter of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and Atlanta detective Joe Quinn became a serial killer''s pawn. Now she''s a target for terrorists who believe she has the key to a lost treasure. When one of Jane''s childhood friends is killed, she realizes that she must find out why, especially when, as before, Scotland Yard''s handsome Mark Trevor becomes involved. He has tried to keep Jane out of his latest escapade, but he swoops in to the rescue, bringing her to Scotland to keep her safe. Never completely on the right side of the law, Jane questions Trevor''s motives while trying to keep in check the sexual tension between them as they try to quell a deranged madman who is after Trevor and the lost treasure. Along the way, Jane discovers that many people are trying to find the truth about Cira, and that Jane herself is perceived as the reincarnation of that fabled Roman figure. Johansen delivers a top-notch sequel filled with great chases, original characters, and intricate plot twists, creating a unique supernatural twist on the classic thriller.\n <em>\n  Patty Engelmann\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19673'),
(13094, 'Countdown: The Liberators', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brand new original paperback series from a military man--and a skilled writer of military adventure. Old soldiers never die...except inside...when they lack a reason to live. Old soldier Wes Stauer is dying inside, from sheer lack of purpose. And then comes the knock on the door: "Our leader''s son and heir has been kidnapped. We don''t know where he is. We need you to get him back for us. The people who have him are numerous, warlike, and well armed. But money is no object." And then old soldiers--sailors and airmen, too--stop fading away and come back intosharpfocus. "Kratman''s dystopia [inCaliphate] is a brisk page turner full of startling twists . .. he''s a professional military man . . . so he''s certainly up to speed on the military and geopolitical conceits of the book." --Mark Steyn,Maclean''s Magazine "Kratman''s written the future [inCaliphate], and it''s scary." --John Ringo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/495'),
(13095, 'Countdown: The Liberators', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brand new original paperback series from a military man--and a skilled writer of military adventure. Old soldiers never die...except inside...when they lack a reason to live. Old soldier Wes Stauer is dying inside, from sheer lack of purpose. And then comes the knock on the door: "Our leader''s son and heir has been kidnapped. We don''t know where he is. We need you to get him back for us. The people who have him are numerous, warlike, and well armed. But money is no object." And then old soldiers--sailors and airmen, too--stop fading away and come back intosharpfocus. "Kratman''s dystopia [inCaliphate] is a brisk page turner full of startling twists . .. he''s a professional military man . . . so he''s certainly up to speed on the military and geopolitical conceits of the book." --Mark Steyn,Maclean''s Magazine "Kratman''s written the future [inCaliphate], and it''s scary." --John Ringo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10803'),
(13096, 'Countdown: The Liberators', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A brand new original paperback series from a military man--and a skilled writer of military adventure. Old soldiers never die...except inside...when they lack a reason to live. Old soldier Wes Stauer is dying inside, from sheer lack of purpose. And then comes the knock on the door: "Our leader''s son and heir has been kidnapped. We don''t know where he is. We need you to get him back for us. The people who have him are numerous, warlike, and well armed. But money is no object." And then old soldiers--sailors and airmen, too--stop fading away and come back intosharpfocus. "Kratman''s dystopia [inCaliphate] is a brisk page turner full of startling twists . .. he''s a professional military man . . . so he''s certainly up to speed on the military and geopolitical conceits of the book." --Mark Steyn,Maclean''s Magazine "Kratman''s written the future [inCaliphate], and it''s scary." --John Ringo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24366'),
(13097, 'Counter-Clock World', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dickâ€™s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phaseâ€“a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signifies the end of pregnancy, people greet with, â€œGood-bye,â€ and part with, â€œHello,â€ and underneath the worldâ€™s tombstones, the dead are coming back to life. One imminent old-born is Anarch Peak, a vibrant religious leader whose followers continued to flourish long after his death. His return from the dead has such awesome implications that those who apprehend him will very likely be those who control the fate of the world. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2064'),
(13098, 'Counter-Clock World', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dickâ€™s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phaseâ€“a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signifies the end of pregnancy, people greet with, â€œGood-bye,â€ and part with, â€œHello,â€ and underneath the worldâ€™s tombstones, the dead are coming back to life. One imminent old-born is Anarch Peak, a vibrant religious leader whose followers continued to flourish long after his death. His return from the dead has such awesome implications that those who apprehend him will very likely be those who control the fate of the world. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9284');
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(13099, 'Counter-Clock World', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dickâ€™s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phaseâ€“a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signifies the end of pregnancy, people greet with, â€œGood-bye,â€ and part with, â€œHello,â€ and underneath the worldâ€™s tombstones, the dead are coming back to life. One imminent old-born is Anarch Peak, a vibrant religious leader whose followers continued to flourish long after his death. His return from the dead has such awesome implications that those who apprehend him will very likely be those who control the fate of the world. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22698'),
(13100, 'The Counterfeit Murder in the Museum of Man: A Norman De Ratour Mystery', 'Alfred Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of Alcorn''s uneven third Norman de Ratour mystery (after 2009''s\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  ), Norman, the Museum of Man''s director and the book''s bloviating narrator, discovers a murdered man in a parked car near the museum, located in the New England town of Seaboard. Unfortunately, the victim is honorary numismatics curator Heinrich Heinie von GrÃ¼mh, a wealthy MOM contributor. Worse, Heinie turns out to have been shot with Norman''s revolver, making him a prime suspect. Meanwhile, Norman must find a new home for a highly articulate chimp, fend off neighboring Wainscott University''s efforts to take over the MOM, and look into whether the antique coins Heinie gave the museum are fakes. Alcorn''s barbed darts at academia and the rarified world of top-notch museums amuse, but humor alone isn''t enough to redeem a rambling tale of wavering morals populated by mostly unattractive characters.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Before one can do justice to Alfred Alcorn''s third Norman de Ratour mystery novel, it helps to haul out such adjectives as smart, sharp, fresh, sly, wise, original , and wildly funny. Alcorn can keep a story moving with the swiftness of a dirty look and the brilliance of a fine satire. Set in a mythical academic institution (read Harvard)Â  lucky readers of this novel will meet and get to know characters they won''t soon forget--especially Alphus , the most memorable of contemporary philosophers."\n  <br />\n  â€” Anne Bernays\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Murder in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Marx Brothers would be very welcome at this quirky institution. . . . A stylish, fiendish detective story.â€ â€” _The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œAn adroit, hilarious send-up.â€ â€”The New Yorker\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReaders will be choked with laughter.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   The Boston Sunday Herald\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDelicious details on every page.â€ â€”_ The Chicago Tribune_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSly and spicy from start to finish . . . a just-right balance of innocence, subtle malevolence and cheeky irony.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7741'),
(13101, 'The Counterfeit Murder in the Museum of Man: A Norman De Ratour Mystery', 'Alfred Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of Alcorn''s uneven third Norman de Ratour mystery (after 2009''s\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  ), Norman, the Museum of Man''s director and the book''s bloviating narrator, discovers a murdered man in a parked car near the museum, located in the New England town of Seaboard. Unfortunately, the victim is honorary numismatics curator Heinrich Heinie von GrÃ¼mh, a wealthy MOM contributor. Worse, Heinie turns out to have been shot with Norman''s revolver, making him a prime suspect. Meanwhile, Norman must find a new home for a highly articulate chimp, fend off neighboring Wainscott University''s efforts to take over the MOM, and look into whether the antique coins Heinie gave the museum are fakes. Alcorn''s barbed darts at academia and the rarified world of top-notch museums amuse, but humor alone isn''t enough to redeem a rambling tale of wavering morals populated by mostly unattractive characters.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Before one can do justice to Alfred Alcorn''s third Norman de Ratour mystery novel, it helps to haul out such adjectives as smart, sharp, fresh, sly, wise, original , and wildly funny. Alcorn can keep a story moving with the swiftness of a dirty look and the brilliance of a fine satire. Set in a mythical academic institution (read Harvard)Â  lucky readers of this novel will meet and get to know characters they won''t soon forget--especially Alphus , the most memorable of contemporary philosophers."\n  <br />\n  â€” Anne Bernays\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Murder in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Marx Brothers would be very welcome at this quirky institution. . . . A stylish, fiendish detective story.â€ â€” _The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œAn adroit, hilarious send-up.â€ â€”The New Yorker\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReaders will be choked with laughter.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   The Boston Sunday Herald\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDelicious details on every page.â€ â€”_ The Chicago Tribune_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSly and spicy from start to finish . . . a just-right balance of innocence, subtle malevolence and cheeky irony.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9375'),
(13102, 'The Counterfeit Murder in the Museum of Man: A Norman De Ratour Mystery', 'Alfred Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of Alcorn''s uneven third Norman de Ratour mystery (after 2009''s\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  ), Norman, the Museum of Man''s director and the book''s bloviating narrator, discovers a murdered man in a parked car near the museum, located in the New England town of Seaboard. Unfortunately, the victim is honorary numismatics curator Heinrich Heinie von GrÃ¼mh, a wealthy MOM contributor. Worse, Heinie turns out to have been shot with Norman''s revolver, making him a prime suspect. Meanwhile, Norman must find a new home for a highly articulate chimp, fend off neighboring Wainscott University''s efforts to take over the MOM, and look into whether the antique coins Heinie gave the museum are fakes. Alcorn''s barbed darts at academia and the rarified world of top-notch museums amuse, but humor alone isn''t enough to redeem a rambling tale of wavering morals populated by mostly unattractive characters.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Before one can do justice to Alfred Alcorn''s third Norman de Ratour mystery novel, it helps to haul out such adjectives as smart, sharp, fresh, sly, wise, original , and wildly funny. Alcorn can keep a story moving with the swiftness of a dirty look and the brilliance of a fine satire. Set in a mythical academic institution (read Harvard) lucky readers of this novel will meet and get to know characters they won''t soon forget--especially Alphus , the most memorable of contemporary philosophers."\n  <br />\n  â€” Anne Bernays\n </p>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Murder in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe Marx Brothers would be very welcome at this quirky institution. . . . A stylish, fiendish detective story.â€ â€” _The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œAn adroit, hilarious send-up.â€ â€”The New Yorker\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReaders will be choked with laughter.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   The Boston Sunday Herald\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œDelicious details on every page.â€ â€”_ The Chicago Tribune_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSly and spicy from start to finish . . . a just-right balance of innocence, subtle malevolence and cheeky irony.â€ â€”\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16104'),
(13103, 'Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory', 'Peter Hessler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author of *Oracle Bones* and *River Town* comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for *The New Yorker*, acquired his Chinese driver''s license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China. Hessler writes movingly of the average peopleâ€”farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneursâ€”who have reshaped the nation during one of the most critical periods in its modern history.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Country Driving* begins with Hessler''s 7,000-mile trip across northern China, following the Great Wall, from the East China Sea to the Tibetan plateau. He investigates a historically important rural region being abandoned, as young people migrate to jobs in the southeast. Next Hessler spends six years in Sancha, a small farming village in the mountains north of Beijing, which changes dramatically after the local road is paved and the capital''s auto boom brings new tourism. Finally, he turns his attention to urban China, researching development over a period of more than two years in Lishui, a small southeastern city where officials hope that a new government-built expressway will transform a farm region into a major industrial center.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Peter Hessler, whom *The Wall Street Journal* calls "one of the Western world''s most thoughtful writers on modern China," deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against foreigners, is now building roads and factory towns that look to the outside world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2105'),
(13104, 'Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory', 'Peter Hessler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author of *Oracle Bones* and *River Town* comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for *The New Yorker*, acquired his Chinese driver''s license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China. Hessler writes movingly of the average peopleâ€”farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneursâ€”who have reshaped the nation during one of the most critical periods in its modern history.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Country Driving* begins with Hessler''s 7,000-mile trip across northern China, following the Great Wall, from the East China Sea to the Tibetan plateau. He investigates a historically important rural region being abandoned, as young people migrate to jobs in the southeast. Next Hessler spends six years in Sancha, a small farming village in the mountains north of Beijing, which changes dramatically after the local road is paved and the capital''s auto boom brings new tourism. Finally, he turns his attention to urban China, researching development over a period of more than two years in Lishui, a small southeastern city where officials hope that a new government-built expressway will transform a farm region into a major industrial center.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Peter Hessler, whom *The Wall Street Journal* calls "one of the Western world''s most thoughtful writers on modern China," deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against foreigners, is now building roads and factory towns that look to the outside world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10259'),
(13105, 'Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory', 'Peter Hessler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the bestselling author of *Oracle Bones* and *River Town* comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China. In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for *The New Yorker*, acquired his Chinese driver''s license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China. Hessler writes movingly of the average peopleâ€”farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneursâ€”who have reshaped the nation during one of the most critical periods in its modern history. *Country Driving* begins with Hessler''s 7,000-mile trip across northern China, following the Great Wall, from the East China Sea to the Tibetan plateau. He investigates a historically important rural region being abandoned, as young people migrate to jobs in the southeast. Next Hessler spends six years in Sancha, a small farming village in the mountains north of Beijing, which changes dramatically after the local road is paved and the capital''s auto boom brings new tourism. Finally, he turns his attention to urban China, researching development over a period of more than two years in Lishui, a small southeastern city where officials hope that a new government-built expressway will transform a farm region into a major industrial center. Peter Hessler, whom *The Wall Street Journal* calls "one of the Western world''s most thoughtful writers on modern China," deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against foreigners, is now building roads and factory towns that look to the outside world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22659'),
(13106, 'The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories', 'Herbert George Wells &amp; Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The final installment in Penguin Classics''s landmark H. G. Wells series\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Although best known for his novels, it was in his early short fiction that H. G. Wells first explored the relationship between the fantastical and everyday. Here horror meets humor, man-eating squids invade the sleepy Devon coast, and strange kinks and portals in space and time lead to other worlds-a marvelous literary universe showcasing the author''s fascination with the wonders and perils of scientific progress.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12310'),
(13107, 'The Coup', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4148'),
(13108, 'The coup', 'John Updike', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20301'),
(13109, 'The Courage Tree', 'Diane Chamberlain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you start your novel with a terminally ill child and a last-chance herbal remedy, chances are you''ve got a story. If you have the terminally ill child survive a car accident and become lost in the remote West Virginia woods you''ve got some stressful reading. If, for kicks, you put a psychopathic murderer in the woods, you''ve got Diane Chamberlain''s nail-biting drama\n <em>\n  The Courage Tree\n </em>\n . Sophie Donohue is the wise-beyond-her-years child. Janine is the mother wolf who courageously admits her child into the clinical trial of a new medicine against the advice of her ex-husband, Joe, and her cynical parents. Lucas Trowell is the\n <em>\n  literally\n </em>\n tree-hugging love interest who supports Janine. Chamberlain knows how to place her characters in internal and external conflicts, and there are rich subplots for each character, though the abundance and timing of them can detract from the central drama. Even with its faults,\n <em>\n  The Courage Tree\n </em>\n will lure you in and keep you reading late into the night._--Nancy R.E. O''Brien_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A race against time to find a sick child lost in the West Virginia wilderness keeps pages turning in this suspenseful family drama by former psychotherapist Chamberlain (Breaking the Silence). Janine Donohue lives with her eight-year-old daughter, Sophie, on the Ayr Creek estate in Vienna, W.Va., a horticultural reserve operated by the descendants of the original owner. Janine''s parents live in the main house, while Janine, a former Army Reserve helicopter pilot, and Sophie, who suffers from renal failure, live in the guesthouse. Despite resistance from her parents and ex-husband, Joe, Sophie is being treated with a new alternative herbal therapy, Herbalina, at the suggestion of estate horticulturist Lucas Trowell. The promising results have allowed Sophie to accompany her Brownie troop on a weekend camping trip. Joe blames Janine for Sophie''s illness, believing it is a result of Gulf War syndrome, and disapproves of Sophie''s trip. Sophie, her friend Holly and troop leader Allison travel in a separate car on the return journey, then an accident kills Holly and Allison. When the three don''t arrive back with the rest of the troop, the police begin to search the dense West Virginia woods. Dazed, scared and weak without her medicine, Sophie manages to make it to a dilapidated cabin, where aging film star Zoe is hiding out. Zoe is awaiting the arrival of her daughter Marti, on the lam after a jailbreak, and Zoe is prepared to do anything to ensure her daughter''s safety after many years of neglect. Meanwhile, Janine''s parents and Joe suspect Lucas of foul play. Despite some cramped characterizations and too many narrative trails converging at once, this page turner will please those who like their stories with as many twists and turns as a mountain road. Multicity author tour. (Feb.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5967'),
(13110, 'The Courage Tree', 'Diane Chamberlain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n If you start your novel with a terminally ill child and a last-chance herbal remedy, chances are you''ve got a story. If you have the terminally ill child survive a car accident and become lost in the remote West Virginia woods you''ve got some stressful reading. If, for kicks, you put a psychopathic murderer in the woods, you''ve got Diane Chamberlain''s nail-biting drama\n <em>\n  The Courage Tree\n </em>\n . Sophie Donohue is the wise-beyond-her-years child. Janine is the mother wolf who courageously admits her child into the clinical trial of a new medicine against the advice of her ex-husband, Joe, and her cynical parents. Lucas Trowell is the\n <em>\n  literally\n </em>\n tree-hugging love interest who supports Janine. Chamberlain knows how to place her characters in internal and external conflicts, and there are rich subplots for each character, though the abundance and timing of them can detract from the central drama. Even with its faults,\n <em>\n  The Courage Tree\n </em>\n will lure you in and keep you reading late into the night._--Nancy R.E. O''Brien_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A race against time to find a sick child lost in the West Virginia wilderness keeps pages turning in this suspenseful family drama by former psychotherapist Chamberlain (Breaking the Silence). Janine Donohue lives with her eight-year-old daughter, Sophie, on the Ayr Creek estate in Vienna, W.Va., a horticultural reserve operated by the descendants of the original owner. Janine''s parents live in the main house, while Janine, a former Army Reserve helicopter pilot, and Sophie, who suffers from renal failure, live in the guesthouse. Despite resistance from her parents and ex-husband, Joe, Sophie is being treated with a new alternative herbal therapy, Herbalina, at the suggestion of estate horticulturist Lucas Trowell. The promising results have allowed Sophie to accompany her Brownie troop on a weekend camping trip. Joe blames Janine for Sophie''s illness, believing it is a result of Gulf War syndrome, and disapproves of Sophie''s trip. Sophie, her friend Holly and troop leader Allison travel in a separate car on the return journey, then an accident kills Holly and Allison. When the three don''t arrive back with the rest of the troop, the police begin to search the dense West Virginia woods. Dazed, scared and weak without her medicine, Sophie manages to make it to a dilapidated cabin, where aging film star Zoe is hiding out. Zoe is awaiting the arrival of her daughter Marti, on the lam after a jailbreak, and Zoe is prepared to do anything to ensure her daughter''s safety after many years of neglect. Meanwhile, Janine''s parents and Joe suspect Lucas of foul play. Despite some cramped characterizations and too many narrative trails converging at once, this page turner will please those who like their stories with as many twists and turns as a mountain road. Multicity author tour. (Feb.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8920'),
(13111, 'The Course of Honor', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author of the popular Marcus Didius Falco mystery series reaches again into the fertile bone pile of ancient Roman history, this time to fashion an unforgettable character out of a little-known woman of the first century A.D. Caenis merits a single reference in the entry on Emperor Vespasian in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edition: "He then lived with an earlier mistress who had been a freed-woman of Tiberius'' sister-in-law Antonia." The story is set against the backdrop of particularly turbulent years of the Roman Empire, the time of the most notorious emperors (Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero) and some of the most forgettable. In Davis''s imagining, the sparks fly from the first accidental meeting when Caenis is a slave and a secretary in Antonia''s household and Vespasian a young rustic from Reate visiting Rome. With meticulous detail and powerful drama, Davis chronicles Vespasian''s remarkable rise to power and Caenis''s equally compelling success in shaping her own future. As presented in this intricate braiding of character and action, fact and imagination, these two strong characters, bound by passionate and enduring love and parted often by what Vespasian bitterly refers to as the "cursus honorum," deserve to take their place in the pantheon of the world''s great lovers.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Davis, author of the Marcus Didius Falco mysteries, here transmutes a stray historical aside into a rich and compelling piece of fiction. The freedwoman Caenis was lover and mistress to the man who became the Roman Emperor Vespasian, a strong and good leader who followed the wicked excesses of Nero. The story is told from Caenis'' point of view, beginning with her life as a slave and work as scribe and secretary for Antonia, grandmother of Caligula and Claudius. The full sweep of history in this turbulent period from A.D. 31 to A.D. 69 in the Mediterranean basin is the background for casual details of what was eaten, what was worn, and what daily life was like. Caenis is deeply intelligent, self-contained, and no-nonsense; her love for Vespasian (and his for her) is developed in a way that makes sense to both the head and the heart. Their trials and separations and reconciliations are the stuff of great romantic reading. Any reader of historical fiction will enjoy this one.\n <em>\n  GraceAnne A. DeCandido\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20053'),
(13112, 'The Court of the Air', 'Stephen Hunt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two teenage orphans in an anemic fantasy analogue of Victorian London are baffled to find themselves on the run in this overeager effort from British author and blogger Hunt (_For the Crown and the Dragon_). Molly, pursued by determined assassins with mysterious masters, hides underground, while Oliver, framed for his uncle''s death, takes to the air to escape the fey-hunting Special Guard. They also draw the attention of the Court of the Air, a shadowy black-ops organization, and communityist revolutionaries seeking to resurrect ancient subterranean gods. An entire steampunk menagerie is pressed into lackluster service, but the pace leaves no time to focus on any single element. Only the steammen and their refreshingly tender machine culture are affecting and original. The historical and geographical parallels are overly frequent and mostly trite. Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks, but the end result is more overload than wonder.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   The Court of the Air\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicksâ€¦the â€˜steammenâ€™ and their refreshingly tender machine culture are affecting and original.â€--_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA curious part-future blend of aerostats, mechanical computers, psychic powers, self-willed steam-power robots, Elder gods, talking superweapons and moreâ€¦Harry Potter mugs H.P. Lovecraft and L. Ron Hubbard explains it all.â€--_Kirkus Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn ultra supersonic speed Dickens fantasy thrillerâ€¦put on your seatbelts for a frenetic cat and mouse encounter that includes some nasty paranormal adversaries as this is an exciting tale of two orphans trying to save the world from those who want Armageddon now.â€--_SFRevu__ _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1190'),
(13113, 'The Court of the Air', 'Stephen Hunt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two teenage orphans in an anemic fantasy analogue of Victorian London are baffled to find themselves on the run in this overeager effort from British author and blogger Hunt (_For the Crown and the Dragon_). Molly, pursued by determined assassins with mysterious masters, hides underground, while Oliver, framed for his uncle''s death, takes to the air to escape the fey-hunting Special Guard. They also draw the attention of the Court of the Air, a shadowy black-ops organization, and communityist revolutionaries seeking to resurrect ancient subterranean gods. An entire steampunk menagerie is pressed into lackluster service, but the pace leaves no time to focus on any single element. Only the steammen and their refreshingly tender machine culture are affecting and original. The historical and geographical parallels are overly frequent and mostly trite. Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks, but the end result is more overload than wonder.\n  <em>\n   (June)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   The Court of the Air\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks...the â€˜steammenâ€™ and their refreshingly tender machine culture are affecting and original.â€--_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA curious part-future blend of aerostats, mechanical computers, psychic powers, self-willed steam-power robots, Elder gods, talking superweapons and more...Harry Potter mugs H.P. Lovecraft and L. Ron Hubbard explains it all.â€--_Kirkus Reviews_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn ultra supersonic speed Dickens fantasy thriller...put on your seatbelts for a frenetic cat and mouse encounter that includes some nasty paranormal adversaries as this is an exciting tale of two orphans trying to save the world from those who want Armageddon now.â€--_SFRevu__ _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23771'),
(13114, 'The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World', 'Matthew Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n According to Nietzsche, "Every great philosophy is... a personal confession of its creator and a kind of involuntary and unperceived memoir.". Stewart affirms this maxim in his colorful reinterpretation of the lives and works of 17th-century philosophers Spinoza and Leibniz. In November 1676, the foppish courtier Leibniz, "the ultimate insider... an orthodox Lutheran from conservative Germany," journeyed to The Hague to visit the self-sufficient, freethinking Spinoza, "a double exile... an apostate Jew from licentious Holland." A prodigious polymath, Leibniz understood Spinoza''s insight that "science was in the process of rendering the God of revelation obsolete; that it had already undermined the special place of the human individual in nature." Spinoza embraced this new world. Seeing the orthodox God as a "prop for theocratic tyranny," he articulated the basic theory for the modern secular state. Leibniz, on the other hand, spent the rest of his life championing God and theocracy like a defense lawyer defending a client he knows is guilty. He elaborated a metaphysics that was, at bottom, a reaction to Spinoza and collapses into Spinozism, as Stewart deftly shows. For Stewart, Leibniz''s reaction to Spinoza and modernity set the tone for "the dominant form of modern philosophy"â€”a category that includes Kant, Hegel, Bergson, Heidegger and "the whole ''postmodern'' project of deconstructing the phallogocentric tradition of western thought." Readers of philosophy may find much to disagree with in these arguments, but Stewart''s wit and profluent prose make this book a fascinating read.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 2006)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A mere footnote for most historians, the meeting in 1676 between Leibniz and Spinoza opens to a discerning eye the intellectual forces destined to reshape the entire Western world. Stewart supplies that discerning eye as he chronicles the events and arguments linking the illustrious German polymath to the controversial Dutch lens grinder. In refreshingly lucid terms, he explains the controversies surrounding Spinoza as the consequence of the radical religious and political doctrines he articulated in works fiercely debated throughout Europe. By highlighting the way Spinoza''s metaphysics justified secular and democratic challenges to traditional regimes, Stewart also reveals the piquant irony in the way that metaphysics hypnotized the most brilliant of the status quo''s defenders--Gottfried Leibniz, who first eagerly absorbed Spinoza''s thought, then recognized in it a perilous threat to traditional beliefs in God and immortality. Because Spinoza''s doctrines have won acceptance from the architects of the modern world even as Leibniz''s traditional religious beliefs have persisted among many who inhabit that world, the drama Stewart recounts will rivet readers skeptical and devout alike.\n <em>\n  Bryce Christensen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3010'),
(13115, 'The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World', 'Matthew Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n According to Nietzsche, "Every great philosophy is... a personal confession of its creator and a kind of involuntary and unperceived memoir.". Stewart affirms this maxim in his colorful reinterpretation of the lives and works of 17th-century philosophers Spinoza and Leibniz. In November 1676, the foppish courtier Leibniz, "the ultimate insider... an orthodox Lutheran from conservative Germany," journeyed to The Hague to visit the self-sufficient, freethinking Spinoza, "a double exile... an apostate Jew from licentious Holland." A prodigious polymath, Leibniz understood Spinoza''s insight that "science was in the process of rendering the God of revelation obsolete; that it had already undermined the special place of the human individual in nature." Spinoza embraced this new world. Seeing the orthodox God as a "prop for theocratic tyranny," he articulated the basic theory for the modern secular state. Leibniz, on the other hand, spent the rest of his life championing God and theocracy like a defense lawyer defending a client he knows is guilty. He elaborated a metaphysics that was, at bottom, a reaction to Spinoza and collapses into Spinozism, as Stewart deftly shows. For Stewart, Leibniz''s reaction to Spinoza and modernity set the tone for "the dominant form of modern philosophy"â€”a category that includes Kant, Hegel, Bergson, Heidegger and "the whole ''postmodern'' project of deconstructing the phallogocentric tradition of western thought." Readers of philosophy may find much to disagree with in these arguments, but Stewart''s wit and profluent prose make this book a fascinating read.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 2006)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A mere footnote for most historians, the meeting in 1676 between Leibniz and Spinoza opens to a discerning eye the intellectual forces destined to reshape the entire Western world. Stewart supplies that discerning eye as he chronicles the events and arguments linking the illustrious German polymath to the controversial Dutch lens grinder. In refreshingly lucid terms, he explains the controversies surrounding Spinoza as the consequence of the radical religious and political doctrines he articulated in works fiercely debated throughout Europe. By highlighting the way Spinoza''s metaphysics justified secular and democratic challenges to traditional regimes, Stewart also reveals the piquant irony in the way that metaphysics hypnotized the most brilliant of the status quo''s defenders--Gottfried Leibniz, who first eagerly absorbed Spinoza''s thought, then recognized in it a perilous threat to traditional beliefs in God and immortality. Because Spinoza''s doctrines have won acceptance from the architects of the modern world even as Leibniz''s traditional religious beliefs have persisted among many who inhabit that world, the drama Stewart recounts will rivet readers skeptical and devout alike.\n <em>\n  Bryce Christensen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12895'),
(13116, 'The courtier and the heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the fate of God in the modern world', 'Matthew Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n According to Nietzsche, "Every great philosophy is... a personal confession of its creator and a kind of involuntary and unperceived memoir.". Stewart affirms this maxim in his colorful reinterpretation of the lives and works of 17th-century philosophers Spinoza and Leibniz. In November 1676, the foppish courtier Leibniz, "the ultimate insider... an orthodox Lutheran from conservative Germany," journeyed to The Hague to visit the self-sufficient, freethinking Spinoza, "a double exile... an apostate Jew from licentious Holland." A prodigious polymath, Leibniz understood Spinoza''s insight that "science was in the process of rendering the God of revelation obsolete; that it had already undermined the special place of the human individual in nature." Spinoza embraced this new world. Seeing the orthodox God as a "prop for theocratic tyranny," he articulated the basic theory for the modern secular state. Leibniz, on the other hand, spent the rest of his life championing God and theocracy like a defense lawyer defending a client he knows is guilty. He elaborated a metaphysics that was, at bottom, a reaction to Spinoza and collapses into Spinozism, as Stewart deftly shows. For Stewart, Leibniz''s reaction to Spinoza and modernity set the tone for "the dominant form of modern philosophy"â€”a category that includes Kant, Hegel, Bergson, Heidegger and "the whole ''postmodern'' project of deconstructing the phallogocentric tradition of western thought." Readers of philosophy may find much to disagree with in these arguments, but Stewart''s wit and profluent prose make this book a fascinating read.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 2006)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A mere footnote for most historians, the meeting in 1676 between Leibniz and Spinoza opens to a discerning eye the intellectual forces destined to reshape the entire Western world. Stewart supplies that discerning eye as he chronicles the events and arguments linking the illustrious German polymath to the controversial Dutch lens grinder. In refreshingly lucid terms, he explains the controversies surrounding Spinoza as the consequence of the radical religious and political doctrines he articulated in works fiercely debated throughout Europe. By highlighting the way Spinoza''s metaphysics justified secular and democratic challenges to traditional regimes, Stewart also reveals the piquant irony in the way that metaphysics hypnotized the most brilliant of the status quo''s defenders--Gottfried Leibniz, who first eagerly absorbed Spinoza''s thought, then recognized in it a perilous threat to traditional beliefs in God and immortality. Because Spinoza''s doctrines have won acceptance from the architects of the modern world even as Leibniz''s traditional religious beliefs have persisted among many who inhabit that world, the drama Stewart recounts will rivet readers skeptical and devout alike.\n <em>\n  Bryce Christensen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21890'),
(13117, 'Courting Catherine', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Trenton St. James III intends to buy the shabby old mansion on the coast of Maine and convert it into a hotel until he meets one of the owners, garage owner and mechanic Catherine "C.C" Calhoun, who is determined to stop him\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2461'),
(13118, 'Courting Catherine', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Trenton St. James III intends to buy the shabby old mansion on the coast of Maine and convert it into a hotel until he meets one of the owners, garage owner and mechanic Catherine "C.C" Calhoun, who is determined to stop him\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22310'),
(13119, 'The Courts of Chaos', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Amber reveals the mysteries of King Oberon''s disappearance, the hell-witch''s identity, and the magical pattern that holds the kingdom of Amber together, but his victory over the Dark Lands remains in doubt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23112'),
(13120, 'Cousin Kate', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [T]the dialogue among the characters is completely delightful... Georgette Heyer builds a wonderful and complete world for her reader to sink into â€“ like a bubble bath or a welcoming chair to relax you at the end of a busy day, but more fun. Much more fun. (Lady Anne\n <em>\n  Jane Austen''s World\n </em>\n 20090529)\n</p>\n<p>\n Exciting and interesting from harrowing start to dramatic finish, Georgette Heyer''s\n <em>\n  Cousin Kate\n </em>\n was a delightfully dark and sinfully satisfying read. (Rhianna Walker\n <em>\n  Rhi Reading\n </em>\n 20090626)\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with strange illnesses, intrigue, and a few murders thrown in along the way, this book is sure to please. (Shawn Remfry\n <em>\n  Maymay''s Memos\n </em>\n 20090707)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cousin Kate\n </em>\n was simply another great performance by this wonderful writer and it only makes me elated to know that there are plenty more of her books to read. (Lilianna Swistek\n <em>\n  Reading Extravaganza\n </em>\n 20090824)\n</p>\n<p>\n As Gothic novels go\n <em>\n  Cousin Kate\n </em>\n has all the right elements. A menacing country house set on sweeping grounds, strange knocks in the night, locked doors, family secrets, and whispers of madness. (Danielle Torress\n <em>\n  A Work in Progress\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Very good; excellent characterization and a decent plot. As usual, Heyer is faultlessly entertaining (Nancy Horner\n <em>\n  Bookfoolery and Babble\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Full of suspense, humor, romance and myster... a dark gothic novel with a little bit of roman thrown in for fun. (Christine Plaisted\n <em>\n  Cousin Kate\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Enjoy one of only two Heyer Gothic Regency romances.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Miss Heyer serves up a very different sort of tale in the same period setting, nothing less than a full-fledged Gothic. And a very expert job she does of it, too, complete with a remote and forbidding country house, screams in the night, dark hints of something best left unmentioned... nicely leavened with wit, romance, and wonderful period slang."\n <br />\n <strong>\n  PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A surprising invitation\n </em>\n <br />\n Kate Malvern is rescued from penury by her aunt Minerva, who brings her to stay at Staplewood. But the household is strange and strainedâ€”Kate''s uncle lives in his own private wing, and her handsome, moody cousin Torquil lives in another.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A dark family secret\n </em>\n <br />\n As bizarre events unfold and Kate begins to question the reasons for her aunt''s unexpected generosity, she has no one to confide in but her cousin Philip. Sympathetic though he may appear, will he tell her what she most needs to know... before it''s too late?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  What readers say:\n </strong>\n <br />\n "Flawless gothic romance."\n</p>\n<p>\n "A dark and different Regency romance."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cousin Kate remains a classic Heyer study of character and Regency attitudes, and boasts a wonderfully warm and generous heroine who it is impossible to dislike and one of Heyer''s most pleasant and agreeable heroes."\n</p>\n<p>\n "A superior Georgette Heyer work; a bit darker and more serious than most of her other books, but as always there is the fast wit and a happy ending."\n</p>\n<p>\n (20090512)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18374'),
(13121, 'Covenant 1 - Lord Foul&#39;s Bane v1', 'Donaldson, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22977'),
(13122, 'The Covenant', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the first Afrikaners to the powerful Zulu nation, and the missionaries who lived with both--all of them will influence and take part in the wars and politics that will change a nation forever.\n <br />\n THE COVENANT: generations of people who forge a new world in a story of adventure and heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the first Afrikaners to the powerful Zulu nation, and the missionaries who lived with both--all of them will influence and take part in the wars and politics that will change a nation forever.\n <br />\n THE COVENANT: generations of people who forge a new world in a story of adventure and heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4809'),
(13123, 'The covenant', 'James A. Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the first Afrikaners to the powerful Zulu nation, and the missionaries who lived with both--all of them will influence and take part in the wars and politics that will change a nation forever.\n <br />\n THE COVENANT: generations of people who forge a new world in a story of adventure and heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the first Afrikaners to the powerful Zulu nation, and the missionaries who lived with both--all of them will influence and take part in the wars and politics that will change a nation forever.\n <br />\n THE COVENANT: generations of people who forge a new world in a story of adventure and heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19775'),
(13124, 'Covert One 1 - The Hades Factor', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25401'),
(13125, 'Covert One 2 - The Cassandra Compact', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25402'),
(13126, 'Covert One 3 - The Paris Option', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25403'),
(13127, 'Covert One 4 - The Altman Code', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25404'),
(13128, 'Covert One 5 - The Lazarus Vendetta', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25405'),
(13129, 'Covert One 7 - The Arctic Event', 'Ludlum, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25406');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(13130, 'Cowboy Accomplice', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n HOW HARD COULD IT BE TO FIND A COWBOY IN MONTANA...? All J.T. McCall cared about were cattle. He''d always been the responsible brother and had taken over the day-to-day management of the family-owned Sundown Ranch years ago. He was as authentic as a cowboy can come -- and Regina Holland knew it. He was just what she was looking for, and she was determined to have him -- for business purposes only, of course. So when she finagled a job with his cattle drive deep in the Montana mountains, she didn''t count on becoming a killer''s target or on falling for J.T. But would they survive the assault of a madman?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7423'),
(13131, 'Cowboy Accomplice', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n HOW HARD COULD IT BE TO FIND A COWBOY IN MONTANA...? All J.T. McCall cared about were cattle. He''d always been the responsible brother and had taken over the day-to-day management of the family-owned Sundown Ranch years ago. He was as authentic as a cowboy can come -- and Regina Holland knew it. He was just what she was looking for, and she was determined to have him -- for business purposes only, of course. So when she finagled a job with his cattle drive deep in the Montana mountains, she didn''t count on becoming a killer''s target or on falling for J.T. But would they survive the assault of a madman?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16485'),
(13132, 'Cowboy Accomplice', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n HOW HARD COULD IT BE TO FIND A COWBOY IN MONTANA...? All J.T. McCall cared about were cattle. He''d always been the responsible brother and had taken over the day-to-day management of the family-owned Sundown Ranch years ago. He was as authentic as a cowboy can come -- and Regina Holland knew it. He was just what she was looking for, and she was determined to have him -- for business purposes only, of course. So when she finagled a job with his cattle drive deep in the Montana mountains, she didn''t count on becoming a killer''s target or on falling for J.T. But would they survive the assault of a madman?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26528'),
(13133, 'The Cowgirl in Question', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE WILDEST OF THE MCCALL BOYS WAS BACK The wildest of the McCall boys was back...and he had a score to settle with Cassidy Miller! Like two outlaws facing off at high noon, they reunited at the Longhorn Cafe for the whole town to witness the long-awaited showdown. Rourke McCall had been fantasizing about this moment for more than a decade -- except he hadn''t counted on Cassidy growing up and growing into a woman. That one high-school kiss suddenly hit him like a shotgun recoiling. But he couldn''t let his emerging desire for Cassidy deter his search for a killer, who by all accounts was still at large in Antelope Flats and equally determined to destroy Rourke...and anyone close to him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7303'),
(13134, 'The cowgirl in question', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE WILDEST OF THE MCCALL BOYS WAS BACK The wildest of the McCall boys was back...and he had a score to settle with Cassidy Miller! Like two outlaws facing off at high noon, they reunited at the Longhorn Cafe for the whole town to witness the long-awaited showdown. Rourke McCall had been fantasizing about this moment for more than a decade -- except he hadn''t counted on Cassidy growing up and growing into a woman. That one high-school kiss suddenly hit him like a shotgun recoiling. But he couldn''t let his emerging desire for Cassidy deter his search for a killer, who by all accounts was still at large in Antelope Flats and equally determined to destroy Rourke...and anyone close to him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16467'),
(13135, 'The cowgirl in question', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n THE WILDEST OF THE MCCALL BOYS WAS BACK The wildest of the McCall boys was back...and he had a score to settle with Cassidy Miller! Like two outlaws facing off at high noon, they reunited at the Longhorn Cafe for the whole town to witness the long-awaited showdown. Rourke McCall had been fantasizing about this moment for more than a decade -- except he hadn''t counted on Cassidy growing up and growing into a woman. That one high-school kiss suddenly hit him like a shotgun recoiling. But he couldn''t let his emerging desire for Cassidy deter his search for a killer, who by all accounts was still at large in Antelope Flats and equally determined to destroy Rourke...and anyone close to him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26518'),
(13136, 'Cowl', 'Neal Asher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25313'),
(13137, 'Coyote Blue', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sam Hunter, a yuppie salesman who has everything he needs except the beautiful Calliope''s love, confronts Coyote, the Indian trickster god, and his own forgotten and buried life as Samson Hunts Alone, a native American outlaw. 50,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6690'),
(13138, 'Coyote blue', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sam Hunter, a yuppie salesman who has everything he needs except the beautiful Calliope''s love, confronts Coyote, the Indian trickster god, and his own forgotten and buried life as Samson Hunts Alone, a native American outlaw. 50,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18066'),
(13139, 'Coyote blue', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sam Hunter, a yuppie salesman who has everything he needs except the beautiful Calliope''s love, confronts Coyote, the Indian trickster god, and his own forgotten and buried life as Samson Hunts Alone, a native American outlaw. 50,000 first printing.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From master of subversive humor Christopher Moore comes a quirky, irreverent novel of love, myth, metaphysics, outlaw biking, angst, and outrageous redemption. As a boy, he was Samson Hunts Alone -- until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is Samuel Hunter, a successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a Mercedes, a condo, and a hollow, invented life. Then one day, destiny offers him the dangerous gift of love -- in the exquisite form of Calliope Kincaid -- and a curse in the unheralded appearance of an ancient god by the name of Coyote. Coyote, the trickster, has arrived to reawaken the mystical storyteller within Sam...and to seriously screw up his existence in the process.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26998'),
(13140, 'Coyote Dreams', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7037'),
(13141, 'Coyote Dreams', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11601'),
(13142, 'Coyote Dreams', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16828'),
(13143, 'Coyote Dreams', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26705'),
(13144, 'Coyote Waits', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Plumbing more deeply than ever the Navajo culture of Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, Hillerman ( Talking God ) weaves an understated, powerful tale from strands of ancient Navajo mythology, modern greed and ambition, and, above all, the sorrows and delights of his characters. Although Chee is badly burned in an attempt to rescue fellow officer Delbert Nez, who has been shot and left in his burning car, he blames himself for Nez''s death. On medical leave and off the case, Chee tries to facilitate the prompt prosecution of elderly shaman Ashie Pinto, found near the murder site in a drunken stupor, the weapon in his hand still smoking. Leaphorn, too, becomes unofficially involved when he agrees to investigate the charges against Pinto on behalf of the latter''s niece, a member of his dead wife Emma''s clan. He and Chee follow parallel trails to the killing of a Vietnamese teacher and former ARVN officer, to a revision in the legend of Butch Cassidy and to the case''s unexpected resolution. Central to the tale are two women, one Pinto''s attorney; the other a cultural anthropologist who helps prize Leaphorn out of his continuing grief over Emma''s death. Hillerman''s spare and moving story eloquently illustrates Pinto''s reminder to Leaphorn that Coyote, "the enemy of all law, and rules, and harmony," waits for everyone. Reader''s Digest Condensed Books.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The car fire didn''t kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nezâ€”a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect''s refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune. But the hungry and mythical trickster Coyote is waiting, as always, in the shadows to add a strange and deadly new twist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/545'),
(13145, 'Coyote Waits', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Plumbing more deeply than ever the Navajo culture of Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, Hillerman ( Talking God ) weaves an understated, powerful tale from strands of ancient Navajo mythology, modern greed and ambition, and, above all, the sorrows and delights of his characters. Although Chee is badly burned in an attempt to rescue fellow officer Delbert Nez, who has been shot and left in his burning car, he blames himself for Nez''s death. On medical leave and off the case, Chee tries to facilitate the prompt prosecution of elderly shaman Ashie Pinto, found near the murder site in a drunken stupor, the weapon in his hand still smoking. Leaphorn, too, becomes unofficially involved when he agrees to investigate the charges against Pinto on behalf of the latter''s niece, a member of his dead wife Emma''s clan. He and Chee follow parallel trails to the killing of a Vietnamese teacher and former ARVN officer, to a revision in the legend of Butch Cassidy and to the case''s unexpected resolution. Central to the tale are two women, one Pinto''s attorney; the other a cultural anthropologist who helps prize Leaphorn out of his continuing grief over Emma''s death. Hillerman''s spare and moving story eloquently illustrates Pinto''s reminder to Leaphorn that Coyote, "the enemy of all law, and rules, and harmony," waits for everyone. Reader''s Digest Condensed Books.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The car fire didn''t kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nezâ€”a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect''s refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune. But the hungry and mythical trickster Coyote is waiting, as always, in the shadows to add a strange and deadly new twist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10319'),
(13146, 'Coyote Waits', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Plumbing more deeply than ever the Navajo culture of Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, Hillerman ( Talking God ) weaves an understated, powerful tale from strands of ancient Navajo mythology, modern greed and ambition, and, above all, the sorrows and delights of his characters. Although Chee is badly burned in an attempt to rescue fellow officer Delbert Nez, who has been shot and left in his burning car, he blames himself for Nez''s death. On medical leave and off the case, Chee tries to facilitate the prompt prosecution of elderly shaman Ashie Pinto, found near the murder site in a drunken stupor, the weapon in his hand still smoking. Leaphorn, too, becomes unofficially involved when he agrees to investigate the charges against Pinto on behalf of the latter''s niece, a member of his dead wife Emma''s clan. He and Chee follow parallel trails to the killing of a Vietnamese teacher and former ARVN officer, to a revision in the legend of Butch Cassidy and to the case''s unexpected resolution. Central to the tale are two women, one Pinto''s attorney; the other a cultural anthropologist who helps prize Leaphorn out of his continuing grief over Emma''s death. Hillerman''s spare and moving story eloquently illustrates Pinto''s reminder to Leaphorn that Coyote, "the enemy of all law, and rules, and harmony," waits for everyone. Reader''s Digest Condensed Books.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The car fire didn''t kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nezâ€”a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect''s refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune. But the hungry and mythical trickster Coyote is waiting, as always, in the shadows to add a strange and deadly new twist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24432'),
(13147, 'A Coyote&#39;s in the House', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5-8â€“Leonard''s knack for creating intriguing, strong characters is evident in his first children''s book. While chasing down his latest meal, Antwan, a hip-talking coyote, makes his way into a Hollywood home, where he meets two dogsâ€“Buddy, an aging film star, and Miss Betty, a champion poodle. In a reversal of roles, Buddy decides that living in the Hollywood Hills as a wild dog with Antwan''s homeboys would suit him just fine and he talks the coyote into taking his place as a pampered pet. He comes up with a plan to convince his owners that Antwan is actually a stray dog, and the coyote is soon adopted. After many misadventures and subplots, including Miss Betty''s scheme to kidnap a cat for Buddy to rescue in order to help the German shepherd overcome his feelings of being a has-been, the animals land back in their original location, feeling content with the way things have ended. Leonard''s enlightening descriptions of the movie business may please adults more than youngsters, but all readers will delight in the growing friendship among the characters. Humorous black-and-white drawings with red accentsâ€“Buddy''s film trademark is a red bandannaâ€“add further interest._â€“Ellen Fader, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Gr. 5-8. Anthropomorphism in fiction and film is often derided as a cheap trick, and rightfully so. But not when Elmore Leonard is writing the dialogue. Leonard''s first children''s book begins with a beguiling premise: hip coyote Antwan, leader of his pack in the Hollywood Hills, is foraging for garbage when he makes the acquaintance of German shepherd Buddy, a retired film star. Buddy is bored and has decided he''d like the freedom of the coyote''s life in the wild, while Antwan, who quickly develops a taste for peanut-butter cookies, is interested in getting to know Miss Betty, a prizewinning poodle who lives with Buddy''s family. Antwan successfully passes as a dog, but Buddy resents being displaced as the canine star of the family, prompting Antwan and Miss Betty to hatch a plan in which the German shepherd will be returned to the limelight. The story is good fun, but the real pleasure here, as in Leonard''s adult novels, lies in listening to the characters banter with one another. Kids won''t get all the Hollywood jokes or pick up the references to Leonard''s\n <em>\n  Get Shorty\n </em>\n , but they will respond instantly to the way Antwan and his pals work the humans to their advantage. A poignant ending gives the tale just the right edge, showing that Leonard can mix comedy and reality as nimbly for a younger audience as he does for adults.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18544'),
(13148, 'The Crack in Space: A Novel', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Crack in Space, a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli, a shadowy private detective, wants to know why Dr Lurton Sands is hiding his mistress on the planet; billionaire mutant George Walt wants to make the empty world all his own. But when the other earth turns out to be inhabited, everything changes. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2086'),
(13149, 'The Crack in Space: A Novel', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In The Crack in Space, a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli, a shadowy private detective, wants to know why Dr Lurton Sands is hiding his mistress on the planet; billionaire mutant George Walt wants to make the empty world all his own. But when the other earth turns out to be inhabited, everything changes. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22675'),
(13150, 'Cradle', 'Arthur C. Clarke;Gentry Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning grandmaster of science fiction does for the sea in his new novel what his epic classic 2001 did for outer space. Currently in production for a major motion picture from Warner Brothers/Peter Guber.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15642'),
(13151, 'Cradle', 'Arthur C. Clarke;Gentry Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning grandmaster of science fiction does for the sea in his new novel what his epic classic 2001 did for outer space. Currently in production for a major motion picture from Warner Brothers/Peter Guber.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26506'),
(13152, 'Cradle and All', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant--even though she is still a virgin. In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition. And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse. It all feels like a sign that something awful is coming. Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate the immaculate conceptions. Even as she comes to care about and trust the young women, she realizes that both are in great danger. Terrifying forces of light and darkness are gathering. Stepping into uncharted territory where the unknown is just the beginning, Anne must discover the truth--to save the young women, to save herself, and to protect the future of all mankind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4825'),
(13153, 'Cradle and All', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant--even though she is still a virgin. In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition. And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse. It all feels like a sign that something awful is coming. Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate the immaculate conceptions. Even as she comes to care about and trust the young women, she realizes that both are in great danger. Terrifying forces of light and darkness are gathering. Stepping into uncharted territory where the unknown is just the beginning, Anne must discover the truth--to save the young women, to save herself, and to protect the future of all mankind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13963'),
(13154, 'Cradle and All', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant--even though she is still a virgin. In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition. And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse. It all feels like a sign that something awful is coming. Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate the immaculate conceptions. Even as she comes to care about and trust the young women, she realizes that both are in great danger. Terrifying forces of light and darkness are gathering. Stepping into uncharted territory where the unknown is just the beginning, Anne must discover the truth--to save the young women, to save herself, and to protect the future of all mankind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19827'),
(13155, 'Cranford', 'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25861'),
(13156, 'Cranford (Ad Classic Library Edition)', 'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Charles Dickens; George Du Maurier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Cranford is a witty portrait of small town life in early-Victorian England. The story unfolds through the eyes of Mary Smith, a young woman who observes the comedic struggles of two middle aged sisters in their efforts to maintain a level of refined dignity amid poverty. The story reveals "touches of love and kindness, of simple self-sacrifice and of true womanly tenderness... naturally and truthfully just as they are found in the current of real life." Cranford is based on the experiences of Elizabeth Gaskell''s childhood upbringing in Cheshire, UK. Twelve years after publishing Cranford, Gaskell has kind words for her most prolific work. "It is the only one of my books that I can read again; but whenever I am ailing or ill, I take Cranford and - I was going to say, enjoy it! (but that would not be pretty!) laugh over it afresh!" This edition includes artwork by George Du Maurier, commissioned by Smith, Elder &amp; Co. in 1864, and artwork by Hugh Thomson for Macmillan and Co. in 1891.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18590'),
(13157, 'Crash', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an intentionally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting edge fiction, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society''s increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4918'),
(13158, 'Crash', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an intentionally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting edge fiction, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society''s increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15098'),
(13159, 'Crash', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an intentionally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting edge fiction, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society''s increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19713'),
(13160, 'Crash', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an intentionally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting edge fiction, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society''s increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28310'),
(13161, 'The Crate', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22972'),
(13162, 'Crazy', 'William Peter Blatty', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sassy humor and gentle nostalgia is the surprisingly effective combination employed by Blatty, master of the horror genre and the author of The Exorcist, in this fond look back at 1940s- era New York. As 80-year-old Joey El Bueno begins his memoirs while a patient at Bellevue Hospital, he introduces his adolescent alter ego, a wisecracking Peruvian-Irish kid with an affinity for driving the staff at St. Stephenâ€™s Grammar School batty. But the nuns arenâ€™t the only ones going a little crazy; you see, lately Joey has struck up a friendship with a girl no one else seems to have seen or heard of, and Joey himself seems to know about things before they have happened. As readers attempt to puzzle out whether Joey has a fractured psyche or has broken through the time-space continuum, they will be treated to an entertaining romp through the Lower East Side conducted by an inimitable tour guide. --Margaret Flanagan\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA superbly executed blend ofÂ  tenderness and satire that comes to a powerful and emotional crescendo, Crazy is a marvelous work of fiction that cements Blattyâ€™s place of honor among great American authors.â€ -- Fears Magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   From the Washington Post\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reviewed by novelist Elizabeth Hand_\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s hard to believe, but local horror meister William Peter Blatty once had a booming career as a funny guy. In addition to his comic novels, he worked with Blake Edwards on several films, including "A Shot in the Dark," the second Inspector Clouseau movie; he loved P.G. Wodehouse; and he was even compared to S.J. Perelman. All this came before those looming steps in Georgetown forever linked Blatty with his best-known work, "The Exorcist" (1971).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which makes his new novel, "Crazy," a return to form. It''s a sweet-natured, often hilarious tale cast as the memoirs of an 82-year-old former screenwriter named Joey El Bueno. Joey''s writing from a 10th-floor room at Bellevue Hospital, where the usually suspicious Nurse Bloor doesn''t raise an eyebrow at his laptop because "she has read Archy and Mehitabel and knows that sometimes even a rat can type."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Joey is the son of an Irish beauty who died giving birth to him and an impoverished Peruvian immigrant who made his living pushing a hot dog cart. Joey''s memoir takes us back to the year he was a seventh-grader at St. Stephen''s, on Manhattan''s Lower East Side, in 1941. That''s where he first meets Jane Bent, a street-smart, foul-mouthed transfer student from Our Lady of Sorrows. At first, Joey finds her "nuttier than a truckload of filberts," but that changes when Jane flashes a $5 bill and suggests an afternoon at the movies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Many hours and three screenings of "Gunga Din" later, the two seem to have become an inseparable pair. Then they part, and Joey never sees her again. Not that Jane, anyway.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I won''t say more lest I spoil the pleasures of this lovely, time-shifting novel, which evokes a lost New York complete with a school excursion to Coney Island and side trips to "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir." It''s like a classic Jean Shepherd anecdote with supernatural overtones. Blatty also cites Ray Bradbury and Robert Nathan as influences, and "Crazy" more than once invokes Kurt Vonnegut. Joey''s memoir favors run-on sentences with a comedic payoff: "There was a breeze and these jillions of gulls all circling and squawking forlornly but with great agitation and high excitement as if they were in factions that were blaming one another for the loss of some unspoiled world, some paradise where every automobile was a convertible and where hats and awnings did not exist."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Blatty has always been upfront about his Catholic faith. The opening of "The Exorcist" evokes "Lucifer upward-groping back to his God," and Crazy''s poignant final pages make clear that, rather than an exercise in nostalgia, this novel is a reminder of Saint Paul''s command, "While we have time, let us do good." Or, as Joey puts it, "What would Kurt Vonnegut do?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  _Hand''s most recent novel is "Illyria."\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Crazy _is terrific! A wonderful novel: funny, touching and SO full of love!"--Julie Andrews\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCrazy left me with a smile on my face and a tear in my eye.â€-- _Dread Central\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œWith its wildly creative and humorous scenarios,\n  </em>\n  Crazy\n  <em>\n   is wise and witty, funny and sad. Itâ€™s a story of good and evil, of second chances, of coming to peace at the end of the road and welcoming the unknown.â€ --\n  </em>\n  bookreporter.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Thereâ€™s a certain vaudevillian flair to all of Blattyâ€™sÂ  work, but itâ€™s the sort of vaudeville that powers the absurdist despair of Samuel Beckettâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Waiting For Godot\n  </em>\n  ; one-liners and gags are just another way to deal with the inevitability of death. The difference is, thereâ€™s a core of faith and optimism at the heart of Blattyâ€™s writing. Horror exists, as do evil and the monsters who perpetrate it, but thereâ€™s also God in his heaven, purpose, and at least the possibility of justice._â€ â€“-A.V. CLUB _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/105'),
(13163, 'Crazy', 'William Peter Blatty', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sassy humor and gentle nostalgia is the surprisingly effective combination employed by Blatty, master of the horror genre and the author of The Exorcist, in this fond look back at 1940s- era New York. As 80-year-old Joey El Bueno begins his memoirs while a patient at Bellevue Hospital, he introduces his adolescent alter ego, a wisecracking Peruvian-Irish kid with an affinity for driving the staff at St. Stephenâ€™s Grammar School batty. But the nuns arenâ€™t the only ones going a little crazy; you see, lately Joey has struck up a friendship with a girl no one else seems to have seen or heard of, and Joey himself seems to know about things before they have happened. As readers attempt to puzzle out whether Joey has a fractured psyche or has broken through the time-space continuum, they will be treated to an entertaining romp through the Lower East Side conducted by an inimitable tour guide. --Margaret Flanagan\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA superbly executed blend ofÂ  tenderness and satire that comes to a powerful and emotional crescendo, Crazy is a marvelous work of fiction that cements Blattyâ€™s place of honor among great American authors.â€ -- Fears Magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   From the Washington Post\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reviewed by novelist Elizabeth Hand_\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s hard to believe, but local horror meister William Peter Blatty once had a booming career as a funny guy. In addition to his comic novels, he worked with Blake Edwards on several films, including "A Shot in the Dark," the second Inspector Clouseau movie; he loved P.G. Wodehouse; and he was even compared to S.J. Perelman. All this came before those looming steps in Georgetown forever linked Blatty with his best-known work, "The Exorcist" (1971).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which makes his new novel, "Crazy," a return to form. It''s a sweet-natured, often hilarious tale cast as the memoirs of an 82-year-old former screenwriter named Joey El Bueno. Joey''s writing from a 10th-floor room at Bellevue Hospital, where the usually suspicious Nurse Bloor doesn''t raise an eyebrow at his laptop because "she has read Archy and Mehitabel and knows that sometimes even a rat can type."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Joey is the son of an Irish beauty who died giving birth to him and an impoverished Peruvian immigrant who made his living pushing a hot dog cart. Joey''s memoir takes us back to the year he was a seventh-grader at St. Stephen''s, on Manhattan''s Lower East Side, in 1941. That''s where he first meets Jane Bent, a street-smart, foul-mouthed transfer student from Our Lady of Sorrows. At first, Joey finds her "nuttier than a truckload of filberts," but that changes when Jane flashes a $5 bill and suggests an afternoon at the movies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Many hours and three screenings of "Gunga Din" later, the two seem to have become an inseparable pair. Then they part, and Joey never sees her again. Not that Jane, anyway.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I won''t say more lest I spoil the pleasures of this lovely, time-shifting novel, which evokes a lost New York complete with a school excursion to Coney Island and side trips to "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir." It''s like a classic Jean Shepherd anecdote with supernatural overtones. Blatty also cites Ray Bradbury and Robert Nathan as influences, and "Crazy" more than once invokes Kurt Vonnegut. Joey''s memoir favors run-on sentences with a comedic payoff: "There was a breeze and these jillions of gulls all circling and squawking forlornly but with great agitation and high excitement as if they were in factions that were blaming one another for the loss of some unspoiled world, some paradise where every automobile was a convertible and where hats and awnings did not exist."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Blatty has always been upfront about his Catholic faith. The opening of "The Exorcist" evokes "Lucifer upward-groping back to his God," and Crazy''s poignant final pages make clear that, rather than an exercise in nostalgia, this novel is a reminder of Saint Paul''s command, "While we have time, let us do good." Or, as Joey puts it, "What would Kurt Vonnegut do?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  _Hand''s most recent novel is "Illyria."\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Crazy _is terrific! A wonderful novel: funny, touching and SO full of love!"--Julie Andrews\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCrazy left me with a smile on my face and a tear in my eye.â€-- _Dread Central\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œWith its wildly creative and humorous scenarios,\n  </em>\n  Crazy\n  <em>\n   is wise and witty, funny and sad. Itâ€™s a story of good and evil, of second chances, of coming to peace at the end of the road and welcoming the unknown.â€ --\n  </em>\n  bookreporter.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Thereâ€™s a certain vaudevillian flair to all of Blattyâ€™sÂ  work, but itâ€™s the sort of vaudeville that powers the absurdist despair of Samuel Beckettâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Waiting For Godot\n  </em>\n  ; one-liners and gags are just another way to deal with the inevitability of death. The difference is, thereâ€™s a core of faith and optimism at the heart of Blattyâ€™s writing. Horror exists, as do evil and the monsters who perpetrate it, but thereâ€™s also God in his heaven, purpose, and at least the possibility of justice._â€ â€“-A.V. CLUB _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8513'),
(13164, 'Crazy', 'William Peter Blatty', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sassy humor and gentle nostalgia is the surprisingly effective combination employed by Blatty, master of the horror genre and the author of The Exorcist, in this fond look back at 1940s- era New York. As 80-year-old Joey El Bueno begins his memoirs while a patient at Bellevue Hospital, he introduces his adolescent alter ego, a wisecracking Peruvian-Irish kid with an affinity for driving the staff at St. Stephenâ€™s Grammar School batty. But the nuns arenâ€™t the only ones going a little crazy; you see, lately Joey has struck up a friendship with a girl no one else seems to have seen or heard of, and Joey himself seems to know about things before they have happened. As readers attempt to puzzle out whether Joey has a fractured psyche or has broken through the time-space continuum, they will be treated to an entertaining romp through the Lower East Side conducted by an inimitable tour guide. --Margaret Flanagan\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œA superbly executed blend of tenderness and satire that comes to a powerful and emotional crescendo, Crazy is a marvelous work of fiction that cements Blattyâ€™s place of honor among great American authors.â€ -- Fears Magazine\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   From the Washington Post\n  </strong>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reviewed by novelist Elizabeth Hand_\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s hard to believe, but local horror meister William Peter Blatty once had a booming career as a funny guy. In addition to his comic novels, he worked with Blake Edwards on several films, including "A Shot in the Dark," the second Inspector Clouseau movie; he loved P.G. Wodehouse; and he was even compared to S.J. Perelman. All this came before those looming steps in Georgetown forever linked Blatty with his best-known work, "The Exorcist" (1971).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Which makes his new novel, "Crazy," a return to form. It''s a sweet-natured, often hilarious tale cast as the memoirs of an 82-year-old former screenwriter named Joey El Bueno. Joey''s writing from a 10th-floor room at Bellevue Hospital, where the usually suspicious Nurse Bloor doesn''t raise an eyebrow at his laptop because "she has read Archy and Mehitabel and knows that sometimes even a rat can type."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Joey is the son of an Irish beauty who died giving birth to him and an impoverished Peruvian immigrant who made his living pushing a hot dog cart. Joey''s memoir takes us back to the year he was a seventh-grader at St. Stephen''s, on Manhattan''s Lower East Side, in 1941. That''s where he first meets Jane Bent, a street-smart, foul-mouthed transfer student from Our Lady of Sorrows. At first, Joey finds her "nuttier than a truckload of filberts," but that changes when Jane flashes a $5 bill and suggests an afternoon at the movies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Many hours and three screenings of "Gunga Din" later, the two seem to have become an inseparable pair. Then they part, and Joey never sees her again. Not that Jane, anyway.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I won''t say more lest I spoil the pleasures of this lovely, time-shifting novel, which evokes a lost New York complete with a school excursion to Coney Island and side trips to "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir." It''s like a classic Jean Shepherd anecdote with supernatural overtones. Blatty also cites Ray Bradbury and Robert Nathan as influences, and "Crazy" more than once invokes Kurt Vonnegut. Joey''s memoir favors run-on sentences with a comedic payoff: "There was a breeze and these jillions of gulls all circling and squawking forlornly but with great agitation and high excitement as if they were in factions that were blaming one another for the loss of some unspoiled world, some paradise where every automobile was a convertible and where hats and awnings did not exist."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Blatty has always been upfront about his Catholic faith. The opening of "The Exorcist" evokes "Lucifer upward-groping back to his God," and Crazy''s poignant final pages make clear that, rather than an exercise in nostalgia, this novel is a reminder of Saint Paul''s command, "While we have time, let us do good." Or, as Joey puts it, "What would Kurt Vonnegut do?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  _Hand''s most recent novel is "Illyria."\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Crazy _is terrific! A wonderful novel: funny, touching and SO full of love!"--Julie Andrews\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œCrazy left me with a smile on my face and a tear in my eye.â€-- _Dread Central\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œWith its wildly creative and humorous scenarios,\n  </em>\n  Crazy\n  <em>\n   is wise and witty, funny and sad. Itâ€™s a story of good and evil, of second chances, of coming to peace at the end of the road and welcoming the unknown.â€ --\n  </em>\n  bookreporter.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_Thereâ€™s a certain vaudevillian flair to all of Blattyâ€™s work, but itâ€™s the sort of vaudeville that powers the absurdist despair of Samuel Beckettâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Waiting For Godot\n  </em>\n  ; one-liners and gags are just another way to deal with the inevitability of death. The difference is, thereâ€™s a core of faith and optimism at the heart of Blattyâ€™s writing. Horror exists, as do evil and the monsters who perpetrate it, but thereâ€™s also God in his heaven, purpose, and at least the possibility of justice._â€ â€“-A.V. CLUB _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24735'),
(13165, 'Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All', 'Frank Schaeffer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Part autobiography, part parental tribute and part examination of how American evangelism got to where it is, versatile author Schaeffer tells a moving story of growing up and growing wise in his latest (after Baby Jack: A Novel). Raised in Switzerland in the utopian community and spiritual school his evangelical parents founded, Schaeffer was restless and aware even at a young age that "my life was being defined by my parent''s choices." Still, he took to "the family business" well, following his dad as he became one of the "best-known evangelical leaders in the U.S." on whirlwind speaking tours. While rubbing shoulders with such empire builders as Pat Robertson, James Dobson and Jerry Falwell, Schaeffer witnessed the birth of the Christian anti-abortion movement, and became an evangelical writer, speaker and star in his own right. His disillusionment, when it came, hit hard; while he would eventually achieve modest fame as a filmmaker and author (of novels and nonfiction), the initial stages of Schaeffer''s post-religious life were anything but glamorous; a particularly moving passage describes Schaeffer shoplifting pork chops rather than return to the evangelical fold. Schaeffer does not mince words, making his narrative honest, inflammatory and at times quite funny; despite its excess length and some confusing chronological leaps, this story of faith, fame and family in modern America is a worthy read.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  American Authorâ€™s Association website, December 2008\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œA story that needed to be toldâ€¦A very personal and brutally honest memoir, that opens up and exposes the underbelly of the evangelistic movementâ€¦Gives the reader a rare and different look at some of various leaders of the fundamentalist moment...The book may open some eyes and minds about the dangers of politics and religionâ€¦A must read book for serious seekers looking for their own authentic path to enlightenment, or at least some inner peace.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  De-conversion.com, 12/2/08\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œA must read for the de-convertingâ€¦It is brutally honest, eye-opening, at times laugh out loud funny, and heart breaking.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Princeton Packet\n </em>\n , 2/13/09\n <br />\n â€œMr. Schaeffer knows what heâ€™s talking about. He was there, and his book lays it all out, chapter and verse.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TCM Reviews\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[A] moving memoirâ€¦For those interested in a different perspective on Francis and Edith Schaeffer, l''Abri, and the fundamentalist right-wing evangelical movement, as well as the touching story of someone deeply involved in it all, this is a must-read.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Augusta Metro Spirit\n  </em>\n  , 4/15/09\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œIn a witty recollection that takes a different path from the average evangelical story, Frank Schaeffer offers an intimate portrait of a life within and without the spotlight of mass congregationsâ€¦Schaeffer is more than qualified to offer candid commentary concerning the religious right in these United Statesâ€¦Written with an intricate collection of detail, a smooth ability to turn elements of conflict into startling moments of realization, and a wonderful search for meaning.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Tallahassee Democrat\n  </em>\n  , 7/25/09\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œPart memoir, part biography, and part expose of a fundamentalist moment in U.S. religion and culture. As memoir it is at times funny, at times moving. As biograp...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12409');
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(13166, 'Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival', 'Norman Ollestad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A riveting and moving memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose and set amid the wild, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s   From the age of three, Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing by the intense, charismatic father he both idolized and resented. Yet it was these exhilarating tests of skill that ultimately saved his life when the chartered Cessna carrying them to a ski championship ceremony crashed 8,000 feet up in the California mountains, leaving his father and the pilot dead. The devastated eleven-year-old Ollestad had to descend the treacherous, icy mountain alone.   Crazy for the Storm is a powerful and unforgettable true story that illuminates the complicated bond between an extraordinary father and his extraordinary son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2447'),
(13167, 'Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival', 'Norman Ollestad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A riveting and moving memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose and set amid the wild, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s   From the age of three, Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing by the intense, charismatic father he both idolized and resented. Yet it was these exhilarating tests of skill that ultimately saved his life when the chartered Cessna carrying them to a ski championship ceremony crashed 8,000 feet up in the California mountains, leaving his father and the pilot dead. The devastated eleven-year-old Ollestad had to descend the treacherous, icy mountain alone.   Crazy for the Storm is a powerful and unforgettable true story that illuminates the complicated bond between an extraordinary father and his extraordinary son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11677'),
(13168, 'Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival', 'Norman Ollestad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A riveting and moving memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose and set amid the wild, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s From the age of three, Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing by the intense, charismatic father he both idolized and resented. Yet it was these exhilarating tests of skill that ultimately saved his life when the chartered Cessna carrying them to a ski championship ceremony crashed 8,000 feet up in the California mountains, leaving his father and the pilot dead. The devastated eleven-year-old Ollestad had to descend the treacherous, icy mountain alone. Crazy for the Storm is a powerful and unforgettable true story that illuminates the complicated bond between an extraordinary father and his extraordinary son.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22410'),
(13169, 'Creation in Death', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas keeps the streets of a near-future New York City safe in this extraordinary series. But even she makes mistakes, and is haunted by those she couldn''t save-and the killers she couldn''t capture. When the body of a young brunette is found in East River Park, artfully positioned and marked by signs of prolonged and painful torture, Eve is catapulted back to a case nine years earlier. The city was on edge from a killing spree that took the lives  of four women in fifteen days, courtesy of a man the media tagged "The Groom"-because he put silver rings on the fingers of his victims.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When it turns out that the young brunette was employed by Eve''s billionaire husband, Roarke, she brings him in on the case-a move that proves fitting when it becomes chillingly clear that the killer has made his attack personal. The victim was washed in products from a store Roarke owns, and laid out on a sheet his company manufactures.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the Groom''s monstrous return, Eve is determined to finish him once and for all. Familiar with his methods, Eve knows that he has already grabbed his next victim. Time is running out on another woman''s life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And chances are he''s working up to the biggest challenge of his illustrious career-abducting a woman who will test his skills and who promises to give him days and days of pleasure before she dies: Eve.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2462'),
(13170, 'Creation in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas keeps the streets of a near-future New York City safe in this extraordinary series. But even she makes mistakes, and is haunted by those she couldn''t save-and the killers she couldn''t capture. When the body of a young brunette is found in East River Park, artfully positioned and marked by signs of prolonged and painful torture, Eve is catapulted back to a case nine years earlier. The city was on edge from a killing spree that took the lives of four women in fifteen days, courtesy of a man the media tagged "The Groom"-because he put silver rings on the fingers of his victims. When it turns out that the young brunette was employed by Eve''s billionaire husband, Roarke, she brings him in on the case-a move that proves fitting when it becomes chillingly clear that the killer has made his attack personal. The victim was washed in products from a store Roarke owns, and laid out on a sheet his company manufactures. With the Groom''s monstrous return, Eve is determined to finish him once and for all. Familiar with his methods, Eve knows that he has already grabbed his next victim. Time is running out on another woman''s life. And chances are he''s working up to the biggest challenge of his illustrious career-abducting a woman who will test his skills and who promises to give him days and days of pleasure before she dies: Eve.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14099'),
(13171, 'Creation in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas keeps the streets of a near-future New York City safe in this extraordinary series. But even she makes mistakes, and is haunted by those she couldn''t save-and the killers she couldn''t capture. When the body of a young brunette is found in East River Park, artfully positioned and marked by signs of prolonged and painful torture, Eve is catapulted back to a case nine years earlier. The city was on edge from a killing spree that took the lives of four women in fifteen days, courtesy of a man the media tagged "The Groom"-because he put silver rings on the fingers of his victims. When it turns out that the young brunette was employed by Eve''s billionaire husband, Roarke, she brings him in on the case-a move that proves fitting when it becomes chillingly clear that the killer has made his attack personal. The victim was washed in products from a store Roarke owns, and laid out on a sheet his company manufactures. With the Groom''s monstrous return, Eve is determined to finish him once and for all. Familiar with his methods, Eve knows that he has already grabbed his next victim. Time is running out on another woman''s life. And chances are he''s working up to the biggest challenge of his illustrious career-abducting a woman who will test his skills and who promises to give him days and days of pleasure before she dies: Eve.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22307'),
(13172, 'Creation of Narrative in Tabletop Role-Playing Games', 'Jennifer Grouling Cover', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite the rise of computer gaming, millions of adults still play face to face role playing games, which rely in part on social interaction to create stories. This work explores tabletop role playing game (TRPG) as a genre separate from computer role playing games. The relationship of TRPGs to other games is examined, as well as the interaction among the tabletop module, computer game, and novel versions of Dungeons &amp; Dragons. Given particular attention are the narrative and linguistic structures of the gaming session, and the ways that players and gamemasters work together to construct narratives. The text also explores wider cultural influences that surround tabletop gamers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jennifer Grouling Cover is a PhD candidate in rhetoric and writing at Virginia Tech. She teaches writing and lives in Christiansburg, Virginia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8066'),
(13173, 'Creation: Darwin, His Daughter &amp; Human Evolution', 'Randal Keynes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Soon to be a major motion picture\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The moving, personal story of Charles Darwin and his revolutionary views on nature, evolution, and the human condition. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Darwin''s theories continue to shape much of our thinking about the roots of human nature, *Creation* (formerly *Darwin, His Daughters, and Human Evolution*) reveals the personal experiences from which he drew his most deeply held ideas.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes, a great-great-grandson of Darwin, found the writing case of Charles Darwin''s beloved daughter Annie, who died at the age of fifteen. Offering rare insight into the family''s private world, Keynes gives us a fuller picture of one of our most original thinkers, as well as a wealth of previously unseen material.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1911'),
(13174, 'Creation: Darwin, His Daughter &amp; Human Evolution', 'Randal Keynes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Soon to be a major motion picture\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The moving, personal story of Charles Darwin and his revolutionary views on nature, evolution, and the human condition. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Darwin''s theories continue to shape much of our thinking about the roots of human nature, *Creation* (formerly *Darwin, His Daughters, and Human Evolution*) reveals the personal experiences from which he drew his most deeply held ideas.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes, a great-great-grandson of Darwin, found the writing case of Charles Darwin''s beloved daughter Annie, who died at the age of fifteen. Offering rare insight into the family''s private world, Keynes gives us a fuller picture of one of our most original thinkers, as well as a wealth of previously unseen material.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10748'),
(13175, 'Creativity', 'Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Based on interviews with 91 internationally recognized creative people-among them Nobel physicist John Bardeen, arts administrator-performer Kitty Carlisle Hart, writer Denise Levertov, jazz musician Oscar Peterson, electronics executive Robert Galvin-this book offers a highly readable anatomy of creativity. As Csikzentmihalyi (Flow) argues, creativity requires not only unusual individuals, but a culture and field of experts that can foster and validate such work. Most creative people, the author suggests, have dialectic personalities: smart yet naive, both extroverted and introverted, etc. Expanding on his previous book, Csikszentmihalyi suggests that complex and challenging work exemplifies fully engaged "flow." Synthesizing study results, he reports that none of the interviewees was popular during adolescence; while they were not necessarily more brilliant than their college peers, they displayed more "concentrated attention." Later, they kept a consistent focus on future work. The author reminds us that while individuals can make their own opportunities, a supportive society offering resources and rewards can foster creativity. His advice may sound like homilies-"Try to be surprised by something every day"-but is often worthy.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.  --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Bringing together 30 years of research, Csikszentmihalyi (psychology, Univ. of Chicago) describes this book as "an effort to make more understandable the mysterious process by which men and women come up with new ideas and new things." Utilizing the interviews garnered from 91 respondents (ranging from philosopher Mortimer Adler to biologist Edward O. Wilson to politician Eugene McCarthy), the author of the best-selling Flow (LJ 3/15/90) demonstrates the processes that these acknowledged creative thinkers and doers go through and the characteristics that make them stand out. He deals with what makes them and others like them "creative"?which he defines as "a process by which a symbolic domain in the culture is changed"?and how the conduct of their professional and personal lives illustrates these traits. Csikszentmihalyi also deals with creativity and aging and ways to enhance one''s own personal creativity. Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of the scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too. A welcome addition to both academic and public libraries.?David M. Turkalo, Suffolk Univ. Law Sch. Lib., Boston\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.  --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n A mostly fascinating look at what makes creative people who  they are, gleaned largely from interviews with 91 individuals  from a wide variety of fields.  Despite the subtitle, social psychologist Csikszentmihalyi,  who invented the idea of ``flow'''' and authored a book with that  title, writes relatively little about the enjoyable, ego- and  time- transcending absorption in a task that is conducive to  creativity and high achievement. Rather, he focuses on the  interplay between culture, the creative person, and the  ``domain'''' (sociologese for ``field''''), including the receptivity  of experts to new ideas and inventions. He quotes  extensively--too much so--from the subjects he and his research  team interviewed, but there are some gems among these passages,  such as writer Madeleine L''Engle''s observation that to produce  good literature, ``your intuition and your intellect should be  working together . . . making love.'''' Csikszentmihalyi''s weakest  section consists of detailing ten personality polarities that  supposedly distinguish creative individuals, but that are also  applicable to ``balanced'''' or ``fulfilled'''' individuals. His best  sections consist of longer profiles of individuals as varied as  poet Anthony Hecht, ecologist Barry Commoner, and astronomer Vera  Rubin. Also valuable is a concluding prescriptive section with  some helpful advice to the average person on how to make his or  her thinking and way of living more creative, particularly a  passage on how to rethink and use a disappointing experiences,  such as being passed over for a promotion. Unfortunately,  redundancies make the work too long by at least a third, and some  meaningless or fatuous generalizations also mar the presentation  (e.g., ``Recent studies suggest that the amount of dalliance,  marital infidelity and sexual experimentation [among creative  people studied] is much less than earlier estimates had  suggested'''').  Still, the rich anecdotal material Csikszentmihalyi has  mined and analyzed make this an important study of a vital topic.  ($40,000 ad/promo) -- Copyright Â©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.  --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n "Accessible and enjoyable reading." -- --Washington Times\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Accessible and enjoyable reading.""--Washington Times""Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too.""--Library Journal (starred review)"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2727'),
(13176, 'Creativity', 'Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Based on interviews with 91 internationally recognized creative people-among them Nobel physicist John Bardeen, arts administrator-performer Kitty Carlisle Hart, writer Denise Levertov, jazz musician Oscar Peterson, electronics executive Robert Galvin-this book offers a highly readable anatomy of creativity. As Csikzentmihalyi (Flow) argues, creativity requires not only unusual individuals, but a culture and field of experts that can foster and validate such work. Most creative people, the author suggests, have dialectic personalities: smart yet naive, both extroverted and introverted, etc. Expanding on his previous book, Csikszentmihalyi suggests that complex and challenging work exemplifies fully engaged "flow." Synthesizing study results, he reports that none of the interviewees was popular during adolescence; while they were not necessarily more brilliant than their college peers, they displayed more "concentrated attention." Later, they kept a consistent focus on future work. The author reminds us that while individuals can make their own opportunities, a supportive society offering resources and rewards can foster creativity. His advice may sound like homilies-"Try to be surprised by something every day"-but is often worthy.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.  --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Bringing together 30 years of research, Csikszentmihalyi (psychology, Univ. of Chicago) describes this book as "an effort to make more understandable the mysterious process by which men and women come up with new ideas and new things." Utilizing the interviews garnered from 91 respondents (ranging from philosopher Mortimer Adler to biologist Edward O. Wilson to politician Eugene McCarthy), the author of the best-selling Flow (LJ 3/15/90) demonstrates the processes that these acknowledged creative thinkers and doers go through and the characteristics that make them stand out. He deals with what makes them and others like them "creative"?which he defines as "a process by which a symbolic domain in the culture is changed"?and how the conduct of their professional and personal lives illustrates these traits. Csikszentmihalyi also deals with creativity and aging and ways to enhance one''s own personal creativity. Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of the scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too. A welcome addition to both academic and public libraries.?David M. Turkalo, Suffolk Univ. Law Sch. Lib., Boston\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.  --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n A mostly fascinating look at what makes creative people who  they are, gleaned largely from interviews with 91 individuals  from a wide variety of fields.  Despite the subtitle, social psychologist Csikszentmihalyi,  who invented the idea of ``flow'''' and authored a book with that  title, writes relatively little about the enjoyable, ego- and  time- transcending absorption in a task that is conducive to  creativity and high achievement. Rather, he focuses on the  interplay between culture, the creative person, and the  ``domain'''' (sociologese for ``field''''), including the receptivity  of experts to new ideas and inventions. He quotes  extensively--too much so--from the subjects he and his research  team interviewed, but there are some gems among these passages,  such as writer Madeleine L''Engle''s observation that to produce  good literature, ``your intuition and your intellect should be  working together . . . making love.'''' Csikszentmihalyi''s weakest  section consists of detailing ten personality polarities that  supposedly distinguish creative individuals, but that are also  applicable to ``balanced'''' or ``fulfilled'''' individuals. His best  sections consist of longer profiles of individuals as varied as  poet Anthony Hecht, ecologist Barry Commoner, and astronomer Vera  Rubin. Also valuable is a concluding prescriptive section with  some helpful advice to the average person on how to make his or  her thinking and way of living more creative, particularly a  passage on how to rethink and use a disappointing experiences,  such as being passed over for a promotion. Unfortunately,  redundancies make the work too long by at least a third, and some  meaningless or fatuous generalizations also mar the presentation  (e.g., ``Recent studies suggest that the amount of dalliance,  marital infidelity and sexual experimentation [among creative  people studied] is much less than earlier estimates had  suggested'''').  Still, the rich anecdotal material Csikszentmihalyi has  mined and analyzed make this an important study of a vital topic.  ($40,000 ad/promo) -- Copyright Â©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.  --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n "Accessible and enjoyable reading." -- --Washington Times\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Accessible and enjoyable reading.""--Washington Times""Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too.""--Library Journal (starred review)"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9144'),
(13177, 'Creativity', 'Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Based on interviews with 91 internationally recognized creative people-among them Nobel physicist John Bardeen, arts administrator-performer Kitty Carlisle Hart, writer Denise Levertov, jazz musician Oscar Peterson, electronics executive Robert Galvin-this book offers a highly readable anatomy of creativity. As Csikzentmihalyi (Flow) argues, creativity requires not only unusual individuals, but a culture and field of experts that can foster and validate such work. Most creative people, the author suggests, have dialectic personalities: smart yet naive, both extroverted and introverted, etc. Expanding on his previous book, Csikszentmihalyi suggests that complex and challenging work exemplifies fully engaged "flow." Synthesizing study results, he reports that none of the interviewees was popular during adolescence; while they were not necessarily more brilliant than their college peers, they displayed more "concentrated attention." Later, they kept a consistent focus on future work. The author reminds us that while individuals can make their own opportunities, a supportive society offering resources and rewards can foster creativity. His advice may sound like homilies-"Try to be surprised by something every day"-but is often worthy. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Bringing together 30 years of research, Csikszentmihalyi (psychology, Univ. of Chicago) describes this book as "an effort to make more understandable the mysterious process by which men and women come up with new ideas and new things." Utilizing the interviews garnered from 91 respondents (ranging from philosopher Mortimer Adler to biologist Edward O. Wilson to politician Eugene McCarthy), the author of the best-selling Flow (LJ 3/15/90) demonstrates the processes that these acknowledged creative thinkers and doers go through and the characteristics that make them stand out. He deals with what makes them and others like them "creative"?which he defines as "a process by which a symbolic domain in the culture is changed"?and how the conduct of their professional and personal lives illustrates these traits. Csikszentmihalyi also deals with creativity and aging and ways to enhance one''s own personal creativity. Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of the scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too. A welcome addition to both academic and public libraries.?David M. Turkalo, Suffolk Univ. Law Sch. Lib., Boston Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. A mostly fascinating look at what makes creative people who they are, gleaned largely from interviews with 91 individuals from a wide variety of fields. Despite the subtitle, social psychologist Csikszentmihalyi, who invented the idea of ``flow'''' and authored a book with that title, writes relatively little about the enjoyable, ego- and time- transcending absorption in a task that is conducive to creativity and high achievement. Rather, he focuses on the interplay between culture, the creative person, and the ``domain'''' (sociologese for ``field''''), including the receptivity of experts to new ideas and inventions. He quotes extensively--too much so--from the subjects he and his research team interviewed, but there are some gems among these passages, such as writer Madeleine L''Engle''s observation that to produce good literature, ``your intuition and your intellect should be working together . . . making love.'''' Csikszentmihalyi''s weakest section consists of detailing ten personality polarities that supposedly distinguish creative individuals, but that are also applicable to ``balanced'''' or ``fulfilled'''' individuals. His best sections consist of longer profiles of individuals as varied as poet Anthony Hecht, ecologist Barry Commoner, and astronomer Vera Rubin. Also valuable is a concluding prescriptive section with some helpful advice to the average person on how to make his or her thinking and way of living more creative, particularly a passage on how to rethink and use a disappointing experiences, such as being passed over for a promotion. Unfortunately, redundancies make the work too long by at least a third, and some meaningless or fatuous generalizations also mar the presentation (e.g., ``Recent studies suggest that the amount of dalliance, marital infidelity and sexual experimentation [among creative people studied] is much less than earlier estimates had suggested''''). Still, the rich anecdotal material Csikszentmihalyi has mined and analyzed make this an important study of a vital topic. ($40,000 ad/promo) -- Copyright Â©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. "Accessible and enjoyable reading." -- --Washington Times "Accessible and enjoyable reading.""--Washington Times""Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too.""--Library Journal (starred review)"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22103'),
(13178, 'Creatura', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25486'),
(13179, 'Creature', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest horror novel from consistently bestselling Saul ( Suffer the Children ; Hellfire ) is set in Silverdale, Colo., a company-town variation on Spielberg surburbia. There, conglomerate TarrenTech provides the high school teams with every advantage, including a high-tech sports clinic. Dr. Martin Ames beefs up the brawny, aggressive teenagers, and it''s to him that newcomer Sharon Tanner goes for answers when her gentle son Mark turns into a belligerent jock overnight. This slick, high-concept thriller, which might have been titled Stepford High , won''t surprise anyone, but it should please the author''s fans as it continues Saul''s focus on children as the vehicles and victims of unnatural forces. 100,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- An excellent example of the horror genre, although not as extreme as Stephen King. When Craig Tanner is offered a promotion by TarrenTech and the family moves to Silverdale, Colorado, everything seems perfect. It is a company town with quaint houses, little commercialization, and a community that supports its sports teams. Mark Tanner develops dramatically as an athlete after several sessions at the Rocky Mountain High sports center where the football players are given workouts. This is only the beginning of a training program that has some terrifying results. Creature will be widely read by athletes and sports fans.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Anne Paget, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4170'),
(13180, 'Creature', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest horror novel from consistently bestselling Saul ( Suffer the Children ; Hellfire ) is set in Silverdale, Colo., a company-town variation on Spielberg surburbia. There, conglomerate TarrenTech provides the high school teams with every advantage, including a high-tech sports clinic. Dr. Martin Ames beefs up the brawny, aggressive teenagers, and it''s to him that newcomer Sharon Tanner goes for answers when her gentle son Mark turns into a belligerent jock overnight. This slick, high-concept thriller, which might have been titled Stepford High , won''t surprise anyone, but it should please the author''s fans as it continues Saul''s focus on children as the vehicles and victims of unnatural forces. 100,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- An excellent example of the horror genre, although not as extreme as Stephen King. When Craig Tanner is offered a promotion by TarrenTech and the family moves to Silverdale, Colorado, everything seems perfect. It is a company town with quaint houses, little commercialization, and a community that supports its sports teams. Mark Tanner develops dramatically as an athlete after several sessions at the Rocky Mountain High sports center where the football players are given workouts. This is only the beginning of a training program that has some terrifying results. Creature will be widely read by athletes and sports fans.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Anne Paget, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12583'),
(13181, 'Creature', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest horror novel from consistently bestselling Saul ( Suffer the Children ; Hellfire ) is set in Silverdale, Colo., a company-town variation on Spielberg surburbia. There, conglomerate TarrenTech provides the high school teams with every advantage, including a high-tech sports clinic. Dr. Martin Ames beefs up the brawny, aggressive teenagers, and it''s to him that newcomer Sharon Tanner goes for answers when her gentle son Mark turns into a belligerent jock overnight. This slick, high-concept thriller, which might have been titled Stepford High , won''t surprise anyone, but it should please the author''s fans as it continues Saul''s focus on children as the vehicles and victims of unnatural forces. 100,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- An excellent example of the horror genre, although not as extreme as Stephen King. When Craig Tanner is offered a promotion by TarrenTech and the family moves to Silverdale, Colorado, everything seems perfect. It is a company town with quaint houses, little commercialization, and a community that supports its sports teams. Mark Tanner develops dramatically as an athlete after several sessions at the Rocky Mountain High sports center where the football players are given workouts. This is only the beginning of a training program that has some terrifying results. Creature will be widely read by athletes and sports fans.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Anne Paget, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20276'),
(13182, 'A Creed in Stone Creek', 'Linda Lael Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When single attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, he trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. Taking care of little Matt and fixing up his run-down ranch house with its old barn loosens something tightly wound inside him. But when Steven takes on the pro bono defense of a local teen, he meets his match in the opposing counselâ€”beautiful, by-the-book county prosecutor Melissa O''Ballivan. It''ll take one grieving little boy, a sweet adopted dog and a woman who never expected to win any man''s heart to make this Creed in Stone Creek know he''s truly found home.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some instinctâ€”or maybe just a stir of a breezeâ€”awakened Steven Creed; he sat up in bed, took a fraction of a moment to orient himself to unfamiliar surroundings. One by one, the mental tumblers clicked into place:\n</p>\n<p>\n Room 6. Happy Wanderer Motel and Campground. Stone Creek, Arizona.\n</p>\n<p>\n The door stood open to the fresh high-country air, which was crisply cool on this early June night, but not cold, and the little boyâ€”Steven''s newly adopted sonâ€” sat on the cement step outside. A bundleâ€”probably his favorite toy, a plush skunk named Fred, rolled up in his blanketâ€”rested beside him, and the boy''s tiny frame was rimmed in an aura of silvery-gold moonlight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Something tightened in Steven''s throat at the poignancy of the sight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Poor kid. It wasn''t hard to guess who he was waiting for. Matt was small, with his dad''s dark hair and his mother''s violet eyes, and he was exceptionally intelligentâ€”maybe even giftedâ€”but he was still only five years old.\n</p>\n<p>\n How could he be expected to comprehend that his folks, Zack and Jillie St. John, were gone for good? That they wouldn''t be coming to pick him up, no matter how hard he hoped or how many stars he wished on, that night or any other.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven''s eyes burned, and he had to swallow the hard ache that rose in his throat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jillie had succumbed to a particularly virulent form of breast cancer a year and a half ago, and Zack had only lasted a few months before the grief dragged him under, tooâ€”however indirectly.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hey, Tex," Steven said, trying to sound casual as he sat up on the thin, lumpy mattress of the foldout sofaâ€” he''d given the bed to the child when they checked in that evening. Steven shoved a hand through his own dark blond hair. "What''s the trouble?" His voice was hoarse. "Can''t sleep?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt looked back at him, shook his head instead of answering aloud.\n</p>\n<p>\n He looked even smaller than usual, sitting there in the expanse of that wide-open doorway.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven rolled out of bed, shirtless and barefoot, wearing a pair of black sweatpants that had seen better days.\n</p>\n<p>\n He crossed the scuffed linoleum floor, stepped over the threshold and sat down beside Matt on the step, interlacing his fingers, letting his elbows rest on his knees. There was enough of a chill in the air to raise goose bumps wherever his skin was bare, so he figured Matt had to be cold, too, sitting there in his cotton pajamas. With a sigh, Steven squinted to make out the winding sparkle of the nearby creek, sprinkled in starlight, edged by oak trees, with night-purple mountains for a backdrop.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt leaned into him a little, a gesture that further melted Steven''s already-bruised heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n Carefully, Steven put an arm around the boy, to lend not only reassurance, but warmth, too. "Having second thoughts about turning rancher this late in your life?" he teased, thinking he couldn''t have loved Matt any more if he''d been his own child, instead of his best friend''s.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the morning, Steven would attend the closing over at the Cattleman''s Bank, and sign the papers making him the legal owner of a fifty-acre spread with a sturdy though run-down two-story house and a good well but not much else going for it. The rickety fences had toppled over years ago, defeated by decades of heavy snow in winter and pounding rain come springtime, and the barn was unsalvageable. Yet something about the place had reached out to him and grabbed hold, just the same.\n</p>\n<p>\n The small ranch had been a home once, and it could be one again, with a lot of elbow greaseâ€”and a serious chunk of change. Fortunately, money wasn''t a problem for Steven, which wasn''t to say there weren''t plenty of other things to chap his figurative hide.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sometimes, he felt just as lost as Matt did.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt''s mouth quirked up at one side in a flimsy attempt at a smile, all the more touching because of the obvious effort involved. "I''m\n <em>\n  only\n </em>\n five years and three months old," he said, in belated reply to Steven''s question, in that oddly mature way of his. "It''s not late in my life, because my life just got\n <em>\n  started."\n </em>\n The little guy had skipped the baby-talk stage entirely; he hadn''t even\n <em>\n  tried\n </em>\n to talk until he was past two, but he''d spoken in full sentences from then on.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Five, huh?" Steven teased, raising one eyebrow. "If you weren''t so short, I''d say you were lying about your age. Come on, admit itâ€”you''re really somebody''s grandfather, posing as a kid."\n</p>\n<p>\n The joke, a well-worn favorite, fell flat. Matt''s small shoulders moved with the force of his sigh, and he leaned a little more heavily into Steven''s side.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Feeling lonesome?" Steven asked, after clearing his throat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt nodded, looking up at Steven. His eyes were huge and luminous in the predawn darkness. "I need a dog," the boy announced solemnly.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven chuckled, ruffled Matt''s hair, gleaming dark as a raven''s wing in the night. Relief swelled inside him, flailed behind his chest wall like a living thing doing its best to escape. A dog was something he could manage.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Soon as we''re settled," he promised, "we''ll visit the animal shelter and pick out a mutt."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Do they have ponies at the shelter, too?" The question cheered Steven; Matt was pushing the envelope, so to speak, and that had to be a good sign.\n</p>\n<p>\n They''d already had the pony discussionâ€”repeatedly.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You know the deal, Tex," he reminded the little boy quietly. "The fences need to be replaced before we can keep horses, and the barn, too."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt sighed again, deeply. "That might take a long time," he lamented, "since you''ll be working in town every day."\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven fully intended to settle down in Stone Creek, build a normal life for his young charge and for himself. And to him,\n <em>\n  normal\n </em>\n meant showing up somewhere on weekday mornings and putting in eight hoursâ€”whether he needed the paycheck or not.\n</p>\n<p>\n He''d had to fight just to get through high school, let alone prelaw in college, and then earn the graduate degree that had qualified him to take the bar examâ€”a frustrating variety of learning disorders had all but crippled him early in his life. Although they''d been corrected, thanks to several perceptive teachers, he''d had a lot of catching up to do.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still felt as if he was scrambling, some of the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven ruffled Matt''s hair. "Yep," he agreed. "I''ll be working."\n</p>\n<p>\n "What about me? Where will I be when you''re gone?"\n</p>\n<p>\n They''d already covered that ground, numerous times, but after everythingâ€”and everybodyâ€”the little guy had lost over the past couple of years, it wasn''t surprising that he needed almost constant reassurance. "You''ll be in day camp," Steven said. "Until you start first grade in the fall, anyhow."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt''s chin jutted out a little way, the angle obstinate and so reminiscent of Zack that the backs of Steven''s eyes stung again. Zack St. John had been his best friend since middle school, a popular athlete, excellent student and all-around good guy. Losing Jillie had been a terrible blow, knocking Zack for the proverbial loopâ€”he''d gone wild and finally died when, driving too fast down a narrow mountain road, he''d lost control somehow and laid his motorcycle down.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Couldn''t I just go to the office with you?" the boy asked, his voice even smaller than he was. "I might not like day camp. Anyhow, it''s summer. Who goes to day camp in\n <em>\n  summer?\n </em>\n "\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven sighed and got to his feet. "Lots of kids do," he said. "And you might just wind up thinking day camp is the greatest thing since 3D TV." He extended a hand. "Come on, Tex. Let''s get you back to bed. Tomorrow might be a long day, and you''ll need your rest."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt reached for the stuffed skunk, and wound up in the now-tattered blanket he always kept close at hand. Jillie had knitted that herself, especially to bring her and Zack''s infant son home from the hospital in, but the thing had been through some serious wear-and-tear since then.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven supposed that Matt was too old to be so attached to a baby blanket, but he didn''t have the heart to take it away.\n</p>\n<p>\n So he watched as the little boy got to his feet, trundled back inside, took a brief detour to the bathroom and then stood in the middle of the small room, looking forlorn.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Can I sleep with you?" he asked. "Just for tonight?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven tossed back the covers on the sofa bed and stretched out, resigned to the knowledge that he probably wouldn''t close his eyes again before the morning was right on top of him. "Yeah," he said. "Hop in."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt scrambled onto the bad mattress and squirmed a little before settling down.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven stretched to switch off the lamp on the bedside table.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks," Matt said, in the darkness.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''re welcome," Steven replied.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I dreamed about Mom and Dad," Matt confided, after a silence so long that Steven thought he''d gone to sleep. "They were coming to get me, in a big red truck. That''s why I was sitting on the step when you woke up. It took me a little while to figure out that it was just a dream."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I thought it was something like that," Steven said, when he could trust himself to speak.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I really miss them," Matt admitted.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Me, too," Steven agreed, his voice hoarse.\n</p>\n<p>\n "But we''re gonna make it, right? You and me? Because we''re pardners till the end?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven swallowed, blinked a couple of times, glad of the darkness. "Pardners till the end," he promised. "And we are definitely gonna make it."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Okay," Matt yawned, apparently satisfied. For the moment, anyhow. He''d ask again soon. "''Night."\n</p>\n<p>\n "''Night," Steven replied.\n</p>\n<p>\n Soon, the child was asleep.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eventually, though he would have bet it wouldn''t happen, Steven slept, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n Melissa O''Ballivan whipped her prized convertible roadster, cherry-red with plenty of gleaming chrome, up to the curb in front of the Sunflower Bakery and Cafe in downtown Stone Creek, shifted into Neutral and shoved open the door to jump out.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3385');
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(13183, 'A Creed in Stone Creek', 'Linda Lael Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When single attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, he trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. Taking care of little Matt and fixing up his run-down ranch house with its old barn loosens something tightly wound inside him. But when Steven takes on the pro bono defense of a local teen, he meets his match in the opposing counselâ€”beautiful, by-the-book county prosecutor Melissa O''Ballivan. It''ll take one grieving little boy, a sweet adopted dog and a woman who never expected to win any man''s heart to make this Creed in Stone Creek know he''s truly found home.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some instinctâ€”or maybe just a stir of a breezeâ€”awakened Steven Creed; he sat up in bed, took a fraction of a moment to orient himself to unfamiliar surroundings. One by one, the mental tumblers clicked into place:\n</p>\n<p>\n Room 6. Happy Wanderer Motel and Campground. Stone Creek, Arizona.\n</p>\n<p>\n The door stood open to the fresh high-country air, which was crisply cool on this early June night, but not cold, and the little boyâ€”Steven''s newly adopted sonâ€” sat on the cement step outside. A bundleâ€”probably his favorite toy, a plush skunk named Fred, rolled up in his blanketâ€”rested beside him, and the boy''s tiny frame was rimmed in an aura of silvery-gold moonlight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Something tightened in Steven''s throat at the poignancy of the sight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Poor kid. It wasn''t hard to guess who he was waiting for. Matt was small, with his dad''s dark hair and his mother''s violet eyes, and he was exceptionally intelligentâ€”maybe even giftedâ€”but he was still only five years old.\n</p>\n<p>\n How could he be expected to comprehend that his folks, Zack and Jillie St. John, were gone for good? That they wouldn''t be coming to pick him up, no matter how hard he hoped or how many stars he wished on, that night or any other.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven''s eyes burned, and he had to swallow the hard ache that rose in his throat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jillie had succumbed to a particularly virulent form of breast cancer a year and a half ago, and Zack had only lasted a few months before the grief dragged him under, tooâ€”however indirectly.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hey, Tex," Steven said, trying to sound casual as he sat up on the thin, lumpy mattress of the foldout sofaâ€” he''d given the bed to the child when they checked in that evening. Steven shoved a hand through his own dark blond hair. "What''s the trouble?" His voice was hoarse. "Can''t sleep?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt looked back at him, shook his head instead of answering aloud.\n</p>\n<p>\n He looked even smaller than usual, sitting there in the expanse of that wide-open doorway.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven rolled out of bed, shirtless and barefoot, wearing a pair of black sweatpants that had seen better days.\n</p>\n<p>\n He crossed the scuffed linoleum floor, stepped over the threshold and sat down beside Matt on the step, interlacing his fingers, letting his elbows rest on his knees. There was enough of a chill in the air to raise goose bumps wherever his skin was bare, so he figured Matt had to be cold, too, sitting there in his cotton pajamas. With a sigh, Steven squinted to make out the winding sparkle of the nearby creek, sprinkled in starlight, edged by oak trees, with night-purple mountains for a backdrop.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt leaned into him a little, a gesture that further melted Steven''s already-bruised heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n Carefully, Steven put an arm around the boy, to lend not only reassurance, but warmth, too. "Having second thoughts about turning rancher this late in your life?" he teased, thinking he couldn''t have loved Matt any more if he''d been his own child, instead of his best friend''s.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the morning, Steven would attend the closing over at the Cattleman''s Bank, and sign the papers making him the legal owner of a fifty-acre spread with a sturdy though run-down two-story house and a good well but not much else going for it. The rickety fences had toppled over years ago, defeated by decades of heavy snow in winter and pounding rain come springtime, and the barn was unsalvageable. Yet something about the place had reached out to him and grabbed hold, just the same.\n</p>\n<p>\n The small ranch had been a home once, and it could be one again, with a lot of elbow greaseâ€”and a serious chunk of change. Fortunately, money wasn''t a problem for Steven, which wasn''t to say there weren''t plenty of other things to chap his figurative hide.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sometimes, he felt just as lost as Matt did.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt''s mouth quirked up at one side in a flimsy attempt at a smile, all the more touching because of the obvious effort involved. "I''m\n <em>\n  only\n </em>\n five years and three months old," he said, in belated reply to Steven''s question, in that oddly mature way of his. "It''s not late in my life, because my life just got\n <em>\n  started."\n </em>\n The little guy had skipped the baby-talk stage entirely; he hadn''t even\n <em>\n  tried\n </em>\n to talk until he was past two, but he''d spoken in full sentences from then on.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Five, huh?" Steven teased, raising one eyebrow. "If you weren''t so short, I''d say you were lying about your age. Come on, admit itâ€”you''re really somebody''s grandfather, posing as a kid."\n</p>\n<p>\n The joke, a well-worn favorite, fell flat. Matt''s small shoulders moved with the force of his sigh, and he leaned a little more heavily into Steven''s side.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Feeling lonesome?" Steven asked, after clearing his throat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt nodded, looking up at Steven. His eyes were huge and luminous in the predawn darkness. "I need a dog," the boy announced solemnly.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven chuckled, ruffled Matt''s hair, gleaming dark as a raven''s wing in the night. Relief swelled inside him, flailed behind his chest wall like a living thing doing its best to escape. A dog was something he could manage.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Soon as we''re settled," he promised, "we''ll visit the animal shelter and pick out a mutt."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Do they have ponies at the shelter, too?" The question cheered Steven; Matt was pushing the envelope, so to speak, and that had to be a good sign.\n</p>\n<p>\n They''d already had the pony discussionâ€”repeatedly.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You know the deal, Tex," he reminded the little boy quietly. "The fences need to be replaced before we can keep horses, and the barn, too."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt sighed again, deeply. "That might take a long time," he lamented, "since you''ll be working in town every day."\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven fully intended to settle down in Stone Creek, build a normal life for his young charge and for himself. And to him,\n <em>\n  normal\n </em>\n meant showing up somewhere on weekday mornings and putting in eight hoursâ€”whether he needed the paycheck or not.\n</p>\n<p>\n He''d had to fight just to get through high school, let alone prelaw in college, and then earn the graduate degree that had qualified him to take the bar examâ€”a frustrating variety of learning disorders had all but crippled him early in his life. Although they''d been corrected, thanks to several perceptive teachers, he''d had a lot of catching up to do.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still felt as if he was scrambling, some of the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven ruffled Matt''s hair. "Yep," he agreed. "I''ll be working."\n</p>\n<p>\n "What about me? Where will I be when you''re gone?"\n</p>\n<p>\n They''d already covered that ground, numerous times, but after everythingâ€”and everybodyâ€”the little guy had lost over the past couple of years, it wasn''t surprising that he needed almost constant reassurance. "You''ll be in day camp," Steven said. "Until you start first grade in the fall, anyhow."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt''s chin jutted out a little way, the angle obstinate and so reminiscent of Zack that the backs of Steven''s eyes stung again. Zack St. John had been his best friend since middle school, a popular athlete, excellent student and all-around good guy. Losing Jillie had been a terrible blow, knocking Zack for the proverbial loopâ€”he''d gone wild and finally died when, driving too fast down a narrow mountain road, he''d lost control somehow and laid his motorcycle down.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Couldn''t I just go to the office with you?" the boy asked, his voice even smaller than he was. "I might not like day camp. Anyhow, it''s summer. Who goes to day camp in\n <em>\n  summer?\n </em>\n "\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven sighed and got to his feet. "Lots of kids do," he said. "And you might just wind up thinking day camp is the greatest thing since 3D TV." He extended a hand. "Come on, Tex. Let''s get you back to bed. Tomorrow might be a long day, and you''ll need your rest."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt reached for the stuffed skunk, and wound up in the now-tattered blanket he always kept close at hand. Jillie had knitted that herself, especially to bring her and Zack''s infant son home from the hospital in, but the thing had been through some serious wear-and-tear since then.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven supposed that Matt was too old to be so attached to a baby blanket, but he didn''t have the heart to take it away.\n</p>\n<p>\n So he watched as the little boy got to his feet, trundled back inside, took a brief detour to the bathroom and then stood in the middle of the small room, looking forlorn.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Can I sleep with you?" he asked. "Just for tonight?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven tossed back the covers on the sofa bed and stretched out, resigned to the knowledge that he probably wouldn''t close his eyes again before the morning was right on top of him. "Yeah," he said. "Hop in."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt scrambled onto the bad mattress and squirmed a little before settling down.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven stretched to switch off the lamp on the bedside table.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks," Matt said, in the darkness.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''re welcome," Steven replied.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I dreamed about Mom and Dad," Matt confided, after a silence so long that Steven thought he''d gone to sleep. "They were coming to get me, in a big red truck. That''s why I was sitting on the step when you woke up. It took me a little while to figure out that it was just a dream."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I thought it was something like that," Steven said, when he could trust himself to speak.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I really miss them," Matt admitted.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Me, too," Steven agreed, his voice hoarse.\n</p>\n<p>\n "But we''re gonna make it, right? You and me? Because we''re pardners till the end?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven swallowed, blinked a couple of times, glad of the darkness. "Pardners till the end," he promised. "And we are definitely gonna make it."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Okay," Matt yawned, apparently satisfied. For the moment, anyhow. He''d ask again soon. "''Night."\n</p>\n<p>\n "''Night," Steven replied.\n</p>\n<p>\n Soon, the child was asleep.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eventually, though he would have bet it wouldn''t happen, Steven slept, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n Melissa O''Ballivan whipped her prized convertible roadster, cherry-red with plenty of gleaming chrome, up to the curb in front of the Sunflower Bakery and Cafe in downtown Stone Creek, shifted into Neutral and shoved open the door to jump out.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11427'),
(13184, 'A Creed in Stone Creek', 'Linda Lael Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When single attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, he trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. Taking care of little Matt and fixing up his run-down ranch house with its old barn loosens something tightly wound inside him. But when Steven takes on the pro bono defense of a local teen, he meets his match in the opposing counselâ€”beautiful, by-the-book county prosecutor Melissa O''Ballivan. It''ll take one grieving little boy, a sweet adopted dog and a woman who never expected to win any man''s heart to make this Creed in Stone Creek know he''s truly found home.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some instinctâ€”or maybe just a stir of a breezeâ€”awakened Steven Creed; he sat up in bed, took a fraction of a moment to orient himself to unfamiliar surroundings. One by one, the mental tumblers clicked into place:\n</p>\n<p>\n Room 6. Happy Wanderer Motel and Campground. Stone Creek, Arizona.\n</p>\n<p>\n The door stood open to the fresh high-country air, which was crisply cool on this early June night, but not cold, and the little boyâ€”Steven''s newly adopted sonâ€” sat on the cement step outside. A bundleâ€”probably his favorite toy, a plush skunk named Fred, rolled up in his blanketâ€”rested beside him, and the boy''s tiny frame was rimmed in an aura of silvery-gold moonlight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Something tightened in Steven''s throat at the poignancy of the sight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Poor kid. It wasn''t hard to guess who he was waiting for. Matt was small, with his dad''s dark hair and his mother''s violet eyes, and he was exceptionally intelligentâ€”maybe even giftedâ€”but he was still only five years old.\n</p>\n<p>\n How could he be expected to comprehend that his folks, Zack and Jillie St. John, were gone for good? That they wouldn''t be coming to pick him up, no matter how hard he hoped or how many stars he wished on, that night or any other.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven''s eyes burned, and he had to swallow the hard ache that rose in his throat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Jillie had succumbed to a particularly virulent form of breast cancer a year and a half ago, and Zack had only lasted a few months before the grief dragged him under, tooâ€”however indirectly.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hey, Tex," Steven said, trying to sound casual as he sat up on the thin, lumpy mattress of the foldout sofaâ€” he''d given the bed to the child when they checked in that evening. Steven shoved a hand through his own dark blond hair. "What''s the trouble?" His voice was hoarse. "Can''t sleep?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt looked back at him, shook his head instead of answering aloud.\n</p>\n<p>\n He looked even smaller than usual, sitting there in the expanse of that wide-open doorway.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven rolled out of bed, shirtless and barefoot, wearing a pair of black sweatpants that had seen better days.\n</p>\n<p>\n He crossed the scuffed linoleum floor, stepped over the threshold and sat down beside Matt on the step, interlacing his fingers, letting his elbows rest on his knees. There was enough of a chill in the air to raise goose bumps wherever his skin was bare, so he figured Matt had to be cold, too, sitting there in his cotton pajamas. With a sigh, Steven squinted to make out the winding sparkle of the nearby creek, sprinkled in starlight, edged by oak trees, with night-purple mountains for a backdrop.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt leaned into him a little, a gesture that further melted Steven''s already-bruised heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n Carefully, Steven put an arm around the boy, to lend not only reassurance, but warmth, too. "Having second thoughts about turning rancher this late in your life?" he teased, thinking he couldn''t have loved Matt any more if he''d been his own child, instead of his best friend''s.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the morning, Steven would attend the closing over at the Cattleman''s Bank, and sign the papers making him the legal owner of a fifty-acre spread with a sturdy though run-down two-story house and a good well but not much else going for it. The rickety fences had toppled over years ago, defeated by decades of heavy snow in winter and pounding rain come springtime, and the barn was unsalvageable. Yet something about the place had reached out to him and grabbed hold, just the same.\n</p>\n<p>\n The small ranch had been a home once, and it could be one again, with a lot of elbow greaseâ€”and a serious chunk of change. Fortunately, money wasn''t a problem for Steven, which wasn''t to say there weren''t plenty of other things to chap his figurative hide.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sometimes, he felt just as lost as Matt did.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt''s mouth quirked up at one side in a flimsy attempt at a smile, all the more touching because of the obvious effort involved. "I''m\n <em>\n  only\n </em>\n five years and three months old," he said, in belated reply to Steven''s question, in that oddly mature way of his. "It''s not late in my life, because my life just got\n <em>\n  started."\n </em>\n The little guy had skipped the baby-talk stage entirely; he hadn''t even\n <em>\n  tried\n </em>\n to talk until he was past two, but he''d spoken in full sentences from then on.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Five, huh?" Steven teased, raising one eyebrow. "If you weren''t so short, I''d say you were lying about your age. Come on, admit itâ€”you''re really somebody''s grandfather, posing as a kid."\n</p>\n<p>\n The joke, a well-worn favorite, fell flat. Matt''s small shoulders moved with the force of his sigh, and he leaned a little more heavily into Steven''s side.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Feeling lonesome?" Steven asked, after clearing his throat.\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt nodded, looking up at Steven. His eyes were huge and luminous in the predawn darkness. "I need a dog," the boy announced solemnly.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven chuckled, ruffled Matt''s hair, gleaming dark as a raven''s wing in the night. Relief swelled inside him, flailed behind his chest wall like a living thing doing its best to escape. A dog was something he could manage.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Soon as we''re settled," he promised, "we''ll visit the animal shelter and pick out a mutt."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Do they have ponies at the shelter, too?" The question cheered Steven; Matt was pushing the envelope, so to speak, and that had to be a good sign.\n</p>\n<p>\n They''d already had the pony discussionâ€”repeatedly.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You know the deal, Tex," he reminded the little boy quietly. "The fences need to be replaced before we can keep horses, and the barn, too."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt sighed again, deeply. "That might take a long time," he lamented, "since you''ll be working in town every day."\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven fully intended to settle down in Stone Creek, build a normal life for his young charge and for himself. And to him,\n <em>\n  normal\n </em>\n meant showing up somewhere on weekday mornings and putting in eight hoursâ€”whether he needed the paycheck or not.\n</p>\n<p>\n He''d had to fight just to get through high school, let alone prelaw in college, and then earn the graduate degree that had qualified him to take the bar examâ€”a frustrating variety of learning disorders had all but crippled him early in his life. Although they''d been corrected, thanks to several perceptive teachers, he''d had a lot of catching up to do.\n</p>\n<p>\n Still felt as if he was scrambling, some of the time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven ruffled Matt''s hair. "Yep," he agreed. "I''ll be working."\n</p>\n<p>\n "What about me? Where will I be when you''re gone?"\n</p>\n<p>\n They''d already covered that ground, numerous times, but after everythingâ€”and everybodyâ€”the little guy had lost over the past couple of years, it wasn''t surprising that he needed almost constant reassurance. "You''ll be in day camp," Steven said. "Until you start first grade in the fall, anyhow."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt''s chin jutted out a little way, the angle obstinate and so reminiscent of Zack that the backs of Steven''s eyes stung again. Zack St. John had been his best friend since middle school, a popular athlete, excellent student and all-around good guy. Losing Jillie had been a terrible blow, knocking Zack for the proverbial loopâ€”he''d gone wild and finally died when, driving too fast down a narrow mountain road, he''d lost control somehow and laid his motorcycle down.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Couldn''t I just go to the office with you?" the boy asked, his voice even smaller than he was. "I might not like day camp. Anyhow, it''s summer. Who goes to day camp in\n <em>\n  summer?\n </em>\n "\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven sighed and got to his feet. "Lots of kids do," he said. "And you might just wind up thinking day camp is the greatest thing since 3D TV." He extended a hand. "Come on, Tex. Let''s get you back to bed. Tomorrow might be a long day, and you''ll need your rest."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt reached for the stuffed skunk, and wound up in the now-tattered blanket he always kept close at hand. Jillie had knitted that herself, especially to bring her and Zack''s infant son home from the hospital in, but the thing had been through some serious wear-and-tear since then.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven supposed that Matt was too old to be so attached to a baby blanket, but he didn''t have the heart to take it away.\n</p>\n<p>\n So he watched as the little boy got to his feet, trundled back inside, took a brief detour to the bathroom and then stood in the middle of the small room, looking forlorn.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Can I sleep with you?" he asked. "Just for tonight?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven tossed back the covers on the sofa bed and stretched out, resigned to the knowledge that he probably wouldn''t close his eyes again before the morning was right on top of him. "Yeah," he said. "Hop in."\n</p>\n<p>\n Matt scrambled onto the bad mattress and squirmed a little before settling down.\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven stretched to switch off the lamp on the bedside table.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thanks," Matt said, in the darkness.\n</p>\n<p>\n "You''re welcome," Steven replied.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I dreamed about Mom and Dad," Matt confided, after a silence so long that Steven thought he''d gone to sleep. "They were coming to get me, in a big red truck. That''s why I was sitting on the step when you woke up. It took me a little while to figure out that it was just a dream."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I thought it was something like that," Steven said, when he could trust himself to speak.\n</p>\n<p>\n "I really miss them," Matt admitted.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Me, too," Steven agreed, his voice hoarse.\n</p>\n<p>\n "But we''re gonna make it, right? You and me? Because we''re pardners till the end?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Steven swallowed, blinked a couple of times, glad of the darkness. "Pardners till the end," he promised. "And we are definitely gonna make it."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Okay," Matt yawned, apparently satisfied. For the moment, anyhow. He''d ask again soon. "''Night."\n</p>\n<p>\n "''Night," Steven replied.\n</p>\n<p>\n Soon, the child was asleep.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eventually, though he would have bet it wouldn''t happen, Steven slept, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n Melissa O''Ballivan whipped her prized convertible roadster, cherry-red with plenty of gleaming chrome, up to the curb in front of the Sunflower Bakery and Cafe in downtown Stone Creek, shifted into Neutral and shoved open the door to jump out.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21132'),
(13185, 'The Creed of Violence', 'Boston Teran', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Teran''s cinematic fifth novel portrays the 1910 Mexican revolution via the gun sights of an unlikely duo: Rawbone, a hardened smalltime assassin, and John Lourdes, a Bureau of Investigation agent. The two are thrown together when Rawbone is caught smuggling munitions from Texas into Mexico and Rawbone''s lawyer arranges a deal: immunity in exchange for Rawbone sharing his criminal intel. A bargain is struck, with Lourdes assigned to accompany Rawbone into the Mexican underground. The twist: Lourdes, unknown to everyone but himself, is Rawbone''s son. As the two men make their way through a snake''s nest of smugglers, thugs and professional killers, Lourdes must suppress the angst he feels toward his father and focus on surviving another day. While this bit of dramatic irony quickly wears thin, father and son share a sharp wit, cunning instinct and thirst for adventure that make this spy mission the very definition of a thrill. Teran''s fast-paced prose reads like it was written for the big screen (Universal scooped up the film rights), and even if the moralizing about U.S. foreign intervention gets heavy-handed, this remains an intelligent page-turner.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Creed of Violence\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "Boston Teran''s The Creed of Violence is a terrific story and beautifully written. It works as a story about imperialism, and it''s also a touching tale of fathers, sons and one very bad man''s attempts at regeneration. But most of all it''s exciting and tense and you''ll probably read it, as I did, in one great sitting." â€”Robert Ward, author of\n <em>\n  Red Baker\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Four Kinds of Rain\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTeranâ€™s considerable skills sneakily transform his characters, who use language like a concealed weapon. His Rawbone, a raconteur straddling the gutter between the old West and belle Ã©poque, is a Manila line braided with wit, cold-blooded efficiency, and a surprisingly expansive soulâ€”a romantic cynic too wise to misinterpret derision for insight. The hallucinogenic epic he traverses with young John Lourdes produces one of the most exciting literary pairings since Fagin met Twist.â€ â€”Todd Field\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  God Is a Bullet\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRanks with Joan Didionâ€™s\n <em>\n  The White Album\n </em>\n . . . and John Fordâ€™s classic film\n <em>\n  The Searchers\n </em>\n .â€ â€”_The San Francisco Examiner_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA millennial morality play . . . that might well have been written by William Blake [and] James Ellroy . . . if theyâ€™d all sat around with a few gallons of absinthe.â€ â€”_Dallas Morning Herald_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Never Count Out the Dead\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCements Teranâ€™s talent as a . . . virtuoso.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7200'),
(13186, 'The Creed of Violence', 'Boston Teran', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Teran''s cinematic fifth novel portrays the 1910 Mexican revolution via the gun sights of an unlikely duo: Rawbone, a hardened smalltime assassin, and John Lourdes, a Bureau of Investigation agent. The two are thrown together when Rawbone is caught smuggling munitions from Texas into Mexico and Rawbone''s lawyer arranges a deal: immunity in exchange for Rawbone sharing his criminal intel. A bargain is struck, with Lourdes assigned to accompany Rawbone into the Mexican underground. The twist: Lourdes, unknown to everyone but himself, is Rawbone''s son. As the two men make their way through a snake''s nest of smugglers, thugs and professional killers, Lourdes must suppress the angst he feels toward his father and focus on surviving another day. While this bit of dramatic irony quickly wears thin, father and son share a sharp wit, cunning instinct and thirst for adventure that make this spy mission the very definition of a thrill. Teran''s fast-paced prose reads like it was written for the big screen (Universal scooped up the film rights), and even if the moralizing about U.S. foreign intervention gets heavy-handed, this remains an intelligent page-turner.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Creed of Violence\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "Boston Teran''s The Creed of Violence is a terrific story and beautifully written. It works as a story about imperialism, and it''s also a touching tale of fathers, sons and one very bad man''s attempts at regeneration. But most of all it''s exciting and tense and you''ll probably read it, as I did, in one great sitting." â€”Robert Ward, author of\n <em>\n  Red Baker\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Four Kinds of Rain\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTeranâ€™s considerable skills sneakily transform his characters, who use language like a concealed weapon. His Rawbone, a raconteur straddling the gutter between the old West and belle Ã©poque, is a Manila line braided with wit, cold-blooded efficiency, and a surprisingly expansive soulâ€”a romantic cynic too wise to misinterpret derision for insight. The hallucinogenic epic he traverses with young John Lourdes produces one of the most exciting literary pairings since Fagin met Twist.â€ â€”Todd Field\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  God Is a Bullet\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRanks with Joan Didionâ€™s\n <em>\n  The White Album\n </em>\n . . . and John Fordâ€™s classic film\n <em>\n  The Searchers\n </em>\n .â€ â€”_The San Francisco Examiner_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA millennial morality play . . . that might well have been written by William Blake [and] James Ellroy . . . if theyâ€™d all sat around with a few gallons of absinthe.â€ â€”_Dallas Morning Herald_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Never Count Out the Dead\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCements Teranâ€™s talent as a . . . virtuoso.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12975'),
(13187, 'The Creed of Violence', 'Boston Teran', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Teran''s cinematic fifth novel portrays the 1910 Mexican revolution via the gun sights of an unlikely duo: Rawbone, a hardened smalltime assassin, and John Lourdes, a Bureau of Investigation agent. The two are thrown together when Rawbone is caught smuggling munitions from Texas into Mexico and Rawbone''s lawyer arranges a deal: immunity in exchange for Rawbone sharing his criminal intel. A bargain is struck, with Lourdes assigned to accompany Rawbone into the Mexican underground. The twist: Lourdes, unknown to everyone but himself, is Rawbone''s son. As the two men make their way through a snake''s nest of smugglers, thugs and professional killers, Lourdes must suppress the angst he feels toward his father and focus on surviving another day. While this bit of dramatic irony quickly wears thin, father and son share a sharp wit, cunning instinct and thirst for adventure that make this spy mission the very definition of a thrill. Teran''s fast-paced prose reads like it was written for the big screen (Universal scooped up the film rights), and even if the moralizing about U.S. foreign intervention gets heavy-handed, this remains an intelligent page-turner.\n <em>\n  (Nov.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  The Creed of Violence\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n "Boston Teran''s The Creed of Violence is a terrific story and beautifully written. It works as a story about imperialism, and it''s also a touching tale of fathers, sons and one very bad man''s attempts at regeneration. But most of all it''s exciting and tense and you''ll probably read it, as I did, in one great sitting." â€”Robert Ward, author of\n <em>\n  Red Baker\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Four Kinds of Rain\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTeranâ€™s considerable skills sneakily transform his characters, who use language like a concealed weapon. His Rawbone, a raconteur straddling the gutter between the old West and belle Ã©poque, is a Manila line braided with wit, cold-blooded efficiency, and a surprisingly expansive soulâ€”a romantic cynic too wise to misinterpret derision for insight. The hallucinogenic epic he traverses with young John Lourdes produces one of the most exciting literary pairings since Fagin met Twist.â€ â€”Todd Field\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  God Is a Bullet\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRanks with Joan Didionâ€™s\n <em>\n  The White Album\n </em>\n . . . and John Fordâ€™s classic film\n <em>\n  The Searchers\n </em>\n .â€ â€”_The San Francisco Examiner_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA millennial morality play . . . that might well have been written by William Blake [and] James Ellroy . . . if theyâ€™d all sat around with a few gallons of absinthe.â€ â€”_Dallas Morning Herald_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Never Count Out the Dead\n </em>\n :\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCements Teranâ€™s talent as a . . . virtuoso.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16660'),
(13188, 'Creekers', 'Edward Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n They''re called Creekers. Centuries old, driven by rage and lust for revenge, they move through the deep, dark woodsâ€” deformed, shadowy outcasts with twisted faces and blood-red eyes. Now, as the moon hangs low over their ancient house, they''re gathering for a harvest of terror and death Crick City will never forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18583'),
(13189, 'Creepers', 'Robert Craig', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1708'),
(13190, 'Creepers', 'David Morrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n On a chilly October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into an abandoned hotel nearby. Built during the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure, which foreshadowed the beauties of Art Deco architecture, is now a decrepit, boarded up edifice marked for demolition. The five are "creepers", the slang term for urban explorers â€“ city archaeologists of sorts who go into abandoned buildings to uncover their secrets. And, on this evening they are joined by a reporter who wants to profile them â€“ anonymously, as this is highly illegal activity â€“ for a New York Times piece. Balenger, the sandy-haired, broad-shouldered reporter with a decided air of mystery about him, isn''t looking for just a story, however. And, soon after the group sets forth into the rat-infested tunnel leading to the building, it is clear that he will get even more than he bargained for. Danger, terror and death are awaiting the creepers in a place ravaged by time and redolent of evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14534'),
(13191, 'Creepers', 'Robert Craig', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23192'),
(13192, 'Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna now. Although once he had been themost valorus of knights--that is, until he was betrayed by two wily magicians and the woman he loves. Now, if he only can remember how he was killed, he''ll be able to reassemble his body. And he is getting impatient....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1997'),
(13193, 'Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna now. Although once he had been themost valorus of knights--that is, until he was betrayed by two wily magicians and the woman he loves. Now, if he only can remember how he was killed, he''ll be able to reassemble his body. And he is getting impatient....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22713'),
(13194, 'Criers &amp; Kibitzers, Kibitzers &amp; Criers', 'Stanley Elkin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Virtually any story in this collection contains more art than 98% of the thousands of novels published in this country in the past five years. Elkin''s stories are fully realized expressions of the comic sense of tragedy. (_Life_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n I''ve spent days reading (and rereading) these superb stories. There are indeed some giants in the English language, and I now count Elkin among them. (_New Republic_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n These nine stories have no missteps, nothing that does not contribute to the artfulness of the storytelling. (_Chicago Tribune_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n Stanley Elkin is one of the bigs of American comic fiction, which puts him in a small room with wonderful company. His work is funny and moral and wildly adventurous, and this early rambunctious collection will please admirers of\n <em>\n  The Dick Gibson Show\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Living End\n </em>\n . (Garrison Keillor )\n</p>\n<p>\n A master storyteller of formidable imagination and stunning insight. His stories sparkle. (_National Observer_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n Stanley Elkin has a remarkable talent, composed of many important virtues: originality, wit, insight, an unusually sharp eye for irony, verbal exuberance, precision, detachment. I did not read one of his nine stories without absorption, even renewed expectation. (_The New York Times Book Review_ )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "This imagination of Elkin''s sneaks up, tickles, surprises, shocks and kills. It makes stories that are deadly funny."â€”_The New York Times_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n These nine stories reveal a dazzling variety of styles, tones and subject matter. Among them are some of Stanley Elkin''s finest, including the fabulistic "On a Field, Rampant," the farcical "Perlmutter at the East Pole," and the stylized "A Poetics for Bullies." Despite the diversity of their form and matter, each of these stories shares Elkin''s nimble, comic, antic imagination, a dedication to the value of form and language, and a concern with a single theme: the tragic inadequacy of a simplistic response to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9520'),
(13195, 'Crima Olgai Arberova', 'Andrei Makine', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26084'),
(13196, 'Crima si pedeapsa', 'Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25842'),
(13197, 'Crime and Punishment', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky''s own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor. This new edition of the authoritative and readable Coulson translation comes with a challenging new introduction and notes that elucidate many of the novel''s most important--and difficult--aspects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5474'),
(13198, 'Crime and Punishment', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky''s own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor. This new edition of the authoritative and readable Coulson translation comes with a challenging new introduction and notes that elucidate many of the novel''s most important--and difficult--aspects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10890'),
(13199, 'Crime and Punishment', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky''s own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor. This new edition of the authoritative and readable Coulson translation comes with a challenging new introduction and notes that elucidate many of the novel''s most important--and difficult--aspects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15140'),
(13200, 'Crime and Punishment', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky''s own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor. This new edition of the authoritative and readable Coulson translation comes with a challenging new introduction and notes that elucidate many of the novel''s most important--and difficult--aspects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19133'),
(13201, 'Crime and Punishment', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky''s own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor. This new edition of the authoritative and readable Coulson translation comes with a challenging new introduction and notes that elucidate many of the novel''s most important--and difficult--aspects.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27911'),
(13202, 'Crime and Punishment in American History', 'Lawrence M. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3499'),
(13203, 'Crime and Punishment in American History', 'Lawrence M. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9782'),
(13204, 'Crime and Punishment in American History', 'Lawrence M. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21058'),
(13205, 'Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly''s first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath. Connelly''s firsthand observations would lend inspiration to his novels, from The Black Echo, which was drawn from a real-life bank heist, to Trunk Music, based on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of his Rolls Royce. And the vital details of his best-known characters, both heroes and villains, would be drawn from the cops and killers he reported on: from loner detective Harry Bosch to the manipulative serial killer the Poet. Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, these pieces show once again that Michael Connelly is not only a master of his craft, but also one of the great American writers in any form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2893'),
(13206, 'Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly''s first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath. Connelly''s firsthand observations would lend inspiration to his novels, from The Black Echo, which was drawn from a real-life bank heist, to Trunk Music, based on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of his Rolls Royce. And the vital details of his best-known characters, both heroes and villains, would be drawn from the cops and killers he reported on: from loner detective Harry Bosch to the manipulative serial killer the Poet. Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, these pieces show once again that Michael Connelly is not only a master of his craft, but also one of the great American writers in any form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8950'),
(13207, 'Crime beat: a decade of covering cops and killers', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly''s first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath. Connelly''s firsthand observations would lend inspiration to his novels, from The Black Echo, which was drawn from a real-life bank heist, to Trunk Music, based on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of his Rolls Royce. And the vital details of his best-known characters, both heroes and villains, would be drawn from the cops and killers he reported on: from loner detective Harry Bosch to the manipulative serial killer the Poet. Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, these pieces show once again that Michael Connelly is not only a master of his craft, but also one of the great American writers in any form.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21980'),
(13208, 'Crime Scene', 'Rick R. Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After discovering a photograph in a book of a little girl killed by her own mother, a woman becomes preoccupied wondering how anyone could kill their own child. One hot summer day the answer becomes all too violently clear. A short pysychological thriller from our Fingerprints line.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1778'),
(13209, 'Crime Scene', 'Rick R. Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After discovering a photograph in a book of a little girl killed by her own mother, a woman becomes preoccupied wondering how anyone could kill their own child. One hot summer day the answer becomes all too violently clear. A short pysychological thriller from our Fingerprints line.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12121'),
(13210, 'Crime Scene', 'Rick R. Reed', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n After discovering a photograph in a book of a little girl killed by her own mother, a woman becomes preoccupied wondering how anyone could kill their own child. One hot summer day the answer becomes all too violently clear. A short pysychological thriller from our Fingerprints line.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24879'),
(13211, 'Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch', 'B.J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n After Hudson Savage betrayed her, Dana Cardwell hoped never to lay eyes on the seductive cowboy again. Until a bunch of old bones showed up on her family ranch. Suddenly her former lover was back in her life in a big wayâ€”to investigate a decades-old crime.\n</p>\n<p>\n Five years ago, Hud left town with a heart load of regrets. But now, as acting interim marshal, he had a job to do. And this time he wasn''t walking away. Because now Dana''s life was on the lineâ€”as the unsuspecting target of a killer who still walked the canyon. Hud would do whatever it took to keep Dana close. Even if it meant risking his own heart for a second chance for both of them....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7320');
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(13212, 'Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch', 'B.J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n After Hudson Savage betrayed her, Dana Cardwell hoped never to lay eyes on the seductive cowboy again. Until a bunch of old bones showed up on her family ranch. Suddenly her former lover was back in her life in a big wayâ€”to investigate a decades-old crime.\n</p>\n<p>\n Five years ago, Hud left town with a heart load of regrets. But now, as acting interim marshal, he had a job to do. And this time he wasn''t walking away. Because now Dana''s life was on the lineâ€”as the unsuspecting target of a killer who still walked the canyon. Hud would do whatever it took to keep Dana close. Even if it meant risking his own heart for a second chance for both of them....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9180'),
(13213, 'Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch', 'B.J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n After Hudson Savage betrayed her, Dana Cardwell hoped never to lay eyes on the seductive cowboy again. Until a bunch of old bones showed up on her family ranch. Suddenly her former lover was back in her life in a big wayâ€”to investigate a decades-old crime.\n</p>\n<p>\n Five years ago, Hud left town with a heart load of regrets. But now, as acting interim marshal, he had a job to do. And this time he wasn''t walking away. Because now Dana''s life was on the lineâ€”as the unsuspecting target of a killer who still walked the canyon. Hud would do whatever it took to keep Dana close. Even if it meant risking his own heart for a second chance for both of them....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16484'),
(13214, 'Crime Wave', 'James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Los Angeles.  In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field.  And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy.  With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded netherworld where"every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, or pimp."From the scandal sheets of the 1950s to this morning''s police blotter, Ellroy reopens true crimes and restores human dimensions to their victims.  Sublimely, he resurrects the rag Hush-Hush magazine.  And in a baroquely plotted novella of slaughter and corruption he enlists the forgotten luminaries of a lost Hollywood.  Shocking, mesmerizing, and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick, Crime Wave is Ellroy at his best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18194'),
(13215, 'Crimele din Baltimore', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26039'),
(13216, 'Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection', 'Dorothy Hoobler &amp; Thomas Hoobler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. But the City of Light was also a violent place. Criminals eagerly took advantage of the inventive nature of the age-the first getaway car, increasingly dangerous weapons, more creative disguises. The police battled back with a weapon of their own: Alphonse Bertillon, the world''s greatest detective, the inventor of the mug shot and the crime-scene photo, and a brilliant innovator who pioneered the new science of criminal investigation.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then on August 21, 1911, came a crime like none other: Leonardo da Vinci''s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. It was assumed that Bertillon would quickly solve the mystery and retrieve the painting.\n</p>\n<p>\n It would not be so simple.\n</p>\n<p>\n In The Crimes of Paris, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler tell the gripping story of the theft and the investigation that followed. Bertillon and his associates would pursue clues leading them into the world of avant-garde artists, cheap apartments in Montmartre and Montparnasse, cabarets, and from this first great mystery into yet others. Their suspects would be everyone from the poet Guillaume Apollinaire to J. P. Morgan to Pablo Picasso.\n</p>\n<p>\n A vivid tapestry of Paris, daring thieves, and relentless investigators, The Crimes of Paris is a heart-pounding true-crime thriller of the highest order, as well as a brilliant account of the modern detective.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9445'),
(13217, 'Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System', 'Paul Bergman; Sara J. Berman-Barrett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Quite simply, this volume should be on everybody''s bookshelf... Bergman and Berman-Barrett have created a guided tour of the criminal justice system -- intended both for the curious and for those who find themselves caught up in it." --\n <em>\n  The Crime &amp; Punishment Guide, About.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This easy-to-understand book contains everything you need to know about criminal law. Indispensable for anyone who wants to understand exactly what goes on in a criminal case." --\n <em>\n  Roger Cossack, Legal Analyst\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Written for the average person who needs to know how to navigate the complex maze of the criminal justice system." --\n <em>\n  Freelance Writer''s Report\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Quite simply, this volume should be on everybody''s bookshelf... Bergman and Berman have created a guided tour of the criminal justice system -- intended both for the curious and for those who find themselves caught up in it."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21538'),
(13218, 'The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System', 'Paul Bergman &amp; Sara J. Berman-Barrett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Quite simply, this volume should be on everybody''s bookshelf... Bergman and Berman-Barrett have created a guided tour of the criminal justice system -- intended both for the curious and for those who find themselves caught up in it." --\n <em>\n  The Crime &amp; Punishment Guide, About.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This easy-to-understand book contains everything you need to know about criminal law. Indispensable for anyone who wants to understand exactly what goes on in a criminal case." --\n <em>\n  Roger Cossack, Legal Analyst\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Written for the average person who needs to know how to navigate the complex maze of the criminal justice system." --\n <em>\n  Freelance Writer''s Report\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Quite simply, this volume should be on everybody''s bookshelf... Bergman and Berman have created a guided tour of the criminal justice system -- intended both for the curious and for those who find themselves caught up in it."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2304'),
(13219, 'The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System', 'Paul Bergman &amp; Sara J. Berman-Barrett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Quite simply, this volume should be on everybody''s bookshelf... Bergman and Berman-Barrett have created a guided tour of the criminal justice system -- intended both for the curious and for those who find themselves caught up in it." --\n <em>\n  The Crime &amp; Punishment Guide, About.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This easy-to-understand book contains everything you need to know about criminal law. Indispensable for anyone who wants to understand exactly what goes on in a criminal case." --\n <em>\n  Roger Cossack, Legal Analyst\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Written for the average person who needs to know how to navigate the complex maze of the criminal justice system." --\n <em>\n  Freelance Writer''s Report\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Quite simply, this volume should be on everybody''s bookshelf... Bergman and Berman have created a guided tour of the criminal justice system -- intended both for the curious and for those who find themselves caught up in it."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8466'),
(13220, 'The Criminal', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, everyone is guilty, and the worst crimes are unpunishable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4395'),
(13221, 'Criminology for Dummies (ISBN', '0470396962)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22952'),
(13222, 'Crimson Joy', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n They call him the "Red Rose Killer" because he leaves one on the body of each woman he kills. But then the madman''s eyes turn to Susan Silverman, and Spenser is on the case. For when Susan''s life is in danger, Spenser becomes a hard-fisted, unstoppable locomotive--determined to bring the criminal to justice no matter what the odds!((Dell--Fiction)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1761'),
(13223, 'Crimson Joy (1988)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 15', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13714'),
(13224, 'Crimson Joy (1988)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 15', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23181'),
(13225, 'The Crimson Petal and the White', 'Michel Faber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although it''s billed as "the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century,"\n <em>\n  The Crimson Petal and the White\n </em>\n is anything but Victorian. The story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men, Michel Faber''s dazzling second novel dares to go where George Eliot''s __ and the works of Charles Dickens could not. We learn about the positions and orifices that Sugar and her clients favor, about her lingering skin condition, and about the suspect ingredients of her prophylactic douches. Still, Sugar believes she can make a better life for herself. When she is taken up by a wealthy man, the perfumer William Rackham, her wings are clipped, and she must balance financial security against the obvious servitude of her position. The physical risks and hardships of Sugar''s life (and the even harder "honest" life she would have led as a factory worker) contrast--yet not entirely--with the medical mistreatment of her benefactor''s wife, Agnes, and beautifully underscore Faber''s emphasis on class and sexual politics. In theme and treatment, this is a novel that Virginia Woolf might have written, had she been born 70 years later. The language, however, is Faber''s own--brisk and elastic--and, after an awkward opening, the plethora of detail he offers (costume, food, manners, cheap stage performances, the London streets) slides effortlessly into his forward-moving sentences. When Agnes goes mad, for instance, "she sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining board." Despite its 800-plus pages,\n <em>\n  The Crimson Petal and the White\n </em>\n turns out to be a quick read, since it is truly impossible to put down.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Faber''s bawdy, brilliant third novel tells an intricate tale of love and ambition and paints a new portrait of Victorian England and its citizens in prose crackling with insight and bravado. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point for his sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era''s secrets and social hypocrisy. William Rackham is a restless, rebellious spirit, mistrustful of convention and the demands of his father''s perfume business. While spying on his sickly wife''s maid, whom he suspects of thievery, he begins a slow slide into depravity: he meets Sugar, a whore whose penetrating mind and love of books intrigues him as much as her beauty and carnal skills do. Faber (Under the Skin) also weaves in the stories of Agnes, William''s delicate, mad and manipulative wife, and Henry, his pious, morally conflicted brother, both of whom seek escape from their private prisons through fantasies and small deceptions. Sin and vice both attract and repel the brothers: William, who becomes obsessed with Sugar, rescues her from her old life, while Henry, paralyzed by his love for Emmeline Fox, a comely widow working to rescue the city''s prostitutes, slowly unravels. Faber''s central characters, especially the troubled William and the ambitious Sugar, shine with life, and the author is no less gifted in capturing the essence of his many minor characters-the evil madam, Mrs. Castaway, and William''s pompous father-in-law, Lord Unwin. The superb plot draws on a wealth of research and briskly moves through the lives of each character-whether major or minor, upstairs or downstairs-gathering force until the fates of all are revealed. A marvelous story of erotic love, sin, familial conflicts and class prejudice, this is a deeply entertaining masterwork that will hold readers captive until the final page.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2697'),
(13226, 'The Crimson Petal and the White', 'Michel Faber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although it''s billed as "the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century,"\n <em>\n  The Crimson Petal and the White\n </em>\n is anything but Victorian. The story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men, Michel Faber''s dazzling second novel dares to go where George Eliot''s __ and the works of Charles Dickens could not. We learn about the positions and orifices that Sugar and her clients favor, about her lingering skin condition, and about the suspect ingredients of her prophylactic douches. Still, Sugar believes she can make a better life for herself. When she is taken up by a wealthy man, the perfumer William Rackham, her wings are clipped, and she must balance financial security against the obvious servitude of her position. The physical risks and hardships of Sugar''s life (and the even harder "honest" life she would have led as a factory worker) contrast--yet not entirely--with the medical mistreatment of her benefactor''s wife, Agnes, and beautifully underscore Faber''s emphasis on class and sexual politics. In theme and treatment, this is a novel that Virginia Woolf might have written, had she been born 70 years later. The language, however, is Faber''s own--brisk and elastic--and, after an awkward opening, the plethora of detail he offers (costume, food, manners, cheap stage performances, the London streets) slides effortlessly into his forward-moving sentences. When Agnes goes mad, for instance, "she sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining board." Despite its 800-plus pages,\n <em>\n  The Crimson Petal and the White\n </em>\n turns out to be a quick read, since it is truly impossible to put down.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Faber''s bawdy, brilliant third novel tells an intricate tale of love and ambition and paints a new portrait of Victorian England and its citizens in prose crackling with insight and bravado. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point for his sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era''s secrets and social hypocrisy. William Rackham is a restless, rebellious spirit, mistrustful of convention and the demands of his father''s perfume business. While spying on his sickly wife''s maid, whom he suspects of thievery, he begins a slow slide into depravity: he meets Sugar, a whore whose penetrating mind and love of books intrigues him as much as her beauty and carnal skills do. Faber (Under the Skin) also weaves in the stories of Agnes, William''s delicate, mad and manipulative wife, and Henry, his pious, morally conflicted brother, both of whom seek escape from their private prisons through fantasies and small deceptions. Sin and vice both attract and repel the brothers: William, who becomes obsessed with Sugar, rescues her from her old life, while Henry, paralyzed by his love for Emmeline Fox, a comely widow working to rescue the city''s prostitutes, slowly unravels. Faber''s central characters, especially the troubled William and the ambitious Sugar, shine with life, and the author is no less gifted in capturing the essence of his many minor characters-the evil madam, Mrs. Castaway, and William''s pompous father-in-law, Lord Unwin. The superb plot draws on a wealth of research and briskly moves through the lives of each character-whether major or minor, upstairs or downstairs-gathering force until the fates of all are revealed. A marvelous story of erotic love, sin, familial conflicts and class prejudice, this is a deeply entertaining masterwork that will hold readers captive until the final page.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9585'),
(13227, 'The Crimson Petal and the White', 'Michel Faber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15036'),
(13228, 'The Crimson Petal and the White', 'Michel Faber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although it''s billed as "the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century,"\n <em>\n  The Crimson Petal and the White\n </em>\n is anything but Victorian. The story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men, Michel Faber''s dazzling second novel dares to go where George Eliot''s __ and the works of Charles Dickens could not. We learn about the positions and orifices that Sugar and her clients favor, about her lingering skin condition, and about the suspect ingredients of her prophylactic douches. Still, Sugar believes she can make a better life for herself. When she is taken up by a wealthy man, the perfumer William Rackham, her wings are clipped, and she must balance financial security against the obvious servitude of her position. The physical risks and hardships of Sugar''s life (and the even harder "honest" life she would have led as a factory worker) contrast--yet not entirely--with the medical mistreatment of her benefactor''s wife, Agnes, and beautifully underscore Faber''s emphasis on class and sexual politics. In theme and treatment, this is a novel that Virginia Woolf might have written, had she been born 70 years later. The language, however, is Faber''s own--brisk and elastic--and, after an awkward opening, the plethora of detail he offers (costume, food, manners, cheap stage performances, the London streets) slides effortlessly into his forward-moving sentences. When Agnes goes mad, for instance, "she sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining board." Despite its 800-plus pages,\n <em>\n  The Crimson Petal and the White\n </em>\n turns out to be a quick read, since it is truly impossible to put down.\n <em>\n  --Regina Marler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Faber''s bawdy, brilliant third novel tells an intricate tale of love and ambition and paints a new portrait of Victorian England and its citizens in prose crackling with insight and bravado. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point for his sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era''s secrets and social hypocrisy. William Rackham is a restless, rebellious spirit, mistrustful of convention and the demands of his father''s perfume business. While spying on his sickly wife''s maid, whom he suspects of thievery, he begins a slow slide into depravity: he meets Sugar, a whore whose penetrating mind and love of books intrigues him as much as her beauty and carnal skills do. Faber (Under the Skin) also weaves in the stories of Agnes, William''s delicate, mad and manipulative wife, and Henry, his pious, morally conflicted brother, both of whom seek escape from their private prisons through fantasies and small deceptions. Sin and vice both attract and repel the brothers: William, who becomes obsessed with Sugar, rescues her from her old life, while Henry, paralyzed by his love for Emmeline Fox, a comely widow working to rescue the city''s prostitutes, slowly unravels. Faber''s central characters, especially the troubled William and the ambitious Sugar, shine with life, and the author is no less gifted in capturing the essence of his many minor characters-the evil madam, Mrs. Castaway, and William''s pompous father-in-law, Lord Unwin. The superb plot draws on a wealth of research and briskly moves through the lives of each character-whether major or minor, upstairs or downstairs-gathering force until the fates of all are revealed. A marvelous story of erotic love, sin, familial conflicts and class prejudice, this is a deeply entertaining masterwork that will hold readers captive until the final page.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22041'),
(13229, 'The Crimson Rooms', 'Katharine McMahon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Living at home with her mother, aunt, and grandmother, Evelyn is still haunted by the death of her younger brother James in the First World War. She is also determined to make a career for herself as one of the first female lawyers. So when the doorbell rings late one night and a woman appears, claiming to have mothered James''s child, her world is turned upside down. Evelyn distrusts Meredith at first, but also finds that this new arrival challenges her work-obsessed lifestyle. So far her legal career has not set the world alight. But then two cases arise that make Evelyn realise perhaps she can make a difference. The first concerns a woman called Leah Marchant whose children have been taken away from her simply because she is poor. The second, Stephen Wheeler, has been charged with murdering his own wife. It is clear that Wheeler is innocent but he won''t talk. In the meantime, Meredith makes an earth-shattering accusation about James - and Evelyn falls in love with a man engaged to be married. With the Wheeler case coming to a head, and her heart in limbo, Evelyn takes matters into her own hands...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25459'),
(13230, 'The Crimson Shadow', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE CRIMSON SHADOW is an omnibus reissue of R.A. Salvatore''s Crimson Shadow Trilogy, which consists of the novels The Sword of Bedwyr, Luthien''s Gamble, and The Dragon King.  This trilogy follows the story of The Crimson Shadow, a Robin Hood-like figure causing mischief and protecting the innocent in a medieval fantasy setting.  There''s magic, a humorous dwarf sidekick, and lots of adventure and fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1978'),
(13231, 'The Crimson Shadow', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE CRIMSON SHADOW is an omnibus reissue of R.A. Salvatore''s Crimson Shadow Trilogy, which consists of the novels The Sword of Bedwyr, Luthien''s Gamble, and The Dragon King.  This trilogy follows the story of The Crimson Shadow, a Robin Hood-like figure causing mischief and protecting the innocent in a medieval fantasy setting.  There''s magic, a humorous dwarf sidekick, and lots of adventure and fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12486'),
(13232, 'The crimson witch', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A young mans struggle with destiny and desire in a post-nuclear world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17918'),
(13233, 'The Crippled God', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY\n  </u>\n </b>\n :\n <br />\n Savaged by the K''Chain Nah''Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come. A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods -- if her own troops don''t kill her first.Awaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. Drawing upon an alien power terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every human, every civilization, in order to begin anew. They welcome the coming conflagration of slaughter, for it shall be of their own devising, and it pleases them to know that, in the midst of the enemies gathering against them, there shall be betrayal. In the realm of Kurald Galain, home to the long lost city of Kharkanas, a mass of refugees stand upon the First Shore. Commanded by Yedan Derryg, the Watch, they await the breaching of Lightfall, and the coming of the Tiste Liosan. This is a war they cannot win, and they will die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects. Elsewhere, the three Elder Gods, Kilmandaros, Errastas and Sechul Lath, work to shatter the chains binding Korabas, the Otataral Dragon, and release her from her eternal prison. Once freed, she will be a force of utter devastation, and against her no mortal can stand. At the Gates of Starvald Demelain, the Azath House sealing the portal is dying. Soon will come the Eleint, and once more, there will be dragons in the world. And so, in a far away land and beneath indifferent skies, the final cataclysmic chapter in the extraordinary ''Malazan Book of the Fallen'' begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1026'),
(13234, 'The Crippled God', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY\n  </u>\n </b>\n :\n <br />\n Savaged by the K''Chain Nah''Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come. A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods -- if her own troops don''t kill her first.Awaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. Drawing upon an alien power terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every human, every civilization, in order to begin anew. They welcome the coming conflagration of slaughter, for it shall be of their own devising, and it pleases them to know that, in the midst of the enemies gathering against them, there shall be betrayal. In the realm of Kurald Galain, home to the long lost city of Kharkanas, a mass of refugees stand upon the First Shore. Commanded by Yedan Derryg, the Watch, they await the breaching of Lightfall, and the coming of the Tiste Liosan. This is a war they cannot win, and they will die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects. Elsewhere, the three Elder Gods, Kilmandaros, Errastas and Sechul Lath, work to shatter the chains binding Korabas, the Otataral Dragon, and release her from her eternal prison. Once freed, she will be a force of utter devastation, and against her no mortal can stand. At the Gates of Starvald Demelain, the Azath House sealing the portal is dying. Soon will come the Eleint, and once more, there will be dragons in the world. And so, in a far away land and beneath indifferent skies, the final cataclysmic chapter in the extraordinary ''Malazan Book of the Fallen'' begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9638'),
(13235, 'The Crippled God', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY\n  </u>\n </b>\n :\n <br />\n Savaged by the K''Chain Nah''Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come. A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods -- if her own troops don''t kill her first.Awaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. Drawing upon an alien power terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every human, every civilization, in order to begin anew. They welcome the coming conflagration of slaughter, for it shall be of their own devising, and it pleases them to know that, in the midst of the enemies gathering against them, there shall be betrayal. In the realm of Kurald Galain, home to the long lost city of Kharkanas, a mass of refugees stand upon the First Shore. Commanded by Yedan Derryg, the Watch, they await the breaching of Lightfall, and the coming of the Tiste Liosan. This is a war they cannot win, and they will die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects. Elsewhere, the three Elder Gods, Kilmandaros, Errastas and Sechul Lath, work to shatter the chains binding Korabas, the Otataral Dragon, and release her from her eternal prison. Once freed, she will be a force of utter devastation, and against her no mortal can stand. At the Gates of Starvald Demelain, the Azath House sealing the portal is dying. Soon will come the Eleint, and once more, there will be dragons in the world. And so, in a far away land and beneath indifferent skies, the final cataclysmic chapter in the extraordinary ''Malazan Book of the Fallen'' begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14950'),
(13236, 'The Crippled God', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY\n  </u>\n </b>\n :\n <br />\n Savaged by the K''Chain Nah''Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come. A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods -- if her own troops don''t kill her first.Awaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. Drawing upon an alien power terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every human, every civilization, in order to begin anew. They welcome the coming conflagration of slaughter, for it shall be of their own devising, and it pleases them to know that, in the midst of the enemies gathering against them, there shall be betrayal. In the realm of Kurald Galain, home to the long lost city of Kharkanas, a mass of refugees stand upon the First Shore. Commanded by Yedan Derryg, the Watch, they await the breaching of Lightfall, and the coming of the Tiste Liosan. This is a war they cannot win, and they will die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects. Elsewhere, the three Elder Gods, Kilmandaros, Errastas and Sechul Lath, work to shatter the chains binding Korabas, the Otataral Dragon, and release her from her eternal prison. Once freed, she will be a force of utter devastation, and against her no mortal can stand. At the Gates of Starvald Demelain, the Azath House sealing the portal is dying. Soon will come the Eleint, and once more, there will be dragons in the world. And so, in a far away land and beneath indifferent skies, the final cataclysmic chapter in the extraordinary ''Malazan Book of the Fallen'' begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23957'),
(13237, 'Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power From George Washington to George W. Bush', 'John Yoo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An American President faces war and finds himself hamstrung by a Congress that will not act. To protect national security, he invokes his powers as Commander-in-Chief and orders actions that seem to violate laws enacted by Congress. He is excoriated for usurping dictatorial powers, placing himself above the law, and threatening to â€œbreakdown constitutional safeguards.â€ One could be forgiven for thinking that the above describes former President George W. Bush. Yet these particular attacks on presidential power were leveled against Franklin D. Roosevelt. They could just as well describe similar attacks leveled against George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and a number of other presidents challenged with leading the nation through times of national crisis. However bitter, complex, and urgent todayâ€™s controversies over executive power may be, John Yoo reminds us they are nothing new. In Crisis and Command, he explores a factor too little consulted in current debates: the past. Through shrewd and lucid analysis, he shows how the bold decisions made by Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and FDR changed more than just history; they also transformed the role of the American president. The link between the vigorous exercise of executive power and presidential greatness, Yoo argues, is both significant and misunderstood. He makes the case that the founding fathers deliberately left the Constitution vague on the limits of presidential authority, drawing on history to demonstrate the benefi ts to the nation of a strong executive office.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7945'),
(13238, 'Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush', 'John Yoo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An American President faces war and finds himself hamstrung by a Congress that will not act. To protect national security, he invokes his powers as Commander-in-Chief and orders actions that seem to violate laws enacted by Congress. He is excoriated for usurping dictatorial powers, placing himself above the law, and threatening to â€œbreakdown constitutional safeguards.â€ One could be forgiven for thinking that the above describes former President George W. Bush. Yet these particular attacks on presidential power were leveled against Franklin D. Roosevelt. They could just as well describe similar attacks leveled against George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and a number of other presidents challenged with leading the nation through times of national crisis. However bitter, complex, and urgent todayâ€™s controversies over executive power may be, John Yoo reminds us they are nothing new. In Crisis and Command, he explores a factor too little consulted in current debates: the past. Through shrewd and lucid analysis, he shows how the bold decisions made by Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and FDR changed more than just history; they also transformed the role of the American president. The link between the vigorous exercise of executive power and presidential greatness, Yoo argues, is both significant and misunderstood. He makes the case that the founding fathers deliberately left the Constitution vague on the limits of presidential authority, drawing on history to demonstrate the benefi ts to the nation of a strong executive office.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20374'),
(13239, 'Crisis Four', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n My Head Was Forced Under And I Swallowed A Mouthful Of Freezing River. I Kicked Back To The Surface, Forcing Myself To Breathe In Through My Nose, Only To Choke As I Inhaled Yet More Water. I Let Go Of Her. We Each Had To Fight Our Own Battle Now. She Looked At Me, Her Eyes The Size Of Saucers As She Realised What I Had Done. That Wasn T My Problem; It Would Only Become One If I Couldn T Get Her Body Out Of The Water And They Found Out Who She Was.Nick Stone, Ex-Sas, Now A K Working For British Intelligence On Deniable Operations, Is Tough, Resourceful, Ruthless, Highly Trained - A Master Of His Trade.Sarah Is Beautiful, Steel Willed, Intelligent, Cunning - The Only Woman That Stone Has Ever Let Under His Guard. And Now He S Been Sent To Hunt Her Down ... As The Pair Are Pursued Through The Backwoods Of The American South, Stone S Mission Becomes A Journey To The Heart Of A Dark And Deadly Conspiracy To Which Only Sarah Holds The Key. And As The Tension Builds To Breaking Point, The Two Are Led To A Confrontation That Echoes Our Worst Nightmares.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7642'),
(13240, 'Crisis Four', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: My Head Was Forced Under And I Swallowed A Mouthful Of Freezing River. I Kicked Back To The Surface, Forcing Myself To Breathe In Through My Nose, Only To Choke As I Inhaled Yet More Water. I Let Go Of Her. We Each Had To Fight Our Own Battle Now. She Looked At Me, Her Eyes The Size Of Saucers As She Realised What I Had Done. That Wasn T My Problem; It Would Only Become One If I Couldn T Get Her Body Out Of The Water And They Found Out Who She Was.Nick Stone, Ex-Sas, Now A K Working For British Intelligence On Deniable Operations, Is Tough, Resourceful, Ruthless, Highly Trained - A Master Of His Trade.Sarah Is Beautiful, Steel Willed, Intelligent, Cunning - The Only Woman That Stone Has Ever Let Under His Guard. And Now He S Been Sent To Hunt Her Down ... As The Pair Are Pursued Through The Backwoods Of The American South, Stone S Mission Becomes A Journey To The Heart Of A Dark And Deadly Conspiracy To Which Only Sarah Holds The Key. And As The Tension Builds To Breaking Point, The Two Are Led To A Confrontation That Echoes Our Worst Nightmares.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16225'),
(13241, 'Crisis Four', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: My Head Was Forced Under And I Swallowed A Mouthful Of Freezing River. I Kicked Back To The Surface, Forcing Myself To Breathe In Through My Nose, Only To Choke As I Inhaled Yet More Water. I Let Go Of Her. We Each Had To Fight Our Own Battle Now. She Looked At Me, Her Eyes The Size Of Saucers As She Realised What I Had Done. That Wasn T My Problem; It Would Only Become One If I Couldn T Get Her Body Out Of The Water And They Found Out Who She Was.Nick Stone, Ex-Sas, Now A K Working For British Intelligence On Deniable Operations, Is Tough, Resourceful, Ruthless, Highly Trained - A Master Of His Trade.Sarah Is Beautiful, Steel Willed, Intelligent, Cunning - The Only Woman That Stone Has Ever Let Under His Guard. And Now He S Been Sent To Hunt Her Down ... As The Pair Are Pursued Through The Backwoods Of The American South, Stone S Mission Becomes A Journey To The Heart Of A Dark And Deadly Conspiracy To Which Only Sarah Holds The Key. And As The Tension Builds To Breaking Point, The Two Are Led To A Confrontation That Echoes Our Worst Nightmares.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26309'),
(13242, 'Crisis on Doona', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a twenty-five year contract--arranging the cohabitation of the planet Doona between humans and the cat-like Hrrubans--comes up for renewal, an unknown entity works to sabotage the heretofore successful alliance. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15706'),
(13243, 'Crispin: At the Edge of the World', 'Avi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Grade 5-9â€“At the conclusion of\n  <em>\n   Crispin: The Cross of Lead\n  </em>\n  (Hyperion, 2002), Crispin and Bear have escaped and are enjoying their hard-won freedom, planning to resume their 14th-century lifestyle as traveling minstrels and jugglers. But that freedom doesn''t last long because they soon find themselves hunted again by men who believe Bear to be a traitor to the Brotherhood (which is planning a revolt against the oppressive rulers of England). And, with Bear severely injured, Crispin has to make crucial decisions about their future, which for Bear means confronting the sins of the past. The thoughtful introduction of Troth, a disfigured girl, and the trio''s fearful journey across the Channel add historical relevance and bring home a critical lesson in tolerance. This second book in a planned trilogy explores even more thoughtfully the themes of religion, war, the motives of men, and the meaning of family. This is an extraordinary work of lyrical simplicity, nearly flawless in its execution, and a haunting tale of love and loss. Readers will devour this story and eagerly anticipate the conclusion of Crispin''s adventures._â€“Melissa Moore, Union University Library, Jackson, TN_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Avi''s engrossing follow-up to his Newbery-winning\n  <em>\n   Crispin: The Cross of Lead\n  </em>\n  (2002) begins with Crispin and his father figure, Bear, tasting freedom briefly before Bear is recognized and shot with an arrow. Fleeing into the forest, they meet Troth, a girl shunned because of her cleft lip. Her protector, old Aude, nurses Bear''s wound, but when villagers brutally turn against Aude, Crispin and Bear must flee again, this time with Troth. The three, now a family, make a stormy voyage to Brittany, where English soldiers force them to help in a ruthless attack on a church. Unlike many stories set in the Middle Ages, this novel doesn''t romanticize the era; instead, it portrays England and France as places where poverty, superstition, and violence were commonplace. Crispin, Bear, and Troth face each new situation with dread born of painful experience, well aware that the people they meet are as likely to harm them as to help them. The love connecting the three main characters is so vital that maintaining the bond and protecting each other become driving forces in their choices. Along with plenty of action and adventure, this displays a solid emotional base. The combination will make fans eager for the final installment.\n  <em>\n   Carolyn Phelan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7382'),
(13244, 'Crispin: At the Edge of the World', 'Avi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Grade 5-9â€“At the conclusion of\n  <em>\n   Crispin: The Cross of Lead\n  </em>\n  (Hyperion, 2002), Crispin and Bear have escaped and are enjoying their hard-won freedom, planning to resume their 14th-century lifestyle as traveling minstrels and jugglers. But that freedom doesn''t last long because they soon find themselves hunted again by men who believe Bear to be a traitor to the Brotherhood (which is planning a revolt against the oppressive rulers of England). And, with Bear severely injured, Crispin has to make crucial decisions about their future, which for Bear means confronting the sins of the past. The thoughtful introduction of Troth, a disfigured girl, and the trio''s fearful journey across the Channel add historical relevance and bring home a critical lesson in tolerance. This second book in a planned trilogy explores even more thoughtfully the themes of religion, war, the motives of men, and the meaning of family. This is an extraordinary work of lyrical simplicity, nearly flawless in its execution, and a haunting tale of love and loss. Readers will devour this story and eagerly anticipate the conclusion of Crispin''s adventures._â€“Melissa Moore, Union University Library, Jackson, TN_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Avi''s engrossing follow-up to his Newbery-winning\n  <em>\n   Crispin: The Cross of Lead\n  </em>\n  (2002) begins with Crispin and his father figure, Bear, tasting freedom briefly before Bear is recognized and shot with an arrow. Fleeing into the forest, they meet Troth, a girl shunned because of her cleft lip. Her protector, old Aude, nurses Bear''s wound, but when villagers brutally turn against Aude, Crispin and Bear must flee again, this time with Troth. The three, now a family, make a stormy voyage to Brittany, where English soldiers force them to help in a ruthless attack on a church. Unlike many stories set in the Middle Ages, this novel doesn''t romanticize the era; instead, it portrays England and France as places where poverty, superstition, and violence were commonplace. Crispin, Bear, and Troth face each new situation with dread born of painful experience, well aware that the people they meet are as likely to harm them as to help them. The love connecting the three main characters is so vital that maintaining the bond and protecting each other become driving forces in their choices. Along with plenty of action and adventure, this displays a solid emotional base. The combination will make fans eager for the final installment.\n  <em>\n   Carolyn Phelan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8304');
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(13245, 'Crispin: At the Edge of the World', 'Avi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Grade 5-9â€“At the conclusion of\n  <em>\n   Crispin: The Cross of Lead\n  </em>\n  (Hyperion, 2002), Crispin and Bear have escaped and are enjoying their hard-won freedom, planning to resume their 14th-century lifestyle as traveling minstrels and jugglers. But that freedom doesn''t last long because they soon find themselves hunted again by men who believe Bear to be a traitor to the Brotherhood (which is planning a revolt against the oppressive rulers of England). And, with Bear severely injured, Crispin has to make crucial decisions about their future, which for Bear means confronting the sins of the past. The thoughtful introduction of Troth, a disfigured girl, and the trio''s fearful journey across the Channel add historical relevance and bring home a critical lesson in tolerance. This second book in a planned trilogy explores even more thoughtfully the themes of religion, war, the motives of men, and the meaning of family. This is an extraordinary work of lyrical simplicity, nearly flawless in its execution, and a haunting tale of love and loss. Readers will devour this story and eagerly anticipate the conclusion of Crispin''s adventures._â€“Melissa Moore, Union University Library, Jackson, TN_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Avi''s engrossing follow-up to his Newbery-winning\n  <em>\n   Crispin: The Cross of Lead\n  </em>\n  (2002) begins with Crispin and his father figure, Bear, tasting freedom briefly before Bear is recognized and shot with an arrow. Fleeing into the forest, they meet Troth, a girl shunned because of her cleft lip. Her protector, old Aude, nurses Bear''s wound, but when villagers brutally turn against Aude, Crispin and Bear must flee again, this time with Troth. The three, now a family, make a stormy voyage to Brittany, where English soldiers force them to help in a ruthless attack on a church. Unlike many stories set in the Middle Ages, this novel doesn''t romanticize the era; instead, it portrays England and France as places where poverty, superstition, and violence were commonplace. Crispin, Bear, and Troth face each new situation with dread born of painful experience, well aware that the people they meet are as likely to harm them as to help them. The love connecting the three main characters is so vital that maintaining the bond and protecting each other become driving forces in their choices. Along with plenty of action and adventure, this displays a solid emotional base. The combination will make fans eager for the final installment.\n  <em>\n   Carolyn Phelan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16511'),
(13246, 'The Crisscross Shadow', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Hardy boys find the missing deed to an Indians'' land, prevent a phony salesman from carrying through a reckless scheme, and help their father solve a top-secret case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18457'),
(13247, 'Crisscross: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Repairman Jack is back! An anonymous mercenary, with no last name and no social security number, Jack has thrilled a veritable army of readers ever since his bestselling debut inThe Tomb. Jack can fix any problem, supernatural or otherwise, for a price. Now, in his latest gripping adventure, he takes on two cases at once. The first involves a nun being blackmailed by someone who has photos of her she doesn''t want made public. What''s in those photos, she won''t say, but with her meager savings just about exhausted, she hires Jack to help her. The second seems straightforward enough, as an elderly woman hires Jack to find her missing son. But to locate his quarry, Jack must infiltrate the inner reaches of the Dormentalist Church, a secretive, globe-spanning cult whose members include some of the biggest and most powerful names in entertainment, sports, and politics. Ruthless in its pursuit of critics and enemies, the Church hides a sinister agenda known only to its ruling elite. But Jack can be ruthless, too, going to darker lengths than ever before as he crisscrosses the two fix-it jobs to settle the deadliest of scores!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5641'),
(13248, 'Crisscross: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Repairman Jack is back! An anonymous mercenary, with no last name and no social security number, Jack has thrilled a veritable army of readers ever since his bestselling debut inThe Tomb. Jack can fix any problem, supernatural or otherwise, for a price. Now, in his latest gripping adventure, he takes on two cases at once. The first involves a nun being blackmailed by someone who has photos of her she doesn''t want made public. What''s in those photos, she won''t say, but with her meager savings just about exhausted, she hires Jack to help her. The second seems straightforward enough, as an elderly woman hires Jack to find her missing son. But to locate his quarry, Jack must infiltrate the inner reaches of the Dormentalist Church, a secretive, globe-spanning cult whose members include some of the biggest and most powerful names in entertainment, sports, and politics. Ruthless in its pursuit of critics and enemies, the Church hides a sinister agenda known only to its ruling elite. But Jack can be ruthless, too, going to darker lengths than ever before as he crisscrosses the two fix-it jobs to settle the deadliest of scores!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19039'),
(13249, 'Crisscross: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Repairman Jack is back! An anonymous mercenary, with no last name and no social security number, Jack has thrilled a veritable army of readers ever since his bestselling debut inThe Tomb. Jack can fix any problem, supernatural or otherwise, for a price. Now, in his latest gripping adventure, he takes on two cases at once. The first involves a nun being blackmailed by someone who has photos of her she doesn''t want made public. What''s in those photos, she won''t say, but with her meager savings just about exhausted, she hires Jack to help her. The second seems straightforward enough, as an elderly woman hires Jack to find her missing son. But to locate his quarry, Jack must infiltrate the inner reaches of the Dormentalist Church, a secretive, globe-spanning cult whose members include some of the biggest and most powerful names in entertainment, sports, and politics. Ruthless in its pursuit of critics and enemies, the Church hides a sinister agenda known only to its ruling elite. But Jack can be ruthless, too, going to darker lengths than ever before as he crisscrosses the two fix-it jobs to settle the deadliest of scores!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27854'),
(13250, 'Cristalul', 'Sever Gansovski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25128'),
(13251, 'Criton', 'Platon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25232'),
(13252, 'Crocodile on the Sandbank', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father''s fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she''s headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5722'),
(13253, 'Crocodile on the Sandbank', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father''s fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she''s headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18948'),
(13254, 'Crocodile on the Sandbank', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father''s fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she''s headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27632'),
(13255, 'Crocodile Tears', 'Anthony Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6â€“10â€”Alex Rider is only 14, but that hasn''t stopped MI6, the British espionage organization, from recruiting him for dangerous missions. Here, Alex is enlisted in a seemingly quick and easy mission of downloading computer data while on a school trip to a lab immersed in the genetic engineering of plants. While there, he discovers a sinister plot involving a criminal turned preacher and philanthropist. As in the earlier installments, the book is chock-full of excitement and suspense from the first page to the last. It starts with a bomb at a nuclear plant in India, and along the way there is a charity black-tie card game, poison needles, car crashes, bullets, and exploding gel pens. Most of the backstory is explained, so no prior knowledge of the earlier books is necessary. Great for reluctant readers.â€”_Jake Pettit, Thompson Valley High School, Loveland, CO_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alex Rider, teenage British secret service agent, returns. This time, a wealthy villain schemes to make millions by creating disasters and then pocketing the money from false relief agencies. Alex discovers the bad guyâ€™s plan to cause famine in Africa, but he is able to expose the fake philanthropist, although he is nearly fed to hungry crocs in the process. Horowitz''s series remains on top of the growing genre of YA novels that feature intelligence agencies employing teenagers. He knows how to pace a thriller and delivers one exciting scene after another. Alex Rider fans will rejoice. Grades 6-9. --Todd Morning\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7494'),
(13256, 'Crocodile Tears', 'Anthony Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6â€“10â€”Alex Rider is only 14, but that hasn''t stopped MI6, the British espionage organization, from recruiting him for dangerous missions. Here, Alex is enlisted in a seemingly quick and easy mission of downloading computer data while on a school trip to a lab immersed in the genetic engineering of plants. While there, he discovers a sinister plot involving a criminal turned preacher and philanthropist. As in the earlier installments, the book is chock-full of excitement and suspense from the first page to the last. It starts with a bomb at a nuclear plant in India, and along the way there is a charity black-tie card game, poison needles, car crashes, bullets, and exploding gel pens. Most of the backstory is explained, so no prior knowledge of the earlier books is necessary. Great for reluctant readers.â€”_Jake Pettit, Thompson Valley High School, Loveland, CO_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alex Rider, teenage British secret service agent, returns. This time, a wealthy villain schemes to make millions by creating disasters and then pocketing the money from false relief agencies. Alex discovers the bad guyâ€™s plan to cause famine in Africa, but he is able to expose the fake philanthropist, although he is nearly fed to hungry crocs in the process. Horowitz''s series remains on top of the growing genre of YA novels that feature intelligence agencies employing teenagers. He knows how to pace a thriller and delivers one exciting scene after another. Alex Rider fans will rejoice. Grades 6-9. --Todd Morning\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10437'),
(13257, 'Crocodile Tears', 'Anthony Horowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 6â€“10â€”Alex Rider is only 14, but that hasn''t stopped MI6, the British espionage organization, from recruiting him for dangerous missions. Here, Alex is enlisted in a seemingly quick and easy mission of downloading computer data while on a school trip to a lab immersed in the genetic engineering of plants. While there, he discovers a sinister plot involving a criminal turned preacher and philanthropist. As in the earlier installments, the book is chock-full of excitement and suspense from the first page to the last. It starts with a bomb at a nuclear plant in India, and along the way there is a charity black-tie card game, poison needles, car crashes, bullets, and exploding gel pens. Most of the backstory is explained, so no prior knowledge of the earlier books is necessary. Great for reluctant readers.â€”_Jake Pettit, Thompson Valley High School, Loveland, CO_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alex Rider, teenage British secret service agent, returns. This time, a wealthy villain schemes to make millions by creating disasters and then pocketing the money from false relief agencies. Alex discovers the bad guyâ€™s plan to cause famine in Africa, but he is able to expose the fake philanthropist, although he is nearly fed to hungry crocs in the process. Horowitz''s series remains on top of the growing genre of YA novels that feature intelligence agencies employing teenagers. He knows how to pace a thriller and delivers one exciting scene after another. Alex Rider fans will rejoice. Grades 6-9. --Todd Morning\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16339'),
(13258, 'Crome Yellow', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Japanese thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley was edited for three audiences. The first includes Japanese-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Japanese speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Japanese in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s Japanese Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Japanese or English. TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved. Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in Japanese, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the readerdecipher a words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficu\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15955'),
(13259, 'Crome Yellow', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26285'),
(13260, 'Cronici martiene', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25210'),
(13261, 'Cronicile din Narnia 1 - Nepotul magicianului', 'Clive Staples Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25954'),
(13262, 'Cronicile din Narnia 2 - Sifonierul, leul si vrajitoarea', 'Clive Staples Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25955'),
(13263, 'Cronicile din Narnia 3 - Calul si baiatul', 'Clive Staples Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25956'),
(13264, 'Cronicile din Narnia 4 - Printul Caspian', 'Clive Staples Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25957'),
(13265, 'Cronicile din Narnia 5 - Calatorie pe mare cu Zori de Zi', 'Clive Staples Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25958'),
(13266, 'Cronicile din Narnia 6 - Jiltul de argint', 'Clive Staples Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25959'),
(13267, 'Cronicile din Narnia 7 - Ultima batalie', 'Clive Staples Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25960'),
(13268, 'Crooked House', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he''s certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one''s on the level...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/68'),
(13269, 'Crooked House', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he''s certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one''s on the level...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17171'),
(13270, 'Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter', 'Tom Franklin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tom Franklin''s extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literatureâ€”Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative power and flair for character-ization have been compared to the likes of Harper Lee, Flannery O''Connor, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy.   Now the Edgar Award-winning author returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so farâ€”an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the countyâ€”and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town.   More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they''ve buried and ignored for decades.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/472'),
(13271, 'Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter', 'Tom Franklin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tom Franklin''s extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literatureâ€”Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative power and flair for character-ization have been compared to the likes of Harper Lee, Flannery O''Connor, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy.   Now the Edgar Award-winning author returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so farâ€”an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the countyâ€”and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town.   More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they''ve buried and ignored for decades.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9835'),
(13272, 'Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter', 'Tom Franklin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tom Franklin''s extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literatureâ€”Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative power and flair for character-ization have been compared to the likes of Harper Lee, Flannery O''Connor, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy. Now the Edgar Award-winning author returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so farâ€”an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the countyâ€”and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town. More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they''ve buried and ignored for decades.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24387'),
(13273, 'Crooked Little Vein', 'Warren Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president''s heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitutionâ€”the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God, civility, and Mom''s homemade apple pie already dead or dying, that time is now. But McGill has a talent for stumbling into every imaginable depravityâ€”and this case is driving him even deeper into America''s darkest, dankest underbelly, toward obscenities that boggle even his mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/236'),
(13274, 'Crooked Little Vein', 'Warren Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president''s heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitutionâ€”the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God, civility, and Mom''s homemade apple pie already dead or dying, that time is now. But McGill has a talent for stumbling into every imaginable depravityâ€”and this case is driving him even deeper into America''s darkest, dankest underbelly, toward obscenities that boggle even his mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9556'),
(13275, 'Crooked Little Vein', 'Warren Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president''s heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitutionâ€”the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God, civility, and Mom''s homemade apple pie already dead or dying, that time is now. But McGill has a talent for stumbling into every imaginable depravityâ€”and this case is driving him even deeper into America''s darkest, dankest underbelly, toward obscenities that boggle even his mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24589'),
(13276, 'Crooked Stick Figures', 'Lee Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20055'),
(13277, 'Cropper&#39;s Cabin', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Tommy Carver, a short-tempered Okie sharecropper penned up in a sweltering cabin with a brutal father and a stepmother whose affection is anything but maternal, the question isn''t when he''ll explode, but who he''ll take with him when he does. "My favorite crime novelist--often imitated but never duplicated."--Stephen King.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4388'),
(13278, 'Cross', 'Ken Bruen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A boy has been crucified in Galway city. People are shocked; the broadsheets debate how the brutal death reflects the state of the nation; the Irish Church is scandalized. No further action is taken. Then the sister of the murdered boy is burned alive and\n <b>\n  PI Jack Taylor\n </b>\n decides to take matters into his own hands. Taylor''s investigations take him to old city haunts where he encounters ghosts â€“ living and dead. But what he eventually finds surpasses even his darkest imaginings\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3824'),
(13279, 'Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is the twelfth exciting novel in the Alex Cross series Alex Cross was a rising star in Washington , DC , Police Department when an unknown shooter killed his wife, Maria, in front of him. Years later, having left the FBI and returned to practising psychology in Washington , DC , Alex finally feels his life is in order... Until his former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favour. John''s tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown and he needs Alex to help find this brutal predator. When the case triggers a connection to Maria''s death, could Alex have a chance to catch his wife''s murderer? Will this be justice at long last? Or the endgame in his own deadly obsession? From the man the Sunday Telegraphcalled ''the master of the suspense genre'', CROSS is the ultimate, high-velocity, high-emotion thriller, and the one Alex Cross''s fans waited years to read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8020'),
(13280, 'Cross', 'Ken Bruen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A boy has been crucified in Galway city. People are shocked; the broadsheets debate how the brutal death reflects the state of the nation; the Irish Church is scandalized. No further action is taken. Then the sister of the murdered boy is burned alive and\n <b>\n  PI Jack Taylor\n </b>\n decides to take matters into his own hands. Taylor''s investigations take him to old city haunts where he encounters ghosts â€“ living and dead. But what he eventually finds surpasses even his darkest imaginings\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8744'),
(13281, 'Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is the twelfth exciting novel in the Alex Cross series Alex Cross was a rising star in Washington , DC , Police Department when an unknown shooter killed his wife, Maria, in front of him. Years later, having left the FBI and returned to practising psychology in Washington , DC , Alex finally feels his life is in order... Until his former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favour. John''s tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown and he needs Alex to help find this brutal predator. When the case triggers a connection to Maria''s death, could Alex have a chance to catch his wife''s murderer? Will this be justice at long last? Or the endgame in his own deadly obsession? From the man the Sunday Telegraphcalled ''the master of the suspense genre'', CROSS is the ultimate, high-velocity, high-emotion thriller, and the one Alex Cross''s fans waited years to read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14094'),
(13282, 'Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is the twelfth exciting novel in the Alex Cross series Alex Cross was a rising star in Washington , DC , Police Department when an unknown shooter killed his wife, Maria, in front of him. Years later, having left the FBI and returned to practising psychology in Washington , DC , Alex finally feels his life is in order... Until his former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favour. John''s tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown and he needs Alex to help find this brutal predator. When the case triggers a connection to Maria''s death, could Alex have a chance to catch his wife''s murderer? Will this be justice at long last? Or the endgame in his own deadly obsession? From the man the Sunday Telegraphcalled ''the master of the suspense genre'', CROSS is the ultimate, high-velocity, high-emotion thriller, and the one Alex Cross''s fans waited years to read.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19826'),
(13283, 'Cross', 'Ken Bruen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A boy has been crucified in Galway city. People are shocked; the broadsheets debate how the brutal death reflects the state of the nation; the Irish Church is scandalized. No further action is taken. Then the sister of the murdered boy is burned alive and\n <b>\n  PI Jack Taylor\n </b>\n decides to take matters into his own hands. Taylor''s investigations take him to old city haunts where he encounters ghosts â€“ living and dead. But what he eventually finds surpasses even his darkest imaginings\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20737'),
(13284, 'Cross Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Tempe" Brennan gets caught in mysteries past and present when she''s called in to determine if illegal antiquities dealer Avram Ferris''s gunshot death is murder or suicide. An acquaintance of Avram suggests the former: he hands Tempe a photograph of a skeleton, taken in Israel in 1963, and insists it''s the reason Avram is dead. Tempe''s longtime boyfriend, Quebecois detective Andrew Ryan, is also involved with the case, so the duo head to Israel where they attempt to solve the murder and a mystery revolving around a first-century tomb that may contain the remains of the family of Jesus Christ. This find threatens the worldwide Christian community, the Israeli and Jewish hierarchy and numerous illegal antiquity dealers, any of whom might be out to kill Tempe and Ryan. Not that Tempe notices. She has the habit of being oblivious to danger, which quickly becomes annoying, as does Reichs''s tendency to end chapters with a heavy-handed cliffhanger ("His next words sent ice up my spine"). The plot is based on a number of real-life anthropological mysteries, and fans of such will have a good time, though thriller readers looking for chills and kills may not find the novel quite as satisfying.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the eighth entry in Reichs'' popular mystery series, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan spends more time contemplating biblical history than modern-day murder. A preface sets the stage, providing a bit of factual context for the puzzle that emerges when Tempe is given a photo of an articulated skeleton, which she is told is the key to the suspicious death of a slightly shady Orthodox Jewish merchant. The legend on the back of a photo leads to the bones themselves, 2,000-year-old remains that excite not only Tempe but also her friend Jake Drum, a biblical archaeologist, who suggests that the bones might even belong to Jesus himself! Unlike Tempe''s previous forays into the world of crime, this episode isn''t long on thrills. Instead, we get a fairly complicated lesson in biblical history, some radical theory to ponder, and the itch to read real-life religion professor James Tabor''s upcoming book about Masada and ancient bones,\n  <em>\n   The Jesus Dynasty,\n  </em>\n  to which Reichs refers in an afterword. Yet another read-alike for\n  <em>\n   Da Vinci Code\n  </em>\n  fans.\n  <em>\n   Stephanie Zvirin\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13756'),
(13285, 'Cross Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Tempe" Brennan gets caught in mysteries past and present when she''s called in to determine if illegal antiquities dealer Avram Ferris''s gunshot death is murder or suicide. An acquaintance of Avram suggests the former: he hands Tempe a photograph of a skeleton, taken in Israel in 1963, and insists it''s the reason Avram is dead. Tempe''s longtime boyfriend, Quebecois detective Andrew Ryan, is also involved with the case, so the duo head to Israel where they attempt to solve the murder and a mystery revolving around a first-century tomb that may contain the remains of the family of Jesus Christ. This find threatens the worldwide Christian community, the Israeli and Jewish hierarchy and numerous illegal antiquity dealers, any of whom might be out to kill Tempe and Ryan. Not that Tempe notices. She has the habit of being oblivious to danger, which quickly becomes annoying, as does Reichs''s tendency to end chapters with a heavy-handed cliffhanger ("His next words sent ice up my spine"). The plot is based on a number of real-life anthropological mysteries, and fans of such will have a good time, though thriller readers looking for chills and kills may not find the novel quite as satisfying.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the eighth entry in Reichs'' popular mystery series, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan spends more time contemplating biblical history than modern-day murder. A preface sets the stage, providing a bit of factual context for the puzzle that emerges when Tempe is given a photo of an articulated skeleton, which she is told is the key to the suspicious death of a slightly shady Orthodox Jewish merchant. The legend on the back of a photo leads to the bones themselves, 2,000-year-old remains that excite not only Tempe but also her friend Jake Drum, a biblical archaeologist, who suggests that the bones might even belong to Jesus himself! Unlike Tempe''s previous forays into the world of crime, this episode isn''t long on thrills. Instead, we get a fairly complicated lesson in biblical history, some radical theory to ponder, and the itch to read real-life religion professor James Tabor''s upcoming book about Masada and ancient bones,\n  <em>\n   The Jesus Dynasty,\n  </em>\n  to which Reichs refers in an afterword. Yet another read-alike for\n  <em>\n   Da Vinci Code\n  </em>\n  fans.\n  <em>\n   Stephanie Zvirin\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20615'),
(13286, 'Cross Country', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Detective Alex Cross pursues the most ruthless killer he''s ever encountered-to a land of sheer terror and back. It''s the worst crime scene Alex Cross has ever seen, and then more killings, each one more ruthless than the last, quickly follow. After one death comes terrifyingly close to home, Alex realizes he''s chasing a horrible new breed of killer.  Digging deeper into the case, Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, uncover a shocking Washington, D.C., underworld: a gang of teenage thugs headed by a warlord known only as the Tiger. When the Tiger''s elusive trail turns up in Africa, Alex knows that he must follow. Unprotected and alone, can Alex manage to both survive and catch the killer?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4828'),
(13287, 'Cross Country', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Detective Alex Cross pursues the most ruthless killer he''s ever encountered-to a land of sheer terror and back. It''s the worst crime scene Alex Cross has ever seen, and then more killings, each one more ruthless than the last, quickly follow. After one death comes terrifyingly close to home, Alex realizes he''s chasing a horrible new breed of killer. Digging deeper into the case, Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, uncover a shocking Washington, D.C., underworld: a gang of teenage thugs headed by a warlord known only as the Tiger. When the Tiger''s elusive trail turns up in Africa, Alex knows that he must follow. Unprotected and alone, can Alex manage to both survive and catch the killer?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19824'),
(13288, 'Cross Fire', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The breathtaking new thriller from the author ofBravo Two Zero. Body guarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone''s life is saved by a reporter''s swift action as a roadside bomb explodes. When the man later vanishes, Stone is asked to find him. The trail leads from Iraq to Bermuda, London and Kabul, the dark and brutal city where governments, terrorism and big business inexorably collide. Caught in the crossfire, his nightmare is only just beginning, for the hunter has suddenly become the hunted. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7643'),
(13289, 'Cross Fire', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The breathtaking new thriller from the author ofBravo Two Zero. Body guarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone''s life is saved by a reporter''s swift action as a roadside bomb explodes. When the man later vanishes, Stone is asked to find him. The trail leads from Iraq to Bermuda, London and Kabul, the dark and brutal city where governments, terrorism and big business inexorably collide. Caught in the crossfire, his nightmare is only just beginning, for the hunter has suddenly become the hunted. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11461'),
(13290, 'Cross Fire', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The breathtaking new thriller from the author ofBravo Two Zero. Body guarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone''s life is saved by a reporter''s swift action as a roadside bomb explodes. When the man later vanishes, Stone is asked to find him. The trail leads from Iraq to Bermuda, London and Kabul, the dark and brutal city where governments, terrorism and big business inexorably collide. Caught in the crossfire, his nightmare is only just beginning, for the hunter has suddenly become the hunted. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16224'),
(13291, 'Cross Your Heart, Connie Pickles', 'Sabine Durrant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Love, money, friendship . . . and incredibly uncomfortable underwear ? All these eternal mysteries are small challenges to Constance de Bellechasse. Too bad the glamorous inner persona of Constance comes through only as plain old Connie Pickles in everyday life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Connie''s first order of business: finding her mother a new husband. Connie enlists the help of her best friend, Julie, and before long everything spirals out of control. Boy-crazy Delilah begins fluttering around Connie''s best guy friend, Will, and ever-reliable Will has been acting strangely awkward around Connie. But with a little luck and a lot of determination, Connie is sure that she can make everything right again in her world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1443'),
(13292, 'Cross Your Heart, Connie Pickles', 'Sabine Durrant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Love, money, friendship . . . and incredibly uncomfortable underwear ? All these eternal mysteries are small challenges to Constance de Bellechasse. Too bad the glamorous inner persona of Constance comes through only as plain old Connie Pickles in everyday life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Connie''s first order of business: finding her mother a new husband. Connie enlists the help of her best friend, Julie, and before long everything spirals out of control. Boy-crazy Delilah begins fluttering around Connie''s best guy friend, Will, and ever-reliable Will has been acting strangely awkward around Connie. But with a little luck and a lot of determination, Connie is sure that she can make everything right again in her world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10874'),
(13293, 'Cross Your Heart, Connie Pickles', 'Sabine Durrant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Love, money, friendship . . . and incredibly uncomfortable underwear ? All these eternal mysteries are small challenges to Constance de Bellechasse. Too bad the glamorous inner persona of Constance comes through only as plain old Connie Pickles in everyday life. Connie''s first order of business: finding her mother a new husband. Connie enlists the help of her best friend, Julie, and before long everything spirals out of control. Boy-crazy Delilah begins fluttering around Connie''s best guy friend, Will, and ever-reliable Will has been acting strangely awkward around Connie. But with a little luck and a lot of determination, Connie is sure that she can make everything right again in her world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23450'),
(13294, 'Crosscurrent', 'Paul S. Kemp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An ancient Sith ship hurtles into the future carrying a lethal cargo that could forever destroy Luke Skywalkerâ€™s hopes for peace. The Civil War is almost over when Jedi Knight Jaden Korr experiences a Force vision so intense he must act. Enlisting two salvage jocks and their ship, Jaden sets out into space. Someoneâ€”or somethingâ€”appears to be in distress.But what Jaden and his crew find confounds them. A five-thousand-year-old dreadnaughtâ€”bringing with it a full force of Sith and one lone Jediâ€”has inadvertently catapulted eons from the past into the present. The shipâ€™s weapons may not be cutting-edge, but its cargo, a special ore that makes those who use the dark side nearly invincible, is unsurpassed. The ancient Jedi on board is determined to destroy the Sith. But for Jaden, even more is at stake: for his vision has led him to uncover a potentially indestructible threat to everything the Jedi Order stands for.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2231'),
(13295, 'Crosscurrent', 'Paul S. Kemp', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: An ancient Sith ship hurtles into the future carrying a lethal cargo that could forever destroy Luke Skywalkerâ€™s hopes for peace. The Civil War is almost over when Jedi Knight Jaden Korr experiences a Force vision so intense he must act. Enlisting two salvage jocks and their ship, Jaden sets out into space. Someoneâ€”or somethingâ€”appears to be in distress.But what Jaden and his crew find confounds them. A five-thousand-year-old dreadnaughtâ€”bringing with it a full force of Sith and one lone Jediâ€”has inadvertently catapulted eons from the past into the present. The shipâ€™s weapons may not be cutting-edge, but its cargo, a special ore that makes those who use the dark side nearly invincible, is unsurpassed. The ancient Jedi on board is determined to destroy the Sith. But for Jaden, even more is at stake: for his vision has led him to uncover a potentially indestructible threat to everything the Jedi Order stands for.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22544');
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(13296, 'Crossers', 'Philip Caputo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the acclaimed author of "Acts of Faith" ("A miracle . . . You can hardly conceive of a more affecting reading experience"--"Houston Chronicle"), a blistering new novel about the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border and about the unyielding power of the past to shape our lives. Taking us from the turn of the twentieth century to our present day, from the impoverished streets of rural Mexico to the manicured lawns of suburban Connecticut, from the hot and dusty air of an isolated ranch to New York City in the wake of 9/11, Caputo gives us an impeccably crafted story about three generations of an Arizona family forced to confront the violence and loss that have become its inheritance. When Gil Castle loses his wife in the Twin Tower attacks, he retreats to his family''s sprawling homestead in a remote corner of the Southwest. Consumed by grief, he has to find a way to live with his loss in this strange, forsaken part of the country, where drug lords have more power than police and violence is a constant presence. But it is also a world of vast open spaces, where Castle begins to rebuild his belief in the potential for happiness--until he starts to uncover the dark truths about his fearsome grandfather, a legacy that has been tightly shrouded in mystery in the years since the old man''s death. When Miguel Espinoza shows up at the ranch, terrified after two friends were murdered in a border-crossing drug deal gone bad, Castle agrees to take him in. Yet his act of generosity sets off a flood of violence and vengeance, a fierce reminder of the fact that while he may be able to reinvent himself, he may never escape his history. Searingly dramatic, bold and timely, "Crossers" is Philip Caputo''s most ambitious and brilliantly realized novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2159'),
(13297, 'Crossfire', 'Dick Francis &amp; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the enjoyable fourth and final collaboration between Francis (1920â€“2010) and son Felix (after Even Money), the army career of Capt. Thomas Forsyth abruptly ends when an IED in Afghanistan blows off one of his feet, leaving him with a prosthetic replacement (like another Francis lead, Sid Halley). Upon discharge from National Health Service care, Forsyth makes his way home to Lambourn, where he gets a less-than-warm welcome from his mother, Josephine Kauri, a horse trainer. After learning that her stable has had a series of mishaps, Forsyth discovers that Kauri has been sabotaging her own animals in response to a blackmailer''s threats to reveal her tax evasion to the authorities. With nothing else to occupy him, he turns detective to identify the extortionist. Though the plot details won''t linger as long as those in Dick Francis''s best work, like Whip Hand, this is still a suspenseful read. Francis aficionados will hope that Felix chooses to carry on the family tradition on his own.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Good authors never die; they leave behind at least one book. Francis, who died this year after writing a string of more than 40 racing mysteries, the last 3 in collaboration with his son, Felix, left at least this one book behind. For all lovers of old-fashioned, character-driven, plot-perfect suspense, this is like getting a windfall from a distant, deceased relative. The hero will remind longtime Francis fans of Sid Halley, the driving force of arguably Francisâ€™ finest mysteries. Both have had their careers cut short by a devastating injury (steeplechase jockey Halley lost his hand in a racing accident; new hero, British soldier Captain Tom Forsyth, had his foot blown off by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan). Both have to find their way out of pain and grief to construct a new life. Forsyth, temporarily cut loose from his regiment, returns to the home he fled at age 17, the cold and hostile environment of his mother, one of Britainâ€™s top racehorse trainers. While there, he stumbles into a blackmail plot involving his mother, one that puts her horses at high risk. The Francis team uses both Forsythâ€™s dilemma, which is how to find â€œtargets and objectivesâ€ in a blown-apart life, and his military skills to enable him to get to the bottom of a rotten mess. The plot reads like classic Francis; the research parts presumably come from Felix, and they add a lot of weight to the saddle. The publisher hints that Felix may be carrying on his fatherâ€™s legacy, but itâ€™s doubtful anyone can. Enjoy this bequest. --Connie Fletcher\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6010'),
(13298, 'Crossfire', 'Dick Francis &amp; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the enjoyable fourth and final collaboration between Francis (1920â€“2010) and son Felix (after Even Money), the army career of Capt. Thomas Forsyth abruptly ends when an IED in Afghanistan blows off one of his feet, leaving him with a prosthetic replacement (like another Francis lead, Sid Halley). Upon discharge from National Health Service care, Forsyth makes his way home to Lambourn, where he gets a less-than-warm welcome from his mother, Josephine Kauri, a horse trainer. After learning that her stable has had a series of mishaps, Forsyth discovers that Kauri has been sabotaging her own animals in response to a blackmailer''s threats to reveal her tax evasion to the authorities. With nothing else to occupy him, he turns detective to identify the extortionist. Though the plot details won''t linger as long as those in Dick Francis''s best work, like Whip Hand, this is still a suspenseful read. Francis aficionados will hope that Felix chooses to carry on the family tradition on his own.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Good authors never die; they leave behind at least one book. Francis, who died this year after writing a string of more than 40 racing mysteries, the last 3 in collaboration with his son, Felix, left at least this one book behind. For all lovers of old-fashioned, character-driven, plot-perfect suspense, this is like getting a windfall from a distant, deceased relative. The hero will remind longtime Francis fans of Sid Halley, the driving force of arguably Francisâ€™ finest mysteries. Both have had their careers cut short by a devastating injury (steeplechase jockey Halley lost his hand in a racing accident; new hero, British soldier Captain Tom Forsyth, had his foot blown off by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan). Both have to find their way out of pain and grief to construct a new life. Forsyth, temporarily cut loose from his regiment, returns to the home he fled at age 17, the cold and hostile environment of his mother, one of Britainâ€™s top racehorse trainers. While there, he stumbles into a blackmail plot involving his mother, one that puts her horses at high risk. The Francis team uses both Forsythâ€™s dilemma, which is how to find â€œtargets and objectivesâ€ in a blown-apart life, and his military skills to enable him to get to the bottom of a rotten mess. The plot reads like classic Francis; the research parts presumably come from Felix, and they add a lot of weight to the saddle. The publisher hints that Felix may be carrying on his fatherâ€™s legacy, but itâ€™s doubtful anyone can. Enjoy this bequest. --Connie Fletcher\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9840'),
(13299, 'Crossing Over', 'Anna Kendall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fourteen-year-old Roger has a peculiar gift that allows him to cross from the land of the living into the world of the deadâ€”but only at the point of extreme personal pain. He finds himself at court in the capital city, and he quickly becomes a tool in the deadly contest of wills between a young queen some say is not fit to rule and her mother, who refuses to relinquish the throne. Kendallâ€™s debut novel is an atmospheric coming-of-age tale that weaves ill-fated courtly love with Rogerâ€™s difficult journey to understand the world. The involving story is weakened just a little by unnecessary and oddly placed references to sexual arousal and characters that exhibit little overall growth. There are tantalizing references to a mysterious place known as Soulvine Moor, which receives short shrift when readers are finally taken there toward the novelâ€™s end. Despite this, Kendallâ€™s first effort will find fans who will cheer Roger on and hope for his constancy. Grades 8-11. --Cindy Welch\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "...an atmospheric depiction of her hero''s journey and freshly imagined vision of the afterlife should resonate with gothic fantasy fans." --_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7590'),
(13300, 'Crossing Over', 'Anna Kendall', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Fourteen-year-old Roger has a peculiar gift that allows him to cross from the land of the living into the world of the deadâ€”but only at the point of extreme personal pain. He finds himself at court in the capital city, and he quickly becomes a tool in the deadly contest of wills between a young queen some say is not fit to rule and her mother, who refuses to relinquish the throne. Kendallâ€™s debut novel is an atmospheric coming-of-age tale that weaves ill-fated courtly love with Rogerâ€™s difficult journey to understand the world. The involving story is weakened just a little by unnecessary and oddly placed references to sexual arousal and characters that exhibit little overall growth. There are tantalizing references to a mysterious place known as Soulvine Moor, which receives short shrift when readers are finally taken there toward the novelâ€™s end. Despite this, Kendallâ€™s first effort will find fans who will cheer Roger on and hope for his constancy. Grades 8-11. --Cindy Welch\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "...an atmospheric depiction of her hero''s journey and freshly imagined vision of the afterlife should resonate with gothic fantasy fans." --_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10692'),
(13301, 'Crossing Over', 'Kendall, Anna', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16313'),
(13302, 'The Crossing', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  This is Volume Two of the "Border Trilogy". ''"The Crossing", together with its predecessor "All the Pretty Horses", towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused with a grand solemnity'' - "Sunday Times". Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War, "The Crossing" follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy and his younger brother Boyd. Fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family''s property, Billy captures the animal - but rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from. When Billy comes back to his own home he finds himself and his world irrevocably changed. His loss of innocence has come at a price, and once again the border beckons with its desolate beauty and cruel promise. ''McCarthy writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read ...They are stories about people as real as the land they ride and as disturbing as the rituals they enact'' - "Daily Telegraph".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6540'),
(13303, 'The Crossing', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n "Volume Two of the Border Trilogy"  ''"The Crossing," together with its predecessor "All the Pretty Horses," towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused with a grand solemnity'' "Sunday Times"  Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War, "The Crossing" follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy and his younger brother Boyd. Fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family''s property, Billy captures the animal - but rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from.  When Billy comes back to his own home he finds himself and his world irrevocably changed. His loss of innocence has come at a price, and once again the border beckons with its desolate beauty and cruel promise.  ''McCarthy writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read . . . They are stories about people as real as the land they ride and as disturbing as the rituals they enact'' "Daily" "Telegraph"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17449'),
(13304, 'The Crossing', 'Cormac McCarthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy''s Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought.In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on the cusp of unimaginable events. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild amongst the cattle lately brought onto the plain by settlers -- this when all the wisdom of trappers has disappeared along with the trappers themselves. And so Billy sets forth at the age of sixteen on an unwitting journey into the souls of boys and animals and men. Having trapped a she-wolf he would restore to the mountains of Mexico, he is long gone and returns to find everything he left behind transformed utterly in his absence. Except his kid brother, Boyd, with whom he strikes out yet again to reclaim what is theirs thus crossing into "that antique gaze from whence there could be no way back forever."An essential novel by any measure, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is Volume Two of the "Border Trilogy". ''"The Crossing", together with its predecessor "All the Pretty Horses", towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused with a grand solemnity'' - "Sunday Times". Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War, "The Crossing" follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy and his younger brother Boyd. Fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family''s property, Billy captures the animal - but rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from. When Billy comes back to his own home he finds himself and his world irrevocably changed. His loss of innocence has come at a price, and once again the border beckons with its desolate beauty and cruel promise. ''McCarthy writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read ...They are stories about people as real as the land they ride and as disturbing as the rituals they enact'' - "Daily Telegraph".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27101'),
(13305, 'Crossings', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sailing to France aboard the majestic\n <em>\n  Normandie\n </em>\n amid rumors of an impending world war, the glamorous Liane De Villiers, wife of the French ambassador, meets a handsome American steel magnate trapped in a loveless marriage. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite rumors of impending war, the majestic ship\n <em>\n  Normandie\n </em>\n makes its transatlantic voyage from Washington D.C., to France. Aboard is beautiful, American-born Liane De Villiers, devoted to her much-older husband, the French ambassador to the United States, and her two daughters. She meets Nick Burnham, an American steel magnate, a kind man trapped in a loveless marriage. Their passion remains unacknowledged. But when the outbreak of World War II forces Liane to flee Paris, she and Nick meet again -- and pledge a love that can no longer be denied.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6354'),
(13306, 'Crossings', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sailing to France aboard the majestic\n <em>\n  Normandie\n </em>\n amid rumors of an impending world war, the glamorous Liane De Villiers, wife of the French ambassador, meets a handsome American steel magnate trapped in a loveless marriage. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite rumors of impending war, the majestic ship\n <em>\n  Normandie\n </em>\n makes its transatlantic voyage from Washington D.C., to France. Aboard is beautiful, American-born Liane De Villiers, devoted to her much-older husband, the French ambassador to the United States, and her two daughters. She meets Nick Burnham, an American steel magnate, a kind man trapped in a loveless marriage. Their passion remains unacknowledged. But when the outbreak of World War II forces Liane to flee Paris, she and Nick meet again -- and pledge a love that can no longer be denied.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12867'),
(13307, 'Crossings', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sailing to France aboard the majestic\n <em>\n  Normandie\n </em>\n amid rumors of an impending world war, the glamorous Liane De Villiers, wife of the French ambassador, meets a handsome American steel magnate trapped in a loveless marriage. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite rumors of impending war, the majestic ship\n <em>\n  Normandie\n </em>\n makes its transatlantic voyage from Washington D.C., to France. Aboard is beautiful, American-born Liane De Villiers, devoted to her much-older husband, the French ambassador to the United States, and her two daughters. She meets Nick Burnham, an American steel magnate, a kind man trapped in a loveless marriage. Their passion remains unacknowledged. But when the outbreak of World War II forces Liane to flee Paris, she and Nick meet again -- and pledge a love that can no longer be denied.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17602'),
(13308, 'Crossover', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Veteran Trek scribe Friedman (All Good Things...) delivers the goods again with the most interesting and ambitious novel to come from this complacent franchise in a while. Friedman assimilates characters from the original TV series into a rollicking adventure/rescue story. Ambassador Spock, still working toward reunification of the Vulcan and Romulan cultures, is captured with several of his proteges by a regional Romulan dictator with delusions of grandeur. Viewing Spock''s capture as a security risk, the Federation sends Captain Jean-Luc Picard''s Enterprise to negotiate Spock''s release, assigning 140-year-old Admiral McCoy to the ship because of his familiarity with Spock. Meanwhile, Scotty steals a starship and engages in his own one-man rescue attempt. The interplay is fast and furious, as is the action, while the political intrigues are sufficiently interesting, if not very complex. Readers will have a fine time second-guessing some of Friedman''s claims (Scotty went to the Academy?), while nodding in agreement with most of them. The prose, like several of the rescue attempts, lacks subtlety and grace but is suited to its task of telling a story that stars characters of whom most readers have already formed full and sympathetic portraits.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest Star Trek novel, by one of the most seasoned producers of ST fiction, is aptly titled. Not only do members of both the original and the\n  <em>\n   Next Generation\n  </em>\n  casts appear in it, but it deals with a situation in which both the Romulans and the Vulcans are striving to cross over from their long-standing mutual isolation from and hostility toward each other to some form, at least, of reunification (they were once members of the same race). The story takes place during Jean-Luc Picard''s command of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  but involves Mr. Spock, now a diplomat who is caught up in Romulan factional fighting that leads to his vividly described and nasty incarceration, among other things. Dr. McCoy and engineer Scotty, each of whom may be slowing down but has lost none of his ingenuity, must join forces, unofficially, with Picard and his crew, too, in order to bail out Spock and prevent the reunification effort from coming to a bloody end that would be disastrous for the United Federation of Planets as well as the two cultures directly involved. It''s a classic helping of ST adventure (you can almost hear the ST theme, sawed out on schmaltzy violins, welling up between the lines) that ought to please the seemingly endless saga''s legions of fans.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2835'),
(13309, 'Crossover', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Veteran Trek scribe Friedman (All Good Things...) delivers the goods again with the most interesting and ambitious novel to come from this complacent franchise in a while. Friedman assimilates characters from the original TV series into a rollicking adventure/rescue story. Ambassador Spock, still working toward reunification of the Vulcan and Romulan cultures, is captured with several of his proteges by a regional Romulan dictator with delusions of grandeur. Viewing Spock''s capture as a security risk, the Federation sends Captain Jean-Luc Picard''s Enterprise to negotiate Spock''s release, assigning 140-year-old Admiral McCoy to the ship because of his familiarity with Spock. Meanwhile, Scotty steals a starship and engages in his own one-man rescue attempt. The interplay is fast and furious, as is the action, while the political intrigues are sufficiently interesting, if not very complex. Readers will have a fine time second-guessing some of Friedman''s claims (Scotty went to the Academy?), while nodding in agreement with most of them. The prose, like several of the rescue attempts, lacks subtlety and grace but is suited to its task of telling a story that stars characters of whom most readers have already formed full and sympathetic portraits.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest Star Trek novel, by one of the most seasoned producers of ST fiction, is aptly titled. Not only do members of both the original and the\n  <em>\n   Next Generation\n  </em>\n  casts appear in it, but it deals with a situation in which both the Romulans and the Vulcans are striving to cross over from their long-standing mutual isolation from and hostility toward each other to some form, at least, of reunification (they were once members of the same race). The story takes place during Jean-Luc Picard''s command of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  but involves Mr. Spock, now a diplomat who is caught up in Romulan factional fighting that leads to his vividly described and nasty incarceration, among other things. Dr. McCoy and engineer Scotty, each of whom may be slowing down but has lost none of his ingenuity, must join forces, unofficially, with Picard and his crew, too, in order to bail out Spock and prevent the reunification effort from coming to a bloody end that would be disastrous for the United Federation of Planets as well as the two cultures directly involved. It''s a classic helping of ST adventure (you can almost hear the ST theme, sawed out on schmaltzy violins, welling up between the lines) that ought to please the seemingly endless saga''s legions of fans.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21997'),
(13310, 'Crossroads of Twilight', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the tenth book ofThe Wheel of Timefrom theNew York Times#1 bestselling author Robert Jordan, the world and the characters stand at a crossroads, and the world approaches twilight, when the power of the Shadow grows stronger. Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not in safety for either of them, for both the Shadow and the might of the Seanchan Empire are in deadly pursuit. Perrin Aybara seeks to free his wife, Faile, a captive of the Shaido, but his only hope may be an alliance with the enemy. Can he remain true to his friend Rand and to himself? For his love of Faile, Perrin is willing to sell his soul. At Tar Valon, Egwene al''Vere, the young Amyrlin of the rebel Aes Sedai, lays siege to the heart of Aes Sedai power, but she must win quickly, with as little bloodshed as possible, for unless the Aes Sedai are reunited, only the male Asha''man will remain to defend the world against the Dark One, and nothing can hold the Asha''man themselves back from total power except the Aes Sedai and a unified White Tower. In Andor, Elayne Trakland fights for the Lion Throne that is hers by right, but enemies and Darkfriends surround her, plotting her destruction. If she fails, Andor may fall to the Shadow, and the Dragon Reborn with it. Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn himself, has cleansed the Dark One''s taint from the male half of the True Source, and everything has changed. Yet nothing has, for only men who can channel believe thatsaidinis clean again, and a man who can channel is still hated and feared-even one prophesied to save the world. Now, Rand must gamble again, with himself at stake, and he cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the tenth book of he Wheel of Time from the New York Times #1 bestselling author Robert Jordan, the world and the characters stand at a crossroads, and the world approaches twilight, when the power of the Shadow grows stronger.Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not in safety for either of them, for both the Shadow and the might of the Seanchan Empire are in deadly pursuit.Perrin Aybara seeks to free his wife, Faile, a captive of the Shaido, but his only hope may be an alliance with the enemy. Can he remain true to his friend Rand and to himself? For his love of Faile, Perrin is willing to sell his soul.At Tar Valon, Egwene al''Vere, the young Amyrlin of the rebel Aes Sedai, lays siege to the heart of Aes Sedai power, but she must win quickly, with as little bloodshed as possible, for unless the Aes Sedai are reunited, only the male Asha''man will remain to defend the world against the Dark One, and nothing can hold the Asha''man themselves back from total power except the Aes Sedai and a unified White Tower.In Andor, Elayne Trakland fights for the Lion Throne that is hers by right, but enemies and Darkfriends surround her, plotting her destruction. If she fails, Andor may fall to the Shadow, and the Dragon Reborn with it.Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn himself, has cleansed the Dark One''s taint from the male half of the True Source, and everything has changed. Yet nothing has, for only men who can channel believe that saidin is clean again, and a man who can channel is still hated and feared-even one prophesied to save the world. Now, Rand must gamble again, with himself at stake, and he cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1617'),
(13311, 'Crossroads of Twilight', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the tenth book ofThe Wheel of Timefrom theNew York Times#1 bestselling author Robert Jordan, the world and the characters stand at a crossroads, and the world approaches twilight, when the power of the Shadow grows stronger. Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not in safety for either of them, for both the Shadow and the might of the Seanchan Empire are in deadly pursuit. Perrin Aybara seeks to free his wife, Faile, a captive of the Shaido, but his only hope may be an alliance with the enemy. Can he remain true to his friend Rand and to himself? For his love of Faile, Perrin is willing to sell his soul. At Tar Valon, Egwene al''Vere, the young Amyrlin of the rebel Aes Sedai, lays siege to the heart of Aes Sedai power, but she must win quickly, with as little bloodshed as possible, for unless the Aes Sedai are reunited, only the male Asha''man will remain to defend the world against the Dark One, and nothing can hold the Asha''man themselves back from total power except the Aes Sedai and a unified White Tower. In Andor, Elayne Trakland fights for the Lion Throne that is hers by right, but enemies and Darkfriends surround her, plotting her destruction. If she fails, Andor may fall to the Shadow, and the Dragon Reborn with it. Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn himself, has cleansed the Dark One''s taint from the male half of the True Source, and everything has changed. Yet nothing has, for only men who can channel believe thatsaidinis clean again, and a man who can channel is still hated and feared-even one prophesied to save the world. Now, Rand must gamble again, with himself at stake, and he cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the tenth book of he Wheel of Time from the New York Times #1 bestselling author Robert Jordan, the world and the characters stand at a crossroads, and the world approaches twilight, when the power of the Shadow grows stronger.Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not in safety for either of them, for both the Shadow and the might of the Seanchan Empire are in deadly pursuit.Perrin Aybara seeks to free his wife, Faile, a captive of the Shaido, but his only hope may be an alliance with the enemy. Can he remain true to his friend Rand and to himself? For his love of Faile, Perrin is willing to sell his soul.At Tar Valon, Egwene al''Vere, the young Amyrlin of the rebel Aes Sedai, lays siege to the heart of Aes Sedai power, but she must win quickly, with as little bloodshed as possible, for unless the Aes Sedai are reunited, only the male Asha''man will remain to defend the world against the Dark One, and nothing can hold the Asha''man themselves back from total power except the Aes Sedai and a unified White Tower.In Andor, Elayne Trakland fights for the Lion Throne that is hers by right, but enemies and Darkfriends surround her, plotting her destruction. If she fails, Andor may fall to the Shadow, and the Dragon Reborn with it.Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn himself, has cleansed the Dark One''s taint from the male half of the True Source, and everything has changed. Yet nothing has, for only men who can channel believe that saidin is clean again, and a man who can channel is still hated and feared-even one prophesied to save the world. Now, Rand must gamble again, with himself at stake, and he cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10601'),
(13312, 'Crossroads of twilight', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the tenth book ofThe Wheel of Timefrom theNew York Times#1 bestselling author Robert Jordan, the world and the characters stand at a crossroads, and the world approaches twilight, when the power of the Shadow grows stronger. Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not in safety for either of them, for both the Shadow and the might of the Seanchan Empire are in deadly pursuit. Perrin Aybara seeks to free his wife, Faile, a captive of the Shaido, but his only hope may be an alliance with the enemy. Can he remain true to his friend Rand and to himself? For his love of Faile, Perrin is willing to sell his soul. At Tar Valon, Egwene al''Vere, the young Amyrlin of the rebel Aes Sedai, lays siege to the heart of Aes Sedai power, but she must win quickly, with as little bloodshed as possible, for unless the Aes Sedai are reunited, only the male Asha''man will remain to defend the world against the Dark One, and nothing can hold the Asha''man themselves back from total power except the Aes Sedai and a unified White Tower. In Andor, Elayne Trakland fights for the Lion Throne that is hers by right, but enemies and Darkfriends surround her, plotting her destruction. If she fails, Andor may fall to the Shadow, and the Dragon Reborn with it. Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn himself, has cleansed the Dark One''s taint from the male half of the True Source, and everything has changed. Yet nothing has, for only men who can channel believe thatsaidinis clean again, and a man who can channel is still hated and feared-even one prophesied to save the world. Now, Rand must gamble again, with himself at stake, and he cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies. SUMMARY: In the tenth book of he Wheel of Time from the New York Times #1 bestselling author Robert Jordan, the world and the characters stand at a crossroads, and the world approaches twilight, when the power of the Shadow grows stronger.Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not in safety for either of them, for both the Shadow and the might of the Seanchan Empire are in deadly pursuit.Perrin Aybara seeks to free his wife, Faile, a captive of the Shaido, but his only hope may be an alliance with the enemy. Can he remain true to his friend Rand and to himself? For his love of Faile, Perrin is willing to sell his soul.At Tar Valon, Egwene al''Vere, the young Amyrlin of the rebel Aes Sedai, lays siege to the heart of Aes Sedai power, but she must win quickly, with as little bloodshed as possible, for unless the Aes Sedai are reunited, only the male Asha''man will remain to defend the world against the Dark One, and nothing can hold the Asha''man themselves back from total power except the Aes Sedai and a unified White Tower.In Andor, Elayne Trakland fights for the Lion Throne that is hers by right, but enemies and Darkfriends surround her, plotting her destruction. If she fails, Andor may fall to the Shadow, and the Dragon Reborn with it.Rand al''Thor, the Dragon Reborn himself, has cleansed the Dark One''s taint from the male half of the True Source, and everything has changed. Yet nothing has, for only men who can channel believe that saidin is clean again, and a man who can channel is still hated and feared-even one prophesied to save the world. Now, Rand must gamble again, with himself at stake, and he cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23246'),
(13313, 'Crouch End', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22993'),
(13314, 'The Crow Road', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bachâ€™s Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach."So begins Iain Banksâ€™ The Crow Road, the tale of Prentice McHoan and his complex but enduring Scottish family. Prentice, preoccupied with thoughts of sex, death, booze, drugs, and God, has returned to his home village of Gallanach full of questions about the McHoan past, present, and future.When his beloved Uncle Rory disappears, Prentice becomes obsessed with the papers Rory left behind â€” the notes and sketches for a book called The Crow Road. With the help of an old friend, Prentice sets out to solve the mystery of his uncleâ€™s disappearance, inadvertently confronting the McHoansâ€™ long association with tragedy â€” an association that includes his sisterâ€™s fatal car crash and his fatherâ€™s dramatic death by lightning. The Crow Road is a coming-of-age story as only Iain Banks could write â€” an arresting combination of dark humor, menace, and thought-provoking meditations on the nature of love, mortality, and identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5028'),
(13315, 'The Crow Road', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bachâ€™s Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach."So begins Iain Banksâ€™ The Crow Road, the tale of Prentice McHoan and his complex but enduring Scottish family. Prentice, preoccupied with thoughts of sex, death, booze, drugs, and God, has returned to his home village of Gallanach full of questions about the McHoan past, present, and future.When his beloved Uncle Rory disappears, Prentice becomes obsessed with the papers Rory left behind â€” the notes and sketches for a book called The Crow Road. With the help of an old friend, Prentice sets out to solve the mystery of his uncleâ€™s disappearance, inadvertently confronting the McHoansâ€™ long association with tragedy â€” an association that includes his sisterâ€™s fatal car crash and his fatherâ€™s dramatic death by lightning. The Crow Road is a coming-of-age story as only Iain Banks could write â€” an arresting combination of dark humor, menace, and thought-provoking meditations on the nature of love, mortality, and identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8353'),
(13316, 'The Crow Road', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bachâ€™s Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach."So begins Iain Banksâ€™ The Crow Road, the tale of Prentice McHoan and his complex but enduring Scottish family. Prentice, preoccupied with thoughts of sex, death, booze, drugs, and God, has returned to his home village of Gallanach full of questions about the McHoan past, present, and future.When his beloved Uncle Rory disappears, Prentice becomes obsessed with the papers Rory left behind â€” the notes and sketches for a book called The Crow Road. With the help of an old friend, Prentice sets out to solve the mystery of his uncleâ€™s disappearance, inadvertently confronting the McHoansâ€™ long association with tragedy â€” an association that includes his sisterâ€™s fatal car crash and his fatherâ€™s dramatic death by lightning. The Crow Road is a coming-of-age story as only Iain Banks could write â€” an arresting combination of dark humor, menace, and thought-provoking meditations on the nature of love, mortality, and identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15222'),
(13317, 'The Crow Road', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. ''It was the day my grandmother exploded.\n</p>\n<p>\n I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach''s Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach.'' Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family.\n</p>\n<p>\n Full of questions about the McHoan past, present and future, he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death, sex, drink, God and illegal substances...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19547'),
(13318, 'The Crow Road', 'Iain Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach''s "Mass in B Minor," and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach." So begins Iain Banks'' "The Crow Road," the tale of Prentice McHoan and his complex but enduring Scottish family. Prentice, preoccupied with thoughts of sex, death, booze, drugs, and God, has returned to his home village of Gallanach full of questions about the McHoan past, present, and future. When his beloved Uncle Rory disappears, Prentice becomes obsessed with the papers Rory left behind -- the notes and sketches for a book called "The Crow Road." With the help of an old friend, Prentice sets out to solve the mystery of his uncle''s disappearance, inadvertently confronting the McHoans'' long association with tragedy -- an association that includes his sister''s fatal car crash and his father''s dramatic death by lightning. "The Crow Road" is a coming-of-age story as only Iain Banks could write -- an arresting combination of dark humor, menace, and thought-provoking meditations on the nature of love, mortality, and identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26168'),
(13319, 'The Crowd. A Study of the Popular Mind', 'Gustave le Bon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR''d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18348'),
(13320, 'Crown of Shadows', 'C. S. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This closing volume of Friedman''s Coldfire trilogy (When True Night Falls; Black Sun Rising) ably concludes one of the better fantasy series in recent memory. Even readers unfamiliar with the earlier volumes will quickly be enmeshed in the struggles of the Reverend Damien Vryce and The Hunter, Gerald Tarrant, to maintain the order of the planet Erna against the forces of the demon Calesta. The battle is made more complicated in this volume by the development of an allegiance between Calesta and Andrys Tarrant, a descendant of Gerald''s who vows vengeance on his ancestor. Andrys is a bit too inept to ever seem threatening, however, and a bit too lacking in joie de vivre to come off as a classic Pretender/Fool. But the sections without Andrys, especially those focusing on The Hunter, are interesting enough, and as the final battles?involving The Church, The Hunter, the forces of Calesta and various people and factions whose alignments vary throughout the novel?are held around The Hunter''s keep, readers will be enthralled. While Friedman introduces a science fictional raising-of-the-stakes gambit here that isn''t entirely satisfying, her general mastery of her material should delight her fans.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Despite opposition by his Patriarch, warrior priest Damien Vryce again seeks the assistance of the immortal sorcerer Gerald Tarrant. While racing against time to prevent the enslavement of their world, the two men find themselves trapped between justice and retribution. Betrayal and loyalty assume ironic forms in this conclusion to Friedman''s complex and compelling "Cold Fire Trilogy." The richly detailed setting and strong supporting characters give substance to a tale that explores the consequences of embracing evil in hopes of achieving its redemption. A priority purchase for fantasy collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7065'),
(13321, 'Crown of Shadows', 'C. S. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This closing volume of Friedman''s Coldfire trilogy (When True Night Falls; Black Sun Rising) ably concludes one of the better fantasy series in recent memory. Even readers unfamiliar with the earlier volumes will quickly be enmeshed in the struggles of the Reverend Damien Vryce and The Hunter, Gerald Tarrant, to maintain the order of the planet Erna against the forces of the demon Calesta. The battle is made more complicated in this volume by the development of an allegiance between Calesta and Andrys Tarrant, a descendant of Gerald''s who vows vengeance on his ancestor. Andrys is a bit too inept to ever seem threatening, however, and a bit too lacking in joie de vivre to come off as a classic Pretender/Fool. But the sections without Andrys, especially those focusing on The Hunter, are interesting enough, and as the final battles?involving The Church, The Hunter, the forces of Calesta and various people and factions whose alignments vary throughout the novel?are held around The Hunter''s keep, readers will be enthralled. While Friedman introduces a science fictional raising-of-the-stakes gambit here that isn''t entirely satisfying, her general mastery of her material should delight her fans.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Despite opposition by his Patriarch, warrior priest Damien Vryce again seeks the assistance of the immortal sorcerer Gerald Tarrant. While racing against time to prevent the enslavement of their world, the two men find themselves trapped between justice and retribution. Betrayal and loyalty assume ironic forms in this conclusion to Friedman''s complex and compelling "Cold Fire Trilogy." The richly detailed setting and strong supporting characters give substance to a tale that explores the consequences of embracing evil in hopes of achieving its redemption. A priority purchase for fantasy collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9784');
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(13322, 'Crown of Shadows', 'C. S. Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This closing volume of Friedman''s Coldfire trilogy (When True Night Falls; Black Sun Rising) ably concludes one of the better fantasy series in recent memory. Even readers unfamiliar with the earlier volumes will quickly be enmeshed in the struggles of the Reverend Damien Vryce and The Hunter, Gerald Tarrant, to maintain the order of the planet Erna against the forces of the demon Calesta. The battle is made more complicated in this volume by the development of an allegiance between Calesta and Andrys Tarrant, a descendant of Gerald''s who vows vengeance on his ancestor. Andrys is a bit too inept to ever seem threatening, however, and a bit too lacking in joie de vivre to come off as a classic Pretender/Fool. But the sections without Andrys, especially those focusing on The Hunter, are interesting enough, and as the final battles?involving The Church, The Hunter, the forces of Calesta and various people and factions whose alignments vary throughout the novel?are held around The Hunter''s keep, readers will be enthralled. While Friedman introduces a science fictional raising-of-the-stakes gambit here that isn''t entirely satisfying, her general mastery of her material should delight her fans.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Despite opposition by his Patriarch, warrior priest Damien Vryce again seeks the assistance of the immortal sorcerer Gerald Tarrant. While racing against time to prevent the enslavement of their world, the two men find themselves trapped between justice and retribution. Betrayal and loyalty assume ironic forms in this conclusion to Friedman''s complex and compelling "Cold Fire Trilogy." The richly detailed setting and strong supporting characters give substance to a tale that explores the consequences of embracing evil in hopes of achieving its redemption. A priority purchase for fantasy collections.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16891'),
(13323, 'A Crown of Swords', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. THE WHEEL OF TIME Book One:The Eye of the World Book Two:The Great Hunt Book Three:The Dragon Reborn Book Four:The Shadow Rising Book Five:The Fires of Heaven Book Six:Lord of Chaos Book Seven:A Crown of Swords Book Eight:The Path of Daggers Book Nine:Winter''s Heart Book Ten:Crossroads of Twilight\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1616'),
(13324, 'A Crown of Swords', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. THE WHEEL OF TIME Book One:The Eye of the World Book Two:The Great Hunt Book Three:The Dragon Reborn Book Four:The Shadow Rising Book Five:The Fires of Heaven Book Six:Lord of Chaos Book Seven:A Crown of Swords Book Eight:The Path of Daggers Book Nine:Winter''s Heart Book Ten:Crossroads of Twilight\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10612'),
(13325, 'A crown of swords', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. THE WHEEL OF TIME Book One:The Eye of the World Book Two:The Great Hunt Book Three:The Dragon Reborn Book Four:The Shadow Rising Book Five:The Fires of Heaven Book Six:Lord of Chaos Book Seven:A Crown of Swords Book Eight:The Path of Daggers Book Nine:Winter''s Heart Book Ten:Crossroads of Twilight\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23247'),
(13326, 'The Crown of the Blood', 'Gav Thorpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ULLSAARD HAS CONQUERED THE KNOWN WORLD.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n All have fallen before his armies.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now it''s time to take the long journey home, back to the revered heart of the great Empire he had helped create for his distant masters. But when he returns to the capital, life there is so very different from what he had believed. Could it be that everything he has fought for, has conquered and killed for, has been a lie?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5442'),
(13327, 'The Crown of the Blood', 'Thorpe, Gav', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19178'),
(13328, 'Crows (Charmed Destinies) Counting', 'Mercedes Lackey, Rachel Lee, Catherine Asaro - Charmed Destinies', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21664'),
(13329, 'Crucea de gheata', 'Lino Aldani', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25426'),
(13330, 'Crucible of War: The Seven Years&#39; War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766', 'Fred Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years'' War--long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution--takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain''s empire and to sow the seeds of its eventual dissolution.\n</p>\n<p>\n Beginning with a skirmish in the Pennsylvania backcountry involving an inexperienced George Washington, the Iroquois chief Tanaghrisson, and the ill-fated French emissary Jumonville, Anderson reveals a chain of events that would lead to world conflagration. Weaving together the military, economic, and political motives of the participants with unforgettable portraits of Washington, William Pitt, Montcalm, and many others, Anderson brings a fresh perspective to one of America''s most important wars, demonstrating how the forces unleashed there would irrevocably change the politics of empire in North America.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8164'),
(13331, 'The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts', 'Arthur Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller''s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town''s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy''s witch-hunts in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it meets with diabolical malevolence."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7469'),
(13332, 'The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts', 'Arthur Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller''s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town''s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy''s witch-hunts in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it meets with diabolical malevolence."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11447'),
(13333, 'The crucible: a play in four acts', 'Arthur Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller''s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town''s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy''s witch-hunts in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it meets with diabolical malevolence."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14382'),
(13334, 'The crucible: a play in four acts', 'Arthur Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller''s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town''s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy''s witch-hunts in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it meets with diabolical malevolence."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16474'),
(13335, 'The crucible: a play in four acts', 'Arthur Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller''s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town''s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy''s witch-hunts in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it meets with diabolical malevolence."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26495'),
(13336, 'The Crucifix Killer', 'Chris Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a derelict cottage in L.A, a young woman is found savagely murdered. Naked, strung from two wooden posts, the skin has been ripped from her face - while she was still alive. On the nape of her neck is carved a strange double-cross: the signature of a psychopath known as the Crucifix Killer. But that''s not possible. Because, two years ago, the Crucifix Killer was caught and executed. Could this be the work of a copycat? Or is Homicide Detective Robert Hunter forced to face the unthinkable? Is the real Crucifix Killer still out there, taunting Hunter with his inability to catch him? Robert Hunter and his rookie partner are about to enter a nightmare beyond imagining ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6825'),
(13337, 'The Crucifix Killer', 'Chris Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a derelict cottage in L.A, a young woman is found savagely murdered. Naked, strung from two wooden posts, the skin has been ripped from her face - while she was still alive. On the nape of her neck is carved a strange double-cross: the signature of a psychopath known as the Crucifix Killer. But that''s not possible. Because, two years ago, the Crucifix Killer was caught and executed. Could this be the work of a copycat? Or is Homicide Detective Robert Hunter forced to face the unthinkable? Is the real Crucifix Killer still out there, taunting Hunter with his inability to catch him? Robert Hunter and his rookie partner are about to enter a nightmare beyond imagining ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8793'),
(13338, 'The Crucifix Killer', 'Chris Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a derelict cottage in L.A, a young woman is found savagely murdered. Naked, strung from two wooden posts, the skin has been ripped from her face - while she was still alive. On the nape of her neck is carved a strange double-cross: the signature of a psychopath known as the Crucifix Killer. But that''s not possible. Because, two years ago, the Crucifix Killer was caught and executed. Could this be the work of a copycat? Or is Homicide Detective Robert Hunter forced to face the unthinkable? Is the real Crucifix Killer still out there, taunting Hunter with his inability to catch him? Robert Hunter and his rookie partner are about to enter a nightmare beyond imagining ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17141'),
(13339, 'Crucifixion River', 'Marcia Muller &amp; Bill Pronzini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this Spur Award-winning story, a Pinkerton detective, a couple on the run, a wanted man, and a traveling salesman with mysterious wares all converge on the banks of Crucifixion River to take shelter from an impending storm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3231'),
(13340, 'Crucifixion River', 'Marcia Muller &amp; Bill Pronzini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this Spur Award-winning story, a Pinkerton detective, a couple on the run, a wanted man, and a traveling salesman with mysterious wares all converge on the banks of Crucifixion River to take shelter from an impending storm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11640'),
(13341, 'Cruddy', 'Lynda Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping two of the 127 hits of acid found in a friend''s shoe, a sixteen-year-old who is grounded for a year curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom, picks up a pen, and begins to write.  "Once upon a cruddy time on a cruddy street on the side of a cruddy hill in the cruddiest part of a crudded-out town in a cruddy state, country, world, solar system, universe. The cruddy girl named Roberta was writing the cruddy book of her cruddy life and the name of the book was called Cruddy.  Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boiling desert, covered with blood. She could not give the authorities any information about why she was the only survivor and everyone else was lying around in hacked-up pieces."  Roberta Rohbeson, 1971. Her overblown, drug-induced teenage rant against a world bounded by "the cruddy top bedroom of a cruddy rental house on a very cruddy mud road behind cruddy Black Cat Lumber" soon becomes a detailed account of another story. It is a story about which Roberta has kept silent for five years, until, under the influence of a pale hippie called the Turtle and a drug called Creeper, her tale giddily unspools...  Roberta Rohbeson, 1967. The world of Roberta, age eleven, is terrifyingly unbounded, a one-way cross-country road trip fueled by revenge and by greed, a violent, hallucinatory, sometimes funny, more often horrific year of killings, betrayals, arson, and a sinister set of butcher knives, each with its own name.  Welcome to "Cruddy, " Lynda Barry''s masterful tale of the two intertwined narratives set five years -- an eternity -- apart, which form the backbone of Roberta''s life. "Cruddy" is a wild ride indeed, a fairy tale-"cum"-low-budget horror movie populated by a cast of characters that will remain vivid in the reader''s mind long after the final page: Roberta''s father, a dangerous alcoholic and out-of-work meat cutter in search of his swindled inheritance; the frightening owners of the Knocking Hammer Bar and sometime slaughterhouse; and two charming but quite mad escapees from the Barbara V. Herrmann Home for Adolescent Rest. Written with a teenager''s eye for freakish detail and a nervous ability to make the most horrible scenes seem hilarious, Roberta''s two stories -- part "Easy Rider" and part bipolar "Wizard of Oz" -- painfully but inevitably converge in a surprising denouement in a nightmarish Dreamland in the Nevada desert.  By turns terrifying, darkly funny, and resonant with humanity, propelled by all the narrative power of a superior thriller and burnished by the author''s pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, "Cruddy" is a stunning achievement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3175'),
(13342, 'Cruddy', 'Lynda Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping two of the 127 hits of acid found in a friend''s shoe, a sixteen-year-old who is grounded for a year curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom, picks up a pen, and begins to write.  "Once upon a cruddy time on a cruddy street on the side of a cruddy hill in the cruddiest part of a crudded-out town in a cruddy state, country, world, solar system, universe. The cruddy girl named Roberta was writing the cruddy book of her cruddy life and the name of the book was called Cruddy.  Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boiling desert, covered with blood. She could not give the authorities any information about why she was the only survivor and everyone else was lying around in hacked-up pieces."  Roberta Rohbeson, 1971. Her overblown, drug-induced teenage rant against a world bounded by "the cruddy top bedroom of a cruddy rental house on a very cruddy mud road behind cruddy Black Cat Lumber" soon becomes a detailed account of another story. It is a story about which Roberta has kept silent for five years, until, under the influence of a pale hippie called the Turtle and a drug called Creeper, her tale giddily unspools...  Roberta Rohbeson, 1967. The world of Roberta, age eleven, is terrifyingly unbounded, a one-way cross-country road trip fueled by revenge and by greed, a violent, hallucinatory, sometimes funny, more often horrific year of killings, betrayals, arson, and a sinister set of butcher knives, each with its own name.  Welcome to "Cruddy, " Lynda Barry''s masterful tale of the two intertwined narratives set five years -- an eternity -- apart, which form the backbone of Roberta''s life. "Cruddy" is a wild ride indeed, a fairy tale-"cum"-low-budget horror movie populated by a cast of characters that will remain vivid in the reader''s mind long after the final page: Roberta''s father, a dangerous alcoholic and out-of-work meat cutter in search of his swindled inheritance; the frightening owners of the Knocking Hammer Bar and sometime slaughterhouse; and two charming but quite mad escapees from the Barbara V. Herrmann Home for Adolescent Rest. Written with a teenager''s eye for freakish detail and a nervous ability to make the most horrible scenes seem hilarious, Roberta''s two stories -- part "Easy Rider" and part bipolar "Wizard of Oz" -- painfully but inevitably converge in a surprising denouement in a nightmarish Dreamland in the Nevada desert.  By turns terrifying, darkly funny, and resonant with humanity, propelled by all the narrative power of a superior thriller and burnished by the author''s pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, "Cruddy" is a stunning achievement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8390'),
(13343, 'Cruddy', 'Lynda Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping two of the 127 hits of acid found in a friend''s shoe, a sixteen-year-old who is grounded for a year curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom, picks up a pen, and begins to write. "Once upon a cruddy time on a cruddy street on the side of a cruddy hill in the cruddiest part of a crudded-out town in a cruddy state, country, world, solar system, universe. The cruddy girl named Roberta was writing the cruddy book of her cruddy life and the name of the book was called Cruddy. Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boiling desert, covered with blood. She could not give the authorities any information about why she was the only survivor and everyone else was lying around in hacked-up pieces." Roberta Rohbeson, 1971. Her overblown, drug-induced teenage rant against a world bounded by "the cruddy top bedroom of a cruddy rental house on a very cruddy mud road behind cruddy Black Cat Lumber" soon becomes a detailed account of another story. It is a story about which Roberta has kept silent for five years, until, under the influence of a pale hippie called the Turtle and a drug called Creeper, her tale giddily unspools... Roberta Rohbeson, 1967. The world of Roberta, age eleven, is terrifyingly unbounded, a one-way cross-country road trip fueled by revenge and by greed, a violent, hallucinatory, sometimes funny, more often horrific year of killings, betrayals, arson, and a sinister set of butcher knives, each with its own name. Welcome to "Cruddy, " Lynda Barry''s masterful tale of the two intertwined narratives set five years -- an eternity -- apart, which form the backbone of Roberta''s life. "Cruddy" is a wild ride indeed, a fairy tale-"cum"-low-budget horror movie populated by a cast of characters that will remain vivid in the reader''s mind long after the final page: Roberta''s father, a dangerous alcoholic and out-of-work meat cutter in search of his swindled inheritance; the frightening owners of the Knocking Hammer Bar and sometime slaughterhouse; and two charming but quite mad escapees from the Barbara V. Herrmann Home for Adolescent Rest. Written with a teenager''s eye for freakish detail and a nervous ability to make the most horrible scenes seem hilarious, Roberta''s two stories -- part "Easy Rider" and part bipolar "Wizard of Oz" -- painfully but inevitably converge in a surprising denouement in a nightmarish Dreamland in the Nevada desert. By turns terrifying, darkly funny, and resonant with humanity, propelled by all the narrative power of a superior thriller and burnished by the author''s pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, "Cruddy" is a stunning achievement.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21251'),
(13344, 'The Cruel Stars of the Night', 'Kjell Eriksson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Swedish author Eriksson''s fine second ensemble procedural (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   The Princess of Burundi\n  </em>\n  ), members of the Uppsala Violent Crime Division try to connect the dots linking the separate murders of two old men and the disappearance of a third. Eriksson eschews crackling dialogue and facile descriptions in favor of longer, slower developing profiles of the principal men and women of the police unit: Ann Lindell, Ola Haver, Sammy Nilsson, Allan Fredricksson and others. Their investigation proceeds in parallel with the story of Laura Hindersten, daughter of the missing man. Eriksson balances these stories nicely as the detectives reach for clues. Lindell, the single mother of a young boy, emerges as the most compelling investigator, but the others are also distinct individuals. The author''s squad of detectives displays the kind of interdependency and fractious loyalty that endeared Ed McBain''s 87th Precinct squad (_Cop Hater_, etc.) to fans for so many decades.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This second procedural to appear in the U.S. from yet another Swedish crime fiction star follows in the substantial footsteps of the critically acclaimed\n  <em>\n   Princess of Burundi\n  </em>\n  (2006). This time Eriksson departs a bit from the Ed McBain-like ensemble focus used in the previous book; here the point of view stays mostly with police inspector Ann Lindell as she and her colleagues investigate the murders of three seemingly unrelated men in Uppsala. The connection, unclear to the police, is immediately apparent to the reader, as Eriksson alternates point of view between Lindell and a troubled woman, Laura, whose father has recently disappeared. Dramatic irony builds as we wait for Lindell to connect the dots. Once again Eriksson displays considerable finesse in portraying the inner lives of his cast and in showing how the various inspectors attempt to cope with the strains of the job. This time, though, the alternating focus on the civilian characters is less successful, with the detailed dissection of Laura''s tangled psyche proving more distracting than compelling. Still, Eriksson is a major talent, and his feel for ensemble narrative will have McBain devotees enthralled.\n  <em>\n   Bill Ott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3728'),
(13345, 'The Cruel Stars of the Night', 'Kjell Eriksson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Swedish author Eriksson''s fine second ensemble procedural (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   The Princess of Burundi\n  </em>\n  ), members of the Uppsala Violent Crime Division try to connect the dots linking the separate murders of two old men and the disappearance of a third. Eriksson eschews crackling dialogue and facile descriptions in favor of longer, slower developing profiles of the principal men and women of the police unit: Ann Lindell, Ola Haver, Sammy Nilsson, Allan Fredricksson and others. Their investigation proceeds in parallel with the story of Laura Hindersten, daughter of the missing man. Eriksson balances these stories nicely as the detectives reach for clues. Lindell, the single mother of a young boy, emerges as the most compelling investigator, but the others are also distinct individuals. The author''s squad of detectives displays the kind of interdependency and fractious loyalty that endeared Ed McBain''s 87th Precinct squad (_Cop Hater_, etc.) to fans for so many decades.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This second procedural to appear in the U.S. from yet another Swedish crime fiction star follows in the substantial footsteps of the critically acclaimed\n  <em>\n   Princess of Burundi\n  </em>\n  (2006). This time Eriksson departs a bit from the Ed McBain-like ensemble focus used in the previous book; here the point of view stays mostly with police inspector Ann Lindell as she and her colleagues investigate the murders of three seemingly unrelated men in Uppsala. The connection, unclear to the police, is immediately apparent to the reader, as Eriksson alternates point of view between Lindell and a troubled woman, Laura, whose father has recently disappeared. Dramatic irony builds as we wait for Lindell to connect the dots. Once again Eriksson displays considerable finesse in portraying the inner lives of his cast and in showing how the various inspectors attempt to cope with the strains of the job. This time, though, the alternating focus on the civilian characters is less successful, with the detailed dissection of Laura''s tangled psyche proving more distracting than compelling. Still, Eriksson is a major talent, and his feel for ensemble narrative will have McBain devotees enthralled.\n  <em>\n   Bill Ott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9633'),
(13346, 'The Cruel Stars of the Night', 'Kjell Eriksson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Swedish author Eriksson''s fine second ensemble procedural (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   The Princess of Burundi\n  </em>\n  ), members of the Uppsala Violent Crime Division try to connect the dots linking the separate murders of two old men and the disappearance of a third. Eriksson eschews crackling dialogue and facile descriptions in favor of longer, slower developing profiles of the principal men and women of the police unit: Ann Lindell, Ola Haver, Sammy Nilsson, Allan Fredricksson and others. Their investigation proceeds in parallel with the story of Laura Hindersten, daughter of the missing man. Eriksson balances these stories nicely as the detectives reach for clues. Lindell, the single mother of a young boy, emerges as the most compelling investigator, but the others are also distinct individuals. The author''s squad of detectives displays the kind of interdependency and fractious loyalty that endeared Ed McBain''s 87th Precinct squad (_Cop Hater_, etc.) to fans for so many decades.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This second procedural to appear in the U.S. from yet another Swedish crime fiction star follows in the substantial footsteps of the critically acclaimed\n  <em>\n   Princess of Burundi\n  </em>\n  (2006). This time Eriksson departs a bit from the Ed McBain-like ensemble focus used in the previous book; here the point of view stays mostly with police inspector Ann Lindell as she and her colleagues investigate the murders of three seemingly unrelated men in Uppsala. The connection, unclear to the police, is immediately apparent to the reader, as Eriksson alternates point of view between Lindell and a troubled woman, Laura, whose father has recently disappeared. Dramatic irony builds as we wait for Lindell to connect the dots. Once again Eriksson displays considerable finesse in portraying the inner lives of his cast and in showing how the various inspectors attempt to cope with the strains of the job. This time, though, the alternating focus on the civilian characters is less successful, with the detailed dissection of Laura''s tangled psyche proving more distracting than compelling. Still, Eriksson is a major talent, and his feel for ensemble narrative will have McBain devotees enthralled.\n  <em>\n   Bill Ott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20791'),
(13347, 'Cruel Zinc Melodies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Garrett uncovers the dark side of the fantasy city TunFaire, where no-one is to be trusted especially beautiful woman. When a pack of gorgeous woman knock on his door, Garrett knows it-s too good to be true. The leader of the group is Alyx Weider, the daughter of the largest brewer in town. Her father and friends are opening a new theater in TunFaire and the lovely ladies are there to persuade Garrett to help get rid of the paranormal parasites living in the new construction. Garrett agrees because after all, it means free beer and the company of these beautiful girls. What else could a man want? But Garrett doesn-t realize the drama he-s stepping into.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5347'),
(13348, 'Cruel Zinc Melodies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Garrett uncovers the dark side of the fantasy city TunFaire, where no-one is to be trusted especially beautiful woman. When a pack of gorgeous woman knock on his door, Garrett knows it-s too good to be true. The leader of the group is Alyx Weider, the daughter of the largest brewer in town. Her father and friends are opening a new theater in TunFaire and the lovely ladies are there to persuade Garrett to help get rid of the paranormal parasites living in the new construction. Garrett agrees because after all, it means free beer and the company of these beautiful girls. What else could a man want? But Garrett doesn-t realize the drama he-s stepping into.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19320'),
(13349, 'Cruel Zinc Melodies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Garrett uncovers the dark side of the fantasy city TunFaire, where no-one is to be trusted especially beautiful woman. When a pack of gorgeous woman knock on his door, Garrett knows it-s too good to be true. The leader of the group is Alyx Weider, the daughter of the largest brewer in town. Her father and friends are opening a new theater in TunFaire and the lovely ladies are there to persuade Garrett to help get rid of the paranormal parasites living in the new construction. Garrett agrees because after all, it means free beer and the company of these beautiful girls. What else could a man want? But Garrett doesn-t realize the drama he-s stepping into.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28016'),
(13350, 'Crush', 'Alan Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Jacobson''s addictive second Karen Vail thriller (after\n <em>\n  The 7th Victim\n </em>\n ), a serial killer spoils the FBI profiler''s romantic Napa Valley vacation with boyfriend Det. Robby Hernandez. During a Silver Ridge Estates winery tour, Karen and Robby stumble over the strangled and mutilated corpse of Victoria Cameron, daughter of an influential winemaker. The narcissistic psycho responsible? John Wayne Mayfield (aka the Napa Crush Killer), who taunts the Napa County Major Crimes Task Force formed to catch him. As more victims are found, their windpipes crushed and bodies inflicted with postmortem wounds, the motive behind such a killing spree appears connected to conflicts within the Georges Valley American Viticultural Area board. Jacobson jolts standard serial killer fare with some twists concerning the publicity-hungry Crush Killer and insightful peeks into California''s wine industry. The action culminates in a shockeroo cliffhanger.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Steve Berry,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Charlemagne Pursuit\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n "Action-packed story (with) plenty of bark and bite, sizzle and emotionâ€¦a tangled tale of delightful intrigue. Well done."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Steve Martini,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Shadow of Power\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œCrisply written, meticulously researched,\n <em>\n  Crush\n </em>\n rocks from the opening page to the jarring conclusion. Donâ€™t start the book unless you have a full evening to finish it, because you wonâ€™t be able to put it down.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kathy Reichs,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  206 Bones\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n â€œKaren Vail is one tough character.\n <em>\n  Crush\n </em>\n will keep you reading late into the night.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Andrew Gross,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  Donâ€™t Look Twice\n </strong>\n _\n <br />\n "Set in the Napa Valley,\n <em>\n  Crush\n </em>\n is a smart, stylish whodunnit with lots of surprises and a finish with all the punch of a blockbuster Cabernet."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9421'),
(13351, 'Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion', 'Gary Vaynerchuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Do you have a hobby you wish you could do all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take those passions and make a living doing what you love. In CRUSH IT! Why NOW Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video camera, and by using the secrets revealed in this book, transformed his entire life and earning potential by building his personal brand. By the end of this book, any reader will have learned how to harness the power of the Internet to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true. Step by step, CRUSH IT! is the ultimate driverâ€²s manual for modern business.  Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business. After primarily utilizing traditional advertising techniques to build his familyâ€²s local retail wine business into a national industry leader, Gary rapidly leveraged social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to promote Wine Library TV, http: //tv.winelibrary.com, his video blog about wine. Gary has always had an early-to-market approach, launching Wine Libraryâ€²s retail website in 1997 and Wine Library TV in February of 2006. His lessons on social media, passion, transparency, and reactionary business are not to be missed!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5437'),
(13352, 'Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion', 'Gary Vaynerchuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Do you have a hobby you wish you could do all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take those passions and make a living doing what you love. In CRUSH IT! Why NOW Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video camera, and by using the secrets revealed in this book, transformed his entire life and earning potential by building his personal brand. By the end of this book, any reader will have learned how to harness the power of the Internet to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true. Step by step, CRUSH IT! is the ultimate driverâ€²s manual for modern business.  Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business. After primarily utilizing traditional advertising techniques to build his familyâ€²s local retail wine business into a national industry leader, Gary rapidly leveraged social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to promote Wine Library TV, http: //tv.winelibrary.com, his video blog about wine. Gary has always had an early-to-market approach, launching Wine Libraryâ€²s retail website in 1997 and Wine Library TV in February of 2006. His lessons on social media, passion, transparency, and reactionary business are not to be missed!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13222'),
(13353, 'Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion', 'Gary Vaynerchuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Do you have a hobby you wish you could do all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take those passions and make a living doing what you love. In CRUSH IT! Why NOW Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video camera, and by using the secrets revealed in this book, transformed his entire life and earning potential by building his personal brand. By the end of this book, any reader will have learned how to harness the power of the Internet to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true. Step by step, CRUSH IT! is the ultimate driverâ€²s manual for modern business. Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business. After primarily utilizing traditional advertising techniques to build his familyâ€²s local retail wine business into a national industry leader, Gary rapidly leveraged social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to promote Wine Library TV, http: //tv.winelibrary.com, his video blog about wine. Gary has always had an early-to-market approach, launching Wine Libraryâ€²s retail website in 1997 and Wine Library TV in February of 2006. His lessons on social media, passion, transparency, and reactionary business are not to be missed!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19182'),
(13354, 'Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion', 'Gary Vaynerchuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Do you have a hobby you wish you could do all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take those passions and make a living doing what you love. In CRUSH IT! Why NOW Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video camera, and by using the secrets revealed in this book, transformed his entire life and earning potential by building his personal brand. By the end of this book, any reader will have learned how to harness the power of the Internet to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true. Step by step, CRUSH IT! is the ultimate driverâ€²s manual for modern business. Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business. After primarily utilizing traditional advertising techniques to build his familyâ€²s local retail wine business into a national industry leader, Gary rapidly leveraged social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to promote Wine Library TV, http: //tv.winelibrary.com, his video blog about wine. Gary has always had an early-to-market approach, launching Wine Libraryâ€²s retail website in 1997 and Wine Library TV in February of 2006. His lessons on social media, passion, transparency, and reactionary business are not to be missed!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27918'),
(13355, 'Cry for the Strangers', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clark''s Harbor was the perfect coastal haven,Â Â jealously guarded against outsiders. But nowÂ Â strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy isÂ Â suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him sinceÂ Â birth... His sister is haunted by fearfulÂ Â visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways theÂ Â strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. OnlyÂ Â the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struckÂ Â between the people of Clark''s Harbor and someÂ Â supernatural force? Or is it the sea itself calling out forÂ Â a human sacrifice? A howling, deadly...Â Â _Cry For The Strangers_.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clark''s Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since birth... His sister is haunted by fearful visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways the strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. Only the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struck between the people of Clark''s Harbor and some supernatural force? Or is it the sea itself calling out for a human sacrifice? A howling, deadly...\n <em>\n  Cry For The Strangers\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4172');
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(13356, 'Cry for the Strangers', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clark''s Harbor was the perfect coastal haven,Â Â jealously guarded against outsiders. But nowÂ Â strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy isÂ Â suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him sinceÂ Â birth... His sister is haunted by fearfulÂ Â visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways theÂ Â strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. OnlyÂ Â the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struckÂ Â between the people of Clark''s Harbor and someÂ Â supernatural force? Or is it the sea itself calling out forÂ Â a human sacrifice? A howling, deadly...Â Â _Cry For The Strangers_.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clark''s Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since birth... His sister is haunted by fearful visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways the strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. Only the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struck between the people of Clark''s Harbor and some supernatural force? Or is it the sea itself calling out for a human sacrifice? A howling, deadly...\n <em>\n  Cry For The Strangers\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12587'),
(13357, 'Cry for the Strangers', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clark''s Harbor was the perfect coastal haven,Â Â jealously guarded against outsiders. But nowÂ Â strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy isÂ Â suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him sinceÂ Â birth... His sister is haunted by fearfulÂ Â visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways theÂ Â strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. OnlyÂ Â the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struckÂ Â between the people of Clark''s Harbor and someÂ Â supernatural force? Or is it the sea itself calling out forÂ Â a human sacrifice? A howling, deadly...Â Â _Cry For The Strangers_.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clark''s Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since birth... His sister is haunted by fearful visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways the strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. Only the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struck between the people of Clark''s Harbor and some supernatural force? Or is it the sea itself calling out for a human sacrifice? A howling, deadly...\n <em>\n  Cry For The Strangers\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20274'),
(13358, 'The Cry of the Halidon', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alex McAuliff has just received an offer he can''t refuse. A company called Dunstone Ltd will pay him two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica''s interior - and they require his absolute secrecy. But British Intelligence are aware of the deal and they''ve let Alex in on a secret of their own: the last survey team Dunstone dispatched to Jamaica vanished without trace. Now it''s too late to turn back. From the moment he lands in Jamaica Alex is a marked man. He already knows about Dunstone...which means he knows too much.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1668'),
(13359, 'The Cry of the Halidon', 'Robert Ludlum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alex McAuliff has just received an offer he can''t refuse. A company called Dunstone Ltd will pay him two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica''s interior - and they require his absolute secrecy. But British Intelligence are aware of the deal and they''ve let Alex in on a secret of their own: the last survey team Dunstone dispatched to Jamaica vanished without trace. Now it''s too late to turn back. From the moment he lands in Jamaica Alex is a marked man. He already knows about Dunstone...which means he knows too much.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23303'),
(13360, 'Cry of the Hunter', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Reissue of the timeless Higgins classic''ÅšFrom being a fighter in his teens, to becoming a leader north of the border in his twenties, by the age of forty, Martin Fallon was a revered man; a legend and hero of the Organization.After time in prison, and a battle with the bottle, he''s ready to turn his back on the fight.But the war isn''t over, and now, his services are needed once again''ÅšLed back into operation under false pretences by his employers, Fallon is thrown into a rescue mission, and up against The Ulster Constabulary; a ruthless and terrifying sect with a penchant violence, and a ransom on the head of a king.Fallon must drag himself from the edge to fight for justice, searching for truth, and spilling blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4880'),
(13361, 'Cry of the Hunter', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Reissue of the timeless Higgins classic''ÅšFrom being a fighter in his teens, to becoming a leader north of the border in his twenties, by the age of forty, Martin Fallon was a revered man; a legend and hero of the Organization.After time in prison, and a battle with the bottle, he''s ready to turn his back on the fight.But the war isn''t over, and now, his services are needed once again''ÅšLed back into operation under false pretences by his employers, Fallon is thrown into a rescue mission, and up against The Ulster Constabulary; a ruthless and terrifying sect with a penchant violence, and a ransom on the head of a king.Fallon must drag himself from the edge to fight for justice, searching for truth, and spilling blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10356'),
(13362, 'Cry of the Hunter', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Reissue of the timeless Higgins classic''ÅšFrom being a fighter in his teens, to becoming a leader north of the border in his twenties, by the age of forty, Martin Fallon was a revered man; a legend and hero of the Organization.After time in prison, and a battle with the bottle, he''s ready to turn his back on the fight.But the war isn''t over, and now, his services are needed once again''ÅšLed back into operation under false pretences by his employers, Fallon is thrown into a rescue mission, and up against The Ulster Constabulary; a ruthless and terrifying sect with a penchant violence, and a ransom on the head of a king.Fallon must drag himself from the edge to fight for justice, searching for truth, and spilling blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19691'),
(13363, 'Cry to Heaven', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men.As we are drawn into their dark and luminous story, as the crowds of Venetians, Neopolitans, and Romans, noblemen and peasants, musicians, prelates, princes, saints, and intriguers swirl around them, Anne Rice brings us into the sweep of eighteenth-century Italian life, into the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. It is a novel that only Anne Rice could have written, taking us into a heartbreaking and enchanting moment in history, a time of great ambition and great suffering--a tale that challenges our deepest images of the masculine and the feminine."To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time."--San Francisco Chronicle"Dazzling in its darkness...Spellbinding."--The New York Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7547'),
(13364, 'Cry to Heaven', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men.As we are drawn into their dark and luminous story, as the crowds of Venetians, Neopolitans, and Romans, noblemen and peasants, musicians, prelates, princes, saints, and intriguers swirl around them, Anne Rice brings us into the sweep of eighteenth-century Italian life, into the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. It is a novel that only Anne Rice could have written, taking us into a heartbreaking and enchanting moment in history, a time of great ambition and great suffering--a tale that challenges our deepest images of the masculine and the feminine."To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time."--San Francisco Chronicle"Dazzling in its darkness...Spellbinding."--The New York Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12142'),
(13365, 'Cry to heaven', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men.As we are drawn into their dark and luminous story, as the crowds of Venetians, Neopolitans, and Romans, noblemen and peasants, musicians, prelates, princes, saints, and intriguers swirl around them, Anne Rice brings us into the sweep of eighteenth-century Italian life, into the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. It is a novel that only Anne Rice could have written, taking us into a heartbreaking and enchanting moment in history, a time of great ambition and great suffering--a tale that challenges our deepest images of the masculine and the feminine."To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time."--San Francisco Chronicle"Dazzling in its darkness...Spellbinding."--The New York Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16322'),
(13366, 'The crying of lot 49', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13821'),
(13367, 'The crying of lot 49', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24340'),
(13368, 'Cryoburn-ARC', 'Lois M. Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20035'),
(13369, 'Cryptography for Dummies (ISBN', '0764541889)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15422'),
(13370, 'Cryptonomicon', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detatchment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy''s fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse''s crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe''s tough-as-nails grandaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi sumarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson''s most accomplished and affecting work to date, CRYPTONOMICON is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring; the product of a truly icon\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2595'),
(13371, 'Cryptonomicon', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detatchment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy''s fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse''s crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe''s tough-as-nails grandaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi sumarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson''s most accomplished and affecting work to date, CRYPTONOMICON is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring; the product of a truly icon\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12916'),
(13372, 'Cryptonomicon', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detatchment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy''s fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse''s crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe''s tough-as-nails grandaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi sumarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson''s most accomplished and affecting work to date, CRYPTONOMICON is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring; the product of a truly icon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13904'),
(13373, 'Cryptonomicon', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  E-book extras: "Stephensonia/Cryptonomica": ONE: "Cryptonomicon Cypher-FAQ" (Neal addresses "Frequently Anticipated Questions" and other fascinating facts); TWO: "Mother Earth Motherboard" (Neal''s landmark nonfiction account of, among other techno-feats, the laying of the longest telecommunications cable on earth); THREE: "Press Conference": Neal answers "Why write about crypto?" and other penetrating questions.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The smash New York Times bestseller and cult classic is at last a special-features-loaded e-book. Dashing between World War II and the present day, Cryptonomicon is an epic adventure of codemakers and codebreakers; soldiers, hackers, spies, pirates, lovers, prisoners; power, secrets, conspiracies, great escapes â€” and a buried fortune in gold.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22178'),
(13374, 'Crysis: Legion', 'Peter Watts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n MANHATTAN IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. THEY''RE NOT FROM AROUND HERE. Welcome to the Big Apple, son. Welcome to the city that never sleeps: invaded by monstrous fusions of meat and machinery, defended by a private army that makes Blackwater look like the Red Cross, ravaged by a disfiguring plague that gifts its victims with religious rapture while it eats them alive. You''ve been thrown into this meat grinder without warning, without preparation, without a clue. Your whole squad was mowed down the moment they stepped onto the battlefield. And the chorus of voices whispering in your head keeps saying that all of this is on you: that you and you alone might be able to turn the whole thing around if you only knew what the hell was going on. You''d like to help. Really you would. But it''s not just the aliens that are gunning for you. Your own kind hunts you as a traitor, and your job might be a bit easier if you didn''t have the sneaking suspicion they could be right. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2152'),
(13375, 'Crysis: Legion', 'Peter Watts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n MANHATTAN IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. THEY''RE NOT FROM AROUND HERE. Welcome to the Big Apple, son. Welcome to the city that never sleeps: invaded by monstrous fusions of meat and machinery, defended by a private army that makes Blackwater look like the Red Cross, ravaged by a disfiguring plague that gifts its victims with religious rapture while it eats them alive. You''ve been thrown into this meat grinder without warning, without preparation, without a clue. Your whole squad was mowed down the moment they stepped onto the battlefield. And the chorus of voices whispering in your head keeps saying that all of this is on you: that you and you alone might be able to turn the whole thing around if you only knew what the hell was going on. You''d like to help. Really you would. But it''s not just the aliens that are gunning for you. Your own kind hunts you as a traitor, and your job might be a bit easier if you didn''t have the sneaking suspicion they could be right. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13320'),
(13376, 'The Crystal Brucephalus', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Iâ€™m a Time Lord, not a bank manager. When I invested in this place I had no idea that it would succeed. I mean - a time travelling restaurant?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Crystal Bucephalus: a restaurant patronized by the highest echelons of society in the 10th millennium. The guests are projected back in time to sample the food and drink of a bygone age.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the galaxyâ€™s most notorious crime boss is murdered in the Bucephalus, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are immediately arrested for the killing. To prove their innocence, they must track down the perpetrators of slaughter and sabotage, and uncover a conspiracy which has been 5,000 years in the making.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6565'),
(13377, 'The Crystal Brucephalus', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Iâ€™m a Time Lord, not a bank manager. When I invested in this place I had no idea that it would succeed. I mean - a time travelling restaurant?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Crystal Bucephalus: a restaurant patronized by the highest echelons of society in the 10th millennium. The guests are projected back in time to sample the food and drink of a bygone age.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the galaxyâ€™s most notorious crime boss is murdered in the Bucephalus, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are immediately arrested for the killing. To prove their innocence, they must track down the perpetrators of slaughter and sabotage, and uncover a conspiracy which has been 5,000 years in the making.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17410'),
(13378, 'The Crystal City', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled North America, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate world where magic works, and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place in the lives of the people of this world. Dowsers find water, the second sight warns of dangers to come, and a torch can read a person''s future---or their heart.In this world where "knacks" abound, Alvin, the seventh son of a seventh son, is a very special man indeed. He''s a Maker; he has the knack of understanding how things are put together, how to create them, repair them, keep them whole, or tear them down. He can heal hearts as well as bones, he build a house, he can calm the waters or blow up a storm. And he can teach his knack to others, to the measure of their own talent.Alvin has been trying to avert the terrible war that his wife, Peggy, a torch of extraordinary power, has seen down the life-lines of every American. Now she has sent him down the Mizzippy to the city of New Orleans, or Nueva Barcelona as they call it under Spanish occupation. Alvin doesn''t know exactly why he''s there, but when he and his brother-in-law, Arthur Stuart, find lodgings with a family of abolitionists who know Peggy, he suspects he''ll find out soon. But Nueva Barcelona is about to experience a plague, and Alvin''s efforts to protect his friends by keeping them healthy will create more danger than he could ever have suspected. And in saving the poor people of the city, Alvin will be put to the greatest test of his life---a test that will draw on all his power. For the time has come for him to turn to his old friend Tenskwa-Tawa, the Red Prophet who controls the lands to the west of the Mizzippy. Now Alvin must take the first steps on the road to the Crystal City that was shown to him in a vision so long ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2421'),
(13379, 'The Crystal City', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled North America, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate world where magic works, and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place in the lives of the people of this world. Dowsers find water, the second sight warns of dangers to come, and a torch can read a person''s future---or their heart.In this world where "knacks" abound, Alvin, the seventh son of a seventh son, is a very special man indeed. He''s a Maker; he has the knack of understanding how things are put together, how to create them, repair them, keep them whole, or tear them down. He can heal hearts as well as bones, he build a house, he can calm the waters or blow up a storm. And he can teach his knack to others, to the measure of their own talent.Alvin has been trying to avert the terrible war that his wife, Peggy, a torch of extraordinary power, has seen down the life-lines of every American. Now she has sent him down the Mizzippy to the city of New Orleans, or Nueva Barcelona as they call it under Spanish occupation. Alvin doesn''t know exactly why he''s there, but when he and his brother-in-law, Arthur Stuart, find lodgings with a family of abolitionists who know Peggy, he suspects he''ll find out soon. But Nueva Barcelona is about to experience a plague, and Alvin''s efforts to protect his friends by keeping them healthy will create more danger than he could ever have suspected. And in saving the poor people of the city, Alvin will be put to the greatest test of his life---a test that will draw on all his power. For the time has come for him to turn to his old friend Tenskwa-Tawa, the Red Prophet who controls the lands to the west of the Mizzippy. Now Alvin must take the first steps on the road to the Crystal City that was shown to him in a vision so long ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22448'),
(13380, 'The Crystal Gryphon', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kerovan, whose cloven hoofs instead of feet set him apart from the human folk of the Dales, seeks to uncover the mystery surrounding his birth and the nature of his ultimate destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15892'),
(13381, 'Crystal Healer', 'S. L. Viehl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n NINTH IN THE ''CONTINUOUSLY SURPRISING AND DEVIOUSLY WRITEN'' SERIES Genetically engineered interstellar surgeon Dr. Cherijo Torin, her husband Duncan Reever, and a handpicked crew journey to the planet oKia to locate a strange black mineral that is the source of an intergalactic epidemic. When one of the crew members becomes infected, his body slowly begins to crystallize. While Cherijo races to save the crew member, mercenaries arrive in the oKia system, wanting Cherijo''s genes-and her near immortality. It will take all of her abilities to elude the mercenaries and discover the black crystal''s secrets before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1425'),
(13382, 'Crystal Healer', 'S. L. Viehl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n NINTH IN THE ''CONTINUOUSLY SURPRISING AND DEVIOUSLY WRITEN'' SERIES Genetically engineered interstellar surgeon Dr. Cherijo Torin, her husband Duncan Reever, and a handpicked crew journey to the planet oKia to locate a strange black mineral that is the source of an intergalactic epidemic. When one of the crew members becomes infected, his body slowly begins to crystallize. While Cherijo races to save the crew member, mercenaries arrive in the oKia system, wanting Cherijo''s genes-and her near immortality. It will take all of her abilities to elude the mercenaries and discover the black crystal''s secrets before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13206'),
(13383, 'Crystal Healer', 'S. L. Viehl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: NINTH IN THE ''CONTINUOUSLY SURPRISING AND DEVIOUSLY WRITEN'' SERIES Genetically engineered interstellar surgeon Dr. Cherijo Torin, her husband Duncan Reever, and a handpicked crew journey to the planet oKia to locate a strange black mineral that is the source of an intergalactic epidemic. When one of the crew members becomes infected, his body slowly begins to crystallize. While Cherijo races to save the crew member, mercenaries arrive in the oKia system, wanting Cherijo''s genes-and her near immortality. It will take all of her abilities to elude the mercenaries and discover the black crystal''s secrets before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23467'),
(13384, 'Crystal Lies', 'Melody Carlson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Carlson''s\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  brings to life the horror of crystal methamphetamine addiction. Hapless Glennis Harmon, who\n  <em>\n   thought\n  </em>\n  she was a typical suburban wife and mother, wakes up one day to find her resentful teenage son, Jacob, addicted to meth, the "poor man''s cocaine." In the bargain, Glennis'' high-rolling husband is having an affair. Carlson''s story is as much about a middle-aged woman''s melancholy coping as it is about drugs, but Carlson makes the point that an addiction has ripple effects: on an indulgent mother; a self-righteous sister; and a stern, let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may father. Carlson provides no easy answers; instead, she offers a realistic portrait of addictive behavior, the trap of enabling, and the always incomplete process of recovery.\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  isn''t as clever as Carlson''s portrait of the ravages of schizophrenia,\n  <em>\n   Finding Alice\n  </em>\n  , but it''s every bit as valuable for bewildered parents--and therapists.\n  <em>\n   John Mort\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRaw, real, and provocative,\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  thrusts us into a world inhabited by more people than we may realize on the surface. This account of one motherâ€™s struggle for the healing of her drug-addicted son speaks to anyone who has ever loved anyone else. Melody Carlson never fails to drag us out of our Christian easychairs and right into the coals of the confusing culture in which we all find ourselves. She never fails to reveal that place of compassion within each of us. Excellent.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Lisa Samson, author of\n  <em>\n   The Church Ladies\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Tiger Lillie\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs an addiction specialist, I was moved by\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  . With great confidence, I can say that Melody Carlsonâ€™s story will enlighten, encourage, and empower you. Read this book; walk through its pages toward healthy God-directed relationships.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D., Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Counseling &amp; Health Resources, Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn honest, doesnâ€™t-pull-any-punches, look at the reality of addiction and codependency in Christian families. Told in Carlsonâ€™s adept style, this is a novel that will lead readers into the light of a powerful God who stands firm and loves beyond all measure and who delights in meeting His children inside the worldâ€™s most impenetrable, convoluted issues. I found myself praying Carlsonâ€™s prayers over my own children as I lay in bed. Read, enjoy, andâ€“most importantâ€“pass this along to everyone you know who is struggling with addiction.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Deborah Bedford, author of _If I Had You, Just Between Us\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  When You Believe\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œâ€˜Crystallize:Â to coat with sugar.Â Â To give a definite and permanent form.â€™Â  So says the\n  <em>\n   American Heritage Dictionary.Â \n  </em>\n  Melody Carlsonâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Crystal LiesÂ \n  </em>\n  creates a permanent image of a family in pain and the various ways they chose to sugar coat their lives rather than face it.Â  We are this family, whether touched by methamphetamine use, alcohol addiction, super-perfection and adulteryÂ or not.Â  We are this family because we avoid, separate, pretend blindness, live inside fogs of drugs or denial because to face the pain alone is just too great.Â  What Melody reveals through her crispÂ yet tender words is that we are not alone even when we separate ourselves.Â Â God has chosen to bring each of us closer.Â  We are given the gift of hope and the definite and permanent form of Godâ€™s love to take us through the lies, theÂ pain and disappointment into a steadied peace.Â  Melodyâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is\n  <em>\n   brilliant\n  </em>\n  .Â  Her best.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Jane Kirkpatrick, award-winning author of The Tender Ties series\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMelody Carlson knowsÂ addiction is an issue that affects not only addicts, but their families, their friends, their associates. And she shows that, when the addict is a believer, addiction affects the body of Christ.\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is a wonderful lesson, taught the way Jesus taughtâ€“in story. I recommend it especially to those of us who have thought we were being charitable when we looked at those marginalized by addiction and thought, â€˜There but for the grace of God go I.â€™ Carlson''s highly personable prose puts that viewpoint on its ear, and teaches us to see it as, â€˜Here we are together, in need of God''s grace.â€™\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is clearly truthâ€“revealed in fiction.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“ Tom Morrisey, author of\n  <em>\n   Yucatan Deep\n  </em>\n  and _Turn Four\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€œCrystal Lies\n  </em>\n  pulls no punches about the emotional devastation caused by addictions, and yet offers beautiful, accessible hope.Â  Having been through the turmoil of addictive behavior in my own family, I wept with both the agony and the joy of what I read.Â  Don''t miss this book!â€\n  <br />\n  â€“ Janelle Burnham Schneider, author of â€œFrom Carriage to Marriageâ€ in the\n  <em>\n   Brides for a Bit\n  </em>\n  anthology and â€œA Distant Loveâ€ in the\n  <em>\n   Christmas Duty\n  </em>\n  anthology\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2946'),
(13385, 'Crystal Lies', 'Melody Carlson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Carlson''s\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  brings to life the horror of crystal methamphetamine addiction. Hapless Glennis Harmon, who\n  <em>\n   thought\n  </em>\n  she was a typical suburban wife and mother, wakes up one day to find her resentful teenage son, Jacob, addicted to meth, the "poor man''s cocaine." In the bargain, Glennis'' high-rolling husband is having an affair. Carlson''s story is as much about a middle-aged woman''s melancholy coping as it is about drugs, but Carlson makes the point that an addiction has ripple effects: on an indulgent mother; a self-righteous sister; and a stern, let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may father. Carlson provides no easy answers; instead, she offers a realistic portrait of addictive behavior, the trap of enabling, and the always incomplete process of recovery.\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  isn''t as clever as Carlson''s portrait of the ravages of schizophrenia,\n  <em>\n   Finding Alice\n  </em>\n  , but it''s every bit as valuable for bewildered parents--and therapists.\n  <em>\n   John Mort\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRaw, real, and provocative,\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  thrusts us into a world inhabited by more people than we may realize on the surface. This account of one motherâ€™s struggle for the healing of her drug-addicted son speaks to anyone who has ever loved anyone else. Melody Carlson never fails to drag us out of our Christian easychairs and right into the coals of the confusing culture in which we all find ourselves. She never fails to reveal that place of compassion within each of us. Excellent.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Lisa Samson, author of\n  <em>\n   The Church Ladies\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Tiger Lillie\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs an addiction specialist, I was moved by\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  . With great confidence, I can say that Melody Carlsonâ€™s story will enlighten, encourage, and empower you. Read this book; walk through its pages toward healthy God-directed relationships.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D., Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Counseling &amp; Health Resources, Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn honest, doesnâ€™t-pull-any-punches, look at the reality of addiction and codependency in Christian families. Told in Carlsonâ€™s adept style, this is a novel that will lead readers into the light of a powerful God who stands firm and loves beyond all measure and who delights in meeting His children inside the worldâ€™s most impenetrable, convoluted issues. I found myself praying Carlsonâ€™s prayers over my own children as I lay in bed. Read, enjoy, andâ€“most importantâ€“pass this along to everyone you know who is struggling with addiction.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Deborah Bedford, author of _If I Had You, Just Between Us\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  When You Believe\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œâ€˜Crystallize:Â to coat with sugar.Â Â To give a definite and permanent form.â€™Â  So says the\n  <em>\n   American Heritage Dictionary.Â \n  </em>\n  Melody Carlsonâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Crystal LiesÂ \n  </em>\n  creates a permanent image of a family in pain and the various ways they chose to sugar coat their lives rather than face it.Â  We are this family, whether touched by methamphetamine use, alcohol addiction, super-perfection and adulteryÂ or not.Â  We are this family because we avoid, separate, pretend blindness, live inside fogs of drugs or denial because to face the pain alone is just too great.Â  What Melody reveals through her crispÂ yet tender words is that we are not alone even when we separate ourselves.Â Â God has chosen to bring each of us closer.Â  We are given the gift of hope and the definite and permanent form of Godâ€™s love to take us through the lies, theÂ pain and disappointment into a steadied peace.Â  Melodyâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is\n  <em>\n   brilliant\n  </em>\n  .Â  Her best.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Jane Kirkpatrick, award-winning author of The Tender Ties series\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMelody Carlson knowsÂ addiction is an issue that affects not only addicts, but their families, their friends, their associates. And she shows that, when the addict is a believer, addiction affects the body of Christ.\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is a wonderful lesson, taught the way Jesus taughtâ€“in story. I recommend it especially to those of us who have thought we were being charitable when we looked at those marginalized by addiction and thought, â€˜There but for the grace of God go I.â€™ Carlson''s highly personable prose puts that viewpoint on its ear, and teaches us to see it as, â€˜Here we are together, in need of God''s grace.â€™\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is clearly truthâ€“revealed in fiction.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“ Tom Morrisey, author of\n  <em>\n   Yucatan Deep\n  </em>\n  and _Turn Four\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€œCrystal Lies\n  </em>\n  pulls no punches about the emotional devastation caused by addictions, and yet offers beautiful, accessible hope.Â  Having been through the turmoil of addictive behavior in my own family, I wept with both the agony and the joy of what I read.Â  Don''t miss this book!â€\n  <br />\n  â€“ Janelle Burnham Schneider, author of â€œFrom Carriage to Marriageâ€ in the\n  <em>\n   Brides for a Bit\n  </em>\n  anthology and â€œA Distant Loveâ€ in the\n  <em>\n   Christmas Duty\n  </em>\n  anthology\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8837');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(13386, 'Crystal Lies', 'Melody Carlson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Carlson''s\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  brings to life the horror of crystal methamphetamine addiction. Hapless Glennis Harmon, who\n  <em>\n   thought\n  </em>\n  she was a typical suburban wife and mother, wakes up one day to find her resentful teenage son, Jacob, addicted to meth, the "poor man''s cocaine." In the bargain, Glennis'' high-rolling husband is having an affair. Carlson''s story is as much about a middle-aged woman''s melancholy coping as it is about drugs, but Carlson makes the point that an addiction has ripple effects: on an indulgent mother; a self-righteous sister; and a stern, let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may father. Carlson provides no easy answers; instead, she offers a realistic portrait of addictive behavior, the trap of enabling, and the always incomplete process of recovery.\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  isn''t as clever as Carlson''s portrait of the ravages of schizophrenia,\n  <em>\n   Finding Alice\n  </em>\n  , but it''s every bit as valuable for bewildered parents--and therapists.\n  <em>\n   John Mort\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRaw, real, and provocative,\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  thrusts us into a world inhabited by more people than we may realize on the surface. This account of one motherâ€™s struggle for the healing of her drug-addicted son speaks to anyone who has ever loved anyone else. Melody Carlson never fails to drag us out of our Christian easychairs and right into the coals of the confusing culture in which we all find ourselves. She never fails to reveal that place of compassion within each of us. Excellent.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Lisa Samson, author of\n  <em>\n   The Church Ladies\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Tiger Lillie\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAs an addiction specialist, I was moved by\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  . With great confidence, I can say that Melody Carlsonâ€™s story will enlighten, encourage, and empower you. Read this book; walk through its pages toward healthy God-directed relationships.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D., Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Counseling &amp; Health Resources, Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAn honest, doesnâ€™t-pull-any-punches, look at the reality of addiction and codependency in Christian families. Told in Carlsonâ€™s adept style, this is a novel that will lead readers into the light of a powerful God who stands firm and loves beyond all measure and who delights in meeting His children inside the worldâ€™s most impenetrable, convoluted issues. I found myself praying Carlsonâ€™s prayers over my own children as I lay in bed. Read, enjoy, andâ€“most importantâ€“pass this along to everyone you know who is struggling with addiction.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Deborah Bedford, author of _If I Had You, Just Between Us\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  When You Believe\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œâ€˜Crystallize: to coat with sugar. To give a definite and permanent form.â€™ So says the\n  <em>\n   American Heritage Dictionary.\n  </em>\n  Melody Carlsonâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  creates a permanent image of a family in pain and the various ways they chose to sugar coat their lives rather than face it. We are this family, whether touched by methamphetamine use, alcohol addiction, super-perfection and adultery or not. We are this family because we avoid, separate, pretend blindness, live inside fogs of drugs or denial because to face the pain alone is just too great. What Melody reveals through her crisp yet tender words is that we are not alone even when we separate ourselves. God has chosen to bring each of us closer. We are given the gift of hope and the definite and permanent form of Godâ€™s love to take us through the lies, the pain and disappointment into a steadied peace. Melodyâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is\n  <em>\n   brilliant\n  </em>\n  . Her best.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Jane Kirkpatrick, award-winning author of The Tender Ties series\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMelody Carlson knows addiction is an issue that affects not only addicts, but their families, their friends, their associates. And she shows that, when the addict is a believer, addiction affects the body of Christ.\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is a wonderful lesson, taught the way Jesus taughtâ€“in story. I recommend it especially to those of us who have thought we were being charitable when we looked at those marginalized by addiction and thought, â€˜There but for the grace of God go I.â€™ Carlson''s highly personable prose puts that viewpoint on its ear, and teaches us to see it as, â€˜Here we are together, in need of God''s grace.â€™\n  <em>\n   Crystal Lies\n  </em>\n  is clearly truthâ€“revealed in fiction.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“ Tom Morrisey, author of\n  <em>\n   Yucatan Deep\n  </em>\n  and _Turn Four\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   â€œCrystal Lies\n  </em>\n  pulls no punches about the emotional devastation caused by addictions, and yet offers beautiful, accessible hope. Having been through the turmoil of addictive behavior in my own family, I wept with both the agony and the joy of what I read. Don''t miss this book!â€\n  <br />\n  â€“ Janelle Burnham Schneider, author of â€œFrom Carriage to Marriageâ€ in the\n  <em>\n   Brides for a Bit\n  </em>\n  anthology and â€œA Distant Loveâ€ in the\n  <em>\n   Christmas Duty\n  </em>\n  anthology\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21935'),
(13387, 'Crystal Line', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "A treat for long-time McCaffrey fans, a good read and a satisfying look at one of the most haunting facets of the crystal singers'' profession."LOCUSWhen Killashandra Ree joined the mysterious Heptite Guild, she knew that she would be forever changed. Crystal singing brought ecstasy and pain, near-eternal life...and gradual loss of memory. What she hadn''t counted on was the loneliness she felt when her heart still remembered what her mind had forgotten. Fortunately, someone still cared enough to try to salvage what was left of Killashandra''s mind. But she would have to learn to open herself--to another person, and to all her unpleasant memories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15707'),
(13388, 'The Crystal Seas', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4601'),
(13389, 'Crystal Singer', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Her name was Killashandra Ree. And after ten grueling years of musical training, she was still without prospects. Until she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild who could provide careers, security, and wealth beyond imagining. The problem was, few people who landed on Ballybran ever left. But to Killashandra the risks were acceptable....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15708'),
(13390, 'CSS3 for Web Designers', 'Dan Cederholm', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25912'),
(13391, 'Cuba Libre', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n War in Cuba isn''t Ben Tyler''s concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898--right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine--may not be the smartest thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyler''s sitting tight in a vermin-infested Cuban stockade waiting to face a firing squad. But he''s not dying until he gets the money he''s owed from a two-timing American sugar baron. And there''s one smart, pistol-hot lady at the rich man''s side who could help Ben get everything he''s got rightfully coming...even when the whole damn island''s going straight to hell.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14248'),
(13392, 'Cuba libre', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Elmore Leonard has a long track record of creating memorable characters--enough to bring life to many movies, the two most notable being\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n (based on Leonard''s\n <em>\n  Rum Punch\n </em>\n ). Both are pretty good movies, but the novels are much better. Today Leonard writes mostly "crime" novels, labeled as such because his characters struggle to be good in a world so full of temptation that some kind of crime is\n <em>\n  always\n </em>\n involved.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Cuba Libre\n </em>\n finds Leonard reaching for a broader audience than those which appreciated either his crime novels or the westerns he once wrote, which he accomplishes by combining elements of both. Ben Tyler is a cowboy who robs banks, but only those that contain money of people who owe but won''t pay him--he only takes what they owe. Charlie Burke is a businessman who buys horses cheap in the west, then sells them to exporters, while heroine Amelia Brown is the mistress of one of the truly bad men in the novel and struggles with dilemmas similar to those endured by other cast members.\n</p>\n<p>\n Begining around the time that the\n <em>\n  Maine\n </em>\n is sunk in Havana Harbor and ending when Teddy and others storm San Juan Hill, the story is at its best when its colorful characters are turned loose in one of the novel''s colorful settings. If you like Leonard, you''ll love\n <em>\n  Cuba Libre\n </em>\n , and if--for some reason--you haven''t yet discovered the author, prepare for a real treat.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-This book has something to interest almost everyone. Set against the rich and compelling backdrop of Cuba during its struggle for independence, the story includes bank robbery, cattle rustling, love, suspense, and action-packed adventure. Realistic, memorable characters come to life in the scheming twists and turns of a complex plot. Leonard writes in an easy-to-follow style; his bad guys are truly BAD, and readers find themselves rooting for the hero and heroine as they hide, the Spanish Civil guards in hot pursuit. The plot is larded with history, beginning with the sinking of the USS Maine in the harbor of Havana, and ending with Roosevelt and his Rough Riders''s charge up San Juan Hill. A rare glimpse of the Spanish-American War and the fight for Cuban independence.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Anita Short, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18941'),
(13393, 'Cuba Libre', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n War in Cuba isn''t Ben Tyler''s concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898--right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine--may not be the smartest thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyler''s sitting tight in a vermin-infested Cuban stockade waiting to face a firing squad. But he''s not dying until he gets the money he''s owed from a two-timing American sugar baron. And there''s one smart, pistol-hot lady at the rich man''s side who could help Ben get everything he''s got rightfully coming...even when the whole damn island''s going straight to hell.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27651'),
(13394, 'Cube Route', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For nearly three decades, Piers Anthony''s bestselling Xanth series has been delighting tens of thousands of fantasy fans around the world. Now, with Cube Route, the series'' twenty-seventh adventure, Anthony has penned a tale that adds another dimension to this exciting saga.In the magical land of Xanth, wishes are far more than mere words. So when a Plain Jane called Cube whispers a wistful wish to be beautiful, she finds herself leading a company of colorful companions on a search for the mysterious Cube Route--a perilous path that leads to danger, adventure, and perhaps her heart''s desire as well.This curious quest takes them all over Xanth, into the mythical realm of Phaze, and even to our own world, where Cube rescues a beautiful human woman from a very ugly situation, ending at last in a mysterious Counter-Xanth where things can be transformed into their opposites in the wink of an eye.A rollicking tale brimming with laughter, wonder, and enchantment, Cube Route is also a moving exploration of the beauty that dwells within all of us.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2000'),
(13395, 'Cube Route', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For nearly three decades, Piers Anthony''s bestselling Xanth series has been delighting tens of thousands of fantasy fans around the world. Now, with Cube Route, the series'' twenty-seventh adventure, Anthony has penned a tale that adds another dimension to this exciting saga.In the magical land of Xanth, wishes are far more than mere words. So when a Plain Jane called Cube whispers a wistful wish to be beautiful, she finds herself leading a company of colorful companions on a search for the mysterious Cube Route--a perilous path that leads to danger, adventure, and perhaps her heart''s desire as well.This curious quest takes them all over Xanth, into the mythical realm of Phaze, and even to our own world, where Cube rescues a beautiful human woman from a very ugly situation, ending at last in a mysterious Counter-Xanth where things can be transformed into their opposites in the wink of an eye.A rollicking tale brimming with laughter, wonder, and enchantment, Cube Route is also a moving exploration of the beauty that dwells within all of us.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22712'),
(13396, 'Cujo', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cujo is so well-paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted story in which that scene is embedded. This is definitely a novel that rewards re-reading. When you read it again, you can pay more attention to the theme of country folk vs. city folk; the parallel marriage conflicts of the Cambers vs. the Trentons; the poignancy of the amiable St. Bernard (yes, the breed choice is just right) infected by a brain-destroying virus that makes it into a monster; and the way the "daylight burial" of the failed ad campaign is reflected in the sunlit Pinto that becomes a coffin. And how significant it is that this horror tale is not supernatural: it''s as real as junk food, a failing marriage, a broken-down car, or a fatal virus.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1090'),
(13397, 'Cujo', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cujo is so well-paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted story in which that scene is embedded. This is definitely a novel that rewards re-reading. When you read it again, you can pay more attention to the theme of country folk vs. city folk; the parallel marriage conflicts of the Cambers vs. the Trentons; the poignancy of the amiable St. Bernard (yes, the breed choice is just right) infected by a brain-destroying virus that makes it into a monster; and the way the "daylight burial" of the failed ad campaign is reflected in the sunlit Pinto that becomes a coffin. And how significant it is that this horror tale is not supernatural: it''s as real as junk food, a failing marriage, a broken-down car, or a fatal virus.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10720'),
(13398, 'Cujo', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cujo is so well-paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted story in which that scene is embedded. This is definitely a novel that rewards re-reading. When you read it again, you can pay more attention to the theme of country folk vs. city folk; the parallel marriage conflicts of the Cambers vs. the Trentons; the poignancy of the amiable St. Bernard (yes, the breed choice is just right) infected by a brain-destroying virus that makes it into a monster; and the way the "daylight burial" of the failed ad campaign is reflected in the sunlit Pinto that becomes a coffin. And how significant it is that this horror tale is not supernatural: it''s as real as junk food, a failing marriage, a broken-down car, or a fatal virus.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14550'),
(13399, 'Culinary Careers: How to Get Your Dream Job in Food With Advice From Top Culinary Professionals', 'Rick Smilow &amp; Anne E. McBride', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If you suspect you might have the itch to make a mark anywhere in the hospitality industry, this is your book. It''s chockfull of genuine insights, accurate information, and thoughtful advice from real people who have already walked in your shoesâ€”or the ones you''ve been contemplating trying on."\n <br />\n -Danny Meyer, restaurateur and author of _Setting the Table\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œSmilowâ€™s book is recommended for readers seeking a thorough introductory exposure to todayâ€™s professional possibilities in the culinary world.â€\n <br />\n â€”Eric Peterson, The Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThank Goodness Rick Smilow &amp; Anne E. McBride have written Culinary Careersâ€\n <br />\n â€”Gail Ciampa, Providence Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSmilow leaves no refrigerator unopened in this guide that is excellent for everyone from new grads to those contemplating a major career shiftâ€â€”Lisa Messenger, Cooks Books\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œCulinary Careers\n </em>\n does a great job laying out road maps for a career in the food world.Â And through its eighty-nine interviews, the book also conveys the passion and dedication that I see amongst my fellow chefs and restaurant professionals, around the nation.â€\n <br />\n --Marcus Samuelsson\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor anyone in the food service business, or even thinking about it, this is a must have guide.â€â€”Tim Zagat, Zagat Survey\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCulinary Careers is a refreshingly unbiased introduction to the range of educational opportunities and careersavailable to those who see the world through the lens of food and cooking.â€â€”Bob delGrosso, A Hunger Artist\n</p>\n<p>\n "A heaping plate of solid, first-hand advice from real people in the business." --- The Sacramento Bee\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Recommended for readers seeking a thorough introductory exposure to today''s professional possibilities in the culinary world.\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”Eric Petersen, Kansas City P.L., MO, Library Journal\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Turn a passion for food into the job of a lifetime with the insider advice in\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Working in food can mean cooking on the line in a restaurant, of course, but there are so many more career paths available. No one knows this better than Rick Smilowâ€”president of the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE), the award-winning culinary school in New York Cityâ€”who has seen ICE graduates go on to prime jobs both in and out of professional kitchens. Tapping into that vast alumni network and beyond,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n is the only career book to offer candid portraits of dozens and dozens of coveted jobs at all levels to help you find your dream job.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â  Instead of giving glossed-over, general descriptions of various jobs,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n features exclusive interviews with both food-world luminaries and those on their way up, to help you discover what a day in the life is really like in your desired field.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Get the ultimate in advice from those at the very pinnacle of the industry, including Lidia Bastianich, Thomas Keller, and Ruth Reichl.\n <br />\n â€¢ Figure out whether you need to go to cooking school or not in order to land the job you want.\n <br />\n â€¢ Read about the inspiringâ€”and sometimes unconventionalâ€”paths individuals took to reach their current positions.\n <br />\n â€¢ Find out what employers look for, and how you can put your best foot forward in interviews.\n <br />\n â€¢ Learn what a food stylistâ€™s day on the set of a major motion picture is like, how a top New York City restaurant publicity firm got off the ground, what to look for in a yacht crew before jumping on board as the chef, and so much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n With information on educational programs and a birdâ€™s-eye view of the industry,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n is a must-have resource for anyone looking to break into the food world, whether youâ€™re a first-time job seeker or a career changer looking for your next step.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1796'),
(13400, 'Culinary Careers: How to Get Your Dream Job in Food With Advice From Top Culinary Professionals', 'Rick Smilow &amp; Anne E. McBride', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If you suspect you might have the itch to make a mark anywhere in the hospitality industry, this is your book. It''s chockfull of genuine insights, accurate information, and thoughtful advice from real people who have already walked in your shoesâ€”or the ones you''ve been contemplating trying on."\n <br />\n -Danny Meyer, restaurateur and author of _Setting the Table\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œSmilowâ€™s book is recommended for readers seeking a thorough introductory exposure to todayâ€™s professional possibilities in the culinary world.â€\n <br />\n â€”Eric Peterson, The Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThank Goodness Rick Smilow &amp; Anne E. McBride have written Culinary Careersâ€\n <br />\n â€”Gail Ciampa, Providence Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSmilow leaves no refrigerator unopened in this guide that is excellent for everyone from new grads to those contemplating a major career shiftâ€â€”Lisa Messenger, Cooks Books\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œCulinary Careers\n </em>\n does a great job laying out road maps for a career in the food world.Â And through its eighty-nine interviews, the book also conveys the passion and dedication that I see amongst my fellow chefs and restaurant professionals, around the nation.â€\n <br />\n --Marcus Samuelsson\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor anyone in the food service business, or even thinking about it, this is a must have guide.â€â€”Tim Zagat, Zagat Survey\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCulinary Careers is a refreshingly unbiased introduction to the range of educational opportunities and careersavailable to those who see the world through the lens of food and cooking.â€â€”Bob delGrosso, A Hunger Artist\n</p>\n<p>\n "A heaping plate of solid, first-hand advice from real people in the business." --- The Sacramento Bee\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Recommended for readers seeking a thorough introductory exposure to today''s professional possibilities in the culinary world.\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”Eric Petersen, Kansas City P.L., MO, Library Journal\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Turn a passion for food into the job of a lifetime with the insider advice in\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Working in food can mean cooking on the line in a restaurant, of course, but there are so many more career paths available. No one knows this better than Rick Smilowâ€”president of the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE), the award-winning culinary school in New York Cityâ€”who has seen ICE graduates go on to prime jobs both in and out of professional kitchens. Tapping into that vast alumni network and beyond,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n is the only career book to offer candid portraits of dozens and dozens of coveted jobs at all levels to help you find your dream job.\n <br />\n Â Â Â Â  Instead of giving glossed-over, general descriptions of various jobs,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n features exclusive interviews with both food-world luminaries and those on their way up, to help you discover what a day in the life is really like in your desired field.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Get the ultimate in advice from those at the very pinnacle of the industry, including Lidia Bastianich, Thomas Keller, and Ruth Reichl.\n <br />\n â€¢ Figure out whether you need to go to cooking school or not in order to land the job you want.\n <br />\n â€¢ Read about the inspiringâ€”and sometimes unconventionalâ€”paths individuals took to reach their current positions.\n <br />\n â€¢ Find out what employers look for, and how you can put your best foot forward in interviews.\n <br />\n â€¢ Learn what a food stylistâ€™s day on the set of a major motion picture is like, how a top New York City restaurant publicity firm got off the ground, what to look for in a yacht crew before jumping on board as the chef, and so much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n With information on educational programs and a birdâ€™s-eye view of the industry,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n is a must-have resource for anyone looking to break into the food world, whether youâ€™re a first-time job seeker or a career changer looking for your next step.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12717'),
(13401, 'Culinary Careers: How to Get Your Dream Job in Food With Advice From Top Culinary Professionals', 'Rick Smilow; Anne E. McBride', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If you suspect you might have the itch to make a mark anywhere in the hospitality industry, this is your book. It''s chockfull of genuine insights, accurate information, and thoughtful advice from real people who have already walked in your shoesâ€”or the ones you''ve been contemplating trying on."\n <br />\n -Danny Meyer, restaurateur and author of _Setting the Table\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œSmilowâ€™s book is recommended for readers seeking a thorough introductory exposure to todayâ€™s professional possibilities in the culinary world.â€\n <br />\n â€”Eric Peterson, The Library Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThank Goodness Rick Smilow &amp; Anne E. McBride have written Culinary Careersâ€\n <br />\n â€”Gail Ciampa, Providence Journal\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSmilow leaves no refrigerator unopened in this guide that is excellent for everyone from new grads to those contemplating a major career shiftâ€â€”Lisa Messenger, Cooks Books\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œCulinary Careers\n </em>\n does a great job laying out road maps for a career in the food world. And through its eighty-nine interviews, the book also conveys the passion and dedication that I see amongst my fellow chefs and restaurant professionals, around the nation.â€\n <br />\n --Marcus Samuelsson\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor anyone in the food service business, or even thinking about it, this is a must have guide.â€â€”Tim Zagat, Zagat Survey\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCulinary Careers is a refreshingly unbiased introduction to the range of educational opportunities and careersavailable to those who see the world through the lens of food and cooking.â€â€”Bob delGrosso, A Hunger Artist\n</p>\n<p>\n "A heaping plate of solid, first-hand advice from real people in the business." --- The Sacramento Bee\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Recommended for readers seeking a thorough introductory exposure to today''s professional possibilities in the culinary world.\n <em>\n </em>\n â€”Eric Petersen, Kansas City P.L., MO, Library Journal\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Turn a passion for food into the job of a lifetime with the insider advice in\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Working in food can mean cooking on the line in a restaurant, of course, but there are so many more career paths available. No one knows this better than Rick Smilowâ€”president of the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE), the award-winning culinary school in New York Cityâ€”who has seen ICE graduates go on to prime jobs both in and out of professional kitchens. Tapping into that vast alumni network and beyond,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n is the only career book to offer candid portraits of dozens and dozens of coveted jobs at all levels to help you find your dream job.\n <br />\n Instead of giving glossed-over, general descriptions of various jobs,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n features exclusive interviews with both food-world luminaries and those on their way up, to help you discover what a day in the life is really like in your desired field.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Get the ultimate in advice from those at the very pinnacle of the industry, including Lidia Bastianich, Thomas Keller, and Ruth Reichl.\n <br />\n â€¢ Figure out whether you need to go to cooking school or not in order to land the job you want.\n <br />\n â€¢ Read about the inspiringâ€”and sometimes unconventionalâ€”paths individuals took to reach their current positions.\n <br />\n â€¢ Find out what employers look for, and how you can put your best foot forward in interviews.\n <br />\n â€¢ Learn what a food stylistâ€™s day on the set of a major motion picture is like, how a top New York City restaurant publicity firm got off the ground, what to look for in a yacht crew before jumping on board as the chef, and so much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n With information on educational programs and a birdâ€™s-eye view of the industry,\n <em>\n  Culinary Careers\n </em>\n is a must-have resource for anyone looking to break into the food world, whether youâ€™re a first-time job seeker or a career changer looking for your next step.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24854'),
(13402, 'A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000', 'Clare Hanson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''As a teacher, I am grateful to Hanson for bringing forth a study that combines a careful historical reconstruction of the scientific practices surrounding pregnancy with incisive analysis of cultural representations responding to and shaping those practices. A timely and much-needed book!'' - Dr Lisa Zunshine, Department of English, University of Kentucky ''A fascinating study which combines clear exposition of scientific thought with incisive analysis of a range of cultural texts and contexts. Absorbing and illuminating, this book makes a major contribution both to our understanding of the history of medicine and of the intricate interrelations between medicine and culture.'' - Peter Gluckmann FRS, Distinguished Professor, University of Auckland ''The historical sweep of this study is impressive and its emphasis on the way pregnancy is framed and experienced makes it a landmark text. ''Informal'' knowledges shared by midwives and mothers over the centuries are set deftly against the discourses of science and medical observation. The resulting argument illustrates how the images, myths and ''facts'' about pregnancy contribute to shifting accounts of what pregnancy means in a given culture at a given time. From the rise in obstetrics in the eighteenth century to the ever-shifting boundaries of reproductive technology in the twenty-first century, this book captures the continuing tensions between our definitions of nature and culture, science and experience, to show that pregnancy, as both medical condition and cultural experience, is ripe for re-evaluation.'' - Imelda Whelehan, Professor of English and Women''s Studies, De Montfort University ''Hanson builds up a rounded picture of the joys, pains and prejudices that have surrounded pregnancy since 1750.'' - Beth Wright, Women: A Cultural Review\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hanson explores the different ways in which pregnancy has been constructed and interpreted in Britain over the last 250 years. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including obstetric texts, pregnancy advice books, literary texts, popular fiction and visual images, she analyzes changing attitudes to key issues such as the relative rights of mother and fetus and the degree to which medical intervention is acceptable in pregnancy. Hanson also considers the effects of medical and social changes on the subjective experience of pregnancy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17328'),
(13403, 'The Culture Code', 'Clotaire Rapaille', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  French-born marketing consultant and psychoanalyst Rapaille takes a truismâ€”different cultures are, well, differentâ€”and expands it by explaining how a nation''s history and cultural myths are psychological templates to which its citizens respond unconsciously. Fair enough, but after that, it''s all downhill. Rapaille intends his theory of culture codes to help us understand "why people do what they do," but the "fundamental archetypes" he offers are just trumped-up stereotypes. He often supports jarring pronouncements ("The Culture Code for perfection in America is DEATH") with preposterous generalizations and overstatements, e.g., Japanese men "seem utterly incapable of courtship or wooing a woman." Writing with the naÃ¯vetÃ© of someone who has learned about the world only through Hollywood films, he seems unaware that every person living within a nation''s borders doesn''t necessarily share the same cultural biases and references. Rapaille''s successful consulting career is evidence that he''s more convincing in the boardroom than he is on the page. Amid the overheated prose and dubious factoids, it''s easy to overlook the book''s scattered marketing proposals and employee-management tips.\n  <em>\n   (June 6)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThis book is just plain astonishing! Filled with profound insights and ideas that have enormous consequences for todayâ€™s organizations. If you want to understand customers, Constituencies, and crowds, this book is required reading.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California and author of _On Becoming a Leader\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6575'),
(13404, 'The Culture Code', 'Clotaire Rapaille', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  French-born marketing consultant and psychoanalyst Rapaille takes a truismâ€”different cultures are, well, differentâ€”and expands it by explaining how a nation''s history and cultural myths are psychological templates to which its citizens respond unconsciously. Fair enough, but after that, it''s all downhill. Rapaille intends his theory of culture codes to help us understand "why people do what they do," but the "fundamental archetypes" he offers are just trumped-up stereotypes. He often supports jarring pronouncements ("The Culture Code for perfection in America is DEATH") with preposterous generalizations and overstatements, e.g., Japanese men "seem utterly incapable of courtship or wooing a woman." Writing with the naÃ¯vetÃ© of someone who has learned about the world only through Hollywood films, he seems unaware that every person living within a nation''s borders doesn''t necessarily share the same cultural biases and references. Rapaille''s successful consulting career is evidence that he''s more convincing in the boardroom than he is on the page. Amid the overheated prose and dubious factoids, it''s easy to overlook the book''s scattered marketing proposals and employee-management tips.\n  <em>\n   (June 6)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œThis book is just plain astonishing! Filled with profound insights and ideas that have enormous consequences for todayâ€™s organizations. If you want to understand customers, Constituencies, and crowds, this book is required reading.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California and author of _On Becoming a Leader\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12174'),
(13405, 'The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Buy and Live as They Do', 'Clotaire Rapaille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n French-born marketing consultant and psychoanalyst Rapaille takes a truismâ€”different cultures are, well, differentâ€”and expands it by explaining how a nation''s history and cultural myths are psychological templates to which its citizens respond unconsciously. Fair enough, but after that, it''s all downhill. Rapaille intends his theory of culture codes to help us understand "why people do what they do," but the "fundamental archetypes" he offers are just trumped-up stereotypes. He often supports jarring pronouncements ("The Culture Code for perfection in America is DEATH") with preposterous generalizations and overstatements, e.g., Japanese men "seem utterly incapable of courtship or wooing a woman." Writing with the naÃ¯vetÃ© of someone who has learned about the world only through Hollywood films, he seems unaware that every person living within a nation''s borders doesn''t necessarily share the same cultural biases and references. Rapaille''s successful consulting career is evidence that he''s more convincing in the boardroom than he is on the page. Amid the overheated prose and dubious factoids, it''s easy to overlook the book''s scattered marketing proposals and employee-management tips.\n <em>\n  (June 6)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is just plain astonishing! Filled with profound insights and ideas that have enormous consequences for todayâ€™s organizations. If you want to understand customers, Constituencies, and crowds, this book is required reading.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California and author of _On Becoming a Leader\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17323'),
(13406, 'The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things', 'Barry Glassner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Americans are afraid of many things that shouldn''t frighten them, writes Barry Glassner in this book devoted to exploding conventional wisdom. Thanks to opportunistic politicians, single-minded advocacy groups, and unscrupulous TV "newsmagazines," people must unlearn their many misperceptions about the world around them. The youth homicide rate, for instance, has dropped by as much as 30 percent in recent years, says Glassner--and up to three times as many people are struck dead by lightening than die by violence in schools. "False and overdrawn fears only cause hardship," he writes. In fact, one study shows that daughters of women with breast cancer are actually\n <em>\n  less\n </em>\n likely to conduct self-examinations--probably because the campaign to increase awareness of the ailment also inadvertently heightens fears.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although some sections are stronger than others,\n <em>\n  The Culture of Fear\n </em>\n ''s examination of many nonproblems--such as "road rage," "Internet addiction," and airline safety--is very good. Glassner also has a sharp eye for what causes unnecessary goose bumps: "The use of poignant anecdotes in place of scientific evidence, the christening of isolated incidents as trends, depictions of entire categories of people as innately dangerous," and unknown scholars who masquerade as "experts." Although Glassner rejects the notion that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, he certainly shows we have much less to fear than we think. And isn''t that sort of scary?\n <em>\n  --John J. Miller\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a provocative report, Glassner (Career Crash, etc.) contends that Americans'' worries about crime, drugs, child abuse and other issues have been blown out of proportion by a mass media that thrives on scares. Exposing fear-mongering in many quarters, this University of Southern California sociology professor argues that trendy issues like road rage, workplace violence, teenage suicide, "granny dumping" (abandonment of the elderly by callous relatives) and sex crimes via the Internet are "false crises" manufactured by inflated statistics and hype. Lambasting liberals as well as conservatives who allegedly blame teen moms for the nation''s social ills, Glassner contends that teenage pregnancy is largely a response to the nation''s economic and educational decline. He also believes that America''s expensive campaign against illegal drugs like cocaine, heroin and marijuana diverts attention from the far more serious problem of deaths from the abuse of legal drugs and physicians'' gross negligence in prescribing them. The good news, he reports, is that airplane travel is safer than ever and that the incidence of child kidnapping has been wildly exaggerated. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he has his own axes to grind: he calls Gulf War Syndrome a "metaphoric illness," tweaks the hypocrisy of "those who single out rap singers as specially sexist or violent" and labels the FDA''s 1992 ban on silicone breast implants "a grand victory of anecdote over science." Some of his arguments are fresher than others; in any case, this antidote to paranoia is a guaranteed argument-starter. Agent, Geri Thoma.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9479'),
(13407, 'Cum s-a intamplat', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25691'),
(13408, 'Cuore', 'Edmondo de Amicis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25873'),
(13409, 'A Cup of Tea', 'Amy Ephron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cup of Tea\n </em>\n adds a touch of class--and a love triangle--to the classic theme of parallel lives and their accidental crossing. New York City, in the uncertain days of World War I, is home to Rosemary Fells, who is the sort of woman with the time to strike stunning poses and rearrange her curls; Eleanor Smith, whom Rosemary finds under a street lamp, miserable and shivering, is certainly not. Miss Fells indulges a whim of beneficence, whisking "the creature" home to share warmth, tea, and a change of clothing. Once clean and dry--fortified with sandwiches and brandy--young Eleanor and Rosemary''s fiancÃ© meet in the hallway and exchange a look, the kind of look that will forever change the course of their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cup of Tea\n </em>\n is a well-crafted, terse novel that reads like a good short story. It''s a refreshing step back to yesterday, a time when the fates picnicked on the glass slopes of privilege.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA. Rosemary Fell, privileged and accustomed to having all that she wants, is set to marry Philip Alsop. Of the same social class, Philip struggled years to build his own shipping concern into a success after the death of his father. Now their future together seems to promise happiness. Then Rosemary invites Eleanor Smith home with her, offering the seemingly penniless young woman temporary shelter from the weather. Instead, Philip instantly falls in love with her and the star-crossed love pulls all three characters into a dramatic, sorrowful ending. Ephron writes short, intense chapters, yet allows room for emotions and imagination to expand fully. She maintains interest by ending the chapters exactly at the next eventful point in the story, making the novel a natural page-turner. Sustaining the tension between the characters, while subtly interweaving more complexities of the plot, the author builds towards the intense conclusion. Using precise historical details of 1917 New York society, from clothing to moral attitudes, Ephron captures the ambiance of the era as well as the differences in lifestyles between the wealthy and working classes.?Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7702'),
(13410, 'A Cup of Tea', 'Amy Ephron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cup of Tea\n </em>\n adds a touch of class--and a love triangle--to the classic theme of parallel lives and their accidental crossing. New York City, in the uncertain days of World War I, is home to Rosemary Fells, who is the sort of woman with the time to strike stunning poses and rearrange her curls; Eleanor Smith, whom Rosemary finds under a street lamp, miserable and shivering, is certainly not. Miss Fells indulges a whim of beneficence, whisking "the creature" home to share warmth, tea, and a change of clothing. Once clean and dry--fortified with sandwiches and brandy--young Eleanor and Rosemary''s fiancÃ© meet in the hallway and exchange a look, the kind of look that will forever change the course of their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cup of Tea\n </em>\n is a well-crafted, terse novel that reads like a good short story. It''s a refreshing step back to yesterday, a time when the fates picnicked on the glass slopes of privilege.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA. Rosemary Fell, privileged and accustomed to having all that she wants, is set to marry Philip Alsop. Of the same social class, Philip struggled years to build his own shipping concern into a success after the death of his father. Now their future together seems to promise happiness. Then Rosemary invites Eleanor Smith home with her, offering the seemingly penniless young woman temporary shelter from the weather. Instead, Philip instantly falls in love with her and the star-crossed love pulls all three characters into a dramatic, sorrowful ending. Ephron writes short, intense chapters, yet allows room for emotions and imagination to expand fully. She maintains interest by ending the chapters exactly at the next eventful point in the story, making the novel a natural page-turner. Sustaining the tension between the characters, while subtly interweaving more complexities of the plot, the author builds towards the intense conclusion. Using precise historical details of 1917 New York society, from clothing to moral attitudes, Ephron captures the ambiance of the era as well as the differences in lifestyles between the wealthy and working classes.?Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9647');
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(13411, 'A Cup of Tea', 'Ephron, Amy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cup of Tea\n </em>\n adds a touch of class--and a love triangle--to the classic theme of parallel lives and their accidental crossing. New York City, in the uncertain days of World War I, is home to Rosemary Fells, who is the sort of woman with the time to strike stunning poses and rearrange her curls; Eleanor Smith, whom Rosemary finds under a street lamp, miserable and shivering, is certainly not. Miss Fells indulges a whim of beneficence, whisking "the creature" home to share warmth, tea, and a change of clothing. Once clean and dry--fortified with sandwiches and brandy--young Eleanor and Rosemary''s fiancÃ© meet in the hallway and exchange a look, the kind of look that will forever change the course of their lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A Cup of Tea\n </em>\n is a well-crafted, terse novel that reads like a good short story. It''s a refreshing step back to yesterday, a time when the fates picnicked on the glass slopes of privilege.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA. Rosemary Fell, privileged and accustomed to having all that she wants, is set to marry Philip Alsop. Of the same social class, Philip struggled years to build his own shipping concern into a success after the death of his father. Now their future together seems to promise happiness. Then Rosemary invites Eleanor Smith home with her, offering the seemingly penniless young woman temporary shelter from the weather. Instead, Philip instantly falls in love with her and the star-crossed love pulls all three characters into a dramatic, sorrowful ending. Ephron writes short, intense chapters, yet allows room for emotions and imagination to expand fully. She maintains interest by ending the chapters exactly at the next eventful point in the story, making the novel a natural page-turner. Sustaining the tension between the characters, while subtly interweaving more complexities of the plot, the author builds towards the intense conclusion. Using precise historical details of 1917 New York society, from clothing to moral attitudes, Ephron captures the ambiance of the era as well as the differences in lifestyles between the wealthy and working classes.?Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16170'),
(13412, 'Cupcake', 'Rachel Cohn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **When Cyd Charisse moves from San Francisco to start a new life in New York City, she leaves behind her family -- and her true love, Shrimp.** She wants to find a cool job, the city''s best caffeination and most perfect cupcake, and a hot new love. But the reality of CC''s new life hits some unexpected obstacles, including a broken leg that renders her immobile; the joy and aggravation of sharing an apartment with a roommate who''s also an older brother; and a tasty selection of guys -- none of whom measure up to Shrimp. Then, just when CC starts to get her new life on track, her old love returns. Shrimp has given up on his plans to live and surf in New Zealand and arrives in NYC with nothing to do other than to be with CC. And this time CC is determined that she and Shrimp will not repeat their old mistakes. This third book about reformed hellion Cyd Charisse is just as unforgettable as *Gingerbread* and *Shrimp*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21494'),
(13413, 'Cupid&#39;s Dart', 'David Nobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The story begins with a not-so-brief encounter on a train between 58-year-old philosophy lecturer Alan, and Ange a twenty-something darts groupie. Alan learns to live for the moment, and Ange to appreciate the finer things in life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6238'),
(13414, 'Cupid&#39;s Dart', 'David Nobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The story begins with a not-so-brief encounter on a train between 58-year-old philosophy lecturer Alan, and Ange a twenty-something darts groupie. Alan learns to live for the moment, and Ange to appreciate the finer things in life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11693'),
(13415, 'Cupid&#39;s Dart', 'David Nobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The story begins with a not-so-brief encounter on a train between 58-year-old philosophy lecturer Alan, and Ange a twenty-something darts groupie. Alan learns to live for the moment, and Ange to appreciate the finer things in life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17895'),
(13416, 'Cupid&#39;s Dart', 'David Nobbs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The story begins with a not-so-brief encounter on a train between 58-year-old philosophy lecturer Alan, and Ange a twenty-something darts groupie. Alan learns to live for the moment, and Ange to appreciate the finer things in life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27354'),
(13417, 'The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea', 'Mary South', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A mid-life crisis and a latent sense of adventure caused book editor South to give up her life in publishing and take up residence on the Bossanova, a steel-hull trawler she bought before knowing how to captain it. The subtitle is largely hyperbolic-South''s time "at sea" was really a short, if perilous, sail from Florida to Sag Harbor, where the boat is now docked-but South makes an interesting memoir from her skillful observation of the sailing life: "Good seamanship isn''t the thoughtless instinct that salty dogs make it seem to be. It''s the good habit of always asking yourself the right questions in the right order and answering them thoughtfully." Sometimes, she seems to have forgotten landlubbers might pick up her book; a sentences like, "One danger is that your bow will slow and your stern will get kicked out to the side, causing you to be beam-to," is just one head-scratcher of many for the uninitiated. She can be clumsy when transitioning between sailing stories and other aspects of her life ("This sailing was happiness. For a time, happiness, too, had been Leslie."), but her clear-eyed perspective and involving stories keep the narrative moving. This small but well-observed memoir is a worthwhile read for anyone stuck in the workaday rut.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  South, a successful book editor with stints at Ballantine and Houghton Mifflin, turns 40 with "a complicated concoction of ennui and despair," an average midlife crisis. But her next step is far from ordinary: she abruptly walks away from her well-paying job, sells her recently acquired house in Pennsylvania and most of her belongings, and buys a used 40-foot, 30-ton trawler, planning to pilot it up the coast from Florida to Maine. South recounts the rigors of her nine-week course at the Chapman School of Seamanship, where her classmates include an aging executive, a pony-tailed trucker, an Alaskan fisherman, and a documentary filmmaker. She describes her sometimes harrowing, always challenging trip up the Atlantic coast, assisted by a fellow student and novice, a trip marked by sudden storms, tricky inlet currents, long, energy-sapping days, and incredibly gorgeous seascapes. Though not as daring as "climbing Everest or sailing solo around the world," for South the voyage was the most "intensely meaningful" thing she had ever done, and well worth relinquishing luxuries and security.\n  <em>\n   Deborah Donovan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2968'),
(13418, 'The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea', 'Mary South', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A mid-life crisis and a latent sense of adventure caused book editor South to give up her life in publishing and take up residence on the Bossanova, a steel-hull trawler she bought before knowing how to captain it. The subtitle is largely hyperbolic-South''s time "at sea" was really a short, if perilous, sail from Florida to Sag Harbor, where the boat is now docked-but South makes an interesting memoir from her skillful observation of the sailing life: "Good seamanship isn''t the thoughtless instinct that salty dogs make it seem to be. It''s the good habit of always asking yourself the right questions in the right order and answering them thoughtfully." Sometimes, she seems to have forgotten landlubbers might pick up her book; a sentences like, "One danger is that your bow will slow and your stern will get kicked out to the side, causing you to be beam-to," is just one head-scratcher of many for the uninitiated. She can be clumsy when transitioning between sailing stories and other aspects of her life ("This sailing was happiness. For a time, happiness, too, had been Leslie."), but her clear-eyed perspective and involving stories keep the narrative moving. This small but well-observed memoir is a worthwhile read for anyone stuck in the workaday rut.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  South, a successful book editor with stints at Ballantine and Houghton Mifflin, turns 40 with "a complicated concoction of ennui and despair," an average midlife crisis. But her next step is far from ordinary: she abruptly walks away from her well-paying job, sells her recently acquired house in Pennsylvania and most of her belongings, and buys a used 40-foot, 30-ton trawler, planning to pilot it up the coast from Florida to Maine. South recounts the rigors of her nine-week course at the Chapman School of Seamanship, where her classmates include an aging executive, a pony-tailed trucker, an Alaskan fisherman, and a documentary filmmaker. She describes her sometimes harrowing, always challenging trip up the Atlantic coast, assisted by a fellow student and novice, a trip marked by sudden storms, tricky inlet currents, long, energy-sapping days, and incredibly gorgeous seascapes. Though not as daring as "climbing Everest or sailing solo around the world," for South the voyage was the most "intensely meaningful" thing she had ever done, and well worth relinquishing luxuries and security.\n  <em>\n   Deborah Donovan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12755'),
(13419, 'The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea', 'Mary South', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A mid-life crisis and a latent sense of adventure caused book editor South to give up her life in publishing and take up residence on the Bossanova, a steel-hull trawler she bought before knowing how to captain it. The subtitle is largely hyperbolic-South''s time "at sea" was really a short, if perilous, sail from Florida to Sag Harbor, where the boat is now docked-but South makes an interesting memoir from her skillful observation of the sailing life: "Good seamanship isn''t the thoughtless instinct that salty dogs make it seem to be. It''s the good habit of always asking yourself the right questions in the right order and answering them thoughtfully." Sometimes, she seems to have forgotten landlubbers might pick up her book; a sentences like, "One danger is that your bow will slow and your stern will get kicked out to the side, causing you to be beam-to," is just one head-scratcher of many for the uninitiated. She can be clumsy when transitioning between sailing stories and other aspects of her life ("This sailing was happiness. For a time, happiness, too, had been Leslie."), but her clear-eyed perspective and involving stories keep the narrative moving. This small but well-observed memoir is a worthwhile read for anyone stuck in the workaday rut.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  South, a successful book editor with stints at Ballantine and Houghton Mifflin, turns 40 with "a complicated concoction of ennui and despair," an average midlife crisis. But her next step is far from ordinary: she abruptly walks away from her well-paying job, sells her recently acquired house in Pennsylvania and most of her belongings, and buys a used 40-foot, 30-ton trawler, planning to pilot it up the coast from Florida to Maine. South recounts the rigors of her nine-week course at the Chapman School of Seamanship, where her classmates include an aging executive, a pony-tailed trucker, an Alaskan fisherman, and a documentary filmmaker. She describes her sometimes harrowing, always challenging trip up the Atlantic coast, assisted by a fellow student and novice, a trip marked by sudden storms, tricky inlet currents, long, energy-sapping days, and incredibly gorgeous seascapes. Though not as daring as "climbing Everest or sailing solo around the world," for South the voyage was the most "intensely meaningful" thing she had ever done, and well worth relinquishing luxuries and security.\n  <em>\n   Deborah Donovan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21839'),
(13420, 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n IN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era â€œa generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.â€ Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this â€œLost Generationâ€ been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgeraldâ€™s short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgeraldâ€™s signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5476'),
(13421, 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: IN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era â€œa generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.â€ Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this â€œLost Generationâ€ been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgeraldâ€™s short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgeraldâ€™s signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19110'),
(13422, 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: IN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era â€œa generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.â€ Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this â€œLost Generationâ€ been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgeraldâ€™s short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgeraldâ€™s signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27826'),
(13423, 'Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries', 'Sherry Seethaler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Dr. Seethaler has written an excellent book for any interested student of science. She answers great questions about the world around us in this fascinating book. As a high school science teacher, I encounter many of these from my own students. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who has pondered questions starting with ls"how,rs" ls"what,rs" or ls"why.rs"" Ernest James Lo, Science Teacher, Woodside High School, Woodside, CA Prepare to Be Fascinated! Why does the flu change every year? bull; What makes glue sticky? bull; What causes out-of-body experiences? bull; Are all brands of gas the same? bull; Will adult stem cells work as well as embryonic stem cells? bull; Is one "horsepower" really equal to the power of one horse? bull; Why canrs"t you sneeze with your eyes open? bull; How much does a cremated body weigh? These are just a few of the fascinating science and health questions real people have asked top science writer andSan Diego Union-Tribune columnist Sherry Seethaler.Curious Folks Askbrings together 162 of her best answersall crystal-clear, accurate, quick, and a pleasure to read. Seethaler is one of this generationrs"s best science explainers, and it shows: Every answer is accurate, fun to read, and distilled to a single page or less! Want to know how canned air workshellip;or nuclear bombs? What causes goose bumps, earwax, dandruff, headaches? Whether itrs"s healthy to crack your knuckles, drink decaf, eat chocolate? What it costs to run all those LED lights around your house? Itrs"s all hereand a whole lot more! Your bodyrs"s oddities: knees to knuckles, itches to sneezes Surprising facts about how your body grows and works Our ingenious inventions The past, present, and future of our relentless human inventiveness Pesky pathogens: viruses, bacteria, and prions How they keep outsmarting us, and why itrs"s so hard to stay healthy Common chemical concoctions The science behind the everyday products that have transformed our lives Uniquely human: how we got here, how wers"re unique New lessons from genetics, archaeology, and evolutionary biology\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1294'),
(13424, 'Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries', 'Sherry Seethaler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Dr. Seethaler has written an excellent book for any interested student of science. She answers great questions about the world around us in this fascinating book. As a high school science teacher, I encounter many of these from my own students. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who has pondered questions starting with ls"how,rs" ls"what,rs" or ls"why.rs"" Ernest James Lo, Science Teacher, Woodside High School, Woodside, CA Prepare to Be Fascinated! Why does the flu change every year? bull; What makes glue sticky? bull; What causes out-of-body experiences? bull; Are all brands of gas the same? bull; Will adult stem cells work as well as embryonic stem cells? bull; Is one "horsepower" really equal to the power of one horse? bull; Why canrs"t you sneeze with your eyes open? bull; How much does a cremated body weigh? These are just a few of the fascinating science and health questions real people have asked top science writer andSan Diego Union-Tribune columnist Sherry Seethaler.Curious Folks Askbrings together 162 of her best answersall crystal-clear, accurate, quick, and a pleasure to read. Seethaler is one of this generationrs"s best science explainers, and it shows: Every answer is accurate, fun to read, and distilled to a single page or less! Want to know how canned air workshellip;or nuclear bombs? What causes goose bumps, earwax, dandruff, headaches? Whether itrs"s healthy to crack your knuckles, drink decaf, eat chocolate? What it costs to run all those LED lights around your house? Itrs"s all hereand a whole lot more! Your bodyrs"s oddities: knees to knuckles, itches to sneezes Surprising facts about how your body grows and works Our ingenious inventions The past, present, and future of our relentless human inventiveness Pesky pathogens: viruses, bacteria, and prions How they keep outsmarting us, and why itrs"s so hard to stay healthy Common chemical concoctions The science behind the everyday products that have transformed our lives Uniquely human: how we got here, how wers"re unique New lessons from genetics, archaeology, and evolutionary biology\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12577'),
(13425, 'Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries', 'Seethaler, Sherry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23651'),
(13426, 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time', 'Mark Haddon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Haddon''s bitterly funny debut novel,\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\n  </em>\n  , is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child''s quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor''s poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington''s owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Haddon''s novel is a startling performance. This is the sort of book that could turn condescending, or exploitative, or overly sentimental, or grossly tasteless very easily, but Haddon navigates those dangers with a sureness of touch that is extremely rare among first-time novelists.\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\n  </em>\n  is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read.\n  <em>\n   --Jack Illingworth, Amazon.ca\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christopher Boone, the autistic 15-year-old narrator of this revelatory novel, relaxes by groaning and doing math problems in his head, eats red-but not yellow or brown-foods and screams when he is touched. Strange as he may seem, other people are far more of a conundrum to him, for he lacks the intuitive "theory of mind" by which most of us sense what''s going on in other people''s heads. When his neighbor''s poodle is killed and Christopher is falsely accused of the crime, he decides that he will take a page from Sherlock Holmes (one of his favorite characters) and track down the killer. As the mystery leads him to the secrets of his parents'' broken marriage and then into an odyssey to find his place in the world, he must fall back on deductive logic to navigate the emotional complexities of a social world that remains a closed book to him. In the hands of first-time novelist Haddon, Christopher is a fascinating case study and, above all, a sympathetic boy: not closed off, as the stereotype would have it, but too open-overwhelmed by sensations, bereft of the filters through which normal people screen their surroundings. Christopher can only make sense of the chaos of stimuli by imposing arbitrary patterns ("4 yellow cars in a row made it a Black Day, which is a day when I don''t speak to anyone and sit on my own reading books and don''t eat my lunch and Take No Risks"). His literal-minded observations make for a kind of poetic sensibility and a poignant evocation of character. Though Christopher insists, "This will not be a funny book. I cannot tell jokes because I do not understand them," the novel brims with touching, ironic humor. The result is an eye-opening work in a unique and compelling literary voice.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3108'),
(13427, 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time', 'Mark Haddon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Haddon''s bitterly funny debut novel,\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\n  </em>\n  , is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child''s quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor''s poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington''s owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Haddon''s novel is a startling performance. This is the sort of book that could turn condescending, or exploitative, or overly sentimental, or grossly tasteless very easily, but Haddon navigates those dangers with a sureness of touch that is extremely rare among first-time novelists.\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\n  </em>\n  is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read.\n  <em>\n   --Jack Illingworth, Amazon.ca\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christopher Boone, the autistic 15-year-old narrator of this revelatory novel, relaxes by groaning and doing math problems in his head, eats red-but not yellow or brown-foods and screams when he is touched. Strange as he may seem, other people are far more of a conundrum to him, for he lacks the intuitive "theory of mind" by which most of us sense what''s going on in other people''s heads. When his neighbor''s poodle is killed and Christopher is falsely accused of the crime, he decides that he will take a page from Sherlock Holmes (one of his favorite characters) and track down the killer. As the mystery leads him to the secrets of his parents'' broken marriage and then into an odyssey to find his place in the world, he must fall back on deductive logic to navigate the emotional complexities of a social world that remains a closed book to him. In the hands of first-time novelist Haddon, Christopher is a fascinating case study and, above all, a sympathetic boy: not closed off, as the stereotype would have it, but too open-overwhelmed by sensations, bereft of the filters through which normal people screen their surroundings. Christopher can only make sense of the chaos of stimuli by imposing arbitrary patterns ("4 yellow cars in a row made it a Black Day, which is a day when I don''t speak to anyone and sit on my own reading books and don''t eat my lunch and Take No Risks"). His literal-minded observations make for a kind of poetic sensibility and a poignant evocation of character. Though Christopher insists, "This will not be a funny book. I cannot tell jokes because I do not understand them," the novel brims with touching, ironic humor. The result is an eye-opening work in a unique and compelling literary voice.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10075'),
(13428, 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time', 'Mark Haddon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Haddon''s bitterly funny debut novel,\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\n  </em>\n  , is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child''s quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor''s poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington''s owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Haddon''s novel is a startling performance. This is the sort of book that could turn condescending, or exploitative, or overly sentimental, or grossly tasteless very easily, but Haddon navigates those dangers with a sureness of touch that is extremely rare among first-time novelists.\n  <em>\n   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\n  </em>\n  is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read.\n  <em>\n   --Jack Illingworth, Amazon.ca\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Christopher Boone, the autistic 15-year-old narrator of this revelatory novel, relaxes by groaning and doing math problems in his head, eats red-but not yellow or brown-foods and screams when he is touched. Strange as he may seem, other people are far more of a conundrum to him, for he lacks the intuitive "theory of mind" by which most of us sense what''s going on in other people''s heads. When his neighbor''s poodle is killed and Christopher is falsely accused of the crime, he decides that he will take a page from Sherlock Holmes (one of his favorite characters) and track down the killer. As the mystery leads him to the secrets of his parents'' broken marriage and then into an odyssey to find his place in the world, he must fall back on deductive logic to navigate the emotional complexities of a social world that remains a closed book to him. In the hands of first-time novelist Haddon, Christopher is a fascinating case study and, above all, a sympathetic boy: not closed off, as the stereotype would have it, but too open-overwhelmed by sensations, bereft of the filters through which normal people screen their surroundings. Christopher can only make sense of the chaos of stimuli by imposing arbitrary patterns ("4 yellow cars in a row made it a Black Day, which is a day when I don''t speak to anyone and sit on my own reading books and don''t eat my lunch and Take No Risks"). His literal-minded observations make for a kind of poetic sensibility and a poignant evocation of character. Though Christopher insists, "This will not be a funny book. I cannot tell jokes because I do not understand them," the novel brims with touching, ironic humor. The result is an eye-opening work in a unique and compelling literary voice.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21746'),
(13429, 'Currant Events', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Clio, the Muse of History, sat down to pen the twenty-eighth volume in the Chronicles of Xanth, she was stunned to discover it was already there! And, what was worse, it was totally unreadable, for the words on its pages were fuzzed beyond comprehension.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Vexed and bewildered, and more than a little concerned, Clio resolved to leave the quiet comfort of her study on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, and ask her old friend, the Good Magician Humfrey, to search a solution to her problem in his Book of Answers.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But, much to her consternation, Humfrey required her to perform a magical Service before she could acquire her Answer: to rescue Xanth''s dragons from the verge of extinction before the delicate balance of its wildlife was permanently thrown out of whack.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Her momentous mission lead her to a dangerous Dragon World hidden amongst the Moons of Ida, across a perilous landscape filled with wonder and danger, in search of the fabled Currant, a very rare red berry that might hold the secret she sought.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Along the way she acquired a fellowship of companions, including the brave and beautiful Becka Dragongirl, a pair of pocket dragons named Drew and Drusie, a charming young child called Ciriana whose destiny was somehow entwined with hers, and Sherlock, a sweet but homely man from Mundania who might just be a master magician himself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Together they gradually began to unravel the momentous mystery of Xanth''s missing history. And Clio began to realize that Sherlock''s enchantments had begun to work their way into her heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2001'),
(13430, 'Currant Events', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Clio, the Muse of History, sat down to pen the twenty-eighth volume in the Chronicles of Xanth, she was stunned to discover it was already there! And, what was worse, it was totally unreadable, for the words on its pages were fuzzed beyond comprehension. Vexed and bewildered, and more than a little concerned, Clio resolved to leave the quiet comfort of her study on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, and ask her old friend, the Good Magician Humfrey, to search a solution to her problem in his Book of Answers. But, much to her consternation, Humfrey required her to perform a magical Service before she could acquire her Answer: to rescue Xanth''s dragons from the verge of extinction before the delicate balance of its wildlife was permanently thrown out of whack. Her momentous mission lead her to a dangerous Dragon World hidden amongst the Moons of Ida, across a perilous landscape filled with wonder and danger, in search of the fabled Currant, a very rare red berry that might hold the secret she sought. Along the way she acquired a fellowship of companions, including the brave and beautiful Becka Dragongirl, a pair of pocket dragons named Drew and Drusie, a charming young child called Ciriana whose destiny was somehow entwined with hers, and Sherlock, a sweet but homely man from Mundania who might just be a master magician himself. Together they gradually began to unravel the momentous mystery of Xanth''s missing history. And Clio began to realize that Sherlock''s enchantments had begun to work their way into her heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22711'),
(13431, 'The Currents of Space', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort.  Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters. Rebellion is unthinkable and impossible. Not only do the Florinians no longer have a concept of freedom, any disruption of the vital kyrt trade would cause other planets to rise in protest, ultimately destabilizing trade and resulting in a galactic war. So the Trantorian Empire, whose grand plan is to unite all humanity in peace, prosperity, and freedom, has stood aside and allowed the oppression to continue. Living among the workers of Florinia, Rik is a man without a memory or a past.  He has been abducted and brainwashed. Barely able to speak or care for himself when he was found, Rik is widely regarded as a simpleton by the worker community where he lives.  But as his memories begin to return, Rik finds himself driven by a cryptic message he is determined to deliver:  Everyone on Florinia is doomed . . . the Currents of Space are bringing destruction. But if the planet is evacuated, the power of Sark will end--so some would finish the job and would kill the messenger. The fate of the Galaxy hangs in the balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18251'),
(13432, 'The Currents of Space', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort.Â  Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters. Rebellion is unthinkable and impossible. Not only do the Florinians no longer have a concept of freedom, any disruption of the vital kyrt trade would cause other planets to rise in protest, ultimately destabilizing trade and resulting in a galactic war. So the Trantorian Empire, whose grand plan is to unite all humanity in peace, prosperity, and freedom, has stood aside and allowed the oppression to continue. Living among the workers of Florinia, Rik is a man without a memory or a past.Â  He has been abducted and brainwashed. Barely able to speak or care for himself when he was found, Rik is widely regarded as a simpleton by the worker community where he lives.Â  But as his memories begin to return, Rik finds himself driven by a cryptic message he is determined to deliver:Â  Everyone on Florinia is doomed . . . the Currents of Space are bringing destruction.Â But if the planet is evacuated, the power of Sark will end--so some would finish the job and would kill the messenger. The fate of the Galaxy hangs in the balance.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort.  Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters. Rebellion is unthinkable and impossible. Not only do the Florinians no longer have a concept of freedom, any disruption of the vital kyrt trade would cause other planets to rise in protest, ultimately destabilizing trade and resulting in a galactic war. So the Trantorian Empire, whose grand plan is to unite all humanity in peace, prosperity, and freedom, has stood aside and allowed the oppression to continue. Living among the workers of Florinia, Rik is a man without a memory or a past.  He has been abducted and brainwashed. Barely able to speak or care for himself when he was found, Rik is widely regarded as a simpleton by the worker community where he lives.  But as his memories begin to return, Rik finds himself driven by a cryptic message he is determined to deliver:  Everyone on Florinia is doomed . . . the Currents of Space are bringing destruction. But if the planet is evacuated, the power of Sark will end--so some would finish the job and would kill the messenger. The fate of the Galaxy hangs in the balance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28301'),
(13433, 'Curse + Berate in 69+ Languages', 'R. V. Branham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Although he presented only four ways to do it, Paul Simon suggested there must be 50 ways to leave your lover. Whether or not there actually are 50 ways to leave your lover, there are certainly more than 80 ways to say "knep dig selv " to someone. For those of you who don''t know, knep dig selv is Danish for lech tiezdayen , which is Hebrew for "go fuck yourself." And if you really wanted to get creative, you could tell someone to "nenda kutomba, nakata tatu ," which is Swahili for "fuck yourself, in triplicate."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Anyone who has ever studied foreign languages knows firsthand that what you learn from books and classrooms prepares you for only so much, and then you''re on your own to figure out what it means when someone in Finland tells you, "PÃ¤Ã¤ssÃ¤si tekee kusi patoja ja paska puroja ." But thanks to Curse &amp; Berate in 69+ Languages (Soft Skull Press, 284 pages, $13.95), you now have a useful tool that lets you know when some Finnish faszszopÃ³ has just told you, "In your mind''s eye, dams are built of piss and rivers flow with shit." (FaszszopÃ³ is Hungarian for "cocksucker," in case you were wondering).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written and edited by R. V. Branham, who''s also the editor of the multi-lingual Portland lit journal Gobshite Quarterly , Curse &amp; Berate is an indispensable resource for finding just the right way to say "vai chupar merda, o seu filho da puta "--which is Portuguese for "go suck on shit, you son of a bitch"--so as to get into less trouble than if you just came right out and said it. "From a very early age I always noticed that those people who don''t have anything nice to say and who don''t pull their punches have the most fun," says Barnham, explaining part of what inspired Curse &amp; Berate , which he has been working on in one form or another since 1984.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Overflowing with invectives, curses and blasphemous belittlings, the book is more than a resource guide for becoming a multilingual potty mouth. This is a valuable tool for bridging communication barriers, making it possible to say such important things as "millananyawshanmi "--Quechua for "I feel like throwing up"--and "nej, jeg har ikke en prÃ¦servativ, har du ?"--Danish for "I don''t have a condom, do you?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Hopefully, this book will prove helpful in filling gaps in people''s knowledge of a language--warts and all--and also be a lot of fun," says assistant editor and contributor Channing Dodson. And you know what I say to that? Danke. --\n  <em>\n   Willamette Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For those times when â€œyou blackguard!â€ just wonâ€™t do,\n  <em>\n   Sinister Wisdom\n  </em>\n  supplies an amazing array of crude, vulgar, offensive, scurrilous, lewd, and otherwise unprintable denunciations. Organized thematically and translated into more than 69 languages, it contains an alphabetical listing of every conceivable (and inconceivable) slur and insult, from comments on mothers'' peculiar anatomy and hobbies, to suggestions on where to go and how, to observations on how others spend their solitary moments. Appendices cover blasphemies, bodily functions, sexual deviations, and variations on â€œyo mama!â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2009'),
(13434, 'Curse + Berate in 69+ Languages', 'R. V. Branham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Although he presented only four ways to do it, Paul Simon suggested there must be 50 ways to leave your lover. Whether or not there actually are 50 ways to leave your lover, there are certainly more than 80 ways to say "knep dig selv " to someone. For those of you who don''t know, knep dig selv is Danish for lech tiezdayen , which is Hebrew for "go fuck yourself." And if you really wanted to get creative, you could tell someone to "nenda kutomba, nakata tatu ," which is Swahili for "fuck yourself, in triplicate."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Anyone who has ever studied foreign languages knows firsthand that what you learn from books and classrooms prepares you for only so much, and then you''re on your own to figure out what it means when someone in Finland tells you, "PÃ¤Ã¤ssÃ¤si tekee kusi patoja ja paska puroja ." But thanks to Curse &amp; Berate in 69+ Languages (Soft Skull Press, 284 pages, $13.95), you now have a useful tool that lets you know when some Finnish faszszopÃ³ has just told you, "In your mind''s eye, dams are built of piss and rivers flow with shit." (FaszszopÃ³ is Hungarian for "cocksucker," in case you were wondering).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Written and edited by R. V. Branham, who''s also the editor of the multi-lingual Portland lit journal Gobshite Quarterly , Curse &amp; Berate is an indispensable resource for finding just the right way to say "vai chupar merda, o seu filho da puta "--which is Portuguese for "go suck on shit, you son of a bitch"--so as to get into less trouble than if you just came right out and said it. "From a very early age I always noticed that those people who don''t have anything nice to say and who don''t pull their punches have the most fun," says Barnham, explaining part of what inspired Curse &amp; Berate , which he has been working on in one form or another since 1984.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Overflowing with invectives, curses and blasphemous belittlings, the book is more than a resource guide for becoming a multilingual potty mouth. This is a valuable tool for bridging communication barriers, making it possible to say such important things as "millananyawshanmi "--Quechua for "I feel like throwing up"--and "nej, jeg har ikke en prÃ¦servativ, har du ?"--Danish for "I don''t have a condom, do you?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Hopefully, this book will prove helpful in filling gaps in people''s knowledge of a language--warts and all--and also be a lot of fun," says assistant editor and contributor Channing Dodson. And you know what I say to that? Danke. --\n  <em>\n   Willamette Weekly\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For those times when â€œyou blackguard!â€ just wonâ€™t do,\n  <em>\n   Sinister Wisdom\n  </em>\n  supplies an amazing array of crude, vulgar, offensive, scurrilous, lewd, and otherwise unprintable denunciations. Organized thematically and translated into more than 69 languages, it contains an alphabetical listing of every conceivable (and inconceivable) slur and insult, from comments on mothers'' peculiar anatomy and hobbies, to suggestions on where to go and how, to observations on how others spend their solitary moments. Appendices cover blasphemies, bodily functions, sexual deviations, and variations on â€œyo mama!â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8597');
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(13435, 'The Curse of Chalion', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Iselle, the royesse (princess) of Chalion, and her lady-in-waiting, Bertriz, need a new tutor. Cazaril, the man chosen for the job, has been scarred, physically and mentally, from secret betrayals by the very people who now rule Chalion through Iselle''s uncle, and who seek to control her younger brother, the heir, as well. To rescue the royesse, and save Chalion, Cazaril must play matchmaker between Iselle and the prince of another realm, fight off assassins, lift a century-old curse, and risk everything-learning not to run from his own love for Bertriz-along the way. Bujold weaves a convincing and captivating fantasy world, well researched, with magic that works and gods that live without destroying the balance of this medieval society. Cazaril''s life is rich with detail, and plays a part in the conclusion. The villains are believably motivated. The young heroines are deeply sympathetic characters as well. Readers will find themselves rooting for the good guys, while still uncertain that all can end without at least one of them suffering a dire fate. A finely balanced mixture of adventure, swordplay, court intrigue, romance, magic, and religion makes this book a delightful read.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Paul Brink, Fairfax County Public Library System, VA\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Betrayed by an unknown enemy into slavery, former soldier and courtier Lupe dy Cazaril escapes his bondage and returns to the royal household he once served. Entrusted with the teaching of the sister to the heir to the throne of Chalion, Cazaril finds himself drawn into a tangled web of politics and dark magic as he battles a curse that threatens the lives and souls of a family he has come to love. The author of the "Vorkosigan" series of dynastic sf turns her hand as competently and engagingly to the fantasy genre in a tale of quiet heroism and self-sacrifice. Compelling characters and richly detailed world building make this a strong addition to fantasy collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3257'),
(13436, 'The Curse of Chalion', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Iselle, the royesse (princess) of Chalion, and her lady-in-waiting, Bertriz, need a new tutor. Cazaril, the man chosen for the job, has been scarred, physically and mentally, from secret betrayals by the very people who now rule Chalion through Iselle''s uncle, and who seek to control her younger brother, the heir, as well. To rescue the royesse, and save Chalion, Cazaril must play matchmaker between Iselle and the prince of another realm, fight off assassins, lift a century-old curse, and risk everything-learning not to run from his own love for Bertriz-along the way. Bujold weaves a convincing and captivating fantasy world, well researched, with magic that works and gods that live without destroying the balance of this medieval society. Cazaril''s life is rich with detail, and plays a part in the conclusion. The villains are believably motivated. The young heroines are deeply sympathetic characters as well. Readers will find themselves rooting for the good guys, while still uncertain that all can end without at least one of them suffering a dire fate. A finely balanced mixture of adventure, swordplay, court intrigue, romance, magic, and religion makes this book a delightful read.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Paul Brink, Fairfax County Public Library System, VA\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Betrayed by an unknown enemy into slavery, former soldier and courtier Lupe dy Cazaril escapes his bondage and returns to the royal household he once served. Entrusted with the teaching of the sister to the heir to the throne of Chalion, Cazaril finds himself drawn into a tangled web of politics and dark magic as he battles a curse that threatens the lives and souls of a family he has come to love. The author of the "Vorkosigan" series of dynastic sf turns her hand as competently and engagingly to the fantasy genre in a tale of quiet heroism and self-sacrifice. Compelling characters and richly detailed world building make this a strong addition to fantasy collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8709'),
(13437, 'The Curse of Chalion', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Iselle, the royesse (princess) of Chalion, and her lady-in-waiting, Bertriz, need a new tutor. Cazaril, the man chosen for the job, has been scarred, physically and mentally, from secret betrayals by the very people who now rule Chalion through Iselle''s uncle, and who seek to control her younger brother, the heir, as well. To rescue the royesse, and save Chalion, Cazaril must play matchmaker between Iselle and the prince of another realm, fight off assassins, lift a century-old curse, and risk everything-learning not to run from his own love for Bertriz-along the way. Bujold weaves a convincing and captivating fantasy world, well researched, with magic that works and gods that live without destroying the balance of this medieval society. Cazaril''s life is rich with detail, and plays a part in the conclusion. The villains are believably motivated. The young heroines are deeply sympathetic characters as well. Readers will find themselves rooting for the good guys, while still uncertain that all can end without at least one of them suffering a dire fate. A finely balanced mixture of adventure, swordplay, court intrigue, romance, magic, and religion makes this book a delightful read.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Paul Brink, Fairfax County Public Library System, VA\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Betrayed by an unknown enemy into slavery, former soldier and courtier Lupe dy Cazaril escapes his bondage and returns to the royal household he once served. Entrusted with the teaching of the sister to the heir to the throne of Chalion, Cazaril finds himself drawn into a tangled web of politics and dark magic as he battles a curse that threatens the lives and souls of a family he has come to love. The author of the "Vorkosigan" series of dynastic sf turns her hand as competently and engagingly to the fantasy genre in a tale of quiet heroism and self-sacrifice. Compelling characters and richly detailed world building make this a strong addition to fantasy collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21215'),
(13438, 'The Curse of Deadman&#39;s Forest', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Curse of Deadman''s Forest is the second book in the Oracles of Delphi Keepâ€”a series with all the timeless charm of classics like the Chronicles of Narnia and all the action-packed adventure of a modern middle-grade blockbuster. Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is budding, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracle--a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again.Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear. According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again. Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice. If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear.  Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is building, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again. Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear. Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is building, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again.Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/367'),
(13439, 'The Curse of Deadman&#39;s Forest', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Curse of Deadman''s Forest is the second book in the Oracles of Delphi Keepâ€”a series with all the timeless charm of classics like the Chronicles of Narnia and all the action-packed adventure of a modern middle-grade blockbuster. Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is budding, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracle--a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again.Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear. According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again. Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice. If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear.  Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is building, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again. Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear. Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is building, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again.Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12259'),
(13440, 'The Curse of Deadman&#39;s Forest', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Curse of Deadman''s Forest is the second book in the Oracles of Delphi Keepâ€”a series with all the timeless charm of classics like the Chronicles of Narnia and all the action-packed adventure of a modern middle-grade blockbuster. Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is budding, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracle--a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again.Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear. According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again. Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice. If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear. Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is building, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again. Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear. Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There''s no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is building, and to defeat it, and save the world from darkness, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered.According to prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near the castle will bring them to the third Oracleâ€”a child with extraordinary powers to heal. But the very same prophecy foretells Ian''s death should he venture through the portal again.Everyone agrees: to risk Ian''s life is too great a gamble. But when a terrible curse enters the keep, it becomes clear that there is no other choice.If Ian and Theo stay in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to follow the prophecy, they will risk their lives and everything they have ever held dear.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24618'),
(13441, 'The Curse of Lono', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist''s ?coverage? of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, Curse features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph Steadman duo have become known and loved. This curious book, considered an oddity among Hunter''s oeuvre, has been long out of print, prompting collectors to search high and low for an original copy. Resurrected by TASCHEN in a bigger size with splendid, full-color illustrations and a foreword by Sean Penn, The Curse of Lono is now available in a special 1000-copy edition, numbered and hand-signed by Thompson and Steadman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5145'),
(13442, 'The Curse of Lono', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist''s ?coverage? of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, Curse features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph Steadman duo have become known and loved. This curious book, considered an oddity among Hunter''s oeuvre, has been long out of print, prompting collectors to search high and low for an original copy. Resurrected by TASCHEN in a bigger size with splendid, full-color illustrations and a foreword by Sean Penn, The Curse of Lono is now available in a special 1000-copy edition, numbered and hand-signed by Thompson and Steadman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13049'),
(13443, 'The Curse of Lono', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist''s ?coverage? of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, Curse features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph Steadman duo have become known and loved. This curious book, considered an oddity among Hunter''s oeuvre, has been long out of print, prompting collectors to search high and low for an original copy. Resurrected by TASCHEN in a bigger size with splendid, full-color illustrations and a foreword by Sean Penn, The Curse of Lono is now available in a special 1000-copy edition, numbered and hand-signed by Thompson and Steadman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19577'),
(13444, 'The Curse of Lono', 'Hunter S. Thompson &amp; Ralph Steadman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist''s ?coverage? of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, Curse features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph Steadman duo have become known and loved. This curious book, considered an oddity among Hunter''s oeuvre, has been long out of print, prompting collectors to search high and low for an original copy. Resurrected by TASCHEN in a bigger size with splendid, full-color illustrations and a foreword by Sean Penn, The Curse of Lono is now available in a special 1000-copy edition, numbered and hand-signed by Thompson and Steadman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28186'),
(13445, 'The Curse of the Pharaohs', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bestselling author Elizabeth Peters, a writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key (Washington Post Book World) here continues her series of mysteries starring Amelia Peabody.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5734'),
(13446, 'The Curse of the Pharaohs', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bestselling author Elizabeth Peters, a writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key (Washington Post Book World) here continues her series of mysteries starring Amelia Peabody.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18942'),
(13447, 'The Curse of the Pharaohs', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bestselling author Elizabeth Peters, a writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key (Washington Post Book World) here continues her series of mysteries starring Amelia Peabody.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27720'),
(13448, 'The Cursed Expedition', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22973'),
(13449, 'Cursor&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Power-hungry Kalare has rebelled against Alera''s aging First Lord, Gaius Sextus. Ill-equipped to face this attack, Gaius must seek support - even from the combative High Lord of Aquitaine. Kalare has also seized valuable hostages that could mean the difference between victory and failure. And Amara, the First Lord''s Cursor, has been tasked with their rescue. She has earned this trust but are her allies as worthy - or does the Lady Aquitaine see the time as ripe for betrayal?Treachery is rife elsewhere, as young Tavi of Calderon will find. Posted away from the war, Tavi joins a legion anyway, under an assumed name. Then Kalare does the unthinkable - uniting with the brutish Canim. When treason wipes out the army''s command structure, Tavi finds himself leading an inexperienced legion against the might of the Canim horde - the very last resort of a war-torn realm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4511'),
(13450, 'Cursor&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Power-hungry Kalare has rebelled against Alera''s aging First Lord, Gaius Sextus. Ill-equipped to face this attack, Gaius must seek support - even from the combative High Lord of Aquitaine. Kalare has also seized valuable hostages that could mean the difference between victory and failure. And Amara, the First Lord''s Cursor, has been tasked with their rescue. She has earned this trust but are her allies as worthy - or does the Lady Aquitaine see the time as ripe for betrayal?Treachery is rife elsewhere, as young Tavi of Calderon will find. Posted away from the war, Tavi joins a legion anyway, under an assumed name. Then Kalare does the unthinkable - uniting with the brutish Canim. When treason wipes out the army''s command structure, Tavi finds himself leading an inexperienced legion against the might of the Canim horde - the very last resort of a war-torn realm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15352'),
(13451, 'A Curtain Falls', 'Stefanie Pintoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The careers of New York City detective Simon Ziele and his former partner Captain Declan Mulvaney went in remarkably different directions after the tragic death of Zielers"s fiancÃ©e in the 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster. Although both men were earmarked for much bigger things, Ziele moved to Dobson, a small town north of the city, to escape the violence, and Mulvaney buried himself even deeper, agreeing to head up the precinct in the most crime-ridden area in the city. Yet with all of the detectives and resources at Mulvaneyrs"s disposal, a particularly puzzling crime compels him to look for someone he can trust absolutely. When a chorus girl is found dead on a Broadway stage dressed in the leading ladyrs"s costume, there are no signs of violence, no cuts, no bruises''no marks at all. If pressed, the coroner would call it a suicide, but then that would make her the second girl to turn up dead in such a manner in the last few weeks. And the news of a possible serial killer would be potentially disastrous to the burgeoning theater world, not to mention the citizens of New York. Following on the heels of Stefanie Pintoffrs"s acclaimed and award-winning debut, A Curtain Fallsis a moody and evocative tale that follows Ziele and his partners as they scour the dark streets of early-twentieth-century New York in search of a true fiend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1235'),
(13452, 'A Curtain Falls', 'Stefanie Pintoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The careers of New York City detective Simon Ziele and his former partner Captain Declan Mulvaney went in remarkably different directions after the tragic death of Zielers"s fiancÃ©e in the 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster. Although both men were earmarked for much bigger things, Ziele moved to Dobson, a small town north of the city, to escape the violence, and Mulvaney buried himself even deeper, agreeing to head up the precinct in the most crime-ridden area in the city. Yet with all of the detectives and resources at Mulvaneyrs"s disposal, a particularly puzzling crime compels him to look for someone he can trust absolutely. When a chorus girl is found dead on a Broadway stage dressed in the leading ladyrs"s costume, there are no signs of violence, no cuts, no bruises''no marks at all. If pressed, the coroner would call it a suicide, but then that would make her the second girl to turn up dead in such a manner in the last few weeks. And the news of a possible serial killer would be potentially disastrous to the burgeoning theater world, not to mention the citizens of New York. Following on the heels of Stefanie Pintoffrs"s acclaimed and award-winning debut, A Curtain Fallsis a moody and evocative tale that follows Ziele and his partners as they scour the dark streets of early-twentieth-century New York in search of a true fiend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23757'),
(13453, 'Curtain: Poirot&#39;s Last Case', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings - there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara, Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings was shocked when Poirot declared that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, that ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/69'),
(13454, 'Curtain: Poirot&#39;s last case', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings - there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara, Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings was shocked when Poirot declared that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, that ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17170'),
(13455, 'Cutting Edge', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Jerome Preisler &amp; Martin Greenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WIRED.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Africa becomes the battleground of twenty-first-century war. As fiber-optic cable is laid down around the continent, two entities fight to control it. One is UpLink Communications, headed by Roger Gordian. The Pan-African fiber-optic ring is his most ambitious?and expensive?endeavor to date.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His nemesis, Harlan Devane, is penetrating the network. Devane trades in black-market commodities with terrorists and rogue states, and the cable offers him unlimited access to a most valuable product: information. To ensure his success, Devane makes his move halfway around the world. He hits Gordian where it hurts?and kidnaps his daughter.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, Gordian must trust his UpLink team as never before, as they fight on land and sea to save his daughter and turn the tables against Devane?once and for all.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/520'),
(13456, 'Cutting Edge', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Jerome Preisler &amp; Martin Greenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WIRED.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Africa becomes the battleground of twenty-first-century war. As fiber-optic cable is laid down around the continent, two entities fight to control it. One is UpLink Communications, headed by Roger Gordian. The Pan-African fiber-optic ring is his most ambitious?and expensive?endeavor to date.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His nemesis, Harlan Devane, is penetrating the network. Devane trades in black-market commodities with terrorists and rogue states, and the cable offers him unlimited access to a most valuable product: information. To ensure his success, Devane makes his move halfway around the world. He hits Gordian where it hurts?and kidnaps his daughter.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now, Gordian must trust his UpLink team as never before, as they fight on land and sea to save his daughter and turn the tables against Devane?once and for all.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8981'),
(13457, 'Cutting Edge (2002)', 'Clancy, Tom - Power Plays 06', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22875'),
(13458, 'Cutting for Stone', 'Abraham Verghese', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: John Irving Reviews\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n That\n <em>\n  Cutting for Stone\n </em>\n is a remarkable achievement._--John Irving_\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Maki Galimberti)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Lauded for his sensitive memoir (_My Own Country_) about his time as a doctor in eastern Tennessee at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, Verghese turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. Seven years later, Sister Praise dies birthing twin boys: Shiva and Marion, the latter narrating his own and his brothers long, dramatic, biblical story set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Ethiopia, the life of the hospital compound in which they grow up and the love story of their adopted parents, both doctors at Missing. The boys become doctors as well and Vergheses weaving of the practice of medicine into the narrative is fascinating even as the story bobs and weaves with the power and coincidences of the best 19th-century novel.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/76'),
(13459, 'Cutting for Stone', 'Abraham Verghese', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: John Irving Reviews\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n That\n <em>\n  Cutting for Stone\n </em>\n is a remarkable achievement._--John Irving_\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Maki Galimberti)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Lauded for his sensitive memoir (_My Own Country_) about his time as a doctor in eastern Tennessee at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, Verghese turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. Seven years later, Sister Praise dies birthing twin boys: Shiva and Marion, the latter narrating his own and his brothers long, dramatic, biblical story set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Ethiopia, the life of the hospital compound in which they grow up and the love story of their adopted parents, both doctors at Missing. The boys become doctors as well and Vergheses weaving of the practice of medicine into the narrative is fascinating even as the story bobs and weaves with the power and coincidences of the best 19th-century novel.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13217'),
(13460, 'Cutting for Stone', 'Abraham Verghese', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother''s death in childbirth and their father''s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics - their passion for the same woman - that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him - nearly destroying him - Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him. An unforgettable journey into one man''s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13950'),
(13461, 'Cutting for Stone', 'Abraham Verghese', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: John Irving Reviews\n   <em>\n    Cutting for Stone\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Cutting for Stone\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  That\n  <em>\n   Cutting for Stone\n  </em>\n  is a remarkable achievement._--John Irving_\n </p>\n <p>\n  (Photo Â© Maki Galimberti)\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Lauded for his sensitive memoir (_My Own Country_) about his time as a doctor in eastern Tennessee at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, Verghese turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. Seven years later, Sister Praise dies birthing twin boys: Shiva and Marion, the latter narrating his own and his brothers long, dramatic, biblical story set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Ethiopia, the life of the hospital compound in which they grow up and the love story of their adopted parents, both doctors at Missing. The boys become doctors as well and Vergheses weaving of the practice of medicine into the narrative is fascinating even as the story bobs and weaves with the power and coincidences of the best 19th-century novel.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17160'),
(13462, 'Cyber Bullying: Bullying in the Digital Age', 'Robin M. Kowalski Phd; Susan P. Limber Phd; Patricia W. Agatston Phd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?It provides an excellent overview of bullying research in general, paying proper attention to research from around the world, and a good overview of the cyberbullying research, much of which the authors have been directly involved in conducting.? (_Research Papers in Education_, August 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n ?The authors provide current research that informs the reader as to the pervasiveness of this event in the lives of children everywhere-no child is immune.? (_Family Journal_, April 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n ?_Cyber Bullying_ provides the most current and essential information on the nature and prevalence of this epidemic, providing educators, parents, psychologists and policy-makers with critical prevention techniques and strategies for effectively addressing electronic bullying.? (_The Parent Report_, March 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n ?Champions and critics of the [cyberbullying] laws agree that preventive education is a more powerful deterrent to cyberbullying than discipline. That notion is supported by Patricia Agatston, co-author of\n <em>\n  Cyber Bullying: Bullying in the Digital Age\n </em>\n and a counselor at Cobb County School District''s Prevention-Intervention Center in Georgia.? (_Washington Post_, January 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n ?A must-read for anyone who has access to technology, and it is particularly relevant for any parent and educator who works with youth. Cyber Bullying provides eye-opening and helpful suggestions for helping parents and educators monitor and track students'' use of technology. Provides a very useful roadmap for educators and parents about this phenomenon.? (_PsycCritiques_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "The school bully isn''t necessarily that oversized, physically intimidating kid anymore. Humiliation by words has become just as popular--if not more so--as children''s social lives have migrated online...The authors of\n <em>\n  Cyber Bullying: Bullying in the Digital Age,\n </em>\n which comes out November 14, interviewed approximately 150 middle and high school students during the spring and fall of 2006. Aside from their own first-hand research, the book includes a plethora of statistics from leading academic researchers covering cyberbullying and real-life bullying around the world." (_CNET Networks_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "A very helpful guide to the cyber world for parents, teachers, school counselors and parent educators." (_NASAP Family Newsletter_)\n</p>\n<p>\n ?Much needed addition ? .Mandatory reading for parents of adolescents and school personnel, administrators and teachers ? .Now is the time to read this book.? (_Metapsychology_)\n</p>\n<p>\n ?A useful introduction to the growing problem of electronic harassment among children. The chapters providing advice to parents and educators are quite helpful.? (_American Journal of Psychology_)\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFascinating, eye-opening reading about one of the most insidious problems facing anyone working with children and teens, and anyone caring about school violence.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  Michael Popkin, Ph.D.\n </strong>\n , author, _Taming the Spirited Child: Strategies for Parenting Challenging Children Without Breaking Their Spirits\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBullying in The Digital Age effectively uses real life stories, research and data from leading organizations like i-SAFE to provide the world with the who, what, when, where and how of cyber bullying. This is the most comprehensive look at Cyber Bullying to date and will be a great tool for years to come.â€\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  Teri Schroeder\n </strong>\n , CEO of i-SAFE, Inc.\n</p>\n<p>\n "An indispensable resource that combines new research and specific, practical techniques to help parents, schools, and communities protect young people from cyber-bullying. This book will make a difference!"\n <br />\n â€“\n <strong>\n  Stan Davis\n </strong>\n , author,\n <em>\n  Schools Where Everyone Belongs\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23092'),
(13463, 'Cybernation', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ContrÃ´ler le Net, c''est contrÃ´ler le monde. 2011. Black-out total de l''Internet aprÃ¨s une sÃ©rie d''attaques parfaitement synchronisÃ©es contre tous les relais du rÃ©seau mondial. A peine la premiÃ¨re phase exÃ©cutÃ©e, la seconde arrive, mortelle : les terroristes comptent maintenant s''en prendre aux personnes... Pour Jay Gridley et la Net Force, un seul coupable possible : Cybernation. Un groupe qui milite pour la reconnaissance internationale d''un Etat virtuel. Mais, derriÃ¨re l''utopie libertaire, se cachent des motivations aussi mercantiles que criminelles... Entre rÃ©alitÃ© virtuelle et gÃ©opolitique, espionnage et technologie de pointe, Net Force se bat contre les dÃ©rives du Web du XXIe siÃ¨cle...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/521'),
(13464, 'Cybernation', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ContrÃ´ler le Net, c''est contrÃ´ler le monde. 2011. Black-out total de l''Internet aprÃ¨s une sÃ©rie d''attaques parfaitement synchronisÃ©es contre tous les relais du rÃ©seau mondial. A peine la premiÃ¨re phase exÃ©cutÃ©e, la seconde arrive, mortelle : les terroristes comptent maintenant s''en prendre aux personnes... Pour Jay Gridley et la Net Force, un seul coupable possible : Cybernation. Un groupe qui milite pour la reconnaissance internationale d''un Etat virtuel. Mais, derriÃ¨re l''utopie libertaire, se cachent des motivations aussi mercantiles que criminelles... Entre rÃ©alitÃ© virtuelle et gÃ©opolitique, espionnage et technologie de pointe, Net Force se bat contre les dÃ©rives du Web du XXIe siÃ¨cle...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8998'),
(13465, 'Cybernation', 'Tom Clancy; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ContrÃ´ler le Net, c''est contrÃ´ler le monde. 2011. Black-out total de l''Internet aprÃ¨s une sÃ©rie d''attaques parfaitement synchronisÃ©es contre tous les relais du rÃ©seau mondial. A peine la premiÃ¨re phase exÃ©cutÃ©e, la seconde arrive, mortelle : les terroristes comptent maintenant s''en prendre aux personnes... Pour Jay Gridley et la Net Force, un seul coupable possible : Cybernation. Un groupe qui milite pour la reconnaissance internationale d''un Etat virtuel. Mais, derriÃ¨re l''utopie libertaire, se cachent des motivations aussi mercantiles que criminelles... Entre rÃ©alitÃ© virtuelle et gÃ©opolitique, espionnage et technologie de pointe, Net Force se bat contre les dÃ©rives du Web du XXIe siÃ¨cle...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24347'),
(13466, 'Cybill Disobedience', 'Cybill Shepherd &amp; Aimee Lee Ball', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6570'),
(13467, 'Cybill Disobedience', 'Cybill Shepherd &amp; Aimee Lee Ball', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12625'),
(13468, 'Cybill Disobedience', 'Cybill Shepherd; Aimee Lee Ball', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17408'),
(13469, 'Cybill Disobedience', 'Cybill Shepherd; Aimee Lee Ball', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27133'),
(13470, 'Cyborg', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n De twee enige menselijke bewoners van een verder door robots gebouwde en bewoonde stad krijgen gezelschap van een cyborg, een robot met menselijke hersenen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25692'),
(13471, 'Cycle of the Werewolf', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her snug bedroom. Now scenes of unbelieving horror come each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next. But one thing is sure. When the moon grows fat, a paralyzing fear sweeps through Tarker Mills. For snarls that sound like human words can be heard whining through the wind. And all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated... "Cycle of the Werewolf"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1093'),
(13472, 'Cycle of the Werewolf', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her snug bedroom. Now scenes of unbelieving horror come each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next. But one thing is sure. When the moon grows fat, a paralyzing fear sweeps through Tarker Mills. For snarls that sound like human words can be heard whining through the wind. And all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated... "Cycle of the Werewolf"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14446');
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(13473, 'Cycle of the Werewolf', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her snug bedroom. Now scenes of unbelieving horror come each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next. But one thing is sure. When the moon grows fat, a paralyzing fear sweeps through Tarker Mills. For snarls that sound like human words can be heard whining through the wind. And all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated... "Cycle of the Werewolf"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23831'),
(13474, 'Cyclops', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men -- Soviet cosmonauts. DIRK PITT discovers a shocking scheme: a covert group of U.S. industrialists has put a colony on the moon, a secret base they will defend at any cost. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba -- and only DIRK PITT can stop them. From a Cuban torture chamber to the cold ocean depths, Pitt is racing  to defuse an international conspiracy that threatens to shatter the earth!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6706'),
(13475, 'Cyclops', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men -- Soviet cosmonauts. DIRK PITT discovers a shocking scheme: a covert group of U.S. industrialists has put a colony on the moon, a secret base they will defend at any cost. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba -- and only DIRK PITT can stop them. From a Cuban torture chamber to the cold ocean depths, Pitt is racing to defuse an international conspiracy that threatens to shatter the earth!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17348'),
(13476, 'Cyclops', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men -- Soviet cosmonauts. DIRK PITT discovers a shocking scheme: a covert group of U.S. industrialists has put a colony on the moon, a secret base they will defend at any cost. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba -- and only DIRK PITT can stop them. From a Cuban torture chamber to the cold ocean depths, Pitt is racing  to defuse an international conspiracy that threatens to shatter the earth!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27013'),
(13477, 'The Cygnet and the Firebird', 'Patricia A. McKillip', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An award-winning master of fantasy returns to the enchanting world she created in The Sorceress and the Cygnet. It is a world both dark and beautiful, filled with unforgettable characters and wonders beyond imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21551'),
(13478, 'Cyrano De Bergerac', 'Edmond Rostand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the most beloved heroes of the stage, Cyrano de Bergerac is a magnificent wit who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman can ever love him because of his enormous nose. He adores the beautiful Roxanne but, lacking courage, decides instead to help the tongue-tied but winsome Christian woo the fair lady by providing him with flowery sentiments and soulful poetry. Roxanne is smittenâ€”but is it Christian she loves or Cyrano? A triumph from the moment of its 1897 premiere, Cyrano de Bergerac has become one of the most frequently produced plays in the world. Its perennial popularity is a tribute to the universal appeal of its themes and characters.Peter Connor is Associate Professor of French and comparative literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5849'),
(13479, 'Cyrano De Bergerac', 'Edmond Rostand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the most beloved heroes of the stage, Cyrano de Bergerac is a magnificent wit who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman can ever love him because of his enormous nose. He adores the beautiful Roxanne but, lacking courage, decides instead to help the tongue-tied but winsome Christian woo the fair lady by providing him with flowery sentiments and soulful poetry. Roxanne is smittenâ€”but is it Christian she loves or Cyrano? A triumph from the moment of its 1897 premiere, Cyrano de Bergerac has become one of the most frequently produced plays in the world. Its perennial popularity is a tribute to the universal appeal of its themes and characters.Peter Connor is Associate Professor of French and comparative literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12522'),
(13480, 'Cyrano de Bergerac', 'Edmond Rostand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the most beloved heroes of the stage, Cyrano de Bergerac is a magnificent wit who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman can ever love him because of his enormous nose. He adores the beautiful Roxanne but, lacking courage, decides instead to help the tongue-tied but winsome Christian woo the fair lady by providing him with flowery sentiments and soulful poetry. Roxanne is smittenâ€”but is it Christian she loves or Cyrano? A triumph from the moment of its 1897 premiere, Cyrano de Bergerac has become one of the most frequently produced plays in the world. Its perennial popularity is a tribute to the universal appeal of its themes and characters.Peter Connor is Associate Professor of French and comparative literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18766'),
(13481, 'Cyrano de Bergerac', 'Edmond Rostand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. One of the most beloved heroes of the stage, Cyrano de Bergerac is a magnificent wit who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman can ever love him because of his enormous nose. He adores the beautiful Roxanne but, lacking courage, decides instead to help the tongue-tied but winsome Christian woo the fair lady by providing him with flowery sentiments and soulful poetry. Roxanne is smittenâ€”but is it Christian she loves or Cyrano? A triumph from the moment of its 1897 premiere, Cyrano de Bergerac has become one of the most frequently produced plays in the world. Its perennial popularity is a tribute to the universal appeal of its themes and characters.Peter Connor is Associate Professor of French and comparative literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27594'),
(13482, 'Cyteen', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Hugo Award-winning SF saga is now available in one complete trade paperback edition, containing Cyteen: The Betrayal, The Rebirth and The Vindication. "A psychological novel, a murder mystery and an examination of power on a grand scale, encompassing light years and outsize lifetimes".--Locus.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15518'),
(13483, 'D Is for Deadbeat', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. Itâ€™s a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesnâ€™t deliver the money himself. Sheâ€™s almost certain something is off. But with rent due, Kinsey accepts Limardoâ€™s retainer against her better judgmentâ€¦When Limardoâ€™s check bounces, Kinsey discovers sheâ€™s been had big time. Alvin Limardo is really John Daggettâ€”an ex-con with a drinking problem, two wives to boot, and a slew of people who would like to see him dead. Now Kinsey is out four hundred dollars and in hot pursuit of Daggett. When Daggettâ€™s corpse shows up floating in the Santa Teresa surf, the cops rule the death an accident. Kinsey thinks itâ€™s murder. But seeking justice for a man who everyone seemed to despise is going to be a lot tougher than she bargained forâ€”and what awaits her at the end of the road is much more disturbing than she couldâ€™ve ever imaginedâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/947'),
(13484, 'D Is for Deadbeat', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. Itâ€™s a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesnâ€™t deliver the money himself. Sheâ€™s almost certain something is off. But with rent due, Kinsey accepts Limardoâ€™s retainer against her better judgmentâ€¦When Limardoâ€™s check bounces, Kinsey discovers sheâ€™s been had big time. Alvin Limardo is really John Daggettâ€”an ex-con with a drinking problem, two wives to boot, and a slew of people who would like to see him dead. Now Kinsey is out four hundred dollars and in hot pursuit of Daggett. When Daggettâ€™s corpse shows up floating in the Santa Teresa surf, the cops rule the death an accident. Kinsey thinks itâ€™s murder. But seeking justice for a man who everyone seemed to despise is going to be a lot tougher than she bargained forâ€”and what awaits her at the end of the road is much more disturbing than she couldâ€™ve ever imaginedâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15206'),
(13485, 'D Is for Deadbeat', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. Itâ€™s a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesnâ€™t deliver the money himself. Sheâ€™s almost certain something is off. But with rent due, Kinsey accepts Limardoâ€™s retainer against her better judgmentâ€¦When Limardoâ€™s check bounces, Kinsey discovers sheâ€™s been had big time. Alvin Limardo is really John Daggettâ€”an ex-con with a drinking problem, two wives to boot, and a slew of people who would like to see him dead. Now Kinsey is out four hundred dollars and in hot pursuit of Daggett. When Daggettâ€™s corpse shows up floating in the Santa Teresa surf, the cops rule the death an accident. Kinsey thinks itâ€™s murder. But seeking justice for a man who everyone seemed to despise is going to be a lot tougher than she bargained forâ€”and what awaits her at the end of the road is much more disturbing than she couldâ€™ve ever imaginedâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24028'),
(13486, 'D.I.Y. Delicious: Recipes and Ideas for Simple Food From Scratch', 'Vanessa Barrington &amp; Sara Remington', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For crafty green types who want to master the fundamentals of a scratch pantry and have graduated from simple weekend jam and baking activities, this book offers a wide variety of recipes and blueprints for artisanal food projects. Forty projects with accompanying recipes appeal to a range of skill levels and palates.\n <em>\n  D.I.Y. Delicious\n </em>\n goes beyond pickling and preserving into fermenting, culturing cheese, and brewing sodas and tonics. A total of 75 recipes and more than 50 step-by-step, color photographs lead the way to outfitting a scratch pantry that uses fewer ingredients to make delicious staples at a much lower cost.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vanessa Barrington is a chef and author with co-writing credits on Heirloom Beans. She lives in Oakland, California.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vanessa Barrington is a chef and author with co-writing credits on Heirloom Beans. She lives in Oakland, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/432'),
(13487, 'D.I.Y. Delicious: Recipes and Ideas for Simple Food From Scratch', 'Vanessa Barrington &amp; Sara Remington', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For crafty green types who want to master the fundamentals of a scratch pantry and have graduated from simple weekend jam and baking activities, this book offers a wide variety of recipes and blueprints for artisanal food projects. Forty projects with accompanying recipes appeal to a range of skill levels and palates.\n <em>\n  D.I.Y. Delicious\n </em>\n goes beyond pickling and preserving into fermenting, culturing cheese, and brewing sodas and tonics. A total of 75 recipes and more than 50 step-by-step, color photographs lead the way to outfitting a scratch pantry that uses fewer ingredients to make delicious staples at a much lower cost.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vanessa Barrington is a chef and author with co-writing credits on Heirloom Beans. She lives in Oakland, California.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vanessa Barrington is a chef and author with co-writing credits on Heirloom Beans. She lives in Oakland, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8397'),
(13488, 'D.I.Y. Delicious: Recipes and Ideas for Simple Food From Scratch', 'Vanessa Barrington; Sara Remington', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For crafty green types who want to master the fundamentals of a scratch pantry and have graduated from simple weekend jam and baking activities, this book offers a wide variety of recipes and blueprints for artisanal food projects. Forty projects with accompanying recipes appeal to a range of skill levels and palates.\n <em>\n  D.I.Y. Delicious\n </em>\n goes beyond pickling and preserving into fermenting, culturing cheese, and brewing sodas and tonics. A total of 75 recipes and more than 50 step-by-step, color photographs lead the way to outfitting a scratch pantry that uses fewer ingredients to make delicious staples at a much lower cost.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vanessa Barrington is a chef and author with co-writing credits on Heirloom Beans. She lives in Oakland, California.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vanessa Barrington is a chef and author with co-writing credits on Heirloom Beans. She lives in Oakland, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24502'),
(13489, 'd&#39;Alembert 01 Imperial Stars', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Classic space opera adventure, Book #1 in the "Family D''Alembert" series. The Empire of Earth, spanning more than a thousand solar systems, is threatened by a conspiracy from within. Now, with more than three-quarters of the Galaxy ready to fall into enemy hands, the Empire is forced to call on its top-secret weapon: the renowned Circus of the Galaxy featuring the d''Alembert family, a clan of circus performers with uncanny abilities. But even these super agents may not be in time to save the Empire.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doc Smith wrote the original novelette, "Imperial Stars," but passed away before he could write any more in this series. I was hired to expand the original story to book length and write nine further books. It''s not easy following in the footsteps of a master, but fans have told me I did a good job. -- Stephen Goldin\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18621'),
(13490, 'd&#39;Alembert 02 Stranglers&#39; Moon', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18632'),
(13491, 'd&#39;Alembert 03 The Clockwork Traitor', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Classic space opera adventure, Book #3 in the "Family D''Alembert" series. By law, Princess Edna, heir to the interstellar Empire of Earth, must marry a commoner. But as she travels through her domain, word comes of a mysterious threat to her succession. It''s up to Jules and Yvette d''Alembert and their family of circus performers, all agents of the Empire, to uncover this bizarre plot before it can wreak havoc for all of humanity.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doc Smith created the universe of the Family d''Alembert in his novelette "Imperial Stars." I have built upon the foundation he established with nine further books of my own. I hope you find them worthy of his talent. -- Stephen Goldin\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18635'),
(13492, 'd&#39;Alembert 04 Getaway world', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18619'),
(13493, 'd&#39;Alembert 05 Appointment at Bloodstar', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18612'),
(13494, 'd&#39;Alembert 06 Purity Plot', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18637'),
(13495, 'd&#39;Alembert 07 Planet of Treachery', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Classic space opera adventure, Book #7 in the "Family D''Alembert" series. For centuries, the planet Gastonia has been a planet of exile, an escape-proof prison world for the worst sorts of traitors. But now, it seems, prisoners are indeed escaping, and all evidence points to the sinister, all-knowing conspiracy that continues to shadow the Throne. The d''Alemberts must infiltrate this world of traitors--and they must do it without a safety net, because if they fail they themselves will be trapped on this inhospitable world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18581'),
(13496, 'd&#39;Alembert 08 Eclipsing binaries', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chapters: Eclipsing Binary, Epsilon Ursae Majoris, Epsilon Aurigae, Ss 433, Alpha Coronae Borealis, Zeta Andromedae, Delta Orionis, Delta Capricorni, Castor, 8 Andromedae, Vv Cephei, Zeta Cygni, Delta Equulei, Hw Virginis, Dp Leonis, 94 Aquarii, Pi Lupi, Yz Cassiopeiae, Oy Carinae, Delta Velorum, Alcyone, Ww Aurigae, Epsilon Carinae, Nn Serpentis, Zeta Tauri, Delta Cassiopeiae, 29 Aquarii, Qs Virginis, Tau Arietis, Zeta Aurigae, Ly Aurigae, Hu Aquarii, Mu Sagittarii, Hd 87822, Qs Aquilae, Ar Aurigae, Algol Variable, 17 Lyrae, 86 Aquarii, W Ursae Majoris Variable, 31 Camelopardalis, Z Chamaeleontis, Hd 172044, R Arae, V420 Aurigae, Sigma Scorpii, Upsilon Sagittarii, Sigma Aquilae, Xi Tauri, Eo Aurigae, Hr 6902, Hd 126200, Hd 141846, Epsilon Ursae Minoris, 3 Centauri, Lh54-425, Hd 152010, R Canis Majoris, Psi Virginis, V357 Carinae. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 161. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher''s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Epsilon Aurigae ( Aur / Aurigae) is a star in the constellation Auriga. It is traditionally known as Almaaz, Haldus, or Al Anz. Epsilon Aurigae is an eclipsing binary system composed of a Fo supergiant and a companion which is generally accepted to be a huge dark disk orbiting an unknown object, possibly a binary system of 2 small B-type stars. This star is special because the large supergiant is being elipsed by something even bigger and beause this object is almost completely dark, instead of an expected supergiant star. About every 27 years, epsilon Aurigae''s brightness drops from an apparent visual magnitude of +2.92 to +3.83 . This dimming lasts between 640-730 days . In addition to this eclipse, the system also has a low amplitude pulsation with a period around 66 days. The system lies approximately 2,000 light years from Earth. Epsilon Aurigae was first suspected to be a varia...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2101873\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18617'),
(13497, 'd&#39;Alembert 09 The Omicron Invasion', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22999'),
(13498, 'd&#39;Alembert 10 Revolt of the galaxy', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Classic science fiction action-adventure. Book #10 in the "Family d''Alembert" series.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Stephen Goldin was born in Philadelphia, but has lived most of his life in California. He has a Bachelors degree in Astronomy from UCLA, and has served as editor of the SFWA Bulletin and SFWA Western Regional Director. He currently lives in the San Francisco area with his wife (and sometime collaborator) Mary Mason.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18624'),
(13499, 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.****A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.****An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last.**As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, **The Da Vinci Code** is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown''s novel is a thrilling masterpieceâ€”from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory''s ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever. THE DA VINCI CODEheralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller...utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6617'),
(13500, 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.****A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.****An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last.**As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, **The Da Vinci Code** is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown''s novel is a thrilling masterpieceâ€”from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion. SUMMARY: While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory''s ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever. THE DA VINCI CODEheralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller...utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15178'),
(13501, 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.****A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.****An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last.**As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, **The Da Vinci Code** is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown''s novel is a thrilling masterpieceâ€”from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion. SUMMARY: While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory''s ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever. THE DA VINCI CODEheralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller...utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17526'),
(13502, 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.****A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.****An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last.**As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, **The Da Vinci Code** is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown''s novel is a thrilling masterpieceâ€”from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory''s ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever. THE DA VINCI CODEheralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller...utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27193'),
(13503, 'Dachshunds for Dummies (ISBN', '0470229683)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18514'),
(13504, 'Dad&#39;s Guide to Pregnancy for Dummies', 'Matthew M. Miller; Sharon Perkins Rn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Practical, hands-on information for fathers-to-be\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When it comes to pregnancy, dads'' roles have changed so much in the past few decades that expectant fathers don''t always know where to turn to for guidance and advice on this milestone event. Now they do!\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dad''s Guide to Pregnancy For Dummies\n </em>\n is packed with practical, straightforward information for fathers-to-be, covering all of the logistical, physical, and emotional aspects of pregnancy from dad''s point of view.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  What to expect at doctor''s visits\n </li>\n <li>\n  Tips for being a supportive partner during pregnancy and preparing for fatherhood\n </li>\n <li>\n  Advice on birth plans, labor and delivery, and the first days and weeks of a baby''s life\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Packed with helpful information on the typical struggles and feelings expectant fathers face,\n <em>\n  Dad''s Guide to Pregnancy For Dummies\n </em>\n gives first-time fathers and veteran dads alike a wealth of useful information.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A practical, hands-on guide for fathers-to-be\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When it comes to pregnancy, your role as a dad has changed so much in the past few decades that it''s hard to know where to turn for guidance. Now you do! This hands-on, friendly guide is packed with practical information for fathers-to-be, covering all of the logistical, physical, and emotional aspects of pregnancy from your unique perspective.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Take the fear out of fatherhood â€” find out what modern fatherhood means, determine if you''re ready for the financial and emotional demands of a baby, and learn what you don''t know about conception\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Pregnancy and childbirth 101 â€” get the lowdown on what to expect during pregnancy, labor, and delivery, from your perspective as well as your partner''s\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   So you''re a father â€” oh, boy (or girl)! â€” discover how to care for your newborn â€” from bottle feeding to changing diapers to soothing your baby\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be the perfect postpartum partner â€” support your partner by helping with the baby and household, and by attending to her emotionally as well\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How a fetus develops in every trimester\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Advice on when and how to share the good news\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on baby gift registry and setting up the nursery\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to expect during labor and delivery\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   What to expect the first six months after the baby arrives\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The 4-1-1 on feeding and changing diapers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for dealing with common illnesses and emergencies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Survival tips every new dad needs to know\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Grasp the logistical, physical, and emotional aspects of pregnancy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Understand what to expect at doctor''s visits\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Be a supportive partner during (and after) pregnancy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Know what to expect during labor and delivery\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21693'),
(13505, 'Daddy', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestselling author Danielle Steel paints a poignant portrait of Oliver Watson, a man who thinks his life is perfect--he has a great job, a beautiful home, a good relationship with his parents, three healthy children, and a loving wife. Things change the day Oliver Watson comes home from work to learn that his wife is going away to graduate school, leaving him to play full-time daddy, super-employee, and son-on-call; Oliver soon discovers that it is impossible to "have it all," all by himself. Through trial and error, and by watching the courageous examples set by his teenage son coping with his girlfriend''s unplanned pregnancy and his father learning to love again after the death of his Alzheimer''s stricken wife, Oliver discovers for himself that love can occur more than once and dreams can change for the better. One of Steel''s best!\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel''s captivating 25th novel will send her rocketing past the 125-million mark for books in print and satisfy avid fans with its splashy sentiment, loudly plucked heartstrings and boldly drawn, if superficially developed, cast. Oliver Watson is a successful, rather stolid, advertising executive with a beautiful wife, Sarah, three children, Ben, Melissa and Sam, and a house in suburban New York. But his paradise is teetering over an abyss: Sarah, who never wanted a conventional life, coldly abandons husband and kids to "find herself" by pursuing a master''s degree at Harvard. Then Oliver''s mother dies of Alzheimer''s disease, leaving his 72-year-old father bereft, and 17-year-old Ben fathers a child and drops out of school. Oliver blames the unremittingly icy Sarah for every sorrow, yet initially refuses to get on with his life, even when his father points the way by finding a new love. Steel ( Star ; Zola ) is at the top of her bestselling form as she steers Oliver through a fearsome new world of single parenthood, modern women and radically changed sexual mores before winding up with a paean to family life and romance. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6355'),
(13506, 'Daddy', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestselling author Danielle Steel paints a poignant portrait of Oliver Watson, a man who thinks his life is perfect--he has a great job, a beautiful home, a good relationship with his parents, three healthy children, and a loving wife. Things change the day Oliver Watson comes home from work to learn that his wife is going away to graduate school, leaving him to play full-time daddy, super-employee, and son-on-call; Oliver soon discovers that it is impossible to "have it all," all by himself. Through trial and error, and by watching the courageous examples set by his teenage son coping with his girlfriend''s unplanned pregnancy and his father learning to love again after the death of his Alzheimer''s stricken wife, Oliver discovers for himself that love can occur more than once and dreams can change for the better. One of Steel''s best!\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel''s captivating 25th novel will send her rocketing past the 125-million mark for books in print and satisfy avid fans with its splashy sentiment, loudly plucked heartstrings and boldly drawn, if superficially developed, cast. Oliver Watson is a successful, rather stolid, advertising executive with a beautiful wife, Sarah, three children, Ben, Melissa and Sam, and a house in suburban New York. But his paradise is teetering over an abyss: Sarah, who never wanted a conventional life, coldly abandons husband and kids to "find herself" by pursuing a master''s degree at Harvard. Then Oliver''s mother dies of Alzheimer''s disease, leaving his 72-year-old father bereft, and 17-year-old Ben fathers a child and drops out of school. Oliver blames the unremittingly icy Sarah for every sorrow, yet initially refuses to get on with his life, even when his father points the way by finding a new love. Steel ( Star ; Zola ) is at the top of her bestselling form as she steers Oliver through a fearsome new world of single parenthood, modern women and radically changed sexual mores before winding up with a paean to family life and romance. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12860'),
(13507, 'Daddy', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestselling author Danielle Steel paints a poignant portrait of Oliver Watson, a man who thinks his life is perfect--he has a great job, a beautiful home, a good relationship with his parents, three healthy children, and a loving wife. Things change the day Oliver Watson comes home from work to learn that his wife is going away to graduate school, leaving him to play full-time daddy, super-employee, and son-on-call; Oliver soon discovers that it is impossible to "have it all," all by himself. Through trial and error, and by watching the courageous examples set by his teenage son coping with his girlfriend''s unplanned pregnancy and his father learning to love again after the death of his Alzheimer''s stricken wife, Oliver discovers for himself that love can occur more than once and dreams can change for the better. One of Steel''s best!\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel''s captivating 25th novel will send her rocketing past the 125-million mark for books in print and satisfy avid fans with its splashy sentiment, loudly plucked heartstrings and boldly drawn, if superficially developed, cast. Oliver Watson is a successful, rather stolid, advertising executive with a beautiful wife, Sarah, three children, Ben, Melissa and Sam, and a house in suburban New York. But his paradise is teetering over an abyss: Sarah, who never wanted a conventional life, coldly abandons husband and kids to "find herself" by pursuing a master''s degree at Harvard. Then Oliver''s mother dies of Alzheimer''s disease, leaving his 72-year-old father bereft, and 17-year-old Ben fathers a child and drops out of school. Oliver blames the unremittingly icy Sarah for every sorrow, yet initially refuses to get on with his life, even when his father points the way by finding a new love. Steel ( Star ; Zola ) is at the top of her bestselling form as she steers Oliver through a fearsome new world of single parenthood, modern women and radically changed sexual mores before winding up with a paean to family life and romance. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17601'),
(13508, 'Daemon&#39;s Mark', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Werewolf homicide detective Luna Wilder guards the fine line that separates Nocturne City''s humans from the weres and witches that roam its streets. Now, Luna must thwart a new evil more dangerous than anything she''s ever encountered."DAEMON''S MARKSomeone, or some"thing," is setting fire to the homes of the city''s most infamous non-humans, racking up a body count that''s growing by the day. And strange, otherworldly creatures no one has seen before--selkies, trolls, and harpies--are causing chaos throughout the city. Racing to stop the carnage, Luna turns to sexy federal agent Will Fagin for help. As they work to uncover the source of the bloodshed, Luna''s attraction for Will deepens. But just as she learns Will''s darkest secret, Nocturne City is thrust into total chaos--leaving Luna and Will in a path of destruction they may not be able to stop...or survive.Praise for the Nocturne City series: "A nonstop thriller laced with ferociously deadly menace." --"Romantic Times""I loved the mystery and the smart, gutsy heroine."--Karen Chance"" "Hot, hip, and fast-paced."--Lilith Saintcrow\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6993'),
(13509, 'Daemon&#39;s Mark', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Werewolf homicide detective Luna Wilder guards the fine line that separates Nocturne City''s humans from the weres and witches that roam its streets. Now, Luna must thwart a new evil more dangerous than anything she''s ever encountered."DAEMON''S MARKSomeone, or some"thing," is setting fire to the homes of the city''s most infamous non-humans, racking up a body count that''s growing by the day. And strange, otherworldly creatures no one has seen before--selkies, trolls, and harpies--are causing chaos throughout the city. Racing to stop the carnage, Luna turns to sexy federal agent Will Fagin for help. As they work to uncover the source of the bloodshed, Luna''s attraction for Will deepens. But just as she learns Will''s darkest secret, Nocturne City is thrust into total chaos--leaving Luna and Will in a path of destruction they may not be able to stop...or survive.Praise for the Nocturne City series: "A nonstop thriller laced with ferociously deadly menace." --"Romantic Times""I loved the mystery and the smart, gutsy heroine."--Karen Chance"" "Hot, hip, and fast-paced."--Lilith Saintcrow\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26749'),
(13510, 'Dagmar&#39;s Daughter', 'Kim Echlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3674'),
(13511, 'Dagmar&#39;s Daughter', 'Kim Echlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10860'),
(13512, 'Dagmar&#39;s Daughter', 'Kim Echlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20853'),
(13513, 'Dagon', 'H.P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25750');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(13514, 'The Dain Curse', 'Dashiell Hammett &amp; James Ellroy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? Or is the truth about her weirder and infinitely more dangerous?\n <strong>\n  The Dain Curse\n </strong>\n is one of the Continental Op''s most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n One of the Continental Op''s most bizarre cases as he is faced with Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett who has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they die violently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9462'),
(13515, 'Daisy Miller and Other Stories', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, New York, who, traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American expatriate community in Rome.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14143'),
(13516, 'Daisy Miller and Other Stories', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, New York, who, traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American expatriate community in Rome.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19592'),
(13517, 'Daisy Miller and Other Stories', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, New York, who, traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American expatriate community in Rome.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28163'),
(13518, 'Daisy Miller: And, Washington Square', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5165'),
(13519, 'Daisy Miller: And, Washington Square', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10485'),
(13520, 'Daisy Miller: and, Washington Square', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19591'),
(13521, 'Daisy Miller: and, Washington Square', 'Henry James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28158'),
(13522, 'Dama cu camelii', 'Alexandre Dumas fiul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26094'),
(13523, 'Dama de pica', 'A.S. Puskin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24944'),
(13524, 'Damaged', 'Pamela Callow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Haunted by the death of her sister and wounded by her ex-fiance''s accusations, Kate Lange throws herself into her new career at a high-powered law firm.When the grandmother of a lonely private school student seeks her counsel, Kate thinks it''s just another custody case. But then the teen is brutally murdered. And it isn''t only Kate who wonders if her legal advice led to the girl''s death.Put on notice by Randall Barrett, the firm''s charismatic managing partner, Kate must fight for her career, for her reputation--and for redemption.Unwilling to live with the damage she may have caused, Kate pursues the case on her own and unearths some chilling facts.Facts that lead straight to the heart of a legal conspiracy.Facts that lead Kate directly into the surgically skilled hands of the Body Butcher.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2305'),
(13525, 'Damaged', 'Pamela Callow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Haunted by the death of her sister and wounded by her ex-fiance''s accusations, Kate Lange throws herself into her new career at a high-powered law firm.When the grandmother of a lonely private school student seeks her counsel, Kate thinks it''s just another custody case. But then the teen is brutally murdered. And it isn''t only Kate who wonders if her legal advice led to the girl''s death.Put on notice by Randall Barrett, the firm''s charismatic managing partner, Kate must fight for her career, for her reputation--and for redemption.Unwilling to live with the damage she may have caused, Kate pursues the case on her own and unearths some chilling facts.Facts that lead straight to the heart of a legal conspiracy.Facts that lead Kate directly into the surgically skilled hands of the Body Butcher.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8692'),
(13526, 'Damaged', 'Pamela Callow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Haunted by the death of her sister and wounded by her ex-fiance''s accusations, Kate Lange throws herself into her new career at a high-powered law firm.When the grandmother of a lonely private school student seeks her counsel, Kate thinks it''s just another custody case. But then the teen is brutally murdered. And it isn''t only Kate who wonders if her legal advice led to the girl''s death.Put on notice by Randall Barrett, the firm''s charismatic managing partner, Kate must fight for her career, for her reputation--and for redemption.Unwilling to live with the damage she may have caused, Kate pursues the case on her own and unearths some chilling facts.Facts that lead straight to the heart of a legal conspiracy.Facts that lead Kate directly into the surgically skilled hands of the Body Butcher.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22421'),
(13527, 'Damia', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Afra has submerged his romantic feelings for the great telepath, Rowan, and has even dedicated his life to helping raise her family, but trouble brews for Afra when Rowan''s talented daughter,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15709'),
(13528, 'Damia&#39;s Children', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Although they have inherited their mother''s legendary powers of telepathy, Damia''s children will need more than psionic talent to face the enemy''s children, an alien race more insect than human\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15710'),
(13529, 'Damnation Alley', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: You''ve gotta love to hate the 1977 movie Damnation Alley, a cheese-filled classic from sci-fi''s cinematic canon. But there''s at least one good thing you can say about this otherwise awful flick: it''s prevented the movie''s far superior source material from being forgotten. Roger Zelazny''s post-apocalypse novel predates the George Peppard-Jan-Michael Vincent vehicle by about a decade and represents the fine storytelling talents of one of science fiction and fantasy''s most daring writers (likely best remembered for his imaginative Amber series). Speaking of vehicles: the coolest part of the movie--and likely, thankfully, the only part most people remember--turns out to be even cooler in the book: the flame-spewing, .50-caliber-bullet-belching, grenade-throwing, gigantic all-terrain vehicle that''s responsible for getting a crucial antiserum shipment from Los Angeles to Boston to stop a deadly plague. The driver, a despicable lowlife named Hell Tanner, has been given a not-so-difficult choice. He can either get the drugs to the East Coast intact, save humanity, and receive a full pardon for his crimes, or he can refuse and spend the rest of his life in a "zebra suit." So what''s the catch? Thanks to World War III, Middle America is now an electrical-storm-torn, heavily irradiated playground for dino-sized Gila monsters, "freak spiders," humongous bats "that eat off the mutie fruit trees down Mexico way," and 120-foot-long snakes as big around as garbage cans. And the native humans still scrambling around the wasteland aren''t much less dangerous. Damnation Alley might not be Zelazny''s best, but for reading on, say, a road trip, you can''t do much better. Throw in some ''60s-style, freak-out closing riffs, and a trip down the Alley becomes pretty hard to pass up. --Paul Hughes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23103'),
(13530, 'The Damnation Game', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a nightworld where decomposing corpse-assassins stalk their   prey, Marty Strauss, the bodyguard to a famous industrialist, discovers   that someone is coming to collect the soul of his employer as payment   for an ancient debt. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14837'),
(13531, 'The Damnation Game', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a nightworld where decomposing corpse-assassins stalk their   prey, Marty Strauss, the bodyguard to a famous industrialist, discovers   that someone is coming to collect the soul of his employer as payment   for an ancient debt. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17353'),
(13532, 'The Damnation Game', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a nightworld where decomposing corpse-assassins stalk their   prey, Marty Strauss, the bodyguard to a famous industrialist, discovers   that someone is coming to collect the soul of his employer as payment   for an ancient debt. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27021'),
(13533, 'The Damned Thing', 'Ambrose Bierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his The Devils Dictionary (1911). He wrote some of his books under the pseudonyms Dod Grile and J. Milton Sloluck. Bierces lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, Bitter Bierce. Such was his reputation that it was said his judgment on any piece of prose or poetry could make or break a writers career. His short stories are considered among the best of the 19th century, providing a popular following based on his roots. He wrote realistically of the terrible things he had seen in the war in such stories as An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Killed at Resaca, and Chickamauga. His works include: The Fiends Delight (1873), Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874), Black Beetles in Amber (1892), Fantastic Fables (1899), Shapes of Clay (1903), A Son of the Gods, and A Horseman in the Sky (1907), Write It Right (1909) and A Cynic Looks at Life (1912).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15906'),
(13534, 'The Damned Thing', 'Ambrose Bierce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his The Devils Dictionary (1911). He wrote some of his books under the pseudonyms Dod Grile and J. Milton Sloluck. Bierces lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, Bitter Bierce. Such was his reputation that it was said his judgment on any piece of prose or poetry could make or break a writers career. His short stories are considered among the best of the 19th century, providing a popular following based on his roots. He wrote realistically of the terrible things he had seen in the war in such stories as An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Killed at Resaca, and Chickamauga. His works include: The Fiends Delight (1873), Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874), Black Beetles in Amber (1892), Fantastic Fables (1899), Shapes of Clay (1903), A Son of the Gods, and A Horseman in the Sky (1907), Write It Right (1909) and A Cynic Looks at Life (1912).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26338'),
(13535, 'The Damned UTD', 'David Peace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "''The most extraordinary novel about football yet to appear.'' Tim Martin, Independent on Sunday"\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country''s most successful, and most reviled football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he''d face there would make or break the club - or him. David Peace''s extraordinarily inventive novel tells the story of a world characterised by fear of failure and hunger for success set in the bleak heart of the 1970s.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6244'),
(13536, 'The Damned UTD', 'David Peace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "''The most extraordinary novel about football yet to appear.'' Tim Martin, Independent on Sunday"\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country''s most successful, and most reviled football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he''d face there would make or break the club - or him. David Peace''s extraordinarily inventive novel tells the story of a world characterised by fear of failure and hunger for success set in the bleak heart of the 1970s.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11866'),
(13537, 'The Damned Utd', 'David Peace', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17891'),
(13538, 'Dance &amp; the Devil', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17257'),
(13539, 'Dance &amp; the Devil', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27402'),
(13540, 'Dance Dance Dance', 'Haruki Murakami &amp; Alfred Birnbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this impressive sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase , Murakami displays his talent to brilliant effect. The unnamed narrator, a muddled freelance writer, is 34 and no closer to finding happiness than he was in the previous book. Divorced, bereaved and abandoned by his various lovers, he is drawn to the Dolphin Hotel--a strange and lonely establishment where Kiki, a woman he once lived with, "upped and vanished." Kiki and the Sheep Man, an odd fellow who wears a sheepskin and speaks in a toneless rush, visit the narrator in visions that lead him to two mysteries, one metaphysical (how to survive the unsurvivable) and the other physical (a call girl''s murder). In his searchings, he encounters a clairvoyant 13-year-old, her misguided parents and a one-armed poet. All the hallmarks of Murakami''s greatness are here: restless and sensitive characters, disturbing shifts into altered reality, silky smooth turns of phrase and a narrative with all the momentum of a roller coaster. If Mishima had ever learned the value of gentleness, this is the sort of page-turner he might have written. Paperback rights to Vintage.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If Kafka were to find himself imprisoned in a novel that had been written by Raymond Chandler and was then forced to develop a sense of humor, the resultant voice might likely resemble that of the protagonist in this latest delight from one of Japan''s leading contemporary writers. Something of a sequel to 1988''s A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 10/15/89), this book features an ordinary man on an extraordinary journey living in a world glittering with technology in which something is wanting still. Fans of the first book will certainly want to read this one, although Dance Dance Dance stands quite well on its own. The relentless coyness and flippancy that characterized A Wild Sheep Chase gives way here to passages that are sometimes lyrical and an ending that is at once desperate, affirmative, and filled with the breath of life. Recommended for all serious fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., N.Y.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5236'),
(13541, 'Dance Dance Dance', 'Haruki Murakami &amp; Alfred Birnbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this impressive sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase , Murakami displays his talent to brilliant effect. The unnamed narrator, a muddled freelance writer, is 34 and no closer to finding happiness than he was in the previous book. Divorced, bereaved and abandoned by his various lovers, he is drawn to the Dolphin Hotel--a strange and lonely establishment where Kiki, a woman he once lived with, "upped and vanished." Kiki and the Sheep Man, an odd fellow who wears a sheepskin and speaks in a toneless rush, visit the narrator in visions that lead him to two mysteries, one metaphysical (how to survive the unsurvivable) and the other physical (a call girl''s murder). In his searchings, he encounters a clairvoyant 13-year-old, her misguided parents and a one-armed poet. All the hallmarks of Murakami''s greatness are here: restless and sensitive characters, disturbing shifts into altered reality, silky smooth turns of phrase and a narrative with all the momentum of a roller coaster. If Mishima had ever learned the value of gentleness, this is the sort of page-turner he might have written. Paperback rights to Vintage.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If Kafka were to find himself imprisoned in a novel that had been written by Raymond Chandler and was then forced to develop a sense of humor, the resultant voice might likely resemble that of the protagonist in this latest delight from one of Japan''s leading contemporary writers. Something of a sequel to 1988''s A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 10/15/89), this book features an ordinary man on an extraordinary journey living in a world glittering with technology in which something is wanting still. Fans of the first book will certainly want to read this one, although Dance Dance Dance stands quite well on its own. The relentless coyness and flippancy that characterized A Wild Sheep Chase gives way here to passages that are sometimes lyrical and an ending that is at once desperate, affirmative, and filled with the breath of life. Recommended for all serious fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., N.Y.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11616'),
(13542, 'Dance Dance Dance', 'Haruki Murakami; Alfred Birnbaum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this impressive sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase , Murakami displays his talent to brilliant effect. The unnamed narrator, a muddled freelance writer, is 34 and no closer to finding happiness than he was in the previous book. Divorced, bereaved and abandoned by his various lovers, he is drawn to the Dolphin Hotel--a strange and lonely establishment where Kiki, a woman he once lived with, "upped and vanished." Kiki and the Sheep Man, an odd fellow who wears a sheepskin and speaks in a toneless rush, visit the narrator in visions that lead him to two mysteries, one metaphysical (how to survive the unsurvivable) and the other physical (a call girl''s murder). In his searchings, he encounters a clairvoyant 13-year-old, her misguided parents and a one-armed poet. All the hallmarks of Murakami''s greatness are here: restless and sensitive characters, disturbing shifts into altered reality, silky smooth turns of phrase and a narrative with all the momentum of a roller coaster. If Mishima had ever learned the value of gentleness, this is the sort of page-turner he might have written. Paperback rights to Vintage.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If Kafka were to find himself imprisoned in a novel that had been written by Raymond Chandler and was then forced to develop a sense of humor, the resultant voice might likely resemble that of the protagonist in this latest delight from one of Japan''s leading contemporary writers. Something of a sequel to 1988''s A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 10/15/89), this book features an ordinary man on an extraordinary journey living in a world glittering with technology in which something is wanting still. Fans of the first book will certainly want to read this one, although Dance Dance Dance stands quite well on its own. The relentless coyness and flippancy that characterized A Wild Sheep Chase gives way here to passages that are sometimes lyrical and an ending that is at once desperate, affirmative, and filled with the breath of life. Recommended for all serious fiction collections.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   - Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., N.Y.\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19528'),
(13543, 'Dance Hall of the Dead', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...as with all of Hillerman''s other books on tape,\n <em>\n  Dance Hall of the Dead\n </em>\n is compelling, colorful, and just complex enough to keep you interested, but not confused." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Catalyst_, September 1997\n</p>\n<p>\n "An author''s style has a lot to do with the success of an audio book...One writer whose works on the mark for listeners every time is Tony Hillerman...Hillerman is a former newspaper reporter, and his novels have a journalistic feel. His sentences tend to be straightforward, and they translate well to tape...An editor for Recorded Books said Hillerman''s books are "very crisply written, and he leaves a lot to the imagination. Some writers put in too much detail. He leaves a lot of room for the listener."...Actor Michael Ansara, who has portrayed native Americans on television and in films, is the reader for Audio Partners'' work. His reading is crisp and clear, with a touch of gravity." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Indianapolis Star_, September 1991\n</p>\n<p>\n "High entertainment, an aesthetically satisfying glimpse of the still-powerful tribal mysteries." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New York Times_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n[HTML_REMOVED]\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/546'),
(13544, 'Dance Hall of the Dead', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...as with all of Hillerman''s other books on tape,\n <em>\n  Dance Hall of the Dead\n </em>\n is compelling, colorful, and just complex enough to keep you interested, but not confused." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Catalyst_, September 1997\n</p>\n<p>\n "An author''s style has a lot to do with the success of an audio book...One writer whose works on the mark for listeners every time is Tony Hillerman...Hillerman is a former newspaper reporter, and his novels have a journalistic feel. His sentences tend to be straightforward, and they translate well to tape...An editor for Recorded Books said Hillerman''s books are "very crisply written, and he leaves a lot to the imagination. Some writers put in too much detail. He leaves a lot of room for the listener."...Actor Michael Ansara, who has portrayed native Americans on television and in films, is the reader for Audio Partners'' work. His reading is crisp and clear, with a touch of gravity." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Indianapolis Star_, September 1991\n</p>\n<p>\n "High entertainment, an aesthetically satisfying glimpse of the still-powerful tribal mysteries." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New York Times_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n[HTML_REMOVED]\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10316'),
(13545, 'Dance Hall of the Dead', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...as with all of Hillerman''s other books on tape,\n <em>\n  Dance Hall of the Dead\n </em>\n is compelling, colorful, and just complex enough to keep you interested, but not confused." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Catalyst_, September 1997\n</p>\n<p>\n "An author''s style has a lot to do with the success of an audio book...One writer whose works on the mark for listeners every time is Tony Hillerman...Hillerman is a former newspaper reporter, and his novels have a journalistic feel. His sentences tend to be straightforward, and they translate well to tape...An editor for Recorded Books said Hillerman''s books are "very crisply written, and he leaves a lot to the imagination. Some writers put in too much detail. He leaves a lot of room for the listener."...Actor Michael Ansara, who has portrayed native Americans on television and in films, is the reader for Audio Partners'' work. His reading is crisp and clear, with a touch of gravity." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Indianapolis Star_, September 1991\n</p>\n<p>\n "High entertainment, an aesthetically satisfying glimpse of the still-powerful tribal mysteries." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n The New York Times_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n[HTML_REMOVED]\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24431'),
(13546, 'Dance of the Gods', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the second volume in Roberts'' paranormal Circle Trilogy, the Circle of Six prepare to battle for their lives--and their hearts--against the one vampire determined to rule the earth. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2463'),
(13547, 'Dance of the gods', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the second volume in Roberts'' paranormal Circle Trilogy, the Circle of Six prepare to battle for their lives--and their hearts--against the one vampire determined to rule the earth. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22306'),
(13548, 'A Dance to the Music of Time: A Novel. At Lady Molly&#39;s', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7503'),
(13549, 'A Dance to the music of time: a novel. At Lady Molly&#39;s', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16445'),
(13550, 'A Dance to the music of time: a novel. At Lady Molly&#39;s', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26410'),
(13551, 'Dance to the Piper', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Book 2 in *The O''Hurley Collection*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A New York Times Bestseller**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Though her name was up in lights, Maddy O''Hurley cared nothing for the trappings of stardom. All that mattered was dancing. But Reed Valentine''s only passions were wealth and power . . . until Maddy engaged the mesmerizing mogul in the daring dance of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2464'),
(13552, 'Dance to the Piper', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Book 2 in *The O''Hurley Collection* **A New York Times Bestseller** Though her name was up in lights, Maddy O''Hurley cared nothing for the trappings of stardom. All that mattered was dancing. But Reed Valentine''s only passions were wealth and power . . . until Maddy engaged the mesmerizing mogul in the daring dance of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22303'),
(13553, 'Dance Upon the Air', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author-the first book in the reissued Three Sisters Island trilogy is a tale of friendship, fate, and the mysterious ways of the heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2465'),
(13554, 'Dance Upon the Air', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author-the first book in the reissued Three Sisters Island trilogy is a tale of friendship, fate, and the mysterious ways of the heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22302'),
(13555, 'Dance While You Can', 'Shirley Maclaine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n At the age of fifty-seven, after nearly four decades in Hollywood, Academy-Award-winning actress and entertainer Shirley MacLaine is still moving us to laughter and tears in major film roles, still high-kicking on stage in live performances - and still searching for the truth within herself. In this, her most intimate memoir yet, she examines with courage and candor her feelings about aging, relationships, work, her parents, her daughter, and her own future as an artist and as a woman. "There was a hidden agenda in our family. Warren and I were not only driven to fulfill our parents'' unrealized dreams but, in the process, to prove Mother correct in her aspirations for us in spite of our father''s fears and his harshly critical attitude toward our efforts...We had to do it. We had to be there. We couldn''t disappoint her, or the audience, or ourselves...In other words, there was no way Warren and I wouldn''t become stars." In Dance While You Can, Shirley examines the powerful familial forces that have shaped her life, legacies of a strong-willed mother whose own longing to be acknowledged propelled Shirley and her brother, Warren Beatty, to success, and of a father whose fear of failure inspired her always to prepare for the worst. She reflects on her relationship with her daughter, Sachi, and their separation during some of Sachi''s childhood years spent in Japan with her father. With affection and humor she recalls her own formative years in a Hollywood that made magic, not just money, learning her craft beside legendary stars like Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Joan Crawiord, and Debbie Reynolds, whose life in part inspired Shirley''s bravura role in PostcardsFrom the Edge. Finally, Shirley writes with honesty and incisive detail about her decision to return to the stage with a new show. Finding it both frightening and liberating, she reveals how it felt to lose her footing, and her confidence, when a series of devastating injuries force\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11045'),
(13556, 'A Dance With Dragons', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  PRAISE FOR GEORGE R. R. MARTINâ€™S\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s A Song of Ice and Fire? Itâ€™s the only fantasy series Iâ€™d put on a level with J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Lord of the Rings\n </em>\n . . . . Itâ€™s a fantasy series for hip, smart people, even those who donâ€™t read fantasy.â€â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n <br />\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Â Â \n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A Game of Thrones\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReminiscent of T. H. Whiteâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Once and Future King,\n </em>\n this novel is an absorbing combination of the mythic, the sweepingly historical, and the intensely personal.â€_â€”Chicago Sun-Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Clash of Kings\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMartin amply fulfills the first volumeâ€™s promise and continues what seems destined to be one of the best fantasy series ever written.â€â€”_The Denver Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Storm of Swords\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRiveting . . . a series whose brilliance continues to dazzle.â€â€”_Patriot News_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Feast for Crows\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOf those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best. In fact . . . this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien.â€â€”_Time _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dubbed â€œthe American Tolkienâ€ by\n <em>\n  Time\n </em>\n magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his spellbinding landmark series--as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again--beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has three times three thousand enemies, and many have set out to find her. Yet, as they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.\n</p>\n<p>\n To the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone--a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Nightâ€™s Watch, will face his greatest challenge yet. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.\n</p>\n<p>\n And from all corners, bitter conflicts soon reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11050'),
(13557, 'Dance With the Devil', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6089'),
(13558, 'Dancing the Code', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜The Brigadierâ€™s going to shoot you, Jo,â€™ the Doctor said grimly, â€˜and then heâ€™s going to shoot me. Both of us are going to die.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor builds a machine designed to predict the future. It shows the Brigadier murdering him and Jo in cold blood. Unable to tell where or when this event is destined to occur, the Doctor and Jo decide that they must stay apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Jo is sent on a top-secret mission to the war-torn Arab nation of Kebiria. But upon arrival, she is immediately arrested and consigned to a brutal political prison. The Kebirians have something to hide: deep in the North African desert, an alien infestation is rapidly growing. And the Doctor and UNIT soon discover that unless it is stopped, the alien presence will spread to overrun the entire world.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2195'),
(13559, 'Dancing the Code', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜The Brigadierâ€™s going to shoot you, Jo,â€™ the Doctor said grimly, â€˜and then heâ€™s going to shoot me. Both of us are going to die.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor builds a machine designed to predict the future. It shows the Brigadier murdering him and Jo in cold blood. Unable to tell where or when this event is destined to occur, the Doctor and Jo decide that they must stay apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Jo is sent on a top-secret mission to the war-torn Arab nation of Kebiria. But upon arrival, she is immediately arrested and consigned to a brutal political prison. The Kebirians have something to hide: deep in the North African desert, an alien infestation is rapidly growing. And the Doctor and UNIT soon discover that unless it is stopped, the alien presence will spread to overrun the entire world.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22584'),
(13560, 'Dancing With Bears', 'Michael Swanwick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dancing With Bears follows the adventures of notorious con-men Darger and Surplus: They''ve lied and cheated their way onto the caravan that is delivering a priceless gift from the Caliph of Baghdad to the Duke of Muscovy. The only thing harder than the journey to Muscovy is their arrival in Muscovy. An audience with the Duke seems impossible to obtain, and Darger and Surplus quickly become entangled in a morass of deceit and revolution. The only thing more dangerous than the convoluted political web surrounding Darger and Surplus is the gift itself, the Pearls of Byzantium, and Zoesophia, the governess sworn to protect their virtue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2675'),
(13561, 'Dancing With Bears', 'Michael Swanwick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dancing With Bears follows the adventures of notorious con-men Darger and Surplus: They''ve lied and cheated their way onto the caravan that is delivering a priceless gift from the Caliph of Baghdad to the Duke of Muscovy. The only thing harder than the journey to Muscovy is their arrival in Muscovy. An audience with the Duke seems impossible to obtain, and Darger and Surplus quickly become entangled in a morass of deceit and revolution. The only thing more dangerous than the convoluted political web surrounding Darger and Surplus is the gift itself, the Pearls of Byzantium, and Zoesophia, the governess sworn to protect their virtue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12911'),
(13562, 'Dancing With Bears', 'Michael Swanwick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dancing With Bears follows the adventures of notorious con-men Darger and Surplus: They''ve lied and cheated their way onto the caravan that is delivering a priceless gift from the Caliph of Baghdad to the Duke of Muscovy. The only thing harder than the journey to Muscovy is their arrival in Muscovy. An audience with the Duke seems impossible to obtain, and Darger and Surplus quickly become entangled in a morass of deceit and revolution. The only thing more dangerous than the convoluted political web surrounding Darger and Surplus is the gift itself, the Pearls of Byzantium, and Zoesophia, the governess sworn to protect their virtue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22056'),
(13563, 'The Danger', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18113'),
(13564, 'A Dangerous Fortune', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Follett (Night Over Water, 1991; The Pillars of The Earth, 1989, etc.) peeks into the naughty world of late Victorian merchant bankers. A tragic misadventure among schoolboys is at the root of the rotten world of the Pilaster family. Weak bully Edward Pilaster and his too-dear South American chum Mickey Miranda cause the death by drowning of a lad from the lower form at their minor public school and then grow up to become as corrupt as one might expect. Mickey murders his way to a sinecure in the London legation of his nitrate-rich Latin American homeland, and, with much help from his gorgeous, manipulative mum Augusta, Edward bumbles his way to a partnership in the immensely important family bank. The only really good Pilaster, aside from discreetly gay Uncle Samuel, is young Hugh, whose father left the family firm, founded his own bank, and then had to commit suicide when the bank foundered. Hugh is a born banker, but since he''s so much smarter than cousin Edward, Aunt Augusta hates him and throws constant obstacles in his path. Against Hugh''s advice, Mickey and Edward team up on a series of huge loans to Mickey''s government--money that goes to the purchase of war materiel and the advancement of Mickey''s thuggish father. On this rotten foundation, the Pilaster bank grows to Imperial preeminence and Augusta gets the earldom she wants for the husband she dislikes. Hugh, pining for the Polish-born, Jewish bareback- rider he loved and lost and still nursing his childhood memory of That Day At The Swimming Hole, gets nothing but grief until those shaky South American bonds finally collapse and he''s really needed. Interesting financial tips and a sprinkling of naughty bits, but the rest is minor Masterpiece Theatre. (BOM ??) --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Political and amorous intrigues,Â Â cold-blooded murders and financial crises...old-fashionedÂ Â entertainment!" --\n  <em>\n   San FranciscoÂ Â Chronicle\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Breathlessly plotted...relentlesslyÂ Â suspensenseful." --\n  <em>\n   The New YorkÂ Â Times\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gripping, complex plot..Â Â sexual intrigue...fascinating characters...you won''t beÂ Â able to put down this exciting page-turner!"Â Â --\n  <em>\n   Lexington Herald-Leader\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3825'),
(13565, 'A Dangerous Fortune', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Follett (Night Over Water, 1991; The Pillars of The Earth, 1989, etc.) peeks into the naughty world of late Victorian merchant bankers. A tragic misadventure among schoolboys is at the root of the rotten world of the Pilaster family. Weak bully Edward Pilaster and his too-dear South American chum Mickey Miranda cause the death by drowning of a lad from the lower form at their minor public school and then grow up to become as corrupt as one might expect. Mickey murders his way to a sinecure in the London legation of his nitrate-rich Latin American homeland, and, with much help from his gorgeous, manipulative mum Augusta, Edward bumbles his way to a partnership in the immensely important family bank. The only really good Pilaster, aside from discreetly gay Uncle Samuel, is young Hugh, whose father left the family firm, founded his own bank, and then had to commit suicide when the bank foundered. Hugh is a born banker, but since he''s so much smarter than cousin Edward, Aunt Augusta hates him and throws constant obstacles in his path. Against Hugh''s advice, Mickey and Edward team up on a series of huge loans to Mickey''s government--money that goes to the purchase of war materiel and the advancement of Mickey''s thuggish father. On this rotten foundation, the Pilaster bank grows to Imperial preeminence and Augusta gets the earldom she wants for the husband she dislikes. Hugh, pining for the Polish-born, Jewish bareback- rider he loved and lost and still nursing his childhood memory of That Day At The Swimming Hole, gets nothing but grief until those shaky South American bonds finally collapse and he''s really needed. Interesting financial tips and a sprinkling of naughty bits, but the rest is minor Masterpiece Theatre. (BOM ??) --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Political and amorous intrigues,Â Â cold-blooded murders and financial crises...old-fashionedÂ Â entertainment!" --\n  <em>\n   San FranciscoÂ Â Chronicle\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Breathlessly plotted...relentlesslyÂ Â suspensenseful." --\n  <em>\n   The New YorkÂ Â Times\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gripping, complex plot..Â Â sexual intrigue...fascinating characters...you won''t beÂ Â able to put down this exciting page-turner!"Â Â --\n  <em>\n   Lexington Herald-Leader\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9733'),
(13566, 'A Dangerous Fortune', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Follett (Night Over Water, 1991; The Pillars of The Earth, 1989, etc.) peeks into the naughty world of late Victorian merchant bankers. A tragic misadventure among schoolboys is at the root of the rotten world of the Pilaster family. Weak bully Edward Pilaster and his too-dear South American chum Mickey Miranda cause the death by drowning of a lad from the lower form at their minor public school and then grow up to become as corrupt as one might expect. Mickey murders his way to a sinecure in the London legation of his nitrate-rich Latin American homeland, and, with much help from his gorgeous, manipulative mum Augusta, Edward bumbles his way to a partnership in the immensely important family bank. The only really good Pilaster, aside from discreetly gay Uncle Samuel, is young Hugh, whose father left the family firm, founded his own bank, and then had to commit suicide when the bank foundered. Hugh is a born banker, but since he''s so much smarter than cousin Edward, Aunt Augusta hates him and throws constant obstacles in his path. Against Hugh''s advice, Mickey and Edward team up on a series of huge loans to Mickey''s government--money that goes to the purchase of war materiel and the advancement of Mickey''s thuggish father. On this rotten foundation, the Pilaster bank grows to Imperial preeminence and Augusta gets the earldom she wants for the husband she dislikes. Hugh, pining for the Polish-born, Jewish bareback- rider he loved and lost and still nursing his childhood memory of That Day At The Swimming Hole, gets nothing but grief until those shaky South American bonds finally collapse and he''s really needed. Interesting financial tips and a sprinkling of naughty bits, but the rest is minor Masterpiece Theatre. (BOM ??) --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murders and financial crises...old-fashioned entertainment!" --\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Chronicle\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Breathlessly plotted...relentlessly suspensenseful." --\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gripping, complex plot.. sexual intrigue...fascinating characters...you won''t be able to put down this exciting page-turner!" --\n  <em>\n   Lexington Herald-Leader\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20733');
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(13567, 'Dangerous in Diamonds', 'Madeline Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hunter masterfully weaves a sensual web . . . Fans will be delighted\n</p>\n<p>\n --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n The depth of characterization and intense emotions will enthrall readers. . . the tight plotting and masterful storytelling will captivate.Â  Brava!Â --_RTBookclub_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The breathtaking finale of Madeline Hunter''s magnificent quartet...\n</p>\n<p>\n Outrageously wealthy, the Duke of Castleford has little incentive to curb his profligate ways-gaming and whoring with equal abandon and enjoying his hedonistic lifestyle to the fullest. When a behest adds a small property to his vast holdings, one that houses a modest flower business known as The Rarest Blooms, Castleford sees little to interest him...until he lays eyes on its owner. Daphne Joyes is coolly mysterious, exquisitely beautiful, and utterly scathing toward a man of Castleford''s stamp-in short, an object worthy of his most calculated seduction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Daphne has no reason to entertain Castleford''s outrageous advances, and every reason to keep him as far away as possible from her eclectic household. Not only has she been sheltering young ladies who have been victims of misfortune, but she has her own closely guarded secrets. Then Daphne makes a discovery that changes everything. She and Castleford have one thing in common: a profound hatred for the Duke of Becksbridge, who just happens to be Castleford''s relative.\n</p>\n<p>\n Never before were two people less likely to form an alliance-or to fall in love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3160'),
(13568, 'Dangerous in Diamonds', 'Madeline Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hunter masterfully weaves a sensual web . . . Fans will be delighted\n</p>\n<p>\n --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n The depth of characterization and intense emotions will enthrall readers. . . the tight plotting and masterful storytelling will captivate.Â  Brava!Â --_RTBookclub_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The breathtaking finale of Madeline Hunter''s magnificent quartet...\n</p>\n<p>\n Outrageously wealthy, the Duke of Castleford has little incentive to curb his profligate ways-gaming and whoring with equal abandon and enjoying his hedonistic lifestyle to the fullest. When a behest adds a small property to his vast holdings, one that houses a modest flower business known as The Rarest Blooms, Castleford sees little to interest him...until he lays eyes on its owner. Daphne Joyes is coolly mysterious, exquisitely beautiful, and utterly scathing toward a man of Castleford''s stamp-in short, an object worthy of his most calculated seduction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Daphne has no reason to entertain Castleford''s outrageous advances, and every reason to keep him as far away as possible from her eclectic household. Not only has she been sheltering young ladies who have been victims of misfortune, but she has her own closely guarded secrets. Then Daphne makes a discovery that changes everything. She and Castleford have one thing in common: a profound hatred for the Duke of Becksbridge, who just happens to be Castleford''s relative.\n</p>\n<p>\n Never before were two people less likely to form an alliance-or to fall in love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10392'),
(13569, 'Dangerous in Diamonds', 'Madeline Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hunter masterfully weaves a sensual web . . . Fans will be delighted\n</p>\n<p>\n --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n The depth of characterization and intense emotions will enthrall readers. . . the tight plotting and masterful storytelling will captivate. Brava! --_RTBookclub_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The breathtaking finale of Madeline Hunter''s magnificent quartet...\n</p>\n<p>\n Outrageously wealthy, the Duke of Castleford has little incentive to curb his profligate ways-gaming and whoring with equal abandon and enjoying his hedonistic lifestyle to the fullest. When a behest adds a small property to his vast holdings, one that houses a modest flower business known as The Rarest Blooms, Castleford sees little to interest him...until he lays eyes on its owner. Daphne Joyes is coolly mysterious, exquisitely beautiful, and utterly scathing toward a man of Castleford''s stamp-in short, an object worthy of his most calculated seduction.\n</p>\n<p>\n Daphne has no reason to entertain Castleford''s outrageous advances, and every reason to keep him as far away as possible from her eclectic household. Not only has she been sheltering young ladies who have been victims of misfortune, but she has her own closely guarded secrets. Then Daphne makes a discovery that changes everything. She and Castleford have one thing in common: a profound hatred for the Duke of Becksbridge, who just happens to be Castleford''s relative.\n</p>\n<p>\n Never before were two people less likely to form an alliance-or to fall in love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21297'),
(13570, 'Dangerous Liaisons', 'Choderlos de Laclos', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos''s great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, he is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. Eventually their human pawns respond, and the consequences prove to be more serious-and deadly-than the players could have ever predicted.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6807'),
(13571, 'Dangerous Liaisons', 'Choderlos de Laclos', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  **A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time**\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos''s great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, he is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. Eventually their human pawns respond, and the consequences prove to be more serious-and deadly-than the players could have ever predicted.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12256'),
(13572, 'Dangerous liaisons', 'Choderlos de Laclos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time** Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos''s great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, he is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. Eventually their human pawns respond, and the consequences prove to be more serious-and deadly-than the players could have ever predicted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17088'),
(13573, 'Dangerous liaisons', 'Choderlos de Laclos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos''s great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, he is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. Eventually their human pawns respond, and the consequences prove to be more serious-and deadly-than the players could have ever predicted.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26925'),
(13574, 'a Dangerous Man (2006)(+)', 'Huston, Charlie - Henry Thompson 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14141'),
(13575, 'a Dangerous Man (2006)(+)', 'Huston, Charlie - Henry Thompson 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17007'),
(13576, 'a Dangerous Man (2006)(+)', 'Huston, Charlie - Henry Thompson 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28169'),
(13577, 'A Dangerous Mourning', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Inspector William Monk has his hands full when an aristocrat''s daugher is stabbed to death in her own bed. He is instructed to proceed without delay, but finds his efforts hamstrung by the lingering traces of amnesia and the craven ineptitutde of his supervisor, who would love to see him fail. With the help of Hester Latterly, formerly a nurse with Florence Nightingale, Monk gropes warily through the silence and shadows, knowing that with each step he comes closer to the appalling truth...."A richly textured, masterfully plotted, thoroughly enjoyable story." THE KIRKUS REVIEWS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15695'),
(13578, 'A Dangerous Mourning', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Inspector William Monk has his hands full when an aristocrat''s daugher is stabbed to death in her own bed. He is instructed to proceed without delay, but finds his efforts hamstrung by the lingering traces of amnesia and the craven ineptitutde of his supervisor, who would love to see him fail. With the help of Hester Latterly, formerly a nurse with Florence Nightingale, Monk gropes warily through the silence and shadows, knowing that with each step he comes closer to the appalling truth...."A richly textured, masterfully plotted, thoroughly enjoyable story." THE KIRKUS REVIEWS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26380'),
(13579, 'A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life', 'Frederick Busch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Frederick Busch has an enduring love affair with great books, and here he brilliantly communicates his passion to us all. Whether expounding on Melville or Dickens, or celebrating Hemingway or O''Hara, he explains what literature can ineffably reveal about our own lives. For Busch, there was no other recourse save the "dangerous profession;" it was to be his calling, and in these piercing essays, he demonstrates that we as a culture ignore the fundamental truths about fiction only at our own peril. With keen ruminations that recall the critcs of yore- Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, and Irving Howe-Busch, in this era of moral indirection, has revealed how the literature of our past is the key to our survival in the future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8100'),
(13580, 'Daniel &amp; Ian: For Now, Forever\\\\In From the Cold', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***For Now, Forever***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Annaâ€”Daniel''s wife of forty yearsâ€”relives her remarkable courtship, when meddlesome matchmaking patriarch and self-made millionaire Daniel MacGregor faced his biggest challenge: to convince the love of his life to marry him! Here at last is the story of how Daniel wooed and won the fiercely independent Anna Whitfield and launched his formidable dynasty.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***In From the Cold***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this story about an eighteenth-century MacGregor, we learn that battling the British couldn''t prepare Minuteman Ian MacGregor for the fight he''s got on his hands to win the heart of Irish spitfire Allanna Flynn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2466'),
(13581, 'Daniel &amp; Ian: For Now, Forever\\\\In from the Cold', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***For Now, Forever*** Annaâ€”Daniel''s wife of forty yearsâ€”relives her remarkable courtship, when meddlesome matchmaking patriarch and self-made millionaire Daniel MacGregor faced his biggest challenge: to convince the love of his life to marry him! Here at last is the story of how Daniel wooed and won the fiercely independent Anna Whitfield and launched his formidable dynasty. ***In From the Cold*** In this story about an eighteenth-century MacGregor, we learn that battling the British couldn''t prepare Minuteman Ian MacGregor for the fight he''s got on his hands to win the heart of Irish spitfire Allanna Flynn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22298'),
(13582, 'Daniel Deronda', 'George Eliot', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25795'),
(13583, 'Daniel Deronda (1-4)', 'George Eliot', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Volume: 1-4 Publisher: Edinburgh: William Blackwood Publication date: 1876 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18387'),
(13584, 'Daniel X: Watch the Skies', 'James Patterson &amp; Ned Rust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n LIGHTS All''s quiet in the small town of Holliswood. Television sets, computers, and portable devices are aglow in every home, classroom, and store. Yet not all is perfect. Evil is lurking, just out of sight, behind the screen. CAMERA Residing in this sleepy town is a villain with more ambition than the world can withstand. Twisted beyond reason, he is dead set on throwing Holliswood into chaos and documenting the destruction of every person in it, including Daniel X. EXTERMINATION The only person who can stop this made-for-TV tyrant, Daniel must use his extraordinary power to save the town. But this devilish director has assembled an all-star team of his own creation and vows to stage the most spectacular finale the world has ever seen. Can Daniel X stop this deranged outlaw--or will he find himself on the cutting room floor?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4829'),
(13585, 'Daniel X: Watch the Skies', 'James Patterson &amp; Ned Rust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n LIGHTS All''s quiet in the small town of Holliswood. Television sets, computers, and portable devices are aglow in every home, classroom, and store. Yet not all is perfect. Evil is lurking, just out of sight, behind the screen. CAMERA Residing in this sleepy town is a villain with more ambition than the world can withstand. Twisted beyond reason, he is dead set on throwing Holliswood into chaos and documenting the destruction of every person in it, including Daniel X. EXTERMINATION The only person who can stop this made-for-TV tyrant, Daniel must use his extraordinary power to save the town. But this devilish director has assembled an all-star team of his own creation and vows to stage the most spectacular finale the world has ever seen. Can Daniel X stop this deranged outlaw--or will he find himself on the cutting room floor?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11895'),
(13586, 'Daniel X: Watch the Skies', 'James Patterson; Ned Rust', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: LIGHTS All''s quiet in the small town of Holliswood. Television sets, computers, and portable devices are aglow in every home, classroom, and store. Yet not all is perfect. Evil is lurking, just out of sight, behind the screen. CAMERA Residing in this sleepy town is a villain with more ambition than the world can withstand. Twisted beyond reason, he is dead set on throwing Holliswood into chaos and documenting the destruction of every person in it, including Daniel X. EXTERMINATION The only person who can stop this made-for-TV tyrant, Daniel must use his extraordinary power to save the town. But this devilish director has assembled an all-star team of his own creation and vows to stage the most spectacular finale the world has ever seen. Can Daniel X stop this deranged outlaw--or will he find himself on the cutting room floor?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19823'),
(13587, 'Daniel&#39;s Desire', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1296'),
(13588, 'Daniel&#39;s Desire', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13409'),
(13589, 'Daniel&#39;s Desire', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23643'),
(13590, 'Danielle Ganek', 'The Summer We Read Gatsby (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17302'),
(13591, 'The Danish Girl', 'David Ebershoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled, and would he mind slipping into a pair of women''s shoes and stockings for a few moments so she can finish the painting on time. Of course, he answers. Anything at all. With that, one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the twentieth century begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6335'),
(13592, 'The Danish Girl', 'David Ebershoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled, and would he mind slipping into a pair of women''s shoes and stockings for a few moments so she can finish the painting on time. Of course, he answers. Anything at all. With that, one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the twentieth century begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10861'),
(13593, 'The Danish Girl', 'David Ebershoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled, and would he mind slipping into a pair of women''s shoes and stockings for a few moments so she can finish the painting on time. Of course, he answers. Anything at all. With that, one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the twentieth century begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17690'),
(13594, 'The Danish Girl', 'David Ebershoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled, and would he mind slipping into a pair of women''s shoes and stockings for a few moments so she can finish the painting on time. Of course, he answers. Anything at all. With that, one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the twentieth century begins.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27213'),
(13595, 'Danny the Champion of the World', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A new edition of the well-loved story of Danny and his father who outwit their greedy, rich neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell. With a great new cover by Quentin Blake as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1824'),
(13596, 'Danny the Champion of the World', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A new edition of the well-loved story of Danny and his father who outwit their greedy, rich neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell. With a great new cover by Quentin Blake as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9116'),
(13597, 'Danny the Champion of the World', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A new edition of the well-loved story of Danny and his father who outwit their greedy, rich neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell. With a great new cover by Quentin Blake as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24831'),
(13598, 'Danse MacAbre', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fans have been waiting to sink their fangs into an all-new Anita Blake hardcover in the New York Timesbestselling series. These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely, he knows perfectly well that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner, is no way to bring up a baby.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3489'),
(13599, 'Danse macabre', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fans have been waiting to sink their fangs into an all-new Anita Blake hardcover in the New York Timesbestselling series. These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely, he knows perfectly well that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner, is no way to bring up a baby.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15235'),
(13600, 'Danse macabre', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fans have been waiting to sink their fangs into an all-new Anita Blake hardcover in the New York Timesbestselling series. These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely, he knows perfectly well that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner, is no way to bring up a baby.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21004'),
(13601, 'Dante&#39;s Numbers', 'David Hewson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was to have been the triumphant swan song for a revered Italian film directorâ€”the premiere in Rome of his long-awaited movie version of Danteâ€™s Inferno. But before the lights go down, chaos reigns: a man is dead, the filmâ€™s star has disappeared, and a priceless relic, Danteâ€™s death mask, has been stolen. The trail leads to San Francisco, where Rome police detective Nic Costa, along with partner Gianni Peroni andÂ their boss, Leo Falcone, are part of a team charged with ensuring the safety of other relics that will be part of an exhibit at Golden Gate Park set to open in tandem with the rescheduled premiere. But, of course, Hewsonâ€™s three maverick detectives want to get involved in the murder investigation itself, technically the province of their institutional rivals, the Carabiniere, and soon enough they are end-running around not only their Italian counterparts but also the San Francisco police. Hewson is a master at convoluted, many-tentacled plots that weave their way through history and back to the present, but this time he doubles the stakes: we start with Dante and the iconography of his Inferno and wind up reliving the plot of Hitchcockâ€™s Vertigo. Thatâ€™s a lot ground to cover in one novelâ€”perhaps too muchâ€”but from scene to scene, Hewson never loses the readerâ€™s attention, and for fans of this outstanding series, the latest chapter in the interlocked lives of Costa and friends, while overstuffed, is asÂ delicious as ever. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The return of Nic Costa is a true cause for celebration! A literate, page-turning tale that finds our heroâ€”one of the most appealing in crime fictionâ€”zipping between two of the most iconic cities in the world: Rome and San Francisco. Hewson is a daunting talentâ€”a writer who is a master stylist, who respects his audience''s intelligence, and who effortlessly keeps the thrills coming a mile a minute."â€“Jeffery Deaver,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of my all-time favorite fictional detectives is David Hewson''s Nic Costa, and Dante''s Numbers brings Nic for the first time to American shores. From the opening scene of murder and mayhem at a movie premiere to the final, mind-blowing surprise,\n <strong>\n  Dante''s Numbers\n </strong>\n is an elegant, clever, and terrifying tale of intrigue and murder involving Dante''s first circle of Hell and Hitchcock''s classic film Vertigo. An outstanding novel."â€”Douglas Preston, author of_ The Monster of Florence and Blasphemy_.\n</p>\n<p>\n "David Hewson is one of the finest thriller writers working today. A born stylist.\n <strong>\n  Dante''s Numbers\n </strong>\n is politically wise, multi-dimensional, and psychologically intuitive. Action braids suspense on nearly every page, creating a reader''s delight from beginning to end. A superb effort by a master storyteller. The rest of the world already knows how good David is. Now, it''s time America find out." â€”Steve Berry\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  Dante''s Numbers\n </strong>\n is action-packed suspense at its smartest and most gripping. Transplanting Nic Costa and his fellow Italian detectives to the dizzying world of Hitchock''s ''Vertigo'' is a master stroke from a brilliant author. It''s impossible not to be swept up in the memorable, compelling world that is David Hewson''s specialty."â€“David Morrell\n</p>\n<p>\n "Easily the best in a really terrific series."â€”Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHewson is a master at convoluted, manytentacled plots that weave their way through history and back to the present.â€ â€”_Booklist\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œ[In] Hewsonâ€™s fine seventh crime novel to feature Nic Costaâ€¦. A convoluted plot, eccentric characters and numerous sinister connections to Hitchcockâ€™s\n <em>\n  Vertigo\n </em>\n all contribute to the suspense.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6308'),
(13602, 'Dante&#39;s Numbers', 'David Hewson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was to have been the triumphant swan song for a revered Italian film directorâ€”the premiere in Rome of his long-awaited movie version of Danteâ€™s Inferno. But before the lights go down, chaos reigns: a man is dead, the filmâ€™s star has disappeared, and a priceless relic, Danteâ€™s death mask, has been stolen. The trail leads to San Francisco, where Rome police detective Nic Costa, along with partner Gianni Peroni andÂ their boss, Leo Falcone, are part of a team charged with ensuring the safety of other relics that will be part of an exhibit at Golden Gate Park set to open in tandem with the rescheduled premiere. But, of course, Hewsonâ€™s three maverick detectives want to get involved in the murder investigation itself, technically the province of their institutional rivals, the Carabiniere, and soon enough they are end-running around not only their Italian counterparts but also the San Francisco police. Hewson is a master at convoluted, many-tentacled plots that weave their way through history and back to the present, but this time he doubles the stakes: we start with Dante and the iconography of his Inferno and wind up reliving the plot of Hitchcockâ€™s Vertigo. Thatâ€™s a lot ground to cover in one novelâ€”perhaps too muchâ€”but from scene to scene, Hewson never loses the readerâ€™s attention, and for fans of this outstanding series, the latest chapter in the interlocked lives of Costa and friends, while overstuffed, is asÂ delicious as ever. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The return of Nic Costa is a true cause for celebration! A literate, page-turning tale that finds our heroâ€”one of the most appealing in crime fictionâ€”zipping between two of the most iconic cities in the world: Rome and San Francisco. Hewson is a daunting talentâ€”a writer who is a master stylist, who respects his audience''s intelligence, and who effortlessly keeps the thrills coming a mile a minute."â€“Jeffery Deaver,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of my all-time favorite fictional detectives is David Hewson''s Nic Costa, and Dante''s Numbers brings Nic for the first time to American shores. From the opening scene of murder and mayhem at a movie premiere to the final, mind-blowing surprise,\n <strong>\n  Dante''s Numbers\n </strong>\n is an elegant, clever, and terrifying tale of intrigue and murder involving Dante''s first circle of Hell and Hitchcock''s classic film Vertigo. An outstanding novel."â€”Douglas Preston, author of_ The Monster of Florence and Blasphemy_.\n</p>\n<p>\n "David Hewson is one of the finest thriller writers working today. A born stylist.\n <strong>\n  Dante''s Numbers\n </strong>\n is politically wise, multi-dimensional, and psychologically intuitive. Action braids suspense on nearly every page, creating a reader''s delight from beginning to end. A superb effort by a master storyteller. The rest of the world already knows how good David is. Now, it''s time America find out." â€”Steve Berry\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  Dante''s Numbers\n </strong>\n is action-packed suspense at its smartest and most gripping. Transplanting Nic Costa and his fellow Italian detectives to the dizzying world of Hitchock''s ''Vertigo'' is a master stroke from a brilliant author. It''s impossible not to be swept up in the memorable, compelling world that is David Hewson''s specialty."â€“David Morrell\n</p>\n<p>\n "Easily the best in a really terrific series."â€”Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHewson is a master at convoluted, manytentacled plots that weave their way through history and back to the present.â€ â€”_Booklist\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œ[In] Hewsonâ€™s fine seventh crime novel to feature Nic Costaâ€¦. A convoluted plot, eccentric characters and numerous sinister connections to Hitchcockâ€™s\n <em>\n  Vertigo\n </em>\n all contribute to the suspense.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10250'),
(13603, 'Dante&#39;s Numbers', 'David Hewson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was to have been the triumphant swan song for a revered Italian film directorâ€”the premiere in Rome of his long-awaited movie version of Danteâ€™s Inferno. But before the lights go down, chaos reigns: a man is dead, the filmâ€™s star has disappeared, and a priceless relic, Danteâ€™s death mask, has been stolen. The trail leads to San Francisco, where Rome police detective Nic Costa, along with partner Gianni Peroni andÂ their boss, Leo Falcone, are part of a team charged with ensuring the safety of other relics that will be part of an exhibit at Golden Gate Park set to open in tandem with the rescheduled premiere. But, of course, Hewsonâ€™s three maverick detectives want to get involved in the murder investigation itself, technically the province of their institutional rivals, the Carabiniere, and soon enough they are end-running around not only their Italian counterparts but also the San Francisco police. Hewson is a master at convoluted, many-tentacled plots that weave their way through history and back to the present, but this time he doubles the stakes: we start with Dante and the iconography of his Inferno and wind up reliving the plot of Hitchcockâ€™s Vertigo. Thatâ€™s a lot ground to cover in one novelâ€”perhaps too muchâ€”but from scene to scene, Hewson never loses the readerâ€™s attention, and for fans of this outstanding series, the latest chapter in the interlocked lives of Costa and friends, while overstuffed, is asÂ delicious as ever. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The return of Nic Costa is a true cause for celebration! A literate, page-turning tale that finds our heroâ€”one of the most appealing in crime fictionâ€”zipping between two of the most iconic cities in the world: Rome and San Francisco. Hewson is a daunting talentâ€”a writer who is a master stylist, who respects his audience''s intelligence, and who effortlessly keeps the thrills coming a mile a minute."â€“Jeffery Deaver,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of my all-time favorite fictional detectives is David Hewson''s Nic Costa, and Dante''s Numbers brings Nic for the first time to American shores. From the opening scene of murder and mayhem at a movie premiere to the final, mind-blowing surprise,\n <strong>\n  Dante''s Numbers\n </strong>\n is an elegant, clever, and terrifying tale of intrigue and murder involving Dante''s first circle of Hell and Hitchcock''s classic film Vertigo. An outstanding novel."â€”Douglas Preston, author of_ The Monster of Florence and Blasphemy_.\n</p>\n<p>\n "David Hewson is one of the finest thriller writers working today. A born stylist.\n <strong>\n  Dante''s Numbers\n </strong>\n is politically wise, multi-dimensional, and psychologically intuitive. Action braids suspense on nearly every page, creating a reader''s delight from beginning to end. A superb effort by a master storyteller. The rest of the world already knows how good David is. Now, it''s time America find out." â€”Steve Berry\n</p>\n<p>\n "\n <strong>\n  Dante''s Numbers\n </strong>\n is action-packed suspense at its smartest and most gripping. Transplanting Nic Costa and his fellow Italian detectives to the dizzying world of Hitchock''s ''Vertigo'' is a master stroke from a brilliant author. It''s impossible not to be swept up in the memorable, compelling world that is David Hewson''s specialty."â€“David Morrell\n</p>\n<p>\n "Easily the best in a really terrific series."â€”Lee Child\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHewson is a master at convoluted, manytentacled plots that weave their way through history and back to the present.â€ â€”_Booklist\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œ[In] Hewsonâ€™s fine seventh crime novel to feature Nic Costaâ€¦. A convoluted plot, eccentric characters and numerous sinister connections to Hitchcockâ€™s\n <em>\n  Vertigo\n </em>\n all contribute to the suspense.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17749'),
(13604, 'Dante&#39;s Numbers', 'David Hewson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was a warm, golden evening in Romeâ€”a night filled with anticipation. A legendary director was premiering his new film version of Danteâ€™s Inferno. From around the world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the paparazzi thronged among them. But within moments the event was in chaos. A man was dead. The filmâ€™s star was missingâ€”and a priceless relic had vanished. In David Hewsonâ€™s masterful new novel of suspense, Detective Nic Costa, numb from the recent death of his wife, finds himself and his fellow detectives drawn into a strange and terrifying limboâ€”the first of Danteâ€™s nine circles of Hell.While Dante had Beatrice as his guide, Nic Costa has an enigmatic beauty of his own: a bored American film actress named Maggie Flavier who decides that Costa, and no one else, is suited for the job of protecting her from the danger surrounding the film. As the premiere shifts locationsâ€”from Rome to San Franciscoâ€”Costa leaves Europe for the first time in his life, and is pulled from his grief and ambivalence by Maggie Flavier and the city by the bay. Fortunately his fellow detectives are under no such spell. Charged with protecting a trove of rare Italian artworks and artifacts, they are also joining the hunt for a killer who has struck twice again, leaving behind a tableau of clues that range from Danteâ€™s deadly cycle of numbers to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.Now, with Maggie herself in danger, Nic must throw off the fog of wonder and infatuation he feels in the presence of this beautiful woman in all her guises. But it may already be too late. As evidence points to connections deep within the Italian Mafia, and the Roman policemen do battle with a celluloid culture they cannot quite comprehend, a killerâ€™s chilling plot is closing in around themâ€”guided by a poetâ€™s medieval vision of sin and punishment, planned with a modern genius for revengeâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27287'),
(13605, 'Dare to Go A-Hunting', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15850'),
(13606, 'Daring to Dream', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Margo Sullivan had everything she could ask for. The daughter of the Templetons'' stern housekeeper, she was treated like a member of the family. But money could not buy the thing she craved most-her mother''s acceptance...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2467'),
(13607, 'Daring to dream', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Margo Sullivan had everything she could ask for. The daughter of the Templetons'' stern housekeeper, she was treated like a member of the family. But money could not buy the thing she craved most-her mother''s acceptance...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22297'),
(13608, 'Dark Ararat', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British author and critic Stableford adds a fifth novel to his Emortality series (Inherit the Earth, etc.) with this heavily speculative tale that puts the "science" in science fiction. Expanding on the episode of humanity''s first extrasolar colony from The Fountains of Youth (2000), he devises an entire biosystem based on a dual coding genome rather than Earth''s sole replicator molecule, DNA. That changes everything, as the colonists learn, from reproductive strategies and lifecycles to the basic taste (mildly unpleasant) of native food. Cultural as well as scientific conflicts afflict the passengers of the colony ship Hope, whose crew members seek to expand their mission to include other stars so that they can declare the colony self-sufficient. Unfrozen from suspended animation, Matthew Fleury, an ecologist and televangelist, must solve both the mystery of a murder and the mystery of life itself down on the planet called Ararat. Weaving the two plot lines together is the suggestion that the murder was committed by intelligent humanoid natives, builders of the abandoned city in which the crime took place. After talking with every faction on ship and planet, Matt travels by boat to the unexplored great plains downriver, and the novel picks up speed as his team adventures among the native flora and the very lively fauna. Despite his reputation as "an arrogant son of a bitch" and an "egomaniac," Matt is ultimately a sympathetic hero, whose intellectual and emotional leaps of faith justify the reader''s belief in him.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the 29th century, the generation ship Hope reaches its destination, a habitable planet suitable for colonization. Awakened out of cryonic sleep, ecologist Matthew Fleury discovers that serious problems face a successful seeding of the new world with human colonists. As Fleury tries to solve the murder of one of the planet''s early explorers, he confronts the possibility that the new world still contains an intelligent species and that a conspiracy exists to prevent the new colonists from building the world of their dreams. The fifth installment in Stableford''s epic future history (e.g., Inherit the Earth) brings humanity to the stars and tells, in the process, a story of one man''s singular dedication to the dream of populating the galaxy. Combining the best of hard science and visionary speculation, this sf drama belongs in most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7136'),
(13609, 'Dark Ararat', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British author and critic Stableford adds a fifth novel to his Emortality series (Inherit the Earth, etc.) with this heavily speculative tale that puts the "science" in science fiction. Expanding on the episode of humanity''s first extrasolar colony from The Fountains of Youth (2000), he devises an entire biosystem based on a dual coding genome rather than Earth''s sole replicator molecule, DNA. That changes everything, as the colonists learn, from reproductive strategies and lifecycles to the basic taste (mildly unpleasant) of native food. Cultural as well as scientific conflicts afflict the passengers of the colony ship Hope, whose crew members seek to expand their mission to include other stars so that they can declare the colony self-sufficient. Unfrozen from suspended animation, Matthew Fleury, an ecologist and televangelist, must solve both the mystery of a murder and the mystery of life itself down on the planet called Ararat. Weaving the two plot lines together is the suggestion that the murder was committed by intelligent humanoid natives, builders of the abandoned city in which the crime took place. After talking with every faction on ship and planet, Matt travels by boat to the unexplored great plains downriver, and the novel picks up speed as his team adventures among the native flora and the very lively fauna. Despite his reputation as "an arrogant son of a bitch" and an "egomaniac," Matt is ultimately a sympathetic hero, whose intellectual and emotional leaps of faith justify the reader''s belief in him.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the 29th century, the generation ship Hope reaches its destination, a habitable planet suitable for colonization. Awakened out of cryonic sleep, ecologist Matthew Fleury discovers that serious problems face a successful seeding of the new world with human colonists. As Fleury tries to solve the murder of one of the planet''s early explorers, he confronts the possibility that the new world still contains an intelligent species and that a conspiracy exists to prevent the new colonists from building the world of their dreams. The fifth installment in Stableford''s epic future history (e.g., Inherit the Earth) brings humanity to the stars and tells, in the process, a story of one man''s singular dedication to the dream of populating the galaxy. Combining the best of hard science and visionary speculation, this sf drama belongs in most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12819'),
(13610, 'Dark Ararat', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n British author and critic Stableford adds a fifth novel to his Emortality series (Inherit the Earth, etc.) with this heavily speculative tale that puts the "science" in science fiction. Expanding on the episode of humanity''s first extrasolar colony from The Fountains of Youth (2000), he devises an entire biosystem based on a dual coding genome rather than Earth''s sole replicator molecule, DNA. That changes everything, as the colonists learn, from reproductive strategies and lifecycles to the basic taste (mildly unpleasant) of native food. Cultural as well as scientific conflicts afflict the passengers of the colony ship Hope, whose crew members seek to expand their mission to include other stars so that they can declare the colony self-sufficient. Unfrozen from suspended animation, Matthew Fleury, an ecologist and televangelist, must solve both the mystery of a murder and the mystery of life itself down on the planet called Ararat. Weaving the two plot lines together is the suggestion that the murder was committed by intelligent humanoid natives, builders of the abandoned city in which the crime took place. After talking with every faction on ship and planet, Matt travels by boat to the unexplored great plains downriver, and the novel picks up speed as his team adventures among the native flora and the very lively fauna. Despite his reputation as "an arrogant son of a bitch" and an "egomaniac," Matt is ultimately a sympathetic hero, whose intellectual and emotional leaps of faith justify the reader''s belief in him.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the 29th century, the generation ship Hope reaches its destination, a habitable planet suitable for colonization. Awakened out of cryonic sleep, ecologist Matthew Fleury discovers that serious problems face a successful seeding of the new world with human colonists. As Fleury tries to solve the murder of one of the planet''s early explorers, he confronts the possibility that the new world still contains an intelligent species and that a conspiracy exists to prevent the new colonists from building the world of their dreams. The fifth installment in Stableford''s epic future history (e.g., Inherit the Earth) brings humanity to the stars and tells, in the process, a story of one man''s singular dedication to the dream of populating the galaxy. Combining the best of hard science and visionary speculation, this sf drama belongs in most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16795');
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(13611, 'The Dark Arena', 'Mario Puzo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Fierce, intense, compelling."\n <br />\n -_The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p>\n _"ONE OF THE FINEST WORKS OF FICTION TO COME OUT OF THIS COUNTRYâ€™S OCCUPATION OF GERMANY."\n <br />\n -_The Nation_\n</p>\n<p>\n "PUZO TELLS HIS STORY BRUTALLY, VIOLENTLY, AND UNDOUBTEDLY VERY MUCH AS IT ALL MIGHT HAVE BEEN."\n <br />\n -_San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _Mario Puzo won international acclaim for\n <em>\n  The\n </em>\n <em>\n  Godfather\n </em>\n and his other Mafia novels. But before creating those masterpieces, Puzo wrote his first acclaimed novel\n <em>\n  The Dark Arena\n </em>\n â€“an astounding story of a war-scarred young American in a battle against corruption and betrayal. . . .\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n After coming home at the end of World War II, Walter Mosca finds himself too restless for his civilian role in America. So he returns to Germany to find the woman he had once lovedâ€“and to start some kind of life in a vanquished country. But ahead of Walter stretches a dark landscape of defeat and intrigue, as he succumbs to the corrupting influences of a malevolent time. Now he enters a different kind of war, one in which he must make a fateful decisionâ€“between love and ambition, passion and greed, life and death. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10950'),
(13612, 'Dark Assassin', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For countless readers, one of lifeâ€™s great pleasures is the mesmerizing magic of a Victorian mystery by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Her dramas of good and evil unfolding inside Londonâ€™s lavish mansions and teeming slums hold us spellbound. Now, in Dark Assassin, she sweeps us into a darkly compelling world that we never dreamed existed.A Thames River Police superintendent struggling to win the respect of his men, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he notices a young couple standing at the bridge railing, apparently engaged in an intense discussion. The woman waves her arms and places her hands on the manâ€™s shoulders. A caress or a push? The man grasps hold of her. To save her or to kill her? Seconds later, the pair plunge to their death in the icy waters. Monk canâ€™t help but wonder, was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? It seems impossible to determine the truth, but haunted by the womanâ€™s somber beauty, he is impelled to try.Mary Havilland was her name, and she had planned to marry Toby Argyll, the fair-haired man who shared her fate. Maryâ€™s father, an engineer employed by the Argyll Company, had recently diedâ€“a suicide, according to the police and Maryâ€™s sister. But Maryâ€™s friends tell Monk that she suspected her father had been murdered because of his stubborn insistence that the Argyll Companyâ€™s current projectâ€“the construction of a splendid new sewer system for the metropolisâ€“was so badly flawed that it put the entire city in peril from flood and fire. Monk is now faced with the mysteries of the three deaths. Aided by his intrepid wife Hester, he starts looking for answers and is soon treading a slippery path that takes him from the luxurious drawing rooms where powerful men hatch their unscrupulous plots to a world beneath the city where poor folk fight starvation. In nightmarish tunnels, Monk and Hester find true friends, among them Scuff, a young mudlark; Sutton the ratcatcher; and Snoot, Suttonâ€™s clever terrier. For once, even Monkâ€™s old enemy, Superintendent Runcorn, is on his side. As rainfall strains the fragile manmade underground, Monk must connect the clues before death strikes again.With characters as vivid as Dickensâ€™s, gripping courtroom scenes, breathless horrors beneath the earth, and a plot that twists and turns toward a stunning denouement, Dark Assassin is absolutely one of Anne Perryâ€™s best.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7514'),
(13613, 'Dark Assassin', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For countless readers, one of lifeâ€™s great pleasures is the mesmerizing magic of a Victorian mystery by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Her dramas of good and evil unfolding inside Londonâ€™s lavish mansions and teeming slums hold us spellbound. Now, in Dark Assassin, she sweeps us into a darkly compelling world that we never dreamed existed.A Thames River Police superintendent struggling to win the respect of his men, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he notices a young couple standing at the bridge railing, apparently engaged in an intense discussion. The woman waves her arms and places her hands on the manâ€™s shoulders. A caress or a push? The man grasps hold of her. To save her or to kill her? Seconds later, the pair plunge to their death in the icy waters. Monk canâ€™t help but wonder, was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? It seems impossible to determine the truth, but haunted by the womanâ€™s somber beauty, he is impelled to try.Mary Havilland was her name, and she had planned to marry Toby Argyll, the fair-haired man who shared her fate. Maryâ€™s father, an engineer employed by the Argyll Company, had recently diedâ€“a suicide, according to the police and Maryâ€™s sister. But Maryâ€™s friends tell Monk that she suspected her father had been murdered because of his stubborn insistence that the Argyll Companyâ€™s current projectâ€“the construction of a splendid new sewer system for the metropolisâ€“was so badly flawed that it put the entire city in peril from flood and fire. Monk is now faced with the mysteries of the three deaths. Aided by his intrepid wife Hester, he starts looking for answers and is soon treading a slippery path that takes him from the luxurious drawing rooms where powerful men hatch their unscrupulous plots to a world beneath the city where poor folk fight starvation. In nightmarish tunnels, Monk and Hester find true friends, among them Scuff, a young mudlark; Sutton the ratcatcher; and Snoot, Suttonâ€™s clever terrier. For once, even Monkâ€™s old enemy, Superintendent Runcorn, is on his side. As rainfall strains the fragile manmade underground, Monk must connect the clues before death strikes again.With characters as vivid as Dickensâ€™s, gripping courtroom scenes, breathless horrors beneath the earth, and a plot that twists and turns toward a stunning denouement, Dark Assassin is absolutely one of Anne Perryâ€™s best.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16356'),
(13614, 'Dark Assassin', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For countless readers, one of lifeâ€™s great pleasures is the mesmerizing magic of a Victorian mystery by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Her dramas of good and evil unfolding inside Londonâ€™s lavish mansions and teeming slums hold us spellbound. Now, in Dark Assassin, she sweeps us into a darkly compelling world that we never dreamed existed.A Thames River Police superintendent struggling to win the respect of his men, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he notices a young couple standing at the bridge railing, apparently engaged in an intense discussion. The woman waves her arms and places her hands on the manâ€™s shoulders. A caress or a push? The man grasps hold of her. To save her or to kill her? Seconds later, the pair plunge to their death in the icy waters. Monk canâ€™t help but wonder, was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? It seems impossible to determine the truth, but haunted by the womanâ€™s somber beauty, he is impelled to try.Mary Havilland was her name, and she had planned to marry Toby Argyll, the fair-haired man who shared her fate. Maryâ€™s father, an engineer employed by the Argyll Company, had recently diedâ€“a suicide, according to the police and Maryâ€™s sister. But Maryâ€™s friends tell Monk that she suspected her father had been murdered because of his stubborn insistence that the Argyll Companyâ€™s current projectâ€“the construction of a splendid new sewer system for the metropolisâ€“was so badly flawed that it put the entire city in peril from flood and fire. Monk is now faced with the mysteries of the three deaths. Aided by his intrepid wife Hester, he starts looking for answers and is soon treading a slippery path that takes him from the luxurious drawing rooms where powerful men hatch their unscrupulous plots to a world beneath the city where poor folk fight starvation. In nightmarish tunnels, Monk and Hester find true friends, among them Scuff, a young mudlark; Sutton the ratcatcher; and Snoot, Suttonâ€™s clever terrier. For once, even Monkâ€™s old enemy, Superintendent Runcorn, is on his side. As rainfall strains the fragile manmade underground, Monk must connect the clues before death strikes again.With characters as vivid as Dickensâ€™s, gripping courtroom scenes, breathless horrors beneath the earth, and a plot that twists and turns toward a stunning denouement, Dark Assassin is absolutely one of Anne Perryâ€™s best.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26377'),
(13615, 'The Dark Design', 'Philip Jose Farmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Years have passed on Riverworld. Entire nations have risen, and savage wars have been fought--all since the dead of Earth found themselves resurrected in their magnificent new homeworld. Yet the truth about the Ethicals, the powerful engineers of this mysterious "afterlife," remains unknown. But a curious cross-section of humanity is determined to change that situation . . . at any cost. Intrepid explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton leads the most remarkable voyage of discovery he has ever undertaken. Hot on his heels are Samuel Clemens, King John of England, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Spurred by the promise of ultimate answers, they chart a course across the vast polar sea--and toward the awesome tower that looms above it. But getting there will be more than half the battle. For death on Riverworld has become chillingly final . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21510'),
(13616, 'Dark Dreamer: A Dark Vista Romance', 'Jennifer Fulton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Author Rowe Devlin never expected the solution to writerâ€™s block to be a beautiful psychic, her sexy twin, and a haunted house that is not only very real, but very deadly.\n <br />\n Best-selling horror author Rowe Devlin keeps writing flops and falling for straight women. Seeking inspiration and a fresh start, she abandons life in Manhattan for an old Victorian home in Maine. But Dark Harbor Cottage is a far cry from the tranquil writing environment she was hoping for. Rowe doesnâ€™t believe in ghosts, yet she finds herself sharing a home with one who scares her dogs and wants her out. As if thatâ€™s not distraction enough, she is living next door to irresistible identical twins, Phoebe and Cara Temple. Phoebe is psychic, Cara is a flirt, and both twins seem to be hitting on her.\n <br />\n When Rowe delves into the past to find out why her cottage is haunted, she uncovers a dark and disturbing mystery. Even more disquieting is the startling connection to her beautiful neighbors, one of whom has begun haunting her dreams.\n <br />\n Intrigue, passion and suspense combine in this taut paranormal thriller/romance, the first in Jennifer Fulton''s new Dark Vista series. Reprint\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4493'),
(13617, 'Dark Dreamer: A Dark Vista Romance', 'Jennifer Fulton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Author Rowe Devlin never expected the solution to writerâ€™s block to be a beautiful psychic, her sexy twin, and a haunted house that is not only very real, but very deadly.\n <br />\n Best-selling horror author Rowe Devlin keeps writing flops and falling for straight women. Seeking inspiration and a fresh start, she abandons life in Manhattan for an old Victorian home in Maine. But Dark Harbor Cottage is a far cry from the tranquil writing environment she was hoping for. Rowe doesnâ€™t believe in ghosts, yet she finds herself sharing a home with one who scares her dogs and wants her out. As if thatâ€™s not distraction enough, she is living next door to irresistible identical twins, Phoebe and Cara Temple. Phoebe is psychic, Cara is a flirt, and both twins seem to be hitting on her.\n <br />\n When Rowe delves into the past to find out why her cottage is haunted, she uncovers a dark and disturbing mystery. Even more disquieting is the startling connection to her beautiful neighbors, one of whom has begun haunting her dreams.\n <br />\n Intrigue, passion and suspense combine in this taut paranormal thriller/romance, the first in Jennifer Fulton''s new Dark Vista series. Reprint\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9916'),
(13618, 'Dark Force Rising', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  The dying Empire''s most cunning and ruthless warlordâ€”Grand Admiral Thrawnâ€”has taken command\n  <br />\n  of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New\n  <br />\n  Republic''s destruction. Meanwhile, Han Solo and Lando Calrissian race to find proof of treason\n  <br />\n  inside the highest Republic Councilâ€”only to discover instead a ghostly fleet of warships that\n  <br />\n  could bring doom to their friends and victory to their enemies.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Yet most dangerous of all is a new Dark Jedi, risen from the ashes of a shrouded past,\n  <br />\n  consumed by bitterness ... and scheming to corrupt Luke Skywalker to the Dark Side.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/597'),
(13619, 'The Dark Griffin', 'K. J. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Being chosen as a griffin''s companion has allowed Arren Cardockson to gain a place of status within the land of Cymria. But Arren can never escape the prejudice that comes with his Northerner slave origins. For chained within the Arena where rogue griffins battle to entertain the crowds, there lies another soul crying out to be freed-a kindred spirit that will allow Arren to fulfill his destiny and release the darkness in his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3891'),
(13620, 'The Dark Griffin', 'K. J. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Being chosen as a griffin''s companion has allowed Arren Cardockson to gain a place of status within the land of Cymria. But Arren can never escape the prejudice that comes with his Northerner slave origins. For chained within the Arena where rogue griffins battle to entertain the crowds, there lies another soul crying out to be freed-a kindred spirit that will allow Arren to fulfill his destiny and release the darkness in his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12985'),
(13621, 'The Dark Griffin', 'K. J. Taylor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Being chosen as a griffin''s companion has allowed Arren Cardockson to gain a place of status within the land of Cymria. But Arren can never escape the prejudice that comes with his Northerner slave origins. For chained within the Arena where rogue griffins battle to entertain the crowds, there lies another soul crying out to be freed-a kindred spirit that will allow Arren to fulfill his destiny and release the darkness in his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20562'),
(13622, 'The Dark Half', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A knockout thriller...brilliant, compelling...grips you by the throat. (Flint Journal)In 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his  pseudonymous alter ego, Richard  Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to  write The  Regulators.) At the beginning of The Dark Half (1989),  39-year-old writer Thad Beaumont announces in public that his own  pseudonym, George Stark, is dead.\n <br />\n Now, King didn''t want to jettison the Bachman novel, titled Machine  Dreams, that was he working on. So he incorporated it in The  Dark Half as the crime oeuvre of George Stark, whose recurring  hero/alter ego is an evil character named Alexis Machine.\n <br />\n Thad Beaumont''s pseudonym is not so docile as Stephen King''s, though,  and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories  kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of  George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about  Beaumont''s struggle to catch up with his doppelganger and kill him  dead.\n <br />\n This is not the first time that Stephen King has written a dark  allegory about the fiction writer''s situation. As the New York  Times writes, "Misery (1987) is a  parable in chiller form of the popular writer''s relation to his  audience, which holds him prisoner and dictates what he writes, on  pain of death. The Dark Half is a parable in chiller form of  the popular writer''s relation to his creative genius, the vampire  within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he  writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies ''the womblike dungeon'' of  his imagination." --Fiona Webster\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1142'),
(13623, 'The Dark Half', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A knockout thriller...brilliant, compelling...grips you by the throat. (Flint Journal)In 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to write The Regulators.) At the beginning of The Dark Half (1989), 39-year-old writer Thad Beaumont announces in public that his own pseudonym, George Stark, is dead. Now, King didn''t want to jettison the Bachman novel, titled Machine Dreams, that was he working on. So he incorporated it in The Dark Half as the crime oeuvre of George Stark, whose recurring hero/alter ego is an evil character named Alexis Machine. Thad Beaumont''s pseudonym is not so docile as Stephen King''s, though, and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about Beaumont''s struggle to catch up with his doppelganger and kill him dead. This is not the first time that Stephen King has written a dark allegory about the fiction writer''s situation. As the New York Times writes, "Misery (1987) is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer''s relation to his audience, which holds him prisoner and dictates what he writes, on pain of death. The Dark Half is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer''s relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies ''the womblike dungeon'' of his imagination." --Fiona Webster\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14429'),
(13624, 'The Dark Half', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bestselling author Thad Beaumont would like to say he has nothing to do with the evil that has committed a series of monstrous murders. But he cantbecause he created it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23885'),
(13625, 'The Dark is Rising (Dark 2)', 'Susan Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <blockquote>\n   <i>\n    "When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back,\n    <br />\n    Three from the circle, three from the track;\n    <br />\n    Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone;\n    <br />\n    Five will return, and one go alone."\n   </i>\n  </blockquote>\n  With these mysterious words, Will Stanton discovers on his 11th birthday that he is no mere boy. He is the Sign-Seeker, last of the immortal Old Ones, destined to battle the powers of evil that trouble the land. His task is monumental: he must find and guard the six great Signs of the Light, which, when joined, will create a force strong enough to match and perhaps overcome that of the Dark. Embarking on this endeavor is dangerous as well as deeply rewarding; Will must work within a continuum of time and space much broader than he ever imagined.\n  <p>\n   Susan Cooper, in her five-title\n   <i>\n    The Dark Is Rising\n   </i>\n   is a Newbery Honor Book and a Carnegie Medal Honor Book. (Ages 8 and older)\n   <i>\n    --Emilie Coulter\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Psychology Today "Susan Cooper is one of the few contemporary writers who has the vivid imagination, the narrative powers, and the moral vision that permit her to create the kind of sweeping conflict between good and evil that lies at the heart of all great fantasy. Tolkien had it. So did C.S. Lewis. And Cooper writes in the same tradition." --\n  <i>\n   Review\n  </i>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14768'),
(13626, 'The Dark is Rising (Dark 2)', 'Susan Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <blockquote>\n   <i>\n    "When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back,\n    <br />\n    Three from the circle, three from the track;\n    <br />\n    Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone;\n    <br />\n    Five will return, and one go alone."\n   </i>\n  </blockquote>\n  With these mysterious words, Will Stanton discovers on his 11th birthday that he is no mere boy. He is the Sign-Seeker, last of the immortal Old Ones, destined to battle the powers of evil that trouble the land. His task is monumental: he must find and guard the six great Signs of the Light, which, when joined, will create a force strong enough to match and perhaps overcome that of the Dark. Embarking on this endeavor is dangerous as well as deeply rewarding; Will must work within a continuum of time and space much broader than he ever imagined.\n  <p>\n   Susan Cooper, in her five-title\n   <i>\n    The Dark Is Rising\n   </i>\n   is a Newbery Honor Book and a Carnegie Medal Honor Book. (Ages 8 and older)\n   <i>\n    --Emilie Coulter\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Psychology Today "Susan Cooper is one of the few contemporary writers who has the vivid imagination, the narrative powers, and the moral vision that permit her to create the kind of sweeping conflict between good and evil that lies at the heart of all great fantasy. Tolkien had it. So did C.S. Lewis. And Cooper writes in the same tradition." --\n  <i>\n   Review\n  </i>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23995'),
(13627, 'The Dark Man', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22975'),
(13628, 'A Dark Matter', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this tour de force from bestseller Straub (_In the Night Room_), four high school friends in 1966 Madison, Wis.â€”Hootie Bly, Dilly Olson, Jason Boatman, and Lee Truaxâ€”fall under the spell of charismatic wandering guru Spencer Mallon. During an occult ceremony in which Mallon attempts to break through to a higher reality, something goes horribly awry leaving one participant dead. Decades later, Lee''s writer husband interviews the quartet to find out what happened. In Roshomon-like fashion, each relates a slightly different account of the trauma they experienced. Straub masterfully shows how the disappointments, downturns, and failed promise of the four friends'' lives may have stemmed from this youthful experience, and suggests, by extension, that the malignant evil they helped unleash into the world has tainted all hope ever since. Brilliant in its orchestration and provocative in its speculations, this novel ranks as one of the finest tales of modern horror.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Six book critics venture into a new novel by a best-selling horror writer. The writer is said to have magical abilities to blend horror conventions with literary fiction to keep the pages turning. He is even said to have touched Stephen King! Four of the critics come away convinced that a transcendent supernatural event has occurred, which may have something to do with the nature of evil. But two are horribly scarred by the event--unbearably bored, convinced they have just read a rejected script from Lost. Whose version of events is true? We may never know. All critics agree on is that the only possible way to describe such a plot structure is to reference Akira Kurosawa''s Rashomon--so readers may just have to investigate for themselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2136'),
(13629, 'A Dark Matter', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this tour de force from bestseller Straub (_In the Night Room_), four high school friends in 1966 Madison, Wis.â€”Hootie Bly, Dilly Olson, Jason Boatman, and Lee Truaxâ€”fall under the spell of charismatic wandering guru Spencer Mallon. During an occult ceremony in which Mallon attempts to break through to a higher reality, something goes horribly awry leaving one participant dead. Decades later, Lee''s writer husband interviews the quartet to find out what happened. In Roshomon-like fashion, each relates a slightly different account of the trauma they experienced. Straub masterfully shows how the disappointments, downturns, and failed promise of the four friends'' lives may have stemmed from this youthful experience, and suggests, by extension, that the malignant evil they helped unleash into the world has tainted all hope ever since. Brilliant in its orchestration and provocative in its speculations, this novel ranks as one of the finest tales of modern horror.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Six book critics venture into a new novel by a best-selling horror writer. The writer is said to have magical abilities to blend horror conventions with literary fiction to keep the pages turning. He is even said to have touched Stephen King! Four of the critics come away convinced that a transcendent supernatural event has occurred, which may have something to do with the nature of evil. But two are horribly scarred by the event--unbearably bored, convinced they have just read a rejected script from Lost. Whose version of events is true? We may never know. All critics agree on is that the only possible way to describe such a plot structure is to reference Akira Kurosawa''s Rashomon--so readers may just have to investigate for themselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12954'),
(13630, 'A Dark Matter', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this tour de force from bestseller Straub (_In the Night Room_), four high school friends in 1966 Madison, Wis.â€”Hootie Bly, Dilly Olson, Jason Boatman, and Lee Truaxâ€”fall under the spell of charismatic wandering guru Spencer Mallon. During an occult ceremony in which Mallon attempts to break through to a higher reality, something goes horribly awry leaving one participant dead. Decades later, Lee''s writer husband interviews the quartet to find out what happened. In Roshomon-like fashion, each relates a slightly different account of the trauma they experienced. Straub masterfully shows how the disappointments, downturns, and failed promise of the four friends'' lives may have stemmed from this youthful experience, and suggests, by extension, that the malignant evil they helped unleash into the world has tainted all hope ever since. Brilliant in its orchestration and provocative in its speculations, this novel ranks as one of the finest tales of modern horror.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Six book critics venture into a new novel by a best-selling horror writer. The writer is said to have magical abilities to blend horror conventions with literary fiction to keep the pages turning. He is even said to have touched Stephen King! Four of the critics come away convinced that a transcendent supernatural event has occurred, which may have something to do with the nature of evil. But two are horribly scarred by the event--unbearably bored, convinced they have just read a rejected script from Lost. Whose version of events is true? We may never know. All critics agree on is that the only possible way to describe such a plot structure is to reference Akira Kurosawa''s Rashomon--so readers may just have to investigate for themselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22633'),
(13631, 'Dark Mirror', 'Diane Duane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A gripping\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: The Next Generation\n  </em>\n  tale hearkening back to the original TV series episode, "Mirror, Mirror." That was the one in which Captain Kirk encountered his brutal alter ego in a parallel universe, a place where only the alternative Spock showed any humanity. Here, the alternative\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  draws Captain Picard''s vessel into its alternative space, bent on capturing it and staffing it with a look-alike crew--all to spearhead an invasion of the Federation. Deanna Troi, Geordi La Forge, and Captain Picard outwit the scheme by transporting aboard the other\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  and turning its technology against the would-be conquerors. Here''s where Duane''s novel turns clever, with Picard assuming his doppelgâ€žnger''s role and discovering--among other things--just how malicious and threatening a Betazed can be and how bitter the alternative Dr. Crusher can be in the role of the "captain''s woman." There''s also a particularly nasty alternative Riker and a noble alternative Worf. The true Picard maneuvers his ship back into Federation space, but the alien follows; there''s some manipulation of hyperstrings (with the help of a spacegoing dolphin) to send the bad\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  back where it belongs. Another capable entry in this series that always seems to be better than one would expect.\n  <em>\n   John Mort\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Star Trek: The Next Generation yarn from the fantasist (The Door into Sunset, p. 28) and veteran of numerous Star Trek hardcovers. Duane''s first stab at a Next Generation tale is based on an old Star Trek episode,\n  <code>\n  </code>\n  Mirror, Mirror,'''' in which Kirk, Scott, and Uhura were propelled into a parallel universe where the Federation was a ruthless empire; their personal counterparts, with whom they had exchanged places, turned out to be brutal barbarian warriors bent on conquest and loot. This time, the Enterprise--with Hwiii, a dolphin scientist, aboard--is switched into the same universe visited by Kirk, and finds itself confronted by a counterpart Enterprise, bristling with weapons, of superior speed and power. Now Captain Jean-Luc Picard must defeat his evil twin and prevent the invasion planned by the other, malign, Federation. Anyone who saw the original episode knows more or less what to expect. Given the large first print run, the publishers obviously expect demand to be brisk--but, workmanlike, unsurprising, and mediocre as it is, will it play in Peoria? (First printing of 200,000) --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5977'),
(13632, 'Dark Moon', 'David Gemmell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14730'),
(13633, 'Dark Moon', 'David Gemmell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17772'),
(13634, 'Dark Moon', 'David Gemmell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27296'),
(13635, 'Dark Mysteries of the Vatican', 'H. Paul Jeffers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What The Vatican Doesn''t Want You To Know:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The lies. The conspiracies. The cover-ups. The truth.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Deep behind the walls of the world''s holiest site is a dense network of lies, corruption, and conspiracies fueling the Vatican''s vast and unchecked influence on world events. From the Holy Orders that defied the commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill" to the scandals splashed across international headlines, the Vatican is no longer shrouded in mystery, legend, and secrecy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s all here:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The shocking and unsolved murder of the corrupt Vatican financier known as "God''s Banker"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Real-life exorcism--and shocking rumors of Satanism\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Vatican''s startling views on extraterrestrials and end-of-world prophesies\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Vatican''s hidden ties to Nazi Germany and the Mafia\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The bizarre rituals of the ultraconservative Opus Dei\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Vatican''s ruthless 500-year war with the Freemasons\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pope Pius XII''s anti-Semitic indifference to the plight of Europe''s Jews and the Holocaust\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And much more!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This utterly fascinating, unflinching account is the most definitive exposÃ© ever written about the most secretive institution in the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n H. Paul Jeffers is the author of The Bilderberg Conspiracy, Freemasons: Inside the World''s Oldest Secret Society and Freemasons in America: Inside the Secret Society, among fifty other books. He has appeared on C-SPAN, Fox News, and The History Channel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5256'),
(13636, 'Dark Mysteries of the Vatican', 'H. Paul Jeffers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What The Vatican Doesn''t Want You To Know:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The lies. The conspiracies. The cover-ups. The truth.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Deep behind the walls of the world''s holiest site is a dense network of lies, corruption, and conspiracies fueling the Vatican''s vast and unchecked influence on world events. From the Holy Orders that defied the commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill" to the scandals splashed across international headlines, the Vatican is no longer shrouded in mystery, legend, and secrecy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s all here:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The shocking and unsolved murder of the corrupt Vatican financier known as "God''s Banker"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Real-life exorcism--and shocking rumors of Satanism\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Vatican''s startling views on extraterrestrials and end-of-world prophesies\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Vatican''s hidden ties to Nazi Germany and the Mafia\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The bizarre rituals of the ultraconservative Opus Dei\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Vatican''s ruthless 500-year war with the Freemasons\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pope Pius XII''s anti-Semitic indifference to the plight of Europe''s Jews and the Holocaust\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And much more!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This utterly fascinating, unflinching account is the most definitive exposÃ© ever written about the most secretive institution in the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n H. Paul Jeffers is the author of The Bilderberg Conspiracy, Freemasons: Inside the World''s Oldest Secret Society and Freemasons in America: Inside the Secret Society, among fifty other books. He has appeared on C-SPAN, Fox News, and The History Channel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10553'),
(13637, 'Dark Mysteries of the Vatican', 'H. Paul Jeffers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What The Vatican Doesn''t Want You To Know:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The lies. The conspiracies. The cover-ups. The truth.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Deep behind the walls of the world''s holiest site is a dense network of lies, corruption, and conspiracies fueling the Vatican''s vast and unchecked influence on world events. From the Holy Orders that defied the commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill" to the scandals splashed across international headlines, the Vatican is no longer shrouded in mystery, legend, and secrecy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s all here:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The shocking and unsolved murder of the corrupt Vatican financier known as "God''s Banker"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Real-life exorcism--and shocking rumors of Satanism\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Vatican''s startling views on extraterrestrials and end-of-world prophesies\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Vatican''s hidden ties to Nazi Germany and the Mafia\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The bizarre rituals of the ultraconservative Opus Dei\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Vatican''s ruthless 500-year war with the Freemasons\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pope Pius XII''s anti-Semitic indifference to the plight of Europe''s Jews and the Holocaust\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And much more!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This utterly fascinating, unflinching account is the most definitive exposÃ© ever written about the most secretive institution in the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n H. Paul Jeffers is the author of The Bilderberg Conspiracy, Freemasons: Inside the World''s Oldest Secret Society and Freemasons in America: Inside the Secret Society, among fifty other books. He has appeared on C-SPAN, Fox News, and The History Channel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19426'),
(13638, 'Dark Mysteries of the Vatican', 'H. Paul Jeffers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: What The Vatican Doesn''t Want You To Know: The lies. The conspiracies. The cover-ups. The truth. Deep behind the walls of the world''s holiest site is a dense network of lies, corruption, and conspiracies fueling the Vatican''s vast and unchecked influence on world events. From the Holy Orders that defied the commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill" to the scandals splashed across international headlines, the Vatican is no longer shrouded in mystery, legend, and secrecy. It''s all here: The shocking and unsolved murder of the corrupt Vatican financier known as "God''s Banker" Real-life exorcism--and shocking rumors of Satanism The Vatican''s startling views on extraterrestrials and end-of-world prophesies The Vatican''s hidden ties to Nazi Germany and the Mafia The bizarre rituals of the ultraconservative Opus Dei The Vatican''s ruthless 500-year war with the Freemasons Pope Pius XII''s anti-Semitic indifference to the plight of Europe''s Jews and the Holocaust And much more! This utterly fascinating, unflinching account is the most definitive exposÃ© ever written about the most secretive institution in the world. H. Paul Jeffers is the author of The Bilderberg Conspiracy, Freemasons: Inside the World''s Oldest Secret Society and Freemasons in America: Inside the Secret Society, among fifty other books. He has appeared on C-SPAN, Fox News, and The History Channel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28087'),
(13639, 'Dark of the Woods', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Blessed shalt though be in the city, and blessed shalt though be in the field.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Thou shalt be blessed above all . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Our holy empire of the Alliance of mankind has fulfilled our destiny. Remember the many heroic humans who have died in conquering the stars for you. Therefore, do not let misguided sympathy toward inferior and conquered animals deter you from your inherent title of divine rulers of the universe. Do not lose this birthright by succumbing to the "attractions" of any alien creature. Remember the penalties imposed by the Supremacy of Man party for this transgression.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Our blessings be with you as you follow in the paths of your brothers and sisters. We have faith in mankind and we have faith in you. But, however, should you falter from the paths of righteousness, we have many willing hands eager to show you the error of your ways . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6090'),
(13640, 'Dark Of The Woods', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Blessed shalt though be in the city, and blessed shalt though be in the field. Thou shalt be blessed above all . . . Our holy empire of the Alliance of mankind has fulfilled our destiny. Remember the many heroic humans who have died in conquering the stars for you. Therefore, do not let misguided sympathy toward inferior and conquered animals deter you from your inherent title of divine rulers of the universe. Do not lose this birthright by succumbing to the "attractions" of any alien creature. Remember the penalties imposed by the Supremacy of Man party for this transgression. Our blessings be with you as you follow in the paths of your brothers and sisters. We have faith in mankind and we have faith in you. But, however, should you falter from the paths of righteousness, we have many willing hands eager to show you the error of your ways . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17840'),
(13641, 'Dark Passions 01: Book One', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Klingons and Cardassians rule the Alpha Quadrant in an uneasy alliance that hides a viper''s nest of backstabbing plots and counterplots. Annika Hansen has become a trained operative for the Obsidian Order. Her latest target: Kira Nerys, the duplicitous Intendant of Bajor, whose ruthless ambition has brought her to a position of power second only to the Regent himself, the fierce Klingon warrior known as Worf. To get close to her prey, Annika must worm her way into the Intendant''s notoriously fickle affections. Easy enough to accomplish, perhaps, but it remains to be seen who is truly manipulating whom....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/892'),
(13642, 'Dark Passions 01: Book One', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Klingons and Cardassians rule the Alpha Quadrant in an uneasy alliance that hides a viper''s nest of backstabbing plots and counterplots. Annika Hansen has become a trained operative for the Obsidian Order. Her latest target: Kira Nerys, the duplicitous Intendant of Bajor, whose ruthless ambition has brought her to a position of power second only to the Regent himself, the fierce Klingon warrior known as Worf. To get close to her prey, Annika must worm her way into the Intendant''s notoriously fickle affections. Easy enough to accomplish, perhaps, but it remains to be seen who is truly manipulating whom....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23942'),
(13643, 'Dark Passions 02: Book Two', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Intendant Kira, now Overseer for the entire Klingon-Cardassian Alliance, has entered into a dangerous liaison with Annika Hansen, unaware that Hansen is actually an agent of the Obsidian Order who has orders to kill Kira when the time is right. But her treacherous alliance is not the only danger the Intendant faces. Both Deanna Troi, the power-hungry consort of Regent Worf, and B''Elanna Torres, the half-human Intendant of the Sol System, are threatened by Kira''s unquenchable ambition, and would be glad to see her deposed -- or worse. As four powerful women scheme for control of the Alliance, who will survive? And who will claim the ultimate prize?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/895'),
(13644, 'Dark Passions 02: Book Two', 'Susan Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Intendant Kira, now Overseer for the entire Klingon-Cardassian Alliance, has entered into a dangerous liaison with Annika Hansen, unaware that Hansen is actually an agent of the Obsidian Order who has orders to kill Kira when the time is right. But her treacherous alliance is not the only danger the Intendant faces. Both Deanna Troi, the power-hungry consort of Regent Worf, and B''Elanna Torres, the half-human Intendant of the Sol System, are threatened by Kira''s unquenchable ambition, and would be glad to see her deposed -- or worse. As four powerful women scheme for control of the Alliance, who will survive? And who will claim the ultimate prize?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23941'),
(13645, 'The Dark Path', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The second Doctor and his companions come face to face with the Master on the faded neuron star Darkheart. The last enclave of the Earth Empire is located on one of the dead planets surrounding the star and the Doctor must discover why the Empire came to this desolate sector.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6255'),
(13646, 'The Dark Path', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The second Doctor and his companions come face to face with the Master on the faded neuron star Darkheart. The last enclave of the Earth Empire is located on one of the dead planets surrounding the star and the Doctor must discover why the Empire came to this desolate sector.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17665'),
(13647, 'Dark Piper', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15851'),
(13648, 'Dark Pitt 3 - Iceberg', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25921'),
(13649, 'Dark Places', 'Gillian Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived--and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who''ve long forgotten her. The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes. When they locate Libby and pump her for details--proof they hope may free Ben--Libby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. For a fee, she''ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club . . . and maybe she''ll admit her testimony wasn''t so solid after all. As Libby''s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985. The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of Libby''s doomed family members--including Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5314'),
(13650, 'Dark Places', 'Gillian Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15271');
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(13651, 'Dark Places', 'Gillian Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived--and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who''ve long forgotten her. The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes. When they locate Libby and pump her for details--proof they hope may free Ben--Libby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. For a fee, she''ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club . . . and maybe she''ll admit her testimony wasn''t so solid after all. As Libby''s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985. The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of Libby''s doomed family members--including Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19344'),
(13652, 'Dark Places', 'Gillian Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived--and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who''ve long forgotten her. The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes. When they locate Libby and pump her for details--proof they hope may free Ben--Libby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. For a fee, she''ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club . . . and maybe she''ll admit her testimony wasn''t so solid after all. As Libby''s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985. The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of Libby''s doomed family members--including Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27950'),
(13653, 'Dark Pursuit', 'Brandilyn Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When your worst fear comes true.Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will  believe her? Everyone knows she''s a little crazy. Kaycee''s popular syndicated  newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in  her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her experiences. Worse  yet, she has no proof of the threats. Pictures of a dead man mysteriously appear  in her home-then vanish before police arrive. Multisensory images flood Kaycee''s  mind. Where is all this coming from? Maybe she is going over the edge. High  action and psychological suspense collide in this story of terror, twists, and  desperate faith. The startling questions surrounding Kaycee pile high. Her  descent to answers may prove more than she can survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7233'),
(13654, 'Dark Pursuit', 'Brandilyn Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When your worst fear comes true.Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will  believe her? Everyone knows she''s a little crazy. Kaycee''s popular syndicated  newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in  her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her experiences. Worse  yet, she has no proof of the threats. Pictures of a dead man mysteriously appear  in her home-then vanish before police arrive. Multisensory images flood Kaycee''s  mind. Where is all this coming from? Maybe she is going over the edge. High  action and psychological suspense collide in this story of terror, twists, and  desperate faith. The startling questions surrounding Kaycee pile high. Her  descent to answers may prove more than she can survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8971'),
(13655, 'Dark Pursuit', 'Brandilyn Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When your worst fear comes true.Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? Everyone knows she''s a little crazy. Kaycee''s popular syndicated newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her experiences. Worse yet, she has no proof of the threats. Pictures of a dead man mysteriously appear in her home-then vanish before police arrive. Multisensory images flood Kaycee''s mind. Where is all this coming from? Maybe she is going over the edge. High action and psychological suspense collide in this story of terror, twists, and desperate faith. The startling questions surrounding Kaycee pile high. Her descent to answers may prove more than she can survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16751'),
(13656, 'Dark Pursuit', 'Brandilyn Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When your worst fear comes true.Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? Everyone knows she''s a little crazy. Kaycee''s popular syndicated newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her experiences. Worse yet, she has no proof of the threats. Pictures of a dead man mysteriously appear in her home-then vanish before police arrive. Multisensory images flood Kaycee''s mind. Where is all this coming from? Maybe she is going over the edge. High action and psychological suspense collide in this story of terror, twists, and desperate faith. The startling questions surrounding Kaycee pile high. Her descent to answers may prove more than she can survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26662'),
(13657, 'Dark Rivers of the Heart', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Do you dare step through the red door?\n <br />\n Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn''t know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can''t fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one--including the U.S. government--and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he''d buried years ago--inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don''t first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6093'),
(13658, 'Dark Rivers of the Heart', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Do you dare step through the red door?\n <br />\n Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn''t know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can''t fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one--including the U.S. government--and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he''d buried years ago--inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don''t first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10827'),
(13659, 'Dark Rivers of the Heart', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17839'),
(13660, 'The Dark Side of the Sun', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages.As heir to a huge fortune he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom''s home world even death was not always fatal.Why then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/698'),
(13661, 'The Dark Side of the Sun', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages.As heir to a huge fortune he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom''s home world even death was not always fatal.Why then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12073'),
(13662, 'The dark side of the sun', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages.As heir to a huge fortune he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom''s home world even death was not always fatal.Why then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24260'),
(13663, 'Dark Star: A Novel', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Furst ( Night Soldiers ) will make his mark with this intelligent, provocative and gripping novel. In 1933, Andre Szara, a highly regarded Polish-born foreign correspondent for Pravda , is asked to perform small espionage tasks by the NKVD. These assignments escalate, until Szara finds himself responsible for obtaining vital production figures from a German-Jewish industrialist who fabricates steel wire essential to airplanes. Inevitably, Szara''s integrity as a journalist is also compromised. During this period of Stalinist purges, clearly and chillingly described by Furst, only unpredictability is certain. Szara senses the precariousness of his position, which is compounded by an urgent appeal from a wealthy Jewish Frenchman for Szara to honor his own Jewish heritage by trading his steel wire information to the British in exchange for desperately needed immigration certificates to mandated Palestine. Furst depicts the historical, geographic and political context in lucid and highly readable prose; his observation that Russia annexed Lithuania and Estonia while the world''s attention was focused on France''s struggle with Germany has an eerie timeliness. As darkness descends over Europe, Szara clings to life while simultaneously attempting to make some meaning of it. His story is not a pretty one; but it is beautifully and compellingly told.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is an intriguing combination of spy story and historical novel. It is about a Pravda journalist forced to become a Soviet intelligence agent in the years immediately before World War II. It is also about a Europe being driven into war, not simply by supposedly irresistible social forces but by the genuinely evil men who manipulate and direct events. Seen in this way, Stalin is as responsible for the coming of war as Hitler, and Stalin''s Russian purges signal the future deaths of millions in Central Europe. Agents in this novel are not just spies but metaphors for the actors, large and small, on the stage of history. Entertaining, exciting, and thought-provoking reading.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Charles Mi chaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7825'),
(13664, 'Dark star: a novel', 'Alan Furst', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Furst ( Night Soldiers ) will make his mark with this intelligent, provocative and gripping novel. In 1933, Andre Szara, a highly regarded Polish-born foreign correspondent for Pravda , is asked to perform small espionage tasks by the NKVD. These assignments escalate, until Szara finds himself responsible for obtaining vital production figures from a German-Jewish industrialist who fabricates steel wire essential to airplanes. Inevitably, Szara''s integrity as a journalist is also compromised. During this period of Stalinist purges, clearly and chillingly described by Furst, only unpredictability is certain. Szara senses the precariousness of his position, which is compounded by an urgent appeal from a wealthy Jewish Frenchman for Szara to honor his own Jewish heritage by trading his steel wire information to the British in exchange for desperately needed immigration certificates to mandated Palestine. Furst depicts the historical, geographic and political context in lucid and highly readable prose; his observation that Russia annexed Lithuania and Estonia while the world''s attention was focused on France''s struggle with Germany has an eerie timeliness. As darkness descends over Europe, Szara clings to life while simultaneously attempting to make some meaning of it. His story is not a pretty one; but it is beautifully and compellingly told.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is an intriguing combination of spy story and historical novel. It is about a Pravda journalist forced to become a Soviet intelligence agent in the years immediately before World War II. It is also about a Europe being driven into war, not simply by supposedly irresistible social forces but by the genuinely evil men who manipulate and direct events. Seen in this way, Stalin is as responsible for the coming of war as Hitler, and Stalin''s Russian purges signal the future deaths of millions in Central Europe. Agents in this novel are not just spies but metaphors for the actors, large and small, on the stage of history. Entertaining, exciting, and thought-provoking reading.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Charles Mi chaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16032'),
(13665, 'Dark Swan Bundle', 'Richelle Mead', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Iron Crowned, Storm Born, &amp; Thorn Queen\n </p>\n <p>\n  Iron Crowned\n </p>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   New York Times\n  </i>\n  bestselling author Richelle Mead takes readers back to the Otherworld, an embattled realm mystically entwined with our worldâ€”and ruled by one woman''s dangerous choice...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham is the best at banishing entities trespassing in the mortal realm. But as the Thorn Land''s queen, she''s fast running out of ways to end the brutal war devastating her kingdom. Her only hope: the Iron Crown, a legendary object even the most powerful gentry fear...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Who Eugenie can trust is the hardest part. Fairy king Dorian has his own agenda for aiding her search. And Kiyo, her shape-shifter ex-boyfriend, has every reason to betray her along the way. To control the Crown''s ever-consuming powers, Eugenie will have to confront an unimaginable temptationâ€”one that will put her soul and the fate of two worlds in mortal peril...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11027'),
(13666, 'The Dark Symphony', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mutants from the atomic bomb ridden Earth meet Mankind from the stars who escaped just before the destruction. The mutants won''t give up and let space-man rule Earth once again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6069'),
(13667, 'The Dark Symphony', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mutants from the atomic bomb ridden Earth meet Mankind from the stars who escaped just before the destruction. The mutants won''t give up and let space-man rule Earth once again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17917'),
(13668, 'Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919', 'Stephen Puleo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this volume, Puleo, a contributor to American History magazine, sets out to determine whether the collapse of a molasses tank that sent a tidal wave of 2.3 million gallons of the sticky liquid through Boston''s North End and killed 21 people was the work of Italian anarchists or due to negligence by the tank''s owner, United States Industrial Alcohol. Getting into the minds of the major players in the disaster-USIA suits, victims, witnesses, North End residents, politicians-he re-creates not only the scene but also the social, political and economic environments of the time that made the disaster more than just an industrial accident. While the collapse''s aftermath is tragic, the story itself is not exactly gripping. More interesting are the tidbits of Boston''s and America''s history, such as the importance of molasses to all U.S. war efforts up to and including WWI, which Puleo uses to put the tank collapse in the context of a very complex time in U.S. history. The most striking aspect of this tale is the timeliness of the topics it touches on. Describing Americans being persecuted because of their ethnicity, a sagging economy boosted by war, and terrorism on U.S. soil that results in anti-immigration laws and deportations, Puleo could just as easily be writing about current events as about events in 1919. Overall, this is another piece in the jigsaw puzzle that is Boston''s long and rich history. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In January, 1919, a fifty-foot tank filled with molasses exploded, sending waves of viscous goo through waterfront Boston and killing twenty-one people. Were Italian anarchists to blame or was it negligence by the tank''s owner, the United States Industrial Alcohol company? Such matters form the crux of Puleo''s account, which is narrated with gusto (and sometimes too much gusto: one victim has molasses "clinging to his private parts, like an army of insects that just keep coming"). Molasses was a vital commodity at the time, used in rum manufacture (the tank was full to the brim to cash in on pre-Prohibition demand), and it had been important in the production of First World War munitions. Puleo overreaches in claiming the story of the flood as a "microcosm of America"â€”an almost obligatory conclusion in this sort of historyâ€”but his enthusiasm for a little-known catastrophe is infectious.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1052'),
(13669, 'Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919', 'Stephen Puleo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this volume, Puleo, a contributor to American History magazine, sets out to determine whether the collapse of a molasses tank that sent a tidal wave of 2.3 million gallons of the sticky liquid through Boston''s North End and killed 21 people was the work of Italian anarchists or due to negligence by the tank''s owner, United States Industrial Alcohol. Getting into the minds of the major players in the disaster-USIA suits, victims, witnesses, North End residents, politicians-he re-creates not only the scene but also the social, political and economic environments of the time that made the disaster more than just an industrial accident. While the collapse''s aftermath is tragic, the story itself is not exactly gripping. More interesting are the tidbits of Boston''s and America''s history, such as the importance of molasses to all U.S. war efforts up to and including WWI, which Puleo uses to put the tank collapse in the context of a very complex time in U.S. history. The most striking aspect of this tale is the timeliness of the topics it touches on. Describing Americans being persecuted because of their ethnicity, a sagging economy boosted by war, and terrorism on U.S. soil that results in anti-immigration laws and deportations, Puleo could just as easily be writing about current events as about events in 1919. Overall, this is another piece in the jigsaw puzzle that is Boston''s long and rich history. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In January, 1919, a fifty-foot tank filled with molasses exploded, sending waves of viscous goo through waterfront Boston and killing twenty-one people. Were Italian anarchists to blame or was it negligence by the tank''s owner, the United States Industrial Alcohol company? Such matters form the crux of Puleo''s account, which is narrated with gusto (and sometimes too much gusto: one victim has molasses "clinging to his private parts, like an army of insects that just keep coming"). Molasses was a vital commodity at the time, used in rum manufacture (the tank was full to the brim to cash in on pre-Prohibition demand), and it had been important in the production of First World War munitions. Puleo overreaches in claiming the story of the flood as a "microcosm of America"â€”an almost obligatory conclusion in this sort of historyâ€”but his enthusiasm for a little-known catastrophe is infectious.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12031'),
(13670, 'Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919', 'Stephen Puleo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this volume, Puleo, a contributor to American History magazine, sets out to determine whether the collapse of a molasses tank that sent a tidal wave of 2.3 million gallons of the sticky liquid through Boston''s North End and killed 21 people was the work of Italian anarchists or due to negligence by the tank''s owner, United States Industrial Alcohol. Getting into the minds of the major players in the disaster-USIA suits, victims, witnesses, North End residents, politicians-he re-creates not only the scene but also the social, political and economic environments of the time that made the disaster more than just an industrial accident. While the collapse''s aftermath is tragic, the story itself is not exactly gripping. More interesting are the tidbits of Boston''s and America''s history, such as the importance of molasses to all U.S. war efforts up to and including WWI, which Puleo uses to put the tank collapse in the context of a very complex time in U.S. history. The most striking aspect of this tale is the timeliness of the topics it touches on. Describing Americans being persecuted because of their ethnicity, a sagging economy boosted by war, and terrorism on U.S. soil that results in anti-immigration laws and deportations, Puleo could just as easily be writing about current events as about events in 1919. Overall, this is another piece in the jigsaw puzzle that is Boston''s long and rich history. Photos.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In January, 1919, a fifty-foot tank filled with molasses exploded, sending waves of viscous goo through waterfront Boston and killing twenty-one people. Were Italian anarchists to blame or was it negligence by the tank''s owner, the United States Industrial Alcohol company? Such matters form the crux of Puleo''s account, which is narrated with gusto (and sometimes too much gusto: one victim has molasses "clinging to his private parts, like an army of insects that just keep coming"). Molasses was a vital commodity at the time, used in rum manufacture (the tank was full to the brim to cash in on pre-Prohibition demand), and it had been important in the production of First World War munitions. Puleo overreaches in claiming the story of the flood as a "microcosm of America"â€”an almost obligatory conclusion in this sort of historyâ€”but his enthusiasm for a little-known catastrophe is infectious.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2005\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23840'),
(13671, 'The Dark Tower 00 - The Little Sisters of Eluria', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22980'),
(13672, 'The Dark Tower 05 - Prologue', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23021'),
(13673, 'The Dark Tower', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas, here is the conclusion readers have long awaited -- breath-takingly imaginative, boldly visionary, and wholly entertaining.Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland, Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own endings and beginnings . . . and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1144'),
(13674, 'The Dark Tower', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas, here is the conclusion readers have long awaited -- breath-takingly imaginative, boldly visionary, and wholly entertaining.Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland, Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own endings and beginnings . . . and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10811'),
(13675, 'The Dark Tower', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas, here is the conclusion readers have long awaited -- breath-takingly imaginative, boldly visionary, and wholly entertaining.Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland, Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own endings and beginnings . . . and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14539'),
(13676, 'The Dark Tower', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas, here is the conclusion readers have long awaited -- breath-takingly imaginative, boldly visionary, and wholly entertaining.Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland, Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own endings and beginnings . . . and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23883'),
(13677, 'Dark Universe', 'Daniel F. Galouye', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25906'),
(13678, 'Dark Water', 'Laura McNeal', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 8 Upâ€“The catastrophic wildfires that ravaged Southern California in 2007 serve as the backdrop for this compelling story of a forbidden romance with tragic consequences. In the inland farming community of Fallbrook, 15-year-old Pearl tells her story through a leisurely voice. She deals with her parents'' divorce; her cousin''s anger at his father''s suspected adultery; and, most significantly, her undeniable attraction to the alluring undocumented Mexican migrant worker Amiel, whose damaged vocal chords limit his speech but not his communication. Disaster is referred to throughout the narrative, filling readers with a sense of foreboding as Pearl''s persistence overcomes Amiel''s trepidation and the two draw together in an intense secret affair. All of this leads to a heart-pounding final act when the wildfire breaks out and Pearl must choose between family and romance, safety and uncertainty. The ramifications of the ill-fated decisions made by both Pearl and Amiel will surely spark strong discussion among readers. Both the plot and setting are grounded in rich, realistic detail; the author''s love for the town of Fallbrook shines vividly through lyrical descriptions of avocado groves and orange blossoms. While Amiel remains a somewhat mysterious figure, Pearl''s relationships with her family and friends are fully realized through her nostalgic recollections of simpler times. Drawn in by the appeal of clandestine love and looming disaster, teens will also be rewarded with much thought-provoking substance in this novel''s complex characters and hauntingly ambiguous ending._Allison Tran, Mission Viejo Library, CA_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This debut solo effort after several collaborations with husband Tom McNeal (_The Decoding of Lana Morris_, 2007, etc.) stands out in the crowded coming-of-age field. The affecting narrative springs believably from the first-person thoughts of Pearl DeWitt as she recalls her 15th summer, when, entranced by a nearly mute, illegal Mexican migrant worker, the beautiful and gifted teenage Amiel, Pearl makes choices that lead to tragedy. Evocative language electrifies the scenes between the pair, as they develop a relationship both complicated and deepened by their limited verbal communication. Her warnings to readers of impending disaster amplify rather than diminish the impact of the misguided, wrenching decisions she makes when a raging wildfire sweeps through their rural California community. Besides her poignant relationship with Amiel, Pearl navigates her fatherâ€™s recent abandonment of her and her mother and her complicated relationship with her cousin Robby as he blunderingly deals with his fatherâ€™s apparent infidelity. Notable for well-drawn characters, an engaging plot and, especially, hauntingly beautiful language, this is an outstanding book."_\n <br />\n -_\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  , starred review\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3453'),
(13679, 'Dark Water', 'Laura McNeal', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 8 Upâ€“The catastrophic wildfires that ravaged Southern California in 2007 serve as the backdrop for this compelling story of a forbidden romance with tragic consequences. In the inland farming community of Fallbrook, 15-year-old Pearl tells her story through a leisurely voice. She deals with her parents'' divorce; her cousin''s anger at his father''s suspected adultery; and, most significantly, her undeniable attraction to the alluring undocumented Mexican migrant worker Amiel, whose damaged vocal chords limit his speech but not his communication. Disaster is referred to throughout the narrative, filling readers with a sense of foreboding as Pearl''s persistence overcomes Amiel''s trepidation and the two draw together in an intense secret affair. All of this leads to a heart-pounding final act when the wildfire breaks out and Pearl must choose between family and romance, safety and uncertainty. The ramifications of the ill-fated decisions made by both Pearl and Amiel will surely spark strong discussion among readers. Both the plot and setting are grounded in rich, realistic detail; the author''s love for the town of Fallbrook shines vividly through lyrical descriptions of avocado groves and orange blossoms. While Amiel remains a somewhat mysterious figure, Pearl''s relationships with her family and friends are fully realized through her nostalgic recollections of simpler times. Drawn in by the appeal of clandestine love and looming disaster, teens will also be rewarded with much thought-provoking substance in this novel''s complex characters and hauntingly ambiguous ending._Allison Tran, Mission Viejo Library, CA_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This debut solo effort after several collaborations with husband Tom McNeal (_The Decoding of Lana Morris_, 2007, etc.) stands out in the crowded coming-of-age field. The affecting narrative springs believably from the first-person thoughts of Pearl DeWitt as she recalls her 15th summer, when, entranced by a nearly mute, illegal Mexican migrant worker, the beautiful and gifted teenage Amiel, Pearl makes choices that lead to tragedy. Evocative language electrifies the scenes between the pair, as they develop a relationship both complicated and deepened by their limited verbal communication. Her warnings to readers of impending disaster amplify rather than diminish the impact of the misguided, wrenching decisions she makes when a raging wildfire sweeps through their rural California community. Besides her poignant relationship with Amiel, Pearl navigates her fatherâ€™s recent abandonment of her and her mother and her complicated relationship with her cousin Robby as he blunderingly deals with his fatherâ€™s apparent infidelity. Notable for well-drawn characters, an engaging plot and, especially, hauntingly beautiful language, this is an outstanding book."_\n <br />\n -_\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  , starred review\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11444'),
(13680, 'Dark Water', 'Laura McNeal', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 8 Upâ€“The catastrophic wildfires that ravaged Southern California in 2007 serve as the backdrop for this compelling story of a forbidden romance with tragic consequences. In the inland farming community of Fallbrook, 15-year-old Pearl tells her story through a leisurely voice. She deals with her parents'' divorce; her cousin''s anger at his father''s suspected adultery; and, most significantly, her undeniable attraction to the alluring undocumented Mexican migrant worker Amiel, whose damaged vocal chords limit his speech but not his communication. Disaster is referred to throughout the narrative, filling readers with a sense of foreboding as Pearl''s persistence overcomes Amiel''s trepidation and the two draw together in an intense secret affair. All of this leads to a heart-pounding final act when the wildfire breaks out and Pearl must choose between family and romance, safety and uncertainty. The ramifications of the ill-fated decisions made by both Pearl and Amiel will surely spark strong discussion among readers. Both the plot and setting are grounded in rich, realistic detail; the author''s love for the town of Fallbrook shines vividly through lyrical descriptions of avocado groves and orange blossoms. While Amiel remains a somewhat mysterious figure, Pearl''s relationships with her family and friends are fully realized through her nostalgic recollections of simpler times. Drawn in by the appeal of clandestine love and looming disaster, teens will also be rewarded with much thought-provoking substance in this novel''s complex characters and hauntingly ambiguous ending._Allison Tran, Mission Viejo Library, CA_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This debut solo effort after several collaborations with husband Tom McNeal (_The Decoding of Lana Morris_, 2007, etc.) stands out in the crowded coming-of-age field. The affecting narrative springs believably from the first-person thoughts of Pearl DeWitt as she recalls her 15th summer, when, entranced by a nearly mute, illegal Mexican migrant worker, the beautiful and gifted teenage Amiel, Pearl makes choices that lead to tragedy. Evocative language electrifies the scenes between the pair, as they develop a relationship both complicated and deepened by their limited verbal communication. Her warnings to readers of impending disaster amplify rather than diminish the impact of the misguided, wrenching decisions she makes when a raging wildfire sweeps through their rural California community. Besides her poignant relationship with Amiel, Pearl navigates her fatherâ€™s recent abandonment of her and her mother and her complicated relationship with her cousin Robby as he blunderingly deals with his fatherâ€™s apparent infidelity. Notable for well-drawn characters, an engaging plot and, especially, hauntingly beautiful language, this is an outstanding book."_\n <br />\n -_\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </em>\n  , starred review\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20937'),
(13681, 'Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces', 'Robert Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This dramatic, beautifully written account of the flood that ravaged Florence, Italy, in 1966 weaves heartbreaking tales of the disaster and stories of the heroic global efforts to save the city''s treasures against the historic background of Florence''s glorious art. On November 4, 1966, Florence, one of the world''s most historic cities and the repository of perhaps its greatest art, was struck by a monumental calamity. A low-pressure system had been stalled over Italy for six weeks and on the previous day it had begun to rain again. Nineteen inches fell in twenty-four hours, more than half of the annual total. By two o''clock in the morning twenty-thousand cubic feet of water per second was moving towards Florence. Soon manhole covers in Santa Croce were exploding into the air as jets of water began shooting out of the now overwhelmed sewer system. Cellars, vaults, and strong-rooms were filling with water. Night watchmen on the Ponte Vecchio alerted the bridge''s jewelers and goldsmiths to come quickly to rescue their wares. By then the water was moving at forty miles per hour at a height of twenty-four feet. At 7:26 a.m. all of Florence''s electric civic clocks came to a stop. The Piazza Santa Croce was under twenty-two feet of water. Beneath the surface, twelve feet of mud, sewage, debris, and oil sludge were starting to ooze and settle into the cellars and crypts and room after room above them. Six-hundred-thousand tons of it would smother, clot, and encrust the city. Dark Water brings the flood and its aftermath to life through the voices of witnesses past and present. Two young American artists wade heedlessly through the inundated city carrying their baby in order to witness its devastated beauty: the Ponte Vecchio buried in debris and Ghiberti''s panels from the doors of the Florence Baptistery, lying heaped in yard-deep mud; the swamped Uffizi Gallery; and, in the city libraries, one billion pages of Renaissance and antique books, soaked in mire. A Life magazine photographer, stowing away on an army helicopter, arrives to capture a drama that, he felt, "could only be told by Dante" amid the flooded tombs of Machiavelli and Michelangelo in Giotto and Vasari''s Santa Croce. A British student, one of thousands of "mud angels" who rushed to Florence to save its art, spends a month scraping mud and mold from Cimabue''s magnificent and neglected Crocifisso as intrigues and infighting among international art experts and connoisseurs swirl around him. And during the fortieth anniversary commemorations of 2006 the author asks himself why art matters so very much to us, and how beauty seems to somehow save the world even in the face of overwhelming disaster.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1696'),
(13682, 'Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces', 'Robert Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This dramatic, beautifully written account of the flood that ravaged Florence, Italy, in 1966 weaves heartbreaking tales of the disaster and stories of the heroic global efforts to save the city''s treasures against the historic background of Florence''s glorious art. On November 4, 1966, Florence, one of the world''s most historic cities and the repository of perhaps its greatest art, was struck by a monumental calamity. A low-pressure system had been stalled over Italy for six weeks and on the previous day it had begun to rain again. Nineteen inches fell in twenty-four hours, more than half of the annual total. By two o''clock in the morning twenty-thousand cubic feet of water per second was moving towards Florence. Soon manhole covers in Santa Croce were exploding into the air as jets of water began shooting out of the now overwhelmed sewer system. Cellars, vaults, and strong-rooms were filling with water. Night watchmen on the Ponte Vecchio alerted the bridge''s jewelers and goldsmiths to come quickly to rescue their wares. By then the water was moving at forty miles per hour at a height of twenty-four feet. At 7:26 a.m. all of Florence''s electric civic clocks came to a stop. The Piazza Santa Croce was under twenty-two feet of water. Beneath the surface, twelve feet of mud, sewage, debris, and oil sludge were starting to ooze and settle into the cellars and crypts and room after room above them. Six-hundred-thousand tons of it would smother, clot, and encrust the city. Dark Water brings the flood and its aftermath to life through the voices of witnesses past and present. Two young American artists wade heedlessly through the inundated city carrying their baby in order to witness its devastated beauty: the Ponte Vecchio buried in debris and Ghiberti''s panels from the doors of the Florence Baptistery, lying heaped in yard-deep mud; the swamped Uffizi Gallery; and, in the city libraries, one billion pages of Renaissance and antique books, soaked in mire. A Life magazine photographer, stowing away on an army helicopter, arrives to capture a drama that, he felt, "could only be told by Dante" amid the flooded tombs of Machiavelli and Michelangelo in Giotto and Vasari''s Santa Croce. A British student, one of thousands of "mud angels" who rushed to Florence to save its art, spends a month scraping mud and mold from Cimabue''s magnificent and neglected Crocifisso as intrigues and infighting among international art experts and connoisseurs swirl around him. And during the fortieth anniversary commemorations of 2006 the author asks himself why art matters so very much to us, and how beauty seems to somehow save the world even in the face of overwhelming disaster.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8961'),
(13683, 'Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces', 'Robert Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This dramatic, beautifully written account of the flood that ravaged Florence, Italy, in 1966 weaves heartbreaking tales of the disaster and stories of the heroic global efforts to save the city''s treasures against the historic background of Florence''s glorious art. On November 4, 1966, Florence, one of the world''s most historic cities and the repository of perhaps its greatest art, was struck by a monumental calamity. A low-pressure system had been stalled over Italy for six weeks and on the previous day it had begun to rain again. Nineteen inches fell in twenty-four hours, more than half of the annual total. By two o''clock in the morning twenty-thousand cubic feet of water per second was moving towards Florence. Soon manhole covers in Santa Croce were exploding into the air as jets of water began shooting out of the now overwhelmed sewer system. Cellars, vaults, and strong-rooms were filling with water. Night watchmen on the Ponte Vecchio alerted the bridge''s jewelers and goldsmiths to come quickly to rescue their wares. By then the water was moving at forty miles per hour at a height of twenty-four feet. At 7:26 a.m. all of Florence''s electric civic clocks came to a stop. The Piazza Santa Croce was under twenty-two feet of water. Beneath the surface, twelve feet of mud, sewage, debris, and oil sludge were starting to ooze and settle into the cellars and crypts and room after room above them. Six-hundred-thousand tons of it would smother, clot, and encrust the city. Dark Water brings the flood and its aftermath to life through the voices of witnesses past and present. Two young American artists wade heedlessly through the inundated city carrying their baby in order to witness its devastated beauty: the Ponte Vecchio buried in debris and Ghiberti''s panels from the doors of the Florence Baptistery, lying heaped in yard-deep mud; the swamped Uffizi Gallery; and, in the city libraries, one billion pages of Renaissance and antique books, soaked in mire. A Life magazine photographer, stowing away on an army helicopter, arrives to capture a drama that, he felt, "could only be told by Dante" amid the flooded tombs of Machiavelli and Michelangelo in Giotto and Vasari''s Santa Croce. A British student, one of thousands of "mud angels" who rushed to Florence to save its art, spends a month scraping mud and mold from Cimabue''s magnificent and neglected Crocifisso as intrigues and infighting among international art experts and connoisseurs swirl around him. And during the fortieth anniversary commemorations of 2006 the author asks himself why art matters so very much to us, and how beauty seems to somehow save the world even in the face of overwhelming disaster.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23198');
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(13684, 'The Dark Wind', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A beauty of a thriller . . . exotic and compelling reading." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Cleveland Plain Dealer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A book to read with pleasure." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Colorado Springs Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Background, characters, story--all first rate." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Amarillo Texas News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman is first-rate . . . fresh, original, and higly suspenseful." -- _--\n <em>\n  _The Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman''s best book in an already strong series." -- _--\n <em>\n  _The New Republic\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tony Hillerman continues to teach and delight." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Ashville, N.C. Citizen-Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The corpse had been "scalped," its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this caseâ€”a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee''s fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Navajo sorcery and white man''s greed. And it will sweep away everything unless Chee can somehow change the weather.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/421'),
(13685, 'The Dark Wind', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A beauty of a thriller . . . exotic and compelling reading." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Cleveland Plain Dealer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A book to read with pleasure." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Colorado Springs Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Background, characters, story--all first rate." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Amarillo Texas News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman is first-rate . . . fresh, original, and higly suspenseful." -- _--\n <em>\n  _The Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman''s best book in an already strong series." -- _--\n <em>\n  _The New Republic\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tony Hillerman continues to teach and delight." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Ashville, N.C. Citizen-Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The corpse had been "scalped," its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this caseâ€”a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee''s fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Navajo sorcery and white man''s greed. And it will sweep away everything unless Chee can somehow change the weather.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10313'),
(13686, 'The Dark Wind', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A beauty of a thriller . . . exotic and compelling reading." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Cleveland Plain Dealer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A book to read with pleasure." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Colorado Springs Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Background, characters, story--all first rate." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Amarillo Texas News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman is first-rate . . . fresh, original, and higly suspenseful." -- _--\n <em>\n  _The Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Hillerman''s best book in an already strong series." -- _--\n <em>\n  _The New Republic\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Tony Hillerman continues to teach and delight." -- _--\n <em>\n  _Ashville, N.C. Citizen-Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The corpse had been "scalped," its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this caseâ€”a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee''s fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Navajo sorcery and white man''s greed. And it will sweep away everything unless Chee can somehow change the weather.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24423'),
(13687, 'Dark Winter', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When maverick agent Nick Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a shadowy biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Osama Bin Laden''s network of terror. But there are complications not least the attractive woman who he is working alongside. Target neutralized, Stone returns to the USA and a maelstrom of personal problems. Kelly, the fourteen-year-old orphan to whom he is joint guardian, cannot escape the ghosts of her traumatic past; she has a prescription drug habit that''s spiralling out of control, and Stone knows he is the only one who can help her. He takes her to recuperate in England, but the terrible consequences of what happened in Penang are never far behind. Before very long, the conspiracy he has uncovered unravels to reveal a doomsday threat against the populations of New York, London and Berlin. And Stone finds himself facing the ultimate trade-off: the life of someone he loves, against those of millions he doesn''t even know...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7645'),
(13688, 'Dark Winter', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When maverick agent Nick Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a shadowy biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Osama Bin Laden''s network of terror. But there are complications not least the attractive woman who he is working alongside. Target neutralized, Stone returns to the USA and a maelstrom of personal problems. Kelly, the fourteen-year-old orphan to whom he is joint guardian, cannot escape the ghosts of her traumatic past; she has a prescription drug habit that''s spiralling out of control, and Stone knows he is the only one who can help her. He takes her to recuperate in England, but the terrible consequences of what happened in Penang are never far behind. Before very long, the conspiracy he has uncovered unravels to reveal a doomsday threat against the populations of New York, London and Berlin. And Stone finds himself facing the ultimate trade-off: the life of someone he loves, against those of millions he doesn''t even know...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16223'),
(13689, 'Dark Winter', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When maverick agent Nick Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a shadowy biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Osama Bin Laden''s network of terror. But there are complications not least the attractive woman who he is working alongside. Target neutralized, Stone returns to the USA and a maelstrom of personal problems. Kelly, the fourteen-year-old orphan to whom he is joint guardian, cannot escape the ghosts of her traumatic past; she has a prescription drug habit that''s spiralling out of control, and Stone knows he is the only one who can help her. He takes her to recuperate in England, but the terrible consequences of what happened in Penang are never far behind. Before very long, the conspiracy he has uncovered unravels to reveal a doomsday threat against the populations of New York, London and Berlin. And Stone finds himself facing the ultimate trade-off: the life of someone he loves, against those of millions he doesn''t even know...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26305'),
(13690, 'Darkborn', 'Alison Sinclair', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''Alison Sinclair''s writing is addictive and elegant.''-LANE ROBINS, Author of MALEDICTEFor the Darkborn, sunlight kills. For the Lightborn, darkness is fatal. Living under a centuries-old curse, the Darkborn and the Lightborn share the city of Minhorne, coexisting in an uneasy equilibrium but never interacting.When Balthasar Hearne, Darkborn physician, finds a pregnant fugitive on his doorstep just before sunrise, he has no choice but to take her in. Tercelle Amberley''s betrothed is a powerful Darkborn nobleman, but her illicit lover came to her through the daytime. When she gives birth to twin boys, Balthasar realizes that they can see-something unheard of among the Darkborn.Two days after the birth, men arrive in search of the children. Balthasar is saved only by the intervention of his Lightborn neighbour-and healed by the hands of his wife, Telmaine. Soon Balthasar finds himself drawn deeper into a web of political intrigue and magical attacks as an ancient enemy of both Darkborn and Lightborn appears in a new guise, while Telmaine must confront a power she can no longer keep sheathed in gloves-a power she neither wants nor can control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7762'),
(13691, 'Darkborn', 'Alison Sinclair', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''Alison Sinclair''s writing is addictive and elegant.''-LANE ROBINS, Author of MALEDICTEFor the Darkborn, sunlight kills. For the Lightborn, darkness is fatal. Living under a centuries-old curse, the Darkborn and the Lightborn share the city of Minhorne, coexisting in an uneasy equilibrium but never interacting.When Balthasar Hearne, Darkborn physician, finds a pregnant fugitive on his doorstep just before sunrise, he has no choice but to take her in. Tercelle Amberley''s betrothed is a powerful Darkborn nobleman, but her illicit lover came to her through the daytime. When she gives birth to twin boys, Balthasar realizes that they can see-something unheard of among the Darkborn.Two days after the birth, men arrive in search of the children. Balthasar is saved only by the intervention of his Lightborn neighbour-and healed by the hands of his wife, Telmaine. Soon Balthasar finds himself drawn deeper into a web of political intrigue and magical attacks as an ancient enemy of both Darkborn and Lightborn appears in a new guise, while Telmaine must confront a power she can no longer keep sheathed in gloves-a power she neither wants nor can control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12738'),
(13692, 'Darkborn', 'Alison Sinclair', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''Alison Sinclair''s writing is addictive and elegant.''-LANE ROBINS, Author of MALEDICTEFor the Darkborn, sunlight kills. For the Lightborn, darkness is fatal. Living under a centuries-old curse, the Darkborn and the Lightborn share the city of Minhorne, coexisting in an uneasy equilibrium but never interacting.When Balthasar Hearne, Darkborn physician, finds a pregnant fugitive on his doorstep just before sunrise, he has no choice but to take her in. Tercelle Amberley''s betrothed is a powerful Darkborn nobleman, but her illicit lover came to her through the daytime. When she gives birth to twin boys, Balthasar realizes that they can see-something unheard of among the Darkborn.Two days after the birth, men arrive in search of the children. Balthasar is saved only by the intervention of his Lightborn neighbour-and healed by the hands of his wife, Telmaine. Soon Balthasar finds himself drawn deeper into a web of political intrigue and magical attacks as an ancient enemy of both Darkborn and Lightborn appears in a new guise, while Telmaine must confront a power she can no longer keep sheathed in gloves-a power she neither wants nor can control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16192'),
(13693, 'Darkborn', 'Alison Sinclair', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''Alison Sinclair''s writing is addictive and elegant.''-LANE ROBINS, Author of MALEDICTEFor the Darkborn, sunlight kills. For the Lightborn, darkness is fatal. Living under a centuries-old curse, the Darkborn and the Lightborn share the city of Minhorne, coexisting in an uneasy equilibrium but never interacting.When Balthasar Hearne, Darkborn physician, finds a pregnant fugitive on his doorstep just before sunrise, he has no choice but to take her in. Tercelle Amberley''s betrothed is a powerful Darkborn nobleman, but her illicit lover came to her through the daytime. When she gives birth to twin boys, Balthasar realizes that they can see-something unheard of among the Darkborn.Two days after the birth, men arrive in search of the children. Balthasar is saved only by the intervention of his Lightborn neighbour-and healed by the hands of his wife, Telmaine. Soon Balthasar finds himself drawn deeper into a web of political intrigue and magical attacks as an ancient enemy of both Darkborn and Lightborn appears in a new guise, while Telmaine must confront a power she can no longer keep sheathed in gloves-a power she neither wants nor can control.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26362'),
(13694, 'A Darker Domain: A Novel', 'Val McDermid', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Michelle Gibson reports her father, Mick Prentice, missing at the start of McDermid''s intricate but underwhelming stand-alone psychological thriller, Det. Insp. Karen Pirie, head of the Fife police Cold Case Review Team, isn''t interested until Michelle reveals that Mick disappeared during the 1984 miners'' strike. At the time, everyone believed Mick went scabbing in Nottingham. Later, Karen is summoned to the home of wealthy Sir Broderick Maclennan Grant, whose daughter, Catriona, and baby grandson, Adam, were abducted in 1985. A botched ransom hand-off left Catriona dead and Adam nowhere to be found. New evidence linked to the kidnapping has surfaced, and now Karen has two missing people to locate. McDermid tries to pack too much story into one book, and the connection she draws between the cases feels forced. Fans of the Scottish author may be better off waiting for the next outing of McDermid''s series to feature psychologist Tony Hill (_The Mermaid Singing_, etc.).\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n McDermidâ€™s latest is a stand-alone set in Fife, Scotland. Detective Inspector Karen Pirie, newly appointed head of the Cold Case squad, has a hard time with desk work, so when a woman reports her father missing and last seen in 1984, Pirie canâ€™t resist. But her boss, a paper pusher known as the Macaroon, wants Karen in the office, at least until Bel, an investigative journalist, turns up new evidence in a 20-year-old heiress kidnap case. As Karen and Bel investigate, friendsâ€™ and family membersâ€™ memories of the missing people are delivered as flashbacks, resulting in short chapters, multiple viewpoints, and a moderately quick pace. As Karenâ€™s two cases seem to converge, the complex and layered plotlines come together, and McDermid does an excellent job creating tension around a cold case. Sure to be a hit with McDermidâ€™s large fan base, it should also appeal to those who read other Scottish police mysteries, such as Stuart MacBrideâ€™s (Flesh House, 2008). Those who enjoyed the cold-case aspect may also enjoy Johan Theorinâ€™s Echoes from the Dead (2008). --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/419'),
(13695, 'A Darker Domain: A Novel', 'Val McDermid', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Michelle Gibson reports her father, Mick Prentice, missing at the start of McDermid''s intricate but underwhelming stand-alone psychological thriller, Det. Insp. Karen Pirie, head of the Fife police Cold Case Review Team, isn''t interested until Michelle reveals that Mick disappeared during the 1984 miners'' strike. At the time, everyone believed Mick went scabbing in Nottingham. Later, Karen is summoned to the home of wealthy Sir Broderick Maclennan Grant, whose daughter, Catriona, and baby grandson, Adam, were abducted in 1985. A botched ransom hand-off left Catriona dead and Adam nowhere to be found. New evidence linked to the kidnapping has surfaced, and now Karen has two missing people to locate. McDermid tries to pack too much story into one book, and the connection she draws between the cases feels forced. Fans of the Scottish author may be better off waiting for the next outing of McDermid''s series to feature psychologist Tony Hill (_The Mermaid Singing_, etc.).\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n McDermidâ€™s latest is a stand-alone set in Fife, Scotland. Detective Inspector Karen Pirie, newly appointed head of the Cold Case squad, has a hard time with desk work, so when a woman reports her father missing and last seen in 1984, Pirie canâ€™t resist. But her boss, a paper pusher known as the Macaroon, wants Karen in the office, at least until Bel, an investigative journalist, turns up new evidence in a 20-year-old heiress kidnap case. As Karen and Bel investigate, friendsâ€™ and family membersâ€™ memories of the missing people are delivered as flashbacks, resulting in short chapters, multiple viewpoints, and a moderately quick pace. As Karenâ€™s two cases seem to converge, the complex and layered plotlines come together, and McDermid does an excellent job creating tension around a cold case. Sure to be a hit with McDermidâ€™s large fan base, it should also appeal to those who read other Scottish police mysteries, such as Stuart MacBrideâ€™s (Flesh House, 2008). Those who enjoyed the cold-case aspect may also enjoy Johan Theorinâ€™s Echoes from the Dead (2008). --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11310'),
(13696, 'A Darker Domain: A Novel', 'Val McDermid', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Michelle Gibson reports her father, Mick Prentice, missing at the start of McDermid''s intricate but underwhelming stand-alone psychological thriller, Det. Insp. Karen Pirie, head of the Fife police Cold Case Review Team, isn''t interested until Michelle reveals that Mick disappeared during the 1984 miners'' strike. At the time, everyone believed Mick went scabbing in Nottingham. Later, Karen is summoned to the home of wealthy Sir Broderick Maclennan Grant, whose daughter, Catriona, and baby grandson, Adam, were abducted in 1985. A botched ransom hand-off left Catriona dead and Adam nowhere to be found. New evidence linked to the kidnapping has surfaced, and now Karen has two missing people to locate. McDermid tries to pack too much story into one book, and the connection she draws between the cases feels forced. Fans of the Scottish author may be better off waiting for the next outing of McDermid''s series to feature psychologist Tony Hill (_The Mermaid Singing_, etc.).\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n McDermidâ€™s latest is a stand-alone set in Fife, Scotland. Detective Inspector Karen Pirie, newly appointed head of the Cold Case squad, has a hard time with desk work, so when a woman reports her father missing and last seen in 1984, Pirie canâ€™t resist. But her boss, a paper pusher known as the Macaroon, wants Karen in the office, at least until Bel, an investigative journalist, turns up new evidence in a 20-year-old heiress kidnap case. As Karen and Bel investigate, friendsâ€™ and family membersâ€™ memories of the missing people are delivered as flashbacks, resulting in short chapters, multiple viewpoints, and a moderately quick pace. As Karenâ€™s two cases seem to converge, the complex and layered plotlines come together, and McDermid does an excellent job creating tension around a cold case. Sure to be a hit with McDermidâ€™s large fan base, it should also appeal to those who read other Scottish police mysteries, such as Stuart MacBrideâ€™s (Flesh House, 2008). Those who enjoyed the cold-case aspect may also enjoy Johan Theorinâ€™s Echoes from the Dead (2008). --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24509'),
(13697, 'The Darkest Evening of the Year', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  With each of his #1 *New York Times* bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats. Now he delivers a heart-gripping tour de force heâ€™s been waiting years to write, at once a love story, a thrilling adventure, and a masterwork of suspense that redefines the boundaries of primal fearâ€”and of enduring devotion.  Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Among dog lovers, sheâ€™s a legend for the risks sheâ€™ll take to save an animal from abuse. Among her friends, Amyâ€™s heedless devotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she canâ€™t allow herself to return, Amyâ€™s behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret.No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion. And the unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amyâ€™s every move and that, whoever it is, heâ€™s not alone. Someone has come back to turn Amy into the desperate, hunted creature sheâ€™s always been there to save. But now thereâ€™s no one to save Amy and those she loves. From its breathtaking opening scene to its shocking climax, **The Darkest Evening of the Year** is Dean Koontz at his finest, a transcendent thriller certain to have readers turning pages until dawn.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6070'),
(13698, 'The Darkest Evening of the Year', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  With each of his #1 *New York Times* bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats. Now he delivers a heart-gripping tour de force heâ€™s been waiting years to write, at once a love story, a thrilling adventure, and a masterwork of suspense that redefines the boundaries of primal fearâ€”and of enduring devotion.  Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Among dog lovers, sheâ€™s a legend for the risks sheâ€™ll take to save an animal from abuse. Among her friends, Amyâ€™s heedless devotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she canâ€™t allow herself to return, Amyâ€™s behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret.No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion. And the unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amyâ€™s every move and that, whoever it is, heâ€™s not alone. Someone has come back to turn Amy into the desperate, hunted creature sheâ€™s always been there to save. But now thereâ€™s no one to save Amy and those she loves. From its breathtaking opening scene to its shocking climax, **The Darkest Evening of the Year** is Dean Koontz at his finest, a transcendent thriller certain to have readers turning pages until dawn.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10829'),
(13699, 'The Darkest Evening of the Year', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With each of his #1 *New York Times* bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats. Now he delivers a heart-gripping tour de force heâ€™s been waiting years to write, at once a love story, a thrilling adventure, and a masterwork of suspense that redefines the boundaries of primal fearâ€”and of enduring devotion. Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Among dog lovers, sheâ€™s a legend for the risks sheâ€™ll take to save an animal from abuse. Among her friends, Amyâ€™s heedless devotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she canâ€™t allow herself to return, Amyâ€™s behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret.No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion. And the unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amyâ€™s every move and that, whoever it is, heâ€™s not alone. Someone has come back to turn Amy into the desperate, hunted creature sheâ€™s always been there to save. But now thereâ€™s no one to save Amy and those she loves. From its breathtaking opening scene to its shocking climax, **The Darkest Evening of the Year** is Dean Koontz at his finest, a transcendent thriller certain to have readers turning pages until dawn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14528'),
(13700, 'The Darkest Evening of the Year', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  With each of his #1 *New York Times* bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats. Now he delivers a heart-gripping tour de force heâ€™s been waiting years to write, at once a love story, a thrilling adventure, and a masterwork of suspense that redefines the boundaries of primal fearâ€”and of enduring devotion. Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Among dog lovers, sheâ€™s a legend for the risks sheâ€™ll take to save an animal from abuse. Among her friends, Amyâ€™s heedless devotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she canâ€™t allow herself to return, Amyâ€™s behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret.No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion. And the unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amyâ€™s every move and that, whoever it is, heâ€™s not alone. Someone has come back to turn Amy into the desperate, hunted creature sheâ€™s always been there to save. But now thereâ€™s no one to save Amy and those she loves. From its breathtaking opening scene to its shocking climax, **The Darkest Evening of the Year** is Dean Koontz at his finest, a transcendent thriller certain to have readers turning pages until dawn.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17916'),
(13701, 'The Darkest Evening of the Year', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With each of his #1 *New York Times* bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats. Now he delivers a heart-gripping tour de force heâ€™s been waiting years to write, at once a love story, a thrilling adventure, and a masterwork of suspense that redefines the boundaries of primal fearâ€”and of enduring devotion. Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Among dog lovers, sheâ€™s a legend for the risks sheâ€™ll take to save an animal from abuse. Among her friends, Amyâ€™s heedless devotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she canâ€™t allow herself to return, Amyâ€™s behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret.No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion. And the unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amyâ€™s every move and that, whoever it is, heâ€™s not alone. Someone has come back to turn Amy into the desperate, hunted creature sheâ€™s always been there to save. But now thereâ€™s no one to save Amy and those she loves. From its breathtaking opening scene to its shocking climax, **The Darkest Evening of the Year** is Dean Koontz at his finest, a transcendent thriller certain to have readers turning pages until dawn.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27442'),
(13702, 'Darkest Fear (2000)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 07', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14578'),
(13703, 'Darkest Fear (2000)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 07', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19386'),
(13704, 'Darkest Fear (2000)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 07', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27052'),
(13705, 'The Darkest Heart', 'Brenda Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7170'),
(13706, 'The Darkest Heart', 'Brenda Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10589'),
(13707, 'The Darkest Heart', 'Brenda Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16777'),
(13708, 'The Darkest Heart', 'Brenda Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26623'),
(13709, 'The Darkest Hour', 'Maya Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Intelligence: high. Body: hard. Mission: what no one else can do. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s been a year since ex-Navy SEAL Ethan Kelly saw his wife Rachel alive. Now he''s received an anonymous phone call claiming Rachel is alive. To find her, Ethan will have to doge bullets, cross a jungle, and risk falling captive to a deadly drug cartel that threatens his own demise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2918'),
(13710, 'The Darkest Hour', 'Maya Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Intelligence: high. Body: hard. Mission: what no one else can do. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s been a year since ex-Navy SEAL Ethan Kelly saw his wife Rachel alive. Now he''s received an anonymous phone call claiming Rachel is alive. To find her, Ethan will have to doge bullets, cross a jungle, and risk falling captive to a deadly drug cartel that threatens his own demise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8339'),
(13711, 'The Darkest Hour', 'Maya Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Intelligence: high. Body: hard. Mission: what no one else can do. ** It''s been a year since ex-Navy SEAL Ethan Kelly saw his wife Rachel alive. Now he''s received an anonymous phone call claiming Rachel is alive. To find her, Ethan will have to doge bullets, cross a jungle, and risk falling captive to a deadly drug cartel that threatens his own demise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21850'),
(13712, 'The Darkest Road', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As the Unraveller''s armies march to battle and a plague-filled rain devastates the planet, the warriors of Light call upon one of the most ancient powers of evil to aid them in their struggle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5227'),
(13713, 'The Darkest Road', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As the Unraveller''s armies march to battle and a plague-filled rain devastates the planet, the warriors of Light call upon one of the most ancient powers of evil to aid them in their struggle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10640'),
(13714, 'The darkest road', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: As the Unraveller''s armies march to battle and a plague-filled rain devastates the planet, the warriors of Light call upon one of the most ancient powers of evil to aid them in their struggle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19388'),
(13715, 'The darkest road', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: As the Unraveller''s armies march to battle and a plague-filled rain devastates the planet, the warriors of Light call upon one of the most ancient powers of evil to aid them in their struggle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28025'),
(13716, 'The Darkest Room', 'Johan Theorin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n WINNER OF SWEDEN''S BEST CRIME NOVEL AWARD On the idyllic island of Oland, off the coast of northern Sweden, a young couple from Stockholm tries to start life afresh. For Joakim and Katrine Westin, reclaiming a long-neglected family manor will be a labor of love, as they slowly bring the sprawling home back to life and introduce their two children to the island''s woodlands, glens, and beaches. But in the Westins'' new home, there are things that cannot be repaired, lives that have gone wrong, and secrets that have followed them. When the family is struck by tragedy, it''s up to grief-stricken Joakim to put together a puzzle of inexplicable loss, unbearable suspicion, and tangled lives. In this powerhouse of suspense-at once a crime novel and a searing family drama-a home built as a shelter from the sea becomes a human storm of murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4384'),
(13717, 'The Darkest Room', 'Johan Theorin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: WINNER OF SWEDEN''S BEST CRIME NOVEL AWARD On the idyllic island of Oland, off the coast of northern Sweden, a young couple from Stockholm tries to start life afresh. For Joakim and Katrine Westin, reclaiming a long-neglected family manor will be a labor of love, as they slowly bring the sprawling home back to life and introduce their two children to the island''s woodlands, glens, and beaches. But in the Westins'' new home, there are things that cannot be repaired, lives that have gone wrong, and secrets that have followed them. When the family is struck by tragedy, it''s up to grief-stricken Joakim to put together a puzzle of inexplicable loss, unbearable suspicion, and tangled lives. In this powerhouse of suspense-at once a crime novel and a searing family drama-a home built as a shelter from the sea becomes a human storm of murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18655'),
(13718, 'The Darkest Secret', 'Gena Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Showalter''s seventh Lords of the Underworld novel (after 2010''s The Darkest Lie) focuses on Amun, one of the dozen immortal warriors who absorbed evil demons from Pandora''s box. The demon of Defeat captures Haidee, a part-demon Hunter whose relatives were slain by the Lords in ancient Greece, and takes her to the warriors'' fortress, where Amun is recovering from a journey to hell. Everyone is surprised when Haidee and her icy touch soothe the tormenting demons that burn within Amun. Their roles as Lord and Hunter create obstacles to their growing attraction, as does Haidee''s plan to find closure with her boyfriend before committing herself to a relationship with Amun, and another quest in hell tests their skills and commitment. A complicated backstory, dozens of recurring characters, throwaway references to rape, and graphic sex and violence may limit the book''s appeal to new readers.\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keeper of the demon of Secrets, Amun can manipulate the darkest thoughts of anyone nearby. But when the immortal warrior is chained and isolated to protect those he loves, death is his only hope of releaseâ€”until he meets Haidee, a fellow prisoner whose beauty and hidden vulnerability draw him into a reckless test of his loyaltyâ€¦.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Haidee is a demon-assassin, raised to despise Amun''s kind. Yet how can she hate the man whose touch sets her aflame? But to save him, she must give herself body and soulâ€¦and face the wrath of a powerful adversary sworn to destroy her.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5455'),
(13719, 'The Darkest Secret', 'Gena Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Showalter''s seventh Lords of the Underworld novel (after 2010''s The Darkest Lie) focuses on Amun, one of the dozen immortal warriors who absorbed evil demons from Pandora''s box. The demon of Defeat captures Haidee, a part-demon Hunter whose relatives were slain by the Lords in ancient Greece, and takes her to the warriors'' fortress, where Amun is recovering from a journey to hell. Everyone is surprised when Haidee and her icy touch soothe the tormenting demons that burn within Amun. Their roles as Lord and Hunter create obstacles to their growing attraction, as does Haidee''s plan to find closure with her boyfriend before committing herself to a relationship with Amun, and another quest in hell tests their skills and commitment. A complicated backstory, dozens of recurring characters, throwaway references to rape, and graphic sex and violence may limit the book''s appeal to new readers.\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keeper of the demon of Secrets, Amun can manipulate the darkest thoughts of anyone nearby. But when the immortal warrior is chained and isolated to protect those he loves, death is his only hope of releaseâ€”until he meets Haidee, a fellow prisoner whose beauty and hidden vulnerability draw him into a reckless test of his loyaltyâ€¦.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Haidee is a demon-assassin, raised to despise Amun''s kind. Yet how can she hate the man whose touch sets her aflame? But to save him, she must give herself body and soulâ€¦and face the wrath of a powerful adversary sworn to destroy her.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12699'),
(13720, 'The Darkest Secret', 'Gena Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Showalter''s seventh Lords of the Underworld novel (after 2010''s The Darkest Lie) focuses on Amun, one of the dozen immortal warriors who absorbed evil demons from Pandora''s box. The demon of Defeat captures Haidee, a part-demon Hunter whose relatives were slain by the Lords in ancient Greece, and takes her to the warriors'' fortress, where Amun is recovering from a journey to hell. Everyone is surprised when Haidee and her icy touch soothe the tormenting demons that burn within Amun. Their roles as Lord and Hunter create obstacles to their growing attraction, as does Haidee''s plan to find closure with her boyfriend before committing herself to a relationship with Amun, and another quest in hell tests their skills and commitment. A complicated backstory, dozens of recurring characters, throwaway references to rape, and graphic sex and violence may limit the book''s appeal to new readers.\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Keeper of the demon of Secrets, Amun can manipulate the darkest thoughts of anyone nearby. But when the immortal warrior is chained and isolated to protect those he loves, death is his only hope of releaseâ€”until he meets Haidee, a fellow prisoner whose beauty and hidden vulnerability draw him into a reckless test of his loyalty....\n </p>\n <p>\n  Haidee is a demon-assassin, raised to despise Amun''s kind. Yet how can she hate the man whose touch sets her aflame? But to save him, she must give herself body and soul...and face the wrath of a powerful adversary sworn to destroy her.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19173'),
(13721, 'The Darkest Touch', 'Jaci Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ryder. The man was just as sexy as she remembered him: tall, lean, and dangerous, a demon hunter with the body of a god.â€¦ But archaeologist Angelique Deveraux has little time for lust. Sheâ€™s been hiding a gleaming black diamond, a prize everyone wantsâ€”including Ryderâ€”and now sheâ€™s running for her life. Hot on her trail is Ryder, a legendary demon hunter she desires but canâ€™t quite trust, a man with an insatiable need for danger and a few dark secrets of his own.As sparks ignite between the rogue hunter and his latest prey, Angieâ€™s world is rocked again when her twin sister vanishes, stolen away by the same dark forces stalking Angie and the black diamond. With Ryder offering protectionâ€”and moreâ€”suddenly a woman whoâ€™s never trusted anyone is falling for a man who isnâ€™t afraid of anythingâ€¦except losing his heart. Now, as an all-out demon war erupts and Angieâ€™s family secrets unravel, Ryderâ€™s demon hunt and Angieâ€™s quest to save her sister are about to collide. And when they do, itâ€™ll send these two wary hearts on the wildest adventure of their livesâ€”and maybe even save humankind in the process.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4872'),
(13722, 'The Darkest Touch', 'Jaci Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ryder. The man was just as sexy as she remembered him: tall, lean, and dangerous, a demon hunter with the body of a god.â€¦ But archaeologist Angelique Deveraux has little time for lust. Sheâ€™s been hiding a gleaming black diamond, a prize everyone wantsâ€”including Ryderâ€”and now sheâ€™s running for her life. Hot on her trail is Ryder, a legendary demon hunter she desires but canâ€™t quite trust, a man with an insatiable need for danger and a few dark secrets of his own.As sparks ignite between the rogue hunter and his latest prey, Angieâ€™s world is rocked again when her twin sister vanishes, stolen away by the same dark forces stalking Angie and the black diamond. With Ryder offering protectionâ€”and moreâ€”suddenly a woman whoâ€™s never trusted anyone is falling for a man who isnâ€™t afraid of anythingâ€¦except losing his heart. Now, as an all-out demon war erupts and Angieâ€™s family secrets unravel, Ryderâ€™s demon hunt and Angieâ€™s quest to save her sister are about to collide. And when they do, itâ€™ll send these two wary hearts on the wildest adventure of their livesâ€”and maybe even save humankind in the process.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8754'),
(13723, 'The Darkest Touch', 'Jaci Burton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ryder. The man was just as sexy as she remembered him: tall, lean, and dangerous, a demon hunter with the body of a god.â€¦ But archaeologist Angelique Deveraux has little time for lust. Sheâ€™s been hiding a gleaming black diamond, a prize everyone wantsâ€”including Ryderâ€”and now sheâ€™s running for her life. Hot on her trail is Ryder, a legendary demon hunter she desires but canâ€™t quite trust, a man with an insatiable need for danger and a few dark secrets of his own.As sparks ignite between the rogue hunter and his latest prey, Angieâ€™s world is rocked again when her twin sister vanishes, stolen away by the same dark forces stalking Angie and the black diamond. With Ryder offering protectionâ€”and moreâ€”suddenly a woman whoâ€™s never trusted anyone is falling for a man who isnâ€™t afraid of anythingâ€¦except losing his heart. Now, as an all-out demon war erupts and Angieâ€™s family secrets unravel, Ryderâ€™s demon hunt and Angieâ€™s quest to save her sister are about to collide. And when they do, itâ€™ll send these two wary hearts on the wildest adventure of their livesâ€”and maybe even save humankind in the process.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19700'),
(13724, 'Darkfall', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At first the police thought they were dealing with a psychopath or a vicious gangland war. Then, they heard the eerie sounds in the ventilation system and saw the silver eyes in the night. In a city paralyzed by a blizzard, something watches--something whose ultimate victims are young and innocent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6094'),
(13725, 'Darkfall', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this Koontz classic tale, a blizzard brings a city to a standstill--and ushers in an evil that defies imagination. This repackaged edition includes a new Afterword by the author. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17838'),
(13726, 'Darkfall', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this Koontz classic tale, a blizzard brings a city to a standstill--and ushers in an evil that defies imagination. This repackaged edition includes a new Afterword by the author. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27399');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(13727, 'Darkfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n MacKayla Laneâ€™s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, sheâ€™s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinksâ€¦until something extraordinary happens. When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her deathâ€“a cryptic message on Macâ€™s cell phoneâ€“Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sisterâ€™s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessedâ€“a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Faeâ€¦. As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sisterâ€™s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlaneâ€“an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human womenâ€“closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Macâ€™s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Bookâ€“because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their handsâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3847'),
(13728, 'Darkfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14483'),
(13729, 'Darkfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: MacKayla Laneâ€™s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, sheâ€™s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinksâ€¦until something extraordinary happens. When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her deathâ€“a cryptic message on Macâ€™s cell phoneâ€“Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sisterâ€™s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessedâ€“a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Faeâ€¦. As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sisterâ€™s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlaneâ€“an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human womenâ€“closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Macâ€™s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Bookâ€“because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their handsâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20673'),
(13730, 'Darkling', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The D''Artigo sisters, Camille, Delilah, and Menolly, are half-human, half- Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. When humans begin to go missing, then turn up as newly born vampires, Menolly- an acrobat extraordinaire-turned-vampire- must face the demons haunting her memories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/103'),
(13731, 'Darkling', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The D''Artigo sisters, Camille, Delilah, and Menolly, are half-human, half- Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. When humans begin to go missing, then turn up as newly born vampires, Menolly- an acrobat extraordinaire-turned-vampire- must face the demons haunting her memories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9864'),
(13732, 'Darkling', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The D''Artigo sisters, Camille, Delilah, and Menolly, are half-human, half- Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. When humans begin to go missing, then turn up as newly born vampires, Menolly- an acrobat extraordinaire-turned-vampire- must face the demons haunting her memories.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24774'),
(13733, 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Basis for a New ShowtimeÂ® Original Series Starring Michael C. Hall(Sundays at 10pm ET/PT - starts Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 10pm ET/PT)Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheepâ€™s clothing. Heâ€™s handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. Heâ€™s a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood splatter expert for the Miami police department puts him in the perfect position to identify his victims. But when a series of brutal murders bearing a striking similarity to his own style start turning up, Dexter is caught between being flattered and being frightenedâ€“of himself or some other fiend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4646'),
(13734, 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Basis for a New ShowtimeÂ® Original Series Starring Michael C. Hall(Sundays at 10pm ET/PT - starts Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 10pm ET/PT)Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheepâ€™s clothing. Heâ€™s handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. Heâ€™s a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood splatter expert for the Miami police department puts him in the perfect position to identify his victims. But when a series of brutal murders bearing a striking similarity to his own style start turning up, Dexter is caught between being flattered and being frightenedâ€“of himself or some other fiend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14337'),
(13735, 'Darkness', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prologue of veteran horror writer Saul''s ( Second Child ) new novel is wonderfully scary: A pregnant teenage "swamp rat" of the Everglades, spying on a secret meeting of "the Dark Man" and "his children," sees a friend offer up her newborn baby, whereupon the masked Dark Man plunges a knife into the infant. Right after that, the teenager''s husband promises to deliver his own child "the night he''s born." The story proper begins when 16-year-old Kelly Anderson, all her life having suffered nightmares of a menacing old man and now sure she''s pregnant by him, tries to kill herself. She recovers and moves from Atlanta with her adoptive parents to her grandfather''s house just north of the Everglades. Kelly becomes friends with Michael, her age and also adopted, who admits to similar nightmares and a sense of dread. Michael''s adoptive mother, meanwhile, feels a strange kinship to Kelly. The secrets of the Dark Man--his identity and his fountain-of-youth formula--are revealed halfway through the book, and thenceforth the story slides into descriptions of relatively tame to-and-fro-ing, mostly in the swamp, and the revolting revenge of "the children" on a group of nasty but well-preserved old men. Saul''s ending is cozily sentimental.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Years after they left the town of Villejeune, Florida, the Anderson family returns, only to find that something unspeakably evil that feeds on the young and innocent is waiting for their teenaged daughter. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4175'),
(13736, 'Darkness', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prologue of veteran horror writer Saul''s ( Second Child ) new novel is wonderfully scary: A pregnant teenage "swamp rat" of the Everglades, spying on a secret meeting of "the Dark Man" and "his children," sees a friend offer up her newborn baby, whereupon the masked Dark Man plunges a knife into the infant. Right after that, the teenager''s husband promises to deliver his own child "the night he''s born." The story proper begins when 16-year-old Kelly Anderson, all her life having suffered nightmares of a menacing old man and now sure she''s pregnant by him, tries to kill herself. She recovers and moves from Atlanta with her adoptive parents to her grandfather''s house just north of the Everglades. Kelly becomes friends with Michael, her age and also adopted, who admits to similar nightmares and a sense of dread. Michael''s adoptive mother, meanwhile, feels a strange kinship to Kelly. The secrets of the Dark Man--his identity and his fountain-of-youth formula--are revealed halfway through the book, and thenceforth the story slides into descriptions of relatively tame to-and-fro-ing, mostly in the swamp, and the revolting revenge of "the children" on a group of nasty but well-preserved old men. Saul''s ending is cozily sentimental.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Years after they left the town of Villejeune, Florida, the Anderson family returns, only to find that something unspeakably evil that feeds on the young and innocent is waiting for their teenaged daughter. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12584'),
(13737, 'Darkness', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prologue of veteran horror writer Saul''s ( Second Child ) new novel is wonderfully scary: A pregnant teenage "swamp rat" of the Everglades, spying on a secret meeting of "the Dark Man" and "his children," sees a friend offer up her newborn baby, whereupon the masked Dark Man plunges a knife into the infant. Right after that, the teenager''s husband promises to deliver his own child "the night he''s born." The story proper begins when 16-year-old Kelly Anderson, all her life having suffered nightmares of a menacing old man and now sure she''s pregnant by him, tries to kill herself. She recovers and moves from Atlanta with her adoptive parents to her grandfather''s house just north of the Everglades. Kelly becomes friends with Michael, her age and also adopted, who admits to similar nightmares and a sense of dread. Michael''s adoptive mother, meanwhile, feels a strange kinship to Kelly. The secrets of the Dark Man--his identity and his fountain-of-youth formula--are revealed halfway through the book, and thenceforth the story slides into descriptions of relatively tame to-and-fro-ing, mostly in the swamp, and the revolting revenge of "the children" on a group of nasty but well-preserved old men. Saul''s ending is cozily sentimental.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Years after they left the town of Villejeune, Florida, the Anderson family returns, only to find that something unspeakably evil that feeds on the young and innocent is waiting for their teenaged daughter. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20273'),
(13738, 'Darkness and Dawn', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Centuries after civilization destroyed itself in a final war, Fors was driven from his clan for the crime of being a mutant. Though his people had long combed the remnants of the old world to regain lost knowledge, the land to the north was taboo. Having nothing to lose, Fors and his feline companion trekked north -- toward incredible danger and a staggering discovery. Elsewhere, Sander also searched: for the Before People, said to have survived the great devastation. Then he met Fanyl, who coveted the lost knowledge for her own purpose. Soon the pair would be threatened by an ancient evil which destroyed not just lives, but minds as well. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15852'),
(13739, 'A Darkness at Sethanon', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arutha, Prince of Krondor, uses an attempted assassination as a ruse to fake his own death so that he may travel north to confront Murmandamus. In his travels to the Northlands, Arutha finds his father''s former enemy, Guy du Bas-Tyra, as the Protector of the city Armengar. A historic battle ensues, which ends in the destruction of the city. Murmandamus and his forces then strike south to Sethanon, a city beneath which the Lifestone had been buried in the ancient past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1968'),
(13740, 'The Darkness Before the Dawn', 'Ryan Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jedra lives in the streets, Kayan in the temple. When misfortune throws them together, they discover psionic power greater than almost any other on Athas, a power potent enough to destroy whole cities. When the force proves too strong for them to control, they search for a mentor to help them harness their wild talent and use it for the good of their ravaged world. The harsh environment conspires against them at every step, but so do their divergent backgrounds. Can a bond forged by necessity survive the cruelty of Athasian society, the savagery of the gladiatorial arena, or the simple test of time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1523'),
(13741, 'The Darkness Before the Dawn', 'Ryan Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jedra lives in the streets, Kayan in the temple. When misfortune throws them together, they discover psionic power greater than almost any other on Athas, a power potent enough to destroy whole cities. When the force proves too strong for them to control, they search for a mentor to help them harness their wild talent and use it for the good of their ravaged world. The harsh environment conspires against them at every step, but so do their divergent backgrounds. Can a bond forged by necessity survive the cruelty of Athasian society, the savagery of the gladiatorial arena, or the simple test of time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10402'),
(13742, 'The Darkness Before the Dawn', 'Ryan Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Jedra lives in the streets, Kayan in the temple. When misfortune throws them together, they discover psionic power greater than almost any other on Athas, a power potent enough to destroy whole cities. When the force proves too strong for them to control, they search for a mentor to help them harness their wild talent and use it for the good of their ravaged world. The harsh environment conspires against them at every step, but so do their divergent backgrounds. Can a bond forged by necessity survive the cruelty of Athasian society, the savagery of the gladiatorial arena, or the simple test of time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23493'),
(13743, 'Darkness Everlasting', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Darcy Smith always sensed she was different from everyone else - if only she knew how different. Possessing a secret strong enough to end an entire race of demons, Darcy unwittingly becomes a pawn in an epic battle between the vampires and the weres as she discovers a new world filled with ecstasy-and dark passions...Consumed with lust for Darcy, Styx - the Anasso of vampires - will do everything in his power to keep her out of the lair of Salvatore Giuliani, the deadly leader of the weres. But protecting the woman he loves could cost Styx the ultimate price...Salvatore Giuliani knows time is running out for the weres. Pushed to the brink of extinction, he will stop at nothing to make Darcy his ultimate conquest and queen - for she alone holds the key to his survival. But which of these men can Darcy truly trust? For all it takes is one bite to plunge her into a lifetime of servitude - or a lifetime of pleasure...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7712'),
(13744, 'Darkness Everlasting', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Darcy Smith always sensed she was different from everyone else - if only she knew how different. Possessing a secret strong enough to end an entire race of demons, Darcy unwittingly becomes a pawn in an epic battle between the vampires and the weres as she discovers a new world filled with ecstasy-and dark passions...Consumed with lust for Darcy, Styx - the Anasso of vampires - will do everything in his power to keep her out of the lair of Salvatore Giuliani, the deadly leader of the weres. But protecting the woman he loves could cost Styx the ultimate price...Salvatore Giuliani knows time is running out for the weres. Pushed to the brink of extinction, he will stop at nothing to make Darcy his ultimate conquest and queen - for she alone holds the key to his survival. But which of these men can Darcy truly trust? For all it takes is one bite to plunge her into a lifetime of servitude - or a lifetime of pleasure...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10541'),
(13745, 'Darkness Everlasting', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Darcy Smith always sensed she was different from everyone else - if only she knew how different. Possessing a secret strong enough to end an entire race of demons, Darcy unwittingly becomes a pawn in an epic battle between the vampires and the weres as she discovers a new world filled with ecstasy-and dark passions...Consumed with lust for Darcy, Styx - the Anasso of vampires - will do everything in his power to keep her out of the lair of Salvatore Giuliani, the deadly leader of the weres. But protecting the woman he loves could cost Styx the ultimate price...Salvatore Giuliani knows time is running out for the weres. Pushed to the brink of extinction, he will stop at nothing to make Darcy his ultimate conquest and queen - for she alone holds the key to his survival. But which of these men can Darcy truly trust? For all it takes is one bite to plunge her into a lifetime of servitude - or a lifetime of pleasure...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16134'),
(13746, 'Darkness Everlasting', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Darcy Smith always sensed she was different from everyone else - if only she knew how different. Possessing a secret strong enough to end an entire race of demons, Darcy unwittingly becomes a pawn in an epic battle between the vampires and the weres as she discovers a new world filled with ecstasy-and dark passions...Consumed with lust for Darcy, Styx - the Anasso of vampires - will do everything in his power to keep her out of the lair of Salvatore Giuliani, the deadly leader of the weres. But protecting the woman he loves could cost Styx the ultimate price...Salvatore Giuliani knows time is running out for the weres. Pushed to the brink of extinction, he will stop at nothing to make Darcy his ultimate conquest and queen - for she alone holds the key to his survival. But which of these men can Darcy truly trust? For all it takes is one bite to plunge her into a lifetime of servitude - or a lifetime of pleasure...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26313'),
(13747, 'A Darkness in My Soul', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Superman - or Supermonster? Although he was the first successful product of the Artificial Creation laboratory - the government workshop for the production of new talents by tampering with the genes of the unborn - Simeon Kelly would work for them only under compulsion. And the compulsion the generals applied to get him to probe the mind of the thing called Child had to be the greatest. Because Child was anything but that. In that incredibly monstrous infant appeared to be the potential for whole oceans of inventions and an entire cosmos of total creativity. But Child was vicious, insane, and short-lived.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6064'),
(13748, 'A Darkness in My Soul', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Superman - or Supermonster? Although he was the first successful product of the Artificial Creation laboratory - the government workshop for the production of new talents by tampering with the genes of the unborn - Simeon Kelly would work for them only under compulsion. And the compulsion the generals applied to get him to probe the mind of the thing called Child had to be the greatest. Because Child was anything but that. In that incredibly monstrous infant appeared to be the potential for whole oceans of inventions and an entire cosmos of total creativity. But Child was vicious, insane, and short-lived.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17858'),
(13749, 'A Darkness More Than Night', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Both Terry McCaleb and Harry Bosch are featured in a story that is a murder mystery, a legal thriller, and a psychological drama. Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy. Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back. It''s a murder, the unreadable kind of murder he specialized in solving back in his FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff''s office is asking McCaleb to take a quick look at the murder book to see if he turns up something they''ve missed. McCaleb''s first reading of the crime scene leads him to look for a methodical killer with a taste for rituals and revenge. As his quick look accelerates into a full-sprint investigation, the two crimes - his murdered loner and Bosch''s movie director - begin to overlap strangely. With one unsettling revelation after another, they merge, becoming one impossible, terrifying case, involving almost inconceivable calculation. McCaleb believes he has unmasked the most frightening killer ever to cross his sights. But his investigation tangles with Bosch''s lines, and the two men find themselves at odds in the most dangerous investigation of their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2889'),
(13750, 'A Darkness More Than Night', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Both Terry McCaleb and Harry Bosch are featured in a story that is a murder mystery, a legal thriller, and a psychological drama. Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy. Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back. It''s a murder, the unreadable kind of murder he specialized in solving back in his FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff''s office is asking McCaleb to take a quick look at the murder book to see if he turns up something they''ve missed. McCaleb''s first reading of the crime scene leads him to look for a methodical killer with a taste for rituals and revenge. As his quick look accelerates into a full-sprint investigation, the two crimes - his murdered loner and Bosch''s movie director - begin to overlap strangely. With one unsettling revelation after another, they merge, becoming one impossible, terrifying case, involving almost inconceivable calculation. McCaleb believes he has unmasked the most frightening killer ever to cross his sights. But his investigation tangles with Bosch''s lines, and the two men find themselves at odds in the most dangerous investigation of their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9098'),
(13751, 'A Darkness More Than Night', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14875'),
(13752, 'A Darkness More Than Night', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Both Terry McCaleb and Harry Bosch are featured in a story that is a murder mystery, a legal thriller, and a psychological drama. Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy. Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back. It''s a murder, the unreadable kind of murder he specialized in solving back in his FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff''s office is asking McCaleb to take a quick look at the murder book to see if he turns up something they''ve missed. McCaleb''s first reading of the crime scene leads him to look for a methodical killer with a taste for rituals and revenge. As his quick look accelerates into a full-sprint investigation, the two crimes - his murdered loner and Bosch''s movie director - begin to overlap strangely. With one unsettling revelation after another, they merge, becoming one impossible, terrifying case, involving almost inconceivable calculation. McCaleb believes he has unmasked the most frightening killer ever to cross his sights. But his investigation tangles with Bosch''s lines, and the two men find themselves at odds in the most dangerous investigation of their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21987'),
(13753, 'Darkness on the Edge of Town', 'Brian Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The medicine man from The Manitou has returned for his ultimate revenge on the white race, who decimated his people: People across the country are suddenly struck blind, leaving them helpless against the spirit warriors who have risen to slaughter their oppressors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7112'),
(13754, 'Darkness on the Edge of Town', 'Brian Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The medicine man from The Manitou has returned for his ultimate revenge on the white race, who decimated his people: People across the country are suddenly struck blind, leaving them helpless against the spirit warriors who have risen to slaughter their oppressors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10616'),
(13755, 'Darkness on the Edge of Town', 'Brian Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The medicine man from The Manitou has returned for his ultimate revenge on the white race, who decimated his people: People across the country are suddenly struck blind, leaving them helpless against the spirit warriors who have risen to slaughter their oppressors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16814'),
(13756, 'Darkness Revealed', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE ONE MAN SHE CAN''T TRUST Two hundred years have passed since Anna Randal gave herself to Conde Cesar in a night of relentless passion. Since then, Anna has become filled with unearthly power she can''t begin to comprehend. And the sexy, charming vampire responsible has eluded all of her efforts to track him down, until now . . .IS THE ONLY ONE Cesar''s blissful encounter with Anna cost him two centuries of penance. But one thing hasn''t changed-his body''s response to her is as urgent as ever. Now, commanded by the Oracles to keep watch over Anna, Cesar finds himself torn between his need to protect her-and to possess her . . . WHO CAN KEEP HER SAFE Someone wants Anna dead. And as an ancient enemy prepares to wage a terrifying battle, Anna must decide whether to succumb to a dark, burning desire and accept a destiny that could change the world forever . . . Praise for Alexandra Ivy''s Embrace The Darkness . . . ''Ivy creates such vivid and complex characters, their emotional struggles feel real even though their exploits are supernatural. A true gift to the genre!''- Romantic Times ''Delivers plenty of atmosphere and hot-blooded seduction.''- Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7713'),
(13757, 'Darkness Revealed', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE ONE MAN SHE CAN''T TRUST Two hundred years have passed since Anna Randal gave herself to Conde Cesar in a night of relentless passion. Since then, Anna has become filled with unearthly power she can''t begin to comprehend. And the sexy, charming vampire responsible has eluded all of her efforts to track him down, until now . . .IS THE ONLY ONE Cesar''s blissful encounter with Anna cost him two centuries of penance. But one thing hasn''t changed-his body''s response to her is as urgent as ever. Now, commanded by the Oracles to keep watch over Anna, Cesar finds himself torn between his need to protect her-and to possess her . . . WHO CAN KEEP HER SAFE Someone wants Anna dead. And as an ancient enemy prepares to wage a terrifying battle, Anna must decide whether to succumb to a dark, burning desire and accept a destiny that could change the world forever . . . Praise for Alexandra Ivy''s Embrace The Darkness . . . ''Ivy creates such vivid and complex characters, their emotional struggles feel real even though their exploits are supernatural. A true gift to the genre!''- Romantic Times ''Delivers plenty of atmosphere and hot-blooded seduction.''- Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10408'),
(13758, 'Darkness Revealed', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE ONE MAN SHE CAN''T TRUST Two hundred years have passed since Anna Randal gave herself to Conde Cesar in a night of relentless passion. Since then, Anna has become filled with unearthly power she can''t begin to comprehend. And the sexy, charming vampire responsible has eluded all of her efforts to track him down, until now . . .IS THE ONLY ONE Cesar''s blissful encounter with Anna cost him two centuries of penance. But one thing hasn''t changed-his body''s response to her is as urgent as ever. Now, commanded by the Oracles to keep watch over Anna, Cesar finds himself torn between his need to protect her-and to possess her . . . WHO CAN KEEP HER SAFE Someone wants Anna dead. And as an ancient enemy prepares to wage a terrifying battle, Anna must decide whether to succumb to a dark, burning desire and accept a destiny that could change the world forever . . . Praise for Alexandra Ivy''s Embrace The Darkness . . . ''Ivy creates such vivid and complex characters, their emotional struggles feel real even though their exploits are supernatural. A true gift to the genre!''- Romantic Times ''Delivers plenty of atmosphere and hot-blooded seduction.''- Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16133'),
(13759, 'Darkness Revealed', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE ONE MAN SHE CAN''T TRUST Two hundred years have passed since Anna Randal gave herself to Conde Cesar in a night of relentless passion. Since then, Anna has become filled with unearthly power she can''t begin to comprehend. And the sexy, charming vampire responsible has eluded all of her efforts to track him down, until now . . .IS THE ONLY ONE Cesar''s blissful encounter with Anna cost him two centuries of penance. But one thing hasn''t changed-his body''s response to her is as urgent as ever. Now, commanded by the Oracles to keep watch over Anna, Cesar finds himself torn between his need to protect her-and to possess her . . . WHO CAN KEEP HER SAFE Someone wants Anna dead. And as an ancient enemy prepares to wage a terrifying battle, Anna must decide whether to succumb to a dark, burning desire and accept a destiny that could change the world forever . . . Praise for Alexandra Ivy''s Embrace The Darkness . . . ''Ivy creates such vivid and complex characters, their emotional struggles feel real even though their exploits are supernatural. A true gift to the genre!''- Romantic Times ''Delivers plenty of atmosphere and hot-blooded seduction.''- Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26312'),
(13760, 'The Darkness That Comes Before', 'R. Scott Bakker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Strikingly original in its conception, ambitious in scope, with characters engrossingly and vividly drawn, the first book in R. Scott Bakker''s Prince of Nothing series creates a remarkable world from whole clothâ€”it''s language and classes of people, its cities, religions, mysteries, taboos, and ritualsâ€”the kind of all-embracing universe that has thrilled readers of Stephen R Donaldson and George R.R. Martin.It''s a world scarred by an acopalyptic past, evoking a time both two thousand years past and two thousand years into the future, as untold thousands gather for a crusade. Travelling among them, two men and two women are ensnared by a mysterious traveler, Anasurimbor Kellhusâ€”part warrior, part philosopher, part sorcerous, charismatic presenceâ€”from lands long thought dead. The Darkness that Comes Before is a history of this great holy war, and like all histories, the survivors write its conclusion.With this stunning debut, R. Scott Bakker is poised to become one of the next great fantasy writers of his generation. The Darkness that Comes Before proves again that epic fantasy can be intelligent, majestic, and terrifying.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1999'),
(13761, 'The Darkness that Comes Before', 'Bakker, R. Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15037'),
(13762, 'The Darkness that Comes Before', 'Bakker, R. Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26611'),
(13763, 'Darkness Under the Sun (Novella): A Tale of Suspense', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dean Koontz is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever Anna, and the enduring spirit of their golden, Trixie.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17260'),
(13764, 'Darkness Under the Sun: A Tale of Suspense', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dean Koontz is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever Anna, and the enduring spirit of their golden, Trixie.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6095'),
(13765, 'Darkness Under the Sun: A Tale of Suspense', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dean Koontz is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever Anna, and the enduring spirit of their golden, Trixie.Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10831'),
(13766, 'Darkness Unleashed', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Guardians of Eternity are vampire warriors without equal, bound by their loyalties and sworn to protect their charges from every danger...except those posed by their own hungry desires...A scarred recluse, Jagr makes no secret of his disdain for others'' company. But now, as a member of Chicago''s powerful vampire clan, he has certain obligations to fulfill. The latest: track down a missing were pureblood and return her to her sister. The problem: Regan Garrett has no intention of complying. And though Jagr agreed not to harm an inch of this stubborn female''s distractingly tempting body, he''ll gladly kiss her into submission, awakening an urge he hasn''t felt in years. Hell, in centuries...Regan vowed never to be at the mercy of another man. That goes double for arrogant, steel-muscled vampires with eyes of ice. All Regan wants is revenge against those who imprisoned her. She doesn''t need an ally. She certainly doesn''t need a mate. But soon Regan will have to choose-between a lust for vengeance, and a passion as dark and dangerous as the night...Praise for Alexandra Ivy and Darkness Revealed''A darkly erotic adventure with a vampire hero who can bite me anytime!'' -Angela Knight, New York Times bestselling author\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7714'),
(13767, 'Darkness Unleashed', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Guardians of Eternity are vampire warriors without equal, bound by their loyalties and sworn to protect their charges from every danger...except those posed by their own hungry desires...A scarred recluse, Jagr makes no secret of his disdain for others'' company. But now, as a member of Chicago''s powerful vampire clan, he has certain obligations to fulfill. The latest: track down a missing were pureblood and return her to her sister. The problem: Regan Garrett has no intention of complying. And though Jagr agreed not to harm an inch of this stubborn female''s distractingly tempting body, he''ll gladly kiss her into submission, awakening an urge he hasn''t felt in years. Hell, in centuries...Regan vowed never to be at the mercy of another man. That goes double for arrogant, steel-muscled vampires with eyes of ice. All Regan wants is revenge against those who imprisoned her. She doesn''t need an ally. She certainly doesn''t need a mate. But soon Regan will have to choose-between a lust for vengeance, and a passion as dark and dangerous as the night...Praise for Alexandra Ivy and Darkness Revealed''A darkly erotic adventure with a vampire hero who can bite me anytime!'' -Angela Knight, New York Times bestselling author\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10407'),
(13768, 'Darkness Unleashed', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Guardians of Eternity are vampire warriors without equal, bound by their loyalties and sworn to protect their charges from every danger...except those posed by their own hungry desires...A scarred recluse, Jagr makes no secret of his disdain for others'' company. But now, as a member of Chicago''s powerful vampire clan, he has certain obligations to fulfill. The latest: track down a missing were pureblood and return her to her sister. The problem: Regan Garrett has no intention of complying. And though Jagr agreed not to harm an inch of this stubborn female''s distractingly tempting body, he''ll gladly kiss her into submission, awakening an urge he hasn''t felt in years. Hell, in centuries...Regan vowed never to be at the mercy of another man. That goes double for arrogant, steel-muscled vampires with eyes of ice. All Regan wants is revenge against those who imprisoned her. She doesn''t need an ally. She certainly doesn''t need a mate. But soon Regan will have to choose-between a lust for vengeance, and a passion as dark and dangerous as the night...Praise for Alexandra Ivy and Darkness Revealed''A darkly erotic adventure with a vampire hero who can bite me anytime!'' -Angela Knight, New York Times bestselling author\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16129'),
(13769, 'Darkness Unleashed', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Guardians of Eternity are vampire warriors without equal, bound by their loyalties and sworn to protect their charges from every danger...except those posed by their own hungry desires...A scarred recluse, Jagr makes no secret of his disdain for others'' company. But now, as a member of Chicago''s powerful vampire clan, he has certain obligations to fulfill. The latest: track down a missing were pureblood and return her to her sister. The problem: Regan Garrett has no intention of complying. And though Jagr agreed not to harm an inch of this stubborn female''s distractingly tempting body, he''ll gladly kiss her into submission, awakening an urge he hasn''t felt in years. Hell, in centuries...Regan vowed never to be at the mercy of another man. That goes double for arrogant, steel-muscled vampires with eyes of ice. All Regan wants is revenge against those who imprisoned her. She doesn''t need an ally. She certainly doesn''t need a mate. But soon Regan will have to choose-between a lust for vengeance, and a passion as dark and dangerous as the night...Praise for Alexandra Ivy and Darkness Revealed''A darkly erotic adventure with a vampire hero who can bite me anytime!'' -Angela Knight, New York Times bestselling author\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26308'),
(13770, 'The Darkness', 'Jason Pinter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A young man is found murdered, his bones crushed nearly to dust before his body was dumped into New York''s East River\n </p>\n <p>\n  In New York there are hundreds of murders a year, but this one is different. Somebody is sending a message. And shockingly, the victim has ties to my brother, Stephen Gaines, recently murdered by an elusive drug lord known only as the Fury.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For years this kingpin has been shrouded in darkness. Stephen was executed just as he was about to shed some light. Working alongside my mentor, Jack O''Donnell, I''m going to find the truth behind this blood-soaked curtain. But the more we reveal, the more we realize just how dark the Fury''s plans are. And that no matter how brutal the violence has been, we haven''t seen anything yetâ€¦.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jason Pinter clearly knows a thing or two about what makes a good book - having worked in the editorial departments of major New York publishing houses. All that expertise is clear to see in his stunning Henry Parker series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4691'),
(13771, 'The Darkness', 'Jason Pinter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A young man is found murdered, his bones crushed nearly to dust before his body was dumped into New York''s East River\n </p>\n <p>\n  In New York there are hundreds of murders a year, but this one is different. Somebody is sending a message. And shockingly, the victim has ties to my brother, Stephen Gaines, recently murdered by an elusive drug lord known only as the Fury.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For years this kingpin has been shrouded in darkness. Stephen was executed just as he was about to shed some light. Working alongside my mentor, Jack O''Donnell, I''m going to find the truth behind this blood-soaked curtain. But the more we reveal, the more we realize just how dark the Fury''s plans are. And that no matter how brutal the violence has been, we haven''t seen anything yetâ€¦.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jason Pinter clearly knows a thing or two about what makes a good book - having worked in the editorial departments of major New York publishing houses. All that expertise is clear to see in his stunning Henry Parker series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12006'),
(13772, 'Darkside: A Novel', 'Belinda Bauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the author ofBlacklands, a literary thriller about the hunt for a serial killer in a small town in the English countryside.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7298'),
(13773, 'Darkside: A Novel', 'Belinda Bauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the author ofBlacklands, a literary thriller about the hunt for a serial killer in a small town in the English countryside.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8355'),
(13774, 'Darkside: A Novel', 'Belinda Bauer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author ofBlacklands, a literary thriller about the hunt for a serial killer in a small town in the English countryside.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16573'),
(13775, 'Darktower 1 - The Gunslinger', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25456'),
(13776, 'Darktower 2 - The Drawing of the Three', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25436'),
(13777, 'Darktower 3 - The Waste Lands', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25437'),
(13778, 'Darktower 4 - Wizard and Glass', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25438'),
(13779, 'Darktower 5 - The Wolves of the Calla', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25439'),
(13780, 'DarkTower 7 - The Dark Tower', 'King, Stephen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25441');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(13781, 'Darth Bane - Rule of Two', 'Drew Karpyshyn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the New York Times bestseller Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Drew Karpyshyn painted a gripping portrait of a young manâ€™s journey from innocence to evil. That man was Darth Bane, a twisted genius whose iron will, fierce ambition, and strength in the dark side of the Force made him a natural leader among the Sithâ€“until his radical embrace of an all-but-forgotten wisdom drove him to destroy his own order . . . and create it anew from the ashes. As the last surviving Sith, Darth Bane promulgated a harsh new directive: the Rule of Two.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two there should be; no more, no less.\n  <br />\n  One to embody the power, the other to crave it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Darth Bane is ready to put his policy into action, and he thinks he has found the key element that will make his triumph complete: a student to train in the ways of the dark side. Though she is young, Zannah possesses an instinctive link to the dark side that rivals his own. With his guidance, she will become essential in his quest to destroy the Jedi and dominate the galaxy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But there is one who is determined to stop Darth Bane: Johun Othone, Padawan to Jedi Master Lord Hoth, who died at Baneâ€™s hands in the last great Sith War. Though the rest of the Jedi scoff at him, Joshuaâ€™s belief that there are surviving Sith on the loose is unshakeable.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Johun continues his dogged pursuit of the man who killed his master, Zannah, faced unexpectedly with a figure from her past, begins to question her embrace of the dark side. And Darth Bane is led by Force-induced visions to a moon where he will acquire astonishing new knowledge and powerâ€“power that will alter him in ways he could never have imagined. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Drew Karpyshyn is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction and Mass Effect: Revelation, as well as several other fantasy and science fiction novels. He is also an award-winning writer/designer for the computer game company BioWare, where he was lead writer on Mass Effect and the blockbuster Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic video game. He lives in Canadaâ€™s hinterlands with his wife, Jen, and their cat.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18610'),
(13782, 'The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction', 'Wendy Northcutt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The human race''s most "devastatingly" popular humor series returns...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With five previous books and more than 1.5 million copies sold, The Darwin Awards is a pop culture phenomenon. Honoring those who improve the species by accidentally removing themselves from it, The Darwin Awards countdown (to human extinction) is well under way-and we won''t exit this mortal coil without one last laugh. In\n <em>\n  The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction\n </em>\n , readers will find all-new stories chronicling humans who step onto the lowest rung on the evolutionary ladder, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Nine no''s with power tools\n <br />\n â€¢ Eight ways to incinerate yourself\n <br />\n â€¢ Seven safety warnings you should not ignore\n <br />\n â€¢ Six romance tips for "safe" sex...\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring illustrations and brilliant science-of-evolution essays, this latest volume of\n <em>\n  The Darwin Awards\n </em>\n enumerates just how uncommon common sense still is.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy Northcutt\n </strong>\n is a scientist and graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology. She began collecting the stories that make up The Darwin Awards in 1993 while working at Stanford University, and is the founder of the popular Web site www.DarwinAwards.com. She is the author five previous Darwin Awards collections.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/265'),
(13783, 'The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction', 'Wendy Northcutt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The human race''s most "devastatingly" popular humor series returns...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With five previous books and more than 1.5 million copies sold, The Darwin Awards is a pop culture phenomenon. Honoring those who improve the species by accidentally removing themselves from it, The Darwin Awards countdown (to human extinction) is well under way-and we won''t exit this mortal coil without one last laugh. In\n <em>\n  The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction\n </em>\n , readers will find all-new stories chronicling humans who step onto the lowest rung on the evolutionary ladder, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Nine no''s with power tools\n <br />\n â€¢ Eight ways to incinerate yourself\n <br />\n â€¢ Seven safety warnings you should not ignore\n <br />\n â€¢ Six romance tips for "safe" sex...\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring illustrations and brilliant science-of-evolution essays, this latest volume of\n <em>\n  The Darwin Awards\n </em>\n enumerates just how uncommon common sense still is.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy Northcutt\n </strong>\n is a scientist and graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology. She began collecting the stories that make up The Darwin Awards in 1993 while working at Stanford University, and is the founder of the popular Web site www.DarwinAwards.com. She is the author five previous Darwin Awards collections.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11679'),
(13784, 'The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction', 'Wendy Northcutt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The human race''s most "devastatingly" popular humor series returns...\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With five previous books and more than 1.5 million copies sold, The Darwin Awards is a pop culture phenomenon. Honoring those who improve the species by accidentally removing themselves from it, The Darwin Awards countdown (to human extinction) is well under way-and we won''t exit this mortal coil without one last laugh. In\n <em>\n  The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction\n </em>\n , readers will find all-new stories chronicling humans who step onto the lowest rung on the evolutionary ladder, including:\n</p>\n<p>\n â€¢ Nine no''s with power tools\n <br />\n â€¢ Eight ways to incinerate yourself\n <br />\n â€¢ Seven safety warnings you should not ignore\n <br />\n â€¢ Six romance tips for "safe" sex...\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring illustrations and brilliant science-of-evolution essays, this latest volume of\n <em>\n  The Darwin Awards\n </em>\n enumerates just how uncommon common sense still is.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Wendy Northcutt\n </strong>\n is a scientist and graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology. She began collecting the stories that make up The Darwin Awards in 1993 while working at Stanford University, and is the founder of the popular Web site www.DarwinAwards.com. She is the author five previous Darwin Awards collections.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24672'),
(13785, 'Darwin Slept Here', 'Eric N. Simons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For "Darwin Year," a fresh-eyed and enchanting journey through South America in his footsteps One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the self-proclaimed "southernmost city in the world," writer Eric Simons picked up a copy of Charles Darwin''s The Voyage of the Beagle. Simons had just hiked the mountains overlooking Beagle Channel, and he found himself engrossed in Darwin''s account. Like Simons, Darwin was in his mid-twenties when he traveled to the continent. Simons followed Darwin further into South America--to stand where Darwin had stood and to explore the histories, legends and people that had fascinated him two centuries before. Simons trekked to as many of the locations Darwin wrote about as he could find to see if he could see these places through Darwin''s eyes, and to learn what South Americans know about Darwin. 2009 is a double-anniversary year for Darwin: the 200th anniversary of his birth in February, and the 150th anniversary of publication of The Origin of Species. Darwin Slept Here is an innovative and thrilling new look at a familiar subject from a compelling new writer to watch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12380'),
(13786, 'Darwin&#39;s Children', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Darwin''s Children\n </em>\n , Greg Bear''s follow-up to\n <em>\n  Darwin''s Radio\n </em>\n , is top-shelf science fiction, thrilling and intellectually charged. It''s no standalone, though. The plot and characters are certainly independent of the previous novel, but the background in\n <em>\n  Darwin''s Radio\n </em>\n is essential to nonbiologists trying to understand what''s going on. The next stage of human evolution has arrived, announced by the birth of bizarre "virus children." Now the children with the hypersenses and odd faces are growing up, and the world has to figure out what to do with them. The answer is evil and all too human, as governments put the kids in camps to protect regular folks from imagined dangers. Mitch and Kaye, scientists whose daughter Stella is swept up in the fray, become unwillingly involved in the politics that erupt around the issue of the new humans. Harrowing chases, gun battles, epidemics, and tense meetings about civil rights ensue, all brilliantly narrated. But just when you think you''ve got the book figured out, Bear throws a massive curveball by introducing... religion. That''s right, a good old-fashioned epiphany, plopped down in the middle of a hard science fiction novel. But even skeptical readers will be swept along with Kaye as she tries to deal with what''s happening to her and how it relates to the fate of her daughter''s species. Keep reading past the words that make you uncomfortable--the hot science, the cool spirituality--and you''ll be rewarded with a story of complete and moving humanity.\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this masterful sequel to his Nebula Award-winning Darwin''s Radio, Bear takes us into a near future forever changed by the birth of millions of genetically enhanced babies to mothers infected with the SHEVA virus. These children may represent the next great evolutionary leap, but some fear their appearance rings a death knell for traditional humanity. Geneticist Kaye Lang, archeologist Mitch Rafelson and their daughter, Stella Nova, have been hiding from an increasingly repressive U.S. government that wants to put the so-called "virus children" in what are essentially concentration camps. Eventually, the family is captured, and when Mitch resists he''s arrested on a trumped-up charge of assaulting a federal officer. In later years, Kaye returns to genetics and Mitch, once he''s out of jail, to archeology, but neither gives up hope of finding and freeing their daughter. Meanwhile, Stella, imprisoned but surrounded by her own kind, begins to explore the full significance of what it means to be post-human. Though cast in a thriller mode, like much of Bear''s recent work, this novel may contain too much complex discussion of evolutionary genetics to appeal to Michael Crichton or Robin Cook fans. Nonetheless, Bear''s sure sense of character, his fluid prose style and the fascinating culture his "Shevite" children begin to develop all make for serious SF of the highest order.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8135'),
(13787, 'Darwin&#39;s Children', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Greg Bearâ€™s Nebula Awardâ€“winning novel,Darwinâ€™s Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolutionâ€”one that would alter our species forever. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where â€œsurvival of the fittestâ€ takes on astonishing and controversial new dimensions. DARWINâ€™S CHILDREN Eleven years have passed since SHEVA, an ancient retrovirus, was discovered in human DNAâ€”a retrovirus that caused mutations in the human genome and heralded the arrival of a new wave of genetically enhanced humans. Now these changed children have reached adolescence . . . and face a world that is outraged about their very existence. For these special youths, possessed of remarkable, advanced traits that mark a major turning point in human development, are also ticking time bombs harboring hosts of viruses that could exterminate the â€œoldâ€ human race. Fear and hatred of the virus children have made them a persecuted underclass, quarantined by the government in special â€œschools,â€ targeted by federally sanctioned bounty hunters, and demonized by hysterical segments of the population. But pockets of resistance have sprung up among those opposed to treating the children like dangerous diseasesâ€”and who fear the worst if the governmentâ€™s draconian measures are carried to their extreme. Scientists Kaye Lang and Mitch Rafelson are part of this small but determined minority. Once at the forefront of the discovery and study of the SHEVA outbreak, they now live as virtual exiles in the Virginia suburbs with their daughter, Stellaâ€”a bright, inquisitive virus child who is quickly maturing, straining to break free of the protective world her parents have built around her, and eager to seek out others of her kind. But for all their precautions, Kaye, Mitch, and Stella have not slipped below the governmentâ€™s radar. The agencies fanatically devoted to segregating and controlling the new-breed children monitor their every moveâ€”watching and waiting for the opportunity to strike the next blow in their escalating war to preserve â€œhumankindâ€ at any cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19333'),
(13788, 'Darwin&#39;s Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England', 'Steve Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Origin of Species may be the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure much of Charles Darwin''s other works. His visit to the Galapagos lasted just five weeks and on his return he never left Britain again. Darwin spent forty years working on the plants, animals and people of his native land and wrote over six million words on topics as different as dogs, insect-eating plants, orchids, earthworms, apes and human emotion. Together they laid the foundations of modern biology. In this beautifully written, witty and illuminating book, Steve Jones explores the domestic Darwin, tracing the great naturalist''s journey across Britain: a voyage not of the body, but of the mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/974'),
(13789, 'Darwin&#39;s Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England', 'Steve Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Origin of Species may be the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure much of Charles Darwin''s other works. His visit to the Galapagos lasted just five weeks and on his return he never left Britain again. Darwin spent forty years working on the plants, animals and people of his native land and wrote over six million words on topics as different as dogs, insect-eating plants, orchids, earthworms, apes and human emotion. Together they laid the foundations of modern biology. In this beautifully written, witty and illuminating book, Steve Jones explores the domestic Darwin, tracing the great naturalist''s journey across Britain: a voyage not of the body, but of the mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10621'),
(13790, 'Darwin&#39;s Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England', 'Steve Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Origin of Species may be the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure much of Charles Darwin''s other works. His visit to the Galapagos lasted just five weeks and on his return he never left Britain again. Darwin spent forty years working on the plants, animals and people of his native land and wrote over six million words on topics as different as dogs, insect-eating plants, orchids, earthworms, apes and human emotion. Together they laid the foundations of modern biology. In this beautifully written, witty and illuminating book, Steve Jones explores the domestic Darwin, tracing the great naturalist''s journey across Britain: a voyage not of the body, but of the mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23873'),
(13791, 'Darwin&#39;s Radio', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEEGreg Bear''s powerfully written, brilliantly inventive novels combine cutting-edge science and unforgettable characters, illuminating dazzling new technologies--and their dangers. Now, in Darwin''s Radio, Bear draws on state-of-the-art biological and anthropological research to give us an ingeniously plotted thriller that questions everything we believe about human origins and destiny--as civilization confronts the next terrifying step in evolution.A mass grave in Russia that conceals the mummified remains of two women, both with child--and the conspiracy to keep it secret . . . a major discovery high in the Alps: the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family--the newborn infant possessing disturbing characteristics . . . a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women, resulting in miscarriage. Three disparate facts that will converge into one science-shattering truth.Molecular biologist Kaye Lang, a specialist in retroviruses, believes that ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans can again come to life. But her theory soon becomes chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken--a "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence Service--has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes down expectant mothers and their offspring. The shocking link: something that has slept in our genes for millions of years is waking up. Now, as the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang, along with anthropologist Mitch Rafelson, must race against time to assemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve. An evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race . . . if a future exists at all.A fiercely intelligent, utterly enthralling novel of adventure and ideas, genetics and evolution, a fast-paced thriller that is grounded in the timeless human themes of struggle, loss, and redemption, Darwin''s Radio is sure to become one of the most talked-about books of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18360'),
(13792, 'The Dastard', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Piers Anthony''s comical chronicles of his enchanted realm of Xanth are among the most beloved fantasy series ever written, with millions of readers worldwide. Now, Anthony returns with an all-new adventure that blends high hilarity with super-scary suspense.Many malevolent menaces have imperiled the magical land of Xanth in its long and storied history. But none has been as despicably dangerous as the Dastard. Once a common country boy, he sold his soul to a detestable demon for the power to erase events and rewrite history for his own devious ends. Now the entire future of Xanth is at the mercy of the Dastard''s every whim.But this depraved desperado underestimates the courage and cleverness of a young girl named Becka, who can transform herself into a fearsome dragon at the speed of thought. With the help of a colorful band of brave companions, Becka challenges the Dastard with the greatest magic of all - the power of the human heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2049'),
(13793, 'Dating Game', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time aroundâ€”and tells a captivating story of the surprises one woman encounters when sheâ€™s thrust into the terrifying, exhilarating world of the Dating Game.Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldnâ€™t imagine what he was about to say.â€œI want a divorce,â€ Peter tells her. Just like that, the husband she adored had dumped her for a younger woman. And just like that, Peter and his thirty-one-year-old lover had made their plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. Within days, Peter was gone. And Paris was left to figure out how she intended to get through the next day, let alone the rest of her life.The task could not have been more painful. First came the tears. Then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to â€œfix her upâ€ with men who paled in comparison to Peter. Worse yet, she still loved him. Finally, Paris realized she was in a fight for her very survival. Drastic measures were called for. Even her shrink agreed. It was time to moveâ€”as far away as possible, just after Peter remarried. Paris had never felt, or been, more alone.Saying good-bye to the world she knew and loved, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world full of men who were too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. For Paris, the list seemed endless...the charming commitment-phobe...the drunken Neanderthal...the young Frenchmanâ€”so adorably sexy she almost forgot about his age, and did, for a while. With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, and her daughter now engaged to a man Parisâ€™s age, Paris finally comes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future. Thatâ€™s when her small circle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. And a decision Paris makes only for herself changes her life once more. The secret, she discovers finally, is in finding the gifts in lifeâ€™s unexpected twists and turns, and turning despair into freedom and loss into joy.In a poignant, wickedly funny novel about getting dumped and getting over it, about tackling life with both courage and laughter, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start over, whether you wanted to or not, and finding something better than you had before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6356'),
(13794, 'Dating Game', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time aroundâ€”and tells a captivating story of the surprises one woman encounters when sheâ€™s thrust into the terrifying, exhilarating world of the Dating Game.Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldnâ€™t imagine what he was about to say.â€œI want a divorce,â€ Peter tells her. Just like that, the husband she adored had dumped her for a younger woman. And just like that, Peter and his thirty-one-year-old lover had made their plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. Within days, Peter was gone. And Paris was left to figure out how she intended to get through the next day, let alone the rest of her life.The task could not have been more painful. First came the tears. Then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to â€œfix her upâ€ with men who paled in comparison to Peter. Worse yet, she still loved him. Finally, Paris realized she was in a fight for her very survival. Drastic measures were called for. Even her shrink agreed. It was time to moveâ€”as far away as possible, just after Peter remarried. Paris had never felt, or been, more alone.Saying good-bye to the world she knew and loved, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world full of men who were too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. For Paris, the list seemed endless...the charming commitment-phobe...the drunken Neanderthal...the young Frenchmanâ€”so adorably sexy she almost forgot about his age, and did, for a while. With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, and her daughter now engaged to a man Parisâ€™s age, Paris finally comes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future. Thatâ€™s when her small circle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. And a decision Paris makes only for herself changes her life once more. The secret, she discovers finally, is in finding the gifts in lifeâ€™s unexpected twists and turns, and turning despair into freedom and loss into joy.In a poignant, wickedly funny novel about getting dumped and getting over it, about tackling life with both courage and laughter, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start over, whether you wanted to or not, and finding something better than you had before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12789'),
(13795, 'Dating Game', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time aroundâ€”and tells a captivating story of the surprises one woman encounters when sheâ€™s thrust into the terrifying, exhilarating world of the Dating Game.Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldnâ€™t imagine what he was about to say.â€œI want a divorce,â€ Peter tells her. Just like that, the husband she adored had dumped her for a younger woman. And just like that, Peter and his thirty-one-year-old lover had made their plans for their future, leaving Paris to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. Within days, Peter was gone. And Paris was left to figure out how she intended to get through the next day, let alone the rest of her life.The task could not have been more painful. First came the tears. Then the excruciating attempts by well-meaning friends to â€œfix her upâ€ with men who paled in comparison to Peter. Worse yet, she still loved him. Finally, Paris realized she was in a fight for her very survival. Drastic measures were called for. Even her shrink agreed. It was time to moveâ€”as far away as possible, just after Peter remarried. Paris had never felt, or been, more alone.Saying good-bye to the world she knew and loved, Paris heads west, to San Francisco, and discovers being single in a world full of men who were too young, too old, too married, or too good to be true. For Paris, the list seemed endless...the charming commitment-phobe...the drunken Neanderthal...the young Frenchmanâ€”so adorably sexy she almost forgot about his age, and did, for a while. With her dating track record veering between disappointing and disastrous, and her daughter now engaged to a man Parisâ€™s age, Paris finally comes to the conclusion that romance is not in her future. Thatâ€™s when her small circle of offbeat, loving friends becomes more important than ever before. And a decision Paris makes only for herself changes her life once more. The secret, she discovers finally, is in finding the gifts in lifeâ€™s unexpected twists and turns, and turning despair into freedom and loss into joy.In a poignant, wickedly funny novel about getting dumped and getting over it, about tackling life with both courage and laughter, Danielle Steel explores what it means to start over, whether you wanted to or not, and finding something better than you had before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17600'),
(13796, 'Dating the Rebel Tycoon', 'Ally Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As a gawky teenager, Rosie knew she never stood a chance with heartthrob Cameron Kelly. She had pigtails and glasses, and washed dishes by night to help support her and her mother, while Cameron came from one of the richest and most revered families in Brisbane.Years later they meet again, and Rosie finds herself on a date with the devastatingly attractive billionaire! There''s something different about himâ€”he''s darker, more intense, dangerous. But she''s determined to ignore his three-dates-only rule and get to the heart of the rebel tycoonâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7679'),
(13797, 'Dating the Rebel Tycoon', 'Ally Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As a gawky teenager, Rosie knew she never stood a chance with heartthrob Cameron Kelly. She had pigtails and glasses, and washed dishes by night to help support her and her mother, while Cameron came from one of the richest and most revered families in Brisbane.Years later they meet again, and Rosie finds herself on a date with the devastatingly attractive billionaire! There''s something different about himâ€”he''s darker, more intense, dangerous. But she''s determined to ignore his three-dates-only rule and get to the heart of the rebel tycoonâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8528'),
(13798, 'Dating the Rebel Tycoon', 'Ally Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a gawky teenager, Rosie knew she never stood a chance with heartthrob Cameron Kelly. She had pigtails and glasses, and washed dishes by night to help support her and her mother, while Cameron came from one of the richest and most revered families in Brisbane.Years later they meet again, and Rosie finds herself on a date with the devastatingly attractive billionaire! There''s something different about himâ€”he''s darker, more intense, dangerous. But she''s determined to ignore his three-dates-only rule and get to the heart of the rebel tycoonâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16207'),
(13799, 'Dating the Rebel Tycoon', 'Ally Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a gawky teenager, Rosie knew she never stood a chance with heartthrob Cameron Kelly. She had pigtails and glasses, and washed dishes by night to help support her and her mother, while Cameron came from one of the richest and most revered families in Brisbane.Years later they meet again, and Rosie finds herself on a date with the devastatingly attractive billionaire! There''s something different about himâ€”he''s darker, more intense, dangerous. But she''s determined to ignore his three-dates-only rule and get to the heart of the rebel tycoonâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26344'),
(13800, 'Daughter of the Empire', 'Raymond E. Feist &amp; Janny Wurts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Stunning reissues of Raymond Feist &amp; Janny Wurts classic trilogy -- one of the most successful fantasy collaborations of all time.  THE EMPIRE SERIES: BOOK I  Enter the mysterious world of Kelewan, where Mara of the Acoma must protect her honour and her people in the ruthless Game of the Council. From the imagination of two of fantasy''s greatest names comes a magnificent epic of heroic adventure and dynastic struggle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7962'),
(13801, 'Daughter of Xanadu', 'Dori Jones Yang', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The granddaughter of Khubilai Khan, 16-year-old Emmajin takes more interest in joining the army than in finding a husband. When her grandfather asks her to gather intelligence from foreigners who have arrived from the West, she befriends young Marco Polo. Their relationship, begun with some trepidation and marred by cultural missteps and misunderstandings, deepens throughout the story. Meanwhile, Emmajinâ€™s goals slowly alter through her contacts with other cultures and her experiences as a soldier. An appended glossary identifies characters and places, defines Mongolian terms such as del and ger, and offers historical information that separates fact from fiction within the novel. Emmajinâ€™s first-person narrative will capture readers with its scenes of adventure and its vivid depiction of a capable young woman in a time of change. The battle scene is realistically brutal, and the love scenes are subtly written, but the most involving element of the storytelling is Emmajinâ€™s ongoing struggle to forge her own way. Grades 8-10. --Carolyn Phelan\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Athletic and strong willed, Princess Emmajin''s determined to do what no woman has done before: become a warrior in the army of her grandfather, the Great Khan Khubilai. In the Mongol world the only way to achieve respect is to show bravery and win glory on the battlefield. The last thing she wants is the distraction of the foreigner Marco Polo, who challenges her beliefs in the gardens of Xanadu. Marco has no skills in the "manly arts" of the Mongols: horse racing, archery, and wrestling. Still, he charms the Khan with his wit and story-telling. Emmajin sees a different Marco as they travel across 13th-century China, hunting ''dragons'' and fighting elephant-back warriors. Now she faces a different battle as she struggles with her attraction towards Marco and her incredible goal of winning fame as a soldier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5898'),
(13802, 'Daughter of Xanadu', 'Dori Jones Yang', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The granddaughter of Khubilai Khan, 16-year-old Emmajin takes more interest in joining the army than in finding a husband. When her grandfather asks her to gather intelligence from foreigners who have arrived from the West, she befriends young Marco Polo. Their relationship, begun with some trepidation and marred by cultural missteps and misunderstandings, deepens throughout the story. Meanwhile, Emmajinâ€™s goals slowly alter through her contacts with other cultures and her experiences as a soldier. An appended glossary identifies characters and places, defines Mongolian terms such as del and ger, and offers historical information that separates fact from fiction within the novel. Emmajinâ€™s first-person narrative will capture readers with its scenes of adventure and its vivid depiction of a capable young woman in a time of change. The battle scene is realistically brutal, and the love scenes are subtly written, but the most involving element of the storytelling is Emmajinâ€™s ongoing struggle to forge her own way. Grades 8-10. --Carolyn Phelan\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Athletic and strong willed, Princess Emmajin''s determined to do what no woman has done before: become a warrior in the army of her grandfather, the Great Khan Khubilai. In the Mongol world the only way to achieve respect is to show bravery and win glory on the battlefield. The last thing she wants is the distraction of the foreigner Marco Polo, who challenges her beliefs in the gardens of Xanadu. Marco has no skills in the "manly arts" of the Mongols: horse racing, archery, and wrestling. Still, he charms the Khan with his wit and story-telling. Emmajin sees a different Marco as they travel across 13th-century China, hunting ''dragons'' and fighting elephant-back warriors. Now she faces a different battle as she struggles with her attraction towards Marco and her incredible goal of winning fame as a soldier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13460'),
(13803, 'Daughter of Xanadu', 'Dori Jones Yang', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The granddaughter of Khubilai Khan, 16-year-old Emmajin takes more interest in joining the army than in finding a husband. When her grandfather asks her to gather intelligence from foreigners who have arrived from the West, she befriends young Marco Polo. Their relationship, begun with some trepidation and marred by cultural missteps and misunderstandings, deepens throughout the story. Meanwhile, Emmajinâ€™s goals slowly alter through her contacts with other cultures and her experiences as a soldier. An appended glossary identifies characters and places, defines Mongolian terms such as del and ger, and offers historical information that separates fact from fiction within the novel. Emmajinâ€™s first-person narrative will capture readers with its scenes of adventure and its vivid depiction of a capable young woman in a time of change. The battle scene is realistically brutal, and the love scenes are subtly written, but the most involving element of the storytelling is Emmajinâ€™s ongoing struggle to forge her own way. Grades 8-10. --Carolyn Phelan\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Athletic and strong willed, Princess Emmajin''s determined to do what no woman has done before: become a warrior in the army of her grandfather, the Great Khan Khubilai. In the Mongol world the only way to achieve respect is to show bravery and win glory on the battlefield. The last thing she wants is the distraction of the foreigner Marco Polo, who challenges her beliefs in the gardens of Xanadu. Marco has no skills in the "manly arts" of the Mongols: horse racing, archery, and wrestling. Still, he charms the Khan with his wit and story-telling. Emmajin sees a different Marco as they travel across 13th-century China, hunting ''dragons'' and fighting elephant-back warriors. Now she faces a different battle as she struggles with her attraction towards Marco and her incredible goal of winning fame as a soldier.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18733'),
(13804, 'Dave Barry&#39;s Guide to Life', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Collects the humorist''s views on the problems of everyday life from "Dave Barry''s Guide to Marriage and/or Sex," "Babies and Other Hazards of Sex," "Stay Fit and Healthy Until You''re Dead," and "Claw Your Way to the Top"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17304'),
(13805, 'Dave Barry&#39;s Guide to Life', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Collects the humorist''s views on the problems of everyday life from "Dave Barry''s Guide to Marriage and/or Sex," "Babies and Other Hazards of Sex," "Stay Fit and Healthy Until You''re Dead," and "Claw Your Way to the Top"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27275'),
(13806, 'Dave Barry&#39;s Only Travel Guide You&#39;ll Ever Need', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "[Dave Barry] is one of the funniest people ever to tap tap on a PC. This new book is a riot."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERComplete with maps, histories, quaint local facts, song lyrics, helpful hints on how to get through Customs, and tidbits from Dave Barry''s own fond vacation nightmares, here is all you really need to know about travel, including: How to Speak a Foreign Language in Just 30 Minutes Without Necessarily Having Any Idea What You Are Talking About; Camping: Nature''s Way of Promoting the Motel Industry; See the USA First! (While We Still Own Part of It), and more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14764'),
(13807, 'Dave Barry&#39;s Only Travel Guide You&#39;ll Ever Need', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "[Dave Barry] is one of the funniest people ever to tap tap on a PC. This new book is a riot."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERComplete with maps, histories, quaint local facts, song lyrics, helpful hints on how to get through Customs, and tidbits from Dave Barry''s own fond vacation nightmares, here is all you really need to know about travel, including: How to Speak a Foreign Language in Just 30 Minutes Without Necessarily Having Any Idea What You Are Talking About; Camping: Nature''s Way of Promoting the Motel Industry; See the USA First! (While We Still Own Part of It), and more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17565'),
(13808, 'Dave Barry&#39;s Only Travel Guide You&#39;ll Ever Need', 'Dave Barry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "[Dave Barry] is one of the funniest people ever to tap tap on a PC. This new book is a riot."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERComplete with maps, histories, quaint local facts, song lyrics, helpful hints on how to get through Customs, and tidbits from Dave Barry''s own fond vacation nightmares, here is all you really need to know about travel, including: How to Speak a Foreign Language in Just 30 Minutes Without Necessarily Having Any Idea What You Are Talking About; Camping: Nature''s Way of Promoting the Motel Industry; See the USA First! (While We Still Own Part of It), and more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27274'),
(13809, 'David Copperfield', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This famous tale tells the story of a young boy''s escape from an unhappy childhood into the adventures of adult life. Follow his dramatic journey as he encounters a cast of unforgettable characters: cruel Mr. Murdstone, formidable Aunt Betsey and worm-l\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6926'),
(13810, 'David Copperfield', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This famous tale tells the story of a young boy''s escape from an unhappy childhood into the adventures of adult life. Follow his dramatic journey as he encounters a cast of unforgettable characters: cruel Mr. Murdstone, formidable Aunt Betsey and worm-l\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9240'),
(13811, 'David Copperfield', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This famous tale tells the story of a young boy''s escape from an unhappy childhood into the adventures of adult life. Follow his dramatic journey as he encounters a cast of unforgettable characters: cruel Mr. Murdstone, formidable Aunt Betsey and worm-l\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15225'),
(13812, 'David Copperfield', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This famous tale tells the story of a young boy''s escape from an unhappy childhood into the adventures of adult life. Follow his dramatic journey as he encounters a cast of unforgettable characters: cruel Mr. Murdstone, formidable Aunt Betsey and worm-l\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16987'),
(13813, 'David Copperfield', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This famous tale tells the story of a young boy''s escape from an unhappy childhood into the adventures of adult life. Follow his dramatic journey as he encounters a cast of unforgettable characters: cruel Mr. Murdstone, formidable Aunt Betsey and worm-l\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26926'),
(13814, 'David Starr - Space Ranger', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25693'),
(13815, 'Dawn On The Coast', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15779'),
(13816, 'Dawn Saves the Planet', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15780'),
(13817, 'Dawn,The Impossible Three', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15777'),
(13818, 'Dawn,the Older Boy', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15778'),
(13819, 'Dawn&#39;s Big Date', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15781'),
(13820, 'Dawn&#39;s Big Move', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15782'),
(13821, 'The Day After Tomorrow: A Novel', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Touted as a blockbuster, this assured debut thriller delivers in full--and then some. A young American doctor haunted by his father''s murder stumbles into a chilling international conspiracy and crosses paths with, among others, a weary L.A. cop investigating a series of surgically precise decapitations, a naive physical therapist and a hypercompetent German assassin. Dr. Paul Osborn, visiting Paris, recognizes the man whom he witnessed stab his father on a Boston street in 1966. Determined to learn the reason for his father''s unsolved death and take revenge, Osborn hatches a plan that unexpectedly leads to the gruesome execution of a hired PI and to other killings. Clearly some serious powers are involved. Soon Osborn, aided by Vera Monneray, a Paris medical student, is hiding out from Paris police, Interpol and the L.A. cop who has been summoned to Paris. Meanwhile, Joanna Marsh accompanies Elton Lybarger, a Swiss national whom she has helped recover from a stroke in a posh New Mexico sanatorium, back to Zurich, where he is greeted rapturously by high-ranking German business leaders. As an extensive Nazi resurgence plot emerges, Folsom adds extra flashes--Joanna in a drug-induced sex marathon, a massive train wreck, Vera''s other affair with a very important French leader--to heighten the suspense on these rapidly turning pages. A huge explosion in secret chambers under the streets of Berlin sends Osborn on a final chase through Europe and up into the Alps, where the high-tech hopes of an earlier generation are finally exposed. This is a one-sitting novel and readers will have to choose: a full, sun-burning day at the beach or, for those who can''t wait, a springtime all-nighter. 300,000 first printing; BOMC selection; movie rights to MGM and the Zanuck Co.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Paul Osborn, an orthopedic surgeon from Los Angeles, looks up from his table in a Paris cafe and sees the face of the man who murdered his father 30 years earlier. At the same time as he is pursuing the killer, the London police have a series of decaptitated corpses on their hands; Osborn falls in love with the French Prime Minister''s mistress; and a German industrialist is recuperating from a stroke in a private sanatorium in Arizona. All of these disparate elements come together nicely in the end. YAs who enjoy a sprawling plot involving Nazis, chases across Europe, and lots of unexpected twists and turns will love this fast-paced thriller.?Susan B. McFaden, Fairfax County Public Library, Fairfax, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7672');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(13822, 'The Day After Tomorrow: A Novel', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Touted as a blockbuster, this assured debut thriller delivers in full--and then some. A young American doctor haunted by his father''s murder stumbles into a chilling international conspiracy and crosses paths with, among others, a weary L.A. cop investigating a series of surgically precise decapitations, a naive physical therapist and a hypercompetent German assassin. Dr. Paul Osborn, visiting Paris, recognizes the man whom he witnessed stab his father on a Boston street in 1966. Determined to learn the reason for his father''s unsolved death and take revenge, Osborn hatches a plan that unexpectedly leads to the gruesome execution of a hired PI and to other killings. Clearly some serious powers are involved. Soon Osborn, aided by Vera Monneray, a Paris medical student, is hiding out from Paris police, Interpol and the L.A. cop who has been summoned to Paris. Meanwhile, Joanna Marsh accompanies Elton Lybarger, a Swiss national whom she has helped recover from a stroke in a posh New Mexico sanatorium, back to Zurich, where he is greeted rapturously by high-ranking German business leaders. As an extensive Nazi resurgence plot emerges, Folsom adds extra flashes--Joanna in a drug-induced sex marathon, a massive train wreck, Vera''s other affair with a very important French leader--to heighten the suspense on these rapidly turning pages. A huge explosion in secret chambers under the streets of Berlin sends Osborn on a final chase through Europe and up into the Alps, where the high-tech hopes of an earlier generation are finally exposed. This is a one-sitting novel and readers will have to choose: a full, sun-burning day at the beach or, for those who can''t wait, a springtime all-nighter. 300,000 first printing; BOMC selection; movie rights to MGM and the Zanuck Co.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Paul Osborn, an orthopedic surgeon from Los Angeles, looks up from his table in a Paris cafe and sees the face of the man who murdered his father 30 years earlier. At the same time as he is pursuing the killer, the London police have a series of decaptitated corpses on their hands; Osborn falls in love with the French Prime Minister''s mistress; and a German industrialist is recuperating from a stroke in a private sanatorium in Arizona. All of these disparate elements come together nicely in the end. YAs who enjoy a sprawling plot involving Nazis, chases across Europe, and lots of unexpected twists and turns will love this fast-paced thriller.?Susan B. McFaden, Fairfax County Public Library, Fairfax, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9713'),
(13823, 'The Day After Tomorrow: A Novel', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Touted as a blockbuster, this assured debut thriller delivers in full--and then some. A young American doctor haunted by his father''s murder stumbles into a chilling international conspiracy and crosses paths with, among others, a weary L.A. cop investigating a series of surgically precise decapitations, a naive physical therapist and a hypercompetent German assassin. Dr. Paul Osborn, visiting Paris, recognizes the man whom he witnessed stab his father on a Boston street in 1966. Determined to learn the reason for his father''s unsolved death and take revenge, Osborn hatches a plan that unexpectedly leads to the gruesome execution of a hired PI and to other killings. Clearly some serious powers are involved. Soon Osborn, aided by Vera Monneray, a Paris medical student, is hiding out from Paris police, Interpol and the L.A. cop who has been summoned to Paris. Meanwhile, Joanna Marsh accompanies Elton Lybarger, a Swiss national whom she has helped recover from a stroke in a posh New Mexico sanatorium, back to Zurich, where he is greeted rapturously by high-ranking German business leaders. As an extensive Nazi resurgence plot emerges, Folsom adds extra flashes--Joanna in a drug-induced sex marathon, a massive train wreck, Vera''s other affair with a very important French leader--to heighten the suspense on these rapidly turning pages. A huge explosion in secret chambers under the streets of Berlin sends Osborn on a final chase through Europe and up into the Alps, where the high-tech hopes of an earlier generation are finally exposed. This is a one-sitting novel and readers will have to choose: a full, sun-burning day at the beach or, for those who can''t wait, a springtime all-nighter. 300,000 first printing; BOMC selection; movie rights to MGM and the Zanuck Co.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA?Paul Osborn, an orthopedic surgeon from Los Angeles, looks up from his table in a Paris cafe and sees the face of the man who murdered his father 30 years earlier. At the same time as he is pursuing the killer, the London police have a series of decaptitated corpses on their hands; Osborn falls in love with the French Prime Minister''s mistress; and a German industrialist is recuperating from a stroke in a private sanatorium in Arizona. All of these disparate elements come together nicely in the end. YAs who enjoy a sprawling plot involving Nazis, chases across Europe, and lots of unexpected twists and turns will love this fast-paced thriller.?Susan B. McFaden, Fairfax County Public Library, Fairfax, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16217'),
(13824, 'The Day Before Midnight', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hunter ( The Spanish Gambit ) has written a smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility. Unidentified military terrorists kidnap welder Jack Hummel from his Maryland home and direct him to cut through a block of titanium to reach a launch key in the South Mountain MX missile site. The president decides to send in the crack Delta assault team, but the man best suited to command them is Col. Dick Puller, who was discredited and disgraced in Iran in 1979. Puller, in turn, must work with the only man who knows the missile silo, its designer, Prof. Peter Thiokol. The leader of "Aggressor-One" is discovered to be Russian Military Intelligence chief Arkady Pashin: he is charismatic, reactionary and messianically determined to launch the single MX that will trigger a massive Soviet reply. Part of the fast-moving plot revolves around two abandoned coalmine tunnels, a stupid Russian spy and Thiokol''s estranged wife, who unwittingly gave the Russians the plans for South Mountain. The 7 a.m.-to-midnight action flashes cinematically on Delta Force, the crack Russian Spetsnaz troops and various civilians. The book is fun, even if the finale is too drawn-out and a bit preachy: " . . . the regular people, the Rest of US" will save us. 40,000 first printing; $40,000 ad budget.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Paramilitary terrorists who have taken over a top-secret nuclear complex kidnap Maryland welder Jack Hummel and force him to cut through a half-ton titanium block that conceals the launch button. Reissue.\n <em>\n  NYT.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1070'),
(13825, 'The Day Before Midnight', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hunter ( The Spanish Gambit ) has written a smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility. Unidentified military terrorists kidnap welder Jack Hummel from his Maryland home and direct him to cut through a block of titanium to reach a launch key in the South Mountain MX missile site. The president decides to send in the crack Delta assault team, but the man best suited to command them is Col. Dick Puller, who was discredited and disgraced in Iran in 1979. Puller, in turn, must work with the only man who knows the missile silo, its designer, Prof. Peter Thiokol. The leader of "Aggressor-One" is discovered to be Russian Military Intelligence chief Arkady Pashin: he is charismatic, reactionary and messianically determined to launch the single MX that will trigger a massive Soviet reply. Part of the fast-moving plot revolves around two abandoned coalmine tunnels, a stupid Russian spy and Thiokol''s estranged wife, who unwittingly gave the Russians the plans for South Mountain. The 7 a.m.-to-midnight action flashes cinematically on Delta Force, the crack Russian Spetsnaz troops and various civilians. The book is fun, even if the finale is too drawn-out and a bit preachy: " . . . the regular people, the Rest of US" will save us. 40,000 first printing; $40,000 ad budget.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Paramilitary terrorists who have taken over a top-secret nuclear complex kidnap Maryland welder Jack Hummel and force him to cut through a half-ton titanium block that conceals the launch button. Reissue.\n <em>\n  NYT.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10387'),
(13826, 'The Day Before Midnight', 'Stephen Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hunter ( The Spanish Gambit ) has written a smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility. Unidentified military terrorists kidnap welder Jack Hummel from his Maryland home and direct him to cut through a block of titanium to reach a launch key in the South Mountain MX missile site. The president decides to send in the crack Delta assault team, but the man best suited to command them is Col. Dick Puller, who was discredited and disgraced in Iran in 1979. Puller, in turn, must work with the only man who knows the missile silo, its designer, Prof. Peter Thiokol. The leader of "Aggressor-One" is discovered to be Russian Military Intelligence chief Arkady Pashin: he is charismatic, reactionary and messianically determined to launch the single MX that will trigger a massive Soviet reply. Part of the fast-moving plot revolves around two abandoned coalmine tunnels, a stupid Russian spy and Thiokol''s estranged wife, who unwittingly gave the Russians the plans for South Mountain. The 7 a.m.-to-midnight action flashes cinematically on Delta Force, the crack Russian Spetsnaz troops and various civilians. The book is fun, even if the finale is too drawn-out and a bit preachy: " . . . the regular people, the Rest of US" will save us. 40,000 first printing; $40,000 ad budget.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Paramilitary terrorists who have taken over a top-secret nuclear complex kidnap Maryland welder Jack Hummel and force him to cut through a half-ton titanium block that conceals the launch button. Reissue.\n <em>\n  NYT.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23766'),
(13827, 'Day by Day', 'Delia Parr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Three grandmothers bound by one common thread." Barbara lost her son, a single dad, to senseless violence. Judy''s daughter fell into a black hole of addiction. Ginger''s girl threw away motherhood for money, status and materialism. And the grandmothers had to pick up the pieces... . Miraculously, they found one another, a mismatched trio with no common history, yet with so much to share. Together they found wisdom, strength and courage-- and rediscovered the true meaning of faith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5990'),
(13828, 'Day by Day', 'Delia Parr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Three grandmothers bound by one common thread." Barbara lost her son, a single dad, to senseless violence. Judy''s daughter fell into a black hole of addiction. Ginger''s girl threw away motherhood for money, status and materialism. And the grandmothers had to pick up the pieces... . Miraculously, they found one another, a mismatched trio with no common history, yet with so much to share. Together they found wisdom, strength and courage-- and rediscovered the true meaning of faith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11778'),
(13829, 'Day by Day', 'Delia Parr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Three grandmothers bound by one common thread." Barbara lost her son, a single dad, to senseless violence. Judy''s daughter fell into a black hole of addiction. Ginger''s girl threw away motherhood for money, status and materialism. And the grandmothers had to pick up the pieces... . Miraculously, they found one another, a mismatched trio with no common history, yet with so much to share. Together they found wisdom, strength and courage-- and rediscovered the true meaning of faith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17942'),
(13830, 'Day by Day', 'Delia Parr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Three grandmothers bound by one common thread." Barbara lost her son, a single dad, to senseless violence. Judy''s daughter fell into a black hole of addiction. Ginger''s girl threw away motherhood for money, status and materialism. And the grandmothers had to pick up the pieces... . Miraculously, they found one another, a mismatched trio with no common history, yet with so much to share. Together they found wisdom, strength and courage-- and rediscovered the true meaning of faith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27536'),
(13831, 'Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n START INTERCEPT\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SPORADIC NEW REPORTS INDICATE CHAOS AND VIOLENCE SPREADING THROUGH U.S. CITIES. AN UNKNOWN EVIL IS SWEEPING THE PLANET. THE DEAD ARE RISING TO CLAIM THE EARTH AS THE NEW DOMINANT SPECIES IN THE FOOD CHAIN.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n INTERCEPT COMPLETE\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SURVIVOR,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In your hands is the handwritten journal depicting one man''s struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **ENTER IF YOU WILL INTO HIS WORLD. THE WORLD OF THE UNDEAD.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4953'),
(13832, 'Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: START INTERCEPT SPORADIC NEW REPORTS INDICATE CHAOS AND VIOLENCE SPREADING THROUGH U.S. CITIES. AN UNKNOWN EVIL IS SWEEPING THE PLANET. THE DEAD ARE RISING TO CLAIM THE EARTH AS THE NEW DOMINANT SPECIES IN THE FOOD CHAIN. INTERCEPT COMPLETE SURVIVOR, In your hands is the handwritten journal depicting one man''s struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. **ENTER IF YOU WILL INTO HIS WORLD. THE WORLD OF THE UNDEAD.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14994'),
(13833, 'Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: START INTERCEPT SPORADIC NEW REPORTS INDICATE CHAOS AND VIOLENCE SPREADING THROUGH U.S. CITIES. AN UNKNOWN EVIL IS SWEEPING THE PLANET. THE DEAD ARE RISING TO CLAIM THE EARTH AS THE NEW DOMINANT SPECIES IN THE FOOD CHAIN. INTERCEPT COMPLETE SURVIVOR, In your hands is the handwritten journal depicting one man''s struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. **ENTER IF YOU WILL INTO HIS WORLD. THE WORLD OF THE UNDEAD.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18663'),
(13834, 'Day by Day Armageddon', 'J. L. Bourne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: START INTERCEPT SPORADIC NEW REPORTS INDICATE CHAOS AND VIOLENCE SPREADING THROUGH U.S. CITIES. AN UNKNOWN EVIL IS SWEEPING THE PLANET. THE DEAD ARE RISING TO CLAIM THE EARTH AS THE NEW DOMINANT SPECIES IN THE FOOD CHAIN. INTERCEPT COMPLETE SURVIVOR, In your hands is the handwritten journal depicting one man''s struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. **ENTER IF YOU WILL INTO HIS WORLD. THE WORLD OF THE UNDEAD.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28306'),
(13835, 'A Day for Damnation', 'David Gerrold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n McCarthy was drafted from his college biology studies and became a member of the Special Forces. Then he is given the opportunity to contact the Chtorr, but when a helicopter crash leaves him and his companions stranded in enemy territory, he must decide whether to communicate with the Chtorr--or kill them!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6288'),
(13836, 'A Day for Damnation', 'David Gerrold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n McCarthy was drafted from his college biology studies and became a member of the Special Forces. Then he is given the opportunity to contact the Chtorr, but when a helicopter crash leaves him and his companions stranded in enemy territory, he must decide whether to communicate with the Chtorr--or kill them!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9894'),
(13837, 'A Day for Damnation', 'David Gerrold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n McCarthy was drafted from his college biology studies and became a member of the Special Forces. Then he is given the opportunity to contact the Chtorr, but when a helicopter crash leaves him and his companions stranded in enemy territory, he must decide whether to communicate with the Chtorr--or kill them!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17768'),
(13838, 'The Day It Rained Forever', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1947'),
(13839, 'A Day Late and a Dollar Short', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Terry McMillan''s novels feature chatty, catty narrators who have a story they''re just busting to tell you. The dominant voice in\n  <em>\n   A Day Late and a Dollar Short\n  </em>\n  is Viola Price, whose asthma just sent her to the ICU. And who came to visit? The Jheri Curl-wearing Cecil, "a bad habit I''ve had for thirty-eight years, which would make him my husband." Viola doesn''t think Cecil''s such a catch: "His midlife crisis done lasted about 20 years now," and "to set the record straight, Cecil look like he about four months pregnant." But somebody did catch Cecil--he recently left Viola for "some welfare huzzy" with three kids. And, as we soon find out in Cecil''s first-person chapter, Viola has abundant flaws of her own. McMillan deftly sketches the exasperated intimacy of the long and unsuccessfully married.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She also has great dish about family dynamics. Have Cecil and Viola''s kids got problems! When lovable, luck-free Lewis turns up to visit his mom, he''s drunk, broke, and still whining about his ex, Donnetta, who "didn''t have as much sense as a Christmas turkey" (though she did have the sense to dump Lewis). Now Lewis consoles himself with his Bobbing Betty doll. "How could somebody with an IQ of 146 be so stupid?" marvels Viola. And that Charlotte! Viola''s daughter is "a bossy wench from the word go." (Gee, where could she have gotten that trait?) Charlotte feels like she never got her fair share of attention, having been born 10 months after the eldest daughter, Paris (now the driven mom of a brilliant athlete whose white girlfriend claims she''s pregnant). Charlotte took it out on younger Lewis and Janelle, who''s been in college 15 years with no degree in sight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At first, you''ll make ample use of the family charts in the endpapers to figure out who''s who, but pretty soon you''ll feel right at home with the squabbling, multiply dysfunctional, ultimately loving Price clan. You may agree with Viola: "Some folks got some stuff that can top ours. Hell, look at the Kennedys."\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  her four adult kids, all of whom have their own children, and their various circumstances, relationships and dilemmas. Not about to give Viola the last word, the other family members take turns talking in each of the remaining chapters. At first it is a bit confusing trying to keep track of who''s who (the audio book doesn''t come with family charts, the hardcover does), but it all eventually becomes clear as this complex and entertaining story of family dynamics or as daughter Paris calls it, "As the World F*\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  ing Turns, again and again and again" gets fleshed out. McMillan is in her element, and readers Coleman and Willis do an excellent job of capturing the personalities of all the characters, be they surly, sassy, depressed or comic. Their talents guide the listener expertly through this captivating and ultimately optimistic tale of the ties that bind and the things that really matter. Simultaneous release with the Viking hardcover (Forecasts, Dec. 11, 2000).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/790'),
(13840, 'A Day Late and a Dollar Short', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Price family--Viola, the matriarch; her sometimes husband Cecil; and their four adult children--sticks together through life''s most trying circumstances in this new novel by the author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14481'),
(13841, 'A Day Late and a Dollar Short', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Terry McMillan''s novels feature chatty, catty narrators who have a story they''re just busting to tell you. The dominant voice in\n  <em>\n   A Day Late and a Dollar Short\n  </em>\n  is Viola Price, whose asthma just sent her to the ICU. And who came to visit? The Jheri Curl-wearing Cecil, "a bad habit I''ve had for thirty-eight years, which would make him my husband." Viola doesn''t think Cecil''s such a catch: "His midlife crisis done lasted about 20 years now," and "to set the record straight, Cecil look like he about four months pregnant." But somebody did catch Cecil--he recently left Viola for "some welfare huzzy" with three kids. And, as we soon find out in Cecil''s first-person chapter, Viola has abundant flaws of her own. McMillan deftly sketches the exasperated intimacy of the long and unsuccessfully married.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She also has great dish about family dynamics. Have Cecil and Viola''s kids got problems! When lovable, luck-free Lewis turns up to visit his mom, he''s drunk, broke, and still whining about his ex, Donnetta, who "didn''t have as much sense as a Christmas turkey" (though she did have the sense to dump Lewis). Now Lewis consoles himself with his Bobbing Betty doll. "How could somebody with an IQ of 146 be so stupid?" marvels Viola. And that Charlotte! Viola''s daughter is "a bossy wench from the word go." (Gee, where could she have gotten that trait?) Charlotte feels like she never got her fair share of attention, having been born 10 months after the eldest daughter, Paris (now the driven mom of a brilliant athlete whose white girlfriend claims she''s pregnant). Charlotte took it out on younger Lewis and Janelle, who''s been in college 15 years with no degree in sight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At first, you''ll make ample use of the family charts in the endpapers to figure out who''s who, but pretty soon you''ll feel right at home with the squabbling, multiply dysfunctional, ultimately loving Price clan. You may agree with Viola: "Some folks got some stuff that can top ours. Hell, look at the Kennedys."\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  her four adult kids, all of whom have their own children, and their various circumstances, relationships and dilemmas. Not about to give Viola the last word, the other family members take turns talking in each of the remaining chapters. At first it is a bit confusing trying to keep track of who''s who (the audio book doesn''t come with family charts, the hardcover does), but it all eventually becomes clear as this complex and entertaining story of family dynamics or as daughter Paris calls it, "As the World F*\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  ing Turns, again and again and again" gets fleshed out. McMillan is in her element, and readers Coleman and Willis do an excellent job of capturing the personalities of all the characters, be they surly, sassy, depressed or comic. Their talents guide the listener expertly through this captivating and ultimately optimistic tale of the ties that bind and the things that really matter. Simultaneous release with the Viking hardcover (Forecasts, Dec. 11, 2000).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24211'),
(13842, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die', 'Robert Newton Peck', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œReading this book is like sipping hot cider in front of a crackling potbellied stove. Every page is suffused with wit and charm and glowing with warmth.â€â€“_Newsweek_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA lovely book. . . . Honest, moving, homely in the warm and simple sense of the word. . . . It is small, accepting and loving and it succeeds perfectly.â€â€“_Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™ll find yourself caught up in the novelâ€™s emotion from the very opening scene. . . . Love suffuses every page.â€â€“_The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of any age."--\n </em>\n School Library Journal. _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy\n</p>\n<p>\n at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of\n</p>\n<p>\n any age."--School Library Journal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1573'),
(13843, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die', 'Robert Newton Peck', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œReading this book is like sipping hot cider in front of a crackling potbellied stove. Every page is suffused with wit and charm and glowing with warmth.â€â€“_Newsweek_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA lovely book. . . . Honest, moving, homely in the warm and simple sense of the word. . . . It is small, accepting and loving and it succeeds perfectly.â€â€“_Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™ll find yourself caught up in the novelâ€™s emotion from the very opening scene. . . . Love suffuses every page.â€â€“_The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of any age."--\n </em>\n School Library Journal. _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy\n</p>\n<p>\n at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of\n</p>\n<p>\n any age."--School Library Journal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11933'),
(13844, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die', 'Robert Newton Peck', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œReading this book is like sipping hot cider in front of a crackling potbellied stove. Every page is suffused with wit and charm and glowing with warmth.â€â€“_Newsweek_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA lovely book. . . . Honest, moving, homely in the warm and simple sense of the word. . . . It is small, accepting and loving and it succeeds perfectly.â€â€“_Boston Globe_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™ll find yourself caught up in the novelâ€™s emotion from the very opening scene. . . . Love suffuses every page.â€â€“_The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of any age."--\n </em>\n School Library Journal. _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy\n</p>\n<p>\n at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of\n</p>\n<p>\n any age."--School Library Journal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23279'),
(13845, 'Day of Confession', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This massive thriller pits a scheming prince of the Church who believes he was once Alexander the Great against the Addison brothers--Harry, a Hollywood lawyer, and Danny, a Vatican priest. It seems that Danny had the bad luck to hear another cardinal''s confession outlining a heinous plot to poison China''s water supply in order to win the Vatican bankers a multi-billion-dollar contract to rebuild it--and of course to take advantage of the opportunity to convert a quarter of the world''s population and ensure the Church''s world domination into the next century. Spanning the globe from Vatican City to Beijing, from Los Angeles to Switzerland, the action never stops. And whenever it seems to falter for more than a paragraph, someone among Folsom''s picaresque cast of minor characters (a nun, a dwarf, a CIA station chief, a beautiful television journalist, and an African poet, among others) turns up just in time to give it a nudge. The narrative is not as fluid as it could be, and the plot might have been devised by a conspiracy theorist with a taste for chaos physics, but fans of Folsom''s intense novel __ won''t be disappointed.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A world-famous assassin, a power-hungry villain, a beleaguered hero, a plot to take over the largest country on earth. Folsom''s frantically paced follow-up to his bestselling The Day After Tomorrow throws together all the raw materials of a first-rate thriller and proves that ingredients alone do not a meal make. Four days after Cardinal Rosario Parma is assassinated in Rome, hotshot L.A. entertainment lawyer Harry Addison gets a frantic phone message from his estranged brother, Danny, a Vatican priest. Shortly thereafter, Harry hears that Danny has died in a bus explosion. When he flies to Rome to claim the body, he discovers that Danny is the prime suspect in Parma''s murder?and that he''s still alive. The novel then follows two parallel plots. Harry tries to find Danny and clear his name; meanwhile, the sinister Cardinal Umberto Palestrina, who thinks he''s the reincarnation of Alexander the Great, plots to make China the site of a new Holy Roman Empire. It''s that Alexander the Great touch that pushes an already teetering story line over the edge, where everything is explained by shorthand (the estrangement between the Addison brothers) or circular logic (Palestrina is feared and powerful because he inspires fear and wields power). There''s a lot of action, mostly to hide the fact that the cardboard characters generate as little sympathy as the thousands of Chinese deaths that are Step One in Palestrina''s master plan. Instead of being disturbing or controversial, Folsom''s mix of religion and politics approaches comic-book parody. Agent, Aaron Priest.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7671'),
(13846, 'Day of Confession', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This massive thriller pits a scheming prince of the Church who believes he was once Alexander the Great against the Addison brothers--Harry, a Hollywood lawyer, and Danny, a Vatican priest. It seems that Danny had the bad luck to hear another cardinal''s confession outlining a heinous plot to poison China''s water supply in order to win the Vatican bankers a multi-billion-dollar contract to rebuild it--and of course to take advantage of the opportunity to convert a quarter of the world''s population and ensure the Church''s world domination into the next century. Spanning the globe from Vatican City to Beijing, from Los Angeles to Switzerland, the action never stops. And whenever it seems to falter for more than a paragraph, someone among Folsom''s picaresque cast of minor characters (a nun, a dwarf, a CIA station chief, a beautiful television journalist, and an African poet, among others) turns up just in time to give it a nudge. The narrative is not as fluid as it could be, and the plot might have been devised by a conspiracy theorist with a taste for chaos physics, but fans of Folsom''s intense novel __ won''t be disappointed.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A world-famous assassin, a power-hungry villain, a beleaguered hero, a plot to take over the largest country on earth. Folsom''s frantically paced follow-up to his bestselling The Day After Tomorrow throws together all the raw materials of a first-rate thriller and proves that ingredients alone do not a meal make. Four days after Cardinal Rosario Parma is assassinated in Rome, hotshot L.A. entertainment lawyer Harry Addison gets a frantic phone message from his estranged brother, Danny, a Vatican priest. Shortly thereafter, Harry hears that Danny has died in a bus explosion. When he flies to Rome to claim the body, he discovers that Danny is the prime suspect in Parma''s murder?and that he''s still alive. The novel then follows two parallel plots. Harry tries to find Danny and clear his name; meanwhile, the sinister Cardinal Umberto Palestrina, who thinks he''s the reincarnation of Alexander the Great, plots to make China the site of a new Holy Roman Empire. It''s that Alexander the Great touch that pushes an already teetering story line over the edge, where everything is explained by shorthand (the estrangement between the Addison brothers) or circular logic (Palestrina is feared and powerful because he inspires fear and wields power). There''s a lot of action, mostly to hide the fact that the cardboard characters generate as little sympathy as the thousands of Chinese deaths that are Step One in Palestrina''s master plan. Instead of being disturbing or controversial, Folsom''s mix of religion and politics approaches comic-book parody. Agent, Aaron Priest.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9719'),
(13847, 'Day of Confession', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This massive thriller pits a scheming prince of the Church who believes he was once Alexander the Great against the Addison brothers--Harry, a Hollywood lawyer, and Danny, a Vatican priest. It seems that Danny had the bad luck to hear another cardinal''s confession outlining a heinous plot to poison China''s water supply in order to win the Vatican bankers a multi-billion-dollar contract to rebuild it--and of course to take advantage of the opportunity to convert a quarter of the world''s population and ensure the Church''s world domination into the next century. Spanning the globe from Vatican City to Beijing, from Los Angeles to Switzerland, the action never stops. And whenever it seems to falter for more than a paragraph, someone among Folsom''s picaresque cast of minor characters (a nun, a dwarf, a CIA station chief, a beautiful television journalist, and an African poet, among others) turns up just in time to give it a nudge. The narrative is not as fluid as it could be, and the plot might have been devised by a conspiracy theorist with a taste for chaos physics, but fans of Folsom''s intense novel __ won''t be disappointed.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A world-famous assassin, a power-hungry villain, a beleaguered hero, a plot to take over the largest country on earth. Folsom''s frantically paced follow-up to his bestselling The Day After Tomorrow throws together all the raw materials of a first-rate thriller and proves that ingredients alone do not a meal make. Four days after Cardinal Rosario Parma is assassinated in Rome, hotshot L.A. entertainment lawyer Harry Addison gets a frantic phone message from his estranged brother, Danny, a Vatican priest. Shortly thereafter, Harry hears that Danny has died in a bus explosion. When he flies to Rome to claim the body, he discovers that Danny is the prime suspect in Parma''s murder?and that he''s still alive. The novel then follows two parallel plots. Harry tries to find Danny and clear his name; meanwhile, the sinister Cardinal Umberto Palestrina, who thinks he''s the reincarnation of Alexander the Great, plots to make China the site of a new Holy Roman Empire. It''s that Alexander the Great touch that pushes an already teetering story line over the edge, where everything is explained by shorthand (the estrangement between the Addison brothers) or circular logic (Palestrina is feared and powerful because he inspires fear and wields power). There''s a lot of action, mostly to hide the fact that the cardboard characters generate as little sympathy as the thousands of Chinese deaths that are Step One in Palestrina''s master plan. Instead of being disturbing or controversial, Folsom''s mix of religion and politics approaches comic-book parody. Agent, Aaron Priest.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16218'),
(13848, 'Day of Honor 01: Ancient Blood', 'Diane Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To true Klingon warriors, no occasion is more sacred than the Day of Honor, when they pay homage to all that makes them Klingon. But honor demands its price.... Worf finds his honor tested when he goes undercover to infiltrate a planetary criminal network. How can he root out the corruption on Sindikash without resorting to deceit and treachery himself? Worf''s dilemma is shared by his son Alexander, who searches for the true meaning of honor in his own human heritage. Along with his son, Worf must confront deadly danger -- and the inner struggles of his Klingon soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6056'),
(13849, 'Day of Reckoning', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n AN ENIGMA... Somehow Ford Lancaster seemed to turn up just when Rozalyn Sawyer needed him most. And as much as she hated to admit it, she couldn''t help but want more of his steady presence...his smoldering kisses. Rozalyn was sure a crime had been committed against her family, but was her desperate search for the truth based on fear or madness? Ford had come to settle an old score only to find his investigation colliding with a killer''s next target: Rozalyn. She had every reason to doubt his hidden motives, but Ford knew he would pay any price to reconcile the past and claim Rozalyn as his wife.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7428'),
(13850, 'Day of Reckoning', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n AN ENIGMA... Somehow Ford Lancaster seemed to turn up just when Rozalyn Sawyer needed him most. And as much as she hated to admit it, she couldn''t help but want more of his steady presence...his smoldering kisses. Rozalyn was sure a crime had been committed against her family, but was her desperate search for the truth based on fear or madness? Ford had come to settle an old score only to find his investigation colliding with a killer''s next target: Rozalyn. She had every reason to doubt his hidden motives, but Ford knew he would pay any price to reconcile the past and claim Rozalyn as his wife.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16483'),
(13851, 'Day of Reckoning', 'B. J. Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n AN ENIGMA... Somehow Ford Lancaster seemed to turn up just when Rozalyn Sawyer needed him most. And as much as she hated to admit it, she couldn''t help but want more of his steady presence...his smoldering kisses. Rozalyn was sure a crime had been committed against her family, but was her desperate search for the truth based on fear or madness? Ford had come to settle an old score only to find his investigation colliding with a killer''s next target: Rozalyn. She had every reason to doubt his hidden motives, but Ford knew he would pay any price to reconcile the past and claim Rozalyn as his wife.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26527'),
(13852, 'Day of the Dead', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jance''s third suspense thriller to feature ex-sheriff Brandon Walker and his family (after\n <em>\n  Hour of the Hunter\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Kiss of the Bees\n </em>\n ) deftly mixes Native American mythology with a harrowing plot. An old Tohono O''odham woman, Emma Orozco, asks Walker for help in solving the brutal murder of her daughter, Roseanne, who was slain in 1970. Walker is able to take on the challenge because of his membership in TLC, The Last Chance, a privately funded agency that looks into old, unsolved crimes. This ingenious arrangement allows for great flexibility in the action of the story. As Walker searches for clues in Roseanne''s death, he comes across similar murdersâ€”each with no leads, each involving a dismembered body left alongside a road in the Southwest. The reader learns more and more about the killers, the sexually voracious, utterly amoral Gayle Stryker and her husband, Larry, a truly effective pair of monsters. Meanwhile, Walker''s dear friend Fat Crack Ortiz, a Tohono O''odham man, is dying of complications from diabetes. Most of Walker''s friends, in fact, are Indians, as is his adopted daughter, Lani. He draws not so much knowledge as strength and perspective from themâ€”no mumbo-jumbo here, only believable sensitivity.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Resting both her regular series sleuths, Joanna Brady and J. P. Beaumont, this latest Jance mystery returns to Arizona''s Tohono O''Odham reservation, also the setting for two earlier nonseries novels,\n <em>\n  Hour of the Hunter\n </em>\n (1991) and\n <em>\n  Kiss of the Bees\n </em>\n (2000). Retired cop Brandon Walker sets out to investigate a cold case, the mutilation murder of a 15-year-old Tohono O''Odham girl. Suspense builds gradually in the multilayered novel, which is filtered through multiple perspectives, each person adding a piece to a textured puzzle that tracks a pair of serial killers whose crimes extend backward across three decades. As in Jance''s two series, the action is intermixed with well-placed social commentary, this time regarding the unconscionable ill use of reservation peoples by vicious\n <em>\n  mil-ghan\n </em>\n (whites), even in the recent past. Although the Indian cultural backdrop is not as integral to the story as it is in Hillerman''s novels, this will still appeal to Hillerman devotees as well as to thriller fans accustomed to a sheen of blood spatter and sex with their suspense.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5043'),
(13853, 'Day of the Dead', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jance''s third suspense thriller to feature ex-sheriff Brandon Walker and his family (after\n <em>\n  Hour of the Hunter\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Kiss of the Bees\n </em>\n ) deftly mixes Native American mythology with a harrowing plot. An old Tohono O''odham woman, Emma Orozco, asks Walker for help in solving the brutal murder of her daughter, Roseanne, who was slain in 1970. Walker is able to take on the challenge because of his membership in TLC, The Last Chance, a privately funded agency that looks into old, unsolved crimes. This ingenious arrangement allows for great flexibility in the action of the story. As Walker searches for clues in Roseanne''s death, he comes across similar murdersâ€”each with no leads, each involving a dismembered body left alongside a road in the Southwest. The reader learns more and more about the killers, the sexually voracious, utterly amoral Gayle Stryker and her husband, Larry, a truly effective pair of monsters. Meanwhile, Walker''s dear friend Fat Crack Ortiz, a Tohono O''odham man, is dying of complications from diabetes. Most of Walker''s friends, in fact, are Indians, as is his adopted daughter, Lani. He draws not so much knowledge as strength and perspective from themâ€”no mumbo-jumbo here, only believable sensitivity.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Resting both her regular series sleuths, Joanna Brady and J. P. Beaumont, this latest Jance mystery returns to Arizona''s Tohono O''Odham reservation, also the setting for two earlier nonseries novels,\n <em>\n  Hour of the Hunter\n </em>\n (1991) and\n <em>\n  Kiss of the Bees\n </em>\n (2000). Retired cop Brandon Walker sets out to investigate a cold case, the mutilation murder of a 15-year-old Tohono O''Odham girl. Suspense builds gradually in the multilayered novel, which is filtered through multiple perspectives, each person adding a piece to a textured puzzle that tracks a pair of serial killers whose crimes extend backward across three decades. As in Jance''s two series, the action is intermixed with well-placed social commentary, this time regarding the unconscionable ill use of reservation peoples by vicious\n <em>\n  mil-ghan\n </em>\n (whites), even in the recent past. Although the Indian cultural backdrop is not as integral to the story as it is in Hillerman''s novels, this will still appeal to Hillerman devotees as well as to thriller fans accustomed to a sheen of blood spatter and sex with their suspense.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10564');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(13854, 'Day of the Dead', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jance''s third suspense thriller to feature ex-sheriff Brandon Walker and his family (after\n <em>\n  Hour of the Hunter\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Kiss of the Bees\n </em>\n ) deftly mixes Native American mythology with a harrowing plot. An old Tohono O''odham woman, Emma Orozco, asks Walker for help in solving the brutal murder of her daughter, Roseanne, who was slain in 1970. Walker is able to take on the challenge because of his membership in TLC, The Last Chance, a privately funded agency that looks into old, unsolved crimes. This ingenious arrangement allows for great flexibility in the action of the story. As Walker searches for clues in Roseanne''s death, he comes across similar murdersâ€”each with no leads, each involving a dismembered body left alongside a road in the Southwest. The reader learns more and more about the killers, the sexually voracious, utterly amoral Gayle Stryker and her husband, Larry, a truly effective pair of monsters. Meanwhile, Walker''s dear friend Fat Crack Ortiz, a Tohono O''odham man, is dying of complications from diabetes. Most of Walker''s friends, in fact, are Indians, as is his adopted daughter, Lani. He draws not so much knowledge as strength and perspective from themâ€”no mumbo-jumbo here, only believable sensitivity.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Resting both her regular series sleuths, Joanna Brady and J. P. Beaumont, this latest Jance mystery returns to Arizona''s Tohono O''Odham reservation, also the setting for two earlier nonseries novels,\n <em>\n  Hour of the Hunter\n </em>\n (1991) and\n <em>\n  Kiss of the Bees\n </em>\n (2000). Retired cop Brandon Walker sets out to investigate a cold case, the mutilation murder of a 15-year-old Tohono O''Odham girl. Suspense builds gradually in the multilayered novel, which is filtered through multiple perspectives, each person adding a piece to a textured puzzle that tracks a pair of serial killers whose crimes extend backward across three decades. As in Jance''s two series, the action is intermixed with well-placed social commentary, this time regarding the unconscionable ill use of reservation peoples by vicious\n <em>\n  mil-ghan\n </em>\n (whites), even in the recent past. Although the Indian cultural backdrop is not as integral to the story as it is in Hillerman''s novels, this will still appeal to Hillerman devotees as well as to thriller fans accustomed to a sheen of blood spatter and sex with their suspense.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19727'),
(13855, 'The Day of the Dead', 'Karen Chance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Day of the Dead is a short story connected to the New York Times bestselling Cassandra Palmer series of novels.  It was first published in the Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance (2008) and is now being offered as a free ebook. It features Tomas, a character from Touch the Dark (2006), the first Cassandra Palmer novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3934'),
(13856, 'The Day of the Dead', 'Karen Chance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Day of the Dead is a short story connected to the New York Times bestselling Cassandra Palmer series of novels. It was first published in the Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance (2008) and is now being offered as a free ebook. It features Tomas, a character from Touch the Dark (2006), the first Cassandra Palmer novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20529'),
(13857, 'The Day of the Jackal', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world''s most heavily guarded man. One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5565'),
(13858, 'The Day of the Jackal', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world''s most heavily guarded man. One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9833'),
(13859, 'The Day of the Jackal', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world''s most heavily guarded man. One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19141'),
(13860, 'The Day of the Jackal', 'Frederick Forsyth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world''s most heavily guarded man. One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27928'),
(13861, 'Day of the Predator', 'Alex Scarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Liam O''Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. But all three have been given a second chance to work for an agency that no-one knows exists. Its purpose - to prevent time travel destroying history . . . When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where and when she shouldn''t have, Liam is marooned sixty-five million years ago in the hunting ground of a deadly - and until now - undiscovered species of predator. Can Liam make contact with Maddy and Sal before he''s torn to pieces by dinosaurs and without endangering history so much that the world is overtaken by a terrifying new reality?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7809'),
(13862, 'Day of the Predator', 'Alex Scarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Liam O''Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. But all three have been given a second chance to work for an agency that no-one knows exists. Its purpose - to prevent time travel destroying history . . . When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where and when she shouldn''t have, Liam is marooned sixty-five million years ago in the hunting ground of a deadly - and until now - undiscovered species of predator. Can Liam make contact with Maddy and Sal before he''s torn to pieces by dinosaurs and without endangering history so much that the world is overtaken by a terrifying new reality?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12552'),
(13863, 'Day of the Predator', 'Alex Scarrow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Liam O''Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. But all three have been given a second chance to work for an agency that no-one knows exists. Its purpose - to prevent time travel destroying history . . . When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where and when she shouldn''t have, Liam is marooned sixty-five million years ago in the hunting ground of a deadly - and until now - undiscovered species of predator. Can Liam make contact with Maddy and Sal before he''s torn to pieces by dinosaurs and without endangering history so much that the world is overtaken by a terrifying new reality?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16071'),
(13864, 'The Day of the Triffids', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This classic sf novel traces the fate of the world after a comet shower blinds most of the world''s population. The few with sight must struggle to reconstruct society while fighting mobile, flesh-eating plants called triffids. Samuel West''s narration of this powerful and realistic story provides a flawless interpretation of the text. The listener is caught up in the catastrophic chain of events, imagined and told with such skill?by narrator as well as author?that one can easily visualize the cataclysmic events. All of West''s vocal characterizations, including cockney accents, female voices, and children''s voices, ring true. This superlative production of an outstanding and entertaining novel belongs in all audio collections.?Melody Moxley, Rowan P.L., Salisbury, N.C.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A thoroughly English apocalypse, it rivals H. G. Wells in conveying how the everyday invaded by the alien would feel. No wonder Stephen King admires Wyndham so much."\n  <br />\n  --RAMSEY CAMPBELL\n </p>\n <p>\n  "John Wyndham''s The Day of the Triffids is one of my all-time favorite novels. It''s absolutely convincing, full of little telling details, and that sweet, warm sensation of horror and mystery."\n  <br />\n  --JOE R. LANSDALE\n </p>\n <p>\n  "My son''s middle name is Wyndham. Does that tell you how much I respect and revere the late John Wyndham? And The Day of the Triffids is the best of them all. He was a wonderful writer who was able to reinvigorate science fiction with spectacle and true thrills, and do so with a writing voice that created both suspense and elegance. A true master."\n  <br />\n  --ED GORMAN\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4223'),
(13865, 'The Day of the Triffids', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having â€œall the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.â€Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever.But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14111'),
(13866, 'The Day of the Triffids', 'John Wyndham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20378'),
(13867, 'The Day the Falls Stood Still', 'Cathy Marie Buchanan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Niagara Falls, 1915 When Bess Heath returns to her family home near the picturesque falls, it is to an unfamiliar scene the elegance of the life she once knew has vanished. Her father is a broken man, jobless and losing hope, and her mother is struggling to keep the family afloat. Isabel, the lively, charismatic sister Bess has always relied on is almost unrecognisable. Her engagement called off, she languishes in her bedroom, brooding and refusing to eat. Through all of this Bess finds solace in Tom Cole, a man she met by chance the night she returned home. Constant, gentle and devoted to Bess, he understands better than anyone the awesome and potentially devastating power of the falls and consoles her through a tragedy that nearly ruins her. But as their lives become more fully entwined, Bess is forced to make a painful choice between what she wants and what is best for her family\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6965'),
(13868, 'The Day the Falls Stood Still', 'Cathy Marie Buchanan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Niagara Falls, 1915 When Bess Heath returns to her family home near the picturesque falls, it is to an unfamiliar scene the elegance of the life she once knew has vanished. Her father is a broken man, jobless and losing hope, and her mother is struggling to keep the family afloat. Isabel, the lively, charismatic sister Bess has always relied on is almost unrecognisable. Her engagement called off, she languishes in her bedroom, brooding and refusing to eat. Through all of this Bess finds solace in Tom Cole, a man she met by chance the night she returned home. Constant, gentle and devoted to Bess, he understands better than anyone the awesome and potentially devastating power of the falls and consoles her through a tragedy that nearly ruins her. But as their lives become more fully entwined, Bess is forced to make a painful choice between what she wants and what is best for her family\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8725'),
(13869, 'The Day the Falls Stood Still', 'Cathy Marie Buchanan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Niagara Falls, 1915 When Bess Heath returns to her family home near the picturesque falls, it is to an unfamiliar scene the elegance of the life she once knew has vanished. Her father is a broken man, jobless and losing hope, and her mother is struggling to keep the family afloat. Isabel, the lively, charismatic sister Bess has always relied on is almost unrecognisable. Her engagement called off, she languishes in her bedroom, brooding and refusing to eat. Through all of this Bess finds solace in Tom Cole, a man she met by chance the night she returned home. Constant, gentle and devoted to Bess, he understands better than anyone the awesome and potentially devastating power of the falls and consoles her through a tragedy that nearly ruins her. But as their lives become more fully entwined, Bess is forced to make a painful choice between what she wants and what is best for her family\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16952'),
(13870, 'The Day the Falls Stood Still', 'Cathy Marie Buchanan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Niagara Falls, 1915 When Bess Heath returns to her family home near the picturesque falls, it is to an unfamiliar scene the elegance of the life she once knew has vanished. Her father is a broken man, jobless and losing hope, and her mother is struggling to keep the family afloat. Isabel, the lively, charismatic sister Bess has always relied on is almost unrecognisable. Her engagement called off, she languishes in her bedroom, brooding and refusing to eat. Through all of this Bess finds solace in Tom Cole, a man she met by chance the night she returned home. Constant, gentle and devoted to Bess, he understands better than anyone the awesome and potentially devastating power of the falls and consoles her through a tragedy that nearly ruins her. But as their lives become more fully entwined, Bess is forced to make a painful choice between what she wants and what is best for her family\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26856'),
(13871, 'The Day the Universe Changed', 'James Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Day the Universe Changed, James Burke examines eight periods in history when our view of the world shifted dramatically: in the eleventh century, when extraordinary discoveries were made by Spanish crusaders; in fourteenth-century Florence, where perspective in painting emerged; in the fifteenth century, when the advent of the printing press shook the foundations of an oral society; in the sixteenth century, when gunnery developments triggered the birth of modern science; in the early eighteenth century, when hot English summers brought on the Industrial Revolution; in the battlefield surgery stations of the French revolutionary armies, where people first became statistics; in the nineteenth century, when the discovery of dinosaur fossils led to the theory of evolution; and in the 1820s, when electrical experiments heralded the end of scientific certainty. Based on the popular television documentary series, The Day the Universe Changed is a bestselling history that challenges the reader to decide whether there is absolute knowledge to discover - or whether the universe is "ultimately what we say it is".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4836'),
(13872, 'The Day the Universe Changed', 'James Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Day the Universe Changed, James Burke examines eight periods in history when our view of the world shifted dramatically: in the eleventh century, when extraordinary discoveries were made by Spanish crusaders; in fourteenth-century Florence, where perspective in painting emerged; in the fifteenth century, when the advent of the printing press shook the foundations of an oral society; in the sixteenth century, when gunnery developments triggered the birth of modern science; in the early eighteenth century, when hot English summers brought on the Industrial Revolution; in the battlefield surgery stations of the French revolutionary armies, where people first became statistics; in the nineteenth century, when the discovery of dinosaur fossils led to the theory of evolution; and in the 1820s, when electrical experiments heralded the end of scientific certainty. Based on the popular television documentary series, The Day the Universe Changed is a bestselling history that challenges the reader to decide whether there is absolute knowledge to discover - or whether the universe is "ultimately what we say it is".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8684'),
(13873, 'The Day the Universe Changed', 'James Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Day the Universe Changed, James Burke examines eight periods in history when our view of the world shifted dramatically: in the eleventh century, when extraordinary discoveries were made by Spanish crusaders; in fourteenth-century Florence, where perspective in painting emerged; in the fifteenth century, when the advent of the printing press shook the foundations of an oral society; in the sixteenth century, when gunnery developments triggered the birth of modern science; in the early eighteenth century, when hot English summers brought on the Industrial Revolution; in the battlefield surgery stations of the French revolutionary armies, where people first became statistics; in the nineteenth century, when the discovery of dinosaur fossils led to the theory of evolution; and in the 1820s, when electrical experiments heralded the end of scientific certainty. Based on the popular television documentary series, The Day the Universe Changed is a bestselling history that challenges the reader to decide whether there is absolute knowledge to discover - or whether the universe is "ultimately what we say it is".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19862'),
(13874, 'A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton', 'Michael R. Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Vivid historical detail combines with memorable characters in Michael Phillips'' second story in his Shenandoah Sisters series." --\n <em>\n  Romantic Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Book 2 of Shenandoah Sisters. Mayme and Katie, from entirely different worlds, have been thrown together in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. Just teenagers, they are left to survive only by their own wits and shared experiences. Gradually, they are learning to appreciate each other''s strengths and to shore up each other''s weaknesses. Out of their efforts to simply stay alive comes a growing awareness of the Lord''s love and care for them, as well as the dim outlines of a plan to keep Rosewood Plantation operating. The book continues the story begun in Angels Watching Over Me, of two very appealing but contrasting characters and their secret mission to provide a sanctuary for others who have been left alone and adrift by a tragic war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2795'),
(13875, 'A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton', 'Michael R. Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Vivid historical detail combines with memorable characters in Michael Phillips'' second story in his Shenandoah Sisters series." --\n <em>\n  Romantic Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Book 2 of Shenandoah Sisters. Mayme and Katie, from entirely different worlds, have been thrown together in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. Just teenagers, they are left to survive only by their own wits and shared experiences. Gradually, they are learning to appreciate each other''s strengths and to shore up each other''s weaknesses. Out of their efforts to simply stay alive comes a growing awareness of the Lord''s love and care for them, as well as the dim outlines of a plan to keep Rosewood Plantation operating. The book continues the story begun in Angels Watching Over Me, of two very appealing but contrasting characters and their secret mission to provide a sanctuary for others who have been left alone and adrift by a tragic war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11959'),
(13876, 'A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton', 'Michael R. Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Vivid historical detail combines with memorable characters in Michael Phillips'' second story in his Shenandoah Sisters series." --\n <em>\n  Romantic Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Book 2 of Shenandoah Sisters. Mayme and Katie, from entirely different worlds, have been thrown together in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. Just teenagers, they are left to survive only by their own wits and shared experiences. Gradually, they are learning to appreciate each other''s strengths and to shore up each other''s weaknesses. Out of their efforts to simply stay alive comes a growing awareness of the Lord''s love and care for them, as well as the dim outlines of a plan to keep Rosewood Plantation operating. The book continues the story begun in Angels Watching Over Me, of two very appealing but contrasting characters and their secret mission to provide a sanctuary for others who have been left alone and adrift by a tragic war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22010'),
(13877, 'The Day We Found the Universe', 'Marcia Bartusiak', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Book Description From one of our most acclaimed science writers: a dramatic narrative of the discovery of the true nature and startling size of the universe, delving back past the moment of revelation to trace the decades of work--by a select group of scientists--that made it possible. On January 1, 1925, thity-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced findings that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. It was a realization that reshaped how humans understood their place in the cosmos. Six years later, continuing research by Hubble and others forced Albert Einstein to renounce his own cosmic model and finally accept the astonishing fact that the universe was not immobile but instead expanding. The story of these interwoven discoveries includes battles of will, clever insights, and wrong turns made by the early investigators in this great twentieth-century pursuit, from the luminaries (Einstein, Hubble, Harlow Shapley) to the lesser known: Henrietta Leavitt, who discovered the means to measure the vast dimensions of the cosmos . . . Vesto Slipher, the first and unheralded discoverer of the universeâ€™s expansion... Georges LemaÃ®tre, the Jesuit priest who correctly interpreted Einsteinâ€™s theories in relation to the universe... Milton Humason, who, with only an eighth-grade education, became a world-renowned expert on galaxy motions... and others. Here is the watershed moment in our cosmic history, splendidly arising from the exceptional combination of human curiosity, intelligence, and enterprise. Amazon Exclusive: A Q&amp;A with Marcia Bartusiak Question: Was there really a single day when the modern universe was revealed? Marcia Bartusiak: In some ways there was a unique day: January 1, 1925, at the height of the Roaring Twenties. Thatâ€™s the day when astronomer Edwin Hubble finally announced that the Milky Way was not alone but surrounded by sister galaxies just like our own. Eventually, Hubble directed our eyes to hundreds of billions of other galaxies, scattered like separate atoms through an ever-expanding space. It was the astronomical news of the century, if not of all astronomical history. Q: In your book Hubble turns out to be a more complex character than portrayed in most astronomy books. MB: He was an odd bird, but certainly a handsome one. Friends called him an Adonis. I think he resembles the British actor Jeremy Irons. Raised in Missouri, in a solid middle-class household, Hubble somewhere along the line yearned to be singular and distinct. Once he graduated from the University of Chicago, he went to Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar, where he completely reinvented himself; he adopted a British accent that he maintained for the rest of his life, dressed like a dandy, and began to add dubious credentials to his resume, like saying he once practiced law, which he never did. He married into a rich Los Angeles family, and throughout his life seemed intent on erasing his Midwestern roots. His wife never met Hubbleâ€™s mother or siblings. Hubble was not chums with his astronomy colleagues but preferred to socialize with the actors and writers in nearby Hollywood. One astronomer called Hubble, often arrogant and standoffish, a â€œstuffed shirt.â€ Yet, while Hubble fibbed to his friends about his background, he was meticulously careful about his science. In fact, when he obtained the first evidence in early 1924 that the Andromeda nebula was truly a distant galaxy, he held off an official report for almost a year. He first wanted to counter every possible argument against his find. Being caught in a scientific error was Hubbleâ€™s greatest nightmare. And when he did finally release the data at that astronomy meeting on New Yearâ€™s Day in 1925, after a lot of arm-twisting from his colleagues, he wasnâ€™t even there. He had someone else relay the findings. Q: The Day We Fond the Universe informs us that there were numerous important figures whose efforts contributed to this monumental discoveryâ€”that Hubble didnâ€™t do it alone as the textbooks today seem to imply. MB: Not at all. This is a far richer story--filled with trials and errors, serendipitous breaks, battle of wills, and missed opportunities. Several astronomers could have snatched victory years before Hubble but for various reasons didnâ€™t. However, they constructed the firm foundation that allowed Hubble to step in and make his great discoveries, revealing the modern universe as we know it today. Q: Who are some of those other astronomers? MB: The first was James Keeler, then director of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in California near San Jose, the first observatory in the world to place a gigantic telescope at high elevation. Its lenses were a yard wide. But Keeler chose to spend his time at a smaller telescope, which every other astronomer on his staff despised. He fixed it up and began to discover that there were tens of thousands of faint, disklike nebulae arrayed over the celestial sky. This was in 1899. At the time most astronomers thought these spiraling clouds were baby solar systems in the making. If he had continued, Keeler had a good chance of revealing they were actually galaxies, other Milky Ways. He had the smarts (he was one of the best astronomers in his day) and he had the equipment. But he died at the age of 42, likely of lung cancer. He was never seen without a cigar in his mouth. If he had lived, it might have been the â€œKeeler Space Telescopeâ€ now orbiting the Earth. Q: Didnâ€™t anyone follow-up? MB: Not right away, oddly enough. Most astronomers at this time were primarily concerned with the Sun and stars. The study of nebulae was not popular. It wasnâ€™t until the 1910s that Heber Curtis, another Lick Observatory astronomer, went back to the same telescope that Keeler used and advanced this work. He found so many new nebulae that he estimated there were at least a million around the sky. Moreover, he began to report that they were indeed distant galaxies. He told one reporter that one he sighted had to be 20 million light-years away, an astounding distance for its time. Q: So why donâ€™t we remember Curtis as the discoverer of the modern universe? MB: Because all the evidence Curtis gathered was merely circumstantial. Astronomers were waiting for a â€œslam dunk.â€ The novae, or sudden flare-ups, that occasionally appeared in these spiraling nebulae suggested they were far-off, since the novae were so faint when compared to the ones that pop off in our own Milky Way. But no one was sure. Some of the novae were so bright, there wasnâ€™t any physics to explain the phenomena. This was before astronomers understood that stars could completely explode. Curtis was on the verge of solving the mystery, but he took himself out of the game when he accepted the directorship of an observatory in Pennsylvania, where the nighttime skies were so bad that he could no longer compete. What was needed to resolve the problem was an undeniable distance measurement out to those nebulae. It required a cosmic yardstick, but none was available. And thatâ€™s where an interesting woman, Henrietta Leavitt, comes in. Q: The role of women in astronomical history is prominent in your work. What are the parallels between their experiences and those of contemporary female researchers? MB: It was a far different time for women in the sciences at that time. Women astronomers werenâ€™t allowed to observe on the major university telescopes. It was considered unseemly to have women and men work together on an isolated mountaintop. At Harvard, for example, women were mainly relegated to being what were called â€œcomputersâ€â€”staying in offices, scanning photographic plates and recording each starâ€™s position, luminosity, and spectrum. Yet it was immensely valuable work. In the course of it, Henrietta Leavitt astutely discovered the celestial Rosetta Stone that later allowed Hubble to make his great discoveries. In 1912 she found a unique pattern to the blinking of variable stars called Cepheids. These are stars that repeatedly brighten and dim over a matter of days, weeks, or months. She revealed that the brighter Cepheids had the slower periods; the dimmer ones were faster. That meant you could follow the Cepheidâ€™s change from afar, determine its period, which would let you know how bright the star is and hence how far away it was. Harlow Shapley, a young up-and-comer at the new Mount Wilson Observatory in southern California, was the first to take advantage of this wonderful new yardstick, discovering that the Milky Way was far larger than anyone had ever suspected. Ten times larger. It was now 1918, and Shapley could have continued outward, determining the distances to those mysterious spiral nebulae and beaten Hubble to the brass ring--but he didnâ€™t. Q: Why not? MB: Because Shapley was mulishly wedded to his own vision of the universe. To him, the Milky Way was so big that its borders defined the very boundaries of the universe. The spiral nebulae were mere appendages. He saw no reason to study them. He regretted that blunder for the rest of his life. Hubble had by then arrived at Mount Wilson, and at first stood in Shapleyâ€™s shadow. Shapley was the golden boy of astronomy for his remake of the Milky Way. The two astronomers never got along, throughout their professional careers. Shapley, also from Missouri, retained his brassy and chummy country ways. Hubbleâ€™s affectation for wearing jodhpurs, leather puttees, and a beret while observing or going around and saying â€œBah Joveâ€ was simply too much for Shapley to bear. To Hubbleâ€™s relief, Shapley soon left Mount Wilson to become director of the Harvard College Observatory, which allowed Hubble to focus on the spiral nebulae and make his great discovery. Q: How did Hubble go on to see the universe expanding? MB: Well, thatâ€™s where the standard textbooks donâ€™t get the story quite right. There was another astronomer, by the name of Vesto\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8145'),
(13878, 'The Day We Lost the H-Bomb: Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History', 'Barbara Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In\n <strong>\n  The Day We Lost the H-Bomb\n </strong>\n , science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War''s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish farming village of Palomares during a routine airborne refueling. The explosion killed seven airmen and scattered the bomber''s payload--four unarmed thermonuclear bombs--across miles of coastline. Three of the rogue H-bombs were recovered quickly. Tracking down the fourth required the largest search-and-salvage operation in U.S. military history.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moran traces the roots of the Palomares incident, giving a brief yet in-depth history of the Strategic Air Command and its eccentric, larger-than-life commander, General Curtis LeMay, whose massive deterrence strategy kept armed U.S. bombers aloft at all times. Back on the ground, Moran recounts the myriad social and environmental effects of an accident that spread radioactive debris over hundreds of acres of Spanish farmland, alarmed America''s strategic allies, and damaged Spanish-American diplomatic relations.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the American military floundered in its attempt to keep the story secret, the events in Spain sometimes took on farcical overtones. Constant global media hype was fueled by the hit James Bond movie Thunderball, with its plot about an atomic weapon lost at sea. In addition, there were the unwanted attentions of a rusty- hulled Soviet surveillance ship and even awkward public relations stunts, complete with American diplomats in swim trunks.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Day We Lost the H-Bomb\n </strong>\n is a singular work of military history that effortlessly and dramatically captures Cold War hysteria, high-stakes negotiations, and the race to clean up a disaster of unprecedented scope. At once epic and intimate, this book recounts in stunning detail the fragile peace Americans had made with nuclear weapons--and how the specter of imminent doom forced the United States to consider not only what had happened over Palomares but what could have happened. This forgotten chapter of Cold War history will grip readers with the tension of that time and reawaken the fears and hopes of that dangerous era.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11017'),
(13879, 'The Daydreamer', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Most grown-ups think Peter Fortune is a difficult child because he is so quiet: they "knew that something was going on inside that head, but they couldn''t hear it or see it or feel it. They couldn''t tell Peter to stop it, because they didn''t know what it was he was doing in there." Actually, he is involved in one of his great adventures: exchanging bodies with his ancient pet cat, battling a troop of dolls come to life, making his parents disappear with a vanishing cream or discovering what it is like to be an adult falling in love. Through his daydreams, Peter learns to see the world from numerous points of view. He is the only boy at school, for example, who can recognize the weaknesses of a bully and feel compassion for him. In his first book for children, McEwan ( The Comfort of Strangers ; The Child in Time ) dextrously presents a series of strange and wonderful metamorphoses. His vivid and poetic writing, celebrating the creative abilities of a gifted 10-year-old, reveals a profound understanding of childhood. Illustrations not seen by PW. Ages 8-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 4-7. What if our worst fears (or, perhaps, our dearest wishes) actually happened? Right here in the backyard. There''s a nightmarish sense of the domestic transformed in these interconnected stories about a 10-year-old loner. When Peter is quiet, it''s because he''s having "the weirdest" adventures in his head. They''re experiences that grow out of the clutter of the kitchen drawer or the bombardment at the breakfast table. He loves his parents, but they crowd him. What would happen if he used vanishing cream? How would it feel to swap bodies with a cat, with a baby, with a grown-up? To actually, viscerally, be those creatures and still have your 10-year-old consciousness? The episode about the defeat of a bully is unconvincing, and at the end, Peter is too articulate about being on the edge of adulthood. But British author McEwan (whose prizewinning adult novels have been filmed) writes simple, visual prose--comic, deadpan, and lyrical--that captures the physicalness of the wild fantasy. The uneasiness remains. Things are put back together, but the world is not exactly right. The illustrations were not seen in galley, but there could be no better expression of Peter''s vision than the kind of surreal artwork Browne has used in such books as\n  <em>\n   Changes\n  </em>\n  (1990), where the mundane is suddenly mad. What if . . . ?\n  <em>\n   Hazel Rochman\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25709'),
(13880, 'Dazzle - The Complete Unabridged Trilogy', 'Gould, Judith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Boralevi women rose from the depths of a Russian ghetto to the heights of wealth and power in St. Petersburg, Hollywood and the Middle East. Dazzle is the story of these amazing women, a racy, scintillating novel packed with all the blockbuster potential of Gould''s earlier bestsellers, Sins and Love-Makers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20149'),
(13881, 'Dazzle the Complete Unabridged Trilogy', 'Gould, Judith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Boralevi women rose from the depths of a Russian ghetto to the heights of wealth and power in St. Petersburg, Hollywood and the Middle East. Dazzle is the story of these amazing women, a racy, scintillating novel packed with all the blockbuster potential of Gould''s earlier bestsellers, Sins and Love-Makers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5285'),
(13882, 'Dazzle the Complete Unabridged Trilogy', 'Gould, Judith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Boralevi women rose from the depths of a Russian ghetto to the heights of wealth and power in St. Petersburg, Hollywood and the Middle East. Dazzle is the story of these amazing women, a racy, scintillating novel packed with all the blockbuster potential of Gould''s earlier bestsellers, Sins and Love-Makers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10587'),
(13883, 'De caelo', 'Constantin Noica', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25950'),
(13884, 'De profesie - logodnica', 'James Reedlock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25539'),
(13885, 'De Profundis', 'Oscar Wilde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written from Wilde''s prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, "De Profundis" explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas''s behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde''s own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profound meditation on human suffering, "De Profundis" is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellmann calls "De Profundis" "a love letter...One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written from Wilde''s prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, "De Profundis" explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas''s behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde''s own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profound meditation on human suffering, "De Profundis" is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellmann calls "De Profundis" "a love letter...One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2442'),
(13886, 'De Profundis', 'Oscar Wilde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written from Wilde''s prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, "De Profundis" explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas''s behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde''s own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profound meditation on human suffering, "De Profundis" is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellmann calls "De Profundis" "a love letter...One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13300'),
(13887, 'De veghe in lanul de secara', 'Jerome David Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25514'),
(13888, 'De veghe in lanul se secara', 'J.D. Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25556'),
(13889, 'De-a v-ati ascunselea', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26056'),
(13890, 'Dead Air', 'Robin Caroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When she finds her coworker''s body in front of the station doors, nighttime DJ Gabby Rogillio knows it was murder. But how can the police suspect the station''s owner, a man who''s been like a father to Gabby? She''s determined to clear her friend''s name, and will recruit anyone she can find to help. Even the mysterious newcomer in town, handsome businessman Clark McKay. Gabby doesn''t quite trust Clark, but she can''t crack the case alone. Especially when the killer threatens them both-either back down from the investigationhellip;or be silenced forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1641'),
(13891, 'Dead Air', 'Robin Caroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When she finds her coworker''s body in front of the station doors, nighttime DJ Gabby Rogillio knows it was murder. But how can the police suspect the station''s owner, a man who''s been like a father to Gabby? She''s determined to clear her friend''s name, and will recruit anyone she can find to help. Even the mysterious newcomer in town, handsome businessman Clark McKay. Gabby doesn''t quite trust Clark, but she can''t crack the case alone. Especially when the killer threatens them both-either back down from the investigationhellip;or be silenced forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8816'),
(13892, 'Dead Air', 'Robin Caroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When she finds her coworker''s body in front of the station doors, nighttime DJ Gabby Rogillio knows it was murder. But how can the police suspect the station''s owner, a man who''s been like a father to Gabby? She''s determined to clear her friend''s name, and will recruit anyone she can find to help. Even the mysterious newcomer in town, handsome businessman Clark McKay. Gabby doesn''t quite trust Clark, but she can''t crack the case alone. Especially when the killer threatens them both-either back down from the investigationhellip;or be silenced forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23332'),
(13893, 'Dead and Alive', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . . As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor''s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalion''s centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless visionand it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor''s malignant mind could have conceivedan indestructible entity that steps out of humankind''s collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose, beyond imagining. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6098'),
(13894, 'Dead and Alive', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . . As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor''s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalion''s centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless visionand it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor''s malignant mind could have conceivedan indestructible entity that steps out of humankind''s collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose, beyond imagining. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10844');
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(13895, 'Dead and Alive', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . . As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor''s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalion''s centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless visionand it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor''s malignant mind could have conceivedan indestructible entity that steps out of humankind''s collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose, beyond imagining. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17837'),
(13896, 'Dead and Alive', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . . As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor''s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalion''s centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless visionand it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor''s malignant mind could have conceivedan indestructible entity that steps out of humankind''s collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose, beyond imagining. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27398'),
(13897, 'Dead and Gone', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Now an HBO original series, *True Blood*-the *New York Times* bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series continues.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vamps-and nothing about weres.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie works-and she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But there''s a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beings-older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves-is preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6865'),
(13898, 'Dead and Gone', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Now an HBO original series, *True Blood*-the *New York Times* bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series continues.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vamps-and nothing about weres.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie works-and she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But there''s a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beings-older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves-is preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10193'),
(13899, 'Dead and Gone', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now an HBO original series, *True Blood*-the *New York Times* bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series continues.** Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vamps-and nothing about weres. Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie works-and she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it. But there''s a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beings-older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves-is preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15219'),
(13900, 'Dead and Gone', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now an HBO original series, *True Blood*-the *New York Times* bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series continues.** Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vamps-and nothing about weres. Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie works-and she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it. But there''s a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beings-older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves-is preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17048'),
(13901, 'Dead and Gone', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Now an HBO original series, *True Blood*-the *New York Times* bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series continues.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vamps-and nothing about weres.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie works-and she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But there''s a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beings-older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves-is preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26839'),
(13902, 'Dead as a Doornail', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Sookie''s brother Jason''s eyes start to change, she knows he''s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population-and Jason''s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who''s behind the attacks, unless the killer decides to find her first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6868'),
(13903, 'Dead as a Doornail', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Sookie''s brother Jason''s eyes start to change, she knows he''s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population-and Jason''s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who''s behind the attacks, unless the killer decides to find her first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10180'),
(13904, 'Dead as a doornail', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Sookie''s brother Jason''s eyes start to change, she knows he''s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population-and Jason''s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who''s behind the attacks, unless the killer decides to find her first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14885'),
(13905, 'Dead as a doornail', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Sookie''s brother Jason''s eyes start to change, she knows he''s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population-and Jason''s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who''s behind the attacks, unless the killer decides to find her first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17047'),
(13906, 'Dead as a doornail', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Sookie''s brother Jason''s eyes start to change, she knows he''s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population-and Jason''s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who''s behind the attacks, unless the killer decides to find her first.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26838'),
(13907, 'Dead babies', 'Martin Amis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Blitzed On Uppers, Downers, Blue Movies And Bellinis, The Bacchanalia Bent Bon-Vivants Ensconced At Appleseed Rectory For The Weekend Are Reeling In An Hallucinatory Haze Of Sex And Seduction. But As Friday Melts Into Saturday And Saturday Spirals Into Sunday And Sobriety Sets In, The Orgiastic Romp Descends To Disastrous Depths.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25357'),
(13908, 'Dead Beat', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The *USA Today* Bestselling Author''s new Dresden Files novel...finally in paperback-and soon to be a Sci Fi Channel movie!    Filled with kickass adventure and supernatural fireworks, Jim Butcher''s Dresden Files novels have been compared to Harry Potter. Now, Harry Dresden must save Chicago from black magic and necromancy-all in a day''s work for the city''s only professional wizard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4513'),
(13909, 'Dead Beat', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The *USA Today* Bestselling Author''s new Dresden Files novel...finally in paperback-and soon to be a Sci Fi Channel movie!    Filled with kickass adventure and supernatural fireworks, Jim Butcher''s Dresden Files novels have been compared to Harry Potter. Now, Harry Dresden must save Chicago from black magic and necromancy-all in a day''s work for the city''s only professional wizard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8739'),
(13910, 'Dead Beat', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The *USA Today* Bestselling Author''s new Dresden Files novel...finally in paperback-and soon to be a Sci Fi Channel movie! Filled with kickass adventure and supernatural fireworks, Jim Butcher''s Dresden Files novels have been compared to Harry Potter. Now, Harry Dresden must save Chicago from black magic and necromancy-all in a day''s work for the city''s only professional wizard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14986'),
(13911, 'Dead Beautiful', 'Yvonne Woon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 7 Upâ€“RenÃ©e Winters, after being inexplicably called into California''s Redwood forest, walks right up to the spot where both of her parents lay dead after suffering apparent heart attacks. Stranger still, their mouths are stuffed with gauze and coins are scattered about their bodies. The teen is put under the care of her estranged grandfather, who sends her to Gottfried Academy, a boarding school devoted to Latin, philosophy, and a strange mix of sciences, located across the country in Northern Maine. There, she meets fellow student Dante and is intensely drawn to himâ€“and he to her. A series of suspicious events occurs throughout the first semester as RenÃ©e and Dante grow closer and students mysteriously die. Woon slowlyâ€“yet suspensefullyâ€“reveals that children who die and are left unburied for 10 days wake up part alive and part deceased. Undead. Gottfried Academy exists to teach both the living and the Undead about this transformation and the rules concerning it. Dead Beautiful could be described as Twilight at Hogwarts. Despite numerous parallels to Stephenie Meyer''s saga, Woon pulls off some interesting twists and captures readers with the romantic connection between RenÃ©e and Dante. This novel will be an easy sell to readers who are still dying for more paranormal, forbidden, chaste romance. Woon sprinkles in some philosophical ideas that set the story apart from others in the same genre. Riveting and different, it is a real page-turner._Emily Chornomaz, West Orange Public Library, NJ_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Darkly handsome Dante Berlin is the object of every girlâ€™s desire at gothic Gottfried Academy, but he seems unreachable until new girl RenÃ©e Winters crosses his path. They discover a mutual attraction, complicated by the fact that Dante is undead and RenÃ©e is very much alive. A string of murders that create more undead causes Dante and RenÃ©e to start an investigation that reveals the true purpose of Gottfried Academy as well as the potentially fatal connection between the two teens. Boarding-school story meets Murder, She Wrote meets the Twilight series in this nifty title, which also offers an attention-grabbing take on zombies. Detailed world building and setting contribute as much to the story as character and plot. Atmospheric touches such as school rituals, classes like Imaginary Arithmetic, and the use of Latin as the â€œinsiderâ€ language all add to the ambience. This lacks the sassy humor of many zombie booksâ€”not a failing, just a factâ€”so give this to the earnest Twilight crowd but also to teens who like impossible love stories with supernatural flavor. Grades 8-11. --Cindy Welch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/132'),
(13912, 'Dead Beautiful', 'Yvonne Woon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 7 Upâ€“RenÃ©e Winters, after being inexplicably called into California''s Redwood forest, walks right up to the spot where both of her parents lay dead after suffering apparent heart attacks. Stranger still, their mouths are stuffed with gauze and coins are scattered about their bodies. The teen is put under the care of her estranged grandfather, who sends her to Gottfried Academy, a boarding school devoted to Latin, philosophy, and a strange mix of sciences, located across the country in Northern Maine. There, she meets fellow student Dante and is intensely drawn to himâ€“and he to her. A series of suspicious events occurs throughout the first semester as RenÃ©e and Dante grow closer and students mysteriously die. Woon slowlyâ€“yet suspensefullyâ€“reveals that children who die and are left unburied for 10 days wake up part alive and part deceased. Undead. Gottfried Academy exists to teach both the living and the Undead about this transformation and the rules concerning it. Dead Beautiful could be described as Twilight at Hogwarts. Despite numerous parallels to Stephenie Meyer''s saga, Woon pulls off some interesting twists and captures readers with the romantic connection between RenÃ©e and Dante. This novel will be an easy sell to readers who are still dying for more paranormal, forbidden, chaste romance. Woon sprinkles in some philosophical ideas that set the story apart from others in the same genre. Riveting and different, it is a real page-turner._Emily Chornomaz, West Orange Public Library, NJ_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Darkly handsome Dante Berlin is the object of every girlâ€™s desire at gothic Gottfried Academy, but he seems unreachable until new girl RenÃ©e Winters crosses his path. They discover a mutual attraction, complicated by the fact that Dante is undead and RenÃ©e is very much alive. A string of murders that create more undead causes Dante and RenÃ©e to start an investigation that reveals the true purpose of Gottfried Academy as well as the potentially fatal connection between the two teens. Boarding-school story meets Murder, She Wrote meets the Twilight series in this nifty title, which also offers an attention-grabbing take on zombies. Detailed world building and setting contribute as much to the story as character and plot. Atmospheric touches such as school rituals, classes like Imaginary Arithmetic, and the use of Latin as the â€œinsiderâ€ language all add to the ambience. This lacks the sassy humor of many zombie booksâ€”not a failing, just a factâ€”so give this to the earnest Twilight crowd but also to teens who like impossible love stories with supernatural flavor. Grades 8-11. --Cindy Welch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13482'),
(13913, 'Dead Beautiful', 'Yvonne Woon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 7 Upâ€“RenÃ©e Winters, after being inexplicably called into California''s Redwood forest, walks right up to the spot where both of her parents lay dead after suffering apparent heart attacks. Stranger still, their mouths are stuffed with gauze and coins are scattered about their bodies. The teen is put under the care of her estranged grandfather, who sends her to Gottfried Academy, a boarding school devoted to Latin, philosophy, and a strange mix of sciences, located across the country in Northern Maine. There, she meets fellow student Dante and is intensely drawn to himâ€“and he to her. A series of suspicious events occurs throughout the first semester as RenÃ©e and Dante grow closer and students mysteriously die. Woon slowlyâ€“yet suspensefullyâ€“reveals that children who die and are left unburied for 10 days wake up part alive and part deceased. Undead. Gottfried Academy exists to teach both the living and the Undead about this transformation and the rules concerning it. Dead Beautiful could be described as Twilight at Hogwarts. Despite numerous parallels to Stephenie Meyer''s saga, Woon pulls off some interesting twists and captures readers with the romantic connection between RenÃ©e and Dante. This novel will be an easy sell to readers who are still dying for more paranormal, forbidden, chaste romance. Woon sprinkles in some philosophical ideas that set the story apart from others in the same genre. Riveting and different, it is a real page-turner._Emily Chornomaz, West Orange Public Library, NJ_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Darkly handsome Dante Berlin is the object of every girlâ€™s desire at gothic Gottfried Academy, but he seems unreachable until new girl RenÃ©e Winters crosses his path. They discover a mutual attraction, complicated by the fact that Dante is undead and RenÃ©e is very much alive. A string of murders that create more undead causes Dante and RenÃ©e to start an investigation that reveals the true purpose of Gottfried Academy as well as the potentially fatal connection between the two teens. Boarding-school story meets Murder, She Wrote meets the Twilight series in this nifty title, which also offers an attention-grabbing take on zombies. Detailed world building and setting contribute as much to the story as character and plot. Atmospheric touches such as school rituals, classes like Imaginary Arithmetic, and the use of Latin as the â€œinsiderâ€ language all add to the ambience. This lacks the sassy humor of many zombie booksâ€”not a failing, just a factâ€”so give this to the earnest Twilight crowd but also to teens who like impossible love stories with supernatural flavor. Grades 8-11. --Cindy Welch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24743'),
(13914, 'Dead by Midnight', 'Beverly Barton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Dead by Morning\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''The popular and dependable Barton has again created an intricately plotted, thoroughly engrossing serial killer tale that satisfactorily resolves the current dilemmas but leaves a stunning cliff-hanger.'''' --_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   As Good as Dead\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''A powerful story that kept me up very late--with all the lights on.'''' --Kay Hooper,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In murder . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The last sounds Dean Wilson hears are a clock striking twelve and a killer''s taunting words. And his death is just the first. One by one, victims are stalked and shot at close range. Only the killer knows their sins, and who will be the next to die at midnight?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  And in life . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it''s a joke. Then she gets a second. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high school sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent murders, he''s drawn into a case that''s terrifyingly personal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Timing is everything.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With every murder, the killer edges closer. Soon Lorie''s will be the last name left on his list. Her only hope is to unearth a deadly secret--before the clock runs out for good.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7251'),
(13915, 'Dead by Midnight', 'Beverly Barton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Dead by Morning\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''The popular and dependable Barton has again created an intricately plotted, thoroughly engrossing serial killer tale that satisfactorily resolves the current dilemmas but leaves a stunning cliff-hanger.'''' --_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   As Good as Dead\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''A powerful story that kept me up very late--with all the lights on.'''' --Kay Hooper,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In murder . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The last sounds Dean Wilson hears are a clock striking twelve and a killer''s taunting words. And his death is just the first. One by one, victims are stalked and shot at close range. Only the killer knows their sins, and who will be the next to die at midnight?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  And in life . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it''s a joke. Then she gets a second. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high school sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent murders, he''s drawn into a case that''s terrifyingly personal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Timing is everything.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With every murder, the killer edges closer. Soon Lorie''s will be the last name left on his list. Her only hope is to unearth a deadly secret--before the clock runs out for good.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8384'),
(13916, 'Dead by Midnight', 'Beverly Barton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Dead by Morning\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''The popular and dependable Barton has again created an intricately plotted, thoroughly engrossing serial killer tale that satisfactorily resolves the current dilemmas but leaves a stunning cliff-hanger.'''' --_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   As Good as Dead\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''A powerful story that kept me up very late--with all the lights on.'''' --Kay Hooper,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In murder . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n The last sounds Dean Wilson hears are a clock striking twelve and a killer''s taunting words. And his death is just the first. One by one, victims are stalked and shot at close range. Only the killer knows their sins, and who will be the next to die at midnight?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  And in life . . .\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it''s a joke. Then she gets a second. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high school sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent murders, he''s drawn into a case that''s terrifyingly personal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Timing is everything.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With every murder, the killer edges closer. Soon Lorie''s will be the last name left on his list. Her only hope is to unearth a deadly secret--before the clock runs out for good.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16639'),
(13917, 'Dead Calm', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6858'),
(13918, 'Dead Calm', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13384'),
(13919, 'Dead calm', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17040'),
(13920, 'Dead calm', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26883'),
(13921, 'Dead Center', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After Laurie Collins left him and headed west, New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter didn''t expect to ever see her again. So he''s shocked when his ex-girlfriend appears on TV--and then calls him pleading for his help. Two coeds in Wisconsin have been found brutally stabbed to death. As the town''s acting police chief, Laurie had to arrest a young college student with a carful of bloodstains who argued with one of the victims just before her death. Yet Laurie strongly believes that the suspect, Jeremy Davidson, is innocent. Trading the refineries and factories of Paterson for the frozen pastures of Findlay, Wisconsin, Andy soon finds himself in a small town handling a big-time double homicide case. He looks into Jeremy''s romance with one of the victims--and the possible involvement of a bizarre religious cult--one that may sanction the most unholy, and vicious, of acts. While Andy tries to save Jeremy, make sense of his love life, and find a decent pizza for his beloved dog, Tara, the secrets of an ultra-religious community begin to rain down on him like bricks from a cracked fortress. But as EdgarÂ®-nominated Rosenfelt proves to us once again, the path to the truth is littered with lies and misdirection. And before it''s all over, the unexpected is the only thing Andy can count on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6158'),
(13922, 'Dead Center', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After Laurie Collins left him and headed west, New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter didn''t expect to ever see her again. So he''s shocked when his ex-girlfriend appears on TV--and then calls him pleading for his help. Two coeds in Wisconsin have been found brutally stabbed to death. As the town''s acting police chief, Laurie had to arrest a young college student with a carful of bloodstains who argued with one of the victims just before her death. Yet Laurie strongly believes that the suspect, Jeremy Davidson, is innocent. Trading the refineries and factories of Paterson for the frozen pastures of Findlay, Wisconsin, Andy soon finds himself in a small town handling a big-time double homicide case. He looks into Jeremy''s romance with one of the victims--and the possible involvement of a bizarre religious cult--one that may sanction the most unholy, and vicious, of acts. While Andy tries to save Jeremy, make sense of his love life, and find a decent pizza for his beloved dog, Tara, the secrets of an ultra-religious community begin to rain down on him like bricks from a cracked fortress. But as EdgarÂ®-nominated Rosenfelt proves to us once again, the path to the truth is littered with lies and misdirection. And before it''s all over, the unexpected is the only thing Andy can count on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13506'),
(13923, 'Dead Center', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After Laurie Collins left him and headed west, New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter didn''t expect to ever see her again. So he''s shocked when his ex-girlfriend appears on TV--and then calls him pleading for his help. Two coeds in Wisconsin have been found brutally stabbed to death. As the town''s acting police chief, Laurie had to arrest a young college student with a carful of bloodstains who argued with one of the victims just before her death. Yet Laurie strongly believes that the suspect, Jeremy Davidson, is innocent. Trading the refineries and factories of Paterson for the frozen pastures of Findlay, Wisconsin, Andy soon finds himself in a small town handling a big-time double homicide case. He looks into Jeremy''s romance with one of the victims--and the possible involvement of a bizarre religious cult--one that may sanction the most unholy, and vicious, of acts. While Andy tries to save Jeremy, make sense of his love life, and find a decent pizza for his beloved dog, Tara, the secrets of an ultra-religious community begin to rain down on him like bricks from a cracked fortress. But as EdgarÂ®-nominated Rosenfelt proves to us once again, the path to the truth is littered with lies and misdirection. And before it''s all over, the unexpected is the only thing Andy can count on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17876'),
(13924, 'Dead Center', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After Laurie Collins left him and headed west, New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter didn''t expect to ever see her again. So he''s shocked when his ex-girlfriend appears on TV--and then calls him pleading for his help. Two coeds in Wisconsin have been found brutally stabbed to death. As the town''s acting police chief, Laurie had to arrest a young college student with a carful of bloodstains who argued with one of the victims just before her death. Yet Laurie strongly believes that the suspect, Jeremy Davidson, is innocent. Trading the refineries and factories of Paterson for the frozen pastures of Findlay, Wisconsin, Andy soon finds himself in a small town handling a big-time double homicide case. He looks into Jeremy''s romance with one of the victims--and the possible involvement of a bizarre religious cult--one that may sanction the most unholy, and vicious, of acts. While Andy tries to save Jeremy, make sense of his love life, and find a decent pizza for his beloved dog, Tara, the secrets of an ultra-religious community begin to rain down on him like bricks from a cracked fortress. But as EdgarÂ®-nominated Rosenfelt proves to us once again, the path to the truth is littered with lies and misdirection. And before it''s all over, the unexpected is the only thing Andy can count on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27349'),
(13925, 'Dead Cert', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Fresh and exciting... very lively'' Sunday Times ''As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true, nowadays, of his crime writing'' Daily Mirror\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this masterpiece, Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the shocking world of horse racingâ€”where one man must bring his friends'' killers into the light, or else risk death himself . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Steeplechaser Alan York knows well the dangers of the sport. But when his best friend and rival, Bill Davidson, takes a fall in the middle of a race and doesn''t get up again, Alan discovers that it was no accident. Someone rigged a trip wire to take down the running horse. The more Alan investigates, the more he suspects that there is more to the plot than just murderous horseplay. But even as he approaches the finish line to this mysterious race, those responsible for his friend''s death are already planning for Alan to have a fatal accident of his own . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6014'),
(13926, 'Dead Cert', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Fresh and exciting... very lively'' Sunday Times ''As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true, nowadays, of his crime writing'' Daily Mirror\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this masterpiece, Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the shocking world of horse racingâ€”where one man must bring his friends'' killers into the light, or else risk death himself . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Steeplechaser Alan York knows well the dangers of the sport. But when his best friend and rival, Bill Davidson, takes a fall in the middle of a race and doesn''t get up again, Alan discovers that it was no accident. Someone rigged a trip wire to take down the running horse. The more Alan investigates, the more he suspects that there is more to the plot than just murderous horseplay. But even as he approaches the finish line to this mysterious race, those responsible for his friend''s death are already planning for Alan to have a fatal accident of his own . . .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9848'),
(13927, 'Dead Certain', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n <br />\n Now the second is free.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim again. But when her business partner, Derek England, is found with a bullet through the back of his head just hours after she left an incriminating message on his voice mail, Amanda finds herself in danger of becoming a victim of another sort.\n</p>\n<p>\n All the evidence points to Amanda as Derekâ€™s killer, and Chief of Police Sean Mercer is building the case against her. But when another of her colleagues is found brutally murdered, itâ€™s obvious that someone other than Amanda is behind the killings. Suddenly Amanda is a target once again, as a diabolical killer circles ever closerâ€”and the only thing that stands between her and becoming the third and final victim is the man who had tried to put her behind bars. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n <br />\n Now the second is free.\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim again. But when her business partner, Derek England, is found with a bullet through the back of his head just hours after she left an incriminating message on his voice mail, Amanda finds herself in danger of becoming a victim of another sort.\n</p>\n<p>\n All the evidence points to Amanda as Derek''s killer, and Chief of Police Sean Mercer is building the case against her. But when another of her colleagues is found brutally murdered, it''s obvious that someone other than Amanda is behind the killings. Suddenly Amanda is a target once again, as a diabolical killer circles ever closerâ€”and the only thing that stands between her and becoming the third and final victim is the man who had tried to put her behind bars. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3135'),
(13928, 'Dead Certain', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n <br />\n Now the second is free.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim again. But when her business partner, Derek England, is found with a bullet through the back of his head just hours after she left an incriminating message on his voice mail, Amanda finds herself in danger of becoming a victim of another sort.\n</p>\n<p>\n All the evidence points to Amanda as Derekâ€™s killer, and Chief of Police Sean Mercer is building the case against her. But when another of her colleagues is found brutally murdered, itâ€™s obvious that someone other than Amanda is behind the killings. Suddenly Amanda is a target once again, as a diabolical killer circles ever closerâ€”and the only thing that stands between her and becoming the third and final victim is the man who had tried to put her behind bars. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n <br />\n Now the second is free.\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim again. But when her business partner, Derek England, is found with a bullet through the back of his head just hours after she left an incriminating message on his voice mail, Amanda finds herself in danger of becoming a victim of another sort.\n</p>\n<p>\n All the evidence points to Amanda as Derek''s killer, and Chief of Police Sean Mercer is building the case against her. But when another of her colleagues is found brutally murdered, it''s obvious that someone other than Amanda is behind the killings. Suddenly Amanda is a target once again, as a diabolical killer circles ever closerâ€”and the only thing that stands between her and becoming the third and final victim is the man who had tried to put her behind bars. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12898'),
(13929, 'Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir', 'Wendy Burden', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The great-great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt takes a look at the decline of her wealthy blue-blooded family in this irreverent and wickedly funny memoir\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n For generations the Burdens were one of the wealthiest families in New York, thanks to the inherited fortune of Cornelius "The Commodore" Vanderbilt. By 1955, the year of Wendy''s birth, the Burdens had become a clan of overfunded, quirky and brainy, steadfastly chauvinistic, and ultimately doomed blue bloods on the verge of financial and moral decline-and were rarely seen not holding a drink.\n</p>\n<p>\n When her father commits suicide when Wendy is six, she and her brother are told nothing about it and are shuffled off to school as if it were any other day. Subsequently, Wendy becomes obsessed with the macabre, modeling herself after Wednesday Addams of the Addams family, and decides she wants to be a mortician when she grows up. Just days after the funeral, her mother jets off to southern climes in search of the perfect tan, and for the next three years, Wendy and her two brothers are raised mostly by a chain-smoking Scottish nanny and the long suffering household staff at their grandparent''s Fifth Avenue apartment. If you think Eloise wreaked havoc at The Plaza you should see what Wendy and her brothers do in "Burdenland"-a world where her grandfather is the president of the Museum of Modern Art; the walls are decorated with originals of Klee, Kline, Mondrian, and Miro; and Rockefellers are regular dinner guests.\n</p>\n<p>\n The spoiled life of the uber-rich that they live with their grandparents is in dark contrast to the life they live with their mother, a brilliant Radcliffe grad and Daughter of the American Revolution, who deals with having two men''s suicides on her conscience by becoming skinnier, tanner, blonder, and more steeped in bitter alcoholism with every passing year.\n</p>\n<p>\n We watch Wendy''s family unravel as she travels between Fifth Avenue, Virginia horse country, Mount Desert Island in Maine, the Jupiter Island Club, London, and boarding school, coming through all of it surprisingly intact. Rife with humor, heartbreak, family intrigue, and booze,\n <em>\n  Dead End Gene Pool\n </em>\n offers a glimpse into the eccentric excess of old money and gives truth to the old maxim: The rich are different.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8114'),
(13930, 'Dead Even', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMariah Stewart is fast becoming a brand-name author.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€“Romantic Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n <br />\n Now the third is free.\n</p>\n<p>\n FBI Special Agent Miranda Cahill has always played by the rules: always maintain a respectful professionalism, and never mix business with pleasure. Except when it comes to fellow agent Will Fletcher. Their on-again, off-again relationship has left painful scars even he has never seen.\n <br />\n Now, a series of murders has the two agents racing to outwit a killer before he can strike again. Miranda and Will know that lives depend on identifying intended victims and tracking them down before the killer does. But as they begin to unravel this homicidal agenda, it becomes clear that Miranda may be the last and final target in a twisted game. With the clock ticking, time is running out on a killer who is determined to cross Mirandaâ€™s name off his hit list . . . permanently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3136'),
(13931, 'Dead Even', 'Mariah Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMariah Stewart is fast becoming a brand-name author.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€“Romantic Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge.\n <br />\n Now the third is free.\n</p>\n<p>\n FBI Special Agent Miranda Cahill has always played by the rules: always maintain a respectful professionalism, and never mix business with pleasure. Except when it comes to fellow agent Will Fletcher. Their on-again, off-again relationship has left painful scars even he has never seen.\n <br />\n Now, a series of murders has the two agents racing to outwit a killer before he can strike again. Miranda and Will know that lives depend on identifying intended victims and tracking them down before the killer does. But as they begin to unravel this homicidal agenda, it becomes clear that Miranda may be the last and final target in a twisted game. With the clock ticking, time is running out on a killer who is determined to cross Mirandaâ€™s name off his hit list . . . permanently.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12896'),
(13932, 'Dead Girl Talking', 'Annmarie Ortega', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Until recently, I led a pretty normal life. But then I did something that kind of changed things for me: I had a one night stand with a vampire. Things got a little carried away and he bit me, turning me into a vampire too. I guess you can say I learned the hard way that love bites, and once bitten there''s no going back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7467'),
(13933, 'Dead Girl Talking', 'Annmarie Ortega', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Until recently, I led a pretty normal life. But then I did something that kind of changed things for me: I had a one night stand with a vampire. Things got a little carried away and he bit me, turning me into a vampire too. I guess you can say I learned the hard way that love bites, and once bitten there''s no going back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11817'),
(13934, 'Dead Girl Talking', 'Annmarie Ortega', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Until recently, I led a pretty normal life. But then I did something that kind of changed things for me: I had a one night stand with a vampire. Things got a little carried away and he bit me, turning me into a vampire too. I guess you can say I learned the hard way that love bites, and once bitten there''s no going back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16358'),
(13935, 'Dead Girl Talking', 'Annmarie Ortega', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Until recently, I led a pretty normal life. But then I did something that kind of changed things for me: I had a one night stand with a vampire. Things got a little carried away and he bit me, turning me into a vampire too. I guess you can say I learned the hard way that love bites, and once bitten there''s no going back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26437'),
(13936, 'Dead Giveaway', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15424'),
(13937, 'Dead Giveaway', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26837'),
(13938, 'Dead Guilty', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Beverly Connor''s absorbing series, the bones of the dead reveal the secrets of the living. In this latest investigation, forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon must lead a chilling excavation of a crime with harrowing implications: the murder of three people, hanged execution-style in an isolated patch of Georgia woods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7255'),
(13939, 'Dead Guilty', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Beverly Connor''s absorbing series, the bones of the dead reveal the secrets of the living. In this latest investigation, forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon must lead a chilling excavation of a crime with harrowing implications: the murder of three people, hanged execution-style in an isolated patch of Georgia woods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16635');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(13940, 'Dead Guilty', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Beverly Connor''s absorbing series, the bones of the dead reveal the secrets of the living. In this latest investigation, forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon must lead a chilling excavation of a crime with harrowing implications: the murder of three people, hanged execution-style in an isolated patch of Georgia woods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26610'),
(13941, 'The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy', 'David Emanuel Hoffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n â€œA tour de force of investigative history.â€ -Steve Coll The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union-a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today. The Cold War was an epoch of massive overkill. In the last half of the twentieth century the two superpowers had perfected the science of mass destruction and possessed nuclear weapons with the combined power of a million Hiroshimas. What''s more, a Soviet biological warfare machine was ready to produce bacteria and viruses to sicken and kill millions. In The Dead Hand, a thrilling narrative history drawing on new archives and original research and interviews, David E. Hoffman reveals how presidents, scientists, diplomats, soldiers, and spies confronted the danger and changed the course of history. The Dead Hand captures the inside story in both the United States and the Soviet Union, giving us an urgent and intimate account of the last decade of the arms race. With access to secret Kremlin documents, Hoffman chronicles Soviet internal deliberations that have long been hidden. He reveals that weapons designers in 1985 laid a massive â€œStar Warsâ€ program on the desk of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to compete with President Reagan, but Gorbachev refused to build it. He unmasks the cover-up of the Soviet biological weapons program. He tells the exclusive story of one Soviet microbiologist''s quest to build a genetically engineered super-germ-it would cause a mild illness, a deceptive recovery, then a second, fatal attack. And he details the frightening history of the Doomsday Machine, known as the Dead Hand, which would launch a retaliatory nuclear strike if the Soviet leaders were wiped out. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the dangers remained. Soon rickety trains were hauling unsecured nuclear warheads across the Russian steppe; tons of highly-enriched uranium and plutonium lay unguarded in warehouses; and microbiologists and bomb designers were scavenging for food to feed their families. The Dead Hand offers fresh and startling insights into Reagan and Gorbachev, the two key figures of the end of the Cold War, and draws colorful, unforgettable portraits of many others who struggled, often valiantly, to save the world from the most terrifying weapons known to man. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9435'),
(13942, 'Dead Heat', 'Dick Francis &amp; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n MWA Grand Master Francis''s first collaboration with his son Felix, a former physics teacher who researched many of his father''s previous bestsellers, introduces an engaging hero, though longtime fans may find certain plot elements, like an unlikely love interest and sinister figures somehow connected with shady racetrack doings, less than fresh. The reputation of Max Moreton, a young wunderkind chef with a restaurant in Newmarket, England, suffers after guests at an affair he caters fall ill with food poisoning. This calamity nearly jeopardizes another jobâ€”feeding several dozen attendees at a major horse race. While that meal goes off without a hitch, a terrorist''s bomb decimates the crowd at the track. Despite the official theory that an unpopular Middle Eastern ruler at the event was responsible, the chef wonders whether the bombing is related to the earlier food poisoning and turns amateur sleuth. Crisp writing and well-paced action help offset the routine plotting.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a silence of six years,Â Francis made a triumphant return last year, bringing back the ever-intriguing series hero Sid Halley in Under Orders. Now, Francis introduces a new hero, chef Max Moreton, who runs a thriving restaurant near the Newmarket racetrack. Moreton has a complex background; he''s afraid of horses yet fascinated by the world of horse racing (his father was a steeplechase jockey and racehorse trainer). Francis is, as always, completely convincing when it comes to the track, but his efforts at depicting the challenges and delights of cooking seem labored and secondhand (his son, Felix, is credited with the research for this book). Unfortunately, the cookery details often seem pasted on and unnecessary. The action, however, is first-rate Francis. It centers on Moreton''s travails as chef. First, food poisoning hits his guests and staff at a racing gala. The next day, a bomb shatters the grandstand box where Moreton has catered a lunch. And as Moreton struggles to decipher the cause of the food poisoning and whether it was connected to the bombing, he suffers the prospect of financial ruin andÂ emotional trauma from the bombing. Then he discovers that someone is out to kill him. This mix of cooking and racetrack isn''t close enough to horse racing to be completely satisfying Francis, but the action and the hero''s struggles deliver a solid punch. Fletcher, Connie\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6015'),
(13943, 'Dead Heat', 'Dick Francis &amp; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n MWA Grand Master Francis''s first collaboration with his son Felix, a former physics teacher who researched many of his father''s previous bestsellers, introduces an engaging hero, though longtime fans may find certain plot elements, like an unlikely love interest and sinister figures somehow connected with shady racetrack doings, less than fresh. The reputation of Max Moreton, a young wunderkind chef with a restaurant in Newmarket, England, suffers after guests at an affair he caters fall ill with food poisoning. This calamity nearly jeopardizes another jobâ€”feeding several dozen attendees at a major horse race. While that meal goes off without a hitch, a terrorist''s bomb decimates the crowd at the track. Despite the official theory that an unpopular Middle Eastern ruler at the event was responsible, the chef wonders whether the bombing is related to the earlier food poisoning and turns amateur sleuth. Crisp writing and well-paced action help offset the routine plotting.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a silence of six years,Â Francis made a triumphant return last year, bringing back the ever-intriguing series hero Sid Halley in Under Orders. Now, Francis introduces a new hero, chef Max Moreton, who runs a thriving restaurant near the Newmarket racetrack. Moreton has a complex background; he''s afraid of horses yet fascinated by the world of horse racing (his father was a steeplechase jockey and racehorse trainer). Francis is, as always, completely convincing when it comes to the track, but his efforts at depicting the challenges and delights of cooking seem labored and secondhand (his son, Felix, is credited with the research for this book). Unfortunately, the cookery details often seem pasted on and unnecessary. The action, however, is first-rate Francis. It centers on Moreton''s travails as chef. First, food poisoning hits his guests and staff at a racing gala. The next day, a bomb shatters the grandstand box where Moreton has catered a lunch. And as Moreton struggles to decipher the cause of the food poisoning and whether it was connected to the bombing, he suffers the prospect of financial ruin andÂ emotional trauma from the bombing. Then he discovers that someone is out to kill him. This mix of cooking and racetrack isn''t close enough to horse racing to be completely satisfying Francis, but the action and the hero''s struggles deliver a solid punch. Fletcher, Connie\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9843'),
(13944, 'Dead Hunt', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Clymene O''Riley is in prison for killing her husband - though Diane Fallon is sure she killed another, and suspects she may have left a veritable graveyard of dead men in her wake. Either way, Diane was happy to help put her behind bars. So when Clymene informs her that one of the prison guards may be in danger from a serial killer, Diane is suspicious. And when Clymene escapes from jail, Diane becomes the prime suspect in a bloody murder that puts her in the path of an angry killer who wants her dead...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7258'),
(13945, 'Dead Hunt', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Clymene O''Riley is in prison for killing her husband - though Diane Fallon is sure she killed another, and suspects she may have left a veritable graveyard of dead men in her wake. Either way, Diane was happy to help put her behind bars. So when Clymene informs her that one of the prison guards may be in danger from a serial killer, Diane is suspicious. And when Clymene escapes from jail, Diane becomes the prime suspect in a bloody murder that puts her in the path of an angry killer who wants her dead...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16634'),
(13946, 'Dead Hunt', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Clymene O''Riley is in prison for killing her husband - though Diane Fallon is sure she killed another, and suspects she may have left a veritable graveyard of dead men in her wake. Either way, Diane was happy to help put her behind bars. So when Clymene informs her that one of the prison guards may be in danger from a serial killer, Diane is suspicious. And when Clymene escapes from jail, Diane becomes the prime suspect in a bloody murder that puts her in the path of an angry killer who wants her dead...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26609'),
(13947, 'Dead in the Dregs: A Babe Stern Mystery', 'Peter Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Richard Wilson, a prominent wine critic, routinely makes or destroys the careers of winemakers in his popular newsletter, The Wine Maven. When he disappears after a tasting in Californiaâ€™s Napa Valley, his sister, Janie, asks her ex-husband, Babe Stern, to investigate. Babe gave up a successful career in the wine industry to run a local bar that does not appear on the tourist circuit. Working with the police after Wilsonâ€™s body turns up in a vat at Norton Winery, he uncovers a long list of possible suspects who would like to get revenge for the bad reviews that ruined their businesses. As Stern digs further into Wilsonâ€™s life, the trail takes him to Burgundy, France, and to the family of a young intern at the Norton Winery who was one of the few people in the winery when Wilson died. This is a well-crafted debut that will appeal to mystery fans interested in winemaking. --Barbara Bibel\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prominent wine critic Richard Wilson makes a living elevating and destroying winemakersâ€™ reputations with the stroke of his pen. When he disappears after a tasting at Napa Valleyâ€™s Norton Winery, his sister Janie looks to her ex-husband Babe Stern for help. But when Wilsonâ€™s body is found floating in a vat at Norton, Sternâ€™s search turns into a hunt for the killer.\n <br />\n Working with the Napa Valley police, Stern quickly finds a string of suspects, all with one thing in common: their desire to get revenge for the reviews that shattered their wines and livelihoods. But as the police work to quickly clear the case, those same suspects have a string of alibis and the trail begins to fade.\n <br />\n Stern digs further into the circumstances of Wilsonâ€™s death and finds himself following his only lead, to Burgundy, France. In cellars and tasting rooms from Beaune to Nuits-Saint-Georges, Stern tracks the troubled son of a family of\n <em>\n  vignerons\n </em>\n , one of the few people in the winery the night Wilson died. But the wine families of the CÃ´te dâ€™Or are secretive and entangled, and the further Stern goes to discover the truth, the more he becomes the ultimate target. In a stunning debut mystery packed with revenge and murder, Sternâ€™s only choice is to find the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2114'),
(13948, 'Dead in the Dregs: A Babe Stern Mystery', 'Peter Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Richard Wilson, a prominent wine critic, routinely makes or destroys the careers of winemakers in his popular newsletter, The Wine Maven. When he disappears after a tasting in Californiaâ€™s Napa Valley, his sister, Janie, asks her ex-husband, Babe Stern, to investigate. Babe gave up a successful career in the wine industry to run a local bar that does not appear on the tourist circuit. Working with the police after Wilsonâ€™s body turns up in a vat at Norton Winery, he uncovers a long list of possible suspects who would like to get revenge for the bad reviews that ruined their businesses. As Stern digs further into Wilsonâ€™s life, the trail takes him to Burgundy, France, and to the family of a young intern at the Norton Winery who was one of the few people in the winery when Wilson died. This is a well-crafted debut that will appeal to mystery fans interested in winemaking. --Barbara Bibel\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prominent wine critic Richard Wilson makes a living elevating and destroying winemakersâ€™ reputations with the stroke of his pen. When he disappears after a tasting at Napa Valleyâ€™s Norton Winery, his sister Janie looks to her ex-husband Babe Stern for help. But when Wilsonâ€™s body is found floating in a vat at Norton, Sternâ€™s search turns into a hunt for the killer.\n <br />\n Working with the Napa Valley police, Stern quickly finds a string of suspects, all with one thing in common: their desire to get revenge for the reviews that shattered their wines and livelihoods. But as the police work to quickly clear the case, those same suspects have a string of alibis and the trail begins to fade.\n <br />\n Stern digs further into the circumstances of Wilsonâ€™s death and finds himself following his only lead, to Burgundy, France. In cellars and tasting rooms from Beaune to Nuits-Saint-Georges, Stern tracks the troubled son of a family of\n <em>\n  vignerons\n </em>\n , one of the few people in the winery the night Wilson died. But the wine families of the CÃ´te dâ€™Or are secretive and entangled, and the further Stern goes to discover the truth, the more he becomes the ultimate target. In a stunning debut mystery packed with revenge and murder, Sternâ€™s only choice is to find the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11101'),
(13949, 'Dead in the Dregs: A Babe Stern Mystery', 'Peter Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Richard Wilson, a prominent wine critic, routinely makes or destroys the careers of winemakers in his popular newsletter, The Wine Maven. When he disappears after a tasting in Californiaâ€™s Napa Valley, his sister, Janie, asks her ex-husband, Babe Stern, to investigate. Babe gave up a successful career in the wine industry to run a local bar that does not appear on the tourist circuit. Working with the police after Wilsonâ€™s body turns up in a vat at Norton Winery, he uncovers a long list of possible suspects who would like to get revenge for the bad reviews that ruined their businesses. As Stern digs further into Wilsonâ€™s life, the trail takes him to Burgundy, France, and to the family of a young intern at the Norton Winery who was one of the few people in the winery when Wilson died. This is a well-crafted debut that will appeal to mystery fans interested in winemaking. --Barbara Bibel\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Prominent wine critic Richard Wilson makes a living elevating and destroying winemakersâ€™ reputations with the stroke of his pen. When he disappears after a tasting at Napa Valleyâ€™s Norton Winery, his sister Janie looks to her ex-husband Babe Stern for help. But when Wilsonâ€™s body is found floating in a vat at Norton, Sternâ€™s search turns into a hunt for the killer.\n <br />\n Working with the Napa Valley police, Stern quickly finds a string of suspects, all with one thing in common: their desire to get revenge for the reviews that shattered their wines and livelihoods. But as the police work to quickly clear the case, those same suspects have a string of alibis and the trail begins to fade.\n <br />\n Stern digs further into the circumstances of Wilsonâ€™s death and finds himself following his only lead, to Burgundy, France. In cellars and tasting rooms from Beaune to Nuits-Saint-Georges, Stern tracks the troubled son of a family of\n <em>\n  vignerons\n </em>\n , one of the few people in the winery the night Wilson died. But the wine families of the CÃ´te dâ€™Or are secretive and entangled, and the further Stern goes to discover the truth, the more he becomes the ultimate target. In a stunning debut mystery packed with revenge and murder, Sternâ€™s only choice is to find the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22653'),
(13950, 'Dead in the Family', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven''t seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric''s vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric''s ''brother'' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie''s tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6870'),
(13951, 'Dead in the Family', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven''t seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric''s vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric''s ''brother'' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie''s tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10179'),
(13952, 'Dead in the Family', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven''t seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric''s vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric''s ''brother'' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie''s tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15108'),
(13953, 'Dead in the Family', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven''t seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric''s vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric''s ''brother'' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie''s tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17044'),
(13954, 'Dead in the Family', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven''t seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric''s vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric''s ''brother'' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie''s tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26836'),
(13955, 'Dead in the Water', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once, Kate Shugak was the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A, ''s office. Now she''s gone back to her Aleut roots in the far Alaska north- where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysterious land.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6531'),
(13956, 'Dead in the water', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once, Kate Shugak was the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A, ''s office. Now she''s gone back to her Aleut roots in the far Alaska north- where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysterious land.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17537'),
(13957, 'Dead in the water', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once, Kate Shugak was the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A, ''s office. Now she''s gone back to her Aleut roots in the far Alaska north- where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysterious land.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27238'),
(13958, 'Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States', 'Helen Prejean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana''s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier''s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. At the same time, she came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute him--men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing.Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Confronting both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the needs of a crime-ridden society and the Christian imperative of love, Dead Man Walking is an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty, a book that is both enlightening and devastating.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10959'),
(13959, 'Dead Man&#39;s Bones', 'Susan Wittig Albert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Albert''s assured 14th outing for China Bayles (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  A Dilly of a Death\n </em>\n ), the herbalist and ex-lawyer is worried about the effect of the poor tourist trade on her Pecan Springs, Tex., herb shop, tea room and New Age store owned jointly with her best friend, Ruby Wilcox, when her 14-year-old stepson, Brian, announces a disturbing discovery: while on an archeological dig in a cave, he found a skeleton with its skull bashed in. Analysis later shows that the bones are about 30 years old. After a leading citizen shoots dead an apparent intruder in self-defense, China begins to suspect there''s a link between this incident and the past murder. In her own quiet way, China pursues the truth. China''s warmth and sensitivity toward Ruby''s new boyfriend, the new professor at the local university and others will endear her to readers, while her investigative skills make her a leader among female sleuths. Fascinating information about herbs and tempting recipes round out this leisurely cozy with a Southwestern flair.\n <em>\n  (Apr. 5)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n China Bayles is always trying to teach us stuff: it''s not annoying at all but somehow soothing and fascinating. The ex-attorney turned herbalist in the Texas town of Pecan Springs loves to talk about the plants and herbs she grows; she loves to share recipes and run her business (herb shop, tearoom, catering) with her friend and partner, Ruby; and she loves the opportunity to enjoy her spouse and teen stepson. In this gently narrated cozy, a skeleton in a cave allows China to think about archaeology, forensics, love affairs, immigration, and secrets from the past. Meanwhile, two elderly and reclusive sisters, one imperious and the other frail, the last of their family, donate a building, the funds for its renovation, and property for a community theater, with the stipulation that a play written about their father must be the first production. These events turn out to be intimately connected to the body in the cave, and it makes for an enjoyable journey as China makes the necessary connections one by one.\n <em>\n  GraceAnne DeCandido\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/889'),
(13960, 'Dead Man&#39;s Bones', 'Susan Wittig Albert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Albert''s assured 14th outing for China Bayles (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  A Dilly of a Death\n </em>\n ), the herbalist and ex-lawyer is worried about the effect of the poor tourist trade on her Pecan Springs, Tex., herb shop, tea room and New Age store owned jointly with her best friend, Ruby Wilcox, when her 14-year-old stepson, Brian, announces a disturbing discovery: while on an archeological dig in a cave, he found a skeleton with its skull bashed in. Analysis later shows that the bones are about 30 years old. After a leading citizen shoots dead an apparent intruder in self-defense, China begins to suspect there''s a link between this incident and the past murder. In her own quiet way, China pursues the truth. China''s warmth and sensitivity toward Ruby''s new boyfriend, the new professor at the local university and others will endear her to readers, while her investigative skills make her a leader among female sleuths. Fascinating information about herbs and tempting recipes round out this leisurely cozy with a Southwestern flair.\n <em>\n  (Apr. 5)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n China Bayles is always trying to teach us stuff: it''s not annoying at all but somehow soothing and fascinating. The ex-attorney turned herbalist in the Texas town of Pecan Springs loves to talk about the plants and herbs she grows; she loves to share recipes and run her business (herb shop, tearoom, catering) with her friend and partner, Ruby; and she loves the opportunity to enjoy her spouse and teen stepson. In this gently narrated cozy, a skeleton in a cave allows China to think about archaeology, forensics, love affairs, immigration, and secrets from the past. Meanwhile, two elderly and reclusive sisters, one imperious and the other frail, the last of their family, donate a building, the funds for its renovation, and property for a community theater, with the stipulation that a play written about their father must be the first production. These events turn out to be intimately connected to the body in the cave, and it makes for an enjoyable journey as China makes the necessary connections one by one.\n <em>\n  GraceAnne DeCandido\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9381'),
(13961, 'Dead Man&#39;s Bones', 'Susan Wittig Albert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Albert''s assured 14th outing for China Bayles (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  A Dilly of a Death\n </em>\n ), the herbalist and ex-lawyer is worried about the effect of the poor tourist trade on her Pecan Springs, Tex., herb shop, tea room and New Age store owned jointly with her best friend, Ruby Wilcox, when her 14-year-old stepson, Brian, announces a disturbing discovery: while on an archeological dig in a cave, he found a skeleton with its skull bashed in. Analysis later shows that the bones are about 30 years old. After a leading citizen shoots dead an apparent intruder in self-defense, China begins to suspect there''s a link between this incident and the past murder. In her own quiet way, China pursues the truth. China''s warmth and sensitivity toward Ruby''s new boyfriend, the new professor at the local university and others will endear her to readers, while her investigative skills make her a leader among female sleuths. Fascinating information about herbs and tempting recipes round out this leisurely cozy with a Southwestern flair.\n <em>\n  (Apr. 5)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n China Bayles is always trying to teach us stuff: it''s not annoying at all but somehow soothing and fascinating. The ex-attorney turned herbalist in the Texas town of Pecan Springs loves to talk about the plants and herbs she grows; she loves to share recipes and run her business (herb shop, tearoom, catering) with her friend and partner, Ruby; and she loves the opportunity to enjoy her spouse and teen stepson. In this gently narrated cozy, a skeleton in a cave allows China to think about archaeology, forensics, love affairs, immigration, and secrets from the past. Meanwhile, two elderly and reclusive sisters, one imperious and the other frail, the last of their family, donate a building, the funds for its renovation, and property for a community theater, with the stipulation that a play written about their father must be the first production. These events turn out to be intimately connected to the body in the cave, and it makes for an enjoyable journey as China makes the necessary connections one by one.\n <em>\n  GraceAnne DeCandido\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23947'),
(13962, 'Dead Man&#39;s Folly', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24945'),
(13963, 'Dead Man&#39;s Folly: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA classic Christie and one of the best.â€ (_The Times_ (London) )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe solution is of the colossal ingenuity we have been conditioned to expect.â€ (_The Times Literary Supplement_ (London) )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPoirot is the guide who led me into the wondrous maze of crime fiction. And Iâ€™ve never wanted to escape.â€ (Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe infallibly original Agatha Christie has come up, once again, with a new and highly ingenious puzzle-construction.â€ (_New York Times_ )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspenseâ€”creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable charactersâ€”brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks. When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Poirot is called in to take part in this _Dead Manâ€™s Folly.\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15378'),
(13964, 'Dead Man&#39;s Wharf', 'Pauline Rowson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new Detective Inspector Horton mystery - Horton and Cantelli are called to a nursing home where a resident claims sheâ€™s been attacked by an intruder. Ready to dismiss it as senile ramblings, Horton then discovers that her room-mate has died, the dead womanâ€™s belongings are missing and her son, convicted for armed robbery, has been found dead in his cell. Soon Horton is caught up in a complex investigation that has far-reaching international implications.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2263'),
(13965, 'Dead Man&#39;s Wharf', 'Pauline Rowson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new Detective Inspector Horton mystery - Horton and Cantelli are called to a nursing home where a resident claims sheâ€™s been attacked by an intruder. Ready to dismiss it as senile ramblings, Horton then discovers that her room-mate has died, the dead womanâ€™s belongings are missing and her son, convicted for armed robbery, has been found dead in his cell. Soon Horton is caught up in a complex investigation that has far-reaching international implications.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12479'),
(13966, 'Dead Man&#39;s Wharf', 'Pauline Rowson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new Detective Inspector Horton mystery - Horton and Cantelli are called to a nursing home where a resident claims sheâ€™s been attacked by an intruder. Ready to dismiss it as senile ramblings, Horton then discovers that her room-mate has died, the dead womanâ€™s belongings are missing and her son, convicted for armed robbery, has been found dead in his cell. Soon Horton is caught up in a complex investigation that has far-reaching international implications.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22520'),
(13967, 'Dead Mans Ransom: The Ninth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5672'),
(13968, 'Dead mans ransom: the ninth chronicle of brother cadfael', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18912'),
(13969, 'Dead mans ransom: the ninth chronicle of brother cadfael', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27684'),
(13970, 'Dead Men Don&#39;t Get the Munchies', 'Miranda Bliss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cooking class is back in session for best friends-and sometime sleuths-Annie and Eve. But this time, Annie finds herself on the teacher''s side of the cutting board, helping out during a bar food cooking class at D.C.''s latest hotspot, Bellywasher''s. And her best friend, Eve, is in more hot water than ever-as the prime suspect in a student''s murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2660'),
(13971, 'Dead Men Don&#39;t Get the Munchies', 'Miranda Bliss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cooking class is back in session for best friends-and sometime sleuths-Annie and Eve. But this time, Annie finds herself on the teacher''s side of the cutting board, helping out during a bar food cooking class at D.C.''s latest hotspot, Bellywasher''s. And her best friend, Eve, is in more hot water than ever-as the prime suspect in a student''s murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21724'),
(13972, 'Dead of Night', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bioterrorist attacks on DisneyWorld, gun-toting Russians and flesh-eating worms aren''t enough to stop spy-cum-biologist Marion "Doc" Ford in his 12th adventure. When Ford reluctantly agrees to check in on a friend''s brother, Jobe Applebee, a reclusive hydrobiologist, the simple favor escalates to horrific proportions. Ford stumbles onto a brutal interrogation scene, scares off Applebee''s attackers, returns to find Applebee has hung himself and later learns that Applebee was "host to a feeding, breathing, sub-community of parasites." White barrels on full throttle: pretty soon Ford''s uncovered a madman''s plot to unleash ravenous guinea worms into local waterways and piranhas into Texas lakes, which will send property values plummetingâ€”and thus make them ready for a quick snapup once the threats have been taken care of. With the help of his sidekick Tomlinson and a slew of other returning characters, Ford must hunt down the bad guys and find the miracle cure before a statewide infestation begins. Meanwhile, he''s fending off Stokes''s securityâ€”the sexually deviant Russian Dasha, the slow-witted Alexisâ€”and assuring his pregnant girlfriend he''ll be home in time for Christmas. White''s latest is deliciously addictive and nail-bitingly suspenseful.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ecoterrorism takes a new and incredibly grotesque shape in White''s latest Doc Ford thriller. Ford, the mild-mannered marine biologist and reluctant operative for an under-the-radar offshoot of the CIA, agrees to check up on a friend''s biologist brother and stumbles into a scene of unimagined horror--the biologist has been eaten from within by a ravenous species of parasite. Soon the errand has morphed into a deep-cover assignment to track down the rogue scientist whose macabre plan to infiltrate Florida''s intercoastal waterway with parasites and rare poisonous snakes is on the verge of being realized. White effectively plays the horrific but shockingly realistic thriller plot against the ongoing interpersonal drama in Ford''s life: his shaky relationship with his pregnant girlfriend and his equally complex friendship with the mercurial ex--hippie Tomlinson, now struggling with success as an Internet spiritual adviser. Thankfully, the Doc Ford series has grown from genre favorite to crossover success without losing its amiable, Margaritaville spirit. That''s no easy trick when rare parasites are invading your body from the most private of entry points.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1929'),
(13973, 'Dead of Night', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bioterrorist attacks on DisneyWorld, gun-toting Russians and flesh-eating worms aren''t enough to stop spy-cum-biologist Marion "Doc" Ford in his 12th adventure. When Ford reluctantly agrees to check in on a friend''s brother, Jobe Applebee, a reclusive hydrobiologist, the simple favor escalates to horrific proportions. Ford stumbles onto a brutal interrogation scene, scares off Applebee''s attackers, returns to find Applebee has hung himself and later learns that Applebee was "host to a feeding, breathing, sub-community of parasites." White barrels on full throttle: pretty soon Ford''s uncovered a madman''s plot to unleash ravenous guinea worms into local waterways and piranhas into Texas lakes, which will send property values plummetingâ€”and thus make them ready for a quick snapup once the threats have been taken care of. With the help of his sidekick Tomlinson and a slew of other returning characters, Ford must hunt down the bad guys and find the miracle cure before a statewide infestation begins. Meanwhile, he''s fending off Stokes''s securityâ€”the sexually deviant Russian Dasha, the slow-witted Alexisâ€”and assuring his pregnant girlfriend he''ll be home in time for Christmas. White''s latest is deliciously addictive and nail-bitingly suspenseful.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ecoterrorism takes a new and incredibly grotesque shape in White''s latest Doc Ford thriller. Ford, the mild-mannered marine biologist and reluctant operative for an under-the-radar offshoot of the CIA, agrees to check up on a friend''s biologist brother and stumbles into a scene of unimagined horror--the biologist has been eaten from within by a ravenous species of parasite. Soon the errand has morphed into a deep-cover assignment to track down the rogue scientist whose macabre plan to infiltrate Florida''s intercoastal waterway with parasites and rare poisonous snakes is on the verge of being realized. White effectively plays the horrific but shockingly realistic thriller plot against the ongoing interpersonal drama in Ford''s life: his shaky relationship with his pregnant girlfriend and his equally complex friendship with the mercurial ex--hippie Tomlinson, now struggling with success as an Internet spiritual adviser. Thankfully, the Doc Ford series has grown from genre favorite to crossover success without losing its amiable, Margaritaville spirit. That''s no easy trick when rare parasites are invading your body from the most private of entry points.\n <em>\n  Bill Ott\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13328'),
(13974, 'The Dead of Winter', 'Rennie Airth', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n "[Rennie Airth''s] meticulously detailed procedural mysteries are beautifully written . . . well worth reading, and rereading."\n <br />\n -Marilyn Stasio,\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n On a freezing London night in 1944, Rosa Novak is brutally murdered during a blackout. Scotland Yard suspects the young Polish refugee was the victim of a random act of violence and might have dropped the case if former police investigator John Madden hadn''t been her employer. Madden feels he owes it to Rosa to find her killer and pushes the investigation, uncovering her connection to a murdered Parisian furrier, a member of the Resistance, and a stolen cache of diamonds.\n</p>\n<p>\n Delivering the atmospheric writing and compelling characters that have already established Rennie Airth as a master of suspense as well as style, this long-awaited third installment in the John Madden series is historical crime writing at its best.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Rennie Airth\n </strong>\n is the author of two other John Madden mysteries,\n <em>\n  River of Darkness\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Blood-Dimmed Tide\n </em>\n . He lives in Cortona, Italy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1930'),
(13975, 'The Dead of Winter', 'Rennie Airth', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n "[Rennie Airth''s] meticulously detailed procedural mysteries are beautifully written . . . well worth reading, and rereading."\n <br />\n -Marilyn Stasio,\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n On a freezing London night in 1944, Rosa Novak is brutally murdered during a blackout. Scotland Yard suspects the young Polish refugee was the victim of a random act of violence and might have dropped the case if former police investigator John Madden hadn''t been her employer. Madden feels he owes it to Rosa to find her killer and pushes the investigation, uncovering her connection to a murdered Parisian furrier, a member of the Resistance, and a stolen cache of diamonds.\n</p>\n<p>\n Delivering the atmospheric writing and compelling characters that have already established Rennie Airth as a master of suspense as well as style, this long-awaited third installment in the John Madden series is historical crime writing at its best.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Rennie Airth\n </strong>\n is the author of two other John Madden mysteries,\n <em>\n  River of Darkness\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Blood-Dimmed Tide\n </em>\n . He lives in Cortona, Italy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9297'),
(13976, 'Dead or Alive', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the west and has eluded capture by the worldâ€™s law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail. Joined by their latest recruits, John Clark and Ding Chavez, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his cousins, Dominick and Brian Caruso, are determined to catch the Emir and they will bring him in . . . dead or alive.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Clancy is Americaâ€™s, and the worldâ€™s, favorite international thriller author. Starting with\n  <em>\n   The Hunt for Red October\n  </em>\n  , all thirteen of his previous books have hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. His books,\n  <em>\n   The Hunt for Red October\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Sum of All Fears\n  </em>\n  have been made into major motion pictures. He lives in Maryland where he is a co-owner of the Baltimore Orioles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Grant Blackwood is the author of the Briggs Tanner books and the co-author along with Clive Cussler of\n  <em>\n   Spartan Gold\n  </em>\n  . Blackwood is a U.S. Navy veteran who lives in Colorado.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/525');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(13977, 'Dead or Alive', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the west and has eluded capture by the worldâ€™s law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail. Joined by their latest recruits, John Clark and Ding Chavez, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his cousins, Dominick and Brian Caruso, are determined to catch the Emir and they will bring him in . . . dead or alive.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Clancy is Americaâ€™s, and the worldâ€™s, favorite international thriller author. Starting with\n  <em>\n   The Hunt for Red October\n  </em>\n  , all thirteen of his previous books have hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. His books,\n  <em>\n   The Hunt for Red October\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Sum of All Fears\n  </em>\n  have been made into major motion pictures. He lives in Maryland where he is a co-owner of the Baltimore Orioles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Grant Blackwood is the author of the Briggs Tanner books and the co-author along with Clive Cussler of\n  <em>\n   Spartan Gold\n  </em>\n  . Blackwood is a U.S. Navy veteran who lives in Colorado.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8859'),
(13978, 'Dead or Alive', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24346'),
(13979, 'Dead Over Heels', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What''s the world coming to - when you can''t relax with an ice-cold beverage in your own backyard without a body falling from the sky and landing in your garden? Part-time librarian and frequent amateur investigator Roe Teagarden has good reason to ask herself this question when the remains of one of the Lawrenceton, Georgia police department''s finest catapults into her flower bed one beautiful sunny morning. Roe''s friend and bodyguard, the long-legged, bikini-clad Angel Youngblood, is mowing the grass and Roe is reclining on a lounger when a small red-and-white plane flies low overhead and drops its unlikely debris more or less at Roe''s feet. Roe''s husband of two years, wealthy businessman Martin Bartell, immediately wonders if the killer chose his dumping place to send some kind of message to Roe. And the mystery deepens when two federal agents arrive in town to investigate the murder. It''s only when Madeleine the cat provides a clue that Roe and Martin realize Roe herself may be in danger and that using Roe''s yard as a temporary landfill for dead bodies was no accident.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6872'),
(13980, 'Dead Over Heels', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What''s the world coming to - when you can''t relax with an ice-cold beverage in your own backyard without a body falling from the sky and landing in your garden? Part-time librarian and frequent amateur investigator Roe Teagarden has good reason to ask herself this question when the remains of one of the Lawrenceton, Georgia police department''s finest catapults into her flower bed one beautiful sunny morning. Roe''s friend and bodyguard, the long-legged, bikini-clad Angel Youngblood, is mowing the grass and Roe is reclining on a lounger when a small red-and-white plane flies low overhead and drops its unlikely debris more or less at Roe''s feet. Roe''s husband of two years, wealthy businessman Martin Bartell, immediately wonders if the killer chose his dumping place to send some kind of message to Roe. And the mystery deepens when two federal agents arrive in town to investigate the murder. It''s only when Madeleine the cat provides a clue that Roe and Martin realize Roe herself may be in danger and that using Roe''s yard as a temporary landfill for dead bodies was no accident.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10188'),
(13981, 'Dead over heels', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What''s the world coming to - when you can''t relax with an ice-cold beverage in your own backyard without a body falling from the sky and landing in your garden? Part-time librarian and frequent amateur investigator Roe Teagarden has good reason to ask herself this question when the remains of one of the Lawrenceton, Georgia police department''s finest catapults into her flower bed one beautiful sunny morning. Roe''s friend and bodyguard, the long-legged, bikini-clad Angel Youngblood, is mowing the grass and Roe is reclining on a lounger when a small red-and-white plane flies low overhead and drops its unlikely debris more or less at Roe''s feet. Roe''s husband of two years, wealthy businessman Martin Bartell, immediately wonders if the killer chose his dumping place to send some kind of message to Roe. And the mystery deepens when two federal agents arrive in town to investigate the murder. It''s only when Madeleine the cat provides a clue that Roe and Martin realize Roe herself may be in danger and that using Roe''s yard as a temporary landfill for dead bodies was no accident.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17043'),
(13982, 'Dead over heels', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What''s the world coming to - when you can''t relax with an ice-cold beverage in your own backyard without a body falling from the sky and landing in your garden? Part-time librarian and frequent amateur investigator Roe Teagarden has good reason to ask herself this question when the remains of one of the Lawrenceton, Georgia police department''s finest catapults into her flower bed one beautiful sunny morning. Roe''s friend and bodyguard, the long-legged, bikini-clad Angel Youngblood, is mowing the grass and Roe is reclining on a lounger when a small red-and-white plane flies low overhead and drops its unlikely debris more or less at Roe''s feet. Roe''s husband of two years, wealthy businessman Martin Bartell, immediately wonders if the killer chose his dumping place to send some kind of message to Roe. And the mystery deepens when two federal agents arrive in town to investigate the murder. It''s only when Madeleine the cat provides a clue that Roe and Martin realize Roe herself may be in danger and that using Roe''s yard as a temporary landfill for dead bodies was no accident.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26835'),
(13983, 'Dead Past', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As a child, Juliet Price witnessed the bloody slaying of an entire family. Then the killer chased her down, brutalized her, and left her for dead. The police were never able to find the man responsible. For years, Juliet''s traumatized mind hid the events from her. Then she sees a television show featuring the unsolved cold case, and the horrors come to her in her nightmares. She shares her fears with Diane Fallon, who realizes that Juliet''s shattered visions recall not one, but two intertwined crimes-crimes that Diane intends to uncover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7259'),
(13984, 'Dead Past', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As a child, Juliet Price witnessed the bloody slaying of an entire family. Then the killer chased her down, brutalized her, and left her for dead. The police were never able to find the man responsible. For years, Juliet''s traumatized mind hid the events from her. Then she sees a television show featuring the unsolved cold case, and the horrors come to her in her nightmares. She shares her fears with Diane Fallon, who realizes that Juliet''s shattered visions recall not one, but two intertwined crimes-crimes that Diane intends to uncover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9086'),
(13985, 'Dead Past', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a child, Juliet Price witnessed the bloody slaying of an entire family. Then the killer chased her down, brutalized her, and left her for dead. The police were never able to find the man responsible. For years, Juliet''s traumatized mind hid the events from her. Then she sees a television show featuring the unsolved cold case, and the horrors come to her in her nightmares. She shares her fears with Diane Fallon, who realizes that Juliet''s shattered visions recall not one, but two intertwined crimes-crimes that Diane intends to uncover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16633'),
(13986, 'Dead Past', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As a child, Juliet Price witnessed the bloody slaying of an entire family. Then the killer chased her down, brutalized her, and left her for dead. The police were never able to find the man responsible. For years, Juliet''s traumatized mind hid the events from her. Then she sees a television show featuring the unsolved cold case, and the horrors come to her in her nightmares. She shares her fears with Diane Fallon, who realizes that Juliet''s shattered visions recall not one, but two intertwined crimes-crimes that Diane intends to uncover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26607'),
(13987, 'Dead Reckoning', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  New in the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series-the basis for HBO(r)''s\n  <em>\n   True Blood\n  </em>\n  !\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With her knack for being in trouble''s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte''s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicated than she knows...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Charlaine Harris\n </strong>\n writes both fantasies and mysteries. She lives in southern Arkansas with her family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6873'),
(13988, 'Dead Reckoning', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  New in the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series-the basis for HBO(r)''s\n  <em>\n   True Blood\n  </em>\n  !\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With her knack for being in trouble''s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte''s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicated than she knows...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Charlaine Harris\n </strong>\n writes both fantasies and mysteries. She lives in southern Arkansas with her family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10192'),
(13989, 'Dead Reckoning', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The brand-new True Blood novel, starring the irrepressible Sookie Stackhouse. How can you resist? With her knack for being in trouble''s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte''s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. But Sookie suspects otherwise and she and Sam work together to uncover the culprit - and the twisted motive for the attack. But her attention is divided. Though she can''t ''read'' vampires, Sookie knows her lover Eric Northman and his ''child'' Pam well - and she realises that they are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, she is drawn into the plot - which is much more complicated than she knows. Caught up in the politics of the vampire world, Sookie will learn that she is as much of a pawn as any ordinary human - and that there is a new Queen on the board.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   New in the #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series-the basis for HBO(r)''s\n   <em>\n    True Blood\n   </em>\n   !\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  With her knack for being in trouble''s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte''s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicated than she knows...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Charlaine Harris\n  </strong>\n  writes both fantasies and mysteries. She lives in southern Arkansas with her family.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15212'),
(13990, 'Dead Reckoning', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  New in the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series-the basis for HBO(r)''s\n  <em>\n   True Blood\n  </em>\n  !\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With her knack for being in trouble''s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte''s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicated than she knows...\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Charlaine Harris\n </strong>\n writes both fantasies and mysteries. She lives in southern Arkansas with her family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17042'),
(13991, 'Dead Reckoning', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The brand-new True Blood novel, starring the irrepressible Sookie Stackhouse. How can you resist? With her knack for being in trouble''s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte''s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. But Sookie suspects otherwise and she and Sam work together to uncover the culprit - and the twisted motive for the attack. But her attention is divided. Though she can''t ''read'' vampires, Sookie knows her lover Eric Northman and his ''child'' Pam well - and she realises that they are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, she is drawn into the plot - which is much more complicated than she knows. Caught up in the politics of the vampire world, Sookie will learn that she is as much of a pawn as any ordinary human - and that there is a new Queen on the board.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   New in the #1\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series-the basis for HBO(r)''s\n   <em>\n    True Blood\n   </em>\n   !\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  With her knack for being in trouble''s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte''s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicated than she knows...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Charlaine Harris\n  </strong>\n  writes both fantasies and mysteries. She lives in southern Arkansas with her family.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26834'),
(13992, 'Dead Secret', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon finds three decades-old skeletons in different locations with desiccated bones, she is plunged into a seventy-year-old mystery of love, greed, and murder that someone would still kill to keep from being solved. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7261'),
(13993, 'Dead Secret', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon finds three decades-old skeletons in different locations with desiccated bones, she is plunged into a seventy-year-old mystery of love, greed, and murder that someone would still kill to keep from being solved. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9087'),
(13994, 'Dead Secret', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon finds three decades-old skeletons in different locations with desiccated bones, she is plunged into a seventy-year-old mystery of love, greed, and murder that someone would still kill to keep from being solved. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16632'),
(13995, 'Dead Secret', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon finds three decades-old skeletons in different locations with desiccated bones, she is plunged into a seventy-year-old mystery of love, greed, and murder that someone would still kill to keep from being solved. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26606'),
(13996, 'Dead Silence', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Award-winning veteran narrator George Guidall gives a masterful performance of White''s latest Doc Ford suspense thriller, creating well-drawn characters, including a grizzled ex-wrestler, two Cuban kidnappers, a teenage boy, a snobby Hamptons millionaire and Ford''s hippie colleague. The scenes in which Ford painstakingly pieces together clues and provides backstory tend to drag a bit, but the action sequences are gripping and nail-bitingly suspenseful. Mystery fans are well advised to snatch this one up.\n <em>\n  A Putnam hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 19). (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Retirement didnâ€™t sit well with Doc Ford, Whiteâ€™s marine biologist and black-ops agent. Docâ€™s back in the game now but choosing his own projects, including aÂ spot ofÂ vigilante settling up withÂ the serial rapist who killed one of the fishing guides from Dinkinâ€™s Bay Marina, Sanibel Island, Docâ€™s beloved home. With the local cops on his tail, Doc hops a plane for New York, there to rendezvous withÂ a fetching U.S. senator who finds the biologistâ€™s horned-rim glasses and broad shoulders a very appealing combination. Naturally, things happen. Ford witnesses the senatorâ€™s attempted kidnapping and manages to keep her out of harmâ€™s way, but another person riding in the limo, a 14-year-old Native American boy, is snatched instead. Itâ€™s all part of a scheme by some rogue Cubans to recover a cache of Castroâ€™s private papers. Soon enough the boy has been buried alive (with an air vent providing a rapidly diminishing air supply), and Ford and best-buddy Tomlinson, who hails from Long Island, are on the trail. The action, typical for White, is relentless, and the tension builds agonizingly (nothing like burying somebody alive to ratchet up the suspense). But the real interest here is the glimpse White provides of Tomlinsonâ€™s background (rich kid with seriously bent kinfolk). This may not be the tightest or most entertaining novel in the series, but longtime fansâ€”of whom there are manyâ€”have been wanting toÂ hear more of hippie-dippy Tomlinsonâ€™s backstory for years, and theyâ€™ll be overjoyed to get their wish. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1931'),
(13997, 'Dead Silence', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Award-winning veteran narrator George Guidall gives a masterful performance of White''s latest Doc Ford suspense thriller, creating well-drawn characters, including a grizzled ex-wrestler, two Cuban kidnappers, a teenage boy, a snobby Hamptons millionaire and Ford''s hippie colleague. The scenes in which Ford painstakingly pieces together clues and provides backstory tend to drag a bit, but the action sequences are gripping and nail-bitingly suspenseful. Mystery fans are well advised to snatch this one up.\n <em>\n  A Putnam hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 19). (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Retirement didnâ€™t sit well with Doc Ford, Whiteâ€™s marine biologist and black-ops agent. Docâ€™s back in the game now but choosing his own projects, including aÂ spot ofÂ vigilante settling up withÂ the serial rapist who killed one of the fishing guides from Dinkinâ€™s Bay Marina, Sanibel Island, Docâ€™s beloved home. With the local cops on his tail, Doc hops a plane for New York, there to rendezvous withÂ a fetching U.S. senator who finds the biologistâ€™s horned-rim glasses and broad shoulders a very appealing combination. Naturally, things happen. Ford witnesses the senatorâ€™s attempted kidnapping and manages to keep her out of harmâ€™s way, but another person riding in the limo, a 14-year-old Native American boy, is snatched instead. Itâ€™s all part of a scheme by some rogue Cubans to recover a cache of Castroâ€™s private papers. Soon enough the boy has been buried alive (with an air vent providing a rapidly diminishing air supply), and Ford and best-buddy Tomlinson, who hails from Long Island, are on the trail. The action, typical for White, is relentless, and the tension builds agonizingly (nothing like burying somebody alive to ratchet up the suspense). But the real interest here is the glimpse White provides of Tomlinsonâ€™s background (rich kid with seriously bent kinfolk). This may not be the tightest or most entertaining novel in the series, but longtime fansâ€”of whom there are manyâ€”have been wanting toÂ hear more of hippie-dippy Tomlinsonâ€™s backstory for years, and theyâ€™ll be overjoyed to get their wish. --Bill Ott\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13331'),
(13998, 'Dead Souls', 'Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dead Souls. please visit www.valdebooks.com for a full list of titles\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2510'),
(13999, 'Dead Souls', 'Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dead Souls. please visit www.valdebooks.com for a full list of titles\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9970'),
(14000, 'Dead Souls', 'Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22249'),
(14001, 'Dead Space: Martyr', 'B. K. Evenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n We have seen the future.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A universe cursed with life after death.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It all started deep beneath the Yucatan peninsula, where an archaeological discovery took us into a new age, bringing us face-to-face with our origins and destiny.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Michael Altman had a theory no one would hear.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It cursed our world for centuries to come.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This, at last, is his story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7312'),
(14002, 'Dead Space: Martyr', 'B. K. Evenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n We have seen the future.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A universe cursed with life after death.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It all started deep beneath the Yucatan peninsula, where an archaeological discovery took us into a new age, bringing us face-to-face with our origins and destiny.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Michael Altman had a theory no one would hear.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It cursed our world for centuries to come.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This, at last, is his story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9587'),
(14003, 'Dead Space: Martyr', 'B. K. Evenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: We have seen the future. A universe cursed with life after death. It all started deep beneath the Yucatan peninsula, where an archaeological discovery took us into a new age, bringing us face-to-face with our origins and destiny. Michael Altman had a theory no one would hear. It cursed our world for centuries to come. This, at last, is his story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16566'),
(14004, 'Dead Space: Martyr', 'B. K. Evenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: We have seen the future. A universe cursed with life after death. It all started deep beneath the Yucatan peninsula, where an archaeological discovery took us into a new age, bringing us face-to-face with our origins and destiny. Michael Altman had a theory no one would hear. It cursed our world for centuries to come. This, at last, is his story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26511'),
(14005, 'Dead to the World', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sookie Stackhouse, a small-town cocktail waitress with a talent for reading minds, comes to the aid of Eric, a sexy vampire with amnesia, and finds herself caught up in a deadly struggle among werewolves, vampires, and witches as she tries to save Eric from whoever took his memory and who now wants his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6875'),
(14006, 'Dead to the World', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sookie Stackhouse, a small-town cocktail waitress with a talent for reading minds, comes to the aid of Eric, a sexy vampire with amnesia, and finds herself caught up in a deadly struggle among werewolves, vampires, and witches as she tries to save Eric from whoever took his memory and who now wants his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10189'),
(14007, 'Dead to the World', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sookie Stackhouse, a small-town cocktail waitress with a talent for reading minds, comes to the aid of Eric, a sexy vampire with amnesia, and finds herself caught up in a deadly struggle among werewolves, vampires, and witches as she tries to save Eric from whoever took his memory and who now wants his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14995'),
(14008, 'Dead to the World', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sookie Stackhouse, a small-town cocktail waitress with a talent for reading minds, comes to the aid of Eric, a sexy vampire with amnesia, and finds herself caught up in a deadly struggle among werewolves, vampires, and witches as she tries to save Eric from whoever took his memory and who now wants his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17039'),
(14009, 'Dead to the World', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sookie Stackhouse, a small-town cocktail waitress with a talent for reading minds, comes to the aid of Eric, a sexy vampire with amnesia, and finds herself caught up in a deadly struggle among werewolves, vampires, and witches as she tries to save Eric from whoever took his memory and who now wants his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26831'),
(14010, 'Dead Until Dark', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6878'),
(14011, 'Dead Until Dark', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10194'),
(14012, 'Dead Until Dark', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15312'),
(14013, 'Dead Until Dark', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17038'),
(14014, 'Dead Until Dark', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26830'),
(14015, 'Dead Water', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hambly''s brilliantly crafted eighth historical (after 2003''s\n <em>\n  Days of the Dead\n </em>\n ) brings the antebellum South so alive you could swear the author traveled back in time to observe her settings firsthand. One day a week the slaves of New Orleans gather at Circus Square (aka Congo Square): "Those who had garden plots sold their surplus produce: tomatoes and cornâ€¦ and peaches whose scent turned the thick hot air around them to molten gold." Series hero Benjamin January, a former slave, and his gracious wife Rose own a fine home in which they''ve begun a school to educate young girls of color. But when the president of the bank where all the Januarys'' money has been deposited comes to them and confides that a bank employee has cleaned out the coffers, the pair have only one choice: follow the thief and recover the money before a substantial payment is due on their mortgage. Enlisting the aid of their cultured and charming white ne''er-do-well friend, Hannibal Sefton, the two pose as Hannibal''s slaves/servants and board a steamboat heading up the Mississippi River. On the boat, they find themselves amid slave runners, abolitionists and a host of interesting, unsavory and downright terrifying individuals. So when their quarry is transformed into a corpse, it''s no wonder the trio have no idea who might be trusted. This riveting novel of suspense is sure to win Hambly many new fans.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest entry in the deservedly popular Benjamin January series finds the amateur sleuth investigating a couple of mysteries. The bank that holds all his money has suddenly and suspiciously collapsed, and someone has apparently put a curse on a former student in the small school operated by January''s wife, Rose. Just goes to show: New Orleans, circa 1836, is a wild and dangerous place. The January novels--this is the eighth since 1997--are solid mysteries, but most readers are not tuning in for the plots. Perhaps because she started out writing sf and fantasy novels (and still keeps her hand in the genre), the author has a sure grasp of the art of writing historical fiction, and the novels in this series are clever mixtures of scholarship and imagination. Where many writers of historical mysteries get bogged down in exposition, or in cataloging details that most readers are not interested in, Hambly keeps things moving, always focused on her characters and her story, and not on showing off the quantity of research she''s done. Keep ''em coming!\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7351'),
(14016, 'Dead Water', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hambly''s brilliantly crafted eighth historical (after 2003''s\n <em>\n  Days of the Dead\n </em>\n ) brings the antebellum South so alive you could swear the author traveled back in time to observe her settings firsthand. One day a week the slaves of New Orleans gather at Circus Square (aka Congo Square): "Those who had garden plots sold their surplus produce: tomatoes and cornâ€¦ and peaches whose scent turned the thick hot air around them to molten gold." Series hero Benjamin January, a former slave, and his gracious wife Rose own a fine home in which they''ve begun a school to educate young girls of color. But when the president of the bank where all the Januarys'' money has been deposited comes to them and confides that a bank employee has cleaned out the coffers, the pair have only one choice: follow the thief and recover the money before a substantial payment is due on their mortgage. Enlisting the aid of their cultured and charming white ne''er-do-well friend, Hannibal Sefton, the two pose as Hannibal''s slaves/servants and board a steamboat heading up the Mississippi River. On the boat, they find themselves amid slave runners, abolitionists and a host of interesting, unsavory and downright terrifying individuals. So when their quarry is transformed into a corpse, it''s no wonder the trio have no idea who might be trusted. This riveting novel of suspense is sure to win Hambly many new fans.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest entry in the deservedly popular Benjamin January series finds the amateur sleuth investigating a couple of mysteries. The bank that holds all his money has suddenly and suspiciously collapsed, and someone has apparently put a curse on a former student in the small school operated by January''s wife, Rose. Just goes to show: New Orleans, circa 1836, is a wild and dangerous place. The January novels--this is the eighth since 1997--are solid mysteries, but most readers are not tuning in for the plots. Perhaps because she started out writing sf and fantasy novels (and still keeps her hand in the genre), the author has a sure grasp of the art of writing historical fiction, and the novels in this series are clever mixtures of scholarship and imagination. Where many writers of historical mysteries get bogged down in exposition, or in cataloging details that most readers are not interested in, Hambly keeps things moving, always focused on her characters and her story, and not on showing off the quantity of research she''s done. Keep ''em coming!\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10174'),
(14017, 'Dead water', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hambly''s brilliantly crafted eighth historical (after 2003''s\n <em>\n  Days of the Dead\n </em>\n ) brings the antebellum South so alive you could swear the author traveled back in time to observe her settings firsthand. One day a week the slaves of New Orleans gather at Circus Square (aka Congo Square): "Those who had garden plots sold their surplus produce: tomatoes and cornâ€¦ and peaches whose scent turned the thick hot air around them to molten gold." Series hero Benjamin January, a former slave, and his gracious wife Rose own a fine home in which they''ve begun a school to educate young girls of color. But when the president of the bank where all the Januarys'' money has been deposited comes to them and confides that a bank employee has cleaned out the coffers, the pair have only one choice: follow the thief and recover the money before a substantial payment is due on their mortgage. Enlisting the aid of their cultured and charming white ne''er-do-well friend, Hannibal Sefton, the two pose as Hannibal''s slaves/servants and board a steamboat heading up the Mississippi River. On the boat, they find themselves amid slave runners, abolitionists and a host of interesting, unsavory and downright terrifying individuals. So when their quarry is transformed into a corpse, it''s no wonder the trio have no idea who might be trusted. This riveting novel of suspense is sure to win Hambly many new fans.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest entry in the deservedly popular Benjamin January series finds the amateur sleuth investigating a couple of mysteries. The bank that holds all his money has suddenly and suspiciously collapsed, and someone has apparently put a curse on a former student in the small school operated by January''s wife, Rose. Just goes to show: New Orleans, circa 1836, is a wild and dangerous place. The January novels--this is the eighth since 1997--are solid mysteries, but most readers are not tuning in for the plots. Perhaps because she started out writing sf and fantasy novels (and still keeps her hand in the genre), the author has a sure grasp of the art of writing historical fiction, and the novels in this series are clever mixtures of scholarship and imagination. Where many writers of historical mysteries get bogged down in exposition, or in cataloging details that most readers are not interested in, Hambly keeps things moving, always focused on her characters and her story, and not on showing off the quantity of research she''s done. Keep ''em coming!\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16541'),
(14018, 'Dead Waters', 'Anton Strout', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Simon Canderous, of the Department of Extraordinary Affairs, is used to fighting vampires and zombies. But the strange murder of a professor has everyone stumped. And it''s making some people crazy. Literally.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7530'),
(14019, 'Dead Waters', 'Anton Strout', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Simon Canderous, of the Department of Extraordinary Affairs, is used to fighting vampires and zombies. But the strange murder of a professor has everyone stumped. And it''s making some people crazy. Literally.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12943'),
(14020, 'Dead Waters', 'Anton Strout', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Simon Canderous, of the Department of Extraordinary Affairs, is used to fighting vampires and zombies. But the strange murder of a professor has everyone stumped. And it''s making some people crazy. Literally.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16429'),
(14021, 'The Dead Zone', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Awake in the dead zone and awake to a nightmare. Recoil in horror as you are touched by a young man cursed with the power to perceive the evil in men''s souls. And whose ability to see into the future forces him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and infinitely dangerous man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1145'),
(14022, 'The Dead Zone', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Awake in the dead zone and awake to a nightmare. Recoil in horror as you are touched by a young man cursed with the power to perceive the evil in men''s souls. And whose ability to see into the future forces him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and infinitely dangerous man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10696'),
(14023, 'The Dead Zone', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Awake in the dead zone and awake to a nightmare. Recoil in horror as you are touched by a young man cursed with the power to perceive the evil in men''s souls. And whose ability to see into the future forces him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and infinitely dangerous man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14450'),
(14024, 'The Dead Zone', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Awake in the dead zone and awake to a nightmare. Recoil in horror as you are touched by a young man cursed with the power to perceive the evil in men''s souls. And whose ability to see into the future forces him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and infinitely dangerous man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23881'),
(14025, 'DEAD(ish)', 'Naomi Kramer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Lindaâ€™s had a bad day. First her boyfriend killed her. Then she woke up, still on this boring plane of existence, and with an odd obsession about her missing body. Mike wonâ€™t tell her what he did with her body, and she canâ€™t find the stupid thing herself. Thereâ€™s only one thing she can do - torment the bastard until he coughs up the information.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21597'),
(14026, 'Deadeye Dick', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut''s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence.  Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrorsâ€“a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bombâ€“Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness.  Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe...and who we say we are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3592'),
(14027, 'Deadeye Dick', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut''s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence.  Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrorsâ€“a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bombâ€“Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness.  Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe...and who we say we are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12427'),
(14028, 'Deadeye Dick', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut''s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrorsâ€“a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bombâ€“Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe...and who we say we are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14057'),
(14029, 'Deadeye Dick', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut''s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrorsâ€“a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bombâ€“Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe...and who we say we are.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20876'),
(14030, 'Deadhouse Gates', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha''ik and her followers prepare for the long-prophesied uprising known as the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in size and savagery, this maelstrom of fanaticism and bloodlust will embroil the Malazan Empire in one of the bloodiest conflicts it has ever known, shaping destinies and giving birth to legends . . . Set in a brilliantly realized world ravaged by dark, uncontrollable magic, this thrilling novel of war, intrigue and betrayal confirms Steven Erikson as a storyteller of breathtaking skill, imagination and originality--the author who has written the first great fantasy epic of the new millennium.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14861'),
(14031, 'The Deadliest Game', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Net Force Explorers Megan O''Malley and Leif Anderson match wits with an unknown and sinister enemy who is targeting computer users playing the Net''s most popular online wargame, "The Dominion of Sarxos"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/568'),
(14032, 'The Deadliest Game', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Net Force Explorers Megan O''Malley and Leif Anderson match wits with an unknown and sinister enemy who is targeting computer users playing the Net''s most popular online wargame, "The Dominion of Sarxos"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8983'),
(14033, 'The Deadliest Game', 'Tom Clancy; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Net Force Explorers Megan O''Malley and Leif Anderson match wits with an unknown and sinister enemy who is targeting computer users playing the Net''s most popular online wargame, "The Dominion of Sarxos"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24407');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14034, 'Deadliest Sea', 'Kalee Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Soon after 2:00 A.M. on Easter morning, March 23, 2008, the fishing trawler Alaska Ranger began taking on water in the middle of the frigid Bering Sea. While the first mate broadcast Mayday calls to a remote Coast Guard station more than eight hundred miles away, the men on the ship''s icy deck scrambled to inflate life rafts and activate the beacon lights, which would guide rescuers to them in the water. By 4:30 A.M., the wheelhouse of the Ranger was just barely visible above the sea''s surface, and most of the forty-seven crew members were in the water, wearing the red survival suitsâ€”a number of them torn or inadequately sizedâ€”that were supposed to keep them from freezing to death. Every minute in the twenty-foot swells was a fight for survival. Many knew that if they weren''t rescued soon, they would drown or freeze to death.   Two Coast Guard helicopter rescue teams were woken up in the middle of the night to save the crew of the Alaska Ranger. Many of the men thought the mission would be routine. They were wrong. The helicopter teams battled snow squalls, enormous swells, and gale-force winds as they tried to fulfill one guiding principle: save as many as they could. Again and again, the helicopters lowered a rescue swimmer to the ocean''s surface to bring the shipwrecked men, some delirious with hypothermia, some almost frozen to death, back to the helicopter and to safety. Before the break of dawn, the Coast Guard had lifted more than twenty men from the freezing wavesâ€”more than any other cold-water Coast Guard rescue in history.   Deadliest Sea is a daring and mesmerizing adventure tale that chronicles the power of nature against man, and explores the essence of the fear each man and woman must face when confronted with catastrophe. It also investigates the shocking negligence that leads to the sinking of dozens of ships each year, which could be prevented and makes commercial fishing one of the most dangerous occupations in the world.   With deft writing and technical knowledge, veteran journalist Kalee Thompson recounts the harrowing stories of both the rescuers and the rescued who survived the deadly ordeal in the Bering Sea. Along the way, she pays tribute to the courage, tenacity, and skill of dedicated service people who risk their own lives for the lives of others.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12347'),
(14035, 'Deadline', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Heart-Pounding Murder Mystery\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Involved in a tragic accident under suspicious circumstances, award-winning journalist Jake Woods teams with detective Ollie Chandler to uncover the truth. This alluring repackage of the R andy Alcorn bestseller finds Jake drawing upon all his resources in an ever-intensifying, dangerous murder investigation. Unaware of the imminent threat to his own life, Jake struggles for answers to the mystery at hand and is plunged into a deeper search for the meaning of his own existence.\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  His Body Hung Suspended Between Two Friends--His Soul Between Two Worlds\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Docâ€™s shoulder jammed into Jake as he swerved the Suburban sharply to the right, cut between a telephone pole and a billboard, then careened into a ten-foot high embankment. Sometime between the sound of Docâ€™s last cry and the sickening crunch of bent metal from the carâ€™s first roll, Jake lost consciousness. The last sensation he felt was that of being crushed between the two men he had known since childhoodâ€¦\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When tragedy strikes those closest to him, award-winning journalist Jake Woods must draw upon all his resources to uncover the truth about their suspicious accident. Soon he finds himself swept up in a murder investigation that is both complex and dangerous. Unaware of the threat to his own life, Jake is drawn in deeper and deeper as he desperately searches for the answers to the immediate mystery at hand andâ€”ultimatelyâ€”the deeper meaning of his own existence.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n is a dramatic and vivid novel of substance, filled with hope and perspective for every reader who longs to feel purpose in life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  READERâ€™S GUIDE INCLUDED\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Story Behind the Book\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n is Randy Alcorn â€™s first novel, which stayed on the bestsellerâ€™s list for thirty-six months. A thorough researcher, Randy spent time with Portland homicide detectives and columnists at the\n <em>\n  Oregonian,\n </em>\n as well as observing editorial meetings at the\n <em>\n  Indianapolis Star\n </em>\n so he could accurately create the novelâ€™s murder-mystery storyline, setting, and characters. Randy also creatively portrays characters who have died and gone to heaven, where they view events happening on earth.\n <strong>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Randy Alcorn\n </strong>\n is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. His novels include\n <em>\n  Deadline, Dominion, Edge of Eternity, Lord Foulgrinâ€™s Letters, The Ishbane Conspiracy,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Safely Home\n </em>\n . He has written fourteen nonfiction books as well, including\n <em>\n  Heaven, The Treasure Principle, The Purity Principle,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Grace and Truth Paradox\n </em>\n . Randy and his wife, Nanci, live in Gresham, Oregon. They have two married daughters, Karina and Angela, and three grandchildren.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1912'),
(14036, 'Deadline', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Heart-Pounding Murder Mystery\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Involved in a tragic accident under suspicious circumstances, award-winning journalist Jake Woods teams with detective Ollie Chandler to uncover the truth. This alluring repackage of the R andy Alcorn bestseller finds Jake drawing upon all his resources in an ever-intensifying, dangerous murder investigation. Unaware of the imminent threat to his own life, Jake struggles for answers to the mystery at hand and is plunged into a deeper search for the meaning of his own existence.\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  His Body Hung Suspended Between Two Friends--His Soul Between Two Worlds\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Docâ€™s shoulder jammed into Jake as he swerved the Suburban sharply to the right, cut between a telephone pole and a billboard, then careened into a ten-foot high embankment. Sometime between the sound of Docâ€™s last cry and the sickening crunch of bent metal from the carâ€™s first roll, Jake lost consciousness. The last sensation he felt was that of being crushed between the two men he had known since childhoodâ€¦\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When tragedy strikes those closest to him, award-winning journalist Jake Woods must draw upon all his resources to uncover the truth about their suspicious accident. Soon he finds himself swept up in a murder investigation that is both complex and dangerous. Unaware of the threat to his own life, Jake is drawn in deeper and deeper as he desperately searches for the answers to the immediate mystery at hand andâ€”ultimatelyâ€”the deeper meaning of his own existence.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n is a dramatic and vivid novel of substance, filled with hope and perspective for every reader who longs to feel purpose in life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  READERâ€™S GUIDE INCLUDED\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Story Behind the Book\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n is Randy Alcorn â€™s first novel, which stayed on the bestsellerâ€™s list for thirty-six months. A thorough researcher, Randy spent time with Portland homicide detectives and columnists at the\n <em>\n  Oregonian,\n </em>\n as well as observing editorial meetings at the\n <em>\n  Indianapolis Star\n </em>\n so he could accurately create the novelâ€™s murder-mystery storyline, setting, and characters. Randy also creatively portrays characters who have died and gone to heaven, where they view events happening on earth.\n <strong>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Randy Alcorn\n </strong>\n is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. His novels include\n <em>\n  Deadline, Dominion, Edge of Eternity, Lord Foulgrinâ€™s Letters, The Ishbane Conspiracy,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Safely Home\n </em>\n . He has written fourteen nonfiction books as well, including\n <em>\n  Heaven, The Treasure Principle, The Purity Principle,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Grace and Truth Paradox\n </em>\n . Randy and his wife, Nanci, live in Gresham, Oregon. They have two married daughters, Karina and Angela, and three grandchildren.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9364'),
(14037, 'Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All', 'Paul A. Offit', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In the second book this season (after journalist Seth Mnookin''s The Panic Virus) to attack vaccine paranoia, Offitâ€”who drew antivaccinist fire for Autism''s False Prophetsâ€”presents a smart, hard-hitting exposÃ© of vaccine pseudoscience. Offit brings outstanding credentials to the subject: he''s a vaccinologist at Children''s Hospital in Philadelphia and an expert in infectious diseases, and he tackles claims that childhood inoculations cause brain damage, autism, diabetes, and cancer, finding a farrago of misinformation, faulty research, and sly deceptions fed to distraught parents by media hype, ax-grinding activists, and personal-injury lawyers. He embellishes his account with a sprightly history of paranoid medical populismâ€”19th-century critics of the cowpox-derived smallpox vaccine insisted it could turn people into cowsâ€”and a blistering attack on celebrity antivaccine ideologues Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and Bill Maher and the medical writers who pander to parental anxieties. Offit dwells less than Mnookin on the sociology of the controversy and more on the science. The result is a thorough dismantling of antivaccine notions and a sober warning about the resurgence of deadly childhood infections stemming from declining vaccination rates. Worried parents, especially, will find this a lucid, compelling riposte to antivaccine fear-mongering. Photos. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Infectious disease expert Offit, long an outspoken and prolific (Vaccinated, 2007) champion of universal immunization via vaccines, ratchets up the urgency of his crusade by taking on the loudest and highest-profile spokespersons for the anti-vaccine movement. He spares no one, not Jim Carrey, not Jenny McCarthy, televisionâ€™s Dr. Oz, or even Dr. Bob Sears, as he tosses salvo after salvo of scientific evidence across the bow of their anti-vaccine ships. Their anti-vaccine arguments, he says, consist of nothing more than anecdotal drama combined with conspiracy theories that pander to parentsâ€™ most emotional fears. What they should be doing, he says, is encouraging parents to trust the huge bank of scientific data proving the safety of vaccines and their efficacy in eliminating many deadly infectious diseases. Armed with his own arsenal of anecdotal horror stories that focus on worst case histories of the unvaccinated, mostly children, in addition to pages of scientific study citations supporting his premise, Offit pulls no punches. His tone is edgier than usual this time, his arguments more virulent. It is clear that he wants his message and the facts, not rumors or infectious diseases, to go viral. --Donna Chavez\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2301'),
(14038, 'Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All', 'Paul A. Offit', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In the second book this season (after journalist Seth Mnookin''s The Panic Virus) to attack vaccine paranoia, Offitâ€”who drew antivaccinist fire for Autism''s False Prophetsâ€”presents a smart, hard-hitting exposÃ© of vaccine pseudoscience. Offit brings outstanding credentials to the subject: he''s a vaccinologist at Children''s Hospital in Philadelphia and an expert in infectious diseases, and he tackles claims that childhood inoculations cause brain damage, autism, diabetes, and cancer, finding a farrago of misinformation, faulty research, and sly deceptions fed to distraught parents by media hype, ax-grinding activists, and personal-injury lawyers. He embellishes his account with a sprightly history of paranoid medical populismâ€”19th-century critics of the cowpox-derived smallpox vaccine insisted it could turn people into cowsâ€”and a blistering attack on celebrity antivaccine ideologues Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and Bill Maher and the medical writers who pander to parental anxieties. Offit dwells less than Mnookin on the sociology of the controversy and more on the science. The result is a thorough dismantling of antivaccine notions and a sober warning about the resurgence of deadly childhood infections stemming from declining vaccination rates. Worried parents, especially, will find this a lucid, compelling riposte to antivaccine fear-mongering. Photos. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Infectious disease expert Offit, long an outspoken and prolific (Vaccinated, 2007) champion of universal immunization via vaccines, ratchets up the urgency of his crusade by taking on the loudest and highest-profile spokespersons for the anti-vaccine movement. He spares no one, not Jim Carrey, not Jenny McCarthy, televisionâ€™s Dr. Oz, or even Dr. Bob Sears, as he tosses salvo after salvo of scientific evidence across the bow of their anti-vaccine ships. Their anti-vaccine arguments, he says, consist of nothing more than anecdotal drama combined with conspiracy theories that pander to parentsâ€™ most emotional fears. What they should be doing, he says, is encouraging parents to trust the huge bank of scientific data proving the safety of vaccines and their efficacy in eliminating many deadly infectious diseases. Armed with his own arsenal of anecdotal horror stories that focus on worst case histories of the unvaccinated, mostly children, in addition to pages of scientific study citations supporting his premise, Offit pulls no punches. His tone is edgier than usual this time, his arguments more virulent. It is clear that he wants his message and the facts, not rumors or infectious diseases, to go viral. --Donna Chavez\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11695'),
(14039, 'Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All', 'Paul A. Offit M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In the second book this season (after journalist Seth Mnookin''s The Panic Virus) to attack vaccine paranoia, Offitâ€”who drew antivaccinist fire for Autism''s False Prophetsâ€”presents a smart, hard-hitting exposÃ© of vaccine pseudoscience. Offit brings outstanding credentials to the subject: he''s a vaccinologist at Children''s Hospital in Philadelphia and an expert in infectious diseases, and he tackles claims that childhood inoculations cause brain damage, autism, diabetes, and cancer, finding a farrago of misinformation, faulty research, and sly deceptions fed to distraught parents by media hype, ax-grinding activists, and personal-injury lawyers. He embellishes his account with a sprightly history of paranoid medical populismâ€”19th-century critics of the cowpox-derived smallpox vaccine insisted it could turn people into cowsâ€”and a blistering attack on celebrity antivaccine ideologues Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and Bill Maher and the medical writers who pander to parental anxieties. Offit dwells less than Mnookin on the sociology of the controversy and more on the science. The result is a thorough dismantling of antivaccine notions and a sober warning about the resurgence of deadly childhood infections stemming from declining vaccination rates. Worried parents, especially, will find this a lucid, compelling riposte to antivaccine fear-mongering. Photos. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Infectious disease expert Offit, long an outspoken and prolific (Vaccinated, 2007) champion of universal immunization via vaccines, ratchets up the urgency of his crusade by taking on the loudest and highest-profile spokespersons for the anti-vaccine movement. He spares no one, not Jim Carrey, not Jenny McCarthy, televisionâ€™s Dr. Oz, or even Dr. Bob Sears, as he tosses salvo after salvo of scientific evidence across the bow of their anti-vaccine ships. Their anti-vaccine arguments, he says, consist of nothing more than anecdotal drama combined with conspiracy theories that pander to parentsâ€™ most emotional fears. What they should be doing, he says, is encouraging parents to trust the huge bank of scientific data proving the safety of vaccines and their efficacy in eliminating many deadly infectious diseases. Armed with his own arsenal of anecdotal horror stories that focus on worst case histories of the unvaccinated, mostly children, in addition to pages of scientific study citations supporting his premise, Offit pulls no punches. His tone is edgier than usual this time, his arguments more virulent. It is clear that he wants his message and the facts, not rumors or infectious diseases, to go viral. --Donna Chavez\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22545'),
(14040, 'The Deadly Dance', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div class="ff">\n  <div class="spacer">\n   Â \n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class="ff">\n  <div class="blurb">\n   <div>\n    Bossy, impulsive, and unlucky in love, the all-too-human Agatha Raisin has proved to be a surprisingly effective---and endearing---amateur sleuth. But can Agatha make it as a private investigator? After getting mugged on vacation, in what she will always think of as the Paris Incident, she decides to find out.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    Agatha soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler movie. Instead of dames in distress with big shoulder pads, her clients are ladies with missing cats and a man whose son has run off with his car. Agatha even worries that she might be outclassed by her sixty-seven-year-old secretary, Emma Comfrey.\n    <br />\n    But then wealthy divorc&amp;eacute;e Catherine Laggat-Brown walks in with their first "real" case. Mrs. Laggat-Brown''s daughter has received a death threat, and when Agatha thwarts an attack on the girl at a dinner dance, she recognizes an opportunity to show what Raisin Investigations can do. Even better, the case gives her a chance to reunite with her long-absent friend, Sir Charles Fraith. As they scour the Cotswolds in search of leads, Charles'' insights prove invaluable and his charms irresistible, leading poor Emma to fall madly in love with him.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    As ever, Agatha bumbles her way through the case, trying her friends'' patience and flirting shamelessly with the chief suspect. Will she put her tiny agency on the map, or has even the outrageous Agatha finally bitten off more than she can chew?\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3228'),
(14041, 'The Deadly Dance', 'Beaton, M. C.', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div class="ff">\n  <div class="spacer">\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class="ff">\n  <div class="blurb">\n   <div>\n    Bossy, impulsive, and unlucky in love, the all-too-human Agatha Raisin has proved to be a surprisingly effective---and endearing---amateur sleuth. But can Agatha make it as a private investigator? After getting mugged on vacation, in what she will always think of as the Paris Incident, she decides to find out.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    Agatha soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler movie. Instead of dames in distress with big shoulder pads, her clients are ladies with missing cats and a man whose son has run off with his car. Agatha even worries that she might be outclassed by her sixty-seven-year-old secretary, Emma Comfrey.\n    <br />\n    But then wealthy divorc&amp;eacute;e Catherine Laggat-Brown walks in with their first "real" case. Mrs. Laggat-Brown''s daughter has received a death threat, and when Agatha thwarts an attack on the girl at a dinner dance, she recognizes an opportunity to show what Raisin Investigations can do. Even better, the case gives her a chance to reunite with her long-absent friend, Sir Charles Fraith. As they scour the Cotswolds in search of leads, Charles'' insights prove invaluable and his charms irresistible, leading poor Emma to fall madly in love with him.\n    <br />\n    <br />\n    As ever, Agatha bumbles her way through the case, trying her friends'' patience and flirting shamelessly with the chief suspect. Will she put her tiny agency on the map, or has even the outrageous Agatha finally bitten off more than she can chew?\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21217'),
(14042, 'Deadly Decisions: A Novel', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  This book is all about a nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint who is shot dead on a Montreal Street. Dr.Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist begins an investigation into a culture where evil often wears a mask. Deadly DÃ©cisions combines the authenticity of an excellent forensic professional with the narrative power of a brilliant new crime-writing star.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Nobody tells a chilling story like international bestselling author Kathy Reichs, whose "most valuable tool is her expertise...she''s the real thing" "(New York Newsday)." Drawing on her years as a top forensic anthropologist, Reichs brings her cutting-edge scientific know-how to this poignant, terrifying new tour de force. Nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint is shot dead on a Montreal street. A North Carolina teenager disappears from her home and parts of what may be her skeleton are found hundreds of miles away. For Dr. Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist in both Montreal and North Carolina, the deaths kindle deep emotions that propel her on a harrowing journey into the world of outlaw motorcycle gangs. As a scientist, Tempe should remain dispassionate. As a caring individual, she yearns to take the killers off the streets. Emily Anne was cut down in a biker crossfire. The North Carolina victim, Savannah Osprey, was last seen hitching a ride with a transient biker. Tempe''s nephew, Kit, is intrigued by motorcycles. Does he understand the difference between legitimate riders and gangs, or is he too mesmerized to comprehend that outlaw bikers are big trouble? With her boss Pierre LaManche in the hospital, and her friend Andrew Ryan disturbingly unavailable, Tempe begins a perilous investigation into a culture where evil often wears a mask. From blood-splatter patterns and ground-penetrating radar to bone-sample analysis, "Deadly Decisions" triumphantly combines the authenticity of a world-class forensic professional with the narrative power of a brilliant new crime-writing star. This richly nuanced thriller is sure to catapult a uniquely gifted author to even greater heights.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13812'),
(14043, 'Deadly Decisions: A Novel', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  This book is all about a nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint who is shot dead on a Montreal Street. Dr.Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist begins an investigation into a culture where evil often wears a mask. Deadly DÃ©cisions combines the authenticity of an excellent forensic professional with the narrative power of a brilliant new crime-writing star.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Nobody tells a chilling story like international bestselling author Kathy Reichs, whose "most valuable tool is her expertise...she''s the real thing" "(New York Newsday)." Drawing on her years as a top forensic anthropologist, Reichs brings her cutting-edge scientific know-how to this poignant, terrifying new tour de force. Nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint is shot dead on a Montreal street. A North Carolina teenager disappears from her home and parts of what may be her skeleton are found hundreds of miles away. For Dr. Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist in both Montreal and North Carolina, the deaths kindle deep emotions that propel her on a harrowing journey into the world of outlaw motorcycle gangs. As a scientist, Tempe should remain dispassionate. As a caring individual, she yearns to take the killers off the streets. Emily Anne was cut down in a biker crossfire. The North Carolina victim, Savannah Osprey, was last seen hitching a ride with a transient biker. Tempe''s nephew, Kit, is intrigued by motorcycles. Does he understand the difference between legitimate riders and gangs, or is he too mesmerized to comprehend that outlaw bikers are big trouble? With her boss Pierre LaManche in the hospital, and her friend Andrew Ryan disturbingly unavailable, Tempe begins a perilous investigation into a culture where evil often wears a mask. From blood-splatter patterns and ground-penetrating radar to bone-sample analysis, "Deadly Decisions" triumphantly combines the authenticity of a world-class forensic professional with the narrative power of a brilliant new crime-writing star. This richly nuanced thriller is sure to catapult a uniquely gifted author to even greater heights.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20614'),
(14044, 'Deadly Doubles', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15443'),
(14045, 'Deadly Fear', 'Cynthia Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n TWO BRILLIANT AGENTS\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n FBI Special Agent Monica Davenport has made a career out of profiling serial killers. But getting inside the twisted minds of the cruel and the sadistic has taken its toll: She''s walled herself off from the world. Yet Monica can''t ignore fellow agent Luke Dante, the only man who ever broke through her defenses.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ONE DREAM TEAM\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Luke has the unique ability to put victims at ease...professionally, he and Monica made a perfect team. Now they''re reunited to catch a murderer who uses his victims'' deepest, darkest fears for sport - but their investigative skills aren''t enough. Luke and Monica will have to face the secrets from their past, the ones that terrify them the most, if they are to have a future together.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But can they catch a killer whose weapon is...DEADLY FEAR\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6571'),
(14046, 'Deadly Fear', 'Cynthia Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n TWO BRILLIANT AGENTS\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n FBI Special Agent Monica Davenport has made a career out of profiling serial killers. But getting inside the twisted minds of the cruel and the sadistic has taken its toll: She''s walled herself off from the world. Yet Monica can''t ignore fellow agent Luke Dante, the only man who ever broke through her defenses.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ONE DREAM TEAM\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Luke has the unique ability to put victims at ease...professionally, he and Monica made a perfect team. Now they''re reunited to catch a murderer who uses his victims'' deepest, darkest fears for sport - but their investigative skills aren''t enough. Luke and Monica will have to face the secrets from their past, the ones that terrify them the most, if they are to have a future together.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But can they catch a killer whose weapon is...DEADLY FEAR\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10856'),
(14047, 'Deadly Fear', 'Cynthia Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: TWO BRILLIANT AGENTS FBI Special Agent Monica Davenport has made a career out of profiling serial killers. But getting inside the twisted minds of the cruel and the sadistic has taken its toll: She''s walled herself off from the world. Yet Monica can''t ignore fellow agent Luke Dante, the only man who ever broke through her defenses. ONE DREAM TEAM Luke has the unique ability to put victims at ease...professionally, he and Monica made a perfect team. Now they''re reunited to catch a murderer who uses his victims'' deepest, darkest fears for sport - but their investigative skills aren''t enough. Luke and Monica will have to face the secrets from their past, the ones that terrify them the most, if they are to have a future together. But can they catch a killer whose weapon is...DEADLY FEAR\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17405'),
(14048, 'Deadly Fear', 'Cynthia Eden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: TWO BRILLIANT AGENTS FBI Special Agent Monica Davenport has made a career out of profiling serial killers. But getting inside the twisted minds of the cruel and the sadistic has taken its toll: She''s walled herself off from the world. Yet Monica can''t ignore fellow agent Luke Dante, the only man who ever broke through her defenses. ONE DREAM TEAM Luke has the unique ability to put victims at ease...professionally, he and Monica made a perfect team. Now they''re reunited to catch a murderer who uses his victims'' deepest, darkest fears for sport - but their investigative skills aren''t enough. Luke and Monica will have to face the secrets from their past, the ones that terrify them the most, if they are to have a future together. But can they catch a killer whose weapon is...DEADLY FEAR\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27132'),
(14049, 'Deadly Games', 'Cate Noble', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Eyes Only\n <br />\n INTERNAL AGENCY E-MAIL\n <br />\n FROM: Rocco Taylor\n <br />\n October 3, 11:50 p.m.\n <br />\n <br />\n It''s the waiting I can''t stand. Let me belly crawl across a minefield into an enemy stronghold. Or give me an MP5 and a load of clips and just let me shoot my way in. Anything but this: playing along with the perps while an innocent woman pays the price.\n <br />\n <br />\n I know the last thing Gena wants is a hero--or me. I made the mistake of letting her go once, putting the assignment ahead of the heat between us. Since then she''s survived things I can only imagine, but no one can escape a death agent alone. Now I''ve got one last chance to win her trust, to get it right.\n <br />\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6947'),
(14050, 'Deadly Games', 'Cate Noble', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Eyes Only\n <br />\n INTERNAL AGENCY E-MAIL\n <br />\n FROM: Rocco Taylor\n <br />\n October 3, 11:50 p.m.\n <br />\n <br />\n It''s the waiting I can''t stand. Let me belly crawl across a minefield into an enemy stronghold. Or give me an MP5 and a load of clips and just let me shoot my way in. Anything but this: playing along with the perps while an innocent woman pays the price.\n <br />\n <br />\n I know the last thing Gena wants is a hero--or me. I made the mistake of letting her go once, putting the assignment ahead of the heat between us. Since then she''s survived things I can only imagine, but no one can escape a death agent alone. Now I''ve got one last chance to win her trust, to get it right.\n <br />\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11692'),
(14051, 'Deadly Games', 'Cate Noble', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n Eyes Only\n <br />\n INTERNAL AGENCY E-MAIL\n <br />\n FROM: Rocco Taylor\n <br />\n October 3, 11:50 p.m.\n <br />\n <br />\n It''s the waiting I can''t stand. Let me belly crawl across a minefield into an enemy stronghold. Or give me an MP5 and a load of clips and just let me shoot my way in. Anything but this: playing along with the perps while an innocent woman pays the price.\n <br />\n <br />\n I know the last thing Gena wants is a hero--or me. I made the mistake of letting her go once, putting the assignment ahead of the heat between us. Since then she''s survived things I can only imagine, but no one can escape a death agent alone. Now I''ve got one last chance to win her trust, to get it right.\n <br />\n <br />\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16971'),
(14052, 'Deadly Greetings: A Card-Making Mystery', 'Elizabeth Bright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Underwater investigator Hannah Sampson and her partner are suiting up for underwater training in the British Virgin Islands when a plane nosedives into the water and disappears.They save eight people-and lose four. Hannah plunges into an investigation to see if one of the passengers was a target and who would be desperate enough to kill all those people.And as she copes with a nine-year-old survivor, a shady suspect, a shaky relationship-and an approaching hurricane-Hannah begins to feel she might have gotten in too deep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5858'),
(14053, 'Deadly Greetings: A Card-making Mystery', 'Elizabeth Bright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Underwater investigator Hannah Sampson and her partner are suiting up for underwater training in the British Virgin Islands when a plane nosedives into the water and disappears.They save eight people-and lose four. Hannah plunges into an investigation to see if one of the passengers was a target and who would be desperate enough to kill all those people.And as she copes with a nine-year-old survivor, a shady suspect, a shaky relationship-and an approaching hurricane-Hannah begins to feel she might have gotten in too deep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18880'),
(14054, 'Deadly Greetings: A Card-making Mystery', 'Elizabeth Bright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Underwater investigator Hannah Sampson and her partner are suiting up for underwater training in the British Virgin Islands when a plane nosedives into the water and disappears.They save eight people-and lose four. Hannah plunges into an investigation to see if one of the passengers was a target and who would be desperate enough to kill all those people.And as she copes with a nine-year-old survivor, a shady suspect, a shaky relationship-and an approaching hurricane-Hannah begins to feel she might have gotten in too deep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27674'),
(14055, 'Deadly Intent', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15444'),
(14056, 'Deadly Little Secret', 'Laurie Faria Stolarz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3542'),
(14057, 'Deadly Little Secret', 'Laurie Faria Stolarz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12878'),
(14058, 'Deadly Little Secret', 'Laurie Faria Stolarz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20941'),
(14059, 'Deadly Little Secrets', 'Jeanne Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Security expert Gates Bromley''s number one priority is protecting art collector Dav Gianikopolis. But when he joins forces with CIA Agent Ana Burton tracing several pieces of stolen art, Gates is distracted by the leggy brunette who stirs up the raciest thoughts...After botching an operation that cost her colleagues'' lives, Ana has been reassigned to cold cases. When news gets out that she''s reopened a case involving stolen art and five brutal murders, Ana is almost killed. Seeking comfort in Gates'' strong embrace is easy, but surrendering trust to the sexiest man she''s ever known isn''t - unless Gates can show her that an attraction this hot is worth all the risks. But first he''ll have to stop a killer who''s bent on keeping the past buried.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4618'),
(14060, 'Deadly Little Secrets', 'Jeanne Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Security expert Gates Bromley''s number one priority is protecting art collector Dav Gianikopolis. But when he joins forces with CIA Agent Ana Burton tracing several pieces of stolen art, Gates is distracted by the leggy brunette who stirs up the raciest thoughts...After botching an operation that cost her colleagues'' lives, Ana has been reassigned to cold cases. When news gets out that she''s reopened a case involving stolen art and five brutal murders, Ana is almost killed. Seeking comfort in Gates'' strong embrace is easy, but surrendering trust to the sexiest man she''s ever known isn''t - unless Gates can show her that an attraction this hot is worth all the risks. But first he''ll have to stop a killer who''s bent on keeping the past buried.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9335'),
(14061, 'Deadly Promises', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon &amp; Dianna Love &amp; Cindy Gerard &amp; Laura Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THESE HEROES ARE 100 PERCENT RAW, DANGEROUS, AND . . . UNDENIABLY SEXY.New York Times bestselling authors Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love, and Cindy Gerard and rising romance star Laura Griffin mix seduction and suspense in three irresistible romantic adventures. From sultry international jungles to the rugged terrain of the American Southwest, join the larger-than-life, scorching-hot alpha heroes of the Bureau of American Defense, Black Ops, Inc., and the U.S. Navy SEALs for all the pulse-pounding, heart-racing, toe-curling excitement. Theyâ€™re cool under pressure, steamy under the sheets, and when the enemy strikes, thereâ€™s not a lethal mission these gorgeous men canâ€™t handle. . . . **Just Bad Enough\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love**Leave No Trace\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Cindy Gerard**Unstoppable\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Llaura Griffin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1291'),
(14062, 'Deadly Promises', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon &amp; Dianna Love &amp; Cindy Gerard &amp; Laura Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THESE HEROES ARE 100 PERCENT RAW, DANGEROUS, AND . . . UNDENIABLY SEXY.New York Times bestselling authors Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love, and Cindy Gerard and rising romance star Laura Griffin mix seduction and suspense in three irresistible romantic adventures. From sultry international jungles to the rugged terrain of the American Southwest, join the larger-than-life, scorching-hot alpha heroes of the Bureau of American Defense, Black Ops, Inc., and the U.S. Navy SEALs for all the pulse-pounding, heart-racing, toe-curling excitement. Theyâ€™re cool under pressure, steamy under the sheets, and when the enemy strikes, thereâ€™s not a lethal mission these gorgeous men canâ€™t handle. . . . **Just Bad Enough\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love**Leave No Trace\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Cindy Gerard**Unstoppable\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Llaura Griffin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10679'),
(14063, 'Deadly Promises', 'Sherrilyn Kenyon; Dianna Love; Cindy Gerard; Laura Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: THESE HEROES ARE 100 PERCENT RAW, DANGEROUS, AND . . . UNDENIABLY SEXY.New York Times bestselling authors Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love, and Cindy Gerard and rising romance star Laura Griffin mix seduction and suspense in three irresistible romantic adventures. From sultry international jungles to the rugged terrain of the American Southwest, join the larger-than-life, scorching-hot alpha heroes of the Bureau of American Defense, Black Ops, Inc., and the U.S. Navy SEALs for all the pulse-pounding, heart-racing, toe-curling excitement. Theyâ€™re cool under pressure, steamy under the sheets, and when the enemy strikes, thereâ€™s not a lethal mission these gorgeous men canâ€™t handle. . . . **Just Bad Enough **Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love**Leave No Trace **Cindy Gerard**Unstoppable **Llaura Griffin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23653'),
(14064, 'Deadly Quicksilver Lies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the former mistress of the now-defunct king hires Garrett to find her missing teenaged daughter, the human detective gets more than he bargained for in a world full of suspects, sex, and corpses. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5349'),
(14065, 'Deadly Quicksilver Lies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the former mistress of the now-defunct king hires Garrett to find her missing teenaged daughter, the human detective gets more than he bargained for in a world full of suspects, sex, and corpses. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19319'),
(14066, 'Deadly Quicksilver Lies', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the former mistress of the now-defunct king hires Garrett to find her missing teenaged daughter, the human detective gets more than he bargained for in a world full of suspects, sex, and corpses. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28012'),
(14067, 'A Deadly Row', 'Casey Mayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Capturing the hot new craze:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The new Math Puzzle mystery series. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Math whiz Savannah Stone makes a living creating Math puzzles in rural North Carolina. But when the mayor starts receiving death threats, Savannah needs to solve this puzzle-before the next box to be filled is the mayor''s coffin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6943'),
(14068, 'A Deadly Row', 'Casey Mayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Capturing the hot new craze:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The new Math Puzzle mystery series. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Math whiz Savannah Stone makes a living creating Math puzzles in rural North Carolina. But when the mayor starts receiving death threats, Savannah needs to solve this puzzle-before the next box to be filled is the mayor''s coffin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11366'),
(14069, 'A Deadly Row', 'Casey Mayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Capturing the hot new craze: The new Math Puzzle mystery series. ** Math whiz Savannah Stone makes a living creating Math puzzles in rural North Carolina. But when the mayor starts receiving death threats, Savannah needs to solve this puzzle-before the next box to be filled is the mayor''s coffin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16975'),
(14070, 'A Deadly Row', 'Casey Mayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Capturing the hot new craze: The new Math Puzzle mystery series. ** Math whiz Savannah Stone makes a living creating Math puzzles in rural North Carolina. But when the mayor starts receiving death threats, Savannah needs to solve this puzzle-before the next box to be filled is the mayor''s coffin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26787'),
(14071, 'Deadly Visions', 'Roy Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A killer crosses overâ€¦Ace magician turned ace police detective Joe Bailey, a.k.a. the Spirit Basher, needs all his expertise when heâ€™s teamed up with psychic investigator Monica Gaines to crack a string of serial murders--each involving strange voices and stranger circumstances. Monica senses supernatural forces at work, but whoever--or whatever--is doing the killing, the victims are real. When eerie happenings hit closer to home--to Joeâ€™s daughter, Nikki--and then Monica herself is the victim of a grisly, near-fatal attack, Joe is more determined than ever to unmask the truth behind the phenomena. As he searches for answers to inexplicable questions, he discovers that politics and the paranormal make deadly bedfellows, that his escape-artist skills still come in handy--and that even a psychic can know too much.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1496'),
(14072, 'Deadly Visions', 'Roy Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A killer crosses overâ€¦Ace magician turned ace police detective Joe Bailey, a.k.a. the Spirit Basher, needs all his expertise when heâ€™s teamed up with psychic investigator Monica Gaines to crack a string of serial murders--each involving strange voices and stranger circumstances. Monica senses supernatural forces at work, but whoever--or whatever--is doing the killing, the victims are real. When eerie happenings hit closer to home--to Joeâ€™s daughter, Nikki--and then Monica herself is the victim of a grisly, near-fatal attack, Joe is more determined than ever to unmask the truth behind the phenomena. As he searches for answers to inexplicable questions, he discovers that politics and the paranormal make deadly bedfellows, that his escape-artist skills still come in handy--and that even a psychic can know too much.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23410'),
(14073, 'Deadman&#39;s Bluff', 'James Swain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIn this series about gambling, the main character is a big winner.â€\n <br />\n â€“Janet Maslin, The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBask in Swainâ€™s Las Vegas without having to set foot in the place and risk being skinned alive.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the worldâ€™s largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters who will go to extremesâ€“even cold-blooded murderâ€“to ensure that the obnoxious DeMarco wins big.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Gerry flies to Atlantic City to suss out DeMarcoâ€™s secret, Valentine stays in Vegas and teams up with an aging grifter named Rufus Steele, who has his own score to settle with DeMarco. On opposite sides of a deadly game, father and son work their way through a colorful landscape of conmen and hitmen. Together, they will have to prove thereâ€™s more to any game of chance than meets the eye.\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring insider tips for catching poker cheats, as well as a glossary of card hustler terms!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Swain, the bestselling author of Grift Sense, Funny Money, Sucker Bet, Loaded Dice, Mr. Lucky, and Deadmanâ€™s Poker, is also an authority on crooked gambling and casino scams. He is the winner of the prestigious Prix Calibre 38. He lives in Odessa, Florida, with his wife, Laura, and is currently at work on his next Tony Valentine novel. Visit the authorâ€™s website at www.jimswain.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4783');
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(14074, 'Deadman&#39;s Bluff', 'James Swain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIn this series about gambling, the main character is a big winner.â€\n <br />\n â€“Janet Maslin, The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBask in Swainâ€™s Las Vegas without having to set foot in the place and risk being skinned alive.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the worldâ€™s largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters who will go to extremesâ€“even cold-blooded murderâ€“to ensure that the obnoxious DeMarco wins big.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Gerry flies to Atlantic City to suss out DeMarcoâ€™s secret, Valentine stays in Vegas and teams up with an aging grifter named Rufus Steele, who has his own score to settle with DeMarco. On opposite sides of a deadly game, father and son work their way through a colorful landscape of conmen and hitmen. Together, they will have to prove thereâ€™s more to any game of chance than meets the eye.\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring insider tips for catching poker cheats, as well as a glossary of card hustler terms!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Swain, the bestselling author of Grift Sense, Funny Money, Sucker Bet, Loaded Dice, Mr. Lucky, and Deadmanâ€™s Poker, is also an authority on crooked gambling and casino scams. He is the winner of the prestigious Prix Calibre 38. He lives in Odessa, Florida, with his wife, Laura, and is currently at work on his next Tony Valentine novel. Visit the authorâ€™s website at www.jimswain.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12930'),
(14075, 'Deadman&#39;s Bluff', 'James Swain', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIn this series about gambling, the main character is a big winner.â€\n <br />\n â€“Janet Maslin, The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBask in Swainâ€™s Las Vegas without having to set foot in the place and risk being skinned alive.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the worldâ€™s largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters who will go to extremesâ€“even cold-blooded murderâ€“to ensure that the obnoxious DeMarco wins big.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Gerry flies to Atlantic City to suss out DeMarcoâ€™s secret, Valentine stays in Vegas and teams up with an aging grifter named Rufus Steele, who has his own score to settle with DeMarco. On opposite sides of a deadly game, father and son work their way through a colorful landscape of conmen and hitmen. Together, they will have to prove thereâ€™s more to any game of chance than meets the eye.\n</p>\n<p>\n Featuring insider tips for catching poker cheats, as well as a glossary of card hustler terms!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n James Swain, the bestselling author of Grift Sense, Funny Money, Sucker Bet, Loaded Dice, Mr. Lucky, and Deadmanâ€™s Poker, is also an authority on crooked gambling and casino scams. He is the winner of the prestigious Prix Calibre 38. He lives in Odessa, Florida, with his wife, Laura, and is currently at work on his next Tony Valentine novel. Visit the authorâ€™s website at www.jimswain.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19973'),
(14076, 'Deadwood', 'Pete Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1876 William "[Buffalo] Bill" [Hickok] and Charley Utter rode into Deadwood, a hellish frontier settlement in the Black Hills. Bill died there, victim of a possibly demented assassin. Fortunately, this is mostly the story of his constant companion, Charley, a man of sapient insight and, though less famous than his friend, of extensive and varied experience. Charley, Bill, their acquaintance the Bottle Fiend, and later Bill''s widow Agnes and mourner Calamity Jane saw some remarkable things in Deadwood and raised considerable Cain. By turns heroic, ludicrous, vicious, pathetic, and infuriating, the exotic citizens of Deadwood grab the reader''s interest immediately and never let go. Highly recommended for its deadpan, offbeat, credible frontier anarchy. Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army TRALINET Ctr., Fort Monroe, Va.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIf you want to call\n <strong>\n  Deadwood\n </strong>\n a Western, you might as well call\n <strong>\n  The House of Mirth\n </strong>\n chick lit.Â Dexter looked at the dark, twisted, ridiculous doings of Bill Hickok and company, said to himself, â€˜I recognize that!\n <strong>\n  â€™\n </strong>\n and gave us a world-class entertainment.â€ â€”Jonathan Franzen, author of\n <strong>\n  The Corrections\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUnpredictable, hyperbolic and, page after page, uproarious; a joshing book written in high spirits and a raw appreciation of the past.â€ --_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSplendid. . . . Rumor put straight. . . . A carefully researched knitting of events into their most dazzling fabric.â€ --_The Philadelphia Inquirer_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  Deadwood\n </strong>\n may well be the best western ever written.â€ â€”_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "What deepens and darkens [Dexter''s] writing, so that art is the precise word to describe it, is a powerful understanding that character rules, that we live with our weaknesses and die of our strengths." --_Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dexter is a master of colloquial poetry, of moods revealed through gestures and settings." -_-Playboy_\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the greatest American writers... a storyteller who cuts straight to the nerve." --Scott L. Turow\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dexter''s strongest suit is his exquisite understanding of the finely meshed engines of greed, appetite, and interest." --_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Great, eccentric characters....Dexter''s writing is a living thing." --_USA Today_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2184'),
(14077, 'Deadwood', 'Pete Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1876 William "[Buffalo] Bill" [Hickok] and Charley Utter rode into Deadwood, a hellish frontier settlement in the Black Hills. Bill died there, victim of a possibly demented assassin. Fortunately, this is mostly the story of his constant companion, Charley, a man of sapient insight and, though less famous than his friend, of extensive and varied experience. Charley, Bill, their acquaintance the Bottle Fiend, and later Bill''s widow Agnes and mourner Calamity Jane saw some remarkable things in Deadwood and raised considerable Cain. By turns heroic, ludicrous, vicious, pathetic, and infuriating, the exotic citizens of Deadwood grab the reader''s interest immediately and never let go. Highly recommended for its deadpan, offbeat, credible frontier anarchy. Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army TRALINET Ctr., Fort Monroe, Va.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIf you want to call\n <strong>\n  Deadwood\n </strong>\n a Western, you might as well call\n <strong>\n  The House of Mirth\n </strong>\n chick lit.Â Dexter looked at the dark, twisted, ridiculous doings of Bill Hickok and company, said to himself, â€˜I recognize that!\n <strong>\n  â€™\n </strong>\n and gave us a world-class entertainment.â€ â€”Jonathan Franzen, author of\n <strong>\n  The Corrections\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUnpredictable, hyperbolic and, page after page, uproarious; a joshing book written in high spirits and a raw appreciation of the past.â€ --_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSplendid. . . . Rumor put straight. . . . A carefully researched knitting of events into their most dazzling fabric.â€ --_The Philadelphia Inquirer_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  Deadwood\n </strong>\n may well be the best western ever written.â€ â€”_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "What deepens and darkens [Dexter''s] writing, so that art is the precise word to describe it, is a powerful understanding that character rules, that we live with our weaknesses and die of our strengths." --_Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dexter is a master of colloquial poetry, of moods revealed through gestures and settings." -_-Playboy_\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the greatest American writers... a storyteller who cuts straight to the nerve." --Scott L. Turow\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dexter''s strongest suit is his exquisite understanding of the finely meshed engines of greed, appetite, and interest." --_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Great, eccentric characters....Dexter''s writing is a living thing." --_USA Today_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9294'),
(14078, 'Deadwood', 'Pete Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1876 William "[Buffalo] Bill" [Hickok] and Charley Utter rode into Deadwood, a hellish frontier settlement in the Black Hills. Bill died there, victim of a possibly demented assassin. Fortunately, this is mostly the story of his constant companion, Charley, a man of sapient insight and, though less famous than his friend, of extensive and varied experience. Charley, Bill, their acquaintance the Bottle Fiend, and later Bill''s widow Agnes and mourner Calamity Jane saw some remarkable things in Deadwood and raised considerable Cain. By turns heroic, ludicrous, vicious, pathetic, and infuriating, the exotic citizens of Deadwood grab the reader''s interest immediately and never let go. Highly recommended for its deadpan, offbeat, credible frontier anarchy. Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army TRALINET Ctr., Fort Monroe, Va.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIf you want to call\n <strong>\n  Deadwood\n </strong>\n a Western, you might as well call\n <strong>\n  The House of Mirth\n </strong>\n chick lit.Â Dexter looked at the dark, twisted, ridiculous doings of Bill Hickok and company, said to himself, â€˜I recognize that!\n <strong>\n  â€™\n </strong>\n and gave us a world-class entertainment.â€ â€”Jonathan Franzen, author of\n <strong>\n  The Corrections\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œUnpredictable, hyperbolic and, page after page, uproarious; a joshing book written in high spirits and a raw appreciation of the past.â€ --_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSplendid. . . . Rumor put straight. . . . A carefully researched knitting of events into their most dazzling fabric.â€ --_The Philadelphia Inquirer_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  Deadwood\n </strong>\n may well be the best western ever written.â€ â€”_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "What deepens and darkens [Dexter''s] writing, so that art is the precise word to describe it, is a powerful understanding that character rules, that we live with our weaknesses and die of our strengths." --_Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dexter is a master of colloquial poetry, of moods revealed through gestures and settings." -_-Playboy_\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the greatest American writers... a storyteller who cuts straight to the nerve." --Scott L. Turow\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dexter''s strongest suit is his exquisite understanding of the finely meshed engines of greed, appetite, and interest." --_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Great, eccentric characters....Dexter''s writing is a living thing." --_USA Today_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22616'),
(14079, 'Deaf Sentence', 'David Lodge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodges fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. Deaf Sentence tells the story of Desmond Bates, a recently retired linguistics professor in his mid-sixties. Vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life, Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a seemingly personable young American female student who seeks his support in matters academic and not so academic, who finally threatens to destabilize his life completely with her unpredictableand waywardbehavior. What emerges is a funny, moving account of one mans effort to come to terms with aging and mortalitya classic meditation on modern middle age that fans of David Lodge will love.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodges fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. Deaf Sentence tells the story of Desmond Bates, a recently retired linguistics professor in his mid-sixties. Vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life, Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a seemingly personable young American female student who seeks his support in matters academic and not so academic, who finally threatens to destabilize his life completely with her unpredictableand waywardbehavior. What emerges is a funny, moving account of one mans effort to come to terms with aging and mortalitya classic meditation on modern middle age that fans of David Lodge will love.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodges fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. Deaf Sentence tells the story of Desmond Bates, a recently retired linguistics professor in his mid-sixties. Vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life, Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a seemingly personable young American female student who seeks his support in matters academic and not so academic, who finally threatens to destabilize his life completely with her unpredictableand waywardbehavior. What emerges is a funny, moving account of one mans effort to come to terms with aging and mortalitya classic meditation on modern middle age that fans of David Lodge will love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6173'),
(14080, 'Deaf Sentence', 'David Lodge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodges fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. Deaf Sentence tells the story of Desmond Bates, a recently retired linguistics professor in his mid-sixties. Vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life, Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a seemingly personable young American female student who seeks his support in matters academic and not so academic, who finally threatens to destabilize his life completely with her unpredictableand waywardbehavior. What emerges is a funny, moving account of one mans effort to come to terms with aging and mortalitya classic meditation on modern middle age that fans of David Lodge will love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27271'),
(14081, 'Deal Breaker (1995)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14715'),
(14082, 'Deal Breaker (1995)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19385'),
(14083, 'Deal Breaker (1995)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27061'),
(14084, 'The Dealer and the Dead', 'Gerald Seymour', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eighteen years after the barbarous war with the Serbs that tore their communities apart, a group of Croation villagers discover the identity of the Englishman whom they believe betrayed them by welching on a deal to supply them with arms.\n <br />\n With revenge in sight at last, they hire a professional killer from London to track him downâ€¦ but is the story as simple as they think?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5449'),
(14085, 'The Dealer and the Dead', 'Gerald Seymour', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eighteen years after the barbarous war with the Serbs that tore their communities apart, a group of Croation villagers discover the identity of the Englishman whom they believe betrayed them by welching on a deal to supply them with arms.\n <br />\n With revenge in sight at last, they hire a professional killer from London to track him downâ€¦ but is the story as simple as they think?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12564'),
(14086, 'The Dealer and the Dead', 'Gerald Seymour', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eighteen years after the barbarous war with the Serbs that tore their communities apart, a group of Croation villagers discover the identity of the Englishman whom they believe betrayed them by welching on a deal to supply them with arms. With revenge in sight at last, they hire a professional killer from London to track him down... but is the story as simple as they think?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19257'),
(14087, 'Dean Koontz&#39;s Frankenstein: City of Night', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. The mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic continue. . . . They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever createdand they must be destroyed. Not even Victor Heliosonce Frankensteincan stop the engineered killers hers"s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Only the one-time "monster" Deucalion and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson Ors"Connor and Michael Maddison, stand in their way. But as the three race to uncover the true dimensions of an age-old conspiracy, they will discover that Victorrs"s new, improved models have infiltrated every level of the cityrs"s society . . . and far beyond.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25887'),
(14088, 'Dean R Koontz', 'Intensity (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17245'),
(14089, 'Dear John', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love--and face the hardest decision of his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2603'),
(14090, 'Dear John', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love--and face the hardest decision of his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12752'),
(14091, 'Dear John', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love--and face the hardest decision of his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14071'),
(14092, 'Dear John', 'Nicholas Sparks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love--and face the hardest decision of his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22193'),
(14093, 'Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street', 'Janet M. Tavakoli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Morgan Stanley''s David M. Darst on\n  <em>\n   Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In 14 Chapters, 265 pages, and 443 footnotes drawing upon 119 sources, structured finance and derivatives consultant and expert witness Janet M. Tavakoli writes about her â€œmeeting with Warren Buffett on the eve of the greatest market meltdown in historyâ€ and how meeting him subtly changed the way she looks at global financial markets.\n</p>\n<p>\n But\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street\n </em>\n is much more than a personal investing\n <em>\n  bildungsroman\n </em>\n . The book is so loaded with lessons, warnings, admonishments, and recommendations that readers will find themselves copiously underlining the text and filling the margins with stars, checkmarks, and exclamation points.\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett\n </em>\n is wide ranging and hard hitting, written with humility, great specificity, honesty, humanity, and historical awareness.\n</p>\n<p>\n Captious (or offended) readers may criticize the book as: too harsh in parts; overly broad-brush in its treatment of micro and macro events; and possibly bordering on solipsism when Tavakoli frequently cites her own articles, letters, e-mail exchanges, telephone conversations, and television appearances. Serious financial debacles in the post-Millennium years have left plenty of blame to be apportioned among firms, regulators, the financial system, and letâ€™s face it, human nature, and though polite and deferential, Tavakoli (called by Business Week â€œthe Cassandra of credit derivativesâ€) is not reticent. At times, her tone can be Biblically prophetic.\n</p>\n<p>\n That said,\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett\n </em>\n is worth its weight in gold for two main reasons. First, the timeless investment lessons laced throughout the book. To cite a few:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Warren does not rely on a price because that is what you pay. He relies on value because that is what you get (page 23).\n </li>\n <li>\n  The five most dangerous words in business may be â€œEverybody else is doing itâ€ (page 38).\n </li>\n <li>\n  Janet Tavakoliâ€™s Theory of Everything in Finance: The value of any financial transaction is based on the timing of cash flows, the frequency of cash flows, the magnitude of cash flows, and the probability of receipt of those cash flows (page 69).\n </li>\n <li>\n  One of Warren Buffetâ€™s core principles: Donâ€™t lend money to people who canâ€™t pay you back. If you do not understand something, do not invest (page 105).\n </li>\n <li>\n  The fraud triangle: need, opportunity, and the ability to rationalize oneâ€™s behavior (page 199).\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Second, the book contains lucid, lapidary descriptions of options backdating (Chapter 3); mortgages (Chapter 5); complex structured products, securitizations, and off-balance sheet vehicles (Chapter 7); and the perils of leverage and the developments leading to the difficulties at Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and other financial enterprises (Chapters 8 and 9).\n</p>\n<p>\n Parts of the book read like replaying a YouTube video of a hurricane. Whether or not you agree with Tavakoli in all cases on the details and/or her approach, what comes through in every sentence is her conviction and courage in recounting what happened and her creativity and concretization in proposing safeguards and solutions. In the Preface, she says she is â€œstill learning,â€ and the financial realm stands the richer from her energy, discernment, persistence, erudition, curiosity, insight, and human empathy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Read this book as soon as you can. As Warren Edward Buffett has said, â€œJanet Tavakoli should have been listened to much more carefully in the pastâ€¦ and\n <em>\n  will be\n </em>\n in the future.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  David M. Darst is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. He serves as Chief Investment Strategist of the firm''s Global Wealth Management Group and is the Chairman of the Asset Allocation Committee. Darst is also the founding president of the Morgan Stanley Investment Group. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1996, he was with Goldman Sachs for over twenty years, where he served as a senior executive in the Equities Division. Darst is often quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, among others. He is also a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, and FOX News. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and received a BA in economics from Yale University. Darst is a CFA charterholder.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Altogether this book is an excellent read, loaded with information about the goings-on in the financial sector in the US till as recently as September 2008. The is informal, almost like a conversation in a lounge bar, racy, laced with wit and when it comments on leading actors in the drama, dipped in vitriol. Tavakoli is a name we will be hearing about frequently in the near future. (_Business Standard_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dear Buffett_ is must reading . . . in a way that only Tavakoli could provide. . . Tavakoli knows her stuff. She knows where the bodies are buried in the complex formulas. . . And, almost as a bonus, we get Buffett''s views and insights into his derivatives trading. There''s nothing more you could ask for in a financial book in this day and age of financial derivatives meltdown." (_Economic Policy Journal_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...full of anecdotes, details and character sketches that add depth...she knows her stuff, has strong opinions and turns a colourful quote." (_Financial Times_, February 21st 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n "A clear and pacy run through the multitude of sins and sinners in the modern financial world. . . full of anecdotes, details and character sketches that add depth and colour to even the best known episodes of the past two years. [Tavakoli] also covers events only a few years before the current crisis that should have been big warning signs. The correspondence between Buffett and Tavakoli over the past three years reinforced her existing views on the dangers of complex finance. And with Buffett''s blessing, this book will find a ready-made fan base with little marketing effort. . . Tavakoli makes for an attractive pundit - she knows her stuff, has strong opinions and turns a colourful quote. . . There is a healthy dose of "I told you so" about this volume - but, to be fair, Tavakoli is one of the few who did." (_Financial Times_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Tavakoli has] been railing against emperors wearing no clothes in the credit derivatives markets forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4668'),
(14094, 'Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street', 'Janet M. Tavakoli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Morgan Stanley''s David M. Darst on\n  <em>\n   Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In 14 Chapters, 265 pages, and 443 footnotes drawing upon 119 sources, structured finance and derivatives consultant and expert witness Janet M. Tavakoli writes about her â€œmeeting with Warren Buffett on the eve of the greatest market meltdown in historyâ€ and how meeting him subtly changed the way she looks at global financial markets.\n</p>\n<p>\n But\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street\n </em>\n is much more than a personal investing\n <em>\n  bildungsroman\n </em>\n . The book is so loaded with lessons, warnings, admonishments, and recommendations that readers will find themselves copiously underlining the text and filling the margins with stars, checkmarks, and exclamation points.\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett\n </em>\n is wide ranging and hard hitting, written with humility, great specificity, honesty, humanity, and historical awareness.\n</p>\n<p>\n Captious (or offended) readers may criticize the book as: too harsh in parts; overly broad-brush in its treatment of micro and macro events; and possibly bordering on solipsism when Tavakoli frequently cites her own articles, letters, e-mail exchanges, telephone conversations, and television appearances. Serious financial debacles in the post-Millennium years have left plenty of blame to be apportioned among firms, regulators, the financial system, and letâ€™s face it, human nature, and though polite and deferential, Tavakoli (called by Business Week â€œthe Cassandra of credit derivativesâ€) is not reticent. At times, her tone can be Biblically prophetic.\n</p>\n<p>\n That said,\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett\n </em>\n is worth its weight in gold for two main reasons. First, the timeless investment lessons laced throughout the book. To cite a few:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Warren does not rely on a price because that is what you pay. He relies on value because that is what you get (page 23).\n </li>\n <li>\n  The five most dangerous words in business may be â€œEverybody else is doing itâ€ (page 38).\n </li>\n <li>\n  Janet Tavakoliâ€™s Theory of Everything in Finance: The value of any financial transaction is based on the timing of cash flows, the frequency of cash flows, the magnitude of cash flows, and the probability of receipt of those cash flows (page 69).\n </li>\n <li>\n  One of Warren Buffetâ€™s core principles: Donâ€™t lend money to people who canâ€™t pay you back. If you do not understand something, do not invest (page 105).\n </li>\n <li>\n  The fraud triangle: need, opportunity, and the ability to rationalize oneâ€™s behavior (page 199).\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Second, the book contains lucid, lapidary descriptions of options backdating (Chapter 3); mortgages (Chapter 5); complex structured products, securitizations, and off-balance sheet vehicles (Chapter 7); and the perils of leverage and the developments leading to the difficulties at Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and other financial enterprises (Chapters 8 and 9).\n</p>\n<p>\n Parts of the book read like replaying a YouTube video of a hurricane. Whether or not you agree with Tavakoli in all cases on the details and/or her approach, what comes through in every sentence is her conviction and courage in recounting what happened and her creativity and concretization in proposing safeguards and solutions. In the Preface, she says she is â€œstill learning,â€ and the financial realm stands the richer from her energy, discernment, persistence, erudition, curiosity, insight, and human empathy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Read this book as soon as you can. As Warren Edward Buffett has said, â€œJanet Tavakoli should have been listened to much more carefully in the pastâ€¦ and\n <em>\n  will be\n </em>\n in the future.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  David M. Darst is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. He serves as Chief Investment Strategist of the firm''s Global Wealth Management Group and is the Chairman of the Asset Allocation Committee. Darst is also the founding president of the Morgan Stanley Investment Group. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1996, he was with Goldman Sachs for over twenty years, where he served as a senior executive in the Equities Division. Darst is often quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, among others. He is also a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, and FOX News. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and received a BA in economics from Yale University. Darst is a CFA charterholder.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Altogether this book is an excellent read, loaded with information about the goings-on in the financial sector in the US till as recently as September 2008. The is informal, almost like a conversation in a lounge bar, racy, laced with wit and when it comments on leading actors in the drama, dipped in vitriol. Tavakoli is a name we will be hearing about frequently in the near future. (_Business Standard_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dear Buffett_ is must reading . . . in a way that only Tavakoli could provide. . . Tavakoli knows her stuff. She knows where the bodies are buried in the complex formulas. . . And, almost as a bonus, we get Buffett''s views and insights into his derivatives trading. There''s nothing more you could ask for in a financial book in this day and age of financial derivatives meltdown." (_Economic Policy Journal_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...full of anecdotes, details and character sketches that add depth...she knows her stuff, has strong opinions and turns a colourful quote." (_Financial Times_, February 21st 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n "A clear and pacy run through the multitude of sins and sinners in the modern financial world. . . full of anecdotes, details and character sketches that add depth and colour to even the best known episodes of the past two years. [Tavakoli] also covers events only a few years before the current crisis that should have been big warning signs. The correspondence between Buffett and Tavakoli over the past three years reinforced her existing views on the dangers of complex finance. And with Buffett''s blessing, this book will find a ready-made fan base with little marketing effort. . . Tavakoli makes for an attractive pundit - she knows her stuff, has strong opinions and turns a colourful quote. . . There is a healthy dose of "I told you so" about this volume - but, to be fair, Tavakoli is one of the few who did." (_Financial Times_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Tavakoli has] been railing against emperors wearing no clothes in the credit derivatives markets forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12989'),
(14095, 'Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street', 'Janet M. Tavakoli', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Morgan Stanley''s David M. Darst on\n  <em>\n   Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In 14 Chapters, 265 pages, and 443 footnotes drawing upon 119 sources, structured finance and derivatives consultant and expert witness Janet M. Tavakoli writes about her â€œmeeting with Warren Buffett on the eve of the greatest market meltdown in historyâ€ and how meeting him subtly changed the way she looks at global financial markets.\n</p>\n<p>\n But\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street\n </em>\n is much more than a personal investing\n <em>\n  bildungsroman\n </em>\n . The book is so loaded with lessons, warnings, admonishments, and recommendations that readers will find themselves copiously underlining the text and filling the margins with stars, checkmarks, and exclamation points.\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett\n </em>\n is wide ranging and hard hitting, written with humility, great specificity, honesty, humanity, and historical awareness.\n</p>\n<p>\n Captious (or offended) readers may criticize the book as: too harsh in parts; overly broad-brush in its treatment of micro and macro events; and possibly bordering on solipsism when Tavakoli frequently cites her own articles, letters, e-mail exchanges, telephone conversations, and television appearances. Serious financial debacles in the post-Millennium years have left plenty of blame to be apportioned among firms, regulators, the financial system, and letâ€™s face it, human nature, and though polite and deferential, Tavakoli (called by Business Week â€œthe Cassandra of credit derivativesâ€) is not reticent. At times, her tone can be Biblically prophetic.\n</p>\n<p>\n That said,\n <em>\n  Dear Mr. Buffett\n </em>\n is worth its weight in gold for two main reasons. First, the timeless investment lessons laced throughout the book. To cite a few:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Warren does not rely on a price because that is what you pay. He relies on value because that is what you get (page 23).\n </li>\n <li>\n  The five most dangerous words in business may be â€œEverybody else is doing itâ€ (page 38).\n </li>\n <li>\n  Janet Tavakoliâ€™s Theory of Everything in Finance: The value of any financial transaction is based on the timing of cash flows, the frequency of cash flows, the magnitude of cash flows, and the probability of receipt of those cash flows (page 69).\n </li>\n <li>\n  One of Warren Buffetâ€™s core principles: Donâ€™t lend money to people who canâ€™t pay you back. If you do not understand something, do not invest (page 105).\n </li>\n <li>\n  The fraud triangle: need, opportunity, and the ability to rationalize oneâ€™s behavior (page 199).\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Second, the book contains lucid, lapidary descriptions of options backdating (Chapter 3); mortgages (Chapter 5); complex structured products, securitizations, and off-balance sheet vehicles (Chapter 7); and the perils of leverage and the developments leading to the difficulties at Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and other financial enterprises (Chapters 8 and 9).\n</p>\n<p>\n Parts of the book read like replaying a YouTube video of a hurricane. Whether or not you agree with Tavakoli in all cases on the details and/or her approach, what comes through in every sentence is her conviction and courage in recounting what happened and her creativity and concretization in proposing safeguards and solutions. In the Preface, she says she is â€œstill learning,â€ and the financial realm stands the richer from her energy, discernment, persistence, erudition, curiosity, insight, and human empathy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Read this book as soon as you can. As Warren Edward Buffett has said, â€œJanet Tavakoli should have been listened to much more carefully in the past... and\n <em>\n  will be\n </em>\n in the future.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  David M. Darst is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. He serves as Chief Investment Strategist of the firm''s Global Wealth Management Group and is the Chairman of the Asset Allocation Committee. Darst is also the founding president of the Morgan Stanley Investment Group. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1996, he was with Goldman Sachs for over twenty years, where he served as a senior executive in the Equities Division. Darst is often quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, among others. He is also a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, and FOX News. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and received a BA in economics from Yale University. Darst is a CFA charterholder.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Altogether this book is an excellent read, loaded with information about the goings-on in the financial sector in the US till as recently as September 2008. The is informal, almost like a conversation in a lounge bar, racy, laced with wit and when it comments on leading actors in the drama, dipped in vitriol. Tavakoli is a name we will be hearing about frequently in the near future. (_Business Standard_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dear Buffett_ is must reading . . . in a way that only Tavakoli could provide. . . Tavakoli knows her stuff. She knows where the bodies are buried in the complex formulas. . . And, almost as a bonus, we get Buffett''s views and insights into his derivatives trading. There''s nothing more you could ask for in a financial book in this day and age of financial derivatives meltdown." (_Economic Policy Journal_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "...full of anecdotes, details and character sketches that add depth...she knows her stuff, has strong opinions and turns a colourful quote." (_Financial Times_, February 21st 2009)\n</p>\n<p>\n "A clear and pacy run through the multitude of sins and sinners in the modern financial world. . . full of anecdotes, details and character sketches that add depth and colour to even the best known episodes of the past two years. [Tavakoli] also covers events only a few years before the current crisis that should have been big warning signs. The correspondence between Buffett and Tavakoli over the past three years reinforced her existing views on the dangers of complex finance. And with Buffett''s blessing, this book will find a ready-made fan base with little marketing effort. . . Tavakoli makes for an attractive pundit - she knows her stuff, has strong opinions and turns a colourful quote. . . There is a healthy dose of "I told you so" about this volume - but, to be fair, Tavakoli is one of the few who did." (_Financial Times_)\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Tavakoli has] been railing against emperors wearing no clothes in the credit derivatives markets forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18658'),
(14096, 'Dearly Devoted Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this acclaimed follow-up to the bestselling novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, we pick up with Dexter Morgan when heâ€™s under considerable pressure. Itâ€™s not easy being an ethical serial killerâ€”but heâ€™s doing his best to keep up the disguise, spending time with his girlfriend and her kids, slowly becoming the worldâ€™s first serial killer couch potato. Then a particularly nasty psychopath starts cutting a trail through Miami and killer whose twisted techniques leave even Dexter speechless. When his sister Deborah, a tough-as-nails cop, is drawn into the case, it becomes clear that Dexter will have to do something about it. Unless, of course, the killer finds him first . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4647'),
(14097, 'Dearly Devoted Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this acclaimed follow-up to the bestselling novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, we pick up with Dexter Morgan when heâ€™s under considerable pressure. Itâ€™s not easy being an ethical serial killerâ€”but heâ€™s doing his best to keep up the disguise, spending time with his girlfriend and her kids, slowly becoming the worldâ€™s first serial killer couch potato. Then a particularly nasty psychopath starts cutting a trail through Miami and killer whose twisted techniques leave even Dexter speechless. When his sister Deborah, a tough-as-nails cop, is drawn into the case, it becomes clear that Dexter will have to do something about it. Unless, of course, the killer finds him first . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14511'),
(14098, 'Dearly Devoted Dexter', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this acclaimed follow-up to the bestselling novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, we pick up with Dexter Morgan when heâ€™s under considerable pressure. Itâ€™s not easy being an ethical serial killerâ€”but heâ€™s doing his best to keep up the disguise, spending time with his girlfriend and her kids, slowly becoming the worldâ€™s first serial killer couch potato. Then a particularly nasty psychopath starts cutting a trail through Miami and killer whose twisted techniques leave even Dexter speechless. When his sister Deborah, a tough-as-nails cop, is drawn into the case, it becomes clear that Dexter will have to do something about it. Unless, of course, the killer finds him first . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26164'),
(14099, 'The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education', 'Diane Ravitch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, *The Death and Life of the Great American School System* is a radical change of heart from one of Americaâ€™s best-known education experts.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Diane Ravitchâ€”former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculumâ€”examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques todayâ€™s most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the feckless multiplication of charter schools. She shows conclusively why the business model is not an appropriate way to improve schools. Using examples from major cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and San Diego, Ravitch makes the case that public education today is in peril.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ravitch includes clear prescriptions for improving Americaâ€™s schools:       leave decisions about schools to educators, not politicians or businessmen     devise a truly national curriculum that sets out what children in every grade should be *learning*     expect charter schools to educate the kids who need help the most, not to compete with public schools     pay teachers a fair wage for their work, not â€œmerit payâ€ based on deeply flawed and unreliable test scores     encourage family involvement in education from an early age  *The Death and Life of the Great American School System* is more than just an analysis of the state of play of the American education system. It is a must-read for any stakeholder in the future of American schooling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5991');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14100, 'The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education', 'Diane Ravitch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, *The Death and Life of the Great American School System* is a radical change of heart from one of Americaâ€™s best-known education experts.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Diane Ravitchâ€”former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculumâ€”examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques todayâ€™s most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the feckless multiplication of charter schools. She shows conclusively why the business model is not an appropriate way to improve schools. Using examples from major cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and San Diego, Ravitch makes the case that public education today is in peril.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ravitch includes clear prescriptions for improving Americaâ€™s schools:       leave decisions about schools to educators, not politicians or businessmen     devise a truly national curriculum that sets out what children in every grade should be *learning*     expect charter schools to educate the kids who need help the most, not to compete with public schools     pay teachers a fair wage for their work, not â€œmerit payâ€ based on deeply flawed and unreliable test scores     encourage family involvement in education from an early age  *The Death and Life of the Great American School System* is more than just an analysis of the state of play of the American education system. It is a must-read for any stakeholder in the future of American schooling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12155'),
(14101, 'The death and life of the great American school system: how testing and choice are undermining education', 'Diane Ravitch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, *The Death and Life of the Great American School System* is a radical change of heart from one of Americaâ€™s best-known education experts. Diane Ravitchâ€”former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculumâ€”examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques todayâ€™s most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the feckless multiplication of charter schools. She shows conclusively why the business model is not an appropriate way to improve schools. Using examples from major cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and San Diego, Ravitch makes the case that public education today is in peril. Ravitch includes clear prescriptions for improving Americaâ€™s schools: leave decisions about schools to educators, not politicians or businessmen devise a truly national curriculum that sets out what children in every grade should be *learning* expect charter schools to educate the kids who need help the most, not to compete with public schools pay teachers a fair wage for their work, not â€œmerit payâ€ based on deeply flawed and unreliable test scores encourage family involvement in education from an early age *The Death and Life of the Great American School System* is more than just an analysis of the state of play of the American education system. It is a must-read for any stakeholder in the future of American schooling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27456'),
(14102, 'Death and the Dancing Footman', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The party''s over when murder makes an entrance...With the notion of bringing together the most bitter of enemies for his own amusement, a bored, mischievous millionaire throws a house party. As a brutal snowstorm strands the unhappy guests, the party receives a most unwelcome visitor: death. Now the brilliant inspector Roderick Alleyn must step in to decipher who at the party is capable of cold-blooded murder...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25303'),
(14103, 'Death and the Joyful Woman', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One of the George Felse mysteries. Det Sgt Felse is called in to investigate a murder at a new roadhouse, once a beautiful old inn known as "The Joyful Woman". There is no shortage of suspects, but the arrest of Kitty Norris leads Felse''s young son, who is convinced she is innocent, into danger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5673'),
(14104, 'Death and the Joyful Woman', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One of the George Felse mysteries. Det Sgt Felse is called in to investigate a murder at a new roadhouse, once a beautiful old inn known as "The Joyful Woman". There is no shortage of suspects, but the arrest of Kitty Norris leads Felse''s young son, who is convinced she is innocent, into danger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18911'),
(14105, 'Death and the Running Patterer', 'Robin Adair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n 1828: Sydney is a city built on the backs of exiled convicts. But in a colony of criminals, how do you narrow down the list of suspects when a murderer is on the rampage?\n</p>\n<p>\n Nicodemus Dunne was a London policeman. After being deported on trumped up charges of assault, he now makes his living in New South Wales as a running patterer, spreading the news of the day by word of mouth. Confronted with a series of gruesome and horribly inventive murders, the governor seeks out Dunne for his investigative skills and his ability to infiltrate all levels of society.\n</p>\n<p>\n With each mutilated body, the murderer has left clues for Dunne to decipher. Can he put the pieces of the puzzle together and catch his elusive quarry without becoming prey himself?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Robin Adair\n </strong>\n is a veteran journalist working out of Sydney, and a lifelong student of colonial history. This is his first novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1633'),
(14106, 'Death and the Running Patterer', 'Robin Adair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n 1828: Sydney is a city built on the backs of exiled convicts. But in a colony of criminals, how do you narrow down the list of suspects when a murderer is on the rampage?\n</p>\n<p>\n Nicodemus Dunne was a London policeman. After being deported on trumped up charges of assault, he now makes his living in New South Wales as a running patterer, spreading the news of the day by word of mouth. Confronted with a series of gruesome and horribly inventive murders, the governor seeks out Dunne for his investigative skills and his ability to infiltrate all levels of society.\n</p>\n<p>\n With each mutilated body, the murderer has left clues for Dunne to decipher. Can he put the pieces of the puzzle together and catch his elusive quarry without becoming prey himself?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Robin Adair\n </strong>\n is a veteran journalist working out of Sydney, and a lifelong student of colonial history. This is his first novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9349'),
(14107, 'Death and the Running Patterer', 'Robin Adair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n 1828: Sydney is a city built on the backs of exiled convicts. But in a colony of criminals, how do you narrow down the list of suspects when a murderer is on the rampage?\n</p>\n<p>\n Nicodemus Dunne was a London policeman. After being deported on trumped up charges of assault, he now makes his living in New South Wales as a running patterer, spreading the news of the day by word of mouth. Confronted with a series of gruesome and horribly inventive murders, the governor seeks out Dunne for his investigative skills and his ability to infiltrate all levels of society.\n</p>\n<p>\n With each mutilated body, the murderer has left clues for Dunne to decipher. Can he put the pieces of the puzzle together and catch his elusive quarry without becoming prey himself?\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Robin Adair\n </strong>\n is a veteran journalist working out of Sydney, and a lifelong student of colonial history. This is his first novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23342'),
(14108, 'Death and the Senator', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15643'),
(14109, 'Death Angel', 'David Jacobs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Firestorm!  A mole has infiltrated Ironwood National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a top-secret research center for the development of high-tech and nuclear weaponry. Someone is about to commit the foulest, most catastrophic brand of treason--and one man must prevent it: CTU agent Jack Bauer.  Caught in the crossfire between two rival criminal operations, each intent on controlling the terrifying machinery of Apocalypse, the rogue anti-terrorism operative has twenty-four hours to forestall America''s worst nightmare. As a devastating wildfire ravages the countryside, each ticking second brings Jack closer to the explosive confrontation that will ultimately seal his nation''s fate: a lethal battle with the world''s most efficient killer, Annihilax, the Death Angel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6325'),
(14110, 'Death Angel', 'David Jacobs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Firestorm!  A mole has infiltrated Ironwood National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a top-secret research center for the development of high-tech and nuclear weaponry. Someone is about to commit the foulest, most catastrophic brand of treason--and one man must prevent it: CTU agent Jack Bauer.  Caught in the crossfire between two rival criminal operations, each intent on controlling the terrifying machinery of Apocalypse, the rogue anti-terrorism operative has twenty-four hours to forestall America''s worst nightmare. As a devastating wildfire ravages the countryside, each ticking second brings Jack closer to the explosive confrontation that will ultimately seal his nation''s fate: a lethal battle with the world''s most efficient killer, Annihilax, the Death Angel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10494'),
(14111, 'Death Angel', 'David Jacobs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Firestorm! A mole has infiltrated Ironwood National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a top-secret research center for the development of high-tech and nuclear weaponry. Someone is about to commit the foulest, most catastrophic brand of treason--and one man must prevent it: CTU agent Jack Bauer. Caught in the crossfire between two rival criminal operations, each intent on controlling the terrifying machinery of Apocalypse, the rogue anti-terrorism operative has twenty-four hours to forestall America''s worst nightmare. As a devastating wildfire ravages the countryside, each ticking second brings Jack closer to the explosive confrontation that will ultimately seal his nation''s fate: a lethal battle with the world''s most efficient killer, Annihilax, the Death Angel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17739'),
(14112, 'Death Angel', 'David Jacobs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Firestorm! A mole has infiltrated Ironwood National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a top-secret research center for the development of high-tech and nuclear weaponry. Someone is about to commit the foulest, most catastrophic brand of treason--and one man must prevent it: CTU agent Jack Bauer. Caught in the crossfire between two rival criminal operations, each intent on controlling the terrifying machinery of Apocalypse, the rogue anti-terrorism operative has twenty-four hours to forestall America''s worst nightmare. As a devastating wildfire ravages the countryside, each ticking second brings Jack closer to the explosive confrontation that will ultimately seal his nation''s fate: a lethal battle with the world''s most efficient killer, Annihilax, the Death Angel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27285'),
(14113, 'Death at Dawn', 'Caro Peacock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Duelling, derring-do, and dastardly deeds are all in a daya??s work for Liberty Lane: a new heroine for fans of Matthew Hawkwood and Sarah Watersa??s Victorian novels. Thomas Jacques Lane a?? radical, romantic, scholar and devoted father a?? had led an unconventional life but of one thing his daughter, Liberty, is certain: he would never have taken part in a duel. So when she receives a note informing her of his death in just such a manner, Liberty ignores all advice and sets off in pursuit of the truth. With no resources bar her wits, she travels to the Continent and back in search of her father''s killer. And as the nation prepares for the coronation of a young Victoria, Liberty uncovers murder and treachery at the very highest levelsa?|.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6916'),
(14114, 'Death at Dawn', 'Caro Peacock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Duelling, derring-do, and dastardly deeds are all in a daya??s work for Liberty Lane: a new heroine for fans of Matthew Hawkwood and Sarah Watersa??s Victorian novels. Thomas Jacques Lane a?? radical, romantic, scholar and devoted father a?? had led an unconventional life but of one thing his daughter, Liberty, is certain: he would never have taken part in a duel. So when she receives a note informing her of his death in just such a manner, Liberty ignores all advice and sets off in pursuit of the truth. With no resources bar her wits, she travels to the Continent and back in search of her father''s killer. And as the nation prepares for the coronation of a young Victoria, Liberty uncovers murder and treachery at the very highest levelsa?|.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11854'),
(14115, 'Death at Dawn', 'Caro Peacock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Duelling, derring-do, and dastardly deeds are all in a daya??s work for Liberty Lane: a new heroine for fans of Matthew Hawkwood and Sarah Watersa??s Victorian novels. Thomas Jacques Lane a?? radical, romantic, scholar and devoted father a?? had led an unconventional life but of one thing his daughter, Liberty, is certain: he would never have taken part in a duel. So when she receives a note informing her of his death in just such a manner, Liberty ignores all advice and sets off in pursuit of the truth. With no resources bar her wits, she travels to the Continent and back in search of her father''s killer. And as the nation prepares for the coronation of a young Victoria, Liberty uncovers murder and treachery at the very highest levelsa?|.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16917'),
(14116, 'Death at La Fenice', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Beautiful and serene Venice is a city almost devoid of crime. But that is little comfort to Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor whose intermission refreshment comes one night with a little something extra in it-cyanide. For Guido Brunetti, vice-commissario of police and detective genius, finding a suspect isn''t a problem; narrowing the large and unconventional group of enemies down to one is. As the suave and pithy Brunetti pieces together clues, a shocking picture of depravity and revenge emerges, leaving him torn between what is and what should be right -- and questioning what the law can do, and what needs to be done.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5874'),
(14117, 'Death at La Fenice', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beautiful and serene Venice is a city almost devoid of crime. But that is little comfort to Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor whose intermission refreshment comes one night with a little something extra in it-cyanide. For Guido Brunetti, vice-commissario of police and detective genius, finding a suspect isn''t a problem; narrowing the large and unconventional group of enemies down to one is. As the suave and pithy Brunetti pieces together clues, a shocking picture of depravity and revenge emerges, leaving him torn between what is and what should be right -- and questioning what the law can do, and what needs to be done.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18751'),
(14118, 'Death at La Fenice', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beautiful and serene Venice is a city almost devoid of crime. But that is little comfort to Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor whose intermission refreshment comes one night with a little something extra in it-cyanide. For Guido Brunetti, vice-commissario of police and detective genius, finding a suspect isn''t a problem; narrowing the large and unconventional group of enemies down to one is. As the suave and pithy Brunetti pieces together clues, a shocking picture of depravity and revenge emerges, leaving him torn between what is and what should be right -- and questioning what the law can do, and what needs to be done.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27477'),
(14119, 'Death at the Bar', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A local pub serves up a curious brew-of murder...Settling in for a cozy night of brandy and darts at the pub, an inebriated lawyer suffers a seemingly harmless dart puncture. But within moments of his injury, the unlucky barrister loses more than a simple game of darts-he loses his life. Called in to investigate this alleged accident, Inspector Roderick Alleyn wonders about the rules of this friendly bar game-and probes into a pub full of motives for murder...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25304'),
(14120, 'Death at the Dolphin', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The restoration of a bombed-out London theatre ends in violent death -- and one of Marsh''s most vivid and dramatic novels  When the bombed-out Dolphin Theatre is given to Peregrine Jay by a mysterious wealthy patron, he is overjoyed. And when the mysterious oil millionaire also gives him a glove that belonged to Shakespeare, Peregrine displays it in the dockside theatre and writes a successful play about it.  But then a murder takes place, a boy is attacked, the glove is stolen. Could it be that oil and water don''t mix? Inspector Roderick Alleyn is determined to find out...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25305'),
(14121, 'Death Benefits', 'Thomas Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23160'),
(14122, 'Death Benefits: A Novel', 'Thomas Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Thomas Perry''s popular series featuring Jane Whitefield, the Seneca Indian woman who helps people disappear (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n , et al.) may be disappointed when they discover that\n <em>\n  Death Benefits\n </em>\n doesn''t feature the heroine who has won this writer so many new readers. But the disappointment won''t last longer than the first page of this intriguing and extremely well-written new thriller, whose hero, John Walker, a data analyst for a large insurance company, deserves a series of his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a security man named Max Stillman plucks Walker out of the office pool and dragoons him into investigating a fraud against the McClaren Life and Casualty, Walker''s previously safe life takes a new and potentially dangerous turn. As the pair begin searching for the missing employee, who signed off on the huge (and phony) payoff of a death claim, and follow her to a grave in a Midwestern wheat field, Walker discovers talents he never knew he had and a thirst for vengeance. With the mysterious Stillman, he tracks the conspirators to a New Hampshire village and an explosive and shocking conclusion to a fraud that''s much older than either of the men might have guessed. Like Don Winslow, whose __ also focused on insurance fraud, Perry manages to make even the dusty back corners of the corporate world a likely setting for mystery and mayhem. This is a sharp, suspenseful, successful debut for a pair of unlikely compatriots, marked by Perry''s edgy, noirish style, lively dialogue, and superb pacing.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Perry (Blood Money; The Face Changers) serves up a clever entertainment (in the Graham Greene sense of the word) set in the high-stakes insurance world. After a deliberately ambiguous prologue (just why is Ellen Snyder going to an L.A. airport hotel before dawn?), we learn that Ellen, working out of the Pasadena office of a prestigious San Francisco insurance company called McClaren''s, recently authorized a 12$- million death benefit payment to a man who turned out to be an imposter. Now both the imposter and Ellen have navished, and McClaren''s has called in mysterious operative Max Stillman to investigate the apparent conspiracy to defraud. Stillman oh-so-deftly draws young John Walker, an analyst in the main San Francisco office, into the investigation. Walker cooperates with Stillman because he doesn''t believe Ellens''s guilty; he''s still a little bit in love with her from their training class days, although Ellen''s career plans left no room for more than a casual interoffice romance. Casual is the operative word here: a casual remark from Walker to an enigmatic computer hacker named Serena leads to a seriously steamy interlude. And casual is the best way to describe Perry''s seemingly effortless method of developing character and building suspense. His style is so assured as to be invisible, seamlessly supplying plot and character information as the chase leads from California to Chicago, Miami and finally a small town in New Hampshire. Though the finale echoes the premise of a particular Dachiell Hammett story, everything else feels as fresh as dawn. (Jan. 16) Forecast: Perry won an Edgar for The Butcher''s Boy, and Metzger''s Dog was New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This is his finest novel yet and, if sold with enthusiasm, could chart significant numbers. The bold evocative, b&amp;w jacket will help, as will the four-city author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/668'),
(14123, 'Death Benefits: A Novel', 'Thomas Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Thomas Perry''s popular series featuring Jane Whitefield, the Seneca Indian woman who helps people disappear (\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n , et al.) may be disappointed when they discover that\n <em>\n  Death Benefits\n </em>\n doesn''t feature the heroine who has won this writer so many new readers. But the disappointment won''t last longer than the first page of this intriguing and extremely well-written new thriller, whose hero, John Walker, a data analyst for a large insurance company, deserves a series of his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a security man named Max Stillman plucks Walker out of the office pool and dragoons him into investigating a fraud against the McClaren Life and Casualty, Walker''s previously safe life takes a new and potentially dangerous turn. As the pair begin searching for the missing employee, who signed off on the huge (and phony) payoff of a death claim, and follow her to a grave in a Midwestern wheat field, Walker discovers talents he never knew he had and a thirst for vengeance. With the mysterious Stillman, he tracks the conspirators to a New Hampshire village and an explosive and shocking conclusion to a fraud that''s much older than either of the men might have guessed. Like Don Winslow, whose __ also focused on insurance fraud, Perry manages to make even the dusty back corners of the corporate world a likely setting for mystery and mayhem. This is a sharp, suspenseful, successful debut for a pair of unlikely compatriots, marked by Perry''s edgy, noirish style, lively dialogue, and superb pacing.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Perry (Blood Money; The Face Changers) serves up a clever entertainment (in the Graham Greene sense of the word) set in the high-stakes insurance world. After a deliberately ambiguous prologue (just why is Ellen Snyder going to an L.A. airport hotel before dawn?), we learn that Ellen, working out of the Pasadena office of a prestigious San Francisco insurance company called McClaren''s, recently authorized a 12$- million death benefit payment to a man who turned out to be an imposter. Now both the imposter and Ellen have navished, and McClaren''s has called in mysterious operative Max Stillman to investigate the apparent conspiracy to defraud. Stillman oh-so-deftly draws young John Walker, an analyst in the main San Francisco office, into the investigation. Walker cooperates with Stillman because he doesn''t believe Ellens''s guilty; he''s still a little bit in love with her from their training class days, although Ellen''s career plans left no room for more than a casual interoffice romance. Casual is the operative word here: a casual remark from Walker to an enigmatic computer hacker named Serena leads to a seriously steamy interlude. And casual is the best way to describe Perry''s seemingly effortless method of developing character and building suspense. His style is so assured as to be invisible, seamlessly supplying plot and character information as the chase leads from California to Chicago, Miami and finally a small town in New Hampshire. Though the finale echoes the premise of a particular Dachiell Hammett story, everything else feels as fresh as dawn. (Jan. 16) Forecast: Perry won an Edgar for The Butcher''s Boy, and Metzger''s Dog was New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This is his finest novel yet and, if sold with enthusiasm, could chart significant numbers. The bold evocative, b&amp;w jacket will help, as will the four-city author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12002'),
(14124, 'Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries', 'Neil deGrasse Tyson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A vibrant collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation''s best-known astrophysicist. â€œOne of todayâ€™s best popularizers of science.â€â€”Kirkus  Reviews.  Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson''s talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. Here, Tyson compiles his favorite essays across a myriad of cosmic topics. The title essay introduces readers to the physics of black holes by explaining the gory details of what would happen to your body if you fell into one. "Holy Wars" examines the needless friction between science and religion in the context of historical conflicts. "The Search for Life in the Universe" explores astral life from the frontiers of astrobiology. And "Hollywood Nights" assails the movie industry''s feeble efforts to get its night skies right.    Known for his ability to blend content, accessibility, and humor, Tyson is a natural teacher who simplifies some of the most complex concepts in astrophysics while simultaneously sharing his infectious excitement about our universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2610'),
(14125, 'Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries', 'Neil deGrasse Tyson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A vibrant collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation''s best-known astrophysicist. â€œOne of todayâ€™s best popularizers of science.â€â€”Kirkus  Reviews.  Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson''s talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. Here, Tyson compiles his favorite essays across a myriad of cosmic topics. The title essay introduces readers to the physics of black holes by explaining the gory details of what would happen to your body if you fell into one. "Holy Wars" examines the needless friction between science and religion in the context of historical conflicts. "The Search for Life in the Universe" explores astral life from the frontiers of astrobiology. And "Hollywood Nights" assails the movie industry''s feeble efforts to get its night skies right.    Known for his ability to blend content, accessibility, and humor, Tyson is a natural teacher who simplifies some of the most complex concepts in astrophysics while simultaneously sharing his infectious excitement about our universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13084'),
(14126, 'Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries', 'Neil deGrasse Tyson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A vibrant collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation''s best-known astrophysicist. â€œOne of todayâ€™s best popularizers of science.â€â€”Kirkus Reviews. Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson''s talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. Here, Tyson compiles his favorite essays across a myriad of cosmic topics. The title essay introduces readers to the physics of black holes by explaining the gory details of what would happen to your body if you fell into one. "Holy Wars" examines the needless friction between science and religion in the context of historical conflicts. "The Search for Life in the Universe" explores astral life from the frontiers of astrobiology. And "Hollywood Nights" assails the movie industry''s feeble efforts to get its night skies right. Known for his ability to blend content, accessibility, and humor, Tyson is a natural teacher who simplifies some of the most complex concepts in astrophysics while simultaneously sharing his infectious excitement about our universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22167'),
(14127, 'Death by the Book', 'Lenny Bartulin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bartulin introduces irrepressible Sydney, Australia, used-book dealer Jack Susko in this tight hard-boiled whodunit, the first of what one hopes will be a long series. Susko''s business is slow until he gets an odd request from a well-to-do businessman, Hammond Kasprowicz, who offers him $50 for every copy he can locate of the works of an obscure poet, Edward Kass. Needing the cash, Susko suppresses his curiosity about the motive behind his client''s request. As he begins to track down copies of Kass''s books, Susko is unable to avoid getting emotionally entangled with Kasprowicz''s daughter, Annabelle. After a few dead bodies crop up, the bibliophile becomes the object of unwelcome suspicion by a shady cop who knows about Susko''s unsavory background. While the story twists won''t shock genre fans, most readers will find the smart-aleck amateur detective a winning lead character.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bartulinâ€™s debut is an old-fashioned mystery with lots of snappy dialogue and a noir atmosphere. A second-hand book dealer in Australia, Jack just wants a quiet life among his beloved books and far away from his former work as a Mob driver. Broke and with his store struggling, Jack accepts a commission from a local magnate to locate and buy all known copies of any books by a relatively unknown and out-of-print poet. But Jack isnâ€™t the only one tracking down the books, and the businessman drives a tough bargain. The Australian setting doesnâ€™t make a strong impression, but that is more than made up for by the well-rounded and believable characters. With a fast pace and a noir tone, this is bound to appeal to a wide audience of mystery readers but will be especially popular with book lovers and fans of John Dunningâ€™s Cliff Janeway series. A strong debut and a promising series. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3403'),
(14128, 'Death by the Book', 'Lenny Bartulin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bartulin introduces irrepressible Sydney, Australia, used-book dealer Jack Susko in this tight hard-boiled whodunit, the first of what one hopes will be a long series. Susko''s business is slow until he gets an odd request from a well-to-do businessman, Hammond Kasprowicz, who offers him $50 for every copy he can locate of the works of an obscure poet, Edward Kass. Needing the cash, Susko suppresses his curiosity about the motive behind his client''s request. As he begins to track down copies of Kass''s books, Susko is unable to avoid getting emotionally entangled with Kasprowicz''s daughter, Annabelle. After a few dead bodies crop up, the bibliophile becomes the object of unwelcome suspicion by a shady cop who knows about Susko''s unsavory background. While the story twists won''t shock genre fans, most readers will find the smart-aleck amateur detective a winning lead character.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bartulinâ€™s debut is an old-fashioned mystery with lots of snappy dialogue and a noir atmosphere. A second-hand book dealer in Australia, Jack just wants a quiet life among his beloved books and far away from his former work as a Mob driver. Broke and with his store struggling, Jack accepts a commission from a local magnate to locate and buy all known copies of any books by a relatively unknown and out-of-print poet. But Jack isnâ€™t the only one tracking down the books, and the businessman drives a tough bargain. The Australian setting doesnâ€™t make a strong impression, but that is more than made up for by the well-rounded and believable characters. With a fast pace and a noir tone, this is bound to appeal to a wide audience of mystery readers but will be especially popular with book lovers and fans of John Dunningâ€™s Cliff Janeway series. A strong debut and a promising series. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8383'),
(14129, 'Death by the Book', 'Lenny Bartulin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bartulin introduces irrepressible Sydney, Australia, used-book dealer Jack Susko in this tight hard-boiled whodunit, the first of what one hopes will be a long series. Susko''s business is slow until he gets an odd request from a well-to-do businessman, Hammond Kasprowicz, who offers him $50 for every copy he can locate of the works of an obscure poet, Edward Kass. Needing the cash, Susko suppresses his curiosity about the motive behind his client''s request. As he begins to track down copies of Kass''s books, Susko is unable to avoid getting emotionally entangled with Kasprowicz''s daughter, Annabelle. After a few dead bodies crop up, the bibliophile becomes the object of unwelcome suspicion by a shady cop who knows about Susko''s unsavory background. While the story twists won''t shock genre fans, most readers will find the smart-aleck amateur detective a winning lead character.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bartulinâ€™s debut is an old-fashioned mystery with lots of snappy dialogue and a noir atmosphere. A second-hand book dealer in Australia, Jack just wants a quiet life among his beloved books and far away from his former work as a Mob driver. Broke and with his store struggling, Jack accepts a commission from a local magnate to locate and buy all known copies of any books by a relatively unknown and out-of-print poet. But Jack isnâ€™t the only one tracking down the books, and the businessman drives a tough bargain. The Australian setting doesnâ€™t make a strong impression, but that is more than made up for by the well-rounded and believable characters. With a fast pace and a noir tone, this is bound to appeal to a wide audience of mystery readers but will be especially popular with book lovers and fans of John Dunningâ€™s Cliff Janeway series. A strong debut and a promising series. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21078'),
(14130, 'Death Clutch', 'Brock Lesnar &amp; Paul Heyman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n He is the biggest pay-per-view attraction in the world.\n <br />\n He is "the Baddest Dude on the Planet."\n <br />\n He is Brock Lesnar.\n</p>\n<p>\n For countless fans of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts, Brock Lesnar has long been known for his freakish athleticism, mind-blowing speed, and meteoric rise to the top. Yet despite the fame and fortune that have come with his enormous success, Brock has shunned the media, choosing instead to remain intensely private about his life and his accomplishments.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, for the first time, he tells his remarkable story in his own words, describing the journey from his South Dakota farmboy roots to becoming the most popular pay-per-view attraction in the world. From the small-town amateur wrestling where he honed his skills to taking on The Rock at\n <em>\n  SummerSlam\n </em>\n , Brock discusses how his natural athletic talent combined with the dark side of the wrestling business to make him the youngest-ever WWE World Champion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Epic as it was, Brock''s overnight rise to fame came with a price, as he saw firsthand the toll that life on the road and in the ring could take on a pro wrestler''s body and mind. Weary of the punishing lifestyle and backstabbing politics, he chose to do the unthinkable: walk away from professional wrestling at the peak of his career and break all ties with the organization that made him a star on the global stage. It was a move that stunned WWE executives and fans alike, and one that Brock himself has never fully explainedâ€”until now.\n</p>\n<p>\n Not one to stay quiet for long, Brock was soon back in the spotlight: this time in the UFCâ€”home of the most dangerous mixed martial arts fighters in the world. Here he offers a behind-the-scenes look at his shocking decision to leave the wrestling entertainment business for a legitimate combat sport. From training to be a real fighter, to immediately being thrown into the Octagon against the UFC''s best heavyweights, to the psychology behind his legendary trash-talking, Brock opens up about what it takes not only to succeed in the world''s fastest-growing sport but to become the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World. He also speaks candidly about the illness that nearly killed him, how it changed him as a fighter and a man, and how it shaped his will to survive.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the end, Brock holds nothing back. A revealing, raw, and ultimately redemptive tale of Brock''s determination and domination,\n <em>\n  DeathClutch\n </em>\n is the untold true story of becoming one of life''s true champions.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brock Lesnar is the only athlete in history to win the NCAA Division I Heavyweight Wrestling Championship, and the WWE and UFC World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship Titles. He lives in Minnesota with his wife, Rena, his daughter, Mya, and his sons, Turk and Duke.\n</p>\n<p>\n Paul Heyman is Brock Lesnar''s longtime confidant, having worked with him both on-camera and behind the scenes in WWE. He lives in New York with his wife, Marla, daughter, Azalea, and son, Jacob.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11071'),
(14131, 'Death Comes as the End', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A novel of anger, jealousy, betrayal and murder in 2000 BC  It is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful and venomous, most agree that she deserved to die like a snake. Yet Renisenb, the priest''s daughter, believes that the woman''s death was not fate, but murder. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within her own father''s household.  As the wife of an eminent archaeologist, Agatha Christie took part in several expeditions to the Middle East. Drawing upon this experience and exhaustive research, she wrote this serial killer mystery laid in Egypt 4000 years ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/72'),
(14132, 'Death comes as the end', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A novel of anger, jealousy, betrayal and murder in 2000 BC It is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful and venomous, most agree that she deserved to die like a snake. Yet Renisenb, the priest''s daughter, believes that the woman''s death was not fate, but murder. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within her own father''s household. As the wife of an eminent archaeologist, Agatha Christie took part in several expeditions to the Middle East. Drawing upon this experience and exhaustive research, she wrote this serial killer mystery laid in Egypt 4000 years ago.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17165'),
(14133, 'Death Du Jour: A Novel', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist digs for a corpse where Sister Ã‰lisabeth Nicolet, dead for over a century seems missing. The puzzle surrounding Sister Nicolet''s life and death provides a welcome contrast to the discovery of scorched bodies at a burning chalet. Homicide Detective Andrew Ryan joins her in the arson investigation. Tempe is overwhelmed by the case, her mounting attraction to Ryan, and plagued by worries about her sister Harry''s search for spiritual awakening.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "In Quebec, winters can be slow for the forensic anthropologist. The temperature rarely rises above freezing. The rivers and lakes ice over, the ground turns rock hard, and snow buries everything. Bugs disappear, and many scavengers go underground. The result: Corpses do not putrefy in the great outdoors. Floaters are not pulled from the St. Lawrence... and some of last season''s dead are not found until the spring melt."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers of Kathy Reichs''s cool and clever first forensic thriller __ will recognize the ironic voice of Tempe (short for Temperance) Brennan, the North Carolina-born scientist who winds up working at the Laboratoire de MÃ©dicine LÃ©gale in Montreal. Here she bristles at the conservative attitudes of some of her Canadian colleagues.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite the cold weather, Tempe''s workload quickly becomes heavy: the bones of a long-dead nun now up for sainthood have been moved and tampered with; a deadly house fire turns out to be arson; and a university teaching assistant disappears after joining a cult. Tempe must figure out where (and why) all the bodies are buried in the hard Canadian ground. Her investigations take her home to North Carolina, and to a strange colony living on an offshore island.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unlike certain other writers who specialize in forensic pathology, Reichs doesn''t revel in the horror of death or rub our noses in gore: she uses the science of death to reveal rather than to shock or startle. It definitely makes for easier reading--especially at mealtimes.\n  <em>\n   --Dick Adler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Forensic anthropologist Temperance "Tempe" Brennan of the Laboratoire de M?dicine L?gale in Montreal makes a triumphant second appearance in Reichs''s powerful followup to her bestselling debut, D?j? Dead. The novel opens atmospherically in a frigid church graveyard as Tempe labors to exhume the century-old remains of a nun so that the Church can posthumously declare her a saint. But the bones aren''t where they''re supposed to be according to the graveyard map, and there''s something suspicious about them when they do turn up. Tempe''s caseload multiplies as a house fire proves to be a horrific instance of arson and a university teaching assistant who''s recently joined a cult goes missing. The three seemingly individual events begin to braid together, as the doings with the doomsday cult draw Tempe to North Carolina. As in D?j? Dead, ReichsAherself a forensic anthropologistArenders comprehensively and believably the cool, tense intelligence of her heroine. A North Carolina native who consults in Montreal only a few months of the year, Tempe still hasn''t acclimated to the bone-chilling Northern cold, and if she''s come to expect the misogynist attitudes of some of the Canadian officials, she still bristles at them. Also well presented are Tempe''s refreshing compassion in the face of relentless autopsies, her ability to describe a corpse with judiciously graphic detail and her penchant for revealing the art behind the science on such matters as the preservation of a corpse''s teeth. Reichs''s first novel, which won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel of 1997, was compared justifiably to the Kay Scarpetta novels of Patricia Cornwell. Soon, Cornwell''s novels may be compared to Reichs''s. Agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh. Major ad/promo; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13627');
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(14134, 'Death Du Jour: A Novel', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist digs for a corpse where Sister Ã‰lisabeth Nicolet, dead for over a century seems missing. The puzzle surrounding Sister Nicolet''s life and death provides a welcome contrast to the discovery of scorched bodies at a burning chalet. Homicide Detective Andrew Ryan joins her in the arson investigation. Tempe is overwhelmed by the case, her mounting attraction to Ryan, and plagued by worries about her sister Harry''s search for spiritual awakening.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "In Quebec, winters can be slow for the forensic anthropologist. The temperature rarely rises above freezing. The rivers and lakes ice over, the ground turns rock hard, and snow buries everything. Bugs disappear, and many scavengers go underground. The result: Corpses do not putrefy in the great outdoors. Floaters are not pulled from the St. Lawrence... and some of last season''s dead are not found until the spring melt."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers of Kathy Reichs''s cool and clever first forensic thriller __ will recognize the ironic voice of Tempe (short for Temperance) Brennan, the North Carolina-born scientist who winds up working at the Laboratoire de MÃ©dicine LÃ©gale in Montreal. Here she bristles at the conservative attitudes of some of her Canadian colleagues.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite the cold weather, Tempe''s workload quickly becomes heavy: the bones of a long-dead nun now up for sainthood have been moved and tampered with; a deadly house fire turns out to be arson; and a university teaching assistant disappears after joining a cult. Tempe must figure out where (and why) all the bodies are buried in the hard Canadian ground. Her investigations take her home to North Carolina, and to a strange colony living on an offshore island.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unlike certain other writers who specialize in forensic pathology, Reichs doesn''t revel in the horror of death or rub our noses in gore: she uses the science of death to reveal rather than to shock or startle. It definitely makes for easier reading--especially at mealtimes.\n  <em>\n   --Dick Adler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Forensic anthropologist Temperance "Tempe" Brennan of the Laboratoire de M?dicine L?gale in Montreal makes a triumphant second appearance in Reichs''s powerful followup to her bestselling debut, D?j? Dead. The novel opens atmospherically in a frigid church graveyard as Tempe labors to exhume the century-old remains of a nun so that the Church can posthumously declare her a saint. But the bones aren''t where they''re supposed to be according to the graveyard map, and there''s something suspicious about them when they do turn up. Tempe''s caseload multiplies as a house fire proves to be a horrific instance of arson and a university teaching assistant who''s recently joined a cult goes missing. The three seemingly individual events begin to braid together, as the doings with the doomsday cult draw Tempe to North Carolina. As in D?j? Dead, ReichsAherself a forensic anthropologistArenders comprehensively and believably the cool, tense intelligence of her heroine. A North Carolina native who consults in Montreal only a few months of the year, Tempe still hasn''t acclimated to the bone-chilling Northern cold, and if she''s come to expect the misogynist attitudes of some of the Canadian officials, she still bristles at them. Also well presented are Tempe''s refreshing compassion in the face of relentless autopsies, her ability to describe a corpse with judiciously graphic detail and her penchant for revealing the art behind the science on such matters as the preservation of a corpse''s teeth. Reichs''s first novel, which won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel of 1997, was compared justifiably to the Kay Scarpetta novels of Patricia Cornwell. Soon, Cornwell''s novels may be compared to Reichs''s. Agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh. Major ad/promo; author tour.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20613'),
(14135, 'Death From the Skies!', 'Philip Tate Phd. &amp; Philip C. Plait', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Plait, an astronomer and author of the popular Web site badastronomy.com, presents in loving detail the many, many ways the human race could die, from temperature extremes and poisonous atmosphere to asteroid impacts and supernovae explosions. Such a state of destruction existed some 65 million years ago, when a giant meteoroid struck Earth, sending up so much flaming debris that the whole planet caught fire and the dinosaurs were wiped out. Solar flare activity could bring on another Ice Age. Worse yet would be a gamma ray burster, a collapsed star whose radiation would be comparable to detonating a one-megaton nuclear bomb over every square mile of the planet. Plait discusses insatiable black holes, the death of the Sun and cannibal galaxiesâ€”including our own. Balancing his doomsday scenarios with enthusiastic and clear explanations of the science behind each, Plait offers a surprisingly educational and enjoyable astronomical horror show, including a table listing the extremely low odds of each event occurring. He gives readers a good scare, and then puts it in context. Illus.\n <em>\n  (Oct. 20)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of disaster-from-space movies such as Deep Impact or Armageddon, or of science-fiction novels like Luciferâ€™s Hammer, will definitely want to check out this lively yet also rather scary book by a noted astronomer and creator of the clever Web site badastronomy.com. The book is basically a catalogue of astronomical catastrophes that could wipe out life on earth: asteroids, comets, supernovae, black holes, aliens, even our friendly sun. According to Plait, it is virtually inevitable that something will happen, perhaps not in the not-so-distant future, to kill us allâ€”donâ€™t forget, itâ€™s already happened once, 65 million years ago (remember the dinosaurs?), and there have been several recent near misses. The thing to do is stop worrying about inevitabilities and start planning for them: find ways, for example, to turn asteroids off course before they hit us. The book is extremely informative: Plait explains not only what can destroy the planet but also how it would happen. Itâ€™s a crash course in astronomy as well as a cautionary tale about the (possibly brief) future of our world. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12355'),
(14136, 'Death in a Strange Country', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''The body floated face down in the murky water of the canal. Gently the ebbing tide tugged it along towards the open waters of the laguna that spread out beyond the end of the canal...'' Early one morning Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice Police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the robbery motive seems altogether too convenient. Then something very incriminating is discovered in the dead man''s flat, something which points to the existence of a high level cabal- and Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere, is taking great pains to provide a ready- made solution to the crime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5875'),
(14137, 'Death in a strange country', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''The body floated face down in the murky water of the canal. Gently the ebbing tide tugged it along towards the open waters of the laguna that spread out beyond the end of the canal...'' Early one morning Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice Police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the robbery motive seems altogether too convenient. Then something very incriminating is discovered in the dead man''s flat, something which points to the existence of a high level cabal- and Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere, is taking great pains to provide a ready- made solution to the crime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18750'),
(14138, 'Death in a strange country', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''The body floated face down in the murky water of the canal. Gently the ebbing tide tugged it along towards the open waters of the laguna that spread out beyond the end of the canal...'' Early one morning Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice Police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the robbery motive seems altogether too convenient. Then something very incriminating is discovered in the dead man''s flat, something which points to the existence of a high level cabal- and Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere, is taking great pains to provide a ready- made solution to the crime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27476'),
(14139, 'Death in a White Tie', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Social Event of the Season Has Death on Its Guest ListNo one is more popular on London''s champagne-and-caviar that charming Lord Gospell. However, on the morning after the year''s most glittering ball, someone finds a reason to asphyxiate "Bunchy" Gospell in a taxi headed across town. Scotland Yard''s Inspector Roderick Alleyn is called in to find out who killed his old friend, and to cleverly unwind a tangle of murky secrets that began far from the ballroom floor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25306'),
(14140, 'Death in Ecstasy', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Ritual Wine Taste of EvilWhen lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of the Sacred Flame, she was having a religious experience of a sort unsuspected by the other initiates. Discovering how the fatal prussic acid got into the bizarre group''s wine is but one of the perplexing riddles that confronts Scotland Yard''s Inspector Rocerick Alleyn when he''s called to discover who sent this wealthy cult member to her untimely death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25307'),
(14141, 'Death in Paradise (2001)', 'Parker, Robert B - Stone 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13737'),
(14142, 'Death in Paradise (2001)', 'Parker, Robert B - Stone 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23180'),
(14143, 'Death in the Clouds', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passeneger plane...From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.  What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/73'),
(14144, 'Death in the clouds', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passeneger plane...From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17164'),
(14145, 'A Death in the Family', 'James Agee &amp; Steve Earle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee''s birth\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Published in 1957, two years after its author''s death at the age of forty-five,\n <em>\n  A Death in the Family\n </em>\n remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident-a tragedy that destroys not only a life, but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion,\n <em>\n  A Death in the Family\n </em>\n is a masterpiece of American literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8042'),
(14146, 'A Death In The Family', 'James Agee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   Forty years after its original publication, James Agee''s last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man''s death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed. On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay''s wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose."An utterly individual and original book...one of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling that I have ever read."--Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review"It is, in the full sense, poetry....The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet...remains in the mind."--New Republic"People I know who read A Death in the Family forty years ago still talk about it. So do I. It is a great book, and I''m happy to see it done anew."--Andre Dubus, author of Dancing After Hours and Meditations From A Moveable Chair\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   Forty years after its original publication, James Agee''s last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man''s death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed. On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay''s wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose."An utterly individual and original book...one of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling that I have ever read."--Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review"It is, in the full sense, poetry....The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet...remains in the mind."--New Republic"People I know who read A Death in the Family forty years ago still talk about it. So do I. It is a great book, and I''m happy to see it done anew."--Andre Dubus, author of Dancing After Hours and Meditations From A Moveable Chair\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Forty years after its original publication, James Agee''s last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man''s death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed. On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay''s wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose."An utterly individual and original book...one of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling that I have ever read."--Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review"It is, in the full sense, poetry....The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet...remains in the mind."--New Republic"People I know who read A Death in the Family forty years ago still talk about it. So do I. It is a great book, and I''m happy to see it done anew."--Andre Dubus, author of Dancing After Hours and Meditations From A Moveable Chair\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15365'),
(14147, 'A Death In The Family', 'James Agee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   Forty years after its original publication, James Agee''s last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man''s death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed. On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay''s wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose."An utterly individual and original book...one of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling that I have ever read."--Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review"It is, in the full sense, poetry....The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet...remains in the mind."--New Republic"People I know who read A Death in the Family forty years ago still talk about it. So do I. It is a great book, and I''m happy to see it done anew."--Andre Dubus, author of Dancing After Hours and Meditations From A Moveable Chair\n  </p>\n  <p class="description">\n   SUMMARY:\n   <br />\n   Forty years after its original publication, James Agee''s last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man''s death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed. On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay''s wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose."An utterly individual and original book...one of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling that I have ever read."--Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review"It is, in the full sense, poetry....The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet...remains in the mind."--New Republic"People I know who read A Death in the Family forty years ago still talk about it. So do I. It is a great book, and I''m happy to see it done anew."--Andre Dubus, author of Dancing After Hours and Meditations From A Moveable Chair\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Forty years after its original publication, James Agee''s last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man''s death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed. On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay''s wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose."An utterly individual and original book...one of the most deeply worked out expressions of human feeling that I have ever read."--Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review"It is, in the full sense, poetry....The language of the book, at once luminous and discreet...remains in the mind."--New Republic"People I know who read A Death in the Family forty years ago still talk about it. So do I. It is a great book, and I''m happy to see it done anew."--Andre Dubus, author of Dancing After Hours and Meditations From A Moveable Chair\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19761'),
(14148, 'Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America', 'James R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As Green thoroughly documents, the bloody Haymarket riot of May 4, 1886, changed the history of American labor and created a panic among Americans about (often foreign-born) "radicals and reformers" and union activists. The Haymarket demonstration, to protest police brutality during labor unrest in Chicago, remained peaceful until police moved in, whereupon a bomb was thrown by an individual never positively identified, killing seven policemen and wounding 60 others. Shortly after, labor leaders August Spies and Albert Parsons, along with six more alleged anarchists, stood convicted of murder on sparse evidence. Four of them went to the gallows in 1887; another committed suicide. The surviving three received pardons in 1893. The Knights of Labor, at that time America''s largest and most energetic union, received the blame for the riot, despite a lack of conclusive evidence , and many Knights locals migrated to the less radical American Federation of Labor. Labor historian Green (_Taking History to Heart_) eloquently chronicles all this, producing what will surely be the definitive word on the Haymarket affair for this generation. Green is particularly strong in documenting the episode''s long aftermath, especially the decades-long efforts of the white Parsons''s black wife to exonerate her husband. B&amp;w illus.\n  <em>\n   (Mar. 7)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Green, an academic, offers a narrative history of Chicago''s Haymarket bombing in 1886, the infamous trial that followed, and the hanging of subsequently determined innocent men. Chicago was then at the heart of the labor struggle for the eight-hour day, and we learn that "workers'' struggles had often been met with shocking repression, and that when violence bred violence, when powerless laboring people struck back in anger, they often paid with their lives." The Haymarket episode became a seminal moment for the American labor movement, and Green takes us inside the personal, social, and cultural elements of this tragic event. Evaluation of Haymarket includes the contention that a conservative bias against radicals, labor organizers, immigrants, and minorities was fundamental to the conflict as well as the view that execution of the anarchists saved the country from anarchy and was a moral and political victory for law and order. The author notes that after Haymarket, social peace among the various classes in Chicago was impossible, and grudges continued for decades.\n  <em>\n   Mary Whaley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4758'),
(14149, 'Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America', 'James R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As Green thoroughly documents, the bloody Haymarket riot of May 4, 1886, changed the history of American labor and created a panic among Americans about (often foreign-born) "radicals and reformers" and union activists. The Haymarket demonstration, to protest police brutality during labor unrest in Chicago, remained peaceful until police moved in, whereupon a bomb was thrown by an individual never positively identified, killing seven policemen and wounding 60 others. Shortly after, labor leaders August Spies and Albert Parsons, along with six more alleged anarchists, stood convicted of murder on sparse evidence. Four of them went to the gallows in 1887; another committed suicide. The surviving three received pardons in 1893. The Knights of Labor, at that time America''s largest and most energetic union, received the blame for the riot, despite a lack of conclusive evidence , and many Knights locals migrated to the less radical American Federation of Labor. Labor historian Green (_Taking History to Heart_) eloquently chronicles all this, producing what will surely be the definitive word on the Haymarket affair for this generation. Green is particularly strong in documenting the episode''s long aftermath, especially the decades-long efforts of the white Parsons''s black wife to exonerate her husband. B&amp;w illus.\n  <em>\n   (Mar. 7)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Green, an academic, offers a narrative history of Chicago''s Haymarket bombing in 1886, the infamous trial that followed, and the hanging of subsequently determined innocent men. Chicago was then at the heart of the labor struggle for the eight-hour day, and we learn that "workers'' struggles had often been met with shocking repression, and that when violence bred violence, when powerless laboring people struck back in anger, they often paid with their lives." The Haymarket episode became a seminal moment for the American labor movement, and Green takes us inside the personal, social, and cultural elements of this tragic event. Evaluation of Haymarket includes the contention that a conservative bias against radicals, labor organizers, immigrants, and minorities was fundamental to the conflict as well as the view that execution of the anarchists saved the country from anarchy and was a moral and political victory for law and order. The author notes that after Haymarket, social peace among the various classes in Chicago was impossible, and grudges continued for decades.\n  <em>\n   Mary Whaley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9984'),
(14150, 'Death in the Haymarket: a story of Chicago, the first labor movement, and the bombing that divided gilded age America', 'James R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As Green thoroughly documents, the bloody Haymarket riot of May 4, 1886, changed the history of American labor and created a panic among Americans about (often foreign-born) "radicals and reformers" and union activists. The Haymarket demonstration, to protest police brutality during labor unrest in Chicago, remained peaceful until police moved in, whereupon a bomb was thrown by an individual never positively identified, killing seven policemen and wounding 60 others. Shortly after, labor leaders August Spies and Albert Parsons, along with six more alleged anarchists, stood convicted of murder on sparse evidence. Four of them went to the gallows in 1887; another committed suicide. The surviving three received pardons in 1893. The Knights of Labor, at that time America''s largest and most energetic union, received the blame for the riot, despite a lack of conclusive evidence , and many Knights locals migrated to the less radical American Federation of Labor. Labor historian Green (_Taking History to Heart_) eloquently chronicles all this, producing what will surely be the definitive word on the Haymarket affair for this generation. Green is particularly strong in documenting the episode''s long aftermath, especially the decades-long efforts of the white Parsons''s black wife to exonerate her husband. B&amp;w illus.\n  <em>\n   (Mar. 7)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Green, an academic, offers a narrative history of Chicago''s Haymarket bombing in 1886, the infamous trial that followed, and the hanging of subsequently determined innocent men. Chicago was then at the heart of the labor struggle for the eight-hour day, and we learn that "workers'' struggles had often been met with shocking repression, and that when violence bred violence, when powerless laboring people struck back in anger, they often paid with their lives." The Haymarket episode became a seminal moment for the American labor movement, and Green takes us inside the personal, social, and cultural elements of this tragic event. Evaluation of Haymarket includes the contention that a conservative bias against radicals, labor organizers, immigrants, and minorities was fundamental to the conflict as well as the view that execution of the anarchists saved the country from anarchy and was a moral and political victory for law and order. The author notes that after Haymarket, social peace among the various classes in Chicago was impossible, and grudges continued for decades.\n  <em>\n   Mary Whaley\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19908'),
(14151, 'Death in Venice', 'Thomas Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novella by Thomas Mann, published in German as Der Tod in Venedig in 1912. A symbol-laden story of aestheticism and decadence, Mann''s best-known novella exemplifies the author''s regard for Sigmund Freud''s writings on the unconscious. Gustav von Aschenbach is a revered author whose work is known for its discipline and formal perfection. At his Venetian hotel he encounters the strikingly handsome young teenager Tadzio. Aschenbach is disturbed by his attraction to the boy, and although he watches Tadzio, he dare not speak to him. Despite warnings of a cholera epidemic Aschenbach stays in Venice; he sacrifices his dignity and well-being to the immediate experience of beauty as embodied by Tadzio. After exchanging a significant look with the boy on the day of Tadzio''s scheduled departure, Aschenbach dies of cholera. As in his other major works, Mann explores the role of the artist in society. The cerebral Aschenbach summons extraordinary discipline and endurance in his literary work, but his private desires overwhelm him. --\n <em>\n  The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual.\n</p>\n<p>\n DEATH IN VENICE, this tale of forbidden love which has long intrigued the reading public, was his early masterpiece.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is an exciting, new translation by Martin C. Doege.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22909'),
(14152, 'A Death in Vienna', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gabriel Allon hasn''t been back to Vienna since his wife and child died there in a terrorist bombing. But when his mentor in the Israeli intelligence agency dispatches him to the Austrian capitol to investigate a murderous explosion at the Wartime Claims and Inquiry Office, his presence alerts the attention of police officials who have reasons to stand in the way of his investigation. When a concentration camp survivor is killed who could link the father of Austria''s next chancellor to Nazi atrocities and an ongoing coverup by the Catholic Church, Allon discovers another connection to the conspiracy, this one closer to his own past than he could ever have imagined. This is the third of Silva''s thrillers featuring Allon, the art restorer who''s also a spy (The Confessor and The English Assassin are the first two). In an endnote, the author calls them a "completed cycle dealing with the unfinished business of the Holocaust." Allon is such a compelling hero that one hopes Silva, a skilled craftsman and a terrific story-teller, will bring him back in another series. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6490'),
(14153, 'A Death in Vienna', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gabriel Allon hasn''t been back to Vienna since his wife and child died there in a terrorist bombing. But when his mentor in the Israeli intelligence agency dispatches him to the Austrian capitol to investigate a murderous explosion at the Wartime Claims and Inquiry Office, his presence alerts the attention of police officials who have reasons to stand in the way of his investigation. When a concentration camp survivor is killed who could link the father of Austria''s next chancellor to Nazi atrocities and an ongoing coverup by the Catholic Church, Allon discovers another connection to the conspiracy, this one closer to his own past than he could ever have imagined. This is the third of Silva''s thrillers featuring Allon, the art restorer who''s also a spy (The Confessor and The English Assassin are the first two). In an endnote, the author calls them a "completed cycle dealing with the unfinished business of the Holocaust." Allon is such a compelling hero that one hopes Silva, a skilled craftsman and a terrific story-teller, will bring him back in another series. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12675'),
(14154, 'A Death in Vienna', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gabriel Allon hasn''t been back to Vienna since his wife and child died there in a terrorist bombing. But when his mentor in the Israeli intelligence agency dispatches him to the Austrian capitol to investigate a murderous explosion at the Wartime Claims and Inquiry Office, his presence alerts the attention of police officials who have reasons to stand in the way of his investigation. When a concentration camp survivor is killed who could link the father of Austria''s next chancellor to Nazi atrocities and an ongoing coverup by the Catholic Church, Allon discovers another connection to the conspiracy, this one closer to his own past than he could ever have imagined. This is the third of Silva''s thrillers featuring Allon, the art restorer who''s also a spy (The Confessor and The English Assassin are the first two). In an endnote, the author calls them a "completed cycle dealing with the unfinished business of the Holocaust." Allon is such a compelling hero that one hopes Silva, a skilled craftsman and a terrific story-teller, will bring him back in another series. --Jane Adams\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17639'),
(14155, 'Death in Winter', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Long before Captain Jean-Luc Picard took command of the legendary\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise,â„¢\n  </em>\n  he fell deeply and hopelessly in love with Doctor Beverly Crusher. Though, for one reason or another, Picard never acted on his feelings, he found a measure of contentment as Beverly''s close friend, colleague, and daily breakfast partner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when Doctor Crusher leaves her position on the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  to become the chief medical officer of Starfleet, the brightest light in Picard''s life is taken from him. And he has hardly resigned himself to his loss when he learns that Beverly has been declared missing in action on a distant planet -- and presumed dead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kevratas is a bleak, frozen world on the far side of the Romulan Neutral Zone where the Federation has become the plague-ravaged natives'' only real hope of survival and freedom. Starfleet has no recourse but to send in another team to try to save the Kevrata -- and Picard is the natural choice. Critical to the success of his mission are two colleagues who served under him when he commanded the\n  <em>\n   Starship Stargazer\n  </em>\n  -- Pug Joseph, a man with a past to live down, and Doctor Carter Greyhorse, who has served time for attempted murder -- as well as a Romulan who left his people years earlier and never expected to return. Together, they follow the trail of Beverly Crusher to Kevratas, determined to succeed where the doctor failed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the Romulan homeworld, meanwhile, the political vacuum created by the demise of Praetor Shinzon has been filled by his staunchest supporter, Senator Tal''aura. But there are those who oppose her, including Commander Donatra and the warbird fleets under her command, because of the way Tal''aura has mishandled rebellions on the Empire''s subject worlds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And one rebellion in particular; the movement for self-determination on frigid Kevratas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So begins a desperate struggle -- not only for the freedom of the long-oppressed Kevrata but also for the soul of the Romulan Empire. Before it''s over, destinies will be forged and shattered, the Empire will be shaken to its ancient foundations, and Jean-Luc Picard''s life will be changed...forever.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Michael Jan Friedman\n  </strong>\n  is the author of nearly sixty books of fiction and nonfiction, more than half of which bear the name\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  or some variation thereof. Ten of his titles have appeared on the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller list. He has also written for network and cable television, radio, and comic books, the\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: VoyagerÂ®\n  </em>\n  episode "Resistance" prominent among his credits. On those rare occasions when he visits the real world, Friedman lives on Long Island with his wife and two sons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He continues to advise readers that no matter how many Friedmans they know, the vast probability is that none of them are related to him.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2836'),
(14156, 'Death in Winter', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Long before Captain Jean-Luc Picard took command of the legendary\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise,TM\n  </em>\n  he fell deeply and hopelessly in love with Doctor Beverly Crusher. Though, for one reason or another, Picard never acted on his feelings, he found a measure of contentment as Beverly''s close friend, colleague, and daily breakfast partner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when Doctor Crusher leaves her position on the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  to become the chief medical officer of Starfleet, the brightest light in Picard''s life is taken from him. And he has hardly resigned himself to his loss when he learns that Beverly has been declared missing in action on a distant planet -- and presumed dead.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kevratas is a bleak, frozen world on the far side of the Romulan Neutral Zone where the Federation has become the plague-ravaged natives'' only real hope of survival and freedom. Starfleet has no recourse but to send in another team to try to save the Kevrata -- and Picard is the natural choice. Critical to the success of his mission are two colleagues who served under him when he commanded the\n  <em>\n   Starship Stargazer\n  </em>\n  -- Pug Joseph, a man with a past to live down, and Doctor Carter Greyhorse, who has served time for attempted murder -- as well as a Romulan who left his people years earlier and never expected to return. Together, they follow the trail of Beverly Crusher to Kevratas, determined to succeed where the doctor failed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the Romulan homeworld, meanwhile, the political vacuum created by the demise of Praetor Shinzon has been filled by his staunchest supporter, Senator Tal''aura. But there are those who oppose her, including Commander Donatra and the warbird fleets under her command, because of the way Tal''aura has mishandled rebellions on the Empire''s subject worlds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And one rebellion in particular; the movement for self-determination on frigid Kevratas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So begins a desperate struggle -- not only for the freedom of the long-oppressed Kevrata but also for the soul of the Romulan Empire. Before it''s over, destinies will be forged and shattered, the Empire will be shaken to its ancient foundations, and Jean-Luc Picard''s life will be changed...forever.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Michael Jan Friedman\n  </strong>\n  is the author of nearly sixty books of fiction and nonfiction, more than half of which bear the name\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  or some variation thereof. Ten of his titles have appeared on the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller list. He has also written for network and cable television, radio, and comic books, the\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: VoyagerÂ®\n  </em>\n  episode "Resistance" prominent among his credits. On those rare occasions when he visits the real world, Friedman lives on Long Island with his wife and two sons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He continues to advise readers that no matter how many Friedmans they know, the vast probability is that none of them are related to him.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21996'),
(14157, 'Death Is Now My Neighbour', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. ''You haven''t told me what you think about this fellow Owens '' the dead woman''s next-door neighbour.'' ''Death is always the next-door neighbour,'' said Morse sombrely. The murder of a young woman . . . A cryptic ''seventeenth-century'' love poem . . . And a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man . . . More than enough to set Chief Inspector E. Morse on the trail of a killer. And it''s a trail that leads him to Lonsdale College, where the contest between Julian Storrs and Dr Denis Cornford for the coveted position of Master is hotting up. But then Morse faces a greater, far more personal crisis . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6589'),
(14158, 'Death Is Now My Neighbour', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. ''You haven''t told me what you think about this fellow Owens '' the dead woman''s next-door neighbour.'' ''Death is always the next-door neighbour,'' said Morse sombrely. The murder of a young woman . . . A cryptic ''seventeenth-century'' love poem . . . And a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man . . . More than enough to set Chief Inspector E. Morse on the trail of a killer. And it''s a trail that leads him to Lonsdale College, where the contest between Julian Storrs and Dr Denis Cornford for the coveted position of Master is hotting up. But then Morse faces a greater, far more personal crisis . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17407'),
(14159, 'Death Is Now My Neighbour', 'Colin Dexter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. ''You haven''t told me what you think about this fellow Owens '' the dead woman''s next-door neighbour.'' ''Death is always the next-door neighbour,'' said Morse sombrely. The murder of a young woman . . . A cryptic ''seventeenth-century'' love poem . . . And a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man . . . More than enough to set Chief Inspector E. Morse on the trail of a killer. And it''s a trail that leads him to Lonsdale College, where the contest between Julian Storrs and Dr Denis Cornford for the coveted position of Master is hotting up. But then Morse faces a greater, far more personal crisis . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27046'),
(14160, 'Death March', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4765'),
(14161, 'Death March', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19896'),
(14162, 'Death Mask', 'Graham Masterton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A knife-wielding maniac is terrorizing the city. But he isn''t flesh and blood; he''s paint and paper, a portrait come to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5291'),
(14163, 'Death Mask', 'Graham Masterton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A knife-wielding maniac is terrorizing the city. But he isn''t flesh and blood; he''s paint and paper, a portrait come to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19354'),
(14164, 'Death Mask', 'Graham Masterton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A knife-wielding maniac is terrorizing the city. But he isn''t flesh and blood; he''s paint and paper, a portrait come to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26170'),
(14165, 'Death Masks', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Now in hardcover for the first time- book five in the *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files series!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Harry Dresden, Chicago''s only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But he also knows that whenever things are going good, the only way left for them to go is bad. Way bad.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Recent examples: A duel with the lethal champion of the Red Court, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards...Hit men using Harry for target practice...The missing Shroud of Turin-and the possible involvement of Chicago''s most feared mob boss...A handless and headless corpse the Chicago police need identified...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Not to mention the return of Harry''s ex-girlfriend Susan, who''s still struggling with her semi-vampiric nature-and who seems to have a new man in her life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Some days, it just doesn''t pay to get out of bed. No matter how much you''re charging.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4516');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14166, 'Death Masks', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Now in hardcover for the first time- book five in the *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files series!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Harry Dresden, Chicago''s only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But he also knows that whenever things are going good, the only way left for them to go is bad. Way bad.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Recent examples: A duel with the lethal champion of the Red Court, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards...Hit men using Harry for target practice...The missing Shroud of Turin-and the possible involvement of Chicago''s most feared mob boss...A handless and headless corpse the Chicago police need identified...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Not to mention the return of Harry''s ex-girlfriend Susan, who''s still struggling with her semi-vampiric nature-and who seems to have a new man in her life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Some days, it just doesn''t pay to get out of bed. No matter how much you''re charging.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8728'),
(14167, 'Death Masks', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15100'),
(14168, 'Death Match', 'Diane Duane &amp; Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the star of South Florida''s spatball team is threatened by a ruthless gang of major bettors who stand to lose a fortune, Catie Murray and the Net Force Explorers delve into the cyber world to protect America''s newest sports phenomenon. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5978'),
(14169, 'Death Match', 'Diane Duane &amp; Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the star of South Florida''s spatball team is threatened by a ruthless gang of major bettors who stand to lose a fortune, Catie Murray and the Net Force Explorers delve into the cyber world to protect America''s newest sports phenomenon. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10906'),
(14170, 'Death of a Cad', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3198'),
(14171, 'Death of a Cad', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21234'),
(14172, 'Death of a Chimney Sweep', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Scottish Highlands that Beaton depicts with such skill are beautiful and sinister, a fitting backdrop to her Hamish Macbeth series and especially to this one, her twenty-sixth craggy-cozy. The mystery centers in the tiny Highlands village of Drim, â€œa huddle of white-washed cottagesâ€ on the banks of a sea loch, where mountains rise up at waterâ€™s edge. There, the body of the posh new owner of a long-abandoned estate is found, stuffed up the chimney. The chimney sweep himself, who was to have been cleaning the estate chimney, is found dead on the motorway, an apparent accident victim, a few hours later. The local police feel the case is open and shut, with the chimney sweep tabbed as the murderer of the estate owner, until Constable Hamish Macbeth questions the findings, even of the forensics team. Someone has embarked on a spree, starting at the estate, and spreading to Edinburgh. Great stuff, as usual. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager''s fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn''t believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder. Then Pete''s body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens. Once again, it''s up to Hamish to discover who''s responsible for the dirty deed--and this time, the murderer may be closer than he realizes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3201'),
(14173, 'Death of a Chimney Sweep', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Scottish Highlands that Beaton depicts with such skill are beautiful and sinister, a fitting backdrop to her Hamish Macbeth series and especially to this one, her twenty-sixth craggy-cozy. The mystery centers in the tiny Highlands village of Drim, â€œa huddle of white-washed cottagesâ€ on the banks of a sea loch, where mountains rise up at waterâ€™s edge. There, the body of the posh new owner of a long-abandoned estate is found, stuffed up the chimney. The chimney sweep himself, who was to have been cleaning the estate chimney, is found dead on the motorway, an apparent accident victim, a few hours later. The local police feel the case is open and shut, with the chimney sweep tabbed as the murderer of the estate owner, until Constable Hamish Macbeth questions the findings, even of the forensics team. Someone has embarked on a spree, starting at the estate, and spreading to Edinburgh. Great stuff, as usual. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager''s fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn''t believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder. Then Pete''s body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens. Once again, it''s up to Hamish to discover who''s responsible for the dirty deed--and this time, the murderer may be closer than he realizes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8448'),
(14174, 'Death of a Chimney Sweep', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Scottish Highlands that Beaton depicts with such skill are beautiful and sinister, a fitting backdrop to her Hamish Macbeth series and especially to this one, her twenty-sixth craggy-cozy. The mystery centers in the tiny Highlands village of Drim, â€œa huddle of white-washed cottagesâ€ on the banks of a sea loch, where mountains rise up at waterâ€™s edge. There, the body of the posh new owner of a long-abandoned estate is found, stuffed up the chimney. The chimney sweep himself, who was to have been cleaning the estate chimney, is found dead on the motorway, an apparent accident victim, a few hours later. The local police feel the case is open and shut, with the chimney sweep tabbed as the murderer of the estate owner, until Constable Hamish Macbeth questions the findings, even of the forensics team. Someone has embarked on a spree, starting at the estate, and spreading to Edinburgh. Great stuff, as usual. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager''s fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn''t believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder. Then Pete''s body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens. Once again, it''s up to Hamish to discover who''s responsible for the dirty deed--and this time, the murderer may be closer than he realizes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21233'),
(14175, 'Death of a Dentist', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A blinding toothache sends Hamish Macbeth 120 miles out of Lochdubh to the dentist Frederick Gilchrist, only to find him dead. Since everyone is pleased the dentist is deceased--patients, several harassed women, and even his wife--Macbeth faces one of the more biting challenges of his career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3204'),
(14176, 'Death of a Dentist', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A blinding toothache sends Hamish Macbeth 120 miles out of Lochdubh to the dentist Frederick Gilchrist, only to find him dead. Since everyone is pleased the dentist is deceased--patients, several harassed women, and even his wife--Macbeth faces one of the more biting challenges of his career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21232'),
(14177, 'Death of a Gossip', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jane Winters--Lady Jane--was a noted gossip columnist enrolled in the Lachdubh School of Casting (fish casting, that is). She had something on everyone in class--and so, bobby Hamish Macbeth figured, any one of them could have killed her. Martin''s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3205'),
(14178, 'Death of a Gossip', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jane Winters--Lady Jane--was a noted gossip columnist enrolled in the Lachdubh School of Casting (fish casting, that is). She had something on everyone in class--and so, bobby Hamish Macbeth figured, any one of them could have killed her. Martin''s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21231'),
(14179, 'Death of a Hussy', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3206'),
(14180, 'Death of a Hussy', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21230'),
(14181, 'Death of a Peer', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Murder becomes a family affair...The Lampreys were a charming, eccentric happy-go-lucky family, teetering on the edge of financial ruin. Until the gruesome murder of their uncle-and unpleasant Marquis, who met his untimely death while leaving the Lamprey flat-left them with a fortune. Now it''s up to Inspector Roderick Alleyn to sift through the alibis to discover which Lamprey hides a ruthless killer behind an amiable facade...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25308'),
(14182, 'Death of a Perfect Wife', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Although the Thomases were not initially liked by villagers, Trixie Thomas has become a model of domestic efficiency--the perfect wife. So it comes as a great shock to everyone when she is found dead--to everyone but police inspector Hamish Macbeth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3208'),
(14183, 'Death of a Perfect Wife', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Although the Thomases were not initially liked by villagers, Trixie Thomas has become a model of domestic efficiency--the perfect wife. So it comes as a great shock to everyone when she is found dead--to everyone but police inspector Hamish Macbeth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21229'),
(14184, 'Death of a Prankster', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Hamish Macbeth hears that there has been a murder at the home of the practical joker Arthur Trent, he doesn''t race to the scene of the crime. The last time he was called to investigate a death at the manor, the victim turned out to be a manservant covered in fake blood. Ready for another prank, Hamish arrives to find Trent most decidedly dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3211'),
(14185, 'Death of a Prankster', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Hamish Macbeth hears that there has been a murder at the home of the practical joker Arthur Trent, he doesn''t race to the scene of the crime. The last time he was called to investigate a death at the manor, the victim turned out to be a manservant covered in fake blood. Ready for another prank, Hamish arrives to find Trent most decidedly dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21228'),
(14186, 'Death of a Scriptwriter', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n HOLLYWOOD IN THE HIGHLANDS With the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the long Scottish winter. He gets his wish -- and more -- when a troupe of flashy, urbane filmmakers clamors into the nearby town of Drim. Before long bedlam erupts around their make-believe mystery ...and culminates in the sudden appearance of one very real corpse. The initial suspect in the killing is one Patricia Martyn-Broyd, the aging mystery writer furious that her musty old cozies are getting a risque face-lift in their TV reincarnation. Yet, going behind the scenes, Hamish soon finds a town full of locals bitten by the movie bug and a cast of quarreling show business types, all harboring their own secrets, lies, and hidden agendas. And as the culprit strikes again, Hamish must quickly find the right killer -- or script the wrong finale to a show gone murderously awry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3212'),
(14187, 'Death of a Scriptwriter', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: HOLLYWOOD IN THE HIGHLANDS With the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the long Scottish winter. He gets his wish -- and more -- when a troupe of flashy, urbane filmmakers clamors into the nearby town of Drim. Before long bedlam erupts around their make-believe mystery ...and culminates in the sudden appearance of one very real corpse. The initial suspect in the killing is one Patricia Martyn-Broyd, the aging mystery writer furious that her musty old cozies are getting a risque face-lift in their TV reincarnation. Yet, going behind the scenes, Hamish soon finds a town full of locals bitten by the movie bug and a cast of quarreling show business types, all harboring their own secrets, lies, and hidden agendas. And as the culprit strikes again, Hamish must quickly find the right killer -- or script the wrong finale to a show gone murderously awry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21227'),
(14188, 'Death of a Snob', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Pure bliss."  Atlanta Journal &amp; Constitution\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Hamish Macbeth Mystery by the author of "Death of a Hussy."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With a cold in his head and no place to go for Christmas, Hamish snaps up the invitation of drop-dead gorgeous Jane Wetherby to spend the holiday at her Scottish island health farm -- and figure out who is trying to kill her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Hamish arrives on the island of Eileencraig, he finds threatening locals and fellow guests barely more civil, especially a terrible snob named Heather Todd.   It seems like everyone on the island has a grudge against Jane.  How to choose among so many suspects?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But then one suspect is eliminated.  Heather Todd is murdered.  And suddenly Hamish''s Christmas is looking very black indeed . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3214'),
(14189, 'Death of a Snob', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Pure bliss." Atlanta Journal &amp; Constitution A Hamish Macbeth Mystery by the author of "Death of a Hussy." With a cold in his head and no place to go for Christmas, Hamish snaps up the invitation of drop-dead gorgeous Jane Wetherby to spend the holiday at her Scottish island health farm -- and figure out who is trying to kill her. When Hamish arrives on the island of Eileencraig, he finds threatening locals and fellow guests barely more civil, especially a terrible snob named Heather Todd. It seems like everyone on the island has a grudge against Jane. How to choose among so many suspects? But then one suspect is eliminated. Heather Todd is murdered. And suddenly Hamish''s Christmas is looking very black indeed . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21226'),
(14190, 'Death of a Travelling Man', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "ENTRANCING . . . A GEM." --Ocala Star-Banner Hamish Macbeth''s life is going to pot. He''s been promoted (horrors!), his boss is a dunce, and--to add insult to injury--a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty, eye-sore-of-a-van in the village. Hamish smells trouble and as usual he''s right. The doctor''s drugs go missing. Money vanishes. Neighbors grow suddenly unneighborly. And when the unsavory newcomer is murdered, Hamish regrets it only because his bones tell him the killer may be one of his friends. Nobody wants to volunteer even a scrap of useful information, so canny Hamish single-handedly sets about the delicate work of worming the facts out of his neighbors. Yet in the process he uncovers a story so bizarre that neither he nor the villagers may ever recover from it. . . . "EXCELLENT.. . . A cast of winning characters." --Publishers Weekly "Scottish writer M. C. Beaton develops the locals with humor and verve." --The Christian Science Monitor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3215'),
(14191, 'Death of a Travelling Man', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "ENTRANCING . . . A GEM." --Ocala Star-Banner Hamish Macbeth''s life is going to pot. He''s been promoted (horrors!), his boss is a dunce, and--to add insult to injury--a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty, eye-sore-of-a-van in the village. Hamish smells trouble and as usual he''s right. The doctor''s drugs go missing. Money vanishes. Neighbors grow suddenly unneighborly. And when the unsavory newcomer is murdered, Hamish regrets it only because his bones tell him the killer may be one of his friends. Nobody wants to volunteer even a scrap of useful information, so canny Hamish single-handedly sets about the delicate work of worming the facts out of his neighbors. Yet in the process he uncovers a story so bizarre that neither he nor the villagers may ever recover from it. . . . "EXCELLENT.. . . A cast of winning characters." --Publishers Weekly "Scottish writer M. C. Beaton develops the locals with humor and verve." --The Christian Science Monitor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21225'),
(14192, 'Death of a Valentine', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In bestseller Beaton''s enjoyable 25th Hamish Macbeth mystery (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  Death of a Witch\n </em>\n ), a Valentine''s Day parcel explodes in the face of the Scottish Highlands'' Lammas festival queen, Annie Fleming, as soon as she tries to open it, killing her instantly. Hamish Macbeth, newly promoted to sergeant, would rather investigate with only his trusty pets in tow, but is instead forced to tote along his new constable, the less than professional Josie McSween. Considered prim and proper and a right innocent, Annie turns out to have been leading a less than virtuous double life, with no shortage of suspects in her murder. A much sought after bachelor, Hamish desperately tries to break the case, while Josie, with dreams in her eyes, strives to crack Hamish''s heart. Will Josie succeed in getting Hamish to say I do at the altar? For all the book''s farcical moments, Beaton takes care as usual to provide a satisfying police procedural.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beatonâ€™s cozies set in the fictional Highland village of Lochdubh and starring the crusty village constable Hamish Macbeth are sometimes so predictable in their â€œstranger comes to the village and gets murderedâ€ or â€œirascible villager gets murderedâ€ plotlines that the cozy quickly becomes a drowsy. It seems that Beaton bestirred herself for this, the twenty-fifth in the series. It combines her gift for scenic description with an inventive, constantly surprising plot. Two women are at the center of the action: one is a constable from Strathbane, assigned to work for Macbeth, who lives in perpetual fear of being transferred to the urban blight of Strathbane. The other woman is the town beauty, queen of the Lammas Fest, who dies after opening a letter-bomb Valentine. This beauty queen is, we learn, what Scotland Yard terms a â€œmurderee,â€ someone whose life invites violence. Both Beaton fans and newcomers to cozies will find her latest explosive and engaging. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3218'),
(14193, 'Death of a Valentine', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In bestseller Beaton''s enjoyable 25th Hamish Macbeth mystery (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  Death of a Witch\n </em>\n ), a Valentine''s Day parcel explodes in the face of the Scottish Highlands'' Lammas festival queen, Annie Fleming, as soon as she tries to open it, killing her instantly. Hamish Macbeth, newly promoted to sergeant, would rather investigate with only his trusty pets in tow, but is instead forced to tote along his new constable, the less than professional Josie McSween. Considered prim and proper and a right innocent, Annie turns out to have been leading a less than virtuous double life, with no shortage of suspects in her murder. A much sought after bachelor, Hamish desperately tries to break the case, while Josie, with dreams in her eyes, strives to crack Hamish''s heart. Will Josie succeed in getting Hamish to say I do at the altar? For all the book''s farcical moments, Beaton takes care as usual to provide a satisfying police procedural.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beatonâ€™s cozies set in the fictional Highland village of Lochdubh and starring the crusty village constable Hamish Macbeth are sometimes so predictable in their â€œstranger comes to the village and gets murderedâ€ or â€œirascible villager gets murderedâ€ plotlines that the cozy quickly becomes a drowsy. It seems that Beaton bestirred herself for this, the twenty-fifth in the series. It combines her gift for scenic description with an inventive, constantly surprising plot. Two women are at the center of the action: one is a constable from Strathbane, assigned to work for Macbeth, who lives in perpetual fear of being transferred to the urban blight of Strathbane. The other woman is the town beauty, queen of the Lammas Fest, who dies after opening a letter-bomb Valentine. This beauty queen is, we learn, what Scotland Yard terms a â€œmurderee,â€ someone whose life invites violence. Both Beaton fans and newcomers to cozies will find her latest explosive and engaging. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8446'),
(14194, 'Death of a Valentine', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In bestseller Beaton''s enjoyable 25th Hamish Macbeth mystery (after 2008''s\n <em>\n  Death of a Witch\n </em>\n ), a Valentine''s Day parcel explodes in the face of the Scottish Highlands'' Lammas festival queen, Annie Fleming, as soon as she tries to open it, killing her instantly. Hamish Macbeth, newly promoted to sergeant, would rather investigate with only his trusty pets in tow, but is instead forced to tote along his new constable, the less than professional Josie McSween. Considered prim and proper and a right innocent, Annie turns out to have been leading a less than virtuous double life, with no shortage of suspects in her murder. A much sought after bachelor, Hamish desperately tries to break the case, while Josie, with dreams in her eyes, strives to crack Hamish''s heart. Will Josie succeed in getting Hamish to say I do at the altar? For all the book''s farcical moments, Beaton takes care as usual to provide a satisfying police procedural.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Beatonâ€™s cozies set in the fictional Highland village of Lochdubh and starring the crusty village constable Hamish Macbeth are sometimes so predictable in their â€œstranger comes to the village and gets murderedâ€ or â€œirascible villager gets murderedâ€ plotlines that the cozy quickly becomes a drowsy. It seems that Beaton bestirred herself for this, the twenty-fifth in the series. It combines her gift for scenic description with an inventive, constantly surprising plot. Two women are at the center of the action: one is a constable from Strathbane, assigned to work for Macbeth, who lives in perpetual fear of being transferred to the urban blight of Strathbane. The other woman is the town beauty, queen of the Lammas Fest, who dies after opening a letter-bomb Valentine. This beauty queen is, we learn, what Scotland Yard terms a â€œmurderee,â€ someone whose life invites violence. Both Beaton fans and newcomers to cozies will find her latest explosive and engaging. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21224'),
(14195, 'Death of an Addict', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Recovering addict Tommy Jarret rented a chalet to check on reports of a sea monster near the dour village of Drim. When he turns up dead, apparently of a drug overdose, Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth finds the lad''s demise to be particularly fishy - and not of the local salmon variety. Hamish decides to infiltrate the illicit drug trade in nearby Strathbane, but his daft scheme springs a leak.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3220'),
(14196, 'Death of an Addict', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Recovering addict Tommy Jarret rented a chalet to check on reports of a sea monster near the dour village of Drim. When he turns up dead, apparently of a drug overdose, Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth finds the lad''s demise to be particularly fishy - and not of the local salmon variety. Hamish decides to infiltrate the illicit drug trade in nearby Strathbane, but his daft scheme springs a leak.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21223'),
(14197, 'Death of an Outsider', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Murder is a Tasty Dish The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or-more accurately-dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remain of the murdered victim are his bones. But after the lobsters are shipped off to Britain''s best restaurants, the whole affair quickly lands on the plate of Constable Hamish Macbeth. Exiled with his dog, Towser, to the dreary outpost of Cnothan, Macbeth sorely misses his beloved Lochdubh, his formerly beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, and his days of doing nothing but staring at the sheep grazing in a nearby croft. Now the lawman has to contend with a detective chief inspector who wants the modus operandi hushed up, a dark-haired lass who has an ulterior motive to seduce him, and a killer who has made mincemeat of his victim-and without doubt will strike again...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3222'),
(14198, 'Death of an Outsider', 'M. C. Beaton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Murder is a Tasty Dish The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or-more accurately-dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remain of the murdered victim are his bones. But after the lobsters are shipped off to Britain''s best restaurants, the whole affair quickly lands on the plate of Constable Hamish Macbeth. Exiled with his dog, Towser, to the dreary outpost of Cnothan, Macbeth sorely misses his beloved Lochdubh, his formerly beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, and his days of doing nothing but staring at the sheep grazing in a nearby croft. Now the lawman has to contend with a detective chief inspector who wants the modus operandi hushed up, a dark-haired lass who has an ulterior motive to seduce him, and a killer who has made mincemeat of his victim-and without doubt will strike again...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21222'),
(14199, 'The Death of Bunny Munro', 'Nick Cave', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The protagonist of Cave''s pleasantly demented second novel, set in England, is living out a porno: door-to-door lotion salesman Bunny Munro spends his days seducing invariably attractive women, servicing both their sexual and moisturizing needs. His wife''s suicide, though, threatens to derail Bunny''s amorous adventures, as he can''t shake the feeling that he might somehow be responsible. Another new obstacle is the need to look after his nine-year-old son, Bunny Jr. In an effort to escape the creepiness of the apartment he shared with his wife, Bunny takes his son on the road, teaching him the ropes of salesmanship. Meanwhile, a man in red face paint and plastic devil horns accosts women in northern England before a murderous turn sends him journeying south. Bunny''s deterioration from swaggering Lothario to sputtering pity case suggests he is carrying around more guilt than he cares to admit, and his obsessive behavior, while a bit of a stretch, allows for an interesting portrait of modern family dynamics. Cave''s bawdy humor, along with a gallows whimsy that will be familiar to fans of his music, elevate the novel from what might otherwise be a one-note adventure.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka, and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse, and they might just come up with Bunny Munro. As it stands, though, this novel emerges emphatically as the work of one of the great cross-genre storytellers of our age; a compulsive read possessing all of Nick Caveâ€™s trademark horror and humanity, often thinly disguised in a galloping, playful romp.â€ â€”Irvine Welsh\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Death of Bunny Munro_, is a sexually explicit, hyperactive soap opera of a book that proves, once again, that his talents are wide-ranging. Cave is a darkly gifted storyteller . . . Cave''s prose surprises throughout with flashes of grotesque beauty." â€”Don Waters, _San Francisco Chronicle\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"As in song, Cave the novelist is unafraid to launch headlong into roaring caricature, but while the sex and death quotient is significant, the book also reveals surprising new weapons in his armoury, particularly the tenderness and humanity with which he portrays Bunny Junior, a beacon of love and faith in a ruined world . . . Told with verve, studded with scalding humour." â€”Graeme Thomson,\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Observer\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2632'),
(14200, 'The Death of Bunny Munro', 'Nick Cave', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The protagonist of Cave''s pleasantly demented second novel, set in England, is living out a porno: door-to-door lotion salesman Bunny Munro spends his days seducing invariably attractive women, servicing both their sexual and moisturizing needs. His wife''s suicide, though, threatens to derail Bunny''s amorous adventures, as he can''t shake the feeling that he might somehow be responsible. Another new obstacle is the need to look after his nine-year-old son, Bunny Jr. In an effort to escape the creepiness of the apartment he shared with his wife, Bunny takes his son on the road, teaching him the ropes of salesmanship. Meanwhile, a man in red face paint and plastic devil horns accosts women in northern England before a murderous turn sends him journeying south. Bunny''s deterioration from swaggering Lothario to sputtering pity case suggests he is carrying around more guilt than he cares to admit, and his obsessive behavior, while a bit of a stretch, allows for an interesting portrait of modern family dynamics. Cave''s bawdy humor, along with a gallows whimsy that will be familiar to fans of his music, elevate the novel from what might otherwise be a one-note adventure.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka, and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse, and they might just come up with Bunny Munro. As it stands, though, this novel emerges emphatically as the work of one of the great cross-genre storytellers of our age; a compulsive read possessing all of Nick Caveâ€™s trademark horror and humanity, often thinly disguised in a galloping, playful romp.â€ â€”Irvine Welsh\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Death of Bunny Munro_, is a sexually explicit, hyperactive soap opera of a book that proves, once again, that his talents are wide-ranging. Cave is a darkly gifted storyteller . . . Cave''s prose surprises throughout with flashes of grotesque beauty." â€”Don Waters, _San Francisco Chronicle\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"As in song, Cave the novelist is unafraid to launch headlong into roaring caricature, but while the sex and death quotient is significant, the book also reveals surprising new weapons in his armoury, particularly the tenderness and humanity with which he portrays Bunny Junior, a beacon of love and faith in a ruined world . . . Told with verve, studded with scalding humour." â€”Graeme Thomson,\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Observer\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8935'),
(14201, 'The Death of Bunny Munro', 'Nick Cave', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The protagonist of Cave''s pleasantly demented second novel, set in England, is living out a porno: door-to-door lotion salesman Bunny Munro spends his days seducing invariably attractive women, servicing both their sexual and moisturizing needs. His wife''s suicide, though, threatens to derail Bunny''s amorous adventures, as he can''t shake the feeling that he might somehow be responsible. Another new obstacle is the need to look after his nine-year-old son, Bunny Jr. In an effort to escape the creepiness of the apartment he shared with his wife, Bunny takes his son on the road, teaching him the ropes of salesmanship. Meanwhile, a man in red face paint and plastic devil horns accosts women in northern England before a murderous turn sends him journeying south. Bunny''s deterioration from swaggering Lothario to sputtering pity case suggests he is carrying around more guilt than he cares to admit, and his obsessive behavior, while a bit of a stretch, allows for an interesting portrait of modern family dynamics. Cave''s bawdy humor, along with a gallows whimsy that will be familiar to fans of his music, elevate the novel from what might otherwise be a one-note adventure.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka, and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse, and they might just come up with Bunny Munro. As it stands, though, this novel emerges emphatically as the work of one of the great cross-genre storytellers of our age; a compulsive read possessing all of Nick Caveâ€™s trademark horror and humanity, often thinly disguised in a galloping, playful romp.â€ â€”Irvine Welsh\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Death of Bunny Munro_, is a sexually explicit, hyperactive soap opera of a book that proves, once again, that his talents are wide-ranging. Cave is a darkly gifted storyteller . . . Cave''s prose surprises throughout with flashes of grotesque beauty." â€”Don Waters, _San Francisco Chronicle\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"As in song, Cave the novelist is unafraid to launch headlong into roaring caricature, but while the sex and death quotient is significant, the book also reveals surprising new weapons in his armoury, particularly the tenderness and humanity with which he portrays Bunny Junior, a beacon of love and faith in a ruined world . . . Told with verve, studded with scalding humour." â€”Graeme Thomson,\n  <em>\n   The\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Observer\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22315'),
(14202, 'The Death of Bunny Munro: A Novel', 'Nick Cave', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Set adrift by his wifeâ€™s suicide and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. To his son, waiting patiently in the car while his father peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely housewives in the south of England, Bunny is a hero, larger than life. But Bunny himself, haunted by what might be his wifeâ€™s ghost, seems only dimly aware of his sonâ€™s existence. When his bizarre trip shades into a final reckoning, when he can no longer be sure what is real and what is not, Bunny finally begins to recognize the love he feels for his son. And he sees that the revenants of his worldâ€”decrepit fathers, vengeful ghosts, jealous husbands and horned psychokillersâ€”are lurking in the shadows, waiting to exact their toll. At turns dark and humane, The Death of Bunny Munro is a tender portrait of the relationship between a boy and his father, with all the wit and enigma that fans will recognize as Nick Caveâ€™s singular vision.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25290'),
(14203, 'The Death of Faith', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Donna Leons mastery of plot, her understanding of Venetian manners and mores, and above all her philosophical, unfailingly decent protagonist have made the Commissario Brunetti mysteries bestsellers around the world, including an ever-growing American audience. In "The Death of Faith," Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who is leaving her convent following the unexpected death of five patients. At first Brunettis inquiries reveal nothing amiss, and he wonders whether the nun is simply creating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation. But perhaps she has stumbled onto something very real and very sinistersomething that puts her life in imminent danger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5888'),
(14204, 'The death of faith', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Donna Leons mastery of plot, her understanding of Venetian manners and mores, and above all her philosophical, unfailingly decent protagonist have made the Commissario Brunetti mysteries bestsellers around the world, including an ever-growing American audience. In "The Death of Faith," Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who is leaving her convent following the unexpected death of five patients. At first Brunettis inquiries reveal nothing amiss, and he wonders whether the nun is simply creating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation. But perhaps she has stumbled onto something very real and very sinistersomething that puts her life in imminent danger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18744'),
(14205, 'The death of faith', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Donna Leons mastery of plot, her understanding of Venetian manners and mores, and above all her philosophical, unfailingly decent protagonist have made the Commissario Brunetti mysteries bestsellers around the world, including an ever-growing American audience. In "The Death of Faith," Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who is leaving her convent following the unexpected death of five patients. At first Brunettis inquiries reveal nothing amiss, and he wonders whether the nun is simply creating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation. But perhaps she has stumbled onto something very real and very sinistersomething that puts her life in imminent danger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27617'),
(14206, 'The Death of Ivan Ilych', 'Leo Tolstoy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25428'),
(14207, 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich: And, Master and Man', 'Leo Tolstoy (graf) &amp; Ann Slater', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?No one has ever excelled Tolstoy in expressing that specific flavor, the exact quality of a feeling.? ?Isaiah Berlin --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new edition combines Tolstoyâ€™s most famous short tale,\n <em>\n  The Death of Ivan Ilyich\n </em>\n , with a less well known but equally brilliant gem,\n <em>\n  Master and Man\n </em>\n , both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In\n <em>\n  Ivan Ilyich\n </em>\n , a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and lifeâ€™s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales.\n</p>\n<p>\n This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes by Ann Pasternak Slater, a Fellow at St. Anneâ€™s College, Oxford.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3408'),
(14208, 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich: And, Master and Man', 'Leo Tolstoy (graf) &amp; Ann Slater', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?No one has ever excelled Tolstoy in expressing that specific flavor, the exact quality of a feeling.? ?Isaiah Berlin --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new edition combines Tolstoyâ€™s most famous short tale,\n <em>\n  The Death of Ivan Ilyich\n </em>\n , with a less well known but equally brilliant gem,\n <em>\n  Master and Man\n </em>\n , both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In\n <em>\n  Ivan Ilyich\n </em>\n , a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and lifeâ€™s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales.\n</p>\n<p>\n This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes by Ann Pasternak Slater, a Fellow at St. Anneâ€™s College, Oxford.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13107'),
(14209, 'The death of Ivan Ilyich: and, Master and man', 'Leo Tolstoy (graf); Ann Slater', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?No one has ever excelled Tolstoy in expressing that specific flavor, the exact quality of a feeling.? ?Isaiah Berlin --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new edition combines Tolstoyâ€™s most famous short tale,\n <em>\n  The Death of Ivan Ilyich\n </em>\n , with a less well known but equally brilliant gem,\n <em>\n  Master and Man\n </em>\n , both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In\n <em>\n  Ivan Ilyich\n </em>\n , a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and lifeâ€™s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales.\n</p>\n<p>\n This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes by Ann Pasternak Slater, a Fellow at St. Anneâ€™s College, Oxford.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21076'),
(14210, 'The Death of Princes', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Fedration, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will RIker leads an Away Team to lomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Fedration, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will RIker leads an Away Team to lomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds.END\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7944');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14211, 'The Death of Princes', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Fedration, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will RIker leads an Away Team to lomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Fedration, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will RIker leads an Away Team to lomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds.END\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20287'),
(14212, 'Death of the Liberal Class', 'Chris Hedges', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this tsunami of terrifying revelations, juxtaposed truths, and demonstrated facts, Hedges (War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning) argues that the traditional beacons of the liberal classâ€”the universities, media, church, labor unions, and artsâ€“have sacrificed themselves completely to the dominance of corporate greed and unbounded capitalism. We are all to blame and everything moral about our democracy stands to be lostâ€”is indeed already vanishing, in Hedges''s viewâ€”and those who draw attention to it are banished and booed. While every page erupts with calamities of the human spirit worthy of their own irate broadcasts and bull-horned fury, Hedges is at his best when he unpacks the density of his polemic and embraces the power of his narrative. Regardless of form, however, his most interesting theses include the parallel between the current domestic climate and the fall of Weimar Germany and the conclusion that "Everything formed by violence is senseless and useless. It exists without a future. It leaves behind nothing but death, grief, and destruction." These insights come not just as warning, but as witness. (Nov.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The real danger to progressive social ideals is not President Obamaâ€™s failure to push through a more liberal agenda or the threat presented by the Tea Party and others pushing the Republicans more to the Right. Hedges argues that the true threat to liberalism is the long and gradual weakening of its ideals. Drawing on analysis and interviews from his long career as a journalist, including 15 years with the New York Times, Hedges chronicles the corruption of such bastions of liberalism as the Democratic Party, academia, and labor unions. He cites the NAFTA agreement and welfare reform during the Clinton administration and union coziness with corporations as recent examples of the merging of government and corporate interests to the detriment of the interests of the poor or even the middle class. He also reviews the long history of assassination and co-optation of radical voices in the U.S. and the singular career of Ralph Nader as a consistent voice against capitalist excess. This is a thoughtful analysis of why and how liberals have compromised principles due to the allure of power and wealth. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6830'),
(14213, 'Death of the Liberal Class', 'Chris Hedges', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In this tsunami of terrifying revelations, juxtaposed truths, and demonstrated facts, Hedges (War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning) argues that the traditional beacons of the liberal classâ€”the universities, media, church, labor unions, and artsâ€“have sacrificed themselves completely to the dominance of corporate greed and unbounded capitalism. We are all to blame and everything moral about our democracy stands to be lostâ€”is indeed already vanishing, in Hedges''s viewâ€”and those who draw attention to it are banished and booed. While every page erupts with calamities of the human spirit worthy of their own irate broadcasts and bull-horned fury, Hedges is at his best when he unpacks the density of his polemic and embraces the power of his narrative. Regardless of form, however, his most interesting theses include the parallel between the current domestic climate and the fall of Weimar Germany and the conclusion that "Everything formed by violence is senseless and useless. It exists without a future. It leaves behind nothing but death, grief, and destruction." These insights come not just as warning, but as witness. (Nov.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The real danger to progressive social ideals is not President Obamaâ€™s failure to push through a more liberal agenda or the threat presented by the Tea Party and others pushing the Republicans more to the Right. Hedges argues that the true threat to liberalism is the long and gradual weakening of its ideals. Drawing on analysis and interviews from his long career as a journalist, including 15 years with the New York Times, Hedges chronicles the corruption of such bastions of liberalism as the Democratic Party, academia, and labor unions. He cites the NAFTA agreement and welfare reform during the Clinton administration and union coziness with corporations as recent examples of the merging of government and corporate interests to the detriment of the interests of the poor or even the middle class. He also reviews the long history of assassination and co-optation of radical voices in the U.S. and the singular career of Ralph Nader as a consistent voice against capitalist excess. This is a thoughtful analysis of why and how liberals have compromised principles due to the allure of power and wealth. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10221'),
(14214, 'Death of the Liberal Class', 'Hedges, Chris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15272'),
(14215, 'Death of the Liberal Class', 'Hedges, Chris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17135'),
(14216, 'Death of the Liberal Class', 'Hedges, Chris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28156'),
(14217, 'Death on the Diagonal', 'Nero Blanc', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rumor has it that the devastating fire at the Collins family stables may have been a torch job-and no wonder, with all the family feuds going on. Belle Graham guesses that someone in the quarrelsome clan already knows the answers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2565'),
(14218, 'Death on the Diagonal', 'Nero Blanc', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rumor has it that the devastating fire at the Collins family stables may have been a torch job-and no wonder, with all the family feuds going on. Belle Graham guesses that someone in the quarrelsome clan already knows the answers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8526'),
(14219, 'Death on the Diagonal', 'Nero Blanc', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rumor has it that the devastating fire at the Collins family stables may have been a torch job-and no wonder, with all the family feuds going on. Belle Graham guesses that someone in the quarrelsome clan already knows the answers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22224'),
(14220, 'Death on the Nile', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24946'),
(14221, 'Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She''s the girl who has everythingâ€”including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/74'),
(14222, 'Death on the Nile: a Hercule Poirot mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She''s the girl who has everythingâ€”including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17163'),
(14223, 'Death on Tour', 'Janice Hamrick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A passport''s not needed to enjoy Hamrick''s ditzy debut, the first in a new cozy series and the winner of the 2010 Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur Books First Crime Novel Competition. While Austin, Tex., high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her fashionista cousin and best friend, Kyla Shore, are on an Egyptian tour, one of their group, unpopular 55-year-old Millie Owens, takes a fatal plunge off the great pyramid of Khafre outside Cairo. The police later determine that Millie was murdered, stabbed in the neck. Entries in a journal that Jocelyn finds in Millie''s bag suggests someone on the tour might be dangerous. Good-looking Alan Stratton, who''s traveling alone and wears no wedding ring, adds romantic interest. Hamrick does a good job capturing life on an exhausting budget tour as her snazzy if snarky amateur sleuth, who tends to be hard on the middle-aged and elderly, investigates some fishy fellow tourists with a hypercritical eye. (May)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her cousin Kyla are on a once-in-a-lifetime guided tour of Egypt with a motley crew of fellow travelers when the most odious of the bunch, a nosy, disagreeable woman named Millie Owens, takes a fatal fall off of one of the great pyramids. And thatâ€™s only the beginning of their troubles.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the jovial doctor haggling for trinkets he doesnâ€™t want to the mysterious imposter wearing someone elseâ€™s clothing to the attractive stranger traveling alone, this group of tourists is carrying more than one kind of baggage. Add a mistaken identity, a priceless necklace, and another unexpected death, and Jocelyn finds herself reluctantly trying to unravel an intrigue that threatens to end not only her vacation, but her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Janice Hamrickâ€™s Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur Books Competition winner\n <em>\n  Death on Tour\n </em>\n is a delightful debut and the beginning of a wonderfully charming cozy series featuring Jocelyn Shore, the determined teacher who always seems to get wrapped up in a mystery, against her usually very sound judgment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4670'),
(14224, 'Death on Tour', 'Janice Hamrick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A passport''s not needed to enjoy Hamrick''s ditzy debut, the first in a new cozy series and the winner of the 2010 Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur Books First Crime Novel Competition. While Austin, Tex., high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her fashionista cousin and best friend, Kyla Shore, are on an Egyptian tour, one of their group, unpopular 55-year-old Millie Owens, takes a fatal plunge off the great pyramid of Khafre outside Cairo. The police later determine that Millie was murdered, stabbed in the neck. Entries in a journal that Jocelyn finds in Millie''s bag suggests someone on the tour might be dangerous. Good-looking Alan Stratton, who''s traveling alone and wears no wedding ring, adds romantic interest. Hamrick does a good job capturing life on an exhausting budget tour as her snazzy if snarky amateur sleuth, who tends to be hard on the middle-aged and elderly, investigates some fishy fellow tourists with a hypercritical eye. (May)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her cousin Kyla are on a once-in-a-lifetime guided tour of Egypt with a motley crew of fellow travelers when the most odious of the bunch, a nosy, disagreeable woman named Millie Owens, takes a fatal fall off of one of the great pyramids. And thatâ€™s only the beginning of their troubles.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the jovial doctor haggling for trinkets he doesnâ€™t want to the mysterious imposter wearing someone elseâ€™s clothing to the attractive stranger traveling alone, this group of tourists is carrying more than one kind of baggage. Add a mistaken identity, a priceless necklace, and another unexpected death, and Jocelyn finds herself reluctantly trying to unravel an intrigue that threatens to end not only her vacation, but her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Janice Hamrickâ€™s Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur Books Competition winner\n <em>\n  Death on Tour\n </em>\n is a delightful debut and the beginning of a wonderfully charming cozy series featuring Jocelyn Shore, the determined teacher who always seems to get wrapped up in a mystery, against her usually very sound judgment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10141'),
(14225, 'Death Row', 'Mark Pearson &amp; Mark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fifteen years ago when Jack Delaney was a beat cop not long out of Hendon, two children went missing from Carlton Row, a small residential street in Harrow. They were never seen alive again. Two years later Delaney rescued a young girl from the boot of an abandoned car, leading to the capture of Peter Garnier, one of the most horrific child rapists and murderers in recent history. Although the bodies were never found, Garnier admitted to murdering the two children and many, many more. He was sent to prison for the rest of his natural life. Jack had thought the case was closed. But he couldn''t have been more wrong. This morning a another young boy disappears from Carlton Row. Peter Garnier sends Jack the chilling message that they are both at the heart of the mystery, and Delaney has no time to figure out why, or how. Because tonight, the killings begin again a\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2981'),
(14226, 'Death Row', 'Mark Pearson &amp; Mark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fifteen years ago when Jack Delaney was a beat cop not long out of Hendon, two children went missing from Carlton Row, a small residential street in Harrow. They were never seen alive again. Two years later Delaney rescued a young girl from the boot of an abandoned car, leading to the capture of Peter Garnier, one of the most horrific child rapists and murderers in recent history. Although the bodies were never found, Garnier admitted to murdering the two children and many, many more. He was sent to prison for the rest of his natural life. Jack had thought the case was closed. But he couldn''t have been more wrong. This morning a another young boy disappears from Carlton Row. Peter Garnier sends Jack the chilling message that they are both at the heart of the mystery, and Delaney has no time to figure out why, or how. Because tonight, the killings begin again a\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11841'),
(14227, 'Death Row', 'Mark Pearson; Mark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fifteen years ago when Jack Delaney was a beat cop not long out of Hendon, two children went missing from Carlton Row, a small residential street in Harrow. They were never seen alive again. Two years later Delaney rescued a young girl from the boot of an abandoned car, leading to the capture of Peter Garnier, one of the most horrific child rapists and murderers in recent history. Although the bodies were never found, Garnier admitted to murdering the two children and many, many more. He was sent to prison for the rest of his natural life. Jack had thought the case was closed. But he couldn''t have been more wrong. This morning a another young boy disappears from Carlton Row. Peter Garnier sends Jack the chilling message that they are both at the heart of the mystery, and Delaney has no time to figure out why, or how. Because tonight, the killings begin again a\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21731'),
(14228, 'Death Squad', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The dreaded Black Hand has let out a $100,000 contract on Bolan''s life, and every trigger-happy gunman in the country is trying to collect. At the same time, local, state, and federal police forces have banded together in the greatest manhunt in history to stop Bolan.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fired with a holy vengeance, Bolan recruits nine buddies - all heroes of the Vietnam war, all specialists in the more sophisticated aspects of meting out death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5897'),
(14229, 'Death Squad', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The dreaded Black Hand has let out a $100,000 contract on Bolan''s life, and every trigger-happy gunman in the country is trying to collect. At the same time, local, state, and federal police forces have banded together in the greatest manhunt in history to stop Bolan. Fired with a holy vengeance, Bolan recruits nine buddies - all heroes of the Vietnam war, all specialists in the more sophisticated aspects of meting out death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18717'),
(14230, 'Death Squad', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The dreaded Black Hand has let out a $100,000 contract on Bolan''s life, and every trigger-happy gunman in the country is trying to collect. At the same time, local, state, and federal police forces have banded together in the greatest manhunt in history to stop Bolan. Fired with a holy vengeance, Bolan recruits nine buddies - all heroes of the Vietnam war, all specialists in the more sophisticated aspects of meting out death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27521'),
(14231, 'Death Takes a Honeymoon', 'Deborah Donnelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n TO SURVIVE THE WEDDING OF THE SEASON... Wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid can feel the heat when she reunites with an old flame in the wealthy resort community of Sun Valleybut handsome smoke jumper Jack Packard is about to marry Carnegie''s former best friend, now a famous TV actress. With a star-studded ceremony to pull off, a noncommittal boyfriend back in Seattle, and a supercilious Frenchman barking orders, Carnegie has no time for carnal urges. Especially once murder joins the party. YOU''VE GOT TO TAKE THE PLUNGE. The victim was a local hero who leapt from planes to fight fire. But was his impromptu skydive a smoke screen for something sinister? With her florist going AWOL, her bride going ballistically Hollywood, and her curiosity running wild, Carnegie may be in over her head: Someone in Sun Valley is a killerand it''s up to Carnegie to grill the guests and unmask the villain...or watch her glitzy job go up in flames. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6140'),
(14232, 'Death Takes a Honeymoon', 'Deborah Donnelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: TO SURVIVE THE WEDDING OF THE SEASON... Wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid can feel the heat when she reunites with an old flame in the wealthy resort community of Sun Valleybut handsome smoke jumper Jack Packard is about to marry Carnegie''s former best friend, now a famous TV actress. With a star-studded ceremony to pull off, a noncommittal boyfriend back in Seattle, and a supercilious Frenchman barking orders, Carnegie has no time for carnal urges. Especially once murder joins the party. YOU''VE GOT TO TAKE THE PLUNGE. The victim was a local hero who leapt from planes to fight fire. But was his impromptu skydive a smoke screen for something sinister? With her florist going AWOL, her bride going ballistically Hollywood, and her curiosity running wild, Carnegie may be in over her head: Someone in Sun Valley is a killerand it''s up to Carnegie to grill the guests and unmask the villain...or watch her glitzy job go up in flames. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17970'),
(14233, 'Death Takes a Honeymoon', 'Deborah Donnelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: TO SURVIVE THE WEDDING OF THE SEASON... Wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid can feel the heat when she reunites with an old flame in the wealthy resort community of Sun Valleybut handsome smoke jumper Jack Packard is about to marry Carnegie''s former best friend, now a famous TV actress. With a star-studded ceremony to pull off, a noncommittal boyfriend back in Seattle, and a supercilious Frenchman barking orders, Carnegie has no time for carnal urges. Especially once murder joins the party. YOU''VE GOT TO TAKE THE PLUNGE. The victim was a local hero who leapt from planes to fight fire. But was his impromptu skydive a smoke screen for something sinister? With her florist going AWOL, her bride going ballistically Hollywood, and her curiosity running wild, Carnegie may be in over her head: Someone in Sun Valley is a killerand it''s up to Carnegie to grill the guests and unmask the villain...or watch her glitzy job go up in flames. From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27397'),
(14234, 'Death to the Landlords!', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dominic Felse and the Swami Premanathanand, a man of peace, unravel a deadly Indian rope trick of hatred and murder when they try to discover who is behind the violent deaths of several landlords.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5676'),
(14235, 'Death to the Landlords!', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dominic Felse and the Swami Premanathanand, a man of peace, unravel a deadly Indian rope trick of hatred and murder when they try to discover who is behind the violent deaths of several landlords.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18910'),
(14236, 'Death Trance', 'Graham Masterton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A grieving father wants to enter the world of the dead to visit his murdered family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5292'),
(14237, 'Death Trance', 'Graham Masterton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A grieving father wants to enter the world of the dead to visit his murdered family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19352'),
(14238, 'Death Trance', 'Graham Masterton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A grieving father wants to enter the world of the dead to visit his murdered family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28094'),
(14239, 'Death Waxed Over', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a competing candlemaker comes to town, Harrison Black tries his best to get along, but when the woman threatens to run him out of town at the Founder''s Day celebration, Harrison argues with her.  A few minutes later she is murdered, and someone in the crowd points her finger at Harrison as the killer!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/562'),
(14240, 'Death Waxed Over', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When a competing candlemaker comes to town, Harrison Black tries his best to get along, but when the woman threatens to run him out of town at the Founder''s Day celebration, Harrison argues with her. A few minutes later she is murdered, and someone in the crowd points her finger at Harrison as the killer!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24310'),
(14241, 'Death Wore White', 'Jim Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rookie detective Peter Shaw, along with his chain-smoking, hard-as-nails, veteran partner, is confronted with a baffling crime that stretches him to the breaking point.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4361'),
(14242, 'Death Wore White', 'Jim Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rookie detective Peter Shaw, along with his chain-smoking, hard-as-nails, veteran partner, is confronted with a baffling crime that stretches him to the breaking point.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10726'),
(14243, 'Death, Snow, and Mistletoe', 'Valerie S. Malmont', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Murder in the holiday spiritIt was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring..The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Christmas lights. A social worker wouldn''t let a living baby be part of the town''s living crÃ¨che. And some ladies were stretching the limits of their leotards in a pageant called the Nutcracker. All in all, former New Yorker Tori Miracle was basking in the quaint glow of her adopted Pennsylvania town, when suddenly the season went sour. A boy was missing. A thirty-year-old mystery resurfaced. And now two people have been murdered. With her boyfriend--the town police chief--out of town, Tori must help his befuddled replacement. And what she finds out, or should be finding out, is making Tori the next target--of someone only in the mood for murder....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/425'),
(14244, 'Death, Snow, and Mistletoe', 'Valerie S. Malmont', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Murder in the holiday spiritIt was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring..The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Christmas lights. A social worker wouldn''t let a living baby be part of the town''s living crÃ¨che. And some ladies were stretching the limits of their leotards in a pageant called the Nutcracker. All in all, former New Yorker Tori Miracle was basking in the quaint glow of her adopted Pennsylvania town, when suddenly the season went sour. A boy was missing. A thirty-year-old mystery resurfaced. And now two people have been murdered. With her boyfriend--the town police chief--out of town, Tori must help his befuddled replacement. And what she finds out, or should be finding out, is making Tori the next target--of someone only in the mood for murder....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11248'),
(14245, 'Death, Snow, and Mistletoe', 'Valerie S. Malmont', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Murder in the holiday spiritIt was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring..The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Christmas lights. A social worker wouldn''t let a living baby be part of the town''s living crÃ¨che. And some ladies were stretching the limits of their leotards in a pageant called the Nutcracker. All in all, former New Yorker Tori Miracle was basking in the quaint glow of her adopted Pennsylvania town, when suddenly the season went sour. A boy was missing. A thirty-year-old mystery resurfaced. And now two people have been murdered. With her boyfriend--the town police chief--out of town, Tori must help his befuddled replacement. And what she finds out, or should be finding out, is making Tori the next target--of someone only in the mood for murder....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24505'),
(14246, 'Death&#39;s Daughter', 'Amber Benson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Buffy fans will go wild!\n </p>\n <p>\n  SHE WAS TARA ON BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now sheâ€™s the author of Aceâ€™s hottest new seriesâ€” killer novels featuring Calliope Reaper-Jones, who doesnâ€™t want to be daddyâ€™s little girl anymore...\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Calliope Reaper-Jones so just wanted a normal life: buying designer shoes on sale, dating guys from Craigâ€™s List, web-surfing for organic dim-sum for her boss...\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when her fatherâ€”who happens to be Death himselfâ€”is kidnapped, and the Devilâ€™s Protege embarks on a hostile takeover of the family business, Death, Inc., Callie returns home to assume the CEO mantleâ€” only to discover she must complete three nearly impossible tasks in the realm of the afterlife first.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14706'),
(14247, 'Death&#39;s Daughter', 'Amber Benson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Buffy fans will go wild!\n </p>\n <p>\n  SHE WAS TARA ON BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now sheâ€™s the author of Aceâ€™s hottest new seriesâ€” killer novels featuring Calliope Reaper-Jones, who doesnâ€™t want to be daddyâ€™s little girl anymore...\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Calliope Reaper-Jones so just wanted a normal life: buying designer shoes on sale, dating guys from Craigâ€™s List, web-surfing for organic dim-sum for her boss...\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when her fatherâ€”who happens to be Death himselfâ€”is kidnapped, and the Devilâ€™s Protege embarks on a hostile takeover of the family business, Death, Inc., Callie returns home to assume the CEO mantleâ€” only to discover she must complete three nearly impossible tasks in the realm of the afterlife first.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16182'),
(14248, 'Death&#39;s Daughter', 'Amber Benson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Buffy fans will go wild!\n </p>\n <p>\n  SHE WAS TARA ON BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now sheâ€™s the author of Aceâ€™s hottest new seriesâ€” killer novels featuring Calliope Reaper-Jones, who doesnâ€™t want to be daddyâ€™s little girl anymore...\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Calliope Reaper-Jones so just wanted a normal life: buying designer shoes on sale, dating guys from Craigâ€™s List, web-surfing for organic dim-sum for her boss...\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when her fatherâ€”who happens to be Death himselfâ€”is kidnapped, and the Devilâ€™s Protege embarks on a hostile takeover of the family business, Death, Inc., Callie returns home to assume the CEO mantleâ€” only to discover she must complete three nearly impossible tasks in the realm of the afterlife first.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26340'),
(14249, 'Death&#39;s Excellent Vacation', 'Charlaine Harris &amp; Toni L. P. Kelner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The editors of *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns* deliver a new collection-including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *New York Times* bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith Saintcrow, Jeff Abbott, and more-send postcards from the edge of the paranormal world to fans who devoured *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns*.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque. Learn why it really can be an endless summer-for immortals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6880'),
(14250, 'Death&#39;s Excellent Vacation', 'Charlaine Harris &amp; Toni L. P. Kelner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The editors of *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns* deliver a new collection-including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *New York Times* bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith Saintcrow, Jeff Abbott, and more-send postcards from the edge of the paranormal world to fans who devoured *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns*.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque. Learn why it really can be an endless summer-for immortals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10178'),
(14251, 'Death&#39;s Excellent Vacation', 'Charlaine Harris; Toni L. P. Kelner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The editors of *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns* deliver a new collection-including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story. ** *New York Times* bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith Saintcrow, Jeff Abbott, and more-send postcards from the edge of the paranormal world to fans who devoured *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns*. With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque. Learn why it really can be an endless summer-for immortals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17034'),
(14252, 'Death&#39;s Excellent Vacation', 'Charlaine Harris; Toni L. P. Kelner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The editors of *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns* deliver a new collection-including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story. ** *New York Times* bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith Saintcrow, Jeff Abbott, and more-send postcards from the edge of the paranormal world to fans who devoured *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns*. With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque. Learn why it really can be an endless summer-for immortals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26801'),
(14253, 'Death&#39;s Excellent Vacation', 'Charlaine Harris &amp; Toni L. P. Kelner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The editors of *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns* deliver a new collection-including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *New York Times* bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith Saintcrow, Jeff Abbott, and more-send postcards from the edge of the paranormal world to fans who devoured *Wolfsbane and Mistletoe* and *Many Bloody Returns*.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque. Learn why it really can be an endless summer-for immortals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26829'),
(14254, 'Death&#39;s Shadow', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _The apocalypse came and the world burned. But it wasn''t the end, and out of the destruction, new life has emerged. Bec is back to face the Demonata. After centuries of imprisonment, she''s more powerful than ever, but the demons no longer stand alone.\n</p>\n<p>\n Something has crawled out of the darkness with her. Lord Loss is no longer humanity''s greatest threat... _\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is working on his eighth novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in May 2009.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6352'),
(14255, 'Death&#39;s Shadow', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _The apocalypse came and the world burned. But it wasn''t the end, and out of the destruction, new life has emerged. Bec is back to face the Demonata. After centuries of imprisonment, she''s more powerful than ever, but the demons no longer stand alone.\n</p>\n<p>\n Something has crawled out of the darkness with her. Lord Loss is no longer humanity''s greatest threat... _\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is working on his eighth novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in May 2009.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12661'),
(14256, 'Death&#39;s Shadow', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _The apocalypse came and the world burned. But it wasn''t the end, and out of the destruction, new life has emerged. Bec is back to face the Demonata. After centuries of imprisonment, she''s more powerful than ever, but the demons no longer stand alone.\n</p>\n<p>\n Something has crawled out of the darkness with her. Lord Loss is no longer humanity''s greatest threat... _\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is working on his eighth novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in May 2009.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17592'),
(14257, 'Deathstalker Destiny: Being the Fifth and Last Part of the Life and Times of Owen Deathstalker', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAn incredible romp through a wonderful universe of space opera.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_SF Site_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Owen Deathstalker''s greatest love--Hazel d''Ark--has been abducted by a cult dedicated to the excesses of scientific experimentation. Stranded on Lachrymae Christi, Owen struggles to help a leper colony survive, waiting for his chance to rescue Hazel. But Humanity is once again in the throes of intergalactic war...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Will Owen surrender to the battle cry? Or forsake his own destiny...for the woman he loves?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Green blends derring-do, space battles, and wry banter aplenty to form an eminently satisfying space opera." --_Booklist_\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Simon R. Green is the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author of\n   <em>\n    Blue Moon\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    Shadows Fall\n   </em>\n   , and thirteen other novels\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <em>\n    Deathstalker Destiny\n   </em>\n   is the fifth novel in a big intergalactic adventure in the tradition of\n   <em>\n    Star Wars\n   </em>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1264'),
(14258, 'Deathstalker Destiny: Being the Fifth and Last Part of the Life and Times of Owen Deathstalker', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAn incredible romp through a wonderful universe of space opera.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_SF Site_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Owen Deathstalker''s greatest love--Hazel d''Ark--has been abducted by a cult dedicated to the excesses of scientific experimentation. Stranded on Lachrymae Christi, Owen struggles to help a leper colony survive, waiting for his chance to rescue Hazel. But Humanity is once again in the throes of intergalactic war...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Will Owen surrender to the battle cry? Or forsake his own destiny...for the woman he loves?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Green blends derring-do, space battles, and wry banter aplenty to form an eminently satisfying space opera." --_Booklist_\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Simon R. Green is the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author of\n   <em>\n    Blue Moon\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    Shadows Fall\n   </em>\n   , and thirteen other novels\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <em>\n    Deathstalker Destiny\n   </em>\n   is the fifth novel in a big intergalactic adventure in the tradition of\n   <em>\n    Star Wars\n   </em>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9966'),
(14259, 'Deathstalker destiny: being the fifth and last part of the life and times of Owen Deathstalker', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œAn incredible romp through a wonderful universe of space opera.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”_SF Site_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Owen Deathstalker''s greatest love--Hazel d''Ark--has been abducted by a cult dedicated to the excesses of scientific experimentation. Stranded on Lachrymae Christi, Owen struggles to help a leper colony survive, waiting for his chance to rescue Hazel. But Humanity is once again in the throes of intergalactic war...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Will Owen surrender to the battle cry? Or forsake his own destiny...for the woman he loves?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Green blends derring-do, space battles, and wry banter aplenty to form an eminently satisfying space opera." --_Booklist_\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Simon R. Green is the\n   <em>\n    New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestselling author of\n   <em>\n    Blue Moon\n   </em>\n   ,\n   <em>\n    Shadows Fall\n   </em>\n   , and thirteen other novels\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <em>\n    Deathstalker Destiny\n   </em>\n   is the fifth novel in a big intergalactic adventure in the tradition of\n   <em>\n    Star Wars\n   </em>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23649'),
(14260, 'Deathstalker Legacy', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Green, author of the Deathstalker series (Deathstalker War, etc.), which concluded with Owen Deathstalker and his ragtag comrades defeating the evil Empress Lionstone, presents a swashbuckling sequel, in which Owen''s descendant Lewis is dragged unwillingly into emulating his ancestor''s desperate heroism. Lewis just wants to be a good Paragon (a kind of high-tech supercop/knight) and faithfully serve his best friend, King Douglas. Unfortunately, Lewis and the king''s intended bride fall hopelessly in love. Even more unfortunately, as if there weren''t enough monstrously subversive groups plotting against the throne from outside the court, Lewis''s jealous rival, Finn, who has a perfect Paragon''s surface but a brilliant sociopath''s soul, succeeds in discrediting Lewis and throwing the government into disarray. And then the planet-scouring Terror erupts from another dimension. As is in a lot of space opera, the plot doesn''t withstand close scrutiny, but this hardly matters as the narrative rushes from one dramatic set piece to the next. If the characterization seems just a shade above comic-book complexity, Green uses echoes of the somber King Arthur legend to lend extra weight. At the end, when Lewis sets off on his heroic quest to locate the original Deathstalker, accompanied by an outrageously diverse band of cohorts, the prospect of another long series of long novels actually sounds like fun.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This stout, exuberant piece of intelligent space opera continues the saga of those elite warriors and masters of interstellar intrigue and violence, the Deathstalkers, one of whom, Douglas Campbell, is about to take the throne of the empire, which is at the height of its power, prosperity, and benignity. Campbell has even been assigned a bride, the gorgeous opera singer Jesamine Flowers. But terrorism looms even before the royal wedding and, after it, crashes the party on a truly ghastly scale, triggering some 400 pages of non-stop, slightly tongue-in-cheek action. There are plots, counterplots, subplots, and characters getting plotzed on "Death by Chocolate" ice cream as well as much undercover action, the covers for which are quite varied. In the end, Lewis Deathstalker leads a motley starship crew off to . . . the sequel, of which this book bodes well. Great fun if you don''t take it too seriously.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1267');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14261, 'Deathstalker Legacy', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Green, author of the Deathstalker series (Deathstalker War, etc.), which concluded with Owen Deathstalker and his ragtag comrades defeating the evil Empress Lionstone, presents a swashbuckling sequel, in which Owen''s descendant Lewis is dragged unwillingly into emulating his ancestor''s desperate heroism. Lewis just wants to be a good Paragon (a kind of high-tech supercop/knight) and faithfully serve his best friend, King Douglas. Unfortunately, Lewis and the king''s intended bride fall hopelessly in love. Even more unfortunately, as if there weren''t enough monstrously subversive groups plotting against the throne from outside the court, Lewis''s jealous rival, Finn, who has a perfect Paragon''s surface but a brilliant sociopath''s soul, succeeds in discrediting Lewis and throwing the government into disarray. And then the planet-scouring Terror erupts from another dimension. As is in a lot of space opera, the plot doesn''t withstand close scrutiny, but this hardly matters as the narrative rushes from one dramatic set piece to the next. If the characterization seems just a shade above comic-book complexity, Green uses echoes of the somber King Arthur legend to lend extra weight. At the end, when Lewis sets off on his heroic quest to locate the original Deathstalker, accompanied by an outrageously diverse band of cohorts, the prospect of another long series of long novels actually sounds like fun.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This stout, exuberant piece of intelligent space opera continues the saga of those elite warriors and masters of interstellar intrigue and violence, the Deathstalkers, one of whom, Douglas Campbell, is about to take the throne of the empire, which is at the height of its power, prosperity, and benignity. Campbell has even been assigned a bride, the gorgeous opera singer Jesamine Flowers. But terrorism looms even before the royal wedding and, after it, crashes the party on a truly ghastly scale, triggering some 400 pages of non-stop, slightly tongue-in-cheek action. There are plots, counterplots, subplots, and characters getting plotzed on "Death by Chocolate" ice cream as well as much undercover action, the covers for which are quite varied. In the end, Lewis Deathstalker leads a motley starship crew off to . . . the sequel, of which this book bodes well. Great fun if you don''t take it too seriously.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9960'),
(14262, 'Deathstalker Legacy', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Green, author of the Deathstalker series (Deathstalker War, etc.), which concluded with Owen Deathstalker and his ragtag comrades defeating the evil Empress Lionstone, presents a swashbuckling sequel, in which Owen''s descendant Lewis is dragged unwillingly into emulating his ancestor''s desperate heroism. Lewis just wants to be a good Paragon (a kind of high-tech supercop/knight) and faithfully serve his best friend, King Douglas. Unfortunately, Lewis and the king''s intended bride fall hopelessly in love. Even more unfortunately, as if there weren''t enough monstrously subversive groups plotting against the throne from outside the court, Lewis''s jealous rival, Finn, who has a perfect Paragon''s surface but a brilliant sociopath''s soul, succeeds in discrediting Lewis and throwing the government into disarray. And then the planet-scouring Terror erupts from another dimension. As is in a lot of space opera, the plot doesn''t withstand close scrutiny, but this hardly matters as the narrative rushes from one dramatic set piece to the next. If the characterization seems just a shade above comic-book complexity, Green uses echoes of the somber King Arthur legend to lend extra weight. At the end, when Lewis sets off on his heroic quest to locate the original Deathstalker, accompanied by an outrageously diverse band of cohorts, the prospect of another long series of long novels actually sounds like fun.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This stout, exuberant piece of intelligent space opera continues the saga of those elite warriors and masters of interstellar intrigue and violence, the Deathstalkers, one of whom, Douglas Campbell, is about to take the throne of the empire, which is at the height of its power, prosperity, and benignity. Campbell has even been assigned a bride, the gorgeous opera singer Jesamine Flowers. But terrorism looms even before the royal wedding and, after it, crashes the party on a truly ghastly scale, triggering some 400 pages of non-stop, slightly tongue-in-cheek action. There are plots, counterplots, subplots, and characters getting plotzed on "Death by Chocolate" ice cream as well as much undercover action, the covers for which are quite varied. In the end, Lewis Deathstalker leads a motley starship crew off to . . . the sequel, of which this book bodes well. Great fun if you don''t take it too seriously.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23648'),
(14263, 'Deathstalker Return', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Green''s latest overstuffed entry in his Deathstalker epic (after 2003''s Deathstalker Legacy) tests our heroes to the limit as they seek the supposedly dead Owen Deathstalker, for they believe that only he can turn back the oncoming Terror, an evil and unstoppable force bent on destroying all the worlds in its path. Lewis Deathstalker, descendant of the Beloved Owen, on the lam with his renegade companions, runs into adventure after adventure as he seeks Owen on a variety of planets. Their archenemy, former Paragon Finn Durandal, dogs them every step of the way as he seizes power, overthrows King Douglas and dismantles the Golden Age that Owen helped create 200 years earlier. Others seek to overthrow the nasty Durandal, including the enigmatic robots of Shub, Douglas (who''s not the broken man he appears to be), Paragon Emma Steel and Steel''s unlikely ally, gun-toting girl reporter Nina Malapert. Green ably juggles elements of sword and sorcery, high fantasy, humorous quest and SF, with homages to authors such as Moorcock, Adams, Cordwainer Smith and Zelazny. Amazing coincidences, or the sudden appearance of powerful, supposedly long-dead heroes who give advice, save the day a few too many times, blunting the impact of the characters'' actions, but it''s a fun, twisty romp with surprises around every corner.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lewis Deathstalker''s troubles are many, even if he is with the woman he loves, Jessamine Flowers. The problem is that she was King Douglas'' intended, and that makes Deathstalker a traitor. It is Finn Durandal, nominally a Douglas ally, who is actually hatching the highest treason, and whom Douglas and Deathstalker (the Killer Ds) really have to worry about. Deathstalker''s cohorts continue to be a charming con man, an immortal female gladiator, and a reptiloid named Saturday. They and Lewis constitute a tough bunch, but what will happen should Lewis'' ancestor Owen Deathstalker, thought to have been dead for two centuries, return? But then, is there anything dire enough to necessitate his return? Tune in on the next Deathstalker volume for answers to those questions, but meanwhile have fun with this one. After all, reading even one Deathstalker leaves one feeling jollier than before, for the series continues to avoid the lapses of tone so common in humorous space opera and fantasy.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1268'),
(14264, 'Deathstalker Return', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Green''s latest overstuffed entry in his Deathstalker epic (after 2003''s Deathstalker Legacy) tests our heroes to the limit as they seek the supposedly dead Owen Deathstalker, for they believe that only he can turn back the oncoming Terror, an evil and unstoppable force bent on destroying all the worlds in its path. Lewis Deathstalker, descendant of the Beloved Owen, on the lam with his renegade companions, runs into adventure after adventure as he seeks Owen on a variety of planets. Their archenemy, former Paragon Finn Durandal, dogs them every step of the way as he seizes power, overthrows King Douglas and dismantles the Golden Age that Owen helped create 200 years earlier. Others seek to overthrow the nasty Durandal, including the enigmatic robots of Shub, Douglas (who''s not the broken man he appears to be), Paragon Emma Steel and Steel''s unlikely ally, gun-toting girl reporter Nina Malapert. Green ably juggles elements of sword and sorcery, high fantasy, humorous quest and SF, with homages to authors such as Moorcock, Adams, Cordwainer Smith and Zelazny. Amazing coincidences, or the sudden appearance of powerful, supposedly long-dead heroes who give advice, save the day a few too many times, blunting the impact of the characters'' actions, but it''s a fun, twisty romp with surprises around every corner.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lewis Deathstalker''s troubles are many, even if he is with the woman he loves, Jessamine Flowers. The problem is that she was King Douglas'' intended, and that makes Deathstalker a traitor. It is Finn Durandal, nominally a Douglas ally, who is actually hatching the highest treason, and whom Douglas and Deathstalker (the Killer Ds) really have to worry about. Deathstalker''s cohorts continue to be a charming con man, an immortal female gladiator, and a reptiloid named Saturday. They and Lewis constitute a tough bunch, but what will happen should Lewis'' ancestor Owen Deathstalker, thought to have been dead for two centuries, return? But then, is there anything dire enough to necessitate his return? Tune in on the next Deathstalker volume for answers to those questions, but meanwhile have fun with this one. After all, reading even one Deathstalker leaves one feeling jollier than before, for the series continues to avoid the lapses of tone so common in humorous space opera and fantasy.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10100'),
(14265, 'Deathstalker Return', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Green''s latest overstuffed entry in his Deathstalker epic (after 2003''s Deathstalker Legacy) tests our heroes to the limit as they seek the supposedly dead Owen Deathstalker, for they believe that only he can turn back the oncoming Terror, an evil and unstoppable force bent on destroying all the worlds in its path. Lewis Deathstalker, descendant of the Beloved Owen, on the lam with his renegade companions, runs into adventure after adventure as he seeks Owen on a variety of planets. Their archenemy, former Paragon Finn Durandal, dogs them every step of the way as he seizes power, overthrows King Douglas and dismantles the Golden Age that Owen helped create 200 years earlier. Others seek to overthrow the nasty Durandal, including the enigmatic robots of Shub, Douglas (who''s not the broken man he appears to be), Paragon Emma Steel and Steel''s unlikely ally, gun-toting girl reporter Nina Malapert. Green ably juggles elements of sword and sorcery, high fantasy, humorous quest and SF, with homages to authors such as Moorcock, Adams, Cordwainer Smith and Zelazny. Amazing coincidences, or the sudden appearance of powerful, supposedly long-dead heroes who give advice, save the day a few too many times, blunting the impact of the characters'' actions, but it''s a fun, twisty romp with surprises around every corner.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lewis Deathstalker''s troubles are many, even if he is with the woman he loves, Jessamine Flowers. The problem is that she was King Douglas'' intended, and that makes Deathstalker a traitor. It is Finn Durandal, nominally a Douglas ally, who is actually hatching the highest treason, and whom Douglas and Deathstalker (the Killer Ds) really have to worry about. Deathstalker''s cohorts continue to be a charming con man, an immortal female gladiator, and a reptiloid named Saturday. They and Lewis constitute a tough bunch, but what will happen should Lewis'' ancestor Owen Deathstalker, thought to have been dead for two centuries, return? But then, is there anything dire enough to necessitate his return? Tune in on the next Deathstalker volume for answers to those questions, but meanwhile have fun with this one. After all, reading even one Deathstalker leaves one feeling jollier than before, for the series continues to avoid the lapses of tone so common in humorous space opera and fantasy.\n  <em>\n   Roland Green\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23647'),
(14266, 'Debt Collectors, CCJs, IVAs and Bankruptcy', 'GA &amp; P', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Are you worried about Debts?  Does the idea of a knock on the door keep you awake at night?  Do you really know your rights?  This excellent quick-read guide gives you answers to the most commonly asked questions, and firmly puts YOU back in control.  Don''t be left in the dark - read this guide and protect yourself from unlawful and unethical action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5497'),
(14267, 'Debt Collectors, CCJs, IVAs and Bankruptcy', 'GA &amp; P', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Are you worried about Debts?  Does the idea of a knock on the door keep you awake at night?  Do you really know your rights?  This excellent quick-read guide gives you answers to the most commonly asked questions, and firmly puts YOU back in control.  Don''t be left in the dark - read this guide and protect yourself from unlawful and unethical action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9898'),
(14268, 'Debt Collectors, CCJs, IVAs and Bankruptcy', 'GA; P', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Are you worried about Debts? Does the idea of a knock on the door keep you awake at night? Do you really know your rights? This excellent quick-read guide gives you answers to the most commonly asked questions, and firmly puts YOU back in control. Don''t be left in the dark - read this guide and protect yourself from unlawful and unethical action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19206'),
(14269, 'Debt of Bones', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby''s struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive.Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby''s request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to break, both Abby and Zedd are caught in a desperate fight to save the life of a child...but neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal.With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby, for everyone-will never again be the same.Discover why millions of readers the world over have elevated Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/762'),
(14270, 'Debt of Bones', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby''s struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive.Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby''s request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to break, both Abby and Zedd are caught in a desperate fight to save the life of a child...but neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal.With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby, for everyone-will never again be the same.Discover why millions of readers the world over have elevated Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15249'),
(14271, 'Debt of Bones', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby''s struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive.Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby''s request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to break, both Abby and Zedd are caught in a desperate fight to save the life of a child...but neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal.With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby, for everyone-will never again be the same.Discover why millions of readers the world over have elevated Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24223'),
(14272, 'Debt of Honor', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Called out of retirement to serve as National Security Advisor to the president, Jack Ryan, with the help of CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez, must prepare the untested president to meet the challenges of a new world order. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/526'),
(14273, 'Debt of Honor', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Called out of retirement to serve as National Security Advisor to the president, Jack Ryan, with the help of CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez, must prepare the untested president to meet the challenges of a new world order. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8877'),
(14274, 'Debt of Honor', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Called out of retirement to serve as National Security Advisor to the president, Jack Ryan, with the help of CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez, must prepare the untested president to meet the challenges of a new world order. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24343'),
(14275, 'Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching Off My Parents', 'Zac Bissonnette &amp; Andrew Tobias', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In keeping with the new frugality, this college guide, written by a senior attending the University of Massachusetts, offers practical advice on how to pay for college without taking out loans. Decidedly old school in approach, Bissonnette advocates that students should bear the brunt of paying for their educations by working while in college and during breaks. He also suggests that attending community college for two years before transferring to a four-year college or university would go a long way toward cutting costs. Systematically and amusingly debunking the selection criteria used by U.S. News and World Report and others to rank elite colleges, Bissonnette is a strong advocate of attending reasonably priced state schools. He makes good points about how debt from student loans often prevents recent grads from starting families or buying homes. He also presents convincing research that elite graduate programs and selective employers accept plenty of people who have attended nonelite schools. Although the strictly dollars-and-cents approach to higher education may not sit well with some parents, this is a timely guide to a decision that has important financial ramifications. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If the National Association for College Admissions Counseling had anticipated the dire consequences of one of the smartest teenagers in America encountering the ill-examined assumptions of their profession, they might have found some way to buy him off, maybe a full ride scholarship to Harvard. Too late. Bissonnette is 21 now, a senior at the University of Massachusetts. He has written the best and most troubling book ever about the college admissions process."\n <br />\n -Jay Mathews,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Let Zac Bissonnette help you plan for college-where to go, what to study, and how to pay for it-and you will finish rich"\n <br />\n -David Bach #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Automatic Millionaire\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Start Late, Finish Rich\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the new economy, your college choice is critical. Zac Bissonnette''s\n <em>\n  Debt- Free U\n </em>\n is the one book you need to make this life-changing decision-- thoroughly researched, smart, and funny. Grade: A+."\n <br />\n -Ali Rogers, CBS Moneywatch. Author,\n <em>\n  Diary of a Real Estate Rookie\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "With Bissonnette, college-bound students and their parents finally have an unbiased source to help make an educated decision about choosing and affording college. Not to mention, his advice can help you pocket tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Want to make a smart investment in this economy? Buy\n <em>\n  Debt-Free U\n </em>\n ."\n <br />\n -Farnoosh Torabi, financial expert and author of\n <em>\n  Psych Yourself Rich\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/137'),
(14276, 'Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching Off My Parents', 'Zac Bissonnette &amp; Andrew Tobias', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In keeping with the new frugality, this college guide, written by a senior attending the University of Massachusetts, offers practical advice on how to pay for college without taking out loans. Decidedly old school in approach, Bissonnette advocates that students should bear the brunt of paying for their educations by working while in college and during breaks. He also suggests that attending community college for two years before transferring to a four-year college or university would go a long way toward cutting costs. Systematically and amusingly debunking the selection criteria used by U.S. News and World Report and others to rank elite colleges, Bissonnette is a strong advocate of attending reasonably priced state schools. He makes good points about how debt from student loans often prevents recent grads from starting families or buying homes. He also presents convincing research that elite graduate programs and selective employers accept plenty of people who have attended nonelite schools. Although the strictly dollars-and-cents approach to higher education may not sit well with some parents, this is a timely guide to a decision that has important financial ramifications. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If the National Association for College Admissions Counseling had anticipated the dire consequences of one of the smartest teenagers in America encountering the ill-examined assumptions of their profession, they might have found some way to buy him off, maybe a full ride scholarship to Harvard. Too late. Bissonnette is 21 now, a senior at the University of Massachusetts. He has written the best and most troubling book ever about the college admissions process."\n <br />\n -Jay Mathews,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Let Zac Bissonnette help you plan for college-where to go, what to study, and how to pay for it-and you will finish rich"\n <br />\n -David Bach #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Automatic Millionaire\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Start Late, Finish Rich\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the new economy, your college choice is critical. Zac Bissonnette''s\n <em>\n  Debt- Free U\n </em>\n is the one book you need to make this life-changing decision-- thoroughly researched, smart, and funny. Grade: A+."\n <br />\n -Ali Rogers, CBS Moneywatch. Author,\n <em>\n  Diary of a Real Estate Rookie\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "With Bissonnette, college-bound students and their parents finally have an unbiased source to help make an educated decision about choosing and affording college. Not to mention, his advice can help you pocket tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Want to make a smart investment in this economy? Buy\n <em>\n  Debt-Free U\n </em>\n ."\n <br />\n -Farnoosh Torabi, financial expert and author of\n <em>\n  Psych Yourself Rich\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8558'),
(14277, 'Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching Off My Parents', 'Zac Bissonnette; Andrew Tobias', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In keeping with the new frugality, this college guide, written by a senior attending the University of Massachusetts, offers practical advice on how to pay for college without taking out loans. Decidedly old school in approach, Bissonnette advocates that students should bear the brunt of paying for their educations by working while in college and during breaks. He also suggests that attending community college for two years before transferring to a four-year college or university would go a long way toward cutting costs. Systematically and amusingly debunking the selection criteria used by U.S. News and World Report and others to rank elite colleges, Bissonnette is a strong advocate of attending reasonably priced state schools. He makes good points about how debt from student loans often prevents recent grads from starting families or buying homes. He also presents convincing research that elite graduate programs and selective employers accept plenty of people who have attended nonelite schools. Although the strictly dollars-and-cents approach to higher education may not sit well with some parents, this is a timely guide to a decision that has important financial ramifications. --Joanne Wilkinson\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "If the National Association for College Admissions Counseling had anticipated the dire consequences of one of the smartest teenagers in America encountering the ill-examined assumptions of their profession, they might have found some way to buy him off, maybe a full ride scholarship to Harvard. Too late. Bissonnette is 21 now, a senior at the University of Massachusetts. He has written the best and most troubling book ever about the college admissions process."\n <br />\n -Jay Mathews,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Let Zac Bissonnette help you plan for college-where to go, what to study, and how to pay for it-and you will finish rich"\n <br />\n -David Bach #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Automatic Millionaire\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Start Late, Finish Rich\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In the new economy, your college choice is critical. Zac Bissonnette''s\n <em>\n  Debt- Free U\n </em>\n is the one book you need to make this life-changing decision-- thoroughly researched, smart, and funny. Grade: A+."\n <br />\n -Ali Rogers, CBS Moneywatch. Author,\n <em>\n  Diary of a Real Estate Rookie\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "With Bissonnette, college-bound students and their parents finally have an unbiased source to help make an educated decision about choosing and affording college. Not to mention, his advice can help you pocket tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Want to make a smart investment in this economy? Buy\n <em>\n  Debt-Free U\n </em>\n ."\n <br />\n -Farnoosh Torabi, financial expert and author of\n <em>\n  Psych Yourself Rich\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24737'),
(14278, 'Debtors&#39; Planet', 'W. R. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a Vulcan space probe reports that the Ferengi are advancing the people of the planet Megara from a primitive agricultural state to a sophisticated technological society, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢ are ordered to transport an unlikely passenger to the system, a ruthless twentieth-century businessman who is now a Federation ambassador.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Ferengi have been changing Megaran culture, turning a hard working and horoable people into vicious xenophobic killers. But the Ferengi are only hired hands. They have hidden masters, with plans to use the Magaran people as a powerful weapon against the Federation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Picard must find a way to use the talents of this new ambassador to free the Megarans. But the ambassador is hididng a deadly secret of his own -- a secret that could unleash an unstoppable destructive force on the Federation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/303'),
(14279, 'Debtors&#39; Planet', 'W. R. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a Vulcan space probe reports that the Ferengi are advancing the people of the planet Megara from a primitive agricultural state to a sophisticated technological society, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM are ordered to transport an unlikely passenger to the system, a ruthless twentieth-century businessman who is now a Federation ambassador.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Ferengi have been changing Megaran culture, turning a hard working and horoable people into vicious xenophobic killers. But the Ferengi are only hired hands. They have hidden masters, with plans to use the Magaran people as a powerful weapon against the Federation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now Picard must find a way to use the talents of this new ambassador to free the Megarans. But the ambassador is hididng a deadly secret of his own -- a secret that could unleash an unstoppable destructive force on the Federation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24640'),
(14280, 'Decaffeinated Corpse', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world''s first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it''s a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6675'),
(14281, 'Decaffeinated Corpse', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world''s first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it''s a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9078'),
(14282, 'Decaffeinated Corpse', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world''s first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it''s a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17364'),
(14283, 'Decaffeinated Corpse', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world''s first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it''s a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27040'),
(14284, 'The Decameron', 'Giovanni Boccaccio', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5327'),
(14285, 'The Decameron', 'Giovanni Boccaccio', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19332'),
(14286, 'The Decameron', 'Giovanni Boccaccio', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27945'),
(14287, 'Deceiver', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The civil war among the alien\n  <em>\n   Atevi\n  </em>\n  has ended and Tabini-aiji, the ruler of the Western Association, has returned to power. Bren Cameron, Tabini''s human\n  <em>\n   paidhi\n  </em>\n  , decides to return to his recovered home on the coast, but when Tabini''s son Cajeiri, desperate for adventure, flees his responsibilities to join Bren, Tabini sends the boy''s great-grandmother to find him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Even though the war is over, the opposition is still present, and a district once thought to be safe could now be a trap. With Bren, Cajeiri, and his great-grandmother under one roof...a trap is baited.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   C.J. Cherryh\n  </strong>\n  has written over fifty novels, has won three Hugo Awards, both in the novel and short story categories, and has frequently appeared on both the Hugo Award ballot and the Nebula Award ballot. She lives in Spokane, Washington.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15519'),
(14288, 'December 6: A Novel', 'Martin Cruz Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo''s underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings.Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true allegiances lie, as he tries to juggle his Japanese mistress and an affair with the wife of a British diplomat; avoid a modern-day samurai who is honor-bound to kill him; and survive the Japanese high command, whose plans for conquest may just dictate his survival.Set in a maelstrom of personal temptations and mortal enemies, with a remarkable anti-hero caught in a land he can never call his own, DECEMBER 6 is a triumph of imagination, history, and riveting storytelling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3036'),
(14289, 'December 6: A Novel', 'Martin Cruz Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo''s underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings.Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true allegiances lie, as he tries to juggle his Japanese mistress and an affair with the wife of a British diplomat; avoid a modern-day samurai who is honor-bound to kill him; and survive the Japanese high command, whose plans for conquest may just dictate his survival.Set in a maelstrom of personal temptations and mortal enemies, with a remarkable anti-hero caught in a land he can never call his own, DECEMBER 6 is a triumph of imagination, history, and riveting storytelling.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21788'),
(14290, 'Deception', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œI have just finished reading Randy Alcornâ€™s new novel.\n <em>\n  Deception\n </em>\n is the same high quality as Randyâ€™s related novels\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Dominion\n </em>\n . All three are page-turnersâ€¦Randy is a gifted writer. I strongly recommend that you read his books.â€\n <br />\n - Chuck Norris, six-time World Karate champion, international film and television star\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Deception_ was as engaging to me as books by Chricton or Clancyâ€¦Iâ€™m sure glad Randy canâ€™t paint, or Iâ€™d be in big trouble!â€\n <br />\n - Ron DiCianni, award-winning artist, author of\n <em>\n  Beyond Words\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRandy Alcorn is amazing. Heâ€™s one of my all-time favorite authors.â€\n <br />\n - Karen Kingsbury, bestselling author of the Redemption series and the Firstborn series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlcorn has written a novel that combines the suspense of John Grisham and the theological pondering of C.S. Lewis.â€\n <br />\n - New Man Magazine for\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Deadline_] is for clear thinkers who enjoy a good argument. There can be no mistaking â€” and there should be no ignoring â€” the vital message of this book.â€\n <br />\n - Frank Peretti, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  This Present Darkness\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRandy Alcorn has hit it out of the park.\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n is riveting. Motivating. Intriguing. Provocative. And itâ€™s for the mystery lovers too. Many books feed the mind. Some feed the heart.\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n nourishes both.â€\n <br />\n - Stu Weber, author of Tender Warrior\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlcornâ€™s writing remains top-notch, and he fills the pages with enough tension to cause ulcers.â€\n <br />\n - Bookstore Journal for\n <em>\n  Dominion\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œMessinâ€™ with meâ€™s like wearinâ€™ cheese underwear down rat alley.â€\n <br />\n -Ollie Chandler\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Homicide detective Ollie Chandler has seen it all. Done more than he cares to admit. But when heâ€™s called to investigate the murder of a Portland State University professor, he finds himself going places heâ€™s never gone before.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Places he never wanted to go.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Because all the evidence is pointing to one horrific conclusion: The murderer is someone in his own department. Thatâ€™s not the worst of it, though. Ollie has nagging doubtsâ€¦about himself. Where was\n <em>\n  he\n </em>\n during the time of the murder?\n</p>\n<p>\n Joined by journalist Clarence Abernathy and their friend Jake Woods, Ollie pushes the investigation forward. Soon all three are drawn deep into corruption and political tensions that threaten to destroy themâ€“and anyone who tries to help. But theyâ€™re in too deep to quit. Theyâ€™ve got no choice. They have to follow the evidence to the truthâ€¦\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n No matter how uglyâ€“or dangerousâ€“it gets.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n A gripping story of murder and spiritual struggle, Deception proves, as never before, the truth of Ollieâ€™s first law: â€œThings are often not what they appear.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1914'),
(14291, 'Deception', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œI have just finished reading Randy Alcornâ€™s new novel.\n <em>\n  Deception\n </em>\n is the same high quality as Randyâ€™s related novels\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Dominion\n </em>\n . All three are page-turnersâ€¦Randy is a gifted writer. I strongly recommend that you read his books.â€\n <br />\n - Chuck Norris, six-time World Karate champion, international film and television star\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Deception_ was as engaging to me as books by Chricton or Clancyâ€¦Iâ€™m sure glad Randy canâ€™t paint, or Iâ€™d be in big trouble!â€\n <br />\n - Ron DiCianni, award-winning artist, author of\n <em>\n  Beyond Words\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRandy Alcorn is amazing. Heâ€™s one of my all-time favorite authors.â€\n <br />\n - Karen Kingsbury, bestselling author of the Redemption series and the Firstborn series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlcorn has written a novel that combines the suspense of John Grisham and the theological pondering of C.S. Lewis.â€\n <br />\n - New Man Magazine for\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Deadline_] is for clear thinkers who enjoy a good argument. There can be no mistaking â€” and there should be no ignoring â€” the vital message of this book.â€\n <br />\n - Frank Peretti, bestselling author of\n <em>\n  This Present Darkness\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRandy Alcorn has hit it out of the park.\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n is riveting. Motivating. Intriguing. Provocative. And itâ€™s for the mystery lovers too. Many books feed the mind. Some feed the heart.\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n nourishes both.â€\n <br />\n - Stu Weber, author of Tender Warrior\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlcornâ€™s writing remains top-notch, and he fills the pages with enough tension to cause ulcers.â€\n <br />\n - Bookstore Journal for\n <em>\n  Dominion\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œMessinâ€™ with meâ€™s like wearinâ€™ cheese underwear down rat alley.â€\n <br />\n -Ollie Chandler\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Homicide detective Ollie Chandler has seen it all. Done more than he cares to admit. But when heâ€™s called to investigate the murder of a Portland State University professor, he finds himself going places heâ€™s never gone before.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Places he never wanted to go.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Because all the evidence is pointing to one horrific conclusion: The murderer is someone in his own department. Thatâ€™s not the worst of it, though. Ollie has nagging doubtsâ€¦about himself. Where was\n <em>\n  he\n </em>\n during the time of the murder?\n</p>\n<p>\n Joined by journalist Clarence Abernathy and their friend Jake Woods, Ollie pushes the investigation forward. Soon all three are drawn deep into corruption and political tensions that threaten to destroy themâ€“and anyone who tries to help. But theyâ€™re in too deep to quit. Theyâ€™ve got no choice. They have to follow the evidence to the truthâ€¦\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n No matter how uglyâ€“or dangerousâ€“it gets.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n A gripping story of murder and spiritual struggle, Deception proves, as never before, the truth of Ollieâ€™s first law: â€œThings are often not what they appear.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9370'),
(14292, 'Deception Point', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Da Vinci Code* comes an explosive, high-tech thriller that takes readers from the chilling depths of the Arctic Ocean to the treacherous heights of Washington power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Deception Point,* bestselling author Dan Brown transports readers from the ultrasecret National Reconnaissance Office to the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle, and back again to the hallways of power inside the West Wing. Heralded for masterfully intermingling science, history, and politics in his critically acclaimed, blockbuster thrillers *Angels &amp; Demons* and *The Da Vinci Code,* Brown has crafted a novel in which nothing is as it seems -- and behind every corner is a stunning surprise. *Deception Point* is pulse-pounding fiction at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6616'),
(14293, 'Deception Point', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Da Vinci Code* comes an explosive, high-tech thriller that takes readers from the chilling depths of the Arctic Ocean to the treacherous heights of Washington power. When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all. In *Deception Point,* bestselling author Dan Brown transports readers from the ultrasecret National Reconnaissance Office to the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle, and back again to the hallways of power inside the West Wing. Heralded for masterfully intermingling science, history, and politics in his critically acclaimed, blockbuster thrillers *Angels &amp; Demons* and *The Da Vinci Code,* Brown has crafted a novel in which nothing is as it seems -- and behind every corner is a stunning surprise. *Deception Point* is pulse-pounding fiction at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14903');
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(14294, 'Deception Point', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Da Vinci Code* comes an explosive, high-tech thriller that takes readers from the chilling depths of the Arctic Ocean to the treacherous heights of Washington power. When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all. In *Deception Point,* bestselling author Dan Brown transports readers from the ultrasecret National Reconnaissance Office to the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle, and back again to the hallways of power inside the West Wing. Heralded for masterfully intermingling science, history, and politics in his critically acclaimed, blockbuster thrillers *Angels &amp; Demons* and *The Da Vinci Code,* Brown has crafted a novel in which nothing is as it seems -- and behind every corner is a stunning surprise. *Deception Point* is pulse-pounding fiction at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17527'),
(14295, 'Deception Point', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Da Vinci Code* comes an explosive, high-tech thriller that takes readers from the chilling depths of the Arctic Ocean to the treacherous heights of Washington power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Deception Point,* bestselling author Dan Brown transports readers from the ultrasecret National Reconnaissance Office to the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle, and back again to the hallways of power inside the West Wing. Heralded for masterfully intermingling science, history, and politics in his critically acclaimed, blockbuster thrillers *Angels &amp; Demons* and *The Da Vinci Code,* Brown has crafted a novel in which nothing is as it seems -- and behind every corner is a stunning surprise. *Deception Point* is pulse-pounding fiction at its best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27200'),
(14296, 'Decider', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGripping.â€\n <br />\n â€”_New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of his best.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Philadelphia Inquirer_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A smash hit novel now in tradeâ€”from â€œa rare and magical talentâ€¦ who never writes the same story twice.â€(_San Diego Union-Tribune_)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Decider\n </em>\n , inheriting a small share in a successful racetrack means trouble for architect Lee Morris, especially when he finds himself in the middle of a family feudâ€”and the target of a ruthless killerâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6017'),
(14297, 'Decider', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGripping.â€\n <br />\n â€”_New York Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of his best.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Philadelphia Inquirer_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A smash hit novel now in tradeâ€”from â€œa rare and magical talentâ€¦ who never writes the same story twice.â€(_San Diego Union-Tribune_)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Decider\n </em>\n , inheriting a small share in a successful racetrack means trouble for architect Lee Morris, especially when he finds himself in the middle of a family feudâ€”and the target of a ruthless killerâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9766'),
(14298, 'Decision at Doona', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After the first human contact with the Siwannese ended in a mass suicide, the Terran government made a law that no further contact with sentient aliens would be allowed. But since their own planet was overcrowed, they looked to colonize Doona--until they found the Hrubbans. Their choice was simple but dangerous. They could kill the cat-like Hrubbans, or for the first time in history, learn to to coexist with an alien race....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15712'),
(14299, 'Decision Points', 'George W. Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.\n</p>\n<p>\n George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we live._\n</p>\n<p>\n Decision Points_ brings readers inside the Texas governor''s mansion on the night of the 2000 election, aboard Air Force One during the harrowing hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, into the Situation Room moments before the start of the war in Iraq, and behind the scenes at the White House for many other historic presidential decisions.\n</p>\n<p>\n For the first time, we learn President Bush''s perspective and insights on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  His decision to quit drinking and the journey that led him to his Christian faith\n </li>\n <li>\n  The selection of the vice president, secretary of defense, secretary of state, Supreme Court justices, and other key officials\n </li>\n <li>\n  His relationships with his wife, daughters, and parents, including heartfelt letters between the president and his father on the eve of the Iraq War\n </li>\n <li>\n  His administration''s counterterrorism programs, including the CIA''s enhanced interrogations and the Terrorist Surveillance Program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the worst moment of the presidency was hearing accusations that race played a role in the federal governmentâ€™s response to Hurricane Katrina, and a critical assessment of what he would have done differently during the crisis\n </li>\n <li>\n  His deep concern that Iraq could turn into a defeat costlier than Vietnam, and how he decided to defy public opinion by ordering the troop surge\n </li>\n <li>\n  His legislative achievements, including tax cuts and reforming education and Medicare, as well as his setbacks, including Social Security and immigration reform\n </li>\n <li>\n  The relationships he forged with other world leaders, including an honest assessment of those he did and didnâ€™t trust\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the failure to bring Osama bin Laden to justice ranks as his biggest disappointment and why his success in denying the terrorists their fondest wishâ€”attacking America againâ€”is among his proudest achievements\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A groundbreaking new brand of presidential memoir,\n <em>\n  Decision Points\n </em>\n will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on eight remarkable years in American historyâ€”and on the man at the center of events.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since leaving office, President George W. Bush has led the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The center includes an active policy institute working to advance initiatives in the fields of education reform, global health, economic growth, and human freedom, with a special emphasis on promoting social entrepreneurship and creating opportunities for women around the world. It will also house an official government archive and a state-of-the-art museum that will open in 2013.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5435'),
(14300, 'Decision Points', 'George W. Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.\n</p>\n<p>\n George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we live._\n</p>\n<p>\n Decision Points_ brings readers inside the Texas governor''s mansion on the night of the 2000 election, aboard Air Force One during the harrowing hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, into the Situation Room moments before the start of the war in Iraq, and behind the scenes at the White House for many other historic presidential decisions.\n</p>\n<p>\n For the first time, we learn President Bush''s perspective and insights on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  His decision to quit drinking and the journey that led him to his Christian faith\n </li>\n <li>\n  The selection of the vice president, secretary of defense, secretary of state, Supreme Court justices, and other key officials\n </li>\n <li>\n  His relationships with his wife, daughters, and parents, including heartfelt letters between the president and his father on the eve of the Iraq War\n </li>\n <li>\n  His administration''s counterterrorism programs, including the CIA''s enhanced interrogations and the Terrorist Surveillance Program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the worst moment of the presidency was hearing accusations that race played a role in the federal governmentâ€™s response to Hurricane Katrina, and a critical assessment of what he would have done differently during the crisis\n </li>\n <li>\n  His deep concern that Iraq could turn into a defeat costlier than Vietnam, and how he decided to defy public opinion by ordering the troop surge\n </li>\n <li>\n  His legislative achievements, including tax cuts and reforming education and Medicare, as well as his setbacks, including Social Security and immigration reform\n </li>\n <li>\n  The relationships he forged with other world leaders, including an honest assessment of those he did and didnâ€™t trust\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the failure to bring Osama bin Laden to justice ranks as his biggest disappointment and why his success in denying the terrorists their fondest wishâ€”attacking America againâ€”is among his proudest achievements\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A groundbreaking new brand of presidential memoir,\n <em>\n  Decision Points\n </em>\n will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on eight remarkable years in American historyâ€”and on the man at the center of events.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since leaving office, President George W. Bush has led the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The center includes an active policy institute working to advance initiatives in the fields of education reform, global health, economic growth, and human freedom, with a special emphasis on promoting social entrepreneurship and creating opportunities for women around the world. It will also house an official government archive and a state-of-the-art museum that will open in 2013.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8751'),
(14301, 'Decision Points', 'George W. Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14979'),
(14302, 'Decision Points', 'George W. Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.\n</p>\n<p>\n George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we live._\n</p>\n<p>\n Decision Points_ brings readers inside the Texas governor''s mansion on the night of the 2000 election, aboard Air Force One during the harrowing hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, into the Situation Room moments before the start of the war in Iraq, and behind the scenes at the White House for many other historic presidential decisions.\n</p>\n<p>\n For the first time, we learn President Bush''s perspective and insights on:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  His decision to quit drinking and the journey that led him to his Christian faith\n </li>\n <li>\n  The selection of the vice president, secretary of defense, secretary of state, Supreme Court justices, and other key officials\n </li>\n <li>\n  His relationships with his wife, daughters, and parents, including heartfelt letters between the president and his father on the eve of the Iraq War\n </li>\n <li>\n  His administration''s counterterrorism programs, including the CIA''s enhanced interrogations and the Terrorist Surveillance Program\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the worst moment of the presidency was hearing accusations that race played a role in the federal governmentâ€™s response to Hurricane Katrina, and a critical assessment of what he would have done differently during the crisis\n </li>\n <li>\n  His deep concern that Iraq could turn into a defeat costlier than Vietnam, and how he decided to defy public opinion by ordering the troop surge\n </li>\n <li>\n  His legislative achievements, including tax cuts and reforming education and Medicare, as well as his setbacks, including Social Security and immigration reform\n </li>\n <li>\n  The relationships he forged with other world leaders, including an honest assessment of those he did and didnâ€™t trust\n </li>\n <li>\n  Why the failure to bring Osama bin Laden to justice ranks as his biggest disappointment and why his success in denying the terrorists their fondest wishâ€”attacking America againâ€”is among his proudest achievements\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n A groundbreaking new brand of presidential memoir,\n <em>\n  Decision Points\n </em>\n will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on eight remarkable years in American historyâ€”and on the man at the center of events.\n</p>\n<p>\n Since leaving office, President George W. Bush has led the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The center includes an active policy institute working to advance initiatives in the fields of education reform, global health, economic growth, and human freedom, with a special emphasis on promoting social entrepreneurship and creating opportunities for women around the world. It will also house an official government archive and a state-of-the-art museum that will open in 2013.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19227'),
(14303, 'Decision Points', 'George W. Bush', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27980'),
(14304, 'Declaration of Independence', 'Jefferson, Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, announcing that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were no longer a part of the British Empire. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. The birthday of the United States of Americaâ€”Independence Dayâ€”is celebrated on July 4, the day the wording of the Declaration was approved by Congress.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22907'),
(14305, 'Declare', 'Tim Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This supernatural suspense thriller crosses several genres--espionage, geopolitics, religion, fantasy. But like the chicken crossing the road, it takes quite a while to get to the other side. En route, Tim Powers covers a lot of territory: Turkey, Armenia, the Saudi Arabian desert, Beirut, London, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow. Andrew Hale, an Oxford lecturer who first entered Her Majesty''s Secret Intelligence Service as an 18-year-old schoolboy, is called back to finish a job that culminated in a deadly mission on Mount Ararat after the end of World War II. Now it''s 1963, and cold war politics are behind the decision to activate Hale for another attempt to complete Operation Declare and bring down the Communist government before Moscow can harness the powerful, other-worldly forces concentrated on the summit of the mountain, supposed site of the landing of Noah''s ark. James Theodora is the Ã¼ber-spymaster whose internecine rivalry with other branches of the Secret Intelligence Service traps Hale between a rock and a hard place, literally and figuratively. There''s plenty of mountain and desert survival stuff here, a plethora of geopolitical and theological history, and a big serving of\n <em>\n  A Thousand and One Nights\n </em>\n , which is Hale''s guide to the meteorites, drogue stones, and\n <em>\n  amonon\n </em>\n plant, which figure in this complicated tale. There''s a love story, too, and a bizarre twist on the Kim Philby legend that posits both Philby and Hale as the only humans who can tame the powers of the djinns who populate Mount Ararat.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is an easy book to get lost in, and Powers''s many fans will have a field day with it. The rest of us may have a harder time.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Powers (The Anubis Gates, etc.), known hitherto as an expert fantasy writer, has created a mind-bending mix of genres here, placing his gifts for extreme speculative fiction in service of a fantastical spy story involving rivalries between no fewer than four intelligence services: British, French, Russian and American. In 1963, Andrew Hale is summoned to reenter the secret service. He has a past embracing anti-Nazi activities in Occupied ParisAwhere he fell in love with Elena, a Spanish-born Communist operativeAand a spectacularly unsuccessful mission on Mount Ararat in 1948, the purpose of which only gradually becomes clear. Powers posits that the mountain, as the speculative last home of Noah''s Ark, is also the dwelling place of many djinns, supernatural beings that often take the form of rocks in the Arabian deserts. The father of British spy Kim Philby, a noted Arabist, had been a keen observer of these phenomena and taught his son about them. Now it seems that a supernatural power, manifesting itself as an old woman, is safeguarding the Soviet Union, and if fragments of a destroyed djinn can be introduced into Moscow, they could destroy her protection and make the Soviet Union susceptible to normal human laws. This is Hale''s mission. In 1948 it failed, and most of his commando force was destroyed. On his return 15 years later, with Philby, Hale succeeds in shooting fragments of djinn into Philby, who then returns to Moscow. Upon Philby''s death many years later, the Soviet Union duly collapses. The styles of spy fiction, with dense counterplotting and extremes of caution, and the spectacular supernatural scenes simply do not blend. It''s all offbeat and daringly imaginative, but ultimately rather foolish entertainment. (Jan. 9) Forecast: This original novel, despite its strengths, is unlikely to satisfy fully fans of either spycraft or fantasyAand such is the pitfall of genre-bending. A 6-city author tour plus vigorous promotion online and off could give the book some turbo power, though.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/566'),
(14306, 'Declare', 'Tim Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This supernatural suspense thriller crosses several genres--espionage, geopolitics, religion, fantasy. But like the chicken crossing the road, it takes quite a while to get to the other side. En route, Tim Powers covers a lot of territory: Turkey, Armenia, the Saudi Arabian desert, Beirut, London, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow. Andrew Hale, an Oxford lecturer who first entered Her Majesty''s Secret Intelligence Service as an 18-year-old schoolboy, is called back to finish a job that culminated in a deadly mission on Mount Ararat after the end of World War II. Now it''s 1963, and cold war politics are behind the decision to activate Hale for another attempt to complete Operation Declare and bring down the Communist government before Moscow can harness the powerful, other-worldly forces concentrated on the summit of the mountain, supposed site of the landing of Noah''s ark. James Theodora is the Ã¼ber-spymaster whose internecine rivalry with other branches of the Secret Intelligence Service traps Hale between a rock and a hard place, literally and figuratively. There''s plenty of mountain and desert survival stuff here, a plethora of geopolitical and theological history, and a big serving of\n <em>\n  A Thousand and One Nights\n </em>\n , which is Hale''s guide to the meteorites, drogue stones, and\n <em>\n  amonon\n </em>\n plant, which figure in this complicated tale. There''s a love story, too, and a bizarre twist on the Kim Philby legend that posits both Philby and Hale as the only humans who can tame the powers of the djinns who populate Mount Ararat.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is an easy book to get lost in, and Powers''s many fans will have a field day with it. The rest of us may have a harder time.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Powers (The Anubis Gates, etc.), known hitherto as an expert fantasy writer, has created a mind-bending mix of genres here, placing his gifts for extreme speculative fiction in service of a fantastical spy story involving rivalries between no fewer than four intelligence services: British, French, Russian and American. In 1963, Andrew Hale is summoned to reenter the secret service. He has a past embracing anti-Nazi activities in Occupied ParisAwhere he fell in love with Elena, a Spanish-born Communist operativeAand a spectacularly unsuccessful mission on Mount Ararat in 1948, the purpose of which only gradually becomes clear. Powers posits that the mountain, as the speculative last home of Noah''s Ark, is also the dwelling place of many djinns, supernatural beings that often take the form of rocks in the Arabian deserts. The father of British spy Kim Philby, a noted Arabist, had been a keen observer of these phenomena and taught his son about them. Now it seems that a supernatural power, manifesting itself as an old woman, is safeguarding the Soviet Union, and if fragments of a destroyed djinn can be introduced into Moscow, they could destroy her protection and make the Soviet Union susceptible to normal human laws. This is Hale''s mission. In 1948 it failed, and most of his commando force was destroyed. On his return 15 years later, with Philby, Hale succeeds in shooting fragments of djinn into Philby, who then returns to Moscow. Upon Philby''s death many years later, the Soviet Union duly collapses. The styles of spy fiction, with dense counterplotting and extremes of caution, and the spectacular supernatural scenes simply do not blend. It''s all offbeat and daringly imaginative, but ultimately rather foolish entertainment. (Jan. 9) Forecast: This original novel, despite its strengths, is unlikely to satisfy fully fans of either spycraft or fantasyAand such is the pitfall of genre-bending. A 6-city author tour plus vigorous promotion online and off could give the book some turbo power, though.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12082'),
(14307, 'Declare', 'Tim Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This supernatural suspense thriller crosses several genres--espionage, geopolitics, religion, fantasy. But like the chicken crossing the road, it takes quite a while to get to the other side. En route, Tim Powers covers a lot of territory: Turkey, Armenia, the Saudi Arabian desert, Beirut, London, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow. Andrew Hale, an Oxford lecturer who first entered Her Majesty''s Secret Intelligence Service as an 18-year-old schoolboy, is called back to finish a job that culminated in a deadly mission on Mount Ararat after the end of World War II. Now it''s 1963, and cold war politics are behind the decision to activate Hale for another attempt to complete Operation Declare and bring down the Communist government before Moscow can harness the powerful, other-worldly forces concentrated on the summit of the mountain, supposed site of the landing of Noah''s ark. James Theodora is the Ã¼ber-spymaster whose internecine rivalry with other branches of the Secret Intelligence Service traps Hale between a rock and a hard place, literally and figuratively. There''s plenty of mountain and desert survival stuff here, a plethora of geopolitical and theological history, and a big serving of\n <em>\n  A Thousand and One Nights\n </em>\n , which is Hale''s guide to the meteorites, drogue stones, and\n <em>\n  amonon\n </em>\n plant, which figure in this complicated tale. There''s a love story, too, and a bizarre twist on the Kim Philby legend that posits both Philby and Hale as the only humans who can tame the powers of the djinns who populate Mount Ararat.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is an easy book to get lost in, and Powers''s many fans will have a field day with it. The rest of us may have a harder time.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Powers (The Anubis Gates, etc.), known hitherto as an expert fantasy writer, has created a mind-bending mix of genres here, placing his gifts for extreme speculative fiction in service of a fantastical spy story involving rivalries between no fewer than four intelligence services: British, French, Russian and American. In 1963, Andrew Hale is summoned to reenter the secret service. He has a past embracing anti-Nazi activities in Occupied ParisAwhere he fell in love with Elena, a Spanish-born Communist operativeAand a spectacularly unsuccessful mission on Mount Ararat in 1948, the purpose of which only gradually becomes clear. Powers posits that the mountain, as the speculative last home of Noah''s Ark, is also the dwelling place of many djinns, supernatural beings that often take the form of rocks in the Arabian deserts. The father of British spy Kim Philby, a noted Arabist, had been a keen observer of these phenomena and taught his son about them. Now it seems that a supernatural power, manifesting itself as an old woman, is safeguarding the Soviet Union, and if fragments of a destroyed djinn can be introduced into Moscow, they could destroy her protection and make the Soviet Union susceptible to normal human laws. This is Hale''s mission. In 1948 it failed, and most of his commando force was destroyed. On his return 15 years later, with Philby, Hale succeeds in shooting fragments of djinn into Philby, who then returns to Moscow. Upon Philby''s death many years later, the Soviet Union duly collapses. The styles of spy fiction, with dense counterplotting and extremes of caution, and the spectacular supernatural scenes simply do not blend. It''s all offbeat and daringly imaginative, but ultimately rather foolish entertainment. (Jan. 9) Forecast: This original novel, despite its strengths, is unlikely to satisfy fully fans of either spycraft or fantasyAand such is the pitfall of genre-bending. A 6-city author tour plus vigorous promotion online and off could give the book some turbo power, though.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24308'),
(14308, 'The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997', 'Piers Brendon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21498'),
(14309, 'The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997', 'Piers Brendon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The title, taken from Gibbonâ€™s immortal work on imperial Rome, was chosen since British imperialists consciously compared their empire to the Roman imperium. Despite theÂ title, this is no dreary tale of imperial decay and collapse. Instead, Brendon, a fellow atÂ Churchill College, Cambridge,Â has written a colorful and often brilliant examination of the imperial experience from the American Revolution to the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty. He combines the genres of narrative history, travelogue, and biographical sketch to capture the richness, majesty, squalor, and injustice that created and maintained a vast edifice that has left an indelible imprint on the contemporary world. The narrative ranges across imperial settings in a successful effort to illustrate how both ordinary and extraordinary people lived, thrived, and often suffered under the British flag. Of course, decline and ultimate fall is part of the story. As a liberal empire based (in spirit if not always in practice) on the ideals of political liberty and even equality, it was an empire that contained the seeds of its own destruction, as citizens from America to India took those ideals to heart. The breadth, diversity, greatness, and failures of the British Empire have rarely been portrayed as well. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œSplendid . . . Graphically narrated . . . [Brendonâ€™s] book is history with the nasty bits left in . . . Provides a cautionary text for a new administration that will inherit autocratic allies, penal colonies, reliance on coercive power, and pervasive cynicism about Americaâ€™s declared global arms.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Karl E. Meyer, _Washington Post Book World\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œComplex . . . Lucid . . . Every page is consistently readable and stimulating.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Geoffrey Wheatcroft, _The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œThe author is such a lively writer that Iâ€™d be hard pressed to find dull patches in this whooper of a book . . . Brendonâ€™s narrative is wonderfully stocked with generals, politicians, rugged adventurers, consuls, eccentrics, administrators, and famous imperial hands.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Matthew Price,\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA richly detailed, lucid account of how the British Empire grew and grewâ€“and then, not quite inexorably, fell apart.â€\n  <br />\n  --_Kirkus\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "A book of enormous range and complexity and leavened with a splendid sense of wit and irony. It takes courage to emulate the great Gibbon, but Brendon succeeds magnificently. And while there may be many books on the British Empire, this is undoubtedly the most entertaining and the best."\n  <br />\n  --Dominic Sandbrook, _The Evening Standard\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "A masterpiece of a historical narrative. No review can hope to do justice to the depth of Brendon''s research, the balance and originality of his conclusions, or the quality and humor of his prose. Our imperial story has been crying out for a top-flight historian who can write. Now it has one."\n  <br />\n  --Saul David,\n  <em>\n   Literary Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Brilliant . . . An enthralling mini-series of colonial adventure . . . [Brendon''s] book is stuffed with a myriad spectacular examples of human vanity, folly, depravity and greed--and is all the better for it."\n  <br />\n  --Robert McCrum,\n  <em>\n   The Observer\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] sumptuous chronicle of the British empire. . . . A compelling and spectacularly detailed retelling of imperial "rise" as well as fall . . . A glittering panoply of decadence, folly, farce and devastation."\n  <br />\n  --Maya Jasanoff,\n  <em>\n   Saturday Guardian\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A narrative masterpiece. The settings are exotic, the cast of thousands full of the most eccentric, egotistical, paranoid, swashbuckling players you are likely to meet in any history.... An endlessly engrossing and disturbing stream of anecdotes and vignettes that Brendon tells with extraordinary flair and sympathy, warts and all." --Richard Overy,\n  <em>\n   Sunday Telegraph\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2058'),
(14310, 'The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997', 'Piers Brendon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The title, taken from Gibbonâ€™s immortal work on imperial Rome, was chosen since British imperialists consciously compared their empire to the Roman imperium. Despite theÂ title, this is no dreary tale of imperial decay and collapse. Instead, Brendon, a fellow atÂ Churchill College, Cambridge,Â has written a colorful and often brilliant examination of the imperial experience from the American Revolution to the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty. He combines the genres of narrative history, travelogue, and biographical sketch to capture the richness, majesty, squalor, and injustice that created and maintained a vast edifice that has left an indelible imprint on the contemporary world. The narrative ranges across imperial settings in a successful effort to illustrate how both ordinary and extraordinary people lived, thrived, and often suffered under the British flag. Of course, decline and ultimate fall is part of the story. As a liberal empire based (in spirit if not always in practice) on the ideals of political liberty and even equality, it was an empire that contained the seeds of its own destruction, as citizens from America to India took those ideals to heart. The breadth, diversity, greatness, and failures of the British Empire have rarely been portrayed as well. --Jay Freeman\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œSplendid . . . Graphically narrated . . . [Brendonâ€™s] book is history with the nasty bits left in . . . Provides a cautionary text for a new administration that will inherit autocratic allies, penal colonies, reliance on coercive power, and pervasive cynicism about Americaâ€™s declared global arms.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Karl E. Meyer, _Washington Post Book World\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œComplex . . . Lucid . . . Every page is consistently readable and stimulating.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Geoffrey Wheatcroft, _The New York Times Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œThe author is such a lively writer that Iâ€™d be hard pressed to find dull patches in this whooper of a book . . . Brendonâ€™s narrative is wonderfully stocked with generals, politicians, rugged adventurers, consuls, eccentrics, administrators, and famous imperial hands.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Matthew Price,\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA richly detailed, lucid account of how the British Empire grew and grewâ€“and then, not quite inexorably, fell apart.â€\n  <br />\n  --_Kirkus\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "A book of enormous range and complexity and leavened with a splendid sense of wit and irony. It takes courage to emulate the great Gibbon, but Brendon succeeds magnificently. And while there may be many books on the British Empire, this is undoubtedly the most entertaining and the best."\n  <br />\n  --Dominic Sandbrook, _The Evening Standard\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  "A masterpiece of a historical narrative. No review can hope to do justice to the depth of Brendon''s research, the balance and originality of his conclusions, or the quality and humor of his prose. Our imperial story has been crying out for a top-flight historian who can write. Now it has one."\n  <br />\n  --Saul David,\n  <em>\n   Literary Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Brilliant . . . An enthralling mini-series of colonial adventure . . . [Brendon''s] book is stuffed with a myriad spectacular examples of human vanity, folly, depravity and greed--and is all the better for it."\n  <br />\n  --Robert McCrum,\n  <em>\n   The Observer\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[A] sumptuous chronicle of the British empire. . . . A compelling and spectacularly detailed retelling of imperial "rise" as well as fall . . . A glittering panoply of decadence, folly, farce and devastation."\n  <br />\n  --Maya Jasanoff,\n  <em>\n   Saturday Guardian\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A narrative masterpiece. The settings are exotic, the cast of thousands full of the most eccentric, egotistical, paranoid, swashbuckling players you are likely to meet in any history.... An endlessly engrossing and disturbing stream of anecdotes and vignettes that Brendon tells with extraordinary flair and sympathy, warts and all." --Richard Overy,\n  <em>\n   Sunday Telegraph\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8594'),
(14311, 'Decoded', 'Jay-Z', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is many things at once. At its core,\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is an eloquent and candid memoir detailing the story of a man who was born in a Brooklyn housing project, spent his teen years dealing drugs on the streets of Trenton, New Jersey, and grew up to be one of his generationâ€™s most successful artists and businessmen. But\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is much more than a memoir: it is an intensely personal homage to hip-hop, as written by a man who so clearly adores the art form; it is a rare glimpse of the unexpectedly deep meanings behind the most recognizable rap lyrics of the last decade; and it is a truly moving collection of essays on topics ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the decline of the music industry. Unconventional type design, line drawings, and photographs visually emphasize the authorâ€™s message that rap is a form that transcends and defies easy categorization. Thereâ€™s not much in the way of celebrity gossip here, but what we get, instead, is a gritty and enormously compelling look inside the cultural phenomenon of rap, from one of the men who contributed so much to its shape.\n <em>\n  --Juliet Disparte\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jay-Z on\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When you''re famous and say you''re writing a book, people assume that it''s an autobiography--I was born here, raised there, suffered this, loved that, lost it all, got it back, the end. But that''s not what this is. I''ve never been a linear thinker, which is something you can see in my rhymes. They follow the jumpy logic of poetry and emotion, not the straight line of careful prose. My book is like that, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is first and foremost, a book of rhymes, which is ironic because I don''t actually write my rhymes--they come to me in my head and I record them. The book is packed with the stories from my life that are the foundation of my lyrics--stories about coming up in the streets of Brooklyn in the 80''s and 90''s, stories about becoming an artist and entrepreneur and discovering worlds that I never dreamed existed when I was a kid. But it always comes back to the rhymes. There''s poetry in hip-hop lyrics--not just mine, but in the work of all the great hip-hop artists, from KRS-One and Rakim to Biggie and Pac to a hundred emcees on a hundred corners all over the world that you''ve never heard of. The magic of rap is in the way it can take the most specific experience, from individual lives in unlikely places, and turn them into art that can be embraced by the whole world.\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book about one of those specific lives--mine--and will show you how the things I''ve experienced and observed have made their way into the art I''ve created. It''s also about how my work is sometimes not about my life at all, but about pushing the boundaries of what I can express through the poetry of rap--trying to use words to find fresh angles into emotions that we all share, which is the hidden mission in even the hardest hip-hop.\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book about some of my favorite songs--songs that I unpack and explain and surround with narratives about what inspired them--but behind the rhymes is the truest story of my life.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4590'),
(14312, 'Decoded', 'Jay-Z', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is many things at once. At its core,\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is an eloquent and candid memoir detailing the story of a man who was born in a Brooklyn housing project, spent his teen years dealing drugs on the streets of Trenton, New Jersey, and grew up to be one of his generationâ€™s most successful artists and businessmen. But\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is much more than a memoir: it is an intensely personal homage to hip-hop, as written by a man who so clearly adores the art form; it is a rare glimpse of the unexpectedly deep meanings behind the most recognizable rap lyrics of the last decade; and it is a truly moving collection of essays on topics ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the decline of the music industry. Unconventional type design, line drawings, and photographs visually emphasize the authorâ€™s message that rap is a form that transcends and defies easy categorization. Thereâ€™s not much in the way of celebrity gossip here, but what we get, instead, is a gritty and enormously compelling look inside the cultural phenomenon of rap, from one of the men who contributed so much to its shape.\n <em>\n  --Juliet Disparte\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jay-Z on\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When you''re famous and say you''re writing a book, people assume that it''s an autobiography--I was born here, raised there, suffered this, loved that, lost it all, got it back, the end. But that''s not what this is. I''ve never been a linear thinker, which is something you can see in my rhymes. They follow the jumpy logic of poetry and emotion, not the straight line of careful prose. My book is like that, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is first and foremost, a book of rhymes, which is ironic because I don''t actually write my rhymes--they come to me in my head and I record them. The book is packed with the stories from my life that are the foundation of my lyrics--stories about coming up in the streets of Brooklyn in the 80''s and 90''s, stories about becoming an artist and entrepreneur and discovering worlds that I never dreamed existed when I was a kid. But it always comes back to the rhymes. There''s poetry in hip-hop lyrics--not just mine, but in the work of all the great hip-hop artists, from KRS-One and Rakim to Biggie and Pac to a hundred emcees on a hundred corners all over the world that you''ve never heard of. The magic of rap is in the way it can take the most specific experience, from individual lives in unlikely places, and turn them into art that can be embraced by the whole world.\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book about one of those specific lives--mine--and will show you how the things I''ve experienced and observed have made their way into the art I''ve created. It''s also about how my work is sometimes not about my life at all, but about pushing the boundaries of what I can express through the poetry of rap--trying to use words to find fresh angles into emotions that we all share, which is the hidden mission in even the hardest hip-hop.\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book about some of my favorite songs--songs that I unpack and explain and surround with narratives about what inspired them--but behind the rhymes is the truest story of my life.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10556');
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(14313, 'Decoded', 'Jay-Z', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is many things at once. At its core,\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is an eloquent and candid memoir detailing the story of a man who was born in a Brooklyn housing project, spent his teen years dealing drugs on the streets of Trenton, New Jersey, and grew up to be one of his generationâ€™s most successful artists and businessmen. But\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is much more than a memoir: it is an intensely personal homage to hip-hop, as written by a man who so clearly adores the art form; it is a rare glimpse of the unexpectedly deep meanings behind the most recognizable rap lyrics of the last decade; and it is a truly moving collection of essays on topics ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the decline of the music industry. Unconventional type design, line drawings, and photographs visually emphasize the authorâ€™s message that rap is a form that transcends and defies easy categorization. Thereâ€™s not much in the way of celebrity gossip here, but what we get, instead, is a gritty and enormously compelling look inside the cultural phenomenon of rap, from one of the men who contributed so much to its shape.\n <em>\n  --Juliet Disparte\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jay-Z on\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When you''re famous and say you''re writing a book, people assume that it''s an autobiography--I was born here, raised there, suffered this, loved that, lost it all, got it back, the end. But that''s not what this is. I''ve never been a linear thinker, which is something you can see in my rhymes. They follow the jumpy logic of poetry and emotion, not the straight line of careful prose. My book is like that, too.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is first and foremost, a book of rhymes, which is ironic because I don''t actually write my rhymes--they come to me in my head and I record them. The book is packed with the stories from my life that are the foundation of my lyrics--stories about coming up in the streets of Brooklyn in the 80''s and 90''s, stories about becoming an artist and entrepreneur and discovering worlds that I never dreamed existed when I was a kid. But it always comes back to the rhymes. There''s poetry in hip-hop lyrics--not just mine, but in the work of all the great hip-hop artists, from KRS-One and Rakim to Biggie and Pac to a hundred emcees on a hundred corners all over the world that you''ve never heard of. The magic of rap is in the way it can take the most specific experience, from individual lives in unlikely places, and turn them into art that can be embraced by the whole world.\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book about one of those specific lives--mine--and will show you how the things I''ve experienced and observed have made their way into the art I''ve created. It''s also about how my work is sometimes not about my life at all, but about pushing the boundaries of what I can express through the poetry of rap--trying to use words to find fresh angles into emotions that we all share, which is the hidden mission in even the hardest hip-hop.\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book about some of my favorite songs--songs that I unpack and explain and surround with narratives about what inspired them--but behind the rhymes is the truest story of my life.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Book Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Decoded\n </em>\n is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19992'),
(14314, 'Decoded (Enhanced Edition)', 'Jay-Z', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14176'),
(14315, 'Dedication', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18173'),
(14316, 'The Deeds of the Disturber', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Can fear kill? There are those who believe so--but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria''s England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy''s curse that caused the death of a night watchman in the British Museum. The corpse was found sprawled in the mummy''s shadow, a look of terror frozen on the guard''s face. What--or who--killed the unfortunate man is a mystery that seems too intriguingly delicious for Amelia to pass up, especially now that she, her dashing archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their precocious son, Ramses, are back on Britain''s shores. But a contemporary curse can be as lethal as one centuries old--and the foggy London thoroughfares can be as treacherous as the narrow, twisting alleyways of Cairo after dark--when a perpetrator of evil deeds sets his murderous sights on his relentless pursuer...Amelia Peabody! Can fear kill? There are those who believe so--but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria''s England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy''s curse that caused the death of a night watchman in the British Museum. The corpse was found sprawled in the mummy''s shadow, a look of terror frozen on the guard''s face. What--or who--killed the unfortunate man is a mystery that seems too intriguingly delicious for Amelia to pass up, especially now that she, her dashing archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their precocious son, Ramses, are back on Britain''s shores. But a contemporary curse can be as lethal as one centuries old--and the foggy London thoroughfares can be as treacherous as the narrow, twisting alleyways of Cairo after dark--when a perpetrator of evil deeds sets his murderous sights on his relentless pursuer...Amelia Peabody!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5736'),
(14317, 'The Deeds of the Disturber', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Can fear kill? There are those who believe so--but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria''s England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy''s curse that caused the death of a night watchman in the British Museum. The corpse was found sprawled in the mummy''s shadow, a look of terror frozen on the guard''s face. What--or who--killed the unfortunate man is a mystery that seems too intriguingly delicious for Amelia to pass up, especially now that she, her dashing archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their precocious son, Ramses, are back on Britain''s shores. But a contemporary curse can be as lethal as one centuries old--and the foggy London thoroughfares can be as treacherous as the narrow, twisting alleyways of Cairo after dark--when a perpetrator of evil deeds sets his murderous sights on his relentless pursuer...Amelia Peabody! Can fear kill? There are those who believe so--but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria''s England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy''s curse that caused the death of a night watchman in the British Museum. The corpse was found sprawled in the mummy''s shadow, a look of terror frozen on the guard''s face. What--or who--killed the unfortunate man is a mystery that seems too intriguingly delicious for Amelia to pass up, especially now that she, her dashing archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their precocious son, Ramses, are back on Britain''s shores. But a contemporary curse can be as lethal as one centuries old--and the foggy London thoroughfares can be as treacherous as the narrow, twisting alleyways of Cairo after dark--when a perpetrator of evil deeds sets his murderous sights on his relentless pursuer...Amelia Peabody!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18939'),
(14318, 'The Deeds of the Disturber', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Can fear kill? There are those who believe so--but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria''s England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy''s curse that caused the death of a night watchman in the British Museum. The corpse was found sprawled in the mummy''s shadow, a look of terror frozen on the guard''s face. What--or who--killed the unfortunate man is a mystery that seems too intriguingly delicious for Amelia to pass up, especially now that she, her dashing archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their precocious son, Ramses, are back on Britain''s shores. But a contemporary curse can be as lethal as one centuries old--and the foggy London thoroughfares can be as treacherous as the narrow, twisting alleyways of Cairo after dark--when a perpetrator of evil deeds sets his murderous sights on his relentless pursuer...Amelia Peabody! Can fear kill? There are those who believe so--but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria''s England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy''s curse that caused the death of a night watchman in the British Museum. The corpse was found sprawled in the mummy''s shadow, a look of terror frozen on the guard''s face. What--or who--killed the unfortunate man is a mystery that seems too intriguingly delicious for Amelia to pass up, especially now that she, her dashing archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their precocious son, Ramses, are back on Britain''s shores. But a contemporary curse can be as lethal as one centuries old--and the foggy London thoroughfares can be as treacherous as the narrow, twisting alleyways of Cairo after dark--when a perpetrator of evil deeds sets his murderous sights on his relentless pursuer...Amelia Peabody!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27719'),
(14319, 'Deep As The Marrow', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the president of the United States decides to back the legalization of marijuana, organized crime decides he must die.  But for them to succeed, he must die without blame on them.  So they are going to make his best friendâ€”his personal physicianâ€”kill him.First, they kidnap the doctorâ€™s daughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18515'),
(14320, 'Deep As The Marrow', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the president of the United States decides to back the legalization of marijuana, organized crime decides he must die.  But for them to succeed, he must die without blame on them.  So they are going to make his best friendâ€”his personal physicianâ€”kill him.First, they kidnap the doctorâ€™s daughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27853'),
(14321, 'Deep Black', 'Stephen Coonts &amp; Jim DeFelice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When the National Security Agency intercepts and decodes an obscure email message indicating a severe threat to the US, the American President considers his options. No Navy task force can solve this problem; it''s too complicated for Delta Force and too delicate for the Marines. A B-2 bomber will only make things worse. What if, he asks the NSA Director, the same technology that made the interception possible could be used as an offensive weapon? What if the NSA turned from crypto-spy to crypto-warrior? Armed with satellites, ships, planes, and an array of sophisticated hardware, the NSA proves as competent at covert action as it is at spying. With members of all services working closely with the agency, there is no place on earth it can''t reach. Success leads to a permanent NSA Group that acts directly for the NSA Director. But the high-wire nature of its missions and the secretive, ego-driven culture of the agency mean disaster always looms nearby...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1155'),
(14322, 'Deep Black', 'Stephen Coonts &amp; Jim DeFelice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When the National Security Agency intercepts and decodes an obscure email message indicating a severe threat to the US, the American President considers his options. No Navy task force can solve this problem; it''s too complicated for Delta Force and too delicate for the Marines. A B-2 bomber will only make things worse. What if, he asks the NSA Director, the same technology that made the interception possible could be used as an offensive weapon? What if the NSA turned from crypto-spy to crypto-warrior? Armed with satellites, ships, planes, and an array of sophisticated hardware, the NSA proves as competent at covert action as it is at spying. With members of all services working closely with the agency, there is no place on earth it can''t reach. Success leads to a permanent NSA Group that acts directly for the NSA Director. But the high-wire nature of its missions and the secretive, ego-driven culture of the agency mean disaster always looms nearby...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9052'),
(14323, 'Deep black', 'Stephen Coonts; Jim DeFelice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When the National Security Agency intercepts and decodes an obscure email message indicating a severe threat to the US, the American President considers his options. No Navy task force can solve this problem; it''s too complicated for Delta Force and too delicate for the Marines. A B-2 bomber will only make things worse. What if, he asks the NSA Director, the same technology that made the interception possible could be used as an offensive weapon? What if the NSA turned from crypto-spy to crypto-warrior? Armed with satellites, ships, planes, and an array of sophisticated hardware, the NSA proves as competent at covert action as it is at spying. With members of all services working closely with the agency, there is no place on earth it can''t reach. Success leads to a permanent NSA Group that acts directly for the NSA Director. But the high-wire nature of its missions and the secretive, ego-driven culture of the agency mean disaster always looms nearby...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23798'),
(14324, 'The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners', 'Luanne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A legendary island steeped in the mystery and wisdom of centuries... A runaway heiress learning to trust life, and love... A mother and daughter, separated for years, searching for a way to face the future together... "New York Times" bestselling author Luanne Rice tells a powerful story of love, family, and friendship through the lives of two women who reunite at a place where dreams begin--and where they may be fulfilled at last.... Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri, slowly, carefully learning to live fully for the first time, flourishing in the friendship of a singular man who recognizes in her a kindred spirit. Granddaughter of the reigning doyenne of Newport, Rhode Island, wise beyond her sixteen years, Pell Davis is poised to take her place at the pinnacle of society. Yet she and her young sister still long for the mother who ran away from them when they were children so that they could be raised by the father they adored. Pell knows that Lyra felt she loved them best by leaving. But with her father now dead and her sister veering dangerously into fantasy, she will travel across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately.... Lyrical, unforgettable, Luanne Rice''s new novel unfolds against a background of timeless beauty, as an unlikely love affair reshapes the meaning of devotion and three generations of women resist the pull of memory and tradition to find a new way forward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3308'),
(14325, 'The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners', 'Luanne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A legendary island steeped in the mystery and wisdom of centuries... A runaway heiress learning to trust life, and love... A mother and daughter, separated for years, searching for a way to face the future together... "New York Times" bestselling author Luanne Rice tells a powerful story of love, family, and friendship through the lives of two women who reunite at a place where dreams begin--and where they may be fulfilled at last.... Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri, slowly, carefully learning to live fully for the first time, flourishing in the friendship of a singular man who recognizes in her a kindred spirit. Granddaughter of the reigning doyenne of Newport, Rhode Island, wise beyond her sixteen years, Pell Davis is poised to take her place at the pinnacle of society. Yet she and her young sister still long for the mother who ran away from them when they were children so that they could be raised by the father they adored. Pell knows that Lyra felt she loved them best by leaving. But with her father now dead and her sister veering dangerously into fantasy, she will travel across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately.... Lyrical, unforgettable, Luanne Rice''s new novel unfolds against a background of timeless beauty, as an unlikely love affair reshapes the meaning of devotion and three generations of women resist the pull of memory and tradition to find a new way forward.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21265'),
(14326, 'Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills', 'Neil Ansell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Neil Ansell spent five years living between the back of beyond and the middle of nowhere, on his own, with no electricity, gas or water and effectively only the wildlife around him for company.\n</p>\n<p>\n His dilapidated cottage, rented for Â£100 per year, is so exposed to the elements that it appears to rain uphill, and so remote that you can walk for twenty miles west without seeing a single other dwelling. As the years pass he feels himself dissolving into, and becoming, just another part of the landscape.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8167'),
(14327, 'The Deep Range', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15653'),
(14328, 'Deep Six', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A ghost ship drifts across the northern Pacific....A Soviet luxury liner burns like a funeral pyre....And the U.S. President''s yacht is heading for disaster....Somewhere off the coast of Alaska, a sunken cargo poses a threat of unthinkable proportions. Potentially, the lost shipment of chemicals could destroy all life in the ocean -- and perhaps the world -- unless DIRK PITTÂ® can find it first. But time is running out for the NUMA agent and his team. Pitt''s main target is just one deadly component of a vast international conspiracy fueled by hijacking, bribery, and murder. And at the center of it all is a powerful Korean shipping empire with a chilling political agenda -- to kidnap the President of the United States....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6708'),
(14329, 'Deep Six', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A ghost ship drifts across the northern Pacific....A Soviet luxury liner burns like a funeral pyre....And the U.S. President''s yacht is heading for disaster....Somewhere off the coast of Alaska, a sunken cargo poses a threat of unthinkable proportions. Potentially, the lost shipment of chemicals could destroy all life in the ocean -- and perhaps the world -- unless DIRK PITTÂ® can find it first. But time is running out for the NUMA agent and his team. Pitt''s main target is just one deadly component of a vast international conspiracy fueled by hijacking, bribery, and murder. And at the center of it all is a powerful Korean shipping empire with a chilling political agenda -- to kidnap the President of the United States....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17347'),
(14330, 'Deep Six', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A ghost ship drifts across the northern Pacific....A Soviet luxury liner burns like a funeral pyre....And the U.S. President''s yacht is heading for disaster....Somewhere off the coast of Alaska, a sunken cargo poses a threat of unthinkable proportions. Potentially, the lost shipment of chemicals could destroy all life in the ocean -- and perhaps the world -- unless DIRK PITTÂ® can find it first. But time is running out for the NUMA agent and his team. Pitt''s main target is just one deadly component of a vast international conspiracy fueled by hijacking, bribery, and murder. And at the center of it all is a powerful Korean shipping empire with a chilling political agenda -- to kidnap the President of the United States....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27012'),
(14331, 'Deeper (Tunnels)', 'Brian Williams &amp; Roderick Gordon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In TUNNELS, boy archaeologist Will Burrows went in search of his missing father--and discovered a sinister subterranean world. Now, wandering the dark, hot bowels beneath the Colony with his best friend, Chester, and his brother, Cal, Will stumbles across the Styx''s dastardly plan to enslave all Topsoilers by poisoning them with a lethal toxin. Slowly he begins to piece together the plot. But how can Will save all those above from annihilation when his own life is at risk down below--and when his killer sister is still at large?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7003'),
(14332, 'Deeper (Tunnels)', 'Brian Williams; Roderick Gordon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In TUNNELS, boy archaeologist Will Burrows went in search of his missing father--and discovered a sinister subterranean world. Now, wandering the dark, hot bowels beneath the Colony with his best friend, Chester, and his brother, Cal, Will stumbles across the Styx''s dastardly plan to enslave all Topsoilers by poisoning them with a lethal toxin. Slowly he begins to piece together the plot. But how can Will save all those above from annihilation when his own life is at risk down below--and when his killer sister is still at large?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16789'),
(14333, 'Deeper (Tunnels)', 'Brian Williams; Roderick Gordon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In TUNNELS, boy archaeologist Will Burrows went in search of his missing father--and discovered a sinister subterranean world. Now, wandering the dark, hot bowels beneath the Colony with his best friend, Chester, and his brother, Cal, Will stumbles across the Styx''s dastardly plan to enslave all Topsoilers by poisoning them with a lethal toxin. Slowly he begins to piece together the plot. But how can Will save all those above from annihilation when his own life is at risk down below--and when his killer sister is still at large?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26721'),
(14334, 'A Deeper Sleep', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The latest entry in the wildly entertaining, award-winning Kate Shugak crime seriesâ€”a gripping page-turner set in Alaskaâ€”from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow â€œA splendid series.â€â€”USA TodayKate Shugak, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named Louis Deem. Deem has been the subject of investigations before, and heâ€™s never been convicted of a crime. But Kate and her on-again, off-again lover, state trooper Jim Chopin, who arrested Deem, are convinced that this time itâ€™s differentâ€”and heâ€™ll finally be punished for his actions. â€œAn engaging plotâ€¦a vivid depiction of the Alaskan wilderness.â€â€”Booklist When the jury returns a verdict of not guilty, Kate, Jim, and citizens of Niniltna, Alaska, believe Deem has gotten away with murder. And when, a few weeks later, two people turn up dead after an apparent robbery, Kate and Jim canâ€™t help but believe that Deem is involvedâ€¦but what it takes to bring Deem to justice could tear them apartâ€”if the real killer doesnâ€™t get to them first.  â€œAll the elements that have made this series successful shine.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The latest entry in the wildly entertaining, award-winning Kate Shugak crime seriesâ€”a gripping page-turner set in Alaskaâ€”from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow â€œA splendid series.â€â€”USA TodayKate Shugak, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named Louis Deem. Deem has been the subject of investigations before, and heâ€™s never been convicted of a crime. But Kate and her on-again, off-again lover, state trooper Jim Chopin, who arrested Deem, are convinced that this time itâ€™s differentâ€”and heâ€™ll finally be punished for his actions. â€œAn engaging plotâ€¦a vivid depiction of the Alaskan wilderness.â€â€”Booklist When the jury returns a verdict of not guilty, Kate, Jim, and citizens of Niniltna, Alaska, believe Deem has gotten away with murder. And when, a few weeks later, two people turn up dead after an apparent robbery, Kate and Jim canâ€™t help but believe that Deem is involvedâ€¦but what it takes to bring Deem to justice could tear them apartâ€”if the real killer doesnâ€™t get to them first.  â€œAll the elements that have made this series successful shine.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6514'),
(14335, 'A deeper sleep', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The latest entry in the wildly entertaining, award-winning Kate Shugak crime seriesâ€”a gripping page-turner set in Alaskaâ€”from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow â€œA splendid series.â€â€”USA TodayKate Shugak, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named Louis Deem. Deem has been the subject of investigations before, and heâ€™s never been convicted of a crime. But Kate and her on-again, off-again lover, state trooper Jim Chopin, who arrested Deem, are convinced that this time itâ€™s differentâ€”and heâ€™ll finally be punished for his actions. â€œAn engaging plotâ€¦a vivid depiction of the Alaskan wilderness.â€â€”Booklist When the jury returns a verdict of not guilty, Kate, Jim, and citizens of Niniltna, Alaska, believe Deem has gotten away with murder. And when, a few weeks later, two people turn up dead after an apparent robbery, Kate and Jim canâ€™t help but believe that Deem is involvedâ€¦but what it takes to bring Deem to justice could tear them apartâ€”if the real killer doesnâ€™t get to them first. â€œAll the elements that have made this series successful shine.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review) SUMMARY: The latest entry in the wildly entertaining, award-winning Kate Shugak crime seriesâ€”a gripping page-turner set in Alaskaâ€”from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow â€œA splendid series.â€â€”USA TodayKate Shugak, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named Louis Deem. Deem has been the subject of investigations before, and heâ€™s never been convicted of a crime. But Kate and her on-again, off-again lover, state trooper Jim Chopin, who arrested Deem, are convinced that this time itâ€™s differentâ€”and heâ€™ll finally be punished for his actions. â€œAn engaging plotâ€¦a vivid depiction of the Alaskan wilderness.â€â€”Booklist When the jury returns a verdict of not guilty, Kate, Jim, and citizens of Niniltna, Alaska, believe Deem has gotten away with murder. And when, a few weeks later, two people turn up dead after an apparent robbery, Kate and Jim canâ€™t help but believe that Deem is involvedâ€¦but what it takes to bring Deem to justice could tear them apartâ€”if the real killer doesnâ€™t get to them first. â€œAll the elements that have made this series successful shine.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17549'),
(14336, 'A deeper sleep', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The latest entry in the wildly entertaining, award-winning Kate Shugak crime seriesâ€”a gripping page-turner set in Alaskaâ€”from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow â€œA splendid series.â€â€”USA TodayKate Shugak, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named Louis Deem. Deem has been the subject of investigations before, and heâ€™s never been convicted of a crime. But Kate and her on-again, off-again lover, state trooper Jim Chopin, who arrested Deem, are convinced that this time itâ€™s differentâ€”and heâ€™ll finally be punished for his actions. â€œAn engaging plotâ€¦a vivid depiction of the Alaskan wilderness.â€â€”Booklist When the jury returns a verdict of not guilty, Kate, Jim, and citizens of Niniltna, Alaska, believe Deem has gotten away with murder. And when, a few weeks later, two people turn up dead after an apparent robbery, Kate and Jim canâ€™t help but believe that Deem is involvedâ€¦but what it takes to bring Deem to justice could tear them apartâ€”if the real killer doesnâ€™t get to them first. â€œAll the elements that have made this series successful shine.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review) SUMMARY: The latest entry in the wildly entertaining, award-winning Kate Shugak crime seriesâ€”a gripping page-turner set in Alaskaâ€”from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow â€œA splendid series.â€â€”USA TodayKate Shugak, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named Louis Deem. Deem has been the subject of investigations before, and heâ€™s never been convicted of a crime. But Kate and her on-again, off-again lover, state trooper Jim Chopin, who arrested Deem, are convinced that this time itâ€™s differentâ€”and heâ€™ll finally be punished for his actions. â€œAn engaging plotâ€¦a vivid depiction of the Alaskan wilderness.â€â€”Booklist When the jury returns a verdict of not guilty, Kate, Jim, and citizens of Niniltna, Alaska, believe Deem has gotten away with murder. And when, a few weeks later, two people turn up dead after an apparent robbery, Kate and Jim canâ€™t help but believe that Deem is involvedâ€¦but what it takes to bring Deem to justice could tear them apartâ€”if the real killer doesnâ€™t get to them first. â€œAll the elements that have made this series successful shine.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27143'),
(14337, 'A Deepness In The Sky', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Deepness in the Sky is a Hugo Award winning[1] science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge. Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel (set twenty thousand years earlier) to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep  (1992). The title is coined by one of the story''s main characters in a debate, in a reference to the hibernating habits of his species and to the vastness of space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13648'),
(14338, 'A Deepness In The Sky', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Deepness in the Sky is a Hugo Award winning[1] science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge. Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel (set twenty thousand years earlier) to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992). The title is coined by one of the story''s main characters in a debate, in a reference to the hibernating habits of his species and to the vastness of space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24545'),
(14339, 'A Deepness In The Sky', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Deepness in the Sky is a Hugo Award winning[1] science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge. Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel (set twenty thousand years earlier) to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep  (1992). The title is coined by one of the story''s main characters in a debate, in a reference to the hibernating habits of his species and to the vastness of space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26123'),
(14340, 'Deepsix', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A spellbinding epic adventure of discovery, catastrophe, and survival from one of the most masterful storytellers in speculative fiction. In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva III. Twenty-one years later, the opportunity for scientists to study this galactic rarity -- a life-supporting planet -- is about to vanish forever, as a rogue gas giant has invaded the planetary system on a deadly collision course with the world they are now calling Deepsix. A superluminal pilot for the Academy of Science and Technology, Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins is the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of Deepsix. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, she and a small scientific team -- including Randall Nightingale, a survivor of the original expedition who was made the scapegoat for its failure -- must descend to the surface, and glean whatever they can about the doomed planet''s lifeforms and lost civilizations. There is more to this strange and complex world, however, than anyone could have imagined: hidden predators; stone cities under the ice; remnants of a warlike, primitive society, yet with inexplicable hints of an impossible technology buried in the rubble ... and in orbit around the soon to be demolished planet. The deeper Hutch and her team delve, the more puzzles are revealed within puzzles, and startling discoveries lead only to greater and more perplexing questions. But then the unthinkable occurs. An earthquake destroys the explorers'' only means of escape. As scientists and sightseers who have come to witness the spectacular end of Deepsix watch helplessly from miles above, Hutch and her people must survive somehow on a hostile planet going rapidly mad. And with the clock ticking relentlessly toward an unavoidable apocalypse, they must find some way, any way, to get off before Deepsix plunges like a pebble into the limitless depths of the rampaging gas giant. From the acclaimed author of *Infinity Beach* comes the ultimate survival adventure -- a riveting, relentlessly suspenseful, awesomely possible tale with a firm foundation in hard science which showcases the best and the worst aspects of complex human nature. It is yet another stunning achievement by Jack McDevitt, proving without a doubt that he is indeed the true heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18248'),
(14341, 'The Deerslayer', 'James Fenimore Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    <div>\n     <div>\n      <i>\n       The Deerslayer\n      </i>\n      , byÂ \n      <b>\n       James Fenimore Cooper\n      </b>\n      , is part of theÂ \n      <i>\n       Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n      </i>\n      <i>\n       Â \n      </i>\n      series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features ofÂ \n      <i>\n       Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n      </i>\n      :\n      <div>\n       <ul type="disc" style="list-style-type: disc; margin-top: 1.12em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n        <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; ">\n        </li>\n       </ul>\n       All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.Â \n       <i>\n        Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ \n       </i>\n       pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n      </div>\n     </div>\n    </div>\n    <div>\n     Â \n    </div>\n    <div>\n     â€œLive by your own council. Be brave in the face of the unknown. Be always fair.â€\n     <br />\n     -Natty Bumppo,Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     One of the greatest heroes in American literature, Natty Bumppo is the rugged frontiersman ofÂ \n     <b>\n      James Fenimore Cooper\n     </b>\n     â€™sÂ \n     <i>\n      Leatherstocking Tales\n     </i>\n     , a series of five novels that includesÂ \n     <i>\n      The Last of the Mohicans\n     </i>\n     Â andÂ \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     . Although the final volume to be written,Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     Â is the first in the chronology of Natty Bumppoâ€™s life, depicting the character as a young man testing himself in the wilderness, and against enemies, for the first time.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     Set in the 1740â€™s just as the French and Indian wars have begun, the novel opens as Natty Bumppoâ€”known as Deerslayerâ€”and his friend Hurry Harry travel to Tom Hutterâ€™s house in upstate New York. Hurry plans to marry Tomâ€™s beautiful daughter Judith, while Deerslayer has come to help his close friend Chingachgook save his bride-to-be, Wah-ta-Wah, from the Huron Indians. When war breaks out, and Hurry and Tom are captured by Indians, Deerslayer must go on his first warpath to rescue them.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     One of the earliest novels to be considered truly â€œAmerican,"Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     Â is a masterpiece of suspense, adventure, and romance.\n    </div>\n    <div>\n     Â \n    </div>\n    <div>\n     <div>\n      <b>\n       Bruce L. R. Smith\n      </b>\n      Â is a fellow at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author or editor of sixteen scholarly books, and he continues to lecture widely in the United States and abroad.\n     </div>\n    </div>\n   </div>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4854'),
(14342, 'The Deerslayer', 'James Fenimore Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    <div>\n     <div>\n      <i>\n       The Deerslayer\n      </i>\n      , byÂ \n      <b>\n       James Fenimore Cooper\n      </b>\n      , is part of theÂ \n      <i>\n       Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n      </i>\n      <i>\n       Â \n      </i>\n      series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features ofÂ \n      <i>\n       Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n      </i>\n      :\n      <div>\n       <ul type="disc" style="list-style-type: disc; margin-top: 1.12em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n        <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; ">\n        </li>\n       </ul>\n       All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.Â \n       <i>\n        Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ \n       </i>\n       pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n      </div>\n     </div>\n    </div>\n    <div>\n     Â \n    </div>\n    <div>\n     â€œLive by your own council. Be brave in the face of the unknown. Be always fair.â€\n     <br />\n     -Natty Bumppo,Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     One of the greatest heroes in American literature, Natty Bumppo is the rugged frontiersman ofÂ \n     <b>\n      James Fenimore Cooper\n     </b>\n     â€™sÂ \n     <i>\n      Leatherstocking Tales\n     </i>\n     , a series of five novels that includesÂ \n     <i>\n      The Last of the Mohicans\n     </i>\n     Â andÂ \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     . Although the final volume to be written,Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     Â is the first in the chronology of Natty Bumppoâ€™s life, depicting the character as a young man testing himself in the wilderness, and against enemies, for the first time.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     Set in the 1740â€™s just as the French and Indian wars have begun, the novel opens as Natty Bumppoâ€”known as Deerslayerâ€”and his friend Hurry Harry travel to Tom Hutterâ€™s house in upstate New York. Hurry plans to marry Tomâ€™s beautiful daughter Judith, while Deerslayer has come to help his close friend Chingachgook save his bride-to-be, Wah-ta-Wah, from the Huron Indians. When war breaks out, and Hurry and Tom are captured by Indians, Deerslayer must go on his first warpath to rescue them.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     One of the earliest novels to be considered truly â€œAmerican,"Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     Â is a masterpiece of suspense, adventure, and romance.\n    </div>\n    <div>\n     Â \n    </div>\n    <div>\n     <div>\n      <b>\n       Bruce L. R. Smith\n      </b>\n      Â is a fellow at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author or editor of sixteen scholarly books, and he continues to lecture widely in the United States and abroad.\n     </div>\n    </div>\n   </div>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9036');
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(14343, 'The Deerslayer', 'James Fenimore Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    <div>\n     <div>\n      <i>\n       The Deerslayer\n      </i>\n      , byÂ \n      <b>\n       James Fenimore Cooper\n      </b>\n      , is part of theÂ \n      <i>\n       Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n      </i>\n      <i>\n       Â \n      </i>\n      series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features ofÂ \n      <i>\n       Barnes &amp; Noble Classics\n      </i>\n      :\n      <div>\n       <ul type="disc" style="list-style-type: disc; margin-top: 1.12em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n        <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; ">\n        </li>\n       </ul>\n       All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest.Â \n       <i>\n        Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ \n       </i>\n       pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n      </div>\n     </div>\n    </div>\n    <div>\n     Â \n    </div>\n    <div>\n     â€œLive by your own council. Be brave in the face of the unknown. Be always fair.â€\n     <br />\n     -Natty Bumppo,Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     One of the greatest heroes in American literature, Natty Bumppo is the rugged frontiersman ofÂ \n     <b>\n      James Fenimore Cooper\n     </b>\n     â€™sÂ \n     <i>\n      Leatherstocking Tales\n     </i>\n     , a series of five novels that includesÂ \n     <i>\n      The Last of the Mohicans\n     </i>\n     Â andÂ \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     . Although the final volume to be written,Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     Â is the first in the chronology of Natty Bumppoâ€™s life, depicting the character as a young man testing himself in the wilderness, and against enemies, for the first time.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     Set in the 1740â€™s just as the French and Indian wars have begun, the novel opens as Natty Bumppoâ€”known as Deerslayerâ€”and his friend Hurry Harry travel to Tom Hutterâ€™s house in upstate New York. Hurry plans to marry Tomâ€™s beautiful daughter Judith, while Deerslayer has come to help his close friend Chingachgook save his bride-to-be, Wah-ta-Wah, from the Huron Indians. When war breaks out, and Hurry and Tom are captured by Indians, Deerslayer must go on his first warpath to rescue them.\n     <br />\n     <br />\n     One of the earliest novels to be considered truly â€œAmerican,"Â \n     <i>\n      The Deerslayer\n     </i>\n     Â is a masterpiece of suspense, adventure, and romance.\n    </div>\n    <div>\n     Â \n    </div>\n    <div>\n     <div>\n      <b>\n       Bruce L. R. Smith\n      </b>\n      Â is a fellow at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author or editor of sixteen scholarly books, and he continues to lecture widely in the United States and abroad.\n     </div>\n    </div>\n   </div>\n   <div>\n    <br />\n   </div>\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19831'),
(14344, 'The Defective Detective : Cat Chaser', 'Adam Maxwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It''s Clint''s first case and everything should be going really well.  And it probably would be if he''d managed to stay awake when he was briefed. With four suspects and clues flying will he be able to find out who''s guilty? Or even what they''re guilty of?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15958'),
(14345, 'The Defective Detective : Murder on the Links', 'Adam Maxwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Murder. Intrigue. Alcohol. Detectives. Clues. Golf. Laxatives. What else do you need?\n <br />\n When a body is discovered on the golf course the identity of the killer seems obvious. The question is can Clint get to the bottom of the mystery before the stag party catches him?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24949'),
(14346, 'The Defector', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In the #1 *New York Times* bestseller *Moscow Rules*, Gabriel Allon brought down the most dangerous man in the world. But he made one mistake. Leaving him aliveâ€¦**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Over the course of a brilliant career, Daniel Silva has established himself as the â€œgold standardâ€ of thriller writers (*Dallas Morning News*), a â€œmaster writer of espionage and intrigueâ€ (The Cincinnati Enquirer), and the creator of â€œsome of the most exciting spy fiction since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bondâ€ (*Rocky Mountain News*). Now Silva takes that fictionâ€”and his hero, the enigmatic art restorer and assassin Gabriel Allonâ€”to a whole new level, delivering a riveting tale of vengeance that entertains as well as enlightens.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n \\tSix months after the dramatic conclusion of *Moscow Rules*, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican. But his idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov, who saved Gabrielâ€™s life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, but Gabriel knows better. He also knows he made a promise.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n \\t*Do you know what we do with traitors, Gabriel? Many things have changed in Russia since the fall of Communism. But the punishment for betrayal remains the same. Promise me one thing, Gabriel. Promise me I won''t end up in an unmarked grave.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n \\tIn the days to come, Gabriel and his team of operatives will find themselves in a deadly duel of nerve and wits with one of the world''s most ruthless men: the murderous Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov. It will take him from a quiet mews in London, to the shores of Lake Como, to the glittering streets of Geneva and Zurich, and, finally, to a heart-stopping climax in the snowbound birch forests of Russia. Faced with the prospect of losing the one thing he holds most dear, Gabriel will be tested in ways he never imagined possible. And his life will never be the same.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n \\tFilled with breathtaking turns of plot and sophisticated prose, and populated by a remarkable cast of characters, *The Defector* is more than the most explosive thriller of the year. It is a searing tale of love, vengeance and courage created by the writer whom the critics call "the perfect guide to the dangerous forces shaping our world" (*Orlando Sentinel*). And it is Daniel Silva''s finest novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6498'),
(14347, 'The Defector', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In the #1 *New York Times* bestseller *Moscow Rules*, Gabriel Allon brought down the most dangerous man in the world. But he made one mistake. Leaving him aliveâ€¦**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Over the course of a brilliant career, Daniel Silva has established himself as the â€œgold standardâ€ of thriller writers (*Dallas Morning News*), a â€œmaster writer of espionage and intrigueâ€ (The Cincinnati Enquirer), and the creator of â€œsome of the most exciting spy fiction since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bondâ€ (*Rocky Mountain News*). Now Silva takes that fictionâ€”and his hero, the enigmatic art restorer and assassin Gabriel Allonâ€”to a whole new level, delivering a riveting tale of vengeance that entertains as well as enlightens.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n \\tSix months after the dramatic conclusion of *Moscow Rules*, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican. But his idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov, who saved Gabrielâ€™s life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, but Gabriel knows better. He also knows he made a promise.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n \\t*Do you know what we do with traitors, Gabriel? Many things have changed in Russia since the fall of Communism. But the punishment for betrayal remains the same. Promise me one thing, Gabriel. Promise me I won''t end up in an unmarked grave.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n \\tIn the days to come, Gabriel and his team of operatives will find themselves in a deadly duel of nerve and wits with one of the world''s most ruthless men: the murderous Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov. It will take him from a quiet mews in London, to the shores of Lake Como, to the glittering streets of Geneva and Zurich, and, finally, to a heart-stopping climax in the snowbound birch forests of Russia. Faced with the prospect of losing the one thing he holds most dear, Gabriel will be tested in ways he never imagined possible. And his life will never be the same.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n \\tFilled with breathtaking turns of plot and sophisticated prose, and populated by a remarkable cast of characters, *The Defector* is more than the most explosive thriller of the year. It is a searing tale of love, vengeance and courage created by the writer whom the critics call "the perfect guide to the dangerous forces shaping our world" (*Orlando Sentinel*). And it is Daniel Silva''s finest novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12679'),
(14348, 'The Defector', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In the #1 *New York Times* bestseller *Moscow Rules*, Gabriel Allon brought down the most dangerous man in the world. But he made one mistake. Leaving him aliveâ€¦** Over the course of a brilliant career, Daniel Silva has established himself as the â€œgold standardâ€ of thriller writers (*Dallas Morning News*), a â€œmaster writer of espionage and intrigueâ€ (The Cincinnati Enquirer), and the creator of â€œsome of the most exciting spy fiction since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bondâ€ (*Rocky Mountain News*). Now Silva takes that fictionâ€”and his hero, the enigmatic art restorer and assassin Gabriel Allonâ€”to a whole new level, delivering a riveting tale of vengeance that entertains as well as enlightens. Six months after the dramatic conclusion of *Moscow Rules*, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican. But his idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov, who saved Gabrielâ€™s life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, but Gabriel knows better. He also knows he made a promise. *Do you know what we do with traitors, Gabriel? Many things have changed in Russia since the fall of Communism. But the punishment for betrayal remains the same. Promise me one thing, Gabriel. Promise me I won''t end up in an unmarked grave.* In the days to come, Gabriel and his team of operatives will find themselves in a deadly duel of nerve and wits with one of the world''s most ruthless men: the murderous Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov. It will take him from a quiet mews in London, to the shores of Lake Como, to the glittering streets of Geneva and Zurich, and, finally, to a heart-stopping climax in the snowbound birch forests of Russia. Faced with the prospect of losing the one thing he holds most dear, Gabriel will be tested in ways he never imagined possible. And his life will never be the same. Filled with breathtaking turns of plot and sophisticated prose, and populated by a remarkable cast of characters, *The Defector* is more than the most explosive thriller of the year. It is a searing tale of love, vengeance and courage created by the writer whom the critics call "the perfect guide to the dangerous forces shaping our world" (*Orlando Sentinel*). And it is Daniel Silva''s finest novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17631'),
(14349, 'The Defector', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In the #1 *New York Times* bestseller *Moscow Rules*, Gabriel Allon brought down the most dangerous man in the world. But he made one mistake. Leaving him aliveâ€¦** Over the course of a brilliant career, Daniel Silva has established himself as the â€œgold standardâ€ of thriller writers (*Dallas Morning News*), a â€œmaster writer of espionage and intrigueâ€ (The Cincinnati Enquirer), and the creator of â€œsome of the most exciting spy fiction since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bondâ€ (*Rocky Mountain News*). Now Silva takes that fictionâ€”and his hero, the enigmatic art restorer and assassin Gabriel Allonâ€”to a whole new level, delivering a riveting tale of vengeance that entertains as well as enlightens. Six months after the dramatic conclusion of *Moscow Rules*, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican. But his idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov, who saved Gabrielâ€™s life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, but Gabriel knows better. He also knows he made a promise. *Do you know what we do with traitors, Gabriel? Many things have changed in Russia since the fall of Communism. But the punishment for betrayal remains the same. Promise me one thing, Gabriel. Promise me I won''t end up in an unmarked grave.* In the days to come, Gabriel and his team of operatives will find themselves in a deadly duel of nerve and wits with one of the world''s most ruthless men: the murderous Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov. It will take him from a quiet mews in London, to the shores of Lake Como, to the glittering streets of Geneva and Zurich, and, finally, to a heart-stopping climax in the snowbound birch forests of Russia. Faced with the prospect of losing the one thing he holds most dear, Gabriel will be tested in ways he never imagined possible. And his life will never be the same. Filled with breathtaking turns of plot and sophisticated prose, and populated by a remarkable cast of characters, *The Defector* is more than the most explosive thriller of the year. It is a searing tale of love, vengeance and courage created by the writer whom the critics call "the perfect guide to the dangerous forces shaping our world" (*Orlando Sentinel*). And it is Daniel Silva''s finest novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27199'),
(14350, 'Defend and Betray', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After a brilliant military career, esteemed General Thaddeus Carlyon finally meets his death, not in the frenzy of battle but at an elegant London dinner party. His demise appears to be the result of a freak accident, but the generalâ€™s beautiful wife, Alexandra, readily confesses that she killed himâ€“a story she clings to even under the threat of the noose.Investigator William Monk, nurse Hester Latterly, and brilliant Oliver Rathbone, counsel for the defense, work feverishly to break down the wall of silence raised by the accused and her husbandâ€™s proud family. With the trial only days away, these there sleuths inch toward the dark and appalling heart of the mystery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15698'),
(14351, 'Defend and Betray', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After a brilliant military career, esteemed General Thaddeus Carlyon finally meets his death, not in the frenzy of battle but at an elegant London dinner party. His demise appears to be the result of a freak accident, but the generalâ€™s beautiful wife, Alexandra, readily confesses that she killed himâ€“a story she clings to even under the threat of the noose.Investigator William Monk, nurse Hester Latterly, and brilliant Oliver Rathbone, counsel for the defense, work feverishly to break down the wall of silence raised by the accused and her husbandâ€™s proud family. With the trial only days away, these there sleuths inch toward the dark and appalling heart of the mystery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26376'),
(14352, 'Defender', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One of the best long-running SF series in existence, Cherryh''s Foreigner Universe books (Precursor, etc.) tell the story of a small human colony abandoned on a planet inhabited by the atevi, an alien race whose humanoid anatomy disguises radically different instincts and thought patterns. Misunderstandings have led to war in the past and make human/atevi diplomacy incredibly difficult. Bren Cameron trained for decades to be the paidhi, the only human allowed to negotiate with the atevi, overseeing the slow transfer of advanced human technology to the brilliant but less advanced natives of the planet in trade for vital raw materials. Eventually, Bren changed sides, becoming the representative of Tabini, the atevi''s ruler, to humanity. Now the political situation has been complicated by the return of the Phoenix, the starship whose much hated crew abandoned the colonists some two centuries earlier, and, worse yet, by the starship''s report that its crew has discovered a hostile space-faring race relatively nearby. The senior captain of the Phoenix, negotiating through Bren, agrees to help Tabini build a second starship to defend the planet, but as Bren learns after the captain''s mysterious death, other plots are afoot and not all the information shared by the starship can be trusted. As usual, Cherryh provides a riveting plot that emphasizes intense human/alien interactions instead of physical violence. Perhaps undervalued because she writes in traditional forms that don''t appeal to the literati, while too difficult for some fans of space opera, Cherryh remains one of the most talented writers in the field. (Nov. 6)Forecast: The pulpish jacket art by the usually quite competent Stephen Youll won''t bring in new readers who will appreciate Cherryh''s work, but established fans will know bette SUMMARY: In this sequel to Precursor, the alien atevi enter the treacherous politics of space travel-as their one human negotiator is caught in the throes of a mutiny...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15520'),
(14353, 'Definitely Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new Sookie Stackhouse novel from the New York Timesbestselling author of Dead as a Doornail. Spiked with a "frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy" (Publishers Weekly), this "deliciously fiendish...increasingly riotous series" (Dallas Morning News) sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6881'),
(14354, 'Definitely Dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new Sookie Stackhouse novel from the New York Timesbestselling author of Dead as a Doornail. Spiked with a "frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy" (Publishers Weekly), this "deliciously fiendish...increasingly riotous series" (Dallas Morning News) sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10197'),
(14355, 'Definitely dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The new Sookie Stackhouse novel from the New York Timesbestselling author of Dead as a Doornail. Spiked with a "frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy" (Publishers Weekly), this "deliciously fiendish...increasingly riotous series" (Dallas Morning News) sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14928'),
(14356, 'Definitely dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The new Sookie Stackhouse novel from the New York Timesbestselling author of Dead as a Doornail. Spiked with a "frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy" (Publishers Weekly), this "deliciously fiendish...increasingly riotous series" (Dallas Morning News) sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17033'),
(14357, 'Definitely dead', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new Sookie Stackhouse novel from the New York Timesbestselling author of Dead as a Doornail. Spiked with a "frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy" (Publishers Weekly), this "deliciously fiendish...increasingly riotous series" (Dallas Morning News) sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26825'),
(14358, 'The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft: 67 Tales of Horror in One Volume', 'H.P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Halcyon Classics ebook contains sixty-seven of celebrated horror and occult writer H.P. Lovecraft''s best works central to his ''Cthulhu mythos.'' Although Lovecraft''s (1890-1937) readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14268'),
(14359, 'The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft: 67 Tales of Horror in One Volume', 'H.P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Halcyon Classics ebook contains sixty-seven of celebrated horror and occult writer H.P. Lovecraft''s best works central to his ''Cthulhu mythos.'' Although Lovecraft''s (1890-1937) readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19431'),
(14360, 'The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft: 67 Tales of Horror in One Volume', 'H.P. Lovecraft', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Halcyon Classics ebook contains sixty-seven of celebrated horror and occult writer H.P. Lovecraft''s best works central to his ''Cthulhu mythos.'' Although Lovecraft''s (1890-1937) readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28082'),
(14361, 'Deja Dead', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s June in Montreal, and Tempe, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the challenging assignment of director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec, looks forward to a relaxing weekend. First, though, she must stop at a newly uncovered burial site in the heart of the city. One look at the decomposed and decapitated corpse, stored neatly in plastic bags, tells her she''ll spend the weekend in the crime lab. This is homicide of the worst kind. To begin to find some answers, Tempe must first identify the victim. Who is this person with reddish hair and a small bone structure? Something about the crime scene is familiar to Tempe: the stashing of the body parts, the meticulous dismemberment. One case in particular comes to mind: the murder of sixteen-year-old Chantale Trottier, who''d arrived in the morgue naked, less than a year before, and packaged in plastic garbage bags. Tempe''s convinced there are parallels between the two cases, but it will take more victims to persuade her police colleagues. Knowing there is a killer on the streets who may soon find a new victim, Tempe calls upon all her f\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3793'),
(14362, 'Deja Dead', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s June in Montreal, and Tempe, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the challenging assignment of director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec, looks forward to a relaxing weekend. First, though, she must stop at a newly uncovered burial site in the heart of the city. One look at the decomposed and decapitated corpse, stored neatly in plastic bags, tells her she''ll spend the weekend in the crime lab. This is homicide of the worst kind. To begin to find some answers, Tempe must first identify the victim. Who is this person with reddish hair and a small bone structure? Something about the crime scene is familiar to Tempe: the stashing of the body parts, the meticulous dismemberment. One case in particular comes to mind: the murder of sixteen-year-old Chantale Trottier, who''d arrived in the morgue naked, less than a year before, and packaged in plastic garbage bags. Tempe''s convinced there are parallels between the two cases, but it will take more victims to persuade her police colleagues. Knowing there is a killer on the streets who may soon find a new victim, Tempe calls upon all her f\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12113'),
(14363, 'Deja Dead', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s June in Montreal, and Tempe, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the challenging assignment of director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec, looks forward to a relaxing weekend. First, though, she must stop at a newly uncovered burial site in the heart of the city. One look at the decomposed and decapitated corpse, stored neatly in plastic bags, tells her she''ll spend the weekend in the crime lab. This is homicide of the worst kind. To begin to find some answers, Tempe must first identify the victim. Who is this person with reddish hair and a small bone structure? Something about the crime scene is familiar to Tempe: the stashing of the body parts, the meticulous dismemberment. One case in particular comes to mind: the murder of sixteen-year-old Chantale Trottier, who''d arrived in the morgue naked, less than a year before, and packaged in plastic garbage bags. Tempe''s convinced there are parallels between the two cases, but it will take more victims to persuade her police colleagues. Knowing there is a killer on the streets who may soon find a new victim, Tempe calls upon all her f\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20612'),
(14364, 'Delirium', 'Lauren Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Before I Fall\n </em>\n , throws readers into a tightly controlled society where options donâ€™t exist, and shows not only the lengths one will go for a chance at freedom, but also the true meaning of sacrifice. --_Jessica Schein_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Lauren Oliverâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Delirium\n  </em>\n  Playlist\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n </strong>\n (Click on the song name to listen to a sample)\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song sounds so passionate and desperate, and I think itâ€™s one of those magical songs that sounds like it was written with my characters in mind (if only!).\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Taylor Swift always perfectly captures the feeling of isolation, of not fitting in. She nails it in this song.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n The title is perfect and the sound is great for energizing me at the start of a writing session. And seriously,\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n could have had this as a sub-title!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I love listening to Tegan and Sara and their moodyâ€”but somehow optimisticâ€”songs. The title couldnâ€™t be more a propos, obviously.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song is all about trying to be strong and self-sufficientâ€”to deny the interdependence of people. I definitely think the characters in\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n are trying to be rocks, and often not succeeding.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n She asks over and over,\n <em>\n  Will you feel anything at all?\n </em>\n Enough said.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I listened to it the first time just because of the title . . . and lo and behold! Itâ€™s also just a great song. On a side note: The cover art is fabulous and also\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n -esque.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This is one of those anthems that pushes you forwardâ€”a good post break-up song but also a good song for remembering youâ€™re in control of your own destiny.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I picture this song playing during some of the quieter, more intimate scenes in\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n . It kind of brings to mind the idea of a secret space, be it physical or just internal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Full disclosure: This song is often on repeat on my iPod. Great song for fighting back, pushing through, and being an individual.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Blues Traveler is so underratedâ€”itâ€™s ridiculous. And this is my favorite of their unknown songs.\n <em>\n  The time is now and you donâ€™t have long\n </em>\n â€¦ So true, man. So true!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Even Ani knows the power of the color grey!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n James is a young musician I know from NYC. When I hear this song, I imagine him as Alex, playing a song to Lenaâ€”maybe while they''re in the Wilds! His sound is so stripped-down and also so honest.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Nothing like some old school romanceâ€”they knew how to do it back in the day. This reminds me of a song Lenaâ€™s mom would have liked.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Thereâ€™s something scary about this song. Itâ€™s so foreboding and passionateâ€”and I love it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I think I might be in love with Mr. W. His voice is downright haunting and this is a perfect walking-around-NYC-with-my-headphones-on-and-thinking-about-the-meaning-of-life song. Trust me.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oliverâ€™s follow-up to her smash debut, Before I Fall (2010), is another deft blend of realism and fantasy. The hook is irresistible: itâ€™s the near future, a time when love has long since been identified as a disease called amor deliria nervosa, and 17-year-old Lena is 95 days away from the operation that everyone gets to cure themselves. Can you feel the swoon coming? Enter Alex, a rakish daredevil who, as it turns out, is one of the Invalidsâ€”a tribe of uncured who live on the lam in the surrounding wilderness. With the clock ticking down to her surgery, Lena is drawn into Alexâ€™s world, one of passion and freedom, while her emotionally castrated family members hope to turn her into yet another complacent zombie. Oliverâ€™s masterstroke is making a strong case for love as disease: the anxiety, depression, insomnia, and impulsive behavior of the smitten do smack of infirmity. The story bogs down as it revels in romanceâ€”Alex is standard-issue perfectionâ€”but the book never loses its A Clockwork Orangeâ€“style bite regarding safety versus choice. Grades 9-12. --Daniel Kraus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3536'),
(14365, 'Delirium', 'Lauren Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Before I Fall\n </em>\n , throws readers into a tightly controlled society where options donâ€™t exist, and shows not only the lengths one will go for a chance at freedom, but also the true meaning of sacrifice. --_Jessica Schein_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Lauren Oliverâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Delirium\n  </em>\n  Playlist\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n </strong>\n (Click on the song name to listen to a sample)\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song sounds so passionate and desperate, and I think itâ€™s one of those magical songs that sounds like it was written with my characters in mind (if only!).\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Taylor Swift always perfectly captures the feeling of isolation, of not fitting in. She nails it in this song.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n The title is perfect and the sound is great for energizing me at the start of a writing session. And seriously,\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n could have had this as a sub-title!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I love listening to Tegan and Sara and their moodyâ€”but somehow optimisticâ€”songs. The title couldnâ€™t be more a propos, obviously.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song is all about trying to be strong and self-sufficientâ€”to deny the interdependence of people. I definitely think the characters in\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n are trying to be rocks, and often not succeeding.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n She asks over and over,\n <em>\n  Will you feel anything at all?\n </em>\n Enough said.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I listened to it the first time just because of the title . . . and lo and behold! Itâ€™s also just a great song. On a side note: The cover art is fabulous and also\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n -esque.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This is one of those anthems that pushes you forwardâ€”a good post break-up song but also a good song for remembering youâ€™re in control of your own destiny.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I picture this song playing during some of the quieter, more intimate scenes in\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n . It kind of brings to mind the idea of a secret space, be it physical or just internal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Full disclosure: This song is often on repeat on my iPod. Great song for fighting back, pushing through, and being an individual.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Blues Traveler is so underratedâ€”itâ€™s ridiculous. And this is my favorite of their unknown songs.\n <em>\n  The time is now and you donâ€™t have long\n </em>\n â€¦ So true, man. So true!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Even Ani knows the power of the color grey!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n James is a young musician I know from NYC. When I hear this song, I imagine him as Alex, playing a song to Lenaâ€”maybe while they''re in the Wilds! His sound is so stripped-down and also so honest.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Nothing like some old school romanceâ€”they knew how to do it back in the day. This reminds me of a song Lenaâ€™s mom would have liked.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Thereâ€™s something scary about this song. Itâ€™s so foreboding and passionateâ€”and I love it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I think I might be in love with Mr. W. His voice is downright haunting and this is a perfect walking-around-NYC-with-my-headphones-on-and-thinking-about-the-meaning-of-life song. Trust me.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oliverâ€™s follow-up to her smash debut, Before I Fall (2010), is another deft blend of realism and fantasy. The hook is irresistible: itâ€™s the near future, a time when love has long since been identified as a disease called amor deliria nervosa, and 17-year-old Lena is 95 days away from the operation that everyone gets to cure themselves. Can you feel the swoon coming? Enter Alex, a rakish daredevil who, as it turns out, is one of the Invalidsâ€”a tribe of uncured who live on the lam in the surrounding wilderness. With the clock ticking down to her surgery, Lena is drawn into Alexâ€™s world, one of passion and freedom, while her emotionally castrated family members hope to turn her into yet another complacent zombie. Oliverâ€™s masterstroke is making a strong case for love as disease: the anxiety, depression, insomnia, and impulsive behavior of the smitten do smack of infirmity. The story bogs down as it revels in romanceâ€”Alex is standard-issue perfectionâ€”but the book never loses its A Clockwork Orangeâ€“style bite regarding safety versus choice. Grades 9-12. --Daniel Kraus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11683'),
(14366, 'Delirium', 'Lauren Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Before I Fall\n </em>\n , throws readers into a tightly controlled society where options donâ€™t exist, and shows not only the lengths one will go for a chance at freedom, but also the true meaning of sacrifice. --_Jessica Schein_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Lauren Oliverâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Delirium\n  </em>\n  Playlist\n </strong>\n <br />\n <strong>\n </strong>\n (Click on the song name to listen to a sample)\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song sounds so passionate and desperate, and I think itâ€™s one of those magical songs that sounds like it was written with my characters in mind (if only!).\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Taylor Swift always perfectly captures the feeling of isolation, of not fitting in. She nails it in this song.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n The title is perfect and the sound is great for energizing me at the start of a writing session. And seriously,\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n could have had this as a sub-title!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I love listening to Tegan and Sara and their moodyâ€”but somehow optimisticâ€”songs. The title couldnâ€™t be more a propos, obviously.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This song is all about trying to be strong and self-sufficientâ€”to deny the interdependence of people. I definitely think the characters in\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n are trying to be rocks, and often not succeeding.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n She asks over and over,\n <em>\n  Will you feel anything at all?\n </em>\n Enough said.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I listened to it the first time just because of the title . . . and lo and behold! Itâ€™s also just a great song. On a side note: The cover art is fabulous and also\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n -esque.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n This is one of those anthems that pushes you forwardâ€”a good post break-up song but also a good song for remembering youâ€™re in control of your own destiny.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I picture this song playing during some of the quieter, more intimate scenes in\n <em>\n  Delirium\n </em>\n . It kind of brings to mind the idea of a secret space, be it physical or just internal.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Full disclosure: This song is often on repeat on my iPod. Great song for fighting back, pushing through, and being an individual.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Blues Traveler is so underratedâ€”itâ€™s ridiculous. And this is my favorite of their unknown songs.\n <em>\n  The time is now and you donâ€™t have long\n </em>\n â€¦ So true, man. So true!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Even Ani knows the power of the color grey!\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n James is a young musician I know from NYC. When I hear this song, I imagine him as Alex, playing a song to Lenaâ€”maybe while they''re in the Wilds! His sound is so stripped-down and also so honest.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Nothing like some old school romanceâ€”they knew how to do it back in the day. This reminds me of a song Lenaâ€™s mom would have liked.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n Thereâ€™s something scary about this song. Itâ€™s so foreboding and passionateâ€”and I love it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <hr />\n I think I might be in love with Mr. W. His voice is downright haunting and this is a perfect walking-around-NYC-with-my-headphones-on-and-thinking-about-the-meaning-of-life song. Trust me.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Oliverâ€™s follow-up to her smash debut, Before I Fall (2010), is another deft blend of realism and fantasy. The hook is irresistible: itâ€™s the near future, a time when love has long since been identified as a disease called amor deliria nervosa, and 17-year-old Lena is 95 days away from the operation that everyone gets to cure themselves. Can you feel the swoon coming? Enter Alex, a rakish daredevil who, as it turns out, is one of the Invalidsâ€”a tribe of uncured who live on the lam in the surrounding wilderness. With the clock ticking down to her surgery, Lena is drawn into Alexâ€™s world, one of passion and freedom, while her emotionally castrated family members hope to turn her into yet another complacent zombie. Oliverâ€™s masterstroke is making a strong case for love as disease: the anxiety, depression, insomnia, and impulsive behavior of the smitten do smack of infirmity. The story bogs down as it revels in romanceâ€”Alex is standard-issue perfectionâ€”but the book never loses its A Clockwork Orangeâ€“style bite regarding safety versus choice. Grades 9-12. --Daniel Kraus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20957'),
(14367, 'Delirul placerii', 'Duffy McGregor', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25876'),
(14368, 'Deliver Us From Evil', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL - Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL - Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence.  But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own.  Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6264');
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(14369, 'Deliver Us From Evil', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL - Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year. SUMMARY: David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL - Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year. SUMMARY: David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17660'),
(14370, 'Deliver Us From Evil', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL - Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year. SUMMARY: David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL - Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year. SUMMARY: David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Truth and First Family-returns with his most surprising, heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe. On Waller''s trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal. Shaw''s one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller''s depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agenda of her own. Hunting the same man and unaware of each other''s mission, Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits. Hitchcockian in its intimate buildup of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters, breathtaking plot turns, and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci''s hallmarks, DELIVER US FROM EVIL will be one of the most gripping thrillers of the year.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27255'),
(14371, 'Delivered from Evil: True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived', 'Ron Franscell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIn Ron Franscellâ€™s captivating account of the darkest chapters of our history, the author skillfully reminds all of us the meaning of grace and the triumph of the human spirit.â€ â€”Gregg Olsen,\n <em>\n  New York\n </em>\n _ Times_ bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Twisted Faith\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn an age when we glamorize killers, Ron Franscell gives a voice to the forgotten victims, a voice you wonâ€™t and canâ€™t forget.â€ â€”Erin Moriarty, Emmy-winning correspondent for CBSâ€™ 48 Hours\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A 12-year-old boy cowers in his closet while a lunatic killer slaughters his family . . . a nursing student unwittingly opens her home to the serial killer on her front porch . . . an 11-year-old girl drifts alone at sea on a flimsy cork raft for almost four days after a mass murderer kills her vacationing family aboard a chartered yacht . . . a brave firefighter suddenly finds himself in the crosshairs of a racist sniper almost nine stories above the ground . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n And, astonishingly, they all survived.\n</p>\n<p>\n From Howard Unruhâ€™s 1949 shooting rampage through a quiet New Jersey neighborhood to Louisiana serial killer Derrick Todd Leeâ€™s reign of terror in 2002, the corpses piled up and few lived to tell the horror.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, award-winning journalist Ron Franscell explores the wounded hearts and minds of the ordinary people these monsters couldnâ€™t kill. His mesmerizing accounts crackle with gritty details that put the reader in the midst of the carnageâ€”and offer a front-row seat on the complex, painful process of surviving the rest of their haunted lives.\n</p>\n<p>\n In intimate, gripping prose, Franscell takes the reader on a pulse-pounding dash through the murky intersection of pure evil and the potency of the human spirit. This journey into the darkest corners of the American crime-scape is a penetrating work of literary journalism by a writer hailed as one of the most powerful new voices in true crime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9488'),
(14372, 'Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose', 'Tony Hsieh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tony Hsieh--the widely-admired CEO of on-line shoe retailer, Zappos--explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of its employees, customers, vendors and backers. Even better, he shows how creating happiness and record results go hand-in-hand.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/435'),
(14373, 'Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose', 'Tony Hsieh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tony Hsieh--the widely-admired CEO of on-line shoe retailer, Zappos--explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of its employees, customers, vendors and backers. Even better, he shows how creating happiness and record results go hand-in-hand.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10414'),
(14374, 'Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose', 'Tony Hsieh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tony Hsieh--the widely-admired CEO of on-line shoe retailer, Zappos--explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of its employees, customers, vendors and backers. Even better, he shows how creating happiness and record results go hand-in-hand.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24498'),
(14375, 'Delta Girls', 'Gayle Brandeis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The disparate lives of two womenâ€”a single mother working hard to make ends meet and a young figure skater at the top of her gameâ€”entwine in an unforgettable novel of warmth, depth, and wisdom.Â Izzy and her daughter, Quinn, have been on the move for all of Quinnâ€™s nine years. Izzy works the fields as a fruit picker, following the produce north and south through the growing season. When they reach a struggling pear orchard in the Sacramento River Delta, Izzy intends it to be just another way station in their nomadic lives. But the orchard and its kindly owners capture Quinnâ€™s heart, and Izzy briefly forgets that sheâ€™s running from a past that still haunts herâ€”until a strange incident brings national media attention to the Delta.Â Seemingly a world away, Karen is a rising young star in figure skating with an edgy, daring new partner. Nathan is everything her old teammate wasnâ€™t: sexy, dangerous, and extremely headstrong. As Karen nears her eighteenth birthday, the partners find themselves on the world stageâ€”and the simmering intensity between them finally erupts.As each woman struggles with a sudden thrust into the spotlight, their narratives become more intertwinedâ€”until Izzyâ€™s past and Karenâ€™s future finally collide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5445'),
(14376, 'Delta Girls', 'Gayle Brandeis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The disparate lives of two womenâ€”a single mother working hard to make ends meet and a young figure skater at the top of her gameâ€”entwine in an unforgettable novel of warmth, depth, and wisdom.Â Izzy and her daughter, Quinn, have been on the move for all of Quinnâ€™s nine years. Izzy works the fields as a fruit picker, following the produce north and south through the growing season. When they reach a struggling pear orchard in the Sacramento River Delta, Izzy intends it to be just another way station in their nomadic lives. But the orchard and its kindly owners capture Quinnâ€™s heart, and Izzy briefly forgets that sheâ€™s running from a past that still haunts herâ€”until a strange incident brings national media attention to the Delta.Â Seemingly a world away, Karen is a rising young star in figure skating with an edgy, daring new partner. Nathan is everything her old teammate wasnâ€™t: sexy, dangerous, and extremely headstrong. As Karen nears her eighteenth birthday, the partners find themselves on the world stageâ€”and the simmering intensity between them finally erupts.As each woman struggles with a sudden thrust into the spotlight, their narratives become more intertwinedâ€”until Izzyâ€™s past and Karenâ€™s future finally collide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8602'),
(14377, 'Delta Girls', 'Gayle Brandeis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The disparate lives of two womenâ€”a single mother working hard to make ends meet and a young figure skater at the top of her gameâ€”entwine in an unforgettable novel of warmth, depth, and wisdom.Â Izzy and her daughter, Quinn, have been on the move for all of Quinnâ€™s nine years. Izzy works the fields as a fruit picker, following the produce north and south through the growing season. When they reach a struggling pear orchard in the Sacramento River Delta, Izzy intends it to be just another way station in their nomadic lives. But the orchard and its kindly owners capture Quinnâ€™s heart, and Izzy briefly forgets that sheâ€™s running from a past that still haunts herâ€”until a strange incident brings national media attention to the Delta.Â Seemingly a world away, Karen is a rising young star in figure skating with an edgy, daring new partner. Nathan is everything her old teammate wasnâ€™t: sexy, dangerous, and extremely headstrong. As Karen nears her eighteenth birthday, the partners find themselves on the world stageâ€”and the simmering intensity between them finally erupts.As each woman struggles with a sudden thrust into the spotlight, their narratives become more intertwinedâ€”until Izzyâ€™s past and Karenâ€™s future finally collide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19176'),
(14378, 'Delta Girls', 'Gayle Brandeis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The disparate lives of two womenâ€”a single mother working hard to make ends meet and a young figure skater at the top of her gameâ€”entwine in an unforgettable novel of warmth, depth, and wisdom.Â Izzy and her daughter, Quinn, have been on the move for all of Quinnâ€™s nine years. Izzy works the fields as a fruit picker, following the produce north and south through the growing season. When they reach a struggling pear orchard in the Sacramento River Delta, Izzy intends it to be just another way station in their nomadic lives. But the orchard and its kindly owners capture Quinnâ€™s heart, and Izzy briefly forgets that sheâ€™s running from a past that still haunts herâ€”until a strange incident brings national media attention to the Delta.Â Seemingly a world away, Karen is a rising young star in figure skating with an edgy, daring new partner. Nathan is everything her old teammate wasnâ€™t: sexy, dangerous, and extremely headstrong. As Karen nears her eighteenth birthday, the partners find themselves on the world stageâ€”and the simmering intensity between them finally erupts.As each woman struggles with a sudden thrust into the spotlight, their narratives become more intertwinedâ€”until Izzyâ€™s past and Karenâ€™s future finally collide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27915'),
(14379, 'Delta of Venus', 'Anais Nin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Delta of Venus Anaiuml;s Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7709'),
(14380, 'Delta of Venus', 'Anais Nin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Delta of Venus Anaiuml;s Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11717'),
(14381, 'Delta of Venus', 'Anais Nin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Delta of Venus Anaiuml;s Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16165'),
(14382, 'Delta Sly Honey', 'Lucius Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20028'),
(14383, 'The Demigod Files', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In these top-secret files, Rick Riordan, Camp Half-Blood''s senior scribe, gives you an inside look at the world of demigods that NO regular human child is allowed to see.\n</p>\n<p>\n These highly classified archives include three of Percy Jackson''s most perilous adventures, a Spotter''s Guide to Monsters, a Who''s Who in Greek mythology, Percy''s Summer Camp report and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n So, if you''re armed with this book, you''ll have everything you need to know to keep you alive in your training. Your own adventures have just begun . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1787'),
(14384, 'The Demigod Files', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In these top-secret files, Rick Riordan, Camp Half-Blood''s senior scribe, gives you an inside look at the world of demigods that NO regular human child is allowed to see.\n</p>\n<p>\n These highly classified archives include three of Percy Jackson''s most perilous adventures, a Spotter''s Guide to Monsters, a Who''s Who in Greek mythology, Percy''s Summer Camp report and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n So, if you''re armed with this book, you''ll have everything you need to know to keep you alive in your training. Your own adventures have just begun . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13547'),
(14385, 'The Demigod Files', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In these top-secret files, Rick Riordan, Camp Half-Blood''s senior scribe, gives you an inside look at the world of demigods that NO regular human child is allowed to see.\n</p>\n<p>\n These highly classified archives include three of Percy Jackson''s most perilous adventures, a Spotter''s Guide to Monsters, a Who''s Who in Greek mythology, Percy''s Summer Camp report and much more.\n</p>\n<p>\n So, if you''re armed with this book, you''ll have everything you need to know to keep you alive in your training. Your own adventures have just begun . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24868'),
(14386, 'Demilitarized Zone', 'Walter Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Decorated Legion war hero Captain Joey Czerinski and his platoon go to planet New Coloradoâ€™s New Gobi Desert to guard the demilitarized zone dividing human-occupied territory from areas claimed by the Arthropodan Empire. With a new alien spider commander, a human boy rising to lead a militia, and McDonald''s, Walmart, and Chupacabra added to the mix, the funny bone gets smacked hard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/208'),
(14387, 'Demilitarized Zone', 'Walter Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Decorated Legion war hero Captain Joey Czerinski and his platoon go to planet New Coloradoâ€™s New Gobi Desert to guard the demilitarized zone dividing human-occupied territory from areas claimed by the Arthropodan Empire. With a new alien spider commander, a human boy rising to lead a militia, and McDonald''s, Walmart, and Chupacabra added to the mix, the funny bone gets smacked hard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24624'),
(14388, 'Democracy Incorporated', 'Wolin, Sheldon S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23044'),
(14389, 'Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism', 'Sheldon S. Wolin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [A] comprehensive diagnosis of our failings as a democratic polity by one of our most seasoned and respected political philosophers. . . . Democracy Incorporated is a devastating critique of the contemporary government of the United States--including what has happened to it in recent years and what must be done if it is not to disappear into history along with its classic totalitarian predecessors. -- Chalmers Johnson, Truthdig\n</p>\n<p>\n [_Democracy Incorporated_ provides] a rare, chilling analysis of intellectual critics of democracy. If democracy means more than occasional elections and protection of those rights that are compatible with economic and political elites'' interests, Wolin''s analysis of our democratic predicament is shocking, solid, and fundamentally correct. -- C. P. Waligorski, Choice\n</p>\n<p>\n Sheldon Wolin has produced an ambitious and broad-ranging book that examines the current state of democracy in America. . . . Wolin argues that the unquestioned faith in the virtues of free market capitalism has dramatically narrowed the range of policy options that are on the table when debate turns to resolving the US''s ills. . . .[T]his is a trenchant and powerful volume. -- Alex Waddan, International Affairs\n</p>\n<p>\n Of the many books I''ve read or skimmed in the past seven years that attempted to get inside the social and political debacles of the present, none has had the chilling clarity and historical discernment of Sheldon S. Wolin''s\n <em>\n  Democracy Incorporated\n </em>\n . Building on his fifty years as a political theorist and proponent of radical democracy, Wolin here extends his concern with the extinguishing of the political and its replacement by fraudulent simulations of democratic process. -- Jonathan Crary, Artforum\n</p>\n<p>\n [W]e need to understand the deep roots of our present troubles ourselves and Wolin''s book is an excellent beginning. -- Toby Grace, Out in Jersey\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Democracy Incorporated\n </em>\n acts as an antidote to unconstrained corporate power and an elitist obsession and should be widely read by all those who cherish democracy and civil liberty. -- Shih-Yu Chou, Political Studies Review\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With his fundamental grasp of political theory and restless spirit to get at the essence of what threatens modern democracy, Wolin demonstrates that the threats to our democratic traditions and institutions are not always from outside, but may come from within. It is a book that policymakers and scholars of contemporary society should read and reflect upon.\n <br />\n (\n <strong>\n  Rakesh Khurana, Harvard Business School, author of "From Higher Aims to Hired Hands"\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1283'),
(14390, 'Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism', 'Sheldon S. Wolin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [A] comprehensive diagnosis of our failings as a democratic polity by one of our most seasoned and respected political philosophers. . . . Democracy Incorporated is a devastating critique of the contemporary government of the United States--including what has happened to it in recent years and what must be done if it is not to disappear into history along with its classic totalitarian predecessors. -- Chalmers Johnson, Truthdig\n</p>\n<p>\n [_Democracy Incorporated_ provides] a rare, chilling analysis of intellectual critics of democracy. If democracy means more than occasional elections and protection of those rights that are compatible with economic and political elites'' interests, Wolin''s analysis of our democratic predicament is shocking, solid, and fundamentally correct. -- C. P. Waligorski, Choice\n</p>\n<p>\n Sheldon Wolin has produced an ambitious and broad-ranging book that examines the current state of democracy in America. . . . Wolin argues that the unquestioned faith in the virtues of free market capitalism has dramatically narrowed the range of policy options that are on the table when debate turns to resolving the US''s ills. . . .[T]his is a trenchant and powerful volume. -- Alex Waddan, International Affairs\n</p>\n<p>\n Of the many books I''ve read or skimmed in the past seven years that attempted to get inside the social and political debacles of the present, none has had the chilling clarity and historical discernment of Sheldon S. Wolin''s\n <em>\n  Democracy Incorporated\n </em>\n . Building on his fifty years as a political theorist and proponent of radical democracy, Wolin here extends his concern with the extinguishing of the political and its replacement by fraudulent simulations of democratic process. -- Jonathan Crary, Artforum\n</p>\n<p>\n [W]e need to understand the deep roots of our present troubles ourselves and Wolin''s book is an excellent beginning. -- Toby Grace, Out in Jersey\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Democracy Incorporated\n </em>\n acts as an antidote to unconstrained corporate power and an elitist obsession and should be widely read by all those who cherish democracy and civil liberty. -- Shih-Yu Chou, Political Studies Review\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With his fundamental grasp of political theory and restless spirit to get at the essence of what threatens modern democracy, Wolin demonstrates that the threats to our democratic traditions and institutions are not always from outside, but may come from within. It is a book that policymakers and scholars of contemporary society should read and reflect upon.\n <br />\n (\n <strong>\n  Rakesh Khurana, Harvard Business School, author of "From Higher Aims to Hired Hands"\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13419'),
(14391, 'The Demolished Man', 'Alfred Bester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the year 2301, the wealthiest man in the universe is determined to commit murder in a world in which telepaths are used to detect possible crimes before they can happen. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7743'),
(14392, 'The demolished man', 'Alfred Bester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the year 2301, the wealthiest man in the universe is determined to commit murder in a world in which telepaths are used to detect possible crimes before they can happen. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15253'),
(14393, 'The demolished man', 'Alfred Bester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the year 2301, the wealthiest man in the universe is determined to commit murder in a world in which telepaths are used to detect possible crimes before they can happen. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16102'),
(14394, 'The demolished man', 'Alfred Bester', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the year 2301, the wealthiest man in the universe is determined to commit murder in a world in which telepaths are used to detect possible crimes before they can happen. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26289'),
(14395, 'Demolition Angel', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick,\n </strong>\n Like many authors with ongoing characters, Robert Crais has taken a break from his famous private eye. After eight novels featuring Elvis Cole and his loyal sidekick Joe Pike, Crais has created Carol Starkey, a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD''s Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol''s partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can''t bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn''t been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a bomb call takes the life of another colleague, Carol begins to investigate a series of explosions that seem to be designed to exterminate bomb technicians. She soon realizes that she''s "the one that got away." With the help of an FBI agent whom she loathes professionally for interfering with her job but finds attractive anyway, Carol must track down one of the most frighteningly brilliant killers of the modern age.\n</p>\n<p>\n This edgy thriller''s protagonist is one that the reader at first may have difficulty liking, but she''s got a background and history that make her truly three-dimensional. One hopes that Crais, one of the handful of young crime writers capable of writing consistently luminous prose, will continue to give us characters like Carol Starkey to star in his always powerful portraits of modern-day Los Angeles.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Acclaimed for his Elvis Cole mystery series (L.A. Requiem, etc.), Crais deserves further garlands for this stand-alone crime novel. The book features one of the most complex heroines to grace a thriller since Clarice Starling locked eyes with Hannibal Lecter, a deliciously spooky villain in the person of a mad bomber known as Mr. Red, and an aggressively involving plot. Carol Starkey was a rising light in the LAPD Bomb Squad until, two years back, a bomb blew up in her face, maiming her and killing her lover/partner. Now Carol''s a bitter, chain-smoking alcoholic with the LAPD''s Criminal Conspiracy Section, who gets drawn into a literally explosive conspiracy when a bomb kills Charlie Riggio, one of her former bomb squad colleagues. Forensic evidence points toward the bomb being the work of John Michael Fowles, aka Mr. Red, a coldhearted young bomber-assassin-for-hire and master of disguise. Much of the narrative concerns Carol''s pursuit of him, most excitingly on the Net through a secret mad-bombers'' site, aided by a saturnine federal (ATF) agent, Jack Pell. Intercut are scenes of Mr. Red''s various mad plottings, which take a hairpin turn when he learns that the cops think he killed Riggio: for in fact he didn''t. That murder pans out as a copycat crime for personal gain, and now Carol must pursue both Riggio''s killer and Mr. Red, who in turn has taken an intimate interest in this bomb-savvy female cop. The subsequent pas de deux between Carol and Mr. Red is too reminiscent of the dance between Starling and Lecter, but otherwise this novel gets high marks for originality, and even higher ones for suspense and, above all, for multidimensional, wounded characters who give all the excitement a rare depth. BOMC and Literary Guild featured selection; Mystery Guild main selection; author tour; film rights sold to Columbia/Tri-Star. (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1710'),
(14396, 'Demolition Angel', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Penzler Pick,\n </strong>\n Like many authors with ongoing characters, Robert Crais has taken a break from his famous private eye. After eight novels featuring Elvis Cole and his loyal sidekick Joe Pike, Crais has created Carol Starkey, a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD''s Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol''s partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can''t bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn''t been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol.\n</p>\n<p>\n When a bomb call takes the life of another colleague, Carol begins to investigate a series of explosions that seem to be designed to exterminate bomb technicians. She soon realizes that she''s "the one that got away." With the help of an FBI agent whom she loathes professionally for interfering with her job but finds attractive anyway, Carol must track down one of the most frighteningly brilliant killers of the modern age.\n</p>\n<p>\n This edgy thriller''s protagonist is one that the reader at first may have difficulty liking, but she''s got a background and history that make her truly three-dimensional. One hopes that Crais, one of the handful of young crime writers capable of writing consistently luminous prose, will continue to give us characters like Carol Starkey to star in his always powerful portraits of modern-day Los Angeles.\n <em>\n  --Otto Penzler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Acclaimed for his Elvis Cole mystery series (L.A. Requiem, etc.), Crais deserves further garlands for this stand-alone crime novel. The book features one of the most complex heroines to grace a thriller since Clarice Starling locked eyes with Hannibal Lecter, a deliciously spooky villain in the person of a mad bomber known as Mr. Red, and an aggressively involving plot. Carol Starkey was a rising light in the LAPD Bomb Squad until, two years back, a bomb blew up in her face, maiming her and killing her lover/partner. Now Carol''s a bitter, chain-smoking alcoholic with the LAPD''s Criminal Conspiracy Section, who gets drawn into a literally explosive conspiracy when a bomb kills Charlie Riggio, one of her former bomb squad colleagues. Forensic evidence points toward the bomb being the work of John Michael Fowles, aka Mr. Red, a coldhearted young bomber-assassin-for-hire and master of disguise. Much of the narrative concerns Carol''s pursuit of him, most excitingly on the Net through a secret mad-bombers'' site, aided by a saturnine federal (ATF) agent, Jack Pell. Intercut are scenes of Mr. Red''s various mad plottings, which take a hairpin turn when he learns that the cops think he killed Riggio: for in fact he didn''t. That murder pans out as a copycat crime for personal gain, and now Carol must pursue both Riggio''s killer and Mr. Red, who in turn has taken an intimate interest in this bomb-savvy female cop. The subsequent pas de deux between Carol and Mr. Red is too reminiscent of the dance between Starling and Lecter, but otherwise this novel gets high marks for originality, and even higher ones for suspense and, above all, for multidimensional, wounded characters who give all the excitement a rare depth. BOMC and Literary Guild featured selection; Mystery Guild main selection; author tour; film rights sold to Columbia/Tri-Star. (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9057'),
(14397, 'Demolition Angel (2001)', 'Crais, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14617'),
(14398, 'Demolition Angel (2001)', 'Crais, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23190'),
(14399, 'Demolition Angel (2001)', 'Crais, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27083'),
(14400, 'The Demon and the City', 'Liz Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second Detective Inspector Chen novel (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Snake Agent\n  </em>\n  ) traverses a wildly imaginative landscape based on Chinese mythology, with humans mingling with demons, Celestials and the deceased. When rich girl Deveth Sardai turns up dead, the case goes to demon Zhu Irzh, recently of Hell but posted to Earth to assist the police department of the city of Singapore Three. Meanwhile, Deveth''s girlfriend, Robin Yuan, frees Mhara, a demon Robin''s research company has been experimenting on for defense reasons. Robin and Zhu Irzh''s paths cross as they follow the trail of the killer, leading them to uncover a larger plot involving a goddess in Heaven''s bid for power. As the end of the world beckons, Mhara, who is far more than he seems, offers his help, but Heaven, Hell, Earth and everything in between falls into chaos. Williams weaves a rich, complicated tapestry that merges life with afterlife, otherworldly with worldly and human with inhuman.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sequel to\n  <em>\n   Snake Agent\n  </em>\n  (2005) returns to Singapore Three, a twenty-first-century cityscape renowned for its ready access to the denizens of heaven and hell. While Detective Inspector Wei Chen takes a brief hiatus from his customary paranormal investigations, his underworld sidekick, vice-squad-specialist Zhu Irzh, stumbles on a tricky case involving the apparently demonic murder of a beautiful young woman. When the trail leads to the heiress of the powerful Paugeng Corporation, Zhu Irzh feels inexplicably drawn to this devilishly ruthless but very human woman and inadvertently implicates himself as a murder suspect. Chen''s return to sort things out only complicates matters, however, as the pair tracks other suspects, including an enigmatic demon the corporation has been harboring for experimental purposes and a celestial goddess whose unlikely alliance with hell threatens to rain chaos down on the earthbound. Fantasy enthusiasts looking for something uniquely imaginative will find it in Williams'' surreal fusion of Chinese mythology, paranormal high jinks, and satisfyingly suspenseful sleuthing.\n  <em>\n   Carl Hays\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3344'),
(14401, 'The Demon and the City', 'Liz Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second Detective Inspector Chen novel (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Snake Agent\n  </em>\n  ) traverses a wildly imaginative landscape based on Chinese mythology, with humans mingling with demons, Celestials and the deceased. When rich girl Deveth Sardai turns up dead, the case goes to demon Zhu Irzh, recently of Hell but posted to Earth to assist the police department of the city of Singapore Three. Meanwhile, Deveth''s girlfriend, Robin Yuan, frees Mhara, a demon Robin''s research company has been experimenting on for defense reasons. Robin and Zhu Irzh''s paths cross as they follow the trail of the killer, leading them to uncover a larger plot involving a goddess in Heaven''s bid for power. As the end of the world beckons, Mhara, who is far more than he seems, offers his help, but Heaven, Hell, Earth and everything in between falls into chaos. Williams weaves a rich, complicated tapestry that merges life with afterlife, otherworldly with worldly and human with inhuman.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sequel to\n  <em>\n   Snake Agent\n  </em>\n  (2005) returns to Singapore Three, a twenty-first-century cityscape renowned for its ready access to the denizens of heaven and hell. While Detective Inspector Wei Chen takes a brief hiatus from his customary paranormal investigations, his underworld sidekick, vice-squad-specialist Zhu Irzh, stumbles on a tricky case involving the apparently demonic murder of a beautiful young woman. When the trail leads to the heiress of the powerful Paugeng Corporation, Zhu Irzh feels inexplicably drawn to this devilishly ruthless but very human woman and inadvertently implicates himself as a murder suspect. Chen''s return to sort things out only complicates matters, however, as the pair tracks other suspects, including an enigmatic demon the corporation has been harboring for experimental purposes and a celestial goddess whose unlikely alliance with hell threatens to rain chaos down on the earthbound. Fantasy enthusiasts looking for something uniquely imaginative will find it in Williams'' surreal fusion of Chinese mythology, paranormal high jinks, and satisfyingly suspenseful sleuthing.\n  <em>\n   Carl Hays\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13370'),
(14402, 'The Demon and the City', 'Liz Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The second Detective Inspector Chen novel (after 2005''s\n  <em>\n   Snake Agent\n  </em>\n  ) traverses a wildly imaginative landscape based on Chinese mythology, with humans mingling with demons, Celestials and the deceased. When rich girl Deveth Sardai turns up dead, the case goes to demon Zhu Irzh, recently of Hell but posted to Earth to assist the police department of the city of Singapore Three. Meanwhile, Deveth''s girlfriend, Robin Yuan, frees Mhara, a demon Robin''s research company has been experimenting on for defense reasons. Robin and Zhu Irzh''s paths cross as they follow the trail of the killer, leading them to uncover a larger plot involving a goddess in Heaven''s bid for power. As the end of the world beckons, Mhara, who is far more than he seems, offers his help, but Heaven, Hell, Earth and everything in between falls into chaos. Williams weaves a rich, complicated tapestry that merges life with afterlife, otherworldly with worldly and human with inhuman.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sequel to\n  <em>\n   Snake Agent\n  </em>\n  (2005) returns to Singapore Three, a twenty-first-century cityscape renowned for its ready access to the denizens of heaven and hell. While Detective Inspector Wei Chen takes a brief hiatus from his customary paranormal investigations, his underworld sidekick, vice-squad-specialist Zhu Irzh, stumbles on a tricky case involving the apparently demonic murder of a beautiful young woman. When the trail leads to the heiress of the powerful Paugeng Corporation, Zhu Irzh feels inexplicably drawn to this devilishly ruthless but very human woman and inadvertently implicates himself as a murder suspect. Chen''s return to sort things out only complicates matters, however, as the pair tracks other suspects, including an enigmatic demon the corporation has been harboring for experimental purposes and a celestial goddess whose unlikely alliance with hell threatens to rain chaos down on the earthbound. Fantasy enthusiasts looking for something uniquely imaginative will find it in Williams'' surreal fusion of Chinese mythology, paranormal high jinks, and satisfyingly suspenseful sleuthing.\n  <em>\n   Carl Hays\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21263'),
(14403, 'Demon Apocalypse', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One boy''s life ripped to shreds before his eyes...\n</p>\n<p>\n One wrathful demon master hell-bent on revenge...\n</p>\n<p>\n An army of grisly Demonata on the rampage...\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s the end of the world as we know it.\n</p>\n<p>\n The sixth novel in the chilling Demonata series by Darren Shan, author of the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling Cirque Du Freak series, will terrify readers long after the last page.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is working on his seventh novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in November 2008.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6353');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14404, 'Demon Apocalypse', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One boy''s life ripped to shreds before his eyes...\n</p>\n<p>\n One wrathful demon master hell-bent on revenge...\n</p>\n<p>\n An army of grisly Demonata on the rampage...\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s the end of the world as we know it.\n</p>\n<p>\n The sixth novel in the chilling Demonata series by Darren Shan, author of the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling Cirque Du Freak series, will terrify readers long after the last page.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is working on his seventh novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in November 2008.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12672'),
(14405, 'Demon Bound', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Jack Winter''s deadly past has come back to haunt him...and his only hope lies in the shadows of Black London, the supernatural underworld teeming with dark magic and fey glamour."Thirteen years ago, Jack Winter lay dying in a graveyard. Jack called upon a demon and traded his soul for his life...and now the demon is back to collect its due. But Jack has finally found something to live for. Her name is Pete Caldecott--and because of her, Jack''s not going to Hell without a fight.DEMON BOUNDPete doesn''t know about Jack''s bargain, but she does know that something bigger and far more dangerous than Jack''s demon is growing in the Black. Old gods are stirring and spirits are rising--and Jack doesn''t stand a chance of stopping them without Pete''s help...Praise for the Black London series: "This dark tale takes supernatural shadows to the next level." --"Publishers Weekly""Crackles with conflict and perilous magic...For those who love their urban fantasy hypnotically treacherous, this book''s for you!" "--Romantic Times BOOKreviews"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6994'),
(14406, 'Demon Bound', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Jack Winter''s deadly past has come back to haunt him...and his only hope lies in the shadows of Black London, the supernatural underworld teeming with dark magic and fey glamour."Thirteen years ago, Jack Winter lay dying in a graveyard. Jack called upon a demon and traded his soul for his life...and now the demon is back to collect its due. But Jack has finally found something to live for. Her name is Pete Caldecott--and because of her, Jack''s not going to Hell without a fight.DEMON BOUNDPete doesn''t know about Jack''s bargain, but she does know that something bigger and far more dangerous than Jack''s demon is growing in the Black. Old gods are stirring and spirits are rising--and Jack doesn''t stand a chance of stopping them without Pete''s help...Praise for the Black London series: "This dark tale takes supernatural shadows to the next level." --"Publishers Weekly""Crackles with conflict and perilous magic...For those who love their urban fantasy hypnotically treacherous, this book''s for you!" "--Romantic Times BOOKreviews"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10778'),
(14407, 'Demon Bound', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Jack Winter''s deadly past has come back to haunt him...and his only hope lies in the shadows of Black London, the supernatural underworld teeming with dark magic and fey glamour."Thirteen years ago, Jack Winter lay dying in a graveyard. Jack called upon a demon and traded his soul for his life...and now the demon is back to collect its due. But Jack has finally found something to live for. Her name is Pete Caldecott--and because of her, Jack''s not going to Hell without a fight.DEMON BOUNDPete doesn''t know about Jack''s bargain, but she does know that something bigger and far more dangerous than Jack''s demon is growing in the Black. Old gods are stirring and spirits are rising--and Jack doesn''t stand a chance of stopping them without Pete''s help...Praise for the Black London series: "This dark tale takes supernatural shadows to the next level." --"Publishers Weekly""Crackles with conflict and perilous magic...For those who love their urban fantasy hypnotically treacherous, this book''s for you!" "--Romantic Times BOOKreviews"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16859'),
(14408, 'Demon Bound', 'Caitlin Kittredge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Jack Winter''s deadly past has come back to haunt him...and his only hope lies in the shadows of Black London, the supernatural underworld teeming with dark magic and fey glamour."Thirteen years ago, Jack Winter lay dying in a graveyard. Jack called upon a demon and traded his soul for his life...and now the demon is back to collect its due. But Jack has finally found something to live for. Her name is Pete Caldecott--and because of her, Jack''s not going to Hell without a fight.DEMON BOUNDPete doesn''t know about Jack''s bargain, but she does know that something bigger and far more dangerous than Jack''s demon is growing in the Black. Old gods are stirring and spirits are rising--and Jack doesn''t stand a chance of stopping them without Pete''s help...Praise for the Black London series: "This dark tale takes supernatural shadows to the next level." --"Publishers Weekly""Crackles with conflict and perilous magic...For those who love their urban fantasy hypnotically treacherous, this book''s for you!" "--Romantic Times BOOKreviews"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26748'),
(14409, 'Demon Child', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Â“What exactly was the curse?Â” asked Jenny. Her hands were so cold that they looked like white porcelain. ''\n <br />\n Her aunt spoke slowly. Â“Sarah pledged that every generation of the Brucker family would contain a child haunted-a child possessed. This child would seek the wolfbane, would howl at the full moon, and find a craving for blood.Â”\n <br />\n Â“A werewolf? That''sÂ… silly.Â” But she did not feel much like laughing.\n <br />\n Â“That night Sarah''s father diedÂ… strangely. He grabbed at his own neck, as if struggling against someoneÂ… or somethingÂ… invisible. He drew his own bloodÂ… but he died.Â”\n <br />\n Jenny''s eyes strayed to the red volumes of demonic lore. Was this really the answer to Freya''s strange spells? Impossible though it seemedÂ… could the child really be a werewolf?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6099'),
(14410, 'Demon Child', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17836'),
(14411, 'Demon Hunts', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Seattle police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she''s ending it trying not to be consumed by evil. **Literally.** She''s proven she can handle the gods and the walking dead. But a cannibalistic serial killer? That''s more than even she bargained for. What''s worse, the brutal demon can only be tracked one way. If Joanne is to stop its campaign of terror, she''ll have to hunt it where it lives: the Lower World, a shamanistic plane of magic and spirits. Trouble is, Joanne''s skills are no match for the dangers she''s about to faceâ€”and her on-the-job training could prove fatal to the people she''s sworn to protectâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7038'),
(14412, 'Demon Hunts', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Seattle police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she''s ending it trying not to be consumed by evil. **Literally.** She''s proven she can handle the gods and the walking dead. But a cannibalistic serial killer? That''s more than even she bargained for. What''s worse, the brutal demon can only be tracked one way. If Joanne is to stop its campaign of terror, she''ll have to hunt it where it lives: the Lower World, a shamanistic plane of magic and spirits. Trouble is, Joanne''s skills are no match for the dangers she''s about to faceâ€”and her on-the-job training could prove fatal to the people she''s sworn to protectâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16827'),
(14413, 'Demon Hunts', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Seattle police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she''s ending it trying not to be consumed by evil. **Literally.** She''s proven she can handle the gods and the walking dead. But a cannibalistic serial killer? That''s more than even she bargained for. What''s worse, the brutal demon can only be tracked one way. If Joanne is to stop its campaign of terror, she''ll have to hunt it where it lives: the Lower World, a shamanistic plane of magic and spirits. Trouble is, Joanne''s skills are no match for the dangers she''s about to faceâ€”and her on-the-job training could prove fatal to the people she''s sworn to protectâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26704'),
(14414, 'The Demon in the Freezer', 'Richard Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *â€œThe bard of biological weapons capturesthe drama of the front lines.â€*-Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navyThe first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with â€œhotâ€ agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In **The Demon in the Freezer**, his first nonfiction book since **The Hot Zone**, a #1 *New York Times *bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national biodefense.Peter Jahrling, the top scientist at Usamriid, a wry virologist who cut his teeth on Ebola, one of the worldâ€™s most lethal emerging viruses, has ORCON security clearance that gives him access to top secret information on bioweapons. His most urgent priority is to develop a drug that will take on smallpox-and win. Eradicated from the planet in 1979 in one of the great triumphs of modern science, the smallpox virus now resides, officially, in only two high-security freezers-at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and in Siberia, at a Russian virology institute called Vector. But the demon in the freezer has been set loose. It is almost certain that illegal stocks are in the possession of hostile states, including Iraq and North Korea. Jahrling is haunted by the thought that biologists in secret labs are using genetic engineering to create a new superpox virus, a smallpox resistant to all vaccines.Usamriid went into a state of Delta Alert on September 11 and activated its emergency response teams when the first anthrax letters were opened in New York and Washington, D.C. Preston reports, in unprecedented detail, on the governmentâ€™s response to the attacks and takes us into the ongoing FBI investigation. His story is based on interviews with top-level FBI agents and with Dr. Steven Hatfill.Jahrling is leading a team of scientists doing controversial experiments with live smallpox virus at CDC. Preston takes us into the lab where Jahrling is reawakening smallpox and explains, with cool and devastating precision, what may be at stake if his last bold experiment fails.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21465'),
(14415, 'Demon Lord of Karanda', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In an adventurous sequel to THE MALLOREAN, David Eddings tells the story of King Garion''s abducted infant son and his efforts to save him. Unfortunately, he and his friends are detained by the friendly, but determined Zakath, who refuses to let them leave. As a horde of demons ravage the Cities and a plague lets loose its terrors, Garion has little time left to reach his destination, or the kidnapper wins by default.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6338'),
(14416, 'Demon Lord of Karanda', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In an adventurous sequel to THE MALLOREAN, David Eddings tells the story of King Garion''s abducted infant son and his efforts to save him. Unfortunately, he and his friends are detained by the friendly, but determined Zakath, who refuses to let them leave. As a horde of demons ravage the Cities and a plague lets loose its terrors, Garion has little time left to reach his destination, or the kidnapper wins by default.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14954'),
(14417, 'Demon Lord of Karanda', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In an adventurous sequel to THE MALLOREAN, David Eddings tells the story of King Garion''s abducted infant son and his efforts to save him. Unfortunately, he and his friends are detained by the friendly, but determined Zakath, who refuses to let them leave. As a horde of demons ravage the Cities and a plague lets loose its terrors, Garion has little time left to reach his destination, or the kidnapper wins by default.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17685'),
(14418, 'Demon Lord of Karanda', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In an adventurous sequel to THE MALLOREAN, David Eddings tells the story of King Garion''s abducted infant son and his efforts to save him. Unfortunately, he and his friends are detained by the friendly, but determined Zakath, who refuses to let them leave. As a horde of demons ravage the Cities and a plague lets loose its terrors, Garion has little time left to reach his destination, or the kidnapper wins by default.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27344'),
(14419, 'Demon Mistress', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Menolly, Camille, and Delilah are the Dâ€™Artigo Sistersâ€”half-human, half-Faerie operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Their latest assignment is to root out the secret society responsible for unleashing chaos magic against the cityâ€”and to stop a demon from devouring Delilahâ€™s soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/104'),
(14420, 'Demon Mistress', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Menolly, Camille, and Delilah are the Dâ€™Artigo Sistersâ€”half-human, half-Faerie operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Their latest assignment is to root out the secret society responsible for unleashing chaos magic against the cityâ€”and to stop a demon from devouring Delilahâ€™s soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9863'),
(14421, 'Demon Mistress', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Menolly, Camille, and Delilah are the Dâ€™Artigo Sistersâ€”half-human, half-Faerie operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Their latest assignment is to root out the secret society responsible for unleashing chaos magic against the cityâ€”and to stop a demon from devouring Delilahâ€™s soul.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24773'),
(14422, 'The Demon of Dakar', 'Kjell Eriksson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY\n  </u>\n </b>\n :\n <br />\n Winner of the Swedish Crime Academy Award for Best Crime Novel, international sensation Kjell Eriksson has quickly built a name for himself in the United States. In this highly acclaimed follow-up to The Cruel Stars of the Night, Manuel Alavezâ€™s life is in ruins. One of his brothers is dead, the other is in jail, and the man who double-crossed both men is running a high-class successful restaurant. A series of dramatic events inevitably leads to murder, and Inspector Ann Lindell is forced to sample many fine meals at the restaurant as she attempts to thwart a cunning killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3730'),
(14423, 'The Demon of Dakar', 'Kjell Eriksson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY\n  </u>\n </b>\n :\n <br />\n Winner of the Swedish Crime Academy Award for Best Crime Novel, international sensation Kjell Eriksson has quickly built a name for himself in the United States. In this highly acclaimed follow-up to The Cruel Stars of the Night, Manuel Alavezâ€™s life is in ruins. One of his brothers is dead, the other is in jail, and the man who double-crossed both men is running a high-class successful restaurant. A series of dramatic events inevitably leads to murder, and Inspector Ann Lindell is forced to sample many fine meals at the restaurant as she attempts to thwart a cunning killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9632'),
(14424, 'The Demon of Dakar', 'Kjell Eriksson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY\n  </u>\n </b>\n :\n <br />\n Winner of the Swedish Crime Academy Award for Best Crime Novel, international sensation Kjell Eriksson has quickly built a name for himself in the United States. In this highly acclaimed follow-up to The Cruel Stars of the Night, Manuel Alavezâ€™s life is in ruins. One of his brothers is dead, the other is in jail, and the man who double-crossed both men is running a high-class successful restaurant. A series of dramatic events inevitably leads to murder, and Inspector Ann Lindell is forced to sample many fine meals at the restaurant as she attempts to thwart a cunning killer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20789'),
(14425, 'Demon Seed', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Now with a new afterword by the #1 *NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLING AUTHOR... And a brand-new package.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the privacy of her own home, and against her will, Susan Harris will experience an inconceivable act of terror. She will become the object of the ultimate computer''s consuming obsession: to learn everything there is to know about human flesh.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6100'),
(14426, 'Demon Seed', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now with a new afterword by the #1 *NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLING AUTHOR... And a brand-new package.** In the privacy of her own home, and against her will, Susan Harris will experience an inconceivable act of terror. She will become the object of the ultimate computer''s consuming obsession: to learn everything there is to know about human flesh.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14376'),
(14427, 'Demon Seed', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now with a new afterword by the #1 *NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLING AUTHOR... And a brand-new package.** In the privacy of her own home, and against her will, Susan Harris will experience an inconceivable act of terror. She will become the object of the ultimate computer''s consuming obsession: to learn everything there is to know about human flesh.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17835'),
(14428, 'Demon Seed', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the privacy of her own home, and against her will, Susan Harris will experience an inconceivable act of terror. She will become the object of the ultimate computer''s consuming obsession: to learn everything there is to know about human flesh. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27394'),
(14429, 'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which offers him marvelous opportunities to entertain us with his own childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories, and the assorted flotsam and jetsam of pseudoscience. Along the way he debunks alien abduction, faith-healing, and channeling; refutes the arguments that science destroys spirituality, and provides a "baloney detection kit" for thinking through political, social, religious, and other issues.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eminent Cornell astronomer and bestselling author Sagan debunks the paranormal and the unexplained in a study that will reassure hardcore skeptics but may leave others unsatisfied. To him, purported UFO encounters and alien abductions are products of gullibility, hallucination, misidentification, hoax and therapists'' pressure; some alleged encounters, he suggests, may screen memories of sexual abuse. He labels as hoaxes the crop circles, complex pictograms that appear in southern England''s wheat and barley fields, and he dismisses as a natural formation the Sphinx-like humanoid face incised on a mesa on Mars, first photographed by a Viking orbiter spacecraft in 1976 and considered by some scientists to be the engineered artifact of an alien civilization. In a passionate plea for scientific literacy, Sagan deftly debunks the myth of Atlantis, Filipino psychic surgeons and mediums such as J.Z. Knight, who claims to be in touch with a 35,000-year-old entity called Ramtha. He also brands as superstition ghosts, angels, fairies, demons, astrology, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and religious apparitions.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7040'),
(14430, 'The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought." *Los Angeles Times "POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing." *The Washington Post Book World How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don''t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions. Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today''s so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms. "COMPELLING." *USA Today "A clear vision of what good science means and why it makes a difference. . . . A testimonial to the power of science and a warning of the dangers of unrestrained credulity." *The Sciences "PASSIONATE." *San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14084'),
(14431, 'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which offers him marvelous opportunities to entertain us with his own childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories, and the assorted flotsam and jetsam of pseudoscience. Along the way he debunks alien abduction, faith-healing, and channeling; refutes the arguments that science destroys spirituality, and provides a "baloney detection kit" for thinking through political, social, religious, and other issues.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eminent Cornell astronomer and bestselling author Sagan debunks the paranormal and the unexplained in a study that will reassure hardcore skeptics but may leave others unsatisfied. To him, purported UFO encounters and alien abductions are products of gullibility, hallucination, misidentification, hoax and therapists'' pressure; some alleged encounters, he suggests, may screen memories of sexual abuse. He labels as hoaxes the crop circles, complex pictograms that appear in southern England''s wheat and barley fields, and he dismisses as a natural formation the Sphinx-like humanoid face incised on a mesa on Mars, first photographed by a Viking orbiter spacecraft in 1976 and considered by some scientists to be the engineered artifact of an alien civilization. In a passionate plea for scientific literacy, Sagan deftly debunks the myth of Atlantis, Filipino psychic surgeons and mediums such as J.Z. Knight, who claims to be in touch with a 35,000-year-old entity called Ramtha. He also brands as superstition ghosts, angels, fairies, demons, astrology, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and religious apparitions.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16926'),
(14432, 'The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark', 'Carl Sagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought." *Los Angeles Times "POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing." *The Washington Post Book World How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don''t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions. Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today''s so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms. "COMPELLING." *USA Today "A clear vision of what good science means and why it makes a difference. . . . A testimonial to the power of science and a warning of the dangers of unrestrained credulity." *The Sciences "PASSIONATE." *San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26815'),
(14433, 'Demon: A Memoir', 'Tosca Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Recently divorced and mired in a meaningless existence, Clay drifts from his drab apartment to his equally lusterless job as an editor for a small Boston press--until the night Lucian finds him and everything changes with the simple words, "I''m going to tell you my story, and you''re going to write it down and publish it."What begins as a mystery soon spirals into chaotic obsession as Clay struggles to piece together Lucian''s dark tale of love, ambition, and grace--only to discover that the demon''s story has become his own.  And then only one thing matters: learning how the story ends.************Praise for *Demon: A Memoir*******"So few books rattle me to the core yet lift my hopes to the heavens in the same breath. Tosca Lee''s *Demon:Â A Memoir* is a rare find that must be read."**Ted Dekker**, *New York Times* best-selling author of the Circle Trilogy"Compelling, deep... a novel that has you compulsively turning pages and makes you think at the same time."**James Scott Bell**, best-selling Author of *DeceivedÂ *"Wise, imaginative, funny and poetic, this is a book that lingers in memory after you''ve turned the last page."**Sophy Burnham**, *New York Times* best-selling author of *A Book of Angels*"Fresh, yet older than time. Years from now, we may find other books being compared to this one."**Eric Wilson**, *New York Times* best-selling author of *Fireproof*  "Powerful and beautiful. Her imagery of Eden, of Paradise and angels and Elohim, filled me with awe."**Novel Reviews**********"Lee is really proving to be a leader in the art of speculative fiction."Â **Inside Corner Book Reviews** *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/441'),
(14434, 'Demon: A Memoir', 'Tosca Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Recently divorced and mired in a meaningless existence, Clay drifts from his drab apartment to his equally lusterless job as an editor for a small Boston press--until the night Lucian finds him and everything changes with the simple words, "I''m going to tell you my story, and you''re going to write it down and publish it."What begins as a mystery soon spirals into chaotic obsession as Clay struggles to piece together Lucian''s dark tale of love, ambition, and grace--only to discover that the demon''s story has become his own.  And then only one thing matters: learning how the story ends.************Praise for *Demon: A Memoir*******"So few books rattle me to the core yet lift my hopes to the heavens in the same breath. Tosca Lee''s *Demon:Â A Memoir* is a rare find that must be read."**Ted Dekker**, *New York Times* best-selling author of the Circle Trilogy"Compelling, deep... a novel that has you compulsively turning pages and makes you think at the same time."**James Scott Bell**, best-selling Author of *DeceivedÂ *"Wise, imaginative, funny and poetic, this is a book that lingers in memory after you''ve turned the last page."**Sophy Burnham**, *New York Times* best-selling author of *A Book of Angels*"Fresh, yet older than time. Years from now, we may find other books being compared to this one."**Eric Wilson**, *New York Times* best-selling author of *Fireproof*  "Powerful and beautiful. Her imagery of Eden, of Paradise and angels and Elohim, filled me with awe."**Novel Reviews**********"Lee is really proving to be a leader in the art of speculative fiction."Â **Inside Corner Book Reviews** *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12188'),
(14435, 'Demon: A Memoir', 'Tosca Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Recently divorced and mired in a meaningless existence, Clay drifts from his drab apartment to his equally lusterless job as an editor for a small Boston press--until the night Lucian finds him and everything changes with the simple words, "I''m going to tell you my story, and you''re going to write it down and publish it."What begins as a mystery soon spirals into chaotic obsession as Clay struggles to piece together Lucian''s dark tale of love, ambition, and grace--only to discover that the demon''s story has become his own. And then only one thing matters: learning how the story ends.************Praise for *Demon: A Memoir*******"So few books rattle me to the core yet lift my hopes to the heavens in the same breath. Tosca Lee''s *Demon:Â A Memoir* is a rare find that must be read."**Ted Dekker**, *New York Times* best-selling author of the Circle Trilogy"Compelling, deep... a novel that has you compulsively turning pages and makes you think at the same time."**James Scott Bell**, best-selling Author of *DeceivedÂ *"Wise, imaginative, funny and poetic, this is a book that lingers in memory after you''ve turned the last page."**Sophy Burnham**, *New York Times* best-selling author of *A Book of Angels*"Fresh, yet older than time. Years from now, we may find other books being compared to this one."**Eric Wilson**, *New York Times* best-selling author of *Fireproof* "Powerful and beautiful. Her imagery of Eden, of Paradise and angels and Elohim, filled me with awe."**Novel Reviews**********"Lee is really proving to be a leader in the art of speculative fiction."Â **Inside Corner Book Reviews** *(edited by author)*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24495'),
(14436, 'The Demonata #6: Demon Apocalypse', 'Darren Shan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One boy''s life ripped to shreds before his eyes...\n</p>\n<p>\n One wrathful demon master hell-bent on revenge...\n</p>\n<p>\n An army of grisly Demonata on the rampage...\n</p>\n<p>\n It''s the end of the world as we know it.\n</p>\n<p>\n The sixth novel in the chilling Demonata series by Darren Shan, author of the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling Cirque Du Freak series, will terrify readers long after the last page.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I was born in London in 1972 and moved to Ireland when I was 6 years old, where I''ve lived ever since. I always wanted to be a writer - I''ve loved telling stories since I was a child. I started out writing books for adults, and managed to get a couple published. One day, on a whim, I decided to try a book for children. The result was\n <em>\n  Cirque Du Freak\n </em>\n . Much to my surprise, it took off, and I became a de facto children''s author! Since then I''ve used my ill-gotten gains to buy lots of comic-strip art and travel the world. When I''m not working or traveling, I like watching movies. I''ve even been known to read the odd book or two."\n</p>\n<p>\n Darren is working on his seventh novel in the bone-chilling\n <em>\n  Demonata\n </em>\n series, coming in November 2008.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17303'),
(14437, 'Demons', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as "The Possessed," Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of "Demons" as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia-a novel that is rivaled only by "The Brothers Karamazov" as Dostoevsky''s greatest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25786'),
(14438, 'Demons Are a Ghoul&#39;s Best Friend', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Victoria Laurie''s ghoulishly great follow-up to\n   <em>\n    What''s a Ghoul to Do?\n   </em>\n   in her new Ghost Hunter Mystery series\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Northelm Boarding School on Lake Placid has the worst bully of all-a demon by the name of Hatchet Jack. M.J. Holliday, along with her partners Gilley and the handsome Dr. Steven Sable, are ready to send him back to the portal from whence he came. The school''s summer construction, an uncooperative dean, and the very tempting Dr. Delicious are all trying to distract M.J. from her ghost hunting. But with a demonic disturbance as great as Hatchet Jack, she must focus and show no mercyto send him to detention for an eternity-in hell.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/360'),
(14439, 'Demons Are a Ghoul&#39;s Best Friend', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Victoria Laurie''s ghoulishly great follow-up to\n   <em>\n    What''s a Ghoul to Do?\n   </em>\n   in her new Ghost Hunter Mystery series\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Northelm Boarding School on Lake Placid has the worst bully of all-a demon by the name of Hatchet Jack. M.J. Holliday, along with her partners Gilley and the handsome Dr. Steven Sable, are ready to send him back to the portal from whence he came. The school''s summer construction, an uncooperative dean, and the very tempting Dr. Delicious are all trying to distract M.J. from her ghost hunting. But with a demonic disturbance as great as Hatchet Jack, she must focus and show no mercyto send him to detention for an eternity-in hell.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24527'),
(14440, 'Demons Don&#39;t Dream', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two young adventurers are drawn into theworld of Xanth through a computer game and find themselves in adesperate race against time when treachery, danger, and deceit placeXanth itself in peril, as they learn that some things are moreimportant than winning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2003'),
(14441, 'Demons Don&#39;t Dream', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Two young adventurers are drawn into theworld of Xanth through a computer game and find themselves in adesperate race against time when treachery, danger, and deceit placeXanth itself in peril, as they learn that some things are moreimportant than winning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22710'),
(14442, 'Demons. Fyodor Dostoevsky', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Robert A. Maguire; Ronald Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pevear and Volokhonsky have found critical acclaim with previous translations of Dostoevsky''s Brothers Karamazov (Classic Returns, LJ 8/90), Crime and Punishment (Classic Returns, LJ 1/92), and Notes from Underground (Classic Returns, LJ 7/93). Their Demons should be equally respected.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dostoevsky''s sprawling political novel is given new life in this fresh translation. The previous translations of the husband-and-wife team of Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear--The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, and Notes From Underground--have been universally praised for capturing Dostoevsky''s force and subtlety, and all three works are now considered the English standards. Now they have successfully tackled one of Dostoevsky''s most complex and dense works. Mistakenly translated in the past as\n <code>\n  The Possessed,'''' the title refers to the infestation of foreign political and philosophical ideas that swept Russia in the second half of the 19th century. Pevear writes in the introduction,\n </code>\n These demons, then, are ideas, that legion of -isms that came to Russia from the West: idealism, rationalism, empiricism, materialism, utilitarianism, positivism, socialism, anarchism, nihilism, and, underlying them all, atheism.'''' Dostoevsky, taking as his starting point the political chaos around him at the time, constructs an elaborate morality tale in which the people of a provincial town turn against one another because they are convinced of the infallibility of their ideas. Stepan Trofimovich, an affable thinker who does little to turn his liberal ideas into action, creates a monster in his student, Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin, who takes his spiritual father''s teaching to heart, joining a circle of other nihilists who will justify any and all violent excesses for the sake of their ideas. Stavrogin aims for a\n <code>\n  systematic corrupting of society and all its principles'''' so that out of the resulting destruction he may\n </code>\n raise the banner of rebellion.'''' A chilling foreshadowing of Stalinist logic. Volokhonsky and Pevear''s translation brings to the surface all of Dostoevsky''s subtle linguistic and nationalist humor, and the copious notes are indispensable for making one''s way through the thicket of 19th-century Russian politics. --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18473'),
(14443, 'The Den of Shadows Quartet', 'Amelia Atwater-Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  FOUR COMPLETE NOVELSâ€”ONE CAPTIVATING WORLD\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  In the Forests of the Night\n </em>\n <br />\n Three hundred years ago Risika had a familyâ€”a brother and a father who loved her. Three hundred years ago she was human. Now she is a vampire, a powerful one. And her past has come back to torment her.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Demon in My View\n </em>\n <br />\n Jessica isnâ€™t your average high school studentâ€”sheâ€™s an acclaimed published author of vampire fiction. Now two new students at her high school strongly remind her of her favorite characters. But those characters only live in her imaginationâ€”right?\n <br />\n <em>\n  Shattered Mirror\n </em>\n <br />\n Christopher Raneva and Sarah Vida may look like a normal high school couple, but heâ€™s actually a vampire whoâ€™s sworn off human blood and sheâ€™s an incredibly powerful, vampire-hunting witch. As if that werenâ€™t enough to prevent their love, his past and her future collide when they get tangled up with Nikolas, one of the most reviled vampires ever.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Midnight Predator\n </em>\n <br />\n Once a happy teenager, Turquoise Draka is now a vampire hunter. Her current assigment is to assassinate Jeshikah, one of the cruelest vampires in history. But to do that, sheâ€™ll have to enter Midnight, a fabled vampire realm, as a human slave. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7694'),
(14444, 'The Den of Shadows Quartet', 'Amelia Atwater-Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  FOUR COMPLETE NOVELSâ€”ONE CAPTIVATING WORLD\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  In the Forests of the Night\n </em>\n <br />\n Three hundred years ago Risika had a familyâ€”a brother and a father who loved her. Three hundred years ago she was human. Now she is a vampire, a powerful one. And her past has come back to torment her.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Demon in My View\n </em>\n <br />\n Jessica isnâ€™t your average high school studentâ€”sheâ€™s an acclaimed published author of vampire fiction. Now two new students at her high school strongly remind her of her favorite characters. But those characters only live in her imaginationâ€”right?\n <br />\n <em>\n  Shattered Mirror\n </em>\n <br />\n Christopher Raneva and Sarah Vida may look like a normal high school couple, but heâ€™s actually a vampire whoâ€™s sworn off human blood and sheâ€™s an incredibly powerful, vampire-hunting witch. As if that werenâ€™t enough to prevent their love, his past and her future collide when they get tangled up with Nikolas, one of the most reviled vampires ever.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Midnight Predator\n </em>\n <br />\n Once a happy teenager, Turquoise Draka is now a vampire hunter. Her current assigment is to assassinate Jeshikah, one of the cruelest vampires in history. But to do that, sheâ€™ll have to enter Midnight, a fabled vampire realm, as a human slave. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8236'),
(14445, 'The Den of Shadows Quartet', 'Amelia Atwater-Rhodes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  FOUR COMPLETE NOVELSâ€”ONE CAPTIVATING WORLD\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  In the Forests of the Night\n </em>\n <br />\n Three hundred years ago Risika had a familyâ€”a brother and a father who loved her. Three hundred years ago she was human. Now she is a vampire, a powerful one. And her past has come back to torment her.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Demon in My View\n </em>\n <br />\n Jessica isnâ€™t your average high school studentâ€”sheâ€™s an acclaimed published author of vampire fiction. Now two new students at her high school strongly remind her of her favorite characters. But those characters only live in her imaginationâ€”right?\n <br />\n <em>\n  Shattered Mirror\n </em>\n <br />\n Christopher Raneva and Sarah Vida may look like a normal high school couple, but heâ€™s actually a vampire whoâ€™s sworn off human blood and sheâ€™s an incredibly powerful, vampire-hunting witch. As if that werenâ€™t enough to prevent their love, his past and her future collide when they get tangled up with Nikolas, one of the most reviled vampires ever.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Midnight Predator\n </em>\n <br />\n Once a happy teenager, Turquoise Draka is now a vampire hunter. Her current assigment is to assassinate Jeshikah, one of the cruelest vampires in history. But to do that, sheâ€™ll have to enter Midnight, a fabled vampire realm, as a human slave. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16176'),
(14446, 'Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives', 'Michael Specter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In this provocative and headline- making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Denialism, New Yorker* staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution of science more today than ever before. For centuries, the general view had been that science is neither good nor bad-that it merely supplies information and that new information is always beneficial. Now, science is viewed as a political constituency that isn''t always in our best interest. We live in a world where the leaders of African nations prefer to let their citizens starve to death rather than import genetically modified grains. Childhood vaccines have proven to be the most effective public health measure in history, yet people march on Washington to protest their use. In the United States a growing series of studies show that dietary supplements and "natural" cures have almost no value, and often cause harm. We still spend billions of dollars on them. In hundreds of the best universities in the world, laboratories are anonymous, unmarked, and surrounded by platoons of security guards-such is the opposition to any research that includes experiments with animals. And pharmaceutical companies that just forty years ago were perhaps the most visible symbol of our remarkable advance against disease have increasingly been seen as callous corporations propelled solely by avarice and greed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Michael Specter sees it, this amounts to a war against *progress*. The issues may be complex but the choices are not: Are we going to continue to embrace new technologies, along with acknowledging their limitations and threats, or are we ready to slink back into an era of magical thinking? In *Denialism*, Specter makes an argument for a new Enlightenment, the revival of an approach to the physical world that was stunningly effective for hundreds of years: What can be understood and reliably repeated by experiment is what nature regarded as true. Now, at the time of mankind''s greatest scientific advances-and our greatest need for them-that deal must be renewed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2674');
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(14447, 'Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives', 'Michael Specter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In this provocative and headline- making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Denialism, New Yorker* staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution of science more today than ever before. For centuries, the general view had been that science is neither good nor bad-that it merely supplies information and that new information is always beneficial. Now, science is viewed as a political constituency that isn''t always in our best interest. We live in a world where the leaders of African nations prefer to let their citizens starve to death rather than import genetically modified grains. Childhood vaccines have proven to be the most effective public health measure in history, yet people march on Washington to protest their use. In the United States a growing series of studies show that dietary supplements and "natural" cures have almost no value, and often cause harm. We still spend billions of dollars on them. In hundreds of the best universities in the world, laboratories are anonymous, unmarked, and surrounded by platoons of security guards-such is the opposition to any research that includes experiments with animals. And pharmaceutical companies that just forty years ago were perhaps the most visible symbol of our remarkable advance against disease have increasingly been seen as callous corporations propelled solely by avarice and greed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As Michael Specter sees it, this amounts to a war against *progress*. The issues may be complex but the choices are not: Are we going to continue to embrace new technologies, along with acknowledging their limitations and threats, or are we ready to slink back into an era of magical thinking? In *Denialism*, Specter makes an argument for a new Enlightenment, the revival of an approach to the physical world that was stunningly effective for hundreds of years: What can be understood and reliably repeated by experiment is what nature regarded as true. Now, at the time of mankind''s greatest scientific advances-and our greatest need for them-that deal must be renewed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12828'),
(14448, 'Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives', 'Michael Specter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In this provocative and headline- making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.** In *Denialism, New Yorker* staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution of science more today than ever before. For centuries, the general view had been that science is neither good nor bad-that it merely supplies information and that new information is always beneficial. Now, science is viewed as a political constituency that isn''t always in our best interest. We live in a world where the leaders of African nations prefer to let their citizens starve to death rather than import genetically modified grains. Childhood vaccines have proven to be the most effective public health measure in history, yet people march on Washington to protest their use. In the United States a growing series of studies show that dietary supplements and "natural" cures have almost no value, and often cause harm. We still spend billions of dollars on them. In hundreds of the best universities in the world, laboratories are anonymous, unmarked, and surrounded by platoons of security guards-such is the opposition to any research that includes experiments with animals. And pharmaceutical companies that just forty years ago were perhaps the most visible symbol of our remarkable advance against disease have increasingly been seen as callous corporations propelled solely by avarice and greed. As Michael Specter sees it, this amounts to a war against *progress*. The issues may be complex but the choices are not: Are we going to continue to embrace new technologies, along with acknowledging their limitations and threats, or are we ready to slink back into an era of magical thinking? In *Denialism*, Specter makes an argument for a new Enlightenment, the revival of an approach to the physical world that was stunningly effective for hundreds of years: What can be understood and reliably repeated by experiment is what nature regarded as true. Now, at the time of mankind''s greatest scientific advances-and our greatest need for them-that deal must be renewed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22057'),
(14449, 'Denise&#39;s Daily Dozen: The Easy, Every Day Program to Lose Up to 12 Pounds in 2 Weeks', 'Denise Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Denise Austin comes the perfect health book for anyone who wants to live better but just can''t seem to find the time. Much more than just another excercise book, Denise''s Daily Dozen covers a whole range of health and diet related concepts yet manages it all in a no-stress, time-conscious program of 12''s. At it''s core, this book contains the minimum daily requirements to keep the reader flexible, strong and trim. Organized simply into seven chapters, which equal the seven days of the week, it covers a full week in daily allotments. Each day will have it''s own focus from Monday being "fat burning day" to Sunday''s "recharge and rejuvenate."Denise has created a total body program, including a 7-day balanced meal plan that includes healthy recipes, and a workout that encompasses 12 exercises done in 12 minutes each day. Everyone can take just 12 minutes, at whatever time of the day works for them, and turn it over to these simple and fun exercises. Cardio, toning, yoga and breathing exercises...they''re all here but in a way the maximizes effect while minimizing time.Beyond a dozen exercises for each day of the week this book will include many other of Denises dozens for each day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6003'),
(14450, 'Denise&#39;s Daily Dozen: The Easy, Every Day Program to Lose Up to 12 Pounds in 2 Weeks', 'Denise Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Denise Austin comes the perfect health book for anyone who wants to live better but just can''t seem to find the time. Much more than just another excercise book, Denise''s Daily Dozen covers a whole range of health and diet related concepts yet manages it all in a no-stress, time-conscious program of 12''s. At it''s core, this book contains the minimum daily requirements to keep the reader flexible, strong and trim. Organized simply into seven chapters, which equal the seven days of the week, it covers a full week in daily allotments. Each day will have it''s own focus from Monday being "fat burning day" to Sunday''s "recharge and rejuvenate."Denise has created a total body program, including a 7-day balanced meal plan that includes healthy recipes, and a workout that encompasses 12 exercises done in 12 minutes each day. Everyone can take just 12 minutes, at whatever time of the day works for them, and turn it over to these simple and fun exercises. Cardio, toning, yoga and breathing exercises...they''re all here but in a way the maximizes effect while minimizing time.Beyond a dozen exercises for each day of the week this book will include many other of Denises dozens for each day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8308'),
(14451, 'Denise&#39;s Daily Dozen: The Easy, Every Day Program to Lose Up to 12 Pounds in 2 Weeks', 'Denise Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Denise Austin comes the perfect health book for anyone who wants to live better but just can''t seem to find the time. Much more than just another excercise book, Denise''s Daily Dozen covers a whole range of health and diet related concepts yet manages it all in a no-stress, time-conscious program of 12''s. At it''s core, this book contains the minimum daily requirements to keep the reader flexible, strong and trim. Organized simply into seven chapters, which equal the seven days of the week, it covers a full week in daily allotments. Each day will have it''s own focus from Monday being "fat burning day" to Sunday''s "recharge and rejuvenate."Denise has created a total body program, including a 7-day balanced meal plan that includes healthy recipes, and a workout that encompasses 12 exercises done in 12 minutes each day. Everyone can take just 12 minutes, at whatever time of the day works for them, and turn it over to these simple and fun exercises. Cardio, toning, yoga and breathing exercises...they''re all here but in a way the maximizes effect while minimizing time.Beyond a dozen exercises for each day of the week this book will include many other of Denises dozens for each day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18007'),
(14452, 'Denise&#39;s Daily Dozen: The Easy, Every Day Program to Lose Up to 12 Pounds in 2 Weeks', 'Denise Austin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Denise Austin comes the perfect health book for anyone who wants to live better but just can''t seem to find the time. Much more than just another excercise book, Denise''s Daily Dozen covers a whole range of health and diet related concepts yet manages it all in a no-stress, time-conscious program of 12''s. At it''s core, this book contains the minimum daily requirements to keep the reader flexible, strong and trim. Organized simply into seven chapters, which equal the seven days of the week, it covers a full week in daily allotments. Each day will have it''s own focus from Monday being "fat burning day" to Sunday''s "recharge and rejuvenate."Denise has created a total body program, including a 7-day balanced meal plan that includes healthy recipes, and a workout that encompasses 12 exercises done in 12 minutes each day. Everyone can take just 12 minutes, at whatever time of the day works for them, and turn it over to these simple and fun exercises. Cardio, toning, yoga and breathing exercises...they''re all here but in a way the maximizes effect while minimizing time.Beyond a dozen exercises for each day of the week this book will include many other of Denises dozens for each day.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27522'),
(14453, 'Deposedatii', 'Ursula K. Le Guin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24991'),
(14454, 'Depraved', 'Bryan Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Visitors are more than welcome in the isolated rural town of Hopkins Bend. The town needs them for their annual sacrifices...and entertainment. Now outsiders have stumbled into the town''s traps. Some will be held for their captors'' perverse, degrading amusement, but some will face a far more gruesome end at the yearly Holiday Feast. The townspeople hope their unholy ritual will protect them from the curse that befell the Kincher family. For more than a century the Kinchers have been changing, mutating, becoming gradually less human. And at the center of it all lies the dark secret, the malignant evil that controls Hopkins Bend and has made its residents truly...DEPRAVED.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7024'),
(14455, 'Depraved', 'Bryan Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Visitors are more than welcome in the isolated rural town of Hopkins Bend. The town needs them for their annual sacrifices...and entertainment. Now outsiders have stumbled into the town''s traps. Some will be held for their captors'' perverse, degrading amusement, but some will face a far more gruesome end at the yearly Holiday Feast. The townspeople hope their unholy ritual will protect them from the curse that befell the Kincher family. For more than a century the Kinchers have been changing, mutating, becoming gradually less human. And at the center of it all lies the dark secret, the malignant evil that controls Hopkins Bend and has made its residents truly...DEPRAVED.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16849'),
(14456, 'Depraved', 'Bryan Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Visitors are more than welcome in the isolated rural town of Hopkins Bend. The town needs them for their annual sacrifices...and entertainment. Now outsiders have stumbled into the town''s traps. Some will be held for their captors'' perverse, degrading amusement, but some will face a far more gruesome end at the yearly Holiday Feast. The townspeople hope their unholy ritual will protect them from the curse that befell the Kincher family. For more than a century the Kinchers have been changing, mutating, becoming gradually less human. And at the center of it all lies the dark secret, the malignant evil that controls Hopkins Bend and has made its residents truly...DEPRAVED.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26709'),
(14457, 'Depths', 'Henning Mankell &amp; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Henning Mankell will be published for the first time in Canada by Knopf Canada with **Depths**.October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-southeast. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. As a child Tobiasson-Svartman was fascinated by measurement; nothing is as magical as exact knowledge. His instinct for his profession is reflected in the comfortable domesticity he enjoys with his wife â€“ herself meticulous in every detail.Close to the waters where soundings are taken Tobiasson-Svartman alights on a barren skerry, presumed uninhabited, and is surprised to discover there a young woman, Sara Fredrika. Despite her almost feral appearance, something about her strikes him to the core. The mission is a success and the Svea returns to Gothenburg. Tobiasson-Svartman, however, remains haunted by this chance encounter; his equilibrium has been disturbed, and he is now compelled to find any pretence to return to the remote islet.In **Depths** Mankell confirms his status as a writer deserving acclaim beyond the crime genre. By delving deep into the male psyche, he has produced a novel as tense and compelling in every way as the Wallander series, but also powerful, moving and ultimately tragic.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5147'),
(14458, 'Depths', 'Henning Mankell &amp; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Henning Mankell will be published for the first time in Canada by Knopf Canada with **Depths**.October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-southeast. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. As a child Tobiasson-Svartman was fascinated by measurement; nothing is as magical as exact knowledge. His instinct for his profession is reflected in the comfortable domesticity he enjoys with his wife â€“ herself meticulous in every detail.Close to the waters where soundings are taken Tobiasson-Svartman alights on a barren skerry, presumed uninhabited, and is surprised to discover there a young woman, Sara Fredrika. Despite her almost feral appearance, something about her strikes him to the core. The mission is a success and the Svea returns to Gothenburg. Tobiasson-Svartman, however, remains haunted by this chance encounter; his equilibrium has been disturbed, and he is now compelled to find any pretence to return to the remote islet.In **Depths** Mankell confirms his status as a writer deserving acclaim beyond the crime genre. By delving deep into the male psyche, he has produced a novel as tense and compelling in every way as the Wallander series, but also powerful, moving and ultimately tragic.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11226'),
(14459, 'Depths', 'Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Henning Mankell will be published for the first time in Canada by Knopf Canada with **Depths**.October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-southeast. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. As a child Tobiasson-Svartman was fascinated by measurement; nothing is as magical as exact knowledge. His instinct for his profession is reflected in the comfortable domesticity he enjoys with his wife â€“ herself meticulous in every detail.Close to the waters where soundings are taken Tobiasson-Svartman alights on a barren skerry, presumed uninhabited, and is surprised to discover there a young woman, Sara Fredrika. Despite her almost feral appearance, something about her strikes him to the core. The mission is a success and the Svea returns to Gothenburg. Tobiasson-Svartman, however, remains haunted by this chance encounter; his equilibrium has been disturbed, and he is now compelled to find any pretence to return to the remote islet.In **Depths** Mankell confirms his status as a writer deserving acclaim beyond the crime genre. By delving deep into the male psyche, he has produced a novel as tense and compelling in every way as the Wallander series, but also powerful, moving and ultimately tragic.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19461'),
(14460, 'Depths', 'Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Henning Mankell will be published for the first time in Canada by Knopf Canada with **Depths**.October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-southeast. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. As a child Tobiasson-Svartman was fascinated by measurement; nothing is as magical as exact knowledge. His instinct for his profession is reflected in the comfortable domesticity he enjoys with his wife â€“ herself meticulous in every detail.Close to the waters where soundings are taken Tobiasson-Svartman alights on a barren skerry, presumed uninhabited, and is surprised to discover there a young woman, Sara Fredrika. Despite her almost feral appearance, something about her strikes him to the core. The mission is a success and the Svea returns to Gothenburg. Tobiasson-Svartman, however, remains haunted by this chance encounter; his equilibrium has been disturbed, and he is now compelled to find any pretence to return to the remote islet.In **Depths** Mankell confirms his status as a writer deserving acclaim beyond the crime genre. By delving deep into the male psyche, he has produced a novel as tense and compelling in every way as the Wallander series, but also powerful, moving and ultimately tragic.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28111'),
(14461, 'Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America&#39;s Most Fiendish Killer', 'Harold Schechter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n LURED FROM THE SAFETY OF HOME -- INTO THE JAWS OF HELL"America''s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review), Harold Schechter shatters the myth that violent crime is a modern phenomenon -- with this seamless true account of unvarnished horror from the early twentieth century. Journey inside the demented mind of Albert Fish -- pedophile, sadist, and cannibal killer -- and discover that bloodlust knows no time or place....On a warm spring day in 1928, a kindly, white-haired man appeared at the Budd family home in New York City, and soon persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Budd to let him take their adorable little girl, Grace, on an outing. The Budds never guessed that they had entrusted their child to a monster. After a relentless six-year search and nationwide press coverage, the mystery of Grace Budd''s disappearance was solved -- and a crime of unparalleled gore and revulsion was revealed to a stunned American public. What Albert Fish did to Grace Budd, and perhaps fifteen other young children, caused experts to pronounce him the most deranged human being they had ever seen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5176'),
(14462, 'Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America&#39;s Most Fiendish Killer', 'Harold Schechter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: LURED FROM THE SAFETY OF HOME -- INTO THE JAWS OF HELL"America''s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review), Harold Schechter shatters the myth that violent crime is a modern phenomenon -- with this seamless true account of unvarnished horror from the early twentieth century. Journey inside the demented mind of Albert Fish -- pedophile, sadist, and cannibal killer -- and discover that bloodlust knows no time or place....On a warm spring day in 1928, a kindly, white-haired man appeared at the Budd family home in New York City, and soon persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Budd to let him take their adorable little girl, Grace, on an outing. The Budds never guessed that they had entrusted their child to a monster. After a relentless six-year search and nationwide press coverage, the mystery of Grace Budd''s disappearance was solved -- and a crime of unparalleled gore and revulsion was revealed to a stunned American public. What Albert Fish did to Grace Budd, and perhaps fifteen other young children, caused experts to pronounce him the most deranged human being they had ever seen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19497'),
(14463, 'Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America&#39;s Most Fiendish Killer', 'Harold Schechter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: LURED FROM THE SAFETY OF HOME -- INTO THE JAWS OF HELL"America''s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review), Harold Schechter shatters the myth that violent crime is a modern phenomenon -- with this seamless true account of unvarnished horror from the early twentieth century. Journey inside the demented mind of Albert Fish -- pedophile, sadist, and cannibal killer -- and discover that bloodlust knows no time or place....On a warm spring day in 1928, a kindly, white-haired man appeared at the Budd family home in New York City, and soon persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Budd to let him take their adorable little girl, Grace, on an outing. The Budds never guessed that they had entrusted their child to a monster. After a relentless six-year search and nationwide press coverage, the mystery of Grace Budd''s disappearance was solved -- and a crime of unparalleled gore and revulsion was revealed to a stunned American public. What Albert Fish did to Grace Budd, and perhaps fifteen other young children, caused experts to pronounce him the most deranged human being they had ever seen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28055'),
(14464, 'Derelict for Tradel', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15853'),
(14465, 'Dermaphoria', 'Craig Clevenger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clevenger''s second novel (after 2002''s\n  <em>\n   The Contortionist''s Handbook\n  </em>\n  ) opens with a classic grabber: an amnesiac man awakes in jail with a woman''s nameâ€”Desireeâ€”on his lips. Prodded by a pushy police detective, that man (his name is Eric Ashworth, he''s told) must sift through the contents of his drug-addled brain to explain his only memory: "A ball of fire rising from a flaming house. Nails melting like slivers of silent wax. Beams and shingles collapsing into a pile of burning dust...." Released on bail, Eric checks into a flophouse and attempts to separate his ongoing drug hallucinations from reality. To aid him in this quest he turns to the doubtful promise of yet another drug, a powerful hallucinogen known on the street as Skin, Cradle or Derma. Eric''s trip toward understanding, as well as the reader''s, twists through exotic visions that may or not be real. It''s a long, painful process, but eventually Eric puts it all together and learns who he isâ€”and the terrible thing that he''s done. This is a sometimes brilliant, heavily stylized novel whose psychedelic prose and labyrinthine story line will enthrall some readers and enrage others. At one point Clevenger counsels both Eric and the reader: "Anything is possible and nothing is possible. They''re the same thing." Yes, that''s it exactly.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ...reminiscent of William Gibson''s work, but Clevenger has his own attitude and a film-noirish literary style that is unique. --\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Chronicle, August 28, 2005\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clevengerâ€™s trademark voice and pace are as good as ever, but the settings are his greatest triumph. --\n  <em>\n   Santa Barbara Independent, October 6, 2005\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dermaphoria advances Clevengerâ€™s dark art, powerfully evoking the paranoia of a man attempting to reconstruct his life. --\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Magazine, November 2005\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gloriously shifty puzzle-fiction whose resolution is much less important than the kaleidoscopic journey towards it. --\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2005\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6553'),
(14466, 'Dermaphoria', 'Craig Clevenger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Clevenger''s second novel (after 2002''s\n  <em>\n   The Contortionist''s Handbook\n  </em>\n  ) opens with a classic grabber: an amnesiac man awakes in jail with a woman''s nameâ€”Desireeâ€”on his lips. Prodded by a pushy police detective, that man (his name is Eric Ashworth, he''s told) must sift through the contents of his drug-addled brain to explain his only memory: "A ball of fire rising from a flaming house. Nails melting like slivers of silent wax. Beams and shingles collapsing into a pile of burning dust...." Released on bail, Eric checks into a flophouse and attempts to separate his ongoing drug hallucinations from reality. To aid him in this quest he turns to the doubtful promise of yet another drug, a powerful hallucinogen known on the street as Skin, Cradle or Derma. Eric''s trip toward understanding, as well as the reader''s, twists through exotic visions that may or not be real. It''s a long, painful process, but eventually Eric puts it all together and learns who he isâ€”and the terrible thing that he''s done. This is a sometimes brilliant, heavily stylized novel whose psychedelic prose and labyrinthine story line will enthrall some readers and enrage others. At one point Clevenger counsels both Eric and the reader: "Anything is possible and nothing is possible. They''re the same thing." Yes, that''s it exactly.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ...reminiscent of William Gibson''s work, but Clevenger has his own attitude and a film-noirish literary style that is unique. --\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Chronicle, August 28, 2005\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clevengerâ€™s trademark voice and pace are as good as ever, but the settings are his greatest triumph. --\n  <em>\n   Santa Barbara Independent, October 6, 2005\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dermaphoria advances Clevengerâ€™s dark art, powerfully evoking the paranoia of a man attempting to reconstruct his life. --\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Magazine, November 2005\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gloriously shifty puzzle-fiction whose resolution is much less important than the kaleidoscopic journey towards it. --\n  <em>\n   Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2005\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8939'),
(14467, 'Dermaphoria', 'Craig Clevenger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17426'),
(14468, 'The Dervish House', 'Ian McDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the CHAGA novels Ian McDonald brought an Africa in the grip of a bizarre alien invasion to life, in RIVER OF GODS he painted a rich portrait of India in 2047, in BRASYL he looked at different Brazils, past present and future. Ian McDonald has found renown at the cutting edge of a movement to take SF away from its British and American white roots and out into the rich cultures of the world.THE DERVISH HOUSE continues that journey and centres on Istanbul in 2025. Turkey is part of Europe but sited on the edge, it is an Islamic country that looks to the West. THE DERVISH HOUSE is the story of the families that live in and around its titular house, it is at once a rich mosaic of Islamic life in the new century and a telling novel of future possibilities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4961'),
(14469, 'The Dervish House', 'Ian McDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the CHAGA novels Ian McDonald brought an Africa in the grip of a bizarre alien invasion to life, in RIVER OF GODS he painted a rich portrait of India in 2047, in BRASYL he looked at different Brazils, past present and future. Ian McDonald has found renown at the cutting edge of a movement to take SF away from its British and American white roots and out into the rich cultures of the world.THE DERVISH HOUSE continues that journey and centres on Istanbul in 2025. Turkey is part of Europe but sited on the edge, it is an Islamic country that looks to the West. THE DERVISH HOUSE is the story of the families that live in and around its titular house, it is at once a rich mosaic of Islamic life in the new century and a telling novel of future possibilities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11387'),
(14470, 'The Dervish House', 'Ian McDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the CHAGA novels Ian McDonald brought an Africa in the grip of a bizarre alien invasion to life, in RIVER OF GODS he painted a rich portrait of India in 2047, in BRASYL he looked at different Brazils, past present and future. Ian McDonald has found renown at the cutting edge of a movement to take SF away from its British and American white roots and out into the rich cultures of the world.THE DERVISH HOUSE continues that journey and centres on Istanbul in 2025. Turkey is part of Europe but sited on the edge, it is an Islamic country that looks to the West. THE DERVISH HOUSE is the story of the families that live in and around its titular house, it is at once a rich mosaic of Islamic life in the new century and a telling novel of future possibilities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19631'),
(14471, 'Descendant', 'Masterton, Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18359'),
(14472, 'The Descent', 'Jeff Long', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Long''s smart and epic tale takes the reader into a Dantesque world, a journey to the center of the earth for the new millennium. And what is found there is both horrific and entrancing: a system of tunnels that network beneath the earth, and homonid relatives of Homo sapiens evolved to live in the depths of what appears to be hell." (*Baltimore Sun*)    "A return to the fantastic epics readers associate with H.G. Wells or Jules Verne." (*Chicago Tribune*)    "As frightening and exhilarating as anything in heaven or hell." (*Denver Rocky Mountain News*)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4656'),
(14473, 'A Desert Called Peace', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Five hundred years from now, humankind has found a link to a remarkably Earth-like planet and settled there, dividing â€“as humans will -- into dozens of nation-states.  The Federated States of Columbia has consolidated power and risen against the oppression of Earth''s corrupt Caliphate. But when Salafi madmen bent on a new jihad kill FSC Captain Patrick Hennessey''s family in a cowardly attack, they create an enemy that will show even less mercy than they do.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A legendary warrior is born:  Carrera, the scourge of Salafism. He will forge an army from the decrepit remains of a military in a failing state.  He will find those who killed his family. He will destroy them utterly. And he will try like hell to not become exactly like the enemy he is fighting.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only when he is finished will there be peace: the peace of an empty wind as it blows across a desert strewn with the bones of Carrera''s enemies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/489'),
(14474, 'A Desert Called Peace', 'Tom Kratman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Five hundred years from now, humankind has found a link to a remarkably Earth-like planet and settled there, dividing â€“as humans will -- into dozens of nation-states. The Federated States of Columbia has consolidated power and risen against the oppression of Earth''s corrupt Caliphate. But when Salafi madmen bent on a new jihad kill FSC Captain Patrick Hennessey''s family in a cowardly attack, they create an enemy that will show even less mercy than they do. A legendary warrior is born: Carrera, the scourge of Salafism. He will forge an army from the decrepit remains of a military in a failing state. He will find those who killed his family. He will destroy them utterly. And he will try like hell to not become exactly like the enemy he is fighting. Only when he is finished will there be peace: the peace of an empty wind as it blows across a desert strewn with the bones of Carrera''s enemies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24370'),
(14475, 'Desert Places: A Novel of Terror', 'Blake Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Greetings. There is a body buried on your property, covered in your blood. The unfortunate young lady''s name is Rita Jones. In her jeans pocket you''ll find a slip of paper with a phone number on it. Call that number. If I have not heard from you by 8:00 P.M., the police will receive an anonymous call. I''ll tell them where Rita Jones is buried on your property, how you killed her, and where the murder weapon can be found in your house. (I do believe a paring knife is missing from your kitchen.) I strongly advise against going to the police, as I am always watching you.**Dear Reader: Please keep the light on tonight. What happens next will scare you. Guaranteed.*In one of the most chilling debuts of the year, Blake Crouch tells a tale that shatters the boundaries of fear. Caution: You''ve Been Warned--Read at Your Own Risk!*Andrew Z. Thomas is a successful writer of suspense thrillers, living the dream at his lake house in the piedmont of North Carolina. One afternoon in late spring, he receives a bizarre letter that eventually threatens his career, his sanity, and the lives of everyone he loves. A murderer is designing his future, and for the life of him, Andrew can''t get away.An edge-of-your-seat thriller, *Desert Places* introduces the American public to a new suspense writer who will be scaring us all for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7189'),
(14476, 'Desert Places: A Novel of Terror', 'Blake Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Greetings. There is a body buried on your property, covered in your blood. The unfortunate young lady''s name is Rita Jones. In her jeans pocket you''ll find a slip of paper with a phone number on it. Call that number. If I have not heard from you by 8:00 P.M., the police will receive an anonymous call. I''ll tell them where Rita Jones is buried on your property, how you killed her, and where the murder weapon can be found in your house. (I do believe a paring knife is missing from your kitchen.) I strongly advise against going to the police, as I am always watching you.**Dear Reader: Please keep the light on tonight. What happens next will scare you. Guaranteed.*In one of the most chilling debuts of the year, Blake Crouch tells a tale that shatters the boundaries of fear. Caution: You''ve Been Warned--Read at Your Own Risk!*Andrew Z. Thomas is a successful writer of suspense thrillers, living the dream at his lake house in the piedmont of North Carolina. One afternoon in late spring, he receives a bizarre letter that eventually threatens his career, his sanity, and the lives of everyone he loves. A murderer is designing his future, and for the life of him, Andrew can''t get away.An edge-of-your-seat thriller, *Desert Places* introduces the American public to a new suspense writer who will be scaring us all for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9162'),
(14477, 'Desert Places: a Novel of Terror', 'Blake Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Greetings. There is a body buried on your property, covered in your blood. The unfortunate young lady''s name is Rita Jones. In her jeans pocket you''ll find a slip of paper with a phone number on it. Call that number. If I have not heard from you by 8:00 P.M., the police will receive an anonymous call. I''ll tell them where Rita Jones is buried on your property, how you killed her, and where the murder weapon can be found in your house. (I do believe a paring knife is missing from your kitchen.) I strongly advise against going to the police, as I am always watching you.**Dear Reader: Please keep the light on tonight. What happens next will scare you. Guaranteed.*In one of the most chilling debuts of the year, Blake Crouch tells a tale that shatters the boundaries of fear. Caution: You''ve Been Warned--Read at Your Own Risk!*Andrew Z. Thomas is a successful writer of suspense thrillers, living the dream at his lake house in the piedmont of North Carolina. One afternoon in late spring, he receives a bizarre letter that eventually threatens his career, his sanity, and the lives of everyone he loves. A murderer is designing his future, and for the life of him, Andrew can''t get away.An edge-of-your-seat thriller, *Desert Places* introduces the American public to a new suspense writer who will be scaring us all for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16682'),
(14478, 'Desert Places: a Novel of Terror', 'Blake Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Greetings. There is a body buried on your property, covered in your blood. The unfortunate young lady''s name is Rita Jones. In her jeans pocket you''ll find a slip of paper with a phone number on it. Call that number. If I have not heard from you by 8:00 P.M., the police will receive an anonymous call. I''ll tell them where Rita Jones is buried on your property, how you killed her, and where the murder weapon can be found in your house. (I do believe a paring knife is missing from your kitchen.) I strongly advise against going to the police, as I am always watching you.**Dear Reader: Please keep the light on tonight. What happens next will scare you. Guaranteed.*In one of the most chilling debuts of the year, Blake Crouch tells a tale that shatters the boundaries of fear. Caution: You''ve Been Warned--Read at Your Own Risk!*Andrew Z. Thomas is a successful writer of suspense thrillers, living the dream at his lake house in the piedmont of North Carolina. One afternoon in late spring, he receives a bizarre letter that eventually threatens his career, his sanity, and the lives of everyone he loves. A murderer is designing his future, and for the life of him, Andrew can''t get away.An edge-of-your-seat thriller, *Desert Places* introduces the American public to a new suspense writer who will be scaring us all for years to come.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26681'),
(14479, 'The Desert Spear', 'Peter V. Brett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that arise as the sun sets, preying upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind ancient and half-forgotten symbols of power. These wards alone can keep the demons at bay, but legends tell of a Deliverer: a generalâ€”some would say prophetâ€”who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. Those times, if they ever existed, are long past. The demons are back, and the return of the Deliverer is just another myth . . . or is it?Out of the desert rides Ahmann Jardir, who has forged the warlike desert tribes of Krasia into a demon-killing army. He has proclaimed himself Sharâ€™Dama Ka, the Deliverer, and he carries ancient weaponsâ€”a spear and a crownâ€”that give credence to his claim. Sworn to follow the path of the first Deliverer, he has come north to bring the scattered city-states of the green lands together in a war against demonkindâ€”whether they like it or not.    But the northerners claim their own Deliverer. His name was Arlen, but all know him now as the Warded Man: a dark, forbidding figure whose skin is tattooed with wards so powerful they make him a match for any demon. The Warded Man denies that he is the Deliverer, but his actions speak louder than words, for he teaches men and women to face their fears and stand fast against the creatures that have tormented them for centuries. Once the Sharâ€™Dama Ka and the Warded Man were friends, brothers in arms. Now they are fierce adversaries. Caught between them are Renna, a young woman pushed to the edge of human endurance; Leesha, a proud and beautiful healer whose skill in warding surpasses that of the Warded Man himself; and Rojer, a traveling fiddler whose uncanny music can soothe the demonsâ€”or stir them into such frenzy that they attack one another.      Yet as old allegiances are tested and fresh alliances forged, all are blissfully unaware of the appearance of a new breed of demon, more intelligentâ€”and deadlyâ€”than any that have come before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2149'),
(14480, 'The Desert Spear', 'Peter V. Brett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that arise as the sun sets, preying upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind ancient and half-forgotten symbols of power. These wards alone can keep the demons at bay, but legends tell of a Deliverer: a generalâ€”some would say prophetâ€”who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. Those times, if they ever existed, are long past. The demons are back, and the return of the Deliverer is just another myth . . . or is it?Out of the desert rides Ahmann Jardir, who has forged the warlike desert tribes of Krasia into a demon-killing army. He has proclaimed himself Sharâ€™Dama Ka, the Deliverer, and he carries ancient weaponsâ€”a spear and a crownâ€”that give credence to his claim. Sworn to follow the path of the first Deliverer, he has come north to bring the scattered city-states of the green lands together in a war against demonkindâ€”whether they like it or not.    But the northerners claim their own Deliverer. His name was Arlen, but all know him now as the Warded Man: a dark, forbidding figure whose skin is tattooed with wards so powerful they make him a match for any demon. The Warded Man denies that he is the Deliverer, but his actions speak louder than words, for he teaches men and women to face their fears and stand fast against the creatures that have tormented them for centuries. Once the Sharâ€™Dama Ka and the Warded Man were friends, brothers in arms. Now they are fierce adversaries. Caught between them are Renna, a young woman pushed to the edge of human endurance; Leesha, a proud and beautiful healer whose skill in warding surpasses that of the Warded Man himself; and Rojer, a traveling fiddler whose uncanny music can soothe the demonsâ€”or stir them into such frenzy that they attack one another.      Yet as old allegiances are tested and fresh alliances forged, all are blissfully unaware of the appearance of a new breed of demon, more intelligentâ€”and deadlyâ€”than any that have come before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8591'),
(14481, 'The Desert Spear', 'Peter V. Brett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that arise as the sun sets, preying upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind ancient and half-forgotten symbols of power. These wards alone can keep the demons at bay, but legends tell of a Deliverer: a generalâ€”some would say prophetâ€”who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. Those times, if they ever existed, are long past. The demons are back, and the return of the Deliverer is just another myth . . . or is it?Out of the desert rides Ahmann Jardir, who has forged the warlike desert tribes of Krasia into a demon-killing army. He has proclaimed himself Sharâ€™Dama Ka, the Deliverer, and he carries ancient weaponsâ€”a spear and a crownâ€”that give credence to his claim. Sworn to follow the path of the first Deliverer, he has come north to bring the scattered city-states of the green lands together in a war against demonkindâ€”whether they like it or not. But the northerners claim their own Deliverer. His name was Arlen, but all know him now as the Warded Man: a dark, forbidding figure whose skin is tattooed with wards so powerful they make him a match for any demon. The Warded Man denies that he is the Deliverer, but his actions speak louder than words, for he teaches men and women to face their fears and stand fast against the creatures that have tormented them for centuries. Once the Sharâ€™Dama Ka and the Warded Man were friends, brothers in arms. Now they are fierce adversaries. Caught between them are Renna, a young woman pushed to the edge of human endurance; Leesha, a proud and beautiful healer whose skill in warding surpasses that of the Warded Man himself; and Rojer, a traveling fiddler whose uncanny music can soothe the demonsâ€”or stir them into such frenzy that they attack one another. Yet as old allegiances are tested and fresh alliances forged, all are blissfully unaware of the appearance of a new breed of demon, more intelligentâ€”and deadlyâ€”than any that have come before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22613');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14482, 'A Desirable Residence', 'Madeleine Wickham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***From the author of the sensational bestselling Sophie Kinsella novels and the *New York Times *bestsellers *The Wedding Girl *and *Sleeping Arrangements, *comes a wicked comedy of adultery, angst, and modern marriage\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The asking price for this house includes a stunning renovation of hearts and dreams....Liz and Jonathan Chambers were stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts, and a miserable adolescent daughter. Then realtor Marcus Witherstone came into their livesâ€”and it seemed he would solve all their problems. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house: a glamorous PR girl, Ginny, and her almost-famous husband, Piers.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But soon Liz is lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run their business, and neither of them has time to notice that their teenage daughter is developing an unhealthy passion for the tenants, Piers and Ginny. Everyone is tangled up with everyone else, and in the most awkward possible way. As events close in, they all begin to realize that some deceptions are just a bit too close to home.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *A Desirable Residence *is sure to continue the phenomenal success of the Sophie Kinsella/Madeleine Wickham franchise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3159'),
(14483, 'A Desirable Residence', 'Madeleine Wickham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***From the author of the sensational bestselling Sophie Kinsella novels and the *New York Times *bestsellers *The Wedding Girl *and *Sleeping Arrangements, *comes a wicked comedy of adultery, angst, and modern marriage\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The asking price for this house includes a stunning renovation of hearts and dreams....Liz and Jonathan Chambers were stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts, and a miserable adolescent daughter. Then realtor Marcus Witherstone came into their livesâ€”and it seemed he would solve all their problems. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house: a glamorous PR girl, Ginny, and her almost-famous husband, Piers.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But soon Liz is lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run their business, and neither of them has time to notice that their teenage daughter is developing an unhealthy passion for the tenants, Piers and Ginny. Everyone is tangled up with everyone else, and in the most awkward possible way. As events close in, they all begin to realize that some deceptions are just a bit too close to home.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *A Desirable Residence *is sure to continue the phenomenal success of the Sophie Kinsella/Madeleine Wickham franchise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13322'),
(14484, 'A Desirable Residence', 'Madeleine Wickham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***From the author of the sensational bestselling Sophie Kinsella novels and the *New York Times *bestsellers *The Wedding Girl *and *Sleeping Arrangements, *comes a wicked comedy of adultery, angst, and modern marriage ***The asking price for this house includes a stunning renovation of hearts and dreams....Liz and Jonathan Chambers were stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts, and a miserable adolescent daughter. Then realtor Marcus Witherstone came into their livesâ€”and it seemed he would solve all their problems. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house: a glamorous PR girl, Ginny, and her almost-famous husband, Piers. But soon Liz is lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run their business, and neither of them has time to notice that their teenage daughter is developing an unhealthy passion for the tenants, Piers and Ginny. Everyone is tangled up with everyone else, and in the most awkward possible way. As events close in, they all begin to realize that some deceptions are just a bit too close to home. *A Desirable Residence *is sure to continue the phenomenal success of the Sophie Kinsella/Madeleine Wickham franchise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21298'),
(14485, 'Desolate Angel', 'Chaz McGee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n First in a series that takes readers into a new dimension in detective stories.He was once a second-rate cop, a mediocre husband, and an absent father. But ever since he was killed in a drug bust gone bad, Kevin Faheys been a lost soul in limbo. Until he encounters a dead victim whose murder he thought he solved, a girl who points him to a fresh body. And Fahey realizes he imprisoned the wrong manand the true killer is still on the loose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6760'),
(14486, 'Desolate Angel', 'Chaz McGee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n First in a series that takes readers into a new dimension in detective stories.He was once a second-rate cop, a mediocre husband, and an absent father. But ever since he was killed in a drug bust gone bad, Kevin Faheys been a lost soul in limbo. Until he encounters a dead victim whose murder he thought he solved, a girl who points him to a fresh body. And Fahey realizes he imprisoned the wrong manand the true killer is still on the loose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11374'),
(14487, 'Desolate Angel', 'Chaz McGee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First in a series that takes readers into a new dimension in detective stories.He was once a second-rate cop, a mediocre husband, and an absent father. But ever since he was killed in a drug bust gone bad, Kevin Faheys been a lost soul in limbo. Until he encounters a dead victim whose murder he thought he solved, a girl who points him to a fresh body. And Fahey realizes he imprisoned the wrong manand the true killer is still on the loose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17110'),
(14488, 'Desolate Angel', 'Chaz McGee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First in a series that takes readers into a new dimension in detective stories.He was once a second-rate cop, a mediocre husband, and an absent father. But ever since he was killed in a drug bust gone bad, Kevin Faheys been a lost soul in limbo. Until he encounters a dead victim whose murder he thought he solved, a girl who points him to a fresh body. And Fahey realizes he imprisoned the wrong manand the true killer is still on the loose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26944'),
(14489, 'Desolation Island', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n First published in 1978 a historical maritime adventure featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin, who are bound for Australia with a cargo of convicts, among them a beautiful but dangerous spy and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew.  By the author of HMS SURPRISE and POST CAPTAIN.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. The ingredients of a wonderfully powerful and dramatic O''Brian novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose have the majesty and terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an Antarctic storm in which Jack''s ship, under-manned and out-gunned, is the quarry not the hunter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2356'),
(14490, 'Desolation Island', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: First published in 1978 a historical maritime adventure featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin, who are bound for Australia with a cargo of convicts, among them a beautiful but dangerous spy and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. By the author of HMS SURPRISE and POST CAPTAIN. SUMMARY: Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. The ingredients of a wonderfully powerful and dramatic O''Brian novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose have the majesty and terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an Antarctic storm in which Jack''s ship, under-manned and out-gunned, is the quarry not the hunter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14556'),
(14491, 'Desolation Island', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: First published in 1978 a historical maritime adventure featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin, who are bound for Australia with a cargo of convicts, among them a beautiful but dangerous spy and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. By the author of HMS SURPRISE and POST CAPTAIN. SUMMARY: Patrick O''Brian''s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. The ingredients of a wonderfully powerful and dramatic O''Brian novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose have the majesty and terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an Antarctic storm in which Jack''s ship, under-manned and out-gunned, is the quarry not the hunter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22457'),
(14492, 'Desperate Cargo', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Infiltrating a Dutch human trafficking organization turns deadly when two undercover agents are tortured and shot. Protected by a complex infrastructure and ruthless lawyers, the businessmen behind the crime are untouchable under international law. But Mack Bolan isn''t about to play by their rules.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Entering Holland alone, Bolan heads to Rotterdam where he is prepared to seek out his target and destroy the corrupt organization piece by piece. The leaders of the group think they are invincible, but with the lives of women and children at stake, they are about to learn what it''s like to be hunted by the Executioner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5899'),
(14493, 'Desperate Cargo', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Infiltrating a Dutch human trafficking organization turns deadly when two undercover agents are tortured and shot. Protected by a complex infrastructure and ruthless lawyers, the businessmen behind the crime are untouchable under international law. But Mack Bolan isn''t about to play by their rules.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Entering Holland alone, Bolan heads to Rotterdam where he is prepared to seek out his target and destroy the corrupt organization piece by piece. The leaders of the group think they are invincible, but with the lives of women and children at stake, they are about to learn what it''s like to be hunted by the Executioner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11919'),
(14494, 'Desperately Seeking ...', 'Evelyn Cosgrave', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The moment she heard herself say she would marry him, she knew she had hit rock bottom. Kate never intended the get-over guy to fall in love with her ...No, Keith was just the lovely fella who was definitely not her type, but would help her feel good about herself while she got over one of the World''s Biggest Bastards. However, after the initial shock of hearing herself agree to marry him, Kate reckons that for once she is doing the right thing. A future with a wonderful man who is kind, generous, great in bed, sure to be a model husband and father and who - no mean feat this - can put up with her big mad family, is exactly what she wants.But is it?Because whatever her head might be doing, she can''t stop her heart pushing her towards the most surprising - and unsuitable - man she could possibly fall for...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5625'),
(14495, 'Desperately Seeking ...', 'Evelyn Cosgrave', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The moment she heard herself say she would marry him, she knew she had hit rock bottom. Kate never intended the get-over guy to fall in love with her ...No, Keith was just the lovely fella who was definitely not her type, but would help her feel good about herself while she got over one of the World''s Biggest Bastards. However, after the initial shock of hearing herself agree to marry him, Kate reckons that for once she is doing the right thing. A future with a wonderful man who is kind, generous, great in bed, sure to be a model husband and father and who - no mean feat this - can put up with her big mad family, is exactly what she wants.But is it?Because whatever her head might be doing, she can''t stop her heart pushing her towards the most surprising - and unsuitable - man she could possibly fall for...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9102'),
(14496, 'Desperately Seeking ...', 'Evelyn Cosgrave', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The moment she heard herself say she would marry him, she knew she had hit rock bottom. Kate never intended the get-over guy to fall in love with her ...No, Keith was just the lovely fella who was definitely not her type, but would help her feel good about herself while she got over one of the World''s Biggest Bastards. However, after the initial shock of hearing herself agree to marry him, Kate reckons that for once she is doing the right thing. A future with a wonderful man who is kind, generous, great in bed, sure to be a model husband and father and who - no mean feat this - can put up with her big mad family, is exactly what she wants.But is it?Because whatever her head might be doing, she can''t stop her heart pushing her towards the most surprising - and unsuitable - man she could possibly fall for...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19046'),
(14497, 'Desperately Seeking ...', 'Evelyn Cosgrave', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The moment she heard herself say she would marry him, she knew she had hit rock bottom. Kate never intended the get-over guy to fall in love with her ...No, Keith was just the lovely fella who was definitely not her type, but would help her feel good about herself while she got over one of the World''s Biggest Bastards. However, after the initial shock of hearing herself agree to marry him, Kate reckons that for once she is doing the right thing. A future with a wonderful man who is kind, generous, great in bed, sure to be a model husband and father and who - no mean feat this - can put up with her big mad family, is exactly what she wants.But is it?Because whatever her head might be doing, she can''t stop her heart pushing her towards the most surprising - and unsuitable - man she could possibly fall for...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27870'),
(14498, 'Desperation', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "King is at the top of his game." (Entertainment Weekly)A notice to those who feel that Stephen King has lost his  magic touch: Desperation is the genuine goods. The ensemble  cast of ordinary Americans thrown together by chance, including a  disgruntled alcoholic writer and a child who is wise beyond his years,  may be a bit too familiar. But the nearly deserted Nevada mining town  with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theatre where  the survivors hang out makes for a striking battleground, and the  grisly action rarely flags. Best of all, though, are the characters of  Tak, the ancient body-hopping evil who emerges from the mine, and of  "God"--whom the New York Times describes as "the  edgiest creation in Desperation. Remote, isolated, ironic,  shrouded behind disguises, perhaps ''another legendary shadow,'' this  deity forms a sly foil, and an icy mirror, to Tak."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1094'),
(14499, 'Desperation', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "King is at the top of his game." (Entertainment Weekly)A notice to those who feel that Stephen King has lost his  magic touch: Desperation is the genuine goods. The ensemble  cast of ordinary Americans thrown together by chance, including a  disgruntled alcoholic writer and a child who is wise beyond his years,  may be a bit too familiar. But the nearly deserted Nevada mining town  with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theatre where  the survivors hang out makes for a striking battleground, and the  grisly action rarely flags. Best of all, though, are the characters of  Tak, the ancient body-hopping evil who emerges from the mine, and of  "God"--whom the New York Times describes as "the  edgiest creation in Desperation. Remote, isolated, ironic,  shrouded behind disguises, perhaps ''another legendary shadow,'' this  deity forms a sly foil, and an icy mirror, to Tak."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10686'),
(14500, 'Desperation', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "King is at the top of his game." (Entertainment Weekly)A notice to those who feel that Stephen King has lost his magic touch: Desperation is the genuine goods. The ensemble cast of ordinary Americans thrown together by chance, including a disgruntled alcoholic writer and a child who is wise beyond his years, may be a bit too familiar. But the nearly deserted Nevada mining town with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theatre where the survivors hang out makes for a striking battleground, and the grisly action rarely flags. Best of all, though, are the characters of Tak, the ancient body-hopping evil who emerges from the mine, and of "God"--whom the New York Times describes as "the edgiest creation in Desperation. Remote, isolated, ironic, shrouded behind disguises, perhaps ''another legendary shadow,'' this deity forms a sly foil, and an icy mirror, to Tak."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14357'),
(14501, 'Despre dragoste si alti demoni', 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27898'),
(14502, 'Despre limita', 'Gabriel Liiceanu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25805'),
(14503, 'Despre lucrurile cu adevarat importante', 'Alexandru Paleologu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26096'),
(14504, 'Destination Unknown', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Agatha Christie''s genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime. DestinationUnknownThomas Charles Betterton, a famous scientist, has vanished. Conflicting reports of sightings of the missing man have come in from all over Europe. Then, his wife of six months decides to take a holiday to Morocco--for a rest That''s when a strange and surprising series of events begins to unfold. A superb--and different--mystery from a master at her best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/78'),
(14505, 'Destination unknown', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Agatha Christie''s genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime. DestinationUnknownThomas Charles Betterton, a famous scientist, has vanished. Conflicting reports of sightings of the missing man have come in from all over Europe. Then, his wife of six months decides to take a holiday to Morocco--for a rest That''s when a strange and surprising series of events begins to unfold. A superb--and different--mystery from a master at her best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17162'),
(14506, 'Destined to Last', 'Alissa Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A wealthy Englishman mistakes Lady Kate Coles love for novels as a desire for adventure and whisks her into an investigation that ultimately uncovers shes stolen his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7663'),
(14507, 'Destined to Last', 'Alissa Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A wealthy Englishman mistakes Lady Kate Coles love for novels as a desire for adventure and whisks her into an investigation that ultimately uncovers shes stolen his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10503'),
(14508, 'Destined to Last', 'Alissa Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A wealthy Englishman mistakes Lady Kate Coles love for novels as a desire for adventure and whisks her into an investigation that ultimately uncovers shes stolen his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16178'),
(14509, 'Destined to Last', 'Alissa Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A wealthy Englishman mistakes Lady Kate Coles love for novels as a desire for adventure and whisks her into an investigation that ultimately uncovers shes stolen his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26350'),
(14510, 'Destiny', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **An ancient order tied to the Vatican . . . A blood fortune buried in the caves of France . . . A conspiracy of power, greed and darkest evil . . .**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Archaeologist and explorer Annja Creed''s fascination with the myths and mysteries of the past leads her to a crypt in the caves of France, where the terrifying legend of the Beast of Gevaudin hints at the unimaginable. What she discovers is shattering: an artifact that will seal her destiny: a brotherhood of monks willing to murder to protect their secret; and a powerful black-market occultist desperate to put his own claim to centuries-old blood money. Annja embarks on a high-tension race across Europe and history itself, intent on linking the unholy treachery of the ages with the staggering revelations of the present. But she must survive the shadow figures determined to silence her threat to their existence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7849'),
(14511, 'Destiny', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An ancient order tied to the Vatican . . . A blood fortune buried in the caves of France . . . A conspiracy of power, greed and darkest evil . . .** Archaeologist and explorer Annja Creed''s fascination with the myths and mysteries of the past leads her to a crypt in the caves of France, where the terrifying legend of the Beast of Gevaudin hints at the unimaginable. What she discovers is shattering: an artifact that will seal her destiny: a brotherhood of monks willing to murder to protect their secret; and a powerful black-market occultist desperate to put his own claim to centuries-old blood money. Annja embarks on a high-tension race across Europe and history itself, intent on linking the unholy treachery of the ages with the staggering revelations of the present. But she must survive the shadow figures determined to silence her threat to their existence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16139'),
(14512, 'Destiny', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **An ancient order tied to the Vatican . . . A blood fortune buried in the caves of France . . . A conspiracy of power, greed and darkest evil . . .**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Archaeologist and explorer Annja Creed''s fascination with the myths and mysteries of the past leads her to a crypt in the caves of France, where the terrifying legend of the Beast of Gevaudin hints at the unimaginable. What she discovers is shattering: an artifact that will seal her destiny: a brotherhood of monks willing to murder to protect their secret; and a powerful black-market occultist desperate to put his own claim to centuries-old blood money. Annja embarks on a high-tension race across Europe and history itself, intent on linking the unholy treachery of the ages with the staggering revelations of the present. But she must survive the shadow figures determined to silence her threat to their existence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26277'),
(14513, 'Destiny 01: Gods of Night', 'David MacK', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Half a decade after the Dominion War and more than a year after the rise and fall of Praetor Shinzon, the galaxy''s greatest scourge returns to wreak havoc upon the Federation -- and this time its goal is nothing less than total annihilation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elsewhere, deep in the Gamma Quadrant, an ancient mystery is solved. One of Earth''s first generation of starships, lost for centuries, has been found dead and empty on a desolate planet. But its discovery so far from home has raised disturbing questions, and the answers harken back to a struggle for survival that once tested a captain and her crew to the limits of their humanity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From that terrifying flashpoint begins an apocalyptic odyssey that will reach across time and space to reveal the past, define the future, and show three captains -- Jean-Luc Picard of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  , TM William Riker of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Titan\n  </em>\n  , and Ezri Dax of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S Aventine\n  </em>\n  -- that some destinies are inescapable.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Mack\n  </strong>\n  is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including\n  <em>\n   Wildfire\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Harbinger\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Reap the Whirlwind\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Road of Bones\n  </em>\n  , and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy â€”\n  <em>\n   Gods of Night\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mere Mortals\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Lost Souls\n  </em>\n  . His first original novel, the supernatural thriller\n  <em>\n   The Calling\n  </em>\n  , debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack''s diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\n  </em>\n  ), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. RecentÂ novelsÂ include\n  <em>\n   The 4400: Promises Broken\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice\n  </em>\n  , and an expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale\n  <em>\n   The Sorrows of Empire\n  </em>\n  . Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6190'),
(14514, 'Destiny 01: Gods of Night', 'David MacK', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Half a decade after the Dominion War and more than a year after the rise and fall of Praetor Shinzon, the galaxy''s greatest scourge returns to wreak havoc upon the Federation -- and this time its goal is nothing less than total annihilation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elsewhere, deep in the Gamma Quadrant, an ancient mystery is solved. One of Earth''s first generation of starships, lost for centuries, has been found dead and empty on a desolate planet. But its discovery so far from home has raised disturbing questions, and the answers harken back to a struggle for survival that once tested a captain and her crew to the limits of their humanity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From that terrifying flashpoint begins an apocalyptic odyssey that will reach across time and space to reveal the past, define the future, and show three captains -- Jean-Luc Picard of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  , TM William Riker of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Titan\n  </em>\n  , and Ezri Dax of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S Aventine\n  </em>\n  -- that some destinies are inescapable.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Mack\n  </strong>\n  is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including\n  <em>\n   Wildfire\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Harbinger\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Reap the Whirlwind\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Road of Bones\n  </em>\n  , and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy â€”\n  <em>\n   Gods of Night\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mere Mortals\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Lost Souls\n  </em>\n  . His first original novel, the supernatural thriller\n  <em>\n   The Calling\n  </em>\n  , debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack''s diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\n  </em>\n  ), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. RecentÂ novelsÂ include\n  <em>\n   The 4400: Promises Broken\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice\n  </em>\n  , and an expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale\n  <em>\n   The Sorrows of Empire\n  </em>\n  . Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17801'),
(14515, 'Destiny 02: Mere Mortals', 'David MacK', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On Earth, Federation President Nanietta Bacco gathers allies and adversaries to form a desperate last line of defense against an impending Borg invasion. In deep space, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Captain Ezri Dax join together to cut off the Collective''s route to the Alpha Quadrant.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Half a galaxy away, Captain William Riker and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Titan\n  </em>\n  have made contact with the reclusive Caeliar -- survivors of a stellar cataclysm that, two hundred years ago, drove fissures through the structure of space and time, creating a loop of inevitability and consigning another captain and crew to a purgatory from which they could never escape.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now the supremely advanced Caeliar will brook no further intrusion upon their isolation, or against the sanctity of their Great Work....For the small, finite lives of mere mortals carry little weight in the calculations of gods.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But even gods may come to understand that they underestimate humans at their peril.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Mack\n  </strong>\n  is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including\n  <em>\n   Wildfire\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Harbinger\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Reap the Whirlwind\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Road of Bones\n  </em>\n  , and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy â€”\n  <em>\n   Gods of Night\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mere Mortals\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Lost Souls\n  </em>\n  . His first original novel, the supernatural thriller\n  <em>\n   The Calling\n  </em>\n  , debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack''s diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\n  </em>\n  ), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. RecentÂ novelsÂ include\n  <em>\n   The 4400: Promises Broken\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice\n  </em>\n  , and an expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale\n  <em>\n   The Sorrows of Empire\n  </em>\n  . Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6191'),
(14516, 'Destiny 02: Mere Mortals', 'David MacK', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On Earth, Federation President Nanietta Bacco gathers allies and adversaries to form a desperate last line of defense against an impending Borg invasion. In deep space, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Captain Ezri Dax join together to cut off the Collective''s route to the Alpha Quadrant.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Half a galaxy away, Captain William Riker and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Titan\n  </em>\n  have made contact with the reclusive Caeliar -- survivors of a stellar cataclysm that, two hundred years ago, drove fissures through the structure of space and time, creating a loop of inevitability and consigning another captain and crew to a purgatory from which they could never escape.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now the supremely advanced Caeliar will brook no further intrusion upon their isolation, or against the sanctity of their Great Work....For the small, finite lives of mere mortals carry little weight in the calculations of gods.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But even gods may come to understand that they underestimate humans at their peril.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Mack\n  </strong>\n  is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including\n  <em>\n   Wildfire\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Harbinger\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Reap the Whirlwind\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Road of Bones\n  </em>\n  , and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy â€”\n  <em>\n   Gods of Night\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mere Mortals\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Lost Souls\n  </em>\n  . His first original novel, the supernatural thriller\n  <em>\n   The Calling\n  </em>\n  , debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack''s diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\n  </em>\n  ), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. Recent novels include\n  <em>\n   The 4400: Promises Broken\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice\n  </em>\n  , and an expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale\n  <em>\n   The Sorrows of Empire\n  </em>\n  . Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17800'),
(14517, 'Destiny 03: Lost Souls', 'David MacK &amp; Gene Roddenberry &amp; Rick Berman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The soldiers of Armageddon are on the march, laying waste to worlds in their passage. An audacious plan could stop them forever, but it carries risks that one starship captain is unwilling to take. For Captain Jean-Luc Picard, defending the future has never been so important, or so personal -- and the wrong choice will cost him everything for which he has struggled and suffered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Captain William Riker, that choice has already been made. Haunted by the memories of those he was forced to leave behind, he must jeopardize all that he has left in a desperate bid to save the Federation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Captain Ezri Dax, whose impetuous youth is balanced by the wisdom of many lifetimes, the choice is a simple one: there is no going back -- only forward to whatever future awaits them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But for those who, millennia ago, had no choice...this is the hour of their final, inescapable destiny.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Mack\n  </strong>\n  is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including\n  <em>\n   Wildfire\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Harbinger\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Reap the Whirlwind\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Road of Bones\n  </em>\n  , and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy â€”\n  <em>\n   Gods of Night\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mere Mortals\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Lost Souls\n  </em>\n  . His first original novel, the supernatural thriller\n  <em>\n   The Calling\n  </em>\n  , debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack''s diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\n  </em>\n  ), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. RecentÂ novelsÂ include\n  <em>\n   The 4400: Promises Broken\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice\n  </em>\n  , and an expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale\n  <em>\n   The Sorrows of Empire\n  </em>\n  . Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6193'),
(14518, 'Destiny 03: Lost Souls', 'David MacK; Gene Roddenberry; Rick Berman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The soldiers of Armageddon are on the march, laying waste to worlds in their passage. An audacious plan could stop them forever, but it carries risks that one starship captain is unwilling to take. For Captain Jean-Luc Picard, defending the future has never been so important, or so personal -- and the wrong choice will cost him everything for which he has struggled and suffered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Captain William Riker, that choice has already been made. Haunted by the memories of those he was forced to leave behind, he must jeopardize all that he has left in a desperate bid to save the Federation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Captain Ezri Dax, whose impetuous youth is balanced by the wisdom of many lifetimes, the choice is a simple one: there is no going back -- only forward to whatever future awaits them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But for those who, millennia ago, had no choice...this is the hour of their final, inescapable destiny.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   David Mack\n  </strong>\n  is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including\n  <em>\n   Wildfire\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Harbinger\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Reap the Whirlwind\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Road of Bones\n  </em>\n  , and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy â€”\n  <em>\n   Gods of Night\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mere Mortals\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Lost Souls\n  </em>\n  . His first original novel, the supernatural thriller\n  <em>\n   The Calling\n  </em>\n  , debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim. In addition to novels, Mack''s diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine\n  </em>\n  ), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet. Recent novels include\n  <em>\n   The 4400: Promises Broken\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice\n  </em>\n  , and an expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale\n  <em>\n   The Sorrows of Empire\n  </em>\n  . Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17799'),
(14519, 'Destiny&#39;s Road', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20096'),
(14520, 'Destiny&#39;s Star', 'Elizabeth Vaughan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A return to the world of the Warlands... **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bethral, a beautiful warrior, and Ezren, a quick-witted storyteller, are confronted with a civil war and a tribe or warriors with their own code of honor and their own rules of pleasure and partnership. To stay alive they must learn new customs, confront their enemies, and conceal Ezren''s fiery power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5747'),
(14521, 'Destiny&#39;s Star', 'Elizabeth Vaughan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A return to the world of the Warlands... **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bethral, a beautiful warrior, and Ezren, a quick-witted storyteller, are confronted with a civil war and a tribe or warriors with their own code of honor and their own rules of pleasure and partnership. To stay alive they must learn new customs, confront their enemies, and conceal Ezren''s fiery power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13224'),
(14522, 'Destiny&#39;s Star', 'Elizabeth Vaughan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A return to the world of the Warlands... ** Bethral, a beautiful warrior, and Ezren, a quick-witted storyteller, are confronted with a civil war and a tribe or warriors with their own code of honor and their own rules of pleasure and partnership. To stay alive they must learn new customs, confront their enemies, and conceal Ezren''s fiery power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18929'),
(14523, 'Destiny&#39;s Star', 'Elizabeth Vaughan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A return to the world of the Warlands... ** Bethral, a beautiful warrior, and Ezren, a quick-witted storyteller, are confronted with a civil war and a tribe or warriors with their own code of honor and their own rules of pleasure and partnership. To stay alive they must learn new customs, confront their enemies, and conceal Ezren''s fiery power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27702'),
(14524, 'Destroyer of Worlds', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20226'),
(14525, 'Detective Inspector Huss', 'Helene Tursten &amp; Steven T. Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Add the voice of Helen Tursten to the list of mystery writers who know how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural."-Philadelphia Inquirer "An absorbing, intelligent mystery that holds its own alongside the best feminine hardboiled novels currently being written by Englishwomen Val McDermid and Liza Cody, and our own Sara Paretsky."-Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Fresh Air," Washington Post Book World "The picture Tursten provides of Sweden''s growing anti-immigrant resentment-embodied in Huss'' skinhead daughter-imbues this novel with a cold chill of dread that can''t be attributed only to the subfreezing temperatures of Goteborg in winter."-Chicago Sun-Times Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Goteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys'' network, with the first families of Sweden. But the "Society Suicide" turns out to have been a carefully plotted murder. As more murders ensue, she tangles with street gang members, skinheads, immigrants and neo-Nazis-a cross-section of Sweden''s disaffected-in order to catch the killer. Helene Tursten has been compared to P.D. James in her native Sweden. Her three subsequent Irene Huss mysteries have been highly praised. She was born in Goteborg in 1954 where she now lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5136'),
(14526, 'Detective Inspector Huss', 'Helene Tursten &amp; Steven T. Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Add the voice of Helen Tursten to the list of mystery writers who know how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural."-Philadelphia Inquirer "An absorbing, intelligent mystery that holds its own alongside the best feminine hardboiled novels currently being written by Englishwomen Val McDermid and Liza Cody, and our own Sara Paretsky."-Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Fresh Air," Washington Post Book World "The picture Tursten provides of Sweden''s growing anti-immigrant resentment-embodied in Huss'' skinhead daughter-imbues this novel with a cold chill of dread that can''t be attributed only to the subfreezing temperatures of Goteborg in winter."-Chicago Sun-Times Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Goteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys'' network, with the first families of Sweden. But the "Society Suicide" turns out to have been a carefully plotted murder. As more murders ensue, she tangles with street gang members, skinheads, immigrants and neo-Nazis-a cross-section of Sweden''s disaffected-in order to catch the killer. Helene Tursten has been compared to P.D. James in her native Sweden. Her three subsequent Irene Huss mysteries have been highly praised. She was born in Goteborg in 1954 where she now lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13055');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14527, 'Detective Inspector Huss', 'Helene Tursten; Steven T. Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Add the voice of Helen Tursten to the list of mystery writers who know how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural."-Philadelphia Inquirer "An absorbing, intelligent mystery that holds its own alongside the best feminine hardboiled novels currently being written by Englishwomen Val McDermid and Liza Cody, and our own Sara Paretsky."-Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Fresh Air," Washington Post Book World "The picture Tursten provides of Sweden''s growing anti-immigrant resentment-embodied in Huss'' skinhead daughter-imbues this novel with a cold chill of dread that can''t be attributed only to the subfreezing temperatures of Goteborg in winter."-Chicago Sun-Times Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Goteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys'' network, with the first families of Sweden. But the "Society Suicide" turns out to have been a carefully plotted murder. As more murders ensue, she tangles with street gang members, skinheads, immigrants and neo-Nazis-a cross-section of Sweden''s disaffected-in order to catch the killer. Helene Tursten has been compared to P.D. James in her native Sweden. Her three subsequent Irene Huss mysteries have been highly praised. She was born in Goteborg in 1954 where she now lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19474'),
(14528, 'Detective Inspector Huss', 'Helene Tursten; Steven T. Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Add the voice of Helen Tursten to the list of mystery writers who know how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural."-Philadelphia Inquirer "An absorbing, intelligent mystery that holds its own alongside the best feminine hardboiled novels currently being written by Englishwomen Val McDermid and Liza Cody, and our own Sara Paretsky."-Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Fresh Air," Washington Post Book World "The picture Tursten provides of Sweden''s growing anti-immigrant resentment-embodied in Huss'' skinhead daughter-imbues this novel with a cold chill of dread that can''t be attributed only to the subfreezing temperatures of Goteborg in winter."-Chicago Sun-Times Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Goteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys'' network, with the first families of Sweden. But the "Society Suicide" turns out to have been a carefully plotted murder. As more murders ensue, she tangles with street gang members, skinheads, immigrants and neo-Nazis-a cross-section of Sweden''s disaffected-in order to catch the killer. Helene Tursten has been compared to P.D. James in her native Sweden. Her three subsequent Irene Huss mysteries have been highly praised. She was born in Goteborg in 1954 where she now lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28138'),
(14529, 'Detroit Deathwatch', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n $150 Million Plus.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Thats the mobs annual "take" in Detroit. Fact, not fiction. The Mafia has big muscles in autotown.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolans one-man war on the Mafia shifts into high gear in Detroit!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5900'),
(14530, 'Detroit Deathwatch', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n $150 Million Plus.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Thats the mobs annual "take" in Detroit. Fact, not fiction. The Mafia has big muscles in autotown.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mack Bolans one-man war on the Mafia shifts into high gear in Detroit!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18715'),
(14531, 'Detroit Deathwatch', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n $150 Million Plus. Thats the mobs annual "take" in Detroit. Fact, not fiction. The Mafia has big muscles in autotown. Mack Bolans one-man war on the Mafia shifts into high gear in Detroit!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27520'),
(14532, 'Deus Irae', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poisoned Earth, a faith that embraces the architect of world wide devastation. The Servants of Wrath have deified Carlton Lufteufel and re-christened him the Deus Irae. In the small community of Charlottesville, Utah, Tibor McMasters, born without arms or legs, has, through an array of prostheses, established a far-reaching reputation as an inspired painter. When the new church commissions a grand mural depicting the Deus Irae, it falls upon Tibor to make a treacherous journey to find the man, to find the god, and capture his terrible visage for posterity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2067'),
(14533, 'Deus Irae', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poisoned Earth, a faith that embraces the architect of world wide devastation. The Servants of Wrath have deified Carlton Lufteufel and re-christened him the Deus Irae. In the small community of Charlottesville, Utah, Tibor McMasters, born without arms or legs, has, through an array of prostheses, established a far-reaching reputation as an inspired painter. When the new church commissions a grand mural depicting the Deus Irae, it falls upon Tibor to make a treacherous journey to find the man, to find the god, and capture his terrible visage for posterity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9253'),
(14534, 'Deus Irae', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poisoned Earth, a faith that embraces the architect of world wide devastation. The Servants of Wrath have deified Carlton Lufteufel and re-christened him the Deus Irae. In the small community of Charlottesville, Utah, Tibor McMasters, born without arms or legs, has, through an array of prostheses, established a far-reaching reputation as an inspired painter. When the new church commissions a grand mural depicting the Deus Irae, it falls upon Tibor to make a treacherous journey to find the man, to find the god, and capture his terrible visage for posterity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22697'),
(14535, 'A Device of Death', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The crew of the TARDIS are scattered across the stars and the Doctor''s memory has been wiped. The fourth Doctor is at the heart of a star spanning conspiracy involving the Time Lords and the ultimate device of death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6786'),
(14536, 'A Device of Death', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The crew of the TARDIS are scattered across the stars and the Doctor''s memory has been wiped. The fourth Doctor is at the heart of a star spanning conspiracy involving the Time Lords and the ultimate device of death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18060'),
(14537, 'The Devil and Miss Prym', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A new novel of temptation by the author of the international bestsellers "The Alchemist" and "The Zahir," A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by his painful past. A woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each of them will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose their own path. Will they choose good or evil? In the remote village of Viscos, a stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to the question: Are human beings good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives. Paulo Coelho''s stunning novel explores the timeless struggle between good and evil and brings to our everyday dilemmas fresh incentive: to master the fear that prevents us from following our dreams, from being different, and from truly living.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2160'),
(14538, 'The devil and Miss Prym', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A new novel of temptation by the author of the international bestsellers "The Alchemist" and "The Zahir," A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by his painful past. A woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each of them will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose their own path. Will they choose good or evil? In the remote village of Viscos, a stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to the question: Are human beings good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives. Paulo Coelho''s stunning novel explores the timeless struggle between good and evil and brings to our everyday dilemmas fresh incentive: to master the fear that prevents us from following our dreams, from being different, and from truly living.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22648'),
(14539, 'The Devil and Sherlock Holmes', 'David Grann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: A Q&amp;A with David Grann\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n We had the opportunity to chat with David Grann about his bestselling debut,\n <em>\n  The Lost City of Z\n </em>\n , and his second book of nonfiction, _ The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession_. Read on to find out what David thinks about the "infinitely strange" business of writing nonfiction.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Have you stayed in touch with any of the individuals you wrote about in\n <em>\n  The Devil and Sherlock Holmes?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Grann:\n </strong>\n In the course of researching the book, I got to know an array of astonishing characters. They include a marine biologist named Steve Oâ€™Shea who was trying to be the first person to ever to capture a giant squid and grow it in captivity; sandhogs digging an intricate maze of tunnels hundreds of feet beneath the streets of New York City; a Polish detective investigating whether an author planted clues to an actual murder in his postmodern novel; a fireman who suffered amnesia on 9/11 and is trying to piece together what happened to him on that tragic day; a baseball icon; cold killers; an imposter; and a school teacher, Elizabeth Gilbert, who attempted to prove that a man about to be executed for a deadly fire was really innocent. One of the strange things about reporting is that you spend a lot of time with someone and then resume your separate lives. But I occasionally hear from several of the characters in the stories. Gilbert, who had been paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident, recently called to tell me that after more than five years of rehabilitation she had begun to take steps with the aid of a walker. "I made it eighty yards," she said. "Almost a football field."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Given the opportunity, are there any stories you would like to revisit in the future?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Grann:\n </strong>\n Most of the pieces hopefully capture the essence of a story and donâ€™t need elaboration. But as I learned from the strange and unexpected twists in these true tales, there is always a possibility that something new and startling may occur that would draw me back in.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n As a journalist, how does the experience of writing essays differ from writing a longer work like\n <em>\n  The Lost City of Z\n </em>\n ?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Grann:\n </strong>\n Itâ€™s very different. With a book, you can follow many different characters and paths. With essays, you have to keep the lens tightly focused. I really believe that some stories need to be told in longer narrative form, and others, like the dozen in\n <em>\n  The Devil and Sherlock Holmes\n </em>\n , work ideally as shorter pieces.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Much of your writing revolves around individuals with unusually strong obsessions. The people you write about have focused their lives on everything from searching for giant squid to disbanding the most powerful gang in the U.S. prison system. Are there any characteristics that these individuals share?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Grann:\n </strong>\n Yes, as you mention, many of the characters are compelled by an obsession, even if the object of their obsession is very different. The other thing that many of them share is a curiosity and a hunger to explain, like Sherlock Holmes, the world around them--whether it be the unexplored sea, an underground empire, a secret prison gang, or a mysterious murder.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Many of these stories are rooted in ambiguous circumstances. Did your initial impressions change during the course of researching these people and events?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Grann:\n </strong>\n Definitely. When I began investigating these stories, I knew almost nothing about them. Many originated from little more than a tantalizing hint: a tip from a friend, a reference buried in a news brief. And so I hope that I take the reader on the same kind of journey that I experienced--a journey that often leads to conclusions that I never imagined.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon.com:\n </strong>\n Many of the stories in\n <em>\n  The Devil and Sherlock Holmes\n </em>\n have a "stranger-than-fiction" quality to them. Have you ever considered trying your hand at fiction, or is the real world strange enough for you?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Grann:\n </strong>\n When I first started out as a writer, I had aspirations of becoming a novelist, but I could never invent compelling enough characters or plots. Whatâ€™s wonderful about nonfiction is I get to meet these incredible characters--stick up men, sandhogs, prison escape artists, imposters, squid hunters, mobsters, FBI agents--and they allow me to spend time with them and document their private thoughts. If these dozen stories in the collection taught me anything, it is that life, to borrow a phrase from Sherlock Holmes, "is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Matt Richman)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n The catchy title is misleading because this collection of 12 previously published articles by New Yorker staff writer Grann (who also wrote The Lost City of Z, 2009) has only one story that has anything to do with Holmes. Readers expecting true crime may also be disappointed because Grannâ€™s work here ranges from several actual crime cases through articles that have only a nod toward mystery, as in â€œLife is Strange.â€ However, Grannâ€™s in-depth reporting and vivid writing make this worthwhile reading for lovers of good journalism. The Holmes story, â€œMysterious Circumstances,â€ traces the fate of a foremost Holmes scholar, about to bid on a lost archive of Arthur Conan Doyleâ€™s, found garroted to death, surrounded by Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Another story, â€œThe Chameleon,â€ examines a master imposterâ€™s life. Perhaps the most gripping is â€œWhich Way Did He Run?â€ in which the only firefighter of Engine Company 40 to survive the World Trade Center bombing, an amnesia victim, tries to piece together whether he acted as a hero or as a coward. --Connie Fletcher\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9475'),
(14540, 'The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession', 'David Grann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As Sherlock Holmes once conceded to Dr. Watson, ''If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outrÃ© results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.'' And with such a spirit for investigation and discovery does David Grann set out in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes to unravel the truth of twelve great, real-life mysteries. Although Holmes is the subject of just one of the mesmerizing stories in this collection, all twelve contain elements of intrigue. Many of the protagonists are sleuths: a Polish detective trying to determine whether an author planted clues to a real murder in his post-modern novel; an arson investigator racing to prove whether a man about to be executed is innocent; a legendary French con man questioning whether he is the one who is suddenly being conned; and scientists stalking a sea monster. Unlike the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, these tales are all true. The protagonists are mortal and pieces of the puzzle often elude them. Some of the characters are driven to deception and murder. Others go mad. But ultimately the stories contained in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes shed light on the human condition, and why some people on this earth devote themselves to good and others to evil. As Holmes put it, ''Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6301'),
(14541, 'The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession', 'David Grann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As Sherlock Holmes once conceded to Dr. Watson, ''If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outrÃ© results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.'' And with such a spirit for investigation and discovery does David Grann set out in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes to unravel the truth of twelve great, real-life mysteries. Although Holmes is the subject of just one of the mesmerizing stories in this collection, all twelve contain elements of intrigue. Many of the protagonists are sleuths: a Polish detective trying to determine whether an author planted clues to a real murder in his post-modern novel; an arson investigator racing to prove whether a man about to be executed is innocent; a legendary French con man questioning whether he is the one who is suddenly being conned; and scientists stalking a sea monster. Unlike the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, these tales are all true. The protagonists are mortal and pieces of the puzzle often elude them. Some of the characters are driven to deception and murder. Others go mad. But ultimately the stories contained in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes shed light on the human condition, and why some people on this earth devote themselves to good and others to evil. As Holmes put it, ''Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17755'),
(14542, 'The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession', 'David Grann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As Sherlock Holmes once conceded to Dr. Watson, ''If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outrÃ© results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.'' And with such a spirit for investigation and discovery does David Grann set out in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes to unravel the truth of twelve great, real-life mysteries. Although Holmes is the subject of just one of the mesmerizing stories in this collection, all twelve contain elements of intrigue. Many of the protagonists are sleuths: a Polish detective trying to determine whether an author planted clues to a real murder in his post-modern novel; an arson investigator racing to prove whether a man about to be executed is innocent; a legendary French con man questioning whether he is the one who is suddenly being conned; and scientists stalking a sea monster. Unlike the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, these tales are all true. The protagonists are mortal and pieces of the puzzle often elude them. Some of the characters are driven to deception and murder. Others go mad. But ultimately the stories contained in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes shed light on the human condition, and why some people on this earth devote themselves to good and others to evil. As Holmes put it, ''Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27291'),
(14543, 'Devil Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com Exclusive: Jeffery Deaver on\n   <em>\n    Devil Bones\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  _Jeffery Deaver is the bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   _The Broken Window\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Bone Collector\n  </em>\n  was made into a feature release from Universal Pictures, starring Denzel Washington. He lives in North Carolina.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s always a pleasure to see a new installment in the saga of Temperence Brennan, the forensic anthropologist who plies her trade in both Charlotte, North Carolina, and Montreal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Devil Bones\n  </em>\n  , set in the U S of A, opens with a grisly discovery that offers a very different take on\n  <em>\n   This Old House\n  </em>\n  . Tempe is pulled from staid academia to investigate the troubling and mystifying scene, which involves cauldrons, ceremonial religious artifacts and, most troubling, the severed head of a teenage girl.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Another torso is located nearby, and the story is off and running.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tempe and Charlotte police department detective Erskine "Skinny" Slidell, follow leads that take them through the seamier and the chicer sides of North Carolina''s largest city--the worlds of Santeria, voodoo, the Wiccan religion (any witches out there: I''m not lumping them together!), and male prostitution. Our heroine also locks horns with a crusading minister turned politician, and there''s a reporter who manages to show up at all the wrong moments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reichs juggles the questions of who done it (and who''s gonna get done next) until the very end with consummate skill. In series books, readers treat characters as friends and follow those storylines as ardently as the ones involving murder and mayhem. Not content to keep things simmering on low boil, Reichs dunks her protagonist into a pressure cooker, with plenty of turmoil stirred up by a former lover, a--possibly--current one and, most significantly for this reader, yet another ghost of life past, about which I''ll say no more here. Trouble on campus also surfaces for Professor Brennan, with whom we experience one of the most harrowing moments in the book: a meeting of professors and department heads (university politics as weapon of mass destruction). Oh, and we can''t forget some brief appearances by the ex, who is behaving just like, well, an ex.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It might have been my imagination but I believe too that I saw the bones, if you will, of a possible subplot involving Tempe''s daughter, Katy, who''s working in the public defender''s office. I''m looking forward to seeing Reich confirm or deny this in the next installment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Devil Bones\n  </em>\n  we get plenty of what we''ve come to expect in a Reichs novel: engrossing details on forensic anthropology and anatomical science. Her mastery, and love, of those subjects, which Reichs herself practices (in both Montreal and Charlotte, by the way), is evident in her writing. We''re also treated to plenty of esoterica about non-mainstream religions and history (I mean, I live in North Carolina and didn''t know Charlotte was named for a seventeen-year-old German duchess). The author deftly negotiates that fine line between using such information to enhance the experience of reading a novel and padding prose. She gives us what we need to know--to enrich plot, character or atmosphere--and then gets back to the story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And speaking of which: As an author writing in the same genre, I was impressed with Reichs''s ability to keep the roller coaster on track and speeding along, page after page. She''s a true master of cliff hangers--a neglected skill in a field where far too many lazy authors end chapters with people leaving rooms, falling asleep or offering hand-tipping foreshadowings of what''s to come. I call this the question-mark factor and when writing my thriller I actually tally up the number of scenes that end in a compelling, unresolved issue that drives the reader forward.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reichs has question marks aplenty.\n </p>\n <p>\n  My one complaint: I read the novel in one sitting. But I''m hoping that while poor Tempe may want a break after everything that happens to her in\n  <em>\n   Devil Bones\n  </em>\n  , author Reichs isn''t giving her any rest and is hard at work on number 12.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Jeffery Deaver\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dr. Temperance Brennan''s quest to identify two corpses pits her against citizen vigilantes intent on a witch-hunt in bestseller Reichs''s exciting 11th thriller to feature the forensic anthropologist (after 2007''s\n  <em>\n   Bones to Ashes\n  </em>\n  ). While working in Charlotte, N.C., Brennan investigates remains unearthed during a housing renovation and discovers disturbing clues possibly pointing to voodoo or Santeria. She must determine if the bones, including the skull of a teenage girl, are linked to an unidentified headless torso found in a nearby lake. Intent on using the deaths as the cornerstone of his crusade against immorality, fundamentalist preacher turned politician Boyce Lingo claims that the bodies bear the mark of devil worshippers. With the help of Det. Erskine Skinny Slidell, Brennan unearths a tangled web of dirty politics, religious persecution and male prostitution. Reichs, whose work inspired the hit TV series\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  , once again expertly blends science and complex character development.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  ""\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13665'),
(14544, 'Devil Bones', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon.com Exclusive: Jeffery Deaver on\n   <em>\n    Devil Bones\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  _Jeffery Deaver is the bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   _The Broken Window\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Bone Collector\n  </em>\n  was made into a feature release from Universal Pictures, starring Denzel Washington. He lives in North Carolina.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s always a pleasure to see a new installment in the saga of Temperence Brennan, the forensic anthropologist who plies her trade in both Charlotte, North Carolina, and Montreal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Devil Bones\n  </em>\n  , set in the U S of A, opens with a grisly discovery that offers a very different take on\n  <em>\n   This Old House\n  </em>\n  . Tempe is pulled from staid academia to investigate the troubling and mystifying scene, which involves cauldrons, ceremonial religious artifacts and, most troubling, the severed head of a teenage girl.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Another torso is located nearby, and the story is off and running.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tempe and Charlotte police department detective Erskine "Skinny" Slidell, follow leads that take them through the seamier and the chicer sides of North Carolina''s largest city--the worlds of Santeria, voodoo, the Wiccan religion (any witches out there: I''m not lumping them together!), and male prostitution. Our heroine also locks horns with a crusading minister turned politician, and there''s a reporter who manages to show up at all the wrong moments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reichs juggles the questions of who done it (and who''s gonna get done next) until the very end with consummate skill. In series books, readers treat characters as friends and follow those storylines as ardently as the ones involving murder and mayhem. Not content to keep things simmering on low boil, Reichs dunks her protagonist into a pressure cooker, with plenty of turmoil stirred up by a former lover, a--possibly--current one and, most significantly for this reader, yet another ghost of life past, about which I''ll say no more here. Trouble on campus also surfaces for Professor Brennan, with whom we experience one of the most harrowing moments in the book: a meeting of professors and department heads (university politics as weapon of mass destruction). Oh, and we can''t forget some brief appearances by the ex, who is behaving just like, well, an ex.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It might have been my imagination but I believe too that I saw the bones, if you will, of a possible subplot involving Tempe''s daughter, Katy, who''s working in the public defender''s office. I''m looking forward to seeing Reich confirm or deny this in the next installment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Devil Bones\n  </em>\n  we get plenty of what we''ve come to expect in a Reichs novel: engrossing details on forensic anthropology and anatomical science. Her mastery, and love, of those subjects, which Reichs herself practices (in both Montreal and Charlotte, by the way), is evident in her writing. We''re also treated to plenty of esoterica about non-mainstream religions and history (I mean, I live in North Carolina and didn''t know Charlotte was named for a seventeen-year-old German duchess). The author deftly negotiates that fine line between using such information to enhance the experience of reading a novel and padding prose. She gives us what we need to know--to enrich plot, character or atmosphere--and then gets back to the story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And speaking of which: As an author writing in the same genre, I was impressed with Reichs''s ability to keep the roller coaster on track and speeding along, page after page. She''s a true master of cliff hangers--a neglected skill in a field where far too many lazy authors end chapters with people leaving rooms, falling asleep or offering hand-tipping foreshadowings of what''s to come. I call this the question-mark factor and when writing my thriller I actually tally up the number of scenes that end in a compelling, unresolved issue that drives the reader forward.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reichs has question marks aplenty.\n </p>\n <p>\n  My one complaint: I read the novel in one sitting. But I''m hoping that while poor Tempe may want a break after everything that happens to her in\n  <em>\n   Devil Bones\n  </em>\n  , author Reichs isn''t giving her any rest and is hard at work on number 12.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Jeffery Deaver\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dr. Temperance Brennan''s quest to identify two corpses pits her against citizen vigilantes intent on a witch-hunt in bestseller Reichs''s exciting 11th thriller to feature the forensic anthropologist (after 2007''s\n  <em>\n   Bones to Ashes\n  </em>\n  ). While working in Charlotte, N.C., Brennan investigates remains unearthed during a housing renovation and discovers disturbing clues possibly pointing to voodoo or Santeria. She must determine if the bones, including the skull of a teenage girl, are linked to an unidentified headless torso found in a nearby lake. Intent on using the deaths as the cornerstone of his crusade against immorality, fundamentalist preacher turned politician Boyce Lingo claims that the bodies bear the mark of devil worshippers. With the help of Det. Erskine Skinny Slidell, Brennan unearths a tangled web of dirty politics, religious persecution and male prostitution. Reichs, whose work inspired the hit TV series\n  <em>\n   Bones\n  </em>\n  , once again expertly blends science and complex character development.\n  <em>\n   (Aug.)\n  </em>\n  ""\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved."\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20236'),
(14545, 'The Devil in Pew Number Seven', 'Rebecca N. Alonzo &amp; Bob DeMoss &amp; J. R. Blackstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rebecca never felt safe as a child. In 1969, her father, Robert Nichols, moved to Sellerstown, North Carolina, to serve as a pastor. There he found a small community eager to welcome him-with one exception. Glaring at him from pew number seven was a man obsessed with controlling the church. Determined to get rid of anyone who stood in his way, he unleashed a plan of terror that was more devastating and violent than the Nichols family could have ever imagined. Refusing to be driven away by acts of intimidation, Rebecca''s father stood his ground until one night when an armed man walked into the family''s kitchen . . . and Rebecca''s life was shattered. If anyone had a reason to harbor hatred and seek personal revenge, it would be Rebecca. Yet The Devil in Pew Number Seventells a different story. It is the amazing true saga of relentless persecution, one family''s faith and courage in the face of it, and a daughter whose parents taught her the power of forgiveness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1910'),
(14546, 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic &amp; Madness and the Fair That Changed America', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americaâ€™s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fairâ€™s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the countryâ€™s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his â€œWorldâ€™s Fair Hotelâ€ just west of the fairgroundsâ€”a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.Erik Larsonâ€™s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5583'),
(14547, 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic &amp; Madness and the Fair That Changed America', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americaâ€™s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fairâ€™s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the countryâ€™s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his â€œWorldâ€™s Fair Hotelâ€ just west of the fairgroundsâ€”a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.Erik Larsonâ€™s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12197'),
(14548, 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic &amp; Madness and the Fair that Changed America', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americaâ€™s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fairâ€™s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the countryâ€™s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his â€œWorldâ€™s Fair Hotelâ€ just west of the fairgroundsâ€”a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.Erik Larsonâ€™s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19096'),
(14549, 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic &amp; Madness and the Fair that Changed America', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americaâ€™s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fairâ€™s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the countryâ€™s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his â€œWorldâ€™s Fair Hotelâ€ just west of the fairgroundsâ€”a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.Erik Larsonâ€™s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27777'),
(14550, 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World''s Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book''s categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair''s construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham''s challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair''s incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World''s Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson''s skillful writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14241'),
(14551, 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America', 'Erik Larson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World''s Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book''s categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair''s construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham''s challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair''s incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World''s Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson''s skillful writing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27776'),
(14552, 'Devil May Care', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''Vintage Bond. Thrilling'' The Times''Everything a thriller should be'' Front Row, Radio 4Bond is back. With a vengeance.M has summoned agent 007 to London. It''s the swinging Sixties and a flood of narcotics is pouring into Britain. Sinister industrialist Dr Julius Gorner is identified as the source and James Bond is dispatched to investigate.The trail takes Bond to Paris and then Persia - where the beautiful and enigmatic twins Scarlett and Poppy lead him to Gorner''s secret desert headquarters. Here, Bond uncovers Gorner''s cold-blooded plans for world domination.Only by playing Gorner''s twisted game can Bond stop him . . .''Warm-hearted, superbly crafted'' Sunday Express''Bond aficionados will be thrilled'' Metro''A page-turner'' Daily Mail\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23059'),
(14553, 'The Devil She Knows', 'Diane Whiteside', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Portia Townsend once nursed an intense crush on her childhood playmate, Gareth Lowell, until he shattered her hopes of a future together and blindly treated her like a child. Nine years later, her vengeful ex-husband has blackmailed her into helping him overthrow the Turkish sultan. Alone and desperate, Portia must turn to the only man who can help, even if it means risking heartbreak once again. Gareth learned all too young just how easily and brutally happiness could be destroyed. Portia is the last person he wants to see, but he can''t refuse to help her, no matter how much that may cost him. And in the corrupt and deadly city of Constantinople, two damaged souls may find the ultimate treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5993'),
(14554, 'The Devil She Knows', 'Diane Whiteside', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Portia Townsend once nursed an intense crush on her childhood playmate, Gareth Lowell, until he shattered her hopes of a future together and blindly treated her like a child. Nine years later, her vengeful ex-husband has blackmailed her into helping him overthrow the Turkish sultan. Alone and desperate, Portia must turn to the only man who can help, even if it means risking heartbreak once again. Gareth learned all too young just how easily and brutally happiness could be destroyed. Portia is the last person he wants to see, but he can''t refuse to help her, no matter how much that may cost him. And in the corrupt and deadly city of Constantinople, two damaged souls may find the ultimate treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13325');
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(14555, 'The Devil She Knows', 'Diane Whiteside', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Portia Townsend once nursed an intense crush on her childhood playmate, Gareth Lowell, until he shattered her hopes of a future together and blindly treated her like a child. Nine years later, her vengeful ex-husband has blackmailed her into helping him overthrow the Turkish sultan. Alone and desperate, Portia must turn to the only man who can help, even if it means risking heartbreak once again. Gareth learned all too young just how easily and brutally happiness could be destroyed. Portia is the last person he wants to see, but he can''t refuse to help her, no matter how much that may cost him. And in the corrupt and deadly city of Constantinople, two damaged souls may find the ultimate treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18671'),
(14556, 'The Devil She Knows', 'Diane Whiteside', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Portia Townsend once nursed an intense crush on her childhood playmate, Gareth Lowell, until he shattered her hopes of a future together and blindly treated her like a child. Nine years later, her vengeful ex-husband has blackmailed her into helping him overthrow the Turkish sultan. Alone and desperate, Portia must turn to the only man who can help, even if it means risking heartbreak once again. Gareth learned all too young just how easily and brutally happiness could be destroyed. Portia is the last person he wants to see, but he can''t refuse to help her, no matter how much that may cost him. And in the corrupt and deadly city of Constantinople, two damaged souls may find the ultimate treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27451'),
(14557, 'The Devil Wears Plaid', 'Teresa Medeiros', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Passion sparks in USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeirosâ€™s irresistibly tempting new romance after a sexy Â Highlander kidnaps his rivalâ€™s spirited English bride Emmaline Marlowe is about to wed the extremely powerful laird of the Hepburn clan to save her father from debtorâ€™s prison when ruffian Jamie Sinclair bursts into the abbey on a magnificent black horse and abducts her in one strong swoop. Though he is Hepburnâ€™s sworn enemy, Emmaâ€™s mysterious captor is everything her bridegroom is notâ€”handsome, virile, dangerous . . . and a perilous temptation for her yearning heart. Â Jamie expects Emma to be some milksop English miss, not a fiery, defiant beauty whose irresistible charms will tempt him at every turn. But he cannot allow either one of them to forget he is her enemy and she his pawn in the deadly Highland feud between the clans. So why does he still want her so badly for himself? Stealing his enemyâ€™s bride was simple, but can he claim her innocence without losing his heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/873'),
(14558, 'The Devil Wears Plaid', 'Teresa Medeiros', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Passion sparks in USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeirosâ€™s irresistibly tempting new romance after a sexy Â Highlander kidnaps his rivalâ€™s spirited English bride Emmaline Marlowe is about to wed the extremely powerful laird of the Hepburn clan to save her father from debtorâ€™s prison when ruffian Jamie Sinclair bursts into the abbey on a magnificent black horse and abducts her in one strong swoop. Though he is Hepburnâ€™s sworn enemy, Emmaâ€™s mysterious captor is everything her bridegroom is notâ€”handsome, virile, dangerous . . . and a perilous temptation for her yearning heart. Â Jamie expects Emma to be some milksop English miss, not a fiery, defiant beauty whose irresistible charms will tempt him at every turn. But he cannot allow either one of them to forget he is her enemy and she his pawn in the deadly Highland feud between the clans. So why does he still want her so badly for himself? Stealing his enemyâ€™s bride was simple, but can he claim her innocence without losing his heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11433'),
(14559, 'The Devil Wears Plaid', 'Teresa Medeiros', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Passion sparks in USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeirosâ€™s irresistibly tempting new romance after a sexy Â Highlander kidnaps his rivalâ€™s spirited English bride Emmaline Marlowe is about to wed the extremely powerful laird of the Hepburn clan to save her father from debtorâ€™s prison when ruffian Jamie Sinclair bursts into the abbey on a magnificent black horse and abducts her in one strong swoop. Though he is Hepburnâ€™s sworn enemy, Emmaâ€™s mysterious captor is everything her bridegroom is notâ€”handsome, virile, dangerous . . . and a perilous temptation for her yearning heart. Â Jamie expects Emma to be some milksop English miss, not a fiery, defiant beauty whose irresistible charms will tempt him at every turn. But he cannot allow either one of them to forget he is her enemy and she his pawn in the deadly Highland feud between the clans. So why does he still want her so badly for himself? Stealing his enemyâ€™s bride was simple, but can he claim her innocence without losing his heart?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24152'),
(14560, 'The Devil&#39;s Alphabet', 'Daryl Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Daryl Gregory, whose Pandemonium was one of the most exciting debut novels in memory, comes an astonishing work of soaring imaginative power that breaks new ground in contemporary fantasy. Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease-dubbed Transcription Divergence Syndrome (TDS)-vanished, leaving behind a population divided into three new branches of humanity: giant gray-skinned argos, hairless seal-like betas, and grotesquely obese charlies. Paxton Abel Martin was fourteen when TDS struck, killing his mother, transforming his preacher father into a charlie, and changing one of his best friends, Jo Lynn, into a beta. But Pax was one of the few who didn''t change. He remained as normal as ever. At least on the outside. Having fled shortly after the pandemic, Pax now returns to Switchcreek fifteen years later, following the suicide of Jo Lynn. What he finds is a town seething with secrets, among which murder may well be numbered. But there are even darker-and far weirder-mysteries hiding below the surface that will threaten not only Pax''s future but the future of the whole human race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6363'),
(14561, 'The Devil&#39;s Alphabet', 'Daryl Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Daryl Gregory, whose Pandemonium was one of the most exciting debut novels in memory, comes an astonishing work of soaring imaginative power that breaks new ground in contemporary fantasy. Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease-dubbed Transcription Divergence Syndrome (TDS)-vanished, leaving behind a population divided into three new branches of humanity: giant gray-skinned argos, hairless seal-like betas, and grotesquely obese charlies. Paxton Abel Martin was fourteen when TDS struck, killing his mother, transforming his preacher father into a charlie, and changing one of his best friends, Jo Lynn, into a beta. But Pax was one of the few who didn''t change. He remained as normal as ever. At least on the outside. Having fled shortly after the pandemic, Pax now returns to Switchcreek fifteen years later, following the suicide of Jo Lynn. What he finds is a town seething with secrets, among which murder may well be numbered. But there are even darker-and far weirder-mysteries hiding below the surface that will threaten not only Pax''s future but the future of the whole human race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10079'),
(14562, 'The Devil&#39;s Alphabet', 'Daryl Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Daryl Gregory, whose Pandemonium was one of the most exciting debut novels in memory, comes an astonishing work of soaring imaginative power that breaks new ground in contemporary fantasy. Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease-dubbed Transcription Divergence Syndrome (TDS)-vanished, leaving behind a population divided into three new branches of humanity: giant gray-skinned argos, hairless seal-like betas, and grotesquely obese charlies. Paxton Abel Martin was fourteen when TDS struck, killing his mother, transforming his preacher father into a charlie, and changing one of his best friends, Jo Lynn, into a beta. But Pax was one of the few who didn''t change. He remained as normal as ever. At least on the outside. Having fled shortly after the pandemic, Pax now returns to Switchcreek fifteen years later, following the suicide of Jo Lynn. What he finds is a town seething with secrets, among which murder may well be numbered. But there are even darker-and far weirder-mysteries hiding below the surface that will threaten not only Pax''s future but the future of the whole human race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17578'),
(14563, 'The Devil&#39;s Alphabet', 'Daryl Gregory', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Daryl Gregory, whose Pandemonium was one of the most exciting debut novels in memory, comes an astonishing work of soaring imaginative power that breaks new ground in contemporary fantasy. Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease-dubbed Transcription Divergence Syndrome (TDS)-vanished, leaving behind a population divided into three new branches of humanity: giant gray-skinned argos, hairless seal-like betas, and grotesquely obese charlies. Paxton Abel Martin was fourteen when TDS struck, killing his mother, transforming his preacher father into a charlie, and changing one of his best friends, Jo Lynn, into a beta. But Pax was one of the few who didn''t change. He remained as normal as ever. At least on the outside. Having fled shortly after the pandemic, Pax now returns to Switchcreek fifteen years later, following the suicide of Jo Lynn. What he finds is a town seething with secrets, among which murder may well be numbered. But there are even darker-and far weirder-mysteries hiding below the surface that will threaten not only Pax''s future but the future of the whole human race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27164'),
(14564, 'The Devil&#39;s Bones: A Body Farm Novel', 'Jefferson Bass', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The lack of a strong central plot undercuts the third forensic thriller by bestseller Bass, the team of Dr. Bill Bass, founder of Tennessee''s world-renowned Body Farm, and journalist Jon Jefferson (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Flesh and Bone\n </em>\n ). Two cases occupy Dr. Bass''s fictional alter ego, Dr. Bill Brocktonâ€”the death of Mary Latham, a 47-year-old Knoxville native, whose charred remains were found in a burned-out car, and a disreputable Georgia crematorium that simply dumped bodies on its grounds. These probes soon take a backseat to a cat-and-mouse game with the doctor''s arch nemesis, Garland Hamilton, who tried to frame him for murder in\n <em>\n  Flesh and Bone\n </em>\n . When Hamilton escapes from incarceration before going to trial, Brockton must keep looking over his shoulder. While a smattering of Bass''s trademark authentic forensic detail lifts this main narrative thread, a more focused look at a single case might have made the novel a better read.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "[A] fine thriller...this third installment is the best of a steadily improving series, but itâ€™s doubtful weâ€™ve seen the finest moments yet." --\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4549'),
(14565, 'The Devil&#39;s Bones: A Body Farm Novel', 'Jefferson Bass', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The lack of a strong central plot undercuts the third forensic thriller by bestseller Bass, the team of Dr. Bill Bass, founder of Tennessee''s world-renowned Body Farm, and journalist Jon Jefferson (after 2007''s\n <em>\n  Flesh and Bone\n </em>\n ). Two cases occupy Dr. Bass''s fictional alter ego, Dr. Bill Brocktonâ€”the death of Mary Latham, a 47-year-old Knoxville native, whose charred remains were found in a burned-out car, and a disreputable Georgia crematorium that simply dumped bodies on its grounds. These probes soon take a backseat to a cat-and-mouse game with the doctor''s arch nemesis, Garland Hamilton, who tried to frame him for murder in\n <em>\n  Flesh and Bone\n </em>\n . When Hamilton escapes from incarceration before going to trial, Brockton must keep looking over his shoulder. While a smattering of Bass''s trademark authentic forensic detail lifts this main narrative thread, a more focused look at a single case might have made the novel a better read.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "[A] fine thriller...this third installment is the best of a steadily improving series, but itâ€™s doubtful weâ€™ve seen the finest moments yet." --\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8378'),
(14566, 'The Devil&#39;s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers', 'Vicky Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They were the Rat Pack of Wall Street. Four close friends: one a decorated war hero, one an emotional hippie, and two regular guys with big hearts, big dreams, and noble aims. They were going to get rich on Wall Street. They were going to prove that men like them - with zero financial training - could more than equal the Ivy-League-educated white shoe bankers who were the competition. They were going to create an institution for men like them -- men who were hungry and untrained - and they were going to win, but not at the cost of their souls.  In short, they were going to be the good guys of finance.  Under their watch, Lehman Brothers started to grow and became independent again in 1994. But something had gone wrong on the journey. The men slowly, perhaps inevitably, changed. As Lehman Brothers grew, so too did the cracks in and among the men who had rebuilt it.  Ward takes you inside Lehman''s highly charged offices. You''ll meet beloved leaders who were erased from the corporate history books, but who could have taken the firm in a very different direction had they not fallen victim to infighting and their own weaknesses. You will encounter an unlikely and almost unknown Marcus Brutus, who may have had more to do with Lehman''s failings than anyone--including Dick Fuld, who has widely been considered the poster-child for the mistakes and greed of all bankers.  What Ward uncovers is that Lehman may have lost at the risky games of collateralized debt obligations, swaps, and leverage but that was just the end of a bigger story. "Little Lehman" was the Wall Street shop known to be forever fighting for its life and somehow succeeding. On Wall Street it was cheekily known as "the cat with nine lives." But this cat pushed its luck too far -- and died, the victim of men and women blinded by arrogance. Come inside "The Devil''s Casino" and see how good men lose their way, and see how a firm that rose with the glory and bravado of Icarus fell burning in flames not so much from a sun, but from a match lit from within.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/337'),
(14567, 'The Devil&#39;s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers', 'Vicky Ward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They were the Rat Pack of Wall Street. Four close friends: one a decorated war hero, one an emotional hippie, and two regular guys with big hearts, big dreams, and noble aims. They were going to get rich on Wall Street. They were going to prove that men like them - with zero financial training - could more than equal the Ivy-League-educated white shoe bankers who were the competition. They were going to create an institution for men like them -- men who were hungry and untrained - and they were going to win, but not at the cost of their souls. In short, they were going to be the good guys of finance. Under their watch, Lehman Brothers started to grow and became independent again in 1994. But something had gone wrong on the journey. The men slowly, perhaps inevitably, changed. As Lehman Brothers grew, so too did the cracks in and among the men who had rebuilt it. Ward takes you inside Lehman''s highly charged offices. You''ll meet beloved leaders who were erased from the corporate history books, but who could have taken the firm in a very different direction had they not fallen victim to infighting and their own weaknesses. You will encounter an unlikely and almost unknown Marcus Brutus, who may have had more to do with Lehman''s failings than anyone--including Dick Fuld, who has widely been considered the poster-child for the mistakes and greed of all bankers. What Ward uncovers is that Lehman may have lost at the risky games of collateralized debt obligations, swaps, and leverage but that was just the end of a bigger story. "Little Lehman" was the Wall Street shop known to be forever fighting for its life and somehow succeeding. On Wall Street it was cheekily known as "the cat with nine lives." But this cat pushed its luck too far -- and died, the victim of men and women blinded by arrogance. Come inside "The Devil''s Casino" and see how good men lose their way, and see how a firm that rose with the glory and bravado of Icarus fell burning in flames not so much from a sun, but from a match lit from within.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24539'),
(14568, 'The Devil&#39;s Cat', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The town was alive with cats. Sam, Nydia, and Little Sam had never seen so many of them. The cats'' eyes were glowing slits as they watched the newcomers. And their furry tails were slowly switching back and forth. . . The town was ripe with evil. Soon Sam, Nydia and Little Sam would battle the forces of darkness, standing alone against the ultimate predator--The Devil''s Cat. Book cover designed with "horror" hologram.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/161'),
(14569, 'The Devil&#39;s Cat', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The town was alive with cats. Sam, Nydia, and Little Sam had never seen so many of them. The cats'' eyes were glowing slits as they watched the newcomers. And their furry tails were slowly switching back and forth. . . The town was ripe with evil. Soon Sam, Nydia and Little Sam would battle the forces of darkness, standing alone against the ultimate predator--The Devil''s Cat. Book cover designed with "horror" hologram.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24796'),
(14570, 'The Devil&#39;s Closet', 'Stacy Dittrich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Multiple Amber Alerts for missing girls bring Detective CeeCee Gallagher onto the case of a serial child abducter and murderer. Time is running out as Gallagher and her partner race to save the girls- lives and apprehend the killer before he can strike again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1214'),
(14571, 'The Devil&#39;s Closet', 'Stacy Dittrich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Multiple Amber Alerts for missing girls bring Detective CeeCee Gallagher onto the case of a serial child abducter and murderer. Time is running out as Gallagher and her partner race to save the girls- lives and apprehend the killer before he can strike again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10934'),
(14572, 'The Devil&#39;s Closet', 'Stacy Dittrich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Multiple Amber Alerts for missing girls bring Detective CeeCee Gallagher onto the case of a serial child abducter and murderer. Time is running out as Gallagher and her partner race to save the girls- lives and apprehend the killer before he can strike again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23705'),
(14573, 'The Devil&#39;s Company', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, David Liss has created one of fictionâ€™s most enthralling characters.The year is 1722. Ruffian for hire, ex-boxer, and master of disguise, Weaver finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, pitted against Jerome Cobb, a wealthy and mysterious schemer who needs Weaverâ€™s strength and guile for his own treacherous plans.Weaver is blackmailed into stealing documents from Englandâ€™s most heavily guarded estate, the headquarters of the ruthless British East India Company, but the theft of corporate secrets is only the first move in a daring conspiracy within the eighteenth centuryâ€™s most powerful corporation. To save his friends and family from Cobbâ€™s reach, Weaver must infiltrate the Company, navigate its warring factions, and uncover a secret plot of corporate rivals, foreign spies, and government operatives. With millions of pounds and the security of the nation at stake, Weaver will find himself in a labyrinth of hidden agendas, daring enemies, and unexpected allies.With the explosive action and scrupulous period research that are David Lissâ€™s trademarks, The Devilâ€™s Company, depicting the birth of the modern corporation, is the most impressive achievement yet from an author who continues to set ever higher standards for historical suspense.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25901'),
(14574, 'The Devil&#39;s Company: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Edgar-winner Liss''s enjoyable third thriller to feature the estimable Benjamin Weaver, an 18th-century London thieftaker (after\n <em>\n  A Spectacle of Corruption\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n ), Weaver finds himself working reluctantly for a mysterious gentleman, Jerome Cobb. On Cobb''s orders, Weaver takes employment as a security man at the British East India Company''s headquarters, where he tries to obtain information about the death of one Absalom Pepper, of whom virtually nothing is known. To keep Weaver in line, Cobb has blackmailed Weaver''s friend Moses Franco, close confederate Elias Gordon and his beloved uncle Miguel. As usual, several beautiful women play roles in the complicated plot, which involves industrial spying and the international textile trade. Weaver''s two previous adventures could sometimes bog down in arcane financial and political detail, but Liss keeps the suspense at full boil and the action rolling swiftly ahead.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA treat for lovers of historical fiction. . . .accomplished, atmospheric, and thoughtful.â€â€”_Washington Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs distinguished by the compelling voice of its narrator as it is by its vibrant detail.â€â€”_Denver Post\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œWitty and stimulatingâ€â€”_Kirkus _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMore than just a finely written mystery. Liss injects thoughtful discussion of issues that should resonate in the best university business courses. Corporate ethics at the British East India Company appear to resemble those of Wall Street companies this decade.â€â€”_San Antonio Express-News\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6161'),
(14575, 'The Devil&#39;s Company: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Edgar-winner Liss''s enjoyable third thriller to feature the estimable Benjamin Weaver, an 18th-century London thieftaker (after\n <em>\n  A Spectacle of Corruption\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n ), Weaver finds himself working reluctantly for a mysterious gentleman, Jerome Cobb. On Cobb''s orders, Weaver takes employment as a security man at the British East India Company''s headquarters, where he tries to obtain information about the death of one Absalom Pepper, of whom virtually nothing is known. To keep Weaver in line, Cobb has blackmailed Weaver''s friend Moses Franco, close confederate Elias Gordon and his beloved uncle Miguel. As usual, several beautiful women play roles in the complicated plot, which involves industrial spying and the international textile trade. Weaver''s two previous adventures could sometimes bog down in arcane financial and political detail, but Liss keeps the suspense at full boil and the action rolling swiftly ahead.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA treat for lovers of historical fiction. . . .accomplished, atmospheric, and thoughtful.â€â€”_Washington Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs distinguished by the compelling voice of its narrator as it is by its vibrant detail.â€â€”_Denver Post\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œWitty and stimulatingâ€â€”_Kirkus _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMore than just a finely written mystery. Liss injects thoughtful discussion of issues that should resonate in the best university business courses. Corporate ethics at the British East India Company appear to resemble those of Wall Street companies this decade.â€â€”_San Antonio Express-News\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8004'),
(14576, 'The Devil&#39;s Company: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Edgar-winner Liss''s enjoyable third thriller to feature the estimable Benjamin Weaver, an 18th-century London thieftaker (after\n <em>\n  A Spectacle of Corruption\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n ), Weaver finds himself working reluctantly for a mysterious gentleman, Jerome Cobb. On Cobb''s orders, Weaver takes employment as a security man at the British East India Company''s headquarters, where he tries to obtain information about the death of one Absalom Pepper, of whom virtually nothing is known. To keep Weaver in line, Cobb has blackmailed Weaver''s friend Moses Franco, close confederate Elias Gordon and his beloved uncle Miguel. As usual, several beautiful women play roles in the complicated plot, which involves industrial spying and the international textile trade. Weaver''s two previous adventures could sometimes bog down in arcane financial and political detail, but Liss keeps the suspense at full boil and the action rolling swiftly ahead.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA treat for lovers of historical fiction. . . .accomplished, atmospheric, and thoughtful.â€â€”_Washington Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs distinguished by the compelling voice of its narrator as it is by its vibrant detail.â€â€”_Denver Post\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œWitty and stimulatingâ€â€”_Kirkus _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMore than just a finely written mystery. Liss injects thoughtful discussion of issues that should resonate in the best university business courses. Corporate ethics at the British East India Company appear to resemble those of Wall Street companies this decade.â€â€”_San Antonio Express-News\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11176'),
(14577, 'The Devil&#39;s Company: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Edgar-winner Liss''s enjoyable third thriller to feature the estimable Benjamin Weaver, an 18th-century London thieftaker (after\n <em>\n  A Spectacle of Corruption\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Conspiracy of Paper\n </em>\n ), Weaver finds himself working reluctantly for a mysterious gentleman, Jerome Cobb. On Cobb''s orders, Weaver takes employment as a security man at the British East India Company''s headquarters, where he tries to obtain information about the death of one Absalom Pepper, of whom virtually nothing is known. To keep Weaver in line, Cobb has blackmailed Weaver''s friend Moses Franco, close confederate Elias Gordon and his beloved uncle Miguel. As usual, several beautiful women play roles in the complicated plot, which involves industrial spying and the international textile trade. Weaver''s two previous adventures could sometimes bog down in arcane financial and political detail, but Liss keeps the suspense at full boil and the action rolling swiftly ahead.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA treat for lovers of historical fiction. . . .accomplished, atmospheric, and thoughtful.â€â€”_Washington Post_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs distinguished by the compelling voice of its narrator as it is by its vibrant detail.â€â€”_Denver Post\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œWitty and stimulatingâ€â€”_Kirkus _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMore than just a finely written mystery. Liss injects thoughtful discussion of issues that should resonate in the best university business courses. Corporate ethics at the British East India Company appear to resemble those of Wall Street companies this decade.â€â€”_San Antonio Express-News\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17818'),
(14578, 'Devil&#39;s Cub', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Marquis of Vidal is a bad lot a rake and seducer, reckless, heedless, and possessed of a murderous temper. He is known by friend and foe alike as the "Devil''s Cub." Yet as the handsome and wealthy heir to a Dukedom, he is considered a good prospect on the marriage market. Vidal currently has his eye on the young, lovely, and unintelligent Sophia Challoner, and Sophia''s greedy mother is more than happy to encourage his dubious attentions. The colorful and eccentric characters fall over each other''s plots, get involved in very peculiar coincidences, engage in colorful derring-do, and generally make life difficult for each other. Narrator Michael Drew manages to distinguish one character from another without the verbal gymnastics that the plot would seem to require, allowing the listener to concentrate on the Shakespearian plot and priceless dialog. Enthusiastically recommended for libraries where romance and/or Heyer are popular. Barbara Rhodes, Northeast Texas Lib. Syst., Garland\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The words are like poetry, easily flowing from one page to another. (Amy Jacobs\n <em>\n  My Overstuffed Bookshelf\n </em>\n 20091210)\n</p>\n<p>\n The Grand Dame of this genre... (Elizabeth Bogardus\n <em>\n  Thoughts from an Evil Overlord\n </em>\n 20091214)\n</p>\n<p>\n As humorous as it is romantic, Devil''s Cub builds to a merry madness of misunderstandings that threaten the hopes of hero, heroine and assorted friends and relatives before all is happily resolved. (Margaret Donsbach\n <em>\n  HistoricalNovel.info\n </em>\n 20091217)\n</p>\n<p>\n A very fun book that perfect for an afternoon of relaxation. (Bridget Hopper\n <em>\n  Readaholic\n </em>\n 20091221)\n</p>\n<p>\n Hooray for another fun-tabulous Georgette Heyer novel! (Marie Burton\n <em>\n  The Burton Review\n </em>\n 20091221)\n</p>\n<p>\n The plot, an intricate maze, comes to a beautiful climax and leaves the reader SO SATISFIED. (_The Long and Short of It_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n An exciting and entertaining adventure complete with confusion, flaring tempers, a copious amount of chasing, and many misadventures. (Meredith Esaprza\n <em>\n  Austenesque Reviews\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n A wonderful read for those who love historical fiction, comedies of manners, and stories where it''s all about the banter that brings a pair of opposites together. (Maya Missani\n <em>\n  Apprentice Writer\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18375'),
(14579, 'The Devil&#39;s Dozen: How Cutting-Edge Forensics Took Down 12 Notorious Serial Killers', 'Katherine M. Ramsland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A forensics expert follows the historic evolution of CSI through a century of serial killers.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Katherine Ramsland has brilliantly captured the insights and drama of some fascinating cases" (Dr. Henry Lee) in her previous bestselling books. Now she examines the case histories of twelve of the most notorious serial killers of the last one hundred years, and answers the questions: What clues did they leave behind? How were they eventually caught? How was each twist and turn of their crimes matched by the equally compelling weapons of science and logic?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From exploring the nineteenth century''s earliest investigative tools to remarkable twenty-first century CSI advances, *The Devil''s Dozen* provides a fascinating window into the world of those who kill-and those who dedicate their lives to bringing them to justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3771'),
(14580, 'The Devil&#39;s Dozen: How Cutting-Edge Forensics Took Down 12 Notorious Serial Killers', 'Katherine M. Ramsland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A forensics expert follows the historic evolution of CSI through a century of serial killers.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Katherine Ramsland has brilliantly captured the insights and drama of some fascinating cases" (Dr. Henry Lee) in her previous bestselling books. Now she examines the case histories of twelve of the most notorious serial killers of the last one hundred years, and answers the questions: What clues did they leave behind? How were they eventually caught? How was each twist and turn of their crimes matched by the equally compelling weapons of science and logic?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From exploring the nineteenth century''s earliest investigative tools to remarkable twenty-first century CSI advances, *The Devil''s Dozen* provides a fascinating window into the world of those who kill-and those who dedicate their lives to bringing them to justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12079'),
(14581, 'The Devil&#39;s Dozen: How Cutting-Edge Forensics Took Down 12 Notorious Serial Killers', 'Katherine M. Ramsland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A forensics expert follows the historic evolution of CSI through a century of serial killers.** "Katherine Ramsland has brilliantly captured the insights and drama of some fascinating cases" (Dr. Henry Lee) in her previous bestselling books. Now she examines the case histories of twelve of the most notorious serial killers of the last one hundred years, and answers the questions: What clues did they leave behind? How were they eventually caught? How was each twist and turn of their crimes matched by the equally compelling weapons of science and logic? From exploring the nineteenth century''s earliest investigative tools to remarkable twenty-first century CSI advances, *The Devil''s Dozen* provides a fascinating window into the world of those who kill-and those who dedicate their lives to bringing them to justice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20646'),
(14582, 'Devil&#39;s Dream', 'Madison Smartt Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the author of All Soulsâ€™ Rising which The Washington Post called â€œA serious historical novel that reads like a dream,â€ comes a powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary, of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his previous works, Madison Smartt Bell gives us a wholly new vantage point from which to view this complicated American figure. Considered a rogue by the upper ranks of the Confederate Army, who did not properly use his talents, Forrest was often relegated to small-scale operations.In Devil''s Dream, Bell brings to life an energetic, plainspoken man who does not tolerate weakness in himself or in those around him. We see Forrest on and off the battlefield, in less familiar but no less revealing moments of his life: courting the woman who would become his wife; battling a compulsion to gamble; overcoming his abhorrence of the army bureaucracy to rise to its highest ranks. We see him treating his slaves humanely even as he fights to ensure their continued enslavement, and in battle we see his knack for keeping his enemy unsettled, his instinct for the unexpected, and his relentless stamina.As Devil''s Dream moves back and forth in time, providing prismatic glimpses of Forrest, a vivid portrait comes into focus: a rough, fierce man with a life fill of contradictions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3163'),
(14583, 'Devil&#39;s Dream', 'Madison Smartt Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the author of All Soulsâ€™ Rising which The Washington Post called â€œA serious historical novel that reads like a dream,â€ comes a powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary, of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his previous works, Madison Smartt Bell gives us a wholly new vantage point from which to view this complicated American figure. Considered a rogue by the upper ranks of the Confederate Army, who did not properly use his talents, Forrest was often relegated to small-scale operations.In Devil''s Dream, Bell brings to life an energetic, plainspoken man who does not tolerate weakness in himself or in those around him. We see Forrest on and off the battlefield, in less familiar but no less revealing moments of his life: courting the woman who would become his wife; battling a compulsion to gamble; overcoming his abhorrence of the army bureaucracy to rise to its highest ranks. We see him treating his slaves humanely even as he fights to ensure their continued enslavement, and in battle we see his knack for keeping his enemy unsettled, his instinct for the unexpected, and his relentless stamina.As Devil''s Dream moves back and forth in time, providing prismatic glimpses of Forrest, a vivid portrait comes into focus: a rough, fierce man with a life fill of contradictions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8416'),
(14584, 'Devil&#39;s dream', 'Madison Smartt Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author of All Soulsâ€™ Rising which The Washington Post called â€œA serious historical novel that reads like a dream,â€ comes a powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary, of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his previous works, Madison Smartt Bell gives us a wholly new vantage point from which to view this complicated American figure. Considered a rogue by the upper ranks of the Confederate Army, who did not properly use his talents, Forrest was often relegated to small-scale operations.In Devil''s Dream, Bell brings to life an energetic, plainspoken man who does not tolerate weakness in himself or in those around him. We see Forrest on and off the battlefield, in less familiar but no less revealing moments of his life: courting the woman who would become his wife; battling a compulsion to gamble; overcoming his abhorrence of the army bureaucracy to rise to its highest ranks. We see him treating his slaves humanely even as he fights to ensure their continued enslavement, and in battle we see his knack for keeping his enemy unsettled, his instinct for the unexpected, and his relentless stamina.As Devil''s Dream moves back and forth in time, providing prismatic glimpses of Forrest, a vivid portrait comes into focus: a rough, fierce man with a life fill of contradictions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21294'),
(14585, 'The Devil&#39;s Feather', 'Minette Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n British author Walters''s harrowing 12th psychological chiller spotlights violent suffering and hard-won triumph for Connie Burns, a 36-year-old Reuters war correspondent who crosses a sadistic mercenary alternately identified as John Harwood, Kenneth McConnell and Keith MacKenzie. When she finds MacKenzie training Iraqi policemen in Baghdad in 2004, she links him to serial killings in Sierra Leone two years earlier. An enraged MacKenzie kidnaps, tortures, rapes and releases Connie, who is then too traumatized to coherently divulge details of her abduction. She retreats to a country house in Dorset, where she puzzles over the troubled past of the house ("a place of anguish") and hesitantly befriends her neighbors, the handsome Dr. Peter Coleman and Jess Derbyshire, a reclusive young woman who helps Connie heal from her ordeal. While she gradually recovers, she also lives with the surety that MacKenzie will come after her again. Walters (_Disordered Minds_) delivers an intense, engrossingly structured tour de force about survival and "the secret of freedom, courage."\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this uneven but scary thriller, Connie Burns, a white Zimbabwean war correspondent for Reuters, investigates five gruesome murders in Sierra Leone and follows a hunch, convinced that a British mercenary is using the mayhem of war zones to disguise his taste for raping and killing women. After a mysterious assailant kidnaps her and holds her prisoner for three days in Iraq, she becomes convinced that her quarry is now hunting her. She flees to Dorset, rents an isolated house that turns out to have a troubled history, and is befriended by a reclusive neighbor who, some years before, lost her entire family in a car crash. Given the ultra-contemporary world of the early part of the novel, the scenes in Dorset, where the author herself lives, seem parochial, but this does not lessen Walters''s ability to use horror-movie logic to terrifying effect.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2006\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2754'),
(14586, 'The Devil&#39;s Feather', 'Minette Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n British author Walters''s harrowing 12th psychological chiller spotlights violent suffering and hard-won triumph for Connie Burns, a 36-year-old Reuters war correspondent who crosses a sadistic mercenary alternately identified as John Harwood, Kenneth McConnell and Keith MacKenzie. When she finds MacKenzie training Iraqi policemen in Baghdad in 2004, she links him to serial killings in Sierra Leone two years earlier. An enraged MacKenzie kidnaps, tortures, rapes and releases Connie, who is then too traumatized to coherently divulge details of her abduction. She retreats to a country house in Dorset, where she puzzles over the troubled past of the house ("a place of anguish") and hesitantly befriends her neighbors, the handsome Dr. Peter Coleman and Jess Derbyshire, a reclusive young woman who helps Connie heal from her ordeal. While she gradually recovers, she also lives with the surety that MacKenzie will come after her again. Walters (_Disordered Minds_) delivers an intense, engrossingly structured tour de force about survival and "the secret of freedom, courage."\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this uneven but scary thriller, Connie Burns, a white Zimbabwean war correspondent for Reuters, investigates five gruesome murders in Sierra Leone and follows a hunch, convinced that a British mercenary is using the mayhem of war zones to disguise his taste for raping and killing women. After a mysterious assailant kidnaps her and holds her prisoner for three days in Iraq, she becomes convinced that her quarry is now hunting her. She flees to Dorset, rents an isolated house that turns out to have a troubled history, and is befriended by a reclusive neighbor who, some years before, lost her entire family in a car crash. Given the ultra-contemporary world of the early part of the novel, the scenes in Dorset, where the author herself lives, seem parochial, but this does not lessen Walters''s ability to use horror-movie logic to terrifying effect.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2006\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13239');
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(14587, 'The Devil&#39;s Feather', 'Minette Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n British author Walters''s harrowing 12th psychological chiller spotlights violent suffering and hard-won triumph for Connie Burns, a 36-year-old Reuters war correspondent who crosses a sadistic mercenary alternately identified as John Harwood, Kenneth McConnell and Keith MacKenzie. When she finds MacKenzie training Iraqi policemen in Baghdad in 2004, she links him to serial killings in Sierra Leone two years earlier. An enraged MacKenzie kidnaps, tortures, rapes and releases Connie, who is then too traumatized to coherently divulge details of her abduction. She retreats to a country house in Dorset, where she puzzles over the troubled past of the house ("a place of anguish") and hesitantly befriends her neighbors, the handsome Dr. Peter Coleman and Jess Derbyshire, a reclusive young woman who helps Connie heal from her ordeal. While she gradually recovers, she also lives with the surety that MacKenzie will come after her again. Walters (_Disordered Minds_) delivers an intense, engrossingly structured tour de force about survival and "the secret of freedom, courage."\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this uneven but scary thriller, Connie Burns, a white Zimbabwean war correspondent for Reuters, investigates five gruesome murders in Sierra Leone and follows a hunch, convinced that a British mercenary is using the mayhem of war zones to disguise his taste for raping and killing women. After a mysterious assailant kidnaps her and holds her prisoner for three days in Iraq, she becomes convinced that her quarry is now hunting her. She flees to Dorset, rents an isolated house that turns out to have a troubled history, and is befriended by a reclusive neighbor who, some years before, lost her entire family in a car crash. Given the ultra-contemporary world of the early part of the novel, the scenes in Dorset, where the author herself lives, seem parochial, but this does not lessen Walters''s ability to use horror-movie logic to terrifying effect.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© 2006\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22075'),
(14588, 'Devil&#39;s Garden', 'Ace Atkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **From the critically acclaimed, award-nominated author comes a new noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Critics called Ace Atkinsâ€™s *Wicked City* â€œgripping, superbâ€ (*Library Journal*), â€œstunningâ€ (*The Tampa Tribune*), â€œterrificâ€ (Associated Press), â€œrivetingâ€ (*Kirkus Reviews*), â€œwicked goodâ€ (*Fort Worth Star-Telegram*), and â€œAtkinsâ€™ best novelâ€ (*The Washington Post*). But *Devilâ€™s Garden* is something else again.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe â€œFattyâ€ Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel: girls, jazz, bootleg hooch . . . and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed herâ€”crushing her under his weightâ€”and brings him up on manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearstâ€™s newspapers stir up the public and demand a guilty verdict. But what really happened? Why do so many people at the party seem to have stories that conflict? Why is the prosecution hiding witnesses? Why are there body parts missing from the autopsied corpse? Why is Hearst so determined to see Fatty Arbuckle convicted?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In desperation, Arbuckleâ€™s defense team hires a Pinkerton agent to do an investigation of his own and, they hope, discover the truth. The agentâ€™s name is Dashiell Hammett, and heâ€™s the bookâ€™s narrator. What he discovers will change American legal historyâ€”and his own lifeâ€”forever.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œThe historical accuracy isnâ€™t what elevates Atkinsâ€™ prose to greatness,â€ said *The Tampa Tribune*. â€œItâ€™s his ability to let these characters breathe in a way that few authors could ever imagine. He doesnâ€™t so much write them as unleash them upon the page.â€ You will not soon forget the extraordinary characters and events in *Devilâ€™s Garden*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/77'),
(14589, 'Devil&#39;s Garden', 'Ace Atkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **From the critically acclaimed, award-nominated author comes a new noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Critics called Ace Atkinsâ€™s *Wicked City* â€œgripping, superbâ€ (*Library Journal*), â€œstunningâ€ (*The Tampa Tribune*), â€œterrificâ€ (Associated Press), â€œrivetingâ€ (*Kirkus Reviews*), â€œwicked goodâ€ (*Fort Worth Star-Telegram*), and â€œAtkinsâ€™ best novelâ€ (*The Washington Post*). But *Devilâ€™s Garden* is something else again.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe â€œFattyâ€ Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel: girls, jazz, bootleg hooch . . . and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed herâ€”crushing her under his weightâ€”and brings him up on manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearstâ€™s newspapers stir up the public and demand a guilty verdict. But what really happened? Why do so many people at the party seem to have stories that conflict? Why is the prosecution hiding witnesses? Why are there body parts missing from the autopsied corpse? Why is Hearst so determined to see Fatty Arbuckle convicted?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In desperation, Arbuckleâ€™s defense team hires a Pinkerton agent to do an investigation of his own and, they hope, discover the truth. The agentâ€™s name is Dashiell Hammett, and heâ€™s the bookâ€™s narrator. What he discovers will change American legal historyâ€”and his own lifeâ€”forever.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œThe historical accuracy isnâ€™t what elevates Atkinsâ€™ prose to greatness,â€ said *The Tampa Tribune*. â€œItâ€™s his ability to let these characters breathe in a way that few authors could ever imagine. He doesnâ€™t so much write them as unleash them upon the page.â€ You will not soon forget the extraordinary characters and events in *Devilâ€™s Garden*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8242'),
(14590, 'Devil&#39;s Garden', 'Ace Atkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the critically acclaimed, award-nominated author comes a new noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history.** Critics called Ace Atkinsâ€™s *Wicked City* â€œgripping, superbâ€ (*Library Journal*), â€œstunningâ€ (*The Tampa Tribune*), â€œterrificâ€ (Associated Press), â€œrivetingâ€ (*Kirkus Reviews*), â€œwicked goodâ€ (*Fort Worth Star-Telegram*), and â€œAtkinsâ€™ best novelâ€ (*The Washington Post*). But *Devilâ€™s Garden* is something else again. San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe â€œFattyâ€ Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel: girls, jazz, bootleg hooch . . . and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed herâ€”crushing her under his weightâ€”and brings him up on manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearstâ€™s newspapers stir up the public and demand a guilty verdict. But what really happened? Why do so many people at the party seem to have stories that conflict? Why is the prosecution hiding witnesses? Why are there body parts missing from the autopsied corpse? Why is Hearst so determined to see Fatty Arbuckle convicted? In desperation, Arbuckleâ€™s defense team hires a Pinkerton agent to do an investigation of his own and, they hope, discover the truth. The agentâ€™s name is Dashiell Hammett, and heâ€™s the bookâ€™s narrator. What he discovers will change American legal historyâ€”and his own lifeâ€”forever. â€œThe historical accuracy isnâ€™t what elevates Atkinsâ€™ prose to greatness,â€ said *The Tampa Tribune*. â€œItâ€™s his ability to let these characters breathe in a way that few authors could ever imagine. He doesnâ€™t so much write them as unleash them upon the page.â€ You will not soon forget the extraordinary characters and events in *Devilâ€™s Garden*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17159'),
(14591, 'The Devil&#39;s Gold', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  The\n  <i>\n   New York Times\n  </i>\n  bestselling author of\n  <i>\n   The Jefferson Key\n  </i>\n  brings you a short story that takes readers on a perilous hunt for . . .\n  <i>\n   The Devil''s Gold\n  </i>\n </b>\n <br />\n <br />\n Once he was called the Sphinx, a man so inscrutable that neither his adversaries nor fellow intelligence operatives could predict his next move. Now a contract agent with a secret mission, Jonathan Wyatt has gone rogue. For eight years he''s been plotting. Waiting. Scheming to kill Federal agents Christopher Combs and Cotton Malone, whom he blames for the loss of his career. But as Wyatt prepares for a final confrontation in a remote South American village, he makes a discovery that stretches back to the horrors of World War II, to the astounding secret of a child''s birth, to Martin Bormann and Eva Braun--and to a fortune in lost gold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1087'),
(14592, 'The Devil&#39;s Gold', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  The\n  <i>\n   New York Times\n  </i>\n  bestselling author of\n  <i>\n   The Jefferson Key\n  </i>\n  brings you a short story that takes readers on a perilous hunt for . . .\n  <i>\n   The Devil''s Gold\n  </i>\n </b>\n <br />\n <br />\n Once he was called the Sphinx, a man so inscrutable that neither his adversaries nor fellow intelligence operatives could predict his next move. Now a contract agent with a secret mission, Jonathan Wyatt has gone rogue. For eight years he''s been plotting. Waiting. Scheming to kill Federal agents Christopher Combs and Cotton Malone, whom he blames for the loss of his career. But as Wyatt prepares for a final confrontation in a remote South American village, he makes a discovery that stretches back to the horrors of World War II, to the astounding secret of a child''s birth, to Martin Bormann and Eva Braun--and to a fortune in lost gold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8453'),
(14593, 'The Devil&#39;s Gold', 'Steve Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <b>\n  The\n  <i>\n   New York Times\n  </i>\n  bestselling author of\n  <i>\n   The Jefferson Key\n  </i>\n  brings you a short story that takes readers on a perilous hunt for . . .\n  <i>\n   The Devil''s Gold\n  </i>\n </b>\n <br />\n <br />\n Once he was called the Sphinx, a man so inscrutable that neither his adversaries nor fellow intelligence operatives could predict his next move. Now a contract agent with a secret mission, Jonathan Wyatt has gone rogue. For eight years he''s been plotting. Waiting. Scheming to kill Federal agents Christopher Combs and Cotton Malone, whom he blames for the loss of his career. But as Wyatt prepares for a final confrontation in a remote South American village, he makes a discovery that stretches back to the horrors of World War II, to the astounding secret of a child''s birth, to Martin Bormann and Eva Braun--and to a fortune in lost gold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23884'),
(14594, 'The Devil&#39;s Heart', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It was in the summer of 1958 that the horror surfaced in the town of Whitfield, erupting like a festering boil, spewing its corruption on everyone near it. Those who survived the terror remember it as the summer of The Digging - the time when the hot wind began to blow, when Satan''s creatures rose from the putrid bowels of the earth, when the inhabitants of Whitfield were touched by... THE DEVIL''S KISS. Now it was summer again in Whitfield. The town was peaceful, quiet, and unprepared for the atrocities to come. Eternal life, everlasting youth, an orgy that would span time - that was what the Lord of Darkness was promising the coven members in return for their pledge of love. The few who had fought against his hideous powers before, believed it could never happen again. Then the hot wind began to blow - as black and as evil as THE DEVIL''S HEART\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/162'),
(14595, 'The Devil&#39;s Heart', 'Carmen Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-Responding to an emergency medical call from a Vulcan archeological team digging on the desolate planet Iconia, the Enterprise arrives to find them murdered. Picard comes into possession of a powerful, ancient artifact, the Ko N''Ya. He and the crew of the Enterprise become caught up in the battle to possess this ruby gem, which leaves behind it a trail of blood as red as the devil''s heart itself. In this tale of power and greed, aliens and humans alike are tempted by the endless power of the jewel. Carter has woven several individual story lines into a complex, textured, well-written plot and peopled it with three-dimensional characters. While the novel stands on its own, fans of ST:TNG will find it a rich reading experience.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When communications are cut off from a remote archaeological outpost, the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  is sent to investigate, only to discover a ravaged outpost, a dying scientist, and a mystery involving a legendary object of power.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7992'),
(14596, 'The Devil&#39;s Heart', 'Carmen Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  YA-Responding to an emergency medical call from a Vulcan archeological team digging on the desolate planet Iconia, the Enterprise arrives to find them murdered. Picard comes into possession of a powerful, ancient artifact, the Ko N''Ya. He and the crew of the Enterprise become caught up in the battle to possess this ruby gem, which leaves behind it a trail of blood as red as the devil''s heart itself. In this tale of power and greed, aliens and humans alike are tempted by the endless power of the jewel. Carter has woven several individual story lines into a complex, textured, well-written plot and peopled it with three-dimensional characters. While the novel stands on its own, fans of ST:TNG will find it a rich reading experience.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When communications are cut off from a remote archaeological outpost, the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  is sent to investigate, only to discover a ravaged outpost, a dying scientist, and a mystery involving a legendary object of power.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16918'),
(14597, 'The Devil&#39;s Heart', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It was in the summer of 1958 that the horror surfaced in the town of Whitfield, erupting like a festering boil, spewing its corruption on everyone near it. Those who survived the terror remember it as the summer of The Digging - the time when the hot wind began to blow, when Satan''s creatures rose from the putrid bowels of the earth, when the inhabitants of Whitfield were touched by... THE DEVIL''S KISS. Now it was summer again in Whitfield. The town was peaceful, quiet, and unprepared for the atrocities to come. Eternal life, everlasting youth, an orgy that would span time - that was what the Lord of Darkness was promising the coven members in return for their pledge of love. The few who had fought against his hideous powers before, believed it could never happen again. Then the hot wind began to blow - as black and as evil as THE DEVIL''S HEART\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24795'),
(14598, 'Devil&#39;s Keep', 'Phillip Finch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n BORN TO KILLEven trained warriors often feel an internal blink of resistance when the killing takes place within the zone of body heat.Not Ray Favor. He killed with the easeof flipping a light switch.ONE SHOT AT REDEMPTIONA decade ago, Ray Favor was a remorseless killer for theBlack Ops cell Bravo One Nine. He did what he was hiredt o do out of patriotism and duty. Now, having amassed a fortune but deeply troubled by his past and suspicious of his own nature, Favor is motivated by something more: a chance to r ight the wrongs he committed and restore balance .He get s that chance deep in the Philippines, where thedisappearance of two teenagers leads Favor and his Bravo team to confront an illegal operation by the Russian mob--and an evil so deplorable that it can only be righted by the means Favor once used to wreak destruction. Now, driven by a hungry sense of purpose, Ray Favor will seek retribution by any means necessary. And exact a violent justice without mercy--or regret.First in Phillip Finch''s stunning new series, Devil''s Keep is a suspense-packed international thriller introducing a powerful, complex, and memorable action hero.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2137'),
(14599, 'Devil&#39;s Keep', 'Phillip Finch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n BORN TO KILLEven trained warriors often feel an internal blink of resistance when the killing takes place within the zone of body heat.Not Ray Favor. He killed with the easeof flipping a light switch.ONE SHOT AT REDEMPTIONA decade ago, Ray Favor was a remorseless killer for theBlack Ops cell Bravo One Nine. He did what he was hiredt o do out of patriotism and duty. Now, having amassed a fortune but deeply troubled by his past and suspicious of his own nature, Favor is motivated by something more: a chance to r ight the wrongs he committed and restore balance .He get s that chance deep in the Philippines, where thedisappearance of two teenagers leads Favor and his Bravo team to confront an illegal operation by the Russian mob--and an evil so deplorable that it can only be righted by the means Favor once used to wreak destruction. Now, driven by a hungry sense of purpose, Ray Favor will seek retribution by any means necessary. And exact a violent justice without mercy--or regret.First in Phillip Finch''s stunning new series, Devil''s Keep is a suspense-packed international thriller introducing a powerful, complex, and memorable action hero.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9725'),
(14600, 'The Devil&#39;s Kiss', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As the years pass, Black Wilder is waiting for just the right moment to emerge from the shadows in the small prairie town. The time is now, the beasts are hungry, the Undead are awake, and the putrid stench of evil hangs in the area. The townspeople are about to be touched by the Devil''s kiss.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/165'),
(14601, 'The Devil&#39;s Kiss', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As the years pass, Black Wilder is waiting for just the right moment to emerge from the shadows in the small prairie town. The time is now, the beasts are hungry, the Undead are awake, and the putrid stench of evil hangs in the area. The townspeople are about to be touched by the Devil''s kiss.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24794'),
(14602, 'The Devil&#39;s Novice', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a bit disturbing. The younger son of a prominent family, Meriet is meek and biddable by day, but his sleep is rife with nightmares so violent that they earn him the name of "Devil''s Novice". Shunned by the other monks, Aspley attracts the concern of Brother Cadfael. Then a body appears, that of a young priest last seen at the Aspley estate. Can Meriet be involved in the death? As events take a sinister turn, it falls to Brother Cadfael to detect the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5691'),
(14603, 'The Devil&#39;s Novice', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a bit disturbing. The younger son of a prominent family, Meriet is meek and biddable by day, but his sleep is rife with nightmares so violent that they earn him the name of "Devil''s Novice". Shunned by the other monks, Aspley attracts the concern of Brother Cadfael. Then a body appears, that of a young priest last seen at the Aspley estate. Can Meriet be involved in the death? As events take a sinister turn, it falls to Brother Cadfael to detect the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18901'),
(14604, 'The Devil&#39;s Novice', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a bit disturbing. The younger son of a prominent family, Meriet is meek and biddable by day, but his sleep is rife with nightmares so violent that they earn him the name of "Devil''s Novice". Shunned by the other monks, Aspley attracts the concern of Brother Cadfael. Then a body appears, that of a young priest last seen at the Aspley estate. Can Meriet be involved in the death? As events take a sinister turn, it falls to Brother Cadfael to detect the truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27672'),
(14605, 'The Devil&#39;s Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square', 'James Traub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The first part of Traub''s learned cultural history focuses on Times Square (originally Longacre Square before it was renamed in 1904) when it was the center of New York''sÃ¢â‚¬"and the nation''sÃ¢â‚¬"entertainment industry. Evoking the Runyonesque worlds of vaudeville, burlesque, speakeasies, gangsters and molls, the author provides lots of glamorous information about old Times Square and its most recognizable inventionÃ¢â‚¬"oversized electronic signs or "spectaculars." Part two opens in the 1970s after Hollywood, suburbanization and television had marginalized live entertainment and its capital, turning Times Square into a haven for drug dealers and prostitutes, "a disease to be cured." This section, on the rebirth of Times Square, is particularly valuable for showing how private interests and the public sector joined forces to create a capital for corporatized fun. In part three, some readers may become impatient with Traub''s tortured indecision about whether to enjoy this weird, overblown world, as his 11-year-old son does, or to decry it as a plot by global capitalism, as well as with his tendency to obsessively analyze the place (he visits Madame Tussaud''s Wax Museum with a professor who''s "a deconstructionist, or perhaps a postdeconstructionist"). Despite the sometimes overly intellectual approach, this book should appeal to those looking for some of the joy and excitement that even the new "sanitized" Times Square has to offer.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Traub has made a career out of writing about New York and its institutions. He has the right: he lives and breathes the city, and his prose tumbles out sparkling and effortless. His history of Times Square--its name was changed from Longacre Square in the spring of 1904 for the newspaper headquartered there--is a vivid and remarkably nonjudgmental tale. The "iron law" of Times Square, he writes, is "real estate turned to its most profitable use," and he carries that idea from rooftop gardens, vaudeville, and the magical year of 1927 through the speakeasies and nightclubs of the 1930s to the sinkhole of the 1970s and the square''s current incarnation as the site of a family carnival. He doesn''t miss a character--what made Times Square happen were personalities from reporter Walter Winchell and nightclub queen Texas Guinan to designer Tibor Kalman and the real estate Dursts. He segues smoothly from the assignations of boxer Primo Carnera at the Forrest Hotel to the effect of crowds on MTV''s\n <em>\n  Total Request Live\n </em>\n . He pauses in his archaeological reconstruction long enough to marvel at the length and depth of Irving Berlin''s career and to admire the Ferris wheel inside the Toys R Us store. A fabulous read that quite nearly captures the "gorgeous disarray" and "epic higgedly piggedly" of the world''s gathering place. For other slices of New York life, see Donna Seaman''s Read-alike column, "Walkabout, New York Style," in the February 1, 2004,\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  GraceAnne DeCandido\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12339'),
(14606, 'Devil&#39;s Plaything', 'Matt Richtel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n We all keep secrets, but what if someone wasn''t just stealing our secrets but changing them . . . and our brains?\n</p>\n<p>\n Journalist Nat Idle is nearly gunned down in Golden Gate Park. He quickly learns it was no random attack. Suddenly, in pursuit of the truth, he''s running for his life through the shadows of Silicon Valley, a human lab animal caught in a deadly maze of neurotechnology and institutional paranoia. And his survival rests entirely in the hands of his eighty-five-year-old grandmother, Lane, who''s suffering from dementia and can''t remember the secret at the heart of the world-changing conspiracy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Author, technology reporter, Pulitzer Prize winner, Matt Richtel has dreamed up an exquisite nightmare firmly grounded in true science. The future is now, the possibilities endless . . . and positively terrifying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12270'),
(14607, 'Devil&#39;s Rock', 'Chris Speyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Zaki finds a bracelet and an ancient skeleton, little does he know that he is also stumbling across a mystery that goes back generations - a mystery that involves ruthless shipwreckers, an innocent young woman and a quest for life.Dealing with the break-up of his parents'' marriage, as well as trying to help his older brother, Zaki has to use all his ingenuity, thoughtfulness and skill to unravel the mysteries of the past and perhaps even to set long-trapped spirits free.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6741'),
(14608, 'Devil&#39;s Rock', 'Chris Speyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Zaki finds a bracelet and an ancient skeleton, little does he know that he is also stumbling across a mystery that goes back generations - a mystery that involves ruthless shipwreckers, an innocent young woman and a quest for life.Dealing with the break-up of his parents'' marriage, as well as trying to help his older brother, Zaki has to use all his ingenuity, thoughtfulness and skill to unravel the mysteries of the past and perhaps even to set long-trapped spirits free.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12827'),
(14609, 'Devil&#39;s Rock', 'Chris Speyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Zaki finds a bracelet and an ancient skeleton, little does he know that he is also stumbling across a mystery that goes back generations - a mystery that involves ruthless shipwreckers, an innocent young woman and a quest for life.Dealing with the break-up of his parents'' marriage, as well as trying to help his older brother, Zaki has to use all his ingenuity, thoughtfulness and skill to unravel the mysteries of the past and perhaps even to set long-trapped spirits free.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17138'),
(14610, 'The Devil&#39;s Touch', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE DEVIL''S KISS The evil that triumphed during that long-ago summer in Whitfield is festering now in the unsuspecting town of Logandale. Only Sam and Nydia Balon, lone survivors of the ancient horror, know the signs -- the putrid stench rising from the bowels of the earth, the unspeakable, inexplicable atrocities, the hideous, horrifying Beasts -- that mark the foul presence of the Prince of Darkness. Only they have the weapons that can pierce... THE DEVIL''S HEART Once the carnage begins, there''s no time for anything but terror. Hollow-eyed, hungry corpses rise from the unearthly tombs to gorge themselves on living flesh and spawn a new generation of restless Undead. The very demons of Hell cavort with Satan''s unholy disciples in blood-soaked rituals and fevered orgies. The Balons have faced the red, glowing eyes of the Master before, and they know what must be done. But there can be no salvation for those marked by... THE DEVIL''S TOUCH\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/166'),
(14611, 'The Devil&#39;s Touch', 'William W. Johnstone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE DEVIL''S KISS The evil that triumphed during that long-ago summer in Whitfield is festering now in the unsuspecting town of Logandale. Only Sam and Nydia Balon, lone survivors of the ancient horror, know the signs -- the putrid stench rising from the bowels of the earth, the unspeakable, inexplicable atrocities, the hideous, horrifying Beasts -- that mark the foul presence of the Prince of Darkness. Only they have the weapons that can pierce... THE DEVIL''S HEART Once the carnage begins, there''s no time for anything but terror. Hollow-eyed, hungry corpses rise from the unearthly tombs to gorge themselves on living flesh and spawn a new generation of restless Undead. The very demons of Hell cavort with Satan''s unholy disciples in blood-soaked rituals and fevered orgies. The Balons have faced the red, glowing eyes of the Master before, and they know what must be done. But there can be no salvation for those marked by... THE DEVIL''S TOUCH\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24793'),
(14612, 'The Devil&#39;s Winchester', 'Peter Brandvold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lou Prophet is accompanying the vile outlaw Blanco Metalious back to Nugget Town to see him hang. Then Sam "Man Killin" Metalious enters the picture, determined to free his son. No way is that going to happen under Prophet''s watch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2209'),
(14613, 'The Devil&#39;s Winchester', 'Peter Brandvold', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lou Prophet is accompanying the vile outlaw Blanco Metalious back to Nugget Town to see him hang. Then Sam "Man Killin" Metalious enters the picture, determined to free his son. No way is that going to happen under Prophet''s watch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8598'),
(14614, 'The Devil&#39;s Winchester', 'Brandvold, Peter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22602'),
(14615, 'The Devils Highway', 'Luis Alberto Urrea', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In May 2001, 26 Mexican men scrambled across the border and into an area of the Arizona desert known as the Devil''s Highway. Only 12 made it safely across. American Book AwardÃ¢â‚¬"winning writer and poet Urrea (_Across the Wire_;\n  <em>\n   Six Kinds of Sky\n  </em>\n  ; etc.), who was born in Tijuana and now lives outside Chicago, tracks the paths those men took from their home state of Veracruz all the way\n  <em>\n   norte\n  </em>\n  . Their enemies were many: the U.S. Border Patrol ("La Migra"); gung-ho gringo vigilantes bent on taking the law into their own hands; the Mexican Federales; rattlesnakes; severe hypothermia and the remorseless sun, a "110 degree nightmare" that dried their bodies and pounded their brains. In artful yet uncomplicated prose, Urrea captivatingly tells how a dozen men squeezed by to safety, and how 14 othersÃ¢â‚¬"whom the media labeled the Yuma 14Ã¢â‚¬"did not. But while many point to the group''s smugglers (known as coyotes) as the prime villains of the tragedy, Urrea unloads on, in the words of one Mexican consul, "the politics of stupidity that rules both sides of the border." Mexican and U.S. border policy is backward, Urrea finds, and it does little to stem the flow of immigrants. Since the policy results in Mexicans making the crossing in increasingly forbidding areas, it contributes to the conditions that kill those who attempt it. Confident and full of righteous rage, Urrea''s story is a well-crafted mÃƒÂ©lange of first-person testimony, geographic history, cultural and economic analysis, poetry and an indictment of immigration policy. It may not directly influence the forces behind the U.S.''s southern border travesties, but it does give names and identities to the faceless and maligned "wetbacks" and "pollos," and highlights the brutality and unsustainable nature of the many walls separating the two countries. Maps not seen by\n  <em>\n   PW\n  </em>\n  .\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  So many illegal immigrants die in the desert Southwest of the U.S. that only notorious catastrophes make headlines. Urrea reconstructs one such incident in the Sonoran Desert, the ordeal of sun and thirst of two dozen men in May 2001, half of whom suffered excruciating deaths. They came from Vera Cruz; their so-called guide came from Guadalajara. Jesus Lopez Ramos was no master of orienteering, however, just an expendable bottom-feeder in the border''s human-smuggling racket. Tracing their lives and the routes to the border, Urrea adopts a slangy, surreal style in which the desert landscape shimmers and distorts, while in desiccated border settlements criminals, officials, and vigilantes patrol for human cargo such as the men from Vera Cruz. The imaginative license Urrea takes, paralleling the laconic facts of the case that he incorporates into his narrative, produces a powerful, almost diabolical impression of the disaster and the exploitative conditions at the border. Urrea shows immigration policy on the human level.\n  <em>\n   Gilbert Taylor\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12326'),
(14616, 'Devious', 'Lisa Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Someone is strangling novice nuns in Jackson''s terrifying if overwrought seventh Bentz and Montoya novel (after Malice). When NOPD homicide detectives Reuben Montoya and Rick Bentz arrive at the first crime scene, the chapel of St. Marguerite''s Convent, Montoya recognizes the murder victim, Sister Camille, as his old high school girlfriend, Cammie Renard. In another coincidence, the novice sister who discovered Camille''s body, Lucia Costa, once dated Montoya''s brother. On top of that, one of the prime suspects is a high school classmate of Montoya''s, Fr. Francis O''Toole, who may have had an affair with the victim. As Cammie''s sister, Valerie, a former Texas cop now a New Orleans Garden District B&amp;B owner, struggles with a surprise visit from her estranged husband, more nuns succumb to a crazed killer. Val learns more than she bargained for about her pastâ€”and Cammie''sâ€”at a nearby orphanage in a creepy thriller sure to please Jackson''s many fans. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The crime scene at St. Margueriteâ€™s cathedral in New Orleans is shocking, even to seasoned detectives like Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya. A novice nun named Sister Camille has been found dressed in a yellowed bridal gown and viciously garroted, her body covered with an altar cloth. Valerie Houston is devastated by her sisterâ€™s death. For weeks, sheâ€™d begged Camille to leave St. Margueriteâ€™s, where she seemed determined to live as some kind of martyr. But Camille had a knack for making bad choices â€” she joined the convent in part because sheâ€™d fallen for Valâ€™s soon-to-be ex-husband, Slade. Convinced the police arenâ€™t doing enough, Val begins to investigate. Slade, on a mission to repair their marriage, is determined to help her. But the deeper Valâ€™s inquiries go, the more twisted the case becomes. St. Margueriteâ€™s is far from the tranquil retreat many believe, and everyone, from handsome Father Frank Oâ€™Toole to the mysterious Mother Superior, has their own agenda. Despite their closeness, even Camille had a hidden life Val never suspected. But someone knew about Camilleâ€™s past â€” and Valâ€™s, too. Now she has no choice but to catch a devious, depraved killer intent on purging St. Margueriteâ€™s of all its sins â€” before she becomes the next victimâ€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3274'),
(14617, 'Devious', 'Lisa Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Someone is strangling novice nuns in Jackson''s terrifying if overwrought seventh Bentz and Montoya novel (after Malice). When NOPD homicide detectives Reuben Montoya and Rick Bentz arrive at the first crime scene, the chapel of St. Marguerite''s Convent, Montoya recognizes the murder victim, Sister Camille, as his old high school girlfriend, Cammie Renard. In another coincidence, the novice sister who discovered Camille''s body, Lucia Costa, once dated Montoya''s brother. On top of that, one of the prime suspects is a high school classmate of Montoya''s, Fr. Francis O''Toole, who may have had an affair with the victim. As Cammie''s sister, Valerie, a former Texas cop now a New Orleans Garden District B&amp;B owner, struggles with a surprise visit from her estranged husband, more nuns succumb to a crazed killer. Val learns more than she bargained for about her pastâ€”and Cammie''sâ€”at a nearby orphanage in a creepy thriller sure to please Jackson''s many fans. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The crime scene at St. Margueriteâ€™s cathedral in New Orleans is shocking, even to seasoned detectives like Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya. A novice nun named Sister Camille has been found dressed in a yellowed bridal gown and viciously garroted, her body covered with an altar cloth. Valerie Houston is devastated by her sisterâ€™s death. For weeks, sheâ€™d begged Camille to leave St. Margueriteâ€™s, where she seemed determined to live as some kind of martyr. But Camille had a knack for making bad choices â€” she joined the convent in part because sheâ€™d fallen for Valâ€™s soon-to-be ex-husband, Slade. Convinced the police arenâ€™t doing enough, Val begins to investigate. Slade, on a mission to repair their marriage, is determined to help her. But the deeper Valâ€™s inquiries go, the more twisted the case becomes. St. Margueriteâ€™s is far from the tranquil retreat many believe, and everyone, from handsome Father Frank Oâ€™Toole to the mysterious Mother Superior, has their own agenda. Despite their closeness, even Camille had a hidden life Val never suspected. But someone knew about Camilleâ€™s past â€” and Valâ€™s, too. Now she has no choice but to catch a devious, depraved killer intent on purging St. Margueriteâ€™s of all its sins â€” before she becomes the next victimâ€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10508'),
(14618, 'Devious', 'Lisa Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Someone is strangling novice nuns in Jackson''s terrifying if overwrought seventh Bentz and Montoya novel (after Malice). When NOPD homicide detectives Reuben Montoya and Rick Bentz arrive at the first crime scene, the chapel of St. Marguerite''s Convent, Montoya recognizes the murder victim, Sister Camille, as his old high school girlfriend, Cammie Renard. In another coincidence, the novice sister who discovered Camille''s body, Lucia Costa, once dated Montoya''s brother. On top of that, one of the prime suspects is a high school classmate of Montoya''s, Fr. Francis O''Toole, who may have had an affair with the victim. As Cammie''s sister, Valerie, a former Texas cop now a New Orleans Garden District B&amp;B owner, struggles with a surprise visit from her estranged husband, more nuns succumb to a crazed killer. Val learns more than she bargained for about her pastâ€”and Cammie''sâ€”at a nearby orphanage in a creepy thriller sure to please Jackson''s many fans. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The crime scene at St. Margueriteâ€™s cathedral in New Orleans is shocking, even to seasoned detectives like Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya. A novice nun named Sister Camille has been found dressed in a yellowed bridal gown and viciously garroted, her body covered with an altar cloth. Valerie Houston is devastated by her sisterâ€™s death. For weeks, sheâ€™d begged Camille to leave St. Margueriteâ€™s, where she seemed determined to live as some kind of martyr. But Camille had a knack for making bad choices â€” she joined the convent in part because sheâ€™d fallen for Valâ€™s soon-to-be ex-husband, Slade. Convinced the police arenâ€™t doing enough, Val begins to investigate. Slade, on a mission to repair their marriage, is determined to help her. But the deeper Valâ€™s inquiries go, the more twisted the case becomes. St. Margueriteâ€™s is far from the tranquil retreat many believe, and everyone, from handsome Father Frank Oâ€™Toole to the mysterious Mother Superior, has their own agenda. Despite their closeness, even Camille had a hidden life Val never suspected. But someone knew about Camilleâ€™s past â€” and Valâ€™s, too. Now she has no choice but to catch a devious, depraved killer intent on purging St. Margueriteâ€™s of all its sins â€” before she becomes the next victim...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21189'),
(14619, 'The Devouring', 'Simon Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Upâ€”Comparable to books by R. L. Stine and Stephen King,\n <em>\n  The Devouring\n </em>\n will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Reggie is a horror fanatic. When she finds a journal in a box of used books at the bookstore where she works, she "borrows" it. It tells of the Vours, black smokelike beings that possess humans who can''t conquer their fear on Sorry Night (the eve of the winter solstice). Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to make the Vours materialize but instead they possess her little brother. In a fight to the death, Reggie joins the battle of humanity against the Vours. This story contains classic elements of the genre: a horrific monster, fusion (where two different entities are fused into one), and the process of discovery. The book has some graphic content, blood, and gore, which only add to the chills. A must-have for horror fans.â€”_June H. Keuhn, Corning East High School, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Comparable to books by R. L. Stine and Stephen King,\n <em>\n  The Devouring\n </em>\n will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Reggie is a horror fanatic. When she finds a journal in a box of used books at the bookstore where she works, she "borrows" it. It tells of the Vours, black smokelike beings that possess humans who can''t conquer their fear on Sorry Night (the eve of the winter solstice). Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to make the Vours materialize but instead they possess her little brother. In a fight to the death, Reggie joins the battle of humanity against the Vours. This story contains classic elements of the genre: a horrific monster, fusion (where two different entities are fused into one), and the process of discovery. The book has some graphic content, blood, and gore, which only add to the chills. A must-have for horror fans. (\n <strong>\n  School Library Journal\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  June H. Keuhn, Corning East High School, NY\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n<p>\n "When the dark creeps in and eats the light, / Bury your fears on Sorry Night," begins this creepy tale that reads like A Nightmare on Elm Street with a dollop of demonic possession. Reggie Halloway, a mousy girl and avid horror fan, discovers a strange journal while working at an occult bookstore. Upon investigation, she learns about the Vours, horrific demons who feed on fear and take over the body, morphing its host into a cold, cruel creature. When, as a prank, Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to summon a Vour, things go horribly awry and a Vour takes over the body of her little brother, Henry. Reggie then must battle the Vours to try to get her brother''s soul back into his body. In this introductory volume, cinematic in its scope, Holt borrows conventions from many horror films, including a Stygian carnival complete with killer clowns and dreams in which injuries can manifest themselves in the real world. A scary yarn spun at breakneck speed, perfect for those chilly winter nights. (\n <strong>\n  Kirkus\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Reggie is a horror junkie who can''t get enough of creepy movies, stories, and books, so she is naturally thrilled to stumble upon a mysterious old journal that describes the Vours, demonic beings that can enter fearful human bodies once a year. Although Reggie initially assumes the journal to be fiction, it quickly becomes clear that her timid younger brother, Henry, has actually been possessed by a Vour. Suddenly, Reggie is faced with a brother who kills his own beloved hamster and threatens her life, but she is certain that the Henry she loves is still there underneath. Although the diary gives few clues about how to actually exorcise demons, Reggie is determined to save her brother, even if it means facing unberable fears of her own. The fear-created world where Henry is stuck is remarkably creepy, built out of the most alarming imaginings of a young boy (murderous clowns, abandoning mothers, grotesquely dying children make up a few of the obstacles through which Reggie must travel to get to her brother). In addition, the intriguing local roots of the Vours, presented mostly through snippets of the desperate journal entries, add a layer of historical depth to this otherwise straightforward, modern novel. Horror fans will likely find the crsip writing, effectively relentless pacing, and haunting concept irresistible. (\n <strong>\n  The Bulletin\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1248');
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(14620, 'The Devouring', 'Simon Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Upâ€”Comparable to books by R. L. Stine and Stephen King,\n <em>\n  The Devouring\n </em>\n will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Reggie is a horror fanatic. When she finds a journal in a box of used books at the bookstore where she works, she "borrows" it. It tells of the Vours, black smokelike beings that possess humans who can''t conquer their fear on Sorry Night (the eve of the winter solstice). Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to make the Vours materialize but instead they possess her little brother. In a fight to the death, Reggie joins the battle of humanity against the Vours. This story contains classic elements of the genre: a horrific monster, fusion (where two different entities are fused into one), and the process of discovery. The book has some graphic content, blood, and gore, which only add to the chills. A must-have for horror fans.â€”_June H. Keuhn, Corning East High School, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Comparable to books by R. L. Stine and Stephen King,\n <em>\n  The Devouring\n </em>\n will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Reggie is a horror fanatic. When she finds a journal in a box of used books at the bookstore where she works, she "borrows" it. It tells of the Vours, black smokelike beings that possess humans who can''t conquer their fear on Sorry Night (the eve of the winter solstice). Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to make the Vours materialize but instead they possess her little brother. In a fight to the death, Reggie joins the battle of humanity against the Vours. This story contains classic elements of the genre: a horrific monster, fusion (where two different entities are fused into one), and the process of discovery. The book has some graphic content, blood, and gore, which only add to the chills. A must-have for horror fans. (\n <strong>\n  School Library Journal\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  June H. Keuhn, Corning East High School, NY\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n<p>\n "When the dark creeps in and eats the light, / Bury your fears on Sorry Night," begins this creepy tale that reads like A Nightmare on Elm Street with a dollop of demonic possession. Reggie Halloway, a mousy girl and avid horror fan, discovers a strange journal while working at an occult bookstore. Upon investigation, she learns about the Vours, horrific demons who feed on fear and take over the body, morphing its host into a cold, cruel creature. When, as a prank, Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to summon a Vour, things go horribly awry and a Vour takes over the body of her little brother, Henry. Reggie then must battle the Vours to try to get her brother''s soul back into his body. In this introductory volume, cinematic in its scope, Holt borrows conventions from many horror films, including a Stygian carnival complete with killer clowns and dreams in which injuries can manifest themselves in the real world. A scary yarn spun at breakneck speed, perfect for those chilly winter nights. (\n <strong>\n  Kirkus\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Reggie is a horror junkie who can''t get enough of creepy movies, stories, and books, so she is naturally thrilled to stumble upon a mysterious old journal that describes the Vours, demonic beings that can enter fearful human bodies once a year. Although Reggie initially assumes the journal to be fiction, it quickly becomes clear that her timid younger brother, Henry, has actually been possessed by a Vour. Suddenly, Reggie is faced with a brother who kills his own beloved hamster and threatens her life, but she is certain that the Henry she loves is still there underneath. Although the diary gives few clues about how to actually exorcise demons, Reggie is determined to save her brother, even if it means facing unberable fears of her own. The fear-created world where Henry is stuck is remarkably creepy, built out of the most alarming imaginings of a young boy (murderous clowns, abandoning mothers, grotesquely dying children make up a few of the obstacles through which Reggie must travel to get to her brother). In addition, the intriguing local roots of the Vours, presented mostly through snippets of the desperate journal entries, add a layer of historical depth to this otherwise straightforward, modern novel. Horror fans will likely find the crsip writing, effectively relentless pacing, and haunting concept irresistible. (\n <strong>\n  The Bulletin\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10346'),
(14621, 'The Devouring', 'Simon Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7 Upâ€”Comparable to books by R. L. Stine and Stephen King,\n <em>\n  The Devouring\n </em>\n will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Reggie is a horror fanatic. When she finds a journal in a box of used books at the bookstore where she works, she "borrows" it. It tells of the Vours, black smokelike beings that possess humans who can''t conquer their fear on Sorry Night (the eve of the winter solstice). Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to make the Vours materialize but instead they possess her little brother. In a fight to the death, Reggie joins the battle of humanity against the Vours. This story contains classic elements of the genre: a horrific monster, fusion (where two different entities are fused into one), and the process of discovery. The book has some graphic content, blood, and gore, which only add to the chills. A must-have for horror fans.â€”_June H. Keuhn, Corning East High School, NY_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Comparable to books by R. L. Stine and Stephen King,\n <em>\n  The Devouring\n </em>\n will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Reggie is a horror fanatic. When she finds a journal in a box of used books at the bookstore where she works, she "borrows" it. It tells of the Vours, black smokelike beings that possess humans who can''t conquer their fear on Sorry Night (the eve of the winter solstice). Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to make the Vours materialize but instead they possess her little brother. In a fight to the death, Reggie joins the battle of humanity against the Vours. This story contains classic elements of the genre: a horrific monster, fusion (where two different entities are fused into one), and the process of discovery. The book has some graphic content, blood, and gore, which only add to the chills. A must-have for horror fans. (\n <strong>\n  School Library Journal\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  June H. Keuhn, Corning East High School, NY\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n<p>\n "When the dark creeps in and eats the light, / Bury your fears on Sorry Night," begins this creepy tale that reads like A Nightmare on Elm Street with a dollop of demonic possession. Reggie Halloway, a mousy girl and avid horror fan, discovers a strange journal while working at an occult bookstore. Upon investigation, she learns about the Vours, horrific demons who feed on fear and take over the body, morphing its host into a cold, cruel creature. When, as a prank, Reggie and her friend Aaron attempt to summon a Vour, things go horribly awry and a Vour takes over the body of her little brother, Henry. Reggie then must battle the Vours to try to get her brother''s soul back into his body. In this introductory volume, cinematic in its scope, Holt borrows conventions from many horror films, including a Stygian carnival complete with killer clowns and dreams in which injuries can manifest themselves in the real world. A scary yarn spun at breakneck speed, perfect for those chilly winter nights. (\n <strong>\n  Kirkus\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Reggie is a horror junkie who can''t get enough of creepy movies, stories, and books, so she is naturally thrilled to stumble upon a mysterious old journal that describes the Vours, demonic beings that can enter fearful human bodies once a year. Although Reggie initially assumes the journal to be fiction, it quickly becomes clear that her timid younger brother, Henry, has actually been possessed by a Vour. Suddenly, Reggie is faced with a brother who kills his own beloved hamster and threatens her life, but she is certain that the Henry she loves is still there underneath. Although the diary gives few clues about how to actually exorcise demons, Reggie is determined to save her brother, even if it means facing unberable fears of her own. The fear-created world where Henry is stuck is remarkably creepy, built out of the most alarming imaginings of a young boy (murderous clowns, abandoning mothers, grotesquely dying children make up a few of the obstacles through which Reggie must travel to get to her brother). In addition, the intriguing local roots of the Vours, presented mostly through snippets of the desperate journal entries, add a layer of historical depth to this otherwise straightforward, modern novel. Horror fans will likely find the crsip writing, effectively relentless pacing, and haunting concept irresistible. (\n <strong>\n  The Bulletin\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23674'),
(14622, 'Dewey&#39;s Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions', 'Vicki Myron', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The cat that captured America''s hearts returns, to share more of his special brand of magic.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World\n  </em>\n  was a blockbuster bestseller and a publishing phenomenon. It has sold nearly a million copies, spawned three children''s books, and will be the basis for an upcoming movie. No doubt about it, Dewey has created a community. Dewey touched readers everywhere, who realized that no matter how difficult their lives might seem, or how ordinary their talents, they can-and should-make a positive difference to those around them. Now, Dewey is back, with even more heartwarming moments and life lessons to share.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dewey''s Nine Lives\n  </em>\n  offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about cats--all told from the perspective of "Dewey''s Mom," librarian Vicki Myron. The amazing felines in this book include Dewey, of course, whose further never-before-told adventures are shared, and several others who Vicki found out about when their owners reached out to her. Vicki learned, through extensive interviews and story sharing, what made these cats special, and how they fit into Dewey''s community of perseverance and love. From a divorced mother in Alaska who saved a drowning kitten on Christmas Eve to a troubled Vietnam veteran whose heart was opened by his long relationship with a rescued cat, these Dewey-style stories will inspire readers to laugh, cry, care, and, most importantly, believe in the magic of animals to touch individual lives.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vicki Myron\n  </strong>\n  was Dewey''s Mom and the director of the Spencer Public Library for twenty years. As the author of the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   Dewey\n  </em>\n  , she speaks throughout the country. Myron lives in Spencer, Iowa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Bret Witter\n  </strong>\n  is a former book editor turned writer. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/334'),
(14623, 'Dewey&#39;s Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions', 'Vicki Myron', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The cat that captured America''s hearts returns, to share more of his special brand of magic.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World\n  </em>\n  was a blockbuster bestseller and a publishing phenomenon. It has sold nearly a million copies, spawned three children''s books, and will be the basis for an upcoming movie. No doubt about it, Dewey has created a community. Dewey touched readers everywhere, who realized that no matter how difficult their lives might seem, or how ordinary their talents, they can-and should-make a positive difference to those around them. Now, Dewey is back, with even more heartwarming moments and life lessons to share.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dewey''s Nine Lives\n  </em>\n  offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about cats--all told from the perspective of "Dewey''s Mom," librarian Vicki Myron. The amazing felines in this book include Dewey, of course, whose further never-before-told adventures are shared, and several others who Vicki found out about when their owners reached out to her. Vicki learned, through extensive interviews and story sharing, what made these cats special, and how they fit into Dewey''s community of perseverance and love. From a divorced mother in Alaska who saved a drowning kitten on Christmas Eve to a troubled Vietnam veteran whose heart was opened by his long relationship with a rescued cat, these Dewey-style stories will inspire readers to laugh, cry, care, and, most importantly, believe in the magic of animals to touch individual lives.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vicki Myron\n  </strong>\n  was Dewey''s Mom and the director of the Spencer Public Library for twenty years. As the author of the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   Dewey\n  </em>\n  , she speaks throughout the country. Myron lives in Spencer, Iowa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Bret Witter\n  </strong>\n  is a former book editor turned writer. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11577'),
(14624, 'Dewey&#39;s Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions', 'Vicki Myron', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The cat that captured America''s hearts returns, to share more of his special brand of magic.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World\n  </em>\n  was a blockbuster bestseller and a publishing phenomenon. It has sold nearly a million copies, spawned three children''s books, and will be the basis for an upcoming movie. No doubt about it, Dewey has created a community. Dewey touched readers everywhere, who realized that no matter how difficult their lives might seem, or how ordinary their talents, they can-and should-make a positive difference to those around them. Now, Dewey is back, with even more heartwarming moments and life lessons to share.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Dewey''s Nine Lives\n  </em>\n  offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about cats--all told from the perspective of "Dewey''s Mom," librarian Vicki Myron. The amazing felines in this book include Dewey, of course, whose further never-before-told adventures are shared, and several others who Vicki found out about when their owners reached out to her. Vicki learned, through extensive interviews and story sharing, what made these cats special, and how they fit into Dewey''s community of perseverance and love. From a divorced mother in Alaska who saved a drowning kitten on Christmas Eve to a troubled Vietnam veteran whose heart was opened by his long relationship with a rescued cat, these Dewey-style stories will inspire readers to laugh, cry, care, and, most importantly, believe in the magic of animals to touch individual lives.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Vicki Myron\n  </strong>\n  was Dewey''s Mom and the director of the Spencer Public Library for twenty years. As the author of the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   Dewey\n  </em>\n  , she speaks throughout the country. Myron lives in Spencer, Iowa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Bret Witter\n  </strong>\n  is a former book editor turned writer. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24540'),
(14625, 'Dexter by Design', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The macabre, witty "New York Times "bestselling series (and inspiration for the #1 Showtime series, "Dexter)" continues as our darkly lovable killer matches wits with a sadistic "artiste"--who is creating bizarre murder tableaux of his own all over Miami. After his surprisingly glorious honeymoon in Paris, life is almost normal for Dexter Morgan. Married life seems to agree with him: he''s devoted to his bride, his stomach is full, and his homicidal hobbies are nicely under control. But old habits die hard--and Dexter''s work as a blood spatter analyst never fails to offer new temptations that appeal to his offbeat sense of justice...and his Dark Passenger still waits to hunt with him in the moonlight. The discovery of a corpse (artfully displayed as a sunbather relaxing on a Miami beach chair) naturally piques Dexter''s curiosity and Miami''s finest realize they''ve got a terrifying new serial killer on the loose. And Dexter, of course, is back in business.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4650'),
(14626, 'Dexter by Design', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The macabre, witty "New York Times "bestselling series (and inspiration for the #1 Showtime series, "Dexter)" continues as our darkly lovable killer matches wits with a sadistic "artiste"--who is creating bizarre murder tableaux of his own all over Miami. After his surprisingly glorious honeymoon in Paris, life is almost normal for Dexter Morgan. Married life seems to agree with him: he''s devoted to his bride, his stomach is full, and his homicidal hobbies are nicely under control. But old habits die hard--and Dexter''s work as a blood spatter analyst never fails to offer new temptations that appeal to his offbeat sense of justice...and his Dark Passenger still waits to hunt with him in the moonlight. The discovery of a corpse (artfully displayed as a sunbather relaxing on a Miami beach chair) naturally piques Dexter''s curiosity and Miami''s finest realize they''ve got a terrifying new serial killer on the loose. And Dexter, of course, is back in business.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14554'),
(14627, 'Dexter in the Dark', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is accustomed to seeing evil deeds. . . particularly because, on occasion, he commits them himself. But Dexter''s happy existence is turned upside down when he is called to an unusually disturbing crime scene at the university campus. Dexter''s Dark Passenger â€“ mastermind of his homicidal prowess â€“ immediately senses something chillingly recognizable and goes into hiding. Dexter is alone for the first time in his life, and he realizes he''s being hunted by a truly sinister adversary. Meanwhile he''s planning a wedding and trying to learn how to be a stepfather to his fiancÃ©''s two kids â€“ who might just have dark tendencies themselves. Macabre, ironic, and wonderfully entertaining, Dexter in the Dark goes deeper into the psyche of one of the freshest protagonists in recent fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4651'),
(14628, 'Dexter in the Dark', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is accustomed to seeing evil deeds. . . particularly because, on occasion, he commits them himself. But Dexter''s happy existence is turned upside down when he is called to an unusually disturbing crime scene at the university campus. Dexter''s Dark Passenger â€“ mastermind of his homicidal prowess â€“ immediately senses something chillingly recognizable and goes into hiding. Dexter is alone for the first time in his life, and he realizes he''s being hunted by a truly sinister adversary. Meanwhile he''s planning a wedding and trying to learn how to be a stepfather to his fiancÃ©''s two kids â€“ who might just have dark tendencies themselves. Macabre, ironic, and wonderfully entertaining, Dexter in the Dark goes deeper into the psyche of one of the freshest protagonists in recent fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14500'),
(14629, 'Dexter Is Delicious', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Americaâ€™s most-read, most-watched, and mostÂ­ beloved serial killerâ€”Dexter Morganâ€”is back. After selling more than *one million copies *and inspiring the wildly popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television, *New York Times *bestselling author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious, macabre, and purely entertaining novel yet. **Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal life. He keeps his dark urges in check by adhering to one steadÂ­fast rule . . . *he only kills very bad people. *But now Dexter is experiencing some major life changesâ€”donâ€™t we all?â€”and theyâ€™re mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires. As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to the missing girl, he realizes they are not really vampires so much as cannibals. And, most disturbing . . . these people have decided they would really like to eat Dexter. Jeff Lindsayâ€™s bestselling, dark, ironic, and oftentimes laugh-out-loud hilarious novels about the lovable serial killer with no soul (but a redeeming desire to kill only people who deserve it) have gained a legion of fans and assumed a place in our culÂ­ture.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4653'),
(14630, 'Dexter Is Delicious', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Americaâ€™s most-read, most-watched, and mostÂ­ beloved serial killerâ€”Dexter Morganâ€”is back. After selling more than *one million copies *and inspiring the wildly popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television, *New York Times *bestselling author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious, macabre, and purely entertaining novel yet. **Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal life. He keeps his dark urges in check by adhering to one steadÂ­fast rule . . . *he only kills very bad people. *But now Dexter is experiencing some major life changesâ€”donâ€™t we all?â€”and theyâ€™re mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires. As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to the missing girl, he realizes they are not really vampires so much as cannibals. And, most disturbing . . . these people have decided they would really like to eat Dexter. Jeff Lindsayâ€™s bestselling, dark, ironic, and oftentimes laugh-out-loud hilarious novels about the lovable serial killer with no soul (but a redeeming desire to kill only people who deserve it) have gained a legion of fans and assumed a place in our culÂ­ture.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11198'),
(14631, 'Dexter Is Delicious', 'Jeff Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Americaâ€™s most-read, most-watched, and mostÂ­ beloved serial killerâ€”Dexter Morganâ€”is back. After selling more than *one million copies *and inspiring the wildly popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television, *New York Times *bestselling author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious, macabre, and purely entertaining novel yet. **Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal life. He keeps his dark urges in check by adhering to one steadÂ­fast rule . . . *he only kills very bad people. *But now Dexter is experiencing some major life changesâ€”donâ€™t we all?â€”and theyâ€™re mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires. As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to the missing girl, he realizes they are not really vampires so much as cannibals. And, most disturbing . . . these people have decided they would really like to eat Dexter. Jeff Lindsayâ€™s bestselling, dark, ironic, and oftentimes laugh-out-loud hilarious novels about the lovable serial killer with no soul (but a redeeming desire to kill only people who deserve it) have gained a legion of fans and assumed a place in our culÂ­ture.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14372'),
(14632, 'DH-The Maltese Falcon', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14769'),
(14633, 'DH-The Maltese Falcon', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27159'),
(14634, 'The Dhammapada', 'Eknath Easwaran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n According to Eknath Easwaran, if all of the Buddhist sutras had been lost except the *Dhammapada*, it alone would be enough for readers to understand and appreciate the wisdom of the Buddha. Easwaran''s version of the *Dhammapada* goes a long way toward proving this. In a lengthy introduction, Easwaran summarizes the life of the Buddha and the main tenets of his thought, including key concepts such as dharma, karma, and nirvana. The language of the Dhammapada is as lucid and flowing as the Psalms or the Sermon on the Mount, and this is why it is one of the most loved and remembered of all Buddhist sutras. Its subject matter, succinctly, is about training the mind, which leads to kind thoughts and deeds, which bring peace and freedom from suffering. If you are interested in reading one of the gems of Buddhist literature, this is a good place to start; and if you are looking for a great version of this beloved scripture, you can''t do better. Like all great world scripture, the verses here reward rereading and reflection, prompting you to "strive for wisdom always." *--Brian Bruya*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5803'),
(14635, 'The Dhammapada', 'Eknath Easwaran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: According to Eknath Easwaran, if all of the Buddhist sutras had been lost except the *Dhammapada*, it alone would be enough for readers to understand and appreciate the wisdom of the Buddha. Easwaran''s version of the *Dhammapada* goes a long way toward proving this. In a lengthy introduction, Easwaran summarizes the life of the Buddha and the main tenets of his thought, including key concepts such as dharma, karma, and nirvana. The language of the Dhammapada is as lucid and flowing as the Psalms or the Sermon on the Mount, and this is why it is one of the most loved and remembered of all Buddhist sutras. Its subject matter, succinctly, is about training the mind, which leads to kind thoughts and deeds, which bring peace and freedom from suffering. If you are interested in reading one of the gems of Buddhist literature, this is a good place to start; and if you are looking for a great version of this beloved scripture, you can''t do better. Like all great world scripture, the verses here reward rereading and reflection, prompting you to "strive for wisdom always." *--Brian Bruya*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18844'),
(14636, 'The Dhammapada', 'Eknath Easwaran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n According to Eknath Easwaran, if all of the Buddhist sutras had been lost except the *Dhammapada*, it alone would be enough for readers to understand and appreciate the wisdom of the Buddha. Easwaran''s version of the *Dhammapada* goes a long way toward proving this. In a lengthy introduction, Easwaran summarizes the life of the Buddha and the main tenets of his thought, including key concepts such as dharma, karma, and nirvana. The language of the Dhammapada is as lucid and flowing as the Psalms or the Sermon on the Mount, and this is why it is one of the most loved and remembered of all Buddhist sutras. Its subject matter, succinctly, is about training the mind, which leads to kind thoughts and deeds, which bring peace and freedom from suffering. If you are interested in reading one of the gems of Buddhist literature, this is a good place to start; and if you are looking for a great version of this beloved scripture, you can''t do better. Like all great world scripture, the verses here reward rereading and reflection, prompting you to "strive for wisdom always." *--Brian Bruya*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27557'),
(14637, 'Dhampir', 'Barb Hendee &amp; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n SHE HUNTS THE REALMS MOST DANGEROUS GAME. HER FEES ARE EXORBITANT. SHE''S WORTH EVERY COIN SHE RECEIVES. OR IS SHE? Magiere has earned a reputation as the most formidable vampire slayer in the land. Villagers far and wide welcome her with both awe and disdain, grateful to her for ridding their towns of the undead menace, but finding themselves made poorer for their salvation. Magiere has always known she''s dealing with simple folk who only wish to have their superstitions silenced, and she''s never seen anything wrong with exploiting them for profit. Now, tired of the game, Magiere and her partner, the half-elf Leesil, are ready to hang up their weapons and settle down in a place they can finally call home. But their new found peace will not last. For Magiere has come to the attention of a trio of powerful and dangerous vampires who recognize her true identity Â— even if she does not Â— and who fear the birthright that flows through her veins. And they will stop at nothing to keep Magiere from fulfilling her destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7330'),
(14638, 'Dhampir', 'Barb Hendee &amp; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n SHE HUNTS THE REALMS MOST DANGEROUS GAME. HER FEES ARE EXORBITANT. SHE''S WORTH EVERY COIN SHE RECEIVES. OR IS SHE? Magiere has earned a reputation as the most formidable vampire slayer in the land. Villagers far and wide welcome her with both awe and disdain, grateful to her for ridding their towns of the undead menace, but finding themselves made poorer for their salvation. Magiere has always known she''s dealing with simple folk who only wish to have their superstitions silenced, and she''s never seen anything wrong with exploiting them for profit. Now, tired of the game, Magiere and her partner, the half-elf Leesil, are ready to hang up their weapons and settle down in a place they can finally call home. But their new found peace will not last. For Magiere has come to the attention of a trio of powerful and dangerous vampires who recognize her true identity Â— even if she does not Â— and who fear the birthright that flows through her veins. And they will stop at nothing to keep Magiere from fulfilling her destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10300'),
(14639, 'Dhampir', 'Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: SHE HUNTS THE REALMS MOST DANGEROUS GAME. HER FEES ARE EXORBITANT. SHE''S WORTH EVERY COIN SHE RECEIVES. OR IS SHE? Magiere has earned a reputation as the most formidable vampire slayer in the land. Villagers far and wide welcome her with both awe and disdain, grateful to her for ridding their towns of the undead menace, but finding themselves made poorer for their salvation. Magiere has always known she''s dealing with simple folk who only wish to have their superstitions silenced, and she''s never seen anything wrong with exploiting them for profit. Now, tired of the game, Magiere and her partner, the half-elf Leesil, are ready to hang up their weapons and settle down in a place they can finally call home. But their new found peace will not last. For Magiere has come to the attention of a trio of powerful and dangerous vampires who recognize her true identity Â— even if she does not Â— and who fear the birthright that flows through her veins. And they will stop at nothing to keep Magiere from fulfilling her destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16559'),
(14640, 'Dhampir', 'Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: SHE HUNTS THE REALMS MOST DANGEROUS GAME. HER FEES ARE EXORBITANT. SHE''S WORTH EVERY COIN SHE RECEIVES. OR IS SHE? Magiere has earned a reputation as the most formidable vampire slayer in the land. Villagers far and wide welcome her with both awe and disdain, grateful to her for ridding their towns of the undead menace, but finding themselves made poorer for their salvation. Magiere has always known she''s dealing with simple folk who only wish to have their superstitions silenced, and she''s never seen anything wrong with exploiting them for profit. Now, tired of the game, Magiere and her partner, the half-elf Leesil, are ready to hang up their weapons and settle down in a place they can finally call home. But their new found peace will not last. For Magiere has come to the attention of a trio of powerful and dangerous vampires who recognize her true identity Â— even if she does not Â— and who fear the birthright that flows through her veins. And they will stop at nothing to keep Magiere from fulfilling her destiny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26595'),
(14641, 'The Dharma Bums', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  From the author of "On The Road" comes this story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4891'),
(14642, 'The Dharma bums', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of "On The Road" comes this story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14348'),
(14643, 'The Dharma bums', 'Jack Kerouac', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of "On The Road" comes this story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19778'),
(14644, 'Diagnosis: Danger', 'Marie Ferrarella &amp; Jenna Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3144'),
(14645, 'Diagnosis: Danger', 'Marie Ferrarella &amp; Jenna Mills', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9608'),
(14646, 'Dial M for Monkey', 'Adam Maxwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Adam Maxwell''s first collection of short stories is inventive, funny, dark, and hugely entertaining. The twenty stories included here range from a bizarre quest to find a dead rockstar''s limb (Jim Morrison''s Leg) to a memorable warning about the hidden dangers of building sites (the acclaimed Shooting Jelly With A Shotgun). Effortlessly fusing pop culture, gunplay, and simians, Dial M For Monkey contains a vibrant mixture of short stories - and short-short stories - most never published before. This unmissable collection represents another shot in the arm for the resurgent form of the short story. As featured in Tonto Short Stories and Dave Eggers'' McSweeney''s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15383'),
(14647, 'Diamond Age', 'Stephenson, Neal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25094'),
(14648, 'The Diamond Age', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In **Snow Crash**, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in **The Diamond Age**, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life-and the entire future of humanity-is about to be decoded and reprogrammed....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2605'),
(14649, 'The Diamond Age', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In **Snow Crash**, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in **The Diamond Age**, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life-and the entire future of humanity-is about to be decoded and reprogrammed....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12914'),
(14650, 'The Diamond Age', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In **Snow Crash**, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in **The Diamond Age**, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life-and the entire future of humanity-is about to be decoded and reprogrammed....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13839'),
(14651, 'The Diamond Age', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In **Snow Crash**, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in **The Diamond Age**, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life-and the entire future of humanity-is about to be decoded and reprogrammed....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22170'),
(14652, 'The Diamond Bikini', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6877'),
(14653, 'The Diamond Bikini', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13381'),
(14654, 'The diamond bikini', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17019'),
(14655, 'The diamond bikini', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26869'),
(14656, 'The Diamond Throne', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sparhawk, Pandion Knight, and Queen''s Champion have returned to Elenia after ten years of exile, only to find young Queen Ehlanda trapped in a block of ensorcelled crystal. As Sparhawk sets out to find a cure for Ehlana, he discovers that only he can defeat the evil plots that threaten her rule....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17274'),
(14657, 'Diamonds Are Forever: A James Bond Novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde, stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa to London to the United States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Agent 007 is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice maiden herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5052'),
(14658, 'Diamonds are forever: a James Bond novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde, stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa to London to the United States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Agent 007 is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice maiden herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19671'),
(14659, 'Diamonds are forever: a James Bond novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde, stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa to London to the United States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Agent 007 is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice maiden herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28225'),
(14660, 'Diana', 'Carlos Fuentes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26007'),
(14661, 'Diary', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Diary\n <br />\n "CAN YOU FEEL THIS?"\n <br />\n Diary takes the form of a "coma diary" kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she''s been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he''s remodeled and scrawling vile messages all over the walls-an old habit of builders but dramatically overdone in Peter''s case. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, and Misty''s dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. But can her newly discovered talent be part of a larger, darker plan? Of course it can â€¦\n <br />\n Praise\n <br />\n "Just for the record, Diary is as hypnotic as a poised cobra. Chuck Palahniuk demonstrates that the most chilling special effects come not from Industrial Light and Magic but from the words of a gifted writer."\n <br />\n â€“Â Ira Levin, author of Rosemary''s Baby\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6638'),
(14662, 'Diary', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Diary\n <br />\n "CAN YOU FEEL THIS?"\n <br />\n Diary takes the form of a "coma diary" kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she''s been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he''s remodeled and scrawling vile messages all over the walls-an old habit of builders but dramatically overdone in Peter''s case. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, and Misty''s dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. But can her newly discovered talent be part of a larger, darker plan? Of course it can â€¦\n <br />\n Praise\n <br />\n "Just for the record, Diary is as hypnotic as a poised cobra. Chuck Palahniuk demonstrates that the most chilling special effects come not from Industrial Light and Magic but from the words of a gifted writer."\n <br />\n â€“Â Ira Levin, author of Rosemary''s Baby\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11777'),
(14663, 'Diary', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Diary "CAN YOU FEEL THIS?" Diary takes the form of a "coma diary" kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she''s been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he''s remodeled and scrawling vile messages all over the walls-an old habit of builders but dramatically overdone in Peter''s case. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, and Misty''s dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. But can her newly discovered talent be part of a larger, darker plan? Of course it can â€¦ Praise "Just for the record, Diary is as hypnotic as a poised cobra. Chuck Palahniuk demonstrates that the most chilling special effects come not from Industrial Light and Magic but from the words of a gifted writer." â€“Â Ira Levin, author of Rosemary''s Baby\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14449'),
(14664, 'Diary', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Diary\n <br />\n "CAN YOU FEEL THIS?"\n <br />\n Diary takes the form of a "coma diary" kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she''s been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he''s remodeled and scrawling vile messages all over the walls-an old habit of builders but dramatically overdone in Peter''s case. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, and Misty''s dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. But can her newly discovered talent be part of a larger, darker plan? Of course it can ...\n <br />\n Praise\n <br />\n "Just for the record, Diary is as hypnotic as a poised cobra. Chuck Palahniuk demonstrates that the most chilling special effects come not from Industrial Light and Magic but from the words of a gifted writer."\n <br />\n â€“ Ira Levin, author of Rosemary''s Baby\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18010');
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(14665, 'Diary', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Diary\n <br />\n "CAN YOU FEEL THIS?"\n <br />\n Diary takes the form of a "coma diary" kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she''s been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he''s remodeled and scrawling vile messages all over the walls-an old habit of builders but dramatically overdone in Peter''s case. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, and Misty''s dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. But can her newly discovered talent be part of a larger, darker plan? Of course it can â€¦\n <br />\n Praise\n <br />\n "Just for the record, Diary is as hypnotic as a poised cobra. Chuck Palahniuk demonstrates that the most chilling special effects come not from Industrial Light and Magic but from the words of a gifted writer."\n <br />\n â€“Â Ira Levin, author of Rosemary''s Baby\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, sheâ€™s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesnâ€™t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages theyâ€™ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled.Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from Americaâ€™s most inventive nihilist, and Palahniukâ€™s most impressive work to date.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26969'),
(14666, 'Diary of a Mad Fat Girl', 'Stephanie McAfee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ace Jones needs a vacation, but she''s not going to get it. What she gets is a dose of scandalous small town politics that takes her on a quest for truth and redemption. In the meantime, the love of her life shows up 3 years after a bad breakup. Diary of a Mad Fat Girl is as adventurous as it is entertaining as Ace and her friends delve into illegal surveillance, stalking, and covert ops.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1108'),
(14667, 'Diary of a Mad Fat Girl', 'Stephanie McAfee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ace Jones needs a vacation, but she''s not going to get it. What she gets is a dose of scandalous small town politics that takes her on a quest for truth and redemption. In the meantime, the love of her life shows up 3 years after a bad breakup. Diary of a Mad Fat Girl is as adventurous as it is entertaining as Ace and her friends delve into illegal surveillance, stalking, and covert ops.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11354'),
(14668, 'Diary of a Mad Fat Girl', 'Stephanie McAfee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ace Jones needs a vacation, but she''s not going to get it. What she gets is a dose of scandalous small town politics that takes her on a quest for truth and redemption. In the meantime, the love of her life shows up 3 years after a bad breakup. Diary of a Mad Fat Girl is as adventurous as it is entertaining as Ace and her friends delve into illegal surveillance, stalking, and covert ops.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23748'),
(14669, 'Diary of a Nobody', 'George Grossmith &amp; Weedon Grossmith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25803'),
(14670, 'The Diary of a U-Boat Commander', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7484'),
(14671, 'The Diary of A U-Boat Commander', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20630'),
(14672, 'The Diary of A U-Boat Commander', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26430'),
(14673, 'The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition', 'Anne Frank &amp; Otto Frank &amp; Mirjam Pressler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n More than fifty years after its first publication, Doubleday''s definitive edition of Anne Frank''s famous diary generated an extraordinary amount of excitement when it was  published in early 1995. Enthusiastically  received by critics and readers alike, it reigned for  nine weeks on *The New York Times*  bestseller list and will remain for all time the  version that millions of readers will cherish.In a  handsome package with flaps, rough front, and  printed endpapers, this Anchor trade paperback will be  the perfect gift for anyone who seeks insight into  the indestructible nature of the human  spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7608'),
(14674, 'The diary of a young girl: the definitive edition', 'Anne Frank; Otto Frank; Mirjam Pressler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: More than fifty years after its first publication, Doubleday''s definitive edition of Anne Frank''s famous diary generated an extraordinary amount of excitement when it was published in early 1995. Enthusiastically received by critics and readers alike, it reigned for nine weeks on *The New York Times* bestseller list and will remain for all time the version that millions of readers will cherish.In a handsome package with flaps, rough front, and printed endpapers, this Anchor trade paperback will be the perfect gift for anyone who seeks insight into the indestructible nature of the human spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16300'),
(14675, 'The diary of a young girl: the definitive edition', 'Anne Frank; Otto Frank; Mirjam Pressler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: More than fifty years after its first publication, Doubleday''s definitive edition of Anne Frank''s famous diary generated an extraordinary amount of excitement when it was published in early 1995. Enthusiastically received by critics and readers alike, it reigned for nine weeks on *The New York Times* bestseller list and will remain for all time the version that millions of readers will cherish.In a handsome package with flaps, rough front, and printed endpapers, this Anchor trade paperback will be the perfect gift for anyone who seeks insight into the indestructible nature of the human spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26389'),
(14676, 'The diary of a young girl: the definitive edition', 'Anne Frank &amp; Otto Frank &amp; Mirjam Pressler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n More than fifty years after its first publication, Doubleday''s definitive edition of Anne Frank''s famous diary generated an extraordinary amount of excitement when it was  published in early 1995. Enthusiastically  received by critics and readers alike, it reigned for  nine weeks on *The New York Times*  bestseller list and will remain for all time the  version that millions of readers will cherish.In a  handsome package with flaps, rough front, and  printed endpapers, this Anchor trade paperback will be  the perfect gift for anyone who seeks insight into  the indestructible nature of the human  spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26392'),
(14677, 'The Diary of Mattie Spenser', 'Sandra Dallas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colerado frontier. Mattie''s only company is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant stranger. As she and Luke make life together on the harsh and beautiful plains, Mattie learns some bitter truths about her husband and the girl he lieft behind and finds love where she least expects it. Dramatic and suspenseful, this is an unforgettable story of hardship, friendship and survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1367'),
(14678, 'The Diary of Mattie Spenser', 'Sandra Dallas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colerado frontier. Mattie''s only company is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant stranger. As she and Luke make life together on the harsh and beautiful plains, Mattie learns some bitter truths about her husband and the girl he lieft behind and finds love where she least expects it. Dramatic and suspenseful, this is an unforgettable story of hardship, friendship and survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9199'),
(14679, 'The Diary of Mattie Spenser', 'Sandra Dallas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colerado frontier. Mattie''s only company is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant stranger. As she and Luke make life together on the harsh and beautiful plains, Mattie learns some bitter truths about her husband and the girl he lieft behind and finds love where she least expects it. Dramatic and suspenseful, this is an unforgettable story of hardship, friendship and survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23516'),
(14680, 'Dictator', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A robot named Hunter and a team of three human experts travel back into time to World War II to stop a time-traveling renegade robot before he destroys the future of humanity. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25694'),
(14681, 'Die Happy: 499 Things Every Guy&#39;s Gotta Do While He Still Can', 'Tim Burke &amp; Michael Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two brothers combine forces to compile the ultimate guy''s to-do-before-marriage list. Tim is married but still "fight(ing) the good fight" and Michael is "still a free man." They take advantage of their different points of view, banking on Tim''s nostalgia for his bachelor days and Michael''s determination to take full advantage of the time he has left. Whether offering predictable ideas, like traveling Europe by rail or "road-trippin'' North America" with some buddies, or slightly more original plans like running with the bulls in Spain, throwing a mustache party, or pretending to be someone else for a weekend, they keep readers entertained. The writing style is conversational and candid, and its humor is aimed squarely at the guy''s guy ("You''re not going to meet your wife in Cancun, but you''ll probably take home her slutty sister"). Though at times repetitive; the Burkes themselves happily acknowledge the role formula plays in their schemes: "if you''re in search of a good story just get smashed in a different town" sums it up nicely. Though sure to irritate any woman who happens to pick it up (women are divided into two categories: kill-joy wives and drunken sluts), that shouldn''t be a problem for the target audience. Most single guys under thirty will enjoy this title-and may even be inspired by it.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attention, guys of America: It''s time to get off the couch, turn off the PlayStation, and set down your beer (just kidding--_never_ set down your beer). Your days of freedom are numbered. Every guy owes it to himself to do something audacious, ostentatious, hilarious, or just plain fun before it''s too late. The time is now for the kinds of things that will be decidedly against the rules after you "settle down."\n <em>\n  Die Happy\n </em>\n is here to help you create the kind of stories you''ll be telling for the rest of your life. Stories about things like:\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· How you spent your graduation cash: You start at Oktoberfest in Munich and wake up on a Thai beach (which is totally what your Aunt Edith had in mind). From Fantasy Fest to La Tomatina, here''s a breakdown of the wildest parties and the craziest worldwide destinations.\n <br />\n Â· The best places to, ahem,\n <em>\n  explore other cultures\n </em>\n (or whatever): Corfu''s Pink Palace. Ireland''s pubs. Amsterdam''s Red Light District. Ibiza. Plus plenty of other fascinating events and locales, many of which also happen to serve booze.\n <br />\n Â· Getting a job (don''t worry, not a\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n job): Jet Ski guy. Cruise ship bartender. Casino dealer. Lifeguard. Roadie. Where and how to earn the money to subsidize your fun, usually in some exotic location full of very friendly women.\n</p>\n<p>\n At once a "How To," a "To Do," and a "We Did,"\n <em>\n  Die Happy\n </em>\n contains all the ideas, checklists, and insanely funny true stories you''ll need to help you have as much fun as possible--while you still can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/684'),
(14682, 'Die Happy: 499 Things Every Guy&#39;s Gotta Do While He Still Can', 'Tim Burke &amp; Michael Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two brothers combine forces to compile the ultimate guy''s to-do-before-marriage list. Tim is married but still "fight(ing) the good fight" and Michael is "still a free man." They take advantage of their different points of view, banking on Tim''s nostalgia for his bachelor days and Michael''s determination to take full advantage of the time he has left. Whether offering predictable ideas, like traveling Europe by rail or "road-trippin'' North America" with some buddies, or slightly more original plans like running with the bulls in Spain, throwing a mustache party, or pretending to be someone else for a weekend, they keep readers entertained. The writing style is conversational and candid, and its humor is aimed squarely at the guy''s guy ("You''re not going to meet your wife in Cancun, but you''ll probably take home her slutty sister"). Though at times repetitive; the Burkes themselves happily acknowledge the role formula plays in their schemes: "if you''re in search of a good story just get smashed in a different town" sums it up nicely. Though sure to irritate any woman who happens to pick it up (women are divided into two categories: kill-joy wives and drunken sluts), that shouldn''t be a problem for the target audience. Most single guys under thirty will enjoy this title-and may even be inspired by it.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attention, guys of America: It''s time to get off the couch, turn off the PlayStation, and set down your beer (just kidding--_never_ set down your beer). Your days of freedom are numbered. Every guy owes it to himself to do something audacious, ostentatious, hilarious, or just plain fun before it''s too late. The time is now for the kinds of things that will be decidedly against the rules after you "settle down."\n <em>\n  Die Happy\n </em>\n is here to help you create the kind of stories you''ll be telling for the rest of your life. Stories about things like:\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· How you spent your graduation cash: You start at Oktoberfest in Munich and wake up on a Thai beach (which is totally what your Aunt Edith had in mind). From Fantasy Fest to La Tomatina, here''s a breakdown of the wildest parties and the craziest worldwide destinations.\n <br />\n Â· The best places to, ahem,\n <em>\n  explore other cultures\n </em>\n (or whatever): Corfu''s Pink Palace. Ireland''s pubs. Amsterdam''s Red Light District. Ibiza. Plus plenty of other fascinating events and locales, many of which also happen to serve booze.\n <br />\n Â· Getting a job (don''t worry, not a\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n job): Jet Ski guy. Cruise ship bartender. Casino dealer. Lifeguard. Roadie. Where and how to earn the money to subsidize your fun, usually in some exotic location full of very friendly women.\n</p>\n<p>\n At once a "How To," a "To Do," and a "We Did,"\n <em>\n  Die Happy\n </em>\n contains all the ideas, checklists, and insanely funny true stories you''ll need to help you have as much fun as possible--while you still can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8682'),
(14683, 'Die Happy: 499 Things Every Guy&#39;s Gotta Do While He Still Can', 'Tim Burke; Michael Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two brothers combine forces to compile the ultimate guy''s to-do-before-marriage list. Tim is married but still "fight(ing) the good fight" and Michael is "still a free man." They take advantage of their different points of view, banking on Tim''s nostalgia for his bachelor days and Michael''s determination to take full advantage of the time he has left. Whether offering predictable ideas, like traveling Europe by rail or "road-trippin'' North America" with some buddies, or slightly more original plans like running with the bulls in Spain, throwing a mustache party, or pretending to be someone else for a weekend, they keep readers entertained. The writing style is conversational and candid, and its humor is aimed squarely at the guy''s guy ("You''re not going to meet your wife in Cancun, but you''ll probably take home her slutty sister"). Though at times repetitive; the Burkes themselves happily acknowledge the role formula plays in their schemes: "if you''re in search of a good story just get smashed in a different town" sums it up nicely. Though sure to irritate any woman who happens to pick it up (women are divided into two categories: kill-joy wives and drunken sluts), that shouldn''t be a problem for the target audience. Most single guys under thirty will enjoy this title-and may even be inspired by it.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Attention, guys of America: It''s time to get off the couch, turn off the PlayStation, and set down your beer (just kidding--_never_ set down your beer). Your days of freedom are numbered. Every guy owes it to himself to do something audacious, ostentatious, hilarious, or just plain fun before it''s too late. The time is now for the kinds of things that will be decidedly against the rules after you "settle down."\n <em>\n  Die Happy\n </em>\n is here to help you create the kind of stories you''ll be telling for the rest of your life. Stories about things like:\n</p>\n<p>\n Â· How you spent your graduation cash: You start at Oktoberfest in Munich and wake up on a Thai beach (which is totally what your Aunt Edith had in mind). From Fantasy Fest to La Tomatina, here''s a breakdown of the wildest parties and the craziest worldwide destinations.\n <br />\n Â· The best places to, ahem,\n <em>\n  explore other cultures\n </em>\n (or whatever): Corfu''s Pink Palace. Ireland''s pubs. Amsterdam''s Red Light District. Ibiza. Plus plenty of other fascinating events and locales, many of which also happen to serve booze.\n <br />\n Â· Getting a job (don''t worry, not a\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n job): Jet Ski guy. Cruise ship bartender. Casino dealer. Lifeguard. Roadie. Where and how to earn the money to subsidize your fun, usually in some exotic location full of very friendly women.\n</p>\n<p>\n At once a "How To," a "To Do," and a "We Did,"\n <em>\n  Die Happy\n </em>\n contains all the ideas, checklists, and insanely funny true stories you''ll need to help you have as much fun as possible--while you still can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24327'),
(14684, 'Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther', 'Johann Wolfgang von Goethe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ein junger Mann, Werther, kommt in die Stadt W., um eine\n <br />\n Erbschaftsstreitigkeit zu regeln. Eines Tages begleitet er Lotte, die Tochter\n <br />\n des Amtmannes, auf einen Ball. Obwohl Werther wei?, dass Lotte verlobt ist,\n <br />\n verliebt er sich leidenschaftlich in die junge Frau. Als deren Verlobter Albert\n <br />\n von einer Gesch?ftsreise zur?ckkehrt, wird sich Werther der Vergeblichkeit\n <br />\n seiner Liebe bewusst. Er verl?sst die Stadt, kehrt aber bald wieder zur?ck zu\n <br />\n Lotte, die inzwischen verheiratet ist. Erneut kommt es zu einer Ann?herung\n <br />\n zwischen den beiden, schlie?lich zu einer Umarmung und einem Kuss. Die\n <br />\n verunsicherte Lotte beschlie?t, Werther nicht wiederzusehen. Der verzweifelte\n <br />\n junge Mann nimmt sich mit der Pistole seines Nebenbuhlers das Leben.\n <br />\n Goethes Briefroman erschien im Herbst 1774 und wurde schnell zu einem\n <br />\n europ?ischen Bestseller. Eine wahre Werther-Hysterie entstand, und dem\n <br />\n Roman wurde vorgeworfen, f?r den Selbstmord zahlreicher junger M?nner\n <br />\n verantwortlich zu sein.\n</p>\n<p>\n Der Text?folgt der Hamburger Ausgabe. Ihr liegt die zweite Fassung\n <br />\n aus dem Jahr 1787 zugrunde.\n</p>\n<p>\n Erg?nzt wird der Originaltext mit Worterkl?rungen und biografischen Notizen ?ber den Autor. Die Print ISBN bezieht sich auf unser H?rbuch.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20013'),
(14685, 'Die Trying', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a woman is kidnapped, Jack Reacher''s in the wrong place at the wrong time. He''s kidnapped with her. Now he has to save them both.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3522'),
(14686, 'Die Trying', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a woman is kidnapped, Jack Reacher''s in the wrong place at the wrong time. He''s kidnapped with her. Now he has to save them both.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15197'),
(14687, 'Die Trying', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a woman is kidnapped, Jack Reacher''s in the wrong place at the wrong time. He''s kidnapped with her. Now he has to save them both.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21039'),
(14688, 'Died in the Wool', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An M.P. meets a woolly demise.Member of Parliament Florence Rubrick has the wool pulled over her eyes-quite literally. She''s been found dead, her body pressed into a bale of wool. When Inspector Alleyn pays a visit to her New Zealand country home, he meets two fine, handsome men and two lovely young women, all of whom have reason to be grateful to dear Flossie for saving their lives. But as Inspector Alleyn learns, there are secrets aplenty hiding in the floorboards of that sheep station, and one in particular conceals a murderous motive that has the look and smell of treason.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25309'),
(14689, 'Died to Match', 'Deborah Donnelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It was a wedding no one would forgetâ€¦Luke Skywalker was juggling martini glasses. Albert Einstein was dirty-dancing with Monica Lewinsky. And Zorro was arguing with Death himself. For wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid, it was just another night on the job: a coed bachelor party thrown by one of Seattleâ€™s hippest couples--the bride-to-be a hard-charging Microsoft millionaire, the groom a Seattle Sentinel news editor. But what started as the perfect evening for the young, handsome, and politically correct ended in disaster. One beautiful bridesmaid was dead, and another had thrown herself into Elliott Bay. Now Carnegie has more than a cutting-edge wedding to save. All around her, secret liaisons are unraveling, dangerous decisions are coming to light, and at least one criminal is lurking. With families to please, dresses to hem, and headlines to grab, Carnegie is discovering the dark side of love and marriage amid high and low Seattle society--and that while some passions may be forever, some are a motive for murder....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6141'),
(14690, 'Died to Match', 'Deborah Donnelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It was a wedding no one would forgetâ€¦Luke Skywalker was juggling martini glasses. Albert Einstein was dirty-dancing with Monica Lewinsky. And Zorro was arguing with Death himself. For wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid, it was just another night on the job: a coed bachelor party thrown by one of Seattleâ€™s hippest couples--the bride-to-be a hard-charging Microsoft millionaire, the groom a Seattle Sentinel news editor. But what started as the perfect evening for the young, handsome, and politically correct ended in disaster. One beautiful bridesmaid was dead, and another had thrown herself into Elliott Bay. Now Carnegie has more than a cutting-edge wedding to save. All around her, secret liaisons are unraveling, dangerous decisions are coming to light, and at least one criminal is lurking. With families to please, dresses to hem, and headlines to grab, Carnegie is discovering the dark side of love and marriage amid high and low Seattle society--and that while some passions may be forever, some are a motive for murder....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10902'),
(14691, 'Died to match', 'Deborah Donnelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was a wedding no one would forgetâ€¦Luke Skywalker was juggling martini glasses. Albert Einstein was dirty-dancing with Monica Lewinsky. And Zorro was arguing with Death himself. For wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid, it was just another night on the job: a coed bachelor party thrown by one of Seattleâ€™s hippest couples--the bride-to-be a hard-charging Microsoft millionaire, the groom a Seattle Sentinel news editor. But what started as the perfect evening for the young, handsome, and politically correct ended in disaster. One beautiful bridesmaid was dead, and another had thrown herself into Elliott Bay. Now Carnegie has more than a cutting-edge wedding to save. All around her, secret liaisons are unraveling, dangerous decisions are coming to light, and at least one criminal is lurking. With families to please, dresses to hem, and headlines to grab, Carnegie is discovering the dark side of love and marriage amid high and low Seattle society--and that while some passions may be forever, some are a motive for murder....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17969'),
(14692, 'Died to match', 'Deborah Donnelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was a wedding no one would forgetâ€¦Luke Skywalker was juggling martini glasses. Albert Einstein was dirty-dancing with Monica Lewinsky. And Zorro was arguing with Death himself. For wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid, it was just another night on the job: a coed bachelor party thrown by one of Seattleâ€™s hippest couples--the bride-to-be a hard-charging Microsoft millionaire, the groom a Seattle Sentinel news editor. But what started as the perfect evening for the young, handsome, and politically correct ended in disaster. One beautiful bridesmaid was dead, and another had thrown herself into Elliott Bay. Now Carnegie has more than a cutting-edge wedding to save. All around her, secret liaisons are unraveling, dangerous decisions are coming to light, and at least one criminal is lurking. With families to please, dresses to hem, and headlines to grab, Carnegie is discovering the dark side of love and marriage amid high and low Seattle society--and that while some passions may be forever, some are a motive for murder....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27396'),
(14693, 'The Difference Engine', 'William Gibson;Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brilliantly inventive alternate history by the two biggest names in Cyberpunk, Gibson and Sterling, about a 19th century computer revolution arising from the invention of Charles Babbage''s Difference Engine--a forerunner of today''s computer based on mechanical principles rather than electronic technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14740'),
(14694, 'The Difference Engine', 'William Gibson;Bruce Sterling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brilliantly inventive alternate history by the two biggest names in Cyberpunk, Gibson and Sterling, about a 19th century computer revolution arising from the invention of Charles Babbage''s Difference Engine--a forerunner of today''s computer based on mechanical principles rather than electronic technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24770'),
(14695, 'Different Minds: Gifted Children With Ad/Hd, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits', 'Deirdre V. Lovecky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n '' This is a well-structured book. There are nine chapters; the first gives an overview of gifted children and theories of giftedness. The next two chaoters provide a general description off AD/HD and Asperger before going on to give detailed information on gifted children with these conditions. The following chapters look at cognitive aspects and learning styles, creativity, emotional intelligence, social cognition and moral development. The final chapters discuss issues around assessment and highlight the resources available. The author also includes useful appendices on diagnostic criteria.'' --- Community Practitioner\n</p>\n<p>\n ''In addition to case studies and research findings, Different Minds offers practical strategies and ways in which young people can be supported, both to develop their intellectual abilities and to help them feel accepted in society... This is an absorbing read crammed with observation and detail. Did you know, for instance, that difficulties with social interaction increase in line with IQ? Children with higher IQ''s (180-plus) find their age peers "a mystery, because they''re so different in interests, speed of learning, ability to understand complex material and desire to learn."...Different minds is a valuable addition to the information already available in this field.'' --- Children Now\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Recognizing the different levels and kinds of giftedness, this book provides an insight into the challenges and benefits specific to gifted children with attention difficulties. Explaining why certain children are gifted and how giftedness is manifested, each chapter on a specific topic addresses the relevance for children with AD/HD, autism and Asperger Syndrome. Lovecky guides parents and professionals through methods of diagnosis and advises on how best to nurture individual needs, positive behavior and relationships at home and at school.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17246'),
(14696, 'Different Seasons', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four  novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of  a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an  innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to  escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his  innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening  of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the  trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find  another boy''s corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of  passage from youth to maturity.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies:  "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont''s 1994  The Shawshank Redemption (available as a screenplay, a DVD film, and an audiocassette), "Apt  Pupil" into Bryan Singer''s 1998 film Apt Pupil (also released  in 1998 on audiocassette), and "The  Body" into Rob Reiner''s Stand by Me  (1986).\n  <br />\n  The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a  doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive  under extraordinary circumstances. It''s the tightest, most polished  tale in the collection. --Fiona Webster\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1095'),
(14697, 'Different Seasons', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four  novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of  a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an  innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to  escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his  innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening  of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the  trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find  another boy''s corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of  passage from youth to maturity.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies:  "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont''s 1994  The Shawshank Redemption (available as a screenplay, a DVD film, and an audiocassette), "Apt  Pupil" into Bryan Singer''s 1998 film Apt Pupil (also released  in 1998 on audiocassette), and "The  Body" into Rob Reiner''s Stand by Me  (1986).\n  <br />\n  The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a  doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive  under extraordinary circumstances. It''s the tightest, most polished  tale in the collection. --Fiona Webster\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10710'),
(14698, 'Different Seasons', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy''s corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity. These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont''s 1994 The Shawshank Redemption (available as a screenplay, a DVD film, and an audiocassette), "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer''s 1998 film Apt Pupil (also released in 1998 on audiocassette), and "The Body" into Rob Reiner''s Stand by Me (1986). The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive under extraordinary circumstances. It''s the tightest, most polished tale in the collection. --Fiona Webster\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14529'),
(14699, 'Different Seasons', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy''s corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont''s 1994 The Shawshank Redemption (available as a screenplay, a DVD film, and an audiocassette), "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer''s 1998 film Apt Pupil (also released in 1998 on audiocassette), and "The Body" into Rob Reiner''s Stand by Me (1986).\n  <br />\n  The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive under extraordinary circumstances. It''s the tightest, most polished tale in the collection. --Fiona Webster\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23829'),
(14700, 'Different Seasons', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy''s corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont''s 1994 The Shawshank Redemption, "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer''s 1998 film Apt Pupil, and "The Body" into Rob Reiner''s Stand by Me (1986).\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive under extraordinary circumstances. It''s the tightest, most polished tale in the collection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26132'),
(14701, 'Digital Fortress', 'Brown, Dan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13726'),
(14702, 'Digital fortress', 'Dan Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A computer whiz takes on the government in defense of the right to privacy. On hearing the National Security Agency has secretly installed a program that can read anyone''s e-mail, Ensei Tankado comes up with a program to paralyze it. A conflict ensues and people die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27196'),
(14703, 'The Digital Plague', 'Jeff Somers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Avery Cates is a very rich man. He''s probably the richest criminal in New York City. But right now, Avery Cates is pissed. Because everyone around him has just started to die - in a particularly gruesome way. With every moment bringing the human race closer to extinction, Cates finds himself in the role of both executioner and savior of the entire world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4540'),
(14704, 'Dillinger', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18207'),
(14705, 'Dimension of Dreams', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4561'),
(14706, 'Dimension of Horror', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4562');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14707, 'Dimiter', 'William Peter Blatty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Blatty fans looking for straight-up horror in the vein of\n <em>\n  The Exorcist\n </em>\n will be disappointed, but those with broader tastes will find this a beautifully written, haunting tale of vengeance, spiritual searching, loss, and love. In 1973 Albania, Colonel Vlora (aka the Interrogator), the head of a team of torturers, questions the Prisoner, who the reader later learns is Paul Dimiter, an American clandestine agent referred to in some quarters of the world as ''legendary,'' while in others as ''the agent from hell.''Ã‚Â  (Rumor has it Dimiter poisoned Ho Chi Minh while the Vietnamese leader was visiting Albania shortly before his death in 1969.) Dimiter escapes to Jerusalem, where he encounters a number of engaging characters, including a doctor of neurology, a sharp-tongued nurse, and a grief-stricken Israeli policeman. The complicated plot confounds until the isolated pieces of the psychological puzzle that''s Dimiter match up and fall into place, revealing surprising truths.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGripping and intelligent_, Dimiter_ is part detective story and part religious thriller in the grand tradition of_ The Name of the Rose_.â€ â€”Allan Folsom,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<p>\n "Almost 40 years after\n <em>\n  The Exorcis\n </em>\n t, William Peter Blatty''sÂ  new novel ''Dimiter'' is another headspinner." â€”The New York PostÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dimiter_ is an intelligent, tightly wound, suspenseful novel with a surprising and explosive climax. One can only hope Blatty will publish another sometime soon." â€”USA TODAYÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "Riveting."â€”The Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n<p>\n "Gripping and enthralling."â€”The West Australian\n</p>\n<p>\n "An amazing tale that should be read twice â€” once for the captivating and faith-affirming story, and a second time to savor the author''s elegant writing and masterful craft."â€”Book Reporter.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "An astonishing piece of literature. You will want to reread it as soon as you put it down."â€”Horror Drive-in\n</p>\n<p>\n "A must-read. Had me frantically turning pages to find out what happens next."â€”The Buffalo News\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sure to keep readers'' attention until the final pages."â€”Suite101\n</p>\n<p>\n "A thrilling psychological suspense thriller."â€”Genre Go Round\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully written, mind-twirling mystery chock-full of suspense and wonder."â€”Stem Shots\n</p>\n<p>\n "A depth of mysery, imagination, and eloquence that will captivate mystery-lovers and suspense enthusiasts until its final pages."â€”BookSwim\n</p>\n<p>\n "Magnificent literary visuals...An all-round fascinating piece of work."â€”Thriller Book Club\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Exorcist_ author thrills again!"â€”The Herald Net\n</p>\n<p>\n "_The Exorcist_ author Blatty is back -- and he''s in fine form!"â€” Delawareonline\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBlattyâ€™s writing contains much grace and beauty."â€”The Dallas Morning News\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe author ofÂ \n <em>\n  The Exorcist\n </em>\n has outdone himself.â€â€”Dreadlord_Logix\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel was worth the wait.â€â€”The Pittsburgh Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWilliam Peter Blatty balances philosophy, thrillsâ€â€”The Palm Springs\n <br />\n Desert Sun\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEnfolds a message of faith in a fast-paced thriller.â€â€”The Brothers Judd\n <br />\n Blog\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA Christian thriller with â€˜Lost-â€˜like intrigue.â€â€”Lost Wire\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBlatty has outdone himself. Atmospheric, suspenseful and hugely satisfying,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n is a triumph!â€_â€”_The Speculative Scotsman\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGripping. You will be hooked. I was completely unable to put it down.â€â€”Full Circle\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA page turner.â€â€”News-Press.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA complex, suspenseful, and fast paced thriller, which does not shy away\n <br />\n from the problem of evil contrasted with the mystery of faith." â€”The\n <br />\n Catholic Media Review\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully written, mind-twirling spiritual thriller that is\n <br />\n chock full of suspense and wonder,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n pulses with an aura of mystique that almost begs you to revisit the whole novel as soon as you''ve finished."â€”The Horror Fiction Review\n</p>\n<p>\n "The author of the mega-famous THE EXORCIST has written another grand and breathtaking tale, a stunning and powerful puzzlebox of psychological horror by a true master of modern fiction.â€â€”Dark Delights\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grace-haunted novel._â€â€”_Raymond Arroyo''s "The World Over"\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Dimiter _is exciting and terrific. Like all of Blattyâ€™s stuff, itâ€™s a theological thriller that you can take on as many different levels as you want. Itâ€™s strange and enigmatic and very ambitious. It would make a great film.â€â€”BookTrust\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dimiter_ is a milestone not only because it comes from an award-winning author, but because he''s not written a full-length novel since his 1983 best-seller LEGION - until now... Gripping â€¦ A â€˜must'' for any Blatty fan and many newcomers."â€”California Bookwatch\n</p>\n<p>\n "Blatty proves not only that he still can write compelling prose nearly\n <br />\n 40 years after his acclaimed\n <em>\n  Excorcist\n </em>\n but also that he makes a fine\n <br />\n narrator." Â© AudioFile\n</p>\n<p>\n "(Blatty) writes with an unrelenting pace that totally grips you. (The novel) ends in a fantastic climax that''s really unexpected."â€”London Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<p>\n "At one and the same time,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n is a page-turning detective yarn, an affectionate portrait of the Holy Land, its people and Christâ€™s lingering presence there, and a story about the search for faith â€”all told with author William Peter Blattyâ€™s mordant wit, acute powers of observation and truly beautiful writing."â€”Family and Faith\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDimiter slowly pushes the thriller throttle back and requires you to feel\n <br />\n and think. Read it!â€â€”Boston Book Bums\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAbsolutely enthralling.Â  The best literary puzzle I''ve ever read, it''s a\n <br />\n book that cannot be visited only once to be truly appreciated."â€”Shocklines\n</p>\n<p>\n "The author of the mega-famous modern horror novel, THE EXORCIST, has written another grand and breathtaking tale of terror."â€”countgore.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA stunning saga ... Blatty alternately hides and hints at the nature of the forces at play, building to a spectacular climax which will compel most readers to return to page one upon completing this masterful suspense novel."â€”Books.Com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/106'),
(14708, 'Dimiter', 'William Peter Blatty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Blatty fans looking for straight-up horror in the vein of\n <em>\n  The Exorcist\n </em>\n will be disappointed, but those with broader tastes will find this a beautifully written, haunting tale of vengeance, spiritual searching, loss, and love. In 1973 Albania, Colonel Vlora (aka the Interrogator), the head of a team of torturers, questions the Prisoner, who the reader later learns is Paul Dimiter, an American clandestine agent referred to in some quarters of the world as ''legendary,'' while in others as ''the agent from hell.''Ã‚Â  (Rumor has it Dimiter poisoned Ho Chi Minh while the Vietnamese leader was visiting Albania shortly before his death in 1969.) Dimiter escapes to Jerusalem, where he encounters a number of engaging characters, including a doctor of neurology, a sharp-tongued nurse, and a grief-stricken Israeli policeman. The complicated plot confounds until the isolated pieces of the psychological puzzle that''s Dimiter match up and fall into place, revealing surprising truths.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGripping and intelligent_, Dimiter_ is part detective story and part religious thriller in the grand tradition of_ The Name of the Rose_.â€ â€”Allan Folsom,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<p>\n "Almost 40 years after\n <em>\n  The Exorcis\n </em>\n t, William Peter Blatty''sÂ  new novel ''Dimiter'' is another headspinner." â€”The New York PostÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dimiter_ is an intelligent, tightly wound, suspenseful novel with a surprising and explosive climax. One can only hope Blatty will publish another sometime soon." â€”USA TODAYÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "Riveting."â€”The Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n<p>\n "Gripping and enthralling."â€”The West Australian\n</p>\n<p>\n "An amazing tale that should be read twice â€” once for the captivating and faith-affirming story, and a second time to savor the author''s elegant writing and masterful craft."â€”Book Reporter.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "An astonishing piece of literature. You will want to reread it as soon as you put it down."â€”Horror Drive-in\n</p>\n<p>\n "A must-read. Had me frantically turning pages to find out what happens next."â€”The Buffalo News\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sure to keep readers'' attention until the final pages."â€”Suite101\n</p>\n<p>\n "A thrilling psychological suspense thriller."â€”Genre Go Round\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully written, mind-twirling mystery chock-full of suspense and wonder."â€”Stem Shots\n</p>\n<p>\n "A depth of mysery, imagination, and eloquence that will captivate mystery-lovers and suspense enthusiasts until its final pages."â€”BookSwim\n</p>\n<p>\n "Magnificent literary visuals...An all-round fascinating piece of work."â€”Thriller Book Club\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Exorcist_ author thrills again!"â€”The Herald Net\n</p>\n<p>\n "_The Exorcist_ author Blatty is back -- and he''s in fine form!"â€” Delawareonline\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBlattyâ€™s writing contains much grace and beauty."â€”The Dallas Morning News\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe author ofÂ \n <em>\n  The Exorcist\n </em>\n has outdone himself.â€â€”Dreadlord_Logix\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel was worth the wait.â€â€”The Pittsburgh Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWilliam Peter Blatty balances philosophy, thrillsâ€â€”The Palm Springs\n <br />\n Desert Sun\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEnfolds a message of faith in a fast-paced thriller.â€â€”The Brothers Judd\n <br />\n Blog\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA Christian thriller with â€˜Lost-â€˜like intrigue.â€â€”Lost Wire\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBlatty has outdone himself. Atmospheric, suspenseful and hugely satisfying,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n is a triumph!â€_â€”_The Speculative Scotsman\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGripping. You will be hooked. I was completely unable to put it down.â€â€”Full Circle\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA page turner.â€â€”News-Press.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA complex, suspenseful, and fast paced thriller, which does not shy away\n <br />\n from the problem of evil contrasted with the mystery of faith." â€”The\n <br />\n Catholic Media Review\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully written, mind-twirling spiritual thriller that is\n <br />\n chock full of suspense and wonder,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n pulses with an aura of mystique that almost begs you to revisit the whole novel as soon as you''ve finished."â€”The Horror Fiction Review\n</p>\n<p>\n "The author of the mega-famous THE EXORCIST has written another grand and breathtaking tale, a stunning and powerful puzzlebox of psychological horror by a true master of modern fiction.â€â€”Dark Delights\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grace-haunted novel._â€â€”_Raymond Arroyo''s "The World Over"\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Dimiter _is exciting and terrific. Like all of Blattyâ€™s stuff, itâ€™s a theological thriller that you can take on as many different levels as you want. Itâ€™s strange and enigmatic and very ambitious. It would make a great film.â€â€”BookTrust\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dimiter_ is a milestone not only because it comes from an award-winning author, but because he''s not written a full-length novel since his 1983 best-seller LEGION - until now... Gripping â€¦ A â€˜must'' for any Blatty fan and many newcomers."â€”California Bookwatch\n</p>\n<p>\n "Blatty proves not only that he still can write compelling prose nearly\n <br />\n 40 years after his acclaimed\n <em>\n  Excorcist\n </em>\n but also that he makes a fine\n <br />\n narrator." Â© AudioFile\n</p>\n<p>\n "(Blatty) writes with an unrelenting pace that totally grips you. (The novel) ends in a fantastic climax that''s really unexpected."â€”London Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<p>\n "At one and the same time,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n is a page-turning detective yarn, an affectionate portrait of the Holy Land, its people and Christâ€™s lingering presence there, and a story about the search for faith â€”all told with author William Peter Blattyâ€™s mordant wit, acute powers of observation and truly beautiful writing."â€”Family and Faith\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDimiter slowly pushes the thriller throttle back and requires you to feel\n <br />\n and think. Read it!â€â€”Boston Book Bums\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAbsolutely enthralling.Â  The best literary puzzle I''ve ever read, it''s a\n <br />\n book that cannot be visited only once to be truly appreciated."â€”Shocklines\n</p>\n<p>\n "The author of the mega-famous modern horror novel, THE EXORCIST, has written another grand and breathtaking tale of terror."â€”countgore.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA stunning saga ... Blatty alternately hides and hints at the nature of the forces at play, building to a spectacular climax which will compel most readers to return to page one upon completing this masterful suspense novel."â€”Books.Com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8512'),
(14709, 'Dimiter', 'William Peter Blatty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Blatty fans looking for straight-up horror in the vein of\n <em>\n  The Exorcist\n </em>\n will be disappointed, but those with broader tastes will find this a beautifully written, haunting tale of vengeance, spiritual searching, loss, and love. In 1973 Albania, Colonel Vlora (aka the Interrogator), the head of a team of torturers, questions the Prisoner, who the reader later learns is Paul Dimiter, an American clandestine agent referred to in some quarters of the world as ''legendary,'' while in others as ''the agent from hell.''Ã‚ (Rumor has it Dimiter poisoned Ho Chi Minh while the Vietnamese leader was visiting Albania shortly before his death in 1969.) Dimiter escapes to Jerusalem, where he encounters a number of engaging characters, including a doctor of neurology, a sharp-tongued nurse, and a grief-stricken Israeli policeman. The complicated plot confounds until the isolated pieces of the psychological puzzle that''s Dimiter match up and fall into place, revealing surprising truths.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œGripping and intelligent_, Dimiter_ is part detective story and part religious thriller in the grand tradition of_ The Name of the Rose_.â€ â€”Allan Folsom,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<p>\n "Almost 40 years after\n <em>\n  The Exorcis\n </em>\n t, William Peter Blatty''s new novel ''Dimiter'' is another headspinner." â€”The New York Post\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dimiter_ is an intelligent, tightly wound, suspenseful novel with a surprising and explosive climax. One can only hope Blatty will publish another sometime soon." â€”USA TODAY\n</p>\n<p>\n "Riveting."â€”The Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n<p>\n "Gripping and enthralling."â€”The West Australian\n</p>\n<p>\n "An amazing tale that should be read twice â€” once for the captivating and faith-affirming story, and a second time to savor the author''s elegant writing and masterful craft."â€”Book Reporter.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "An astonishing piece of literature. You will want to reread it as soon as you put it down."â€”Horror Drive-in\n</p>\n<p>\n "A must-read. Had me frantically turning pages to find out what happens next."â€”The Buffalo News\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sure to keep readers'' attention until the final pages."â€”Suite101\n</p>\n<p>\n "A thrilling psychological suspense thriller."â€”Genre Go Round\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully written, mind-twirling mystery chock-full of suspense and wonder."â€”Stem Shots\n</p>\n<p>\n "A depth of mysery, imagination, and eloquence that will captivate mystery-lovers and suspense enthusiasts until its final pages."â€”BookSwim\n</p>\n<p>\n "Magnificent literary visuals...An all-round fascinating piece of work."â€”Thriller Book Club\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Exorcist_ author thrills again!"â€”The Herald Net\n</p>\n<p>\n "_The Exorcist_ author Blatty is back -- and he''s in fine form!"â€” Delawareonline\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBlattyâ€™s writing contains much grace and beauty."â€”The Dallas Morning News\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe author of\n <em>\n  The Exorcist\n </em>\n has outdone himself.â€â€”Dreadlord_Logix\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel was worth the wait.â€â€”The Pittsburgh Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWilliam Peter Blatty balances philosophy, thrillsâ€â€”The Palm Springs\n <br />\n Desert Sun\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEnfolds a message of faith in a fast-paced thriller.â€â€”The Brothers Judd\n <br />\n Blog\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA Christian thriller with â€˜Lost-â€˜like intrigue.â€â€”Lost Wire\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBlatty has outdone himself. Atmospheric, suspenseful and hugely satisfying,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n is a triumph!â€_â€”_The Speculative Scotsman\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGripping. You will be hooked. I was completely unable to put it down.â€â€”Full Circle\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA page turner.â€â€”News-Press.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA complex, suspenseful, and fast paced thriller, which does not shy away\n <br />\n from the problem of evil contrasted with the mystery of faith." â€”The\n <br />\n Catholic Media Review\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully written, mind-twirling spiritual thriller that is\n <br />\n chock full of suspense and wonder,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n pulses with an aura of mystique that almost begs you to revisit the whole novel as soon as you''ve finished."â€”The Horror Fiction Review\n</p>\n<p>\n "The author of the mega-famous THE EXORCIST has written another grand and breathtaking tale, a stunning and powerful puzzlebox of psychological horror by a true master of modern fiction.â€â€”Dark Delights\n</p>\n<p>\n "A grace-haunted novel._â€â€”_Raymond Arroyo''s "The World Over"\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Dimiter _is exciting and terrific. Like all of Blattyâ€™s stuff, itâ€™s a theological thriller that you can take on as many different levels as you want. Itâ€™s strange and enigmatic and very ambitious. It would make a great film.â€â€”BookTrust\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Dimiter_ is a milestone not only because it comes from an award-winning author, but because he''s not written a full-length novel since his 1983 best-seller LEGION - until now... Gripping ... A â€˜must'' for any Blatty fan and many newcomers."â€”California Bookwatch\n</p>\n<p>\n "Blatty proves not only that he still can write compelling prose nearly\n <br />\n 40 years after his acclaimed\n <em>\n  Excorcist\n </em>\n but also that he makes a fine\n <br />\n narrator." Â© AudioFile\n</p>\n<p>\n "(Blatty) writes with an unrelenting pace that totally grips you. (The novel) ends in a fantastic climax that''s really unexpected."â€”London Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<p>\n "At one and the same time,\n <em>\n  Dimiter\n </em>\n is a page-turning detective yarn, an affectionate portrait of the Holy Land, its people and Christâ€™s lingering presence there, and a story about the search for faith â€”all told with author William Peter Blattyâ€™s mordant wit, acute powers of observation and truly beautiful writing."â€”Family and Faith\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDimiter slowly pushes the thriller throttle back and requires you to feel\n <br />\n and think. Read it!â€â€”Boston Book Bums\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAbsolutely enthralling. The best literary puzzle I''ve ever read, it''s a\n <br />\n book that cannot be visited only once to be truly appreciated."â€”Shocklines\n</p>\n<p>\n "The author of the mega-famous modern horror novel, THE EXORCIST, has written another grand and breathtaking tale of terror."â€”countgore.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA stunning saga ... Blatty alternately hides and hints at the nature of the forces at play, building to a spectacular climax which will compel most readers to return to page one upon completing this masterful suspense novel."â€”Books.Com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24734'),
(14710, 'Dincolo de Bine si de Rau', 'Friedrich Nietzsche', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25785'),
(14711, 'Ding Dong Dead', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doll restorer Gretchen Birch and the other Phoenix Dollers can hardly wait to open their doll museum. But when an out-of-town doll-maker meets her own maker, the Dollersâ€™s dream-come-true will soon prove more of a nightmare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6114'),
(14712, 'Ding Dong Dead', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doll restorer Gretchen Birch and the other Phoenix Dollers can hardly wait to open their doll museum. But when an out-of-town doll-maker meets her own maker, the Dollersâ€™s dream-come-true will soon prove more of a nightmare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8264'),
(14713, 'Ding Dong Dead', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Doll restorer Gretchen Birch and the other Phoenix Dollers can hardly wait to open their doll museum. But when an out-of-town doll-maker meets her own maker, the Dollersâ€™s dream-come-true will soon prove more of a nightmare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17982'),
(14714, 'Ding Dong Dead', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Doll restorer Gretchen Birch and the other Phoenix Dollers can hardly wait to open their doll museum. But when an out-of-town doll-maker meets her own maker, the Dollersâ€™s dream-come-true will soon prove more of a nightmare.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27412'),
(14715, 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBeautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . Superb entertainment.â€\n <br />\n _â€“The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.â€\n <br />\n _â€“The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Newsweek_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œAnne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.â€\n <br />\n _â€“Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œIn her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.â€\n <br />\n â€“JOHN UPDIKE,\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBeautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment.â€\n <br />\n â€“The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p>\n Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimoreâ€™s Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the older son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, Pearlâ€™s favorite, who never stops yearning for the perfect family that could never be his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Pearl and her three grown children have gathered together againâ€“with anger, hope, and a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.â€\n <br />\n â€“Newsweek\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.â€\n <br />\n â€“Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.â€\n <br />\n â€“John Updike, The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMarvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love.â€\n <br />\n â€“Cosmopolitan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7578'),
(14716, 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBeautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . Superb entertainment.â€\n <br />\n _â€“The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.â€\n <br />\n _â€“The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Newsweek_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œAnne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.â€\n <br />\n _â€“Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œIn her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.â€\n <br />\n â€“JOHN UPDIKE,\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBeautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment.â€\n <br />\n â€“The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p>\n Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimoreâ€™s Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the older son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, Pearlâ€™s favorite, who never stops yearning for the perfect family that could never be his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Pearl and her three grown children have gathered together againâ€“with anger, hope, and a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.â€\n <br />\n â€“Newsweek\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.â€\n <br />\n â€“Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.â€\n <br />\n â€“John Updike, The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMarvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love.â€\n <br />\n â€“Cosmopolitan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13097'),
(14717, 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant', 'Anne Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBeautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . Superb entertainment.â€\n <br />\n _â€“The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.â€\n <br />\n _â€“The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œA novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Newsweek_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œAnne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.â€\n <br />\n _â€“Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œIn her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.â€\n <br />\n â€“JOHN UPDIKE,\n <em>\n  The New Yorker\n </em>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œBeautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment.â€\n <br />\n â€“The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p>\n Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimoreâ€™s Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the older son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, Pearlâ€™s favorite, who never stops yearning for the perfect family that could never be his own.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Pearl and her three grown children have gathered together againâ€“with anger, hope, and a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.â€\n <br />\n â€“Newsweek\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.â€\n <br />\n â€“Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.â€\n <br />\n â€“John Updike, The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMarvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love.â€\n <br />\n â€“Cosmopolitan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16381'),
(14718, 'Dinosaur Planet', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15713'),
(14719, 'Dinosaur Planet 2 - The Survivors', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15761'),
(14720, 'Dinosaur Planet Survivors', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kai and Varian awoke from their forty years of coldsleep only to discover that mutineers had taken over Ireta. But they were determined to save their planet and its unusual dinosaurs. All they had to do was solve the planet''s myriad mysteries and gain the trust of the most dangerous beings in their Universe....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15714'),
(14721, 'Dintr-o privire', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25695'),
(14722, 'Diplomatic Immunity', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This is a comedy of terrors. A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy''s Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children. But when duty calls in the voice of Barrayar''s Emperor Gregor, Miles, Gregor''s youngest Imperial Auditor (a special high-level troubleshooter) has no choice but to answer. Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies and deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with wider consequences than even Miles anticipates: a race with time for life against death in horrifying new forms. The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20036'),
(14723, 'Diplomatic Implausibility', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 200 YEARS AGO: The expanding Klingon(TM) Empire found a frozen world rich in deposits of the mineral topaline. They named the planet taD -- Klingon for "frozen" -- and they called the people "jeghpu''wI''" -- conquered.  FOUR YEARS AGO: The Klingon Empire invaded Cardassia, breaching the Khitomer Accords and causing a break with the Federation. On taD, depleted Klingon forces were overthrown in a small coup d''etat, and the victorious rebels took advantage of the disruption to appeal for recognition from the Federation.  NOW: The Klingons have returned to taD and re-established their control. But the stubborn rebels insist on Federation recognition. A solution to the diplomatic impasse must be found, a task that falls to the Federation''s new ambassador to the Klingon Empire -- Worf.  Worf thinks of himself as a fighter, not a negotiator, but the Federation disagrees. Now, for the sake of the Federation and the Empire, a Klingon warrior must weave a fragile peace out of a situation ripe for war!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3846'),
(14724, 'Diplomatic Implausibility', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 200 YEARS AGO: The expanding Klingon(TM) Empire found a frozen world rich in deposits of the mineral topaline. They named the planet taD -- Klingon for "frozen" -- and they called the people "jeghpu''wI''" -- conquered. FOUR YEARS AGO: The Klingon Empire invaded Cardassia, breaching the Khitomer Accords and causing a break with the Federation. On taD, depleted Klingon forces were overthrown in a small coup d''etat, and the victorious rebels took advantage of the disruption to appeal for recognition from the Federation. NOW: The Klingons have returned to taD and re-established their control. But the stubborn rebels insist on Federation recognition. A solution to the diplomatic impasse must be found, a task that falls to the Federation''s new ambassador to the Klingon Empire -- Worf. Worf thinks of himself as a fighter, not a negotiator, but the Federation disagrees. Now, for the sake of the Federation and the Empire, a Klingon warrior must weave a fragile peace out of a situation ripe for war!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20709'),
(14725, 'Dirge', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n First, humanity establishes ties with intelligent, extraterrestrial bugs. Some 20 years later, humanity makes first contact with intelligent, extraterrestrial babes. Or so goes the chronology in Alan Dean Foster''s Humanx Commonwealth, as detailed in the second book of the Founding of the Commonwealth prequel trilogy. Following up on __,\n <em>\n  Dirge\n </em>\n fleshes out the foundation for the universe that''s home to the ever-popular\n <em>\n  Dirge\n </em>\n provides essential background for fans of all the Humanx books in typical action-packed Foster style.\n</p>\n<p>\n The space babes in question call themselves the Pitar, and after somewhat stunted relations with the insectoid Thranx (first contacted in __), humanity falls all over itself fawning over this "drop-dead, overpoweringly, stunningly gorgeous"--if strangely reticent--new race. But everything isn''t what it seems, of course, or there wouldn''t be much of a story here. Not to give anything away, but even the most unobservant reader will soon realize that something''s suspicious about these alluring aliens--especially when 600,000 colonists on the otherwise boring outpost of Treetrunk are swiftly, brutally, and mysteriously exterminated.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Derivative and predictable, this second novel in Foster''s Founding of the Commonwealth series reinforces the lesson that looks can be deceiving. When Alwyn Mallory explores the new world of Argus V, he inadvertently becomes part of the first contact team to meet the alien Pitar. Unlike the unpleasantly buglike alien thranx, the Pitar are "drop-dead, overpoweringly, stunningly, gorgeous." Relations with the friendly but disliked thranx slow to a crawl as humanity overwhelmingly embraces the Pitar. Their telegenic appearances are so compelling that the media scarcely notices when the thranx are attacked by terrorists in a protected diplomatic enclave on Earth. Possibly the only good thing to come out of the slaughter is the founding of a joint religion by two clerics, one human and one thranx. As years pass, and the Pitar continue to refuse access to their homeworld, the media spin explains that they are "shy" and refuses to believe they could have anything to hide. Meanwhile, humanity is happily expanding through the galaxy and colonizing Argus V--until disaster strikes and all 600,000 colonists are hideously slaughtered by an unknown force. When Mallory is discovered, crazed and near death, hiding on one of the Argus''s moons, he is the only hope humankind has for ascertaining just who the villainous, slaughtering aliens really are. Although Foster implies that interesting things are going to happen with human-thranx religious philosophies, that doesn''t happen in this novel. Instead we get a vision of humanity as a race unable to see beyond the reflection of surface beauty and incapable of restraining itself from its basest instincts when that enhanced mirror is shattered. (June)\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7799'),
(14726, 'Dirge', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n First, humanity establishes ties with intelligent, extraterrestrial bugs. Some 20 years later, humanity makes first contact with intelligent, extraterrestrial babes. Or so goes the chronology in Alan Dean Foster''s Humanx Commonwealth, as detailed in the second book of the Founding of the Commonwealth prequel trilogy. Following up on __,\n <em>\n  Dirge\n </em>\n fleshes out the foundation for the universe that''s home to the ever-popular\n <em>\n  Dirge\n </em>\n provides essential background for fans of all the Humanx books in typical action-packed Foster style.\n</p>\n<p>\n The space babes in question call themselves the Pitar, and after somewhat stunted relations with the insectoid Thranx (first contacted in __), humanity falls all over itself fawning over this "drop-dead, overpoweringly, stunningly gorgeous"--if strangely reticent--new race. But everything isn''t what it seems, of course, or there wouldn''t be much of a story here. Not to give anything away, but even the most unobservant reader will soon realize that something''s suspicious about these alluring aliens--especially when 600,000 colonists on the otherwise boring outpost of Treetrunk are swiftly, brutally, and mysteriously exterminated.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Derivative and predictable, this second novel in Foster''s Founding of the Commonwealth series reinforces the lesson that looks can be deceiving. When Alwyn Mallory explores the new world of Argus V, he inadvertently becomes part of the first contact team to meet the alien Pitar. Unlike the unpleasantly buglike alien thranx, the Pitar are "drop-dead, overpoweringly, stunningly, gorgeous." Relations with the friendly but disliked thranx slow to a crawl as humanity overwhelmingly embraces the Pitar. Their telegenic appearances are so compelling that the media scarcely notices when the thranx are attacked by terrorists in a protected diplomatic enclave on Earth. Possibly the only good thing to come out of the slaughter is the founding of a joint religion by two clerics, one human and one thranx. As years pass, and the Pitar continue to refuse access to their homeworld, the media spin explains that they are "shy" and refuses to believe they could have anything to hide. Meanwhile, humanity is happily expanding through the galaxy and colonizing Argus V--until disaster strikes and all 600,000 colonists are hideously slaughtered by an unknown force. When Mallory is discovered, crazed and near death, hiding on one of the Argus''s moons, he is the only hope humankind has for ascertaining just who the villainous, slaughtering aliens really are. Although Foster implies that interesting things are going to happen with human-thranx religious philosophies, that doesn''t happen in this novel. Instead we get a vision of humanity as a race unable to see beyond the reflection of surface beauty and incapable of restraining itself from its basest instincts when that enhanced mirror is shattered. (June)\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9816'),
(14727, 'Dirge', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n First, humanity establishes ties with intelligent, extraterrestrial bugs. Some 20 years later, humanity makes first contact with intelligent, extraterrestrial babes. Or so goes the chronology in Alan Dean Foster''s Humanx Commonwealth, as detailed in the second book of the Founding of the Commonwealth prequel trilogy. Following up on __,\n <em>\n  Dirge\n </em>\n fleshes out the foundation for the universe that''s home to the ever-popular\n <em>\n  Dirge\n </em>\n provides essential background for fans of all the Humanx books in typical action-packed Foster style.\n</p>\n<p>\n The space babes in question call themselves the Pitar, and after somewhat stunted relations with the insectoid Thranx (first contacted in __), humanity falls all over itself fawning over this "drop-dead, overpoweringly, stunningly gorgeous"--if strangely reticent--new race. But everything isn''t what it seems, of course, or there wouldn''t be much of a story here. Not to give anything away, but even the most unobservant reader will soon realize that something''s suspicious about these alluring aliens--especially when 600,000 colonists on the otherwise boring outpost of Treetrunk are swiftly, brutally, and mysteriously exterminated.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Derivative and predictable, this second novel in Foster''s Founding of the Commonwealth series reinforces the lesson that looks can be deceiving. When Alwyn Mallory explores the new world of Argus V, he inadvertently becomes part of the first contact team to meet the alien Pitar. Unlike the unpleasantly buglike alien thranx, the Pitar are "drop-dead, overpoweringly, stunningly, gorgeous." Relations with the friendly but disliked thranx slow to a crawl as humanity overwhelmingly embraces the Pitar. Their telegenic appearances are so compelling that the media scarcely notices when the thranx are attacked by terrorists in a protected diplomatic enclave on Earth. Possibly the only good thing to come out of the slaughter is the founding of a joint religion by two clerics, one human and one thranx. As years pass, and the Pitar continue to refuse access to their homeworld, the media spin explains that they are "shy" and refuses to believe they could have anything to hide. Meanwhile, humanity is happily expanding through the galaxy and colonizing Argus V--until disaster strikes and all 600,000 colonists are hideously slaughtered by an unknown force. When Mallory is discovered, crazed and near death, hiding on one of the Argus''s moons, he is the only hope humankind has for ascertaining just who the villainous, slaughtering aliens really are. Although Foster implies that interesting things are going to happen with human-thranx religious philosophies, that doesn''t happen in this novel. Instead we get a vision of humanity as a race unable to see beyond the reflection of surface beauty and incapable of restraining itself from its basest instincts when that enhanced mirror is shattered. (June)\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16054'),
(14728, 'Dirk Gently&#39;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5914'),
(14729, 'Dirk Gently&#39;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14909'),
(14730, 'Dirk Gently&#39;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18721'),
(14731, 'Dirk Gently&#39;s Holistic Detective Agency', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently''s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27597'),
(14732, 'Dirk Pitt 1 - Pacific Vortex', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25922'),
(14733, 'Dirk Pitt 10 - Dragon', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25923'),
(14734, 'Dirk Pitt 11 - Sahara', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25924'),
(14735, 'Dirk Pitt 12 - Inca Gold', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25925'),
(14736, 'Dirk Pitt 13 - Shock Wave', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25926'),
(14737, 'Dirk Pitt 14 - Flood Tide', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25927'),
(14738, 'Dirk Pitt 15 - Atlantis Found', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25928'),
(14739, 'Dirk Pitt 17 - Trojan Odyssey', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25929'),
(14740, 'Dirk Pitt 18 - Black Wind', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25930'),
(14741, 'Dirk Pitt 18 - Valhalla Rising', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25931'),
(14742, 'Dirk Pitt 19 - Treasure Of Khan', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17322'),
(14743, 'Dirk Pitt 2 - The Mediterranean Caper', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25932');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14744, 'Dirk Pitt 20 - Arctic Drift', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Bestseller Cussler and son Dirk imagine the U.S. and Canada on the brink of war in their third collaborative Dirk Pitt novel (after\n   <em>\n    Treasure of Khan\n   </em>\n   and\n   <em>\n    Black Wind\n   </em>\n   ). In 2011, as the price of gas hits $10 a gallon, President Garner Ward must contend with a corrupt Canadian cabal that''s subverting efforts to solve America''s energy problems. Pitt barely escapes serious injury when a bomb destroys a D.C. lab along with records of research into an artificial photosynthesis process that could, almost immediately, eliminate the threat of global warming. That discovery may be connected with a legendary failed 19th-century sailing expedition to the Arctic as well as a series of deaths due to the phenomena that the Native Americans of British Columbia know as the Devil''s Breath. The Cusslers won''t suspend many readers'' disbelief, but thriller fans in search of a quick, exciting read should be satisfied.\n   <em>\n    750,000 printing; author tour. (Dec.)\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Impossible to put down... a compelling sense of adventure that can rival any cinematic blockbuster Big Issue\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Cussler and son Dirk imagine the U.S. and Canada on the brink of war in their third collaborative Dirk Pitt novel (after\n  <em>\n   Treasure of Khan\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Black Wind\n  </em>\n  ). In 2011, as the price of gas hits $10 a gallon, President Garner Ward must contend with a corrupt Canadian cabal that''s subverting efforts to solve America''s energy problems. Pitt barely escapes serious injury when a bomb destroys a D.C. lab along with records of research into an artificial photosynthesis process that could, almost immediately, eliminate the threat of global warming. That discovery may be connected with a legendary failed 19th-century sailing expedition to the Arctic as well as a series of deaths due to the phenomena that the Native Americans of British Columbia know as the Devil''s Breath. The Cusslers won''t suspend many readers'' disbelief, but thriller fans in search of a quick, exciting read should be satisfied.\n  <em>\n   750,000 printing; author tour. (Dec.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Impossible to put down... a compelling sense of adventure that can rival any cinematic blockbuster Big Issue\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17335'),
(14745, 'Dirk Pitt 21 - Crescent Dawn', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dirk Pitt returns, in the extraordinary new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together? NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire, and to the existence of a mysterious "manifest," lost long ago, which if discovered again...just may change the history of the world as we know it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17336'),
(14746, 'Dirk Pitt 4 - Raise The Titanic', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25933'),
(14747, 'Dirk Pitt 5 - Vixen 03', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25934'),
(14748, 'Dirk Pitt 6 - Night Probe!', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25935'),
(14749, 'Dirk Pitt 7 - Deep Six', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25936'),
(14750, 'Dirk Pitt 8 - Cyclops', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25937'),
(14751, 'Dirk Pitt 9 - Treasure', 'Cussler, Clive', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25938'),
(14752, 'Dirk Pitt Revealed', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17338'),
(14753, 'Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations', 'David R. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Montgomery (_King of Fish_), a geomorphologist who studies how landscapes change through time, argues persuasively that soil is humanity''s most essential natural resource and essentially linked to modern civilization''s survival. He traces the history of agriculture, showing that when humans exhausted the soil in the past, their societies collapsed, or they moved on. But moving on is not an option for future generations, he warns: there isn''t enough land. In the U.S., mechanized agriculture has eroded an alarming amount of agricultural land, and in the developing world, degraded soil is a principal cause of poverty. We are running out of soil, and agriculture will soon be unable to support the world''s growing population. Chemical fertilizers, which are made with lots of cheap oil, are not the solution. Nor are genetically modified seeds, which have not produced larger harvests or reduced the need for pesticides. Montgomery proposes an agricultural revolution based on soil conservation. Instead of tilling the land and making it vulnerable to erosion, we should put organic matter back into the ground, simulating natural conditions. His book, though sometimes redundant, makes a convincing case for the need to respect and conserve the world''s limited supply of soil. Illus. not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Anyone interested in environmental issues should read this book. . . . Entertains and stimulates thought."--_Times Higher Ed Sup (Thes)_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fascinating insights into what be our most precious natural resource and gives important pointers toward sustainable land management."--_Bioscience_\n</p>\n<p>\n "How societies fare in the long run depends on how they treat their soils. Simple. Concise. You are your dirt."--_Hobby Farms_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sobering. . . . A timely text that will no doubt stimulate the discussion of this issue, and its potential solutions, for years to come."--_Environment &amp; History_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Strengthen[s] appreciation for how important the soil is to our existence."--_Great Plains Research_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6151'),
(14754, 'Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations', 'David R. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Montgomery (_King of Fish_), a geomorphologist who studies how landscapes change through time, argues persuasively that soil is humanity''s most essential natural resource and essentially linked to modern civilization''s survival. He traces the history of agriculture, showing that when humans exhausted the soil in the past, their societies collapsed, or they moved on. But moving on is not an option for future generations, he warns: there isn''t enough land. In the U.S., mechanized agriculture has eroded an alarming amount of agricultural land, and in the developing world, degraded soil is a principal cause of poverty. We are running out of soil, and agriculture will soon be unable to support the world''s growing population. Chemical fertilizers, which are made with lots of cheap oil, are not the solution. Nor are genetically modified seeds, which have not produced larger harvests or reduced the need for pesticides. Montgomery proposes an agricultural revolution based on soil conservation. Instead of tilling the land and making it vulnerable to erosion, we should put organic matter back into the ground, simulating natural conditions. His book, though sometimes redundant, makes a convincing case for the need to respect and conserve the world''s limited supply of soil. Illus. not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Anyone interested in environmental issues should read this book. . . . Entertains and stimulates thought."--_Times Higher Ed Sup (Thes)_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fascinating insights into what be our most precious natural resource and gives important pointers toward sustainable land management."--_Bioscience_\n</p>\n<p>\n "How societies fare in the long run depends on how they treat their soils. Simple. Concise. You are your dirt."--_Hobby Farms_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sobering. . . . A timely text that will no doubt stimulate the discussion of this issue, and its potential solutions, for years to come."--_Environment &amp; History_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Strengthen[s] appreciation for how important the soil is to our existence."--_Great Plains Research_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11516'),
(14755, 'Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations', 'David R. Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Montgomery (_King of Fish_), a geomorphologist who studies how landscapes change through time, argues persuasively that soil is humanity''s most essential natural resource and essentially linked to modern civilization''s survival. He traces the history of agriculture, showing that when humans exhausted the soil in the past, their societies collapsed, or they moved on. But moving on is not an option for future generations, he warns: there isn''t enough land. In the U.S., mechanized agriculture has eroded an alarming amount of agricultural land, and in the developing world, degraded soil is a principal cause of poverty. We are running out of soil, and agriculture will soon be unable to support the world''s growing population. Chemical fertilizers, which are made with lots of cheap oil, are not the solution. Nor are genetically modified seeds, which have not produced larger harvests or reduced the need for pesticides. Montgomery proposes an agricultural revolution based on soil conservation. Instead of tilling the land and making it vulnerable to erosion, we should put organic matter back into the ground, simulating natural conditions. His book, though sometimes redundant, makes a convincing case for the need to respect and conserve the world''s limited supply of soil. Illus. not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Anyone interested in environmental issues should read this book. . . . Entertains and stimulates thought."--_Times Higher Ed Sup (Thes)_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fascinating insights into what be our most precious natural resource and gives important pointers toward sustainable land management."--_Bioscience_\n</p>\n<p>\n "How societies fare in the long run depends on how they treat their soils. Simple. Concise. You are your dirt."--_Hobby Farms_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Sobering. . . . A timely text that will no doubt stimulate the discussion of this issue, and its potential solutions, for years to come."--_Environment &amp; History_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Strengthen[s] appreciation for how important the soil is to our existence."--_Great Plains Research_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17884'),
(14756, 'A Dirty Job', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He''s what''s known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who''s always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But Charlie''s been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He''s married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Yes, Charlie''s doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel''s hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It''s a dirty job. But hey, somebody''s gotta do it.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Christopher Moore, the man whose *Lamb* served up Jesus'' "missing years" (with the funny parts left in), and whose *Fluke* found the deep humor in whale researchers'' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we *all* eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6685'),
(14757, 'A Dirty Job', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He''s what''s known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who''s always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But Charlie''s been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He''s married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Yes, Charlie''s doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel''s hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It''s a dirty job. But hey, somebody''s gotta do it.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Christopher Moore, the man whose *Lamb* served up Jesus'' "missing years" (with the funny parts left in), and whose *Fluke* found the deep humor in whale researchers'' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we *all* eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11487'),
(14758, 'A Dirty Job', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He''s what''s known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who''s always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male. But Charlie''s been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He''s married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie''s doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel''s hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . . People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It''s a dirty job. But hey, somebody''s gotta do it. Christopher Moore, the man whose *Lamb* served up Jesus'' "missing years" (with the funny parts left in), and whose *Fluke* found the deep humor in whale researchers'' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we *all* eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14489'),
(14759, 'A Dirty Job', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He''s what''s known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who''s always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But Charlie''s been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He''s married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Yes, Charlie''s doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel''s hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It''s a dirty job. But hey, somebody''s gotta do it.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Christopher Moore, the man whose *Lamb* served up Jesus'' "missing years" (with the funny parts left in), and whose *Fluke* found the deep humor in whale researchers'' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we *all* eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18074'),
(14760, 'A Dirty Job', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They''re even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie''s doing okayâ€”until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.   It''s a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody''s gotta do it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27004'),
(14761, 'Dirty Sexy Politics', 'Meghan McCain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meghan McCain came to prominence as the straight-talking, progressive daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. And her profile has only risen since the election ended in favor of the other guy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n makes Meghan so appealing? As a new role model for young, creative, and vocal members of the GOP, she''s unafraid to mix it up and speak her mind. In *Dirty Sexy Politics* she takes a hard look at the future of her party. She doesn''t shy away from serious issues and her raucous humor and down-to-earth style keep her positions accessible.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this witty, candid, and boisterous book, Meghan takes us deep behind the scenes of the campaign trail. She steals campaign signs in New Hampshire, tastes the nightlife in Nashville, and has a strange encounter with Laura and Jenna Bush at the White House. Along the way, she falls in love with America--while seeing how far the Republican Party has veered from its core values of freedom, honesty, and individuality. In *Dirty Sexy Politics*, Meghan McCain gives us a true insider''s account of life on a campaign trail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2928'),
(14762, 'Dirty Sexy Politics', 'Meghan McCain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meghan McCain came to prominence as the straight-talking, progressive daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. And her profile has only risen since the election ended in favor of the other guy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n makes Meghan so appealing? As a new role model for young, creative, and vocal members of the GOP, she''s unafraid to mix it up and speak her mind. In *Dirty Sexy Politics* she takes a hard look at the future of her party. She doesn''t shy away from serious issues and her raucous humor and down-to-earth style keep her positions accessible.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this witty, candid, and boisterous book, Meghan takes us deep behind the scenes of the campaign trail. She steals campaign signs in New Hampshire, tastes the nightlife in Nashville, and has a strange encounter with Laura and Jenna Bush at the White House. Along the way, she falls in love with America--while seeing how far the Republican Party has veered from its core values of freedom, honesty, and individuality. In *Dirty Sexy Politics*, Meghan McCain gives us a true insider''s account of life on a campaign trail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11335'),
(14763, 'Dirty Sexy Politics', 'Meghan McCain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meghan McCain came to prominence as the straight-talking, progressive daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. And her profile has only risen since the election ended in favor of the other guy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n makes Meghan so appealing? As a new role model for young, creative, and vocal members of the GOP, she''s unafraid to mix it up and speak her mind. In *Dirty Sexy Politics* she takes a hard look at the future of her party. She doesn''t shy away from serious issues and her raucous humor and down-to-earth style keep her positions accessible.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this witty, candid, and boisterous book, Meghan takes us deep behind the scenes of the campaign trail. She steals campaign signs in New Hampshire, tastes the nightlife in Nashville, and has a strange encounter with Laura and Jenna Bush at the White House. Along the way, she falls in love with America--while seeing how far the Republican Party has veered from its core values of freedom, honesty, and individuality. In *Dirty Sexy Politics*, Meghan McCain gives us a true insider''s account of life on a campaign trail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14379'),
(14764, 'Dirty Sexy Politics', 'Meghan McCain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Meghan McCain came to prominence as the straight-talking, progressive daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. And her profile has only risen since the election ended in favor of the other guy. makes Meghan so appealing? As a new role model for young, creative, and vocal members of the GOP, she''s unafraid to mix it up and speak her mind. In *Dirty Sexy Politics* she takes a hard look at the future of her party. She doesn''t shy away from serious issues and her raucous humor and down-to-earth style keep her positions accessible. In this witty, candid, and boisterous book, Meghan takes us deep behind the scenes of the campaign trail. She steals campaign signs in New Hampshire, tastes the nightlife in Nashville, and has a strange encounter with Laura and Jenna Bush at the White House. Along the way, she falls in love with America--while seeing how far the Republican Party has veered from its core values of freedom, honesty, and individuality. In *Dirty Sexy Politics*, Meghan McCain gives us a true insider''s account of life on a campaign trail.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21842'),
(14765, 'Disappearance Of Lady Frances Carfax', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15663'),
(14766, 'The Disappeared', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This first title in a new series introduces the Retrieval Artists, specialized private detectives who investigate the most unusual crimes in the galaxy and help the "Disappeared" find their way home. When three people aboard a stolen space yacht are found murdered in the signature style of an alien vengeance killing, that ship and another ship are linked to a Disappeared--a reluctant female outlaw on Mars. (July)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20088'),
(14767, 'The Disappearing Floor', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once again Frank and Joe Hardy accept the challenge of a puzzling case when their famous detective father asks the boys to assist him in tracking down a notorious jewel thief and his accomplices. The trail leads to the outskirts of the Hardy s home town and to a weirdly guarded mansion on the old Perth estate. Author: Franklin W. Dixon Reading Level: Ages 8 to 14 years Publisher: Penguin Group USA Format: Hardcover, 192 pages ISBN: 9780448089195\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18458'),
(14768, 'The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements', 'Sam Kean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Periodic Table is one of man''s crowning scientific achievements. But it''s also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. We learn that Marie Curie used to provoke jealousy in colleagues'' wives when she''d invite them into closets to see her glow-in-the-dark experiments. And that Lewis and Clark swallowed mercury capsules across the country and their campsites are still detectable by the poison in the ground. Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? From the Big Bang to the end of time, it''s all in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1468'),
(14769, 'The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements', 'Sam Kean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Periodic Table is one of man''s crowning scientific achievements. But it''s also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. We learn that Marie Curie used to provoke jealousy in colleagues'' wives when she''d invite them into closets to see her glow-in-the-dark experiments. And that Lewis and Clark swallowed mercury capsules across the country and their campsites are still detectable by the poison in the ground. Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? From the Big Bang to the end of time, it''s all in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10618'),
(14770, 'The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements', 'Sam Kean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Periodic Table is one of man''s crowning scientific achievements. But it''s also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. We learn that Marie Curie used to provoke jealousy in colleagues'' wives when she''d invite them into closets to see her glow-in-the-dark experiments. And that Lewis and Clark swallowed mercury capsules across the country and their campsites are still detectable by the poison in the ground. Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? From the Big Bang to the end of time, it''s all in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23533'),
(14771, 'Discarded Blessings', 'James A. Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18245'),
(14772, 'Disciple of the Dog', 'R. Scott Bakker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  The cleverness Bakker displayed in his Prince of Nothing fantasy trilogy (The Darkness That Comes Before, etc.) is lacking in this suspense novel introducing Disciple Manning, a Newark, N.J., PI who can remember everything he has ever heard. Jonathan and Amanda Bonjour hire Manning to track down their missing 21-year-old daughter, Jennifer, who''s joined a New Age cult known as the Framers, dropped out of nursing school, and is possibly now living at "the Compound," an old horse farm in southeastern Pennsylvania that serves as the cult''s retreat. The Framers'' leader, former Berkeley philosophy professor Xenophon Baars, has persuaded his followers that the world is more than five billion years older than it is and is about to end. Manning heads to the Compound in search of Jennifer, though he suspects she''s already dead. A crude, off-putting hero with a flatulence problem may leave few readers eager for a sequel. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <div>\n    <p>\n     <b>\n      A crime thriller from an acclaimed master of speculative fiction\n     </b>\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     <i>\n      â€œAnd you wonder why Iâ€™m cynical. Iâ€™ve literally â€˜seen it all before.â€™ The truth is we all have, every single one of us past the age of, say, twenty-five. The only difference is that I remember.â€\n     </i>\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     No matter how hard he drinks, gambles, or womanizes, Disciple Manning simply cannot forget: not a word spoken, not an image glimpsed, not a pain suffered.Â  Disciple Manning has total recall. Whatever he hears, he can remember with 100% accuracy.Â  He can play it back in his head for an infinite number of times without a single change.Â  This ability makes him a dangerously unorthodox private investigator.\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     When a New Jersey couple hires Manning to find their daughter, who joined a religious cult before vanishing in a small rust-belt town called Ruddick, he finds himself embroiled in a mystery that will pit his unnatural ability to remember against his desperate desire to forget.\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     Â \n    </p>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1998'),
(14773, 'Disciple of the Dog', 'R. Scott Bakker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  The cleverness Bakker displayed in his Prince of Nothing fantasy trilogy (The Darkness That Comes Before, etc.) is lacking in this suspense novel introducing Disciple Manning, a Newark, N.J., PI who can remember everything he has ever heard. Jonathan and Amanda Bonjour hire Manning to track down their missing 21-year-old daughter, Jennifer, who''s joined a New Age cult known as the Framers, dropped out of nursing school, and is possibly now living at "the Compound," an old horse farm in southeastern Pennsylvania that serves as the cult''s retreat. The Framers'' leader, former Berkeley philosophy professor Xenophon Baars, has persuaded his followers that the world is more than five billion years older than it is and is about to end. Manning heads to the Compound in search of Jennifer, though he suspects she''s already dead. A crude, off-putting hero with a flatulence problem may leave few readers eager for a sequel. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <div>\n   <div>\n    <p>\n     <b>\n      A crime thriller from an acclaimed master of speculative fiction\n     </b>\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     <i>\n      â€œAnd you wonder why Iâ€™m cynical. Iâ€™ve literally â€˜seen it all before.â€™ The truth is we all have, every single one of us past the age of, say, twenty-five. The only difference is that I remember.â€\n     </i>\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     No matter how hard he drinks, gambles, or womanizes, Disciple Manning simply cannot forget: not a word spoken, not an image glimpsed, not a pain suffered.Â  Disciple Manning has total recall. Whatever he hears, he can remember with 100% accuracy.Â  He can play it back in his head for an infinite number of times without a single change.Â  This ability makes him a dangerously unorthodox private investigator.\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     When a New Jersey couple hires Manning to find their daughter, who joined a religious cult before vanishing in a small rust-belt town called Ruddick, he finds himself embroiled in a mystery that will pit his unnatural ability to remember against his desperate desire to forget.\n    </p>\n    <p>\n     Â \n    </p>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8239'),
(14774, 'Disclosure', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Expertly crafted, ingenious and absorbing." The Philadelphia Inquirer.The #1 Bestseller by the author of "Jurassic Park." As he did in "Rising Sun," Crichton focuses on a topic as close as today''s newspaper headlines: sexual harassment. Tom Sanders is an up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom. When his new boss turns out to be a woman who is both his former lover and a business rival, Sanders determines to be professional. But after a closed-door meeting, the woman accuses him of sexual harassment. It''s her word against his, and suddenly Sanders finds himself caught in a nightmarish web of deceit in which he is branded as the villian. As he scrambles to save his career and his reputation, Sanders uncovers an electronic trail into DigiCom''s secrets . . . and the cynical scheme devised to bring him down.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14685'),
(14775, 'Disclosure: A Novel', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry; a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse; an accusation of sexual harassment that threatens to derail a brilliant career...this is the electrifying core of Michael Crichton''s new novel, the first since Rising Sun.At the center: Tom Sanders, an up-and-coming executive with DigiCom in Seattle, a man whose corporate future is certain. Until: after a closed-door meeting with his new boss -- a woman who was his lover ten years before, a woman who has been promoted to the position he expected to have -- he is accused of sexually harassing her. Now he finds himself trapped between what he knows to be true and what he knows others will assume to be the truth. And, as he uncovers an electronic trail into the company''s secrets, he begins to grasp just how cynical and manipulative an abuse of truth has actually occurred...Tackling one of the most divisive issues of our time, Disclosure compels us to see beyond our traditional responses. It is Michael Crichton at his best.Michael Crichton''s novels include The Terminal Man, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, and Rising Sun.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2781'),
(14776, 'Disclosure: A Novel', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry; a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse; an accusation of sexual harassment that threatens to derail a brilliant career...this is the electrifying core of Michael Crichton''s new novel, the first since Rising Sun.At the center: Tom Sanders, an up-and-coming executive with DigiCom in Seattle, a man whose corporate future is certain. Until: after a closed-door meeting with his new boss -- a woman who was his lover ten years before, a woman who has been promoted to the position he expected to have -- he is accused of sexually harassing her. Now he finds himself trapped between what he knows to be true and what he knows others will assume to be the truth. And, as he uncovers an electronic trail into the company''s secrets, he begins to grasp just how cynical and manipulative an abuse of truth has actually occurred...Tackling one of the most divisive issues of our time, Disclosure compels us to see beyond our traditional responses. It is Michael Crichton at his best.Michael Crichton''s novels include The Terminal Man, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, and Rising Sun.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9191'),
(14777, 'Disclosure: A Novel', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry; a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse; an accusation of sexual harassment that threatens to derail a brilliant career...this is the electrifying core of Michael Crichton''s new novel, the first since Rising Sun.At the center: Tom Sanders, an up-and-coming executive with DigiCom in Seattle, a man whose corporate future is certain. Until: after a closed-door meeting with his new boss -- a woman who was his lover ten years before, a woman who has been promoted to the position he expected to have -- he is accused of sexually harassing her. Now he finds himself trapped between what he knows to be true and what he knows others will assume to be the truth. And, as he uncovers an electronic trail into the company''s secrets, he begins to grasp just how cynical and manipulative an abuse of truth has actually occurred...Tackling one of the most divisive issues of our time, Disclosure compels us to see beyond our traditional responses. It is Michael Crichton at his best.Michael Crichton''s novels include The Terminal Man, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, and Rising Sun.From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21932'),
(14778, 'Discord&#39;s Apple', 'Carrie Vaughn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Evie Walker goes home to spend time with her dying father, she discovers that his creaky old house in Hopeâ€™s Fort, Colorado, is not the only legacy she stands to inherit. Hidden behind the old basement door is a secret and magical storeroom, a place where wondrous treasures from myth and legend are kept safe until they are needed again. The magic of the storeroom prevents access to any who are not intended to use the items. But just because it has never been done does not mean it cannot be done.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And there are certainly those who will give anything to find a way in.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Evie must guard the storeroom against ancient and malicious forces, protecting the past and the future even as the present unravels around them. Old heroes and notorious villains alike will rise to fight on her side or to undermine her most desperate gambits. At stake is the fate of the world, and the prevention of nothing less than the apocalypse. In the same month, along with this all-new hardcover, Tor will publish a new novel in Carrie Vaughnâ€™s popular, *New York Times *bestselling urban fantasy series featuring werewolf talk radio host, Kitty Norville. *Kitty Goes to War *will be the eighth book in this successful mass market series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6935'),
(14779, 'Discord&#39;s Apple', 'Carrie Vaughn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Evie Walker goes home to spend time with her dying father, she discovers that his creaky old house in Hopeâ€™s Fort, Colorado, is not the only legacy she stands to inherit. Hidden behind the old basement door is a secret and magical storeroom, a place where wondrous treasures from myth and legend are kept safe until they are needed again. The magic of the storeroom prevents access to any who are not intended to use the items. But just because it has never been done does not mean it cannot be done.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And there are certainly those who will give anything to find a way in.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Evie must guard the storeroom against ancient and malicious forces, protecting the past and the future even as the present unravels around them. Old heroes and notorious villains alike will rise to fight on her side or to undermine her most desperate gambits. At stake is the fate of the world, and the prevention of nothing less than the apocalypse. In the same month, along with this all-new hardcover, Tor will publish a new novel in Carrie Vaughnâ€™s popular, *New York Times *bestselling urban fantasy series featuring werewolf talk radio host, Kitty Norville. *Kitty Goes to War *will be the eighth book in this successful mass market series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13223'),
(14780, 'Discord&#39;s Apple', 'Carrie Vaughn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Evie Walker goes home to spend time with her dying father, she discovers that his creaky old house in Hopeâ€™s Fort, Colorado, is not the only legacy she stands to inherit. Hidden behind the old basement door is a secret and magical storeroom, a place where wondrous treasures from myth and legend are kept safe until they are needed again. The magic of the storeroom prevents access to any who are not intended to use the items. But just because it has never been done does not mean it cannot be done. And there are certainly those who will give anything to find a way in. Evie must guard the storeroom against ancient and malicious forces, protecting the past and the future even as the present unravels around them. Old heroes and notorious villains alike will rise to fight on her side or to undermine her most desperate gambits. At stake is the fate of the world, and the prevention of nothing less than the apocalypse. In the same month, along with this all-new hardcover, Tor will publish a new novel in Carrie Vaughnâ€™s popular, *New York Times *bestselling urban fantasy series featuring werewolf talk radio host, Kitty Norville. *Kitty Goes to War *will be the eighth book in this successful mass market series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16979'),
(14781, 'Discord&#39;s Apple', 'Carrie Vaughn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Evie Walker goes home to spend time with her dying father, she discovers that his creaky old house in Hopeâ€™s Fort, Colorado, is not the only legacy she stands to inherit. Hidden behind the old basement door is a secret and magical storeroom, a place where wondrous treasures from myth and legend are kept safe until they are needed again. The magic of the storeroom prevents access to any who are not intended to use the items. But just because it has never been done does not mean it cannot be done. And there are certainly those who will give anything to find a way in. Evie must guard the storeroom against ancient and malicious forces, protecting the past and the future even as the present unravels around them. Old heroes and notorious villains alike will rise to fight on her side or to undermine her most desperate gambits. At stake is the fate of the world, and the prevention of nothing less than the apocalypse. In the same month, along with this all-new hardcover, Tor will publish a new novel in Carrie Vaughnâ€™s popular, *New York Times *bestselling urban fantasy series featuring werewolf talk radio host, Kitty Norville. *Kitty Goes to War *will be the eighth book in this successful mass market series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26789');
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(14782, 'A Discovery of Witches', 'Deborah Harkness', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ten More Books for Readers of\n  <em>\n   A Discovery of Witches\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Interested in learning more about magic and science?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n I may have written a novel, but Iâ€™m still a history professor! Here are some reading suggestions for those of you whose curiosity has been stirred up by the story of Diana Bishop, Matthew Clairmont, and the hunt for the missing alchemical manuscript Ashmole 782. All of the titles here are non-fiction, and inspired some aspect of\n <em>\n  A Discovery of Witches\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Elias Ashmole,\n</p>\n<p>\n Janet Browne,\n</p>\n<p>\n Owen Davies,\n</p>\n<p>\n Carol Karlsen,\n</p>\n<p>\n Robert Kehew, Ezra Pound, and W. D. Snodgrass,\n</p>\n<p>\n Bruce Moranâ€™s\n</p>\n<p>\n Alexander Roob,\n</p>\n<p>\n Lyndal Roper,\n <em>\n  A Discovery of Witches\n </em>\n because it helped me understand how the belief in witches influenced the imagination. Many of the notions we have about witchcraft today have their roots in these terrifying fantasies.\n</p>\n<p>\n James Sharpe,\n</p>\n<p>\n Bryan Sykes,\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Deborah Harkness\n </em>\n (Photo of Deborah Harkness Â© Marion Ettlinger)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Harkness''s lively debut, witches, vampires, and demons outnumber humans at Oxford''s Bodleian Library, where witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her. Against all occult social propriety, Bishop turns for protection to tall, dark, bloodsucking man-about-town Clairmont. Their research raises questions of evolution and extinction among the living dead, and their romance awakens centuries-old enmities. Harkness imagines a crowded universe where normal and paranormal creatures observe a tenuous peace. "Magic is desire made real," Bishop says after both her desire and magical prowess exceed her expectations. Harkness brings this world to vibrant life and makes the most of the growing popularity of gothic adventure with an ending that keeps the Old Lodge door wide open. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5965'),
(14783, 'A Discovery of Witches', 'Deborah Harkness', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ten More Books for Readers of\n  <em>\n   A Discovery of Witches\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Interested in learning more about magic and science?\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n I may have written a novel, but Iâ€™m still a history professor! Here are some reading suggestions for those of you whose curiosity has been stirred up by the story of Diana Bishop, Matthew Clairmont, and the hunt for the missing alchemical manuscript Ashmole 782. All of the titles here are non-fiction, and inspired some aspect of\n <em>\n  A Discovery of Witches\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Elias Ashmole,\n</p>\n<p>\n Janet Browne,\n</p>\n<p>\n Owen Davies,\n</p>\n<p>\n Carol Karlsen,\n</p>\n<p>\n Robert Kehew, Ezra Pound, and W. D. Snodgrass,\n</p>\n<p>\n Bruce Moranâ€™s\n</p>\n<p>\n Alexander Roob,\n</p>\n<p>\n Lyndal Roper,\n <em>\n  A Discovery of Witches\n </em>\n because it helped me understand how the belief in witches influenced the imagination. Many of the notions we have about witchcraft today have their roots in these terrifying fantasies.\n</p>\n<p>\n James Sharpe,\n</p>\n<p>\n Bryan Sykes,\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Deborah Harkness\n </em>\n (Photo of Deborah Harkness Â© Marion Ettlinger)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Harkness''s lively debut, witches, vampires, and demons outnumber humans at Oxford''s Bodleian Library, where witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her. Against all occult social propriety, Bishop turns for protection to tall, dark, bloodsucking man-about-town Clairmont. Their research raises questions of evolution and extinction among the living dead, and their romance awakens centuries-old enmities. Harkness imagines a crowded universe where normal and paranormal creatures observe a tenuous peace. "Magic is desire made real," Bishop says after both her desire and magical prowess exceed her expectations. Harkness brings this world to vibrant life and makes the most of the growing popularity of gothic adventure with an ending that keeps the Old Lodge door wide open. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10210'),
(14784, 'A Discovery of Witches: A Novel', 'Harkness, Deborah', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14797'),
(14785, 'A Discovery of Witches: A Novel', 'Deborah Harkness', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ten More Books for Readers of\n   <em>\n    A Discovery of Witches\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Interested in learning more about magic and science?\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  I may have written a novel, but Iâ€™m still a history professor! Here are some reading suggestions for those of you whose curiosity has been stirred up by the story of Diana Bishop, Matthew Clairmont, and the hunt for the missing alchemical manuscript Ashmole 782. All of the titles here are non-fiction, and inspired some aspect of\n  <em>\n   A Discovery of Witches\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elias Ashmole,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Janet Browne,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Owen Davies,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Carol Karlsen,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Robert Kehew, Ezra Pound, and W. D. Snodgrass,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bruce Moranâ€™s\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alexander Roob,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lyndal Roper,\n  <em>\n   A Discovery of Witches\n  </em>\n  because it helped me understand how the belief in witches influenced the imagination. Many of the notions we have about witchcraft today have their roots in these terrifying fantasies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  James Sharpe,\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bryan Sykes,\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   --Deborah Harkness\n  </em>\n  (Photo of Deborah Harkness Â© Marion Ettlinger)\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Harkness''s lively debut, witches, vampires, and demons outnumber humans at Oxford''s Bodleian Library, where witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her. Against all occult social propriety, Bishop turns for protection to tall, dark, bloodsucking man-about-town Clairmont. Their research raises questions of evolution and extinction among the living dead, and their romance awakens centuries-old enmities. Harkness imagines a crowded universe where normal and paranormal creatures observe a tenuous peace. "Magic is desire made real," Bishop says after both her desire and magical prowess exceed her expectations. Harkness brings this world to vibrant life and makes the most of the growing popularity of gothic adventure with an ending that keeps the Old Lodge door wide open. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17965'),
(14786, 'A Discovery of Witches: A Novel', 'Harkness, Deborah', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28065'),
(14787, 'Discworld 01 - The Colour of Magic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25034'),
(14788, 'Discworld 02 - The Light Fantastic', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25035'),
(14789, 'Discworld 03 - Equal Rites', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25036'),
(14790, 'Discworld 04 - Mort', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25037'),
(14791, 'Discworld 05 - Sourcery', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25038'),
(14792, 'Discworld 06 - Wyrd Sisters', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25039'),
(14793, 'Discworld 07 - Pyramids', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25040'),
(14794, 'Discworld 08 - Guards! Guards!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25041'),
(14795, 'Discworld 09 - Eric', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25042'),
(14796, 'Discworld 10 - Moving Pictures', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25043'),
(14797, 'Discworld 11 - Reaper Man', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25044'),
(14798, 'Discworld 12 - Witches Abroad', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25045'),
(14799, 'Discworld 13 - Small Gods', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25046'),
(14800, 'Discworld 14 - Lords and Ladies', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25047'),
(14801, 'Discworld 15 - Men at Arms', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25048'),
(14802, 'Discworld 16 - Soul Music', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25049'),
(14803, 'Discworld 17 - Interesting Times', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25050'),
(14804, 'Discworld 18 - Maskerade', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25051'),
(14805, 'Discworld 19 - Feet of Clay', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25052'),
(14806, 'Discworld 20 - Hogfather', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25053'),
(14807, 'Discworld 21 - Jingo', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25054'),
(14808, 'Discworld 22 - The Last Continent', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25055'),
(14809, 'Discworld 23 - Carpe Jugulum', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25056'),
(14810, 'Discworld 24 - Fifth Elephant', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25057'),
(14811, 'Discworld 26 - The Thief of Time', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25058'),
(14812, 'Discworld 27 - The Last Hero', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25059'),
(14813, 'Discworld 28 - The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25060'),
(14814, 'Discworld 29 - Night Watch', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25061'),
(14815, 'Discworld 30 - Monstrous Regiment', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25062'),
(14816, 'Discworld 30 - Thud!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25063'),
(14817, 'Discworld 31 - The Wee Free Men', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25064'),
(14818, 'Discworld 32 - A Hat Full Of Sky', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25065'),
(14819, 'Discworld 33 - Going Postal', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25066'),
(14820, 'Discworld 35 - Wintersmith', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25067'),
(14821, 'Discworld 36 - Making Money', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25068'),
(14822, 'Discworld 37 - Unseen Academicals', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25069'),
(14823, 'Disenchanted Evenings: A Girlfriend-To-Girlfriend Survival Guide for Coping With the Male Species', 'Barb Ewing; Maria Sude; Katina Z. Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A collection of one-liners and humorous observations about the male species in which authors Ewing and Sude zero in on dating disasters and romantic mishaps.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Tired of dating disasters?\n <br />\n Of frogs dressed like princes?\n <br />\n If you need a good laugh, Disenchanted Evenings is for you!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15595'),
(14824, 'Disgrace', 'J. M. Coetzee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Coming in 2009, the major motion picture starring John Malkovich Written with austere clarity , Disgrace explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes with unforgettable, almost unbearable vividness the plight of South Africaa country caught in the chaotic aftermath of the overthrow of Apartheid.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4954'),
(14825, 'Disgrace', 'J. M. Coetzee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Coming in 2009, the major motion picture starring John Malkovich Written with austere clarity , Disgrace explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes with unforgettable, almost unbearable vividness the plight of South Africaa country caught in the chaotic aftermath of the overthrow of Apartheid.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14943'),
(14826, 'Disgrace', 'J. M. Coetzee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Coming in 2009, the major motion picture starring John Malkovich Written with austere clarity , Disgrace explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes with unforgettable, almost unbearable vividness the plight of South Africaa country caught in the chaotic aftermath of the overthrow of Apartheid.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19758'),
(14827, 'Disgrace', 'J. M. Coetzee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Coming in 2009, the major motion picture starring John Malkovich Written with austere clarity , Disgrace explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes with unforgettable, almost unbearable vividness the plight of South Africaa country caught in the chaotic aftermath of the overthrow of Apartheid.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28305'),
(14828, 'Disintegration', 'Scott Nicholson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  DISINTEGRATION\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When a mysterious fire destroys his home and shatters his family, Jacob Wells is pulled into a downward spiral that draws him ever closer to the past he thought was dead and buried.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now his twin brother Joshua is back in town, seeking to settle old scores and claim his half of the Wells birthright. Jacobâ€™s wife Renee is struggling with her own past and her attempts to salvage Jacob are driven by guilt and ambition.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  As Jacob and Joshua return to the twisted roles they adopted at the hands of cruel, demanding parents, they wage a war of pride, wealth, and passion. They share a poisonous obsession with the provocative, manipulative Carlita, whose immigrant family helped build the Wells fortune.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Joshua wants other things, too, but Jacobâ€™s desires are divided between the forbidden love he canâ€™t possess, the respectability he can never have, and the revenge he is dying to taste. And Renee has dark motives of her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  If only Jacob can figure out which of them to blame. But the lines of identity are blurred, because Joshua and Jacob share much more than blood.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  And the childhood games have become deadly serious.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  -----\n  <br />\n  A crime thriller from Scott Nicholson, #1 Kindle bestselling author of THE RED CHURCH, THE SKULL RING, SPEED DATING WITH THE DEAD, CURTAINS: MYSTERY STORIES, and 13 other books. He''s also written six screenplays, the graphic novels DIRT and GRAVE CONDITIONS, and, as L.C. Glazebrook, the YA paranormal series OCTOBER GIRLS. Visit him at Author Central or www.hauntedcomputer.com\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Always surprises and always entertains."--Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Buy everything he writes. He''s the real deal."--Bentley Little, The Disappearance\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Keep both hands on your pants, because Nicholson is about to scare them off."--JA Konrath, Shaken\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1329'),
(14829, 'Disintegration', 'Scott Nicholson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  DISINTEGRATION\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When a mysterious fire destroys his home and shatters his family, Jacob Wells is pulled into a downward spiral that draws him ever closer to the past he thought was dead and buried.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now his twin brother Joshua is back in town, seeking to settle old scores and claim his half of the Wells birthright. Jacobâ€™s wife Renee is struggling with her own past and her attempts to salvage Jacob are driven by guilt and ambition.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  As Jacob and Joshua return to the twisted roles they adopted at the hands of cruel, demanding parents, they wage a war of pride, wealth, and passion. They share a poisonous obsession with the provocative, manipulative Carlita, whose immigrant family helped build the Wells fortune.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Joshua wants other things, too, but Jacobâ€™s desires are divided between the forbidden love he canâ€™t possess, the respectability he can never have, and the revenge he is dying to taste. And Renee has dark motives of her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  If only Jacob can figure out which of them to blame. But the lines of identity are blurred, because Joshua and Jacob share much more than blood.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  And the childhood games have become deadly serious.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  -----\n  <br />\n  A crime thriller from Scott Nicholson, #1 Kindle bestselling author of THE RED CHURCH, THE SKULL RING, SPEED DATING WITH THE DEAD, CURTAINS: MYSTERY STORIES, and 13 other books. He''s also written six screenplays, the graphic novels DIRT and GRAVE CONDITIONS, and, as L.C. Glazebrook, the YA paranormal series OCTOBER GIRLS. Visit him at Author Central or www.hauntedcomputer.com\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Always surprises and always entertains."--Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Buy everything he writes. He''s the real deal."--Bentley Little, The Disappearance\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Keep both hands on your pants, because Nicholson is about to scare them off."--JA Konrath, Shaken\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11726'),
(14830, 'Disintegration', 'Scott Nicholson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  DISINTEGRATION\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  When a mysterious fire destroys his home and shatters his family, Jacob Wells is pulled into a downward spiral that draws him ever closer to the past he thought was dead and buried.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Now his twin brother Joshua is back in town, seeking to settle old scores and claim his half of the Wells birthright. Jacobâ€™s wife Renee is struggling with her own past and her attempts to salvage Jacob are driven by guilt and ambition.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  As Jacob and Joshua return to the twisted roles they adopted at the hands of cruel, demanding parents, they wage a war of pride, wealth, and passion. They share a poisonous obsession with the provocative, manipulative Carlita, whose immigrant family helped build the Wells fortune.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Joshua wants other things, too, but Jacobâ€™s desires are divided between the forbidden love he canâ€™t possess, the respectability he can never have, and the revenge he is dying to taste. And Renee has dark motives of her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  If only Jacob can figure out which of them to blame. But the lines of identity are blurred, because Joshua and Jacob share much more than blood.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  And the childhood games have become deadly serious.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  -----\n  <br />\n  A crime thriller from Scott Nicholson, #1 Kindle bestselling author of THE RED CHURCH, THE SKULL RING, SPEED DATING WITH THE DEAD, CURTAINS: MYSTERY STORIES, and 13 other books. He''s also written six screenplays, the graphic novels DIRT and GRAVE CONDITIONS, and, as L.C. Glazebrook, the YA paranormal series OCTOBER GIRLS. Visit him at Author Central or www.hauntedcomputer.com\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Always surprises and always entertains."--Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Buy everything he writes. He''s the real deal."--Bentley Little, The Disappearance\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Keep both hands on your pants, because Nicholson is about to scare them off."--JA Konrath, Shaken\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23535'),
(14831, 'Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America', 'Eugene Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this clear-eyed and compassionate study, Robinson (Coal to Cream), Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning journalist for the Washington Post, marshals persuasive evidence that the African-American population has splintered into four distinct and increasingly disconnected entities: a small elite with enormous influence, a mainstream middle-class majority, a newly emergent group of recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, and an abandoned minority "with less hope of escaping poverty than at any time since Reconstruction''s end." Drawing on census records, polling data, sociological studies, and his own experiences growing up in a segregated South Carolina college town during the 1950s, Robinson explores 140 years of black history in America, focusing on how the civil rights movement, desegregation, and affirmative action contributed to the fragmentation. Of particular interest is the discussion of how immigrants from Africa, the "best-educated group coming to live in the United States," are changing what being black means. Robinson notes that despite the enormous strides African-Americans have made in the past 40 years, the problems of poor blacks remain more intractable than ever, though his solution--"a domestic Marshall Plan aimed at black America"--seems implausible in this era of cash-strapped state and local governments.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Based on his years of reporting and observation of changes in black America, journalist Robinson finds that the black community has evolved to the point where it has disintegrated into distinct sectors: the mainstreamers, or black middle-class majority, who have made tremendous but often understated progress; the abandoned minority with little hope of escaping poverty; transcendental elites of such wealth and power that whites canâ€™t deny; and an emergent group of biracial blacks and recent black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean who are challenging an essentially native black American experience. In the age of Obama, Robinson notes the advancement of the black elites, with wealth and power, into â€œfull ownership stakeâ€ in the U.S., distancing them economically from the middle and lower classes. The emergent group identifies with a different notion of the black experience, making them ideologically and politically unreliable. All are in strong contrast to the abandoned, who are at the center of the black disintegration. Readers donâ€™t have to agree with Robinsonâ€™s observations to appreciate the undeniable differences within black America and to maybe want further analysis. --Vernon Ford\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5612'),
(14832, 'Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America', 'Eugene Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this clear-eyed and compassionate study, Robinson (Coal to Cream), Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning journalist for the Washington Post, marshals persuasive evidence that the African-American population has splintered into four distinct and increasingly disconnected entities: a small elite with enormous influence, a mainstream middle-class majority, a newly emergent group of recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, and an abandoned minority "with less hope of escaping poverty than at any time since Reconstruction''s end." Drawing on census records, polling data, sociological studies, and his own experiences growing up in a segregated South Carolina college town during the 1950s, Robinson explores 140 years of black history in America, focusing on how the civil rights movement, desegregation, and affirmative action contributed to the fragmentation. Of particular interest is the discussion of how immigrants from Africa, the "best-educated group coming to live in the United States," are changing what being black means. Robinson notes that despite the enormous strides African-Americans have made in the past 40 years, the problems of poor blacks remain more intractable than ever, though his solution--"a domestic Marshall Plan aimed at black America"--seems implausible in this era of cash-strapped state and local governments.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Based on his years of reporting and observation of changes in black America, journalist Robinson finds that the black community has evolved to the point where it has disintegrated into distinct sectors: the mainstreamers, or black middle-class majority, who have made tremendous but often understated progress; the abandoned minority with little hope of escaping poverty; transcendental elites of such wealth and power that whites canâ€™t deny; and an emergent group of biracial blacks and recent black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean who are challenging an essentially native black American experience. In the age of Obama, Robinson notes the advancement of the black elites, with wealth and power, into â€œfull ownership stakeâ€ in the U.S., distancing them economically from the middle and lower classes. The emergent group identifies with a different notion of the black experience, making them ideologically and politically unreliable. All are in strong contrast to the abandoned, who are at the center of the black disintegration. Readers donâ€™t have to agree with Robinsonâ€™s observations to appreciate the undeniable differences within black America and to maybe want further analysis. --Vernon Ford\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13498'),
(14833, 'Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America', 'Eugene Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this clear-eyed and compassionate study, Robinson (Coal to Cream), Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning journalist for the Washington Post, marshals persuasive evidence that the African-American population has splintered into four distinct and increasingly disconnected entities: a small elite with enormous influence, a mainstream middle-class majority, a newly emergent group of recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, and an abandoned minority "with less hope of escaping poverty than at any time since Reconstruction''s end." Drawing on census records, polling data, sociological studies, and his own experiences growing up in a segregated South Carolina college town during the 1950s, Robinson explores 140 years of black history in America, focusing on how the civil rights movement, desegregation, and affirmative action contributed to the fragmentation. Of particular interest is the discussion of how immigrants from Africa, the "best-educated group coming to live in the United States," are changing what being black means. Robinson notes that despite the enormous strides African-Americans have made in the past 40 years, the problems of poor blacks remain more intractable than ever, though his solution--"a domestic Marshall Plan aimed at black America"--seems implausible in this era of cash-strapped state and local governments.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Based on his years of reporting and observation of changes in black America, journalist Robinson finds that the black community has evolved to the point where it has disintegrated into distinct sectors: the mainstreamers, or black middle-class majority, who have made tremendous but often understated progress; the abandoned minority with little hope of escaping poverty; transcendental elites of such wealth and power that whites canâ€™t deny; and an emergent group of biracial blacks and recent black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean who are challenging an essentially native black American experience. In the age of Obama, Robinson notes the advancement of the black elites, with wealth and power, into â€œfull ownership stakeâ€ in the U.S., distancing them economically from the middle and lower classes. The emergent group identifies with a different notion of the black experience, making them ideologically and politically unreliable. All are in strong contrast to the abandoned, who are at the center of the black disintegration. Readers donâ€™t have to agree with Robinsonâ€™s observations to appreciate the undeniable differences within black America and to maybe want further analysis. --Vernon Ford\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19058'),
(14834, 'Dismantling the Empire', 'Johnson, Chalmers', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15441'),
(14835, 'Dismantling the Empire: America&#39;s Last Best Hope', 'Chalmers Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Stimulating and prescient. . ."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_Times Literary Supplement_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Succinct, hard-hitting attacks on what the author perceives as America''s ruinous imperial follies..."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_, starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n "Concise, clear, hard-hitting. . .\n <em>\n  Dismantling the Empire\n </em>\n is a must read for anyone looking for meaningful information concerning the future of the American Empire."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_Foreign Policy Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Chalmers Johnson\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohnson wants the scales to fall from American eyes so that the nation can see the truth about its role in the world. His is a patriotâ€™s passion: his motive is to save the American republic he loves.â€\n <br />\n â€”Jonathan Freedland,\n <em>\n  The New York Review of Books\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe role of the prophet is an honorable one. In Chalmers Johnson the American empire has found its Jeremiah. He deserves to be heard.â€\n <br />\n â€”Andrew J. Bacevich,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œChalmers Johnsonâ€™s important new book is something with which everyone who aspires to a worthwhile opinion about this countryâ€™s future must contend.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Los Angeles Times_ (on\n <em>\n  Nemesis\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTrenchantly argued, comprehensively documented, grimly eloquent. . . Worthy of the republic it seeks to defend.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Boston Globe_ (on\n <em>\n  The Sorrows of Empire\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStunning and shocking. . .\n <em>\n  Blowback\n </em>\n is a wake-up call for America.â€\n <br />\n â€”John Dower, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\n <em>\n  Embracing Defeat\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n From the author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy, an urgent call to confront America''s waning power\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n In his prophetic book\n <em>\n  Blowback\n </em>\n , published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home. Now, in a brilliant series of essays written over the last three years, Johnson measures that price and the resulting dangers America faces. Our reliance on Pentagon economics, a global empire of bases, and war without end is, he declares, nothing short of "a suicide option."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dismantling the Empire\n </em>\n explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama''s Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, bad behavior in other countries, ill-fought wars, and capitulation to a military that has taken ever more control of the federal budget. There is, he proposes, only one way out: President Obama must begin to dismantle America''s empire of bases before the Pentagon dismantles the American dream. If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and a crucial prescription for a remedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6982'),
(14836, 'Dismantling the Empire: America&#39;s Last Best Hope', 'Chalmers Johnson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Stimulating and prescient. . ."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_Times Literary Supplement_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Succinct, hard-hitting attacks on what the author perceives as America''s ruinous imperial follies..."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_, starred review\n</p>\n<p>\n "Concise, clear, hard-hitting. . .\n <em>\n  Dismantling the Empire\n </em>\n is a must read for anyone looking for meaningful information concerning the future of the American Empire."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_Foreign Policy Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Chalmers Johnson\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œJohnson wants the scales to fall from American eyes so that the nation can see the truth about its role in the world. His is a patriotâ€™s passion: his motive is to save the American republic he loves.â€\n <br />\n â€”Jonathan Freedland,\n <em>\n  The New York Review of Books\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe role of the prophet is an honorable one. In Chalmers Johnson the American empire has found its Jeremiah. He deserves to be heard.â€\n <br />\n â€”Andrew J. Bacevich,\n <em>\n  The Washington Post Book World\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œChalmers Johnsonâ€™s important new book is something with which everyone who aspires to a worthwhile opinion about this countryâ€™s future must contend.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Los Angeles Times_ (on\n <em>\n  Nemesis\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTrenchantly argued, comprehensively documented, grimly eloquent. . . Worthy of the republic it seeks to defend.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Boston Globe_ (on\n <em>\n  The Sorrows of Empire\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œStunning and shocking. . .\n <em>\n  Blowback\n </em>\n is a wake-up call for America.â€\n <br />\n â€”John Dower, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\n <em>\n  Embracing Defeat\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </strong>\n From the author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy, an urgent call to confront America''s waning power\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n In his prophetic book\n <em>\n  Blowback\n </em>\n , published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home. Now, in a brilliant series of essays written over the last three years, Johnson measures that price and the resulting dangers America faces. Our reliance on Pentagon economics, a global empire of bases, and war without end is, he declares, nothing short of "a suicide option."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dismantling the Empire\n </em>\n explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama''s Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, bad behavior in other countries, ill-fought wars, and capitulation to a military that has taken ever more control of the federal budget. There is, he proposes, only one way out: President Obama must begin to dismantle America''s empire of bases before the Pentagon dismantles the American dream. If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and a crucial prescription for a remedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10502'),
(14837, 'A Disobedient Girl: A Novel', 'Ru Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In one of the most impressive debuts of the year, Ru Freeman delivers an epic, searing novel about betrayal and salvation, the strength of the human spirit, and the boundlessness and limits of love.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set against the volatile events of the last forty years of Sri Lankan history, *A Disobedient Girl* traces the lives of three characters whose interwoven fates and histories force them to answer life''s most difficult questions. Beautiful, haunting, alive, and brimming with truth, it is, above all, a novel about extraordinary circumstances that change life in an instant and the power of love to transcend time and place.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The story begins with two little girls, mistress and servant, one with every luxury and opportunity that money can buy and the other with nothing but her yearning for a better life. Together, they grow up bound by love, betrayal, resentment, and an impossible secret.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Then there is Biso, a devoted mother of three, who risks everything to escape from the hands of her tyrannical husband. But her journey, which begins with such hope, takes her on a disastrous path that ultimately leads her to give her life over to strangers she never imagined she would have reason to know, binding her story with that of the girls in the most unexpected and heartbreaking of ways.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *A Disobedient Girl* is a compelling exploration of personal desire set against the volatile backdrop of class and prejudice, as three women journey toward their future, united by a shared history but separated by different fates. A bold and deeply moving account that spans three decades of love and loss, it is a tale about the will to survive and the incredible power of the human spirit to transcend the unforgiving sweep of tragedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1500'),
(14838, 'A Disobedient Girl: A Novel', 'Ru Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In one of the most impressive debuts of the year, Ru Freeman delivers an epic, searing novel about betrayal and salvation, the strength of the human spirit, and the boundlessness and limits of love.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set against the volatile events of the last forty years of Sri Lankan history, *A Disobedient Girl* traces the lives of three characters whose interwoven fates and histories force them to answer life''s most difficult questions. Beautiful, haunting, alive, and brimming with truth, it is, above all, a novel about extraordinary circumstances that change life in an instant and the power of love to transcend time and place.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The story begins with two little girls, mistress and servant, one with every luxury and opportunity that money can buy and the other with nothing but her yearning for a better life. Together, they grow up bound by love, betrayal, resentment, and an impossible secret.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Then there is Biso, a devoted mother of three, who risks everything to escape from the hands of her tyrannical husband. But her journey, which begins with such hope, takes her on a disastrous path that ultimately leads her to give her life over to strangers she never imagined she would have reason to know, binding her story with that of the girls in the most unexpected and heartbreaking of ways.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *A Disobedient Girl* is a compelling exploration of personal desire set against the volatile backdrop of class and prejudice, as three women journey toward their future, united by a shared history but separated by different fates. A bold and deeply moving account that spans three decades of love and loss, it is a tale about the will to survive and the incredible power of the human spirit to transcend the unforgiving sweep of tragedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9821'),
(14839, 'A disobedient girl: a novel', 'Ru Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In one of the most impressive debuts of the year, Ru Freeman delivers an epic, searing novel about betrayal and salvation, the strength of the human spirit, and the boundlessness and limits of love.** Set against the volatile events of the last forty years of Sri Lankan history, *A Disobedient Girl* traces the lives of three characters whose interwoven fates and histories force them to answer life''s most difficult questions. Beautiful, haunting, alive, and brimming with truth, it is, above all, a novel about extraordinary circumstances that change life in an instant and the power of love to transcend time and place. The story begins with two little girls, mistress and servant, one with every luxury and opportunity that money can buy and the other with nothing but her yearning for a better life. Together, they grow up bound by love, betrayal, resentment, and an impossible secret. Then there is Biso, a devoted mother of three, who risks everything to escape from the hands of her tyrannical husband. But her journey, which begins with such hope, takes her on a disastrous path that ultimately leads her to give her life over to strangers she never imagined she would have reason to know, binding her story with that of the girls in the most unexpected and heartbreaking of ways. *A Disobedient Girl* is a compelling exploration of personal desire set against the volatile backdrop of class and prejudice, as three women journey toward their future, united by a shared history but separated by different fates. A bold and deeply moving account that spans three decades of love and loss, it is a tale about the will to survive and the incredible power of the human spirit to transcend the unforgiving sweep of tragedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23403'),
(14840, 'Dispatches From the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival', 'Anderson Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 2005, two tragedies--the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina--turned CNN reporter Anderson Cooper into a media celebrity.\n <em>\n  Dispatches from the Edge\n </em>\n , Cooper''s memoir of "war, disasters and survival," is a brief but powerful chronicle of Cooper''s ascent to stardom and his struggle with his own tragedies and demons. Cooper was 10 years old when his father, Wyatt Cooper, died during heart bypass surgery. He was 20 when his beloved older brother, Carter, committed suicide by jumping off his mother''s penthouse balcony (his mother, by the way, being Gloria Vanderbilt). The losses profoundly affected Cooper, who fled home after college to work as a freelance journalist for Channel One, the classroom news service. Covering tragedies in far-flung places like Burma, Vietnam, and Somalia, Cooper quickly learned that "as a journalist, no matter ... how respectful you are, part of your brain remains focused on how to capture the horror you see, how to package it, present it to others." Cooper''s description of these horrors, from war-ravaged Baghdad to famine-wracked Niger, is poignant but surprisingly unsentimental. In Niger, Cooper writes, he is chagrined, then resigned, when he catches himself looking for the "worst cases" to commit to film. "They die, I live. It''s the way of the world," he writes. In the final section of\n <em>\n  Dispatches\n </em>\n , Cooper describes covering Hurricane Katrina, the story that made him famous. The transcript of his showdown with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (in which Cooper tells Landrieu people in New Orleans are "ashamed of what is happening in this country right now") is worth the price of admission on its own. Cooper''s memoir leaves some questions unanswered--there''s frustratingly little about his personal life, for example--but remains a vivid, modest self-portrait by a man who is proving himself to be an admirable, courageous leader in a medium that could use more like him. --_Erica C. Barnett_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n HarperCollins touts the handsome, prematurely gray host of CNN''s\n <em>\n  Anderson Cooper 360Â°\n </em>\n as the "prototype for a twenty-first century newsman." Sadly, that statement is all too true. This brief, self-involved narrative reaffirms a troubling cultural shift in news coverage: journalists used to cover the story; now, more than ever, they are the story. Cooper is an intrepid reporter: he''s traveled to tsunami-ravaged Asia, famine-plagued Niger, war-torn Somalia and Iraq, and New Orleans post-Katrina. Here, however, the plights of the people and places he visits take a backseat to the fact that Cooper is, well, there. The Yale-educated son of heiress and designer Gloria Vanderbilt weaves personal tragedies (at 10, he lost his father to heart disease and later his older brother to suicide) awkwardly into far graver stories of suffering he''s observing. Even when he plies the reader with his own unease ("the more sadness I saw, the more success I had") and obliquely decries TV news''s demand for images of extreme misery ("merely sick won''t warrant more than a cut-away shot"), he seems to place himself in front of his subjects. Cooper is an intelligent, passionate man and he may be a terrific journalist. But this book leaves one feeling he''s little more than a television personality.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7718');
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(14841, 'Dispatches From the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival', 'Anderson Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 2005, two tragedies--the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina--turned CNN reporter Anderson Cooper into a media celebrity.\n <em>\n  Dispatches from the Edge\n </em>\n , Cooper''s memoir of "war, disasters and survival," is a brief but powerful chronicle of Cooper''s ascent to stardom and his struggle with his own tragedies and demons. Cooper was 10 years old when his father, Wyatt Cooper, died during heart bypass surgery. He was 20 when his beloved older brother, Carter, committed suicide by jumping off his mother''s penthouse balcony (his mother, by the way, being Gloria Vanderbilt). The losses profoundly affected Cooper, who fled home after college to work as a freelance journalist for Channel One, the classroom news service. Covering tragedies in far-flung places like Burma, Vietnam, and Somalia, Cooper quickly learned that "as a journalist, no matter ... how respectful you are, part of your brain remains focused on how to capture the horror you see, how to package it, present it to others." Cooper''s description of these horrors, from war-ravaged Baghdad to famine-wracked Niger, is poignant but surprisingly unsentimental. In Niger, Cooper writes, he is chagrined, then resigned, when he catches himself looking for the "worst cases" to commit to film. "They die, I live. It''s the way of the world," he writes. In the final section of\n <em>\n  Dispatches\n </em>\n , Cooper describes covering Hurricane Katrina, the story that made him famous. The transcript of his showdown with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (in which Cooper tells Landrieu people in New Orleans are "ashamed of what is happening in this country right now") is worth the price of admission on its own. Cooper''s memoir leaves some questions unanswered--there''s frustratingly little about his personal life, for example--but remains a vivid, modest self-portrait by a man who is proving himself to be an admirable, courageous leader in a medium that could use more like him. --_Erica C. Barnett_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n HarperCollins touts the handsome, prematurely gray host of CNN''s\n <em>\n  Anderson Cooper 360Â°\n </em>\n as the "prototype for a twenty-first century newsman." Sadly, that statement is all too true. This brief, self-involved narrative reaffirms a troubling cultural shift in news coverage: journalists used to cover the story; now, more than ever, they are the story. Cooper is an intrepid reporter: he''s traveled to tsunami-ravaged Asia, famine-plagued Niger, war-torn Somalia and Iraq, and New Orleans post-Katrina. Here, however, the plights of the people and places he visits take a backseat to the fact that Cooper is, well, there. The Yale-educated son of heiress and designer Gloria Vanderbilt weaves personal tragedies (at 10, he lost his father to heart disease and later his older brother to suicide) awkwardly into far graver stories of suffering he''s observing. Even when he plies the reader with his own unease ("the more sadness I saw, the more success I had") and obliquely decries TV news''s demand for images of extreme misery ("merely sick won''t warrant more than a cut-away shot"), he seems to place himself in front of his subjects. Cooper is an intelligent, passionate man and he may be a terrific journalist. But this book leaves one feeling he''s little more than a television personality.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9048'),
(14842, 'Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival', 'Anderson Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In 2005, two tragedies--the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina--turned CNN reporter Anderson Cooper into a media celebrity. Dispatches from the Edge, Cooper''s memoir of "war, disasters and survival," is a brief but powerful chronicle of Cooper''s ascent to stardom and his struggle with his own tragedies and demons. Cooper was 10 years old when his father, Wyatt Cooper, died during heart bypass surgery. He was 20 when his beloved older brother, Carter, committed suicide by jumping off his mother''s penthouse balcony (his mother, by the way, being Gloria Vanderbilt). The losses profoundly affected Cooper, who fled home after college to work as a freelance journalist for Channel One, the classroom news service. Covering tragedies in far-flung places like Burma, Vietnam, and Somalia, Cooper quickly learned that "as a journalist, no matter ... how respectful you are, part of your brain remains focused on how to capture the horror you see, how to package it, present it to others." Cooper''s description of these horrors, from war-ravaged Baghdad to famine-wracked Niger, is poignant but surprisingly unsentimental. In Niger, Cooper writes, he is chagrined, then resigned, when he catches himself looking for the "worst cases" to commit to film. "They die, I live. It''s the way of the world," he writes. In the final section of Dispatches, Cooper describes covering Hurricane Katrina, the story that made him famous. The transcript of his showdown with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (in which Cooper tells Landrieu people in New Orleans are "ashamed of what is happening in this country right now") is worth the price of admission on its own. Cooper''s memoir leaves some questions unanswered--there''s frustratingly little about his personal life, for example--but remains a vivid, modest self-portrait by a man who is proving himself to be an admirable, courageous leader in a medium that could use more like him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16160'),
(14843, 'The Dispossessed', 'Ursula K. Le Guin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  PerfectBound e-book extra: A Study Guide to The Dispossessed by Paul Brians.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22836'),
(14844, 'The Dispossessed: A Novel', 'Ursula K. Le Guin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Centuries ago, the moon Anarres was settled by utopian anarchists who left the Earthlike planet Urras in search of a better world, a new beginning. Now a brilliant physicist, Shevek, determines to reunite the two civilizations that have been separated by hatred since long before he was born.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Dispossessed\n </em>\n is a penetrating examination of society and humanity -- and one man''s brave undertaking to question the unquestionable and ignite the fires of change.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of more than one hundred short stories, two collections of essays, four volumes of poetry, and nineteen novels. Her best-known fantasy works, the Earthsea books, have sold millions of copies in America and England, and have been translated into sixteen languages. Her first major work of science fiction,\n <em>\n  The Left Hand of Darkness\n </em>\n , is considered epochmaking in the field because of its radical investigation of gender roles and its moral and literary complexity.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three of Le Guin''s books have been finalists for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and among the many honors her writing has received are the National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Harold D. Vursell Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in Portland, Oregon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/400'),
(14845, 'The Dispossessed: A Novel', 'Ursula K. Le Guin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Centuries ago, the moon Anarres was settled by utopian anarchists who left the Earthlike planet Urras in search of a better world, a new beginning. Now a brilliant physicist, Shevek, determines to reunite the two civilizations that have been separated by hatred since long before he was born.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Dispossessed\n </em>\n is a penetrating examination of society and humanity -- and one man''s brave undertaking to question the unquestionable and ignite the fires of change.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of more than one hundred short stories, two collections of essays, four volumes of poetry, and nineteen novels. Her best-known fantasy works, the Earthsea books, have sold millions of copies in America and England, and have been translated into sixteen languages. Her first major work of science fiction,\n <em>\n  The Left Hand of Darkness\n </em>\n , is considered epochmaking in the field because of its radical investigation of gender roles and its moral and literary complexity.\n</p>\n<p>\n Three of Le Guin''s books have been finalists for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and among the many honors her writing has received are the National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Harold D. Vursell Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in Portland, Oregon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10095'),
(14846, 'The Distant Hours', 'Kate Morton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. A letter posted in 1941 finally reaches its destination in 1992 with powerful repercussions for Edie Burchill, a London book editor, in this enthralling romantic thriller from Australian author Morton (The Forgotten Garden). At crumbling Milderhurst Castle live elderly twins Persephone and Seraphina and their younger half-sister, Juniper, the three eccentric spinster daughters of the late Raymond Blythe, author of The True History of the Mud Man, a children''s classic Edie adores. Juniper addressed the letter to Meredith, Edie''s mother, then a young teen evacuated to Milderhurst during the Blitz. Edie, who''s later invited to write an introduction to a reprint of Raymond''s masterpiece, visits the seedily alluring castle in search of answers. Why was her mother so shattered by the contents of a letter sent 51 years earlier? And what happened to soldier Thomas Cavill, Juniper''s long-missing fiancÃ© and Meredith''s former teacher? Despite the many competing narratives, the answers will stun readers. 5-city author tour. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...the very process of studying this book led me to look carefully at myself with an awareness of how the challenges of my life can be the fuel that will enable me to swim against the stream, against cultural currents, against all forms of adversity inherent in my most important goals."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- From the Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Ph.D., author of\n <em>\n  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3932'),
(14847, 'The Distant Hours', 'Kate Morton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. A letter posted in 1941 finally reaches its destination in 1992 with powerful repercussions for Edie Burchill, a London book editor, in this enthralling romantic thriller from Australian author Morton (The Forgotten Garden). At crumbling Milderhurst Castle live elderly twins Persephone and Seraphina and their younger half-sister, Juniper, the three eccentric spinster daughters of the late Raymond Blythe, author of The True History of the Mud Man, a children''s classic Edie adores. Juniper addressed the letter to Meredith, Edie''s mother, then a young teen evacuated to Milderhurst during the Blitz. Edie, who''s later invited to write an introduction to a reprint of Raymond''s masterpiece, visits the seedily alluring castle in search of answers. Why was her mother so shattered by the contents of a letter sent 51 years earlier? And what happened to soldier Thomas Cavill, Juniper''s long-missing fiancÃ© and Meredith''s former teacher? Despite the many competing narratives, the answers will stun readers. 5-city author tour. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...the very process of studying this book led me to look carefully at myself with an awareness of how the challenges of my life can be the fuel that will enable me to swim against the stream, against cultural currents, against all forms of adversity inherent in my most important goals."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- From the Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Ph.D., author of\n <em>\n  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11509'),
(14848, 'The Distant Hours', 'Kate Morton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. A letter posted in 1941 finally reaches its destination in 1992 with powerful repercussions for Edie Burchill, a London book editor, in this enthralling romantic thriller from Australian author Morton (The Forgotten Garden). At crumbling Milderhurst Castle live elderly twins Persephone and Seraphina and their younger half-sister, Juniper, the three eccentric spinster daughters of the late Raymond Blythe, author of The True History of the Mud Man, a children''s classic Edie adores. Juniper addressed the letter to Meredith, Edie''s mother, then a young teen evacuated to Milderhurst during the Blitz. Edie, who''s later invited to write an introduction to a reprint of Raymond''s masterpiece, visits the seedily alluring castle in search of answers. Why was her mother so shattered by the contents of a letter sent 51 years earlier? And what happened to soldier Thomas Cavill, Juniper''s long-missing fiancÃ© and Meredith''s former teacher? Despite the many competing narratives, the answers will stun readers. 5-city author tour. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...the very process of studying this book led me to look carefully at myself with an awareness of how the challenges of my life can be the fuel that will enable me to swim against the stream, against cultural currents, against all forms of adversity inherent in my most important goals."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- From the Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Ph.D., author of\n <em>\n  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20674'),
(14849, 'Distant Thunders: Destroyermen', 'Taylor Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rebuilding after the ship-shattering climax of 2009''s\n <em>\n  Maelstrom\n </em>\n , Capt. Matt Reddy and the crew of the dimensionally misplaced\n <em>\n  USS Walker\n </em>\n continue pushing their Bronze Age allies, the Lemurians, through the Industrial Revolution to take the war to the invading reptilian Grik. Somewhat aided by the paddle-wheel steam frigates of New Britain, Reddy liberates conquered cities to the west and then races to the east in a refloated\n <em>\n  Walker\n </em>\n to re-rescue New British princess Rebecca Anne McDonald. The fun of watching eager aviators take to the air in carved wooden aircraft leavens the nostalgic sense of worlds being left behind and cultures forced by war to undergo unpleasant changes. Anderson raises questions about the morality of chemical warfare, genocide, and summary execution in wartime while holding out the possibility of diplomacy with relentless killers.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anderson launches a new Destroyermen trilogy (the first: Into the Storm, Crusade, both 2008; Maelstrom, 2009) with this complex but fine and fast-paced tale. The Grik are learning something more sophisticated than banzai tactics from, ironically enough, a Japanese officer. The USS Walker rises from the depths in some of the most moving passages of the book. The prospective alliance with the New British Empire faces prejudice and treachery by what might be called the Dishonorable East India Company. The alliance of destroyermen and Lemurians builds sailing warships, paddle-wheeler warships, and crude airplanes. Moreover, it''s becoming apparent that there have been quite a few leakages from the earthly time line we know to that of Anderson''s creation, eventuating in, among other things, a far-off society of fanatical Catholics and a shipload of crated P-40s. And finally, when the Dishonorables kidnap Princess Rebecca, heiress to the New British throne, they also kidnap Dennis Silva, with his genius for nasty devices. Action sf really doesn''t get significantly better than this. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/845'),
(14850, 'Distant Thunders: Destroyermen', 'Taylor Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rebuilding after the ship-shattering climax of 2009''s\n <em>\n  Maelstrom\n </em>\n , Capt. Matt Reddy and the crew of the dimensionally misplaced\n <em>\n  USS Walker\n </em>\n continue pushing their Bronze Age allies, the Lemurians, through the Industrial Revolution to take the war to the invading reptilian Grik. Somewhat aided by the paddle-wheel steam frigates of New Britain, Reddy liberates conquered cities to the west and then races to the east in a refloated\n <em>\n  Walker\n </em>\n to re-rescue New British princess Rebecca Anne McDonald. The fun of watching eager aviators take to the air in carved wooden aircraft leavens the nostalgic sense of worlds being left behind and cultures forced by war to undergo unpleasant changes. Anderson raises questions about the morality of chemical warfare, genocide, and summary execution in wartime while holding out the possibility of diplomacy with relentless killers.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anderson launches a new Destroyermen trilogy (the first: Into the Storm, Crusade, both 2008; Maelstrom, 2009) with this complex but fine and fast-paced tale. The Grik are learning something more sophisticated than banzai tactics from, ironically enough, a Japanese officer. The USS Walker rises from the depths in some of the most moving passages of the book. The prospective alliance with the New British Empire faces prejudice and treachery by what might be called the Dishonorable East India Company. The alliance of destroyermen and Lemurians builds sailing warships, paddle-wheeler warships, and crude airplanes. Moreover, it''s becoming apparent that there have been quite a few leakages from the earthly time line we know to that of Anderson''s creation, eventuating in, among other things, a far-off society of fanatical Catholics and a shipload of crated P-40s. And finally, when the Dishonorables kidnap Princess Rebecca, heiress to the New British throne, they also kidnap Dennis Silva, with his genius for nasty devices. Action sf really doesn''t get significantly better than this. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8207'),
(14851, 'Distant Thunders: Destroyermen', 'Taylor Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rebuilding after the ship-shattering climax of 2009''s\n <em>\n  Maelstrom\n </em>\n , Capt. Matt Reddy and the crew of the dimensionally misplaced\n <em>\n  USS Walker\n </em>\n continue pushing their Bronze Age allies, the Lemurians, through the Industrial Revolution to take the war to the invading reptilian Grik. Somewhat aided by the paddle-wheel steam frigates of New Britain, Reddy liberates conquered cities to the west and then races to the east in a refloated\n <em>\n  Walker\n </em>\n to re-rescue New British princess Rebecca Anne McDonald. The fun of watching eager aviators take to the air in carved wooden aircraft leavens the nostalgic sense of worlds being left behind and cultures forced by war to undergo unpleasant changes. Anderson raises questions about the morality of chemical warfare, genocide, and summary execution in wartime while holding out the possibility of diplomacy with relentless killers.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anderson launches a new Destroyermen trilogy (the first: Into the Storm, Crusade, both 2008; Maelstrom, 2009) with this complex but fine and fast-paced tale. The Grik are learning something more sophisticated than banzai tactics from, ironically enough, a Japanese officer. The USS Walker rises from the depths in some of the most moving passages of the book. The prospective alliance with the New British Empire faces prejudice and treachery by what might be called the Dishonorable East India Company. The alliance of destroyermen and Lemurians builds sailing warships, paddle-wheeler warships, and crude airplanes. Moreover, it''s becoming apparent that there have been quite a few leakages from the earthly time line we know to that of Anderson''s creation, eventuating in, among other things, a far-off society of fanatical Catholics and a shipload of crated P-40s. And finally, when the Dishonorables kidnap Princess Rebecca, heiress to the New British throne, they also kidnap Dennis Silva, with his genius for nasty devices. Action sf really doesn''t get significantly better than this. --Roland Green\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24068'),
(14852, 'Disworld 25 - The Truth', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25070'),
(14853, 'Divide and conquer', 'Tom Clancy; Jeff Rovin; Steve R. Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Shadowy elements within the State Department secretly cause tensions to flare between Iran and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. They hope to start a shooting war to increase their own power and profit. At the same time, the conspirators decide to up the ante -- by deposing the President of the United States. In a treacherous scheme, they convince the President that he is mentally unstable, and a silent coup d''etat is within their reach. Now, Paul Hood and the members of Op-Center are pitted against the clock to prevent the outbreak of war, save the honor of the President -- and expose the traitors within... *A powerful profile of America''s defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology,* Tom Clancy''s Op-Center *is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik -- inspiring this and other gripping audiobooks.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24999'),
(14854, 'Divided in Death', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Killing was too good for him. She wanted him to beg and plead like the gutter rat he wasshe wanted him to bleed and screamonly then the bastard could die. A slow, withering, agonizing death. Nobody, nobody cheated on Reva Ewing.'' Roarke''s security specialist Reva Ewing is the prime suspect in a double homicide - accused of killing her adulterous husband and his lover - the woman Reva thought was her best friend. But despite having every reason for wanting both of them dead, Reva protests her innocence and Lieutenant Eve Dallas believes her. At the time of the murders, Reva''s husband''s computer system was also sabotaged. To Roarke, it''s the computer attack that poses the real threat. Roarke Industries have been working on a top secret government contract to develop a program that would shield against a new breed of hackers. The Doomsday Group are techno-terrorists who attack systems, steal data, and corrupt computer units on a large scale - and they kill anyone who gets too close.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2468'),
(14855, 'Divided in death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Killing was too good for him. She wanted him to beg and plead like the gutter rat he wasshe wanted him to bleed and screamonly then the bastard could die. A slow, withering, agonizing death. Nobody, nobody cheated on Reva Ewing.'' Roarke''s security specialist Reva Ewing is the prime suspect in a double homicide - accused of killing her adulterous husband and his lover - the woman Reva thought was her best friend. But despite having every reason for wanting both of them dead, Reva protests her innocence and Lieutenant Eve Dallas believes her. At the time of the murders, Reva''s husband''s computer system was also sabotaged. To Roarke, it''s the computer attack that poses the real threat. Roarke Industries have been working on a top secret government contract to develop a program that would shield against a new breed of hackers. The Doomsday Group are techno-terrorists who attack systems, steal data, and corrupt computer units on a large scale - and they kill anyone who gets too close.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14108'),
(14856, 'Divided in death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Killing was too good for him. She wanted him to beg and plead like the gutter rat he wasshe wanted him to bleed and screamonly then the bastard could die. A slow, withering, agonizing death. Nobody, nobody cheated on Reva Ewing.'' Roarke''s security specialist Reva Ewing is the prime suspect in a double homicide - accused of killing her adulterous husband and his lover - the woman Reva thought was her best friend. But despite having every reason for wanting both of them dead, Reva protests her innocence and Lieutenant Eve Dallas believes her. At the time of the murders, Reva''s husband''s computer system was also sabotaged. To Roarke, it''s the computer attack that poses the real threat. Roarke Industries have been working on a top secret government contract to develop a program that would shield against a new breed of hackers. The Doomsday Group are techno-terrorists who attack systems, steal data, and corrupt computer units on a large scale - and they kill anyone who gets too close.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22296'),
(14857, 'Divided Souls', 'Gabriella Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An Ã©lite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. Death has followed the Darke Academy to the ancient city of Istanbul. An unseen hunter is on the loose. Scholarship girl Cassie Bell is fascinated by the city''s beauty, but there''s no time for her to relax. Torn between an old flame and a new romance, she must also choose between the select world of the Few and her loyalty towards her best friends. And all the time a killer is stalking the Few. As Cassie is about to discover, no one is above suspicion. Sometimes, the people you love can be the most dangerous enemies of all ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5507'),
(14858, 'Divided Souls', 'Gabriella Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An Ã©lite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. Death has followed the Darke Academy to the ancient city of Istanbul. An unseen hunter is on the loose. Scholarship girl Cassie Bell is fascinated by the city''s beauty, but there''s no time for her to relax. Torn between an old flame and a new romance, she must also choose between the select world of the Few and her loyalty towards her best friends. And all the time a killer is stalking the Few. As Cassie is about to discover, no one is above suspicion. Sometimes, the people you love can be the most dangerous enemies of all ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19120'),
(14859, 'Divided Souls', 'Gabriella Poole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An Ã©lite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. Death has followed the Darke Academy to the ancient city of Istanbul. An unseen hunter is on the loose. Scholarship girl Cassie Bell is fascinated by the city''s beauty, but there''s no time for her to relax. Torn between an old flame and a new romance, she must also choose between the select world of the Few and her loyalty towards her best friends. And all the time a killer is stalking the Few. As Cassie is about to discover, no one is above suspicion. Sometimes, the people you love can be the most dangerous enemies of all ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27878'),
(14860, 'Divine', 'Karen Kingsbury', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Best-selling author Karen Kingsbury weaves another dramatic story of tragedy and redemption!\n</p>\n<p>\n Mary Madison was a child of unspeakable horrors, a young woman society wanted to forget. Now a divine power has set Mary free to bring life-changing hope and love to battered and abused women living in the shadow of the nation''s capital.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mary is educated and redeemed, a powerful voice in Washington, D.C.â€”both to the politically elite and to other women like her. But she also has a past that shamed polite society. Her experiences created in her paralyzing fear, faithlessness, addiction, and promiscuity. At the crossroads of her life, only one power set Mary free and gave her a lifetime of love and hope. A power that could only be divine.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Karen Kingsbury\n </strong>\n is currently America''s best-selling inspirational author. She has written more than 30 of her Life-Changing Fiction titles and has nearly 5 million books in print. Dubbed by Time magazine as the Queen of Christian Fiction. Her fiction has made her one of the country''s favorite storytellers, and one of her novels-Gideon''s Gift-is under production for an upcoming major motion picture release. Her emotionally gripping titles include the popular Redemption series, the Firstborn series, Divine, One Tuesday Morning, Beyond Tuesday Morning, Oceans Apart, and A Thousand Tomorrows.Karen and her husband, Don, live in the Pacific Northwest and are parents to one girl and five boys, including three adopted from Haiti.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9397'),
(14861, 'The Divine Comedy', 'Dante Alighieri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Long narrative poem originally titled Commedia (about 1555 printed as La divina commedia) written about 1310-14 by Dante. The work is divided into three major sections--Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso--which trace the journey of a man from darkness and error to the revelation of the divine light, culminating in the beatific vision of God. It is usually held to be one of the world''s greatest works of literature. The plot of The Divine Comedy is simple: a man is miraculously enabled to visit the souls in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. He has two guides: Virgil, who leads him through the Inferno and Purgatorio, and Beatrice, who introduces him to Paradiso. Through these fictional encounters taking place from Good Friday evening in 1300 through Easter Sunday and slightly beyond, Dante the character learns of the exile that is awaiting him (an actual exile that had already occurred at the time of writing). This device allowed Dante not only to create a story out of his exile but also to explain how he came to cope with personal calamity and to offer suggestions for the resolution of Italy''s troubles as well. Thus, Dante''s story is historically specific as well as paradigmatic; his exile serves as a microcosm of the problems of a country, and it also becomes representative of the Fall of Man. The basic structural component of The Divine Comedy is the canto. The poem consists of 100 cantos, which are grouped into the three major sections, or canticles. Technically there are 33 cantos in each canticle and one additional canto, contained in the Inferno, that serves as an introduction to the entire poem. For the most part the cantos range from 136 to 151 lines. The poem''s rhyme scheme is the terza rima (aba, bcb, cdc, etc.) Thus, the divine number three is present in every part of the work. Dante adopts the classical convention of a visit to the land of the dead, but he adapts it to a Christian worldview by beginning his journey there. The Inferno represents a false start during which Dante, the character, must be disabused of harmful values that somehow prevent him from rising above his fallen world. Despite the regressive nature of the Inferno, Dante''s meetings with the damned are among the most memorable moments of the poem: the Neutrals, the virtuous pagans, Francesca da Rimini, Filipo Argenti, Farinata degli Uberti, Piero delle Vigne, Brunetto Latini, the simoniacal popes, Ulysses, and Ugolino impose themselves upon the reader''s imagination with tremendous force. Nonetheless, the journey through the Inferno primarily signifies a process of separation and thus is only the initial step in a fuller development. In the Purgatorio the protagonist''s spiritual rehabilitation commences. There Dante subdues his own personality so that he will be able to ascend. He comes to accept the essential Christian image of life as a pilgrimage, and he joins the other penitents on the road of life. At the summit of Purgatory, where repentant sinners are purged of their sins, Virgil departs, having led Dante as far as human knowledge is able--to the threshold of Paradise. Beatrice, who embodies the knowledge of divine mysteries bestowed by Grace, continues Dante''s tour. In the Paradiso true heroic fulfillment is achieved. Dante''s poem gives expression to those figures from the past who seem to defy death and who inspire in their followers a feeling of exaltation and a desire for identification. The Paradiso is consequently a poem of fulfillment and of completion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14810'),
(14862, 'The Divine Comedy', 'Dante Alighieri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Long narrative poem originally titled Commedia (about 1555 printed as La divina commedia) written about 1310-14 by Dante. The work is divided into three major sections--Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso--which trace the journey of a man from darkness and error to the revelation of the divine light, culminating in the beatific vision of God. It is usually held to be one of the world''s greatest works of literature. The plot of The Divine Comedy is simple: a man is miraculously enabled to visit the souls in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. He has two guides: Virgil, who leads him through the Inferno and Purgatorio, and Beatrice, who introduces him to Paradiso. Through these fictional encounters taking place from Good Friday evening in 1300 through Easter Sunday and slightly beyond, Dante the character learns of the exile that is awaiting him (an actual exile that had already occurred at the time of writing). This device allowed Dante not only to create a story out of his exile but also to explain how he came to cope with personal calamity and to offer suggestions for the resolution of Italy''s troubles as well. Thus, Dante''s story is historically specific as well as paradigmatic; his exile serves as a microcosm of the problems of a country, and it also becomes representative of the Fall of Man. The basic structural component of The Divine Comedy is the canto. The poem consists of 100 cantos, which are grouped into the three major sections, or canticles. Technically there are 33 cantos in each canticle and one additional canto, contained in the Inferno, that serves as an introduction to the entire poem. For the most part the cantos range from 136 to 151 lines. The poem''s rhyme scheme is the terza rima (aba, bcb, cdc, etc.) Thus, the divine number three is present in every part of the work. Dante adopts the classical convention of a visit to the land of the dead, but he adapts it to a Christian worldview by beginning his journey there. The Inferno represents a false start during which Dante, the character, must be disabused of harmful values that somehow prevent him from rising above his fallen world. Despite the regressive nature of the Inferno, Dante''s meetings with the damned are among the most memorable moments of the poem: the Neutrals, the virtuous pagans, Francesca da Rimini, Filipo Argenti, Farinata degli Uberti, Piero delle Vigne, Brunetto Latini, the simoniacal popes, Ulysses, and Ugolino impose themselves upon the reader''s imagination with tremendous force. Nonetheless, the journey through the Inferno primarily signifies a process of separation and thus is only the initial step in a fuller development. In the Purgatorio the protagonist''s spiritual rehabilitation commences. There Dante subdues his own personality so that he will be able to ascend. He comes to accept the essential Christian image of life as a pilgrimage, and he joins the other penitents on the road of life. At the summit of Purgatory, where repentant sinners are purged of their sins, Virgil departs, having led Dante as far as human knowledge is able--to the threshold of Paradise. Beatrice, who embodies the knowledge of divine mysteries bestowed by Grace, continues Dante''s tour. In the Paradiso true heroic fulfillment is achieved. Dante''s poem gives expression to those figures from the past who seem to defy death and who inspire in their followers a feeling of exaltation and a desire for identification. The Paradiso is consequently a poem of fulfillment and of completion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17614'),
(14863, 'The Divine Comedy', 'Dante Alighieri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Long narrative poem originally titled Commedia (about 1555 printed as La divina commedia) written about 1310-14 by Dante. The work is divided into three major sections--Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso--which trace the journey of a man from darkness and error to the revelation of the divine light, culminating in the beatific vision of God. It is usually held to be one of the world''s greatest works of literature. The plot of The Divine Comedy is simple: a man is miraculously enabled to visit the souls in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. He has two guides: Virgil, who leads him through the Inferno and Purgatorio, and Beatrice, who introduces him to Paradiso. Through these fictional encounters taking place from Good Friday evening in 1300 through Easter Sunday and slightly beyond, Dante the character learns of the exile that is awaiting him (an actual exile that had already occurred at the time of writing). This device allowed Dante not only to create a story out of his exile but also to explain how he came to cope with personal calamity and to offer suggestions for the resolution of Italy''s troubles as well. Thus, Dante''s story is historically specific as well as paradigmatic; his exile serves as a microcosm of the problems of a country, and it also becomes representative of the Fall of Man. The basic structural component of The Divine Comedy is the canto. The poem consists of 100 cantos, which are grouped into the three major sections, or canticles. Technically there are 33 cantos in each canticle and one additional canto, contained in the Inferno, that serves as an introduction to the entire poem. For the most part the cantos range from 136 to 151 lines. The poem''s rhyme scheme is the terza rima (aba, bcb, cdc, etc.) Thus, the divine number three is present in every part of the work. Dante adopts the classical convention of a visit to the land of the dead, but he adapts it to a Christian worldview by beginning his journey there. The Inferno represents a false start during which Dante, the character, must be disabused of harmful values that somehow prevent him from rising above his fallen world. Despite the regressive nature of the Inferno, Dante''s meetings with the damned are among the most memorable moments of the poem: the Neutrals, the virtuous pagans, Francesca da Rimini, Filipo Argenti, Farinata degli Uberti, Piero delle Vigne, Brunetto Latini, the simoniacal popes, Ulysses, and Ugolino impose themselves upon the reader''s imagination with tremendous force. Nonetheless, the journey through the Inferno primarily signifies a process of separation and thus is only the initial step in a fuller development. In the Purgatorio the protagonist''s spiritual rehabilitation commences. There Dante subdues his own personality so that he will be able to ascend. He comes to accept the essential Christian image of life as a pilgrimage, and he joins the other penitents on the road of life. At the summit of Purgatory, where repentant sinners are purged of their sins, Virgil departs, having led Dante as far as human knowledge is able--to the threshold of Paradise. Beatrice, who embodies the knowledge of divine mysteries bestowed by Grace, continues Dante''s tour. In the Paradiso true heroic fulfillment is achieved. Dante''s poem gives expression to those figures from the past who seem to defy death and who inspire in their followers a feeling of exaltation and a desire for identification. The Paradiso is consequently a poem of fulfillment and of completion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27171'),
(14864, 'Divine Comedy, The: Volume 1: Inferno', 'Dante Alighieri', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As part of a projected six-volume edition of the Divine Comedy, Musa (Indiana Univ.) has revised and reissued his translation of Dante''s Inferno (LJ 3/1/95) in a bilingual edition, accompanied by a volume-length commentary. Musa''s translation is in fluent, colloquial verse that aims for the speed and rhythm of the original though not the form. This serviceable version is on the same level as the recent translations by Robert Pinskey (LJ 11/1/94) and Robert Durling (LJ 3/15/96). Musa''s commentary is thorough and clear but doesn''t significantly supersede that of Charles S. Singleton (1970). Nevertheless, it can be recommended.?Thomas L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Among currently available parallel-text editions, this one certainly has the most elaborate and helpful annotation..." -- Choice\n</p>\n<p>\n "Musa''s commentary is thorough and clear... recommended." -- Library Journal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6442'),
(14865, 'Divine Comedy, The: Volume 1: Inferno', 'Dante Alighieri', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As part of a projected six-volume edition of the Divine Comedy, Musa (Indiana Univ.) has revised and reissued his translation of Dante''s Inferno (LJ 3/1/95) in a bilingual edition, accompanied by a volume-length commentary. Musa''s translation is in fluent, colloquial verse that aims for the speed and rhythm of the original though not the form. This serviceable version is on the same level as the recent translations by Robert Pinskey (LJ 11/1/94) and Robert Durling (LJ 3/15/96). Musa''s commentary is thorough and clear but doesn''t significantly supersede that of Charles S. Singleton (1970). Nevertheless, it can be recommended.?Thomas L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Among currently available parallel-text editions, this one certainly has the most elaborate and helpful annotation..." -- Choice\n</p>\n<p>\n "Musa''s commentary is thorough and clear... recommended." -- Library Journal\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9326'),
(14866, 'The Divine Invasion', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n n The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God--or a being called Yah--were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state? The Divine Invasion "blends Judaism, Kabalah, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity into a fascinating fable of human existence" (West Coast Revew of Books).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2088'),
(14867, 'The divine invasion', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: n The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God--or a being called Yah--were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state? The Divine Invasion "blends Judaism, Kabalah, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity into a fascinating fable of human existence" (West Coast Revew of Books).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22674'),
(14868, 'Divine Justice', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone''s past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone''s freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States Government to unleash a massive manhunt. Joe Knox is leading the charge, but his superiors aren''t telling him everything there is to know about his quarry-and their hidden agendas are just as dangerous as the killer he''s trying to catch. Meanwhile, with their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club must fend for themselves, even as they try to protect him. As Knox closes in, Stone''s flight from the demons of his past will take him far from Washington, D.C., to the coal-mining town of Devine, Virginia-and headlong into a confrontation every bit as lethal as the one he is trying to escape\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Following the instant # 1 *New York Times* bestseller *Stone Cold,* Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldacci''s most surprising thriller yet . . . ** Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone''s life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations he carried out prompt the highest levels of the U.S. government to unleash a massive manhunt. Behind the scenes, master spy Macklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse. He, more than anyone, wants Stone dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club risk everything to save him. Now, as the hunters close in, Stone''s flight from the demons of his past will take him from the power corridors of Washington, D.C., to the small, isolated coal-mining town of Divine, Virginia-and into a world every bit as lethal as the one he left behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6267');
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(14869, 'Divine justice', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone''s past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone''s freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States Government to unleash a massive manhunt. Joe Knox is leading the charge, but his superiors aren''t telling him everything there is to know about his quarry-and their hidden agendas are just as dangerous as the killer he''s trying to catch. Meanwhile, with their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club must fend for themselves, even as they try to protect him. As Knox closes in, Stone''s flight from the demons of his past will take him far from Washington, D.C., to the coal-mining town of Devine, Virginia-and headlong into a confrontation every bit as lethal as the one he is trying to escape EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Following the instant # 1 *New York Times* bestseller *Stone Cold,* Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldacci''s most surprising thriller yet . . . ** Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone''s life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations he carried out prompt the highest levels of the U.S. government to unleash a massive manhunt. Behind the scenes, master spy Macklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse. He, more than anyone, wants Stone dead. With their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club risk everything to save him. Now, as the hunters close in, Stone''s flight from the demons of his past will take him from the power corridors of Washington, D.C., to the small, isolated coal-mining town of Divine, Virginia-and into a world every bit as lethal as the one he left behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17659'),
(14870, 'Divine justice', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone''s past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone''s freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States Government to unleash a massive manhunt. Joe Knox is leading the charge, but his superiors aren''t telling him everything there is to know about his quarry-and their hidden agendas are just as dangerous as the killer he''s trying to catch. Meanwhile, with their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club must fend for themselves, even as they try to protect him. As Knox closes in, Stone''s flight from the demons of his past will take him far from Washington, D.C., to the coal-mining town of Devine, Virginia-and headlong into a confrontation every bit as lethal as the one he is trying to escape EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Following the instant # 1 *New York Times* bestseller *Stone Cold,* Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldacci''s most surprising thriller yet . . . ** Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone''s life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations he carried out prompt the highest levels of the U.S. government to unleash a massive manhunt. Behind the scenes, master spy Macklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse. He, more than anyone, wants Stone dead. With their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club risk everything to save him. Now, as the hunters close in, Stone''s flight from the demons of his past will take him from the power corridors of Washington, D.C., to the small, isolated coal-mining town of Divine, Virginia-and into a world every bit as lethal as the one he left behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27254'),
(14871, 'Divine Misdemeanors', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. To protect my unborn children, I have turned my back on the crown, choosing exile in the human world with my beloved Frost and Darkness. Yet I cannot abandon my people. Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. I thought Irs"d left the blood and politics behind in my own turbulent realm. But now I realize that evil knows no borders, and that nobody lives forever-even if theyrs"re magical.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3491'),
(14872, 'Divine Misdemeanors', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. To protect my unborn children, I have turned my back on the crown, choosing exile in the human world with my beloved Frost and Darkness. Yet I cannot abandon my people. Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. I thought Irs"d left the blood and politics behind in my own turbulent realm. But now I realize that evil knows no borders, and that nobody lives forever-even if theyrs"re magical.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15104'),
(14873, 'Divine Misdemeanors', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. To protect my unborn children, I have turned my back on the crown, choosing exile in the human world with my beloved Frost and Darkness. Yet I cannot abandon my people. Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. I thought Irs"d left the blood and politics behind in my own turbulent realm. But now I realize that evil knows no borders, and that nobody lives forever-even if theyrs"re magical.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21003'),
(14874, 'Divisadero', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil''s Ghost comes a remarkable and intimate novel of lives that intersect across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Their makeshift family is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada''s casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past. Description in Spanish: En la mas intima y hermosa de sus historias, Michael Ondaatje narra la vida de Anna, quien tras un brutal suceso acontecido en su hogar, tendra que dejar atras la vida en la granja de California y empezar un nuevo camino en el sur de Francia. Lejos de su padre, de su gemela Claire y de Coop un misterioso muchacho acogido por la familia encontrara en la literatura y en la reconstruccion de la biografia de un importante escritor la manera de conciliarse con su pasado. Una novela de vidas cruzadas que se extiende por dos continentes y a lo largo de un siglo. Tras El paciente ingles, Ondaatje demuestra su extraordinaria capacidad para moverse en el dificil terreno de los sentimientos y para tratar las pasiones, las perdidas y la persistencia del pasado, asi como las exigencias de la familia, del amor y de los recuerdos. Un relato de inusual intensidad y belleza capaz de emocionarnos y dejarnos sin respiro.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2772'),
(14875, 'Divisadero', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil''s Ghost comes a remarkable and intimate novel of lives that intersect across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Their makeshift family is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada''s casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past. Description in Spanish: En la mas intima y hermosa de sus historias, Michael Ondaatje narra la vida de Anna, quien tras un brutal suceso acontecido en su hogar, tendra que dejar atras la vida en la granja de California y empezar un nuevo camino en el sur de Francia. Lejos de su padre, de su gemela Claire y de Coop un misterioso muchacho acogido por la familia encontrara en la literatura y en la reconstruccion de la biografia de un importante escritor la manera de conciliarse con su pasado. Una novela de vidas cruzadas que se extiende por dos continentes y a lo largo de un siglo. Tras El paciente ingles, Ondaatje demuestra su extraordinaria capacidad para moverse en el dificil terreno de los sentimientos y para tratar las pasiones, las perdidas y la persistencia del pasado, asi como las exigencias de la familia, del amor y de los recuerdos. Un relato de inusual intensidad y belleza capaz de emocionarnos y dejarnos sin respiro.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11669'),
(14876, 'Divisadero', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil''s Ghost comes a remarkable and intimate novel of lives that intersect across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Their makeshift family is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada''s casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past. Description in Spanish: En la mas intima y hermosa de sus historias, Michael Ondaatje narra la vida de Anna, quien tras un brutal suceso acontecido en su hogar, tendra que dejar atras la vida en la granja de California y empezar un nuevo camino en el sur de Francia. Lejos de su padre, de su gemela Claire y de Coop un misterioso muchacho acogido por la familia encontrara en la literatura y en la reconstruccion de la biografia de un importante escritor la manera de conciliarse con su pasado. Una novela de vidas cruzadas que se extiende por dos continentes y a lo largo de un siglo. Tras El paciente ingles, Ondaatje demuestra su extraordinaria capacidad para moverse en el dificil terreno de los sentimientos y para tratar las pasiones, las perdidas y la persistencia del pasado, asi como las exigencias de la familia, del amor y de los recuerdos. Un relato de inusual intensidad y belleza capaz de emocionarnos y dejarnos sin respiro.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22028'),
(14877, 'Divorce for Dummies', 'Elizabeth Walsh; Thelma Fisher; Mary Reed; John Ventura; Hilary Woodward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There''s no such thing as an easy divorce. On top of the emotional turmoil, there are also numerous other concerns from organising finances and splitting property, to breaking the news to children, and picking the best lawyer. This comprehensive guide shows that, with a clear-head and straight-talking advice, divorce can be swifter and easier than expected, letting you make a clean break and move on with confidence.Divorce For Dummies includes the most up-to-date information on: What to Do First When Things Start to Go Wrong Separation: A Healthy Breather or a Prelude to Divorce? Helping Your Children Get Through Your Divorce Pre-marital Agreements Same-sex and DIY divorcesAbout the authorElizabeth Walsh is a legal expert and the Editor of Family Law, recently voted ''Legal Journal of the Year''.Thelma Fisher is a former chair of the UK College of Family Mediators and has been involved in mediation for over twenty years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18557'),
(14878, 'Dizzy', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What would it be like to walk into your living room one day and  meet a complete stranger who says sheâ€™s your mother? It happens  to Dizzy on her twelfth birthday. Storm ("Please donâ€™t call  me mum!") arrives, and the nice, safe, predictable life Dizzy has  made with her father is blown to bits. Storm convinces Dizzy to  go away on a short holiday with herâ€”something she says Dizzyâ€™s  father has agreed toâ€”and so begins a wild, van-traveling, musicmaking,  teepee-sleeping, patchouli-wearing summer! But soon  enough the fun wears off, and Dizzy begins to realize that Storm  is not the mother Dizzy always dreamed sheâ€™d be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6962'),
(14879, 'Dizzy', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What would it be like to walk into your living room one day and  meet a complete stranger who says sheâ€™s your mother? It happens  to Dizzy on her twelfth birthday. Storm ("Please donâ€™t call  me mum!") arrives, and the nice, safe, predictable life Dizzy has  made with her father is blown to bits. Storm convinces Dizzy to  go away on a short holiday with herâ€”something she says Dizzyâ€™s  father has agreed toâ€”and so begins a wild, van-traveling, musicmaking,  teepee-sleeping, patchouli-wearing summer! But soon  enough the fun wears off, and Dizzy begins to realize that Storm  is not the mother Dizzy always dreamed sheâ€™d be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8768'),
(14880, 'Dizzy', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: What would it be like to walk into your living room one day and meet a complete stranger who says sheâ€™s your mother? It happens to Dizzy on her twelfth birthday. Storm ("Please donâ€™t call me mum!") arrives, and the nice, safe, predictable life Dizzy has made with her father is blown to bits. Storm convinces Dizzy to go away on a short holiday with herâ€”something she says Dizzyâ€™s father has agreed toâ€”and so begins a wild, van-traveling, musicmaking, teepee-sleeping, patchouli-wearing summer! But soon enough the fun wears off, and Dizzy begins to realize that Storm is not the mother Dizzy always dreamed sheâ€™d be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16956'),
(14881, 'Dizzy', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: What would it be like to walk into your living room one day and meet a complete stranger who says sheâ€™s your mother? It happens to Dizzy on her twelfth birthday. Storm ("Please donâ€™t call me mum!") arrives, and the nice, safe, predictable life Dizzy has made with her father is blown to bits. Storm convinces Dizzy to go away on a short holiday with herâ€”something she says Dizzyâ€™s father has agreed toâ€”and so begins a wild, van-traveling, musicmaking, teepee-sleeping, patchouli-wearing summer! But soon enough the fun wears off, and Dizzy begins to realize that Storm is not the mother Dizzy always dreamed sheâ€™d be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26858'),
(14882, 'Djibouti: A Novel', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <hr />\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Joe Hill Reviews\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   The author of the critically acclaimed novels\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <p>\n   <img />\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   In the spirit of\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n   , his 48th novel.\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   10. The babes.\n  </strong>\n  The heroine of Djibouti would be one Dara Barr, who has touched down in Africa to make a documentary about the booming piracy business and maybe win herself another Oscar. Dara is as laconic and unflappable as any of Leonardâ€™s finest heroes (see:\n  <em>\n   waaaaaay\n  </em>\n  overmatched.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   9. The bad boys.\n  </strong>\n  Creative writing teachers who want to show their students how to draft an unforgettable antagonist ought to tear out chapter 18 and pass it around. Thatâ€™s where Leonard tells us the story of James Russell, a clever Miami lowlife, who reinvents himself as Jamal Raisuli, al-Queda bomb-throwerâ€¦ all in 7 pages of breezy, economical characterization.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   8. The talk.\n  </strong>\n  Plenty has been written about Elmore Leonardâ€™s mastery of dialogue, and I donâ€™t need to rehash it. Why bother, when I could just quote some of it? An elderly terrorist, jailed in\n  <em>\n   The States\n  </em>\n  , gets talking with James Russell:\n  <br />\n  â€œWhat is it you hope to become in your life?â€\n  <br />\n  â€œFamous,â€ James said. â€œI been looking at ways.â€\n  <br />\n  â€œBecome a prophet?\n  <br />\n  â€œI donâ€™t tell what will happen. I do it.â€\n  <br />\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   7. The walk.\n  </strong>\n  Everyone hustles in an Elmore Leonard novel; you canâ€™t stand still and hope to score. From the slums, where life is the only thing cheaper than khat, to the clubs, where itâ€™s easier to find a pirate than out on the open ocean, everyone is on their way up or on their way downâ€¦ in a hurry.\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   6. The sound.\n  </strong>\n  Leonard famously said that if his sentences sound like writing, he rewrites them, but donâ€™t be fooled. These sentences jump to their own dirty, hothouse jazz rhythm. There isnâ€™t a better stylist anywhere in American letters.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   5. The seduction.\n  </strong>\n  Dara isnâ€™t just curious about piracy; she spends thirty days on a boat with 73-year-old Xavier LeBo, long enough to fall a little in love with her best friend, and wonder if the old dude can still get it up. Xavier bets her ten-thousand dollars he can. Itâ€™s the bookâ€™s biggest gamble; trust me, it earns out big.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   4. More boom for your buck.\n  </strong>\n  A lot of the suspense in Djibouti revolves around a tanker filled with enough liquefied natural gas â€œto set off an explosion a hundred times bigger than the Hindenburg disaster.â€ Itâ€™s an atom bomb with a rudder and all it needs is a target.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   3. The place.\n  </strong>\n  Leonard doesnâ€™t beat anyone over the head with his research, but from Djibouti to Eyl to New Orleans (the three backdrops for this story), the details are crisp, unforgettable, and right. You donâ€™t read Djibouti. You live there.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   2. The pay-off.\n  </strong>\n  Everyone in an Elmore Leonard story wants one, but only the reader is guaranteed to get one, and boy do they, in a final chapter that seems inevitable, yet comes as completely unexpected.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   1. The know-how.\n  </strong>\n  Letâ€™s get to it. In the fifty-plus years heâ€™s been turning out lean, loose, laid-back thrillers, Elmore Leonard has cast his indelible stamp on American crime fiction, inspired his peers, and spawned a thousand imitators. Heâ€™s the kind of guy critics describe as old school, but thatâ€™s missing it. Elmore Leonard isnâ€™t old school. He built the school.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  (Photo of Joe Hill by Shane Leonard)\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <hr />\n  <br />\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  *Starred Review* Crime fiction grand master Leonard, who turns 85 in October, remains in top form. He has a new publisher and a new subjectâ€”Somalian piratesâ€”but all the signature Leonard elements are shining as brightly as ever: the back-and-forth banter, always oozing wit but never too smart for the room; the cast of wonderfully idiosyncratic characters, each capable of a star turn; the always startling juxtaposition of the mundane against the violent. This time, mixed in with all of that, Leonard gives us one of his trickiest plots and cleverest turns of storytelling. Dara Barr is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, recently arrived in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa (the gateway to Islam . . . or the back door to the West) to film Somalian pirates in action. With her assistant, a 72-year-old sailor named Xavier, Dara, armed with a concealed spy camera, sets off onboard the Buster in search of pirates. She finds plenty, but she and Xavier also land in the middle of an al-Qaeda plot to blow up a tanker loaded with liquefied natural gas. Portions of the tale are related in real time, but much of the narration comes in the form of Dara and Xavier viewing film of whatâ€™s already happened and debating how to structure the documentary. This curious dramatic technique works magnificently, taking us inside the characters in a way that straight, action-oriented narration might not do. Leonard never tells a story in the expected way, but this time he outdoes himself. Marvelous entertainment. --Bill Ott\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5724'),
(14883, 'Djibouti: A Novel', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <hr />\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Joe Hill Reviews\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   The author of the critically acclaimed novels\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <p>\n   <img />\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   In the spirit of\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n   , his 48th novel.\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   10. The babes.\n  </strong>\n  The heroine of Djibouti would be one Dara Barr, who has touched down in Africa to make a documentary about the booming piracy business and maybe win herself another Oscar. Dara is as laconic and unflappable as any of Leonardâ€™s finest heroes (see:\n  <em>\n   waaaaaay\n  </em>\n  overmatched.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   9. The bad boys.\n  </strong>\n  Creative writing teachers who want to show their students how to draft an unforgettable antagonist ought to tear out chapter 18 and pass it around. Thatâ€™s where Leonard tells us the story of James Russell, a clever Miami lowlife, who reinvents himself as Jamal Raisuli, al-Queda bomb-throwerâ€¦ all in 7 pages of breezy, economical characterization.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   8. The talk.\n  </strong>\n  Plenty has been written about Elmore Leonardâ€™s mastery of dialogue, and I donâ€™t need to rehash it. Why bother, when I could just quote some of it? An elderly terrorist, jailed in\n  <em>\n   The States\n  </em>\n  , gets talking with James Russell:\n  <br />\n  â€œWhat is it you hope to become in your life?â€\n  <br />\n  â€œFamous,â€ James said. â€œI been looking at ways.â€\n  <br />\n  â€œBecome a prophet?\n  <br />\n  â€œI donâ€™t tell what will happen. I do it.â€\n  <br />\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   7. The walk.\n  </strong>\n  Everyone hustles in an Elmore Leonard novel; you canâ€™t stand still and hope to score. From the slums, where life is the only thing cheaper than khat, to the clubs, where itâ€™s easier to find a pirate than out on the open ocean, everyone is on their way up or on their way downâ€¦ in a hurry.\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   6. The sound.\n  </strong>\n  Leonard famously said that if his sentences sound like writing, he rewrites them, but donâ€™t be fooled. These sentences jump to their own dirty, hothouse jazz rhythm. There isnâ€™t a better stylist anywhere in American letters.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   5. The seduction.\n  </strong>\n  Dara isnâ€™t just curious about piracy; she spends thirty days on a boat with 73-year-old Xavier LeBo, long enough to fall a little in love with her best friend, and wonder if the old dude can still get it up. Xavier bets her ten-thousand dollars he can. Itâ€™s the bookâ€™s biggest gamble; trust me, it earns out big.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   4. More boom for your buck.\n  </strong>\n  A lot of the suspense in Djibouti revolves around a tanker filled with enough liquefied natural gas â€œto set off an explosion a hundred times bigger than the Hindenburg disaster.â€ Itâ€™s an atom bomb with a rudder and all it needs is a target.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   3. The place.\n  </strong>\n  Leonard doesnâ€™t beat anyone over the head with his research, but from Djibouti to Eyl to New Orleans (the three backdrops for this story), the details are crisp, unforgettable, and right. You donâ€™t read Djibouti. You live there.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   2. The pay-off.\n  </strong>\n  Everyone in an Elmore Leonard story wants one, but only the reader is guaranteed to get one, and boy do they, in a final chapter that seems inevitable, yet comes as completely unexpected.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   1. The know-how.\n  </strong>\n  Letâ€™s get to it. In the fifty-plus years heâ€™s been turning out lean, loose, laid-back thrillers, Elmore Leonard has cast his indelible stamp on American crime fiction, inspired his peers, and spawned a thousand imitators. Heâ€™s the kind of guy critics describe as old school, but thatâ€™s missing it. Elmore Leonard isnâ€™t old school. He built the school.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  (Photo of Joe Hill by Shane Leonard)\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <hr />\n  <br />\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  *Starred Review* Crime fiction grand master Leonard, who turns 85 in October, remains in top form. He has a new publisher and a new subjectâ€”Somalian piratesâ€”but all the signature Leonard elements are shining as brightly as ever: the back-and-forth banter, always oozing wit but never too smart for the room; the cast of wonderfully idiosyncratic characters, each capable of a star turn; the always startling juxtaposition of the mundane against the violent. This time, mixed in with all of that, Leonard gives us one of his trickiest plots and cleverest turns of storytelling. Dara Barr is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, recently arrived in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa (the gateway to Islam . . . or the back door to the West) to film Somalian pirates in action. With her assistant, a 72-year-old sailor named Xavier, Dara, armed with a concealed spy camera, sets off onboard the Buster in search of pirates. She finds plenty, but she and Xavier also land in the middle of an al-Qaeda plot to blow up a tanker loaded with liquefied natural gas. Portions of the tale are related in real time, but much of the narration comes in the form of Dara and Xavier viewing film of whatâ€™s already happened and debating how to structure the documentary. This curious dramatic technique works magnificently, taking us inside the characters in a way that straight, action-oriented narration might not do. Leonard never tells a story in the expected way, but this time he outdoes himself. Marvelous entertainment. --Bill Ott\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11127'),
(14884, 'Djibouti: A Novel', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <hr />\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Joe Hill Reviews\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   The author of the critically acclaimed novels\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  <p>\n   <img />\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   In the spirit of\n   <em>\n    Djibouti\n   </em>\n   , his 48th novel.\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   10. The babes.\n  </strong>\n  The heroine of Djibouti would be one Dara Barr, who has touched down in Africa to make a documentary about the booming piracy business and maybe win herself another Oscar. Dara is as laconic and unflappable as any of Leonardâ€™s finest heroes (see:\n  <em>\n   waaaaaay\n  </em>\n  overmatched.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   9. The bad boys.\n  </strong>\n  Creative writing teachers who want to show their students how to draft an unforgettable antagonist ought to tear out chapter 18 and pass it around. Thatâ€™s where Leonard tells us the story of James Russell, a clever Miami lowlife, who reinvents himself as Jamal Raisuli, al-Queda bomb-throwerâ€¦ all in 7 pages of breezy, economical characterization.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   8. The talk.\n  </strong>\n  Plenty has been written about Elmore Leonardâ€™s mastery of dialogue, and I donâ€™t need to rehash it. Why bother, when I could just quote some of it? An elderly terrorist, jailed in\n  <em>\n   The States\n  </em>\n  , gets talking with James Russell:\n  <br />\n  â€œWhat is it you hope to become in your life?â€\n  <br />\n  â€œFamous,â€ James said. â€œI been looking at ways.â€\n  <br />\n  â€œBecome a prophet?\n  <br />\n  â€œI donâ€™t tell what will happen. I do it.â€\n  <br />\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   7. The walk.\n  </strong>\n  Everyone hustles in an Elmore Leonard novel; you canâ€™t stand still and hope to score. From the slums, where life is the only thing cheaper than khat, to the clubs, where itâ€™s easier to find a pirate than out on the open ocean, everyone is on their way up or on their way downâ€¦ in a hurry.\n  <strong>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   6. The sound.\n  </strong>\n  Leonard famously said that if his sentences sound like writing, he rewrites them, but donâ€™t be fooled. These sentences jump to their own dirty, hothouse jazz rhythm. There isnâ€™t a better stylist anywhere in American letters.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   5. The seduction.\n  </strong>\n  Dara isnâ€™t just curious about piracy; she spends thirty days on a boat with 73-year-old Xavier LeBo, long enough to fall a little in love with her best friend, and wonder if the old dude can still get it up. Xavier bets her ten-thousand dollars he can. Itâ€™s the bookâ€™s biggest gamble; trust me, it earns out big.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   4. More boom for your buck.\n  </strong>\n  A lot of the suspense in Djibouti revolves around a tanker filled with enough liquefied natural gas â€œto set off an explosion a hundred times bigger than the Hindenburg disaster.â€ Itâ€™s an atom bomb with a rudder and all it needs is a target.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   3. The place.\n  </strong>\n  Leonard doesnâ€™t beat anyone over the head with his research, but from Djibouti to Eyl to New Orleans (the three backdrops for this story), the details are crisp, unforgettable, and right. You donâ€™t read Djibouti. You live there.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   2. The pay-off.\n  </strong>\n  Everyone in an Elmore Leonard story wants one, but only the reader is guaranteed to get one, and boy do they, in a final chapter that seems inevitable, yet comes as completely unexpected.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <strong>\n   1. The know-how.\n  </strong>\n  Letâ€™s get to it. In the fifty-plus years heâ€™s been turning out lean, loose, laid-back thrillers, Elmore Leonard has cast his indelible stamp on American crime fiction, inspired his peers, and spawned a thousand imitators. Heâ€™s the kind of guy critics describe as old school, but thatâ€™s missing it. Elmore Leonard isnâ€™t old school. He built the school.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  (Photo of Joe Hill by Shane Leonard)\n  <p>\n  </p>\n  <hr />\n  <br />\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  *Starred Review* Crime fiction grand master Leonard, who turns 85 in October, remains in top form. He has a new publisher and a new subjectâ€”Somalian piratesâ€”but all the signature Leonard elements are shining as brightly as ever: the back-and-forth banter, always oozing wit but never too smart for the room; the cast of wonderfully idiosyncratic characters, each capable of a star turn; the always startling juxtaposition of the mundane against the violent. This time, mixed in with all of that, Leonard gives us one of his trickiest plots and cleverest turns of storytelling. Dara Barr is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, recently arrived in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa (the gateway to Islam . . . or the back door to the West) to film Somalian pirates in action. With her assistant, a 72-year-old sailor named Xavier, Dara, armed with a concealed spy camera, sets off onboard the Buster in search of pirates. She finds plenty, but she and Xavier also land in the middle of an al-Qaeda plot to blow up a tanker loaded with liquefied natural gas. Portions of the tale are related in real time, but much of the narration comes in the form of Dara and Xavier viewing film of whatâ€™s already happened and debating how to structure the documentary. This curious dramatic technique works magnificently, taking us inside the characters in a way that straight, action-oriented narration might not do. Leonard never tells a story in the expected way, but this time he outdoes himself. Marvelous entertainment. --Bill Ott\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18940'),
(14885, 'DM_Weekend Fling', 'Dawn Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17255'),
(14886, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth. Like Rick Deckard - android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six androids which have escaped from Mars. They''re machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. They will be hard to kill. The film  Blade Runner was based on this famous novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2068'),
(14887, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth. Like Rick Deckard - android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six androids which have escaped from Mars. They''re machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. They will be hard to kill. The film  Blade Runner was based on this famous novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9286'),
(14888, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth. Like Rick Deckard - android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six androids which have escaped from Mars. They''re machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. They will be hard to kill. The film Blade Runner was based on this famous novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15281'),
(14889, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."\n  <br />\n  --John Brunner\n </p>\n <p>\n  THE INSPIRATION FOR\n  <em>\n   BLADERUNNER\n  </em>\n  . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?\n  </em>\n  was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn''t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans.\n </p>\n <p>\n  EmigrÃ©es to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn''t want to be identified, they just blended in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from."\n  <br />\n  --Paul Williams,\n  <em>\n   Rolling Stone\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."\n  <br />\n  --John Brunner\n  <br />\n  THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .\n  <br />\n  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.\n  <br />\n  By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn''t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . .\n  <br />\n  They even built humans.\n  <br />\n  Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn''t want to be identified, they just blended in.\n  <br />\n  Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.\n  <br />\n  "[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from."\n  <br />\n  --Paul Williams\n  <br />\n  Rolling Stone\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21515'),
(14890, 'Do Comets Dream?', 'S.P. Somtow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every five thousand years, so the people of the planet Thanet believe, the world ends in fire and a new cycle of creation begins. Now the Last Days are once again upon them, and a fiery star draws near. This is the Death-Bringer, the Eater of the World, whose coming heralds the end of all things....  But to Captain Picard and the crew of the "Starship Enterprise(TM)"; the Death-Bringer appears to be nothing but a rogue comet, easily destroyed. Picard faces a difficult dilemma: how can he save the Thanetians'' rich and intricate civilization without destroying the very beliefs upon which their culture is based?  This quandary is challenge enough, yet the captain''s position becomes even more complicated when Deanna Troi discovers that, incredibly, the comet is alive!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1442'),
(14891, 'Do Comets Dream?', 'S.P. Somtow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every five thousand years, so the people of the planet Thanet believe, the world ends in fire and a new cycle of creation begins. Now the Last Days are once again upon them, and a fiery star draws near. This is the Death-Bringer, the Eater of the World, whose coming heralds the end of all things.... But to Captain Picard and the crew of the "Starship Enterprise(TM)"; the Death-Bringer appears to be nothing but a rogue comet, easily destroyed. Picard faces a difficult dilemma: how can he save the Thanetians'' rich and intricate civilization without destroying the very beliefs upon which their culture is based? This quandary is challenge enough, yet the captain''s position becomes even more complicated when Deanna Troi discovers that, incredibly, the comet is alive!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23452'),
(14892, 'Do They Know I&#39;m Running?', 'David Corbett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From acclaimed author David Corbett, a stunning and suspenseful novel of a life without loyalties and the borders inside ourselves.Roque Montalvo is wise beyond his eighteen years. Orphaned at birth, a gifted musician, heâ€™s stuck in a California backwater, helping his Salvadoran aunt care for his damaged brother, an ex-marine badly wounded in Iraq. When immigration agents arrest his uncle, the family has nowhere else to turn. Roque, badgered by his street-hardened cousin, agrees to bring the old man back, relying on the criminal gangs that control the dangerous smuggling routes from El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, to the U.S. border. But his cousin has told Roque only so much. In reality, he will have to transport not just his uncle but two others: an Arab whose intentions are disturbingly vague and a young beauty promised to a Mexican crime lord. Roque discovers that his journey involves crossing more than one kind of border, and he will be asked time and again to choose between survival and betrayalâ€”of his country, his family, his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6320'),
(14893, 'Do They Know I&#39;m Running?', 'David Corbett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From acclaimed author David Corbett, a stunning and suspenseful novel of a life without loyalties and the borders inside ourselves.Roque Montalvo is wise beyond his eighteen years. Orphaned at birth, a gifted musician, heâ€™s stuck in a California backwater, helping his Salvadoran aunt care for his damaged brother, an ex-marine badly wounded in Iraq. When immigration agents arrest his uncle, the family has nowhere else to turn. Roque, badgered by his street-hardened cousin, agrees to bring the old man back, relying on the criminal gangs that control the dangerous smuggling routes from El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, to the U.S. border. But his cousin has told Roque only so much. In reality, he will have to transport not just his uncle but two others: an Arab whose intentions are disturbingly vague and a young beauty promised to a Mexican crime lord. Roque discovers that his journey involves crossing more than one kind of border, and he will be asked time and again to choose between survival and betrayalâ€”of his country, his family, his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17700'),
(14894, 'Do They Know I&#39;m Running?', 'David Corbett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From acclaimed author David Corbett, a stunning and suspenseful novel of a life without loyalties and the borders inside ourselves.Roque Montalvo is wise beyond his eighteen years. Orphaned at birth, a gifted musician, heâ€™s stuck in a California backwater, helping his Salvadoran aunt care for his damaged brother, an ex-marine badly wounded in Iraq. When immigration agents arrest his uncle, the family has nowhere else to turn. Roque, badgered by his street-hardened cousin, agrees to bring the old man back, relying on the criminal gangs that control the dangerous smuggling routes from El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, to the U.S. border. But his cousin has told Roque only so much. In reality, he will have to transport not just his uncle but two others: an Arab whose intentions are disturbingly vague and a young beauty promised to a Mexican crime lord. Roque discovers that his journey involves crossing more than one kind of border, and he will be asked time and again to choose between survival and betrayalâ€”of his country, his family, his heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27224'),
(14895, 'Do You Take This Rebel?', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n PREGNANT AND UNMARRIED, SHE LEFT TOWN...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Cassie Collins had returned to reconnect with her oldest friends, the Calamity Janes, and put her troubles behind her. But trouble found her in the disconcertingly sexy form of Cole Davis--father of her child. Having discovered her secret, Cole demanded a convenient marriage--or Cassie could lose her son to the powerful, wealthy Davis clan. Time hadn''t dulled Cassie''s anger at the man who''d betrayed her ten years ago...nor cooled the fiery attraction between them. Could she rekindle their long-lost love, and unite Cole, herself and their son in the precious bonds of family?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1297'),
(14896, 'Do You Take This Rebel?', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n PREGNANT AND UNMARRIED, SHE LEFT TOWN...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Cassie Collins had returned to reconnect with her oldest friends, the Calamity Janes, and put her troubles behind her. But trouble found her in the disconcertingly sexy form of Cole Davis--father of her child. Having discovered her secret, Cole demanded a convenient marriage--or Cassie could lose her son to the powerful, wealthy Davis clan. Time hadn''t dulled Cassie''s anger at the man who''d betrayed her ten years ago...nor cooled the fiery attraction between them. Could she rekindle their long-lost love, and unite Cole, herself and their son in the precious bonds of family?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13408'),
(14897, 'Do you take this rebel?', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: PREGNANT AND UNMARRIED, SHE LEFT TOWN... Now Cassie Collins had returned to reconnect with her oldest friends, the Calamity Janes, and put her troubles behind her. But trouble found her in the disconcertingly sexy form of Cole Davis--father of her child. Having discovered her secret, Cole demanded a convenient marriage--or Cassie could lose her son to the powerful, wealthy Davis clan. Time hadn''t dulled Cassie''s anger at the man who''d betrayed her ten years ago...nor cooled the fiery attraction between them. Could she rekindle their long-lost love, and unite Cole, herself and their son in the precious bonds of family?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23641');
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(14898, 'Do Your Own Divorce: A Practical Guide to Divorcing Without a Lawyer', 'John Bolch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This book will save you money. Even if the divorce is completely straightforward, and there are no arrangements for children and finances to sort out, a solicitor will typically charge between GBP500 and GBP1000 to deal with the divorce for you, not including court fees. If there are arrangements for children or finances to sort out, then the solicitor''s fees are likely to be many times that sum. This book is for the increasing number of people who have to go through divorce proceedings without legal assistance, and for those who just want to save legal costs. It includes: *A guide to divorce proceedings, including completing all the required forms. *Sorting out financial/property arrangements, whether by agreement or through the court. *Making arrangements for children. *Details of child support maintenance. *Dealing with domestic violence, costs and mediation. *Plus specimen forms, useful addresses and websites, and a detailed glossary of legal terms. This book is for anyone who is seeking or contemplating a divorce, or anyone whose spouse has issued divorce proceedings against them. Even if you are separating from your spouse and do not wish to divorce at this time, this book will be useful to you as many of the principles with regard to arrangements for children and sorting out finances are the same. AUTHOR BIOG: John Bolch is a solicitor with over 25 years experience specialising in divorce and family matters. He is a member of Resolution (formerly the Solicitors Family Law Association), and is the author of Family Lore, the first family law blog in this country. CONTENTS: 1. Divorce 2. Children 3. Child maintenance 4. Finances and property 5. Domestic violence 6. Mediation 7. Costs and legal aid 8. Final thoughts Appendix 1 - Example Documents Appendix 2 - Useful Addresses and Websites Appendix 3 - Glossary Appendix 4 - List of Divorce County Courts Index.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20019'),
(14899, 'Doamna Bovary', 'Gustave Flaubert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25758'),
(14900, 'Doc', 'Mary Doria Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author Mary Doria Russell\n </strong>\n <br />\n For the past three years, when people asked what my next novel is about, I''ve only had to say four words. â€œIt''s about Doc Holliday.â€ You mention Doc Holliday to guys especially and they just\n <em>\n  light up\n </em>\n . â€œOh, man! I love Doc!â€ they say, and they often mention Val Kilmer''s portrayal in the movie\n <em>\n  Tombstone\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n I love that movie, too, but when I write characters, I''m really writing about whom and what\n <em>\n  they\n </em>\n love. The shining silver wire that runs through\n <em>\n  Doc\n </em>\n is John Henry Holliday''s love for his mother.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice Holliday was 22 when her son was born near Atlanta in the summer of 1851. She was still in mourning for her firstborn, â€œa sweet little girl who lived just long enough to gaze and smile and laugh, and break her parents'' hearts.â€ I''m sure you can imagine her distress when her second child was born with a cleft palate and cleft lip. Even today, when you know clefts can be repaired, they''re a shock.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1851, such children commonly died within weeks, but Alice kept her boy alive, waking every hour to feed him with an eyedropper, day and night, for eight long weeks. Think about that exhausted young woman and the baby with the hole in his face. Locking eyes. Struggling to stay awake. Struggling to stay alive...\n</p>\n<p>\n When the infant was two months old, his uncle Dr. John Stiles Holliday performed a successful surgical repair of the cleft--an achievement kept private to protect the family''s reputation. You see, in the 1850s, the Hollidays were Georgia gentry whose large extended family would become the O''Haras, Wilkeses and Hamiltons in\n <em>\n  Gone With The Wind\n </em>\n . (Margaret Mitchell was Doc''s cousin, twice removed.) These were people who took â€œgood breedingâ€ seriously, and birth defects were a source of familial shame--for everyone but Alice.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice and her son became intensely close. She invented a form of speech therapy to correct his diction. She was a piano teacher who introduced him to the music that would become their great shared passion. She home-schooled him until she was sure his speech wouldn''t be ridiculed, then sent him to a local boys academy, where he excelled in every subject. In the midst of our nation''s ugliest war, she raised a shy, intelligent child to be a thoughtful, courteous gentleman and a fine young scholar who would earn the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery before he was 21.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice didn''t live to see him graduate. She died of tuberculosis when John Henry was 15. The loss was staggering, and when he, too, developed TB, he knew exactly what kind of awful death he faced. Hoping dry air and sunshine would restore his health, he left everyone and everything he loved, and went West. He was only 22 when he left Atlanta in 1873.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate. But I have written the story of Alice Holliday''s son: a scared, sick, lonely boy, born for the life of a minor aristocrat in a world that ceased to exist at the end of the Civil War, trying to stay alive on the rawest edge of the American frontier.\n</p>\n<p>\n John Henry Holliday didn''t have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for\n <em>\n  Doc\n </em>\n is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves. Read it, and weep.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for_ Doc_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fact and mythmaking converge as Russell creates a Dodge City filled with nuggets of surprising history, a city so alive readers can smell the sawdust and hear the tinkling of saloon pianos...Filled with action and humor yet philosophically rich and deeply movingâ€”a magnificent read." _-Kirkus\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Mary Doria Russell\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn clean, effortless prose and with captivating flashes of wit, Mary Doria Russell creates memorable characters who navigate the world of exciting ideas and disturbing moral issues without ever losing their humanity or humor.â€â€”_The Bookwatch,_ on\n <em>\n  The Sparrow\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe action moves swiftly, with impressive authority, jostling dialogue, vibrant personalities and meticulous, unexpected historical detail. The intensity and intimacy of Russellâ€™s storytelling, her sharp character writing and fierce sense of humor bring fresh immediacy to this riveting . . . saga.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly,_ on_ A Thread of Grace_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrilliant . . . powerful . . . Russell is an outstanding natural storyteller whose remarkable wit, erudition, and dramatic skills keep us turning the pages in excitement and anticipation.â€ â€”_San Francisco Chronicle, _on\n <em>\n  Children of God\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRapturous and relevant . . . a wonderful story that brings to life a period of history that has remarkable parallels to our own.â€â€”_Seattle Post-Intelligencer,_ on_ Dreamers of the Day_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3050'),
(14901, 'Doc', 'Mary Doria Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author Mary Doria Russell\n </strong>\n <br />\n For the past three years, when people asked what my next novel is about, I''ve only had to say four words. â€œIt''s about Doc Holliday.â€ You mention Doc Holliday to guys especially and they just\n <em>\n  light up\n </em>\n . â€œOh, man! I love Doc!â€ they say, and they often mention Val Kilmer''s portrayal in the movie\n <em>\n  Tombstone\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n I love that movie, too, but when I write characters, I''m really writing about whom and what\n <em>\n  they\n </em>\n love. The shining silver wire that runs through\n <em>\n  Doc\n </em>\n is John Henry Holliday''s love for his mother.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice Holliday was 22 when her son was born near Atlanta in the summer of 1851. She was still in mourning for her firstborn, â€œa sweet little girl who lived just long enough to gaze and smile and laugh, and break her parents'' hearts.â€ I''m sure you can imagine her distress when her second child was born with a cleft palate and cleft lip. Even today, when you know clefts can be repaired, they''re a shock.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1851, such children commonly died within weeks, but Alice kept her boy alive, waking every hour to feed him with an eyedropper, day and night, for eight long weeks. Think about that exhausted young woman and the baby with the hole in his face. Locking eyes. Struggling to stay awake. Struggling to stay alive...\n</p>\n<p>\n When the infant was two months old, his uncle Dr. John Stiles Holliday performed a successful surgical repair of the cleft--an achievement kept private to protect the family''s reputation. You see, in the 1850s, the Hollidays were Georgia gentry whose large extended family would become the O''Haras, Wilkeses and Hamiltons in\n <em>\n  Gone With The Wind\n </em>\n . (Margaret Mitchell was Doc''s cousin, twice removed.) These were people who took â€œgood breedingâ€ seriously, and birth defects were a source of familial shame--for everyone but Alice.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice and her son became intensely close. She invented a form of speech therapy to correct his diction. She was a piano teacher who introduced him to the music that would become their great shared passion. She home-schooled him until she was sure his speech wouldn''t be ridiculed, then sent him to a local boys academy, where he excelled in every subject. In the midst of our nation''s ugliest war, she raised a shy, intelligent child to be a thoughtful, courteous gentleman and a fine young scholar who would earn the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery before he was 21.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice didn''t live to see him graduate. She died of tuberculosis when John Henry was 15. The loss was staggering, and when he, too, developed TB, he knew exactly what kind of awful death he faced. Hoping dry air and sunshine would restore his health, he left everyone and everything he loved, and went West. He was only 22 when he left Atlanta in 1873.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate. But I have written the story of Alice Holliday''s son: a scared, sick, lonely boy, born for the life of a minor aristocrat in a world that ceased to exist at the end of the Civil War, trying to stay alive on the rawest edge of the American frontier.\n</p>\n<p>\n John Henry Holliday didn''t have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for\n <em>\n  Doc\n </em>\n is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves. Read it, and weep.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for_ Doc_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fact and mythmaking converge as Russell creates a Dodge City filled with nuggets of surprising history, a city so alive readers can smell the sawdust and hear the tinkling of saloon pianos...Filled with action and humor yet philosophically rich and deeply movingâ€”a magnificent read." _-Kirkus\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Mary Doria Russell\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn clean, effortless prose and with captivating flashes of wit, Mary Doria Russell creates memorable characters who navigate the world of exciting ideas and disturbing moral issues without ever losing their humanity or humor.â€â€”_The Bookwatch,_ on\n <em>\n  The Sparrow\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe action moves swiftly, with impressive authority, jostling dialogue, vibrant personalities and meticulous, unexpected historical detail. The intensity and intimacy of Russellâ€™s storytelling, her sharp character writing and fierce sense of humor bring fresh immediacy to this riveting . . . saga.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly,_ on_ A Thread of Grace_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrilliant . . . powerful . . . Russell is an outstanding natural storyteller whose remarkable wit, erudition, and dramatic skills keep us turning the pages in excitement and anticipation.â€ â€”_San Francisco Chronicle, _on\n <em>\n  Children of God\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRapturous and relevant . . . a wonderful story that brings to life a period of history that has remarkable parallels to our own.â€â€”_Seattle Post-Intelligencer,_ on_ Dreamers of the Day_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12526'),
(14902, 'Doc', 'Mary Doria Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A Letter from Author Mary Doria Russell\n </strong>\n <br />\n For the past three years, when people asked what my next novel is about, I''ve only had to say four words. â€œIt''s about Doc Holliday.â€ You mention Doc Holliday to guys especially and they just\n <em>\n  light up\n </em>\n . â€œOh, man! I love Doc!â€ they say, and they often mention Val Kilmer''s portrayal in the movie\n <em>\n  Tombstone\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n I love that movie, too, but when I write characters, I''m really writing about whom and what\n <em>\n  they\n </em>\n love. The shining silver wire that runs through\n <em>\n  Doc\n </em>\n is John Henry Holliday''s love for his mother.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice Holliday was 22 when her son was born near Atlanta in the summer of 1851. She was still in mourning for her firstborn, â€œa sweet little girl who lived just long enough to gaze and smile and laugh, and break her parents'' hearts.â€ I''m sure you can imagine her distress when her second child was born with a cleft palate and cleft lip. Even today, when you know clefts can be repaired, they''re a shock.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1851, such children commonly died within weeks, but Alice kept her boy alive, waking every hour to feed him with an eyedropper, day and night, for eight long weeks. Think about that exhausted young woman and the baby with the hole in his face. Locking eyes. Struggling to stay awake. Struggling to stay alive...\n</p>\n<p>\n When the infant was two months old, his uncle Dr. John Stiles Holliday performed a successful surgical repair of the cleft--an achievement kept private to protect the family''s reputation. You see, in the 1850s, the Hollidays were Georgia gentry whose large extended family would become the O''Haras, Wilkeses and Hamiltons in\n <em>\n  Gone With The Wind\n </em>\n . (Margaret Mitchell was Doc''s cousin, twice removed.) These were people who took â€œgood breedingâ€ seriously, and birth defects were a source of familial shame--for everyone but Alice.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice and her son became intensely close. She invented a form of speech therapy to correct his diction. She was a piano teacher who introduced him to the music that would become their great shared passion. She home-schooled him until she was sure his speech wouldn''t be ridiculed, then sent him to a local boys academy, where he excelled in every subject. In the midst of our nation''s ugliest war, she raised a shy, intelligent child to be a thoughtful, courteous gentleman and a fine young scholar who would earn the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery before he was 21.\n</p>\n<p>\n Alice didn''t live to see him graduate. She died of tuberculosis when John Henry was 15. The loss was staggering, and when he, too, developed TB, he knew exactly what kind of awful death he faced. Hoping dry air and sunshine would restore his health, he left everyone and everything he loved, and went West. He was only 22 when he left Atlanta in 1873.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate. But I have written the story of Alice Holliday''s son: a scared, sick, lonely boy, born for the life of a minor aristocrat in a world that ceased to exist at the end of the Civil War, trying to stay alive on the rawest edge of the American frontier.\n</p>\n<p>\n John Henry Holliday didn''t have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for\n <em>\n  Doc\n </em>\n is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves. Read it, and weep.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for_ Doc_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fact and mythmaking converge as Russell creates a Dodge City filled with nuggets of surprising history, a city so alive readers can smell the sawdust and hear the tinkling of saloon pianos...Filled with action and humor yet philosophically rich and deeply movingâ€”a magnificent read." _-Kirkus\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Mary Doria Russell\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn clean, effortless prose and with captivating flashes of wit, Mary Doria Russell creates memorable characters who navigate the world of exciting ideas and disturbing moral issues without ever losing their humanity or humor.â€â€”_The Bookwatch,_ on\n <em>\n  The Sparrow\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe action moves swiftly, with impressive authority, jostling dialogue, vibrant personalities and meticulous, unexpected historical detail. The intensity and intimacy of Russellâ€™s storytelling, her sharp character writing and fierce sense of humor bring fresh immediacy to this riveting . . . saga.â€ â€”_Publishers Weekly,_ on_ A Thread of Grace_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrilliant . . . powerful . . . Russell is an outstanding natural storyteller whose remarkable wit, erudition, and dramatic skills keep us turning the pages in excitement and anticipation.â€ â€”_San Francisco Chronicle, _on\n <em>\n  Children of God\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRapturous and relevant . . . a wonderful story that brings to life a period of history that has remarkable parallels to our own.â€â€”_Seattle Post-Intelligencer,_ on_ Dreamers of the Day_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21768'),
(14903, 'Doctor Faustus', 'Thomas Mann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25022'),
(14904, 'Doctor No', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n James Bond travels to the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a secret service team. As he uncovers the astonishing truth about strange energy waves that are interfering with U.S. missile launches, he must battle deadly assassins, sexy femmes fatales, and even a poisonous tarantula. The search takes him to an exotic tropical island, where he meets a beautiful nature girl and discovers the hideout of Doctor No, a six-foot-six madman with a mania for torture, a lust to kill, and a fantastic secret to hide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5053'),
(14905, 'Doctor No', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: James Bond travels to the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a secret service team. As he uncovers the astonishing truth about strange energy waves that are interfering with U.S. missile launches, he must battle deadly assassins, sexy femmes fatales, and even a poisonous tarantula. The search takes him to an exotic tropical island, where he meets a beautiful nature girl and discovers the hideout of Doctor No, a six-foot-six madman with a mania for torture, a lust to kill, and a fantastic secret to hide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19670'),
(14906, 'Doctor No', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n James Bond travels to the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a secret service team. As he uncovers the astonishing truth about strange energy waves that are interfering with U.S. missile launches, he must battle deadly assassins, sexy femmes fatales, and even a poisonous tarantula. The search takes him to an exotic tropical island, where he meets a beautiful nature girl and discovers the hideout of Doctor No, a six-foot-six madman with a mania for torture, a lust to kill, and a fantastic secret to hide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28221'),
(14907, 'Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <meta charset="utf-8" />\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    London 1963. Teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are intrigued by mysterious pupil Susan Foreman. Following her home one night after school, they discover she lives in a strange junkyard. And in a corner of this junkyard is a police box. Their investigations are disturbed by a mysterious old man who emerges out of the London fog and moves toward the police box. They learn he is Susan''s grandfather. He is the doctor. But Doctor Who?\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Forcing their way past the Doctor, the two teachers enter the police box, where they suspect Susan is being held against her will. They soon discover that this is no ordinary police box, what they find inside will change their lives forever. However, now that they know its secrets, can the Doctor afford to let them leave?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Carrying the Doctor, Susan and its reluctant new passengers, the TARDIS begins its journey. Travelling back in time, the crew encounter an ancient tribe who have lost the secret of fire.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/875'),
(14908, 'Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <meta charset="utf-8" />\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    London 1963. Teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are intrigued by mysterious pupil Susan Foreman. Following her home one night after school, they discover she lives in a strange junkyard. And in a corner of this junkyard is a police box. Their investigations are disturbed by a mysterious old man who emerges out of the London fog and moves toward the police box. They learn he is Susan''s grandfather. He is the doctor. But Doctor Who?\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Forcing their way past the Doctor, the two teachers enter the police box, where they suspect Susan is being held against her will. They soon discover that this is no ordinary police box, what they find inside will change their lives forever. However, now that they know its secrets, can the Doctor afford to let them leave?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Carrying the Doctor, Susan and its reluctant new passengers, the TARDIS begins its journey. Travelling back in time, the crew encounter an ancient tribe who have lost the secret of fire.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24151'),
(14909, 'Doctor Who Nuclear Time', 'Oli Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21565'),
(14910, 'Doctor Who the Colony of Lies', 'Colin Brake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The year is 2539. Arriving on Axista Four the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie find the colony in a state of chaos. A breakaway group of colonists -- the ''Realists'' -- has abandoned Ransome''s Back to Basics ideals and is creating a new high-tech settlement. The ''Loyalists'' who remain are dwindling in number and face total extinction. Meanwhile, a spaceship from Earth has arrived with news that 80,000 refugees are about to descend upon the planet; the Realists are staging raids on the wreck of the colony ship, and in a secret underground bunker mysterious aliens who claim to be the planet''s first colonists are beginning to awake. Who are the dog-like aliens who call themselves Tyrenians? What is the secret agenda of the sinister Federation Administrator Greene? And what really happened when the colony ship crash-landed on Axista Four 100 years ago?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6582'),
(14911, 'Doctor Who: Abominable Snowmen', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS materialises in the snowy Himalayas, and the Doctor makes a return visit to the nearby Det-sen monastery, which he last visited three hundred years ago. He his astonished to find the monastery under attack, apparently from the Yeti which are said to roam the mountainside. Furthermore, the Doctor discovers that his friend the High Lama his still alive, his ancient body under the influence of an apparently unearthly force...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Meanwhile, explorer Edward Travers is determined to track down and capture one of the Yeti. When his colleague is murdered, he refuses to blame the creatures and instead accuses the Doctor. The time-travellers discover that the Yeti are all-too prominent in the area - in fact, they are out to kill anyone who threatens the plans of the disembodies Intelligence which they serve...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/876'),
(14912, 'Doctor Who: Abominable Snowmen', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS materialises in the snowy Himalayas, and the Doctor makes a return visit to the nearby Det-sen monastery, which he last visited three hundred years ago. He his astonished to find the monastery under attack, apparently from the Yeti which are said to roam the mountainside. Furthermore, the Doctor discovers that his friend the High Lama his still alive, his ancient body under the influence of an apparently unearthly force...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Meanwhile, explorer Edward Travers is determined to track down and capture one of the Yeti. When his colleague is murdered, he refuses to blame the creatures and instead accuses the Doctor. The time-travellers discover that the Yeti are all-too prominent in the area - in fact, they are out to kill anyone who threatens the plans of the disembodies Intelligence which they serve...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24149'),
(14913, 'Doctor Who: Alien Bodies', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who novel set on an island in the East Indies, where alien forces are gathering in a lost city buried deep in the heart of the rain forest, desperate to acquire what might be the deadliest weapon in creation. The Doctor and Sam walk into the middle of the strangest auction in history.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3503'),
(14914, 'Doctor Who: Alien Bodies', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who novel set on an island in the East Indies, where alien forces are gathering in a lost city buried deep in the heart of the rain forest, desperate to acquire what might be the deadliest weapon in creation. The Doctor and Sam walk into the middle of the strangest auction in history.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21056'),
(14915, 'Doctor Who: All-Consuming Fire', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Landing in Victorian London, the TARDIS crew is surprised to meet up with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7619'),
(14916, 'Doctor Who: Almost Perfect', 'James Goss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The ninth novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. Emma is 30, single and, frankly, desperate. She woke up this morning with nothing to look forward to but another evening of unsuccessful speed-dating. But now she has a new weapon in her quest for Mr Right. And it''s made her almost perfect! Ianto Jones woke up this morning with no memory of last night. He went to work, where he caused amusement, suspicion, and a little bit of jealousy. Because Ianto Jones woke up this morning in the body of a woman! And he''s looking just about perfect! And Jack Harkness has always had his doubts about Perfection...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4859'),
(14917, 'Doctor Who: Almost Perfect', 'James Goss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The ninth novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. Emma is 30, single and, frankly, desperate. She woke up this morning with nothing to look forward to but another evening of unsuccessful speed-dating. But now she has a new weapon in her quest for Mr Right. And it''s made her almost perfect! Ianto Jones woke up this morning with no memory of last night. He went to work, where he caused amusement, suspicion, and a little bit of jealousy. Because Ianto Jones woke up this morning in the body of a woman! And he''s looking just about perfect! And Jack Harkness has always had his doubts about Perfection...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10023'),
(14918, 'Doctor Who: Almost Perfect', 'James Goss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The ninth novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. Emma is 30, single and, frankly, desperate. She woke up this morning with nothing to look forward to but another evening of unsuccessful speed-dating. But now she has a new weapon in her quest for Mr Right. And it''s made her almost perfect! Ianto Jones woke up this morning with no memory of last night. He went to work, where he caused amusement, suspicion, and a little bit of jealousy. Because Ianto Jones woke up this morning in the body of a woman! And he''s looking just about perfect! And Jack Harkness has always had his doubts about Perfection...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19819'),
(14919, 'Doctor Who: Amorality Tale', 'David Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doctor Who disguises himself as a watchmender and visits 1950s London to discover the cause of a mysterious fatality in the East End. 4000 people died here - their deaths linked to a choking smog that blanketed the area.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6305'),
(14920, 'Doctor Who: Amorality Tale', 'David Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doctor Who disguises himself as a watchmender and visits 1950s London to discover the cause of a mysterious fatality in the East End. 4000 people died here - their deaths linked to a choking smog that blanketed the area.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17721'),
(14921, 'Doctor Who: Anachrophobia', 'Jonathan Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An Eighth Doctor novel with Fitz and Anji. The Doctor, Fitz and Anji are forced to land in inhospitable terrain as something disables the Tardis. Reconnaissance proves it to be a planet in revolt, with colonists trying to break free from the harsh clutches of the Plutocratic Empire. The principal weapon in this war: time itself. Soldiers continually find themselves in Time Storms: without protective clothing, they are aged to death in seconds. The Tardis crew are picked up by empire personnel, and discover the empire''s hope for victory: a primitive time-travel capsule. It is undergoing tests at the moment, but the men who return from these missions return horribly changed. They''re picking up a terrible infection: anachrophobia; losing their time-orientation; travelling backwards and forwards within their own lifetimes; losing their minds. The Doctor is desperate to halt the spread of the disease, but his efforts are constantly frustrated. The plague reveals that there''s a lot more about the motives of all involved than anybody had imagined...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4128'),
(14922, 'Doctor Who: Anachrophobia', 'Jonathan Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An Eighth Doctor novel with Fitz and Anji. The Doctor, Fitz and Anji are forced to land in inhospitable terrain as something disables the Tardis. Reconnaissance proves it to be a planet in revolt, with colonists trying to break free from the harsh clutches of the Plutocratic Empire. The principal weapon in this war: time itself. Soldiers continually find themselves in Time Storms: without protective clothing, they are aged to death in seconds. The Tardis crew are picked up by empire personnel, and discover the empire''s hope for victory: a primitive time-travel capsule. It is undergoing tests at the moment, but the men who return from these missions return horribly changed. They''re picking up a terrible infection: anachrophobia; losing their time-orientation; travelling backwards and forwards within their own lifetimes; losing their minds. The Doctor is desperate to halt the spread of the disease, but his efforts are constantly frustrated. The plague reveals that there''s a lot more about the motives of all involved than anybody had imagined...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20388'),
(14923, 'Doctor Who: Android Invasion', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the zany Doctor Who and his companion, Sarah, land in a small English village, they discover zombie-like inhabitants who turn out to be Kraal androids. The Kraals are attempting to conquer Earth, and Dr. Who must take on his own android clone to stop the invasion. Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/879'),
(14924, 'Doctor Who: Android Invasion', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the zany Doctor Who and his companion, Sarah, land in a small English village, they discover zombie-like inhabitants who turn out to be Kraal androids. The Kraals are attempting to conquer Earth, and Dr. Who must take on his own android clone to stop the invasion. Reissue.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24147'),
(14925, 'Doctor Who: Androids of Tara', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, Romana and K-9 continue their search for the six disguised segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS lands on the seemingly peaceful planet of Tara, the Doctor claims he is owed a holiday. While he takes time off to go fishing, Romana quickly locates the Fourth Segment. All is going well until the time-travellers are drawn into the complex political intrigues of Tara.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The benevolent Prince Reynart is soon to be crowned king, but the wicked Count Grendel wants both the throne, and Reynart''s bride-to-be, the Princess Strella, for himself. Grendel plots with the android builder Madame Lamia, and soon both Reynart and Strella are replaced by robotic duplicates. Unfortunately for Romana, she also bears a startling resemblance to the princess - which makes her enormously valuable to the Count.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With time running out, the Doctor is unwillingly thrust into the roles of android repair-man, king-maker and, ultimately, swash-buckling hero, when he finds himself duelling with Grendel, famous for being the finest swordsman on Tara...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/880'),
(14926, 'Doctor Who: Androids of Tara', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, Romana and K-9 continue their search for the six disguised segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS lands on the seemingly peaceful planet of Tara, the Doctor claims he is owed a holiday. While he takes time off to go fishing, Romana quickly locates the Fourth Segment. All is going well until the time-travellers are drawn into the complex political intrigues of Tara.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The benevolent Prince Reynart is soon to be crowned king, but the wicked Count Grendel wants both the throne, and Reynart''s bride-to-be, the Princess Strella, for himself. Grendel plots with the android builder Madame Lamia, and soon both Reynart and Strella are replaced by robotic duplicates. Unfortunately for Romana, she also bears a startling resemblance to the princess - which makes her enormously valuable to the Count.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With time running out, the Doctor is unwillingly thrust into the roles of android repair-man, king-maker and, ultimately, swash-buckling hero, when he finds himself duelling with Grendel, famous for being the finest swordsman on Tara...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24146'),
(14927, 'Doctor Who: Another Life', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High-profile new Doctor Who-inspired drama created by Russell T. Davies. The 21st century is when it all changes, and you''ve got to be ready. Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations; Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. A terror hides at the bottom of Cardiff Bay - waiting, feeding, controlling... this novel is a brand-new Torchwood adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2198'),
(14928, 'Doctor Who: Another Life', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High-profile new Doctor Who-inspired drama created by Russell T. Davies. The 21st century is when it all changes, and you''ve got to be ready. Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations; Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. A terror hides at the bottom of Cardiff Bay - waiting, feeding, controlling... this novel is a brand-new Torchwood adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8192'),
(14929, 'Doctor Who: Apollo 23', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An astronaut in full spacesuit appears out of thin air in a busy shopping center. Maybe it''s a publicity stunt.  A photo shows an immaculately-dressed woman in her best shoes lying dead at the edge of a crater on the dark side of the moon - beside her beloved dog ''Poochie''. Maybe it''s a hoax.  But as the Doctor and Amy find out, these are just minor events in a sinister plan to take over every human being on earth. The plot centers on a secret military base on the moon that''s where Amy and the TARDIS are.  The Doctor is back on Earth, and without the TARDIS there''s no way he can get to the moon to save Amy and defeat the aliens.  Or is there? The Doctor discovers one last great secret that could save humanity: Apollo 23.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7947'),
(14930, 'Doctor Who: Apollo 23', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An astronaut in full spacesuit appears out of thin air in a busy shopping center. Maybe it''s a publicity stunt. A photo shows an immaculately-dressed woman in her best shoes lying dead at the edge of a crater on the dark side of the moon - beside her beloved dog ''Poochie''. Maybe it''s a hoax. But as the Doctor and Amy find out, these are just minor events in a sinister plan to take over every human being on earth. The plot centers on a secret military base on the moon that''s where Amy and the TARDIS are. The Doctor is back on Earth, and without the TARDIS there''s no way he can get to the moon to save Amy and defeat the aliens. Or is there? The Doctor discovers one last great secret that could save humanity: Apollo 23.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20609'),
(14931, 'Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who learns that the secret of his molecular structure has been stolen from the Time Lord''s master computer, Matrix\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/883'),
(14932, 'Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who learns that the secret of his molecular structure has been stolen from the Time Lord''s master computer, Matrix\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24143'),
(14933, 'Doctor Who: Ark in Space', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In this four part adventure, the Doctor, Harry and Sarah accidentally arrive on an artificial satellite where the survivors of Earth lie in cryogenic suspension waiting to begin a new life. But the Doctor soon discovers that there has been a sinister intrusion...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  A gigantic insect has infiltrated the human ark. It is dead, but it was Queen of the Wirrn, sworn enemies of the Earth â€” and her egg sac was full. Something is terribly wrong and when the crew begin to awaken it soon becomes clear that some of them are not entirely what they seem...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor must find out how to destroy the Wirrn larvae before they absorb the last of the human race and become an invincible swarm. But this involves a desperate gamble with his own life â€” a gamble he must take if he is to save mankind.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5073'),
(14934, 'Doctor Who: Ark in Space', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In this four part adventure, the Doctor, Harry and Sarah accidentally arrive on an artificial satellite where the survivors of Earth lie in cryogenic suspension waiting to begin a new life. But the Doctor soon discovers that there has been a sinister intrusion...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  A gigantic insect has infiltrated the human ark. It is dead, but it was Queen of the Wirrn, sworn enemies of the Earth â€” and her egg sac was full. Something is terribly wrong and when the crew begin to awaken it soon becomes clear that some of them are not entirely what they seem...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor must find out how to destroy the Wirrn larvae before they absorb the last of the human race and become an invincible swarm. But this involves a desperate gamble with his own life â€” a gamble he must take if he is to save mankind.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19648'),
(14935, 'Doctor Who: Armageddon Factor', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor, Romana and K-9 conclude their search for the segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Arriving on the planet Atrios, the Doctor and his companions become embroiled in the Atrians'' seemingly endless war with their neighbouring planet of Zeos. Their ruler, the Princess Astra, has been kidnapped, leaving the deranged Marshal in sole charge of the war effort. However, the Marshal is being controlled, receiving orders from behind a strange black mirror in the command centre.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    The Doctor learns that no-one on Atrios has ever seen a Zeon, and travels to Zeos in an attempt to bring the war to an end, and hopefully find the Princess Astra - who seems to be linked in some way to the Sixth Segment. He finds the planet deserted, run entirely by a huge computer, Mentalis. When the Marshal launches an all-out final attack on Zeos, Mentalis responds by activating its Armageddon Program - rather than lose the war, the computer will destroy everything.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    However, a third planet hangs in space between Atrios and Zeos, shielded from their sensors. This is the lair of the Shadow. He has been waiting for the Doctor to arrive, manipulating the war to his advantage. He is willing to use the Doctor''s own friends against him and he wants the Key to Time.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Although the Doctor''s quest is nearly over, he begins to realise that he may lose everything. For the Shadow is a servant of the Black Guardian.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/884');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14936, 'Doctor Who: Armageddon Factor', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor, Romana and K-9 conclude their search for the segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Arriving on the planet Atrios, the Doctor and his companions become embroiled in the Atrians'' seemingly endless war with their neighbouring planet of Zeos. Their ruler, the Princess Astra, has been kidnapped, leaving the deranged Marshal in sole charge of the war effort. However, the Marshal is being controlled, receiving orders from behind a strange black mirror in the command centre.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    The Doctor learns that no-one on Atrios has ever seen a Zeon, and travels to Zeos in an attempt to bring the war to an end, and hopefully find the Princess Astra - who seems to be linked in some way to the Sixth Segment. He finds the planet deserted, run entirely by a huge computer, Mentalis. When the Marshal launches an all-out final attack on Zeos, Mentalis responds by activating its Armageddon Program - rather than lose the war, the computer will destroy everything.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    However, a third planet hangs in space between Atrios and Zeos, shielded from their sensors. This is the lair of the Shadow. He has been waiting for the Doctor to arrive, manipulating the war to his advantage. He is willing to use the Doctor''s own friends against him and he wants the Key to Time.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Although the Doctor''s quest is nearly over, he begins to realise that he may lose everything. For the Shadow is a servant of the Black Guardian.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24142'),
(14937, 'Doctor Who: Asylum', 'Peter Darvill-Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Oxford, 1278 -- the Doctor is keen to put a stop to the pioneering scientific experiments of Roger Bacon. Bacon has developed ideas for submarines, explosives, telescopes and aeroplanes -- history will be cast into chaos if any of these ideas see the light of day.Bacon is living among Franciscan friars who consider him to be a heretic embarrassment. When a friar is found dead in suspicious circumstances, they are keen to implicate Bacon and have him locked away for good.However, more and more murders are being committed and it''s increasingly obvious that Bacon cannot be held responsible for them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2227'),
(14938, 'Doctor Who: Asylum', 'Peter Darvill-Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Oxford, 1278 -- the Doctor is keen to put a stop to the pioneering scientific experiments of Roger Bacon. Bacon has developed ideas for submarines, explosives, telescopes and aeroplanes -- history will be cast into chaos if any of these ideas see the light of day.Bacon is living among Franciscan friars who consider him to be a heretic embarrassment. When a friar is found dead in suspicious circumstances, they are keen to implicate Bacon and have him locked away for good.However, more and more murders are being committed and it''s increasingly obvious that Bacon cannot be held responsible for them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22594'),
(14939, 'Doctor Who: Atom Bomb Blues', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Los Alamos, 1944. A World War is being fought. In the American desert, the race is on to build an atomic bomb. The fate of the world is at stake, in more ways than one. The Seventh Doctor arrives, posing as a nuclear scientist; Ace is his driver and research assistant. They are here because someone, or something, is trying to alter the course of history at this most delicate point and destroy the human race. Playing detective among the A-bomb scientists, the Doctor tries to avoid falling under suspicion himself, but the head of Los Alamos security is convinced that something is not quite right about the small, eccentric Scottish research physicist calling himself Dr John Smith. As the minutes tick away to the world''s first atom bomb test, the Doctor and Ace find themselves up to their necks in spies, aliens, and some very nasty saboteurs from another dimension.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7734'),
(14940, 'Doctor Who: Atom Bomb Blues', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Los Alamos, 1944. A World War is being fought. In the American desert, the race is on to build an atomic bomb. The fate of the world is at stake, in more ways than one. The Seventh Doctor arrives, posing as a nuclear scientist; Ace is his driver and research assistant. They are here because someone, or something, is trying to alter the course of history at this most delicate point and destroy the human race. Playing detective among the A-bomb scientists, the Doctor tries to avoid falling under suspicion himself, but the head of Los Alamos security is convinced that something is not quite right about the small, eccentric Scottish research physicist calling himself Dr John Smith. As the minutes tick away to the world''s first atom bomb test, the Doctor and Ace find themselves up to their necks in spies, aliens, and some very nasty saboteurs from another dimension.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16250'),
(14941, 'Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen', 'Eric Saward', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novelization of the television script of a Doctor Who adventure. The Doctor''s old enemy, Lytton, appears to have allied himself with the ruthless Cybermen, who have devised a scheme which, if successful, could completely destroy the web of time and bring the human race to its knees.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5665'),
(14942, 'Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen', 'Eric Saward', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novelization of the television script of a Doctor Who adventure. The Doctor''s old enemy, Lytton, appears to have allied himself with the ruthless Cybermen, who have devised a scheme which, if successful, could completely destroy the web of time and bring the human race to its knees.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18966'),
(14943, 'Doctor Who: Auton Invasion', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Exiled to Earth in the late 20th Century by his own people â€” the Time Lords â€” the newly regenerated Doctor arrives in Oxley Woods alongside a shower of mysterious meteorites. Investigating these unusual occurrences is the newly-formed United Nations Intelligence Taskforce â€” UNIT for short. Led by Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT are soon called into action when people and meteorites start going missing. Most puzzling of all is the attempted kidnapping of a strange hospital patient â€” a man with two hearts, who insists that he knows the Brigadier...\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    The new Doctor soon joins forces with his old friend, UNIT and the recently recruited Dr Liz Shaw, but time is running out...\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Irregular things are happening at a nearby plastics factory, while faceless creatures lurk in the woods. The Nestenes have arrived, and want to conquer the Earth...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/887'),
(14944, 'Doctor Who: Auton Invasion', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Exiled to Earth in the late 20th Century by his own people â€” the Time Lords â€” the newly regenerated Doctor arrives in Oxley Woods alongside a shower of mysterious meteorites. Investigating these unusual occurrences is the newly-formed United Nations Intelligence Taskforce â€” UNIT for short. Led by Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT are soon called into action when people and meteorites start going missing. Most puzzling of all is the attempted kidnapping of a strange hospital patient â€” a man with two hearts, who insists that he knows the Brigadier...\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    The new Doctor soon joins forces with his old friend, UNIT and the recently recruited Dr Liz Shaw, but time is running out...\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Irregular things are happening at a nearby plastics factory, while faceless creatures lurk in the woods. The Nestenes have arrived, and want to conquer the Earth...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24141'),
(14945, 'Doctor Who: Autonomy', 'Daniel Blythe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hyperville is 2013''s top hi-tech 24-hour entertainment complex - a sprawling palace of fun under one massive roof. You can shop, or experience the excitement of Doomcastle, Winterland, or Wild West World. But things are about to get a lot more exciting - and dangerous... What unspeakable horror is lurking on Level Zero of Hyperville? And what will happen when the entire complex goes over to Central Computer Control? For years, the Nestene Consciousness has been waiting and planning, recovering from its wounds. But now it''s ready, and it''s deadly plastic Autons are already in place around the complex. Now more than ever, visiting Hyperville will be an unforgettable experience... Featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit BBC Television series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6446'),
(14946, 'Doctor Who: Autonomy', 'Daniel Blythe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hyperville is 2013''s top hi-tech 24-hour entertainment complex - a sprawling palace of fun under one massive roof. You can shop, or experience the excitement of Doomcastle, Winterland, or Wild West World. But things are about to get a lot more exciting - and dangerous... What unspeakable horror is lurking on Level Zero of Hyperville? And what will happen when the entire complex goes over to Central Computer Control? For years, the Nestene Consciousness has been waiting and planning, recovering from its wounds. But now it''s ready, and it''s deadly plastic Autons are already in place around the complex. Now more than ever, visiting Hyperville will be an unforgettable experience... Featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit BBC Television series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17516'),
(14947, 'Doctor Who: Autumn Mist', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Ardennes, December 1994: the Nazi forces are making their last offensive in Europe -- a campaign that will come to be called the Battle of the Bulge. But there is a third side to this battle -- an unknown and ancient force that seems to pay little head to the forces of nature.Where do the bodies of the dead disappear to? What is the true nature of the military experiments conducted by both sides?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6419'),
(14948, 'Doctor Who: Autumn Mist', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Ardennes, December 1994: the Nazi forces are making their last offensive in Europe -- a campaign that will come to be called the Battle of the Bulge. But there is a third side to this battle -- an unknown and ancient force that seems to pay little head to the forces of nature.Where do the bodies of the dead disappear to? What is the true nature of the military experiments conducted by both sides?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17682'),
(14949, 'Doctor Who: Bad Therapy', 'Matthew Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Chris arrive in 1950''s Soho where a gang war is raging. What secrets are hidden in the abandoned mental hospital and why are people with no past being ritually murdered? The Doctor has to confront old friends to find out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2990'),
(14950, 'Doctor Who: Bad Therapy', 'Matthew Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Chris arrive in 1950''s Soho where a gang war is raging. What secrets are hidden in the abandoned mental hospital and why are people with no past being ritually murdered? The Doctor has to confront old friends to find out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21815'),
(14951, 'Doctor Who: Battlefield', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Produced by arrangement with BBC television, the first-ever series of original Doctor Who novels continues where the 1989 TV series left off. The latest title is an exciting adventure called Battlefield.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3217'),
(14952, 'Doctor Who: Bay of the Dead', 'Mark Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk! Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach home. A stolen tugboat is brought back to shore, carrying only human remains. And a couple of girls heading back from the pub watch the mysterious drivers of a big black SUV take over a crime scene. Torchwood must now contend with the intangible barrier surrounding Cardiff, and some unidentified space debris that seems to be regenerating itself. Plus, of course, the all-night zombie horror show!  Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3130'),
(14953, 'Doctor Who: Bay of the Dead', 'Mark Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk! Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach home. A stolen tugboat is brought back to shore, carrying only human remains. And a couple of girls heading back from the pub watch the mysterious drivers of a big black SUV take over a crime scene. Torchwood must now contend with the intangible barrier surrounding Cardiff, and some unidentified space debris that seems to be regenerating itself. Plus, of course, the all-night zombie horror show!  Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11533'),
(14954, 'Doctor Who: Beltempest', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the people of Bellania II witness a triple eclipse of their sun, Bel -- an impossibility, as they only have one moon -- it is the beginning of the end for an entire solar system. Their sun is shrouded in night for a month -- then returns to them a younger, brighter, hotter star. But how?100,000 years later, the Doctor and Sam arrive on Belannia IV, where 20,000 people are under threat as a catastrophe threatens -- immense gravitational and dimensional disturbances are rioting through their sector of space. Sam is swept away by desperate crowds trying to get off their world, and becomes involved in daring rescue attempts. The Doctor tries to stabilize the local gravity fields and help halt the devastation, but the TARDIS is lost to him.Meanwhile, a religious suicide-cult leader attempts to destroy himself on the deadly heated surface of Belannia II, but he does not die. He returns stronger, and with a new religion he is determined to spread through Bel''s system. His word may prove more dangerous even then the terrible forces brought into being from Bel''s sun. Just what has happened to the star Bel -- and will the Doctor hive time to do anything about it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4375'),
(14955, 'Doctor Who: Beyond the Sun', 'Matthew Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bernice Summerfield''s no-good ex-husband claims to be in deadly danger. Unfortunately, Benny does not believe him until he is kidnapped. Feeling guilty she sets off to rescue him. Her only clue is a dusty artifact that Jason claimed was part of an ancient weapon, rumored to have powers beyond the sun.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2991'),
(14956, 'Doctor Who: Beyond the Sun', 'Matthew Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bernice Summerfield''s no-good ex-husband claims to be in deadly danger. Unfortunately, Benny does not believe him until he is kidnapped. Feeling guilty she sets off to rescue him. Her only clue is a dusty artifact that Jason claimed was part of an ancient weapon, rumored to have powers beyond the sun.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21811'),
(14957, 'Doctor Who: Birthright', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="5" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <td>\n      <hr size="10" />\n      <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n      </font>\n      <div align="justify">\n       <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n        <b>\n         â€˜I feel like a pawn in a blasted chess game, Ace.â€™ â€˜I know what you mean. Trouble is, they keep changing the chess-players.â€™\n        </b>\n       </font>\n       <p>\n        The TARDIS has died. Stranded in early twentieth-century London, Bernice can only stand and watch as it slowly disintegrates.\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        In the East End a series of grisly murders has been committed. Is this the work of the ghostly Springheel Jack or, as Bernice suspects something even more sinister?\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        In a tiny shop in Bloomsbury, the master of a grand order of sorcerers is nearing the end of a seven-hundred year quest for a fabled magic wand.\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        And on a barren world in the far-distant future the Queen of a dying race pleads for the help of an old hermit named Muldwych, while Ace leads a group of guerrillas in a desperate struggle against their alien oppressors.\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n         These events are related. Perhaps the Doctor knows how. But the Doctor has gone away.\n        </font>\n       </p>\n      </div>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2497'),
(14958, 'Doctor Who: Birthright', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="5" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <td>\n      <hr size="10" />\n      <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n      </font>\n      <div align="justify">\n       <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n        <b>\n         â€˜I feel like a pawn in a blasted chess game, Ace.â€™ â€˜I know what you mean. Trouble is, they keep changing the chess-players.â€™\n        </b>\n       </font>\n       <p>\n        The TARDIS has died. Stranded in early twentieth-century London, Bernice can only stand and watch as it slowly disintegrates.\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        In the East End a series of grisly murders has been committed. Is this the work of the ghostly Springheel Jack or, as Bernice suspects something even more sinister?\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        In a tiny shop in Bloomsbury, the master of a grand order of sorcerers is nearing the end of a seven-hundred year quest for a fabled magic wand.\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        And on a barren world in the far-distant future the Queen of a dying race pleads for the help of an old hermit named Muldwych, while Ace leads a group of guerrillas in a desperate struggle against their alien oppressors.\n       </p>\n       <p>\n        <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n         These events are related. Perhaps the Doctor knows how. But the Doctor has gone away.\n        </font>\n       </p>\n      </div>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22258'),
(14959, 'Doctor Who: Black Orchid', 'Terence Dudley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS materializes at the tiny railway station of Cranleigh Halt in 1925, and the Doctor, Tegan, Adric, and Nyssa, though looking forward to a rest from their adventures, are faced with the discovery of a brutal murder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/866'),
(14960, 'Doctor Who: Black Orchid', 'Terence Dudley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS materializes at the tiny railway station of Cranleigh Halt in 1925, and the Doctor, Tegan, Adric, and Nyssa, though looking forward to a rest from their adventures, are faced with the discovery of a brutal murder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24160'),
(14961, 'Doctor Who: Blood and Hope', 'Iain McLaughlin &amp; John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Civil War-a time of great unrest, when fathers found themselves in conflict with their sons and when lawlessness and slavery was rife. The Doctor, together with his companions Peri and Erimem, arrive in the middle of the conflict. The Doctor manages to cope in his own inimitable manner, however Peri - an American - and Erimem - a dark-skinned Egyptian - find themselves faced with all the bigotry and haired that typified the war for some.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5039'),
(14962, 'Doctor Who: Blood and Hope', 'Iain McLaughlin; John Ostrander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Civil War-a time of great unrest, when fathers found themselves in conflict with their sons and when lawlessness and slavery was rife. The Doctor, together with his companions Peri and Erimem, arrive in the middle of the conflict. The Doctor manages to cope in his own inimitable manner, however Peri - an American - and Erimem - a dark-skinned Egyptian - find themselves faced with all the bigotry and haired that typified the war for some.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19536'),
(14963, 'Doctor Who: Blood Harvest', 'Paul Cornell &amp; Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Docâ€™s peddling bootleg liquor in an illegal speakeasy. Youâ€™re carrying a gun for him, Ace - which makes you no better than any other gun-moll.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Dekker is a private eye; an honest one. But when Al Capone hires him to investigate a new joint called â€˜Docâ€™sâ€™, he knows this is one job he canâ€™t refuse. And just why are the Doctor and Ace selling illegal booze in a town full of murderous gangsters?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Bernice has been abandoned on a vampire-infested planet outside normal space. There she meets a mysterious stranger called Romanadvoratrelundar -- and discovers an ancient and malevolent power, linking 1929 Chicago with a lair of immortal evil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The consequences of this story are inextricably linked to events in the Doctorâ€™s past.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2311'),
(14964, 'Doctor Who: Blood Harvest', 'Paul Cornell; Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Docâ€™s peddling bootleg liquor in an illegal speakeasy. Youâ€™re carrying a gun for him, Ace - which makes you no better than any other gun-moll.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Dekker is a private eye; an honest one. But when Al Capone hires him to investigate a new joint called â€˜Docâ€™sâ€™, he knows this is one job he canâ€™t refuse. And just why are the Doctor and Ace selling illegal booze in a town full of murderous gangsters?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Bernice has been abandoned on a vampire-infested planet outside normal space. There she meets a mysterious stranger called Romanadvoratrelundar -- and discovers an ancient and malevolent power, linking 1929 Chicago with a lair of immortal evil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The consequences of this story are inextricably linked to events in the Doctorâ€™s past.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22530'),
(14965, 'Doctor Who: Blood Heat', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    <b>\n     â€˜Not men, Ace. Silurians. The original rulers of the Earth.â€™\n    </b>\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n </font>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS is attacked by an alien force; Bernice is flung into the Vortex; and the Doctor and Ace crash-land on Earth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An attack by dinosaurs convinces the Doctor that he and Ace have arrived in the Jurrassic Era. But when they find a woman being hunted by intelligent reptiles, he begins to suspect that something is very wrong.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Then they meet the embittered Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, leading the remnants of UNIT in a hopeless fight against the Silurians who rule his world. And they find out that it all began when the Doctor died...\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4376'),
(14966, 'Doctor Who: Blue Box', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Nineteen-Eighties; as we enter the Age of the Personal Computer, the newborn ''Internet'' spreads across America, and the computer invasion enters our homes. Across the technological frontier, an incredible war begins between the criminals and their savvy opponents. A brilliant young programmer, a beautiful college student, and a mysterious hacker known only as ''The Doctor'' join forces to combat an electronic threat fallen into the hands of a notorious computer outlaw. Respected computer journalist Charles ''Chick'' Peters was an eyewitness as these unlikely heroes fought their hi-tech skirmishes across the nation''s vunerable capital - and inside the world of the computer. Blue Box is the compelling true story of a secret computer project that could literally change the way you think.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3937'),
(14967, 'Doctor Who: Blue Box', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Nineteen-Eighties; as we enter the Age of the Personal Computer, the newborn ''Internet'' spreads across America, and the computer invasion enters our homes. Across the technological frontier, an incredible war begins between the criminals and their savvy opponents. A brilliant young programmer, a beautiful college student, and a mysterious hacker known only as ''The Doctor'' join forces to combat an electronic threat fallen into the hands of a notorious computer outlaw. Respected computer journalist Charles ''Chick'' Peters was an eyewitness as these unlikely heroes fought their hi-tech skirmishes across the nation''s vunerable capital - and inside the world of the computer. Blue Box is the compelling true story of a secret computer project that could literally change the way you think.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20666'),
(14968, 'Doctor Who: Border Princes', 'Dan Abnett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations: Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. Stars Captain Jack Harkness last seen in Doctor Who. This novel is a brand-new Torchwood story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6607'),
(14969, 'Doctor Who: Border Princes', 'Dan Abnett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations: Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. Stars Captain Jack Harkness last seen in Doctor Who. This novel is a brand-new Torchwood story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9365'),
(14970, 'Doctor Who: Bullet Time', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Attempting to cover the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong, Sarah Jane Smith stumbles upon alien activity. The Tzun have been trapped on Earth while searching for the location of a lost ship that will allow them to leave. But with the CIA, the Chinese Secret Police, and UNIT on the ship''s trail, it won''t be easy. Sarah discovers that the Tzun have the wisdom and ingenuity of the Doctor on their side, but finds they are not being put to the best use. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6421'),
(14971, 'Doctor Who: Bullet Time', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Attempting to cover the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong, Sarah Jane Smith stumbles upon alien activity. The Tzun have been trapped on Earth while searching for the location of a lost ship that will allow them to leave. But with the CIA, the Chinese Secret Police, and UNIT on the ship''s trail, it won''t be easy. Sarah discovers that the Tzun have the wisdom and ingenuity of the Doctor on their side, but finds they are not being put to the best use. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17678'),
(14972, 'Doctor Who: Bunker Soldiers', 'Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A fireball crash lands in the forests of the Ukraine and when the locals investigate, they find what appears to be a metal coffin at the center of the devastation. They superstitiously conclude that the casket contains the body of an angel sent to Earth to give hope to the people.Centuries later the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped in Kiev, 1240 -- a city under attack by the Mongols. They are enforced guests of the governor, Dmitri, whose assistant Yehven believes that if the coffin is desecrated, then "all who threaten us will be destroyed".When the coffin is opened by a group of men, a terrifying, skull-faced creature is freed, and kills a member of the group before fleeing. A spate of violent deaths ensue -- but this creature certainly isn''t killing indiscriminately. How is this creature choosing its victims? Where has it come from -- and most importantly, can the Doctor do anything to halt its murderous trail of destruction?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3038'),
(14973, 'Doctor Who: Bunker Soldiers', 'Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A fireball crash lands in the forests of the Ukraine and when the locals investigate, they find what appears to be a metal coffin at the center of the devastation. They superstitiously conclude that the casket contains the body of an angel sent to Earth to give hope to the people.Centuries later the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped in Kiev, 1240 -- a city under attack by the Mongols. They are enforced guests of the governor, Dmitri, whose assistant Yehven believes that if the coffin is desecrated, then "all who threaten us will be destroyed".When the coffin is opened by a group of men, a terrifying, skull-faced creature is freed, and kills a member of the group before fleeing. A spate of violent deaths ensue -- but this creature certainly isn''t killing indiscriminately. How is this creature choosing its victims? Where has it come from -- and most importantly, can the Doctor do anything to halt its murderous trail of destruction?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21786'),
(14974, 'Doctor Who: Business Unusual', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who adventure. At Brighton in the 1980s, SeneNet Interactive are getting ready to launch their new 64-bit games console. But who are SeneNet? Their headquarters are guarded fiercely and they are buying up smaller companies. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart''s C19 security division investigates.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5409'),
(14975, 'Doctor Who: Business Unusual', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who adventure. At Brighton in the 1980s, SeneNet Interactive are getting ready to launch their new 64-bit games console. But who are SeneNet? Their headquarters are guarded fiercely and they are buying up smaller companies. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart''s C19 security division investigates.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19209'),
(14976, 'Doctor Who: Byzantium!', 'Keith Topping', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A First Doctor novel. The Tardis arrives in 64 AD close to the ancient capital of Byzantium. The Doctor warns of the brutality and corruption to be found here, only to see his party split up. Each believe that the others are dead and must cope with the complexities of the city.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3764'),
(14977, 'Doctor Who: Byzantium!', 'Keith Topping', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A First Doctor novel. The Tardis arrives in 64 AD close to the ancient capital of Byzantium. The Doctor warns of the brutality and corruption to be found here, only to see his party split up. Each believe that the others are dead and must cope with the complexities of the city.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20691'),
(14978, 'Doctor Who: Camera Obscura', 'Lloyd Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor''s second heart was taken from his body -- for his own good, he was told. Removed by his sometime ally, sometime rival, the mysterious time-traveller Sabbath. Now, as a new danger menaces reality, the Doctor finds himself working with Sabbath again. From a seance in Victorian London to a wild pursuit on Dartmoor, the Doctor and his companions work frantically to unravel the mystery of this latest threat to Time... Before Time itself unravels.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3352'),
(14979, 'Doctor Who: Camera Obscura', 'Lloyd Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor''s second heart was taken from his body -- for his own good, he was told. Removed by his sometime ally, sometime rival, the mysterious time-traveller Sabbath. Now, as a new danger menaces reality, the Doctor finds himself working with Sabbath again. From a seance in Victorian London to a wild pursuit on Dartmoor, the Doctor and his companions work frantically to unravel the mystery of this latest threat to Time... Before Time itself unravels.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21253'),
(14980, 'Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters', 'Terrance Dicks &amp; Robert Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who and Jo find themselves trapped in a time-loop as part of a peepshow on the planet Inter Minor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/888'),
(14981, 'Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters', 'Terrance Dicks; Robert Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who and Jo find themselves trapped in a time-loop as part of a peepshow on the planet Inter Minor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24136'),
(14982, 'Doctor Who: Castrovalva', 'Christopher H. Bidmead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor''s regeneration really be failing this time? It certainly looks that way as his two assistants, Tegan and Nyssa, help him recuperate on the tranquil planet of Castrovalva.\n  </font>\n </span>\n</p>\n<p>\n But are things as peaceful as they seem? What has happened to Adric? What is really going on in Castrovalva? And more importantly, where is the Master?\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  As the Doctor begins to recover he realises that the Master''s trap is even more intricate than he could have imagined and that he will stop at nothing to gain his revenge over the Doctor.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6656'),
(14983, 'Doctor Who: Castrovalva', 'Christopher H. Bidmead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor''s regeneration really be failing this time? It certainly looks that way as his two assistants, Tegan and Nyssa, help him recuperate on the tranquil planet of Castrovalva.\n  </font>\n </span>\n</p>\n<p>\n But are things as peaceful as they seem? What has happened to Adric? What is really going on in Castrovalva? And more importantly, where is the Master?\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  As the Doctor begins to recover he realises that the Master''s trap is even more intricate than he could have imagined and that he will stop at nothing to gain his revenge over the Doctor.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18015'),
(14984, 'Doctor Who: Casualities of War', 'Steve Emmerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hawkswick Hall has been transformed into a psychiatric hospital for soldiers shell-shocked during World War One. When local livestock and family pets are found violently mutilated, witness accounts point to horrifically wounded soldiers. The Doctor heads to the hospital to investigate -- two of the inmates have mysteriously disappeared -- and is told by one of the patients that there is an evil presence in the Hall. The key to the mystery lies in that eerie basement room in Hawkswick Hall.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/969'),
(14985, 'Doctor Who: Casualities of War', 'Steve Emmerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hawkswick Hall has been transformed into a psychiatric hospital for soldiers shell-shocked during World War One. When local livestock and family pets are found violently mutilated, witness accounts point to horrifically wounded soldiers. The Doctor heads to the hospital to investigate -- two of the inmates have mysteriously disappeared -- and is told by one of the patients that there is an evil presence in the Hall. The key to the mystery lies in that eerie basement room in Hawkswick Hall.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23876'),
(14986, 'Doctor Who: Cat&#39;s Cradle: Times Crucible', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Youâ€™re on your own, Ace.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS is invaded by an alien presence, and is then destroyed. The Doctor disappears.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ace, lost and alone, finds herself in a bizarre deserted city ruled by the tyrannical, leech-like monster known as the Process.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lost voyagers drawn forward from Ancient Gallifrey perform obsessive rituals in the ruins.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The strands of time are tangled in a catâ€™s cradle of dimensions.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Only the Doctor can challenge the rule of the Process and restore the stolen Future.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But the Doctor was destroyed long ago, before Time began.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3219'),
(14987, 'Doctor Who: Cat&#39;s Cradle: Warhead', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The script editor of the Doctor Who television series from 1987 to 1989 returns with the second adventure in the Cat''s Cradle series of Doctor Who novels. As destruction of the environment reaches the point of no return, multinational corporations and super-rich individuals unite in a desperate effort. If Earth is to survive, somebody has to stop them. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7736'),
(14988, 'Doctor Who: Catastrophe', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A jubilant Doctor has been given freedom again by the Time Lords to roam time and space. But when he and Sam arrive on the planet of Catastrophea, he begins to wish perhaps his exile on Earth had remained imposed, for the Doctor becomes embroiled in the schemes of off-world drug-smugglers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/890'),
(14989, 'Doctor Who: Catastrophe', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A jubilant Doctor has been given freedom again by the Time Lords to roam time and space. But when he and Sam arrive on the planet of Catastrophea, he begins to wish perhaps his exile on Earth had remained imposed, for the Doctor becomes embroiled in the schemes of off-world drug-smugglers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24135'),
(14990, 'Doctor Who: Cats Cradle: Witch Mark', 'Andrew Hunt &amp; Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The third and final book in the Cat''s Cradle series. The Tardis''s link with Eye of Harmony is becoming ever more tenuous and is in urgent need of repair. But the time machine takes the Doctor and Ace to a village in rural Wales, and a gateway to another world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7602'),
(14991, 'Doctor Who: Cats Cradle: Witch Mark', 'Andrew Hunt; Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The third and final book in the Cat''s Cradle series. The Tardis''s link with Eye of Harmony is becoming ever more tenuous and is in urgent need of repair. But the time machine takes the Doctor and Ace to a village in rural Wales, and a gateway to another world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16245');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(14992, 'Doctor Who: Cave Monsters', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   While caving in Derbyshire, two pot-holers are attacked by a huge creature and one is killed. At the nearby Wenley Moor nuclear research centre, which is built into the same caves, there are strange power losses threatening the reactor. Not only is everyone is at a loss to explain these incidents but there is also a high number of breakdowns involving staff members.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Now exiled to Earth and working for UNIT, the Doctor and his assistant Liz are sent for. As the surviving pot-holer begins to make cave-paintings in his ward the Doctor discovers not only a Tyrannosaurus Rex but a colony of Silurians - intelligent, walking lizards who have been dormant for millions of years. Now they have awoken to find that mankind has replaced them as the rulers of Earth - and they want it back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor find a way of thwarting their plans or will humanity be wiped out to usher in a new Age of the Lizards?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3178'),
(14993, 'Doctor Who: Cave Monsters', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   While caving in Derbyshire, two pot-holers are attacked by a huge creature and one is killed. At the nearby Wenley Moor nuclear research centre, which is built into the same caves, there are strange power losses threatening the reactor. Not only is everyone is at a loss to explain these incidents but there is also a high number of breakdowns involving staff members.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Now exiled to Earth and working for UNIT, the Doctor and his assistant Liz are sent for. As the surviving pot-holer begins to make cave-paintings in his ward the Doctor discovers not only a Tyrannosaurus Rex but a colony of Silurians - intelligent, walking lizards who have been dormant for millions of years. Now they have awoken to find that mankind has replaced them as the rulers of Earth - and they want it back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor find a way of thwarting their plans or will humanity be wiped out to usher in a new Age of the Lizards?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21344'),
(14994, 'Doctor Who: Christmas on a Rational Planet', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜An end to history. An end to certainty. Is that too much to ask?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  December, 1799. Europe is recovering from the Age or Reason, the Vatican is learning to live with Napoleon, and America is celebrating a new era of independence. But in New York State, something is spreading its own brand of madness through the streets. Secret societies are crawling from the woodwork, and thereâ€™s a Satanic conspiracy around every corner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Roz Forrester is stranded in a town where festive cheer and random violence go hand-in-hand. Chris Cwej is trapped on board the TARDIS with someone whoâ€™s been trained to kill him. And when Reason itself breaks down, even the Doctor canâ€™t be sure who or what heâ€™s fighting for.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Christmas is coming to town, and the end of civilization is following close behind...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3505'),
(14995, 'Doctor Who: Christmas on a Rational Planet', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜An end to history. An end to certainty. Is that too much to ask?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  December, 1799. Europe is recovering from the Age or Reason, the Vatican is learning to live with Napoleon, and America is celebrating a new era of independence. But in New York State, something is spreading its own brand of madness through the streets. Secret societies are crawling from the woodwork, and thereâ€™s a Satanic conspiracy around every corner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Roz Forrester is stranded in a town where festive cheer and random violence go hand-in-hand. Chris Cwej is trapped on board the TARDIS with someone whoâ€™s been trained to kill him. And when Reason itself breaks down, even the Doctor canâ€™t be sure who or what heâ€™s fighting for.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Christmas is coming to town, and the end of civilization is following close behind...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21052'),
(14996, 'Doctor Who: Citadel of Dreams', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the city-state of Hokesh, time plays tricks; the present is unreliable, the future impossible to intimate. A derelict street child, Joey Quine, finds himself subject to horrifying visions and fugues. His only friend in this, the only one to whom he can turn for help, is a mysterious stranger who calls herself Ace.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  And in an unknowable future the Doctor is busily inciting a state of bloody unrest, on the basis that one must be cruel to be kind -- simultaneously, for preference. The Glorious Ruler of the city, Magnus Solaris, is worried: his memory is failing him; his influence deserting him; his city is falling apart. What is happening to him truly? Only the Doctor knows -- and heâ€™s not telling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   There is worse to come. As both world and time crumble, Magnus Solaris and Joey Quine will unearth secrets the like of which nobody in Hokesh could have ever possibly suspected.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6398'),
(14997, 'Doctor Who: Citadel of Dreams', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the city-state of Hokesh, time plays tricks; the present is unreliable, the future impossible to intimate. A derelict street child, Joey Quine, finds himself subject to horrifying visions and fugues. His only friend in this, the only one to whom he can turn for help, is a mysterious stranger who calls herself Ace.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  And in an unknowable future the Doctor is busily inciting a state of bloody unrest, on the basis that one must be cruel to be kind -- simultaneously, for preference. The Glorious Ruler of the city, Magnus Solaris, is worried: his memory is failing him; his influence deserting him; his city is falling apart. What is happening to him truly? Only the Doctor knows -- and heâ€™s not telling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   There is worse to come. As both world and time crumble, Magnus Solaris and Joey Quine will unearth secrets the like of which nobody in Hokesh could have ever possibly suspected.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17703'),
(14998, 'Doctor Who: City at World&#39;s End', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Tardis lands the time travellers on the deserted observation deck of a skyscraper-like building. Giant screens show programmes about an evacuation procedure and reveal that "Zero Time" is an estimated 35 days away.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6787'),
(14999, 'Doctor Who: City at World&#39;s End', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Tardis lands the time travellers on the deserted observation deck of a skyscraper-like building. Giant screens show programmes about an evacuation procedure and reveal that "Zero Time" is an estimated 35 days away.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18059'),
(15000, 'Doctor Who: Claws of Axos', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  A mysterious UFO lands on Earth. The Axons have arrived, desperate for help and eager to offer in return an exciting gift - axonite, potentially the most powerful substance man has ever seen. With its powers of duplication, the possibilities for mankind are endless. The Ministry of Defence is delighted but the Doctor has his suspicions. Are the Axons as genuine as they seem? Just what is the Doctor''s arch enemy, the Master, doing aboard this ship?\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/893'),
(15001, 'Doctor Who: Claws of Axos', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  A mysterious UFO lands on Earth. The Axons have arrived, desperate for help and eager to offer in return an exciting gift - axonite, potentially the most powerful substance man has ever seen. With its powers of duplication, the possibilities for mankind are endless. The Ministry of Defence is delighted but the Doctor has his suspicions. Are the Axons as genuine as they seem? Just what is the Doctor''s arch enemy, the Master, doing aboard this ship?\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24132'),
(15002, 'Doctor Who: Code of the Krillitanes', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''I blame those new Brainy Crisps. Since he started eating them, he''s been too clever by half''. Can eating a bag of crisps really make you more clever? The company that makes the crisps says so, and they seem to be right. But the Doctor is worried. Who would want to make people more brainy? And why? With just his sonic screwdriver and a supermarket trolley full of crisps, the Doctor sets out to find the truth. The answer is scary - the Krillitanes are back on Earth, and everyone is at risk! Last time they took over a school. This time they have hijacked the internet. Whatever they are up to, it''s big and it''s nasty. Only the Doctor can stop them - if he isn''t already too late...A short, sharp shot of adventure, featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit series from BBC Television.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Justin Richards is Creative Consultant for BBC Books'' Doctor Who range. He has written many novels, including The Death Collector and The Parliament of Blood, and he works with writer Jack Higgins on his thrillers for young adults. Justin also writes for radio, stage and screen. He is married with two children (both boys) and lives and works in Warwick, within sight of one of Britain''s best castles.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20148'),
(15003, 'Doctor Who: Coldheart', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion story, the Doctor materializes underground, where he and his companions are led to safety by a humanoid character, who explains that this is the planet Eskon.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/462'),
(15004, 'Doctor Who: Coldheart', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion story, the Doctor materializes underground, where he and his companions are led to safety by a humanoid character, who explains that this is the planet Eskon.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24477'),
(15005, 'Doctor Who: Combat Rock', 'Mick Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When 400-year-old tribal mummies inexplicably return to life and begin murdering tourists on an exotic alien island, the Doctor''s initial urge to investigate lands himself, Jamie and Victoria right in the middle of a jungle holocaust. Ferocious cannibals and deadly beasts stalk the swamps, mummies lurk amongst the trees and the peaceful, civilised locals are reverting to long-forgotten head-hunting practices. Something is giving a clarion call to savagery, something that can only be found in the deepest darkness at the heart of the hostile rainforest. It could well be the end of the river for the TARDIS companions as they find themselves involved in a horrific jungle conflict between desperate guerrilla tribesmen and merciless colonial forces. Cannibalism could be the least of their worries as evil stirs the pot and the dead reach for the living...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2711'),
(15006, 'Doctor Who: Combat Rock', 'Mick Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When 400-year-old tribal mummies inexplicably return to life and begin murdering tourists on an exotic alien island, the Doctor''s initial urge to investigate lands himself, Jamie and Victoria right in the middle of a jungle holocaust. Ferocious cannibals and deadly beasts stalk the swamps, mummies lurk amongst the trees and the peaceful, civilised locals are reverting to long-forgotten head-hunting practices. Something is giving a clarion call to savagery, something that can only be found in the deepest darkness at the heart of the hostile rainforest. It could well be the end of the river for the TARDIS companions as they find themselves involved in a horrific jungle conflict between desperate guerrilla tribesmen and merciless colonial forces. Cannibalism could be the least of their worries as evil stirs the pot and the dead reach for the living...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22121'),
(15007, 'Doctor Who: Companion Piece', 'Mike Tucker &amp; Robert Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Escaping from one battle and straight into another, the Doctor and his companion. Catherine, find themselves on a far flung world where time travellers are persecuted as witches and warlocks by the Papal Inquisition. The Doctor is arrested, his only hope of escape being Cat, but she has demons of her own to face, and as the Doctor starts to realise exactly what is happening, so time rapidly starts to slip away for both him and Cat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2743'),
(15008, 'Doctor Who: Companion Piece', 'Mike Tucker; Robert Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Escaping from one battle and straight into another, the Doctor and his companion. Catherine, find themselves on a far flung world where time travellers are persecuted as witches and warlocks by the Papal Inquisition. The Doctor is arrested, his only hope of escape being Cat, but she has demons of her own to face, and as the Doctor starts to realise exactly what is happening, so time rapidly starts to slip away for both him and Cat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22087'),
(15009, 'Doctor Who: Consequences', 'Joseph Lidster &amp; James Moran &amp; Andrew Cartmel &amp; David Llewellyn &amp; Sarah Pinborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century. Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable. But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. When an overlooked alien artefact despatches Jack Harkness into the past, how much of the twentieth century will he have to live through again? What links a three-year-old boy in 1994 to the destruction of a shopping centre in 2009? How does a witness to an alien''s reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto''s actions at a local publisher''s have a cost for Torchwood more than half a century earlier? For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4091'),
(15010, 'Doctor Who: Consequences', 'Joseph Lidster &amp; James Moran &amp; Andrew Cartmel &amp; David Llewellyn &amp; Sarah Pinborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century. Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable. But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. When an overlooked alien artefact despatches Jack Harkness into the past, how much of the twentieth century will he have to live through again? What links a three-year-old boy in 1994 to the destruction of a shopping centre in 2009? How does a witness to an alien''s reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto''s actions at a local publisher''s have a cost for Torchwood more than half a century earlier? For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11097'),
(15011, 'Doctor Who: Conundrum', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Doctor, weâ€™re talking about an old man who used to dress up in a skintight white jump suit and fly around New York catching super-villains. Donâ€™t you think thereâ€™s something just a bit unusual about that?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  A killer is stalking the streets of the village of Arandale. The victims are found one each day, drained of blood. And if that seems strange, itâ€™s nothing compared to the townâ€™s inhabitants.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Doctor, Ace and Bernice think theyâ€™re investigating a murder mystery. But itâ€™s all much more bizarre than that. And much more dangerous.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Someone has interfered with the Doctorâ€™s past again, and heâ€™s landed in a place he knows he once destroyed. This time there can be no escape.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/978'),
(15012, 'Doctor Who: Conundrum', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Doctor, weâ€™re talking about an old man who used to dress up in a skintight white jump suit and fly around New York catching super-villains. Donâ€™t you think thereâ€™s something just a bit unusual about that?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  A killer is stalking the streets of the village of Arandale. The victims are found one each day, drained of blood. And if that seems strange, itâ€™s nothing compared to the townâ€™s inhabitants.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Doctor, Ace and Bernice think theyâ€™re investigating a murder mystery. But itâ€™s all much more bizarre than that. And much more dangerous.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Someone has interfered with the Doctorâ€™s past again, and heâ€™s landed in a place he knows he once destroyed. This time there can be no escape.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23871'),
(15013, 'Doctor Who: Corpse Marker', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor and Leela land on the planet Kaldor, home of the Sandminer crew that they recently saved from the dreaded Robots of Death.Intrigue abounds still further on the homeworld. The twisted genius that perverted the robots from their function to serve man, the late Taren Kapel, has become the deity of a cult that is causing chaos. Leda finds herself caught up in their mayhem while the Doctor learns that the survivors of the original sandminer crew are being killed off one by one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6811'),
(15014, 'Doctor Who: Corpse Marker', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor and Leela land on the planet Kaldor, home of the Sandminer crew that they recently saved from the dreaded Robots of Death.Intrigue abounds still further on the homeworld. The twisted genius that perverted the robots from their function to serve man, the late Taren Kapel, has become the deity of a cult that is causing chaos. Leda finds herself caught up in their mayhem while the Doctor learns that the survivors of the original sandminer crew are being killed off one by one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17085'),
(15015, 'Doctor Who: Creature From the Pit', 'David Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Baker, regarded by many as being the definitive Doctor Who, narrates this novelization based on a serial from the original TV series. The planet Chloris is very fertile, but metal is in short supply, and has therefore become extremely valuable. A huge creature, with most unusual physical properties, arrives from an alien planet which can provide Chloris with metal from its own unlimited supplies, in exchange for chlorophyll. However, the ruthless Lady Adrasta has been able to exploit the shortage of metal to her own advantage, and has no wish to see the situation change. The Doctor and Romana land on Chloris just as the creature''s alien masters begin to lose patience over their ambassador''s long absence. The action the aliens decide to take will have devastating consequences for Chloris, unless something is done to prevent it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6262'),
(15016, 'Doctor Who: Creature from the Pit', 'David Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tom Baker, regarded by many as being the definitive Doctor Who, narrates this novelization based on a serial from the original TV series. The planet Chloris is very fertile, but metal is in short supply, and has therefore become extremely valuable. A huge creature, with most unusual physical properties, arrives from an alien planet which can provide Chloris with metal from its own unlimited supplies, in exchange for chlorophyll. However, the ruthless Lady Adrasta has been able to exploit the shortage of metal to her own advantage, and has no wish to see the situation change. The Doctor and Romana land on Chloris just as the creature''s alien masters begin to lose patience over their ambassador''s long absence. The action the aliens decide to take will have devastating consequences for Chloris, unless something is done to prevent it.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17791'),
(15017, 'Doctor Who: Crusaders', 'David Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It''s 12th Century Palestine and King Richard the Lionheart is embroiled in a Holy War against the Saracen ruler, Saladin.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  After Barbara is abducted in a Saracen ambush, the Doctor, Ian and Vicki make their way to the King''s palace. At first, the King will not help with her rescue, but he relents and lets Ian attempt it, equipping him for the task with a knighthood.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Meanwhile, the King''s secret plans to make peace with Saladin are discovered and all hell breaks loose. The Earl of Leicester suspects the Doctor''s influence in the King''s new-found desire for peace. It is time the Doctor left...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6225'),
(15018, 'Doctor Who: Crusaders', 'David Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It''s 12th Century Palestine and King Richard the Lionheart is embroiled in a Holy War against the Saracen ruler, Saladin.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  After Barbara is abducted in a Saracen ambush, the Doctor, Ian and Vicki make their way to the King''s palace. At first, the King will not help with her rescue, but he relents and lets Ian attempt it, equipping him for the task with a knighthood.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Meanwhile, the King''s secret plans to make peace with Saladin are discovered and all hell breaks loose. The Earl of Leicester suspects the Doctor''s influence in the King''s new-found desire for peace. It is time the Doctor left...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17894'),
(15019, 'Doctor Who: Curse of Peladon', 'Brian Hayles &amp; Alan Willow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    On its way back to Earth, the TARDIS crashlands on Peladon where strange and violent incidents are threatening to disrupt a conference between visiting delegates from the Galactic Federation and Peladon''s King. Is this the feared curse of Peladon and will it force a Galactic war?\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Having assumed the guise of Earth delegates, the Doctor and his assistant Jo attempt to diffuse the political timebomb and to uncover the true identity of the beast of Peladon - which they suspect is something far more sinister than a mere paranormal apparition.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor is amazed, however, to find among the delegates his old adversaries the Ice Warriors - war-like reptiles from the planet Mars. Could they be behind the goings-on and what they stand to profit from a conflict? The Doctor must use all of his wits to ensure that the warnings of Peladon''s High Priest do not come true.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7097'),
(15020, 'Doctor Who: Curse of Peladon', 'Brian Hayles; Alan Willow', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    On its way back to Earth, the TARDIS crashlands on Peladon where strange and violent incidents are threatening to disrupt a conference between visiting delegates from the Galactic Federation and Peladon''s King. Is this the feared curse of Peladon and will it force a Galactic war?\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Having assumed the guise of Earth delegates, the Doctor and his assistant Jo attempt to diffuse the political timebomb and to uncover the true identity of the beast of Peladon - which they suspect is something far more sinister than a mere paranormal apparition.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor is amazed, however, to find among the delegates his old adversaries the Ice Warriors - war-like reptiles from the planet Mars. Could they be behind the goings-on and what they stand to profit from a conflict? The Doctor must use all of his wits to ensure that the warnings of Peladon''s High Priest do not come true.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16731'),
(15021, 'Doctor Who: Daemons', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who becomes concerned at plans to explore a prehistoric barrow near the quiet village of Devil''s End\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7281'),
(15022, 'Doctor Who: Daemons', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who becomes concerned at plans to explore a prehistoric barrow near the quiet village of Devil''s End\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16587'),
(15023, 'Doctor Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS lands in a London of future timesâ€”a city of devastation now ruled by Daleks. A perilous journey through England finally brings them to the center of Dalek operations...and the reason for the Dalek invasion of Earth! William Russell, who played the Doctor''s companion Ian in the original TV serial, reads this unabridged novel, with Dalek voices by Nicholas Briggs.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/894'),
(15024, 'Doctor Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS lands in a London of future timesâ€”a city of devastation now ruled by Daleks. A perilous journey through England finally brings them to the center of Dalek operations...and the reason for the Dalek invasion of Earth! William Russell, who played the Doctor''s companion Ian in the original TV serial, reads this unabridged novel, with Dalek voices by Nicholas Briggs.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24130'),
(15025, 'Doctor Who: Daleks', 'David Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is Doctor Who s first exciting adventure with the Daleks! Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright travel with the mysterious Doctor Who and his granddaughter, Susan, to the planet of Skaro in the space-time machine, the TARDIS. There they strive to save the peace-loving Thals from the evil intentions of the hideous Daleks. Can they succeed? And, what is more important, will they ever see their native Earth again? William Russell, who created the role of Ian in the original television series of Doctor Who, reads David Whitaker s complete and unabridged novelisation, first published in hardback in 1964. The book went on to spearhead the Target Books range of Doctor Who titles, and it is one of the best-loved novelisations to be based on the programme.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  William Russell, Ian in the original "Doctor Who" series, narrates the novelization of the 1964 season, a retro sci-fi adventure of two average Brits caught up in the mysterious doctor''s travels. On the planet Skaro they intervene to save the pacifist Thals from the evil Daleks. Russell reads with earnest breathlessness, making Ian a sturdy, if querulous, hero. He differentiates other voices adequately, with electronic filtering for the Daleks'' voices. Frequent sound effects and occasional music are sometimes laughable, sometimes effective. The story has both the charms of old-time sci-fi and the flaws, including some nasty xenophobia. But those who overlook the negatives and get into the spirit will find this title fun. W.M. Â© AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine--\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6227'),
(15026, 'Doctor Who: Daleks', 'David Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is Doctor Who s first exciting adventure with the Daleks! Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright travel with the mysterious Doctor Who and his granddaughter, Susan, to the planet of Skaro in the space-time machine, the TARDIS. There they strive to save the peace-loving Thals from the evil intentions of the hideous Daleks. Can they succeed? And, what is more important, will they ever see their native Earth again? William Russell, who created the role of Ian in the original television series of Doctor Who, reads David Whitaker s complete and unabridged novelisation, first published in hardback in 1964. The book went on to spearhead the Target Books range of Doctor Who titles, and it is one of the best-loved novelisations to be based on the programme.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  William Russell, Ian in the original "Doctor Who" series, narrates the novelization of the 1964 season, a retro sci-fi adventure of two average Brits caught up in the mysterious doctor''s travels. On the planet Skaro they intervene to save the pacifist Thals from the evil Daleks. Russell reads with earnest breathlessness, making Ian a sturdy, if querulous, hero. He differentiates other voices adequately, with electronic filtering for the Daleks'' voices. Frequent sound effects and occasional music are sometimes laughable, sometimes effective. The story has both the charms of old-time sci-fi and the flaws, including some nasty xenophobia. But those who overlook the negatives and get into the spirit will find this title fun. W.M. Â© AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine--\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17893'),
(15027, 'Doctor Who: Damaged Goods', 'Russell T. Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor''s continuing investigation of human psi powers brings him to a council estate in Thatcher''s Britain. He discovers that there''s a lethal new batch of cocaine on the streets--and the man who''s dealing it has been dead for two weeks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1513'),
(15028, 'Doctor Who: Damaged Goods', 'Russell T. Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor''s continuing investigation of human psi powers brings him to a council estate in Thatcher''s Britain. He discovers that there''s a lethal new batch of cocaine on the streets--and the man who''s dealing it has been dead for two weeks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23512'),
(15029, 'Doctor Who: Dark Progeny', 'Steve Emmerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ceres Alpha is an inhospitable planet being "developed" as a human colony in the year 2847 A.D. Colonists work in vast city machines that churn dead soil and reconstitute it with seed and chemicals to grow crops. Suddenly a dozen babies are born with alien physiology and telekinetic and telepathic powers. The Doctor realizes that an archaeologist has roused up the planet''s long-dead inhabitants. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/970'),
(15030, 'Doctor Who: Dark Progeny', 'Steve Emmerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ceres Alpha is an inhospitable planet being "developed" as a human colony in the year 2847 A.D. Colonists work in vast city machines that churn dead soil and reconstitute it with seed and chemicals to grow crops. Suddenly a dozen babies are born with alien physiology and telekinetic and telepathic powers. The Doctor realizes that an archaeologist has roused up the planet''s long-dead inhabitants. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23875'),
(15031, 'Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   World peace hangs in the balance. Sir Reginald Styles, a high-ranking diplomat is the only person that stands between mankind and a third and final World War. But a mysterious and savage guerrilla force from the 22nd Century believe Styles is the agent that shaped their terrifying future and therefore must die...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Jo find themselves flung into the guerrillas'' world; a brutal dictatorship policed by the merciless and ape-like Ogrons. The Daleks have invaded Earth, enslaved the population and face certain triumph unless the Doctor betrays all he believes in and condones the cold-blooded murder of Styles in an attempt to change the course of history... irrevocably.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/897'),
(15032, 'Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   World peace hangs in the balance. Sir Reginald Styles, a high-ranking diplomat is the only person that stands between mankind and a third and final World War. But a mysterious and savage guerrilla force from the 22nd Century believe Styles is the agent that shaped their terrifying future and therefore must die...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Jo find themselves flung into the guerrillas'' world; a brutal dictatorship policed by the merciless and ape-like Ogrons. The Daleks have invaded Earth, enslaved the population and face certain triumph unless the Doctor betrays all he believes in and condones the cold-blooded murder of Styles in an attempt to change the course of history... irrevocably.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24129'),
(15033, 'Doctor Who: Deadly Assassin', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    A mysterious evil is at work on Gallifrey. The President of the Time Lords has been assassinated and the Doctor caught red-handed. An inexorable master plan has been set in motion. There can be no escape.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     In order to prove his innocence the Doctor must pursue his enemy into the Matrix, a dream-like repository of knowledge formed from the minds of dead Time Lords. However, he quickly discovers that in the Matrix the real assassin rules and behind this enemy lurks the even more deadlier menace of his old adversary - the Master.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/898'),
(15034, 'Doctor Who: Deadly Assassin', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    A mysterious evil is at work on Gallifrey. The President of the Time Lords has been assassinated and the Doctor caught red-handed. An inexorable master plan has been set in motion. There can be no escape.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     In order to prove his innocence the Doctor must pursue his enemy into the Matrix, a dream-like repository of knowledge formed from the minds of dead Time Lords. However, he quickly discovers that in the Matrix the real assassin rules and behind this enemy lurks the even more deadlier menace of his old adversary - the Master.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24128'),
(15035, 'Doctor Who: Deadly Reunion', 'Terrance Dicks &amp; Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the aftermath of the Second World War, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - then a young subaltan - was involved in intelligence operations in the Greek islands. But now his problems are rather closer to home. The Doctor and Jo are caught up in mysterious events in a small English village. Sergeant Benton and Captain Yates are ready to rush to the rescue. A sinister cult holds unholy ceremonies and prepares for a day of reckoning. And the Doctor has a shrewd idea who might be behind it all. This might seem like business as usual, but things are not always as they seem. The Brigadier finds himself trying to separate the truth from the lies, and the past from the present. Can he once again help prevent the end of the world? His friends and colleagues are not so sure - because this time, the Brigadier has fallen in love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/900'),
(15036, 'Doctor Who: Deadly Reunion', 'Terrance Dicks; Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the aftermath of the Second World War, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - then a young subaltan - was involved in intelligence operations in the Greek islands. But now his problems are rather closer to home. The Doctor and Jo are caught up in mysterious events in a small English village. Sergeant Benton and Captain Yates are ready to rush to the rescue. A sinister cult holds unholy ceremonies and prepares for a day of reckoning. And the Doctor has a shrewd idea who might be behind it all. This might seem like business as usual, but things are not always as they seem. The Brigadier finds himself trying to separate the truth from the lies, and the past from the present. Can he once again help prevent the end of the world? His friends and colleagues are not so sure - because this time, the Brigadier has fallen in love...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24127'),
(15037, 'Doctor Who: Death and Diplomacy', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Dakhaari, Czhans and Salori are locked in a conflict over the planet of Moriel. When the Hollow Gods decree they must settle their differences, only the Doctor has the necessary tact to arbitrate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6399'),
(15038, 'Doctor Who: Death and Diplomacy', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Dakhaari, Czhans and Salori are locked in a conflict over the planet of Moriel. When the Hollow Gods decree they must settle their differences, only the Doctor has the necessary tact to arbitrate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17702'),
(15039, 'Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    In this exciting space adventure The Doctor is forced into a desperate race against time...\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    An inexplicable power-loss strands the TARDIS on the sinister planet Exxilon where the Doctor meets an expedition from Earth seeking a rare material that can cure the virulent space plague that threatens all human life throughout the galaxy. Nearby, Sarah discovers a mysterious, living Citadel but is captured by the savage Exxilons who prepare her for sacrifice...\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor must uncover the secrets of the ancient Exxilon City, locate the source of the power-drain, save Sarah and help the Earth expedition. But his plans are threatened by new arrivals on the planet - the Doctor''s oldest and deadliest enemies - The Daleks!\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/901');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15040, 'Doctor Who: Death To The Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    In this exciting space adventure The Doctor is forced into a desperate race against time...\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    An inexplicable power-loss strands the TARDIS on the sinister planet Exxilon where the Doctor meets an expedition from Earth seeking a rare material that can cure the virulent space plague that threatens all human life throughout the galaxy. Nearby, Sarah discovers a mysterious, living Citadel but is captured by the savage Exxilons who prepare her for sacrifice...\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor must uncover the secrets of the ancient Exxilon City, locate the source of the power-drain, save Sarah and help the Earth expedition. But his plans are threatened by new arrivals on the planet - the Doctor''s oldest and deadliest enemies - The Daleks!\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24126'),
(15041, 'Doctor Who: Deceit', 'Peter Darvill-Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Take Arcadia apart if you have to.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The middle of the twenty-fifth century. The Dalek war is drawing to an untidy close. Earthâ€™s Office of External Operation is trying to extend its influence over the corporations that have controlled human-occupied space since man first ventured to the stars.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Agent Isabelle Defries is leading one expedition. Among her barely-controllable squad is an explosives expert who calls herself Ace. Their destination: Arcadia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A non-technological paradise? A living laboratory for a centuries-long experiment? Fuel for a super-being? Even when Ace and Benny discover the truth, the Doctor refuses to listen to them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Nothing is what it seems to be.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2229'),
(15042, 'Doctor Who: Deceit', 'Peter Darvill-Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Take Arcadia apart if you have to.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The middle of the twenty-fifth century. The Dalek war is drawing to an untidy close. Earthâ€™s Office of External Operation is trying to extend its influence over the corporations that have controlled human-occupied space since man first ventured to the stars.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Agent Isabelle Defries is leading one expedition. Among her barely-controllable squad is an explosives expert who calls herself Ace. Their destination: Arcadia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A non-technological paradise? A living laboratory for a centuries-long experiment? Fuel for a super-being? Even when Ace and Benny discover the truth, the Doctor refuses to listen to them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Nothing is what it seems to be.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22593'),
(15043, 'Doctor Who: Deep Blue', 'Mark Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a lighthouse keeper reports seeing a ball of light plunging into the sea off Tayborough Sands, UNIT sends Mike Yates to investigate. He is surprised to bump into an old friend, the Doctor, who has brought his friends Tegan and Turlough there for a holiday -- a holiday which is short-lived after the crew of the boat Papillon are discovered slaughtered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2976'),
(15044, 'Doctor Who: Deep Blue', 'Mark Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a lighthouse keeper reports seeing a ball of light plunging into the sea off Tayborough Sands, UNIT sends Mike Yates to investigate. He is surprised to bump into an old friend, the Doctor, who has brought his friends Tegan and Turlough there for a holiday -- a holiday which is short-lived after the crew of the boat Papillon are discovered slaughtered.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21734'),
(15045, 'Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen', 'Malcolm Kohll', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Chimeron homeworld is attacked by Gavrok and his troops - the Bannermen. The sole survivor is the Chimeron Queen, Delta, who flees carrying with her the last chance for the future of her race...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Mel arrive at a Galactic Tollport, to discover they''ve won a holiday to Disneyland in 1959, alongside a party of disguised alien Navarions. Just before they all depart, the tour is joined by Delta, who travels with them back to Earth...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Colliding with an early American satellite, the trip back in time is thrown widely off course. Instead of ending up at Disneyland, the whole party lands instead at the Shangri-La holiday camp in South Wales, 1959.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Mel take full advantage of the holiday camp, entertainment and some vintage rock ''n'' roll. But the Bannermen are tracking Delta, and before long the holiday camp is the scene for a battle that could decide the survival of the Chimeron race - not to mention the survival of all those caught up in the conflict...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3193'),
(15046, 'Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen', 'Malcolm Kohll', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Chimeron homeworld is attacked by Gavrok and his troops - the Bannermen. The sole survivor is the Chimeron Queen, Delta, who flees carrying with her the last chance for the future of her race...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Mel arrive at a Galactic Tollport, to discover they''ve won a holiday to Disneyland in 1959, alongside a party of disguised alien Navarions. Just before they all depart, the tour is joined by Delta, who travels with them back to Earth...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Colliding with an early American satellite, the trip back in time is thrown widely off course. Instead of ending up at Disneyland, the whole party lands instead at the Shangri-La holiday camp in South Wales, 1959.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Mel take full advantage of the holiday camp, entertainment and some vintage rock ''n'' roll. But the Bannermen are tracking Delta, and before long the holiday camp is the scene for a battle that could decide the survival of the Chimeron race - not to mention the survival of all those caught up in the conflict...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21335'),
(15047, 'Doctor Who: Demontage', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor, Sam and Fitz land on the Vega station, a pleasure center given over to gambling, shopping and the Arts. It hangs on the edge of Battrulian Space, close to the Earth colony''s frontier with the Canvine, huge, wolf-like dog creatures.The Earth colony president is arriving to attend an exhibition of the 3-D reality scans in oil paintings of Toulour Martinique. But the Doctor soon discovers there is more to the paintings than meets the eye. A dark secret is hidden behind the shallow delights of the station, and it seems that it is not only the President who is marked for death but the Doctor and his friends, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3849'),
(15048, 'Doctor Who: Demontage', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor, Sam and Fitz land on the Vega station, a pleasure center given over to gambling, shopping and the Arts. It hangs on the edge of Battrulian Space, close to the Earth colony''s frontier with the Canvine, huge, wolf-like dog creatures.The Earth colony president is arriving to attend an exhibition of the 3-D reality scans in oil paintings of Toulour Martinique. But the Doctor soon discovers there is more to the paintings than meets the eye. A dark secret is hidden behind the shallow delights of the station, and it seems that it is not only the President who is marked for death but the Doctor and his friends, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20608'),
(15049, 'Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Accompanied by the newly regenerated Romana, the Doctor lands on a mystery planet intrigued by the evidence of drilling taking place there, deep underground.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    The discoveries he makes are chilling. For the planet is Skaro and the Daleks are in charge of the operation. But just what are his old enemies searching for? And why?\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Perhaps the answers lie with the Movellans, a beautiful humanoid race led by Commander Sharrel. They are waging a war of their own with the Daleks and the situation is now stalemate. Should the Doctor tip the balance of power to aid the Daleks'' ultimate destruction? Or are their intentions no less sinister than the Daleks'' themselves?\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Suddenly the Doctor finds himself enmeshed in a deadly battle which could result in the destruction of the universe itself as, once more, he summons the strength to face an all too familiar, timelessly evil adversary.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/759'),
(15050, 'Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Accompanied by the newly regenerated Romana, the Doctor lands on a mystery planet intrigued by the evidence of drilling taking place there, deep underground.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    The discoveries he makes are chilling. For the planet is Skaro and the Daleks are in charge of the operation. But just what are his old enemies searching for? And why?\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Perhaps the answers lie with the Movellans, a beautiful humanoid race led by Commander Sharrel. They are waging a war of their own with the Daleks and the situation is now stalemate. Should the Doctor tip the balance of power to aid the Daleks'' ultimate destruction? Or are their intentions no less sinister than the Daleks'' themselves?\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Suddenly the Doctor finds himself enmeshed in a deadly battle which could result in the destruction of the universe itself as, once more, he summons the strength to face an all too familiar, timelessly evil adversary.\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24125'),
(15051, 'Doctor Who: Dinosaur Invasion', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Martin Jarvis narrates this novelization based on a serial from the original TV series. The Doctor and Sarah arrive back in the TARDIS to find London completely deserted - except for the dinosaurs. Has the return of these prehistoric creatures been deliberately planned and, if so, who can be behind it all?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3181'),
(15052, 'Doctor Who: Dinosaur Invasion', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Martin Jarvis narrates this novelization based on a serial from the original TV series. The Doctor and Sarah arrive back in the TARDIS to find London completely deserted - except for the dinosaurs. Has the return of these prehistoric creatures been deliberately planned and, if so, who can be behind it all?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21343'),
(15053, 'Doctor Who: Divided Loyalties', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To most, the entity known as the Celestial Toymaker is an abstract pan-universal force, whose powers, origins and intentions are unknown. To a select few the Toymaker is a god, a being to be worshipped, without whom there would be no existence. But to others, the Toymaker is the embodiment of evil, a force to be thwarted at every possible juncture. Aeons past, the Time Lords of Gallifrey tried to comprehend the Toymaker, and the role this force played in the cosmos. To one group of young Time Lords centuries later, understanding the Toymaker represented a goal, a mission.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5412'),
(15054, 'Doctor Who: Divided Loyalties', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To most, the entity known as the Celestial Toymaker is an abstract pan-universal force, whose powers, origins and intentions are unknown. To a select few the Toymaker is a god, a being to be worshipped, without whom there would be no existence. But to others, the Toymaker is the embodiment of evil, a force to be thwarted at every possible juncture. Aeons past, the Time Lords of Gallifrey tried to comprehend the Toymaker, and the role this force played in the cosmos. To one group of young Time Lords centuries later, understanding the Toymaker represented a goal, a mission.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19208'),
(15055, 'Doctor Who: Doctor Who the Colony of Lies', 'Colin Brake', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 2539. Arriving on Axista Four the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie find the colony in a state of chaos. A breakaway group of colonists -- the ''Realists'' -- has abandoned Ransome''s Back to Basics ideals and is creating a new high-tech settlement. The ''Loyalists'' who remain are dwindling in number and face total extinction. Meanwhile, a spaceship from Earth has arrived with news that 80,000 refugees are about to descend upon the planet; the Realists are staging raids on the wreck of the colony ship, and in a secret underground bunker mysterious aliens who claim to be the planet''s first colonists are beginning to awake. Who are the dog-like aliens who call themselves Tyrenians? What is the secret agenda of the sinister Federation Administrator Greene? And what really happened when the colony ship crash-landed on Axista Four 100 years ago?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17324'),
(15056, 'Doctor Who: Dominion', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Tardis travels through a wormhole in space and time that leaves it nearly dead in a Swedish forest in the present day The Doctor reasons one end of the wormhole originates from there -- but where does it lead to?The time travelers discover a massive military presence in the area. The wormhole is a result of strange experiments in teleport -- but the other end of the time space tunnel is rooted in a bizarre land not even located in our dimension -- the Dominion. And the Dominion itself isn''t under threat from a shapeless, all-pervading blackness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2474'),
(15057, 'Doctor Who: Dominion', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Tardis travels through a wormhole in space and time that leaves it nearly dead in a Swedish forest in the present day The Doctor reasons one end of the wormhole originates from there -- but where does it lead to?The time travelers discover a massive military presence in the area. The wormhole is a result of strange experiments in teleport -- but the other end of the time space tunnel is rooted in a bizarre land not even located in our dimension -- the Dominion. And the Dominion itself isn''t under threat from a shapeless, all-pervading blackness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22286'),
(15058, 'Doctor Who: Dragonfire', 'Ian Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Doctor Who meets Sabalom Glitz at the Space Trading Colony of Iceworld, he decides to join Glitz''s search for hidden treasure\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5045'),
(15059, 'Doctor Who: Dragonfire', 'Ian Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Doctor Who meets Sabalom Glitz at the Space Trading Colony of Iceworld, he decides to join Glitz''s search for hidden treasure\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19531'),
(15060, 'Doctor Who: Dragons&#39; Wrath', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Are the Knights of Jeneve more than legend? Why is the warlord Nusek so desperate to secure Benny''s services? In a world of secret societies, concealed motives and overly elaborate executions, Benny must divine the truth behind the propaganda--or become a footnote in the chronicles of a maniac''s rise to power.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3851'),
(15061, 'Doctor Who: Dragons&#39; Wrath', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Are the Knights of Jeneve more than legend? Why is the warlord Nusek so desperate to secure Benny''s services? In a world of secret societies, concealed motives and overly elaborate executions, Benny must divine the truth behind the propaganda--or become a footnote in the chronicles of a maniac''s rise to power.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20607'),
(15062, 'Doctor Who: Dreams of Empire', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Landing on a barren asteroid, the Doctor and his friends discover the final pages of a drama that has torn apart an empire are being played out.Who is the man in the mask, and how are his chess games affecting life and death in his prison? What is the secret of the knights in armor that line the bleak walls of the settlement. And what is the nature of the alien ship approaching -- and what will it want when it arrives?Soon the TARDIS crew find themselves under siege with a deadly robotic race and human traitors to defeat -- and the future of an entire stellar empire hangs in the balance: if the Doctor cannot triumph it will become a force not for good, but for evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3853'),
(15063, 'Doctor Who: Dreams of Empire', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Landing on a barren asteroid, the Doctor and his friends discover the final pages of a drama that has torn apart an empire are being played out.Who is the man in the mask, and how are his chess games affecting life and death in his prison? What is the secret of the knights in armor that line the bleak walls of the settlement. And what is the nature of the alien ship approaching -- and what will it want when it arrives?Soon the TARDIS crew find themselves under siege with a deadly robotic race and human traitors to defeat -- and the future of an entire stellar empire hangs in the balance: if the Doctor cannot triumph it will become a force not for good, but for evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20606'),
(15064, 'Doctor Who: Dreamstone Moon', 'Paul Leonard &amp; Paul Hinder', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Dreamstone Moon\n  </em>\n  , Sam and the Doctor, via different routes because they are still apart, find themselves on a satellite called the Dreamstone Moon. It has come by this name because it is where dreamstone, a substance that allows the dreams of sleepers to be recorded and then played back (or something), is mined. But an artist named Anton finds that the dreamstones only give him nightmares and so determines to go to the moon to find out why.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers are unlikely to be impressed with any of the characters here. It is easy to mistakenly believe that the soldier Cleomides is an android since it is the only way to explain her wooden, stilted dialogue and strange actions. The only well-developed character besides Sam is an alien Krakenite named Aloisse (a totally inhuman, cephalopodic sort of creature).\n </p>\n <p>\n  An excellent subplot is the idea that some of the humans cannot see aliens as rational and dependable beings in their own right. This leads to Aloisse being systematically tortured, blinded, and seriously wounded, since the humans simply can''t think of her as a sentient being. This, of course, echoes man''s inhumanity to man--especially where race and color are concerned--and is nicely understated here. The Doctor is probably the only hope they have, but because he is an alien, those in charge cannot see how he can help them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sam spends her time moving from one disaster area to another and encountering a series of hostile environments: it''s amazing that she survives at all. It''s also slightly annoying that she and the Doctor never actually get to meet in the novel--they spend the whole time just missing each other and only actually see each other twice. (I think it was twice--I wasn''t counting!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  The biggest problem with\n  <em>\n   Dreamstone Moon\n  </em>\n  , however, is that the action (and there is lots of it) is simply not very well handled. Whereas John Peel can write action so that you feel you are watching it on screen, Leonard''s events seem diluted and distant, as if it''s someone telling you about something that happened to a friend some years before.\n  <em>\n   Dreamstone Moon\n  </em>\n  is a little bland in parts. Or it could be that Leonard''s writing simply doesn''t appeal to this reviewer and that others will understand and enjoy the work more.\n  <em>\n   --David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dreamstone allows people to record and play back their dreams; it can only be found on a certain moon. The Doctor and Sam travel there to prevent its destruction whilst Anton La Serre wants to know why his pleasant dreams have turned into nightmares.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2197'),
(15065, 'Doctor Who: Dreamstone Moon', 'Paul Leonard; Paul Hinder', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In\n  <em>\n   Dreamstone Moon\n  </em>\n  , Sam and the Doctor, via different routes because they are still apart, find themselves on a satellite called the Dreamstone Moon. It has come by this name because it is where dreamstone, a substance that allows the dreams of sleepers to be recorded and then played back (or something), is mined. But an artist named Anton finds that the dreamstones only give him nightmares and so determines to go to the moon to find out why.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Readers are unlikely to be impressed with any of the characters here. It is easy to mistakenly believe that the soldier Cleomides is an android since it is the only way to explain her wooden, stilted dialogue and strange actions. The only well-developed character besides Sam is an alien Krakenite named Aloisse (a totally inhuman, cephalopodic sort of creature).\n </p>\n <p>\n  An excellent subplot is the idea that some of the humans cannot see aliens as rational and dependable beings in their own right. This leads to Aloisse being systematically tortured, blinded, and seriously wounded, since the humans simply can''t think of her as a sentient being. This, of course, echoes man''s inhumanity to man--especially where race and color are concerned--and is nicely understated here. The Doctor is probably the only hope they have, but because he is an alien, those in charge cannot see how he can help them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sam spends her time moving from one disaster area to another and encountering a series of hostile environments: it''s amazing that she survives at all. It''s also slightly annoying that she and the Doctor never actually get to meet in the novel--they spend the whole time just missing each other and only actually see each other twice. (I think it was twice--I wasn''t counting!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  The biggest problem with\n  <em>\n   Dreamstone Moon\n  </em>\n  , however, is that the action (and there is lots of it) is simply not very well handled. Whereas John Peel can write action so that you feel you are watching it on screen, Leonard''s events seem diluted and distant, as if it''s someone telling you about something that happened to a friend some years before.\n  <em>\n   Dreamstone Moon\n  </em>\n  is a little bland in parts. Or it could be that Leonard''s writing simply doesn''t appeal to this reviewer and that others will understand and enjoy the work more.\n  <em>\n   --David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dreamstone allows people to record and play back their dreams; it can only be found on a certain moon. The Doctor and Sam travel there to prevent its destruction whilst Anton La Serre wants to know why his pleasant dreams have turned into nightmares.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22583'),
(15066, 'Doctor Who: Drift', 'Simon A. Forward', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  White consumes the New Hampshire landscape, as US troops close like a platoon of ghosts on an armed cult, following a spate of unnaturally severe blizzards. Screams are carried on the frosty winds, but as the troops break in they find the house deserted. A gunfight with no victims. The Doctor, hoping to give Leela a taste of life among the tribes of Native America, finds he has fractionally misjudged his coordinates, and they too are trapped in the frozen wastes, for he has strangely lost his homing affinity with the TARDIS. In the nearby small town of Winnipesaukee, a little girl called Amber Mailloux, distressed by the disappearance of her father, frustrated with her mother''s roaming, unsettled life, feels almost at one with the heartless, lonely raging of the storm. But none of them know that the snow, the ice is not just a backdrop, but the real enemy. At the heart of the drift is a living presence, glorying in the cold, inhuman structures of the ice. And it''s hungry...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1216'),
(15067, 'Doctor Who: Drift', 'Simon A. Forward', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  White consumes the New Hampshire landscape, as US troops close like a platoon of ghosts on an armed cult, following a spate of unnaturally severe blizzards. Screams are carried on the frosty winds, but as the troops break in they find the house deserted. A gunfight with no victims. The Doctor, hoping to give Leela a taste of life among the tribes of Native America, finds he has fractionally misjudged his coordinates, and they too are trapped in the frozen wastes, for he has strangely lost his homing affinity with the TARDIS. In the nearby small town of Winnipesaukee, a little girl called Amber Mailloux, distressed by the disappearance of her father, frustrated with her mother''s roaming, unsettled life, feels almost at one with the heartless, lonely raging of the storm. But none of them know that the snow, the ice is not just a backdrop, but the real enemy. At the heart of the drift is a living presence, glorying in the cold, inhuman structures of the ice. And it''s hungry...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23693'),
(15068, 'Doctor Who: Dying in the Sun', 'Jon De Burgh Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor finds himself in Hollywood where a fantastic new movie that''s playing in town is everything each one of its viewers ever wanted from a film. But the ex-fiance of the new movie''s producer thinks the film is evil, and risks her life to prevent its screening. Then a friend of the Doctor''s is found murdered, and his death seems linked to the activities of a secret society, FOCAL. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4056'),
(15069, 'Doctor Who: Dying in the Sun', 'Jon De Burgh Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor finds himself in Hollywood where a fantastic new movie that''s playing in town is everything each one of its viewers ever wanted from a film. But the ex-fiance of the new movie''s producer thinks the film is evil, and risks her life to prevent its screening. Then a friend of the Doctor''s is found murdered, and his death seems linked to the activities of a secret society, FOCAL. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20363'),
(15070, 'Doctor Who: Earthshock', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who and his fellow time-travelers become suspects when they appear at the site of the massacre of a team of paleontologists\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5074'),
(15071, 'Doctor Who: Earthshock', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who and his fellow time-travelers become suspects when they appear at the site of the massacre of a team of paleontologists\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19647'),
(15072, 'Doctor Who: Earthworld', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji novel. The first settlers of New Jupiter were a handful of humans, with androids to help make the planet habitable. Many generations down, the New Jupitan President, John F Hoover, faces a challenge to his hereditary role. His popularity is threatened by the Association for New Jupitan Independence - ANJI - who want to establish New Jupitan Independence. So Hoover has set up an Earth Tneme Park - EarthWorld. It is nearly complete and will enormously boost the planet''s income from off-worlders - and thus the President''s popularity. He has no intention of telling anyone that there are people entering EarthWorld who are mysteriously never seen again. Meanwhile the President has three triplet daughters to succeed him in his hereditary role. Unbeknown to him, they have been tampering with EarthWorld''s androids - but why? And can the Doctor find out before the problems on New Jupiter get out of control?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4919'),
(15073, 'Doctor Who: Earthworld', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji novel. The first settlers of New Jupiter were a handful of humans, with androids to help make the planet habitable. Many generations down, the New Jupitan President, John F Hoover, faces a challenge to his hereditary role. His popularity is threatened by the Association for New Jupitan Independence - ANJI - who want to establish New Jupitan Independence. So Hoover has set up an Earth Tneme Park - EarthWorld. It is nearly complete and will enormously boost the planet''s income from off-worlders - and thus the President''s popularity. He has no intention of telling anyone that there are people entering EarthWorld who are mysteriously never seen again. Meanwhile the President has three triplet daughters to succeed him in his hereditary role. Unbeknown to him, they have been tampering with EarthWorld''s androids - but why? And can the Doctor find out before the problems on New Jupiter get out of control?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19796'),
(15074, 'Doctor Who: Eater of Wasps', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On 49th century Earth, mankind has developed time-travel technology, and a government security force has been set up to control illegal time jumps.Special Agent Kala Golightly has been assigned the mission of recovering a devastating weapon that has been accidentally sent back through time. Traced to Wiltshire, 1934, the timer on this weapon is running and if Kala doesn''t recover it before it activates, it will become capable of genetically re-engineering everything that comes into contact with it. In this event, Kala is under orders to detonate a nuclear device that will destroy the entire area.Charles Rigby, resident of the small village of Marpling, discovers the device in his back garden. It is accidentally triggered and takes over some wasps whose nest was nearby. They are transformed into carriers of psionic intelligence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/463'),
(15075, 'Doctor Who: Eater of Wasps', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On 49th century Earth, mankind has developed time-travel technology, and a government security force has been set up to control illegal time jumps.Special Agent Kala Golightly has been assigned the mission of recovering a devastating weapon that has been accidentally sent back through time. Traced to Wiltshire, 1934, the timer on this weapon is running and if Kala doesn''t recover it before it activates, it will become capable of genetically re-engineering everything that comes into contact with it. In this event, Kala is under orders to detonate a nuclear device that will destroy the entire area.Charles Rigby, resident of the small village of Marpling, discovers the device in his back garden. It is accidentally triggered and takes over some wasps whose nest was nearby. They are transformed into carriers of psionic intelligence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24476'),
(15076, 'Doctor Who: Emotional Chemistry', 'Simon A. Forward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who is a renegade Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. The Time Lords are an immensely powerful race, so named because they were the first to discover how to travel freely through time and space. Bored with his life on Gallifrey, the Doctor steals his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) and sets off to explore the universe. He believes passionately in truth and justice, and finds himself getting involved wherever he finds evil and malevolence - which is everywhere! "Love! Surely one of the most destructive forces in the universe. There''s nothing a man - or woman - won''t do for true love." 1812: The Vishenkov household, along with the rest of Moscow, faces the advance of Napoleon Bonaparte. At their heart is the radiant Dusha, a source of inspiration - and more besides - for them all. But family friend, Captain Padorin, is acting like a man possessed - by the Devil! 2024: Fitz is under interrogation regarding a burglary and fire at the Kremlin. The Doctor has disappeared in the flames. Colonel Bugayev is investigating a spate of antique thefts on top of which he now has a time-travel mystery to unravel. 5000: Lord General Razum Kinzhal is ready to set in motion the final stages of a world war. More than the enemy, his fellow generals of the Icelandic Alliance fear what such a man might do in peacetime. What can bridge these disparate events in time? Love will find a way. But the Doctor must find a better alternative. Before love sets the world on fire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1217'),
(15077, 'Doctor Who: Emotional Chemistry', 'Simon A. Forward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who is a renegade Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. The Time Lords are an immensely powerful race, so named because they were the first to discover how to travel freely through time and space. Bored with his life on Gallifrey, the Doctor steals his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) and sets off to explore the universe. He believes passionately in truth and justice, and finds himself getting involved wherever he finds evil and malevolence - which is everywhere! "Love! Surely one of the most destructive forces in the universe. There''s nothing a man - or woman - won''t do for true love." 1812: The Vishenkov household, along with the rest of Moscow, faces the advance of Napoleon Bonaparte. At their heart is the radiant Dusha, a source of inspiration - and more besides - for them all. But family friend, Captain Padorin, is acting like a man possessed - by the Devil! 2024: Fitz is under interrogation regarding a burglary and fire at the Kremlin. The Doctor has disappeared in the flames. Colonel Bugayev is investigating a spate of antique thefts on top of which he now has a time-travel mystery to unravel. 5000: Lord General Razum Kinzhal is ready to set in motion the final stages of a world war. More than the enemy, his fellow generals of the Icelandic Alliance fear what such a man might do in peacetime. What can bridge these disparate events in time? Love will find a way. But the Doctor must find a better alternative. Before love sets the world on fire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23692'),
(15078, 'Doctor Who: Empire of Death', 'BBC Worldwide', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1855, a boy discovers he can speak with the voices of the dead. He grows up to become one of England''s most celebrated spiritualists. In 1863 the British Empire is effectively without a leader. Queen Victoria is inconsolable with grief following the death of her beloved husband, Prince Albert. The monarch''s last hope is a secret seance. The Doctor and Nyssa are also coming to terms with loss following the death of Adric and Tegan''s sudden departure. Trying to visit the Great Exhibition of 1851, the time travelers are shocked when Adric''s ghost appears in the TARDIS, beckoning them to the Other Side. What is hidden in a drowned village guarded by the British Army? Is there life after death and can it be reached by those still alive? And why is the Doctor so terrified of facing his own ghosts?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7292'),
(15079, 'Doctor Who: Empire of Death', 'BBC Worldwide', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1855, a boy discovers he can speak with the voices of the dead. He grows up to become one of England''s most celebrated spiritualists. In 1863 the British Empire is effectively without a leader. Queen Victoria is inconsolable with grief following the death of her beloved husband, Prince Albert. The monarch''s last hope is a secret seance. The Doctor and Nyssa are also coming to terms with loss following the death of Adric and Tegan''s sudden departure. Trying to visit the Great Exhibition of 1851, the time travelers are shocked when Adric''s ghost appears in the TARDIS, beckoning them to the Other Side. What is hidden in a drowned village guarded by the British Army? Is there life after death and can it be reached by those still alive? And why is the Doctor so terrified of facing his own ghosts?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16578'),
(15080, 'Doctor Who: Empire of Death', 'BBC Worldwide', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1855, a boy discovers he can speak with the voices of the dead. He grows up to become one of England''s most celebrated spiritualists. In 1863 the British Empire is effectively without a leader. Queen Victoria is inconsolable with grief following the death of her beloved husband, Prince Albert. The monarch''s last hope is a secret seance. The Doctor and Nyssa are also coming to terms with loss following the death of Adric and Tegan''s sudden departure. Trying to visit the Great Exhibition of 1851, the time travelers are shocked when Adric''s ghost appears in the TARDIS, beckoning them to the Other Side. What is hidden in a drowned village guarded by the British Army? Is there life after death and can it be reached by those still alive? And why is the Doctor so terrified of facing his own ghosts?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17714'),
(15081, 'Doctor Who: Endgame', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Feliks, an acquaintance of the Doctor''s, is killed in an accident. He leaves the Doctor a coded message. With difficulty, the Doctor decodes the message and finds himself caught up in the middle of a dangerous, world-threatening conflict.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/763'),
(15082, 'Doctor Who: Endgame', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Feliks, an acquaintance of the Doctor''s, is killed in an accident. He leaves the Doctor a coded message. With difficulty, the Doctor decodes the message and finds himself caught up in the middle of a dangerous, world-threatening conflict.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24124'),
(15083, 'Doctor Who: Enlightenment', 'Barbara Clegg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS materializes on an Edwardian yacht and Dr. Who finds himself involved in a strange and deadly race\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7346'),
(15084, 'Doctor Who: Enlightenment', 'Barbara Clegg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The TARDIS materializes on an Edwardian yacht and Dr. Who finds himself involved in a strange and deadly race\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16545'),
(15085, 'Doctor Who: Escape Velocity', 'Colin Brake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is the first day of the 21st century, and a space race between rival Earth entrepreneurs is underway.Both teams are being aided by an alien race called the Kulan. They were stranded on planet Earth after their scout ship crashed there and, as far as the rival teams are concerned, the Kulan are motivated by a desire to get back to their home planet.What they don''t realize is that in fact the wrecked scout ship was part of a Kulan invasion force, sent ahead of the rest of its fleet to investigate Earth. The Kulan are a ruthless race who invade planets to exploit whatever economic value they contain, and the rest of the fleet is due to arrive in 2001.However, the stranded Kulan need to escape planet Earth''s radio-thick atmosphere to contact the fleet and arrange their rendezvous. Will one of the teams succeed in helping the Kulan to destroy Earth -- or will the Doctor succeed in averting a catastrophic attack?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6585'),
(15086, 'Doctor Who: Escape Velocity', 'Colin Brake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is the first day of the 21st century, and a space race between rival Earth entrepreneurs is underway.Both teams are being aided by an alien race called the Kulan. They were stranded on planet Earth after their scout ship crashed there and, as far as the rival teams are concerned, the Kulan are motivated by a desire to get back to their home planet.What they don''t realize is that in fact the wrecked scout ship was part of a Kulan invasion force, sent ahead of the rest of its fleet to investigate Earth. The Kulan are a ruthless race who invade planets to exploit whatever economic value they contain, and the rest of the fleet is due to arrive in 2001.However, the stranded Kulan need to escape planet Earth''s radio-thick atmosphere to contact the fleet and arrange their rendezvous. Will one of the teams succeed in helping the Kulan to destroy Earth -- or will the Doctor succeed in averting a catastrophic attack?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17412'),
(15087, 'Doctor Who: Eternity Weeps', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 2003 on Earth and mankind faces apocalypse. The Doctor and his companions must find the secrets of an ancient exodus to prevent the Earth being twisted into the image of a long-dead world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4378'),
(15088, 'Doctor Who: Eye of Heaven', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Leela travel back to Victorian times to unravel the mysteries of the Easter Island statues, and solve the conundrum of how nearly 18,000 islanders left their home without using boats.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4380'),
(15089, 'Doctor Who: Fallen Gods', 'Jonathan Blum &amp; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In ancient Akrotiri, a young girl is learning mysteries from a tutor, who, quite literally, fell from the skies. With his encouragement she can fly and surf the time streams and see something of the future. But then the demons come. Death and disaster are meted out by the gods of her land. Perhaps retribution for some heinous crime... or something far more sinister?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4090'),
(15090, 'Doctor Who: Fallen Gods', 'Jonathan Blum; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In ancient Akrotiri, a young girl is learning mysteries from a tutor, who, quite literally, fell from the skies. With his encouragement she can fly and surf the time streams and see something of the future. But then the demons come. Death and disaster are meted out by the gods of her land. Perhaps retribution for some heinous crime... or something far more sinister?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20426');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15091, 'Doctor Who: Falls the Shadow', 'Daniel O&#39;Mahony', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜We are deranged. We are psychopaths, sociopaths, up the garden path,â€™ said Tanith. â€˜We are mad, and you are trapped with us.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS is imprisoned in a house called Shadowfell, where a man is ready to commence the next phase of an experiment that will remake the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A stranger dressed in grey watches from a hillside, searching for the sinister powers growing within the house. A killer appears from the surrounding forest, determined to carry out her deadly instructions. In the cellar, something lingers, observing and influencing events, waiting to take on flesh and emerge. And trapped in alien darkness, the last survivor of a doomed race mourns for the lost planet Earth.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6478'),
(15092, 'Doctor Who: Falls the Shadow', 'Daniel O&#39;Mahony', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜We are deranged. We are psychopaths, sociopaths, up the garden path,â€™ said Tanith. â€˜We are mad, and you are trapped with us.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS is imprisoned in a house called Shadowfell, where a man is ready to commence the next phase of an experiment that will remake the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A stranger dressed in grey watches from a hillside, searching for the sinister powers growing within the house. A killer appears from the surrounding forest, determined to carry out her deadly instructions. In the cellar, something lingers, observing and influencing events, waiting to take on flesh and emerge. And trapped in alien darkness, the last survivor of a doomed race mourns for the lost planet Earth.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17483'),
(15093, 'Doctor Who: Father Time', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is living alone in a farmhouse, with his books, experiments and cats for company. He still doesn''t know who he is, but the blue Police Box outside looks vaguely familiar.Giving private tuition to a dazzlingly gifted ten-year-old named Miranda, the Doctor learns that she and her family have fled the planet Klade. There was a bloody revolution there, in which all the imperial family was slaughtered, with the exception of the infant Miranda. Her nanny brought her to Earth, to save her from the atrocities of the Republicans, but the Imperialists are after her too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3560'),
(15094, 'Doctor Who: Father Time', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is living alone in a farmhouse, with his books, experiments and cats for company. He still doesn''t know who he is, but the blue Police Box outside looks vaguely familiar.Giving private tuition to a dazzlingly gifted ten-year-old named Miranda, the Doctor learns that she and her family have fled the planet Klade. There was a bloody revolution there, in which all the imperial family was slaughtered, with the exception of the infant Miranda. Her nanny brought her to Earth, to save her from the atrocities of the Republicans, but the Imperialists are after her too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20897'),
(15095, 'Doctor Who: Fear Itself', 'Nick Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the 22nd Century, a few short years of interstellar contact have taught Man a hard lesson: there are powerful, unstoppable, alien forces abroad that are nightmare manifest. It''s a realization that deals a body blow to Man''s belief in his own superiority and leaves him with the only option he has ever had: to fight. When the Doctor and his friends are caught in the crossfire, they find suspicion and paranoia running rampant, with enemies to be seen in every shadow. The fight against alien forces is no job for an amateur, and for a Doctor only just finding his way in the universe again, one misstep could be fatal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2473'),
(15096, 'Doctor Who: Fear Itself', 'Nick Wallace', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the 22nd Century, a few short years of interstellar contact have taught Man a hard lesson: there are powerful, unstoppable, alien forces abroad that are nightmare manifest. It''s a realization that deals a body blow to Man''s belief in his own superiority and leaves him with the only option he has ever had: to fight. When the Doctor and his friends are caught in the crossfire, they find suspicion and paranoia running rampant, with enemies to be seen in every shadow. The fight against alien forces is no job for an amateur, and for a Doctor only just finding his way in the universe again, one misstep could be fatal.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22287'),
(15097, 'Doctor Who: Fear of the Dark', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the year 2382 archaeologists land on Akoshemon''s only moon, searching for evidence of the planet''s infamous past. But when the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa are drawn into the lunar caverns they find more than a team of academics -- and help uncover much more than ancient history. Something is lying in wait, deep inside the labyrinth of caves: something that remembers the spiral of war, pestilence and deprivation that ruined Akoshemon. Something that rejoiced in every kind of horror and destruction. An age-old terror is about to be reborn. But what is the hideous secret of the Bloodhunter? And why does Nyssa feel that her thoughts are no longer her own? Forced to confront his own worst fears, even the Doctor will be pushed to breaking point -- and beyond.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/464'),
(15098, 'Doctor Who: Fear of the Dark', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the year 2382 archaeologists land on Akoshemon''s only moon, searching for evidence of the planet''s infamous past. But when the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa are drawn into the lunar caverns they find more than a team of academics -- and help uncover much more than ancient history. Something is lying in wait, deep inside the labyrinth of caves: something that remembers the spiral of war, pestilence and deprivation that ruined Akoshemon. Something that rejoiced in every kind of horror and destruction. An age-old terror is about to be reborn. But what is the hideous secret of the Bloodhunter? And why does Nyssa feel that her thoughts are no longer her own? Forced to confront his own worst fears, even the Doctor will be pushed to breaking point -- and beyond.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24475'),
(15099, 'Doctor Who: Festival of Death', 'Jonathan Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stuck in the end of a hyperspace tunnel lies a huge, chaotic, space city known as the G-Lock -- the end product of the most terrible intergalactic traffic jam in history. It has now been transformed into a death-themed park, where the major attraction is a death-simulator known as the Beautiful Death. However, the power generated by people enjoying the ride is being diverted to a mysterious destination. A creature called the Repulsion is on the loose, offering resurrection in two hundred year''s time to anyone who will surrender to it, allowing it to exist in the real world. Can the Doctor defeat it, and escape from the G-Lock before the interface between hyperspace and real space collapses?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4129'),
(15100, 'Doctor Who: Festival of Death', 'Jonathan Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stuck in the end of a hyperspace tunnel lies a huge, chaotic, space city known as the G-Lock -- the end product of the most terrible intergalactic traffic jam in history. It has now been transformed into a death-themed park, where the major attraction is a death-simulator known as the Beautiful Death. However, the power generated by people enjoying the ride is being diverted to a mysterious destination. A creature called the Repulsion is on the loose, offering resurrection in two hundred year''s time to anyone who will surrender to it, allowing it to exist in the real world. Can the Doctor defeat it, and escape from the G-Lock before the interface between hyperspace and real space collapses?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20387'),
(15101, 'Doctor Who: First Frontier', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Ace raised her blaster. â€˜Youâ€™ve already killed me once, girl,â€™ Kreer said. â€˜Didnâ€™t you learn anything from that?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When Bernice asks to see the dawn of the space age, the Doctor takes the TARDIS to the United States of America in 1957 - and into the midst of distrust and paranoia. The Cold War is raging, bringing the world to the brink of atomic destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the threat facing America is far more deadly than Communist Russia. The militaristic Tzun Confederacy have made Earth their next target for conquest - and the aliens are already among us.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Two nuclear warheads have been stolen; there are traitors to the human species in the highest ranks of the army; and alien infiltrators have assumed human form. Only one person seems to know whatâ€™s going on: the armyâ€™s mysterious scientific advisor, the enigmatic Major Kreer.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6424'),
(15102, 'Doctor Who: First Frontier', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Ace raised her blaster. â€˜Youâ€™ve already killed me once, girl,â€™ Kreer said. â€˜Didnâ€™t you learn anything from that?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When Bernice asks to see the dawn of the space age, the Doctor takes the TARDIS to the United States of America in 1957 - and into the midst of distrust and paranoia. The Cold War is raging, bringing the world to the brink of atomic destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the threat facing America is far more deadly than Communist Russia. The militaristic Tzun Confederacy have made Earth their next target for conquest - and the aliens are already among us.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Two nuclear warheads have been stolen; there are traitors to the human species in the highest ranks of the army; and alien infiltrators have assumed human form. Only one person seems to know whatâ€™s going on: the armyâ€™s mysterious scientific advisor, the enigmatic Major Kreer.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17677'),
(15103, 'Doctor Who: Foreign Devils', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font size="-1">\n   China, 1800, and the Doctor, Jamie and ZoÃ« arrive at the English Trade Concession in Canton.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  A supposedly harmless relic known as the Spirit Gate becomes active and whisks Jamie and ZoÃ« into the future. The Doctor follows in the TARDIS and arrives in England, 1900, where the descendents of an English merchant from 1800 are gathering.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among their number is a young man called Carnacki, an expert in all things mystical, and before long he is helping the Doctor investigate a series of bizarre murders in the house.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font size="-1">\n   The spirits of the past have returned, and when the Doctor discovers that the house and surrounds have literally been taken out of space and time, he realises that their attacker may not be all they seem.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7737'),
(15104, 'Doctor Who: Foreign Devils', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font size="-1">\n   China, 1800, and the Doctor, Jamie and ZoÃ« arrive at the English Trade Concession in Canton.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  A supposedly harmless relic known as the Spirit Gate becomes active and whisks Jamie and ZoÃ« into the future. The Doctor follows in the TARDIS and arrives in England, 1900, where the descendents of an English merchant from 1800 are gathering.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Among their number is a young man called Carnacki, an expert in all things mystical, and before long he is helping the Doctor investigate a series of bizarre murders in the house.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font size="-1">\n   The spirits of the past have returned, and when the Doctor discovers that the house and surrounds have literally been taken out of space and time, he realises that their attacker may not be all they seem.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16249'),
(15105, 'Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After Doctor Who materializes on an alien spaceship, the Monarch commander of the ship, offers to replicate the doctor as an android\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/764'),
(15106, 'Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After Doctor Who materializes on an alien spaceship, the Monarch commander of the ship, offers to replicate the doctor as an android\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24123'),
(15107, 'Doctor Who: Frayed', 'Tara Samms', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''I like to stare into the sun, eyes wide. It burns incredible colours into my head, great shifting continents of them that blot out all else. And I try to keep looking until I imagine all the pretty blue has boiled away from my eyes and they are left a bright, bloody red and quite sightless.'' On a blasted world, the Doctor and Susan find themselves in the middle of a war they cannot understand. With Susan missing and the Doctor captured, who will save the people from the enemies from both outside and within?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/834'),
(15108, 'Doctor Who: Frayed', 'Tara Samms', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''I like to stare into the sun, eyes wide. It burns incredible colours into my head, great shifting continents of them that blot out all else. And I try to keep looking until I imagine all the pretty blue has boiled away from my eyes and they are left a bright, bloody red and quite sightless.'' On a blasted world, the Doctor and Susan find themselves in the middle of a war they cannot understand. With Susan missing and the Doctor captured, who will save the people from the enemies from both outside and within?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24081'),
(15109, 'Doctor Who: Frontier Worlds', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What strange attraction lures people to the planet Drebnar? When the TARDIS is dragged there, the Doctor determines to find out why. He discovers that scientists from the Frontier Worlds Corporation have set up a base on the planet, and are trying to blur the distinction between people and plants.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2201'),
(15110, 'Doctor Who: Frontier Worlds', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What strange attraction lures people to the planet Drebnar? When the TARDIS is dragged there, the Doctor determines to find out why. He discovers that scientists from the Frontier Worlds Corporation have set up a base on the planet, and are trying to blur the distinction between people and plants.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22606'),
(15111, 'Doctor Who: Frontios', 'Christopher H. Bidmead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An unexpected meteorite storm forces Doctor Who to crash-land the TARDIS on a colony on a harsh planet\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6660'),
(15112, 'Doctor Who: Frontios', 'Christopher H. Bidmead', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An unexpected meteorite storm forces Doctor Who to crash-land the TARDIS on a colony on a harsh planet\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18014'),
(15113, 'Doctor Who: Full Circle', 'Andrew Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor discovers the TARDIS has fallen into E-Space, an alternate universe, and landed on the planet Alzarius. The Doctor and Romana find its only inhabitants are living on a vast, crashed spaceship they have been repairing for generations to return to their home planet, Terradon. But Mistfall, a mythical time of terror, is coming again to Alzarius, and an eerie menace is rising out of the misty marshes.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But why have huge poisonous spiders begun to appear in the Alzarian food supply? And what is the secret of the strange marshmen? The Doctor and Romana must solves these riddles and more if they are to have any chance of returning to their own universe.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7615'),
(15114, 'Doctor Who: Full Circle', 'Andrew Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor discovers the TARDIS has fallen into E-Space, an alternate universe, and landed on the planet Alzarius. The Doctor and Romana find its only inhabitants are living on a vast, crashed spaceship they have been repairing for generations to return to their home planet, Terradon. But Mistfall, a mythical time of terror, is coming again to Alzarius, and an eerie menace is rising out of the misty marshes.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But why have huge poisonous spiders begun to appear in the Alzarian food supply? And what is the secret of the strange marshmen? The Doctor and Romana must solves these riddles and more if they are to have any chance of returning to their own universe.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16238'),
(15115, 'Doctor Who: Fury From the Deep', 'Victor Pemberton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Landing near a North Sea gas refinery off the east coast of England, the TARDIS crew are immediately accused of sabotage. Several rig crews have mysteriously Vanished, strange pressure build-ups have been detected, and in the refinery''s pipelines the Doctor can hear the steady, rhythmic beat of - what?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Soon the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria will find themselves at the unrelenting mercy of one of the deadliest and most terrifying foe they have ever encountered â€” the deadly, parasitic Weed creatures...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/343'),
(15116, 'Doctor Who: Fury From the Deep', 'Victor Pemberton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Landing near a North Sea gas refinery off the east coast of England, the TARDIS crew are immediately accused of sabotage. Several rig crews have mysteriously Vanished, strange pressure build-ups have been detected, and in the refinery''s pipelines the Doctor can hear the steady, rhythmic beat of - what?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Soon the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria will find themselves at the unrelenting mercy of one of the deadliest and most terrifying foe they have ever encountered â€” the deadly, parasitic Weed creatures...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24534'),
(15117, 'Doctor Who: Galaxy Four', 'William Emms', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Learning that the planet will explode within two days, Doctor Who must decide which of two warring alien species to rescue, the beautiful Drahvins or the repugnant Rills\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/227'),
(15118, 'Doctor Who: Galaxy Four', 'William Emms', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Learning that the planet will explode within two days, Doctor Who must decide which of two warring alien species to rescue, the beautiful Drahvins or the repugnant Rills\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24669'),
(15119, 'Doctor Who: Genocide', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who story in which Jo Grant is asked to join a project 1.5 million years in the past, to observe the evolution of the human species at first hand. The Doctor learns of this only when he visits Earth in 2109 and finds the peaceful Tractites - but no trace of the human race.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2199'),
(15120, 'Doctor Who: Genocide', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who story in which Jo Grant is asked to join a project 1.5 million years in the past, to observe the evolution of the human species at first hand. The Doctor learns of this only when he visits Earth in 2109 and finds the peaceful Tractites - but no trace of the human race.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22582'),
(15121, 'Doctor Who: Ghost Light', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Earth 1883. At the heart of a Victorian house by the name of Gabriel Chase, lies an alien ship. For millions of years its owner has been asleep, unaware that part of the cargo has evolved into a malevolent creature.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the Doctor brings his assistant Ace to the house to face and overcome a terrible fear from her past, he finds himself catapulted into the secrets lying dormant there. Who or what is the alien presence Josiah? What has he done with the real inhabitants of the house? More importantly, of what is Josiah so frightened and can it help the Doctor?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In order to combat Josiah''s evil presence, the Doctor arranges the release of a more powerful entity called Light - the true owner of the alien ship. However, as events unfold the Doctor discovers he may have awoken an even more dangerous adversary. For Light means to destroy every living thing on Earth...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3221'),
(15122, 'Doctor Who: Ghost Ship', 'Keith Topping', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Perhaps sensing the Doctor''s deepening mood of introspective melancholy, the TARDIS lands in the most haunted place on Earth, the luxury ocean liner the Queen Mary in the year 1963. But why do ghosts from the past, the present and, perhaps even the future, seek out the Doctor? What appalling secret is hidden in Cabin 672? And will the Doctor be able to preserve his sanity as he struggles to save the lives of the passengers against mighty forces which even he does not fully understand?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3765'),
(15123, 'Doctor Who: Ghost Ship', 'Keith Topping', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Perhaps sensing the Doctor''s deepening mood of introspective melancholy, the TARDIS lands in the most haunted place on Earth, the luxury ocean liner the Queen Mary in the year 1963. But why do ghosts from the past, the present and, perhaps even the future, seek out the Doctor? What appalling secret is hidden in Cabin 672? And will the Doctor be able to preserve his sanity as he struggles to save the lives of the passengers against mighty forces which even he does not fully understand?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20690'),
(15124, 'Doctor Who: Godengine', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Weâ€™re on Mars, weâ€™re surrounded by Ice Warriors, and the TARDIS has been destroyed. Business as usual, I suppose.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Stranded on Mars, the Doctor and Roz team up with a group of colonists on a journey to find much-needed supplies at the North Pole. But when their expedition is joined by a party of Ice Warrior pilgrims, tensions are stretched to breaking point. Meanwhile, Chris finds himself on Plutoâ€™s moon, trapped with a group of desperate scientists in a deadly race against time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The year is 2157: the Earth has been invaded, and forces are at work on Mars to ensure that the mysterious invaders are successful. Unless the Doctor can solve the riddle of the GodEngine, the entire course of human history will be changed.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6556'),
(15125, 'Doctor Who: Godengine', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Weâ€™re on Mars, weâ€™re surrounded by Ice Warriors, and the TARDIS has been destroyed. Business as usual, I suppose.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Stranded on Mars, the Doctor and Roz team up with a group of colonists on a journey to find much-needed supplies at the North Pole. But when their expedition is joined by a party of Ice Warrior pilgrims, tensions are stretched to breaking point. Meanwhile, Chris finds himself on Plutoâ€™s moon, trapped with a group of desperate scientists in a deadly race against time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The year is 2157: the Earth has been invaded, and forces are at work on Mars to ensure that the mysterious invaders are successful. Unless the Doctor can solve the riddle of the GodEngine, the entire course of human history will be changed.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17417'),
(15126, 'Doctor Who: Grave Matter', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS materializes on an island named Dorsill, which has recently been bought by a DNA scientist named Sheldon. At first the villagers aren''t suspicious when they notice a few people dying, and attribute it to natural causes. Little do they realize that they are in fact now part of Sheldon''s closed experiment. The Doctor must discover what dark experiments Sheldon is carrying out on the innocent people of Dorsill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3855'),
(15127, 'Doctor Who: Grave Matter', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS materializes on an island named Dorsill, which has recently been bought by a DNA scientist named Sheldon. At first the villagers aren''t suspicious when they notice a few people dying, and attribute it to natural causes. Little do they realize that they are in fact now part of Sheldon''s closed experiment. The Doctor must discover what dark experiments Sheldon is carrying out on the innocent people of Dorsill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20605'),
(15128, 'Doctor Who: Greatest Show in the Galaxy', 'Stephen Wyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Ace need all their death-defying skills in the big top to uncover a brooding, ancient evil that has broken the spirit of the Psychic Circus and demanded the sacrifice of so many lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1062'),
(15129, 'Doctor Who: Greatest Show in the Galaxy', 'Stephen Wyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Doctor and Ace need all their death-defying skills in the big top to uncover a brooding, ancient evil that has broken the spirit of the Psychic Circus and demanded the sacrifice of so many lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23900'),
(15130, 'Doctor Who: Grimm Reality', 'Simon Bucher-Jones &amp; Kelly Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS arrives on a planet inhabited by a lost human colony that is dangerously close to an energy-emitting white hole. The Doctor and his companions are intent on discovering more about the territory, and find it is no ordinary planet. Various visitors contend for control over what will happen to this exotic shape-shifting world in the universe beyond. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1223'),
(15131, 'Doctor Who: Grimm Reality', 'Simon Bucher-Jones; Kelly Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS arrives on a planet inhabited by a lost human colony that is dangerously close to an energy-emitting white hole. The Doctor and his companions are intent on discovering more about the territory, and find it is no ordinary planet. Various visitors contend for control over what will happen to this exotic shape-shifting world in the universe beyond. Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23687'),
(15132, 'Doctor Who: Halflife', 'Mark Michalowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  To lose your memory once may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose it twice looks like carelessness. The Doctor''s not himself. He''s not quite sure who he is, but he''s definitely not himself. It doesn''t help that he''s forgotten quite why he came to the colony world of Espero in the first place, but he''s sure it was something important. Whatever the reason, he''s not the planet''s only visitor. Before long, he''s engaged in the search for a time-bomb - a time-bomb that could have consequences not only for Espero, but for the Doctor himself - and his missing past.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3120'),
(15133, 'Doctor Who: Halflife', 'Mark Michalowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  To lose your memory once may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose it twice looks like carelessness. The Doctor''s not himself. He''s not quite sure who he is, but he''s definitely not himself. It doesn''t help that he''s forgotten quite why he came to the colony world of Espero in the first place, but he''s sure it was something important. Whatever the reason, he''s not the planet''s only visitor. Before long, he''s engaged in the search for a time-bomb - a time-bomb that could have consequences not only for Espero, but for the Doctor himself - and his missing past.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21739'),
(15134, 'Doctor Who: Happiness Patrol', 'Graeme Curry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor has heard stories of strange and sinister goings-on on Earth colony Terra Alpha. Citizens have disappeared without trace, and strange creatures lurk in the pipes and sewers under the capital city. Believing it is high time someone got to the bottom of the mystery, the Doctor declares to his young companion Ace that tonight will be the night...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  He discovers that Terra Alpha is ruled by the tyrannical Helen A, a dictator who requires her subjects to be happy... or die. Her roving death squads - the Happiness Patrol - are empowered to kill on sight anyone displaying signs of sadness, gloom or melancholy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   However, it is not just the sadistic Happiness Patrol that the Doctor and Ace must contend with. Before they can discover the dark secret of Helen A''s regime, they must face the fearsome bloodlust of her savage pet, Fifi, and the lethal surprises cooked up by her chief executioner - and confectioner supreme - the Kandy Man.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5287'),
(15135, 'Doctor Who: Happiness Patrol', 'Graeme Curry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor has heard stories of strange and sinister goings-on on Earth colony Terra Alpha. Citizens have disappeared without trace, and strange creatures lurk in the pipes and sewers under the capital city. Believing it is high time someone got to the bottom of the mystery, the Doctor declares to his young companion Ace that tonight will be the night...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  He discovers that Terra Alpha is ruled by the tyrannical Helen A, a dictator who requires her subjects to be happy... or die. Her roving death squads - the Happiness Patrol - are empowered to kill on sight anyone displaying signs of sadness, gloom or melancholy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   However, it is not just the sadistic Happiness Patrol that the Doctor and Ace must contend with. Before they can discover the dark secret of Helen A''s regime, they must face the fearsome bloodlust of her savage pet, Fifi, and the lethal surprises cooked up by her chief executioner - and confectioner supreme - the Kandy Man.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19358'),
(15136, 'Doctor Who: Happy Endings', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Doctor, this is my fiance. Please donâ€™t kill him.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  You are cordially invited to the wedding of Mr Jason Kane and Professor Bernice S. Summerfield, to be held in the village of Cheldon Bonniface in the year 2010.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If everything works out, that is. Between rows, fights and pre-emptive divorce proceedings, there may not be a wedding at all. Especially if there really is someone who wants to prevent it happening.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Everybodyâ€™s coming: from Ice Warriors to UNIT veterans, a flirtatious Ace to a suspicious Hamlet Macbeth -- and a very confused trio of Isley Brothers. The Doctor has to organize a buffet, Roz has a mystery to solve, and Chris has a girlfriend who used to be the Timewyrm.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2314'),
(15137, 'Doctor Who: Happy Endings', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Doctor, this is my fiance. Please donâ€™t kill him.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  You are cordially invited to the wedding of Mr Jason Kane and Professor Bernice S. Summerfield, to be held in the village of Cheldon Bonniface in the year 2010.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If everything works out, that is. Between rows, fights and pre-emptive divorce proceedings, there may not be a wedding at all. Especially if there really is someone who wants to prevent it happening.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Everybodyâ€™s coming: from Ice Warriors to UNIT veterans, a flirtatious Ace to a suspicious Hamlet Macbeth -- and a very confused trio of Isley Brothers. The Doctor has to organize a buffet, Roz has a mystery to solve, and Chris has a girlfriend who used to be the Timewyrm.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22526'),
(15138, 'Doctor Who: Head Games', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A deranged version of the Doctor, known as Dr. Who, has broken through a rip in reality and is going round the universe dispensing his own kind of justice. Only the real Doctor knows himself well enough to be able to deal with this threat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/980'),
(15139, 'Doctor Who: Head Games', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A deranged version of the Doctor, known as Dr. Who, has broken through a rip in reality and is going round the universe dispensing his own kind of justice. Only the real Doctor knows himself well enough to be able to deal with this threat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23870'),
(15140, 'Doctor Who: Heart of Tardis', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s a serious reality breach in the 1950s American town of Lychburg, as the Second Doctor discovers when the TARDIS unexpectedly lands there, and he discovers it to be a city of anachronisms and temporal contradictions. Its people seem to be under the influence of a mysterious force...What''s more, the inept police force are baffled by a series of brutal and horrific murders taking place all over the city, with no witnesses. Meanwhile the Fourth Doctor is battling with the sinister Aleister Crowley, Head of the Provisionals, in 1980s London. Exactly what were the consequences of his disastrous post-war experiments in magic and the occult, and can the two Doctors save the people of Lychburg?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6401'),
(15141, 'Doctor Who: Heart of Tardis', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s a serious reality breach in the 1950s American town of Lychburg, as the Second Doctor discovers when the TARDIS unexpectedly lands there, and he discovers it to be a city of anachronisms and temporal contradictions. Its people seem to be under the influence of a mysterious force...What''s more, the inept police force are baffled by a series of brutal and horrific murders taking place all over the city, with no witnesses. Meanwhile the Fourth Doctor is battling with the sinister Aleister Crowley, Head of the Provisionals, in 1980s London. Exactly what were the consequences of his disastrous post-war experiments in magic and the occult, and can the two Doctors save the people of Lychburg?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17701'),
(15142, 'Doctor Who: Heritage', 'Dale Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody visits Heritage. Why would they? Dry, dusty and hot, it''s nothing but a failed mining colony too stupid to realise that it''s actually dead. No-one wants to visit, least of all Ace. But the Doctor''s got his hearts set on a flying visit, just while they''re in the neighbourhood. That''s when he finds out that Heritage wants visitors just as much as visitors want them. So, while Ace is getting friendly with the locals, the Doctor is trying his best to convince them he''s not interested in their secrets. All he wants is a few quiet days and a nice cup of tea. Trouble is, secrets have a way of unearthing themselves when the Doctor''s around. Whether he wants them to or not.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6601'),
(15143, 'Doctor Who: Heritage', 'Dale Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Nobody visits Heritage. Why would they? Dry, dusty and hot, it''s nothing but a failed mining colony too stupid to realise that it''s actually dead. No-one wants to visit, least of all Ace. But the Doctor''s got his hearts set on a flying visit, just while they''re in the neighbourhood. That''s when he finds out that Heritage wants visitors just as much as visitors want them. So, while Ace is getting friendly with the locals, the Doctor is trying his best to convince them he''s not interested in their secrets. All he wants is a few quiet days and a nice cup of tea. Trouble is, secrets have a way of unearthing themselves when the Doctor''s around. Whether he wants them to or not.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17543'),
(15144, 'Doctor Who: History 101', 'Mags L. Halliday', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Spain, 1937. In April, the small town of Guernica was razed to the ground in a firestorm that claimed a thousand or more lives. In May, Barcelona exploded into fierce street fighting as different political factions fought for control of the city. Both events have been the subject of fierce propagandist claims by all sides, but this book examines new evidence to suggest that the two events are more closely linked than previously thought. Who were the shadowy figures working behind the scenes? Who were ''the Doctor'', ''Anji'' and ''Fitz'' and what were their objectives? And were there really monsters roaming the streets? Presented in the form of a novel, History 101 tries to discover if the absolute truth can ever be revealed. It should be read as part of the ongoing ''Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor'' history course.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3171'),
(15145, 'Doctor Who: History 101', 'Mags L. Halliday', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Spain, 1937. In April, the small town of Guernica was razed to the ground in a firestorm that claimed a thousand or more lives. In May, Barcelona exploded into fierce street fighting as different political factions fought for control of the city. Both events have been the subject of fierce propagandist claims by all sides, but this book examines new evidence to suggest that the two events are more closely linked than previously thought. Who were the shadowy figures working behind the scenes? Who were ''the Doctor'', ''Anji'' and ''Fitz'' and what were their objectives? And were there really monsters roaming the streets? Presented in the form of a novel, History 101 tries to discover if the absolute truth can ever be revealed. It should be read as part of the ongoing ''Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor'' history course.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21350');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15146, 'Doctor Who: Hope', 'Mark Clapham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor''s rather manic attempts to refamiliarise himself with the workings of the TARDIS result in the crew finding themselves stranded on an extremely inhospitable planet, as the TARDIS sinks through the cracking ice it landed on. This is Endpoint, the last planet in a crumbled galaxy, where hairless post-humans scrape out an existence on the noxious, barely habitable surface. In their efforts to persuade someone to resurrect the TARDIS, they encounter the real power on Endpoint, a cyborg named Silver, whose enhanced capabilities and mastery of technology mean he dictates what really happens, not only in the capital city, Hope, but on the entire planet. But he is worried: there is something going on that is beyond even his control. In increasing numbers, people are being killed on the streets of Hope. As the Doctor investigates, he discovers a hidden community below the surface of Endpoint, who are desperate enough to kill...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3082'),
(15147, 'Doctor Who: Hope', 'Mark Clapham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor''s rather manic attempts to refamiliarise himself with the workings of the TARDIS result in the crew finding themselves stranded on an extremely inhospitable planet, as the TARDIS sinks through the cracking ice it landed on. This is Endpoint, the last planet in a crumbled galaxy, where hairless post-humans scrape out an existence on the noxious, barely habitable surface. In their efforts to persuade someone to resurrect the TARDIS, they encounter the real power on Endpoint, a cyborg named Silver, whose enhanced capabilities and mastery of technology mean he dictates what really happens, not only in the capital city, Hope, but on the entire planet. But he is worried: there is something going on that is beyond even his control. In increasing numbers, people are being killed on the streets of Hope. As the Doctor investigates, he discovers a hidden community below the surface of Endpoint, who are desperate enough to kill...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21760'),
(15148, 'Doctor Who: Human Nature', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Whoâ€™s going to save us this time?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  April, 1914. The inhabitants of the little Norfolk town of Farringham are enjoying an early summer, unaware that war is on the way. Amongst them is Dr John Smith, a short, middle-aged history teacher from Aberdeen. Heâ€™s having a hard time with his new post as house master at Hulton Academy for Boys, a school dedicated to producing military officers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Bernice Summerfield is enjoying her holiday in the town, getting over the terrible events that befell her in France. But then she meets a future Doctor, and things start to get dangerous very quickly. With the Doctor she knows gone, and only a suffragette and an elderly rake for company, can Benny fight off a vicious alien attack? And will Dr Smith be able to save the day?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2315'),
(15149, 'Doctor Who: Human Nature', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Whoâ€™s going to save us this time?â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  April, 1914. The inhabitants of the little Norfolk town of Farringham are enjoying an early summer, unaware that war is on the way. Amongst them is Dr John Smith, a short, middle-aged history teacher from Aberdeen. Heâ€™s having a hard time with his new post as house master at Hulton Academy for Boys, a school dedicated to producing military officers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Bernice Summerfield is enjoying her holiday in the town, getting over the terrible events that befell her in France. But then she meets a future Doctor, and things start to get dangerous very quickly. With the Doctor she knows gone, and only a suffragette and an elderly rake for company, can Benny fight off a vicious alien attack? And will Dr Smith be able to save the day?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22522'),
(15150, 'Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Since its return to the screen in 2005, masterminded by Russell T Davies, "Doctor Who" has become a genuine phenomenon picking up countless awards, attracting huge audiences and selling lots and lots of books - over half a million so far. This latest adventure sees the Doctor pitted against one of his most famous adversaries - the deadly Cybermen. It is the first book to feature the Doctor''s new companion Martha Jones and is sure to be snapped up by all fans of the show.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/766'),
(15151, 'Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Since its return to the screen in 2005, masterminded by Russell T Davies, "Doctor Who" has become a genuine phenomenon picking up countless awards, attracting huge audiences and selling lots and lots of books - over half a million so far. This latest adventure sees the Doctor pitted against one of his most famous adversaries - the deadly Cybermen. It is the first book to feature the Doctor''s new companion Martha Jones and is sure to be snapped up by all fans of the show.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24122'),
(15152, 'Doctor Who: Iceberg', 'David Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Depends on how you define alien,â€™ the Doctor said simply. â€˜They were human once.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In 2006 the world is about to be overwhelmed by a disaster that might destroy human civilization: the inversion of the Earthâ€™s magnetic field. Deep in an Antarctic base, the FLIPback team is frantically devising a system to reverse the change in polarity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Above them, theÂ \n   <i>\n    SS Elysium\n   </i>\n   Â carries its jet-set passengers on the ultimate cruise. On board is Ruby Duvall, a journalist sent to record the FLIPback moment. Instead she finds a man called the Doctor, who is locked out of the strange green box he says is merely a part of his time machine. And she finds old enemies of the Doctor: silver giants at work beneath the ice.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6296'),
(15153, 'Doctor Who: Iceberg', 'David Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Depends on how you define alien,â€™ the Doctor said simply. â€˜They were human once.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In 2006 the world is about to be overwhelmed by a disaster that might destroy human civilization: the inversion of the Earthâ€™s magnetic field. Deep in an Antarctic base, the FLIPback team is frantically devising a system to reverse the change in polarity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Above them, theÂ \n   <i>\n    SS Elysium\n   </i>\n   Â carries its jet-set passengers on the ultimate cruise. On board is Ruby Duvall, a journalist sent to record the FLIPback moment. Instead she finds a man called the Doctor, who is locked out of the strange green box he says is merely a part of his time machine. And she finds old enemies of the Doctor: silver giants at work beneath the ice.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17725'),
(15154, 'Doctor Who: Illegal Alien', 'Mike Tucker &amp; Robert Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novel featuring Doctor Who and Ace. As the Luftwaffe bomb London, a silver sphere falls from the sky, and several large, humanoid figures emerge. The Doctor and Ace realize that the sphere bears all the hallmarks of sophisticated alien technology, and whatever it contained is now loose in London.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2744'),
(15155, 'Doctor Who: Illegal Alien', 'Mike Tucker; Robert Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novel featuring Doctor Who and Ace. As the Luftwaffe bomb London, a silver sphere falls from the sky, and several large, humanoid figures emerge. The Doctor and Ace realize that the sphere bears all the hallmarks of sophisticated alien technology, and whatever it contained is now loose in London.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22086'),
(15156, 'Doctor Who: Imperial Moon', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS materializes on the far side of the moon and the time safe alarm goes off. Inside is a diary kept by a Captain Richard Halliwell, describing his mission from Earth to the Moon -- in the year 1878. The TARDIS returns to 1878 where the Doctor meets up with the expeditions and the remains of the massacred team member are discovered. The Doctor must find the alien creature responsible for the murder and solve why there is no record of Victorian space travel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6789'),
(15157, 'Doctor Who: Imperial Moon', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS materializes on the far side of the moon and the time safe alarm goes off. Inside is a diary kept by a Captain Richard Halliwell, describing his mission from Earth to the Moon -- in the year 1878. The TARDIS returns to 1878 where the Doctor meets up with the expeditions and the remains of the massacred team member are discovered. The Doctor must find the alien creature responsible for the murder and solve why there is no record of Victorian space travel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18058'),
(15158, 'Doctor Who: Independence Day', 'P. Darvill-Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS lands on the planet Mendeb, where Ace meets a merchant adventurer named Kedin. She falls for him, seduces him -- and then discovers him to be a slave trader. When, horrified, she tries to flee, he feeds her the will-sapping spore drug that turns independent citizens into obedient slaves, and sells her. The Doctor is on a mission to liberate the Mendeb slaves and lead them in revolt against the emperor Vathran -- but can they survive without the support of their generous employers? Meanwhile, Ace finds herself sold into the henads of Kedin''s arch-enemy Vathran, where she learns the reason for Kedin''s slave trading -- Vathran has imprisoned Kedin''s family and is threatening to have them put to death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2294'),
(15159, 'Doctor Who: Independence Day', 'P. Darvill-Evans', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS lands on the planet Mendeb, where Ace meets a merchant adventurer named Kedin. She falls for him, seduces him -- and then discovers him to be a slave trader. When, horrified, she tries to flee, he feeds her the will-sapping spore drug that turns independent citizens into obedient slaves, and sells her. The Doctor is on a mission to liberate the Mendeb slaves and lead them in revolt against the emperor Vathran -- but can they survive without the support of their generous employers? Meanwhile, Ace finds herself sold into the henads of Kedin''s arch-enemy Vathran, where she learns the reason for Kedin''s slave trading -- Vathran has imprisoned Kedin''s family and is threatening to have them put to death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22589'),
(15160, 'Doctor Who: Inferno', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a Doctor Who novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1984, the Doctor is trapped in a parallel world, unable to act as the Earth is threatened by a poisonous liquid leaking from top-secret drilling project Inferno.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/767'),
(15161, 'Doctor Who: Inferno', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a Doctor Who novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1984, the Doctor is trapped in a parallel world, unable to act as the Earth is threatened by a poisonous liquid leaking from top-secret drilling project Inferno.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24121'),
(15162, 'Doctor Who: Infinite Requiem', 'Daniel Blythe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the end of history exists a psychically linked race of powerful beings, the Sensopaths. When three of them betray the race''s unity they are scattered back through time as punishment. Can the Doctor save the universe from destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6447'),
(15163, 'Doctor Who: Infinite Requiem', 'Daniel Blythe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the end of history exists a psychically linked race of powerful beings, the Sensopaths. When three of them betray the race''s unity they are scattered back through time as punishment. Can the Doctor save the universe from destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17515'),
(15164, 'Doctor Who: Instrument of Darkness', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A tall, thin Albino man, in various guises, appears in different parts of the world where he holds secret meetings with an array of agents. These agents believe that they are working for the French Secret Service, but are in fact on the payroll of a sinister crime organization known as the Magnate. They come from all walks of life -- the one thing they have in common is that they are all psychometrically linked to one another.The Doctor is on Earth and alerted to a cult that attracts an array of young, vulnerable people. When the leader of the cult is held responsible for the abduction of a Magnate agent, the Doctor must work out what the connection is -- and find out exactly what plans the Magnate have for planet Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5413'),
(15165, 'Doctor Who: Instrument of Darkness', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A tall, thin Albino man, in various guises, appears in different parts of the world where he holds secret meetings with an array of agents. These agents believe that they are working for the French Secret Service, but are in fact on the payroll of a sinister crime organization known as the Magnate. They come from all walks of life -- the one thing they have in common is that they are all psychometrically linked to one another.The Doctor is on Earth and alerted to a cult that attracts an array of young, vulnerable people. When the leader of the cult is held responsible for the abduction of a Magnate agent, the Doctor must work out what the connection is -- and find out exactly what plans the Magnate have for planet Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19205'),
(15166, 'Doctor Who: Interference: Book One', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Five years ago, Sam Jones was just a schoolgirl from Shoreditch. Of course, that was before she met up with the Doctor and found out that he entire life had been stage-managed by a time-traveling voodoo cult. Funny how things turn out, isn''t it? Now Sam''s back in her own time, fighting the good fight in a world of political treachery, international subterfuge and good old-fashioned depravity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3507'),
(15167, 'Doctor Who: Interference: Book One', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Five years ago, Sam Jones was just a schoolgirl from Shoreditch. Of course, that was before she met up with the Doctor and found out that he entire life had been stage-managed by a time-traveling voodoo cult. Funny how things turn out, isn''t it? Now Sam''s back in her own time, fighting the good fight in a world of political treachery, international subterfuge and good old-fashioned depravity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21051'),
(15168, 'Doctor Who: Interference: Book Two', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They call it the Dead Frontier. It''s as far from home as the human race ever went -- the planet where mankind dumped the waste of its thousand-year empire and left its culture out in the sun to rot.But while one Doctor faces both his own past and his own future on the Frontier, another finds himself on Earth in 1996, where the seeds of the Empire are only just being sown.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3508'),
(15169, 'Doctor Who: Into the Silence', 'Sarah Pinborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The body in the church hall is very definitely dead. It has been sliced open with surgical precision, its organs exposed, and its vocal cords are gone. It is as if they were never there or they''ve been dissolved! With the Welsh amateur Operatic Contest getting under way, music is filling the churches and concert halls of Cardiff. The competition has attracted the finest Welsh talent to the city, but it has also drawn something else - there are stories of a metallic creature hiding in the shadows. Torchwood is on its tail, but it''s moving too fast for them to track it down! This new threat requires a new tactic, so Ianto Jones is joining a male voice choir... Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1422'),
(15170, 'Doctor Who: Into the Silence', 'Sarah Pinborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The body in the church hall is very definitely dead. It has been sliced open with surgical precision, its organs exposed, and its vocal cords are gone. It is as if they were never there or they''ve been dissolved! With the Welsh amateur Operatic Contest getting under way, music is filling the churches and concert halls of Cardiff. The competition has attracted the finest Welsh talent to the city, but it has also drawn something else - there are stories of a metallic creature hiding in the shadows. Torchwood is on its tail, but it''s moving too fast for them to track it down! This new threat requires a new tactic, so Ianto Jones is joining a male voice choir... Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12012'),
(15171, 'Doctor Who: Island of Death', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sarah Jane Smith and her friend Jamie Fitzoliver investigate a strange New Age cult. Business as usual for investigative journalists. But what is less usual is the demon-like creature the cultists worship. When the Doctor and UNIT arrive to investigate they discover a plot involving government ministers, alien narcotics, and an official cover-up. As an evil scheme develops on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, the Doctor enlists the help of the Royal Navy to investigate. But can the Doctor and his friends uncover the truth in time to avert disaster?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7282'),
(15172, 'Doctor Who: Island of Death', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sarah Jane Smith and her friend Jamie Fitzoliver investigate a strange New Age cult. Business as usual for investigative journalists. But what is less usual is the demon-like creature the cultists worship. When the Doctor and UNIT arrive to investigate they discover a plot involving government ministers, alien narcotics, and an official cover-up. As an evil scheme develops on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, the Doctor enlists the help of the Royal Navy to investigate. But can the Doctor and his friends uncover the truth in time to avert disaster?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16583'),
(15173, 'Doctor Who: Island of Death', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sarah Jane Smith and her friend Jamie Fitzoliver investigate a strange New Age cult. Business as usual for investigative journalists. But what is less usual is the demon-like creature the cultists worship. When the Doctor and UNIT arrive to investigate they discover a plot involving government ministers, alien narcotics, and an official cover-up. As an evil scheme develops on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, the Doctor enlists the help of the Royal Navy to investigate. But can the Doctor and his friends uncover the truth in time to avert disaster?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16586'),
(15174, 'Doctor Who: Just War', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is March 1941, and Britain''s wartime fortunes are at their nadir. But events are still following the course of history. The Doctor is therefore alarmed to discover that the Nazis are building a superweapon that could end the war overnight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3561'),
(15175, 'Doctor Who: Just War', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is March 1941, and Britain''s wartime fortunes are at their nadir. But events are still following the course of history. The Doctor is therefore alarmed to discover that the Nazis are building a superweapon that could end the war overnight.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20895'),
(15176, 'Doctor Who: Kinda', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A beautiful, paradise planet, Deva Loka. Its inhabitants, the Kinda, are a gentle and seemingly primitive people. On the surface, a perfect place to colonise. But if it is so perfect, why are the colonisation team disappearing one by one?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Unaware of this, the Doctor and his companions choose to rest on Deva Loka. Enchanted by the beautiful Chimes, "the place of dreams", Tegan sleeps and falls prey to the Mara, a malevolent force out to steal her mind. But just what are its ultimate evil intentions?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, the Doctor and Adric are captured by the surviving colonisation team''s officers, Sanders and the unstable Hindle. When Sanders disappears, Hindle collapses into a world of paranoid delusions and suddenly the security of the entire base is at risk.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor rescue Tegan from the Mara and defeat it - before it pushes Hindle over the edge? And who is the mysterious blind woman who appears in visions? Will she help the Doctor or ultimately impede him?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/768'),
(15177, 'Doctor Who: Kinda', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A beautiful, paradise planet, Deva Loka. Its inhabitants, the Kinda, are a gentle and seemingly primitive people. On the surface, a perfect place to colonise. But if it is so perfect, why are the colonisation team disappearing one by one?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Unaware of this, the Doctor and his companions choose to rest on Deva Loka. Enchanted by the beautiful Chimes, "the place of dreams", Tegan sleeps and falls prey to the Mara, a malevolent force out to steal her mind. But just what are its ultimate evil intentions?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, the Doctor and Adric are captured by the surviving colonisation team''s officers, Sanders and the unstable Hindle. When Sanders disappears, Hindle collapses into a world of paranoid delusions and suddenly the security of the entire base is at risk.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor rescue Tegan from the Mara and defeat it - before it pushes Hindle over the edge? And who is the mysterious blind woman who appears in visions? Will she help the Doctor or ultimately impede him?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24120'),
(15178, 'Doctor Who: Kursaal', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Sam travel to a planet being made into a giant pleasure palace. Eco-terrorists are sabotaging the project because the construction crews are destroying the old civilization. The Doctor and Sam get caught up in the turmoil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2202'),
(15179, 'Doctor Who: Kursaal', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Sam travel to a planet being made into a giant pleasure palace. Eco-terrorists are sabotaging the project because the construction crews are destroying the old civilization. The Doctor and Sam get caught up in the turmoil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22605'),
(15180, 'Doctor Who: Last Man Running', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arriving on a jungle planet, the Doctor and Leela soon find themselves hunted by a hideous alien life form that appears to be some kind of robot with a taste for human flesh. But who has created it?A band of humans arrives on the planet in search of something deadly and illegal -- the robot? Or the things that created it?Assuming the Doctor to be involved in the monstrous crimes against nature on the planet, the humans make life difficult for the TARDIS crew -- but who is waiting and watching in the shadows -- and for whose benefit is the arena of peril set up?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6813'),
(15181, 'Doctor Who: Last Man Running', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arriving on a jungle planet, the Doctor and Leela soon find themselves hunted by a hideous alien life form that appears to be some kind of robot with a taste for human flesh. But who has created it?A band of humans arrives on the planet in search of something deadly and illegal -- the robot? Or the things that created it?Assuming the Doctor to be involved in the monstrous crimes against nature on the planet, the humans make life difficult for the TARDIS crew -- but who is waiting and watching in the shadows -- and for whose benefit is the arena of peril set up?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17084'),
(15182, 'Doctor Who: Last of the Gaderene', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The beautiful village of Culverton is dominated by the presence of the local Aerodrome, closed by recent defence cuts. When several locals disappear, and Spitfire veteran Captain Alec Bainbridge witnesses black-uniformed troops unloading ominous, coffin-like containers from the hangars, he contacts his old friend the Brigadier who promises to investigate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3095'),
(15183, 'Doctor Who: Last of the Gaderene', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The beautiful village of Culverton is dominated by the presence of the local Aerodrome, closed by recent defence cuts. When several locals disappear, and Spitfire veteran Captain Alec Bainbridge witnesses black-uniformed troops unloading ominous, coffin-like containers from the hangars, he contacts his old friend the Brigadier who promises to investigate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21754'),
(15184, 'Doctor Who: Left-Handed Hummingbird', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    He took up a firing stance, holding the thirty-eight out in front of him. â€˜Mr Lennon?â€™ he said.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  1968: Cristian Alvarez meets the Doctor in London.Â \n  <br />\n  1978: The great temple of the Aztecs is discovered in Mexico.Â \n  <br />\n  1980: John Lennon is murdered in New York.Â \n  <br />\n  1994: A gunman runs amok in Mexico City.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each time, Cristian is there. Each time, he experiences the Blue, a traumatic psychic shock. Only the Doctor can help him -- but the Doctor has problems of his own. Following the events ofÂ \n  <a href="http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na19.htm">\n   Blood Heat\n  </a>\n  Â andÂ \n  <a href="http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na20.htm">\n   The Dimension Riders\n  </a>\n  , the Doctor knows that someone or something has been tinkering with time. Now he finds that events in his own past have been altered -- and a lethal force from South Americaâ€™s prehistory has been released.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, Ace and Bernice travel to the Aztec Empire in 1487, to London in the Swinging Sixties, and to the sinking of theÂ \n   <i>\n    Titanic\n   </i>\n   Â as they attempt to rectify the temporal faults -- and survive the attacks of the living god Huitzilin.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3939'),
(15185, 'Doctor Who: Left-Handed Hummingbird', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    He took up a firing stance, holding the thirty-eight out in front of him. â€˜Mr Lennon?â€™ he said.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  1968: Cristian Alvarez meets the Doctor in London.Â \n  <br />\n  1978: The great temple of the Aztecs is discovered in Mexico.Â \n  <br />\n  1980: John Lennon is murdered in New York.Â \n  <br />\n  1994: A gunman runs amok in Mexico City.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each time, Cristian is there. Each time, he experiences the Blue, a traumatic psychic shock. Only the Doctor can help him -- but the Doctor has problems of his own. Following the events ofÂ \n  <a href="http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na19.htm">\n   Blood Heat\n  </a>\n  Â andÂ \n  <a href="http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na20.htm">\n   The Dimension Riders\n  </a>\n  , the Doctor knows that someone or something has been tinkering with time. Now he finds that events in his own past have been altered -- and a lethal force from South Americaâ€™s prehistory has been released.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, Ace and Bernice travel to the Aztec Empire in 1487, to London in the Swinging Sixties, and to the sinking of theÂ \n   <i>\n    Titanic\n   </i>\n   Â as they attempt to rectify the temporal faults -- and survive the attacks of the living god Huitzilin.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20665'),
(15186, 'Doctor Who: Legacy', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜So, thatâ€™s an Ice Warrior. Brings a whole new meaning to the concept of shell suits.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor is pursuing a master criminal. The trail leads to Peladon: a desolate world once home to a barbaric, feudal society. Now the Galactic Federation is attempting to bring prosperity and civilization to the planet. But not all Pels support the changes, and when ancient relics are stolen from their Citadel, the representatives of the Federation are blamed. The Doctor suspects the Ice Warrior delegation, but before long the Time Lord himself is arrested for the crime -- and sentenced to death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elsewhere, interplanetary mercenaries are bringing one of the galaxyâ€™s most evil artifacts to Peladon, apparently on the Doctorâ€™s instruction. Ace is pursuing a dangerous mission on another world and Bernice is getting friendly -- perhaps too friendly -- with the Ice Warriors she has studied for so long.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The players are making the final moves in a devious and lethal plan -- but for once it isnâ€™t the Doctorâ€™s.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5416'),
(15187, 'Doctor Who: Legacy', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜So, thatâ€™s an Ice Warrior. Brings a whole new meaning to the concept of shell suits.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor is pursuing a master criminal. The trail leads to Peladon: a desolate world once home to a barbaric, feudal society. Now the Galactic Federation is attempting to bring prosperity and civilization to the planet. But not all Pels support the changes, and when ancient relics are stolen from their Citadel, the representatives of the Federation are blamed. The Doctor suspects the Ice Warrior delegation, but before long the Time Lord himself is arrested for the crime -- and sentenced to death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Elsewhere, interplanetary mercenaries are bringing one of the galaxyâ€™s most evil artifacts to Peladon, apparently on the Doctorâ€™s instruction. Ace is pursuing a dangerous mission on another world and Bernice is getting friendly -- perhaps too friendly -- with the Ice Warriors she has studied for so long.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The players are making the final moves in a devious and lethal plan -- but for once it isnâ€™t the Doctorâ€™s.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19204'),
(15188, 'Doctor Who: Legacy of the Daleks', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor is repairing the Tardis systems once again when it is swept up by a garbage ship roving space, the Quetzel. When another ship takes the Quetzel by force, the Doctor discovwers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travellers aboard - Davros awakens.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4307'),
(15189, 'Doctor Who: Legacy of the Daleks', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor is repairing the Tardis systems once again when it is swept up by a garbage ship roving space, the Quetzel. When another ship takes the Quetzel by force, the Doctor discovwers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travellers aboard - Davros awakens.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20314'),
(15190, 'Doctor Who: Logopolis', 'Christopher H. Bidmead', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An unabridged reading of the final adventure for the Fourth Doctor, novelized and narrated by Christopher H. Bidmead from his original TV scripts. The meddling presence on Earth of the Doctor''s arch enemy, the Master, ensures the disruption of normality. Even he is horrified by the threat of total chaos he unintentionally precipitatesâ€”until he finds a way to turn the imminent destruction of the universe to his own advantage. But the cost for the Doctor himself wiill be terrible...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6661'),
(15191, 'Doctor Who: Logopolis', 'Christopher H. Bidmead', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An unabridged reading of the final adventure for the Fourth Doctor, novelized and narrated by Christopher H. Bidmead from his original TV scripts. The meddling presence on Earth of the Doctor''s arch enemy, the Master, ensures the disruption of normality. Even he is horrified by the threat of total chaos he unintentionally precipitatesâ€”until he finds a way to turn the imminent destruction of the universe to his own advantage. But the cost for the Doctor himself wiill be terrible...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18013'),
(15192, 'Doctor Who: Longest Day', 'Michael Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Having landed on the strange planet of Hirath, the Doctor and Sam become separated as they both strive to understand and help the inhabitants of a world where different time zones mean that the planet''s biosphere is out of control and heading for disaster.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2885'),
(15193, 'Doctor Who: Longest Day', 'Michael Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Having landed on the strange planet of Hirath, the Doctor and Sam become separated as they both strive to understand and help the inhabitants of a world where different time zones mean that the planet''s biosphere is out of control and heading for disaster.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21726'),
(15194, 'Doctor Who: Love or War', 'Paul Cornell &amp; Publishing Carol', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    On a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Heaven is a paradise for both humans and Draconians - a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission - to find a book, or so he says - and Ace, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance. What is he trying to prevent? Is he planning some more deadly game connected with the mysterious objects causing the military forces of Heaven such concern?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Archaeologist Bernice Summerfield thinks so. Her destiny is inextricably linked with that of the Doctor, but even she may not be able to save Ace from the Time Lord''s plans.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This time, has the Doctor gone too far?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2318'),
(15195, 'Doctor Who: Love or War', 'Paul Cornell; Publishing Carol', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    On a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Heaven is a paradise for both humans and Draconians - a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission - to find a book, or so he says - and Ace, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance. What is he trying to prevent? Is he planning some more deadly game connected with the mysterious objects causing the military forces of Heaven such concern?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Archaeologist Bernice Summerfield thinks so. Her destiny is inextricably linked with that of the Doctor, but even she may not be able to save Ace from the Time Lord''s plans.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This time, has the Doctor gone too far?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22518'),
(15196, 'Doctor Who: Loving the Alien', 'Robert Perry &amp; Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A novel featuring the Seventh Doctor and his fan-favorite sidekick Ace. The Doctor knows Ace is going to die. Knows very well, because although she is sitting in the TARDIS watching the TV news, she is also beside him as a corpse. And there is something very, very strange about the autopsy results. In London, 1959, the Doctor does all he can to prevent Ace''s tragic death, due to occur in a few hours. In the process, he discovers further anomalies - swarms of giant ants emerging from the ground being among the least of his worries. A disturbing fetish for Cyberisation has taken hold of Britain, and the Doctor can probably guess who''s behind it! Against a background of international (and trans-dimensional) espionage, giant ants and Cyber-primates, and quite possibly the end of the world as we know it, the Doctor struggles to save his companion from a fate which she seems more and more determined to bring upon herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1581'),
(15197, 'Doctor Who: Loving the Alien', 'Robert Perry; Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novel featuring the Seventh Doctor and his fan-favorite sidekick Ace. The Doctor knows Ace is going to die. Knows very well, because although she is sitting in the TARDIS watching the TV news, she is also beside him as a corpse. And there is something very, very strange about the autopsy results. In London, 1959, the Doctor does all he can to prevent Ace''s tragic death, due to occur in a few hours. In the process, he discovers further anomalies - swarms of giant ants emerging from the ground being among the least of his worries. A disturbing fetish for Cyberisation has taken hold of Britain, and the Doctor can probably guess who''s behind it! Against a background of international (and trans-dimensional) espionage, giant ants and Cyber-primates, and quite possibly the end of the world as we know it, the Doctor struggles to save his companion from a fate which she seems more and more determined to bring upon herself.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23172'),
(15198, 'Doctor Who: Lucifer Rising', 'Jim Mortimore &amp; Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This new series of original novels takes up where the TV series left off. Novels published in 1992 demonstrated the scope of this series, from all-action space adventure to psychological thriller to mythic fantasy. All stories feature the Seventh Doctor and his new companion Bernice Summerfield.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4381'),
(15199, 'Doctor Who: Lungbarrow', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n All is not well on Gallifrey. The House of Lungbarrow, where the Doctor left his family 673 years ago, has disappeared. In the seventh Doctor''s final New Adventure, he faces a threat that could uncover the greatest secret of them all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3224'),
(15200, 'Doctor Who: MacRa Terror', 'Ian Stuart Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who, Jamie, Ben, and Polly visit an idyllic colony on a remote planet, only to discover it''s being threatened by mysterious forces\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4977'),
(15201, 'Doctor Who: MacRa Terror', 'Ian Stuart Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who, Jamie, Ben, and Polly visit an idyllic colony on a remote planet, only to discover it''s being threatened by mysterious forces\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19623'),
(15202, 'Doctor Who: Mad Dogs and Englishmen', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the 1970s, a retired Oxford professor wrote a fantasy opus about a world ruled by super-intelligent dogs with hands. After his mysterious disappearance, his wife published the story, sparking a huge industry of sequels and films. The Doctor knew the professor when he first started writing the tale, and knows the story is similar to a real and troubled world. Someone is trafficking contraband otherworldly history, and the Doctor must find out who.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2211'),
(15203, 'Doctor Who: Mad Dogs and Englishmen', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the 1970s, a retired Oxford professor wrote a fantasy opus about a world ruled by super-intelligent dogs with hands. After his mysterious disappearance, his wife published the story, sparking a huge industry of sequels and films. The Doctor knew the professor when he first started writing the tale, and knows the story is similar to a real and troubled world. Someone is trafficking contraband otherworldly history, and the Doctor must find out who.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22573');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15204, 'Doctor Who: Made of Steel', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   An obscure Government Ministry is blown up, and secret decoding equipment disappears. High-tech equipment is stolen from an army base. Mysterious figures raid an electronics shop, take the new games consoles and then vanish. Could the Cybermen be back?\n  </font>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/770'),
(15205, 'Doctor Who: Made of Steel', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   An obscure Government Ministry is blown up, and secret decoding equipment disappears. High-tech equipment is stolen from an army base. Mysterious figures raid an electronics shop, take the new games consoles and then vanish. Could the Cybermen be back?\n  </font>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24119'),
(15206, 'Doctor Who: Marco Polo', 'John Lucarotti', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Visiting the Venetian traveler, Marco Polo, in 1289, Doctor Who gambles away his space-time ship, the TARDIS, to Kublai Khan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4274'),
(15207, 'Doctor Who: Marco Polo', 'John Lucarotti', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Visiting the Venetian traveler, Marco Polo, in 1289, Doctor Who gambles away his space-time ship, the TARDIS, to Kublai Khan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20249'),
(15208, 'Doctor Who: Martha in the Mirror', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Castle Extremis - whoever holds it controls the provinces on either side that have been at war for centuries! Now the castle is about to play host to the signing of a peace treaty. But as the Doctor and Martha find out, not everyone wants the war to end. Who is the strange little girl who haunts the castle? What is the secret of the book the Doctor finds, its pages made from thin, brittle glass? Who is the hooded figure that watches from the shadows? And what is the secret of the legendary Mortal Mirror? The Doctor and Martha don''t have long to find the answers - an army is on the march, and the castle will soon be under siege once more... Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3858'),
(15209, 'Doctor Who: Martha in the Mirror', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Castle Extremis - whoever holds it controls the provinces on either side that have been at war for centuries! Now the castle is about to play host to the signing of a peace treaty. But as the Doctor and Martha find out, not everyone wants the war to end. Who is the strange little girl who haunts the castle? What is the secret of the book the Doctor finds, its pages made from thin, brittle glass? Who is the hooded figure that watches from the shadows? And what is the secret of the legendary Mortal Mirror? The Doctor and Martha don''t have long to find the answers - an army is on the march, and the castle will soon be under siege once more... Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20604'),
(15210, 'Doctor Who: Match of the Day', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n There were the contracts, the agents, the local sponsors, the pay-per-view broadcasts, the independent verification of results, the laws which made murder legal in carefully defined circumstances... It had taken a long time for the system of freelance duelists to be established, and an even longer time to develop the league of interplanetary superstars the others fought to reach and to challenge. And just when it was all working satisfactorily and profitably someone or something started interfering with the set up. Famous fighters died in private duels. Up-and-coming professional fighters began to fall victim to casual, one-time challengers - the sort of psychos and testosterone-addled drunks who would themselves be expected to die quickly and routinely. When Leela is challenged to a duel to the death, the Doctor realizes that there is more to the situation than simple murder and mayhem. But before he can sort it out, he needs to save his client - Leela. How long can she survive on a planet where not to kill is an offense punishable by death?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6815'),
(15211, 'Doctor Who: Match of the Day', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There were the contracts, the agents, the local sponsors, the pay-per-view broadcasts, the independent verification of results, the laws which made murder legal in carefully defined circumstances... It had taken a long time for the system of freelance duelists to be established, and an even longer time to develop the league of interplanetary superstars the others fought to reach and to challenge. And just when it was all working satisfactorily and profitably someone or something started interfering with the set up. Famous fighters died in private duels. Up-and-coming professional fighters began to fall victim to casual, one-time challengers - the sort of psychos and testosterone-addled drunks who would themselves be expected to die quickly and routinely. When Leela is challenged to a duel to the death, the Doctor realizes that there is more to the situation than simple murder and mayhem. But before he can sort it out, he needs to save his client - Leela. How long can she survive on a planet where not to kill is an offense punishable by death?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17083'),
(15212, 'Doctor Who: Matrix', 'Robert Perry &amp; Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is Victorian London and Jack the Ripper is stalking the streets -- or is it the Doctor?A crystal from the TARDIS'' telepathic circuits has a serious effect on the Doctor''s mind, and Ace finds herself isolated and in danger.What part is the Doctor being forced to play? What is the secret of the 12 shadow-TARDISes which eerily wait in silence for events to play out? Only as Ace runs for her life does she realize that the Doctor is at the mercy of a terrifying force from his own future -- one he may be powerless to stop.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1583'),
(15213, 'Doctor Who: Matrix', 'Robert Perry; Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is Victorian London and Jack the Ripper is stalking the streets -- or is it the Doctor?A crystal from the TARDIS'' telepathic circuits has a serious effect on the Doctor''s mind, and Ace finds herself isolated and in danger.What part is the Doctor being forced to play? What is the secret of the 12 shadow-TARDISes which eerily wait in silence for events to play out? Only as Ace runs for her life does she realize that the Doctor is at the mercy of a terrifying force from his own future -- one he may be powerless to stop.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23380'),
(15214, 'Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead', 'Peter Grimwade', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Who is horrified to discover that his time-travelling machine is stuck on a collision course with a strange alien spaceship\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2095'),
(15215, 'Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead', 'Peter Grimwade', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Who is horrified to discover that his time-travelling machine is stuck on a collision course with a strange alien spaceship\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22665'),
(15216, 'Doctor Who: Meglos', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Zastor, Leader of the planet Tigella, rules a divided people. Savants and Deons are irrevocably opposed on one crucial issue - the Dodecahedron, mysterious source of all their power.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  To the Savants the Dodecahedron is a miracle of science to be studied, observed and used to benefit Tigellan civilisation. To the Deons it is a god and not to be tampered with.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the power supply begins to fluctuate wildly the whole planet is threatened, but the Tigellans cannot agree how they should deal with the problem.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Zastor welcomes the arrival of the Doctor and invites him to arbitrate, but the Deons are suspicious of the Time Lord - and perhaps rightly so...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/771'),
(15217, 'Doctor Who: Meglos', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Zastor, Leader of the planet Tigella, rules a divided people. Savants and Deons are irrevocably opposed on one crucial issue - the Dodecahedron, mysterious source of all their power.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  To the Savants the Dodecahedron is a miracle of science to be studied, observed and used to benefit Tigellan civilisation. To the Deons it is a god and not to be tampered with.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the power supply begins to fluctuate wildly the whole planet is threatened, but the Tigellans cannot agree how they should deal with the problem.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Zastor welcomes the arrival of the Doctor and invites him to arbitrate, but the Deons are suspicious of the Time Lord - and perhaps rightly so...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24118'),
(15218, 'Doctor Who: Millennium Shock', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Millennium Bug is threatening to bring the world''s computers to a standstill. Experts struggle to avert disaster, but a powerful force seems determined to work against them. In Britain panic has set in, what can the time-travelling Doctor do to help?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3860'),
(15219, 'Doctor Who: Millennium Shock', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Millennium Bug is threatening to bring the world''s computers to a standstill. Experts struggle to avert disaster, but a powerful force seems determined to work against them. In Britain panic has set in, what can the time-travelling Doctor do to help?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20601'),
(15220, 'Doctor Who: Mission Impractical', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When daring criminal, Jack Chance masterminds the heist of a precious national treasure from the planet Veltroch, it is the first step in a chain of events that could lead to the destruction of two civilizations. This is a Doctor Who novel featuring the sixth Doctor and Frobisher.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6425'),
(15221, 'Doctor Who: Mission Impractical', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When daring criminal, Jack Chance masterminds the heist of a precious national treasure from the planet Veltroch, it is the first step in a chain of events that could lead to the destruction of two civilizations. This is a Doctor Who novel featuring the sixth Doctor and Frobisher.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17673'),
(15222, 'Doctor Who: Mission to Magnus', 'Philip Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <i>\n    ''Did I hear "Doctor"? Is it the Doctor I have drawn to me?'' The laugh became more strident, forcing the Doctor to thrust his fingers into his ears in panic and close his eyes, as if here were a frightened child.\n   </i>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS has been pulled off course and sent hurtling through space and time. When it finally stops, Peri is amazed to witness the Doctor''s transformation into a cringing coward.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The takeover of the TARDIS by the school bully from the class of the fourth millennium on Gallifrey is only the first of the Doctor''s problems. On the surface of the planet Magnus more of his old enemies are conspiring to trick the planet''s all-female rulers; the Doctor and Peri have to foil a plot to freeze the entire world and wipe out most of the population.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2106'),
(15223, 'Doctor Who: Mission to the Unknown', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Stranded in the jungles of Kembel, the most hostile planet in the Galaxy, Space Security agent Marc Cory has stumbled across the most deadly plot ever hatched - the Daleks are about to invade and destroy the Universe.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Cory has to get a warning back to Earth before it''s too late - but will the Daleks find him first?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4310'),
(15224, 'Doctor Who: Mission to the Unknown', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Stranded in the jungles of Kembel, the most hostile planet in the Galaxy, Space Security agent Marc Cory has stumbled across the most deadly plot ever hatched - the Daleks are about to invade and destroy the Universe.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Cory has to get a warning back to Earth before it''s too late - but will the Daleks find him first?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20313'),
(15225, 'Doctor Who: Mysterious Planet', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The TARDIS has been taken out of time and the Doctor has been brought before a court of his fellow Time Lords. There the sinister Valeyard accuses the Doctor of breaking Gallifreyâ€™s most important law and interfering in the affairs of other planets.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    If the Valeyard can prove him guilty, the Doctor must sacrifice his remaining regenerations. To prove his case the Valeyard focuses on an adventure set in the Doctorâ€™s past.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     It is an adventure set on the planet Ravolox, a seemingly primitive world but one which the Doctor and Peri find strangely familiar...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/774'),
(15226, 'Doctor Who: Mysterious Planet', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The TARDIS has been taken out of time and the Doctor has been brought before a court of his fellow Time Lords. There the sinister Valeyard accuses the Doctor of breaking Gallifreyâ€™s most important law and interfering in the affairs of other planets.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    If the Valeyard can prove him guilty, the Doctor must sacrifice his remaining regenerations. To prove his case the Valeyard focuses on an adventure set in the Doctorâ€™s past.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     It is an adventure set on the planet Ravolox, a seemingly primitive world but one which the Doctor and Peri find strangely familiar...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24117'),
(15227, 'Doctor Who: Night of the Humans', 'David Llewellyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 250,000 years'' worth of junk floating in deep space, home to the shipwrecked Sittuun, the carnivorous Sollogs, and worst of all - the Humans. The Doctor and Amy arrive on this terrifying world in the middle of an all-out frontier war between Sittuun and Humans, and the clock is already ticking. There''s a comet in the sky, and it''s on a collision course with the Gyre...When the Doctor is kidnapped, it''s up to Amy and "galaxy-famous swashbuckler" Dirk Slipstream to save the day. But who is Slipstream, exactly? And what is he really doing here?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6167'),
(15228, 'Doctor Who: Night of the Humans', 'David Llewellyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 250,000 years'' worth of junk floating in deep space, home to the shipwrecked Sittuun, the carnivorous Sollogs, and worst of all - the Humans. The Doctor and Amy arrive on this terrifying world in the middle of an all-out frontier war between Sittuun and Humans, and the clock is already ticking. There''s a comet in the sky, and it''s on a collision course with the Gyre...When the Doctor is kidnapped, it''s up to Amy and "galaxy-famous swashbuckler" Dirk Slipstream to save the day. But who is Slipstream, exactly? And what is he really doing here?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17815'),
(15229, 'Doctor Who: Nightdreamers', 'Tom Arden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Perihelion Night on the wooded moon Verd. A time of strange sightings, ghosts, and celebration before the morn, when Lord Esnic marries the beautiful Lady Ria. However, Ria has other ideas, and flees through the gravity wells which dot the moon to meet with her true love, Tonio. When the Doctor and Jo arrive on Verd, drawn down by the fluctuating gravity, they find themselves involved in the unpredictable events of Perihelion.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  But what of the mysterious and terrifying Nightdreamers?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   And of the Nightdreamer King?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/628'),
(15230, 'Doctor Who: Nightdreamers', 'Tom Arden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Perihelion Night on the wooded moon Verd. A time of strange sightings, ghosts, and celebration before the morn, when Lord Esnic marries the beautiful Lady Ria. However, Ria has other ideas, and flees through the gravity wells which dot the moon to meet with her true love, Tonio. When the Doctor and Jo arrive on Verd, drawn down by the fluctuating gravity, they find themselves involved in the unpredictable events of Perihelion.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  But what of the mysterious and terrifying Nightdreamers?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   And of the Nightdreamer King?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24361'),
(15231, 'Doctor Who: Nightshade', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Ace end up in the village of Crook Marsham in 1968. The Doctor contemplates retiring and Ace falls in love with local boy Robin Yeadon. in a nearby retirement home, Edmund Trevithick, who once played the fictional character known as Professor Nightshade in the BBC t.v series of the same title, begins to see other fictional characters from the program as if they were real. The Doctor realizes that Crook Marsham has had many unexplained deaths throughout history. The villagers are then plagued by appearances of lost loved ones.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3096'),
(15232, 'Doctor Who: Nightshade', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Ace end up in the village of Crook Marsham in 1968. The Doctor contemplates retiring and Ace falls in love with local boy Robin Yeadon. in a nearby retirement home, Edmund Trevithick, who once played the fictional character known as Professor Nightshade in the BBC t.v series of the same title, begins to see other fictional characters from the program as if they were real. The Doctor realizes that Crook Marsham has had many unexplained deaths throughout history. The villagers are then plagued by appearances of lost loved ones.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21753'),
(15233, 'Doctor Who: No Future', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜This time, anarchyâ€™s real. There are power cuts and Wilsonâ€™s resignation, a great upheaval of unease. But now thereâ€™s real fear too. Real panic. And thatâ€™s not how itâ€™s supposed to be.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Somebody has been toying with the Doctorâ€™s past, testing him, threatening him, leading him on a chase that has brought the TARDIS to London in 1976 -- where reality has been altered once again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Black Star terrorists foment riots in the streets. The Queen barely escapes assassination. A fearful tension is rising. Something is going to happen. Something bad.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Bennyâ€™s the lead singer in a punk band. Ace canâ€™t talk to her or the Doctor without an argument starting, so sheâ€™s made murderous plans of her own. The Doctorâ€™s alone -- he doesnâ€™t know who his enemy is, and even the Brigadier has disowned him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As usual, itâ€™s up to the Doctor to protect the world. And he canâ€™t even protect himself.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2319'),
(15234, 'Doctor Who: No Future', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜This time, anarchyâ€™s real. There are power cuts and Wilsonâ€™s resignation, a great upheaval of unease. But now thereâ€™s real fear too. Real panic. And thatâ€™s not how itâ€™s supposed to be.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Somebody has been toying with the Doctorâ€™s past, testing him, threatening him, leading him on a chase that has brought the TARDIS to London in 1976 -- where reality has been altered once again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Black Star terrorists foment riots in the streets. The Queen barely escapes assassination. A fearful tension is rising. Something is going to happen. Something bad.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Bennyâ€™s the lead singer in a punk band. Ace canâ€™t talk to her or the Doctor without an argument starting, so sheâ€™s made murderous plans of her own. The Doctorâ€™s alone -- he doesnâ€™t know who his enemy is, and even the Brigadier has disowned him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As usual, itâ€™s up to the Doctor to protect the world. And he canâ€™t even protect himself.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22517'),
(15235, 'Doctor Who: Nuclear Time', 'Oli Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n My watch is running backwards.Colorado, 1981. The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in Appletown an idyllic village in the remote American desert where the townsfolk go peacefully about their suburban routines. But when two more strangers arrive, things begin to change. The first is a mad scientist whose warnings are cut short by an untimely and brutal death. The second is the DoctorAs death falls from the sky, the Doctor is trapped. The TARDIS is damaged, and the Doctor finds he is living backwards through time. With Amy and Rory being hunted through the suburban streets of the Doctors own future and getting farther away with every passing second, he must unravel the secrets of Appletown before time runs outA thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2358'),
(15236, 'Doctor Who: Oh No It Isn&#39;t', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor''s former companion, Bernice Summerfield, has found a new job at St Oscar''s University. Whilst on a field trip to Perfecton she is attacked by a reality warping missile. Bernice must be at her best to solve the problems that this creates.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2322'),
(15237, 'Doctor Who: Oh No It Isn&#39;t', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor''s former companion, Bernice Summerfield, has found a new job at St Oscar''s University. Whilst on a field trip to Perfecton she is attacked by a reality warping missile. Bernice must be at her best to solve the problems that this creates.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22516'),
(15238, 'Doctor Who: Only Human', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Doctor looks and seems human. He''s handsome, witty, and could be mistaken for just another man in the street. But the Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900-year-old alien with two hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered Time Travel. Brace yourself for some exhilarating experiences and deadly confrontations across time and space. The human race will survive - but only with the Doctor''s help.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5532'),
(15239, 'Doctor Who: Only Human', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Doctor looks and seems human. He''s handsome, witty, and could be mistaken for just another man in the street. But the Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900-year-old alien with two hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered Time Travel. Brace yourself for some exhilarating experiences and deadly confrontations across time and space. The human race will survive - but only with the Doctor''s help.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19198'),
(15240, 'Doctor Who: Option Lock', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On contemporary Earth, the Doctor and Sam discover an ancient secret society is trying to start a nuclear war. An optical mystery compounds their confusion and the mysterious US-owned Station Nine brings further problems for them to resolve.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3861'),
(15241, 'Doctor Who: Option Lock', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On contemporary Earth, the Doctor and Sam discover an ancient secret society is trying to start a nuclear war. An optical mystery compounds their confusion and the mysterious US-owned Station Nine brings further problems for them to resolve.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20600'),
(15242, 'Doctor Who: Original Sin', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is arrested and sentenced to death by Adjudicators, the police of the thirtieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7622'),
(15243, 'Doctor Who: Original Sin', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is arrested and sentenced to death by Adjudicators, the police of the thirtieth century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16235'),
(15244, 'Doctor Who: Pack Animals', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The seventh novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. Shopping for wedding gifts with your fiance is enjoyable, unless like Gwen you witness a Weevil massacre in the shopping centre. A trip to the zoo is a great day out, until a date goes tragically wrong and Ianto is badly injured by stolen alien tech. And Halloween is a day of fun and frights, before unspeakable monsters invade the streets of Cardiff and it''s no longer a trick or a treat for the terrified population. Torchwood can control small groups of scavengers, but now someone has given large numbers of predators a season ticket to Earth!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2204'),
(15245, 'Doctor Who: Pack Animals', 'Peter Anghelides', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The seventh novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. Shopping for wedding gifts with your fiance is enjoyable, unless like Gwen you witness a Weevil massacre in the shopping centre. A trip to the zoo is a great day out, until a date goes tragically wrong and Ianto is badly injured by stolen alien tech. And Halloween is a day of fun and frights, before unspeakable monsters invade the streets of Cardiff and it''s no longer a trick or a treat for the terrified population. Torchwood can control small groups of scavengers, but now someone has given large numbers of predators a season ticket to Earth!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8193'),
(15246, 'Doctor Who: Palace of the Red Sun', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Sixth Doctor novel with Peri Brown Interstellar tyrant Glavis Judd has usurped the royal family of the world-kingdom Esselven, with intergalactic freelance reporter Dexel Dynes close behind him, faithfully advising the universe of Judd''s humanitarian ''liberations''. However, Judd''s ambitions for complete conquest are thwarted, as the royal family have escaped the planet just before his arrival, taking with them - in their genetic make-up - the keys to vital archives and systems essential to Esselven''s governance. In another time and place, the Doctor and Peri have landed in an exquisitely kept ornamental garden, peopled by strange playful creatures, and wild roaming ''scavengers''. This, it turns out, is the Esselvanian royal retreat, a small planetoid where the monarch could relax and recuperate. It is also where Judd strongly suspects they have escaped to now. Determined to avenge his humiliation on Esselven, Judd attacks the planetoid, only to find that, in the year it had taken him to track the family down, things have moved on much quicker than he could have imagined...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6791'),
(15247, 'Doctor Who: Palace of the Red Sun', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Sixth Doctor novel with Peri Brown Interstellar tyrant Glavis Judd has usurped the royal family of the world-kingdom Esselven, with intergalactic freelance reporter Dexel Dynes close behind him, faithfully advising the universe of Judd''s humanitarian ''liberations''. However, Judd''s ambitions for complete conquest are thwarted, as the royal family have escaped the planet just before his arrival, taking with them - in their genetic make-up - the keys to vital archives and systems essential to Esselven''s governance. In another time and place, the Doctor and Peri have landed in an exquisitely kept ornamental garden, peopled by strange playful creatures, and wild roaming ''scavengers''. This, it turns out, is the Esselvanian royal retreat, a small planetoid where the monarch could relax and recuperate. It is also where Judd strongly suspects they have escaped to now. Determined to avenge his humiliation on Esselven, Judd attacks the planetoid, only to find that, in the year it had taken him to track the family down, things have moved on much quicker than he could have imagined...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18054'),
(15248, 'Doctor Who: Paradise Towers', 'Stephen Wyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Built towards the end of the twenty-first century, Paradise Towers is a massive housing block, stretching up towards the sky. With its beautiful decor, smart apartments, fantastic facilities and high standards of maintenance, it is hardly surprising that the architect, Kroagnon, won many professional awards.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Mel wants to go swimming and as the TARDIS pool has been jettisoned due to a leak, Paradise Towers seems to fit the bill. However, when she and the Doctor arrive, instead of the bright squares and charming cloisters the brochure promised, they find dark, rat-infested corridors full of uncontrollable cleaning machines, undisciplined street gangs and over-worked and belligerent caretakers, some of whom are disappearing in mysterious circumstances.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     What has caused such terrible decay? How could such perfect accommodation have become so run down and dangerous? And why do the street-wise Kangs, apathetic caretakers, sinister Rezzies and Pex - the self-appointed warrior who puts the world of Paradise Towers to rights - all fear whatever terrible force dwells in the basement? Only the unpredictable Chief Caretaker knows what is down there - and the real secret behind the disappearances...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1063'),
(15249, 'Doctor Who: Paradise Towers', 'Stephen Wyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Built towards the end of the twenty-first century, Paradise Towers is a massive housing block, stretching up towards the sky. With its beautiful decor, smart apartments, fantastic facilities and high standards of maintenance, it is hardly surprising that the architect, Kroagnon, won many professional awards.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Mel wants to go swimming and as the TARDIS pool has been jettisoned due to a leak, Paradise Towers seems to fit the bill. However, when she and the Doctor arrive, instead of the bright squares and charming cloisters the brochure promised, they find dark, rat-infested corridors full of uncontrollable cleaning machines, undisciplined street gangs and over-worked and belligerent caretakers, some of whom are disappearing in mysterious circumstances.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     What has caused such terrible decay? How could such perfect accommodation have become so run down and dangerous? And why do the street-wise Kangs, apathetic caretakers, sinister Rezzies and Pex - the self-appointed warrior who puts the world of Paradise Towers to rights - all fear whatever terrible force dwells in the basement? Only the unpredictable Chief Caretaker knows what is down there - and the real secret behind the disappearances...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23899'),
(15250, 'Doctor Who: Parallel 59', 'Natalie Dallaire &amp; Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When an outpost in space begins to break up, with the TARDIS crew aboard, escape is only possible in tiny life-capsules. Fitz is bundled unconscious into one, while the Doctor and Compassion take another. Steering the capsule back to its planet of origin to try and get help, the Doctor finds a hostile welcome awaits. Fitz''s capsule takes him to the apparent safety of the colony of Mechta. The Doctor decrees that Fitz''s new-found utopia must be totally destroyed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7955'),
(15251, 'Doctor Who: Parallel 59', 'Natalie Dallaire; Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When an outpost in space begins to break up, with the TARDIS crew aboard, escape is only possible in tiny life-capsules. Fitz is bundled unconscious into one, while the Doctor and Compassion take another. Steering the capsule back to its planet of origin to try and get help, the Doctor finds a hostile welcome awaits. Fitz''s capsule takes him to the apparent safety of the colony of Mechta. The Doctor decrees that Fitz''s new-found utopia must be totally destroyed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22203'),
(15252, 'Doctor Who: Parasite', 'Jim Mortimore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Change, Benny. Itâ€™s the most terrifying thing of all.â€™Â \n    <br />\n    â€˜And thatâ€™s whatâ€™s happening to you, is it, Doctor?â€™Â \n    <br />\n    â€˜Itâ€™s whatâ€™s happening to all of us.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS has arrived in the Elysium system, lost colony of distant Earth and site of the Artifact: a world turned inside out, a world of horrific secrets.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more than a century scientists have studied the ecosystem flourishing within the Artifact. Now the system is in collapse and even the humans trapped inside are changing into something new and strange.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With the members of one expedition murdered, those of another fighting for their lives and a solar system on the brink of civil war, can the Doctor, Ace and Benny survive a journey to the heart of the Artifact in their search for the truth?\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4383'),
(15253, 'Doctor Who: Peacemaker', 'James Swallow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Doctor and Martha are about to find out if a sonic screwdriver is more powerful than a six-shooter in the latest in the bestselling series of Doctor Who novels. The peace and quiet of a remote homestead in the 1880s American West is shattered by the arrival of two shadowy outriders searching for ''the healer''. When the farmer refuses to help them, they raze the house to the ground using guns that shoot bolts of energy instead of bullets. Meanwhile, in the town of Redwater, the Doctor and Martha learn of a snake-oil salesman who''s patent medicines actually cure his patient. But when the Doctor and Martha investigate they discover the truth is stranger, and far more dangerous. Caught between the law of the gun and the deadly plans of intergalactic mercenaries, the Doctor and Martha are about to discover just how wild the West can become...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4793'),
(15254, 'Doctor Who: Peacemaker', 'James Swallow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Doctor and Martha are about to find out if a sonic screwdriver is more powerful than a six-shooter in the latest in the bestselling series of Doctor Who novels. The peace and quiet of a remote homestead in the 1880s American West is shattered by the arrival of two shadowy outriders searching for ''the healer''. When the farmer refuses to help them, they raze the house to the ground using guns that shoot bolts of energy instead of bullets. Meanwhile, in the town of Redwater, the Doctor and Martha learn of a snake-oil salesman who''s patent medicines actually cure his patient. But when the Doctor and Martha investigate they discover the truth is stranger, and far more dangerous. Caught between the law of the gun and the deadly plans of intergalactic mercenaries, the Doctor and Martha are about to discover just how wild the West can become...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19968'),
(15255, 'Doctor Who: Placebo Effect', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 3999. An artificial planetoid, Micawber''s World, is hosting the intergalactic Olympic Games, and athletes from all the worlds in the Galactic Federation are arriving to take part. But when the Doctor and Sam arrive, the murders soon begin.The Doctor finds himself drafted in to examine some bizarre new drugs that claim to enhance the natural potential of the competing athletes. But what is their real purpose? Why are members of the Security Forces disappearing randomly? And just why is Chase Carrington, manufacturer of the drug, so protective of his company''s secrets?Watching and waiting, at the very heart of Micawber''s World, are a race of parasites the Doctor has fought before. The Wirrrn have come to the Milky Way from Andromeda, determined to spread their seed throughout a whole new galaxy, and it seems to Sam that the Doctor''s hands are too full to pay their threat full attention.This is another in the series of adventures featuring the 8th Doctor and Sam which reintroduces the Wirrrn from the 1975 television adventure The Ark in Space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5417'),
(15256, 'Doctor Who: Placebo Effect', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 3999. An artificial planetoid, Micawber''s World, is hosting the intergalactic Olympic Games, and athletes from all the worlds in the Galactic Federation are arriving to take part. But when the Doctor and Sam arrive, the murders soon begin.The Doctor finds himself drafted in to examine some bizarre new drugs that claim to enhance the natural potential of the competing athletes. But what is their real purpose? Why are members of the Security Forces disappearing randomly? And just why is Chase Carrington, manufacturer of the drug, so protective of his company''s secrets?Watching and waiting, at the very heart of Micawber''s World, are a race of parasites the Doctor has fought before. The Wirrrn have come to the Milky Way from Andromeda, determined to spread their seed throughout a whole new galaxy, and it seems to Sam that the Doctor''s hands are too full to pay their threat full attention.This is another in the series of adventures featuring the 8th Doctor and Sam which reintroduces the Wirrrn from the 1975 television adventure The Ark in Space.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19200');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15257, 'Doctor Who: Planet of Fire', 'Peter Grimwade &amp; British Broadcasting Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A strange signal from Earth draws the TARDIS to the island of Lanzarote. While the Doctor tries to track the source of the signal, his companion Turlough rescues a young American girl, Peri, from drowning. She is holding an artefact made from platinum bearing a strange symbol - the same symbol that Turlough himself carries on his arm, branded into the flesh...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  It is the artefact that is emitting the signal, leading them all to the planet Sarn, a world ravaged by volcanoes and yet holding the secret of eternal life. But an old foe of the Doctor''s is desperate for this elixir, and will stop at nothing to gain it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What is Turlough''s link to the artefact? What is the nature of Sarn''s mythical god, Logar, and how is it linked to the ruined spaceship crashed on a mountainside? As age-old systems of belief begin to break down, will anyone escape from the planet of fire with their life?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2096'),
(15258, 'Doctor Who: Planet of Fire', 'Peter Grimwade; British Broadcasting Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A strange signal from Earth draws the TARDIS to the island of Lanzarote. While the Doctor tries to track the source of the signal, his companion Turlough rescues a young American girl, Peri, from drowning. She is holding an artefact made from platinum bearing a strange symbol - the same symbol that Turlough himself carries on his arm, branded into the flesh...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  It is the artefact that is emitting the signal, leading them all to the planet Sarn, a world ravaged by volcanoes and yet holding the secret of eternal life. But an old foe of the Doctor''s is desperate for this elixir, and will stop at nothing to gain it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What is Turlough''s link to the artefact? What is the nature of Sarn''s mythical god, Logar, and how is it linked to the ruined spaceship crashed on a mountainside? As age-old systems of belief begin to break down, will anyone escape from the planet of fire with their life?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22664'),
(15259, 'Doctor Who: Planet of Giants', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the TARDIS lands in England in 1963, Doctor Who and his companions are confronted by gigantic insects who are dying from exposure to DN6, a pesticide with the power to destroy all life forms\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/775'),
(15260, 'Doctor Who: Planet of Giants', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the TARDIS lands in England in 1963, Doctor Who and his companions are confronted by gigantic insects who are dying from exposure to DN6, a pesticide with the power to destroy all life forms\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24116'),
(15261, 'Doctor Who: Players', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who historical adventure. In turn-of-the-century South Africa, aspiring war correspondent Winston Churchill is befriended by two strangers - the Doctor and Peri. Suspecting mysterious forces at work behind the scenes, the Doctor determines to keep a close eye on Churchill''s career.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/776'),
(15262, 'Doctor Who: Players', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who historical adventure. In turn-of-the-century South Africa, aspiring war correspondent Winston Churchill is befriended by two strangers - the Doctor and Peri. Suspecting mysterious forces at work behind the scenes, the Doctor determines to keep a close eye on Churchill''s career.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24113'),
(15263, 'Doctor Who: Prime Time', 'Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Detecting a mysterious sub-space signal in the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Ace land on the planet Blinni-Gaar. They soon discover that the native population are little more than zombies, addicted to the programs of the dangerously powerful Channel 400. As the Doctor investigates, he finds that the television company has a sinister agenda that has nothing to do with entertainment.As the Doctor is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of intrigue and deceit he discovers that he has an unexpected ally of the most dangerous kind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2745'),
(15264, 'Doctor Who: Prime Time', 'Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Detecting a mysterious sub-space signal in the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Ace land on the planet Blinni-Gaar. They soon discover that the native population are little more than zombies, addicted to the programs of the dangerously powerful Channel 400. As the Doctor investigates, he finds that the television company has a sinister agenda that has nothing to do with entertainment.As the Doctor is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of intrigue and deceit he discovers that he has an unexpected ally of the most dangerous kind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22085'),
(15265, 'Doctor Who: Psi-Ence Fiction', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Feynman College receives a grant for parapsychology research to be done by devious Barry Hitchens. During a routine test, he identifies five students who have genuine gifts. The students hold a seance at the site of a murder and one of the girls dies under mysterious circumstances. The Doctor arrives to attend a lecture on time travel, and is mistaken for Hitchens and finds himself drawn into the eerie events at the college. (Available in October.)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6817'),
(15266, 'Doctor Who: Psi-Ence Fiction', 'Chris Boucher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Feynman College receives a grant for parapsychology research to be done by devious Barry Hitchens. During a routine test, he identifies five students who have genuine gifts. The students hold a seance at the site of a murder and one of the girls dies under mysterious circumstances. The Doctor arrives to attend a lecture on time travel, and is mistaken for Hitchens and finds himself drawn into the eerie events at the college. (Available in October.)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17081'),
(15267, 'Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For many thousands of years the Suthekh had waited, trapped in the heart of an Egyptian Pyramid. Now at last the moment of release, when all the force of his pent-up malice would be unleashed upon the world, had come. The TARDIS lands on the site of Unit headquarters in the year 1911, and the Doctor and Sarah emerge to fight a terrifying and deadly battle.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The British actor Tom Baker, best known as the fourth incarnation of The Doctor, was born in 1934 in Liverpool, England. At age 15, Baker left school to become a monk with the Brothers of Ploermel on the island of Jersey. Six years later, he abandoned the monastic life and performed his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he became interested in acting. He attended Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Kent, England, on scholarship. Baker acted in repertory theaters around Britain until the late 1960s when he joined up with the National Theatre. Baker was working as a laborer at a building site when he landed the role of the main character in the popular, long-running British television series "Doctor Who" (1963), which brought him international fame and popularity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/779'),
(15268, 'Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For many thousands of years the Suthekh had waited, trapped in the heart of an Egyptian Pyramid. Now at last the moment of release, when all the force of his pent-up malice would be unleashed upon the world, had come. The TARDIS lands on the site of Unit headquarters in the year 1911, and the Doctor and Sarah emerge to fight a terrifying and deadly battle.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The British actor Tom Baker, best known as the fourth incarnation of The Doctor, was born in 1934 in Liverpool, England. At age 15, Baker left school to become a monk with the Brothers of Ploermel on the island of Jersey. Six years later, he abandoned the monastic life and performed his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he became interested in acting. He attended Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Kent, England, on scholarship. Baker acted in repertory theaters around Britain until the late 1960s when he joined up with the National Theatre. Baker was working as a laborer at a building site when he landed the role of the main character in the popular, long-running British television series "Doctor Who" (1963), which brought him international fame and popularity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24110'),
(15269, 'Doctor Who: Rags', 'Mick Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Third Doctor, Jo and Unit novel. In Dartmoor, a punk band get into a fight with a group of rich and rowdy young students, whose Range Rover crashes into their car. The groups are spurred on to insane acts of violence by a mysterious force, and the punk band singer hears a voice in his head which directs him towards a rusty knife buried in the ground. Murder ensues and blood soaks into the rock. It is much later on that a creature emerges from the bloody rock, greedily anticipating the chaos that it plans to cause...The Tardis alerls the Doctor to an incongruous energy fluctuation in the southwest of England. There, he finds himself part of the audience of one of the band''s gigs, and their anarchic music is attracting an ever-growing convoy of violent disciples. What is the dormant force that has been awakened, and what are its destructive aims? How many more people must suffer a brutal death before the Doctor can halt the bloody trail of the convoy?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2715'),
(15270, 'Doctor Who: Rags', 'Mick Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Third Doctor, Jo and Unit novel. In Dartmoor, a punk band get into a fight with a group of rich and rowdy young students, whose Range Rover crashes into their car. The groups are spurred on to insane acts of violence by a mysterious force, and the punk band singer hears a voice in his head which directs him towards a rusty knife buried in the ground. Murder ensues and blood soaks into the rock. It is much later on that a creature emerges from the bloody rock, greedily anticipating the chaos that it plans to cause...The Tardis alerls the Doctor to an incongruous energy fluctuation in the southwest of England. There, he finds himself part of the audience of one of the band''s gigs, and their anarchic music is attracting an ever-growing convoy of violent disciples. What is the dormant force that has been awakened, and what are its destructive aims? How many more people must suffer a brutal death before the Doctor can halt the bloody trail of the convoy?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22116'),
(15271, 'Doctor Who: Reckless Engineering', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The history of the planet Earth has become splintered, each splinter vying to become the prime reality. But there can only be one true history. The Doctor has a plan to ensure that the correct version of history prevails -- a plan that involves breaking every law of Time. But with the vortex itself on the brink of total collapse, what do mere laws matter? From the Bristol riots of 1831, to the ruins of the city in 2003, from a chance encounter between a frustrated poet and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, to a plan to save the human race, the stakes are raised ever higher -- until reality itself is threatened.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2477'),
(15272, 'Doctor Who: Reckless Engineering', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The history of the planet Earth has become splintered, each splinter vying to become the prime reality. But there can only be one true history. The Doctor has a plan to ensure that the correct version of history prevails -- a plan that involves breaking every law of Time. But with the vortex itself on the brink of total collapse, what do mere laws matter? From the Bristol riots of 1831, to the ruins of the city in 2003, from a chance encounter between a frustrated poet and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, to a plan to save the human race, the stakes are raised ever higher -- until reality itself is threatened.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22280'),
(15273, 'Doctor Who: Relative Dementias', 'Mark Michalowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Seventh Doctor novel with Ace. After the end of the interstellar Tulkan wars, the militaristic Tulkan War council was sentenced to memory-wiping and incarceration in a penal colony. Their weapons, advanced slavery devices and planet destroying armaments in development, hidden in a secret cache before the end of the war, are bound to remain secret forever, the access codes to their stasis chamber wiped with the Tulk''s memories. But in an old people''s home in Scotland, Dr Elizabeth Brunner, Unit scientist and daughter of one of the Alzheimers patients, has noticed disturbing happenings, and calls on her old friend, the Doctor, to investigate. What he and Ace find goes beyond disturbing, with campers murdered, the denizens of the home wired up to some sort of enormous calculating machine, and Ace being followed around by a mysterious figure, always remaining just beyond the edges of vision. They receive help from Annarenes, members of a race devoted to keeping the Tulkan menace down, but help from any quarter has to be regarded with utmost suspicion. Nothing, here, is sure to be what it soems...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3126'),
(15274, 'Doctor Who: Relative Dementias', 'Mark Michalowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Seventh Doctor novel with Ace. After the end of the interstellar Tulkan wars, the militaristic Tulkan War council was sentenced to memory-wiping and incarceration in a penal colony. Their weapons, advanced slavery devices and planet destroying armaments in development, hidden in a secret cache before the end of the war, are bound to remain secret forever, the access codes to their stasis chamber wiped with the Tulk''s memories. But in an old people''s home in Scotland, Dr Elizabeth Brunner, Unit scientist and daughter of one of the Alzheimers patients, has noticed disturbing happenings, and calls on her old friend, the Doctor, to investigate. What he and Ace find goes beyond disturbing, with campers murdered, the denizens of the home wired up to some sort of enormous calculating machine, and Ace being followed around by a mysterious figure, always remaining just beyond the edges of vision. They receive help from Annarenes, members of a race devoted to keeping the Tulkan menace down, but help from any quarter has to be regarded with utmost suspicion. Nothing, here, is sure to be what it soems...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21738'),
(15275, 'Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks', 'Ben Aaronovitch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    London, 1963. The seventh Doctor returns - with his new companion Ace - to tackle some unfinished business.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Once again, unusual events are unfolding at Coal Hill School and Totters, Lane junkyard. The Doctor discovers that his oldest foes, the Daleks, are on the trail of hidden Time Lord technology - technology that he himself left behind on Earth all those years ago. The Daleks are planning to perfect their own time-travel capability in order to unleash themselves across all of time and space. Can the Doctor, even with the help of the local military, stop the Daleks from stealing Gallifreyan secrets? Or are things even more complicated?\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Two opposing Dalek factions meet in an explosive confrontation with the fate of the entire Universe at stake!\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7299'),
(15276, 'Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks', 'Ben Aaronovitch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    London, 1963. The seventh Doctor returns - with his new companion Ace - to tackle some unfinished business.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    Once again, unusual events are unfolding at Coal Hill School and Totters, Lane junkyard. The Doctor discovers that his oldest foes, the Daleks, are on the trail of hidden Time Lord technology - technology that he himself left behind on Earth all those years ago. The Daleks are planning to perfect their own time-travel capability in order to unleash themselves across all of time and space. Can the Doctor, even with the help of the local military, stop the Daleks from stealing Gallifreyan secrets? Or are things even more complicated?\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     Two opposing Dalek factions meet in an explosive confrontation with the fate of the entire Universe at stake!\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16572'),
(15277, 'Doctor Who: Return of the Living Dad', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Benny returns to the TARDIS to follow up a clue to the whereabouts of a father who disappeared when she was a child. The trail leads to England in the year 1983 and to Admiral Isaac Summerfield who is leading a crew of aliens. Can Benny trust the man for w.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3748'),
(15278, 'Doctor Who: Return of the Living Dad', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Benny returns to the TARDIS to follow up a clue to the whereabouts of a father who disappeared when she was a child. The trail leads to England in the year 1983 and to Admiral Isaac Summerfield who is leading a crew of aliens. Can Benny trust the man for w.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20664'),
(15279, 'Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/780'),
(15280, 'Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24109'),
(15281, 'Doctor Who: Revolution Man', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An adventure featuring the eighth Doctor Who, Sam and Fitz, and set in the Swinging London of 1968. The TARDIS crew are investigating an anarchist group utilizing a drug that seems of an extraterrestrial nature, and how it connects to a series of bizarre, violent events world-wide.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2200'),
(15282, 'Doctor Who: Revolution Man', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An adventure featuring the eighth Doctor Who, Sam and Fitz, and set in the Swinging London of 1968. The TARDIS crew are investigating an anarchist group utilizing a drug that seems of an extraterrestrial nature, and how it connects to a series of bizarre, violent events world-wide.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22581'),
(15283, 'Doctor Who: Ribos Operation', 'Ian Marter &amp; British Broadcasting Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and K-9 Mark 2 are sent on a mission by the immensely powerful White Guardian. The six segments of the Key to Time, currently disguised and scattered throughout the cosmos, need to be brought together. Once assembled, the Key will allow the Guardian to restore balance and good to a universe that is descending into evil and chaos. It will also thwart the plans of the fearsome Black Guardian!\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  As if accepting such a daunting task wasn''t enough, the Guardian appoints a new young assistant for the Doctor, Romadvoratrelundar - or Romana for short. Fresh out of the Time Lord Academy, the 140-year-old Romana is confident that their mission will be easy and, if the Doctor can curb his irrational behaviour, can be rapidly completed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Using a special Tracer, the TARDIS locates the first segment on the feudal planet of Ribos, where two inter-galactic criminals are using a lump of Jethryk as bait in a plot to trick a visiting nobleman into buying the planet - which is not theirs to sell. The Doctor finds himself drawn into the con-men''s fiendish plan while Romana has to confront the monstrous Shrievenzale...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5076'),
(15284, 'Doctor Who: Ribos Operation', 'Ian Marter; British Broadcasting Corporation', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and K-9 Mark 2 are sent on a mission by the immensely powerful White Guardian. The six segments of the Key to Time, currently disguised and scattered throughout the cosmos, need to be brought together. Once assembled, the Key will allow the Guardian to restore balance and good to a universe that is descending into evil and chaos. It will also thwart the plans of the fearsome Black Guardian!\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  As if accepting such a daunting task wasn''t enough, the Guardian appoints a new young assistant for the Doctor, Romadvoratrelundar - or Romana for short. Fresh out of the Time Lord Academy, the 140-year-old Romana is confident that their mission will be easy and, if the Doctor can curb his irrational behaviour, can be rapidly completed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Using a special Tracer, the TARDIS locates the first segment on the feudal planet of Ribos, where two inter-galactic criminals are using a lump of Jethryk as bait in a plot to trick a visiting nobleman into buying the planet - which is not theirs to sell. The Doctor finds himself drawn into the con-men''s fiendish plan while Romana has to confront the monstrous Shrievenzale...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19641'),
(15285, 'Doctor Who: Rip Tide', 'Louise Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Unsettling things are afoot in a sleepy Cornish village. Strangers are hanging about the harbor and a mysterious object is retrieved from the sea bed. Then the locals start getting sick. Could this have anything to do with the alluringly beautiful Ruth who local lifeboatman Steve has taken a shine to...or could the other stranger, a man calling himself the Doctor, be somehow involved?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3296'),
(15286, 'Doctor Who: Rip Tide', 'Louise Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Unsettling things are afoot in a sleepy Cornish village. Strangers are hanging about the harbor and a mysterious object is retrieved from the sea bed. Then the locals start getting sick. Could this have anything to do with the alluringly beautiful Ruth who local lifeboatman Steve has taken a shine to...or could the other stranger, a man calling himself the Doctor, be somehow involved?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21273'),
(15287, 'Doctor Who: Risk Assessment', 'James Goss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''Are you trying to tell me, Captain Harkness, that the entire staff of Torchwood Cardiff now consists of yourself, a woman in trousers and a tea boy?'' Agnes Haversham is awake, and Jack is worried (and not a little afraid). The Torchwood Assessor is roused from her deep sleep in only the worst of times - it''s happened just four times in the last 100 years. Can the situation really be so bad? Someone, somewhere, is fighting a war, and they''re losing badly. The coffins of the dead are coming through the Rift. With thousands of alien bodies floating in the Bristol Channel, it''s down to Torchwood to round them all up before a lethal plague breaks out. And now they''ll have to do it by the book. The 1901 edition. Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4860'),
(15288, 'Doctor Who: Risk Assessment', 'James Goss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''Are you trying to tell me, Captain Harkness, that the entire staff of Torchwood Cardiff now consists of yourself, a woman in trousers and a tea boy?'' Agnes Haversham is awake, and Jack is worried (and not a little afraid). The Torchwood Assessor is roused from her deep sleep in only the worst of times - it''s happened just four times in the last 100 years. Can the situation really be so bad? Someone, somewhere, is fighting a war, and they''re losing badly. The coffins of the dead are coming through the Rift. With thousands of alien bodies floating in the Bristol Channel, it''s down to Torchwood to round them all up before a lethal plague breaks out. And now they''ll have to do it by the book. The 1901 edition. Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10022'),
(15289, 'Doctor Who: Robots of Death', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   On a distant, barren planet, Storm Mine 4 trawls across bleak deserts and through fierce duststorms in search of rare and valuable metals. On board the Sandminer is a small skeleton crew, who alternate between indulgent relaxation and skilled mining work. The mundane, day-to-day duties of the mine are attended to by a much larger complement of servile robots.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  This is a society that is dependant on robots for all areas of life, the people comforted by the knowledge that the strictest safeguards are built into each and every robot''s programming. So when one of the miner crew is murdered, suspicion falls on two new arrivals...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Leela arrive on board, and are immediately accused of being the prime murder suspects. But the Doctor soon realises that perhaps the killer isnâ€™t human. More deaths occur â€” can he persuade the remaining crewmembers that the killer may be a robot?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/784'),
(15290, 'Doctor Who: Robots of Death', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   On a distant, barren planet, Storm Mine 4 trawls across bleak deserts and through fierce duststorms in search of rare and valuable metals. On board the Sandminer is a small skeleton crew, who alternate between indulgent relaxation and skilled mining work. The mundane, day-to-day duties of the mine are attended to by a much larger complement of servile robots.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  This is a society that is dependant on robots for all areas of life, the people comforted by the knowledge that the strictest safeguards are built into each and every robot''s programming. So when one of the miner crew is murdered, suspicion falls on two new arrivals...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Leela arrive on board, and are immediately accused of being the prime murder suspects. But the Doctor soon realises that perhaps the killer isnâ€™t human. More deaths occur â€” can he persuade the remaining crewmembers that the killer may be a robot?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24104'),
(15291, 'Doctor Who: Salvation', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York, 1965. A time of conflict between ideologies, races, generations and genders, when crime runs rife and an unpopular war drags on in a distant land. In the midst of this turmoil, people cry out to their gods. And now, it seems, the gods have answered their call. Walking the slums and tenements of downtown Manhattan, demonstrating extraordinary powers, five strangers are gathering a growing crowd of worshippers.Steven wants to believe in miracles, but the Doctor is more skeptical. What are the strangers'' real motives, and why does history make no mention of these events? As New York begins to tear itself apart, the Doctor''s non-interventionist principles are tested to their limits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/981'),
(15292, 'Doctor Who: Salvation', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York, 1965. A time of conflict between ideologies, races, generations and genders, when crime runs rife and an unpopular war drags on in a distant land. In the midst of this turmoil, people cry out to their gods. And now, it seems, the gods have answered their call. Walking the slums and tenements of downtown Manhattan, demonstrating extraordinary powers, five strangers are gathering a growing crowd of worshippers.Steven wants to believe in miracles, but the Doctor is more skeptical. What are the strangers'' real motives, and why does history make no mention of these events? As New York begins to tear itself apart, the Doctor''s non-interventionist principles are tested to their limits.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23869'),
(15293, 'Doctor Who: Sanctuary', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    The Doctor pointed at Bernice. â€˜The wenchâ€™s mind is addled,â€™ he said. â€˜Arrest her before she spreads her ungodly heresy.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS is caught in the gravitational field of a dark star. The Doctor and Bernice are forced to evacuate, and find themselves stranded in medieval France - a brutal time of crusades and wars of succession.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the Albigensian crusade draws to its bloody conclusion, men inflict savage brutalities on each other in the name of religion. And the TARDIS crew find their lives intertwined with warring Templars, crusaders and heretics. While the Doctor begins a murder investigation in a besieged fortress, Bernice finds herself drawn to an embittered mercenary who has made the hereticsâ€™ fight his own. And they both realize that to leave history unchanged they may have to sacrifice far more than their lives.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6428'),
(15294, 'Doctor Who: Sanctuary', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    The Doctor pointed at Bernice. â€˜The wenchâ€™s mind is addled,â€™ he said. â€˜Arrest her before she spreads her ungodly heresy.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS is caught in the gravitational field of a dark star. The Doctor and Bernice are forced to evacuate, and find themselves stranded in medieval France - a brutal time of crusades and wars of succession.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the Albigensian crusade draws to its bloody conclusion, men inflict savage brutalities on each other in the name of religion. And the TARDIS crew find their lives intertwined with warring Templars, crusaders and heretics. While the Doctor begins a murder investigation in a besieged fortress, Bernice finds herself drawn to an embittered mercenary who has made the hereticsâ€™ fight his own. And they both realize that to leave history unchanged they may have to sacrifice far more than their lives.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17672'),
(15295, 'Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the Doctor lands his TARDIS in the Lancaster town of Kennet, in the present day, he finds that something is terribly wrong. The people are scared. They don''t like going out onto the streets at night, they don''t like making too much noise, and they certainly don''t like strangers asking too many questions. What alien force has invaded the town? Why is it watching barmaid Alison Cheney? And what plans does it have for the future of the planet Earth? While starting with a small community under threat, this old-fashioned, very traditional but very up to date Doctor Who adventure takes in the entire world, from New Zealand to India, Siberia to the USA, and cosmic expanses beyond.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2323'),
(15296, 'Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the Doctor lands his TARDIS in the Lancaster town of Kennet, in the present day, he finds that something is terribly wrong. The people are scared. They don''t like going out onto the streets at night, they don''t like making too much noise, and they certainly don''t like strangers asking too many questions. What alien force has invaded the town? Why is it watching barmaid Alison Cheney? And what plans does it have for the future of the planet Earth? While starting with a small community under threat, this old-fashioned, very traditional but very up to date Doctor Who adventure takes in the entire world, from New Zealand to India, Siberia to the USA, and cosmic expanses beyond.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22515'),
(15297, 'Doctor Who: Seeing I', 'Jonathan Blum &amp; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Seeing I\n  </em>\n  is the second in the BBC range from coauthors Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum. The first 170 or so of the book''s 279 pages drag interminably as Sam and the Doctor spend three years being unable to meet up due to the fact that the Doctor has been locked up in an inescapable prison for the crime of trying to locate his companion using somewhat unorthodox methods. Sam in the meantime becomes a quasi-ecoterrorist seeking to undermine the controlling techno-company on the planet. It''s this same organization that holds the Doctor, and it isn''t until Sam finds his details on a file pirated from the company that they get to finally meet, after almost three whole books spent apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s not explained quite how Sam knows this is the Doctor (presumably there was a photo) since he was going under the name of Doctor Bowman, but within a few pages she manages to break into the prison and rescue him. Bang. All over in a flash.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then the rest of the plot kicks in. The company has been using eye-implant technology, which the Doctor has realized is alien to this culture at this time. The trouble is traced to a Gallifreyan mind control device, which is supplying power to the company. Furthermore, this device has been "seeded" on the planet by an insectoid race of aliens called the I so that they may come along later and harvest whatever use the indigenous population have made of the technology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Seeing I\n  </em>\n  is a curious mixture of well-written character pieces and a paper-thin plot designed only to achieve the objective of forcing the characters to develop. The authors have decided to push against the general trend of the BBC''s range and to present a work that only just manages to stand alone in its own right.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you like talk, internal angst, and uncertainty as opposed to action, plot, and adventure, this novel is doubtless going to please you. For those who prefer a more traditional WHO yarn, you''d be better off starting elsewhere.\n  <em>\n   --David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Sam have been separated. Landing on Haolem, Sam finds herself employed by INC, a company that dominates the planet and one of its major employers. Sam learns that decisions and actions can be made as fast as INC employees think. Is this a workforce of computerized zombies?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4093'),
(15298, 'Doctor Who: Seeing I', 'Jonathan Blum; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Seeing I\n  </em>\n  is the second in the BBC range from coauthors Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum. The first 170 or so of the book''s 279 pages drag interminably as Sam and the Doctor spend three years being unable to meet up due to the fact that the Doctor has been locked up in an inescapable prison for the crime of trying to locate his companion using somewhat unorthodox methods. Sam in the meantime becomes a quasi-ecoterrorist seeking to undermine the controlling techno-company on the planet. It''s this same organization that holds the Doctor, and it isn''t until Sam finds his details on a file pirated from the company that they get to finally meet, after almost three whole books spent apart.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It''s not explained quite how Sam knows this is the Doctor (presumably there was a photo) since he was going under the name of Doctor Bowman, but within a few pages she manages to break into the prison and rescue him. Bang. All over in a flash.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then the rest of the plot kicks in. The company has been using eye-implant technology, which the Doctor has realized is alien to this culture at this time. The trouble is traced to a Gallifreyan mind control device, which is supplying power to the company. Furthermore, this device has been "seeded" on the planet by an insectoid race of aliens called the I so that they may come along later and harvest whatever use the indigenous population have made of the technology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Seeing I\n  </em>\n  is a curious mixture of well-written character pieces and a paper-thin plot designed only to achieve the objective of forcing the characters to develop. The authors have decided to push against the general trend of the BBC''s range and to present a work that only just manages to stand alone in its own right.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you like talk, internal angst, and uncertainty as opposed to action, plot, and adventure, this novel is doubtless going to please you. For those who prefer a more traditional WHO yarn, you''d be better off starting elsewhere.\n  <em>\n   --David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Sam have been separated. Landing on Haolem, Sam finds herself employed by INC, a company that dominates the planet and one of its major employers. Sam learns that decisions and actions can be made as fast as INC employees think. Is this a workforce of computerized zombies?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20422'),
(15299, 'Doctor Who: Set Piece', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Ace set out to discover how passenger ship''s are disappearing from the interstellar traffic lanes - only things don''t work out as planned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3754'),
(15300, 'Doctor Who: Set Piece', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Ace set out to discover how passenger ship''s are disappearing from the interstellar traffic lanes - only things don''t work out as planned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20662'),
(15301, 'Doctor Who: Shadowmind', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Produced by arrangement with BBC television, this first-ever series of original Doctor Who novels will continue where the 1989 TV series left off.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6793'),
(15302, 'Doctor Who: Shadowmind', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Produced by arrangement with BBC television, this first-ever series of original Doctor Who novels will continue where the 1989 TV series left off.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18053'),
(15303, 'Doctor Who: Shakedown', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜The Sontarans can never defeat us. It is we who will win.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</p>\n<p>\n For thousands of years the Sontaran clone-warriors and the Rutan gestalt have fought each other across the galaxy. Now the Sontarans have a plan to strike at the heart of the Rutan Empire, and utterly defeat the Rutan race.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  The Doctor has his suspicions, but only one Rutan spy knows the Sontaransâ€™ secret. He is being pursued from planet to planet by Cwej and Forrester and by a Sontaran hit squad. After a confrontation aboard the racing space-yacht Tiger Moth, the chase culminates on the library planet Sentarion - where Professor Bernice Summerfieldâ€™s researches into the history of the Sontaran/Rutan war turn into explosive reality.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/785'),
(15304, 'Doctor Who: Shakedown', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜The Sontarans can never defeat us. It is we who will win.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</p>\n<p>\n For thousands of years the Sontaran clone-warriors and the Rutan gestalt have fought each other across the galaxy. Now the Sontarans have a plan to strike at the heart of the Rutan Empire, and utterly defeat the Rutan race.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  The Doctor has his suspicions, but only one Rutan spy knows the Sontaransâ€™ secret. He is being pursued from planet to planet by Cwej and Forrester and by a Sontaran hit squad. After a confrontation aboard the racing space-yacht Tiger Moth, the chase culminates on the library planet Sentarion - where Professor Bernice Summerfieldâ€™s researches into the history of the Sontaran/Rutan war turn into explosive reality.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24103'),
(15305, 'Doctor Who: Shell Shock', 'Simon A. Forward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is washed up -- literally -- on an alien beach with only intelligent crabs and a madman for company. How can he possible rescue Peri who was lost at sea the same time as he and the TARDIS? But Peri has problems of her own. ''Rescued'' from drowning by an intelligent sponge growth, she has been adopted by the life form as its own personal God.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1218'),
(15306, 'Doctor Who: Shell Shock', 'Simon A. Forward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is washed up -- literally -- on an alien beach with only intelligent crabs and a madman for company. How can he possible rescue Peri who was lost at sea the same time as he and the TARDIS? But Peri has problems of her own. ''Rescued'' from drowning by an intelligent sponge growth, she has been adopted by the life form as its own personal God.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23689');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15307, 'Doctor Who: Ship of Fools', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Krytell, the wealthy head of a hugely powerful interplanetary corporation, asks Benny to do an unofficial and somewhat shady job, the benefits are immediately apparent, or are they? On board a luxurious cruise-liner, wealthy fellow travelers begin dropping dead like flies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6405'),
(15308, 'Doctor Who: Ship of Fools', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Krytell, the wealthy head of a hugely powerful interplanetary corporation, asks Benny to do an unofficial and somewhat shady job, the benefits are immediately apparent, or are they? On board a luxurious cruise-liner, wealthy fellow travelers begin dropping dead like flies.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17696'),
(15309, 'Doctor Who: Sick Building', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tiermann''s World: a planet covered in wintry woods and roamed by sabre-toothed tigers and other savage beasts. The Doctor is here to warn Professor Tiermann, his wife and their son that a terrible danger is on its way. The Tiermanns live in luxury, in a fantastic, futuristic, fully-automated Dreamhome, under an impenetrable force shield. But that won''t protect them from the Voracious Craw. A gigantic and extremely hungry alien creature is heading remorselessly towards their home. When it gets there everything will be devoured. Can they get away in time? With the force shield cracking up, and the Dreamhome itself deciding who should or should not leave, things are looking desperate...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Paul Magrs is the author of four previous Doctor Who novels The Scarlet Empress, The Blue Angel, Verdigris and Mad Dogs and Englishmen\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2213'),
(15310, 'Doctor Who: Sick Building', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tiermann''s World: a planet covered in wintry woods and roamed by sabre-toothed tigers and other savage beasts. The Doctor is here to warn Professor Tiermann, his wife and their son that a terrible danger is on its way. The Tiermanns live in luxury, in a fantastic, futuristic, fully-automated Dreamhome, under an impenetrable force shield. But that won''t protect them from the Voracious Craw. A gigantic and extremely hungry alien creature is heading remorselessly towards their home. When it gets there everything will be devoured. Can they get away in time? With the force shield cracking up, and the Dreamhome itself deciding who should or should not leave, things are looking desperate...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Paul Magrs is the author of four previous Doctor Who novels The Scarlet Empress, The Blue Angel, Verdigris and Mad Dogs and Englishmen\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22572'),
(15311, 'Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis', 'Kevin Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Launched into space 350 years ago, a meteor is returning to Earth--and insideit waits Nemesis, a silver statue made of the living metal validium, the mostdangerous substance in the Universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3682'),
(15312, 'Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis', 'Kevin Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Launched into space 350 years ago, a meteor is returning to Earth--and insideit waits Nemesis, a silver statue made of the living metal validium, the mostdangerous substance in the Universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20835'),
(15313, 'Doctor Who: Sky Pirates!', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Benny are on a cruise with a difference - through skies populated by evil, parasitic, shape-changing monsters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6407'),
(15314, 'Doctor Who: Sky Pirates!', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Benny are on a cruise with a difference - through skies populated by evil, parasitic, shape-changing monsters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17695'),
(15315, 'Doctor Who: Skypoint', 'Phil Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The eighth novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. SkyPoint is the latest high-rise addition to the ever-developing Cardiff skyline. It''s the most high-tech, avant-garde apartment block in the city. And it''s where Rhys Williams is hoping to find a new home for himself and Gwen. When Torchwood discover that residents have been going missing from the tower block, one of the team gets her dream assignment. Soon, SkyPoint''s latest newly married tenants are moving in. And Toshiko Sato finally gets to make a home with Owen Harper. Then something comes out of the wall...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2154'),
(15316, 'Doctor Who: Skypoint', 'Phil Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The eighth novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. SkyPoint is the latest high-rise addition to the ever-developing Cardiff skyline. It''s the most high-tech, avant-garde apartment block in the city. And it''s where Rhys Williams is hoping to find a new home for himself and Gwen. When Torchwood discover that residents have been going missing from the tower block, one of the team gets her dream assignment. Soon, SkyPoint''s latest newly married tenants are moving in. And Toshiko Sato finally gets to make a home with Owen Harper. Then something comes out of the wall...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9687'),
(15317, 'Doctor Who: Sleepy', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the Doctor arrives at Yemaya 4, he falls prey to a virus sweeping through the population, which unleashes latent psychic powers and something more sinister. The Doctor must face the Dione-Kismu Corporation, who will go to any lengths to cover up the s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3755'),
(15318, 'Doctor Who: Sleepy', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the Doctor arrives at Yemaya 4, he falls prey to a virus sweeping through the population, which unleashes latent psychic powers and something more sinister. The Doctor must face the Dione-Kismu Corporation, who will go to any lengths to cover up the s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20661'),
(15319, 'Doctor Who: Slow Decay', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations; Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. The series stars Captain Jack Harkness, last seen in Doctor Who. This novel is a brand-new Torchwood story.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7624'),
(15320, 'Doctor Who: Slow Decay', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations; Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. The series stars Captain Jack Harkness, last seen in Doctor Who. This novel is a brand-new Torchwood story.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12223'),
(15321, 'Doctor Who: Slow Empire', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Slow Empire''s advanced and complex technology is helping the Vortex Wraiths to materialize. The Empire''s pride in its advanced communications systems has invited in a menace that could mean the end of the confederation altogether. But, as the Doctor discovers, this may be no bad thing...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6408'),
(15322, 'Doctor Who: Slow Empire', 'Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Slow Empire''s advanced and complex technology is helping the Vortex Wraiths to materialize. The Empire''s pride in its advanced communications systems has invited in a menace that could mean the end of the confederation altogether. But, as the Doctor discovers, this may be no bad thing...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17694'),
(15323, 'Doctor Who: Snakedance', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The evil Mara gains control of the mind of Dr. Who''s associate, Tegan, and plans to use her in starting a reign of terror on the planet Manussa\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/787'),
(15324, 'Doctor Who: Snakedance', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The evil Mara gains control of the mind of Dr. Who''s associate, Tegan, and plans to use her in starting a reign of terror on the planet Manussa\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24100'),
(15325, 'Doctor Who: So Vile a Sin', 'Ben Aaronovitch &amp; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The longest wunning science fiction TV series, Dr. Who has delighted fans on both sides of the Atlantic since 1963. Now, the New Adventures series, original, full-length novels which continue the Doctor''s travels in time, presents So Vile a Sin, which culminates in the final confrontation between Dr. Who and the psi-powered Brotherhood, and marks the departure of the Doctor''s companion, Roz Forrester.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7300'),
(15326, 'Doctor Who: So Vile a Sin', 'Ben Aaronovitch; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The longest wunning science fiction TV series, Dr. Who has delighted fans on both sides of the Atlantic since 1963. Now, the New Adventures series, original, full-length novels which continue the Doctor''s travels in time, presents So Vile a Sin, which culminates in the final confrontation between Dr. Who and the psi-powered Brotherhood, and marks the departure of the Doctor''s companion, Roz Forrester.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16571'),
(15327, 'Doctor Who: Something in the Water', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Bob Strong''s GP surgery has being seeing a lot of coughs and colds recently - far more than is normal for the time of year. Bob contacts Owen Harper, an old student friend, who reluctantly agrees to look into it. Meanwhile, Toshiko and Gwen are investigating ghostly apparitions in the marshy areas of South Wales. It''s been a dull month and they''re just about to pack up when they discover a dead body. The Team find that there''s been a massive spike in respiratory infections right across the UK. Captain Jack agrees that it''s worth investigating, but at the moment his priority is Tosh and Gwen''s work: they''ve brought the corpse back for examination. It''s old, in an advanced state of decay...and still able to talk!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/465'),
(15328, 'Doctor Who: Something in the Water', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Bob Strong''s GP surgery has being seeing a lot of coughs and colds recently - far more than is normal for the time of year. Bob contacts Owen Harper, an old student friend, who reluctantly agrees to look into it. Meanwhile, Toshiko and Gwen are investigating ghostly apparitions in the marshy areas of South Wales. It''s been a dull month and they''re just about to pack up when they discover a dead body. The Team find that there''s been a massive spike in respiratory infections right across the UK. Captain Jack agrees that it''s worth investigating, but at the moment his priority is Tosh and Gwen''s work: they''ve brought the corpse back for examination. It''s old, in an advanced state of decay...and still able to talk!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8342'),
(15329, 'Doctor Who: Sometime Never', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This Week: A hideous misshapen creature releases a butterfly. Next Week: The consequences of this simple action ensure that history follows its predicted path... Sometime: In the swirling maelstrom of the Time Vortex, The Council of Eight maps out every moment in history and take drastic measures to ensure it follows their predictions. But there is one elemental force that defies prediction, that fails to adhere to the laws of time and space... A rogue element that could destroy their plans merely by existing. Already events are mapped out and defined. Already the pieces of the trap are in place. The Council of Eight already knows when Sabbath will betray them. It knows when Fitz will survive the horrors in the Museum of Anthropology. It knows when Trix will come to his help. It knows when the Doctor will finally realize the truth. It knows that this will be: Never.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3862'),
(15330, 'Doctor Who: Sometime Never', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This Week: A hideous misshapen creature releases a butterfly. Next Week: The consequences of this simple action ensure that history follows its predicted path... Sometime: In the swirling maelstrom of the Time Vortex, The Council of Eight maps out every moment in history and take drastic measures to ensure it follows their predictions. But there is one elemental force that defies prediction, that fails to adhere to the laws of time and space... A rogue element that could destroy their plans merely by existing. Already events are mapped out and defined. Already the pieces of the trap are in place. The Council of Eight already knows when Sabbath will betray them. It knows when Fitz will survive the horrors in the Museum of Anthropology. It knows when Trix will come to his help. It knows when the Doctor will finally realize the truth. It knows that this will be: Never.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20598'),
(15331, 'Doctor Who: Sontaran Experiment', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Earth 10,000 years hence and life has been extinguished - or has it?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry find themselves in the Piccadilly Circus of the future where the mysterious alien in the rocks rules.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Then the Doctor bumps into an old enemy... and finds himself part of a lethal experiment...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5078'),
(15332, 'Doctor Who: Sontaran Experiment', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Earth 10,000 years hence and life has been extinguished - or has it?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry find themselves in the Piccadilly Circus of the future where the mysterious alien in the rocks rules.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Then the Doctor bumps into an old enemy... and finds himself part of a lethal experiment...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19640'),
(15333, 'Doctor Who: Space Age', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is England, Earth, in the year 2019. The Doctor, Fitz, and Compassion land on a bleak plain, near a derelict city where mods and rockers are converging to fight out their differences. While the Doctor is taken prisoner by the rockers, Fitz is whisked away by the mods. In the midst of the gang wars, can the Doctor find out what transported the mods and rockers to the derelict city and why?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/984'),
(15334, 'Doctor Who: Space Age', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is England, Earth, in the year 2019. The Doctor, Fitz, and Compassion land on a bleak plain, near a derelict city where mods and rockers are converging to fight out their differences. While the Doctor is taken prisoner by the rockers, Fitz is whisked away by the mods. In the midst of the gang wars, can the Doctor find out what transported the mods and rockers to the derelict city and why?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23861'),
(15335, 'Doctor Who: Space War', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It is the twenty-sixth century. Known space is divided between the great empires of Earth and Draconia. A fragile peace exists between the humans and the lizard-like Draconians, a peace that is put in jeopardy when each race claims that its cargo vessels are being raided by the other''s warships.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS accidentally brings the Doctor and Jo aboard Earth cargo ship C982, they find it under attack. As the ship is boarded, a strange pulsing sound fills the air. The crew believe their attackers to be Draconians, but the Doctor and Jo see only Ogrons - brutish, simian mercenaries who steal the cargo, including the TARDIS, and head off into space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor''s investigations take him to Earth, the Moon and then to Draconia itself. He discovers that the Ogrons are employed by his sworn enemy, the Master, who is attempting to provoke a war between the space empires. The Doctor suspects the scale of the plan is too grand for the Master, but even he is shocked to discover the identity of the far deadlier foe waiting in the wings...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3182'),
(15336, 'Doctor Who: Space War', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It is the twenty-sixth century. Known space is divided between the great empires of Earth and Draconia. A fragile peace exists between the humans and the lizard-like Draconians, a peace that is put in jeopardy when each race claims that its cargo vessels are being raided by the other''s warships.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS accidentally brings the Doctor and Jo aboard Earth cargo ship C982, they find it under attack. As the ship is boarded, a strange pulsing sound fills the air. The crew believe their attackers to be Draconians, but the Doctor and Jo see only Ogrons - brutish, simian mercenaries who steal the cargo, including the TARDIS, and head off into space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor''s investigations take him to Earth, the Moon and then to Draconia itself. He discovers that the Ogrons are employed by his sworn enemy, the Master, who is attempting to provoke a war between the space empires. The Doctor suspects the scale of the plan is too grand for the Master, but even he is shocked to discover the identity of the far deadlier foe waiting in the wings...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21342'),
(15337, 'Doctor Who: Spiral Scratch', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the Doctor and Mel receive a message about the Lamprey, the Doctor is confused. He''s never heard of such a thing. Mel on the other hand has, which is odd as the Lamprey is a demon from a distant planet, far, far in the future - somewhere she''s never heard of, let alone visited. Meanwhile two strangers are watching every move the Doctor makes, one minute stopping calamity, the next causing it. Are they the force for good that they claim? Just as Mel thinks she''s got this time-travelling business sorted out once and for all, along comes the peculiar Pierrot family to challenge everything she believes to be real...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5419'),
(15338, 'Doctor Who: Spiral Scratch', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the Doctor and Mel receive a message about the Lamprey, the Doctor is confused. He''s never heard of such a thing. Mel on the other hand has, which is odd as the Lamprey is a demon from a distant planet, far, far in the future - somewhere she''s never heard of, let alone visited. Meanwhile two strangers are watching every move the Doctor makes, one minute stopping calamity, the next causing it. Are they the force for good that they claim? Just as Mel thinks she''s got this time-travelling business sorted out once and for all, along comes the peculiar Pierrot family to challenge everything she believes to be real...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19196'),
(15339, 'Doctor Who: St. Anthony&#39;s Fire', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜No time. They have come. They have come at last.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Bernice visit Betrushia, a planet famous for its beautiful ring system. They soon discover that the rain-drenched jungles are in turmoil. A vicious, genocidal war is raging between the lizard-like natives. The ground itself is wracked by mysterious earthquakes. And an unknown force is moving inexorably forwards, devastating everything in its path.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ace wanted out; sheâ€™s resting on a neighbouring world. But from the outer reaches of space, a far greater threat is approaching Betrushia, and even Ace may find it impossible to escape.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With time running out, the Doctor must save the people of Betrushia from their own terrible legacy before the wrath of St Anthonyâ€™s Fire is visited upon them all.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3100'),
(15340, 'Doctor Who: St. Anthony&#39;s Fire', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜No time. They have come. They have come at last.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor and Bernice visit Betrushia, a planet famous for its beautiful ring system. They soon discover that the rain-drenched jungles are in turmoil. A vicious, genocidal war is raging between the lizard-like natives. The ground itself is wracked by mysterious earthquakes. And an unknown force is moving inexorably forwards, devastating everything in its path.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ace wanted out; sheâ€™s resting on a neighbouring world. But from the outer reaches of space, a far greater threat is approaching Betrushia, and even Ace may find it impossible to escape.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With time running out, the Doctor must save the people of Betrushia from their own terrible legacy before the wrath of St Anthonyâ€™s Fire is visited upon them all.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21752'),
(15341, 'Doctor Who: Sting of the Zygons', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The TARDIS lands the Doctor and Martha in the Lake District in 1909, where a small village has been terrorised by a giant, scaly monster. The search is on for the elusive "Beast of Westmorland," and explorers, naturalists and hunters from across the country are descending on the fells. King Edward VII himself is on his way to join the search, with a knighthood for whoever finds the Beast. But there is a more sinister presence at work in the Lakes than a mere monster on the rampage, and the Doctor is soon embroiled in the plans of an old and terrifying enemy. And as the hunters become the hunted, a desperate battle of wits begins - with the future of the entire world at stake...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1146'),
(15342, 'Doctor Who: Sting of the Zygons', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The TARDIS lands the Doctor and Martha in the Lake District in 1909, where a small village has been terrorised by a giant, scaly monster. The search is on for the elusive "Beast of Westmorland," and explorers, naturalists and hunters from across the country are descending on the fells. King Edward VII himself is on his way to join the search, with a knighthood for whoever finds the Beast. But there is a more sinister presence at work in the Lakes than a mere monster on the rampage, and the Doctor is soon embroiled in the plans of an old and terrifying enemy. And as the hunters become the hunted, a desperate battle of wits begins - with the future of the entire world at stake...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23812'),
(15343, 'Doctor Who: Stones of Blood', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000040" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor, Romana and K-9 continue their search for the six disguised segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS lands on Earth close to the Nine Travellers, an ancient stone circle. Professor Amelia Rumford and her associate Vivien Fay, who are studying the stones, explain that every time the circle has been surveyed, the number of stones has changed. Also interested in the circle are a group of druids - dedicated followers of the Cailleach, the Celtic goddess of war, death and magic - who are prepared to perform human sacrifice to satisfy her demands for blood.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Doctor soon learns that there is more to the Nine Travellers, the Cailleach and the druids than meets the eye. How can the stones apparently move around the countryside? And why has the area around the circle always been owned by a woman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   After Romana discovers the true identity of the evil Cailleach, the Doctor finds that he must travel into hyperspace to solve the mystery of the Nine Travellers and save his companion from the blood-hungry alien life-forms known as the Ogri...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/788'),
(15344, 'Doctor Who: Stones of Blood', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000040" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor, Romana and K-9 continue their search for the six disguised segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS lands on Earth close to the Nine Travellers, an ancient stone circle. Professor Amelia Rumford and her associate Vivien Fay, who are studying the stones, explain that every time the circle has been surveyed, the number of stones has changed. Also interested in the circle are a group of druids - dedicated followers of the Cailleach, the Celtic goddess of war, death and magic - who are prepared to perform human sacrifice to satisfy her demands for blood.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Doctor soon learns that there is more to the Nine Travellers, the Cailleach and the druids than meets the eye. How can the stones apparently move around the countryside? And why has the area around the circle always been owned by a woman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   After Romana discovers the true identity of the evil Cailleach, the Doctor finds that he must travel into hyperspace to solve the mystery of the Nine Travellers and save his companion from the blood-hungry alien life-forms known as the Ogri...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24096'),
(15345, 'Doctor Who: Storm Harvest', 'Mike Tucker &amp; Robert Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Years after the extinction of its indigenous races, the sea-world of Coralee is populated by human and dolphin colonists. They are ignorant of what caused the original population to die out, but tales of vicious monsters proliferate.An underwater massacre makes the Doctor and Ace wonder if one aspect of the legends, the acquatic Krill, might be real after all -- and if so, if they are as deadly as the stories say.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2746'),
(15346, 'Doctor Who: Storm Harvest', 'Mike Tucker; Robert Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Years after the extinction of its indigenous races, the sea-world of Coralee is populated by human and dolphin colonists. They are ignorant of what caused the original population to die out, but tales of vicious monsters proliferate.An underwater massacre makes the Doctor and Ace wonder if one aspect of the legends, the acquatic Krill, might be real after all -- and if so, if they are as deadly as the stories say.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22084'),
(15347, 'Doctor Who: Strange England', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s no denying the enormous popularity of Dr. Who, time traveler extraordinaire, or the multi-volume series that showcases his exploits. In Strange England, a rural paradise turns into a world of nightmare when the Tardis crew arrives. Are they responsible, or is some more deadly force at work?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1254'),
(15348, 'Doctor Who: Strange England', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s no denying the enormous popularity of Dr. Who, time traveler extraordinaire, or the multi-volume series that showcases his exploits. In Strange England, a rural paradise turns into a world of nightmare when the Tardis crew arrives. Are they responsible, or is some more deadly force at work?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23665'),
(15349, 'Doctor Who: Sunmakers', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Far in the distant future, Earth has become uninhabitable, forcing mankind to colonise first Mars, and then Pluto...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  No longer the coldest planet in the solar system, Pluto is now warmed by a series of artificial suns. But access to the sunlight is limited to a select few... The majority of the citizens of the vast Megropolis cities are being overworked and overtaxed by the ruling elite, led by the Gatherer, and the sinister Collector.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Doctor, Leela and K9 arrive, and discover that all is not well on Pluto. The human population is being totally exploited, whilst deep in the Undercity, a small band of rebels seeks to overthrow the mysterious ''Company'' that controls all aspects of everyday life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the situation gets more desperate, the Doctor is forced to fight the oppression of the evil corporate rulers of Pluto. And their taxes...!\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/789'),
(15350, 'Doctor Who: Sunmakers', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Far in the distant future, Earth has become uninhabitable, forcing mankind to colonise first Mars, and then Pluto...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  No longer the coldest planet in the solar system, Pluto is now warmed by a series of artificial suns. But access to the sunlight is limited to a select few... The majority of the citizens of the vast Megropolis cities are being overworked and overtaxed by the ruling elite, led by the Gatherer, and the sinister Collector.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Doctor, Leela and K9 arrive, and discover that all is not well on Pluto. The human population is being totally exploited, whilst deep in the Undercity, a small band of rebels seeks to overthrow the mysterious ''Company'' that controls all aspects of everyday life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the situation gets more desperate, the Doctor is forced to fight the oppression of the evil corporate rulers of Pluto. And their taxes...!\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24091'),
(15351, 'Doctor Who: Superior Beings', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The planet Rocosia consists of nothing but immaculately-cultivated plant life, which propagates and cultivates itself -- there are no mammals, insects, aquatic or avian creatures living there. So the plants seem to exist for no apparent ecological reason, but visitors to the planet are soon distracted from the enigma by the dazzling beauty of the gardens.One night, Peri spots a strange, multi-limbed creature picking fruit from one of the trees, and she decides to follow it. She gets lost though, and ends up attacked by a Decimator, a vicious, thorny plant. Regaining consciousness, she finds herself the captive of a humanoid fox in tight-fitting leather who is clearly very excited about eating her...Meanwhile the Doctor finds Rocosia in a state of chaos as the Decimators appear in force and embark upon systematic destruction of the entire planet. The Doctor is rescued by the Valethske -- the creatures holding Peri captive. What are the Valethske doing on Rocosia and why are the Decimatorstrying to destroy the planet? And will the Doctor and Peri be able to escape before the entire planet is consumed by fire?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2480'),
(15352, 'Doctor Who: Superior Beings', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The planet Rocosia consists of nothing but immaculately-cultivated plant life, which propagates and cultivates itself -- there are no mammals, insects, aquatic or avian creatures living there. So the plants seem to exist for no apparent ecological reason, but visitors to the planet are soon distracted from the enigma by the dazzling beauty of the gardens.One night, Peri spots a strange, multi-limbed creature picking fruit from one of the trees, and she decides to follow it. She gets lost though, and ends up attacked by a Decimator, a vicious, thorny plant. Regaining consciousness, she finds herself the captive of a humanoid fox in tight-fitting leather who is clearly very excited about eating her...Meanwhile the Doctor finds Rocosia in a state of chaos as the Decimators appear in force and embark upon systematic destruction of the entire planet. The Doctor is rescued by the Valethske -- the creatures holding Peri captive. What are the Valethske doing on Rocosia and why are the Decimatorstrying to destroy the planet? And will the Doctor and Peri be able to escape before the entire planet is consumed by fire?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22276'),
(15353, 'Doctor Who: Survival', 'Rona Munro', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor takes Ace back home to Perivale so she can catch up with her old friends. But Perivale has changed, the old gang has split up, and some of them have vanished without trace. They are not the only ones - West London is plagued by unexplained disappearances.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Before long the mysterious kidnappers make themselves known. A race of galactic hunters called the Cheetah people have found a way to transport themselves to Earth - and the entire human race is their prey. They have been shown the doorway to the planet by an old foe of the Doctor, a bitter and desperate enemy who needs the Doctor''s help to free him from a diabolic enchantment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the Doctor tries to unravel the mystery, Ace finds some of her old friends, trapped on the savage and beautiful world of the Cheetah People. But the only way she can lead them to safety is to allow herself to succumb, like so many before her, to the curse of the planet. The Doctor realises that Ace''s new powers will provide the only route home, but it will mean the sacrifice of her humanity to the most bestial and dark side of human nature...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1459'),
(15354, 'Doctor Who: Survival', 'Rona Munro', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor takes Ace back home to Perivale so she can catch up with her old friends. But Perivale has changed, the old gang has split up, and some of them have vanished without trace. They are not the only ones - West London is plagued by unexplained disappearances.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Before long the mysterious kidnappers make themselves known. A race of galactic hunters called the Cheetah people have found a way to transport themselves to Earth - and the entire human race is their prey. They have been shown the doorway to the planet by an old foe of the Doctor, a bitter and desperate enemy who needs the Doctor''s help to free him from a diabolic enchantment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the Doctor tries to unravel the mystery, Ace finds some of her old friends, trapped on the savage and beautiful world of the Cheetah People. But the only way she can lead them to safety is to allow herself to succumb, like so many before her, to the curse of the planet. The Doctor realises that Ace''s new powers will provide the only route home, but it will mean the sacrifice of her humanity to the most bestial and dark side of human nature...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23436'),
(15355, 'Doctor Who: Synthespians', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the 111th century, nostalgia is everything. TV from the 20th century is the new obsession, and on Reef Station One, Dixon of Dock Green and Z-Cars are ratings winners. But an ancient, dying race sees this human outpost as a last hope for survival...and millionaire Walter J Matheson III sees it as a marvelous business opportunity. When the Doctor and Peri arrive they find a fractured society dependent on film and TV. They also discover that the Republic''s greatest entrepreneur is in league with one of the Doctor''s oldest enemies. If they can''t unravel the link between the two, they could end up in the deadliest soap opera of all time...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6557'),
(15356, 'Doctor Who: Synthespians', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the 111th century, nostalgia is everything. TV from the 20th century is the new obsession, and on Reef Station One, Dixon of Dock Green and Z-Cars are ratings winners. But an ancient, dying race sees this human outpost as a last hope for survival...and millionaire Walter J Matheson III sees it as a marvelous business opportunity. When the Doctor and Peri arrive they find a fractured society dependent on film and TV. They also discover that the Republic''s greatest entrepreneur is in league with one of the Doctor''s oldest enemies. If they can''t unravel the link between the two, they could end up in the deadliest soap opera of all time...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17415'),
(15357, 'Doctor Who: Talons of Weng-Chiang', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   n this feature-length adventure set deep in the darkest heart of Victorian London, the Doctor and Leela are confronted by a series of bizarre and horrific events.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  An innocent cabbie is viciously slain by the agents of a secret Chinese cult; young women disappear quietly and suddenly; in the depths below, the rankest sewers are infested by giant, deadly abominations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, helped only by the local pathologist Professor Litefoot and the cowardly Henry Jago, finds himself battling for his life against the hideously deformed Magnus Greel, who pretends to be the ancient Chinese God, Weng-Chiang. But Greel is not the only menace; the Doctor must also deal with the illusionist Li H''sen Chang and the murderous dwarf Mr Sin before Leela falls prey to the Talons of Weng-Chiang.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/792'),
(15358, 'Doctor Who: Talons of Weng-Chiang', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   n this feature-length adventure set deep in the darkest heart of Victorian London, the Doctor and Leela are confronted by a series of bizarre and horrific events.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  An innocent cabbie is viciously slain by the agents of a secret Chinese cult; young women disappear quietly and suddenly; in the depths below, the rankest sewers are infested by giant, deadly abominations.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, helped only by the local pathologist Professor Litefoot and the cowardly Henry Jago, finds himself battling for his life against the hideously deformed Magnus Greel, who pretends to be the ancient Chinese God, Weng-Chiang. But Greel is not the only menace; the Doctor must also deal with the illusionist Li H''sen Chang and the murderous dwarf Mr Sin before Leela falls prey to the Talons of Weng-Chiang.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24086'),
(15359, 'Doctor Who: Ten Little Aliens', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Far out in space, on the ragged edges of Earth''s bloated empire, an elite unit of soldiers is on a training mission. But deep in the heart of the hollowed-out planetoid that forms their battleground, a chilling secret waits to be discovered: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of violent, bloody death. The bodies are those of the empire''s most wanted terrorists, and their discovery could end a war of attrition devastating the galaxy. But is the same force that slaughtered them still lurking in the dark tunnels of the training ground? And what are its plans for the people of Earth? When the Doctor arrives on the planetoid with Ben and Polly, he soon scents a net tightening about them. And as the soldiers begin to disappear one by one, paranoia spreads; is the real enemy out there in the darkness, or somewhere among them?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1147'),
(15360, 'Doctor Who: Ten Little Aliens', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Far out in space, on the ragged edges of Earth''s bloated empire, an elite unit of soldiers is on a training mission. But deep in the heart of the hollowed-out planetoid that forms their battleground, a chilling secret waits to be discovered: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of violent, bloody death. The bodies are those of the empire''s most wanted terrorists, and their discovery could end a war of attrition devastating the galaxy. But is the same force that slaughtered them still lurking in the dark tunnels of the training ground? And what are its plans for the people of Earth? When the Doctor arrives on the planetoid with Ben and Polly, he soon scents a net tightening about them. And as the soldiers begin to disappear one by one, paranoia spreads; is the real enemy out there in the darkness, or somewhere among them?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23811');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15361, 'Doctor Who: Tenth Planet', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the TARDIS rematerialises inside a rocket the Doctor and Jamie are alarmed by the presence of a hostile Servo-Robot. They discover that the rocket is drifting in the orbit of a giant space station - the Wheel in Space.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Once inside this magnificent space ship they are bewildered by its complexity and sheer size. The technicians and programmers are highly trained, but who are they working for?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Suspecting the worst, the Doctor is still horrified to find the deadly Cybermen in control. What evil plan are they plotting? Who or what are the Cybermats? Can the Doctor trust anyone on board to help him stop the Wheel as it spins relentlessly through space?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5464'),
(15362, 'Doctor Who: Tenth Planet', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the TARDIS rematerialises inside a rocket the Doctor and Jamie are alarmed by the presence of a hostile Servo-Robot. They discover that the rocket is drifting in the orbit of a giant space station - the Wheel in Space.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Once inside this magnificent space ship they are bewildered by its complexity and sheer size. The technicians and programmers are highly trained, but who are they working for?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Suspecting the worst, the Doctor is still horrified to find the deadly Cybermen in control. What evil plan are they plotting? Who or what are the Cybermats? Can the Doctor trust anyone on board to help him stop the Wheel as it spins relentlessly through space?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19244'),
(15363, 'Doctor Who: Terminus', 'John Lydecker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sabotage to Doctor Who''s time machine causes the area around it to become dimensionally unstable and makes Nyssa disappear without a trace\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4287'),
(15364, 'Doctor Who: Terminus', 'John Lydecker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sabotage to Doctor Who''s time machine causes the area around it to become dimensionally unstable and makes Nyssa disappear without a trace\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20344'),
(15365, 'Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids', 'Pip Baker &amp; Jane Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Time Lords have brought the Doctor to trial, accusing him of gross interference in the affairs of other planets. If he is found guilty he must forfeit all his remaining regenerations.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In his defence the Doctor tells of an adventure set on board the Hyperion III space liner in his future. Answering a distress call, the Doctor and Mel arrive on the liner just as a series of grisly murders begins.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Who is behind the murders? Do the enigmatic Mogarians have anything to do with them? Who sent the distress call to the TARDIS? And what hideous menace lies waiting in the Hydroponic Centre?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2061'),
(15366, 'Doctor Who: The Adventures of Henrietta Street', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the outer reaches of the universe, where human consciousness cannot reach, time goes "soft", allowing mankind to meets its own animal and subconscious limitations in the form of the brutal baboon-like Beast. In London, and all major cities of the Napoleonic era, covens of witches are using ancient techniques to attain time-consciousness. Perceiving time in a new way, they call on the Beast.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3511'),
(15367, 'Doctor Who: The Adventures of Henrietta Street', 'Lawrence Miles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the outer reaches of the universe, where human consciousness cannot reach, time goes "soft", allowing mankind to meets its own animal and subconscious limitations in the form of the brutal baboon-like Beast. In London, and all major cities of the Napoleonic era, covens of witches are using ancient techniques to attain time-consciousness. Perceiving time in a new way, they call on the Beast.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21047'),
(15368, 'Doctor Who: The Algebra of Ice', 'Lloyd Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Edgar Allen Poe lies dying in a gutter in Baltimore... The Doctor and Ace cannot help him - his death has already happened. Poe will be taken to a hospital, and will die in three days time without ever coming out of his coma. But even as the Doctor explains this, the man in the gutter groans and expires. Bewildered, the Doctor hurries Ace back to the TARDIS. At the door, they look back and see that the gutter is empty. In a moment, Poe staggers around the corner, drops to his knees in the gutter, then gets up and stumbles into another bar... Can the Doctor discover what is causing the time anomaly? Will he be able to prevent the universe itself from unraveling when everyone seems to have turned against him - even the TARDIS? Will he be able to escape the cold hell of absolute order? The answer, it seems, lies in the algebra of ice...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3249'),
(15369, 'Doctor Who: The Algebra of Ice', 'Lloyd Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Edgar Allen Poe lies dying in a gutter in Baltimore... The Doctor and Ace cannot help him - his death has already happened. Poe will be taken to a hospital, and will die in three days time without ever coming out of his coma. But even as the Doctor explains this, the man in the gutter groans and expires. Bewildered, the Doctor hurries Ace back to the TARDIS. At the door, they look back and see that the gutter is empty. In a moment, Poe staggers around the corner, drops to his knees in the gutter, then gets up and stumbles into another bar... Can the Doctor discover what is causing the time anomaly? Will he be able to prevent the universe itself from unraveling when everyone seems to have turned against him - even the TARDIS? Will he be able to escape the cold hell of absolute order? The answer, it seems, lies in the algebra of ice...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21249'),
(15370, 'Doctor Who: The Also People', 'Ben Aaronovitch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Just how technologically advanced are they?â€™ The Doctor frowned. â€˜Let me put it this way: they have a non-aggression pact with the Time Lords.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor has taken his companions to paradise, or at least the clocest thing he can find. A sun enclosed by an artificial sphere where there is no want, poverty or violence.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Chris learns to surf, meets a girl and falls in love with a biplane, Roz suspects an alien plot and Bernice considers that a Dyson Sphere needs an archaeologist like a fish needs a five-speed gear box.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Then the peace is shattered by murder. As the suspects proliferate, Bernice realises that even an artifical world has its buried secrets and Roz discovers what sheâ€™s always suspected -- that every paradise has its snake.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7301'),
(15371, 'Doctor Who: The Also People', 'Ben Aaronovitch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Just how technologically advanced are they?â€™ The Doctor frowned. â€˜Let me put it this way: they have a non-aggression pact with the Time Lords.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor has taken his companions to paradise, or at least the clocest thing he can find. A sun enclosed by an artificial sphere where there is no want, poverty or violence.\n </p>\n <p>\n  While Chris learns to surf, meets a girl and falls in love with a biplane, Roz suspects an alien plot and Bernice considers that a Dyson Sphere needs an archaeologist like a fish needs a five-speed gear box.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Then the peace is shattered by murder. As the suspects proliferate, Bernice realises that even an artifical world has its buried secrets and Roz discovers what sheâ€™s always suspected -- that every paradise has its snake.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16570'),
(15372, 'Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a recovery capsule sent to rescue some astronauts returns to Earth empty but radioactive, the Doctor becomes involved in solving the puzzle of the missing astronauts and alien invaders\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/795'),
(15373, 'Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a recovery capsule sent to rescue some astronauts returns to Earth empty but radioactive, the Doctor becomes involved in solving the puzzle of the missing astronauts and alien invaders\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24085'),
(15374, 'Doctor Who: The Ancestor Cell', 'Peter Anghelides &amp; Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor''s not the man he was. But what has he become? An old enemy -- Faction Paradox, a cult of time-travelling voodoo terrorists -- is finally making him one of its own. These rebels have a mission for him, one that will deliver him into the hands of his own people, who have decreed that he must die. Except now, it seems, the Time Lords have a mission for him too...A gargantuan structure, hewn from solid bone, has appeared in the skies over Gallifrey. Its origins and purpose are unknown, but its powers threaten to tear apart the web of time and the universe with it. Only the doctor can get inside... but soon he will learn that nothing is safe and nothing is sacred.Shot by both sides, confronted by past sins and future crimes, the Doctor finds himself a prisoner of his own actions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2207'),
(15375, 'Doctor Who: The Ancestor Cell', 'Peter Anghelides; Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor''s not the man he was. But what has he become? An old enemy -- Faction Paradox, a cult of time-travelling voodoo terrorists -- is finally making him one of its own. These rebels have a mission for him, one that will deliver him into the hands of his own people, who have decreed that he must die. Except now, it seems, the Time Lords have a mission for him too...A gargantuan structure, hewn from solid bone, has appeared in the skies over Gallifrey. Its origins and purpose are unknown, but its powers threaten to tear apart the web of time and the universe with it. Only the doctor can get inside... but soon he will learn that nothing is safe and nothing is sacred.Shot by both sides, confronted by past sins and future crimes, the Doctor finds himself a prisoner of his own actions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22604'),
(15376, 'Doctor Who: The Ark', 'Paul Erickson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who travels ten million years into the future just in time to join up with the Space Ark, which is taking the doomed Earth''s remaining humans to their new home on the planet Refusis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2345'),
(15377, 'Doctor Who: The Ark', 'Paul Erickson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who travels ten million years into the future just in time to join up with the Space Ark, which is taking the doomed Earth''s remaining humans to their new home on the planet Refusis\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22506'),
(15378, 'Doctor Who: The Art of Destruction', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS lands in 22nd century Africa in the shadow of a dormant volcano. Agri-teams are growing new foodstuffs in the baking soil to help feed the world''s starving millions - but the Doctor and Rose have detected an alien signal somewhere close by. When a nightmare force starts surging along the dark volcanic tunnels, the Doctor realizes an ancient trap has been sprung. But who was it meant for? And what is the secret of the eerie statues that stand at the heart of the volcano? Dragged into a centuries-old conflict, Rose and the Doctor are soon elevating survival to an art form - as ancient, alien hands practice arts of destruction all around them...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1149'),
(15379, 'Doctor Who: The Art of Destruction', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS lands in 22nd century Africa in the shadow of a dormant volcano. Agri-teams are growing new foodstuffs in the baking soil to help feed the world''s starving millions - but the Doctor and Rose have detected an alien signal somewhere close by. When a nightmare force starts surging along the dark volcanic tunnels, the Doctor realizes an ancient trap has been sprung. But who was it meant for? And what is the secret of the eerie statues that stand at the heart of the volcano? Dragged into a centuries-old conflict, Rose and the Doctor are soon elevating survival to an art form - as ancient, alien hands practice arts of destruction all around them...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23809'),
(15380, 'Doctor Who: The Awakening', 'Eric Pringle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor has promised Tegan that they will visit her grandfather in the English village of Little Hodcombe, in the year 1984. But evil lurks in the village''s ancient church, and a historical re-enactment soon takes on a dangerous dimension for the Doctor and his friends. This is an exciting unabridged adventure, first published by Target Books in 1985.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5660'),
(15381, 'Doctor Who: The Awakening', 'Eric Pringle', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor has promised Tegan that they will visit her grandfather in the English village of Little Hodcombe, in the year 1984. But evil lurks in the village''s ancient church, and a historical re-enactment soon takes on a dangerous dimension for the Doctor and his friends. This is an exciting unabridged adventure, first published by Target Books in 1985.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18967'),
(15382, 'Doctor Who: The Aztecs', 'John Lucarotti', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Doctor Who and his companions become prisoners of the Aztecs, he must find a way for them to escape and reach the TARDIS, which is sealed within a tomb\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4277'),
(15383, 'Doctor Who: The Aztecs', 'John Lucarotti', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Doctor Who and his companions become prisoners of the Aztecs, he must find a way for them to escape and reach the TARDIS, which is sealed within a tomb\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20248'),
(15384, 'Doctor Who: The Banquo Legacy', 'Andy Lane &amp; Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Middletown in 1889 is a small mining village -- but the local mine is about to be closed down. In an attempt to avoid this catastrophe, the owner, Lord Urton built a huge dam across the river to reduce flooding in a promising area of the mine, but to no avail.However, little does he realise that the construction of the dam has disturbed something that was lying dormant in the earth. Something that is now stirring into life...Strange events are afoot, with local deaths that appear to be caused by lightning strikes. Except that the soles of the victims'' feet are burned black.It''s up to the Doctor to find out what mysterious forces have been unleashed. Perhaps the stranger in town, Nepath, who wants to buy the mine from Lord Urton, can shed some light on the matter...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7626'),
(15385, 'Doctor Who: The Banquo Legacy', 'Andy Lane; Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Middletown in 1889 is a small mining village -- but the local mine is about to be closed down. In an attempt to avoid this catastrophe, the owner, Lord Urton built a huge dam across the river to reduce flooding in a promising area of the mine, but to no avail.However, little does he realise that the construction of the dam has disturbed something that was lying dormant in the earth. Something that is now stirring into life...Strange events are afoot, with local deaths that appear to be caused by lightning strikes. Except that the soles of the victims'' feet are burned black.It''s up to the Doctor to find out what mysterious forces have been unleashed. Perhaps the stranger in town, Nepath, who wants to buy the mine from Lord Urton, can shed some light on the matter...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16234'),
(15386, 'Doctor Who: The Blue Angel', 'Paul Magrs &amp; Jeremy Hoad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tyneside is reverting to an Ice wilderness. Three elderly women have come out shopping, accompanied by Icarus -- an orphaned boy who Maddy Sharp found on the beach. She thinks he is an angel -- the son the lost, returned to her. But he claims to be the cause of the dreadful weather...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2214'),
(15387, 'Doctor Who: The Blue Angel', 'Paul Magrs; Jeremy Hoad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tyneside is reverting to an Ice wilderness. Three elderly women have come out shopping, accompanied by Icarus -- an orphaned boy who Maddy Sharp found on the beach. She thinks he is an angel -- the son the lost, returned to her. But he claims to be the cause of the dreadful weather...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22569'),
(15388, 'Doctor Who: The Bodysnatchers', 'Mark Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 1895, the place, London. Amid the fog and cold, a gang of bodysnatchers is at work. The Doctor finds himself caught up in the gruesome goings-on, and discovers that the Zygons have returned to Earth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2977'),
(15389, 'Doctor Who: The Bodysnatchers', 'Mark Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 1895, the place, London. Amid the fog and cold, a gang of bodysnatchers is at work. The Doctor finds himself caught up in the gruesome goings-on, and discovers that the Zygons have returned to Earth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21733'),
(15390, 'Doctor Who: The Book of the Still', 'Paul Ebbs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Unnoticed are bound to keep themselves isolated from all history, or face a complete collapse from existence. The Book of the Still is a lifeline for stranded time travellers -- write your location, sign your name and be instantly rescued. When the Unnoticed learn that within the book someone has revealed both their existence and whereabouts they are forced into murderous intercession to find it. Fitz knows where it is, but then he''s the one who stole it. Carmodi, addicted to the energies trapped in frequent time travellers, also knows where it is. But she''s the one who''s stolen Fitz. Anji, alone on a doomed planet, trying to find evidence of a race that has never had the decency to exist, doesn''t know where anybody is. Embroiled in the deadly chase, the Doctor is starting to worry about how many people he can keep alive along the way...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2343'),
(15391, 'Doctor Who: The Book of the Still', 'Paul Ebbs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Unnoticed are bound to keep themselves isolated from all history, or face a complete collapse from existence. The Book of the Still is a lifeline for stranded time travellers -- write your location, sign your name and be instantly rescued. When the Unnoticed learn that within the book someone has revealed both their existence and whereabouts they are forced into murderous intercession to find it. Fitz knows where it is, but then he''s the one who stole it. Carmodi, addicted to the energies trapped in frequent time travellers, also knows where it is. But she''s the one who''s stolen Fitz. Anji, alone on a doomed planet, trying to find evidence of a race that has never had the decency to exist, doesn''t know where anybody is. Embroiled in the deadly chase, the Doctor is starting to worry about how many people he can keep alive along the way...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22507'),
(15392, 'Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor and Sarah arrive on the desolate planet of Karn amid a graveyard of crashed space-ships. As they explore they come to a ruin and are welcomed by Professor Solon and his strange servant Condo. Solon is seemingly the perfect host but his underground laboratory holds a hideous secret... Morbius, exiled Time Lord, greatest criminal mind in the galaxy and long presumed dead, is not entirely dead, and Solon is in the process of bringing him back to life.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The only other inhabitants are the ancient sect of the Sisterhood of Karn who are out to avenge themselves against the Time Lords. Can the Doctor prevent the evil Morbius from regaining absolute power or will he be sacrificed by the Sisterhood?\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/797'),
(15393, 'Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor and Sarah arrive on the desolate planet of Karn amid a graveyard of crashed space-ships. As they explore they come to a ruin and are welcomed by Professor Solon and his strange servant Condo. Solon is seemingly the perfect host but his underground laboratory holds a hideous secret... Morbius, exiled Time Lord, greatest criminal mind in the galaxy and long presumed dead, is not entirely dead, and Solon is in the process of bringing him back to life.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The only other inhabitants are the ancient sect of the Sisterhood of Karn who are out to avenge themselves against the Time Lords. Can the Doctor prevent the evil Morbius from regaining absolute power or will he be sacrificed by the Sisterhood?\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24084'),
(15394, 'Doctor Who: The Burning', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The late nineteenth century -- the age of reason, of enlightenment, of industrialization. Britain is the workshop of the world, the center of the Empire.Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself.But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the society for Physical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artifacts. People are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: A man with no name, no history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3866'),
(15395, 'Doctor Who: The Burning', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The late nineteenth century -- the age of reason, of enlightenment, of industrialization. Britain is the workshop of the world, the center of the Empire.Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself.But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the society for Physical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artifacts. People are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: A man with no name, no history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20595'),
(15396, 'Doctor Who: The Cabinet of Light', 'Daniel O&#39;Mahony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Where is the Doctor? Everyone is hunting him. Honore Lechasseur, a time sensitive ''fixer, '' is hired by mystery woman Emily Blandish to find him. Lechasseur discovers that the Doctor is, in fact, a semi-mythical figure who has appeared off and on throughout Earth''s history. But what is his connection with London in 1949? And why is a mysterious group seeking ''the cabinet of light'' -- a device somehow connected with the Doctor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6480'),
(15397, 'Doctor Who: The Cabinet of Light', 'Daniel O&#39;Mahony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Where is the Doctor? Everyone is hunting him. Honore Lechasseur, a time sensitive ''fixer, '' is hired by mystery woman Emily Blandish to find him. Lechasseur discovers that the Doctor is, in fact, a semi-mythical figure who has appeared off and on throughout Earth''s history. But what is his connection with London in 1949? And why is a mysterious group seeking ''the cabinet of light'' -- a device somehow connected with the Doctor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17479'),
(15398, 'Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Landing on the planet Androzani Minor, Doctor Who and his new assistant, Peri, are caught between fierce gun runners, merciless Federation soldiers, and an android army\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/798'),
(15399, 'Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Landing on the planet Androzani Minor, Doctor Who and his new assistant, Peri, are caught between fierce gun runners, merciless Federation soldiers, and an android army\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24082'),
(15400, 'Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker', 'Gerry Davis &amp; Alison Bingeman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS materialises in a strange domain where the Doctor, Steven and Dodo meet the Toymaker. The Toymaker is the mysterious, immortal entity who rules this fantastic realm. He forces them to play a succession of games in return for their freedom.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor has to solve the complex trilogic game while Steven and Dodo must win at a series of seemingly child-like but ever more deadly games.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5466'),
(15401, 'Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker', 'Gerry Davis; Alison Bingeman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS materialises in a strange domain where the Doctor, Steven and Dodo meet the Toymaker. The Toymaker is the mysterious, immortal entity who rules this fantastic realm. He forces them to play a succession of games in return for their freedom.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor has to solve the complex trilogic game while Steven and Dodo must win at a series of seemingly child-like but ever more deadly games.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19242'),
(15402, 'Doctor Who: The Chase', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Daleks are closing in on the Doctor in a chase through both the universe and through time itself. For having created their own time machine, the Daleks are able to pursue the TARDIS from the planet of Aridius, on to the Empire State Building in 1966, on to the Marie Celeste in 1872 and even on into a haunted house within someone''s nightmare.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Recognising that he must force a resolution to this desperate chase through time, the scene is set for a confrontation between the Time Lord and his most feared enemy on the jungle planet of Mechanus.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4311'),
(15403, 'Doctor Who: The Chase', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Daleks are closing in on the Doctor in a chase through both the universe and through time itself. For having created their own time machine, the Daleks are able to pursue the TARDIS from the planet of Aridius, on to the Empire State Building in 1966, on to the Marie Celeste in 1872 and even on into a haunted house within someone''s nightmare.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Recognising that he must force a resolution to this desperate chase through time, the scene is set for a confrontation between the Time Lord and his most feared enemy on the jungle planet of Mechanus.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20309'),
(15404, 'Doctor Who: The City of the Dead', 'Lloyd Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fitz, Anji, and the Doctor are in New Orleans in 2000 to relax, but find the city is a center for the occult as practitioners converge on an ancient graveyard. The Doctor is also having strange dreams of something is seeking him out. A bone artifact found on board the TARDIS may be the key to a chain of murders, but can the Doctor and his companions discover the true source of the evil? Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3250'),
(15405, 'Doctor Who: The City of the Dead', 'Lloyd Rose', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fitz, Anji, and the Doctor are in New Orleans in 2000 to relax, but find the city is a center for the occult as practitioners converge on an ancient graveyard. The Doctor is also having strange dreams of something is seeking him out. A bone artifact found on board the TARDIS may be the key to a chain of murders, but can the Doctor and his companions discover the true source of the evil? Available in October.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21240'),
(15406, 'Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  England 1924: the Doctor and Rose find themselves caught up in the hunt for a murderer. With faceless killers closing in, can they solve the mystery of the Clockwise Man before London itself is destroyed? This is the first of a new series of hardcovers featuring the new Doctor Who from the new TV series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3867'),
(15407, 'Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  England 1924: the Doctor and Rose find themselves caught up in the hunt for a murderer. With faceless killers closing in, can they solve the mystery of the Clockwise Man before London itself is destroyed? This is the first of a new series of hardcovers featuring the new Doctor Who from the new TV series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20592'),
(15408, 'Doctor Who: The Crooked World', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The people of the Crooked World lead an idyllic existence. Take Streaky Bacon, for example. This jovial farmer wants nothing more from life than a huge blunderbuss, with which he can blast away at his crop-stealing nemesis. And then there''s Angel Falls, a racing driver with a string of victories to her name. Sure, her trusted guardian might occasionally put on a mask and menace her for her prize money, but that''s just life, right? And for Jasper the cat, nothing could be more pleasant than a nice, long nap in his kitchen -- so long as that darn mouse doesn''t jam his tail into the plug socket again. But somebody is about to shatter all those lives. Somebody is about to change everything -- and it''s possible that no one on the Crooked World will ever be happy again. The Doctor''s TARDIS is about to arrive. And when it does... That''s all folks!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/985'),
(15409, 'Doctor Who: The Crooked World', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The people of the Crooked World lead an idyllic existence. Take Streaky Bacon, for example. This jovial farmer wants nothing more from life than a huge blunderbuss, with which he can blast away at his crop-stealing nemesis. And then there''s Angel Falls, a racing driver with a string of victories to her name. Sure, her trusted guardian might occasionally put on a mask and menace her for her prize money, but that''s just life, right? And for Jasper the cat, nothing could be more pleasant than a nice, long nap in his kitchen -- so long as that darn mouse doesn''t jam his tail into the plug socket again. But somebody is about to shatter all those lives. Somebody is about to change everything -- and it''s possible that no one on the Crooked World will ever be happy again. The Doctor''s TARDIS is about to arrive. And when it does... That''s all folks!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23860'),
(15410, 'Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric', 'Ian Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   The Doctor and Ace are put to the ultimate test when the TARDIS dematerializes in Second World War England at a top â€“ secret naval base.\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The army church, built on Viking graves, bears inscriptions calling for the wolves of Fenric to return for their treasure. Thereafter evil will reign... Even as the Doctor translates the words hideous corpses rise up from the sea, the evil Fenric now free to summon his wolves to a killing rampage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the stand against Fenric, only the Doctor can play the final moves...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5046'),
(15411, 'Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric', 'Ian Briggs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   The Doctor and Ace are put to the ultimate test when the TARDIS dematerializes in Second World War England at a top â€“ secret naval base.\n  </span>\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The army church, built on Viking graves, bears inscriptions calling for the wolves of Fenric to return for their treasure. Thereafter evil will reign... Even as the Doctor translates the words hideous corpses rise up from the sea, the evil Fenric now free to summon his wolves to a killing rampage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the stand against Fenric, only the Doctor can play the final moves...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19530'),
(15412, 'Doctor Who: The Cybermen', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A mysterious virus is wrecking havoc among the crew of the Earth''s weather control station on the moon. While investigations into the strange disease are in progress, International Space Headquarters Earth puts the entire Moonbase into strict quarantine - the Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie included!\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   To take matters worse, the personnel of the Moonbase inexplicably vanish, and vital weather control equipment is sabotaged. Who is responsible? The Director of the base suspects the time-travellers. But the Doctor fears a ruthless enemy from his own past responsible... that the evil Cybermen have returned...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7933'),
(15413, 'Doctor Who: The Cybermen', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A mysterious virus is wrecking havoc among the crew of the Earth''s weather control station on the moon. While investigations into the strange disease are in progress, International Space Headquarters Earth puts the entire Moonbase into strict quarantine - the Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie included!\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   To take matters worse, the personnel of the Moonbase inexplicably vanish, and vital weather control equipment is sabotaged. Who is responsible? The Director of the base suspects the time-travellers. But the Doctor fears a ruthless enemy from his own past responsible... that the evil Cybermen have returned...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19237'),
(15414, 'Doctor Who: The Dalek Factor', 'Simon Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a Thal platoon arrive on a hostile planet investigating reports that Dalek artifacts have been detected, they are unprepared for what they find. In an underground room is a stranger, a Professor, or so he claims, with no member of who he is or why he is there, With death and horror their only companions, the Thals make their way with the Professor into the heart of a crumbling Dalek citadel in search of answers-only to find that the Daleks are the least of the horrors they must face. The Dalek Factor is the last of the licensed Telos "Doctor Who" novellas to be published. Copies of all available editions will continue to be available from Telos Publishing until the end of June 2004.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1229'),
(15415, 'Doctor Who: The Dalek Factor', 'Simon Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a Thal platoon arrive on a hostile planet investigating reports that Dalek artifacts have been detected, they are unprepared for what they find. In an underground room is a stranger, a Professor, or so he claims, with no member of who he is or why he is there, With death and horror their only companions, the Thals make their way with the Professor into the heart of a crumbling Dalek citadel in search of answers-only to find that the Daleks are the least of the horrors they must face. The Dalek Factor is the last of the licensed Telos "Doctor Who" novellas to be published. Copies of all available editions will continue to be available from Telos Publishing until the end of June 2004.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23684'),
(15416, 'Doctor Who: The Deadstone Memorial', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is no such thing as a good night. Maybe, as you fall asleep, you can hide away in dreams. Or so you''d like to think. Because, as every child knows, there are bad dreams. And bad dreams are a glimpse into the real world - where the monsters are. And the things in your nightmares that are worse than monsters: the creeping black memories that can bring fear and pain and blood. Even here, today, tonight ... in the most ordinary of homes, and against the most ordinary people, the terror will strike. An old man will tell his last ghost story... A young family will encounter a deathless horror... And the Doctor and his friends will uncover the terrible secret of the Deadstone Memorial.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/466'),
(15417, 'Doctor Who: The Deadstone Memorial', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is no such thing as a good night. Maybe, as you fall asleep, you can hide away in dreams. Or so you''d like to think. Because, as every child knows, there are bad dreams. And bad dreams are a glimpse into the real world - where the monsters are. And the things in your nightmares that are worse than monsters: the creeping black memories that can bring fear and pain and blood. Even here, today, tonight ... in the most ordinary of homes, and against the most ordinary people, the terror will strike. An old man will tell his last ghost story... A young family will encounter a deathless horror... And the Doctor and his friends will uncover the terrible secret of the Deadstone Memorial.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24473'),
(15418, 'Doctor Who: The Death of Art', 'Simon Bucher-Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1880s France, Doctor Who and his companions find themselves caught up in the desperate internal power struggle of a clandestine brotherhood. The future of Europe is at stake, in a war fought with minds and bodies altered to the limits of human evolution.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1226'),
(15419, 'Doctor Who: The Death of Art', 'Simon Bucher-Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1880s France, Doctor Who and his companions find themselves caught up in the desperate internal power struggle of a clandestine brotherhood. The future of Europe is at stake, in a war fought with minds and bodies altered to the limits of human evolution.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23686');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15420, 'Doctor Who: The Deviant Strain', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Novrosk Peninsula, the Soviet naval base, has been abandoned, and the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten until the Russian Special Forces arrive - and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too. But there is something else in Novrosk. Something that predates everything else, even the stone circle on the cliff top. Something that is at last waking, hunting, killing... Can the Doctor and his friends stay alive long enough to learn the truth? With time running out, they must discover who is really responsible for the Deviant Strain...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3870'),
(15421, 'Doctor Who: The Deviant Strain', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Novrosk Peninsula, the Soviet naval base, has been abandoned, and the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten until the Russian Special Forces arrive - and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too. But there is something else in Novrosk. Something that predates everything else, even the stone circle on the cliff top. Something that is at last waking, hunting, killing... Can the Doctor and his friends stay alive long enough to learn the truth? With time running out, they must discover who is really responsible for the Deviant Strain...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20591'),
(15422, 'Doctor Who: The Devil Goblins From Neptune', 'Keith Topping &amp; Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The human race stands at a worrying political crossroads. UNIT is up to its ears in alien sightings, reporting of UFOs and threats from other worlds - and for good reason - the devil goblins from Neptune have landed.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3766'),
(15423, 'Doctor Who: The Devil Goblins From Neptune', 'Keith Topping; Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The human race stands at a worrying political crossroads. UNIT is up to its ears in alien sightings, reporting of UFOs and threats from other worlds - and for good reason - the devil goblins from Neptune have landed.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20689'),
(15424, 'Doctor Who: The Dimension Riders', 'Daniel Blythe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Someone here has been playing with time, Ace. Like playing with fire, only worse - you get burnt before youâ€™ve lit the match.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Abandoning a holiday in Oxford, the Doctor travels to Space Station Q4, where something is seriously wrong. Ghostly soldiers from the future watch from the shadows among the dead. Soon, the Doctor is trapped in the past, Ace is fighting for her life, and Bernice is uncovering deceit among the college cloisters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What is the connection with a beautiful assassin in a black sports car? How can the Doctorâ€™s time machine be in Oxford when it is on board the space station? And what secrets are held by the library of the invaded TARDIS?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor quickly discovers he is facing another time-shattering enigma: a creature which he thought he had destroyed, and which it seems he is powerless to stop.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6448'),
(15425, 'Doctor Who: The Dimension Riders', 'Daniel Blythe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Someone here has been playing with time, Ace. Like playing with fire, only worse - you get burnt before youâ€™ve lit the match.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Abandoning a holiday in Oxford, the Doctor travels to Space Station Q4, where something is seriously wrong. Ghostly soldiers from the future watch from the shadows among the dead. Soon, the Doctor is trapped in the past, Ace is fighting for her life, and Bernice is uncovering deceit among the college cloisters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What is the connection with a beautiful assassin in a black sports car? How can the Doctorâ€™s time machine be in Oxford when it is on board the space station? And what secrets are held by the library of the invaded TARDIS?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor quickly discovers he is facing another time-shattering enigma: a creature which he thought he had destroyed, and which it seems he is powerless to stop.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17512'),
(15426, 'Doctor Who: The Dominators', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who must rescue the planet Dulkis and its pacifist inhabitants from alien invaders and their powerful robots\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5080'),
(15427, 'Doctor Who: The Dominators', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who must rescue the planet Dulkis and its pacifist inhabitants from alien invaders and their powerful robots\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19638'),
(15428, 'Doctor Who: The Domino Effect', 'David Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Within hours one of the Doctor''s friends is caught in a deadly explosion, while another appears on television confessing to the murder of twelve people. The TARDIS is stolen by forces intent on learning its secrets. When the Doctor tries to investigate, his efforts are hampered by crippling chest pains. Someone is manipulating events to suppress humanity''s development - but how and why? The trail leads to London where a cabal pushes the world ever closer to catastrophe. Who is the prisoner being held in the Tower of London? Could he or she hold the key to saving mankind? The Doctor must choose between saving his friends or saving Earth in the past, present and future. But the closer he gets to the truth, the worse his condition becomes...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6306'),
(15429, 'Doctor Who: The Domino Effect', 'David Bishop', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Within hours one of the Doctor''s friends is caught in a deadly explosion, while another appears on television confessing to the murder of twelve people. The TARDIS is stolen by forces intent on learning its secrets. When the Doctor tries to investigate, his efforts are hampered by crippling chest pains. Someone is manipulating events to suppress humanity''s development - but how and why? The trail leads to London where a cabal pushes the world ever closer to catastrophe. Who is the prisoner being held in the Tower of London? Could he or she hold the key to saving mankind? The Doctor must choose between saving his friends or saving Earth in the past, present and future. But the closer he gets to the truth, the worse his condition becomes...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17715'),
(15430, 'Doctor Who: The Doomsday Weapon', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Who travels through time to a desolate planet in the twenty-fifth century in order to find and dismantle the Doomsday Machine stolen by the insidious Master\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3186'),
(15431, 'Doctor Who: The Doomsday Weapon', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Who travels through time to a desolate planet in the twenty-fifth century in order to find and dismantle the Doomsday Machine stolen by the insidious Master\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21339'),
(15432, 'Doctor Who: The Dying Days', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first New Adventure to feature the Eighth Doctor. Britain is under threat of invasion by the Ice Warriors from Mars. The only people who can save the country are the Doctor, aided by the Brigadier and Bernice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3564'),
(15433, 'Doctor Who: The Dying Days', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first New Adventure to feature the Eighth Doctor. Britain is under threat of invasion by the Ice Warriors from Mars. The only people who can save the country are the Doctor, aided by the Brigadier and Bernice.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20894'),
(15434, 'Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting unabridged reading of a Doctor Who novelization, first published by Target Books in 1988, the Doctor and his companions are trapped inside the TARDIS as it hurtles through Time and Space. Slowly a terrifying suspicion dawns. Has the TARDIS become the prisoner of some powerful fifth intelligence?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2498'),
(15435, 'Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting unabridged reading of a Doctor Who novelization, first published by Target Books in 1988, the Doctor and his companions are trapped inside the TARDIS as it hurtles through Time and Space. Slowly a terrifying suspicion dawns. Has the TARDIS become the prisoner of some powerful fifth intelligence?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22257'),
(15436, 'Doctor Who: The Eight Doctors', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Newly-regenerated and travelling through the universe in his Tardis, the eighth Doctor is suddenly hit by a mind-shattering blast of malignant psychic energy - a final booby trap left by the Master.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/801'),
(15437, 'Doctor Who: The Eight Doctors', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Newly-regenerated and travelling through the universe in his Tardis, the eighth Doctor is suddenly hit by a mind-shattering blast of malignant psychic energy - a final booby trap left by the Master.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24080'),
(15438, 'Doctor Who: The Eleventh Tiger', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In interesting times, love can be a weakness, hatred an illusion, order chaos, and ten tigers not enough. The TARDIS crew have seen many times. When they arrive in China in 1865, they find banditry, rebellion, and foreign oppression rife. Trying to maintain order are the British Empire and the Ten Tigers of Canton, the most respected martial arts masters in the world. There is more to the chaos that mere human violence and ambition. Can legends of ancient vengeance be coming true? Why does everyone Ian meets already know who he is? The Doctor has his suspicions, but he is occupied by challenges of his own. Sometimes the greatest danger is not from the enemy, but from the heart... This adventure features the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6429'),
(15439, 'Doctor Who: The Eleventh Tiger', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In interesting times, love can be a weakness, hatred an illusion, order chaos, and ten tigers not enough. The TARDIS crew have seen many times. When they arrive in China in 1865, they find banditry, rebellion, and foreign oppression rife. Trying to maintain order are the British Empire and the Ten Tigers of Canton, the most respected martial arts masters in the world. There is more to the chaos that mere human violence and ambition. Can legends of ancient vengeance be coming true? Why does everyone Ian meets already know who he is? The Doctor has his suspicions, but he is occupied by challenges of his own. Sometimes the greatest danger is not from the enemy, but from the heart... This adventure features the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17671'),
(15440, 'Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who tries to stop Salamander, a ruthless despot who is trying to gain control of the entire planet\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5081'),
(15441, 'Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who tries to stop Salamander, a ruthless despot who is trying to gain control of the entire planet\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19637'),
(15442, 'Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks', 'John Peel &amp; David Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="5" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <td>\n      <center>\n       <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n        <b>\n         Written by David WhitakerÂ \n         <br />\n         Directed by Derek MartinusÂ \n         <br />\n         Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson\n        </b>\n       </font>\n      </center>\n      <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n      </font>\n      <p align="justify">\n       Patrick Troughton (\n       <b>\n        Dr. Who\n       </b>\n       ), Frazer Hines (\n       <b>\n        Jamie\n       </b>\n       ), Alec Ross (\n       <b>\n        Bob Hall\n       </b>\n       ) [1], Griffith Davies (\n       <b>\n        Kennedy\n       </b>\n       ) [1-2], John Bailey (\n       <b>\n        Edward Waterfield\n       </b>\n       ), Geoffrey Colville (\n       <b>\n        Perry\n       </b>\n       ) [1-2], Deborah Watling (\n       <b>\n        Victoria Waterfield\n       </b>\n       ) [2-7], Robert Jewell, Gerald Taylor [3-7], John Scott Martin [5-7], Murphy Grumbar [6-7], Ken Tyllsen [7] (\n       <b>\n        Daleks\n       </b>\n       ); Roy Skelton [1,6-7]\n       <font color="red">\n        *\n       </font>\n       , Peter Hawkins [2-7] (\n       <b>\n        Dalek Voices\n       </b>\n       ); Jo Rowbottom (\n       <b>\n        Mollie Dawson\n       </b>\n       ) [2-5], Marius Goring (\n       <b>\n        Theodore Maxtible\n       </b>\n       ) [2-7], Brigit Forsyth (\n       <b>\n        Ruth Maxtible\n       </b>\n       ) [2-5], Gary Watson (\n       <b>\n        Arthur Terrall\n       </b>\n       ) [3-7], Windsor Davies (\n       <b>\n        Toby\n       </b>\n       ) [2-4], Sonny Caldinez (\n       <b>\n        Kemel\n       </b>\n       ) [3-7].\n      </p>\n      <hr width="50" align="left" />\n      *Â \n      <font class="minus2" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n       Also in Episode 5, uncredited.\n      </font>\n      <p>\n      </p>\n      <hr size="5" color="#505050" />\n      <div align="justify">\n       <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n        The Doctor and Jamie are stranded in 1966 London when the TARDIS is stolen, driven away in the back of a lorry. The Doctor uses his keen sense for clues and deduction to track the TARDIS back to a very unusual antique shoppe owned by the even more unusual and mysterious Edward Waterfield. As it transpires Mr. Waterfield and Victorian scientist Theodore Maxtible have devised a method of time travel with the help of some rather sinister associates - the Daleks.\n       </font>\n       <p>\n        <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n         The Daleks have taken Edward Waterfield''s daughter, Victoria, hostage. Using her life as a bargaining piece the Daleks force the terrified men to serve them and assist in capturing the Doctor. When this is accomplished the Daleks soon force the Doctor into their service by threatening to destroy the TARDIS if he does not aide them by experimenting on Jamie...\n        </font>\n       </p>\n      </div>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4314'),
(15443, 'Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks', 'John Peel; David Whitaker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="5" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <td>\n      <center>\n       <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n        <b>\n         Written by David WhitakerÂ \n         <br />\n         Directed by Derek MartinusÂ \n         <br />\n         Incidental Music by Dudley Simpson\n        </b>\n       </font>\n      </center>\n      <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n      </font>\n      <p align="justify">\n       Patrick Troughton (\n       <b>\n        Dr. Who\n       </b>\n       ), Frazer Hines (\n       <b>\n        Jamie\n       </b>\n       ), Alec Ross (\n       <b>\n        Bob Hall\n       </b>\n       ) [1], Griffith Davies (\n       <b>\n        Kennedy\n       </b>\n       ) [1-2], John Bailey (\n       <b>\n        Edward Waterfield\n       </b>\n       ), Geoffrey Colville (\n       <b>\n        Perry\n       </b>\n       ) [1-2], Deborah Watling (\n       <b>\n        Victoria Waterfield\n       </b>\n       ) [2-7], Robert Jewell, Gerald Taylor [3-7], John Scott Martin [5-7], Murphy Grumbar [6-7], Ken Tyllsen [7] (\n       <b>\n        Daleks\n       </b>\n       ); Roy Skelton [1,6-7]\n       <font color="red">\n        *\n       </font>\n       , Peter Hawkins [2-7] (\n       <b>\n        Dalek Voices\n       </b>\n       ); Jo Rowbottom (\n       <b>\n        Mollie Dawson\n       </b>\n       ) [2-5], Marius Goring (\n       <b>\n        Theodore Maxtible\n       </b>\n       ) [2-7], Brigit Forsyth (\n       <b>\n        Ruth Maxtible\n       </b>\n       ) [2-5], Gary Watson (\n       <b>\n        Arthur Terrall\n       </b>\n       ) [3-7], Windsor Davies (\n       <b>\n        Toby\n       </b>\n       ) [2-4], Sonny Caldinez (\n       <b>\n        Kemel\n       </b>\n       ) [3-7].\n      </p>\n      <hr width="50" align="left" />\n      *Â \n      <font class="minus2" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n       Also in Episode 5, uncredited.\n      </font>\n      <p>\n      </p>\n      <hr size="5" color="#505050" />\n      <div align="justify">\n       <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n        The Doctor and Jamie are stranded in 1966 London when the TARDIS is stolen, driven away in the back of a lorry. The Doctor uses his keen sense for clues and deduction to track the TARDIS back to a very unusual antique shoppe owned by the even more unusual and mysterious Edward Waterfield. As it transpires Mr. Waterfield and Victorian scientist Theodore Maxtible have devised a method of time travel with the help of some rather sinister associates - the Daleks.\n       </font>\n       <p>\n        <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n         The Daleks have taken Edward Waterfield''s daughter, Victoria, hostage. Using her life as a bargaining piece the Daleks force the terrified men to serve them and assist in capturing the Doctor. When this is accomplished the Daleks soon force the Doctor into their service by threatening to destroy the TARDIS if he does not aide them by experimenting on Jamie...\n        </font>\n       </p>\n      </div>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20305'),
(15444, 'Doctor Who: The Eye of the Tyger', 'Paul J. McAuley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Inhabiting a colony spaceship in the thirty second century are members of a religious cult which left Earth to find a world of their own. Their leader, Seraph, has downloaded his mind into the ship''s computers, but now he has gone silent, enticed and serenaded by a siren song coming from inside a black hole. Trapped in orbit around the void, Seraph''s followers are confused by his silence, and when the Doctor arrives, he finds a world on the brink of chaos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2191'),
(15445, 'Doctor Who: The Eye of the Tyger', 'Paul J. McAuley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Inhabiting a colony spaceship in the thirty second century are members of a religious cult which left Earth to find a world of their own. Their leader, Seraph, has downloaded his mind into the ship''s computers, but now he has gone silent, enticed and serenaded by a siren song coming from inside a black hole. Trapped in orbit around the void, Seraph''s followers are confused by his silence, and when the Doctor arrives, he finds a world on the brink of chaos.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22588'),
(15446, 'Doctor Who: The Face of Evil', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands on a planet the Doctor doesn''t recognise - but its inhabitants seem to know him. They think he''s the Evil One and aren''t pleased to see him.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Two warring tribes occupy the planet: the savage Sevateem and the reclusive Tesh, separated from each other by a deadly energy field. When the Sevateem believe their God, Xoanon, to be a captive of the Tesh, they decide to break through the barrier and rescue him. The Tesh, however, have other ideas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Befriended by Leela, a Sevateem girl who dares to question the mighty Xoanon, the Doctor sets out to discover exactly what''s happening on this planet. Has he been here before? Is he responsible for the tribal wars? And can it possibly be that Xoanon, the mad God, is really the Doctor?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/802'),
(15447, 'Doctor Who: The Face of Evil', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands on a planet the Doctor doesn''t recognise - but its inhabitants seem to know him. They think he''s the Evil One and aren''t pleased to see him.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Two warring tribes occupy the planet: the savage Sevateem and the reclusive Tesh, separated from each other by a deadly energy field. When the Sevateem believe their God, Xoanon, to be a captive of the Tesh, they decide to break through the barrier and rescue him. The Tesh, however, have other ideas.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Befriended by Leela, a Sevateem girl who dares to question the mighty Xoanon, the Doctor sets out to discover exactly what''s happening on this planet. Has he been here before? Is he responsible for the tribal wars? And can it possibly be that Xoanon, the mad God, is really the Doctor?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24079'),
(15448, 'Doctor Who: The Face of the Enemy', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Whilst the Doctor and Jo are away from Earth the Brigadier is confronted with open warfare on the streets of Britain. He and UNIT have to rely on an old adversary to help them save Earth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6432'),
(15449, 'Doctor Who: The Face of the Enemy', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Whilst the Doctor and Jo are away from Earth the Brigadier is confronted with open warfare on the streets of Britain. He and UNIT have to rely on an old adversary to help them save Earth.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17670'),
(15450, 'Doctor Who: The Face-Eater', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the Doctor and Sam arrive on Proxima II they find a settlement rife with superstition and unrest. The native Proximans are inexplicably dying out, and humans too are being killed in horrific ways, with each corpse''s face being stripped bare.Posing as investigators from Earth, the Doctor and Sam must track down the force moving through the dark catacombs beneath Proxima City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1255'),
(15451, 'Doctor Who: The Face-Eater', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the Doctor and Sam arrive on Proxima II they find a settlement rife with superstition and unrest. The native Proximans are inexplicably dying out, and humans too are being killed in horrific ways, with each corpse''s face being stripped bare.Posing as investigators from Earth, the Doctor and Sam must track down the force moving through the dark catacombs beneath Proxima City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23663'),
(15452, 'Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When thousands of young people on vacation with Chameleon Tours fail to return, the Doctor is drawn into the mystery, and must face a group of faceless aliens, the Chameleons\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/804'),
(15453, 'Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When thousands of young people on vacation with Chameleon Tours fail to return, the Doctor is drawn into the mystery, and must face a group of faceless aliens, the Chameleons\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24073'),
(15454, 'Doctor Who: The Fall of Yquatine', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 4991. The TARDIS is dead and Compassion is evolving into a sentient replacement for it. To avoid the Timelords, the Doctor decides to fit a Randomiser but the only place he can obtain the components is the planet Yquatine.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2482'),
(15455, 'Doctor Who: The Fall of Yquatine', 'Nick Walters', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The year is 4991. The TARDIS is dead and Compassion is evolving into a sentient replacement for it. To avoid the Timelords, the Doctor decides to fit a Randomiser but the only place he can obtain the components is the planet Yquatine.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22275'),
(15456, 'Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast... the feast of the drowned. As the dead crew haunts loved ones all over London, the Doctor and Rose are drawn into a chilling mystery. What sank the ship, and why? When the cruiser''s wreckage was towed up the Thames, what sinister force came with it? The river''s dark waters are hiding an even darker secret, as preparations for the feast near their conclusion...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1150'),
(15457, 'Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast... the feast of the drowned. As the dead crew haunts loved ones all over London, the Doctor and Rose are drawn into a chilling mystery. What sank the ship, and why? When the cruiser''s wreckage was towed up the Thames, what sinister force came with it? The river''s dark waters are hiding an even darker secret, as preparations for the feast near their conclusion...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23808'),
(15458, 'Doctor Who: The Final Sanction', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <i>\n    The year is 2204. The final confrontation between humankind and the monstrous Selachians is about to reach its tragic conclusion.\n   </i>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once again the Doctor has become entangled in human history. Caught up in a brutal and bloody conflict, he knows he must do nothing to influence the outcome. But, when the TARDIS disappears and Zoe falls into Selachian hands, he is forced to intervene...\n</p>\n<p>\n In the struggle that ensues, Jamie fights alongside the human forces and discovers for himself the true horror of war. Zoe plans her escape from an alien prison camp, only to find herself, quite literally, out of her depth. Meanwhile, the Doctor comes face to face with a man who will become one of the most vilified figures in history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  As the death toll mounts and events come to a head, the Doctor must make a painful choice: which is more important, the sanctity of the time stream or the lives of his companions?\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/988'),
(15459, 'Doctor Who: The Final Sanction', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <i>\n    The year is 2204. The final confrontation between humankind and the monstrous Selachians is about to reach its tragic conclusion.\n   </i>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once again the Doctor has become entangled in human history. Caught up in a brutal and bloody conflict, he knows he must do nothing to influence the outcome. But, when the TARDIS disappears and Zoe falls into Selachian hands, he is forced to intervene...\n</p>\n<p>\n In the struggle that ensues, Jamie fights alongside the human forces and discovers for himself the true horror of war. Zoe plans her escape from an alien prison camp, only to find herself, quite literally, out of her depth. Meanwhile, the Doctor comes face to face with a man who will become one of the most vilified figures in history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  As the death toll mounts and events come to a head, the Doctor must make a painful choice: which is more important, the sanctity of the time stream or the lives of his companions?\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23859'),
(15460, 'Doctor Who: The Five Doctors', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who has to find out who is responsible for kidnapping his other four incarnations\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/805'),
(15461, 'Doctor Who: The Five Doctors', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who has to find out who is responsible for kidnapping his other four incarnations\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24072'),
(15462, 'Doctor Who: The Forgotten Army', 'Brian Minchin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''Let me tell you a story. Long ago, in the frozen Arctic wastes, an alien army landed. Only now, 10,000 years later, it isn''t a story. And the army is ready to attack.'' New York - one of the greatest cities on 21st century Earth... But what''s going on in the Museum? And is that really a Woolly Mammoth rampaging down Broadway? An ordinary day becomes a time of terror, as Ice Age creatures come back to life, and the Doctor and Amy meet a new and deadly enemy. The vicious Army of the Vykoid are armed to the teeth and determined to enslave the human race. Even though they''re only three inches high. With the Doctor kidnapped, and the Vykoid army swarming across Manhattan and sealing it from the world with a powerful alien forcefield, Amy has just 24 hours to find the Doctor and save the city. If she doesn''t, the people of Manhattan will be taken to work in the doomed asteroid mines of the Vykoid home planet. But as time starts to run out, who can she trust? And how far will she have to go to free New York from the Forgotten Army? A thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7119'),
(15463, 'Doctor Who: The Forgotten Army', 'Brian Minchin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''Let me tell you a story. Long ago, in the frozen Arctic wastes, an alien army landed. Only now, 10,000 years later, it isn''t a story. And the army is ready to attack.'' New York - one of the greatest cities on 21st century Earth... But what''s going on in the Museum? And is that really a Woolly Mammoth rampaging down Broadway? An ordinary day becomes a time of terror, as Ice Age creatures come back to life, and the Doctor and Amy meet a new and deadly enemy. The vicious Army of the Vykoid are armed to the teeth and determined to enslave the human race. Even though they''re only three inches high. With the Doctor kidnapped, and the Vykoid army swarming across Manhattan and sealing it from the world with a powerful alien forcefield, Amy has just 24 hours to find the Doctor and save the city. If she doesn''t, the people of Manhattan will be taken to work in the doomed asteroid mines of the Vykoid home planet. But as time starts to run out, who can she trust? And how far will she have to go to free New York from the Forgotten Army? A thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16803'),
(15464, 'Doctor Who: The Gallifrey Chronicles', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor''s home planet of Gallifrey has been destroyed. The Time Lords are dead, their TARDISes annihilated. The man responsible has been tracked down and lured to Earth in the year 2005, where there will be no escape. But Earth has its hands full - a mystery signal is being received from a radio telescope, there''s a second moon in the sky, and a primordial alien menace has been unleashed. The stage is set for the ultimate confrontation. Now, the last of the Time Lords must ensure that justice is done. The Doctor and his companions Fitz and Trix will meet their destiny. And this time, the Doctor isn''t going to be able to save everybody. This is the last in the continuing series of original adventures of the Eighth Doctor.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3565'),
(15465, 'Doctor Who: The Gallifrey Chronicles', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor''s home planet of Gallifrey has been destroyed. The Time Lords are dead, their TARDISes annihilated. The man responsible has been tracked down and lured to Earth in the year 2005, where there will be no escape. But Earth has its hands full - a mystery signal is being received from a radio telescope, there''s a second moon in the sky, and a primordial alien menace has been unleashed. The stage is set for the ultimate confrontation. Now, the last of the Time Lords must ensure that justice is done. The Doctor and his companions Fitz and Trix will meet their destiny. And this time, the Doctor isn''t going to be able to save everybody. This is the last in the continuing series of original adventures of the Eighth Doctor.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20891'),
(15466, 'Doctor Who: The Genesis of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  Back on the dreaded Skaro again, a world torn apart by a thousand-year-long war, the Doctor''s on a mission from the Time Lords themselves... simple enough. All he has to do is destroy the Daleks before they evolve and face their evil creator, Davros.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/806'),
(15467, 'Doctor Who: The Genesis of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  Back on the dreaded Skaro again, a world torn apart by a thousand-year-long war, the Doctor''s on a mission from the Time Lords themselves... simple enough. All he has to do is destroy the Daleks before they evolve and face their evil creator, Davros.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24071'),
(15468, 'Doctor Who: The Giant Robot', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With the Doctor behaving rather oddly after his regeneration, the Brigadier finds a scientific research station under attack after a robot steals the plans for a new disintegrator gun.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Could the members of the mysterious Think Tank be responsible for the giant invader? How sinister are the intentions of the shadowy Scientific Reform Society? More importantly, can the Doctor recover in time to save the Earth from Atomic War?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/807'),
(15469, 'Doctor Who: The Giant Robot', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   With the Doctor behaving rather oddly after his regeneration, the Brigadier finds a scientific research station under attack after a robot steals the plans for a new disintegrator gun.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Could the members of the mysterious Think Tank be responsible for the giant invader? How sinister are the intentions of the shadowy Scientific Reform Society? More importantly, can the Doctor recover in time to save the Earth from Atomic War?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24067'),
(15470, 'Doctor Who: The Glamour Chase', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An archaeological dig in 1936 unearths relics of another time... and, as the Doctor and Amy realise, another place... another planet. But if Emmaline Porter, noted adventuress, has really found evidence of an alien civilization, how come she isn''t famous? How come Amy''s never heard of her? Come to that, since she''s been travelling with him for a while now, how come Amy''s never even heard of the Doctor? As the ancient spaceship reactivates, the Doctor discovers that nothing and no one can be trusted. The things that seem most real could actually be illusion. Obvious illusions could be real - and deadly! A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gary Russell is one of the script editing team for Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, and the author of many novels and reference books in the Doctor Who range. A former editor of Doctor Who Magazine, he also was the producer of Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish Productions for eight years. He lives in Cardiff.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5421'),
(15471, 'Doctor Who: The Glamour Chase', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n An archaeological dig in 1936 unearths relics of another time... and, as the Doctor and Amy realise, another place... another planet. But if Emmaline Porter, noted adventuress, has really found evidence of an alien civilization, how come she isn''t famous? How come Amy''s never heard of her? Come to that, since she''s been travelling with him for a while now, how come Amy''s never even heard of the Doctor? As the ancient spaceship reactivates, the Doctor discovers that nothing and no one can be trusted. The things that seem most real could actually be illusion. Obvious illusions could be real - and deadly! A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gary Russell is one of the script editing team for Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, and the author of many novels and reference books in the Doctor Who range. A former editor of Doctor Who Magazine, he also was the producer of Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish Productions for eight years. He lives in Cardiff.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19195'),
(15472, 'Doctor Who: The Green Death', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Earth, South Wales. The suspicious death of a miner at the inactive local pit owned by the mysterious Global Chemicals brings UNIT to sleepy Llanfairfach. There, a local green group - the Wholeweal Community under the leadership of the brilliant Professor Jones - are not convinced of Global''s innocence in the affair. Could the waste products from their revolutionary new oil refining process be at fault? Jones is convinced but the Doctor is not so sure and a dangerous expedition down the mine confirms his fears. For there, thousands of giant maggots lie gestating - a dangerously unknown terror waiting to be unleashed upon the world. But by whom? Just who is the power behind Global Chemicals? Who or what is the Boss? And what are his/its plans for the Earth?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier must move quickly to find the answers, for the death toll is already rising and the gestation period of the maggots down the mine is coming to an end...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3187'),
(15473, 'Doctor Who: The Green Death', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Earth, South Wales. The suspicious death of a miner at the inactive local pit owned by the mysterious Global Chemicals brings UNIT to sleepy Llanfairfach. There, a local green group - the Wholeweal Community under the leadership of the brilliant Professor Jones - are not convinced of Global''s innocence in the affair. Could the waste products from their revolutionary new oil refining process be at fault? Jones is convinced but the Doctor is not so sure and a dangerous expedition down the mine confirms his fears. For there, thousands of giant maggots lie gestating - a dangerously unknown terror waiting to be unleashed upon the world. But by whom? Just who is the power behind Global Chemicals? Who or what is the Boss? And what are his/its plans for the Earth?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier must move quickly to find the answers, for the death toll is already rising and the gestation period of the maggots down the mine is coming to an end...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21338');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15474, 'Doctor Who: The Gunfighters', 'Donald Cotton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS arrives in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881. The Doctor, suffering from toothache, seeks out the local dentist - the notorious Doc Holliday. Meanwhile, Steven and Dodo decide to explore the town, and soon find themselves in the Last Chance Saloon...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Tensions are running high between the feuding Clanton family and Doc Holliday, whilst the local lawman, Wyatt Earp, struggles to keep the peace. When legendary gunman Johnny Ringo comes to town, events start to escalate...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor, Steven and Dodo do anything to stop the situation getting any worse? Or will there be a gunfight at the OK Corral?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5932'),
(15475, 'Doctor Who: The Gunfighters', 'Donald Cotton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS arrives in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881. The Doctor, suffering from toothache, seeks out the local dentist - the notorious Doc Holliday. Meanwhile, Steven and Dodo decide to explore the town, and soon find themselves in the Last Chance Saloon...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Tensions are running high between the feuding Clanton family and Doc Holliday, whilst the local lawman, Wyatt Earp, struggles to keep the peace. When legendary gunman Johnny Ringo comes to town, events start to escalate...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Can the Doctor, Steven and Dodo do anything to stop the situation getting any worse? Or will there be a gunfight at the OK Corral?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18687'),
(15476, 'Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000040" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    <div align="justify">\n     <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n      ldrad was once hailed as the saviour of the world of Kastria. He erected force-barriers around the planet, preventing its imminent destruction. However, when the Kastrians refused to submit to his dictatorship, he removed his force-fields, condemning an entire civilisation to a slow and agonising death. For this, the mightiest of crimes, the people of Kastria sentenced Eldrad to obliteration.\n     </font>\n     <p>\n      Millions of years later, the Doctor''s TARDIS materialises in an English quarry. A freak accident traps the Doctor''s young friend, Sarah Jane Smith, under tons of rock. When she is rescued, she is frantically clinging to a large stone hand. Taken to a local hospital, it soon becomes clear that Sarah has been possessed.\n     </p>\n     <p>\n      After she goes missing - still clutching the hand - the Doctor follows the trail of death and destruction to a nearby atomic power station.\n     </p>\n    </div>\n   </span>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What strange power does the hand have over Sarah? Why has she fought her way to the very core of the nuclear reactor? How can she possibly survive the normally lethal radiation? To answer these questions, the Doctor must travel across the galaxy to a long-dead world - after which, life will never be quite the same again...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/808'),
(15477, 'Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000040" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    <div align="justify">\n     <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n      ldrad was once hailed as the saviour of the world of Kastria. He erected force-barriers around the planet, preventing its imminent destruction. However, when the Kastrians refused to submit to his dictatorship, he removed his force-fields, condemning an entire civilisation to a slow and agonising death. For this, the mightiest of crimes, the people of Kastria sentenced Eldrad to obliteration.\n     </font>\n     <p>\n      Millions of years later, the Doctor''s TARDIS materialises in an English quarry. A freak accident traps the Doctor''s young friend, Sarah Jane Smith, under tons of rock. When she is rescued, she is frantically clinging to a large stone hand. Taken to a local hospital, it soon becomes clear that Sarah has been possessed.\n     </p>\n     <p>\n      After she goes missing - still clutching the hand - the Doctor follows the trail of death and destruction to a nearby atomic power station.\n     </p>\n    </div>\n   </span>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What strange power does the hand have over Sarah? Why has she fought her way to the very core of the nuclear reactor? How can she possibly survive the normally lethal radiation? To answer these questions, the Doctor must travel across the galaxy to a long-dead world - after which, life will never be quite the same again...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24063'),
(15478, 'Doctor Who: The Highest Science', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Many legends speak of this world, home of an ancient empire destroyed by its own greatest achievement: the Highest Science, the pinnacle of technological discovery.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS alerts the Doctor and Bernice to the presence of an enormous temporal fluctuation on a large, green, unremarkable planet, they are not to know of any connection with the legend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But the connection is there, and it will lead them into conflict with the monstrous Chelonians, with their contempt for human parasites; into adventure with a group of youngsters whose musical taste has suddenly become dangerously significant; and will force them to face Sheldukher, the most wanted criminal in the galaxy.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5536'),
(15479, 'Doctor Who: The Highest Science', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Many legends speak of this world, home of an ancient empire destroyed by its own greatest achievement: the Highest Science, the pinnacle of technological discovery.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS alerts the Doctor and Bernice to the presence of an enormous temporal fluctuation on a large, green, unremarkable planet, they are not to know of any connection with the legend.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But the connection is there, and it will lead them into conflict with the monstrous Chelonians, with their contempt for human parasites; into adventure with a group of youngsters whose musical taste has suddenly become dangerously significant; and will force them to face Sheldukher, the most wanted criminal in the galaxy.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19197'),
(15480, 'Doctor Who: The Highlanders', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A series of extraordinary adventures ensues when Jamie McCrimmon discovers an episode of unrecorded history in the Scottish defeat by the English at the Battle of Culloden in 1746\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5296'),
(15481, 'Doctor Who: The Highlanders', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A series of extraordinary adventures ensues when Jamie McCrimmon discovers an episode of unrecorded history in the Scottish defeat by the English at the Battle of Culloden in 1746\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19235'),
(15482, 'Doctor Who: The Hollow Men', 'Keith Topping &amp; Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Tardis lands in a village of Evil; a scout craft sent by an alien race in the time of the Civil War, to assess the Earth for conquest. Hidden beneath the ground, the deadly intelligence that animates it begins to stir, tainting the lives of all those in the village.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3767'),
(15483, 'Doctor Who: The Hollow Men', 'Keith Topping; Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Tardis lands in a village of Evil; a scout craft sent by an alien race in the time of the Civil War, to assess the Earth for conquest. Hidden beneath the ground, the deadly intelligence that animates it begins to stir, tainting the lives of all those in the village.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20688'),
(15484, 'Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the great maze of the Power Complex dwells the dreaded Nimon, a fearsome monster with immense scientific powers.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Nimon has promised to restore the Skonnan Empire to its former glory. But first it demands sacrifice - youths and maidens from the peaceful planet Aneth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS collides with the space ship delivering the victims, and the captured Romana is condemned to be sacrificed to the Nimon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Aided by the faithful K-9, the Doctor goes to the rescue. In the heart of the maze he confronts the Nimon and uncovers a terrifying plot to enslave the galaxy.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/809'),
(15485, 'Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the great maze of the Power Complex dwells the dreaded Nimon, a fearsome monster with immense scientific powers.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Nimon has promised to restore the Skonnan Empire to its former glory. But first it demands sacrifice - youths and maidens from the peaceful planet Aneth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS collides with the space ship delivering the victims, and the captured Romana is condemned to be sacrificed to the Nimon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Aided by the faithful K-9, the Doctor goes to the rescue. In the heart of the maze he confronts the Nimon and uncovers a terrifying plot to enslave the galaxy.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24060'),
(15486, 'Doctor Who: The Horror of Fang Rock', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000040" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     It is the turn of the century, and the TARDIS materialises by the lighthouse on the desolate isle of Fang Rock. When the engineer dies in mysterious circumstances, the remaining crew blame the mythical Beast of Fang Rock - until the Doctor and Leela turn up...\n    </font>\n   </span>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  When a small clipper runs aground on the crags of Fang Rock, the lighthouse offers shelter to its desperate passengers. But the Doctor soon discovers clues that suggest that no one is safe on the tiny island.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Whilst a private drama unfolds between the survivors of the wrecked clipper, another death occurs. The Doctor suspects a ruthless alien lurks in the thick unnatural fog around the island, and secures the lighthouse. But has he really locked the horror out, or is it somewhere inside with them...?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/810'),
(15487, 'Doctor Who: The Horror of Fang Rock', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000040" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     It is the turn of the century, and the TARDIS materialises by the lighthouse on the desolate isle of Fang Rock. When the engineer dies in mysterious circumstances, the remaining crew blame the mythical Beast of Fang Rock - until the Doctor and Leela turn up...\n    </font>\n   </span>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  When a small clipper runs aground on the crags of Fang Rock, the lighthouse offers shelter to its desperate passengers. But the Doctor soon discovers clues that suggest that no one is safe on the tiny island.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Whilst a private drama unfolds between the survivors of the wrecked clipper, another death occurs. The Doctor suspects a ruthless alien lurks in the thick unnatural fog around the island, and secures the lighthouse. But has he really locked the horror out, or is it somewhere inside with them...?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24205'),
(15488, 'Doctor Who: The House That Jack Built', 'Guy Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Jackson Leaves: an Edwardian house in Penylen, built in 1906, semi-detached, three storeys, spacious, beautifully presented, and left in good condition to Rob and Julia by Rob''s late aunt. It''s an ordinary sort of a house... except for the way the rooms don''t stay in the same places. And the strange man that turns up in the airing cupboard. And the apparitions. And the temporal surges that attract the attentions of Torchwood. And the fact that the first owner of Jackson Leaves in 1906 was a Captain Jack Harkness...   Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5224'),
(15489, 'Doctor Who: The House That Jack Built', 'Guy Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Jackson Leaves: an Edwardian house in Penylen, built in 1906, semi-detached, three storeys, spacious, beautifully presented, and left in good condition to Rob and Julia by Rob''s late aunt. It''s an ordinary sort of a house... except for the way the rooms don''t stay in the same places. And the strange man that turns up in the airing cupboard. And the apparitions. And the temporal surges that attract the attentions of Torchwood. And the fact that the first owner of Jackson Leaves in 1906 was a Captain Jack Harkness...   Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9340'),
(15490, 'Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors', 'Brian Hayles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The world is held in the grip of a second Ice Age, and faces total destruction from rapidly advancing glaciers. Doctor Who, with Victoria and Jamie, lands at a top scientific base in England, where they have just unearthed an ancient Ice Warrior. Can the Doctor overcome these warlike Martians and halt the relentless approach of the ice glaciers?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7098'),
(15491, 'Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors', 'Brian Hayles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The world is held in the grip of a second Ice Age, and faces total destruction from rapidly advancing glaciers. Doctor Who, with Victoria and Jamie, lands at a top scientific base in England, where they have just unearthed an ancient Ice Warrior. Can the Doctor overcome these warlike Martians and halt the relentless approach of the ice glaciers?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16730'),
(15492, 'Doctor Who: The Image of the Fendahl', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    When a tussle with a sonic time scan leads the TARDIS back to Earth, the Doctor and Leela discover strange happenings in a nearby lab run by the secretive Dr Fendelman. By night an eight million year old skull glos with a devastating power, leaving destruction in its wake. Already two people lie dead in mysterious circumstances. The Doctor is appalled. Can the Fendahl, the creature from his childhood fairytales, really be emerging from its twelve million year hibernation? And if so, can he stop its energy-draining progress through the Earth''s population? The very safety of the planet depends upon it...\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/811'),
(15493, 'Doctor Who: The Image of the Fendahl', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    When a tussle with a sonic time scan leads the TARDIS back to Earth, the Doctor and Leela discover strange happenings in a nearby lab run by the secretive Dr Fendelman. By night an eight million year old skull glos with a devastating power, leaving destruction in its wake. Already two people lie dead in mysterious circumstances. The Doctor is appalled. Can the Fendahl, the creature from his childhood fairytales, really be emerging from its twelve million year hibernation? And if so, can he stop its energy-draining progress through the Earth''s population? The very safety of the planet depends upon it...\n   </font>\n  </div>\n  <div>\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    <br />\n   </font>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24202'),
(15494, 'Doctor Who: The Indestructible Man', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thirty years ago, the Earth was covertly attacked by the alien Myloki, who brainwashed humans and seeded them into Earth society as terrorists and assassins. Earth governments pooled their resources and financed Operation PRISM to fight - and win - the secret war against the Myloki. Now the successor to PRISM, the SILHOUETTE organization, runs a series of Early Warning devices in space, should the dreaded Myloki return. But the financial burden of the war has caused global financial meltdown and Earth stands on the brink of anarchy. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover the war was in fact faked by a corrupt Earth dictatorship that has turned the planet into a tightly controlled utopia. Drugs keep the population under strict and docile control. Humanity is reduced to little more than work units. With the help of war hero Captain Grant Matthews, a PRISM agent accidentally made indestructible during the war, the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe gradually discover the truth - but in doing so they face the opposition of a whole planet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1256'),
(15495, 'Doctor Who: The Indestructible Man', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Thirty years ago, the Earth was covertly attacked by the alien Myloki, who brainwashed humans and seeded them into Earth society as terrorists and assassins. Earth governments pooled their resources and financed Operation PRISM to fight - and win - the secret war against the Myloki. Now the successor to PRISM, the SILHOUETTE organization, runs a series of Early Warning devices in space, should the dreaded Myloki return. But the financial burden of the war has caused global financial meltdown and Earth stands on the brink of anarchy. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover the war was in fact faked by a corrupt Earth dictatorship that has turned the planet into a tightly controlled utopia. Drugs keep the population under strict and docile control. Humanity is reduced to little more than work units. With the help of war hero Captain Grant Matthews, a PRISM agent accidentally made indestructible during the war, the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe gradually discover the truth - but in doing so they face the opposition of a whole planet.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23662'),
(15496, 'Doctor Who: The Infinity Doctors', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gallifrey. The Doctor''s home planet. For twenty, thousand centuries the Gallifreyans have been the most powerful race in the cosmos. They have circumnavigated infinity. and eternity, harnessed science, conquered death. They are the Lords of Time, and they have used their powers carefully.But now a new force has been unleashed, one that is literally capable of anything. It is enough to give the Time Lords nightmares. More than that: it is enough to destroy them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3567'),
(15497, 'Doctor Who: The Infinity Doctors', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gallifrey. The Doctor''s home planet. For twenty, thousand centuries the Gallifreyans have been the most powerful race in the cosmos. They have circumnavigated infinity. and eternity, harnessed science, conquered death. They are the Lords of Time, and they have used their powers carefully.But now a new force has been unleashed, one that is literally capable of anything. It is enough to give the Time Lords nightmares. More than that: it is enough to destroy them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20890'),
(15498, 'Doctor Who: The Infinity Race', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor is in trouble. He has his own race to win. Stuck in a parallel dimension, pursuing the mysterious Sabbath, he must unravel a complex plot in which he himself may be a pawn. Following the only lead, the TARDIS arrives on Selonart -- a planet famed for the unique, friction-nullifying light water that covers its surface. A water that propels vast, technological yachts across its waves at inconceivable speeds. All in all, an indulgent, boastful demonstration of power by Earth''s ruthless multi-stellar corporations. Is Sabbath''s goal to win the race? Who is Bloom, the enigmatic Selonart native? As the danger escalates, the Doctor realises that he is being manoeuvred into engineering his own downfall. Is it already too late for him?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1257'),
(15499, 'Doctor Who: The Infinity Race', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor is in trouble. He has his own race to win. Stuck in a parallel dimension, pursuing the mysterious Sabbath, he must unravel a complex plot in which he himself may be a pawn. Following the only lead, the TARDIS arrives on Selonart -- a planet famed for the unique, friction-nullifying light water that covers its surface. A water that propels vast, technological yachts across its waves at inconceivable speeds. All in all, an indulgent, boastful demonstration of power by Earth''s ruthless multi-stellar corporations. Is Sabbath''s goal to win the race? Who is Bloom, the enigmatic Selonart native? As the danger escalates, the Doctor realises that he is being manoeuvred into engineering his own downfall. Is it already too late for him?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23659'),
(15500, 'Doctor Who: The Invasion', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n UFO sightings over southern England, a missile attack on the TARDIS, and mysterious deliveries to the world''s largest computer firm foreshadow the Cybermen''s invasion of Earth\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5084'),
(15501, 'Doctor Who: The Invasion', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n UFO sightings over southern England, a missile attack on the TARDIS, and mysterious deliveries to the world''s largest computer firm foreshadow the Cybermen''s invasion of Earth\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19636'),
(15502, 'Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor is behaving oddly, having clandestine meetings with a race known as the Vardans who can travel via the power of thought. Leela is concerned - and she worries further when she learns that K9 has been instructed to shoot her if she attempts to interfere.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Returning home to Gallifrey, the Doctor demands to take over as Lord President of the High Council of Time Lords. With no-one able to dispute his claim, he is inducted and begins a systematic purge of Time Lord society, expelling many high ranking officials - and Leela - to the wastes of Outer Gallifrey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It seems that the Doctor has joined forces with the Vardans, and is helping in their attempted conquest of Gallifrey out of revenge for his treatment at the hands of previous High Councils. The Vardans want the secrets of time travel and with only his old teacher, Cardinal Borusa, at his side, the Doctor appears to be granting them their wish. But not everything is exactly what it seems. The Doctor has an agenda hidden from the Vardans - and they in turn have a far darker one hidden from him.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/812'),
(15503, 'Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor is behaving oddly, having clandestine meetings with a race known as the Vardans who can travel via the power of thought. Leela is concerned - and she worries further when she learns that K9 has been instructed to shoot her if she attempts to interfere.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Returning home to Gallifrey, the Doctor demands to take over as Lord President of the High Council of Time Lords. With no-one able to dispute his claim, he is inducted and begins a systematic purge of Time Lord society, expelling many high ranking officials - and Leela - to the wastes of Outer Gallifrey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It seems that the Doctor has joined forces with the Vardans, and is helping in their attempted conquest of Gallifrey out of revenge for his treatment at the hands of previous High Councils. The Vardans want the secrets of time travel and with only his old teacher, Cardinal Borusa, at his side, the Doctor appears to be granting them their wish. But not everything is exactly what it seems. The Doctor has an agenda hidden from the Vardans - and they in turn have a far darker one hidden from him.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24201'),
(15504, 'Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  A three-man shuttle crew are completing the final stages of their journey to Titan base, when a course deviation puts the shuttle in the path of a mysterious cloud in space. The crew members arrive on Titan, but they have been somehow changed, infected by an intelligent virus that threatens everyone in the galaxy. The TARDIS picks up a Mayday message from Titan base, but before the Doctor and Leela can fully respond, the police box also passes through the mysterious cloud. With the infection spreading from person to person, the Doctor and Leela seek assistance on a medical station in the asteroid belt. As the situation worsens, their only hope lies in the unlikely combination of the eccentric scientist Professor Marius, and his dog-shaped computer K9...\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/813'),
(15505, 'Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  A three-man shuttle crew are completing the final stages of their journey to Titan base, when a course deviation puts the shuttle in the path of a mysterious cloud in space. The crew members arrive on Titan, but they have been somehow changed, infected by an intelligent virus that threatens everyone in the galaxy. The TARDIS picks up a Mayday message from Titan base, but before the Doctor and Leela can fully respond, the police box also passes through the mysterious cloud. With the infection spreading from person to person, the Doctor and Leela seek assistance on a medical station in the asteroid belt. As the situation worsens, their only hope lies in the unlikely combination of the eccentric scientist Professor Marius, and his dog-shaped computer K9...\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24198'),
(15506, 'Doctor Who: The Janus Conjunction', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two planets, Janus Prime and Menda, orbit a Red Giant on the edge of the galaxy. The planets lie diametrically opposite each other on either side of the huge sun -- but where Menda is rich and fertile in the light of the sun, Janus Prime''s moon leaves the sun in a constant state of eclipse.Humans are colonizing the area, and a rival group sets up on Janus Prime via a mysterious transmit system left behind by the planets'' former inhabitants. But what is its true purpose?When the Doctor and Sam arrive they must piece together a centuries-old puzzle. How can Janus Prime''s moon weigh billions of tons more than it should? What is the secret purpose of the hyperspatial link? They discover a terrible weapon is hidden in the glowing sands of the planet, one that if it falls into the hands of the warring humans could destroy the galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/468'),
(15507, 'Doctor Who: The Janus Conjunction', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two planets, Janus Prime and Menda, orbit a Red Giant on the edge of the galaxy. The planets lie diametrically opposite each other on either side of the huge sun -- but where Menda is rich and fertile in the light of the sun, Janus Prime''s moon leaves the sun in a constant state of eclipse.Humans are colonizing the area, and a rival group sets up on Janus Prime via a mysterious transmit system left behind by the planets'' former inhabitants. But what is its true purpose?When the Doctor and Sam arrive they must piece together a centuries-old puzzle. How can Janus Prime''s moon weigh billions of tons more than it should? What is the secret purpose of the hyperspatial link? They discover a terrible weapon is hidden in the glowing sands of the planet, one that if it falls into the hands of the warring humans could destroy the galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24468'),
(15508, 'Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The empire of Traken has lived in total harmony for over a thousand years, governed by the sacred Keeper and his loyal consuls. Until now. Fading fast, the Keeper calls the Doctor and Adric to Traken, fearing the impending disintegration of his world and the onset of a terrible evil. For the malignant presence of the Melkur lurks close by, growing stronger, plotting to replace the Keeper upon his death.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor must stop it before it gains control of the Source - the energy that sustains the very life of the planet. But just who is controlling the Melkur? The Doctor smells a rat of the very oldest kind...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/814'),
(15509, 'Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The empire of Traken has lived in total harmony for over a thousand years, governed by the sacred Keeper and his loyal consuls. Until now. Fading fast, the Keeper calls the Doctor and Adric to Traken, fearing the impending disintegration of his world and the onset of a terrible evil. For the malignant presence of the Melkur lurks close by, growing stronger, plotting to replace the Keeper upon his death.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor must stop it before it gains control of the Source - the energy that sustains the very life of the planet. But just who is controlling the Melkur? The Doctor smells a rat of the very oldest kind...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24196'),
(15510, 'Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus', 'Philip Hinchcliffe &amp; Terry Nation', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Materialising on an island of glass in a sea of acid, the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara find themselves chosen to embark on a perilous quest set by Arbitan, Keeper of the Conscience of the planet Marinus.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Conscience machine has the power to control the minds of everyone on Marinus, and it is in danger of falling into the hands of the sinister Yartek, leader of the alien Voord. To prevent disaster, the TARDIS crew must recover the machine''s operating keys, hidden in various locations around the planet. Others have attempted this task before - but none have ever returned.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   From Morphoton to Millenius, battling ice soldiers and deadly plants, overcoming hypnotic conditioning and hostile witnesses, this trek across Marinus promises to be the four travellers'' most challenging adventure yet.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2162'),
(15511, 'Doctor Who: The King of Terror', 'Keith Topping', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two alien races -- the Jex and the Canavitchi -- are engaged in a battle to invade and either conquer or destroy the planet Earth. The Doctor is summoned to a meeting with Brigadier who shows him a photograph of a powerful media mogul named Sanger -- who has bought enough plutonium to destroy the world ten times over. UNIT are on the case and it seems that Sanger is one of a frightening number of alien Jex who came to Earth twenty years ago to sow the seeds of their ruthless world-domination... When the Canavitchi launch their counter-attack and their alien fleets embark upon full-scale destruction, the Doctor finds himself engaged in a race against time to save planet Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3770'),
(15512, 'Doctor Who: The King of Terror', 'Keith Topping', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two alien races -- the Jex and the Canavitchi -- are engaged in a battle to invade and either conquer or destroy the planet Earth. The Doctor is summoned to a meeting with Brigadier who shows him a photograph of a powerful media mogul named Sanger -- who has bought enough plutonium to destroy the world ten times over. UNIT are on the case and it seems that Sanger is one of a frightening number of alien Jex who came to Earth twenty years ago to sow the seeds of their ruthless world-domination... When the Canavitchi launch their counter-attack and their alien fleets embark upon full-scale destruction, the Doctor finds himself engaged in a race against time to save planet Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20687'),
(15513, 'Doctor Who: The King&#39;s Demons', 'Terence Dudley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Traveling back in time to the thirteenth century, Doctor Who encounters King John and begins to suspect a subtle plot to alter world history\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/869'),
(15514, 'Doctor Who: The King&#39;s Demons', 'Terence Dudley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Traveling back in time to the thirteenth century, Doctor Who encounters King John and begins to suspect a subtle plot to alter world history\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24159'),
(15515, 'Doctor Who: The King&#39;s Dragon', 'Una McCormack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the city-state of Geath, the King lives in a golden hall, and the people want for nothing. Everyone is happy and everyone is rich. Or so it seems. When the Doctor and Amy look beneath the surface, they discover a city of secrets. In dark corners, strange creatures are stirring. At the heart of the hall, a great metal dragon oozes gold. Then the Herald appears, demanding the return of her treasure - the ''glamour'' - and next come the gunships. The battle for possession of the glamour has begun, and only the Doctor and Amy can save the people of the city from being destroyed in the crossfire of an ancient civil war. But will the King surrender his new-found wealth? Or will he fight to keep it? A thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Una McCormack lives in Cambridge, where she reads, writes and teaches. She and her partner have no cats and many Daleks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/398'),
(15516, 'Doctor Who: The King&#39;s Dragon', 'Una McCormack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the city-state of Geath, the King lives in a golden hall, and the people want for nothing. Everyone is happy and everyone is rich. Or so it seems. When the Doctor and Amy look beneath the surface, they discover a city of secrets. In dark corners, strange creatures are stirring. At the heart of the hall, a great metal dragon oozes gold. Then the Herald appears, demanding the return of her treasure - the ''glamour'' - and next come the gunships. The battle for possession of the glamour has begun, and only the Doctor and Amy can save the people of the city from being destroyed in the crossfire of an ancient civil war. But will the King surrender his new-found wealth? Or will he fight to keep it? A thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Una McCormack lives in Cambridge, where she reads, writes and teaches. She and her partner have no cats and many Daleks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24546'),
(15517, 'Doctor Who: The Krillitane Storm', 'Christopher Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the TARDIS materializes in medieval Worcester, the Doctor finds the city seemingly deserted. He soon discovers its population are living in a state of terror, afraid to leave their homes after dark, for fear of meeting their doom at the hands of the legendary Devil''s Huntsman. And, after a terrifying encounter with a deadly Krillitane, the Doctor realizes the city has good reason to be scared!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6806'),
(15518, 'Doctor Who: The Krillitane Storm', 'Christopher Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the TARDIS materializes in medieval Worcester, the Doctor finds the city seemingly deserted. He soon discovers its population are living in a state of terror, afraid to leave their homes after dark, for fear of meeting their doom at the hands of the legendary Devil''s Huntsman. And, after a terrifying encounter with a deadly Krillitane, the Doctor realizes the city has good reason to be scared!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18033'),
(15519, 'Doctor Who: The Krotons', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    As the TARDIS door opens onto a barren planet, the Doctor steps straight into a struggle to destroy the merciless Krotons, the unseen rulers of the Gond people. Conditioned to obey by teaching machines, the Gonds put up no resistance until, with the Doctor''s help, they discover exactly what has been happening to their best students.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Battling against the Krotons'' vast scientific knowledge the Doctor and Zoe must stop them turning mental power into pure energy. With a brave band of Gonds and Jamie, prepared to fight to the end, it may be defeat for the Krotons, but ultimately it will be a test of knowledge that only the Doctor can match...\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/815'),
(15520, 'Doctor Who: The Krotons', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    As the TARDIS door opens onto a barren planet, the Doctor steps straight into a struggle to destroy the merciless Krotons, the unseen rulers of the Gond people. Conditioned to obey by teaching machines, the Gonds put up no resistance until, with the Doctor''s help, they discover exactly what has been happening to their best students.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Battling against the Krotons'' vast scientific knowledge the Doctor and Zoe must stop them turning mental power into pure energy. With a brave band of Gonds and Jamie, prepared to fight to the end, it may be defeat for the Krotons, but ultimately it will be a test of knowledge that only the Doctor can match...\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24193');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15521, 'Doctor Who: The Last Dodo', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a trip to the zoo, the Doctor and Martha go in search of a real live dodo and are transported by the TARDIS to the mysterious Museum of the Last Ones. There, in the Earth section, they discover every extinct creature up to the present day - billions of them, from the tiniest insect to the biggest dinosaur, all still alive and in suspended animation. Preservation is the Museum''s only job - collecting the last of every endangered species from all over the universe. And for millennia the Museum has been trying to trace one elusive specimen: the last of the Time Lords...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4922'),
(15522, 'Doctor Who: The Last Dodo', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a trip to the zoo, the Doctor and Martha go in search of a real live dodo and are transported by the TARDIS to the mysterious Museum of the Last Ones. There, in the Earth section, they discover every extinct creature up to the present day - billions of them, from the tiniest insect to the biggest dinosaur, all still alive and in suspended animation. Preservation is the Museum''s only job - collecting the last of every endangered species from all over the universe. And for millennia the Museum has been trying to trace one elusive specimen: the last of the Time Lords...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19795'),
(15523, 'Doctor Who: The Last Resort', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An adventure featuring the Eighth Doctor with Fitz and Anji. The heroes are used to finding themselves in different times, eras long before or long after the ones into which they were born. But when these eras come equipped with Hilton hotels and luxury theme parks, it''s a different matter. In the 1950s, the Good Time Travel Company has discovered time travel in a big way - it''s now time tourism, in fact - and they''re not about to let go of their profits easily, no matter what some Doctor guy ssays about the fragility of the time/space continuum. But the ensuing paradoxes mean that chaos is swiftly encroaching on the happy day trips to Roman orgies. Something has to be done, before it engulfs the whole of time!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2203'),
(15524, 'Doctor Who: The Last Resort', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An adventure featuring the Eighth Doctor with Fitz and Anji. The heroes are used to finding themselves in different times, eras long before or long after the ones into which they were born. But when these eras come equipped with Hilton hotels and luxury theme parks, it''s a different matter. In the 1950s, the Good Time Travel Company has discovered time travel in a big way - it''s now time tourism, in fact - and they''re not about to let go of their profits easily, no matter what some Doctor guy ssays about the fragility of the time/space continuum. But the ensuing paradoxes mean that chaos is swiftly encroaching on the happy day trips to Roman orgies. Something has to be done, before it engulfs the whole of time!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22580'),
(15525, 'Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive', 'David Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Argolin-Foamasi War lasted for just 20 minutes, during which time the planet of Argolis was turned into a blasted cinder - a radioactive wasteland deadly to almost all.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The few surviving members of the now ageing and sterile Argolin race made a remarkable decision: the story of their people and the husk of their world would stand as a lesson to the galaxy about the horrors of war. The planet would become the most unlikely of holiday resorts...\n </p>\n <p>\n  To the Doctor and Romana, Argolis seems like a restful and fascinating place to relax after their recent adventures. They can take in the beauty of the multi-coloured shifting sands from the safety of the towering Leisure Hive, and catch up with Argolin advances in the obscure science of tachyonics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Typically enough, however, murder and intrigue follow the time travellers wherever they go; and a lunatic''s plan to restore Argolis'' proud warrior past could, quite literally, tear the Doctor and his friend apart...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6265'),
(15526, 'Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive', 'David Fisher', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Argolin-Foamasi War lasted for just 20 minutes, during which time the planet of Argolis was turned into a blasted cinder - a radioactive wasteland deadly to almost all.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The few surviving members of the now ageing and sterile Argolin race made a remarkable decision: the story of their people and the husk of their world would stand as a lesson to the galaxy about the horrors of war. The planet would become the most unlikely of holiday resorts...\n </p>\n <p>\n  To the Doctor and Romana, Argolis seems like a restful and fascinating place to relax after their recent adventures. They can take in the beauty of the multi-coloured shifting sands from the safety of the towering Leisure Hive, and catch up with Argolin advances in the obscure science of tachyonics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Typically enough, however, murder and intrigue follow the time travellers wherever they go; and a lunatic''s plan to restore Argolis'' proud warrior past could, quite literally, tear the Doctor and his friend apart...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17790'),
(15527, 'Doctor Who: The Loch Ness Monster', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    When the Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive in Scotland, having received an urgent request for assistance from the Brigadier, they discover that the mysterious force which has destroyed three oil rigs has left giant teeth marks on the wreckage.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The mystery deepens leading them to the shores of Loch Ness where they find that the legendary monster really does exist - and it''s the murderous tool of the Zygons, aliens intent on overpowering the planet. The Doctor and his companions must find a way to defeat the deadly Loch Ness Monster and its controllers, but the Zygons have the terrifying power to change shape and the Doctor is in grave danger when he finds that his friends and allies are not always what they seem...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/818'),
(15528, 'Doctor Who: The Loch Ness Monster', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    When the Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive in Scotland, having received an urgent request for assistance from the Brigadier, they discover that the mysterious force which has destroyed three oil rigs has left giant teeth marks on the wreckage.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The mystery deepens leading them to the shores of Loch Ness where they find that the legendary monster really does exist - and it''s the murderous tool of the Zygons, aliens intent on overpowering the planet. The Doctor and his companions must find a way to defeat the deadly Loch Ness Monster and its controllers, but the Zygons have the terrifying power to change shape and the Doctor is in grave danger when he finds that his friends and allies are not always what they seem...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24192'),
(15529, 'Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani', 'Pip Baker &amp; Jane Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who is unexpectedly forced back in time to the nineteenth-century Luddite uprisings, where Rani, an exile from Gallifrey, is conducting sinister experiments\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2062'),
(15530, 'Doctor Who: The Masque of the Mandragora', 'Philip Hinchcliffe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tim Pigott-Smith reads this gripping novelization of a classic Doctor Who adventure. Forced off course by the Mandragora Helix, the TARDIS lands in the province of San Martino in fifteenth-century Italy. Here, the court astrologer, Hieronymous, has been taken over by the Mandragora energy-form. The Doctor has to defeat not only the Mandragora energy, but the evil schemes of the murderous Count Frederico who plans to usurp the place of his nephew, the rightful ruler of the province.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2164'),
(15531, 'Doctor Who: The Masque of the Mandragora', 'Philip Hinchcliffe', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tim Pigott-Smith reads this gripping novelization of a classic Doctor Who adventure. Forced off course by the Mandragora Helix, the TARDIS lands in the province of San Martino in fifteenth-century Italy. Here, the court astrologer, Hieronymous, has been taken over by the Mandragora energy-form. The Doctor has to defeat not only the Mandragora energy, but the evil schemes of the murderous Count Frederico who plans to usurp the place of his nephew, the rightful ruler of the province.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22717'),
(15532, 'Doctor Who: The Massacre', 'John Lucarotti', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands in Paris on 19th August 1572 and the Doctor, driven by scientific curiosity, leaves Steven in order to meet and exchange views with the apothecary Charles Preslin. Before he disappears, he warns Steven to stay out of ''mischief, religion and politics''.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Ignoring the Doctor''s warning to stay out of trouble, Steven finds himself caught up with a group of Huguenots. The Protestant minority of France is being threatened by the Catholic hierarchy and danger stalks the streets of Paris.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As Steven tries to find his way back to the TARDIS, he is horrified to find that the greatest persecutor of the Huguenots is actually none other than the Doctor himself.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4279'),
(15533, 'Doctor Who: The Massacre', 'John Lucarotti', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands in Paris on 19th August 1572 and the Doctor, driven by scientific curiosity, leaves Steven in order to meet and exchange views with the apothecary Charles Preslin. Before he disappears, he warns Steven to stay out of ''mischief, religion and politics''.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Ignoring the Doctor''s warning to stay out of trouble, Steven finds himself caught up with a group of Huguenots. The Protestant minority of France is being threatened by the Catholic hierarchy and danger stalks the streets of Paris.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As Steven tries to find his way back to the TARDIS, he is horrified to find that the greatest persecutor of the Huguenots is actually none other than the Doctor himself.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20245'),
(15534, 'Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who desperately struggles to stop the wicked Professor Emil Keller''s plot to set off World War III\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/819'),
(15535, 'Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Doctor Who desperately struggles to stop the wicked Professor Emil Keller''s plot to set off World War III\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24189'),
(15536, 'Doctor Who: The Mind Robber', 'Peter Ling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  To escape a catastrophic volcanic eruption, the Doctor takes the TARDIS out of space and time - and into a void he can only describe as ''nowhere''. But the crisis is far from over and when the time-machine''s circuits overload, the TARDIS explodes. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe come to in a dark unearthly forest. There they encounter a host of characters who seem somehow familiar: a beautiful princess with long flaxen hair, a sea traveller dressed in eighteenth-century clothes, and a white rabbit frantically consulting his pocket watch...What is happening to the three time-travellers? What strange power guides their actions? In the Land of Fiction who can really tell? Derek Jacobi, who played The Master in the "Doctor Who" episode "Utopia", reads Peter Ling''s complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1986. ''Giving more depth to the tale than was ever allowed in the original television interpretation, this audiobook will keep the most ardent of "Doctor Who" fans, young and old, enthralled from start to finish'' - "Bournemouth Daily Echo". ''BBC Audiobooks has chosen well with its books and has taken the right approach with its readers...they benefit from new music and sound effects'' - "Doctor Who Magazine".\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sir Derek Jacobi won a Tony in 1985 for\n  <em>\n   Much Ado About Nothing\n  </em>\n  and was Tony-nominated in 1988 for\n  <em>\n   Breaking the Code.\n  </em>\n  His voicework includes narration for\n  <em>\n   The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, Manor House,\n  </em>\n  and several\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who\n  </em>\n  titles. He was awarded CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1985 and was knighted in 1994.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2115'),
(15537, 'Doctor Who: The Mind Robber', 'Peter Ling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  To escape a catastrophic volcanic eruption, the Doctor takes the TARDIS out of space and time - and into a void he can only describe as ''nowhere''. But the crisis is far from over and when the time-machine''s circuits overload, the TARDIS explodes. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe come to in a dark unearthly forest. There they encounter a host of characters who seem somehow familiar: a beautiful princess with long flaxen hair, a sea traveller dressed in eighteenth-century clothes, and a white rabbit frantically consulting his pocket watch...What is happening to the three time-travellers? What strange power guides their actions? In the Land of Fiction who can really tell? Derek Jacobi, who played The Master in the "Doctor Who" episode "Utopia", reads Peter Ling''s complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1986. ''Giving more depth to the tale than was ever allowed in the original television interpretation, this audiobook will keep the most ardent of "Doctor Who" fans, young and old, enthralled from start to finish'' - "Bournemouth Daily Echo". ''BBC Audiobooks has chosen well with its books and has taken the right approach with its readers...they benefit from new music and sound effects'' - "Doctor Who Magazine".\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sir Derek Jacobi won a Tony in 1985 for\n  <em>\n   Much Ado About Nothing\n  </em>\n  and was Tony-nominated in 1988 for\n  <em>\n   Breaking the Code.\n  </em>\n  His voicework includes narration for\n  <em>\n   The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, Manor House,\n  </em>\n  and several\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who\n  </em>\n  titles. He was awarded CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1985 and was knighted in 1994.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22652'),
(15538, 'Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Sarah to the medieval planet Peladon, some half a century after the Time Lord''s first visit. Now under the benign influence of the Galactic Federation, the Pel nobles enjoy new riches and new technology.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  But the Federation is at war with Galaxy Five, and Peladon has taken on a new tactical importance; it is rich in the rare mineral trisilicate, which is vital to the war effort. The Pel miners, however, are in revolt. For too long they have been overworked and taken for granted by the Federation and the Pel royalty. They believe that Federation machinery has awoken the spirit of the legendary Aggedor, who is now slaughtering aliens and unbelievers. As open rebellion erupts, the Federation sends in a hard-line military taskforce - Commander Azaxyr and his Ice Warriors.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Sarah must not only act as peace-keepers between the warring factions but also discover the truth behind the ''spirit''. They soon learn that the Galactic Federation has been infiltrated by traitors and spies, determined to destroy the alliance from within...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/822'),
(15539, 'Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Sarah to the medieval planet Peladon, some half a century after the Time Lord''s first visit. Now under the benign influence of the Galactic Federation, the Pel nobles enjoy new riches and new technology.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  But the Federation is at war with Galaxy Five, and Peladon has taken on a new tactical importance; it is rich in the rare mineral trisilicate, which is vital to the war effort. The Pel miners, however, are in revolt. For too long they have been overworked and taken for granted by the Federation and the Pel royalty. They believe that Federation machinery has awoken the spirit of the legendary Aggedor, who is now slaughtering aliens and unbelievers. As open rebellion erupts, the Federation sends in a hard-line military taskforce - Commander Azaxyr and his Ice Warriors.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Sarah must not only act as peace-keepers between the warring factions but also discover the truth behind the ''spirit''. They soon learn that the Galactic Federation has been infiltrated by traitors and spies, determined to destroy the alliance from within...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24188'),
(15540, 'Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Rose to a brutal deep-space prison colony. Can they stay out of gaol long enough to discover who - or what - is behind the sinister scientific plot that threatens billions of human lives? (***********Additional text added**********************) The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Rose to a destination in deep space - Justicia, a prison camp stretched over seven planets, where Earth colonies deal with their criminals. While Rose finds herself locked up in a teenage borstal, the Doctor is trapped in a scientific labour camp. Each is determined to find the other, and soon both Rose and the Doctor are risking life and limb to escape in their distinctive styles. But their dangerous plans are complicated by some old enemies. Are these creatures fellow prisoners as they claim, or staging a takeover for their own sinister purposes? Featuring the Doctor and Rose as played by Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1151'),
(15541, 'Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Rose to a brutal deep-space prison colony. Can they stay out of gaol long enough to discover who - or what - is behind the sinister scientific plot that threatens billions of human lives? (***********Additional text added**********************) The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Rose to a destination in deep space - Justicia, a prison camp stretched over seven planets, where Earth colonies deal with their criminals. While Rose finds herself locked up in a teenage borstal, the Doctor is trapped in a scientific labour camp. Each is determined to find the other, and soon both Rose and the Doctor are risking life and limb to escape in their distinctive styles. But their dangerous plans are complicated by some old enemies. Are these creatures fellow prisoners as they claim, or staging a takeover for their own sinister purposes? Featuring the Doctor and Rose as played by Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23807'),
(15542, 'Doctor Who: The Murder Game', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is the year 2146. Answering a distress call from the dilapidated Hotel Galaxian, the Tardis crew discover a games enthusiast is using the hotel to host a murder-mystery weekend. But then it seems that someone is taking the games too seriously.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/989'),
(15543, 'Doctor Who: The Murder Game', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It is the year 2146. Answering a distress call from the dilapidated Hotel Galaxian, the Tardis crew discover a games enthusiast is using the hotel to host a murder-mystery weekend. But then it seems that someone is taking the games too seriously.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23854'),
(15544, 'Doctor Who: The Mutants', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What was happening to the people of Solos? Why are they gradually turning into Monsters? Hands that become claws, flesh that turns scale-like...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the Doctor meets the Marshal and Jaeger, he realizes that all is not as it appears to be. The Marshal has a sinister plan to gain control of this planet, and it''s up to the Doctor to save Solos from this mad earthman, as well as save the Solonians themselves.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/823'),
(15545, 'Doctor Who: The Mutants', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What was happening to the people of Solos? Why are they gradually turning into Monsters? Hands that become claws, flesh that turns scale-like...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the Doctor meets the Marshal and Jaeger, he realizes that all is not as it appears to be. The Marshal has a sinister plan to gain control of this planet, and it''s up to the Doctor to save Solos from this mad earthman, as well as save the Solonians themselves.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24186'),
(15546, 'Doctor Who: The Mutation of Time', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In their quest to gain control of the Solar System, the Daleks have taken possession of the Time Destructor, a weapon which threatens the safety of all who stand in their way. As they head up an alliance of alien races bent on destroying the human race, in their midst is none other than the treacherous Guardian of the Solar System, Mavic Chen.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A dangerous chase ensues across volcanoes, jungles, deserts and futuristic cities, as the Doctor and his companions struggle to prevent the Daleks'' plans coming to fruition. The stakes are high, and for the first time in the programme''s history the lives of two TARDIS travellers are lost...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4316'),
(15547, 'Doctor Who: The Mutation of Time', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In their quest to gain control of the Solar System, the Daleks have taken possession of the Time Destructor, a weapon which threatens the safety of all who stand in their way. As they head up an alliance of alien races bent on destroying the human race, in their midst is none other than the treacherous Guardian of the Solar System, Mavic Chen.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A dangerous chase ensues across volcanoes, jungles, deserts and futuristic cities, as the Doctor and his companions struggle to prevent the Daleks'' plans coming to fruition. The stakes are high, and for the first time in the programme''s history the lives of two TARDIS travellers are lost...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20300'),
(15548, 'Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS has been taken out of time and the Doctor has been brought before a court of his fellow Time Lords. There the sinister Valeyard accuses the Doctor of breaking Gallifreyâ€™s most important law and interfering in the affairs of other planets.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  If the Valeyard can prove him guilty, the Doctor must sacrifice his remaining regenerations. To prove his case the Valeyard focuses on an adventure set in the Doctorâ€™s past.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It is an adventure set on the planet Ravolox, a seemingly primitive world but one which the Doctor and Peri find strangely familiar...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/824'),
(15549, 'Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS has been taken out of time and the Doctor has been brought before a court of his fellow Time Lords. There the sinister Valeyard accuses the Doctor of breaking Gallifreyâ€™s most important law and interfering in the affairs of other planets.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  If the Valeyard can prove him guilty, the Doctor must sacrifice his remaining regenerations. To prove his case the Valeyard focuses on an adventure set in the Doctorâ€™s past.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It is an adventure set on the planet Ravolox, a seemingly primitive world but one which the Doctor and Peri find strangely familiar...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24184'),
(15550, 'Doctor Who: The Myth Makers', 'Donald Cotton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Doctor Who''s time machine lands in ancient Troy, he and his friends become involved in the Trojan War\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5934'),
(15551, 'Doctor Who: The Myth Makers', 'Donald Cotton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Doctor Who''s time machine lands in ancient Troy, he and his friends become involved in the Trojan War\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18686'),
(15552, 'Doctor Who: The Nightmare Fair', 'Graham Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Peri find themselves at Blackpool Pleasure Beach along with the evil Chinse Mandarin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5295'),
(15553, 'Doctor Who: The Nightmare Fair', 'Graham Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and Peri find themselves at Blackpool Pleasure Beach along with the evil Chinse Mandarin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19342'),
(15554, 'Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island', 'Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline, a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ancient industrialist Nathanial Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own. Who are the ancient figures that sleep in the old priory? What are the monsters that prowl the woods after sunset? What is the light that glows in the disused lighthouse on Black Island? As the children''s nightmares get worse, the Doctor and Rose discover an alien plot to resurrect an ancient evil...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2747'),
(15555, 'Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island', 'Mike Tucker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline, a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ancient industrialist Nathanial Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own. Who are the ancient figures that sleep in the old priory? What are the monsters that prowl the woods after sunset? What is the light that glows in the disused lighthouse on Black Island? As the children''s nightmares get worse, the Doctor and Rose discover an alien plot to resurrect an ancient evil...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22083'),
(15556, 'Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Eden', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands at the site of a hyperspatial collision between two spacecraft, the Empress and the Hecate. As a result, neither ship is dimensionally stable, risking the lives of all those aboard. The Doctor, K9 and Romana offer to help out.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When a crewmember is found dead, his face lacerated by huge claws, it seems something deadly has been released by the accident. But how is the death linked to the discovery that the killer drug Vraxoin has been smuggled aboard - and where has the supply come from?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor soon realises that the aliens stored in a projection machine may hold the answers - and that the cages holding these specimens are anything but secure as the savage Mandrels, hideous swamp-creatures from the planet Eden, tear through the corridors of the helpless spaceships...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/827'),
(15557, 'Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Eden', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands at the site of a hyperspatial collision between two spacecraft, the Empress and the Hecate. As a result, neither ship is dimensionally stable, risking the lives of all those aboard. The Doctor, K9 and Romana offer to help out.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When a crewmember is found dead, his face lacerated by huge claws, it seems something deadly has been released by the accident. But how is the death linked to the discovery that the killer drug Vraxoin has been smuggled aboard - and where has the supply come from?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor soon realises that the aliens stored in a projection machine may hold the answers - and that the cages holding these specimens are anything but secure as the savage Mandrels, hideous swamp-creatures from the planet Eden, tear through the corridors of the helpless spaceships...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24181'),
(15558, 'Doctor Who: The Paradise of Death', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a horrific and inexplicable death occurs at Space world, a new theme park on Hampstead Heath, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT are called to investigate.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7284'),
(15559, 'Doctor Who: The Paradise of Death', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a horrific and inexplicable death occurs at Space world, a new theme park on Hampstead Heath, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT are called to investigate.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16584'),
(15560, 'Doctor Who: The Pescatons', 'Victor Pemberton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and his companion Sarah Jane battle against some of the most heinous foes to emerge from the outer universe: The Pescatons. The Doctor finds himself in the capital city of London, where the population is bewildered and trembling beneath the violent onslaught of a merciless invader.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p align="justify">\n  Who or what is the mighty Zor, whose green slanting luminous eyes glare out from the dark of night like giant emeralds? What is the powerful alien force that is bringing Earth''s civilisation to a standstill, threatening to annihilate everything in its path?\n </p>\n <p align="justify">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This is the story of a dying Planet, of a Deadly Weed, and the merciless Creatures themselves. It is a Challenge to the Doctor -- a frightening race against time...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/347'),
(15561, 'Doctor Who: The Pescatons', 'Victor Pemberton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and his companion Sarah Jane battle against some of the most heinous foes to emerge from the outer universe: The Pescatons. The Doctor finds himself in the capital city of London, where the population is bewildered and trembling beneath the violent onslaught of a merciless invader.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p align="justify">\n  Who or what is the mighty Zor, whose green slanting luminous eyes glare out from the dark of night like giant emeralds? What is the powerful alien force that is bringing Earth''s civilisation to a standstill, threatening to annihilate everything in its path?\n </p>\n <p align="justify">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This is the story of a dying Planet, of a Deadly Weed, and the merciless Creatures themselves. It is a Challenge to the Doctor -- a frightening race against time...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24533'),
(15562, 'Doctor Who: The Pirate Loop', 'Simon Guerrier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor''s been everywhere and everywhen in the whole of the universe and seems to know all the answers. But ask him what happened to the Starship Brilliant and he hasn''t the first idea. Did it fall into a sun or black hole? Was it shot down in the first moments of the galactic war? And what''s this about a secret experimental drive? The Doctor is skittish. But if Martha is so keen to find out he''ll land the TARDIS on the Brilliant, a few days before it vanishes. Then they can see for themselves... Soon the Doctor learns the awful truth. And Martha learns that you need to be careful what you wish for. She certainly wasn''t hoping for mayhem, death, and badger-faced space pirates. Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1234'),
(15563, 'Doctor Who: The Pirate Loop', 'Simon Guerrier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Doctor''s been everywhere and everywhen in the whole of the universe and seems to know all the answers. But ask him what happened to the Starship Brilliant and he hasn''t the first idea. Did it fall into a sun or black hole? Was it shot down in the first moments of the galactic war? And what''s this about a secret experimental drive? The Doctor is skittish. But if Martha is so keen to find out he''ll land the TARDIS on the Brilliant, a few days before it vanishes. Then they can see for themselves... Soon the Doctor learns the awful truth. And Martha learns that you need to be careful what you wish for. She certainly wasn''t hoping for mayhem, death, and badger-faced space pirates. Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23682'),
(15564, 'Doctor Who: The Pit', 'Neil Penswick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    For two weeks now it has been the same message again and again, and itâ€™s getting stronger; death and destruction, the end of all things, ARMAGEDDON.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In an attempt to lift the Doctor out of his irritable and erratic mood, Bernice suggests he investigates the mystery of the Seven Planets - an entire planetary system that disappeared without trace several decades before Bernice was born.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the Seven Planets is a nameless giant, quarantined against all intruders. But when the TARDIS materializes, it becomes clear that the plane has other visitors: a hit-squad of killer androids; a trespassing scientist and his wife; and two shape-changing criminals with their team of slaves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As riot and anarchy spread on the systemâ€™s colonized worlds, the Doctor is flung into another universe while Bernice closes in on the horror that is about to be unleashed - a horror that comes from a terrible secret in the Time Lordsâ€™ past.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2645'),
(15565, 'Doctor Who: The Pit', 'Neil Penswick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    For two weeks now it has been the same message again and again, and itâ€™s getting stronger; death and destruction, the end of all things, ARMAGEDDON.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In an attempt to lift the Doctor out of his irritable and erratic mood, Bernice suggests he investigates the mystery of the Seven Planets - an entire planetary system that disappeared without trace several decades before Bernice was born.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the Seven Planets is a nameless giant, quarantined against all intruders. But when the TARDIS materializes, it becomes clear that the plane has other visitors: a hit-squad of killer androids; a trespassing scientist and his wife; and two shape-changing criminals with their team of slaves.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As riot and anarchy spread on the systemâ€™s colonized worlds, the Doctor is flung into another universe while Bernice closes in on the horror that is about to be unleashed - a horror that comes from a terrible secret in the Time Lordsâ€™ past.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22146'),
(15566, 'Doctor Who: The Planet of Evil', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A distress call from the last planet in the known universe forces the TARDIS to commence emergency materialisation on Zeta Minor. Simultaneous with the Doctor''s arrival, is the landing of a spacecraft from the planet Morestra on a rescue mission to recover a missing group of scientists. An expeditionary force from the spacecraft soon uncovers their sinister remains, but who or what has caused their gruesome deaths?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Only one scientist, Professor Sorenson, has survived and he is hell-bent on tapping the powerful resources within Zeta Minor to save his own planet which is slowly dying. But he and his compatriots cannot possibly realise the full extent of the dark forces at work. And so it is left to the Doctor to convince them that Zeta Minor is indeed, the Planet of Evil...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/828'),
(15567, 'Doctor Who: The Planet of Evil', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A distress call from the last planet in the known universe forces the TARDIS to commence emergency materialisation on Zeta Minor. Simultaneous with the Doctor''s arrival, is the landing of a spacecraft from the planet Morestra on a rescue mission to recover a missing group of scientists. An expeditionary force from the spacecraft soon uncovers their sinister remains, but who or what has caused their gruesome deaths?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Only one scientist, Professor Sorenson, has survived and he is hell-bent on tapping the powerful resources within Zeta Minor to save his own planet which is slowly dying. But he and his compatriots cannot possibly realise the full extent of the dark forces at work. And so it is left to the Doctor to convince them that Zeta Minor is indeed, the Planet of Evil...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24180');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15568, 'Doctor Who: The Planet of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Injured after a shoot-out between his old nemesis the Master and the Ogrons, slaves to the evil Daleks, the Doctor sends a message to the Time Lords, asking them to pilot his TARDIS and follow the Daleks to their new base. After he slips into a coma, it falls to his assistant Jo Grant to explore the planet where the TARDIS finally materialises.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Not only must the Doctor contend with the Daleks'' new stratagem, but he must try to stop them unleashing a plague that will exterminate all organic life. When a rescue ship of Thals arrive, they bring with them darker news still - somewhere on Spiridon 12,000 Daleks are waiting to emerge and take what they believe is their rightful place as the Universe''s supreme beings!\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/831'),
(15569, 'Doctor Who: The Planet of the Daleks', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Injured after a shoot-out between his old nemesis the Master and the Ogrons, slaves to the evil Daleks, the Doctor sends a message to the Time Lords, asking them to pilot his TARDIS and follow the Daleks to their new base. After he slips into a coma, it falls to his assistant Jo Grant to explore the planet where the TARDIS finally materialises.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Not only must the Doctor contend with the Daleks'' new stratagem, but he must try to stop them unleashing a plague that will exterminate all organic life. When a rescue ship of Thals arrive, they bring with them darker news still - somewhere on Spiridon 12,000 Daleks are waiting to emerge and take what they believe is their rightful place as the Universe''s supreme beings!\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24177'),
(15570, 'Doctor Who: The Planet of the Spiders', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œIt''s happening, Brigadier! It''s happening!,â€ Sarah cried out. The Brigadier watched, fascinated, as the lifeless body of his old friend and companion, Doctor Who, suddenly began to glow with an eerie golden light. The features were blurring, changing...â€Well, bless my soul,â€ said the Brigadier. â€œWho will be next?â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/832'),
(15571, 'Doctor Who: The Planet of the Spiders', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œIt''s happening, Brigadier! It''s happening!,â€ Sarah cried out. The Brigadier watched, fascinated, as the lifeless body of his old friend and companion, Doctor Who, suddenly began to glow with an eerie golden light. The features were blurring, changing...â€Well, bless my soul,â€ said the Brigadier. â€œWho will be next?â€\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24173'),
(15572, 'Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor, Romana and K-9 continue their search for the six disguised segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Romana to Delta 3, the third moon of the planet Delta Magna. Romana is captured by the Swampies, the original inhabitants of Delta Magna, displaced from their home world by human colonists. They intend to sacrifice Romana to their god, the mighty Kroll.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    The Doctor''s search for his companion brings him to a massive refinery in the middle of the swamp, which is extracting protein from under the water to feed the people of Delta Magna. The Doctor is mistaken for Rohm-Dutt, an amoral gun-runner who is supplying the Swampies with weapons to aid them in their plan to attack the refinery and force the workers to leave Delta 3.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    The Doctor escapes the refinery in time to rescue Romana from the sacrificial altar, discovering in the process that Kroll is just a myth, a story to frighten children. They resolve to find the Fifth Segment and leave the moon, avoiding the intrigues of the refinery workers and the attentions of the fanatical Swampies.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     However, all is not as it initially seems. What is stirring on the floor of the swamp and can the instruments on the refinery really be correct in saying that it is five miles across? The Doctor realises that Kroll is more than a mere legend and its centuries-long slumber has been disturbed by the refinery. Now it is awake, the time-travellers find that it is very large, and very hungry...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/835'),
(15573, 'Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The Doctor, Romana and K-9 continue their search for the six disguised segments that make up the powerful Key to Time.\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Romana to Delta 3, the third moon of the planet Delta Magna. Romana is captured by the Swampies, the original inhabitants of Delta Magna, displaced from their home world by human colonists. They intend to sacrifice Romana to their god, the mighty Kroll.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    The Doctor''s search for his companion brings him to a massive refinery in the middle of the swamp, which is extracting protein from under the water to feed the people of Delta Magna. The Doctor is mistaken for Rohm-Dutt, an amoral gun-runner who is supplying the Swampies with weapons to aid them in their plan to attack the refinery and force the workers to leave Delta 3.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    The Doctor escapes the refinery in time to rescue Romana from the sacrificial altar, discovering in the process that Kroll is just a myth, a story to frighten children. They resolve to find the Fifth Segment and leave the moon, avoiding the intrigues of the refinery workers and the attentions of the fanatical Swampies.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     However, all is not as it initially seems. What is stirring on the floor of the swamp and can the instruments on the refinery really be correct in saying that it is five miles across? The Doctor realises that Kroll is more than a mere legend and its centuries-long slumber has been disturbed by the refinery. Now it is awake, the time-travellers find that it is very large, and very hungry...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24172'),
(15574, 'Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Disoriented after his regeneration, the Doctor takes the TARDIS to the Earth colony Vulcan. Ben and Polly are disturbed - the Doctor isn''t the man he used to be.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor too is worried. The colonists have found the remains of two Daleks - which they plan to revive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Once revived, the Daleks claim that they are content to serve humanity. Can it really be true? Or do they have their own, more sinister plans?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4319'),
(15575, 'Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Disoriented after his regeneration, the Doctor takes the TARDIS to the Earth colony Vulcan. Ben and Polly are disturbed - the Doctor isn''t the man he used to be.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor too is worried. The colonists have found the remains of two Daleks - which they plan to revive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Once revived, the Daleks claim that they are content to serve humanity. Can it really be true? Or do they have their own, more sinister plans?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20299'),
(15576, 'Doctor Who: The Price of Paradise', 'Colin Brake', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Laylora - the Paradise Planet. A world of breath-taking beauty, where peace-loving aboriginals live in harmony with their environment. Or do they? The Doctor and Rose arrive to find that the once-perfect eco-system is showing signs of failing. The paradise planet has become a death trap as terrifying creatures from ancient legends appear and stalk the land... Is there a connection between the human explorers who have crash-landed and the savage monsters? What secret lies at the heart of the natives'' ancient ceremonies? And what price might one human have to pay to save the only home he has ever known? When a planet itself becomes sick, can there be a cure? The Doctor and Rose find themsleves in a race against time to find out...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6588'),
(15577, 'Doctor Who: The Price of Paradise', 'Colin Brake', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Laylora - the Paradise Planet. A world of breath-taking beauty, where peace-loving aboriginals live in harmony with their environment. Or do they? The Doctor and Rose arrive to find that the once-perfect eco-system is showing signs of failing. The paradise planet has become a death trap as terrifying creatures from ancient legends appear and stalk the land... Is there a connection between the human explorers who have crash-landed and the savage monsters? What secret lies at the heart of the natives'' ancient ceremonies? And what price might one human have to pay to save the only home he has ever known? When a planet itself becomes sick, can there be a cure? The Doctor and Rose find themsleves in a race against time to find out...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17411'),
(15578, 'Doctor Who: The Quantum Archangel', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a university on planet Sweeney Earth, Paul and Arlene Cole have designed TITAN -- designed to penetrate the vortex and access the very foundations of reality. The Master, who is being pursued by the Chronivores, thinks that TITAN could be the perfect means of revenge...Mel''s old friend Anjeliqua also works at the university and the Master charms her into giving him access to TITAN. He recalibrates its settings and locates the Quantum Archimage, the power source of the Chronivores. When this energy is channeled into Anjeliqua herself, she is transformed into the Quantum Archangel, the living embodiment of the Chronivores'' power source. With her new-found power, her plan is to "make things better. For everyone".If she goes ahead, reality will begin to fracture, as conflicting realities struggle to coexist. Otherwise, when the Chronivores detect the alternate timelines, they will consume every last bit of it. Can the Doctor intervene before the universe disintegrates?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6561'),
(15579, 'Doctor Who: The Quantum Archangel', 'Craig Hinton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a university on planet Sweeney Earth, Paul and Arlene Cole have designed TITAN -- designed to penetrate the vortex and access the very foundations of reality. The Master, who is being pursued by the Chronivores, thinks that TITAN could be the perfect means of revenge...Mel''s old friend Anjeliqua also works at the university and the Master charms her into giving him access to TITAN. He recalibrates its settings and locates the Quantum Archimage, the power source of the Chronivores. When this energy is channeled into Anjeliqua herself, she is transformed into the Quantum Archangel, the living embodiment of the Chronivores'' power source. With her new-found power, her plan is to "make things better. For everyone".If she goes ahead, reality will begin to fracture, as conflicting realities struggle to coexist. Otherwise, when the Chronivores detect the alternate timelines, they will consume every last bit of it. Can the Doctor intervene before the universe disintegrates?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17414'),
(15580, 'Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the TARDIS materialises near Paris in 1794, Dr. Who and his friends become caught up in the deadly turmoil of the French Revolution\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5085'),
(15581, 'Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the TARDIS materialises near Paris in 1794, Dr. Who and his friends become caught up in the deadly turmoil of the French Revolution\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19634'),
(15582, 'Doctor Who: The Rescue', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Having left Susan on Earth, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara land the TARDIS on the planet Dido in the year 2493. There they discover two humans, Bennett and Vicki, trapped in their spaceship, the only crew to survive death at the hands of the hostile Didonians.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  But the Doctor is baffled: the Didonians are a peaceful nation. What has happened to change them? Why have they murdered the crew of the spaceship? Why, apart from the mysterious Koquillion, are they strangely absent?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor must find the answers - and quickly. For a rescue ship is on its way from Earth intent on revenge and time is running out for the planet...\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5087'),
(15583, 'Doctor Who: The Rescue', 'Ian Marter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Having left Susan on Earth, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara land the TARDIS on the planet Dido in the year 2493. There they discover two humans, Bennett and Vicki, trapped in their spaceship, the only crew to survive death at the hands of the hostile Didonians.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  But the Doctor is baffled: the Didonians are a peaceful nation. What has happened to change them? Why have they murdered the crew of the spaceship? Why, apart from the mysterious Koquillion, are they strangely absent?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor must find the answers - and quickly. For a rescue ship is on its way from Earth intent on revenge and time is running out for the planet...\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19633'),
(15584, 'Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starfall - a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come - for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. Or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint - scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer and bandit. Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint''s lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket - the key to eternal life - really exist? With the help of new friends, and to the horror of new enemies, The Doctor and Rose aim to find out...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3871'),
(15585, 'Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starfall - a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come - for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. Or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint - scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer and bandit. Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint''s lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket - the key to eternal life - really exist? With the help of new friends, and to the horror of new enemies, The Doctor and Rose aim to find out...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20590'),
(15586, 'Doctor Who: The Romans', 'Donald Cotton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It is Italy 64AD and the Doctor''s intent on a holiday. However, the atmosphere turns sour when he leaves for Rome with Vicki only to be mistaken for a murdered musician - Maximus Pettulian. For Maximus is an enemy of Nero and the terrible fate that awaited him in Rome now awaits the Doctor.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Ian and Barbara have been abducted and sold as slaves, unable to contact the Doctor or one another. Are they doomed to spend the rest of their lives trapped in 64AD?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Events reach a climax when the time travellers are caught in the Great Fire of Rome: an inferno which will either provide the cover necessary for their escape or which will, quite literally, be the death of them...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5936'),
(15587, 'Doctor Who: The Romans', 'Donald Cotton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   It is Italy 64AD and the Doctor''s intent on a holiday. However, the atmosphere turns sour when he leaves for Rome with Vicki only to be mistaken for a murdered musician - Maximus Pettulian. For Maximus is an enemy of Nero and the terrible fate that awaited him in Rome now awaits the Doctor.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Meanwhile, Ian and Barbara have been abducted and sold as slaves, unable to contact the Doctor or one another. Are they doomed to spend the rest of their lives trapped in 64AD?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Events reach a climax when the time travellers are caught in the Great Fire of Rome: an inferno which will either provide the cover necessary for their escape or which will, quite literally, be the death of them...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18685'),
(15588, 'Doctor Who: The Room With No Doors', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Sixteenth century Japan a god descends to tip the balance of power in a bloody civil war. Chris finds himself alone and has to become a hero to stop the god falling into the wrong hands - but Chris isn''t sure he wants to be a hero.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3756'),
(15589, 'Doctor Who: The Room With No Doors', 'Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Sixteenth century Japan a god descends to tip the balance of power in a bloody civil war. Chris finds himself alone and has to become a hero to stop the god falling into the wrong hands - but Chris isn''t sure he wants to be a hero.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20660'),
(15590, 'Doctor Who: The Roundheads', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who adventure set in the time of Cromwell. The Civil Wars have ended with victory for the Roundheads, and Charles I is threatened with execution. In a country of divided loyalties, strangers are looked upon with suspicion, and the crew of the Tardis soon finds itself in danger.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3101'),
(15591, 'Doctor Who: The Roundheads', 'Mark Gatiss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Doctor Who adventure set in the time of Cromwell. The Civil Wars have ended with victory for the Roundheads, and Charles I is threatened with execution. In a country of divided loyalties, strangers are looked upon with suspicion, and the crew of the Tardis soon finds itself in danger.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21751'),
(15592, 'Doctor Who: The Savages', 'Ian Stuart Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and his companions arrive at a city which appears to be a haven of beauty, harmony, and friendship, but they soon discover that the security of the city is founded on a deadly and appalling secret\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4978'),
(15593, 'Doctor Who: The Savages', 'Ian Stuart Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor and his companions arrive at a city which appears to be a haven of beauty, harmony, and friendship, but they soon discover that the security of the city is founded on a deadly and appalling secret\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19622'),
(15594, 'Doctor Who: The Scarlet Empress', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arriving on the almost impossibly ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic and danger walk hand in hand, the Doctor and Sam are caught up in a bizarre struggle for survival.Hyspero has been ruled for thousands of years by the Scarlet Empresses, creatures of dangerous powers -- powers that a member of the Doctor''s own race is keen to possess herself; the eccentric time traveler and philanderer Iris Wildthyme.The Doctor and Sam themselves must escape the clutches of the dying Scarlet Empress, and they encounter many strange creatures on their travels -- bearded ladies, humanoid mock turtles, transvestite cyborgs and many more -- but in a land where the magical is possible, is anything really as it seems?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2217'),
(15595, 'Doctor Who: The Scarlet Empress', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arriving on the almost impossibly ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic and danger walk hand in hand, the Doctor and Sam are caught up in a bizarre struggle for survival.Hyspero has been ruled for thousands of years by the Scarlet Empresses, creatures of dangerous powers -- powers that a member of the Doctor''s own race is keen to possess herself; the eccentric time traveler and philanderer Iris Wildthyme.The Doctor and Sam themselves must escape the clutches of the dying Scarlet Empress, and they encounter many strange creatures on their travels -- bearded ladies, humanoid mock turtles, transvestite cyborgs and many more -- but in a land where the magical is possible, is anything really as it seems?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22565'),
(15596, 'Doctor Who: The Sea-Devils', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Jo Grant visit their old enemy the Master, who is the sole inmate of a top-security prison on a remote island off the south coast of England. Local shipping has been plagued by a series of tragic accidents and several ships have been lost. Joining forces with Captain Hart of the HMS Seaspite naval base, the Doctor learns that there have been garbled reports of sea monsters. Colonel Trenchard, Governor of the Master''s prison, believes that the ships are being attacked by enemy spies. The Master himself seems to be a reformed man and claims to have turned away from his life of crime.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Nothing could be further from the truth. The Master has in fact made contact with the Sea Devils, aquatic cousins of the prehistoric Silurian race encountered by the Doctor some time ago. Having slept beneath the sea for millions of years, the Sea Devils have awoken and intend to reclaim what they consider to be their planet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Aided and abetted by the evil Master, who will stop at nothing to take revenge on those who imprisoned him, the Sea Devils plan to eliminate the human race, a species they regard as nothing more than upstart apes...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3188'),
(15597, 'Doctor Who: The Sea-Devils', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Jo Grant visit their old enemy the Master, who is the sole inmate of a top-security prison on a remote island off the south coast of England. Local shipping has been plagued by a series of tragic accidents and several ships have been lost. Joining forces with Captain Hart of the HMS Seaspite naval base, the Doctor learns that there have been garbled reports of sea monsters. Colonel Trenchard, Governor of the Master''s prison, believes that the ships are being attacked by enemy spies. The Master himself seems to be a reformed man and claims to have turned away from his life of crime.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Nothing could be further from the truth. The Master has in fact made contact with the Sea Devils, aquatic cousins of the prehistoric Silurian race encountered by the Doctor some time ago. Having slept beneath the sea for millions of years, the Sea Devils have awoken and intend to reclaim what they consider to be their planet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Aided and abetted by the evil Master, who will stop at nothing to take revenge on those who imprisoned him, the Sea Devils plan to eliminate the human race, a species they regard as nothing more than upstart apes...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21337'),
(15598, 'Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the twenty-first century Doctor Who tries to save the Earth from an invasion by Ice Warriors from Mars\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/836'),
(15599, 'Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the twenty-first century Doctor Who tries to save the Earth from an invasion by Ice Warriors from Mars\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24171'),
(15600, 'Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom', 'Philip Hinchcliffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a mysterious pod unearthed in the Antarctic begins to grow into a giant man-eating plant, Doctor Who is summoned to stop the creature\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2167'),
(15601, 'Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom', 'Philip Hinchcliffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a mysterious pod unearthed in the Antarctic begins to grow into a giant man-eating plant, Doctor Who is summoned to stop the creature\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22716'),
(15602, 'Doctor Who: The Sensorites', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Landing on a seemingly deserted spaceship, Doctor Who, Susan, Ian, and Barbara discover two astronauts who have been terrorized by the Sensorites, telepathic aliens\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2500'),
(15603, 'Doctor Who: The Sensorites', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Landing on a seemingly deserted spaceship, Doctor Who, Susan, Ian, and Barbara discover two astronauts who have been terrorized by the Sensorites, telepathic aliens\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22256'),
(15604, 'Doctor Who: The Shadow in the Glass', 'Justin Richards &amp; Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Anterctica, nearly fifty years after the end of World War 2, Nazi Initiates inhibit a secret base; around them move the shadows and reflections of strange, Imp-like figures...The village of Turelhampton in Dorset is still a restricted military zone, cordoned off from the outside world. When a rogue film-crew breaks in, welrd damons, invisible to the naked eye, appear on camers...And in a remote country-house in Cornwall, a freelance investigative journalist is horrified to discover neo-Nazis performing an occult ritual involving a functional, accurate, crystal ball - the Scrying Glass. And in the background, the figure of Hilter watching, exactly as he appears in the last pictures of him alive...What really did happen in the Berlin bunker in 1945, when Hitler and Eva Braun supposedly committed joint suicide? And what connection does this have with the uncanny imps that can be seen only in reflections and shadows? Why is it so imperative that no-one discover the secret of Turelhampton? It is up to the Doctor and the faithful Brigadier to find out.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3875'),
(15605, 'Doctor Who: The Shadow in the Glass', 'Justin Richards; Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Anterctica, nearly fifty years after the end of World War 2, Nazi Initiates inhibit a secret base; around them move the shadows and reflections of strange, Imp-like figures...The village of Turelhampton in Dorset is still a restricted military zone, cordoned off from the outside world. When a rogue film-crew breaks in, welrd damons, invisible to the naked eye, appear on camers...And in a remote country-house in Cornwall, a freelance investigative journalist is horrified to discover neo-Nazis performing an occult ritual involving a functional, accurate, crystal ball - the Scrying Glass. And in the background, the figure of Hilter watching, exactly as he appears in the last pictures of him alive...What really did happen in the Berlin bunker in 1945, when Hitler and Eva Braun supposedly committed joint suicide? And what connection does this have with the uncanny imps that can be seen only in reflections and shadows? Why is it so imperative that no-one discover the secret of Turelhampton? It is up to the Doctor and the faithful Brigadier to find out.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20589'),
(15606, 'Doctor Who: The Shadows of Avalon', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Brigadier, mourning the loss of his wife Doris, is called to help find a nuclear weapon that''s gone missing over the Wiltshire Downs. The Doctor is on his way there too, to pick up his companion Compassion, after her holiday on Earth. But when the Doctor''s TARDIS explodes, he, the Brigadier, Compassion and Fitz are thrown into the other-dimensional world of Avalon. Magic faces down science, dragons duel with jet fighters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2324'),
(15607, 'Doctor Who: The Shadows of Avalon', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Brigadier, mourning the loss of his wife Doris, is called to help find a nuclear weapon that''s gone missing over the Wiltshire Downs. The Doctor is on his way there too, to pick up his companion Compassion, after her holiday on Earth. But when the Doctor''s TARDIS explodes, he, the Brigadier, Compassion and Fitz are thrown into the other-dimensional world of Avalon. Magic faces down science, dragons duel with jet fighters.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22514'),
(15608, 'Doctor Who: The Sleep of Reason', 'Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest in a long line of suicide attempts sees Caroline ''Laska'' Darnell admitted to the Retreat, a groundbreaking medical center surrounded by woodland. To her horror, she recognizes the Retreat from her recent nightmares of an old building haunted by ghostly dogs with glowing eyes. But who will believe her stories of an evil from the past that has already made one attempt to destroy the building and all its inhabitants? The mysterious Dr. Smith seems curiously aware of the Retreat''s past, and is utterly fascinated by Laska''s waking dreams and prophetic nightmares. But if Laska is unable to trust her own perceptions, can she trust Dr. Smith?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3039'),
(15609, 'Doctor Who: The Sleep of Reason', 'Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The latest in a long line of suicide attempts sees Caroline ''Laska'' Darnell admitted to the Retreat, a groundbreaking medical center surrounded by woodland. To her horror, she recognizes the Retreat from her recent nightmares of an old building haunted by ghostly dogs with glowing eyes. But who will believe her stories of an evil from the past that has already made one attempt to destroy the building and all its inhabitants? The mysterious Dr. Smith seems curiously aware of the Retreat''s past, and is utterly fascinated by Laska''s waking dreams and prophetic nightmares. But if Laska is unable to trust her own perceptions, can she trust Dr. Smith?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21784'),
(15610, 'Doctor Who: The Smugglers', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Journeying back in time to a seventeenth century Cornish town, Doctor Who is kidnapped by pirates who are determined to learn the location of a fabulous treasure\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/838'),
(15611, 'Doctor Who: The Smugglers', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Journeying back in time to a seventeenth century Cornish town, Doctor Who is kidnapped by pirates who are determined to learn the location of a fabulous treasure\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24170'),
(15612, 'Doctor Who: The Space Museum', 'Glyn Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  William Hartnell is the original Doctor in this soundtrack of a classic TV adventure, with linking narration by Maureen O''Brien. When the Doctor and his companions Ian, Barbara and Vicki enter a museum on the planet Xeros, they are astonished to find themselves displayed as exhibits! The TARDIS has jumped a ''time track'' and offered them a glimpse of what the future could hold...The native Xerons are planning a rebellion against the occupying force of the Moroks who have invaded their world. The Doctor and his friends struggle not only to survive in the midst of battle, but to help change the future sufficiently to ensure their own freedom.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5281'),
(15613, 'Doctor Who: The Space Museum', 'Glyn Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  William Hartnell is the original Doctor in this soundtrack of a classic TV adventure, with linking narration by Maureen O''Brien. When the Doctor and his companions Ian, Barbara and Vicki enter a museum on the planet Xeros, they are astonished to find themselves displayed as exhibits! The TARDIS has jumped a ''time track'' and offered them a glimpse of what the future could hold...The native Xerons are planning a rebellion against the occupying force of the Moroks who have invaded their world. The Doctor and his friends struggle not only to survive in the midst of battle, but to help change the future sufficiently to ensure their own freedom.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19363'),
(15614, 'Doctor Who: The Space Pirates', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Suspected by the Space Corps of being pirates, and then pursued as spies by the pirates themselves, the Doctor, Zoe, and Jamie risk their lives as they attempt to unmask the mastermind behind the thefts of argonite\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/840'),
(15615, 'Doctor Who: The Space Pirates', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Suspected by the Space Corps of being pirates, and then pursued as spies by the pirates themselves, the Doctor, Zoe, and Jamie risk their lives as they attempt to unmask the mastermind behind the thefts of argonite\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24169'),
(15616, 'Doctor Who: The State of Decay', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Searching for a way out of E-Space, the Doctor and Romana, joined by a young stowaway, land on a planet eerily similar to Medieval Earth. Its people live in fear, under the thumb of the Three Who Rule, cruel lords who suppress all learning to keep their subjects ignorant and helpless.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor falls in with a group of rebels and discovers a cache of advanced technology banned by the Three Who Rule. But who are these ruthless monarchs?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Meeting the lords and exploring their tower, he and Romana uncover a chilling secret. The Doctor realizes an ancient evil is rising once again, a terrible threat to the universe fought by his own race long ago, and one that only he can destroy now.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7972'),
(15617, 'Doctor Who: The State of Decay', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Searching for a way out of E-Space, the Doctor and Romana, joined by a young stowaway, land on a planet eerily similar to Medieval Earth. Its people live in fear, under the thumb of the Three Who Rule, cruel lords who suppress all learning to keep their subjects ignorant and helpless.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The Doctor falls in with a group of rebels and discovers a cache of advanced technology banned by the Three Who Rule. But who are these ruthless monarchs?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Meeting the lords and exploring their tower, he and Romana uncover a chilling secret. The Doctor realizes an ancient evil is rising once again, a terrible threat to the universe fought by his own race long ago, and one that only he can destroy now.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24168'),
(15618, 'Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the far future, the Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack find a world on which fiction has been outlawed. A world where it''s a crime to tell stories, a crime to lie, a crime to hope, and a crime to dream. But now somebody is challenging the status quo. A pirate TV station urges people to fight back, and the Doctor wants to help - until he sees how easily dreams can turn into nightmares. With one of his companions stalked by shadows and the other committed to an asylum, the Doctor is forced to admit that fiction can be dangerous after all. Though perhaps it is not as deadly as the truth...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/992'),
(15619, 'Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the far future, the Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack find a world on which fiction has been outlawed. A world where it''s a crime to tell stories, a crime to lie, a crime to hope, and a crime to dream. But now somebody is challenging the status quo. A pirate TV station urges people to fight back, and the Doctor wants to help - until he sees how easily dreams can turn into nightmares. With one of his companions stalked by shadows and the other committed to an asylum, the Doctor is forced to admit that fiction can be dangerous after all. Though perhaps it is not as deadly as the truth...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23988'),
(15620, 'Doctor Who: The Stone Rose', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum - a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realizes that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture. While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know the future. But then the Doctor stumbles on the hideous truth behind the statue of Rose - and Rose herself learns that you have to be very careful what you wish for...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4923'),
(15621, 'Doctor Who: The Stone Rose', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum - a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realizes that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture. While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know the future. But then the Doctor stumbles on the hideous truth behind the statue of Rose - and Rose herself learns that you have to be very careful what you wish for...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19794'),
(15622, 'Doctor Who: The Suns of Caresh', 'Paul Saint', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In England a hotel worker has been turned to stone, an ancient lake has vanished, and the inmate of a mental hospital is being terrorised by unseen creatures. In Israel, in the shadow of Masada, an archaeological dig unearths something that should have stayed buried. The Doctor is sure he is dealing with a local and relatively straightforward temporal anomaly. Troy Game, a refugee from the planet Caresh, is not so certain. She believes the impending destruction of her home world is somehow linked to the events on Earth, and she is pinning her hopes on the Doctor to avert the catastrophe. But can the Doctor interfere with a planet''s destiny? And should he risk his new-found freedom to do it?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21537'),
(15623, 'Doctor Who: The Suns of Caresh', 'Paul Saint', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In England a hotel worker has been turned to stone, an ancient lake has vanished, and the inmate of a mental hospital is being terrorised by unseen creatures. In Israel, in the shadow of Masada, an archaeological dig unearths something that should have stayed buried. The Doctor is sure he is dealing with a local and relatively straightforward temporal anomaly. Troy Game, a refugee from the planet Caresh, is not so certain. She believes the impending destruction of her home world is somehow linked to the events on Earth, and she is pinning her hopes on the Doctor to avert the catastrophe. But can the Doctor interfere with a planet''s destiny? And should he risk his new-found freedom to do it?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22539');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15624, 'Doctor Who: The Taint', 'Michael Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Collier''s previous book, __, featured some good characters (especially the inspired Nashaad) and an interesting alien in the Kusk. With\n  <em>\n   The Taint\n  </em>\n  , all we get is very confused indeed as a group of inadequately described loonies takes over the asylum. It''s very difficult to keep track of who is who early on, and so at the end knowing who lived or died is impossible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The idea of alien mind parasites is nice if unoriginal, and the two robotic guardian-types were also neat, but their function in the novel is unclear. The new companion character Fitz remains something of an enigma, although he does have some nice moments and some interesting defining characteristics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are some good ideas in\n  <em>\n   The Taint\n  </em>\n  , but unfortunately the writing never manages to rise above the level of competent, and the plot gets a little submerged under a surfeit of characters. It''s a pity, especially after the excellence of __,\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  .\n  <em>\n   --David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novel featuring the eighth Doctor Who and Sam, and Fitz Kreiner, a roguish dreamer from the 1960s. The Doctor and Sam become involved in the psychological experiments being performed by one Charles Roley, who is probing the psyches of people who believe they''ve been possessed by the devil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2886'),
(15625, 'Doctor Who: The Taint', 'Michael Collier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Collier''s previous book, __, featured some good characters (especially the inspired Nashaad) and an interesting alien in the Kusk. With\n  <em>\n   The Taint\n  </em>\n  , all we get is very confused indeed as a group of inadequately described loonies takes over the asylum. It''s very difficult to keep track of who is who early on, and so at the end knowing who lived or died is impossible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The idea of alien mind parasites is nice if unoriginal, and the two robotic guardian-types were also neat, but their function in the novel is unclear. The new companion character Fitz remains something of an enigma, although he does have some nice moments and some interesting defining characteristics.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are some good ideas in\n  <em>\n   The Taint\n  </em>\n  , but unfortunately the writing never manages to rise above the level of competent, and the plot gets a little submerged under a surfeit of characters. It''s a pity, especially after the excellence of __,\n  <strong>\n   and\n  </strong>\n  .\n  <em>\n   --David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novel featuring the eighth Doctor Who and Sam, and Fitz Kreiner, a roguish dreamer from the 1960s. The Doctor and Sam become involved in the psychological experiments being performed by one Charles Roley, who is probing the psyches of people who believe they''ve been possessed by the devil.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21989'),
(15626, 'Doctor Who: The Taking of Chelsea 426', 'David Llewellyn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Chelsea Flower Show - hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendar, or so Doctor thinks. But this is Chelsea 426, a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of Saturn, and the flowers are much more than they seem. As the Doctor investigates, a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The Sontarans have plans of their own, and they''re not here to arrange flowers...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6168'),
(15627, 'Doctor Who: The Taking of Chelsea 426', 'David Llewellyn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Chelsea Flower Show - hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendar, or so Doctor thinks. But this is Chelsea 426, a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of Saturn, and the flowers are much more than they seem. As the Doctor investigates, a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The Sontarans have plans of their own, and they''re not here to arrange flowers...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17814'),
(15628, 'Doctor Who: The Taking of Planet 5', 'Simon Bucher-Jones &amp; Mark Clapham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Twelve million years ago, a war touched the Earth briefly. Now, in Antarctica, an archaeological team has discovered the detritus of the conflict. And itâ€™s alive.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n </font>\n <p>\n  Twelve million years ago, a creature evolved that was capable of consuming all life in the universe. Now someone, or something, is desperate enough to want to revive it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Outside the ordered universe, things move. Theyâ€™re hungry. And something has given them the scent of our space/time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the far future, the Doctor has learnt of the war and feels he must intervene -- but itâ€™s more than just a local conflict of interest. One of the groups of combatants is from his own future, and the other has never, ever, existed.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1228'),
(15629, 'Doctor Who: The Taking of Planet 5', 'Simon Bucher-Jones; Mark Clapham', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    Twelve million years ago, a war touched the Earth briefly. Now, in Antarctica, an archaeological team has discovered the detritus of the conflict. And itâ€™s alive.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n </font>\n <p>\n  Twelve million years ago, a creature evolved that was capable of consuming all life in the universe. Now someone, or something, is desperate enough to want to revive it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Outside the ordered universe, things move. Theyâ€™re hungry. And something has given them the scent of our space/time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In the far future, the Doctor has learnt of the war and feels he must intervene -- but itâ€™s more than just a local conflict of interest. One of the groups of combatants is from his own future, and the other has never, ever, existed.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23685'),
(15630, 'Doctor Who: The Terrors of Autons', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a Doctor Who Novelization, first published by Target Books in 1975, the dreaded Nestene menace is rekindled on Earth -- by the Master! The sequel to\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion,\n  </em>\n  this is the adventure in which the third Doctor meets his arch-nemesis on Earth for the first time -- and in which the Autons once again stalk England...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/716'),
(15631, 'Doctor Who: The Terrors of Autons', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a Doctor Who Novelization, first published by Target Books in 1975, the dreaded Nestene menace is rekindled on Earth -- by the Master! The sequel to\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion,\n  </em>\n  this is the adventure in which the third Doctor meets his arch-nemesis on Earth for the first time -- and in which the Autons once again stalk England...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24167'),
(15632, 'Doctor Who: The Time Meddler', 'Nigel Robinson &amp; Dennis Spooner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands on a beach in England. The Doctor, Vicki and new companion Steven discover a Viking helmet, and deduce they have arrived in the past. Whilst Steven and Vicki scale the cliff, the Doctor opts for a far more gentle path...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In the woods above the cliffs, Steven and Vicki find an abandoned modern wristwatch. The Doctor investigates a nearby monastery, only to discover more anachronisms...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the local villages are attacked by invading Vikings, the Doctor realises that they are a few weeks away from the famous battle of Hastings in 1066. Who is the Meddling Monk, and what is his interest in the time travellers?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2502'),
(15633, 'Doctor Who: The Time Meddler', 'Nigel Robinson; Dennis Spooner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The TARDIS lands on a beach in England. The Doctor, Vicki and new companion Steven discover a Viking helmet, and deduce they have arrived in the past. Whilst Steven and Vicki scale the cliff, the Doctor opts for a far more gentle path...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In the woods above the cliffs, Steven and Vicki find an abandoned modern wristwatch. The Doctor investigates a nearby monastery, only to discover more anachronisms...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As the local villages are attacked by invading Vikings, the Doctor realises that they are a few weeks away from the famous battle of Hastings in 1066. Who is the Meddling Monk, and what is his interest in the time travellers?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22255'),
(15634, 'Doctor Who: The Time Monster', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   UNIT are called into monitor the initial trials of a device called TOMTIT - the Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time - at the Newton Institute at Wootton. Created by the enigmatic Professor Thascales, TOMTIT''s demonstration causes unexpected time anomalies. The Doctor soon discovers that TOMTIT is not all that it seems...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  At the heart of TOMTIT is an ancient crystal, which the Master hopes to use to gain control over Kronos - a Chronovore which feeds on time itself. But the stone he holds is only part of the sacred crystal of Kronos - the main crystal is hidden...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and the Master journey back in time to the lost city of Atlantis, where the battle for the control of Kronos intensifies... Can the Doctor prevent the Time Monster from being unleashed...?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/719'),
(15635, 'Doctor Who: The Time Monster', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   UNIT are called into monitor the initial trials of a device called TOMTIT - the Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time - at the Newton Institute at Wootton. Created by the enigmatic Professor Thascales, TOMTIT''s demonstration causes unexpected time anomalies. The Doctor soon discovers that TOMTIT is not all that it seems...\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  At the heart of TOMTIT is an ancient crystal, which the Master hopes to use to gain control over Kronos - a Chronovore which feeds on time itself. But the stone he holds is only part of the sacred crystal of Kronos - the main crystal is hidden...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and the Master journey back in time to the lost city of Atlantis, where the battle for the control of Kronos intensifies... Can the Doctor prevent the Time Monster from being unleashed...?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24166'),
(15636, 'Doctor Who: The Time Travellers', 'Simon Guerrier', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the TARDIS touches down in London, 2006, schoolteachers Ian and Barbara are eager to explore their own future. But they have arrived in the middle of a war, a war that has left London a ruin. Mistaken for vagrants, and with no way of proving otherwise, the Doctor''s granddaughter and companions find themselves in the execution block on the Isle of Dogs. The Doctor has no choice but to help the military refine its ultimate weapon. The British Army has discovered time travel. And the consequences are already terrible.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1238'),
(15637, 'Doctor Who: The Time Travellers', 'Simon Guerrier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS touches down in London, 2006, schoolteachers Ian and Barbara are eager to explore their own future. But they have arrived in the middle of a war, a war that has left London a ruin. Mistaken for vagrants, and with no way of proving otherwise, the Doctor''s granddaughter and companions find themselves in the execution block on the Isle of Dogs. The Doctor has no choice but to help the military refine its ultimate weapon. The British Army has discovered time travel. And the consequences are already terrible.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23681'),
(15638, 'Doctor Who: The Tomb of Valdemar', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Millenia ago, the Vanir ripped a hole in reality and created a gateway to the Higher Dimensions. This resulted in the warping of vast areas of space, and anyone who perceived these Higher Dimensions went insane. The Vanier disappeared into the gateway and all that remains of them is shimmering, golden palace floating in the clouds...The Doctor inadvertently materializes on Ashkellia, where Valdemar''s tomb lies. The Doctor must escape imprisonment by Neville, a debauched aristocrat, to save both the universe and himself from the Higher Dimensions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1258'),
(15639, 'Doctor Who: The Tomb of Valdemar', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Millenia ago, the Vanir ripped a hole in reality and created a gateway to the Higher Dimensions. This resulted in the warping of vast areas of space, and anyone who perceived these Higher Dimensions went insane. The Vanier disappeared into the gateway and all that remains of them is shimmering, golden palace floating in the clouds...The Doctor inadvertently materializes on Ashkellia, where Valdemar''s tomb lies. The Doctor must escape imprisonment by Neville, a debauched aristocrat, to save both the universe and himself from the Higher Dimensions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23658'),
(15640, 'Doctor Who: The Tomorrow Windows', 'Jonathan Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is a gala opening for a new exhibition at the Tate Modern - "The Tomorrow Windows." The concept behind the exhibition is simple - anyone can look through a Tomorrow Window and see into the future. Of course, the future is malleable, and so the future you see will change as you formulate your plans. You can the see the outcome of every potential decision, and then decide on the optimum course of action. According to the press pack, the Tomorrow Windows will bring about world peace and save humanity from every possible disaster. So, of course, someone decides to blow it up. There''s always one, isn''t there? As the Doctor investigates and unravels the conspiracy, he begins a Gulliver''s Travels-esque quest, visiting bizarre worlds and encountering many peculiar and surreal life forms...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4135'),
(15641, 'Doctor Who: The Tomorrow Windows', 'Jonathan Morris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  There is a gala opening for a new exhibition at the Tate Modern - "The Tomorrow Windows." The concept behind the exhibition is simple - anyone can look through a Tomorrow Window and see into the future. Of course, the future is malleable, and so the future you see will change as you formulate your plans. You can the see the outcome of every potential decision, and then decide on the optimum course of action. According to the press pack, the Tomorrow Windows will bring about world peace and save humanity from every possible disaster. So, of course, someone decides to blow it up. There''s always one, isn''t there? As the Doctor investigates and unravels the conspiracy, he begins a Gulliver''s Travels-esque quest, visiting bizarre worlds and encountering many peculiar and surreal life forms...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20382'),
(15642, 'Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord : The Ultimate Foe', 'Pip Baker &amp; Jane Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Snatched out of time and place and brought before the Time Lords of Gallifrey, the Doctor is on trial for his life.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  While the Doctor asserts that the evidence of the Matrix, the repository of all Time Lord knowledge, has been tampered with, the mysterious and vengeful prosecuting council, the Valeyard, is confident that the Doctor will be sentenced to death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   In a dramatic intervention the Valeyardâ€™s true identity is revealed but he escapes from the Courtroom into the Matrix, and it is into this nightmare world that the Doctor must follow - to his face his ultimate foe...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2065'),
(15643, 'Doctor Who: The Turing Test', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A mysterious code is received at Bletchley and Alan Turing, the chief code-breaker, is unable to break it. He meets the Doctor in a club and when Turing tells him about the code, the Doctor reacts by running away, terrified. Turing confesses his indiscretion to the military and the Doctor is arrested. He eventually succeeds in breaking the code from his prison cell -- the message is a desperate cry for help from mysterious refugees in Vienna.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2205'),
(15644, 'Doctor Who: The Turing Test', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A mysterious code is received at Bletchley and Alan Turing, the chief code-breaker, is unable to break it. He meets the Doctor in a club and when Turing tells him about the code, the Doctor reacts by running away, terrified. Turing confesses his indiscretion to the military and the Doctor is arrested. He eventually succeeds in breaking the code from his prison cell -- the message is a desperate cry for help from mysterious refugees in Vienna.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22579'),
(15645, 'Doctor Who: The Twilight Streets', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s the start of a Cardiff autumn - the days are getting shorter, the dark evenings settling in. There''s a part of Cardiff that no one goes to much. No crime, no murders, just... they stay away. A collection of old rundown houses and gloomy streets. Something''s not quite right there, something is off-kilter. Except now, the Council are renovating the area. And a new company have been employed to do this. And look: they''re going to organize street parties to show off the gentrified area. Clown and face-painters for the kids, street magicians for the adults. None of this is Torchwood''s problem. Except that Tosh recognizes the man sponsoring the street parties when she''s passing one day: Bills Manger!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5422'),
(15646, 'Doctor Who: The Twilight Streets', 'Gary Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It''s the start of a Cardiff autumn - the days are getting shorter, the dark evenings settling in. There''s a part of Cardiff that no one goes to much. No crime, no murders, just... they stay away. A collection of old rundown houses and gloomy streets. Something''s not quite right there, something is off-kilter. Except now, the Council are renovating the area. And a new company have been employed to do this. And look: they''re going to organize street parties to show off the gentrified area. Clown and face-painters for the kids, street magicians for the adults. None of this is Torchwood''s problem. Except that Tosh recognizes the man sponsoring the street parties when she''s passing one day: Bills Manger!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12439'),
(15647, 'Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma', 'Eric Saward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After a rocky fifth regeneration and a near outburst of uncontrolled violent behavior, Doctor Who decides to become a hermit\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5666'),
(15648, 'Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma', 'Eric Saward', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After a rocky fifth regeneration and a near outburst of uncontrolled violent behavior, Doctor Who decides to become a hermit\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18965'),
(15649, 'Doctor Who: The Two Doctors', 'Robert Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the 6th Doctor lands on a space station in the Third Zone, he suspects he''s been there before and when he discovers his old assistant - Jamie - he''s certain.\n  </font>\n </span>\n</p>\n<p>\n Accompanied by Jamie and his present assistant Peri, the Doctor follows himself (in his second incarnation) to 20th Century Seville. There he discovers his old enemies, the Sontarans, about to dissect him in a genetic operation.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  But just why are they operating on the Doctor? And how will their findings aid their enslavement of the universe? Deadly questions to which the Doctors must find answers in order to escape their own excruciating death...\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1604'),
(15650, 'Doctor Who: The Two Doctors', 'Robert Holmes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the 6th Doctor lands on a space station in the Third Zone, he suspects he''s been there before and when he discovers his old assistant - Jamie - he''s certain.\n  </font>\n </span>\n</p>\n<p>\n Accompanied by Jamie and his present assistant Peri, the Doctor follows himself (in his second incarnation) to 20th Century Seville. There he discovers his old enemies, the Sontarans, about to dissect him in a genetic operation.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  But just why are they operating on the Doctor? And how will their findings aid their enslavement of the universe? Deadly questions to which the Doctors must find answers in order to escape their own excruciating death...\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23254'),
(15651, 'Doctor Who: The Ultimate Evil', 'Wally K. Daly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <i>\n      On Wednesday 27 February 1985 the BBC announced that their longest running sci-fi series,Â \n     </i>\n     <i>\n      Doctor Who\n     </i>\n     , was to be suspended. Anxious fans worldwide, worried that this might mean an end to the Time Lord''s travels, flooded the BBC with letters of protest. Eighteen months later the show returned to the TV screens.\n    </font>\n   </span>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   But missing from the Doctor''s adventures was the series that would have been made and shown during those lost eighteen months. Now, available for the first time as a book, is one of those stories:Â \n   <b>\n    The Ultimate Evil.\n   </b>\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the TARDIS working perfectly the Doctor and Peri find themselves at something of a loose end. A holiday in Tranquela, a peace-loving country where there has been no war for over fifty years, seems the ideal solution.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Unfortunately their visit coincides with that of an unscrupulous arms dealer - the Machiavellian Dwarf Mordant...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/352'),
(15652, 'Doctor Who: The Ultimate Evil', 'Wally K. Daly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <i>\n      On Wednesday 27 February 1985 the BBC announced that their longest running sci-fi series,Â \n     </i>\n     <i>\n      Doctor Who\n     </i>\n     , was to be suspended. Anxious fans worldwide, worried that this might mean an end to the Time Lord''s travels, flooded the BBC with letters of protest. Eighteen months later the show returned to the TV screens.\n    </font>\n   </span>\n  </span>\n </font>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   But missing from the Doctor''s adventures was the series that would have been made and shown during those lost eighteen months. Now, available for the first time as a book, is one of those stories:Â \n   <b>\n    The Ultimate Evil.\n   </b>\n  </i>\n </p>\n <p>\n  With the TARDIS working perfectly the Doctor and Peri find themselves at something of a loose end. A holiday in Tranquela, a peace-loving country where there has been no war for over fifty years, seems the ideal solution.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Unfortunately their visit coincides with that of an unscrupulous arms dealer - the Machiavellian Dwarf Mordant...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24632'),
(15653, 'Doctor Who: The Undertaker&#39;s Gift', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Hokrala Corp lawyers are back. They''re suing planet Earth for mishandling the twenty-first century, and they won''t tolerate any efforts to repel them. An assassin has been sent to remove Captain Jack Harkness. It''s been a busy week in Cardiff. The Hub''s latest guest is a translucent, amber jelly carrying a lethal electrical charge. Record numbers of aliens have been coming through the Rift, and Torchwood could do without any more problems. But there are reports of an extraordinary funeral cortege in the night-time city, with mysterious pallbearers guarding a rotting cadaver that simply doesn''t want to be buried. Torchwood should be ready for anything u but with Jack the target of an invisible killer, Gwen trapped in a forgotten crypt and Ianto Jones falling desperately ill, could a world of suffering be the Undertaker''s gift to planet Earth? Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/469'),
(15654, 'Doctor Who: The Undertaker&#39;s Gift', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Hokrala Corp lawyers are back. They''re suing planet Earth for mishandling the twenty-first century, and they won''t tolerate any efforts to repel them. An assassin has been sent to remove Captain Jack Harkness. It''s been a busy week in Cardiff. The Hub''s latest guest is a translucent, amber jelly carrying a lethal electrical charge. Record numbers of aliens have been coming through the Rift, and Torchwood could do without any more problems. But there are reports of an extraordinary funeral cortege in the night-time city, with mysterious pallbearers guarding a rotting cadaver that simply doesn''t want to be buried. Torchwood should be ready for anything u but with Jack the target of an invisible killer, Gwen trapped in a forgotten crypt and Ianto Jones falling desperately ill, could a world of suffering be the Undertaker''s gift to planet Earth? Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8341'),
(15655, 'Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the TARDIS lands on a deserted volcanic island the Doctor and his companions find themselves kidnapped by primitive sea-people. Taken into the bowels of the earth they discover they are in the lost kingdom of Atlantis.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Offered as sacrifices to the fish-goddess, Amdo, the Doctor and his companions are rescued from the jaws of death by the famous scientist, Zaroff.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But they are still not safe and nor are the people of Atlantis. For Zaroff has a plan, a plan that will make him the greatest scientist of all time - he will raise Atlantis above the waves - even if it means destroying the world...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2505'),
(15656, 'Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the TARDIS lands on a deserted volcanic island the Doctor and his companions find themselves kidnapped by primitive sea-people. Taken into the bowels of the earth they discover they are in the lost kingdom of Atlantis.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Offered as sacrifices to the fish-goddess, Amdo, the Doctor and his companions are rescued from the jaws of death by the famous scientist, Zaroff.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But they are still not safe and nor are the people of Atlantis. For Zaroff has a plan, a plan that will make him the greatest scientist of all time - he will raise Atlantis above the waves - even if it means destroying the world...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22254'),
(15657, 'Doctor Who: The Visitation', 'Eric Saward', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Something is very wrong in 17th Century England. The shadowy figure of Death stalks the forests, terrifying the local people. Behind the chaos fugitive alien life forms called Terileptils lurk. Stranded on Earth, they have seized one of the local houses, murdering its inhabitants.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But just what do they want? The Doctor must discover the answer - and fast. For as events unfold, he finds he too is looking death in the face, not to mention the threat of mass genocide...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5568'),
(15658, 'Doctor Who: The Visitation', 'Eric Saward', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Something is very wrong in 17th Century England. The shadowy figure of Death stalks the forests, terrifying the local people. Behind the chaos fugitive alien life forms called Terileptils lurk. Stranded on Earth, they have seized one of the local houses, murdering its inhabitants.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But just what do they want? The Doctor must discover the answer - and fast. For as events unfold, he finds he too is looking death in the face, not to mention the threat of mass genocide...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18964'),
(15659, 'Doctor Who: The Wages of Sin', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the wastes of Siberia to the intrigue of the imperial court at St. Petersberg, 1916, the Third Doctor, Jo and Liz are involved in the machinations of the mad monk Rasputin.As history plunges onward inexorably, the Doctor''s companions realize that history books can lie. But the Doctor can see the threads that hold all time together -- can he and his companions escape the depravities of this decadent Russia without unraveling the history of Earth?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6433'),
(15660, 'Doctor Who: The Wages of Sin', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the wastes of Siberia to the intrigue of the imperial court at St. Petersberg, 1916, the Third Doctor, Jo and Liz are involved in the machinations of the mad monk Rasputin.As history plunges onward inexorably, the Doctor''s companions realize that history books can lie. But the Doctor can see the threads that hold all time together -- can he and his companions escape the depravities of this decadent Russia without unraveling the history of Earth?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17669'),
(15661, 'Doctor Who: The Web of Fear', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   After being caught up in a web-like substance on its journey through space, the TARDIS arrives in the tunnels of the London Underground railway system, only to find the web also in the tunnels - as is the Great Intelligence''s Yeti.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  How has this happened? The team learn that the impending disaster was triggered nearly forty years before, after their previous encounter with the Intelligence. Professor Travers accidentally reactivated a Yeti, thus giving the Intelligence the ammunition it needed to plan another invasion attempt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The aim is simple: the Intelligence wants to drain the Doctor''s mind. Army forces, led by Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, help the Doctor and his team race against time to stop them in their mission. Can they make it?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/720'),
(15662, 'Doctor Who: The Web of Fear', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   After being caught up in a web-like substance on its journey through space, the TARDIS arrives in the tunnels of the London Underground railway system, only to find the web also in the tunnels - as is the Great Intelligence''s Yeti.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  How has this happened? The team learn that the impending disaster was triggered nearly forty years before, after their previous encounter with the Intelligence. Professor Travers accidentally reactivated a Yeti, thus giving the Intelligence the ammunition it needed to plan another invasion attempt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The aim is simple: the Intelligence wants to drain the Doctor''s mind. Army forces, led by Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, help the Doctor and his team race against time to stop them in their mission. Can they make it?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24165'),
(15663, 'Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the TARDIS rematerialises inside a rocket the Doctor and Jamie are alarmed by the presence of a hostile Servo-Robot. They discover that the rocket is drifting in the orbit of a giant space station - the Wheel in Space.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Once inside this magnificent space ship they are bewildered by its complexity and sheer size. The technicians and programmers are highly trained, but who are they working for?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Suspecting the worst, the Doctor is still horrified to find the deadly Cybermen in control. What evil plan are they plotting? Who or what are the Cybermats? Can the Doctor trust anyone on board to help him stop the Wheel as it spins relentlessly through space?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/723'),
(15664, 'Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the TARDIS rematerialises inside a rocket the Doctor and Jamie are alarmed by the presence of a hostile Servo-Robot. They discover that the rocket is drifting in the orbit of a giant space station - the Wheel in Space.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Once inside this magnificent space ship they are bewildered by its complexity and sheer size. The technicians and programmers are highly trained, but who are they working for?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Suspecting the worst, the Doctor is still horrified to find the deadly Cybermen in control. What evil plan are they plotting? Who or what are the Cybermats? Can the Doctor trust anyone on board to help him stop the Wheel as it spins relentlessly through space?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24164'),
(15665, 'Doctor Who: The Witch Hunters', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The original Doctor Who (from the 1960s) attempts repairs to the Tardis. Unfortunately, he chooses Salem, Massachusetts at the time of the witch hunts, as the place to do the job. The result is that he and his crew are thrown into danger by Susan''s latent telepathic powers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/993'),
(15666, 'Doctor Who: The Witch Hunters', 'Steve Lyons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The original Doctor Who (from the 1960s) attempts repairs to the Tardis. Unfortunately, he chooses Salem, Massachusetts at the time of the witch hunts, as the place to do the job. The result is that he and his crew are thrown into danger by Susan''s latent telepathic powers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23987'),
(15667, 'Doctor Who: The Year of Intelligent Tigers', 'Jonathan Blum &amp; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor has been staying on the planet Hitchemus for the past few months where he has been learning to play the violin from gifted young composer Karl Hassan. Hitchemus is a planet with two distinctive features -- the humans who live there have a formidable reputation for composing, playing and appreciating a wide range of music -- while its tiger population is showing unusual signs of intelligence.Although Anji is greatly unnerved by the sight of a tiger taking a book out of a library, no one is prepared for the day when the tigers take over the planet. Their demands are unusual though -- they want to be taught to play instruments as well as the humans, and to this end kidnap all of the planet''s most eminent musicians.Why are these tigers so intellectually advanced, and can the population of Hitchemus resolve their conflict to avoid civil war? The Doctor sympathises with the tigers and humans alike, but needs to help both parties to resolve their differences before they both begin tosee him as a traitor...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4095'),
(15668, 'Doctor Who: The Year of Intelligent Tigers', 'Jonathan Blum; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor has been staying on the planet Hitchemus for the past few months where he has been learning to play the violin from gifted young composer Karl Hassan. Hitchemus is a planet with two distinctive features -- the humans who live there have a formidable reputation for composing, playing and appreciating a wide range of music -- while its tiger population is showing unusual signs of intelligence.Although Anji is greatly unnerved by the sight of a tiger taking a book out of a library, no one is prepared for the day when the tigers take over the planet. Their demands are unusual though -- they want to be taught to play instruments as well as the humans, and to this end kidnap all of the planet''s most eminent musicians.Why are these tigers so intellectually advanced, and can the population of Hitchemus resolve their conflict to avoid civil war? The Doctor sympathises with the tigers and humans alike, but needs to help both parties to resolve their differences before they both begin tosee him as a traitor...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20421'),
(15669, 'Doctor Who: The Zarbi', 'Bill Strutton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the Doctor and his friends stray from their astral plane and the TARDIS materialises in eerie alien surroundings, a mysterious force prevents them from leaving. Is it a natural phenomenon or some malevolent intelligence?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Uncanny occurrences are followed by encounters with the deadly Zarbi and their unknown leader, to whom the travellers fall prey. With their allies, the Menoptra, the travellers must discover how to immobilise the Zarbi, save the Menoptra from massacre and rid the planet of this powerful and horrifying evil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As a growing web building begins to envelop the planet, imprisoning the travellers in its mesh, the Doctor must consult all of his wisdom to escape its hypnotic power. But what is at the centre of the web and from where does it draw its power?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7176');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15670, 'Doctor Who: The Zarbi', 'Bill Strutton', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   When the Doctor and his friends stray from their astral plane and the TARDIS materialises in eerie alien surroundings, a mysterious force prevents them from leaving. Is it a natural phenomenon or some malevolent intelligence?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Uncanny occurrences are followed by encounters with the deadly Zarbi and their unknown leader, to whom the travellers fall prey. With their allies, the Menoptra, the travellers must discover how to immobilise the Zarbi, save the Menoptra from massacre and rid the planet of this powerful and horrifying evil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   As a growing web building begins to envelop the planet, imprisoning the travellers in its mesh, the Doctor must consult all of his wisdom to escape its hypnotic power. But what is at the centre of the web and from where does it draw its power?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16688'),
(15671, 'Doctor Who: Theatre of War', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    <i>\n     Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.\n    </i>\n    Â \n    <br />\n    Ace stared at the Doctor. He nodded. â€˜Yes, Ace. Weâ€™re in Elsinore. And I donâ€™t like it either.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Five years ago, an archeological expedition came to Menaxus to explore the ruins of an ancient theatre. All but one of the visitors died horribly, and the planet was abandoned, bathed in lethal radiation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now the only survivor has returned, determined to uncover the theatreâ€™s secrets whatever the cost. Among her archaeological team is a certain Professor Bernice Summerfield.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Soon the deaths begin again, while the front line of an interstellar war moves ever closer. Desperate for help, Bernice tries to summon her companions. But when the TARDIS lands on the planet, the Doctor finds himself participating in a frighteningly real performance of Shakespeareâ€™s greatest tragedy. And he begins to realize that the truth about Menaxus may be far stranger than anyone imagines.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3876'),
(15672, 'Doctor Who: Theatre of War', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    <i>\n     Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.\n    </i>\n    Â \n    <br />\n    Ace stared at the Doctor. He nodded. â€˜Yes, Ace. Weâ€™re in Elsinore. And I donâ€™t like it either.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Five years ago, an archeological expedition came to Menaxus to explore the ruins of an ancient theatre. All but one of the visitors died horribly, and the planet was abandoned, bathed in lethal radiation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now the only survivor has returned, determined to uncover the theatreâ€™s secrets whatever the cost. Among her archaeological team is a certain Professor Bernice Summerfield.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Soon the deaths begin again, while the front line of an interstellar war moves ever closer. Desperate for help, Bernice tries to summon her companions. But when the TARDIS lands on the planet, the Doctor finds himself participating in a frighteningly real performance of Shakespeareâ€™s greatest tragedy. And he begins to realize that the truth about Menaxus may be far stranger than anyone imagines.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20584'),
(15673, 'Doctor Who: Three Doctors', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who\n  </em>\n  novelization, first published by Target Books in 1975, Doctors One, Two, and Three cross time and space and come together to fight a ruthless enemy - Omega. Once a Time Lord, now exiled to a black hole in space, Omega is seeking a bitter and deadly revenge against the whole Universe. Katy Manning reads Terrance Dicksâ€™ complete and unabridged novelization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/725'),
(15674, 'Doctor Who: Three Doctors', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a\n  <em>\n   Doctor Who\n  </em>\n  novelization, first published by Target Books in 1975, Doctors One, Two, and Three cross time and space and come together to fight a ruthless enemy - Omega. Once a Time Lord, now exiled to a black hole in space, Omega is seeking a bitter and deadly revenge against the whole Universe. Katy Manning reads Terrance Dicksâ€™ complete and unabridged novelization.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24163'),
(15675, 'Doctor Who: Time and Relative', 'Kim Newman &amp; Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The harsh British winter of 1963 brings a big freeze that extends into April with no sign of letting up. And with it comes a new, far greater menace: terrifying icy creatures are stalking the streets, bringing death and destruction.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n </font>\n <p>\n  The First Doctor and Susan, trapped on Earth until the faulty TARDIS can be repaired, are caught up in the crisis. The Doctor seems to know what is going on, but is uncharacteristically detached and furtive, almost as if he is losing his memory...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Susan, isolated from her grandfather and finding it hard to fit in with the human teenagers at Coal Hill School, tries to cope by recording her thoughts in a diary. But she too feels her memory slipping away and her past unravelling. Is she even sure who she is any more...?\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3691'),
(15676, 'Doctor Who: Time and Relative', 'Kim Newman; Dave Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    The harsh British winter of 1963 brings a big freeze that extends into April with no sign of letting up. And with it comes a new, far greater menace: terrifying icy creatures are stalking the streets, bringing death and destruction.\n   </font>\n  </span>\n </p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n </font>\n <p>\n  The First Doctor and Susan, trapped on Earth until the faulty TARDIS can be repaired, are caught up in the crisis. The Doctor seems to know what is going on, but is uncharacteristically detached and furtive, almost as if he is losing his memory...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Susan, isolated from her grandfather and finding it hard to fit in with the human teenagers at Coal Hill School, tries to cope by recording her thoughts in a diary. But she too feels her memory slipping away and her past unravelling. Is she even sure who she is any more...?\n  </font>\n </p>\n <p>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20826'),
(15677, 'Doctor Who: Time and the Rani', 'Pip Baker &amp; Jane Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <div align="justify">\n   <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n    After being attacked by the evil Rani, the TARDIS crash-lands on the planet Lakertya. On the floor of the console room, the Doctor begins his sixth regeneration...\n   </font>\n   <p>\n    In his post-regenerative confusion the Doctor is separated from his young companion Mel and tricked into assisting the Rani in her megalomanic scheme to construct a giant time manipulator.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Lost on the barren surface of the planet, Mel has to avoid the Rani''s ingenious traps and her monstrous, bat-like servants, the Tetraps. She joins forces with a rebel faction among the Lakertyans, desperate to end the Rani''s control of their planet.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     The Doctor must recover his wits in time to avoid becoming a permanent part of the Rani''s plan to collect the genius of the greatest scientific minds in the Universe...\n    </font>\n   </p>\n   <div>\n    <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n     <br />\n    </font>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2066'),
(15678, 'Doctor Who: Time Flight', 'Peter Grimwade', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a Concorde vanishes in midflight, Doctor Who decides to follow its exact route in another Concorde in order to determine exactly where in time or space the ship landed\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2098'),
(15679, 'Doctor Who: Time Flight', 'Peter Grimwade', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a Concorde vanishes in midflight, Doctor Who decides to follow its exact route in another Concorde in order to determine exactly where in time or space the ship landed\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22663'),
(15680, 'Doctor Who: Time Warrior', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   AÂ spacecraft crashes near the castle of a robber baron in the Middle Ages, and the Sontaran Warrior within needs help with its repair. Unable to obtain the technical expertise he requires, he ventures forward in time to the 20th century and begins kidnapping scientists.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This attracts the attention of UNIT and the Doctor, who follows the trail back through time, unknowingly taking a young stowaway with him...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/726'),
(15681, 'Doctor Who: Time Warrior', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   AÂ spacecraft crashes near the castle of a robber baron in the Middle Ages, and the Sontaran Warrior within needs help with its repair. Unable to obtain the technical expertise he requires, he ventures forward in time to the 20th century and begins kidnapping scientists.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This attracts the attention of UNIT and the Doctor, who follows the trail back through time, unknowingly taking a young stowaway with him...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24162'),
(15682, 'Doctor Who: Time Zero', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With Fitz gone to his certain death and Anji back at work in the City, the Doctor is once more alone. But he has a lot to keep him occupied. At the Naryshkin Institute in Siberia, scientists are busily at work in a haunted castle. Over a century earlier, creatures from a prehistory that never happened attack a geological expedition. Pages from the lost expedition''s journal are put on display at the British Museum, and a US spy plane suffers a mysterious fate. Deep under the snowy landscape of Siberia the key to it all remains trapped in the ice. Only the Doctor can see that these events are all related. But he isn''t the only person involved. Why is Colonel Hartford so interested in the Institute? Who is the mysterious millionaire who is after the journal? How is the Grand Duchess, descendent of the last Tsar, involved? Soon the Doctor is caught up in a plot that reaches back to the creation of the Universe. And beyond... ...to Time Zero.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3878'),
(15683, 'Doctor Who: Time Zero', 'Justin Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With Fitz gone to his certain death and Anji back at work in the City, the Doctor is once more alone. But he has a lot to keep him occupied. At the Naryshkin Institute in Siberia, scientists are busily at work in a haunted castle. Over a century earlier, creatures from a prehistory that never happened attack a geological expedition. Pages from the lost expedition''s journal are put on display at the British Museum, and a US spy plane suffers a mysterious fate. Deep under the snowy landscape of Siberia the key to it all remains trapped in the ice. Only the Doctor can see that these events are all related. But he isn''t the only person involved. Why is Colonel Hartford so interested in the Institute? Who is the mysterious millionaire who is after the journal? How is the Grand Duchess, descendent of the last Tsar, involved? Soon the Doctor is caught up in a plot that reaches back to the creation of the Universe. And beyond... ...to Time Zero.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20583'),
(15684, 'Doctor Who: Timelash', 'Glen McCoy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The planet Karfel is an oppressed world ruled over by a cruel tyrant - the Borad. Anyone opposing his will is cast out through a time tunnel known as the Timelash.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the Doctor arrives he is asked to rescue a woman, Vena, who has been sent through the Timelash to Earth with a precious amulet the Borad needs returned. If the Doctor refuses, the life of his companion, Peri, is forfeit.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What is the truth behind the terrible power of the Borad? Why is he desperate for all-out war with the neighbouring planet of Bandril? The Doctor falls in with the rebels, but to defeat the Borad means a one-to-one confrontation in the mad scientist''s inner sanctum - and unless he acts quickly, Peri may undergo a terrifying change...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5272'),
(15685, 'Doctor Who: Timelash', 'Glen McCoy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The planet Karfel is an oppressed world ruled over by a cruel tyrant - the Borad. Anyone opposing his will is cast out through a time tunnel known as the Timelash.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  When the Doctor arrives he is asked to rescue a woman, Vena, who has been sent through the Timelash to Earth with a precious amulet the Borad needs returned. If the Doctor refuses, the life of his companion, Peri, is forfeit.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   What is the truth behind the terrible power of the Borad? Why is he desperate for all-out war with the neighbouring planet of Bandril? The Doctor falls in with the rebels, but to defeat the Borad means a one-to-one confrontation in the mad scientist''s inner sanctum - and unless he acts quickly, Peri may undergo a terrifying change...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18668'),
(15686, 'Doctor Who: Timeless', 'Stephen Cole &amp; Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With time running out, the Doctor finally understands why ''our'' universe is unique. In proving it, he nearly destroys the TARDIS and all aboard -- and becomes involved with the machinations of the mysterious Timeless organisation. They can fix your wildest dreams, get away with murder and bring a whole new meaning to the idea of victimless crime. Soon, Fitz and Trix are married, Anji''s become a mum, and an innocent man is marked for the most important death in the universe''s long history. The reasons why force the Doctor into a deadly showdown in a killing ground spawned before time and space began.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1152'),
(15687, 'Doctor Who: Timeless', 'Stephen Cole; Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With time running out, the Doctor finally understands why ''our'' universe is unique. In proving it, he nearly destroys the TARDIS and all aboard -- and becomes involved with the machinations of the mysterious Timeless organisation. They can fix your wildest dreams, get away with murder and bring a whole new meaning to the idea of victimless crime. Soon, Fitz and Trix are married, Anji''s become a mum, and an innocent man is marked for the most important death in the universe''s long history. The reasons why force the Doctor into a deadly showdown in a killing ground spawned before time and space began.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23804'),
(15688, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Apocalypse', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS has tracked the Timewyrm to the edge of the Universe and the end of time -- to the lush planet Kirith, a paradise inhabited by a physically perfect race.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ace is not impressed. Kirith has all the appeal of a wet weekend in Margate, and its inhabitants look like third-rate Aussie soap stars.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor is troubled, too: If the Timewyrm is here, why canâ€™t he find her? Why have the elite Panjistri lied consistently to the Kirithons they govern? And is it possible that the catastrophe that he feels impending is the result of his own past actions?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2506'),
(15689, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Apocalypse', 'Nigel Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The TARDIS has tracked the Timewyrm to the edge of the Universe and the end of time -- to the lush planet Kirith, a paradise inhabited by a physically perfect race.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ace is not impressed. Kirith has all the appeal of a wet weekend in Margate, and its inhabitants look like third-rate Aussie soap stars.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor is troubled, too: If the Timewyrm is here, why canâ€™t he find her? Why have the elite Panjistri lied consistently to the Kirithons they govern? And is it possible that the catastrophe that he feels impending is the result of his own past actions?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22253'),
(15690, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Exodus', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The pursuit of the Timewyrm leads the Doctor and Ace to London, 1951, and the Festival of Britain -- a celebration of the achievements of this small country, this insignificant corner of the glorious Thousand Year Reich.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Someone -- or something -- has been interfering with the time lines, and in order to investigate, the Doctor travels further back in time to the very dawn of the Nazi evil. In the heart of the Germany of the Third Reich, he finds that this little band of thugs and misfits did not take over half the world unaided.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   History must be restored to its proper course, and in his attempt to repair the time lines, the Doctor faces the most terrible dilemma he has ever known...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/729'),
(15691, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Exodus', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The pursuit of the Timewyrm leads the Doctor and Ace to London, 1951, and the Festival of Britain -- a celebration of the achievements of this small country, this insignificant corner of the glorious Thousand Year Reich.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Someone -- or something -- has been interfering with the time lines, and in order to investigate, the Doctor travels further back in time to the very dawn of the Nazi evil. In the heart of the Germany of the Third Reich, he finds that this little band of thugs and misfits did not take over half the world unaided.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   History must be restored to its proper course, and in his attempt to repair the time lines, the Doctor faces the most terrible dilemma he has ever known...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24161'),
(15692, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Genesis', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Mesopotamia -- the cradle of civilization. In the fertile crescent of land on the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, mankind is turning from hunter gatherer into farmer, and from farmer into city-dweller.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Gilgamesh, the first hero-king, rules the city of Uruk. An equally legendary figure arrives, in a police telephone box: the TARDIS has brought the Doctor and his companion Ace to witness the first steps of mankind''s long progress to the stars.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   And from somewhere amid those distant points of light an evil sentience has tumbled. To her followers in the city of Kish she is known as Ishtar the goddess; to the Doctorâ€™s forebears on ancient Gallifrey she was a mythical terror -- the Timewyrm.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4322'),
(15693, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Genesis', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Mesopotamia -- the cradle of civilization. In the fertile crescent of land on the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, mankind is turning from hunter gatherer into farmer, and from farmer into city-dweller.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Gilgamesh, the first hero-king, rules the city of Uruk. An equally legendary figure arrives, in a police telephone box: the TARDIS has brought the Doctor and his companion Ace to witness the first steps of mankind''s long progress to the stars.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   And from somewhere amid those distant points of light an evil sentience has tumbled. To her followers in the city of Kish she is known as Ishtar the goddess; to the Doctorâ€™s forebears on ancient Gallifrey she was a mythical terror -- the Timewyrm.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20294'),
(15694, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Revelation', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The parishioners of Cheldon Bonniface walk to church on the Sunday before Christmas, 1992. Snow is in the air, or is it the threat of something else? The Reverend Trelaw has a premonition, too, and discusses it with the spirit that inhabits his church. Perhaps the Doctor is about to visit them again?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Some years earlier, in a playground in Perivale, Chad Boyle picks up a half-brick. Heâ€™s going to get that creepy Dorothy who says she wants to be an astronaut. The weapon falls, splitting Dorothyâ€™s skull. She dies instantly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor has pursued the Timewyrm from prehistoric Mesopotamia to Nazi Germany, and then to the end of the universe. He has tracked down the creature again: but what trans-temporal trap has the Timewyrm prepared for their final confrontation?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2326'),
(15695, 'Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Revelation', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The parishioners of Cheldon Bonniface walk to church on the Sunday before Christmas, 1992. Snow is in the air, or is it the threat of something else? The Reverend Trelaw has a premonition, too, and discusses it with the spirit that inhabits his church. Perhaps the Doctor is about to visit them again?\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Some years earlier, in a playground in Perivale, Chad Boyle picks up a half-brick. Heâ€™s going to get that creepy Dorothy who says she wants to be an astronaut. The weapon falls, splitting Dorothyâ€™s skull. She dies instantly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor has pursued the Timewyrm from prehistoric Mesopotamia to Nazi Germany, and then to the end of the universe. He has tracked down the creature again: but what trans-temporal trap has the Timewyrm prepared for their final confrontation?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22513'),
(15696, 'Doctor Who: To the Slaughter', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The solar system is being spring cleaned. Under the supervision of celebrity planetary make-over decoratiste Arisotle Halcyon, the number of moons of Jupiter is being brought down to an aesthetically pleasing level. But with eco-terrorists taking an active - and deadly - interest in the work, corrupt officials lining their own pockets, and incompetence leading to the demolition of the wrong moon, the Doctor and his companions realize that not everything as is aesthetic and innocent as it seems. Will the Doctor be able to stop dangerous experiments in genetic engineering and overturn a clandestine evil plan to conquer the solar system? Will Trix escape from the deadly space sheep? And will Fitz become the galaxy''s next megastar designer on the future equivalent of "Changing Planets?"\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1153'),
(15697, 'Doctor Who: To the Slaughter', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The solar system is being spring cleaned. Under the supervision of celebrity planetary make-over decoratiste Arisotle Halcyon, the number of moons of Jupiter is being brought down to an aesthetically pleasing level. But with eco-terrorists taking an active - and deadly - interest in the work, corrupt officials lining their own pockets, and incompetence leading to the demolition of the wrong moon, the Doctor and his companions realize that not everything as is aesthetic and innocent as it seems. Will the Doctor be able to stop dangerous experiments in genetic engineering and overturn a clandestine evil plan to conquer the solar system? Will Trix escape from the deadly space sheep? And will Fitz become the galaxy''s next megastar designer on the future equivalent of "Changing Planets?"\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23803'),
(15698, 'Doctor Who: Tomb of the Cybermen', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The once-feared Cybermen have disappeared from the universe without trace. An expedition from Earth arrives on Telos â€” homeworld of the Cybermen â€” to try and discover exactly what has become of the silver giants.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Soon after the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria join the archaeological party, the first mysterious death occurs. With the group now stranded on Telos, it becomes clear that the Cybermen may not be as ''dead'' as it was first thought...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Beneath the planet''s surface, giant ice-tombs hold the last remains of the Cybermen in a frozen sleep. And someone is working to re-activate them from their slumber...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5297'),
(15699, 'Doctor Who: Tomb of the Cybermen', 'Gerry Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The once-feared Cybermen have disappeared from the universe without trace. An expedition from Earth arrives on Telos â€” homeworld of the Cybermen â€” to try and discover exactly what has become of the silver giants.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Soon after the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria join the archaeological party, the first mysterious death occurs. With the group now stranded on Telos, it becomes clear that the Cybermen may not be as ''dead'' as it was first thought...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Beneath the planet''s surface, giant ice-tombs hold the last remains of the Cybermen in a frozen sleep. And someone is working to re-activate them from their slumber...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19232'),
(15700, 'Doctor Who: Toy Soldiers', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Children make better soldiers,â€™ said the teddy bear. â€˜They kill without compunction.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Doctor and Benny are following a trail of kidnapped children across Europe, a continent recovering from the ravages of the First World War. The only clue they find is the toy bear each missing child was given. But someone is aware of their search, and they soon find themselves unwilling guests on the planet Qâ€™ell, where a similar war still rages - and has done for fourteen hundred years.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  Stranded on Earth, Chris Cwej and Roslyn Forrester struggle to find a way of stopping the Qâ€™ell from recruiting every child in the world to their cause. And the Doctor tries to start a peaceful revolution on a planet where there is no longer any word for peace.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2206'),
(15701, 'Doctor Who: Toy Soldiers', 'Paul Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Children make better soldiers,â€™ said the teddy bear. â€˜They kill without compunction.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Doctor and Benny are following a trail of kidnapped children across Europe, a continent recovering from the ravages of the First World War. The only clue they find is the toy bear each missing child was given. But someone is aware of their search, and they soon find themselves unwilling guests on the planet Qâ€™ell, where a similar war still rages - and has done for fourteen hundred years.\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  Stranded on Earth, Chris Cwej and Roslyn Forrester struggle to find a way of stopping the Qâ€™ell from recruiting every child in the world to their cause. And the Doctor tries to start a peaceful revolution on a planet where there is no longer any word for peace.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22578'),
(15702, 'Doctor Who: Trace Memory', 'David Llewellyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tiger Bay, Cardiff, 1950: A mysterious crate is brought into the docks on a Scandinavian cargo ship, the Kungssangen. Its destination: The Torchwood Institute. As the crate is offloaded by a group of local dockers it explodes, killing all but one; a young Butetown lad called Michael Bellini. Fifty-eight years later a radioactive source somewhere inside Torchwood leads the team to discover the same Michael Bellini, still young and dressed in his 1950s clothes, cowering in the vaults. As they question the intruder, it becomes apparent that each of them has met him in the past. All of them remember him talking incoherently about terrifying "Men In Bowler Hats" and little more, but it''s Jack who remembers him best of all...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6172'),
(15703, 'Doctor Who: Trace Memory', 'David Llewellyn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tiger Bay, Cardiff, 1950: A mysterious crate is brought into the docks on a Scandinavian cargo ship, the Kungssangen. Its destination: The Torchwood Institute. As the crate is offloaded by a group of local dockers it explodes, killing all but one; a young Butetown lad called Michael Bellini. Fifty-eight years later a radioactive source somewhere inside Torchwood leads the team to discover the same Michael Bellini, still young and dressed in his 1950s clothes, cowering in the vaults. As they question the intruder, it becomes apparent that each of them has met him in the past. All of them remember him talking incoherently about terrifying "Men In Bowler Hats" and little more, but it''s Jack who remembers him best of all...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11165'),
(15704, 'Doctor Who: Trading Futures', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On an Earth of the not-so distant future, Anji is surprised by the way the world has developed. The EU and US have become rivals, and a situation in North Africa, in which they both have interests that they wish to protect, threatens to turn into full-scale war.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3569'),
(15705, 'Doctor Who: Trading Futures', 'Lance Parkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On an Earth of the not-so distant future, Anji is surprised by the way the world has developed. The EU and US have become rivals, and a situation in North Africa, in which they both have interests that they wish to protect, threatens to turn into full-scale war.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20889'),
(15706, 'Doctor Who: Tragedy Day', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Tomorrow, Tragedy Day. Tomorrow, total control.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In Empire City on the planet Olleril, itâ€™s time for the annual Tragedy Day -- when the privileged few celebrate their generosity to the masses.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But this year, something is different. Hideous creatures infest the waters around an island that doesnâ€™t officially exist. Assassins arrive to carry out a killing that may endanger the entire universe. A being known as the Supreme One tests horrific weapons. And a secret order of monks observes the growing chaos.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Five minutes after they arrive on Olleril, the TARDIS crew know they want to leave. But Ace is imprisoned in a sinister refugee camp, and Bernice and the Doctor are in the custody of a brutal police gang. There is no way out.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5537'),
(15707, 'Doctor Who: Tragedy Day', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Tomorrow, Tragedy Day. Tomorrow, total control.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  In Empire City on the planet Olleril, itâ€™s time for the annual Tragedy Day -- when the privileged few celebrate their generosity to the masses.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But this year, something is different. Hideous creatures infest the waters around an island that doesnâ€™t officially exist. Assassins arrive to carry out a killing that may endanger the entire universe. A being known as the Supreme One tests horrific weapons. And a secret order of monks observes the growing chaos.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Five minutes after they arrive on Olleril, the TARDIS crew know they want to leave. But Ace is imprisoned in a sinister refugee camp, and Bernice and the Doctor are in the custody of a brutal police gang. There is no way out.\n  </font>\n </p>\n <div>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <br />\n  </font>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19193'),
(15708, 'Doctor Who: Transit', 'Ben Aaronovitch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Oh no, not again...â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Itâ€™s the ultimate in mass transit systems, a network of interstitial tunnels that bind the planets of the solar system together. Earth to Pluto in forty minutes with a supersave non-premium off-peak travelcard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But something is living in the network, chewing its way to the very heart of the system and leaving a trail of death and mutation behind it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once again a reluctant Doctor is dragged into human history. Back down amongst the joyboys, freesurfers, chessfans, politicians and floozies, where friends are more dangerous than enemies and one manâ€™s human being is anotherâ€™s psychotic killing machine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Once again the Doctor is all that stands between humanity and its own mistakes.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7302'),
(15709, 'Doctor Who: Transit', 'Ben Aaronovitch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Oh no, not again...â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Itâ€™s the ultimate in mass transit systems, a network of interstitial tunnels that bind the planets of the solar system together. Earth to Pluto in forty minutes with a supersave non-premium off-peak travelcard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But something is living in the network, chewing its way to the very heart of the system and leaving a trail of death and mutation behind it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Once again a reluctant Doctor is dragged into human history. Back down amongst the joyboys, freesurfers, chessfans, politicians and floozies, where friends are more dangerous than enemies and one manâ€™s human being is anotherâ€™s psychotic killing machine.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Once again the Doctor is all that stands between humanity and its own mistakes.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16569'),
(15710, 'Doctor Who: Trial of a Time Lord : Mindwarp', 'Philip Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On trial for his life, Doctor Who must prove that the evidence presented by the prosecution is false\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2109'),
(15711, 'Doctor Who: Ultimate Treasure', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <i>\n    The seers of Gelsandor foretell the coming of many visitors to their planet, all in search of the lost treasure of the fabulously wealthy Rovan Cartovall, who vanished 5000 years ago...\n   </i>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</h3>\n<p>\n An innocent shopping jaunt for the Doctor and Peri ends in violence and incarceration as they become caught up in a mysterious transaction involving the sale of co-ordinates leading to Rovan''s hoard - the ultimate treasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Doctor and Peri join the quest, but the Time Lord remains sceptical. What will they find - and why has it remained undiscovered for so long?\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  The resourcefulness of the travellers is tested to the limits as they each race to be the first to the treasure. And among a seemingly endless array of tricks, tests and traps lurk some deadly surprises.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6795');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15712, 'Doctor Who: Ultimate Treasure', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <i>\n    The seers of Gelsandor foretell the coming of many visitors to their planet, all in search of the lost treasure of the fabulously wealthy Rovan Cartovall, who vanished 5000 years ago...\n   </i>\n  </font>\n </span>\n</h3>\n<p>\n An innocent shopping jaunt for the Doctor and Peri ends in violence and incarceration as they become caught up in a mysterious transaction involving the sale of co-ordinates leading to Rovan''s hoard - the ultimate treasure.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Doctor and Peri join the quest, but the Time Lord remains sceptical. What will they find - and why has it remained undiscovered for so long?\n</p>\n<p>\n <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n  The resourcefulness of the travellers is tested to the limits as they each race to be the first to the treasure. And among a seemingly endless array of tricks, tests and traps lurk some deadly surprises.\n </font>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18045'),
(15713, 'Doctor Who: Underworld', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Exploring the very edge of the known universe, the Doctor, Leela and K9 discover a group of astronauts searching for the lost gene bank of Minyan race. During the perilous voyage, the astronauts'' craft plunges into the heart of a recently formed planet, wherein an awesome secret is hidden.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   How will the Minyan quest end? What must the Doctor wrest from the Heart of the Oracle?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/730'),
(15714, 'Doctor Who: Underworld', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Exploring the very edge of the known universe, the Doctor, Leela and K9 discover a group of astronauts searching for the lost gene bank of Minyan race. During the perilous voyage, the astronauts'' craft plunges into the heart of a recently formed planet, wherein an awesome secret is hidden.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   How will the Minyan quest end? What must the Doctor wrest from the Heart of the Oracle?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24158'),
(15715, 'Doctor Who: Unnatural History', 'Jonathan Blum &amp; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor regenerated in San Francisco at the turn of the millennium. When he returns there a few years later, it seems the catastrophic events that nearly sent the whole of Earth into cosmic oblivion have taken their toll. San Francisco was the anchor point, and a breach between dimensions has sprung up. All sorts of weird and wonderful creatures have turned up -- griffins, unicorns -- and things more sinister.The Doctor''s companion Sam is exposed and becomes a changed person -- literally. Her hair is dark, she has never met the Doctor in her life. With Fitz, he is able to convince her to help them put things right -- to sacrifice herself so that the old Sam may return. For stalking the turbulent streets is the sinister Unnaturalist -- a collector of genetic curios whose private collection will be much enriched by the Time Travelers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4096'),
(15716, 'Doctor Who: Unnatural History', 'Jonathan Blum; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor regenerated in San Francisco at the turn of the millennium. When he returns there a few years later, it seems the catastrophic events that nearly sent the whole of Earth into cosmic oblivion have taken their toll. San Francisco was the anchor point, and a breach between dimensions has sprung up. All sorts of weird and wonderful creatures have turned up -- griffins, unicorns -- and things more sinister.The Doctor''s companion Sam is exposed and becomes a changed person -- literally. Her hair is dark, she has never met the Doctor in her life. With Fitz, he is able to convince her to help them put things right -- to sacrifice herself so that the old Sam may return. For stalking the turbulent streets is the sinister Unnaturalist -- a collector of genetic curios whose private collection will be much enriched by the Time Travelers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20420'),
(15717, 'Doctor Who: Vampire Science', 'Jonathan Blum &amp; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds. Now the Vampires have been sighted again, in San Francisco. The Doctor, aided by Sam, must find a way to stop them.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4098'),
(15718, 'Doctor Who: Vampire Science', 'Jonathan Blum; Kate Orman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds. Now the Vampires have been sighted again, in San Francisco. The Doctor, aided by Sam, must find a way to stop them.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20415'),
(15719, 'Doctor Who: Vanderdeken&#39;s Children', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 3123, and traveling in the Tardis into deepest space, the Doctor and Sam find three spacecraft. One is a Ximosian warship, the other an Emindaran civilian starliner, and the third a ship of strange allen design. Both Ximosian and Emindaran crews want to discover what cargo this strange structure holds.In attempting to discover where these vessels come from, the Doctor and Sam unearth a terrible truth. The aden ship is caught in a closed loop of time, being neither created nor destroyed, constantly circling the vortex. The Doctor wants the ship to be destroyed, but the Ximosian and Emindarans are caught in a wrestle for power, and both desire to possess the spacecraft and transform its power into a source for their own political ends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6798'),
(15720, 'Doctor Who: Vanderdeken&#39;s Children', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is 3123, and traveling in the Tardis into deepest space, the Doctor and Sam find three spacecraft. One is a Ximosian warship, the other an Emindaran civilian starliner, and the third a ship of strange allen design. Both Ximosian and Emindaran crews want to discover what cargo this strange structure holds.In attempting to discover where these vessels come from, the Doctor and Sam unearth a terrible truth. The aden ship is caught in a closed loop of time, being neither created nor destroyed, constantly circling the vortex. The Doctor wants the ship to be destroyed, but the Ximosian and Emindarans are caught in a wrestle for power, and both desire to possess the spacecraft and transform its power into a source for their own political ends.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18039'),
(15721, 'Doctor Who: Vanishing Point', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The planet Khnemu is a closed system where space travel is prohibited by the white and black holes that distantly ring the galaxy. Each person on the planet carries in their genes a hereditary "Godswitch" which enables "God" to monitor their every move. People on their deathbeds are told the meaning of their life by God, but increasing numbers of people seem to be dying of unnatural causes. It is the job of the Destinists to investigate these people''s lifestyles in order to explain the reasons for their premature deaths to their families.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1154'),
(15722, 'Doctor Who: Vanishing Point', 'Stephen Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The planet Khnemu is a closed system where space travel is prohibited by the white and black holes that distantly ring the galaxy. Each person on the planet carries in their genes a hereditary "Godswitch" which enables "God" to monitor their every move. People on their deathbeds are told the meaning of their life by God, but increasing numbers of people seem to be dying of unnatural causes. It is the job of the Destinists to investigate these people''s lifestyles in order to explain the reasons for their premature deaths to their families.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23799'),
(15723, 'Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos', 'Philip Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On Varos the descendants of a prison planet are force-fed a diet of endless video nasties, execution is spectacle and torture is high entertainment. The Tardis arrives desperately short of Zeiton 7 ore to power its engines, and Doctor Who knows that Varos is the only place it can be found.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2110'),
(15724, 'Doctor Who: Verdigris', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Iris Wildthyme and her new friend Tom visit the Doctor at home in 1973. While out on a day trip, a single carriage materializes out of nowhere, full of comatose bodies in eighteenth century dress. As they arrange for these people to be taken to the hospital, they are watched by an oddly-dressed boy and gift, who quickly vanish. Meanwhile the train passengers die and crumble into a green powder -- Verdigris.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2219'),
(15725, 'Doctor Who: Verdigris', 'Paul Magrs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Iris Wildthyme and her new friend Tom visit the Doctor at home in 1973. While out on a day trip, a single carriage materializes out of nowhere, full of comatose bodies in eighteenth century dress. As they arrange for these people to be taken to the hospital, they are watched by an oddly-dressed boy and gift, who quickly vanish. Meanwhile the train passengers die and crumble into a green powder -- Verdigris.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22564'),
(15726, 'Doctor Who: War Games', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a Doctor Who novelization, first published by Target Books in 1979, the Doctor and his companions are faced by an evil of such magnitude they are forced to turn to the only people that can help themâ€”the Time Lords.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3191'),
(15727, 'Doctor Who: War Games', 'Malcolm Hulke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this exciting reading of a Doctor Who novelization, first published by Target Books in 1979, the Doctor and his companions are faced by an evil of such magnitude they are forced to turn to the only people that can help themâ€”the Time Lords.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21336'),
(15728, 'Doctor Who: War Machine', 'Ian Stuart Black', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   ondon, 1966. The TARDIS materialises in the shadow of the newly-completed Post Office Tower in London and the Doctor senses a strange energy in the air. He instinctively knows that evil is at work nearby.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Posing as a scientist, the Doctor and his ''secretary'' Dodo gain access to a suite at the top of the tower, and meet the driven Professor Brett. His life''s work, the thinking computer WOTAN, is about to be linked up in a problem-solving network with many other machines around the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But the Doctor is concerned. How can WOTAN possibly know the meaning of the word TARDIS and about the Doctor''s travels through time and space? What is the strange control that WOTAN can exert over humans via a mere telephone call? And what is the computer''s link with the deadly robots being assembled in a Covent Garden warehouse? Soon, London will face an army of war machines, ruthlessly programmed to eliminate all who stand in their way...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4980'),
(15729, 'Doctor Who: War Machine', 'Ian Stuart Black', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   ondon, 1966. The TARDIS materialises in the shadow of the newly-completed Post Office Tower in London and the Doctor senses a strange energy in the air. He instinctively knows that evil is at work nearby.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Posing as a scientist, the Doctor and his ''secretary'' Dodo gain access to a suite at the top of the tower, and meet the driven Professor Brett. His life''s work, the thinking computer WOTAN, is about to be linked up in a problem-solving network with many other machines around the world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   But the Doctor is concerned. How can WOTAN possibly know the meaning of the word TARDIS and about the Doctor''s travels through time and space? What is the strange control that WOTAN can exert over humans via a mere telephone call? And what is the computer''s link with the deadly robots being assembled in a Covent Garden warehouse? Soon, London will face an army of war machines, ruthlessly programmed to eliminate all who stand in their way...\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19621'),
(15730, 'Doctor Who: War of the Daleks', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doctor Who is repairing the Tardis systems when it is swept up by the Quetzel, a garbage ship roving space. When another ship takes the Quetzel by force, the Doctor discovers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travellers abroad - there is a strangely familiar survival pod in the hold.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4323'),
(15731, 'Doctor Who: War of the Daleks', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Doctor Who is repairing the Tardis systems when it is swept up by the Quetzel, a garbage ship roving space. When another ship takes the Quetzel by force, the Doctor discovers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travellers abroad - there is a strangely familiar survival pod in the hold.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20290'),
(15732, 'Doctor Who: Warchild', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Adolescence is a difficult time. Especially when you have the power to rule the world.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Creed is just an ordinary guy -- as ordinary as you can be when youâ€™re a secret agent working for the government. But his family is another matter. His youngest child seems able to read his mind. His oldest boy, ricky, may posssess a stranger and far more frightening power. And others seem interested in his â€˜giftedâ€™ children -- sinister forces who see them as a resource to be exploited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Around the world, the Doctorâ€™s companions have been put in place, ready to act when the time is right. Old friends and enemies are gathering for a final confrontation that will shape the future of the globe -- and the evolution of mankind.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7911'),
(15733, 'Doctor Who: Warchild', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    Adolescence is a difficult time. Especially when you have the power to rule the world.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Creed is just an ordinary guy -- as ordinary as you can be when youâ€™re a secret agent working for the government. But his family is another matter. His youngest child seems able to read his mind. His oldest boy, ricky, may posssess a stranger and far more frightening power. And others seem interested in his â€˜giftedâ€™ children -- sinister forces who see them as a resource to be exploited.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Around the world, the Doctorâ€™s companions have been put in place, ready to act when the time is right. Old friends and enemies are gathering for a final confrontation that will shape the future of the globe -- and the evolution of mankind.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16248'),
(15734, 'Doctor Who: Warlock', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    It was the ruthless pack instinct of the primeval forest. But warlock magnified it a thousand times and made it lethal.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Thereâ€™s a strange new drug on the street. Itâ€™s called warlock and some people say itâ€™s the creation of the devil. Others see it as the gateway to enlightenment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Benny is working with an undercover cop, trying to track down its source. Ace is trapped in a horrific animal experimentation laboratory. But only the Doctor has begun to guess the terrible truth about warlock.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This disturbing sequel toÂ \n   <a href="http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na06.htm">\n    Warhead\n   </a>\n   Â moves beyond cyberpunk into a realm where reality is a question of brain chemistry and heaven or hell comes in the shape of a pill.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7597'),
(15735, 'Doctor Who: Warlock', 'Andrew Cartmel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    It was the ruthless pack instinct of the primeval forest. But warlock magnified it a thousand times and made it lethal.\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Thereâ€™s a strange new drug on the street. Itâ€™s called warlock and some people say itâ€™s the creation of the devil. Others see it as the gateway to enlightenment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Benny is working with an undercover cop, trying to track down its source. Ace is trapped in a horrific animal experimentation laboratory. But only the Doctor has begun to guess the terrible truth about warlock.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   This disturbing sequel toÂ \n   <a href="http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na06.htm">\n    Warhead\n   </a>\n   Â moves beyond cyberpunk into a realm where reality is a question of brain chemistry and heaven or hell comes in the shape of a pill.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16247'),
(15736, 'Doctor Who: Warmonger', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A chain of events has been set in motion that will change the Doctor and Peri forever. A chain that involves old enemies as well as old friends. How does Peri come to be the leader of a gang of rebel fighters on an outlying planet? Who is the mysterious ''General'' against whom they are rebelling so violently? Where does the so-called ''Supremo'', leader of the Alliance forces ranged against the General, come from, and why is he so interested in Peri? The answers lie in the origins of a conflict that will affect the whole cosmos - a conflict that will find humans, Sontarans, Draconians and even Cybermen fighting together for the greater good and glory. For the Supremo. It is a conflict that will test both the Doctor and Peri to the limit, and bring them face to face with the dark sides of their own personalities.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/732'),
(15737, 'Doctor Who: Warmonger', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A chain of events has been set in motion that will change the Doctor and Peri forever. A chain that involves old enemies as well as old friends. How does Peri come to be the leader of a gang of rebel fighters on an outlying planet? Who is the mysterious ''General'' against whom they are rebelling so violently? Where does the so-called ''Supremo'', leader of the Alliance forces ranged against the General, come from, and why is he so interested in Peri? The answers lie in the origins of a conflict that will affect the whole cosmos - a conflict that will find humans, Sontarans, Draconians and even Cybermen fighting together for the greater good and glory. For the Supremo. It is a conflict that will test both the Doctor and Peri to the limit, and bring them face to face with the dark sides of their own personalities.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24156'),
(15738, 'Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novelization of a Doctor Who television script. The Doctor and Jo simply meant to take a ride in the Tardis to check that it was working. But instead, the Tardis takes them to Peladon, a medieval world which is seeking membership of the Galactic Federation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/733'),
(15739, 'Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A novelization of a Doctor Who television script. The Doctor and Jo simply meant to take a ride in the Tardis to check that it was working. But instead, the Tardis takes them to Peladon, a medieval world which is seeking membership of the Galactic Federation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24154'),
(15740, 'Doctor Who: Warriors&#39; Gate', 'John Lydecker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A strange creature forces its way into the TARDIS while the Doctor is searching for a way out of E-Space. It steers them to a white void occupied only by the ruins of an old building and a sinister spaceship.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The void is actually a gateway to the past and future, a cosmic mirror guarded by axe-wielding robots. And the creature that brought them here is Biroc, a Tharil, a race doomed to be hunted and enslaved. Biroc seeks freedom for his people, while the captain of the spaceship seeks escape from the alternative universe -- and will kill every Tharil he holds to break free.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The gateway offers the only exit, but the void is contracting. Are the Doctor and his friends fated to spend eternity in E-Space?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4291'),
(15741, 'Doctor Who: Warriors&#39; Gate', 'John Lydecker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   A strange creature forces its way into the TARDIS while the Doctor is searching for a way out of E-Space. It steers them to a white void occupied only by the ruins of an old building and a sinister spaceship.\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  The void is actually a gateway to the past and future, a cosmic mirror guarded by axe-wielding robots. And the creature that brought them here is Biroc, a Tharil, a race doomed to be hunted and enslaved. Biroc seeks freedom for his people, while the captain of the spaceship seeks escape from the alternative universe -- and will kill every Tharil he holds to break free.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The gateway offers the only exit, but the void is contracting. Are the Doctor and his friends fated to spend eternity in E-Space?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20339'),
(15742, 'Doctor Who: Wetworld', 'Mark Michalowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS makes a disastrous landing in the swamps of the planet Sunday, the Doctor has no choice but to abandon Martha and try to find help. But the tranquility of Sunday''s swamps is deceptive, and even the TARDIS can''t protect Martha forever. The human pioneers of Sunday have their own dangers to face: homeless and alone, they''re only just starting to realise that Sunday''s wildlife isn''t as harmless as it first seems. Why are the native otters behaving so strangely, and what is the creature in the swamps that is so interested in the humans, and the new arrivals? The Doctor and Martha must fight to ensure that human intelligence doesn''t become the greatest danger of all.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Michalowski is the author of two previous Doctor Who novels Relative Dementias and Halflife\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3127'),
(15743, 'Doctor Who: Wetworld', 'Mark Michalowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When the TARDIS makes a disastrous landing in the swamps of the planet Sunday, the Doctor has no choice but to abandon Martha and try to find help. But the tranquility of Sunday''s swamps is deceptive, and even the TARDIS can''t protect Martha forever. The human pioneers of Sunday have their own dangers to face: homeless and alone, they''re only just starting to realise that Sunday''s wildlife isn''t as harmless as it first seems. Why are the native otters behaving so strangely, and what is the creature in the swamps that is so interested in the humans, and the new arrivals? The Doctor and Martha must fight to ensure that human intelligence doesn''t become the greatest danger of all.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Mark Michalowski is the author of two previous Doctor Who novels Relative Dementias and Halflife\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21737'),
(15744, 'Doctor Who: White Darkness', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This new series of original novels takes up where the TV series left off. Novels published in 1992 demonstrated the scope of this series, from all-action space adventure to psychological thriller to mythic fantasy. All stories feature the Seventh Doctor and his new companion, Bernice Summerfield.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6436'),
(15745, 'Doctor Who: White Darkness', 'David A. McIntee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This new series of original novels takes up where the TV series left off. Novels published in 1992 demonstrated the scope of this series, from all-action space adventure to psychological thriller to mythic fantasy. All stories feature the Seventh Doctor and his new companion, Bernice Summerfield.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17668'),
(15746, 'Doctor Who: Winner Takes All', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rose and the Doctor return to present-day Earth to visit Rose''s mum, and become intrigued by the latest craze -- the video game, Death to Mantodeans. Is it as harmless as it seems? And why are so many local people going on holiday and never returning? Meanwhile, on another world, an alien war is raging. The Quevvils need to find a new means of attacking the ruthless Mantodeans. Searching the galaxy for cunning, warlike but gullible allies, they find the ideal soldiers - on Earth. Will Rose be able to save her family and friends from the alien threat? And can the Doctor play the game to the end - and win?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4925'),
(15747, 'Doctor Who: Winner Takes All', 'Jacqueline Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rose and the Doctor return to present-day Earth to visit Rose''s mum, and become intrigued by the latest craze -- the video game, Death to Mantodeans. Is it as harmless as it seems? And why are so many local people going on holiday and never returning? Meanwhile, on another world, an alien war is raging. The Quevvils need to find a new means of attacking the ruthless Mantodeans. Searching the galaxy for cunning, warlike but gullible allies, they find the ideal soldiers - on Earth. Will Rose be able to save her family and friends from the alien threat? And can the Doctor play the game to the end - and win?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19793'),
(15748, 'Doctor Who: Wishing Well', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The old village well is just a curiosity - something to attract tourists intrigued by stories of lost treasure, or visitors just making a wish. Unless something alien and terrifying could be lurking inside the well. Something utterly monstrous that causes nothing but death and destruction! But who knows the real truth about the well? Who wishes to unleash the hideous force it contains? What terrible consequences will follow the search for a legendary treasure hidden at the bottom? No one wants to believe the Doctor''s warnings about the deadly horror lying in wait - but soon they''ll wish they had...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/470'),
(15749, 'Doctor Who: Wishing Well', 'Trevor Baxendale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The old village well is just a curiosity - something to attract tourists intrigued by stories of lost treasure, or visitors just making a wish. Unless something alien and terrifying could be lurking inside the well. Something utterly monstrous that causes nothing but death and destruction! But who knows the real truth about the well? Who wishes to unleash the hideous force it contains? What terrible consequences will follow the search for a legendary treasure hidden at the bottom? No one wants to believe the Doctor''s warnings about the deadly horror lying in wait - but soon they''ll wish they had...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24467'),
(15750, 'Doctor Who: Wolfsbane', 'Jac Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry is dead. Having left him abandoned and alone in pre-war Britain, the Doctor and Sarah try to solve the mystery of his death. But the only witness is in a lunatic asylum, driven mad by what he has seen. He tells of murder and mutilation, of living trees and long-dead legends, of wolfmen and war...And of a mysterious stranger known only as the Doctor. Can it be true that Harry discovered the last resting place of the Holy Grail? Why are the flowers and trees in a Somerset village in full bloom at Christmas? And is it just a coincidence that Harry died under a full moon? This adventure features the Fourth and Eighth Doctors, Sarah Jane and Harry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4863'),
(15751, 'Doctor Who: Wolfsbane', 'Jac Rayner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Harry is dead. Having left him abandoned and alone in pre-war Britain, the Doctor and Sarah try to solve the mystery of his death. But the only witness is in a lunatic asylum, driven mad by what he has seen. He tells of murder and mutilation, of living trees and long-dead legends, of wolfmen and war...And of a mysterious stranger known only as the Doctor. Can it be true that Harry discovered the last resting place of the Holy Grail? Why are the flowers and trees in a Somerset village in full bloom at Christmas? And is it just a coincidence that Harry died under a full moon? This adventure features the Fourth and Eighth Doctors, Sarah Jane and Harry.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19792'),
(15752, 'Doctor Who: Wonderland', 'Mark Chadbourn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n San Francisco 1967. A place of love and peace as the hippy movement is in full swing. Summer, however, has lost her boyfriend, and fears him dead, destroyed by a new drug: Blue Moonbeam. Her only friends are 3 English tourists: Ben and Polly, and their mysterious guardian and friend the Doctor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3073'),
(15753, 'Doctor Who: Wonderland', 'Mark Chadbourn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n San Francisco 1967. A place of love and peace as the hippy movement is in full swing. Summer, however, has lost her boyfriend, and fears him dead, destroyed by a new drug: Blue Moonbeam. Her only friends are 3 English tourists: Ben and Polly, and their mysterious guardian and friend the Doctor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21764'),
(15754, 'Doctor Who: Wooden Heart', 'Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Castor, a vast starship, seemingly deserted and spinning slowly in the void of deep space. Martha and the Doctor explore the drifting tomb, and discover that they may not be alone after all... Who survived the disaster that overcame the rest of the crew? What continues to power the vessel? And why has a stretch of wooded countryside suddenly appeared in the middle of the craft? As the Doctor and Martha journey through the forest, they find a mysterious, fogbound village - a village traumatised by missing children and tales of its own destruction...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3040'),
(15755, 'Doctor Who: Wooden Heart', 'Martin Day', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Castor, a vast starship, seemingly deserted and spinning slowly in the void of deep space. Martha and the Doctor explore the drifting tomb, and discover that they may not be alone after all... Who survived the disaster that overcame the rest of the crew? What continues to power the vessel? And why has a stretch of wooded countryside suddenly appeared in the middle of the craft? As the Doctor and Martha journey through the forest, they find a mysterious, fogbound village - a village traumatised by missing children and tales of its own destruction...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21783'),
(15756, 'Doctor Who: World Game', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Doctor has been captured and put on trial by his own people - accused of their greatest crime: interfering with the affairs of other peoples and planets. He is sentenced to exile on Earth. But now the truth can be told - the Doctor did not go straight into exile. First the Time Lords have a task for him. From the trenches of the Great War to the terrors of the French Revolution, the Doctor finds himself on a mission he does not want with a companion he does not like, his life threatened at every turn. Will the Doctor survive to serve his sentence? Or will this adventure prove to be his Waterloo?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/735'),
(15757, 'Doctor Who: World Game', 'Terrance Dicks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Doctor has been captured and put on trial by his own people - accused of their greatest crime: interfering with the affairs of other peoples and planets. He is sentenced to exile on Earth. But now the truth can be told - the Doctor did not go straight into exile. First the Time Lords have a task for him. From the trenches of the Great War to the terrors of the French Revolution, the Doctor finds himself on a mission he does not want with a companion he does not like, his life threatened at every turn. Will the Doctor survive to serve his sentence? Or will this adventure prove to be his Waterloo?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24153'),
(15758, 'Doctor Who: Zamper', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the far side of a break in space is the planet Zamper, target for the last warriors of the Chelonian empire: can the Doctor defeat them?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5538'),
(15759, 'Doctor Who: Zamper', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the far side of a break in space is the planet Zamper, target for the last warriors of the Chelonian empire: can the Doctor defeat them?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19192'),
(15760, 'Doctor Who: Zeta Major', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his fourth incarnation, the Doctor landed on the planet Zeta Minor, a world located on the edge of the known universe, the bridge-point for the opposite universes of matter and anti-matter.Now in his fifth life, the Doctor meets the same race the landed there before, and once again they are eager to harness its secrets -- with terrifyingly dangerous results.Caught up in a situation akin to a Jacobean revenge tragedy, the Doctor must fight his way through layers of court intrigue before he can try to stop the people really in control from allowing the forces of Anti-matter free reign to destroy every life-form in the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1259'),
(15761, 'Doctor Who: Zeta Major', 'Simon Messingham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his fourth incarnation, the Doctor landed on the planet Zeta Minor, a world located on the edge of the known universe, the bridge-point for the opposite universes of matter and anti-matter.Now in his fifth life, the Doctor meets the same race the landed there before, and once again they are eager to harness its secrets -- with terrifyingly dangerous results.Caught up in a situation akin to a Jacobean revenge tragedy, the Doctor must fight his way through layers of court intrigue before he can try to stop the people really in control from allowing the forces of Anti-matter free reign to destroy every life-form in the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23657'),
(15762, 'Doctor Zhivago', 'Boris Pasternak &amp; Richard Pevear &amp; Larissa Volokhonsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The previous English-language translation of Boris Pasternakâ€™s\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n was made and brought out in England and the U.S. in extreme haste, on the eve of the 1958 Nobel Prize award to its author that triggered one of the fiercest political storms of the Cold War era. This new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is for the first time based on the authentic original text, reflects the present, deeper level of understanding of the great masterpiece of 20th century Russian literature and conveys its whole artistic richness with all its complexities and subtleties that had escaped the attention of the earlier translators and readers.\n</p>\n<p>\n "In faithfulness to the original, attention to stylistic details and nuances, lucidity, and brilliance it matches Pevear and Volokhonskyâ€™s superb translations of such monumental works of the classics of Russian literature as Tolstoyâ€™s\n <em>\n  War and Peace\n </em>\n and Dostoevskyâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Brothers Karamazov\n </em>\n . The new edition will have an even more profound effect on our understanding of 20th century Russia that the first appearance of the novel had more than half a century ago."\n <br />\n â€”Lazar Fleishman, Professor of Russian Literature, Stanford University\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have once again provided an outstanding translation of a major Russian novel. They capture Pasternakâ€™s â€˜voiceâ€™ with great skill. Thanks to their sensitive rendering, those reading\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n in English can now get a far better sense of Pasternakâ€™s style, for they have produced an English text that conveys the nuances (along with the occasional idiosyncrasies) of Pasternakâ€™s writing.Â Notably as well, their version includes some phrases and sentences that inexplicably were omitted by the original translators.Â The text is accompanied by useful (but not overwhelming) notes in the back that provide information about many historical and cultural references that would otherwise be obscure for those coming to the novel for the first time.Â Without a doubt, their version will become the standard translation of the novel for years to come.â€\n <br />\n â€”Barry Scherr, Mandel Family Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Boris Pasternakâ€™s widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the award-winning translators of _War and Peace\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n Anna Karenina,\n <em>\n  and to whom,\n </em>\n The New York Review of Books_ declared, â€œthe English-speaking world is indebted.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversyâ€”the novel was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, and Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize a year later under intense pressure from Soviet authoritiesâ€”_Doctor Zhivago_ is the story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivagoâ€™s love for the tender and beautiful Lara: pursued, found, and lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stunningly rendered in the spirit of Pasternakâ€™s originalâ€”resurrecting his style, rhythms, voicings, and toneâ€”and including an introduction, textual annotations, and a translatorsâ€™ note, this edition of\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n is destined to become the definitive English translation of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7199');
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(15763, 'Doctor Zhivago', 'Boris Pasternak &amp; Richard Pevear &amp; Larissa Volokhonsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The previous English-language translation of Boris Pasternakâ€™s\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n was made and brought out in England and the U.S. in extreme haste, on the eve of the 1958 Nobel Prize award to its author that triggered one of the fiercest political storms of the Cold War era. This new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is for the first time based on the authentic original text, reflects the present, deeper level of understanding of the great masterpiece of 20th century Russian literature and conveys its whole artistic richness with all its complexities and subtleties that had escaped the attention of the earlier translators and readers.\n</p>\n<p>\n "In faithfulness to the original, attention to stylistic details and nuances, lucidity, and brilliance it matches Pevear and Volokhonskyâ€™s superb translations of such monumental works of the classics of Russian literature as Tolstoyâ€™s\n <em>\n  War and Peace\n </em>\n and Dostoevskyâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Brothers Karamazov\n </em>\n . The new edition will have an even more profound effect on our understanding of 20th century Russia that the first appearance of the novel had more than half a century ago."\n <br />\n â€”Lazar Fleishman, Professor of Russian Literature, Stanford University\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have once again provided an outstanding translation of a major Russian novel. They capture Pasternakâ€™s â€˜voiceâ€™ with great skill. Thanks to their sensitive rendering, those reading\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n in English can now get a far better sense of Pasternakâ€™s style, for they have produced an English text that conveys the nuances (along with the occasional idiosyncrasies) of Pasternakâ€™s writing.Â Notably as well, their version includes some phrases and sentences that inexplicably were omitted by the original translators.Â The text is accompanied by useful (but not overwhelming) notes in the back that provide information about many historical and cultural references that would otherwise be obscure for those coming to the novel for the first time.Â Without a doubt, their version will become the standard translation of the novel for years to come.â€\n <br />\n â€”Barry Scherr, Mandel Family Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Boris Pasternakâ€™s widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the award-winning translators of _War and Peace\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n Anna Karenina,\n <em>\n  and to whom,\n </em>\n The New York Review of Books_ declared, â€œthe English-speaking world is indebted.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversyâ€”the novel was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, and Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize a year later under intense pressure from Soviet authoritiesâ€”_Doctor Zhivago_ is the story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivagoâ€™s love for the tender and beautiful Lara: pursued, found, and lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stunningly rendered in the spirit of Pasternakâ€™s originalâ€”resurrecting his style, rhythms, voicings, and toneâ€”and including an introduction, textual annotations, and a translatorsâ€™ note, this edition of\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n is destined to become the definitive English translation of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11769'),
(15764, 'Doctor Zhivago', 'Boris Pasternak; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The previous English-language translation of Boris Pasternakâ€™s\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n was made and brought out in England and the U.S. in extreme haste, on the eve of the 1958 Nobel Prize award to its author that triggered one of the fiercest political storms of the Cold War era. This new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is for the first time based on the authentic original text, reflects the present, deeper level of understanding of the great masterpiece of 20th century Russian literature and conveys its whole artistic richness with all its complexities and subtleties that had escaped the attention of the earlier translators and readers.\n</p>\n<p>\n "In faithfulness to the original, attention to stylistic details and nuances, lucidity, and brilliance it matches Pevear and Volokhonskyâ€™s superb translations of such monumental works of the classics of Russian literature as Tolstoyâ€™s\n <em>\n  War and Peace\n </em>\n and Dostoevskyâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Brothers Karamazov\n </em>\n . The new edition will have an even more profound effect on our understanding of 20th century Russia that the first appearance of the novel had more than half a century ago."\n <br />\n â€”Lazar Fleishman, Professor of Russian Literature, Stanford University\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have once again provided an outstanding translation of a major Russian novel. They capture Pasternakâ€™s â€˜voiceâ€™ with great skill. Thanks to their sensitive rendering, those reading\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n in English can now get a far better sense of Pasternakâ€™s style, for they have produced an English text that conveys the nuances (along with the occasional idiosyncrasies) of Pasternakâ€™s writing.Â Notably as well, their version includes some phrases and sentences that inexplicably were omitted by the original translators.Â The text is accompanied by useful (but not overwhelming) notes in the back that provide information about many historical and cultural references that would otherwise be obscure for those coming to the novel for the first time.Â Without a doubt, their version will become the standard translation of the novel for years to come.â€\n <br />\n â€”Barry Scherr, Mandel Family Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Boris Pasternakâ€™s widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the award-winning translators of _War and Peace\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n Anna Karenina,\n <em>\n  and to whom,\n </em>\n The New York Review of Books_ declared, â€œthe English-speaking world is indebted.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversyâ€”the novel was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, and Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize a year later under intense pressure from Soviet authoritiesâ€”_Doctor Zhivago_ is the story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivagoâ€™s love for the tender and beautiful Lara: pursued, found, and lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times.\n</p>\n<p>\n Stunningly rendered in the spirit of Pasternakâ€™s originalâ€”resurrecting his style, rhythms, voicings, and toneâ€”and including an introduction, textual annotations, and a translatorsâ€™ note, this edition of\n <em>\n  Doctor Zhivago\n </em>\n is destined to become the definitive English translation of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16661'),
(15765, 'Doctor Zhivago', 'Boris Leonidovich Pasternak', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26673'),
(15766, 'Doctored Evidence', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti once again finds himself pursuing a puzzling case his fellow policemen would rather leave closed. What appears to be a cut-and-dried murder case pinpoints an elderly lady''s maid as her killer. However, Brunetti comes to a different conclusion and decides--unofficially--to take on the case himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5877'),
(15767, 'Doctored Evidence', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti once again finds himself pursuing a puzzling case his fellow policemen would rather leave closed. What appears to be a cut-and-dried murder case pinpoints an elderly lady''s maid as her killer. However, Brunetti comes to a different conclusion and decides--unofficially--to take on the case himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18749'),
(15768, 'Doctored Evidence', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti once again finds himself pursuing a puzzling case his fellow policemen would rather leave closed. What appears to be a cut-and-dried murder case pinpoints an elderly lady''s maid as her killer. However, Brunetti comes to a different conclusion and decides--unofficially--to take on the case himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27472'),
(15769, 'Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?', 'Tyler, Steven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13619'),
(15770, 'Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock &#39;N&#39; Roll Memoir', 'Steven Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRoll â€˜em: Tylerâ€™s memoir is a wild ride. Explicit and filled with expletives, it reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling â€œLife.â€ Tyler, 63, settles back and tells story after story about life in the â€œmost decadent, lecherous, sexiest, nastiest band in the land.â€â€ (Associated Press )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExplicit and filled with expletives, the memoir -- titled Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? -- reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling Life.â€ (The Oregonian (Portland) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, whoâ€™s been influential for a whole generation of Rock-n-Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!â€ (Sir Paul McCartney )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is an unalloyed geniusâ€ (New York Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSex, drugs, and rock â€˜nâ€™ rollâ€¦gets a booster shot of head-spinning authenticity in Steven Tylerâ€™s brash memoir Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?...a frank, full, and colorful accounting of the bandâ€™s tumultuous history.â€ (USA Today )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I''ve been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I''ve been Cole-Portered and farmer''s-daughtered, I''ve been Led Zepped and 12-stepped. I''m a rhyming fool and so cool that me, Fritz the Cat, and Mohair Sam are the baddest cats that am. I have so many outrageous stories, too many, and I''m gonna tell ''em all. All the unexpurgated, brain-jangling tales of debauchery, sex &amp; drugs, transcendence &amp; chemical dependence you will ever want to hear."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The son of a classical pianist straight out of the Bronx of old Archie comics, Steven Tyler was born to be a rock star. Weaned on Cole Porter, Nat King Cole, Mickâ€”and his beloved Janis Joplinâ€”Tyler began tearing up the streets and the stage as a teenager before finally meeting his "mutant twin" and legendary partner Joe Perry. In this addictively readable memoir, told in the playful, poetic voice that is uniquely his own, Tyler unabashedly recounts the meteoric rise, fall, and rise of Aerosmith over the last three decades and riffs on the music that gives it all meaning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tyler tells what it''s like to be a living legend and the frontman of one of the world''s most revered and infamous bandsâ€”the debauchery, the money, the notoriety, the fights, the motels and hotels, the elevators, limos, buses and jets, the rehab. He reveals the spiritual side that "gets lost behind the stereotype of the Sex Guy, the Drug Guy, the Demon of Screamin'', the Terror of the Tropicana." And he talks about his epic romantic life and his relationship with his four children. As dazzling, bold, and out-on-the-edge as the man himself,\n  <em>\n   Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?\n  </em>\n  is an all-access backstage pass into this extraordinary showman''s life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/914'),
(15771, 'Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock &#39;N&#39; Roll Memoir', 'Steven Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRoll â€˜em: Tylerâ€™s memoir is a wild ride. Explicit and filled with expletives, it reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling â€œLife.â€ Tyler, 63, settles back and tells story after story about life in the â€œmost decadent, lecherous, sexiest, nastiest band in the land.â€â€ (Associated Press )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExplicit and filled with expletives, the memoir -- titled Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? -- reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling Life.â€ (The Oregonian (Portland) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, whoâ€™s been influential for a whole generation of Rock-n-Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!â€ (Sir Paul McCartney )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is an unalloyed geniusâ€ (New York Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSex, drugs, and rock â€˜nâ€™ rollâ€¦gets a booster shot of head-spinning authenticity in Steven Tylerâ€™s brash memoir Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?...a frank, full, and colorful accounting of the bandâ€™s tumultuous history.â€ (USA Today )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I''ve been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I''ve been Cole-Portered and farmer''s-daughtered, I''ve been Led Zepped and 12-stepped. I''m a rhyming fool and so cool that me, Fritz the Cat, and Mohair Sam are the baddest cats that am. I have so many outrageous stories, too many, and I''m gonna tell ''em all. All the unexpurgated, brain-jangling tales of debauchery, sex &amp; drugs, transcendence &amp; chemical dependence you will ever want to hear."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The son of a classical pianist straight out of the Bronx of old Archie comics, Steven Tyler was born to be a rock star. Weaned on Cole Porter, Nat King Cole, Mickâ€”and his beloved Janis Joplinâ€”Tyler began tearing up the streets and the stage as a teenager before finally meeting his "mutant twin" and legendary partner Joe Perry. In this addictively readable memoir, told in the playful, poetic voice that is uniquely his own, Tyler unabashedly recounts the meteoric rise, fall, and rise of Aerosmith over the last three decades and riffs on the music that gives it all meaning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tyler tells what it''s like to be a living legend and the frontman of one of the world''s most revered and infamous bandsâ€”the debauchery, the money, the notoriety, the fights, the motels and hotels, the elevators, limos, buses and jets, the rehab. He reveals the spiritual side that "gets lost behind the stereotype of the Sex Guy, the Drug Guy, the Demon of Screamin'', the Terror of the Tropicana." And he talks about his epic romantic life and his relationship with his four children. As dazzling, bold, and out-on-the-edge as the man himself,\n  <em>\n   Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?\n  </em>\n  is an all-access backstage pass into this extraordinary showman''s life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13085'),
(15772, 'Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock &#39;N&#39; Roll Memoir', 'Steven Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRoll â€˜em: Tylerâ€™s memoir is a wild ride. Explicit and filled with expletives, it reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling â€œLife.â€ Tyler, 63, settles back and tells story after story about life in the â€œmost decadent, lecherous, sexiest, nastiest band in the land.â€â€ (Associated Press )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œExplicit and filled with expletives, the memoir -- titled Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? -- reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richardsâ€™ best-selling Life.â€ (The Oregonian (Portland) )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, whoâ€™s been influential for a whole generation of Rock-n-Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!â€ (Sir Paul McCartney )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSteven Tyler is an unalloyed geniusâ€ (New York Times )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSex, drugs, and rock â€˜nâ€™ roll...gets a booster shot of head-spinning authenticity in Steven Tylerâ€™s brash memoir Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?...a frank, full, and colorful accounting of the bandâ€™s tumultuous history.â€ (USA Today )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I''ve been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I''ve been Cole-Portered and farmer''s-daughtered, I''ve been Led Zepped and 12-stepped. I''m a rhyming fool and so cool that me, Fritz the Cat, and Mohair Sam are the baddest cats that am. I have so many outrageous stories, too many, and I''m gonna tell ''em all. All the unexpurgated, brain-jangling tales of debauchery, sex &amp; drugs, transcendence &amp; chemical dependence you will ever want to hear."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The son of a classical pianist straight out of the Bronx of old Archie comics, Steven Tyler was born to be a rock star. Weaned on Cole Porter, Nat King Cole, Mickâ€”and his beloved Janis Joplinâ€”Tyler began tearing up the streets and the stage as a teenager before finally meeting his "mutant twin" and legendary partner Joe Perry. In this addictively readable memoir, told in the playful, poetic voice that is uniquely his own, Tyler unabashedly recounts the meteoric rise, fall, and rise of Aerosmith over the last three decades and riffs on the music that gives it all meaning.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tyler tells what it''s like to be a living legend and the frontman of one of the world''s most revered and infamous bandsâ€”the debauchery, the money, the notoriety, the fights, the motels and hotels, the elevators, limos, buses and jets, the rehab. He reveals the spiritual side that "gets lost behind the stereotype of the Sex Guy, the Drug Guy, the Demon of Screamin'', the Terror of the Tropicana." And he talks about his epic romantic life and his relationship with his four children. As dazzling, bold, and out-on-the-edge as the man himself,\n  <em>\n   Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?\n  </em>\n  is an all-access backstage pass into this extraordinary showman''s life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23932'),
(15773, 'Dog Blood', 'David Moody', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***On the heels of *Patient Zero *and *Pride and Prejudice with Zombiesâ€” *the electrifying sequel to *Hater *where humanity fights itself to the death against a backdrop of ultimate apocalyptic destruction\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The Earth has been torn into two parts by an irreversible division. Whether due to nature, or the unknown depths of the mind itself, everyone is now either Human or Hater. Victim or killer. Governments have fallen, command structures have collapsed, and relationships have crumbled. Major cities have become refugee camps where human survivors cower together in fear. Amidst this indiscriminate carnage, Danny McCoyne is on a mission to find his daughter Ellis, convinced that her shared Hater condition means her allegiance is to people like him. Free of inhibitions, unrestricted by memories of peace, and driven by instinct, children are pure Haters, and may well define the future of the Hater race. But, as McCoyne makes his way into the heart of human territory, an incident on the battlefield sets in place an unexpected chain of events, forcing him to question everything he believes he knows about the new order that has arisen, and the dynamic of the Hate itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6233'),
(15774, 'Dog Blood', 'David Moody', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***On the heels of *Patient Zero *and *Pride and Prejudice with Zombiesâ€” *the electrifying sequel to *Hater *where humanity fights itself to the death against a backdrop of ultimate apocalyptic destruction\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The Earth has been torn into two parts by an irreversible division. Whether due to nature, or the unknown depths of the mind itself, everyone is now either Human or Hater. Victim or killer. Governments have fallen, command structures have collapsed, and relationships have crumbled. Major cities have become refugee camps where human survivors cower together in fear. Amidst this indiscriminate carnage, Danny McCoyne is on a mission to find his daughter Ellis, convinced that her shared Hater condition means her allegiance is to people like him. Free of inhibitions, unrestricted by memories of peace, and driven by instinct, children are pure Haters, and may well define the future of the Hater race. But, as McCoyne makes his way into the heart of human territory, an incident on the battlefield sets in place an unexpected chain of events, forcing him to question everything he believes he knows about the new order that has arisen, and the dynamic of the Hate itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11504'),
(15775, 'Dog Blood', 'David Moody', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***On the heels of *Patient Zero *and *Pride and Prejudice with Zombiesâ€” *the electrifying sequel to *Hater *where humanity fights itself to the death against a backdrop of ultimate apocalyptic destruction ***The Earth has been torn into two parts by an irreversible division. Whether due to nature, or the unknown depths of the mind itself, everyone is now either Human or Hater. Victim or killer. Governments have fallen, command structures have collapsed, and relationships have crumbled. Major cities have become refugee camps where human survivors cower together in fear. Amidst this indiscriminate carnage, Danny McCoyne is on a mission to find his daughter Ellis, convinced that her shared Hater condition means her allegiance is to people like him. Free of inhibitions, unrestricted by memories of peace, and driven by instinct, children are pure Haters, and may well define the future of the Hater race. But, as McCoyne makes his way into the heart of human territory, an incident on the battlefield sets in place an unexpected chain of events, forcing him to question everything he believes he knows about the new order that has arisen, and the dynamic of the Hate itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17762'),
(15776, 'Dog Blood', 'David Moody', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***On the heels of *Patient Zero *and *Pride and Prejudice with Zombiesâ€” *the electrifying sequel to *Hater *where humanity fights itself to the death against a backdrop of ultimate apocalyptic destruction ***The Earth has been torn into two parts by an irreversible division. Whether due to nature, or the unknown depths of the mind itself, everyone is now either Human or Hater. Victim or killer. Governments have fallen, command structures have collapsed, and relationships have crumbled. Major cities have become refugee camps where human survivors cower together in fear. Amidst this indiscriminate carnage, Danny McCoyne is on a mission to find his daughter Ellis, convinced that her shared Hater condition means her allegiance is to people like him. Free of inhibitions, unrestricted by memories of peace, and driven by instinct, children are pure Haters, and may well define the future of the Hater race. But, as McCoyne makes his way into the heart of human territory, an incident on the battlefield sets in place an unexpected chain of events, forcing him to question everything he believes he knows about the new order that has arisen, and the dynamic of the Hate itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27357'),
(15777, 'The Dog Said Bow-Wow', 'Michael Swanwick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n In addition to their individual quality, the 16 stories in this rollicking collection amply demonstrate Hugo-winner Swanwick''s impressive versatility. Characters vary from feuding prospectors on a heat-scoured Venus in Tin Marsh to clients of The Bordello in Faerie. On one end of the mood spectrum are the three elegantly wry adventures of Darger and Surplus, roguish postapocalypse con artists; on the other is the gentle Triceratops Summer, told in a matter-of-fact, laconic style that at first seems to show wonderful things becoming commonplace and then reveals that the familiar can still be wonderful. Swanwick (_The Iron Dragon''s Daughter_) pulls apart overused situations to see what makes them tick and then constructs fresh, surprising plots from the pieces. The locked-room mystery may seem hopelessly stale, but not when it''s A Small Room in Koboldtown, where voodoo beings and sleazy politics abound. Readers tired of conventional fantasy and SF will find this collection of intriguing characters and lovingly told stories deeply refreshing.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rounding up all Swanwick''s stories to date about unusually nondescript human Darger and genetically modified dog Surplus, a previously unpublished novella, and three Hugo-winning pieces, this generous volume opens with "Hello, Said the Stick," in which a soldier en route to battle picks up a talking stick that turns out to be unwontedly dangerous. The new publication, "The Skysailor''s Tale," is an adventure on board a British airship claiming new lands for Queen Titania that is framed as a father telling his son about some of his strange doings when a lad. The Darger and Surplus capers, occuring after the age of computers in a suspiciously nineteenth-century-ish though far-future Europe, are satisfying tales of plotting and heists involving a great team, indeed. The closer, "Urdumheim," is the brilliantly imagined story of King Nimrod and the time when the world was new, people didn''t die, and there was only one language. Swanwick''s stories are possessed of sufficient depth and generic variety to satisfy quite a range of genre tastes. Schroeder, Regina\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2679'),
(15778, 'The Dog Said Bow-Wow', 'Michael Swanwick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n In addition to their individual quality, the 16 stories in this rollicking collection amply demonstrate Hugo-winner Swanwick''s impressive versatility. Characters vary from feuding prospectors on a heat-scoured Venus in Tin Marsh to clients of The Bordello in Faerie. On one end of the mood spectrum are the three elegantly wry adventures of Darger and Surplus, roguish postapocalypse con artists; on the other is the gentle Triceratops Summer, told in a matter-of-fact, laconic style that at first seems to show wonderful things becoming commonplace and then reveals that the familiar can still be wonderful. Swanwick (_The Iron Dragon''s Daughter_) pulls apart overused situations to see what makes them tick and then constructs fresh, surprising plots from the pieces. The locked-room mystery may seem hopelessly stale, but not when it''s A Small Room in Koboldtown, where voodoo beings and sleazy politics abound. Readers tired of conventional fantasy and SF will find this collection of intriguing characters and lovingly told stories deeply refreshing.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rounding up all Swanwick''s stories to date about unusually nondescript human Darger and genetically modified dog Surplus, a previously unpublished novella, and three Hugo-winning pieces, this generous volume opens with "Hello, Said the Stick," in which a soldier en route to battle picks up a talking stick that turns out to be unwontedly dangerous. The new publication, "The Skysailor''s Tale," is an adventure on board a British airship claiming new lands for Queen Titania that is framed as a father telling his son about some of his strange doings when a lad. The Darger and Surplus capers, occuring after the age of computers in a suspiciously nineteenth-century-ish though far-future Europe, are satisfying tales of plotting and heists involving a great team, indeed. The closer, "Urdumheim," is the brilliantly imagined story of King Nimrod and the time when the world was new, people didn''t die, and there was only one language. Swanwick''s stories are possessed of sufficient depth and generic variety to satisfy quite a range of genre tastes. Schroeder, Regina\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12913'),
(15779, 'The Dog Said Bow-Wow', 'Swanwick, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22052'),
(15780, 'The Dog Who Came in From the Cold', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Following on from the huge success of the 44 Scotland Street series, Alexander McCall Smith has ''moved house'' to a crumbling four-storey mansion in Pimlico - Corduroy Mansions. It is inhabited by a glorious assortment of characters: among them, Oedipus Snark, the first ever nasty Lib Dem MP, who is so detestable his own mother, Berthea, is writing an unauthorised biography about him; and one small vegetarian dog, Freddie de la Hay, who has the ability to fasten his own seatbelt. (Although Corduroy Mansions is a fictional name, the address is now registered by the Post Office.)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7687'),
(15781, 'The Dog Who Came in from the Cold', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Following on from the huge success of the 44 Scotland Street series, Alexander McCall Smith has ''moved house'' to a crumbling four-storey mansion in Pimlico - Corduroy Mansions. It is inhabited by a glorious assortment of characters: among them, Oedipus Snark, the first ever nasty Lib Dem MP, who is so detestable his own mother, Berthea, is writing an unauthorised biography about him; and one small vegetarian dog, Freddie de la Hay, who has the ability to fasten his own seatbelt. (Although Corduroy Mansions is a fictional name, the address is now registered by the Post Office.)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16148'),
(15782, 'The Dog Who Came in from the Cold', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Following on from the huge success of the 44 Scotland Street series, Alexander McCall Smith has ''moved house'' to a crumbling four-storey mansion in Pimlico - Corduroy Mansions. It is inhabited by a glorious assortment of characters: among them, Oedipus Snark, the first ever nasty Lib Dem MP, who is so detestable his own mother, Berthea, is writing an unauthorised biography about him; and one small vegetarian dog, Freddie de la Hay, who has the ability to fasten his own seatbelt. (Although Corduroy Mansions is a fictional name, the address is now registered by the Post Office.)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26327'),
(15783, 'A Dog&#39;s Purpose', 'W. Bruce Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is the remarkable story of one endearing dogâ€™s search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, A Dogâ€™s Purpose touches on the universal quest for an answer to life''s most basic question: Why are we here?Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden-haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Baileyâ€™s search for his new lifeâ€™s meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8-year-old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog.But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Baileyâ€™s journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wondersÂ—will he ever find his purpose?Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny, A Dog''s Purpose is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog''s many lives, but also a dog''s-eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man''s best friend. This moving and beautifully crafted story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/298'),
(15784, 'A Dog&#39;s Purpose', 'W. Bruce Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is the remarkable story of one endearing dogâ€™s search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, A Dogâ€™s Purpose touches on the universal quest for an answer to life''s most basic question: Why are we here?Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden-haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Baileyâ€™s search for his new lifeâ€™s meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8-year-old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog.But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Baileyâ€™s journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wondersÂ—will he ever find his purpose?Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny, A Dog''s Purpose is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog''s many lives, but also a dog''s-eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man''s best friend. This moving and beautifully crafted story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8834'),
(15785, 'A Dog&#39;s Purpose', 'W. Bruce Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is the remarkable story of one endearing dogâ€™s search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, A Dogâ€™s Purpose touches on the universal quest for an answer to life''s most basic question: Why are we here?Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden-haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Baileyâ€™s search for his new lifeâ€™s meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8-year-old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog.But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Baileyâ€™s journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wondersÂ—will he ever find his purpose?Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny, A Dog''s Purpose is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog''s many lives, but also a dog''s-eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man''s best friend. This moving and beautifully crafted story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24577'),
(15786, 'The Dogs of Riga (1992)', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It is winter 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team at the Ystad police station in Skane receive an anonymous tip-off.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A few days later what they have been warned of comes to pass: a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead.The dead men were Eastern European criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea to Riga in Latvia, a nation experiencing the massive social and political upheaval that will lead to its independence from the Soviet Union. There Wallander is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies. Doomed always to be one step behind the shadowy figures he pursues , he comes to understand what it is to live in a nation in which democracy is still only a dream. Only his dogged, almost subconscious desire to se that...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14180'),
(15787, 'The Dogs of Riga (1992)', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It is winter 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team at the Ystad police station in Skane receive an anonymous tip-off.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A few days later what they have been warned of comes to pass: a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead.The dead men were Eastern European criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea to Riga in Latvia, a nation experiencing the massive social and political upheaval that will lead to its independence from the Soviet Union. There Wallander is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies. Doomed always to be one step behind the shadowy figures he pursues , he comes to understand what it is to live in a nation in which democracy is still only a dream. Only his dogged, almost subconscious desire to se that...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28123'),
(15788, 'The Dogs of Riga', 'Henning Mankell &amp; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A few days later what they have been warned of comes to pass: a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead.The dead men were Eastern European criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea to Riga in Latvia, a nation experiencing the massive social and political upheaval that will lead to its independence from the Soviet Union. There Wallander is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies. Doomed always to be one step behind the shadowy figures he pursues , he comes to understand what it is to live in a nation in which democracy is still only a dream. Only his dogged, almost subconscious desire to se that justice is done brings the truth to light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5154'),
(15789, 'The dogs of Riga', 'Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A few days later what they have been warned of comes to pass: a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead.The dead men were Eastern European criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea to Riga in Latvia, a nation experiencing the massive social and political upheaval that will lead to its independence from the Soviet Union. There Wallander is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies. Doomed always to be one step behind the shadowy figures he pursues , he comes to understand what it is to live in a nation in which democracy is still only a dream. Only his dogged, almost subconscious desire to se that justice is done brings the truth to light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19449'),
(15790, 'The dogs of Riga', 'Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A few days later what they have been warned of comes to pass: a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead.The dead men were Eastern European criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea to Riga in Latvia, a nation experiencing the massive social and political upheaval that will lead to its independence from the Soviet Union. There Wallander is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies. Doomed always to be one step behind the shadowy figures he pursues , he comes to understand what it is to live in a nation in which democracy is still only a dream. Only his dogged, almost subconscious desire to se that justice is done brings the truth to light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28109'),
(15791, 'Dogs of War', 'David Drake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From David Weber to David Feintuch to David Drake, military writers have exploded onto the science fiction scene and continue to leave their mark. Now, bestselling Hammer''s Slammers creator David Drake pays homage to his own sub-genre by gathering 10 classic tales of men at arms by SF greats, including Hary Harrison, Joe Haldeman, Richard C. Matheson, Gene Wolfe, Keith Laumer, and David Drake himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n A stronghold of bestselling authors\n</p>\n<p>\n Contributors to this collection include such notable authors as Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Joe Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Richard C. Matheson, and many more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6333'),
(15792, 'Dogs of War', 'David Drake', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From David Weber to David Feintuch to David Drake, military writers have exploded onto the science fiction scene and continue to leave their mark. Now, bestselling Hammer''s Slammers creator David Drake pays homage to his own sub-genre by gathering 10 classic tales of men at arms by SF greats, including Hary Harrison, Joe Haldeman, Richard C. Matheson, Gene Wolfe, Keith Laumer, and David Drake himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n A stronghold of bestselling authors\n</p>\n<p>\n Contributors to this collection include such notable authors as Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Joe Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Richard C. Matheson, and many more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10919'),
(15793, 'Dogs of War', 'David Drake; Harry Harison; Joe Haldeman; Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From David Weber to David Feintuch to David Drake, military writers have exploded into the science fiction scene and continue to leave their marks. Now, bestselling Hammer''s Slammers creator David Drake pays homage to his own sub-genre by gathering 10 classic takes of men at arms by SF Greats, including Harry Harrison, Joe Haldeman, Richard C. Matheson, Gene Wolfe, Keith Laumer and David Drake himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17692'),
(15794, 'Dolan&#39;s Cadillac', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22981'),
(15795, 'Dolled Up for Murder', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Gretchen Birch, her mother Caroline, and her aunt Nina, doll collecting is a family affair. They may disagree on other things, but when it comes to dolls, they share a passion for the most exquisite (and expensive) creations in history. But they have never imagined that doll collecting could inspire foul play.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6115'),
(15796, 'Dolled Up for Murder', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Gretchen Birch, her mother Caroline, and her aunt Nina, doll collecting is a family affair. They may disagree on other things, but when it comes to dolls, they share a passion for the most exquisite (and expensive) creations in history. But they have never imagined that doll collecting could inspire foul play.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8269'),
(15797, 'Dolled Up for Murder', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For Gretchen Birch, her mother Caroline, and her aunt Nina, doll collecting is a family affair. They may disagree on other things, but when it comes to dolls, they share a passion for the most exquisite (and expensive) creations in history. But they have never imagined that doll collecting could inspire foul play.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17981'),
(15798, 'Dolled Up for Murder', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For Gretchen Birch, her mother Caroline, and her aunt Nina, doll collecting is a family affair. They may disagree on other things, but when it comes to dolls, they share a passion for the most exquisite (and expensive) creations in history. But they have never imagined that doll collecting could inspire foul play.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27408'),
(15799, 'Dolly Departed', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New in the "wonderful" (Green Bay Press Gazette) Dolls to Die For mystery series. When doll restoration artist Gretchen Birch finds the owner of a dollhouse shop murdered, she winds up in the thick of a mystery of miniature proportions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6116'),
(15800, 'Dolly Departed', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New in the "wonderful" (Green Bay Press Gazette) Dolls to Die For mystery series. When doll restoration artist Gretchen Birch finds the owner of a dollhouse shop murdered, she winds up in the thick of a mystery of miniature proportions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8267'),
(15801, 'Dolly Departed', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New in the "wonderful" (Green Bay Press Gazette) Dolls to Die For mystery series. When doll restoration artist Gretchen Birch finds the owner of a dollhouse shop murdered, she winds up in the thick of a mystery of miniature proportions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17980'),
(15802, 'Dolly Departed', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New in the "wonderful" (Green Bay Press Gazette) Dolls to Die For mystery series. When doll restoration artist Gretchen Birch finds the owner of a dollhouse shop murdered, she winds up in the thick of a mystery of miniature proportions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27407');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15803, 'Dolores Claiborne', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Extraordinarily vivid...an impressive tour de force, a sensitive character study that holds the reader rapt.\n <br />\n PlayboyMore of a mystery than a horror novel, Dolores Claiborne contains  only the briefest glances at the supernatural.\\tThe novel presents Stephen  King as a writer experimenting with style and narrative, time and  perspective.  Fans looking for a skin-crawling, page-turning fright or an  undead bloodbath will be disappointed, but a patient reader willing to  savor King''s leisurely study of character and island life will find many  rewards.  And all of this is not to say that the book is without  suspense.\n <br />\n The story unfolds in one continuous chapter, told in the first person by  the cranky, 65-year-old housekeeper, Dolores, who is explaining to  police officers and a stenographer how and why she killed her husband, Joe,  30 years ago.  At the same time, in her rambling monologue, she insists  that she did not kill her longtime employer, Vera  Donovan--notwithstanding what the residents of Little Tall Island may be  whispering.  Joe was a drinker, and, as Dolores gradually argues, he  deserved to die for the horrifying crimes he committed against his family.   But Vera, despite her cantankerous disposition as a lady governing her  decaying estate with her precise rules about even the most mundane  household chore ("Six pins! Remember to use six pins! Don''t you let the  wind blow my good sheets down to the corner of the yard!"), was a good  woman--or at least not an evil one.  She was the woman who hired the young  Dolores and kept her on even after Dolores got pregnant again. Dolores  cleaned and cared for her even as the old matron faded into   senility.\n <br />\n Dolores Claiborne is a rich novel that recalls the regionalist  writing of the turn of the century.  It is a fine place for a skeptical  newcomer--put off by King''s reputation for outright terror--to start. And  for fans, it is a book that offers new insights into an author who''s an old  favorite. --Patrick O''Kelley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1096'),
(15804, 'Dolores Claiborne', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Extraordinarily vivid...an impressive tour de force, a sensitive character study that holds the reader rapt. PlayboyMore of a mystery than a horror novel, Dolores Claiborne contains only the briefest glances at the supernatural. The novel presents Stephen King as a writer experimenting with style and narrative, time and perspective. Fans looking for a skin-crawling, page-turning fright or an undead bloodbath will be disappointed, but a patient reader willing to savor King''s leisurely study of character and island life will find many rewards. And all of this is not to say that the book is without suspense. The story unfolds in one continuous chapter, told in the first person by the cranky, 65-year-old housekeeper, Dolores, who is explaining to police officers and a stenographer how and why she killed her husband, Joe, 30 years ago. At the same time, in her rambling monologue, she insists that she did not kill her longtime employer, Vera Donovan--notwithstanding what the residents of Little Tall Island may be whispering. Joe was a drinker, and, as Dolores gradually argues, he deserved to die for the horrifying crimes he committed against his family. But Vera, despite her cantankerous disposition as a lady governing her decaying estate with her precise rules about even the most mundane household chore ("Six pins! Remember to use six pins! Don''t you let the wind blow my good sheets down to the corner of the yard!"), was a good woman--or at least not an evil one. She was the woman who hired the young Dolores and kept her on even after Dolores got pregnant again. Dolores cleaned and cared for her even as the old matron faded into senility. Dolores Claiborne is a rich novel that recalls the regionalist writing of the turn of the century. It is a fine place for a skeptical newcomer--put off by King''s reputation for outright terror--to start. And for fans, it is a book that offers new insights into an author who''s an old favorite. --Patrick O''Kelley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14474'),
(15805, 'Dolores Claiborne', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Extraordinarily vivid...an impressive tour de force, a sensitive character study that holds the reader rapt. PlayboyMore of a mystery than a horror novel, Dolores Claiborne contains only the briefest glances at the supernatural. The novel presents Stephen King as a writer experimenting with style and narrative, time and perspective. Fans looking for a skin-crawling, page-turning fright or an undead bloodbath will be disappointed, but a patient reader willing to savor King''s leisurely study of character and island life will find many rewards. And all of this is not to say that the book is without suspense. The story unfolds in one continuous chapter, told in the first person by the cranky, 65-year-old housekeeper, Dolores, who is explaining to police officers and a stenographer how and why she killed her husband, Joe, 30 years ago. At the same time, in her rambling monologue, she insists that she did not kill her longtime employer, Vera Donovan--notwithstanding what the residents of Little Tall Island may be whispering. Joe was a drinker, and, as Dolores gradually argues, he deserved to die for the horrifying crimes he committed against his family. But Vera, despite her cantankerous disposition as a lady governing her decaying estate with her precise rules about even the most mundane household chore ("Six pins! Remember to use six pins! Don''t you let the wind blow my good sheets down to the corner of the yard!"), was a good woman--or at least not an evil one. She was the woman who hired the young Dolores and kept her on even after Dolores got pregnant again. Dolores cleaned and cared for her even as the old matron faded into senility. Dolores Claiborne is a rich novel that recalls the regionalist writing of the turn of the century. It is a fine place for a skeptical newcomer--put off by King''s reputation for outright terror--to start. And for fans, it is a book that offers new insights into an author who''s an old favorite. --Patrick O''Kelley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23828'),
(15806, 'Dolphin Island', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  This YA novel was first published in 1963, and was set around fifty years in its then-future. Nearly fifty years on, it has aged remarkably well. Right on the first page, I was taken back to the sensawunda I had when I first read this book as a young teenager around thirty years ago -- not least because in the first paragraph Clarke beautifully evokes the sense of wonder his teenage protagonist feels at the sight of an international cargo vessel and the daydreams it inspires about the places it has seen.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  When sixteen-year-old Johnny Clinton finds that the giant hovercraft has made an emergency landing near his home, his curiosity leads him to sneak aboard for a look around, and leaves him trapped as an accidental stowaway when it lifts off again unexpectedly. The orphaned Johnny''s not too upset at the idea of being carried away from the home he''s reluctantly offered by his widowed aunt, so he doesn''t come out of hiding until the craft crash-lands in the Pacific Ocean. The crew have abandoned ship, and Johnny is left with nothing but a packing crate and his own clothing to keep him afloat and sheltered -- until a pod of dolphins find him and and save his life by pushing his makeshift raft the hundred miles to the nearest land.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  That land is Dolphin Island, an island on Australia''s Great Barrier Reef which is home to a research station studying dolphins. The station tracks down where Johnny came from before he''s even released from the infirmary, but he''s offered the chance to stay, an offer he''s quick to accept. He rapidly builds a new life for himself, one that mixes ongoing formal education with involvement in the scientific work on communicating with the dolphins. There''s more than a little adventure as well.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This is an excellent short novel, with an engaging protagonist, an interesting story, and some superb world-building. Clarke drew on his own experience of skin-diving on the Great Barrier Reef to paint a wonderful word picture of the Reef and its marine life. Clarke''s extrapolation of technology hasn''t suffered too badly as reality caught up with it -- it''s different to what really happened, but not so much so that it jars. And glory be, the story hasn''t been visited by the Sexism Fairy. There''s a distinct absence of female characters, but not in a way that says that women shouldn''t worry their pretty little heads about difficult things like science. Definitely one for my keeper collection.Â \n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7454'),
(15807, 'Dolphin Island', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16446'),
(15808, 'The Dolphins of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the first humans came to settle the planet Pern, they did not come alone: intelligence-enhanced dolphins also crossed the stars, to colonize the oceans of the new planet while their human partners settled the vast continents. But then disaster struck in the form of Thread, deadly silver spores that fell like rain from the sky, devouring everything - and everyone - in their path. And as the human colonists'' dreams of a new, idyllic life shattered into a desperate struggle for survival, the dolphins were forgotten, left to make their own life in the seas of Pern. As time went by, human memory of dolphins was lost to legend, and only the occasional tall tale of "shipfish" rescuing fishermen lost at sea kept the legend alive. But the dolphins never forgot, and from generation to generation they preserved their oral history against the day when humans at last might remember their old friends, and once again the seas would resound with the ringing of the dolphins'' bells from docks and ships... Now, centuries later, the dragonriders of Pern were on the verge of ridding their planet of Thread forever. But T''lion, a young bronze rider, was not old enough to participate in that great venture. Instead, he and his dragon, Gadareth, were relegated to conveying people from place to place - until he and Readis, son of the Lord Holder of Paradise River Hold, made contact with the legendary "shipfish." And as the dragonriders grappled with the ending of an era, T''lion, Readis, and the dolphins faced the start of a new one: reviving the bond between land- and ocean-dwellers and, in the process, resurrecting the dreams of the first colonists of Pern...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15715'),
(15809, 'Domes of Fire', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Six years had passed since the redoubtable knight Sparhawk had triumphed over the evil God Azash and returned to Elenia with Queen Ehlana, his bride. And now a new danger had arisen to threaten the peace of Ehlana''s realm. The trouble had started quietly. At home, bandits began to plague the hill country. In neighboring Lamorkand, the customary political unrest turned ominous with whispers that the bloody heroes of old soon would rise again. And travelers reported that the Trolls had all disappeared from the icy northern haunts of Thalesia. Simple problems, apparently unrelated - until an ambassador arrived from the far-off Tamul empire, begging Sparhawk''s aid. For these same dangers that stalked Ehlana''s kingdom had already struck his realm full-force. The fabled ancient warriors of Tamuli had indeed returned - intent on carnage. Monsters and fell magics had followed, and the havoc and terror they spawned were tearing the empire apart. The empire had sent for the Pandion Knight who had killed the God Azash. If Sparhawk wanted to stop this danger before it could savage his own land, he now must lend his aid. Sparhawk, Ehlana, and their daughter, Princess Danae, agreed to make the grueling trek to the far-distant empire of the east. They traveled in company with a handful of trusted companions: the stalwart champions of the four Militant Orders, the knight Berit, Mirtai the giantess, and the young thief Talen. With the child-goddess Aphrael to speed their journey, they began the treacherous traverse of the utmost reaches of the Daresian continent, to Tamul''s distant capital. There, in the emperor''s glittering court, they would encounter corruption, treachery - and a greater danger than any man had faced before! David Eddings opens a bold new chapter in the saga begun in his bestselling series, The Elenium. In his dazzling trademark style, Eddings weaves a compelling tale of strange magic and breathtaking adventure, staunch friends and deadly enemies. Domes of Fire is a triumph of sheer story-telling magic from fantasy''s premier genius!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17296'),
(15810, 'Dominant Species', 'Michael E. Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With technologies and weapon systems torn from the pages of DARPA''s most advanced military programs, DOMINANT SPECIES is an explosive roller-coaster of futuristic military action. This fast-paced, character-driven novel will immerse you in the world of lethal powered armor aboard a ghostly abandoned starship buried miles underground. Somewhere amid the twisted, frozen decks, a group of elite Marines will find themselves trapped in an ancient mystery and a life-or-death battle to see who really is... the DOMINANT SPECIES.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2807'),
(15811, 'Dominant Species', 'Michael E. Marks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With technologies and weapon systems torn from the pages of DARPA''s most advanced military programs, DOMINANT SPECIES is an explosive roller-coaster of futuristic military action. This fast-paced, character-driven novel will immerse you in the world of lethal powered armor aboard a ghostly abandoned starship buried miles underground. Somewhere amid the twisted, frozen decks, a group of elite Marines will find themselves trapped in an ancient mystery and a life-or-death battle to see who really is... the DOMINANT SPECIES.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22017'),
(15812, 'Dominic&#39;s Discovery', 'Gervase Phinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dominic''s middle name is trouble, but not because he''s got a troublesome nature, but quite simply because he''s always in the wrong place at the wrong time. So it''s not surprising that he''s only allowed on the school trip to Thundercliff Bay - home to pirate legend, chilling ghost stories and lost treasure - by the skin of his teeth. Or that strict Mr Risley-Newsome, who has his beady eye on him, makes him stay at the youth hostel for forgetting his walking boots. What is surprising is that a very special discovery made by Dominic saves the day when the whole class is in serious danger, and proves to everyone that sometimes he can be in the right place at the right time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5302'),
(15813, 'Dominic&#39;s Discovery', 'Gervase Phinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dominic''s middle name is trouble, but not because he''s got a troublesome nature, but quite simply because he''s always in the wrong place at the wrong time. So it''s not surprising that he''s only allowed on the school trip to Thundercliff Bay - home to pirate legend, chilling ghost stories and lost treasure - by the skin of his teeth. Or that strict Mr Risley-Newsome, who has his beady eye on him, makes him stay at the youth hostel for forgetting his walking boots. What is surprising is that a very special discovery made by Dominic saves the day when the whole class is in serious danger, and proves to everyone that sometimes he can be in the right place at the right time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11935'),
(15814, 'Dominic&#39;s Discovery', 'Gervase Phinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dominic''s middle name is trouble, but not because he''s got a troublesome nature, but quite simply because he''s always in the wrong place at the wrong time. So it''s not surprising that he''s only allowed on the school trip to Thundercliff Bay - home to pirate legend, chilling ghost stories and lost treasure - by the skin of his teeth. Or that strict Mr Risley-Newsome, who has his beady eye on him, makes him stay at the youth hostel for forgetting his walking boots. What is surprising is that a very special discovery made by Dominic saves the day when the whole class is in serious danger, and proves to everyone that sometimes he can be in the right place at the right time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18669'),
(15815, 'Dominic&#39;s Discovery', 'Gervase Phinn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dominic''s middle name is trouble, but not because he''s got a troublesome nature, but quite simply because he''s always in the wrong place at the wrong time. So it''s not surprising that he''s only allowed on the school trip to Thundercliff Bay - home to pirate legend, chilling ghost stories and lost treasure - by the skin of his teeth. Or that strict Mr Risley-Newsome, who has his beady eye on him, makes him stay at the youth hostel for forgetting his walking boots. What is surprising is that a very special discovery made by Dominic saves the day when the whole class is in serious danger, and proves to everyone that sometimes he can be in the right place at the right time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27959'),
(15816, 'Dominion', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sweet Revenge?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When two senseless killings hit close to home, columnist Clarence Abernathy seeks revenge for the murdersâ€”and, ultimately, answers to his own struggles regarding race and faith. After being dragged into the world of inner-city gangs and racial conflict, Clarence is encouraged by fellow columnist Jake Woods to forge an unlikely partnership with a redneck homicide detective. Soon the two find themselves facing dark forces, while unseen eyes watch from above. This re-release of Randy Alcornâ€™s powerful bestseller spins off from\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n and offers a fascinating glimpse inside heaven.\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Can One Manâ€™s Search for Justice Stand Up to the Forces of Evil Threatening to Destroy Him?\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n A shocking murder drags black newspaper columnist Clarence Abernathy into the disorienting world of inner-city gangs and racial conflict. In a desperate hunt for answers to the violence (and to his own struggles with race and faith), Clarence forges an unlikely partnership with redneck detective Ollie Chandler. Despite their differences, Clarence and Ollie soon find themselves sharing the same mission: victory over the forces of darkness vying for dominion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with insightâ€”and with characters so real youâ€™ll never forget themâ€”_Dominion _is a dramatic story of spiritual searching, racial reconciliation, and hope.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  I donâ€™t know when I have read a novel that affected me so profoundly. Randy Alcorn has combined a superb mystery/detective story with a lesson in racial relations in America, gang dynamics and symbols, Christian values, and spiritual warfare.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Dave Kirby, Troy (Alabama) Broadcasting Corporation\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Even better than its predecessorâ€¦Alcornâ€™s writing remains top-notch.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Sean Taylor,\n <em>\n  CBA Marketplace\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  READERâ€™S GUIDE INCLUDED\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Story Behind the Book\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Randy Alcorn thoroughly researched his characters, spending time in the inner city with homicide and gang detectives to better create the scenes for this bestselling novel. He set the story in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, and the main character, Clarence Abernathy, is a black journalist whose unforgettable father played baseball in the old Negro Leagues. Randy has received many letters from readers who assume he is African American due to his accurate portrayals of racial issues.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Randy Alcorn\n </strong>\n is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. His novels include\n <em>\n  Deadline, Dominion, Edge of Eternity, Lord Foulgrinâ€™s Letters, The Ishbane Conspiracy,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Safely Home\n </em>\n . He has written fourteen nonfiction books as well, including\n <em>\n  Heaven, The Treasure Principle, The Purity Principle,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Grace and Truth Paradox\n </em>\n . Randy and his wife, Nanci, live in Gresham, Oregon. They have two married daughters, Karina and Angela, and three grandchildren.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1917'),
(15817, 'Dominion', 'Randy Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sweet Revenge?\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When two senseless killings hit close to home, columnist Clarence Abernathy seeks revenge for the murdersâ€”and, ultimately, answers to his own struggles regarding race and faith. After being dragged into the world of inner-city gangs and racial conflict, Clarence is encouraged by fellow columnist Jake Woods to forge an unlikely partnership with a redneck homicide detective. Soon the two find themselves facing dark forces, while unseen eyes watch from above. This re-release of Randy Alcornâ€™s powerful bestseller spins off from\n <em>\n  Deadline\n </em>\n and offers a fascinating glimpse inside heaven.\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Can One Manâ€™s Search for Justice Stand Up to the Forces of Evil Threatening to Destroy Him?\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n A shocking murder drags black newspaper columnist Clarence Abernathy into the disorienting world of inner-city gangs and racial conflict. In a desperate hunt for answers to the violence (and to his own struggles with race and faith), Clarence forges an unlikely partnership with redneck detective Ollie Chandler. Despite their differences, Clarence and Ollie soon find themselves sharing the same mission: victory over the forces of darkness vying for dominion.\n</p>\n<p>\n Filled with insightâ€”and with characters so real youâ€™ll never forget themâ€”_Dominion _is a dramatic story of spiritual searching, racial reconciliation, and hope.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  I donâ€™t know when I have read a novel that affected me so profoundly. Randy Alcorn has combined a superb mystery/detective story with a lesson in racial relations in America, gang dynamics and symbols, Christian values, and spiritual warfare.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Dave Kirby, Troy (Alabama) Broadcasting Corporation\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Even better than its predecessorâ€¦Alcornâ€™s writing remains top-notch.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Sean Taylor,\n <em>\n  CBA Marketplace\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  READERâ€™S GUIDE INCLUDED\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Story Behind the Book\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Randy Alcorn thoroughly researched his characters, spending time in the inner city with homicide and gang detectives to better create the scenes for this bestselling novel. He set the story in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, and the main character, Clarence Abernathy, is a black journalist whose unforgettable father played baseball in the old Negro Leagues. Randy has received many letters from readers who assume he is African American due to his accurate portrayals of racial issues.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Randy Alcorn\n </strong>\n is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. His novels include\n <em>\n  Deadline, Dominion, Edge of Eternity, Lord Foulgrinâ€™s Letters, The Ishbane Conspiracy,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Safely Home\n </em>\n . He has written fourteen nonfiction books as well, including\n <em>\n  Heaven, The Treasure Principle, The Purity Principle,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Grace and Truth Paradox\n </em>\n . Randy and his wife, Nanci, live in Gresham, Oregon. They have two married daughters, Karina and Angela, and three grandchildren.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9368'),
(15818, 'The Dominion War 01: Behind Enemy Lines', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the Gamma quadrant they came -- hordes of fierce Jem''Hadar warriors commanded by the mysterious Changelings, who will stop at nothing to achieve victory over both the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon(TM) Empire. Now that the Dominion has entered into an unholy alliance with the Cardassian military regime and seized control of "Deep Space Nine"(TM), Starfleet finds itself fighting a losing war against unbeatable odds. As mighty fleets clash in the deadly battleground of space, the fate of the entire Alpha Quadrant hangs in the balance.  The "Enterprise"-E is patrolling the Cardassian border, bracing for the joint Dominion-Cardassian offensive that Starfleet knows will come soon, when Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew are reunited with a former crewmate, friend, and enemy: Ro Laren. The onetime officer, who defected from Starfleet to join the rebel Maquis, brings disturbing news. Deep behind enemy lines, the Dominion is attempting to build an artificial wormhole that will allow them to bypass the mined Bajoran wormhole and bring fresh reinforcements into the Alpha Quadrant, altering the balance of power irrevocably. If Captain Picard cannot stop the project, the new wormhole will guarantee the ultimate victory of the Dominion!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4180'),
(15819, 'The Dominion War 01: Behind Enemy Lines', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the Gamma quadrant they came -- hordes of fierce Jem''Hadar warriors commanded by the mysterious Changelings, who will stop at nothing to achieve victory over both the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon(TM) Empire. Now that the Dominion has entered into an unholy alliance with the Cardassian military regime and seized control of "Deep Space Nine"(TM), Starfleet finds itself fighting a losing war against unbeatable odds. As mighty fleets clash in the deadly battleground of space, the fate of the entire Alpha Quadrant hangs in the balance. The "Enterprise"-E is patrolling the Cardassian border, bracing for the joint Dominion-Cardassian offensive that Starfleet knows will come soon, when Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew are reunited with a former crewmate, friend, and enemy: Ro Laren. The onetime officer, who defected from Starfleet to join the rebel Maquis, brings disturbing news. Deep behind enemy lines, the Dominion is attempting to build an artificial wormhole that will allow them to bypass the mined Bajoran wormhole and bring fresh reinforcements into the Alpha Quadrant, altering the balance of power irrevocably. If Captain Picard cannot stop the project, the new wormhole will guarantee the ultimate victory of the Dominion!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20412'),
(15820, 'The Dominion War 03: Tunnel Through the Stars', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the Gamma Quadrant they came, hordes of merciless Jem''Hadar soldiers commanded by the shape-changing Founders, who seek to conquer both the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. Now that the Dominion has joined forces with the Cardassians, and claimed "Deep Space Nine" as their prize, Starfleet is running out of time. As a secret military project nears completion, the destiny of the entire Alpha Quadrant depends on the courage of a few. In the Federation''s time of greatest peril, as the "Starship Enterprise" readies itself for battle, Captain Jean-Luc Picard leads a desperate mission of espionage deep into the heart of the hostile Cardassian Empire. Unless they can prevent the Dominion from creating an artificial wormhole, hordes of fresh Jem''Hadar warriors and Changelings will pour into the Alpha Quadrant, dooming the Federation to unconditional surrender. But there may be a traitor along on the mission and Picard finds he cannot trust even his closest allies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4181'),
(15821, 'The Dominion War 03: Tunnel Through the Stars', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the Gamma Quadrant they came, hordes of merciless Jem''Hadar soldiers commanded by the shape-changing Founders, who seek to conquer both the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. Now that the Dominion has joined forces with the Cardassians, and claimed "Deep Space Nine" as their prize, Starfleet is running out of time. As a secret military project nears completion, the destiny of the entire Alpha Quadrant depends on the courage of a few. In the Federation''s time of greatest peril, as the "Starship Enterprise" readies itself for battle, Captain Jean-Luc Picard leads a desperate mission of espionage deep into the heart of the hostile Cardassian Empire. Unless they can prevent the Dominion from creating an artificial wormhole, hordes of fresh Jem''Hadar warriors and Changelings will pour into the Alpha Quadrant, dooming the Federation to unconditional surrender. But there may be a traitor along on the mission and Picard finds he cannot trust even his closest allies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20411'),
(15822, 'Don Pendleton', 'Desperate Cargo (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18643'),
(15823, 'Don Pendleton', 'Salvador Strike (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18700'),
(15824, 'Don Pendleton', 'Frontier Fury (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18710'),
(15825, 'Don Quixote', 'Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra &amp; Edith Grossman &amp; Harold Bloom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Edith Grossman''s definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world''s first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you''ve never read Don Quixote.   "Though there have been many valuable English translations of Don Quixote, I would commend Edith Grossman''s version for the extraordinarily high quality of her prose. The Knight and Sancho are so eloquently rendered by Grossman that the vitality of their characterization is more clearly conveyed than ever before. There is also an astonishing contextualization of Don Quixote and Sancho in Grossman''s translation that I believe has not been achieved before. The spiritual atmosphere of a Spain already in steep decline can be felt throughout, thanks to her heightened quality of diction.   Grossman might be called the Glenn Gould of translators, because she, too, articulates every note. Reading her amazing mode of finding equivalents in English for Cervantes''s darkening vision is an entrance into a further understanding of why this great book contains within itself all the novels that have followed in its sublime wake."   From the Introduction by Harold Bloom   Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid but his disability hampered him; it was in debtor''s prison that he began to write Don Quixote. Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but he remains best known as the author of Don Quixote. He died on April 23, 1616.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2722'),
(15826, 'Don Quixote', 'Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra &amp; Edith Grossman &amp; Harold Bloom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Edith Grossman''s definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world''s first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you''ve never read Don Quixote.   "Though there have been many valuable English translations of Don Quixote, I would commend Edith Grossman''s version for the extraordinarily high quality of her prose. The Knight and Sancho are so eloquently rendered by Grossman that the vitality of their characterization is more clearly conveyed than ever before. There is also an astonishing contextualization of Don Quixote and Sancho in Grossman''s translation that I believe has not been achieved before. The spiritual atmosphere of a Spain already in steep decline can be felt throughout, thanks to her heightened quality of diction.   Grossman might be called the Glenn Gould of translators, because she, too, articulates every note. Reading her amazing mode of finding equivalents in English for Cervantes''s darkening vision is an entrance into a further understanding of why this great book contains within itself all the novels that have followed in its sublime wake."   From the Introduction by Harold Bloom   Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid but his disability hampered him; it was in debtor''s prison that he began to write Don Quixote. Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but he remains best known as the author of Don Quixote. He died on April 23, 1616.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12508'),
(15827, 'Don Quixote', 'Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra; Edith Grossman; Harold Bloom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Edith Grossman''s definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world''s first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you''ve never read Don Quixote. "Though there have been many valuable English translations of Don Quixote, I would commend Edith Grossman''s version for the extraordinarily high quality of her prose. The Knight and Sancho are so eloquently rendered by Grossman that the vitality of their characterization is more clearly conveyed than ever before. There is also an astonishing contextualization of Don Quixote and Sancho in Grossman''s translation that I believe has not been achieved before. The spiritual atmosphere of a Spain already in steep decline can be felt throughout, thanks to her heightened quality of diction. Grossman might be called the Glenn Gould of translators, because she, too, articulates every note. Reading her amazing mode of finding equivalents in English for Cervantes''s darkening vision is an entrance into a further understanding of why this great book contains within itself all the novels that have followed in its sublime wake." From the Introduction by Harold Bloom Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid but his disability hampered him; it was in debtor''s prison that he began to write Don Quixote. Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but he remains best known as the author of Don Quixote. He died on April 23, 1616.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22109'),
(15828, 'Don&#39;t Be That Guy: A Collection of 60 Annoying Guys We All Know and Wish We Didn&#39;t', 'Colin Nissan &amp; Sean Farrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Have you ever heard a guy say, â€œWeâ€™re pregnant,â€ and wanted to hurt him?Do you have a friend who insists a stripper was into him every time you leave a strip club?Do you know a guy who emails you the kind of porn that makes you want to cry then vomit?These are just a few of the many guys youâ€™ll find in *Donâ€™t Be That Guy*.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6599'),
(15829, 'Don&#39;t Be That Guy: A Collection of 60 Annoying Guys We All Know and Wish We Didn&#39;t', 'Colin Nissan &amp; Sean Farrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Have you ever heard a guy say, â€œWeâ€™re pregnant,â€ and wanted to hurt him?Do you have a friend who insists a stripper was into him every time you leave a strip club?Do you know a guy who emails you the kind of porn that makes you want to cry then vomit?These are just a few of the many guys youâ€™ll find in *Donâ€™t Be That Guy*.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11714'),
(15830, 'Don&#39;t Be That Guy: A Collection of 60 Annoying Guys We All Know and Wish We Didn&#39;t', 'Colin Nissan; Sean Farrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Have you ever heard a guy say, â€œWeâ€™re pregnant,â€ and wanted to hurt him?Do you have a friend who insists a stripper was into him every time you leave a strip club?Do you know a guy who emails you the kind of porn that makes you want to cry then vomit?These are just a few of the many guys youâ€™ll find in *Donâ€™t Be That Guy*.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17400'),
(15831, 'Don&#39;t Be That Guy: A Collection of 60 Annoying Guys We All Know and Wish We Didn&#39;t', 'Colin Nissan; Sean Farrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Have you ever heard a guy say, â€œWeâ€™re pregnant,â€ and wanted to hurt him?Do you have a friend who insists a stripper was into him every time you leave a strip club?Do you know a guy who emails you the kind of porn that makes you want to cry then vomit?These are just a few of the many guys youâ€™ll find in *Donâ€™t Be That Guy*.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27038'),
(15832, 'Don&#39;t Blink', 'James Patterson &amp; Howard Roughan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New York''s Lombardo''s Steak House is famous for three reasons--the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police''s fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. **The bad**Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas--on both sides of the law.**And the dead**Back off--*or die--*is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own.Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4831'),
(15833, 'Don&#39;t Blink', 'James Patterson &amp; Howard Roughan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New York''s Lombardo''s Steak House is famous for three reasons--the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police''s fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. **The bad**Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas--on both sides of the law.**And the dead**Back off--*or die--*is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own.Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11896'),
(15834, 'Don&#39;t Blink', 'James Patterson; Howard Roughan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: New York''s Lombardo''s Steak House is famous for three reasons--the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police''s fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. **The bad**Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas--on both sides of the law.**And the dead**Back off--*or die--*is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own.Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18660'),
(15835, 'Don&#39;t Cry', 'Beverly Barton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nowhere To RunThe crime scenes are horrifying: the victims arranged with deliberate care, posed to appear alive despite their agonized last moments and the shocking nature of their deaths.  No Place To HideChattanooga grief counselor Audrey Sherrod moonlights for the local police. It-s clear to her, and to Special Agent J.D. Cass, that the murders are the work of a deranged serial killer. At first, the only link is the victims- similar physical appearance. But then another connection emerges, tying them to a long-ago series of horrifying crimes Audrey hoped would never resurface-crimes that hit all too close to home No Time To CryEach grisly new discovery proves the past has not been forgotten, and the worst is yet to come. Audrey went looking for the truth and she-s about to find it-and it will be more twisted and more terrifying than she ever imagined.Praise for the novels of Beverly Barton Masterful!- -Linda Howard, New York Times&amp; bestselling author on ;Cold Hearted-A powerful story that kept me up very late-with all the lights on.---Kay Hooper, New York Times bestselling author As Good as Dead\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7252'),
(15836, 'Don&#39;t Cry', 'Beverly Barton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nowhere To RunThe crime scenes are horrifying: the victims arranged with deliberate care, posed to appear alive despite their agonized last moments and the shocking nature of their deaths.  No Place To HideChattanooga grief counselor Audrey Sherrod moonlights for the local police. It-s clear to her, and to Special Agent J.D. Cass, that the murders are the work of a deranged serial killer. At first, the only link is the victims- similar physical appearance. But then another connection emerges, tying them to a long-ago series of horrifying crimes Audrey hoped would never resurface-crimes that hit all too close to home No Time To CryEach grisly new discovery proves the past has not been forgotten, and the worst is yet to come. Audrey went looking for the truth and she-s about to find it-and it will be more twisted and more terrifying than she ever imagined.Praise for the novels of Beverly Barton Masterful!- -Linda Howard, New York Times&amp; bestselling author on ;Cold Hearted-A powerful story that kept me up very late-with all the lights on.---Kay Hooper, New York Times bestselling author As Good as Dead\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8385'),
(15837, 'Don&#39;t Cry', 'Beverly Barton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nowhere To RunThe crime scenes are horrifying: the victims arranged with deliberate care, posed to appear alive despite their agonized last moments and the shocking nature of their deaths. No Place To HideChattanooga grief counselor Audrey Sherrod moonlights for the local police. It-s clear to her, and to Special Agent J.D. Cass, that the murders are the work of a deranged serial killer. At first, the only link is the victims- similar physical appearance. But then another connection emerges, tying them to a long-ago series of horrifying crimes Audrey hoped would never resurface-crimes that hit all too close to home No Time To CryEach grisly new discovery proves the past has not been forgotten, and the worst is yet to come. Audrey went looking for the truth and she-s about to find it-and it will be more twisted and more terrifying than she ever imagined.Praise for the novels of Beverly Barton Masterful!- -Linda Howard, New York Times&amp; bestselling author on ;Cold Hearted-A powerful story that kept me up very late-with all the lights on.---Kay Hooper, New York Times bestselling author As Good as Dead\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16638');
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(15838, 'Don&#39;t Cry', 'Beverly Barton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nowhere To RunThe crime scenes are horrifying: the victims arranged with deliberate care, posed to appear alive despite their agonized last moments and the shocking nature of their deaths. No Place To HideChattanooga grief counselor Audrey Sherrod moonlights for the local police. It-s clear to her, and to Special Agent J.D. Cass, that the murders are the work of a deranged serial killer. At first, the only link is the victims- similar physical appearance. But then another connection emerges, tying them to a long-ago series of horrifying crimes Audrey hoped would never resurface-crimes that hit all too close to home No Time To CryEach grisly new discovery proves the past has not been forgotten, and the worst is yet to come. Audrey went looking for the truth and she-s about to find it-and it will be more twisted and more terrifying than she ever imagined.Praise for the novels of Beverly Barton Masterful!- -Linda Howard, New York Times&amp; bestselling author on ;Cold Hearted-A powerful story that kept me up very late-with all the lights on.---Kay Hooper, New York Times bestselling author As Good as Dead\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26614'),
(15839, 'Don&#39;t Get Too Comfortable', 'David Rakoff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The title of this collection of humorous essays could also serve as a warning label for its readers. They''ll want to stay on guard as _GQ\n <em>\n  writer-at-large Rakoff (\n </em>\n Fraud_) skewers everything and everyone he encounters. His writing is at its best when trained on the pompous and ostentatious: flying on the Concorde or visiting an exclusive, $1,300-a-night resort off Belize. While attending the Paris couture shows, Rakoff reveals the silliness of the whole enterprise with quips about Karl Lagerfeld''s preâ€“weight loss "large doughy rump" and the "dry spaghetti" of one model''s hair. In another piece, a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon tells Rakoff, "this is the Dark Ages" for cosmetic surgery (meaning that future generations will be amazed by the inevitable advances) before taking him into an examination room. While Rakoff''s sardonic wit is clearly his greatest asset, it is sometimes his undoing; the same dry humor that works so well when aimed at the rich and decadent seems mean-spirited when applied to less prominent targets, like "Wildman" Steve Brill, who forages for food in New York City''s parks. Still, Rakoff is generally a knowing observer of "first world problems," and his devilishly uncomfortable commentaries are generally quite funny.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The belly laughs start on page 7 and occur regularly throughout Rakoff''s frequently impertinent, occasionally irascible, yet always inimitable take on contemporary American society. A newly minted U.S. citizen, a process he reveals in all its maddeningly hypocritical inconsistency, Rakoff embarks on a series of journalistic assignments as peculiar in their phantasmagoric diversity as, well, America itself. From the pretentious preoccupation with gourmet dining to the rigor of fasting, Rakoff contemplates the extremes to which we will go in pursuit of our particular, often downright peculiar pleasures. A trip on the Concorde is followed by a jaunt on Hooters Air, and visits to Beverly Hills plastic surgeons segue seamlessly into a tour of a cryogenics storage facility in Arizona. Whether interpreting popular culture or investigating political calumny, Rakoff''s cogent observations are delivered with a comforting mixture of appropriate moral outrage and unabashed mocking wonder, as he unfailingly elicits the inherent truths behind our most cherished and churlish institutions.\n <em>\n  Carol Haggas\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6152'),
(15840, 'Don&#39;t Get Too Comfortable', 'David Rakoff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The title of this collection of humorous essays could also serve as a warning label for its readers. They''ll want to stay on guard as _GQ\n <em>\n  writer-at-large Rakoff (\n </em>\n Fraud_) skewers everything and everyone he encounters. His writing is at its best when trained on the pompous and ostentatious: flying on the Concorde or visiting an exclusive, $1,300-a-night resort off Belize. While attending the Paris couture shows, Rakoff reveals the silliness of the whole enterprise with quips about Karl Lagerfeld''s preâ€“weight loss "large doughy rump" and the "dry spaghetti" of one model''s hair. In another piece, a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon tells Rakoff, "this is the Dark Ages" for cosmetic surgery (meaning that future generations will be amazed by the inevitable advances) before taking him into an examination room. While Rakoff''s sardonic wit is clearly his greatest asset, it is sometimes his undoing; the same dry humor that works so well when aimed at the rich and decadent seems mean-spirited when applied to less prominent targets, like "Wildman" Steve Brill, who forages for food in New York City''s parks. Still, Rakoff is generally a knowing observer of "first world problems," and his devilishly uncomfortable commentaries are generally quite funny.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The belly laughs start on page 7 and occur regularly throughout Rakoff''s frequently impertinent, occasionally irascible, yet always inimitable take on contemporary American society. A newly minted U.S. citizen, a process he reveals in all its maddeningly hypocritical inconsistency, Rakoff embarks on a series of journalistic assignments as peculiar in their phantasmagoric diversity as, well, America itself. From the pretentious preoccupation with gourmet dining to the rigor of fasting, Rakoff contemplates the extremes to which we will go in pursuit of our particular, often downright peculiar pleasures. A trip on the Concorde is followed by a jaunt on Hooters Air, and visits to Beverly Hills plastic surgeons segue seamlessly into a tour of a cryogenics storage facility in Arizona. Whether interpreting popular culture or investigating political calumny, Rakoff''s cogent observations are delivered with a comforting mixture of appropriate moral outrage and unabashed mocking wonder, as he unfailingly elicits the inherent truths behind our most cherished and churlish institutions.\n <em>\n  Carol Haggas\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12088'),
(15841, 'Don&#39;t Get Too Comfortable', 'David Rakoff', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The title of this collection of humorous essays could also serve as a warning label for its readers. They''ll want to stay on guard as _GQ\n <em>\n  writer-at-large Rakoff (\n </em>\n Fraud_) skewers everything and everyone he encounters. His writing is at its best when trained on the pompous and ostentatious: flying on the Concorde or visiting an exclusive, $1,300-a-night resort off Belize. While attending the Paris couture shows, Rakoff reveals the silliness of the whole enterprise with quips about Karl Lagerfeld''s preâ€“weight loss "large doughy rump" and the "dry spaghetti" of one model''s hair. In another piece, a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon tells Rakoff, "this is the Dark Ages" for cosmetic surgery (meaning that future generations will be amazed by the inevitable advances) before taking him into an examination room. While Rakoff''s sardonic wit is clearly his greatest asset, it is sometimes his undoing; the same dry humor that works so well when aimed at the rich and decadent seems mean-spirited when applied to less prominent targets, like "Wildman" Steve Brill, who forages for food in New York City''s parks. Still, Rakoff is generally a knowing observer of "first world problems," and his devilishly uncomfortable commentaries are generally quite funny.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The belly laughs start on page 7 and occur regularly throughout Rakoff''s frequently impertinent, occasionally irascible, yet always inimitable take on contemporary American society. A newly minted U.S. citizen, a process he reveals in all its maddeningly hypocritical inconsistency, Rakoff embarks on a series of journalistic assignments as peculiar in their phantasmagoric diversity as, well, America itself. From the pretentious preoccupation with gourmet dining to the rigor of fasting, Rakoff contemplates the extremes to which we will go in pursuit of our particular, often downright peculiar pleasures. A trip on the Concorde is followed by a jaunt on Hooters Air, and visits to Beverly Hills plastic surgeons segue seamlessly into a tour of a cryogenics storage facility in Arizona. Whether interpreting popular culture or investigating political calumny, Rakoff''s cogent observations are delivered with a comforting mixture of appropriate moral outrage and unabashed mocking wonder, as he unfailingly elicits the inherent truths behind our most cherished and churlish institutions.\n <em>\n  Carol Haggas\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17883'),
(15842, 'Don&#39;t Give Me That Attitude!: 24 Rude, Selfish, Insensitive Things Kids Do and How to Stop Them', 'Michele Borba Ed.d.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Does your kid never take no for an answer and demand things go his way?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Do her theatrics leave you drained at the end of the day?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Are you resorting to bribes and threats to get your kid to do chores?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Does he cheat, complain, or blame others for his problems?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Do you feel youâ€™re running a hotel instead of a home?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Are you starting to feel like your childâ€™s personal ATM machine?\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n What happened? You thought you were doing the best for your child and didnâ€™t set out to raise a selfish, insensitive, spoiled kid. In her newest book,\n <em>\n  Donâ€™t Give Me That Attitude!\n </em>\n parenting expert Michele Borba offers you an effective, practical, and hands-on approach to help you work with your child to fix that very annoying but widespread youthful characteristic,\n <em>\n  attitude\n </em>\n . If you have a child who is\n <strong>\n  arrogant, bad-mannered, bad-tempered, a cheat, cruel, demanding, domineering, fresh, greedy, impatient, insensitive, irresponsible, jealous, judgmental, lazy, manipulative, narrow-minded, noncompliant, pessimistic, a poor loser, selfish, uncooperative, ungrateful,\n </strong>\n or\n <strong>\n  unhelpful,\n </strong>\n this is the book for you!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Does Your Child Have Attitude?\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Does your kid never take no for an answer and demand things go his way?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Do her theatrics leave you drained at the end of the day?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Are you resorting to bribes and threats to get your kid to do chores?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Does he cheat, complain, or blame others for his problems?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Do you feel youâ€™re running a hotel instead of a home?\n </li>\n <li>\n  Are you starting to feel like your childâ€™s personal ATM machine?\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n What happened? You thought you were doing the best for your child and didnâ€™t set out to raise a selfish, insensitive, spoiled kid. In her newest book, Donâ€™t Give Me That Attitude! parenting expert Michele Borba offers you an effective, practical, and hands-on approach to help you work with your child to fix that very annoying but widespread youthful characteristic, attitude. If you have a child who is arrogant, bad-mannered, bad-tempered, a cheat, cruel, demanding, domineering, fresh, greedy, impatient, insensitive, irresponsible, jealous, judgmental, lazy, manipulative, narrow-minded, noncompliant, pessimistic, a poor loser, selfish, uncooperative, ungrateful, or unhelpful, this is the book for you!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21635'),
(15843, 'Don&#39;t Look Back', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Don''t Look Back heralds the arrival of an exotic new crime series featuring Inspector Sejer, a smart and enigmatic hero, tough but fair. The setting is a small, idyllic village at the foot of Norway''s Kollen Mountain, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town''s tranquillity is shattered forever. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town''s seemingly perfect facade. Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum''s Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable, and are now available in the United States for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3892'),
(15844, 'Don&#39;t Look Back', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Don''t Look Back heralds the arrival of an exotic new crime series featuring Inspector Sejer, a smart and enigmatic hero, tough but fair. The setting is a small, idyllic village at the foot of Norway''s Kollen Mountain, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town''s tranquillity is shattered forever. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town''s seemingly perfect facade. Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum''s Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable, and are now available in the United States for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9828'),
(15845, 'Don&#39;t Look Back', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Don''t Look Back heralds the arrival of an exotic new crime series featuring Inspector Sejer, a smart and enigmatic hero, tough but fair. The setting is a small, idyllic village at the foot of Norway''s Kollen Mountain, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town''s tranquillity is shattered forever. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town''s seemingly perfect facade. Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum''s Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable, and are now available in the United States for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20645'),
(15846, 'Don&#39;t Start the Revolution Without Me!', 'Jesse Ventura &amp; Dick Russell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Former pro wrestler and Minnesota governor Ventura (_Do I Stand Alone?_) has been awakened out of semiretirement by his outrage over the grievous state of the country and his need to once again exercise his enormous ego by rehashing events from his life and political career. He holds forth in his typical blunt, anti-intellectual style on a range of topics including the Rolling Stones, Fidel Castro and 9/11 conspiracy theories. His diatribes are loosely linked to a travelogue as Ventura and his wife drive to Baja California in their truck-camper. Excerpts from interviews and his wife''s diaries provide a welcome break from Ventura''s boorish tone (although his anecdotesâ€”particularly one involving the Dalai Lama and the film\n <em>\n  Caddyshack\n </em>\n â€”are occasionally amusing). The book concludes with Ventura combining his three passions: wrestling, politics and self-adulation when he imagines running for President on a WWE ticket. Whether the reader will find that a horrifying fantasy or a hilarious one will largely determine how they feel about this book.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jesse Venturaâ€”former governor, wrestler, and Navy SEALâ€”on what''s wrong with the Democrats, the Republicans, and politics in America.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jesse Ventura has had many livesâ€”as a Navy SEAL, as a star of pro wrestling, as an actor, and as the governor of Minnesota. His previous books,\n <em>\n  I Ain''t Got Time to Bleed\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Do I Stand Alone?\n </em>\n , were both national bestsellers.\n <em>\n  Don''t Start the Revolution Without Me!\n </em>\n is the story of his controversial gubernatorial years and his life since deciding not to seek a second term as governor in 2002. Written with award-winning author Dick Russell at a secluded location on Mexico''s Baja Peninsula, Ventura''s bestselling book reveals for the first time why he left politicsâ€”and why he is now considering reentering the arena with a possible independent run for the presidency.\n</p>\n<p>\n In a fast-paced and often humorous narrative, Ventura pulls no punches in discussing our corrupt two-party system, the disastrous war in Iraq, and what he suspects really happened on September 11. He provides personal insights into the Clinton and Bush presidencies, and elaborates on the ways in which third parties are rendered impotent by the country''s two dominant parties. He reveals the illegal role of the CIA in states like Minnesota, sensitive and up-to-date information on the Blackwater security firm, the story of the American spies who shadowed him on a trade mission to Cuba, and what Fidel Castro told him about who really assassinated President John F. Kennedy. This unique political memoir is a must-read for anyone concerned about the direction that America will take. 16 color photographs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12323'),
(15847, 'Don&#39;t Stop Me Now', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s more to life than cars. Jeremy Clarkson knows this. There is, after all a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before, he gets on to torque steer and active suspension, he takes time to consider: the madness of Galapagos tortoises; the similarities between Jeremy Paxman and AC/DC''s bass guitarist; the problems and perils of being English; God''s dumbest creation. Then there are the the cars: whether it''s the poxiest little runabout or an exotic, firebreathing supercar, no one does cars like Clarkson. Unmoved by mechanics'' claims and unimpressed by press junkets, he approaches anything on four wheels without fear or favour. What emerges from the ashes is rarely pretty. But always very, very funny.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4515'),
(15848, 'The Doom of Kings: Legacy of Dhakaan', 'Don Bassingthwaite', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The return of the shifter Geth!\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the wake of the Last War, a new king has risen and seeks to unite the newly formed goblin kingdom of Darguun under his rule. He seeks an ancient scepter, a symbol under which to unite his people and hires Geth, a shifter who owns one of the trio of artifacts to which the scepter once belonged, to find it. But will the artifact do what the Darguul king needs it to?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Don Bassingthwaite is the author of numerous fantasy and dark fantasy novels. His latest books are\n  <em>\n   The Yellow Silk\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mistress of the Night\n  </em>\n  (co-authored with Dave Gross), and the books of The Dragon Below trilogy:\n  <em>\n   The Binding Stone\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Grieving Tree\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Killing Song\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Toronto.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5871'),
(15849, 'The Doom of Kings: Legacy of Dhakaan', 'Don Bassingthwaite', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The return of the shifter Geth!\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the wake of the Last War, a new king has risen and seeks to unite the newly formed goblin kingdom of Darguun under his rule. He seeks an ancient scepter, a symbol under which to unite his people and hires Geth, a shifter who owns one of the trio of artifacts to which the scepter once belonged, to find it. But will the artifact do what the Darguul king needs it to?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Don Bassingthwaite is the author of numerous fantasy and dark fantasy novels. His latest books are\n  <em>\n   The Yellow Silk\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Mistress of the Night\n  </em>\n  (co-authored with Dave Gross), and the books of The Dragon Below trilogy:\n  <em>\n   The Binding Stone\n  </em>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   The Grieving Tree\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   The Killing Song\n  </em>\n  . He lives in Toronto.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8371'),
(15850, 'Doom of the Darksword', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n /Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Wielding the powerful, magic-absorbing Darksword, Joram returns to Merilon to win revenge and claim his birthright. Here he will test Bishop Vanya and his fierce army of Duuk-tsarith in a battle unlike any their world has known. From the bestselling authors of the Dragonlance series.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born without magic, Joram was one of the Dead, denied the throne of Merilon. For years, he lived among outlaws, surviving by wit and sleight-of-hand. Now, wielding the powerful, magic absorbing Darksword, Joram returns to the enchanted Kingdom that once was his home to win revenge and claim his birthright. Here he will test Bishop Vanya and his fierce army of Duuk-tsarith in a battle unlike any their world has known. Joined by the scholarly catalyst Saryon, the young mage Mosiah, and the trickster Simkin, Jorma confronts the shattering secret of his past and discovers the ancient prophecy that puts the fate of the world in his hands-the hands that forged\n <em>\n  The Darksword\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3114'),
(15851, 'Doom of the Darksword', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n /Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Wielding the powerful, magic-absorbing Darksword, Joram returns to Merilon to win revenge and claim his birthright. Here he will test Bishop Vanya and his fierce army of Duuk-tsarith in a battle unlike any their world has known. From the bestselling authors of the Dragonlance series.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born without magic, Joram was one of the Dead, denied the throne of Merilon. For years, he lived among outlaws, surviving by wit and sleight-of-hand. Now, wielding the powerful, magic absorbing Darksword, Joram returns to the enchanted Kingdom that once was his home to win revenge and claim his birthright. Here he will test Bishop Vanya and his fierce army of Duuk-tsarith in a battle unlike any their world has known. Joined by the scholarly catalyst Saryon, the young mage Mosiah, and the trickster Simkin, Jorma confronts the shattering secret of his past and discovers the ancient prophecy that puts the fate of the world in his hands-the hands that forged\n <em>\n  The Darksword\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13285'),
(15852, 'The Doomed Oasis', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18338'),
(15853, 'Doomsday Book', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity''s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin -- barely of age herself -- finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history''s darkest hours. Five years in the writing by one of science fiction''s most honored authors, Doomsday Book is a storytelling triumph. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25947'),
(15854, 'Doomsday Prophecy', 'Scott Mariani', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A deadly conspiracy''Åš An ancient prophecy''Åš A race to prevent Armageddon''ÅšA thrilling, high-octane race to save civilisation that will engross fans of Dan Brown and Sam Bourne.When ex-SAS operative Ben Hope decided to give up rescuing kidnap victims in favour of the Theology studies he abandoned years before, he should have known that fate would decide differently. Searching for missing biblical archaeologist ZoÃ« Bradbury, Ben finds himself embroiled in his riskiest mission yet. What is the ancient secret that ZoÃ« uncovered? And just who is willing to do anything to protect it? The investigation leads Ben from Greece to the American Deep South and the holy city of Jerusalem, and he soon discovers that it''s not just his and ZoÃ«''s lives on the line, but those of millions, threatened by a fundamentalist plot to gain ultimate power. The stakes are terrifyingly high as Ben races to prevent a disaster that could kick-start apocalyptic events as foretold by the Book of Revelation...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1324'),
(15855, 'Doomsday Prophecy', 'Scott Mariani', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A deadly conspiracy''Åš An ancient prophecy''Åš A race to prevent Armageddon''ÅšA thrilling, high-octane race to save civilisation that will engross fans of Dan Brown and Sam Bourne.When ex-SAS operative Ben Hope decided to give up rescuing kidnap victims in favour of the Theology studies he abandoned years before, he should have known that fate would decide differently. Searching for missing biblical archaeologist ZoÃ« Bradbury, Ben finds himself embroiled in his riskiest mission yet. What is the ancient secret that ZoÃ« uncovered? And just who is willing to do anything to protect it? The investigation leads Ben from Greece to the American Deep South and the holy city of Jerusalem, and he soon discovers that it''s not just his and ZoÃ«''s lives on the line, but those of millions, threatened by a fundamentalist plot to gain ultimate power. The stakes are terrifyingly high as Ben races to prevent a disaster that could kick-start apocalyptic events as foretold by the Book of Revelation...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11297'),
(15856, 'Doomsday Prophecy', 'Scott Mariani', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A deadly conspiracy''Åš An ancient prophecy''Åš A race to prevent Armageddon''ÅšA thrilling, high-octane race to save civilisation that will engross fans of Dan Brown and Sam Bourne.When ex-SAS operative Ben Hope decided to give up rescuing kidnap victims in favour of the Theology studies he abandoned years before, he should have known that fate would decide differently. Searching for missing biblical archaeologist ZoÃ« Bradbury, Ben finds himself embroiled in his riskiest mission yet. What is the ancient secret that ZoÃ« uncovered? And just who is willing to do anything to protect it? The investigation leads Ben from Greece to the American Deep South and the holy city of Jerusalem, and he soon discovers that it''s not just his and ZoÃ«''s lives on the line, but those of millions, threatened by a fundamentalist plot to gain ultimate power. The stakes are terrifyingly high as Ben races to prevent a disaster that could kick-start apocalyptic events as foretold by the Book of Revelation...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23538'),
(15857, 'Doomsday World', 'Peter David &amp; Carmen Carter &amp; Michael Jan Friedman &amp; Robert Greenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The planet Kirlos -- an artificial world built by a mysterious long-dead race called the Ariantu. Kirlos is now home to many races from both the Federation and the K''vin Hegemony, who have enjoyed years of peaceful co-existence and profitable trade. The planet also hold a wealth of undiscovered archaeological treasures, which the "Enterprise(TM)" and its crew are dispatched to help uncover.  Sent to the surface to assist an archaeological team, Geordi, Data, and Worf soon find themselves cut off from the "Enterprise" -- and the prime suspects in a series of terrorist attacks. The three "Enterprise" crewmen are imprisoned, relations between the K''vin and the Federation begin to crumble, and Kirlos'' ancient underground machinery awakens from a centuries long dormancy, primed to release the most powerful destructive force ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2237'),
(15858, 'Doomsday World', 'Peter David; Carmen Carter; Michael Jan Friedman; Robert Greenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The planet Kirlos -- an artificial world built by a mysterious long-dead race called the Ariantu. Kirlos is now home to many races from both the Federation and the K''vin Hegemony, who have enjoyed years of peaceful co-existence and profitable trade. The planet also hold a wealth of undiscovered archaeological treasures, which the "Enterprise(TM)" and its crew are dispatched to help uncover. Sent to the surface to assist an archaeological team, Geordi, Data, and Worf soon find themselves cut off from the "Enterprise" -- and the prime suspects in a series of terrorist attacks. The three "Enterprise" crewmen are imprisoned, relations between the K''vin and the Federation begin to crumble, and Kirlos'' ancient underground machinery awakens from a centuries long dormancy, primed to release the most powerful destructive force ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21715'),
(15859, 'Doomstalker', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Doomstalker (1985) is the first Fantasy novel in the Darkwar trilogy. It is set on a world far away in time and space where the meth live. In the Upper Ponath, they live in ignorance and poverty, but elsewhere the silth rule a world of technology and spaceflight.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this novel, Marilka is a ten year old meth in a litter of three pups. Her dam is Skiljan, head of a loghouse in the Degnan packstead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Kublin is another pup in the litter. He is small and weak, but has more intelligence than the other male littermate Zamberlin.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this story, Marilka and Kublin like to explore together. Marilka has less fear -- as appropriate for a female -- but Kublin follows her into very fearful situations. They have been testing their limits with the Machen Cave, where the Wise hold their rituals.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Kublin detects something within the cave, but Marilka can only sense the presence of old Pohsit, the sagan of the Wise. But as she gets closer, Marilka begins to detects something scary within the cave. Both decide to go elsewhere.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pohsit has decided that Marilka is a silth. Marilka doesn''t know what a silth is, but Pohsit wants her dead. And the death of Marilka will also lead to the death of her littermates.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Marilka and Kublin learn to run around and tire out Pohsit. But they keep returning to the cave. Although Marilka can now sense the thing, she still doesn''t know what it is.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Then the worse winter in living memory comes to the Upper Ponath. The Degnan huntresses gather meat and the males collect plants and firewood. Then the nomads invade the Upper Ponath in large numbers.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Other meth packsteads in the area are overwhelmed. Then hundreds of nomads come to Degnan. The nomads lose many to the Degnan pack, but they eventually overrun the packstead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Runners sent to the packfast return with three silth. These kill or drive away the remaining nomads, but they take the three Degnan survivors back to the packfast. They insist that Marilka shall become a sister, as the silth call themselves.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This tale exposes Marilka to advanced technology, but doesn''t lead her to admiration of the sisters. She is trained in three ways, including the use of her powers. But much is withheld from her by the sisters.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This story presents a change in the author''s style. Over a decade after his first novel -- The Heirs of Babylon -- and the start of five series, the author tries something new. His previous works were about human cultures or something very similar.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this tale, the author depicts truly alien creatures loosely based on wolves. Then he shows a cultural clash between the primitives and the more advanced society. And he shows this conflict through the eyes of a primitive.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This story ends with a cliffhanger. The next installment -- Warlock -- will reveal the extend of the disaster. Read and enjoy!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Highly recommended for Cook fans and for anyone who enjoys tales of alien cultures, witch powers, and young heroines.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -Arthur W. Jordin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5350'),
(15860, 'Doomstalker', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Doomstalker (1985) is the first Fantasy novel in the Darkwar trilogy. It is set on a world far away in time and space where the meth live. In the Upper Ponath, they live in ignorance and poverty, but elsewhere the silth rule a world of technology and spaceflight. In this novel, Marilka is a ten year old meth in a litter of three pups. Her dam is Skiljan, head of a loghouse in the Degnan packstead. Kublin is another pup in the litter. He is small and weak, but has more intelligence than the other male littermate Zamberlin. In this story, Marilka and Kublin like to explore together. Marilka has less fear -- as appropriate for a female -- but Kublin follows her into very fearful situations. They have been testing their limits with the Machen Cave, where the Wise hold their rituals. Kublin detects something within the cave, but Marilka can only sense the presence of old Pohsit, the sagan of the Wise. But as she gets closer, Marilka begins to detects something scary within the cave. Both decide to go elsewhere. Pohsit has decided that Marilka is a silth. Marilka doesn''t know what a silth is, but Pohsit wants her dead. And the death of Marilka will also lead to the death of her littermates. Marilka and Kublin learn to run around and tire out Pohsit. But they keep returning to the cave. Although Marilka can now sense the thing, she still doesn''t know what it is. Then the worse winter in living memory comes to the Upper Ponath. The Degnan huntresses gather meat and the males collect plants and firewood. Then the nomads invade the Upper Ponath in large numbers. Other meth packsteads in the area are overwhelmed. Then hundreds of nomads come to Degnan. The nomads lose many to the Degnan pack, but they eventually overrun the packstead. Runners sent to the packfast return with three silth. These kill or drive away the remaining nomads, but they take the three Degnan survivors back to the packfast. They insist that Marilka shall become a sister, as the silth call themselves. This tale exposes Marilka to advanced technology, but doesn''t lead her to admiration of the sisters. She is trained in three ways, including the use of her powers. But much is withheld from her by the sisters. This story presents a change in the author''s style. Over a decade after his first novel -- The Heirs of Babylon -- and the start of five series, the author tries something new. His previous works were about human cultures or something very similar. In this tale, the author depicts truly alien creatures loosely based on wolves. Then he shows a cultural clash between the primitives and the more advanced society. And he shows this conflict through the eyes of a primitive. This story ends with a cliffhanger. The next installment -- Warlock -- will reveal the extend of the disaster. Read and enjoy! Highly recommended for Cook fans and for anyone who enjoys tales of alien cultures, witch powers, and young heroines. -Arthur W. Jordin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19318'),
(15861, 'Doomstalker', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Doomstalker (1985) is the first Fantasy novel in the Darkwar trilogy. It is set on a world far away in time and space where the meth live. In the Upper Ponath, they live in ignorance and poverty, but elsewhere the silth rule a world of technology and spaceflight. In this novel, Marilka is a ten year old meth in a litter of three pups. Her dam is Skiljan, head of a loghouse in the Degnan packstead. Kublin is another pup in the litter. He is small and weak, but has more intelligence than the other male littermate Zamberlin. In this story, Marilka and Kublin like to explore together. Marilka has less fear -- as appropriate for a female -- but Kublin follows her into very fearful situations. They have been testing their limits with the Machen Cave, where the Wise hold their rituals. Kublin detects something within the cave, but Marilka can only sense the presence of old Pohsit, the sagan of the Wise. But as she gets closer, Marilka begins to detects something scary within the cave. Both decide to go elsewhere. Pohsit has decided that Marilka is a silth. Marilka doesn''t know what a silth is, but Pohsit wants her dead. And the death of Marilka will also lead to the death of her littermates. Marilka and Kublin learn to run around and tire out Pohsit. But they keep returning to the cave. Although Marilka can now sense the thing, she still doesn''t know what it is. Then the worse winter in living memory comes to the Upper Ponath. The Degnan huntresses gather meat and the males collect plants and firewood. Then the nomads invade the Upper Ponath in large numbers. Other meth packsteads in the area are overwhelmed. Then hundreds of nomads come to Degnan. The nomads lose many to the Degnan pack, but they eventually overrun the packstead. Runners sent to the packfast return with three silth. These kill or drive away the remaining nomads, but they take the three Degnan survivors back to the packfast. They insist that Marilka shall become a sister, as the silth call themselves. This tale exposes Marilka to advanced technology, but doesn''t lead her to admiration of the sisters. She is trained in three ways, including the use of her powers. But much is withheld from her by the sisters. This story presents a change in the author''s style. Over a decade after his first novel -- The Heirs of Babylon -- and the start of five series, the author tries something new. His previous works were about human cultures or something very similar. In this tale, the author depicts truly alien creatures loosely based on wolves. Then he shows a cultural clash between the primitives and the more advanced society. And he shows this conflict through the eyes of a primitive. This story ends with a cliffhanger. The next installment -- Warlock -- will reveal the extend of the disaster. Read and enjoy! Highly recommended for Cook fans and for anyone who enjoys tales of alien cultures, witch powers, and young heroines. -Arthur W. Jordin\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28011'),
(15862, 'The Doomsters', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMost mystery writers merely write about crime. Ross Macdonald writes about sin.â€ â€”_The Atlantic Monthly_â€œRoss Macdonald should not be limited in audience to connoisseurs of mystery fiction. He is one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.â€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_â€œRoss Macdonald is one of the best writers of the whipcord thriller.â€ â€”_The Bookman_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty, detective Lew Archer investigates the suspicious deaths of his parents, Senator Hallman and his wife Alicia. Arriving in the sleepy town of Purissima, Archer discovers that orange groves may be where the Hallmans made their mint, but theyâ€™ve has been investing heavily in political intimidation and police brutality to shore up their rancid wealth. However, after years of dastardly double-crossing and low down dirty-dealing, the family seem to be on the receiving end of a karmic death-blow. With two dead already and another consigned to the nuthouse, Archer races to crack the secret before another Hallman lands on the slab.Murder, madness and greed grace\n <em>\n  The Doomsters\n </em>\n , where a tony faÃ§ade masks the rot and corruption within.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11068'),
(15863, 'The Door Into Summer', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With several Hollywood Heinlein adaptations about to be launched (including "Starship Troopers" by the director of "Total Recall"), this SF superstar is shining brighter than ever. To celebrate his success, Del Rey is reissuing the author''s classic works back into the forefront, beginning with "The Door into Summer", the story of a modern-day--and future-time--Rip Van Winkle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1724'),
(15864, 'The Door Into Summer', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With several Hollywood Heinlein adaptations about to be launched (including "Starship Troopers" by the director of "Total Recall"), this SF superstar is shining brighter than ever. To celebrate his success, Del Rey is reissuing the author''s classic works back into the forefront, beginning with "The Door into Summer", the story of a modern-day--and future-time--Rip Van Winkle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24842'),
(15865, 'The Door of the Unreal', 'Gerald Biss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n General Books publication date: 2009  Original publication date: 1920  Original Publisher: Putnam  Subjects: Werewolves  Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.  When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.  Excerpt:   The Door of the Unreal  THE BRIGHTON ROAD  My name is Lincoln Osgood, my age thirty, my nationality American, my means -- well, such as never to cause me a moment''s anxiety or the negation of any fad; my hobbies have always been travel and science, the latter more particularly in its human than in its mechanical aspects. I am not, if I may say so, in any way the "Yankee millionaire" of popular fiction or even of fact. I both write and talk the King''s English, I trust; and to tell the truth, I was educated up at Christ Church, Oxford, which is my first link with these extraordinary incidents, which it has now fallen to my lot to chronicle.  It was up at Oxford ten years ago that I first met Burgess Clymping, with whom, from the  first night we sat next to each other in the wonderful old hall of the House with its centuries of historical portraits, I struck up the great friendship of my life. He was a year younger than I, the owner of a nice property in Sussex and had seen but little of life in those days, whereas I had travelled a lot even then for my age. It is the accident of this long friendship and my travels in obscure and unfrequented parts that brought me into the circle of the strange doings I am about to relate -- to which, by good luck, I held the key.  I am in no way the hero of the piece -- if hero, in the conventional sense, there be at all -- not even the protagonist, as the Greeks used to call it. I am merely the "handy man" of the play, so to speak, who chanced into the middle of this unconventional drama at its height, and helped to see it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5440'),
(15866, 'The Door of the Unreal', 'Gerald Biss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: Putnam Subjects: Werewolves Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The Door of the Unreal THE BRIGHTON ROAD My name is Lincoln Osgood, my age thirty, my nationality American, my means -- well, such as never to cause me a moment''s anxiety or the negation of any fad; my hobbies have always been travel and science, the latter more particularly in its human than in its mechanical aspects. I am not, if I may say so, in any way the "Yankee millionaire" of popular fiction or even of fact. I both write and talk the King''s English, I trust; and to tell the truth, I was educated up at Christ Church, Oxford, which is my first link with these extraordinary incidents, which it has now fallen to my lot to chronicle. It was up at Oxford ten years ago that I first met Burgess Clymping, with whom, from the first night we sat next to each other in the wonderful old hall of the House with its centuries of historical portraits, I struck up the great friendship of my life. He was a year younger than I, the owner of a nice property in Sussex and had seen but little of life in those days, whereas I had travelled a lot even then for my age. It is the accident of this long friendship and my travels in obscure and unfrequented parts that brought me into the circle of the strange doings I am about to relate -- to which, by good luck, I held the key. I am in no way the hero of the piece -- if hero, in the conventional sense, there be at all -- not even the protagonist, as the Greeks used to call it. I am merely the "handy man" of the play, so to speak, who chanced into the middle of this unconventional drama at its height, and helped to see it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19266');
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(15867, 'The Door of the Unreal', 'Gerald Biss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: Putnam Subjects: Werewolves Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The Door of the Unreal THE BRIGHTON ROAD My name is Lincoln Osgood, my age thirty, my nationality American, my means -- well, such as never to cause me a moment''s anxiety or the negation of any fad; my hobbies have always been travel and science, the latter more particularly in its human than in its mechanical aspects. I am not, if I may say so, in any way the "Yankee millionaire" of popular fiction or even of fact. I both write and talk the King''s English, I trust; and to tell the truth, I was educated up at Christ Church, Oxford, which is my first link with these extraordinary incidents, which it has now fallen to my lot to chronicle. It was up at Oxford ten years ago that I first met Burgess Clymping, with whom, from the first night we sat next to each other in the wonderful old hall of the House with its centuries of historical portraits, I struck up the great friendship of my life. He was a year younger than I, the owner of a nice property in Sussex and had seen but little of life in those days, whereas I had travelled a lot even then for my age. It is the accident of this long friendship and my travels in obscure and unfrequented parts that brought me into the circle of the strange doings I am about to relate -- to which, by good luck, I held the key. I am in no way the hero of the piece -- if hero, in the conventional sense, there be at all -- not even the protagonist, as the Greeks used to call it. I am merely the "handy man" of the play, so to speak, who chanced into the middle of this unconventional drama at its height, and helped to see it...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27978'),
(15868, 'The Door to December', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A frantic mother, who has been separated from her nine-year-old daughter, Melanie, for six years, strives to rescue her from the people who have been subjecting her to terrifying psychological experiments.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6071'),
(15869, 'The Door to December', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A frantic mother, who has been separated from her nine-year-old daughter, Melanie, for six years, strives to rescue her from the people who have been subjecting her to terrifying psychological experiments\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14341'),
(15870, 'The Door to December', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A frantic mother, who has been separated from her nine-year-old daughter, Melanie, for six years, strives to rescue her from the people who have been subjecting her to terrifying psychological experiments.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17915'),
(15871, 'The Door to December', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A frantic mother, who has been separated from her nine-year-old daughter, Melanie, for six years, strives to rescue her from the people who have been subjecting her to terrifying psychological experiments\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27441'),
(15872, 'Doorsways in the Sand', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n ??\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23104'),
(15873, 'The Dope Thief', 'Dennis Tafoya', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ray and his best friend, Manny, close ever since they met in juvie almost twenty years ago, have a great scam going: With a couple of fake badges and some DEA windbreakers they found at a secondhand store, they pose as federal agents and rip off small-time drug dealers, taking their money and drugs and disappearing before anyone is the wiser. Itâ€™s the perfect sting: the dealers they target are too small to look for revenge and too guilty to call the police, nobody has to die, nobody innocent gets hurt, and Ray and Manny score plenty.But it canâ€™t last forever. Eventually, they choose the wrong mark and walk out with hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a heavy hitter, who is more than willing to kill to get his money back, is coming after them. Now Ray couldnâ€™t care less about the score. He wants out---out of the scam, out of a life he feels like he never chose. Whether the victim of his latest job---not to mention his partner---will let him is another question entirely.Dennis Tafoya brings a rich, passionate, and accomplished new voice to the explosive story of a small-time crook with everything to lose in Dope Thief, his outstanding hardboiled debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6018'),
(15874, 'The Dope Thief', 'Dennis Tafoya', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ray and his best friend, Manny, close ever since they met in juvie almost twenty years ago, have a great scam going: With a couple of fake badges and some DEA windbreakers they found at a secondhand store, they pose as federal agents and rip off small-time drug dealers, taking their money and drugs and disappearing before anyone is the wiser. Itâ€™s the perfect sting: the dealers they target are too small to look for revenge and too guilty to call the police, nobody has to die, nobody innocent gets hurt, and Ray and Manny score plenty.But it canâ€™t last forever. Eventually, they choose the wrong mark and walk out with hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a heavy hitter, who is more than willing to kill to get his money back, is coming after them. Now Ray couldnâ€™t care less about the score. He wants out---out of the scam, out of a life he feels like he never chose. Whether the victim of his latest job---not to mention his partner---will let him is another question entirely.Dennis Tafoya brings a rich, passionate, and accomplished new voice to the explosive story of a small-time crook with everything to lose in Dope Thief, his outstanding hardboiled debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17342'),
(15875, 'The Dope Thief', 'Dennis Tafoya', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ray and his best friend, Manny, close ever since they met in juvie almost twenty years ago, have a great scam going: With a couple of fake badges and some DEA windbreakers they found at a secondhand store, they pose as federal agents and rip off small-time drug dealers, taking their money and drugs and disappearing before anyone is the wiser. Itâ€™s the perfect sting: the dealers they target are too small to look for revenge and too guilty to call the police, nobody has to die, nobody innocent gets hurt, and Ray and Manny score plenty.But it canâ€™t last forever. Eventually, they choose the wrong mark and walk out with hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a heavy hitter, who is more than willing to kill to get his money back, is coming after them. Now Ray couldnâ€™t care less about the score. He wants out---out of the scam, out of a life he feels like he never chose. Whether the victim of his latest job---not to mention his partner---will let him is another question entirely.Dennis Tafoya brings a rich, passionate, and accomplished new voice to the explosive story of a small-time crook with everything to lose in Dope Thief, his outstanding hardboiled debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27492'),
(15876, 'Doppelgangster', 'Laura Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This gleeful, clever sequel to 2006''s\n  <em>\n   Disappearing Nightly\n  </em>\n  teams up actress and singing waitress Esther Diamond with the magic-savvy but utterly unworldly Max the Magician and his slobbering canine familiar, Nelli, to discover how and why New York''s mobsters are being magically duplicated. Complicating matters is Esther''s suspicious would-be boyfriend, handsome Irish-Cuban police detective Connor Lopez, who would prefer a straightforward investigation involving neither Esther nor magic. Resnick introduces a colorful cast of gangsters and their associates, including a thrice-bereaved mob widow and an attractive young priest, as she spins a witty, fast-paced mystery around her convincingly self-absorbed chorus-girl heroine. Sexy interludes raise the tension between Lopez and Esther as she juggles magical assailants, her perennially distracted agent, her meddling mother, and wiseguys both friendly and threatening in a well-crafted, rollicking mystery.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "In Laura Resnick''s\n  <em>\n   Doppelgangster\n  </em>\n  , the New York actress is ''resting'' between roles by working as a singing waitress at a Manhattan mob restaurant because wiseguys tip well. Then duplicated gangsters appear, bullets start flying, and it''s up to Esther and her friend Max the Magician to fight Evil by stopping the gang war before it starts killing the wrong people. And if she has time, maybe Esther can actually keep a hot date with her hunky detective friend Lopez, who doesn''t believe in magic. Yet. Unplug the phone and settle down for a fast and funny read."\n  <br />\n  --_New York Times_ bestselling author Mary Jo Putney\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3465'),
(15877, 'Doppelgangster', 'Laura Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This gleeful, clever sequel to 2006''s\n  <em>\n   Disappearing Nightly\n  </em>\n  teams up actress and singing waitress Esther Diamond with the magic-savvy but utterly unworldly Max the Magician and his slobbering canine familiar, Nelli, to discover how and why New York''s mobsters are being magically duplicated. Complicating matters is Esther''s suspicious would-be boyfriend, handsome Irish-Cuban police detective Connor Lopez, who would prefer a straightforward investigation involving neither Esther nor magic. Resnick introduces a colorful cast of gangsters and their associates, including a thrice-bereaved mob widow and an attractive young priest, as she spins a witty, fast-paced mystery around her convincingly self-absorbed chorus-girl heroine. Sexy interludes raise the tension between Lopez and Esther as she juggles magical assailants, her perennially distracted agent, her meddling mother, and wiseguys both friendly and threatening in a well-crafted, rollicking mystery.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "In Laura Resnick''s\n  <em>\n   Doppelgangster\n  </em>\n  , the New York actress is ''resting'' between roles by working as a singing waitress at a Manhattan mob restaurant because wiseguys tip well. Then duplicated gangsters appear, bullets start flying, and it''s up to Esther and her friend Max the Magician to fight Evil by stopping the gang war before it starts killing the wrong people. And if she has time, maybe Esther can actually keep a hot date with her hunky detective friend Lopez, who doesn''t believe in magic. Yet. Unplug the phone and settle down for a fast and funny read."\n  <br />\n  --_New York Times_ bestselling author Mary Jo Putney\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12160'),
(15878, 'Doppelgangster', 'Laura Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This gleeful, clever sequel to 2006''s\n  <em>\n   Disappearing Nightly\n  </em>\n  teams up actress and singing waitress Esther Diamond with the magic-savvy but utterly unworldly Max the Magician and his slobbering canine familiar, Nelli, to discover how and why New York''s mobsters are being magically duplicated. Complicating matters is Esther''s suspicious would-be boyfriend, handsome Irish-Cuban police detective Connor Lopez, who would prefer a straightforward investigation involving neither Esther nor magic. Resnick introduces a colorful cast of gangsters and their associates, including a thrice-bereaved mob widow and an attractive young priest, as she spins a witty, fast-paced mystery around her convincingly self-absorbed chorus-girl heroine. Sexy interludes raise the tension between Lopez and Esther as she juggles magical assailants, her perennially distracted agent, her meddling mother, and wiseguys both friendly and threatening in a well-crafted, rollicking mystery.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "In Laura Resnick''s\n  <em>\n   Doppelgangster\n  </em>\n  , the New York actress is ''resting'' between roles by working as a singing waitress at a Manhattan mob restaurant because wiseguys tip well. Then duplicated gangsters appear, bullets start flying, and it''s up to Esther and her friend Max the Magician to fight Evil by stopping the gang war before it starts killing the wrong people. And if she has time, maybe Esther can actually keep a hot date with her hunky detective friend Lopez, who doesn''t believe in magic. Yet. Unplug the phone and settle down for a fast and funny read."\n  <br />\n  --_New York Times_ bestselling author Mary Jo Putney\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21021'),
(15879, 'Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fantasy lovers of all ages will rejoice at this chance to travel once again to the marvelous land of Oz!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground. Deep beneath the earth, Dorothy is reunited with her old friend the Wizard of Oz and his troupe of nine tiny piglets.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Together, Dorothy, the Wizard, and their friends travel through many fantastic lands, where they encounter the Mangaboos, people growing like vegetables in the ground; cross the Valley of Voe, where dama-fruit has turned everyone invisible; and are captured by mysterious flying Gargoyles. At last, the intrepid travelers reach Oz, where they have many unforgettable encounters with such favorites as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, Princess Ozma and the wooden Sawhorse.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz* was the fourth Oz adventure. First published in 1908, it has captured the imaginations of young readers and listeners for four generations. Now a new generation can discover these superb adventures for themselves. This deluxe gift edition faithfully reproduces the rare first edition, including all sixteen color plates and all fifty black-and-white illustrations by John R. Neill, as well as the original colorful endpapers.Afterword by Peter Glassman. A deluxe facsimile of the fourth Oz adventure--originally published in 1908--when Dorothy and the Wizard meet the Mangaboos. A Books of Wonder(R) Classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3320'),
(15880, 'Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fantasy lovers of all ages will rejoice at this chance to travel once again to the marvelous land of Oz! A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground. Deep beneath the earth, Dorothy is reunited with her old friend the Wizard of Oz and his troupe of nine tiny piglets. Together, Dorothy, the Wizard, and their friends travel through many fantastic lands, where they encounter the Mangaboos, people growing like vegetables in the ground; cross the Valley of Voe, where dama-fruit has turned everyone invisible; and are captured by mysterious flying Gargoyles. At last, the intrepid travelers reach Oz, where they have many unforgettable encounters with such favorites as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, Princess Ozma and the wooden Sawhorse. *Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz* was the fourth Oz adventure. First published in 1908, it has captured the imaginations of young readers and listeners for four generations. Now a new generation can discover these superb adventures for themselves. This deluxe gift edition faithfully reproduces the rare first edition, including all sixteen color plates and all fifty black-and-white illustrations by John R. Neill, as well as the original colorful endpapers.Afterword by Peter Glassman. A deluxe facsimile of the fourth Oz adventure--originally published in 1908--when Dorothy and the Wizard meet the Mangaboos. A Books of Wonder(R) Classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20929'),
(15881, 'A doua fundatie', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25670'),
(15882, 'Doua sau trei gratii', 'Aldous Huxley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26099'),
(15883, 'The Double Agents', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Actors David Niven and Peter Ustinov, along with James Bond creator Ian Fleming, all of whom actually served Britain in WWII, help the heroes of Griffin''s Men at War series deceive the Germans in this solid sixth installment (after 2006''s The Saboteurs) from the bestselling author and his son, Butterworth. In 1943, the OSS''s William J. Wild Bill Donovan spearheads a disinformation effort to trick the Nazis into believing that the western Allies won''t invade the European continent through Sicily. One of Donovan''s most accomplished operatives, USAAF Maj. Richard Canidy, devises a clever scheme (albeit one familiar to readers of Ewen Montagu''s The Man Who Never Was) to plant phony plans on a corpse, along with love letters drafted by the requisite attractive female spy. Some fans may find the prominent role of the real-life celebrities a distraction, but all will enjoy the suspenseful ride.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Men at War series continues with this typically exciting adventure. The plucky, resourceful agents of the Office of Strategic Services face what could be their toughest assignment: to convince Adolf Hitler that the Allied invasion of Europe will not take place at Normandy. This is the second novel Griffin has cowritten with his son, but it retains all of the veteran author''s trademarks: well-researched plot; realistic characters, real and fictional; and snappy dialogue. How Griffin manages to turn out so many novels without resorting to by-the-numbers plotting and cutout characters is a mystery, but as long as he keeps delivering the goods, his legions of fans will be content. Pitt, David\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/323'),
(15884, 'The Double Agents', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Actors David Niven and Peter Ustinov, along with James Bond creator Ian Fleming, all of whom actually served Britain in WWII, help the heroes of Griffin''s Men at War series deceive the Germans in this solid sixth installment (after 2006''s The Saboteurs) from the bestselling author and his son, Butterworth. In 1943, the OSS''s William J. Wild Bill Donovan spearheads a disinformation effort to trick the Nazis into believing that the western Allies won''t invade the European continent through Sicily. One of Donovan''s most accomplished operatives, USAAF Maj. Richard Canidy, devises a clever scheme (albeit one familiar to readers of Ewen Montagu''s The Man Who Never Was) to plant phony plans on a corpse, along with love letters drafted by the requisite attractive female spy. Some fans may find the prominent role of the real-life celebrities a distraction, but all will enjoy the suspenseful ride.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Men at War series continues with this typically exciting adventure. The plucky, resourceful agents of the Office of Strategic Services face what could be their toughest assignment: to convince Adolf Hitler that the Allied invasion of Europe will not take place at Normandy. This is the second novel Griffin has cowritten with his son, but it retains all of the veteran author''s trademarks: well-researched plot; realistic characters, real and fictional; and snappy dialogue. How Griffin manages to turn out so many novels without resorting to by-the-numbers plotting and cutout characters is a mystery, but as long as he keeps delivering the goods, his legions of fans will be content. Pitt, David\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24569'),
(15885, 'The Double Bind', 'Chris Bohjalian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermontâ€™s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he wonâ€™t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies, Laurel discovers a deeply hidden secretâ€“a story that leads her far from her old life, and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a tale that travels between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century, between Jay Gatsbyâ€™s Long Island and rural New England, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian has written his most extraordinary novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6809'),
(15886, 'The Double Bind', 'Chris Bohjalian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermontâ€™s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he wonâ€™t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies, Laurel discovers a deeply hidden secretâ€“a story that leads her far from her old life, and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a tale that travels between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century, between Jay Gatsbyâ€™s Long Island and rural New England, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian has written his most extraordinary novel yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8579'),
(15887, 'The Double Bind', 'Chris Bohjalian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17086'),
(15888, 'The Double Comfort Safari Club', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Priase for The Number One Ladies'' Detective Agency series: "Wise and lovely." --"USA Today" "Mma Ramotswe''s observations not only inevitably expose her suspects, but also reveal much about humanity as a whole . . . [McCall Smith] is a master . . . There''s beauty and revelation of one kind or another woven expertly into every line." --"The Christian Science Monitor" "These novels . . . lift the spirits. They make the reader feel good--about life, the world, the basic decency of people . . . They are wise."-- "Winston-Salem Journal" "McCall Smith is a vivid observer and an elegant writer, honoring Botswanan customs and culture . . . Like the best traditions, this series is one we hope will endure." --"The Plain Dealer" "Alexander McCall Smith has been delighting audiences for years with h\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7690'),
(15889, 'The Double Comfort Safari Club', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Priase for The Number One Ladies'' Detective Agency series: "Wise and lovely." --"USA Today" "Mma Ramotswe''s observations not only inevitably expose her suspects, but also reveal much about humanity as a whole . . . [McCall Smith] is a master . . . There''s beauty and revelation of one kind or another woven expertly into every line." --"The Christian Science Monitor" "These novels . . . lift the spirits. They make the reader feel good--about life, the world, the basic decency of people . . . They are wise."-- "Winston-Salem Journal" "McCall Smith is a vivid observer and an elegant writer, honoring Botswanan customs and culture . . . Like the best traditions, this series is one we hope will endure." --"The Plain Dealer" "Alexander McCall Smith has been delighting audiences for years with h\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12714'),
(15890, 'The Double Comfort Safari Club', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Priase for The Number One Ladies'' Detective Agency series: "Wise and lovely." --"USA Today" "Mma Ramotswe''s observations not only inevitably expose her suspects, but also reveal much about humanity as a whole . . . [McCall Smith] is a master . . . There''s beauty and revelation of one kind or another woven expertly into every line." --"The Christian Science Monitor" "These novels . . . lift the spirits. They make the reader feel good--about life, the world, the basic decency of people . . . They are wise."-- "Winston-Salem Journal" "McCall Smith is a vivid observer and an elegant writer, honoring Botswanan customs and culture . . . Like the best traditions, this series is one we hope will endure." --"The Plain Dealer" "Alexander McCall Smith has been delighting audiences for years with h\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16147'),
(15891, 'The Double Comfort Safari Club', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Priase for The Number One Ladies'' Detective Agency series: "Wise and lovely." --"USA Today" "Mma Ramotswe''s observations not only inevitably expose her suspects, but also reveal much about humanity as a whole . . . [McCall Smith] is a master . . . There''s beauty and revelation of one kind or another woven expertly into every line." --"The Christian Science Monitor" "These novels . . . lift the spirits. They make the reader feel good--about life, the world, the basic decency of people . . . They are wise."-- "Winston-Salem Journal" "McCall Smith is a vivid observer and an elegant writer, honoring Botswanan customs and culture . . . Like the best traditions, this series is one we hope will endure." --"The Plain Dealer" "Alexander McCall Smith has been delighting audiences for years with h\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26324'),
(15892, 'Double Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There''s only one thing Alex knows: the killer adores an audience. As victims are made into gruesome spectacles citywide, inducing a media hysteria, it becomes clear to Alex that the man he''s after is a genius of terror--and he''s after fame. The killer has the whole city by its strings--and he''ll stop at nothing to become the most terrifying star that Washington D.C. has ever seen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4833'),
(15893, 'Double Cross', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There''s only one thing Alex knows: the killer adores an audience. As victims are made into gruesome spectacles citywide, inducing a media hysteria, it becomes clear to Alex that the man he''s after is a genius of terror--and he''s after fame. The killer has the whole city by its strings--and he''ll stop at nothing to become the most terrifying star that Washington D.C. has ever seen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19963'),
(15894, 'Double Dare', 'Tawny Weber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Wicked**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Audra Walker''s old crowd thought she''d turned her back on them and what they liked best-namely hot sex and available men. But they were so wrongâ€¦.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Wanton**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And Audra was in the mood to prove it. How? By taking their dare. The challenge? To seduce the very next man through the club doorâ€”regardless of who he wasâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Wanted**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What the classy chick at the bar saw in his suspect was anybody''s guess. But undercover cop Jesse Martinez would make it his business to find out. Because no guyâ€”unless he was dead from the neck downâ€”would miss the chance to investigate the curvy brunette, tooâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/844'),
(15895, 'Double Dare', 'Weber, Tawny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Wicked** Audra Walker''s old crowd thought she''d turned her back on them and what they liked best-namely hot sex and available men. But they were so wrongâ€¦. **Wanton** And Audra was in the mood to prove it. How? By taking their dare. The challenge? To seduce the very next man through the club doorâ€”regardless of who he wasâ€¦ **Wanted** What the classy chick at the bar saw in his suspect was anybody''s guess. But undercover cop Jesse Martinez would make it his business to find out. Because no guyâ€”unless he was dead from the neck downâ€”would miss the chance to investigate the curvy brunette, tooâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24069'),
(15896, 'Double Deuce', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a teenaged girl and her infant daughter are shot to death outside the Double Deuce housing project, tenants of the gang-plagued neighborhood turn to Hawk for help. He, in turn, enlists Spenser''s aid in finding the killer. Their investigation leads them to a dark world of drugs, death, and despair. Previous publisher: Putnam.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1762'),
(15897, 'Double Deuce (1992)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 19', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13585'),
(15898, 'Double Deuce (1992)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 19', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23179'),
(15899, 'Double Helix 01: Infection', 'John Gregory Betancourt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like the twisted strands of mutant chromosomes, an insidious alien conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history -- beginning near the very start of Captain Picard''s command of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is only the first year of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  -D''s ongoing mission when a virulent epidemic strikes the populace of Archaria III, endangering the lives of thousands and provoking acts of mob violence against those believed responsible for the spread of the disease. While Data and Natasha Yar team up to uncover the true origins of the virus, Dr. Crusher finds that the implacable sickness resists all her efforts to find a cure. The desperate quest for a cure becomes even more urgent when Deanna Troi succumbs to the dreaded plague...again and again.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chapter One\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stardate: 41211.0 Captain''s Log, Supplemental\n </p>\n <p>\n  The_ Enterprise_ continues on its mission to Archaria III, a planet jointly colonized by humans and Peladians. A new disease has cropped up, terrifying the inhabitants. So far, more than five thousand cases have been confirmed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The only drug at all effective in treating this disease is a rare compound called Tricillin PDF, which seems to prolong life, though only for a week at most. The\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  will deliver a supply of the drug, quarantine the planet, then stay to oversee research into finding a cure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  " -- And render whatever aid the Archarians require until the emergency is over," Captain Picard said, leaning forward at the conference table and gazing at each of his senior staff in turn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  William Riker, Geordi La Forge, and Worf looked uncomfortable at the mention of the plague, and he didn''t blame them; he had always felt ill at ease when faced with intangible dangers. Deanna Troi looked deeply concerned, and Dr. Crusher looked...intrigued?\n  <em>\n   She has dealt with plagues before,\n  </em>\n  Picard reminded himself.\n  <em>\n   She knows how to contain them.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The persistent low rumble of a starship at maximum warp filled the room. None of his crew spoke.\n  <em>\n   They feel the tension building already,\n  </em>\n  he thought.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Captain," Dr. Crusher finally said, "I may have to bring samples of this virus aboard the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  for study, and perhaps a few patients."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Understood, Doctor. So long as all necessary security precautions are maintained, I see no problem. In the meantime" -- he slid a data padd across the conference table to her -- "the doctors of Archo City Hospital have prepared a full report, which you may find useful."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thank you." She pulled the padd in front of herself and began skimming the opening remarks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Something else is troubling you, sir," Deanna Troi said softly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard hesitated, then gave a curt nod. Best to get it out in the open. "What disturbs me most is the thought that this whole problem may be of our own manufacture...a biological weapon."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Impossible -- how could that be?" Riker said, shaking his head dismissively. "Legalities aside, it''s against everything the Federation stands for!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We do have treaties with most sentient races which prevent the development and use of biological weapons," Data said. "With all due respect, sir, the deployment of a genetically designed plague on a remote agricultural world such as Archaria III seems highly unlikely."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Not necessarily," Picard said. He cleared his throat. "Archaria III is in many ways a throwback to human civilization two or three hundred years ago. It was settled by religious zealots early in the twenty-second century, and although they have largely come into the Federation''s fold, old prejudices and resentments still bubble to the surface from time to time." The room was quiet for a moment while Picard allowed his point to sink in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Riker finally broke the silence. "Sir, if I may ask, what is it that leads you to conclude this disease is a weapon?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Might\n  </em>\n  be a weapon, Number One. A radical political group called the Purity League claims the plague is an act of God against ''blasphemous unnatural unions.''"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Riker gave him a blank stare. "Sir?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard cleared his throat.\n  <em>\n   How to phrase this delicately.\n  </em>\n  He said, "The Purity League is opposed to interspecies mating -- ''mixers'' as they call such people."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Again the rumble of the ship''s engines filled the room.\n  <em>\n   They can''t believe it, either,\n  </em>\n  he thought.\n  <em>\n   Humanity is supposed to be beyond such prejudices.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  He noticed that Deanna Troi, half human and half Betazoid herself, hid her inner feelings behind a mask of professional calm. He would have given a lot to know her true reaction. Undoubtedly she was even more shocked and horrified than he had been.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   To think that some humans are still capable of such petty resentments...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  He forced himself back to the problem at hand. "Mixers -- or anyone else suspected of adulterating the purity of the human race -- are treated as second-class citizens in many places on Archaria III," he continued. "Officially such prejudices are prohibited, of course, but in the backwater towns discrimination apparently still runs rampant. Only in the half-dozen large cities do humans and Peladians work and live together with something approaching harmony. In the country, things have apparently become so bad that most full-blooded Peladians now live in isolated enclaves surrounded by their own kind."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Riker said, "That sounds like a ghetto system."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It is. Those of mixed heritage are even less fortunate, since they belong fully to neither the human nor the Peladian world. They were relocating to the cities in record numbers -- until the plague struck. Now they''re fleeing into the countryside once more, living like vagabonds in tent camps." Picard looked down at his clenched, interlaced fingers resting uneasily on the table. He didn''t bother to feign relaxation. Sometimes it was good for the crew to see him share their anger.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Deanna Troi asked, "How many people of mixed blood are on the planet?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nobody is quite sure. Estimates range from between 150,000 and 200,000 people. Obviously, those mixers who most closely resemble humans hide the truth to avoid conflict with the Purity League."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Data said, "I am aware of the Purity League, sir. The Federation has monitored their activities for many years, but has deemed them a minor nuisance with little actual influence."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Their influence is growing," Picard said firmly. The private reports he had read gave alarming statistics; according to confidential surveys, fully half of the planet''s human population harbored feelings of support for the Purity League, though the League''s actual membership numbers were open to conjecture. It was certainly in the tens of thousands if not the hundreds of thousands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He went on. "The Purity League''s leader, Father Veritas, is using the plague as a rallying point for anti-alien sentiment. Apparently Veritas is responsible for inciting dozens of race riots in the last few months. The whole planet is in turmoil. The nonhuman population -- and especially the partly human population -- is running scared. The plague''s growth has only served to make the situation worse."\n  <em>\n   "Veritas," indeed,\n  </em>\n  he thought, grimacing.\n  <em>\n   If ever there was a misnomer...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sir," said Deanna Troi, "Archaria III has a long history of interspecies problems, including wars, assassinations, and racism. Its history is part of several planetary evolution courses at the Academy. I believe everyone here has studied it to some degree."\n </p>\n <p>\n  A general murmur of agreement came from the rest of his senior staff. Picard found himself surprised -- it hadn''t been part of the curriculum when he had studied at the Academy -- but he was pleased.\n  <em>\n   They''re keeping up with the times.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That is correct, sir," said Data. "It was settled in 2102 by a human sect of religious fundamentalists called the Brotherhood. Seven years later, these human settlers encountered Peladian settlers, who had colonized the planet almost simultaneously."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard had never seen a Peladian and knew little about them, beyond the fact that they were humanoid, militant about privacy, and generally considered pacifists...except when provoked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Data went on, "After a series of small wars, as the two sides got to know each other, peaceful relations and coexistence began. According to the information I have accessed, with the increasing agricultural importance of Archaria III their differences were largely put aside, in favor of economic cooperation."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That is the public story," Picard said. He folded his arms and frowned a bit. "There have always been tensions. Until Father Veritas and the Purity League burst onto the scene sixteen years\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4295');
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(15900, 'Double Helix 01: Infection', 'John Gregory Betancourt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like the twisted strands of mutant chromosomes, an insidious alien conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history -- beginning near the very start of Captain Picard''s command of the\n  <em>\n   Starship EnterpriseTM!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is only the first year of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. EnterpriseTM\n  </em>\n  -D''s ongoing mission when a virulent epidemic strikes the populace of Archaria III, endangering the lives of thousands and provoking acts of mob violence against those believed responsible for the spread of the disease. While Data and Natasha Yar team up to uncover the true origins of the virus, Dr. Crusher finds that the implacable sickness resists all her efforts to find a cure. The desperate quest for a cure becomes even more urgent when Deanna Troi succumbs to the dreaded plague...again and again.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chapter One\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stardate: 41211.0 Captain''s Log, Supplemental\n </p>\n <p>\n  The_ Enterprise_ continues on its mission to Archaria III, a planet jointly colonized by humans and Peladians. A new disease has cropped up, terrifying the inhabitants. So far, more than five thousand cases have been confirmed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The only drug at all effective in treating this disease is a rare compound called Tricillin PDF, which seems to prolong life, though only for a week at most. The\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  will deliver a supply of the drug, quarantine the planet, then stay to oversee research into finding a cure.\n </p>\n <p>\n  " -- And render whatever aid the Archarians require until the emergency is over," Captain Picard said, leaning forward at the conference table and gazing at each of his senior staff in turn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  William Riker, Geordi La Forge, and Worf looked uncomfortable at the mention of the plague, and he didn''t blame them; he had always felt ill at ease when faced with intangible dangers. Deanna Troi looked deeply concerned, and Dr. Crusher looked...intrigued?\n  <em>\n   She has dealt with plagues before,\n  </em>\n  Picard reminded himself.\n  <em>\n   She knows how to contain them.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The persistent low rumble of a starship at maximum warp filled the room. None of his crew spoke.\n  <em>\n   They feel the tension building already,\n  </em>\n  he thought.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Captain," Dr. Crusher finally said, "I may have to bring samples of this virus aboard the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  for study, and perhaps a few patients."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Understood, Doctor. So long as all necessary security precautions are maintained, I see no problem. In the meantime" -- he slid a data padd across the conference table to her -- "the doctors of Archo City Hospital have prepared a full report, which you may find useful."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thank you." She pulled the padd in front of herself and began skimming the opening remarks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Something else is troubling you, sir," Deanna Troi said softly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard hesitated, then gave a curt nod. Best to get it out in the open. "What disturbs me most is the thought that this whole problem may be of our own manufacture...a biological weapon."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Impossible -- how could that be?" Riker said, shaking his head dismissively. "Legalities aside, it''s against everything the Federation stands for!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We do have treaties with most sentient races which prevent the development and use of biological weapons," Data said. "With all due respect, sir, the deployment of a genetically designed plague on a remote agricultural world such as Archaria III seems highly unlikely."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Not necessarily," Picard said. He cleared his throat. "Archaria III is in many ways a throwback to human civilization two or three hundred years ago. It was settled by religious zealots early in the twenty-second century, and although they have largely come into the Federation''s fold, old prejudices and resentments still bubble to the surface from time to time." The room was quiet for a moment while Picard allowed his point to sink in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Riker finally broke the silence. "Sir, if I may ask, what is it that leads you to conclude this disease is a weapon?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Might\n  </em>\n  be a weapon, Number One. A radical political group called the Purity League claims the plague is an act of God against ''blasphemous unnatural unions.''"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Riker gave him a blank stare. "Sir?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard cleared his throat.\n  <em>\n   How to phrase this delicately.\n  </em>\n  He said, "The Purity League is opposed to interspecies mating -- ''mixers'' as they call such people."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Again the rumble of the ship''s engines filled the room.\n  <em>\n   They can''t believe it, either,\n  </em>\n  he thought.\n  <em>\n   Humanity is supposed to be beyond such prejudices.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  He noticed that Deanna Troi, half human and half Betazoid herself, hid her inner feelings behind a mask of professional calm. He would have given a lot to know her true reaction. Undoubtedly she was even more shocked and horrified than he had been.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   To think that some humans are still capable of such petty resentments...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  He forced himself back to the problem at hand. "Mixers -- or anyone else suspected of adulterating the purity of the human race -- are treated as second-class citizens in many places on Archaria III," he continued. "Officially such prejudices are prohibited, of course, but in the backwater towns discrimination apparently still runs rampant. Only in the half-dozen large cities do humans and Peladians work and live together with something approaching harmony. In the country, things have apparently become so bad that most full-blooded Peladians now live in isolated enclaves surrounded by their own kind."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Riker said, "That sounds like a ghetto system."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It is. Those of mixed heritage are even less fortunate, since they belong fully to neither the human nor the Peladian world. They were relocating to the cities in record numbers -- until the plague struck. Now they''re fleeing into the countryside once more, living like vagabonds in tent camps." Picard looked down at his clenched, interlaced fingers resting uneasily on the table. He didn''t bother to feign relaxation. Sometimes it was good for the crew to see him share their anger.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Deanna Troi asked, "How many people of mixed blood are on the planet?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nobody is quite sure. Estimates range from between 150,000 and 200,000 people. Obviously, those mixers who most closely resemble humans hide the truth to avoid conflict with the Purity League."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Data said, "I am aware of the Purity League, sir. The Federation has monitored their activities for many years, but has deemed them a minor nuisance with little actual influence."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Their influence is growing," Picard said firmly. The private reports he had read gave alarming statistics; according to confidential surveys, fully half of the planet''s human population harbored feelings of support for the Purity League, though the League''s actual membership numbers were open to conjecture. It was certainly in the tens of thousands if not the hundreds of thousands.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He went on. "The Purity League''s leader, Father Veritas, is using the plague as a rallying point for anti-alien sentiment. Apparently Veritas is responsible for inciting dozens of race riots in the last few months. The whole planet is in turmoil. The nonhuman population -- and especially the partly human population -- is running scared. The plague''s growth has only served to make the situation worse."\n  <em>\n   "Veritas," indeed,\n  </em>\n  he thought, grimacing.\n  <em>\n   If ever there was a misnomer...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sir," said Deanna Troi, "Archaria III has a long history of interspecies problems, including wars, assassinations, and racism. Its history is part of several planetary evolution courses at the Academy. I believe everyone here has studied it to some degree."\n </p>\n <p>\n  A general murmur of agreement came from the rest of his senior staff. Picard found himself surprised -- it hadn''t been part of the curriculum when he had studied at the Academy -- but he was pleased.\n  <em>\n   They''re keeping up with the times.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That is correct, sir," said Data. "It was settled in 2102 by a human sect of religious fundamentalists called the Brotherhood. Seven years later, these human settlers encountered Peladian settlers, who had colonized the planet almost simultaneously."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Picard had never seen a Peladian and knew little about them, beyond the fact that they were humanoid, militant about privacy, and generally considered pacifists...except when provoked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Data went on, "After a series of small wars, as the two sides got to know each other, peaceful relations and coexistence began. According to the information I have accessed, with the increasing agricultural importance of Archaria III their differences were largely put aside, in favor of economic cooperation."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That is the public story," Picard said. He folded his arms and frowned a bit. "There have always been tensions. Until Father Veritas and the Purity League burst onto the scene sixteen years\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21400'),
(15901, 'Double Helix 02: Vectors', 'Dean Wesley Smith &amp; Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like a strand of mutating DNA, a deadly conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history -- even to the Cardassian space station that will someday be known as\n  <em>\n   Deep Space Nineâ„¢.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A virulent plague has stricken Terok Nor, striking down both the enslaved Bajorans and Cardassian oppressors, who blame each other for the growing epidemic. Dr. Katherine Pulaski, late of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢,\n  </em>\n  must work with the tyrannical Gul Dukat, as well as a rebel spy named Kira Nerys, to discover the true source of an infection that threatens them all!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Terok Nor. Its name was as dark as its corridors. He actually found himself seeking the light, but carefully. Oh, so carefully. Sometimes his cloak malfunctioned, and he was seen. Partially, like a heat shimmer across desert sand, or an electronic memory buried in an old computer. But he was seen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He didn''t dare make that mistake here. The General didn''t tolerate mistakes from his agents.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He stood in the shadows just to the left of the main entrance to a place called Quark''s Bar. The area the Ferengi bartender had called the Promenade lay before him, turning away to the right, bending with the shape of the station design. The walls were gray, the floors gray, everything was gray. The Cardassians had made no effort to decorate this place. Even the bar seemed dismal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He shuddered and drew his cape around his body. He was glad he wouldn''t have to stay here too long. This Terok Nor reminded him of his prison cell. He had lost too many years of his life there. He had spent too much time staring at gray metal walls, dreaming of escape. The metal walls, the ringing sound of boots against hard surfaces, the stench of fear -- impossible to hide, even though the Cardassians kept their Bajoran prisoners separate from the rest of the population -- permeated the place. If he shut his eyes, his other senses would find nothing to distinguish Terok Nor from that hideous cell, from that prison he had finally left. The prison had changed him -- made him bitter, made him wiser, made him more careful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Oh, so careful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two Cardassian guards walked the wide passage. Their gray skin matched the depressing decor. The only thing that seemed wrong to him was the heat. By rights this station should have been as cold as its walls, but it wasn''t. The heat was thick and nearly unbearable. He didn''t know how anyone could stand being here for long. The heat also accentuated the smells: the processed air, the unwashed bodies, the Rokassa juice wafting out from the bar. The sensations were almost too much for him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He reminded himself that Terok Nor was the perfect testing ground. Two races, living in close proximity, with others coming and going. Their petty differences didn''t matter. That one race kept the other prisoner, that one made the other labor in uridium processing were merely details. The important factor was much larger.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Terok Nor was the perfect testing ground for the General. A closed system, for the most part. But anyone entering the system -- or departing the system -- would leave a record. A trail he could follow, should he so choose.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He didn''t choose at the moment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now he was most interested in Terok Nor itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To his right in the bar, crowds of uridium freighter pilots and crews shouted and laughed, the sounds echoing off the high ceilings. A few moments before, he''d been in there sitting at the bar, watching.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Waiting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Trying to stay cool and block out the uridium smell with the odor of one of the pilots'' Gamzian wine. But it hadn''t helped, and besides, he couldn''t see that well or hear that clearly with his cloak on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A clang from the far end of the Promenade caught his attention. One of the Cardassian guards had dropped his phaser pistol, then grabbed the wall as if for support. The other guard bent over him, then glanced from side to side, as if worried that a Bajoran might see and take advantage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He was too far away to hear their words. The first guard shrugged the other off. The second guard picked up the pistol and spoke on his communicator. Two guards who had apparently been patrolling just out of his line of sight ran toward the far end of the Promenade.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first guard put an arm around the second, who again shrugged him off. The second tried to stand, and nearly collapsed. The first guard supported him, and together they walked along the walls, keeping as far out of sight as possible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He felt excitement flash through him, and he tamped it down. He couldn''t let his emotions interfere with his observations. This might be nothing. It was a bit early to see results. He hadn''t expected anything so soon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The guards passed him. He had to press himself against the gray metal so that they wouldn''t brush him. They weren''t conversing, although he wished they would. He wanted to know exactly what had happened.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He needed to know.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He had moved to follow the guards, but the Promenade gave him no cover. So he remained in the shadows.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He would wait here, in the heat and the stench, just as he had done in his cell. He was good at waiting, especially when he knew it would end. And it would end.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soon he would get his answer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright Â© 1999 by Paramount Pictures\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6110'),
(15902, 'Double Helix 02: Vectors', 'Dean Wesley Smith; Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like a strand of mutating DNA, a deadly conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history -- even to the Cardassian space station that will someday be known as\n  <em>\n   Deep Space NineTM.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A virulent plague has stricken Terok Nor, striking down both the enslaved Bajorans and Cardassian oppressors, who blame each other for the growing epidemic. Dr. Katherine Pulaski, late of the\n  <em>\n   Starship EnterpriseTM,\n  </em>\n  must work with the tyrannical Gul Dukat, as well as a rebel spy named Kira Nerys, to discover the true source of an infection that threatens them all!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Terok Nor. Its name was as dark as its corridors. He actually found himself seeking the light, but carefully. Oh, so carefully. Sometimes his cloak malfunctioned, and he was seen. Partially, like a heat shimmer across desert sand, or an electronic memory buried in an old computer. But he was seen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He didn''t dare make that mistake here. The General didn''t tolerate mistakes from his agents.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He stood in the shadows just to the left of the main entrance to a place called Quark''s Bar. The area the Ferengi bartender had called the Promenade lay before him, turning away to the right, bending with the shape of the station design. The walls were gray, the floors gray, everything was gray. The Cardassians had made no effort to decorate this place. Even the bar seemed dismal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He shuddered and drew his cape around his body. He was glad he wouldn''t have to stay here too long. This Terok Nor reminded him of his prison cell. He had lost too many years of his life there. He had spent too much time staring at gray metal walls, dreaming of escape. The metal walls, the ringing sound of boots against hard surfaces, the stench of fear -- impossible to hide, even though the Cardassians kept their Bajoran prisoners separate from the rest of the population -- permeated the place. If he shut his eyes, his other senses would find nothing to distinguish Terok Nor from that hideous cell, from that prison he had finally left. The prison had changed him -- made him bitter, made him wiser, made him more careful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Oh, so careful.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two Cardassian guards walked the wide passage. Their gray skin matched the depressing decor. The only thing that seemed wrong to him was the heat. By rights this station should have been as cold as its walls, but it wasn''t. The heat was thick and nearly unbearable. He didn''t know how anyone could stand being here for long. The heat also accentuated the smells: the processed air, the unwashed bodies, the Rokassa juice wafting out from the bar. The sensations were almost too much for him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He reminded himself that Terok Nor was the perfect testing ground. Two races, living in close proximity, with others coming and going. Their petty differences didn''t matter. That one race kept the other prisoner, that one made the other labor in uridium processing were merely details. The important factor was much larger.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Terok Nor was the perfect testing ground for the General. A closed system, for the most part. But anyone entering the system -- or departing the system -- would leave a record. A trail he could follow, should he so choose.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He didn''t choose at the moment.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Now he was most interested in Terok Nor itself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To his right in the bar, crowds of uridium freighter pilots and crews shouted and laughed, the sounds echoing off the high ceilings. A few moments before, he''d been in there sitting at the bar, watching.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Waiting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Trying to stay cool and block out the uridium smell with the odor of one of the pilots'' Gamzian wine. But it hadn''t helped, and besides, he couldn''t see that well or hear that clearly with his cloak on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A clang from the far end of the Promenade caught his attention. One of the Cardassian guards had dropped his phaser pistol, then grabbed the wall as if for support. The other guard bent over him, then glanced from side to side, as if worried that a Bajoran might see and take advantage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He was too far away to hear their words. The first guard shrugged the other off. The second guard picked up the pistol and spoke on his communicator. Two guards who had apparently been patrolling just out of his line of sight ran toward the far end of the Promenade.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The first guard put an arm around the second, who again shrugged him off. The second tried to stand, and nearly collapsed. The first guard supported him, and together they walked along the walls, keeping as far out of sight as possible.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He felt excitement flash through him, and he tamped it down. He couldn''t let his emotions interfere with his observations. This might be nothing. It was a bit early to see results. He hadn''t expected anything so soon.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The guards passed him. He had to press himself against the gray metal so that they wouldn''t brush him. They weren''t conversing, although he wished they would. He wanted to know exactly what had happened.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He needed to know.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He had moved to follow the guards, but the Promenade gave him no cover. So he remained in the shadows.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He would wait here, in the heat and the stench, just as he had done in his cell. He was good at waiting, especially when he knew it would end. And it would end.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soon he would get his answer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright Â© 1999 by Paramount Pictures\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17984');
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(15903, 'Double Helix 03: Red Sector', 'Diane Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like the biological weapons they employ, a sinister conspiracy has spread across the Delta Quadrant and across many years of Starfleet History. Now the mysterious menace surfaces again -- to strike at the heart of the Romulan Empire.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An artificial virus has infected the entire Romulan ruling family. Ambassador Spock must put aside his efforts at unification to summon his old friend, Dr. Leonard McCoy, who discovers that the only hope for a cure lies with a long lost Romulan heir whose blood and tissues have not been contaminated by the virus. But can the heir be found before the collapse of a ruling dynasty throws the entire Empire into chaos?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "ATTENTION! THIS IS A STARFLEET SPECIAL SECURITY TY FORCES EVACUATION SQUAD! WE ARE ABOUT TO LAND A DIPLOMATIC COACH AND FIVE FIGHTER ESCORTS. ALL CIVILIANS MUST CLEAR THE COURTYARD IMMEDIATELY! ANYONE REMAINING WILL BE STUNNED AND REMOVED TO A SECURITY BRIG! ALL PERSONS...ATTENTION!...THEY''RE NOT CLEARING OUT. CAN THEY EVEN HEAR ME? PERRATON, IS THE TRANSLATOR ON? PECAN, GET YOUR WING BACK INTO FORMATION! WHERE''S THE BROADCAST GREENLIGHT? WHAT KIND OF DUNSELS INSTALLED THIS SYSTEM?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "AH, PERRATON HERE...STILES, BE AWARE THE BROADCAST SYSTEM IS GREEN AND TRANSLATING. YOU JUST CALLED THE WHOLE PLANET A BUNCH OF DUNSELS."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "SHUT IT DOWN!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "OAK ONE, THIS IS BRAZIL. FORMATION''S SHIFTING STARBOARD. THE EMBASSY''S GOT A BIG GARGOYLE ON IT AND I''M ABOUT TO CLEAN ITS TEETH."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "LATERAL THRUST. ABORT LANDING PATTERN -- PERRATON, WOULD YOU RED THE P.A. BEFORE I COUGH UP A LUNG?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Copy that. Public address speakers are shut down. Fighter formation''s still too cramped for diamond grid, Stiles. Acorn just bumped a water tower."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "All wings, pull up! We''ll modify formation and try our approach again. Did the whole city hear us arguing?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "They heard\n  <em>\n   you\n  </em>\n  arguing."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ahhh, I should''ve become a medic...Nuts, Oak One. Go to Ruby formation. Pecan, move two degrees port. Brazil, get off his tail. Acorn, keep your wings trim. Why can''t you people hold a hover grid?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Oak One, Acorn. It''s not us. Stiles, it''s you. You have to put the coach down and vertical your stabilizers to give us enough room to land in that courtyard."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stabilizers...I hate stabilizers...I was supposed to go in for multi-vehicular flight school this week, but nooo, I had to grab a mission. Listen up! I''ll land the coach first, then all wings settle around me five seconds later. Keep it sharp!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "What''s the matter with you, Stiles?"\n  </em>\n  Pilot Andrea Hipp''s German accent seemed crisp over the comm.\n  <em>\n   "This isn''t synchronized swimming, you know."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I said no chatter! The ambassador''s watching!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  A prattle of aye-ayes settled the issue for the moment, but did nothing for Eric Stiles''s stomach, or his icy fingers, or his tingling feet. This command stuff left a lot to be wished for. And his hair was in his eyes...he was looking through a blond curtain. Didn''t help.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On the screens of his fully carpeted cockpit, Stiles saw the platinum glitter of the Federation Embassy at PojjanPiraKot seem to rise up to meet him. Actually, he and the coach he piloted were descending into the brick city courtyard, but the illusion of a floating building disoriented him briefly. On the secondary side monitors, the five fighter escorts regrouped into Ruby formation and found the space to wiggle into the brick court, settling around the main coach vessel like baby ducks crowding a drake.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Doesn''t look like I expected it to," he commented. "What are those metal bands on all the buildings?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The city''s all reinforced." Ensign Travis Perraton''s blue eyes peered with fresh curiosity at a smaller monitor as he adjusted the coach''s shields to let them land, irritating Stiles with his eternal good mood. "They''ve got some kind of gravitational problem on this planet. All the buildings have had to be structurally rebuilt over the past few years since it started."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What kind of gravitational trouble?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Something like high tides or earthquakes, I guess. That''s what I''ve heard, anyway."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles wanted to comment, but was busy settling the coach onto its extender pads. The fantasy of brilliant artisanship in moving spaceborne vessels into an atmosphere and landing them in a surefooted, graceful manner had shriveled in his hands. At least that part was over. He trembled with irritation as the system''s check barberpoled. Perraton had managed to clear the belly shields. Otherwise, the coach would''ve sat in the air like a beachball on the water -- and probably rolled over.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You''re down," Perraton confirmed. "You can unclench now."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m fine!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yeah, sure you are. You worried about coming in shielded for the whole twenty hours it took us to get here from the starbase."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles bristled at the suggestion that he wasn''t in control. "Emergency diplomatic evacuations have certain\n  <em>\n   regulations\n  </em>\n  attached. Not getting a second chance is just\n  <em>\n   one\n  </em>\n  of the assumptions. Evac regs\n  <em>\n   assume\n  </em>\n  the situation is hostile and precautions have to be -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t quote the book."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Give me a view of the whole courtyard."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Screens around the cockpit flashed views of all six lander pads with irritated civilians scooping dirt out of huge potted plants and dumping it on the ship''s pads. So much for respect.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Are they throwing rocks?" Stiles asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s garbage." Eying the same screen, Perraton stood up and pulled on his torso armor, buckling the padded vest over his chest. "Some of ''em are throwing balls of mud from those pots."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles straightened. "Secure the coach and scramble the evac squad. Nuts, Oak One. Remain in your cockpits. Do not get out, understood? Sit tight and let Oak Squad flush the dignitaries. I''ll escort Ambassador Spock personally."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "They''re pushing on my struts. Our light-stun phasers can -- "\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Negative!" Stiles broiled. "Let ''em crowd you. Keep finger shields activated in case they touch the wings. And all of you shut up! I don''t want the ambassador to hear the slightest disrespect."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Oh, we respect you. Don''t you respect him, Cashew?"\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "I drip respect."\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As you were!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "As I was? Did I change? I like me this way. Did you change, Acorn?"\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Animals," Stiles grumbled. "I''d like to get you disrespectful slugs on starship duty for five minutes, just five minutes..." He buried himself in padded insulation as he pulled his flak vest over his head, then slipped into his gauntlets, adjusted his sidearm, and led Perraton out into the coach''s main seating area.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here, six other members of Oak Squad were already suited up and looking at him from inside their red-tinted helmet shields. Travis Perraton, Jeremy White, Bill Foster, Dan Moose, Brad Carter, Matt Girvan -- their names and faces swam before his eyes like a manifest, and for a moment he thought the blood was rushing out of his head. Midshipmen and ensigns, all in training for what would eventually become specialties, for now they were assigned to Starbase 10 in the Security Division, under their senior ensign -- Stiles. At twenty-one, Eric Stiles was the old man of the outfit. Perraton was next, at twenty years old and forty-two days junior to Stiles'' ensign stripes. Knowing that they had heard the ribbing he took from the wings, Stiles felt his face flush. He had to lead the mission. He''d gotten himself into this on purpose. He had to address them as a commander. Nobody to hide behind. They''d seen the landing. His dream of a crisp textbook military approach and regulation landing had gone up in an ugly puff. Now the squad members were blushing and snickering, burying grins, trying not to look right at him -- that was hard to take!\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Heads up." His voice cracked. "There''s a riot going on outside. Some kind of local political trouble. The embassy is beam-shielded, so we have to go in the security door. As we approach, the guard will drop the door shields. We''ll have to go in and come out in single file. We''re going to put the dignitaries between us, at two or three in a row. There are about twenty of these people, so the seven of us''ll be just about right. I''ll go last, with the ambassador right in front of me. He''s the primary person to guard, and if he gets so much as a hangnail, somebody''s gonna answer to me in a dark alley. After we go -- shut up, Foster!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I didn''t say anything!" Bill Foster protested.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Quit snickering! This is...this is -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Serious," Perraton supplied.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I know, Eric," Foster muttered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You call me ''Ensign,'' mister!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Aye aye, Ensign Mister."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I want this mission to go like clockwork! I don''t want a single twitch that isn''t in the rule book! Don''t snicker, don''t slip, don''t do anything that isn''t regulation!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  A hand was pressed to his shoulder and drew him backward a step on the plush carpet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Everything''ll go fine, Eric," Perraton mildly interrupted. "We''re ready when you are." His short dark hair was buried under a white helmet with Starfleet''s Delta Shield printed on the forehead, now obscured by the raised red visor. The shield glowed and sang at Stiles. Starfleet''s symbol.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And Stiles had to make it look good. In the wake of Perraton''s mental leashing, the symbol now lay heavily upon him. If he couldn''t yell at his men, how would he keep them in shape?\n </p>\n <p>\n  He huffed a couple of steadying breaths, but didn''t lower his voice. Now that he''d gotten up to a certain level of volume, it was hard to reel in from that. He took a moment to survey the squad -- bright white helmets, black leggings, white boots, red chest pads against the black Starfleet jumpsuits, and the bright flicker of a combadge on every vest. Elbow pads, chin guards, red visors...looked fair. Good enough.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Time to go.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "There are riots going on," he repeated, "but so far nobody''s tried to breach the embassy itself. Our job is to clear a path between the coach and the embassy and get all Federation nationals out. These people don''t have a space fleet, but their atmospheric capabilities are strong enough to cause a few problems. I won''t consider the mission accomplished until we''re clear of the stratosphere. When we get out of the coach, completely ignore the people swarming around unless they come within two meters or show a weapon. Clear?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Clear, sir!" Carter, Girvan, Moose, and Foster shouted. Perraton nodded, and White raised his rifle. Had they accented the "sir" just a little too much?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles stepped between them and the hatch. "Mobilize!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Perraton took that as a cue, and punched the autorelease on the big hatch. The coach''s loading ramp peeled back and lay neatly across the brick before them. Instantly the stench of burning fuel flooded the controlled atmosphere inside the coach. At Stiles''s side, Perraton coughed a couple of times. Other than that, nobody''s big mouth cracked open. Stiles led the way down, his heavy boots thunking on the nonskid ramp.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They broke out onto a courtyard of grand proportions with colonnades flanking it on three sides and the diplomatic buildings on the fourth side -- a battery of fifteen embassies, halls, and consulates. Most of them were empty now. The Federation was the last to evacuate. Two of the colonnades were in ruins; part of one was shrouded in scaffolding while being rebuilt. Most of the buildings showed signs of structural damage, but generally the Diplomatic Court of PojjanPirakot was a stately and bright place, providing a sad backdrop for the ugliness of these protests.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A quick glance behind showed him the positions of the five fighters landed around the coach. Their glistening bodies, streamlined for both aerodynamics and space travel, shined in the golden sunlight. There was Air Wing Leader Bernt Folmer, their best pilot, code "Brazil," parked like a big car in front of Greg "Pecan" Blake. Behind the coach the tail fin of Andrea Hipp''s "Cashew" fighter caught a glint of sun. On the other side, hopefully parked nose to tail, were Acorn and Chestnut, brothers Jason and Zack Bolt -- but Stiles didn''t bother to check their position. He only hoped they were in sharp order.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All around were angry people waving signs, some in a language he didn''t understand, others scrawled in English, Vulcan, Spanish, Orion Yrevish, and a few other languages familiar from courtesy placards all over Starfleet Command where multitudes wandered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ones in English jumped out instantly before Stiles''s racing mind. OUT ALIENS...LEAVE OUR PLANET...GET OUT STRANGERS...ALIENS UNWELCOME...CURSE ALIENS ALL....\n </p>\n <p>\n  Some of the people were calling out in English, too, though clumsily and without really understanding the arrangement of nouns and verbs. The anti-alien message, though, arrowed directly through to the team.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To the music of enraged shouts from the people rattling gates and creating a din by banging small silver knives on the iron posts, Oak Squad broke into a jog and flooded into a broad shield of sunlight glaring between the embassy and the consulate next door. The doorways and lintels were heavily reinforced with titanium T-girders, and titanium bands swept around every building, two on each story, like shiny ribcages. Stiles glanced around at his squad, making sure nobody pulled ahead of the formation. This had to be crisp. The ambassador was watching from some window inside that embassy. Everybody was watching.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fifty meters...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Oak Squad thundered forward relentlessly, their phaser rifles tight against their chests. As Stiles led his men across the patterned brick, he saw that just the raw heat from the coach''s VTOL thrusters had scorched some of the bricks nearly black and pitted them beyond repair, destroying the geometric design in the historic courtyard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His boots felt secure and thick as he crunched over the litter of broken glass, smashed fruit, and rocks that had been thrown by the rioters, who were now milling around the fighters and the coach. These Pojjan people were stocky and thick, with strong round cheekbones and bronze complexions tinged with an olive Patina, reminding Stiles of Aztec paintings seen under a green filter. They wore various clothing from the men''s ordinary shirts and pants or the women''s shiftlike dresses to the brightly beaded tribal tunics and leggings he''d seen on travel posters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The travel agencies might as well rip those posters up. Nobody was going to want to come to this dump anymore.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He cast the rioters a threatening glance or two, but although some were touching the ships'' landing struts, they weren''t doing anything destructive. Not yet anyway. If anything happened, the escort pilots would zap them. So he kept moving forward at a pace, letting the natives swerve out of his way. He led the squad manfully through a large puddle of fuel, some of which was still gulping out of a discarded and dented container. Their boots splattered it and freshened the stench.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thirty meters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Cries of anger, protest, and insult at Starfleet''s intrusion into their courtyard grew louder, as the squad jogged across the brick plateau. Stiles didn''t understand the Pojjan language, but some of these people were shouting in English or Vulcan and waving get-out-of-town banners in English, apparently smart enough to know how to get to the Federation personnel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   It''s getting to me. I''m allowing it to shake me. Just do the job, get the people out of the embassy, into the coach and lift off. Ignore the crowd. Just ignore them.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  At his right elbow, Travis Perraton was watching a gang of Pojjan teenagers on the other side of the embassy fence. A flash of flame -- the teenagers were lighting up a fuel-soaked towel.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "They can''t throw that this far, can they?" Blake asked from behind Stiles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "They don''t have to," Perraton said. "We''re jogging toward puddles of kerosene."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Gasoline," Midshipman Jeremy White corrected from the flank.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stinks," Dan Moose added, then cast to the man on his left, "Make room, Foster."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sorry."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Bag the noise," Stiles snapped, turning his head briefly to the right. "Don''t splash through the gas. If we get it on our uniforms, we''re in big trouble."\n </p>\n <p>\n  And that was his error -- that one glance over his shoulder. A stunning force struck his left shin just below the kneepad, driving his entire leg out behind him. Blown forward by the force of his own movement, Stiles let out a single strangled yell, leaped forward over a slick of gasoline, and crashed to the bricks just beyond the slick. Though he evaded the gas, he slid sidelong into a pile of garbage dumped on the courtyard. Managing to thrust his arms out, he somehow kept from landing on his phaser rifle, which instead clattered to the brick and butted him in the face shield, then scratched across his bared jaw. If his visor had been up, the rifle would''ve taken out his teeth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A blunt force rammed into his lower back -- a boot -- as Carter tumbled over Stiles, crumpling to the bricks on top of the garbage. Carter rolled and ended up on one knee.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With his jaw and knee throbbing, Stiles tightened his body, twisted onto his side, and brandished his weapon at the laughing crowd as his face flushed with humiliation. They were laughing at him. His fantasy of a clockwork mission had just cracked and blown up before his eyes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bile rose in his throat, a rashy heat down his legs. His lungs tightened as he felt slimy garbage soak into his uniform and the stench of petroleum knot his innards. The sky wheeled above him, cluttered with white helmets and flashing red visors reflecting the afternoon sun.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Smiling, Perraton reached to pull him to his feet. "Nice going, lightfoot."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t help me!" Stiles blurted.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As if bitten, Perraton retracted his hand. Stiles rolled to his feet, now smudged with the gummy remains of garbage and mudballs.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When he got to his feet, Stiles staggered a few steps in the wrong direction and was forced to endure the foolish chicken-scratch of turning around and struggling back to the front of his squad, and the further embarrassment of realizing his men were deliberately slowing down so he could get in front. He slammed his way between them, elbowing Perraton and White cruelly out of his path. He didn''t need their charity!\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the gates, two Pojjan guards immediately opened the iron grid and let them in without a word. The embassy''s medieval-looking carved wooden door, three guys wide and set between two gargoyles, also opened automatically.\n </p>\n <p>\n  No, not automatically -- this door was manual. Another guard or servant of some nationality Stiles didn''t recognize was now peeking around the door''s iron rim like a shy cow peeking out of a barn. He was an elderly man, with bent shoulders and bright green eyes set in a jowly dark face with stripes painted on it. More tribal weirdness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Moving further into the heavily tiled foyer, Stiles suddenly felt ridiculously out of place. The foyer was splendid, its mosaics of gold-and-black chipped stone and glossy ceramics portraying some kind of historic battle scene and the coronation of somebody. Must be from way back, because this wasn''t a monarchical culture anymore.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Was it?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The guard pushed the big door shut and swung a huge titanium bolt into place to lock them safely inside, then turned to the clutch of evac troopers and gasped, "One minute! I''ll get the ambassador''s assistant!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  And he disappeared into a wide archway that was two stories tall.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Oak Squad stood in the middle of the gorgeous tile floor, their uniforms scuffed and stinking, and looked around.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''d hate to be the guy who cleans the grout," Perraton commented.\n </p>\n <p>\n  White grunted as he scanned the mosaic on the ceiling. "How long you think we''ll have to wait?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Not long," Stiles filled in. "They called for us to come get them, so they''re probably ready to leave. And they''re Vulcans, so you know they''re efficient."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "How do you know they''ll be stiffs?" Moose asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Because Ambassador Spock''s a st -- a Vulcan. They like to have their own kind around. They understand each other better than we do."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Oh, right," White drawled. "They do everything better than we do."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles scoured him with a glare. "Don''t start on me, Jeremy."\n </p>\n <p>\n  He turned away, but in his periphery he noted Perraton''s quick motion to White, erasing any further annoying comments.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though they stood in this wide foyer feeling dirty and small, they were not alone. Sounds of footsteps and voices leaked from the depths of the embassy halls, and twice Stiles saw ethereal forms slip from one office to another. Did they trust him to get them out safely? Had they seen the botched choreography of the landing? Did they wonder whether the ensign in command was competent enough to handle this?\n </p>\n <p>\n  He gripped his phaser rifle until his hands hurt and shifted from foot to foot, halting only when a young woman -- a human -- skittered through the grand main door and into the foyer. Stiles didn''t pay attention....The small-boned woman, with tightly wrapped brown hair, tiny pearl earrings, and a twitch in her left eye, went directly to the tallest of them -- Jeremy White -- and breathily said, "I''m Miss Karen Theonella, Ambassador Spock''s deputy attachÃ©. Are you Ensign Stiles?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  She had a tight foreign accent that sounded Earth-based, but Stiles couldn''t pinpoint the country.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He''s over there, ma''am," White told her, and gestured.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles stepped through the cluster of Starfleeters and took his helmet off, revealing his sweat-plastered blond hair. "Eric Stiles, ma''am. I''m here to evacuate the entire embassy. Nobody should be left behind."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We understand." Miss Theonella rubbed her tiny pink palms as if kneading bread dough between them. "All embassy envoys, functionaries, ministers, delegates, and clerks will be going, as well as four Pojjana defectors who lost their homes in the last Constrictor. They''re being given asylum here and we have clearance for them to be evacuated with us. In all there are thirty-five of us."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thirty-five!" Perraton blurted. Then he instantly clammed up, but the number twenty kept flashing in his eyes like beacons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  How could seven of them safely escort thirty-five dignitaries through fifty meters of rioting?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''re prepared, ma''am," Stiles shoved in, more loudly than necessary, before anyone else could speak up. "About the landing...the ambassador is probably wondering why we were so...out of formation...."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "What?" Miss Theonella''s white temples puckered and her brows came together like pencil points. "We can''t see the courtyard from here. There are only reception rooms on the court side of the building. Was there some reason you wanted us to be watching you? Was there a signal?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  He stared at her, caught between relief and disappointment that nobody had been watching. "Uh...no, no signal."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Preoccupied, the thin young woman simply said, "Continue to wait here, please, Ensign. I''ll get the ambassador."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Again the evac squad stood alone, holding their rifles, standing in the middle of the gleaming tile floor, listening to the drumming chants of angry people outside in the square and trying to imagine how they were going to hustle thirty-five dignitaries through that. The unpleasant possibility of rushing half of them out to the coach, then coming back for the second group -- Stiles winced. Two trips through that courtyard full of alien-haters? Was that safer than one big rush? If he ordered two separate groups, would the angry people see that as their last chance to get them and attack the second group?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Wonder why they hate aliens," Dan Moose voiced.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles noted that his men were looking at the windows and doors, but his own eyes were focused on the long hall of offices into which Miss Theonella had disappeared. The ambassador was in there somewhere.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All the men turned to face the hall to their left as a crowd of elegant dignitaries bobbed toward them. In the midst of them was the tall, instantly recognizable figure of the famous Ambassador Spock.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bow? Kneel? Handshake?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t faint! Eric, stand at attention!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Perraton''s anxious whisper boomed in Stiles''s ear like a foghorn.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stand at attention!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Attention...." Stiles planted his boots on the tile, but wasn''t able to get them together. He squared his shoulders, raised his chin, held his breath, clutched his rifle, and forced an appearance of adept steadiness and control. Cool. Calm. Military. Crisp. In control. In charge. Confident. Smelly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador and his party approached them, but Spock wasn''t looking at them. Instead his dark head was bowed as he spoke to Miss Theonella, who was clipping along at his side. The ambassador listened, nodded, then spoke again while a male attendant slipped a glossy blue Federation Diplomatic Corps jacket onto the boss''s shoulders.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The sight was a shock -- Stiles had expected the flowing ceremonial robes that Vulcan seniors were usually seen wearing, but now that he saw Spock in the trim gray slacks and dark blue jacket with the UFP symbol on the left side, that outfit seemed to make more sense for a spaceborne evacuation. Robes might be harder to handle on boarding ramps and in tight quarters.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Why hadn''t he thought of that?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though Spock -- tall, narrow, controlled -- possessed all the regal formality common to his race, his famous form was somehow less imperious in person than Stiles had anticipated, his angular Vulcan features more animated, and framed by the fact that he was the only Vulcan in the bunch. Of course, Stiles had only seen still photos or staged lecture tapes. Seeing Spock in real life was very different -- he wasn''t stiff at all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As they approached, he could hear Miss Theonella''s thready voice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "...and the provincial vice-warden will be sending his prolocutrix as proxy to speak for the entire hemisphere at Federation central. Also, sir, the consul general''s wife and children are waiting in the Blue Room, and Chancellor De Gaeta''s wife is in his office."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Miss Theonella finished her sentence just as she and the ambassador and their party came into the foyer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thank you, Karen, very good work," Ambassador Spock said gently, countering her quivering report with his silky baritone voice. "Suggest to the Sagittarian military attachÃ© that he post a Pojjana communications, sentry, and that person must speak both Bal Quonnot and Romulan."\n </p>\n <p>\n  That voice! That famous voice! Stiles had been hearing it all his life! Historical documentaries, training tapes, mission interactives, holoprograms -- now he was here, in person, right in the same room with that voice!\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is Ensign Stiles," Miss Theonella added with a gesture. "And the evacuation escort men, sir."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador scanned the team, then fixed his gaze at Stiles. Directly\n  <em>\n   at\n  </em>\n  him. Right in the eyes! He was looking right at him!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Those eyes -- like blades! Black blades!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles tried to take a breath, but all he got was a gulp of garbage fumes from his soaked trouser leg. As his lungs seized up, he felt the boink-boink of Perraton''s finger poking him in the back.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Report, you idiot!\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ev...Evacuation Squad reporting as you requested, sir! Ensign Eric J. Stiles, Starfleet Special Services reporting, sir! One G-rate transport coach, evacuation team, and five fighter escorts, sir!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador''s black-slash brows went up like bird''s wings. The chamber fell to silence. Stiles'' fervid report echoed absurdly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Calmly Spock said, "At ease, Ensign."\n </p>\n <p>\n  His deep mellow voice took Stiles utterly by surprise.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Aye aye, sir!" Stiles choked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ll be ready within five minutes," the ambassador told him fluidly, then turned to the attendant who''d put the jacket on him. "Edwin, please bring out the consul general''s family and Mrs. De Gaeta and turn them over to Ensign Stiles."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Right away, Ambassador."\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the man left, Spock turned again to Miss Theonella. "You have our records and diplomatic pouches? The legal briefs and service files? Personnel manifests?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  She held up a stern black pilot''s case with a magnetic lock, hanging from a strap on her shoulder. "All here, sir."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Very well. We should also bring the jurisdictional warrants. They could be confiscated and used to gain passage into restricted areas."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll get them, sir."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "No, I''ll get them." The ambassador turned to leave, then paused and gazed briefly at the tiled floor, thinking. "Stiles..."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Here, sir!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spock looked up at the inflamed response. Coolly he repeated, "At\n  <em>\n   ease,\n  </em>\n  Ensign."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles shivered, glanced at Travis Perraton, and again met the ambassador''s eyes. "Yes, sir...."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Are you by chance related to -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, sir! I am, sir! Starfleet security commander John Stiles, Retired, is my grandfather, sir! He served with you under Captain James T. Kirk, Stardates 1709 to 1788 point 6 as Alpha-Watch navigator aboard the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise,\n  </em>\n  NCC 1701, commissioned stardate -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I recall the ship, Ensign."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "0h...oh...aye, sir...."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You have a long line of Starfleet service of officers in your family heritage, I also recall."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, sir! Several active-duty servicemen lost in the Romulan Wars, sir! A captain, two lieutenants, two -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Commendable, Mr. Stiles. Carry on." Spock turned to the little gaggle of people behind him and said, "All of you please stand by until everyone else arrives. Then you''ll take your instructions from Ensign Stiles as to how you will arrange yourselves during the actual evacuation. As you know, the building is beam-shielded, and therefore we must go out the door and board the transport coach on foot. Unfortunately, our general safety compromises our safety during emergency evacuations. Karen, keep them in order. I will return momentarily."\n </p>\n <p>\n  With that he disappeared down a different hallway and into an office leaving a confused clutch of embassy persons standing here in the foyer, wide-eyed and obviously frightened. By nature, the two groups divided to opposite sides of the foyer, embassy folks over there, Oak Squad over here.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles let himself be tugged aside, and barely registered the low mutters of his men around him through the afterglow of his meeting with Spock.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Beam-shielding," Matt grumbled. "There''s planning. What if they had to get out under more dangerous conditions than mudballs and molotovs?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It''s beam-shielded so assassins or terrorists can''t beam in."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Why couldn''t they make it one-way?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Too unstable. Sucks too much energy to maintain over time."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Doesn''t matter. We''ll get ''em out. Eric''ll carry them all on his back if he has to."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If he doesn''t choke up a lung first."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ll be lucky if he doesn''t make us bow backward out of the room."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The team laughed. A cluttered sound, muffled...like a storm coming.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beside Stiles, Perraton raised his helmet visor and smiled with genuine sympathy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You okay, Eric?" he asked.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles felt his lips chapping as he breathed in and out, in and out, like a landed fish. He''d just met his hero and he didn''t know if he''d liked it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And it wasn''t over. In fact, it was just beginning. He''d have to do everything perfectly from now on. No more botched formations. No more stammering. He had to be perfect. Smooth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ease up, lightfoot," Perraton suggested privately. "He''s just a guy."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Just a guy," Stiles rasped. "He''s a hero, Travis...a Starfleet icon...the first Vulcan in Starfleet...Captain James Kirk''s executive officer...I''ve heard every story a hundred times all my life -- do you know how many times he participated in saving the\n  <em>\n   whole\n  </em>\n  Federation? And even the Klingon Empire?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Doesn''t matter now. Anyway, the hard part''s over. You met him, you survived, and the experience didn''t suck out your brains. He was a Starfleet man for half a century. He knows the drill. So get a perspective. Here he comes."\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Do the job. Do the job.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador flowed back into the foyer, now carrying a slim red folder and followed by more than a dozen people and his attendant Edwin. Suddenly the foyer was swarming with civilians. At least they were mostly adults, a few teenagers -- Stiles didn''t relish the prospect of herding toddlers through that mess out there. He stiffened as the ambassador came directly to him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''re ready, Mr. Stiles."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, Sir...how would you like to do this?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Spock handed the folder to Miss Theonella. "Pardon me?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I...I figured you''d have some preference about...what order you want them in and...how to do it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The ambassador thought about that briefly, his dark eyes working, as if he hadn''t considered such an option. After a moment he vocally shrugged. "Your mission, Ensign."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Over Spock''s shoulder, Perraton smiled and gave Stiles a thumbs-up.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sustained by that, Stiles forced himself to rise to the demand. "Uh...if you people would form a line, two by two, and Oak Squad situate yourselves between them, uh, one every...uh -- "\n </p>\n <p>\n  He paused, tried to do the math, but couldn''t remember how. His brain\n  <em>\n   had\n  </em>\n  been sucked out!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maybe he wouldn''t have to count and add and divide -- his men were already arranging themselves into position. Perraton was taking the lead, and motioning the others into the queue at intervals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll take the rear guard," Stiles said. "Ambassador, would you mind coming back here with me, sir?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Thank you, Ensign, I will."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "All right, let''s -- no, no, you can''t do the door." Stiles motioned to the funny-looking butler who was still standing his post at the door, waiting to open it for everybody. "Travis, put that man in line behind Girvan and you do the door. Then fall in."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Copy that."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Okay, phaser rifles ready."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ready!" his men shouted.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Rifles up!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Up!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Very well!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Stiles took one more look at Ambassador Spock''s steady form in line before him, at the large UFP shield printed on the back of the blue jacket. The stars of the United Federation of Planets swam before his eyes.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He drew a breath. His voice echoed under the high tiled ceiling\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Mobilize!"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright Â© 1999 by Paramount Pictures\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7926'),
(15904, 'Double Helix 04: Quarantine', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Like intertwining filaments of human and alien DNA, a ruthless campaign of revenge has threaded its way through the galaxy, touching billions of sentient beings -- and changing forever the life of Lieutenant Thomas Riker.  Tom Riker, an identical duplicate of the "Starship Enterprise''s(TM)" first officer, is serving as a Starfleet medical courier when he encounters a group of Maquis renegades, led by a former Starfleet officer named Chakotay. A planet in the Demilitarized Zone, now controlled by the Cardassians, has been stricken with the same deadly disease that has plagued the Alpha Quadrant for years, and only Riker can get the medical supplies the Maquis so desperately need. But the Cardassians would rather destroy all life on the planet than risk letting the epidemic spread!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4169'),
(15905, 'Double Helix 04: Quarantine', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Like intertwining filaments of human and alien DNA, a ruthless campaign of revenge has threaded its way through the galaxy, touching billions of sentient beings -- and changing forever the life of Lieutenant Thomas Riker. Tom Riker, an identical duplicate of the "Starship Enterprise''s(TM)" first officer, is serving as a Starfleet medical courier when he encounters a group of Maquis renegades, led by a former Starfleet officer named Chakotay. A planet in the Demilitarized Zone, now controlled by the Cardassians, has been stricken with the same deadly disease that has plagued the Alpha Quadrant for years, and only Riker can get the medical supplies the Maquis so desperately need. But the Cardassians would rather destroy all life on the planet than risk letting the epidemic spread!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20423'),
(15906, 'Double Helix 05: Double or Nothing', 'Peter Allen David', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like a lethal bacillus coursing through the bloodstream of the galaxy, a fiendish master plan has spread death and terror across the 24th century -- until two heroic captains risk everything to stamp out the evil at its source!\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more than a decade, since the very beginning of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise''sâ„¢\n  </em>\n  mission, unknown enemies have unleashed a string of deadly biological weapons throughout the Alpha Quadrant, inflicting ghastly epidemics upon the Romulans, the Cardassians, the Bajorans, and even the Federation. Now, at long last, Captain Jean-Luc Picard joins forces with Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Excalibur\n  </em>\n  to track down and confront the hidden architects of the plagues -- and avenge the deaths of thousands!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2196'),
(15907, 'Double Helix 05: Double or Nothing', 'Peter Allen David', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like a lethal bacillus coursing through the bloodstream of the galaxy, a fiendish master plan has spread death and terror across the 24th century -- until two heroic captains risk everything to stamp out the evil at its source!\n </p>\n <p>\n  For more than a decade, since the very beginning of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise''sTM\n  </em>\n  mission, unknown enemies have unleashed a string of deadly biological weapons throughout the Alpha Quadrant, inflicting ghastly epidemics upon the Romulans, the Cardassians, the Bajorans, and even the Federation. Now, at long last, Captain Jean-Luc Picard joins forces with Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the\n  <em>\n   Starship Excalibur\n  </em>\n  to track down and confront the hidden architects of the plagues -- and avenge the deaths of thousands!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22685'),
(15908, 'Double Helix 06: The First Virtue', 'Michael Jan Friedman &amp; Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An insidious plot for revenge has spanned several years in the life of Jean-Luc Picard, but how did this merciless vendetta get started? Like a double helixcurling back on itself, the final answer lies at the very beginning...\n </p>\n <p>\n  A series of terrorist attacks have heightened tensions between two alien races, bringing an entire sector to the brink of interplanetary war. While Picard,captain of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Stargazer,\n  </em>\n  struggles to keep the peace, Lieutenant Commander Jack Crusher must team up with a Vulcan officer named Tuvok to uncover the hidden architect of the attacks, but the outcome of their quest would breed dire consequences for the future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2837'),
(15909, 'Double Helix 06: The First Virtue', 'Michael Jan Friedman; Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An insidious plot for revenge has spanned several years in the life of Jean-Luc Picard, but how did this merciless vendetta get started? Like a double helixcurling back on itself, the final answer lies at the very beginning...\n </p>\n <p>\n  A series of terrorist attacks have heightened tensions between two alien races, bringing an entire sector to the brink of interplanetary war. While Picard,captain of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Stargazer,\n  </em>\n  struggles to keep the peace, Lieutenant Commander Jack Crusher must team up with a Vulcan officer named Tuvok to uncover the hidden architect of the attacks, but the outcome of their quest would breed dire consequences for the future.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21995'),
(15910, 'Double Homicide', 'Jonathan Kellerman &amp; Faye Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two short novels by a couple who''ve each gone it alone very successfully in their previous literary efforts make for a double treat for fans of both authors--Faye, whose mysteries feature a similarly uxorious couple in Rina and Peter Decker, and Jonathan, whose Alex Delaware novels starring a thoughtful child psychologist who''s luckier in crime-busting than in love are even more popular. Not as satisfying as each author''s full-length efforts,\n <em>\n  Double Homicide\n </em>\n nonetheless offers a tasty side dish for their fans, and their protagonists venture beyond Los Angeles to tread new geographical territory, too. In Boston, a popular college athlete is slain in a busy nightclub, but what seems like an open-and-shut case turns out to hinge on forensic evidence that points to a very different conclusion. Detectives Michael McCain and Doris Breton unravel the mystery in Beantown, while two other new characters, Darryl Two Moons and his partner Steve Katz, discover that gallery owner Larry Olafson''s brutal slaying has repercussions that resonate far beyond Santa Fe''s trendy Canyon Road. Neither of these novellas makes the most of either author''s gifts at character development, which lend themselves to a longer format, but that won''t stop their dedicated readers from snapping them up and savoring them until the Deckers or Dr. Delaware turn up in their next adventures.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s a two-for-one bonanza--two mystery novellas from a husband and wife whose separate writing careers have earned each a huge following. These stories, set at opposite ends of the country, give barely a hint as to who wrote what, providing a little tantalizing "real-life" mystery to the puzzlers on the page. "Double Homicide: Boston," the strongest of the pair, is also the grittier of the two. A city college basketball star is shot at a nightclub following a nasty incident on the court. The prime suspect is a loudmouth on the opposing team, but as detectives McCain and Breton find out, the crime isn''t as straightforward as it seems. The backdrop of "Double Homicide: Santa Fe" is a tad more refined--though murder, after all, is still murder. A cutthroat art dealer is found dead, and there are plenty of suspects in his address book--including the ex-wife of one of the investigating cops. In both stories, the cops'' personal lives add welcome texture to the fairly routine if still wholly entertaining plots. A diversion for the Kellermans but sure to be of interest to their respective fans.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4109'),
(15911, 'Double Homicide', 'Jonathan Kellerman &amp; Faye Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two short novels by a couple who''ve each gone it alone very successfully in their previous literary efforts make for a double treat for fans of both authors--Faye, whose mysteries feature a similarly uxorious couple in Rina and Peter Decker, and Jonathan, whose Alex Delaware novels starring a thoughtful child psychologist who''s luckier in crime-busting than in love are even more popular. Not as satisfying as each author''s full-length efforts,\n <em>\n  Double Homicide\n </em>\n nonetheless offers a tasty side dish for their fans, and their protagonists venture beyond Los Angeles to tread new geographical territory, too. In Boston, a popular college athlete is slain in a busy nightclub, but what seems like an open-and-shut case turns out to hinge on forensic evidence that points to a very different conclusion. Detectives Michael McCain and Doris Breton unravel the mystery in Beantown, while two other new characters, Darryl Two Moons and his partner Steve Katz, discover that gallery owner Larry Olafson''s brutal slaying has repercussions that resonate far beyond Santa Fe''s trendy Canyon Road. Neither of these novellas makes the most of either author''s gifts at character development, which lend themselves to a longer format, but that won''t stop their dedicated readers from snapping them up and savoring them until the Deckers or Dr. Delaware turn up in their next adventures.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s a two-for-one bonanza--two mystery novellas from a husband and wife whose separate writing careers have earned each a huge following. These stories, set at opposite ends of the country, give barely a hint as to who wrote what, providing a little tantalizing "real-life" mystery to the puzzlers on the page. "Double Homicide: Boston," the strongest of the pair, is also the grittier of the two. A city college basketball star is shot at a nightclub following a nasty incident on the court. The prime suspect is a loudmouth on the opposing team, but as detectives McCain and Breton find out, the crime isn''t as straightforward as it seems. The backdrop of "Double Homicide: Santa Fe" is a tad more refined--though murder, after all, is still murder. A cutthroat art dealer is found dead, and there are plenty of suspects in his address book--including the ex-wife of one of the investigating cops. In both stories, the cops'' personal lives add welcome texture to the fairly routine if still wholly entertaining plots. A diversion for the Kellermans but sure to be of interest to their respective fans.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10605');
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(15912, 'Double Homicide', 'Jonathan Kellerman; Faye Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two short novels by a couple who''ve each gone it alone very successfully in their previous literary efforts make for a double treat for fans of both authors--Faye, whose mysteries feature a similarly uxorious couple in Rina and Peter Decker, and Jonathan, whose Alex Delaware novels starring a thoughtful child psychologist who''s luckier in crime-busting than in love are even more popular. Not as satisfying as each author''s full-length efforts,\n <em>\n  Double Homicide\n </em>\n nonetheless offers a tasty side dish for their fans, and their protagonists venture beyond Los Angeles to tread new geographical territory, too. In Boston, a popular college athlete is slain in a busy nightclub, but what seems like an open-and-shut case turns out to hinge on forensic evidence that points to a very different conclusion. Detectives Michael McCain and Doris Breton unravel the mystery in Beantown, while two other new characters, Darryl Two Moons and his partner Steve Katz, discover that gallery owner Larry Olafson''s brutal slaying has repercussions that resonate far beyond Santa Fe''s trendy Canyon Road. Neither of these novellas makes the most of either author''s gifts at character development, which lend themselves to a longer format, but that won''t stop their dedicated readers from snapping them up and savoring them until the Deckers or Dr. Delaware turn up in their next adventures.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s a two-for-one bonanza--two mystery novellas from a husband and wife whose separate writing careers have earned each a huge following. These stories, set at opposite ends of the country, give barely a hint as to who wrote what, providing a little tantalizing "real-life" mystery to the puzzlers on the page. "Double Homicide: Boston," the strongest of the pair, is also the grittier of the two. A city college basketball star is shot at a nightclub following a nasty incident on the court. The prime suspect is a loudmouth on the opposing team, but as detectives McCain and Breton find out, the crime isn''t as straightforward as it seems. The backdrop of "Double Homicide: Santa Fe" is a tad more refined--though murder, after all, is still murder. A cutthroat art dealer is found dead, and there are plenty of suspects in his address book--including the ex-wife of one of the investigating cops. In both stories, the cops'' personal lives add welcome texture to the fairly routine if still wholly entertaining plots. A diversion for the Kellermans but sure to be of interest to their respective fans.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20405'),
(15913, 'Double Indemnity', 'James M. Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When smalltime insurance salesman Walter Huff meets seductive Phyllis Nirdlinger, the wife of one of his wealthy clients, it takes him only minutes to determine that she wants to get rid of her husband--and not much longer to decide to help her do it. Walter knows that accident insurance pays double indemnity on railroad mishaps, so he and Phyllis plot frantically to get Nirdlinger on--and off--a train without arousing the suspicions of the police, the insurance company, Nirdlinger''s dishy daughter, her mysterious boyfriend, or Nirdlinger himself. This brief but complex novel is a perfect example of the ordinary-guy-gone-disastrously-wrong story that Cain always pulls off brilliantly.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''[A] fine idea for a series... They already have a superb noir backlist. but adding Philip K Dick''s Minority Report and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? improves the mix.'' SCOTSMAN\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4786'),
(15914, 'Double Indemnity', 'James M. Cain', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When smalltime insurance salesman Walter Huff meets seductive Phyllis Nirdlinger, the wife of one of his wealthy clients, it takes him only minutes to determine that she wants to get rid of her husband--and not much longer to decide to help her do it. Walter knows that accident insurance pays double indemnity on railroad mishaps, so he and Phyllis plot frantically to get Nirdlinger on--and off--a train without arousing the suspicions of the police, the insurance company, Nirdlinger''s dishy daughter, her mysterious boyfriend, or Nirdlinger himself. This brief but complex novel is a perfect example of the ordinary-guy-gone-disastrously-wrong story that Cain always pulls off brilliantly.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''[A] fine idea for a series... They already have a superb noir backlist. but adding Philip K Dick''s Minority Report and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? improves the mix.'' SCOTSMAN\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19867'),
(15915, 'Double Jeopardy', 'David Sherman &amp; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The thrilling pace of the Starfist space epic quickens as the explosive series rockets to dazzling new heights, packed with the hell-for-leather action only two battle-hardened and decorated combat vets like David Sherman and Dan Cragg can provide.The Confederation has finally disclosed the existence of Skinks, fierce aliens bent on wiping out humankind, and announced its plan to find and destroy their home world. While the rest of the universe grapples with the news, the Skink-savvy Marines of the Confederation''s Thirty-fourth Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) have their own take on the situation.Though they''re no longer in danger of being exiled to a ghastly netherworld for spilling the beans about the deadly aliens, the men still can''t transfer out of the unit where they''ve been confined since they first laid eyes on the Skinks. The reason is obvious: Who else but the legendary Thirty-fourth FIST has the skills and experience to spearhead the invasion of the Skinks'' home world? Morale isn''t improved by a report of Skinks on the uncolonized world of Ishtar near a mercenary force engaged in slave-driven mining operations thereâ€”which means that FIST must turn around and head right back into the jaws of hell with no downtime. But none of that matters to Lieutenant CharlieÂ Bass and the third platoon of Company L. They''re Marines, they''re the best, and they''ve got a job to do.Â  The Marines will find a planet ripped apart by all-out war, with enemies on all sides. The only certainty is that the fighting will rage red-hot and relentless, and Charlie Bass and his men will be right in the thick of the action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6189'),
(15916, 'Double Jeopardy', 'David Sherman &amp; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The thrilling pace of the Starfist space epic quickens as the explosive series rockets to dazzling new heights, packed with the hell-for-leather action only two battle-hardened and decorated combat vets like David Sherman and Dan Cragg can provide.The Confederation has finally disclosed the existence of Skinks, fierce aliens bent on wiping out humankind, and announced its plan to find and destroy their home world. While the rest of the universe grapples with the news, the Skink-savvy Marines of the Confederation''s Thirty-fourth Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) have their own take on the situation.Though they''re no longer in danger of being exiled to a ghastly netherworld for spilling the beans about the deadly aliens, the men still can''t transfer out of the unit where they''ve been confined since they first laid eyes on the Skinks. The reason is obvious: Who else but the legendary Thirty-fourth FIST has the skills and experience to spearhead the invasion of the Skinks'' home world? Morale isn''t improved by a report of Skinks on the uncolonized world of Ishtar near a mercenary force engaged in slave-driven mining operations thereâ€”which means that FIST must turn around and head right back into the jaws of hell with no downtime. But none of that matters to Lieutenant CharlieÂ Bass and the third platoon of Company L. They''re Marines, they''re the best, and they''ve got a job to do.Â  The Marines will find a planet ripped apart by all-out war, with enemies on all sides. The only certainty is that the fighting will rage red-hot and relentless, and Charlie Bass and his men will be right in the thick of the action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12622'),
(15917, 'Double Jeopardy', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The thrilling pace of the Starfist space epic quickens as the explosive series rockets to dazzling new heights, packed with the hell-for-leather action only two battle-hardened and decorated combat vets like David Sherman and Dan Cragg can provide.The Confederation has finally disclosed the existence of Skinks, fierce aliens bent on wiping out humankind, and announced its plan to find and destroy their home world. While the rest of the universe grapples with the news, the Skink-savvy Marines of the Confederation''s Thirty-fourth Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) have their own take on the situation.Though they''re no longer in danger of being exiled to a ghastly netherworld for spilling the beans about the deadly aliens, the men still can''t transfer out of the unit where they''ve been confined since they first laid eyes on the Skinks. The reason is obvious: Who else but the legendary Thirty-fourth FIST has the skills and experience to spearhead the invasion of the Skinks'' home world? Morale isn''t improved by a report of Skinks on the uncolonized world of Ishtar near a mercenary force engaged in slave-driven mining operations thereâ€”which means that FIST must turn around and head right back into the jaws of hell with no downtime. But none of that matters to Lieutenant CharlieÂ Bass and the third platoon of Company L. They''re Marines, they''re the best, and they''ve got a job to do.Â  The Marines will find a planet ripped apart by all-out war, with enemies on all sides. The only certainty is that the fighting will rage red-hot and relentless, and Charlie Bass and his men will be right in the thick of the action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17841'),
(15918, 'Double Jeopardy', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The thrilling pace of the Starfist space epic quickens as the explosive series rockets to dazzling new heights, packed with the hell-for-leather action only two battle-hardened and decorated combat vets like David Sherman and Dan Cragg can provide.The Confederation has finally disclosed the existence of Skinks, fierce aliens bent on wiping out humankind, and announced its plan to find and destroy their home world. While the rest of the universe grapples with the news, the Skink-savvy Marines of the Confederation''s Thirty-fourth Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) have their own take on the situation.Though they''re no longer in danger of being exiled to a ghastly netherworld for spilling the beans about the deadly aliens, the men still can''t transfer out of the unit where they''ve been confined since they first laid eyes on the Skinks. The reason is obvious: Who else but the legendary Thirty-fourth FIST has the skills and experience to spearhead the invasion of the Skinks'' home world? Morale isn''t improved by a report of Skinks on the uncolonized world of Ishtar near a mercenary force engaged in slave-driven mining operations thereâ€”which means that FIST must turn around and head right back into the jaws of hell with no downtime. But none of that matters to Lieutenant CharlieÂ Bass and the third platoon of Company L. They''re Marines, they''re the best, and they''ve got a job to do.Â  The Marines will find a planet ripped apart by all-out war, with enemies on all sides. The only certainty is that the fighting will rage red-hot and relentless, and Charlie Bass and his men will be right in the thick of the action.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27324'),
(15919, 'Double Star', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake -- failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe''s own life was on the line -- for if he wasn''t assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22725'),
(15920, 'Double Whammy', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14681'),
(15921, 'Double Whammy', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16940'),
(15922, 'Double Whammy', 'Carl Hiaasen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26832'),
(15923, 'Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation From Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson', 'Jennifer Hecht', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cited midway through this magisterial book by Hecht (The End of the Soul), the Zen maxim "Great Doubt: great awakening. Little Doubt: little awakening. No Doubt: no awakening" reveals that skepticism is the sine qua non of reflection, and discloses the centrality that doubt and disbelief have played in fueling intellectual discovery. Most scholarship focuses on the belief systems that have defined religious history while leaving doubters burnt along the wayside. Hecht''s poetical prose beautifully dramatizes the struggle between belief and denial, in terms of historical currents and individual wrestlings with the angel. Doubt is revealed to be the subtle stirring that has precipitated many of the more widely remembered innovations in politics, religion and science, such as medieval Jewish philosopher Gersonides''s doubt of Ptolemaic cosmology 200-300 years before Copernicus, Kepler or Galileo. The breadth of this work is stunning in its coverage of nearly all extant written history. Hecht''s exegesis traces doubt''s meandering path from the fragments of pre-Socratics and early religious heretics in Asia, carefully elucidating the evolution of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, through the intermingling of Eastern and Western religious and philosophical thought in the Middle Ages that is often left out of popular histories, to the preeminence of doubt in thrusting open the doors of modernity with the Cartesian "I am a thing... that doubts," ergo sum. Writing with acute sensitivity, Hecht draws the reader toward personal reflection on some of the most timeless questions ever posed.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Let others admire cathedrals: poet and historian Hecht celebrates the creations of doubters. In this remarkably wide ranging history, Hecht recounts how doubters from Socrates to Wittgenstein have translated their misgivings about regnant orthodoxies into new philosophic insights and political horizons. Though she explores the skepticism of early Greek thinkers challenging pagan gods, the tantric doubts of Tibetan monks chanting their way to enlightenment, and the poetic unbelief of heretical Muslim poets, Hecht gives center stage to Christianity, the religion that made doubt newly visible--and subversive--by identifying faith (not law, morality, or ritual) as the very key to salvation. Readers witness the martyrdom of iconoclastic doubters such as Bruno, Dolet, and Vanini, but Hecht also illuminates the wrenching episodes of doubt in the lives of passionate believers, including Paul and Augustine. In Jesus'' anguished utterances in Gethsemane and at Calvary, Hecht hears even Christ experiencing the agony of doubt. Indeed, Hecht''s affinity for the doubters who have advanced secular democracy and modern art does not blind her to the hidden kinship between profound doubters and seminal believers: both have confronted the perplexing gap between human aspirations and their tragic contradictions. In her provocative conclusion, Hecht ponders the novelty of a global confrontation pitting America not against the state-sanctioned doubt of Soviet atheism but, rather, against a religious fundamentalism hostile to all doubt.\n <em>\n  Bryce Christensen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9454'),
(15924, 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child - Agent Pendergast 09 - Cemetery Dance', 'Cemetery Dance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13649'),
(15925, 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child - Agent Pendergast 09 - Cemetery Dance', 'Cemetery Dance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26851'),
(15926, 'Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician', 'Michelle Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A 30-year-old British woman, bored with her National Health Service job, applies on a whim for a position as a trainee at a hospital mortuary. This entertaining memoir chronicles the authorâ€™s first year on the job, which sees her learning how to perform a postmortem, determine cause of death, and deal with grieving relatives and shady undertakers (among a lot of other things). She tells her story in a straightforward manner, not pulling any punches when it comes to describing her working environment (â€œHe tugged at the guts and began to unwind them . . . .â€), although this means there are occasional gruesome and shivery moments (â€œit was infested with maggots that were having a huge feast on human fleshâ€). Her colleagues are portrayed as ordinary men and women, not as a collection of comic stereotypes: one of the bookâ€™s key themes is that itâ€™s an unusual job, but the people who do it are just regular folk. Not your run-of-the-mill occupational memoir, but definitely an interesting one. --David Pitt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy social life . . . and an unusual occupation. When she impulsively applies to be a mortuary technician and is offered the position, she has no idea that her decision to accept will be one of the most momentous of her life. â€œWhat I didnâ€™t realize then,â€ she writes, â€œwas that I was about to start one of the most amazing jobs you can do.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n To Williams, life in the mortuary is neither grim nor frightening. She introduces readers to a host of unique characters: pathologists (many eccentric, some utterly crazy), undertakers, and the man from the coronerâ€™s office who sings to her every morning. No two days are alike, and while Williamsâ€™s sensitivity to the dead never wavers, her tales from the crypt range from mischievous to downright shocking. Readers wonâ€™t forget the fitness fanatic run over while doing nighttime push-ups on the road, the man so large he had to be carted in via refrigerated truck, or the guide dog who led his owner onto railway tracksâ€”and left him there. The indomitable Williams never bats an eye, even as she is confrontedâ€”dailyâ€”with situations that would leave the rest of us speechless.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2709'),
(15927, 'Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician', 'Michelle Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A 30-year-old British woman, bored with her National Health Service job, applies on a whim for a position as a trainee at a hospital mortuary. This entertaining memoir chronicles the authorâ€™s first year on the job, which sees her learning how to perform a postmortem, determine cause of death, and deal with grieving relatives and shady undertakers (among a lot of other things). She tells her story in a straightforward manner, not pulling any punches when it comes to describing her working environment (â€œHe tugged at the guts and began to unwind them . . . .â€), although this means there are occasional gruesome and shivery moments (â€œit was infested with maggots that were having a huge feast on human fleshâ€). Her colleagues are portrayed as ordinary men and women, not as a collection of comic stereotypes: one of the bookâ€™s key themes is that itâ€™s an unusual job, but the people who do it are just regular folk. Not your run-of-the-mill occupational memoir, but definitely an interesting one. --David Pitt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy social life . . . and an unusual occupation. When she impulsively applies to be a mortuary technician and is offered the position, she has no idea that her decision to accept will be one of the most momentous of her life. â€œWhat I didnâ€™t realize then,â€ she writes, â€œwas that I was about to start one of the most amazing jobs you can do.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n To Williams, life in the mortuary is neither grim nor frightening. She introduces readers to a host of unique characters: pathologists (many eccentric, some utterly crazy), undertakers, and the man from the coronerâ€™s office who sings to her every morning. No two days are alike, and while Williamsâ€™s sensitivity to the dead never wavers, her tales from the crypt range from mischievous to downright shocking. Readers wonâ€™t forget the fitness fanatic run over while doing nighttime push-ups on the road, the man so large he had to be carted in via refrigerated truck, or the guide dog who led his owner onto railway tracksâ€”and left him there. The indomitable Williams never bats an eye, even as she is confrontedâ€”dailyâ€”with situations that would leave the rest of us speechless.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13369'),
(15928, 'Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician', 'Michelle Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A 30-year-old British woman, bored with her National Health Service job, applies on a whim for a position as a trainee at a hospital mortuary. This entertaining memoir chronicles the authorâ€™s first year on the job, which sees her learning how to perform a postmortem, determine cause of death, and deal with grieving relatives and shady undertakers (among a lot of other things). She tells her story in a straightforward manner, not pulling any punches when it comes to describing her working environment (â€œHe tugged at the guts and began to unwind them . . . .â€), although this means there are occasional gruesome and shivery moments (â€œit was infested with maggots that were having a huge feast on human fleshâ€). Her colleagues are portrayed as ordinary men and women, not as a collection of comic stereotypes: one of the bookâ€™s key themes is that itâ€™s an unusual job, but the people who do it are just regular folk. Not your run-of-the-mill occupational memoir, but definitely an interesting one. --David Pitt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Michelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy social life . . . and an unusual occupation. When she impulsively applies to be a mortuary technician and is offered the position, she has no idea that her decision to accept will be one of the most momentous of her life. â€œWhat I didnâ€™t realize then,â€ she writes, â€œwas that I was about to start one of the most amazing jobs you can do.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n To Williams, life in the mortuary is neither grim nor frightening. She introduces readers to a host of unique characters: pathologists (many eccentric, some utterly crazy), undertakers, and the man from the coronerâ€™s office who sings to her every morning. No two days are alike, and while Williamsâ€™s sensitivity to the dead never wavers, her tales from the crypt range from mischievous to downright shocking. Readers wonâ€™t forget the fitness fanatic run over while doing nighttime push-ups on the road, the man so large he had to be carted in via refrigerated truck, or the guide dog who led his owner onto railway tracksâ€”and left him there. The indomitable Williams never bats an eye, even as she is confrontedâ€”dailyâ€”with situations that would leave the rest of us speechless.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22126'),
(15929, 'Down Flowers', 'Terry Dowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22938'),
(15930, 'Down River', 'Karen Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered and alone, she has been left for dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lodge owner Mitch Braxton knows something is terribly wrong when Lisa fails to turn up for a private meeting to clear the air and close the book on their broken engagement. Embarking on a heroic search that takes him miles downriver, he saves Lisa from the deadly water, but not before they''ve been swept deep into the wilderness.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Far from civilization, the former lovers must put aside their hurt feelings and find the will to survive against nature. There''s a killer on the loose and, for now, they must measure their future together in days rather than years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3941'),
(15931, 'Down River', 'Karen Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered and alone, she has been left for dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lodge owner Mitch Braxton knows something is terribly wrong when Lisa fails to turn up for a private meeting to clear the air and close the book on their broken engagement. Embarking on a heroic search that takes him miles downriver, he saves Lisa from the deadly water, but not before they''ve been swept deep into the wilderness.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Far from civilization, the former lovers must put aside their hurt feelings and find the will to survive against nature. There''s a killer on the loose and, for now, they must measure their future together in days rather than years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10205'),
(15932, 'Down River', 'Karen Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered and alone, she has been left for dead. Lodge owner Mitch Braxton knows something is terribly wrong when Lisa fails to turn up for a private meeting to clear the air and close the book on their broken engagement. Embarking on a heroic search that takes him miles downriver, he saves Lisa from the deadly water, but not before they''ve been swept deep into the wilderness. Far from civilization, the former lovers must put aside their hurt feelings and find the will to survive against nature. There''s a killer on the loose and, for now, they must measure their future together in days rather than years.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20682'),
(15933, 'Down to the Wire', 'Orr, David W.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17251'),
(15934, 'Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse', 'David W. Orr', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Author and environmental studies professor Orr (The Nature of Design) presents an alarming look at climate change, predicting a best-case scenario (a sharp reduction in our carbon footprint) that belies the hopes of the green movement at large: "Climate change... is not so much a problem to be fixed, but rather a steadily worsening condition with which we must contend for a long time." Even this, however, depends on a political realignment sufficient to meet the severe challenges of the coming decades and centuries, including famine, drought and population displacement. Rather than a matter of reprioritizing, Orr contends that we must reshape our deepest held values; citing the case against abortion, he suggests that "the same kind of arguments apply to the right to life of future generations... as our present use of coal, oil, and natural gas will kill into the far future." Finding hope in "the connections that bind us to each other, to all life and to all life to come," Orr maintains a guarded optimism that never forgoes the possibility that "we are irreversibly en route to extinction"; for his expertise and crystal clear vision, Orr''s disturbing message is hard to ignore.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Orr acknowledges [the] dire circumstances, but does not wallow in despair or defeatism. His book is a clear-sighted view of what we need to change now...Orr''s book will do much to help achieve the required cultural transformation, hopefully just in time."--_Nature_\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you want to read the latest, and one of the most streamlined yet comprehensive accounts of our predicament, I''d recommend\n <em>\n  Down to the Wire\n </em>\n by David Orr, an Oberlin College professor who has long been one of the country''s leading environmental thinkers. He lays out the dangers, and he lays out the plans that would be needed to counteract those dangers; it''s all there in simple and unavoidable prose." --Bill McKibben,\n <em>\n  New York Review of Books\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "If climate change were not an issue, what you would have to say would be undiminished in its urgency....I thank you for not giving up, for staking out the ground of ''authentic hope,'' and for reinvigorating that indispensable term, ''maybe.''"--Wendell Berry, from a letter to the author\n</p>\n<p>\n "Although his research findings are well referenced, Orr''s integration and interpretation take the book beyond the typical academic treatise...Refreshingly candid regarding heroes, villains, and difficult decisions, Orr writes with exceptional elegance and passion...Highly recommended."--_CHOICE_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Powerful and prophetic."--Thomas Berry\n</p>\n<p>\n "A dazzling intellectual sweep across the causes and solutions to our mounting ''long emergency.'' Orr shows convincingly that leadership and good governance, not just technological solutions, will all have to be part of the mix if we are to save the planet in time."--Stephen H. Schneider, Stanford University\n</p>\n<p>\n "A sweeping synthesis of science, politics, history, and public policy--shaped by extraordinary wisdom, reason, and conviction--this very important book envisions a roadmap to a livable future."--Ray Anderson, Founder and Chair, Interface Inc., and author of\n <em>\n  Confessions of a Radical\n </em>\n <em>\n  Industrialist\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "David couples realism with optimism to create an honest look at how we consider the environment, povery, and equality. If he believes that humans can rise to the occasion of our global climate crisis, so can you. Thanks, David!"--Majore Carter, Economic Development Consultant, MacArthur "Genius" Fellow\n</p>\n<p>\n "Lucid, richly documented, and powerful."--George M. Woodwell, Director Emeritus, The Woods Hole Research Center\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is rare to find so many fresh insights between the convers of one book. We are all indebted to David Orr for his incisive thinking."--Lester R. Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute, and author of\n <em>\n  Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Down to the Wire_ takes the reader beyond the viewpoints which are standard fare in the climate literature: technological optimism and sustainability on the one hand, or techo-criticism, lament and despair on the other. Orr foresees a pathway to solving our dilemma, one marked by political leadership and respect for human dignity."--Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University\n</p>\n<p>\n "Deeply informed by wide reading, practical experience, and many years of passionate teaching and activism, David Orr''s cogent arguments provide leadership both to meet the climate disruption that our foresight has been insufficient to avoid, and to help avoid worse. Highly recommended!"--Herman Daly, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the great scholars in the climate change and clean energy debate, Orr''s new book sets out a challenging and hopeful agenda for real change in how we reshape our nation, our energy policies, and ultimately our personal lives, for the long haul battle against climate destabilization." --Jeff Biggers,\n <em>\n  Huffington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Orr adroitly weaves environmental science and policy together with perspectives from history, philosophy, political science, legal studies, and communications to contextualize climate change as a symptom of other problems that, if confronted, can be addressed. The result is a touchstone for anyone interested in engaging constructively in social change." --_ClimateEdu Newsletter_, National Wildlife Federation\n</p>\n<p>\n Orr''s book is gracefully written, with a lucid and comprehensive vision it is important that everyone reads it, because it is about our future, which is likely to be very different from the present. --_North Coast Journal_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6215'),
(15935, 'Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse', 'David W. Orr', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Author and environmental studies professor Orr (The Nature of Design) presents an alarming look at climate change, predicting a best-case scenario (a sharp reduction in our carbon footprint) that belies the hopes of the green movement at large: "Climate change... is not so much a problem to be fixed, but rather a steadily worsening condition with which we must contend for a long time." Even this, however, depends on a political realignment sufficient to meet the severe challenges of the coming decades and centuries, including famine, drought and population displacement. Rather than a matter of reprioritizing, Orr contends that we must reshape our deepest held values; citing the case against abortion, he suggests that "the same kind of arguments apply to the right to life of future generations... as our present use of coal, oil, and natural gas will kill into the far future." Finding hope in "the connections that bind us to each other, to all life and to all life to come," Orr maintains a guarded optimism that never forgoes the possibility that "we are irreversibly en route to extinction"; for his expertise and crystal clear vision, Orr''s disturbing message is hard to ignore.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Orr acknowledges [the] dire circumstances, but does not wallow in despair or defeatism. His book is a clear-sighted view of what we need to change now...Orr''s book will do much to help achieve the required cultural transformation, hopefully just in time."--_Nature_\n</p>\n<p>\n "If you want to read the latest, and one of the most streamlined yet comprehensive accounts of our predicament, I''d recommend\n <em>\n  Down to the Wire\n </em>\n by David Orr, an Oberlin College professor who has long been one of the country''s leading environmental thinkers. He lays out the dangers, and he lays out the plans that would be needed to counteract those dangers; it''s all there in simple and unavoidable prose." --Bill McKibben,\n <em>\n  New York Review of Books\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "If climate change were not an issue, what you would have to say would be undiminished in its urgency....I thank you for not giving up, for staking out the ground of ''authentic hope,'' and for reinvigorating that indispensable term, ''maybe.''"--Wendell Berry, from a letter to the author\n</p>\n<p>\n "Although his research findings are well referenced, Orr''s integration and interpretation take the book beyond the typical academic treatise...Refreshingly candid regarding heroes, villains, and difficult decisions, Orr writes with exceptional elegance and passion...Highly recommended."--_CHOICE_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Powerful and prophetic."--Thomas Berry\n</p>\n<p>\n "A dazzling intellectual sweep across the causes and solutions to our mounting ''long emergency.'' Orr shows convincingly that leadership and good governance, not just technological solutions, will all have to be part of the mix if we are to save the planet in time."--Stephen H. Schneider, Stanford University\n</p>\n<p>\n "A sweeping synthesis of science, politics, history, and public policy--shaped by extraordinary wisdom, reason, and conviction--this very important book envisions a roadmap to a livable future."--Ray Anderson, Founder and Chair, Interface Inc., and author of\n <em>\n  Confessions of a Radical\n </em>\n <em>\n  Industrialist\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "David couples realism with optimism to create an honest look at how we consider the environment, povery, and equality. If he believes that humans can rise to the occasion of our global climate crisis, so can you. Thanks, David!"--Majore Carter, Economic Development Consultant, MacArthur "Genius" Fellow\n</p>\n<p>\n "Lucid, richly documented, and powerful."--George M. Woodwell, Director Emeritus, The Woods Hole Research Center\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is rare to find so many fresh insights between the convers of one book. We are all indebted to David Orr for his incisive thinking."--Lester R. Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute, and author of\n <em>\n  Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Down to the Wire_ takes the reader beyond the viewpoints which are standard fare in the climate literature: technological optimism and sustainability on the one hand, or techo-criticism, lament and despair on the other. Orr foresees a pathway to solving our dilemma, one marked by political leadership and respect for human dignity."--Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University\n</p>\n<p>\n "Deeply informed by wide reading, practical experience, and many years of passionate teaching and activism, David Orr''s cogent arguments provide leadership both to meet the climate disruption that our foresight has been insufficient to avoid, and to help avoid worse. Highly recommended!"--Herman Daly, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the great scholars in the climate change and clean energy debate, Orr''s new book sets out a challenging and hopeful agenda for real change in how we reshape our nation, our energy policies, and ultimately our personal lives, for the long haul battle against climate destabilization." --Jeff Biggers,\n <em>\n  Huffington Post\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Orr adroitly weaves environmental science and policy together with perspectives from history, philosophy, political science, legal studies, and communications to contextualize climate change as a symptom of other problems that, if confronted, can be addressed. The result is a touchstone for anyone interested in engaging constructively in social change." --_ClimateEdu Newsletter_, National Wildlife Federation\n</p>\n<p>\n Orr''s book is gracefully written, with a lucid and comprehensive vision it is important that everyone reads it, because it is about our future, which is likely to be very different from the present. --_North Coast Journal_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11821'),
(15936, 'Downbelow Station: Or the Company Wars', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Hugo Award-winning classic, now available in a trade edition for the first time. Pellâ€™s Station, orbiting the alien world simply called Downbelow, had always managed to remain neutral in the ever escalating conflict between â€œThe Company,â€ whose fleets from Earth had colonized space, and its increasingly independent and rebellious colony worlds. But Pellâ€™s locationâ€”on the outer edge of Earthâ€™s defensive perimeterâ€” makes her the focal point in the titanic battle of colony worlds fighting for independence...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15521'),
(15937, 'Downtime', 'Marc Platt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Based on the original video drama, this book takes place after Victoria''s departure from the Tardis in Fury from the Deep. It features unique photos taken during filming.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3225'),
(15938, 'Dr Dale&#39;s Zombie Dictionary: The A-Z Guide to Staying Alive', 'Dale Seslick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Worried about what to do in the event of the dead rising from their graves and trying to destroy humanity? Worry no more! With the help of numerous films and Wikipedia, Dr Dale has compiled this rigorously researched A-Z list of everything you need to know about zombies: how to recognise them, how to fight them and even how to classify them. He can answer all of your burning questions including: Â§ How can a sheep help defend me against the undead? Â§ What will the response of the Women''s Institute be to an attack? Â§ What''s the most useful style of dance to know in the event of the apocalypse? From the best kind of clothing to wear to the most appropriate soundtrack for a zombie apocalypse, this is the ultimate guide to preparing for and surviving the return of the undead. Full money back guarantee offered should you die in a zombie apocalypse within 30 days of purchase!!!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6600'),
(15939, 'Dr Dale&#39;s Zombie Dictionary: The A-Z Guide to Staying Alive', 'Dale Seslick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Worried about what to do in the event of the dead rising from their graves and trying to destroy humanity? Worry no more! With the help of numerous films and Wikipedia, Dr Dale has compiled this rigorously researched A-Z list of everything you need to know about zombies: how to recognise them, how to fight them and even how to classify them. He can answer all of your burning questions including: Â§ How can a sheep help defend me against the undead? Â§ What will the response of the Women''s Institute be to an attack? Â§ What''s the most useful style of dance to know in the event of the apocalypse? From the best kind of clothing to wear to the most appropriate soundtrack for a zombie apocalypse, this is the ultimate guide to preparing for and surviving the return of the undead. Full money back guarantee offered should you die in a zombie apocalypse within 30 days of purchase!!!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12567'),
(15940, 'Dr. Bloodmoney', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dr. Bloodmoney is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dickâ€™s most memorable characters: Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers; Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey stranded in a satellite circling the globe; Dr. Bluthgeld, the megalomaniac physicist largely responsible for the decimated state of the world; and Stuart McConchie and Bonnie Keller, two unremarkable people bent the survival of goodness in a world devastated by evil. Epic and alluring, this brilliant novel is a mesmerizing depiction of Dickâ€™s undying hope in humanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2069'),
(15941, 'Dr. Bloodmoney', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dr. Bloodmoney is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dickâ€™s most memorable characters: Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers; Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey stranded in a satellite circling the globe; Dr. Bluthgeld, the megalomaniac physicist largely responsible for the decimated state of the world; and Stuart McConchie and Bonnie Keller, two unremarkable people bent the survival of goodness in a world devastated by evil. Epic and alluring, this brilliant novel is a mesmerizing depiction of Dickâ€™s undying hope in humanity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22696'),
(15942, 'Dr. Futurity', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The most brilliant sci-fi mind on any planet." --Rolling Stone\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jim Parsons is a talented doctor, skilled at the most advanced medical techniques and dedicated to saving lives. But after a bizarre road accident leaves him hundreds of years in the future, Parsons is horrified to discover an incredibly advanced civilization that zealously embraces death. Now, he is caught between his own instincts and training as a healer and a society where it is illegal to save lives. But Parsons is not the only one left who believes in prolonging life, and those who share his beliefs have desperate plans for Dr.Parsons'' skills, and for the future of their society. Dr. Futurity is not only a thrilling rendition of a terrifying future but it is also a fantastic examination of the paradoxes of time-travel that could only have come from the mind of Philip K. Dick.\n</p>\n<p>\n Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utlizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2071'),
(15943, 'Dr. Futurity', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The most brilliant sci-fi mind on any planet." --Rolling Stone\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jim Parsons is a talented doctor, skilled at the most advanced medical techniques and dedicated to saving lives. But after a bizarre road accident leaves him hundreds of years in the future, Parsons is horrified to discover an incredibly advanced civilization that zealously embraces death. Now, he is caught between his own instincts and training as a healer and a society where it is illegal to save lives. But Parsons is not the only one left who believes in prolonging life, and those who share his beliefs have desperate plans for Dr.Parsons'' skills, and for the future of their society. Dr. Futurity is not only a thrilling rendition of a terrifying future but it is also a fantastic examination of the paradoxes of time-travel that could only have come from the mind of Philip K. Dick.\n</p>\n<p>\n Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utlizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22695');
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(15944, 'The Draco Tavern', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The cantina scene in\n <em>\n  Star Wars\n </em>\n , as Niven (_Ringworld_) points out in his introduction, partakes of "a hoary old tradition," as do the 27 Draco Tavern stories in this solid SF collection. Most of the tales, set in the 2030s, are short-shorts, often reading like brilliant, half-whimsical notebook jottings. The inverted city carved out of the ice by ocean-dwelling creatures on Europa in "Playground Earth" could be the basis for a novel. Niven tosses it off in a sentence. Many of the best moments are similar hints: an overheard conversation about how an alien species casually denied humans immortality because the perception of death flavors human poetry ("Limits"). The most startling perspective of all comes from "The Green Marauder," in which a two-billion-year-old creature explains how the Earth was "ruined" by "pollution" long ago. These stories are best taken a few at a time, to savor their inventiveness without noticing the undeveloped characters or that, even for bar stories, there''s sometimes too much chatter and not enough action.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Throughout an award-winning 40-year career, Niven has taken time out for brief layovers at his favorite interspecies watering hole, the Draco Tavern. Run by inimitable multimillionaire Rick Schumann in the middle of Siberia, where the enigmatic extraterrestrial Chirpsithra made first contact with humans, the saloon serves as trading post and chat room for aliens from every corner of the galaxy. Here Niven corrals all the Draco Tavern tales into one volume that consequently showcases his ability to use sf to explore mind-boggling, universal questions. In one story, the Chirpsithra reveal knowledge of a species that learned what waits beyond death--but were the resulting mass suicides provoked by discovering heaven, or nothingness? In others, Niven inspects such ultimate conundrums as immortality, extraterrestrial intelligence, and computers that outstrip their creators'' cleverness. Most of the 27 stories are short shorts that, taken altogether, radiate Niven''s wit and technological inventiveness. A must for Nivenites and just plain good reading for everyone else.\n <em>\n  Carl Hays\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3591'),
(15945, 'The Draco Tavern', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The cantina scene in\n <em>\n  Star Wars\n </em>\n , as Niven (_Ringworld_) points out in his introduction, partakes of "a hoary old tradition," as do the 27 Draco Tavern stories in this solid SF collection. Most of the tales, set in the 2030s, are short-shorts, often reading like brilliant, half-whimsical notebook jottings. The inverted city carved out of the ice by ocean-dwelling creatures on Europa in "Playground Earth" could be the basis for a novel. Niven tosses it off in a sentence. Many of the best moments are similar hints: an overheard conversation about how an alien species casually denied humans immortality because the perception of death flavors human poetry ("Limits"). The most startling perspective of all comes from "The Green Marauder," in which a two-billion-year-old creature explains how the Earth was "ruined" by "pollution" long ago. These stories are best taken a few at a time, to savor their inventiveness without noticing the undeveloped characters or that, even for bar stories, there''s sometimes too much chatter and not enough action.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Throughout an award-winning 40-year career, Niven has taken time out for brief layovers at his favorite interspecies watering hole, the Draco Tavern. Run by inimitable multimillionaire Rick Schumann in the middle of Siberia, where the enigmatic extraterrestrial Chirpsithra made first contact with humans, the saloon serves as trading post and chat room for aliens from every corner of the galaxy. Here Niven corrals all the Draco Tavern tales into one volume that consequently showcases his ability to use sf to explore mind-boggling, universal questions. In one story, the Chirpsithra reveal knowledge of a species that learned what waits beyond death--but were the resulting mass suicides provoked by discovering heaven, or nothingness? In others, Niven inspects such ultimate conundrums as immortality, extraterrestrial intelligence, and computers that outstrip their creators'' cleverness. Most of the 27 stories are short shorts that, taken altogether, radiate Niven''s wit and technological inventiveness. A must for Nivenites and just plain good reading for everyone else.\n <em>\n  Carl Hays\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11709'),
(15946, 'The Draco Tavern', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The cantina scene in\n  <em>\n   Star Wars\n  </em>\n  , as Niven (_Ringworld_) points out in his introduction, partakes of "a hoary old tradition," as do the 27 Draco Tavern stories in this solid SF collection. Most of the tales, set in the 2030s, are short-shorts, often reading like brilliant, half-whimsical notebook jottings. The inverted city carved out of the ice by ocean-dwelling creatures on Europa in "Playground Earth" could be the basis for a novel. Niven tosses it off in a sentence. Many of the best moments are similar hints: an overheard conversation about how an alien species casually denied humans immortality because the perception of death flavors human poetry ("Limits"). The most startling perspective of all comes from "The Green Marauder," in which a two-billion-year-old creature explains how the Earth was "ruined" by "pollution" long ago. These stories are best taken a few at a time, to savor their inventiveness without noticing the undeveloped characters or that, even for bar stories, there''s sometimes too much chatter and not enough action.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Throughout an award-winning 40-year career, Niven has taken time out for brief layovers at his favorite interspecies watering hole, the Draco Tavern. Run by inimitable multimillionaire Rick Schumann in the middle of Siberia, where the enigmatic extraterrestrial Chirpsithra made first contact with humans, the saloon serves as trading post and chat room for aliens from every corner of the galaxy. Here Niven corrals all the Draco Tavern tales into one volume that consequently showcases his ability to use sf to explore mind-boggling, universal questions. In one story, the Chirpsithra reveal knowledge of a species that learned what waits beyond death--but were the resulting mass suicides provoked by discovering heaven, or nothingness? In others, Niven inspects such ultimate conundrums as immortality, extraterrestrial intelligence, and computers that outstrip their creators'' cleverness. Most of the 27 stories are short shorts that, taken altogether, radiate Niven''s wit and technological inventiveness. A must for Nivenites and just plain good reading for everyone else.\n  <em>\n   Carl Hays\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20990'),
(15947, 'Dracula', 'Bram Stoker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Dracula*, by **Bram Stoker**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Count Dracula* has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to **Bram Stoker**''s original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption. *Dracula* chronicles the vampire''s journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his frightful power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Today''s critics see *Dracula* as a virtual textbook on Victorian repression of the erotic and fear of female sexuality. In it, Stoker created a new word for terror, a new myth to feed our nightmares, and a character who will outlive us all.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Brooke Allen****** is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hudson Review. A collection of her essays, *Twentieth-Century Attitudes*, will be published in 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7229'),
(15948, 'Dracula', 'Bram Stoker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Dracula*, by **Bram Stoker**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Count Dracula* has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to **Bram Stoker**''s original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption. *Dracula* chronicles the vampire''s journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his frightful power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Today''s critics see *Dracula* as a virtual textbook on Victorian repression of the erotic and fear of female sexuality. In it, Stoker created a new word for terror, a new myth to feed our nightmares, and a character who will outlive us all.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Brooke Allen****** is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hudson Review. A collection of her essays, *Twentieth-Century Attitudes*, will be published in 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12886'),
(15949, 'Dracula', 'Bram Stoker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Dracula*, by **Bram Stoker**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. ** *Count Dracula* has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to **Bram Stoker**''s original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption. *Dracula* chronicles the vampire''s journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his frightful power. Today''s critics see *Dracula* as a virtual textbook on Victorian repression of the erotic and fear of female sexuality. In it, Stoker created a new word for terror, a new myth to feed our nightmares, and a character who will outlive us all. **Brooke Allen****** is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hudson Review. A collection of her essays, *Twentieth-Century Attitudes*, will be published in 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14087'),
(15950, 'Dracula', 'Bram Stoker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Dracula*, by **Bram Stoker**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. ** *Count Dracula* has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to **Bram Stoker**''s original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption. *Dracula* chronicles the vampire''s journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his frightful power. Today''s critics see *Dracula* as a virtual textbook on Victorian repression of the erotic and fear of female sexuality. In it, Stoker created a new word for terror, a new myth to feed our nightmares, and a character who will outlive us all. **Brooke Allen****** is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hudson Review. A collection of her essays, *Twentieth-Century Attitudes*, will be published in 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16754'),
(15951, 'Dracula', 'Bram Stoker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Dracula*, by **Bram Stoker**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Count Dracula* has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to **Bram Stoker**''s original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption. *Dracula* chronicles the vampire''s journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his frightful power.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Today''s critics see *Dracula* as a virtual textbook on Victorian repression of the erotic and fear of female sexuality. In it, Stoker created a new word for terror, a new myth to feed our nightmares, and a character who will outlive us all.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Brooke Allen****** is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hudson Review. A collection of her essays, *Twentieth-Century Attitudes*, will be published in 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26664'),
(15952, 'Dracula in Love', 'Karen Essex', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bruce Feiler Reviews Dracula in Love\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Bruce Feiler is one of Americaâ€™s most popular voices on faith and family.  He is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including Walking the Bible, Abraham, and Americaâ€™s Prophet.  His latest book, The Council of Dads, tells the uplifting story of how friendship and community can help one survive lifeâ€™s greatest challenges. Read his review of Dracula in Love:**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Gorgeously written and erotically charged, the novel Dracula in Love is like its century-jumping central characters: deeply rooted in the past while pushing ageless mythology into strikingly current realms.  Historical novels should have plenty of history, and this novel surely does.  Romantic novels should have their share of sex and romance, and this novel delivers both.  But its true revelation is its gripping sense of anticipation, heartache, discovery, and unflinching chill.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With Dracula in Love Karen Essex turns her inimitable, piercing gaze to illuminating what should be familiar terrain--Victorian England--and what might seem like well-trod territory--a certain Count.  Her considerable trick is to make you forget entirely all the baggage that attends her story by planting us firmly in the shoes and the psyche of one of the "victims," Mina Harker.  I am walking up the steps of the finishing school with the quivering heroine; I am secreting away in Londonâ€™s subterranean shadows with the jilted lover; I am traveling into the mysteries of southern Austria and Ireland''s haunted west coast (yes, begone tired Transylvania!) where our heroine discovers her own dark powers.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I shudder in horror and delight when the fangs make their inevitable plunge.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I met Karen Essex when both of us were briefly embedded in the Southern gothic world of Nashville.  She would soon unearth some of historyâ€™s most misunderstood women and vividly revive them for contemporary ears.  From Kleopatra (note the provocative spelling) to the countess of Elgin (and her fascinating courtesan doppelganger from the ancient world, Aspasia) to feuding sisters who posed for Leonardo (watch the genius brought down to earth!), Karen overturns historyâ€™s conventions and shows how these women are keenly relevant today.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n I am hardly a vampire freak.  The Twilight books "eclipsed" me.  And Iâ€™ve never owned a set of plastic fangs.  But I do love Karen Essex, and this novel is enough to make me a little bloodthirsty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3940'),
(15953, 'Dracula in Love', 'Karen Essex', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Bruce Feiler Reviews Dracula in Love **Bruce Feiler is one of Americaâ€™s most popular voices on faith and family. He is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including Walking the Bible, Abraham, and Americaâ€™s Prophet. His latest book, The Council of Dads, tells the uplifting story of how friendship and community can help one survive lifeâ€™s greatest challenges. Read his review of Dracula in Love:** Gorgeously written and erotically charged, the novel Dracula in Love is like its century-jumping central characters: deeply rooted in the past while pushing ageless mythology into strikingly current realms. Historical novels should have plenty of history, and this novel surely does. Romantic novels should have their share of sex and romance, and this novel delivers both. But its true revelation is its gripping sense of anticipation, heartache, discovery, and unflinching chill. With Dracula in Love Karen Essex turns her inimitable, piercing gaze to illuminating what should be familiar terrain--Victorian England--and what might seem like well-trod territory--a certain Count. Her considerable trick is to make you forget entirely all the baggage that attends her story by planting us firmly in the shoes and the psyche of one of the "victims," Mina Harker. I am walking up the steps of the finishing school with the quivering heroine; I am secreting away in Londonâ€™s subterranean shadows with the jilted lover; I am traveling into the mysteries of southern Austria and Ireland''s haunted west coast (yes, begone tired Transylvania!) where our heroine discovers her own dark powers. I shudder in horror and delight when the fangs make their inevitable plunge. I met Karen Essex when both of us were briefly embedded in the Southern gothic world of Nashville. She would soon unearth some of historyâ€™s most misunderstood women and vividly revive them for contemporary ears. From Kleopatra (note the provocative spelling) to the countess of Elgin (and her fascinating courtesan doppelganger from the ancient world, Aspasia) to feuding sisters who posed for Leonardo (watch the genius brought down to earth!), Karen overturns historyâ€™s conventions and shows how these women are keenly relevant today. I am hardly a vampire freak. The Twilight books "eclipsed" me. And Iâ€™ve never owned a set of plastic fangs. But I do love Karen Essex, and this novel is enough to make me a little bloodthirsty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20238'),
(15954, 'Dracula Is a Racist: A Totally Factual Guide to Vampires', 'Matt Melvin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Vampires: The 100% Bona Fide Totally Real And Not Made Up At All Truth\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this day and age, the belief in vampires has been dwindling at an exponential rate. Those who still believe in them are often wildly misinformed. So what do you think will happen when Johnny McNormalpants finds himself face to face with a bloodthirsty vampire? Probably crap his pants, but then what? An informed citizen would know exactly what to do in this situation. If only there was some way to enlighten the public about this often forgotten subject, preferably in the form of a mock informative guide or something.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From Matt Melvin, one of the creators of Explosm.net and the hit online comic Cyanide &amp; Happiness, comes *Dracula Is A Racist,* the definitive guide to vampires, answering those gravely important questions that keep you up at night.  .  .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Was Dracula really a racist?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How do vampires do their hair if they don''t have any reflection?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Is it gross for immortals to be attracted to high school girls if they''re stuck in a 17-year-old body?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Was Sesame Street ever truly safe from The Count?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Is dressing in all black and acting snobby toward everyone enough to fake being a vampire?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Just how much more badass are vampires than zombies?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Dracula Is A Racist* is the essential vampire handbook that digs up all the dirt and backs it up with hard vampirical evidence. That''s totally true. Really.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25372'),
(15955, 'Dracula the Un-Dead', 'Dacre Stoker &amp; Ian Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to Bram Stoker''s\n <em>\n  Dracula\n </em>\n , his great-grandnephew offers one of the rowdiest revisionist treatments of the most influential vampire novel ever written. In 1912, as Stoker labors to adapt\n <em>\n  Dracula\n </em>\n for the stage, its characters are dying gruesomely all over London. It turns out they are as real as Stoker himself, who learned their secret story on the sly and took creative liberties when turning it into his popular penny dreadful. Dracula''s true story involves the passing of his blood line through Mina Harker to her son; a malignant Dr. Van Helsing, who Scotland Yard suspects had a hand in the murders attributed to Jack the Ripper; and the exploits of a 16th-century vampire countess, Dracula''s former lover, who cuts a bloody swath through London seeking the survivors of Dracula''s last stand in Transylvania. Energetically paced and packed with outrageously entertaining action, this supernatural thriller is a well-needed shot of fresh blood for the Dracula mythos.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Energetically paced and packed with outrageously entertaining action, this supernatural thriller is a well-needed shot of fresh blood for the Dracula mythos."\n <br />\n --_Publisher''s Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The authors (Stoker is a descendant of Bram, and Holt is a noted Dracula historian) skillfully explore the nature of evil while weaving together several complex plotlines throughout this mesmerizing story. Readers who enjoy dark fantasy with fast-paced action will plow through this book, not wanting to stop."\n <br />\n --_Library Journal_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6583'),
(15956, 'Dracula the Un-Dead', 'Dacre Stoker &amp; Ian Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this sequel to Bram Stoker''s\n <em>\n  Dracula\n </em>\n , his great-grandnephew offers one of the rowdiest revisionist treatments of the most influential vampire novel ever written. In 1912, as Stoker labors to adapt\n <em>\n  Dracula\n </em>\n for the stage, its characters are dying gruesomely all over London. It turns out they are as real as Stoker himself, who learned their secret story on the sly and took creative liberties when turning it into his popular penny dreadful. Dracula''s true story involves the passing of his blood line through Mina Harker to her son; a malignant Dr. Van Helsing, who Scotland Yard suspects had a hand in the murders attributed to Jack the Ripper; and the exploits of a 16th-century vampire countess, Dracula''s former lover, who cuts a bloody swath through London seeking the survivors of Dracula''s last stand in Transylvania. Energetically paced and packed with outrageously entertaining action, this supernatural thriller is a well-needed shot of fresh blood for the Dracula mythos.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Energetically paced and packed with outrageously entertaining action, this supernatural thriller is a well-needed shot of fresh blood for the Dracula mythos."\n <br />\n --_Publisher''s Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The authors (Stoker is a descendant of Bram, and Holt is a noted Dracula historian) skillfully explore the nature of evil while weaving together several complex plotlines throughout this mesmerizing story. Readers who enjoy dark fantasy with fast-paced action will plow through this book, not wanting to stop."\n <br />\n --_Library Journal_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12885'),
(15957, 'Dracula: The Un-Dead', 'Dacre Stoker &amp; Ian Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The official sequel to Bram Stoker''s classic novel Dracula, written by his direct descendent and endorsed by the Stoker familyThe story begins in 1912, twenty-five years after the events described in the original novel. Dr. Jack Seward, now a disgraced morphine addict, hunts vampires across Europe with the help of a mysterious benefactor. Meanwhile, Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school to pursue a career in stage at London''s famous Lyceum Theatre.The production of Dracula at the Lyceum, directed and produced by Bram Stoker, has recently lost its star. Luckily, Quincey knows how to contact the famed Hungarian actor Basarab, who agrees to take the lead role.Quincey soon discovers that the play features his parents and their former friends as characters, and seems to reveal much about the terrible secrets he''s always suspected them of harbouring. But, before he can confront them, Jonathan Harker is found murdered.The writers were able to access Bram Stoker''s hand-written notes and have included in their story characters and plot threads that had been excised by the publisher from the original printing over a century ago.Dracula is one of the most recognized fictional characters in the world, having spawned dozens of multi-media spin-offs. The Un-Dead is the first Dracula story to enjoy the full support of the Stoker estate since the original 1931 movie starring Bela Lugosi.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6584'),
(15958, 'Dracula: The Un-Dead', 'Dacre Stoker &amp; Ian Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The official sequel to Bram Stoker''s classic novel Dracula, written by his direct descendent and endorsed by the Stoker familyThe story begins in 1912, twenty-five years after the events described in the original novel. Dr. Jack Seward, now a disgraced morphine addict, hunts vampires across Europe with the help of a mysterious benefactor. Meanwhile, Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school to pursue a career in stage at London''s famous Lyceum Theatre.The production of Dracula at the Lyceum, directed and produced by Bram Stoker, has recently lost its star. Luckily, Quincey knows how to contact the famed Hungarian actor Basarab, who agrees to take the lead role.Quincey soon discovers that the play features his parents and their former friends as characters, and seems to reveal much about the terrible secrets he''s always suspected them of harbouring. But, before he can confront them, Jonathan Harker is found murdered.The writers were able to access Bram Stoker''s hand-written notes and have included in their story characters and plot threads that had been excised by the publisher from the original printing over a century ago.Dracula is one of the most recognized fictional characters in the world, having spawned dozens of multi-media spin-offs. The Un-Dead is the first Dracula story to enjoy the full support of the Stoker estate since the original 1931 movie starring Bela Lugosi.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12884'),
(15959, 'Dracula: The Un-Dead', 'Dacre Stoker; Ian Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The official sequel to Bram Stoker''s classic novel Dracula, written by his direct descendent and endorsed by the Stoker familyThe story begins in 1912, twenty-five years after the events described in the original novel. Dr. Jack Seward, now a disgraced morphine addict, hunts vampires across Europe with the help of a mysterious benefactor. Meanwhile, Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school to pursue a career in stage at London''s famous Lyceum Theatre.The production of Dracula at the Lyceum, directed and produced by Bram Stoker, has recently lost its star. Luckily, Quincey knows how to contact the famed Hungarian actor Basarab, who agrees to take the lead role.Quincey soon discovers that the play features his parents and their former friends as characters, and seems to reveal much about the terrible secrets he''s always suspected them of harbouring. But, before he can confront them, Jonathan Harker is found murdered.The writers were able to access Bram Stoker''s hand-written notes and have included in their story characters and plot threads that had been excised by the publisher from the original printing over a century ago.Dracula is one of the most recognized fictional characters in the world, having spawned dozens of multi-media spin-offs. The Un-Dead is the first Dracula story to enjoy the full support of the Stoker estate since the original 1931 movie starring Bela Lugosi.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17389'),
(15960, 'Dracula: The Un-Dead', 'Dacre Stoker; Ian Holt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The official sequel to Bram Stoker''s classic novel Dracula, written by his direct descendent and endorsed by the Stoker familyThe story begins in 1912, twenty-five years after the events described in the original novel. Dr. Jack Seward, now a disgraced morphine addict, hunts vampires across Europe with the help of a mysterious benefactor. Meanwhile, Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school to pursue a career in stage at London''s famous Lyceum Theatre.The production of Dracula at the Lyceum, directed and produced by Bram Stoker, has recently lost its star. Luckily, Quincey knows how to contact the famed Hungarian actor Basarab, who agrees to take the lead role.Quincey soon discovers that the play features his parents and their former friends as characters, and seems to reveal much about the terrible secrets he''s always suspected them of harbouring. But, before he can confront them, Jonathan Harker is found murdered.The writers were able to access Bram Stoker''s hand-written notes and have included in their story characters and plot threads that had been excised by the publisher from the original printing over a century ago.Dracula is one of the most recognized fictional characters in the world, having spawned dozens of multi-media spin-offs. The Un-Dead is the first Dracula story to enjoy the full support of the Stoker estate since the original 1931 movie starring Bela Lugosi.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27115'),
(15961, 'Dragon', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Japan, 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs.Only one gets through.The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the UnitedStates is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it aNorwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chillingplan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From theocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot,DIRK PITT is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting adaring counterattack. While Washington bureaucrats scramble,a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from asecret island control center. And DIRK PITT, the dauntlesshero of Sahara and Inca Gold, is taking on death-dealing robotsand a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors. Pittalone controls the West''s secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave ofdestruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6709'),
(15962, 'Dragon', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Japan, 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs.Only one gets through.The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the UnitedStates is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it aNorwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chillingplan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From theocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot,DIRK PITT is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting adaring counterattack. While Washington bureaucrats scramble,a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from asecret island control center. And DIRK PITT, the dauntlesshero of Sahara and Inca Gold, is taking on death-dealing robotsand a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors. Pittalone controls the West''s secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave ofdestruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17346'),
(15963, 'Dragon', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Japan, 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs.Only one gets through.The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the UnitedStates is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it aNorwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chillingplan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From theocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot,DIRK PITT is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting adaring counterattack. While Washington bureaucrats scramble,a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from asecret island control center. And DIRK PITT, the dauntlesshero of Sahara and Inca Gold, is taking on death-dealing robotsand a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors. Pittalone controls the West''s secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave ofdestruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27011'),
(15964, 'The Dragon Charmer', 'Jan Siegel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the enchanting novel Prospero''s Children, Jan Siegel introduced an extraordinary heroine and the lushly evocative world of wonders and terrors that quickly enveloped her normal adolescent life. Now Siegel summons us back to the magic with the continuing story of Fern Capel--and the remarkable power of her extraordinary Gift . . . After surviving an amazing, terrifying summer twelve years ago, Fern makes a fateful decision: to deny the mystical powers that pulse through her family''s past. Yearning for a simple, quiet life, she decides to marry a man twenty years her senior, a man who insists they wed at the Capels'' summer house in Yarrowdale, a place swelling with mood, marvel, and magic. For when Fern returns there with her best friend, Gaynor, ancient, sinister forces reawaken. Yet Fern has had enough: Enough of running from her fate, enough of hiding from her Gift. As she turns to face her destiny, the real world falls away, and Fern is once again swept into another land, removed from Time, void of comfort. It will take all her skill and daring to fight her way back to the present and save the people she loves from the ever-growing danger that threatens to destroy them. And to her utmost surprise, the key to survival is a dragon with the capacity to rule the world . . . but who will relinquish it all to one man. Jan Siegel has created an intense, fascinating world. To surrender yourself under her captivating spell is to remember how remarkably powerful a literary voyage can be. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4698'),
(15965, 'The Dragon Charmer', 'Jan Siegel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the enchanting novel Prospero''s Children, Jan Siegel introduced an extraordinary heroine and the lushly evocative world of wonders and terrors that quickly enveloped her normal adolescent life. Now Siegel summons us back to the magic with the continuing story of Fern Capel--and the remarkable power of her extraordinary Gift . . . After surviving an amazing, terrifying summer twelve years ago, Fern makes a fateful decision: to deny the mystical powers that pulse through her family''s past. Yearning for a simple, quiet life, she decides to marry a man twenty years her senior, a man who insists they wed at the Capels'' summer house in Yarrowdale, a place swelling with mood, marvel, and magic. For when Fern returns there with her best friend, Gaynor, ancient, sinister forces reawaken. Yet Fern has had enough: Enough of running from her fate, enough of hiding from her Gift. As she turns to face her destiny, the real world falls away, and Fern is once again swept into another land, removed from Time, void of comfort. It will take all her skill and daring to fight her way back to the present and save the people she loves from the ever-growing danger that threatens to destroy them. And to her utmost surprise, the key to survival is a dragon with the capacity to rule the world . . . but who will relinquish it all to one man. Jan Siegel has created an intense, fascinating world. To surrender yourself under her captivating spell is to remember how remarkably powerful a literary voyage can be. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19939'),
(15966, 'The Dragon Done It', 'Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Pity the poor private eye (or official investigator, for that matter), who has to solve a case which may involve death by black magic, evidence that may have been altered or planted by an itinerant sorcerer, and supernatural entities ranging from ghosts to vampires to dragons. Even when the detective is a master of sorcery himself, the dragon may have an unbreakable alibi. Best-selling authors Eric Flint and Mike Resnick present a generous selection of stories from the intersection of mystery and magic by popular writers Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolf, David Drake, Harry Turtledove, Esther M. Friesner, and more, including Flint and Resnick themselves. The Dragon Done It is an exciting cross-genre volume that both mystery fans and fantasy fans will enjoy. And so will dragons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5639'),
(15967, 'The Dragon Done It', 'Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Pity the poor private eye (or official investigator, for that matter), who has to solve a case which may involve death by black magic, evidence that may have been altered or planted by an itinerant sorcerer, and supernatural entities ranging from ghosts to vampires to dragons. Even when the detective is a master of sorcery himself, the dragon may have an unbreakable alibi. Best-selling authors Eric Flint and Mike Resnick present a generous selection of stories from the intersection of mystery and magic by popular writers Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolf, David Drake, Harry Turtledove, Esther M. Friesner, and more, including Flint and Resnick themselves. The Dragon Done It is an exciting cross-genre volume that both mystery fans and fantasy fans will enjoy. And so will dragons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9674'),
(15968, 'The Dragon Done It', 'Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pity the poor private eye (or official investigator, for that matter), who has to solve a case which may involve death by black magic, evidence that may have been altered or planted by an itinerant sorcerer, and supernatural entities ranging from ghosts to vampires to dragons. Even when the detective is a master of sorcery himself, the dragon may have an unbreakable alibi. Best-selling authors Eric Flint and Mike Resnick present a generous selection of stories from the intersection of mystery and magic by popular writers Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolf, David Drake, Harry Turtledove, Esther M. Friesner, and more, including Flint and Resnick themselves. The Dragon Done It is an exciting cross-genre volume that both mystery fans and fantasy fans will enjoy. And so will dragons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18991'),
(15969, 'The Dragon Done It', 'Eric Flint', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pity the poor private eye (or official investigator, for that matter), who has to solve a case which may involve death by black magic, evidence that may have been altered or planted by an itinerant sorcerer, and supernatural entities ranging from ghosts to vampires to dragons. Even when the detective is a master of sorcery himself, the dragon may have an unbreakable alibi. Best-selling authors Eric Flint and Mike Resnick present a generous selection of stories from the intersection of mystery and magic by popular writers Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolf, David Drake, Harry Turtledove, Esther M. Friesner, and more, including Flint and Resnick themselves. The Dragon Done It is an exciting cross-genre volume that both mystery fans and fantasy fans will enjoy. And so will dragons.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27800'),
(15970, 'The Dragon Factory', 'Jonathan Maberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Joe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) go up against two competing groups of geneticists.Â  One side is creating exotic transgenic monsters and genetically enhanced mercenary armies; the other is using 21st century technology to continue the Nazi Master Race program begun by Josef Mengele. Â Both sides want to see the DMS destroyed, and they''ve drawn first blood.Â  Neither side is prepared for Joe Ledger as he leads Echo Team to war under a black flag.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4127');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(15971, 'The Dragon Factory', 'Jonathan Maberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Joe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) go up against two competing groups of geneticists.Â  One side is creating exotic transgenic monsters and genetically enhanced mercenary armies; the other is using 21st century technology to continue the Nazi Master Race program begun by Josef Mengele. Â Both sides want to see the DMS destroyed, and they''ve drawn first blood.Â  Neither side is prepared for Joe Ledger as he leads Echo Team to war under a black flag.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20389'),
(15972, 'Dragon Haven', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in the second instalment of high adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy.The dragon keepers and the fledgling dragons are forging a passage up the treacherous Rain Wild River. They are in search of the mythical Elderling city of Kelsingra, and are accompanied by the liveship Tarman, its captain, Leftrin, and a group of hunters who must search the forests for game with which to keep the dragons fed. With them are Alise, who has escaped her cold marriage to the cruel libertine Hest Finbok in order to continue her study of dragons, and Hest''s amanuensis, Bingtown dandy, Sedric.Rivalries and romances are already threatening to disrupt the band of explorers: but external forces may prove to be even more dangerous. Chalcedean merchants are keen to lay hands on dragon blood and organs to turn them to medicines and profit. Their traitor has infiltrated the expeditionand will stop at nothing to obtain the coveted body parts. And then there are the Rain Wilds themselves: mysterious, unstable and ever perilous, its mighty river running with acid, its jungle impenetrable and its waterways uncharted.Will the expedition reach their destination unscathed? Does the city of Kelsingra even exist? Only one thing is certain: the journey will leave none of the dragons nor their human companions unchanged by the experience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1506'),
(15973, 'Dragon Haven', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in the second instalment of high adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy.The dragon keepers and the fledgling dragons are forging a passage up the treacherous Rain Wild River. They are in search of the mythical Elderling city of Kelsingra, and are accompanied by the liveship Tarman, its captain, Leftrin, and a group of hunters who must search the forests for game with which to keep the dragons fed. With them are Alise, who has escaped her cold marriage to the cruel libertine Hest Finbok in order to continue her study of dragons, and Hest''s amanuensis, Bingtown dandy, Sedric.Rivalries and romances are already threatening to disrupt the band of explorers: but external forces may prove to be even more dangerous. Chalcedean merchants are keen to lay hands on dragon blood and organs to turn them to medicines and profit. Their traitor has infiltrated the expeditionand will stop at nothing to obtain the coveted body parts. And then there are the Rain Wilds themselves: mysterious, unstable and ever perilous, its mighty river running with acid, its jungle impenetrable and its waterways uncharted.Will the expedition reach their destination unscathed? Does the city of Kelsingra even exist? Only one thing is certain: the journey will leave none of the dragons nor their human companions unchanged by the experience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10379'),
(15974, 'Dragon Haven', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in the second instalment of high adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy.The dragon keepers and the fledgling dragons are forging a passage up the treacherous Rain Wild River. They are in search of the mythical Elderling city of Kelsingra, and are accompanied by the liveship Tarman, its captain, Leftrin, and a group of hunters who must search the forests for game with which to keep the dragons fed. With them are Alise, who has escaped her cold marriage to the cruel libertine Hest Finbok in order to continue her study of dragons, and Hest''s amanuensis, Bingtown dandy, Sedric.Rivalries and romances are already threatening to disrupt the band of explorers: but external forces may prove to be even more dangerous. Chalcedean merchants are keen to lay hands on dragon blood and organs to turn them to medicines and profit. Their traitor has infiltrated the expeditionand will stop at nothing to obtain the coveted body parts. And then there are the Rain Wilds themselves: mysterious, unstable and ever perilous, its mighty river running with acid, its jungle impenetrable and its waterways uncharted.Will the expedition reach their destination unscathed? Does the city of Kelsingra even exist? Only one thing is certain: the journey will leave none of the dragons nor their human companions unchanged by the experience.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23326'),
(15975, 'Dragon Haven: Volume Two of the Rain Wilds Chronicles', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The acclaimed *New York Times* bestselling author of *Dragon Keeper* returns with a second enthralling tale of dragons and humans, adventure and discovery, love and freedom Centuries had passed since dragons last roamed the war-torn world of the Rain Wild River. But as peace once again settled upon the land, a lost generation of sea serpentsâ€”ancient, half-starved, and wearyâ€”returned to cocoon, certain that they would be reborn as the beautiful and powerful dragons of legend. But their arduous journey exacted a heavy toll, and the proud serpents emerged as sickly, half-formed beasts, unable to fly or hunt . . . or thrive. For years now they have been trapped on a swampy riverbank between forest and river, hungry and barely alive, reliant on humans to provide for them. With their survival at stake, fifteen dragonsâ€”among them the wise golden Mercor, the haughty and dazzling silver-blue queen Sintara, and the delicate copper beauty Relpdaâ€”have set off on a dangerous trek into the unknown, up the Rain Wild River, in hopes of rediscovering the ancient Elderling city of Kelsingra, the lost haven for dragons and Elderlings alike. The dragons are accompanied by a disparate group of human keepers, rejects from Rain Wild society. They, too, yearn to find Kelsingra and create a home of their own, one in which they may make their own rules and decide their own fate. But is Kelsingra real or merely a fragment of a glorified past buried deep in the dragons'' shared memories? No map exists to guide them, and the noble creatures find their ancient recollections of little use in a land changed by generations of flooding and seismic chaos. As the dragons, the humansâ€”including the strong and defiant Rain Wild girl Thymara; the wealthy dragon scholar and Trader''s wife, Alise; and her companion, the urbane Sedricâ€”and their magical supply barge, captained by the gruff Leftrin, forge their way ever deeper into uncharted wilderness, human and beast alike discover they are changing in mysterious and dangerous ways. While the bonds between them solidify, starvation, flashfloods, and predators will imperil them all. But dragons and humans soon learn that the most savage threats come from within their own company . . . and not all of them may survive. Returning to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies, *New York Times* bestselling author Robin Hobb creates a lush and ultimately triumphant tale set in an imaginative world of magic and wonder as compelling and emotionally resonant as our own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14620'),
(15976, 'The Dragon Heir', 'Cinda Williams Chima', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Upâ€”In this final installment in the trilogy, Chima spins a finely structured tale that roars to a satisfying conclusion. For readers new to the series, there is considerable work to be done sorting out the plot and the relationships among the various characters, but after a while the power of the story takes over. The wizarding world is fractured and at war with itself. The only hope for peace lies in those few unaffiliated gifted ones (wizards, warriors, enchanters) in the sanctuary of the town of Trinity. As the novel opens, one of these characters, Jason, steals into the hold of another faction and walks out with a mysterious magical object that appears to be extremely powerful: the Dragonheart. When he brings it back to Trinity, the town and its treasure become the focus of the other factions. The action is largely propelled by the emotional needs and weaknesses of the characters, and not simply by their magical abilities. Madison Moss, whose ability to absorb magic enabled her to save her wizard boyfriend, is now a danger to Seph because she keeps leaking the toxic magic that she absorbed. Her fear that this will be discovered, along with her family problems, leads to her making decisions that put her and others in mortal danger. Maddie, along with Jason and Seph, is the central emotional focus, and it is the details of their lives that make the extraordinary plot twists exciting and compelling. Fans of the first two books are sure to love this one.â€”_Sue Giffard, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York City_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The covenant that was meant to keep the wizard wars at bay has been stolen, and Trinity must prepare for attack. Everyone is doing their part -- Seph is monitoring the Weirwalls; Jack and Ellen are training their ghostly army; even Anaweir Will and Fitch are setting booby traps around the town''s perimeter. But to Jason Haley, it seems like everyone wants to keep him out of the action. He may not be the most powerful wizard in Trinity, but he''s prepared to fight for his friends. When Jason finds a powerful talisman --a huge opal called the Dragonheart--buried in a cave, his role takes on new importance. The stone seems to sing to Jason''s very soul -- showing him that he is meant for more than anyone guessed. Trinity''s guardians take the stone away after they realize that it may be a weapon powerful enough to save them all. Without any significant power of his own, and now without the stone, what can Jason possibly do to help the people he cares about -- and to prove his mettle?\n</p>\n<p>\n Madison Moss can feel the beating heart of the opal, too. The desire for it surges through her, drawing her to it. But Maddie has other things besides the Dragonheart on her mind. She has a secret. Ever since absorbing the magical blow that was meant to kill Seph, she''s been leaking dark powers. Although Maddie herself is immune to magic, what would her friends think if they knew what kind of evil lay within her? Trinity''s enemies are as enthusiastic about her powers as she is frightened. They think they can use her to get to the Dragonheart -- and they''ll use anyone Maddie cares about to make her steal the stone for them.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moral compasses spin out of control as a final battle storms through what was once a sanctuary for the gifted. With so much to lose, what will Jason and Maddie be willing to fight for -- and what will they sacrifice? Every man is for himself in this thrilling conclusion to the Heir trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6652'),
(15977, 'The Dragon Heir', 'Cinda Williams Chima', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Upâ€”In this final installment in the trilogy, Chima spins a finely structured tale that roars to a satisfying conclusion. For readers new to the series, there is considerable work to be done sorting out the plot and the relationships among the various characters, but after a while the power of the story takes over. The wizarding world is fractured and at war with itself. The only hope for peace lies in those few unaffiliated gifted ones (wizards, warriors, enchanters) in the sanctuary of the town of Trinity. As the novel opens, one of these characters, Jason, steals into the hold of another faction and walks out with a mysterious magical object that appears to be extremely powerful: the Dragonheart. When he brings it back to Trinity, the town and its treasure become the focus of the other factions. The action is largely propelled by the emotional needs and weaknesses of the characters, and not simply by their magical abilities. Madison Moss, whose ability to absorb magic enabled her to save her wizard boyfriend, is now a danger to Seph because she keeps leaking the toxic magic that she absorbed. Her fear that this will be discovered, along with her family problems, leads to her making decisions that put her and others in mortal danger. Maddie, along with Jason and Seph, is the central emotional focus, and it is the details of their lives that make the extraordinary plot twists exciting and compelling. Fans of the first two books are sure to love this one.â€”_Sue Giffard, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York City_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The covenant that was meant to keep the wizard wars at bay has been stolen, and Trinity must prepare for attack. Everyone is doing their part -- Seph is monitoring the Weirwalls; Jack and Ellen are training their ghostly army; even Anaweir Will and Fitch are setting booby traps around the town''s perimeter. But to Jason Haley, it seems like everyone wants to keep him out of the action. He may not be the most powerful wizard in Trinity, but he''s prepared to fight for his friends. When Jason finds a powerful talisman --a huge opal called the Dragonheart--buried in a cave, his role takes on new importance. The stone seems to sing to Jason''s very soul -- showing him that he is meant for more than anyone guessed. Trinity''s guardians take the stone away after they realize that it may be a weapon powerful enough to save them all. Without any significant power of his own, and now without the stone, what can Jason possibly do to help the people he cares about -- and to prove his mettle?\n</p>\n<p>\n Madison Moss can feel the beating heart of the opal, too. The desire for it surges through her, drawing her to it. But Maddie has other things besides the Dragonheart on her mind. She has a secret. Ever since absorbing the magical blow that was meant to kill Seph, she''s been leaking dark powers. Although Maddie herself is immune to magic, what would her friends think if they knew what kind of evil lay within her? Trinity''s enemies are as enthusiastic about her powers as she is frightened. They think they can use her to get to the Dragonheart -- and they''ll use anyone Maddie cares about to make her steal the stone for them.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moral compasses spin out of control as a final battle storms through what was once a sanctuary for the gifted. With so much to lose, what will Jason and Maddie be willing to fight for -- and what will they sacrifice? Every man is for himself in this thrilling conclusion to the Heir trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8937'),
(15978, 'The Dragon Heir', 'Cinda Williams Chima', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 6 Upâ€”In this final installment in the trilogy, Chima spins a finely structured tale that roars to a satisfying conclusion. For readers new to the series, there is considerable work to be done sorting out the plot and the relationships among the various characters, but after a while the power of the story takes over. The wizarding world is fractured and at war with itself. The only hope for peace lies in those few unaffiliated gifted ones (wizards, warriors, enchanters) in the sanctuary of the town of Trinity. As the novel opens, one of these characters, Jason, steals into the hold of another faction and walks out with a mysterious magical object that appears to be extremely powerful: the Dragonheart. When he brings it back to Trinity, the town and its treasure become the focus of the other factions. The action is largely propelled by the emotional needs and weaknesses of the characters, and not simply by their magical abilities. Madison Moss, whose ability to absorb magic enabled her to save her wizard boyfriend, is now a danger to Seph because she keeps leaking the toxic magic that she absorbed. Her fear that this will be discovered, along with her family problems, leads to her making decisions that put her and others in mortal danger. Maddie, along with Jason and Seph, is the central emotional focus, and it is the details of their lives that make the extraordinary plot twists exciting and compelling. Fans of the first two books are sure to love this one.â€”_Sue Giffard, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York City_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The covenant that was meant to keep the wizard wars at bay has been stolen, and Trinity must prepare for attack. Everyone is doing their part -- Seph is monitoring the Weirwalls; Jack and Ellen are training their ghostly army; even Anaweir Will and Fitch are setting booby traps around the town''s perimeter. But to Jason Haley, it seems like everyone wants to keep him out of the action. He may not be the most powerful wizard in Trinity, but he''s prepared to fight for his friends. When Jason finds a powerful talisman --a huge opal called the Dragonheart--buried in a cave, his role takes on new importance. The stone seems to sing to Jason''s very soul -- showing him that he is meant for more than anyone guessed. Trinity''s guardians take the stone away after they realize that it may be a weapon powerful enough to save them all. Without any significant power of his own, and now without the stone, what can Jason possibly do to help the people he cares about -- and to prove his mettle?\n</p>\n<p>\n Madison Moss can feel the beating heart of the opal, too. The desire for it surges through her, drawing her to it. But Maddie has other things besides the Dragonheart on her mind. She has a secret. Ever since absorbing the magical blow that was meant to kill Seph, she''s been leaking dark powers. Although Maddie herself is immune to magic, what would her friends think if they knew what kind of evil lay within her? Trinity''s enemies are as enthusiastic about her powers as she is frightened. They think they can use her to get to the Dragonheart -- and they''ll use anyone Maddie cares about to make her steal the stone for them.\n</p>\n<p>\n Moral compasses spin out of control as a final battle storms through what was once a sanctuary for the gifted. With so much to lose, what will Jason and Maddie be willing to fight for -- and what will they sacrifice? Every man is for himself in this thrilling conclusion to the Heir trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17374'),
(15979, 'Dragon House', 'John Shors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in modern-day Vietnam, DRAGON HOUSE tells the tale of Iris and Noah-two Americans, who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and educate Vietnamese street children. Irish and Noah find themselves reborn in an exotic land filled with corruption and chaos, sacrifice and beauty. Inspired by the street children she meets, Iris walks in the footsteps of her father, a man whom Vietnam both shattered and saved. Meanwhile, Noah slowly rediscovers himself through the eyes of an unexpected companion. Resounding with the powerful themes of suffering, sacrifice, friendship, and love, DRAGON HOUSE brings together East and West, war and peace; and celebrates the resilience of the human spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4217'),
(15980, 'Dragon House', 'John Shors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in modern-day Vietnam, DRAGON HOUSE tells the tale of Iris and Noah-two Americans, who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and educate Vietnamese street children. Irish and Noah find themselves reborn in an exotic land filled with corruption and chaos, sacrifice and beauty. Inspired by the street children she meets, Iris walks in the footsteps of her father, a man whom Vietnam both shattered and saved. Meanwhile, Noah slowly rediscovers himself through the eyes of an unexpected companion. Resounding with the powerful themes of suffering, sacrifice, friendship, and love, DRAGON HOUSE brings together East and West, war and peace; and celebrates the resilience of the human spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12612'),
(15981, 'Dragon House', 'John Shors', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in modern-day Vietnam, DRAGON HOUSE tells the tale of Iris and Noah-two Americans, who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and educate Vietnamese street children. Irish and Noah find themselves reborn in an exotic land filled with corruption and chaos, sacrifice and beauty. Inspired by the street children she meets, Iris walks in the footsteps of her father, a man whom Vietnam both shattered and saved. Meanwhile, Noah slowly rediscovers himself through the eyes of an unexpected companion. Resounding with the powerful themes of suffering, sacrifice, friendship, and love, DRAGON HOUSE brings together East and West, war and peace; and celebrates the resilience of the human spirit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20341'),
(15982, 'The Dragon in the Sock Drawer: Dragon Keepers #1 (Dragon Keepers)', 'Kate Klimo; John Shroades (Illustrator)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: TEN-YEAR-OLD COUSINS Jesse and Daisy have always wanted something magical to happen to them. So itâ€™s a wish come true when Jesseâ€™s newly found thunder egg hatches, and a helpless, tiny but very loud baby dragon pops out. Soon the two kids are at the dragonâ€™s beck-and-call, trying to figure out what to feed her.An Internet search leads them to the library, which leads them back to the Internet, where they find a very strange Web site called â€œfoundadragon.org.â€ It is here that the cousins discover that the dragonâ€™s hatching has designated them â€œDragon Keepersâ€ and that not only do they have to feed her, but they have to keep her safe from the villainous Saint George who has kept himself alive over centuries by drinking dragonsâ€™ blood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20129'),
(15983, 'Dragon Keeper', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Enter the spellbinding world of dragons . . . and those who tend them One of the most gifted fantasy authors writing today, New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb has dazzled readers with brilliantly imaginative, emotionally resonant, and compulsively readable tales set in far-flung realms not unlike our own. In this enthralling new novel, she returns to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies with a story of dragons and humans, return and rebirth, and the search for meaning, belonging, and home. For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon Tintaglia. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at seaâ€”to find a safe haven and, Tintaglia hopes, to restore her species. But too much time has passed, and the newly hatched dragons are damaged and weak, and many die. The few who survive cannot use their wings; earthbound, they are powerless to hunt and vulnerable to human predators willing to kill them for the fabled healing powers of dragon flesh. But Tintaglia has vanished and the Traders are weary of the labor and expense of tending useless dragons. The Trader leadership fears that if it stops providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampageâ€”or die along the river''s acidic muddy banks. To avert catastrophe, the dragons decree a move even farther up the treacherous river to Kelsingra, their ancient, mythical homeland whose mysterious location is locked deep within the dragons'' uncertain ancestral memories. To ensure their safe passage, the Traders recruit a disparate group of young people to care for the damaged creatures and escort them to their new home. Among them is Thymara, an unschooled forest girl of sixteen, and Alise, a wealthy Trader''s wife trapped in a loveless marriage, who attaches herself to the expedition as a dragon expert. The two women share a deep kinship with the dragons: Thymara can instinctively communicate with them, and Alise, captivated by their beauty and majesty, has devoted her life to studying them. Embarking on an arduous journey that holds no promise of return, the band of humans and dragons must make their way along the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild Riverâ€”an extraordinary odyssey that will teach them lessons about themselves and one another, as they experience hardships, betrayals, and joys beyond their wildest dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1507'),
(15984, 'Dragon Keeper', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Enter the spellbinding world of dragons . . . and those who tend them One of the most gifted fantasy authors writing today, New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb has dazzled readers with brilliantly imaginative, emotionally resonant, and compulsively readable tales set in far-flung realms not unlike our own. In this enthralling new novel, she returns to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies with a story of dragons and humans, return and rebirth, and the search for meaning, belonging, and home. For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon Tintaglia. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at seaâ€”to find a safe haven and, Tintaglia hopes, to restore her species. But too much time has passed, and the newly hatched dragons are damaged and weak, and many die. The few who survive cannot use their wings; earthbound, they are powerless to hunt and vulnerable to human predators willing to kill them for the fabled healing powers of dragon flesh. But Tintaglia has vanished and the Traders are weary of the labor and expense of tending useless dragons. The Trader leadership fears that if it stops providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampageâ€”or die along the river''s acidic muddy banks. To avert catastrophe, the dragons decree a move even farther up the treacherous river to Kelsingra, their ancient, mythical homeland whose mysterious location is locked deep within the dragons'' uncertain ancestral memories. To ensure their safe passage, the Traders recruit a disparate group of young people to care for the damaged creatures and escort them to their new home. Among them is Thymara, an unschooled forest girl of sixteen, and Alise, a wealthy Trader''s wife trapped in a loveless marriage, who attaches herself to the expedition as a dragon expert. The two women share a deep kinship with the dragons: Thymara can instinctively communicate with them, and Alise, captivated by their beauty and majesty, has devoted her life to studying them. Embarking on an arduous journey that holds no promise of return, the band of humans and dragons must make their way along the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild Riverâ€”an extraordinary odyssey that will teach them lessons about themselves and one another, as they experience hardships, betrayals, and joys beyond their wildest dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10381'),
(15985, 'Dragon Keeper', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Enter the spellbinding world of dragons . . . and those who tend them One of the most gifted fantasy authors writing today, New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb has dazzled readers with brilliantly imaginative, emotionally resonant, and compulsively readable tales set in far-flung realms not unlike our own. In this enthralling new novel, she returns to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies with a story of dragons and humans, return and rebirth, and the search for meaning, belonging, and home. For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon Tintaglia. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at seaâ€”to find a safe haven and, Tintaglia hopes, to restore her species. But too much time has passed, and the newly hatched dragons are damaged and weak, and many die. The few who survive cannot use their wings; earthbound, they are powerless to hunt and vulnerable to human predators willing to kill them for the fabled healing powers of dragon flesh. But Tintaglia has vanished and the Traders are weary of the labor and expense of tending useless dragons. The Trader leadership fears that if it stops providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampageâ€”or die along the river''s acidic muddy banks. To avert catastrophe, the dragons decree a move even farther up the treacherous river to Kelsingra, their ancient, mythical homeland whose mysterious location is locked deep within the dragons'' uncertain ancestral memories. To ensure their safe passage, the Traders recruit a disparate group of young people to care for the damaged creatures and escort them to their new home. Among them is Thymara, an unschooled forest girl of sixteen, and Alise, a wealthy Trader''s wife trapped in a loveless marriage, who attaches herself to the expedition as a dragon expert. The two women share a deep kinship with the dragons: Thymara can instinctively communicate with them, and Alise, captivated by their beauty and majesty, has devoted her life to studying them. Embarking on an arduous journey that holds no promise of return, the band of humans and dragons must make their way along the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild Riverâ€”an extraordinary odyssey that will teach them lessons about themselves and one another, as they experience hardships, betrayals, and joys beyond their wildest dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23323'),
(15986, 'Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Enter the spellbinding world of dragons . . . and those who tend them One of the most gifted fantasy authors writing today, *New York Times* bestselling author Robin Hobb has dazzled readers with brilliantly imaginative, emotionally resonant, and compulsively readable tales set in far-flung realms not unlike our own. In this enthralling new novel, she returns to the territory of her beloved Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies with a story of dragons and humans, return and rebirth, and the search for meaning, belonging, and home. For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon Tintaglia. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at seaâ€”to find a safe haven and, Tintaglia hopes, to restore her species. But too much time has passed, and the newly hatched dragons are damaged and weak, and many die. The few who survive cannot use their wings; earthbound, they are powerless to hunt and vulnerable to human predators willing to kill them for the fabled healing powers of dragon flesh. But Tintaglia has vanished and the Traders are weary of the labor and expense of tending useless dragons. The Trader leadership fears that if it stops providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampageâ€”or die along the river''s acidic muddy banks. To avert catastrophe, the dragons decree a move even farther up the treacherous river to Kelsingra, their ancient, mythical homeland whose mysterious location is locked deep within the dragons'' uncertain ancestral memories. To ensure their safe passage, the Traders recruit a disparate group of young people to care for the damaged creatures and escort them to their new home. Among them is Thymara, an unschooled forest girl of sixteen, and Alise, a wealthy Trader''s wife trapped in a loveless marriage, who attaches herself to the expedition as a dragon expert. The two women share a deep kinship with the dragons: Thymara can instinctively communicate with them, and Alise, captivated by their beauty and majesty, has devoted her life to studying them. Embarking on an arduous journey that holds no promise of return, the band of humans and dragons must make their way along the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild Riverâ€”an extraordinary odyssey that will teach them lessons about themselves and one another, as they experience hardships, betrayals, and joys beyond their wildest dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14627'),
(15987, 'Dragon Keepers #2: The Dragon in the Driveway', 'Kate Klimo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dragon Keepers #2- SUMMARY: The Dragon Keepers have a new mission!It''s been raining for days, and dragon keepers Jesse and Daisy have been stuck inside with their dragon, Emmy. As soon as the rain stops, they are out of the house in a flash. First on their list of things to do? To find out what the villainous Dr. St. Georgeâ€”a dragon slayer in disguiseâ€”is up to. But Dr. St. George isnâ€™t in his office at the college, and all of his stuff is gone! Jesse, Daisy, and Emmy quickly discover St. Georgeâ€™s latest evil plan: to take over the forest and find the magic golden ax that is buried there. To make matters worse, he has also enslaved the mythical beings that are returning to Goldmine City. Can the two dragon keepers and their dragon free the hobgoblins and dryads under St. Georgeâ€™s power and return the forest to right?From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20127'),
(15988, 'Dragon Keepers #3: The Dragon in the Library', 'Kate Klimo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dragon Keepers #3- SUMMARY: Dragon keepers Jesse and Daisy need help! Emmy, their rapidly growing dragon, has become a real grouch, saying she''s missing "something," and the cousins don''t have a clue what that something is. Jesse and Daisy go online to ask Professor Andersson, their favorite dragon expert, for help and end up seeing him being kidnapped!The kidnapper is none other than Sadie Huffington, the girlfriend of their enemy, St. George the Dragon Slayer. She has hatched a wicked scheme to use the professor to both find St. George and capture Emmy. Now the dragon keepers and their dragon must storm Sadie''s castle and rescue the professor from the witch and her pack of vicious dog-men!In this third fantasy book in the Dragon Keepers series, Kate Klimo introduces readers to a magical library filled with shelf elves and reveals the secrets of the gigantic red book that Jesse and Daisy discovered in The Dragon in the Sock Drawer. She keeps the action and adventure flying while bringing both heart and imagination to this tale of two kids and a dragon, growing up together.The Dragon Keepers series is perfect for kids who crave books about dragons and magic but are caught betwixt and betweenâ€”too old for Magic Tree House and not yet ready for Eragon and the Inheritance cycle.Visit www.foundadragon.org.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20128'),
(15989, 'The Dragon King', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In volume one of this series, "The Sword of Bedwyr", young Luthien Bedwyr rebelled against the vicious rule of King Greensparrow and his cruel wizard-lords. In volume two, he made use of a magical cape that renders its wearer invisibleÂ—except for a lingering crimson silhouette. Now, the evil Greensparrow is backÂ—and with a vengeance. Using dark, hideous magic, Greensparrow has taken the form of a massive dragonÂ—a virtually unstoppable force that only Luthien can defeat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12416'),
(15990, 'The Dragon King&#39;s Palace', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On a whim of the shogun''s mother, a procession has left the sweltering heat of Edo, bound for the cooler climate of Mount Fuji. Among her traveling companions are Reiko, the beautiful wife of Sano Ichiro, the shogun''s Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People; Reiko''s friend Midori, nine months pregnant; and Lady Yanagisawa, the deranged wife of the shogun''s powerful second-in-command. None of them look forward to the trip. But their troubles have only begun when their procession is stopped suddenly on a deserted road. The entire retinue is viciously slaughtered and the four women are bound and taken away, imprisoned by a mysterious kidnapper.Sano now finds himself faced with the most important case of his career. The shogun demands quick action, and under the threat of death, Sano is forced to work with his bitter enemies-Chamberlain Yanagisawa and Police Commissioner Hoshina. The delivery of a ransom note only complicates matters-forcing both Sano and Reiko to take desperate measures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3629'),
(15991, 'The Dragon King&#39;s Palace', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On a whim of the shogun''s mother, a procession has left the sweltering heat of Edo, bound for the cooler climate of Mount Fuji. Among her traveling companions are Reiko, the beautiful wife of Sano Ichiro, the shogun''s Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People; Reiko''s friend Midori, nine months pregnant; and Lady Yanagisawa, the deranged wife of the shogun''s powerful second-in-command. None of them look forward to the trip. But their troubles have only begun when their procession is stopped suddenly on a deserted road. The entire retinue is viciously slaughtered and the four women are bound and taken away, imprisoned by a mysterious kidnapper.Sano now finds himself faced with the most important case of his career. The shogun demands quick action, and under the threat of death, Sano is forced to work with his bitter enemies-Chamberlain Yanagisawa and Police Commissioner Hoshina. The delivery of a ransom note only complicates matters-forcing both Sano and Reiko to take desperate measures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20951'),
(15992, 'The Dragon Man', 'Brian Stableford &amp; Stableford Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 300 years in the future, biotechnology has altered the shape and substance of what it means to be a man. Only the 250-year-old "Dragon Man" can give Sara an understanding of what "e-mortality" might mean--for herself and for the entire human world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7142'),
(15993, 'The Dragon Man', 'Brian Stableford &amp; Stableford Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 300 years in the future, biotechnology has altered the shape and substance of what it means to be a man. Only the 250-year-old "Dragon Man" can give Sara an understanding of what "e-mortality" might mean--for herself and for the entire human world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12816'),
(15994, 'The Dragon Man', 'Brian Stableford; Stableford Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 300 years in the future, biotechnology has altered the shape and substance of what it means to be a man. Only the 250-year-old "Dragon Man" can give Sara an understanding of what "e-mortality" might mean--for herself and for the entire human world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16792'),
(15995, 'The Dragon Never Sleeps', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Glen Cook (The Black Company, The Dread Empire) delivers a masterpiece of galaxy spanning space opera! For four thousand years, the Guardships ruled Canon Space with an iron fist. Immortal ships with an immortal crew roaming the galaxy, dealing swiftly and harshly with any mercantile houses or alien races that threatened the status quo. But now the House Tregesser believes they have an edge; a force from outside Canon Space offers them the resources to throw off Guardship rule. Their initial gambits precipitate an avalanche of unexpected outcomes, the most unpredicted of which is the emergence of Kez Maefele, one of the few remaining generals of the Ku Warrior race - the only race to ever seriously threaten Guardship hegemony. Kez Maefele and a motley group of mysterious aliens, biological constructs, and scheming aristocrats find themselves at the center of the conflict. Maefele must choose which side he will support; the Guardships, who defeated and destroyed his race, or the unknown forces from outside Canon Space that promise more death and destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18366'),
(15996, 'Dragon on a Pedestal', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There is trouble in Xanth again. The Gap Dragon had escaped and was ravaging across the land, the forget-spell was causing mass amnesia, three-year old Ivy was headed right for a hungry dragon. Could things get any worse? Probably.... From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2004'),
(15997, 'Dragon on a Pedestal', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There is trouble in Xanth again. The Gap Dragon had escaped and was ravaging across the land, the forget-spell was causing mass amnesia, three-year old Ivy was headed right for a hungry dragon. Could things get any worse? Probably.... From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22709'),
(15998, 'Dragon Prince', 'Melanie Rawn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Melanie Rawn''s best-selling debut is a novel of love and war, magic and madness, and deadly dangerous dragons that hold the secret to unimaginable wealth that could prove key to mutual peace-or a bloody tyrant''s reign. And among it all, an idealistic young ruler struggles to civilize a culture that understands the strength of the sword-but has yet to discover the true power of knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2934'),
(15999, 'Dragon Prince', 'Melanie Rawn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Melanie Rawn''s best-selling debut is a novel of love and war, magic and madness, and deadly dangerous dragons that hold the secret to unimaginable wealth that could prove key to mutual peace-or a bloody tyrant''s reign. And among it all, an idealistic young ruler struggles to civilize a culture that understands the strength of the sword-but has yet to discover the true power of knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12144'),
(16000, 'Dragon Prince', 'Melanie Rawn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Melanie Rawn''s best-selling debut is a novel of love and war, magic and madness, and deadly dangerous dragons that hold the secret to unimaginable wealth that could prove key to mutual peace-or a bloody tyrant''s reign. And among it all, an idealistic young ruler struggles to civilize a culture that understands the strength of the sword-but has yet to discover the true power of knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21837'),
(16001, 'The Dragon Reborn', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Dragon Reborn--the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him--is on the run from his destiny.Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how--for no man has done it in three thousand years--Rand al''Thor knows only that he must face the Dark One. But how?Winter has stopped the war-almost-yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he?Perrin Aybara is in pursuit with Moiraine Sedai, her Warder Lan, and the Loial the Ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, Perrin is grappling with another deadly problem--how is her to escape the loss of his own humanity.Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are approaching Tar Valon, where Mat will be healed--if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the Amyrlin their news--that the Black Ajah, long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? They cannot know that in Tar Valon far worse awaits...Ahead, for all of them, in the Heart of the Stone, lies the next great test of the Dragon reborn....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1622'),
(16002, 'The Dragon Reborn', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Dragon Reborn--the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him--is on the run from his destiny.Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how--for no man has done it in three thousand years--Rand al''Thor knows only that he must face the Dark One. But how?Winter has stopped the war-almost-yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he?Perrin Aybara is in pursuit with Moiraine Sedai, her Warder Lan, and the Loial the Ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, Perrin is grappling with another deadly problem--how is her to escape the loss of his own humanity.Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are approaching Tar Valon, where Mat will be healed--if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the Amyrlin their news--that the Black Ajah, long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? They cannot know that in Tar Valon far worse awaits...Ahead, for all of them, in the Heart of the Stone, lies the next great test of the Dragon reborn....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10610'),
(16003, 'The Dragon Reborn', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Dragon Reborn--the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him--is on the run from his destiny.Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how--for no man has done it in three thousand years--Rand al''Thor knows only that he must face the Dark One. But how?Winter has stopped the war-almost-yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he?Perrin Aybara is in pursuit with Moiraine Sedai, her Warder Lan, and the Loial the Ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, Perrin is grappling with another deadly problem--how is her to escape the loss of his own humanity.Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are approaching Tar Valon, where Mat will be healed--if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the Amyrlin their news--that the Black Ajah, long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? They cannot know that in Tar Valon far worse awaits...Ahead, for all of them, in the Heart of the Stone, lies the next great test of the Dragon reborn....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14537');
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(16004, 'The Dragon Reborn', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Dragon Reborn--the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him--is on the run from his destiny.Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how--for no man has done it in three thousand years--Rand al''Thor knows only that he must face the Dark One. But how?Winter has stopped the war-almost-yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he?Perrin Aybara is in pursuit with Moiraine Sedai, her Warder Lan, and the Loial the Ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, Perrin is grappling with another deadly problem--how is her to escape the loss of his own humanity.Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are approaching Tar Valon, where Mat will be healed--if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the Amyrlin their news--that the Black Ajah, long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? They cannot know that in Tar Valon far worse awaits...Ahead, for all of them, in the Heart of the Stone, lies the next great test of the Dragon reborn....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23242'),
(16005, 'The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of &#39;The Wheel of Time&#39;', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Dragon Reborn--the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him--is on the run from his destiny.Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how--for no man has done it in three thousand years--Rand al''Thor knows only that he must face the Dark One. But how?Winter has stopped the war-almost-yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he?Perrin Aybara is in pursuit with Moiraine Sedai, her Warder Lan, and the Loial the Ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, Perrin is grappling with another deadly problem--how is her to escape the loss of his own humanity.Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are approaching Tar Valon, where Mat will be healed--if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the Amyrlin their news--that the Black Ajah, long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? They cannot know that in Tar Valon far worse awaits...Ahead, for all of them, in the Heart of the Stone, lies the next great test of the Dragon reborn....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25188'),
(16006, 'Dragon Rule', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The author of the national bestselling\n   <em>\n    Vampire Earth\n   </em>\n   series presents the fiery fifth book in his epic dragons saga.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Scattered across a continent, three dragon siblings are among the last of a dying breed-the final hope for their species'' survival.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wistala, sister to the Copper who is now Emperor of the Upper World, has long thought humans the equal of dragons. She leads the Firemaids, fierce female fighting dragons who support the Hominids of Hypatia. Which puts her at odds with both her brothers, for the Copper has no use for the humans he now dominates and AuRon, the rare scale-less grey, would isolate himself and his family from both the world of men and the world of dragons. But as the Copper''s empire roils with war, greed, and treachery, the time is fast approaching when Wistala will have to choose who to stand with- and fight for...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   E. E. Knight\n  </strong>\n  lives in Chicago. Author websites: vampjac.com and vampireearth.com\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5783'),
(16007, 'Dragon Rule', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The author of the national bestselling\n   <em>\n    Vampire Earth\n   </em>\n   series presents the fiery fifth book in his epic dragons saga.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Scattered across a continent, three dragon siblings are among the last of a dying breed-the final hope for their species'' survival.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wistala, sister to the Copper who is now Emperor of the Upper World, has long thought humans the equal of dragons. She leads the Firemaids, fierce female fighting dragons who support the Hominids of Hypatia. Which puts her at odds with both her brothers, for the Copper has no use for the humans he now dominates and AuRon, the rare scale-less grey, would isolate himself and his family from both the world of men and the world of dragons. But as the Copper''s empire roils with war, greed, and treachery, the time is fast approaching when Wistala will have to choose who to stand with- and fight for...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   E. E. Knight\n  </strong>\n  lives in Chicago. Author websites: vampjac.com and vampireearth.com\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10760'),
(16008, 'Dragon Rule', 'E. E. Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The author of the national bestselling\n   <em>\n    Vampire Earth\n   </em>\n   series presents the fiery fifth book in his epic dragons saga.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Scattered across a continent, three dragon siblings are among the last of a dying breed-the final hope for their species'' survival.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Wistala, sister to the Copper who is now Emperor of the Upper World, has long thought humans the equal of dragons. She leads the Firemaids, fierce female fighting dragons who support the Hominids of Hypatia. Which puts her at odds with both her brothers, for the Copper has no use for the humans he now dominates and AuRon, the rare scale-less grey, would isolate himself and his family from both the world of men and the world of dragons. But as the Copper''s empire roils with war, greed, and treachery, the time is fast approaching when Wistala will have to choose who to stand with- and fight for...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   E. E. Knight\n  </strong>\n  lives in Chicago. Author websites: vampjac.com and vampireearth.com\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18782'),
(16009, 'Dragon Tears', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Lyon was a rational man, a cop who refused to let his job harden his soul. Then one fateful day, he was forced to shoot a man--and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes uttered the haunting words that challenged Harry Lyon''s sanity:  "Ticktock, ticktock. You''ll be dead in sixteen hours...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn..."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17266'),
(16010, 'Dragon Tears', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Lyon was a rational man, a cop who refused to let his job harden his soul. Then one fateful day, he was forced to shoot a man--and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes uttered the haunting words that challenged Harry Lyon''s sanity:  "Ticktock, ticktock. You''ll be dead in sixteen hours...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn..."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27393'),
(16011, 'Dragon Wytch', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The D''Artigo sisters are half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Camille is doing her best to juggle magic, men, and the demonic war into which they''ve been thrust until she discovers a secret that could change all their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/108'),
(16012, 'Dragon Wytch', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The D''Artigo sisters are half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Camille is doing her best to juggle magic, men, and the demonic war into which they''ve been thrust until she discovers a secret that could change all their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9869'),
(16013, 'Dragon Wytch', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The D''Artigo sisters are half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Camille is doing her best to juggle magic, men, and the demonic war into which they''ve been thrust until she discovers a secret that could change all their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24772'),
(16014, 'Dragon&#39;s Honor', 'Kij Johnson &amp; Robert Slater &amp; Greg Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n DRAGON''S HONOR  Isolated for centuries, the exotic Dragon Empires finally ready to join the United Federation of Planets. But first the emperor''s eldest son must marry the only daughter of his oldest enemy, bringing to an end decades of civil war. Without the wedding, there can be no peace -- and no treaty with the Federation.  As honored guests of the Dragon Empire, Captain Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise(TM) must ensure that the royal wedding occurs on schedule, despite the Empire''s complicated and difficult codes of honor. And Dr. Beverly Crusher finds her loyalties torn when she wins the confidence of the unusually reluctant bride-to-be.  More than just a treaty is at stake, for a vicious race of alien conquerors will stop at nothing, from assassination to invasion, to keep the Empire out of the Federation. Picard must now use all his skills to save the Empire...and preserve the Dragon''s Honor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3670'),
(16015, 'Dragon&#39;s Honor', 'Kij Johnson; Robert Slater; Greg Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n DRAGON''S HONOR Isolated for centuries, the exotic Dragon Empires finally ready to join the United Federation of Planets. But first the emperor''s eldest son must marry the only daughter of his oldest enemy, bringing to an end decades of civil war. Without the wedding, there can be no peace -- and no treaty with the Federation. As honored guests of the Dragon Empire, Captain Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise(TM) must ensure that the royal wedding occurs on schedule, despite the Empire''s complicated and difficult codes of honor. And Dr. Beverly Crusher finds her loyalties torn when she wins the confidence of the unusually reluctant bride-to-be. More than just a treaty is at stake, for a vicious race of alien conquerors will stop at nothing, from assassination to invasion, to keep the Empire out of the Federation. Picard must now use all his skills to save the Empire...and preserve the Dragon''s Honor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20855'),
(16016, 'Dragon&#39;s Kin', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15717'),
(16017, 'The Dragon&#39;s Mark', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Archaeologist Annja Creed and her sword have never been outmatchedâ€” until now. When a surprise party for her mentor Roux includes some uninvited guests, Annja finds herself fighting desperately for her life. The intruders escape but leave a sinister message behind.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A legend has resurfaced about a sword that should be feared. A sword that seeks a master as bloodthirsty as itself. It is wielded by an assassin known as the Dragon who initiates a terrible game of cat and mouse. Eventually, the two swordsâ€”light and darkâ€”must meetâ€¦and only one shall triumph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7774'),
(16018, 'The Dragon&#39;s Mark', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Archaeologist Annja Creed and her sword have never been outmatchedâ€” until now. When a surprise party for her mentor Roux includes some uninvited guests, Annja finds herself fighting desperately for her life. The intruders escape but leave a sinister message behind. A legend has resurfaced about a sword that should be feared. A sword that seeks a master as bloodthirsty as itself. It is wielded by an assassin known as the Dragon who initiates a terrible game of cat and mouse. Eventually, the two swordsâ€”light and darkâ€”must meetâ€¦and only one shall triumph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16100'),
(16019, 'The Dragon&#39;s Mark', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Archaeologist Annja Creed and her sword have never been outmatchedâ€” until now. When a surprise party for her mentor Roux includes some uninvited guests, Annja finds herself fighting desperately for her life. The intruders escape but leave a sinister message behind. A legend has resurfaced about a sword that should be feared. A sword that seeks a master as bloodthirsty as itself. It is wielded by an assassin known as the Dragon who initiates a terrible game of cat and mouse. Eventually, the two swordsâ€”light and darkâ€”must meetâ€¦and only one shall triumph.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26259'),
(16020, 'Dragondrums', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Of all the young singers at the Harperhall of Pern, Piemur was the one chosen for the leading role at Lord Groghe''s Gather...and then his voice broke. Suddenly his whole future at Harperhall became uncertain. But Masterharper Robinton, Menolly and Sebell had other plans for Piemur. They were sure that his quick wits and discretion could be used to keep a check on the troublesome Oldtimers and their strange traffic in fire lizards. So, whilst serving as a messanger-drum apprentice, Piemur carried out special errands for the three. And it was on one such errand that he realized his wildest dreams.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15718'),
(16021, 'Dragonflight', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguiseâ€”and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessaâ€™s world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread, but there are very few of them left these days. Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15719'),
(16022, 'Dragonfly Falling', 'Adrian Tchaikovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two young companions, Totho and Salma, arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army, but are there mistakenly apprehended as enemy agents. By the time they are freed, the city is already under siege. Over in the imperial capital the young emperor, Alvdan, is becoming captivated by a remarkable slave, the vampiric Uctebri, who claims he knows of magic that can grant eternal life. In Collegium, meanwhile, Stenwold is still trying to persuade the city magnates to take seriously the Wasp Empire''s imminent threat to their survival.  In a colourful drama involving mass warfare and personal combat, a small group of heroes must stand up against what seems like an unstoppable force. This volume continues the story that so brilliantly unfolded in Empire in Black and Gold - and the action is still non-stop.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22'),
(16023, 'Dragonfly Falling', 'Adrian Tchaikovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two young companions, Totho and Salma, arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army, but are there mistakenly apprehended as enemy agents. By the time they are freed, the city is already under siege. Over in the imperial capital the young emperor, Alvdan, is becoming captivated by a remarkable slave, the vampiric Uctebri, who claims he knows of magic that can grant eternal life. In Collegium, meanwhile, Stenwold is still trying to persuade the city magnates to take seriously the Wasp Empire''s imminent threat to their survival. In a colourful drama involving mass warfare and personal combat, a small group of heroes must stand up against what seems like an unstoppable force. This volume continues the story that so brilliantly unfolded in Empire in Black and Gold - and the action is still non-stop.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17201'),
(16024, 'Dragonfly in Amber', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14672'),
(16025, 'Dragonfly in Amber', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the author ofOutlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland... For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland''s majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his .... Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire''s spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27469'),
(16026, 'Dragonforge: A Novel of the Dragon Age', 'James Maxey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  After the death of King Albekizan, Shandrazel and his allies struggle to keep the kingdom intact as the radical human prophet, Ragnar gathers forces to launch a full scale rebellion against the dragons. When all out war erupts, legendary dragon hunter, Bitterwood, must face his own personal daemons and choose where his loyalty really lies\n </div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <div>\n  James Maxey lives in Chapel Hill, NC. After graduating from the Odyssey Fantasy Writers'' Workshop and Orson Scott Card''s Writer''s Boot Camp, James broke into the publishing world in 2002 when he won a Phobos Award for his short story, Empire of Dreams and Miracles. Phobos Books later published James'' debut novel, the cult-classic superhero tale Nobody Gets the Girl. His short stories have since appeared in Asimov''s and numerous anthologies.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4799'),
(16027, 'Dragonforge: A Novel of the Dragon Age', 'James Maxey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  After the death of King Albekizan, Shandrazel and his allies struggle to keep the kingdom intact as the radical human prophet, Ragnar gathers forces to launch a full scale rebellion against the dragons. When all out war erupts, legendary dragon hunter, Bitterwood, must face his own personal daemons and choose where his loyalty really lies\n </div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <div>\n  James Maxey lives in Chapel Hill, NC. After graduating from the Odyssey Fantasy Writers'' Workshop and Orson Scott Card''s Writer''s Boot Camp, James broke into the publishing world in 2002 when he won a Phobos Award for his short story, Empire of Dreams and Miracles. Phobos Books later published James'' debut novel, the cult-classic superhero tale Nobody Gets the Girl. His short stories have since appeared in Asimov''s and numerous anthologies.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19851'),
(16028, 'Dragonhaven', 'Robin McKinley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7 Upâ€”A novel set in an alternate contemporary world. Viewing dragons as fire-breathing, non-sentient animals with gigantic appetites for livestock, humans have hunted them for centuries, and now they survive only in a few wilderness havens. Jake Mendoza has grown up at one such haven, the Smokehill National Park in the American West, and has inherited his scientist parents'' commitment to the park''s secret inhabitants. When he rescues an orphaned baby dragon, he sets in motion a cascade of events that may eventually save these top predators from extinction. Readers will find the book to be less about the joys of the human-dragon bond and more about the challenges of raising an infant and communicating in a vastly different language. As an exhausted Jake explains, he is the first human in history to find out that a marsupial baby dragon out of its mother''s pouch still expects a round-the-clock source of food, warmth, and company for over a year. Also, their telepathic communication gives Jake and his fellow Smokehill residents debilitating head-aches, and no one on either side is ever entirely sure they''ve got the message right. Once readers get through Jake''s overdone teenage diction in the first few chapters, they will be engaged by McKinley''s well-drawn characters and want to root for the Smokehill community''s fight to save the ultimate endangered species.â€”_Beth Wright, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, VT_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her customary way McKinley evokes a complete, detailed alternate reality. --\n  <em>\n   Horn Book\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This engrossing fantasy is suspenseful and highly detailed...a truly wonderful read. --\n  <em>\n   KLIATT\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11038'),
(16029, 'DragonKnight', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for _DragonKnight\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œDragonKnight\n </em>\n is a thoroughly enchanting fantasy where dragons speak, tiny mouse-like guardians protect normal-size folk, and young people search for identity. Woven through Donita K. Paulâ€™s carefully crafted world is a strong theme of love, redemption, and the sufficiency of God to see His children through all trials. The icing on this delightful cake is a surprise ending that brings tears of joy!â€\n <br />\n â€“Douglas Hirt, author of the Cradleland Chronicles series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s inventiveness never ceases to amaze. Fresh ideas for new races of people and unusual creatures keep flowing from her gifted pen. In\n <em>\n  DragonKnight\n </em>\n , we meet a few of these and rejoin old friends like Kale, Bardon, Regidor and the ever-huggable Toopka on a rollicking adventure. As always, this author has a whole bag of tricks up her sleeveâ€“unexpected plot twists, heart-tugging relationships, and captivating characters. Classic is written all over this series.â€\n <br />\n â€“Jill Elizabeth Nelson, author of\n <em>\n  Reluctant Burglar\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_DragonKnight_ swept me into the exciting exploits of Bardon and his loyal friends. The inventive and richly compelling characters quickly drew me into their lives and into a fast-paced fantasy adventure.â€\n <br />\n â€“Faye Spieker, playwright and author of ministry tools for children\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCharming characters in a colorful make-believe world full of beauty and danger. Classic good against evil with wonderful spiritual truths layered throughout and enough twists to keep the reader engaged from first page to last.â€\n <br />\n â€“Sandra D. Moore, Director, American Christian Fiction Writers Association\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s new novel examples the skillful weaving of a fantasy story with strong moral lessons and spiritual insights. Throughout her series, Paul has created fascinating characters who battle powerful enemies and learn what it means to live life in the process. As a result,\n <em>\n  DragonKnight\n </em>\n is both fun and important reading. Young readers will love the actionâ€“and readers of all ages will appreciate the insights.â€\n <br />\n â€“Paul Moede, co-Author, _Good News About Your Strong Willed Child\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Trapped in an evil spellâ€¦ can the knights of Paladin be rescued?\n</p>\n<p>\n Before vowing his allegiance to Wulder as a knight, Bardon heads to the mountains for solitude. His life is suddenly complicated by a woman and her granddaughter, Nâ€™Rae, on a mission to rescue the womanâ€™s son trapped in a chamber of sleep. Bardon learns that more of Paladinâ€™s knights are imprisonedâ€“and suspects one of them is Dragon Keeper Kaleâ€™s missing father.\n</p>\n<p>\n The secret is in their handsâ€“and hearts.\n</p>\n<p>\n The band travels north, uncertain of their destination and encountering numerous perils. When they unlock the chamber, they discover a dozen knightsâ€“who cannot be awakened. The journal holding the secret to rousing them is in an unknown language. How can they find the help they need, and overcome even graver obstacles, to rescue the knights?\n <br />\n Return to the land of dragons and magic you discovered in\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  DragonQuest,\n </em>\n in this finely crafted and memorable work of fantasy fiction with a core of eternal truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5955'),
(16030, 'DragonKnight', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for _DragonKnight\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œDragonKnight\n </em>\n is a thoroughly enchanting fantasy where dragons speak, tiny mouse-like guardians protect normal-size folk, and young people search for identity. Woven through Donita K. Paulâ€™s carefully crafted world is a strong theme of love, redemption, and the sufficiency of God to see His children through all trials. The icing on this delightful cake is a surprise ending that brings tears of joy!â€\n <br />\n â€“Douglas Hirt, author of the Cradleland Chronicles series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s inventiveness never ceases to amaze. Fresh ideas for new races of people and unusual creatures keep flowing from her gifted pen. In\n <em>\n  DragonKnight\n </em>\n , we meet a few of these and rejoin old friends like Kale, Bardon, Regidor and the ever-huggable Toopka on a rollicking adventure. As always, this author has a whole bag of tricks up her sleeveâ€“unexpected plot twists, heart-tugging relationships, and captivating characters. Classic is written all over this series.â€\n <br />\n â€“Jill Elizabeth Nelson, author of\n <em>\n  Reluctant Burglar\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_DragonKnight_ swept me into the exciting exploits of Bardon and his loyal friends. The inventive and richly compelling characters quickly drew me into their lives and into a fast-paced fantasy adventure.â€\n <br />\n â€“Faye Spieker, playwright and author of ministry tools for children\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCharming characters in a colorful make-believe world full of beauty and danger. Classic good against evil with wonderful spiritual truths layered throughout and enough twists to keep the reader engaged from first page to last.â€\n <br />\n â€“Sandra D. Moore, Director, American Christian Fiction Writers Association\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s new novel examples the skillful weaving of a fantasy story with strong moral lessons and spiritual insights. Throughout her series, Paul has created fascinating characters who battle powerful enemies and learn what it means to live life in the process. As a result,\n <em>\n  DragonKnight\n </em>\n is both fun and important reading. Young readers will love the actionâ€“and readers of all ages will appreciate the insights.â€\n <br />\n â€“Paul Moede, co-Author, _Good News About Your Strong Willed Child\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Trapped in an evil spellâ€¦ can the knights of Paladin be rescued?\n</p>\n<p>\n Before vowing his allegiance to Wulder as a knight, Bardon heads to the mountains for solitude. His life is suddenly complicated by a woman and her granddaughter, Nâ€™Rae, on a mission to rescue the womanâ€™s son trapped in a chamber of sleep. Bardon learns that more of Paladinâ€™s knights are imprisonedâ€“and suspects one of them is Dragon Keeper Kaleâ€™s missing father.\n</p>\n<p>\n The secret is in their handsâ€“and hearts.\n</p>\n<p>\n The band travels north, uncertain of their destination and encountering numerous perils. When they unlock the chamber, they discover a dozen knightsâ€“who cannot be awakened. The journal holding the secret to rousing them is in an unknown language. How can they find the help they need, and overcome even graver obstacles, to rescue the knights?\n <br />\n Return to the land of dragons and magic you discovered in\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  DragonQuest,\n </em>\n in this finely crafted and memorable work of fantasy fiction with a core of eternal truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11887'),
(16031, 'DragonKnight', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Praise for _DragonKnight\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œDragonKnight\n </em>\n is a thoroughly enchanting fantasy where dragons speak, tiny mouse-like guardians protect normal-size folk, and young people search for identity. Woven through Donita K. Paulâ€™s carefully crafted world is a strong theme of love, redemption, and the sufficiency of God to see His children through all trials. The icing on this delightful cake is a surprise ending that brings tears of joy!â€\n <br />\n â€“Douglas Hirt, author of the Cradleland Chronicles series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s inventiveness never ceases to amaze. Fresh ideas for new races of people and unusual creatures keep flowing from her gifted pen. In\n <em>\n  DragonKnight\n </em>\n , we meet a few of these and rejoin old friends like Kale, Bardon, Regidor and the ever-huggable Toopka on a rollicking adventure. As always, this author has a whole bag of tricks up her sleeveâ€“unexpected plot twists, heart-tugging relationships, and captivating characters. Classic is written all over this series.â€\n <br />\n â€“Jill Elizabeth Nelson, author of\n <em>\n  Reluctant Burglar\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_DragonKnight_ swept me into the exciting exploits of Bardon and his loyal friends. The inventive and richly compelling characters quickly drew me into their lives and into a fast-paced fantasy adventure.â€\n <br />\n â€“Faye Spieker, playwright and author of ministry tools for children\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCharming characters in a colorful make-believe world full of beauty and danger. Classic good against evil with wonderful spiritual truths layered throughout and enough twists to keep the reader engaged from first page to last.â€\n <br />\n â€“Sandra D. Moore, Director, American Christian Fiction Writers Association\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s new novel examples the skillful weaving of a fantasy story with strong moral lessons and spiritual insights. Throughout her series, Paul has created fascinating characters who battle powerful enemies and learn what it means to live life in the process. As a result,\n <em>\n  DragonKnight\n </em>\n is both fun and important reading. Young readers will love the actionâ€“and readers of all ages will appreciate the insights.â€\n <br />\n â€“Paul Moede, co-Author, _Good News About Your Strong Willed Child\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Trapped in an evil spellâ€¦ can the knights of Paladin be rescued?\n</p>\n<p>\n Before vowing his allegiance to Wulder as a knight, Bardon heads to the mountains for solitude. His life is suddenly complicated by a woman and her granddaughter, Nâ€™Rae, on a mission to rescue the womanâ€™s son trapped in a chamber of sleep. Bardon learns that more of Paladinâ€™s knights are imprisonedâ€“and suspects one of them is Dragon Keeper Kaleâ€™s missing father.\n</p>\n<p>\n The secret is in their handsâ€“and hearts.\n</p>\n<p>\n The band travels north, uncertain of their destination and encountering numerous perils. When they unlock the chamber, they discover a dozen knightsâ€“who cannot be awakened. The journal holding the secret to rousing them is in an unknown language. How can they find the help they need, and overcome even graver obstacles, to rescue the knights?\n <br />\n Return to the land of dragons and magic you discovered in\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  DragonQuest,\n </em>\n in this finely crafted and memorable work of fantasy fiction with a core of eternal truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18677'),
(16032, 'Dragonlance: The Second Generation', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Years have passed since the end of the War of the Lance. The people of Ansalon have rebuilt their lives, their houses, their families. The Companions of the Lance, too, have returned to their homes, raising children and putting the days of their heroic deeds behind them.But peace on Krynn comes at a price. The forces of darkness are ever vigilant, searching for ways to erode the balance of power and take control. When subtle changes begin to permeate the fragile peace, new lives are drawn into the web of fate woven around all the races. The time has come to pass the sword -- or the staff -- to the children of the Lance.They are the Second Generation.An all-new repackaged paperback edition of a classic **Dragonlance **novel.This book of five novellas bridges the gap between the Chronicles and Legends trilogies and *Dragons of Summer Flame*. While detailing their adventures, *The Second Generation* also sets up key events and characters in future **Dragonlance **novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3115'),
(16033, 'Dragonlance: The Second Generation', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Years have passed since the end of the War of the Lance. The people of Ansalon have rebuilt their lives, their houses, their families. The Companions of the Lance, too, have returned to their homes, raising children and putting the days of their heroic deeds behind them.But peace on Krynn comes at a price. The forces of darkness are ever vigilant, searching for ways to erode the balance of power and take control. When subtle changes begin to permeate the fragile peace, new lives are drawn into the web of fate woven around all the races. The time has come to pass the sword -- or the staff -- to the children of the Lance.They are the Second Generation.An all-new repackaged paperback edition of a classic **Dragonlance **novel.This book of five novellas bridges the gap between the Chronicles and Legends trilogies and *Dragons of Summer Flame*. While detailing their adventures, *The Second Generation* also sets up key events and characters in future **Dragonlance **novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13288'),
(16034, 'Dragonquest', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Endorsements for DRAGONQUEST\n <br />\n By Donita K. Paul\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n is a rich tapestry of creatures, characters, and adventure.Â  A whimsical allegory, casting bright light on ultimate truth.â€Â \n <br />\n â€“Lyn Cote, author of The Women of Ivy Manor series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou never know what to expect in a magical world full of creatures like mordakleeps, blimmets, or doneels. But one thing is sure: This grand, fantastical odyssey of Kale the Dragonkeeper will sweep you off your feet.â€\n <br />\n â€“Robert Elmer, author of the HyperLinkz fantasy series for kids\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShut your eyes, hold your breath, and plunge into the unshackled imagination of Donita K. Paul! In\n <em>\n  DragonQuest,\n </em>\n Kaleâ€™s journey of self-discovery continues through a succession of adventures and mishaps that leaves you grinning with breathless, page-turning anticipation. I am in awe of Donita K. Paulâ€™s intricate world-building that can rightfully stand alongside master storytellers, Lewis and Tolkien. There is so much depth of heart to this fantastic adventure that itâ€™s difficult to say what I most enjoyed. A fantasy must for the very young at heart, no matter your age.â€\n <br />\n â€“Linda Wichman, author of\n <em>\n  Legend of the Emerald Rose\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n continues the story of Kale and her well-drawn compatriots, who set out on yet another quest in service to God by serving His people.Â  Cleverly and compellingly wrought,\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n is a terrific sequel to\n <em>\n  DragonSpell\n </em>\n that is sure to delight readers of all ages.â€\n <br />\n â€“Kathleen Morgan, author of\n <em>\n  Giver of Roses\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A New Quest Begins\n</p>\n<p>\n A dragonkeeper of Paladin, Kale is summoned from the Hall to The Bogs by the Wizard Fenworth to serve as his apprentice and tend his newly hatched meech dragon, Regidor. But Kale isnâ€™t going alone. The Hall is sending a student to monitor her performance and report back to the scholars. Worst of all, itâ€™s Bardonâ€“an older boy Kale finds irritating, but who at least can hold his own in a sword fight.\n</p>\n<p>\n New Friendships Are Forged\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, the Wizard Risto has seized another meech dragon, bringing him dangerously close to gaining the power he seeks. So with only a motley band of companions, Kale sets out on a desperate quest to rescue the second meech, to free those dragons already enslaved, and to thwart Ristoâ€™s devious plans. Itâ€™s up to Kale to lead the search and to embrace the role thatâ€™s rightfully hers. But will her efforts be enough to save the land of Amara from the dark future that awaits at Ristoâ€™s hands?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5957'),
(16035, 'Dragonquest', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Endorsements for DRAGONQUEST\n <br />\n By Donita K. Paul\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n is a rich tapestry of creatures, characters, and adventure.Â  A whimsical allegory, casting bright light on ultimate truth.â€Â \n <br />\n â€“Lyn Cote, author of The Women of Ivy Manor series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou never know what to expect in a magical world full of creatures like mordakleeps, blimmets, or doneels. But one thing is sure: This grand, fantastical odyssey of Kale the Dragonkeeper will sweep you off your feet.â€\n <br />\n â€“Robert Elmer, author of the HyperLinkz fantasy series for kids\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShut your eyes, hold your breath, and plunge into the unshackled imagination of Donita K. Paul! In\n <em>\n  DragonQuest,\n </em>\n Kaleâ€™s journey of self-discovery continues through a succession of adventures and mishaps that leaves you grinning with breathless, page-turning anticipation. I am in awe of Donita K. Paulâ€™s intricate world-building that can rightfully stand alongside master storytellers, Lewis and Tolkien. There is so much depth of heart to this fantastic adventure that itâ€™s difficult to say what I most enjoyed. A fantasy must for the very young at heart, no matter your age.â€\n <br />\n â€“Linda Wichman, author of\n <em>\n  Legend of the Emerald Rose\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n continues the story of Kale and her well-drawn compatriots, who set out on yet another quest in service to God by serving His people.Â  Cleverly and compellingly wrought,\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n is a terrific sequel to\n <em>\n  DragonSpell\n </em>\n that is sure to delight readers of all ages.â€\n <br />\n â€“Kathleen Morgan, author of\n <em>\n  Giver of Roses\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A New Quest Begins\n</p>\n<p>\n A dragonkeeper of Paladin, Kale is summoned from the Hall to The Bogs by the Wizard Fenworth to serve as his apprentice and tend his newly hatched meech dragon, Regidor. But Kale isnâ€™t going alone. The Hall is sending a student to monitor her performance and report back to the scholars. Worst of all, itâ€™s Bardonâ€“an older boy Kale finds irritating, but who at least can hold his own in a sword fight.\n</p>\n<p>\n New Friendships Are Forged\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, the Wizard Risto has seized another meech dragon, bringing him dangerously close to gaining the power he seeks. So with only a motley band of companions, Kale sets out on a desperate quest to rescue the second meech, to free those dragons already enslaved, and to thwart Ristoâ€™s devious plans. Itâ€™s up to Kale to lead the search and to embrace the role thatâ€™s rightfully hers. But will her efforts be enough to save the land of Amara from the dark future that awaits at Ristoâ€™s hands?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11888'),
(16036, 'Dragonquest', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Endorsements for DRAGONQUEST\n <br />\n By Donita K. Paul\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n is a rich tapestry of creatures, characters, and adventure.Â  A whimsical allegory, casting bright light on ultimate truth.â€Â \n <br />\n â€“Lyn Cote, author of The Women of Ivy Manor series\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou never know what to expect in a magical world full of creatures like mordakleeps, blimmets, or doneels. But one thing is sure: This grand, fantastical odyssey of Kale the Dragonkeeper will sweep you off your feet.â€\n <br />\n â€“Robert Elmer, author of the HyperLinkz fantasy series for kids\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œShut your eyes, hold your breath, and plunge into the unshackled imagination of Donita K. Paul! In\n <em>\n  DragonQuest,\n </em>\n Kaleâ€™s journey of self-discovery continues through a succession of adventures and mishaps that leaves you grinning with breathless, page-turning anticipation. I am in awe of Donita K. Paulâ€™s intricate world-building that can rightfully stand alongside master storytellers, Lewis and Tolkien. There is so much depth of heart to this fantastic adventure that itâ€™s difficult to say what I most enjoyed. A fantasy must for the very young at heart, no matter your age.â€\n <br />\n â€“Linda Wichman, author of\n <em>\n  Legend of the Emerald Rose\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDonita K. Paulâ€™s\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n continues the story of Kale and her well-drawn compatriots, who set out on yet another quest in service to God by serving His people.Â  Cleverly and compellingly wrought,\n <em>\n  DragonQuest\n </em>\n is a terrific sequel to\n <em>\n  DragonSpell\n </em>\n that is sure to delight readers of all ages.â€\n <br />\n â€“Kathleen Morgan, author of\n <em>\n  Giver of Roses\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A New Quest Begins\n</p>\n<p>\n A dragonkeeper of Paladin, Kale is summoned from the Hall to The Bogs by the Wizard Fenworth to serve as his apprentice and tend his newly hatched meech dragon, Regidor. But Kale isnâ€™t going alone. The Hall is sending a student to monitor her performance and report back to the scholars. Worst of all, itâ€™s Bardonâ€“an older boy Kale finds irritating, but who at least can hold his own in a sword fight.\n</p>\n<p>\n New Friendships Are Forged\n</p>\n<p>\n Meanwhile, the Wizard Risto has seized another meech dragon, bringing him dangerously close to gaining the power he seeks. So with only a motley band of companions, Kale sets out on a desperate quest to rescue the second meech, to free those dragons already enslaved, and to thwart Ristoâ€™s devious plans. Itâ€™s up to Kale to lead the search and to embrace the role thatâ€™s rightfully hers. But will her efforts be enough to save the land of Amara from the dark future that awaits at Ristoâ€™s hands?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18676'),
(16037, 'Dragonriders 2 Dragonquest', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15724'),
(16038, 'The Dragonriders of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne McCaffrey''s Pern is one of the most memorable worlds in science fiction and fantasy. Humans and their flying dragon companions live in fear of\n <em>\n  thread\n </em>\n , a caustic, deadly material that falls sporadically from space. But when the thread doesn''t fall for a long time, people become complacent, forgetting that it is the brave dragonriders who can save them from the periodic threat. But when the thread falls, human and dragon heroes must fight the scourge. This edition encompasses the first three unforgettable novels of McCaffrey''s epic series:\n <em>\n  Dragonflight\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Dragonquest\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The White Dragon\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Finally together in one volume, the first three books in the world''s most beloved science fiction series, THE DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN, by Anne McCaffrey, one of the great science fiction writers of all time: DRAGONFLIGHT, DRAGONQUEST, THE WHITE DRAGON. Those who know these extraordinary tales will be able to re-visit with Lessa, F''lar, Ruth, Lord Jaxon, and all the others. And for those just discovering this magical place, there are incomparable tales of danger, deceit, and daring, just waiting to be explored..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7634'),
(16039, 'The Dragonriders of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne McCaffrey''s Pern is one of the most memorable worlds in science fiction and fantasy. Humans and their flying dragon companions live in fear of\n <em>\n  thread\n </em>\n , a caustic, deadly material that falls sporadically from space. But when the thread doesn''t fall for a long time, people become complacent, forgetting that it is the brave dragonriders who can save them from the periodic threat. But when the thread falls, human and dragon heroes must fight the scourge. This edition encompasses the first three unforgettable novels of McCaffrey''s epic series:\n <em>\n  Dragonflight\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Dragonquest\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The White Dragon\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Finally together in one volume, the first three books in the world''s most beloved science fiction series, THE DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN, by Anne McCaffrey, one of the great science fiction writers of all time: DRAGONFLIGHT, DRAGONQUEST, THE WHITE DRAGON. Those who know these extraordinary tales will be able to re-visit with Lessa, F''lar, Ruth, Lord Jaxon, and all the others. And for those just discovering this magical place, there are incomparable tales of danger, deceit, and daring, just waiting to be explored..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11346');
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(16040, 'The Dragonriders of Pern', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Anne McCaffrey''s Pern is one of the most memorable worlds in science fiction and fantasy. Humans and their flying dragon companions live in fear of\n <em>\n  thread\n </em>\n , a caustic, deadly material that falls sporadically from space. But when the thread doesn''t fall for a long time, people become complacent, forgetting that it is the brave dragonriders who can save them from the periodic threat. But when the thread falls, human and dragon heroes must fight the scourge. This edition encompasses the first three unforgettable novels of McCaffrey''s epic series:\n <em>\n  Dragonflight\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Dragonquest\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The White Dragon\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Finally together in one volume, the first three books in the world''s most beloved science fiction series, THE DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN, by Anne McCaffrey, one of the great science fiction writers of all time: DRAGONFLIGHT, DRAGONQUEST, THE WHITE DRAGON. Those who know these extraordinary tales will be able to re-visit with Lessa, F''lar, Ruth, Lord Jaxon, and all the others. And for those just discovering this magical place, there are incomparable tales of danger, deceit, and daring, just waiting to be explored..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16298'),
(16041, 'Dragons in the Waters', 'Madeleine L&#39;Engle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20026'),
(16042, 'Dragons of a Fallen Sun', 'Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The start of a new epic trilogy set in the world of Dragonlance. The War of Souls The people of Krynn have known war in past ages. Some are still alive who remember the triumph of good at the conclusion of the War of the Lance. Still more remember the devastation of the Chaos War, which ended the Fourth Age of the world. But now a new war is about to begin, more terrible than any have known. This war is one for the very heart and soul of the world itself. Forty years have passed since the devastating Chaos War, when the gods departed Krynn. Cruel and powerful dragons have seized control of Ansalon, dividing the continent among them and demanding tribute from the people they have enslaved. Heroes of the past have gone to their well-deserved rest. Now new heroes take their place to continue the battle against evil. Change -- for good or for ill -- comes to the world. A violent magical storm sweeps over Ansalon, bringing flood and fire, death and destruction. Out of the tumult rises a strange, mystic young woman. Her destiny is bound up with that of Krynn. For she alone knows the truth about the future, a future strangely and inextricably tied to the terrifying mystery in Krynn''s past.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21454'),
(16043, 'Dragons of a Lost Star', 'Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  A mysterious force holds Krynn in thrall. A young woman, protected by her regiment of dark-armored knights, calls upon the might of an unknown god to bring victory to her army as it sweeps across the land. The souls of the dead rob the living of their magic. A dragon overlord threatens the very land the elves hold most dear.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Amidst the chaos, a band of brave and selfless heroes struggles against an immortal power that appears to thwart them at every turn. The encroaching darkness threatens to engulf all hope, all faith, all light.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The War of Souls rages on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling hardcover now available in eBook.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman published their first novel in the Dragonlance Chronicles,\n  <em>\n   Dragons of Autumn Twilight\n  </em>\n  , in 1984. Over twenty years later they are going strong as partners -- over thirty novels as collaborators -- and alone or together with other co-authors have published over a hundred books, including novels, collections of short stories, role-playing games, and other game products.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21458'),
(16044, 'Dragons of a Vanished Moon', 'Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The legendary team of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman take to the sky on dragonback again with the final dispatch from their latest voyage to the land of Krynn in the War of Souls trilogy. In volume two,\n  <em>\n   Dragons of a Lost Star\n  </em>\n  , the mysterious "One God" behind the irrepressible Mina''s miraculous rise to power is revealed. Yes, Dark Queen Takhisis is up to her old tricks. This time, however, she has stolen the entire planet of Krynn and hidden it away from her fellow deities. Now, she is seeking to bring the entire populace (both the living and the dead) under her fickle sway through Mina''s zealous proselytizing. Who will stop her dark quest? Who else? The troublemaking and time-traveling kender--Tasslehoff Burrfoot.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unfortunately, with the mystery of the "One God" revealed, much of the narrative impetus that made the first two books page-turners is lost. However, while there isn''t much left to write about in\n  <em>\n   Dragons of a Vanished Moon\n  </em>\n  , the scenery is beautiful. There is an Elven exodus across the "plains of dust," stubborn Solamnic knights, cunning dragons, plotting wizards, and a full helping of Kender antics as Tasselhoff assumes the role of fly in the dark queen''s ointment. The conclusion is a textbook deus ex machina but fans should enjoy this book for what it is--another chance to return to the wonderful world of Krynn with its two most competent guides at the helm.\n  <em>\n   --Jeremy Pugh\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The One God Takhisis has pulled a fast one and vanquished the other gods of Krynn to a place unknown in this fast-paced conclusion to the War of the Souls trilogy (Dragons of a Fallen Sun; Dragons of a Lost Star). Through the warrior princess Mina, Takhisis (aka the Dark Queen) pretends to do good, heal the sick and comfort the afflicted in her scheme to take over the world. Takhisis''s most feared foe turns out to be a kender, Tasslehoff Burrfoot, who possesses the Device of Time Journeying, an instrument that could smash all Takhisis''s ambitions with a single push of a button. As Mina takes over city after city, adding more souls to her dread troop, her opponents frantically try to figure out ways to stop her. The Solamnic Knights send one man, Sir Gerard, to spy on Mina by passing him off as a Dark Knight. The elves of Qualinest and Silvanost find common cause in the fight against the Dark Queen, while in a strange twist of allegiances, the dragons of Krynn realize that their survival depends on allying themselves with mortals which they do with cunning and stealth. At Sanction, all the players come together in a mighty battle to save Krynn and restore the world to its proper balance. Bestselling authors Weis and Hickman have made another admirable addition to the history, lore and ways of Krynn, including a set of useful endnotes to bring newcomers up to speed.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21459'),
(16045, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight', 'Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to the world of Krynn - a world on the brink of a dark age. While humanity slides toward fanaticism and war, a long-dormant evil begins to rise. Amid the chaos, lifelong friends who went their separate ways in years past are drawn together once again. When they accept a mysterious woman into their midst, it begins a quest that will either save Krynn - or doom it for all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21460'),
(16046, 'Dragons of Spring Dawning', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The final installment in Weis and Hickman''s Chronicles series--Dragonlance''s undisputed must-read trilogy--brings on the main event: the Companions vs. the dragons in a knock-down drag-out at the iron works of Pax Tharkas, as the fate of Krynn hangs in the balance. They''ve mastered the Orbs and picked up the Dragonlance (see __), and things are looking pretty good with the return of the good metallic dragons. But the band soon learns they must do battle with their own inner conflicts if they ever hope to defeat the Dark Queen Takhisis. A bang-up conclusion to Dragonlance''s best-loved trilogy.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dragons of Spring Dawning, the concluding episode in the ever-popular Chronicles Trilogy, once again takes listeners on a fantastical journey to Krynn, where friendships are made and lost and destinies finally realized.\n</p>\n<p>\n Armed at last with the powerful dragonlances, the Companions of the Lance lead their people in a final desperate battle against the destructive dragons. Knight and barbarian, warrior and half-eft, dwarf and kender and dark-souled mage -- none has reckoned how high the price of victory -- or even defeat -- might be. One by one, they must each overcome personal doubts and conflicts -- their only hope if they are to stop the return of the five-headed dragon goddess, Takhisis. Listen and discover how truth and virtue at last triumph over the deadly darkness of an all-consuming evil in this dramatic conclusion to one of fantasy''s most legendary tales.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3116'),
(16047, 'Dragons of Spring Dawning', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The final installment in Weis and Hickman''s Chronicles series--Dragonlance''s undisputed must-read trilogy--brings on the main event: the Companions vs. the dragons in a knock-down drag-out at the iron works of Pax Tharkas, as the fate of Krynn hangs in the balance. They''ve mastered the Orbs and picked up the Dragonlance (see __), and things are looking pretty good with the return of the good metallic dragons. But the band soon learns they must do battle with their own inner conflicts if they ever hope to defeat the Dark Queen Takhisis. A bang-up conclusion to Dragonlance''s best-loved trilogy.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dragons of Spring Dawning, the concluding episode in the ever-popular Chronicles Trilogy, once again takes listeners on a fantastical journey to Krynn, where friendships are made and lost and destinies finally realized.\n</p>\n<p>\n Armed at last with the powerful dragonlances, the Companions of the Lance lead their people in a final desperate battle against the destructive dragons. Knight and barbarian, warrior and half-eft, dwarf and kender and dark-souled mage -- none has reckoned how high the price of victory -- or even defeat -- might be. One by one, they must each overcome personal doubts and conflicts -- their only hope if they are to stop the return of the five-headed dragon goddess, Takhisis. Listen and discover how truth and virtue at last triumph over the deadly darkness of an all-consuming evil in this dramatic conclusion to one of fantasy''s most legendary tales.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13287'),
(16048, 'Dragons of the Autumn Twilight', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to the world of Krynn - a world on the brink of a dark age. While humanity slides toward fanaticism and war, a long-dormant evil begins to rise. Amid the chaos, lifelong friends who went their separate ways in years past are drawn together once again. When they accept a mysterious woman into their midst, it begins a quest that will either save Krynn - or doom it for all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3117'),
(16049, 'Dragons of the Autumn Twilight', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to the world of Krynn - a world on the brink of a dark age. While humanity slides toward fanaticism and war, a long-dormant evil begins to rise. Amid the chaos, lifelong friends who went their separate ways in years past are drawn together once again. When they accept a mysterious woman into their midst, it begins a quest that will either save Krynn - or doom it for all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13289'),
(16050, 'Dragons of The Dwarven Depths', 'Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Synopsis:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Companions are back in the first volume that features an untold story from the War of the Lance. The beloved heroes return: Tanis, Raistlin and Caramon, Sturm Brightblade, Tasslehoff, and Flint Fireforge. Old friends, such as Riverwind and Goldmoon and Laurana travel with them. Old enemies are here too, as the companions encounter new adventures and new dangers in the very beginning months of the War of the Lance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book starts with the celebration of a wedding. The companions believe they have slain the evil Dragon Highlord Verminaard. They have rescued the refugees from Pax Tharkas and taken them to a valley in the Kharolis mountains.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After they are attacked by the Dragon Armies, Tanis and Flint are sent to search for the long lost dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin, hoping to persuade the dwarves to give the refugees shelter for winter.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each of the other companions face their own trials. Raistlin remembers that, according to tales of old, the key to Thorbardin lies in the haunted fortress known as Skullcap. The others want nothing to do with this accursed place, but Raistlin feels strangely drawn to the ruins, and he persuades a reluctant Caramon to accompany him there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sturm becomes obsessed with finding the legendary Hammer of Kharas, and his obsession nearly plunges the party into disaster. Riverwind, now chieftain of his tribe, is made the reluctant leader of the refugees and worries that he is not suited for the task. Tika Waylan must decide if she has the courage to undertake a perilous journey to save those she loves from certain death, while Tanis Half-Elven wrestles with his faith in the newly returned gods.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It is the dwarf, Flint Fireforge, who faces the most crucial test. As the heroes race against time to save the lives of the innocents dependent on them, Flint is forced to make a difficult choice, one on which the future of mankind may rest. And the only one he can depend on for help is the happy-go-lucky kender, Tasslehoff Burrfoot.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For a time, it seems they have found a safe haven in the dwarven kingdom, only to discover there is no safe place anywhere in this world, as the Queen of Darkness and her dragons set the land aflame.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   School Library Journal:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gr 9 &amp; Up - In\n  <em>\n   Dragons of the Dwarven Depths\n  </em>\n  (Wizards of the Coast, 2006), authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman attempt to fill in some of the gaps in their popular "Chronicles Trilogy" series. The story picks up after the Companions of the Lance have helped a group of slaves escape from the mines of Pax Tharkas. The group takes refuge in a mountain valley, where they hope to be safe from their former masters. When the illusion of security is dispelled by the appearance of one of their old enemies, the heroes take action. They seek out the lost dwarven stronghold of Thorbardin, hoping that the dwarves that still remain within will give shelter to the refugees through the winter. However, this sanctuary comes with a cost. The Companions are forced to take up a quest for the fabled Hammer of Kharas. The story is weighted with exposition that drags down what has the potential to be an exciting plot. While the characters may be old friends to returning readers, those new to the Chronicles will find them flat and underdeveloped. Sandra Burr''s clear, melodic voice guides listeners carefully along the journey. While she skillfully provides distinct voices for a large cast of characters, some of them grate on the ears. This recording will be in demand by fans of the previous books, but it will not draw in new listeners.-_Heather Dieffenbach, Lexington Public Library, Beaumont Branch, KY_\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information\n  <strong>\n   Biography:\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  MARGARET WEIS and TRACY HICKMAN published their first novel in the\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  Chronicles,\n  <em>\n   Dragons of Autumn Twilight\n  </em>\n  , in 1984. Over twenty years later they are going strong as partners -- over thirty novels as collaborators -- and alone or together with other co-authors have published over a hundred books, including novels, collections of short stories, role-playing games, and other game products. Hickman is also the inspiration for an upcoming "Tracy Hickman Presents" line of\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  novels for Wizards of the Coast, while Weis is in the midst of her own Dark Disciple trilogy. Weis is also the President of Sovereign Press, which publishes\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  game material as well as many other game products.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21461'),
(16051, 'Dragons of the Highlord Skies', 'Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this enterprising second volume of the Lost Chronicles (after 2006''s\n  <em>\n   Dragons of the Dwarven Depths\n  </em>\n  ), Emperor Ariakis pressures Dragon Highlord Kitiara uth Matar into a plan to make sure the Solamnic knight Derek Crownguard hears about, then quests after a dragon orb recently discovered by Dragon Highlord Feal-Thas. As Crownguard''s will is weaker than the dragon essence inside the orb, he will become enthralled to it and compelled to do the bidding of Ariakis. Loathing the task but having no choice, Kitiara treks to Feal-Thas''s Ice Palace in the dangerous land of Icereach. As Crownguard and his companions join up with the group of renegades led by Kitiara''s rival, Laurana, Kitiara''s path takes an unexpected turn, leading her to Dargaard Keep to face the dread Lord Soth. Weis and Hickman have once again produced an entertaining high fantasy adventure.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Chronicles retold--from evil''s point of view.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story starts in Neraka, where Kitiara uth Matar and Emperor Ariakas hatch a plan to retrieve a dragon orb and thereby destroy Solamnia and the Companions in one fell swoop. But the guardian of the dragon orb, Highlord Feal-Thas, disagrees with this plan. Kitiara must go to Ice Wall to force him to accept Ariakas'' will, but her journey does not end there. Thrown out of favor, she conceives a daring plan to enlist the aid of the most feared beings on Krynn--Lord Soth and the Dark Queen. Meanwhile, Laurana and the Companions retrieve the dragon orb and take it back to Solamnia--not knowing that they bring their allies'' doom with them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The second volume of a new trilogy from celebrated authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, The Lost Chronicles details the famed War of the Lance from the perspective of the evil that menaces Krynn. The books are written in such a way that they will be marvelous complements to the original Chronicles, while at the same time accessible and exciting to new readers.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21462'),
(16052, 'Dragons of the Hourglass Mage', 'Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The dramatic conclusion to the Lost Chronicles series!\n </p>\n <p>\n  The War of the Lance is nearing its endâ€”for good or ill. The wizard Raistlin Majere travels to Neraka, the lord city of the Dark Queen. Raistlin ostensibly plans to work for her, though in reality he means to further his own quest for power. The Dark Queen plans to destroy the gods of magic on the Night of the Eye, when all the wizards will congregate. Raistlin has to find a way to thwart the plot, even though this means doing battle with his own sister, the Dragon Highlord Kitiara, and her terrifying ally, the death knight, Lord Soth. And still he must overcome his final foe: the archmagus Fistandantilus, who seeks to kill Raistlin and steal his soul.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The creators of the\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  Â® world return with their iconic characters, the Companions of he Lance, to show fans the rest of what really happened in the epic battle that determined the fate of the world of Krynn.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman published their first novel in the "Chronicles" series of\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <em>\n   Dragons of Autumn Twilight\n  </em>\n  , in 1984. Over twenty years later they are going strong as partners - over thirty novels as collaborators - and , alone or together with other partners, over one hundred books, including novels, collections of short stories, role playing games, and other game products. Hickman is also the editor of a new Tracy Hickman Presents line of\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  novels for Wizards of the Coast, while Weis is in the midst of her own, popular, solo Dark Disciple series for Wizards. Weis is also the President of Margaret Weis Productions, which publishes\n  <strong>\n   Dragonlance\n  </strong>\n  game material as well as many other game products.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21463'),
(16053, 'Dragons of Winter Night', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n __ sets ''em up, and\n <em>\n  Dragons of Winter Night\n </em>\n knocks ''em down. The second volume in Dragonlance''s seminal trilogy stokes the action with a big ol'' blast of dragon breath. The War of the Lance has begun in earnest, and the Companions--Tanis, Flint, the twins Raistlin and Sturm, Flint Fireforge, Goldmoon, et al.--find themselves separated across Ansalon. Everyone''s figured out that Takhisis''s dragon minions aren''t just scary bedtime stories, and the desperate search for the Dragon Orbs and the mythical Dragonlance is on. Lots of great combat, some humor and romance sprinkled in, and more solid character development for this complex band (especially Tanis and Laurana). An excellent follow-up bookended by cliffhangers--check out __ to see what happens next.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dragons of Winter Night re turns listeners to the mystical world of Krynn, where the memorable band of characters from Dragons of Autumn Twilight continue their fantastical adventures.\n</p>\n<p>\n The land has grown even more dangerous, and now the heroes -- Tanis Half-Elven, Sturm Brightblade, Raistlin and Caramon Majere, Flint Fireforge and Tasselhoff Burrfoot -- have been separated. And Raistlin, his strange, hourglass eyes gleaming, has warned, "Farewell, my friends...And a long farewell it will be. Some of us are not destined to meet again in this world." This ominous prediction, along with sinister dreams, will haunt this group of long-time friends as they search for the mysterious dragon orbe and the legendary dragonlance with the hope of stopping the advance of the Dark Queen!\n</p>\n<p>\n Here, is a compelling fantasy tale in which the true value of love and friendship is measured against the backdrop of a catastrophic war between good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3121'),
(16054, 'Dragons of Winter Night', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n __ sets ''em up, and\n <em>\n  Dragons of Winter Night\n </em>\n knocks ''em down. The second volume in Dragonlance''s seminal trilogy stokes the action with a big ol'' blast of dragon breath. The War of the Lance has begun in earnest, and the Companions--Tanis, Flint, the twins Raistlin and Sturm, Flint Fireforge, Goldmoon, et al.--find themselves separated across Ansalon. Everyone''s figured out that Takhisis''s dragon minions aren''t just scary bedtime stories, and the desperate search for the Dragon Orbs and the mythical Dragonlance is on. Lots of great combat, some humor and romance sprinkled in, and more solid character development for this complex band (especially Tanis and Laurana). An excellent follow-up bookended by cliffhangers--check out __ to see what happens next.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dragons of Winter Night re turns listeners to the mystical world of Krynn, where the memorable band of characters from Dragons of Autumn Twilight continue their fantastical adventures.\n</p>\n<p>\n The land has grown even more dangerous, and now the heroes -- Tanis Half-Elven, Sturm Brightblade, Raistlin and Caramon Majere, Flint Fireforge and Tasselhoff Burrfoot -- have been separated. And Raistlin, his strange, hourglass eyes gleaming, has warned, "Farewell, my friends...And a long farewell it will be. Some of us are not destined to meet again in this world." This ominous prediction, along with sinister dreams, will haunt this group of long-time friends as they search for the mysterious dragon orbe and the legendary dragonlance with the hope of stopping the advance of the Dark Queen!\n</p>\n<p>\n Here, is a compelling fantasy tale in which the true value of love and friendship is measured against the backdrop of a catastrophic war between good and evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13281'),
(16055, 'Dragons on Englor', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4563'),
(16056, 'Dragonseed: A Novel of Dragon Age', 'James Maxey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  After the death ok King Albekizan, Shandrazel and his allies struggle to keep the kingdom intact as the radical human prophet, Ragnar gathers forces to launch a full scale rebellion against the dragons. When all out war erupts, legendary dragon hunter, Bitterwood, must face his own personal demons and choose where his loyalty really lies.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <div>\n  James Maxey lives in Chapel Hill, NC. After graduating from the Odyssey Fantasy Writers'' Workshop and Orson Scott Card''s Writer''s Boot Camp, James broke into the publishing world in 2002 when he won a Phobos Award for his short story, Empire of Dreams and Miracles. Phobos Books later published James'' debut novel, cult-classic superhero tale Nobody Gets the Girl. His short stories have since appeared in Asimov''s and numerous anthologies.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4800'),
(16057, 'Dragonseed: A Novel of Dragon Age', 'James Maxey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div>\n  After the death ok King Albekizan, Shandrazel and his allies struggle to keep the kingdom intact as the radical human prophet, Ragnar gathers forces to launch a full scale rebellion against the dragons. When all out war erupts, legendary dragon hunter, Bitterwood, must face his own personal demons and choose where his loyalty really lies.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <div>\n  James Maxey lives in Chapel Hill, NC. After graduating from the Odyssey Fantasy Writers'' Workshop and Orson Scott Card''s Writer''s Boot Camp, James broke into the publishing world in 2002 when he won a Phobos Award for his short story, Empire of Dreams and Miracles. Phobos Books later published James'' debut novel, cult-classic superhero tale Nobody Gets the Girl. His short stories have since appeared in Asimov''s and numerous anthologies.\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19850'),
(16058, 'Dragonseye', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Anne McCaffrey''s New York Times bestselling DRAGONSEYE, join Weyrleaders, Holders, and Craftmasters in the creation of the legendary Star Stones and the teaching ballads of Pern! It''s been two-hundred years since the deadly Thread fell like rain upon Pern, devouring everything in its path. No one alive remembers that first horrific onslaught and no one believes in its return--except for the dragonriders. For two centuries they have been practicing and training, passing down from generation to generation the formidable Threadfighting techniques. Now the ominous signs are appearing: the violent winter storms and volcanic eruptions that are said to herald the approach of the Red Star and its lethal spawn. But one stubborn Lord Holder, Chalkin of Bitra, refuses to believe--and that disbelief could spell disaster. So as the dragonriders desperately train to face a terrifying enemy, they and the other Lord Holders must find a way to deal with Chalkin--before history repeats itself and unleashes its virulence on all of Pern. . . . From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15729'),
(16059, 'Dragonsinger', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pursuing her dream to be a Harper of Pern, Menolly studies under the Masterharper learning that more is required than a facility with music and a clever way with words. Sequel to Dragonsong.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15730'),
(16060, 'Dragonsong', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Science FictionLarge Print EditionMenolly loved music and wanted to be a Harper, though her father would not allow it. It was a disgrace for a woman even to think of such a thing. Finally, he forbad Menolly to even sing for fear her ambition would become known. Menolly had no choice but to run away. On her journey she meets a group of fire lizards who bring new adventure, challenge and direction to her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15732'),
(16061, 'Dragonspell', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-8â€“After 14 years as a slave girl in the village of River Away, Kale is free, because of a dragon''s egg. Since she found it, the village elders have decided that she must present herself and the egg to the great wizards of the walled city of Vendela, where she expects to become a servant of Paladin, the earthly representative of Wulder, supreme being of Amara. Her journey is interrupted first by attacking ogres, then by a detour into a cave that hides seven more dragon eggs, and finally by a daring escape aided by dragon-riding rescuers who become Kale''s guides, tutors, and closest cohorts on her travels. Two of her precious eggs hatch on the way and become her constant companionsâ€“first green Gymn, who heals, and then purple Metta, who sings. To them, Kale is much more than just a slave girlâ€“she is the last of the great Allerion dragon-keepers. This is classic quest fantasy with echoes of J. R. R. Tolkien''s "Lord of the Rings" trilogy (Houghton) and of Christopher Paolini''s\n <em>\n  Eragon\n </em>\n (Knopf, 2003). As in C. S. Lewis''s "Narnia" books (HarperCollins), Christian allegories and messages are clearly presented and easily found, but it is equally possible to read this as Kale''s story as it happened in Amara, a world completely separate from our own. It would be a shame to limit readership by relegating this clever and inventive story to the genre of Christian fiction. There is plenty of room for sequels, and readers will want to know much more about Kale and the remainder of her quest._â€“Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n , Donita K. Paul has created an amazing world of fantasy adventure. From riding on dragons to jumping off cliffs to moving mountains, this story is sure to spark a reader''s imagination young and old. And with a message of identity transformed from slavery to servanthood, it''s a book families will love reading and discussing together.\n <br />\n Christopher P. N. Maselli, children''s author of\n <em>\n  Reality Shift\n </em>\n and founder of TruthPop.com\n</p>\n<p>\n A reluctant heroine, her fainting dragon, and an assortment of colorful companions make for a delightful read in Donita K. Paul''s\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n . This is adventure and fantasy at its finest a must read for the imaginative soul.\n <br />\n Linda Windsor, award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Along Came Jones\n </em>\n and the\n <em>\n  Fires of Gleannmara\n </em>\n trilogy\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is a fine, well-written tale guaranteed to entertain both old and young alike. This was proven in our household when our eleven-year-old son snatched up the book and devoured it. Upon returning it, he exclaimed, It''s good!high praise from a rabid fan of Tolkein, Lewis, Jacques and company. I can only nod my head in agreement.\n <br />\n Christopher A. Lane, Gold Medallion and C.S. Lewis award-winning author of children''s and adult fiction\n</p>\n<p>\n Inventive, engaging, witty, insightful, touching, and profound\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is all this and more. If Donita K. Paul''s only intention was to create a world where readers encounter novelties and wonders at every turn, then she has succeeded admirably. But she actually does much more than this: she enables us to see our relationship with God and His world through new eyes. A delight for all true fans of fantasy literature.\n <br />\n Jim Ware, author of\n <em>\n  God of the Fairy Tale\n </em>\n and co-author of _Finding God in the Lord of the Rings\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n Enchanting! A perilous quest, a timeless battle, an unlikely heroine, and a rousing adventure in a world of magic and mystery Donita K. Paul has concocted a tale brimming with eternal truth and seasoned with delightful and amazing characters that linger in the senses long after the last page.\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is destined to become a classic for a new generation of adventurers!\n <br />\n Susan May Warren, award-winning author of _Happily Ever After\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n The greatest thing any author can do is to catch you up and transport you right into the very scene, the very action, the story . . . in such a way that you live the book, not merely read it. That is exactly what Donita K. Paul does with\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n . For a few hours, you will take a journey to a place you have never been, with a story you will never forget. Enjoy the trip!\n <br />\n Stephen Bly, author of _Paperback Writer\n <em>\n  and Christy-award-winning\n </em>\n The Long Trail Home\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is a tightly written fantasy quest set in an extraordinarily rendered storyworld. With seven intelligent races, seven evil races, several delightful dragons, one weird wizard, and an endless supply of exotic plants and animals, you will NOT be bored.\n <br />\n Randy Ingermanson, Christy award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Oxygen\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Premonition\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n No one will ever be able to read this and doubt that Christian fantasy is a viable genre for spreading God''s word.\n <br />\n Christine Lynxwiler, president of American Christian Romance Writers\n</p>\n<p>\n Charming, well-drawn characters, a story chock full of adventures and misadventures, a land populated with dragons, doneels, emerlindians, grawligs, and all sorts of other fascinating inhabitants I ask you, what more could any reader want With\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n , Donita K. Paul has nailed a complex and engaging fantasy world. Whether nine or ninety, you won''t be disappointed.\n <br />\n Kathleen Morgan, author of\n <em>\n  Consuming Fire\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  All Good Gifts\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n _ Dragonspell _has a heart-thumping, page-turning plot that is sure to captivate and enthrall even the most reluctant reader!\n <br />\n Peggy Wilber, author of _Reading Rescue 1-2-3\n <br />\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5958'),
(16062, 'Dragonspell', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-8â€“After 14 years as a slave girl in the village of River Away, Kale is free, because of a dragon''s egg. Since she found it, the village elders have decided that she must present herself and the egg to the great wizards of the walled city of Vendela, where she expects to become a servant of Paladin, the earthly representative of Wulder, supreme being of Amara. Her journey is interrupted first by attacking ogres, then by a detour into a cave that hides seven more dragon eggs, and finally by a daring escape aided by dragon-riding rescuers who become Kale''s guides, tutors, and closest cohorts on her travels. Two of her precious eggs hatch on the way and become her constant companionsâ€“first green Gymn, who heals, and then purple Metta, who sings. To them, Kale is much more than just a slave girlâ€“she is the last of the great Allerion dragon-keepers. This is classic quest fantasy with echoes of J. R. R. Tolkien''s "Lord of the Rings" trilogy (Houghton) and of Christopher Paolini''s\n <em>\n  Eragon\n </em>\n (Knopf, 2003). As in C. S. Lewis''s "Narnia" books (HarperCollins), Christian allegories and messages are clearly presented and easily found, but it is equally possible to read this as Kale''s story as it happened in Amara, a world completely separate from our own. It would be a shame to limit readership by relegating this clever and inventive story to the genre of Christian fiction. There is plenty of room for sequels, and readers will want to know much more about Kale and the remainder of her quest._â€“Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n , Donita K. Paul has created an amazing world of fantasy adventure. From riding on dragons to jumping off cliffs to moving mountains, this story is sure to spark a reader''s imagination young and old. And with a message of identity transformed from slavery to servanthood, it''s a book families will love reading and discussing together.\n <br />\n Christopher P. N. Maselli, children''s author of\n <em>\n  Reality Shift\n </em>\n and founder of TruthPop.com\n</p>\n<p>\n A reluctant heroine, her fainting dragon, and an assortment of colorful companions make for a delightful read in Donita K. Paul''s\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n . This is adventure and fantasy at its finest a must read for the imaginative soul.\n <br />\n Linda Windsor, award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Along Came Jones\n </em>\n and the\n <em>\n  Fires of Gleannmara\n </em>\n trilogy\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is a fine, well-written tale guaranteed to entertain both old and young alike. This was proven in our household when our eleven-year-old son snatched up the book and devoured it. Upon returning it, he exclaimed, It''s good!high praise from a rabid fan of Tolkein, Lewis, Jacques and company. I can only nod my head in agreement.\n <br />\n Christopher A. Lane, Gold Medallion and C.S. Lewis award-winning author of children''s and adult fiction\n</p>\n<p>\n Inventive, engaging, witty, insightful, touching, and profound\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is all this and more. If Donita K. Paul''s only intention was to create a world where readers encounter novelties and wonders at every turn, then she has succeeded admirably. But she actually does much more than this: she enables us to see our relationship with God and His world through new eyes. A delight for all true fans of fantasy literature.\n <br />\n Jim Ware, author of\n <em>\n  God of the Fairy Tale\n </em>\n and co-author of _Finding God in the Lord of the Rings\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n Enchanting! A perilous quest, a timeless battle, an unlikely heroine, and a rousing adventure in a world of magic and mystery Donita K. Paul has concocted a tale brimming with eternal truth and seasoned with delightful and amazing characters that linger in the senses long after the last page.\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is destined to become a classic for a new generation of adventurers!\n <br />\n Susan May Warren, award-winning author of _Happily Ever After\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n The greatest thing any author can do is to catch you up and transport you right into the very scene, the very action, the story . . . in such a way that you live the book, not merely read it. That is exactly what Donita K. Paul does with\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n . For a few hours, you will take a journey to a place you have never been, with a story you will never forget. Enjoy the trip!\n <br />\n Stephen Bly, author of _Paperback Writer\n <em>\n  and Christy-award-winning\n </em>\n The Long Trail Home\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is a tightly written fantasy quest set in an extraordinarily rendered storyworld. With seven intelligent races, seven evil races, several delightful dragons, one weird wizard, and an endless supply of exotic plants and animals, you will NOT be bored.\n <br />\n Randy Ingermanson, Christy award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Oxygen\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Premonition\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n No one will ever be able to read this and doubt that Christian fantasy is a viable genre for spreading God''s word.\n <br />\n Christine Lynxwiler, president of American Christian Romance Writers\n</p>\n<p>\n Charming, well-drawn characters, a story chock full of adventures and misadventures, a land populated with dragons, doneels, emerlindians, grawligs, and all sorts of other fascinating inhabitants I ask you, what more could any reader want With\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n , Donita K. Paul has nailed a complex and engaging fantasy world. Whether nine or ninety, you won''t be disappointed.\n <br />\n Kathleen Morgan, author of\n <em>\n  Consuming Fire\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  All Good Gifts\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n _ Dragonspell _has a heart-thumping, page-turning plot that is sure to captivate and enthrall even the most reluctant reader!\n <br />\n Peggy Wilber, author of _Reading Rescue 1-2-3\n <br />\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11889');
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(16063, 'Dragonspell', 'Donita K. Paul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-8â€“After 14 years as a slave girl in the village of River Away, Kale is free, because of a dragon''s egg. Since she found it, the village elders have decided that she must present herself and the egg to the great wizards of the walled city of Vendela, where she expects to become a servant of Paladin, the earthly representative of Wulder, supreme being of Amara. Her journey is interrupted first by attacking ogres, then by a detour into a cave that hides seven more dragon eggs, and finally by a daring escape aided by dragon-riding rescuers who become Kale''s guides, tutors, and closest cohorts on her travels. Two of her precious eggs hatch on the way and become her constant companionsâ€“first green Gymn, who heals, and then purple Metta, who sings. To them, Kale is much more than just a slave girlâ€“she is the last of the great Allerion dragon-keepers. This is classic quest fantasy with echoes of J. R. R. Tolkien''s "Lord of the Rings" trilogy (Houghton) and of Christopher Paolini''s\n <em>\n  Eragon\n </em>\n (Knopf, 2003). As in C. S. Lewis''s "Narnia" books (HarperCollins), Christian allegories and messages are clearly presented and easily found, but it is equally possible to read this as Kale''s story as it happened in Amara, a world completely separate from our own. It would be a shame to limit readership by relegating this clever and inventive story to the genre of Christian fiction. There is plenty of room for sequels, and readers will want to know much more about Kale and the remainder of her quest._â€“Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n , Donita K. Paul has created an amazing world of fantasy adventure. From riding on dragons to jumping off cliffs to moving mountains, this story is sure to spark a reader''s imagination young and old. And with a message of identity transformed from slavery to servanthood, it''s a book families will love reading and discussing together.\n <br />\n Christopher P. N. Maselli, children''s author of\n <em>\n  Reality Shift\n </em>\n and founder of TruthPop.com\n</p>\n<p>\n A reluctant heroine, her fainting dragon, and an assortment of colorful companions make for a delightful read in Donita K. Paul''s\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n . This is adventure and fantasy at its finest a must read for the imaginative soul.\n <br />\n Linda Windsor, award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Along Came Jones\n </em>\n and the\n <em>\n  Fires of Gleannmara\n </em>\n trilogy\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is a fine, well-written tale guaranteed to entertain both old and young alike. This was proven in our household when our eleven-year-old son snatched up the book and devoured it. Upon returning it, he exclaimed, It''s good!high praise from a rabid fan of Tolkein, Lewis, Jacques and company. I can only nod my head in agreement.\n <br />\n Christopher A. Lane, Gold Medallion and C.S. Lewis award-winning author of children''s and adult fiction\n</p>\n<p>\n Inventive, engaging, witty, insightful, touching, and profound\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is all this and more. If Donita K. Paul''s only intention was to create a world where readers encounter novelties and wonders at every turn, then she has succeeded admirably. But she actually does much more than this: she enables us to see our relationship with God and His world through new eyes. A delight for all true fans of fantasy literature.\n <br />\n Jim Ware, author of\n <em>\n  God of the Fairy Tale\n </em>\n and co-author of _Finding God in the Lord of the Rings\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n Enchanting! A perilous quest, a timeless battle, an unlikely heroine, and a rousing adventure in a world of magic and mystery Donita K. Paul has concocted a tale brimming with eternal truth and seasoned with delightful and amazing characters that linger in the senses long after the last page.\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is destined to become a classic for a new generation of adventurers!\n <br />\n Susan May Warren, award-winning author of _Happily Ever After\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n The greatest thing any author can do is to catch you up and transport you right into the very scene, the very action, the story . . . in such a way that you live the book, not merely read it. That is exactly what Donita K. Paul does with\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n . For a few hours, you will take a journey to a place you have never been, with a story you will never forget. Enjoy the trip!\n <br />\n Stephen Bly, author of _Paperback Writer\n <em>\n  and Christy-award-winning\n </em>\n The Long Trail Home\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n is a tightly written fantasy quest set in an extraordinarily rendered storyworld. With seven intelligent races, seven evil races, several delightful dragons, one weird wizard, and an endless supply of exotic plants and animals, you will NOT be bored.\n <br />\n Randy Ingermanson, Christy award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Oxygen\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Premonition\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n No one will ever be able to read this and doubt that Christian fantasy is a viable genre for spreading God''s word.\n <br />\n Christine Lynxwiler, president of American Christian Romance Writers\n</p>\n<p>\n Charming, well-drawn characters, a story chock full of adventures and misadventures, a land populated with dragons, doneels, emerlindians, grawligs, and all sorts of other fascinating inhabitants I ask you, what more could any reader want With\n <em>\n  Dragonspell\n </em>\n , Donita K. Paul has nailed a complex and engaging fantasy world. Whether nine or ninety, you won''t be disappointed.\n <br />\n Kathleen Morgan, author of\n <em>\n  Consuming Fire\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  All Good Gifts\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n _ Dragonspell _has a heart-thumping, page-turning plot that is sure to captivate and enthrall even the most reluctant reader!\n <br />\n Peggy Wilber, author of _Reading Rescue 1-2-3\n <br />\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18675'),
(16064, 'Dragostea in vremea holerei', 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27897'),
(16065, 'The Draining Lake', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A brilliant new mystery from the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and Indridason''s best book yet. In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy communication device is attached to it, possibly some sort of radio transmitter, bearing inscriptions in Russian.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The police are called in and Erlendur, Elinborg and Sigurdur Olii begin their investigation, which gradually leads them back to the time of the Cold War when bright, left-wing students would be sent from Iceland to study in the ''heavenly state'' of Communist East Germany. **The Draining Lake** is another remarkable Indridason mystery about passions and shattered dreams, the fate of the missing and the grief of those left behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7442'),
(16066, 'The Draining Lake', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A brilliant new mystery from the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and Indridason''s best book yet. In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy communication device is attached to it, possibly some sort of radio transmitter, bearing inscriptions in Russian.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The police are called in and Erlendur, Elinborg and Sigurdur Olii begin their investigation, which gradually leads them back to the time of the Cold War when bright, left-wing students would be sent from Iceland to study in the ''heavenly state'' of Communist East Germany. **The Draining Lake** is another remarkable Indridason mystery about passions and shattered dreams, the fate of the missing and the grief of those left behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10445'),
(16067, 'The Draining Lake', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A brilliant new mystery from the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and Indridason''s best book yet. In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy communication device is attached to it, possibly some sort of radio transmitter, bearing inscriptions in Russian.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The police are called in and Erlendur, Elinborg and Sigurdur Olii begin their investigation, which gradually leads them back to the time of the Cold War when bright, left-wing students would be sent from Iceland to study in the ''heavenly state'' of Communist East Germany. **The Draining Lake** is another remarkable Indridason mystery about passions and shattered dreams, the fate of the missing and the grief of those left behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16399'),
(16068, 'The Draining Lake', 'Arnaldur Indridason', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A brilliant new mystery from the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and Indridason''s best book yet. In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy communication device is attached to it, possibly some sort of radio transmitter, bearing inscriptions in Russian.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The police are called in and Erlendur, Elinborg and Sigurdur Olii begin their investigation, which gradually leads them back to the time of the Cold War when bright, left-wing students would be sent from Iceland to study in the ''heavenly state'' of Communist East Germany. **The Draining Lake** is another remarkable Indridason mystery about passions and shattered dreams, the fate of the missing and the grief of those left behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26462'),
(16069, 'Drama City: A Novel', 'George P. Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The real test of an author''s skill is sometimes to be found not in an unusually conceived work, but in his or her ability to create a consuming tale out of what, in outline form, might sound like an all-too-familiar or mundane plot line. In another novelist''s hands, for instance,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n might have been a perfectly serviceable but regrettably unmemorable story of redemption and revenge set in the grittier districts of Washington, D.C. But with George Pelecanos at the reins, it becomes a poignant, profound yarn about men--the good, the bad, and the still undecided--trying to find their footing amid the centrifugal forces at play in a modern inner city.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s first standalone after four consecutive novels starring private eye Derek Strange (including\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n ),\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n introduces Lorenzo Brown, a young, black onetime criminal enforcer who''s recently returned to the streets after doing eight years in prison on a felony drug charge. Crime and criminals had always been fundamental to Lorenzo''s existence. ("Y''all know how that is. I ran with some boys, one in particular, and when those boys and my main boy went down to the corner I went with ''em. They were my people, the closest thing I ever had to male kin.") Since his release, though, he''s been serving as a Humane Law Enforcement Officer with the Humane Society, protecting animals from the panoply of domestic cruelty, trying to leave both the drugs and the thugs behind. This attitude has won him a few champions, notably Rachel Lopez, his striking half-Jewish, half-Latina probation officer and friend, who spends her days "telling other people that they need to stay on track," but then goes off the rails at night, haunting hotel bars, picking up inappropriate guys, always frightened by the idea of a relationship "where she was not in complete control." Of course, these delicate balances of individual behavior are only possible in the absence of the unexpected. When a seemingly inconsequential mistake incites a lethal turf battle between rival gang bosses Nigel Johnson and Deacon Taylor, and Rachel is stabbed in the chest by a volatile, hopped-up gunman, Lorenzo finds his killer instincts returning to the fore. He must decide how far he''s willing to go--and how much he''s willing to lose--in order to exact retribution.\n</p>\n<p>\n A simple plot on its face, yet given high stakes and a heroic edge by Pelecanos''s portrayal of Brown as a man-in-progress struggling to secure his liberty from the past, helped along by his unexpectedly sympathetic former boss, childhood friend Nigel Johnson. Less satisfyingly rendered is Lopez, whose acrobatic swings to the wild side provide merely arousing diversions, without adequate character development. Bearing soul as well as teeth,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n gives off the air of a Greek tragedy. You know things are going to get bad before they turn worse, but Pelecanos keeps you riveted throughout. --_J. Kingston Pierce_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s later fiction, set on the drug-saturated streets of ghetto Washington, D.C., is charged with the dark, unrelenting inevitability of Greek myth. In the author''s 13th novel, "dog man" Lorenzo Brown, a street investigator for the Humane Society, has recently completed an eight-year stretch in prison for narcotics and is determined to stay clean and free. Rachel Lopez, Lorenzo''s parole officer, spends her days chasing down clients and her nights getting drunk in bars and having rough sex with strangers. The ignition point for the violence that eventually engulfs these two fully realized, attractive charactersâ€”characteristics that in Pelecanos''s world mark them as quite probably doomedâ€”is a minor argument between local drug kingpins that inflates into a series of revenge killings. Pelecanos is known for his bleak, uncompromising outlook (_Hard Resolution_;\n <em>\n  Hell to Pay\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  The Sweet Forever\n </em>\n ) and while the death and destruction are still here in full force, some fans may question the turnaround in his ending. Might it be an attempt to hit the megabestseller stardom that fans think he deserves? Hope and redemption are fine subjects for many novelists, but it''s the stark world of violence and despair that this author really owns.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5392'),
(16070, 'Drama City: A Novel', 'George P. Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The real test of an author''s skill is sometimes to be found not in an unusually conceived work, but in his or her ability to create a consuming tale out of what, in outline form, might sound like an all-too-familiar or mundane plot line. In another novelist''s hands, for instance,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n might have been a perfectly serviceable but regrettably unmemorable story of redemption and revenge set in the grittier districts of Washington, D.C. But with George Pelecanos at the reins, it becomes a poignant, profound yarn about men--the good, the bad, and the still undecided--trying to find their footing amid the centrifugal forces at play in a modern inner city.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s first standalone after four consecutive novels starring private eye Derek Strange (including\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n ),\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n introduces Lorenzo Brown, a young, black onetime criminal enforcer who''s recently returned to the streets after doing eight years in prison on a felony drug charge. Crime and criminals had always been fundamental to Lorenzo''s existence. ("Y''all know how that is. I ran with some boys, one in particular, and when those boys and my main boy went down to the corner I went with ''em. They were my people, the closest thing I ever had to male kin.") Since his release, though, he''s been serving as a Humane Law Enforcement Officer with the Humane Society, protecting animals from the panoply of domestic cruelty, trying to leave both the drugs and the thugs behind. This attitude has won him a few champions, notably Rachel Lopez, his striking half-Jewish, half-Latina probation officer and friend, who spends her days "telling other people that they need to stay on track," but then goes off the rails at night, haunting hotel bars, picking up inappropriate guys, always frightened by the idea of a relationship "where she was not in complete control." Of course, these delicate balances of individual behavior are only possible in the absence of the unexpected. When a seemingly inconsequential mistake incites a lethal turf battle between rival gang bosses Nigel Johnson and Deacon Taylor, and Rachel is stabbed in the chest by a volatile, hopped-up gunman, Lorenzo finds his killer instincts returning to the fore. He must decide how far he''s willing to go--and how much he''s willing to lose--in order to exact retribution.\n</p>\n<p>\n A simple plot on its face, yet given high stakes and a heroic edge by Pelecanos''s portrayal of Brown as a man-in-progress struggling to secure his liberty from the past, helped along by his unexpectedly sympathetic former boss, childhood friend Nigel Johnson. Less satisfyingly rendered is Lopez, whose acrobatic swings to the wild side provide merely arousing diversions, without adequate character development. Bearing soul as well as teeth,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n gives off the air of a Greek tragedy. You know things are going to get bad before they turn worse, but Pelecanos keeps you riveted throughout. --_J. Kingston Pierce_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s later fiction, set on the drug-saturated streets of ghetto Washington, D.C., is charged with the dark, unrelenting inevitability of Greek myth. In the author''s 13th novel, "dog man" Lorenzo Brown, a street investigator for the Humane Society, has recently completed an eight-year stretch in prison for narcotics and is determined to stay clean and free. Rachel Lopez, Lorenzo''s parole officer, spends her days chasing down clients and her nights getting drunk in bars and having rough sex with strangers. The ignition point for the violence that eventually engulfs these two fully realized, attractive charactersâ€”characteristics that in Pelecanos''s world mark them as quite probably doomedâ€”is a minor argument between local drug kingpins that inflates into a series of revenge killings. Pelecanos is known for his bleak, uncompromising outlook (_Hard Resolution_;\n <em>\n  Hell to Pay\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  The Sweet Forever\n </em>\n ) and while the death and destruction are still here in full force, some fans may question the turnaround in his ending. Might it be an attempt to hit the megabestseller stardom that fans think he deserves? Hope and redemption are fine subjects for many novelists, but it''s the stark world of violence and despair that this author really owns.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11922'),
(16071, 'Drama city: a novel', 'George P. Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The real test of an author''s skill is sometimes to be found not in an unusually conceived work, but in his or her ability to create a consuming tale out of what, in outline form, might sound like an all-too-familiar or mundane plot line. In another novelist''s hands, for instance,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n might have been a perfectly serviceable but regrettably unmemorable story of redemption and revenge set in the grittier districts of Washington, D.C. But with George Pelecanos at the reins, it becomes a poignant, profound yarn about men--the good, the bad, and the still undecided--trying to find their footing amid the centrifugal forces at play in a modern inner city.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s first standalone after four consecutive novels starring private eye Derek Strange (including\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n ),\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n introduces Lorenzo Brown, a young, black onetime criminal enforcer who''s recently returned to the streets after doing eight years in prison on a felony drug charge. Crime and criminals had always been fundamental to Lorenzo''s existence. ("Y''all know how that is. I ran with some boys, one in particular, and when those boys and my main boy went down to the corner I went with ''em. They were my people, the closest thing I ever had to male kin.") Since his release, though, he''s been serving as a Humane Law Enforcement Officer with the Humane Society, protecting animals from the panoply of domestic cruelty, trying to leave both the drugs and the thugs behind. This attitude has won him a few champions, notably Rachel Lopez, his striking half-Jewish, half-Latina probation officer and friend, who spends her days "telling other people that they need to stay on track," but then goes off the rails at night, haunting hotel bars, picking up inappropriate guys, always frightened by the idea of a relationship "where she was not in complete control." Of course, these delicate balances of individual behavior are only possible in the absence of the unexpected. When a seemingly inconsequential mistake incites a lethal turf battle between rival gang bosses Nigel Johnson and Deacon Taylor, and Rachel is stabbed in the chest by a volatile, hopped-up gunman, Lorenzo finds his killer instincts returning to the fore. He must decide how far he''s willing to go--and how much he''s willing to lose--in order to exact retribution.\n</p>\n<p>\n A simple plot on its face, yet given high stakes and a heroic edge by Pelecanos''s portrayal of Brown as a man-in-progress struggling to secure his liberty from the past, helped along by his unexpectedly sympathetic former boss, childhood friend Nigel Johnson. Less satisfyingly rendered is Lopez, whose acrobatic swings to the wild side provide merely arousing diversions, without adequate character development. Bearing soul as well as teeth,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n gives off the air of a Greek tragedy. You know things are going to get bad before they turn worse, but Pelecanos keeps you riveted throughout. --_J. Kingston Pierce_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s later fiction, set on the drug-saturated streets of ghetto Washington, D.C., is charged with the dark, unrelenting inevitability of Greek myth. In the author''s 13th novel, "dog man" Lorenzo Brown, a street investigator for the Humane Society, has recently completed an eight-year stretch in prison for narcotics and is determined to stay clean and free. Rachel Lopez, Lorenzo''s parole officer, spends her days chasing down clients and her nights getting drunk in bars and having rough sex with strangers. The ignition point for the violence that eventually engulfs these two fully realized, attractive charactersâ€”characteristics that in Pelecanos''s world mark them as quite probably doomedâ€”is a minor argument between local drug kingpins that inflates into a series of revenge killings. Pelecanos is known for his bleak, uncompromising outlook (_Hard Resolution_;\n <em>\n  Hell to Pay\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  The Sweet Forever\n </em>\n ) and while the death and destruction are still here in full force, some fans may question the turnaround in his ending. Might it be an attempt to hit the megabestseller stardom that fans think he deserves? Hope and redemption are fine subjects for many novelists, but it''s the stark world of violence and despair that this author really owns.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13914'),
(16072, 'Drama city: a novel', 'George P. Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The real test of an author''s skill is sometimes to be found not in an unusually conceived work, but in his or her ability to create a consuming tale out of what, in outline form, might sound like an all-too-familiar or mundane plot line. In another novelist''s hands, for instance,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n might have been a perfectly serviceable but regrettably unmemorable story of redemption and revenge set in the grittier districts of Washington, D.C. But with George Pelecanos at the reins, it becomes a poignant, profound yarn about men--the good, the bad, and the still undecided--trying to find their footing amid the centrifugal forces at play in a modern inner city.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s first standalone after four consecutive novels starring private eye Derek Strange (including\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n ),\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n introduces Lorenzo Brown, a young, black onetime criminal enforcer who''s recently returned to the streets after doing eight years in prison on a felony drug charge. Crime and criminals had always been fundamental to Lorenzo''s existence. ("Y''all know how that is. I ran with some boys, one in particular, and when those boys and my main boy went down to the corner I went with ''em. They were my people, the closest thing I ever had to male kin.") Since his release, though, he''s been serving as a Humane Law Enforcement Officer with the Humane Society, protecting animals from the panoply of domestic cruelty, trying to leave both the drugs and the thugs behind. This attitude has won him a few champions, notably Rachel Lopez, his striking half-Jewish, half-Latina probation officer and friend, who spends her days "telling other people that they need to stay on track," but then goes off the rails at night, haunting hotel bars, picking up inappropriate guys, always frightened by the idea of a relationship "where she was not in complete control." Of course, these delicate balances of individual behavior are only possible in the absence of the unexpected. When a seemingly inconsequential mistake incites a lethal turf battle between rival gang bosses Nigel Johnson and Deacon Taylor, and Rachel is stabbed in the chest by a volatile, hopped-up gunman, Lorenzo finds his killer instincts returning to the fore. He must decide how far he''s willing to go--and how much he''s willing to lose--in order to exact retribution.\n</p>\n<p>\n A simple plot on its face, yet given high stakes and a heroic edge by Pelecanos''s portrayal of Brown as a man-in-progress struggling to secure his liberty from the past, helped along by his unexpectedly sympathetic former boss, childhood friend Nigel Johnson. Less satisfyingly rendered is Lopez, whose acrobatic swings to the wild side provide merely arousing diversions, without adequate character development. Bearing soul as well as teeth,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n gives off the air of a Greek tragedy. You know things are going to get bad before they turn worse, but Pelecanos keeps you riveted throughout. --_J. Kingston Pierce_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s later fiction, set on the drug-saturated streets of ghetto Washington, D.C., is charged with the dark, unrelenting inevitability of Greek myth. In the author''s 13th novel, "dog man" Lorenzo Brown, a street investigator for the Humane Society, has recently completed an eight-year stretch in prison for narcotics and is determined to stay clean and free. Rachel Lopez, Lorenzo''s parole officer, spends her days chasing down clients and her nights getting drunk in bars and having rough sex with strangers. The ignition point for the violence that eventually engulfs these two fully realized, attractive charactersâ€”characteristics that in Pelecanos''s world mark them as quite probably doomedâ€”is a minor argument between local drug kingpins that inflates into a series of revenge killings. Pelecanos is known for his bleak, uncompromising outlook (_Hard Resolution_;\n <em>\n  Hell to Pay\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  The Sweet Forever\n </em>\n ) and while the death and destruction are still here in full force, some fans may question the turnaround in his ending. Might it be an attempt to hit the megabestseller stardom that fans think he deserves? Hope and redemption are fine subjects for many novelists, but it''s the stark world of violence and despair that this author really owns.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19263'),
(16073, 'Drama city: a novel', 'George P. Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The real test of an author''s skill is sometimes to be found not in an unusually conceived work, but in his or her ability to create a consuming tale out of what, in outline form, might sound like an all-too-familiar or mundane plot line. In another novelist''s hands, for instance,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n might have been a perfectly serviceable but regrettably unmemorable story of redemption and revenge set in the grittier districts of Washington, D.C. But with George Pelecanos at the reins, it becomes a poignant, profound yarn about men--the good, the bad, and the still undecided--trying to find their footing amid the centrifugal forces at play in a modern inner city.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s first standalone after four consecutive novels starring private eye Derek Strange (including\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n ),\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n introduces Lorenzo Brown, a young, black onetime criminal enforcer who''s recently returned to the streets after doing eight years in prison on a felony drug charge. Crime and criminals had always been fundamental to Lorenzo''s existence. ("Y''all know how that is. I ran with some boys, one in particular, and when those boys and my main boy went down to the corner I went with ''em. They were my people, the closest thing I ever had to male kin.") Since his release, though, he''s been serving as a Humane Law Enforcement Officer with the Humane Society, protecting animals from the panoply of domestic cruelty, trying to leave both the drugs and the thugs behind. This attitude has won him a few champions, notably Rachel Lopez, his striking half-Jewish, half-Latina probation officer and friend, who spends her days "telling other people that they need to stay on track," but then goes off the rails at night, haunting hotel bars, picking up inappropriate guys, always frightened by the idea of a relationship "where she was not in complete control." Of course, these delicate balances of individual behavior are only possible in the absence of the unexpected. When a seemingly inconsequential mistake incites a lethal turf battle between rival gang bosses Nigel Johnson and Deacon Taylor, and Rachel is stabbed in the chest by a volatile, hopped-up gunman, Lorenzo finds his killer instincts returning to the fore. He must decide how far he''s willing to go--and how much he''s willing to lose--in order to exact retribution.\n</p>\n<p>\n A simple plot on its face, yet given high stakes and a heroic edge by Pelecanos''s portrayal of Brown as a man-in-progress struggling to secure his liberty from the past, helped along by his unexpectedly sympathetic former boss, childhood friend Nigel Johnson. Less satisfyingly rendered is Lopez, whose acrobatic swings to the wild side provide merely arousing diversions, without adequate character development. Bearing soul as well as teeth,\n <em>\n  Drama City\n </em>\n gives off the air of a Greek tragedy. You know things are going to get bad before they turn worse, but Pelecanos keeps you riveted throughout. --_J. Kingston Pierce_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pelecanos''s later fiction, set on the drug-saturated streets of ghetto Washington, D.C., is charged with the dark, unrelenting inevitability of Greek myth. In the author''s 13th novel, "dog man" Lorenzo Brown, a street investigator for the Humane Society, has recently completed an eight-year stretch in prison for narcotics and is determined to stay clean and free. Rachel Lopez, Lorenzo''s parole officer, spends her days chasing down clients and her nights getting drunk in bars and having rough sex with strangers. The ignition point for the violence that eventually engulfs these two fully realized, attractive charactersâ€”characteristics that in Pelecanos''s world mark them as quite probably doomedâ€”is a minor argument between local drug kingpins that inflates into a series of revenge killings. Pelecanos is known for his bleak, uncompromising outlook (_Hard Resolution_;\n <em>\n  Hell to Pay\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  The Sweet Forever\n </em>\n ) and while the death and destruction are still here in full force, some fans may question the turnaround in his ending. Might it be an attempt to hit the megabestseller stardom that fans think he deserves? Hope and redemption are fine subjects for many novelists, but it''s the stark world of violence and despair that this author really owns.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28014'),
(16074, 'The Drawing of the Three', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle. A brilliant work of dark fantasy inspired by Browning''s romantic poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1148'),
(16075, 'The Drawing of the Three', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle. A brilliant work of dark fantasy inspired by Browning''s romantic poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10688'),
(16076, 'The drawing of the three', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle. A brilliant work of dark fantasy inspired by Browning''s romantic poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14303'),
(16077, 'The drawing of the three', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle. A brilliant work of dark fantasy inspired by Browning''s romantic poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23879'),
(16078, 'Dread Companion', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A young governess accompanies her two charges to a frontier planet and finds the children are involved with an evil power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15854'),
(16079, 'Dreadnought', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercyâ€™s husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. Once there, sheâ€™ll catch a train over the Rockies andâ€”if the telegram can be believedâ€”be greeted in Washington Territory by the sheriff, who will take her to see her father in Seattle.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail through war-torn border states. When Mercy finally arrives in St. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the *Dreadnought*. Reluctantly, Mercy buys a ticket and climbs aboard.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What ought to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwhackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers. The train is moving away from battle lines into the vast, unincorporated west, so Mercy canâ€™t imagine why theyâ€™re so interested. Perhaps the mysterious cargo secreted in the second and last train cars has something to do with it?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mercy is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But sheâ€™ll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the *Dreadnought *alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6779'),
(16080, 'Dreadnought', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercyâ€™s husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. Once there, sheâ€™ll catch a train over the Rockies andâ€”if the telegram can be believedâ€”be greeted in Washington Territory by the sheriff, who will take her to see her father in Seattle.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail through war-torn border states. When Mercy finally arrives in St. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the *Dreadnought*. Reluctantly, Mercy buys a ticket and climbs aboard.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n What ought to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwhackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers. The train is moving away from battle lines into the vast, unincorporated west, so Mercy canâ€™t imagine why theyâ€™re so interested. Perhaps the mysterious cargo secreted in the second and last train cars has something to do with it?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mercy is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But sheâ€™ll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the *Dreadnought *alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12033'),
(16081, 'Dreadnought', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercyâ€™s husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. Once there, sheâ€™ll catch a train over the Rockies andâ€”if the telegram can be believedâ€”be greeted in Washington Territory by the sheriff, who will take her to see her father in Seattle. Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail through war-torn border states. When Mercy finally arrives in St. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the *Dreadnought*. Reluctantly, Mercy buys a ticket and climbs aboard. What ought to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwhackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers. The train is moving away from battle lines into the vast, unincorporated west, so Mercy canâ€™t imagine why theyâ€™re so interested. Perhaps the mysterious cargo secreted in the second and last train cars has something to do with it? Mercy is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But sheâ€™ll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the *Dreadnought *alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17102'),
(16082, 'Dreadnought', 'Cherie Priest', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercyâ€™s husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. Once there, sheâ€™ll catch a train over the Rockies andâ€”if the telegram can be believedâ€”be greeted in Washington Territory by the sheriff, who will take her to see her father in Seattle. Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail through war-torn border states. When Mercy finally arrives in St. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the *Dreadnought*. Reluctantly, Mercy buys a ticket and climbs aboard. What ought to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwhackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers. The train is moving away from battle lines into the vast, unincorporated west, so Mercy canâ€™t imagine why theyâ€™re so interested. Perhaps the mysterious cargo secreted in the second and last train cars has something to do with it? Mercy is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But sheâ€™ll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the *Dreadnought *alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26937'),
(16083, 'Dream a Little Dream', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Praise for Susan Elizabeth Phillips: ''She makes you laugh, makes you cry . . . Makes you feel good. Nobody tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' JAYNE ANN KRENTZ ''funny, sexy, fast, wonderful . . . and hilarious'' ELIZABETH LOWELL ''a wicked comedy . . . Don''t miss . . .'' CLOSER (on AIN''T SHE SWEET) ''Phillips adeptly develops the theme of love''s healing power. Phillips digs deep to expose weaknesses and strengths in the psyche and faith of her characters. The result is a book that is touching, funny, sexy and humane.'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ''A warm and humorous story.'' L.A. TIMES\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/986'),
(16084, 'Dream a Little Dream', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Praise for Susan Elizabeth Phillips: ''She makes you laugh, makes you cry . . . Makes you feel good. Nobody tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' JAYNE ANN KRENTZ ''funny, sexy, fast, wonderful . . . and hilarious'' ELIZABETH LOWELL ''a wicked comedy . . . Don''t miss . . .'' CLOSER (on AIN''T SHE SWEET) ''Phillips adeptly develops the theme of love''s healing power. Phillips digs deep to expose weaknesses and strengths in the psyche and faith of her characters. The result is a book that is touching, funny, sexy and humane.'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ''A warm and humorous story.'' L.A. TIMES\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11947'),
(16085, 'Dream A Little Dream', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24042');
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(16086, 'Dream Big, Little Pig!', 'Kristi Yamaguchi &amp; Tim Bowers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For the youngest of listeners, the themes found in The Little Engine that Could continue to inspire. Former U.S. Olympic figure-skater Yamaguchi has penned a new version, complete with American Idol flash and glamour.... A sincere thank you from Yamaguchi to her family and fans. As celebrity books go... it''s a cut above many, and the prose styling is refreshingly restrained. (Picture book. 4-8)\n <br />\n (_Kirkus_ 20110317)\n</p>\n<p>\n Yamaguchi [now] pens titles for the younger reader ... clever, adorable, inspiring, funny ones at that, this one brought to the colorful page with humor and charm by illustrator Tim Bowers. Little Poppy is a "pot-bellied, toddling, waddling pig ... who dreamed big!"... Being a persistent pig of New Pork City (surely you''re giggling now), she''s good enough to make the cover of the New Pork Times (snorting yet?). After such success, what''s next for our dreamy pig? Here''s a hint: "When pigs fly!" (Terry Hong\n <em>\n  Smithsonian Asian Pacific American blog\n </em>\n 20110321)\n</p>\n<p>\n Olympic figure skating champion, "Dancing With the Stars" winner and Bay Area resident Kristi Yamaguchi drives the point home with fun and flair...The illustrations featuring Poppy and all the animals in her world, including the impala skating instructor and a high-heeled lioness supermodel, are wonderful.\n <br />\n (_San Francisco Chronicle_ 20110331)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a cute, poignant and inspiring tale that will encourage children to reach for the sky no matter the bumps in the road along the way. The illustrations by Tim Bowers are delightful. (_Baby Bloomer_ 20110404)\n</p>\n<p>\n Dream Big Little Pig is a wonderful tale of persistence and determination. Come take the journey with Poppy as she learns (on a pig''s day out) that having fun doing something can sometimes lead to your one true love...The artwork is lively and funny (do I see an American Idol reference?). His [Tim Bower''s] pictures will keep your kids engaged and drawn into the story. (_Imagination-Cafe_ 20110404)\n</p>\n<p>\n This little book inspires kids of all ages to dream big, and Yamaguchi''s focus on family and perseverance make this title a gold medal choice for the family book shelf. (_Raising Maine_ 20110406)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a book about not being afraid to dream big. It also illustrates the importance of a good support group to help you fulfill those dreams. Poppy had parents, grandparents and friends that not only believed in her, but who gave her constant encouragement along the way...This is a delightful tale, and Yamaguchi scored a 9.5 on her first attempt at writing a children''s book. (_Newcastle Pacer_ 20110328)\n</p>\n<p>\n "Follow Your Dreams," says author and Olympic Ice Skater Kristi Yamaguchi in a book that inspires not only children but also adults to go for the gold in every way. (_Bookpleasures_ 20110301)\n</p>\n<p>\n I love that this book is about having dreams. No matter your age, it is always important. I also like that the story teaches that dreams don''t always come easily. (_The Mom Around Town_ 20110304)\n</p>\n<p>\n true! I highly recommend sharing "Dream Big Little Pig" with your children, not only are the story and illustrations wonderful but it prompted a great conversation between one of my daughters and myself, a bonus I am so grateful for. (_The Dirty T Shirt_ 20110308)\n</p>\n<p>\n ...this is a book that boasts beautiful illustrations by Tim Bowers and a good read aloud story that your kids will ask for night after night â€“ I know my kids have been hooked on it ever since we got our copy!\n <br />\n (_Momma''s Review_ 20110308)\n</p>\n<p>\n It is a great story for boys and girls alike who have big dreams and parents who encourage them and help them to strive for their goals. The pictures are beautiful and the story reaches out to little ones and grown ups alike!\n</p>\n<p>\n (_Crazed Mind_ 20110228)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a great book for little ones who may often find themselves discouraged if they are having trouble doing something, whether it''s playing a sport, learning to get dressed or even potty training. Poppy is a sweet, lovable, relatable character who kids will take an instant liking to.\n</p>\n<p>\n (_Turn the Page Tuesday_ 20110314)\n</p>\n<p>\n Perfect for any figure skating fans, of course, but appealing to the general masses as well. (_Chronicle of an Infant Bibliophile_ 20110314)\n</p>\n<p>\n Dream Big Little Pig empowers little girls to believe in themselves. Author Yamaguchi''s sage advice, "When things get in the way, keep trying, " is gold like her. With my own daughter, I have to constantly remind her that yes she can do things. So now whenever she has doubts, I''m going to get out this book and remind her that yes she can! She just has to try and sometimes work very hard, but she should never stop dreaming and believing. (_MomStart_ 20110315)\n</p>\n<p>\n A fun read for ages 4-8 with a positive message and a fun catch phrase, Dream Big Little Pig!\n</p>\n<p>\n (_Mom Most Traveled_ 20110315)\n</p>\n<p>\n I just have to say that this book was adorable. I read this to my daughter before bedtime last night, and even though it was a stall tactic, she asked me to read it again. She enjoyed it just as much as I did. (_Simply Being Mom_ 20110315)\n</p>\n<p>\n Together with Linda Oatman High, [Kristi Yamaguchi] authored a truly inspirational work with adorable illustrations by Tim Bowers. (_The Power of Slow_ 20110316)\n</p>\n<p>\n I think the story is engaging and like that it''s about trying lots of things in life. Important tools for both children and adults! (_Mogulbaby_ 20110318)\n</p>\n<p>\n This book teaches young children to try new things, to keep believing in themselves and to keep trying until they find something they love to do.\n</p>\n<p>\n (_Hip Mama''s Place_ 20110223)\n</p>\n<p>\n It really is a great story and does teach children to never give up when wanting to accomplish something. (_My OKC Mommy_ 20110326)\n</p>\n<p>\n I love\n <em>\n  Dream Big, Little Pig!\n </em>\n because it shows children that they can do great things through their own efforts. Poppy doesn''t get a lucky break and is often confronted by naysayers, but that doesn''t stop her from believing that she can accomplish her dreams. (_Susan Heim on Parenting_ 20110328)\n</p>\n<p>\n I read this to my girls tonight for the first time and they were transfixed! I know that this book will definitely be one that I will keep around in the future! (_Dad of Divas'' Reviews_ 20110329)\n</p>\n<p>\n Sweet book, especially for a little someone who might be feeling down about not being good at something. Poppy hits her bumps in the road, but she keeps a cheery optimism that''ll make readers smile. Cute!\n</p>\n<p>\n (_everead_ 20110328)\n</p>\n<p>\n Both of my girls really enjoyed this book. They caught on to the stories message right away which was if you really enjoy something, keep trying. Don''t let others tell you that you can''t do it.\n</p>\n<p>\n (_2 Wired 2 Tired_ 20110314)\n</p>\n<p>\n With its pink-purple-glittery book design, adorable illustrations, hopeful and positive tone, and story about patience and perseverance,\n <em>\n  Dream Big, Little Pig!\n </em>\n will please and satisfy all little girls. (_Asia in the Heart_ 20110401)\n</p>\n<p>\n I must admit, the book is fun and [my daughters and I] are definitely a fan.\n <br />\n (_Child''s Play x2_ 20110407)\n</p>\n<p>\n A fun read for ages 4-8 with a positive message and a fun catch phrase, Dream Big Little Pig!\n</p>\n<p>\n (_Mom Most Traveled_ 20110404)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a must have book to pick up and share with you children. It lets children know that they can dream big and accomplish anything. Even if they hit bumps or obstacles along the way, children will learn through this story that they can accomplish anything they set their minds to... This will definitely be a book that will be read and re-read for years to come.\n <br />\n (_Inspired by Savannah_ 20110411)\n</p>\n<p>\n Poppy has a lot of personality, and that comes through in Tim Bowers'' artwork. And Kristi''s upbeat attitude and text really help build excitement.\n</p>\n<p>\n This book is all about positive pig power. It''s a great outlook that both parents and young readers will appreciate.\n <br />\n (_Cracking the Cover_ 20110413)\n</p>\n<p>\n My girls loved reading this story very much and I loved the message to try new stuff and that a person can good at different things.\n</p>\n<p>\n (_My 5 Monkeys_ 20110418)\n</p>\n<p>\n I love this book! It''s perfect for little girls because it teaches the importance of following your dreams. You can achieve anything if you work hard and don''t give up. With a positive message, beautiful illustrations and enjoyable story,\n <em>\n  Dream Big, Little Pig!\n </em>\n is sure to be a huge success with the little girl in your life.\n</p>\n<p>\n (_Readaholic_ 20110418)\n</p>\n<p>\n The author manages to convey two important lessons â€“ never give up and how important the love and support of family is â€“ within a delightful story that will entertain and educate youngsters. The illustrations are bright, lively and add a decidedly upbeat look to the story. (_Feathered Quill_ 20110501)\n</p>\n<p>\n Dream Big Little Pig was a very cute and enjoyable book. Very family friendly with the message. (_Frugal Family Tree_ 20110425)\n</p>\n<p>\n With bright illustrations by Tim Bowers, Yamaguchi''s story makes for an easy-to-understand and fun read for little ones. There are clever touches throughout, including a twist on America''s Next Top Model and setting the tale in New Pork City.\n</p>\n<p>\n (_AlternativePress.com_ 20110503)\n</p>\n<p>\n Poppy is a spunky heroine who can inspire little ones, and the ending carries dreaming into adulthood. Bowers'' art\n <br />\n captures the story''s many amusing moments as well as Poppy''s literal ups and downs. Yamaguchi''s motto? "Always dream."\n <br />\n (_Booklist_ 20110603)\n</p>\n<p>\n What a sweet story it is! Poppy is surrounded by family and friends who support her no matter what she tries. She KNOWS that she is destined for greatness and never gives up. I adored the cheering of her best friend and grandparentsI can imagine that Kristi must have a similar support team in her own life. To achieve all that she has is downright amazing.\n</p>\n<p>\n (_Just Another Review Blog_ 20110610)\n</p>\n<p>\n The book delivers a message that never grows old and the illustrations by Tim Bowers are enough to have any little girl flipping page after page. This book is definitely a winner written by a winner. (_Examiner.com_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n A surprisingly good story from a celebrity. The illustrations by Ohio''s own Tim Bowers are mostly in soft pastel colors that make the characters huggable. (_Record-Courier_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n I loved the author''s creative and fun writing style. I found all the positive encouragement that was offered to Poppy along the way to be the perfect catalyst to drive any child who reads this to want to fulfill their own dreams just as Poppy was trying to do. (_Night Owl Reviews_ )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Follow your\n <br />\n Dreams!"\n <br />\n "You go, Girl!"\n <br />\n "Dream Big, pig!"\n</p>\n<p>\n Poppy is a waddling, toddling pig with big dreams. She wants to be a star! But she soon discovers that''s not as easy as it sounds. It''s only when Poppy feels the magic of gliding and sliding, swirling and twirling on ice that our most persistent pig truly believes in herself: Poppy, star of the rink!\n</p>\n<p>\n Kristi Yamaguchi is an ice-skating Olympic gold medalist and world champion who knows how to make dreams come true. Through her picture book debut, Kristi inspires children of all ages to dream big!\n</p>\n<p>\n Kristi Yamaguchi is an Olympic figure skating champion and winner of\n <em>\n  Dancing With the Stars\n </em>\n . Her motto "Always Dream" contributed to her success on and off the ice and is one that she aspires to instill in the hearts of children. Kristi currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and their two young daughters.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tim Bowers has always had a love for animals. In fact, he enjoyed spending time at his grandparents'' home visiting their furry friends, which at one time, included a pet pig named Porky! Tim has illustrated more than twenty-five children''s books and received numerous awards for his delightfully sweet and silly illustrations. He often visits schools to promote literacy and to share his experience and love for illustrating children''s books. Tim Bowers lives in Ohio with his wife.\n <em>\n  Visit him at www.timbowers.com\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n (20110204)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12286'),
(16087, 'Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke', 'Peter Guralnick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  There''s no real substitute for the sound of Sam Cooke''s music, but the detailed descriptions of his recordings throughout this masterful biography are the next best thing to wearing headphones while you read. Guralnick''s first book after a two-volume bio of Elvis honors Cooke''s (1931â€“1964) musical genius, especially his ability to grasp the changing music scene of the late 1950s and early ''60s. For those who only know the singer through his pop hitsâ€”"You Send Me"; "Twistin'' the Night Away"â€”the extensive account of his childhood background in gospel music will prove fascinating, and the evocation of the harsh realities faced by African-American musicians touring the South a powerful reminder of just how explosive this music could be. Yet wide-ranging interviews reveal that behind Cooke''s talent and energetic vocal style, many of his peers in the music biz saw a more troubling personality. The biography does not judge, but neither does it hold back on recounting Cooke''s ruthless interactions with record companies or the deep rifts in his marriage to his former childhood sweetheart. Guralnick''s revelation of the complicated man behind the music ultimately enables readers to rediscover songs like "A Change Is Gonna Come" as even more remarkable than before. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Oct. 18)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Until Sam Cooke was shot dead in a Los Angeles motel, in 1964, at the age of thirty-three, his life had been an ascending series of crossover moves: he conquered the postwar gospel-music scene, scored bigger hits by moving into secular rhythm and blues, and then, after signing with R.C.A., in 1960, proceeded to go pop, and released a string of smooth, catchy singles that placed him on the cusp of mainstream superstar status. Guralnick, as in his biography of Elvis Presley, displays a feel for the culture that gave rise to the musician, and his account is a revelatory portrait of the rough-and-tumble yet familial world of black show business before and during the civil-rights era. In darker corners lurk the antecedents of today''s gangster-rap subcultureâ€”racketeers who funded black record labels and tour packages, and performers like Johnny (Guitar) Watson, who made more as a pimp than he did singing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© 2006\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2102'),
(16088, 'Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke', 'Peter Guralnick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  There''s no real substitute for the sound of Sam Cooke''s music, but the detailed descriptions of his recordings throughout this masterful biography are the next best thing to wearing headphones while you read. Guralnick''s first book after a two-volume bio of Elvis honors Cooke''s (1931â€“1964) musical genius, especially his ability to grasp the changing music scene of the late 1950s and early ''60s. For those who only know the singer through his pop hitsâ€”"You Send Me"; "Twistin'' the Night Away"â€”the extensive account of his childhood background in gospel music will prove fascinating, and the evocation of the harsh realities faced by African-American musicians touring the South a powerful reminder of just how explosive this music could be. Yet wide-ranging interviews reveal that behind Cooke''s talent and energetic vocal style, many of his peers in the music biz saw a more troubling personality. The biography does not judge, but neither does it hold back on recounting Cooke''s ruthless interactions with record companies or the deep rifts in his marriage to his former childhood sweetheart. Guralnick''s revelation of the complicated man behind the music ultimately enables readers to rediscover songs like "A Change Is Gonna Come" as even more remarkable than before. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Oct. 18)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Until Sam Cooke was shot dead in a Los Angeles motel, in 1964, at the age of thirty-three, his life had been an ascending series of crossover moves: he conquered the postwar gospel-music scene, scored bigger hits by moving into secular rhythm and blues, and then, after signing with R.C.A., in 1960, proceeded to go pop, and released a string of smooth, catchy singles that placed him on the cusp of mainstream superstar status. Guralnick, as in his biography of Elvis Presley, displays a feel for the culture that gave rise to the musician, and his account is a revelatory portrait of the rough-and-tumble yet familial world of black show business before and during the civil-rights era. In darker corners lurk the antecedents of today''s gangster-rap subcultureâ€”racketeers who funded black record labels and tour packages, and performers like Johnny (Guitar) Watson, who made more as a pimp than he did singing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© 2006\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10089'),
(16089, 'Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke', 'Guralnick, Peter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Sam Cooke was the biggest star in gospel music before he crossed over into pop. His first single under his own name, "You Send Me," went to #1 on the charts and sold two million copies. At a time when record companies treated black artists like hired help, Sam Cooke demanded respect equal to that of top white artists. And he connected, in songs like "Wonderful World," "Chain Gang," and "Another Saturday Night"--seemingly effortless compositions that still sound fresh today. This resoundingly praised book captures a human essence so vital, so appealing, that it is impossible not to fall under its spell. At the same time, Dream Boogie re-creates in rich detail the African American world from which Sam Cooke emerged, allowing us to feel both his trials and his triumphs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22661'),
(16090, 'Dream Called Time: A Stardoc Novel', 'S. L. Viehl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dispatched to investigate an unidentified ship that has emerged from a mysterious rift in space, Cherijo discovers technology far more advanced than anything she''s ever seen. Before she can unravel the alien ship''s mystery, Cherijo''s own ship is sucked into the rift and transported through time. Unless she can find a way to reopen the rift, they will remain trapped in another time. And Cherijo will never see her family-which she''s only just been reunited with-again...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1428'),
(16091, 'Dream Called Time: A Stardoc Novel', 'S. L. Viehl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dispatched to investigate an unidentified ship that has emerged from a mysterious rift in space, Cherijo discovers technology far more advanced than anything she''s ever seen. Before she can unravel the alien ship''s mystery, Cherijo''s own ship is sucked into the rift and transported through time. Unless she can find a way to reopen the rift, they will remain trapped in another time. And Cherijo will never see her family-which she''s only just been reunited with-again...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13207'),
(16092, 'Dream Called Time: A Stardoc Novel', 'S. L. Viehl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dispatched to investigate an unidentified ship that has emerged from a mysterious rift in space, Cherijo discovers technology far more advanced than anything she''s ever seen. Before she can unravel the alien ship''s mystery, Cherijo''s own ship is sucked into the rift and transported through time. Unless she can find a way to reopen the rift, they will remain trapped in another time. And Cherijo will never see her family-which she''s only just been reunited with-again...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23466'),
(16093, 'The Dream of Perpetual Motion', 'Dexter Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A debut so magicalÂ… so extraordinaryÂ… it has to be read to be believedÂ….**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The tale of Haroldâ€™s life is also one of an alternate reality, a lucid waking dream in which the well-heeled have mechanical men for servants, where the realms of fairy tales can be built from scratch, where replicas of deserted islands exist within skyscrapers.. As Haroldâ€™s childhood infatuation with Miranda changes over twenty years to love and then to obsession, the visionary inventions of her father also change Haroldâ€™s entire world, transforming it from a place of music and miracles to one of machines and noise. And as Harold heads toward a last desperate confrontation with Prospero to save Mirandaâ€™s life, he finds himself an unwitting participant in the creation of the greatest invention of them all: the perpetual motion machine.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Beautifully written, stunningly imagined, and wickedly funny, The Dream of Perpetual Motion is a heartfelt meditation on the place of love in a world dominated by technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6032'),
(16094, 'The Dream of Perpetual Motion', 'Dexter Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A debut so magicalÂ… so extraordinaryÂ… it has to be read to be believedÂ….**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The tale of Haroldâ€™s life is also one of an alternate reality, a lucid waking dream in which the well-heeled have mechanical men for servants, where the realms of fairy tales can be built from scratch, where replicas of deserted islands exist within skyscrapers.. As Haroldâ€™s childhood infatuation with Miranda changes over twenty years to love and then to obsession, the visionary inventions of her father also change Haroldâ€™s entire world, transforming it from a place of music and miracles to one of machines and noise. And as Harold heads toward a last desperate confrontation with Prospero to save Mirandaâ€™s life, he finds himself an unwitting participant in the creation of the greatest invention of them all: the perpetual motion machine.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Beautifully written, stunningly imagined, and wickedly funny, The Dream of Perpetual Motion is a heartfelt meditation on the place of love in a world dominated by technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11770'),
(16095, 'The Dream of Perpetual Motion', 'Dexter Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A debut so magicalÂ… so extraordinaryÂ… it has to be read to be believedÂ….** Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane. The tale of Haroldâ€™s life is also one of an alternate reality, a lucid waking dream in which the well-heeled have mechanical men for servants, where the realms of fairy tales can be built from scratch, where replicas of deserted islands exist within skyscrapers.. As Haroldâ€™s childhood infatuation with Miranda changes over twenty years to love and then to obsession, the visionary inventions of her father also change Haroldâ€™s entire world, transforming it from a place of music and miracles to one of machines and noise. And as Harold heads toward a last desperate confrontation with Prospero to save Mirandaâ€™s life, he finds himself an unwitting participant in the creation of the greatest invention of them all: the perpetual motion machine. Beautifully written, stunningly imagined, and wickedly funny, The Dream of Perpetual Motion is a heartfelt meditation on the place of love in a world dominated by technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27480'),
(16096, 'The Dream of Scipio', 'Iain Pears', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like his elegant debut,\n  <em>\n   An Instance of the Fingerpost\n  </em>\n  , Iain Pears''s\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  is an inventive, gloriously detailed historical novel told from multiple viewpoints. But Pears has set himself an additional challenge by spreading his narrators over several centuries: there''s the fifth century French nobleman and bishop, Manlius, a civilized man who has embraced the uncouth Christian faith in order to protect what he holds dear; an 11th-century scholar and troubadour named Olivier de Noyen, the famously ill-fated admirer of a married girl; and Julien Barneuve, an early 20th-century scholar of de Noyen who discovers, through him, a magnificent manuscript of Manlius''s called "The Dream of Scipio." Though all three men come from the same small ProvenÃ§al town, it is this manuscript, derived from the teachings of a wise woman, that links the three narrative threads of Pears''s story. At the heart of\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  and, one suspects, at the heart of its author, is the conflict between a classical ideal of learning and the contemplation of beauty, and the noisy, uncivilized, democratizing impulses of the Christian era. A novel of ideas like its predecessor,\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  is neither chilly nor didactic and doesn''t shy away from depicting the costs of its narrators'' unpopular devotions.\n  <em>\n   --Regina Marler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Critic Harold Bloom once opined that literature is a series of misprisions, or misreadings, by writers of their predecessors. Although Pears might not have had Bloom in mind in his latest novel, the premise is an unlikely embodiment of Bloom''s thesis. The story unfolds in three time frames, in each of which a man and a woman are in love, civilization itself is crumbling and Jews become the scapegoats for larger cultural anxieties. In the first scenario, Manlius is a wealthy Roman living in Provence in the empire''s crepuscular 5th century. Although he has received the last echo of Hellenic wisdom, he is surrounded by believers in a nasty sect he despises Christianity but must find some means to protect Provence from the barbarians. In fighting for "civilization," he becomes a bishop and the promoter, almost accidentally, of one of the West''s first pogroms. In the next narrative time period, a manuscript of Manlius''s poem, "The Dream of Scipio," a neo-Platonic allegory, is discovered by Olivier de Noyen, a Provencal poet of the 14th century. As his 20th-century interpreter, Julien Barneuve, discovers in investigating his violent death, de Noyen was attacked because he got caught up in a political intrigue in Avignon while trying to save his love, Rebecca, from a pogrom unleashed by the Black Death. Barneuve, Pears''s third protagonist, has a Jewish lover, too, but is enmeshed in the racist policies of Vichy France. Pears has a nice sense of what it means to live in a time when things fall apart, and not only the center but even the peripheries will not hold. But the readers who flocked to An Instance of the Fingerpost might not find the pages turning so fast in this less mystery-driven outing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5042'),
(16097, 'The Dream of Scipio', 'Iain Pears', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like his elegant debut,\n  <em>\n   An Instance of the Fingerpost\n  </em>\n  , Iain Pears''s\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  is an inventive, gloriously detailed historical novel told from multiple viewpoints. But Pears has set himself an additional challenge by spreading his narrators over several centuries: there''s the fifth century French nobleman and bishop, Manlius, a civilized man who has embraced the uncouth Christian faith in order to protect what he holds dear; an 11th-century scholar and troubadour named Olivier de Noyen, the famously ill-fated admirer of a married girl; and Julien Barneuve, an early 20th-century scholar of de Noyen who discovers, through him, a magnificent manuscript of Manlius''s called "The Dream of Scipio." Though all three men come from the same small ProvenÃ§al town, it is this manuscript, derived from the teachings of a wise woman, that links the three narrative threads of Pears''s story. At the heart of\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  and, one suspects, at the heart of its author, is the conflict between a classical ideal of learning and the contemplation of beauty, and the noisy, uncivilized, democratizing impulses of the Christian era. A novel of ideas like its predecessor,\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  is neither chilly nor didactic and doesn''t shy away from depicting the costs of its narrators'' unpopular devotions.\n  <em>\n   --Regina Marler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Critic Harold Bloom once opined that literature is a series of misprisions, or misreadings, by writers of their predecessors. Although Pears might not have had Bloom in mind in his latest novel, the premise is an unlikely embodiment of Bloom''s thesis. The story unfolds in three time frames, in each of which a man and a woman are in love, civilization itself is crumbling and Jews become the scapegoats for larger cultural anxieties. In the first scenario, Manlius is a wealthy Roman living in Provence in the empire''s crepuscular 5th century. Although he has received the last echo of Hellenic wisdom, he is surrounded by believers in a nasty sect he despises Christianity but must find some means to protect Provence from the barbarians. In fighting for "civilization," he becomes a bishop and the promoter, almost accidentally, of one of the West''s first pogroms. In the next narrative time period, a manuscript of Manlius''s poem, "The Dream of Scipio," a neo-Platonic allegory, is discovered by Olivier de Noyen, a Provencal poet of the 14th century. As his 20th-century interpreter, Julien Barneuve, discovers in investigating his violent death, de Noyen was attacked because he got caught up in a political intrigue in Avignon while trying to save his love, Rebecca, from a pogrom unleashed by the Black Death. Barneuve, Pears''s third protagonist, has a Jewish lover, too, but is enmeshed in the racist policies of Vichy France. Pears has a nice sense of what it means to live in a time when things fall apart, and not only the center but even the peripheries will not hold. But the readers who flocked to An Instance of the Fingerpost might not find the pages turning so fast in this less mystery-driven outing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11849'),
(16098, 'The Dream of Scipio', 'Iain Pears', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Like his elegant debut,\n  <em>\n   An Instance of the Fingerpost\n  </em>\n  , Iain Pears''s\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  is an inventive, gloriously detailed historical novel told from multiple viewpoints. But Pears has set himself an additional challenge by spreading his narrators over several centuries: there''s the fifth century French nobleman and bishop, Manlius, a civilized man who has embraced the uncouth Christian faith in order to protect what he holds dear; an 11th-century scholar and troubadour named Olivier de Noyen, the famously ill-fated admirer of a married girl; and Julien Barneuve, an early 20th-century scholar of de Noyen who discovers, through him, a magnificent manuscript of Manlius''s called "The Dream of Scipio." Though all three men come from the same small ProvenÃ§al town, it is this manuscript, derived from the teachings of a wise woman, that links the three narrative threads of Pears''s story. At the heart of\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  and, one suspects, at the heart of its author, is the conflict between a classical ideal of learning and the contemplation of beauty, and the noisy, uncivilized, democratizing impulses of the Christian era. A novel of ideas like its predecessor,\n  <em>\n   The Dream of Scipio\n  </em>\n  is neither chilly nor didactic and doesn''t shy away from depicting the costs of its narrators'' unpopular devotions.\n  <em>\n   --Regina Marler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Critic Harold Bloom once opined that literature is a series of misprisions, or misreadings, by writers of their predecessors. Although Pears might not have had Bloom in mind in his latest novel, the premise is an unlikely embodiment of Bloom''s thesis. The story unfolds in three time frames, in each of which a man and a woman are in love, civilization itself is crumbling and Jews become the scapegoats for larger cultural anxieties. In the first scenario, Manlius is a wealthy Roman living in Provence in the empire''s crepuscular 5th century. Although he has received the last echo of Hellenic wisdom, he is surrounded by believers in a nasty sect he despises Christianity but must find some means to protect Provence from the barbarians. In fighting for "civilization," he becomes a bishop and the promoter, almost accidentally, of one of the West''s first pogroms. In the next narrative time period, a manuscript of Manlius''s poem, "The Dream of Scipio," a neo-Platonic allegory, is discovered by Olivier de Noyen, a Provencal poet of the 14th century. As his 20th-century interpreter, Julien Barneuve, discovers in investigating his violent death, de Noyen was attacked because he got caught up in a political intrigue in Avignon while trying to save his love, Rebecca, from a pogrom unleashed by the Black Death. Barneuve, Pears''s third protagonist, has a Jewish lover, too, but is enmeshed in the racist policies of Vichy France. Pears has a nice sense of what it means to live in a time when things fall apart, and not only the center but even the peripheries will not hold. But the readers who flocked to An Instance of the Fingerpost might not find the pages turning so fast in this less mystery-driven outing.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19533'),
(16099, 'Dreamcatcher', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Dreamcatcher**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Twenty-five years after saving a Down''s-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy -- now men with separate lives and separate problems -- reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But when a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented and mumbling something about lights in the sky, chaos erupts. Soon, the four friends are plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world where their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past -- and in the Dreamcatcher.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Never before has Stephen King contended so frankly with the heart of darkness. *Dreamcatcher,* his first full-length novel since *Bag of Bones,* is a powerful story of astonishing range that will satisfy fans both new and old.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1097'),
(16100, 'Dreamcatcher', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. **Dreamcatcher** Twenty-five years after saving a Down''s-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy -- now men with separate lives and separate problems -- reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But when a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented and mumbling something about lights in the sky, chaos erupts. Soon, the four friends are plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world where their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past -- and in the Dreamcatcher. Never before has Stephen King contended so frankly with the heart of darkness. *Dreamcatcher,* his first full-length novel since *Bag of Bones,* is a powerful story of astonishing range that will satisfy fans both new and old.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14488'),
(16101, 'Dreamcatcher', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. **Dreamcatcher** Twenty-five years after saving a Down''s-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy -- now men with separate lives and separate problems -- reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But when a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented and mumbling something about lights in the sky, chaos erupts. Soon, the four friends are plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world where their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past -- and in the Dreamcatcher. Never before has Stephen King contended so frankly with the heart of darkness. *Dreamcatcher,* his first full-length novel since *Bag of Bones,* is a powerful story of astonishing range that will satisfy fans both new and old.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23827'),
(16102, 'Dreamer', 'Steven Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Dream......is a plateau of mental existence where people are able to communicate by the power of their thoughts alone.The Silent...These people -- known as the Silent -- find that the Dream is threatened by a powerful Silent capable of seizing control of other people''s bodies against their will...and may be causing tremors within the Dream itself.The Risk...And if the "normals" learn of this, they will do anything to capture the Silent for use as a weapon -- and the Dream itself may be shattered forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1035'),
(16103, 'Dreamer', 'Steven Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  It is through first contact with an alien species that humanity learns of the Dream. It is a plane of mental existence where people are able to communicate by their thoughts alone--over distances of thousands of light-years. To ensure that future generations will have this ability, human genetic engineering produces newborns capable of finding and navigating the Dream.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  They become known as the Silent.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Rust is just one planet among many in the Empire of Human Unity. It''s nothing special, nothing unusual...except for the fact that it is home to an unknown boy who may be the most powerful Silent telepath ever born--a Silent with the ability to possess the bodies of others against their will. This mysterious child may be causing tremors within the Dream itself.\n</p>\n<p>\n For now, only the Children of Irfan know about him. A monastic-like order of the Silent, the Children protect their members even as they barter their services with the governments and corporations that control known space. But power like that cannot be hidden, and soon every Silent in the universe will know about the boy--and every government will be willing to go to war to control him.\n</p>\n<p>\n And if the Children of Irfan cannot find him first, the Dream itself may be shattered...\n <br />\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23953'),
(16104, 'Dreamfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master''s spell....In "New York Times" bestselling author Karen Marie Moning''s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin''s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest--and most erotically charged--adventure of her life. He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister''s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted "sidhe-"seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac''s every thought--and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust. As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V''lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister''s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac''s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge.... It''s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth--about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons...and about the world she thought she knew.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3848'),
(16105, 'Dreamfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14451'),
(16106, 'Dreamfever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master''s spell....In "New York Times" bestselling author Karen Marie Moning''s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin''s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest--and most erotically charged--adventure of her life. He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister''s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted "sidhe-"seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac''s every thought--and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust. As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V''lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister''s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac''s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge.... It''s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth--about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons...and about the world she thought she knew.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20672'),
(16107, 'The Dreaming Jewels', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22889');
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(16108, 'Dreams of Joy', 'Lisa See', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2011\n  </strong>\n  : See''s\n  <em>\n   Dreams of Joy\n  </em>\n  picks up the story of sisters Pearl and May where\n  <em>\n   Shanghai Girls\n  </em>\n  left off: on the night in 1957 when Pearl''s daughter, Joy, discovers that May is her true mother. While\n  <em>\n   Shanghai Girls\n  </em>\n  followed the sisters from their time as models in the glittering "Paris of Asia" to their escape from the Japanese invasion and their new life in Los Angeles, its sequel sends Pearl back to Shanghai twenty years later in pursuit of Joy, whose flight to China is propelled by anger, idealism, and a desire to find her true father, Z.G., an artist who may be falling out of favor with the Party. Joy goes with him deep into the countryside to the Green Dragon commune, where they take part in the energetic inception of Maoâ€™s Great Leap Forward. But their collective dream of a communist paradise is soon overshadowed by hunger as the governmentâ€™s bizarre agricultural mandates create a massive, relentless famine. Pearl, trapped in Shanghai as travel restrictions tighten, has little idea of the hardship Joy endures--until both women realize they must subvert a corrupt system in order to survive. The best estimates put the death toll from Chinaâ€™s Great Leap Forward at 45 million, and See is unflinching in her portrayal of this horrific episode. In clean prose, she gives us a resounding story of human resilience, independent spirits, and the power of the love between mothers and daughters. --_Mari Malcolm_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Dreams of Joy\n  </em>\n  :\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "See''s many readers will be pleased to see the continued development of Pearl and May''s relationship. Looks like another hit." -_Publisher''s Weekly_, starred review\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Praise for Lisa Seeâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Shanghai Girls\n  </em>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    Â \n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  â€œSeeâ€™s emotional themes are powerful . . . the bonds of sisterhood [and] the psychological journey of becoming an American.â€_â€”The Washington Post_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œIf youâ€™re looking for one of those wonderful â€˜take me someplace exotic and unfamiliarâ€™ books . . . you wonâ€™t do better than\n  <em>\n   Shanghai Girls\n  </em>\n  .â€_â€”The Dallas Morning News_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œReaders truly know and care about these women within a few pages.â€_â€”The Miami Herald_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œA broadly sweeping tale . . . The detail is thoughtful and intricate.â€_â€”The New York Times_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œ[See evokes] a time and place with tantalizing detail.â€_â€”San Francisco Chronicle_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œSplendid . . . The story delivers an emotional punch.â€â€”_More_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[A] moving historical novel.â€â€”_USA Today_\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Â \n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œCompulsively readable.â€_â€”The Denver Post_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12402'),
(16109, 'Dreams of Steel', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Croaker has fallen and, following the Company''s disastrous defeat at Dejagore, Lady is one of the few survivors--determined to avenge the Company and herself against the Shadowmasters, no matter what the cost.But in assembling a new fighting force from the dregs and rabble of Taglios, she finds herself offered help by a mysterious, ancient cult of murder--competent, reliable, and apparently committed to her goals.Meanwhile, far away, Shadowmasters conspire against one another and the world, weaving dark spells that reach into the heart of Taglios. And in a hidden grove, a familiar figure slowly awakens to find himself the captive of an animated, headless corpse.Mercilessly cutting through Taglian intrigues, Lady appears to be growing stronger every day. All that disturbs her are the dreams which afflict her by night--dreams of carnage, of destruction, of universal death, unceasing...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5351'),
(16110, 'Dreams of Steel', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Croaker has fallen and, following the Company''s disastrous defeat at Dejagore, Lady is one of the few survivors--determined to avenge the Company and herself against the Shadowmasters, no matter what the cost.But in assembling a new fighting force from the dregs and rabble of Taglios, she finds herself offered help by a mysterious, ancient cult of murder--competent, reliable, and apparently committed to her goals.Meanwhile, far away, Shadowmasters conspire against one another and the world, weaving dark spells that reach into the heart of Taglios. And in a hidden grove, a familiar figure slowly awakens to find himself the captive of an animated, headless corpse.Mercilessly cutting through Taglian intrigues, Lady appears to be growing stronger every day. All that disturbs her are the dreams which afflict her by night--dreams of carnage, of destruction, of universal death, unceasing...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19317'),
(16111, 'Dreams of Steel', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Croaker has fallen and, following the Company''s disastrous defeat at Dejagore, Lady is one of the few survivors--determined to avenge the Company and herself against the Shadowmasters, no matter what the cost.But in assembling a new fighting force from the dregs and rabble of Taglios, she finds herself offered help by a mysterious, ancient cult of murder--competent, reliable, and apparently committed to her goals.Meanwhile, far away, Shadowmasters conspire against one another and the world, weaving dark spells that reach into the heart of Taglios. And in a hidden grove, a familiar figure slowly awakens to find himself the captive of an animated, headless corpse.Mercilessly cutting through Taglian intrigues, Lady appears to be growing stronger every day. All that disturbs her are the dreams which afflict her by night--dreams of carnage, of destruction, of universal death, unceasing...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28010'),
(16112, 'The Dreamseller: The Calling', 'Augusto Cury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Wherever he goes, the dreamseller enchants, stirs up trouble and inspires his listeners to search for the most important thing: the heart of the human soul. Every person he meets is someone who has abandoned their dreams and is struggling through life: a professor who has stopped pursuing his passions, an alcoholic who has no family, the elderly who have lost their zest for life. Through his questioning and wisdom, the dreamseller helps them to look into their silent hearts and get to the root of their unhappiness. The Dreamseller: The Calling is moving, entertaining and ultimately inspiring. This book will make you laugh and cry, but above all, it will make you reflect on the purpose of your life, value others and become empowered to believe in your dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7373'),
(16113, 'The Dreamseller: The Calling', 'Augusto Cury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Wherever he goes, the dreamseller enchants, stirs up trouble and inspires his listeners to search for the most important thing: the heart of the human soul. Every person he meets is someone who has abandoned their dreams and is struggling through life: a professor who has stopped pursuing his passions, an alcoholic who has no family, the elderly who have lost their zest for life. Through his questioning and wisdom, the dreamseller helps them to look into their silent hearts and get to the root of their unhappiness. The Dreamseller: The Calling is moving, entertaining and ultimately inspiring. This book will make you laugh and cry, but above all, it will make you reflect on the purpose of your life, value others and become empowered to believe in your dreams.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9127'),
(16114, 'The Dreamseller: The Calling', 'Cury, Augusto', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16519'),
(16115, 'Dreamsnake', 'Vonda McIntyre', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22806'),
(16116, 'The Dresden Files Collection 1-6', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8104'),
(16117, 'The Dresden Files Collection 7-12', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n No Description Available\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8103'),
(16118, 'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Denim, David Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one''s best hopes and most common deeds. The family characters his readers love are all here, as well as the unique terrain they inhabit, strewn with comic landmines. \\t''The Rooster'' is back, and getting married in the funniest wedding ever described. \\tDavid attends a slumber party and gets the upper hand in a unique version of strip poker. \\t''Rubber or plastic?'' The strangest questions can tear people apart. \\tA skinny guy from Spain, wearing a bishop''s hat and accompanied by six to eight men, invades your house and pretends to kick you.Is this any way to spend Christmas? \\tWith this new book, Sedaris''s prose reaches breathtaking new heights and marks off a territory that is unmistakably his own. Read it and weep tears of humane laughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6176'),
(16119, 'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a collection of whimsical essays by the author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, the Rooster gets married at an uproarious wedding, an estrangement occurs over a rubber vs. plastic debate, and the author gets the upper hand during a slumber party game of strip poker. 450,000 first printing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14119'),
(16120, 'Dress your family in corduroy and denim', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Denim, David Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one''s best hopes and most common deeds. The family characters his readers love are all here, as well as the unique terrain they inhabit, strewn with comic landmines. ''The Rooster'' is back, and getting married in the funniest wedding ever described. David attends a slumber party and gets the upper hand in a unique version of strip poker. ''Rubber or plastic?'' The strangest questions can tear people apart. A skinny guy from Spain, wearing a bishop''s hat and accompanied by six to eight men, invades your house and pretends to kick you.Is this any way to spend Christmas? With this new book, Sedaris''s prose reaches breathtaking new heights and marks off a territory that is unmistakably his own. Read it and weep tears of humane laughter.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17862'),
(16121, 'Dress your family in corduroy and denim', 'David Sedaris', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Denim, David Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one''s best hopes and most common deeds. The family characters his readers love are all here, as well as the unique terrain they inhabit, strewn with comic landmines. \\t''The Rooster'' is back, and getting married in the funniest wedding ever described. \\tDavid attends a slumber party and gets the upper hand in a unique version of strip poker. \\t''Rubber or plastic?'' The strangest questions can tear people apart. \\tA skinny guy from Spain, wearing a bishop''s hat and accompanied by six to eight men, invades your house and pretends to kick you.Is this any way to spend Christmas? \\tWith this new book, Sedaris''s prose reaches breathtaking new heights and marks off a territory that is unmistakably his own. Read it and weep tears of humane laughter.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  In a collection of whimsical essays by the author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, the Rooster gets married at an uproarious wedding, an estrangement occurs over a rubber vs. plastic debate, and the author gets the upper hand during a slumber party game of strip poker. 450,000 first printing.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27340'),
(16122, 'The Dressmaker of Khair Khana', 'Gayle Tzemach Lemmon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil warâ€”a rare achievement for any Afghan womanâ€”Kamila was subsequently banned from school and confined to her home. When her father and brother were forced to flee the city, Kamila became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and determination, she picked up a needle and thread and created a thriving business of her own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  tells the incredible true story of this unlikely entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the Taliban. Former ABC News reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon spent years on the ground reporting Kamila''s story, and the result is an unusually intimate and unsanitized look at the daily lives of women in Afghanistan. These women are not victims; they are the glue that holds families together; they are the backbone and the heart of their nation. Afghanistan''s future remains uncertain as debates over withdrawal timelines dominate the news.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  moves beyond the headlines to transport you to an Afghanistan you have never seen before. This is a story of war, but it is also a story of sisterhood and resilience in the face of despair. Kamila Sidiqi''s journey will inspire you, but it will also change the way you think about one of the most important political and humanitarian issues of our time.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Greg Mortenson Interviews Gayle Tzemach Lemmon\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Since a 1993 climb of Pakistan''s K2,\n   <em>\n    The New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestsellers\n  </strong>\n  .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Greg Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  , Kamila and her sisters sew a collection of wedding dresses overnight for a wedding party they later find out is connected to the Taliban. How did writing this book affect your view of the Taliban period?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Gayle Tzemach Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  That scene in the book captures precisely the extraordinary complexity of the period. Reporting on the Taliban period I quickly learned there were many different views of what those years were like, depending on who you were, what you did, and where you lived. A lot of women I knew, including, of course, Kamila, told me stories about local Talibs who knew of their work and even helped them to keep it going. And they said that many of the Taliban in their neighborhood were men they had known for years who simply needed to support their families.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What I kept coming back toâ€”and what moved me deeply during so many conversations with young women , some of them tearfulâ€”was the raw loss they felt at having been deprived of five and a half years of education. And yet even amid all that despair they found ways to come together to build a community for the sake of their families. We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected. I really hope\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  does its small part to change that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  How has your work at Harvard Business School informed your view of Afghanistanâ€™s predicament?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  My experience at HBS has made me even more keenly aware of the constellation of obstacles facing entrepreneurs in some of the toughest parts of the world. Thatâ€™s perhaps why I am so taken by stories of entrepreneurs like Kamila who succeed every day despite all the obstacles (and sometimes even because of them).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Economic growth strengthens families and communities. More attention must be paid by Afghanistanâ€™s leaders and the international community to the importance of making business easier for entrepreneurs, so they can spend time making money to support their families and less time fighting red tape, corruption and security obstacles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  In many ways,\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  reads like a novel, and yet it is all true. How much energy did you focus on the craft of storytelling vs. the reporting itself?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  I believe in the power of stories to shape and change our world. The Dressmaker happens to be set in Afghanistan during the Taliban, but it could just as easily have been the US during the Civil War or the UK during World War II. Storytelling allows us to see just how similar our struggles really are. My hope was that my godmother and my aunt, who will never go to Afghanistan, could pick up this book and see themselves in this universal story of family and faith.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For me, the reporting is where the joy isâ€”itâ€™s a privilege to be allowed to take a step into peopleâ€™s lives and to be entrusted with telling their story. In this case the reporting was much more physically difficult than the storytellingâ€”the fall of 2008 in particular was a time during which kidnappings and bombings became regular occurrences in Kabul; both Afghans and foreigners I visited with constantly swapped stories of terrifying incidents which involved their friends and relatives. I knew a lot of people who were affected by the violence, and all the insecurity made it much harder to convince young women to speak with me about their experiences.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  Youâ€™ve spent a lot of time on the ground in Afghanistan. What is it like to travel there as a young woman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  I love going to Afghanistan, though the trip from California is nearly 40 hours. It is a beautiful country with incredibly generous people who will give you anything they have even if it is all they have. (And I highly recommend the food!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Being a young woman actually made my work easier. I could meet women of all ages and spend time with them at their homes hearing their stories and sharing my own. This is a world many foreign men will never have access to, for cultural reasons. I also could meet Afghan men because, as a foreign woman, you sort of fit a third categoryâ€”not male, but not exactly female, either. I worked hard to build trust with those women and men who entrusted me with their storiesâ€”I tried to learn Dari and to draw as little attention to my â€˜foreign-nessâ€™ as possible: I often was the frumpiest woman I saw all day in my uniform of black pants, black socks, black shoes, black t-shirt, and a dark jacket and head scarf. I think those I wrote about respected the fact that I kept coming back to Afghanistan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  You''ve worked and studied in conflict and post-conflict regions such as Rwanda, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Women are rarely involved in the high level decision making that affects conflict negotiations or even consulted about their own creative ideas for resolution. How can we help and empower women to play a much larger role in resolving conflicts?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  This is a question I think about all the time. We are used to women pulling families through war, but having no say in the peace which follows. This must change for the world to be a safer, more stable place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A great example has been set by the women of Liberia, who insisted their voices be heeded when it came time for UN negotiations to end their nationâ€™s civil war. (There is a great film about their push to be heard called â€œPray the Devil Back to Hell.â€) Afghan women, too, are speaking up to make sure that no peace negotiations happen without their real and substantive representation. Each one of us can help advance their cause and this effort by insisting that our own elected officials donâ€™t take part in any talks in which women donâ€™t take part. Holding our own leaders accountable is a great place to start.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 2005, Lemmon went to Afghanistan on assignment for the Financial Times to write about women entrepreneurs. When she met a dressmaker named Kamila Sediqi, Lemmon (once a producer for This Week with George Stephanopolos) knew she had her story. It''s an exciting, engrossing one that reads like a novel, complete with moments of tension and triumph, plus well-researched detail on daily life in Kabul under Taliban rule. When that regime descended in 1996, it brought fear, violence, and restrictions: women must stay home, may not work, and must wear the chadriâ€”a cloak, also known as a burqa, that covers the face and bodyâ€”in public. After Sediqi''s parents left the city to avoid being pressed into service, or worse, by the Taliban, it fell to her to support the family. Her story is at once familiar (she came up with an idea, procured clients, hired student workers, and learned as she went) and wholly different (she couldn''t go anywhere without a male escort, had to use an assumed name with customers due to the threat of being found out and punished, and could fit in work on the sewing machine only when there was electricity). It''s a fascinating story that touches on family, gender, business, and politics and offers inspiration through the resourceful, determined woman at its heart. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5452'),
(16123, 'The Dressmaker of Khair Khana', 'Gayle Tzemach Lemmon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil warâ€”a rare achievement for any Afghan womanâ€”Kamila was subsequently banned from school and confined to her home. When her father and brother were forced to flee the city, Kamila became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and determination, she picked up a needle and thread and created a thriving business of her own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  tells the incredible true story of this unlikely entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the Taliban. Former ABC News reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon spent years on the ground reporting Kamila''s story, and the result is an unusually intimate and unsanitized look at the daily lives of women in Afghanistan. These women are not victims; they are the glue that holds families together; they are the backbone and the heart of their nation. Afghanistan''s future remains uncertain as debates over withdrawal timelines dominate the news.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  moves beyond the headlines to transport you to an Afghanistan you have never seen before. This is a story of war, but it is also a story of sisterhood and resilience in the face of despair. Kamila Sidiqi''s journey will inspire you, but it will also change the way you think about one of the most important political and humanitarian issues of our time.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Greg Mortenson Interviews Gayle Tzemach Lemmon\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Since a 1993 climb of Pakistan''s K2,\n   <em>\n    The New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestsellers\n  </strong>\n  .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Greg Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  , Kamila and her sisters sew a collection of wedding dresses overnight for a wedding party they later find out is connected to the Taliban. How did writing this book affect your view of the Taliban period?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Gayle Tzemach Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  That scene in the book captures precisely the extraordinary complexity of the period. Reporting on the Taliban period I quickly learned there were many different views of what those years were like, depending on who you were, what you did, and where you lived. A lot of women I knew, including, of course, Kamila, told me stories about local Talibs who knew of their work and even helped them to keep it going. And they said that many of the Taliban in their neighborhood were men they had known for years who simply needed to support their families.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What I kept coming back toâ€”and what moved me deeply during so many conversations with young women , some of them tearfulâ€”was the raw loss they felt at having been deprived of five and a half years of education. And yet even amid all that despair they found ways to come together to build a community for the sake of their families. We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected. I really hope\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  does its small part to change that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  How has your work at Harvard Business School informed your view of Afghanistanâ€™s predicament?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  My experience at HBS has made me even more keenly aware of the constellation of obstacles facing entrepreneurs in some of the toughest parts of the world. Thatâ€™s perhaps why I am so taken by stories of entrepreneurs like Kamila who succeed every day despite all the obstacles (and sometimes even because of them).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Economic growth strengthens families and communities. More attention must be paid by Afghanistanâ€™s leaders and the international community to the importance of making business easier for entrepreneurs, so they can spend time making money to support their families and less time fighting red tape, corruption and security obstacles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  In many ways,\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  reads like a novel, and yet it is all true. How much energy did you focus on the craft of storytelling vs. the reporting itself?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  I believe in the power of stories to shape and change our world. The Dressmaker happens to be set in Afghanistan during the Taliban, but it could just as easily have been the US during the Civil War or the UK during World War II. Storytelling allows us to see just how similar our struggles really are. My hope was that my godmother and my aunt, who will never go to Afghanistan, could pick up this book and see themselves in this universal story of family and faith.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For me, the reporting is where the joy isâ€”itâ€™s a privilege to be allowed to take a step into peopleâ€™s lives and to be entrusted with telling their story. In this case the reporting was much more physically difficult than the storytellingâ€”the fall of 2008 in particular was a time during which kidnappings and bombings became regular occurrences in Kabul; both Afghans and foreigners I visited with constantly swapped stories of terrifying incidents which involved their friends and relatives. I knew a lot of people who were affected by the violence, and all the insecurity made it much harder to convince young women to speak with me about their experiences.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  Youâ€™ve spent a lot of time on the ground in Afghanistan. What is it like to travel there as a young woman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  I love going to Afghanistan, though the trip from California is nearly 40 hours. It is a beautiful country with incredibly generous people who will give you anything they have even if it is all they have. (And I highly recommend the food!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Being a young woman actually made my work easier. I could meet women of all ages and spend time with them at their homes hearing their stories and sharing my own. This is a world many foreign men will never have access to, for cultural reasons. I also could meet Afghan men because, as a foreign woman, you sort of fit a third categoryâ€”not male, but not exactly female, either. I worked hard to build trust with those women and men who entrusted me with their storiesâ€”I tried to learn Dari and to draw as little attention to my â€˜foreign-nessâ€™ as possible: I often was the frumpiest woman I saw all day in my uniform of black pants, black socks, black shoes, black t-shirt, and a dark jacket and head scarf. I think those I wrote about respected the fact that I kept coming back to Afghanistan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  You''ve worked and studied in conflict and post-conflict regions such as Rwanda, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Women are rarely involved in the high level decision making that affects conflict negotiations or even consulted about their own creative ideas for resolution. How can we help and empower women to play a much larger role in resolving conflicts?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  This is a question I think about all the time. We are used to women pulling families through war, but having no say in the peace which follows. This must change for the world to be a safer, more stable place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A great example has been set by the women of Liberia, who insisted their voices be heeded when it came time for UN negotiations to end their nationâ€™s civil war. (There is a great film about their push to be heard called â€œPray the Devil Back to Hell.â€) Afghan women, too, are speaking up to make sure that no peace negotiations happen without their real and substantive representation. Each one of us can help advance their cause and this effort by insisting that our own elected officials donâ€™t take part in any talks in which women donâ€™t take part. Holding our own leaders accountable is a great place to start.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 2005, Lemmon went to Afghanistan on assignment for the Financial Times to write about women entrepreneurs. When she met a dressmaker named Kamila Sediqi, Lemmon (once a producer for This Week with George Stephanopolos) knew she had her story. It''s an exciting, engrossing one that reads like a novel, complete with moments of tension and triumph, plus well-researched detail on daily life in Kabul under Taliban rule. When that regime descended in 1996, it brought fear, violence, and restrictions: women must stay home, may not work, and must wear the chadriâ€”a cloak, also known as a burqa, that covers the face and bodyâ€”in public. After Sediqi''s parents left the city to avoid being pressed into service, or worse, by the Taliban, it fell to her to support the family. Her story is at once familiar (she came up with an idea, procured clients, hired student workers, and learned as she went) and wholly different (she couldn''t go anywhere without a male escort, had to use an assumed name with customers due to the threat of being found out and punished, and could fit in work on the sewing machine only when there was electricity). It''s a fascinating story that touches on family, gender, business, and politics and offers inspiration through the resourceful, determined woman at its heart. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11133'),
(16124, 'The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe', 'Gayle Tzemach Lemmon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Product Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil warâ€”a rare achievement for any Afghan womanâ€”Kamila was subsequently banned from school and confined to her home. When her father and brother were forced to flee the city, Kamila became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and determination, she picked up a needle and thread and created a thriving business of her own.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  tells the incredible true story of this unlikely entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the Taliban. Former ABC News reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon spent years on the ground reporting Kamila''s story, and the result is an unusually intimate and unsanitized look at the daily lives of women in Afghanistan. These women are not victims; they are the glue that holds families together; they are the backbone and the heart of their nation. Afghanistan''s future remains uncertain as debates over withdrawal timelines dominate the news.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  moves beyond the headlines to transport you to an Afghanistan you have never seen before. This is a story of war, but it is also a story of sisterhood and resilience in the face of despair. Kamila Sidiqi''s journey will inspire you, but it will also change the way you think about one of the most important political and humanitarian issues of our time.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Greg Mortenson Interviews Gayle Tzemach Lemmon\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Since a 1993 climb of Pakistan''s K2,\n   <em>\n    The New York Times\n   </em>\n   bestsellers\n  </strong>\n  .\n  <br />\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Greg Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  In\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  , Kamila and her sisters sew a collection of wedding dresses overnight for a wedding party they later find out is connected to the Taliban. How did writing this book affect your view of the Taliban period?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Gayle Tzemach Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  That scene in the book captures precisely the extraordinary complexity of the period. Reporting on the Taliban period I quickly learned there were many different views of what those years were like, depending on who you were, what you did, and where you lived. A lot of women I knew, including, of course, Kamila, told me stories about local Talibs who knew of their work and even helped them to keep it going. And they said that many of the Taliban in their neighborhood were men they had known for years who simply needed to support their families.\n </p>\n <p>\n  What I kept coming back toâ€”and what moved me deeply during so many conversations with young women , some of them tearfulâ€”was the raw loss they felt at having been deprived of five and a half years of education. And yet even amid all that despair they found ways to come together to build a community for the sake of their families. We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected. I really hope\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  does its small part to change that.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  How has your work at Harvard Business School informed your view of Afghanistanâ€™s predicament?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  My experience at HBS has made me even more keenly aware of the constellation of obstacles facing entrepreneurs in some of the toughest parts of the world. Thatâ€™s perhaps why I am so taken by stories of entrepreneurs like Kamila who succeed every day despite all the obstacles (and sometimes even because of them).\n </p>\n <p>\n  Economic growth strengthens families and communities. More attention must be paid by Afghanistanâ€™s leaders and the international community to the importance of making business easier for entrepreneurs, so they can spend time making money to support their families and less time fighting red tape, corruption and security obstacles.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  In many ways,\n  <em>\n   The Dressmaker of Khair Khana\n  </em>\n  reads like a novel, and yet it is all true. How much energy did you focus on the craft of storytelling vs. the reporting itself?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  I believe in the power of stories to shape and change our world. The Dressmaker happens to be set in Afghanistan during the Taliban, but it could just as easily have been the US during the Civil War or the UK during World War II. Storytelling allows us to see just how similar our struggles really are. My hope was that my godmother and my aunt, who will never go to Afghanistan, could pick up this book and see themselves in this universal story of family and faith.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For me, the reporting is where the joy isâ€”itâ€™s a privilege to be allowed to take a step into peopleâ€™s lives and to be entrusted with telling their story. In this case the reporting was much more physically difficult than the storytellingâ€”the fall of 2008 in particular was a time during which kidnappings and bombings became regular occurrences in Kabul; both Afghans and foreigners I visited with constantly swapped stories of terrifying incidents which involved their friends and relatives. I knew a lot of people who were affected by the violence, and all the insecurity made it much harder to convince young women to speak with me about their experiences.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  Youâ€™ve spent a lot of time on the ground in Afghanistan. What is it like to travel there as a young woman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  I love going to Afghanistan, though the trip from California is nearly 40 hours. It is a beautiful country with incredibly generous people who will give you anything they have even if it is all they have. (And I highly recommend the food!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Being a young woman actually made my work easier. I could meet women of all ages and spend time with them at their homes hearing their stories and sharing my own. This is a world many foreign men will never have access to, for cultural reasons. I also could meet Afghan men because, as a foreign woman, you sort of fit a third categoryâ€”not male, but not exactly female, either. I worked hard to build trust with those women and men who entrusted me with their storiesâ€”I tried to learn Dari and to draw as little attention to my â€˜foreign-nessâ€™ as possible: I often was the frumpiest woman I saw all day in my uniform of black pants, black socks, black shoes, black t-shirt, and a dark jacket and head scarf. I think those I wrote about respected the fact that I kept coming back to Afghanistan.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Mortenson:\n  </strong>\n  You''ve worked and studied in conflict and post-conflict regions such as Rwanda, Bosnia and Afghanistan. Women are rarely involved in the high level decision making that affects conflict negotiations or even consulted about their own creative ideas for resolution. How can we help and empower women to play a much larger role in resolving conflicts?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Lemmon:\n  </strong>\n  This is a question I think about all the time. We are used to women pulling families through war, but having no say in the peace which follows. This must change for the world to be a safer, more stable place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A great example has been set by the women of Liberia, who insisted their voices be heeded when it came time for UN negotiations to end their nationâ€™s civil war. (There is a great film about their push to be heard called â€œPray the Devil Back to Hell.â€) Afghan women, too, are speaking up to make sure that no peace negotiations happen without their real and substantive representation. Each one of us can help advance their cause and this effort by insisting that our own elected officials donâ€™t take part in any talks in which women donâ€™t take part. Holding our own leaders accountable is a great place to start.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 2005, Lemmon went to Afghanistan on assignment for the Financial Times to write about women entrepreneurs. When she met a dressmaker named Kamila Sediqi, Lemmon (once a producer for This Week with George Stephanopolos) knew she had her story. It''s an exciting, engrossing one that reads like a novel, complete with moments of tension and triumph, plus well-researched detail on daily life in Kabul under Taliban rule. When that regime descended in 1996, it brought fear, violence, and restrictions: women must stay home, may not work, and must wear the chadriâ€”a cloak, also known as a burqa, that covers the face and bodyâ€”in public. After Sediqi''s parents left the city to avoid being pressed into service, or worse, by the Taliban, it fell to her to support the family. Her story is at once familiar (she came up with an idea, procured clients, hired student workers, and learned as she went) and wholly different (she couldn''t go anywhere without a male escort, had to use an assumed name with customers due to the threat of being found out and punished, and could fit in work on the sewing machine only when there was electricity). It''s a fascinating story that touches on family, gender, business, and politics and offers inspiration through the resourceful, determined woman at its heart. (Mar.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18418'),
(16125, 'The Dressmaker', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naÃ¯ve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbourâ€™s party she falls in love almost as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7238'),
(16126, 'The Dressmaker', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naÃ¯ve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbourâ€™s party she falls in love almost as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8282'),
(16127, 'The Dressmaker', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naÃ¯ve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbourâ€™s party she falls in love almost as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16651'),
(16128, 'Driftwood', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hannah and Joey have been best friends for ever. Joey''s parents love rescuing things and making them beautiful - their house is full of things made from driftwood, old glass and shells from the beach. Which is why the scraggy kittens the girls find in a bin at school end up living there. And when Paul moves in as Joey''s foster brother, everyone thinks that maybe he needs rescuing too. But nobody knows quite how badly. At first, it''s great - Hannah''s brother befriends Paul, and the four of them hang out together. But then things start to go wrong. Paul is being bullied. Subtly at first - but quickly it gets dangerous. People aren''t like driftwood or abandoned kittens and Hannah doesn''t know how to rescue him. Paul doesn''t want to be rescued - but with help, he can find a way to save himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6963'),
(16129, 'Driftwood', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hannah and Joey have been best friends for ever. Joey''s parents love rescuing things and making them beautiful - their house is full of things made from driftwood, old glass and shells from the beach. Which is why the scraggy kittens the girls find in a bin at school end up living there. And when Paul moves in as Joey''s foster brother, everyone thinks that maybe he needs rescuing too. But nobody knows quite how badly. At first, it''s great - Hannah''s brother befriends Paul, and the four of them hang out together. But then things start to go wrong. Paul is being bullied. Subtly at first - but quickly it gets dangerous. People aren''t like driftwood or abandoned kittens and Hannah doesn''t know how to rescue him. Paul doesn''t want to be rescued - but with help, he can find a way to save himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8771'),
(16130, 'Driftwood', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hannah and Joey have been best friends for ever. Joey''s parents love rescuing things and making them beautiful - their house is full of things made from driftwood, old glass and shells from the beach. Which is why the scraggy kittens the girls find in a bin at school end up living there. And when Paul moves in as Joey''s foster brother, everyone thinks that maybe he needs rescuing too. But nobody knows quite how badly. At first, it''s great - Hannah''s brother befriends Paul, and the four of them hang out together. But then things start to go wrong. Paul is being bullied. Subtly at first - but quickly it gets dangerous. People aren''t like driftwood or abandoned kittens and Hannah doesn''t know how to rescue him. Paul doesn''t want to be rescued - but with help, he can find a way to save himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16955'),
(16131, 'Driftwood', 'Cathy Cassidy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hannah and Joey have been best friends for ever. Joey''s parents love rescuing things and making them beautiful - their house is full of things made from driftwood, old glass and shells from the beach. Which is why the scraggy kittens the girls find in a bin at school end up living there. And when Paul moves in as Joey''s foster brother, everyone thinks that maybe he needs rescuing too. But nobody knows quite how badly. At first, it''s great - Hannah''s brother befriends Paul, and the four of them hang out together. But then things start to go wrong. Paul is being bullied. Subtly at first - but quickly it gets dangerous. People aren''t like driftwood or abandoned kittens and Hannah doesn''t know how to rescue him. Paul doesn''t want to be rescued - but with help, he can find a way to save himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26857');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(16132, 'Driftwood Cottage', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Single mom Heather Donovan''s dreams of home and family are tantalizingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O''Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to further alienate her son''s father, Connor O''Brien. His parents'' divorce and his career as a high-powered divorce attorney have left him jaded about marriage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then everything changes. Will the possibility of a future without Heather make Connor look at love and his career differently? Heather''s just about given up on her old dreamsâ€”of love, of family and especially of Driftwood Cottage, the home she secretly wishes were hers. It''s going to take a lot of persuasionâ€”and some help from the O''Brien familyâ€”to make Heather believe that some dreams are worth fighting for.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With her roots firmly planted in the South, Sherryl Woods has written many of her more than 100 books in that distinctive setting, whether her home state of Virginia, her adopted state, Florida, or her much-adored South Carolina. She''s also especially partial to small towns, wherever they may be. A member of Novelists Inc., Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America, Sherryl divides her time between her childhood summer home overlooking the Potomac River in Colonial Beach, Virginia, and her oceanfront home, with its lighthouse view, in Key Biscayne, Florida.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1298'),
(16133, 'Driftwood Cottage', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Single mom Heather Donovan''s dreams of home and family are tantalizingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O''Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to further alienate her son''s father, Connor O''Brien. His parents'' divorce and his career as a high-powered divorce attorney have left him jaded about marriage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then everything changes. Will the possibility of a future without Heather make Connor look at love and his career differently? Heather''s just about given up on her old dreamsâ€”of love, of family and especially of Driftwood Cottage, the home she secretly wishes were hers. It''s going to take a lot of persuasionâ€”and some help from the O''Brien familyâ€”to make Heather believe that some dreams are worth fighting for.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With her roots firmly planted in the South, Sherryl Woods has written many of her more than 100 books in that distinctive setting, whether her home state of Virginia, her adopted state, Florida, or her much-adored South Carolina. She''s also especially partial to small towns, wherever they may be. A member of Novelists Inc., Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America, Sherryl divides her time between her childhood summer home overlooking the Potomac River in Colonial Beach, Virginia, and her oceanfront home, with its lighthouse view, in Key Biscayne, Florida.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13407'),
(16134, 'Driftwood Cottage', 'Sherryl Woods', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Single mom Heather Donovan''s dreams of home and family are tantalizingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O''Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to further alienate her son''s father, Connor O''Brien. His parents'' divorce and his career as a high-powered divorce attorney have left him jaded about marriage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Then everything changes. Will the possibility of a future without Heather make Connor look at love and his career differently? Heather''s just about given up on her old dreamsâ€”of love, of family and especially of Driftwood Cottage, the home she secretly wishes were hers. It''s going to take a lot of persuasionâ€”and some help from the O''Brien familyâ€”to make Heather believe that some dreams are worth fighting for.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With her roots firmly planted in the South, Sherryl Woods has written many of her more than 100 books in that distinctive setting, whether her home state of Virginia, her adopted state, Florida, or her much-adored South Carolina. She''s also especially partial to small towns, wherever they may be. A member of Novelists Inc., Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America, Sherryl divides her time between her childhood summer home overlooking the Potomac River in Colonial Beach, Virginia, and her oceanfront home, with its lighthouse view, in Key Biscayne, Florida.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23640'),
(16135, 'A Drink Before the War', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South Boston-they know it as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential state documents.Finding Jenna, however, is easy compared to staying alive once they''ve got her. The investigation escalates, implicating members of Jenna''s family and rival gang leaders while uncovering extortion, assassination, and child prostitution extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of government. A Drink Before the War, the first in Lehane''s acclaimed series with Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, is a remarkable debut that is at once a pulsating crime thriller and a mirror of our world, one in which the worst human horrors are found closest to home, and the most vicious obscenities are committed in the name of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14153'),
(16136, 'A Drink Before the War', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South Boston-they know it as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential state documents.Finding Jenna, however, is easy compared to staying alive once they''ve got her. The investigation escalates, implicating members of Jenna''s family and rival gang leaders while uncovering extortion, assassination, and child prostitution extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of government. A Drink Before the War, the first in Lehane''s acclaimed series with Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, is a remarkable debut that is at once a pulsating crime thriller and a mirror of our world, one in which the worst human horrors are found closest to home, and the most vicious obscenities are committed in the name of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18003'),
(16137, 'A Drink Before the War', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South Boston-they know it as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential state documents.Finding Jenna, however, is easy compared to staying alive once they''ve got her. The investigation escalates, implicating members of Jenna''s family and rival gang leaders while uncovering extortion, assassination, and child prostitution extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of government. A Drink Before the War, the first in Lehane''s acclaimed series with Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, is a remarkable debut that is at once a pulsating crime thriller and a mirror of our world, one in which the worst human horrors are found closest to home, and the most vicious obscenities are committed in the name of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27514'),
(16138, 'Drive Me Crazy', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A New York Times Bestseller**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Driver" is an ex-con trying to make his life right but who shares an expensive secret and a past affair with his boss''s wife - a woman who is nothing but trouble. Dickey''s rich characters jump off the page, drawing readers into the hustle-filled pool hall, the bedroom, and the Lincoln Town Car as Driver chauffeurs his wealthy and notorious clients around. A fast-paced novel of raw emotion softened with humor, this is Dickey at his best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5645'),
(16139, 'Drive Me Crazy', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A New York Times Bestseller**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Driver" is an ex-con trying to make his life right but who shares an expensive secret and a past affair with his boss''s wife - a woman who is nothing but trouble. Dickey''s rich characters jump off the page, drawing readers into the hustle-filled pool hall, the bedroom, and the Lincoln Town Car as Driver chauffeurs his wealthy and notorious clients around. A fast-paced novel of raw emotion softened with humor, this is Dickey at his best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9229'),
(16140, 'Drive Me Crazy', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A New York Times Bestseller** "Driver" is an ex-con trying to make his life right but who shares an expensive secret and a past affair with his boss''s wife - a woman who is nothing but trouble. Dickey''s rich characters jump off the page, drawing readers into the hustle-filled pool hall, the bedroom, and the Lincoln Town Car as Driver chauffeurs his wealthy and notorious clients around. A fast-paced novel of raw emotion softened with humor, this is Dickey at his best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18985'),
(16141, 'Drive Me Crazy', 'Eric Jerome Dickey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A New York Times Bestseller** "Driver" is an ex-con trying to make his life right but who shares an expensive secret and a past affair with his boss''s wife - a woman who is nothing but trouble. Dickey''s rich characters jump off the page, drawing readers into the hustle-filled pool hall, the bedroom, and the Lincoln Town Car as Driver chauffeurs his wealthy and notorious clients around. A fast-paced novel of raw emotion softened with humor, this is Dickey at his best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27795'),
(16142, 'Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us', 'Daniel H. Pink', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It''s wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book *Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us*, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today''s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it''s precisely the *wrong* way to motivate people for today''s challenges. In *Drive*, he reveals the three elements of true motivation:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Autonomy**- the desire to direct our own lives\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Mastery**- the urge to get better and better at something that matters\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Purpose**- the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Drive* is bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6463'),
(16143, 'Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us', 'Daniel H. Pink', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It''s wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book *Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us*, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today''s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it''s precisely the *wrong* way to motivate people for today''s challenges. In *Drive*, he reveals the three elements of true motivation: ***Autonomy**- the desire to direct our own lives ***Mastery**- the urge to get better and better at something that matters ***Purpose**- the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward. *Drive* is bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17497'),
(16144, 'Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us', 'Daniel H. Pink', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It''s wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book *Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us*, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today''s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it''s precisely the *wrong* way to motivate people for today''s challenges. In *Drive*, he reveals the three elements of true motivation:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Autonomy**- the desire to direct our own lives\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Mastery**- the urge to get better and better at something that matters\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Purpose**- the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Drive* is bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27207'),
(16145, 'Driven to Ink', 'Karen E. Olson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The latest in the cleverly designed tattoo shop mystery series. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of Vegas''s hottest tattoo shop, The Painted Lady. And in her spare time, she does some sleuthing. After discovering the corpse of a Dean Martin impersonator-sporting a spider web tattoo and a clip cord from a tattoo machine wrapped around his neck-Brett infiltrates That''s Amore, a drive-through wedding chapel, as a bride-to-be looking for the mark of a murderer...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3938'),
(16146, 'Driven to Ink', 'Karen E. Olson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The latest in the cleverly designed tattoo shop mystery series. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of Vegas''s hottest tattoo shop, The Painted Lady. And in her spare time, she does some sleuthing. After discovering the corpse of a Dean Martin impersonator-sporting a spider web tattoo and a clip cord from a tattoo machine wrapped around his neck-Brett infiltrates That''s Amore, a drive-through wedding chapel, as a bride-to-be looking for the mark of a murderer...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11671'),
(16147, 'Driven to Ink', 'Karen E. Olson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The latest in the cleverly designed tattoo shop mystery series. ** Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of Vegas''s hottest tattoo shop, The Painted Lady. And in her spare time, she does some sleuthing. After discovering the corpse of a Dean Martin impersonator-sporting a spider web tattoo and a clip cord from a tattoo machine wrapped around his neck-Brett infiltrates That''s Amore, a drive-through wedding chapel, as a bride-to-be looking for the mark of a murderer...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20527'),
(16148, 'Driving Blind', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver''s seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker. The journey promises to be a memorable one.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1939'),
(16149, 'Driving Force', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18103'),
(16150, 'Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain', 'Chris Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When English sheep shearer Chris Stewart (once a drummer for Genesis) bought an isolated farmhouse in the mountains outside of Granada, Spain, he was fully aware that it didn''t have electricity, running water, or access to roads. But he had little idea of the headaches and hilarity that would follow (including scorpions, runaway sheep, and the former owner who won''t budge). He also had no idea that his memoir about southern Spain would set a standard for literary travel writing.\n</p>\n<p>\n This rip-roaringly funny book about seeking a place in an earthy community of peasants and shepherds gives a realistic sense of the hassles and rewards of foreign relocation. Part of its allure stems from the absence of rose-colored glasses, mainly Stewart''s refusal to merely coo about the piece of heaven he''s found or to portray all residents as angels. Stewart''s hilarious and beautifully written passages are deep in their honest perceptions of the place and the sometimes xenophobic natives, whose reception of the newcomers ranges from warm to gruff.\n</p>\n<p>\n After reading about struggles with dialects, animal husbandry, droughts, flooding, and such local rituals as pig slaughters and the rebuilding of bridges, you may not wish to live Chris Stewart''s life. But you can''t help but admire him and his wife, Ana, for digging out a niche in these far-flung mountains, for successfully befriending the denizens, and for so eloquently and comically telling the truth. The rich, vibrant, and unromanticized candor of\n <em>\n  Driving over Lemons\n </em>\n makes it a laudable standout in a genre too often typified by laughable naivetÃ©.\n <em>\n  --Melissa Rossi\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stewart, a former drummer in Genesis, middle-aged travel writer and professional sheepshearer, never quite explains why he and his wife, Ana, decided to quit England 11 years ago for a dilapidated farm without electricity, water or even a road in Andaluc!a, Spain. Perhaps the olives, almonds and rosemary had something to do with it. Stewart clearly has found contentment in his good place among a lovingly described collection of local farmers, New Age travelers, artists and the occasional Buddhist. His hilly farm is a harsher place than Peter Mayle''s Provence or Frances Mayes''s Tuscany, and the local cuisine far less appetizing, yet his unfailing good humor and invincible optimism carry him past obstacles that would send most readers scurrying for home. More than a travel book, this is a record of Stewart''s slowly flourishing friendship with his neighbor, Domingo, and of how Stewart gradually sank roots deep into his beautiful Andaluc!an hillside. A bestseller in England, this enchanting memoir is likely to prove popular in North America with both armchair travelers and readers who, while curious about the odd life choices others make, would just as soon give scorpions and clouds of flies a miss. (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6742'),
(16151, 'Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain', 'Chris Stewart', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n When English sheep shearer Chris Stewart (once a drummer for Genesis) bought an isolated farmhouse in the mountains outside of Granada, Spain, he was fully aware that it didn''t have electricity, running water, or access to roads. But he had little idea of the headaches and hilarity that would follow (including scorpions, runaway sheep, and the former owner who won''t budge). He also had no idea that his memoir about southern Spain would set a standard for literary travel writing.\n</p>\n<p>\n This rip-roaringly funny book about seeking a place in an earthy community of peasants and shepherds gives a realistic sense of the hassles and rewards of foreign relocation. Part of its allure stems from the absence of rose-colored glasses, mainly Stewart''s refusal to merely coo about the piece of heaven he''s found or to portray all residents as angels. Stewart''s hilarious and beautifully written passages are deep in their honest perceptions of the place and the sometimes xenophobic natives, whose reception of the newcomers ranges from warm to gruff.\n</p>\n<p>\n After reading about struggles with dialects, animal husbandry, droughts, flooding, and such local rituals as pig slaughters and the rebuilding of bridges, you may not wish to live Chris Stewart''s life. But you can''t help but admire him and his wife, Ana, for digging out a niche in these far-flung mountains, for successfully befriending the denizens, and for so eloquently and comically telling the truth. The rich, vibrant, and unromanticized candor of\n <em>\n  Driving over Lemons\n </em>\n makes it a laudable standout in a genre too often typified by laughable naivetÃ©.\n <em>\n  --Melissa Rossi\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stewart, a former drummer in Genesis, middle-aged travel writer and professional sheepshearer, never quite explains why he and his wife, Ana, decided to quit England 11 years ago for a dilapidated farm without electricity, water or even a road in Andaluc!a, Spain. Perhaps the olives, almonds and rosemary had something to do with it. Stewart clearly has found contentment in his good place among a lovingly described collection of local farmers, New Age travelers, artists and the occasional Buddhist. His hilly farm is a harsher place than Peter Mayle''s Provence or Frances Mayes''s Tuscany, and the local cuisine far less appetizing, yet his unfailing good humor and invincible optimism carry him past obstacles that would send most readers scurrying for home. More than a travel book, this is a record of Stewart''s slowly flourishing friendship with his neighbor, Domingo, and of how Stewart gradually sank roots deep into his beautiful Andaluc!an hillside. A bestseller in England, this enchanting memoir is likely to prove popular in North America with both armchair travelers and readers who, while curious about the odd life choices others make, would just as soon give scorpions and clouds of flies a miss. (May)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17137'),
(16152, 'Drood: A Novel', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens''s life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens''s friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author''s last years and may provide the key to Dickens''s final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6474'),
(16153, 'Drood: A Novel', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens''s life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens''s friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author''s last years and may provide the key to Dickens''s final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12655'),
(16154, 'Drood: A Novel', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens''s life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens''s friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author''s last years and may provide the key to Dickens''s final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14050'),
(16155, 'Drood: A Novel', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens''s life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens''s friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author''s last years and may provide the key to Dickens''s final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17489'),
(16156, 'Drood: A Novel', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens''s life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens''s friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author''s last years and may provide the key to Dickens''s final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27163'),
(16157, 'Drop Shot', 'Harlan Coben', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18351'),
(16158, 'Drop Shot (1996)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14809'),
(16159, 'Drop Shot (1996)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27060'),
(16160, 'DropZone', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ethan Blake is seventeen and desperate to escape from his dead-end life. When he sees someone B.A.S.E. jump from the top of his block of flats, it changes the way he sees the world for ever. Soon, Ethan is caught up in the adrenaline-fuelled world of skydiving. He''s a natural, so it''s no surprise when he''s invited to join an elite skydive team, but is he signing up for more than just jumping out of planes? The team''s involved in covert military operations - missions that require a special kind of guts, missions so secret even MI5 denies all knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7647'),
(16161, 'DropZone', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ethan Blake is seventeen and desperate to escape from his dead-end life. When he sees someone B.A.S.E. jump from the top of his block of flats, it changes the way he sees the world for ever. Soon, Ethan is caught up in the adrenaline-fuelled world of skydiving. He''s a natural, so it''s no surprise when he''s invited to join an elite skydive team, but is he signing up for more than just jumping out of planes? The team''s involved in covert military operations - missions that require a special kind of guts, missions so secret even MI5 denies all knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11460'),
(16162, 'DropZone', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ethan Blake is seventeen and desperate to escape from his dead-end life. When he sees someone B.A.S.E. jump from the top of his block of flats, it changes the way he sees the world for ever. Soon, Ethan is caught up in the adrenaline-fuelled world of skydiving. He''s a natural, so it''s no surprise when he''s invited to join an elite skydive team, but is he signing up for more than just jumping out of planes? The team''s involved in covert military operations - missions that require a special kind of guts, missions so secret even MI5 denies all knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16222'),
(16163, 'DropZone', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ethan Blake is seventeen and desperate to escape from his dead-end life. When he sees someone B.A.S.E. jump from the top of his block of flats, it changes the way he sees the world for ever. Soon, Ethan is caught up in the adrenaline-fuelled world of skydiving. He''s a natural, so it''s no surprise when he''s invited to join an elite skydive team, but is he signing up for more than just jumping out of planes? The team''s involved in covert military operations - missions that require a special kind of guts, missions so secret even MI5 denies all knowledge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26304'),
(16164, 'The Drowned World', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Fluctuations in solar radiation have caused the icecaps to melt and the seas to rise. Nature is on the rampage. London has been transformed into a primeval swamp, and within its submerged landscape giant lizards, dragonflies and insects compete for dominance. Human fertility is in decline and buildings sink beneath waters infested with decaying matter. Into this wasteland a group of intrepid scientists venture to record the flora and fauna of this new Triassic Age. Soon ghostly voices haunt their waking and nightmares permeate their sleep."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4921'),
(16165, 'The Drowned World', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Fluctuations in solar radiation have caused the icecaps to melt and the seas to rise. Nature is on the rampage. London has been transformed into a primeval swamp, and within its submerged landscape giant lizards, dragonflies and insects compete for dominance. Human fertility is in decline and buildings sink beneath waters infested with decaying matter. Into this wasteland a group of intrepid scientists venture to record the flora and fauna of this new Triassic Age. Soon ghostly voices haunt their waking and nightmares permeate their sleep."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19711'),
(16166, 'The Drowned World', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Fluctuations in solar radiation have caused the icecaps to melt and the seas to rise. Nature is on the rampage. London has been transformed into a primeval swamp, and within its submerged landscape giant lizards, dragonflies and insects compete for dominance. Human fertility is in decline and buildings sink beneath waters infested with decaying matter. Into this wasteland a group of intrepid scientists venture to record the flora and fauna of this new Triassic Age. Soon ghostly voices haunt their waking and nightmares permeate their sleep."--BOOK JACKET.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28309'),
(16167, 'The Drowning City', 'Amanda Downum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Downum effectively combines action, magic, police procedure and political intrigue in this complex and striking debut. Isyllt Iskaldur, a SelafaÃ¯an forensic necromancer, travels to the monsoon-soaked canal city of Symir, capital of Sivahra. Her plot to undermine the occupying Assari Empire before it can invade Selafai is complicated by her attraction to handsome Imperial fire-mage Asheris. Isyllt''s bodyguard Xinai, a Sivahran native, despises the empire for its brutal destruction of her clan; young apprentice mage Zhirin Laii struggles between love for a guerrilla leader and loyalty to her mother, a respected politician. Refreshingly, Downum treats necromancy as an unclean but necessary defense against evil and nicely handles the complex nuances of a quasi-Westerner fomenting revolution in a quasi-Asian country occupied by quasi-Arabs. A strong (if not happy) conclusion still leaves plenty of room for sequels.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Symir -- the Drowning City. home to exiles and expatriates, pirates and smugglers. And violent revolutionaries who will stop at nothing to overthrow the corrupt Imperial government.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and spy, the brewing revolution is a chance to prove herself to her crown. All she has to do is find and finance the revolutionaries, and help topple the palaces of Symir. But she is torn between her new friends and her duties, and the longer she stays in this monsoon-drenched city, the more intrigue she uncovers -- even the dead are plotting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the waters rise and the dams crack, Isyllt must choose between her mission and the city she came to save.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7686'),
(16168, 'The Drowning City', 'Amanda Downum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Downum effectively combines action, magic, police procedure and political intrigue in this complex and striking debut. Isyllt Iskaldur, a SelafaÃ¯an forensic necromancer, travels to the monsoon-soaked canal city of Symir, capital of Sivahra. Her plot to undermine the occupying Assari Empire before it can invade Selafai is complicated by her attraction to handsome Imperial fire-mage Asheris. Isyllt''s bodyguard Xinai, a Sivahran native, despises the empire for its brutal destruction of her clan; young apprentice mage Zhirin Laii struggles between love for a guerrilla leader and loyalty to her mother, a respected politician. Refreshingly, Downum treats necromancy as an unclean but necessary defense against evil and nicely handles the complex nuances of a quasi-Westerner fomenting revolution in a quasi-Asian country occupied by quasi-Arabs. A strong (if not happy) conclusion still leaves plenty of room for sequels.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Symir -- the Drowning City. home to exiles and expatriates, pirates and smugglers. And violent revolutionaries who will stop at nothing to overthrow the corrupt Imperial government.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and spy, the brewing revolution is a chance to prove herself to her crown. All she has to do is find and finance the revolutionaries, and help topple the palaces of Symir. But she is torn between her new friends and her duties, and the longer she stays in this monsoon-drenched city, the more intrigue she uncovers -- even the dead are plotting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the waters rise and the dams crack, Isyllt must choose between her mission and the city she came to save.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10863'),
(16169, 'The Drowning City', 'Amanda Downum', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Downum effectively combines action, magic, police procedure and political intrigue in this complex and striking debut. Isyllt Iskaldur, a SelafaÃ¯an forensic necromancer, travels to the monsoon-soaked canal city of Symir, capital of Sivahra. Her plot to undermine the occupying Assari Empire before it can invade Selafai is complicated by her attraction to handsome Imperial fire-mage Asheris. Isyllt''s bodyguard Xinai, a Sivahran native, despises the empire for its brutal destruction of her clan; young apprentice mage Zhirin Laii struggles between love for a guerrilla leader and loyalty to her mother, a respected politician. Refreshingly, Downum treats necromancy as an unclean but necessary defense against evil and nicely handles the complex nuances of a quasi-Westerner fomenting revolution in a quasi-Asian country occupied by quasi-Arabs. A strong (if not happy) conclusion still leaves plenty of room for sequels.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Symir -- the Drowning City. home to exiles and expatriates, pirates and smugglers. And violent revolutionaries who will stop at nothing to overthrow the corrupt Imperial government.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and spy, the brewing revolution is a chance to prove herself to her crown. All she has to do is find and finance the revolutionaries, and help topple the palaces of Symir. But she is torn between her new friends and her duties, and the longer she stays in this monsoon-drenched city, the more intrigue she uncovers -- even the dead are plotting.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the waters rise and the dams crack, Isyllt must choose between her mission and the city she came to save.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16188'),
(16170, 'Drugs and Pregnancy: A Handbook', 'Bertis B. Little', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This practical handbook will assist the physician and nurse prescriber in understanding the effects of drug exposure during pregnancy. Numerous tables and boxes provide information on drug classifications and regimens, as well as highlighting adverse effects and TERIS and FDA risk ratings. Sources of further information are provided where appropriate, and full references are available on the book''s website www.drugs-and-pregnancy.com. The book provides detailed guidelines on prescribing drugs in all classes, and for a wide variety of diseases and disorders, during pregnancy. Opening with a helpful analysis of potential risks and benefits of prescribing in pregnancy, the book moves on to consider the implications of both medications for pre-existing conditions and those that develop during pregnancy, including antimicrobials, drugs for cardiovascular disease, asthma and endocrine disorders, antineoplastic agents, skin preparations, epilepsy treatments and psychiatric drugs. Invaluable guidance on anesthetic administration and the use of pain relieving medication during pregnancy and labor, and helpful advice on the possible side-effects associated with over-the-counter preparations such as cold and ''flu remedies, antihistamines and nutritional supplements is also provided.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bertis B. Little is Associate Vice-President for Academic Research and Professor, Tarleton State University, Texas, USA\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15555');
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(16171, 'Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation: Treatment Options and Risk Assessment', 'Christof Schaefer; Paul W. J. Peters; Richard K Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A welcome edition to an already thorough reference...succinct texts such as this are invaluable and worthy of a spot on a bookshelf of any health care practitioner who advises pregnant or lactating women."\n <br />\n - Myla Moretti, Motherisk Program, Toronto, Ontario, in CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL PHARMACY\n</p>\n<p>\n "The best feature of this book is its thorough coverage of how medications pass into breast milk and the way it takes into consideration the differences posed by infant age and maturity. Lists of drug therapies accompanied with recommendations regarding therapy choice and safe alternatives, are especially helpful. The appendixes are a highlight of this book, providing practitioners with a wealth of listed resources. This book is highly recommended to all clinicians working in the areas of obstetrics, pediatrics, and lactation. It offers more specific recommendations regarding treatment options than a similar book, Hale''s\n <em>\n  Medications and Mothers Milk\n </em>\n , 12th edition (Hale Publishing, 2006)...[Schaefer] is a great addition to the clinician''s library. This second edition contains major revisions with many sections completely rewritten, and the price is lower, making the book available to a greater readership."\n <br />\n - DOODY ENTERPRISES, Inc.\n</p>\n<p>\n "The book comes with a nifty accessibility enhancer, a laminated pocket card with a table of risk/safety attributes of commonly used medications. The availability of information in such a compact and pocket-friendly form will be very popular with some clinicians...The contributors to this book have done a very nice job...An important feature of Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation. Treatment options and risk assessment is the inclusion of recommendations for most medications or groups of medications. The recommendations are set forth in a shaded box for easy visibility and will be appreciated by clinicians looking for clear answers. This book has staying power, and I expect we will see subsequent editions on a regular basis...the book will find an appreciative audience."\n <br />\n - Anthony R. Scialli, M.D., Reproductive Toxicology Center, Bethesda, MD\n</p>\n<p>\n "A user-friendly pocket guide that''s been extensively revised throughout, with content rewritten and adapted for an internal audience...includes a removable quick reference card on the safety of most frequently used drugs. The book contains new information on herbs, vitamins, and supplement use during pregnancy and expanded chapters on antiepileptics, psychopharmacological agents, disease modifying drugs, and cancer therapy."\n <br />\n -CONTEMPORARY OB/GYN\n</p>\n<p>\n "It is wonderful to have another source to assess the risks for use of medications not only in pregnancy but while breastfeeding."\n <br />\n --Sharon Voyer Lavigne, M.S, Connecticut Pregnancy Exposure Information Service\n</p>\n<p>\n "Drugs During Pregnancy and Lacation, Treatment Options and Risk Assessment, Second Edition, is a well organized, concise, and comprehensive reference guide assembled by internationally recognized experts in the field - a valuable tool for clinicians."\n <br />\n --Christina D. Chambers, Ph.D., M.P.H., Departments of Pediatrics and Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California in San Diego\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The latest edition is\n <em>\n  the\n </em>\n resource for any practicing OB/GYN, family physician, midwife, or pharmacist who prescribes medicinal products to or evaluates environmental or occupational exposures in women who are or may become pregnant. Based on the highly successful seven German editions of this reference, the up-to-date drug listings have been revised into a handy pocket guide color tabbed for quick access to important information. Easy to reference each drug is listed discussing the side effects, general impact on organ systems, potential toxicity, and risks before offering dosage recommendations. It is the only book of its kind to provide conclusive information on treatments for diseases during pregnancy and lactation and actions to be taken after (inadvertant) exposure to drugs suspected to be developmentaly toxic. Unlike other dosage guides, this edition is an affordable, compact compendium of knowledge on the very latest drugs and their effects on pregnant/lactating women.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Provides conclusive information on the prevention of birth defects through the safe use of drugs before pregnancy, as well as during pregnancy and lactation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Essential new information on herbs, vitamins, and nutrition supplements used during pregnancy\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Structured according to indication group, rather than alphabetically, providing a more user-friendly guide that makes it easier to compare drugs\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Includes a conveniently removable ''quick reference'' card of most frequently used drugs and their safety\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17234'),
(16172, 'Drum sangeros catre moarte', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25076'),
(16173, 'Drums of Autumn', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14688'),
(16174, 'Drums of Autumn', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the pastâ€”or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once buy twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legendâ€”a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in frontier America. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century. Their daughter Brianna... Now, Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the stone circle and a terrifying leap into the unknown. In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she is risking her own future to try to change history...and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past...or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27467'),
(16175, 'Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie', 'Jordan Sonnenblick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From first-time novelist Jordan Sonnenblick, a brave and beautiful story that will make readers laugh and break their hearts at the same time. Thirteen-year-old Steven has a totally normal life: he plays drums in the All-Star Jazz band, has a crush on the hottest girl in the school, and is constantly annoyed by his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey. But when Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukaemia, Steven''s world is turned upside down. He is forced to deal with his brother''s illness and his parents'' attempts to keep the family in one piece. Salted with humor and peppered with devastating realities, DRUMS, GIRLS, AND DANGEROUS PIE is a heart warming journey through a year in the life of a family in crisis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4057'),
(16176, 'Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie', 'Jordan Sonnenblick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From first-time novelist Jordan Sonnenblick, a brave and beautiful story that will make readers laugh and break their hearts at the same time. Thirteen-year-old Steven has a totally normal life: he plays drums in the All-Star Jazz band, has a crush on the hottest girl in the school, and is constantly annoyed by his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey. But when Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukaemia, Steven''s world is turned upside down. He is forced to deal with his brother''s illness and his parents'' attempts to keep the family in one piece. Salted with humor and peppered with devastating realities, DRUMS, GIRLS, AND DANGEROUS PIE is a heart warming journey through a year in the life of a family in crisis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12763'),
(16177, 'Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie', 'Jordan Sonnenblick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From first-time novelist Jordan Sonnenblick, a brave and beautiful story that will make readers laugh and break their hearts at the same time. Thirteen-year-old Steven has a totally normal life: he plays drums in the All-Star Jazz band, has a crush on the hottest girl in the school, and is constantly annoyed by his five-year-old brother, Jeffrey. But when Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukaemia, Steven''s world is turned upside down. He is forced to deal with his brother''s illness and his parents'' attempts to keep the family in one piece. Salted with humor and peppered with devastating realities, DRUMS, GIRLS, AND DANGEROUS PIE is a heart warming journey through a year in the life of a family in crisis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20519'),
(16178, 'Dry: A Memoir', 'Augusten Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Dryâ€”the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next.You may not know it, but you''ve met Augusten Burroughs. You''ve seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had to drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn''t really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that''s when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan lifeâ€”and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that''s as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power.  Augusten Burroughs is the author of Running with Scissors and Sellevision. He lives in New York City.  You may not know it, but you''ve met Augusten Burroughs. You''ve seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn''t really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that''s when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan lifeâ€”and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that''s as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power.  "Beneath the quick-flowing, funny-sad surface of Burroughs''s prose lurks considerable complexity: wherever he goes, whatever he''s doing, you can feel how badly he wants to drinkâ€”as well as the sadness from which that desire comes and courage it takes to make the sadness so funny, all at the same time. If anything, Dry is even more compelling than Burroughs''s first outing."â€”Time"More than a heartbreaking tale; it''s a heroic one. As with its predecessor, we finish the book amazed not only that Burroughs can write so brilliantly, but that he''s even alive."â€”People"[A] wrenching, edifying journey . . . with the added benefit of being really entertaining."â€”The New York Times Book Review "A deeper book than Scissors, revealing Burroughs to be a more accomplished writer, creating scenes of real power."â€”USA Today "Augusten Burroughs is a wickedly good writer . . . Dry is a great read. Grade A."â€”Chicago Sun-Times "What makes Dry juicy enough to hold us rapt is not sordid debauchery but the clarity with which Burroughs etches the perilously thin line between control and oblivion. Burroughs draws the cliff so eloquently that we''re right there with him when he starts flirting with the brink . . . One day at a time, Burroughs builds a deliberate but compelling story, lining up the shots for us until we have no choice but to knock each one back and then turn the page for the next."â€”San Francisco Chronicle "Augusten Burroughs''s Dry: A Memoir, a brilliant, insightful, and fabulously funny book that charts his road to sobriety . . . Dry catches the reader off guard on every page, challenging what we''ve come to expect from rehab literature."â€”Paper magazine "When you are as self-deprecatingly funny and write as vividly and unpretentiously as Burroughs, well, I guess that''s free rein to write 100 memoirsâ€”and bring them on immediately."â€”The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)"Like the alcohol he so enjoys, Burroughs''s story of getting dry will go straight into your bloodstream and leave you buzzing, exhilarated, and wiped out. Burroughs is a malcontented, successful advertising copywriter in his twenties, gay, living in Manhattan, and owner of a childhood that the word "nightmare" doesn''t even begin to cover (as described in Running with Scissors, 2002). Burroughs is an alcoholic . . . he is funny and dark . . . in his own half-mad way, he''s an original, a step aslant of the cutting edge, and wonderfully capable of expressing the miseries and sublimities of detox."â€”Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Burroughs has a knack for ending up in depraved situations and a vibrant talent for writing about them . . . Readers accustomed to his heady cocktail of fizzy humor and epiphanic poignancy won''t be disappointed."â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7365'),
(16179, 'Dry: A Memoir', 'Augusten Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Dryâ€”the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next.You may not know it, but you''ve met Augusten Burroughs. You''ve seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had to drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn''t really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that''s when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan lifeâ€”and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that''s as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power.  Augusten Burroughs is the author of Running with Scissors and Sellevision. He lives in New York City.  You may not know it, but you''ve met Augusten Burroughs. You''ve seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn''t really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that''s when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan lifeâ€”and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that''s as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power.  "Beneath the quick-flowing, funny-sad surface of Burroughs''s prose lurks considerable complexity: wherever he goes, whatever he''s doing, you can feel how badly he wants to drinkâ€”as well as the sadness from which that desire comes and courage it takes to make the sadness so funny, all at the same time. If anything, Dry is even more compelling than Burroughs''s first outing."â€”Time"More than a heartbreaking tale; it''s a heroic one. As with its predecessor, we finish the book amazed not only that Burroughs can write so brilliantly, but that he''s even alive."â€”People"[A] wrenching, edifying journey . . . with the added benefit of being really entertaining."â€”The New York Times Book Review "A deeper book than Scissors, revealing Burroughs to be a more accomplished writer, creating scenes of real power."â€”USA Today "Augusten Burroughs is a wickedly good writer . . . Dry is a great read. Grade A."â€”Chicago Sun-Times "What makes Dry juicy enough to hold us rapt is not sordid debauchery but the clarity with which Burroughs etches the perilously thin line between control and oblivion. Burroughs draws the cliff so eloquently that we''re right there with him when he starts flirting with the brink . . . One day at a time, Burroughs builds a deliberate but compelling story, lining up the shots for us until we have no choice but to knock each one back and then turn the page for the next."â€”San Francisco Chronicle "Augusten Burroughs''s Dry: A Memoir, a brilliant, insightful, and fabulously funny book that charts his road to sobriety . . . Dry catches the reader off guard on every page, challenging what we''ve come to expect from rehab literature."â€”Paper magazine "When you are as self-deprecatingly funny and write as vividly and unpretentiously as Burroughs, well, I guess that''s free rein to write 100 memoirsâ€”and bring them on immediately."â€”The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)"Like the alcohol he so enjoys, Burroughs''s story of getting dry will go straight into your bloodstream and leave you buzzing, exhilarated, and wiped out. Burroughs is a malcontented, successful advertising copywriter in his twenties, gay, living in Manhattan, and owner of a childhood that the word "nightmare" doesn''t even begin to cover (as described in Running with Scissors, 2002). Burroughs is an alcoholic . . . he is funny and dark . . . in his own half-mad way, he''s an original, a step aslant of the cutting edge, and wonderfully capable of expressing the miseries and sublimities of detox."â€”Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Burroughs has a knack for ending up in depraved situations and a vibrant talent for writing about them . . . Readers accustomed to his heady cocktail of fizzy humor and epiphanic poignancy won''t be disappointed."â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8676'),
(16180, 'Dry: A Memoir', 'Augusten Burroughs', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Dryâ€”the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next.You may not know it, but you''ve met Augusten Burroughs. You''ve seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had to drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn''t really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that''s when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan lifeâ€”and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that''s as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power. Augusten Burroughs is the author of Running with Scissors and Sellevision. He lives in New York City. You may not know it, but you''ve met Augusten Burroughs. You''ve seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn''t really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that''s when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan lifeâ€”and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that''s as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power. "Beneath the quick-flowing, funny-sad surface of Burroughs''s prose lurks considerable complexity: wherever he goes, whatever he''s doing, you can feel how badly he wants to drinkâ€”as well as the sadness from which that desire comes and courage it takes to make the sadness so funny, all at the same time. If anything, Dry is even more compelling than Burroughs''s first outing."â€”Time"More than a heartbreaking tale; it''s a heroic one. As with its predecessor, we finish the book amazed not only that Burroughs can write so brilliantly, but that he''s even alive."â€”People"[A] wrenching, edifying journey . . . with the added benefit of being really entertaining."â€”The New York Times Book Review "A deeper book than Scissors, revealing Burroughs to be a more accomplished writer, creating scenes of real power."â€”USA Today "Augusten Burroughs is a wickedly good writer . . . Dry is a great read. Grade A."â€”Chicago Sun-Times "What makes Dry juicy enough to hold us rapt is not sordid debauchery but the clarity with which Burroughs etches the perilously thin line between control and oblivion. Burroughs draws the cliff so eloquently that we''re right there with him when he starts flirting with the brink . . . One day at a time, Burroughs builds a deliberate but compelling story, lining up the shots for us until we have no choice but to knock each one back and then turn the page for the next."â€”San Francisco Chronicle "Augusten Burroughs''s Dry: A Memoir, a brilliant, insightful, and fabulously funny book that charts his road to sobriety . . . Dry catches the reader off guard on every page, challenging what we''ve come to expect from rehab literature."â€”Paper magazine "When you are as self-deprecatingly funny and write as vividly and unpretentiously as Burroughs, well, I guess that''s free rein to write 100 memoirsâ€”and bring them on immediately."â€”The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)"Like the alcohol he so enjoys, Burroughs''s story of getting dry will go straight into your bloodstream and leave you buzzing, exhilarated, and wiped out. Burroughs is a malcontented, successful advertising copywriter in his twenties, gay, living in Manhattan, and owner of a childhood that the word "nightmare" doesn''t even begin to cover (as described in Running with Scissors, 2002). Burroughs is an alcoholic . . . he is funny and dark . . . in his own half-mad way, he''s an original, a step aslant of the cutting edge, and wonderfully capable of expressing the miseries and sublimities of detox."â€”Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Burroughs has a knack for ending up in depraved situations and a vibrant talent for writing about them . . . Readers accustomed to his heady cocktail of fizzy humor and epiphanic poignancy won''t be disappointed."â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16524'),
(16181, 'Dubliners', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n If you are either learning Spanish, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Spanish speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Dubliners. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your Spanish-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with Spanish synonyms at the bottom of each page. You will not see a full translation of the English text, but rather a running bilingual thesaurus to maximize the reader''s exposure to the subtleties of both languages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4874'),
(16182, 'Dubliners', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n DUBLINERS is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is a beautifully-designed edition of James Joyce''s classic DUBLINERS. Complete and Unabridged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14407'),
(16183, 'Dubliners', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n DUBLINERS is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is a beautifully-designed edition of James Joyce''s classic DUBLINERS. Complete and Unabridged.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19810'),
(16184, 'Dude, where&#39;s my country?', 'Michael Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Stupid White Men comes a hilarious act of sedition to overthrow the ''Thief in Chief''-and effect the kind of change that just may save the country. Michael Moore is on a mission: He aims to unseat the man who slithered into the White House on tracks laid by guilty Enron execs and greased with his daddy''s oil associations. And as for ''The Left,'' they''re just as satisfied to stand idly by as the chasm between the ''haves'' and ''have nots'' grows wider and wider. That''s right, Michael Moore is back with a new book that reveals what''s gone wrong in America and, more importantly, how it can be fixed. In his characteristic style that is at once fearless and funny, Moore takes readers on another wild ride to the political edge of righteous laughter and divine revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14227'),
(16185, 'Dude, where&#39;s my country?', 'Michael Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Stupid White Men comes a hilarious act of sedition to overthrow the ''Thief in Chief''-and effect the kind of change that just may save the country. Michael Moore is on a mission: He aims to unseat the man who slithered into the White House on tracks laid by guilty Enron execs and greased with his daddy''s oil associations. And as for ''The Left,'' they''re just as satisfied to stand idly by as the chasm between the ''haves'' and ''have nots'' grows wider and wider. That''s right, Michael Moore is back with a new book that reveals what''s gone wrong in America and, more importantly, how it can be fixed. In his characteristic style that is at once fearless and funny, Moore takes readers on another wild ride to the political edge of righteous laughter and divine revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22035'),
(16186, 'Dude, You&#39;re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School', 'C. J. Pascoe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school,\n <em>\n  Dude, You''re a Fag\n </em>\n sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe''s unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one. She demonstrates how the "specter of the fag" becomes a disciplinary mechanism for regulating heterosexual as well as homosexual boys and how the "fag discourse" is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Laced with evocative stories based on ethnographic observations and interviews with high school kids,\n <em>\n  Dude, You''re a Fag\n </em>\n tells gripping stories of life in high school, while helping to extend the cutting edge of scholarly theory on gender and sexualities. C.J. Pascoe has contributed a highly readable and extremely insightful book that will be required reading for students and scholars of youth and the construction of sex and gender in schools."--Michael A. Messner, author of\n <em>\n  Taking the Field: Women, Men and Sports\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "This is a strikingly original study of schoolboys renegotiating class, gender, and ethnicity, along with the labeling as ''fag''. Here homophobia is at work in a path breaking study, which is also a highly readable must-read."--Ken Plummer, University of Essex, and editor of\n <em>\n  Sexualities\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "We know that schools are a central site for the construction of gender identity, but until C. J. Pascoe''s careful and compassionate ethnography, we haven''t known exactly\n <em>\n  how\n </em>\n gender conformity is extracted from a slurry of humiliations, fears, and anxieties. Boys will not be boys unless they are made to be, by violence, real or implied. A troubling, thoughtful work."--Michael Kimmel, author of\n <em>\n  Manhood in America\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Pascoe''s thoughtful analysis of the rhetorical and interactional processes that constitute the field of masculinity for young, high school men coming of age is rich and engaging. With fresh insight and careful observation, Pascoe sheds new light on the complex interplay of masculinity, homophobia, sexuality, and the body, compelling us to rethink the formation of gender identities, collective gender practices, and the reproduction of gender inequalities."--Amy L. Best, author of\n <em>\n  Prom Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "In this superb ethnography of daily life in a contemporary high school, C. J. Pascoe highlights the sexualized dynamics of youthful masculinity. With vivid detail and perceptive analysis, she examines the ''fag talk'' which pervades boys'' conversations; the convergence of gender, sexual, and racialized practices in school rituals like the ''Mr. Cougar'' contest; and the experiences of girls who display themselves as masculine. The result is a book that breaks fresh ground in masculinity and gender studies-and is a very good read!"--Barrie Thorne, author of\n <em>\n  Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15491'),
(16187, 'The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power', 'Tariq Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It is the only Islamic state to have nuclear weapons. Its border with Afghanistan extends over one thousand miles and is the likely hideout of Osama bin Laden. It has been under military dictatorship for thirty-three of its fiftyyear existence. Yet it is the linchpin in the United States'' war on terror, receiving over $10 billion of American aid since 2001 and purchasing more than $5 billion of U.S. weaponry in 2006 alone.These days, relations between the two countries are never less than tense. Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf reported that U.S. deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage threatened to "bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age" if it did not commit fully to the alliance in the wake of 9/11. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said he would have no hesitation in bombing Al Qaeda inside the country, "with or without" approval of the Pakistani government. Recent surveys show that more than 70 percent of Pakistanis fear the United States as a military threat to their country.The Bush administration spent much of 2007 promoting a "dream ticket" of Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto to run Pakistan together. That strategy, with Bhutto assassinated and the general''s party winning less than 15 percent of the contested seats in the 2008 election, is now in tatters.With increasingly bold attacks by Taliban supporters in the border regions threatening to split the Pakistan army, with the only political alternatives -- Nawaz Sharif and Benazir''s widower Asif Ali Zardari -- being as corrupt as the regime they seek to replace, and with a newly radicalized movement of lawyers testing its strength as championsof the rule of law, the chances of sustained stability in Pakistan look slim. The scion of a famous Punjabi political family, with extraordinary contacts inside the country and internationally, Tariq Ali has long been acknowledged as a leading commentator on Pakistan. In these pages he combines deep understanding of the country''s history with extensive firsthand research and unsparing political judgment to weigh the prospects of those contending for power today. The labyrinthine path between a secure world and global conflagration runs right through Pakistan. No one is better placed to trace its contours.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/837'),
(16188, 'The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power', 'Tariq Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It is the only Islamic state to have nuclear weapons. Its border with Afghanistan extends over one thousand miles and is the likely hideout of Osama bin Laden. It has been under military dictatorship for thirty-three of its fiftyyear existence. Yet it is the linchpin in the United States'' war on terror, receiving over $10 billion of American aid since 2001 and purchasing more than $5 billion of U.S. weaponry in 2006 alone.These days, relations between the two countries are never less than tense. Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf reported that U.S. deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage threatened to "bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age" if it did not commit fully to the alliance in the wake of 9/11. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said he would have no hesitation in bombing Al Qaeda inside the country, "with or without" approval of the Pakistani government. Recent surveys show that more than 70 percent of Pakistanis fear the United States as a military threat to their country.The Bush administration spent much of 2007 promoting a "dream ticket" of Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto to run Pakistan together. That strategy, with Bhutto assassinated and the general''s party winning less than 15 percent of the contested seats in the 2008 election, is now in tatters.With increasingly bold attacks by Taliban supporters in the border regions threatening to split the Pakistan army, with the only political alternatives -- Nawaz Sharif and Benazir''s widower Asif Ali Zardari -- being as corrupt as the regime they seek to replace, and with a newly radicalized movement of lawyers testing its strength as championsof the rule of law, the chances of sustained stability in Pakistan look slim. The scion of a famous Punjabi political family, with extraordinary contacts inside the country and internationally, Tariq Ali has long been acknowledged as a leading commentator on Pakistan. In these pages he combines deep understanding of the country''s history with extensive firsthand research and unsparing political judgment to weigh the prospects of those contending for power today. The labyrinthine path between a secure world and global conflagration runs right through Pakistan. No one is better placed to trace its contours.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9331'),
(16189, 'The duel: Pakistan on the flight path of American power', 'Tariq Ali', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It is the only Islamic state to have nuclear weapons. Its border with Afghanistan extends over one thousand miles and is the likely hideout of Osama bin Laden. It has been under military dictatorship for thirty-three of its fiftyyear existence. Yet it is the linchpin in the United States'' war on terror, receiving over $10 billion of American aid since 2001 and purchasing more than $5 billion of U.S. weaponry in 2006 alone.These days, relations between the two countries are never less than tense. Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf reported that U.S. deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage threatened to "bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age" if it did not commit fully to the alliance in the wake of 9/11. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said he would have no hesitation in bombing Al Qaeda inside the country, "with or without" approval of the Pakistani government. Recent surveys show that more than 70 percent of Pakistanis fear the United States as a military threat to their country.The Bush administration spent much of 2007 promoting a "dream ticket" of Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto to run Pakistan together. That strategy, with Bhutto assassinated and the general''s party winning less than 15 percent of the contested seats in the 2008 election, is now in tatters.With increasingly bold attacks by Taliban supporters in the border regions threatening to split the Pakistan army, with the only political alternatives -- Nawaz Sharif and Benazir''s widower Asif Ali Zardari -- being as corrupt as the regime they seek to replace, and with a newly radicalized movement of lawyers testing its strength as championsof the rule of law, the chances of sustained stability in Pakistan look slim. The scion of a famous Punjabi political family, with extraordinary contacts inside the country and internationally, Tariq Ali has long been acknowledged as a leading commentator on Pakistan. In these pages he combines deep understanding of the country''s history with extensive firsthand research and unsparing political judgment to weigh the prospects of those contending for power today. The labyrinthine path between a secure world and global conflagration runs right through Pakistan. No one is better placed to trace its contours.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24078'),
(16190, 'The Dukan Diet', 'Pierre Dukan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n # 1 international bestselling diet book coming to North America Devised by Dr. Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight, the Dukan Diet rejects counting calories and promises permanent weight loss while allowing adherents to eat as much as they like. Originally published in 2000, the Dukan Diet swept across France, championed by people who successfully lost weight following its unique four phase regime. The Dukan Diet has helped millions in France, where it has been number one for more than ten years and adopted in twenty countries, including the United Kingdom, Poland, Korea and Brazil. All together, The Dukan Diet has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. The Diet: 4 Easy Steps to Permanent Weight Loss Phase one: Attack Using Dr. Dukan''s True Weight calculator, dieters determine a reasonable and healthy weight loss goal. Then they begin the Dukan...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14646'),
(16191, 'The Dukan Diet: 2 Steps to Lose the Weight, 2 Steps to Keep It Off Forever', 'Pierre Dukan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''The fat attack French women swear by'' -- Grazia ''The ultimate diet. The French have kept it secret for years... Today, more than 1.5million women swear by its dramatic - and long-lasting - results.'' -- Daily Mail ''The secret that keeps French women slim.'' -- Bella ''It''s a four-stage plan that offers the ultimate fast track to weight loss and maintenance with delish French-inspired recipes to keep you inspired.'' -- She ''Politicians, film stars and high-profile models, including Gisele Bundchen and Jennifer Lopez, live the Dukan life.'' -- Daily Mail ''How do you fancy getting the legs and curves of Jennifer Lopez and Gisele Bundchen without having to go on a diet of lettuce? ... More than 1.5million French women already swear by the slimming regime devised by nutritionist Dr Pierre Dukan ten years ago.'' -- Daily Mirror ''All over France right now, women are talking in hushed reverential tones about a certain Pierre Dukan... he is in fact, currently the biggest name on the French dieting scene.'' -- Grazia ''French women don''t get fat... But now we know the real reason why. for the last ten years, thousands of women across the channel have been following a plan called the Dukan Diet. And the results have been astonishing.'' -- New ''Want to know why French women seem to be able to enjoy long Mediterranean-style lunches but still stay slim and gorgeous? It''s all down to a diet formula worked out by eminent French doctor Pierre Dukan, based on four different eating phases that follow on from each other but result in speedy weight loss while eating unlimited quantities of real food, six days a week.'' -- Reveal\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  # 1 international bestselling diet book coming to North America\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Devised by Dr. Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight, the Dukan Diet rejects counting calories and promises permanent weight loss while allowing adherents to eat as much as they like.\n</p>\n<p>\n Originally published in 2000, the Dukan Diet swept across France, championed by people who successfully lost weight following its unique four phase regime.\n <em>\n  The Dukan Diet\n </em>\n has helped millions in France, where itÂ has been number one for more than ten years and adopted in twenty countries, including the United Kingdom, Poland, Korea and Brazil. All together,\n <em>\n  The Dukan Diet\n </em>\n has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Â \n <br />\n The Diet: 4 Easy Steps to Permanent Weight Loss\n <br />\n Â \n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Phase one: Attack\n </strong>\n <br />\n Using Dr. Dukan''s True Weight calculator, dieters determine a reasonable and healthy weight loss goal. Then they begin the Dukan Attack phase a two-to-seven-day period during which only unlimited lean protein and a daily Oat bran galette (or pancake) are consumed and dramatic weight loss is achieved.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Phase Two: Cruise\n </strong>\n <br />\n Dieters alternate days of unlimited lean protein with days of protein combined with healthful vegetables until they reach their True Weight.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Phase Three: Consolidation\n </strong>\n <br />\n Dieters stay on this phase for 5 days for every pound lost. At this point the diet allows unlimited protein and vegetables, and other foods (such as cheese and bread) are reintroduced.Â  Dieters are also allowed two weekly celebration meals to stave off boredom.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Phase Four: Stabilization\n </strong>\n <br />\n This is the maintenance portion of the plan, in which followers are allowed to eat whatever they like without regaining weight â€“ provided that they follow 3 unbreakable rules including eating only unlimited lean protein one set day per week.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n For each phase, The Dukan Diet offers clear simple guidelines for long term success.Â  The Dukan Diet is the perfect diet for people who want fast weight loss, that can be maintained without counting calories or weighing portions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2142');
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(16192, 'The Dukan Diet: 2 Steps to Lose the Weight, 2 Steps to Keep It Off Forever', 'Pierre Dukan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''The fat attack French women swear by'' -- Grazia ''The ultimate diet. The French have kept it secret for years... Today, more than 1.5million women swear by its dramatic - and long-lasting - results.'' -- Daily Mail ''The secret that keeps French women slim.'' -- Bella ''It''s a four-stage plan that offers the ultimate fast track to weight loss and maintenance with delish French-inspired recipes to keep you inspired.'' -- She ''Politicians, film stars and high-profile models, including Gisele Bundchen and Jennifer Lopez, live the Dukan life.'' -- Daily Mail ''How do you fancy getting the legs and curves of Jennifer Lopez and Gisele Bundchen without having to go on a diet of lettuce? ... More than 1.5million French women already swear by the slimming regime devised by nutritionist Dr Pierre Dukan ten years ago.'' -- Daily Mirror ''All over France right now, women are talking in hushed reverential tones about a certain Pierre Dukan... he is in fact, currently the biggest name on the French dieting scene.'' -- Grazia ''French women don''t get fat... But now we know the real reason why. for the last ten years, thousands of women across the channel have been following a plan called the Dukan Diet. And the results have been astonishing.'' -- New ''Want to know why French women seem to be able to enjoy long Mediterranean-style lunches but still stay slim and gorgeous? It''s all down to a diet formula worked out by eminent French doctor Pierre Dukan, based on four different eating phases that follow on from each other but result in speedy weight loss while eating unlimited quantities of real food, six days a week.'' -- Reveal\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  # 1 international bestselling diet book coming to North America\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Devised by Dr. Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight, the Dukan Diet rejects counting calories and promises permanent weight loss while allowing adherents to eat as much as they like.\n</p>\n<p>\n Originally published in 2000, the Dukan Diet swept across France, championed by people who successfully lost weight following its unique four phase regime.\n <em>\n  The Dukan Diet\n </em>\n has helped millions in France, where itÂ has been number one for more than ten years and adopted in twenty countries, including the United Kingdom, Poland, Korea and Brazil. All together,\n <em>\n  The Dukan Diet\n </em>\n has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Â \n <br />\n The Diet: 4 Easy Steps to Permanent Weight Loss\n <br />\n Â \n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Phase one: Attack\n </strong>\n <br />\n Using Dr. Dukan''s True Weight calculator, dieters determine a reasonable and healthy weight loss goal. Then they begin the Dukan Attack phase a two-to-seven-day period during which only unlimited lean protein and a daily Oat bran galette (or pancake) are consumed and dramatic weight loss is achieved.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Phase Two: Cruise\n </strong>\n <br />\n Dieters alternate days of unlimited lean protein with days of protein combined with healthful vegetables until they reach their True Weight.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Phase Three: Consolidation\n </strong>\n <br />\n Dieters stay on this phase for 5 days for every pound lost. At this point the diet allows unlimited protein and vegetables, and other foods (such as cheese and bread) are reintroduced.Â  Dieters are also allowed two weekly celebration meals to stave off boredom.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Phase Four: Stabilization\n </strong>\n <br />\n This is the maintenance portion of the plan, in which followers are allowed to eat whatever they like without regaining weight â€“ provided that they follow 3 unbreakable rules including eating only unlimited lean protein one set day per week.Â \n</p>\n<p>\n For each phase, The Dukan Diet offers clear simple guidelines for long term success.Â  The Dukan Diet is the perfect diet for people who want fast weight loss, that can be maintained without counting calories or weighing portions.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10903'),
(16193, 'Duke Elric', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIf you are familiar with Elric, I trust you will enjoy revisiting him in this present form. If you are new to him, I hope you find him good, if rather dangerous, company.â€â€”Michael Moorcock\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Moorcock is] the most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€â€”_The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMichael Moorcockâ€™s work as a critic, as an editor and as a writer has made it easier for me and a whole generation of us to roam the â€˜moonbeam roadsâ€™ of the literary multiverse.â€â€”from the Foreword by Michael Chabon\n</p>\n<p>\n Has there ever been a heroâ€“or anti-heroâ€“to match Elric of MelnibonÃ©, last emperor of an ancient civilization sunk into decadence and inhuman cruelty? Elric the albino, weary of life and enamored of death, bearer of the soul-devouring black sword Stormbringer, cursed to betray all he loves and to save that which he despises: In the unending battle between the forces of Law and Chaos, he is the wildest card of all.\n</p>\n<p>\n Del Rey proudly presents the fourth in its definitive collection of stories featuring fantasy Grand Master Michael Moorcockâ€™s greatest creation. Here is the full novel The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, the script of the DC comic Duke Elric, the new story â€œThe Flaneur des Arcades de lâ€™Opera,â€ essays by Moorcock and others, and a selection of classic artwork.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lavishly illustrated by Justin Sweet, with a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon, Duke Elric is essential for all fans of the fantastic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2863'),
(16194, 'Duke Elric', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIf you are familiar with Elric, I trust you will enjoy revisiting him in this present form. If you are new to him, I hope you find him good, if rather dangerous, company.â€â€”Michael Moorcock\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Moorcock is] the most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€â€”_The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMichael Moorcockâ€™s work as a critic, as an editor and as a writer has made it easier for me and a whole generation of us to roam the â€˜moonbeam roadsâ€™ of the literary multiverse.â€â€”from the Foreword by Michael Chabon\n</p>\n<p>\n Has there ever been a heroâ€“or anti-heroâ€“to match Elric of MelnibonÃ©, last emperor of an ancient civilization sunk into decadence and inhuman cruelty? Elric the albino, weary of life and enamored of death, bearer of the soul-devouring black sword Stormbringer, cursed to betray all he loves and to save that which he despises: In the unending battle between the forces of Law and Chaos, he is the wildest card of all.\n</p>\n<p>\n Del Rey proudly presents the fourth in its definitive collection of stories featuring fantasy Grand Master Michael Moorcockâ€™s greatest creation. Here is the full novel The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, the script of the DC comic Duke Elric, the new story â€œThe Flaneur des Arcades de lâ€™Opera,â€ essays by Moorcock and others, and a selection of classic artwork.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lavishly illustrated by Justin Sweet, with a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon, Duke Elric is essential for all fans of the fantastic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11494'),
(16195, 'Duke Elric', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIf you are familiar with Elric, I trust you will enjoy revisiting him in this present form. If you are new to him, I hope you find him good, if rather dangerous, company.â€â€”Michael Moorcock\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Moorcock is] the most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€â€”_The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMichael Moorcockâ€™s work as a critic, as an editor and as a writer has made it easier for me and a whole generation of us to roam the â€˜moonbeam roadsâ€™ of the literary multiverse.â€â€”from the Foreword by Michael Chabon\n</p>\n<p>\n Has there ever been a heroâ€“or anti-heroâ€“to match Elric of MelnibonÃ©, last emperor of an ancient civilization sunk into decadence and inhuman cruelty? Elric the albino, weary of life and enamored of death, bearer of the soul-devouring black sword Stormbringer, cursed to betray all he loves and to save that which he despises: In the unending battle between the forces of Law and Chaos, he is the wildest card of all.\n</p>\n<p>\n Del Rey proudly presents the fourth in its definitive collection of stories featuring fantasy Grand Master Michael Moorcockâ€™s greatest creation. Here is the full novel The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, the script of the DC comic Duke Elric, the new story â€œThe Flaneur des Arcades de lâ€™Opera,â€ essays by Moorcock and others, and a selection of classic artwork.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lavishly illustrated by Justin Sweet, with a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon, Duke Elric is essential for all fans of the fantastic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21968'),
(16196, 'Duma Key', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through...**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle''s right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn''t survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *"Edgar, does anything make you happy?"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I used to sketch."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night."*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth''s past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating. The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural -- Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1098'),
(16197, 'Duma Key', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through...**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle''s right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn''t survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *"Edgar, does anything make you happy?"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I used to sketch."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night."*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth''s past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating. The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural -- Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10819'),
(16198, 'Duma Key', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through...** A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle''s right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn''t survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else. *"Edgar, does anything make you happy?" "I used to sketch." "Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night."* Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth''s past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating. The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural -- Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14339'),
(16199, 'Duma Key', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through...** A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle''s right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn''t survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else. *"Edgar, does anything make you happy?" "I used to sketch." "Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night."* Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth''s past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating. The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural -- Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23826'),
(16200, 'Dumb Witness', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24948'),
(16201, 'Dumb Witness: Hercule Poirot Investigates', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Miss Emily was old, rich, and afraid--and now, she''s dead. Her terrified plea to Hercule Poirot came a little too late. All that''s left is a house full of greedy heirs, and a very strange letter that could solve the mystery--or add to it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15379'),
(16202, 'The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide', 'Wai Hon Chu &amp; Connie Lovatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide* by Wai Hon Chu and Connie Lovatt is the most comprehensive collection of dumpling recipes ever produced.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Discovering that dumplingsâ€”as a category of foodâ€”have never been properly defined, Chu and Lovatt developed a definition that takes into account the ingredients, cooking methods, and shapes that most commonly define dumplings, not just in a particular region or culture, but around the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *"A dumpling is a portion of dough, batter, or starchy plant fare, solid or filled, that is cooked through wet heat, and is not a strand or a ribbon"*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This exciting collection shows us that not only are pot stickers, pierogis, and shao mai dumplings but so too are tamales, steamed cakes, and steamed breads. From Chickpea Dumplings in a Tomato Sauce (India) to Leaf-Wrapped Rice Packages Stuffed with Peanuts and Sausage (China), from Chocolate Tamales (Mexico) to a "Napkin" Bread Dumpling with Cherries (Austria), from Cloud-Shaped Bread Buns (Tibet) to Potato Dumplings with Cabbage Layers (Hungary), dumplings, whether steamed or simmered, are as fun to make as they are to eat.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A truly passionate exploration of every dumpling type imaginable, *The Dumpling* contains dessert varieties, dumplings for gifts or entertaining, dozens of vegetarian and vegan options, fast and easy dumplings, as well as 21 pages of step-by-step dumpling making-illustrations. Arranged by month so as to encourage all of us to cook dumplings seasonally and year round, *The Dumpling* contains a recipe for every taste bud, table, and occasion.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Chapters 10, 11, and 12\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n October\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No-Fuss Potato Dumplings â€¢ Spiced Carrot Pudding â€¢ Collard Greens with Corn Dumplings â€¢ Chicken Paprika with Dumplings â€¢ Bean Soup with Tiny Dumplings â€¢ Chickpea "Fish" in a Spicy Onion Sauce â€¢ Bacon and Sage Roly Poly â€¢ Daikon Cake â€¢ Cheddar Cheese and Potato Pierogi â€¢ Lentil and Onion Pierogi â€¢ Potato "Tamales" Stuffed with Chicken and Jalapeno â€¢ Beef-Stuffed Plantain Balls in a Cassava-Corn Soup\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n November\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dumplings and Cockyâ€™s Joy â€¢ "Napkin" Bread Dumpling â€¢ Turkey Stew with Stuffing Dumplings â€¢ Cranberry Pudding â€¢ Lord Randallâ€™s Pudding, An Apricot Dessert â€¢ Sticky Toffee Pudding â€¢ Potato Dumplings with Crouton Centers â€¢ Country Cabbage Soup with Large Cornmeal Dumplings â€¢ Philadelphia Pepperpot Soup with Dumplings â€¢ Large Beef- and Spinach-Filled Dumplings in Beef Broth â€¢ Dumplings Stuffed with Pears, Figs, and Chocolate â€¢ Pumpkin and Lentil Ravioli with Browned Butter and Rosemary â€¢ "Little Ear" Dumplings Stuffed with Mushrooms in a Beet Soup\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n December\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Root Vegetable Bread Dumplings â€¢ Clootie Dumpling â€¢ Starchy Coconut Stew with Slippery Rice Balls â€¢ Guava Duff â€¢ Potato Dumplings with Cabbage Layers â€¢ John in the Sack â€¢ Classic Christmas Pudding â€¢ Chocolate Tamales â€¢ Siberian Meat Dumplings â€¢ Chestnut Ravioli with Sage Butter Sauce â€¢ Chicken-Filled Dumplings in an Escarole Soup â€¢ Dumplings Stuffed with "Stewed" Breadcrumbs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/349'),
(16203, 'The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide', 'Wai Hon Chu &amp; Connie Lovatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide* by Wai Hon Chu and Connie Lovatt is the most comprehensive collection of dumpling recipes ever produced.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Discovering that dumplingsâ€”as a category of foodâ€”have never been properly defined, Chu and Lovatt developed a definition that takes into account the ingredients, cooking methods, and shapes that most commonly define dumplings, not just in a particular region or culture, but around the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *"A dumpling is a portion of dough, batter, or starchy plant fare, solid or filled, that is cooked through wet heat, and is not a strand or a ribbon"*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This exciting collection shows us that not only are pot stickers, pierogis, and shao mai dumplings but so too are tamales, steamed cakes, and steamed breads. From Chickpea Dumplings in a Tomato Sauce (India) to Leaf-Wrapped Rice Packages Stuffed with Peanuts and Sausage (China), from Chocolate Tamales (Mexico) to a "Napkin" Bread Dumpling with Cherries (Austria), from Cloud-Shaped Bread Buns (Tibet) to Potato Dumplings with Cabbage Layers (Hungary), dumplings, whether steamed or simmered, are as fun to make as they are to eat.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A truly passionate exploration of every dumpling type imaginable, *The Dumpling* contains dessert varieties, dumplings for gifts or entertaining, dozens of vegetarian and vegan options, fast and easy dumplings, as well as 21 pages of step-by-step dumpling making-illustrations. Arranged by month so as to encourage all of us to cook dumplings seasonally and year round, *The Dumpling* contains a recipe for every taste bud, table, and occasion.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Chapters 10, 11, and 12\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n October\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No-Fuss Potato Dumplings â€¢ Spiced Carrot Pudding â€¢ Collard Greens with Corn Dumplings â€¢ Chicken Paprika with Dumplings â€¢ Bean Soup with Tiny Dumplings â€¢ Chickpea "Fish" in a Spicy Onion Sauce â€¢ Bacon and Sage Roly Poly â€¢ Daikon Cake â€¢ Cheddar Cheese and Potato Pierogi â€¢ Lentil and Onion Pierogi â€¢ Potato "Tamales" Stuffed with Chicken and Jalapeno â€¢ Beef-Stuffed Plantain Balls in a Cassava-Corn Soup\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n November\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dumplings and Cockyâ€™s Joy â€¢ "Napkin" Bread Dumpling â€¢ Turkey Stew with Stuffing Dumplings â€¢ Cranberry Pudding â€¢ Lord Randallâ€™s Pudding, An Apricot Dessert â€¢ Sticky Toffee Pudding â€¢ Potato Dumplings with Crouton Centers â€¢ Country Cabbage Soup with Large Cornmeal Dumplings â€¢ Philadelphia Pepperpot Soup with Dumplings â€¢ Large Beef- and Spinach-Filled Dumplings in Beef Broth â€¢ Dumplings Stuffed with Pears, Figs, and Chocolate â€¢ Pumpkin and Lentil Ravioli with Browned Butter and Rosemary â€¢ "Little Ear" Dumplings Stuffed with Mushrooms in a Beet Soup\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n December\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Root Vegetable Bread Dumplings â€¢ Clootie Dumpling â€¢ Starchy Coconut Stew with Slippery Rice Balls â€¢ Guava Duff â€¢ Potato Dumplings with Cabbage Layers â€¢ John in the Sack â€¢ Classic Christmas Pudding â€¢ Chocolate Tamales â€¢ Siberian Meat Dumplings â€¢ Chestnut Ravioli with Sage Butter Sauce â€¢ Chicken-Filled Dumplings in an Escarole Soup â€¢ Dumplings Stuffed with "Stewed" Breadcrumbs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8904'),
(16204, 'The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide', 'Wai Hon Chu; Connie Lovatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide* by Wai Hon Chu and Connie Lovatt is the most comprehensive collection of dumpling recipes ever produced. Discovering that dumplingsâ€”as a category of foodâ€”have never been properly defined, Chu and Lovatt developed a definition that takes into account the ingredients, cooking methods, and shapes that most commonly define dumplings, not just in a particular region or culture, but around the world. *"A dumpling is a portion of dough, batter, or starchy plant fare, solid or filled, that is cooked through wet heat, and is not a strand or a ribbon"* This exciting collection shows us that not only are pot stickers, pierogis, and shao mai dumplings but so too are tamales, steamed cakes, and steamed breads. From Chickpea Dumplings in a Tomato Sauce (India) to Leaf-Wrapped Rice Packages Stuffed with Peanuts and Sausage (China), from Chocolate Tamales (Mexico) to a "Napkin" Bread Dumpling with Cherries (Austria), from Cloud-Shaped Bread Buns (Tibet) to Potato Dumplings with Cabbage Layers (Hungary), dumplings, whether steamed or simmered, are as fun to make as they are to eat. A truly passionate exploration of every dumpling type imaginable, *The Dumpling* contains dessert varieties, dumplings for gifts or entertaining, dozens of vegetarian and vegan options, fast and easy dumplings, as well as 21 pages of step-by-step dumpling making-illustrations. Arranged by month so as to encourage all of us to cook dumplings seasonally and year round, *The Dumpling* contains a recipe for every taste bud, table, and occasion. Chapters 10, 11, and 12 October No-Fuss Potato Dumplings â€¢ Spiced Carrot Pudding â€¢ Collard Greens with Corn Dumplings â€¢ Chicken Paprika with Dumplings â€¢ Bean Soup with Tiny Dumplings â€¢ Chickpea "Fish" in a Spicy Onion Sauce â€¢ Bacon and Sage Roly Poly â€¢ Daikon Cake â€¢ Cheddar Cheese and Potato Pierogi â€¢ Lentil and Onion Pierogi â€¢ Potato "Tamales" Stuffed with Chicken and Jalapeno â€¢ Beef-Stuffed Plantain Balls in a Cassava-Corn Soup November Dumplings and Cockyâ€™s Joy â€¢ "Napkin" Bread Dumpling â€¢ Turkey Stew with Stuffing Dumplings â€¢ Cranberry Pudding â€¢ Lord Randallâ€™s Pudding, An Apricot Dessert â€¢ Sticky Toffee Pudding â€¢ Potato Dumplings with Crouton Centers â€¢ Country Cabbage Soup with Large Cornmeal Dumplings â€¢ Philadelphia Pepperpot Soup with Dumplings â€¢ Large Beef- and Spinach-Filled Dumplings in Beef Broth â€¢ Dumplings Stuffed with Pears, Figs, and Chocolate â€¢ Pumpkin and Lentil Ravioli with Browned Butter and Rosemary â€¢ "Little Ear" Dumplings Stuffed with Mushrooms in a Beet Soup December Root Vegetable Bread Dumplings â€¢ Clootie Dumpling â€¢ Starchy Coconut Stew with Slippery Rice Balls â€¢ Guava Duff â€¢ Potato Dumplings with Cabbage Layers â€¢ John in the Sack â€¢ Classic Christmas Pudding â€¢ Chocolate Tamales â€¢ Siberian Meat Dumplings â€¢ Chestnut Ravioli with Sage Butter Sauce â€¢ Chicken-Filled Dumplings in an Escarole Soup â€¢ Dumplings Stuffed with "Stewed" Breadcrumbs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24636'),
(16205, 'Duncton Tales', 'William Horwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''More readable and rewarding than The Lord of the Rings'' --\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  THE JOURNEY STARTS\n  <em>\n   HERE\n  </em>\n  , AND NOW\n </p>\n <p>\n  A million readers have revelled in William Horwood''s now classic trilogy\n  <em>\n   The Duncton Chronicles\n  </em>\n  which tells how Moledom''s Stone followers struggled to find peace and truth for allmole.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now Moledom''s greatest tale can be told - from which all began and to which all is leading.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you have never read a Duncton story before, start here and now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you are already a Stone follower then prepare for the greatest pilgrimage of your life to find the Silence of the Stone.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/245'),
(16206, 'Duncton Tales', 'William Horwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''More readable and rewarding than The Lord of the Rings'' --\n  <em>\n   The Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  THE JOURNEY STARTS\n  <em>\n   HERE\n  </em>\n  , AND NOW\n </p>\n <p>\n  A million readers have revelled in William Horwood''s now classic trilogy\n  <em>\n   The Duncton Chronicles\n  </em>\n  which tells how Moledom''s Stone followers struggled to find peace and truth for allmole.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now Moledom''s greatest tale can be told - from which all began and to which all is leading.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you have never read a Duncton story before, start here and now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If you are already a Stone follower then prepare for the greatest pilgrimage of your life to find the Silence of the Stone.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24757'),
(16207, 'Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The all-time science fiction masterpiece...now in a special hardcover edition."Unique...I know nothing comparable to it except *Lord of the Rings*."--Arthur C. ClarkeHere is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud''dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind''s most ancient and unattainable dream.A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, *Dune* won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. Frank Herbert''s death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5535'),
(16208, 'Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The all-time science fiction masterpiece...now in a special hardcover edition."Unique...I know nothing comparable to it except *Lord of the Rings*."--Arthur C. ClarkeHere is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud''dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind''s most ancient and unattainable dream.A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, *Dune* won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. Frank Herbert''s death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10277'),
(16209, 'Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The all-time science fiction masterpiece...now in a special hardcover edition."Unique...I know nothing comparable to it except *Lord of the Rings*."--Arthur C. ClarkeHere is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud''dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind''s most ancient and unattainable dream.A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, *Dune* won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. Frank Herbert''s death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14905'),
(16210, 'Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.\n</p>\n<p>\n The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don''t want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet''s harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what''s rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow.\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dune is to science fiction what The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy. Though fans believed they had bid a sad farewell to the sand planet of Arrakis upon Herbert''s death in 1986, his son Brian has assumed writing the Nebula and Hugo award-winning series with the help of Kevin J. Anderson. But the original is always the most popular, and Ace here offers a good-quality hardcover complete with maps, a glossary, and appendixes. The book''s huge fan base should expand even more thanks to a six-hour miniseries premiering on the Sci-Fi Channel later this year that is said to be more faithful to the book than David Lynch''s truly awful 1984 feature film.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19056'),
(16211, 'Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27833'),
(16212, 'Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The all-time science fiction masterpiece...now in a special hardcover edition."Unique...I know nothing comparable to it except *Lord of the Rings*."--Arthur C. ClarkeHere is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud''dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind''s most ancient and unattainable dream.A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, *Dune* won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. Frank Herbert''s death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27834'),
(16213, 'Dune Messiah', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert''s magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis -- a world as fully real and rich as our own -- Dune Messiah continues the story of the man Muad''Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to completion the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5539'),
(16214, 'Dune Messiah', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert''s magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis -- a world as fully real and rich as our own -- Dune Messiah continues the story of the man Muad''Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to completion the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10273'),
(16215, 'Dune Messiah', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert''s magnificent Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination as one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. Dune Messiahcontinues the story of Paul Atreides, better known-and feared-as the man christened Muad''Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremens, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne-and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family''s dynasty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15260'),
(16216, 'Dune Messiah', 'Frank Herbert; Brian Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1965 Frank Herbert published\n <em>\n  Dune\n </em>\n . After it was heralded as a masterpiece of science fiction, he wrote the briefer\n <em>\n  Dune Messiah\n </em>\n in 1969, concentrating eponymously on Paul Atreides, and then, sensing the sales potential, added sequels. They were continued by his son, culminating in the just published finale,\n <em>\n  Sandworms of Dune\n </em>\n . Now, 38 years after its publication, four narrators capture\n <em>\n  Dune Messiah\n </em>\n on discs, while listeners, with no glossary, try to recall the meaning of its esoteric nomenclature. The audio gets off to a lively start as the book opens with nearly all conversation, playing up the camaraderie between the narrators who have partnered on several other readings of classic sci-fi novels. While the cast works well together, some of the male narrators emphasize a stately dullness. Kellgren, the sole feminine voice, supplies real emotion and a true sense of awe.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Unique among SF novels ... I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings.'' -- Arthur C. Clarke on DUNE ''One of the landmarks of modern science fiction ... an amazing feat of creation.'' -- Analog on DUNE\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19055'),
(16217, 'Dune Messiah', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert''s magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis -- a world as fully real and rich as our own -- Dune Messiah continues the story of the man Muad''Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to completion the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert''s magnificent Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination as one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. Dune Messiahcontinues the story of Paul Atreides, better known-and feared-as the man christened Muad''Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremens, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne-and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family''s dynasty.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27829'),
(16218, 'Dune Road', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A sparkling new novel from the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Beach House***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jane Green''s last novel, *The Beach House*, was an instant *New York Times* bestseller and captured her largest audience yet. From the sunny green lawns of Connecticut to the cafÃ©s of London to the sandy beaches of Nantucket, Green draws from her own life to craft each delicious story and the resulting tales resonate with women everywhere.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Dune Road* is another fun and fearless adventure that will take Green''s many fans from laughter to tears and back again. The novel is set in the beach community of a tony Connecticut town. Our heroine is a single mom who works for a famous-and famously reclusive-novelist. When she stumbles on a secret that the great man has kept hidden for years, she knows that there are plenty of women in town who would love to get their hands on it-including some who fancy the writer for themselves. *Dune Road* is the story of life in an exclusive beach town after the tourists have left for the summer and the eccentric (and moneyed) community sticks around. *Dune Road* will surely be *the* book to pack in beach bags next summer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4716'),
(16219, 'Dune Road', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A sparkling new novel from the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Beach House***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jane Green''s last novel, *The Beach House*, was an instant *New York Times* bestseller and captured her largest audience yet. From the sunny green lawns of Connecticut to the cafÃ©s of London to the sandy beaches of Nantucket, Green draws from her own life to craft each delicious story and the resulting tales resonate with women everywhere.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Dune Road* is another fun and fearless adventure that will take Green''s many fans from laughter to tears and back again. The novel is set in the beach community of a tony Connecticut town. Our heroine is a single mom who works for a famous-and famously reclusive-novelist. When she stumbles on a secret that the great man has kept hidden for years, she knows that there are plenty of women in town who would love to get their hands on it-including some who fancy the writer for themselves. *Dune Road* is the story of life in an exclusive beach town after the tourists have left for the summer and the eccentric (and moneyed) community sticks around. *Dune Road* will surely be *the* book to pack in beach bags next summer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9976'),
(16220, 'Dune Road', 'Jane Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A sparkling new novel from the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Beach House*** Jane Green''s last novel, *The Beach House*, was an instant *New York Times* bestseller and captured her largest audience yet. From the sunny green lawns of Connecticut to the cafÃ©s of London to the sandy beaches of Nantucket, Green draws from her own life to craft each delicious story and the resulting tales resonate with women everywhere. *Dune Road* is another fun and fearless adventure that will take Green''s many fans from laughter to tears and back again. The novel is set in the beach community of a tony Connecticut town. Our heroine is a single mom who works for a famous-and famously reclusive-novelist. When she stumbles on a secret that the great man has kept hidden for years, she knows that there are plenty of women in town who would love to get their hands on it-including some who fancy the writer for themselves. *Dune Road* is the story of life in an exclusive beach town after the tourists have left for the summer and the eccentric (and moneyed) community sticks around. *Dune Road* will surely be *the* book to pack in beach bags next summer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19899');
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(16221, 'Dune: House Atreides', 'Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE EPIC PREQUEL TO DUNE"DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES is a terrific prequel, but it is also a first-rate adventure on its own. Frank Herbert would surely be delighted and proud of this continuation of his vision."â€”Dean KoontzFrank Herbert''s Dune chronicles became an enduring classic and the most popular science fiction series of all time. Working from recently discovered files left by his father, Brian Herbert and best-selling novelist Kevin J. Anderson bring us Dune: House Atreides, the prequel, which captures all the complexity and grand themes of the original work while weaving a new tapestry of great passion and momentous destiny into a saga that expands the tale written by Frank Herbert more than thirty years ago. Complex, brilliant, and prophetic, Frank Herbert''s award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imaginations of millions of readers worldwideâ€”and transformed their perception of what the future could be. By his death in 1986, Frank Herbert had completed six novels in the Dune series. But much of his visionâ€”vast, sprawling, and multilayeredâ€”remained unwritten. Now, working from recently discovered files left by his father, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson collaborate on a new novel, the first volume in the prequel to Duneâ€”where we step onto planet Arrakis...decades before Dune''s hero, Paul Atreides, walks its sands. â€”Beginning nearly four decades before Dune, House Atreides introduces pivotal characters, alliances, base treacheries, and bright hopes that form the foundation of Dune. On the planet Arrakis, an aging tyrant sits on the Golden Lion Throne and rules all of the known universe, while his son grows dangerously impatient for the crown. A quasi-religious order of black-robed women move their secret breeding program one momentous step closer to creating a god-child they call the Kwisatz Haderach. And a minor family among the nobility, House Atreides, chooses a course of honor that will bring it to destruction at the hands of its mortal enemy, House Harkonnenâ€”or take it to new heights of power.Here is the rich and complex world that Frank Herbert created in his classic series, in the time leading up to the momentous events of Dune. As Emperor Elrood''s son Shaddam plots a subtle regicide, young Leto Atreides leaves his lush, water-rich planet for a year''s education on the mechanized world of Ix; a planetologist named Pardot Kynes is dispatched by the Emperor to the desert planet Arrakis, or Dune, to discover the secrets of the addictive spice known as melange; and the eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho is hunted by his cruel masters in a terrifying game from which he vows escape and vengeance. But none can envision the fate in store for them: one that will make them renegadesâ€”and shapers of history. Covering the decade when Shaddam wins his throne, the teenager Leo Atreides becomes unexpectedly the rule of House Atreides, and Pardot Kynes uncovers one of the planet Dune''s greatest secrets, House Atreides stands next to Dune in its power and scope. While this new novel solves some of Dune''s most baffling mysteries, it presents new puzzles springing from the sands where one day Paul Muad''Dib Atreides will walk. But now, in the years before Paul''s birth, an unforgettable new epic begins. Fans of the Dune chronicles will relish the opportunity to return to the rich and exotic universe created by Frank Herbert, while new readers will be introduced to an incomparable imaginationâ€”a future where the fate of the entire cosmos is at stake. The Story Behind Dune: House Atreidesby Brian HerbertWhen my father first sat down with me to go over one of my manuscripts, he told me that he couldn''t teach me how to write; instead, he would teach me what he called "the care and feeding of editors": how to make manuscripts look presentable so that they wouldn''t be tossed into a slush pile, unread. He then proceeded to teach me how to write. I remember many instances when we would brainstorm ideas and dissect my own novel manuscripts. He taught me how to develop worlds, to create characters, to invent action...and to describe all of it. We collaborated on the novel Man of Two Worlds, Frank Herbert''s last published work, and even talked about working together on a new Dune novel, but we''d set no date, had established no specific details or direction.That novel was not to be. When my father died in 1986, he left several projects unfinished. For years there were rumors that I would write another novel set in my father''s Dune universe, a sequel to the sixth book in the series, Chapterhouse: Dune. Prominent writers approached me with offers of collaboration, but in tossing ideas around with them I couldn''t visualize the project coming to fruition. They were excellent writers, but in combination with them I didn''t feel the necessary synergy for such a monumental task. Along with Tolkien''s The Lord of the Rings and a handful of other works, Dune stood as one of the greatest creative achievements of all time, and arguably the greatest example of science fiction world-building in the history of literature. For the sake of my father''s legacy, I could not select the wrong person.It wasn''t until I began conversation with Kevin J. Anderson, a critically acclaimed and internationally best-selling author, that I found someone whose enthusiasm and passion for the Dune universe match my own. Much of Kevin''s writing had been influenced heavily by the work of Frank Herbert. I read everything I could get my hands on that Kevin had written, and did more checking on him. It soon became clear that he was a brilliant writer and that his reputation was sterling. We hit it off immediately, both on a personal and professional level; new story ideas fairly exploded from our minds and together, we found the energy to tackle such a massive project.Frank Herbert had left behind literally thousands of pages of notes, ideas, and sketches. Of all the possible Dune stories we could tell, Kevin and I chose to concentrate on an immediate prequel, to go back to the heart of Dune''s readership, the core characters and situations that had made this the best-selling science fiction novel of all time: The love story of Duke Leto and Lady Jessica; their first battle with Baron Harkonnen; the quest of the planetologist Kynes, sent to the desert world of Dune to investigate the precious spice and the sandworms and the Fremen...and the power-hungry Crown Prince Shaddam, who would do anything to secure the Imperial throne.The Dune universe is a vast canvas, with ample opportunity for many stories, but we have chosen to start here, featuring the characters with whom all Dune fans are familiar. Dune: House Atreides is a personal story that means a great deal to us; we hope booksellers and readers alike will feel the same way. Signed,Brian Herbert\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15541'),
(16222, 'Dune: House Corrino', 'Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sequel to Dune: House Atreides and Dune: House Harkonnen chronicles the origins of the rivalry between Duke Leto and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, the actions that transformed Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck into heroes, the birth of Paul Atreides, and the creation of the tyrannical Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15542'),
(16223, 'Dune: House Harkonnen', 'Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Duke Leto Atreides is now the skilful and much-loved ruler of Caladan, served by loyal Duncan Idaho. To his court come Gurney Halleck, despised slave of the Harkonnens - and Jessica, the exquisite, perfectly trained concubine chosen by the Reverend Mothers of the Bene Gesserit to be the mother of Leto''s daughter. Meanwhile, on Dune - planet Arrakis - House Harkonnen ruthlessly harvests the precious, mind-enhancing drug called spice. And Baron Vladimir is slowly being consumed by a loathesome disease. Rabban Harkonnen - House Atreides'' most implacable enemy - prepares to take over his uncle''s empire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15965'),
(16224, 'Dungeon Master for Dummies (ISBN', '0471783307)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18175'),
(16225, 'Dungeons &amp; Dragons for Dummies (ISBN', '0764584596)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15549'),
(16226, 'Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition for Dummies (ISBN', '0470292903)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15550'),
(16227, 'Dungeons and Dragons: The Temple of Yellow Skulls (Abyssal Plague #1)', 'Don Bassingthwaite', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Following close on the heels of\n  <em>\n   The Mark of Nerath\n  </em>\n  , Don Bassingthwaite picks up the action and takes the characters into the eye of a new kind of\n  <strong>\n   Dungeons &amp; Dragons\n  </strong>\n  Â® adventure...\n </p>\n <p>\n  Imprisoned in the void of a ruined universe by vengeful gods, Tharizdunâ€”the Chained God, the Elder Elemental Eyeâ€”shares his exile with the Progenitor, a pool of liquid crystal that is all that remains of the Abyss that destroyed his universe.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Enter our heroes Albanon, Shara and Uldaneâ€”all three adventurers readers will know from\n  <em>\n   The Mark of Nerath\n  </em>\n  . They thought their quests were over and done with, but danger still burns like the embers of a smoldering fire in the tall grass. The Progenitor was locked safely away, guarded by Albanonâ€™s dead master, but early on our heroes realize it was stolen and released in the presence of the green dragon Vestapalk as he fell at Sharaâ€™s sword.\n  <br />\n  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Now, alerted to the danger of the liquid crystal by a mysterious cleric who claims allegiance to an order that has protected the substance for time immemorial, they must go in search of the dragonâ€™s body, to ensure his demise has not been exaggerated.Â  What they discover has consequences that could change the world...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8147'),
(16228, 'Dupa 20 ani', 'Alexandre Dumas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26089'),
(16229, 'Duplicate Effort', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Retrieval Artist Miles Flint is on a personal missionâ€”to bring down the corrupt law firm of Wagner, Stuart, and Xender. Then a journalist working with him is murdered, and Miles may be next. But before he can begin to investigate, he has a more personal crisis to deal withâ€”his daughter Talia is missing. Taliaâ€”one of six clones of Milesâ€™ long-dead childâ€”has gone off to find the other five. As Miles pursues her, he begins to fear that her search for her â€œsistersâ€ and his for the killer are on a collision course...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20083'),
(16230, 'Duplicity: A Novel', 'Oasis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n We must recognize all people for whom they truly are and not for the characters they\n <em>\n  pretend\n </em>\n to be. A motion picture mogul learns that everyone in his life, including his Emmy-nominated wife, are out to gain more than his multimillionaire estate can buy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Motion-picture mogul Parrish Clovis learns that everyone is in his life by designâ€” including Hana Kafka, his wife. In just a few short hours, Parrishâ€™s affluent life takes a downward plunge into a seedy world that lands him on the front page of every newspaper in America. Heâ€™s been accused of the unthinkable. One problem, thoughâ€”he canâ€™t remember brutally assaulting and raping his wife. In order for Hana and a crew of out-of-work actors to drain Parrishâ€™s multimillion- dollar estate, they must first set the stage for Parrish to murder his sister by tricking him into thinking heâ€™s really going to kill the woman he was forced to hate: Hana.\n</p>\n<p>\n Parrish, however, discovers the con. He throws an ingenious twist in the script that will either win him an Oscarâ€¦or get him a closed-casket funeral.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2456'),
(16231, 'Duplicity: A Novel', 'Oasis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n We must recognize all people for whom they truly are and not for the characters they\n <em>\n  pretend\n </em>\n to be. A motion picture mogul learns that everyone in his life, including his Emmy-nominated wife, are out to gain more than his multimillionaire estate can buy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Motion-picture mogul Parrish Clovis learns that everyone is in his life by designâ€” including Hana Kafka, his wife. In just a few short hours, Parrishâ€™s affluent life takes a downward plunge into a seedy world that lands him on the front page of every newspaper in America. Heâ€™s been accused of the unthinkable. One problem, thoughâ€”he canâ€™t remember brutally assaulting and raping his wife. In order for Hana and a crew of out-of-work actors to drain Parrishâ€™s multimillion- dollar estate, they must first set the stage for Parrish to murder his sister by tricking him into thinking heâ€™s really going to kill the woman he was forced to hate: Hana.\n</p>\n<p>\n Parrish, however, discovers the con. He throws an ingenious twist in the script that will either win him an Oscarâ€¦or get him a closed-casket funeral.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11719'),
(16232, 'Duplicity: A Novel', 'Oasis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n We must recognize all people for whom they truly are and not for the characters they\n <em>\n  pretend\n </em>\n to be. A motion picture mogul learns that everyone in his life, including his Emmy-nominated wife, are out to gain more than his multimillionaire estate can buy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Motion-picture mogul Parrish Clovis learns that everyone is in his life by designâ€” including Hana Kafka, his wife. In just a few short hours, Parrishâ€™s affluent life takes a downward plunge into a seedy world that lands him on the front page of every newspaper in America. Heâ€™s been accused of the unthinkable. One problem, thoughâ€”he canâ€™t remember brutally assaulting and raping his wife. In order for Hana and a crew of out-of-work actors to drain Parrishâ€™s multimillion- dollar estate, they must first set the stage for Parrish to murder his sister by tricking him into thinking heâ€™s really going to kill the woman he was forced to hate: Hana.\n</p>\n<p>\n Parrish, however, discovers the con. He throws an ingenious twist in the script that will either win him an Oscar...or get him a closed-casket funeral.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22403'),
(16233, 'Durable Goods: A Novel', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Berg''s understated and promising fiction debut, a 12-year-old "army brat" comes to epitomize the quality that her father prizes: emotional durability. Narrator Katie lives on a Texas Army base with her 18-year-old sister and volatile father, an officer of unidentified rank. The girls'' mother has died of cancer, although Katie never discusses how much time has passed since the loss. Accustomed to a military lifestyle, suspecting that her home will be only a temporary one, Katie leads a fairly ordinary existence. She and her best friend go swimming, talk about puberty and meet boys. When the inevitable happens and the family learns they''re being transferred to Missouri, Katie tries to accept the impending change, but her sister, who can no longer tolerate her father''s abuse, rebels. Direct, matter-of-fact sentences convey resilient Katie''s point of view; the absence of a maternal figure is acutely felt, particularly in the vulnerable but violent father''s frightening temper. Overall, however, this subdued tale of a troubled family is more modest than memorable, insinuating rather than fully examining its characters'' motives. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-After her mother''s death, Katie and her father move from their home on a Texas army base. Her sister Diane, 18, runs away with her boyfriend rather than spend any more time with her grieving, distant father. Katie, at 12, is just discovering her potential and working through relationships with friends, boys, her sister and, most especially, her father. Every once in a while, she and readers see the unresolved despair that contributes to his abusive spells. No one in this compelling story is completely right or wrong. Diane cannot see the man''s pain or, if she does, cannot forgive him yet. He is seemingly uncaring and cruel, but, at moments, is also loving and concerned for his small family. At the end of this book, readers will feel that the girl and her father are going to make it. Katie is an endearing and persistent heroine, and Berg''s prose borders on the poetic. This is an easy read, but its haunting images of coming of age are sure to remain with YAs.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Susan H. Woodcock, Potomac Library, Woodbridge, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5844'),
(16234, 'Durable Goods: A Novel', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Berg''s understated and promising fiction debut, a 12-year-old "army brat" comes to epitomize the quality that her father prizes: emotional durability. Narrator Katie lives on a Texas Army base with her 18-year-old sister and volatile father, an officer of unidentified rank. The girls'' mother has died of cancer, although Katie never discusses how much time has passed since the loss. Accustomed to a military lifestyle, suspecting that her home will be only a temporary one, Katie leads a fairly ordinary existence. She and her best friend go swimming, talk about puberty and meet boys. When the inevitable happens and the family learns they''re being transferred to Missouri, Katie tries to accept the impending change, but her sister, who can no longer tolerate her father''s abuse, rebels. Direct, matter-of-fact sentences convey resilient Katie''s point of view; the absence of a maternal figure is acutely felt, particularly in the vulnerable but violent father''s frightening temper. Overall, however, this subdued tale of a troubled family is more modest than memorable, insinuating rather than fully examining its characters'' motives. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-After her mother''s death, Katie and her father move from their home on a Texas army base. Her sister Diane, 18, runs away with her boyfriend rather than spend any more time with her grieving, distant father. Katie, at 12, is just discovering her potential and working through relationships with friends, boys, her sister and, most especially, her father. Every once in a while, she and readers see the unresolved despair that contributes to his abusive spells. No one in this compelling story is completely right or wrong. Diane cannot see the man''s pain or, if she does, cannot forgive him yet. He is seemingly uncaring and cruel, but, at moments, is also loving and concerned for his small family. At the end of this book, readers will feel that the girl and her father are going to make it. Katie is an endearing and persistent heroine, and Berg''s prose borders on the poetic. This is an easy read, but its haunting images of coming of age are sure to remain with YAs.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Susan H. Woodcock, Potomac Library, Woodbridge, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8478'),
(16235, 'Durable Goods: A Novel', 'Elizabeth Berg', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Berg''s understated and promising fiction debut, a 12-year-old "army brat" comes to epitomize the quality that her father prizes: emotional durability. Narrator Katie lives on a Texas Army base with her 18-year-old sister and volatile father, an officer of unidentified rank. The girls'' mother has died of cancer, although Katie never discusses how much time has passed since the loss. Accustomed to a military lifestyle, suspecting that her home will be only a temporary one, Katie leads a fairly ordinary existence. She and her best friend go swimming, talk about puberty and meet boys. When the inevitable happens and the family learns they''re being transferred to Missouri, Katie tries to accept the impending change, but her sister, who can no longer tolerate her father''s abuse, rebels. Direct, matter-of-fact sentences convey resilient Katie''s point of view; the absence of a maternal figure is acutely felt, particularly in the vulnerable but violent father''s frightening temper. Overall, however, this subdued tale of a troubled family is more modest than memorable, insinuating rather than fully examining its characters'' motives. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-After her mother''s death, Katie and her father move from their home on a Texas army base. Her sister Diane, 18, runs away with her boyfriend rather than spend any more time with her grieving, distant father. Katie, at 12, is just discovering her potential and working through relationships with friends, boys, her sister and, most especially, her father. Every once in a while, she and readers see the unresolved despair that contributes to his abusive spells. No one in this compelling story is completely right or wrong. Diane cannot see the man''s pain or, if she does, cannot forgive him yet. He is seemingly uncaring and cruel, but, at moments, is also loving and concerned for his small family. At the end of this book, readers will feel that the girl and her father are going to make it. Katie is an endearing and persistent heroine, and Berg''s prose borders on the poetic. This is an easy read, but its haunting images of coming of age are sure to remain with YAs.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Susan H. Woodcock, Potomac Library, Woodbridge, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18891'),
(16236, 'The Durango Affair', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I''M HAVING YOUR BABY."\n</p>\n<p>\n Savannah Claiborne''s simple statement set off an avalanche in Montana ranger Durango Westmoreland''s carefully ordered life. Suddenly, an unforgettable night of passion with the hazel-eyed beauty had turned into a lifetime of obligation for the confirmed bachelor.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Westmoreland men always honored their responsibilities, and leaving Savannah to raise his baby on her own was not an option. So he proposed and she accepted...with one condition: Theirs would be an in-name-only marriage.\n</p>\n<p>\n Durango agreed. For now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7156'),
(16237, 'The Durango Affair', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I''M HAVING YOUR BABY."\n</p>\n<p>\n Savannah Claiborne''s simple statement set off an avalanche in Montana ranger Durango Westmoreland''s carefully ordered life. Suddenly, an unforgettable night of passion with the hazel-eyed beauty had turned into a lifetime of obligation for the confirmed bachelor.\n</p>\n<p>\n But Westmoreland men always honored their responsibilities, and leaving Savannah to raise his baby on her own was not an option. So he proposed and she accepted...with one condition: Theirs would be an in-name-only marriage.\n</p>\n<p>\n Durango agreed. For now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16784'),
(16238, 'Dust City', 'Robert Paul Weston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once upon a time was a long time ago in Henry Whelpâ€™s city. Now, the fairies are gone, and with them, their magical fairydust. Corporations manufacture synthetic dust to sell over the counter, while uncut nixiedust gets hawked by shady foxes in dark alleyways. But Henry never touches the stuff since his father went berserk and murdered a red-hooded girl and her granny on behalf of a golden-touch gangster named Skinner. See, dust is the stuff of miracles and fulfills destinies, which is fine if youâ€™re a princess, but can lead to a big bad fate for a wolf like Henry. The premise is fractured fairy tale, but the play is pure noir: Chinatown via the Brothers Grimm. Henry gets in deep with Skinnerâ€™s crew to exonerate his dad and trips his way into a scheme to return the animalia (wolves, ravens, and the like) to their primitive state. The ending feels like itâ€™s missing a twist or two, but the clever setup and gutting of fairy-tale tropes will garner plenty of enthusiasm. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Weston deftly tucks his fairy-tale tropes into this thought-provoking mystery." --_Kirkus_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Weston has created a tightly paced mystery, a coming of age story, and a vivid fantasy...Dust City is a winner." --_Quill and Quire_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dust City is so creative...As soon as I read the first page, I was hooked." --Teens Read Too\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1579'),
(16239, 'Dust City', 'Robert Paul Weston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once upon a time was a long time ago in Henry Whelpâ€™s city. Now, the fairies are gone, and with them, their magical fairydust. Corporations manufacture synthetic dust to sell over the counter, while uncut nixiedust gets hawked by shady foxes in dark alleyways. But Henry never touches the stuff since his father went berserk and murdered a red-hooded girl and her granny on behalf of a golden-touch gangster named Skinner. See, dust is the stuff of miracles and fulfills destinies, which is fine if youâ€™re a princess, but can lead to a big bad fate for a wolf like Henry. The premise is fractured fairy tale, but the play is pure noir: Chinatown via the Brothers Grimm. Henry gets in deep with Skinnerâ€™s crew to exonerate his dad and trips his way into a scheme to return the animalia (wolves, ravens, and the like) to their primitive state. The ending feels like itâ€™s missing a twist or two, but the clever setup and gutting of fairy-tale tropes will garner plenty of enthusiasm. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Weston deftly tucks his fairy-tale tropes into this thought-provoking mystery." --_Kirkus_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Weston has created a tightly paced mystery, a coming of age story, and a vivid fantasy...Dust City is a winner." --_Quill and Quire_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dust City is so creative...As soon as I read the first page, I was hooked." --Teens Read Too\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13351'),
(16240, 'Dust City', 'Robert Paul Weston', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once upon a time was a long time ago in Henry Whelpâ€™s city. Now, the fairies are gone, and with them, their magical fairydust. Corporations manufacture synthetic dust to sell over the counter, while uncut nixiedust gets hawked by shady foxes in dark alleyways. But Henry never touches the stuff since his father went berserk and murdered a red-hooded girl and her granny on behalf of a golden-touch gangster named Skinner. See, dust is the stuff of miracles and fulfills destinies, which is fine if youâ€™re a princess, but can lead to a big bad fate for a wolf like Henry. The premise is fractured fairy tale, but the play is pure noir: Chinatown via the Brothers Grimm. Henry gets in deep with Skinnerâ€™s crew to exonerate his dad and trips his way into a scheme to return the animalia (wolves, ravens, and the like) to their primitive state. The ending feels like itâ€™s missing a twist or two, but the clever setup and gutting of fairy-tale tropes will garner plenty of enthusiasm. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Weston deftly tucks his fairy-tale tropes into this thought-provoking mystery." --_Kirkus_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Weston has created a tightly paced mystery, a coming of age story, and a vivid fantasy...Dust City is a winner." --_Quill and Quire_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Dust City is so creative...As soon as I read the first page, I was hooked." --Teens Read Too\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23272'),
(16241, 'The Dust of 100 Dogs', 'A. S. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the late seventeenth century, famed teenage pirate Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping the pirate life with her one true love and unfathomable riches when she was slain and cursed with "the dust of one hundred dogs," dooming her to one hundred lives as a dog before returning to a human body-with her memories intact.Now she''s a contemporary American teenager and all she needs is a shovel and a ride to Jamaica.Exciting, fascinating, spellbinding. I''d follow Saffron into the briny deep.â€”Heather Brewer, author of The Chronicles of Vladimir TodA non-traditional pirate tale with a dangerously raw, mystical edge and a unique modern twist. Deliciously fresh and starkly unforgettable. â€”Lisa McMann, New York Times best-selling author of WakeSparkling, original, both swashbuckling and contemporary...This gripping adventure is sure to be devoured by both teens and adults. â€”Lauren Baratz-Logsted, author of Angel''s Choice\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/39'),
(16242, 'The Dust of 100 Dogs', 'A. S. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the late seventeenth century, famed teenage pirate Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping the pirate life with her one true love and unfathomable riches when she was slain and cursed with "the dust of one hundred dogs," dooming her to one hundred lives as a dog before returning to a human body-with her memories intact.Now she''s a contemporary American teenager and all she needs is a shovel and a ride to Jamaica.Exciting, fascinating, spellbinding. I''d follow Saffron into the briny deep.â€”Heather Brewer, author of The Chronicles of Vladimir TodA non-traditional pirate tale with a dangerously raw, mystical edge and a unique modern twist. Deliciously fresh and starkly unforgettable. â€”Lisa McMann, New York Times best-selling author of WakeSparkling, original, both swashbuckling and contemporary...This gripping adventure is sure to be devoured by both teens and adults. â€”Lauren Baratz-Logsted, author of Angel''s Choice\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10743'),
(16243, 'The Dust of 100 Dogs', 'A. S. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In the late seventeenth century, famed teenage pirate Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping the pirate life with her one true love and unfathomable riches when she was slain and cursed with "the dust of one hundred dogs," dooming her to one hundred lives as a dog before returning to a human body-with her memories intact.Now she''s a contemporary American teenager and all she needs is a shovel and a ride to Jamaica.Exciting, fascinating, spellbinding. I''d follow Saffron into the briny deep.â€”Heather Brewer, author of The Chronicles of Vladimir TodA non-traditional pirate tale with a dangerously raw, mystical edge and a unique modern twist. Deliciously fresh and starkly unforgettable. â€”Lisa McMann, New York Times best-selling author of WakeSparkling, original, both swashbuckling and contemporary...This gripping adventure is sure to be devoured by both teens and adults. â€”Lauren Baratz-Logsted, author of Angel''s Choice\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17191'),
(16244, 'Dust of Dreams', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier in every worldâ€¦ In Letherii, the exiled Malazan army commanded by Adjunct Tavore begins its march into the eastern Wastelands, to fight for an unknown cause against an enemy it has never seen. And in these same Wastelands, others gather to confront their destinies. The warlike Barghast, thwarted in their vengeance against the Tiste Edur, seek new enemies beyond the border and Onos Toolan, once immortal Tâ€™lan Imass now mortal commander of the White Face clan, faces insurrection. To the south, the Perish Grey Helms parlay passage through the treacherous kingdom of Bolkando. Their intention is to rendezvous with the Bonehunters but their vow of allegiance to the Malazans will be sorely tested. And ancient enclaves of an Elder Race are in search of salvationâ€”not among their own kind, but among humansâ€”as an old enemy draws ever closer to the last surviving bastion of the Kâ€™Chain Cheâ€™Malle. So this last great army of the Malazan Empire is resolved to make one final defiant, heroic stand in the name of redemption. But can deeds be heroic when there is no one to witness them? And can that which is not witnessed forever change the world? Destines are rarely simple, truths never clear but one certainty is that time is on no oneâ€™s side. For the Deck of Dragons has been read, unleashing a dread power that none can comprehendâ€¦ In a faraway land and beneath indifferent skies, the final chapter of â€˜The Malazan Book of the Fallenâ€™ has begunâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14587'),
(16245, 'Dust of Dreams: Book Nine of the Malazan Book of the Fallen', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ragged armies and gods old and new collide in the dizzyingly complex penultimate tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen (following 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Toll the Hounds\n  </em>\n  ). After a traumatic reading of the tiles, Adjunct Tagore of the Malazan decides to quit the Letherii capital. To placate neighboring territories, Brys Beddict and a contingent of Letherii escort Tagore and her army through the Wastelands on their way to the port of Kolanse. The Barghast find their own reasons to head for the Wastelands, as do the T''lan Imass, a group of bloodthirsty Jaghut, and the army of the K''Chain Che''Malle. Gods tweak the players on this continent-sized chess board even as they themselves are manipulated. Erickson begins to reel in the long lines of his huge plot, giving enough hints to leave readers impatient for the 10th volume.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the ninth Malazan Book of the Fallen volume, the last remnant of the Malazan Empire, in exile on the continent of Letherii, marches east against unknown but undoubtedly formidable foes. If the soldiers see themselves and their empire as fallen, they even more certainly see themselves bound by oaths and comradeship to keep faith with one another until the last enemy is identified, met, and, if possible, overcome. If not, their oaths are still binding. There is herein a quality reminiscent of the 300 Spartans coming to the fore that, added to the complexity and grandeur of the world-building, is downright enthralling. --Roland Green\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1018'),
(16246, 'Dust of Dreams: Book Nine of the Malazan Book of the Fallen', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ragged armies and gods old and new collide in the dizzyingly complex penultimate tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen (following 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Toll the Hounds\n  </em>\n  ). After a traumatic reading of the tiles, Adjunct Tagore of the Malazan decides to quit the Letherii capital. To placate neighboring territories, Brys Beddict and a contingent of Letherii escort Tagore and her army through the Wastelands on their way to the port of Kolanse. The Barghast find their own reasons to head for the Wastelands, as do the T''lan Imass, a group of bloodthirsty Jaghut, and the army of the K''Chain Che''Malle. Gods tweak the players on this continent-sized chess board even as they themselves are manipulated. Erickson begins to reel in the long lines of his huge plot, giving enough hints to leave readers impatient for the 10th volume.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the ninth Malazan Book of the Fallen volume, the last remnant of the Malazan Empire, in exile on the continent of Letherii, marches east against unknown but undoubtedly formidable foes. If the soldiers see themselves and their empire as fallen, they even more certainly see themselves bound by oaths and comradeship to keep faith with one another until the last enemy is identified, met, and, if possible, overcome. If not, their oaths are still binding. There is herein a quality reminiscent of the 300 Spartans coming to the fore that, added to the complexity and grandeur of the world-building, is downright enthralling. --Roland Green\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9641'),
(16247, 'Dust of Dreams: Book Nine of The Malazan Book of the Fallen', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ragged armies and gods old and new collide in the dizzyingly complex penultimate tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen (following 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Toll the Hounds\n  </em>\n  ). After a traumatic reading of the tiles, Adjunct Tagore of the Malazan decides to quit the Letherii capital. To placate neighboring territories, Brys Beddict and a contingent of Letherii escort Tagore and her army through the Wastelands on their way to the port of Kolanse. The Barghast find their own reasons to head for the Wastelands, as do the T''lan Imass, a group of bloodthirsty Jaghut, and the army of the K''Chain Che''Malle. Gods tweak the players on this continent-sized chess board even as they themselves are manipulated. Erickson begins to reel in the long lines of his huge plot, giving enough hints to leave readers impatient for the 10th volume.\n  <em>\n   (Jan.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the ninth Malazan Book of the Fallen volume, the last remnant of the Malazan Empire, in exile on the continent of Letherii, marches east against unknown but undoubtedly formidable foes. If the soldiers see themselves and their empire as fallen, they even more certainly see themselves bound by oaths and comradeship to keep faith with one another until the last enemy is identified, met, and, if possible, overcome. If not, their oaths are still binding. There is herein a quality reminiscent of the 300 Spartans coming to the fore that, added to the complexity and grandeur of the world-building, is downright enthralling. --Roland Green\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23966'),
(16248, 'Dust to Dust', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n FBI agent-turned-private investigator Ross Kingsley comes to Diane Fallon for help after his client''s family suffers a double tragedy. Nine years ago, the client''s son went to prison for rape and murder. Now his daughter is dead under suspicious circumstances, and her father believes she was killed uncovering evidence of her brother''s innocence. Against her better judgment, Diane agrees to help her old FBI friend. Now, she is about to discover that crime can have deep roots and some bones, like secrets, are deadly to uncover--especially when there are skeletons in the closet...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7262'),
(16249, 'Dust to Dust', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n FBI agent-turned-private investigator Ross Kingsley comes to Diane Fallon for help after his client''s family suffers a double tragedy. Nine years ago, the client''s son went to prison for rape and murder. Now his daughter is dead under suspicious circumstances, and her father believes she was killed uncovering evidence of her brother''s innocence. Against her better judgment, Diane agrees to help her old FBI friend. Now, she is about to discover that crime can have deep roots and some bones, like secrets, are deadly to uncover--especially when there are skeletons in the closet...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9081'),
(16250, 'Dust to Dust', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FBI agent-turned-private investigator Ross Kingsley comes to Diane Fallon for help after his client''s family suffers a double tragedy. Nine years ago, the client''s son went to prison for rape and murder. Now his daughter is dead under suspicious circumstances, and her father believes she was killed uncovering evidence of her brother''s innocence. Against her better judgment, Diane agrees to help her old FBI friend. Now, she is about to discover that crime can have deep roots and some bones, like secrets, are deadly to uncover--especially when there are skeletons in the closet...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16631'),
(16251, 'Dust to Dust', 'Beverly Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FBI agent-turned-private investigator Ross Kingsley comes to Diane Fallon for help after his client''s family suffers a double tragedy. Nine years ago, the client''s son went to prison for rape and murder. Now his daughter is dead under suspicious circumstances, and her father believes she was killed uncovering evidence of her brother''s innocence. Against her better judgment, Diane agrees to help her old FBI friend. Now, she is about to discover that crime can have deep roots and some bones, like secrets, are deadly to uncover--especially when there are skeletons in the closet...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26601'),
(16252, 'A Duty to the Dead', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his footsteps and signs up to go overseas as a nurse during the Great War, helping to deal with the many wounded. There, serving on a hospital ship, she makes a promise to a dying young lieutenant to take a message to his brother, Jonathan Graham: "Tell Jonathan that I lied. I did it for Motherâ€²s sake. But it has to be set right." Later, when her ship is sunk by a mine and sheâ€²s sidelined by a broken arm, Bess returns home to England, determined to fulfill her promise.  Itâ€²s not so easy, however. She travels to the village in Kent where the Grahams live and passes on to Jonathan his brotherâ€²s plea. Oddly, neither Jonathan, his mother, nor his younger brother admit to knowing what the message means. Then Bess learns that thereâ€²s another brother, incarcerated in a lunatic asylum since the age of 14 when he was accused of brutally murdering a housemaid.  Bess rightly guesses that the dying soldierâ€²s last words had something to do with the fourth brother. Because the family seems unwilling to do anything, she decides that she will investigate. Itâ€²s her own duty to the dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6839'),
(16253, 'A Duty to the Dead', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his footsteps and signs up to go overseas as a nurse during the Great War, helping to deal with the many wounded. There, serving on a hospital ship, she makes a promise to a dying young lieutenant to take a message to his brother, Jonathan Graham: "Tell Jonathan that I lied. I did it for Motherâ€²s sake. But it has to be set right." Later, when her ship is sunk by a mine and sheâ€²s sidelined by a broken arm, Bess returns home to England, determined to fulfill her promise.  Itâ€²s not so easy, however. She travels to the village in Kent where the Grahams live and passes on to Jonathan his brotherâ€²s plea. Oddly, neither Jonathan, his mother, nor his younger brother admit to knowing what the message means. Then Bess learns that thereâ€²s another brother, incarcerated in a lunatic asylum since the age of 14 when he was accused of brutally murdering a housemaid.  Bess rightly guesses that the dying soldierâ€²s last words had something to do with the fourth brother. Because the family seems unwilling to do anything, she decides that she will investigate. Itâ€²s her own duty to the dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13026'),
(16254, 'A Duty to the Dead', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his footsteps and signs up to go overseas as a nurse during the Great War, helping to deal with the many wounded. There, serving on a hospital ship, she makes a promise to a dying young lieutenant to take a message to his brother, Jonathan Graham: "Tell Jonathan that I lied. I did it for Motherâ€²s sake. But it has to be set right." Later, when her ship is sunk by a mine and sheâ€²s sidelined by a broken arm, Bess returns home to England, determined to fulfill her promise. Itâ€²s not so easy, however. She travels to the village in Kent where the Grahams live and passes on to Jonathan his brotherâ€²s plea. Oddly, neither Jonathan, his mother, nor his younger brother admit to knowing what the message means. Then Bess learns that thereâ€²s another brother, incarcerated in a lunatic asylum since the age of 14 when he was accused of brutally murdering a housemaid. Bess rightly guesses that the dying soldierâ€²s last words had something to do with the fourth brother. Because the family seems unwilling to do anything, she decides that she will investigate. Itâ€²s her own duty to the dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17064'),
(16255, 'A Duty to the Dead', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his footsteps and signs up to go overseas as a nurse during the Great War, helping to deal with the many wounded. There, serving on a hospital ship, she makes a promise to a dying young lieutenant to take a message to his brother, Jonathan Graham: "Tell Jonathan that I lied. I did it for Motherâ€²s sake. But it has to be set right." Later, when her ship is sunk by a mine and sheâ€²s sidelined by a broken arm, Bess returns home to England, determined to fulfill her promise. Itâ€²s not so easy, however. She travels to the village in Kent where the Grahams live and passes on to Jonathan his brotherâ€²s plea. Oddly, neither Jonathan, his mother, nor his younger brother admit to knowing what the message means. Then Bess learns that thereâ€²s another brother, incarcerated in a lunatic asylum since the age of 14 when he was accused of brutally murdering a housemaid. Bess rightly guesses that the dying soldierâ€²s last words had something to do with the fourth brother. Because the family seems unwilling to do anything, she decides that she will investigate. Itâ€²s her own duty to the dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26895'),
(16256, 'Dweller', 'Jeff Strand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Hands down my favorite book of the year." --Fear Zone\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Toby was just a boy the first time he saw the creature in the woods.Â  His parents convinced the terrified child it was only his imagination.Â  The next time Toby saw the creature he was a lonely, unhappy teenager without friends.Â But the creature would be his friend.Â  It would be there when Toby needed someone to talk to.Â  And it would take care of the bullies who wouldn''t leave Toby alone.Â After all, the creature needed to eat.Â  And during their macabre, decades-long friendship, there will be other meals...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4544');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(16257, 'Dweller', 'Jeff Strand', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Hands down my favorite book of the year." --Fear Zone\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Toby was just a boy the first time he saw the creature in the woods.Â  His parents convinced the terrified child it was only his imagination.Â  The next time Toby saw the creature he was a lonely, unhappy teenager without friends.Â But the creature would be his friend.Â  It would be there when Toby needed someone to talk to.Â  And it would take care of the bullies who wouldn''t leave Toby alone.Â After all, the creature needed to eat.Â  And during their macabre, decades-long friendship, there will be other meals...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12960'),
(16258, 'Dying by the Sword', 'Sarah D&#39;Almeida', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New from a gifted writer ( VICTORIA THOMPSON) who brings mystery to 17th-century France.As the Four Musketeers race to save Porthos s servant from the gallows, they run afoul of Cardinal Richelieu, who is investigating a far more serious matter a plot against the life of the king.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1409'),
(16259, 'Dying by the Sword', 'Sarah D&#39;Almeida', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New from a gifted writer ( VICTORIA THOMPSON) who brings mystery to 17th-century France.As the Four Musketeers race to save Porthos s servant from the gallows, they run afoul of Cardinal Richelieu, who is investigating a far more serious matter a plot against the life of the king.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9121'),
(16260, 'Dying by the Sword', 'Sarah D&#39;Almeida', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New from a gifted writer ( VICTORIA THOMPSON) who brings mystery to 17th-century France.As the Four Musketeers race to save Porthos s servant from the gallows, they run afoul of Cardinal Richelieu, who is investigating a far more serious matter a plot against the life of the king.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23582'),
(16261, 'The Dying Earth', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18205'),
(16262, 'Dying for Dinner', 'Miranda Bliss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Annie leaves the safety of her old bank job to become the full-time manager of her boyfriend''s restaurant, what''s meant to be the first day of the rest of her life might be the last day of someone else''s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2661'),
(16263, 'Dying for Dinner', 'Miranda Bliss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Annie leaves the safety of her old bank job to become the full-time manager of her boyfriend''s restaurant, what''s meant to be the first day of the rest of her life might be the last day of someone else''s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21723'),
(16264, 'Dying in the Dark: A Tamara Hayle Mystery', 'Valerie Wilson Wesley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Valerie Wilson Wesleyâ€™s Tamara Hayle mystery series featuring Newark, New Jerseyâ€™s number one private investigator are loved for their smart, sexy protagonist who â€œhas a way with a wisecrack that is positively lethalâ€ (Washington Post). Now in Dying in the Dark, Hayle is entrenched in a sinister investigation that will demand her best detective work yet.Tamara Hayleâ€™s past has come back to haunt herâ€“literally. Sheâ€™s been plagued by terrifying dreams about Celia Jones, an old friend whose walk on the wild side led her to a horrible death. Celiaâ€™s teenage son, Cecil, begs Tamara to find his motherâ€™s killer . . . only to end up dead himself, stabbed through the heart.The search for Celia and her sonâ€™s killer pulls Tamara deep into her friendâ€™s troubled love life, where everyone adored her but somebody held a murderousÂ  grudge. Thereâ€™s her bullying thug of an ex-husband; a handsome ex-lover who woos Tamara with charm and lies; and an angry, jealous woman who claims that Celia broke her heart. And those were just the obvious people with axes to grind.Despite her better judgment and the admonitions of the police department, Tamara refuses to back away from the mystery surrounding her old friendâ€™s death and the tragedy that met her son. All clues lead to the past Tamara shared with Celia Jones, and Tamara fears that that past will threaten her own son. But she uncovers more than she bargained forâ€“and unearths secrets someone would kill to keep in the shadows.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/429'),
(16265, 'Dying in the Dark: A Tamara Hayle Mystery', 'Valerie Wilson Wesley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Valerie Wilson Wesleyâ€™s Tamara Hayle mystery series featuring Newark, New Jerseyâ€™s number one private investigator are loved for their smart, sexy protagonist who â€œhas a way with a wisecrack that is positively lethalâ€ (Washington Post). Now in Dying in the Dark, Hayle is entrenched in a sinister investigation that will demand her best detective work yet.Tamara Hayleâ€™s past has come back to haunt herâ€“literally. Sheâ€™s been plagued by terrifying dreams about Celia Jones, an old friend whose walk on the wild side led her to a horrible death. Celiaâ€™s teenage son, Cecil, begs Tamara to find his motherâ€™s killer . . . only to end up dead himself, stabbed through the heart.The search for Celia and her sonâ€™s killer pulls Tamara deep into her friendâ€™s troubled love life, where everyone adored her but somebody held a murderousÂ  grudge. Thereâ€™s her bullying thug of an ex-husband; a handsome ex-lover who woos Tamara with charm and lies; and an angry, jealous woman who claims that Celia broke her heart. And those were just the obvious people with axes to grind.Despite her better judgment and the admonitions of the police department, Tamara refuses to back away from the mystery surrounding her old friendâ€™s death and the tragedy that met her son. All clues lead to the past Tamara shared with Celia Jones, and Tamara fears that that past will threaten her own son. But she uncovers more than she bargained forâ€“and unearths secrets someone would kill to keep in the shadows.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13260'),
(16266, 'Dying in the Dark: A Tamara Hayle Mystery', 'Valerie Wilson Wesley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Valerie Wilson Wesleyâ€™s Tamara Hayle mystery series featuring Newark, New Jerseyâ€™s number one private investigator are loved for their smart, sexy protagonist who â€œhas a way with a wisecrack that is positively lethalâ€ (Washington Post). Now in Dying in the Dark, Hayle is entrenched in a sinister investigation that will demand her best detective work yet.Tamara Hayleâ€™s past has come back to haunt herâ€“literally. Sheâ€™s been plagued by terrifying dreams about Celia Jones, an old friend whose walk on the wild side led her to a horrible death. Celiaâ€™s teenage son, Cecil, begs Tamara to find his motherâ€™s killer . . . only to end up dead himself, stabbed through the heart.The search for Celia and her sonâ€™s killer pulls Tamara deep into her friendâ€™s troubled love life, where everyone adored her but somebody held a murderous grudge. Thereâ€™s her bullying thug of an ex-husband; a handsome ex-lover who woos Tamara with charm and lies; and an angry, jealous woman who claims that Celia broke her heart. And those were just the obvious people with axes to grind.Despite her better judgment and the admonitions of the police department, Tamara refuses to back away from the mystery surrounding her old friendâ€™s death and the tragedy that met her son. All clues lead to the past Tamara shared with Celia Jones, and Tamara fears that that past will threaten her own son. But she uncovers more than she bargained forâ€“and unearths secrets someone would kill to keep in the shadows.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24504'),
(16267, 'Dying Inside', 'Robert Silverberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In 1972, Robert Silverberg, even then an acknowledged leader in the science fiction field, published a book that was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. More than three decades later,\n <em>\n  Dying Inside\n </em>\n has stood the test of time and has been recognized as one of the finest novels the field has ever produced. Never wasting a word, Silverberg persuasively shows us what it would be like to read minds, painting an unforgettable portrait of a man shaped by that unique power; a power he is now inexorably losing.\n</p>\n<p>\n Acclaimed upon first publication by SF critics and mainstream reviewers alike,\n <em>\n  Dying Inside\n </em>\n is overdue for reintroduction to todayâ€™s SF audience. This is a novel for everyone who appreciates deeply affecting characterization, imaginative power, and the irreplaceable perspective unique to speculative fiction of the highest order.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12391'),
(16268, 'A Dying Light in Corduba', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this latest addition to a durable series, Marcus Didius Falco travels to the distant province of Baetica, pregnant girlfriend in tow, to investigate a possible olive oil cartel. The emphasis in this historical mystery is as much on historical as mystery, with solid detail and vivid insights that bring the ancient Roman alive. But the plotting, though leisurely, is nicely suspenseful and the ending worth the wait.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inimitable sleuth Marcus Didius Falco is back with a vengeance. One night, a man is killed and Romeâ€™s Chief of Spies left for dead. This leaves no one except Falco to conduct the investigation, and he is soon plunged into the fiercely competitive world of olive oil production. Political intrigue, an exotic Spanish dancer and impending fatherhood all add to Falcoâ€™s troubles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3393'),
(16269, 'A Dying Light in Corduba', 'Lindsey Davis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this latest addition to a durable series, Marcus Didius Falco travels to the distant province of Baetica, pregnant girlfriend in tow, to investigate a possible olive oil cartel. The emphasis in this historical mystery is as much on historical as mystery, with solid detail and vivid insights that bring the ancient Roman alive. But the plotting, though leisurely, is nicely suspenseful and the ending worth the wait.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inimitable sleuth Marcus Didius Falco is back with a vengeance. One night, a man is killed and Romeâ€™s Chief of Spies left for dead. This leaves no one except Falco to conduct the investigation, and he is soon plunged into the fiercely competitive world of olive oil production. Political intrigue, an exotic Spanish dancer and impending fatherhood all add to Falcoâ€™s troubles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21126'),
(16270, 'Dylan', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Game, Set, Match... Dylan? Dylan and her TV-host mom are off to Hawaii''s Aloha Tennis Open. While Merri-Lee interviews tennis''s wild child Svetlana "Tennis the Menace" Slootskyia, Dylan lets the tropical sun melt away the memory of getting dumped by two guys at the end of seventh grade. But between avocado mud masks and poolside naps, she falls in love with a preppy, tennis- obsessed hawtie. Dylan soon realizes the only way to score a date with him is to master the game. Can she convince moody Svetlana to spill the secrets of her tennis success, or will she end up oh-for-three in summer love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3321'),
(16271, 'Dylan', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Game, Set, Match... Dylan? Dylan and her TV-host mom are off to Hawaii''s Aloha Tennis Open. While Merri-Lee interviews tennis''s wild child Svetlana "Tennis the Menace" Slootskyia, Dylan lets the tropical sun melt away the memory of getting dumped by two guys at the end of seventh grade. But between avocado mud masks and poolside naps, she falls in love with a preppy, tennis- obsessed hawtie. Dylan soon realizes the only way to score a date with him is to master the game. Can she convince moody Svetlana to spill the secrets of her tennis success, or will she end up oh-for-three in summer love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10157'),
(16272, 'Dylan', 'Lisi Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Game, Set, Match... Dylan? Dylan and her TV-host mom are off to Hawaii''s Aloha Tennis Open. While Merri-Lee interviews tennis''s wild child Svetlana "Tennis the Menace" Slootskyia, Dylan lets the tropical sun melt away the memory of getting dumped by two guys at the end of seventh grade. But between avocado mud masks and poolside naps, she falls in love with a preppy, tennis- obsessed hawtie. Dylan soon realizes the only way to score a date with him is to master the game. Can she convince moody Svetlana to spill the secrets of her tennis success, or will she end up oh-for-three in summer love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21148'),
(16273, 'Dyson Sphere', 'Charles R. Pellegrino &amp; George Zebrowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two hundred million kilometers across, with a surface area that exceeds that of a quarter-billion worlds, the Dyson sphere is one of the most astounding discoveries the Federation has ever made. Now the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  has returned to explore the awesome mysteries of the sphere. Intrigued by what is possibly the greatest archaeological treasure of all time, Captain Jean-Luc Picard hopes to discover the origin of humanoid life throughout the galaxy -- or perhaps the ultimate secret of the Borg.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when a neutron star approaches on a collision course with the sphere, a mission of discovery becomes a desperate race against time. The many sentient species inhabiting the sphere face extinction -- can even the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  save them all?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6828'),
(16274, 'Dyson Sphere', 'Charles R. Pellegrino; George Zebrowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two hundred million kilometers across, with a surface area that exceeds that of a quarter-billion worlds, the Dyson sphere is one of the most astounding discoveries the Federation has ever made. Now the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. EnterpriseTM\n  </em>\n  has returned to explore the awesome mysteries of the sphere. Intrigued by what is possibly the greatest archaeological treasure of all time, Captain Jean-Luc Picard hopes to discover the origin of humanoid life throughout the galaxy -- or perhaps the ultimate secret of the Borg.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But when a neutron star approaches on a collision course with the sphere, a mission of discovery becomes a desperate race against time. The many sentient species inhabiting the sphere face extinction -- can even the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  save them all?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17072'),
(16275, 'E Is for Evidence', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Being a twice-divorced, happily independent loner has worked like a charm for P.I. Kinsey Millhoneâ€”until holiday weekends like this one roll around. What she needs is a little diversion to ward off the blues. She gets her much-needed distraction with a case that places her career on the line. And if that isnâ€™t enough to keep her busy, her ex-husband, who walked out on her eight years ago, pops back on the radar...It all begins with a $5,000 deposit made into Kinseyâ€™s bank account. Problem is sheâ€™s not the one who deposited the money. But when sheâ€™s accused of being on the take in an industrial arson case, Kinsey realizes someone is framing herâ€¦Now Kinseyâ€™s working for herself. But with new evidenceâ€”and corpsesâ€”surfacing around her, sheâ€™s going to have to act quickly to clear her name before she loses her career, her reputationâ€”and quite possibly her lifeâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14574'),
(16276, 'E Is for Evidence', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Being a twice-divorced, happily independent loner has worked like a charm for P.I. Kinsey Millhoneâ€”until holiday weekends like this one roll around. What she needs is a little diversion to ward off the blues. She gets her much-needed distraction with a case that places her career on the line. And if that isnâ€™t enough to keep her busy, her ex-husband, who walked out on her eight years ago, pops back on the radar...It all begins with a $5,000 deposit made into Kinseyâ€™s bank account. Problem is sheâ€™s not the one who deposited the money. But when sheâ€™s accused of being on the take in an industrial arson case, Kinsey realizes someone is framing herâ€¦Now Kinseyâ€™s working for herself. But with new evidenceâ€”and corpsesâ€”surfacing around her, sheâ€™s going to have to act quickly to clear her name before she loses her career, her reputationâ€”and quite possibly her lifeâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24027'),
(16277, 'An Eagle Swooped', 'Anne Hampson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tessa had loved Paul Demetrius from the start, but from the moment she introduced him to her beautiful sister Lucinda he had had eyes for no one else. At last, unable to bear seeing the two of them together, Tessa had gone away.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, two years later, she was home again, expecting to hear that they were married -- only to learn that they had never in fact married, that after a terrible accident in which Paul had been blinded, Lucinda had walked out on him and he was now living the life of a recluse in Cyprus. So Tessa took her courage in both hands, went out to Cyprus pretending to be Lucinda, begged Paul''s forgiveness -- and married him.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Would her love be strong enough to stand the strain of living such a lie? And what if Paul ever found out?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7612'),
(16278, 'An eagle swooped', 'Anne Hampson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tessa had loved Paul Demetrius from the start, but from the moment she introduced him to her beautiful sister Lucinda he had had eyes for no one else. At last, unable to bear seeing the two of them together, Tessa had gone away. Now, two years later, she was home again, expecting to hear that they were married -- only to learn that they had never in fact married, that after a terrible accident in which Paul had been blinded, Lucinda had walked out on him and he was now living the life of a recluse in Cyprus. So Tessa took her courage in both hands, went out to Cyprus pretending to be Lucinda, begged Paul''s forgiveness -- and married him. Would her love be strong enough to stand the strain of living such a lie? And what if Paul ever found out?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16299'),
(16279, 'An eagle swooped', 'Anne Hampson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Tessa had loved Paul Demetrius from the start, but from the moment she introduced him to her beautiful sister Lucinda he had had eyes for no one else. At last, unable to bear seeing the two of them together, Tessa had gone away. Now, two years later, she was home again, expecting to hear that they were married -- only to learn that they had never in fact married, that after a terrible accident in which Paul had been blinded, Lucinda had walked out on him and he was now living the life of a recluse in Cyprus. So Tessa took her courage in both hands, went out to Cyprus pretending to be Lucinda, begged Paul''s forgiveness -- and married him. Would her love be strong enough to stand the strain of living such a lie? And what if Paul ever found out?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26388'),
(16280, 'The early Asimov: or, Eleven Years of Trying', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25621'),
(16281, 'Early Autumn', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A bitter divorce is only the beginning.  First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son.  Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back.  But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course in survival and to beat his dangerous opponents at their own brutal game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1768'),
(16282, 'Early Autumn (1980)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 07', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13713'),
(16283, 'Early Autumn (1980)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 07', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23178'),
(16284, 'The Early Ayn Rand', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26026'),
(16285, 'The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection From Her Unpublished Fiction', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand''s birth, this newly revised collection of her early fiction ranges from works written from 1926 through 1940, and includes her previously unpublished short story, "The Night King." Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7406'),
(16286, 'The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection From Her Unpublished Fiction', 'Ayn Rand &amp; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand''s birth, this newly revised collection of her early fiction ranges from works written from 1926 through 1940, and includes her previously unpublished short story, "The Night King." Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12054'),
(16287, 'The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction', 'Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand''s birth, this newly revised collection of her early fiction ranges from works written from 1926 through 1940, and includes her previously unpublished short story, "The Night King." Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16496'),
(16288, 'The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction', 'Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand''s birth, this newly revised collection of her early fiction ranges from works written from 1926 through 1940, and includes her previously unpublished short story, "The Night King." Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26547'),
(16289, 'Early to Death, Early to Rise', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9 Upâ€”In this sequel to\n <em>\n  Once Dead, Twice Shy\n </em>\n (HarperCollins, 2009), purple-haired Goth Madison is adjusting to life at her new high schoolâ€”and to the fact that she is recently dead. She is the newest dark timekeeper put in charge of reapers of death. Her ideals clash with traditionâ€”she believes in choice over fate: people with the potential to do evil might still be able to change in time to save their souls. Madison and her two reapers, (mostly) light Barnabas and dark Nakita, set out to alter the fate of a teen with a computer virus set to wreak havoc on the local hospital and cause several deaths. Madison''s adversarial light timekeeper, Ron, and his apprentice are positioned to prevent them from succeeding. Amulets with hidden forces and an occasional visit from a limerick-spouting guardian angel add to the complex hierarchy of fate and supernatural power. Sharp-dressed Nakita, who can "scythe" (kill) mortals is still concerned with fitting in at school and is an engaging sidekick to Madison, yet other characters are portrayed sketchily at best. This fast-paced tale delivers some uniquely amusing moments but does not stand alone. Fans of Lauren Kate''s\n <em>\n  Fallen\n </em>\n (Delacorte, 2009) and those who enjoyed the first book may be drawn into Harrison''s world of heaven and earth, but new readers will be left confused by undeveloped characters and overly complex rules and guidelines.â€”_Tara Kehoe, Plainsboro Public Library, NJ_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Once Dead, Twice Shy (2009) wonâ€™t be disappointed by this more-of-the-same sequel, which follows Madisonâ€”the newly minted dark timekeeper of the afterworldâ€”as she tries to stave off unnecessary reaper scythings. The plot this time revolves around a dangerous computer virus, but the storyâ€™s primary concerns are the rocky relationships between the rogueâ€™s gallery of supernatural characters (and a few human ones, too). Harrisonâ€™s afterworld rules remain rather exhausting, but her theme of fate versus choice is more finely tuned here than in the first book. If this is your kind of thing, you already have it on order. Grades 8-11. --Daniel Kraus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3686'),
(16290, 'Early to Death, Early to Rise', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9 Upâ€”In this sequel to\n <em>\n  Once Dead, Twice Shy\n </em>\n (HarperCollins, 2009), purple-haired Goth Madison is adjusting to life at her new high schoolâ€”and to the fact that she is recently dead. She is the newest dark timekeeper put in charge of reapers of death. Her ideals clash with traditionâ€”she believes in choice over fate: people with the potential to do evil might still be able to change in time to save their souls. Madison and her two reapers, (mostly) light Barnabas and dark Nakita, set out to alter the fate of a teen with a computer virus set to wreak havoc on the local hospital and cause several deaths. Madison''s adversarial light timekeeper, Ron, and his apprentice are positioned to prevent them from succeeding. Amulets with hidden forces and an occasional visit from a limerick-spouting guardian angel add to the complex hierarchy of fate and supernatural power. Sharp-dressed Nakita, who can "scythe" (kill) mortals is still concerned with fitting in at school and is an engaging sidekick to Madison, yet other characters are portrayed sketchily at best. This fast-paced tale delivers some uniquely amusing moments but does not stand alone. Fans of Lauren Kate''s\n <em>\n  Fallen\n </em>\n (Delacorte, 2009) and those who enjoyed the first book may be drawn into Harrison''s world of heaven and earth, but new readers will be left confused by undeveloped characters and overly complex rules and guidelines.â€”_Tara Kehoe, Plainsboro Public Library, NJ_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Once Dead, Twice Shy (2009) wonâ€™t be disappointed by this more-of-the-same sequel, which follows Madisonâ€”the newly minted dark timekeeper of the afterworldâ€”as she tries to stave off unnecessary reaper scythings. The plot this time revolves around a dangerous computer virus, but the storyâ€™s primary concerns are the rocky relationships between the rogueâ€™s gallery of supernatural characters (and a few human ones, too). Harrisonâ€™s afterworld rules remain rather exhausting, but her theme of fate versus choice is more finely tuned here than in the first book. If this is your kind of thing, you already have it on order. Grades 8-11. --Daniel Kraus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10162'),
(16291, 'Early to Death, Early to Rise', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 9 Upâ€”In this sequel to\n <em>\n  Once Dead, Twice Shy\n </em>\n (HarperCollins, 2009), purple-haired Goth Madison is adjusting to life at her new high schoolâ€”and to the fact that she is recently dead. She is the newest dark timekeeper put in charge of reapers of death. Her ideals clash with traditionâ€”she believes in choice over fate: people with the potential to do evil might still be able to change in time to save their souls. Madison and her two reapers, (mostly) light Barnabas and dark Nakita, set out to alter the fate of a teen with a computer virus set to wreak havoc on the local hospital and cause several deaths. Madison''s adversarial light timekeeper, Ron, and his apprentice are positioned to prevent them from succeeding. Amulets with hidden forces and an occasional visit from a limerick-spouting guardian angel add to the complex hierarchy of fate and supernatural power. Sharp-dressed Nakita, who can "scythe" (kill) mortals is still concerned with fitting in at school and is an engaging sidekick to Madison, yet other characters are portrayed sketchily at best. This fast-paced tale delivers some uniquely amusing moments but does not stand alone. Fans of Lauren Kate''s\n <em>\n  Fallen\n </em>\n (Delacorte, 2009) and those who enjoyed the first book may be drawn into Harrison''s world of heaven and earth, but new readers will be left confused by undeveloped characters and overly complex rules and guidelines.â€”_Tara Kehoe, Plainsboro Public Library, NJ_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2011.  Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of Once Dead, Twice Shy (2009) wonâ€™t be disappointed by this more-of-the-same sequel, which follows Madisonâ€”the newly minted dark timekeeper of the afterworldâ€”as she tries to stave off unnecessary reaper scythings. The plot this time revolves around a dangerous computer virus, but the storyâ€™s primary concerns are the rocky relationships between the rogueâ€™s gallery of supernatural characters (and a few human ones, too). Harrisonâ€™s afterworld rules remain rather exhausting, but her theme of fate versus choice is more finely tuned here than in the first book. If this is your kind of thing, you already have it on order. Grades 8-11. --Daniel Kraus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20843'),
(16292, 'Earth Is Room Enough', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anything can happen and probably will right here on earth. You don''t have to rent a spaceship or sign up for a singles cruise to Saturn or spend your weekends star-hopping along the Milky Way because ... Earth Is Room Enough. Earth is where the action is and each tomorrow unleashes new discoveries.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here are brilliant, witty, frightening, and fascinating stories of the future by the greatest science fiction master of them all. Just hitch your mind to these weird and wonderful tales for a spin around the world of tomorrow that will take you right to the center of your wildest dreams.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Contains: The Dead Past, The Foundation of S.F. Success, Franchise, Gimmicks Three, Kid Stuff, The Water Place, Living Space, The Message, Satisfaction Guaranteed, Hell-Fire, The Last Trump, The Fun They Had, Jokester, The Immortal Bard, Someday, The Author''s Ordeal, Dreaming Is A Private Thing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18290'),
(16293, 'Earth Is Room Enough', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anything can happen and probably will right here on earth. You don''t have to rent a spaceship or sign up for a singles cruise to Saturn or spend your weekends star-hopping along the Milky Way because ... Earth Is Room Enough. Earth is where the action is and each tomorrow unleashes new discoveries.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here are brilliant, witty, frightening, and fascinating stories of the future by the greatest science fiction master of them all. Just hitch your mind to these weird and wonderful tales for a spin around the world of tomorrow that will take you right to the center of your wildest dreams.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Contains: The Dead Past, The Foundation of S.F. Success, Franchise, Gimmicks Three, Kid Stuff, The Water Place, Living Space, The Message, Satisfaction Guaranteed, Hell-Fire, The Last Trump, The Fun They Had, Jokester, The Immortal Bard, Someday, The Author''s Ordeal, Dreaming Is A Private Thing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28252'),
(16294, 'Earth Strike: Star Carrier: Book One', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first book in the epic saga of humankind''s war of transcendence   There is a milestone in the evolution of every sentient race, a Tech Singularity Event, when the species achieves transcendence through its technological advances. Now the creatures known as humans are near this momentous turning point.   But an armed threat is approaching from deepest space, determined to prevent humankind from crossing over that boundaryâ€”by total annihilation if necessary.   To the Sh''daar, the driving technologies of transcendent change are anathema and must be obliterated from the universeâ€”along with those who would employ them. As their great warships destroy everything in their path en route to the Sol system, the human Confederation government falls into dangerous disarray. There is but one hope, and it rests with a rogue Navy Admiral, commander of the kilometer-long star carrier America, as he leads his courageous fighters deep into enemy space towards humankind''s greatest conflictâ€”and quite possibly its last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5050'),
(16295, 'Earth Strike: Star Carrier: Book One', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first book in the epic saga of humankind''s war of transcendence   There is a milestone in the evolution of every sentient race, a Tech Singularity Event, when the species achieves transcendence through its technological advances. Now the creatures known as humans are near this momentous turning point.   But an armed threat is approaching from deepest space, determined to prevent humankind from crossing over that boundaryâ€”by total annihilation if necessary.   To the Sh''daar, the driving technologies of transcendent change are anathema and must be obliterated from the universeâ€”along with those who would employ them. As their great warships destroy everything in their path en route to the Sol system, the human Confederation government falls into dangerous disarray. There is but one hope, and it rests with a rogue Navy Admiral, commander of the kilometer-long star carrier America, as he leads his courageous fighters deep into enemy space towards humankind''s greatest conflictâ€”and quite possibly its last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10880'),
(16296, 'Earth Strike: Star Carrier: Book One', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first book in the epic saga of humankind''s war of transcendence There is a milestone in the evolution of every sentient race, a Tech Singularity Event, when the species achieves transcendence through its technological advances. Now the creatures known as humans are near this momentous turning point. But an armed threat is approaching from deepest space, determined to prevent humankind from crossing over that boundaryâ€”by total annihilation if necessary. To the Sh''daar, the driving technologies of transcendent change are anathema and must be obliterated from the universeâ€”along with those who would employ them. As their great warships destroy everything in their path en route to the Sol system, the human Confederation government falls into dangerous disarray. There is but one hope, and it rests with a rogue Navy Admiral, commander of the kilometer-long star carrier America, as he leads his courageous fighters deep into enemy space towards humankind''s greatest conflictâ€”and quite possibly its last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19677'),
(16297, 'Earth Strike: Star Carrier: Book One', 'Ian Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first book in the epic saga of humankind''s war of transcendence There is a milestone in the evolution of every sentient race, a Tech Singularity Event, when the species achieves transcendence through its technological advances. Now the creatures known as humans are near this momentous turning point. But an armed threat is approaching from deepest space, determined to prevent humankind from crossing over that boundaryâ€”by total annihilation if necessary. To the Sh''daar, the driving technologies of transcendent change are anathema and must be obliterated from the universeâ€”along with those who would employ them. As their great warships destroy everything in their path en route to the Sol system, the human Confederation government falls into dangerous disarray. There is but one hope, and it rests with a rogue Navy Admiral, commander of the kilometer-long star carrier America, as he leads his courageous fighters deep into enemy space towards humankind''s greatest conflictâ€”and quite possibly its last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28227'),
(16298, 'Earthborn', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High above the earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundred of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth.She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly--there are cities and nations now, whole peoples descended from the who followed Nafai or Elemak.But in all the long years of watching and searching, the Oversoul has not found the thing it sought. It has not found the Keeper of the Earth, the central intelligence that also can repair the Oversoul''s damaged programming.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2371'),
(16299, 'Earthborn', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: High above the earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundred of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth.She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly--there are cities and nations now, whole peoples descended from the who followed Nafai or Elemak.But in all the long years of watching and searching, the Oversoul has not found the thing it sought. It has not found the Keeper of the Earth, the central intelligence that also can repair the Oversoul''s damaged programming.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22359'),
(16300, 'Earthfall', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches, programmed forty million years ago to guard the human settlement from all threats, especially themselves. In the latest in the Hugo- and Nebula award-winning author''s Homecoming series, the great artificial intelligence has lost control of the population, forbidden technology has been rediscovered, war has broken out, and the only repair lies light years distant on a lost and ruined Earth. "There seems little doubt that the whole series will prove as readable--and as morally committed--as we''ve come to expect from Card." --Locus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2372'),
(16301, 'Earthfall', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches, programmed forty million years ago to guard the human settlement from all threats, especially themselves. In the latest in the Hugo- and Nebula award-winning author''s Homecoming series, the great artificial intelligence has lost control of the population, forbidden technology has been rediscovered, war has broken out, and the only repair lies light years distant on a lost and ruined Earth. "There seems little doubt that the whole series will prove as readable--and as morally committed--as we''ve come to expect from Card." --Locus\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22358'),
(16302, 'Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?', 'Clinton Ober &amp; Stephen T. Sinatra &amp; Martin Zucker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In our high tech society, connecting with the Earth has never been morecritical to our health and well-being. This inspired and well-researched book explains the peils we face by being disconnected from the powe and energy of the Earth and its boundless storehouse of free electrons. Could much of disease, chronic inflammation, poor sleep and more be the result of this?A brillian hypothesis well-grounded in Science. Highly recommended." --Nicholas Perricone, M.D., author of "Ageless Face, Ageless Mind" --Direct comments from Dr. Perricone\n</p>\n<p>\n "Earthing ranks right up there with the discovery of penicillin. This book is probably the most important health read of the 21st centur" --Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S., author of "The Fat Flush Diet" --Direct comments from Dr. Gittleman\n</p>\n<p>\n "Earthing connects us to Nature and Nature is the ultimate source of health and healing. This book is a manual for one of Nture''s great healing secrets." -John Gray, Ph.D., author of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" --Direct comments from Dr. Gray\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The solution for chronic inflammation, regarded as the cause of most common modern diseases, has been identified! And it is not blueberries. It is something right beneath our feet-the Earth itself!\n</p>\n<p>\n Throughout most of evolution humans walked barefoot and slept on the ground, largely oblivious that the surface of the Earth contains limitless healing energy. Science has discovered this energy as free-flowing electrons constantly replenished by solar radiation and lightning. Few people know it, but the ground provides a subtle electric signal that maintains health and governs the intricate mechanisms that make our bodies work-just like plugging a lamp into a power socket makes it light up. Modern lifestyle, including the widespread use of insulative rubber or plastic-soled shoes, has disconnected us from this energy and, of course, we no longer sleep on the ground as we did in times past.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Earthing\n </em>\n introduces the planet''s powerful, amazing, and overlooked natural healing energy and how people anywhere can readily connect to it. This eye-opening book describes how the physical disconnect with the Earth creates abnormal physiology and contributes to inflammation, pain, fatigue, stress, and poor sleep. By reconnecting to the Earth, symptoms are rapidly relieved and even eliminated and recovery from surgery, injury, and athletic overexertion is accelerated.\n</p>\n<p>\n This never-before-told story-filled with fascinating research and real-life testimonials- chronicles a discovery with the potential to create a global health revolution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6695'),
(16303, 'Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?', 'Clinton Ober &amp; Stephen T. Sinatra &amp; Martin Zucker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In our high tech society, connecting with the Earth has never been morecritical to our health and well-being. This inspired and well-researched book explains the peils we face by being disconnected from the powe and energy of the Earth and its boundless storehouse of free electrons. Could much of disease, chronic inflammation, poor sleep and more be the result of this?A brillian hypothesis well-grounded in Science. Highly recommended." --Nicholas Perricone, M.D., author of "Ageless Face, Ageless Mind" --Direct comments from Dr. Perricone\n</p>\n<p>\n "Earthing ranks right up there with the discovery of penicillin. This book is probably the most important health read of the 21st centur" --Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S., author of "The Fat Flush Diet" --Direct comments from Dr. Gittleman\n</p>\n<p>\n "Earthing connects us to Nature and Nature is the ultimate source of health and healing. This book is a manual for one of Nture''s great healing secrets." -John Gray, Ph.D., author of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" --Direct comments from Dr. Gray\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The solution for chronic inflammation, regarded as the cause of most common modern diseases, has been identified! And it is not blueberries. It is something right beneath our feet-the Earth itself!\n</p>\n<p>\n Throughout most of evolution humans walked barefoot and slept on the ground, largely oblivious that the surface of the Earth contains limitless healing energy. Science has discovered this energy as free-flowing electrons constantly replenished by solar radiation and lightning. Few people know it, but the ground provides a subtle electric signal that maintains health and governs the intricate mechanisms that make our bodies work-just like plugging a lamp into a power socket makes it light up. Modern lifestyle, including the widespread use of insulative rubber or plastic-soled shoes, has disconnected us from this energy and, of course, we no longer sleep on the ground as we did in times past.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Earthing\n </em>\n introduces the planet''s powerful, amazing, and overlooked natural healing energy and how people anywhere can readily connect to it. This eye-opening book describes how the physical disconnect with the Earth creates abnormal physiology and contributes to inflammation, pain, fatigue, stress, and poor sleep. By reconnecting to the Earth, symptoms are rapidly relieved and even eliminated and recovery from surgery, injury, and athletic overexertion is accelerated.\n</p>\n<p>\n This never-before-told story-filled with fascinating research and real-life testimonials- chronicles a discovery with the potential to create a global health revolution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11705');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(16304, 'Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?', 'Clinton Ober; Stephen T. Sinatra; Martin Zucker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In our high tech society, connecting with the Earth has never been morecritical to our health and well-being. This inspired and well-researched book explains the peils we face by being disconnected from the powe and energy of the Earth and its boundless storehouse of free electrons. Could much of disease, chronic inflammation, poor sleep and more be the result of this?A brillian hypothesis well-grounded in Science. Highly recommended." --Nicholas Perricone, M.D., author of "Ageless Face, Ageless Mind" --Direct comments from Dr. Perricone\n</p>\n<p>\n "Earthing ranks right up there with the discovery of penicillin. This book is probably the most important health read of the 21st centur" --Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S., author of "The Fat Flush Diet" --Direct comments from Dr. Gittleman\n</p>\n<p>\n "Earthing connects us to Nature and Nature is the ultimate source of health and healing. This book is a manual for one of Nture''s great healing secrets." -John Gray, Ph.D., author of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" --Direct comments from Dr. Gray\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The solution for chronic inflammation, regarded as the cause of most common modern diseases, has been identified! And it is not blueberries. It is something right beneath our feet-the Earth itself!\n</p>\n<p>\n Throughout most of evolution humans walked barefoot and slept on the ground, largely oblivious that the surface of the Earth contains limitless healing energy. Science has discovered this energy as free-flowing electrons constantly replenished by solar radiation and lightning. Few people know it, but the ground provides a subtle electric signal that maintains health and governs the intricate mechanisms that make our bodies work-just like plugging a lamp into a power socket makes it light up. Modern lifestyle, including the widespread use of insulative rubber or plastic-soled shoes, has disconnected us from this energy and, of course, we no longer sleep on the ground as we did in times past.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Earthing\n </em>\n introduces the planet''s powerful, amazing, and overlooked natural healing energy and how people anywhere can readily connect to it. This eye-opening book describes how the physical disconnect with the Earth creates abnormal physiology and contributes to inflammation, pain, fatigue, stress, and poor sleep. By reconnecting to the Earth, symptoms are rapidly relieved and even eliminated and recovery from surgery, injury, and athletic overexertion is accelerated.\n</p>\n<p>\n This never-before-told story-filled with fascinating research and real-life testimonials- chronicles a discovery with the potential to create a global health revolution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17355'),
(16305, 'East Of Desolation', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18210'),
(16306, 'East of Eden', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of  California''s Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two  families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly  reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and  Abel. "A strange and original work of art."--New York Times Book  Review. (Literature/Classics)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4225'),
(16307, 'East of Eden', 'John Steinbeck &amp; John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America''s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books\n <em>\n  East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Tortilla Flat\n </em>\n . Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersÂ—and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n<h4>\n Annotation\n</h4>\n<p>\n This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California''s Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. "A strange and original work of art."--New York Times Book Review.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12829'),
(16308, 'East of Eden', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of  California''s Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two  families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly  reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and  Abel. "A strange and original work of art."--New York Times Book  Review. (Literature/Classics)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12837'),
(16309, 'East of Eden', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California''s Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. "A strange and original work of art."--New York Times Book Review. (Literature/Classics)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13996'),
(16310, 'East of Eden', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California''s Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. "A strange and original work of art."--New York Times Book Review. (Literature/Classics)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20333'),
(16311, 'East of the Sun', 'Julia Gregson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As the Kaisar-i-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name given to the legions of Englishwomen who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three unsettling charges. There''s Rose, as beautiful as she is naÃ¯ve, who plans to marry a cavalry officer she has met a mere handful of times. Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own. And shadowing them all is the malevolent presence of a disturbed schoolboy named Guy Glover.From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of Tamarind Street, from the sooty streets of London to the genteel conversation of the Bombay Yacht Club, East of the Sun is graced with lavish detail and a penetrating sensitivity -- historical fiction at its greatest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3967'),
(16312, 'East of the Sun', 'Julia Gregson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As the Kaisar-i-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name given to the legions of Englishwomen who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three unsettling charges. There''s Rose, as beautiful as she is naÃ¯ve, who plans to marry a cavalry officer she has met a mere handful of times. Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own. And shadowing them all is the malevolent presence of a disturbed schoolboy named Guy Glover.From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of Tamarind Street, from the sooty streets of London to the genteel conversation of the Bombay Yacht Club, East of the Sun is graced with lavish detail and a penetrating sensitivity -- historical fiction at its greatest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10072'),
(16313, 'East of the Sun', 'Julia Gregson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As the Kaisar-i-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name given to the legions of Englishwomen who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three unsettling charges. There''s Rose, as beautiful as she is naÃ¯ve, who plans to marry a cavalry officer she has met a mere handful of times. Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own. And shadowing them all is the malevolent presence of a disturbed schoolboy named Guy Glover.From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of Tamarind Street, from the sooty streets of London to the genteel conversation of the Bombay Yacht Club, East of the Sun is graced with lavish detail and a penetrating sensitivity -- historical fiction at its greatest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20585'),
(16314, 'Easy Marks', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15445'),
(16315, 'Eat Fat, Lose Fat: Lose Weight and Feel Great With Three Delicious, Science-Based Coconut Diets', 'Mary G. Enig &amp; Sally Fallon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this new addition to the fast-fix diet book shelf, Enig and Fallon attempt to correct what they see as Americans'' false belief that tropical fats and oils (such as coconut and palm) are unhealthy, asserting that those fats (and coconut, especially) are beneficial saturated fats that should be more heavily incorporated into our diets. Enig, a biochemist and nutritionist, along with Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation (a non-profit dedicated to helping people implement healthy approaches to nutrition), say "high-fat, low-carb really works," eschewing the disastrous effects a high-fat diet can have on a person''s heart. They like the Atkins diet, but say it doesn''t take advantage of the "metabolism-boosting" powers of coconut oil. Their approach skews more toward traditional diets and away from modern diets (e.g., chose animal fats over vegetable oils; raw or fermented dairy products instead of pasteurized ones). Though based on considerable research, the book is somewhat off-putting. Its emphasis on one ingredient-in the recipe section, for example, one sample menu has readers eating a dish with coconut in it seven times in one day-seems nutritionally suspicious.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The healthy alternative to trans fats, this revolutionary program explains why we must eat healthy, saturated fats-especially coconut-to achieve weight loss and good health.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since the late 1950s, it''s been drilled into Americans that fat makes you fat, saturated fats (such as those found in butter, eggs, and red meat) are unhealthy, and tropical fats and oils (like coconut and palm) are downright deadly. And yet-as we eliminate saturated fats from our diet for fear of high cholesterol levels and hardened arteries-obesity, heart disease, and cancer rates have continued to climb.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Based on more than two decades of research by world-renowned biochemist and fats expert Dr. Mary Enig,\n  <em>\n   Eat Fat, Lose Fat\n  </em>\n  flouts conventional wisdom by asserting that so-called healthy vegetable oils (such as soybean and corn) are in large part responsible for our national obesity and health crises, while the saturated fats traditionally considered "harmful" are, in fact, essential to weight loss and health.\n </p>\n <p>\n  World populations on four continents that subsist on the coconut, with less evidence of heart disease, weight gain, or other chronic illnesses, provide the best proof of this food''s safety and efficacy; dozens of studies conducted by prestigious, mainstream universities support the use of coconut and other healthy fats and reveal the faulty reasoning underlying the saturated fat/heart disease hypothesis; and case stories from a wide range of people illustrate how using coconut oil in concert with other healthy fats can spark weight loss and heal serious illnesses, including anxiety, hypothyroidism, and chronic fatigue syndrome.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring delicious recipes for each of its three nutritional programs,\n  <em>\n   Eat Fat, Lose Fat\n  </em>\n  is the book to help you build energy, lose weight, fight disease, and boost your immunity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3057'),
(16316, 'Eat Fat, Lose Fat: Lose Weight and Feel Great With Three Delicious, Science-Based Coconut Diets', 'Mary G. Enig &amp; Sally Fallon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this new addition to the fast-fix diet book shelf, Enig and Fallon attempt to correct what they see as Americans'' false belief that tropical fats and oils (such as coconut and palm) are unhealthy, asserting that those fats (and coconut, especially) are beneficial saturated fats that should be more heavily incorporated into our diets. Enig, a biochemist and nutritionist, along with Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation (a non-profit dedicated to helping people implement healthy approaches to nutrition), say "high-fat, low-carb really works," eschewing the disastrous effects a high-fat diet can have on a person''s heart. They like the Atkins diet, but say it doesn''t take advantage of the "metabolism-boosting" powers of coconut oil. Their approach skews more toward traditional diets and away from modern diets (e.g., chose animal fats over vegetable oils; raw or fermented dairy products instead of pasteurized ones). Though based on considerable research, the book is somewhat off-putting. Its emphasis on one ingredient-in the recipe section, for example, one sample menu has readers eating a dish with coconut in it seven times in one day-seems nutritionally suspicious.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The healthy alternative to trans fats, this revolutionary program explains why we must eat healthy, saturated fats-especially coconut-to achieve weight loss and good health.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since the late 1950s, it''s been drilled into Americans that fat makes you fat, saturated fats (such as those found in butter, eggs, and red meat) are unhealthy, and tropical fats and oils (like coconut and palm) are downright deadly. And yet-as we eliminate saturated fats from our diet for fear of high cholesterol levels and hardened arteries-obesity, heart disease, and cancer rates have continued to climb.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Based on more than two decades of research by world-renowned biochemist and fats expert Dr. Mary Enig,\n  <em>\n   Eat Fat, Lose Fat\n  </em>\n  flouts conventional wisdom by asserting that so-called healthy vegetable oils (such as soybean and corn) are in large part responsible for our national obesity and health crises, while the saturated fats traditionally considered "harmful" are, in fact, essential to weight loss and health.\n </p>\n <p>\n  World populations on four continents that subsist on the coconut, with less evidence of heart disease, weight gain, or other chronic illnesses, provide the best proof of this food''s safety and efficacy; dozens of studies conducted by prestigious, mainstream universities support the use of coconut and other healthy fats and reveal the faulty reasoning underlying the saturated fat/heart disease hypothesis; and case stories from a wide range of people illustrate how using coconut oil in concert with other healthy fats can spark weight loss and heal serious illnesses, including anxiety, hypothyroidism, and chronic fatigue syndrome.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring delicious recipes for each of its three nutritional programs,\n  <em>\n   Eat Fat, Lose Fat\n  </em>\n  is the book to help you build energy, lose weight, fight disease, and boost your immunity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9649'),
(16317, 'Eat Fat, Lose Fat: Lose Weight and Feel Great With Three Delicious, Science-Based Coconut Diets', 'Mary G. Enig; Sally Fallon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this new addition to the fast-fix diet book shelf, Enig and Fallon attempt to correct what they see as Americans'' false belief that tropical fats and oils (such as coconut and palm) are unhealthy, asserting that those fats (and coconut, especially) are beneficial saturated fats that should be more heavily incorporated into our diets. Enig, a biochemist and nutritionist, along with Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation (a non-profit dedicated to helping people implement healthy approaches to nutrition), say "high-fat, low-carb really works," eschewing the disastrous effects a high-fat diet can have on a person''s heart. They like the Atkins diet, but say it doesn''t take advantage of the "metabolism-boosting" powers of coconut oil. Their approach skews more toward traditional diets and away from modern diets (e.g., chose animal fats over vegetable oils; raw or fermented dairy products instead of pasteurized ones). Though based on considerable research, the book is somewhat off-putting. Its emphasis on one ingredient-in the recipe section, for example, one sample menu has readers eating a dish with coconut in it seven times in one day-seems nutritionally suspicious.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The healthy alternative to trans fats, this revolutionary program explains why we must eat healthy, saturated fats-especially coconut-to achieve weight loss and good health.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since the late 1950s, it''s been drilled into Americans that fat makes you fat, saturated fats (such as those found in butter, eggs, and red meat) are unhealthy, and tropical fats and oils (like coconut and palm) are downright deadly. And yet-as we eliminate saturated fats from our diet for fear of high cholesterol levels and hardened arteries-obesity, heart disease, and cancer rates have continued to climb.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Based on more than two decades of research by world-renowned biochemist and fats expert Dr. Mary Enig,\n  <em>\n   Eat Fat, Lose Fat\n  </em>\n  flouts conventional wisdom by asserting that so-called healthy vegetable oils (such as soybean and corn) are in large part responsible for our national obesity and health crises, while the saturated fats traditionally considered "harmful" are, in fact, essential to weight loss and health.\n </p>\n <p>\n  World populations on four continents that subsist on the coconut, with less evidence of heart disease, weight gain, or other chronic illnesses, provide the best proof of this food''s safety and efficacy; dozens of studies conducted by prestigious, mainstream universities support the use of coconut and other healthy fats and reveal the faulty reasoning underlying the saturated fat/heart disease hypothesis; and case stories from a wide range of people illustrate how using coconut oil in concert with other healthy fats can spark weight loss and heal serious illnesses, including anxiety, hypothyroidism, and chronic fatigue syndrome.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Featuring delicious recipes for each of its three nutritional programs,\n  <em>\n   Eat Fat, Lose Fat\n  </em>\n  is the book to help you build energy, lose weight, fight disease, and boost your immunity.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21877'),
(16318, 'Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman&#39;s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A celebrated writerâ€™s irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly   pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis.   She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to wantâ€”a   husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was   consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression,   another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to   find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her   job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the worldâ€”all alone. *Eat, Pray, Love* is the   absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one   aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one   thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the   twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a   native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted   months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment   and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love   the best wayâ€”unexpectedly.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, *Eat, Pray, Love* is about what   can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in   imitation of societyâ€™s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the   unrelenting need for change.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5684'),
(16319, 'Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman&#39;s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A celebrated writerâ€™s irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly   pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis.   She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to wantâ€”a   husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was   consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression,   another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to   find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her   job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the worldâ€”all alone. *Eat, Pray, Love* is the   absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one   aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one   thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the   twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a   native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted   months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment   and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love   the best wayâ€”unexpectedly.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, *Eat, Pray, Love* is about what   can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in   imitation of societyâ€™s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the   unrelenting need for change.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10015'),
(16320, 'Eat, pray, love: one woman&#39;s search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A celebrated writerâ€™s irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life** Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to wantâ€”a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the worldâ€”all alone. *Eat, Pray, Love* is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best wayâ€”unexpectedly. An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, *Eat, Pray, Love* is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of societyâ€™s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15082'),
(16321, 'Eat, pray, love: one woman&#39;s search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A celebrated writerâ€™s irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life** Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to wantâ€”a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the worldâ€”all alone. *Eat, Pray, Love* is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best wayâ€”unexpectedly. An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, *Eat, Pray, Love* is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of societyâ€™s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18863'),
(16322, 'Eat, pray, love: one woman&#39;s search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia', 'Elizabeth Gilbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A celebrated writerâ€™s irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly   pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis.   She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to wantâ€”a   husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was   consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression,   another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to   find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her   job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the worldâ€”all alone. *Eat, Pray, Love* is the   absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one   aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one   thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the   twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a   native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted   months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment   and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love   the best wayâ€”unexpectedly.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, *Eat, Pray, Love* is about what   can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in   imitation of societyâ€™s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the   unrelenting need for change.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27649'),
(16323, 'Eater', 'Gregory Benford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Benford (The Martian Race), a physics professor at UC-Irvine and a Nebula winner for his novel Timescape, is one of the leading exponents of hard SFAwhich, no matter how fantastic it might seem, never violates established scientific laws. His newest novel takes one of the oldest SF plotsAfirst contactAand spruces it up with great success using the latest developments in astronomy and, in particular, new information on black holes. In the early 21st century, astronomers observe what appears to be a distant gamma-ray burster, a black hole swallowing another star many light years away. The data is troubling because a second burster occurs only 13 h ours later, which, given the immense distance between stars, should be impossible. Eventually, the astronomers realize that the black hole, rather than being incredibly distant, is on the edge of our solar system, and moving our way at considerable speed. Stranger still, it appears to be under intelligent guidance, or, perhaps, to be intelligent itself. One of Benford''s specialties is presenting science the way it''s really done, and this is clearly the case here. His three astronomer-protagonistsABenjamin Knowlton; his cancer-stricken wife, Channing; and the British Astronomer Royal, Kingsley Dart, whom Benford has partly based on Freeman DysonAare nicely drawn and highly believable. His alien is, well, incredibly alien and endlessly fascinating. Less successful are Benford''s government officials, who can come across as caricaturesAbut this is a minor fault. Full of astronomical pyrotechnics and the kind of intellectual verbal fencing that seems to go along with creative scientific thinking, Benford''s latest should delight any serious reader of SF. Agent, Ralph Vicinanza.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Long before there was time, a black hole became a wandering entity, feeding on asteroids, planets, and remnants of the Big Bang. Eventually, it began engulfing ancient civilizations in its never-ending roaming across the expanse of time and space. When it reaches the edge of Earth''s solar system, three scientists, Benjamin Knowlton, his wife Channing, and their friend and colleague Kingsley Dart, take on the fight to prevent the black hole, named Eater, from annihilating the Earth. Basing the foundation of the story on scientific knowledge in the fields of physics and astronomy, Benford gives enough background in both areas to elucidate concepts without overstating the obvious. He develops the main characters as the story unfolds, paralleling their personal changes, their shared history, and their heroic interactions with the increasing malevolence of the Eater. Deftly weaving scientific procedure around an exciting plot of adventure and destruction, and inserting the interpersonal relationships of three intense personalities, Benford creates scientific fiction that sounds very real.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5337'),
(16324, 'Eater', 'Gregory Benford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Benford (The Martian Race), a physics professor at UC-Irvine and a Nebula winner for his novel Timescape, is one of the leading exponents of hard SFAwhich, no matter how fantastic it might seem, never violates established scientific laws. His newest novel takes one of the oldest SF plotsAfirst contactAand spruces it up with great success using the latest developments in astronomy and, in particular, new information on black holes. In the early 21st century, astronomers observe what appears to be a distant gamma-ray burster, a black hole swallowing another star many light years away. The data is troubling because a second burster occurs only 13 h ours later, which, given the immense distance between stars, should be impossible. Eventually, the astronomers realize that the black hole, rather than being incredibly distant, is on the edge of our solar system, and moving our way at considerable speed. Stranger still, it appears to be under intelligent guidance, or, perhaps, to be intelligent itself. One of Benford''s specialties is presenting science the way it''s really done, and this is clearly the case here. His three astronomer-protagonistsABenjamin Knowlton; his cancer-stricken wife, Channing; and the British Astronomer Royal, Kingsley Dart, whom Benford has partly based on Freeman DysonAare nicely drawn and highly believable. His alien is, well, incredibly alien and endlessly fascinating. Less successful are Benford''s government officials, who can come across as caricaturesAbut this is a minor fault. Full of astronomical pyrotechnics and the kind of intellectual verbal fencing that seems to go along with creative scientific thinking, Benford''s latest should delight any serious reader of SF. Agent, Ralph Vicinanza.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Long before there was time, a black hole became a wandering entity, feeding on asteroids, planets, and remnants of the Big Bang. Eventually, it began engulfing ancient civilizations in its never-ending roaming across the expanse of time and space. When it reaches the edge of Earth''s solar system, three scientists, Benjamin Knowlton, his wife Channing, and their friend and colleague Kingsley Dart, take on the fight to prevent the black hole, named Eater, from annihilating the Earth. Basing the foundation of the story on scientific knowledge in the fields of physics and astronomy, Benford gives enough background in both areas to elucidate concepts without overstating the obvious. He develops the main characters as the story unfolds, paralleling their personal changes, their shared history, and their heroic interactions with the increasing malevolence of the Eater. Deftly weaving scientific procedure around an exciting plot of adventure and destruction, and inserting the interpersonal relationships of three intense personalities, Benford creates scientific fiction that sounds very real.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19427'),
(16325, 'Eaters of the Dead', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customsâ€”the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . . their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues themâ€”a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2783'),
(16326, 'Eaters of the Dead', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customsâ€”the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . . their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues themâ€”a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15074'),
(16327, 'Eaters of the Dead', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Bagdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs -- the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues them -- a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21930'),
(16328, 'The Eaters of the Dead', 'Crichton, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25917'),
(16329, 'Eating', 'Jason Epstein', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Former Random House editor Epstein (_Book Business: Publishing Past, Present and Future_) combines his literary lunches with a personal, tried-and-true collection of meals and recipes. The breezy memoir touches on mayonnaise-rich dishes he''s eaten with famous friends and neighborsâ€”Olaf Olafsen, Norman Mailer and Jane Jacobsâ€”in between recollection of childhood visits to Maine and recent trips to Sag Harbor, Long Island. Accompanying the stories are recipes meant to resemble conversations, mixed in with peculiar advice on sourcing ingredients and detailed tips on technique. Epsteinâ€”who readily admits he still doesn''t think of Manhattan as home because of its lack of Ipswich clamsâ€”is most comfortable on the New England shore, if his recipes for salmon roe, lobster rolls and fried clams are any indication. While Epstein blends the down-home simplicity of chicken pot pie with the kind of dowdy French classics once served in lower Manhattan, his trips with chef Alice Waters to Craig Claiborne''s lunch parties and suggestions for hard-to-find ingredients and out-of-print books cultivate a stuffy air of exclusivity, a tone tempered by the softer, improvisational voice from his kitchen. Be warned, the book''s mouthwatering narrative recipesâ€”from steak tartare enclosed in burnt hamburger crust to a simple braised duck with olivesâ€”might spur more than a couple of trips to the kitchen.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ_Eating_ is an unpretentious chronicle of an extraordinary life well lived, an antidote of sorts in this age of . . . meals made in an ever-decreasing number of minutes. To read it is to vow to live better.â€ â€”_Newsweek\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œFull of anecdotes and his gusto for food and life . . . Â Epstein has produced a book that will warm readersâ€™ hearts.â€ â€”_The Washington Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œ[Epstein] treats us to a cornucopia of memoriesâ€”some personal, some literary, all tied to foodâ€”and as many interesting recipes as ruminations. . . . A delight.â€ â€”_The Wall Street Journal _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDelicious. . . .Â [Epstein] has been present for (or hosted) some of the greatest, most unhinged literary dinner parties of our time.â€ â€”_The New York Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œThis convivial memoir by a distinguished publisher charts a lifetime of cooking and consumption. . . . Enlivening.â€ â€”_The New Yorker _\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œWhat a storyteller! He brings food into the cultural experience in a beautiful way.â€ â€”Alice WatersÂ Â \n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThe conversational recipes and fond descriptions carry a clear intimation of how one should really live, the very thing that is so compelling in M. F. K. Fisher and Julia Child.â€ â€”James Salter, coauthor of\n <em>\n  Life Is Meals\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAs Proust demonstrated with his madeleine, taste is a powerful unleasher of memories. Epsteinâ€™s book, like M.F.K. Fisherâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Art of Eating\n </em>\n , Laurie Colwinâ€™s\n <em>\n  Home Cooking\n </em>\n and, more recently, Amanda Hesserâ€™s\n <em>\n  Cooking for Mr. Latte\n </em>\n ,_ _tucks recipes into an entertaining, alternately informative and autobiographical narrative. . . .\n <em>\n  Eating\n </em>\n . . . works for armchair cooks as well as active chefs, and has the advantage of being calorie-free.â€ â€”_San Francisco Chronicle&lt;.i&gt; _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9508'),
(16330, 'Eating Animals', 'Foer, Jonathan Safran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14568'),
(16331, 'Eating Animals', 'Foer, Jonathan Safran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20380'),
(16332, 'Eating Animals', 'Foer, Jonathan Safran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27869'),
(16333, 'Eating the Dinosaur', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Book of All-New Pop Culture Pieces by Chuck KlostermanChuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He''s covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposable heroes, life on the road, life through the television, urban uncertainty and small-town weirdness. Through a variety of mediums and with a multitude of motives, he''s written about everything he can think of (and a lot that he''s forgotten). The world keeps accelerating, but the pop ideas keep coming. In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he''s dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fan''s inevitably hate their favorite band''s latest album, or why we love watching can''t-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It''s amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it''s incredibly funny.Q: What is this book about?A: Well, that''s difficult to say. I haven''t read it yet - I''ve just clicked on it and casually glanced at this webpage. There clearly isn''t a plot. I''ve heard there''s a lot of stuff about time travel in this book, and quite a bit about violence and Garth Brooks and why Germans don''t laugh when they''re inside grocery stores. Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles. I think there are several pages about Rear Window and football and Mad Men and why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women. Supposedly there''s a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about, but perhaps I''m misinformed.Q: Is there a larger theme?A: Oh, something about reality. "What is reality," maybe? No, that''s not it. Not exactly. I get the sense that most of the core questions dwell on the way media perception constructs a fake reality that ends up becoming more meaningful than whatever actually happened.Q: Should I read this book?A: Probably. Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian disaster and the recording of Nirvana''s In Utero? Does Barack Obama make you want to drink Pepsi? Does ABBA remind you of AC/DC? If so, you probably don''t need to read this book. You probably wrote this book. But I suspect everybody else will totally love it, except for the ones who absolutely hate it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6731');
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(16334, 'Eating the Dinosaur', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Book of All-New Pop Culture Pieces by Chuck KlostermanChuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He''s covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposable heroes, life on the road, life through the television, urban uncertainty and small-town weirdness. Through a variety of mediums and with a multitude of motives, he''s written about everything he can think of (and a lot that he''s forgotten). The world keeps accelerating, but the pop ideas keep coming. In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he''s dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fan''s inevitably hate their favorite band''s latest album, or why we love watching can''t-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It''s amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it''s incredibly funny.Q: What is this book about?A: Well, that''s difficult to say. I haven''t read it yet - I''ve just clicked on it and casually glanced at this webpage. There clearly isn''t a plot. I''ve heard there''s a lot of stuff about time travel in this book, and quite a bit about violence and Garth Brooks and why Germans don''t laugh when they''re inside grocery stores. Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles. I think there are several pages about Rear Window and football and Mad Men and why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women. Supposedly there''s a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about, but perhaps I''m misinformed.Q: Is there a larger theme?A: Oh, something about reality. "What is reality," maybe? No, that''s not it. Not exactly. I get the sense that most of the core questions dwell on the way media perception constructs a fake reality that ends up becoming more meaningful than whatever actually happened.Q: Should I read this book?A: Probably. Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian disaster and the recording of Nirvana''s In Utero? Does Barack Obama make you want to drink Pepsi? Does ABBA remind you of AC/DC? If so, you probably don''t need to read this book. You probably wrote this book. But I suspect everybody else will totally love it, except for the ones who absolutely hate it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10765'),
(16335, 'Eating the Dinosaur', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Book of All-New Pop Culture Pieces by Chuck KlostermanChuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He''s covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposable heroes, life on the road, life through the television, urban uncertainty and small-town weirdness. Through a variety of mediums and with a multitude of motives, he''s written about everything he can think of (and a lot that he''s forgotten). The world keeps accelerating, but the pop ideas keep coming. In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he''s dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fan''s inevitably hate their favorite band''s latest album, or why we love watching can''t-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It''s amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it''s incredibly funny.Q: What is this book about?A: Well, that''s difficult to say. I haven''t read it yet - I''ve just clicked on it and casually glanced at this webpage. There clearly isn''t a plot. I''ve heard there''s a lot of stuff about time travel in this book, and quite a bit about violence and Garth Brooks and why Germans don''t laugh when they''re inside grocery stores. Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles. I think there are several pages about Rear Window and football and Mad Men and why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women. Supposedly there''s a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about, but perhaps I''m misinformed.Q: Is there a larger theme?A: Oh, something about reality. "What is reality," maybe? No, that''s not it. Not exactly. I get the sense that most of the core questions dwell on the way media perception constructs a fake reality that ends up becoming more meaningful than whatever actually happened.Q: Should I read this book?A: Probably. Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian disaster and the recording of Nirvana''s In Utero? Does Barack Obama make you want to drink Pepsi? Does ABBA remind you of AC/DC? If so, you probably don''t need to read this book. You probably wrote this book. But I suspect everybody else will totally love it, except for the ones who absolutely hate it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14433'),
(16336, 'Eating the Dinosaur', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Book of All-New Pop Culture Pieces by Chuck KlostermanChuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He''s covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposable heroes, life on the road, life through the television, urban uncertainty and small-town weirdness. Through a variety of mediums and with a multitude of motives, he''s written about everything he can think of (and a lot that he''s forgotten). The world keeps accelerating, but the pop ideas keep coming. In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he''s dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fan''s inevitably hate their favorite band''s latest album, or why we love watching can''t-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It''s amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it''s incredibly funny.Q: What is this book about?A: Well, that''s difficult to say. I haven''t read it yet - I''ve just clicked on it and casually glanced at this webpage. There clearly isn''t a plot. I''ve heard there''s a lot of stuff about time travel in this book, and quite a bit about violence and Garth Brooks and why Germans don''t laugh when they''re inside grocery stores. Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles. I think there are several pages about Rear Window and football and Mad Men and why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women. Supposedly there''s a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about, but perhaps I''m misinformed.Q: Is there a larger theme?A: Oh, something about reality. "What is reality," maybe? No, that''s not it. Not exactly. I get the sense that most of the core questions dwell on the way media perception constructs a fake reality that ends up becoming more meaningful than whatever actually happened.Q: Should I read this book?A: Probably. Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian disaster and the recording of Nirvana''s In Utero? Does Barack Obama make you want to drink Pepsi? Does ABBA remind you of AC/DC? If so, you probably don''t need to read this book. You probably wrote this book. But I suspect everybody else will totally love it, except for the ones who absolutely hate it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18020'),
(16337, 'Eating the Dinosaur', 'Chuck Klosterman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Book of All-New Pop Culture Pieces by Chuck KlostermanChuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He''s covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposable heroes, life on the road, life through the television, urban uncertainty and small-town weirdness. Through a variety of mediums and with a multitude of motives, he''s written about everything he can think of (and a lot that he''s forgotten). The world keeps accelerating, but the pop ideas keep coming. In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he''s dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fan''s inevitably hate their favorite band''s latest album, or why we love watching can''t-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It''s amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it''s incredibly funny.Q: What is this book about?A: Well, that''s difficult to say. I haven''t read it yet - I''ve just clicked on it and casually glanced at this webpage. There clearly isn''t a plot. I''ve heard there''s a lot of stuff about time travel in this book, and quite a bit about violence and Garth Brooks and why Germans don''t laugh when they''re inside grocery stores. Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles. I think there are several pages about Rear Window and football and Mad Men and why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women. Supposedly there''s a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about, but perhaps I''m misinformed.Q: Is there a larger theme?A: Oh, something about reality. "What is reality," maybe? No, that''s not it. Not exactly. I get the sense that most of the core questions dwell on the way media perception constructs a fake reality that ends up becoming more meaningful than whatever actually happened.Q: Should I read this book?A: Probably. Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian disaster and the recording of Nirvana''s In Utero? Does Barack Obama make you want to drink Pepsi? Does ABBA remind you of AC/DC? If so, you probably don''t need to read this book. You probably wrote this book. But I suspect everybody else will totally love it, except for the ones who absolutely hate it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26971'),
(16338, 'Ecce Homo (The Autobiography of Friedrich Nietzsche)', 'Friedrich Nietzsche &amp; Anthony M. Ludovici', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written in 1888 just before the final years of insanity that would plague Friedrich Nietzsche until his death in 1900, "Ecce Homo" is an insightful reflection by the author upon his own life and his impact on the world of philosophy. In "Ecce Homo" Nietzsche offers his personal perspective on his various philosophical works including: "The Birth of Tragedy", "Thoughts out of Season", "Human, All-Too-Human", "The Dawn of Day", "The Gay Science", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Beyond Good and Evil", "The Genealogy of Morals", "The Twilight of the Idols", and "The Case of Wagner". In this revealing little work we gain great insight into what Nietzsche was as he saw himself and a final reiteration of his core philosophy, a rejection of the Christian ideal that asserts suffering as a noble necessity of life and of Christianity as the bastion of supreme morality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5567'),
(16339, 'Ecce Homo (The Autobiography of Friedrich Nietzsche)', 'Friedrich Nietzsche &amp; Anthony M. Ludovici', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written in 1888 just before the final years of insanity that would plague Friedrich Nietzsche until his death in 1900, "Ecce Homo" is an insightful reflection by the author upon his own life and his impact on the world of philosophy. In "Ecce Homo" Nietzsche offers his personal perspective on his various philosophical works including: "The Birth of Tragedy", "Thoughts out of Season", "Human, All-Too-Human", "The Dawn of Day", "The Gay Science", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Beyond Good and Evil", "The Genealogy of Morals", "The Twilight of the Idols", and "The Case of Wagner". In this revealing little work we gain great insight into what Nietzsche was as he saw himself and a final reiteration of his core philosophy, a rejection of the Christian ideal that asserts suffering as a noble necessity of life and of Christianity as the bastion of supreme morality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11722'),
(16340, 'Ecce Homo (the Autobiography of Friedrich Nietzsche)', 'Friedrich Nietzsche; Anthony M. Ludovici', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written in 1888 just before the final years of insanity that would plague Friedrich Nietzsche until his death in 1900, "Ecce Homo" is an insightful reflection by the author upon his own life and his impact on the world of philosophy. In "Ecce Homo" Nietzsche offers his personal perspective on his various philosophical works including: "The Birth of Tragedy", "Thoughts out of Season", "Human, All-Too-Human", "The Dawn of Day", "The Gay Science", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Beyond Good and Evil", "The Genealogy of Morals", "The Twilight of the Idols", and "The Case of Wagner". In this revealing little work we gain great insight into what Nietzsche was as he saw himself and a final reiteration of his core philosophy, a rejection of the Christian ideal that asserts suffering as a noble necessity of life and of Christianity as the bastion of supreme morality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19136'),
(16341, 'Ecce Homo (the Autobiography of Friedrich Nietzsche)', 'Friedrich Nietzsche; Anthony M. Ludovici', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written in 1888 just before the final years of insanity that would plague Friedrich Nietzsche until his death in 1900, "Ecce Homo" is an insightful reflection by the author upon his own life and his impact on the world of philosophy. In "Ecce Homo" Nietzsche offers his personal perspective on his various philosophical works including: "The Birth of Tragedy", "Thoughts out of Season", "Human, All-Too-Human", "The Dawn of Day", "The Gay Science", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Beyond Good and Evil", "The Genealogy of Morals", "The Twilight of the Idols", and "The Case of Wagner". In this revealing little work we gain great insight into what Nietzsche was as he saw himself and a final reiteration of his core philosophy, a rejection of the Christian ideal that asserts suffering as a noble necessity of life and of Christianity as the bastion of supreme morality.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27927'),
(16342, 'Echo Burning', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thumbing across the west Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go. Cruising the same stretch of blacktop is Carmen Greer. But the lift comes with a hitch. She''s got a wild story to tell--about her husband, her family secrets, and a hometown that''s pure Gothic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3524'),
(16343, 'Echo Burning', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thumbing across the west Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go. Cruising the same stretch of blacktop is Carmen Greer. But the lift comes with a hitch. She''s got a wild story to tell--about her husband, her family secrets, and a hometown that''s pure Gothic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15133'),
(16344, 'Echo Burning', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thumbing across the west Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go. Cruising the same stretch of blacktop is Carmen Greer. But the lift comes with a hitch. She''s got a wild story to tell--about her husband, her family secrets, and a hometown that''s pure Gothic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21038'),
(16345, 'An Echo in the Bone', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this new epic of imagination, time travel, and adventure, Diana Gabaldon continues the riveting story begun in Outlander. Jamie Fraser is an eighteenth-century Highlander, an ex-Jacobite traitor, and a reluctant rebel in the American Revolution. His wife, Claire Randall Fraser, is a surgeon-from the twentieth century. What she knows of the future compels him to fight. What she doesn''t know may kill them both. With one foot in America and one foot in Scotland, Jamie and Claire''s adventure spans the Revolution, from sea battles to printshops, as their paths cross with historical figures from Benjamin Franklin to Benedict Arnold. Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, their daughter, Brianna, and her husband experience the unfolding drama of the Revolutionary War through Claire''s letters. But the letters can''t warn them of the threat that''s rising out of the past to overshadow their family. Diana Gabaldon''s sweeping Outlander saga reaches new heights in An Echo in the Bone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25882'),
(16346, 'An Echo in the Bone: A Novel', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14670'),
(16347, 'An Echo in the Bone: A Novel', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27470'),
(16348, 'Echo Park', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bosch reopens the hunt for a psychotic killer who stalked the streets of Los Angeles years before. In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missing persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch was assigned the case. But the 22-year-old woman never turned up - dead or alive - and it was a case Bosch couldn''t crack. Thirteen years later Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit when he gets a call from the DA''s office. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of those murders, he says, is the killing of Marie Gesto. Bosch is now assigned to take Raynard Waits'' confession and to make sure the killer is not scamming authorities to avoid a date with death. In confirming the confession Bosch must get close to the man he has sought for thirteen years. Bosch''s whole being as a cop begins to crack when he comes to realise that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 that could have led them to Waits and would have stopped the nine murders that followed the killing of Marie Gesto.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14667'),
(16349, 'Echo Park: A Novel', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Connelly''s compelling 12th Harry Bosch novel (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  The Closers\n </em>\n ) offers some new wrinkles on a familiar themeâ€”the aging detective haunted by the one who got away. In Bosch''s case, the elusive quarry is the man who abducted a 22-year-old equestrian, Marie Gesto, in 1993. Having returned to active duty as a member of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit, Bosch repeatedly pulls the file to see if he can discover something new and give some small solace to the victim''s parents. When a chance police stop of a suspicious vehicle nets serial killer Raynard Waits, who''s carrying body parts in his van, Bosch assesses the murderer''s claim that he was responsible for killing Gesto, too. The weary and cynical detective soon suspects that Waits is trying to barter information for a reduced sentence of life imprisonment. Political motivations connected with the upcoming DA election also cloud the investigation. Smooth prose and plausible charactersâ€”even the secondary figuresâ€”elevate this several notches above the standard cop vs. serial-killer thriller.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Bosch has been around since the Edgar Award?winning\n <em>\n  The Black Echo\n </em>\n (1992), and critics agree that neither he nor the police-procedural series has lost of any of their original luster. Instead, they''re both getting better with age. As in previous installments, both character and plot drive\n <em>\n  Echo Park\n </em>\n : Harry''s passion for the case and his guilt at having not found the killer before more murders occurred create a flawed, convincing hero. Michael Connelly''s sharp eye for Los Angeles, from Sunset Boulevard to Beachwood Canyon and Echo Park, also kept critics turning the pages. Overall, _Echo Park\n <em>\n  "is a richly imagined and finely crafted piece that grabs the reader on Page One and locks him but a half-step behind Bosch on every page that follows" (\n </em>\n Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2896'),
(16350, 'Echo Park: A Novel', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Connelly''s compelling 12th Harry Bosch novel (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  The Closers\n </em>\n ) offers some new wrinkles on a familiar themeâ€”the aging detective haunted by the one who got away. In Bosch''s case, the elusive quarry is the man who abducted a 22-year-old equestrian, Marie Gesto, in 1993. Having returned to active duty as a member of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit, Bosch repeatedly pulls the file to see if he can discover something new and give some small solace to the victim''s parents. When a chance police stop of a suspicious vehicle nets serial killer Raynard Waits, who''s carrying body parts in his van, Bosch assesses the murderer''s claim that he was responsible for killing Gesto, too. The weary and cynical detective soon suspects that Waits is trying to barter information for a reduced sentence of life imprisonment. Political motivations connected with the upcoming DA election also cloud the investigation. Smooth prose and plausible charactersâ€”even the secondary figuresâ€”elevate this several notches above the standard cop vs. serial-killer thriller.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Bosch has been around since the Edgar Award?winning\n <em>\n  The Black Echo\n </em>\n (1992), and critics agree that neither he nor the police-procedural series has lost of any of their original luster. Instead, they''re both getting better with age. As in previous installments, both character and plot drive\n <em>\n  Echo Park\n </em>\n : Harry''s passion for the case and his guilt at having not found the killer before more murders occurred create a flawed, convincing hero. Michael Connelly''s sharp eye for Los Angeles, from Sunset Boulevard to Beachwood Canyon and Echo Park, also kept critics turning the pages. Overall, _Echo Park\n <em>\n  "is a richly imagined and finely crafted piece that grabs the reader on Page One and locks him but a half-step behind Bosch on every page that follows" (\n </em>\n Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9099'),
(16351, 'Echo Park: a novel', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Connelly''s compelling 12th Harry Bosch novel (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  The Closers\n </em>\n ) offers some new wrinkles on a familiar themeâ€”the aging detective haunted by the one who got away. In Bosch''s case, the elusive quarry is the man who abducted a 22-year-old equestrian, Marie Gesto, in 1993. Having returned to active duty as a member of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit, Bosch repeatedly pulls the file to see if he can discover something new and give some small solace to the victim''s parents. When a chance police stop of a suspicious vehicle nets serial killer Raynard Waits, who''s carrying body parts in his van, Bosch assesses the murderer''s claim that he was responsible for killing Gesto, too. The weary and cynical detective soon suspects that Waits is trying to barter information for a reduced sentence of life imprisonment. Political motivations connected with the upcoming DA election also cloud the investigation. Smooth prose and plausible charactersâ€”even the secondary figuresâ€”elevate this several notches above the standard cop vs. serial-killer thriller.\n <em>\n  Author tour. (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Bosch has been around since the Edgar Award?winning\n <em>\n  The Black Echo\n </em>\n (1992), and critics agree that neither he nor the police-procedural series has lost of any of their original luster. Instead, they''re both getting better with age. As in previous installments, both character and plot drive\n <em>\n  Echo Park\n </em>\n : Harry''s passion for the case and his guilt at having not found the killer before more murders occurred create a flawed, convincing hero. Michael Connelly''s sharp eye for Los Angeles, from Sunset Boulevard to Beachwood Canyon and Echo Park, also kept critics turning the pages. Overall, _Echo Park\n <em>\n  "is a richly imagined and finely crafted piece that grabs the reader on Page One and locks him but a half-step behind Bosch on every page that follows" (\n </em>\n Denver Post_).\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21979'),
(16352, 'Echoes', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Europe in the throes of WWI and II serves as backdrop for this latest dose of melodrama from megabestseller Steel. Bookish, raven-haired beauty Beata Wittgenstein meets dashing French nobleman Antoine de Vallerand while on vacation in Switzerland and falls passionately in love. An affluent German Jew whose strict Orthodox parents forbid marriage outside the faith, Beata knows that a union with a Catholic from war-rival France is out of the question. But love trumps all, and shortly after returning to Germany, Beata defies her family, arranging to meet Antoine in Switzerland, where they marry. When WWI ends, the de Vallerands return to Germany and live happily with their young daughters, Amadea and Daphne. Antoine manages the stables at an old friend''s castle, the perfect job for him, but just as all seems well, he''s thrown from a headstrong horse. Meanwhile, Hitler''s anti-Semitic sentiments spread across Europe, and Beata fears that even her half-Jewish daughters are no longer safe. Devout Catholic Amadea plans to become a Carmelite nun, but as the Third Reich''s campaign of cruelty escalates, she finds a greater sense of purpose outside the convent walls. There''s enough romance to keep readers going, but fans who prefer the glitz and glamour of Steel''s contemporary settings may be nonplussed, and the abrupt disappearance of several major characters leaves giant holes in the narrative.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel presents a compelling tale of love and loss, set during World Wars I and II. At novel''s beginning, it is 1915, and Beata Wittgenstein, daughter of a German banker, falls in love with Antoine de Vallerand, a French aristocrat. Because Antoine is Catholic, Beata''s enraged father expels her from the family, proclaiming her dead. Beata moves to Switzerland, marries Antoine, converts to Catholicism, and has two daughters. The two live happily, despite missing their families (Antoine has been cast out of his family for marrying a Jew). When they move back to Germany, Beata establishes contact with her mother, who relates her fears for the increasing persecution of the Jews under the Nazi regime. Beata, who has lived as a Catholic for nearly 20 years, feels she is safe--in fact, her daughter, Amadea, has taken vows as a Carmelite nun-- but she watches in horror as her family members are shipped off to concentration camps. Readers will enjoy the multigenerational love stories and the historical plot. Librarians should stock up.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6357'),
(16353, 'Echoes', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Europe in the throes of WWI and II serves as backdrop for this latest dose of melodrama from megabestseller Steel. Bookish, raven-haired beauty Beata Wittgenstein meets dashing French nobleman Antoine de Vallerand while on vacation in Switzerland and falls passionately in love. An affluent German Jew whose strict Orthodox parents forbid marriage outside the faith, Beata knows that a union with a Catholic from war-rival France is out of the question. But love trumps all, and shortly after returning to Germany, Beata defies her family, arranging to meet Antoine in Switzerland, where they marry. When WWI ends, the de Vallerands return to Germany and live happily with their young daughters, Amadea and Daphne. Antoine manages the stables at an old friend''s castle, the perfect job for him, but just as all seems well, he''s thrown from a headstrong horse. Meanwhile, Hitler''s anti-Semitic sentiments spread across Europe, and Beata fears that even her half-Jewish daughters are no longer safe. Devout Catholic Amadea plans to become a Carmelite nun, but as the Third Reich''s campaign of cruelty escalates, she finds a greater sense of purpose outside the convent walls. There''s enough romance to keep readers going, but fans who prefer the glitz and glamour of Steel''s contemporary settings may be nonplussed, and the abrupt disappearance of several major characters leaves giant holes in the narrative.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel presents a compelling tale of love and loss, set during World Wars I and II. At novel''s beginning, it is 1915, and Beata Wittgenstein, daughter of a German banker, falls in love with Antoine de Vallerand, a French aristocrat. Because Antoine is Catholic, Beata''s enraged father expels her from the family, proclaiming her dead. Beata moves to Switzerland, marries Antoine, converts to Catholicism, and has two daughters. The two live happily, despite missing their families (Antoine has been cast out of his family for marrying a Jew). When they move back to Germany, Beata establishes contact with her mother, who relates her fears for the increasing persecution of the Jews under the Nazi regime. Beata, who has lived as a Catholic for nearly 20 years, feels she is safe--in fact, her daughter, Amadea, has taken vows as a Carmelite nun-- but she watches in horror as her family members are shipped off to concentration camps. Readers will enjoy the multigenerational love stories and the historical plot. Librarians should stock up.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12880'),
(16354, 'Echoes', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The bracing sea air brings little pleasure to the year-round residents of Castlebay, a village on the coast of Ireland, where class lines are strictly observed and morals publicly monitored. The youngest daughter of a shopkeeper whose meagre living depends on summer trade, Clare O''Brien is determined to move beyond her present circumstances. Hard work and the guidance of an irreverent, caring schoolteacher bring the resolute scholar to a college in Dublin. There, her steps falter when she enters into an ardent affair with David Power, the son of Castlebay''s only doctor and another willing exile. Although David returns her love, their devotion is sorely tested when they are forced to marry and return home. As a wealthy, new-fledged doctor, David easily resumes his privileged position, but Clare is trapped between her mother-in-law''s cold fury and the town''s unease. Sharply drawn, memorable characters and a convincing picture of a small Irish community bring freshness and zest to a familiar tale. Binchy also wrote Light a Penny Candle. 50,000 first printing; Literary Guild alternate; first serial to Cosmopolitan; paperback rights to Dell; U.K. rights: Century Publishing; translation rights: Christine Green. January\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This romantic melodrama, set in an Irish seaside town in the Fifties and early Sixties, is as wholesome and engaging as the author''s first novel, Light a Penny Candle ( LJ 2/15/83). Memorable characters include a poor shopkeeper''s daughter who wins a university scholarship, only to miss final exams by a cruel twist of fate; a medical student who shocks his family by marrying\n  <code>\n  </code>\n  beneath him''''; a lonely schoolteacher who guards two scandalous secrets about her local celebrity brother; and a kindly, ubiquitous priest who knows all, tells nothing, and holds everyone together. It''s a little slow to get into, but by the halfway mark the reader is fully involved in all the subplots and is turning pages nonstop. Recommended for most public libraries and for YA collections. Literary Guild alternate. Joyce Smothers, Ocean Cty. Lib., Toms River, N.J.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14877'),
(16355, 'Echoes', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Europe in the throes of WWI and II serves as backdrop for this latest dose of melodrama from megabestseller Steel. Bookish, raven-haired beauty Beata Wittgenstein meets dashing French nobleman Antoine de Vallerand while on vacation in Switzerland and falls passionately in love. An affluent German Jew whose strict Orthodox parents forbid marriage outside the faith, Beata knows that a union with a Catholic from war-rival France is out of the question. But love trumps all, and shortly after returning to Germany, Beata defies her family, arranging to meet Antoine in Switzerland, where they marry. When WWI ends, the de Vallerands return to Germany and live happily with their young daughters, Amadea and Daphne. Antoine manages the stables at an old friend''s castle, the perfect job for him, but just as all seems well, he''s thrown from a headstrong horse. Meanwhile, Hitler''s anti-Semitic sentiments spread across Europe, and Beata fears that even her half-Jewish daughters are no longer safe. Devout Catholic Amadea plans to become a Carmelite nun, but as the Third Reich''s campaign of cruelty escalates, she finds a greater sense of purpose outside the convent walls. There''s enough romance to keep readers going, but fans who prefer the glitz and glamour of Steel''s contemporary settings may be nonplussed, and the abrupt disappearance of several major characters leaves giant holes in the narrative.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Steel presents a compelling tale of love and loss, set during World Wars I and II. At novel''s beginning, it is 1915, and Beata Wittgenstein, daughter of a German banker, falls in love with Antoine de Vallerand, a French aristocrat. Because Antoine is Catholic, Beata''s enraged father expels her from the family, proclaiming her dead. Beata moves to Switzerland, marries Antoine, converts to Catholicism, and has two daughters. The two live happily, despite missing their families (Antoine has been cast out of his family for marrying a Jew). When they move back to Germany, Beata establishes contact with her mother, who relates her fears for the increasing persecution of the Jews under the Nazi regime. Beata, who has lived as a Catholic for nearly 20 years, feels she is safe--in fact, her daughter, Amadea, has taken vows as a Carmelite nun-- but she watches in horror as her family members are shipped off to concentration camps. Readers will enjoy the multigenerational love stories and the historical plot. Librarians should stock up.\n <em>\n  Kathleen Hughes\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17599'),
(16356, 'Echoes in Time', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15855'),
(16357, 'Echoes of the Fourth Magic', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The extraordinary beginning of an epic series brimming with the unbridled action, adventure, and imagination that have made the name R. A. Salvatore synonymous with the best in fantasy!\n</p>\n<p>\n Jeff "Del" DelGuidice was proud of his assignment to the research submarine The Unicorn. But his mission had barely begun when the vessel was sucked into a mysterious underseas void where time stood still, before propelling it forward, through the centuries. The crew surfaced in a strange, magical world changed forever by nuclear holocaust. Here a race of angelic beings had taken pity on the remnants of humankind, offering a chosen few a precious second chance.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thus the Isle of Hope was raised from the poisoned seas and set like a jewel in Earth''s ravaged crown. But the jewel had a flaw, a dark vein of evil. For a sinister expert of the mystical arts had embraced the forbidden third magic, the most deadly sorcery of all. Only Del could defeat it--a hero sworn to peace and fated to wield the dazzling power of the fourth magic. . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n The extraordinary beginning of an epic series brimming with the unbridled action, adventure, and imagination that have made the name R. A. Salvatore synonymous with the best in fantasy!\n</p>\n<p>\n Jeff "Del" DelGuidice was proud of his assignment to the research submarine The Unicorn. But his mission had barely begun when the vessel was sucked into a mysterious underseas void where time stood still, before propelling it forward, through the centuries. The crew surfaced in a strange, magical world changed forever by nuclear holocaust. Here a race of angelic beings had taken pity on the remnants of humankind, offering a chosen few a precious second chance.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thus the Isle of Hope was raised from the poisoned seas and set like a jewel in Earth''s ravaged crown. But the jewel had a flaw, a dark vein of evil. For a sinister expert of the mystical arts had embraced the forbidden third magic, the most deadly sorcery of all. Only Del could defeat it--a hero sworn to peace and fated to wield the dazzling power of the fourth magic. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1973'),
(16358, 'Echoes of the Fourth Magic', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The extraordinary beginning of an epic series brimming with the unbridled action, adventure, and imagination that have made the name R. A. Salvatore synonymous with the best in fantasy!\n</p>\n<p>\n Jeff "Del" DelGuidice was proud of his assignment to the research submarine The Unicorn. But his mission had barely begun when the vessel was sucked into a mysterious underseas void where time stood still, before propelling it forward, through the centuries. The crew surfaced in a strange, magical world changed forever by nuclear holocaust. Here a race of angelic beings had taken pity on the remnants of humankind, offering a chosen few a precious second chance.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thus the Isle of Hope was raised from the poisoned seas and set like a jewel in Earth''s ravaged crown. But the jewel had a flaw, a dark vein of evil. For a sinister expert of the mystical arts had embraced the forbidden third magic, the most deadly sorcery of all. Only Del could defeat it--a hero sworn to peace and fated to wield the dazzling power of the fourth magic. . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n The extraordinary beginning of an epic series brimming with the unbridled action, adventure, and imagination that have made the name R. A. Salvatore synonymous with the best in fantasy!\n</p>\n<p>\n Jeff "Del" DelGuidice was proud of his assignment to the research submarine The Unicorn. But his mission had barely begun when the vessel was sucked into a mysterious underseas void where time stood still, before propelling it forward, through the centuries. The crew surfaced in a strange, magical world changed forever by nuclear holocaust. Here a race of angelic beings had taken pity on the remnants of humankind, offering a chosen few a precious second chance.\n</p>\n<p>\n Thus the Isle of Hope was raised from the poisoned seas and set like a jewel in Earth''s ravaged crown. But the jewel had a flaw, a dark vein of evil. For a sinister expert of the mystical arts had embraced the forbidden third magic, the most deadly sorcery of all. Only Del could defeat it--a hero sworn to peace and fated to wield the dazzling power of the fourth magic. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12484'),
(16359, 'Eclipse', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bella? Edward s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? Following the international bestsellers Twilight and New Moon, Eclipse is the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer s captivating saga of vampire romance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1067'),
(16360, 'Eclipse', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bella? Edward s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? Following the international bestsellers Twilight and New Moon, Eclipse is the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer s captivating saga of vampire romance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11399'),
(16361, 'Eclipse', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bella? Edward s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? Following the international bestsellers Twilight and New Moon, Eclipse is the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer s captivating saga of vampire romance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14392'),
(16362, 'Eclipse', 'Stephenie Meyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Bella? Edward s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? Following the international bestsellers Twilight and New Moon, Eclipse is the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer s captivating saga of vampire romance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23896'),
(16363, 'Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true... In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies such as Universe, Orbit, and Starlight, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year) presents the non-themed genre anthology Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy. Here you will find stories where strange and wonderful things happen - where reality is eclipsed by something magical and new.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4139'),
(16364, 'Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true... In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies such as Universe, Orbit, and Starlight, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year) presents the non-themed genre anthology Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy. Here you will find stories where strange and wonderful things happen - where reality is eclipsed by something magical and new.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12968'),
(16365, 'Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true... In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies such as Universe, Orbit, and Starlight, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year) presents the non-themed genre anthology Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy. Here you will find stories where strange and wonderful things happen - where reality is eclipsed by something magical and new.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20375');
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(16366, 'Eclipse 4: New Science Fiction and Fantasy SC', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  World Fantasy Award-winner Jonathan Strahan delivers the fourth volume of this series, once again demonstrating his keen editorial eye. The multi-award winning Eclipse series (Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, Aurealis) is the only on-going anthology for original non-themed science fiction and fantasy, and its contents have been regularly recognized as some of the most compelling stories of the year, both on awards ballots and on best-of-the-year lists. Eclipse 4 delivers new fiction by some of the genre''s most celebrated authors, including Peter Beagle, Emma Bull, Andy Duncan, Elizabeth Hand, Gwyneth Jones and Michael Swanwick and Many others.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4140'),
(16367, 'Eclipse 4: New Science Fiction and Fantasy SC', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  World Fantasy Award-winner Jonathan Strahan delivers the fourth volume of this series, once again demonstrating his keen editorial eye. The multi-award winning Eclipse series (Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, Aurealis) is the only on-going anthology for original non-themed science fiction and fantasy, and its contents have been regularly recognized as some of the most compelling stories of the year, both on awards ballots and on best-of-the-year lists. Eclipse 4 delivers new fiction by some of the genre''s most celebrated authors, including Peter Beagle, Emma Bull, Andy Duncan, Elizabeth Hand, Gwyneth Jones and Michael Swanwick and Many others.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12964'),
(16368, 'Eclipse 4: New Science Fiction and Fantasy SC', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  World Fantasy Award-winner Jonathan Strahan delivers the fourth volume of this series, once again demonstrating his keen editorial eye. The multi-award winning Eclipse series (Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, Aurealis) is the only on-going anthology for original non-themed science fiction and fantasy, and its contents have been regularly recognized as some of the most compelling stories of the year, both on awards ballots and on best-of-the-year lists. Eclipse 4 delivers new fiction by some of the genre''s most celebrated authors, including Peter Beagle, Emma Bull, Andy Duncan, Elizabeth Hand, Gwyneth Jones and Michael Swanwick and Many others.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20372'),
(16369, 'Eclipse Three', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4141'),
(16370, 'Eclipse Three', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12965'),
(16371, 'Eclipse: A Novel', 'John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irish author Banville (The Book of Evidence; The Untouchable) is one of the most seductive writers currently at work. His books are so intensely imagined and freshly observed, with a startling image or insight on every page, that story almost ceases to matter. In fact, his tale here is tenuous in the extreme. Alexander Cleave is a successful actor because only in performance can he hide his essential hollowness, his sense of his own intangibility. When his career starts to falter, he retreats to his childhood home in a small town by the sea and tries to learn to live with himself, to discover who he really is. Into this existential anguish intrude memories of his parents, his estranged wife, his emotionally damaged daughterDand the ghosts of people he may not even know, but to whose sadness he is attuned. He begins an uneasy relationship with a slovenly caretaker, Quirke, and Quirke''s enigmatic teenage daughter, Lily; he is visited by his wife; he goes to a strangeDand magnificently evokedDcircus with Lily; he receives terrible news about his daughter. There is by no means a surfeit of incident, and the book never falters or creates impatience because every scene, every moment, is so alive, so exquisitely lit, felt and polished, that to read among them is like listening to great music. And when Banville does choose toward the end to raise the emotional temperature, the effect is deeply moving. (Feb. 28) Forecast: Banville will probably never be a hugely popular writer, and The Eclipse, unlike The Untouchable, is not structured along conventional lines. But perceptive reviews and the support of people who love exquisitely turned prose will help to slowly build his readership.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Banvillian narrator is often antisocial to the point of alienating his own audience. Armed with perfect diction, he uses language to hole up in an exclusive, hopelessly cool state of mind where the well-adjusted are unwanted. Esteemed stage actor Alexander Cleave is the latest in a line of haunted white males from Banville (The Untouchable). Beleaguered by a premonition of death, he quits the summer tour to live in his dilapidated childhood home, much to his wife''s contempt. Although his seemingly irrational fears do have a climax, it will leave readers dumbfounded. This has a lot to do with the misleading "plot"Aa tedious chain of Alexander''s memories about his tortured mother and aloof father. Banville''s leading man is at his best when he plays a caring father to the housekeeper Quirke''s daughter, but this comes too late. Not recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -AHeather McCormack, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4402'),
(16372, 'Eclipse: A Novel', 'John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irish author Banville (The Book of Evidence; The Untouchable) is one of the most seductive writers currently at work. His books are so intensely imagined and freshly observed, with a startling image or insight on every page, that story almost ceases to matter. In fact, his tale here is tenuous in the extreme. Alexander Cleave is a successful actor because only in performance can he hide his essential hollowness, his sense of his own intangibility. When his career starts to falter, he retreats to his childhood home in a small town by the sea and tries to learn to live with himself, to discover who he really is. Into this existential anguish intrude memories of his parents, his estranged wife, his emotionally damaged daughterDand the ghosts of people he may not even know, but to whose sadness he is attuned. He begins an uneasy relationship with a slovenly caretaker, Quirke, and Quirke''s enigmatic teenage daughter, Lily; he is visited by his wife; he goes to a strangeDand magnificently evokedDcircus with Lily; he receives terrible news about his daughter. There is by no means a surfeit of incident, and the book never falters or creates impatience because every scene, every moment, is so alive, so exquisitely lit, felt and polished, that to read among them is like listening to great music. And when Banville does choose toward the end to raise the emotional temperature, the effect is deeply moving. (Feb. 28) Forecast: Banville will probably never be a hugely popular writer, and The Eclipse, unlike The Untouchable, is not structured along conventional lines. But perceptive reviews and the support of people who love exquisitely turned prose will help to slowly build his readership.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Banvillian narrator is often antisocial to the point of alienating his own audience. Armed with perfect diction, he uses language to hole up in an exclusive, hopelessly cool state of mind where the well-adjusted are unwanted. Esteemed stage actor Alexander Cleave is the latest in a line of haunted white males from Banville (The Untouchable). Beleaguered by a premonition of death, he quits the summer tour to live in his dilapidated childhood home, much to his wife''s contempt. Although his seemingly irrational fears do have a climax, it will leave readers dumbfounded. This has a lot to do with the misleading "plot"Aa tedious chain of Alexander''s memories about his tortured mother and aloof father. Banville''s leading man is at his best when he plays a caring father to the housekeeper Quirke''s daughter, but this comes too late. Not recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -AHeather McCormack, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8333'),
(16373, 'Eclipse: A Novel', 'John Banville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irish author Banville (The Book of Evidence; The Untouchable) is one of the most seductive writers currently at work. His books are so intensely imagined and freshly observed, with a startling image or insight on every page, that story almost ceases to matter. In fact, his tale here is tenuous in the extreme. Alexander Cleave is a successful actor because only in performance can he hide his essential hollowness, his sense of his own intangibility. When his career starts to falter, he retreats to his childhood home in a small town by the sea and tries to learn to live with himself, to discover who he really is. Into this existential anguish intrude memories of his parents, his estranged wife, his emotionally damaged daughterDand the ghosts of people he may not even know, but to whose sadness he is attuned. He begins an uneasy relationship with a slovenly caretaker, Quirke, and Quirke''s enigmatic teenage daughter, Lily; he is visited by his wife; he goes to a strangeDand magnificently evokedDcircus with Lily; he receives terrible news about his daughter. There is by no means a surfeit of incident, and the book never falters or creates impatience because every scene, every moment, is so alive, so exquisitely lit, felt and polished, that to read among them is like listening to great music. And when Banville does choose toward the end to raise the emotional temperature, the effect is deeply moving. (Feb. 28) Forecast: Banville will probably never be a hugely popular writer, and The Eclipse, unlike The Untouchable, is not structured along conventional lines. But perceptive reviews and the support of people who love exquisitely turned prose will help to slowly build his readership.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Banvillian narrator is often antisocial to the point of alienating his own audience. Armed with perfect diction, he uses language to hole up in an exclusive, hopelessly cool state of mind where the well-adjusted are unwanted. Esteemed stage actor Alexander Cleave is the latest in a line of haunted white males from Banville (The Untouchable). Beleaguered by a premonition of death, he quits the summer tour to live in his dilapidated childhood home, much to his wife''s contempt. Although his seemingly irrational fears do have a climax, it will leave readers dumbfounded. This has a lot to do with the misleading "plot"Aa tedious chain of Alexander''s memories about his tortured mother and aloof father. Banville''s leading man is at his best when he plays a caring father to the housekeeper Quirke''s daughter, but this comes too late. Not recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -AHeather McCormack, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21432'),
(16374, 'Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything', 'Daniel Goleman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two years ago, British fashion designer Anna Hindmarch produced the must-have accessory of the season: a bleached, organic cotton tote manufactured in fair-wage factories, subsidized with carbon offsets and emblazoned with the slogan, I''m NOT a plastic bag. But according to Goleman (_Emotional Intelligence_), the people who bought the bag were advertising their ecological ignorance, not their consciousness. In this thorough examination of the inconsistencies and delusions at the core of the going green effort, the author argues that consumers are collective victims of a sleight of hand, helplessly unaware of the true provenance and impact of the products they purchase: they reassure themselves by buying environmentally friendly tote bags that, upon ecological assessment, reveal some uncomfortable facts, e.g., 10,000 liters of water were required to grow the cotton for one bag, and cotton crops alone account for the use of about 10% of the world''s pesticides. Goleman''s critiques are scathing, but his conclusion is heartening: a new generation of industrial ecologists is mapping the exact impact of every production process, which could challenge consumers to change their behavior in substance rather than just show.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Goleman,Â best-selling author of such groundbreaking works as Emotional Intelligence (1995) and Primal Leadership (2002), brings his invaluable behavioral insights to our most urgent dilemma: how to halt environmental catastrophe. Whatâ€™s required, Goleman believes, is ecological intelligence, which he defines as understanding the â€œhidden web of connections between human activity and natureâ€™s systems, and the subtle complexities of their intersections.â€ More concretely, Goleman encourages readers to learn about the many invisible threats to our health and the health of the environment caused by product manufacturing. Wisely focusing on the one element we can control, what we purchase, Goleman calls for higher â€œgreenâ€ standards and â€œradical transparencyâ€ regarding how products are made. An enlightening foray into industrial ecology reveals how new forms of analysis determine precisely how the manufacture of such disparate items as toys, shampoo, and paper contributes to natural resource depletion, chemical pollution, and global warming. Brimming with intriguing, useful, and galvanizing information, this is an exceptionally sharp, innovative, and realistic approach to raising the demand for environmentally safe merchandise. Given Golemanâ€™s track record and the pressing need for smart strategies,Â this fascinating treatise has tremendous potential for reaching and motivating a large and diverse audience. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6459'),
(16375, 'Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything', 'Daniel Goleman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two years ago, British fashion designer Anna Hindmarch produced the must-have accessory of the season: a bleached, organic cotton tote manufactured in fair-wage factories, subsidized with carbon offsets and emblazoned with the slogan, I''m NOT a plastic bag. But according to Goleman (_Emotional Intelligence_), the people who bought the bag were advertising their ecological ignorance, not their consciousness. In this thorough examination of the inconsistencies and delusions at the core of the going green effort, the author argues that consumers are collective victims of a sleight of hand, helplessly unaware of the true provenance and impact of the products they purchase: they reassure themselves by buying environmentally friendly tote bags that, upon ecological assessment, reveal some uncomfortable facts, e.g., 10,000 liters of water were required to grow the cotton for one bag, and cotton crops alone account for the use of about 10% of the world''s pesticides. Goleman''s critiques are scathing, but his conclusion is heartening: a new generation of industrial ecologists is mapping the exact impact of every production process, which could challenge consumers to change their behavior in substance rather than just show.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Goleman,Â best-selling author of such groundbreaking works as Emotional Intelligence (1995) and Primal Leadership (2002), brings his invaluable behavioral insights to our most urgent dilemma: how to halt environmental catastrophe. Whatâ€™s required, Goleman believes, is ecological intelligence, which he defines as understanding the â€œhidden web of connections between human activity and natureâ€™s systems, and the subtle complexities of their intersections.â€ More concretely, Goleman encourages readers to learn about the many invisible threats to our health and the health of the environment caused by product manufacturing. Wisely focusing on the one element we can control, what we purchase, Goleman calls for higher â€œgreenâ€ standards and â€œradical transparencyâ€ regarding how products are made. An enlightening foray into industrial ecology reveals how new forms of analysis determine precisely how the manufacture of such disparate items as toys, shampoo, and paper contributes to natural resource depletion, chemical pollution, and global warming. Brimming with intriguing, useful, and galvanizing information, this is an exceptionally sharp, innovative, and realistic approach to raising the demand for environmentally safe merchandise. Given Golemanâ€™s track record and the pressing need for smart strategies,Â this fascinating treatise has tremendous potential for reaching and motivating a large and diverse audience. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9949'),
(16376, 'Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything', 'Daniel Goleman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Two years ago, British fashion designer Anna Hindmarch produced the must-have accessory of the season: a bleached, organic cotton tote manufactured in fair-wage factories, subsidized with carbon offsets and emblazoned with the slogan, I''m NOT a plastic bag. But according to Goleman (_Emotional Intelligence_), the people who bought the bag were advertising their ecological ignorance, not their consciousness. In this thorough examination of the inconsistencies and delusions at the core of the going green effort, the author argues that consumers are collective victims of a sleight of hand, helplessly unaware of the true provenance and impact of the products they purchase: they reassure themselves by buying environmentally friendly tote bags that, upon ecological assessment, reveal some uncomfortable facts, e.g., 10,000 liters of water were required to grow the cotton for one bag, and cotton crops alone account for the use of about 10% of the world''s pesticides. Goleman''s critiques are scathing, but his conclusion is heartening: a new generation of industrial ecologists is mapping the exact impact of every production process, which could challenge consumers to change their behavior in substance rather than just show.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Goleman, best-selling author of such groundbreaking works as Emotional Intelligence (1995) and Primal Leadership (2002), brings his invaluable behavioral insights to our most urgent dilemma: how to halt environmental catastrophe. Whatâ€™s required, Goleman believes, is ecological intelligence, which he defines as understanding the â€œhidden web of connections between human activity and natureâ€™s systems, and the subtle complexities of their intersections.â€ More concretely, Goleman encourages readers to learn about the many invisible threats to our health and the health of the environment caused by product manufacturing. Wisely focusing on the one element we can control, what we purchase, Goleman calls for higher â€œgreenâ€ standards and â€œradical transparencyâ€ regarding how products are made. An enlightening foray into industrial ecology reveals how new forms of analysis determine precisely how the manufacture of such disparate items as toys, shampoo, and paper contributes to natural resource depletion, chemical pollution, and global warming. Brimming with intriguing, useful, and galvanizing information, this is an exceptionally sharp, innovative, and realistic approach to raising the demand for environmentally safe merchandise. Given Golemanâ€™s track record and the pressing need for smart strategies, this fascinating treatise has tremendous potential for reaching and motivating a large and diverse audience. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17501'),
(16377, 'Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (EasyRead Large Edition)', 'Ian McCallum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A best seller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence defines a new way of thinking about the unprecedented environmental pressures of our day. Ian McCallum offers a compelling argument: that we must think differently about ourselves and the earth if we are to take seriously the survival of wilderness areas, wild animals, and the human race. He explores the relationship between humans and nature from both a biological and poetic perspective, articulating a wild and ethical imperative - an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land and that we must not be the creatures of our own undoing. ''''A profound and necessary book about an important idea. Something like this had to be done.'''' - Lyall Watson, best-selling author of Supernature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4960'),
(16378, 'Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (EasyRead Large Edition)', 'Ian McCallum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A best seller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence defines a new way of thinking about the unprecedented environmental pressures of our day. Ian McCallum offers a compelling argument: that we must think differently about ourselves and the earth if we are to take seriously the survival of wilderness areas, wild animals, and the human race. He explores the relationship between humans and nature from both a biological and poetic perspective, articulating a wild and ethical imperative - an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land and that we must not be the creatures of our own undoing. ''''A profound and necessary book about an important idea. Something like this had to be done.'''' - Lyall Watson, best-selling author of Supernature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11333'),
(16379, 'Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (EasyRead Large Edition)', 'Ian McCallum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A best seller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence defines a new way of thinking about the unprecedented environmental pressures of our day. Ian McCallum offers a compelling argument: that we must think differently about ourselves and the earth if we are to take seriously the survival of wilderness areas, wild animals, and the human race. He explores the relationship between humans and nature from both a biological and poetic perspective, articulating a wild and ethical imperative - an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land and that we must not be the creatures of our own undoing. ''''A profound and necessary book about an important idea. Something like this had to be done.'''' - Lyall Watson, best-selling author of Supernature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19632'),
(16380, 'Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (EasyRead Large Edition)', 'Ian McCallum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A best seller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence defines a new way of thinking about the unprecedented environmental pressures of our day. Ian McCallum offers a compelling argument: that we must think differently about ourselves and the earth if we are to take seriously the survival of wilderness areas, wild animals, and the human race. He explores the relationship between humans and nature from both a biological and poetic perspective, articulating a wild and ethical imperative - an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land and that we must not be the creatures of our own undoing. ''''A profound and necessary book about an important idea. Something like this had to be done.'''' - Lyall Watson, best-selling author of Supernature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28194'),
(16381, 'Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics', 'Hazlitt, Henry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14663'),
(16382, 'Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics', 'Hazlitt, Henry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19595'),
(16383, 'Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics', 'Hazlitt, Henry', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28030'),
(16384, 'The Economics of Enough', 'Coyle, Diane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18118'),
(16385, 'The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters', 'Diane Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The world''s leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, Diane Coyle argues, is a reckless disregard for the future--especially in the way the economy is run. How can we achieve the financial growth we need today without sacrificing a decent future for our children, our societies, and our planet? How can we realize what Coyle calls "the economics of enough"? Running the economy for tomorrow as well as today will require a wide range of policy changes. The top priority must be ensuring that we get a true picture of long-term economic prospects, with the development of official statistics on national wealth in its broadest sense, including natural and human resources. Saving and investment will need to be encouraged over current consumption. Above all, governments will need to engage citizens in a process of debate about the difficult choices that lie ahead and rebuild a shared commitment to the future of our societies.  Creating a sustainable economy--having enough to be happy without cheating the future--won''t be easy. But The Economics of Enough starts a profoundly important conversation about how we can begin--and the first steps we need to take.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5974'),
(16386, 'The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters', 'Diane Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The world''s leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, Diane Coyle argues, is a reckless disregard for the future--especially in the way the economy is run. How can we achieve the financial growth we need today without sacrificing a decent future for our children, our societies, and our planet? How can we realize what Coyle calls "the economics of enough"? Running the economy for tomorrow as well as today will require a wide range of policy changes. The top priority must be ensuring that we get a true picture of long-term economic prospects, with the development of official statistics on national wealth in its broadest sense, including natural and human resources. Saving and investment will need to be encouraged over current consumption. Above all, governments will need to engage citizens in a process of debate about the difficult choices that lie ahead and rebuild a shared commitment to the future of our societies.  Creating a sustainable economy--having enough to be happy without cheating the future--won''t be easy. But The Economics of Enough starts a profoundly important conversation about how we can begin--and the first steps we need to take.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9063'),
(16387, 'Eden', 'Stanislaw Lem', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25101'),
(16388, 'The Eden Hunter: A Novel', 'Skip Horack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Louisiana-born Horack''s novel (after The Southern Cross collection) offers a stylish, fast-paced, historical narrative based on an 1816 slave insurrection. Spanish slave traders enter the Congo and purchase a captured Pygmy named Kau, transporting him to Pensacola, Fla., where he''s sold to an innkeeper. Five years later, Kau kills the innkeeper''s son and flees into the wilds of southern Florida. Along his wilderness trek, Kau regrets the murder, yearns for his family in Africa, and encounters a "Negro fort" on the Apalachicola River built by General GarÃ§on. The remote fort''s ostentatious "genius" commander befriends the diminutive Kau, who is allowed to take an escaped slave as his mate. The American victory in the War of 1812 makes GarÃ§on, an ally of the British, a target of the imminent American invasion. While sympathetic to the slaves'' desire to be free, Kau realizes the slim chance for success against the Americans; he''s more inclined to follow his heart and "live quietly" in Florida than stand with GarÃ§on. This diminutive man serves as a watchful protagonist in Horack''s crisp, vivid tale.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five years after capture and enslavement in the American South, Kau, a pygmy tribesman, manages to escape. He flees into the wilder territories of unsettled Florida, an area still very much in dispute between Native Americans and white Americans, between runaway slaves and slave catchers, between black recruits to the British army to fight the War of 1812 and the white American military. Kau finds himself caught between cultures and clashes on an odyssey through the Florida swamplands, haunted by memories of his own tribe and family, struggling to reconcile the alliances and animosities among the warring black, red, and white tribes he encounters. He meets Native Americans fighting with and against encroaching white men, a family of freed blacks eking a life for themselves, and a mesmerizing former slave who commands a fort while leading a doomed mission. What Kau wants is to find a space in the wilderness that will return him to himself. Horack is masterful in rendering a story of a man whose singularity offers fresh perspective on a turbulent period in American history in an exceptionally evocative novel. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1185'),
(16389, 'The Eden Hunter: A Novel', 'Skip Horack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Louisiana-born Horack''s novel (after The Southern Cross collection) offers a stylish, fast-paced, historical narrative based on an 1816 slave insurrection. Spanish slave traders enter the Congo and purchase a captured Pygmy named Kau, transporting him to Pensacola, Fla., where he''s sold to an innkeeper. Five years later, Kau kills the innkeeper''s son and flees into the wilds of southern Florida. Along his wilderness trek, Kau regrets the murder, yearns for his family in Africa, and encounters a "Negro fort" on the Apalachicola River built by General GarÃ§on. The remote fort''s ostentatious "genius" commander befriends the diminutive Kau, who is allowed to take an escaped slave as his mate. The American victory in the War of 1812 makes GarÃ§on, an ally of the British, a target of the imminent American invasion. While sympathetic to the slaves'' desire to be free, Kau realizes the slim chance for success against the Americans; he''s more inclined to follow his heart and "live quietly" in Florida than stand with GarÃ§on. This diminutive man serves as a watchful protagonist in Horack''s crisp, vivid tale.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five years after capture and enslavement in the American South, Kau, a pygmy tribesman, manages to escape. He flees into the wilder territories of unsettled Florida, an area still very much in dispute between Native Americans and white Americans, between runaway slaves and slave catchers, between black recruits to the British army to fight the War of 1812 and the white American military. Kau finds himself caught between cultures and clashes on an odyssey through the Florida swamplands, haunted by memories of his own tribe and family, struggling to reconcile the alliances and animosities among the warring black, red, and white tribes he encounters. He meets Native Americans fighting with and against encroaching white men, a family of freed blacks eking a life for themselves, and a mesmerizing former slave who commands a fort while leading a doomed mission. What Kau wants is to find a space in the wilderness that will return him to himself. Horack is masterful in rendering a story of a man whose singularity offers fresh perspective on a turbulent period in American history in an exceptionally evocative novel. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10451'),
(16390, 'The Eden Hunter: A Novel', 'Skip Horack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Louisiana-born Horack''s novel (after The Southern Cross collection) offers a stylish, fast-paced, historical narrative based on an 1816 slave insurrection. Spanish slave traders enter the Congo and purchase a captured Pygmy named Kau, transporting him to Pensacola, Fla., where he''s sold to an innkeeper. Five years later, Kau kills the innkeeper''s son and flees into the wilds of southern Florida. Along his wilderness trek, Kau regrets the murder, yearns for his family in Africa, and encounters a "Negro fort" on the Apalachicola River built by General GarÃ§on. The remote fort''s ostentatious "genius" commander befriends the diminutive Kau, who is allowed to take an escaped slave as his mate. The American victory in the War of 1812 makes GarÃ§on, an ally of the British, a target of the imminent American invasion. While sympathetic to the slaves'' desire to be free, Kau realizes the slim chance for success against the Americans; he''s more inclined to follow his heart and "live quietly" in Florida than stand with GarÃ§on. This diminutive man serves as a watchful protagonist in Horack''s crisp, vivid tale.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five years after capture and enslavement in the American South, Kau, a pygmy tribesman, manages to escape. He flees into the wilder territories of unsettled Florida, an area still very much in dispute between Native Americans and white Americans, between runaway slaves and slave catchers, between black recruits to the British army to fight the War of 1812 and the white American military. Kau finds himself caught between cultures and clashes on an odyssey through the Florida swamplands, haunted by memories of his own tribe and family, struggling to reconcile the alliances and animosities among the warring black, red, and white tribes he encounters. He meets Native Americans fighting with and against encroaching white men, a family of freed blacks eking a life for themselves, and a mesmerizing former slave who commands a fort while leading a doomed mission. What Kau wants is to find a space in the wilderness that will return him to himself. Horack is masterful in rendering a story of a man whose singularity offers fresh perspective on a turbulent period in American history in an exceptionally evocative novel. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23727'),
(16391, 'Edge', 'Thomas Blackthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "John Meaney is a spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again."\n  <br />\n  - Robert J Sawyer, author of_ Flash Forward_ and\n  <em>\n   Frameshift\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Cumberland leaps off the page, a trained killer whose anger and grief at his daughter''s condition is brilliantly portrayed; the depiction of his simmering rage, barely held in check, and how he channels it, provides a masterclass in characterisation." -\n  <em>\n   The Guardian\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The characters themselves are wonderfully fleshed out and their interaction is quite mesmerising... an intelligent, slick and brilliantly executed novel with a quite unexpected but superbly scripted ending." - _ScienceFictionandFantasy.co.uk\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Praise for Thomas Blackthorne (John Meaney):\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "John Meaney is a spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again." - Robert J Sawyer\n </p>\n <p>\n  "John Meaney has rewired SF. Everything is different now." - Stephen Baxter\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Meaney is one of the best authors of hard SF in the world!" -\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of British science fiction''s most original and exciting practitioners." - Barnes &amp; Noble\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Dark Blood_ is highly entertaining, more action driven and seasoned with splatters of the titular liquid." - Andrew Osbourne,\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n  (reviewing\n  <em>\n   Dark Blood)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Is it good? Of course it is. Meaney is one of the best authors of hard SF in the world at the moment, and he doesn''t put a foot wrong here." -\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n  (reviewing\n  <em>\n   Resolution\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You thought Big Brother and Survivor were tough?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WELCOME, SENSATION SEEKERS, TO KNIFE EDGE -Â the reality TV show where wannabe knife fighters are the celebrities in a nation going to hell.\n  </strong>\n  Â In a Britain on the edge of collapse, The ultimate response to knife crime has been instituted by a bankrupt government: duelling with knives has now been legalized.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On Saturday nights, the nation sits down to watch the country''s best amateur fighters slash it out on prime time. The streets are red with blood. The skies are black with polluted horror. High walls have been built around Britain and endless winter is coming.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a young boy with hoplophobia (the fear of weaponry) runs away from home, his father hiresÂ ex-Special Forces agent Josh Cumberland to find him. With the help of the boy''s psychiatrist,Â Cumberland delves into the dark underbelly of the knife culture that has infected his country, but what he finds will shock him to his soul.\n </p>\n <p>\n  File Under: Science Fiction [ Devastated Britain | Legalised Duelling | Corporate Atrocity | Save the Children ]\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/630'),
(16392, 'Edge', 'Thomas Blackthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "John Meaney is a spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again."\n  <br />\n  - Robert J Sawyer, author of_ Flash Forward_ and\n  <em>\n   Frameshift\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Cumberland leaps off the page, a trained killer whose anger and grief at his daughter''s condition is brilliantly portrayed; the depiction of his simmering rage, barely held in check, and how he channels it, provides a masterclass in characterisation." -\n  <em>\n   The Guardian\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The characters themselves are wonderfully fleshed out and their interaction is quite mesmerising... an intelligent, slick and brilliantly executed novel with a quite unexpected but superbly scripted ending." - _ScienceFictionandFantasy.co.uk\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Praise for Thomas Blackthorne (John Meaney):\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "John Meaney is a spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again." - Robert J Sawyer\n </p>\n <p>\n  "John Meaney has rewired SF. Everything is different now." - Stephen Baxter\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Meaney is one of the best authors of hard SF in the world!" -\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of British science fiction''s most original and exciting practitioners." - Barnes &amp; Noble\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Dark Blood_ is highly entertaining, more action driven and seasoned with splatters of the titular liquid." - Andrew Osbourne,\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n  (reviewing\n  <em>\n   Dark Blood)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Is it good? Of course it is. Meaney is one of the best authors of hard SF in the world at the moment, and he doesn''t put a foot wrong here." -\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n  (reviewing\n  <em>\n   Resolution\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You thought Big Brother and Survivor were tough?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WELCOME, SENSATION SEEKERS, TO KNIFE EDGE -Â the reality TV show where wannabe knife fighters are the celebrities in a nation going to hell.\n  </strong>\n  Â In a Britain on the edge of collapse, The ultimate response to knife crime has been instituted by a bankrupt government: duelling with knives has now been legalized.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On Saturday nights, the nation sits down to watch the country''s best amateur fighters slash it out on prime time. The streets are red with blood. The skies are black with polluted horror. High walls have been built around Britain and endless winter is coming.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a young boy with hoplophobia (the fear of weaponry) runs away from home, his father hiresÂ ex-Special Forces agent Josh Cumberland to find him. With the help of the boy''s psychiatrist,Â Cumberland delves into the dark underbelly of the knife culture that has infected his country, but what he finds will shock him to his soul.\n </p>\n <p>\n  File Under: Science Fiction [ Devastated Britain | Legalised Duelling | Corporate Atrocity | Save the Children ]\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8532'),
(16393, 'Edge', 'Thomas Blackthorne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "John Meaney is a spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again."\n  <br />\n  - Robert J Sawyer, author of_ Flash Forward_ and\n  <em>\n   Frameshift\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Cumberland leaps off the page, a trained killer whose anger and grief at his daughter''s condition is brilliantly portrayed; the depiction of his simmering rage, barely held in check, and how he channels it, provides a masterclass in characterisation." -\n  <em>\n   The Guardian\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The characters themselves are wonderfully fleshed out and their interaction is quite mesmerising... an intelligent, slick and brilliantly executed novel with a quite unexpected but superbly scripted ending." - _ScienceFictionandFantasy.co.uk\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Praise for Thomas Blackthorne (John Meaney):\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  "John Meaney is a spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again." - Robert J Sawyer\n </p>\n <p>\n  "John Meaney has rewired SF. Everything is different now." - Stephen Baxter\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Meaney is one of the best authors of hard SF in the world!" -\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "One of British science fiction''s most original and exciting practitioners." - Barnes &amp; Noble\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_Dark Blood_ is highly entertaining, more action driven and seasoned with splatters of the titular liquid." - Andrew Osbourne,\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n  (reviewing\n  <em>\n   Dark Blood)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Is it good? Of course it is. Meaney is one of the best authors of hard SF in the world at the moment, and he doesn''t put a foot wrong here." -\n  <em>\n   SFX\n  </em>\n  (reviewing\n  <em>\n   Resolution\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You thought Big Brother and Survivor were tough?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   WELCOME, SENSATION SEEKERS, TO KNIFE EDGE - the reality TV show where wannabe knife fighters are the celebrities in a nation going to hell.\n  </strong>\n  In a Britain on the edge of collapse, The ultimate response to knife crime has been instituted by a bankrupt government: duelling with knives has now been legalized.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On Saturday nights, the nation sits down to watch the country''s best amateur fighters slash it out on prime time. The streets are red with blood. The skies are black with polluted horror. High walls have been built around Britain and endless winter is coming.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When a young boy with hoplophobia (the fear of weaponry) runs away from home, his father hires ex-Special Forces agent Josh Cumberland to find him. With the help of the boy''s psychiatrist, Cumberland delves into the dark underbelly of the knife culture that has infected his country, but what he finds will shock him to his soul.\n </p>\n <p>\n  File Under: Science Fiction [ Devastated Britain | Legalised Duelling | Corporate Atrocity | Save the Children ]\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24291'),
(16394, 'The Edge', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The British author''s 27th novel boasts the combination of subject matter and prose style that have made him an international bestseller: thoroughbred horses and heroes, heart palpitations, speed and comedy. Heading the large, colorful cast, narrator Torquil (Tor) Kelsey is an undercover agent for the British Jockey Club. The members have been balked in their efforts to convict wily Julius Apollo Filmer of murder and other crimes that tarnish the sport of kings. With hopes of gaining evidence against Filmer, Tor joins the rich crowd going from England to Canada for "The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train." Pretending he''s a waiter, Tor keeps an eye on Filmer as the train rockets across the Northwest. There is no limit to the thrills along the way, and no way of predicting the stunning denouement. 200,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Young Tor Kelsey, competent, race-horse wise, and independently wealthy, works for undercover security at the English Jockey Club. "Loaned" to the Canadian Jockey Club, he spies on charming but slippery British extortionist Julius Apollo Filmera horse flesh aficionadoaboard the first-ever Transcontinental Mystery Race Train. During the week-long trip, put together to promote Canadian racing, Kelsey narrowly avoids detection, single-handedly averts catastrophe, and even falls in love. This most excellent and memorable construction, crisply crafted and sparkling with intensity, evidences a deft, masterful hand. Literary Guild main selection. REK\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6044');
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(16395, 'The Edge', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The British author''s 27th novel boasts the combination of subject matter and prose style that have made him an international bestseller: thoroughbred horses and heroes, heart palpitations, speed and comedy. Heading the large, colorful cast, narrator Torquil (Tor) Kelsey is an undercover agent for the British Jockey Club. The members have been balked in their efforts to convict wily Julius Apollo Filmer of murder and other crimes that tarnish the sport of kings. With hopes of gaining evidence against Filmer, Tor joins the rich crowd going from England to Canada for "The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train." Pretending he''s a waiter, Tor keeps an eye on Filmer as the train rockets across the Northwest. There is no limit to the thrills along the way, and no way of predicting the stunning denouement. 200,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Young Tor Kelsey, competent, race-horse wise, and independently wealthy, works for undercover security at the English Jockey Club. "Loaned" to the Canadian Jockey Club, he spies on charming but slippery British extortionist Julius Apollo Filmera horse flesh aficionadoaboard the first-ever Transcontinental Mystery Race Train. During the week-long trip, put together to promote Canadian racing, Kelsey narrowly avoids detection, single-handedly averts catastrophe, and even falls in love. This most excellent and memorable construction, crisply crafted and sparkling with intensity, evidences a deft, masterful hand. Literary Guild main selection. REK\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9847'),
(16396, 'Edible Woman', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Marian has a problem. A willing member of the consumer society in which she lives, she suddenly finds herself identifying with the things being consumed. She can cope with her tidy-minded fiance, Peter, who likes shooting rabbits. She can cope with her job in market research, and the antics of her roommate. She can even cope with Duncan, a graduate student who seems to prefer laundromats to women. But not being able to eat is a different matter. Steak was the first to go. Then lamb, pork, and the rest. Next came her incapacity to face an egg. Vegetables were the final straw. But Marian has her reasons, and what happens next provides an unusual solution. Witty, subversive, hilarious,The Edible Womanis dazzling and utterly original. It is Margaret Atwood''s brilliant first novel, and the book that introduced her as a consummate observer of the ironies and absurdities of modern life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8160'),
(16397, 'Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death', 'Mark Essig', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Thomas Edison stunned America in 1879 by unveiling a world-changing inventionâ€”the light bulbâ€”and then launching the electrification of America''s cities. A decade later, despite having been an avowed opponent of the death penalty, Edison threw his laboratory resources and reputation behind the creation of a very different sort of deviceâ€”the electric chair. Deftly exploring this startling chapter in American history, Edison &amp; the Electric Chair delivers both a vivid portrait of a nation on the cusp of modernity and a provocative new examination of Edison himself. Edison championed the electric chair for reasons that remain controversial to this day. Was Edison genuinely concerned about the suffering of the condemned? Was he waging a campaign to smear his rival George Westinghouse''s alternating current and boost his own system? Or was he warning the public of real dangers posed by the high-voltage alternating wires that looped above hundreds of America''s streets? Plumbing the fascinating history of electricity, Mark Essig explores America''s love of technology and its fascination with violent death, capturing an era when the public was mesmerized and terrified by an invisible force that produced blazing light, powered streetcars, carried telephone conversationsâ€”and killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9515'),
(16398, 'The Education of Hailey Kendrick', 'Eileen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7â€“10â€”Senior Hailey Kendrick is student government vice-president at her exclusive boarding school and she dates the most popular boy at Evesham. All about impressing her high-powered doctor father, she''s a straight-A student and follows every rule to the letter. One night after her aloof father changes their plans to spend the summer together yet again, she sneaks out of her dorm room after curfew, kisses a boy who is not her boyfriend, and gets caught vandalizing the school statue. As punishment, Hailey is assigned janitorial duty, and the entire school is put on lock down until she agrees to to tell who was with her. Mitigating circumstances make it impossible for her to reveal his identity. But now that Hailey has fallen from her perch of perfection, she begins to see things a little differently. She learns, with the help of the good-looking janitor she''s assigned to help, that rules shouldn''t always be followed...even when you''re the one making them. Hailey is a likable character, and the events leading up to and away from her episode of vandalism are believable. Her emotions ring true as well, whether it''s anger at her father or frustration at the restrictions she''s placed on herself. The plot develops quickly, and readers will be madly flipping pages to find out what happens next.â€”_Heather Miller Cover, Homewood Public Library, AL_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Cook effectively builds both Hailey''s (justified) feelings of rebellion and the social dynamics of her ostracism, especially in her growing friendship with a challenging townie, Drew, who supervises her punishment working with the janitorial staff....Cook coaxes considerable empathy for the otherwise privileged Hailey as she abandons the achievement treadmill to explore her independence." --_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  "Hailey may be an A student headed to the Ivy League, but when it comes to taking a chance on life, sheâ€™s clueless. Sheâ€™s also enormously appealing and great company throughout this breezy read. Yes, itâ€™s chick lit, but of the highest qualityâ€”like a gourmet truffle. Cook has whipped up a real treat.â€ --Kirkus starred review\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5797'),
(16399, 'The Education of Hailey Kendrick', 'Eileen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7â€“10â€”Senior Hailey Kendrick is student government vice-president at her exclusive boarding school and she dates the most popular boy at Evesham. All about impressing her high-powered doctor father, she''s a straight-A student and follows every rule to the letter. One night after her aloof father changes their plans to spend the summer together yet again, she sneaks out of her dorm room after curfew, kisses a boy who is not her boyfriend, and gets caught vandalizing the school statue. As punishment, Hailey is assigned janitorial duty, and the entire school is put on lock down until she agrees to to tell who was with her. Mitigating circumstances make it impossible for her to reveal his identity. But now that Hailey has fallen from her perch of perfection, she begins to see things a little differently. She learns, with the help of the good-looking janitor she''s assigned to help, that rules shouldn''t always be followed...even when you''re the one making them. Hailey is a likable character, and the events leading up to and away from her episode of vandalism are believable. Her emotions ring true as well, whether it''s anger at her father or frustration at the restrictions she''s placed on herself. The plot develops quickly, and readers will be madly flipping pages to find out what happens next.â€”_Heather Miller Cover, Homewood Public Library, AL_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Cook effectively builds both Hailey''s (justified) feelings of rebellion and the social dynamics of her ostracism, especially in her growing friendship with a challenging townie, Drew, who supervises her punishment working with the janitorial staff....Cook coaxes considerable empathy for the otherwise privileged Hailey as she abandons the achievement treadmill to explore her independence." --_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  "Hailey may be an A student headed to the Ivy League, but when it comes to taking a chance on life, sheâ€™s clueless. Sheâ€™s also enormously appealing and great company throughout this breezy read. Yes, itâ€™s chick lit, but of the highest qualityâ€”like a gourmet truffle. Cook has whipped up a real treat.â€ --Kirkus starred review\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9061'),
(16400, 'The Education of Hailey Kendrick', 'Eileen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 7â€“10â€”Senior Hailey Kendrick is student government vice-president at her exclusive boarding school and she dates the most popular boy at Evesham. All about impressing her high-powered doctor father, she''s a straight-A student and follows every rule to the letter. One night after her aloof father changes their plans to spend the summer together yet again, she sneaks out of her dorm room after curfew, kisses a boy who is not her boyfriend, and gets caught vandalizing the school statue. As punishment, Hailey is assigned janitorial duty, and the entire school is put on lock down until she agrees to to tell who was with her. Mitigating circumstances make it impossible for her to reveal his identity. But now that Hailey has fallen from her perch of perfection, she begins to see things a little differently. She learns, with the help of the good-looking janitor she''s assigned to help, that rules shouldn''t always be followed...even when you''re the one making them. Hailey is a likable character, and the events leading up to and away from her episode of vandalism are believable. Her emotions ring true as well, whether it''s anger at her father or frustration at the restrictions she''s placed on herself. The plot develops quickly, and readers will be madly flipping pages to find out what happens next.â€”_Heather Miller Cover, Homewood Public Library, AL_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Cook effectively builds both Hailey''s (justified) feelings of rebellion and the social dynamics of her ostracism, especially in her growing friendship with a challenging townie, Drew, who supervises her punishment working with the janitorial staff....Cook coaxes considerable empathy for the otherwise privileged Hailey as she abandons the achievement treadmill to explore her independence." --_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  "Hailey may be an A student headed to the Ivy League, but when it comes to taking a chance on life, sheâ€™s clueless. Sheâ€™s also enormously appealing and great company throughout this breezy read. Yes, itâ€™s chick lit, but of the highest qualityâ€”like a gourmet truffle. Cook has whipped up a real treat.â€ --Kirkus starred review\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18846'),
(16401, 'An Education', 'Lynn Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Barberâ€™s] a suburban girl whoâ€™s frightened that sheâ€™s going to get cut out of everything good that happens in the city. That, to me, is a big story in popular culture. Itâ€™s the story of pretty much every rock â€˜nâ€™ roll band. (Nick Hornby, author of the screenplay adaptation of\n <em>\n  An Education\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The inspiration for the award-winning motion picture: "Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout."â€”ZoÃ« Heller\n </strong>\n When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was on her way home from school and offered her a ride. It was the beginning of a long journey from innocence to precocious experienceâ€”an affair with an older man that would change her life. Barberâ€™s seducer left her with a taste for luxury hotels and posh restaurants and trips abroad, expensive habits that she managed to support in later life as a successful London journalist whose barbed interviews at once terrorized and fascinated her smart-set subjects.\n</p>\n<p>\n A poignant, shockingly candid account of the stages in a literary lifeâ€”from promiscuity at Oxford to a stint at\n <em>\n  Penthouse\n </em>\n to a complex marriage that enduredâ€”_An Education_ is a classic of English memoir.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3184'),
(16402, 'An Education', 'Lynn Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Barberâ€™s] a suburban girl whoâ€™s frightened that sheâ€™s going to get cut out of everything good that happens in the city. That, to me, is a big story in popular culture. Itâ€™s the story of pretty much every rock â€˜nâ€™ roll band. (Nick Hornby, author of the screenplay adaptation of\n <em>\n  An Education\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The inspiration for the award-winning motion picture: "Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout."â€”ZoÃ« Heller\n </strong>\n When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was on her way home from school and offered her a ride. It was the beginning of a long journey from innocence to precocious experienceâ€”an affair with an older man that would change her life. Barberâ€™s seducer left her with a taste for luxury hotels and posh restaurants and trips abroad, expensive habits that she managed to support in later life as a successful London journalist whose barbed interviews at once terrorized and fascinated her smart-set subjects.\n</p>\n<p>\n A poignant, shockingly candid account of the stages in a literary lifeâ€”from promiscuity at Oxford to a stint at\n <em>\n  Penthouse\n </em>\n to a complex marriage that enduredâ€”_An Education_ is a classic of English memoir.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8328'),
(16403, 'An Education', 'Lynn Barber', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Barberâ€™s] a suburban girl whoâ€™s frightened that sheâ€™s going to get cut out of everything good that happens in the city. That, to me, is a big story in popular culture. Itâ€™s the story of pretty much every rock â€˜nâ€™ roll band. (Nick Hornby, author of the screenplay adaptation of\n <em>\n  An Education\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The inspiration for the award-winning motion picture: "Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout."â€”ZoÃ« Heller\n </strong>\n When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was on her way home from school and offered her a ride. It was the beginning of a long journey from innocence to precocious experienceâ€”an affair with an older man that would change her life. Barberâ€™s seducer left her with a taste for luxury hotels and posh restaurants and trips abroad, expensive habits that she managed to support in later life as a successful London journalist whose barbed interviews at once terrorized and fascinated her smart-set subjects.\n</p>\n<p>\n A poignant, shockingly candid account of the stages in a literary lifeâ€”from promiscuity at Oxford to a stint at\n <em>\n  Penthouse\n </em>\n to a complex marriage that enduredâ€”_An Education_ is a classic of English memoir.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21245'),
(16404, 'An Education: Screenplay', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From the _ New York Times_ bestselling author-the shooting script to his award-winning film, with an original Introduction and vivid stills from the movie.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jenny is a 16-year-old girl stifled by the tedium of adolescence; she can''t wait for her sophisticated adult life to begin. One rainy day her suburban existence is upended by the arrival of David, a much older suitor who introduces her to a glittering new world of concerts, art, smoky bars, urban nightlife, and his glamorous friends, replacing her traditional education with his own version. It could be her awakening-or her undoing. This edition of Hornby''s adapted screenplay, which includes stills from the film, is a perfect accompaniment to the highly anticipated movie, which stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper, and Alfred Molina. It is a must-have for fans of Hornby''s novels, featuring his signature pitch-perfect dialogue, mordant wit, and the resonant humanity of his writing\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Nick Hornby\n </strong>\n is the author of the bestselling novels _ Slam,A Long Way Down, How to Be Good, High Fidelity_, and\n <em>\n  About a Boy\n </em>\n , and the memoir\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n . He is also the author of\n <em>\n  Songbook\n </em>\n , a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award,\n <em>\n  Shakespeare Wrote for Money\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Polysyllabic Spree\n </em>\n , and editor of the short story collection\n <em>\n  Speaking with the Angel\n </em>\n . A recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters'' E. M. Forster Award, and the Orange Word International Writers'' London Award 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2641'),
(16405, 'An Education: Screenplay', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From the _ New York Times_ bestselling author-the shooting script to his award-winning film, with an original Introduction and vivid stills from the movie.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jenny is a 16-year-old girl stifled by the tedium of adolescence; she can''t wait for her sophisticated adult life to begin. One rainy day her suburban existence is upended by the arrival of David, a much older suitor who introduces her to a glittering new world of concerts, art, smoky bars, urban nightlife, and his glamorous friends, replacing her traditional education with his own version. It could be her awakening-or her undoing. This edition of Hornby''s adapted screenplay, which includes stills from the film, is a perfect accompaniment to the highly anticipated movie, which stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper, and Alfred Molina. It is a must-have for fans of Hornby''s novels, featuring his signature pitch-perfect dialogue, mordant wit, and the resonant humanity of his writing\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Nick Hornby\n </strong>\n is the author of the bestselling novels _ Slam,A Long Way Down, How to Be Good, High Fidelity_, and\n <em>\n  About a Boy\n </em>\n , and the memoir\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n . He is also the author of\n <em>\n  Songbook\n </em>\n , a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award,\n <em>\n  Shakespeare Wrote for Money\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Polysyllabic Spree\n </em>\n , and editor of the short story collection\n <em>\n  Speaking with the Angel\n </em>\n . A recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters'' E. M. Forster Award, and the Orange Word International Writers'' London Award 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10446'),
(16406, 'An Education: Screenplay', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  From the _ New York Times_ bestselling author-the shooting script to his award-winning film, with an original Introduction and vivid stills from the movie.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Jenny is a 16-year-old girl stifled by the tedium of adolescence; she can''t wait for her sophisticated adult life to begin. One rainy day her suburban existence is upended by the arrival of David, a much older suitor who introduces her to a glittering new world of concerts, art, smoky bars, urban nightlife, and his glamorous friends, replacing her traditional education with his own version. It could be her awakening-or her undoing. This edition of Hornby''s adapted screenplay, which includes stills from the film, is a perfect accompaniment to the highly anticipated movie, which stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper, and Alfred Molina. It is a must-have for fans of Hornby''s novels, featuring his signature pitch-perfect dialogue, mordant wit, and the resonant humanity of his writing\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Nick Hornby\n </strong>\n is the author of the bestselling novels _ Slam,A Long Way Down, How to Be Good, High Fidelity_, and\n <em>\n  About a Boy\n </em>\n , and the memoir\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n . He is also the author of\n <em>\n  Songbook\n </em>\n , a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award,\n <em>\n  Shakespeare Wrote for Money\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  The Polysyllabic Spree\n </em>\n , and editor of the short story collection\n <em>\n  Speaking with the Angel\n </em>\n . A recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters'' E. M. Forster Award, and the Orange Word International Writers'' London Award 2003.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22300'),
(16407, 'The Egg Said Nothing', 'Caris O&#39;Malley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Meet Manny. He''s your average shut-in with a penchant for late night television and looting local fountains for coins. With eight locks on his door and newspapers covering his windows, he''s a more than a bit paranoid, too. His wasn''t a great life, but it was comfortable-at least it was until the morning he awoke with an egg between his legs. But what might have been a curse becomes a charm as this unlikely event leads him to all night diner, where he finds inedible pie, undrinkable coffee, and the girl of his dreams. But can this unexpected chance at love survive after the egg cracks and time itself turns against him, dead-set on rerouting history and putting a shovel to the face of the one person who could bring real and lasting change to Manny''s world?\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "O''Malley takes us to a godless universe of chronic ineptitude; where we find ourselves pulled apart by a burgeoned romance, an obstruse egg, shovels--and blood. Lots, and lots of blood." -\n <strong>\n  K.I. HOPE\n </strong>\n , author of\n <em>\n  Hector\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10991'),
(16408, 'The Egyptologist', 'Arthur Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Beginning on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, this is the story of an archaeologist who becomes obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king, exploring themes of class, greed, ambition and a royal court in turmoil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10974'),
(16409, 'Eichmann in Jerusalem', 'Hannah Arendt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who helped cause the Holocaust, this radical work on the banality of evil stunned the world with its exploration of a regime''s moral blindness and one man''s insistence that he be absolved all guilt because he was  only following orders''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8157'),
(16410, 'Eight Ball Boogie', 'Declan Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Downscale private dick Harry Rigby starts tossing out wisecracks like lit packets of firecrackers on page one of this Irish crime story, and he doesn''t let up until the last sordid plot strand is singed into submission. In both the dialogue and firs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5979'),
(16411, 'Eight Ball Boogie', 'Declan Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Downscale private dick Harry Rigby starts tossing out wisecracks like lit packets of firecrackers on page one of this Irish crime story, and he doesn''t let up until the last sordid plot strand is singed into submission. In both the dialogue and firs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8686'),
(16412, 'Eight Ball Boogie', 'Declan Burke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Downscale private dick Harry Rigby starts tossing out wisecracks like lit packets of firecrackers on page one of this Irish crime story, and he doesn''t let up until the last sordid plot strand is singed into submission. In both the dialogue and firs\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17954'),
(16413, 'Eight in the Box: A Novel of Suspense', 'Raffi Yessayan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this swiftly paced, breathlessly suspenseful debut novel, the bizarre rampage of an elusive serial killer sends shockwaves through Boston, igniting a harrowing police manhunt and resounding at the highest levels of the criminal justice system. Drawing on eleven yearsâ€™ experience as a Boston assistant district attorneyâ€“and as chief prosecutor with the elite Gang Unitâ€“Raffi Yessayan renders a stark, realistic, and gripping portrait of law enforcement professionals on the job, and under the gun, in a city at the mercy of a madman.The scene is perplexingly always the same: the home of a single woman, no signs of forced entry, no evidence of an intruder, and no victimâ€“only a bathtub filled with blood. Newly promoted homicide detective Angel Alves wants to make his mark in the department and a difference on the streets. But juggling the needs of a family and the demands of a relentlessly driven partner tests the young copâ€™s commitment as sorely as tracking the killer challenges his skills. Meanwhile, assistant DA Conrad Darget has his own hands fullâ€“mentoring an ambitious young law student, whom he is also dating, rallying his fellow attorneys in their daily courtroom battles, and striving to win true justice in an imperfect system. With each new attack the twisted mystery only deepens, and the hunger for answersâ€“and actionâ€“intensifies. No sane mind could comprehend the dark design behind it all. And no one can anticipate the final fateful strokes that will lead to a shocking endgame.From its chilling first pages to its heart-stopping home stretch, Eight in the Box thrills at every turn and surprises at every opportunityâ€“racing at an ever increasing velocity to deliver a climax that pays off in devastating style.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1892'),
(16414, 'Eight in the Box: A Novel of Suspense', 'Raffi Yessayan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this swiftly paced, breathlessly suspenseful debut novel, the bizarre rampage of an elusive serial killer sends shockwaves through Boston, igniting a harrowing police manhunt and resounding at the highest levels of the criminal justice system. Drawing on eleven yearsâ€™ experience as a Boston assistant district attorneyâ€“and as chief prosecutor with the elite Gang Unitâ€“Raffi Yessayan renders a stark, realistic, and gripping portrait of law enforcement professionals on the job, and under the gun, in a city at the mercy of a madman.The scene is perplexingly always the same: the home of a single woman, no signs of forced entry, no evidence of an intruder, and no victimâ€“only a bathtub filled with blood. Newly promoted homicide detective Angel Alves wants to make his mark in the department and a difference on the streets. But juggling the needs of a family and the demands of a relentlessly driven partner tests the young copâ€™s commitment as sorely as tracking the killer challenges his skills. Meanwhile, assistant DA Conrad Darget has his own hands fullâ€“mentoring an ambitious young law student, whom he is also dating, rallying his fellow attorneys in their daily courtroom battles, and striving to win true justice in an imperfect system. With each new attack the twisted mystery only deepens, and the hunger for answersâ€“and actionâ€“intensifies. No sane mind could comprehend the dark design behind it all. And no one can anticipate the final fateful strokes that will lead to a shocking endgame.From its chilling first pages to its heart-stopping home stretch, Eight in the Box thrills at every turn and surprises at every opportunityâ€“racing at an ever increasing velocity to deliver a climax that pays off in devastating style.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13451'),
(16415, 'Eight Skilled Gentlemen', 'Barry Hughart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The sequel to Bridge of Birds and The Story of the Stone, this fantasy tale is the equivalent of Holmes and Watson in an ancient China that never was. Master Li and Number Ten Ox investigate a strange case of murder in a book that is equal parts Chinese folklore, sly parody, adventure, horror and fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7277'),
(16416, 'Eight skilled gentlemen', 'Barry Hughart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sequel to Bridge of Birds and The Story of the Stone, this fantasy tale is the equivalent of Holmes and Watson in an ancient China that never was. Master Li and Number Ten Ox investigate a strange case of murder in a book that is equal parts Chinese folklore, sly parody, adventure, horror and fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16591'),
(16417, 'Eight skilled gentlemen', 'Barry Hughart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sequel to Bridge of Birds and The Story of the Stone, this fantasy tale is the equivalent of Holmes and Watson in an ancient China that never was. Master Li and Number Ten Ox investigate a strange case of murder in a book that is equal parts Chinese folklore, sly parody, adventure, horror and fun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26563'),
(16418, 'Einstein at the World&#39;s Fair: Genius, Madness, Murder, and the World of Tomorrow on the Brink of War', 'James Mauro', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The summer of 1939 was an epic turning point for Americaâ€”a brief window between the Great Depression and World War II. It was the last season of unbridled hope for peace and prosperity; by Labor Day, the Nazis were in Poland. And nothing would come to symbolize this transformation from acute optimism to fear and dread more than the 1939 New York Worldâ€™s Fair.\n</p>\n<p>\n A glorious vision of the future, the Fair introduced television, the fax machine, nylon, and fluorescent lights. The â€œWorld of Tomorrow,â€ as it was called, was a dream city built upon a notorious garbage dumpâ€”The Great Gatsbyâ€™s infamous ash heaps. Yet these lofty dreams would come crashing down to earth in just two years. From the fairâ€™s opening on a stormy spring day, everything that could go wrong did: not just freakish weather but power failures and bomb threats.\n</p>\n<p>\n Amid the drama of the Worldâ€™s Fair, four men would struggle against the coming global violence. Albert Einstein, a lifelong pacifist, would come to question his beliefs as never before. From his summer home on Long Island, he signed a series of letters to President Roosevelt urging the development of an atomic bombâ€”an act he would later recall as â€œthe one great mistake in my life.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Grover Whalen, the Fairâ€™s president, struggled in vain to win over dictators Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin, believing that his utopian vision had the power to stop their madness. And two New York City police detectives, Joe Lynch and Freddy Socha, who had been assigned to investigate a series of bomb threats and explosions that had terrorized the city for months, would have a rendezvous with destiny at the Fair: During the summer of 1940, in a chilling preview of things to come, terrorism would arrive on American shoresâ€”and the grounds of the Worldâ€™s Fair.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet behind this tragic tableau is a story as incredible as it is inspiring. With a colorful cast of supporting charactersâ€”including Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, Robert Moses, and FDRâ€”\n <strong>\n  Twilight at the World of Tomorrow\n </strong>\n is narrative nonfiction at its finest, a gripping true-life drama that not only illuminates a forgotten episode of the nationâ€™s past but shines a probing light upon its present and its future.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11031'),
(16419, 'EJ_Hunger', 'Elizabeth Jewell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18598'),
(16420, 'Elantris', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling. Arelon''s new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping - based on their correspondence - to also find love. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. So Sarene decides to use her new status to counter the machinations of Hrathen, a Fjordell high priest who has come to Kae to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god. But neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspect the truth about Prince Raoden. Stricken by the same curse that ruined Elantris, Raoden was secretly exiled by his father to the dark city. His struggle to help the wretches trapped there begins a series of events that will bring hope to Arelon, and perhaps reveal the secret of Elantris itself. A rare epic fantasy that doesn''t recycle the classics and that is a complete and satisfying story in one volume, Elantris is fleet and fun, full of surprises and characters to care about. It''s also the wonderful debut of a welcome new star in the constellation of fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13722'),
(16421, 'Elantris', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling. Arelon''s new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping - based on their correspondence - to also find love. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. So Sarene decides to use her new status to counter the machinations of Hrathen, a Fjordell high priest who has come to Kae to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god. But neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspect the truth about Prince Raoden. Stricken by the same curse that ruined Elantris, Raoden was secretly exiled by his father to the dark city. His struggle to help the wretches trapped there begins a series of events that will bring hope to Arelon, and perhaps reveal the secret of Elantris itself. A rare epic fantasy that doesn''t recycle the classics and that is a complete and satisfying story in one volume, Elantris is fleet and fun, full of surprises and characters to care about. It''s also the wonderful debut of a welcome new star in the constellation of fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16734'),
(16422, 'Elantris', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling. Arelon''s new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping - based on their correspondence - to also find love. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. So Sarene decides to use her new status to counter the machinations of Hrathen, a Fjordell high priest who has come to Kae to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god. But neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspect the truth about Prince Raoden. Stricken by the same curse that ruined Elantris, Raoden was secretly exiled by his father to the dark city. His struggle to help the wretches trapped there begins a series of events that will bring hope to Arelon, and perhaps reveal the secret of Elantris itself. A rare epic fantasy that doesn''t recycle the classics and that is a complete and satisfying story in one volume, Elantris is fleet and fun, full of surprises and characters to care about. It''s also the wonderful debut of a welcome new star in the constellation of fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26636'),
(16423, 'Eldest', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Darkness fallsâ€¦despair aboundsâ€¦evil reignsâ€¦Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire.  Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the  skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship.  Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems. Before long, Eragon doesnâ€™t know whom he can trust.Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battleâ€“one that might put Eragon in even graver danger.Will the kingâ€™s dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life. . . .**Praise for *Eragon*:**â€œUnusual, powerful . . . fresh and fluid. An impressive start to a writing career thatâ€™s sure to flourish.â€ â€“*Booklist*, Starredâ€œChristopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.â€ â€“*People*â€œThe new â€˜Itâ€™ book of childrenâ€™s lit.â€ â€“*U.S. News &amp; World Report*â€œAn auspicious beginning to both career and series.â€ â€“*Publishers Weekly*A #1 New York Times BestsellerA #1 Publishers Weekly BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Book Sense Book of the YearA #1 Book Sense Selection*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6707');
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(16424, 'Eldest', 'Christopher Paolini &amp; Kerry Shale', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Surpassing its popular prequel\n  <em>\n   Eragon\n  </em>\n  , this second volume in the Inheritance trilogy shows growing maturity and skill on the part of its very young author, who was only seventeen when the first volume was published in 2003. The story is solidly in the tradition (some might say derivative) of the classic heroic quest fantasy, with the predictable cast of dwarves, elves, and dragons--but also including some imaginatively creepy creatures of evil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The land of Alagaesia is suffering under the Empire of the wicked Galbatorix, and Eragon and his dragon Saphira, last of the Riders, are the only hope. But Eragon is young and has much to learn, and so he is sent off to the elven forest city of Ellesmera, where he and Saphira are tutored in magic, battle skills, and the ancient language by the wise former Rider Oromis and his elderly dragon Glaedr. Meanwhile, back at Carvahall, Eragon''s home, his cousin Roran is the target of a siege by the hideous Ra''zac, and he must lead the villagers on a desperate escape over the mountains. The two narratives move toward a massive battle with the forces of Galbatorix, where Eragon learns a shocking secret about his parentage and commits himself to saving his people.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The sheer size of the novel, as well as its many characters, places with difficult names, and its use of imaginary languages make this a challenging read, even for experienced fantasy readers. It is essential to have the plot threads of the first volume well in mind before beginning--the publisher has provided not only a map, but a helpful synopsis of the first book and a much-needed Language Guide. But no obstacles will deter the many fans of Eragon from diving headfirst into this highly-awaited fantasy. (Ages 12 and up)\n  <em>\n   --Patty Campbell\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Meet Author Christopher Paolini\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Christopher Paoliniâ€™s abiding love of fantasy and science fiction inspired him to begin writing his debut novel,\n  <em>\n   Eragon\n  </em>\n  , when he graduated from high school at age 15.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Writing is the heart and soul of my being. It is the means through which I bring my stories to life. There is nothing like putting words on a page and knowing that they will summon certain emotions and reactions from the reader. In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaneyâ€™s translation of Beowulf."\n  <em>\n   --Christopher Paolini\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Paolini talks more about the series, and about what inspires him in this video clip.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Watch the video (high bandwith)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Watch the video (low bandwith)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Eragon/Eldest Boxed Set\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Want to learn more about the series? Check out our review of\n  <em>\n   Eragon\n  </em>\n  : Here''s a great big fantasy that you can pull over your head like a comfy old sweater and disappear into for a whole weekend. Christopher Paolini began Eragon when he was just 15, and the book shows the influence of Tolkien, of course, but also Terry Brooks, Anne McCaffrey, and perhaps even Wagner in its traditional quest structure and the generally agreed-upon nature of dwarves, elves, dragons, and heroic warfare with magic swords. Read more\n </p>\n <p>\n  Order your copy of the boxed set today\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Learn the Lingo\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Our quickie pronunciation guide will help you get to know some of the names and places in the Inheritance series.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ajihad\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  AH-zhi-hod    The Leader of the Varden\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Argetlam\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  ARE-jet-lahm   Elven word to describe Dragon Riders meaning "silver hand"\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Arya\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  AR-ee-uh   A powerful elf who is both beautiful and a master swordswoman\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Eragon\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  EHR-uh-gahn   A Dragon Rider from Carvahall\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Ra-zac\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  RAA-zack   Evil creatures\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Saphira\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  suh-FEAR-uh   Eragonâ€™s dragon\n </p>\n <p>\n  *Art copyright Â© 2004 John Jude Palencar\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5 Upâ€“Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have survived the battle at Tronjheim, but their challenges are not over. Galbatorix, the corrupt emperor, still rules Alagaesia and is looking for them. The magically bonded pair must help the rebellious Varden regroup after their leader is slain. Eragon helps deal with the resulting diplomatic complexities and then leaves for Du Weldenvarden, the home of the Elves, in order to finish his training as a Dragon Rider. Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must unite the small town of Carvahall as it is battered by Galbatorix''s forces, including the nasty Ra''zac. The story alternates between Eragon and Saphira and their political maneuvering and Roran and his more traditional adventure over land and sea. Paolini provides a worthy companion to _Eragon\n  <em>\n   (Knopf, 2003), though it does not stand alone (a summary of the first book will be included in the final edition). The plotâ€“indeed, most of the fantasy conventionsâ€“is heavily inspired by Tolkien, McCaffrey, and especially George Lucas. The momentum of the narrative is steady and consistent: a problem presents itself and is neatly (and conveniently) solved before the next one arises, making it appealing to some adventure-quest fantasy fans and runescape.com players. Eragon''s journey to maturity is well handled. He wrestles earnestly with definitions for good and evil, and he thoughtfully examines the question of good at what price.While there''s nothing particularly original here, the book will find its fan-base.\n  </em>\n  â€“Sarah Couri, New York Public Library_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h2>\n  Product Details\n </h2>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Reading level:\n    </strong>\n    Young Adult\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Paperback:\n    </strong>\n    704 pages\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Publisher:\n    </strong>\n    Knopf Books for Young Readers; Trade Paperback Edition edition (March 13, 2007)\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Language:\n    </strong>\n    English\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     ISBN-10:\n    </strong>\n    0375840400\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     ISBN-13:\n    </strong>\n    978-0375840401\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Product Dimensions:\n    </strong>\n    5.2 x 1.5 x 8 inches\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Shipping Weight:\n    </strong>\n    1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    <strong>\n     Average Customer Review:\n    </strong>\n    3.6 out of 5 starsÂ Â See all reviewsÂ (1,574 customer reviews)\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1,574 Reviews\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  5 star:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â (703)\n </p>\n <p>\n  4 star:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â (296)\n </p>\n <p>\n  3 star:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â (155)\n </p>\n <p>\n  2 star:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â (140)\n </p>\n <p>\n  1 star:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â (280)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€ºÂ See all 1,574 customer reviews...\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <strong>\n    Amazon Bestsellers Rank:\n   </strong>\n   #6,046 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Â Would you like to\n  <strong>\n   update product info\n  </strong>\n  ,\n  <strong>\n   give feedback on images\n  </strong>\n  , or\n  <strong>\n   tell us about a lower price\n  </strong>\n  ?\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h2>\n  Customer Reviews\n </h2>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   1,574 Reviews\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  5 star:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â (703)\n </p>\n <p>\n  4 star:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â (296)\n </p>\n <p>\n  3 star:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â (155)\n </p>\n <p>\n  2 star:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â (140)\n </p>\n <p>\n  1 star:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Â (280)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Average Customer Review\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  3.6 out of 5 stars (1,574 customer reviews)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Share your thoughts with other customers:\n </p>\n <p>\n  Create your own review\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Most Helpful Customer Reviews\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  57 of 68 people found the following review helpful:\n </p>\n <p>\n  2.0 out of 5 stars\n  <strong>\n   Solid, but easily forgettable...\n  </strong>\n  , September 25, 2005\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Kid''s Review\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   This review is from: Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) (Hardcover)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  This "Inheritance" trilogy has inspired more animosity then I have seen in a very long time. Their is litterally a great divide here, with many hailing Paolini as the next Tolkien, while others say that he will be the downfall of fantasy literature. Personally, I think BOTH sides are giving him way to much credit.\n  <br />\n  Let''s start off with the pro-Paolini crew. I honestly have to wonder if you have actually read any other fantasy novels out there. If you have, you will notice that Eldest is saturated with cliches which Paolini attempts to hide by calling his work ''archetypal.'' The attempt at portraying true love is laughable at best with the protagonist litterally calling a girl "as beautiful as a flower." That type of stuff makes me cringe. It seems to me that Paolini doesn''t get his writing from real life experience, but instead from the many different authors that he has read before. Without experience, the emotions of Eldest come out as regurgetated garbage. I do not need to delve to deeply into the storyline itself for that has been mentioned numerous times before. I will say though that Paolini has got away with plagiarism. He copied names of places and towns, people, and plots by tweaking them only slightly so as to get away with it. For an avid reader, he fails at sneaking that theivery by us. It stuck out with each new page that I read. I must also say that I am dissapointed that Paolini failed to add anything original to the fantasy genre. Everything he wrote about HAS been used before; everything. That takes the excitement from the book.\n  <br />\n  Another problem I have is Paolini''s arrogance. In reviewing himself, he said "I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best, and Seamus Henney''s translation of Beowulf." That is ridiculous. Plagiraism doesn''t put you on the same plane as the one you stole it from. HIs arrognace can also be seen with the agenda''s that he peppers into the book, such as the assertion that eating meat is barbaric and that the human race is a collection of bumbling idiots. To top it all off, he feels the need to use obscure words to make himself feel smarter then he really is. I have no problem with a big vocabulary, IF the words fit in the context they are used and if they help get a certain point across. HIs words just feel awkward and take away from the flow of the reading. In conclusion, I find Paolini to be a literary thief who hides and sells his book with his age, rather then any particular merits.\n  <br />\n  At the same time, I think the anti-Paolini groups are taking thier opinions way overboard. Sure the story is horrible and contrived and rittled with cliches, but you are all giving him way to much credit. I have read some reviews that say he will be the ruin of children''s literature. To me, that''s a bit extreme. I see the Inheritance trilogy as a fad fueled by the vaccum created by the last Harry Potter book. When this seriies is over with, it will be forgotten and a new writer will emerge. For all of you vehement anti-Paolini people, you are feeding right into Pailoni''s niche and are, by some degree, the reason why his book is so popular. Debate and conflict is one of the greatest marketing tools available. I also want to add that some of these negative reviews are a bit exxagerated. It''s a mediocre book, (at best), but you must take it as it is. Although I am discusted at how much Paolini stole, I must reluctantly commend him for getting som many young kids to read. He succeeded in that regard and I can only hope that it will inspire people to read books of a higher quality.\n  <br />\n  I must say that all this attention is a bit baffling. It doesn''t seem like it warrants it in any way, from any viewpoint. I will read the last installment of the trilogy for the sole purpose of a closure to what has been a strange ride. As a positve, I will say that Paolini has imroved since Eragon, although his style needs a lot of fine tuning and work. The Inheritance Trilogy is a rebound for Harry Potter. If you are going to buy it, know what it is you are reading and take it as it is. Don''t expect any powerful revelations or philosophical intrigue, but maybe that was intended. Until the next book, I sign off. Thank you for reading my review.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Help other customers find the most helpful reviews\n  </strong>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Was this review helpful to you?Â Yes No\n </p>\n <p>\n  Report abuse | Permalink\n </p>\n <p>\n  CommentÂ Comments (4)\n </p>\n <p>\n  33 of 38 people found the following review helpful:\n </p>\n <p>\n  1.0 out of 5 stars\n  <strong>\n   Returning it.......so should you\n  </strong>\n  , September 13, 2005\n </p>\n <p>\n  ByÂ \n </p>\n <p>\n  Family of Readers (United States) - See all my reviews\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   This review is from: Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) (Hardcover)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When my son wanted to return this book to Amazon, I asked him why and we talked about the book. I couldn''t believe a book could be published that was so poorly written so I read it myself and was appalled. Glaring errors, disastrous editing, poorly written, poorly organized. Clearly the most overrated book in years. Paolini you''ve got the last dime you''ll ever get from our family of readers. This telephone book should have been trimmed to 1/2 size at the least.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Help other customers find the most helpful reviews\n  </strong>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Was this review helpful to you?Â Yes No\n </p>\n <p>\n  Report abuse | Permalink\n </p>\n <p>\n  CommentÂ Comment\n </p>\n <p>\n  29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:\n </p>\n <p>\n  1.0 out of 5 stars\n  <strong>\n   Please don''t Preach.\n  </strong>\n  , September 27, 2006\n </p>\n <p>\n  ByÂ \n </p>\n <p>\n  K. Woodworth (TX United States) - See all my reviews\n  <br />\n  (REAL NAME) Â Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   This review is from: Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) (Hardcover)\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Maybe you can chalk it up to second book let down, but this was far weaker than Eragon, slow moving and verbose like there was a word count to fulfill. The part that bothered me was the attempt to say that the lowest bug and man were in reality of the same value. This on it''s face may be likened to the beliefs of Hinduism, but that too is crushed by the assertion that anyone that is really enlightened does not believe in God. The book also states that one who is enlightened will not eat the flesh of another living being. It then goes on to give plants a low level of awareness, I wonder why the enlightened are allowed to eat at all.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Help other customers find the most helpful reviews\n  </strong>\n  Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  Was this review helpful to you?Â Yes No\n </p>\n <p>\n  Report abuse | Permalink\n </p>\n <p>\n  CommentÂ Comments (6)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Share your thoughts with other customers:Â Create your own review\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  â€º\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Â See all 1,574 customer reviews...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Most Recent Customer Reviews\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  4.0 out of 5 stars\n  <strong>\n   Yearning to Read Review\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  I have yet to read this a second time. I will soon, but for now I remember it too well to want to pick it up again.\n  <strong>\n   Read more\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Published 8 hours ago by yearningtoread\n </p>\n <p>\n  3.0 out of 5 stars\n  <strong>\n   Some weird moments, but an interesting story overall\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  Eragon and Saphira are recovering from the battle at Farthen Dur where Eragon killed Durza, a malevolent Shade working for the tyrannical King Galbatorix.\n  <strong>\n   Read more\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Published 11 hours ago by Tiger Holland\n </p>\n <p>\n  5.0 out of 5 stars\n  <strong>\n   Great Book!\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  I absolutely loved the book Eldest by Christopher Paulini. Eldest is the second book in the Inheritance Cycle.\n  <strong>\n   Read more\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Published 26 days ago\n </p>\n <p>\n  5.0 out of 5 stars\n  <strong>\n   good buy\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  I bought the whole series for my son, he read the lot without stopping, and is looking forward to the newest edition in November.\n  <strong>\n   Read more\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Published 1 month ago by T. L. Heads\n </p>\n <p>\n  5.0 out of 5 stars\n  <strong>\n   I give credit to Paolini\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  This is stupid. Every single page of reviews I''ve read is all NEGATIVE. Why? Because some of these people are bent on putting the extremely talented Paolini down.\n  <strong>\n   Read more\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Published 1 month ago by Vince Choy\n </p>\n <p>\n  5.0 out of 5 stars\n  <strong>\n   GREAT SERIES\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  I recommend that you real all three books...can''t wait for book 4. 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(16425, 'Eldest', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Darkness fallsâ€¦despair aboundsâ€¦evil reignsâ€¦Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems. Before long, Eragon doesnâ€™t know whom he can trust.Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battleâ€“one that might put Eragon in even graver danger.Will the kingâ€™s dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life. . . .**Praise for *Eragon*:**â€œUnusual, powerful . . . fresh and fluid. An impressive start to a writing career thatâ€™s sure to flourish.â€ â€“*Booklist*, Starredâ€œChristopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.â€ â€“*People*â€œThe new â€˜Itâ€™ book of childrenâ€™s lit.â€ â€“*U.S. News &amp; World Report*â€œAn auspicious beginning to both career and series.â€ â€“*Publishers Weekly*A #1 New York Times BestsellerA #1 Publishers Weekly BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Book Sense Book of the YearA #1 Book Sense Selection*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13941'),
(16426, 'Eldest', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Darkness fallsâ€¦despair aboundsâ€¦evil reignsâ€¦Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems. Before long, Eragon doesnâ€™t know whom he can trust.Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battleâ€“one that might put Eragon in even graver danger.Will the kingâ€™s dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life. . . .**Praise for *Eragon*:**â€œUnusual, powerful . . . fresh and fluid. An impressive start to a writing career thatâ€™s sure to flourish.â€ â€“*Booklist*, Starredâ€œChristopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.â€ â€“*People*â€œThe new â€˜Itâ€™ book of childrenâ€™s lit.â€ â€“*U.S. News &amp; World Report*â€œAn auspicious beginning to both career and series.â€ â€“*Publishers Weekly*A #1 New York Times BestsellerA #1 Publishers Weekly BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Book Sense Book of the YearA #1 Book Sense Selection*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18050'),
(16427, 'Eldest', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Darkness fallsâ€¦despair aboundsâ€¦evil reignsâ€¦Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire.  Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the  skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship.  Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems. Before long, Eragon doesnâ€™t know whom he can trust.Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battleâ€“one that might put Eragon in even graver danger.Will the kingâ€™s dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life. . . .**Praise for *Eragon*:**â€œUnusual, powerful . . . fresh and fluid. An impressive start to a writing career thatâ€™s sure to flourish.â€ â€“*Booklist*, Starredâ€œChristopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.â€ â€“*People*â€œThe new â€˜Itâ€™ book of childrenâ€™s lit.â€ â€“*U.S. News &amp; World Report*â€œAn auspicious beginning to both career and series.â€ â€“*Publishers Weekly*A #1 New York Times BestsellerA #1 Publishers Weekly BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Book Sense Book of the YearA #1 Book Sense Selection*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26976'),
(16428, 'Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eleanor of Aquitaine was a remarkable woman. She was an important factor in the reign of four kings, lived to the ripe old age of 82, bore 10 children and outlived all but two of them. Her sons were kings of England and her daughters queens of Castile and Sicily, while her later descendants included a Holy Roman emperor and kings of France and Spain, as well as a couple of saints. In an age of men, she was indeed a powerful woman. Born in 1122 into the sophisticated and cultured court of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine came of age in a world of luxury, bloody combat, and unbridled ambition. At only fifteen, she inherited one of the great fortunes of Europe - the prize duchy of Aquitaine - yet was forced to submit to a union with the handsome but sexually withholding Louis VII, the teenage king of France. The marriage endured for fifteen fraught years, until Eleanor finally succeeded in having it annulled - only to enter an even stormier match with Henry of Anjou, who would soon ascend to the English throne as Henry II. With astonishing historic detail, mesmerizing pageantry, and irresistible accounts of royal scandal and intrigue, Weir re-creates not only a remarkable personality, but a magnificent past era. As Weir traces the fascinating intersection of public and private lives in Europe''s twelfth-century courts, Eleanor comes to life as a complex, boldly original woman who transcended the mores of society. Later, after sixteen years of imprisonment for plotting to overthrow Henry, the humbled Queen emerged, at age sixty-seven, to rule England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7767'),
(16429, 'Eleanor of Aquitaine: by the wrath of God, Queen of England', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Eleanor of Aquitaine was a remarkable woman. She was an important factor in the reign of four kings, lived to the ripe old age of 82, bore 10 children and outlived all but two of them. Her sons were kings of England and her daughters queens of Castile and Sicily, while her later descendants included a Holy Roman emperor and kings of France and Spain, as well as a couple of saints. In an age of men, she was indeed a powerful woman. Born in 1122 into the sophisticated and cultured court of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine came of age in a world of luxury, bloody combat, and unbridled ambition. At only fifteen, she inherited one of the great fortunes of Europe - the prize duchy of Aquitaine - yet was forced to submit to a union with the handsome but sexually withholding Louis VII, the teenage king of France. The marriage endured for fifteen fraught years, until Eleanor finally succeeded in having it annulled - only to enter an even stormier match with Henry of Anjou, who would soon ascend to the English throne as Henry II. With astonishing historic detail, mesmerizing pageantry, and irresistible accounts of royal scandal and intrigue, Weir re-creates not only a remarkable personality, but a magnificent past era. As Weir traces the fascinating intersection of public and private lives in Europe''s twelfth-century courts, Eleanor comes to life as a complex, boldly original woman who transcended the mores of society. Later, after sixteen years of imprisonment for plotting to overthrow Henry, the humbled Queen emerged, at age sixty-seven, to rule England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16190'),
(16430, 'Eleanor of Aquitaine: by the wrath of God, Queen of England', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Eleanor of Aquitaine was a remarkable woman. She was an important factor in the reign of four kings, lived to the ripe old age of 82, bore 10 children and outlived all but two of them. Her sons were kings of England and her daughters queens of Castile and Sicily, while her later descendants included a Holy Roman emperor and kings of France and Spain, as well as a couple of saints. In an age of men, she was indeed a powerful woman. Born in 1122 into the sophisticated and cultured court of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine came of age in a world of luxury, bloody combat, and unbridled ambition. At only fifteen, she inherited one of the great fortunes of Europe - the prize duchy of Aquitaine - yet was forced to submit to a union with the handsome but sexually withholding Louis VII, the teenage king of France. The marriage endured for fifteen fraught years, until Eleanor finally succeeded in having it annulled - only to enter an even stormier match with Henry of Anjou, who would soon ascend to the English throne as Henry II. With astonishing historic detail, mesmerizing pageantry, and irresistible accounts of royal scandal and intrigue, Weir re-creates not only a remarkable personality, but a magnificent past era. As Weir traces the fascinating intersection of public and private lives in Europe''s twelfth-century courts, Eleanor comes to life as a complex, boldly original woman who transcended the mores of society. Later, after sixteen years of imprisonment for plotting to overthrow Henry, the humbled Queen emerged, at age sixty-seven, to rule England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26356'),
(16431, 'The Electric Church', 'Jeff Somers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Avery Cates is a very bad man. Some might call him a criminal. He might even be a killer - for the Right Price. But right now, Avery Cates is scared. He''s up against the Monks: cyborgs with human brains, enhanced robotic bodies, and a small arsenal of advanced weaponry. Their mission is to convert anyone and everyone to the Electric Church. But there is just one snag. Conversion means death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4541'),
(16432, 'Electronic Tribes: The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers', 'Tyrone L. Adams; Stephen A. Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Whether people want to play games and download music, engage in social networking and professional collaboration, or view pornography and incite terror, the Internet provides myriad opportunities for people who share common interests to find each other. The contributors to this book argue that these self-selected online groups are best understood as tribes, with many of the same ramifications, both positive and negative, that tribalism has in the non-cyber world.In Electronic Tribes, the authors of sixteen competitively selected essays provide an up-to-the-minute look at the social uses and occasional abuses of online communication in the new media era. They explore many current Internet subcultures, including MySpace.com, craftster.org, massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, music downloading, white supremacist and other counterculture groups, and Nigerian e-mail scams. Their research raises compelling questions and some remarkable answers about the real-life social consequences of participating in electronic tribes. Collectively, the contributors to this book capture a profound shift in the way people connect, as communities formed by geographical proximity are giving way to communitiesâ€”both online and offlineâ€”formed around ideas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22821'),
(16433, 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog', 'Muriel Barbery', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14871'),
(16434, 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog', 'Muriel Barbery', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22127'),
(16435, 'The Elegant Universe', 'Brian Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the world''s leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where all matter is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy. Greene uses everything from an amusement park ride to ants on a garden hose to explain the beautiful yet bizarre realities that modern physics is unveiling. Dazzling in its brilliance, unprecedented in its ability to both illuminate and entertain, The Elegant Universe is a tour de force of scientific writing - a delightful, lucid voyage through modern physics that brings us closer to understanding how the universe works.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9465');
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(16436, 'The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory', 'Brian Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another...In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." --George Johnson, The New York Times Book ReviewIn a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the world''s leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of 11 dimensions where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter-from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas-is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy.Green uses everything from an amusement park ride to ants on a garden hose to illustrate the beautiful yet bizarre realities that modern physics is unveiling.Â Â Â Â Dazzling in its brilliance, unprecedented in its ability to both illuminate and entertain, The Elegant Universe is a tour de force of science writing-a delightful, lucid voyage through modern physics that brings us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7082'),
(16437, 'The elegant universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory', 'Brian Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another...In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." --George Johnson, The New York Times Book ReviewIn a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the world''s leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of 11 dimensions where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter-from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas-is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy.Green uses everything from an amusement park ride to ants on a garden hose to illustrate the beautiful yet bizarre realities that modern physics is unveiling.Â Â Â Â Dazzling in its brilliance, unprecedented in its ability to both illuminate and entertain, The Elegant Universe is a tour de force of science writing-a delightful, lucid voyage through modern physics that brings us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15088'),
(16438, 'The elegant universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory', 'Brian Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another...In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." --George Johnson, The New York Times Book ReviewIn a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the world''s leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of 11 dimensions where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter-from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas-is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy.Green uses everything from an amusement park ride to ants on a garden hose to illustrate the beautiful yet bizarre realities that modern physics is unveiling.Â Â Â Â Dazzling in its brilliance, unprecedented in its ability to both illuminate and entertain, The Elegant Universe is a tour de force of science writing-a delightful, lucid voyage through modern physics that brings us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16746'),
(16439, 'The elegant universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory', 'Brian Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another...In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." --George Johnson, The New York Times Book ReviewIn a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the world''s leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of 11 dimensions where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter-from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas-is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy.Green uses everything from an amusement park ride to ants on a garden hose to illustrate the beautiful yet bizarre realities that modern physics is unveiling.    Dazzling in its brilliance, unprecedented in its ability to both illuminate and entertain, The Elegant Universe is a tour de force of science writing-a delightful, lucid voyage through modern physics that brings us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26736'),
(16440, 'Elegy for April', 'Benjamin Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Quirkeâ€”the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologistâ€”is back, and he''s determined to find his daughter''s best friend, a well-connected young doctorApril Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Though her family is one of the most respected in the city, she is known for being independent-minded; her taste in men, for instance, is decidedly unconventional.Now April has disappeared, and her friend Phoebe Griffin suspects the worst. Frantic, Phoebe seeks out Quirke, her brilliant but erratic father, and asks him for help. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman. In their separate ways the two men follow April''s trail through some of the darker byways of the city to uncover crucial information on her whereabouts. And as Quirke becomes deeply involved in April''s murky story, he encounters complicated and ugly truths about family savagery, Catholic ruthlessness, and race hatred.Both an absorbing crime novel and a brilliant portrait of the difficult and relentless love between a father and his daughter, this is Benjamin Black at his sparkling best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7329'),
(16441, 'Elegy for April', 'Benjamin Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Quirkeâ€”the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologistâ€”is back, and he''s determined to find his daughter''s best friend, a well-connected young doctorApril Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Though her family is one of the most respected in the city, she is known for being independent-minded; her taste in men, for instance, is decidedly unconventional.Now April has disappeared, and her friend Phoebe Griffin suspects the worst. Frantic, Phoebe seeks out Quirke, her brilliant but erratic father, and asks him for help. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman. In their separate ways the two men follow April''s trail through some of the darker byways of the city to uncover crucial information on her whereabouts. And as Quirke becomes deeply involved in April''s murky story, he encounters complicated and ugly truths about family savagery, Catholic ruthlessness, and race hatred.Both an absorbing crime novel and a brilliant portrait of the difficult and relentless love between a father and his daughter, this is Benjamin Black at his sparkling best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16613'),
(16442, 'Elegy for April', 'Benjamin Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Quirkeâ€”the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologistâ€”is back, and he''s determined to find his daughter''s best friend, a well-connected young doctorApril Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Though her family is one of the most respected in the city, she is known for being independent-minded; her taste in men, for instance, is decidedly unconventional.Now April has disappeared, and her friend Phoebe Griffin suspects the worst. Frantic, Phoebe seeks out Quirke, her brilliant but erratic father, and asks him for help. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman. In their separate ways the two men follow April''s trail through some of the darker byways of the city to uncover crucial information on her whereabouts. And as Quirke becomes deeply involved in April''s murky story, he encounters complicated and ugly truths about family savagery, Catholic ruthlessness, and race hatred.Both an absorbing crime novel and a brilliant portrait of the difficult and relentless love between a father and his daughter, this is Benjamin Black at his sparkling best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26670'),
(16443, 'The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Hidden History: The Ultimate A-Z of Ancient Mysteries, Lost Civilizations and Forgotten Wisdom', 'John Michael Greer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Next in the popular Element Encyclopedia series, comes the complete A''Â¬"Z of alternative history. Discover everything you ever wanted to know about secret societies like the Freemasons, the historical mystery of Atlantis, why King Arthur, Leonardo da Vinci and Hitler are key figures, plus conspiracy theories, forgotten sciences and ancient wisdom. A complete and informative A''Â¬"Z for one of the most popular genres to have emerged in recent times ''Â¬" the hidden history of the last 10,000 years. This encyclopedia answers all your questions on the more controversial subjects being debated: ''Â¬Â¢ Conspiracies and secret societies, e.g. Knights Templars, the Rosicrucians, the Freemasons, the Bavarian Illuminati, the Hellfire Club, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Priory of Sion. It also includes secret traditions, hidden bloodlines, extraterrestrial intervention, imminent apocalypse, and the Mayan calendar prophecies. ''Â¬Â¢ Ancient wisdom and forgotten sciences, e.g. alchemy, prophecy, sacred geometry, ley lines, and magic, as well as supporting evidence for advanced technologies in ancient times e.g. the mysteries of Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids. ''Â¬Â¢ Unsolved historical mysteries, e.g. the location of Atlantis, the early history of Christianity, the Holy Grail, the fate of the Knights Templars, the authorship of Shakespeare''s plays, the causes of the French Revolution, and the occult roots of Nazism. ''Â¬Â¢ Key figures in hidden history ''Â¬" Pythagoras, Jesus of Nazareth, Leonardo da Vinci, King Arthur, Roger Bacon, John Dee, Alessandro Cagliostro, the Comte de St.-Germain, Benjamin Franklin, and Adolf Hitler.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9469'),
(16444, 'The Elements of Content Strategy', 'Erin Kissane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Content strategy is the webâ€™s hottest new thing. But where\n <br />\n did it come from? Why does it matter? And what does the content renaissance\n <br />\n mean for you? This brief guide explores content strategyâ€™s roots, and\n <br />\n quickly and expertly demonstrates not only how itâ€™s done, but how you can\n <br />\n do it well. A compelling read for both experienced content strategists and\n <br />\n those making the transition from other fields.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9399'),
(16445, 'The Elephant to Hollywood', 'Michael Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ. . . Caine has known, befriended, worked or partied with everyone from John Huston to Heath Ledger, and has the kind of life where a Rolling Stone waits patiently while he gives James Bond advice on how to become a knight. As such, this breezy, name-droppy salute to old, un-PC Hollywood is a lighthearted hoot.â€ â€“ New York Post\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider''s view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really disappointed, he called the producer to complain about the part. The producer said, "No, no, we don''t want you for the lover, we want you for the father." Salvation came in the unlikely form of his old friend Jack Nicholson, who convinced him to give acting one more shot. What followed was not only an incredible personal transformation but also one of the most radical comebacks in film history. Learning to accept his new role both on camera and in his own life, Caine went on to win his second Oscar, be knighted by the queen, and deliver some of his best performances to date. Now he shares the spectacular story of his life, from his humble upbringing in London''s poverty-stricken Elephant and Castle, his military service, touching marriage and family life, and lively adventures with friends, to legendary meetings with fellow stars, forays as a restaurateur, and hilarious off-screen encounters from his glittering five-decade career. Caine brings his gift for storytelling and his insider''s view to a tale that is funny, warm, and deeply honest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2876'),
(16446, 'The Elephant to Hollywood', 'Michael Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ. . . Caine has known, befriended, worked or partied with everyone from John Huston to Heath Ledger, and has the kind of life where a Rolling Stone waits patiently while he gives James Bond advice on how to become a knight. As such, this breezy, name-droppy salute to old, un-PC Hollywood is a lighthearted hoot.â€ â€“ New York Post\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider''s view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really disappointed, he called the producer to complain about the part. The producer said, "No, no, we don''t want you for the lover, we want you for the father." Salvation came in the unlikely form of his old friend Jack Nicholson, who convinced him to give acting one more shot. What followed was not only an incredible personal transformation but also one of the most radical comebacks in film history. Learning to accept his new role both on camera and in his own life, Caine went on to win his second Oscar, be knighted by the queen, and deliver some of his best performances to date. Now he shares the spectacular story of his life, from his humble upbringing in London''s poverty-stricken Elephant and Castle, his military service, touching marriage and family life, and lively adventures with friends, to legendary meetings with fellow stars, forays as a restaurateur, and hilarious off-screen encounters from his glittering five-decade career. Caine brings his gift for storytelling and his insider''s view to a tale that is funny, warm, and deeply honest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8707'),
(16447, 'The Elephant to Hollywood', 'Michael Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ. . . Caine has known, befriended, worked or partied with everyone from John Huston to Heath Ledger, and has the kind of life where a Rolling Stone waits patiently while he gives James Bond advice on how to become a knight. As such, this breezy, name-droppy salute to old, un-PC Hollywood is a lighthearted hoot.â€ â€“ New York Post\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider''s view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really disappointed, he called the producer to complain about the part. The producer said, "No, no, we don''t want you for the lover, we want you for the father." Salvation came in the unlikely form of his old friend Jack Nicholson, who convinced him to give acting one more shot. What followed was not only an incredible personal transformation but also one of the most radical comebacks in film history. Learning to accept his new role both on camera and in his own life, Caine went on to win his second Oscar, be knighted by the queen, and deliver some of his best performances to date. Now he shares the spectacular story of his life, from his humble upbringing in London''s poverty-stricken Elephant and Castle, his military service, touching marriage and family life, and lively adventures with friends, to legendary meetings with fellow stars, forays as a restaurateur, and hilarious off-screen encounters from his glittering five-decade career. Caine brings his gift for storytelling and his insider''s view to a tale that is funny, warm, and deeply honest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21899'),
(16448, 'The Elephant Vanishes', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The virtuoso Japanese novelist presents 17 playful and darkly comic existentialist conundrums.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This collection of 15 stories from a popular Japanese writer, perhaps best known in this country for A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 11/15/89), gives a nice idea of his breadth of style. The work maintains the matter-of-fact tone reminiscent of American detective fiction, balancing itself somewhere between the spare realism of Raymond Carver and the surrealism of Kobo Abe. These are not the sort of stories that one thinks of as "Japanese"; the intentionally Westernized style and well-placed reference to pop culture gives them a contemporary and universal feel. Engaging, thought-provoking, humorous, and slyly profound, these skillful stories will easily appeal to American readers but must present something of a challenge to the Japanese cultural establishment. At their best, however, they serve to dispel cultural stereotypes and reveal a common humanity. Recommended for libraries with an interest in contemporary fiction.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., N.Y.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5246'),
(16449, 'The Elephant Vanishes', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The virtuoso Japanese novelist presents 17 playful and darkly comic existentialist conundrums.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This collection of 15 stories from a popular Japanese writer, perhaps best known in this country for A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 11/15/89), gives a nice idea of his breadth of style. The work maintains the matter-of-fact tone reminiscent of American detective fiction, balancing itself somewhere between the spare realism of Raymond Carver and the surrealism of Kobo Abe. These are not the sort of stories that one thinks of as "Japanese"; the intentionally Westernized style and well-placed reference to pop culture gives them a contemporary and universal feel. Engaging, thought-provoking, humorous, and slyly profound, these skillful stories will easily appeal to American readers but must present something of a challenge to the Japanese cultural establishment. At their best, however, they serve to dispel cultural stereotypes and reveal a common humanity. Recommended for libraries with an interest in contemporary fiction.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., N.Y.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11618'),
(16450, 'The Elephant vanishes', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The virtuoso Japanese novelist presents 17 playful and darkly comic existentialist conundrums.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This collection of 15 stories from a popular Japanese writer, perhaps best known in this country for A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 11/15/89), gives a nice idea of his breadth of style. The work maintains the matter-of-fact tone reminiscent of American detective fiction, balancing itself somewhere between the spare realism of Raymond Carver and the surrealism of Kobo Abe. These are not the sort of stories that one thinks of as "Japanese"; the intentionally Westernized style and well-placed reference to pop culture gives them a contemporary and universal feel. Engaging, thought-provoking, humorous, and slyly profound, these skillful stories will easily appeal to American readers but must present something of a challenge to the Japanese cultural establishment. At their best, however, they serve to dispel cultural stereotypes and reveal a common humanity. Recommended for libraries with an interest in contemporary fiction.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., N.Y.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19522'),
(16451, 'Elephant Winter', 'Kim Echlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Summoned home from Zimbabwe, Sophie Walker has returned to southern Ontario to nurse her dying mother. Her mother''s farm borders on a tacky tourist spot called "Safari," and across from the kitchen window Sophie sees a herd of the immense Asian elephants playing in the snow. When the elephant keeper invites her to join in caring for the herd, she discovers a new human-animal relationship by recording and playing back the infrasound rumblings, bellows, and trumpets of the elephants. As she and her mother try to decode an Elephant-English dictionary, Sophie slowly uncovers an elephant culture, one which simultaneously honors the herd and the individual with Zen-like acceptance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3676'),
(16452, 'Elephant Winter', 'Kim Echlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Summoned home from Zimbabwe, Sophie Walker has returned to southern Ontario to nurse her dying mother. Her mother''s farm borders on a tacky tourist spot called "Safari," and across from the kitchen window Sophie sees a herd of the immense Asian elephants playing in the snow. When the elephant keeper invites her to join in caring for the herd, she discovers a new human-animal relationship by recording and playing back the infrasound rumblings, bellows, and trumpets of the elephants. As she and her mother try to decode an Elephant-English dictionary, Sophie slowly uncovers an elephant culture, one which simultaneously honors the herd and the individual with Zen-like acceptance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10859'),
(16453, 'Elephant Winter', 'Kim Echlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Summoned home from Zimbabwe, Sophie Walker has returned to southern Ontario to nurse her dying mother. Her mother''s farm borders on a tacky tourist spot called "Safari," and across from the kitchen window Sophie sees a herd of the immense Asian elephants playing in the snow. When the elephant keeper invites her to join in caring for the herd, she discovers a new human-animal relationship by recording and playing back the infrasound rumblings, bellows, and trumpets of the elephants. As she and her mother try to decode an Elephant-English dictionary, Sophie slowly uncovers an elephant culture, one which simultaneously honors the herd and the individual with Zen-like acceptance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20852'),
(16454, 'Elephants Can Remember', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict...Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident -- the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff.  This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies -- a husband and wife -- shot dead.  But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder?  Poirot delves back into a crime committed 15 years earlier and discovers that, when there is a distinct lack of physical evidence, it''s just as well that ''old sins leave long shadows''!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/79'),
(16455, 'Elephants can remember', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict...Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident -- the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies -- a husband and wife -- shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into a crime committed 15 years earlier and discovers that, when there is a distinct lack of physical evidence, it''s just as well that ''old sins leave long shadows''!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17161'),
(16456, 'Eleven Minutes', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria''s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness -- sexual pleasure for its own sake -- or risking everything to find her own "inner light" and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.   This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2266'),
(16457, 'Eleven Minutes', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria''s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness -- sexual pleasure for its own sake -- or risking everything to find her own "inner light" and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22655'),
(16458, 'Eleven on Top', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Trouble seems to find Stephanie everywhere she goes, and once again she''s struggling with her tangled love life, chaotic family, and her God-given gift for destroying every car she drives. This time, Plum has decided to quit her job as a bounty hunter. She''s tired of creeps, weirdos and stalkers. But just when she thinks she''s out, they pull her back in! So fasten you seatbelt and hang on ? Stephanie''s back in town.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4752'),
(16459, 'Eleven on Top', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Trouble seems to find Stephanie everywhere she goes, and once again she''s struggling with her tangled love life, chaotic family, and her God-given gift for destroying every car she drives. This time, Plum has decided to quit her job as a bounty hunter. She''s tired of creeps, weirdos and stalkers. But just when she thinks she''s out, they pull her back in! So fasten you seatbelt and hang on ? Stephanie''s back in town.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15228'),
(16460, 'Elfsorrow', 'James Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Raven travel to a new continent in search of mages to help the ruined college of Julatsa rebuild . . . and find themselves in the midst of an ancient curse - a curse that has unleashed a plague that threatens to wipe out the elven race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4821'),
(16461, 'Elfsorrow', 'James Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Raven travel to a new continent in search of mages to help the ruined college of Julatsa rebuild . . . and find themselves in the midst of an ancient curse - a curse that has unleashed a plague that threatens to wipe out the elven race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8325'),
(16462, 'Elfsorrow', 'James Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Raven travel to a new continent in search of mages to help the ruined college of Julatsa rebuild . . . and find themselves in the midst of an ancient curse - a curse that has unleashed a plague that threatens to wipe out the elven race.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19877'),
(16463, 'Elisha&#39;s Bones', 'Don Hoesel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every year, professor of antiquities Jack Hawthorne looks forward to the winter break as a time to hide away from his responsibilities. Even if just for a week or two. But this year, his plans are derailed when he''s offered almost a blank check from a man chasing a rumor.\n</p>\n<p>\n Billionaire Gordon Reese thinks he knows where the bones of the prophet Elisha are--bones that in the Old Testament brought the dead back to life. A born skeptic, Jack doesn''t think much of the assignment but he could use the money, so he takes the first step on a chase for the legendary bones that will take him to the very ends of the earth. But he''s not alone. Joined with a fiery colleague, Esperanza Habilla, they soon discover clues to a shadowy organization whose long-held secrets have been protected . . . at all costs. As their lives are threatened again and again, the real race is to uncover the truth before those chasing them hunt them down.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bones of the prophet once raised the dead to life... but they vanished from history in a whisper. Now Jack Hawthorne, part-time skeptic and full-time professor of archaeology, is enlisted to sift them from the sands of time. Bankrolled by a dying man of unlimited means, Hawthorne''s hunt spans the globe and leads him into a deadly conspiracy older than the church itself. And he soon discovers those sworn to keep the secret of the bones will do anything to protect them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5878'),
(16464, 'Elisha&#39;s Bones', 'Don Hoesel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every year, professor of antiquities Jack Hawthorne looks forward to the winter break as a time to hide away from his responsibilities. Even if just for a week or two. But this year, his plans are derailed when he''s offered almost a blank check from a man chasing a rumor.\n</p>\n<p>\n Billionaire Gordon Reese thinks he knows where the bones of the prophet Elisha are--bones that in the Old Testament brought the dead back to life. A born skeptic, Jack doesn''t think much of the assignment but he could use the money, so he takes the first step on a chase for the legendary bones that will take him to the very ends of the earth. But he''s not alone. Joined with a fiery colleague, Esperanza Habilla, they soon discover clues to a shadowy organization whose long-held secrets have been protected . . . at all costs. As their lives are threatened again and again, the real race is to uncover the truth before those chasing them hunt them down.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bones of the prophet once raised the dead to life... but they vanished from history in a whisper. Now Jack Hawthorne, part-time skeptic and full-time professor of archaeology, is enlisted to sift them from the sands of time. Bankrolled by a dying man of unlimited means, Hawthorne''s hunt spans the globe and leads him into a deadly conspiracy older than the church itself. And he soon discovers those sworn to keep the secret of the bones will do anything to protect them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10370'),
(16465, 'Elisha&#39;s Bones', 'Don Hoesel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Every year, professor of antiquities Jack Hawthorne looks forward to the winter break as a time to hide away from his responsibilities. Even if just for a week or two. But this year, his plans are derailed when he''s offered almost a blank check from a man chasing a rumor.\n</p>\n<p>\n Billionaire Gordon Reese thinks he knows where the bones of the prophet Elisha are--bones that in the Old Testament brought the dead back to life. A born skeptic, Jack doesn''t think much of the assignment but he could use the money, so he takes the first step on a chase for the legendary bones that will take him to the very ends of the earth. But he''s not alone. Joined with a fiery colleague, Esperanza Habilla, they soon discover clues to a shadowy organization whose long-held secrets have been protected . . . at all costs. As their lives are threatened again and again, the real race is to uncover the truth before those chasing them hunt them down.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n The bones of the prophet once raised the dead to life... but they vanished from history in a whisper. Now Jack Hawthorne, part-time skeptic and full-time professor of archaeology, is enlisted to sift them from the sands of time. Bankrolled by a dying man of unlimited means, Hawthorne''s hunt spans the globe and leads him into a deadly conspiracy older than the church itself. And he soon discovers those sworn to keep the secret of the bones will do anything to protect them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18734'),
(16466, 'Elixirele diavolului', 'E.T.A. Hoffmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25865'),
(16467, 'Elizabeth Costello', 'J. M. Coetzee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Elizabeth Costellois a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation. The subject of J.M. Coetzee''s latest work of fiction is an Australian writer of international renown -- feted, studied and honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. One of a new breed of intellectual nomads, her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world -- a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture; a sojourn as the writer-in-residence on a cruise liner during which she encounters a fellow guest lecturer, an African poet also employed to divert the passengers. Then there is a disquieting appearance at a writers'' conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly among the audience. She has made her life''s work the study of other people, yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny. But, for her, what matters is the continuing search for a means of articulating her vision and the verdict of future generations. J.M. Coetzee''s latest work of fiction offers us a profound and delicate vision of literary celebrity, artistry and the private life of the mind. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25611'),
(16468, 'Elizabeth Street', 'Laurie Fabiano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description:\n </strong>\n In\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century. Culled from her own family history, Fabiano paints an entrancing portrait of Giovanna Costa, who, reeling from personal tragedies, tries to make a new life in a new world. Shot through with the smells and sights of Scilla, Italy, and New Yorkâ€™s burgeoning Little Italy, this intoxicating story follows Giovanna as she finds companionship, celebrates the birth of a baby girl, takes pride in a growing business, and feels a sense of belonging on a family outing to Coney Island.\n</p>\n<p>\n However, these modest successes are rewarded with the attention of the notorious Black Hand, a gang of brutal extortionists led by Lupo the Wolf. As the stakes grow higher and higher, readers share with Giovanna her desperate struggle to remain outside the fray, and then to fight forâ€”and finally to saveâ€”that which is important above all other: family.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Maria Laurino Reviews\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Nation\n  </em>\n  , and her essays have been widely anthologized. Read her exclusive guest review of\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When readers first meet Giovanna Costa, the protagonist of\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , she is a young woman about to get married in the small Italian fishing village of Scilla, situated between the Calabrian coast and Sicilyâ€™s Aeolian Islands. The town is home to the ancient story of Scylla, the once beautiful nymph turned mythical monster that devoured sailors trying to navigate the Straits of Messina. Midway through\n</p>\n<p>\n Supporting herself in New York first as a midwife, Giovanna teams up with a woman doctor from northern Italy. The two become close friends and the doctor shares medical knowledge that Giovanna will combine with her holistic midwifery skills. But Giovannaâ€™s fate changes after deciding to open a small fruit and vegetable market with her new husband. The store is an easy source of potential revenue for criminals offering "protection services," and soon Giovannaâ€™s family becomes their prey. With the same mix of disciplined study and the pinch of southern Italian mysticism that she applied to midwifery, Giovanna will take on the ruthless organized crime syndicate that has kidnapped her daughter and murdered the police lieutenant assigned to protect the neighborhood.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mario Puzo once claimed, years after writing\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n a southern Italian heroine fighting those criminal forces that have long victimized poor and vulnerable immigrants. In this multigenerational, well-researched tale, the reader also learns interesting details of the common struggles facing southern Europeans coming to America--how, for instance, Ellis Island inspectors were instructed to mark northern and southern Italians as two separate races; and how the wages for common laborers in parts of the country were divided into three categories, the highest salary paid to "whites," the middle scale for "coloreds," and the lowest amount to "Italians."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n is both a fascinating immigrant story and an intimate portrait of how a first-generation American--and the authorâ€™s own great-grandmother--outwits one of the most brutal crime organizations of the early 20th century.\n <em>\n  --Maria Laurino\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n First novelist Fabiano is dead-on in her portrait of the Italian-American immigrant experience. This engrossing cross-generational saga centers on the experiences of Giovanna Costa, from the small Italian fishing village where she is born to the bustling streets of New York''s Lower East Side where she struggles to raise her family and make a living as a midwife after the death of her first husband. In America, the resourceful Giovanna and her second husband eventually open a fruit and vegetable stand, attracting the unwanted attentions of the notorious â€œBlack Handâ€ crime organization. When Giovanni refuses to meet their demands, her daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom. Basing this storyâ€”including the kidnappingâ€”on her own family''s immigrant experiences, Fabiano provides a wealth of period detail, infusing the compulsively readable narrative with an authentic sense of time, place, and community. --Margaret Flanagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3541'),
(16469, 'Elizabeth Street', 'Laurie Fabiano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description:\n </strong>\n In\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century. Culled from her own family history, Fabiano paints an entrancing portrait of Giovanna Costa, who, reeling from personal tragedies, tries to make a new life in a new world. Shot through with the smells and sights of Scilla, Italy, and New Yorkâ€™s burgeoning Little Italy, this intoxicating story follows Giovanna as she finds companionship, celebrates the birth of a baby girl, takes pride in a growing business, and feels a sense of belonging on a family outing to Coney Island.\n</p>\n<p>\n However, these modest successes are rewarded with the attention of the notorious Black Hand, a gang of brutal extortionists led by Lupo the Wolf. As the stakes grow higher and higher, readers share with Giovanna her desperate struggle to remain outside the fray, and then to fight forâ€”and finally to saveâ€”that which is important above all other: family.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Maria Laurino Reviews\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Nation\n  </em>\n  , and her essays have been widely anthologized. Read her exclusive guest review of\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When readers first meet Giovanna Costa, the protagonist of\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , she is a young woman about to get married in the small Italian fishing village of Scilla, situated between the Calabrian coast and Sicilyâ€™s Aeolian Islands. The town is home to the ancient story of Scylla, the once beautiful nymph turned mythical monster that devoured sailors trying to navigate the Straits of Messina. Midway through\n</p>\n<p>\n Supporting herself in New York first as a midwife, Giovanna teams up with a woman doctor from northern Italy. The two become close friends and the doctor shares medical knowledge that Giovanna will combine with her holistic midwifery skills. But Giovannaâ€™s fate changes after deciding to open a small fruit and vegetable market with her new husband. The store is an easy source of potential revenue for criminals offering "protection services," and soon Giovannaâ€™s family becomes their prey. With the same mix of disciplined study and the pinch of southern Italian mysticism that she applied to midwifery, Giovanna will take on the ruthless organized crime syndicate that has kidnapped her daughter and murdered the police lieutenant assigned to protect the neighborhood.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mario Puzo once claimed, years after writing\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n a southern Italian heroine fighting those criminal forces that have long victimized poor and vulnerable immigrants. In this multigenerational, well-researched tale, the reader also learns interesting details of the common struggles facing southern Europeans coming to America--how, for instance, Ellis Island inspectors were instructed to mark northern and southern Italians as two separate races; and how the wages for common laborers in parts of the country were divided into three categories, the highest salary paid to "whites," the middle scale for "coloreds," and the lowest amount to "Italians."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n is both a fascinating immigrant story and an intimate portrait of how a first-generation American--and the authorâ€™s own great-grandmother--outwits one of the most brutal crime organizations of the early 20th century.\n <em>\n  --Maria Laurino\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n First novelist Fabiano is dead-on in her portrait of the Italian-American immigrant experience. This engrossing cross-generational saga centers on the experiences of Giovanna Costa, from the small Italian fishing village where she is born to the bustling streets of New York''s Lower East Side where she struggles to raise her family and make a living as a midwife after the death of her first husband. In America, the resourceful Giovanna and her second husband eventually open a fruit and vegetable stand, attracting the unwanted attentions of the notorious â€œBlack Handâ€ crime organization. When Giovanni refuses to meet their demands, her daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom. Basing this storyâ€”including the kidnappingâ€”on her own family''s immigrant experiences, Fabiano provides a wealth of period detail, infusing the compulsively readable narrative with an authentic sense of time, place, and community. --Margaret Flanagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9545');
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(16470, 'Elizabeth Street', 'Laurie Fabiano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description:\n </strong>\n In\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century. Culled from her own family history, Fabiano paints an entrancing portrait of Giovanna Costa, who, reeling from personal tragedies, tries to make a new life in a new world. Shot through with the smells and sights of Scilla, Italy, and New Yorkâ€™s burgeoning Little Italy, this intoxicating story follows Giovanna as she finds companionship, celebrates the birth of a baby girl, takes pride in a growing business, and feels a sense of belonging on a family outing to Coney Island.\n</p>\n<p>\n However, these modest successes are rewarded with the attention of the notorious Black Hand, a gang of brutal extortionists led by Lupo the Wolf. As the stakes grow higher and higher, readers share with Giovanna her desperate struggle to remain outside the fray, and then to fight forâ€”and finally to saveâ€”that which is important above all other: family.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Maria Laurino Reviews\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Nation\n  </em>\n  , and her essays have been widely anthologized. Read her exclusive guest review of\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When readers first meet Giovanna Costa, the protagonist of\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , she is a young woman about to get married in the small Italian fishing village of Scilla, situated between the Calabrian coast and Sicilyâ€™s Aeolian Islands. The town is home to the ancient story of Scylla, the once beautiful nymph turned mythical monster that devoured sailors trying to navigate the Straits of Messina. Midway through\n</p>\n<p>\n Supporting herself in New York first as a midwife, Giovanna teams up with a woman doctor from northern Italy. The two become close friends and the doctor shares medical knowledge that Giovanna will combine with her holistic midwifery skills. But Giovannaâ€™s fate changes after deciding to open a small fruit and vegetable market with her new husband. The store is an easy source of potential revenue for criminals offering "protection services," and soon Giovannaâ€™s family becomes their prey. With the same mix of disciplined study and the pinch of southern Italian mysticism that she applied to midwifery, Giovanna will take on the ruthless organized crime syndicate that has kidnapped her daughter and murdered the police lieutenant assigned to protect the neighborhood.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mario Puzo once claimed, years after writing\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n a southern Italian heroine fighting those criminal forces that have long victimized poor and vulnerable immigrants. In this multigenerational, well-researched tale, the reader also learns interesting details of the common struggles facing southern Europeans coming to America--how, for instance, Ellis Island inspectors were instructed to mark northern and southern Italians as two separate races; and how the wages for common laborers in parts of the country were divided into three categories, the highest salary paid to "whites," the middle scale for "coloreds," and the lowest amount to "Italians."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n is both a fascinating immigrant story and an intimate portrait of how a first-generation American--and the authorâ€™s own great-grandmother--outwits one of the most brutal crime organizations of the early 20th century.\n <em>\n  --Maria Laurino\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n First novelist Fabiano is dead-on in her portrait of the Italian-American immigrant experience. This engrossing cross-generational saga centers on the experiences of Giovanna Costa, from the small Italian fishing village where she is born to the bustling streets of New York''s Lower East Side where she struggles to raise her family and make a living as a midwife after the death of her first husband. In America, the resourceful Giovanna and her second husband eventually open a fruit and vegetable stand, attracting the unwanted attentions of the notorious â€œBlack Handâ€ crime organization. When Giovanni refuses to meet their demands, her daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom. Basing this storyâ€”including the kidnappingâ€”on her own family''s immigrant experiences, Fabiano provides a wealth of period detail, infusing the compulsively readable narrative with an authentic sense of time, place, and community. --Margaret Flanagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15030'),
(16471, 'Elizabeth Street', 'Laurie Fabiano', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description:\n </strong>\n In\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century. Culled from her own family history, Fabiano paints an entrancing portrait of Giovanna Costa, who, reeling from personal tragedies, tries to make a new life in a new world. Shot through with the smells and sights of Scilla, Italy, and New Yorkâ€™s burgeoning Little Italy, this intoxicating story follows Giovanna as she finds companionship, celebrates the birth of a baby girl, takes pride in a growing business, and feels a sense of belonging on a family outing to Coney Island.\n</p>\n<p>\n However, these modest successes are rewarded with the attention of the notorious Black Hand, a gang of brutal extortionists led by Lupo the Wolf. As the stakes grow higher and higher, readers share with Giovanna her desperate struggle to remain outside the fray, and then to fight forâ€”and finally to saveâ€”that which is important above all other: family.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Maria Laurino Reviews\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Nation\n  </em>\n  , and her essays have been widely anthologized. Read her exclusive guest review of\n  <em>\n   Elizabeth Street\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When readers first meet Giovanna Costa, the protagonist of\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n , she is a young woman about to get married in the small Italian fishing village of Scilla, situated between the Calabrian coast and Sicilyâ€™s Aeolian Islands. The town is home to the ancient story of Scylla, the once beautiful nymph turned mythical monster that devoured sailors trying to navigate the Straits of Messina. Midway through\n</p>\n<p>\n Supporting herself in New York first as a midwife, Giovanna teams up with a woman doctor from northern Italy. The two become close friends and the doctor shares medical knowledge that Giovanna will combine with her holistic midwifery skills. But Giovannaâ€™s fate changes after deciding to open a small fruit and vegetable market with her new husband. The store is an easy source of potential revenue for criminals offering "protection services," and soon Giovannaâ€™s family becomes their prey. With the same mix of disciplined study and the pinch of southern Italian mysticism that she applied to midwifery, Giovanna will take on the ruthless organized crime syndicate that has kidnapped her daughter and murdered the police lieutenant assigned to protect the neighborhood.\n</p>\n<p>\n Mario Puzo once claimed, years after writing\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n a southern Italian heroine fighting those criminal forces that have long victimized poor and vulnerable immigrants. In this multigenerational, well-researched tale, the reader also learns interesting details of the common struggles facing southern Europeans coming to America--how, for instance, Ellis Island inspectors were instructed to mark northern and southern Italians as two separate races; and how the wages for common laborers in parts of the country were divided into three categories, the highest salary paid to "whites," the middle scale for "coloreds," and the lowest amount to "Italians."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Elizabeth Street\n </em>\n is both a fascinating immigrant story and an intimate portrait of how a first-generation American--and the authorâ€™s own great-grandmother--outwits one of the most brutal crime organizations of the early 20th century.\n <em>\n  --Maria Laurino\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n First novelist Fabiano is dead-on in her portrait of the Italian-American immigrant experience. This engrossing cross-generational saga centers on the experiences of Giovanna Costa, from the small Italian fishing village where she is born to the bustling streets of New York''s Lower East Side where she struggles to raise her family and make a living as a midwife after the death of her first husband. In America, the resourceful Giovanna and her second husband eventually open a fruit and vegetable stand, attracting the unwanted attentions of the notorious â€œBlack Handâ€ crime organization. When Giovanni refuses to meet their demands, her daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom. Basing this storyâ€”including the kidnappingâ€”on her own family''s immigrant experiences, Fabiano provides a wealth of period detail, infusing the compulsively readable narrative with an authentic sense of time, place, and community. --Margaret Flanagan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20942'),
(16472, 'Elminster Must Die: The Sage of Shadowdale', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The long-anticipated return of Elminster, the most famous mage in the\n <strong>\n  Forgotten RealmsÂ®\n </strong>\n --now in paperback!\n</p>\n<p>\n Elminster, the most famous wizard in the Forgotten Realms, has foiled countless world-spanning threats, leaving a trail of powerful enemies behind him. Now that the Spellplague has robbed Elminster of much of his power, those enemies are coming out of the shadows, whetting their blades, and preparing to hunt him down.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n ED GREENWOOD is the creator of the\n <strong>\n  Forgotten RealmsÂ®\n </strong>\n fantasy world setting and the author of more than 170 books that have sold millions of copies worldwide in over two dozen languages. In real life, he''s a Canadian librarian who lives in the Ontario countryside with his wife, a cat, and far too many books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5821'),
(16473, 'Elminster Must Die: The Sage of Shadowdale', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The long-anticipated return of Elminster, the most famous mage in the\n <strong>\n  Forgotten RealmsÂ®\n </strong>\n --now in paperback!\n</p>\n<p>\n Elminster, the most famous wizard in the Forgotten Realms, has foiled countless world-spanning threats, leaving a trail of powerful enemies behind him. Now that the Spellplague has robbed Elminster of much of his power, those enemies are coming out of the shadows, whetting their blades, and preparing to hunt him down.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n ED GREENWOOD is the creator of the\n <strong>\n  Forgotten RealmsÂ®\n </strong>\n fantasy world setting and the author of more than 170 books that have sold millions of copies worldwide in over two dozen languages. In real life, he''s a Canadian librarian who lives in the Ontario countryside with his wife, a cat, and far too many books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10086'),
(16474, 'Elminster Must Die: The Sage of Shadowdale', 'Ed Greenwood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The long-anticipated return of Elminster, the most famous mage in the\n <strong>\n  Forgotten RealmsÂ®\n </strong>\n --now in paperback!\n</p>\n<p>\n Elminster, the most famous wizard in the Forgotten Realms, has foiled countless world-spanning threats, leaving a trail of powerful enemies behind him. Now that the Spellplague has robbed Elminster of much of his power, those enemies are coming out of the shadows, whetting their blades, and preparing to hunt him down.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n ED GREENWOOD is the creator of the\n <strong>\n  Forgotten RealmsÂ®\n </strong>\n fantasy world setting and the author of more than 170 books that have sold millions of copies worldwide in over two dozen languages. In real life, he''s a Canadian librarian who lives in the Ontario countryside with his wife, a cat, and far too many books.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18780'),
(16475, 'Elric at the End of Time', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21708'),
(16476, 'Elric in the Dream Realms', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€â€”_Encyclopedia of Fantasy\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œIf you are familiar with Elric, I trust you will enjoy revisiting him in this present form. If you are new to him, I hope you find him good, if rather dangerous, company.â€â€”Michael Moorcock\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kinslayer. Soul reaver. Sorcerer. Thief. And last emperor of a cruel, decadent race. Elric of MelnibonÃ© is all of theseâ€“and more. His life is sustained by drugs and magicâ€“and energy sucked from the victims of his vampiric black sword, Stormbringer, a weapon feared by men and gods alike. Denied the oblivion he seeks, poised between a tragic past he cannot escape and a terrifying future he is doomed to bring about, Elric is a hero like no other.\n</p>\n<p>\n Del Rey is proud to present the fifth installment in its definitive collection featuring the immortal creation of Michael Moorcock, named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Highlights include an epic novel of Elricâ€™s early years, The Fortress of the Pearl; the script of the graphic novel Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer;_ _a previously unpublished proposal for a new series; and Hugo Awardâ€”winning author Neil Gaimanâ€™s moving fictional tribute to Elric, the short story â€œOne Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Gorgeously illustrated by Michael Wm. Kaluta,\n <strong>\n  Elric: In the Dream Realms\n </strong>\n is a dream come true for sword-and-sorcery fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2752'),
(16477, 'Elric in the Dream Realms', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€â€”_Encyclopedia of Fantasy\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œIf you are familiar with Elric, I trust you will enjoy revisiting him in this present form. If you are new to him, I hope you find him good, if rather dangerous, company.â€â€”Michael Moorcock\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kinslayer. Soul reaver. Sorcerer. Thief. And last emperor of a cruel, decadent race. Elric of MelnibonÃ© is all of theseâ€“and more. His life is sustained by drugs and magicâ€“and energy sucked from the victims of his vampiric black sword, Stormbringer, a weapon feared by men and gods alike. Denied the oblivion he seeks, poised between a tragic past he cannot escape and a terrifying future he is doomed to bring about, Elric is a hero like no other.\n</p>\n<p>\n Del Rey is proud to present the fifth installment in its definitive collection featuring the immortal creation of Michael Moorcock, named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Highlights include an epic novel of Elricâ€™s early years, The Fortress of the Pearl; the script of the graphic novel Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer;_ _a previously unpublished proposal for a new series; and Hugo Awardâ€”winning author Neil Gaimanâ€™s moving fictional tribute to Elric, the short story â€œOne Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Gorgeously illustrated by Michael Wm. Kaluta,\n <strong>\n  Elric: In the Dream Realms\n </strong>\n is a dream come true for sword-and-sorcery fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11495'),
(16478, 'Elric in the Dream Realms', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€â€”_Encyclopedia of Fantasy\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œIf you are familiar with Elric, I trust you will enjoy revisiting him in this present form. If you are new to him, I hope you find him good, if rather dangerous, company.â€â€”Michael Moorcock\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kinslayer. Soul reaver. Sorcerer. Thief. And last emperor of a cruel, decadent race. Elric of MelnibonÃ© is all of theseâ€“and more. His life is sustained by drugs and magicâ€“and energy sucked from the victims of his vampiric black sword, Stormbringer, a weapon feared by men and gods alike. Denied the oblivion he seeks, poised between a tragic past he cannot escape and a terrifying future he is doomed to bring about, Elric is a hero like no other.\n</p>\n<p>\n Del Rey is proud to present the fifth installment in its definitive collection featuring the immortal creation of Michael Moorcock, named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Highlights include an epic novel of Elricâ€™s early years, The Fortress of the Pearl; the script of the graphic novel Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer;_ _a previously unpublished proposal for a new series; and Hugo Awardâ€”winning author Neil Gaimanâ€™s moving fictional tribute to Elric, the short story â€œOne Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Gorgeously illustrated by Michael Wm. Kaluta,\n <strong>\n  Elric: In the Dream Realms\n </strong>\n is a dream come true for sword-and-sorcery fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22059'),
(16479, 'Elric of Melnibone', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Elric of MelnibonÃ© is a requisite title in the hard fantasy canon, a book no fantasy fan should leave unread. Author Michael Moorcock, already a major player in science fiction, cemented his position in the fantasy pantheon with the five-book Elric saga, of which Elric of MelnibonÃ© is the first installment. The book''s namesake, the brooding albino emperor of the dying nation of MelnibonÃ©, is a sort of Superman for Goths, truly an archetype of the genre. The youthful Elric is a cynical and melancholy king, heir to a nation whose 100,000-year rule of the world ended less than 500 years hence. More interested in brooding contemplation than holding the throne, Elric is a reluctant ruler, but he also realizes that no other worthy successor exists and the survival of his once-powerful, decadent nation depends on him alone. Elric''s nefarious, brutish cousin Yrkoon has no patience for his physically weak kinsman, and he plots constantly to seize Elric''s throne, usually over his dead body. Elric of MelnibonÃ© follows Yrkoon''s scheming, reaching its climax in a battle between Elric and Yrkoon with the demonic runeblades Stormbringer and Mournblade. In this battle, Elric gains control of the soul-stealing Stormbringer, an event that proves pivotal to the Elric saga. --Paul Hughes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2755'),
(16480, 'Elric Of Melnibone', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Elric of MelnibonÃ© is a requisite title in the hard fantasy canon, a book no fantasy fan should leave unread. Author Michael Moorcock, already a major player in science fiction, cemented his position in the fantasy pantheon with the five-book Elric saga, of which Elric of MelnibonÃ© is the first installment. The book''s namesake, the brooding albino emperor of the dying nation of MelnibonÃ©, is a sort of Superman for Goths, truly an archetype of the genre. The youthful Elric is a cynical and melancholy king, heir to a nation whose 100,000-year rule of the world ended less than 500 years hence. More interested in brooding contemplation than holding the throne, Elric is a reluctant ruler, but he also realizes that no other worthy successor exists and the survival of his once-powerful, decadent nation depends on him alone. Elric''s nefarious, brutish cousin Yrkoon has no patience for his physically weak kinsman, and he plots constantly to seize Elric''s throne, usually over his dead body. Elric of MelnibonÃ© follows Yrkoon''s scheming, reaching its climax in a battle between Elric and Yrkoon with the demonic runeblades Stormbringer and Mournblade. In this battle, Elric gains control of the soul-stealing Stormbringer, an event that proves pivotal to the Elric saga. --Paul Hughes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22058'),
(16481, 'Elric Swords and Roses', 'Michael Moorcock &amp; Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMICHAEL MOORCOCK IS MY RELIGION.â€â€”from the Foreword by Tad Williams\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€â€”_The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy.â€â€”Michael Chabon\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Foreword by Tad Williams\n </p>\n <p>\n  Feared by enemies and friends alike, Elric of MelnibonÃ© walks a lonely path among the worlds of the Multiverse. The destroyer of his cruel and ancient race, as well as its final ruler, Elric is the bearer of a destiny as dark and cursed as the vampiric sword he carriesâ€”the sentient black blade known as Stormbringer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Del Rey is proud to present the sixth and concluding installment of its definitive omnibus editions featuring fantasy Grand Master Michael Moorcockâ€™s most famousâ€”or infamousâ€”creation. Here is the full text of the novel\n  <em>\n   The Revenge of the Rose,\n  </em>\n  a screenplay for the novel_ Stormbringer,_ the novella\n  <em>\n   Black Petals,\n  </em>\n  the conclusion to Moorcockâ€™s influential â€œAspects of Fantasyâ€ essay series and other nonfiction, and an indispensable readerâ€™s guide by John Davey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sumptuously illustrated by John Picacio, with a Foreword by Tad Williams,\n  <em>\n   Elric: Swords and Roses\n  </em>\n  is a fitting tribute to the most unique fantasy hero of all time.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2756'),
(16482, 'Elric Swords and Roses', 'Michael Moorcock &amp; Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMICHAEL MOORCOCK IS MY RELIGION.â€â€”from the Foreword by Tad Williams\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€â€”_The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy.â€â€”Michael Chabon\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Foreword by Tad Williams\n </p>\n <p>\n  Feared by enemies and friends alike, Elric of MelnibonÃ© walks a lonely path among the worlds of the Multiverse. The destroyer of his cruel and ancient race, as well as its final ruler, Elric is the bearer of a destiny as dark and cursed as the vampiric sword he carriesâ€”the sentient black blade known as Stormbringer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Del Rey is proud to present the sixth and concluding installment of its definitive omnibus editions featuring fantasy Grand Master Michael Moorcockâ€™s most famousâ€”or infamousâ€”creation. Here is the full text of the novel\n  <em>\n   The Revenge of the Rose,\n  </em>\n  a screenplay for the novel_ Stormbringer,_ the novella\n  <em>\n   Black Petals,\n  </em>\n  the conclusion to Moorcockâ€™s influential â€œAspects of Fantasyâ€ essay series and other nonfiction, and an indispensable readerâ€™s guide by John Davey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sumptuously illustrated by John Picacio, with a Foreword by Tad Williams,\n  <em>\n   Elric: Swords and Roses\n  </em>\n  is a fitting tribute to the most unique fantasy hero of all time.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11491'),
(16483, 'Elric Swords and Roses', 'Michael Moorcock; Tad Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMICHAEL MOORCOCK IS MY RELIGION.â€â€”from the Foreword by Tad Williams\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€â€”_The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy.â€â€”Michael Chabon\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Foreword by Tad Williams\n </p>\n <p>\n  Feared by enemies and friends alike, Elric of MelnibonÃ© walks a lonely path among the worlds of the Multiverse. The destroyer of his cruel and ancient race, as well as its final ruler, Elric is the bearer of a destiny as dark and cursed as the vampiric sword he carriesâ€”the sentient black blade known as Stormbringer.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Del Rey is proud to present the sixth and concluding installment of its definitive omnibus editions featuring fantasy Grand Master Michael Moorcockâ€™s most famousâ€”or infamousâ€”creation. Here is the full text of the novel\n  <em>\n   The Revenge of the Rose,\n  </em>\n  a screenplay for the novel_ Stormbringer,_ the novella\n  <em>\n   Black Petals,\n  </em>\n  the conclusion to Moorcockâ€™s influential â€œAspects of Fantasyâ€ essay series and other nonfiction, and an indispensable readerâ€™s guide by John Davey.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sumptuously illustrated by John Picacio, with a Foreword by Tad Williams,\n  <em>\n   Elric: Swords and Roses\n  </em>\n  is a fitting tribute to the most unique fantasy hero of all time.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22054'),
(16484, 'Elric to Rescue Tanelorn', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMoorcockâ€™s writing is intricate, fabulous, and mellifluous. Reading his words I was, and am, reminded of music. His novels are symphonic experiences. They dance and cry and bleed and make promises that can live only in the moment of their utterance.â€\n <br />\n â€“from the Foreword by Walter Mosley, New York Times bestselling author of Blonde Faith and Devil in a Blue Dress\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric of MelnibonÃ©. The name is like a magic spell, conjuring up the image of an albino champion and his cursed, vampiric sword, Stormbringer. Elric, the last emperor of a cruel and decadent race, rogue and adventurer, hero and murderer, lover and traitor, is mystery and paradox personifiedâ€“a timeless testament to the creative achievement of Michael Moorcock, the most significant fantasy writer since Tolkien.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now comes the second in this definitive series of Elric volumes. Gorgeously illustrated by acclaimed artist Michael Wm. Kaluta and including a new Introduction by Michael Moorcock, this collection features, along with Elric, such renowned characters as ErekosÃ«, Rackhir the Red Archer, and Count Renark von Bek. Readers will delight in adventures that include â€œTo Rescue Tanelorn . . .,â€ â€œMaster of Chaos,â€ â€œThe Singing Citadel,â€ â€œThe Black Bladeâ€™s Song,â€ and the novella version of â€œThe Eternal Champion.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric: To Rescue Tanelorn is essential reading for every fantasy fan and provides indelible proofâ€“if any was neededâ€“of the genius of Michael Moorcock.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Encyclopedia of Fantasy\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chapter One\n</p>\n<p>\n BETWEEN WAKEFULNESS AND sleeping, we have most of us had the illusion of hearing voices, scraps of conversation, phrases spoken in unfamiliar tones. Sometimes we attempt to attune our minds so that we can hear more, but we are rarely successful. Between wakefulness and sleeping, I began, every night, to hear voices . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n _Had I hung, for an eternity in limbo? Was I aliveâ€“dead? Was there a memory of a world which lay in the far past or the distant future? Of another world which seemed closer? And the names? Was I John Daker or Erekosâ€˜? Was I either of these? Many other names, Shaleen, Artos, Brian, Umpata, Roland, Ilanth, Ulysses, Alric, ï¬‚ed away down the ghostly rivers of my memory. I hung in darkness, bodiless. A man spoke. Where was he? I tried to look but had no eyes to see.\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <hr />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œErekosÃ« the Champion, where are you?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Another voice, then: â€œFather . . . it is only a legend . . .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNo, Iolinda. I feel he is listening. ErekosÃ« . . .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n I tried to answer, but had no voice. Swirling half-dreams of a house in a great city of miracles, a swollen, grimy city of miracles, crammed with dull-coloured machines, many of which bore human passengers. Of buildings, beautiful beneath their coatings of dust and of other, brighter buildings not so beautiful, with austere lines and many glass windows. Of a troop of riders galloping over an undulating countryside, ï¬‚amboyant in armour of lacquered gold, coloured pennants draped around their blood-encrusted lances. Their faces were heavy with weariness. Of more faces, many faces, some of which I half recognized, others which were unfamiliar, people clad in strange clothes. A picture of a white haired, middle-aged man who had a tall, spiked crown upon his head. His mouth moved, he was speaking . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œErekosÃ«, it is I, King Rigenos, Defender of Humanity. You are needed again, ErekosÃ«. The Hounds of Evil rule a third of the world and humankind is weary of the war against them. Come to us, ErekosÃ« and lead us to victory. From the Plains of Melting Ice to the Mountains of Sorrow they have set up their corrupt standard and I fear they will advance yet further into our territories.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n The womanâ€™s voice: â€œFather, this is only an empty tomb. Not even the mummy of ErekosÃ« remainsâ€“it became drifting dust long ago. Let us leave and return to Necranal to marshal the living peers.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n I felt like a fainting man who strives to ï¬ght against dizzy oblivion but, however much he tries, cannot take control of his own brain. Again I tried to answer, but could not.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was as if I wavered backwards through time, while every atom of me wanted to go forwards. I had the sensation of vast size as if I were made of stone with eyelids of granite, measuring miles acrossâ€“eyelids which I could not open. And then I was tinyâ€“the most minute grain in the universe, and yet I felt I belonged to the whole far more than the stone giant.\n</p>\n<p>\n Memories came and went. The whole panorama of the twentieth century, its beauties and its bitternesses, its satisfactions, its striï¬ng, rushed into my mind like air into a vacuum. But it was only momentary, for the next second my entire being was ï¬‚ung elsewhereâ€“to a world which was Earth, but not the Earth of John Daker, not quite the world of dead ErekosÃ«, either.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were three great continents, two close together, divided from the other by a vast sea containing many islands, large and small.\n</p>\n<p>\n I saw an ocean of ice which I knew to be slowly shrinkingâ€“the Plains of Melting Ice. I saw the third continent which bore lush ï¬‚ora, mighty forests, blue lakes and was bound along its northern coasts by a towering chain of mountainsâ€“the Mountains of Sorrow. This I knew to be the domain of the Eldren, whom King Rigenos had called the Hounds of Evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, on the other two continents, I saw the wheatlands of the West on the continent of Zavara, with their tall cities of multicoloured rock, the rich cities of the wheatlandsâ€“Stalaco, Calodemia, Mooros and Ninadoon.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were the great seaportsâ€“Shilaal, Wedmah, Sinana, Tarkar, and Noonos of towers cobbled with precious stones.\n <br />\n Then I saw the fortress cities of the Continent of Necralala, with the capital city Necranal chief among them, built on, into and about a mighty mountain, peaked by the spreading palace of its warrior kings.\n <br />\n Now a little more came clear as, in the background of my awareness, I heard a voice calling _Erekosâ€˜, Erekosâ€˜, Erekosâ€˜ . . .\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n The warrior kings of Necranal, kings for two thousand years of Humanity united, at war, and united again. The warrior kings of whom King Rigenos was the last living and aging now, with only a daughter, Iolinda, to carry on his line. Old and weary with hateâ€“but still hating. Hating the unhuman folk whom he called the Hounds of Evil, mankindâ€™s age-old enemies, reckless and wild, linked, it was said, by a thin line of blood to the human raceâ€“an outcome of a union between an ancient queen and the Evil One, Azmobaana.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hated by King Rigenos as soulless immortals, slaves of Azmobaanaâ€™s machinations.\n</p>\n<p>\n And, hating, he called upon John Daker, whom he called ErekosÃ«, to aid him with his war against them.\n <br />\n â€œErekosÃ«, I beg thee answer me. Are you ready to come?â€ His voice was loud and echoing and when, after a struggle, I could reply, my own voice seemed to echo also.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI am ready,â€ I replied, â€œbut appear to be chained.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Chained?_â€ There was consternation in his voice. â€œAre you, then, a prisoner of Azmobaanaâ€™s frightful minions? Are you trapped upon the Ghost Worlds?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPerhaps,â€ I said. â€œBut I do not think so. It is space and time which chain me. I am separated from you by a gulf.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlready we pray that you may come to us.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThen continue,â€ I said.\n</p>\n<p>\n I was falling away again. I thought I remembered laughter, sadness, pride. Then, suddenly, more faces, I felt as if I witnessed the passing of everyone I had known, down the ages, and then one face superimposed itself over the othersâ€“the head and shoulders of an amazingly beautiful woman, with blonde hair piled beneath a diadem of precious stones which seemed to light the sweetness of her oval face. â€œIolinda,â€ I said. I saw her more solidly now. She was clinging to the arm of the tall, gaunt man who wore a crownâ€“King Rigenos.\n</p>\n<p>\n They stood before an empty platform of quartz and gold, and resting on a cushion of dust was a straight sword which they dared not touch. Neither did they dare step too close to it for it gave off a radiation which might slay them.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a tomb in which they stood. The Tomb of ErekosÃ«â€“my tomb. I moved towards the platform, hanging over it. Ages before, my body had been placed there. I stared at the sword which held no dangers for me but was unable, in my captivity, to pick it up. It was my spirit only which inhabited the dark placeâ€“but the whole of my spirit now, not the fragment which had inhabited the tomb for thousands of years. The fragment which had heard King Rigenos and had enabled John Daker to hear it, to come to it and be united with it.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œErekosÃ«!â€ called the king, straining his eyes through the gloom as if he had seen me. â€œErekosÃ«â€“we pray.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Then I experienced the dreadful pain which I suppose a woman to go through when bearing a child. A pain that seemed eternal and yet was intrinsically its own vanquisher. I was screaming, writhing in the air above them. Great spasms of agonyâ€“but an agony complete with purposeâ€“the purpose of creation.\n <br />\n At last I was standing, materially, before them.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have come,â€ I said. â€œI am here, King Rigenos. I have left nothing worthwhile behind meâ€“but do not let me regret that leaving.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou will not regret it, Champion.â€ He was pale, exhilarated, smiling. I looked at Iolinda who dropped her eyes modestly and then, as if against her will, raised them again to regard me. I turned to the dais on my right.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMy sword,â€ I said reaching for it.\n</p>\n<p>\n I heard King Rigenos sigh with satisfaction.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThey are doomed, now, the dogs,â€ he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n They had a sheath for the sword. It had been made days before. King Rigenos left to get it, leaving me alone with Iolinda. I did not question my being there and neither, it seemed, did she. We regarded one another silently until the king returned with the scabbard.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis will protect us against your swordâ€™s poison,â€ he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n I took it, slid the sword into it. The scabbard was opaque, like glass. The metal was unfamiliar to me, as John Daker, light, sharp, dull as lead. Yet the feel of it awaked dim remembrance which I did not bother to arouse. Why was I the only one who could wear the sword without being affected by its radiation?\n <br />\n Was it because I was constitutionally different in some way to the rest of these people? Was it that the ancient ErekosÃ« and the unborn John Daker (or was that vice versa?) had metabolisms which had become adapted in some way against the power which ï¬‚owed from the sword?\n</p>\n<p>\n I had become, in that transition from my own age to this, unconcerned. It was as if I was aware that my fate had been taken out of my own hands to a large extent. I had become a tool. If only I had known for what I should be used, then I might have fought against the pull and remained harmless, ineffectual John Daker. But perhaps I could not have fought.\n</p>\n<p>\n At any rate, I was prepared from the moment I materialized in the Tomb of ErekosÃ« to do whatever Fate demanded of me. Later, things were to change.\n</p>\n<p>\n I walked out of the to...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2757');
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(16485, 'Elric to Rescue Tanelorn', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMoorcockâ€™s writing is intricate, fabulous, and mellifluous. Reading his words I was, and am, reminded of music. His novels are symphonic experiences. They dance and cry and bleed and make promises that can live only in the moment of their utterance.â€\n <br />\n â€“from the Foreword by Walter Mosley, New York Times bestselling author of Blonde Faith and Devil in a Blue Dress\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric of MelnibonÃ©. The name is like a magic spell, conjuring up the image of an albino champion and his cursed, vampiric sword, Stormbringer. Elric, the last emperor of a cruel and decadent race, rogue and adventurer, hero and murderer, lover and traitor, is mystery and paradox personifiedâ€“a timeless testament to the creative achievement of Michael Moorcock, the most significant fantasy writer since Tolkien.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now comes the second in this definitive series of Elric volumes. Gorgeously illustrated by acclaimed artist Michael Wm. Kaluta and including a new Introduction by Michael Moorcock, this collection features, along with Elric, such renowned characters as ErekosÃ«, Rackhir the Red Archer, and Count Renark von Bek. Readers will delight in adventures that include â€œTo Rescue Tanelorn . . .,â€ â€œMaster of Chaos,â€ â€œThe Singing Citadel,â€ â€œThe Black Bladeâ€™s Song,â€ and the novella version of â€œThe Eternal Champion.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric: To Rescue Tanelorn is essential reading for every fantasy fan and provides indelible proofâ€“if any was neededâ€“of the genius of Michael Moorcock.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Encyclopedia of Fantasy\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chapter One\n</p>\n<p>\n BETWEEN WAKEFULNESS AND sleeping, we have most of us had the illusion of hearing voices, scraps of conversation, phrases spoken in unfamiliar tones. Sometimes we attempt to attune our minds so that we can hear more, but we are rarely successful. Between wakefulness and sleeping, I began, every night, to hear voices . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n _Had I hung, for an eternity in limbo? Was I aliveâ€“dead? Was there a memory of a world which lay in the far past or the distant future? Of another world which seemed closer? And the names? Was I John Daker or Erekosâ€˜? Was I either of these? Many other names, Shaleen, Artos, Brian, Umpata, Roland, Ilanth, Ulysses, Alric, ï¬‚ed away down the ghostly rivers of my memory. I hung in darkness, bodiless. A man spoke. Where was he? I tried to look but had no eyes to see.\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <hr />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œErekosÃ« the Champion, where are you?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Another voice, then: â€œFather . . . it is only a legend . . .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNo, Iolinda. I feel he is listening. ErekosÃ« . . .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n I tried to answer, but had no voice. Swirling half-dreams of a house in a great city of miracles, a swollen, grimy city of miracles, crammed with dull-coloured machines, many of which bore human passengers. Of buildings, beautiful beneath their coatings of dust and of other, brighter buildings not so beautiful, with austere lines and many glass windows. Of a troop of riders galloping over an undulating countryside, ï¬‚amboyant in armour of lacquered gold, coloured pennants draped around their blood-encrusted lances. Their faces were heavy with weariness. Of more faces, many faces, some of which I half recognized, others which were unfamiliar, people clad in strange clothes. A picture of a white haired, middle-aged man who had a tall, spiked crown upon his head. His mouth moved, he was speaking . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œErekosÃ«, it is I, King Rigenos, Defender of Humanity. You are needed again, ErekosÃ«. The Hounds of Evil rule a third of the world and humankind is weary of the war against them. Come to us, ErekosÃ« and lead us to victory. From the Plains of Melting Ice to the Mountains of Sorrow they have set up their corrupt standard and I fear they will advance yet further into our territories.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n The womanâ€™s voice: â€œFather, this is only an empty tomb. Not even the mummy of ErekosÃ« remainsâ€“it became drifting dust long ago. Let us leave and return to Necranal to marshal the living peers.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n I felt like a fainting man who strives to ï¬ght against dizzy oblivion but, however much he tries, cannot take control of his own brain. Again I tried to answer, but could not.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was as if I wavered backwards through time, while every atom of me wanted to go forwards. I had the sensation of vast size as if I were made of stone with eyelids of granite, measuring miles acrossâ€“eyelids which I could not open. And then I was tinyâ€“the most minute grain in the universe, and yet I felt I belonged to the whole far more than the stone giant.\n</p>\n<p>\n Memories came and went. The whole panorama of the twentieth century, its beauties and its bitternesses, its satisfactions, its striï¬ng, rushed into my mind like air into a vacuum. But it was only momentary, for the next second my entire being was ï¬‚ung elsewhereâ€“to a world which was Earth, but not the Earth of John Daker, not quite the world of dead ErekosÃ«, either.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were three great continents, two close together, divided from the other by a vast sea containing many islands, large and small.\n</p>\n<p>\n I saw an ocean of ice which I knew to be slowly shrinkingâ€“the Plains of Melting Ice. I saw the third continent which bore lush ï¬‚ora, mighty forests, blue lakes and was bound along its northern coasts by a towering chain of mountainsâ€“the Mountains of Sorrow. This I knew to be the domain of the Eldren, whom King Rigenos had called the Hounds of Evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, on the other two continents, I saw the wheatlands of the West on the continent of Zavara, with their tall cities of multicoloured rock, the rich cities of the wheatlandsâ€“Stalaco, Calodemia, Mooros and Ninadoon.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were the great seaportsâ€“Shilaal, Wedmah, Sinana, Tarkar, and Noonos of towers cobbled with precious stones.\n <br />\n Then I saw the fortress cities of the Continent of Necralala, with the capital city Necranal chief among them, built on, into and about a mighty mountain, peaked by the spreading palace of its warrior kings.\n <br />\n Now a little more came clear as, in the background of my awareness, I heard a voice calling _Erekosâ€˜, Erekosâ€˜, Erekosâ€˜ . . .\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n The warrior kings of Necranal, kings for two thousand years of Humanity united, at war, and united again. The warrior kings of whom King Rigenos was the last living and aging now, with only a daughter, Iolinda, to carry on his line. Old and weary with hateâ€“but still hating. Hating the unhuman folk whom he called the Hounds of Evil, mankindâ€™s age-old enemies, reckless and wild, linked, it was said, by a thin line of blood to the human raceâ€“an outcome of a union between an ancient queen and the Evil One, Azmobaana.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hated by King Rigenos as soulless immortals, slaves of Azmobaanaâ€™s machinations.\n</p>\n<p>\n And, hating, he called upon John Daker, whom he called ErekosÃ«, to aid him with his war against them.\n <br />\n â€œErekosÃ«, I beg thee answer me. Are you ready to come?â€ His voice was loud and echoing and when, after a struggle, I could reply, my own voice seemed to echo also.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI am ready,â€ I replied, â€œbut appear to be chained.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Chained?_â€ There was consternation in his voice. â€œAre you, then, a prisoner of Azmobaanaâ€™s frightful minions? Are you trapped upon the Ghost Worlds?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPerhaps,â€ I said. â€œBut I do not think so. It is space and time which chain me. I am separated from you by a gulf.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlready we pray that you may come to us.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThen continue,â€ I said.\n</p>\n<p>\n I was falling away again. I thought I remembered laughter, sadness, pride. Then, suddenly, more faces, I felt as if I witnessed the passing of everyone I had known, down the ages, and then one face superimposed itself over the othersâ€“the head and shoulders of an amazingly beautiful woman, with blonde hair piled beneath a diadem of precious stones which seemed to light the sweetness of her oval face. â€œIolinda,â€ I said. I saw her more solidly now. She was clinging to the arm of the tall, gaunt man who wore a crownâ€“King Rigenos.\n</p>\n<p>\n They stood before an empty platform of quartz and gold, and resting on a cushion of dust was a straight sword which they dared not touch. Neither did they dare step too close to it for it gave off a radiation which might slay them.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a tomb in which they stood. The Tomb of ErekosÃ«â€“my tomb. I moved towards the platform, hanging over it. Ages before, my body had been placed there. I stared at the sword which held no dangers for me but was unable, in my captivity, to pick it up. It was my spirit only which inhabited the dark placeâ€“but the whole of my spirit now, not the fragment which had inhabited the tomb for thousands of years. The fragment which had heard King Rigenos and had enabled John Daker to hear it, to come to it and be united with it.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œErekosÃ«!â€ called the king, straining his eyes through the gloom as if he had seen me. â€œErekosÃ«â€“we pray.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Then I experienced the dreadful pain which I suppose a woman to go through when bearing a child. A pain that seemed eternal and yet was intrinsically its own vanquisher. I was screaming, writhing in the air above them. Great spasms of agonyâ€“but an agony complete with purposeâ€“the purpose of creation.\n <br />\n At last I was standing, materially, before them.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have come,â€ I said. â€œI am here, King Rigenos. I have left nothing worthwhile behind meâ€“but do not let me regret that leaving.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou will not regret it, Champion.â€ He was pale, exhilarated, smiling. I looked at Iolinda who dropped her eyes modestly and then, as if against her will, raised them again to regard me. I turned to the dais on my right.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMy sword,â€ I said reaching for it.\n</p>\n<p>\n I heard King Rigenos sigh with satisfaction.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThey are doomed, now, the dogs,â€ he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n They had a sheath for the sword. It had been made days before. King Rigenos left to get it, leaving me alone with Iolinda. I did not question my being there and neither, it seemed, did she. We regarded one another silently until the king returned with the scabbard.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis will protect us against your swordâ€™s poison,â€ he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n I took it, slid the sword into it. The scabbard was opaque, like glass. The metal was unfamiliar to me, as John Daker, light, sharp, dull as lead. Yet the feel of it awaked dim remembrance which I did not bother to arouse. Why was I the only one who could wear the sword without being affected by its radiation?\n <br />\n Was it because I was constitutionally different in some way to the rest of these people? Was it that the ancient ErekosÃ« and the unborn John Daker (or was that vice versa?) had metabolisms which had become adapted in some way against the power which ï¬‚owed from the sword?\n</p>\n<p>\n I had become, in that transition from my own age to this, unconcerned. It was as if I was aware that my fate had been taken out of my own hands to a large extent. I had become a tool. If only I had known for what I should be used, then I might have fought against the pull and remained harmless, ineffectual John Daker. But perhaps I could not have fought.\n</p>\n<p>\n At any rate, I was prepared from the moment I materialized in the Tomb of ErekosÃ« to do whatever Fate demanded of me. Later, things were to change.\n</p>\n<p>\n I walked out of the to...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11493'),
(16486, 'Elric to Rescue Tanelorn', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMoorcockâ€™s writing is intricate, fabulous, and mellifluous. Reading his words I was, and am, reminded of music. His novels are symphonic experiences. They dance and cry and bleed and make promises that can live only in the moment of their utterance.â€\n <br />\n â€“from the Foreword by Walter Mosley, New York Times bestselling author of Blonde Faith and Devil in a Blue Dress\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric of MelnibonÃ©. The name is like a magic spell, conjuring up the image of an albino champion and his cursed, vampiric sword, Stormbringer. Elric, the last emperor of a cruel and decadent race, rogue and adventurer, hero and murderer, lover and traitor, is mystery and paradox personifiedâ€“a timeless testament to the creative achievement of Michael Moorcock, the most significant fantasy writer since Tolkien.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now comes the second in this definitive series of Elric volumes. Gorgeously illustrated by acclaimed artist Michael Wm. Kaluta and including a new Introduction by Michael Moorcock, this collection features, along with Elric, such renowned characters as ErekosÃ«, Rackhir the Red Archer, and Count Renark von Bek. Readers will delight in adventures that include â€œTo Rescue Tanelorn . . .,â€ â€œMaster of Chaos,â€ â€œThe Singing Citadel,â€ â€œThe Black Bladeâ€™s Song,â€ and the novella version of â€œThe Eternal Champion.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric: To Rescue Tanelorn is essential reading for every fantasy fan and provides indelible proofâ€“if any was neededâ€“of the genius of Michael Moorcock.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Encyclopedia of Fantasy\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chapter One\n</p>\n<p>\n BETWEEN WAKEFULNESS AND sleeping, we have most of us had the illusion of hearing voices, scraps of conversation, phrases spoken in unfamiliar tones. Sometimes we attempt to attune our minds so that we can hear more, but we are rarely successful. Between wakefulness and sleeping, I began, every night, to hear voices . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n _Had I hung, for an eternity in limbo? Was I aliveâ€“dead? Was there a memory of a world which lay in the far past or the distant future? Of another world which seemed closer? And the names? Was I John Daker or Erekosâ€˜? Was I either of these? Many other names, Shaleen, Artos, Brian, Umpata, Roland, Ilanth, Ulysses, Alric, fled away down the ghostly rivers of my memory. I hung in darkness, bodiless. A man spoke. Where was he? I tried to look but had no eyes to see.\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <hr />\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œErekosÃ« the Champion, where are you?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Another voice, then: â€œFather . . . it is only a legend . . .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNo, Iolinda. I feel he is listening. ErekosÃ« . . .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n I tried to answer, but had no voice. Swirling half-dreams of a house in a great city of miracles, a swollen, grimy city of miracles, crammed with dull-coloured machines, many of which bore human passengers. Of buildings, beautiful beneath their coatings of dust and of other, brighter buildings not so beautiful, with austere lines and many glass windows. Of a troop of riders galloping over an undulating countryside, flamboyant in armour of lacquered gold, coloured pennants draped around their blood-encrusted lances. Their faces were heavy with weariness. Of more faces, many faces, some of which I half recognized, others which were unfamiliar, people clad in strange clothes. A picture of a white haired, middle-aged man who had a tall, spiked crown upon his head. His mouth moved, he was speaking . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œErekosÃ«, it is I, King Rigenos, Defender of Humanity. You are needed again, ErekosÃ«. The Hounds of Evil rule a third of the world and humankind is weary of the war against them. Come to us, ErekosÃ« and lead us to victory. From the Plains of Melting Ice to the Mountains of Sorrow they have set up their corrupt standard and I fear they will advance yet further into our territories.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n The womanâ€™s voice: â€œFather, this is only an empty tomb. Not even the mummy of ErekosÃ« remainsâ€“it became drifting dust long ago. Let us leave and return to Necranal to marshal the living peers.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n I felt like a fainting man who strives to fight against dizzy oblivion but, however much he tries, cannot take control of his own brain. Again I tried to answer, but could not.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was as if I wavered backwards through time, while every atom of me wanted to go forwards. I had the sensation of vast size as if I were made of stone with eyelids of granite, measuring miles acrossâ€“eyelids which I could not open. And then I was tinyâ€“the most minute grain in the universe, and yet I felt I belonged to the whole far more than the stone giant.\n</p>\n<p>\n Memories came and went. The whole panorama of the twentieth century, its beauties and its bitternesses, its satisfactions, its strifing, rushed into my mind like air into a vacuum. But it was only momentary, for the next second my entire being was flung elsewhereâ€“to a world which was Earth, but not the Earth of John Daker, not quite the world of dead ErekosÃ«, either.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were three great continents, two close together, divided from the other by a vast sea containing many islands, large and small.\n</p>\n<p>\n I saw an ocean of ice which I knew to be slowly shrinkingâ€“the Plains of Melting Ice. I saw the third continent which bore lush flora, mighty forests, blue lakes and was bound along its northern coasts by a towering chain of mountainsâ€“the Mountains of Sorrow. This I knew to be the domain of the Eldren, whom King Rigenos had called the Hounds of Evil.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, on the other two continents, I saw the wheatlands of the West on the continent of Zavara, with their tall cities of multicoloured rock, the rich cities of the wheatlandsâ€“Stalaco, Calodemia, Mooros and Ninadoon.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were the great seaportsâ€“Shilaal, Wedmah, Sinana, Tarkar, and Noonos of towers cobbled with precious stones.\n <br />\n Then I saw the fortress cities of the Continent of Necralala, with the capital city Necranal chief among them, built on, into and about a mighty mountain, peaked by the spreading palace of its warrior kings.\n <br />\n Now a little more came clear as, in the background of my awareness, I heard a voice calling _Erekosâ€˜, Erekosâ€˜, Erekosâ€˜ . . .\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n The warrior kings of Necranal, kings for two thousand years of Humanity united, at war, and united again. The warrior kings of whom King Rigenos was the last living and aging now, with only a daughter, Iolinda, to carry on his line. Old and weary with hateâ€“but still hating. Hating the unhuman folk whom he called the Hounds of Evil, mankindâ€™s age-old enemies, reckless and wild, linked, it was said, by a thin line of blood to the human raceâ€“an outcome of a union between an ancient queen and the Evil One, Azmobaana.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hated by King Rigenos as soulless immortals, slaves of Azmobaanaâ€™s machinations.\n</p>\n<p>\n And, hating, he called upon John Daker, whom he called ErekosÃ«, to aid him with his war against them.\n <br />\n â€œErekosÃ«, I beg thee answer me. Are you ready to come?â€ His voice was loud and echoing and when, after a struggle, I could reply, my own voice seemed to echo also.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI am ready,â€ I replied, â€œbut appear to be chained.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Chained?_â€ There was consternation in his voice. â€œAre you, then, a prisoner of Azmobaanaâ€™s frightful minions? Are you trapped upon the Ghost Worlds?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPerhaps,â€ I said. â€œBut I do not think so. It is space and time which chain me. I am separated from you by a gulf.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAlready we pray that you may come to us.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThen continue,â€ I said.\n</p>\n<p>\n I was falling away again. I thought I remembered laughter, sadness, pride. Then, suddenly, more faces, I felt as if I witnessed the passing of everyone I had known, down the ages, and then one face superimposed itself over the othersâ€“the head and shoulders of an amazingly beautiful woman, with blonde hair piled beneath a diadem of precious stones which seemed to light the sweetness of her oval face. â€œIolinda,â€ I said. I saw her more solidly now. She was clinging to the arm of the tall, gaunt man who wore a crownâ€“King Rigenos.\n</p>\n<p>\n They stood before an empty platform of quartz and gold, and resting on a cushion of dust was a straight sword which they dared not touch. Neither did they dare step too close to it for it gave off a radiation which might slay them.\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a tomb in which they stood. The Tomb of ErekosÃ«â€“my tomb. I moved towards the platform, hanging over it. Ages before, my body had been placed there. I stared at the sword which held no dangers for me but was unable, in my captivity, to pick it up. It was my spirit only which inhabited the dark placeâ€“but the whole of my spirit now, not the fragment which had inhabited the tomb for thousands of years. The fragment which had heard King Rigenos and had enabled John Daker to hear it, to come to it and be united with it.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œErekosÃ«!â€ called the king, straining his eyes through the gloom as if he had seen me. â€œErekosÃ«â€“we pray.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Then I experienced the dreadful pain which I suppose a woman to go through when bearing a child. A pain that seemed eternal and yet was intrinsically its own vanquisher. I was screaming, writhing in the air above them. Great spasms of agonyâ€“but an agony complete with purposeâ€“the purpose of creation.\n <br />\n At last I was standing, materially, before them.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have come,â€ I said. â€œI am here, King Rigenos. I have left nothing worthwhile behind meâ€“but do not let me regret that leaving.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou will not regret it, Champion.â€ He was pale, exhilarated, smiling. I looked at Iolinda who dropped her eyes modestly and then, as if against her will, raised them again to regard me. I turned to the dais on my right.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMy sword,â€ I said reaching for it.\n</p>\n<p>\n I heard King Rigenos sigh with satisfaction.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThey are doomed, now, the dogs,â€ he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n They had a sheath for the sword. It had been made days before. King Rigenos left to get it, leaving me alone with Iolinda. I did not question my being there and neither, it seemed, did she. We regarded one another silently until the king returned with the scabbard.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis will protect us against your swordâ€™s poison,â€ he said.\n</p>\n<p>\n I took it, slid the sword into it. The scabbard was opaque, like glass. The metal was unfamiliar to me, as John Daker, light, sharp, dull as lead. Yet the feel of it awaked dim remembrance which I did not bother to arouse. Why was I the only one who could wear the sword without being affected by its radiation?\n <br />\n Was it because I was constitutionally different in some way to the rest of these people? Was it that the ancient ErekosÃ« and the unborn John Daker (or was that vice versa?) had metabolisms which had become adapted in some way against the power which flowed from the sword?\n</p>\n<p>\n I had become, in that transition from my own age to this, unconcerned. It was as if I was aware that my fate had been taken out of my own hands to a large extent. I had become a tool. If only I had known for what I should be used, then I might have fought against the pull and remained harmless, ineffectual John Daker. But perhaps I could not have fought.\n</p>\n<p>\n At any rate, I was prepared from the moment I materialized in the Tomb of ErekosÃ« to do whatever Fate demanded of me. Later, things were to change.\n</p>\n<p>\n I walked out of the to...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22053'),
(16487, 'Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress', 'Michael Moorcock &amp; Steve Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Elric is] among the most memorable characters in fantasy literature.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Science Fiction Chronicle\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Michael Chabon\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBefore Elric, my idea of a fantasy novel hero was a strapping fellow who rose from simple circumstances to lofty heights. Elric was decadent, sickly, and doomed. I loved him instantly.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“from the Foreword by Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Spiderwick Chronicles\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Elric of MelnibonÃ©. Traitor. Savior. Lover. Thief. Last king of a fallen empire whose cruelty was surpassed only by its beauty. Sustained by drugs and the vampiric powers of his black sword, Stormbringer, haunted by visions of a tragic past and a doomed future, Elric wanders the world in quest of oblivion. But the great lords of Law and Chaos have other plans for this tormented adventurer.\n  <br />\n  This volume is the third of Del Reyâ€™s definitive collections featuring the tales of Elric and other aspects of Michael Moorcockâ€™s Eternal Champion, along with essays, a selection of classic artwork, and new material never seen in book form.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gorgeously illustrated by Steve Ellis, and featuring a foreword by Holly Black, The Sleeping Sorceress is a must-have for all lovers of fantasy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2758'),
(16488, 'Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress', 'Michael Moorcock &amp; Steve Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Elric is] among the most memorable characters in fantasy literature.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Science Fiction Chronicle\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Michael Chabon\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBefore Elric, my idea of a fantasy novel hero was a strapping fellow who rose from simple circumstances to lofty heights. Elric was decadent, sickly, and doomed. I loved him instantly.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“from the Foreword by Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Spiderwick Chronicles\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Elric of MelnibonÃ©. Traitor. Savior. Lover. Thief. Last king of a fallen empire whose cruelty was surpassed only by its beauty. Sustained by drugs and the vampiric powers of his black sword, Stormbringer, haunted by visions of a tragic past and a doomed future, Elric wanders the world in quest of oblivion. But the great lords of Law and Chaos have other plans for this tormented adventurer.\n  <br />\n  This volume is the third of Del Reyâ€™s definitive collections featuring the tales of Elric and other aspects of Michael Moorcockâ€™s Eternal Champion, along with essays, a selection of classic artwork, and new material never seen in book form.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gorgeously illustrated by Steve Ellis, and featuring a foreword by Holly Black, The Sleeping Sorceress is a must-have for all lovers of fantasy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11492'),
(16489, 'Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress', 'Michael Moorcock; Steve Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Elric is] among the most memorable characters in fantasy literature.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Science Fiction Chronicle\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“Michael Chabon\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œBefore Elric, my idea of a fantasy novel hero was a strapping fellow who rose from simple circumstances to lofty heights. Elric was decadent, sickly, and doomed. I loved him instantly.â€\n  <br />\n  â€“from the Foreword by Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Spiderwick Chronicles\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Elric of MelnibonÃ©. Traitor. Savior. Lover. Thief. Last king of a fallen empire whose cruelty was surpassed only by its beauty. Sustained by drugs and the vampiric powers of his black sword, Stormbringer, haunted by visions of a tragic past and a doomed future, Elric wanders the world in quest of oblivion. But the great lords of Law and Chaos have other plans for this tormented adventurer.\n  <br />\n  This volume is the third of Del Reyâ€™s definitive collections featuring the tales of Elric and other aspects of Michael Moorcockâ€™s Eternal Champion, along with essays, a selection of classic artwork, and new material never seen in book form.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gorgeously illustrated by Steve Ellis, and featuring a foreword by Holly Black, The Sleeping Sorceress is a must-have for all lovers of fantasy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22050'),
(16490, 'Elric: The Stealer of Souls', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe stories here are the raw heart of Michael Moorcock. They are the spells that first drew me and all the numerous admirers of his work with whom I am acquainted into Moorcockâ€™s luminous and captivating web.â€\n <br />\n â€“from the Foreword by Alan Moore, creator of V for Vendetta\n</p>\n<p>\n When Michael Moorcock began chronicling the adventures of the albino sorcerer Elric, last king of decadent MelnibonÃ©, and his sentient vampiric sword, Stormbringer, he set out to create a new kind of fantasy adventure, one that broke with tradition and reflected a more up-to-date sophistication of theme and style. The result was a bold and unique heroâ€“weak in body, subtle in mind, dependent on drugs for the vitality to sustain himselfâ€“with great crimes behind him and a greater destiny ahead: a rock-and-roll antihero who would channel all the violent excesses of the sixties into one enduring archetype.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, with a major film in development, here is the first volume of a dazzling collection of stories containing the seminal appearances of Elric and lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist John Picacioâ€“plus essays, letters, maps, and other material. Adventures include â€œThe Dreaming City,â€ â€œWhile the Gods Laugh,â€ â€œKings in Darkness,â€ â€œDead Godâ€™s Homecoming,â€ â€œBlack Swordâ€™s Brothers,â€ and â€œSad Giantâ€™s Shield.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n An indispensable addition to any fantasy collection, Elric: The Stealer of Souls is an unmatched introduction to a brilliant writer and his most famousâ€“or infamousâ€“creation.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Encyclopedia of Fantasy\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chapter One\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s the hour?â€ The black-bearded man wrenched off his gilded helmet and flung it from him, careless of where it fell. He drew off his leathern gauntlets and moved closer to the roaring fire, letting the heat soak into his frozen bones.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMidnight is long past,â€ growled one of the other armoured men who gathered around the blaze. â€œAre you still sure heâ€™ll come?â€ â€œItâ€™s said that heâ€™s a man of his word, if that comforts you.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a tall, pale-faced youth who spoke. His thin lips formed the words and spat them out maliciously. He grinned a wolf-grin and stared the new arrival in the eyes, mocking him.\n</p>\n<p>\n The newcomer turned away with a shrug. â€œThatâ€™s soâ€”for all your irony, Yaris. Heâ€™ll come.â€ He spoke as a man does when he wishes to reassure himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were six men, now, around the fire. The sixth was Smiorganâ€”Count Smiorgan Baldhead of the Purple Towns. He was a short, stocky man of fifty years with a scarred face partially covered with a thick, black growth of hair. His morose eyes smouldered and his lumpy fingers plucked nervously at his rich-hilted longsword. His pate was hairless, giving him his name, and over his ornate, gilded armour hung a loose woolen cloak, dyed purple.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan said thickly, â€œHe has no love for his cousin. He has become bitter. Yyrkoon sits on the Ruby Throne in his place and has proclaimed him an outlaw and a traitor. Elric needs us if he would take his throne and his bride back. We can trust him.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™re full of trust tonight, count,â€ Yaris smiled thinly, â€œa rare thing to find in these troubled times. I say thisâ€”â€ He paused and took a long breath, staring at his comrades, summing them up. His gaze flicked from lean-faced Dharmit of Jharkor to Fadan of Lormyr who pursed his podgy lips and looked into the fire.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSpeak up, Yaris,â€ petulantly urged the patrician-featured Vilmirian, Naclon. â€œLetâ€™s hear what you have to say, lad, if itâ€™s worth hearing.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Yaris looked towards Jiku the dandy, who yawned impolitely and scratched his long nose.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWell!â€ Smiorgan was impatient. â€œWhat dâ€™you say, Yaris?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI say that we should start now and waste no more time waiting on Elricâ€™s pleasure! Heâ€™s laughing at us in some tavern a hundred miles from hereâ€”or else plotting with the Dragon Princes to trap us. For years we have planned this raid. We have little time in which to strikeâ€”our fleet is too big, too noticeable. Even if Elric has not betrayed us, then spies will soon be running eastwards to warn the Dragons that there is a fleet massed against them. We stand to win a fantastic fortuneâ€”to vanquish the greatest merchant city in the worldâ€”to reap immeasurable richesâ€”or horrible death at the hands of the Dragon Princes, if we wait overlong. Letâ€™s bide our time no more and set sail before our prize hears of our plan and brings up reinforcements!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou always were too ready to mistrust a man, Yaris.â€ King Naclon of Vilmir spoke slowly, carefullyâ€”distastefully eyeing the taut-featured youth. â€œWe could not reach Imrryr without Elricâ€™s knowledge of the maze-channels which lead to its secret ports. If Elric will not join usâ€”then our endeavour will be fruitlessâ€”hopeless. We need him. We must wait for himâ€”or else give up our plans and return to our homelands.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAt least Iâ€™m willing to take a risk,â€ yelled Yaris, anger lancing from his slanting eyes. â€œYouâ€™re getting oldâ€”all of you. Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFool!â€ Dharmitâ€™s voice rumbled around the fire-flooded hall. He laughed wearily. â€œI spoke thus in my youthâ€”and lost a fine fleet soon after. Cunning and Elricâ€™s knowledge will win us Imrryrâ€”that and the mightiest fleet to sail the Dragon Sea since MelnibonÃ©â€™s banners fluttered over all the nations of the Earth. Here we areâ€”the most powerful sea-lords in the world, masters, every one of us, of more than a hundred swift vessels. Our names are feared and famousâ€”our fleets ravage the coasts of a score of lesser nations. We hold power!â€ He clenched his great fist and shook it in Yarisâ€™s face. His tone became more level and he smiled viciously, glaring at the youth and choosing his words with precision.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBut all this is worthlessâ€”meaninglessâ€”without the power which Elric has. That is the power of knowledgeâ€”of dream-learned sorcery, if I must use the cursed word. His fathers knew of the maze which guards Imrryr from sea-attack. And his fathers passed that secret on to him. Imrryr, the Dreaming City, dreams in peaceâ€”and will continue to do so unless we have a guide to help us steer a course through the treacherous waterways which lead to her harbours. We need Elricâ€”we know it, and he knows it. Thatâ€™s the truth!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSuch confidence, gentlemen, is warming to the heart.â€ There was irony in the heavy voice which came from the entrance to the hall. The heads of the six sea-lords jerked towards the doorway.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yarisâ€™s confidence fled from him as he met the eyes of Elric of MelnibonÃ©. They were old eyes in a fine featured, youthful face. Yaris shuddered, turned his back on Elric, preferring to look into the bright glare of the fire.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric smiled warmly as Count Smiorgan gripped his shoulder. There was a certain friendship between the two. He nodded condescendingly to the other four and walked with lithe grace towards the fire. Yaris stood aside and let him pass. Elric was tall, broad-shouldered and slim-hipped. He wore his long hair bunched and pinned at the nape of his neck and, for an obscure reason, affected the dress of a southern barbarian. He had long, knee-length boots of soft doe-leather, a breastplate of strangely wrought silver, a jerkin of chequered blue and white linen, britches of scarlet wool and a cloak of rustling green velvet. At his hip rested his runesword of black ironâ€”the feared Stormbringer, forged by ancient and alien sorcery.\n</p>\n<p>\n His bizarre dress was tasteless and gaudy, and did not match his sensitive face and long-fingered, almost delicate hands, yet he flaunted it since it emphasized the fact that he did not belong in any companyâ€”that he was an outsider and an outcast. But, in reality, he had little need to wear such outlandish gearâ€”for his eyes and skin were enough to mark him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric, Last Lord of MelnibonÃ©, was a pure albino who drew his power from a secret and terrible source.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan sighed. â€œWell, Elric, when do we raid Imrryr?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric shrugged. â€œAs soon as you like; I care not. Give me a little time in which to do certain things.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTomorrow? Shall we sail tomorrow?â€ Yaris said hesitantly, conscious of the strange power dormant in the man he had earlier accused of treachery.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric smiled, dismissing the youthâ€™s statement. â€œThree daysâ€™ time,â€ he said, â€œThreeâ€”or more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThree days! But Imrryr will be warned of our presence by then!â€ Fat, cautious Fadan spoke.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIâ€™ll see that your fleetâ€™s not found,â€ Elric promised. â€œI have to go to Imrryr firstâ€”and return.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou wonâ€™t do the journey in three daysâ€”the fastest ship could not make it.â€ Smiorgan gaped.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIâ€™ll be in the Dreaming City in less than a day,â€ Elric said softly, with finality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan shrugged. â€œIf you say so, Iâ€™ll believe itâ€”but why this necessity to visit the city ahead of the raid?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have my own compunctions, Count Smiorgan. But worry notâ€”I shanâ€™t betray you. Iâ€™ll lead the raid myself, be sure of that.â€ His dead-white face was lighted eerily by the fire and his red eyes smouldered. One lean hand firmly gripped the hilt of his runesword and he appeared to breathe more heavily. â€œImrryr fell, in spirit, five hundred years agoâ€”she will fall completely soonâ€”for ever! I have a little debt to settle. This is my sole reason for aiding you. As you know I have made only a few conditionsâ€”that you raze the city to the ground and a certain man and woman are not harmed. I refer to my cousin Yyrkoon and his sister Cymoril . . .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Yarisâ€™s thin lips felt uncomfortably dry. Much of his blustering manner resulted from the early death of his father. The old sea-king had diedâ€”leaving the youthful Yaris as the new ruler of his lands and his fleets. Yaris was not at all certain that he was capable of commanding such a vast kingdomâ€”and tried to appear more confident than he actually felt. Now he said: â€œHow shall we hide the fleet, Lord Elric?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n The MelnibonÃ©an acknowledged the question. â€œIâ€™ll hide it for you,â€ he promised. â€œI go now to do thisâ€”but make sure all your men are off the ships firstâ€”will you see to it, Smiorgan?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAye,â€ rumbled the stocky count.\n</p>\n<p>\n He and Elric departed from the hall together, leaving five men behind; five men who sensed an air of icy doom hanging about the overheated hall.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHow could he hide such a mighty fleet when we, who know this fjord better than any, found nowhere?â€ Dharmit of Jharkor said bewilderedly.\n</p>\n<p>\n None answered him.\n</p>\n<p>\n They waited, tensed and nervous, while the fire flickered and died untended. Eventually Smiorgan returned, stamping noisily on the boarded floor. There was a haunted haze of fear surrounding him; an almost tangible aura, and he was shivering, terribly. Tremendous, racking undulations swep...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2761');
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(16491, 'Elric: The Stealer of Souls', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe stories here are the raw heart of Michael Moorcock. They are the spells that first drew me and all the numerous admirers of his work with whom I am acquainted into Moorcockâ€™s luminous and captivating web.â€\n <br />\n â€“from the Foreword by Alan Moore, creator of V for Vendetta\n</p>\n<p>\n When Michael Moorcock began chronicling the adventures of the albino sorcerer Elric, last king of decadent MelnibonÃ©, and his sentient vampiric sword, Stormbringer, he set out to create a new kind of fantasy adventure, one that broke with tradition and reflected a more up-to-date sophistication of theme and style. The result was a bold and unique heroâ€“weak in body, subtle in mind, dependent on drugs for the vitality to sustain himselfâ€“with great crimes behind him and a greater destiny ahead: a rock-and-roll antihero who would channel all the violent excesses of the sixties into one enduring archetype.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, with a major film in development, here is the first volume of a dazzling collection of stories containing the seminal appearances of Elric and lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist John Picacioâ€“plus essays, letters, maps, and other material. Adventures include â€œThe Dreaming City,â€ â€œWhile the Gods Laugh,â€ â€œKings in Darkness,â€ â€œDead Godâ€™s Homecoming,â€ â€œBlack Swordâ€™s Brothers,â€ and â€œSad Giantâ€™s Shield.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n An indispensable addition to any fantasy collection, Elric: The Stealer of Souls is an unmatched introduction to a brilliant writer and his most famousâ€“or infamousâ€“creation.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Encyclopedia of Fantasy\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chapter One\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s the hour?â€ The black-bearded man wrenched off his gilded helmet and flung it from him, careless of where it fell. He drew off his leathern gauntlets and moved closer to the roaring fire, letting the heat soak into his frozen bones.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMidnight is long past,â€ growled one of the other armoured men who gathered around the blaze. â€œAre you still sure heâ€™ll come?â€ â€œItâ€™s said that heâ€™s a man of his word, if that comforts you.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a tall, pale-faced youth who spoke. His thin lips formed the words and spat them out maliciously. He grinned a wolf-grin and stared the new arrival in the eyes, mocking him.\n</p>\n<p>\n The newcomer turned away with a shrug. â€œThatâ€™s soâ€”for all your irony, Yaris. Heâ€™ll come.â€ He spoke as a man does when he wishes to reassure himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were six men, now, around the fire. The sixth was Smiorganâ€”Count Smiorgan Baldhead of the Purple Towns. He was a short, stocky man of fifty years with a scarred face partially covered with a thick, black growth of hair. His morose eyes smouldered and his lumpy fingers plucked nervously at his rich-hilted longsword. His pate was hairless, giving him his name, and over his ornate, gilded armour hung a loose woolen cloak, dyed purple.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan said thickly, â€œHe has no love for his cousin. He has become bitter. Yyrkoon sits on the Ruby Throne in his place and has proclaimed him an outlaw and a traitor. Elric needs us if he would take his throne and his bride back. We can trust him.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™re full of trust tonight, count,â€ Yaris smiled thinly, â€œa rare thing to find in these troubled times. I say thisâ€”â€ He paused and took a long breath, staring at his comrades, summing them up. His gaze flicked from lean-faced Dharmit of Jharkor to Fadan of Lormyr who pursed his podgy lips and looked into the fire.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSpeak up, Yaris,â€ petulantly urged the patrician-featured Vilmirian, Naclon. â€œLetâ€™s hear what you have to say, lad, if itâ€™s worth hearing.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Yaris looked towards Jiku the dandy, who yawned impolitely and scratched his long nose.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWell!â€ Smiorgan was impatient. â€œWhat dâ€™you say, Yaris?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI say that we should start now and waste no more time waiting on Elricâ€™s pleasure! Heâ€™s laughing at us in some tavern a hundred miles from hereâ€”or else plotting with the Dragon Princes to trap us. For years we have planned this raid. We have little time in which to strikeâ€”our fleet is too big, too noticeable. Even if Elric has not betrayed us, then spies will soon be running eastwards to warn the Dragons that there is a fleet massed against them. We stand to win a fantastic fortuneâ€”to vanquish the greatest merchant city in the worldâ€”to reap immeasurable richesâ€”or horrible death at the hands of the Dragon Princes, if we wait overlong. Letâ€™s bide our time no more and set sail before our prize hears of our plan and brings up reinforcements!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou always were too ready to mistrust a man, Yaris.â€ King Naclon of Vilmir spoke slowly, carefullyâ€”distastefully eyeing the taut-featured youth. â€œWe could not reach Imrryr without Elricâ€™s knowledge of the maze-channels which lead to its secret ports. If Elric will not join usâ€”then our endeavour will be fruitlessâ€”hopeless. We need him. We must wait for himâ€”or else give up our plans and return to our homelands.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAt least Iâ€™m willing to take a risk,â€ yelled Yaris, anger lancing from his slanting eyes. â€œYouâ€™re getting oldâ€”all of you. Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFool!â€ Dharmitâ€™s voice rumbled around the fire-flooded hall. He laughed wearily. â€œI spoke thus in my youthâ€”and lost a fine fleet soon after. Cunning and Elricâ€™s knowledge will win us Imrryrâ€”that and the mightiest fleet to sail the Dragon Sea since MelnibonÃ©â€™s banners fluttered over all the nations of the Earth. Here we areâ€”the most powerful sea-lords in the world, masters, every one of us, of more than a hundred swift vessels. Our names are feared and famousâ€”our fleets ravage the coasts of a score of lesser nations. We hold power!â€ He clenched his great fist and shook it in Yarisâ€™s face. His tone became more level and he smiled viciously, glaring at the youth and choosing his words with precision.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBut all this is worthlessâ€”meaninglessâ€”without the power which Elric has. That is the power of knowledgeâ€”of dream-learned sorcery, if I must use the cursed word. His fathers knew of the maze which guards Imrryr from sea-attack. And his fathers passed that secret on to him. Imrryr, the Dreaming City, dreams in peaceâ€”and will continue to do so unless we have a guide to help us steer a course through the treacherous waterways which lead to her harbours. We need Elricâ€”we know it, and he knows it. Thatâ€™s the truth!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSuch confidence, gentlemen, is warming to the heart.â€ There was irony in the heavy voice which came from the entrance to the hall. The heads of the six sea-lords jerked towards the doorway.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yarisâ€™s confidence fled from him as he met the eyes of Elric of MelnibonÃ©. They were old eyes in a fine featured, youthful face. Yaris shuddered, turned his back on Elric, preferring to look into the bright glare of the fire.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric smiled warmly as Count Smiorgan gripped his shoulder. There was a certain friendship between the two. He nodded condescendingly to the other four and walked with lithe grace towards the fire. Yaris stood aside and let him pass. Elric was tall, broad-shouldered and slim-hipped. He wore his long hair bunched and pinned at the nape of his neck and, for an obscure reason, affected the dress of a southern barbarian. He had long, knee-length boots of soft doe-leather, a breastplate of strangely wrought silver, a jerkin of chequered blue and white linen, britches of scarlet wool and a cloak of rustling green velvet. At his hip rested his runesword of black ironâ€”the feared Stormbringer, forged by ancient and alien sorcery.\n</p>\n<p>\n His bizarre dress was tasteless and gaudy, and did not match his sensitive face and long-fingered, almost delicate hands, yet he flaunted it since it emphasized the fact that he did not belong in any companyâ€”that he was an outsider and an outcast. But, in reality, he had little need to wear such outlandish gearâ€”for his eyes and skin were enough to mark him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric, Last Lord of MelnibonÃ©, was a pure albino who drew his power from a secret and terrible source.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan sighed. â€œWell, Elric, when do we raid Imrryr?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric shrugged. â€œAs soon as you like; I care not. Give me a little time in which to do certain things.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTomorrow? Shall we sail tomorrow?â€ Yaris said hesitantly, conscious of the strange power dormant in the man he had earlier accused of treachery.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric smiled, dismissing the youthâ€™s statement. â€œThree daysâ€™ time,â€ he said, â€œThreeâ€”or more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThree days! But Imrryr will be warned of our presence by then!â€ Fat, cautious Fadan spoke.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIâ€™ll see that your fleetâ€™s not found,â€ Elric promised. â€œI have to go to Imrryr firstâ€”and return.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou wonâ€™t do the journey in three daysâ€”the fastest ship could not make it.â€ Smiorgan gaped.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIâ€™ll be in the Dreaming City in less than a day,â€ Elric said softly, with finality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan shrugged. â€œIf you say so, Iâ€™ll believe itâ€”but why this necessity to visit the city ahead of the raid?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have my own compunctions, Count Smiorgan. But worry notâ€”I shanâ€™t betray you. Iâ€™ll lead the raid myself, be sure of that.â€ His dead-white face was lighted eerily by the fire and his red eyes smouldered. One lean hand firmly gripped the hilt of his runesword and he appeared to breathe more heavily. â€œImrryr fell, in spirit, five hundred years agoâ€”she will fall completely soonâ€”for ever! I have a little debt to settle. This is my sole reason for aiding you. As you know I have made only a few conditionsâ€”that you raze the city to the ground and a certain man and woman are not harmed. I refer to my cousin Yyrkoon and his sister Cymoril . . .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Yarisâ€™s thin lips felt uncomfortably dry. Much of his blustering manner resulted from the early death of his father. The old sea-king had diedâ€”leaving the youthful Yaris as the new ruler of his lands and his fleets. Yaris was not at all certain that he was capable of commanding such a vast kingdomâ€”and tried to appear more confident than he actually felt. Now he said: â€œHow shall we hide the fleet, Lord Elric?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n The MelnibonÃ©an acknowledged the question. â€œIâ€™ll hide it for you,â€ he promised. â€œI go now to do thisâ€”but make sure all your men are off the ships firstâ€”will you see to it, Smiorgan?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAye,â€ rumbled the stocky count.\n</p>\n<p>\n He and Elric departed from the hall together, leaving five men behind; five men who sensed an air of icy doom hanging about the overheated hall.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHow could he hide such a mighty fleet when we, who know this fjord better than any, found nowhere?â€ Dharmit of Jharkor said bewilderedly.\n</p>\n<p>\n None answered him.\n</p>\n<p>\n They waited, tensed and nervous, while the fire flickered and died untended. Eventually Smiorgan returned, stamping noisily on the boarded floor. There was a haunted haze of fear surrounding him; an almost tangible aura, and he was shivering, terribly. Tremendous, racking undulations swep...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11499'),
(16492, 'Elric: The Stealer of Souls', 'Michael Moorcock', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe stories here are the raw heart of Michael Moorcock. They are the spells that first drew me and all the numerous admirers of his work with whom I am acquainted into Moorcockâ€™s luminous and captivating web.â€\n <br />\n â€“from the Foreword by Alan Moore, creator of V for Vendetta\n</p>\n<p>\n When Michael Moorcock began chronicling the adventures of the albino sorcerer Elric, last king of decadent MelnibonÃ©, and his sentient vampiric sword, Stormbringer, he set out to create a new kind of fantasy adventure, one that broke with tradition and reflected a more up-to-date sophistication of theme and style. The result was a bold and unique heroâ€“weak in body, subtle in mind, dependent on drugs for the vitality to sustain himselfâ€“with great crimes behind him and a greater destiny ahead: a rock-and-roll antihero who would channel all the violent excesses of the sixties into one enduring archetype.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, with a major film in development, here is the first volume of a dazzling collection of stories containing the seminal appearances of Elric and lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist John Picacioâ€“plus essays, letters, maps, and other material. Adventures include â€œThe Dreaming City,â€ â€œWhile the Gods Laugh,â€ â€œKings in Darkness,â€ â€œDead Godâ€™s Homecoming,â€ â€œBlack Swordâ€™s Brothers,â€ and â€œSad Giantâ€™s Shield.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n An indispensable addition to any fantasy collection, Elric: The Stealer of Souls is an unmatched introduction to a brilliant writer and his most famousâ€“or infamousâ€“creation.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.â€\n <br />\n â€“The Encyclopedia of Fantasy\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chapter One\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhatâ€™s the hour?â€ The black-bearded man wrenched off his gilded helmet and flung it from him, careless of where it fell. He drew off his leathern gauntlets and moved closer to the roaring fire, letting the heat soak into his frozen bones.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMidnight is long past,â€ growled one of the other armoured men who gathered around the blaze. â€œAre you still sure heâ€™ll come?â€ â€œItâ€™s said that heâ€™s a man of his word, if that comforts you.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n It was a tall, pale-faced youth who spoke. His thin lips formed the words and spat them out maliciously. He grinned a wolf-grin and stared the new arrival in the eyes, mocking him.\n</p>\n<p>\n The newcomer turned away with a shrug. â€œThatâ€™s soâ€”for all your irony, Yaris. Heâ€™ll come.â€ He spoke as a man does when he wishes to reassure himself.\n</p>\n<p>\n There were six men, now, around the fire. The sixth was Smiorganâ€”Count Smiorgan Baldhead of the Purple Towns. He was a short, stocky man of fifty years with a scarred face partially covered with a thick, black growth of hair. His morose eyes smouldered and his lumpy fingers plucked nervously at his rich-hilted longsword. His pate was hairless, giving him his name, and over his ornate, gilded armour hung a loose woolen cloak, dyed purple.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan said thickly, â€œHe has no love for his cousin. He has become bitter. Yyrkoon sits on the Ruby Throne in his place and has proclaimed him an outlaw and a traitor. Elric needs us if he would take his throne and his bride back. We can trust him.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYouâ€™re full of trust tonight, count,â€ Yaris smiled thinly, â€œa rare thing to find in these troubled times. I say thisâ€”â€ He paused and took a long breath, staring at his comrades, summing them up. His gaze flicked from lean-faced Dharmit of Jharkor to Fadan of Lormyr who pursed his podgy lips and looked into the fire.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSpeak up, Yaris,â€ petulantly urged the patrician-featured Vilmirian, Naclon. â€œLetâ€™s hear what you have to say, lad, if itâ€™s worth hearing.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Yaris looked towards Jiku the dandy, who yawned impolitely and scratched his long nose.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWell!â€ Smiorgan was impatient. â€œWhat dâ€™you say, Yaris?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI say that we should start now and waste no more time waiting on Elricâ€™s pleasure! Heâ€™s laughing at us in some tavern a hundred miles from hereâ€”or else plotting with the Dragon Princes to trap us. For years we have planned this raid. We have little time in which to strikeâ€”our fleet is too big, too noticeable. Even if Elric has not betrayed us, then spies will soon be running eastwards to warn the Dragons that there is a fleet massed against them. We stand to win a fantastic fortuneâ€”to vanquish the greatest merchant city in the worldâ€”to reap immeasurable richesâ€”or horrible death at the hands of the Dragon Princes, if we wait overlong. Letâ€™s bide our time no more and set sail before our prize hears of our plan and brings up reinforcements!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou always were too ready to mistrust a man, Yaris.â€ King Naclon of Vilmir spoke slowly, carefullyâ€”distastefully eyeing the taut-featured youth. â€œWe could not reach Imrryr without Elricâ€™s knowledge of the maze-channels which lead to its secret ports. If Elric will not join usâ€”then our endeavour will be fruitlessâ€”hopeless. We need him. We must wait for himâ€”or else give up our plans and return to our homelands.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAt least Iâ€™m willing to take a risk,â€ yelled Yaris, anger lancing from his slanting eyes. â€œYouâ€™re getting oldâ€”all of you. Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFool!â€ Dharmitâ€™s voice rumbled around the fire-flooded hall. He laughed wearily. â€œI spoke thus in my youthâ€”and lost a fine fleet soon after. Cunning and Elricâ€™s knowledge will win us Imrryrâ€”that and the mightiest fleet to sail the Dragon Sea since MelnibonÃ©â€™s banners fluttered over all the nations of the Earth. Here we areâ€”the most powerful sea-lords in the world, masters, every one of us, of more than a hundred swift vessels. Our names are feared and famousâ€”our fleets ravage the coasts of a score of lesser nations. We hold power!â€ He clenched his great fist and shook it in Yarisâ€™s face. His tone became more level and he smiled viciously, glaring at the youth and choosing his words with precision.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBut all this is worthlessâ€”meaninglessâ€”without the power which Elric has. That is the power of knowledgeâ€”of dream-learned sorcery, if I must use the cursed word. His fathers knew of the maze which guards Imrryr from sea-attack. And his fathers passed that secret on to him. Imrryr, the Dreaming City, dreams in peaceâ€”and will continue to do so unless we have a guide to help us steer a course through the treacherous waterways which lead to her harbours. We need Elricâ€”we know it, and he knows it. Thatâ€™s the truth!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSuch confidence, gentlemen, is warming to the heart.â€ There was irony in the heavy voice which came from the entrance to the hall. The heads of the six sea-lords jerked towards the doorway.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yarisâ€™s confidence fled from him as he met the eyes of Elric of MelnibonÃ©. They were old eyes in a fine featured, youthful face. Yaris shuddered, turned his back on Elric, preferring to look into the bright glare of the fire.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric smiled warmly as Count Smiorgan gripped his shoulder. There was a certain friendship between the two. He nodded condescendingly to the other four and walked with lithe grace towards the fire. Yaris stood aside and let him pass. Elric was tall, broad-shouldered and slim-hipped. He wore his long hair bunched and pinned at the nape of his neck and, for an obscure reason, affected the dress of a southern barbarian. He had long, knee-length boots of soft doe-leather, a breastplate of strangely wrought silver, a jerkin of chequered blue and white linen, britches of scarlet wool and a cloak of rustling green velvet. At his hip rested his runesword of black ironâ€”the feared Stormbringer, forged by ancient and alien sorcery.\n</p>\n<p>\n His bizarre dress was tasteless and gaudy, and did not match his sensitive face and long-fingered, almost delicate hands, yet he flaunted it since it emphasized the fact that he did not belong in any companyâ€”that he was an outsider and an outcast. But, in reality, he had little need to wear such outlandish gearâ€”for his eyes and skin were enough to mark him.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric, Last Lord of MelnibonÃ©, was a pure albino who drew his power from a secret and terrible source.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan sighed. â€œWell, Elric, when do we raid Imrryr?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric shrugged. â€œAs soon as you like; I care not. Give me a little time in which to do certain things.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTomorrow? Shall we sail tomorrow?â€ Yaris said hesitantly, conscious of the strange power dormant in the man he had earlier accused of treachery.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elric smiled, dismissing the youthâ€™s statement. â€œThree daysâ€™ time,â€ he said, â€œThreeâ€”or more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThree days! But Imrryr will be warned of our presence by then!â€ Fat, cautious Fadan spoke.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIâ€™ll see that your fleetâ€™s not found,â€ Elric promised. â€œI have to go to Imrryr firstâ€”and return.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œYou wonâ€™t do the journey in three daysâ€”the fastest ship could not make it.â€ Smiorgan gaped.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIâ€™ll be in the Dreaming City in less than a day,â€ Elric said softly, with finality.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smiorgan shrugged. â€œIf you say so, Iâ€™ll believe itâ€”but why this necessity to visit the city ahead of the raid?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI have my own compunctions, Count Smiorgan. But worry notâ€”I shanâ€™t betray you. Iâ€™ll lead the raid myself, be sure of that.â€ His dead-white face was lighted eerily by the fire and his red eyes smouldered. One lean hand firmly gripped the hilt of his runesword and he appeared to breathe more heavily. â€œImrryr fell, in spirit, five hundred years agoâ€”she will fall completely soonâ€”for ever! I have a little debt to settle. This is my sole reason for aiding you. As you know I have made only a few conditionsâ€”that you raze the city to the ground and a certain man and woman are not harmed. I refer to my cousin Yyrkoon and his sister Cymoril . . .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Yarisâ€™s thin lips felt uncomfortably dry. Much of his blustering manner resulted from the early death of his father. The old sea-king had diedâ€”leaving the youthful Yaris as the new ruler of his lands and his fleets. Yaris was not at all certain that he was capable of commanding such a vast kingdomâ€”and tried to appear more confident than he actually felt. Now he said: â€œHow shall we hide the fleet, Lord Elric?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n The MelnibonÃ©an acknowledged the question. â€œIâ€™ll hide it for you,â€ he promised. â€œI go now to do thisâ€”but make sure all your men are off the ships firstâ€”will you see to it, Smiorgan?â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAye,â€ rumbled the stocky count.\n</p>\n<p>\n He and Elric departed from the hall together, leaving five men behind; five men who sensed an air of icy doom hanging about the overheated hall.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHow could he hide such a mighty fleet when we, who know this fjord better than any, found nowhere?â€ Dharmit of Jharkor said bewilderedly.\n</p>\n<p>\n None answered him.\n</p>\n<p>\n They waited, tensed and nervous, while the fire flickered and died untended. Eventually Smiorgan returned, stamping noisily on the boarded floor. There was a haunted haze of fear surrounding him; an almost tangible aura, and he was shivering, terribly. Tremendous, racking undulations swep...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22049'),
(16493, 'The Elvenbane', 'Andre Norton; Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 02 Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale of the sort that becomes an instant favorite. This is the story of Shana, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father and a human mother. Her exiled mother dead, she was rescued and raised by dragons, a proud, ancient race who existed unbeknownst to elven or humankind. From birth, Shana was the embodiment of the Prophecy that the all-powerful Elvenlords feared. Her destiny is the enthralling adventure of a lifetime. Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale of the sort that becomes an instant favorite. This is the story of Shana, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father and a human mother. Her exiled mother dead, she was rescued and raised by dragons, a proud, ancient race who existed unbeknownst to elven or humankind. From birth, Shana was the embodiment of the Prophecy that the all-powerful Elvenlords feared. Her destiny is the enthralling adventure of a lifetime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15893'),
(16494, 'Elvenblood', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15856'),
(16495, 'Elvenborn', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15857'),
(16496, 'Elves: Once Walked With Gods', 'James Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The elves have fled to Calius, seeking to escape the overwhelming power of the demonic Garonin. A desperate last stand in their own dimension saved the race, at the cost of 100,000 elves lost to the Garonin. The elf who led that fight, Takaar, is blamed for the losses and has gone into hiding. Now the weakened elf race is tearing itself apart in civil war, human mercenaries have arrived in Calius and are ripping the continent apart. Only one elf can unite the elves. And only one elf believes in him. A young warrior named Auum sets out to bring back the shamed hero and save the elven race.James Barclay''s ELVES trilogy will tell the whole story of his immortal elven race, and will appeal to all fans of Tolkien and fantasy - this is a uniquely entertaining take on a fantasy staple perfect to bring new readers to Barclay. And old readers of James Barclay will welcome a return to one of their favourite creations and will also love seeing one of their favourite characters again - the Tai Gethan warriror Auum destined to be one of the Raven.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4824'),
(16497, 'Elves: Once Walked with Gods', 'James Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The elves have fled to Calius, seeking to escape the overwhelming power of the demonic Garonin. A desperate last stand in their own dimension saved the race, at the cost of 100,000 elves lost to the Garonin. The elf who led that fight, Takaar, is blamed for the losses and has gone into hiding. Now the weakened elf race is tearing itself apart in civil war, human mercenaries have arrived in Calius and are ripping the continent apart. Only one elf can unite the elves. And only one elf believes in him. A young warrior named Auum sets out to bring back the shamed hero and save the elven race.James Barclay''s ELVES trilogy will tell the whole story of his immortal elven race, and will appeal to all fans of Tolkien and fantasy - this is a uniquely entertaining take on a fantasy staple perfect to bring new readers to Barclay. And old readers of James Barclay will welcome a return to one of their favourite creations and will also love seeing one of their favourite characters again - the Tai Gethan warriror Auum destined to be one of the Raven.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19876'),
(16498, 'Emails From an Asshole', 'John Lindsay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œIt''s like Sasha Baron Cohen on the internet.â€ - Jane Wells, CNBC\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n When John Lindsay launched DontEvenReply.com in June 2009, it became an instant sensation. With 60% of the book featuring entirely new material never before available on the website,\n <em>\n  Emails from an Asshole\n </em>\n offers fans a fresh opportunity to revel in people''s gullibility. Posing as a customer or seller, Lindsay responded to a variety of classified ads, making ridiculous offers to unsuspecting victims. Their responses, and the ensuing conversations, will have readers simultaneously laughing non-stop and gasping with disbelief.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11059'),
(16499, 'Embassytown', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n PRAISE FOR CHINA MIÃ‰VILLE\n</p>\n<p>\n Embassytown\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œI cannot emphasize enough how terrific this novel is. It''s definitely one of the best books I''ve read in the past year, perfectly balanced between escapism and otherworldly philosophizing.â€ --Io9.com\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Kraken\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe stakes [are] driven high and almost anything can happen. The reader is primed for a memorable payoff, and MiÃ©ville more than delivers.â€â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The City &amp; The City\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandlerâ€™s love child were raised by Franz Kafka, the writing that emerged might resemble . . .\n <em>\n  The City &amp; The City\n </em>\n .â€â€”_Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n Â _\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCompulsively readable . . . impossible to expunge from memory.â€â€”_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Scar\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fantastic setting for an unforgettable tale . . . memorable because of MiÃ©villeâ€™s vivid language [and] rich imagination.â€â€”_The Philadelphia Inquirer\n <br />\n Â _\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Iron Council\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œA masterwork . . . a story that pops with creativity.â€â€”_Wired _\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Un Lun Dun\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEndlessly inventive . . . [a] hybrid of\n <em>\n  Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Phantom Tollbooth\n </em>\n .â€â€”Salon\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n China MiÃ©ville doesnâ€™t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writerâ€”and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire fieldâ€”with\n <em>\n  Embassytown\n </em>\n , MiÃ©ville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.\n</p>\n<p>\n Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.\n</p>\n<p>\n When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyaltiesâ€”to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak yet speaks through her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6790'),
(16500, 'Embassytown', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n PRAISE FOR CHINA MIÃ‰VILLE\n</p>\n<p>\n Embassytown\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œI cannot emphasize enough how terrific this novel is. It''s definitely one of the best books I''ve read in the past year, perfectly balanced between escapism and otherworldly philosophizing.â€ --Io9.com\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Kraken\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe stakes [are] driven high and almost anything can happen. The reader is primed for a memorable payoff, and MiÃ©ville more than delivers.â€â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The City &amp; The City\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandlerâ€™s love child were raised by Franz Kafka, the writing that emerged might resemble . . .\n <em>\n  The City &amp; The City\n </em>\n .â€â€”_Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n Â _\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCompulsively readable . . . impossible to expunge from memory.â€â€”_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Scar\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fantastic setting for an unforgettable tale . . . memorable because of MiÃ©villeâ€™s vivid language [and] rich imagination.â€â€”_The Philadelphia Inquirer\n <br />\n Â _\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Iron Council\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œA masterwork . . . a story that pops with creativity.â€â€”_Wired _\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Un Lun Dun\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEndlessly inventive . . . [a] hybrid of\n <em>\n  Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Phantom Tollbooth\n </em>\n .â€â€”Salon\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n China MiÃ©ville doesnâ€™t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writerâ€”and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire fieldâ€”with\n <em>\n  Embassytown\n </em>\n , MiÃ©ville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.\n</p>\n<p>\n Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.\n</p>\n<p>\n When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyaltiesâ€”to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak yet speaks through her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11457'),
(16501, 'Embassytown', 'Mieville, China', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14331'),
(16502, 'Embassytown', 'China Mieville', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n PRAISE FOR CHINA MIÃ‰VILLE\n</p>\n<p>\n Embassytown\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œI cannot emphasize enough how terrific this novel is. It''s definitely one of the best books I''ve read in the past year, perfectly balanced between escapism and otherworldly philosophizing.â€ --Io9.com\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Kraken\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe stakes [are] driven high and almost anything can happen. The reader is primed for a memorable payoff, and MiÃ©ville more than delivers.â€â€”_San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The City &amp; The City\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIf Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandlerâ€™s love child were raised by Franz Kafka, the writing that emerged might resemble . . .\n <em>\n  The City &amp; The City\n </em>\n .â€â€”_Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Perdido Street Station\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œCompulsively readable . . . impossible to expunge from memory.â€â€”_The Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The Scar\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fantastic setting for an unforgettable tale . . . memorable because of MiÃ©villeâ€™s vivid language [and] rich imagination.â€â€”_The Philadelphia Inquirer\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Iron Council\n </strong>\n <br />\n <hr />\n â€œA masterwork . . . a story that pops with creativity.â€â€”_Wired _\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Un Lun Dun\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEndlessly inventive . . . [a] hybrid of\n <em>\n  Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Phantom Tollbooth\n </em>\n .â€â€”Salon\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n China MiÃ©ville doesnâ€™t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writerâ€”and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire fieldâ€”with\n <em>\n  Embassytown\n </em>\n , MiÃ©ville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.\n</p>\n<p>\n In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.\n</p>\n<p>\n Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.\n</p>\n<p>\n When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyaltiesâ€”to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak yet speaks through her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17097'),
(16503, 'Embrace the Darkness', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Is He Her Mortal Enemy-**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lady Shay is the last of her kind. Half human, half Shalott, her blood is a precious aphrodisiac to vampires, who consider it more precious than gold. Though Shalotts are renowned assassins, a curse held over Shay lands her on the slave auction block, where her fate is uncertain-\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Or The Man Who Will Risk All-**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Viper, the beguiling chief of a deadly vampire clan, can''t explain his longing to possess the beautiful Shalott who once saved his life, but now he is free to do anything he wants with her. Strangely, while he desires both Shay-s blood and body, he wants her to surrender willingly.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **To Save Her Life? **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A hidden evil has been stalking Shay since she left the slave market with Viper. It is an evil that endangers the very existence of Viper''s kind, and there''s no reason he should court such danger just to protect a Shalott. But the love he feels for Shay is enough to make him willing to go to hell and back if it means spending an eternity with her in his arms.-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7717'),
(16504, 'Embrace the Darkness', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Is He Her Mortal Enemy-**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lady Shay is the last of her kind. Half human, half Shalott, her blood is a precious aphrodisiac to vampires, who consider it more precious than gold. Though Shalotts are renowned assassins, a curse held over Shay lands her on the slave auction block, where her fate is uncertain-\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Or The Man Who Will Risk All-**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Viper, the beguiling chief of a deadly vampire clan, can''t explain his longing to possess the beautiful Shalott who once saved his life, but now he is free to do anything he wants with her. Strangely, while he desires both Shay-s blood and body, he wants her to surrender willingly.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **To Save Her Life? **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A hidden evil has been stalking Shay since she left the slave market with Viper. It is an evil that endangers the very existence of Viper''s kind, and there''s no reason he should court such danger just to protect a Shalott. But the love he feels for Shay is enough to make him willing to go to hell and back if it means spending an eternity with her in his arms.-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10409'),
(16505, 'Embrace the Darkness', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Is He Her Mortal Enemy-** Lady Shay is the last of her kind. Half human, half Shalott, her blood is a precious aphrodisiac to vampires, who consider it more precious than gold. Though Shalotts are renowned assassins, a curse held over Shay lands her on the slave auction block, where her fate is uncertain- **Or The Man Who Will Risk All-** Viper, the beguiling chief of a deadly vampire clan, can''t explain his longing to possess the beautiful Shalott who once saved his life, but now he is free to do anything he wants with her. Strangely, while he desires both Shay-s blood and body, he wants her to surrender willingly. **To Save Her Life? ** A hidden evil has been stalking Shay since she left the slave market with Viper. It is an evil that endangers the very existence of Viper''s kind, and there''s no reason he should court such danger just to protect a Shalott. But the love he feels for Shay is enough to make him willing to go to hell and back if it means spending an eternity with her in his arms.-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16128'),
(16506, 'Embrace the Darkness', 'Alexandra Ivy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Is He Her Mortal Enemy-** Lady Shay is the last of her kind. Half human, half Shalott, her blood is a precious aphrodisiac to vampires, who consider it more precious than gold. Though Shalotts are renowned assassins, a curse held over Shay lands her on the slave auction block, where her fate is uncertain- **Or The Man Who Will Risk All-** Viper, the beguiling chief of a deadly vampire clan, can''t explain his longing to possess the beautiful Shalott who once saved his life, but now he is free to do anything he wants with her. Strangely, while he desires both Shay-s blood and body, he wants her to surrender willingly. **To Save Her Life? ** A hidden evil has been stalking Shay since she left the slave market with Viper. It is an evil that endangers the very existence of Viper''s kind, and there''s no reason he should court such danger just to protect a Shalott. But the love he feels for Shay is enough to make him willing to go to hell and back if it means spending an eternity with her in his arms.-\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26307'),
(16507, 'The Emerald City of Oz', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available again with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the color plates of the original edition.Join Dorothy and the Wonderful Wizard as they take Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on a fabulous tour of Oz. During their journey they encounter such amazing and amusing people as King Kleaver with his Spoon Brigade and Miss Cuttenclip of the land of paper dolls. But while Dorothy and her friends play, the wicked Nome King has joined forces with the terrible Whimsies, the fearsome Growleywogs, and the evil Phanfasms in a plot to capture the Emerald City. Will Dorothy''s friends discover the danger before it''s too late?All the enchantment of Oz is here for a whole new generation to discover in this deluxe new edition featuring ninety black-and-white pictures and sixteen dazzling five-color plates by Oz artist John R. Neill.Afterword by Peter Glassman. For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the original edition. A Books of Wonder(R) Classic\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3327'),
(16508, 'The Emerald City of Oz', 'Lyman Frank Baum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available again with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the color plates of the original edition.Join Dorothy and the Wonderful Wizard as they take Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on a fabulous tour of Oz. During their journey they encounter such amazing and amusing people as King Kleaver with his Spoon Brigade and Miss Cuttenclip of the land of paper dolls. But while Dorothy and her friends play, the wicked Nome King has joined forces with the terrible Whimsies, the fearsome Growleywogs, and the evil Phanfasms in a plot to capture the Emerald City. Will Dorothy''s friends discover the danger before it''s too late?All the enchantment of Oz is here for a whole new generation to discover in this deluxe new edition featuring ninety black-and-white pictures and sixteen dazzling five-color plates by Oz artist John R. Neill.Afterword by Peter Glassman. For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the original edition. A Books of Wonder(R) Classic\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20926');
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(16509, 'Emerald Germs of Ireland', 'Patrick McCabe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n McCabe''s jokey verbosity and energetic narrative voice are on full display in this messy but manically vibrant novel. Pat McNab''s social position in the dully parochial Irish village of Gullytown ranks above village idiot but below town drunk. Few of his fellow citizens would suspect the wild tales he tells are true, much less entertain the idea that he could be a serial killer. Norman Bates, however, has nothing on the middle-aged, reclusive Pat, who enjoys a beyond-Oedipal relationship with his mother (she recurrently appears long after he has dispatched her with a frying pan) and tallies up a final body count estimated "around the fifty, fifty-five mark." Over the course of McCabe''s fluctuating, episodic novel, Pat''s victims number fewer than two dozen, but each is linked with the popular songs and traditional ballads that reflect Pat''s pathetic dreams of becoming a pop singer. The teetotaling, intrusive Mrs. Tubridy is downed with alcohol to the tune of "Whiskey on a Sunday," and a land-swindling neighbor is burned in Pat''s barn with "Old Flames" for background music. At other times, Pat''s hallucinatory fantasies transform his mundane life into a spaghetti western, sci-fi epic or gangster movie. While Pat bears more than a casual resemblance to Francie Brady, the sympathetic, psychotic hero of The Butcher Boy, this novel''s heavy irony, mock verbosity and genre-juggling are more reminiscent of McCabe''s recent "serial novel," Mondo Desperado. Although the Grand Guignol humor wears thin after the first several deaths, McCabe gives occasional revealing glimpses into Pat''s damaged psyche and the stifling mindset of village life. The mixed results are a thoroughly Irish stew of pathos and bathos, deep melancholy and wild humor, cutting observation and pure blarney. 8-city author tour. (Mar.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Potential readers of the two-time Booker Prize finalist''s latest novel are advised first to eat a big bowl of Lucky Charms laced with psychedelics; doing so may be the only way to swallow this jarring musical tragicomedy. In it, our hero/villain, aspiring actor/singer Pat McNab, 45, of Gullytown, Ireland, commits matricide and other heinous murders, each fitted with a theme song (e.g., in "The Turfman from Ardee," the turfman from Ardee bites it). However, the point of all the bloodshed is unclear. Violence for violence''s sake doesn''t make for great literature or gut-splitting comedy. Because Pat is such a surreal concoction, it is also difficult to gauge how much empathy and sympathy he deserves, if any. McCabe has a gift for creating bent-brained yet fiendishly human outcasts ? la Francie Brady in The Butcher Boy (LJ 5/1/93) and Patrick "Pussy" Brady in Breakfast on Pluto (LJ 12/15/98), but with this Pat he falls short. An optional purchase.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -AHeather McCormack, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2348'),
(16510, 'Emerald Germs of Ireland', 'Patrick McCabe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n McCabe''s jokey verbosity and energetic narrative voice are on full display in this messy but manically vibrant novel. Pat McNab''s social position in the dully parochial Irish village of Gullytown ranks above village idiot but below town drunk. Few of his fellow citizens would suspect the wild tales he tells are true, much less entertain the idea that he could be a serial killer. Norman Bates, however, has nothing on the middle-aged, reclusive Pat, who enjoys a beyond-Oedipal relationship with his mother (she recurrently appears long after he has dispatched her with a frying pan) and tallies up a final body count estimated "around the fifty, fifty-five mark." Over the course of McCabe''s fluctuating, episodic novel, Pat''s victims number fewer than two dozen, but each is linked with the popular songs and traditional ballads that reflect Pat''s pathetic dreams of becoming a pop singer. The teetotaling, intrusive Mrs. Tubridy is downed with alcohol to the tune of "Whiskey on a Sunday," and a land-swindling neighbor is burned in Pat''s barn with "Old Flames" for background music. At other times, Pat''s hallucinatory fantasies transform his mundane life into a spaghetti western, sci-fi epic or gangster movie. While Pat bears more than a casual resemblance to Francie Brady, the sympathetic, psychotic hero of The Butcher Boy, this novel''s heavy irony, mock verbosity and genre-juggling are more reminiscent of McCabe''s recent "serial novel," Mondo Desperado. Although the Grand Guignol humor wears thin after the first several deaths, McCabe gives occasional revealing glimpses into Pat''s damaged psyche and the stifling mindset of village life. The mixed results are a thoroughly Irish stew of pathos and bathos, deep melancholy and wild humor, cutting observation and pure blarney. 8-city author tour. (Mar.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Potential readers of the two-time Booker Prize finalist''s latest novel are advised first to eat a big bowl of Lucky Charms laced with psychedelics; doing so may be the only way to swallow this jarring musical tragicomedy. In it, our hero/villain, aspiring actor/singer Pat McNab, 45, of Gullytown, Ireland, commits matricide and other heinous murders, each fitted with a theme song (e.g., in "The Turfman from Ardee," the turfman from Ardee bites it). However, the point of all the bloodshed is unclear. Violence for violence''s sake doesn''t make for great literature or gut-splitting comedy. Because Pat is such a surreal concoction, it is also difficult to gauge how much empathy and sympathy he deserves, if any. McCabe has a gift for creating bent-brained yet fiendishly human outcasts ? la Francie Brady in The Butcher Boy (LJ 5/1/93) and Patrick "Pussy" Brady in Breakfast on Pluto (LJ 12/15/98), but with this Pat he falls short. An optional purchase.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -AHeather McCormack, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11347'),
(16511, 'Emerald Germs of Ireland', 'Patrick McCabe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n McCabe''s jokey verbosity and energetic narrative voice are on full display in this messy but manically vibrant novel. Pat McNab''s social position in the dully parochial Irish village of Gullytown ranks above village idiot but below town drunk. Few of his fellow citizens would suspect the wild tales he tells are true, much less entertain the idea that he could be a serial killer. Norman Bates, however, has nothing on the middle-aged, reclusive Pat, who enjoys a beyond-Oedipal relationship with his mother (she recurrently appears long after he has dispatched her with a frying pan) and tallies up a final body count estimated "around the fifty, fifty-five mark." Over the course of McCabe''s fluctuating, episodic novel, Pat''s victims number fewer than two dozen, but each is linked with the popular songs and traditional ballads that reflect Pat''s pathetic dreams of becoming a pop singer. The teetotaling, intrusive Mrs. Tubridy is downed with alcohol to the tune of "Whiskey on a Sunday," and a land-swindling neighbor is burned in Pat''s barn with "Old Flames" for background music. At other times, Pat''s hallucinatory fantasies transform his mundane life into a spaghetti western, sci-fi epic or gangster movie. While Pat bears more than a casual resemblance to Francie Brady, the sympathetic, psychotic hero of The Butcher Boy, this novel''s heavy irony, mock verbosity and genre-juggling are more reminiscent of McCabe''s recent "serial novel," Mondo Desperado. Although the Grand Guignol humor wears thin after the first several deaths, McCabe gives occasional revealing glimpses into Pat''s damaged psyche and the stifling mindset of village life. The mixed results are a thoroughly Irish stew of pathos and bathos, deep melancholy and wild humor, cutting observation and pure blarney. 8-city author tour. (Mar.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Potential readers of the two-time Booker Prize finalist''s latest novel are advised first to eat a big bowl of Lucky Charms laced with psychedelics; doing so may be the only way to swallow this jarring musical tragicomedy. In it, our hero/villain, aspiring actor/singer Pat McNab, 45, of Gullytown, Ireland, commits matricide and other heinous murders, each fitted with a theme song (e.g., in "The Turfman from Ardee," the turfman from Ardee bites it). However, the point of all the bloodshed is unclear. Violence for violence''s sake doesn''t make for great literature or gut-splitting comedy. Because Pat is such a surreal concoction, it is also difficult to gauge how much empathy and sympathy he deserves, if any. McCabe has a gift for creating bent-brained yet fiendishly human outcasts ? la Francie Brady in The Butcher Boy (LJ 5/1/93) and Patrick "Pussy" Brady in Breakfast on Pluto (LJ 12/15/98), but with this Pat he falls short. An optional purchase.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -AHeather McCormack, "Library Journal"\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22471'),
(16512, 'Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy', 'Andrew M. Greeley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It has been said that the Irish transformed English-speaking literature. This anthology may not reshape literature, but it is a sheer delight of grand storytelling. In 15 tales, 13 of which are original to the volume, a variety of modern seanachies (or storytellers), whether Irish by blood or only intention, are inspired by both modern culture and mythic legend to play upon the ancient Celtic theme of how closely the mundane exists with the magical. This parallel nature allows the Irish to serve the Christian God as well as the pagan sidhe, as they do in Judith Tarr''s "The Hermit and the Sidhe," or a young man, in Elizabeth Haydon''s "The Merrow," to discover himself heir to both the powerful magic of the sea and the magical land of Ireland. Editor Greeley, a Catholic priest, in "Peace in Heaven?" tells an earthy story of sidhe and seraphim that might make his bishop blush. Love can be a sorrowful thing, as it is in Jacqueline Carey''s "The Isle of Women," or it can triumph over a vengeful spirit and the Grey Man himself, as in Charles de Lint''s "The Butter Spirit''s Tithe." Some stories are tinged with darkness, but have a favorable ending, like Tanith Lee''s "Speir-Bahn," an eerie tale of shape-changing. Peter Tremayne, Diane Duane, Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple also contribute worthy stories. Whether a true child of the Ould Sod or Irish only on St. Patrick''s Day, the reader will find plenty to celebrate here.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A sheer delight of grand storytelling."---Publishers Weekly on\n  <em>\n   Emerald Magic\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7609'),
(16513, 'Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy', 'Andrew M. Greeley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It has been said that the Irish transformed English-speaking literature. This anthology may not reshape literature, but it is a sheer delight of grand storytelling. In 15 tales, 13 of which are original to the volume, a variety of modern seanachies (or storytellers), whether Irish by blood or only intention, are inspired by both modern culture and mythic legend to play upon the ancient Celtic theme of how closely the mundane exists with the magical. This parallel nature allows the Irish to serve the Christian God as well as the pagan sidhe, as they do in Judith Tarr''s "The Hermit and the Sidhe," or a young man, in Elizabeth Haydon''s "The Merrow," to discover himself heir to both the powerful magic of the sea and the magical land of Ireland. Editor Greeley, a Catholic priest, in "Peace in Heaven?" tells an earthy story of sidhe and seraphim that might make his bishop blush. Love can be a sorrowful thing, as it is in Jacqueline Carey''s "The Isle of Women," or it can triumph over a vengeful spirit and the Grey Man himself, as in Charles de Lint''s "The Butter Spirit''s Tithe." Some stories are tinged with darkness, but have a favorable ending, like Tanith Lee''s "Speir-Bahn," an eerie tale of shape-changing. Peter Tremayne, Diane Duane, Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple also contribute worthy stories. Whether a true child of the Ould Sod or Irish only on St. Patrick''s Day, the reader will find plenty to celebrate here.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A sheer delight of grand storytelling."---Publishers Weekly on\n  <em>\n   Emerald Magic\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9986'),
(16514, 'Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy', 'Andrew M. Greeley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  It has been said that the Irish transformed English-speaking literature. This anthology may not reshape literature, but it is a sheer delight of grand storytelling. In 15 tales, 13 of which are original to the volume, a variety of modern seanachies (or storytellers), whether Irish by blood or only intention, are inspired by both modern culture and mythic legend to play upon the ancient Celtic theme of how closely the mundane exists with the magical. This parallel nature allows the Irish to serve the Christian God as well as the pagan sidhe, as they do in Judith Tarr''s "The Hermit and the Sidhe," or a young man, in Elizabeth Haydon''s "The Merrow," to discover himself heir to both the powerful magic of the sea and the magical land of Ireland. Editor Greeley, a Catholic priest, in "Peace in Heaven?" tells an earthy story of sidhe and seraphim that might make his bishop blush. Love can be a sorrowful thing, as it is in Jacqueline Carey''s "The Isle of Women," or it can triumph over a vengeful spirit and the Grey Man himself, as in Charles de Lint''s "The Butter Spirit''s Tithe." Some stories are tinged with darkness, but have a favorable ending, like Tanith Lee''s "Speir-Bahn," an eerie tale of shape-changing. Peter Tremayne, Diane Duane, Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple also contribute worthy stories. Whether a true child of the Ould Sod or Irish only on St. Patrick''s Day, the reader will find plenty to celebrate here.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A sheer delight of grand storytelling."---Publishers Weekly on\n  <em>\n   Emerald Magic\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16242'),
(16515, 'Emergency: Wife Lost and Found', 'Carol Marinelli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every doctor dreaded recognizing someone in the emergency room--even coolheaded consultant James Morrell. But he was doubly shocked when the unconscious patient he had been asked to treat was instantly familiar. It was his ex-wife!Dr. Lorna McClelland hated being ill, hated being stuck in a hospital bed and, above all, hated having to rely on James. But as she recovered, all the wonderful things about their marriage came flooding back....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6921'),
(16516, 'Emergency: Wife Lost and Found', 'Carol Marinelli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every doctor dreaded recognizing someone in the emergency room--even coolheaded consultant James Morrell. But he was doubly shocked when the unconscious patient he had been asked to treat was instantly familiar. It was his ex-wife!Dr. Lorna McClelland hated being ill, hated being stuck in a hospital bed and, above all, hated having to rely on James. But as she recovered, all the wonderful things about their marriage came flooding back....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11296'),
(16517, 'Emergency: Wife Lost and Found', 'Carol Marinelli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every doctor dreaded recognizing someone in the emergency room--even coolheaded consultant James Morrell. But he was doubly shocked when the unconscious patient he had been asked to treat was instantly familiar. It was his ex-wife!Dr. Lorna McClelland hated being ill, hated being stuck in a hospital bed and, above all, hated having to rely on James. But as she recovered, all the wonderful things about their marriage came flooding back....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16915'),
(16518, 'Emergency: Wife Lost and Found', 'Carol Marinelli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every doctor dreaded recognizing someone in the emergency room--even coolheaded consultant James Morrell. But he was doubly shocked when the unconscious patient he had been asked to treat was instantly familiar. It was his ex-wife!Dr. Lorna McClelland hated being ill, hated being stuck in a hospital bed and, above all, hated having to rely on James. But as she recovered, all the wonderful things about their marriage came flooding back....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26795'),
(16519, 'Emile', 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25523'),
(16520, 'Emily', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n If Emily hadn''t gone to Annie Richmond''s party, she would never have met the impossible irresistible Rory Balniel - never have married him and been carried off to the wild Scottish island of Irasa to live in his ancestral home along with his eccentric mother, Coco, and the dog, Walter Scott. She''d never have met the wild and mysterious Marina, a wraith from Rory''s past, nor her brother, the disagreeable Finn Maclean; never have spent a night in a haunted highland castle, or been caught stealing roses in a see-through nightie...Yes, it all started at Annie Richmond''s party.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4487'),
(16521, 'Emily the Strange: Stranger and Stranger', 'Rob Reger &amp; Jessica Gruner &amp; Buzz Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7â€“10â€”Emily the Strange, evil genius and skateboarder extraordinaire, has invented many things in her timeâ€”golems, working cat translators, great names for bands. But the duplication device may have been a mistake, especially when an accident produces an identical Emily. At first OtherMe is cool and useful, but it quickly becomes apparent that she is evil and will take over the world if not stopped. Emily''s second journal, a sequel to\n  <em>\n   The Lost Days\n  </em>\n  (HarperCollins, 2009), is a dark delight, filled with all kinds of Strangeness: a broken leg, a Strange Manifesto that causes the entire town to go loony, an ex-spymaster neighbor, and an oddly understanding and absurdly patient mother, all described with demented wit and great relish, and accompanied by manga-style black-and-white cartoons. Does it all make sense? No, not really. Does it matter? Not at all. Fans of the first book and newcomers alike will thoroughly enjoy the zaniness and clamor for more.â€”_Mara Alpert, Los Angeles Public Library_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In The Lost Days (2009), Emily the Strange wakes up with a nasty case of amnesia and canâ€™t remember who she is. Now, she has managed to clone herself and canâ€™t tell which is the real her or, more importantly, which clone is evil. The book dresses up teen-identity issues in midnight-black humor and piles on so much persistent weirdness that oddball outsiders, goths in training, and other subversive types will find themselves positively smirking with glee. The diary-entry presentationâ€”crammed full of lists, doodles, and staged dialogueâ€”makes for a frenzied read, which will suit fans just fine. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1697'),
(16522, 'Emily the Strange: Stranger and Stranger', 'Rob Reger &amp; Jessica Gruner &amp; Buzz Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7â€“10â€”Emily the Strange, evil genius and skateboarder extraordinaire, has invented many things in her timeâ€”golems, working cat translators, great names for bands. But the duplication device may have been a mistake, especially when an accident produces an identical Emily. At first OtherMe is cool and useful, but it quickly becomes apparent that she is evil and will take over the world if not stopped. Emily''s second journal, a sequel to\n  <em>\n   The Lost Days\n  </em>\n  (HarperCollins, 2009), is a dark delight, filled with all kinds of Strangeness: a broken leg, a Strange Manifesto that causes the entire town to go loony, an ex-spymaster neighbor, and an oddly understanding and absurdly patient mother, all described with demented wit and great relish, and accompanied by manga-style black-and-white cartoons. Does it all make sense? No, not really. Does it matter? Not at all. Fans of the first book and newcomers alike will thoroughly enjoy the zaniness and clamor for more.â€”_Mara Alpert, Los Angeles Public Library_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In The Lost Days (2009), Emily the Strange wakes up with a nasty case of amnesia and canâ€™t remember who she is. Now, she has managed to clone herself and canâ€™t tell which is the real her or, more importantly, which clone is evil. The book dresses up teen-identity issues in midnight-black humor and piles on so much persistent weirdness that oddball outsiders, goths in training, and other subversive types will find themselves positively smirking with glee. The diary-entry presentationâ€”crammed full of lists, doodles, and staged dialogueâ€”makes for a frenzied read, which will suit fans just fine. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12119'),
(16523, 'Emily the Strange: Stranger and Stranger', 'Rob Reger; Jessica Gruner; Buzz Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 7â€“10â€”Emily the Strange, evil genius and skateboarder extraordinaire, has invented many things in her timeâ€”golems, working cat translators, great names for bands. But the duplication device may have been a mistake, especially when an accident produces an identical Emily. At first OtherMe is cool and useful, but it quickly becomes apparent that she is evil and will take over the world if not stopped. Emily''s second journal, a sequel to\n  <em>\n   The Lost Days\n  </em>\n  (HarperCollins, 2009), is a dark delight, filled with all kinds of Strangeness: a broken leg, a Strange Manifesto that causes the entire town to go loony, an ex-spymaster neighbor, and an oddly understanding and absurdly patient mother, all described with demented wit and great relish, and accompanied by manga-style black-and-white cartoons. Does it all make sense? No, not really. Does it matter? Not at all. Fans of the first book and newcomers alike will thoroughly enjoy the zaniness and clamor for more.â€”_Mara Alpert, Los Angeles Public Library_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In The Lost Days (2009), Emily the Strange wakes up with a nasty case of amnesia and canâ€™t remember who she is. Now, she has managed to clone herself and canâ€™t tell which is the real her or, more importantly, which clone is evil. The book dresses up teen-identity issues in midnight-black humor and piles on so much persistent weirdness that oddball outsiders, goths in training, and other subversive types will find themselves positively smirking with glee. The diary-entry presentationâ€”crammed full of lists, doodles, and staged dialogueâ€”makes for a frenzied read, which will suit fans just fine. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24810'),
(16524, 'Emily the Strange: The Lost Days', 'Rob Reger &amp; Jessica Gruner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  13 Elements you will find in the first Emily the Strange novel:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <ol>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Mystery\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A beautiful golem\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Souped-up slingshots\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Four black cats\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Amnesia\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Calamity Poker\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Angry ponies\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A shady truant officer\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Top-13 lists\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A sandstorm generator\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     DoppelgÃ„ngers\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A secret mission\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Earwigs\n    </p>\n   </li>\n  </ol>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Emily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or cobbling together a particle accelerator out of lint, lentils, and safety pins; or rocking out on drums/ guitar/saxophone/zither; or painting a swirling feral sewer mural; or forcing someone to say "swirling feral sewer mural" 13 times fast . . . and pointing and laughing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Questions for Emily the Strange\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   How does it feel to have amnesia? I can imagine there are some situations in life where amnesia would be pretty useful, right?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Well, when you have it and donâ€™t know whatâ€™s going on, itâ€™s pretty grabbling frustrating. Once you know why you have it, and IF you are lucky enough to have given it to yourself, and IF you have a failproof way to get your memory back, itâ€™s pretty exciting. Still frustrating, but good to know that itâ€™s all for a reason. Did I mention you feel pretty stupid, too? I mean--you donâ€™t even know who you are!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   I bet golems are pretty handy, too--can you tell us how you made yours?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hmmm. Letâ€™s see. I wonâ€™t give you the full recipe, but I can tell you that my latest golem, Raven, was made from several parts bird (the Chihuahuan Raven species, to be exact--for its booming voice, navigational abilities, and superior lingual skills), circuitry from a discarded cash register (for simple math skills), extra-strength parabolic synth tubes (for muscle mass), super-long lasting chewing gum (we donâ€™t want her getting tendonitis, do we?), various devices I â€œborrowedâ€ from my mom (her garage door opener, curling iron, and blender), and finally a thermo-reducer distilling apparatus that cools volatile material (this golem needs to keep her cool in heated situations!). All that got blended with some real bad luck--and a golem is born! (Again!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Youâ€™re known for your skills with a slingshot. Can you give us any slingshot-maintenance tips?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Replace the elastic regularly (or better yet, use surgical tubing). This will keep proper torque and prevent backfire, misfire, or breakdown when you need it the most.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Depending on the size of your rig, adding a tasteful bicycle grip to the shaft can improve handling, and thus your aim (and confidence).\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    I find that a few basic modifications (time-reverse, teleport, x-ray vision) can really add value to a simple slingshot.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Keep your gear out of the sun. It dries out the elastic, makes the wood brittle, and shrivels your soul.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   If Nee-Chee, Mystery, Sabbath, and Miles wrote a book about your Lost Days, what would they say?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    NEECHEE: Youâ€™ve gone through a lot of trouble just to make more trouble for yourself.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    MYSTERY: Blackrock is such a magical essence, any effort to protect it would be worthy.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    MILES: It was a nice return to the alley. Been a while since I camped out there.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    SABBATH: Dude, Cabbage was closeâ€¦but no cigar.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Regerâ€™s gothy cult heroine, who began life as a sticker for skaters and other underground types before moving into comics, now makes the leap into full-fledged YA noveldom. But not to worry: this is anything but a sellout. The book (structured as the girlâ€™s diary) opens with Emily coming to with a fresh case of plot-device-grade amnesia. As she tries to figure out who she is, where she is, and just about everything else (aside from remembering an affinity for cats and the number 13), Emily gets involved in a power struggle among a cast of shady characters in the town of Blackrock. Although the lurching plot perambulations are increasingly difficult to follow, thereâ€™s no doubting the lighthearted but darkly hued creativity on display, nearly always sacrificing sense for strangeness. A bevy of lists (all 13 items long) and black-and-red drawings work to break up the narrative. The central mystery of who Emily is eventually gets (sort of) resolved; any number of other unexplained peculiarities will have to wait for further installments. Pure black gold for the right readers. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1698'),
(16525, 'Emily the Strange: The Lost Days', 'Rob Reger &amp; Jessica Gruner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  13 Elements you will find in the first Emily the Strange novel:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <ol>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Mystery\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A beautiful golem\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Souped-up slingshots\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Four black cats\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Amnesia\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Calamity Poker\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Angry ponies\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A shady truant officer\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Top-13 lists\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A sandstorm generator\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     DoppelgÃ„ngers\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A secret mission\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Earwigs\n    </p>\n   </li>\n  </ol>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Emily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or cobbling together a particle accelerator out of lint, lentils, and safety pins; or rocking out on drums/ guitar/saxophone/zither; or painting a swirling feral sewer mural; or forcing someone to say "swirling feral sewer mural" 13 times fast . . . and pointing and laughing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Questions for Emily the Strange\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   How does it feel to have amnesia? I can imagine there are some situations in life where amnesia would be pretty useful, right?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Well, when you have it and donâ€™t know whatâ€™s going on, itâ€™s pretty grabbling frustrating. Once you know why you have it, and IF you are lucky enough to have given it to yourself, and IF you have a failproof way to get your memory back, itâ€™s pretty exciting. Still frustrating, but good to know that itâ€™s all for a reason. Did I mention you feel pretty stupid, too? I mean--you donâ€™t even know who you are!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   I bet golems are pretty handy, too--can you tell us how you made yours?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hmmm. Letâ€™s see. I wonâ€™t give you the full recipe, but I can tell you that my latest golem, Raven, was made from several parts bird (the Chihuahuan Raven species, to be exact--for its booming voice, navigational abilities, and superior lingual skills), circuitry from a discarded cash register (for simple math skills), extra-strength parabolic synth tubes (for muscle mass), super-long lasting chewing gum (we donâ€™t want her getting tendonitis, do we?), various devices I â€œborrowedâ€ from my mom (her garage door opener, curling iron, and blender), and finally a thermo-reducer distilling apparatus that cools volatile material (this golem needs to keep her cool in heated situations!). All that got blended with some real bad luck--and a golem is born! (Again!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Youâ€™re known for your skills with a slingshot. Can you give us any slingshot-maintenance tips?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Replace the elastic regularly (or better yet, use surgical tubing). This will keep proper torque and prevent backfire, misfire, or breakdown when you need it the most.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Depending on the size of your rig, adding a tasteful bicycle grip to the shaft can improve handling, and thus your aim (and confidence).\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    I find that a few basic modifications (time-reverse, teleport, x-ray vision) can really add value to a simple slingshot.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Keep your gear out of the sun. It dries out the elastic, makes the wood brittle, and shrivels your soul.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   If Nee-Chee, Mystery, Sabbath, and Miles wrote a book about your Lost Days, what would they say?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    NEECHEE: Youâ€™ve gone through a lot of trouble just to make more trouble for yourself.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    MYSTERY: Blackrock is such a magical essence, any effort to protect it would be worthy.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    MILES: It was a nice return to the alley. Been a while since I camped out there.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    SABBATH: Dude, Cabbage was closeâ€¦but no cigar.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Regerâ€™s gothy cult heroine, who began life as a sticker for skaters and other underground types before moving into comics, now makes the leap into full-fledged YA noveldom. But not to worry: this is anything but a sellout. The book (structured as the girlâ€™s diary) opens with Emily coming to with a fresh case of plot-device-grade amnesia. As she tries to figure out who she is, where she is, and just about everything else (aside from remembering an affinity for cats and the number 13), Emily gets involved in a power struggle among a cast of shady characters in the town of Blackrock. Although the lurching plot perambulations are increasingly difficult to follow, thereâ€™s no doubting the lighthearted but darkly hued creativity on display, nearly always sacrificing sense for strangeness. A bevy of lists (all 13 items long) and black-and-red drawings work to break up the narrative. The central mystery of who Emily is eventually gets (sort of) resolved; any number of other unexplained peculiarities will have to wait for further installments. Pure black gold for the right readers. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12120'),
(16526, 'Emily the Strange: The Lost Days', 'Rob Reger; Jessica Gruner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Book Description\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  13 Elements you will find in the first Emily the Strange novel:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <ol>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Mystery\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A beautiful golem\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Souped-up slingshots\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Four black cats\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Amnesia\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Calamity Poker\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Angry ponies\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A shady truant officer\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Top-13 lists\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A sandstorm generator\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     DoppelgÃ„ngers\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     A secret mission\n    </p>\n   </li>\n   <li>\n    <p>\n     Earwigs\n    </p>\n   </li>\n  </ol>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Emily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or cobbling together a particle accelerator out of lint, lentils, and safety pins; or rocking out on drums/ guitar/saxophone/zither; or painting a swirling feral sewer mural; or forcing someone to say "swirling feral sewer mural" 13 times fast . . . and pointing and laughing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Questions for Emily the Strange\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   How does it feel to have amnesia? I can imagine there are some situations in life where amnesia would be pretty useful, right?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Well, when you have it and donâ€™t know whatâ€™s going on, itâ€™s pretty grabbling frustrating. Once you know why you have it, and IF you are lucky enough to have given it to yourself, and IF you have a failproof way to get your memory back, itâ€™s pretty exciting. Still frustrating, but good to know that itâ€™s all for a reason. Did I mention you feel pretty stupid, too? I mean--you donâ€™t even know who you are!\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   I bet golems are pretty handy, too--can you tell us how you made yours?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hmmm. Letâ€™s see. I wonâ€™t give you the full recipe, but I can tell you that my latest golem, Raven, was made from several parts bird (the Chihuahuan Raven species, to be exact--for its booming voice, navigational abilities, and superior lingual skills), circuitry from a discarded cash register (for simple math skills), extra-strength parabolic synth tubes (for muscle mass), super-long lasting chewing gum (we donâ€™t want her getting tendonitis, do we?), various devices I â€œborrowedâ€ from my mom (her garage door opener, curling iron, and blender), and finally a thermo-reducer distilling apparatus that cools volatile material (this golem needs to keep her cool in heated situations!). All that got blended with some real bad luck--and a golem is born! (Again!)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Youâ€™re known for your skills with a slingshot. Can you give us any slingshot-maintenance tips?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Replace the elastic regularly (or better yet, use surgical tubing). This will keep proper torque and prevent backfire, misfire, or breakdown when you need it the most.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Depending on the size of your rig, adding a tasteful bicycle grip to the shaft can improve handling, and thus your aim (and confidence).\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    I find that a few basic modifications (time-reverse, teleport, x-ray vision) can really add value to a simple slingshot.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    Keep your gear out of the sun. It dries out the elastic, makes the wood brittle, and shrivels your soul.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   If Nee-Chee, Mystery, Sabbath, and Miles wrote a book about your Lost Days, what would they say?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <ol>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    NEECHEE: Youâ€™ve gone through a lot of trouble just to make more trouble for yourself.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    MYSTERY: Blackrock is such a magical essence, any effort to protect it would be worthy.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    MILES: It was a nice return to the alley. Been a while since I camped out there.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    SABBATH: Dude, Cabbage was closeâ€¦but no cigar.\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ol>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Regerâ€™s gothy cult heroine, who began life as a sticker for skaters and other underground types before moving into comics, now makes the leap into full-fledged YA noveldom. But not to worry: this is anything but a sellout. The book (structured as the girlâ€™s diary) opens with Emily coming to with a fresh case of plot-device-grade amnesia. As she tries to figure out who she is, where she is, and just about everything else (aside from remembering an affinity for cats and the number 13), Emily gets involved in a power struggle among a cast of shady characters in the town of Blackrock. Although the lurching plot perambulations are increasingly difficult to follow, thereâ€™s no doubting the lighthearted but darkly hued creativity on display, nearly always sacrificing sense for strangeness. A bevy of lists (all 13 items long) and black-and-red drawings work to break up the narrative. The central mystery of who Emily is eventually gets (sort of) resolved; any number of other unexplained peculiarities will have to wait for further installments. Pure black gold for the right readers. Grades 7-10. --Ian Chipman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24878'),
(16527, 'Emma', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4701'),
(16528, 'Emma', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8310'),
(16529, 'Emma', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15356'),
(16530, 'Emma', 'Jane Austen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19932'),
(16531, 'Emperor', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Emperor (The first book in the Time''s Tapestry series) A novel by Stephen Baxter A first installment of a four-book alternate history epic traces the rise of a powerful family whose successes are linked to an ancient prophecy that guides their financial and political choices, in a tale that begins with a Celtic noble''s betrayal and culminates in the fall of the Roman empire. 20,000 first printing. A Celtic noble betrays his people and sides with the conquering Roman legions all because of a prophecy that reveals secrets about the world that is to come, guiding those who hold it to wealth and power. A woman gives birth to her child in a village in Northern England, the cold northern edge of the Roman Empire. As she struggles through a painful labour she begins to scream out a series of words in Latin. A language she has never heard before, much less spoken. One of the family recognises the words for what they are. Only later does it become clear that the women has spoken a prophecy. A prophecy that relates to the death of the Emperor Constantine/ A prophecy that if enacted will change the fate of the Roman Empire and all of the future beyond it. Stephen Baxter''s new series takes ordinary individuals living at history''s tipping points and presents them with a prophecy that challenges everything they believe about their world and prompts them to take action that could change it forever. The fourth volume reveals the nature of the prophecies and reveals a battle that has been fought through the ages. SUMMARY: A Celtic noble betrays his people and sides with the conquering Roman legions all because of a prophecy that reveals secrets about the world that is to come, guiding those who hold it to wealth and power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23007'),
(16532, 'Emperor', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Attempting to recover the fifth component of a renegade robot, Hunter and his team travel through time to ancient China, where they are thwarted by Dr. Wayne Nystrom, creator of the robot, who is determined to retrieve it himself. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28251'),
(16533, 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer', 'Siddhartha Mukherjee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n illustrates how modern treatments--multi-pronged chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, as well as preventative care--came into existence thanks to a century''s worth of research, trials, and small, essential breakthroughs around the globe. While\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n is rich with the science and history behind the fight against cancer, it is also a meditation on illness, medical ethics, and the complex, intertwining lives of doctors and patients. Mukherjee''s profound compassion--for cancer patients, their families, as well as the oncologists who, all too often, can offer little hope--makes this book a very human history of an elusive and complicated disease.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Mukherjee''s debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee shapes a massive amount of history into a coherent story with a roller-coaster trajectory: the discovery of a new treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy--followed by the notion that if a little is good, more must be better, ending in disfiguring radical mastectomy and multidrug chemo so toxic the treatment ended up being almost worse than the disease. The first part of the book is driven by the obsession of Sidney Farber and philanthropist Mary Lasker to find a unitary cure for all cancers. (Farber developed the first successful chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.) The last and most exciting part is driven by the race of brilliant, maverick scientists to understand how cells become cancerous. Each new discovery was small, but as Mukherjee, a Columbia professor of medicine, writes, "Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes." Mukherjee''s formidable intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account of the effort to disrobe the "emperor of maladies." (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1336');
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(16534, 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer', 'Siddhartha Mukherjee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n illustrates how modern treatments--multi-pronged chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, as well as preventative care--came into existence thanks to a century''s worth of research, trials, and small, essential breakthroughs around the globe. While\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n is rich with the science and history behind the fight against cancer, it is also a meditation on illness, medical ethics, and the complex, intertwining lives of doctors and patients. Mukherjee''s profound compassion--for cancer patients, their families, as well as the oncologists who, all too often, can offer little hope--makes this book a very human history of an elusive and complicated disease.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Mukherjee''s debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee shapes a massive amount of history into a coherent story with a roller-coaster trajectory: the discovery of a new treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy--followed by the notion that if a little is good, more must be better, ending in disfiguring radical mastectomy and multidrug chemo so toxic the treatment ended up being almost worse than the disease. The first part of the book is driven by the obsession of Sidney Farber and philanthropist Mary Lasker to find a unitary cure for all cancers. (Farber developed the first successful chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.) The last and most exciting part is driven by the race of brilliant, maverick scientists to understand how cells become cancerous. Each new discovery was small, but as Mukherjee, a Columbia professor of medicine, writes, "Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes." Mukherjee''s formidable intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account of the effort to disrobe the "emperor of maladies." (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11648'),
(16535, 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer', 'Siddhartha Mukherjee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n illustrates how modern treatments--multi-pronged chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, as well as preventative care--came into existence thanks to a century''s worth of research, trials, and small, essential breakthroughs around the globe. While\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n is rich with the science and history behind the fight against cancer, it is also a meditation on illness, medical ethics, and the complex, intertwining lives of doctors and patients. Mukherjee''s profound compassion--for cancer patients, their families, as well as the oncologists who, all too often, can offer little hope--makes this book a very human history of an elusive and complicated disease.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Mukherjee''s debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee shapes a massive amount of history into a coherent story with a roller-coaster trajectory: the discovery of a new treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy--followed by the notion that if a little is good, more must be better, ending in disfiguring radical mastectomy and multidrug chemo so toxic the treatment ended up being almost worse than the disease. The first part of the book is driven by the obsession of Sidney Farber and philanthropist Mary Lasker to find a unitary cure for all cancers. (Farber developed the first successful chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.) The last and most exciting part is driven by the race of brilliant, maverick scientists to understand how cells become cancerous. Each new discovery was small, but as Mukherjee, a Columbia professor of medicine, writes, "Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes." Mukherjee''s formidable intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account of the effort to disrobe the "emperor of maladies." (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14532'),
(16536, 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer', 'Siddhartha Mukherjee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n illustrates how modern treatments--multi-pronged chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, as well as preventative care--came into existence thanks to a century''s worth of research, trials, and small, essential breakthroughs around the globe. While\n <em>\n  The Emperor of All Maladies\n </em>\n is rich with the science and history behind the fight against cancer, it is also a meditation on illness, medical ethics, and the complex, intertwining lives of doctors and patients. Mukherjee''s profound compassion--for cancer patients, their families, as well as the oncologists who, all too often, can offer little hope--makes this book a very human history of an elusive and complicated disease.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Mukherjee''s debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee shapes a massive amount of history into a coherent story with a roller-coaster trajectory: the discovery of a new treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy--followed by the notion that if a little is good, more must be better, ending in disfiguring radical mastectomy and multidrug chemo so toxic the treatment ended up being almost worse than the disease. The first part of the book is driven by the obsession of Sidney Farber and philanthropist Mary Lasker to find a unitary cure for all cancers. (Farber developed the first successful chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.) The last and most exciting part is driven by the race of brilliant, maverick scientists to understand how cells become cancerous. Each new discovery was small, but as Mukherjee, a Columbia professor of medicine, writes, "Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes." Mukherjee''s formidable intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account of the effort to disrobe the "emperor of maladies." (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23613'),
(16537, 'The Emperor of Ocean Park', 'Stephen L. Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A complex, smart mystery filled with intrigue, drama, and more than a little danger awaits in Stephen L. Carter''s engaging debut novel,\n <em>\n  The Emperor of Ocean Park\n </em>\n . After the funeral of his powerful father (a federal judge whose nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court became a public scandal), Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out "the arrangements" his father left behind. Armed with fortitude and familial devotion--though paranoid of his wife''s fidelity--Talcott soon finds himself in an investigation that entangles him with a number of questionable Washington, D.C., denizens, including attorneys and government officials, law professors, the FBI, shady underworld figures, chess masters, and friends and family. All the while Talcott tries not to hurt his attorney wife''s chance for a judicial nomination--and their fragile marriage--but the closer he comes to unraveling his father''s dark secrets, the more dangerous things become.\n</p>\n<p>\n Clocking in at over 650 pages, the novel could easily have been streamlined; many of Talcott''s thoughts are unnecessarily repeated. But Carter''s storytelling skills are adept: tension builds, surprises are genuine, clues are not handed out freely. The prose, while somewhat meandering, can be crisp and insightful, as demonstrated in Carter''s description of the misguided paths of young attorneys who sacrifice\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  all on the altar of career... at last arriving... at their cherished career goals, partnerships, professorships, judgeships, whatever kind of ships they dream of sailing, and then looking around at the angry, empty waters and realizing that they have arrived with nothing, absolutely nothing, and wondering what to do with the rest of their wretched lives.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Michael Ferch\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carter, a Yale law professor and distinguished conservative African-American intellectual known for his nonfiction (The Culture of Disbelief), has written a first-rate legal thriller guaranteed to broaden his audience. The narrator, Talcott Garland, is a law professor at Elm Harbor University whose occasional Carteresque editorializing about politics and justice are saved from didacticism by his abiding existential loneliness. The mystery at the heart of the novel stems from Tal''s father''s disgrace: Judge Oliver Garland (a Robert Bork meets Clarence Thomas type) was nominated by Ronald Reagan for a Supreme Court seat, but brought down in the Senate hearings when it was revealed that he had a friendship with Jack Ziegler, a wild-card former CIA agent now rumored to be an organized crime kingpin. When the judge dies of what looks like a heart attack and Ziegler turns up at his funeral, Tal is initiated into a quest to uncover mysterious "arrangements" his father made in the event of his untimely demise. Various shady entities observe Tal chasing down the judge''s clues, which include a cryptic note ("you have little time.... Excelsior! It begins!") and derive from chess strategy. Meanwhile, Talcott is going through a rough patch: his wife, Kimmer, a high-powered attorney, is probably cheating on him, his Elm Harbor law school colleagues are suspicious of him and a fake FBI man is following him around. As Talcott digs deeper, he uncovers a vein of corruption that runs all the way to the top, and his own life becomes threatened. This thriller, which touches electrically on our sexual, racial and religious anxieties, will be the talk of the political in-crowd this summer.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1044'),
(16538, 'The Emperor of Ocean Park', 'Stephen L. Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A complex, smart mystery filled with intrigue, drama, and more than a little danger awaits in Stephen L. Carter''s engaging debut novel,\n <em>\n  The Emperor of Ocean Park\n </em>\n . After the funeral of his powerful father (a federal judge whose nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court became a public scandal), Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out "the arrangements" his father left behind. Armed with fortitude and familial devotion--though paranoid of his wife''s fidelity--Talcott soon finds himself in an investigation that entangles him with a number of questionable Washington, D.C., denizens, including attorneys and government officials, law professors, the FBI, shady underworld figures, chess masters, and friends and family. All the while Talcott tries not to hurt his attorney wife''s chance for a judicial nomination--and their fragile marriage--but the closer he comes to unraveling his father''s dark secrets, the more dangerous things become.\n</p>\n<p>\n Clocking in at over 650 pages, the novel could easily have been streamlined; many of Talcott''s thoughts are unnecessarily repeated. But Carter''s storytelling skills are adept: tension builds, surprises are genuine, clues are not handed out freely. The prose, while somewhat meandering, can be crisp and insightful, as demonstrated in Carter''s description of the misguided paths of young attorneys who sacrifice\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  all on the altar of career... at last arriving... at their cherished career goals, partnerships, professorships, judgeships, whatever kind of ships they dream of sailing, and then looking around at the angry, empty waters and realizing that they have arrived with nothing, absolutely nothing, and wondering what to do with the rest of their wretched lives.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Michael Ferch\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carter, a Yale law professor and distinguished conservative African-American intellectual known for his nonfiction (The Culture of Disbelief), has written a first-rate legal thriller guaranteed to broaden his audience. The narrator, Talcott Garland, is a law professor at Elm Harbor University whose occasional Carteresque editorializing about politics and justice are saved from didacticism by his abiding existential loneliness. The mystery at the heart of the novel stems from Tal''s father''s disgrace: Judge Oliver Garland (a Robert Bork meets Clarence Thomas type) was nominated by Ronald Reagan for a Supreme Court seat, but brought down in the Senate hearings when it was revealed that he had a friendship with Jack Ziegler, a wild-card former CIA agent now rumored to be an organized crime kingpin. When the judge dies of what looks like a heart attack and Ziegler turns up at his funeral, Tal is initiated into a quest to uncover mysterious "arrangements" his father made in the event of his untimely demise. Various shady entities observe Tal chasing down the judge''s clues, which include a cryptic note ("you have little time.... Excelsior! It begins!") and derive from chess strategy. Meanwhile, Talcott is going through a rough patch: his wife, Kimmer, a high-powered attorney, is probably cheating on him, his Elm Harbor law school colleagues are suspicious of him and a fake FBI man is following him around. As Talcott digs deeper, he uncovers a vein of corruption that runs all the way to the top, and his own life becomes threatened. This thriller, which touches electrically on our sexual, racial and religious anxieties, will be the talk of the political in-crowd this summer.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8786'),
(16539, 'The emperor of Ocean Park', 'Stephen L. Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A complex, smart mystery filled with intrigue, drama, and more than a little danger awaits in Stephen L. Carter''s engaging debut novel,\n <em>\n  The Emperor of Ocean Park\n </em>\n . After the funeral of his powerful father (a federal judge whose nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court became a public scandal), Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out "the arrangements" his father left behind. Armed with fortitude and familial devotion--though paranoid of his wife''s fidelity--Talcott soon finds himself in an investigation that entangles him with a number of questionable Washington, D.C., denizens, including attorneys and government officials, law professors, the FBI, shady underworld figures, chess masters, and friends and family. All the while Talcott tries not to hurt his attorney wife''s chance for a judicial nomination--and their fragile marriage--but the closer he comes to unraveling his father''s dark secrets, the more dangerous things become.\n</p>\n<p>\n Clocking in at over 650 pages, the novel could easily have been streamlined; many of Talcott''s thoughts are unnecessarily repeated. But Carter''s storytelling skills are adept: tension builds, surprises are genuine, clues are not handed out freely. The prose, while somewhat meandering, can be crisp and insightful, as demonstrated in Carter''s description of the misguided paths of young attorneys who sacrifice\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  all on the altar of career... at last arriving... at their cherished career goals, partnerships, professorships, judgeships, whatever kind of ships they dream of sailing, and then looking around at the angry, empty waters and realizing that they have arrived with nothing, absolutely nothing, and wondering what to do with the rest of their wretched lives.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Michael Ferch\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Carter, a Yale law professor and distinguished conservative African-American intellectual known for his nonfiction (The Culture of Disbelief), has written a first-rate legal thriller guaranteed to broaden his audience. The narrator, Talcott Garland, is a law professor at Elm Harbor University whose occasional Carteresque editorializing about politics and justice are saved from didacticism by his abiding existential loneliness. The mystery at the heart of the novel stems from Tal''s father''s disgrace: Judge Oliver Garland (a Robert Bork meets Clarence Thomas type) was nominated by Ronald Reagan for a Supreme Court seat, but brought down in the Senate hearings when it was revealed that he had a friendship with Jack Ziegler, a wild-card former CIA agent now rumored to be an organized crime kingpin. When the judge dies of what looks like a heart attack and Ziegler turns up at his funeral, Tal is initiated into a quest to uncover mysterious "arrangements" his father made in the event of his untimely demise. Various shady entities observe Tal chasing down the judge''s clues, which include a cryptic note ("you have little time.... Excelsior! It begins!") and derive from chess strategy. Meanwhile, Talcott is going through a rough patch: his wife, Kimmer, a high-powered attorney, is probably cheating on him, his Elm Harbor law school colleagues are suspicious of him and a fake FBI man is following him around. As Talcott digs deeper, he uncovers a vein of corruption that runs all the way to the top, and his own life becomes threatened. This thriller, which touches electrically on our sexual, racial and religious anxieties, will be the talk of the political in-crowd this summer.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23846'),
(16540, 'Emperor: The Death of Kings', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Brilliantâ€¦stunning,â€ raved the Los Angeles Times about Conn Igguldenâ€™s first novel, Emperor: The Gates of Rome. â€œIggulden is a grand storyteller,â€ declared USA Today. Now Iggulden returns to the landscape of ancient Rome and the life of Julius Caesar in a new novel filled with all the sumptuous storytelling that distinguished his first book. Sweeping from the windswept, pirate-ruled seas to the stifling heat of the Roman senate, Iggulden takes us further down the path to glory as Julius Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, leader.  In a sweltering, sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them. Ragged, dirty, and half starved, the men will follow their leader into the mad, glorious fight for honor and revenge that only he wants to fight. Their leader is named Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who made the mistake of seizing Julius Caesarâ€”and holding him for ransom. Now, to get his revenge, Caesar will turn peasants into soldiers, building a shipborne fighting force that will not only decimate a pirate fleet but will dominate the Mediterranean, earning him the coveted title Military Tribune of Rome.While Caesar builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Gaius Brutus is fighting battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the shocking assassination of a dictator. Once Brutus and Caesar were as close as brothers, both devoted to the same ideals and attracted to the same forbidden woman. Now, when Caesar returnsâ€”with the winds of glory at his backâ€”they will find themselves at odds. For each has built an army of elite warriorsâ€”Caesarâ€™s forged in far-flung battles, Brutusâ€™ from Romeâ€™s political killing fields. But in an era when men die for their treachery and their allegiances, the two men will soon be united by a shock wave from the north. There, a gladiator named Spartacus is gathering strength, building an army of seventy thousand desperate slavesâ€”to fight a cataclysmic battle against Rome itself.Filled with unforgettable imagesâ€”from the death throes of a king to the birth of Caesarâ€™s child, from the bloody battlefields of Greece to the silent passion of loversâ€”Emperor: The Death of Kings is an astounding work, a stunning blend of vibrant history and thrilling fiction.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6609'),
(16541, 'Emperor: The Death of Kings', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Brilliantâ€¦stunning,â€ raved the Los Angeles Times about Conn Igguldenâ€™s first novel, Emperor: The Gates of Rome. â€œIggulden is a grand storyteller,â€ declared USA Today. Now Iggulden returns to the landscape of ancient Rome and the life of Julius Caesar in a new novel filled with all the sumptuous storytelling that distinguished his first book. Sweeping from the windswept, pirate-ruled seas to the stifling heat of the Roman senate, Iggulden takes us further down the path to glory as Julius Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, leader. In a sweltering, sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them. Ragged, dirty, and half starved, the men will follow their leader into the mad, glorious fight for honor and revenge that only he wants to fight. Their leader is named Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who made the mistake of seizing Julius Caesarâ€”and holding him for ransom. Now, to get his revenge, Caesar will turn peasants into soldiers, building a shipborne fighting force that will not only decimate a pirate fleet but will dominate the Mediterranean, earning him the coveted title Military Tribune of Rome.While Caesar builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Gaius Brutus is fighting battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the shocking assassination of a dictator. Once Brutus and Caesar were as close as brothers, both devoted to the same ideals and attracted to the same forbidden woman. Now, when Caesar returnsâ€”with the winds of glory at his backâ€”they will find themselves at odds. For each has built an army of elite warriorsâ€”Caesarâ€™s forged in far-flung battles, Brutusâ€™ from Romeâ€™s political killing fields. But in an era when men die for their treachery and their allegiances, the two men will soon be united by a shock wave from the north. There, a gladiator named Spartacus is gathering strength, building an army of seventy thousand desperate slavesâ€”to fight a cataclysmic battle against Rome itself.Filled with unforgettable imagesâ€”from the death throes of a king to the birth of Caesarâ€™s child, from the bloody battlefields of Greece to the silent passion of loversâ€”Emperor: The Death of Kings is an astounding work, a stunning blend of vibrant history and thrilling fiction.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17387'),
(16542, 'Emperor: The Death of Kings', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Brilliantâ€¦stunning,â€ raved the Los Angeles Times about Conn Igguldenâ€™s first novel, Emperor: The Gates of Rome. â€œIggulden is a grand storyteller,â€ declared USA Today. Now Iggulden returns to the landscape of ancient Rome and the life of Julius Caesar in a new novel filled with all the sumptuous storytelling that distinguished his first book. Sweeping from the windswept, pirate-ruled seas to the stifling heat of the Roman senate, Iggulden takes us further down the path to glory as Julius Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, leader. In a sweltering, sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them. Ragged, dirty, and half starved, the men will follow their leader into the mad, glorious fight for honor and revenge that only he wants to fight. Their leader is named Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who made the mistake of seizing Julius Caesarâ€”and holding him for ransom. Now, to get his revenge, Caesar will turn peasants into soldiers, building a shipborne fighting force that will not only decimate a pirate fleet but will dominate the Mediterranean, earning him the coveted title Military Tribune of Rome.While Caesar builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Gaius Brutus is fighting battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the shocking assassination of a dictator. Once Brutus and Caesar were as close as brothers, both devoted to the same ideals and attracted to the same forbidden woman. Now, when Caesar returnsâ€”with the winds of glory at his backâ€”they will find themselves at odds. For each has built an army of elite warriorsâ€”Caesarâ€™s forged in far-flung battles, Brutusâ€™ from Romeâ€™s political killing fields. But in an era when men die for their treachery and their allegiances, the two men will soon be united by a shock wave from the north. There, a gladiator named Spartacus is gathering strength, building an army of seventy thousand desperate slavesâ€”to fight a cataclysmic battle against Rome itself.Filled with unforgettable imagesâ€”from the death throes of a king to the birth of Caesarâ€™s child, from the bloody battlefields of Greece to the silent passion of loversâ€”Emperor: The Death of Kings is an astounding work, a stunning blend of vibrant history and thrilling fiction.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27030'),
(16543, 'Emperor: The Field of Swords', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With his acclaimed Emperor novels, author Conn Iggulden brings a dazzling world to lifeâ€“the rich, complex world of ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of one extraordinary man: Julius Caesar. Now Iggulden returns to the story of Julius Caesar and a realm that stretches from the sands of North Africa to the coast of Britain.  Against this magnificent backdrop, Caesar, his first victories under his belt and a series of key alliances in place, makes his move toward power and gloryâ€“and commands his famous legions on one of historyâ€™s bloodiest and most daring military campaigns.It is the heart of the first century B.C.  For Julius Caesar, the time has come to enter the treacherous political battleground that has become Rome.  Having proved his valor in the slavesâ€™ revolt, Caesar is strengthened by the love and vision of a beautiful older woman, and by the sword of his loyal friend, Marcus Brutus. And when he is appointed to a new position of power, Caesar manages to do what none of the other great figures of his time could: capture the hearts of the Roman people themselves.  Crushing a rebellion, bringing order to the teeming city, Caesar then makes the move that will change history. He leaves Rome for the foothills of the Alps. And with an army made in his own image, he begins a daring charge through Gaul, across the English Channel, and to the wilds of tribal Britain.Here, in a series of cataclysmic clashes, the legend of Julius Caesar will be forged.  And while Caesar and Brutus pit their livesâ€“and those of their menâ€“against the armies of the wilderness, their political adversaries in Rome grow at once more fearful and more formidable.  So when the fighting at the dominionâ€™s edge is over, the greatest danger to Julius Caesar will await him on the Tiberâ€“with a man who wants Rome himself.From the clash of armies to the heat of a womanâ€™s seduction, from the thunder of battle to the orgies of pleasure and plunder that follow in a warriorâ€™s wake,** Emperor: The Field of Swords** captures in riveting detail a world being shaped by a brilliant civilization.  And in this extraordinary novel, the fate of Rome is being driven by the ambitions of a single man.  A man with an unmatched genius for power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6610'),
(16544, 'Emperor: The field of swords', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With his acclaimed Emperor novels, author Conn Iggulden brings a dazzling world to lifeâ€“the rich, complex world of ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of one extraordinary man: Julius Caesar. Now Iggulden returns to the story of Julius Caesar and a realm that stretches from the sands of North Africa to the coast of Britain. Against this magnificent backdrop, Caesar, his first victories under his belt and a series of key alliances in place, makes his move toward power and gloryâ€“and commands his famous legions on one of historyâ€™s bloodiest and most daring military campaigns.It is the heart of the first century B.C. For Julius Caesar, the time has come to enter the treacherous political battleground that has become Rome. Having proved his valor in the slavesâ€™ revolt, Caesar is strengthened by the love and vision of a beautiful older woman, and by the sword of his loyal friend, Marcus Brutus. And when he is appointed to a new position of power, Caesar manages to do what none of the other great figures of his time could: capture the hearts of the Roman people themselves. Crushing a rebellion, bringing order to the teeming city, Caesar then makes the move that will change history. He leaves Rome for the foothills of the Alps. And with an army made in his own image, he begins a daring charge through Gaul, across the English Channel, and to the wilds of tribal Britain.Here, in a series of cataclysmic clashes, the legend of Julius Caesar will be forged. And while Caesar and Brutus pit their livesâ€“and those of their menâ€“against the armies of the wilderness, their political adversaries in Rome grow at once more fearful and more formidable. So when the fighting at the dominionâ€™s edge is over, the greatest danger to Julius Caesar will await him on the Tiberâ€“with a man who wants Rome himself.From the clash of armies to the heat of a womanâ€™s seduction, from the thunder of battle to the orgies of pleasure and plunder that follow in a warriorâ€™s wake,** Emperor: The Field of Swords** captures in riveting detail a world being shaped by a brilliant civilization. And in this extraordinary novel, the fate of Rome is being driven by the ambitions of a single man. A man with an unmatched genius for power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17386'),
(16545, 'Emperor: The field of swords', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With his acclaimed Emperor novels, author Conn Iggulden brings a dazzling world to lifeâ€“the rich, complex world of ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of one extraordinary man: Julius Caesar. Now Iggulden returns to the story of Julius Caesar and a realm that stretches from the sands of North Africa to the coast of Britain. Against this magnificent backdrop, Caesar, his first victories under his belt and a series of key alliances in place, makes his move toward power and gloryâ€“and commands his famous legions on one of historyâ€™s bloodiest and most daring military campaigns.It is the heart of the first century B.C. For Julius Caesar, the time has come to enter the treacherous political battleground that has become Rome. Having proved his valor in the slavesâ€™ revolt, Caesar is strengthened by the love and vision of a beautiful older woman, and by the sword of his loyal friend, Marcus Brutus. And when he is appointed to a new position of power, Caesar manages to do what none of the other great figures of his time could: capture the hearts of the Roman people themselves. Crushing a rebellion, bringing order to the teeming city, Caesar then makes the move that will change history. He leaves Rome for the foothills of the Alps. And with an army made in his own image, he begins a daring charge through Gaul, across the English Channel, and to the wilds of tribal Britain.Here, in a series of cataclysmic clashes, the legend of Julius Caesar will be forged. And while Caesar and Brutus pit their livesâ€“and those of their menâ€“against the armies of the wilderness, their political adversaries in Rome grow at once more fearful and more formidable. So when the fighting at the dominionâ€™s edge is over, the greatest danger to Julius Caesar will await him on the Tiberâ€“with a man who wants Rome himself.From the clash of armies to the heat of a womanâ€™s seduction, from the thunder of battle to the orgies of pleasure and plunder that follow in a warriorâ€™s wake,** Emperor: The Field of Swords** captures in riveting detail a world being shaped by a brilliant civilization. And in this extraordinary novel, the fate of Rome is being driven by the ambitions of a single man. A man with an unmatched genius for power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27029'),
(16546, 'Emperor: The Gates of Rome', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rarely, if ever, does a new writer dazzle us with such a vivid imagination and storytelling, flawlessly capturing the essence of a land, a people, a legend. Conn Iggulden is just such a writer, bringing to vivid life one of the most fascinating eras in human history. In a true masterpiece of historical fiction, Iggulden takes us on a breathtaking journey through ancient Rome, sweeping us into a realm of tyrants and slaves, of dark intrigues and seething passions. What emerges is both a grand romantic tale of coming-of-age in the Roman Empire and a vibrant portrait of the early years of a man who would become the most powerful ruler on earth: Julius Caesar.On the lush Italian peninsula, a new empire is taking shape. At its heart is the city of Rome, a place of glory and decadence, beauty and bloodshed. Against this vivid backdrop, two boys are growing to manhood, dreaming of battles, fame, and glory in service of the mightiest empire the world has ever known. One is the son of a senator, a boy of privilege and ambition to whom much has been given and from whom much is expected. The other is a bastard child, a boy of strength and cunning, whose love for his adoptive familyâ€“and his adoptive brotherâ€“will be the most powerful force in his life.As young Gaius and Marcus are trained in the art of combatâ€“under the tutelage of one of Romeâ€™s most fearsome gladiatorsâ€“Rome itself is being rocked by the art of treachery and ambition, caught in a tug-of-war as two rival generals, Marius and Sulla, push the empire toward civil war. For Marcus, a bloody campaign in Greece will become a young soldierâ€™s proving ground. For Gaius, the equally deadly infighting of the Roman Senate will be the battlefield where he hones his courage and skill. And for both, the love of an extraordinary slave girl will be an honor each will covet but only one will win.The two friends are forced to walk different paths, and by the time they meet again everything will have changed. Both will have known love, loss, and violence. And the land where they were once innocent will be thrust into the grip of bitter conflictâ€“a conflict that will set Roman against Roman...and put their friendship to the ultimate test. Brilliantly interweaving history and adventure, Conn Iggulden conjures a stunning array of contrastsâ€“from the bloody stench of a battlefield to the opulence of the greatest city in history, from the tenderness of a lover to the treachery of an assassin. Superbly rendered, grippingly told, Emperor, The Gates of Rome is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6611'),
(16547, 'Emperor: The Gates of Rome', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rarely, if ever, does a new writer dazzle us with such a vivid imagination and storytelling, flawlessly capturing the essence of a land, a people, a legend. Conn Iggulden is just such a writer, bringing to vivid life one of the most fascinating eras in human history. In a true masterpiece of historical fiction, Iggulden takes us on a breathtaking journey through ancient Rome, sweeping us into a realm of tyrants and slaves, of dark intrigues and seething passions. What emerges is both a grand romantic tale of coming-of-age in the Roman Empire and a vibrant portrait of the early years of a man who would become the most powerful ruler on earth: Julius Caesar.On the lush Italian peninsula, a new empire is taking shape. At its heart is the city of Rome, a place of glory and decadence, beauty and bloodshed. Against this vivid backdrop, two boys are growing to manhood, dreaming of battles, fame, and glory in service of the mightiest empire the world has ever known. One is the son of a senator, a boy of privilege and ambition to whom much has been given and from whom much is expected. The other is a bastard child, a boy of strength and cunning, whose love for his adoptive familyâ€“and his adoptive brotherâ€“will be the most powerful force in his life.As young Gaius and Marcus are trained in the art of combatâ€“under the tutelage of one of Romeâ€™s most fearsome gladiatorsâ€“Rome itself is being rocked by the art of treachery and ambition, caught in a tug-of-war as two rival generals, Marius and Sulla, push the empire toward civil war. For Marcus, a bloody campaign in Greece will become a young soldierâ€™s proving ground. For Gaius, the equally deadly infighting of the Roman Senate will be the battlefield where he hones his courage and skill. And for both, the love of an extraordinary slave girl will be an honor each will covet but only one will win.The two friends are forced to walk different paths, and by the time they meet again everything will have changed. Both will have known love, loss, and violence. And the land where they were once innocent will be thrust into the grip of bitter conflictâ€“a conflict that will set Roman against Roman...and put their friendship to the ultimate test. Brilliantly interweaving history and adventure, Conn Iggulden conjures a stunning array of contrastsâ€“from the bloody stench of a battlefield to the opulence of the greatest city in history, from the tenderness of a lover to the treachery of an assassin. Superbly rendered, grippingly told, Emperor, The Gates of Rome is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17385'),
(16548, 'Emperor: The Gates of Rome', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rarely, if ever, does a new writer dazzle us with such a vivid imagination and storytelling, flawlessly capturing the essence of a land, a people, a legend. Conn Iggulden is just such a writer, bringing to vivid life one of the most fascinating eras in human history. In a true masterpiece of historical fiction, Iggulden takes us on a breathtaking journey through ancient Rome, sweeping us into a realm of tyrants and slaves, of dark intrigues and seething passions. What emerges is both a grand romantic tale of coming-of-age in the Roman Empire and a vibrant portrait of the early years of a man who would become the most powerful ruler on earth: Julius Caesar.On the lush Italian peninsula, a new empire is taking shape. At its heart is the city of Rome, a place of glory and decadence, beauty and bloodshed. Against this vivid backdrop, two boys are growing to manhood, dreaming of battles, fame, and glory in service of the mightiest empire the world has ever known. One is the son of a senator, a boy of privilege and ambition to whom much has been given and from whom much is expected. The other is a bastard child, a boy of strength and cunning, whose love for his adoptive familyâ€“and his adoptive brotherâ€“will be the most powerful force in his life.As young Gaius and Marcus are trained in the art of combatâ€“under the tutelage of one of Romeâ€™s most fearsome gladiatorsâ€“Rome itself is being rocked by the art of treachery and ambition, caught in a tug-of-war as two rival generals, Marius and Sulla, push the empire toward civil war. For Marcus, a bloody campaign in Greece will become a young soldierâ€™s proving ground. For Gaius, the equally deadly infighting of the Roman Senate will be the battlefield where he hones his courage and skill. And for both, the love of an extraordinary slave girl will be an honor each will covet but only one will win.The two friends are forced to walk different paths, and by the time they meet again everything will have changed. Both will have known love, loss, and violence. And the land where they were once innocent will be thrust into the grip of bitter conflictâ€“a conflict that will set Roman against Roman...and put their friendship to the ultimate test. Brilliantly interweaving history and adventure, Conn Iggulden conjures a stunning array of contrastsâ€“from the bloody stench of a battlefield to the opulence of the greatest city in history, from the tenderness of a lover to the treachery of an assassin. Superbly rendered, grippingly told, Emperor, The Gates of Rome is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27135'),
(16549, 'Emperor: The Gods of War', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The year is 53 B.C. Fresh from victory in Gaul, Julius Caesar leads battle-hardened legions across the Rubicon riverâ€“threatening Rome herself.  Even the master strategist Pompey is caught unprepared by the strike, and forced to abandon his city.  The armies of Rome will face each other at last in civil war, led by the two greatest generals ever to walk the seven hills. Thus begins Conn Igguldenâ€™s towering saga of Julius Caesar as he approaches his final destinyâ€”a destiny that will be decided not by legions but by his friend Brutus and an Egyptian queen named Cleopatra, who will bear his only son....For Caesar, the campaign against Pompey will test his military genius and his appetite for glory to their limits, as the greatest fighting machine the world has ever seen divides against itself in a bloody conflict that will set brother against brother until victory or death.   But for Caesar, another kingdom beckonsâ€”a world of ancient mysteries and languid sensuality, where a beautiful, bewitching woman waits to snare his heart.      **The Gods of War** follows Julius Caesar through politics and passion, ruthless ambition and private grief, and into the corruption of power itself.  Those he has loved will play a part in his triumphsâ€”as will the jealousy and hatred of his enemies.From the spectacles of the arena to the whispered lies of conspirators, Conn Iggulden brings to life a world of monumental drama. And at its heart is one extraordinary friendshipâ€”marked by fierce loyalty and bitter betrayal, with dark events shrouded in noble ideals.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6614'),
(16550, 'Emperor: The Gods of War', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The year is 53 B.C. Fresh from victory in Gaul, Julius Caesar leads battle-hardened legions across the Rubicon riverâ€“threatening Rome herself. Even the master strategist Pompey is caught unprepared by the strike, and forced to abandon his city. The armies of Rome will face each other at last in civil war, led by the two greatest generals ever to walk the seven hills. Thus begins Conn Igguldenâ€™s towering saga of Julius Caesar as he approaches his final destinyâ€”a destiny that will be decided not by legions but by his friend Brutus and an Egyptian queen named Cleopatra, who will bear his only son....For Caesar, the campaign against Pompey will test his military genius and his appetite for glory to their limits, as the greatest fighting machine the world has ever seen divides against itself in a bloody conflict that will set brother against brother until victory or death. But for Caesar, another kingdom beckonsâ€”a world of ancient mysteries and languid sensuality, where a beautiful, bewitching woman waits to snare his heart. **The Gods of War** follows Julius Caesar through politics and passion, ruthless ambition and private grief, and into the corruption of power itself. Those he has loved will play a part in his triumphsâ€”as will the jealousy and hatred of his enemies.From the spectacles of the arena to the whispered lies of conspirators, Conn Iggulden brings to life a world of monumental drama. And at its heart is one extraordinary friendshipâ€”marked by fierce loyalty and bitter betrayal, with dark events shrouded in noble ideals.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17345'),
(16551, 'Emperor: The Gods of War', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The year is 53 B.C. Fresh from victory in Gaul, Julius Caesar leads battle-hardened legions across the Rubicon riverâ€“threatening Rome herself. Even the master strategist Pompey is caught unprepared by the strike, and forced to abandon his city. The armies of Rome will face each other at last in civil war, led by the two greatest generals ever to walk the seven hills. Thus begins Conn Igguldenâ€™s towering saga of Julius Caesar as he approaches his final destinyâ€”a destiny that will be decided not by legions but by his friend Brutus and an Egyptian queen named Cleopatra, who will bear his only son....For Caesar, the campaign against Pompey will test his military genius and his appetite for glory to their limits, as the greatest fighting machine the world has ever seen divides against itself in a bloody conflict that will set brother against brother until victory or death. But for Caesar, another kingdom beckonsâ€”a world of ancient mysteries and languid sensuality, where a beautiful, bewitching woman waits to snare his heart. **The Gods of War** follows Julius Caesar through politics and passion, ruthless ambition and private grief, and into the corruption of power itself. Those he has loved will play a part in his triumphsâ€”as will the jealousy and hatred of his enemies.From the spectacles of the arena to the whispered lies of conspirators, Conn Iggulden brings to life a world of monumental drama. And at its heart is one extraordinary friendshipâ€”marked by fierce loyalty and bitter betrayal, with dark events shrouded in noble ideals.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27134');
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(16552, 'The Emperor&#39;s Gold', 'Robert Wilton', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n  ''A sparkling gem of a novel; not only a gripping espionage thriller that has the extra thrill of being grounded in genuine history, but a beautiful, lyrical novel alive with the sheer joy of language. Literate, intelligent, utterly captivating. Not since Hilary Mantel''s ''Wolf Hall'' has a novel been so drenched in a sense of time and place - and this has a plot that blows all comers out of the water.'' --M C Scott\n  <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: left; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n  July 1805: The armies of France have only to sail to England to complete Napoleonâ€™s domination over Europe. Britain is militarily weak, politically divided, unsettled by her rioting poor. Into this feverish environment comes a dead man. Pulled half-drowned from a shipwreck, his past erased, Tom Roscarrock is put to work for the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Survey, a shadowy Government bureau. He is thrown into a bewildering world of political intrigue and violence. In France, a plan is underway to shatter the last of Englandâ€™s stability. In England, the man who recruited Roscarrock has disappeared, his agents keep turning up dead, and reports of a secret French fleet are panicking the authorities.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  His life in danger and his motives increasingly suspect, Roscarrock must pursue the complex conspiracy across England and then into the heart of Napoleonâ€™s France, there to confront the greatest mystery of all. The Emperorâ€™s Gold is the first in a series of historical espionage thrillers taken from the newly-uncovered archives of the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Survey.\n </div>\n</span>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12297'),
(16553, 'Empire', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Right-wing rhetoric trumps the logic of story and character in this near-future political thriller about a red-state vs. blue-state American civil war, an implausibly plotted departure from Card''s bestselling science fiction (Ender''s Game, etc.). When the president and vice-president are killed by domestic terrorists (of unknown political identity), a radical leftist army calling itself the Progressive Restoration takes over New York City and declares itself the rightful government of the United States. Other blue states officially recognize the legitimacy of the group, thus starting a second civil war. Card''s heroic red-state protagonists, Maj. Reuben "Rube" Malek and Capt. Bartholomew "Cole" Coleman, draw on their Special Ops training to take down the extremist leftists and restore peace to the nation. The action is overshadowed by the novel''s polemical message, which Card tops off with an afterword decrying his own politically-motivated exclusion from various conventions and campuses, the "national media elite" and the divisive excesses of both the right and the left.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Some video-game developers asked Card to write a scenario for "an entertainment franchise . . . about a near-future American civil war." They came to the right man and held off on releasing the game until he completed this relentless thriller, which couldn''t be timelier and is, for all its hyperactivity and flip, Hollywoodish one-liners, heartfelt and sobering. Its heroes are two special-ops army officers who keep their oaths to defend the U.S. against all enemies when far too many of their ostensible colleagues have decided to abandon theirs. A rocket hits the west wing of the White House, killing the president, vice-president, and secretary of defense. While those directly responsible are Arabs, the next day, 14-foot-tall, bulletproof, armed globes on mechanical legs, backed by shooters on individual hovercraft, seize New York City by killing anyone in uniform. None of the new attackers looks anything other than American. A "Progressive Restoration" administration is established in the city, and it encourages other cities and states to join it to restore government as it should have been but for the stolen elections of 2000 and 2004. Intriguing plot wrinkles come fore and aft of those basic developments, there are many deftly shaped supporting players, and major shocks explode in a split second (no Stephen King slo-mo for Card!). Moreover, all the action doesn''t obscure the author''s message about the dangers of extreme political polarization and the need to reassert moderation and mutual citizenship; indeed, it drives it home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2373'),
(16554, 'Empire', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Right-wing rhetoric trumps the logic of story and character in this near-future political thriller about a red-state vs. blue-state American civil war, an implausibly plotted departure from Card''s bestselling science fiction (Ender''s Game, etc.). When the president and vice-president are killed by domestic terrorists (of unknown political identity), a radical leftist army calling itself the Progressive Restoration takes over New York City and declares itself the rightful government of the United States. Other blue states officially recognize the legitimacy of the group, thus starting a second civil war. Card''s heroic red-state protagonists, Maj. Reuben "Rube" Malek and Capt. Bartholomew "Cole" Coleman, draw on their Special Ops training to take down the extremist leftists and restore peace to the nation. The action is overshadowed by the novel''s polemical message, which Card tops off with an afterword decrying his own politically-motivated exclusion from various conventions and campuses, the "national media elite" and the divisive excesses of both the right and the left. Some video-game developers asked Card to write a scenario for "an entertainment franchise . . . about a near-future American civil war." They came to the right man and held off on releasing the game until he completed this relentless thriller, which couldn''t be timelier and is, for all its hyperactivity and flip, Hollywoodish one-liners, heartfelt and sobering. Its heroes are two special-ops army officers who keep their oaths to defend the U.S. against all enemies when far too many of their ostensible colleagues have decided to abandon theirs. A rocket hits the west wing of the White House, killing the president, vice-president, and secretary of defense. While those directly responsible are Arabs, the next day, 14-foot-tall, bulletproof, armed globes on mechanical legs, backed by shooters on individual hovercraft, seize New York City by killing anyone in uniform. None of the new attackers looks anything other than American. A "Progressive Restoration" administration is established in the city, and it encourages other cities and states to join it to restore government as it should have been but for the stolen elections of 2000 and 2004. Intriguing plot wrinkles come fore and aft of those basic developments, there are many deftly shaped supporting players, and major shocks explode in a split second (no Stephen King slo-mo for Card!). Moreover, all the action doesn''t obscure the author''s message about the dangers of extreme political polarization and the need to reassert moderation and mutual citizenship; indeed, it drives it home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22353'),
(16555, 'Empire in Black and Gold', 'Adrian Tchaikovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n First volume in a dramatic and colourful new fantasy series, ''Shadows of the Apt'', about the fight for survival against a menacingly regimented empire Seventeen years ago Stenwold witnessed the Wasp Empire storming the city of Myna in a brutal war of conquest. Since then he has preached vainly against this threat in his home city of Collegium, but now the Empire is on the march, with its spies and its armies everywhere, and the Lowlands lie directly in its path. All the while, Stenwold has been training youthful agents to fight the Wasp advance, and the latest recruits include his niece, Che, and his mysterious ward, Tynisa. When his home is violently attacked, he is forced to send them ahead of him and, hotly pursued, they fly by airship to Helleron, the first city in line for the latest Wasp invasion. Stenwold and Che are Beetle-kinden, one of many human races that take their powers and inspiration each from a totem insect, but he also has allies of many breeds: Mantis, Spider, Ant, with their own particular skills. Foremost is the deadly Mantis-kinden warrior, Tisamon, but other very unlikely allies also join the cause. As things go from bad to worse amid escalating dangers, Stenwold learns that the Wasps intend to use the newly completed railroad between Helleron and Collegium to launch a lightning strike into the heart of the Lowlands. Then he gathers all of his agents to force a final showdown in the engine yard . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26'),
(16556, 'Empire in Black and Gold', 'Adrian Tchaikovsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First volume in a dramatic and colourful new fantasy series, ''Shadows of the Apt'', about the fight for survival against a menacingly regimented empire Seventeen years ago Stenwold witnessed the Wasp Empire storming the city of Myna in a brutal war of conquest. Since then he has preached vainly against this threat in his home city of Collegium, but now the Empire is on the march, with its spies and its armies everywhere, and the Lowlands lie directly in its path. All the while, Stenwold has been training youthful agents to fight the Wasp advance, and the latest recruits include his niece, Che, and his mysterious ward, Tynisa. When his home is violently attacked, he is forced to send them ahead of him and, hotly pursued, they fly by airship to Helleron, the first city in line for the latest Wasp invasion. Stenwold and Che are Beetle-kinden, one of many human races that take their powers and inspiration each from a totem insect, but he also has allies of many breeds: Mantis, Spider, Ant, with their own particular skills. Foremost is the deadly Mantis-kinden warrior, Tisamon, but other very unlikely allies also join the cause. As things go from bad to worse amid escalating dangers, Stenwold learns that the Wasps intend to use the newly completed railroad between Helleron and Collegium to launch a lightning strike into the heart of the Lowlands. Then he gathers all of his agents to force a final showdown in the engine yard . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17199'),
(16557, 'Empire of Blood', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4565'),
(16558, 'Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan&#39;s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Oulaws&#39; Bloody Reign', 'Stephan Talty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Journalist Talty (_Mulatto America_) entertainingly chronicles the life of legendary privateer Capt. Henry Morgan and his crucial role in challenging Spain''s hegemony in the New World in this informative popular history. Seeking his fortune, Welshman Morgan arrived in the Caribbean just as British King Charles II decided to challenge Spain by using pirates "as a stick with which to beat [them]." Morgan accepted a privateer''s commission from the Britishâ€”in effect, a license to stealâ€”and set out in 1661 to make his fortune. Smart and charismatic, Morgan quickly rose to the rank of captain and became "fabulously rich." His attack on the Spanish stronghold at Portobelo "showed the world that the empire was vulnerable," and his raid on the city of Panamaâ€”the "greatest raid in the history of buccaneering"â€”forced "the Spanish to renounce their exclusive rights to the New World." Charles II knighted Morgan and appointed him deputy governor of Jamaica, a position that tasked himâ€”"the greatest of the buccaneers"â€”with exterminating piracy. Morgan died of the effects of alcohol abuse in 1688 at 53. Talty strips away the legend to recreate a pivotal era in this accessible portrait of the pirates of the Caribbean.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before he became rum, Cap''n Morgan humbled the Spanish Empire. Part swashbuckling pirate, part aristocratic wannabe Henry Morgan blended his desire for adventure and wealth into an innovative military approach. English greed and rugged individualism could defeat Spanish monarchical bureaucracy. Talty illustrates the lures that drew free spirits from the Old World and into the new. Port Royal, Jamaica, serving as the seventeenth-century''s sin city, offered all the vices a young rogue craved, plus the pirate excursions to fund his debaucheries. Talty''s well-researched account weaves together myriad political and financial interests in the New World. From the young rogue in search of wealth and a good time to the British monarchy looking for a cheap way to defeat the Spanish (and finding that champion in the young pirate), the pirate''s ferocity and depravity became known and feared. Morgan succeeded, where most could not, in straddling dual roles. He stood as the vital force in British military cunning and success, and did so as a feared yet respected pirate.\n <em>\n  Blair Parsons\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1237'),
(16559, 'Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan&#39;s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Oulaws&#39; Bloody Reign', 'Stephan Talty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Journalist Talty (_Mulatto America_) entertainingly chronicles the life of legendary privateer Capt. Henry Morgan and his crucial role in challenging Spain''s hegemony in the New World in this informative popular history. Seeking his fortune, Welshman Morgan arrived in the Caribbean just as British King Charles II decided to challenge Spain by using pirates "as a stick with which to beat [them]." Morgan accepted a privateer''s commission from the Britishâ€”in effect, a license to stealâ€”and set out in 1661 to make his fortune. Smart and charismatic, Morgan quickly rose to the rank of captain and became "fabulously rich." His attack on the Spanish stronghold at Portobelo "showed the world that the empire was vulnerable," and his raid on the city of Panamaâ€”the "greatest raid in the history of buccaneering"â€”forced "the Spanish to renounce their exclusive rights to the New World." Charles II knighted Morgan and appointed him deputy governor of Jamaica, a position that tasked himâ€”"the greatest of the buccaneers"â€”with exterminating piracy. Morgan died of the effects of alcohol abuse in 1688 at 53. Talty strips away the legend to recreate a pivotal era in this accessible portrait of the pirates of the Caribbean.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before he became rum, Cap''n Morgan humbled the Spanish Empire. Part swashbuckling pirate, part aristocratic wannabe Henry Morgan blended his desire for adventure and wealth into an innovative military approach. English greed and rugged individualism could defeat Spanish monarchical bureaucracy. Talty illustrates the lures that drew free spirits from the Old World and into the new. Port Royal, Jamaica, serving as the seventeenth-century''s sin city, offered all the vices a young rogue craved, plus the pirate excursions to fund his debaucheries. Talty''s well-researched account weaves together myriad political and financial interests in the New World. From the young rogue in search of wealth and a good time to the British monarchy looking for a cheap way to defeat the Spanish (and finding that champion in the young pirate), the pirate''s ferocity and depravity became known and feared. Morgan succeeded, where most could not, in straddling dual roles. He stood as the vital force in British military cunning and success, and did so as a feared yet respected pirate.\n <em>\n  Blair Parsons\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12999'),
(16560, 'Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan&#39;s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Oulaws&#39; Bloody Reign', 'Stephan Talty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Journalist Talty (_Mulatto America_) entertainingly chronicles the life of legendary privateer Capt. Henry Morgan and his crucial role in challenging Spain''s hegemony in the New World in this informative popular history. Seeking his fortune, Welshman Morgan arrived in the Caribbean just as British King Charles II decided to challenge Spain by using pirates "as a stick with which to beat [them]." Morgan accepted a privateer''s commission from the Britishâ€”in effect, a license to stealâ€”and set out in 1661 to make his fortune. Smart and charismatic, Morgan quickly rose to the rank of captain and became "fabulously rich." His attack on the Spanish stronghold at Portobelo "showed the world that the empire was vulnerable," and his raid on the city of Panamaâ€”the "greatest raid in the history of buccaneering"â€”forced "the Spanish to renounce their exclusive rights to the New World." Charles II knighted Morgan and appointed him deputy governor of Jamaica, a position that tasked himâ€”"the greatest of the buccaneers"â€”with exterminating piracy. Morgan died of the effects of alcohol abuse in 1688 at 53. Talty strips away the legend to recreate a pivotal era in this accessible portrait of the pirates of the Caribbean.\n <em>\n  (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before he became rum, Cap''n Morgan humbled the Spanish Empire. Part swashbuckling pirate, part aristocratic wannabe Henry Morgan blended his desire for adventure and wealth into an innovative military approach. English greed and rugged individualism could defeat Spanish monarchical bureaucracy. Talty illustrates the lures that drew free spirits from the Old World and into the new. Port Royal, Jamaica, serving as the seventeenth-century''s sin city, offered all the vices a young rogue craved, plus the pirate excursions to fund his debaucheries. Talty''s well-researched account weaves together myriad political and financial interests in the New World. From the young rogue in search of wealth and a good time to the British monarchy looking for a cheap way to defeat the Spanish (and finding that champion in the young pirate), the pirate''s ferocity and depravity became known and feared. Morgan succeeded, where most could not, in straddling dual roles. He stood as the vital force in British military cunning and success, and did so as a feared yet respected pirate.\n <em>\n  Blair Parsons\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23755'),
(16561, 'The Empire of Glass', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After receiving a strange invitation, the first Doctor, Steven and Vicki travel to Venice in 1609, where the political machinations of humans are overshadowed by something on a far greater scale\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7628'),
(16562, 'The Empire of Glass', 'Andy Lane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After receiving a strange invitation, the first Doctor, Steven and Vicki travel to Venice in 1609, where the political machinations of humans are overshadowed by something on a far greater scale\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16233'),
(16563, 'Empire of Light', 'Gary Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The nova war has begun to spread as the Emissaries wage a fierce and reckless campaign, encroaching on the area of space occupied by humanity and forcing the Shoal into a desperate retreat. While Dakota goes in search of the entity responsible for creating the Maker caches, Corso, left in charge of a fleet of human-piloted Magi ships, finds his authority crumbling in the face of assassination attempts and politically-motivated sabotage. If any hope exists at all, it lies in an abandoned asteroid a thousand light-years beyond the Consortium''s borders, and with Ty Whitecloud, the only man alive with the skill to decipher the messages left behind by an ancient race of star travellers. Unfortunately Whitecloud is locked in a prison cell aboard a dying coreship adrift in space, awaiting execution for war crimes against Corso''s own people. But if humanity has any hope of survival, Corso is going to have to find some way to keep him alive - and that''s only if Dakota doesn''t kill him first ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5378'),
(16564, 'Empire of Light', 'Gary Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The nova war has begun to spread as the Emissaries wage a fierce and reckless campaign, encroaching on the area of space occupied by humanity and forcing the Shoal into a desperate retreat. While Dakota goes in search of the entity responsible for creating the Maker caches, Corso, left in charge of a fleet of human-piloted Magi ships, finds his authority crumbling in the face of assassination attempts and politically-motivated sabotage. If any hope exists at all, it lies in an abandoned asteroid a thousand light-years beyond the Consortium''s borders, and with Ty Whitecloud, the only man alive with the skill to decipher the messages left behind by an ancient race of star travellers. Unfortunately Whitecloud is locked in a prison cell aboard a dying coreship adrift in space, awaiting execution for war crimes against Corso''s own people. But if humanity has any hope of survival, Corso is going to have to find some way to keep him alive - and that''s only if Dakota doesn''t kill him first ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19158'),
(16565, 'Empire of Light', 'Gary Gibson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The nova war has begun to spread as the Emissaries wage a fierce and reckless campaign, encroaching on the area of space occupied by humanity and forcing the Shoal into a desperate retreat. While Dakota goes in search of the entity responsible for creating the Maker caches, Corso, left in charge of a fleet of human-piloted Magi ships, finds his authority crumbling in the face of assassination attempts and politically-motivated sabotage. If any hope exists at all, it lies in an abandoned asteroid a thousand light-years beyond the Consortium''s borders, and with Ty Whitecloud, the only man alive with the skill to decipher the messages left behind by an ancient race of star travellers. Unfortunately Whitecloud is locked in a prison cell aboard a dying coreship adrift in space, awaiting execution for war crimes against Corso''s own people. But if humanity has any hope of survival, Corso is going to have to find some way to keep him alive - and that''s only if Dakota doesn''t kill him first ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27938'),
(16566, 'Empire of the Eagle', 'Andre Norton; Susan Shwartz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15858'),
(16567, 'Empire of the Summer Moon', 'S. C. Gwynne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  In the tradition of\n  <em>\n   Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,\n  </em>\n  a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n S. C. Gwynneâ€™s\n <em>\n  Empire of the Summer Moon\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.\n</p>\n<p>\n Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled\n <em>\n  backward\n </em>\n by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. So effective were the Comanches that they forced the creation of the Texas Rangers and account for the advent of the new weapon specifically designed to fight them: the six-gun.\n</p>\n<p>\n The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynneâ€™s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroadsâ€”a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being.\n</p>\n<p>\n Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a lovely nine-year-old girl with cornflower-blue eyes who was kidnapped by Comanches from the far Texas frontier in 1836. She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the "White Squaw" who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was her son Quanah, a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legend.\n</p>\n<p>\n S. C. Gwynneâ€™s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told.\n <em>\n  Empire of the Summer Moon\n </em>\n announces him as a major new writer of American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9468'),
(16568, 'Empire of the Sun', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An outstanding novel...a classic adventure story."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A profound and moving work of the imagination."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An incredible literary achievement....Brilliant."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Anthony Burgess\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg''s film, tells of a young boy''s struggle to survive World War II in China.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ballard''s enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4920'),
(16569, 'Empire of the Sun', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "An outstanding novel...a classic adventure story."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A profound and moving work of the imagination."\n </p>\n <p>\n  --\n  <em>\n   Los Angeles Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "An incredible literary achievement....Brilliant."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Anthony Burgess\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg''s film, tells of a young boy''s struggle to survive World War II in China.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ballard''s enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8374'),
(16570, 'Empire of the Sun', 'Ballard, J. G.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19712'),
(16571, 'The Empire Project', 'John Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20016'),
(16572, 'The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970', 'John Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, ''has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire'' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was above all a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the ''white dominions''; the commercial empire of the City of London; and ''Greater India'' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4260'),
(16573, 'The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970', 'John Darwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, ''has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire'' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was above all a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the ''white dominions''; the commercial empire of the City of London; and ''Greater India'' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9157'),
(16574, 'The Empire Trilogy', 'J. G. Farrell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   "Farrell''s writing is well worth rediscovering. Sardonic, generous, eccentric and sad, it\n   <br />\n   seems as original now as it must have done in the 1970s, before successive waves of historical\n   <br />\n   and post-colonial fiction dampened the memory of Farrell''s achievements in this line.\n   <br />\n   His ''trilogy'' is concerned with the gap between imperial ideals and imperial practice--with\n   <br />\n   the idea that ''a nation,'' as one of his characters comes to suspect, ''does not create itself\n   <br />\n   according to its own best ideas, but is shaped by other forces, of which it has little knowledge.''\n   <br />\n   Yet the novels are never earnest or pompous. On the contrary, they are often\n   <br />\n   extremely funny, combining vivid historical backdrops with an ironic, absurd sense of\n   <br />\n   humour pitched somewhere between P G Wodehouse and Samuel Beckett." -Christopher\n   <br />\n   Tayler, The New Statesmen\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "In the post-Warhol world, where any wannabe can grab 15 minutes of literary fame,\n   <br />\n   it''s a rare writer indeed whose reputation is still growing 30 years after his death. All the\n   <br />\n   more reason to raise a glass to JG Farrell...Farrell''s gift was the ability to immerse himself\n   <br />\n   so thoroughly in his worlds, whether early 20th-century Ireland or mid-19th century\n   <br />\n   India, that he never seems to preach as he tackles the big issues of race, culture and class.\n   <br />\n   His drowning at 44 came when his star was at its height, after decades toiling away in\n   <br />\n   obscurity. It is wonderful that his writing is winning new admirers." -The Guardian\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   The Empire Trilogy--consisting of the Lost Booker Prize-winning Troubles, the Booker Prize-winning The Siege of Krishnapur,and The Singapore Grip--is Farrell''s re-examination of the legacy, and limits, of British imperial rule. The three volumes, connectedÂ by theme rather than character, and above all by their shared wit, brio, and daring, range in setting from the India of theÂ Great Mutiny of 1857, to Ireland immediately after the Great War, to the besieged Singapore of World War II. Together theÂ books constitute not only a spectacular entertainment but also an ambitious refashioning of the traditional historical novel toÂ meet the tragic realities of the modern world.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Â·Â \n   </b>\n   The Siege of Krishnapur - India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion onÂ their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell''s The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one ofÂ the finest British novels of the last fifty years.Farrell''s story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. Rumors\n   <br />\n   of strife filter in from afar, and yet the members of the colonial community remain confident of their military and, above all,Â moral superiority. But when they find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their dominion--at once brutal, blundering,Â and wistful--is soon revealed.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Â·Â \n   </b>\n   Troubles - 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whetherÂ he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough.Â But his fiancÃ©e is strangely altered and her family''s fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel''s hundreds of roomsÂ are disintegrating on a grand scale; its few remaining guests thrive on rumors and games of whist; herds of cats have taken overÂ the Imperial Bar and the upper stories; bamboo shoots threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court. Meanwhile,Â the Major is captivated by the beautiful and bitter Sarah Devlin. As housekeeping disasters force him from room to room,Â outside the order of the British Empire also totters: there is unrest in the East, and in Ireland itself the mounting violence of "theÂ troubles."Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Â·Â \n   </b>\n   The Singapore Grip - Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn''t what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head ofÂ British Singapore''s oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strikeÂ somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son ofÂ Blackett''s partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming--whatÂ with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett''s price-fixing and market manipulation--but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations,Â is about to come to a terrible end.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4924'),
(16575, 'The Empire Trilogy', 'J. G. Farrell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   "Farrell''s writing is well worth rediscovering. Sardonic, generous, eccentric and sad, it\n   <br />\n   seems as original now as it must have done in the 1970s, before successive waves of historical\n   <br />\n   and post-colonial fiction dampened the memory of Farrell''s achievements in this line.\n   <br />\n   His ''trilogy'' is concerned with the gap between imperial ideals and imperial practice--with\n   <br />\n   the idea that ''a nation,'' as one of his characters comes to suspect, ''does not create itself\n   <br />\n   according to its own best ideas, but is shaped by other forces, of which it has little knowledge.''\n   <br />\n   Yet the novels are never earnest or pompous. On the contrary, they are often\n   <br />\n   extremely funny, combining vivid historical backdrops with an ironic, absurd sense of\n   <br />\n   humour pitched somewhere between P G Wodehouse and Samuel Beckett." -Christopher\n   <br />\n   Tayler, The New Statesmen\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "In the post-Warhol world, where any wannabe can grab 15 minutes of literary fame,\n   <br />\n   it''s a rare writer indeed whose reputation is still growing 30 years after his death. All the\n   <br />\n   more reason to raise a glass to JG Farrell...Farrell''s gift was the ability to immerse himself\n   <br />\n   so thoroughly in his worlds, whether early 20th-century Ireland or mid-19th century\n   <br />\n   India, that he never seems to preach as he tackles the big issues of race, culture and class.\n   <br />\n   His drowning at 44 came when his star was at its height, after decades toiling away in\n   <br />\n   obscurity. It is wonderful that his writing is winning new admirers." -The Guardian\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   The Empire Trilogy--consisting of the Lost Booker Prize-winning Troubles, the Booker Prize-winning The Siege of Krishnapur,and The Singapore Grip--is Farrell''s re-examination of the legacy, and limits, of British imperial rule. The three volumes, connectedÂ by theme rather than character, and above all by their shared wit, brio, and daring, range in setting from the India of theÂ Great Mutiny of 1857, to Ireland immediately after the Great War, to the besieged Singapore of World War II. Together theÂ books constitute not only a spectacular entertainment but also an ambitious refashioning of the traditional historical novel toÂ meet the tragic realities of the modern world.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Â·Â \n   </b>\n   The Siege of Krishnapur - India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion onÂ their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell''s The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one ofÂ the finest British novels of the last fifty years.Farrell''s story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. Rumors\n   <br />\n   of strife filter in from afar, and yet the members of the colonial community remain confident of their military and, above all,Â moral superiority. But when they find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their dominion--at once brutal, blundering,Â and wistful--is soon revealed.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Â·Â \n   </b>\n   Troubles - 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whetherÂ he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough.Â But his fiancÃ©e is strangely altered and her family''s fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel''s hundreds of roomsÂ are disintegrating on a grand scale; its few remaining guests thrive on rumors and games of whist; herds of cats have taken overÂ the Imperial Bar and the upper stories; bamboo shoots threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court. Meanwhile,Â the Major is captivated by the beautiful and bitter Sarah Devlin. As housekeeping disasters force him from room to room,Â outside the order of the British Empire also totters: there is unrest in the East, and in Ireland itself the mounting violence of "theÂ troubles."Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Â·Â \n   </b>\n   The Singapore Grip - Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn''t what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head ofÂ British Singapore''s oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strikeÂ somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son ofÂ Blackett''s partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming--whatÂ with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett''s price-fixing and market manipulation--but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations,Â is about to come to a terrible end.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9643');
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(16576, 'The Empire Trilogy', 'J. G. Farrell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Review\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   "Farrell''s writing is well worth rediscovering. Sardonic, generous, eccentric and sad, it\n   <br />\n   seems as original now as it must have done in the 1970s, before successive waves of historical\n   <br />\n   and post-colonial fiction dampened the memory of Farrell''s achievements in this line.\n   <br />\n   His ''trilogy'' is concerned with the gap between imperial ideals and imperial practice--with\n   <br />\n   the idea that ''a nation,'' as one of his characters comes to suspect, ''does not create itself\n   <br />\n   according to its own best ideas, but is shaped by other forces, of which it has little knowledge.''\n   <br />\n   Yet the novels are never earnest or pompous. On the contrary, they are often\n   <br />\n   extremely funny, combining vivid historical backdrops with an ironic, absurd sense of\n   <br />\n   humour pitched somewhere between P G Wodehouse and Samuel Beckett." -Christopher\n   <br />\n   Tayler, The New Statesmen\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   "In the post-Warhol world, where any wannabe can grab 15 minutes of literary fame,\n   <br />\n   it''s a rare writer indeed whose reputation is still growing 30 years after his death. All the\n   <br />\n   more reason to raise a glass to JG Farrell...Farrell''s gift was the ability to immerse himself\n   <br />\n   so thoroughly in his worlds, whether early 20th-century Ireland or mid-19th century\n   <br />\n   India, that he never seems to preach as he tackles the big issues of race, culture and class.\n   <br />\n   His drowning at 44 came when his star was at its height, after decades toiling away in\n   <br />\n   obscurity. It is wonderful that his writing is winning new admirers." -The Guardian\n   <div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; ">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   The Empire Trilogy--consisting of the Lost Booker Prize-winning Troubles, the Booker Prize-winning The Siege of Krishnapur,and The Singapore Grip--is Farrell''s re-examination of the legacy, and limits, of British imperial rule. The three volumes, connectedÂ by theme rather than character, and above all by their shared wit, brio, and daring, range in setting from the India of theÂ Great Mutiny of 1857, to Ireland immediately after the Great War, to the besieged Singapore of World War II. Together theÂ books constitute not only a spectacular entertainment but also an ambitious refashioning of the traditional historical novel toÂ meet the tragic realities of the modern world.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Â·Â \n   </b>\n   The Siege of Krishnapur - India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion onÂ their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell''s The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one ofÂ the finest British novels of the last fifty years.Farrell''s story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. Rumors\n   <br />\n   of strife filter in from afar, and yet the members of the colonial community remain confident of their military and, above all,Â moral superiority. But when they find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their dominion--at once brutal, blundering,Â and wistful--is soon revealed.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Â·Â \n   </b>\n   Troubles - 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whetherÂ he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough.Â But his fiancÃ©e is strangely altered and her family''s fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel''s hundreds of roomsÂ are disintegrating on a grand scale; its few remaining guests thrive on rumors and games of whist; herds of cats have taken overÂ the Imperial Bar and the upper stories; bamboo shoots threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court. Meanwhile,Â the Major is captivated by the beautiful and bitter Sarah Devlin. As housekeeping disasters force him from room to room,Â outside the order of the British Empire also totters: there is unrest in the East, and in Ireland itself the mounting violence of "theÂ troubles."Â \n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <b>\n    Â·Â \n   </b>\n   The Singapore Grip - Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn''t what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head ofÂ British Singapore''s oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strikeÂ somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son ofÂ Blackett''s partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming--whatÂ with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett''s price-fixing and market manipulation--but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations,Â is about to come to a terrible end.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19709'),
(16577, 'Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome', 'Steven Saylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Â“May Steven Saylorâ€™s Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling!â€ *Â—USA Today *on *Roma\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Continuing the saga begun in his *New York Times *bestselling novel *Roma, *Steven Saylor charts the destinies of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus to height of Romeâ€™s empire. The Pinarii, generation after generation, are witness to greatest empire in the ancient world and of the emperors that ruled itÂ—from the machinations of Tiberius and the madness of Caligula, to the decadence of Nero and the golden age of Trajan and Hadrian and more.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Empire *is filled with the dramatic, defining moments of the age, including the Great Fire, the persecution of the Christians, and the astounding opening games of the Colosseum. But at the novelâ€™s heart are the choices and temptations faced by each generation of the Pinarii.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Steven Saylor once again brings the ancient world to vivid life in a novel that tells the story of a city and a people that has endured in the worldâ€™s imagination like no other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7971'),
(16578, 'Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome', 'Steven Saylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Â“May Steven Saylorâ€™s Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling!â€ *Â—USA Today *on *Roma\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Continuing the saga begun in his *New York Times *bestselling novel *Roma, *Steven Saylor charts the destinies of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus to height of Romeâ€™s empire. The Pinarii, generation after generation, are witness to greatest empire in the ancient world and of the emperors that ruled itÂ—from the machinations of Tiberius and the madness of Caligula, to the decadence of Nero and the golden age of Trajan and Hadrian and more.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Empire *is filled with the dramatic, defining moments of the age, including the Great Fire, the persecution of the Christians, and the astounding opening games of the Colosseum. But at the novelâ€™s heart are the choices and temptations faced by each generation of the Pinarii.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Steven Saylor once again brings the ancient world to vivid life in a novel that tells the story of a city and a people that has endured in the worldâ€™s imagination like no other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12557'),
(16579, 'Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome', 'Steven Saylor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Â“May Steven Saylorâ€™s Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling!â€ *Â—USA Today *on *Roma ***Continuing the saga begun in his *New York Times *bestselling novel *Roma, *Steven Saylor charts the destinies of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus to height of Romeâ€™s empire. The Pinarii, generation after generation, are witness to greatest empire in the ancient world and of the emperors that ruled itÂ—from the machinations of Tiberius and the madness of Caligula, to the decadence of Nero and the golden age of Trajan and Hadrian and more. *Empire *is filled with the dramatic, defining moments of the age, including the Great Fire, the persecution of the Christians, and the astounding opening games of the Colosseum. But at the novelâ€™s heart are the choices and temptations faced by each generation of the Pinarii. Steven Saylor once again brings the ancient world to vivid life in a novel that tells the story of a city and a people that has endured in the worldâ€™s imagination like no other.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23939'),
(16580, 'Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830', 'J.H. Elliott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20195'),
(16581, 'Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830', 'John Huxtable Elliott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In a masterful account, Oxford don Elliott explores the simultaneous development of Spanish and English colonies in the so-called New World. Though colonists tried to recreate traditional institutions on American soil, there were inevitable differences between colonial life and life in the mother countries: familial roles, for example, were reconfigured across the ocean. In addition to differing from Europe, Spanish and British settlements differed from one another, says Elliott. Whereas Spain determined to prevent Jews and Moors from entering its territories, Britain''s grudging acceptance of religious diversity was evidenced in the Crown''s allowing, and in some cases encouraging, persecuted minorities to join colonial ventures. The English colonies'' fractious Protestantism made Spain''s Catholic colonies look homogeneous by contrast. Yet the "pigmentocratic" social order of Spanish colonies proved to be exceedingly complex. English colonies, with their adoption of racial slavery, came to be organized around the deceptively simple categories of black and white, while Spanish America was home to varied ethnic groups that readily produced "mixed-blood" offspring. Ultimately, British colonies would privilege innovation and entrepreneurship, while Spanish-speaking society held on more firmly to "the old hierarchies." Elliott''s synthesis represents some of the finest fruits of the study of the Atlantic world. Illus., maps._ (May)_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Richly illustrated and based on a thorough an (Carla Rahn Phillips\n  <em>\n   Eighteenth-Century Studies\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4238'),
(16582, 'Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830', 'John Huxtable Elliott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  In a masterful account, Oxford don Elliott explores the simultaneous development of Spanish and English colonies in the so-called New World. Though colonists tried to recreate traditional institutions on American soil, there were inevitable differences between colonial life and life in the mother countries: familial roles, for example, were reconfigured across the ocean. In addition to differing from Europe, Spanish and British settlements differed from one another, says Elliott. Whereas Spain determined to prevent Jews and Moors from entering its territories, Britain''s grudging acceptance of religious diversity was evidenced in the Crown''s allowing, and in some cases encouraging, persecuted minorities to join colonial ventures. The English colonies'' fractious Protestantism made Spain''s Catholic colonies look homogeneous by contrast. Yet the "pigmentocratic" social order of Spanish colonies proved to be exceedingly complex. English colonies, with their adoption of racial slavery, came to be organized around the deceptively simple categories of black and white, while Spanish America was home to varied ethnic groups that readily produced "mixed-blood" offspring. Ultimately, British colonies would privilege innovation and entrepreneurship, while Spanish-speaking society held on more firmly to "the old hierarchies." Elliott''s synthesis represents some of the finest fruits of the study of the Atlantic world. Illus., maps._ (May)_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Richly illustrated and based on a thorough an (Carla Rahn Phillips\n  <em>\n   Eighteenth-Century Studies\n  </em>\n  )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9565'),
(16583, 'Empires of the Word', 'Nicholas Ostler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ostler''s ambitious and accessible book is not a technical linguistic studyâ€”i.e., it''s not concerned with language structureâ€”but about the "growth, development and collapse of language communities" and their cultures. Chairman of the Foundation of Endangered Languages, Ostler''s as fascinated by extinction as he is by survival. He thus traces the fortunes of Sumerian, Akkadian and Aramaic in the flux of ancient Middle Eastern military empires. Ancient Egyptian''s three millennia of stability compares with the longevity of similarly pictographic Chineseâ€”and provides a cautionary example: even a populous, well-defined linguistic community can vanish. In all cases, Ostler stresses the role of culture, commerce and conquest in the rise and fall of languages, whether Spanish, Portuguese and French in the Americas or Dutch in Asia and Africa. The rise of English to global status, Ostler argues, owes much to the economic prestige of the Industrial Revolution, but its future as a lingua franca may falter on demographic trends, such as booming birth rates in China. This stimulating book is a history of the world as seen through the spread and demise of languages. Maps.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Caesar led his legions into battle for the glory of Rome--and the immortality of Greek. In the curious spread of Greek through Roman conquest, Ostler recounts one of the many fascinating episodes in the complex history of languages. The resources of the cultural historian complement those of the comparative linguist in this capacious work, which sets the parameters for a new field of scholarship: "language dynamics." By peering over Ostler''s shoulder into this new field, readers learn how languages ancient and modern (Sumerian and Egyptian; Spanish and English) spread and how they dwindle. The raw force of armies counts, of course, in determining language fortunes but for far less than the historically naive might suppose: military might failed to translate into lasting linguistic conquest for the Mongols, Turks, or Russians. Surprisingly, trade likewise proves weak in spreading a language--as the Phoenician and Dutch experiences both show. In contrast, immigration and fertility powerfully affect the fate of languages, as illustrated by the parallel histories of Egyptian and Chinese. Ostler explores the ways modern technologies of travel and communication shape language fortunes, but he also highlights the power of ancient faiths--Christian and Moslem, Buddhist and Hindu--to anchor language traditions against rapid change. Of particular interest will be Ostler''s provocative conjectures about a future in which Mandarin or Arabic take the lead or in which English fractures into several tongues. Few books bring more intellectual excitement to the study of language.\n <em>\n  Bryce Christensen\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10981'),
(16584, 'Empress Orchid', 'Anchee Min', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Talk about story arc: poor girl from rural China auditions for a job as royal concubine, winds up as emperor''s wife number four, gives birth to the "last Emperor," rules China as regent for 46 years. The fascinating, implausible life of Tsu Hsi, or "Orchid," was reviled by the revolutionary Chinese, but here it receives a sympathetic treatment from Min (Red Azalea; Becoming Madame Mao), who once again brilliantly lifts the public mask of a celebrated woman to reveal a contradictory character. Sexually assertive, intellectually ambitious, socially striving, Min''s Orchid is also "isolated, tense, and in some vague but very real way, dissatisfied." Even after giving birth to the emperor''s only son, Orchid feels trapped by the stultifying imperial rituals and persecuted by the other residents of the Forbidden City: six other royal wives, 3,000 invisible concubines and 2,000 scheming eunuchs. In addition to these powerful distractions, she has to discipline her overindulged son, outmaneuver the ruthless politician Su Shun (who wants her buried alive when the emperor dies) and advise the ailing emperor how to fend off both the Boxers and the Western "barbarians." Min, herself a survivor of China''s Cultural Revolution, has done a prodigious amount of on-site research to capture the glorious, hopeless last days of the Ching dynasty. At times her writing is textbook-flat, and she sometimes loses track of her teeming cast of characters (for example, Orchid''s dangerous mother-in-law and mentally ill sister). But readers will be enthralled by the gorgeously woven cultural tapestry and the psychologically astute portrait of the empress-a talented girl from the provinces who married (way) up.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Min, author of the acclaimed\n <em>\n  Becoming Madame Mao\n </em>\n , which fictionalized the life of a woman demonized in history books, again melds exhaustive historical and political research with expertly articulated characters in\n <em>\n  Empress Orchid.\n </em>\n Critics praised the novel''s linguistic dexterity (once in the U.S., Min had to learn English in six months or face deportation) and revelatory insights into the lives of women possessing few rights. Too many characters and events muddle the plot, and the style wavers from glittering to dull. Yet ultimately, the novel provides a valuable glimpse into the daily habits of fascinating historical characters and charts the last, decadent days of an empire.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7711'),
(16585, 'Empress Orchid', 'Anchee Min', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Talk about story arc: poor girl from rural China auditions for a job as royal concubine, winds up as emperor''s wife number four, gives birth to the "last Emperor," rules China as regent for 46 years. The fascinating, implausible life of Tsu Hsi, or "Orchid," was reviled by the revolutionary Chinese, but here it receives a sympathetic treatment from Min (Red Azalea; Becoming Madame Mao), who once again brilliantly lifts the public mask of a celebrated woman to reveal a contradictory character. Sexually assertive, intellectually ambitious, socially striving, Min''s Orchid is also "isolated, tense, and in some vague but very real way, dissatisfied." Even after giving birth to the emperor''s only son, Orchid feels trapped by the stultifying imperial rituals and persecuted by the other residents of the Forbidden City: six other royal wives, 3,000 invisible concubines and 2,000 scheming eunuchs. In addition to these powerful distractions, she has to discipline her overindulged son, outmaneuver the ruthless politician Su Shun (who wants her buried alive when the emperor dies) and advise the ailing emperor how to fend off both the Boxers and the Western "barbarians." Min, herself a survivor of China''s Cultural Revolution, has done a prodigious amount of on-site research to capture the glorious, hopeless last days of the Ching dynasty. At times her writing is textbook-flat, and she sometimes loses track of her teeming cast of characters (for example, Orchid''s dangerous mother-in-law and mentally ill sister). But readers will be enthralled by the gorgeously woven cultural tapestry and the psychologically astute portrait of the empress-a talented girl from the provinces who married (way) up.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Min, author of the acclaimed\n <em>\n  Becoming Madame Mao\n </em>\n , which fictionalized the life of a woman demonized in history books, again melds exhaustive historical and political research with expertly articulated characters in\n <em>\n  Empress Orchid.\n </em>\n Critics praised the novel''s linguistic dexterity (once in the U.S., Min had to learn English in six months or face deportation) and revelatory insights into the lives of women possessing few rights. Too many characters and events muddle the plot, and the style wavers from glittering to dull. Yet ultimately, the novel provides a valuable glimpse into the daily habits of fascinating historical characters and charts the last, decadent days of an empire.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11412'),
(16586, 'Empress Orchid', 'Anchee Min', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Talk about story arc: poor girl from rural China auditions for a job as royal concubine, winds up as emperor''s wife number four, gives birth to the "last Emperor," rules China as regent for 46 years. The fascinating, implausible life of Tsu Hsi, or "Orchid," was reviled by the revolutionary Chinese, but here it receives a sympathetic treatment from Min (Red Azalea; Becoming Madame Mao), who once again brilliantly lifts the public mask of a celebrated woman to reveal a contradictory character. Sexually assertive, intellectually ambitious, socially striving, Min''s Orchid is also "isolated, tense, and in some vague but very real way, dissatisfied." Even after giving birth to the emperor''s only son, Orchid feels trapped by the stultifying imperial rituals and persecuted by the other residents of the Forbidden City: six other royal wives, 3,000 invisible concubines and 2,000 scheming eunuchs. In addition to these powerful distractions, she has to discipline her overindulged son, outmaneuver the ruthless politician Su Shun (who wants her buried alive when the emperor dies) and advise the ailing emperor how to fend off both the Boxers and the Western "barbarians." Min, herself a survivor of China''s Cultural Revolution, has done a prodigious amount of on-site research to capture the glorious, hopeless last days of the Ching dynasty. At times her writing is textbook-flat, and she sometimes loses track of her teeming cast of characters (for example, Orchid''s dangerous mother-in-law and mentally ill sister). But readers will be enthralled by the gorgeously woven cultural tapestry and the psychologically astute portrait of the empress-a talented girl from the provinces who married (way) up.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Min, author of the acclaimed\n <em>\n  Becoming Madame Mao\n </em>\n , which fictionalized the life of a woman demonized in history books, again melds exhaustive historical and political research with expertly articulated characters in\n <em>\n  Empress Orchid.\n </em>\n Critics praised the novel''s linguistic dexterity (once in the U.S., Min had to learn English in six months or face deportation) and revelatory insights into the lives of women possessing few rights. Too many characters and events muddle the plot, and the style wavers from glittering to dull. Yet ultimately, the novel provides a valuable glimpse into the daily habits of fascinating historical characters and charts the last, decadent days of an empire.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16163'),
(16587, 'The Empty Chair', 'Diane Duane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At last, the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire have agreed to meet on neutral ground to attempt to resolve the tangle of intrigue and conspiracy that began with the hijacking of the U.S.S. Intrepid many years ago -- but the meeting may be as dangerous as the war they hope to avoid. As a show of good faith, the crew of the legendary Starship Enterpriseâ„¢ has been ordered to attend the talks. In their informal charge is Romulan renegade Ael, the wanted fugitive who, with Kirk, served as a catalyst of the current troubles. Kirk must represent the interests of the Federation first and foremost, but the best approach to an agreement remains muddled in the ever-shifting Romulan order.And the visiting Romulan party is as fractious and divided as their troubled world. Among the Romulan nobles in attendance are the hero and popular Senator Arrhae, who secretly helped rescue Dr. Leonard McCoy from a Romulan execution, and the very men and women who put McCoy on trial for treason -- and tried to carry out the sentence. As Kirk and crew attempt to renegotiate a delicate peace, and Romulans attempt to restore their tarnished honor, it becomes increasingly apparent that their only course of action is to prepare for war! At last, the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire have agreed to meet on neutral ground to attempt to resolve the tangle of intrigue and conspiracy that began with the hijacking of the U.S.S. Intrepid many years ago -- but the meeting may be as dangerous as the war they hope to avoid. As a show of good faith, the crew of the legendary Starship Enterpriseâ„¢ has been ordered to attend the talks. In their informal charge is Romulan renegade Ael, the wanted fugitive who, with Kirk, served as a catalyst of the current troubles. Kirk must represent the interests of the Federation first and foremost, but the best approach to an agreement remains muddled in the ever-shifting Romulan order.And the visiting Romulan party is as fractious and divided as their troubled world. Among the Romulan nobles in attendance are the hero and popular Senator Arrhae, who secretly helped rescue Dr. Leonard McCoy from a Romulan execution, and the very men and women who put McCoy on trial for treason -- and tried to carry out the sentence. As Kirk and crew attempt to renegotiate a delicate peace, and Romulans attempt to restore their tarnished honor, it becomes increasingly apparent that their only course of action is to prepare for war!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5988'),
(16588, 'The Empty Chair', 'Diane Duane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At last, the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire have agreed to meet on neutral ground to attempt to resolve the tangle of intrigue and conspiracy that began with the hijacking of the U.S.S. Intrepid many years ago -- but the meeting may be as dangerous as the war they hope to avoid. As a show of good faith, the crew of the legendary Starship Enterpriseâ„¢ has been ordered to attend the talks. In their informal charge is Romulan renegade Ael, the wanted fugitive who, with Kirk, served as a catalyst of the current troubles. Kirk must represent the interests of the Federation first and foremost, but the best approach to an agreement remains muddled in the ever-shifting Romulan order.And the visiting Romulan party is as fractious and divided as their troubled world. Among the Romulan nobles in attendance are the hero and popular Senator Arrhae, who secretly helped rescue Dr. Leonard McCoy from a Romulan execution, and the very men and women who put McCoy on trial for treason -- and tried to carry out the sentence. As Kirk and crew attempt to renegotiate a delicate peace, and Romulans attempt to restore their tarnished honor, it becomes increasingly apparent that their only course of action is to prepare for war! At last, the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire have agreed to meet on neutral ground to attempt to resolve the tangle of intrigue and conspiracy that began with the hijacking of the U.S.S. Intrepid many years ago -- but the meeting may be as dangerous as the war they hope to avoid. As a show of good faith, the crew of the legendary Starship Enterpriseâ„¢ has been ordered to attend the talks. In their informal charge is Romulan renegade Ael, the wanted fugitive who, with Kirk, served as a catalyst of the current troubles. Kirk must represent the interests of the Federation first and foremost, but the best approach to an agreement remains muddled in the ever-shifting Romulan order.And the visiting Romulan party is as fractious and divided as their troubled world. Among the Romulan nobles in attendance are the hero and popular Senator Arrhae, who secretly helped rescue Dr. Leonard McCoy from a Romulan execution, and the very men and women who put McCoy on trial for treason -- and tried to carry out the sentence. As Kirk and crew attempt to renegotiate a delicate peace, and Romulans attempt to restore their tarnished honor, it becomes increasingly apparent that their only course of action is to prepare for war!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10912'),
(16589, 'Empty Mile', 'Matthew Stokoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Johnny Richardson returns to Oakridge he has one thing on his mind--correcting a terrible mistake that caused him to flee his hometown eight years ago. Revisiting the past, though, is a dark and dangerous game in small-town America. When a careless sexual episode leads to the suicide of the townâ€™s first lady, Johnny finds himself the target of a revenge campaign that threatens to tear apart the fragile world heâ€™s built among the gold-bearing mountains of Northern California.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Left an unexplained piece of land when his father mysteriously disappears, Johnny must unravel its secrets in a desperate bid to protect those he loves. But his efforts to do this have deadly consequences and will ultimately force him to confront not only his own failings, but the very nature of guilt.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A searing meditation on the futility of trying to right the wrongs of the past, *Empty Mile* blends elements of thrilling urban noir with the wide-open spaces of outdoor adventure in a story that reflects Americaâ€™s contemporary uncertainty about itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3011'),
(16590, 'Empty Mile', 'Matthew Stokoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Johnny Richardson returns to Oakridge he has one thing on his mind--correcting a terrible mistake that caused him to flee his hometown eight years ago. Revisiting the past, though, is a dark and dangerous game in small-town America. When a careless sexual episode leads to the suicide of the townâ€™s first lady, Johnny finds himself the target of a revenge campaign that threatens to tear apart the fragile world heâ€™s built among the gold-bearing mountains of Northern California.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Left an unexplained piece of land when his father mysteriously disappears, Johnny must unravel its secrets in a desperate bid to protect those he loves. But his efforts to do this have deadly consequences and will ultimately force him to confront not only his own failings, but the very nature of guilt.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A searing meditation on the futility of trying to right the wrongs of the past, *Empty Mile* blends elements of thrilling urban noir with the wide-open spaces of outdoor adventure in a story that reflects Americaâ€™s contemporary uncertainty about itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12879'),
(16591, 'Empty Mile', 'Matthew Stokoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Johnny Richardson returns to Oakridge he has one thing on his mind--correcting a terrible mistake that caused him to flee his hometown eight years ago. Revisiting the past, though, is a dark and dangerous game in small-town America. When a careless sexual episode leads to the suicide of the townâ€™s first lady, Johnny finds himself the target of a revenge campaign that threatens to tear apart the fragile world heâ€™s built among the gold-bearing mountains of Northern California. Left an unexplained piece of land when his father mysteriously disappears, Johnny must unravel its secrets in a desperate bid to protect those he loves. But his efforts to do this have deadly consequences and will ultimately force him to confront not only his own failings, but the very nature of guilt. A searing meditation on the futility of trying to right the wrongs of the past, *Empty Mile* blends elements of thrilling urban noir with the wide-open spaces of outdoor adventure in a story that reflects Americaâ€™s contemporary uncertainty about itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21889'),
(16592, 'Enchanted', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2469'),
(16593, 'Enchanted', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22293'),
(16594, 'Enchanted Again', 'Nancy Madore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2700'),
(16595, 'Enchanted Again', 'Nancy Madore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22114'),
(16596, 'The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It', 'Edith Nesbit &amp; H. R. Millar &amp; Sanford Schwartz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It, by Edith Nesbit, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. â€œI love E. Nesbit. . . . Her children are very real . . . and she was quite a groundbreaker in her day.â€â€”J. K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter series Considered the first modern writer for children, Edith Nesbit wrote wonderfully imaginative tales about magical adventures in the everyday world. In Five Children and It (1902), a group of children are digging in a sandpit one day when they discover a small, bad-tempered sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who is allowed to grant one wish per day. The children wish for many thingsâ€”to be beautiful, to be rich, to grow wingsâ€”but none of the wishes turn out right. Luckily, the magic wears off at sunset, but will that be soon enough? The Enchanted Castle (1907) begins when three children stumble upon a mysterious house and discover an invisible princess and a magic ring. At first it all appears to be a great adventure. When the children need an audience for a play they have mounted, they make their own out of old clothes, pillows, and umbrellas. Then things go inexplicably wrong. To the young dramatists'' horror, as the curtain falls, there is a ghastly applause. The creatures have come aliveâ€”and they prove to be most disagreeable! Features illustrations by H. R. Millar. Sanford Schwarz teaches English literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Matrix of Modernism and various essays on modern literary, cultural, and intellectual history. He is currently writing a book on C. S. Lewisâ€™s science-fiction trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5840'),
(16597, 'The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It', 'Edith Nesbit &amp; H. R. Millar &amp; Sanford Schwartz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It, by Edith Nesbit, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. â€œI love E. Nesbit. . . . Her children are very real . . . and she was quite a groundbreaker in her day.â€â€”J. K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter series Considered the first modern writer for children, Edith Nesbit wrote wonderfully imaginative tales about magical adventures in the everyday world. In Five Children and It (1902), a group of children are digging in a sandpit one day when they discover a small, bad-tempered sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who is allowed to grant one wish per day. The children wish for many thingsâ€”to be beautiful, to be rich, to grow wingsâ€”but none of the wishes turn out right. Luckily, the magic wears off at sunset, but will that be soon enough? The Enchanted Castle (1907) begins when three children stumble upon a mysterious house and discover an invisible princess and a magic ring. At first it all appears to be a great adventure. When the children need an audience for a play they have mounted, they make their own out of old clothes, pillows, and umbrellas. Then things go inexplicably wrong. To the young dramatists'' horror, as the curtain falls, there is a ghastly applause. The creatures have come aliveâ€”and they prove to be most disagreeable! Features illustrations by H. R. Millar. Sanford Schwarz teaches English literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Matrix of Modernism and various essays on modern literary, cultural, and intellectual history. He is currently writing a book on C. S. Lewisâ€™s science-fiction trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11604'),
(16598, 'The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It', 'Edith Nesbit; H. R. Millar; Sanford Schwartz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It, by Edith Nesbit, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. â€œI love E. Nesbit. . . . Her children are very real . . . and she was quite a groundbreaker in her day.â€â€”J. K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter series Considered the first modern writer for children, Edith Nesbit wrote wonderfully imaginative tales about magical adventures in the everyday world. In Five Children and It (1902), a group of children are digging in a sandpit one day when they discover a small, bad-tempered sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who is allowed to grant one wish per day. The children wish for many thingsâ€”to be beautiful, to be rich, to grow wingsâ€”but none of the wishes turn out right. Luckily, the magic wears off at sunset, but will that be soon enough? The Enchanted Castle (1907) begins when three children stumble upon a mysterious house and discover an invisible princess and a magic ring. At first it all appears to be a great adventure. When the children need an audience for a play they have mounted, they make their own out of old clothes, pillows, and umbrellas. Then things go inexplicably wrong. To the young dramatists'' horror, as the curtain falls, there is a ghastly applause. The creatures have come aliveâ€”and they prove to be most disagreeable! Features illustrations by H. R. Millar. Sanford Schwarz teaches English literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Matrix of Modernism and various essays on modern literary, cultural, and intellectual history. He is currently writing a book on C. S. Lewisâ€™s science-fiction trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18771'),
(16599, 'The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It', 'Edith Nesbit; H. R. Millar; Sanford Schwartz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It, by Edith Nesbit, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. â€œI love E. Nesbit. . . . Her children are very real . . . and she was quite a groundbreaker in her day.â€â€”J. K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter series Considered the first modern writer for children, Edith Nesbit wrote wonderfully imaginative tales about magical adventures in the everyday world. In Five Children and It (1902), a group of children are digging in a sandpit one day when they discover a small, bad-tempered sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who is allowed to grant one wish per day. The children wish for many thingsâ€”to be beautiful, to be rich, to grow wingsâ€”but none of the wishes turn out right. Luckily, the magic wears off at sunset, but will that be soon enough? The Enchanted Castle (1907) begins when three children stumble upon a mysterious house and discover an invisible princess and a magic ring. At first it all appears to be a great adventure. When the children need an audience for a play they have mounted, they make their own out of old clothes, pillows, and umbrellas. Then things go inexplicably wrong. To the young dramatists'' horror, as the curtain falls, there is a ghastly applause. The creatures have come aliveâ€”and they prove to be most disagreeable! Features illustrations by H. R. Millar. Sanford Schwarz teaches English literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Matrix of Modernism and various essays on modern literary, cultural, and intellectual history. He is currently writing a book on C. S. Lewisâ€™s science-fiction trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27605'),
(16600, 'Enchanted: Erotic Bedtime Stories for Women', 'Nancy Madore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Allow yourself to be drawn into a fantasy world like no other . . . where a beautiful princess is seduced into a love triangle with a handsome prince and her winsome maid . . . where a mysterious gentleman''s young bride is deliciously disciplined for her unchecked curiosity . . . where a naive daughter is married off to a beast of a man whose carnal appetites awaken her budding desire . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With a unique and decidedly adult twist on thirteen classic fairy tales, Nancy Madore intrigues and arouses with her titillating, sizzling anthology of erotic stories guaranteed to keep you up late into the night.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n You''ll never look at fairy tales the same way again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2701');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(16601, 'Enchanted: Erotic Bedtime Stories for Women', 'Nancy Madore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Allow yourself to be drawn into a fantasy world like no other . . . where a beautiful princess is seduced into a love triangle with a handsome prince and her winsome maid . . . where a mysterious gentleman''s young bride is deliciously disciplined for her unchecked curiosity . . . where a naive daughter is married off to a beast of a man whose carnal appetites awaken her budding desire . . . With a unique and decidedly adult twist on thirteen classic fairy tales, Nancy Madore intrigues and arouses with her titillating, sizzling anthology of erotic stories guaranteed to keep you up late into the night. You''ll never look at fairy tales the same way again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22113'),
(16602, 'Enchanter&#39;s End Game', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''''æ´—Come, Belgarion, Child of Light. I await thee in the City of Night . . .'' A confrontation that has been prophesied for thousands of years is racing towards a conclusion. For as Garion comes into his heritage as the Rivan King, Overlord of the West, and takes up the Orb of Aldur to protect the land, Torak awakes and his evil hordes of Murgo soldiers and Grolim priests march in his name. While the princess Ce''Nedra mobilises the forces of the free lands to repel the invaders, Garion heads for his duel with Torak - a duel upon which the fate of the whole world depends...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6340'),
(16603, 'Enchanter&#39;s End Game', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''''æ´—Come, Belgarion, Child of Light. I await thee in the City of Night . . .'' A confrontation that has been prophesied for thousands of years is racing towards a conclusion. For as Garion comes into his heritage as the Rivan King, Overlord of the West, and takes up the Orb of Aldur to protect the land, Torak awakes and his evil hordes of Murgo soldiers and Grolim priests march in his name. While the princess Ce''Nedra mobilises the forces of the free lands to repel the invaders, Garion heads for his duel with Torak - a duel upon which the fate of the whole world depends...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15130'),
(16604, 'Enchanter&#39;s End Game', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''''æ´—Come, Belgarion, Child of Light. I await thee in the City of Night . . .'' A confrontation that has been prophesied for thousands of years is racing towards a conclusion. For as Garion comes into his heritage as the Rivan King, Overlord of the West, and takes up the Orb of Aldur to protect the land, Torak awakes and his evil hordes of Murgo soldiers and Grolim priests march in his name. While the princess Ce''Nedra mobilises the forces of the free lands to repel the invaders, Garion heads for his duel with Torak - a duel upon which the fate of the whole world depends...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17681'),
(16605, 'Enchanter&#39;s End Game', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''''æ´—Come, Belgarion, Child of Light. I await thee in the City of Night . . .'' A confrontation that has been prophesied for thousands of years is racing towards a conclusion. For as Garion comes into his heritage as the Rivan King, Overlord of the West, and takes up the Orb of Aldur to protect the land, Torak awakes and his evil hordes of Murgo soldiers and Grolim priests march in his name. While the princess Ce''Nedra mobilises the forces of the free lands to repel the invaders, Garion heads for his duel with Torak - a duel upon which the fate of the whole world depends...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27343'),
(16606, 'Enchantment', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Intertwining the story of Sleeping Beauty with Russian mythology, Card (Homebody, etc.) creates an appealing though not potent fairy tale. Ten-year-old Ivan is terrified by, yet drawn to, a beautiful woman frozen in time in the middle of the primordial forest of Russia. More than a decade later, he returns and uses his prowess as a track-and-field star and a promise of marriage to rescue this princess. Echoes of Narnia sound (including some slightly preachy undertones) as Ivan is drawn back into the princess''s time. He finds that he has no skills useful in the ninth century, and yet must find a way to defeat the witch Baba Yaga, who has harnessed the power of a god to take over Princess Katerina''s kingdom. Ivan brings his betrothed into the modern world to keep her from Yaga''s clutches and the pair learn to understand not only each other, but each other''s powers and weapons. By the time they return to the fairy-tale world, they are armed with modern-day knowledge and aided by Ivan''s relatives, who turn out to be minor Russian deities and witches. In an apparent desire to make his tale believable, Card leaches it of some of its magic, offering up the extraordinary as matter of fact, and his characters lack some of the depth that usually makes his writing so rewarding. His new look at a classic tale is clever, however, adding attractive whimsical twists and cultural confluences to a familiar story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2375'),
(16607, 'Enchantment', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Intertwining the story of Sleeping Beauty with Russian mythology, Card (Homebody, etc.) creates an appealing though not potent fairy tale. Ten-year-old Ivan is terrified by, yet drawn to, a beautiful woman frozen in time in the middle of the primordial forest of Russia. More than a decade later, he returns and uses his prowess as a track-and-field star and a promise of marriage to rescue this princess. Echoes of Narnia sound (including some slightly preachy undertones) as Ivan is drawn back into the princess''s time. He finds that he has no skills useful in the ninth century, and yet must find a way to defeat the witch Baba Yaga, who has harnessed the power of a god to take over Princess Katerina''s kingdom. Ivan brings his betrothed into the modern world to keep her from Yaga''s clutches and the pair learn to understand not only each other, but each other''s powers and weapons. By the time they return to the fairy-tale world, they are armed with modern-day knowledge and aided by Ivan''s relatives, who turn out to be minor Russian deities and witches. In an apparent desire to make his tale believable, Card leaches it of some of its magic, offering up the extraordinary as matter of fact, and his characters lack some of the depth that usually makes his writing so rewarding. His new look at a classic tale is clever, however, adding attractive whimsical twists and cultural confluences to a familiar story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22352'),
(16608, 'The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Enchantress of Florence\n </em>\n is about the power of story--whether it is the imagined life of a Mughal queen, or the devastating secret held by a silver-tongued Florentine. Make no mistake, it is Rushdie who is the true "enchanter" of this story, conjuring readers into his gilded fairy tale from the very first sentence: "In the day''s last light the glowing lake below the palace-city looked like a sea of molten gold." At once bawdy, gorgeous, gory, and hilarious,\n <em>\n  The Enchantress of Florence\n </em>\n is a study in contradiction, highlighted in its barbarian philosopher-king who detests his bloodthirsty heritage even while he carries it out. Full of rich sentences running nearly the length of a page, Rushdie''s 10th novel blends fact and fable into a challenging but satisfying read.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Renaissance Florence''s artistic zenith and Mughal India''s cultural summitâ€”reached the following century, at Emperor Akbar''s court in Sikriâ€”are the twin beacons of Rushdie''s ingenious latest, a dense but sparkling return to form. The connecting link between the two cities and epochs is the magically beautiful hidden princess, Qara KÃ¶z, so gorgeous that her uncovered face makes battle-hardened warriors drop to their knees. Her story underlies the book''s circuitous journey.A mysterious yellow-haired man in a multicolored coat steps off a rented bullock cart and walks into 16th-century Sikri: he speaks excellent Persian, has a stock of conjurer''s tricks and claims to be Akbar''s uncle. He carries with him a letter from Queen Elizabeth I, which he translates for Akbar with vast incorrectness. But it is the story of Akbar''s great-aunt, Qara KÃ¶z, that the man (her putative son) has come to the court to tell. The tale dates to the time of Akbar''s grandfather, Babar (Qara KÃ¶z''s brother), and it involves her relationship with the Persian Shah. In the Shah''s employ is Janissary general Nino Argalia, an Italian convert to Islam, whose own story takes the narrative to Renaissance Florence. Rushdie eventually presents an extended portrait of Florence through the eyes of NiccolÃ² Machiavelli and Ago Vespucci, cousin of the more famous Amerigo. Rushdie''s portrayal of Florence pales in comparison with his depiction of Mughal court society, but it brings Rushdie to his real fascination here: the multitudinous, capillary connections between East and West, a secret history of interchanges that''s disguised by standard histories in which West discovers East.Along the novel''s roundabout way, Qara KÃ¶z does seem more alive as a sexual obsession in the tales swapped by various men than as her own person. Genial Akbar, however, emerges as the most fascinating character in the book. Chuang Tzu tells of a man who dreams of being a butterfly and, on waking up, wonders whether he is now a butterfly dreaming he is a man. In Rushdie''s version of the West and East, the two cultures take on a similar blended polarity in Akbar as he listens to the tales. Each culture becomes the dream of the other.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1456'),
(16609, 'The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Enchantress of Florence\n </em>\n is about the power of story--whether it is the imagined life of a Mughal queen, or the devastating secret held by a silver-tongued Florentine. Make no mistake, it is Rushdie who is the true "enchanter" of this story, conjuring readers into his gilded fairy tale from the very first sentence: "In the day''s last light the glowing lake below the palace-city looked like a sea of molten gold." At once bawdy, gorgeous, gory, and hilarious,\n <em>\n  The Enchantress of Florence\n </em>\n is a study in contradiction, highlighted in its barbarian philosopher-king who detests his bloodthirsty heritage even while he carries it out. Full of rich sentences running nearly the length of a page, Rushdie''s 10th novel blends fact and fable into a challenging but satisfying read.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Renaissance Florence''s artistic zenith and Mughal India''s cultural summitâ€”reached the following century, at Emperor Akbar''s court in Sikriâ€”are the twin beacons of Rushdie''s ingenious latest, a dense but sparkling return to form. The connecting link between the two cities and epochs is the magically beautiful hidden princess, Qara KÃ¶z, so gorgeous that her uncovered face makes battle-hardened warriors drop to their knees. Her story underlies the book''s circuitous journey.A mysterious yellow-haired man in a multicolored coat steps off a rented bullock cart and walks into 16th-century Sikri: he speaks excellent Persian, has a stock of conjurer''s tricks and claims to be Akbar''s uncle. He carries with him a letter from Queen Elizabeth I, which he translates for Akbar with vast incorrectness. But it is the story of Akbar''s great-aunt, Qara KÃ¶z, that the man (her putative son) has come to the court to tell. The tale dates to the time of Akbar''s grandfather, Babar (Qara KÃ¶z''s brother), and it involves her relationship with the Persian Shah. In the Shah''s employ is Janissary general Nino Argalia, an Italian convert to Islam, whose own story takes the narrative to Renaissance Florence. Rushdie eventually presents an extended portrait of Florence through the eyes of NiccolÃ² Machiavelli and Ago Vespucci, cousin of the more famous Amerigo. Rushdie''s portrayal of Florence pales in comparison with his depiction of Mughal court society, but it brings Rushdie to his real fascination here: the multitudinous, capillary connections between East and West, a secret history of interchanges that''s disguised by standard histories in which West discovers East.Along the novel''s roundabout way, Qara KÃ¶z does seem more alive as a sexual obsession in the tales swapped by various men than as her own person. Genial Akbar, however, emerges as the most fascinating character in the book. Chuang Tzu tells of a man who dreams of being a butterfly and, on waking up, wonders whether he is now a butterfly dreaming he is a man. In Rushdie''s version of the West and East, the two cultures take on a similar blended polarity in Akbar as he listens to the tales. Each culture becomes the dream of the other.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12450'),
(16610, 'The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Enchantress of Florence\n </em>\n is about the power of story--whether it is the imagined life of a Mughal queen, or the devastating secret held by a silver-tongued Florentine. Make no mistake, it is Rushdie who is the true "enchanter" of this story, conjuring readers into his gilded fairy tale from the very first sentence: "In the day''s last light the glowing lake below the palace-city looked like a sea of molten gold." At once bawdy, gorgeous, gory, and hilarious,\n <em>\n  The Enchantress of Florence\n </em>\n is a study in contradiction, highlighted in its barbarian philosopher-king who detests his bloodthirsty heritage even while he carries it out. Full of rich sentences running nearly the length of a page, Rushdie''s 10th novel blends fact and fable into a challenging but satisfying read.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Renaissance Florence''s artistic zenith and Mughal India''s cultural summitâ€”reached the following century, at Emperor Akbar''s court in Sikriâ€”are the twin beacons of Rushdie''s ingenious latest, a dense but sparkling return to form. The connecting link between the two cities and epochs is the magically beautiful hidden princess, Qara KÃ¶z, so gorgeous that her uncovered face makes battle-hardened warriors drop to their knees. Her story underlies the book''s circuitous journey.A mysterious yellow-haired man in a multicolored coat steps off a rented bullock cart and walks into 16th-century Sikri: he speaks excellent Persian, has a stock of conjurer''s tricks and claims to be Akbar''s uncle. He carries with him a letter from Queen Elizabeth I, which he translates for Akbar with vast incorrectness. But it is the story of Akbar''s great-aunt, Qara KÃ¶z, that the man (her putative son) has come to the court to tell. The tale dates to the time of Akbar''s grandfather, Babar (Qara KÃ¶z''s brother), and it involves her relationship with the Persian Shah. In the Shah''s employ is Janissary general Nino Argalia, an Italian convert to Islam, whose own story takes the narrative to Renaissance Florence. Rushdie eventually presents an extended portrait of Florence through the eyes of NiccolÃ² Machiavelli and Ago Vespucci, cousin of the more famous Amerigo. Rushdie''s portrayal of Florence pales in comparison with his depiction of Mughal court society, but it brings Rushdie to his real fascination here: the multitudinous, capillary connections between East and West, a secret history of interchanges that''s disguised by standard histories in which West discovers East.Along the novel''s roundabout way, Qara KÃ¶z does seem more alive as a sexual obsession in the tales swapped by various men than as her own person. Genial Akbar, however, emerges as the most fascinating character in the book. Chuang Tzu tells of a man who dreams of being a butterfly and, on waking up, wonders whether he is now a butterfly dreaming he is a man. In Rushdie''s version of the West and East, the two cultures take on a similar blended polarity in Akbar as he listens to the tales. Each culture becomes the dream of the other.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23433'),
(16611, 'Encounter at Farpoint', 'David Gerrold', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  WHERE THE ADVENTURE BEGAN...\n </p>\n <p>\n  CAPTAIN''S LOG, STARDATE 41254.7: The\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  is en route to Cygnus IV -- the edge of the known galaxy. There, we will rendezvous with the ship''s new first officer and the other command personnel and proceed with out mission: discover the truth about Farpoint Station, a starbase facility built by the inhabitants of Cygnus IV, a starbase of unparalleled size and complexity...and infinite mystery.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And the success or failure of this, our first mission together, may well determine the course of human exploration across the galaxy for centuries to come...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The U.S.S.\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM is en route to Cygnus IV, home of the technologically illiterate Bandi and their mysteriously advanced Farpoint Station. After adding to its crew complement from Deneb IV they are harassed and prosecuted by an omnipotent being named Q, who claims that humanity has not progressed beyond barbarism. Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise must defend themselves by solving the mystery of Farpoint Station in a manner satisfactory to their newest judge and nemesis.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6295'),
(16612, 'Encounter at Farpoint', 'David Gerrold', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  WHERE THE ADVENTURE BEGAN...\n </p>\n <p>\n  CAPTAIN''S LOG, STARDATE 41254.7: The\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. EnterpriseTM\n  </em>\n  is en route to Cygnus IV -- the edge of the known galaxy. There, we will rendezvous with the ship''s new first officer and the other command personnel and proceed with out mission: discover the truth about Farpoint Station, a starbase facility built by the inhabitants of Cygnus IV, a starbase of unparalleled size and complexity...and infinite mystery.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And the success or failure of this, our first mission together, may well determine the course of human exploration across the galaxy for centuries to come...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The U.S.S.\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM is en route to Cygnus IV, home of the technologically illiterate Bandi and their mysteriously advanced Farpoint Station. After adding to its crew complement from Deneb IV they are harassed and prosecuted by an omnipotent being named Q, who claims that humanity has not progressed beyond barbarism. Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise must defend themselves by solving the mystery of Farpoint Station in a manner satisfactory to their newest judge and nemesis.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17758'),
(16613, 'Encounter_DM_HotCatch', 'Dawn Montgomery', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17254'),
(16614, 'Encounter_FlashShorts1', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22844'),
(16615, 'Encounter_KH_Wolfy', 'Kate Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20126'),
(16616, 'Encounter_KS_LightsOut', 'Kira Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20110'),
(16617, 'Encounter_MA_Spaceport-Iceman', 'Mikala Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21588'),
(16618, 'Encounter_MA_Spaceport-StolenLove', 'Mikala Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21589'),
(16619, 'Encounter_MHA_Monkey Play', 'Michelle Hasker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21643'),
(16620, 'Encounters', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21601'),
(16621, 'The End of Eternity', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of Isaac Asimovâ€™s SF masterpieces, this stand-alone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the twentieth century. It is widely regarded as Asimovâ€™s single best SF novel. Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the future. One of the few who live in Eternity, a location outside of place and time, Harlanâ€™s job is to create carefully controlled and enacted Reality Changes. These Changes are small, exactingly calculated shifts in the course of history, made for the benefit of humankind. Though each Change has been made for the greater good, there are also always costs. During one of his assignments, Harlan meets and falls in love with NoÃ¿s Lambent, a woman who lives in real time and space. Then Harlan learns that NoÃ¿s will cease to exist after the next Change, and he risks everything to sneak her into Eternity.Unfortunately, they are caught. Harlanâ€™s punishment? His next assignment: Kill the woman he loves before the paradox they have created results in the destruction of Eternity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18252'),
(16622, 'The End of Eternity', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of Isaac Asimovâ€™s SF masterpieces, this stand-alone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the twentieth century. It is widely regarded as Asimovâ€™s single best SF novel. Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the future. One of the few who live in Eternity, a location outside of place and time, Harlanâ€™s job is to create carefully controlled and enacted Reality Changes. These Changes are small, exactingly calculated shifts in the course of history, made for the benefit of humankind. Though each Change has been made for the greater good, there are also always costs. During one of his assignments, Harlan meets and falls in love with NoÃ¿s Lambent, a woman who lives in real time and space. Then Harlan learns that NoÃ¿s will cease to exist after the next Change, and he risks everything to sneak her into Eternity.Unfortunately, they are caught. Harlanâ€™s punishment? His next assignment: Kill the woman he loves before the paradox they have created results in the destruction of Eternity.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of Isaac Asimovâ€™s SF masterpieces, this stand-alone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the twentieth century. It is widely regarded as Asimovâ€™s single best SF novel.Â Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the future. One of the few who live in Eternity, a location outside of place and time, Harlanâ€™s job is to create carefully controlled and enacted Reality Changes. These Changes are small, exactingly calculated shifts in the course of history, made for the benefit of humankind. Though each Change has been made for the greater good, there are also always costs.Â During one of his assignments, Harlan meets and falls in love with NoÃ¿s Lambent, a woman who lives in real time and space. Then Harlan learns that NoÃ¿s will cease to exist after the next Change, and he risks everything to sneak her into Eternity.Unfortunately, they are caught. Harlanâ€™s punishment? His next assignment: Kill the woman he loves before the paradox they have created results in the destruction of Eternity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28296'),
(16623, 'The End of Faith', 'Sam Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23074'),
(16624, 'The End of Secrecy: The Rise and Fall of WikiLeaks', 'The &quot;Guardian&quot; &amp; David Leigh &amp; Luke Harding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world''s greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a cyber-terrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? The debate would echo around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination. Award-winning "Guardian" journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding have been at the centre of a unique publishing drama that involved the release of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables and classified files from the Afghan and Iraq wars. At one point the platinum-haired hacker was hiding from the CIA in David Leigh''s London house. Now, together with the paper''s investigative reporting team, Leigh and Harding reveal the startling inside story of the man and the leak.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n WikiLeaks has been written by a team of top Guardian journalists, led by David Leigh, the paper''s investigations editor whose work was behind the jailing of Jonathan Aitken and the exposure of secret payments by arms company BAE, and Luke Harding, the paper''s Moscow correspondent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/741'),
(16625, 'The End of Secrecy: The Rise and Fall of WikiLeaks', 'The &quot;Guardian&quot; &amp; David Leigh &amp; Luke Harding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world''s greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a cyber-terrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? The debate would echo around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination. Award-winning "Guardian" journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding have been at the centre of a unique publishing drama that involved the release of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables and classified files from the Afghan and Iraq wars. At one point the platinum-haired hacker was hiding from the CIA in David Leigh''s London house. Now, together with the paper''s investigative reporting team, Leigh and Harding reveal the startling inside story of the man and the leak.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n WikiLeaks has been written by a team of top Guardian journalists, led by David Leigh, the paper''s investigations editor whose work was behind the jailing of Jonathan Aitken and the exposure of secret payments by arms company BAE, and Luke Harding, the paper''s Moscow correspondent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8171'),
(16626, 'The End of Secrecy: The Rise and Fall of WikiLeaks', 'The &quot;Guardian&quot;; David Leigh; Luke Harding', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world''s greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a cyber-terrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? The debate would echo around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination. Award-winning "Guardian" journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding have been at the centre of a unique publishing drama that involved the release of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables and classified files from the Afghan and Iraq wars. At one point the platinum-haired hacker was hiding from the CIA in David Leigh''s London house. Now, together with the paper''s investigative reporting team, Leigh and Harding reveal the startling inside story of the man and the leak.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n WikiLeaks has been written by a team of top Guardian journalists, led by David Leigh, the paper''s investigations editor whose work was behind the jailing of Jonathan Aitken and the exposure of secret payments by arms company BAE, and Luke Harding, the paper''s Moscow correspondent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17825'),
(16627, 'The End of the Whole Mess', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **For the first time on CD! Vintage Stephen King at a great low price!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Stephen King''s unparalleled imagination is in full force in this collection of four unabridged short stories originally found in the classic, *Nightmares &amp; Dreamscapes*. An all-star cast of readers bring to life these timeless stories from the darkest places.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One man''s pursuit of world peace turns deadly in *The End of the Whole Mess*. Stephen King puts his spin on the familiar duo of Holmes and Watson in *The Doctor''s Case*. In *The Moving Finger*, menace arrives poking out of the drain of a bathroom sink. And a young, pregnant widow takes on a zombie attack inHome Delivery.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Matthew Broderick, Tim Curry, Eve Beglarian and Stephen King lend their voices to this haunting collection of classic stories that no Stephen King fan should be without.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25100'),
(16628, 'End the Fed', 'Paul, Ron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13767'),
(16629, 'End the Fed', 'Paul, Ron', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23451'),
(16630, 'Ender in Exile', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic *Ender''s Game*.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In *Enderâ€™s Game*, the worldâ€™s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to anÂ elite training school.Â At Battle School,Â they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  After the life-changing events of those years, these childrenâ€”now teenagersâ€”must leave the schoolÂ and readapt to life in the outside world.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for yearsâ€”where do they go now? What can they do?\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Ender fought for humanity, but he is now reviled as a ruthless assassin. No longer allowed to live on Earth, he enters into exile. With his sister Valentine, he chooses to leave the only home heâ€™s ever known to begin a relativisticâ€”and revelatoryâ€”journey beyond the stars.Â \n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  What happened during the years between *Enderâ€™s Game* and *Speaker for the Dead*? What did Ender go through from the ages of 12 through 35? The story of those years has never been told. Taking place 3000 years before Ender finally receives his chance at redemption in *Speaker for the Dead*, this is the long-lost story of Ender.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  For twenty-three years, millions of readers have wondered and now they will receive the answers. ***Ender in Exile*** is **Orson Scott Card**â€™s moving return to all the action and the adventure, the profound exploration of war and society, and the characters one never forgot.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *On one of these ships, there is a baby that just may share the same special gifts as Enderâ€™s old friend Bean**â€¦***\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2376'),
(16631, 'Ender in Exile', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic *Ender''s Game*.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In *Enderâ€™s Game*, the worldâ€™s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to anÂ elite training school.Â At Battle School,Â they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  After the life-changing events of those years, these childrenâ€”now teenagersâ€”must leave the schoolÂ and readapt to life in the outside world.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for yearsâ€”where do they go now? What can they do?\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Ender fought for humanity, but he is now reviled as a ruthless assassin. No longer allowed to live on Earth, he enters into exile. With his sister Valentine, he chooses to leave the only home heâ€™s ever known to begin a relativisticâ€”and revelatoryâ€”journey beyond the stars.Â \n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  What happened during the years between *Enderâ€™s Game* and *Speaker for the Dead*? What did Ender go through from the ages of 12 through 35? The story of those years has never been told. Taking place 3000 years before Ender finally receives his chance at redemption in *Speaker for the Dead*, this is the long-lost story of Ender.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  For twenty-three years, millions of readers have wondered and now they will receive the answers. ***Ender in Exile*** is **Orson Scott Card**â€™s moving return to all the action and the adventure, the profound exploration of war and society, and the characters one never forgot.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *On one of these ships, there is a baby that just may share the same special gifts as Enderâ€™s old friend Bean**â€¦***\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8789'),
(16632, 'Ender in Exile', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic *Ender''s Game*. In *Enderâ€™s Game*, the worldâ€™s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to anÂ elite training school.Â At Battle School,Â they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life. After the life-changing events of those years, these childrenâ€”now teenagersâ€”must leave the schoolÂ and readapt to life in the outside world. Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for yearsâ€”where do they go now? What can they do? Ender fought for humanity, but he is now reviled as a ruthless assassin. No longer allowed to live on Earth, he enters into exile. With his sister Valentine, he chooses to leave the only home heâ€™s ever known to begin a relativisticâ€”and revelatoryâ€”journey beyond the stars.Â  What happened during the years between *Enderâ€™s Game* and *Speaker for the Dead*? What did Ender go through from the ages of 12 through 35? The story of those years has never been told. Taking place 3000 years before Ender finally receives his chance at redemption in *Speaker for the Dead*, this is the long-lost story of Ender. For twenty-three years, millions of readers have wondered and now they will receive the answers. ***Ender in Exile*** is **Orson Scott Card**â€™s moving return to all the action and the adventure, the profound exploration of war and society, and the characters one never forgot. *On one of these ships, there is a baby that just may share the same special gifts as Enderâ€™s old friend Bean**â€¦***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22351'),
(16633, 'Ender&#39;s Game', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. Born in Richland, Washington, in 1951, Orson Scott Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church and received degrees from Brigham Young University (1975) and the University of Utah (1981). The author of numerous books, Card was the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, first for "Ender''s Game" and then for the sequel "Speaker for the Dead." He lives with his wife and children in North Carolina. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? And what if Ender is merely the brilliant result of genetic experiments? The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. An increasingly popular and relevant novel that risks and achieves and delivers more than most anything else within the science fiction genre, "Ender''s Game" is a contemporary classic--a work, as Gene Wolf has written, that "will still be finding new readers when 99 percent of the books published this year are completely forgotten." "''Intense'' is the word for "Ender''s Game.""--"The New York Times" "An affecting novel full of surprises that seem inevitable once they are explained. The key, of course, is Ender Wiggin himself. Mr. Card never makes the mistake of patronizing or sentimentalizing his hero. Alternately likable and insufferable, his is a convincing little Napoleon in short pants."--Gerald Jonas, "The New York Times Book Review" "A gripping tale of adventure in space and a scathing indictment of the military mind."--"Library Journal" "This twenty-five-year-old science fiction classic [is] unlike many hardcore SF titles [in that it] is particularly appropriate for a younger audience, for its protagonist, Ender Wiggin, is just six years old at the novel''s beginning and still a pre-teen at its end. Ender''s parents have received a special dispensation to have a third child in spite of strict population control laws. [Ender''s] brilliant older siblings, Peter and Valentine, have each showed great promise, but each falls just short of having ''the right stuff.'' The International Fleet (I.F.) believes that Ender may be the commander they need to lead great armies against invasion by alien ''buggers.'' When Ender does exhibit the desired combination of compassion and cruelty, the I.F. takes him to the distant Battle School, where brilliant children are trained in military strategy and tactics. The centerpiece of their education is a simulated battle game at which Ender quickly excels, eventually becoming the youngest commander in history. Life at Battle School, especially [its many] battle games, is richly described. Ender is portrayed as just a pawn in the larger game being played by the I.F., and readers will alternately sympathize with his exploitation and cheer when he is able to make friends in spite of the tremendous forces working to isolate and dehumanize him . . . For the most part, this novel will deservedly reach a new generation."--Norah Piehl, "Children''s Literature" "Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superman and interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization, pacing, and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power. This is Card at the height of his very considerable powers--a major SF novel by any reasonable standards."--"Booklist"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2379');
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(16634, 'Ender&#39;s Game', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. Born in Richland, Washington, in 1951, Orson Scott Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church and received degrees from Brigham Young University (1975) and the University of Utah (1981). The author of numerous books, Card was the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, first for "Ender''s Game" and then for the sequel "Speaker for the Dead." He lives with his wife and children in North Carolina. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? And what if Ender is merely the brilliant result of genetic experiments? The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. An increasingly popular and relevant novel that risks and achieves and delivers more than most anything else within the science fiction genre, "Ender''s Game" is a contemporary classic--a work, as Gene Wolf has written, that "will still be finding new readers when 99 percent of the books published this year are completely forgotten." "''Intense'' is the word for "Ender''s Game.""--"The New York Times" "An affecting novel full of surprises that seem inevitable once they are explained. The key, of course, is Ender Wiggin himself. Mr. Card never makes the mistake of patronizing or sentimentalizing his hero. Alternately likable and insufferable, his is a convincing little Napoleon in short pants."--Gerald Jonas, "The New York Times Book Review" "A gripping tale of adventure in space and a scathing indictment of the military mind."--"Library Journal" "This twenty-five-year-old science fiction classic [is] unlike many hardcore SF titles [in that it] is particularly appropriate for a younger audience, for its protagonist, Ender Wiggin, is just six years old at the novel''s beginning and still a pre-teen at its end. Ender''s parents have received a special dispensation to have a third child in spite of strict population control laws. [Ender''s] brilliant older siblings, Peter and Valentine, have each showed great promise, but each falls just short of having ''the right stuff.'' The International Fleet (I.F.) believes that Ender may be the commander they need to lead great armies against invasion by alien ''buggers.'' When Ender does exhibit the desired combination of compassion and cruelty, the I.F. takes him to the distant Battle School, where brilliant children are trained in military strategy and tactics. The centerpiece of their education is a simulated battle game at which Ender quickly excels, eventually becoming the youngest commander in history. Life at Battle School, especially [its many] battle games, is richly described. Ender is portrayed as just a pawn in the larger game being played by the I.F., and readers will alternately sympathize with his exploitation and cheer when he is able to make friends in spite of the tremendous forces working to isolate and dehumanize him . . . For the most part, this novel will deservedly reach a new generation."--Norah Piehl, "Children''s Literature" "Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superman and interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization, pacing, and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power. This is Card at the height of his very considerable powers--a major SF novel by any reasonable standards."--"Booklist"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8780'),
(16635, 'Ender&#39;s Game', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. Born in Richland, Washington, in 1951, Orson Scott Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church and received degrees from Brigham Young University (1975) and the University of Utah (1981). The author of numerous books, Card was the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, first for "Ender''s Game" and then for the sequel "Speaker for the Dead." He lives with his wife and children in North Carolina. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? And what if Ender is merely the brilliant result of genetic experiments? The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. An increasingly popular and relevant novel that risks and achieves and delivers more than most anything else within the science fiction genre, "Ender''s Game" is a contemporary classic--a work, as Gene Wolf has written, that "will still be finding new readers when 99 percent of the books published this year are completely forgotten." "''Intense'' is the word for "Ender''s Game.""--"The New York Times" "An affecting novel full of surprises that seem inevitable once they are explained. The key, of course, is Ender Wiggin himself. Mr. Card never makes the mistake of patronizing or sentimentalizing his hero. Alternately likable and insufferable, his is a convincing little Napoleon in short pants."--Gerald Jonas, "The New York Times Book Review" "A gripping tale of adventure in space and a scathing indictment of the military mind."--"Library Journal" "This twenty-five-year-old science fiction classic [is] unlike many hardcore SF titles [in that it] is particularly appropriate for a younger audience, for its protagonist, Ender Wiggin, is just six years old at the novel''s beginning and still a pre-teen at its end. Ender''s parents have received a special dispensation to have a third child in spite of strict population control laws. [Ender''s] brilliant older siblings, Peter and Valentine, have each showed great promise, but each falls just short of having ''the right stuff.'' The International Fleet (I.F.) believes that Ender may be the commander they need to lead great armies against invasion by alien ''buggers.'' When Ender does exhibit the desired combination of compassion and cruelty, the I.F. takes him to the distant Battle School, where brilliant children are trained in military strategy and tactics. The centerpiece of their education is a simulated battle game at which Ender quickly excels, eventually becoming the youngest commander in history. Life at Battle School, especially [its many] battle games, is richly described. Ender is portrayed as just a pawn in the larger game being played by the I.F., and readers will alternately sympathize with his exploitation and cheer when he is able to make friends in spite of the tremendous forces working to isolate and dehumanize him . . . For the most part, this novel will deservedly reach a new generation."--Norah Piehl, "Children''s Literature" "Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superman and interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization, pacing, and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power. This is Card at the height of his very considerable powers--a major SF novel by any reasonable standards."--"Booklist"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15283'),
(16636, 'Ender&#39;s Game', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. Born in Richland, Washington, in 1951, Orson Scott Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church and received degrees from Brigham Young University (1975) and the University of Utah (1981). The author of numerous books, Card was the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, first for "Ender''s Game" and then for the sequel "Speaker for the Dead." He lives with his wife and children in North Carolina. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? And what if Ender is merely the brilliant result of genetic experiments? The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. An increasingly popular and relevant novel that risks and achieves and delivers more than most anything else within the science fiction genre, "Ender''s Game" is a contemporary classic--a work, as Gene Wolf has written, that "will still be finding new readers when 99 percent of the books published this year are completely forgotten." "''Intense'' is the word for "Ender''s Game.""--"The New York Times" "An affecting novel full of surprises that seem inevitable once they are explained. The key, of course, is Ender Wiggin himself. Mr. Card never makes the mistake of patronizing or sentimentalizing his hero. Alternately likable and insufferable, his is a convincing little Napoleon in short pants."--Gerald Jonas, "The New York Times Book Review" "A gripping tale of adventure in space and a scathing indictment of the military mind."--"Library Journal" "This twenty-five-year-old science fiction classic [is] unlike many hardcore SF titles [in that it] is particularly appropriate for a younger audience, for its protagonist, Ender Wiggin, is just six years old at the novel''s beginning and still a pre-teen at its end. Ender''s parents have received a special dispensation to have a third child in spite of strict population control laws. [Ender''s] brilliant older siblings, Peter and Valentine, have each showed great promise, but each falls just short of having ''the right stuff.'' The International Fleet (I.F.) believes that Ender may be the commander they need to lead great armies against invasion by alien ''buggers.'' When Ender does exhibit the desired combination of compassion and cruelty, the I.F. takes him to the distant Battle School, where brilliant children are trained in military strategy and tactics. The centerpiece of their education is a simulated battle game at which Ender quickly excels, eventually becoming the youngest commander in history. Life at Battle School, especially [its many] battle games, is richly described. Ender is portrayed as just a pawn in the larger game being played by the I.F., and readers will alternately sympathize with his exploitation and cheer when he is able to make friends in spite of the tremendous forces working to isolate and dehumanize him . . . For the most part, this novel will deservedly reach a new generation."--Norah Piehl, "Children''s Literature" "Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superman and interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization, pacing, and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power. This is Card at the height of his very considerable powers--a major SF novel by any reasonable standards."--"Booklist"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22350'),
(16637, 'Ender&#39;s Shadow', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ender''s Shadow : A Parallel Novel to Ender''s Game Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender''s Quartet, with a novel that allows us to reenter that world anew. With all the power of his original creation, Card has created a parallel volume to Ender''s Game, a book that expands and complements the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion. The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. The first battles went badly, and now as Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien enemy, all focus is on the development and training of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth â€” they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean â€” the one who became Ender''s right hand, his strategist, and his friend. One who was with him, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean''s past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else''s. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children''s gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Bean''s desperate struggle to live, and his success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School''s recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14783'),
(16638, 'Ender&#39;s Shadow', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ender''s Shadow : A Parallel Novel to Ender''s Game Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender''s Quartet, with a novel that allows us to reenter that world anew. With all the power of his original creation, Card has created a parallel volume to Ender''s Game, a book that expands and complements the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion. The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. The first battles went badly, and now as Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien enemy, all focus is on the development and training of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth â€” they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean â€” the one who became Ender''s right hand, his strategist, and his friend. One who was with him, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean''s past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else''s. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children''s gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Bean''s desperate struggle to live, and his success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School''s recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22349'),
(16639, 'Enders Game 1 - Ender&#39;s Game', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ender''s Game Nebula and Hugo Award Winner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From its first publication in January 1985, Ender''s Game quickly became a classic in the science fiction field. It was greeted enthusiastically by the Science Fiction Writers of America, which gave it the Nebula Award for best novel of 1985, and the 1986 World Science Fiction Convention awarded Ender''s Game the best novel Hugo. (What really stunned everyone was the following year, when the sequel, Speaker for the Dead, also won both awards -- something no author had ever done before, still less for a book and its sequel!) While Card has gone on to win other awards (two more Hugos, a World Fantasy Award, and in 1996 the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel of the year for his book Alvin Journeyman), Ender''s Game continues to be his most popular novel, capturing the imagination of children, teenagers, and adults. Ender''s Game has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Swedish. Why does the story work so well? Many people call it "the science fiction novel for people who don''t think they like science fiction." While the trappings of science fiction are there -- spaceships, aliens, futuristic machinery -- the reason the book works for so many people is that it''s first and foremost a human story, of a boy who finds the burdens of the world placed on his back. Isolated and alone, his anguish resonates in the hearts of all readers. Yes, kids who read the book really enjoy the whole idea of the Battle School, a three-dimensional playspace where children in special suits have mock combats between armies. Others are intrigued by the military aspects of the book. When the Marine University at Quantico required students in one class to read Ender''s Game, it wasn''t for the strategy -- tactics in 3D space aren''t really a big deal for the Marines. Rather, it was because Ender''s Game is virtually a textbook in how to develop a strong relationship between a commander and his troops -- with plenty of examples also in how to fail as a commander. Other people -- especially in the online community -- love Ender''s Game because of the powerful role it shows for computer networks in the world of the future. The Internet has taken a few steps in the direction shown by Ender''s Game, but we''re still a long way from a time when public discourse takes place primarily on the Internet and e-discussions can influence public policy. So Ender''s Game is still a dream. Yet others find the "Mind Game" most appealing. This is the computer game that students in the Battle School play, allowing their teachers to evaluate their emotional state. Ender, however, forces the computer to reprogram itself to allow him to play the game in new, unpredictable ways. The whole idea of a self-altering game that responds to the needs and desires of the player still intrigues many -- though Card has still not been able to persuade any computer game publishers to develop a self-creating game! Above all, though, Ender''s Game is the story of growing up alone, trying to find independence when none is allowed, trying to find meaning in a life whose meaning has already been defined. Almost everyone has at some time felt himself or herself to be in the same kind of no-win situation as Ender Wiggin, and the triumph of the book is not that Ender Wiggin "wins," but that he grows up along the way. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright Â© 1985 Orson Scott Card A Tor Book - Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. Jacket art by John Harris - Jacket design by Carol Russo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25998'),
(16640, 'Enders Game 2 - Speaker for the Dead', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Speaker for the Dead Nebula and Hugo Award Winner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Three thousand planet-bound years have fled since Ender Wiggin won humanity''s war with the Buggers by totally destroying them. Ender remains young-travelling the stars at relativistic speeds, a hundred years or more might pass while he experiences a month-long voyage. In three thousand years, his books The Hive Queen and The Hegemon have become holy writ, and the name of Ender anathema; he is the Xenocide, the one who killed an entire race of thinking, feeling beings, the only other sapient race humankind had found in all the galaxy. The only ones, that is, until the planet called Lusitania was discovered and colonized. On Lusitania humans found another race of ramen ... a young race, beings just beginning to lift their eyes to the stars and wonder what might be out there. The discovery was seen as a gift to humanity, a chance to redeem the destruction of the Buggers. And so the Pequininos, as they were named by the portuguese-speaking settlers, the "Piggies," were placed off-limits to the colony. The only humans allowed to meet them and speak with them are trained xenobiologists, and then only two at a time. This time, there will be no tragic misunderstandings leading to war. This time... This time, again, men die -bizarrely killed by the Piggies. Andrew Wiggin is called to Lusitania to Speak the deaths of the two xenobiologists, and walks into a maelstrom of fear and hatred. To Speak for these dead, he must first unravel the web of secrets surrounding the lives of the Piggies and those who study them. He must Speak not only for the dead, but for a living alien race. This magnificent sequel to ENDER''S GAME won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best SF Novel of the Year. Orson Scott Card is one of the finest, most innovative writers of the past decade, whose works also include the acclaimed alternate world fantasy series, The Tales of Alvin Maker. Copyright Â© 1986 Orson Scott Card A Tor Book - Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. Jacket art by John Harris - Jacket design by Carol Russo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25999'),
(16641, 'Enders Game 4 - Children of the Mind', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender''s Game, who as a man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and restore the Hive Queen to life. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years before. Lusitania is home to three sentient species: The Pequeninos, a strange race native to Lusitania; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But the Starways Congress fears Lusitania and a strange virus that it harbors, and they have gathered a fleet to destroy the planet. Ender''s oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over three thousand years, allowed the Starways Congress to discover her existence when she tried t stop the fleet. Now they are trying to kill her as well, by shutting down the network of computers and ansibles in which she lives. They are afraid of her and of her control over all human communications. Jane can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by world. Soon she will not be able to move the ships. But there is hope: during the first trip outside, Ender''s mind briefly took control and created two new beings - replicas of his brother Peter, who was the Hegemon, and his sister Valentine. These two children of Ender''s mind, together with his adopted children from Lusitania, are racing against time to discover new worlds, to influence the Starways Congress to recall the fleet, and to save Jane by finding a home for her disembodied intelligence once the Human Network is closed off to her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26000'),
(16642, 'Enders Game 5 - Ender&#39;s Shadow', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Ender''s Shadow : A Parallel Novel to Ender''s Game Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender''s Quartet, with a novel that allows us to reenter that world anew. With all the power of his original creation, Card has created a parallel volume to Ender''s Game, a book that expands and complements the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion. The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. The first battles went badly, and now as Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien enemy, all focus is on the development and training of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth â€” they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean â€” the one who became Ender''s right hand, his strategist, and his friend. One who was with him, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean''s past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else''s. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children''s gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Bean''s desperate struggle to live, and his success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School''s recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26001'),
(16643, 'Enders Game 6 - Shadow of the Hegemon', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26002'),
(16644, 'Enders Game 7 - Shadow Puppets', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26003'),
(16645, 'Enders Game 8 - Shadow of the Giant', 'Card, Orson Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26004'),
(16646, 'Endgame', 'David Michaels &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The National Security Agency''s top-secret initiative to protect the United States from potential threats has been dubbed the Third Echelon. It deploys a lone field operative. He is sharp, nearly invisible, and deadly. And he has the right to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect American freedoms. His name is Sam Fisher. He is a Splinter Cellå¨›hird Echlon. Operative Fisher knows that several disastrous missions have depleted the ranks of the Splinter Cells. What he doesn''t know is that a stunning piece of evidence has been uncovered that points to the mole who sold out his government.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6210'),
(16647, 'Endgame', 'David Michaels &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The National Security Agency''s top-secret initiative to protect the United States from potential threats has been dubbed the Third Echelon. It deploys a lone field operative. He is sharp, nearly invisible, and deadly. And he has the right to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect American freedoms. His name is Sam Fisher. He is a Splinter Cellå¨›hird Echlon. Operative Fisher knows that several disastrous missions have depleted the ranks of the Splinter Cells. What he doesn''t know is that a stunning piece of evidence has been uncovered that points to the mole who sold out his government.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11480'),
(16648, 'Endgame', 'Frank Brady', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <b>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2011\n </b>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  <b>\n  </b>\n  There may be no one more qualified than Frank Brady to write the definitive biography of Bobby Fischer. Brady''s Profile of a Prodigy (originally published in 1969) chronicled the chess icon''s early years, a selection of 90 games, and (in later editions) his 1972 World Championship match with Boris Spassky. With Endgame, published two years after Fischer''s death, Brady''s on-and-off proximity to Fischer lends new depth to the latter''s full and twisted life story. Though Fischer''s pinnacle artistry on the chessboard may often be discussed in the same breath with his eventual paranoia and outspoken anti-Semitism, the particular turns and travels of his post-World Championship years (half his life) lend his story most of its vexing oddity: the niggling insistence on seemingly arbitrary conditions for his matches, the years on the lam after flagrantly disregarding U.S. economic sanctions, his incarceration in Japan, his eventual citizenship and quiet demise in Iceland. All told, Fischer''s life was like none other, and told through the lens of Brady''s personal familiarity and access to new source material, results in an utterly engaging read.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15332'),
(16649, 'Endgame', 'David Michaels; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The National Security Agency''s top-secret initiative to protect the United States from potential threats has been dubbed the Third Echelon. It deploys a lone field operative. He is sharp, nearly invisible, and deadly. And he has the right to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect American freedoms. His name is Sam Fisher. He is a Splinter Cellå¨›hird Echlon. Operative Fisher knows that several disastrous missions have depleted the ranks of the Splinter Cells. What he doesn''t know is that a stunning piece of evidence has been uncovered that points to the mole who sold out his government.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17780'),
(16650, 'Endgame', 'Frank Brady', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <b>\n  Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2011\n </b>\n <div>\n  <br />\n </div>\n <div>\n  <b>\n  </b>\n  There may be no one more qualified than Frank Brady to write the definitive biography of Bobby Fischer. Brady''s Profile of a Prodigy (originally published in 1969) chronicled the chess icon''s early years, a selection of 90 games, and (in later editions) his 1972 World Championship match with Boris Spassky. With Endgame, published two years after Fischer''s death, Brady''s on-and-off proximity to Fischer lends new depth to the latter''s full and twisted life story. Though Fischer''s pinnacle artistry on the chessboard may often be discussed in the same breath with his eventual paranoia and outspoken anti-Semitism, the particular turns and travels of his post-World Championship years (half his life) lend his story most of its vexing oddity: the niggling insistence on seemingly arbitrary conditions for his matches, the years on the lam after flagrantly disregarding U.S. economic sanctions, his incarceration in Japan, his eventual citizenship and quiet demise in Iceland. All told, Fischer''s life was like none other, and told through the lens of Brady''s personal familiarity and access to new source material, results in an utterly engaging read.\n  <p>\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27843'),
(16651, 'Endgame Vol.1', 'Jensen, Derrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14174'),
(16652, 'Endgame Volume I: The Problem of Civilization', 'Derrick Jensen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The author, who in earlier books like _The Culture of Make Believe\n  <em>\n   discussed his experience of violence and abuse as a child, calls now for determined and even violent resistance to environmental degradation. Jensen comes across in volume I as a provocative but personable philosopher-activist who in lyrical and witty writing bemoans species extinction, sullied air quality, shrinking icecaps, expanding deserts and vanishing forests wrought by humans. But Jensen believes "this culture will not undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living." Civilization, he says in volume II, is killing the planet, so "[c]ivilization needs to be brought down now." Jensen dwells through several chapters on the need to destroy tens of thousands of river dams, whether with pickax-wielding citizen armies or through the use of well-placed explosive charges; other chapters consider how simple it would be to paralyze the American capitalist system if small activist cells were to disrupt railway, highway, pipeline and other elements of commercial infrastructure. Jensen clearly feels a close connection to nature, writes movingly about the hoped-for return of the salmon, the trees, the grizzly bears. But he has become so disgusted with what he calls "civiluzation" that he has more compassion for the salmon than for his fellow humans.\n  </em>\n  (June)_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jensen, author of\n  <em>\n   A Language Older than Words\n  </em>\n  (2000) and\n  <em>\n   The Culture of Make Believe\n  </em>\n  (2002), has a deserved reputation as a writer of consequence and conscience who has pursued an environmentalist message with great fervor. In his latest work, however, a two-volume manifesto, he argues for the necessary destruction of civilization to save the world. Jensen posits his case against industrial development through discussion of everything from dams to the use of torture by the U.S. military.\n  <em>\n   Endgame\n  </em>\n  touches on numerous valid and necessary subjects, but Jensen''s strident tone and heavy reliance on sources that fully support his message weaken his presentation. And when he offers solutions for the problems we face, he preaches violence. Clearly he is passionate, but apparently the success of his earlier books has led to his writing only for those who already agree with him, rather than crafting a balanced discussion that allows readers to come to their own conclusions. Jensen has become an extremist, and he may have done his cause the worst possible service by alienating the readers he most needs to inspire.\n  <em>\n   Colleen Mondor\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6023'),
(16653, 'Endgame Volume I: The Problem of Civilization', 'Derrick Jensen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The author, who in earlier books like _The Culture of Make Believe\n  <em>\n   discussed his experience of violence and abuse as a child, calls now for determined and even violent resistance to environmental degradation. Jensen comes across in volume I as a provocative but personable philosopher-activist who in lyrical and witty writing bemoans species extinction, sullied air quality, shrinking icecaps, expanding deserts and vanishing forests wrought by humans. But Jensen believes "this culture will not undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living." Civilization, he says in volume II, is killing the planet, so "[c]ivilization needs to be brought down now." Jensen dwells through several chapters on the need to destroy tens of thousands of river dams, whether with pickax-wielding citizen armies or through the use of well-placed explosive charges; other chapters consider how simple it would be to paralyze the American capitalist system if small activist cells were to disrupt railway, highway, pipeline and other elements of commercial infrastructure. Jensen clearly feels a close connection to nature, writes movingly about the hoped-for return of the salmon, the trees, the grizzly bears. But he has become so disgusted with what he calls "civiluzation" that he has more compassion for the salmon than for his fellow humans.\n  </em>\n  (June)_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Jensen, author of\n  <em>\n   A Language Older than Words\n  </em>\n  (2000) and\n  <em>\n   The Culture of Make Believe\n  </em>\n  (2002), has a deserved reputation as a writer of consequence and conscience who has pursued an environmentalist message with great fervor. In his latest work, however, a two-volume manifesto, he argues for the necessary destruction of civilization to save the world. Jensen posits his case against industrial development through discussion of everything from dams to the use of torture by the U.S. military.\n  <em>\n   Endgame\n  </em>\n  touches on numerous valid and necessary subjects, but Jensen''s strident tone and heavy reliance on sources that fully support his message weaken his presentation. And when he offers solutions for the problems we face, he preaches violence. Clearly he is passionate, but apparently the success of his earlier books has led to his writing only for those who already agree with him, rather than crafting a balanced discussion that allows readers to come to their own conclusions. Jensen has become an extremist, and he may have done his cause the worst possible service by alienating the readers he most needs to inspire.\n  <em>\n   Colleen Mondor\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10546');
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(16654, 'Endgame: Bobby Fischer&#39;s Remarkable Rise and Fall - From America&#39;s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness', 'Frank Brady', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Profile of a Prodigy\n </em>\n (originally published in 1969) chronicled the chess icon''s early years, a selection of 90 games, and (in later editions) his 1972 World Championship match with Boris Spassky. With\n <em>\n  Endgame\n </em>\n , published two years after Fischer''s death, Brady''s on-and-off proximity to Fischer lends new depth to the latter''s full and twisted life story. Though Fischer''s pinnacle artistry on the chessboard may often be discussed in the same breath with his eventual paranoia and outspoken anti-Semitism, the particular turns and travels of his post-World Championship years (half his life) lend his story most of its vexing oddity: the niggling insistence on seemingly arbitrary conditions for his matches, the years on the lam after flagrantly disregarding U.S. economic sanctions, his incarceration in Japan, his eventual citizenship and quiet demise in Iceland. All told, Fischer''s life was like none other, and told through the lens of Brady''s personal familiarity and access to new source material, results in an utterly engaging read. --_Jason Kirk_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Dick Cavett\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dick Cavett\n </strong>\n is the host of â€œThe Dick Cavett Showâ€---which aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on public television from 1977 to 1982---Dick Cavett is the author, most recently, of\n <em>\n  Otherwise Engaged\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Into the Woods,\n </em>\n and as narrator in\n <em>\n  The Rocky Horror Show\n </em>\n , and has made guest appearances in movies and on TV shows including\n <em>\n  Forrest Gump\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Simpsons\n </em>\n . His column appears in the Opinionator blog on\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n website. Mr. Cavett lives in New York City and Montauk, N.Y.\n</p>\n<p>\n Even if you donâ€™t give a damn about chess, or Bobby Fischer, youâ€™ll find yourself engrossed by Frank Bradyâ€˜s book about Fischer, which reads like a novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n The facts of Bobbyâ€™s life (I knew him from several memorable appearances on â€œThe Dick Cavett Showâ€ on both sides of the Big Tournament) are presented in page-turner fashion. Poor Bobby was blessed and cursed by his genius, and his story has the arc of a Greek tragedy---with a grim touch of mad King Lear at the end.\n</p>\n<p>\n The brain power and concentrated days and nights Bobby spent studying the game left much of him undeveloped, unable to join conversations on other subjects. Later in his life, unhappy with his limited knowledge of things beyond the chess board, he compensated with massive study---applying that same hard-butt dedication to other fields: politics, classics, religion, philosophy and more. He found a hide-away nook in a Reykjavic bookstore---barred from his homeland, Iceland had welcomed him back---where he read in marathon sessions. (After he was recognized, he never went back to his cozy cul de sac.)\n</p>\n<p>\n In Bradyâ€™s telling the high drama of the Spassky match quickens the pulse; the contest that made America a chess-crazed land was seen by more people than the Superbowl. People skipped school and played sick in vast numbers, glued to watching Shelby Lyman explain what was happening. The fanaticism was worldwide. The match was seen as a Cold War event, with the time out of mind chess-ruling Russian bear vanquished.\n</p>\n<p>\n Arguably the best known man on the planet at his triumphant peak, Bobby is later seen in this account riding buses in Los Angeles, able to pay his rent in a dump of an apartment only because his mother sent him her social-security checks. The details of all this are stranger than fiction, as is nearly everything in the life of this much-rewarded, much-tortured genius.\n</p>\n<p>\n I liked him immensely, knowing only the tall, broad-shouldered, athletically strong and handsome six-foot-something articulate and yes, witty, youth that Bobby was before the evil times set in, with deranged anti-Semitic outbursts and other mental strangeness preceding his too early end at age 64.\n</p>\n<p>\n I canâ€™t ever forget the moment on the show when in amiable conversation I asked him what, in chess, corresponded to the thrill in another sort of event; like, say, hitting a homer in baseball. He said it was the moment when you â€œbreak the other guyâ€™s ego.â€ There was a shocked murmur from the audience and the quote went around the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Frank Bradyâ€™s\n <em>\n  Endgame\n </em>\n is one of those books that makes you want your dinner guests to go the hell home so you can get back to it.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bradyâ€™s insightful biography of the legendary chess player focuses more on Fischerâ€™s life as a chess champion than on his much-publicized legal troubles and alleged psychological breakdowns. Brady first became friends with Fischer at a chess tournament when they were both children, and he combines a traditional biography with a personal memoir. Fischer began playing chess at age six and was soon playing games by himself, unable to find worthy competition. He seems to have had a lifelong battle with himself, and his biggest challenge may have been conquering not his competitors but his own intellect. Brady is uniquely qualified to write this book. Not only is he a seasoned biographer and someone who knew Fischer on a personal level; heâ€™s also an accomplished chess player himself, able to convey the gameâ€™s intricacies to the reader in a clear, uncomplicated manner. The book should appeal to a broad audience, from hard-core chess fans to casual players to those who are simply interested in what is a compelling personal story. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5528'),
(16655, 'Endgame: Bobby Fischer&#39;s Remarkable Rise and Fall - From America&#39;s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness', 'Frank Brady', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Profile of a Prodigy\n </em>\n (originally published in 1969) chronicled the chess icon''s early years, a selection of 90 games, and (in later editions) his 1972 World Championship match with Boris Spassky. With\n <em>\n  Endgame\n </em>\n , published two years after Fischer''s death, Brady''s on-and-off proximity to Fischer lends new depth to the latter''s full and twisted life story. Though Fischer''s pinnacle artistry on the chessboard may often be discussed in the same breath with his eventual paranoia and outspoken anti-Semitism, the particular turns and travels of his post-World Championship years (half his life) lend his story most of its vexing oddity: the niggling insistence on seemingly arbitrary conditions for his matches, the years on the lam after flagrantly disregarding U.S. economic sanctions, his incarceration in Japan, his eventual citizenship and quiet demise in Iceland. All told, Fischer''s life was like none other, and told through the lens of Brady''s personal familiarity and access to new source material, results in an utterly engaging read. --_Jason Kirk_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Dick Cavett\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dick Cavett\n </strong>\n is the host of â€œThe Dick Cavett Showâ€---which aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on public television from 1977 to 1982---Dick Cavett is the author, most recently, of\n <em>\n  Otherwise Engaged\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Into the Woods,\n </em>\n and as narrator in\n <em>\n  The Rocky Horror Show\n </em>\n , and has made guest appearances in movies and on TV shows including\n <em>\n  Forrest Gump\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Simpsons\n </em>\n . His column appears in the Opinionator blog on\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n website. Mr. Cavett lives in New York City and Montauk, N.Y.\n</p>\n<p>\n Even if you donâ€™t give a damn about chess, or Bobby Fischer, youâ€™ll find yourself engrossed by Frank Bradyâ€˜s book about Fischer, which reads like a novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n The facts of Bobbyâ€™s life (I knew him from several memorable appearances on â€œThe Dick Cavett Showâ€ on both sides of the Big Tournament) are presented in page-turner fashion. Poor Bobby was blessed and cursed by his genius, and his story has the arc of a Greek tragedy---with a grim touch of mad King Lear at the end.\n</p>\n<p>\n The brain power and concentrated days and nights Bobby spent studying the game left much of him undeveloped, unable to join conversations on other subjects. Later in his life, unhappy with his limited knowledge of things beyond the chess board, he compensated with massive study---applying that same hard-butt dedication to other fields: politics, classics, religion, philosophy and more. He found a hide-away nook in a Reykjavic bookstore---barred from his homeland, Iceland had welcomed him back---where he read in marathon sessions. (After he was recognized, he never went back to his cozy cul de sac.)\n</p>\n<p>\n In Bradyâ€™s telling the high drama of the Spassky match quickens the pulse; the contest that made America a chess-crazed land was seen by more people than the Superbowl. People skipped school and played sick in vast numbers, glued to watching Shelby Lyman explain what was happening. The fanaticism was worldwide. The match was seen as a Cold War event, with the time out of mind chess-ruling Russian bear vanquished.\n</p>\n<p>\n Arguably the best known man on the planet at his triumphant peak, Bobby is later seen in this account riding buses in Los Angeles, able to pay his rent in a dump of an apartment only because his mother sent him her social-security checks. The details of all this are stranger than fiction, as is nearly everything in the life of this much-rewarded, much-tortured genius.\n</p>\n<p>\n I liked him immensely, knowing only the tall, broad-shouldered, athletically strong and handsome six-foot-something articulate and yes, witty, youth that Bobby was before the evil times set in, with deranged anti-Semitic outbursts and other mental strangeness preceding his too early end at age 64.\n</p>\n<p>\n I canâ€™t ever forget the moment on the show when in amiable conversation I asked him what, in chess, corresponded to the thrill in another sort of event; like, say, hitting a homer in baseball. He said it was the moment when you â€œbreak the other guyâ€™s ego.â€ There was a shocked murmur from the audience and the quote went around the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Frank Bradyâ€™s\n <em>\n  Endgame\n </em>\n is one of those books that makes you want your dinner guests to go the hell home so you can get back to it.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bradyâ€™s insightful biography of the legendary chess player focuses more on Fischerâ€™s life as a chess champion than on his much-publicized legal troubles and alleged psychological breakdowns. Brady first became friends with Fischer at a chess tournament when they were both children, and he combines a traditional biography with a personal memoir. Fischer began playing chess at age six and was soon playing games by himself, unable to find worthy competition. He seems to have had a lifelong battle with himself, and his biggest challenge may have been conquering not his competitors but his own intellect. Brady is uniquely qualified to write this book. Not only is he a seasoned biographer and someone who knew Fischer on a personal level; heâ€™s also an accomplished chess player himself, able to convey the gameâ€™s intricacies to the reader in a clear, uncomplicated manner. The book should appeal to a broad audience, from hard-core chess fans to casual players to those who are simply interested in what is a compelling personal story. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8604'),
(16656, 'Endgame: Bobby Fischer&#39;s Remarkable Rise and Fall - From America&#39;s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness', 'Frank Brady', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Profile of a Prodigy\n </em>\n (originally published in 1969) chronicled the chess icon''s early years, a selection of 90 games, and (in later editions) his 1972 World Championship match with Boris Spassky. With\n <em>\n  Endgame\n </em>\n , published two years after Fischer''s death, Brady''s on-and-off proximity to Fischer lends new depth to the latter''s full and twisted life story. Though Fischer''s pinnacle artistry on the chessboard may often be discussed in the same breath with his eventual paranoia and outspoken anti-Semitism, the particular turns and travels of his post-World Championship years (half his life) lend his story most of its vexing oddity: the niggling insistence on seemingly arbitrary conditions for his matches, the years on the lam after flagrantly disregarding U.S. economic sanctions, his incarceration in Japan, his eventual citizenship and quiet demise in Iceland. All told, Fischer''s life was like none other, and told through the lens of Brady''s personal familiarity and access to new source material, results in an utterly engaging read. --_Jason Kirk_\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Dick Cavett\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dick Cavett\n </strong>\n is the host of â€œThe Dick Cavett Showâ€---which aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on public television from 1977 to 1982---Dick Cavett is the author, most recently, of\n <em>\n  Otherwise Engaged\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Into the Woods,\n </em>\n and as narrator in\n <em>\n  The Rocky Horror Show\n </em>\n , and has made guest appearances in movies and on TV shows including\n <em>\n  Forrest Gump\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Simpsons\n </em>\n . His column appears in the Opinionator blog on\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n website. Mr. Cavett lives in New York City and Montauk, N.Y.\n</p>\n<p>\n Even if you donâ€™t give a damn about chess, or Bobby Fischer, youâ€™ll find yourself engrossed by Frank Bradyâ€˜s book about Fischer, which reads like a novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n The facts of Bobbyâ€™s life (I knew him from several memorable appearances on â€œThe Dick Cavett Showâ€ on both sides of the Big Tournament) are presented in page-turner fashion. Poor Bobby was blessed and cursed by his genius, and his story has the arc of a Greek tragedy---with a grim touch of mad King Lear at the end.\n</p>\n<p>\n The brain power and concentrated days and nights Bobby spent studying the game left much of him undeveloped, unable to join conversations on other subjects. Later in his life, unhappy with his limited knowledge of things beyond the chess board, he compensated with massive study---applying that same hard-butt dedication to other fields: politics, classics, religion, philosophy and more. He found a hide-away nook in a Reykjavic bookstore---barred from his homeland, Iceland had welcomed him back---where he read in marathon sessions. (After he was recognized, he never went back to his cozy cul de sac.)\n</p>\n<p>\n In Bradyâ€™s telling the high drama of the Spassky match quickens the pulse; the contest that made America a chess-crazed land was seen by more people than the Superbowl. People skipped school and played sick in vast numbers, glued to watching Shelby Lyman explain what was happening. The fanaticism was worldwide. The match was seen as a Cold War event, with the time out of mind chess-ruling Russian bear vanquished.\n</p>\n<p>\n Arguably the best known man on the planet at his triumphant peak, Bobby is later seen in this account riding buses in Los Angeles, able to pay his rent in a dump of an apartment only because his mother sent him her social-security checks. The details of all this are stranger than fiction, as is nearly everything in the life of this much-rewarded, much-tortured genius.\n</p>\n<p>\n I liked him immensely, knowing only the tall, broad-shouldered, athletically strong and handsome six-foot-something articulate and yes, witty, youth that Bobby was before the evil times set in, with deranged anti-Semitic outbursts and other mental strangeness preceding his too early end at age 64.\n</p>\n<p>\n I canâ€™t ever forget the moment on the show when in amiable conversation I asked him what, in chess, corresponded to the thrill in another sort of event; like, say, hitting a homer in baseball. He said it was the moment when you â€œbreak the other guyâ€™s ego.â€ There was a shocked murmur from the audience and the quote went around the world.\n</p>\n<p>\n Frank Bradyâ€™s\n <em>\n  Endgame\n </em>\n is one of those books that makes you want your dinner guests to go the hell home so you can get back to it.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bradyâ€™s insightful biography of the legendary chess player focuses more on Fischerâ€™s life as a chess champion than on his much-publicized legal troubles and alleged psychological breakdowns. Brady first became friends with Fischer at a chess tournament when they were both children, and he combines a traditional biography with a personal memoir. Fischer began playing chess at age six and was soon playing games by himself, unable to find worthy competition. He seems to have had a lifelong battle with himself, and his biggest challenge may have been conquering not his competitors but his own intellect. Brady is uniquely qualified to write this book. Not only is he a seasoned biographer and someone who knew Fischer on a personal level; heâ€™s also an accomplished chess player himself, able to convey the gameâ€™s intricacies to the reader in a clear, uncomplicated manner. The book should appeal to a broad audience, from hard-core chess fans to casual players to those who are simply interested in what is a compelling personal story. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19063'),
(16657, 'Endless Blue', 'Wen Spencer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Confronted by the threat of genocide at the hands of the alien Nefrim, humankind''s only hope lies in Captain Mikhail Volkov''s desperate mission to the Sargasso Sea in search of the mystery behind the long-lost spaceship Fenrir, but his discovery of a secret that could save the human race is threatened by damage to his own ship that could prevent him from returning home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/252'),
(16658, 'Endless Blue', 'Wen Spencer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Confronted by the threat of genocide at the hands of the alien Nefrim, humankind''s only hope lies in Captain Mikhail Volkov''s desperate mission to the Sargasso Sea in search of the mystery behind the long-lost spaceship Fenrir, but his discovery of a secret that could save the human race is threatened by damage to his own ship that could prevent him from returning home.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24578'),
(16659, 'Endless Night', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Agatha Christie''s disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.  Gipsy''s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea -- and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy.  There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after.  Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals'' warnings: ''There''s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy''s Acre.''  Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying ''In my end is my beginning!''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/81'),
(16660, 'Endless Night', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Agatha Christie''s disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Gipsy''s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea -- and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals'' warnings: ''There''s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy''s Acre.'' Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying ''In my end is my beginning!''\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17154'),
(16661, 'Endurance', 'Alfred Lansing', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14252'),
(16662, 'Endurance', 'Alfred Lansing', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16097'),
(16663, 'Endurance', 'Alfred Lansing', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26283'),
(16664, 'The Endurance: Shackleton&#39;s Legendary Antarctic Expedition', 'Caroline Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Melding superb research and the extraordinary expedition photography of Frank Hurley,\n  <em>\n   The Endurance\n  </em>\n  by Caroline Alexander is a stunning work of history, adventure, and art which chronicles "one of the greatest epics of survival in the annals of exploration." Setting sail as World War I broke out in Europe, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by renowned polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, hoped to become the first to cross the Antarctic continent. But their ship,\n  <em>\n   Endurance,\n  </em>\n  was trapped in the drifting pack ice, eventually to splinter, leaving the expedition stranded on floes--a situation that seemed "not merely desperate but impossible."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Most skillfully Alexander constructs the expedition''s character through its personalities--the cast of veteran explorers, scientists, and crew--with aid from many previously unavailable journals and documents. We learn, for instance, that carpenter and shipwright Henry McNish, or "Chippy," was "neither sweet-tempered nor tolerant," and that Mrs. Chippy, his cat, was "full of character." Such firsthand descriptions, paired with 170 of Frank Hurley''s intimate photographs, which are comprehensively assembled here for the first time, penetrate the hulls of the\n  <em>\n   Endurance\n  </em>\n  and these tough men. The account successfully reveals the seldom-seen domestic world of expedition life--the singsongs, feasts, lectures, camaraderie--so that when the hardships set in, we know these people beyond the stereotypical guise of mere explorers and long for their safety.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alexander reveals Shackleton as an inspiring optimist, "a leader who put his men first." Throughout the grueling ordeal, Shackleton and his men show what endurance and greatness are all about.\n  <em>\n   The Endurance\n  </em>\n  is a most intimate portrait of an expedition and of survival. Readers will possess a newfound respect for these daring souls, know better their unthinkable toil and half-forgotten realm of glory.\n  <em>\n   --Byron Ricks\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The unparalleled adventure and ordeal of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew, stranded on the Antarctic ice for 20 months beginning January 20, 1915, then forced to row a 22-foot boat 850 miles across storm-ravaged seas, has inspired at least three marvelous books: Shackleton''s own memoir, South; Alfred Lansing''s bestselling Endurance; and this stirring account by Alexander (The Way to Xanadu). In 1914, Shackleton sailed to Antarctica with 27 men in hopes of being the first human to transverse the continent. But his ship, the Endurance, was trapped, then crushed, by ice in the Weddell Sea, propelling the party into a nightmare of cold and near starvation. Alexander, relying extensively on journals by crew members, some never published, as well as on myriad other sources, delivers a spellbinding story of human courage (and occasional venality) in the face of daunting odds. She succinctly and boldly captures the character of the men and of the terrible land- and seascape they crossed toward salvation. What makes this book especially exciting, however, are the 170 previously unpublished photos by the expedition''s photographer, Frank Hurley: stark, artfully composed tributes to the savage beauty of the ice and to the fortitude of the men and their dogs. Not one of the men died during their sojourn in a freezing hell; as Alexander makes clear in her gripping, emotionally resonant book, this incredible fact bears witness not only to Shackleton''s leadership but to the strength of the human spirit. Agent, Anthony Sheil. Author tour. (Nov.) FYI: The Endurance is being published in association with the American Museum of Natural History, which in March 1999 will open an exhibit, curated by Alexander, chronicling Shackleton''s voyage. A feature-length IMAX film on the subject will be released then, as well.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6927'),
(16665, 'The Endurance: Shackleton&#39;s Legendary Antarctic Expedition', 'Caroline Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Melding superb research and the extraordinary expedition photography of Frank Hurley,\n  <em>\n   The Endurance\n  </em>\n  by Caroline Alexander is a stunning work of history, adventure, and art which chronicles "one of the greatest epics of survival in the annals of exploration." Setting sail as World War I broke out in Europe, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by renowned polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, hoped to become the first to cross the Antarctic continent. But their ship,\n  <em>\n   Endurance,\n  </em>\n  was trapped in the drifting pack ice, eventually to splinter, leaving the expedition stranded on floes--a situation that seemed "not merely desperate but impossible."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Most skillfully Alexander constructs the expedition''s character through its personalities--the cast of veteran explorers, scientists, and crew--with aid from many previously unavailable journals and documents. We learn, for instance, that carpenter and shipwright Henry McNish, or "Chippy," was "neither sweet-tempered nor tolerant," and that Mrs. Chippy, his cat, was "full of character." Such firsthand descriptions, paired with 170 of Frank Hurley''s intimate photographs, which are comprehensively assembled here for the first time, penetrate the hulls of the\n  <em>\n   Endurance\n  </em>\n  and these tough men. The account successfully reveals the seldom-seen domestic world of expedition life--the singsongs, feasts, lectures, camaraderie--so that when the hardships set in, we know these people beyond the stereotypical guise of mere explorers and long for their safety.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alexander reveals Shackleton as an inspiring optimist, "a leader who put his men first." Throughout the grueling ordeal, Shackleton and his men show what endurance and greatness are all about.\n  <em>\n   The Endurance\n  </em>\n  is a most intimate portrait of an expedition and of survival. Readers will possess a newfound respect for these daring souls, know better their unthinkable toil and half-forgotten realm of glory.\n  <em>\n   --Byron Ricks\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The unparalleled adventure and ordeal of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew, stranded on the Antarctic ice for 20 months beginning January 20, 1915, then forced to row a 22-foot boat 850 miles across storm-ravaged seas, has inspired at least three marvelous books: Shackleton''s own memoir, South; Alfred Lansing''s bestselling Endurance; and this stirring account by Alexander (The Way to Xanadu). In 1914, Shackleton sailed to Antarctica with 27 men in hopes of being the first human to transverse the continent. But his ship, the Endurance, was trapped, then crushed, by ice in the Weddell Sea, propelling the party into a nightmare of cold and near starvation. Alexander, relying extensively on journals by crew members, some never published, as well as on myriad other sources, delivers a spellbinding story of human courage (and occasional venality) in the face of daunting odds. She succinctly and boldly captures the character of the men and of the terrible land- and seascape they crossed toward salvation. What makes this book especially exciting, however, are the 170 previously unpublished photos by the expedition''s photographer, Frank Hurley: stark, artfully composed tributes to the savage beauty of the ice and to the fortitude of the men and their dogs. Not one of the men died during their sojourn in a freezing hell; as Alexander makes clear in her gripping, emotionally resonant book, this incredible fact bears witness not only to Shackleton''s leadership but to the strength of the human spirit. Agent, Anthony Sheil. Author tour. (Nov.) FYI: The Endurance is being published in association with the American Museum of Natural History, which in March 1999 will open an exhibit, curated by Alexander, chronicling Shackleton''s voyage. A feature-length IMAX film on the subject will be released then, as well.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9357'),
(16666, 'The Endurance: Shackleton&#39;s Legendary Antarctic Expedition', 'Caroline Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Melding superb research and the extraordinary expedition photography of Frank Hurley,\n  <em>\n   The Endurance\n  </em>\n  by Caroline Alexander is a stunning work of history, adventure, and art which chronicles "one of the greatest epics of survival in the annals of exploration." Setting sail as World War I broke out in Europe, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by renowned polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, hoped to become the first to cross the Antarctic continent. But their ship,\n  <em>\n   Endurance,\n  </em>\n  was trapped in the drifting pack ice, eventually to splinter, leaving the expedition stranded on floes--a situation that seemed "not merely desperate but impossible."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Most skillfully Alexander constructs the expedition''s character through its personalities--the cast of veteran explorers, scientists, and crew--with aid from many previously unavailable journals and documents. We learn, for instance, that carpenter and shipwright Henry McNish, or "Chippy," was "neither sweet-tempered nor tolerant," and that Mrs. Chippy, his cat, was "full of character." Such firsthand descriptions, paired with 170 of Frank Hurley''s intimate photographs, which are comprehensively assembled here for the first time, penetrate the hulls of the\n  <em>\n   Endurance\n  </em>\n  and these tough men. The account successfully reveals the seldom-seen domestic world of expedition life--the singsongs, feasts, lectures, camaraderie--so that when the hardships set in, we know these people beyond the stereotypical guise of mere explorers and long for their safety.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Alexander reveals Shackleton as an inspiring optimist, "a leader who put his men first." Throughout the grueling ordeal, Shackleton and his men show what endurance and greatness are all about.\n  <em>\n   The Endurance\n  </em>\n  is a most intimate portrait of an expedition and of survival. Readers will possess a newfound respect for these daring souls, know better their unthinkable toil and half-forgotten realm of glory.\n  <em>\n   --Byron Ricks\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The unparalleled adventure and ordeal of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew, stranded on the Antarctic ice for 20 months beginning January 20, 1915, then forced to row a 22-foot boat 850 miles across storm-ravaged seas, has inspired at least three marvelous books: Shackleton''s own memoir, South; Alfred Lansing''s bestselling Endurance; and this stirring account by Alexander (The Way to Xanadu). In 1914, Shackleton sailed to Antarctica with 27 men in hopes of being the first human to transverse the continent. But his ship, the Endurance, was trapped, then crushed, by ice in the Weddell Sea, propelling the party into a nightmare of cold and near starvation. Alexander, relying extensively on journals by crew members, some never published, as well as on myriad other sources, delivers a spellbinding story of human courage (and occasional venality) in the face of daunting odds. She succinctly and boldly captures the character of the men and of the terrible land- and seascape they crossed toward salvation. What makes this book especially exciting, however, are the 170 previously unpublished photos by the expedition''s photographer, Frank Hurley: stark, artfully composed tributes to the savage beauty of the ice and to the fortitude of the men and their dogs. Not one of the men died during their sojourn in a freezing hell; as Alexander makes clear in her gripping, emotionally resonant book, this incredible fact bears witness not only to Shackleton''s leadership but to the strength of the human spirit. Agent, Anthony Sheil. Author tour. (Nov.) FYI: The Endurance is being published in association with the American Museum of Natural History, which in March 1999 will open an exhibit, curated by Alexander, chronicling Shackleton''s voyage. A feature-length IMAX film on the subject will be released then, as well.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16912'),
(16667, 'Enduring Love', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Joe Rose has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside to celebrate his lover''s return after six weeks in the States. To complete the picture, there''s even a "helium balloon drifting dreamily across the wooded valley." But as Joe and Clarissa watch the balloon touch down, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. As the wind whips into action, Joe and four other men rush to secure the basket. Mother Nature, however, isn''t feeling very maternal. "A mighty fist socked the balloon in two rapid blows, one-two, the second more vicious than the first," and at once the rescuers are airborne. Joe manages to drop to the ground, as do most of his companions, but one man is lifted sky-high, only to fall to his death.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In itself, the accident would change the survivors'' lives, filling them with an uneasy combination of shame, happiness, and endless self-reproach. (In one of the novel''s many ironies, the balloon eventually lands safely, the boy unscathed.) But fate has far more unpleasant things in store for Joe. Meeting the eye of fellow rescuer Jed Parry, for example, turns out to be a very bad move. For Jed is instantly obsessed, making the first of many calls to Joe and Clarissa''s London flat that very night. Soon he''s openly shadowing Joe and writing him endless letters. (One insane epistle begins, "I feel happiness running through me like an electrical current. I close my eyes and see you as you were last night in the rain, across the road from me, with the unspoken love between us as strong as steel cable.") Worst of all, Jed''s version of love comes to seem a distortion of Joe''s feelings for Clarissa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Apart from the incessant stalking, it is the conditionals--the contingencies--that most frustrate Joe, a scientific journalist. If only he and Clarissa had gone straight home from the airport... If only the wind hadn''t picked up... If only he had saved Jed''s 29 messages in a single day... Ian McEwan has long been a poet of the arbitrary nightmare, his characters ineluctably swept up in others'' fantasies, skidding into deepening violence, and--worst of all--becoming strangers to those who love them. Even his prose itself is a masterful and methodical exercise in defamiliarization. But\n  <em>\n   Enduring Love\n  </em>\n  and its underrated predecessor,\n  <em>\n   Black Dogs\n  </em>\n  , are also meditations on knowledge and perception as well as brilliant manipulations of our own expectations. By the novel''s end, you will be surprisingly unafraid of hot-air balloons, but you won''t be too keen on looking a stranger in the eye.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After the calm of a pleasant afternoon picnic is punctured by a terrible accident?a man falls to his death as a hot-air balloon floats away, carrying a child?Joe Rose finds himself imbedded in the aftershock. One of several men who tried to hold down the balloon but eventually let go, he must reconcile his part in the tragedy with the threat posed by a stalker trying to save him through love. In turns obsessively morbid and cunningly funny, McEwan''s deftly crafted prose holds the reader with the intensity of a thriller while engaging in a deep psychological exploration of shock, grief, the need for redemption, and, ultimately, the makeup of compassion and love.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25703'),
(16668, 'EndWar', 'David Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A new phenomenon begins.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Created by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Based on the bestselling video game, this new series will take readers onto the battlefields of World War III with the technical savvy and explosive action that Clancy fans have come to expect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6211'),
(16669, 'EndWar', 'David Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A new phenomenon begins.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Created by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Based on the bestselling video game, this new series will take readers onto the battlefields of World War III with the technical savvy and explosive action that Clancy fans have come to expect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11484'),
(16670, 'EndWar', 'David Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A new phenomenon begins.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Created by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Based on the bestselling video game, this new series will take readers onto the battlefields of World War III with the technical savvy and explosive action that Clancy fans have come to expect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17779'),
(16671, 'Endwar: The Hunted', 'David Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n She''s known as the Snow Maiden-an operative of a secret group dedicated to world domination. To get their hands on her, U.S. Special Forces Captain Alexander Brent and his team will have to outmaneuver a terrorist faction bent on wiping her off the face of the earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6212'),
(16672, 'Endwar: The Hunted', 'David Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n She''s known as the Snow Maiden-an operative of a secret group dedicated to world domination. To get their hands on her, U.S. Special Forces Captain Alexander Brent and his team will have to outmaneuver a terrorist faction bent on wiping her off the face of the earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11394'),
(16673, 'Endwar: The Hunted', 'David Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n She''s known as the Snow Maiden-an operative of a secret group dedicated to world domination. To get their hands on her, U.S. Special Forces Captain Alexander Brent and his team will have to outmaneuver a terrorist faction bent on wiping her off the face of the earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17778'),
(16674, 'Endymion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in\n <em>\n  Fall of Hyperion\n </em>\n , Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Frederico DeSoya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops. The shrike continues to make enigmatic appearances, and while many questions were raised in\n <em>\n  Hyperion\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Fall of Hyperion\n </em>\n , still more are raised here. Raoul''s quest will continue in at least one more volume.\n</p>\n<p>\n This series has something for everyone: Simmons''s prose is imaginative and stylistically varied; point-of-view and time-scale are handled with finesse; the action is always gripping; the device of Old Earth allows Simmons to work in entertaining references to present-day culture; and the technology raises bizarre questions of ethics and morality in its use of repeated death and resurrection.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a recent foray into the horror field (Fires of Eden, LJ 11/15/94), the multitalented Simmons returns to the sf genre with a sequel to the Hugo Award-winning Hyperion (Doubleday, 1989) and The Fall of Hyperion (LJ\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6476'),
(16675, 'Endymion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in\n <em>\n  Fall of Hyperion\n </em>\n , Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Frederico DeSoya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops. The shrike continues to make enigmatic appearances, and while many questions were raised in\n <em>\n  Hyperion\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Fall of Hyperion\n </em>\n , still more are raised here. Raoul''s quest will continue in at least one more volume.\n</p>\n<p>\n This series has something for everyone: Simmons''s prose is imaginative and stylistically varied; point-of-view and time-scale are handled with finesse; the action is always gripping; the device of Old Earth allows Simmons to work in entertaining references to present-day culture; and the technology raises bizarre questions of ethics and morality in its use of repeated death and resurrection.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a recent foray into the horror field (Fires of Eden, LJ 11/15/94), the multitalented Simmons returns to the sf genre with a sequel to the Hugo Award-winning Hyperion (Doubleday, 1989) and The Fall of Hyperion (LJ\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12647'),
(16676, 'Endymion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph--the world of Hyperion and The Fall ofHyperion --with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.Dan Simmons''s Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction field by a man who had already won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel (Song of Kali) and had also published one of the most well-received horror novels in the field, Carrion Comfort. Hyperion went on to win the Hugo Award as Best Novel, and it and its companion volume, The Fall of Hyperion, took their rightful places in the science fiction pantheon of new classics.Now, six years later, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world of technological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear. Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror--an instant candidate for the field''s highest honors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14049'),
(16677, 'Endymion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph--the world of Hyperion and The Fall ofHyperion --with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.Dan Simmons''s Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction field by a man who had already won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel (Song of Kali) and had also published one of the most well-received horror novels in the field, Carrion Comfort. Hyperion went on to win the Hugo Award as Best Novel, and it and its companion volume, The Fall of Hyperion, took their rightful places in the science fiction pantheon of new classics.Now, six years later, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world of technological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear. Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror--an instant candidate for the field''s highest honors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17486'),
(16678, 'Endymion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph--the world of Hyperion and The Fall ofHyperion --with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.Dan Simmons''s Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction field by a man who had already won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel (Song of Kali) and had also published one of the most well-received horror novels in the field, Carrion Comfort. Hyperion went on to win the Hugo Award as Best Novel, and it and its companion volume, The Fall of Hyperion, took their rightful places in the science fiction pantheon of new classics.Now, six years later, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world of technological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear. Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror--an instant candidate for the field''s highest honors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27162'),
(16679, 'Enemy of God', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14818'),
(16680, 'Enemy of God', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16604'),
(16681, 'Enemy of God', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26653'),
(16682, 'The Enemy: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier''s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army''s brightest stars. But in every cop''s life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case. New Year''s Day, 1990. In a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Reacher has his orders:Control the situation. Within hours the general''s wife is murdered. Then the dominoes really start to fall. Somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Reacher is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have. But Reacher won''t quit. He''s fighting a new kind of waragainst an enemy he didn''t know he had. And against a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3547');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(16683, 'The Enemy: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier''s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army''s brightest stars. But in every cop''s life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case. New Year''s Day, 1990. In a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Reacher has his orders:Control the situation. Within hours the general''s wife is murdered. Then the dominoes really start to fall. Somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Reacher is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have. But Reacher won''t quit. He''s fighting a new kind of waragainst an enemy he didn''t know he had. And against a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15147'),
(16684, 'The Enemy: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier''s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army''s brightest stars. But in every cop''s life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case. New Year''s Day, 1990. In a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Reacher has his orders:Control the situation. Within hours the general''s wife is murdered. Then the dominoes really start to fall. Somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Reacher is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have. But Reacher won''t quit. He''s fighting a new kind of waragainst an enemy he didn''t know he had. And against a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21029'),
(16685, 'Enforcer', 'Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18148'),
(16686, 'An Engagement in Seattle', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aleksandr Berinksi is a Russian biochemist in the U.S. on a visa that is about to expire. Marriage will allow him to stayâ€”marriage to Julia Conrad. If Julia''s going to save her Seattle-based company, she needs\n  <em>\n   him\n  </em>\n  as much as he needs her. There''s a\n  <em>\n   Groom Wanted\n  </em>\n  in Julia''s life. And not just any groom!\n </p>\n <p>\n  A billboard on the side of a Seattle road is common enoughâ€”but one advertising for a bride? It''s Chase Goodwin''s solution to the problem of finding a wife\n  <em>\n   quickly,\n  </em>\n  a wife to bring home to Alaska. Lesley Campbell has her own reasons for respondingâ€¦and in no time she''s the\n  <em>\n   Bride Wanted\n  </em>\n  in Chase''s life!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Julia Conrad wasn''t a patient woman at the best of times. She paced her office, repeatedly circling her high-gloss black-lacquer-and-brass desk. She felt so helpless. She should''ve gone to Citizenship and Immigration Services with Jerry rather than wait for their decision.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rubbing her palms together, she retracted the thought. She was a wreck and the Immigration people would have instantly picked up on that and it could hurt their case. She couldn''t help being anxious. The future of the company rested on the outcome of today''s hearing. Ultimately she was the one responsible for the welfare of Conrad Industries, the business her grandfather had started thirty years earlier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In an effort to calm herself she stared out the window. The weather seemed to echo her mood. There was a ceiling of black clouds, thunder roared and a flash of lightning briefly brightened the room. The lights flickered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia''s reflection was mirrored in the window and she frowned, mesmerized by the unexpected sight of herself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her dark hair was swept back from her face and secured with a gold clasp. She wore a dark suit with a pale gray blouse, whichâ€”in her view, anywayâ€”conveyed tasteful refinement. She\n  <em>\n   looked\n  </em>\n  cool, calm and collected, but inside she was a mass of tension and nerves. At thirty she had a pleasant face when she smiled, but she hadn''t been doing much of that lately. Not in the past three years. Her cheekbones were high, her jaw strong, but it was her eyes that told the story. Her eyes revealed vulnerability and pain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The image of herself distressed Julia and she hurriedly glanced away. Sighing, she circled her desk once more, silently praying for patience. She was determined to get the company back on its feet, to overcome the odds they faced. Jerry, her brother, had worked with her, sacrificing his personal life the way she had hers. They''d met with a handful of small successes. And now\n  <em>\n   this.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Both Julia and Jerry were determined to revive Conrad Industries. Julia owed her father that much. Jerry had shown such faith in her by volunteering his services. If their situations were reversed, she wasn''t sure she would''ve been so forgiving. But her brother had stuck by her through all the turmoil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Slowly she lowered her gaze, disturbed by that revelation. However, she didn''t have the time or the inclination to worry about it. If she ever needed a cool head and a cooler heart, it was now. Two years'' worth of innovative research was about to be lost because they''d allowed the fate of the company to hinge on the experiments and ideas of one man. Aleksandr Berinski was a brilliant Russian biochemist. Jerry had met him some years earlier while traveling in Europe and convinced Julia he was the answer to their problems. Her brother was right; Alek''s ideas would revolutionize the paint industry. Bringing him to the United States had been a bold move on their part, but she hadn''t been sorry. Not once.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hiring Aleksandr Berinski from Russia and moving him to Seattleâ€”it was the biggest risk Conrad Industries had ever taken. Now the fate of the company rested in the hands of a hard-nosed official.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia wondered again if she should''ve attended the hearing at the district office of Citizenship and Immigration. She''d done everything within her power to make sure Aleksandr''s visa would be extended. She''d written a letter explaining his importance to the company and included documentation to prove that Aleksandr Berinski was a man of distinct merit and exceptional ability.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jerry, who was a very good corporate attorney, had spent weeks building their case. Professional certifications, affidavits, a copy of Aleksandr''s diploma and letters of reference filled Jerry''s briefcase.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her brother had told her there could be problems. It was often difficult to renew an H-2 visa, the type Aleksandr had been granted when he''d entered the United States. The H-2 is one of temporary employment. He''d warned her that if it looked as though employment might become permanent, then Immigration and the Labor Department would be reluctant to extend the visa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On top of all that, the case had been assigned to a particularly difficult bureaucrat. Jerry had warned her that the agent hearing their case might decide Alek had applied for the temporary visa knowing the job was really permanent and refuse to grant an extension on principle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She checked her watch again and exhaled with impatience. Only a few minutes had passed. Annoyed with herself for the uncharacteristic display of anxiety, she sat down on her white leather chair. Everything was neatly arranged on the polished black desk. A small marble pen stand was next to the phone. The address and appointment books were perfectly aligned with everything else. Behind the desk stood her computer table, the company website pulled up, its logo prominent. Julia liked to keep her office and her world under control.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When her phone rang, the sound caught her off guard. She grabbed the receiver. "Jerry?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sis," Jerry''s voice greeted her. "I''m on my cell. I thought you''d want to know the decision as soon as possible."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, please."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m afraid it didn''t go as well as we''d hoped. They''ve decided not to renew Alek''s visa."\n </p>\n <p>\n  His words felt like a kick in the stomach. She closed her eyes and waited until the shock had passed. It wasn''t as if she hadn''t known the likelihood of this verdict. The fact that Aleksandr had no proof of a permanent residence in Russia didn''t help. In the eyes of Immigration Services that was a red light indicating he didn''t intend to return. Furthermore, she and Jerry were dealing with a large, complex bureaucracy. In a fit of worry, Julia had tried to contact the agency herself, reason with them. She''d spent nearly an hour on the phone and hadn''t spoken to a single person. She was forced to listen to one recording after another. Press a number on the phone, listen, press another one, then another. She quickly became lost in a hopeless tangle of instructions and messages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When will he have to leave?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "By the end of the week, when his current visa expires."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That soon?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m afraid so."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Jerry, what are we going to do?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll talk to you about it as soon as we get back to the office," her brother said in reassuring tones. "Don''t worry, I''ve got a contingency plan."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nice of him to mention it now, Julia mused. He might''ve said something this morning and saved her all this grief.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ten minutes later, her intercom buzzed; her assistant announced that Jerry was in her outer office. Julia asked Virginia to send him in and waited, standing by the window.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jerry entered and Aleksandr Berinski followed. Although Aleksandr had been working for Conrad Industries for nearly two years, she''d only talked to him a handful of times. Even those conversations had been brief. But she''d read his weekly reports and been excited by the progress he was making. If he was allowed to continue, Julia didn''t doubt that his innovations would put Conrad Industries back on a firm financial footing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia and Jerry, but primarily Julia, had taken on the impossible task of resurrecting the family business, literally from the ashes. Three years before, the plant and adjacent warehouse had been severely damaged by fire; fortunately, it hadn''t spread to the lab and the offices. Because of the rebuilding they''d had to do, she''d decided the line of paints Aleksandr was developing would be called Phoenix.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To be so close to success and lose it all now was more than she could bear. For three long, frustrating years, she''d hung on to the business by wheeling and dealing, making trades and promises.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Being aggressive and hardworking had come naturally to her. Jerry possessed the same determination and had been a constant help. If she was cold and sometimes ruthless, she credited it to Roger Stanhope. She''d needed to be, but Julia didn''t have any more tricks up her sleeve once Aleksandr returned to Russia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She feared that losing the business would be a fatal blow to her grandmother. No one knew better than Julia how fragile Ruth''s health had become these past few months.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You said you have a contingency plan." She spoke crisply, the sound of her steps muffled by the thick wheat-colored carpet as she stalked back to her desk. She leaned forward and averted her gaze from Aleksandr''s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The man disturbed her in ways she didn''t understand. He was tall and lanky with impeccable manners. His face wasn''t handsome the way Roger''s had been, but rawboned and lean. His eyes were dark, the brows arched slightly, and in him she read strength and character. Unwillingly she found her own eyes drawn to his, and the shadow of a smile crept across Aleksandr''s face. She focused her attention on Jerry.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "There is one way," her brother said, with obvious reluctance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This isn''t the time to play guessing games. Tell me what you''re thinking," she snapped, hardly believing he could be holding something back. Jerry knew as well as she did what kind of predicament the company was in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her brother set down his briefcase and motioned toward the leather chair. "Perhaps you should take a seat."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Me?" She noted that his voice was strained, which surprised her almost as much as his request.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You, too, Alek," Jerry advised as he moved to the opposite end of her office.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia turned toward him and tried to read his features in the gloom of late afternoon. The storm had darkened the sky, stationing shadows around the room until it resembled a dungeon, Julia thought.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Whatever you have to say, please say it, Jerry. You''ve never worried about phrasing before."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jerry''s eyes traveled from Julia to Aleksandr, and she saw that his cheeks were flushed. He sighed. "There''s only one legal way I know to keep Aleksandr in the country." Slowly he leveled his gaze on Julia. "You could marry him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I was hoping you''d stop by and see me." Julia''s grandmother, Ruth Conrad, spoke softly, stretching out one hand. She was sitting up in bed, her thin white hair arrang...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6126'),
(16687, 'An Engagement in Seattle', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aleksandr Berinksi is a Russian biochemist in the U.S. on a visa that is about to expire. Marriage will allow him to stayâ€”marriage to Julia Conrad. If Julia''s going to save her Seattle-based company, she needs\n  <em>\n   him\n  </em>\n  as much as he needs her. There''s a\n  <em>\n   Groom Wanted\n  </em>\n  in Julia''s life. And not just any groom!\n </p>\n <p>\n  A billboard on the side of a Seattle road is common enoughâ€”but one advertising for a bride? It''s Chase Goodwin''s solution to the problem of finding a wife\n  <em>\n   quickly,\n  </em>\n  a wife to bring home to Alaska. Lesley Campbell has her own reasons for respondingâ€¦and in no time she''s the\n  <em>\n   Bride Wanted\n  </em>\n  in Chase''s life!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Julia Conrad wasn''t a patient woman at the best of times. She paced her office, repeatedly circling her high-gloss black-lacquer-and-brass desk. She felt so helpless. She should''ve gone to Citizenship and Immigration Services with Jerry rather than wait for their decision.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rubbing her palms together, she retracted the thought. She was a wreck and the Immigration people would have instantly picked up on that and it could hurt their case. She couldn''t help being anxious. The future of the company rested on the outcome of today''s hearing. Ultimately she was the one responsible for the welfare of Conrad Industries, the business her grandfather had started thirty years earlier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In an effort to calm herself she stared out the window. The weather seemed to echo her mood. There was a ceiling of black clouds, thunder roared and a flash of lightning briefly brightened the room. The lights flickered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia''s reflection was mirrored in the window and she frowned, mesmerized by the unexpected sight of herself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her dark hair was swept back from her face and secured with a gold clasp. She wore a dark suit with a pale gray blouse, whichâ€”in her view, anywayâ€”conveyed tasteful refinement. She\n  <em>\n   looked\n  </em>\n  cool, calm and collected, but inside she was a mass of tension and nerves. At thirty she had a pleasant face when she smiled, but she hadn''t been doing much of that lately. Not in the past three years. Her cheekbones were high, her jaw strong, but it was her eyes that told the story. Her eyes revealed vulnerability and pain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The image of herself distressed Julia and she hurriedly glanced away. Sighing, she circled her desk once more, silently praying for patience. She was determined to get the company back on its feet, to overcome the odds they faced. Jerry, her brother, had worked with her, sacrificing his personal life the way she had hers. They''d met with a handful of small successes. And now\n  <em>\n   this.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Both Julia and Jerry were determined to revive Conrad Industries. Julia owed her father that much. Jerry had shown such faith in her by volunteering his services. If their situations were reversed, she wasn''t sure she would''ve been so forgiving. But her brother had stuck by her through all the turmoil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Slowly she lowered her gaze, disturbed by that revelation. However, she didn''t have the time or the inclination to worry about it. If she ever needed a cool head and a cooler heart, it was now. Two years'' worth of innovative research was about to be lost because they''d allowed the fate of the company to hinge on the experiments and ideas of one man. Aleksandr Berinski was a brilliant Russian biochemist. Jerry had met him some years earlier while traveling in Europe and convinced Julia he was the answer to their problems. Her brother was right; Alek''s ideas would revolutionize the paint industry. Bringing him to the United States had been a bold move on their part, but she hadn''t been sorry. Not once.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hiring Aleksandr Berinski from Russia and moving him to Seattleâ€”it was the biggest risk Conrad Industries had ever taken. Now the fate of the company rested in the hands of a hard-nosed official.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia wondered again if she should''ve attended the hearing at the district office of Citizenship and Immigration. She''d done everything within her power to make sure Aleksandr''s visa would be extended. She''d written a letter explaining his importance to the company and included documentation to prove that Aleksandr Berinski was a man of distinct merit and exceptional ability.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jerry, who was a very good corporate attorney, had spent weeks building their case. Professional certifications, affidavits, a copy of Aleksandr''s diploma and letters of reference filled Jerry''s briefcase.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her brother had told her there could be problems. It was often difficult to renew an H-2 visa, the type Aleksandr had been granted when he''d entered the United States. The H-2 is one of temporary employment. He''d warned her that if it looked as though employment might become permanent, then Immigration and the Labor Department would be reluctant to extend the visa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On top of all that, the case had been assigned to a particularly difficult bureaucrat. Jerry had warned her that the agent hearing their case might decide Alek had applied for the temporary visa knowing the job was really permanent and refuse to grant an extension on principle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She checked her watch again and exhaled with impatience. Only a few minutes had passed. Annoyed with herself for the uncharacteristic display of anxiety, she sat down on her white leather chair. Everything was neatly arranged on the polished black desk. A small marble pen stand was next to the phone. The address and appointment books were perfectly aligned with everything else. Behind the desk stood her computer table, the company website pulled up, its logo prominent. Julia liked to keep her office and her world under control.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When her phone rang, the sound caught her off guard. She grabbed the receiver. "Jerry?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sis," Jerry''s voice greeted her. "I''m on my cell. I thought you''d want to know the decision as soon as possible."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, please."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m afraid it didn''t go as well as we''d hoped. They''ve decided not to renew Alek''s visa."\n </p>\n <p>\n  His words felt like a kick in the stomach. She closed her eyes and waited until the shock had passed. It wasn''t as if she hadn''t known the likelihood of this verdict. The fact that Aleksandr had no proof of a permanent residence in Russia didn''t help. In the eyes of Immigration Services that was a red light indicating he didn''t intend to return. Furthermore, she and Jerry were dealing with a large, complex bureaucracy. In a fit of worry, Julia had tried to contact the agency herself, reason with them. She''d spent nearly an hour on the phone and hadn''t spoken to a single person. She was forced to listen to one recording after another. Press a number on the phone, listen, press another one, then another. She quickly became lost in a hopeless tangle of instructions and messages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When will he have to leave?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "By the end of the week, when his current visa expires."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That soon?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m afraid so."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Jerry, what are we going to do?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll talk to you about it as soon as we get back to the office," her brother said in reassuring tones. "Don''t worry, I''ve got a contingency plan."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nice of him to mention it now, Julia mused. He might''ve said something this morning and saved her all this grief.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ten minutes later, her intercom buzzed; her assistant announced that Jerry was in her outer office. Julia asked Virginia to send him in and waited, standing by the window.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jerry entered and Aleksandr Berinski followed. Although Aleksandr had been working for Conrad Industries for nearly two years, she''d only talked to him a handful of times. Even those conversations had been brief. But she''d read his weekly reports and been excited by the progress he was making. If he was allowed to continue, Julia didn''t doubt that his innovations would put Conrad Industries back on a firm financial footing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia and Jerry, but primarily Julia, had taken on the impossible task of resurrecting the family business, literally from the ashes. Three years before, the plant and adjacent warehouse had been severely damaged by fire; fortunately, it hadn''t spread to the lab and the offices. Because of the rebuilding they''d had to do, she''d decided the line of paints Aleksandr was developing would be called Phoenix.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To be so close to success and lose it all now was more than she could bear. For three long, frustrating years, she''d hung on to the business by wheeling and dealing, making trades and promises.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Being aggressive and hardworking had come naturally to her. Jerry possessed the same determination and had been a constant help. If she was cold and sometimes ruthless, she credited it to Roger Stanhope. She''d needed to be, but Julia didn''t have any more tricks up her sleeve once Aleksandr returned to Russia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She feared that losing the business would be a fatal blow to her grandmother. No one knew better than Julia how fragile Ruth''s health had become these past few months.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You said you have a contingency plan." She spoke crisply, the sound of her steps muffled by the thick wheat-colored carpet as she stalked back to her desk. She leaned forward and averted her gaze from Aleksandr''s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The man disturbed her in ways she didn''t understand. He was tall and lanky with impeccable manners. His face wasn''t handsome the way Roger''s had been, but rawboned and lean. His eyes were dark, the brows arched slightly, and in him she read strength and character. Unwillingly she found her own eyes drawn to his, and the shadow of a smile crept across Aleksandr''s face. She focused her attention on Jerry.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "There is one way," her brother said, with obvious reluctance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This isn''t the time to play guessing games. Tell me what you''re thinking," she snapped, hardly believing he could be holding something back. Jerry knew as well as she did what kind of predicament the company was in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her brother set down his briefcase and motioned toward the leather chair. "Perhaps you should take a seat."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Me?" She noted that his voice was strained, which surprised her almost as much as his request.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You, too, Alek," Jerry advised as he moved to the opposite end of her office.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia turned toward him and tried to read his features in the gloom of late afternoon. The storm had darkened the sky, stationing shadows around the room until it resembled a dungeon, Julia thought.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Whatever you have to say, please say it, Jerry. You''ve never worried about phrasing before."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jerry''s eyes traveled from Julia to Aleksandr, and she saw that his cheeks were flushed. He sighed. "There''s only one legal way I know to keep Aleksandr in the country." Slowly he leveled his gaze on Julia. "You could marry him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I was hoping you''d stop by and see me." Julia''s grandmother, Ruth Conrad, spoke softly, stretching out one hand. She was sitting up in bed, her thin white hair arrang...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11280'),
(16688, 'An Engagement in Seattle', 'Debbie Macomber', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Aleksandr Berinksi is a Russian biochemist in the U.S. on a visa that is about to expire. Marriage will allow him to stayâ€”marriage to Julia Conrad. If Julia''s going to save her Seattle-based company, she needs\n  <em>\n   him\n  </em>\n  as much as he needs her. There''s a\n  <em>\n   Groom Wanted\n  </em>\n  in Julia''s life. And not just any groom!\n </p>\n <p>\n  A billboard on the side of a Seattle road is common enoughâ€”but one advertising for a bride? It''s Chase Goodwin''s solution to the problem of finding a wife\n  <em>\n   quickly,\n  </em>\n  a wife to bring home to Alaska. Lesley Campbell has her own reasons for responding...and in no time she''s the\n  <em>\n   Bride Wanted\n  </em>\n  in Chase''s life!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Julia Conrad wasn''t a patient woman at the best of times. She paced her office, repeatedly circling her high-gloss black-lacquer-and-brass desk. She felt so helpless. She should''ve gone to Citizenship and Immigration Services with Jerry rather than wait for their decision.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rubbing her palms together, she retracted the thought. She was a wreck and the Immigration people would have instantly picked up on that and it could hurt their case. She couldn''t help being anxious. The future of the company rested on the outcome of today''s hearing. Ultimately she was the one responsible for the welfare of Conrad Industries, the business her grandfather had started thirty years earlier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In an effort to calm herself she stared out the window. The weather seemed to echo her mood. There was a ceiling of black clouds, thunder roared and a flash of lightning briefly brightened the room. The lights flickered.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia''s reflection was mirrored in the window and she frowned, mesmerized by the unexpected sight of herself.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her dark hair was swept back from her face and secured with a gold clasp. She wore a dark suit with a pale gray blouse, whichâ€”in her view, anywayâ€”conveyed tasteful refinement. She\n  <em>\n   looked\n  </em>\n  cool, calm and collected, but inside she was a mass of tension and nerves. At thirty she had a pleasant face when she smiled, but she hadn''t been doing much of that lately. Not in the past three years. Her cheekbones were high, her jaw strong, but it was her eyes that told the story. Her eyes revealed vulnerability and pain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The image of herself distressed Julia and she hurriedly glanced away. Sighing, she circled her desk once more, silently praying for patience. She was determined to get the company back on its feet, to overcome the odds they faced. Jerry, her brother, had worked with her, sacrificing his personal life the way she had hers. They''d met with a handful of small successes. And now\n  <em>\n   this.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Both Julia and Jerry were determined to revive Conrad Industries. Julia owed her father that much. Jerry had shown such faith in her by volunteering his services. If their situations were reversed, she wasn''t sure she would''ve been so forgiving. But her brother had stuck by her through all the turmoil.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Slowly she lowered her gaze, disturbed by that revelation. However, she didn''t have the time or the inclination to worry about it. If she ever needed a cool head and a cooler heart, it was now. Two years'' worth of innovative research was about to be lost because they''d allowed the fate of the company to hinge on the experiments and ideas of one man. Aleksandr Berinski was a brilliant Russian biochemist. Jerry had met him some years earlier while traveling in Europe and convinced Julia he was the answer to their problems. Her brother was right; Alek''s ideas would revolutionize the paint industry. Bringing him to the United States had been a bold move on their part, but she hadn''t been sorry. Not once.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hiring Aleksandr Berinski from Russia and moving him to Seattleâ€”it was the biggest risk Conrad Industries had ever taken. Now the fate of the company rested in the hands of a hard-nosed official.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia wondered again if she should''ve attended the hearing at the district office of Citizenship and Immigration. She''d done everything within her power to make sure Aleksandr''s visa would be extended. She''d written a letter explaining his importance to the company and included documentation to prove that Aleksandr Berinski was a man of distinct merit and exceptional ability.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jerry, who was a very good corporate attorney, had spent weeks building their case. Professional certifications, affidavits, a copy of Aleksandr''s diploma and letters of reference filled Jerry''s briefcase.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her brother had told her there could be problems. It was often difficult to renew an H-2 visa, the type Aleksandr had been granted when he''d entered the United States. The H-2 is one of temporary employment. He''d warned her that if it looked as though employment might become permanent, then Immigration and the Labor Department would be reluctant to extend the visa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On top of all that, the case had been assigned to a particularly difficult bureaucrat. Jerry had warned her that the agent hearing their case might decide Alek had applied for the temporary visa knowing the job was really permanent and refuse to grant an extension on principle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She checked her watch again and exhaled with impatience. Only a few minutes had passed. Annoyed with herself for the uncharacteristic display of anxiety, she sat down on her white leather chair. Everything was neatly arranged on the polished black desk. A small marble pen stand was next to the phone. The address and appointment books were perfectly aligned with everything else. Behind the desk stood her computer table, the company website pulled up, its logo prominent. Julia liked to keep her office and her world under control.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When her phone rang, the sound caught her off guard. She grabbed the receiver. "Jerry?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sis," Jerry''s voice greeted her. "I''m on my cell. I thought you''d want to know the decision as soon as possible."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Yes, please."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m afraid it didn''t go as well as we''d hoped. They''ve decided not to renew Alek''s visa."\n </p>\n <p>\n  His words felt like a kick in the stomach. She closed her eyes and waited until the shock had passed. It wasn''t as if she hadn''t known the likelihood of this verdict. The fact that Aleksandr had no proof of a permanent residence in Russia didn''t help. In the eyes of Immigration Services that was a red light indicating he didn''t intend to return. Furthermore, she and Jerry were dealing with a large, complex bureaucracy. In a fit of worry, Julia had tried to contact the agency herself, reason with them. She''d spent nearly an hour on the phone and hadn''t spoken to a single person. She was forced to listen to one recording after another. Press a number on the phone, listen, press another one, then another. She quickly became lost in a hopeless tangle of instructions and messages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "When will he have to leave?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "By the end of the week, when his current visa expires."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That soon?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m afraid so."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Jerry, what are we going to do?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll talk to you about it as soon as we get back to the office," her brother said in reassuring tones. "Don''t worry, I''ve got a contingency plan."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Nice of him to mention it now, Julia mused. He might''ve said something this morning and saved her all this grief.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ten minutes later, her intercom buzzed; her assistant announced that Jerry was in her outer office. Julia asked Virginia to send him in and waited, standing by the window.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jerry entered and Aleksandr Berinski followed. Although Aleksandr had been working for Conrad Industries for nearly two years, she''d only talked to him a handful of times. Even those conversations had been brief. But she''d read his weekly reports and been excited by the progress he was making. If he was allowed to continue, Julia didn''t doubt that his innovations would put Conrad Industries back on a firm financial footing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia and Jerry, but primarily Julia, had taken on the impossible task of resurrecting the family business, literally from the ashes. Three years before, the plant and adjacent warehouse had been severely damaged by fire; fortunately, it hadn''t spread to the lab and the offices. Because of the rebuilding they''d had to do, she''d decided the line of paints Aleksandr was developing would be called Phoenix.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To be so close to success and lose it all now was more than she could bear. For three long, frustrating years, she''d hung on to the business by wheeling and dealing, making trades and promises.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Being aggressive and hardworking had come naturally to her. Jerry possessed the same determination and had been a constant help. If she was cold and sometimes ruthless, she credited it to Roger Stanhope. She''d needed to be, but Julia didn''t have any more tricks up her sleeve once Aleksandr returned to Russia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She feared that losing the business would be a fatal blow to her grandmother. No one knew better than Julia how fragile Ruth''s health had become these past few months.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You said you have a contingency plan." She spoke crisply, the sound of her steps muffled by the thick wheat-colored carpet as she stalked back to her desk. She leaned forward and averted her gaze from Aleksandr''s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The man disturbed her in ways she didn''t understand. He was tall and lanky with impeccable manners. His face wasn''t handsome the way Roger''s had been, but rawboned and lean. His eyes were dark, the brows arched slightly, and in him she read strength and character. Unwillingly she found her own eyes drawn to his, and the shadow of a smile crept across Aleksandr''s face. She focused her attention on Jerry.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "There is one way," her brother said, with obvious reluctance.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This isn''t the time to play guessing games. Tell me what you''re thinking," she snapped, hardly believing he could be holding something back. Jerry knew as well as she did what kind of predicament the company was in.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her brother set down his briefcase and motioned toward the leather chair. "Perhaps you should take a seat."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Me?" She noted that his voice was strained, which surprised her almost as much as his request.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You, too, Alek," Jerry advised as he moved to the opposite end of her office.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Julia turned toward him and tried to read his features in the gloom of late afternoon. The storm had darkened the sky, stationing shadows around the room until it resembled a dungeon, Julia thought.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Whatever you have to say, please say it, Jerry. You''ve never worried about phrasing before."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jerry''s eyes traveled from Julia to Aleksandr, and she saw that his cheeks were flushed. He sighed. "There''s only one legal way I know to keep Aleksandr in the country." Slowly he leveled his gaze on Julia. "You could marry him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I was hoping you''d stop by and see me." Julia''s grandmother, Ruth Conrad, spoke softly, stretching out one hand. She was sitting up in bed, her thin white hair arrang...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17977'),
(16689, 'Engine Summer', 'John Crowley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4254'),
(16690, 'Engine summer', 'John Crowley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21394'),
(16691, 'Engineering Infinity', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with a sense of wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of\n  <em>\n   Engineering Infinity.\n  </em>\n  Whether it''s coming up hard against the speed of light and, with it, the enormity of the universe, realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you''d ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it''s hard science-fiction where sense of wonder is most often found and where science-fiction''s true heart lies. The exciting and innovative science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field including Stephen Baxter, Charles Stross, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Gwyneth Jones.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Johnathan Strahan is an editor and anthologist. He co-edited\n  <em>\n   The Year''s Best Australian Science\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Fiction\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   and Fantasy\n  </em>\n  anthology series in 1997 and 1998. He is also the reviews editor of Locus. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife and their two daughters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4142'),
(16692, 'Engineering Infinity', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with a sense of wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of\n  <em>\n   Engineering Infinity.\n  </em>\n  Whether it''s coming up hard against the speed of light and, with it, the enormity of the universe, realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you''d ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it''s hard science-fiction where sense of wonder is most often found and where science-fiction''s true heart lies. The exciting and innovative science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field including Stephen Baxter, Charles Stross, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Gwyneth Jones.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Johnathan Strahan is an editor and anthologist. He co-edited\n  <em>\n   The Year''s Best Australian Science\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Fiction\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   and Fantasy\n  </em>\n  anthology series in 1997 and 1998. He is also the reviews editor of Locus. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife and their two daughters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12966'),
(16693, 'Engineering Infinity', 'Jonathan Strahan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with a sense of wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of\n  <em>\n   Engineering Infinity.\n  </em>\n  Whether it''s coming up hard against the speed of light and, with it, the enormity of the universe, realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you''d ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it''s hard science-fiction where sense of wonder is most often found and where science-fiction''s true heart lies. The exciting and innovative science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field including Stephen Baxter, Charles Stross, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Gwyneth Jones.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Johnathan Strahan is an editor and anthologist. He co-edited\n  <em>\n   The Year''s Best Australian Science\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   Fiction\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   and Fantasy\n  </em>\n  anthology series in 1997 and 1998. He is also the reviews editor of Locus. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife and their two daughters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20371'),
(16694, 'Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America', 'Henry Petroski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America''s great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St. Louis, the George Washington, and the Golden Gate bridges, drawing not only on their mastery of numbers but on their gifts for persuasion and self-promotion. It is an account of triumphs and ignominious disasters (including the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which literally twisted itself apart in a high wind). And throughout this grandly engaging book, Petroski lets us see how bridges became the "symbols and souls" of our civilization, as well as testaments to their builders'' vision, ingenuity, and perseverance. "Seamlessly linked...With astonishing scope and generosity of view, Mr. Petroski places the tradition of American bridge-building in perspective."--New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5174'),
(16695, 'Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America', 'Henry Petroski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America''s great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St. Louis, the George Washington, and the Golden Gate bridges, drawing not only on their mastery of numbers but on their gifts for persuasion and self-promotion. It is an account of triumphs and ignominious disasters (including the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which literally twisted itself apart in a high wind). And throughout this grandly engaging book, Petroski lets us see how bridges became the "symbols and souls" of our civilization, as well as testaments to their builders'' vision, ingenuity, and perseverance. "Seamlessly linked...With astonishing scope and generosity of view, Mr. Petroski places the tradition of American bridge-building in perspective."--New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11984'),
(16696, 'Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America', 'Henry Petroski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America''s great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St. Louis, the George Washington, and the Golden Gate bridges, drawing not only on their mastery of numbers but on their gifts for persuasion and self-promotion. It is an account of triumphs and ignominious disasters (including the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which literally twisted itself apart in a high wind). And throughout this grandly engaging book, Petroski lets us see how bridges became the "symbols and souls" of our civilization, as well as testaments to their builders'' vision, ingenuity, and perseverance. "Seamlessly linked...With astonishing scope and generosity of view, Mr. Petroski places the tradition of American bridge-building in perspective."--New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19581'),
(16697, 'Engineman', 'Eric Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Once they pushed big ships through the cobalt glory of the Nada-Continuum, but faster than light isn''t fast enough anymore. The interfaces of the Keilor-Vincicoff Organisation bring planets light years distant a simple step away. Then a man with half a face offers ex-engineman Ralph Mirren the chance to escape his ruined life and push a ship to an undiclosed destination. The Nada-Continuum holds the key to Ralph''s future. What he cannot anticipate is its univerala importance-nor the mystery awaiting him on the distant colony worldÂ \n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eric Brown is the award-winnig author of a huge number of SF novels, such as Helix, Necropath,\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The New York Trilogy\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fall of Tartarus,\n  </em>\n  as well as many children''s books, radio plays, articles and reviews.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5629'),
(16698, 'Engineman', 'Eric Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Once they pushed big ships through the cobalt glory of the Nada-Continuum, but faster than light isn''t fast enough anymore. The interfaces of the Keilor-Vincicoff Organisation bring planets light years distant a simple step away. Then a man with half a face offers ex-engineman Ralph Mirren the chance to escape his ruined life and push a ship to an undiclosed destination. The Nada-Continuum holds the key to Ralph''s future. What he cannot anticipate is its univerala importance-nor the mystery awaiting him on the distant colony worldÂ \n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eric Brown is the award-winnig author of a huge number of SF novels, such as Helix, Necropath,\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The New York Trilogy\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fall of Tartarus,\n  </em>\n  as well as many children''s books, radio plays, articles and reviews.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8633'),
(16699, 'Engineman', 'Eric Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Once they pushed big ships through the cobalt glory of the Nada-Continuum, but faster than light isn''t fast enough anymore. The interfaces of the Keilor-Vincicoff Organisation bring planets light years distant a simple step away. Then a man with half a face offers ex-engineman Ralph Mirren the chance to escape his ruined life and push a ship to an undiclosed destination. The Nada-Continuum holds the key to Ralph''s future. What he cannot anticipate is its univerala importance-nor the mystery awaiting him on the distant colony world\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Eric Brown is the award-winnig author of a huge number of SF novels, such as Helix, Necropath,\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The New York Trilogy\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fall of Tartarus,\n  </em>\n  as well as many children''s books, radio plays, articles and reviews.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19000');
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(16700, 'Engines of Destiny', 'Gene DeWeese', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE MACHINE AGE  After the apparent death of James T. Kirk on the "U.S.S. Enterpris" NCC-1701-B, Montgomery Scott decides to leave Starfleet. A chance encounter with a mysterious woman named Guinan leads him to hitch a ride on the "U.S.S. Jenolen" -- which crashes into a Dyson Sphere, leaving only Scotty to survive suspended as a transporter pattern....  Seventy-five years later, he is revived aboard the "Enterprise-"D -- on which Guinan serves as bartender. But fate has not finished with either Scotty or Guinan. The engineer hatches an audacious plan to travel back in time and rescue Jim Kirk the moment before he would vanish into the nexus and bring him back to the twenty-fourth century without damaging the timeline.  Scotty''s plan, however, does not go as expected. Though Kirk is rescued, the famed captain and the engineer, as well as Captain Picard, Guinan, and the crew of the "Enterprise-"D, are trapped in an altered past where there is no Federation, and no human race. Sarek of Vulcan leads a ragtag collection of species fighting a losing battle against the Borg, who have swarmed into the Alpha Quadrant and assimilated Earth.  Starfleet''s finest miracle worker must find a way to restore the timeline before the galaxy is overrun....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5458'),
(16701, 'Engines of Destiny', 'Gene DeWeese', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE MACHINE AGE After the apparent death of James T. Kirk on the "U.S.S. Enterpris" NCC-1701-B, Montgomery Scott decides to leave Starfleet. A chance encounter with a mysterious woman named Guinan leads him to hitch a ride on the "U.S.S. Jenolen" -- which crashes into a Dyson Sphere, leaving only Scotty to survive suspended as a transporter pattern.... Seventy-five years later, he is revived aboard the "Enterprise-"D -- on which Guinan serves as bartender. But fate has not finished with either Scotty or Guinan. The engineer hatches an audacious plan to travel back in time and rescue Jim Kirk the moment before he would vanish into the nexus and bring him back to the twenty-fourth century without damaging the timeline. Scotty''s plan, however, does not go as expected. Though Kirk is rescued, the famed captain and the engineer, as well as Captain Picard, Guinan, and the crew of the "Enterprise-"D, are trapped in an altered past where there is no Federation, and no human race. Sarek of Vulcan leads a ragtag collection of species fighting a losing battle against the Borg, who have swarmed into the Alpha Quadrant and assimilated Earth. Starfleet''s finest miracle worker must find a way to restore the timeline before the galaxy is overrun....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19172'),
(16702, 'The Engines of God', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the late 2100s, archaeologists journey into outer space to seek the secret meaning of fourteen mysterious statues that had been found among the stars, uncovering ruins and following clues to the builders'' identity to the farthest boundaries of the galaxy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18202'),
(16703, 'England for Dummies (ISBN', '0470165618)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18651'),
(16704, 'Engleby', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  British bestseller Faulks''s latest (after\n  <em>\n   Human Traces\n  </em>\n  ) comprises the dark confessional of Mike Engleby, an intelligent but strange university student suspected in a woman''s disappearance. His journal-like account of his life, which begins in the turbulent 1970s and extends to 2006, includes day-to-day accounts of college life, pontifications on time, politics and the nature of thought, and flashbacks to his childhoodâ€”particularly the years he spent as a scholarship student at the exclusive Chatfield, where he was taunted and abused by his classmates (they, among other things, called him Toilet). As the journal progresses, his obsession with university student Jennifer Arkland deepens: he reads her mail, sits in on her classes, joins her political society and becomes involved in her student film. When Jennifer disappears after a party and is presumed dead, Mike finds himself under police investigation. The case remains open for over a decade, and Mike continues on with his life, but Jen is never far from his thoughts, and as he continues to return in his mind to Jen''s disappearance, he reveals more about that night and about himself. Though sometimes heavy with the tropes of self-deception and misdirection, this is a compelling psychological portrait of a man who is at once profoundly disturbed and wryly funny.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I don''t find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous," says Brit Mike Engleby, the smart social misfit who narrates Faulks'' new novel. The story follows Engleby through adolescence in the 1970s, when he''s frequent fodder for bullies (the kind that put their victim''s head in the toilet, then repeatedly flush). He fares a bit better at university, particularly after he makes the acquaintance of a lovely coed named Jennifer. Alas, romantic interest soon turns to obsession, and when Jennifer goes missing, Engleby becomes a suspect. The case remains unsolved for more than a dozen years, during which time Engleby finds a girlfriend and establishes himself as a journalist. When Jennifer''s remains are finally discovered, memories begin to surface that make Engleby question whether he might have been responsible for the poor girl''s demise. Faulks, the author of numerous well-received literary novels (including On Green Dolphin Street, 2002), renders luminous prose, but this time it gets lost amid a rambling tale told by a narcissist with little of consequence to say. A disappointment from a talented writer, but still of interest to Faulks'' followers. Block, Allison\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1369'),
(16705, 'Engleby', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  British bestseller Faulks''s latest (after\n  <em>\n   Human Traces\n  </em>\n  ) comprises the dark confessional of Mike Engleby, an intelligent but strange university student suspected in a woman''s disappearance. His journal-like account of his life, which begins in the turbulent 1970s and extends to 2006, includes day-to-day accounts of college life, pontifications on time, politics and the nature of thought, and flashbacks to his childhoodâ€”particularly the years he spent as a scholarship student at the exclusive Chatfield, where he was taunted and abused by his classmates (they, among other things, called him Toilet). As the journal progresses, his obsession with university student Jennifer Arkland deepens: he reads her mail, sits in on her classes, joins her political society and becomes involved in her student film. When Jennifer disappears after a party and is presumed dead, Mike finds himself under police investigation. The case remains open for over a decade, and Mike continues on with his life, but Jen is never far from his thoughts, and as he continues to return in his mind to Jen''s disappearance, he reveals more about that night and about himself. Though sometimes heavy with the tropes of self-deception and misdirection, this is a compelling psychological portrait of a man who is at once profoundly disturbed and wryly funny.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I don''t find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous," says Brit Mike Engleby, the smart social misfit who narrates Faulks'' new novel. The story follows Engleby through adolescence in the 1970s, when he''s frequent fodder for bullies (the kind that put their victim''s head in the toilet, then repeatedly flush). He fares a bit better at university, particularly after he makes the acquaintance of a lovely coed named Jennifer. Alas, romantic interest soon turns to obsession, and when Jennifer goes missing, Engleby becomes a suspect. The case remains unsolved for more than a dozen years, during which time Engleby finds a girlfriend and establishes himself as a journalist. When Jennifer''s remains are finally discovered, memories begin to surface that make Engleby question whether he might have been responsible for the poor girl''s demise. Faulks, the author of numerous well-received literary novels (including On Green Dolphin Street, 2002), renders luminous prose, but this time it gets lost amid a rambling tale told by a narcissist with little of consequence to say. A disappointment from a talented writer, but still of interest to Faulks'' followers. Block, Allison\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9637'),
(16706, 'Engleby', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  British bestseller Faulks''s latest (after\n  <em>\n   Human Traces\n  </em>\n  ) comprises the dark confessional of Mike Engleby, an intelligent but strange university student suspected in a woman''s disappearance. His journal-like account of his life, which begins in the turbulent 1970s and extends to 2006, includes day-to-day accounts of college life, pontifications on time, politics and the nature of thought, and flashbacks to his childhoodâ€”particularly the years he spent as a scholarship student at the exclusive Chatfield, where he was taunted and abused by his classmates (they, among other things, called him Toilet). As the journal progresses, his obsession with university student Jennifer Arkland deepens: he reads her mail, sits in on her classes, joins her political society and becomes involved in her student film. When Jennifer disappears after a party and is presumed dead, Mike finds himself under police investigation. The case remains open for over a decade, and Mike continues on with his life, but Jen is never far from his thoughts, and as he continues to return in his mind to Jen''s disappearance, he reveals more about that night and about himself. Though sometimes heavy with the tropes of self-deception and misdirection, this is a compelling psychological portrait of a man who is at once profoundly disturbed and wryly funny.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "I don''t find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous," says Brit Mike Engleby, the smart social misfit who narrates Faulks'' new novel. The story follows Engleby through adolescence in the 1970s, when he''s frequent fodder for bullies (the kind that put their victim''s head in the toilet, then repeatedly flush). He fares a bit better at university, particularly after he makes the acquaintance of a lovely coed named Jennifer. Alas, romantic interest soon turns to obsession, and when Jennifer goes missing, Engleby becomes a suspect. The case remains unsolved for more than a dozen years, during which time Engleby finds a girlfriend and establishes himself as a journalist. When Jennifer''s remains are finally discovered, memories begin to surface that make Engleby question whether he might have been responsible for the poor girl''s demise. Faulks, the author of numerous well-received literary novels (including On Green Dolphin Street, 2002), renders luminous prose, but this time it gets lost amid a rambling tale told by a narcissist with little of consequence to say. A disappointment from a talented writer, but still of interest to Faulks'' followers. Block, Allison\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23591'),
(16707, 'The English Assassin', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Unlikely Spy*, Daniel Silva''s extraordinary debut novel, was  applauded by critics as it rocketed onto national bestseller lists.  Now Silva has outdone himself, with a taut, lightning-paced thriller  rooted assuredly in fact: Switzerland''s shameful WWII record of  profiteering and collaboration with Nazi Germany.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When art restorer and occasional Israeli agent Gabriel Allon is  sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to restore the painting of a reclusive  millionaire banker, he arrives to find his would-be employer murdered  at the foot of his Raphael. A secret collection of priceless,  illicitly gained Impressionist masterpieces is missing. Gabriel''s  handlers step out of the shadows to admit the truth-the collector had  been silenced-and Gabriel is put back in the high-stakes spy game,  battling wits with the rogue assassin he helped to train.    Tense, taut, expertly crafted, and brimming with unexpected  reversals, *The English Assassin* is Daniel Silva at his  storytelling best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6499'),
(16708, 'The English Assassin', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Unlikely Spy*, Daniel Silva''s extraordinary debut novel, was  applauded by critics as it rocketed onto national bestseller lists.  Now Silva has outdone himself, with a taut, lightning-paced thriller  rooted assuredly in fact: Switzerland''s shameful WWII record of  profiteering and collaboration with Nazi Germany.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When art restorer and occasional Israeli agent Gabriel Allon is  sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to restore the painting of a reclusive  millionaire banker, he arrives to find his would-be employer murdered  at the foot of his Raphael. A secret collection of priceless,  illicitly gained Impressionist masterpieces is missing. Gabriel''s  handlers step out of the shadows to admit the truth-the collector had  been silenced-and Gabriel is put back in the high-stakes spy game,  battling wits with the rogue assassin he helped to train.    Tense, taut, expertly crafted, and brimming with unexpected  reversals, *The English Assassin* is Daniel Silva at his  storytelling best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12668'),
(16709, 'The English Assassin', 'Daniel Silva', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Unlikely Spy*, Daniel Silva''s extraordinary debut novel, was applauded by critics as it rocketed onto national bestseller lists. Now Silva has outdone himself, with a taut, lightning-paced thriller rooted assuredly in fact: Switzerland''s shameful WWII record of profiteering and collaboration with Nazi Germany. When art restorer and occasional Israeli agent Gabriel Allon is sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to restore the painting of a reclusive millionaire banker, he arrives to find his would-be employer murdered at the foot of his Raphael. A secret collection of priceless, illicitly gained Impressionist masterpieces is missing. Gabriel''s handlers step out of the shadows to admit the truth-the collector had been silenced-and Gabriel is put back in the high-stakes spy game, battling wits with the rogue assassin he helped to train. Tense, taut, expertly crafted, and brimming with unexpected reversals, *The English Assassin* is Daniel Silva at his storytelling best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17630'),
(16710, 'The English Heiress', 'Roberta Gellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n First in the Heiress series. Leonie de Conyers'' life had been destroyed by the French Revolution. Her mother and brother died in the prison where she had been raped and starved for no greater crime than her father''s title. And her father died in an escape engineered by a stranger who claimed he had come to bring her to England where she would inherit the property and wealth of an uncle. Did Leonie dare to believe in such altruism? Roger St. Eyre''s life had been destroyed by the girl he fell passionately in love with. Solange did not love him; she was selfish and vicious and extravagant. By the time she died, Roger felt dead himself. Perhaps he was hoping for the peace death brings when he set out to wrest his old friend Henry de Conyers from the murderous grip of the French Revolution. Instead, Roger and Leonie found love and reasons to live-if they could escape exposure to the revolutionary fanatics and their favorite toy, the guillotine. Publisher Note: This book was originally published elsewhere in 1979.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1625'),
(16711, 'The English Heiress', 'Roberta Gellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First in the Heiress series. Leonie de Conyers'' life had been destroyed by the French Revolution. Her mother and brother died in the prison where she had been raped and starved for no greater crime than her father''s title. And her father died in an escape engineered by a stranger who claimed he had come to bring her to England where she would inherit the property and wealth of an uncle. Did Leonie dare to believe in such altruism? Roger St. Eyre''s life had been destroyed by the girl he fell passionately in love with. Solange did not love him; she was selfish and vicious and extravagant. By the time she died, Roger felt dead himself. Perhaps he was hoping for the peace death brings when he set out to wrest his old friend Henry de Conyers from the murderous grip of the French Revolution. Instead, Roger and Leonie found love and reasons to live-if they could escape exposure to the revolutionary fanatics and their favorite toy, the guillotine. Publisher Note: This book was originally published elsewhere in 1979.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23348'),
(16712, 'English Histories 01 - The Six Wives of Henry VIII', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in all history, not least for his marriage to six extraordinary women. In this accessible work of brilliant scholarship, Alison Weir draws on early biographies, letters, memoirs, account books, and diplomatic reports to bring these women to life. Catherine of Aragon emerges as a staunch though misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn, an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour, a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves, a good-natured and innocent woman naively unaware of the court intrigues that determined her fate; Catherine Howard, an empty-headed wanton; and Catherine Parr, a warm-blooded bluestocking who survived King Henry to marry a fourth time.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13614'),
(16713, 'English Histories 01 - The Six Wives of Henry VIII', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in all history, not least for his marriage to six extraordinary women. In this accessible work of brilliant scholarship, Alison Weir draws on early biographies, letters, memoirs, account books, and diplomatic reports to bring these women to life. Catherine of Aragon emerges as a staunch though misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn, an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour, a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves, a good-natured and innocent woman naively unaware of the court intrigues that determined her fate; Catherine Howard, an empty-headed wanton; and Catherine Parr, a warm-blooded bluestocking who survived King Henry to marry a fourth time.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16189'),
(16714, 'English Histories 01 - The Six Wives of Henry VIII', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in all history, not least for his marriage to six extraordinary women. In this accessible work of brilliant scholarship, Alison Weir draws on early biographies, letters, memoirs, account books, and diplomatic reports to bring these women to life. Catherine of Aragon emerges as a staunch though misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn, an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour, a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves, a good-natured and innocent woman naively unaware of the court intrigues that determined her fate; Catherine Howard, an empty-headed wanton; and Catherine Parr, a warm-blooded bluestocking who survived King Henry to marry a fourth time.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26355'),
(16715, 'English Histories 05 - The Life of Elizabeth I', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely private person throughout her reign, keeping her own counsel and sharing secrets with no one--not even her closest, most trusted advisers. Now, in this brilliantly researched, fascinating new book, acclaimed biographer Alison Weir shares provocative new interpretations and fresh insights on this enigmatic figure.Against a lavish backdrop of pageantry and passion, intrigue and war, Weir dispels the myths surrounding Elizabeth I and examines the contradictions of her character. Elizabeth I loved the Earl of Leicester, but did she conspire to murder his wife? She called herself the Virgin Queen, but how chaste was she through dozens of liaisons? She never married--was her choice to remain single tied to the chilling fate of her mother, Anne Boleyn?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13764'),
(16716, 'English Histories 05 - The Life of Elizabeth I', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely private person throughout her reign, keeping her own counsel and sharing secrets with no one--not even her closest, most trusted advisers. Now, in this brilliantly researched, fascinating new book, acclaimed biographer Alison Weir shares provocative new interpretations and fresh insights on this enigmatic figure.Against a lavish backdrop of pageantry and passion, intrigue and war, Weir dispels the myths surrounding Elizabeth I and examines the contradictions of her character. Elizabeth I loved the Earl of Leicester, but did she conspire to murder his wife? She called herself the Virgin Queen, but how chaste was she through dozens of liaisons? She never married--was her choice to remain single tied to the chilling fate of her mother, Anne Boleyn?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16185'),
(16717, 'English Histories 05 - The Life of Elizabeth I', 'Alison Weir', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely private person throughout her reign, keeping her own counsel and sharing secrets with no one--not even her closest, most trusted advisers. Now, in this brilliantly researched, fascinating new book, acclaimed biographer Alison Weir shares provocative new interpretations and fresh insights on this enigmatic figure.Against a lavish backdrop of pageantry and passion, intrigue and war, Weir dispels the myths surrounding Elizabeth I and examines the contradictions of her character. Elizabeth I loved the Earl of Leicester, but did she conspire to murder his wife? She called herself the Virgin Queen, but how chaste was she through dozens of liaisons? She never married--was her choice to remain single tied to the chilling fate of her mother, Anne Boleyn?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26354'),
(16718, 'English Passengers', 'Matthew Kneale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n English Passengers (2000)\n <br />\n A novel by Matthew Kneale\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Awards:\n <br />\n Whitbread Prize\n <br />\n The Booker Prize (nominee)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This novel tells two parallel stories: one of three eccentric Englishmen who set sail for Tasmania to find the garden of Eden; the other of a young Tasmanian aborigine and his tribe, struggling against the invading British, who prove as lethal in their good intentions as in their cruelty.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "English Passengers is an old-fashioned book in the best sense: epic in scale, crammed with outsize characters, set in a long-ago time and a faraway place... ''A-''"â€”Entertainment Weekly\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Robust and rollicking...unforgettable...It''s tough to pull off a memorable epic, but Kneale has done it. So get comfortable, and be prepared to enter a fascinating world."â€”New York Post\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contrabandâ€”but not allâ€”confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship Sincerity up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other side of the globe.The Reverend Geoffrey Wilson believes the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania. His traveling partner, Dr. Thomas Potter, unbeknownst to Wilson, is developing a revolutionary, and sinister, thesis of his own, about the races of men. And these passengers are perhaps only slightly more odd than the crew itself, a diverse and lively bunch better equipped to entertain one another than to steer Sincerity around Cape Horn and across the Indian Ocean. Yet they set sail, pointed southward and bound for a thrilling, epic romp across the high seas and cultures of the nineteenth century.Meanwhile, an aboriginal in Tasmania named Peevay recounts his people''s struggles against the invading British, who prove as lethal in their good intentions as in their cruelty. This is no Eden but a world of hunting parties and colonial ethnic cleansing. As the English passengers haplessly approach Peevay''s land, their bizarre notions ever more painfully at odds with reality, we know a mighty collision is looming.Full of dangerous humor, English Passengers combines wit, adventure, and harrowing historical detail in a mesmerizing display of storytelling. Narrated by over twenty different characters, each one so distinct that the reader has the sense of a story not so much told as dazzlingly peopled, Matthew Kneale has created a buoyant tale, beautifully presented in a storm of voices that brings a past age to vivid and memorable life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2992'),
(16719, 'English Passengers', 'Matthew Kneale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n English Passengers (2000)\n <br />\n A novel by Matthew Kneale\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Awards:\n <br />\n Whitbread Prize\n <br />\n The Booker Prize (nominee)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This novel tells two parallel stories: one of three eccentric Englishmen who set sail for Tasmania to find the garden of Eden; the other of a young Tasmanian aborigine and his tribe, struggling against the invading British, who prove as lethal in their good intentions as in their cruelty.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "English Passengers is an old-fashioned book in the best sense: epic in scale, crammed with outsize characters, set in a long-ago time and a faraway place... ''A-''"â€”Entertainment Weekly\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Robust and rollicking...unforgettable...It''s tough to pull off a memorable epic, but Kneale has done it. So get comfortable, and be prepared to enter a fascinating world."â€”New York Post\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contrabandâ€”but not allâ€”confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship Sincerity up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other side of the globe.The Reverend Geoffrey Wilson believes the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania. His traveling partner, Dr. Thomas Potter, unbeknownst to Wilson, is developing a revolutionary, and sinister, thesis of his own, about the races of men. And these passengers are perhaps only slightly more odd than the crew itself, a diverse and lively bunch better equipped to entertain one another than to steer Sincerity around Cape Horn and across the Indian Ocean. Yet they set sail, pointed southward and bound for a thrilling, epic romp across the high seas and cultures of the nineteenth century.Meanwhile, an aboriginal in Tasmania named Peevay recounts his people''s struggles against the invading British, who prove as lethal in their good intentions as in their cruelty. This is no Eden but a world of hunting parties and colonial ethnic cleansing. As the English passengers haplessly approach Peevay''s land, their bizarre notions ever more painfully at odds with reality, we know a mighty collision is looming.Full of dangerous humor, English Passengers combines wit, adventure, and harrowing historical detail in a mesmerizing display of storytelling. Narrated by over twenty different characters, each one so distinct that the reader has the sense of a story not so much told as dazzlingly peopled, Matthew Kneale has created a buoyant tale, beautifully presented in a storm of voices that brings a past age to vivid and memorable life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10762'),
(16720, 'English passengers', 'Matthew Kneale', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n English Passengers (2000) A novel by Matthew Kneale Awards: Whitbread Prize The Booker Prize (nominee) This novel tells two parallel stories: one of three eccentric Englishmen who set sail for Tasmania to find the garden of Eden; the other of a young Tasmanian aborigine and his tribe, struggling against the invading British, who prove as lethal in their good intentions as in their cruelty. "English Passengers is an old-fashioned book in the best sense: epic in scale, crammed with outsize characters, set in a long-ago time and a faraway place... ''A-''"â€”Entertainment Weekly "Robust and rollicking...unforgettable...It''s tough to pull off a memorable epic, but Kneale has done it. So get comfortable, and be prepared to enter a fascinating world."â€”New York Post When Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contrabandâ€”but not allâ€”confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship Sincerity up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other side of the globe.The Reverend Geoffrey Wilson believes the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania. His traveling partner, Dr. Thomas Potter, unbeknownst to Wilson, is developing a revolutionary, and sinister, thesis of his own, about the races of men. And these passengers are perhaps only slightly more odd than the crew itself, a diverse and lively bunch better equipped to entertain one another than to steer Sincerity around Cape Horn and across the Indian Ocean. Yet they set sail, pointed southward and bound for a thrilling, epic romp across the high seas and cultures of the nineteenth century.Meanwhile, an aboriginal in Tasmania named Peevay recounts his people''s struggles against the invading British, who prove as lethal in their good intentions as in their cruelty. This is no Eden but a world of hunting parties and colonial ethnic cleansing. As the English passengers haplessly approach Peevay''s land, their bizarre notions ever more painfully at odds with reality, we know a mighty collision is looming.Full of dangerous humor, English Passengers combines wit, adventure, and harrowing historical detail in a mesmerizing display of storytelling. Narrated by over twenty different characters, each one so distinct that the reader has the sense of a story not so much told as dazzlingly peopled, Matthew Kneale has created a buoyant tale, beautifully presented in a storm of voices that brings a past age to vivid and memorable life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21808'),
(16721, 'The English Patient', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining ward. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is her English patient, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes describing a painful and ultimately tragic love affair.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2773'),
(16722, 'The English Patient', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining ward. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is her English patient, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes describing a painful and ultimately tragic love affair.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11665'),
(16723, 'The English Patient', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining ward. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is her English patient, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes describing a painful and ultimately tragic love affair.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22027'),
(16724, 'The English patient: a novel', 'Michael Ondaatje', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje''s Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companionsâ€”and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25341'),
(16725, 'The English Way of Death', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor, Romana and K9 are in 1930s London, planning to rest after their recent adventures. But what connects the Sussex resort of Nutchurch with the secret society run by Percy Closed? Why has Hepworth Stackhouse hired an assassin? And what is the infe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5541'),
(16726, 'The English Way of Death', 'Gareth Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor, Romana and K9 are in 1930s London, planning to rest after their recent adventures. But what connects the Sussex resort of Nutchurch with the secret society run by Percy Closed? Why has Hepworth Stackhouse hired an assassin? And what is the infe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19189'),
(16727, 'The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discursive and ruminative, more like an extended essay than a novel, the intricately structured chapters in this highly autobiographical book reveal "the writer defined by his . . . ways of seeing." Naipaul, in his own person, narrates a series of events, beginning during a period of soul-healing in Wiltshire, circling back to the day of his departure from Trinidad in 1950 when he was 18, describing his time in London before he went up to Oxford, moving back to Trinidad after his sister''s death: these journeys are a metaphor for his life. With beautiful use of detail recaptured from an extraordinary memory, with exquisitely nuanced observations of the natural world and his own interior landscape, he shows how experience is transmogrified after much incertitude and paininto literature. This is a melancholy book, the testament of a man who has stoically willed himself to endure disappointment, alienation, change and grief. Naipaul lays bare the loneliness, vulnerability and anxieties of his life, the sensibility that is both an asset for the writer and a burden for the man. He demonstrates this brilliantly by describing other peoplemainly his neighbors in a village near Stonehenge. Using these characters as catalysts, Naipaul peels back protective layers of memory, sparing himself nothing, revealing the mistakes and inadequacies of his life. The drama resides in small incidents: the death of a cottager, the firing of an estate''s gardener; with each account, the narrative is spun more tightly into a seamless tapestry, a powerful document by a master of his craft. Readers Subscription Book Club main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "An elegant memoir, a subtly incisive self-reckoning." ?_Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Far and away the most curious novel I''ve read in a long time, and maybe the most hypnotic book I''ve ever read." ?_St. Petersburg Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The conclusion is both heart-breaking and bracing: the only antidote to destruction ? of dreams, of reality ? is remembering. As eloquently as anyone now writing, Naipaul remembers." ?_Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "V.S. Naipaul is a man who can inspire readers to follow him through the Slough of Despond and beyond? Like a computer game [this book] leads the reader on by a series of clues, nearer and nearer to an understanding of the man and the writer. Few memoirs can claim as much." ?_Newsday_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/407'),
(16728, 'The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discursive and ruminative, more like an extended essay than a novel, the intricately structured chapters in this highly autobiographical book reveal "the writer defined by his . . . ways of seeing." Naipaul, in his own person, narrates a series of events, beginning during a period of soul-healing in Wiltshire, circling back to the day of his departure from Trinidad in 1950 when he was 18, describing his time in London before he went up to Oxford, moving back to Trinidad after his sister''s death: these journeys are a metaphor for his life. With beautiful use of detail recaptured from an extraordinary memory, with exquisitely nuanced observations of the natural world and his own interior landscape, he shows how experience is transmogrified after much incertitude and paininto literature. This is a melancholy book, the testament of a man who has stoically willed himself to endure disappointment, alienation, change and grief. Naipaul lays bare the loneliness, vulnerability and anxieties of his life, the sensibility that is both an asset for the writer and a burden for the man. He demonstrates this brilliantly by describing other peoplemainly his neighbors in a village near Stonehenge. Using these characters as catalysts, Naipaul peels back protective layers of memory, sparing himself nothing, revealing the mistakes and inadequacies of his life. The drama resides in small incidents: the death of a cottager, the firing of an estate''s gardener; with each account, the narrative is spun more tightly into a seamless tapestry, a powerful document by a master of his craft. Readers Subscription Book Club main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "An elegant memoir, a subtly incisive self-reckoning." ?_Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Far and away the most curious novel I''ve read in a long time, and maybe the most hypnotic book I''ve ever read." ?_St. Petersburg Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The conclusion is both heart-breaking and bracing: the only antidote to destruction ? of dreams, of reality ? is remembering. As eloquently as anyone now writing, Naipaul remembers." ?_Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "V.S. Naipaul is a man who can inspire readers to follow him through the Slough of Despond and beyond? Like a computer game [this book] leads the reader on by a series of clues, nearer and nearer to an understanding of the man and the writer. Few memoirs can claim as much." ?_Newsday_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11650'),
(16729, 'The enigma of arrival: a novel', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Discursive and ruminative, more like an extended essay than a novel, the intricately structured chapters in this highly autobiographical book reveal "the writer defined by his . . . ways of seeing." Naipaul, in his own person, narrates a series of events, beginning during a period of soul-healing in Wiltshire, circling back to the day of his departure from Trinidad in 1950 when he was 18, describing his time in London before he went up to Oxford, moving back to Trinidad after his sister''s death: these journeys are a metaphor for his life. With beautiful use of detail recaptured from an extraordinary memory, with exquisitely nuanced observations of the natural world and his own interior landscape, he shows how experience is transmogrified after much incertitude and paininto literature. This is a melancholy book, the testament of a man who has stoically willed himself to endure disappointment, alienation, change and grief. Naipaul lays bare the loneliness, vulnerability and anxieties of his life, the sensibility that is both an asset for the writer and a burden for the man. He demonstrates this brilliantly by describing other peoplemainly his neighbors in a village near Stonehenge. Using these characters as catalysts, Naipaul peels back protective layers of memory, sparing himself nothing, revealing the mistakes and inadequacies of his life. The drama resides in small incidents: the death of a cottager, the firing of an estate''s gardener; with each account, the narrative is spun more tightly into a seamless tapestry, a powerful document by a master of his craft. Readers Subscription Book Club main selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "An elegant memoir, a subtly incisive self-reckoning." ?_Washington Post Book World_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Far and away the most curious novel I''ve read in a long time, and maybe the most hypnotic book I''ve ever read." ?_St. Petersburg Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The conclusion is both heart-breaking and bracing: the only antidote to destruction ? of dreams, of reality ? is remembering. As eloquently as anyone now writing, Naipaul remembers." ?_Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "V.S. Naipaul is a man who can inspire readers to follow him through the Slough of Despond and beyond? Like a computer game [this book] leads the reader on by a series of clues, nearer and nearer to an understanding of the man and the writer. Few memoirs can claim as much." ?_Newsday_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24515'),
(16730, 'Enigmatic Pilot: A Tall Tale Too True', 'Kris Saknussemm', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemmâ€™s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dreamâ€”and nightmare. Â  In 1844, in a still-young America, the first intimations of civil war are stirring throughout the land. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd familyâ€”Hephaestus, a clubfooted inventor; his wife, Rapture, a Creole from the Sea Islands; and their prodigiously gifted six-year-old son, Lloyd, whose libido is as precocious as his intellectâ€”are forced to flee the only home they have ever known for an uncertain future in Texas, whence Hephaestusâ€™s half-brother, Micah, has sent them a mysterious invitation, promising riches and wonders too amazing to be entrusted to paper. Thus begins one of the most incredible American journeys since Huck Finn and Jim first pushed their raft into the Mississippi. Along the way, Lloyd will learn the intricacies of poker and murder, solve the problem of manned flight, findâ€”and loseâ€”true love, and become swept up in an ancient struggle between two secret societies whose arcane dispute has shaped the worldâ€™s past and threatens to reshape its future. Each side wants to use Lloyd against the other, but Lloyd has his own ideasâ€”and access to an occult technology as powerful as his imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3736'),
(16731, 'Enigmatic Pilot: A Tall Tale Too True', 'Kris Saknussemm', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemmâ€™s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dreamâ€”and nightmare. Â  In 1844, in a still-young America, the first intimations of civil war are stirring throughout the land. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd familyâ€”Hephaestus, a clubfooted inventor; his wife, Rapture, a Creole from the Sea Islands; and their prodigiously gifted six-year-old son, Lloyd, whose libido is as precocious as his intellectâ€”are forced to flee the only home they have ever known for an uncertain future in Texas, whence Hephaestusâ€™s half-brother, Micah, has sent them a mysterious invitation, promising riches and wonders too amazing to be entrusted to paper. Thus begins one of the most incredible American journeys since Huck Finn and Jim first pushed their raft into the Mississippi. Along the way, Lloyd will learn the intricacies of poker and murder, solve the problem of manned flight, findâ€”and loseâ€”true love, and become swept up in an ancient struggle between two secret societies whose arcane dispute has shaped the worldâ€™s past and threatens to reshape its future. Each side wants to use Lloyd against the other, but Lloyd has his own ideasâ€”and access to an occult technology as powerful as his imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12500');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(16732, 'Enigmatic Pilot: A Tall Tale Too True', 'Kris Saknussemm', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemmâ€™s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dreamâ€”and nightmare. In 1844, in a still-young America, the first intimations of civil war are stirring throughout the land. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd familyâ€”Hephaestus, a clubfooted inventor; his wife, Rapture, a Creole from the Sea Islands; and their prodigiously gifted six-year-old son, Lloyd, whose libido is as precocious as his intellectâ€”are forced to flee the only home they have ever known for an uncertain future in Texas, whence Hephaestusâ€™s half-brother, Micah, has sent them a mysterious invitation, promising riches and wonders too amazing to be entrusted to paper. Thus begins one of the most incredible American journeys since Huck Finn and Jim first pushed their raft into the Mississippi. Along the way, Lloyd will learn the intricacies of poker and murder, solve the problem of manned flight, findâ€”and loseâ€”true love, and become swept up in an ancient struggle between two secret societies whose arcane dispute has shaped the worldâ€™s past and threatens to reshape its future. Each side wants to use Lloyd against the other, but Lloyd has his own ideasâ€”and access to an occult technology as powerful as his imagination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20782'),
(16733, 'Enlightenment', 'Roy Porter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France''s importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1499'),
(16734, 'Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World', 'Roy Porter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France''s importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23090'),
(16735, 'The Enormous Room', 'E. E. Cummings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Enormous Room by e.e. cummings was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher awords meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word i\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18611'),
(16736, 'The Enormous Room', 'E. E. Cummings', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27543'),
(16737, 'Enquiry', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n No jockey likes being labelled a cheat. Least of all by a Stewards'' Enquiry. Kelly Hughes career looks doomed. He knows he''s been framed, but finding the reason could prove dangerous. Especially with a killer on his tail...Hughes'' own enquiry uncovers dynamite that could blow the racing world to smithereens. Only a few powerful - and violent - men know the sordid secret. And they''ll go to extraordinary lengths to keep it that way. Murder is just one option..."Highly ingenious" - "Times Literary Supplement". "Another winner" - "Publishers Weekly".\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "One of the greatest living suspense writers."\n <br />\n CBS RADIO\n <br />\n Jockey Kelly Hughes and trainer Dexter Cranfield had been barred from racing--for throwing a race for personal profit. It was a vicious frame-up and, worse, they had nowhere to turn to clear their names. Still, Hughes refused to take the phony verdict lying down--even though his personal enquiry might have him lying down permanently....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6021'),
(16738, 'Enquiry', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n No jockey likes being labelled a cheat. Least of all by a Stewards'' Enquiry. Kelly Hughes career looks doomed. He knows he''s been framed, but finding the reason could prove dangerous. Especially with a killer on his tail...Hughes'' own enquiry uncovers dynamite that could blow the racing world to smithereens. Only a few powerful - and violent - men know the sordid secret. And they''ll go to extraordinary lengths to keep it that way. Murder is just one option..."Highly ingenious" - "Times Literary Supplement". "Another winner" - "Publishers Weekly".\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n "One of the greatest living suspense writers."\n <br />\n CBS RADIO\n <br />\n Jockey Kelly Hughes and trainer Dexter Cranfield had been barred from racing--for throwing a race for personal profit. It was a vicious frame-up and, worse, they had nowhere to turn to clear their names. Still, Hughes refused to take the phony verdict lying down--even though his personal enquiry might have him lying down permanently....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9846'),
(16739, 'Enslave: The Taming of the Beast', 'Cathy Yardley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nadia Bessonova''s career-criminal father has deadly enemiesâ€”and to save him, his devoted daughter is willing to make a bargain with the devil himself. She will surrender completely, body and spirit, to the dangerous Dominic Luder, and submit to his every whim.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Haunted by inner demons and hiding away in his dark, secluded manor, Dominic is mesmerized by his sensuous prisoner who inflames his bestial lust. But Nadia is no mere plaything. At once fearful, willing, and wildly passionate, she brings his most breathtaking erotic fantasies to lifeâ€”and thaws his cold, wounded heart.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Nadia never dreamed she''d become slave to her own desires in a savage game of seduction and revenge. And now that he has tasted ecstasy, will a jealous, magnificent beast be able to relinquish his prize?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6972'),
(16740, 'Enslave: The Taming of the Beast', 'Cathy Yardley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nadia Bessonova''s career-criminal father has deadly enemiesâ€”and to save him, his devoted daughter is willing to make a bargain with the devil himself. She will surrender completely, body and spirit, to the dangerous Dominic Luder, and submit to his every whim.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Haunted by inner demons and hiding away in his dark, secluded manor, Dominic is mesmerized by his sensuous prisoner who inflames his bestial lust. But Nadia is no mere plaything. At once fearful, willing, and wildly passionate, she brings his most breathtaking erotic fantasies to lifeâ€”and thaws his cold, wounded heart.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Nadia never dreamed she''d become slave to her own desires in a savage game of seduction and revenge. And now that he has tasted ecstasy, will a jealous, magnificent beast be able to relinquish his prize?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13458'),
(16741, 'Enslave: The Taming of the Beast', 'Cathy Yardley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nadia Bessonova''s career-criminal father has deadly enemiesâ€”and to save him, his devoted daughter is willing to make a bargain with the devil himself. She will surrender completely, body and spirit, to the dangerous Dominic Luder, and submit to his every whim. Haunted by inner demons and hiding away in his dark, secluded manor, Dominic is mesmerized by his sensuous prisoner who inflames his bestial lust. But Nadia is no mere plaything. At once fearful, willing, and wildly passionate, she brings his most breathtaking erotic fantasies to lifeâ€”and thaws his cold, wounded heart. But Nadia never dreamed she''d become slave to her own desires in a savage game of seduction and revenge. And now that he has tasted ecstasy, will a jealous, magnificent beast be able to relinquish his prize?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16949'),
(16742, 'Enslave: The Taming of the Beast', 'Cathy Yardley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nadia Bessonova''s career-criminal father has deadly enemiesâ€”and to save him, his devoted daughter is willing to make a bargain with the devil himself. She will surrender completely, body and spirit, to the dangerous Dominic Luder, and submit to his every whim. Haunted by inner demons and hiding away in his dark, secluded manor, Dominic is mesmerized by his sensuous prisoner who inflames his bestial lust. But Nadia is no mere plaything. At once fearful, willing, and wildly passionate, she brings his most breathtaking erotic fantasies to lifeâ€”and thaws his cold, wounded heart. But Nadia never dreamed she''d become slave to her own desires in a savage game of seduction and revenge. And now that he has tasted ecstasy, will a jealous, magnificent beast be able to relinquish his prize?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26853'),
(16743, 'The Enslavement', 'Bruce McLachlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26017'),
(16744, 'The Enterprise of Death', 'Jesse Bullington', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Moorish slave cast out of her Spanish home by war, Awa is captured by a necromancer who forces her to learn his skills. When she eventually flees, she discovers the necromancer placed a curse on her that will destroy her soul in 10 years'' time-unless she can find his book of secrets, which could be hidden anywhere in the world. During her quest, Awa befriends Manuel, a painter-turned-mercenary; Monique, a lesbian gunsmith-turned-madam; and others both dead and undead. Bullington (The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart) bounces almost giddily between gruesome and tongue-in-cheek, from more horrific aspects of raising the dead to the odd problems faced by a necromancer with a conscience. Spiritual terror, Awa''s star-crossed loves, and Manuel''s guilt over becoming a mercenary to pay for art supplies are all grist for a relentless dark humor blended with occasional tragedy. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr. Paracelsus, and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank, and church wall, the young apprentice becomes increasingly aware that death might be the least of her concerns.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4451'),
(16745, 'The Enterprise of Death', 'Jesse Bullington', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A Moorish slave cast out of her Spanish home by war, Awa is captured by a necromancer who forces her to learn his skills. When she eventually flees, she discovers the necromancer placed a curse on her that will destroy her soul in 10 years'' time-unless she can find his book of secrets, which could be hidden anywhere in the world. During her quest, Awa befriends Manuel, a painter-turned-mercenary; Monique, a lesbian gunsmith-turned-madam; and others both dead and undead. Bullington (The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart) bounces almost giddily between gruesome and tongue-in-cheek, from more horrific aspects of raising the dead to the odd problems faced by a necromancer with a conscience. Spiritual terror, Awa''s star-crossed loves, and Manuel''s guilt over becoming a mercenary to pay for art supplies are all grist for a relentless dark humor blended with occasional tragedy. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr. Paracelsus, and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank, and church wall, the young apprentice becomes increasingly aware that death might be the least of her concerns.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8702'),
(16746, 'Entranced', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A missing chi d. A desperate mother, A private investigator rwming out of tim , Mel Sutherland didn''t need th help of a fraudulent psychic to find the abducted baby -an she wasn''t about to let a con-artist exploit a grieving mother''s vulnerability, Then all the leads dIied up. Reluctantly, Mel had to acc pt Sebastian Donovan''s aid, She was cynical ab ut hi powers and suspicious of hi motives. But as the clock ticked, Sebastian unfailingly knew how to follow th abductor''s track and el had to make up her mind. Was Sebastian'' gift real? Or wa~ someth''ng far more sini ter at work?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2471'),
(16747, 'Entranced', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A missing chi d. A desperate mother, A private investigator rwming out of tim , Mel Sutherland didn''t need th help of a fraudulent psychic to find the abducted baby -an she wasn''t about to let a con-artist exploit a grieving mother''s vulnerability, Then all the leads dIied up. Reluctantly, Mel had to acc pt Sebastian Donovan''s aid, She was cynical ab ut hi powers and suspicious of hi motives. But as the clock ticked, Sebastian unfailingly knew how to follow th abductor''s track and el had to make up her mind. Was Sebastian'' gift real? Or wa~ someth''ng far more sini ter at work?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22292'),
(16748, 'Eon', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth''s orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid''s surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad. For the Stone was from space--but perhaps notourspace; it came from the future--but perhaps notourfuture; and within the hollowed asteroid was Thistledown. The remains of a vanished civilization. Ahuman--English, Russian, and Chinese-speaking--civilization. Seven vast chambers containing forests, lakes, rivers, hanging cities... And museums describing the Death; the catastrophic war that was about to occur; the horror and the long winter that would follow. But while scientists and politicians bickered about how to use the information to stop the Death, the Stone yielded a secret that made even Earth''s survival pale into insignificance.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18361'),
(16749, 'Epic', 'Conor Kostick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to a society governed through computer games! On New Earth, society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. If you win, you have the chance to fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing. When teenage Erik dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends must face the Committee. If Erik and his friends win, they may have the key to destroying the Committeeâ€™s tyranny. But if they lose . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6630'),
(16750, 'Epic', 'Conor Kostick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Welcome to a society governed through computer games! On New Earth, society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. If you win, you have the chance to fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing. When teenage Erik dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends must face the Committee. If Erik and his friends win, they may have the key to destroying the Committeeâ€™s tyranny. But if they lose . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10813'),
(16751, 'Epic', 'Conor Kostick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Welcome to a society governed through computer games! On New Earth, society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. If you win, you have the chance to fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing. When teenage Erik dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends must face the Committee. If Erik and his friends win, they may have the key to destroying the Committeeâ€™s tyranny. But if they lose . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17459'),
(16752, 'Epic', 'Conor Kostick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Welcome to a society governed through computer games! On New Earth, society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. If you win, you have the chance to fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing. When teenage Erik dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends must face the Committee. If Erik and his friends win, they may have the key to destroying the Committeeâ€™s tyranny. But if they lose . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27111'),
(16753, 'Epica Magna', 'Nichita Stanescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25287'),
(16754, 'Equal Rites', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels, consistent number one bestsellers in England, have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody along with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/800'),
(16755, 'Equal Rites', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels, consistent number one bestsellers in England, have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody along with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14023'),
(16756, 'Equal Rites', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Pratchett''s profoundly irreverent novels, consistent number one bestsellers in England, have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody along with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24204'),
(16757, 'Eragon', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm  boyâ€”until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could saveâ€”or destroyâ€”the Empire.â€œAn authentic work of great talent.â€â€”*The New York Times Book Review*â€œChristopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.â€â€”*People* â€œUnusual, powerful, fresh, and fluid.â€â€”*Booklist*, Starredâ€œAn auspicious beginning to both career and series.â€â€”*Publishers Weekly*A New York Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Book Sense Bestseller*From the Hardcover edition.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6710'),
(16758, 'Eragon', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm  boyâ€”until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could saveâ€”or destroyâ€”the Empire.â€œAn authentic work of great talent.â€â€”*The New York Times Book Review*â€œChristopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.â€â€”*People* â€œUnusual, powerful, fresh, and fluid.â€â€”*Booklist*, Starredâ€œAn auspicious beginning to both career and series.â€â€”*Publishers Weekly*A New York Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Book Sense Bestseller*From the Hardcover edition.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11760'),
(16759, 'Eragon', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boyâ€”until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could saveâ€”or destroyâ€”the Empire.â€œAn authentic work of great talent.â€â€”*The New York Times Book Review*â€œChristopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.â€â€”*People* â€œUnusual, powerful, fresh, and fluid.â€â€”*Booklist*, Starredâ€œAn auspicious beginning to both career and series.â€â€”*Publishers Weekly*A New York Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Book Sense Bestseller*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14008'),
(16760, 'Eragon', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boyâ€”until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could saveâ€”or destroyâ€”the Empire.â€œAn authentic work of great talent.â€â€”*The New York Times Book Review*â€œChristopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.â€â€”*People* â€œUnusual, powerful, fresh, and fluid.â€â€”*Booklist*, Starredâ€œAn auspicious beginning to both career and series.â€â€”*Publishers Weekly*A New York Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Book Sense Bestseller*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18049'),
(16761, 'Eragon', 'Christopher Paolini', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm  boyâ€”until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could saveâ€”or destroyâ€”the Empire.â€œAn authentic work of great talent.â€â€”*The New York Times Book Review*â€œChristopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.â€â€”*People* â€œUnusual, powerful, fresh, and fluid.â€â€”*Booklist*, Starredâ€œAn auspicious beginning to both career and series.â€â€”*Publishers Weekly*A New York Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Book Sense Bestseller*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26975'),
(16762, 'Erak&#39;s Ransom', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There is one adventure from Will''s time as a Ranger''s Apprentice that is yet to be told... When Erak, the Skandian Oberjarl, is taken hostage during a raid on the desert lands to the south of the Constant Sea, his second-in-command, Svengal, is sent to bring back a ransom for Erak''s release. Halt and Will must go with Svengal to deliver the ransom and secure Erak''s freedom, but a royal presence is needed too. The Princess Cassandra - or Evanlyn, as Will knows her - persuades her father to let her go with them. Horace and the Ranger Gilan round out the group to make sure that Evanlyn is well protected. But will violent sandstorms, warring tribes and danger at every turn keep them from reaching Erak in time. The seventh book takes us back to the final year of Will''s apprenticeship, before the events related in Books 5 and 6.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4275'),
(16763, 'Erak&#39;s Ransom', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There is one adventure from Will''s time as a Ranger''s Apprentice that is yet to be told... When Erak, the Skandian Oberjarl, is taken hostage during a raid on the desert lands to the south of the Constant Sea, his second-in-command, Svengal, is sent to bring back a ransom for Erak''s release. Halt and Will must go with Svengal to deliver the ransom and secure Erak''s freedom, but a royal presence is needed too. The Princess Cassandra - or Evanlyn, as Will knows her - persuades her father to let her go with them. Horace and the Ranger Gilan round out the group to make sure that Evanlyn is well protected. But will violent sandstorms, warring tribes and danger at every turn keep them from reaching Erak in time. The seventh book takes us back to the final year of Will''s apprenticeship, before the events related in Books 5 and 6.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15168'),
(16764, 'Erak&#39;s Ransom', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There is one adventure from Will''s time as a Ranger''s Apprentice that is yet to be told... When Erak, the Skandian Oberjarl, is taken hostage during a raid on the desert lands to the south of the Constant Sea, his second-in-command, Svengal, is sent to bring back a ransom for Erak''s release. Halt and Will must go with Svengal to deliver the ransom and secure Erak''s freedom, but a royal presence is needed too. The Princess Cassandra - or Evanlyn, as Will knows her - persuades her father to let her go with them. Horace and the Ranger Gilan round out the group to make sure that Evanlyn is well protected. But will violent sandstorms, warring tribes and danger at every turn keep them from reaching Erak in time. The seventh book takes us back to the final year of Will''s apprenticeship, before the events related in Books 5 and 6.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21423'),
(16765, 'Erak&#39;s Ransom', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There is one adventure from Will''s time as a Ranger''s Apprentice that is yet to be told... When Erak, the Skandian Oberjarl, is taken hostage during a raid on the desert lands to the south of the Constant Sea, his second-in-command, Svengal, is sent to bring back a ransom for Erak''s release. Halt and Will must go with Svengal to deliver the ransom and secure Erak''s freedom, but a royal presence is needed too. The Princess Cassandra - or Evanlyn, as Will knows her - persuades her father to let her go with them. Horace and the Ranger Gilan round out the group to make sure that Evanlyn is well protected. But will violent sandstorms, warring tribes and danger at every turn keep them from reaching Erak in time. The seventh book takes us back to the final year of Will''s apprenticeship, before the events related in Books 5 and 6.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26159'),
(16766, 'Erasing Memory', 'Scott Thornley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A remarkable Canadian crime debut and the newest addition to our acclaimed World of Crime series. MacNeice, a senior police detective in the southern Ontario industrial city of Dundurn, is returning from a pilgrimage to his wife''s grave when he''s called to a crime scene of singular and disturbing beauty. A young woman in evening dress lies gracefully posed on the floor of a pristine summer cottage so that the finger of one hand regularly interrupts the needle arm of a phonograph playing the Schubert Piano Trio. The only visible mark on her is the bruise under her chin, which MacNeice recognizes: it is the mark that distinguishes dedicated violinists, the same mark that once graced his wife. The murder is both ingenious and horrific, and soon entangles MacNeice and his team in Eastern Europe''s ancient grievances, which reach out to breach all the walls that have been thrown up to keep the past at bay. MacNeice must use his splendid but unorthodox powers of observation to stem the tide of events threatening to erase any trace of memory or history, leaving the target of the crime naked in the face of loss. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1338'),
(16767, 'Erasing Memory', 'Scott Thornley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A remarkable Canadian crime debut and the newest addition to our acclaimed World of Crime series. MacNeice, a senior police detective in the southern Ontario industrial city of Dundurn, is returning from a pilgrimage to his wife''s grave when he''s called to a crime scene of singular and disturbing beauty. A young woman in evening dress lies gracefully posed on the floor of a pristine summer cottage so that the finger of one hand regularly interrupts the needle arm of a phonograph playing the Schubert Piano Trio. The only visible mark on her is the bruise under her chin, which MacNeice recognizes: it is the mark that distinguishes dedicated violinists, the same mark that once graced his wife. The murder is both ingenious and horrific, and soon entangles MacNeice and his team in Eastern Europe''s ancient grievances, which reach out to breach all the walls that have been thrown up to keep the past at bay. MacNeice must use his splendid but unorthodox powers of observation to stem the tide of events threatening to erase any trace of memory or history, leaving the target of the crime naked in the face of loss. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13036'),
(16768, 'Erasing Memory', 'Scott Thornley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A remarkable Canadian crime debut and the newest addition to our acclaimed World of Crime series. MacNeice, a senior police detective in the southern Ontario industrial city of Dundurn, is returning from a pilgrimage to his wife''s grave when he''s called to a crime scene of singular and disturbing beauty. A young woman in evening dress lies gracefully posed on the floor of a pristine summer cottage so that the finger of one hand regularly interrupts the needle arm of a phonograph playing the Schubert Piano Trio. The only visible mark on her is the bruise under her chin, which MacNeice recognizes: it is the mark that distinguishes dedicated violinists, the same mark that once graced his wife. The murder is both ingenious and horrific, and soon entangles MacNeice and his team in Eastern Europe''s ancient grievances, which reach out to breach all the walls that have been thrown up to keep the past at bay. MacNeice must use his splendid but unorthodox powers of observation to stem the tide of events threatening to erase any trace of memory or history, leaving the target of the crime naked in the face of loss. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23169'),
(16769, 'Ereticii Dunei', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25830'),
(16770, 'Erewhon', 'Samuel Butler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25150'),
(16771, 'Eric', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Discworld''s only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork''s denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin'' hot babe.But Eric isn''t even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric''s. And as if that wasn''t bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there''s only one thing Eric wishes now -- that he''d never been born!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/803'),
(16772, 'Eric', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Discworld''s only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork''s denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin'' hot babe.But Eric isn''t even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric''s. And as if that wasn''t bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there''s only one thing Eric wishes now -- that he''d never been born!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14081'),
(16773, 'Eric', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Discworld''s only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork''s denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin'' hot babe.But Eric isn''t even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric''s. And as if that wasn''t bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there''s only one thing Eric wishes now -- that he''d never been born!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24203'),
(16774, 'Eros, Philia, Agape', 'Rachel Swirsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Originally published on Tor.com, Rachel Swirsky''s contemporary tale of love in all its forms â€” and of one robot''s quest to know it, and himself, on his own terms â€” is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award and the 2010 Locus Award.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1884'),
(16775, 'Eros, Philia, Agape', 'Rachel Swirsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Originally published on Tor.com, Rachel Swirsky''s contemporary tale of love in all its forms â€” and of one robot''s quest to know it, and himself, on his own terms â€” is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award and the 2010 Locus Award.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13021'),
(16776, 'The Ersatz Elevator: Traditional Characters', 'Lemony A. Snicket', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at EsmÃ© Squalor''s seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13651'),
(16777, 'Escape', 'Carolyn Jessop &amp; Laura Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one womanâ€™s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolynâ€™s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husbandâ€™s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Carolynâ€™s every move was dictated by her husbandâ€™s whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuseâ€”at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wifeâ€™s compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessopâ€™s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6932'),
(16778, 'Escape', 'Carolyn Jessop &amp; Laura Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one womanâ€™s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolynâ€™s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husbandâ€™s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Carolynâ€™s every move was dictated by her husbandâ€™s whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuseâ€”at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wifeâ€™s compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessopâ€™s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10533'),
(16779, 'Escape', 'Carolyn Jessop; Laura Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one womanâ€™s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolynâ€™s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husbandâ€™s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Carolynâ€™s every move was dictated by her husbandâ€™s whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuseâ€”at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wifeâ€™s compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessopâ€™s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16910');
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(16780, 'Escape', 'Carolyn Jessop; Laura Palmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one womanâ€™s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolynâ€™s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husbandâ€™s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Carolynâ€™s every move was dictated by her husbandâ€™s whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuseâ€”at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wifeâ€™s compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessopâ€™s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26791'),
(16781, 'Escape From Hell', 'Larry Niven &amp; Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Allan Carpenter escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured. He has now returned, on a mission to liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined. Partnering with the legendary poet and suicide, Sylvia Plath, Carpenter is a modern-day Christ who intends to harrow hell and free the damned. But now that he''s returned to this Dantesque Inferno, can he ever again leave?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3582'),
(16782, 'Escape from Hell', 'Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Allan Carpenter escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured. He has now returned, on a mission to liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined. Partnering with the legendary poet and suicide, Sylvia Plath, Carpenter is a modern-day Christ who intends to harrow hell and free the damned. But now that he''s returned to this Dantesque Inferno, can he ever again leave?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21011'),
(16783, 'Escrocheria', 'Mary Higgins Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25369'),
(16784, 'Espresso Shot', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The latest in the steaming hot national bestselling seriesâ€” now in hardcover.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Manager and head barista of the bustling New York coffeehouse The Village Blend, Clare Cosiâ€™s been hired to create a gourmet coffee and dessert bar for a swanky wedding. Clare should be thrilled at this chance to shine, but itâ€™s Matteo Allegro, her ex-husband and current business partner, whoâ€™s tying the knotâ€”to *Trend* magazine editor Breanne Summour, whoâ€™s in full-blown bridezilla mode. Claireâ€™s got to put her misgivings aside and focus on business, but since sheâ€™s a successful amateur sleuth, murder is Clareâ€™s business, too. And when fatal accidents begin befalling people close to Breanne, Clare becomes suspicious. But what she unveils, amid melted chocolate and steaming mochaccinos, may just get her burned...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6677'),
(16785, 'Espresso Shot', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The latest in the steaming hot national bestselling seriesâ€” now in hardcover.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Manager and head barista of the bustling New York coffeehouse The Village Blend, Clare Cosiâ€™s been hired to create a gourmet coffee and dessert bar for a swanky wedding. Clare should be thrilled at this chance to shine, but itâ€™s Matteo Allegro, her ex-husband and current business partner, whoâ€™s tying the knotâ€”to *Trend* magazine editor Breanne Summour, whoâ€™s in full-blown bridezilla mode. Claireâ€™s got to put her misgivings aside and focus on business, but since sheâ€™s a successful amateur sleuth, murder is Clareâ€™s business, too. And when fatal accidents begin befalling people close to Breanne, Clare becomes suspicious. But what she unveils, amid melted chocolate and steaming mochaccinos, may just get her burned...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9073'),
(16786, 'Espresso Shot', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The latest in the steaming hot national bestselling seriesâ€” now in hardcover.** Manager and head barista of the bustling New York coffeehouse The Village Blend, Clare Cosiâ€™s been hired to create a gourmet coffee and dessert bar for a swanky wedding. Clare should be thrilled at this chance to shine, but itâ€™s Matteo Allegro, her ex-husband and current business partner, whoâ€™s tying the knotâ€”to *Trend* magazine editor Breanne Summour, whoâ€™s in full-blown bridezilla mode. Claireâ€™s got to put her misgivings aside and focus on business, but since sheâ€™s a successful amateur sleuth, murder is Clareâ€™s business, too. And when fatal accidents begin befalling people close to Breanne, Clare becomes suspicious. But what she unveils, amid melted chocolate and steaming mochaccinos, may just get her burned...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17363'),
(16787, 'Espresso Shot', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The latest in the steaming hot national bestselling seriesâ€” now in hardcover.** Manager and head barista of the bustling New York coffeehouse The Village Blend, Clare Cosiâ€™s been hired to create a gourmet coffee and dessert bar for a swanky wedding. Clare should be thrilled at this chance to shine, but itâ€™s Matteo Allegro, her ex-husband and current business partner, whoâ€™s tying the knotâ€”to *Trend* magazine editor Breanne Summour, whoâ€™s in full-blown bridezilla mode. Claireâ€™s got to put her misgivings aside and focus on business, but since sheâ€™s a successful amateur sleuth, murder is Clareâ€™s business, too. And when fatal accidents begin befalling people close to Breanne, Clare becomes suspicious. But what she unveils, amid melted chocolate and steaming mochaccinos, may just get her burned...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27035'),
(16788, 'Espresso Tales', 'Alexander Hanchett Smith &amp; Iain Mcintosh', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Once again McCall Smith fixes his telescope on the windows of 44 Scotland Street, the converted Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh that provided the title for his previous novel and initiated this latest series. This time out, perhaps Bertie, the gifted five-and-three-quarter-year-old, will be allowed to have the normal boyhood envisioned by his father, Stuart, and go trout fishing instead of taking yoga and Italian lessons in the "ungendered" life designed by his mother, Irene. But maybe trout fishing will turn out to be less than idyllic. McCall Smith delivers plenty of twists and turns as he skewers the puffery, the pretense, the tedium and self-defeating moves in his characters'' daily lives. He also forgives them their weaknesses and bathes them in love. Take Ramsey Dubarton, who puts his wife, Betty, to sleep by reading her installments of his memoirs: Betty dozes and the reader laughsâ€”with real admiration for his opacity. As ever, McCall Smith''s pacing is impeccable: moving his focus from one character to another seamlessly, dropping in just the right amount of description, keeping the talk light and sharp. Fans of this new series, here served with plenty of java, will be buzzed to know that a third volume is in the making.\n <em>\n  (July 11)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“This is the second volume of a serial novel that the author has been publishing in\n <em>\n  The Scotsman\n </em>\n about a group of loosely connected people living in present-day Edinburgh. The most interesting character for teen readers is Bertie Pollock, a precocious six-year-old who is being forced by his mother to study Italian, play the saxophone, take yoga, and endure psychoanalysis because of his understandable rebellion against her efforts to prevent him from being an ordinary boy. Bertie and his father grow closer and eventually assert their independence. Mrs. Pollock, meanwhile, has her own moments of revelation as she discovers that the analyst is not as perfect as she thought. The other stories revolve around a coffee-shop owner and some of her patrons and the residents of 44 Scotland Street, who were the subjects of the first book. Many of the characters are strikingly flawed, but McCall Smith eventually finds some redeeming, human side to them. He examines Scottish culture, from would-be art and wine dealers to raincoat-wearing nudists and members of the Scottish mafia. The relationships among the characters grow in unexpected and touching ways. The author has a critical yet forgiving eye for human failings. This novel is a prose poem about the small things in life that are being threatened by globalization and mass entertainment._â€“Will Marston, Berkeley Public Library, CA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12388'),
(16789, 'Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson', 'Ralph Waldo Emerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Essays and Poems, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â As an adolescent America searched for its unique identity among the nations of the world, a number of thinkers and writers emerged eager to share their vision of what the American character could be. Among their leaders was Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose essays, lectures, and poems defined the American transcendentalist movement, though he himself disliked the term. Emerson advocates a rejection of fear-driven conformity, a total independence of thought and spirit, and a life lived in harmony with nature. He believes that Truth lies within each individual, for each is part of a greater whole, a universal â€œover-soulâ€ through which we transcend the merely mortal. Emerson was extremely prolific throughout his life; his collected writings fill forty volumes. This edition contains his major works, including Nature, the essays â€œSelf-Reliance,â€ â€œThe American Scholar,â€ â€œThe Over-Soul,â€ â€œCircles,â€ â€œThe Poet,â€ and â€œExperience,â€, and such important poems as â€œThe Rhodora,â€ â€œUriel,â€ â€œThe Humble-Bee,â€ â€œEarth-Song,â€ â€œGive All to Love,â€ and the well-loved â€œConcord Hymn.â€ Includes a comprehensive glossary of names. Peter Norberg has been Assistant Professor of English at Saint Josephâ€™s University in Philadelphia since 1997. A specialist in New England transcendentalism and the history of the antebellum period, he also has published on Herman Melvilleâ€™s poetry. He currently is writing a history of Emersonâ€™s career as a public lecturer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1903'),
(16790, 'Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson', 'Ralph Waldo Emerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Essays and Poems, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â As an adolescent America searched for its unique identity among the nations of the world, a number of thinkers and writers emerged eager to share their vision of what the American character could be. Among their leaders was Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose essays, lectures, and poems defined the American transcendentalist movement, though he himself disliked the term. Emerson advocates a rejection of fear-driven conformity, a total independence of thought and spirit, and a life lived in harmony with nature. He believes that Truth lies within each individual, for each is part of a greater whole, a universal â€œover-soulâ€ through which we transcend the merely mortal. Emerson was extremely prolific throughout his life; his collected writings fill forty volumes. This edition contains his major works, including Nature, the essays â€œSelf-Reliance,â€ â€œThe American Scholar,â€ â€œThe Over-Soul,â€ â€œCircles,â€ â€œThe Poet,â€ and â€œExperience,â€, and such important poems as â€œThe Rhodora,â€ â€œUriel,â€ â€œThe Humble-Bee,â€ â€œEarth-Song,â€ â€œGive All to Love,â€ and the well-loved â€œConcord Hymn.â€ Includes a comprehensive glossary of names. Peter Norberg has been Assistant Professor of English at Saint Josephâ€™s University in Philadelphia since 1997. A specialist in New England transcendentalism and the history of the antebellum period, he also has published on Herman Melvilleâ€™s poetry. He currently is writing a history of Emersonâ€™s career as a public lecturer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9546'),
(16791, 'Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson', 'Ralph Waldo Emerson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Essays and Poems, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â As an adolescent America searched for its unique identity among the nations of the world, a number of thinkers and writers emerged eager to share their vision of what the American character could be. Among their leaders was Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose essays, lectures, and poems defined the American transcendentalist movement, though he himself disliked the term. Emerson advocates a rejection of fear-driven conformity, a total independence of thought and spirit, and a life lived in harmony with nature. He believes that Truth lies within each individual, for each is part of a greater whole, a universal â€œover-soulâ€ through which we transcend the merely mortal. Emerson was extremely prolific throughout his life; his collected writings fill forty volumes. This edition contains his major works, including Nature, the essays â€œSelf-Reliance,â€ â€œThe American Scholar,â€ â€œThe Over-Soul,â€ â€œCircles,â€ â€œThe Poet,â€ and â€œExperience,â€, and such important poems as â€œThe Rhodora,â€ â€œUriel,â€ â€œThe Humble-Bee,â€ â€œEarth-Song,â€ â€œGive All to Love,â€ and the well-loved â€œConcord Hymn.â€ Includes a comprehensive glossary of names. Peter Norberg has been Assistant Professor of English at Saint Josephâ€™s University in Philadelphia since 1997. A specialist in New England transcendentalism and the history of the antebellum period, he also has published on Herman Melvilleâ€™s poetry. He currently is writing a history of Emersonâ€™s career as a public lecturer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15216'),
(16792, 'The Essential Lotus Sutra', 'Burton Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15507'),
(16793, 'Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition', 'Douglas Mauro; Kevin Schmidt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This practical introduction to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) offers improved coverage of version 3 of the protocol, plus much more information on SNMP scripting and programming. Learn how to install, configure, and use SNMP, so you can more easily manage your network. Includes five new chapters and a host of real examples.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5935'),
(16794, 'Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition', 'Douglas Mauro; Kevin Schmidt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This practical introduction to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) offers improved coverage of version 3 of the protocol, plus much more information on SNMP scripting and programming. Learn how to install, configure, and use SNMP, so you can more easily manage your network. Includes five new chapters and a host of real examples.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12530'),
(16795, 'Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition', 'Douglas Mauro; Kevin Schmidt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n This practical introduction to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) offers improved coverage of version 3 of the protocol, plus much more information on SNMP scripting and programming. Learn how to install, configure, and use SNMP, so you can more easily manage your network. Includes five new chapters and a host of real examples.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18697'),
(16796, 'Essential SQLAlchemy', 'Rick Copeland', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Essential SQLAlchemy\n </em>\n introduces a high-level open-source code library that makes it easier for Python programmers to access relational databases such as Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. SQLAlchemy has become increasingly popular since its release, but it still lacks good offline documentation. This practical book fills the gap, and because a developer wrote it, you get an objective look at SQLAlchemy''s tools rather than an advocate''s description of all the "cool" features.\n</p>\n<p>\n SQLAlchemy includes both a database server-independent SQL expression language and an object-relational mapper (ORM) that lets you map "plain old Python objects" (POPOs) to database tables without substantially changing your existing Python code.\n <em>\n  Essential SQLAlchemy\n </em>\n demonstrates how to use the library to create a simple database application, walks you through simple queries, and explains how to use SQLAlchemy to connect to multiple databases simultaneously with the same Metadata. You also learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create custom types to be used in your schema, and when it''s useful to use custom rather than built-in types\n </li>\n <li>\n  Run queries, updates, and deletes with SQLAlchemy''s SQL expression language\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build an object mapper with SQLAlchemy, and understand the differences between this and active record patterns used in other ORMs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create objects, save them to a session, and flush them to the database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use SQLAlchemy to model object oriented inheritance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provide a declarative, active record pattern for use with SQLAlchemy using the Elixir extension\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the SQLSoup extension to provide an automatic metadata and object model based on database reflection\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In addition, you''ll learn how and when to use other extensions to SQLAlchemy, including AssociationProxy, OrderingList, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Essential SQLAlchemy\n </em>\n is the much-needed guide for every Python developer using this code library. Instead of a feature-by-feature documentation, this book takes an "essentials" approach that gives you exactly what you need to become productive with SQLAlchemy right away.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rick Copeland is a senior software engineer with retail analytics firm Predictix, LLC, where he uses SQLAlchemy extensively, primarily for web application development. He has been using Python full-time for development since 2005, in projects as diverse as demand forecasting, business web applications, compilers, and hardware synthesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1767'),
(16797, 'Essential SQLAlchemy', 'Rick Copeland', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Essential SQLAlchemy\n </em>\n introduces a high-level open-source code library that makes it easier for Python programmers to access relational databases such as Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. SQLAlchemy has become increasingly popular since its release, but it still lacks good offline documentation. This practical book fills the gap, and because a developer wrote it, you get an objective look at SQLAlchemy''s tools rather than an advocate''s description of all the "cool" features.\n</p>\n<p>\n SQLAlchemy includes both a database server-independent SQL expression language and an object-relational mapper (ORM) that lets you map "plain old Python objects" (POPOs) to database tables without substantially changing your existing Python code.\n <em>\n  Essential SQLAlchemy\n </em>\n demonstrates how to use the library to create a simple database application, walks you through simple queries, and explains how to use SQLAlchemy to connect to multiple databases simultaneously with the same Metadata. You also learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create custom types to be used in your schema, and when it''s useful to use custom rather than built-in types\n </li>\n <li>\n  Run queries, updates, and deletes with SQLAlchemy''s SQL expression language\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build an object mapper with SQLAlchemy, and understand the differences between this and active record patterns used in other ORMs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create objects, save them to a session, and flush them to the database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use SQLAlchemy to model object oriented inheritance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provide a declarative, active record pattern for use with SQLAlchemy using the Elixir extension\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the SQLSoup extension to provide an automatic metadata and object model based on database reflection\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In addition, you''ll learn how and when to use other extensions to SQLAlchemy, including AssociationProxy, OrderingList, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Essential SQLAlchemy\n </em>\n is the much-needed guide for every Python developer using this code library. Instead of a feature-by-feature documentation, this book takes an "essentials" approach that gives you exactly what you need to become productive with SQLAlchemy right away.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rick Copeland is a senior software engineer with retail analytics firm Predictix, LLC, where he uses SQLAlchemy extensively, primarily for web application development. He has been using Python full-time for development since 2005, in projects as diverse as demand forecasting, business web applications, compilers, and hardware synthesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9031'),
(16798, 'Essential SQLAlchemy', 'Rick Copeland', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Essential SQLAlchemy\n </em>\n introduces a high-level open-source code library that makes it easier for Python programmers to access relational databases such as Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. SQLAlchemy has become increasingly popular since its release, but it still lacks good offline documentation. This practical book fills the gap, and because a developer wrote it, you get an objective look at SQLAlchemy''s tools rather than an advocate''s description of all the "cool" features.\n</p>\n<p>\n SQLAlchemy includes both a database server-independent SQL expression language and an object-relational mapper (ORM) that lets you map "plain old Python objects" (POPOs) to database tables without substantially changing your existing Python code.\n <em>\n  Essential SQLAlchemy\n </em>\n demonstrates how to use the library to create a simple database application, walks you through simple queries, and explains how to use SQLAlchemy to connect to multiple databases simultaneously with the same Metadata. You also learn how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Create custom types to be used in your schema, and when it''s useful to use custom rather than built-in types\n </li>\n <li>\n  Run queries, updates, and deletes with SQLAlchemy''s SQL expression language\n </li>\n <li>\n  Build an object mapper with SQLAlchemy, and understand the differences between this and active record patterns used in other ORMs\n </li>\n <li>\n  Create objects, save them to a session, and flush them to the database\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use SQLAlchemy to model object oriented inheritance\n </li>\n <li>\n  Provide a declarative, active record pattern for use with SQLAlchemy using the Elixir extension\n </li>\n <li>\n  Use the SQLSoup extension to provide an automatic metadata and object model based on database reflection\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n In addition, you''ll learn how and when to use other extensions to SQLAlchemy, including AssociationProxy, OrderingList, and more.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Essential SQLAlchemy\n </em>\n is the much-needed guide for every Python developer using this code library. Instead of a feature-by-feature documentation, this book takes an "essentials" approach that gives you exactly what you need to become productive with SQLAlchemy right away.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rick Copeland is a senior software engineer with retail analytics firm Predictix, LLC, where he uses SQLAlchemy extensively, primarily for web application development. He has been using Python full-time for development since 2005, in projects as diverse as demand forecasting, business web applications, compilers, and hardware synthesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21710'),
(16799, 'Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe', 'Edgar Allan Poe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe*, by **Edgar Allan Poe**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of Americaâ€™s most popular and influential writers. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpectedâ€”and surprisingly modernâ€”flashes of dark humor and irony.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This anthology offers an exceptionally generous selection of Poeâ€™s short stories. It includes his famed masterpieces, such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter," featuring Poeâ€™s great detective, Dupin; his insightful studies of madness "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"; "The Gold-Bug," his delightful exercise in "code-breaking"; and important but lesser-known tales, such as "Bon-Bon," "The Assignation," and "King Pest." Also included are some of Poeâ€™s most beloved poems, haunting lyrics of love and loss, such as "Annabel Lee," nightmare phantasmagories such as "The Raven," and his grand experiment in translating sound into words, "The Bells."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Benjamin F. Fisher**, Professor of English, University of Mississippi, is a longtime enthusiast of the works of Poe. He has published books, articles, and notes about Poe, and in American, Victorian, and Gothic studies, and serves on editorial boards for several professional journals. He has also been acclaimed for outstanding teaching.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5828'),
(16800, 'Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe', 'Edgar Allan Poe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe*, by **Edgar Allan Poe**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of Americaâ€™s most popular and influential writers. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpectedâ€”and surprisingly modernâ€”flashes of dark humor and irony.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This anthology offers an exceptionally generous selection of Poeâ€™s short stories. It includes his famed masterpieces, such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter," featuring Poeâ€™s great detective, Dupin; his insightful studies of madness "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"; "The Gold-Bug," his delightful exercise in "code-breaking"; and important but lesser-known tales, such as "Bon-Bon," "The Assignation," and "King Pest." Also included are some of Poeâ€™s most beloved poems, haunting lyrics of love and loss, such as "Annabel Lee," nightmare phantasmagories such as "The Raven," and his grand experiment in translating sound into words, "The Bells."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Benjamin F. Fisher**, Professor of English, University of Mississippi, is a longtime enthusiast of the works of Poe. He has published books, articles, and notes about Poe, and in American, Victorian, and Gothic studies, and serves on editorial boards for several professional journals. He has also been acclaimed for outstanding teaching.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11990'),
(16801, 'Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe', 'Edgar Allan Poe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe*, by **Edgar Allan Poe**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of Americaâ€™s most popular and influential writers. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpectedâ€”and surprisingly modernâ€”flashes of dark humor and irony. This anthology offers an exceptionally generous selection of Poeâ€™s short stories. It includes his famed masterpieces, such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter," featuring Poeâ€™s great detective, Dupin; his insightful studies of madness "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"; "The Gold-Bug," his delightful exercise in "code-breaking"; and important but lesser-known tales, such as "Bon-Bon," "The Assignation," and "King Pest." Also included are some of Poeâ€™s most beloved poems, haunting lyrics of love and loss, such as "Annabel Lee," nightmare phantasmagories such as "The Raven," and his grand experiment in translating sound into words, "The Bells." **Benjamin F. Fisher**, Professor of English, University of Mississippi, is a longtime enthusiast of the works of Poe. He has published books, articles, and notes about Poe, and in American, Victorian, and Gothic studies, and serves on editorial boards for several professional journals. He has also been acclaimed for outstanding teaching.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13987'),
(16802, 'Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe', 'Edgar Allan Poe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe*, by **Edgar Allan Poe**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of Americaâ€™s most popular and influential writers. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpectedâ€”and surprisingly modernâ€”flashes of dark humor and irony. This anthology offers an exceptionally generous selection of Poeâ€™s short stories. It includes his famed masterpieces, such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter," featuring Poeâ€™s great detective, Dupin; his insightful studies of madness "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"; "The Gold-Bug," his delightful exercise in "code-breaking"; and important but lesser-known tales, such as "Bon-Bon," "The Assignation," and "King Pest." Also included are some of Poeâ€™s most beloved poems, haunting lyrics of love and loss, such as "Annabel Lee," nightmare phantasmagories such as "The Raven," and his grand experiment in translating sound into words, "The Bells." **Benjamin F. Fisher**, Professor of English, University of Mississippi, is a longtime enthusiast of the works of Poe. He has published books, articles, and notes about Poe, and in American, Victorian, and Gothic studies, and serves on editorial boards for several professional journals. He has also been acclaimed for outstanding teaching.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18777'),
(16803, 'Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe', 'Edgar Allan Poe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe*, by **Edgar Allan Poe**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of Americaâ€™s most popular and influential writers. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpectedâ€”and surprisingly modernâ€”flashes of dark humor and irony. This anthology offers an exceptionally generous selection of Poeâ€™s short stories. It includes his famed masterpieces, such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter," featuring Poeâ€™s great detective, Dupin; his insightful studies of madness "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"; "The Gold-Bug," his delightful exercise in "code-breaking"; and important but lesser-known tales, such as "Bon-Bon," "The Assignation," and "King Pest." Also included are some of Poeâ€™s most beloved poems, haunting lyrics of love and loss, such as "Annabel Lee," nightmare phantasmagories such as "The Raven," and his grand experiment in translating sound into words, "The Bells." **Benjamin F. Fisher**, Professor of English, University of Mississippi, is a longtime enthusiast of the works of Poe. He has published books, articles, and notes about Poe, and in American, Victorian, and Gothic studies, and serves on editorial boards for several professional journals. He has also been acclaimed for outstanding teaching.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27614'),
(16804, 'The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson', 'Ralph Waldo Emerson &amp; Brooks Atkinson &amp; Mary Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The definitive collection of Emerson''s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life''s work of a true "American Scholar."As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one''s own perceptions." More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American. Matthew Arnold called Emerson''s essays "the most important work done in prose."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1906'),
(16805, 'The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson', 'Ralph Waldo Emerson &amp; Brooks Atkinson &amp; Mary Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The definitive collection of Emerson''s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life''s work of a true "American Scholar."As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one''s own perceptions." More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American. Matthew Arnold called Emerson''s essays "the most important work done in prose."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9657'),
(16806, 'The essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson', 'Ralph Waldo Emerson; Brooks Atkinson; Mary Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The definitive collection of Emerson''s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life''s work of a true "American Scholar."As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one''s own perceptions." More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American. Matthew Arnold called Emerson''s essays "the most important work done in prose."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26140'),
(16807, 'Eternal Hunger', 'Cameron Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n HEâ€™LL GIVE HER A NIGHT SHE WILL NEVER FORGET.A vampire killer with a Las Vegas beat, Candace Steele has risked everything to vanquish the forces of darknessâ€“and to resist her own passionate desire for Ash, a dark and seductive vampire. But suddenly the stakes are raised. Candace has been attacked by a member of the Board, an ancient, powerful, and secret vampire sect with a vendetta against Ash. Now the only way she can save her life is to give herself to Ashâ€“body and soulâ€“and become a vampire.Lusting for blood and starving for Ashâ€™s embrace, Candace is pulled deeper and deeper into his world. She no longer trusts his promise that she will not have to remain a vampire forever. And as the hunger threatens to overwhelm her, it may be too late for her to leave the darkness behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7004'),
(16808, 'Eternal Hunger', 'Cameron Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: HEâ€™LL GIVE HER A NIGHT SHE WILL NEVER FORGET.A vampire killer with a Las Vegas beat, Candace Steele has risked everything to vanquish the forces of darknessâ€“and to resist her own passionate desire for Ash, a dark and seductive vampire. But suddenly the stakes are raised. Candace has been attacked by a member of the Board, an ancient, powerful, and secret vampire sect with a vendetta against Ash. Now the only way she can save her life is to give herself to Ashâ€“body and soulâ€“and become a vampire.Lusting for blood and starving for Ashâ€™s embrace, Candace is pulled deeper and deeper into his world. She no longer trusts his promise that she will not have to remain a vampire forever. And as the hunger threatens to overwhelm her, it may be too late for her to leave the darkness behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16904');
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(16809, 'Eternal Hunger', 'Cameron Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: HEâ€™LL GIVE HER A NIGHT SHE WILL NEVER FORGET.A vampire killer with a Las Vegas beat, Candace Steele has risked everything to vanquish the forces of darknessâ€“and to resist her own passionate desire for Ash, a dark and seductive vampire. But suddenly the stakes are raised. Candace has been attacked by a member of the Board, an ancient, powerful, and secret vampire sect with a vendetta against Ash. Now the only way she can save her life is to give herself to Ashâ€“body and soulâ€“and become a vampire.Lusting for blood and starving for Ashâ€™s embrace, Candace is pulled deeper and deeper into his world. She no longer trusts his promise that she will not have to remain a vampire forever. And as the hunger threatens to overwhelm her, it may be too late for her to leave the darkness behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26718'),
(16810, 'The Eternal Husband and Other Stories', 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky &amp; Larissa Volokhonsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevskyâ€™s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevskyâ€™s genius. The centerpiece of this collection, the short novel The Eternal Husband, describes the almost surreal meeting of a cuckolded widower and his dead wifeâ€™s lover. Dostoevskyâ€™s dark brilliance and satiric vision infuse the other four tales with all-too-human characters, including a government official who shows up uninvited at an underlingâ€™s wedding to prove his humanity; a self-deceiving narrator who struggles futilely to understand his wifeâ€™s suicide; and a hack writer who attends a funeral and ends up talking with the dead.The Eternal Husband and Other Stories is sterling Dostoevskyâ€”a collection of emotional power and uncompromising insight into the human condition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9392'),
(16811, 'Eternal Journey', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After shooting an episode of Chasing History''s Monsters at a dig in Australia, Annja Creed is left feeling mildly unimpressed. The artifacts being uncovered are considered fringe by experts who doubt their authenticity. Annja is disappointed by the general lack of mystery involved. But her boredom is quickly replaced with fear when all that''s left of her cameraman is a drop of blood on his hotel-room carpet.As she looks for her friend, Annja narrowly escapes an attack by gunmen. She realizes her cameraman must have captured the image of something so valuable that someone would kill them for just having dared look at it. When it becomes clear that everyone on the dig is at risk, Annja begins to think they''re in danger not because of what they saw, but whoâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7850'),
(16812, 'Eternal Journey', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After shooting an episode of Chasing History''s Monsters at a dig in Australia, Annja Creed is left feeling mildly unimpressed. The artifacts being uncovered are considered fringe by experts who doubt their authenticity. Annja is disappointed by the general lack of mystery involved. But her boredom is quickly replaced with fear when all that''s left of her cameraman is a drop of blood on his hotel-room carpet.As she looks for her friend, Annja narrowly escapes an attack by gunmen. She realizes her cameraman must have captured the image of something so valuable that someone would kill them for just having dared look at it. When it becomes clear that everyone on the dig is at risk, Annja begins to think they''re in danger not because of what they saw, but whoâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16138'),
(16813, 'Eternal Journey', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After shooting an episode of Chasing History''s Monsters at a dig in Australia, Annja Creed is left feeling mildly unimpressed. The artifacts being uncovered are considered fringe by experts who doubt their authenticity. Annja is disappointed by the general lack of mystery involved. But her boredom is quickly replaced with fear when all that''s left of her cameraman is a drop of blood on his hotel-room carpet.As she looks for her friend, Annja narrowly escapes an attack by gunmen. She realizes her cameraman must have captured the image of something so valuable that someone would kill them for just having dared look at it. When it becomes clear that everyone on the dig is at risk, Annja begins to think they''re in danger not because of what they saw, but whoâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26276'),
(16814, 'The Eternal Prison', 'Jeff Somers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Avery Cates is a wanted man. After surviving the worst bioengineered disaster in history, Cates finds himself incarcerated - in Chengara Penitentiary. As Chengara has a survival rate of exactly zero, the system''s most famous gunner must do some serious plotting. And a betrayal or so later, he achieves his goal. At a price.All he has to do now is defeat some new personal demons, forge some unlikely alliances, and figure out why the people he''s killed lately just won''t stay dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4542'),
(16815, 'Eternal Rider', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They are here. They ride. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.His name is Ares, and the fate of mankind rests on his powerful shoulders. If he falls to the forces of evil, the world falls too. As one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, he is far stronger than any mortal, but even he cannot fight his destiny forever. Not when his own brother plots against him. Yet there is one last hope. Gifted in a way other humans can''t-or won''t-understand, Cara Thornhart is the key to both this Horseman''s safety and his doom. But involving Cara will prove treacherous, even beyond the maddening, dangerous desire that seizes them the moment they meet. For staving off eternal darkness could have a staggering cost: Cara''s life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3575'),
(16816, 'Eternal Rider', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They are here. They ride. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.His name is Ares, and the fate of mankind rests on his powerful shoulders. If he falls to the forces of evil, the world falls too. As one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, he is far stronger than any mortal, but even he cannot fight his destiny forever. Not when his own brother plots against him. Yet there is one last hope. Gifted in a way other humans can''t-or won''t-understand, Cara Thornhart is the key to both this Horseman''s safety and his doom. But involving Cara will prove treacherous, even beyond the maddening, dangerous desire that seizes them the moment they meet. For staving off eternal darkness could have a staggering cost: Cara''s life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10441'),
(16817, 'Eternal Rider', 'Larissa Ione', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They are here. They ride. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.His name is Ares, and the fate of mankind rests on his powerful shoulders. If he falls to the forces of evil, the world falls too. As one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, he is far stronger than any mortal, but even he cannot fight his destiny forever. Not when his own brother plots against him. Yet there is one last hope. Gifted in a way other humans can''t-or won''t-understand, Cara Thornhart is the key to both this Horseman''s safety and his doom. But involving Cara will prove treacherous, even beyond the maddening, dangerous desire that seizes them the moment they meet. For staving off eternal darkness could have a staggering cost: Cara''s life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20886'),
(16818, 'Eternally Yours', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Friendsâ€¦\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Attorney Syneda Walters and fellow attorney Clayton Madaris are just friendsâ€¦the last two people likely to end up as lovers. Syneda holds all men at arm''s length because of the father whose name she never knew. Clayton has always been a playboy, and no woman has ever come close to keeping his interest for very long.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   or Lovers?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Things suddenly heat up between them when Syneda impulsively accepts Clayton''s invitation to join him for a Florida vacation, and is shocked by how much passion she feels. To Clayton, Syneda has become a temptation he cannot resistâ€¦and the woman he wants to share the rest of his life with. But getting her to trust again means finding a way to heal old wounds and convincing her, with all his heart, that she will always be eternally his.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Your bed or mine?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton Madaris glanced up from his meal and gazed into the eyes of the woman who''d asked the question. She was beautiful, and her sensuous proposition was something any man would jump at. No hot-blooded male in his right mind would ever think of turning it down.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So why was he contemplating doing just that?\n </p>\n <p>\n  An impassive expression masked his handsome features. His hesitation had nothing to do with the fact that he''d just met her that morning. Like him, she was an attorney attending a convention in D.C. He had come to enough of these conferences to be prepared for the expected. One would be surprised just how many unmarried, as well as married people took advantage of the three-day convention to engage in short, no-strings-attached affairs. In all his thirty-five years, there had never been a time when he''d been hesitant about making love to a willing woman, granted the situation wasn''t a risky one.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So what was wrong with him tonight?\n </p>\n <p>\n  His dinner companion undoubtedly was wondering the same thing and had no plans to stick around and find out. He sensed her agitation with his silence. Her eyes narrowed. "I won''t make the same offer twice," she said quietly. There was a feverish edge to her voice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton nodded slowly, his eyes never leaving her face. He knew her type. She was a woman hungry for physical intimacy. Her eyes had sent him silent, intimate messages all day. There was no doubt in his mind that although he''d just disappointed her by not jumping at her offer, she wouldn''t give up on him. She would make the offer again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His smile was slow. "Sorry. Not tonightâ€¦"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Evidently not happy with his response, she pushed her plate aside and stood, giving him a measured look. "Perhaps another time, then?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton stared up at her before answering. "Perhaps."\n </p>\n <p>\n  After she left he simply sat, quietly eating the rest of his meal and drinking his coffee.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A short while later, after taking care of the dinner bill, he rode up the elevator alone to the fifth floor. During the ride he tried coming to terms with his sudden lack of interest in an affair. It wasn''t like him to turn down any woman''s advances or not make a score or two of his own. It definitely wasn''t his style. Enjoying the opposite sex was something he had been overly fond of doing since his first time with Paula Stone when he''d been sixteen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So what was his problem now?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The huge metal elevator doors swooshed open. Taking a deep breath he stepped out and began walking down the long hallway leading to his room. Opening the door to his suite, he walked into the sitting area, then through open double doors to the large bedroom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He leaned his shoulder against the doorjamb, looking at the king-size bed. No one, especially those who considered him a player of the third degree, would believe he''d actually slept in the huge bed alone. And definitely not by choice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He smiled as he pushed himself away from the door. There''s a first time for everything, he thought, removing his tie and jacket and going into the bathroom. Peeling off the rest of his clothes, he stepped into the shower, dismissing the fact he''d taken a shower just before dinner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since becoming an attorney over ten years ago, he''d discovered his most soothing moments were in the shower while warm water caressed his skin. It was during that time he possessed the ability to blank out any thoughts other than those needing his undivided attention. In the end, whatever plagued his mind was usually put in perspective. At the moment, he needed to think about why he''d just refused an offer of no-strings-attached sex.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Adjusting the water, he picked up the scented soap and lazily lathered himself as he mentally analyzed the situation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For some reason, he was becoming bored with the way his life was going. Somehow he was getting tired of his routine of chasing and bedding women. He twisted his lips in a wry grin. Now that was a laugh, especially since the main reason he had constantly shunned any sort of commitment with a woman was the fear of that very thingâ€”boredom. He was the type of person who found any kind of routine deadly. He''d always been afraid of committing himself to someone only to lose interest with that person and end up feeling trapped.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His thoughts fell on his two older brothers, Justin, the physician, and Dex, the geologist in oil exploration. Both were happily married and neither appeared bored. If anything they seemed to be having the time of their lives with their wives, Lorren and Caitlin. Was it possible he''d been wrong? Was there a woman out there somewhere who could forever excite, stimulate and amuse him?\n </p>\n <p>\n  He shuddered at the way his thoughts were going; shocked that he could even consider such a thing. His credo in life for the longest time had been "The only men who aren''t fools are bachelors." But he couldn''t help wondering why lately he had been subconsciously longing for more than a little black book filled with the names of available women.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the water from the shower pounded his body, he tossed the problem around in his mind, pulling it apart, analyzing and dissecting it. But he still couldn''t come up with any answers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With a groan he turned off the water and grabbed a towel. Stepping out of the shower, he began drying himself off. There were a lot of questions to which he needed answers. And he knew those answers wouldn''t come from taking just one shower. The main problem might be that he had been working too hard lately. Too many court cases and too many late nights spent poring over them. A tired body occasionally filled the mind with foolish thoughts. And what could be more foolish than the notion that he was longing for a steady relationship with a woman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton shook his head to clear his muddled mind. What he needed was to get away for a while. He had some vacation time coming up. And it was time he took it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda Walters looked across her desk at the elegantly groomed woman sitting in front of it. She schooled her expression not to show her irritation and annoyanceâ€”or her pity. Bracing her elbows on the arm of the chair, she leaned forward. "Ms. Armstrong, I hope you''ll reconsider your decision."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "But he has told me he''s sorry about everything and really didn''t mean to hurt me. He''s been under a lot of stress lately. He loves me."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda sighed, letting her well-manicured fingers run agitatedly over the desk surface. She could barely restrain herself from calling the woman all kinds of fool for letting a man abuse her. Yet the woman sat defending a man who evidently got his kicks using her as a punching bag.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rubbing the ache at the back of her neck, Syneda stared beyond the woman and out the window. It was a beautiful day in early May. The midday sun slanted across the sky and reflected off another building. Its golden rays gleamed brilliantly in the blue sky. She watched as a flock of birds flew by and wished she could somehow fly away with them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ms. Walters?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda''s eyes again rested on the woman''s tear-stained face. The bruises hadn''t quite faded and were not adequately concealed with the use of makeup. "Yes?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You just don''t understand."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda allowed her eyes to close for a moment. Then pushing her chair back she rose and sat on the edge of her desk facing the woman. "You''re right, Mrs. Armstrong, I don''t understand," she replied quietly. "I don''t understand several things. First, how can a man who claims he loves a woman physically hurt her the way your husband has repeatedly hurt you? Second, how can a woman who cares anything about herself let him do it and get away with it?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mary Armstrong blew her nose in a well-used napkin. "But he''s my husband," the woman implored, pleading understanding.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda didn''t give her any. "He''s also your abuser. Look, Mrs. Armstrong, you''ve only been in the marriage for three years and he''s doing this to you now. What do you think he''ll be doing to you three more years from now?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He''ll change."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s what you said a few months ago." Syneda gave a disgusted shake of her head. "It''s time for you to make changes. Don''t live under a false conception you''re worth less than you really are. Don''t ever believe you deserve to be beaten. No one deserves that. And please stop thinking you''re nothing without him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  There was a moment of silence in the room. Then the woman spoke. Her voice quavered with indecisiveness. "What do you suggest I do?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As your attorney I suggest the first thing you should do is get some counseling. And I highly recommend that you bring charges against your husband."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Will he be arrested?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s a good possibility."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The woman''s face paled. "What will happen to his practice? He''s an outstanding member of the community."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda let out a huff of breath that was more disgust than anger. "He''s also an abuser. As far as his medical practice is concerned, if I were you I''d let him worry about that."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He loves me, and he''s sorry that he''s hurt me. I can''t let him lose everything. I can''t do that to him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda stood. "Then there''s nothing I can do. We''ll be more than happy to help you, Mrs. Armstrong, when you''re ready to first help yourself. Good day."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda continued to gaze at the closed door after Mrs. Armstrong had left. She let out a deep sigh of frustration. She was not having a good day. To be more specific, it had not been a good week. It had started with the case she''d lost on Monday, and the week had gone downhill from there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She rubbed her forehead, trying to relieve the throbbing at her temples. Even after five years she often wondered about her decision to practice family law. But then, she silently admitted, the profession she had chosen was important to her because she''d always managed to feel she had somehow made a difference in someone''s life; whether it was getting them out of a hellish marriage, taking on their fight for custody rights, or in a case like Mary Armstrong''s, helping them to realize options in life other than one filled with physical abuse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A quick knock sounded at the door. "Come in."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The door opened and her secretary stuck her head inside. "I''m leaving for lunch now. Do you have anything you want ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7125'),
(16819, 'Eternally Yours', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Friendsâ€¦\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Attorney Syneda Walters and fellow attorney Clayton Madaris are just friendsâ€¦the last two people likely to end up as lovers. Syneda holds all men at arm''s length because of the father whose name she never knew. Clayton has always been a playboy, and no woman has ever come close to keeping his interest for very long.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   or Lovers?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Things suddenly heat up between them when Syneda impulsively accepts Clayton''s invitation to join him for a Florida vacation, and is shocked by how much passion she feels. To Clayton, Syneda has become a temptation he cannot resistâ€¦and the woman he wants to share the rest of his life with. But getting her to trust again means finding a way to heal old wounds and convincing her, with all his heart, that she will always be eternally his.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Your bed or mine?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton Madaris glanced up from his meal and gazed into the eyes of the woman who''d asked the question. She was beautiful, and her sensuous proposition was something any man would jump at. No hot-blooded male in his right mind would ever think of turning it down.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So why was he contemplating doing just that?\n </p>\n <p>\n  An impassive expression masked his handsome features. His hesitation had nothing to do with the fact that he''d just met her that morning. Like him, she was an attorney attending a convention in D.C. He had come to enough of these conferences to be prepared for the expected. One would be surprised just how many unmarried, as well as married people took advantage of the three-day convention to engage in short, no-strings-attached affairs. In all his thirty-five years, there had never been a time when he''d been hesitant about making love to a willing woman, granted the situation wasn''t a risky one.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So what was wrong with him tonight?\n </p>\n <p>\n  His dinner companion undoubtedly was wondering the same thing and had no plans to stick around and find out. He sensed her agitation with his silence. Her eyes narrowed. "I won''t make the same offer twice," she said quietly. There was a feverish edge to her voice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton nodded slowly, his eyes never leaving her face. He knew her type. She was a woman hungry for physical intimacy. Her eyes had sent him silent, intimate messages all day. There was no doubt in his mind that although he''d just disappointed her by not jumping at her offer, she wouldn''t give up on him. She would make the offer again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His smile was slow. "Sorry. Not tonightâ€¦"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Evidently not happy with his response, she pushed her plate aside and stood, giving him a measured look. "Perhaps another time, then?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton stared up at her before answering. "Perhaps."\n </p>\n <p>\n  After she left he simply sat, quietly eating the rest of his meal and drinking his coffee.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A short while later, after taking care of the dinner bill, he rode up the elevator alone to the fifth floor. During the ride he tried coming to terms with his sudden lack of interest in an affair. It wasn''t like him to turn down any woman''s advances or not make a score or two of his own. It definitely wasn''t his style. Enjoying the opposite sex was something he had been overly fond of doing since his first time with Paula Stone when he''d been sixteen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So what was his problem now?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The huge metal elevator doors swooshed open. Taking a deep breath he stepped out and began walking down the long hallway leading to his room. Opening the door to his suite, he walked into the sitting area, then through open double doors to the large bedroom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He leaned his shoulder against the doorjamb, looking at the king-size bed. No one, especially those who considered him a player of the third degree, would believe he''d actually slept in the huge bed alone. And definitely not by choice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He smiled as he pushed himself away from the door. There''s a first time for everything, he thought, removing his tie and jacket and going into the bathroom. Peeling off the rest of his clothes, he stepped into the shower, dismissing the fact he''d taken a shower just before dinner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since becoming an attorney over ten years ago, he''d discovered his most soothing moments were in the shower while warm water caressed his skin. It was during that time he possessed the ability to blank out any thoughts other than those needing his undivided attention. In the end, whatever plagued his mind was usually put in perspective. At the moment, he needed to think about why he''d just refused an offer of no-strings-attached sex.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Adjusting the water, he picked up the scented soap and lazily lathered himself as he mentally analyzed the situation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For some reason, he was becoming bored with the way his life was going. Somehow he was getting tired of his routine of chasing and bedding women. He twisted his lips in a wry grin. Now that was a laugh, especially since the main reason he had constantly shunned any sort of commitment with a woman was the fear of that very thingâ€”boredom. He was the type of person who found any kind of routine deadly. He''d always been afraid of committing himself to someone only to lose interest with that person and end up feeling trapped.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His thoughts fell on his two older brothers, Justin, the physician, and Dex, the geologist in oil exploration. Both were happily married and neither appeared bored. If anything they seemed to be having the time of their lives with their wives, Lorren and Caitlin. Was it possible he''d been wrong? Was there a woman out there somewhere who could forever excite, stimulate and amuse him?\n </p>\n <p>\n  He shuddered at the way his thoughts were going; shocked that he could even consider such a thing. His credo in life for the longest time had been "The only men who aren''t fools are bachelors." But he couldn''t help wondering why lately he had been subconsciously longing for more than a little black book filled with the names of available women.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the water from the shower pounded his body, he tossed the problem around in his mind, pulling it apart, analyzing and dissecting it. But he still couldn''t come up with any answers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With a groan he turned off the water and grabbed a towel. Stepping out of the shower, he began drying himself off. There were a lot of questions to which he needed answers. And he knew those answers wouldn''t come from taking just one shower. The main problem might be that he had been working too hard lately. Too many court cases and too many late nights spent poring over them. A tired body occasionally filled the mind with foolish thoughts. And what could be more foolish than the notion that he was longing for a steady relationship with a woman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton shook his head to clear his muddled mind. What he needed was to get away for a while. He had some vacation time coming up. And it was time he took it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda Walters looked across her desk at the elegantly groomed woman sitting in front of it. She schooled her expression not to show her irritation and annoyanceâ€”or her pity. Bracing her elbows on the arm of the chair, she leaned forward. "Ms. Armstrong, I hope you''ll reconsider your decision."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "But he has told me he''s sorry about everything and really didn''t mean to hurt me. He''s been under a lot of stress lately. He loves me."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda sighed, letting her well-manicured fingers run agitatedly over the desk surface. She could barely restrain herself from calling the woman all kinds of fool for letting a man abuse her. Yet the woman sat defending a man who evidently got his kicks using her as a punching bag.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rubbing the ache at the back of her neck, Syneda stared beyond the woman and out the window. It was a beautiful day in early May. The midday sun slanted across the sky and reflected off another building. Its golden rays gleamed brilliantly in the blue sky. She watched as a flock of birds flew by and wished she could somehow fly away with them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ms. Walters?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda''s eyes again rested on the woman''s tear-stained face. The bruises hadn''t quite faded and were not adequately concealed with the use of makeup. "Yes?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You just don''t understand."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda allowed her eyes to close for a moment. Then pushing her chair back she rose and sat on the edge of her desk facing the woman. "You''re right, Mrs. Armstrong, I don''t understand," she replied quietly. "I don''t understand several things. First, how can a man who claims he loves a woman physically hurt her the way your husband has repeatedly hurt you? Second, how can a woman who cares anything about herself let him do it and get away with it?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mary Armstrong blew her nose in a well-used napkin. "But he''s my husband," the woman implored, pleading understanding.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda didn''t give her any. "He''s also your abuser. Look, Mrs. Armstrong, you''ve only been in the marriage for three years and he''s doing this to you now. What do you think he''ll be doing to you three more years from now?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He''ll change."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s what you said a few months ago." Syneda gave a disgusted shake of her head. "It''s time for you to make changes. Don''t live under a false conception you''re worth less than you really are. Don''t ever believe you deserve to be beaten. No one deserves that. And please stop thinking you''re nothing without him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  There was a moment of silence in the room. Then the woman spoke. Her voice quavered with indecisiveness. "What do you suggest I do?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As your attorney I suggest the first thing you should do is get some counseling. And I highly recommend that you bring charges against your husband."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Will he be arrested?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s a good possibility."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The woman''s face paled. "What will happen to his practice? He''s an outstanding member of the community."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda let out a huff of breath that was more disgust than anger. "He''s also an abuser. As far as his medical practice is concerned, if I were you I''d let him worry about that."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He loves me, and he''s sorry that he''s hurt me. I can''t let him lose everything. I can''t do that to him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda stood. "Then there''s nothing I can do. We''ll be more than happy to help you, Mrs. Armstrong, when you''re ready to first help yourself. Good day."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda continued to gaze at the closed door after Mrs. Armstrong had left. She let out a deep sigh of frustration. She was not having a good day. To be more specific, it had not been a good week. It had started with the case she''d lost on Monday, and the week had gone downhill from there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She rubbed her forehead, trying to relieve the throbbing at her temples. Even after five years she often wondered about her decision to practice family law. But then, she silently admitted, the profession she had chosen was important to her because she''d always managed to feel she had somehow made a difference in someone''s life; whether it was getting them out of a hellish marriage, taking on their fight for custody rights, or in a case like Mary Armstrong''s, helping them to realize options in life other than one filled with physical abuse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A quick knock sounded at the door. "Come in."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The door opened and her secretary stuck her head inside. "I''m leaving for lunch now. Do you have anything you want ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10535'),
(16820, 'Eternally Yours', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Friends...\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Attorney Syneda Walters and fellow attorney Clayton Madaris are just friends...the last two people likely to end up as lovers. Syneda holds all men at arm''s length because of the father whose name she never knew. Clayton has always been a playboy, and no woman has ever come close to keeping his interest for very long.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   or Lovers?\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Things suddenly heat up between them when Syneda impulsively accepts Clayton''s invitation to join him for a Florida vacation, and is shocked by how much passion she feels. To Clayton, Syneda has become a temptation he cannot resist...and the woman he wants to share the rest of his life with. But getting her to trust again means finding a way to heal old wounds and convincing her, with all his heart, that she will always be eternally his.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Your bed or mine?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton Madaris glanced up from his meal and gazed into the eyes of the woman who''d asked the question. She was beautiful, and her sensuous proposition was something any man would jump at. No hot-blooded male in his right mind would ever think of turning it down.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So why was he contemplating doing just that?\n </p>\n <p>\n  An impassive expression masked his handsome features. His hesitation had nothing to do with the fact that he''d just met her that morning. Like him, she was an attorney attending a convention in D.C. He had come to enough of these conferences to be prepared for the expected. One would be surprised just how many unmarried, as well as married people took advantage of the three-day convention to engage in short, no-strings-attached affairs. In all his thirty-five years, there had never been a time when he''d been hesitant about making love to a willing woman, granted the situation wasn''t a risky one.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So what was wrong with him tonight?\n </p>\n <p>\n  His dinner companion undoubtedly was wondering the same thing and had no plans to stick around and find out. He sensed her agitation with his silence. Her eyes narrowed. "I won''t make the same offer twice," she said quietly. There was a feverish edge to her voice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton nodded slowly, his eyes never leaving her face. He knew her type. She was a woman hungry for physical intimacy. Her eyes had sent him silent, intimate messages all day. There was no doubt in his mind that although he''d just disappointed her by not jumping at her offer, she wouldn''t give up on him. She would make the offer again.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His smile was slow. "Sorry. Not tonight..."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Evidently not happy with his response, she pushed her plate aside and stood, giving him a measured look. "Perhaps another time, then?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton stared up at her before answering. "Perhaps."\n </p>\n <p>\n  After she left he simply sat, quietly eating the rest of his meal and drinking his coffee.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A short while later, after taking care of the dinner bill, he rode up the elevator alone to the fifth floor. During the ride he tried coming to terms with his sudden lack of interest in an affair. It wasn''t like him to turn down any woman''s advances or not make a score or two of his own. It definitely wasn''t his style. Enjoying the opposite sex was something he had been overly fond of doing since his first time with Paula Stone when he''d been sixteen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  So what was his problem now?\n </p>\n <p>\n  The huge metal elevator doors swooshed open. Taking a deep breath he stepped out and began walking down the long hallway leading to his room. Opening the door to his suite, he walked into the sitting area, then through open double doors to the large bedroom.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He leaned his shoulder against the doorjamb, looking at the king-size bed. No one, especially those who considered him a player of the third degree, would believe he''d actually slept in the huge bed alone. And definitely not by choice.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He smiled as he pushed himself away from the door. There''s a first time for everything, he thought, removing his tie and jacket and going into the bathroom. Peeling off the rest of his clothes, he stepped into the shower, dismissing the fact he''d taken a shower just before dinner.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Since becoming an attorney over ten years ago, he''d discovered his most soothing moments were in the shower while warm water caressed his skin. It was during that time he possessed the ability to blank out any thoughts other than those needing his undivided attention. In the end, whatever plagued his mind was usually put in perspective. At the moment, he needed to think about why he''d just refused an offer of no-strings-attached sex.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Adjusting the water, he picked up the scented soap and lazily lathered himself as he mentally analyzed the situation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For some reason, he was becoming bored with the way his life was going. Somehow he was getting tired of his routine of chasing and bedding women. He twisted his lips in a wry grin. Now that was a laugh, especially since the main reason he had constantly shunned any sort of commitment with a woman was the fear of that very thingâ€”boredom. He was the type of person who found any kind of routine deadly. He''d always been afraid of committing himself to someone only to lose interest with that person and end up feeling trapped.\n </p>\n <p>\n  His thoughts fell on his two older brothers, Justin, the physician, and Dex, the geologist in oil exploration. Both were happily married and neither appeared bored. If anything they seemed to be having the time of their lives with their wives, Lorren and Caitlin. Was it possible he''d been wrong? Was there a woman out there somewhere who could forever excite, stimulate and amuse him?\n </p>\n <p>\n  He shuddered at the way his thoughts were going; shocked that he could even consider such a thing. His credo in life for the longest time had been "The only men who aren''t fools are bachelors." But he couldn''t help wondering why lately he had been subconsciously longing for more than a little black book filled with the names of available women.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the water from the shower pounded his body, he tossed the problem around in his mind, pulling it apart, analyzing and dissecting it. But he still couldn''t come up with any answers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With a groan he turned off the water and grabbed a towel. Stepping out of the shower, he began drying himself off. There were a lot of questions to which he needed answers. And he knew those answers wouldn''t come from taking just one shower. The main problem might be that he had been working too hard lately. Too many court cases and too many late nights spent poring over them. A tired body occasionally filled the mind with foolish thoughts. And what could be more foolish than the notion that he was longing for a steady relationship with a woman?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Clayton shook his head to clear his muddled mind. What he needed was to get away for a while. He had some vacation time coming up. And it was time he took it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda Walters looked across her desk at the elegantly groomed woman sitting in front of it. She schooled her expression not to show her irritation and annoyanceâ€”or her pity. Bracing her elbows on the arm of the chair, she leaned forward. "Ms. Armstrong, I hope you''ll reconsider your decision."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "But he has told me he''s sorry about everything and really didn''t mean to hurt me. He''s been under a lot of stress lately. He loves me."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda sighed, letting her well-manicured fingers run agitatedly over the desk surface. She could barely restrain herself from calling the woman all kinds of fool for letting a man abuse her. Yet the woman sat defending a man who evidently got his kicks using her as a punching bag.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Rubbing the ache at the back of her neck, Syneda stared beyond the woman and out the window. It was a beautiful day in early May. The midday sun slanted across the sky and reflected off another building. Its golden rays gleamed brilliantly in the blue sky. She watched as a flock of birds flew by and wished she could somehow fly away with them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ms. Walters?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda''s eyes again rested on the woman''s tear-stained face. The bruises hadn''t quite faded and were not adequately concealed with the use of makeup. "Yes?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You just don''t understand."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda allowed her eyes to close for a moment. Then pushing her chair back she rose and sat on the edge of her desk facing the woman. "You''re right, Mrs. Armstrong, I don''t understand," she replied quietly. "I don''t understand several things. First, how can a man who claims he loves a woman physically hurt her the way your husband has repeatedly hurt you? Second, how can a woman who cares anything about herself let him do it and get away with it?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mary Armstrong blew her nose in a well-used napkin. "But he''s my husband," the woman implored, pleading understanding.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda didn''t give her any. "He''s also your abuser. Look, Mrs. Armstrong, you''ve only been in the marriage for three years and he''s doing this to you now. What do you think he''ll be doing to you three more years from now?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He''ll change."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s what you said a few months ago." Syneda gave a disgusted shake of her head. "It''s time for you to make changes. Don''t live under a false conception you''re worth less than you really are. Don''t ever believe you deserve to be beaten. No one deserves that. And please stop thinking you''re nothing without him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  There was a moment of silence in the room. Then the woman spoke. Her voice quavered with indecisiveness. "What do you suggest I do?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "As your attorney I suggest the first thing you should do is get some counseling. And I highly recommend that you bring charges against your husband."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Will he be arrested?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s a good possibility."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The woman''s face paled. "What will happen to his practice? He''s an outstanding member of the community."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda let out a huff of breath that was more disgust than anger. "He''s also an abuser. As far as his medical practice is concerned, if I were you I''d let him worry about that."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He loves me, and he''s sorry that he''s hurt me. I can''t let him lose everything. I can''t do that to him."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda stood. "Then there''s nothing I can do. We''ll be more than happy to help you, Mrs. Armstrong, when you''re ready to first help yourself. Good day."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Syneda continued to gaze at the closed door after Mrs. Armstrong had left. She let out a deep sigh of frustration. She was not having a good day. To be more specific, it had not been a good week. It had started with the case she''d lost on Monday, and the week had gone downhill from there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  She rubbed her forehead, trying to relieve the throbbing at her temples. Even after five years she often wondered about her decision to practice family law. But then, she silently admitted, the profession she had chosen was important to her because she''d always managed to feel she had somehow made a difference in someone''s life; whether it was getting them out of a hellish marriage, taking on their fight for custody rights, or in a case like Mary Armstrong''s, helping them to realize options in life other than one filled with physical abuse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A quick knock sounded at the door. "Come in."\n </p>\n <p>\n  The door opened and her secretary stuck her head inside. "I''m leaving for lunch now. Do you have anything you want ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16720'),
(16821, 'Eternity in Death', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, puts futuristic lieutenant Eve Dallas in a supernatural showdown with a most seductive criminal: a vampire. An ancient coin whisks an American woman and a modern-day earl into the past-and into each other''s arms-in a stirring tale from Mary Blayney. When a city girl visits a Scottish castle in Ruth Ryan Langan''s story, she is thrust into a timeless romance with a mighty Highland laird. And Mary Kay McComas gives an unhappy wife a magic-carpet ride into an alternate reality to show her the grass isn''t always greener.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2475'),
(16822, 'Eternity in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, puts futuristic lieutenant Eve Dallas in a supernatural showdown with a most seductive criminal: a vampire. An ancient coin whisks an American woman and a modern-day earl into the past-and into each other''s arms-in a stirring tale from Mary Blayney. When a city girl visits a Scottish castle in Ruth Ryan Langan''s story, she is thrust into a timeless romance with a mighty Highland laird. And Mary Kay McComas gives an unhappy wife a magic-carpet ride into an alternate reality to show her the grass isn''t always greener.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22290'),
(16823, 'Eternity Road', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Eternity Road\n </em>\n is set 1,000 years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most of humanity. Technological artifacts remain, but the knowledge of what they are and how to use them has been lost by a society that has degenerated into a series of city-states. Legend has it that the Roadmakers left a store of knowledge in a place called Haven, but when an expedition from Memphis sets out to find it, only one person returns. The lone, dishonored survivor eventually kills himself, but his son is determined to try again ...\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a cataclysmic viral plague wiped out humanity sometime in the 21st century, the next civilization arose in isolated pockets. In the Mississippi Valley, Illyrians built their town on what had been the Roadmakers'' Memphis. Some believed in the mythical Haven on the eastern ocean where books and other technological wonders had been saved. When all but one member of an expedition dies trying to find Haven, the leader''s son joins a second party on the long overland trek east. Unfortunately, the book raises more questions than it answers about the knowledge that was lost, leaving the reader unsatisfied. From the author of Ancient Shores (HarperCollins, 1996); a possible candidate to sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4905'),
(16824, 'Eternity Road', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Eternity Road\n </em>\n is set 1,000 years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most of humanity. Technological artifacts remain, but the knowledge of what they are and how to use them has been lost by a society that has degenerated into a series of city-states. Legend has it that the Roadmakers left a store of knowledge in a place called Haven, but when an expedition from Memphis sets out to find it, only one person returns. The lone, dishonored survivor eventually kills himself, but his son is determined to try again ...\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a cataclysmic viral plague wiped out humanity sometime in the 21st century, the next civilization arose in isolated pockets. In the Mississippi Valley, Illyrians built their town on what had been the Roadmakers'' Memphis. Some believed in the mythical Haven on the eastern ocean where books and other technological wonders had been saved. When all but one member of an expedition dies trying to find Haven, the leader''s son joins a second party on the long overland trek east. Unfortunately, the book raises more questions than it answers about the knowledge that was lost, leaving the reader unsatisfied. From the author of Ancient Shores (HarperCollins, 1996); a possible candidate to sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11392');
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(16825, 'Eternity Road', 'Jack McDevitt', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Eternity Road\n </em>\n is set 1,000 years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most of humanity. Technological artifacts remain, but the knowledge of what they are and how to use them has been lost by a society that has degenerated into a series of city-states. Legend has it that the Roadmakers left a store of knowledge in a place called Haven, but when an expedition from Memphis sets out to find it, only one person returns. The lone, dishonored survivor eventually kills himself, but his son is determined to try again ...\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n After a cataclysmic viral plague wiped out humanity sometime in the 21st century, the next civilization arose in isolated pockets. In the Mississippi Valley, Illyrians built their town on what had been the Roadmakers'' Memphis. Some believed in the mythical Haven on the eastern ocean where books and other technological wonders had been saved. When all but one member of an expedition dies trying to find Haven, the leader''s son joins a second party on the long overland trek east. Unfortunately, the book raises more questions than it answers about the knowledge that was lost, leaving the reader unsatisfied. From the author of Ancient Shores (HarperCollins, 1996); a possible candidate to sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19807'),
(16826, 'Ethan Frome &amp; Selected Stories', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5843'),
(16827, 'Ethan Frome &amp; Selected Stories', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13344'),
(16828, 'Ethan Frome &amp; Selected Stories', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13966'),
(16829, 'Ethan Frome &amp; Selected Stories', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18769'),
(16830, 'Ethan Frome &amp; Selected Stories', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27604'),
(16831, 'Ethan of Athos', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dr. Ethan Urquhart, an obstetrician on a planet forbidden to women, is Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Center and one of the busiest men on the planet Athos. Then a mysterious genetic crisis threatens Athos with extinction. Drafted to brave the wider universe for his cloistered fellows in quest of new ovarian tissue cultures, Ethan braces himself for his first encounter with those most alien of aliens--females of his own species.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20037'),
(16832, 'Ether Breather', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22921'),
(16833, 'The Ethical Assassin: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Liss (_A Conspiracy of Paper_) recycles familiar conventionsâ€”drug dealers, missing money, an innocent hero mixed up with bad guysâ€”but salvages his novel from banality with a few quirky touches. In sticky south Florida of August 1985, Lem Altick, a 17-year-old door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, witnesses the murder of two potential customers in a mobile home. Fearing he''ll be fingered for the crimeâ€”or worse, that he''s nextâ€”Lem establishes a wary relationship with the likable killer, Melford Kean, who is either a violent psychopath or an animal rights vigilante fighting agribusiness. Lem must also watch out for Jim Doe, the corrupt, redneck police chief who saw Lem at the trailer on the night of the crimes. Lem''s paranoia heightens when he learns of Doe''s connection to his employers at the encyclopedia sales company, which turns out to be a front. While Lem repeatedly skitters away from danger as he gathers clues that reveal a web of corruption, he finds time to fall for fellow bookseller Chitra and to undergo a political awakening under Melford''s tutelage. Liss provides enough entertainment to keep the pages turning, but this hybrid of a thriller and a coming-of-age story doesn''t quite succeed as either.\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Readers expecting another historical thriller from Liss in the manner of\n  <em>\n   A Conspiracy of Paper\n  </em>\n  (2000) and\n  <em>\n   The Coffee Trader\n  </em>\n  (2003) are in for quite a surprise. Moving from Arturo Perez-Reverte territory to the very different world of Carl Hiaasen, Liss delivers a contemporary ecoterrorist romp shot through with elements of the absurd. It begins with a 17-year-old Jewish encyclopedia salesman working door to door in a South Florida trailer park (Is the absurdist angle apparent yet?). Lem Altick is saving money for college by tricking poor people into buying supermarket encyclopedias, but he gets more than he bargained for when an assassin with "Warholishy" hair saunters into a trailer where Lem is about to close a deal and efficiently kills the two would-be encyclopedia readers and then engages Lem in a chat about his favorite Shakespeare play (Lem is partial to\n  <em>\n   Twelfth Night\n  </em>\n  ). It only gets weirder from there, as Lem finds himself a sort of comrade-in-arms with the ethical assassin, whose real purpose seems to be raising havoc with some distinctly unethical pig farmers. There''s also a sicko small-town sheriff lurking in the wings, having apparently wandered into the action straight out of Jim Thompson''s\n  <em>\n   Pop. 1280\n  </em>\n  . The jump from financial chicanery in seventeenth-century London to redneck craziness, South Florida style, seems daunting, but Liss sails across the abyss unscathed. Be careful to whom you recommend this: the Perez-Reverte crowd may not be amused, but Hiaasen''s homeboys will feel right at home down in the muck with a gang of evildoing pig farmers.\n  <em>\n   Bill Ott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6163'),
(16834, 'The Ethical Assassin: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Liss (_A Conspiracy of Paper_) recycles familiar conventionsâ€”drug dealers, missing money, an innocent hero mixed up with bad guysâ€”but salvages his novel from banality with a few quirky touches. In sticky south Florida of August 1985, Lem Altick, a 17-year-old door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, witnesses the murder of two potential customers in a mobile home. Fearing he''ll be fingered for the crimeâ€”or worse, that he''s nextâ€”Lem establishes a wary relationship with the likable killer, Melford Kean, who is either a violent psychopath or an animal rights vigilante fighting agribusiness. Lem must also watch out for Jim Doe, the corrupt, redneck police chief who saw Lem at the trailer on the night of the crimes. Lem''s paranoia heightens when he learns of Doe''s connection to his employers at the encyclopedia sales company, which turns out to be a front. While Lem repeatedly skitters away from danger as he gathers clues that reveal a web of corruption, he finds time to fall for fellow bookseller Chitra and to undergo a political awakening under Melford''s tutelage. Liss provides enough entertainment to keep the pages turning, but this hybrid of a thriller and a coming-of-age story doesn''t quite succeed as either.\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Readers expecting another historical thriller from Liss in the manner of\n  <em>\n   A Conspiracy of Paper\n  </em>\n  (2000) and\n  <em>\n   The Coffee Trader\n  </em>\n  (2003) are in for quite a surprise. Moving from Arturo Perez-Reverte territory to the very different world of Carl Hiaasen, Liss delivers a contemporary ecoterrorist romp shot through with elements of the absurd. It begins with a 17-year-old Jewish encyclopedia salesman working door to door in a South Florida trailer park (Is the absurdist angle apparent yet?). Lem Altick is saving money for college by tricking poor people into buying supermarket encyclopedias, but he gets more than he bargained for when an assassin with "Warholishy" hair saunters into a trailer where Lem is about to close a deal and efficiently kills the two would-be encyclopedia readers and then engages Lem in a chat about his favorite Shakespeare play (Lem is partial to\n  <em>\n   Twelfth Night\n  </em>\n  ). It only gets weirder from there, as Lem finds himself a sort of comrade-in-arms with the ethical assassin, whose real purpose seems to be raising havoc with some distinctly unethical pig farmers. There''s also a sicko small-town sheriff lurking in the wings, having apparently wandered into the action straight out of Jim Thompson''s\n  <em>\n   Pop. 1280\n  </em>\n  . The jump from financial chicanery in seventeenth-century London to redneck craziness, South Florida style, seems daunting, but Liss sails across the abyss unscathed. Be careful to whom you recommend this: the Perez-Reverte crowd may not be amused, but Hiaasen''s homeboys will feel right at home down in the muck with a gang of evildoing pig farmers.\n  <em>\n   Bill Ott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11169'),
(16835, 'The Ethical Assassin: A Novel', 'David Liss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Liss (_A Conspiracy of Paper_) recycles familiar conventionsâ€”drug dealers, missing money, an innocent hero mixed up with bad guysâ€”but salvages his novel from banality with a few quirky touches. In sticky south Florida of August 1985, Lem Altick, a 17-year-old door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, witnesses the murder of two potential customers in a mobile home. Fearing he''ll be fingered for the crimeâ€”or worse, that he''s nextâ€”Lem establishes a wary relationship with the likable killer, Melford Kean, who is either a violent psychopath or an animal rights vigilante fighting agribusiness. Lem must also watch out for Jim Doe, the corrupt, redneck police chief who saw Lem at the trailer on the night of the crimes. Lem''s paranoia heightens when he learns of Doe''s connection to his employers at the encyclopedia sales company, which turns out to be a front. While Lem repeatedly skitters away from danger as he gathers clues that reveal a web of corruption, he finds time to fall for fellow bookseller Chitra and to undergo a political awakening under Melford''s tutelage. Liss provides enough entertainment to keep the pages turning, but this hybrid of a thriller and a coming-of-age story doesn''t quite succeed as either.\n  <em>\n   (Mar.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Readers expecting another historical thriller from Liss in the manner of\n  <em>\n   A Conspiracy of Paper\n  </em>\n  (2000) and\n  <em>\n   The Coffee Trader\n  </em>\n  (2003) are in for quite a surprise. Moving from Arturo Perez-Reverte territory to the very different world of Carl Hiaasen, Liss delivers a contemporary ecoterrorist romp shot through with elements of the absurd. It begins with a 17-year-old Jewish encyclopedia salesman working door to door in a South Florida trailer park (Is the absurdist angle apparent yet?). Lem Altick is saving money for college by tricking poor people into buying supermarket encyclopedias, but he gets more than he bargained for when an assassin with "Warholishy" hair saunters into a trailer where Lem is about to close a deal and efficiently kills the two would-be encyclopedia readers and then engages Lem in a chat about his favorite Shakespeare play (Lem is partial to\n  <em>\n   Twelfth Night\n  </em>\n  ). It only gets weirder from there, as Lem finds himself a sort of comrade-in-arms with the ethical assassin, whose real purpose seems to be raising havoc with some distinctly unethical pig farmers. There''s also a sicko small-town sheriff lurking in the wings, having apparently wandered into the action straight out of Jim Thompson''s\n  <em>\n   Pop. 1280\n  </em>\n  . The jump from financial chicanery in seventeenth-century London to redneck craziness, South Florida style, seems daunting, but Liss sails across the abyss unscathed. Be careful to whom you recommend this: the Perez-Reverte crowd may not be amused, but Hiaasen''s homeboys will feel right at home down in the muck with a gang of evildoing pig farmers.\n  <em>\n   Bill Ott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17817'),
(16836, 'The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities', 'Dossie Easton; Catherine A. Liszt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In this funny, comforting yet controversial how-to volume, family therapist Dossie Easton and sex educator/writer Catherine A. Liszt provide a road map for exploring the sometimes difficult, often rewarding territory of non-traditional relationships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18640'),
(16837, 'The ethical slut: a guide to infinite sexual possibilities', 'Dossie Easton &amp; Catherine A. Liszt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this funny, comforting yet controversial how-to volume, family therapist Dossie Easton and sex educator/writer Catherine A. Liszt provide a road map for exploring the sometimes difficult, often rewarding territory of non-traditional relationships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27607'),
(16838, 'Etruscul', 'Mika Waltari', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25327'),
(16839, 'Etta', 'Gerald Kolpan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Beautiful, elusive, and refined, Etta Place captivated the nation at the turn of the last century as she dodged the law with the Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Her true identity and fate have remained a mystery that has tantalized historians for decades. Now, for the first time, Gerald Kolpan envisions this remarkable woman''s life in a stunning debut novel. Kolpan imagines that Etta Place was born Lorinda Jameson, the daughter of a prominent financier, who becomes known as the loveliest of the city''s debutantes when she makes her entrance into Philadelphia society. Though her position in life is already assured, her true calling is on horseback. She can ride as well as any man and handle a rifle even better. But when a tragedy leads to a dramatic reversal of fortune, Lorinda is left orphaned, penniless, homeless, and pursued by the ruthless Black Hand mafia. Rechristened "Etta Place" to ensure her safety, the young woman travels to the farthest reaches of civilization, working as a "Harvey Girl" waitress in Grand Junction, Colorado. There, fate intervenes once more and she again finds herself on the run from the ruthless Pinkerton Detective Agency. But this time she has company. She soon finds herself at the legendary hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall, Wyoming, where she meets the charismatic Butch Cassidy and the handsome, troubled Harry Longbaugh, a.k.a. the Sundance Kid. Through a series of holdups and heists, Etta and Harry begin an epic and ultimately tragic romance, which will be the greatest of Etta''s life. Then, when Etta meets the young and idealistic Eleanor Roosevelt, her life is changed forever. Blending a compelling love story, high adventure, and thrilling historical drama, Etta is an electrifying novel. With a sweeping 1900s setting, colorful storytelling, and larger-than-life characters, Etta is debut that is both captivating and unforgettable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5447'),
(16840, 'Etta', 'Gerald Kolpan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Beautiful, elusive, and refined, Etta Place captivated the nation at the turn of the last century as she dodged the law with the Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Her true identity and fate have remained a mystery that has tantalized historians for decades. Now, for the first time, Gerald Kolpan envisions this remarkable woman''s life in a stunning debut novel. Kolpan imagines that Etta Place was born Lorinda Jameson, the daughter of a prominent financier, who becomes known as the loveliest of the city''s debutantes when she makes her entrance into Philadelphia society. Though her position in life is already assured, her true calling is on horseback. She can ride as well as any man and handle a rifle even better. But when a tragedy leads to a dramatic reversal of fortune, Lorinda is left orphaned, penniless, homeless, and pursued by the ruthless Black Hand mafia. Rechristened "Etta Place" to ensure her safety, the young woman travels to the farthest reaches of civilization, working as a "Harvey Girl" waitress in Grand Junction, Colorado. There, fate intervenes once more and she again finds herself on the run from the ruthless Pinkerton Detective Agency. But this time she has company. She soon finds herself at the legendary hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall, Wyoming, where she meets the charismatic Butch Cassidy and the handsome, troubled Harry Longbaugh, a.k.a. the Sundance Kid. Through a series of holdups and heists, Etta and Harry begin an epic and ultimately tragic romance, which will be the greatest of Etta''s life. Then, when Etta meets the young and idealistic Eleanor Roosevelt, her life is changed forever. Blending a compelling love story, high adventure, and thrilling historical drama, Etta is an electrifying novel. With a sweeping 1900s setting, colorful storytelling, and larger-than-life characters, Etta is debut that is both captivating and unforgettable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10846'),
(16841, 'Etta', 'Gerald Kolpan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Beautiful, elusive, and refined, Etta Place captivated the nation at the turn of the last century as she dodged the law with the Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Her true identity and fate have remained a mystery that has tantalized historians for decades. Now, for the first time, Gerald Kolpan envisions this remarkable woman''s life in a stunning debut novel. Kolpan imagines that Etta Place was born Lorinda Jameson, the daughter of a prominent financier, who becomes known as the loveliest of the city''s debutantes when she makes her entrance into Philadelphia society. Though her position in life is already assured, her true calling is on horseback. She can ride as well as any man and handle a rifle even better. But when a tragedy leads to a dramatic reversal of fortune, Lorinda is left orphaned, penniless, homeless, and pursued by the ruthless Black Hand mafia. Rechristened "Etta Place" to ensure her safety, the young woman travels to the farthest reaches of civilization, working as a "Harvey Girl" waitress in Grand Junction, Colorado. There, fate intervenes once more and she again finds herself on the run from the ruthless Pinkerton Detective Agency. But this time she has company. She soon finds herself at the legendary hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall, Wyoming, where she meets the charismatic Butch Cassidy and the handsome, troubled Harry Longbaugh, a.k.a. the Sundance Kid. Through a series of holdups and heists, Etta and Harry begin an epic and ultimately tragic romance, which will be the greatest of Etta''s life. Then, when Etta meets the young and idealistic Eleanor Roosevelt, her life is changed forever. Blending a compelling love story, high adventure, and thrilling historical drama, Etta is an electrifying novel. With a sweeping 1900s setting, colorful storytelling, and larger-than-life characters, Etta is debut that is both captivating and unforgettable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19262'),
(16842, 'Etta', 'Gerald Kolpan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Beautiful, elusive, and refined, Etta Place captivated the nation at the turn of the last century as she dodged the law with the Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Her true identity and fate have remained a mystery that has tantalized historians for decades. Now, for the first time, Gerald Kolpan envisions this remarkable woman''s life in a stunning debut novel. Kolpan imagines that Etta Place was born Lorinda Jameson, the daughter of a prominent financier, who becomes known as the loveliest of the city''s debutantes when she makes her entrance into Philadelphia society. Though her position in life is already assured, her true calling is on horseback. She can ride as well as any man and handle a rifle even better. But when a tragedy leads to a dramatic reversal of fortune, Lorinda is left orphaned, penniless, homeless, and pursued by the ruthless Black Hand mafia. Rechristened "Etta Place" to ensure her safety, the young woman travels to the farthest reaches of civilization, working as a "Harvey Girl" waitress in Grand Junction, Colorado. There, fate intervenes once more and she again finds herself on the run from the ruthless Pinkerton Detective Agency. But this time she has company. She soon finds herself at the legendary hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall, Wyoming, where she meets the charismatic Butch Cassidy and the handsome, troubled Harry Longbaugh, a.k.a. the Sundance Kid. Through a series of holdups and heists, Etta and Harry begin an epic and ultimately tragic romance, which will be the greatest of Etta''s life. Then, when Etta meets the young and idealistic Eleanor Roosevelt, her life is changed forever. Blending a compelling love story, high adventure, and thrilling historical drama, Etta is an electrifying novel. With a sweeping 1900s setting, colorful storytelling, and larger-than-life characters, Etta is debut that is both captivating and unforgettable.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27973'),
(16843, 'Eu, robotul', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26113'),
(16844, 'Eugenie Grandet', 'Honore de 1799-1850 Balzac', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18316'),
(16845, 'Eugenie Grandet', 'Honore De Balzac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28231'),
(16846, 'Europe: A History', 'Norman Davies', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the Ice Age to the Cold War and beyond, from Reykjavik to Riga, from Archimedes to Einstein, Alexander to Yeltsin, here between the covers of a single volume Norman Davies tells the story of Europe, East and West, from prehistory to the present day. The book''s absorbing narrative lays down the chronological and geographical grid on which the dramas of European history have been played out. It zooms in from the distant focus of Chapter One, which explores the first five million years of the continent''s evolution, to the close focus of the lasttwo chapters, which cover the twentieth century at roughly one page per year. In between, Norman Davies presents a huge and sweeping canvas packed with fascinating detail, analysis, and anecdote. Alongside Europe''s better-known stories - human, national, and continental - he brings into focus areasoften ignored or misunderstood, remembering the stateless nation as well as the nation-state. Minority communities, from heretics and lepers to Jews, Romanies, and Muslims have not been forgotten. This masterly history reveals not only the rich variety of Europe''s past but also the many and rewarding prisms through which it can be viewed. Each chapter contains a selection of telephoto ''capsules'', illustrating narrower themes and topics that cut across the chronological flow. Davies thenconcludes with a wide-angle ''snapshot'' of the whole continent as seen from one particular vantage point. The overall effect is stunning: a kind of historical picture album, with panoramic tableaux interspersed by detailed insets and close-ups. Never before has such an ambitious history of Europe been attempted. In range and ambition, the originality of its structure and glittering style, Norman Davies''s Europe represents one of the most important and illuminating history books to be published by Oxford. Time Capsules 201 fascinating articles interspersed throughout the narrative focus on incidents or topics as various as The Iceman of the Alps, Erotic Graffiti at Pompeii, Stradivarius, and Psychoanalysing Hitler. Each capsule can be tasted as a separate self-contained morsel; or can be read in conjunction withthe narrative into which it is inserted. Snapshots 12 panoramic overviews across the changing map of Europe freeze the frames of the chronological narrative at moments of symbolic importance, such as Knossos 1628 BC, Constantinople AD 330, and Nuremberg 1945. A fully illustrated history Incorporates over 100 superbly detailed maps and diagrams, and 32 pages of black and white plates.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8059'),
(16847, 'Europe&#39;s Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War', 'Peter H. Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from Russia were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting rapidly spiralled out of control, with great battles giving way to marauding bands of starving soldiers spreading plague and murder. The war was both a religious and a political one and it was this tangle of motives that made it impossible to stop. Whether motivated by idealism or cynicism, everyone drawn into the conflict was destroyed by it. At its end a recognizably modern Europe had been created but at a terrible price.\n</p>\n<p>\n Peter Wilson''s book is a major work, the first new history of the war in a generation, and a fascinating, brilliantly written attempt to explain a compelling series of events. Wilson''s great strength is in allowing the reader to understand the tragedy of mixed motives that allowed rulers to gamble their countries'' future with such horrifying results. The principal actors in the drama (Wallenstein, Ferdinand II, Gustavus Adolphus, Richelieu) are all here, but so is the experience of the ordinary soldiers and civilians, desperately trying to stay alive under impossible circumstances.\n</p>\n<p>\n The extraordinary narrative of the war haunted Europe''s leaders into the twentieth century (comparisons with 1939''45 were entirely appropriate) and modern Europe cannot be understood without reference to this dreadful conflict.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12296'),
(16848, 'Euthyphron', 'Platon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25233'),
(16849, 'EV_Agreement', 'Elayne S. Venton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18601'),
(16850, 'Eva&#39;s Kitchen', 'Eva Longoria Parker &amp; Eva Longoria &amp; Marah Stets', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Eva Longoria may be most recognized for her role as\n  <em>\n   Desperate Housewives\n  </em>\n  '' saucy Gabrielle Solis, but on her own time, there are few places she would rather be than in the kitchen, cooking the food she loves for her family and friends. Here is the food Eva loves to eat, and the recipes in\n  <em>\n   Eva''s Kitchen\n  </em>\n  trace her life story, taking readers on her culinary journey--from the food she was brought up on to the recipes inspired by her travels abroad to the dishes she serves during casual nights at home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Having grown up on a ranch with every meal based on what was in the family fields, Eva believes, like so many of us, that good cooking relies on local, fresh, easy-to-find ingredients. In\n  <em>\n   Eva''s Kitchen\n  </em>\n  , she teaches readers essential cooking skills and she sprinkles in the histories and traditions behind her favorite dishes, including personal stories and anecdotes that capture the warmth, humor, and joy of her most memorable meals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In her first cookbook, Eva welcomes you into her kitchen, offering 100 of her favorite dishes--many of which are family recipes collected over the years--all fused with her passion for cooking. She also shares memories of her Texas ranch upbringing, her very first cooking adventures, vacations overseas, nights in with her girlfriends, and last-minute pre--red carpet meals.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Inspired by her heritage, Eva highlights the essentials of great Mexican cooking, Texas style--with her family''s recipes and techniques for making the world''s best tamales, homemade tortillas, Spanish rice, and Pan de Polvo (Mexican pastry), to name a few. She also offers dishes from a variety of international cuisines, from Latin American to Italian and French, inspired by her globe-trotting travels. A taste of Lemon Dover Sole whisks Eva to a tiny hotel-restaurant she once visited on a trip to Normandy; the recipe for Cannellini Beans with Crushed Red Pepper was a souvenir from a trip to Florence; kimchi adds a kick to her Spicy Roasted Brussels Sprouts, a Thanksgiving staple; and Yellow Squash Soup with Lemon brings her full circle, back to her family''s vegetable garden in Corpus Christi.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With full-color food photographs, intimate portraits of her family and friends, and a glimpse into Eva''s home and her lesser-known domestic side (family first, acting second, she says), Eva''s debut cookbook will entice her loyal fans and inspire home cooks to broaden their culinary horizons and create memorable meals for the people they love.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10980'),
(16851, 'Evan and Elle', 'Rhys Bowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When an unused chapel reopens as a French restaurant, the villagers of Llanfair are excited, but also a bit suspicious.For one thing, it doesn''t seem quite right to put a restaurant in what used to be the Lord''s house; for another, the owner, Madame Yvette, is a stranger, and a glamorous one at that.But Madame Yvette''s cooking classes begin to soften the hearts of the townswomen, although their husbands are less enthusiastic about the unfamiliar food on their tables.Their attention is soon diverted by more serious problems: A string of fires has begun to plague the town.Constable Evan Evans suspects that Welsh nationalists may be targeting foreign-owned property, especially after Madame Yvette receives a threatening note.When she asks for Evan''s help, he finds himself in the middle of a complicated case of murder, arson, and international intrigue (not to mention the displeasure of his longtime admirers, Bronwen and Betsy, at his frequent encounters with the exotic Yvette).Constable Evans follows a trail of clues that leads to the South of England and then to France-a trail that leads to unexpected conclusions: Nothing is what it seems and a dangerous killer may be loose in Llanfair.With her fourth book in this acclaimed series, Rhys Bowen offers another ingenious tale of mystery and murder in an otherwise tranquil town.AUTHORBIO: RHYS BOWEN is the author of Evans Above, Evan Help Us, and Evanly Choirs, the first three novels in this series, as well as more than one hundred books for children and young adults.She lives near San Francisco.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1942'),
(16852, 'Evan and Elle', 'Rhys Bowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When an unused chapel reopens as a French restaurant, the villagers of Llanfair are excited, but also a bit suspicious.For one thing, it doesn''t seem quite right to put a restaurant in what used to be the Lord''s house; for another, the owner, Madame Yvette, is a stranger, and a glamorous one at that.But Madame Yvette''s cooking classes begin to soften the hearts of the townswomen, although their husbands are less enthusiastic about the unfamiliar food on their tables.Their attention is soon diverted by more serious problems: A string of fires has begun to plague the town.Constable Evan Evans suspects that Welsh nationalists may be targeting foreign-owned property, especially after Madame Yvette receives a threatening note.When she asks for Evan''s help, he finds himself in the middle of a complicated case of murder, arson, and international intrigue (not to mention the displeasure of his longtime admirers, Bronwen and Betsy, at his frequent encounters with the exotic Yvette).Constable Evans follows a trail of clues that leads to the South of England and then to France-a trail that leads to unexpected conclusions: Nothing is what it seems and a dangerous killer may be loose in Llanfair.With her fourth book in this acclaimed series, Rhys Bowen offers another ingenious tale of mystery and murder in an otherwise tranquil town.AUTHORBIO: RHYS BOWEN is the author of Evans Above, Evan Help Us, and Evanly Choirs, the first three novels in this series, as well as more than one hundred books for children and young adults.She lives near San Francisco.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8522'),
(16853, 'Evanly Bodies', 'Rhys Bowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Detective Constable Evan Evans and his new bride, Bronwen, are settling into married life in their little cottage above the village of Llanfair when they meet the daughter of one of the villageâ€™s newest families, a sixteen-year-old Pakistani girl named Jamila. Bronwen and Jamila are becoming good friends when Jamila finds out from her parents that they have arranged a marriage for her back in Pakistan. Evans tries to convince her family not to enforce the custom, arguing that Jamila is a normal Welsh teenager, but just asÂ the tensions increase, the girl suddenly vanishes. Bronwen is distraught, but thereâ€™s no trace of her.Â At work, Evans is investigating the murder of a man shot to death through the open window of his home while eating breakfast. After the manâ€™s wifeÂ is jailed as a suspect,Â a second man is killed---and then a third---and Evans and his team are on the hunt for a serial killer. But they canâ€™t seem to find any connections between the three menâ€¦.Â In the surprising climax of Edgar Award finalist Rhys Bowenâ€™s tenth Constable Evans mystery, Evans risks everything to solve the murders and discover what happened to Jamila. All in all, the novel is a triumph for fans of Bowenâ€™s acclaimed Evans series, and a wonderful discovery for new readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1945'),
(16854, 'Evanly Bodies', 'Rhys Bowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Detective Constable Evan Evans and his new bride, Bronwen, are settling into married life in their little cottage above the village of Llanfair when they meet the daughter of one of the villageâ€™s newest families, a sixteen-year-old Pakistani girl named Jamila. Bronwen and Jamila are becoming good friends when Jamila finds out from her parents that they have arranged a marriage for her back in Pakistan. Evans tries to convince her family not to enforce the custom, arguing that Jamila is a normal Welsh teenager, but just asÂ the tensions increase, the girl suddenly vanishes. Bronwen is distraught, but thereâ€™s no trace of her.Â At work, Evans is investigating the murder of a man shot to death through the open window of his home while eating breakfast. After the manâ€™s wifeÂ is jailed as a suspect,Â a second man is killed---and then a third---and Evans and his team are on the hunt for a serial killer. But they canâ€™t seem to find any connections between the three menâ€¦.Â In the surprising climax of Edgar Award finalist Rhys Bowenâ€™s tenth Constable Evans mystery, Evans risks everything to solve the murders and discover what happened to Jamila. All in all, the novel is a triumph for fans of Bowenâ€™s acclaimed Evans series, and a wonderful discovery for new readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8524'),
(16855, 'Eve', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Johansen''s gripping 11th Eve Duncan novel (after Chasing the Night), the first of a trilogy, the forensic sculptor zeros in on the kidnapper and serial killer who years earlier abducted and murdered her seven-year-old daughter, Bonnie. Eve''s obsession with the case draws in her good friend, CIA agent Catherine Ling, as well as her lover and would-be protector, police detective Joe Quinn. In spite of their problematic relationships due to Eve''s protracted and intense search, Ling and Quinn work together to call in favors and pursue every possible lead. Their joint efforts uncover a cadre of sharply drawn malefactors who may be deeply involved, notably emotionally unstable John Gallo, Eve''s former lover and Bonnie''s father, who spent six years as a prisoner in North Korea. The explosive finale set in the Wisconsin woods leads to an emotional cliffhanger, as Johansen deftly baits the hook for the next volume. 400,000 first printing. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After searching for years over the course of Johansenï¿½s popular, long-running series, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is finally close to solving the mystery of daughter Bonnieï¿½s murder. With the help of her CIA friend Catherine Ling, Eve narrows the field of suspects down to either Paul Black or John Gallo, both of whom work for a corrupt military intelligence officer. Paul has a history of killing children, and John is mentally unstable after a stint in a North Korean prison. The specter of Gallo forces Eve to relive her tumultuous past, growing up in the projects of Atlanta, intent on staying out of trouble until she meets John. He was about to join the army to become a Ranger, but first they had a brief yet highly charged affair, which left Eve pregnant with Bonnie. Now nothing will stop Eve from learning the truth about her daughterï¿½s fate as Johansen launches a trilogy that takes the reader on an action-packed journey filled with killers and heroes, leaving readers on tenterhooks for Quinn (July 2011) and Bonnie (October 2011). HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: With a seven-figure marketing campaign and 400,000-copy print runs for each title, Johansenï¿½s next three titles will be hot. --Patty Engelmann\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5002'),
(16856, 'Eve', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Johansen''s gripping 11th Eve Duncan novel (after Chasing the Night), the first of a trilogy, the forensic sculptor zeros in on the kidnapper and serial killer who years earlier abducted and murdered her seven-year-old daughter, Bonnie. Eve''s obsession with the case draws in her good friend, CIA agent Catherine Ling, as well as her lover and would-be protector, police detective Joe Quinn. In spite of their problematic relationships due to Eve''s protracted and intense search, Ling and Quinn work together to call in favors and pursue every possible lead. Their joint efforts uncover a cadre of sharply drawn malefactors who may be deeply involved, notably emotionally unstable John Gallo, Eve''s former lover and Bonnie''s father, who spent six years as a prisoner in North Korea. The explosive finale set in the Wisconsin woods leads to an emotional cliffhanger, as Johansen deftly baits the hook for the next volume. 400,000 first printing. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After searching for years over the course of Johansenï¿½s popular, long-running series, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is finally close to solving the mystery of daughter Bonnieï¿½s murder. With the help of her CIA friend Catherine Ling, Eve narrows the field of suspects down to either Paul Black or John Gallo, both of whom work for a corrupt military intelligence officer. Paul has a history of killing children, and John is mentally unstable after a stint in a North Korean prison. The specter of Gallo forces Eve to relive her tumultuous past, growing up in the projects of Atlanta, intent on staying out of trouble until she meets John. He was about to join the army to become a Ranger, but first they had a brief yet highly charged affair, which left Eve pregnant with Bonnie. Now nothing will stop Eve from learning the truth about her daughterï¿½s fate as Johansen launches a trilogy that takes the reader on an action-packed journey filled with killers and heroes, leaving readers on tenterhooks for Quinn (July 2011) and Bonnie (October 2011). HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: With a seven-figure marketing campaign and 400,000-copy print runs for each title, Johansenï¿½s next three titles will be hot. --Patty Engelmann\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10520'),
(16857, 'Eve', 'Iris Johansen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Johansen''s gripping 11th Eve Duncan novel (after Chasing the Night), the first of a trilogy, the forensic sculptor zeros in on the kidnapper and serial killer who years earlier abducted and murdered her seven-year-old daughter, Bonnie. Eve''s obsession with the case draws in her good friend, CIA agent Catherine Ling, as well as her lover and would-be protector, police detective Joe Quinn. In spite of their problematic relationships due to Eve''s protracted and intense search, Ling and Quinn work together to call in favors and pursue every possible lead. Their joint efforts uncover a cadre of sharply drawn malefactors who may be deeply involved, notably emotionally unstable John Gallo, Eve''s former lover and Bonnie''s father, who spent six years as a prisoner in North Korea. The explosive finale set in the Wisconsin woods leads to an emotional cliffhanger, as Johansen deftly baits the hook for the next volume. 400,000 first printing. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After searching for years over the course of Johansenï¿½s popular, long-running series, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is finally close to solving the mystery of daughter Bonnieï¿½s murder. With the help of her CIA friend Catherine Ling, Eve narrows the field of suspects down to either Paul Black or John Gallo, both of whom work for a corrupt military intelligence officer. Paul has a history of killing children, and John is mentally unstable after a stint in a North Korean prison. The specter of Gallo forces Eve to relive her tumultuous past, growing up in the projects of Atlanta, intent on staying out of trouble until she meets John. He was about to join the army to become a Ranger, but first they had a brief yet highly charged affair, which left Eve pregnant with Bonnie. Now nothing will stop Eve from learning the truth about her daughterï¿½s fate as Johansen launches a trilogy that takes the reader on an action-packed journey filled with killers and heroes, leaving readers on tenterhooks for Quinn (July 2011) and Bonnie (October 2011). HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: With a seven-figure marketing campaign and 400,000-copy print runs for each title, Johansenï¿½s next three titles will be hot. --Patty Engelmann\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19668'),
(16858, 'Eve of Darkness', 'S. J. Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cursed by God, hunted by demons, desired by Cain and Abel... All in a day''s work.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Evangeline Hollis, a long ago fling with a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks just became a disaster of biblical proportions. One night with a leather-clad man of mystery has led to a divine punishment: the Mark of Cain.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Thrust into a world where sinners are drafted into service to kill demons, Eve''s learning curve is short. A longtime agnostic, she begrudgingly maneuvers through a celestial bureaucracy where she is a valuable but ill-treated pawn. She''s also become the latest point of contention in the oldest case of sibling rivalry in history...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But she''ll worry about all that later. Right now she''s more concerned with learning to kill while staying alive. And saving the soul she''d never believed she had.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1417'),
(16859, 'Eve of Darkness', 'S. J. Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Cursed by God, hunted by demons, desired by Cain and Abel... All in a day''s work.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Evangeline Hollis, a long ago fling with a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks just became a disaster of biblical proportions. One night with a leather-clad man of mystery has led to a divine punishment: the Mark of Cain.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Thrust into a world where sinners are drafted into service to kill demons, Eve''s learning curve is short. A longtime agnostic, she begrudgingly maneuvers through a celestial bureaucracy where she is a valuable but ill-treated pawn. She''s also become the latest point of contention in the oldest case of sibling rivalry in history...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But she''ll worry about all that later. Right now she''s more concerned with learning to kill while staying alive. And saving the soul she''d never believed she had.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9278'),
(16860, 'Eve of Darkness', 'S. J. Day', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Cursed by God, hunted by demons, desired by Cain and Abel... All in a day''s work. For Evangeline Hollis, a long ago fling with a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks just became a disaster of biblical proportions. One night with a leather-clad man of mystery has led to a divine punishment: the Mark of Cain. Thrust into a world where sinners are drafted into service to kill demons, Eve''s learning curve is short. A longtime agnostic, she begrudgingly maneuvers through a celestial bureaucracy where she is a valuable but ill-treated pawn. She''s also become the latest point of contention in the oldest case of sibling rivalry in history... But she''ll worry about all that later. Right now she''s more concerned with learning to kill while staying alive. And saving the soul she''d never believed she had.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23472'),
(16861, 'The Eve of Rumoko', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23116'),
(16862, 'Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady&#39;s Entrance into the World', 'Fanny Burney', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25839');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(16863, 'Even Faster Web Sites', 'Steve Souders', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Performance is critical to the success of any web site. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site''s performance. Souders and eight expert contributors provide best practices and pragmatic advice for improving your site''s performance in three critical categories: JavaScript, in the network, and in the browser.\n <br />\n <br />\n \\This book contains six guest chapters contributed by Dion Almaer, Doug Crockford, Ben Galbraith, Tony Gentilcore, Dylan Schiemann, Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan, and Nicholas C. Zakas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1002'),
(16864, 'Even Faster Web Sites', 'Steve Souders', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Performance is critical to the success of any web site. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site''s performance. Souders and eight expert contributors provide best practices and pragmatic advice for improving your site''s performance in three critical categories: JavaScript, in the network, and in the browser.\n <br />\n <br />\n \\This book contains six guest chapters contributed by Dion Almaer, Doug Crockford, Ben Galbraith, Tony Gentilcore, Dylan Schiemann, Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan, and Nicholas C. Zakas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12758'),
(16865, 'Even Faster Web Sites', 'Steve Souders', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Performance is critical to the success of any web site. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site''s performance. Souders and eight expert contributors provide best practices and pragmatic advice for improving your site''s performance in three critical categories: JavaScript, in the network, and in the browser.\n <br />\n <br />\n \\This book contains six guest chapters contributed by Dion Almaer, Doug Crockford, Ben Galbraith, Tony Gentilcore, Dylan Schiemann, Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan, and Nicholas C. Zakas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23977'),
(16866, 'Even Money', 'Dick Francis &amp; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ned Talbot is a small-time bookmaker on the edge of giving it all up when his world is turned upside down by a man who claims to be his father, long thought dead. And when the mysterious stranger is murdered, Ned feels compelled to find out exactly what is going on. But the more he discovers, the longer the odds become for his survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6022'),
(16867, 'Even Money', 'Dick Francis &amp; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ned Talbot is a small-time bookmaker on the edge of giving it all up when his world is turned upside down by a man who claims to be his father, long thought dead. And when the mysterious stranger is murdered, Ned feels compelled to find out exactly what is going on. But the more he discovers, the longer the odds become for his survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9842'),
(16868, 'Even Money', 'Dick Francis; Felix Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ned Talbot is a small-time bookmaker on the edge of giving it all up when his world is turned upside down by a man who claims to be his father, long thought dead. And when the mysterious stranger is murdered, Ned feels compelled to find out exactly what is going on. But the more he discovers, the longer the odds become for his survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27542'),
(16869, 'Even More Top Secret Recipes', 'Todd Wilbur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bestselling author Todd Wilbur serves up another mouth-watering batch of your favorite brand-name foods to make at homeWith more than 1.5 million Top Secret Recipes books sold, Todd Wilbur is the reigning master of professional-quality clones of America-s best-loved, brand-name foods. In Even More Top Secret Recipes, Wilbur shares the secrets to making your own delicious versions of:- McDonald-s - French Fries- KFC - Extra Crispy-Chicken- Wendy-s - Spicy Chicken Fillet Sandwich- Drake-s - Devil Dogs -- Taco Bell - Burrito Supreme -- Boston Market- Meatloaf- And many more!With a dash of humor, a tantalizing spoonful of food facts and trivia, and a hearty sprinkling of culinary curiosity, Even More Top Secret Recipes gives you the blueprints for reproducing the brand-name foods you love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/621'),
(16870, 'Even More Top Secret Recipes', 'Todd Wilbur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bestselling author Todd Wilbur serves up another mouth-watering batch of your favorite brand-name foods to make at homeWith more than 1.5 million Top Secret Recipes books sold, Todd Wilbur is the reigning master of professional-quality clones of America-s best-loved, brand-name foods. In Even More Top Secret Recipes, Wilbur shares the secrets to making your own delicious versions of:- McDonald-s - French Fries- KFC - Extra Crispy-Chicken- Wendy-s - Spicy Chicken Fillet Sandwich- Drake-s - Devil Dogs -- Taco Bell - Burrito Supreme -- Boston Market- Meatloaf- And many more!With a dash of humor, a tantalizing spoonful of food facts and trivia, and a hearty sprinkling of culinary curiosity, Even More Top Secret Recipes gives you the blueprints for reproducing the brand-name foods you love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13314'),
(16871, 'Even More Top Secret Recipes', 'Todd Wilbur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Bestselling author Todd Wilbur serves up another mouth-watering batch of your favorite brand-name foods to make at homeWith more than 1.5 million Top Secret Recipes books sold, Todd Wilbur is the reigning master of professional-quality clones of America-s best-loved, brand-name foods. In Even More Top Secret Recipes, Wilbur shares the secrets to making your own delicious versions of:- McDonald-s - French Fries- KFC - Extra Crispy-Chicken- Wendy-s - Spicy Chicken Fillet Sandwich- Drake-s - Devil Dogs -- Taco Bell - Burrito Supreme -- Boston Market- Meatloaf- And many more!With a dash of humor, a tantalizing spoonful of food facts and trivia, and a hearty sprinkling of culinary curiosity, Even More Top Secret Recipes gives you the blueprints for reproducing the brand-name foods you love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24374'),
(16872, 'Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle', 'Ingrid Betancourt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing powerful teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in BogotÄ¯, raised in France, Ingrid Betancourt at the age of thirty-two gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and a pervasive sense of hopelessness. In 2002, while campaigning as a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, she was abducted by the FARC. Nothing could have prepared her for what came next. She would spend the next six and a half years in the depths of the jungle as a prisoner of the FARC. Even Silence Has an Endis her deeply personal and moving account of that time. Chained day and night for much of her captivity, she never stopped dreaming of escape and, in fact, succeeded in getting away several times, always to be recaptured. In her most successful effort she and a fellow captive survived a week away, but were caught when her companion became desperately ill; she learned later that they had been mere miles from freedom. The facts of her story are astounding, but it is Betancourt''s indomitable spirit that drives this very special account, bringing life, nuance, and profundity to the narrative. Attending as intimately to the landscape of her mind as she does to the events of her capture and captivity, Even Silence Has an Endis a meditation on the very stuff of life-fear and freedom, hope and what inspires it. Betancourt tracks her metamorphosis, sharing how in the routines she established for herself-listening to her mother and two children broadcast to her over the radio, daily prayer-she was able to do the unthinkable: to move through the pain of the moment and find a place of serenity. Freed in 2008 by the Colombian army, today Betancourt is determined to draw attention to the plight of hostages and victims of terrorism throughout the world and it is that passion that motivates Even Silence Has an End. The lessons she offers here-in courage, resilience, and humanity-are gifts to treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4997'),
(16873, 'Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle', 'Ingrid Betancourt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing powerful teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in BogotÄ¯, raised in France, Ingrid Betancourt at the age of thirty-two gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and a pervasive sense of hopelessness. In 2002, while campaigning as a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, she was abducted by the FARC. Nothing could have prepared her for what came next. She would spend the next six and a half years in the depths of the jungle as a prisoner of the FARC. Even Silence Has an Endis her deeply personal and moving account of that time. Chained day and night for much of her captivity, she never stopped dreaming of escape and, in fact, succeeded in getting away several times, always to be recaptured. In her most successful effort she and a fellow captive survived a week away, but were caught when her companion became desperately ill; she learned later that they had been mere miles from freedom. The facts of her story are astounding, but it is Betancourt''s indomitable spirit that drives this very special account, bringing life, nuance, and profundity to the narrative. Attending as intimately to the landscape of her mind as she does to the events of her capture and captivity, Even Silence Has an Endis a meditation on the very stuff of life-fear and freedom, hope and what inspires it. Betancourt tracks her metamorphosis, sharing how in the routines she established for herself-listening to her mother and two children broadcast to her over the radio, daily prayer-she was able to do the unthinkable: to move through the pain of the moment and find a place of serenity. Freed in 2008 by the Colombian army, today Betancourt is determined to draw attention to the plight of hostages and victims of terrorism throughout the world and it is that passion that motivates Even Silence Has an End. The lessons she offers here-in courage, resilience, and humanity-are gifts to treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8442'),
(16874, 'Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle', 'Ingrid Betancourt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing powerful teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in BogotÄ¯, raised in France, Ingrid Betancourt at the age of thirty-two gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and a pervasive sense of hopelessness. In 2002, while campaigning as a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, she was abducted by the FARC. Nothing could have prepared her for what came next. She would spend the next six and a half years in the depths of the jungle as a prisoner of the FARC. Even Silence Has an Endis her deeply personal and moving account of that time. Chained day and night for much of her captivity, she never stopped dreaming of escape and, in fact, succeeded in getting away several times, always to be recaptured. In her most successful effort she and a fellow captive survived a week away, but were caught when her companion became desperately ill; she learned later that they had been mere miles from freedom. The facts of her story are astounding, but it is Betancourt''s indomitable spirit that drives this very special account, bringing life, nuance, and profundity to the narrative. Attending as intimately to the landscape of her mind as she does to the events of her capture and captivity, Even Silence Has an Endis a meditation on the very stuff of life-fear and freedom, hope and what inspires it. Betancourt tracks her metamorphosis, sharing how in the routines she established for herself-listening to her mother and two children broadcast to her over the radio, daily prayer-she was able to do the unthinkable: to move through the pain of the moment and find a place of serenity. Freed in 2008 by the Colombian army, today Betancourt is determined to draw attention to the plight of hostages and victims of terrorism throughout the world and it is that passion that motivates Even Silence Has an End. The lessons she offers here-in courage, resilience, and humanity-are gifts to treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19680'),
(16875, 'An Evening of Long Goodbyes', 'Paul Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n If Wodehouse''s Bertie Wooster were plopped into the 21st century, his adventures might resemble those of Charles Hythloday, the buffoonish hero of Murray''s insouciant romp, shortlisted for the Whitbread. For three years, ever since his father died, 20-something Charles has been pottering around the family''s crumbling seaside estate near Dublin, mixing himself gimlets and watching old movies. He sees himself as attempting to perfect\n <em>\n  sprezzatura\n </em>\n , "the contemplative life of the country gentleman, in harmony with his status and history"; his formidable sister, Bel, and everyone else, however, view him as a shiftless drunkard, and Charles''s own narration leaves little doubt whose judgment is more accurate. The reappearance of Charles''s mother, who''s been away at a clinic for alcoholics and is now determined to reform the rest of the family, means that his allowance is promptly cut off and he''s required to get a job. This proves to be predictably difficult (a tech recruiter says, " ''So in short, Charles, it''s fair to say you''ve\n <em>\n  never\n </em>\n worked for a living, is that right?'' "). Meanwhile, the family''s Bosnian housekeeper smuggles her grown-up children into the country, and Bel starts a theater company at Amaurot with the housekeeper''s striking daughter, Mirela, who''s much too clever for smitten Charles. Murray''s blend of drawing-room comedy and postindustrial hilarity is deft and jaunty, and well-timed snippets of foreshadowing keep the story moving briskly. If the characters occasionally seem too broadly drawn, they always operate in service to the novel''s witty and satirical aims. This is a breezy, highly entertaining read.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irish writer Murray makes a brilliant debut with\n <em>\n  Long Goodbyes\n </em>\n , which was a finalist for the prestigious Whitbread First Novel Award after its publication in the U.K. in 2003. Often compared to P.G. Wodehouse, Noel Coward, John Kennedy Toole, and Flann Oâ€™Brien (an Irish satirist), with a touch of Chekhov thrown in, Murray has penned a solipsistic soliloquy that deftly mixes farce and melodrama with social commentary. Most critics had few complaints, though a few noted some blips in the plotting. And\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n noticed a lapse in Charlesâ€™ voice once he left his seaside home for the slums. Still, all agree that\n <em>\n  Long Goodbyes\n </em>\n is a bittersweet, and above all memorable, first novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2224'),
(16876, 'An Evening of Long Goodbyes', 'Paul Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n If Wodehouse''s Bertie Wooster were plopped into the 21st century, his adventures might resemble those of Charles Hythloday, the buffoonish hero of Murray''s insouciant romp, shortlisted for the Whitbread. For three years, ever since his father died, 20-something Charles has been pottering around the family''s crumbling seaside estate near Dublin, mixing himself gimlets and watching old movies. He sees himself as attempting to perfect\n <em>\n  sprezzatura\n </em>\n , "the contemplative life of the country gentleman, in harmony with his status and history"; his formidable sister, Bel, and everyone else, however, view him as a shiftless drunkard, and Charles''s own narration leaves little doubt whose judgment is more accurate. The reappearance of Charles''s mother, who''s been away at a clinic for alcoholics and is now determined to reform the rest of the family, means that his allowance is promptly cut off and he''s required to get a job. This proves to be predictably difficult (a tech recruiter says, " ''So in short, Charles, it''s fair to say you''ve\n <em>\n  never\n </em>\n worked for a living, is that right?'' "). Meanwhile, the family''s Bosnian housekeeper smuggles her grown-up children into the country, and Bel starts a theater company at Amaurot with the housekeeper''s striking daughter, Mirela, who''s much too clever for smitten Charles. Murray''s blend of drawing-room comedy and postindustrial hilarity is deft and jaunty, and well-timed snippets of foreshadowing keep the story moving briskly. If the characters occasionally seem too broadly drawn, they always operate in service to the novel''s witty and satirical aims. This is a breezy, highly entertaining read.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Bookmarks Magazine\n</h3>\n<p>\n Irish writer Murray makes a brilliant debut with\n <em>\n  Long Goodbyes\n </em>\n , which was a finalist for the prestigious Whitbread First Novel Award after its publication in the U.K. in 2003. Often compared to P.G. Wodehouse, Noel Coward, John Kennedy Toole, and Flann Oâ€™Brien (an Irish satirist), with a touch of Chekhov thrown in, Murray has penned a solipsistic soliloquy that deftly mixes farce and melodrama with social commentary. Most critics had few complaints, though a few noted some blips in the plotting. And\n <em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n noticed a lapse in Charlesâ€™ voice once he left his seaside home for the slums. Still, all agree that\n <em>\n  Long Goodbyes\n </em>\n is a bittersweet, and above all memorable, first novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11584'),
(16877, 'Eventide', 'Kent Haruf', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong, one of the most beloved novels in recent years, has wisely continued the franchise in Eventide, another foray into the prairie town of Holt, Colorado. We meet some of the same people--the McPheron brothers, Tom Guthrie and Maggie Jones, Victoria and her daughter Katie, and are introduced to new ones. Once again, the quirky bachelors Harold and Raymond McPheron, short on conversation and long on heart, form the sweet center of the book. The constants here are the brothers, the landscape--by turns hostile, demanding and renewing--and a few of the locals, whom we meet in varying degrees of their travails and redemption. Victoria, the young pregnant woman the brothers took in in Plainsong, has gone off to college at Fort Collins, leaving the brothers standing at the kitchen counter, "drinking coffee and talking about how Victoria Roubideaux was doing a hundred and twenty-five miles away from home ... while they themselves were living as usual in the country in Holt County ... with so much less to account for now that she was gone, and a wind rising up and starting to whine outside the house." Much as Seinfeld was called the TV show about nothing, Haruf''s books are so low-key and straightforward that a careless reader might miss the fact that they are about everything that life has to offer: love, sorrow, malice, understanding, and the connections that make and keep us human, to name a few. DJ is an 11-year-old living alone with his grandfather, when he befriends two young girls whose father left for Alaska and decided not to return. Their mother is mired in grief and the three children, abandoned by the adults in their lives, find refuge in an old shed they make habitable. "So for a while the two sisters and the boy lay on the floor under the blankets, reading books in the dim candlelight, with the sun falling down outside in the alley, the three of them talking a little softly, drinking coffee from a thermos, and what was happening in the houses they''d come from, seemed, for that short time, of little importance." One of Haruf''s particular gifts is in showing us people who give and take solace wherever it may be found. An unfortunate disabled couple, parents of two young children, are trying to make their way in a world they cannot fathom. They are assisted by Rose Tyler, their caseworker, who is a friend of Maggie Jones. aggie, who drew Tom Guthrie out of his depression in Plainsong, is once again a catalyst for change when she introduces Rose to Raymond. There is no doubt more to come, as life in Holt, Colorado, continues to evolve and Kent Haruf keeps us informed. --Valerie Ryan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9449'),
(16878, 'The Everborn', 'Nicholas Grabowsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "......(a)unique and terrifying world that Grabowsky launches us into...at very twisted turns it delves into the psychedelic..." --\n  <em>\n   Tahoe Daily Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A solid storyline, fresh ideas on everything from religion (to) blood-chilling violence makes Grabowsky''s latest offering a compelling read!" --\n  <em>\n   Sacramento News &amp; Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nicholas.....I salute you: your ambition, your dedication, your accomplishments....your fertile and blissfully complex imagination..." --\n  <em>\n   Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Candyman, Imajica)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The reader will be unable to get the terrifying and original visions out of their head!" --\n  <em>\n   Heidi Martinuzzi, E! Entertainment Television, Pretty/scary.net\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "YOU WILL BE SCARED! PERIOD!" --\n  <em>\n   Sean Price, Slash Productions\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A tale of beings who have fallen from heaven at the dawn of mankind''s history who integrated themselves into the human gene pool, fathering themselves from life to life in a bizarre reincarnation cycle throughout the ages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story involves Max Polito, a renown ufologist bent on proving to the world that these beings exist and are responsible for a majority of all UFO phenomena. His exploits lead him to an "Everborn" reborn into society as a pair of twins, one possessing an eternal soul and one who does not, one a timid ghostwriter for a world-famous horror novelist and one a vicious serial killer on a quest to truly be "born again."\n </p>\n <p>\n  A surreal guardian angel for Andrew, the ghostwriter, teams up the protagonists to thwart not only the evil twin''s diabolical plans but the apocalyptic schemes of the Magdalene Salvatia, an ancient she-demon on a quest to revenge her kind and plunge the world into everlasting darkness under her rule.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2590'),
(16879, 'The Everborn', 'Nicholas Grabowsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "......(a)unique and terrifying world that Grabowsky launches us into...at very twisted turns it delves into the psychedelic..." --\n  <em>\n   Tahoe Daily Tribune\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A solid storyline, fresh ideas on everything from religion (to) blood-chilling violence makes Grabowsky''s latest offering a compelling read!" --\n  <em>\n   Sacramento News &amp; Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Nicholas.....I salute you: your ambition, your dedication, your accomplishments....your fertile and blissfully complex imagination..." --\n  <em>\n   Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Candyman, Imajica)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The reader will be unable to get the terrifying and original visions out of their head!" --\n  <em>\n   Heidi Martinuzzi, E! Entertainment Television, Pretty/scary.net\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "YOU WILL BE SCARED! PERIOD!" --\n  <em>\n   Sean Price, Slash Productions\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A tale of beings who have fallen from heaven at the dawn of mankind''s history who integrated themselves into the human gene pool, fathering themselves from life to life in a bizarre reincarnation cycle throughout the ages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story involves Max Polito, a renown ufologist bent on proving to the world that these beings exist and are responsible for a majority of all UFO phenomena. His exploits lead him to an "Everborn" reborn into society as a pair of twins, one possessing an eternal soul and one who does not, one a timid ghostwriter for a world-famous horror novelist and one a vicious serial killer on a quest to truly be "born again."\n </p>\n <p>\n  A surreal guardian angel for Andrew, the ghostwriter, teams up the protagonists to thwart not only the evil twin''s diabolical plans but the apocalyptic schemes of the Magdalene Salvatia, an ancient she-demon on a quest to revenge her kind and plunge the world into everlasting darkness under her rule.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10020'),
(16880, 'The Everborn', 'Nicholas Grabowsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "......(a)unique and terrifying world that Grabowsky launches us into...at very twisted turns it delves into the psychedelic..." --\n <em>\n  Tahoe Daily Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A solid storyline, fresh ideas on everything from religion (to) blood-chilling violence makes Grabowsky''s latest offering a compelling read!" --\n <em>\n  Sacramento News &amp; Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nicholas.....I salute you: your ambition, your dedication, your accomplishments....your fertile and blissfully complex imagination..." --\n <em>\n  Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Candyman, Imajica)\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The reader will be unable to get the terrifying and original visions out of their head!" --\n <em>\n  Heidi Martinuzzi, E! Entertainment Television, Pretty/scary.net\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "YOU WILL BE SCARED! PERIOD!" --\n <em>\n  Sean Price, Slash Productions\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A tale of beings who have fallen from heaven at the dawn of mankind''s history who integrated themselves into the human gene pool, fathering themselves from life to life in a bizarre reincarnation cycle throughout the ages.\n</p>\n<p>\n The story involves Max Polito, a renown ufologist bent on proving to the world that these beings exist and are responsible for a majority of all UFO phenomena. His exploits lead him to an "Everborn" reborn into society as a pair of twins, one possessing an eternal soul and one who does not, one a timid ghostwriter for a world-famous horror novelist and one a vicious serial killer on a quest to truly be "born again."\n</p>\n<p>\n A surreal guardian angel for Andrew, the ghostwriter, teams up the protagonists to thwart not only the evil twin''s diabolical plans but the apocalyptic schemes of the Magdalene Salvatia, an ancient she-demon on a quest to revenge her kind and plunge the world into everlasting darkness under her rule.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22206'),
(16881, 'Everglades', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This 10th novel in the series featuring ex-CIA spook turned marine biologist Doc Ford (Twelve Mile Limit, etc.), finds Doc wallowing deep in his own doldrums. Out of shape, overweight, depressed and drinking heavily to escape from his turbulent past, Doc gets a surprise visit from Sally Minster, a former lover, whose real estate developer hubby, Geoff, is reported to have been drowned in a boating accident off Bimini six months ago. Soon to inherit his estate, Sally is being followed by an insurance investigator who may have evidence her husband is still alive. Accompanied by his hippie Zen master pal, Sighurdhr Tomlinson, Doc follows the insurance investigator deep into the Everglades, where Geoff turns out to have been in cahoots with a phony guru, Bhagwan Shiva, founder of the International Church of Ashram Meditation Inc. Geoff helped him build one of his new "theme" ashrams to attract rich South Floridians and jet setters, destroying precious Everglades forest in the process. The Bhagwan and his henchman, Izzy Kline, a Mossad-trained former Israeli soldier, are plotting to engineer a series of explosions, enacting the mythic Seminole Chief Tecumseh''s earthquake prophecy of 1811. Free-love religious cults, ecological destruction, murder and kidnapping propel Doc and his band of quirky Florida Gulf Coast beach denizens on a dizzying airboat race across the Everglades, where Doc battles his own demons when he''s not battling a real live bull shark. The busy plot gets a bit ragged in places, but while it''s not White''s career best, this satisfying, madcap fare could well go seismic on the regional bestseller lists.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Much of the tension in today''s best tough-guy detective series comes from the hero''s fear of his own toughness. From Spenser in Boston to Robicheaux in New Orleans to Doc Ford on Sanibel Island, these introspective sleuths brood about their propensity for violence. Ford, White''s former special-ops agent turned mild-mannered marine biologist, tends to brood more than his peers, perhaps because the disconnect between his twin personalities is greatest. In this superlative tenth episode in the acclaimed series, that disconnect has turned Ford against himself, despairing over the number of friends who have been sucked into his violent world and died as a result of it. Then a woman from his past turns up with a problem: her husband has disappeared after becoming involved with a Bhagwan-like cult in the Everglades. Ford, with hippie cohort Tomlinson in tow, heads to the Glades to investigate but not before a one-on-one encounter with a shark prompts an epiphany about his predatory nature. Along the way, Ford has the opportunity to dispense a wealth of fascinating information on swampland ecology and Seminole history. These forays are one of the things that makes this series so consistently satisfying, but this time the real core of the book is the process by which Ford deals with his inner demons. Too often in the mystery genre, this "I''m nice; no, I''m tough" dichotomy descends to cliche, but in White''s hands, it leads to genuine insight. The human brain, he tells us, has a tiny region, the a_mygdala_, or "lizard brain," whose sole purpose is survival. When Ford finally quits waffling and lets his lizard brain out of jail, the result is pulsating action and a kind of atavistic catharsis. Righteous indignation never felt better.\n  <em>\n   Bill Ott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1932'),
(16882, 'Everglades', 'Randy Wayne White', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This 10th novel in the series featuring ex-CIA spook turned marine biologist Doc Ford (Twelve Mile Limit, etc.), finds Doc wallowing deep in his own doldrums. Out of shape, overweight, depressed and drinking heavily to escape from his turbulent past, Doc gets a surprise visit from Sally Minster, a former lover, whose real estate developer hubby, Geoff, is reported to have been drowned in a boating accident off Bimini six months ago. Soon to inherit his estate, Sally is being followed by an insurance investigator who may have evidence her husband is still alive. Accompanied by his hippie Zen master pal, Sighurdhr Tomlinson, Doc follows the insurance investigator deep into the Everglades, where Geoff turns out to have been in cahoots with a phony guru, Bhagwan Shiva, founder of the International Church of Ashram Meditation Inc. Geoff helped him build one of his new "theme" ashrams to attract rich South Floridians and jet setters, destroying precious Everglades forest in the process. The Bhagwan and his henchman, Izzy Kline, a Mossad-trained former Israeli soldier, are plotting to engineer a series of explosions, enacting the mythic Seminole Chief Tecumseh''s earthquake prophecy of 1811. Free-love religious cults, ecological destruction, murder and kidnapping propel Doc and his band of quirky Florida Gulf Coast beach denizens on a dizzying airboat race across the Everglades, where Doc battles his own demons when he''s not battling a real live bull shark. The busy plot gets a bit ragged in places, but while it''s not White''s career best, this satisfying, madcap fare could well go seismic on the regional bestseller lists.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Much of the tension in today''s best tough-guy detective series comes from the hero''s fear of his own toughness. From Spenser in Boston to Robicheaux in New Orleans to Doc Ford on Sanibel Island, these introspective sleuths brood about their propensity for violence. Ford, White''s former special-ops agent turned mild-mannered marine biologist, tends to brood more than his peers, perhaps because the disconnect between his twin personalities is greatest. In this superlative tenth episode in the acclaimed series, that disconnect has turned Ford against himself, despairing over the number of friends who have been sucked into his violent world and died as a result of it. Then a woman from his past turns up with a problem: her husband has disappeared after becoming involved with a Bhagwan-like cult in the Everglades. Ford, with hippie cohort Tomlinson in tow, heads to the Glades to investigate but not before a one-on-one encounter with a shark prompts an epiphany about his predatory nature. Along the way, Ford has the opportunity to dispense a wealth of fascinating information on swampland ecology and Seminole history. These forays are one of the things that makes this series so consistently satisfying, but this time the real core of the book is the process by which Ford deals with his inner demons. Too often in the mystery genre, this "I''m nice; no, I''m tough" dichotomy descends to cliche, but in White''s hands, it leads to genuine insight. The human brain, he tells us, has a tiny region, the a_mygdala_, or "lizard brain," whose sole purpose is survival. When Ford finally quits waffling and lets his lizard brain out of jail, the result is pulsating action and a kind of atavistic catharsis. Righteous indignation never felt better.\n  <em>\n   Bill Ott\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13329'),
(16883, 'Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi', 'Dean Faulkner Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Nobody could have written this book except Dean Faulkner Wells. It is not only charming, poignant and witty, it is a priceless contribution to America''s rich literary history."\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n Winston Groom, author, _Forrest Gump\n</p>\n<p>\n _"Dean Faulkner Wells has written a memorable family story, full of the intimacies of place and cherished connections, that not incidentally sheds unexpected, humanizing light on herÂ august uncle,Â William Faulkner."--Thomas McGuane\n</p>\n<p>\n "A funny, extremely readable, incredibly likable memoir of what it was like to grow up with the great manâ€¦.A wonderful book."--Mark Childress, author of\n <em>\n  Crazy in Alabama\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Read Every Day by the Sun_, then read\n <em>\n  Go Down Moses\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Hamlet\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Town\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Mansion\n </em>\n , and you will feel you have been on an archaeological dig with a master. Dean Faulkner Wells knows where the gold is buried, where the heart strings sang, where the understanding and love were engenderedâ€¦.Burn the deconstructionistsâ€™ texts.\n <em>\n  Every day By The Sun\n </em>\n is all you need."â€”Ellen Gilchrist\n</p>\n<p>\n "I can''t recall the last time I enjoyed a book as much as\n <em>\n  Every Day By The Sun\n </em>\n . Dean Faulkner Wells has performed a miracle: Sheâ€™s brought a great man back to life, and in doing so sheâ€™s summoned a time and a place that now seem too far gone. I love her clean, sharp, unpretentious prose, the well-hewn stories piled one on top of the other, the intimate revelations about a family that belongs to all of us but belonged to her first. William Faulkner is a fascinating character indeed, but it is Wells herself whom I found most captivating. Sheâ€™s somebody to fall in love with and never get over."--John Ed Bradley, author,\n <em>\n  Tupelo Nights\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A fresh, affectionate view of ''Pappy,'' the great and difficult writer."--Roy Blount, Jr.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Part biography, part memoir, Wells'' work does much to humanize the man who is often remembered only for his words. A must-read for Faulkner-philes."--_Kirkus _\n</p>\n<p>\n "Marvelously evocative, intimate, and deeply moving."\n <br />\n --John Berendt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Every Day by the Sun,\n </em>\n Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted murÂ­derers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers), and a Nobel Prize winner, arguably the most important AmeriÂ­can novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her familyâ€”in particular her uncle William, or â€œPappy,â€ with whom she shared colorÂ­ful, sometimes utterly frank, sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences.\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  This deeply felt memoir explores the close reÂ­lationship between Deanâ€™s uncle and her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty-eight during an air show four months beÂ­fore she was born. It was William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after Deanâ€™s tragic death, William helped to raise his niece. He paid for her education, gave her away when she was married, and maintained a unique relationship with her throughout his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  From the 1920s to the early civil rights era, from Faulknerâ€™s winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature to his death in 1962,\n <em>\n  Every Day by the Sun\n </em>\n explores the changing culture and society of Oxford, MisÂ­sissippi, while offering a rare glimpse of a notoriÂ­ously private family and an indelible portrait of a national treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6059'),
(16884, 'Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi', 'Dean Faulkner Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Nobody could have written this book except Dean Faulkner Wells. It is not only charming, poignant and witty, it is a priceless contribution to America''s rich literary history."\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n Winston Groom, author, _Forrest Gump\n</p>\n<p>\n _"Dean Faulkner Wells has written a memorable family story, full of the intimacies of place and cherished connections, that not incidentally sheds unexpected, humanizing light on herÂ august uncle,Â William Faulkner."--Thomas McGuane\n</p>\n<p>\n "A funny, extremely readable, incredibly likable memoir of what it was like to grow up with the great manâ€¦.A wonderful book."--Mark Childress, author of\n <em>\n  Crazy in Alabama\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Read Every Day by the Sun_, then read\n <em>\n  Go Down Moses\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Hamlet\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Town\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Mansion\n </em>\n , and you will feel you have been on an archaeological dig with a master. Dean Faulkner Wells knows where the gold is buried, where the heart strings sang, where the understanding and love were engenderedâ€¦.Burn the deconstructionistsâ€™ texts.\n <em>\n  Every day By The Sun\n </em>\n is all you need."â€”Ellen Gilchrist\n</p>\n<p>\n "I can''t recall the last time I enjoyed a book as much as\n <em>\n  Every Day By The Sun\n </em>\n . Dean Faulkner Wells has performed a miracle: Sheâ€™s brought a great man back to life, and in doing so sheâ€™s summoned a time and a place that now seem too far gone. I love her clean, sharp, unpretentious prose, the well-hewn stories piled one on top of the other, the intimate revelations about a family that belongs to all of us but belonged to her first. William Faulkner is a fascinating character indeed, but it is Wells herself whom I found most captivating. Sheâ€™s somebody to fall in love with and never get over."--John Ed Bradley, author,\n <em>\n  Tupelo Nights\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A fresh, affectionate view of ''Pappy,'' the great and difficult writer."--Roy Blount, Jr.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Part biography, part memoir, Wells'' work does much to humanize the man who is often remembered only for his words. A must-read for Faulkner-philes."--_Kirkus _\n</p>\n<p>\n "Marvelously evocative, intimate, and deeply moving."\n <br />\n --John Berendt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Every Day by the Sun,\n </em>\n Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted murÂ­derers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers), and a Nobel Prize winner, arguably the most important AmeriÂ­can novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her familyâ€”in particular her uncle William, or â€œPappy,â€ with whom she shared colorÂ­ful, sometimes utterly frank, sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences.\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  This deeply felt memoir explores the close reÂ­lationship between Deanâ€™s uncle and her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty-eight during an air show four months beÂ­fore she was born. It was William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after Deanâ€™s tragic death, William helped to raise his niece. He paid for her education, gave her away when she was married, and maintained a unique relationship with her throughout his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  From the 1920s to the early civil rights era, from Faulknerâ€™s winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature to his death in 1962,\n <em>\n  Every Day by the Sun\n </em>\n explores the changing culture and society of Oxford, MisÂ­sissippi, while offering a rare glimpse of a notoriÂ­ously private family and an indelible portrait of a national treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13277'),
(16885, 'Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi', 'Dean Faulkner Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Nobody could have written this book except Dean Faulkner Wells. It is not only charming, poignant and witty, it is a priceless contribution to America''s rich literary history."\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n Winston Groom, author, _Forrest Gump\n</p>\n<p>\n _"Dean Faulkner Wells has written a memorable family story, full of the intimacies of place and cherished connections, that not incidentally sheds unexpected, humanizing light on her august uncle, William Faulkner."--Thomas McGuane\n</p>\n<p>\n "A funny, extremely readable, incredibly likable memoir of what it was like to grow up with the great man....A wonderful book."--Mark Childress, author of\n <em>\n  Crazy in Alabama\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Read Every Day by the Sun_, then read\n <em>\n  Go Down Moses\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Hamlet\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Town\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Mansion\n </em>\n , and you will feel you have been on an archaeological dig with a master. Dean Faulkner Wells knows where the gold is buried, where the heart strings sang, where the understanding and love were engendered....Burn the deconstructionistsâ€™ texts.\n <em>\n  Every day By The Sun\n </em>\n is all you need."â€”Ellen Gilchrist\n</p>\n<p>\n "I can''t recall the last time I enjoyed a book as much as\n <em>\n  Every Day By The Sun\n </em>\n . Dean Faulkner Wells has performed a miracle: Sheâ€™s brought a great man back to life, and in doing so sheâ€™s summoned a time and a place that now seem too far gone. I love her clean, sharp, unpretentious prose, the well-hewn stories piled one on top of the other, the intimate revelations about a family that belongs to all of us but belonged to her first. William Faulkner is a fascinating character indeed, but it is Wells herself whom I found most captivating. Sheâ€™s somebody to fall in love with and never get over."--John Ed Bradley, author,\n <em>\n  Tupelo Nights\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A fresh, affectionate view of ''Pappy,'' the great and difficult writer."--Roy Blount, Jr.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Part biography, part memoir, Wells'' work does much to humanize the man who is often remembered only for his words. A must-read for Faulkner-philes."--_Kirkus _\n</p>\n<p>\n "Marvelously evocative, intimate, and deeply moving."\n <br />\n --John Berendt\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Every Day by the Sun,\n </em>\n Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted murÂ­derers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers), and a Nobel Prize winner, arguably the most important AmeriÂ­can novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her familyâ€”in particular her uncle William, or â€œPappy,â€ with whom she shared colorÂ­ful, sometimes utterly frank, sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences.\n</p>\n<p>\n This deeply felt memoir explores the close reÂ­lationship between Deanâ€™s uncle and her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty-eight during an air show four months beÂ­fore she was born. It was William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after Deanâ€™s tragic death, William helped to raise his niece. He paid for her education, gave her away when she was married, and maintained a unique relationship with her throughout his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n From the 1920s to the early civil rights era, from Faulknerâ€™s winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature to his death in 1962,\n <em>\n  Every Day by the Sun\n </em>\n explores the changing culture and society of Oxford, MisÂ­sissippi, while offering a rare glimpse of a notoriÂ­ously private family and an indelible portrait of a national treasure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17864');
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(16886, 'Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life', 'Frances Mayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this sequel to her* New York Times* bestsellers* Under the Tuscan Sun* and* Bella Tuscany*, the celebrated "bard of Tuscany" (*New York Times*) lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long love affair with Tuscany''s people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle. Frances Mayes offers her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since* Under the Tuscan Sun* and* Bella Tuscany* appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections on the timeless beauty and vivid pleasures of Italian life. Among the themes Mayes explores are how her experience of Tuscany dramatically expanded when she renovated and became a part-time resident of a 13th century house with a stone roof in the mountains above Cortona, how life in the mountains introduced her to a "wilder" side of Tuscany--and with it a lively  engagement with Tuscany''s mountain people. Throughout, she reveals the concrete joys of life in her adopted hill town, with particular attention to life in the piazza, the art of Luca Signorelli (Renaissance painter from Cortona), and the pastoral pleasures of feasting from her garden.  Moving always toward a deeper engagement, Mayes writes of Tuscan icons that have become for her storehouses of memory, of crucible moments from which bigger ideas emerged, and of the writing life she has enjoyed in the room where* Under the Tuscan Sun* began. With more on the pleasures of life at* Bramasole*, the delights and challenges of living in Italy day-to-day and favorite recipes,* Every Day in Tuscany* is a passionate and inviting account of the richness and complexity of Italian life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5515'),
(16887, 'Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life', 'Frances Mayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this sequel to her* New York Times* bestsellers* Under the Tuscan Sun* and* Bella Tuscany*, the celebrated "bard of Tuscany" (*New York Times*) lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long love affair with Tuscany''s people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle. Frances Mayes offers her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since* Under the Tuscan Sun* and* Bella Tuscany* appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections on the timeless beauty and vivid pleasures of Italian life. Among the themes Mayes explores are how her experience of Tuscany dramatically expanded when she renovated and became a part-time resident of a 13th century house with a stone roof in the mountains above Cortona, how life in the mountains introduced her to a "wilder" side of Tuscany--and with it a lively engagement with Tuscany''s mountain people. Throughout, she reveals the concrete joys of life in her adopted hill town, with particular attention to life in the piazza, the art of Luca Signorelli (Renaissance painter from Cortona), and the pastoral pleasures of feasting from her garden. Moving always toward a deeper engagement, Mayes writes of Tuscan icons that have become for her storehouses of memory, of crucible moments from which bigger ideas emerged, and of the writing life she has enjoyed in the room where* Under the Tuscan Sun* began. With more on the pleasures of life at* Bramasole*, the delights and challenges of living in Italy day-to-day and favorite recipes,* Every Day in Tuscany* is a passionate and inviting account of the richness and complexity of Italian life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19074'),
(16888, 'Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life', 'Frances Mayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this sequel to her* New York Times* bestsellers* Under the Tuscan Sun* and* Bella Tuscany*, the celebrated "bard of Tuscany" (*New York Times*) lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long love affair with Tuscany''s people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle. Frances Mayes offers her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since* Under the Tuscan Sun* and* Bella Tuscany* appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections on the timeless beauty and vivid pleasures of Italian life. Among the themes Mayes explores are how her experience of Tuscany dramatically expanded when she renovated and became a part-time resident of a 13th century house with a stone roof in the mountains above Cortona, how life in the mountains introduced her to a "wilder" side of Tuscany--and with it a lively engagement with Tuscany''s mountain people. Throughout, she reveals the concrete joys of life in her adopted hill town, with particular attention to life in the piazza, the art of Luca Signorelli (Renaissance painter from Cortona), and the pastoral pleasures of feasting from her garden. Moving always toward a deeper engagement, Mayes writes of Tuscan icons that have become for her storehouses of memory, of crucible moments from which bigger ideas emerged, and of the writing life she has enjoyed in the room where* Under the Tuscan Sun* began. With more on the pleasures of life at* Bramasole*, the delights and challenges of living in Italy day-to-day and favorite recipes,* Every Day in Tuscany* is a passionate and inviting account of the richness and complexity of Italian life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27857'),
(16889, 'Every Last Drop', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œ[Charlie Hustonâ€™s] action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous.â€â€“Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Half the Blood of BrooklynItâ€™s like this: a series of bullet-riddled bad breaks has seen rogue Vampyre and terminal tough guy Joe Pitt go from PI for hire to Clan-connected enforcer to dead man walking in a New York minute. And after burning all his bridges, the only one left to cross leads to the Bronx, where Joeâ€™s brass knuckles and straight razor canâ€™t keep him from running afoul of a sadistic old bloodsucker with a bad bark and a worse bite. Even if every Clan in Manhattan is hollering for Joeâ€™s head on a stick, itâ€™s got to be better than trying to survive in the outer-borough wilderness.So itâ€™s a no-brainer when Clan boss Dexter Predo comes looking to make a deal. All Joe has to do to win back breathing privileges on his old turf is infiltrate an upstart Clan whose plan to cure the Vyrus could expose the secret Vampyre world to mortal eyes and set off a panic-driven massacre. Not cool. But Joeâ€™s all over it. To save the Undead future, he just has to wade neck-deep through all the archenemies, former friends, and assorted heavy hitters heâ€™s crossed in the past. No sweat? Maybe not, but definitely more blood than heâ€™s ever seen or hungered for. And maybe even some tearsâ€“over the horror and heartbreaking truth about the evil men do no matter who or what they are.Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novelsâ€œIn conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.â€â€“Entertainment Weekly â€œ[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.â€â€“The Philadelphia Inquirer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6891'),
(16890, 'Every Last Drop', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œ[Charlie Hustonâ€™s] action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous.â€â€“Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Half the Blood of BrooklynItâ€™s like this: a series of bullet-riddled bad breaks has seen rogue Vampyre and terminal tough guy Joe Pitt go from PI for hire to Clan-connected enforcer to dead man walking in a New York minute. And after burning all his bridges, the only one left to cross leads to the Bronx, where Joeâ€™s brass knuckles and straight razor canâ€™t keep him from running afoul of a sadistic old bloodsucker with a bad bark and a worse bite. Even if every Clan in Manhattan is hollering for Joeâ€™s head on a stick, itâ€™s got to be better than trying to survive in the outer-borough wilderness.So itâ€™s a no-brainer when Clan boss Dexter Predo comes looking to make a deal. All Joe has to do to win back breathing privileges on his old turf is infiltrate an upstart Clan whose plan to cure the Vyrus could expose the secret Vampyre world to mortal eyes and set off a panic-driven massacre. Not cool. But Joeâ€™s all over it. To save the Undead future, he just has to wade neck-deep through all the archenemies, former friends, and assorted heavy hitters heâ€™s crossed in the past. No sweat? Maybe not, but definitely more blood than heâ€™s ever seen or hungered for. And maybe even some tearsâ€“over the horror and heartbreaking truth about the evil men do no matter who or what they are.Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novelsâ€œIn conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.â€â€“Entertainment Weekly â€œ[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.â€â€“The Philadelphia Inquirer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17002'),
(16891, 'Every Last Drop', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œ[Charlie Hustonâ€™s] action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous.â€â€“Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Half the Blood of BrooklynItâ€™s like this: a series of bullet-riddled bad breaks has seen rogue Vampyre and terminal tough guy Joe Pitt go from PI for hire to Clan-connected enforcer to dead man walking in a New York minute. And after burning all his bridges, the only one left to cross leads to the Bronx, where Joeâ€™s brass knuckles and straight razor canâ€™t keep him from running afoul of a sadistic old bloodsucker with a bad bark and a worse bite. Even if every Clan in Manhattan is hollering for Joeâ€™s head on a stick, itâ€™s got to be better than trying to survive in the outer-borough wilderness.So itâ€™s a no-brainer when Clan boss Dexter Predo comes looking to make a deal. All Joe has to do to win back breathing privileges on his old turf is infiltrate an upstart Clan whose plan to cure the Vyrus could expose the secret Vampyre world to mortal eyes and set off a panic-driven massacre. Not cool. But Joeâ€™s all over it. To save the Undead future, he just has to wade neck-deep through all the archenemies, former friends, and assorted heavy hitters heâ€™s crossed in the past. No sweat? Maybe not, but definitely more blood than heâ€™s ever seen or hungered for. And maybe even some tearsâ€“over the horror and heartbreaking truth about the evil men do no matter who or what they are.Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novelsâ€œIn conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.â€â€“Entertainment Weekly â€œ[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.â€â€“The Philadelphia Inquirer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26953'),
(16892, 'Every Man a Tiger: The Gulf War Air Campaign', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Chuck Horner &amp; Tony Koltz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This Tom Clancy real-life military thriller is more nuanced than his novels, because its object is not simply to dramatize armed conflict but to relate the life lessons of his source, jet-pilot-turned-Desert-Storm-air-commander General Chuck Horner. Horner is no war cheerleader like General "Buck" Turgidson in\n <em>\n  Dr. Strangelove\n </em>\n . He loathes the arrogance of the backwards, nuke-happy Strategic Air Command and the madly out-of-touch Vietnam War planner Robert McNamara. McNamara confesses his folly in two books, __ and\n <strong>\n  , but Horner''s you-are-there account more vividly demonstrates Vietnam''s grim lessons. He flew an F-105 Thunderbird "Thud" fighter in the Wild Weasels, the unit with the highest medals-per-aircrew ratio, knew pilots who were stoned to death by villagers, and realized all the bombing did zero good. "All we really had to do was befriend Ho," says Horner sensibly. "Seems he wasn''t part of a monolithic Communist plot, and hated the Chinese more than anything else." Horner is savvy about the screwups, the achievements, and the political maneuvering in and after the Gulf War, as leaders and branches of service battled for PR victories. His idea of a hero is Boomer McBroom''s pilot Captain Gentner Drummond, who won a Flying Cross medal for refusing AWACS orders to down a jet that turned out to be a Saudi ally. Horner thinks the interservice and international cooperation in the Gulf War was way better than in Vietnam, but there''s ample room for improvement. The action scenes aren''t quite as brilliant as those in\n </strong>\n , but Clancy fans will find plenty to admire. Horner''s improbable survival of a 150-m.p.h. near-crash in Libya in 1962 belongs in a Tom Clancy film.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clancy''s second study in high command of the U.S. armed forces (after Into the Storm, written with Army general Fred Franks) focuses on Air Force general Chuck Horner, the fighter pilot who was overall air commander for Desert Shield/Desert Storm. This book is less about the Gulf War than about the making of a modern fighter general and the remaking of a modern air force. Horner was part of a new Air Force generation that rejected the Strategic Air Command model of "predictability, order and control" in favor of a holistic approach to air power and air command. A firm believer in central control of air assets, Horner also regarded traditional distinctions between "strategic" and "tactical" air as no longer relevant. What mattered was the appropriate situational use of air power in an integrated war plan. The main text demonstrates Horner''s success in implementing his concepts over Iraq. Though the narrative offers no startling insights or revelations, the authors make the important contribution of presenting command friction as a natural consequence of interaction among senior officers with high intelligence and strong wills. The implication is clear: to succeed in an unpredictable international environment, America''s armed forces will need tigers at their head. Tigers are dangerous. They challenge each other. They take issue with higher wisdom and higher authority. And, according to the authors, they can be replaced by safely neutered house cats only at the country''s peril. 500,000 first printing; $500,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/528'),
(16893, 'Every Man a Tiger: The Gulf War Air Campaign', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Chuck Horner &amp; Tony Koltz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This Tom Clancy real-life military thriller is more nuanced than his novels, because its object is not simply to dramatize armed conflict but to relate the life lessons of his source, jet-pilot-turned-Desert-Storm-air-commander General Chuck Horner. Horner is no war cheerleader like General "Buck" Turgidson in\n <em>\n  Dr. Strangelove\n </em>\n . He loathes the arrogance of the backwards, nuke-happy Strategic Air Command and the madly out-of-touch Vietnam War planner Robert McNamara. McNamara confesses his folly in two books, __ and\n <strong>\n  , but Horner''s you-are-there account more vividly demonstrates Vietnam''s grim lessons. He flew an F-105 Thunderbird "Thud" fighter in the Wild Weasels, the unit with the highest medals-per-aircrew ratio, knew pilots who were stoned to death by villagers, and realized all the bombing did zero good. "All we really had to do was befriend Ho," says Horner sensibly. "Seems he wasn''t part of a monolithic Communist plot, and hated the Chinese more than anything else." Horner is savvy about the screwups, the achievements, and the political maneuvering in and after the Gulf War, as leaders and branches of service battled for PR victories. His idea of a hero is Boomer McBroom''s pilot Captain Gentner Drummond, who won a Flying Cross medal for refusing AWACS orders to down a jet that turned out to be a Saudi ally. Horner thinks the interservice and international cooperation in the Gulf War was way better than in Vietnam, but there''s ample room for improvement. The action scenes aren''t quite as brilliant as those in\n </strong>\n , but Clancy fans will find plenty to admire. Horner''s improbable survival of a 150-m.p.h. near-crash in Libya in 1962 belongs in a Tom Clancy film.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clancy''s second study in high command of the U.S. armed forces (after Into the Storm, written with Army general Fred Franks) focuses on Air Force general Chuck Horner, the fighter pilot who was overall air commander for Desert Shield/Desert Storm. This book is less about the Gulf War than about the making of a modern fighter general and the remaking of a modern air force. Horner was part of a new Air Force generation that rejected the Strategic Air Command model of "predictability, order and control" in favor of a holistic approach to air power and air command. A firm believer in central control of air assets, Horner also regarded traditional distinctions between "strategic" and "tactical" air as no longer relevant. What mattered was the appropriate situational use of air power in an integrated war plan. The main text demonstrates Horner''s success in implementing his concepts over Iraq. Though the narrative offers no startling insights or revelations, the authors make the important contribution of presenting command friction as a natural consequence of interaction among senior officers with high intelligence and strong wills. The implication is clear: to succeed in an unpredictable international environment, America''s armed forces will need tigers at their head. Tigers are dangerous. They challenge each other. They take issue with higher wisdom and higher authority. And, according to the authors, they can be replaced by safely neutered house cats only at the country''s peril. 500,000 first printing; $500,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9016'),
(16894, 'Every Man a Tiger: The Gulf War Air Campaign', 'Tom Clancy; Chuck Horner; Tony Koltz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This Tom Clancy real-life military thriller is more nuanced than his novels, because its object is not simply to dramatize armed conflict but to relate the life lessons of his source, jet-pilot-turned-Desert-Storm-air-commander General Chuck Horner. Horner is no war cheerleader like General "Buck" Turgidson in\n <em>\n  Dr. Strangelove\n </em>\n . He loathes the arrogance of the backwards, nuke-happy Strategic Air Command and the madly out-of-touch Vietnam War planner Robert McNamara. McNamara confesses his folly in two books, __ and\n <strong>\n  , but Horner''s you-are-there account more vividly demonstrates Vietnam''s grim lessons. He flew an F-105 Thunderbird "Thud" fighter in the Wild Weasels, the unit with the highest medals-per-aircrew ratio, knew pilots who were stoned to death by villagers, and realized all the bombing did zero good. "All we really had to do was befriend Ho," says Horner sensibly. "Seems he wasn''t part of a monolithic Communist plot, and hated the Chinese more than anything else." Horner is savvy about the screwups, the achievements, and the political maneuvering in and after the Gulf War, as leaders and branches of service battled for PR victories. His idea of a hero is Boomer McBroom''s pilot Captain Gentner Drummond, who won a Flying Cross medal for refusing AWACS orders to down a jet that turned out to be a Saudi ally. Horner thinks the interservice and international cooperation in the Gulf War was way better than in Vietnam, but there''s ample room for improvement. The action scenes aren''t quite as brilliant as those in\n </strong>\n , but Clancy fans will find plenty to admire. Horner''s improbable survival of a 150-m.p.h. near-crash in Libya in 1962 belongs in a Tom Clancy film.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Clancy''s second study in high command of the U.S. armed forces (after Into the Storm, written with Army general Fred Franks) focuses on Air Force general Chuck Horner, the fighter pilot who was overall air commander for Desert Shield/Desert Storm. This book is less about the Gulf War than about the making of a modern fighter general and the remaking of a modern air force. Horner was part of a new Air Force generation that rejected the Strategic Air Command model of "predictability, order and control" in favor of a holistic approach to air power and air command. A firm believer in central control of air assets, Horner also regarded traditional distinctions between "strategic" and "tactical" air as no longer relevant. What mattered was the appropriate situational use of air power in an integrated war plan. The main text demonstrates Horner''s success in implementing his concepts over Iraq. Though the narrative offers no startling insights or revelations, the authors make the important contribution of presenting command friction as a natural consequence of interaction among senior officers with high intelligence and strong wills. The implication is clear: to succeed in an unpredictable international environment, America''s armed forces will need tigers at their head. Tigers are dangerous. They challenge each other. They take issue with higher wisdom and higher authority. And, according to the authors, they can be replaced by safely neutered house cats only at the country''s peril. 500,000 first printing; $500,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24342'),
(16895, 'Every Man for Himself', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After taking on the ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole in her previous book,\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bainbridge, whose The Birthday Boys was an unforgettable rendition of Scott''s fatal Antarctic expedition, has turned to another Edwardian tragedy for her new novel: the sinking of the Titanic. As Bainbridge admirers might expect, it is not the kind of version that would make a spectacular movie; rather, it is a meticulously observed account that almost offhandedly convinces the reader that this is exactly what it must have been like aboard the doomed liner. The story is told by a wealthy young American man-about-town, an adopted nephew of J. Pierpont Morgan, who in search of something to do has had a slight hand in the ship''s design ("the specifications of bathtubs"). Once aboard, he drinks too much with his layabout friends; sees people like the Astors and Strauses; becomes infatuated with a girl who in turn falls for a mysterious and cynical stranger; and gets to know a young Jewish dress designer who is hoping to become a hit in New York. In a few deft strokes Bainbridge shows the gulf between the steerage passengers and the "nobs" while communicating the alternating servility and resentment of the crew. The book is nearly over before disaster strikes, but once again, the unnerving details seem just right: the careless self-confidence at the beginning, the gallantry quickly eroding to panic. Bainbridge''s swift, economical novels tell us more about an era and the ways in which its people inhabit it than volumes of social history.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7230'),
(16896, 'Every Man for Himself', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After taking on the ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole in her previous book,\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bainbridge, whose The Birthday Boys was an unforgettable rendition of Scott''s fatal Antarctic expedition, has turned to another Edwardian tragedy for her new novel: the sinking of the Titanic. As Bainbridge admirers might expect, it is not the kind of version that would make a spectacular movie; rather, it is a meticulously observed account that almost offhandedly convinces the reader that this is exactly what it must have been like aboard the doomed liner. The story is told by a wealthy young American man-about-town, an adopted nephew of J. Pierpont Morgan, who in search of something to do has had a slight hand in the ship''s design ("the specifications of bathtubs"). Once aboard, he drinks too much with his layabout friends; sees people like the Astors and Strauses; becomes infatuated with a girl who in turn falls for a mysterious and cynical stranger; and gets to know a young Jewish dress designer who is hoping to become a hit in New York. In a few deft strokes Bainbridge shows the gulf between the steerage passengers and the "nobs" while communicating the alternating servility and resentment of the crew. The book is nearly over before disaster strikes, but once again, the unnerving details seem just right: the careless self-confidence at the beginning, the gallantry quickly eroding to panic. Bainbridge''s swift, economical novels tell us more about an era and the ways in which its people inhabit it than volumes of social history.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8277'),
(16897, 'Every Man for Himself', 'Beryl Bainbridge', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After taking on the ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole in her previous book,\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bainbridge, whose The Birthday Boys was an unforgettable rendition of Scott''s fatal Antarctic expedition, has turned to another Edwardian tragedy for her new novel: the sinking of the Titanic. As Bainbridge admirers might expect, it is not the kind of version that would make a spectacular movie; rather, it is a meticulously observed account that almost offhandedly convinces the reader that this is exactly what it must have been like aboard the doomed liner. The story is told by a wealthy young American man-about-town, an adopted nephew of J. Pierpont Morgan, who in search of something to do has had a slight hand in the ship''s design ("the specifications of bathtubs"). Once aboard, he drinks too much with his layabout friends; sees people like the Astors and Strauses; becomes infatuated with a girl who in turn falls for a mysterious and cynical stranger; and gets to know a young Jewish dress designer who is hoping to become a hit in New York. In a few deft strokes Bainbridge shows the gulf between the steerage passengers and the "nobs" while communicating the alternating servility and resentment of the crew. The book is nearly over before disaster strikes, but once again, the unnerving details seem just right: the careless self-confidence at the beginning, the gallantry quickly eroding to panic. Bainbridge''s swift, economical novels tell us more about an era and the ways in which its people inhabit it than volumes of social history.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16658'),
(16898, 'Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War', 'Megan K. Stack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An American reporter takes in one Middle East cataclysm after another in this searing memoir.\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n correspondent Stack covered the war in Afghanistan after Sept. 11, then bounced around to other hot-spot postings, including Israel during the second Intifada, occupied Baghdad, and southern Lebanon during the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Stack offers gripping accounts of the sorrows of war, especially of the traumas Afghan and Lebanese civilians endured under American and Israeli bombing, but she also writes evocatively of quieter pathologies: Libya''s jovially sinister totalitarian regime, corruption under Egypt''s quasi-dictatorship, and lyric anti-Semitism at a Yemeni poetry slam. Dropping journalistic detachment in favor of a novelistic style, she enters the story as a protagonist whose travailsâ€”fending off a lecherous Afghan warlord, seething under the humiliating restrictions of Saudi Arabia''s gender apartheid systemâ€”illuminate the societies she encounters. The big-picture lessons Stack drawsâ€”The Middle East goes crazy and we go along with itâ€”are none too cogent, but her vivid, atmospheric prose and keen empathy make her a superb observer of the region''s horrific particulars.\n <em>\n  (Jun.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Society assigns war to the military, not the media, yet journalists venture into combat zones ahead of, alongside, and well after the troops whose stories they tell. As a 25-year-old correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, Stack covered Afghanistan in the days immediately following 9/11, then traveled to other outposts in the war on terror, from Iraq to Iran, Libya, and Lebanon. In a disquieting series of essays, Stack now takes readers deep into the carnage where she was exposed to the insanity, innocence, and inhumanity of wars with no beginning, middle, or end. Her soaring imagery sears itself into the brain, in acute and accurate tales that should never be forgotten by the wider world, and yet always are. Stack grew increasingly demoralized with each new outburst of hostilities, and clearly covering the violence took its emotional toll: the uncomfortable hypocrisy of Abu Ghraib, the unconscionable confusion over womenâ€™s subjugation, the unfathomable intricacies of tribal allegiances. Anyone wishing to understand the Middle East need only look into the faces of war that Stack renders with exceptional humanityâ€”the bombers as well as the bureaucrats, the rebels and the refugees, the victors and the victims. --Carol Haggas\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2927'),
(16899, 'Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War', 'Megan K. Stack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An American reporter takes in one Middle East cataclysm after another in this searing memoir.\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n correspondent Stack covered the war in Afghanistan after Sept. 11, then bounced around to other hot-spot postings, including Israel during the second Intifada, occupied Baghdad, and southern Lebanon during the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Stack offers gripping accounts of the sorrows of war, especially of the traumas Afghan and Lebanese civilians endured under American and Israeli bombing, but she also writes evocatively of quieter pathologies: Libya''s jovially sinister totalitarian regime, corruption under Egypt''s quasi-dictatorship, and lyric anti-Semitism at a Yemeni poetry slam. Dropping journalistic detachment in favor of a novelistic style, she enters the story as a protagonist whose travailsâ€”fending off a lecherous Afghan warlord, seething under the humiliating restrictions of Saudi Arabia''s gender apartheid systemâ€”illuminate the societies she encounters. The big-picture lessons Stack drawsâ€”The Middle East goes crazy and we go along with itâ€”are none too cogent, but her vivid, atmospheric prose and keen empathy make her a superb observer of the region''s horrific particulars.\n <em>\n  (Jun.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Society assigns war to the military, not the media, yet journalists venture into combat zones ahead of, alongside, and well after the troops whose stories they tell. As a 25-year-old correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, Stack covered Afghanistan in the days immediately following 9/11, then traveled to other outposts in the war on terror, from Iraq to Iran, Libya, and Lebanon. In a disquieting series of essays, Stack now takes readers deep into the carnage where she was exposed to the insanity, innocence, and inhumanity of wars with no beginning, middle, or end. Her soaring imagery sears itself into the brain, in acute and accurate tales that should never be forgotten by the wider world, and yet always are. Stack grew increasingly demoralized with each new outburst of hostilities, and clearly covering the violence took its emotional toll: the uncomfortable hypocrisy of Abu Ghraib, the unconscionable confusion over womenâ€™s subjugation, the unfathomable intricacies of tribal allegiances. Anyone wishing to understand the Middle East need only look into the faces of war that Stack renders with exceptional humanityâ€”the bombers as well as the bureaucrats, the rebels and the refugees, the victors and the victims. --Carol Haggas\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12815'),
(16900, 'Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War', 'Megan K. Stack', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An American reporter takes in one Middle East cataclysm after another in this searing memoir.\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n correspondent Stack covered the war in Afghanistan after Sept. 11, then bounced around to other hot-spot postings, including Israel during the second Intifada, occupied Baghdad, and southern Lebanon during the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Stack offers gripping accounts of the sorrows of war, especially of the traumas Afghan and Lebanese civilians endured under American and Israeli bombing, but she also writes evocatively of quieter pathologies: Libya''s jovially sinister totalitarian regime, corruption under Egypt''s quasi-dictatorship, and lyric anti-Semitism at a Yemeni poetry slam. Dropping journalistic detachment in favor of a novelistic style, she enters the story as a protagonist whose travailsâ€”fending off a lecherous Afghan warlord, seething under the humiliating restrictions of Saudi Arabia''s gender apartheid systemâ€”illuminate the societies she encounters. The big-picture lessons Stack drawsâ€”The Middle East goes crazy and we go along with itâ€”are none too cogent, but her vivid, atmospheric prose and keen empathy make her a superb observer of the region''s horrific particulars.\n <em>\n  (Jun.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Society assigns war to the military, not the media, yet journalists venture into combat zones ahead of, alongside, and well after the troops whose stories they tell. As a 25-year-old correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, Stack covered Afghanistan in the days immediately following 9/11, then traveled to other outposts in the war on terror, from Iraq to Iran, Libya, and Lebanon. In a disquieting series of essays, Stack now takes readers deep into the carnage where she was exposed to the insanity, innocence, and inhumanity of wars with no beginning, middle, or end. Her soaring imagery sears itself into the brain, in acute and accurate tales that should never be forgotten by the wider world, and yet always are. Stack grew increasingly demoralized with each new outburst of hostilities, and clearly covering the violence took its emotional toll: the uncomfortable hypocrisy of Abu Ghraib, the unconscionable confusion over womenâ€™s subjugation, the unfathomable intricacies of tribal allegiances. Anyone wishing to understand the Middle East need only look into the faces of war that Stack renders with exceptional humanityâ€”the bombers as well as the bureaucrats, the rebels and the refugees, the victors and the victims. --Carol Haggas\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21843'),
(16901, 'Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis', 'Lisa Sanders', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D. "The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through this other world as unknown as it is unexpected. When I see patients in the hospital or in my office who are suddenly, surprisingly ill, what they really want to know is, What is wrong with me? They want a road map that will help them manage their new surroundings. The ability to give this unnerving and unfamiliar place a name, to know it on some level, restores a measure of control, independent of whether or not that diagnosis comes attached to a cure. Because, even today, a diagnosis is frequently all a good doctor has to offer. A healthy young man suddenly loses his memory, making him unable to remember the events of each passing hour. Two patients diagnosed with Lyme disease improve after antibiotic treatment, only to have their symptoms mysteriously return. A young woman lies dying in the ICU, bleeding, jaundiced, incoherent, and none of her doctors know what is killing her. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Lisa Sanders takes us bedside to witness the process of solving these and other diagnostic dilemmas, providing a firsthand account of the expertise and intuition that lead a doctor to make the right diagnosis. Never in human history have doctors had the knowledge, the tools, and the skills that they have today to diagnose illness and disease. And yet mistakes are made, diagnoses missed, symptoms or tests misunderstood. In this high-tech world of modern medicine, Sanders shows us that knowledge, while essential, is not sufficient to unravel the complexities of illness. She presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly every illness, the diagnosis, revealing the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who are sick or dying. Through dramatic stories of patients with baffling symptoms, Sanders portrays the absolute necessity and surprising difficulties of getting the patient''s story, the challenges of the physical exam, the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor communication, the vagaries of tests, and the near calamity of diagnostic errors. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Sanders chronicles the real-life drama of doctors solving these difficult medical mysteries that not only illustrate the art and science of diagnosis, but often save the patients'' lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3297'),
(16902, 'Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis', 'Lisa Sanders', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D. "The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through this other world as unknown as it is unexpected. When I see patients in the hospital or in my office who are suddenly, surprisingly ill, what they really want to know is, What is wrong with me? They want a road map that will help them manage their new surroundings. The ability to give this unnerving and unfamiliar place a name, to know it on some level, restores a measure of control, independent of whether or not that diagnosis comes attached to a cure. Because, even today, a diagnosis is frequently all a good doctor has to offer. A healthy young man suddenly loses his memory, making him unable to remember the events of each passing hour. Two patients diagnosed with Lyme disease improve after antibiotic treatment, only to have their symptoms mysteriously return. A young woman lies dying in the ICU, bleeding, jaundiced, incoherent, and none of her doctors know what is killing her. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Lisa Sanders takes us bedside to witness the process of solving these and other diagnostic dilemmas, providing a firsthand account of the expertise and intuition that lead a doctor to make the right diagnosis. Never in human history have doctors had the knowledge, the tools, and the skills that they have today to diagnose illness and disease. And yet mistakes are made, diagnoses missed, symptoms or tests misunderstood. In this high-tech world of modern medicine, Sanders shows us that knowledge, while essential, is not sufficient to unravel the complexities of illness. She presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly every illness, the diagnosis, revealing the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who are sick or dying. Through dramatic stories of patients with baffling symptoms, Sanders portrays the absolute necessity and surprising difficulties of getting the patient''s story, the challenges of the physical exam, the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor communication, the vagaries of tests, and the near calamity of diagnostic errors. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Sanders chronicles the real-life drama of doctors solving these difficult medical mysteries that not only illustrate the art and science of diagnosis, but often save the patients'' lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12480'),
(16903, 'Every patient tells a story: medical mysteries and the art of diagnosis', 'Lisa Sanders', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D. "The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through this other world as unknown as it is unexpected. When I see patients in the hospital or in my office who are suddenly, surprisingly ill, what they really want to know is, What is wrong with me? They want a road map that will help them manage their new surroundings. The ability to give this unnerving and unfamiliar place a name, to know it on some level, restores a measure of control, independent of whether or not that diagnosis comes attached to a cure. Because, even today, a diagnosis is frequently all a good doctor has to offer. A healthy young man suddenly loses his memory, making him unable to remember the events of each passing hour. Two patients diagnosed with Lyme disease improve after antibiotic treatment, only to have their symptoms mysteriously return. A young woman lies dying in the ICU, bleeding, jaundiced, incoherent, and none of her doctors know what is killing her. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Lisa Sanders takes us bedside to witness the process of solving these and other diagnostic dilemmas, providing a firsthand account of the expertise and intuition that lead a doctor to make the right diagnosis. Never in human history have doctors had the knowledge, the tools, and the skills that they have today to diagnose illness and disease. And yet mistakes are made, diagnoses missed, symptoms or tests misunderstood. In this high-tech world of modern medicine, Sanders shows us that knowledge, while essential, is not sufficient to unravel the complexities of illness. She presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly every illness, the diagnosis, revealing the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who are sick or dying. Through dramatic stories of patients with baffling symptoms, Sanders portrays the absolute necessity and surprising difficulties of getting the patient''s story, the challenges of the physical exam, the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor communication, the vagaries of tests, and the near calamity of diagnostic errors. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Sanders chronicles the real-life drama of doctors solving these difficult medical mysteries that not only illustrate the art and science of diagnosis, but often save the patients'' lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21171'),
(16904, 'Everybody&#39;s Guide to Small Claims Court', 'Ralph E. Warner &amp; Ralph Warner &amp; Emily Doskow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Everybody''s Guide to Small Claims Court walks you through the halls of small justice and explains how to file a claim, figure damages and argue your case effectively." --\n <em>\n  Kiplinger''s Personal Finance Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Step-by-step advice on how to prepare your case, how to file it, and perhaps most importantly, how to collect if you win..." --\n <em>\n  Associated Press\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Takes you by the hand through all the potential pitfalls of trying your own case." --\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The only guide to small claims court that provides insights from judges.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smart preparation for your day in small claims court can make the difference between writing a check and receiving one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Everybody''s Guide to Small Claims Court provides the information, tips and strategies you need to sue someone successfully, or put up a winning defense. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   write a demand letter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   file and serve papers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   prepare a winning presentation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   prepare evidence\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   line up persuasive witnesses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   figure out your damages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   mediate a settlement\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   collect money when you win\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Everybody''s Guide to Small Claims Court gives you down-to-earth examples of common cases, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   auto repair\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   rental deposit\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   auto warranty\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   property damage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   small business disputes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The 12th edition is completely updated by a state-by-state appendix of small claims rules, including increases of limits on how much people can sue for, an expanded discussion of mediation, and more advice from real judges and commissioners.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1900');
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(16905, 'Everybody&#39;s Guide to Small Claims Court', 'Ralph E. Warner &amp; Ralph Warner &amp; Emily Doskow', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Everybody''s Guide to Small Claims Court walks you through the halls of small justice and explains how to file a claim, figure damages and argue your case effectively." --\n <em>\n  Kiplinger''s Personal Finance Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Step-by-step advice on how to prepare your case, how to file it, and perhaps most importantly, how to collect if you win..." --\n <em>\n  Associated Press\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Takes you by the hand through all the potential pitfalls of trying your own case." --\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The only guide to small claims court that provides insights from judges.\n</p>\n<p>\n Smart preparation for your day in small claims court can make the difference between writing a check and receiving one.\n</p>\n<p>\n Everybody''s Guide to Small Claims Court provides the information, tips and strategies you need to sue someone successfully, or put up a winning defense. Find out how to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   write a demand letter\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   file and serve papers\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   prepare a winning presentation\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   prepare evidence\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   line up persuasive witnesses\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   figure out your damages\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   mediate a settlement\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   collect money when you win\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Everybody''s Guide to Small Claims Court gives you down-to-earth examples of common cases, including:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   auto repair\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   rental deposit\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   auto warranty\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   property damage\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   small business disputes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n The 12th edition is completely updated by a state-by-state appendix of small claims rules, including increases of limits on how much people can sue for, an expanded discussion of mediation, and more advice from real judges and commissioners.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13232'),
(16906, 'Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes', 'Giada De Laurentiis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With its cover image of the fetching de Laurentiis wearing a low-cut top and its promise of easy, tasty Italian recipes, this cookbook is sure to draw in home cooks who don''t know how to make a basic marinara sauce and want to be introduced them to the beauty and simplicity of Italian cuisine. Which is, of course, a good thing, but a shame, too, since this work lacks depth or meaning. Readers seeking a true introduction to the building blocks of Italian cooking would be worlds better off with one of Marcella Hazan''s or Lidia Bastianich''s early primers. What those who are lured in by the good looks and charm of de Laurentiis (granddaughter of film producer Dino and star of Food Network''s\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  ) will get is an unsophisticated but decent selection of Italian-American classics, from antipasto to pasta, meat dishes to desserts, including Clams Oreganata, Caprese Salad, Salsa all''Amatriciana, Fettucine Alfredo, Veal Marsala, Caponata and Chocolate TiramisÃ¹. De Laurentiis provides an introduction to each dish, and her recipes are generally minimalist (there are no recipes for homemade pastas or stews that take a day to make). Though bursting with glamorous shots of a lovely looking author, this is a rather flat first effort.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her hit Food Network show\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  , Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to cook delicious, beautiful food in a flash. And here, in her long-awaited first book, she does the sameâ€”helps you put a fabulous dinner on the table tonight, for friends or just for the kids, with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of flavor. She makes it all look easy, because it is.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  is true to its title: the fresh, simple recipes are incredibly quick and accessible, and also utterly mouth-wateringâ€”perfect for everyday cooking. And the book is focused on the real-life considerations of what you actually have in your refrigerator and pantry (no mail-order ingredients here) and what youâ€™re in the mood forâ€”whether a simply sauced pasta or a hearty family-friendly roast, these great recipes cover every contingency. So, for example, youâ€™ll find dishes that you can make solely from pantry ingredients, or those that transform lowly leftovers into exquisite entrÃ©es (including brilliant ideas for leftover pasta), and those that satisfy your yearning to have something sweet baking in the oven. There are 7 ways to make red sauce more interesting, 6 different preparations of the classic cutlet, 5 perfect pestos, 4 creative uses for prosciutto, 3 variations on basic polenta, 2 great steaks, and 1 sublime chocolate tiramisÃ¹â€”plus 100 other recipes that turn everyday ingredients into speedy but special dinners.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whatâ€™s more,\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  is organized according to what type of food you want tonightâ€”whether a soul-warming stew for Sunday supper, a quick sautÃ© for a weeknight, or a baked pasta for potluck. These categories will help you figure out what to cook in an instant, with such choices as fresh-from-the-pantry appetizers, sauceless pastas, everyday roasts, and stuffed vegetablesâ€”whatever youâ€™re in the mood for, youâ€™ll be able to find a simple, delicious recipe for it here. Thatâ€™s the beauty of Italian home cooking, and thatâ€™s what Giada De Laurentiis offers hereâ€”the essential recipes to make a great Italian dinner. Tonight.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5305'),
(16907, 'Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes', 'Giada De Laurentiis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With its cover image of the fetching de Laurentiis wearing a low-cut top and its promise of easy, tasty Italian recipes, this cookbook is sure to draw in home cooks who don''t know how to make a basic marinara sauce and want to be introduced them to the beauty and simplicity of Italian cuisine. Which is, of course, a good thing, but a shame, too, since this work lacks depth or meaning. Readers seeking a true introduction to the building blocks of Italian cooking would be worlds better off with one of Marcella Hazan''s or Lidia Bastianich''s early primers. What those who are lured in by the good looks and charm of de Laurentiis (granddaughter of film producer Dino and star of Food Network''s\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  ) will get is an unsophisticated but decent selection of Italian-American classics, from antipasto to pasta, meat dishes to desserts, including Clams Oreganata, Caprese Salad, Salsa all''Amatriciana, Fettucine Alfredo, Veal Marsala, Caponata and Chocolate TiramisÃ¹. De Laurentiis provides an introduction to each dish, and her recipes are generally minimalist (there are no recipes for homemade pastas or stews that take a day to make). Though bursting with glamorous shots of a lovely looking author, this is a rather flat first effort.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her hit Food Network show\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  , Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to cook delicious, beautiful food in a flash. And here, in her long-awaited first book, she does the sameâ€”helps you put a fabulous dinner on the table tonight, for friends or just for the kids, with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of flavor. She makes it all look easy, because it is.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  is true to its title: the fresh, simple recipes are incredibly quick and accessible, and also utterly mouth-wateringâ€”perfect for everyday cooking. And the book is focused on the real-life considerations of what you actually have in your refrigerator and pantry (no mail-order ingredients here) and what youâ€™re in the mood forâ€”whether a simply sauced pasta or a hearty family-friendly roast, these great recipes cover every contingency. So, for example, youâ€™ll find dishes that you can make solely from pantry ingredients, or those that transform lowly leftovers into exquisite entrÃ©es (including brilliant ideas for leftover pasta), and those that satisfy your yearning to have something sweet baking in the oven. There are 7 ways to make red sauce more interesting, 6 different preparations of the classic cutlet, 5 perfect pestos, 4 creative uses for prosciutto, 3 variations on basic polenta, 2 great steaks, and 1 sublime chocolate tiramisÃ¹â€”plus 100 other recipes that turn everyday ingredients into speedy but special dinners.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whatâ€™s more,\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  is organized according to what type of food you want tonightâ€”whether a soul-warming stew for Sunday supper, a quick sautÃ© for a weeknight, or a baked pasta for potluck. These categories will help you figure out what to cook in an instant, with such choices as fresh-from-the-pantry appetizers, sauceless pastas, everyday roasts, and stuffed vegetablesâ€”whatever youâ€™re in the mood for, youâ€™ll be able to find a simple, delicious recipe for it here. Thatâ€™s the beauty of Italian home cooking, and thatâ€™s what Giada De Laurentiis offers hereâ€”the essential recipes to make a great Italian dinner. Tonight.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12261'),
(16908, 'Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes', 'Giada De Laurentiis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With its cover image of the fetching de Laurentiis wearing a low-cut top and its promise of easy, tasty Italian recipes, this cookbook is sure to draw in home cooks who don''t know how to make a basic marinara sauce and want to be introduced them to the beauty and simplicity of Italian cuisine. Which is, of course, a good thing, but a shame, too, since this work lacks depth or meaning. Readers seeking a true introduction to the building blocks of Italian cooking would be worlds better off with one of Marcella Hazan''s or Lidia Bastianich''s early primers. What those who are lured in by the good looks and charm of de Laurentiis (granddaughter of film producer Dino and star of Food Network''s\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  ) will get is an unsophisticated but decent selection of Italian-American classics, from antipasto to pasta, meat dishes to desserts, including Clams Oreganata, Caprese Salad, Salsa all''Amatriciana, Fettucine Alfredo, Veal Marsala, Caponata and Chocolate TiramisÃ¹. De Laurentiis provides an introduction to each dish, and her recipes are generally minimalist (there are no recipes for homemade pastas or stews that take a day to make). Though bursting with glamorous shots of a lovely looking author, this is a rather flat first effort.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In her hit Food Network show\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  , Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to cook delicious, beautiful food in a flash. And here, in her long-awaited first book, she does the sameâ€”helps you put a fabulous dinner on the table tonight, for friends or just for the kids, with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of flavor. She makes it all look easy, because it is.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  is true to its title: the fresh, simple recipes are incredibly quick and accessible, and also utterly mouth-wateringâ€”perfect for everyday cooking. And the book is focused on the real-life considerations of what you actually have in your refrigerator and pantry (no mail-order ingredients here) and what youâ€™re in the mood forâ€”whether a simply sauced pasta or a hearty family-friendly roast, these great recipes cover every contingency. So, for example, youâ€™ll find dishes that you can make solely from pantry ingredients, or those that transform lowly leftovers into exquisite entrÃ©es (including brilliant ideas for leftover pasta), and those that satisfy your yearning to have something sweet baking in the oven. There are 7 ways to make red sauce more interesting, 6 different preparations of the classic cutlet, 5 perfect pestos, 4 creative uses for prosciutto, 3 variations on basic polenta, 2 great steaks, and 1 sublime chocolate tiramisÃ¹â€”plus 100 other recipes that turn everyday ingredients into speedy but special dinners.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Whatâ€™s more,\n  <em>\n   Everyday Italian\n  </em>\n  is organized according to what type of food you want tonightâ€”whether a soul-warming stew for Sunday supper, a quick sautÃ© for a weeknight, or a baked pasta for potluck. These categories will help you figure out what to cook in an instant, with such choices as fresh-from-the-pantry appetizers, sauceless pastas, everyday roasts, and stuffed vegetablesâ€”whatever youâ€™re in the mood for, youâ€™ll be able to find a simple, delicious recipe for it here. Thatâ€™s the beauty of Italian home cooking, and thatâ€™s what Giada De Laurentiis offers hereâ€”the essential recipes to make a great Italian dinner. Tonight.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19351'),
(16909, 'Everyman', 'Philip Roth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "I''m thirty-four!  Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you''re seventy-five." Philip Roth''s new novel is a fiercely intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism.  The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family''s harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man''s lifelong confrontation with mortality. Roth''s everyman is a hero whose youthful sense of independence and confidence begins to be challenged when illness commences its attack in middle age.  A successful commercial advertising artist, he is the father of two sons who despise him and a daughter who adores him.  He is the brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy.  He is the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he has made a mess of marriage.  Inevitably, he discovers that he has become what he does not want to be. Roth has been hailed as "the most compelling of living writers . . . [His] every book is like a dispatch from the deepest recesses of the national mind."* In Everyman, Roth once again displays his hallmark incisiveness.  From his first glimpse of death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through his vigorous, seemingly invincible prime, Roth''s hero is a man bewildered not only by his own decline but by the unimaginable deaths of his contemporaries and those he has loved.  The terrain of this haunting novel is the human body.  Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12414'),
(16910, 'The Everything Chinese Cookbook: From Wonton Soup to Sweet and Sour Chicken -- 300 Succulent Recipes From the Far East', 'Rhonda Lauret Parkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Featuring hundreds of recipes, such as Snow Pea Stir-fry, Hot Chicken Salad, General Tso''s Chicken, and Traditional Mu Shu Pork, *The EverythingÂ® Chinese Cookbook* makes preparing authentic Chinese dishes fun and easy!  From basic Chinese flavors and dipping sauces, such as Quick and Easy Sweet-and-Sour Sauce, to Chinese cooking methods and meals, including Stir-fried Orange Beef, Appetizers, such as Crab Rangoon Soups, such as Wonton Soup Vegetable dishes, such as Stir-fried Baby Bok Choy Beef dishes, such as Mongolian Beef with Rice Noodles Pork dishes, such as Sweet and Sour Spareribs Mouthwatering fiery dishes, such as Spicy Chicken with Cashews Desserts, such as Sweet Baked Pineapple and Banana *The EverythingÂ® Chinese Cookbook* will have you serving up tasty Chinese cuisine to tempt anyone!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1934'),
(16911, 'The Everything Chinese Cookbook: From Wonton Soup to Sweet and Sour Chicken -- 300 Succulent Recipes From the Far East', 'Rhonda Lauret Parkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Featuring hundreds of recipes, such as Snow Pea Stir-fry, Hot Chicken Salad, General Tso''s Chicken, and Traditional Mu Shu Pork, *The EverythingÂ® Chinese Cookbook* makes preparing authentic Chinese dishes fun and easy!  From basic Chinese flavors and dipping sauces, such as Quick and Easy Sweet-and-Sour Sauce, to Chinese cooking methods and meals, including Stir-fried Orange Beef, Appetizers, such as Crab Rangoon Soups, such as Wonton Soup Vegetable dishes, such as Stir-fried Baby Bok Choy Beef dishes, such as Mongolian Beef with Rice Noodles Pork dishes, such as Sweet and Sour Spareribs Mouthwatering fiery dishes, such as Spicy Chicken with Cashews Desserts, such as Sweet Baked Pineapple and Banana *The EverythingÂ® Chinese Cookbook* will have you serving up tasty Chinese cuisine to tempt anyone!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11786'),
(16912, 'Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead', 'Robert Brockway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA bold, terrifying read that goes down smooth thanks to a crisp infusion of humor. Thanks to this book, I can now aspire to dying in cooler ways than I ever thought possible. F\n <em>\n </em>\n k you, old age. Iâ€™m holding out for a megatsunami.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Daniel H. Wilson, author of\n  <em>\n   How To Survive a Robot Uprising\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThe book is proof that the ridiculous and the horrible are joined at the hip and will never be separated; in a universe that seems to continually be thinking up new ways to kill us, Brockway knows there is but one rational response: to point at it and laugh.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”David Wong, author of\n  <em>\n   John Dies at the End\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere has never been a hipper Prophet of Doom. Irreverently entertaining and terrifyingly accurate, the probability of our future death has never been more fun.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Michael Largo, author of\n  <em>\n   Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is hilarious. As if I wasn''t already afraid the leave the house. What''s that? Brockway suggests the apocalypse doesn''t knock? What if I cower under a desk? Well, damn. I might as well have another nacho.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Garth Sundem, author of\n  <em>\n   The Geeksâ€™ Guide to World Domination\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _Just when you thought youâ€™d accepted your own mortality . . .\n <em>\n  Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody\n </em>\n is bringing panic back. Twenty illustrated, hilariously fear-inducing â€¨essays reveal the chilling and _very real\n <em>\n  experiments, dangerous emerging technologies, and terrifying natural disasters that soon could\n </em>\n â€”_or very nearly already did_â€”_bring about the end of humanity. In short, everything in here will kill you and everyone you love. At any moment. And nobodyâ€™s told you about it_â€”_until now:_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Experiments in green energy like the HiPER, which uses massive lasers to create a tiny â€œcontainedâ€ sun; itâ€™s an idea that could save the world if it doesnâ€™t consume us all in a fiery fusion reaction first.\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Global disasters like the hypercaneâ€”a hurricane so large it could cover all of North America and shoot trailer parks into space!\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Terrifying new developments in robotics like the EATR, which powers itself on meat_â€”_an invention in the running for â€œWorst Decision Made by Anybody.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1690'),
(16913, 'Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead', 'Robert Brockway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA bold, terrifying read that goes down smooth thanks to a crisp infusion of humor. Thanks to this book, I can now aspire to dying in cooler ways than I ever thought possible. F\n <em>\n </em>\n k you, old age. Iâ€™m holding out for a megatsunami.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Daniel H. Wilson, author of\n  <em>\n   How To Survive a Robot Uprising\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThe book is proof that the ridiculous and the horrible are joined at the hip and will never be separated; in a universe that seems to continually be thinking up new ways to kill us, Brockway knows there is but one rational response: to point at it and laugh.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”David Wong, author of\n  <em>\n   John Dies at the End\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere has never been a hipper Prophet of Doom. Irreverently entertaining and terrifyingly accurate, the probability of our future death has never been more fun.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Michael Largo, author of\n  <em>\n   Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is hilarious. As if I wasn''t already afraid the leave the house. What''s that? Brockway suggests the apocalypse doesn''t knock? What if I cower under a desk? Well, damn. I might as well have another nacho.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Garth Sundem, author of\n  <em>\n   The Geeksâ€™ Guide to World Domination\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _Just when you thought youâ€™d accepted your own mortality . . .\n <em>\n  Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody\n </em>\n is bringing panic back. Twenty illustrated, hilariously fear-inducing â€¨essays reveal the chilling and _very real\n <em>\n  experiments, dangerous emerging technologies, and terrifying natural disasters that soon could\n </em>\n â€”_or very nearly already did_â€”_bring about the end of humanity. In short, everything in here will kill you and everyone you love. At any moment. And nobodyâ€™s told you about it_â€”_until now:_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Experiments in green energy like the HiPER, which uses massive lasers to create a tiny â€œcontainedâ€ sun; itâ€™s an idea that could save the world if it doesnâ€™t consume us all in a fiery fusion reaction first.\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Global disasters like the hypercaneâ€”a hurricane so large it could cover all of North America and shoot trailer parks into space!\n <br />\n â€¢Â Â  Terrifying new developments in robotics like the EATR, which powers itself on meat_â€”_an invention in the running for â€œWorst Decision Made by Anybody.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8669'),
(16914, 'Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead', 'Robert Brockway', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Just when you thought youâ€™d accepted your own mortality . . . *Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody* is bringing panic back. Twenty illustrated, hilariously fear-inducing\n <br />\n essays reveal the chilling and *very real *experiments, dangerous emerging technologies, and terrifying natural disasters that soon could*â€”*or very nearly already did*â€”*bring about the end of humanity. In short, everything in here will kill you and everyone you love. At any moment. And nobodyâ€™s told you about it*â€”*until now:** *â€¢   Experiments in green energy like the HiPER, which uses massive lasers to create a tiny â€œcontainedâ€ sun; itâ€™s an idea that could save the world if it doesnâ€™t consume us all in a fiery fusion reaction first. â€¢   Global disasters like the hypercaneâ€”a hurricane so large it could cover all of North America and shoot trailer parks into space!â€¢   Terrifying new developments in robotics like the EATR, which powers itself on meat*â€”*an invention in the running for â€œWorst Decision Made by Anybody.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14958'),
(16915, 'Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead', 'Robert Brockway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œA bold, terrifying read that goes down smooth thanks to a crisp infusion of humor. Thanks to this book, I can now aspire to dying in cooler ways than I ever thought possible. F\n <em>\n </em>\n k you, old age. Iâ€™m holding out for a megatsunami.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Daniel H. Wilson, author of\n  <em>\n   How To Survive a Robot Uprising\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThe book is proof that the ridiculous and the horrible are joined at the hip and will never be separated; in a universe that seems to continually be thinking up new ways to kill us, Brockway knows there is but one rational response: to point at it and laugh.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”David Wong, author of\n  <em>\n   John Dies at the End\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere has never been a hipper Prophet of Doom. Irreverently entertaining and terrifyingly accurate, the probability of our future death has never been more fun.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Michael Largo, author of\n  <em>\n   Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book is hilarious. As if I wasn''t already afraid the leave the house. What''s that? Brockway suggests the apocalypse doesn''t knock? What if I cower under a desk? Well, damn. I might as well have another nacho.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”Garth Sundem, author of\n  <em>\n   The Geeksâ€™ Guide to World Domination\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _Just when you thought youâ€™d accepted your own mortality . . .\n <em>\n  Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody\n </em>\n is bringing panic back. Twenty illustrated, hilariously fear-inducing â€¨essays reveal the chilling and _very real\n <em>\n  experiments, dangerous emerging technologies, and terrifying natural disasters that soon could\n </em>\n â€”_or very nearly already did_â€”_bring about the end of humanity. In short, everything in here will kill you and everyone you love. At any moment. And nobodyâ€™s told you about it_â€”_until now:_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€¢ Experiments in green energy like the HiPER, which uses massive lasers to create a tiny â€œcontainedâ€ sun; itâ€™s an idea that could save the world if it doesnâ€™t consume us all in a fiery fusion reaction first.\n <br />\n â€¢ Global disasters like the hypercaneâ€”a hurricane so large it could cover all of North America and shoot trailer parks into space!\n <br />\n â€¢ Terrifying new developments in robotics like the EATR, which powers itself on meat_â€”_an invention in the running for â€œWorst Decision Made by Anybody.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23203'),
(16916, 'Everything Is Illuminated', 'Jonathan Safran Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.\n</p>\n<p>\n As their adventure unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather''s village, conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. Lit by passion, fear, guilt, memory, and hope, the characters in Everything Is Illuminated mine the black holes of history. As the search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, until reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power.\n</p>\n<p>\n An arresting blend of high comedy and great tragedy, this is a story about searching for people and places that no longer exist, for the hidden truths that haunt every family, and for the delicate but necessary tales that link past and future. Exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving, EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED is an astonishing debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4137'),
(16917, 'Everything Is Illuminated', 'Jonathan Safran Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.\n</p>\n<p>\n As their adventure unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather''s village, conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. Lit by passion, fear, guilt, memory, and hope, the characters in Everything Is Illuminated mine the black holes of history. As the search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, until reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power.\n</p>\n<p>\n An arresting blend of high comedy and great tragedy, this is a story about searching for people and places that no longer exist, for the hidden truths that haunt every family, and for the delicate but necessary tales that link past and future. Exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving, EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED is an astonishing debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9751'),
(16918, 'Everything Is Illuminated', 'Jonathan Safran Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.\n</p>\n<p>\n As their adventure unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather''s village, conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. Lit by passion, fear, guilt, memory, and hope, the characters in Everything Is Illuminated mine the black holes of history. As the search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, until reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power.\n</p>\n<p>\n An arresting blend of high comedy and great tragedy, this is a story about searching for people and places that no longer exist, for the hidden truths that haunt every family, and for the delicate but necessary tales that link past and future. Exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving, EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED is an astonishing debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20379'),
(16919, 'The Everything Stir-Fry Cookbook: 300 Fresh and Flavorful Recipes the Whole Family Will Love', 'Rhonda Lauret Parkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Don''t have time to cook? Stir-frying is quick, healthy, and easy. With The Everything[Trademark] Stir-Fry Cookbook, you will learn the essentials for making healthy dishes. Start with the freshest ingredients and the correct equipment, then learn how to properly select and prepare food from around the world. Whip up fish and shellfish dishes and get creative with inventive ideas for marinades, sauces, and second helping-worthy desserts, for menu options such as: Indian Curried Chicken, Stir-Fried Spanish Rice, Crisped Beef with Zucchini, Coconut Shrimp/Stir-Fried Fish in Oyster Sauce, Restaurant-Style Mu Shu Pork, Gingered Pork with Udon Noodles, Double Nutty Fiddlehead Greens with Sesame, Tuna Tofu Casserole. A sizzling sourcebook of 300 recipes for delicious meals that don''t require a lot of ingredients-or time-The Everything[Registered] Stir-Fry Cookbook offers helpful tips and techniques for making mouthwatering recipes in less time than it would take you to choose what to order from a Chinese menu. Book jacket.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1937'),
(16920, 'The Everything Stir-Fry Cookbook: 300 Fresh and Flavorful Recipes the Whole Family Will Love', 'Rhonda Lauret Parkinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Don''t have time to cook? Stir-frying is quick, healthy, and easy. With The Everything[Trademark] Stir-Fry Cookbook, you will learn the essentials for making healthy dishes. Start with the freshest ingredients and the correct equipment, then learn how to properly select and prepare food from around the world. Whip up fish and shellfish dishes and get creative with inventive ideas for marinades, sauces, and second helping-worthy desserts, for menu options such as: Indian Curried Chicken, Stir-Fried Spanish Rice, Crisped Beef with Zucchini, Coconut Shrimp/Stir-Fried Fish in Oyster Sauce, Restaurant-Style Mu Shu Pork, Gingered Pork with Udon Noodles, Double Nutty Fiddlehead Greens with Sesame, Tuna Tofu Casserole. A sizzling sourcebook of 300 recipes for delicious meals that don''t require a lot of ingredients-or time-The Everything[Registered] Stir-Fry Cookbook offers helpful tips and techniques for making mouthwatering recipes in less time than it would take you to choose what to order from a Chinese menu. Book jacket.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11790'),
(16921, 'The Everything Thai Cookbook: From Pad Thai to Lemongrass Chicken Skewers, 300 Tasty, Tempting Thai Dishes You Can Make at Home', 'Jennifer Malott Kotylo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sumptuous Thai dishes you can make at home!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Thai cuisine creates a  harmonious blend between spicy hot and comparatively bland ingredients from age-old Eastern and relatively new Western foods. Featuring  both outstanding traditional recipes and cutting-edge crowd-pleasers such as Spicy Fried Rice Sticks, Salmon Toast, Chicken Satay, and Thai Crab Cakes, The EverythingÂ® Thai Cookbook guides you through preparing meals as good as youâ€™d find in your favorite Thai restaurant.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The EverythingÂ® Thai Cookbook is perfect for both vegetarians and meat-eaters, offering an eclectic range of spices, flavors, and aromas. Whether you want to prepare a meal for oneâ€”or an entire feastâ€”The EverythingÂ® Thai Cookbook will have you serving up tasty fare to tempt even the most critical food connoisseur.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Featuring mouthwatering recipes for:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Banana Fritters\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Chicken-Vegetable Rice\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Coconut Curried Chicken\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Fresh Oranges in Rose Water\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Pad Thai\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Pumpkin Rice Custard\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Spicy Rice and Shrimp Salad\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4495'),
(16922, 'The Everything Thai Cookbook: From Pad Thai to Lemongrass Chicken Skewers, 300 Tasty, Tempting Thai Dishes You Can Make at Home', 'Jennifer Malott Kotylo', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sumptuous Thai dishes you can make at home!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Thai cuisine creates a  harmonious blend between spicy hot and comparatively bland ingredients from age-old Eastern and relatively new Western foods. Featuring  both outstanding traditional recipes and cutting-edge crowd-pleasers such as Spicy Fried Rice Sticks, Salmon Toast, Chicken Satay, and Thai Crab Cakes, The EverythingÂ® Thai Cookbook guides you through preparing meals as good as youâ€™d find in your favorite Thai restaurant.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The EverythingÂ® Thai Cookbook is perfect for both vegetarians and meat-eaters, offering an eclectic range of spices, flavors, and aromas. Whether you want to prepare a meal for oneâ€”or an entire feastâ€”The EverythingÂ® Thai Cookbook will have you serving up tasty fare to tempt even the most critical food connoisseur.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Featuring mouthwatering recipes for:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Banana Fritters\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Chicken-Vegetable Rice\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Coconut Curried Chicken\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Fresh Oranges in Rose Water\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Pad Thai\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Pumpkin Rice Custard\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â·Spicy Rice and Shrimp Salad\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10807'),
(16923, 'Everything that rises must converge', 'Flannery O&#39;Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Flannery O''Connor was working onEverything That Rises Must Convergeat the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14292'),
(16924, 'Everything that rises must converge', 'Flannery O&#39;Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Flannery O''Connor was working onEverything That Rises Must Convergeat the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19088'),
(16925, 'Everything that rises must converge', 'Flannery O&#39;Connor', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Flannery O''Connor was working onEverything That Rises Must Convergeat the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27814'),
(16926, 'Everything&#39;s Eventual', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n International bestselling author Stephen King is in terrifying top form with his collection of short stories in almost a decade.In this spine-chilling compilation,King takes readers down a road less traveled(for good reason)in the blocbuster e-Bookâ€œRiding the Bullet,â€bad table service turns bloody when you stop in forâ€œLunch at the Gotham Cafe,â€and terror becomes deja vu all over again when you getâ€œThat Feeling,You Can Only Say What It Is in Frendhâ€â€”â€”along with eleven more stories that will keep you awake until daybread.Enter a nightmarish mindscape of nurelenting horror and shocking revelations that could only come from the imagination of greatest storyteller of our time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1099'),
(16927, 'Everything&#39;s Eventual', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: International bestselling author Stephen King is in terrifying top form with his collection of short stories in almost a decade.In this spine-chilling compilation,King takes readers down a road less traveled(for good reason)in the blocbuster e-Bookâ€œRiding the Bullet,â€bad table service turns bloody when you stop in forâ€œLunch at the Gotham Cafe,â€and terror becomes deja vu all over again when you getâ€œThat Feeling,You Can Only Say What It Is in Frendhâ€â€”â€”along with eleven more stories that will keep you awake until daybread.Enter a nightmarish mindscape of nurelenting horror and shocking revelations that could only come from the imagination of greatest storyteller of our time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14535'),
(16928, 'Everything&#39;s Eventual', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: International bestselling author Stephen King is in terrifying top form with his collection of short stories in almost a decade.In this spine-chilling compilation,King takes readers down a road less traveled(for good reason)in the blocbuster e-Bookâ€œRiding the Bullet,â€bad table service turns bloody when you stop in forâ€œLunch at the Gotham Cafe,â€and terror becomes deja vu all over again when you getâ€œThat Feeling,You Can Only Say What It Is in Frendhâ€â€”â€”along with eleven more stories that will keep you awake until daybread.Enter a nightmarish mindscape of nurelenting horror and shocking revelations that could only come from the imagination of greatest storyteller of our time\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23825'),
(16929, 'Everything&#39;s eventual: 14 dark tales', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since *Nightmares &amp; Dreamscapes* nine years ago, *Everything''s Eventual* includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by *The New Yorker,* and "Riding the Bullet," King''s original e-book, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Riding the Bullet," published here on paper for the first time, is the story of Alan Parker, who''s hitchhiking to see his dying mother but takes the wrong ride, farther than he ever intended. In "Lunch at the Gotham CafÃ©," a sparring couple''s contentious lunch turns very, very bloody when the maÃ®tre d'' gets out of sorts. "1408," the audio story in print for the first time, is about a successful writer whose specialty is "Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards" or "Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses," and though Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel doesn''t kill him, he won''t be writing about ghosts anymore. And in "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French," terror is dÃ©jÃ  vu at 16,000 feet.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, from quitting smoking to yard sales, Stephen King is at the top of his form in the fourteen dark tales assembled in *Everything''s Eventual.* Intense, eerie, and instantly com-pelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n None\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **EVERYTHING''S EVENTUAL**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Features the tale "1408," now a Dimension Films motion picture, starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Also inside is the blockbuster eBook "Riding the Bullet," the original audio story "In the Deathroom," plus eleven more boundary-pushing fiction masterworks that will keep you awake until daybreak.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25092'),
(16930, 'Evicted From Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome', 'Michael Herzfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation.Michael Herzfeld focuses on Romeâ€™s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social change. Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the gentrification of Montiâ€”once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt officials, dithering politicians, deceptive clerics, and shady thugs. As Herzfeld picks apart the messy story of Montiâ€™s transformation, he ranges widely over many aspects of life there and in the rest of the city, richly depicting the uniquely local landscape of globalization in Rome.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2827'),
(16931, 'Evicted From Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome', 'Michael Herzfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation.Michael Herzfeld focuses on Romeâ€™s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social change. Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the gentrification of Montiâ€”once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt officials, dithering politicians, deceptive clerics, and shady thugs. As Herzfeld picks apart the messy story of Montiâ€™s transformation, he ranges widely over many aspects of life there and in the rest of the city, richly depicting the uniquely local landscape of globalization in Rome.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10263');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(16932, 'Evicted From Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome', 'Michael Herzfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation.Michael Herzfeld focuses on Romeâ€™s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social change. Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the gentrification of Montiâ€”once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt officials, dithering politicians, deceptive clerics, and shady thugs. As Herzfeld picks apart the messy story of Montiâ€™s transformation, he ranges widely over many aspects of life there and in the rest of the city, richly depicting the uniquely local landscape of globalization in Rome.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22003'),
(16933, 'Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences', 'Jeffrey Long &amp; Paul Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Evidence of the Afterlife shares the firsthand accounts of people who have died and lived to tell about it. Through their work at the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, radiation oncologist Jeffrey Long and his wife, Jody, have gathered thousands of accounts of near-death experiences (NDEs) from all over the world. In addition to sharing the personal narrative of their experiences, visitors to the website are asked to fill out a one hundredâ€“item questionnaire designed to isolate specific elements of the experience and to flag counterfeit accounts.   The website has become the largest NDE research database in the world, containing over 1,600 NDE accounts. The people whose stories are captured in the database span all age groups, races, and religious affiliations and come from all over the world, yet the similarities in their stories are as awe-inspiring as they are revealing. Using this treasure trove of data, Dr. Long explains how medical evidence fails to explain these reports and why there is only one plausible explanationâ€”that people have survived death and traveled to another dimension.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4558'),
(16934, 'Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences', 'Jeffrey Long &amp; Paul Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Evidence of the Afterlife shares the firsthand accounts of people who have died and lived to tell about it. Through their work at the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, radiation oncologist Jeffrey Long and his wife, Jody, have gathered thousands of accounts of near-death experiences (NDEs) from all over the world. In addition to sharing the personal narrative of their experiences, visitors to the website are asked to fill out a one hundredâ€“item questionnaire designed to isolate specific elements of the experience and to flag counterfeit accounts.   The website has become the largest NDE research database in the world, containing over 1,600 NDE accounts. The people whose stories are captured in the database span all age groups, races, and religious affiliations and come from all over the world, yet the similarities in their stories are as awe-inspiring as they are revealing. Using this treasure trove of data, Dr. Long explains how medical evidence fails to explain these reports and why there is only one plausible explanationâ€”that people have survived death and traveled to another dimension.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11140'),
(16935, 'Evil Under the Sun', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Jolly Roger Hotel on Leathercombe Bay is where the wealthy partake of the salt air, the sea breezes, and the sun''s tanning rays. It''s the perfect place for spoiled heiress Arlena Marshall to be desired by handsome men, envied by jealous women, doted upon by her slavish husband...and strangled to death on the beach.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/82'),
(16936, 'Evil Under the Sun', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Jolly Roger Hotel on Leathercombe Bay is where the wealthy partake of the salt air, the sea breezes, and the sun''s tanning rays. It''s the perfect place for spoiled heiress Arlena Marshall to be desired by handsome men, envied by jealous women, doted upon by her slavish husband...and strangled to death on the beach.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17153'),
(16937, 'Evolution', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Someone is tampering with the fabric of the human cell,â€™ the Doctor said darkly, â€˜perverting its secrets to his own dark purposes.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Sarah Jane wants to meet her fellow journalist Rudyard Kipling, and the Doctor sets the co-ordinates for England, Earth, in the Victorian Age. As usual, the TARDIS materializes in not quite the right place, and the time travellers find themselves pursued across Devon moorland by a huge feral hound.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Children have gone missing; at the local boarding school, the young Rudyard Kipling has set up search parties. Lights have been seen beneath the waters of the bay, and fishermen have been pulled from their boats and mutilated. Graves have been robbed of their corpses. Something is going on, and Arthur Conan Doyle, the shipâ€™s doctor from a recently berthed arctic whaler, is determined to investigate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Doyle join forces to uncover a macabre scheme to interfere with human evolution - and both Sarah Jane and Kipling face a terrifying transmogrification.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4324'),
(16938, 'Evolution', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜Someone is tampering with the fabric of the human cell,â€™ the Doctor said darkly, â€˜perverting its secrets to his own dark purposes.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Sarah Jane wants to meet her fellow journalist Rudyard Kipling, and the Doctor sets the co-ordinates for England, Earth, in the Victorian Age. As usual, the TARDIS materializes in not quite the right place, and the time travellers find themselves pursued across Devon moorland by a huge feral hound.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Children have gone missing; at the local boarding school, the young Rudyard Kipling has set up search parties. Lights have been seen beneath the waters of the bay, and fishermen have been pulled from their boats and mutilated. Graves have been robbed of their corpses. Something is going on, and Arthur Conan Doyle, the shipâ€™s doctor from a recently berthed arctic whaler, is determined to investigate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   The Doctor and Doyle join forces to uncover a macabre scheme to interfere with human evolution - and both Sarah Jane and Kipling face a terrifying transmogrification.\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20289'),
(16939, 'The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore', 'Benjamin Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore\n </em>\n , Haleâ€™s linguistic talent locks the reader into their seat and sends them ticking up the roller coaster ride of Bruno Littlemoreâ€™s life. An unlikely narrator, Bruno is a chimpanzee trying to become a man--a process he sees as â€œequal parts enlightenment and imprinting your brain with taboos.â€ Bruno acquires a fervent love of language--and of primatologist Lydia Littlemore, with whom he develops a deep (and, yes, sexual) relationship until she falls ill. Comic relief comes in the form of Leon, a boisterous subway thespian, who introduces Bruno to the stage shortly before a murderous transgression results in Brunoâ€™s return to captivity. With\n <em>\n  Bruno Littlemore\n </em>\n , Hale has crafted a truly original narrator, holding a mirror on humanity with a razor-like precision that makes this stunning novel one readers will want to discuss the minute they turn the last page._--Seira Wilson_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An enlightened chimp goes on the wildest adventure since Every Which Way but Loose in Hale''s mischievous debut. Bruno Littlemore, the narrator chimp, eventually lands in a research lab at the University of Chicago, where he falls in love with Dr. Lydia Littlemore, who, shortly after hearing Bruno speak his name, takes him first to her apartment (sex is had, much later) and later to the quietude of a Colorado ranch owned by a couple of odd animal rights advocates. It is in this environment that Bruno becomes a fully articulate and artistic being, but the idyll does not last: Lydia falls ill, and Bruno is captured, escapes, ends up in New York City, and befriends a dreamer named Leon with whom he mounts a performance of The Tempest before being forced by circumstance to return, tragically, to Chicago''s Lincoln Park Zoo. Bruno, having mastered speech, is quite happy to play with this new toy, going on philosophical riffs and speaking at length about art, and while his monologues are less tedious than you''d imagine, it''s his quest for answers about the agonizing dilemmas of existence that is unexpectedly resonant. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7336'),
(16940, 'The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore', 'Benjamin Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore\n </em>\n , Haleâ€™s linguistic talent locks the reader into their seat and sends them ticking up the roller coaster ride of Bruno Littlemoreâ€™s life. An unlikely narrator, Bruno is a chimpanzee trying to become a man--a process he sees as â€œequal parts enlightenment and imprinting your brain with taboos.â€ Bruno acquires a fervent love of language--and of primatologist Lydia Littlemore, with whom he develops a deep (and, yes, sexual) relationship until she falls ill. Comic relief comes in the form of Leon, a boisterous subway thespian, who introduces Bruno to the stage shortly before a murderous transgression results in Brunoâ€™s return to captivity. With\n <em>\n  Bruno Littlemore\n </em>\n , Hale has crafted a truly original narrator, holding a mirror on humanity with a razor-like precision that makes this stunning novel one readers will want to discuss the minute they turn the last page._--Seira Wilson_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An enlightened chimp goes on the wildest adventure since Every Which Way but Loose in Hale''s mischievous debut. Bruno Littlemore, the narrator chimp, eventually lands in a research lab at the University of Chicago, where he falls in love with Dr. Lydia Littlemore, who, shortly after hearing Bruno speak his name, takes him first to her apartment (sex is had, much later) and later to the quietude of a Colorado ranch owned by a couple of odd animal rights advocates. It is in this environment that Bruno becomes a fully articulate and artistic being, but the idyll does not last: Lydia falls ill, and Bruno is captured, escapes, ends up in New York City, and befriends a dreamer named Leon with whom he mounts a performance of The Tempest before being forced by circumstance to return, tragically, to Chicago''s Lincoln Park Zoo. Bruno, having mastered speech, is quite happy to play with this new toy, going on philosophical riffs and speaking at length about art, and while his monologues are less tedious than you''d imagine, it''s his quest for answers about the agonizing dilemmas of existence that is unexpectedly resonant. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10047'),
(16941, 'The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore', 'Benjamin Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore\n </em>\n , Haleâ€™s linguistic talent locks the reader into their seat and sends them ticking up the roller coaster ride of Bruno Littlemoreâ€™s life. An unlikely narrator, Bruno is a chimpanzee trying to become a man--a process he sees as â€œequal parts enlightenment and imprinting your brain with taboos.â€ Bruno acquires a fervent love of language--and of primatologist Lydia Littlemore, with whom he develops a deep (and, yes, sexual) relationship until she falls ill. Comic relief comes in the form of Leon, a boisterous subway thespian, who introduces Bruno to the stage shortly before a murderous transgression results in Brunoâ€™s return to captivity. With\n <em>\n  Bruno Littlemore\n </em>\n , Hale has crafted a truly original narrator, holding a mirror on humanity with a razor-like precision that makes this stunning novel one readers will want to discuss the minute they turn the last page._--Seira Wilson_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An enlightened chimp goes on the wildest adventure since Every Which Way but Loose in Hale''s mischievous debut. Bruno Littlemore, the narrator chimp, eventually lands in a research lab at the University of Chicago, where he falls in love with Dr. Lydia Littlemore, who, shortly after hearing Bruno speak his name, takes him first to her apartment (sex is had, much later) and later to the quietude of a Colorado ranch owned by a couple of odd animal rights advocates. It is in this environment that Bruno becomes a fully articulate and artistic being, but the idyll does not last: Lydia falls ill, and Bruno is captured, escapes, ends up in New York City, and befriends a dreamer named Leon with whom he mounts a performance of The Tempest before being forced by circumstance to return, tragically, to Chicago''s Lincoln Park Zoo. Bruno, having mastered speech, is quite happy to play with this new toy, going on philosophical riffs and speaking at length about art, and while his monologues are less tedious than you''d imagine, it''s his quest for answers about the agonizing dilemmas of existence that is unexpectedly resonant. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15269'),
(16942, 'The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore', 'Benjamin Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore\n </em>\n , Haleâ€™s linguistic talent locks the reader into their seat and sends them ticking up the roller coaster ride of Bruno Littlemoreâ€™s life. An unlikely narrator, Bruno is a chimpanzee trying to become a man--a process he sees as â€œequal parts enlightenment and imprinting your brain with taboos.â€ Bruno acquires a fervent love of language--and of primatologist Lydia Littlemore, with whom he develops a deep (and, yes, sexual) relationship until she falls ill. Comic relief comes in the form of Leon, a boisterous subway thespian, who introduces Bruno to the stage shortly before a murderous transgression results in Brunoâ€™s return to captivity. With\n <em>\n  Bruno Littlemore\n </em>\n , Hale has crafted a truly original narrator, holding a mirror on humanity with a razor-like precision that makes this stunning novel one readers will want to discuss the minute they turn the last page._--Seira Wilson_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An enlightened chimp goes on the wildest adventure since Every Which Way but Loose in Hale''s mischievous debut. Bruno Littlemore, the narrator chimp, eventually lands in a research lab at the University of Chicago, where he falls in love with Dr. Lydia Littlemore, who, shortly after hearing Bruno speak his name, takes him first to her apartment (sex is had, much later) and later to the quietude of a Colorado ranch owned by a couple of odd animal rights advocates. It is in this environment that Bruno becomes a fully articulate and artistic being, but the idyll does not last: Lydia falls ill, and Bruno is captured, escapes, ends up in New York City, and befriends a dreamer named Leon with whom he mounts a performance of The Tempest before being forced by circumstance to return, tragically, to Chicago''s Lincoln Park Zoo. Bruno, having mastered speech, is quite happy to play with this new toy, going on philosophical riffs and speaking at length about art, and while his monologues are less tedious than you''d imagine, it''s his quest for answers about the agonizing dilemmas of existence that is unexpectedly resonant. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16608'),
(16943, 'The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore', 'Benjamin Hale', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore\n </em>\n , Haleâ€™s linguistic talent locks the reader into their seat and sends them ticking up the roller coaster ride of Bruno Littlemoreâ€™s life. An unlikely narrator, Bruno is a chimpanzee trying to become a man--a process he sees as â€œequal parts enlightenment and imprinting your brain with taboos.â€ Bruno acquires a fervent love of language--and of primatologist Lydia Littlemore, with whom he develops a deep (and, yes, sexual) relationship until she falls ill. Comic relief comes in the form of Leon, a boisterous subway thespian, who introduces Bruno to the stage shortly before a murderous transgression results in Brunoâ€™s return to captivity. With\n <em>\n  Bruno Littlemore\n </em>\n , Hale has crafted a truly original narrator, holding a mirror on humanity with a razor-like precision that makes this stunning novel one readers will want to discuss the minute they turn the last page._--Seira Wilson_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An enlightened chimp goes on the wildest adventure since Every Which Way but Loose in Hale''s mischievous debut. Bruno Littlemore, the narrator chimp, eventually lands in a research lab at the University of Chicago, where he falls in love with Dr. Lydia Littlemore, who, shortly after hearing Bruno speak his name, takes him first to her apartment (sex is had, much later) and later to the quietude of a Colorado ranch owned by a couple of odd animal rights advocates. It is in this environment that Bruno becomes a fully articulate and artistic being, but the idyll does not last: Lydia falls ill, and Bruno is captured, escapes, ends up in New York City, and befriends a dreamer named Leon with whom he mounts a performance of The Tempest before being forced by circumstance to return, tragically, to Chicago''s Lincoln Park Zoo. Bruno, having mastered speech, is quite happy to play with this new toy, going on philosophical riffs and speaking at length about art, and while his monologues are less tedious than you''d imagine, it''s his quest for answers about the agonizing dilemmas of existence that is unexpectedly resonant. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26661'),
(16944, 'The Evolution of God', 'Robert Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his illuminating book,\n <em>\n  The Moral Animal\n </em>\n , Wright introduced evolutionary psychology and examined the ways that the morality of individuals might be hard-wired by nature rather than influenced by culture. With this book, he expands upon that work, turning now to explore how religion came to define larger and larger groups of people as part of the circle of moral consideration. Using a naÃ¯ve and antiquated approach to the sociology and anthropology of religion, Wright expends far too great an effort covering well-trod territory concerning the development of religions from primitive hunter-gatherer stages to monotheism. He finds in this evolution of religion, however, that the great monotheistic (he calls them Abrahamic, a term not favored by many religion scholars) religionsâ€”Christianity, Islam, Judaismâ€”all contain a code for the salvation of the world. Using game theory, he encourages individuals in these three faiths to embrace a nonâ€“zero-sum relationship to other religions, seeing their fortunes as positively correlated and interdependent and then acting with tolerance toward other religions. Regrettably, Wright''s lively writing unveils little that is genuinely new or insightful about religion.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Straddling popular science, ancient history, and theology, this ambitious work sets out to resolve not only the clash of civilizations between the Judeo-Christian West and the Muslim world but also the clash between science and religion. Tracking the continual transformation of faith from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Wright, a self-described materialist, best known for his work on evolutionary psychology, free trade, and game theory, postulates that religious world views are becoming more open, compassionate, and synthesized. Occasionally, his prescriptions can seem obviousâ€”for instance, that members of the different Abrahamic faiths should think of their religions as â€œhaving been involved, all along, in the same undertaking.â€ But his core argument, that religion is getting â€œbetterâ€ with each passing aeon, is enthralling.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1614'),
(16945, 'The Evolution of God', 'Robert Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his illuminating book,\n <em>\n  The Moral Animal\n </em>\n , Wright introduced evolutionary psychology and examined the ways that the morality of individuals might be hard-wired by nature rather than influenced by culture. With this book, he expands upon that work, turning now to explore how religion came to define larger and larger groups of people as part of the circle of moral consideration. Using a naÃ¯ve and antiquated approach to the sociology and anthropology of religion, Wright expends far too great an effort covering well-trod territory concerning the development of religions from primitive hunter-gatherer stages to monotheism. He finds in this evolution of religion, however, that the great monotheistic (he calls them Abrahamic, a term not favored by many religion scholars) religionsâ€”Christianity, Islam, Judaismâ€”all contain a code for the salvation of the world. Using game theory, he encourages individuals in these three faiths to embrace a nonâ€“zero-sum relationship to other religions, seeing their fortunes as positively correlated and interdependent and then acting with tolerance toward other religions. Regrettably, Wright''s lively writing unveils little that is genuinely new or insightful about religion.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Straddling popular science, ancient history, and theology, this ambitious work sets out to resolve not only the clash of civilizations between the Judeo-Christian West and the Muslim world but also the clash between science and religion. Tracking the continual transformation of faith from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Wright, a self-described materialist, best known for his work on evolutionary psychology, free trade, and game theory, postulates that religious world views are becoming more open, compassionate, and synthesized. Occasionally, his prescriptions can seem obviousâ€”for instance, that members of the different Abrahamic faiths should think of their religions as â€œhaving been involved, all along, in the same undertaking.â€ But his core argument, that religion is getting â€œbetterâ€ with each passing aeon, is enthralling.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13475'),
(16946, 'The Evolution of God', 'Robert Wright', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In his illuminating book,\n <em>\n  The Moral Animal\n </em>\n , Wright introduced evolutionary psychology and examined the ways that the morality of individuals might be hard-wired by nature rather than influenced by culture. With this book, he expands upon that work, turning now to explore how religion came to define larger and larger groups of people as part of the circle of moral consideration. Using a naÃ¯ve and antiquated approach to the sociology and anthropology of religion, Wright expends far too great an effort covering well-trod territory concerning the development of religions from primitive hunter-gatherer stages to monotheism. He finds in this evolution of religion, however, that the great monotheistic (he calls them Abrahamic, a term not favored by many religion scholars) religionsâ€”Christianity, Islam, Judaismâ€”all contain a code for the salvation of the world. Using game theory, he encourages individuals in these three faiths to embrace a nonâ€“zero-sum relationship to other religions, seeing their fortunes as positively correlated and interdependent and then acting with tolerance toward other religions. Regrettably, Wright''s lively writing unveils little that is genuinely new or insightful about religion.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Straddling popular science, ancient history, and theology, this ambitious work sets out to resolve not only the clash of civilizations between the Judeo-Christian West and the Muslim world but also the clash between science and religion. Tracking the continual transformation of faith from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Wright, a self-described materialist, best known for his work on evolutionary psychology, free trade, and game theory, postulates that religious world views are becoming more open, compassionate, and synthesized. Occasionally, his prescriptions can seem obviousâ€”for instance, that members of the different Abrahamic faiths should think of their religions as â€œhaving been involved, all along, in the same undertaking.â€ But his core argument, that religion is getting â€œbetterâ€ with each passing aeon, is enthralling.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23353'),
(16947, 'The Evolution of Useful Things', 'Henry Petroski', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This surprising book may appear to be about the simple things of life--forks, paper clips, zippers--but in fact it is a far-flung historical adventure on the evolution of common culture. To trace the fork''s history, Duke University professor of civil engineering Henry Petroski travels from prehistoric times to Texas barbecue to Cardinal Richelieu to England''s Industrial Revolution to the American Civil War--and beyond. Each item described offers a cultural history lesson, plus there''s plenty of engineering detail for those so inclined.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n For armchair inventors or those who are curious about the way things work, this book offers hours of delight. Petroski (engineering, Duke Univ.) provides an intricate look, in lay reader''s terms, at the technology and basic rationale behind a number of items we often take for granted. The list is comprehensive: kitchen utensils, zippers, tools, paper clips, fast-food packaging, and more. The text is far from a recital of mere facts. Petroski''s anecdotes and stories about individual designers and inventors are told with warm regard. Petroski also provides illuminating thoughts on the theoretical, historical, and cultural frameworks that influenced these creations. Although this book will appeal to a somewhat specialized audience, many general readers will find it fascinating and educational. For circulating libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Carol J. Binkowski, Bloomfield, N.J.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5178'),
(16948, 'The Evolution of Useful Things', 'Henry Petroski', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This surprising book may appear to be about the simple things of life--forks, paper clips, zippers--but in fact it is a far-flung historical adventure on the evolution of common culture. To trace the fork''s history, Duke University professor of civil engineering Henry Petroski travels from prehistoric times to Texas barbecue to Cardinal Richelieu to England''s Industrial Revolution to the American Civil War--and beyond. Each item described offers a cultural history lesson, plus there''s plenty of engineering detail for those so inclined.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n For armchair inventors or those who are curious about the way things work, this book offers hours of delight. Petroski (engineering, Duke Univ.) provides an intricate look, in lay reader''s terms, at the technology and basic rationale behind a number of items we often take for granted. The list is comprehensive: kitchen utensils, zippers, tools, paper clips, fast-food packaging, and more. The text is far from a recital of mere facts. Petroski''s anecdotes and stories about individual designers and inventors are told with warm regard. Petroski also provides illuminating thoughts on the theoretical, historical, and cultural frameworks that influenced these creations. Although this book will appeal to a somewhat specialized audience, many general readers will find it fascinating and educational. For circulating libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Carol J. Binkowski, Bloomfield, N.J.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11985'),
(16949, 'The Evolution of Useful Things', 'Henry Petroski', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This surprising book may appear to be about the simple things of life--forks, paper clips, zippers--but in fact it is a far-flung historical adventure on the evolution of common culture. To trace the fork''s history, Duke University professor of civil engineering Henry Petroski travels from prehistoric times to Texas barbecue to Cardinal Richelieu to England''s Industrial Revolution to the American Civil War--and beyond. Each item described offers a cultural history lesson, plus there''s plenty of engineering detail for those so inclined.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n For armchair inventors or those who are curious about the way things work, this book offers hours of delight. Petroski (engineering, Duke Univ.) provides an intricate look, in lay reader''s terms, at the technology and basic rationale behind a number of items we often take for granted. The list is comprehensive: kitchen utensils, zippers, tools, paper clips, fast-food packaging, and more. The text is far from a recital of mere facts. Petroski''s anecdotes and stories about individual designers and inventors are told with warm regard. Petroski also provides illuminating thoughts on the theoretical, historical, and cultural frameworks that influenced these creations. Although this book will appeal to a somewhat specialized audience, many general readers will find it fascinating and educational. For circulating libraries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Carol J. Binkowski, Bloomfield, N.J.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19575'),
(16950, 'Evolution: A Novel', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following up his cosmic\n <em>\n  Evolution\n </em>\n . The book is nothing less than a novelization of human evolution, a mega-Michener treatment of 65 million years starring a host of smart, furry primates representing\n <em>\n  Homo sapiens\n </em>\n ''s ancestry. Each stage of our ancestry is represented by a character of progressively increasing intelligence, empathy, and brain size, who must survive predation and other perils long enough to keep the natural-selection ball rolling. While Baxter carefully follows some widely accepted theories of evolution--punctuated equilibrium, for instance--he also strays from the known in postulating air whales and sentient, tool-wielding dinosaurs. And why not? There''s nothing in the fossil record to contradict his musings about those things, or about the first instances of mammalian altruism and deception, which he also lets us observe. From little Purga, a shrewlike mammal scurrying under the feet of ankylosaurs, all the way through Ultimate, the last human descendant, Baxter adds drama and a strong story arc to our past and future. But he spends too much time on details of the various prehumans'' lives, which can become repetitive: fight, mate, die, ad infinitum. And readers eager for a science-fictional adventure will only find satisfaction in the posthuman chapters at the end. Despite these flaws,\n <em>\n  Evolution\n </em>\n grips the attention with an epoch-spanning tale of the random changes that rule our genetic heritage. Recommended.\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Taking a page from SF saga writers like Kim Stanley Robinson and Brian Stableford, British author Baxter (the Manifold trilogy) portrays humanity''s origins, growth and ultimate disappearance in a loose-knit series of brutal vignettes spanning millions of years of evolution. Beginning with the gritty slice-of-life tale of a small, ratlike proto-primate called Purga (short for species Purgatorius), the story travels from the end of the Cretaceous through the millennia as primates slowly evolve into creatures more and more recognizably human, learning to make and use tools, developing language and the ability to feel empathy-the trait that Baxter selects as definitive of true humanity. Resonating with that theme, the vignettes are linked by a thin near-future frame about scientists meeting in the midst of ecological and political chaos to find a way to save humanity from itself through the "globalization of empathy." More concerned with technical detail than character or plot, the book rises above its fragmented narrative and frequently repetitive violence to reach a grim and stoic grandeur, which (despite a tendency toward preachiness) clearly has humanity''s best interests at heart. Here is a rigorously constructed hard SF novel where the question is not whether humanity will reach the stars but how it will survive its own worst tendencies.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1119'),
(16951, 'Evolution: A Novel', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following up his cosmic\n <em>\n  Evolution\n </em>\n . The book is nothing less than a novelization of human evolution, a mega-Michener treatment of 65 million years starring a host of smart, furry primates representing\n <em>\n  Homo sapiens\n </em>\n ''s ancestry. Each stage of our ancestry is represented by a character of progressively increasing intelligence, empathy, and brain size, who must survive predation and other perils long enough to keep the natural-selection ball rolling. While Baxter carefully follows some widely accepted theories of evolution--punctuated equilibrium, for instance--he also strays from the known in postulating air whales and sentient, tool-wielding dinosaurs. And why not? There''s nothing in the fossil record to contradict his musings about those things, or about the first instances of mammalian altruism and deception, which he also lets us observe. From little Purga, a shrewlike mammal scurrying under the feet of ankylosaurs, all the way through Ultimate, the last human descendant, Baxter adds drama and a strong story arc to our past and future. But he spends too much time on details of the various prehumans'' lives, which can become repetitive: fight, mate, die, ad infinitum. And readers eager for a science-fictional adventure will only find satisfaction in the posthuman chapters at the end. Despite these flaws,\n <em>\n  Evolution\n </em>\n grips the attention with an epoch-spanning tale of the random changes that rule our genetic heritage. Recommended.\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Taking a page from SF saga writers like Kim Stanley Robinson and Brian Stableford, British author Baxter (the Manifold trilogy) portrays humanity''s origins, growth and ultimate disappearance in a loose-knit series of brutal vignettes spanning millions of years of evolution. Beginning with the gritty slice-of-life tale of a small, ratlike proto-primate called Purga (short for species Purgatorius), the story travels from the end of the Cretaceous through the millennia as primates slowly evolve into creatures more and more recognizably human, learning to make and use tools, developing language and the ability to feel empathy-the trait that Baxter selects as definitive of true humanity. Resonating with that theme, the vignettes are linked by a thin near-future frame about scientists meeting in the midst of ecological and political chaos to find a way to save humanity from itself through the "globalization of empathy." More concerned with technical detail than character or plot, the book rises above its fragmented narrative and frequently repetitive violence to reach a grim and stoic grandeur, which (despite a tendency toward preachiness) clearly has humanity''s best interests at heart. Here is a rigorously constructed hard SF novel where the question is not whether humanity will reach the stars but how it will survive its own worst tendencies.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8477'),
(16952, 'Evolution: a novel', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Following up his cosmic\n <em>\n  Evolution\n </em>\n . The book is nothing less than a novelization of human evolution, a mega-Michener treatment of 65 million years starring a host of smart, furry primates representing\n <em>\n  Homo sapiens\n </em>\n ''s ancestry. Each stage of our ancestry is represented by a character of progressively increasing intelligence, empathy, and brain size, who must survive predation and other perils long enough to keep the natural-selection ball rolling. While Baxter carefully follows some widely accepted theories of evolution--punctuated equilibrium, for instance--he also strays from the known in postulating air whales and sentient, tool-wielding dinosaurs. And why not? There''s nothing in the fossil record to contradict his musings about those things, or about the first instances of mammalian altruism and deception, which he also lets us observe. From little Purga, a shrewlike mammal scurrying under the feet of ankylosaurs, all the way through Ultimate, the last human descendant, Baxter adds drama and a strong story arc to our past and future. But he spends too much time on details of the various prehumans'' lives, which can become repetitive: fight, mate, die, ad infinitum. And readers eager for a science-fictional adventure will only find satisfaction in the posthuman chapters at the end. Despite these flaws,\n <em>\n  Evolution\n </em>\n grips the attention with an epoch-spanning tale of the random changes that rule our genetic heritage. Recommended.\n <em>\n  --Therese Littleton\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Taking a page from SF saga writers like Kim Stanley Robinson and Brian Stableford, British author Baxter (the Manifold trilogy) portrays humanity''s origins, growth and ultimate disappearance in a loose-knit series of brutal vignettes spanning millions of years of evolution. Beginning with the gritty slice-of-life tale of a small, ratlike proto-primate called Purga (short for species Purgatorius), the story travels from the end of the Cretaceous through the millennia as primates slowly evolve into creatures more and more recognizably human, learning to make and use tools, developing language and the ability to feel empathy-the trait that Baxter selects as definitive of true humanity. Resonating with that theme, the vignettes are linked by a thin near-future frame about scientists meeting in the midst of ecological and political chaos to find a way to save humanity from itself through the "globalization of empathy." More concerned with technical detail than character or plot, the book rises above its fragmented narrative and frequently repetitive violence to reach a grim and stoic grandeur, which (despite a tendency toward preachiness) clearly has humanity''s best interests at heart. Here is a rigorously constructed hard SF novel where the question is not whether humanity will reach the stars but how it will survive its own worst tendencies.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23741'),
(16953, 'The Evolutionary Void', 'Peter F. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Peter F. Hamilton''s startling perspectives on tomorrow''s technological and cultural trends span vast tracts of space and time, his stories are as compelling as they are epic in scope, and yet they are always grounded in characters - human, alien and other - who, for all their strangeness, still touch our hearts and fire our imaginations. Now, in "The Evolutionary Void", Hamilton concludes the highly acclaimed Commonwealth saga that has unfolded in "The Dreaming Void" and "The Temporal Void". ''The master of widescreen baroque'' - "Guardian". ''Compulsively readable and abundantly full of ideas'' - "The Times". ''Epic, multi-stranded, full of wonders'' - "SFX".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2090'),
(16954, 'The Evolutionary Void', 'Peter F. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Peter F. Hamilton''s startling perspectives on tomorrow''s technological and cultural trends span vast tracts of space and time, his stories are as compelling as they are epic in scope, and yet they are always grounded in characters - human, alien and other - who, for all their strangeness, still touch our hearts and fire our imaginations. Now, in "The Evolutionary Void", Hamilton concludes the highly acclaimed Commonwealth saga that has unfolded in "The Dreaming Void" and "The Temporal Void". ''The master of widescreen baroque'' - "Guardian". ''Compulsively readable and abundantly full of ideas'' - "The Times". ''Epic, multi-stranded, full of wonders'' - "SFX".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10159'),
(16955, 'The Evolutionary Void', 'Peter F. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Peter F. Hamilton''s startling perspectives on tomorrow''s technological and cultural trends span vast tracts of space and time, his stories are as compelling as they are epic in scope, and yet they are always grounded in characters - human, alien and other - who, for all their strangeness, still touch our hearts and fire our imaginations. Now, in "The Evolutionary Void", Hamilton concludes the highly acclaimed Commonwealth saga that has unfolded in "The Dreaming Void" and "The Temporal Void". ''The master of widescreen baroque'' - "Guardian". ''Compulsively readable and abundantly full of ideas'' - "The Times". ''Epic, multi-stranded, full of wonders'' - "SFX".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22668'),
(16956, 'The Ex-Girlfriends&#39; Club', 'Rhonda Nelson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Police officer Eden Rutherford has only one weakness-- bad boy Ben Wilder. With just one wicked glance, he could make her lose control, lose her heart... and lose her panties. Too bad he took all three with him when he hightailed it out of town three years ago. Now Ben''s back, and Eden''s bracing herself. First, for his assault on her libido. And second, for his reaction to BennettWildersucks.com, the Web site she and Ben''s other ex-girlfriends put together to humiliate him. Only, one woman''s going too far... . Now Eden has to deal with a stalker and her overwhelming lust. She needs to get Ben out of her system, for good this time! And offering Ben her protection might just be the way to do it... .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1938'),
(16957, 'Ex-Kop', 'Warren Hammond', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This hard-bitten follow-up to Hammond''s 2007 science fiction noir debut\n <em>\n  KOP\n </em>\n , set in the 28th century on the technologically backward world of Lagarto, offers further evidence of his considerable talents. A former member of the Koba Office of Police, Juno Mozambe has been forced into retirement by corrupt detective Diego Banks, who murdered Koba''s previous police chief. Now a sleazy, broke PI, nothing but a drunken old has-been, Mozambe reluctantly lets his ex-partner Maggie Orzo hire him to exonerate Adela Juarez, a young woman about to be executed for murdering her parents. Orzo suspects her current partner and rival, Ian Davies, of framing Juarez. Mozambe struggles through a mire of corruption and violence to get the answers and protect his own loved ones. Koba is a tough town full of desperate people, and Hammond makes full use of this richly imagined society.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After getting fired, aging detective Juno of the economically depressed colony planet Lagarto has been making a scant living photographing scandals for the papers. His wife is hospitalized after what Juno only wishes were an accident, and all his money goes to her medical bills. So when his ex-partner, Maggie, offers to hire him to investigate a murder case she believes her new partner, Ian, is falsifying, he agrees, despite already knowing what bad news Ian is. While Maggie works the case of a sadistic serial killer, Juno tracks down the truth, discovering that his case and Maggieâ€™s are linked parts of a sickening undercover operation, and that Ian is even more dangerous then he thought. Ex-Kop is even better than Kop (2007), involving as it does all the best elements of an sf crime thriller: engrossing, high-stakes case; a fascinating setting; and a downtrodden, dogged hero whose worthiness outshines his flaws. Readers can only hope Hammond gives us more stories of Juno and his jungle world. --Krista Hutley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/240');
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(16958, 'Ex-Kop', 'Warren Hammond', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This hard-bitten follow-up to Hammond''s 2007 science fiction noir debut\n <em>\n  KOP\n </em>\n , set in the 28th century on the technologically backward world of Lagarto, offers further evidence of his considerable talents. A former member of the Koba Office of Police, Juno Mozambe has been forced into retirement by corrupt detective Diego Banks, who murdered Koba''s previous police chief. Now a sleazy, broke PI, nothing but a drunken old has-been, Mozambe reluctantly lets his ex-partner Maggie Orzo hire him to exonerate Adela Juarez, a young woman about to be executed for murdering her parents. Orzo suspects her current partner and rival, Ian Davies, of framing Juarez. Mozambe struggles through a mire of corruption and violence to get the answers and protect his own loved ones. Koba is a tough town full of desperate people, and Hammond makes full use of this richly imagined society.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n After getting fired, aging detective Juno of the economically depressed colony planet Lagarto has been making a scant living photographing scandals for the papers. His wife is hospitalized after what Juno only wishes were an accident, and all his money goes to her medical bills. So when his ex-partner, Maggie, offers to hire him to investigate a murder case she believes her new partner, Ian, is falsifying, he agrees, despite already knowing what bad news Ian is. While Maggie works the case of a sadistic serial killer, Juno tracks down the truth, discovering that his case and Maggieâ€™s are linked parts of a sickening undercover operation, and that Ian is even more dangerous then he thought. Ex-Kop is even better than Kop (2007), involving as it does all the best elements of an sf crime thriller: engrossing, high-stakes case; a fascinating setting; and a downtrodden, dogged hero whose worthiness outshines his flaws. Readers can only hope Hammond gives us more stories of Juno and his jungle world. --Krista Hutley\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10143'),
(16959, 'Ex-Kop', 'Warren Hammond', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   Starred Review. This hard-bitten follow-up to Hammond''s 2007 science fiction noir debut\n   <em>\n    KOP\n   </em>\n   , set in the 28th century on the technologically backward world of Lagarto, offers further evidence of his considerable talents. A former member of the Koba Office of Police, Juno Mozambe has been forced into retirement by corrupt detective Diego Banks, who murdered Koba''s previous police chief. Now a sleazy, broke PI, nothing but a drunken old has-been, Mozambe reluctantly lets his ex-partner Maggie Orzo hire him to exonerate Adela Juarez, a young woman about to be executed for murdering her parents. Orzo suspects her current partner and rival, Ian Davies, of framing Juarez. Mozambe struggles through a mire of corruption and violence to get the answers and protect his own loved ones. Koba is a tough town full of desperate people, and Hammond makes full use of this richly imagined society.\n   <em>\n    (Oct.)\n   </em>\n   <br />\n   Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n  </p>\n  <h3>\n   From\n  </h3>\n  <p>\n   After getting fired, aging detective Juno of the economically depressed colony planet Lagarto has been making a scant living photographing scandals for the papers. His wife is hospitalized after what Juno only wishes were an accident, and all his money goes to her medical bills. So when his ex-partner, Maggie, offers to hire him to investigate a murder case she believes her new partner, Ian, is falsifying, he agrees, despite already knowing what bad news Ian is. While Maggie works the case of a sadistic serial killer, Juno tracks down the truth, discovering that his case and Maggieâ€™s are linked parts of a sickening undercover operation, and that Ian is even more dangerous then he thought. Ex-Kop is even better than Kop (2007), involving as it does all the best elements of an sf crime thriller: engrossing, high-stakes case; a fascinating setting; and a downtrodden, dogged hero whose worthiness outshines his flaws. Readers can only hope Hammond gives us more stories of Juno and his jungle world. --Krista Hutley\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. This hard-bitten follow-up to Hammond''s 2007 science fiction noir debut\n  <em>\n   KOP\n  </em>\n  , set in the 28th century on the technologically backward world of Lagarto, offers further evidence of his considerable talents. A former member of the Koba Office of Police, Juno Mozambe has been forced into retirement by corrupt detective Diego Banks, who murdered Koba''s previous police chief. Now a sleazy, broke PI, nothing but a drunken old has-been, Mozambe reluctantly lets his ex-partner Maggie Orzo hire him to exonerate Adela Juarez, a young woman about to be executed for murdering her parents. Orzo suspects her current partner and rival, Ian Davies, of framing Juarez. Mozambe struggles through a mire of corruption and violence to get the answers and protect his own loved ones. Koba is a tough town full of desperate people, and Hammond makes full use of this richly imagined society.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After getting fired, aging detective Juno of the economically depressed colony planet Lagarto has been making a scant living photographing scandals for the papers. His wife is hospitalized after what Juno only wishes were an accident, and all his money goes to her medical bills. So when his ex-partner, Maggie, offers to hire him to investigate a murder case she believes her new partner, Ian, is falsifying, he agrees, despite already knowing what bad news Ian is. While Maggie works the case of a sadistic serial killer, Juno tracks down the truth, discovering that his case and Maggieâ€™s are linked parts of a sickening undercover operation, and that Ian is even more dangerous then he thought. Ex-Kop is even better than Kop (2007), involving as it does all the best elements of an sf crime thriller: engrossing, high-stakes case; a fascinating setting; and a downtrodden, dogged hero whose worthiness outshines his flaws. Readers can only hope Hammond gives us more stories of Juno and his jungle world. --Krista Hutley\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24583'),
(16960, 'An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir', 'Elizabeth McCracken', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  "This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of France, working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child. This book is about what happened next. In her ninth month of pregnancy, she learned that her baby boy had died. How do you deal with and recover from this kind of loss? Of course you don''t--but you go on. And if you have ever experienced loss or love someone who has, the company of this remarkable book will help you go on. With humor and warmth and unfailing generosity, McCracken considers the nature of love and grief. She opens her heart and leaves all of ours the richer for it.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. McCracken tells her own story in this touching and often unexpectedly funny memoir about her life before and after losing her first child in the ninth month of pregnancy. As difficult as it must have been to read aloud, McCrackens delivery is courageous and never self-pitying. McCracken is forthright about the tragedy, telling the listener early on that a baby dies in this book, but that another one is born. McCrackens reading is enthralling and deeply moving, as if she is relating this intimate journey directly to each listener individually from a dark, candle-lit room, in an unforgettable performance.\n  <em>\n   A Little, Brown hardcover (reviewed online). (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Elizabeth McCrackenâ€™s heartrending memoirâ€”a love letter to the child she lost and the devoted husband who suffered alongside herâ€”McCracken displays her many talents. Her warmth, candor, crystalline prose, lovely imagery, and attention to detail bring her painful story to life. McCrackenâ€™s dark sense of humor ensnares unwitting readers, belying the sadness with which she writes, and she shows very little patience for self-pity and sentimentality. Critics praised her clear-eyed account in a genre replete with syrupy, self-aggrandizing books, though some expressed doubts that its subject matter would have wide appeal. â€œIâ€™m not ready for my first child to fade into history,â€ explains McCracken. With this heartbreaking account of his life, thereâ€™s little chance of that.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5711'),
(16961, 'An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir', 'Elizabeth McCracken', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  "This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of France, working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child. This book is about what happened next. In her ninth month of pregnancy, she learned that her baby boy had died. How do you deal with and recover from this kind of loss? Of course you don''t--but you go on. And if you have ever experienced loss or love someone who has, the company of this remarkable book will help you go on. With humor and warmth and unfailing generosity, McCracken considers the nature of love and grief. She opens her heart and leaves all of ours the richer for it.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. McCracken tells her own story in this touching and often unexpectedly funny memoir about her life before and after losing her first child in the ninth month of pregnancy. As difficult as it must have been to read aloud, McCrackens delivery is courageous and never self-pitying. McCracken is forthright about the tragedy, telling the listener early on that a baby dies in this book, but that another one is born. McCrackens reading is enthralling and deeply moving, as if she is relating this intimate journey directly to each listener individually from a dark, candle-lit room, in an unforgettable performance.\n  <em>\n   A Little, Brown hardcover (reviewed online). (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Elizabeth McCrackenâ€™s heartrending memoirâ€”a love letter to the child she lost and the devoted husband who suffered alongside herâ€”McCracken displays her many talents. Her warmth, candor, crystalline prose, lovely imagery, and attention to detail bring her painful story to life. McCrackenâ€™s dark sense of humor ensnares unwitting readers, belying the sadness with which she writes, and she shows very little patience for self-pity and sentimentality. Critics praised her clear-eyed account in a genre replete with syrupy, self-aggrandizing books, though some expressed doubts that its subject matter would have wide appeal. â€œIâ€™m not ready for my first child to fade into history,â€ explains McCracken. With this heartbreaking account of his life, thereâ€™s little chance of that.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11314'),
(16962, 'An exact replica of a figment of my imagination: a memoir', 'Elizabeth McCracken', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  "This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of France, working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child. This book is about what happened next. In her ninth month of pregnancy, she learned that her baby boy had died. How do you deal with and recover from this kind of loss? Of course you don''t--but you go on. And if you have ever experienced loss or love someone who has, the company of this remarkable book will help you go on. With humor and warmth and unfailing generosity, McCracken considers the nature of love and grief. She opens her heart and leaves all of ours the richer for it.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. McCracken tells her own story in this touching and often unexpectedly funny memoir about her life before and after losing her first child in the ninth month of pregnancy. As difficult as it must have been to read aloud, McCrackens delivery is courageous and never self-pitying. McCracken is forthright about the tragedy, telling the listener early on that a baby dies in this book, but that another one is born. McCrackens reading is enthralling and deeply moving, as if she is relating this intimate journey directly to each listener individually from a dark, candle-lit room, in an unforgettable performance.\n  <em>\n   A Little, Brown hardcover (reviewed online). (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Elizabeth McCrackenâ€™s heartrending memoirâ€”a love letter to the child she lost and the devoted husband who suffered alongside herâ€”McCracken displays her many talents. Her warmth, candor, crystalline prose, lovely imagery, and attention to detail bring her painful story to life. McCrackenâ€™s dark sense of humor ensnares unwitting readers, belying the sadness with which she writes, and she shows very little patience for self-pity and sentimentality. Critics praised her clear-eyed account in a genre replete with syrupy, self-aggrandizing books, though some expressed doubts that its subject matter would have wide appeal. â€œIâ€™m not ready for my first child to fade into history,â€ explains McCracken. With this heartbreaking account of his life, thereâ€™s little chance of that.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18841'),
(16963, 'Excalibur', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14615'),
(16964, 'Excalibur', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16603'),
(16965, 'Excalibur', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26652'),
(16966, 'Excalibur &amp; the Atom', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22922'),
(16967, 'An Excellent Mystery', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1141, England is still in the midst of the strife caused by the struggle for the throne between King Stephen and the Empress Maud. Among its victims the Abbey of Hyde Meade, totally destroyed. Two of its brothers seek refuge in Shrewsbury: Brother Humilis, who abandoned his intended and joined the cloister after crippling injuries received on the Crusade; and his devoted attendant, the mute Fidelis. All is well until Humilis'' former squire decides to pay court on his own account to the girl who was his lord''s affianced bride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5667'),
(16968, 'An Excellent Mystery', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1141, England is still in the midst of the strife caused by the struggle for the throne between King Stephen and the Empress Maud. Among its victims the Abbey of Hyde Meade, totally destroyed. Two of its brothers seek refuge in Shrewsbury: Brother Humilis, who abandoned his intended and joined the cloister after crippling injuries received on the Crusade; and his devoted attendant, the mute Fidelis. All is well until Humilis'' former squire decides to pay court on his own account to the girl who was his lord''s affianced bride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18916'),
(16969, 'An Excellent Mystery', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1141, England is still in the midst of the strife caused by the struggle for the throne between King Stephen and the Empress Maud. Among its victims the Abbey of Hyde Meade, totally destroyed. Two of its brothers seek refuge in Shrewsbury: Brother Humilis, who abandoned his intended and joined the cloister after crippling injuries received on the Crusade; and his devoted attendant, the mute Fidelis. All is well until Humilis'' former squire decides to pay court on his own account to the girl who was his lord''s affianced bride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27685'),
(16970, 'Exceptions to Reality: Stories', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As is evident in his many thrilling novels, Alan Dean Foster is a master at creating other worlds in an array of genres. Now he turns his imagination to the short story in these spectacular tales of outer space, cyberspace, ancient gods, modern demons, and mortal horror, including\n</p>\n<p>\n Panhandler A predatory lawyer encounters a fabled boyhood hero and falls victim to the less innocent intrigues of eternal youth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Growth\n <strong>\n </strong>\n Not even his minidrag Pip can save Flinx from the overly intimate advances of an intruder who goes entirely too far.\n</p>\n<p>\n Basted A lowly, hen-pecked Egyptian discovers that the Pharaohâ€™s tomb holds exactly what he needs for a whole new life.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Killing of Bad Bull A man with a knack for getting gamblingâ€™s one-armed bandits to give it up finds himself at the topâ€“of several hit lists.\n</p>\n<p>\n At Sea A poor Scandinavian captain forced into running drugs is shown a way out of his desperate straits with the help of five beautiful blondes who are simply out-of-this-world.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Open Exceptions to Reality to find these amazing stories and nine other irresistibly unearthly tales!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: The Approaching Storm and the popular Pip &amp; Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several films including Star Wars, Transformers, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first science fiction work ever to do so. Foster and his wife, JoAnn Oxley, live in Prescott, Arizona, in a house built of brick that was salvaged from an early-twentieth-century minersâ€™ brothel. He is currently at work on several new novels and media projects.\n</p>\n<p>\n www.alandeanfoster.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7802'),
(16971, 'Exceptions to Reality: Stories', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n As is evident in his many thrilling novels, Alan Dean Foster is a master at creating other worlds in an array of genres. Now he turns his imagination to the short story in these spectacular tales of outer space, cyberspace, ancient gods, modern demons, and mortal horror, including\n</p>\n<p>\n Panhandler A predatory lawyer encounters a fabled boyhood hero and falls victim to the less innocent intrigues of eternal youth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Growth\n <strong>\n </strong>\n Not even his minidrag Pip can save Flinx from the overly intimate advances of an intruder who goes entirely too far.\n</p>\n<p>\n Basted A lowly, hen-pecked Egyptian discovers that the Pharaohâ€™s tomb holds exactly what he needs for a whole new life.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Killing of Bad Bull A man with a knack for getting gamblingâ€™s one-armed bandits to give it up finds himself at the topâ€“of several hit lists.\n</p>\n<p>\n At Sea A poor Scandinavian captain forced into running drugs is shown a way out of his desperate straits with the help of five beautiful blondes who are simply out-of-this-world.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n Open Exceptions to Reality to find these amazing stories and nine other irresistibly unearthly tales!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: The Approaching Storm and the popular Pip &amp; Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several films including Star Wars, Transformers, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first science fiction work ever to do so. Foster and his wife, JoAnn Oxley, live in Prescott, Arizona, in a house built of brick that was salvaged from an early-twentieth-century minersâ€™ brothel. He is currently at work on several new novels and media projects.\n</p>\n<p>\n www.alandeanfoster.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9814'),
(16972, 'Exceptions to Reality: Stories', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  As is evident in his many thrilling novels, Alan Dean Foster is a master at creating other worlds in an array of genres. Now he turns his imagination to the short story in these spectacular tales of outer space, cyberspace, ancient gods, modern demons, and mortal horror, including\n </p>\n <p>\n  Panhandler A predatory lawyer encounters a fabled boyhood hero and falls victim to the less innocent intrigues of eternal youth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Growth\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  Not even his minidrag Pip can save Flinx from the overly intimate advances of an intruder who goes entirely too far.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Basted A lowly, hen-pecked Egyptian discovers that the Pharaohâ€™s tomb holds exactly what he needs for a whole new life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Killing of Bad Bull A man with a knack for getting gamblingâ€™s one-armed bandits to give it up finds himself at the topâ€“of several hit lists.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At Sea A poor Scandinavian captain forced into running drugs is shown a way out of his desperate straits with the help of five beautiful blondes who are simply out-of-this-world.\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Open Exceptions to Reality to find these amazing stories and nine other irresistibly unearthly tales!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: The Approaching Storm and the popular Pip &amp; Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several films including Star Wars, Transformers, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first science fiction work ever to do so. Foster and his wife, JoAnn Oxley, live in Prescott, Arizona, in a house built of brick that was salvaged from an early-twentieth-century minersâ€™ brothel. He is currently at work on several new novels and media projects.\n </p>\n <p>\n  www.alandeanfoster.com\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16053'),
(16973, 'Excession', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle....Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture''s espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself.There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace...or to the brink of annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5018'),
(16974, 'Excession', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle....Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture''s espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself.There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace...or to the brink of annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15042'),
(16975, 'Excession', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle....Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture''s espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself.There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace...or to the brink of annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19561'),
(16976, 'Excession', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle....Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture''s espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself.There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace...or to the brink of annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28248'),
(16977, 'Execution Dock', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Readers of Anne Perryâ€™s bestselling William Monk novels feel as if theyâ€™ve experienced the many shades of Victorian London, from Belgravia to Limehouse, from drawing room to brothel. In **Execution Dock**, Perryâ€™s first Monk novel in three years, we find ourselves on the bustling docks along the River Thames. Here the empireâ€™s great merchant ships unload the treasures of the world. And here, in dank and sinister alleys, sex merchants ply their lucrative trade.The dreaded kingpin of this dark realm is Jericho Phillips. On his floating brothel, sex slaves are forced to endure unspeakable acts. Now one such soul, thirteen-year-old Fig, is found with his throat cut, his tortured body tossed into the river.Commander William Monk of the River Police swears that Phillips will hang for this abomination. But the miscreant is as wily as he is monstrous, and his wealthy clients seem far beyond the reach of the law. Monkâ€™s attempt to bring about justice becomes the first electrifying episode in a nightmare that will test his courage and integrity.However, reinforcements are on the way. Monkâ€™s wife, Hester, who runs a free clinic for abused women, draws a highly unusual guerrilla force to her husbandâ€™s causeâ€“a canny ratcatcher, a retired brothel keeper, a fearless street urchin, and a rebellious society lady. To one as criminally minded as Phillips,  these folks are mere mosquitoes, to be sure. But as he will soon discover, some mosquitoes can have a deadly sting.This gripping, terrifying story hurtles toward to a denouement that will leave the reader breathless but cheering.** Execution Dock **is Anne Perry at her incomparable, magnificent best.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7517'),
(16978, 'Execution Dock', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Readers of Anne Perryâ€™s bestselling William Monk novels feel as if theyâ€™ve experienced the many shades of Victorian London, from Belgravia to Limehouse, from drawing room to brothel. In **Execution Dock**, Perryâ€™s first Monk novel in three years, we find ourselves on the bustling docks along the River Thames. Here the empireâ€™s great merchant ships unload the treasures of the world. And here, in dank and sinister alleys, sex merchants ply their lucrative trade.The dreaded kingpin of this dark realm is Jericho Phillips. On his floating brothel, sex slaves are forced to endure unspeakable acts. Now one such soul, thirteen-year-old Fig, is found with his throat cut, his tortured body tossed into the river.Commander William Monk of the River Police swears that Phillips will hang for this abomination. But the miscreant is as wily as he is monstrous, and his wealthy clients seem far beyond the reach of the law. Monkâ€™s attempt to bring about justice becomes the first electrifying episode in a nightmare that will test his courage and integrity.However, reinforcements are on the way. Monkâ€™s wife, Hester, who runs a free clinic for abused women, draws a highly unusual guerrilla force to her husbandâ€™s causeâ€“a canny ratcatcher, a retired brothel keeper, a fearless street urchin, and a rebellious society lady. To one as criminally minded as Phillips,  these folks are mere mosquitoes, to be sure. But as he will soon discover, some mosquitoes can have a deadly sting.This gripping, terrifying story hurtles toward to a denouement that will leave the reader breathless but cheering.** Execution Dock **is Anne Perry at her incomparable, magnificent best.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11878'),
(16979, 'Execution Dock', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Readers of Anne Perryâ€™s bestselling William Monk novels feel as if theyâ€™ve experienced the many shades of Victorian London, from Belgravia to Limehouse, from drawing room to brothel. In **Execution Dock**, Perryâ€™s first Monk novel in three years, we find ourselves on the bustling docks along the River Thames. Here the empireâ€™s great merchant ships unload the treasures of the world. And here, in dank and sinister alleys, sex merchants ply their lucrative trade.The dreaded kingpin of this dark realm is Jericho Phillips. On his floating brothel, sex slaves are forced to endure unspeakable acts. Now one such soul, thirteen-year-old Fig, is found with his throat cut, his tortured body tossed into the river.Commander William Monk of the River Police swears that Phillips will hang for this abomination. But the miscreant is as wily as he is monstrous, and his wealthy clients seem far beyond the reach of the law. Monkâ€™s attempt to bring about justice becomes the first electrifying episode in a nightmare that will test his courage and integrity.However, reinforcements are on the way. Monkâ€™s wife, Hester, who runs a free clinic for abused women, draws a highly unusual guerrilla force to her husbandâ€™s causeâ€“a canny ratcatcher, a retired brothel keeper, a fearless street urchin, and a rebellious society lady. To one as criminally minded as Phillips,  these folks are mere mosquitoes, to be sure. But as he will soon discover, some mosquitoes can have a deadly sting.This gripping, terrifying story hurtles toward to a denouement that will leave the reader breathless but cheering.** Execution Dock **is Anne Perry at her incomparable, magnificent best.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16354'),
(16980, 'Execution Dock', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Readers of Anne Perryâ€™s bestselling William Monk novels feel as if theyâ€™ve experienced the many shades of Victorian London, from Belgravia to Limehouse, from drawing room to brothel. In **Execution Dock**, Perryâ€™s first Monk novel in three years, we find ourselves on the bustling docks along the River Thames. Here the empireâ€™s great merchant ships unload the treasures of the world. And here, in dank and sinister alleys, sex merchants ply their lucrative trade.The dreaded kingpin of this dark realm is Jericho Phillips. On his floating brothel, sex slaves are forced to endure unspeakable acts. Now one such soul, thirteen-year-old Fig, is found with his throat cut, his tortured body tossed into the river.Commander William Monk of the River Police swears that Phillips will hang for this abomination. But the miscreant is as wily as he is monstrous, and his wealthy clients seem far beyond the reach of the law. Monkâ€™s attempt to bring about justice becomes the first electrifying episode in a nightmare that will test his courage and integrity.However, reinforcements are on the way. Monkâ€™s wife, Hester, who runs a free clinic for abused women, draws a highly unusual guerrilla force to her husbandâ€™s causeâ€“a canny ratcatcher, a retired brothel keeper, a fearless street urchin, and a rebellious society lady. To one as criminally minded as Phillips, these folks are mere mosquitoes, to be sure. But as he will soon discover, some mosquitoes can have a deadly sting.This gripping, terrifying story hurtles toward to a denouement that will leave the reader breathless but cheering.** Execution Dock **is Anne Perry at her incomparable, magnificent best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26375'),
(16981, 'Executive Orders', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack Ryan becomes president by sheer accident when the former president, most of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are bombed out of existence. Ryan must jump in to discover who did it, all the while contending with the threat of military takeover and covert biological warfare. Herrmann reads this spy-thriller with chilling precision, flawlessly switching from one scene to another in this choppy abridgment. As the plots rush to conclusion, Herrmann keeps track of the multitude of accents, representing both "good guys" and "bad guys" around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/532'),
(16982, 'Executive Orders', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack Ryan becomes president by sheer accident when the former president, most of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are bombed out of existence. Ryan must jump in to discover who did it, all the while contending with the threat of military takeover and covert biological warfare. Herrmann reads this spy-thriller with chilling precision, flawlessly switching from one scene to another in this choppy abridgment. As the plots rush to conclusion, Herrmann keeps track of the multitude of accents, representing both "good guys" and "bad guys" around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8863'),
(16983, 'Executive Orders', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack Ryan becomes president by sheer accident when the former president, most of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are bombed out of existence. Ryan must jump in to discover who did it, all the while contending with the threat of military takeover and covert biological warfare. Herrmann reads this spy-thriller with chilling precision, flawlessly switching from one scene to another in this choppy abridgment. As the plots rush to conclusion, Herrmann keeps track of the multitude of accents, representing both "good guys" and "bad guys" around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15261'),
(16984, 'Executive orders', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack Ryan becomes president by sheer accident when the former president, most of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are bombed out of existence. Ryan must jump in to discover who did it, all the while contending with the threat of military takeover and covert biological warfare. Herrmann reads this spy-thriller with chilling precision, flawlessly switching from one scene to another in this choppy abridgment. As the plots rush to conclusion, Herrmann keeps track of the multitude of accents, representing both "good guys" and "bad guys" around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24341'),
(16985, 'Executive Power', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n CIA superagent Mitch Rapp s cover has been blown -- just when the world needs him more than ever....EXECUTIVE POWERReturning from a covert missionï¼Œ Mitch Rapp was publicly hailed by the president for his role in the fight against terrorism. After years of working in the shadowsï¼Œ Rapp was caught in the media spotlight -- and marked for death by virtually every terrorist in the world. Now a CIA advisorï¼Œ Rapp is ready to battle terror far from the front lines. But when a Navy SEAL team in the Philippines is ambushedï¼Œ all evidence points to a leak within the U.S. State Department. And a greater threat still lurks -- a ruthless assassin working for the most powerful men in the Middle Eastï¼Œ who are bent on igniting a world war. With the world watchingï¼Œ Rapp must hold back the flames of Armageddon....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/375'),
(16986, 'Executive Power', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: CIA superagent Mitch Rapp s cover has been blown -- just when the world needs him more than ever....EXECUTIVE POWERReturning from a covert missionï¼Œ Mitch Rapp was publicly hailed by the president for his role in the fight against terrorism. After years of working in the shadowsï¼Œ Rapp was caught in the media spotlight -- and marked for death by virtually every terrorist in the world. Now a CIA advisorï¼Œ Rapp is ready to battle terror far from the front lines. But when a Navy SEAL team in the Philippines is ambushedï¼Œ all evidence points to a leak within the U.S. State Department. And a greater threat still lurks -- a ruthless assassin working for the most powerful men in the Middle Eastï¼Œ who are bent on igniting a world war. With the world watchingï¼Œ Rapp must hold back the flames of Armageddon....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24611'),
(16987, 'The Executor', 'Jesse Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Things aren t going well for Joseph Geist. He s broke. His graduate school advisor won t talk to him. And his girlfriend has kicked him out of her apartment, leaving him homeless and alone. It s a tough spot for a philosopher to be in, and he s ready to give up all hope of happiness when an ad in the local paper catches his eye. ''Conversationalist wanted'', it reads. Which sounds perfect to Joseph. After all, he s never done anything in his life except talk. And the woman behind the ad turns out to be the perfect employer: brilliant, generous, and willing to pay him for making conversation. Before long, Joseph has moved in with her, and has begun to feel very comfortable in her big, beautiful house. So comfortable, in fact, that he would do anything to stay there forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4456'),
(16988, 'The Executor', 'Jesse Kellerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Things aren t going well for Joseph Geist. He s broke. His graduate school advisor won t talk to him. And his girlfriend has kicked him out of her apartment, leaving him homeless and alone. It s a tough spot for a philosopher to be in, and he s ready to give up all hope of happiness when an ad in the local paper catches his eye. ''Conversationalist wanted'', it reads. Which sounds perfect to Joseph. After all, he s never done anything in his life except talk. And the woman behind the ad turns out to be the perfect employer: brilliant, generous, and willing to pay him for making conversation. Before long, Joseph has moved in with her, and has begun to feel very comfortable in her big, beautiful house. So comfortable, in fact, that he would do anything to stay there forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10607'),
(16989, 'Exile and the Kingdom', 'Albert Camus; Justin O&#39;Brien (Translator)', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Four of these stories are set on the shimmering desert fringes of Albert Camus'' native Algeria, and all of them first appeared in 1957, the year when he became the youngest French writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15954'),
(16990, 'Exile&#39;s Return', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EXILE''S RETURN is the penultimate volume in the CONCLAVE OF SHADOWS from worldwide bestselling author Raymond E Feist. Featuring one of the most fascinating characters and scenarios ever created in the genre. The series promises to become one of the great all-time classics in the field. EXILE''S RETURN concludes the sweeping new epic fantasy series from worldwide bestselling author Raymond E Feist. Featuring one of the most fascinating characters and scenarios ever created in the genre, THE CONCLAVE OF SHADOWS promises to become one of the great all-time classics in the field. Once absolute ruler of his nation Kaspar, former Duke of Olasko, has been cast into exile. Abandoned in the wilds of a continent on the other side of the world and left with nothing but his wits and determination, he must fight merely to survive. Armed with guile, cunning and an iron will, he starts his odyssey with a single goal: to return to his home and revenge himself upon the man who cast him down, Talwin Hawkins. But fate has other plans for Kaspar, and as he struggles against adversity, he encounters dangers greater than any he had imagined.  More is at stake than he realised and Kaspar is but a single player in a far greater game than he imagined, for pitted against the Conclave of Shadows are the agents of the Dark Empire, a looming menace that threatens not only Kaspar''s homeland, but the entire world of Midkemia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1850'),
(16991, 'Exiles', 'Howard Weinstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For three centuries the people of Alaj and the people of Etolos have been bitter enemies. However, when crippling disasters strike both worlds, each planet becomes the other''s hope for survival.  With time running out, Captain Picard and his crew are called to negotiate a peaceful settlement and begin rescue efforts. But some factions would rather see both planets perish and will stop at nothing to prevent peace.  Soon the U.S.S. "Enterprise(TM)" crew is caught up in a web of intrigue and terrorism that culminates with an act of ultimate revenge against bother peoples -- revenge that will meant he destruction of two worlds and the U.S.S. "Enterprise."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5122'),
(16992, 'Exiles', 'Howard Weinstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For three centuries the people of Alaj and the people of Etolos have been bitter enemies. However, when crippling disasters strike both worlds, each planet becomes the other''s hope for survival. With time running out, Captain Picard and his crew are called to negotiate a peaceful settlement and begin rescue efforts. But some factions would rather see both planets perish and will stop at nothing to prevent peace. Soon the U.S.S. "Enterprise(TM)" crew is caught up in a web of intrigue and terrorism that culminates with an act of ultimate revenge against bother peoples -- revenge that will meant he destruction of two worlds and the U.S.S. "Enterprise."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19608'),
(16993, 'Exiles of the Stars', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15859'),
(16994, 'The Exiles Trilogy', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Computer engineer Lou Christopher''s life falls apart when the World Government decrees that the project he is working on is too dangerous to continue. Thus, he and thousands of other scientists and their families are sentenced to permanent exile from Earth on a space station. But Lou and several others decide to escape--by converting the space station into a starship.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15598');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(16995, 'Exiles: A Play in Three Acts', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is only James Joyce''s towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and informative introduction, several of these works not only occupy a pivotal position in Joyce''s career; they are also magnificently assured achievements in their own right. Chamber Music is ''an extraordinary dÃ©but'', fusing the styles of the nineties and the Irish Revival with irony and characteristic verbal exuberance. ''Pomes Penyeach and Exiles'' (highly acclaimed in Harold Pinter''s 1970 staging) were written when Joyce had published Dubliners and was completing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Both confront painfully personal issues of adultery, jealousy and betrayal and so pave the way for the more detached and fully realized treatment in Ulysses. Joyce''s occasional verse includes ''Ecce Puer'' for his new-born grandson, juvenilia, satires, translations, limericks and a parody of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. All are brought together in this scholarly, fully annotated yet accessible new edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4875'),
(16996, 'Exiles: a play in three acts', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is only James Joyce''s towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and informative introduction, several of these works not only occupy a pivotal position in Joyce''s career; they are also magnificently assured achievements in their own right. Chamber Music is ''an extraordinary dÃ©but'', fusing the styles of the nineties and the Irish Revival with irony and characteristic verbal exuberance. ''Pomes Penyeach and Exiles'' (highly acclaimed in Harold Pinter''s 1970 staging) were written when Joyce had published Dubliners and was completing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Both confront painfully personal issues of adultery, jealousy and betrayal and so pave the way for the more detached and fully realized treatment in Ulysses. Joyce''s occasional verse includes ''Ecce Puer'' for his new-born grandson, juvenilia, satires, translations, limericks and a parody of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. All are brought together in this scholarly, fully annotated yet accessible new edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19809'),
(16997, 'The Existence of God', 'Richard Swinburne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Richard Swinburne presents a substantially rewritten and updated edition of his most celebrated book. No other work has made a more powerful case for the probability of the existence of God. Swinburne gives a rigorous and penetrating analysis of the most important arguments for theism: the cosmological argument; arguments from the existence of laws of nature and the ''fine-tuning'' of the universe; from the occurrence of consciousness and moral awareness; and from miracles and religious experience. He claims that while none of these arguments are deductively valid, they do give inductive support to theism and that, even when the argument from evil is weighed against them, taken together they offer good grounds to support the probability that there is a God. The overall structure of the discussion and its conclusion have been retained for this new edition, but much has been changed in order to strengthen the argumentation and to take account of Swinburne''s subsequent work on the nature of consciousness and the problem of evil, and of the latest philosophical and scientific writing, especially in respect of the laws of nature and the argument from fine-tuning. This is now the definitive version of a classic in the philosophy of religion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12350'),
(16998, 'Exit Strategy', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Popular fantasy author Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld series) makes her first foray into crime fiction, with the debut of a series of non-paranormal novels featuring female assassin Nadia Stafford. Nadia Stafford is one of the world''s few female contract killers. A former cop, drummed out of the force because of a scandal, she is an expert at disguise and cool under pressure. But when fellow hitman Jack arrives on the scene, Nadia''s very private existence is seriously challenged. A series of victims are being murdered seemingly at random all over the country -- different areas, different walks of life, different MOs. There is nothing to tie them together except a random page torn out of a single book: "Helter Skelter," But does the Helter Skelter killer -- as the hysterical media now dub him -- have a real connection to Charles Manson? Or is there something even more sinister at work? Is this, in fact -- as Jack believes -- the carefully planned exit strategy of a fellow professional killer, determined to leave the life, but equally determined to clear up an old mistake? And, if so, which is the real victim? Now, the highly suspicious and secretive hitman community will have to break their cover -- at least, to each other -- and help take down this killer before the cops and the Feds discover his true connection to their own secret, exclusive society... .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3778'),
(16999, 'Exit Strategy', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Popular fantasy author Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld series) makes her first foray into crime fiction, with the debut of a series of non-paranormal novels featuring female assassin Nadia Stafford. Nadia Stafford is one of the world''s few female contract killers. A former cop, drummed out of the force because of a scandal, she is an expert at disguise and cool under pressure. But when fellow hitman Jack arrives on the scene, Nadia''s very private existence is seriously challenged. A series of victims are being murdered seemingly at random all over the country -- different areas, different walks of life, different MOs. There is nothing to tie them together except a random page torn out of a single book: "Helter Skelter," But does the Helter Skelter killer -- as the hysterical media now dub him -- have a real connection to Charles Manson? Or is there something even more sinister at work? Is this, in fact -- as Jack believes -- the carefully planned exit strategy of a fellow professional killer, determined to leave the life, but equally determined to clear up an old mistake? And, if so, which is the real victim? Now, the highly suspicious and secretive hitman community will have to break their cover -- at least, to each other -- and help take down this killer before the cops and the Feds discover his true connection to their own secret, exclusive society... .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8271'),
(17000, 'Exit Strategy', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Popular fantasy author Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld series) makes her first foray into crime fiction, with the debut of a series of non-paranormal novels featuring female assassin Nadia Stafford. Nadia Stafford is one of the world''s few female contract killers. A former cop, drummed out of the force because of a scandal, she is an expert at disguise and cool under pressure. But when fellow hitman Jack arrives on the scene, Nadia''s very private existence is seriously challenged. A series of victims are being murdered seemingly at random all over the country -- different areas, different walks of life, different MOs. There is nothing to tie them together except a random page torn out of a single book: "Helter Skelter," But does the Helter Skelter killer -- as the hysterical media now dub him -- have a real connection to Charles Manson? Or is there something even more sinister at work? Is this, in fact -- as Jack believes -- the carefully planned exit strategy of a fellow professional killer, determined to leave the life, but equally determined to clear up an old mistake? And, if so, which is the real victim? Now, the highly suspicious and secretive hitman community will have to break their cover -- at least, to each other -- and help take down this killer before the cops and the Feds discover his true connection to their own secret, exclusive society... .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20774'),
(17001, 'Exit the Actress: A Novel', 'Priya Parmar', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  A real triumph\n </strong>\n â€¦.A\n <strong>\n  vivid\n </strong>\n imagining of the restoration London of Charles II with Nell Gwynn as a\n <strong>\n  powerful and engaging\n </strong>\n heroine set in the busy world of the theater. This debut novel captures the\n <strong>\n  glamorous\n </strong>\n world of the amoral court and the struggle of the city.\n <strong>\n  Priya Parmar is a writer to watch\n </strong>\n .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€”Philippa Gregory\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Author of\n <em>\n  The Other Boleyn Girl\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Clever ... a delight ... irresistible ... I loved this book."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  Sharon Kay Penman\n </strong>\n , author of\n <em>\n  Devil''s Brood\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNell is irrepressible, spunky, delightful: who wouldnâ€™t fall in love with her? Her story unfolds through diary entries, letters, news announcements, recipes. ItÂ¹s a tasty and often amusing confection, sure to please. I absolutely adored it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€”Sandra Gulland\n </strong>\n , author of the Josephine B. Trilogy and\n <em>\n  Mistress of the Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n While selling oranges in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, sweet and sprightly Ellen "Nell" Gwyn impresses the theaterâ€™s proprietors with a wit and sparkle that belie her youth and poverty. She quickly earns a place in the company, narrowly avoiding the life of prostitution to which her sister has already succumbed. As her roles evolve from supporting to starring, the scope of her life broadens as well. Soon Ellen is dressed in the finest fashions, charming the theatrical, literary, and royal luminaries of Restoration England. Ellen grows up on the stage, experiencing first love and heartbreak and eventually becoming the mistress of Charles II. Despite his reputation as a libertine, Ellen wholly captures his heartâ€”and he hersâ€”but even the most powerful love isnâ€™t enough to stave off the gossip and bitter court politics that accompany a royal romance. Telling the story through a collection of vibrant seventeenth-century voices ranging from Ellenâ€™s diary to playbills, letters, gossip columns, and home remedies, Priya Parmar brings to life the story of an endearing and delightful heroine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1966'),
(17002, 'Exit the Actress: A Novel', 'Priya Parmar', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ\n <strong>\n  A real triumph\n </strong>\n â€¦.A\n <strong>\n  vivid\n </strong>\n imagining of the restoration London of Charles II with Nell Gwynn as a\n <strong>\n  powerful and engaging\n </strong>\n heroine set in the busy world of the theater. This debut novel captures the\n <strong>\n  glamorous\n </strong>\n world of the amoral court and the struggle of the city.\n <strong>\n  Priya Parmar is a writer to watch\n </strong>\n .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€”Philippa Gregory\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Author of\n <em>\n  The Other Boleyn Girl\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Clever ... a delight ... irresistible ... I loved this book."\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  Sharon Kay Penman\n </strong>\n , author of\n <em>\n  Devil''s Brood\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNell is irrepressible, spunky, delightful: who wouldnâ€™t fall in love with her? Her story unfolds through diary entries, letters, news announcements, recipes. ItÂ¹s a tasty and often amusing confection, sure to please. I absolutely adored it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€”Sandra Gulland\n </strong>\n , author of the Josephine B. Trilogy and\n <em>\n  Mistress of the Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n While selling oranges in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, sweet and sprightly Ellen "Nell" Gwyn impresses the theaterâ€™s proprietors with a wit and sparkle that belie her youth and poverty. She quickly earns a place in the company, narrowly avoiding the life of prostitution to which her sister has already succumbed. As her roles evolve from supporting to starring, the scope of her life broadens as well. Soon Ellen is dressed in the finest fashions, charming the theatrical, literary, and royal luminaries of Restoration England. Ellen grows up on the stage, experiencing first love and heartbreak and eventually becoming the mistress of Charles II. Despite his reputation as a libertine, Ellen wholly captures his heartâ€”and he hersâ€”but even the most powerful love isnâ€™t enough to stave off the gossip and bitter court politics that accompany a royal romance. Telling the story through a collection of vibrant seventeenth-century voices ranging from Ellenâ€™s diary to playbills, letters, gossip columns, and home remedies, Priya Parmar brings to life the story of an endearing and delightful heroine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11779'),
(17003, 'Exit Wound', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The breathtaking new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author ofBravo Two Zero. Three tons of Saddam Hussein''s gold sit in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai. For two of Nick Stone''s closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they''re double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends'' killer and track him down. As one harrowing piece of the complex and sinister jigsaw slots into another, Stone''s quest for vengeance becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy. Ticking like a time-bomb, brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab''s latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption, cover-up and blistering suspense - the master thriller writer at his electrifying, unputdownable best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7648'),
(17004, 'Exit Wound', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The breathtaking new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author ofBravo Two Zero. Three tons of Saddam Hussein''s gold sit in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai. For two of Nick Stone''s closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they''re double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends'' killer and track him down. As one harrowing piece of the complex and sinister jigsaw slots into another, Stone''s quest for vengeance becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy. Ticking like a time-bomb, brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab''s latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption, cover-up and blistering suspense - the master thriller writer at his electrifying, unputdownable best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11453'),
(17005, 'Exit Wound', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The breathtaking new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author ofBravo Two Zero. Three tons of Saddam Hussein''s gold sit in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai. For two of Nick Stone''s closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they''re double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends'' killer and track him down. As one harrowing piece of the complex and sinister jigsaw slots into another, Stone''s quest for vengeance becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy. Ticking like a time-bomb, brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab''s latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption, cover-up and blistering suspense - the master thriller writer at his electrifying, unputdownable best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16221'),
(17006, 'Exit Wound', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The breathtaking new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author ofBravo Two Zero. Three tons of Saddam Hussein''s gold sit in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai. For two of Nick Stone''s closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they''re double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends'' killer and track him down. As one harrowing piece of the complex and sinister jigsaw slots into another, Stone''s quest for vengeance becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy. Ticking like a time-bomb, brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab''s latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption, cover-up and blistering suspense - the master thriller writer at his electrifying, unputdownable best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26303'),
(17007, 'Exit Wounds', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the murder of Carol Mossman, who lived alone in the desert and was shot with an antique gun. Her 17 dogs died, too, due to an intense buildup of heat in the trailer. The investigation leads to the deceased woman''s siblings, grandmother, and father, and two murdered female reporters. As the facts come together, it becomes apparent that the victim''s father raped his daughters, impregnating at least two. While working on the case, Brady deals with the local animal activist group and illegal immigrants, all while running for reelection. While none of the scenes depict details of the incestuous relationships, the lasting effect of abuse becomes a major point of the story. The human abuse in turn leads back to the topic of animal abuse, painting a sad picture of the horrors of both. But Jance manages to keep the atmosphere positive, with lots of action, energy, and realism along the way, and Brady''s personal thoughts and beliefs give a perspective to the events. This 10th in the series offers topics for thought and a rousing plot.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n No need to have read previous books to enjoy this Joanna Brady mystery. Jance slips in enough background to bring readers quickly up to speed. Before that, however, comes a whopper of a setup. Loner Carol Mossman is found brutally murdered, her 17 dogs dead beside her in her blistering hot trailer. Soon after, two more women turn up dead--all three shot with bullets more than a quarter-century old. That single clue eventually leads Sheriff Brady to a horrifying secret that nearly destroys an entire family. The dramatic opening will suck readers in, and the pacing is a satisfying balance between Joanna''s struggles to be a good sheriff, wife, and mother and her dealing with her reelection and newly discovered pregnancy. Joanna''s compassion and insecurity--and her sometimes cranky determination--make her a particularly realistic and appealing protagonist. As in\n <em>\n  Partner in Crime\n </em>\n (2002), Jance builds her story around a real-life contemporary social concern, in this case the psychological disorder known as hoarding. Brady fans won''t want to put this one down, which may itself be a form of hoarding.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5044'),
(17008, 'Exit Wounds', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the murder of Carol Mossman, who lived alone in the desert and was shot with an antique gun. Her 17 dogs died, too, due to an intense buildup of heat in the trailer. The investigation leads to the deceased woman''s siblings, grandmother, and father, and two murdered female reporters. As the facts come together, it becomes apparent that the victim''s father raped his daughters, impregnating at least two. While working on the case, Brady deals with the local animal activist group and illegal immigrants, all while running for reelection. While none of the scenes depict details of the incestuous relationships, the lasting effect of abuse becomes a major point of the story. The human abuse in turn leads back to the topic of animal abuse, painting a sad picture of the horrors of both. But Jance manages to keep the atmosphere positive, with lots of action, energy, and realism along the way, and Brady''s personal thoughts and beliefs give a perspective to the events. This 10th in the series offers topics for thought and a rousing plot.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n No need to have read previous books to enjoy this Joanna Brady mystery. Jance slips in enough background to bring readers quickly up to speed. Before that, however, comes a whopper of a setup. Loner Carol Mossman is found brutally murdered, her 17 dogs dead beside her in her blistering hot trailer. Soon after, two more women turn up dead--all three shot with bullets more than a quarter-century old. That single clue eventually leads Sheriff Brady to a horrifying secret that nearly destroys an entire family. The dramatic opening will suck readers in, and the pacing is a satisfying balance between Joanna''s struggles to be a good sheriff, wife, and mother and her dealing with her reelection and newly discovered pregnancy. Joanna''s compassion and insecurity--and her sometimes cranky determination--make her a particularly realistic and appealing protagonist. As in\n <em>\n  Partner in Crime\n </em>\n (2002), Jance builds her story around a real-life contemporary social concern, in this case the psychological disorder known as hoarding. Brady fans won''t want to put this one down, which may itself be a form of hoarding.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10565'),
(17009, 'Exit Wounds', 'J. A. Jance', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School-Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the murder of Carol Mossman, who lived alone in the desert and was shot with an antique gun. Her 17 dogs died, too, due to an intense buildup of heat in the trailer. The investigation leads to the deceased woman''s siblings, grandmother, and father, and two murdered female reporters. As the facts come together, it becomes apparent that the victim''s father raped his daughters, impregnating at least two. While working on the case, Brady deals with the local animal activist group and illegal immigrants, all while running for reelection. While none of the scenes depict details of the incestuous relationships, the lasting effect of abuse becomes a major point of the story. The human abuse in turn leads back to the topic of animal abuse, painting a sad picture of the horrors of both. But Jance manages to keep the atmosphere positive, with lots of action, energy, and realism along the way, and Brady''s personal thoughts and beliefs give a perspective to the events. This 10th in the series offers topics for thought and a rousing plot.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n No need to have read previous books to enjoy this Joanna Brady mystery. Jance slips in enough background to bring readers quickly up to speed. Before that, however, comes a whopper of a setup. Loner Carol Mossman is found brutally murdered, her 17 dogs dead beside her in her blistering hot trailer. Soon after, two more women turn up dead--all three shot with bullets more than a quarter-century old. That single clue eventually leads Sheriff Brady to a horrifying secret that nearly destroys an entire family. The dramatic opening will suck readers in, and the pacing is a satisfying balance between Joanna''s struggles to be a good sheriff, wife, and mother and her dealing with her reelection and newly discovered pregnancy. Joanna''s compassion and insecurity--and her sometimes cranky determination--make her a particularly realistic and appealing protagonist. As in\n <em>\n  Partner in Crime\n </em>\n (2002), Jance builds her story around a real-life contemporary social concern, in this case the psychological disorder known as hoarding. Brady fans won''t want to put this one down, which may itself be a form of hoarding.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19723'),
(17010, 'Exodus From Hunger: We Are Called to Change the Politics of Hunger', 'David Beckmann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though tremendous improvements in health and education have helped slow the epidemic of global hunger in recent decades, more needs to be done to help lift people out of poverty, says Beckmann, president of the antihunger advocacy group Bread for the World. Beckmann strongly supports new international efforts such as the United Nations'' Millennium Development Goals, rock star Bono''s ONE campaign, and programs funded through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. But he also shows how no country has made gains in staunching hunger without government antipoverty programs. Beckmann offers a multifaceted solution to domestic poverty, including citizen activism, community soup kitchens, good jobs, and government policies and programs. This book will be appreciated by church groups eager to bolster their charitable outreach, especially since it includes several inspiring vignettes of ordinary Christians doing extraordinary things to help stop hunger. The book''s weakness is that it covers too much ground without offering a structured or easily applicable way forward. (Oct.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is within America''s technical and financial power to help end world hunger in our lifetime, if we set our hearts and minds to the task.\n</p>\n<p>\n Contrary to what many people believe, the world has made measurable advancements against hunger and poverty over the last several decades. But too often the binding constraint on further progress is a simple lack of political will. As a result, one of the most powerful ways to affect change is often the most neglected--political activism.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this powerful and hopeful book, David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World and a leading anti-hunger activist, looks at the causes of hunger, presents case studies of countries that have made great strides against it, and puts a human face on the problem by sharing stories of people who are, quite simply, hungry every day. The problems can seem overwhelming but Beckmann lays out a clear and workable plan for effectively using political channels to make great progress. He not only challenges us to get involved, he shows us how.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is no less than our call to do so.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6297'),
(17011, 'Exodus From Hunger: We Are Called to Change the Politics of Hunger', 'David Beckmann', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though tremendous improvements in health and education have helped slow the epidemic of global hunger in recent decades, more needs to be done to help lift people out of poverty, says Beckmann, president of the antihunger advocacy group Bread for the World. Beckmann strongly supports new international efforts such as the United Nations'' Millennium Development Goals, rock star Bono''s ONE campaign, and programs funded through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. But he also shows how no country has made gains in staunching hunger without government antipoverty programs. Beckmann offers a multifaceted solution to domestic poverty, including citizen activism, community soup kitchens, good jobs, and government policies and programs. This book will be appreciated by church groups eager to bolster their charitable outreach, especially since it includes several inspiring vignettes of ordinary Christians doing extraordinary things to help stop hunger. The book''s weakness is that it covers too much ground without offering a structured or easily applicable way forward. (Oct.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It is within America''s technical and financial power to help end world hunger in our lifetime, if we set our hearts and minds to the task.\n</p>\n<p>\n Contrary to what many people believe, the world has made measurable advancements against hunger and poverty over the last several decades. But too often the binding constraint on further progress is a simple lack of political will. As a result, one of the most powerful ways to affect change is often the most neglected--political activism.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this powerful and hopeful book, David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World and a leading anti-hunger activist, looks at the causes of hunger, presents case studies of countries that have made great strides against it, and puts a human face on the problem by sharing stories of people who are, quite simply, hungry every day. The problems can seem overwhelming but Beckmann lays out a clear and workable plan for effectively using political channels to make great progress. He not only challenges us to get involved, he shows us how.\n</p>\n<p>\n It is no less than our call to do so.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8432'),
(17012, 'Exodus From Hunger: We Are Called to Change The Politics of Hunger', 'Beckmann, David', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17724'),
(17013, 'The Exodus Quest', 'Will Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Facts collide with fiction in the pulse-pounding sequel to the highly praised The Alexander Cipher, featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox.THE EXODUS QUESTOn the trail of the lost Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeologist Daniel Knox stumbles upon a theft in progress at an ancient temple near Alexandria. Then a senior Egyptian archaeologist is violently killed, and the finger of suspicion points at Knox himself. To add to his mounting worries, his partner Gaille Bonnard is kidnapped while showing a television crew around the ruins of Amarna. She manages to smuggle out a message, pleading with Knox to rescue her, but he''s locked in a police cell on suspicion of murder hundreds of miles away. His only hope of clearing his name and saving Gaille is to crack one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the ancient world...before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7977'),
(17014, 'The Exodus Quest', 'Will Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Facts collide with fiction in the pulse-pounding sequel to the highly praised The Alexander Cipher, featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox.THE EXODUS QUESTOn the trail of the lost Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeologist Daniel Knox stumbles upon a theft in progress at an ancient temple near Alexandria. Then a senior Egyptian archaeologist is violently killed, and the finger of suspicion points at Knox himself. To add to his mounting worries, his partner Gaille Bonnard is kidnapped while showing a television crew around the ruins of Amarna. She manages to smuggle out a message, pleading with Knox to rescue her, but he''s locked in a police cell on suspicion of murder hundreds of miles away. His only hope of clearing his name and saving Gaille is to crack one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the ancient world...before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9319'),
(17015, 'The Exodus Quest', 'Will Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Facts collide with fiction in the pulse-pounding sequel to the highly praised The Alexander Cipher, featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox.THE EXODUS QUESTOn the trail of the lost Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeologist Daniel Knox stumbles upon a theft in progress at an ancient temple near Alexandria. Then a senior Egyptian archaeologist is violently killed, and the finger of suspicion points at Knox himself. To add to his mounting worries, his partner Gaille Bonnard is kidnapped while showing a television crew around the ruins of Amarna. She manages to smuggle out a message, pleading with Knox to rescue her, but he''s locked in a police cell on suspicion of murder hundreds of miles away. His only hope of clearing his name and saving Gaille is to crack one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the ancient world...before it''s too late.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24706'),
(17016, 'Exorcistul', 'William Peter Blatty', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24963'),
(17017, 'The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives', 'Monica Mcgoldrick; Betty Carter; Nydia Garcia-preto; Contributors Chapter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now featured in a Classics Edition with a new Foreword by Donald Boch,\n <em>\n  The Expanded Family Life Cycle\n </em>\n integrates theory and current research with clinical guidelines and cases by two of the most-respected authors, teachers, and clinicians in the field of family therapy, Betty Carter and Monica McGoldrick.\n</p>\n<p>\n This classic Family Therapy text provides â€œand more comprehensive way to think about human development and the life cycle,â€ reflecting changes in society away from orientation toward the nuclear family, toward a more diverse and inclusive definition of â€œfamily.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n This expanded view of the family includes the impact of issues at multiple levels of the human system: the individual, family households, the extended family, the community, the cultural group, and the larger society. The text features a ground-breaking integration of individual male and female development in systemic context; our increasing racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity; the emergence of men[HTML_REMOVED]s movements and issues; the growing visibility of lesbian and gay families; and the neglected area of social class.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Monica McGoldrick, M.A., M.S.W, Ph.D. (h.c.),\n </strong>\n is the Director of the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, NJ, and on Psychiatry Faculty of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Her other books include:\n <em>\n  Ethnicity and Family Therapy,\n </em>\n 3rd ed;\n <em>\n  Genograms: Assessment and Intervention,\n </em>\n 3rd ed.\n <em>\n  Living Beyond Loss: 2nd ed\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  Revisioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice\n </em>\n , 2nd ed; and\n <em>\n  The Genogram Journey: Reconnecting with your Family-\n </em>\n to be published by W. W. Norton in the Fall of 2010,whichtranslates her ideas about family relationships for a popular audience, using examples such as Beethoven, Groucho Marx, Sigmund Freud and the Kennedys.\n</p>\n<p>\n She received her BA from Brown University, a Masters in Russian Studies from Yale University, and her M.S.W and an Honorary Doctorate from Smith College School for Social Work. Dr. McGoldrick is known internationally for her writings and teaching on topics including culture, class, gender, loss, family patterns (genograms), remarried families, and sibling relationships. Her clinical videotape demonstrating the use of the life cycle perspective with a multicultural remarried family dealing with issues of unresolved mourning has become one of the most widely respected videotapes available in the field.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Betty Carter, M.S.W.,\n </strong>\n founder and Director Emerita (1977-1997) of the Family Institute of Westchester in White Plains, New York, spent over 30 years as a family therapy clinician, supervisor, teacher, and director of a major training institute. She received awards from the American Family Therapy Academy, Hunter College School of Social work, and the American Association of marriage and Family Therapy Research and Education Foundation. With her colleagues Peggy Papp, Olga Silverstein and Marianne Walters she co-founded the Womenâ€™s Project in Family Therapy, which promoted a feminist revisioning of family therapy and received awards from both the Family Therapy Academy and the AAMFT. Their work culminated in a book on gender-sensitive family therapy practice:\n <em>\n  The Invisible Web: Gender Patterns in Family Therapy Relationships\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n In 1996 Betty Carter authored a trade book on couples,\n <em>\n  Love, Honor and Negotiate: Building Partnerships That Last a Lifetime\n </em>\n . She published numerous professional book chapters and journal articles, along with educational videotapes produced by Steve Lerner for Guilford Press. Married to her husband Sam, a musician, for over 50 years, Betty has two sons and three grandchildren. She has said that of all her ideas she always loved the family life cycle framework most â€œbecause it contains all the other ideas and has room for more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Nydia Garcia-Preto, M.S.W\n </strong>\n ., is the Associate Director at the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Pk., NJ where she also has a Private Practice. Ms. Garcia-Preto was formerly a Visiting Professor at the Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work, and for many years the Director of the Adolescent Day Hospital, at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She received her MSW from Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work and her BA in Sociology at Rider College. A highly respected family therapist, author, and teacher, and organizational trainer, she has publications in textbooks and journals on issues of cultural competence, Puerto Rican and Latino families, Latinas, immigration, ethnic intermarriage, and families with adolescents. She is co-editor of the most recent edition of\n <em>\n  Ethnicity and Family Therapy\n </em>\n . Ms. Garcia-Preto received the Frantz Fanon, M.D. Award from the Post Graduate Center for Mental Health for her work Puerto Rican and Latino adolescents and families, and the Social Justice Award from The American Family Therapy Academy. She and her colleagues at MFI have developed many training for many years on multiculturalism in clinical work, and organizational consulting on cultural competence.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Constance Ahrons, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Professor emerita and former director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Doctoral Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Private practice in San Diego.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Carol Anderson, MSW, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Professor, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, PA. Editor, Family Process.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Marie Anderson,\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  MSW,\n </strong>\n Mental health with low income populations, Pittsburgh, PA.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Deidre Ashton, MSSW, LCSW,\n </strong>\n Faculty/Supervisor, Center for Family, Community, and Social Justice, Inc. Princeton, NJ. Faculty, Ackerman Institute for the Family, New York, NY. Couple and Family Therapist, Princeton Family Institute, Princeton, NJ.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kathy Berliner, LCSW,\n </strong>\n Marriage and Family Therapist. Former faculty Family Institute of Westchester.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ellen Berman, MD,\n </strong>\n Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lynne Blacker, LCSW,\n </strong>\n Clinical Coordinator, Family Intervention Services, Morristown, NJ\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Celia Jaes Falicov, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Private Practice, San Diego, CA., Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Richard H. Fulmer, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Postocostoral Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY. Private practice, New York, NY\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Alison Heru, MD,\n </strong>\n Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado, Denver\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Paulette Moore Hines, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Director, Office of Prevention Services &amp; Research, a division of UBHC-University of Medicine &amp; Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Evan Imber-Black, Ed.D.,\n </strong>\n Faculty, Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy, New York, NY\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Demaris Jacobs, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Former faculty Family Institute of Westchester\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Jodie Kilman, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Core faculty of the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Boston, MA; founding member of the Boston Institute for Culturally Accountable Practice\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tracey Laszloffy, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Private practice, Norwich, CT\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Steve Lerner, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Private Practice, Topeka, KS\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Matthew Mock, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Professor of Psychology, John F. Kennedy University; Private Clinical and Consulting Practice, Berkeley, California; former Director, Center for Multicultural Development, California Institute for Mental Health (CIMH) and Drector, Family, Youth, Childern[HTML_REMOVED]s and Multicultural Services, City of Berkeley, California.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Barbara Petkov, LMFT, Ed.S.,\n </strong>\n Private practice, Highland Park; Alumni, MFI, Core Faculty MFI. Experience with children, adolescents, couples and families. Certified in EMDR. Trainer in cultural diversity\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Sueli Petry, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Alumna &amp; Faculty of MFI. Experience with Latino families and with survivors of sexual abuse. Publications on Genograms, Brazilian families\n <br />\n <strong>\n  John Rolland, MD,\n </strong>\n Professor of Psychiatry, University of Chicago and Co-Director, Chicago Center for Family Health, Chicago, IL.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Mary Anne Ross, BA,\n </strong>\n COPSA Institute for Alzheimerâ€™s Disease and Related Disorders, CMHC Piscataway University of Medicine and Dentistry of N.J.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Natalie Schwartzberg, LCSW,\n </strong>\n Marriage and Family Therapist. Former faculty Family Institute of Westchester.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Froma Walsh, MSW, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Co-Founder, Chicago Center for Family Health, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Editor, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Marlene Watson, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Associate Professor and the Director of Programs in Couple and Family therapy at Drexel University in Philadelphia\n <br />\n <strong>\n  David Wohlsifer, LCSW, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n Private Practice, Bala Psychological Resources, Bala Cynwyd, PA; Adjunct Professor, Bryn Mawr College, Graduate School of Social Work; Social Research, Univ. of Pennsylvaniaâ€™s School of Social Policy and Practice\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21584'),
(17018, 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker', 'Tobias George Smollett', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25010'),
(17019, 'Expendable', 'James Alan Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Great writing carries this unusual story about the Explorer Corps., the branch of the League of Peoples responsible for investigating planets and contacting new life forms. The catch is that corp members usually die in the process. That''s why the corps comprises the medical misfits of society--people healthy enough to function yet disfigured or deformed enough that no one cares all that much if they die. Festina Ramos is an "Expendable Crew Member" who has just been ordered to escort a soon-to-be-senile admiral to Melaquin, a planet with an impeccable record for killing Explorer teams. It was meant to be a one-way mission to rid the League of one more has-been admiral, but Festina has other ideas about how things will turn out.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little crime, and life is sacred...unless you''re an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different -- and terrible -- ways to die.\n</p>\n<p>\n Festina Ramos belongs to the well-trained, always-dwindling ranks of ECMs (Expendable Crew Members). Now she and her partner, Yarrun Derigha, have been ordered to escort the unstable Admiral Chee to Melaquin -- the feared "Planet of No Return"-- which has swallowed up countless Explorers before them without a trace.\n</p>\n<p>\n Obviously, this is meant to be the last mission for Ramos and Derigha. But it won''t be, if Festina can help it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4816'),
(17020, 'Expendable', 'James Alan Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Great writing carries this unusual story about the Explorer Corps., the branch of the League of Peoples responsible for investigating planets and contacting new life forms. The catch is that corp members usually die in the process. That''s why the corps comprises the medical misfits of society--people healthy enough to function yet disfigured or deformed enough that no one cares all that much if they die. Festina Ramos is an "Expendable Crew Member" who has just been ordered to escort a soon-to-be-senile admiral to Melaquin, a planet with an impeccable record for killing Explorer teams. It was meant to be a one-way mission to rid the League of one more has-been admiral, but Festina has other ideas about how things will turn out.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little crime, and life is sacred...unless you''re an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different -- and terrible -- ways to die.\n</p>\n<p>\n Festina Ramos belongs to the well-trained, always-dwindling ranks of ECMs (Expendable Crew Members). Now she and her partner, Yarrun Derigha, have been ordered to escort the unstable Admiral Chee to Melaquin -- the feared "Planet of No Return"-- which has swallowed up countless Explorers before them without a trace.\n</p>\n<p>\n Obviously, this is meant to be the last mission for Ramos and Derigha. But it won''t be, if Festina can help it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9849');
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(17021, 'Expendable', 'James Alan Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Great writing carries this unusual story about the Explorer Corps., the branch of the League of Peoples responsible for investigating planets and contacting new life forms. The catch is that corp members usually die in the process. That''s why the corps comprises the medical misfits of society--people healthy enough to function yet disfigured or deformed enough that no one cares all that much if they die. Festina Ramos is an "Expendable Crew Member" who has just been ordered to escort a soon-to-be-senile admiral to Melaquin, a planet with an impeccable record for killing Explorer teams. It was meant to be a one-way mission to rid the League of one more has-been admiral, but Festina has other ideas about how things will turn out.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little crime, and life is sacred...unless you''re an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different -- and terrible -- ways to die.\n</p>\n<p>\n Festina Ramos belongs to the well-trained, always-dwindling ranks of ECMs (Expendable Crew Members). Now she and her partner, Yarrun Derigha, have been ordered to escort the unstable Admiral Chee to Melaquin -- the feared "Planet of No Return"-- which has swallowed up countless Explorers before them without a trace.\n</p>\n<p>\n Obviously, this is meant to be the last mission for Ramos and Derigha. But it won''t be, if Festina can help it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18662'),
(17022, 'Expensive People', 'Joyce Carol Oates &amp; Elaine Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Joyce Carol Oatesâ€™s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of Americaâ€™s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by Richard Everett, a precocious and obese boy who sees himself as a minor character in the alarming drama unfolding around him. Fascinated by yet alienated from his attractive, self-absorbed parents and the privileged world they inhabit, Richard incisively analyzes his own mismanaged childhood, his pretentious private schooling, his â€œsuccessful-executiveâ€ father, and his elusive mother. In an act of defiance and desperation, eleven-year-old Richard strikes out in a way that presages the violence of ever-younger Americans in the turbulent decades to come.A National Book Award finalist, *Expensive People* is a stunning combination of social satire and gothic horror. â€œYou cannot put this novel away after you have opened it,â€ said *The Detroit News*. â€œThis is that kind of bookâ€“hypnotic, fascinating, and electrifying.â€*Expensive People *is the second novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, A* Garden of Earthly Delights*, them, and *Wonderland*, are also available from the Modern Library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3957'),
(17023, 'Expensive People', 'Joyce Carol Oates &amp; Elaine Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Joyce Carol Oatesâ€™s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of Americaâ€™s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by Richard Everett, a precocious and obese boy who sees himself as a minor character in the alarming drama unfolding around him. Fascinated by yet alienated from his attractive, self-absorbed parents and the privileged world they inhabit, Richard incisively analyzes his own mismanaged childhood, his pretentious private schooling, his â€œsuccessful-executiveâ€ father, and his elusive mother. In an act of defiance and desperation, eleven-year-old Richard strikes out in a way that presages the violence of ever-younger Americans in the turbulent decades to come.A National Book Award finalist, *Expensive People* is a stunning combination of social satire and gothic horror. â€œYou cannot put this novel away after you have opened it,â€ said *The Detroit News*. â€œThis is that kind of bookâ€“hypnotic, fascinating, and electrifying.â€*Expensive People *is the second novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, A* Garden of Earthly Delights*, them, and *Wonderland*, are also available from the Modern Library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11707'),
(17024, 'Expensive People', 'Joyce Carol Oates; Elaine Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Joyce Carol Oatesâ€™s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of Americaâ€™s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by Richard Everett, a precocious and obese boy who sees himself as a minor character in the alarming drama unfolding around him. Fascinated by yet alienated from his attractive, self-absorbed parents and the privileged world they inhabit, Richard incisively analyzes his own mismanaged childhood, his pretentious private schooling, his â€œsuccessful-executiveâ€ father, and his elusive mother. In an act of defiance and desperation, eleven-year-old Richard strikes out in a way that presages the violence of ever-younger Americans in the turbulent decades to come.A National Book Award finalist, *Expensive People* is a stunning combination of social satire and gothic horror. â€œYou cannot put this novel away after you have opened it,â€ said *The Detroit News*. â€œThis is that kind of bookâ€“hypnotic, fascinating, and electrifying.â€*Expensive People *is the second novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, A* Garden of Earthly Delights*, them, and *Wonderland*, are also available from the Modern Library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20525'),
(17025, 'Exploits', 'Mike Resnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21600'),
(17026, 'Explorer', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The final installment to this sequence of the Hugo Award-winning author''s most successful series. Explorer follows a human delegate trapped in a distant star system facing a potentially bellicose alien ship.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15523'),
(17027, 'Explosive', 'Beth Kery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A scorching new novel from the national bestselling author of Release.   Dr. Sophie Gable didn''t expect her peaceful getaway to be shattered by the arrival of the half-dazed, dead-sexy Thomas Nicasio, an ex-Navy explosives specialist. Even though he''s traumatized, Thomas can''t resist the urge to overtake Sophie-and her willing submission makes him want her all the more. But danger is lurking close by, and if he can''t face the demons of his past, he and Sophie could be the next victims in a pattern of meaningless violence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7243'),
(17028, 'Explosive', 'Beth Kery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A scorching new novel from the national bestselling author of Release.   Dr. Sophie Gable didn''t expect her peaceful getaway to be shattered by the arrival of the half-dazed, dead-sexy Thomas Nicasio, an ex-Navy explosives specialist. Even though he''s traumatized, Thomas can''t resist the urge to overtake Sophie-and her willing submission makes him want her all the more. But danger is lurking close by, and if he can''t face the demons of his past, he and Sophie could be the next victims in a pattern of meaningless violence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10667'),
(17029, 'Explosive', 'Beth Kery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A scorching new novel from the national bestselling author of Release. Dr. Sophie Gable didn''t expect her peaceful getaway to be shattered by the arrival of the half-dazed, dead-sexy Thomas Nicasio, an ex-Navy explosives specialist. Even though he''s traumatized, Thomas can''t resist the urge to overtake Sophie-and her willing submission makes him want her all the more. But danger is lurking close by, and if he can''t face the demons of his past, he and Sophie could be the next victims in a pattern of meaningless violence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16646'),
(17030, 'Exposed', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Veteran FBI profiler Maggie O''Dell and Assistant Director Cunningham believed the threat targeted Quantico. It targeted them.A deadly virusâ€”virtually undetectable until it causes death from a million internal cuts. The victims appear random, but Maggie wonders if vengeance isn''t the guiding hand.An aficionado of contemporary killers, using bits and pieces from their crimesâ€”the Beltway Sniper''s phrases, the Unabomber''s clues, the Anthrax Killer''s delivery.Maggie knows dangerous minds, but she must tackle this new opponent from within a biosafety isolation wardâ€”while waiting to see if death is already multiplying inside her body. She just fears her last case might end with the most intelligent killer she''s ever faced escalating from murderâ€¦to epidemic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7797'),
(17031, 'Exposed', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Veteran FBI profiler Maggie O''Dell and Assistant Director Cunningham believed the threat targeted Quantico. It targeted them.A deadly virusâ€”virtually undetectable until it causes death from a million internal cuts. The victims appear random, but Maggie wonders if vengeance isn''t the guiding hand.An aficionado of contemporary killers, using bits and pieces from their crimesâ€”the Beltway Sniper''s phrases, the Unabomber''s clues, the Anthrax Killer''s delivery.Maggie knows dangerous minds, but she must tackle this new opponent from within a biosafety isolation wardâ€”while waiting to see if death is already multiplying inside her body. She just fears her last case might end with the most intelligent killer she''s ever faced escalating from murderâ€¦to epidemic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16077'),
(17032, 'Exposed', 'Alex Kava', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Veteran FBI profiler Maggie O''Dell and Assistant Director Cunningham believed the threat targeted Quantico. It targeted them.A deadly virusâ€”virtually undetectable until it causes death from a million internal cuts. The victims appear random, but Maggie wonders if vengeance isn''t the guiding hand.An aficionado of contemporary killers, using bits and pieces from their crimesâ€”the Beltway Sniper''s phrases, the Unabomber''s clues, the Anthrax Killer''s delivery.Maggie knows dangerous minds, but she must tackle this new opponent from within a biosafety isolation wardâ€”while waiting to see if death is already multiplying inside her body. She just fears her last case might end with the most intelligent killer she''s ever faced escalating from murderâ€¦to epidemic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26230'),
(17033, 'Exposure', 'Brandilyn Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When your worst fear comes true.    Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? Everyone knows she''s a little crazy. Kaycee''s popular syndicated newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her experiences. Worse yet, she has no proof of the threats. Pictures of a dead man mysteriously appear in her home---then vanish before police arrive. Multisensory images flood Kaycee''s mind. Where is all this coming from?    Maybe she is going over the edge.     High action and psychological suspense collide in this story of terror, twists, and desperate faith. The startling questions surrounding Kaycee pile high. Her descent to answers may prove more than she can survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7234'),
(17034, 'Exposure', 'Brandilyn Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When your worst fear comes true.    Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? Everyone knows she''s a little crazy. Kaycee''s popular syndicated newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her experiences. Worse yet, she has no proof of the threats. Pictures of a dead man mysteriously appear in her home---then vanish before police arrive. Multisensory images flood Kaycee''s mind. Where is all this coming from?    Maybe she is going over the edge.     High action and psychological suspense collide in this story of terror, twists, and desperate faith. The startling questions surrounding Kaycee pile high. Her descent to answers may prove more than she can survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8972'),
(17035, 'Exposure', 'Brandilyn Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When your worst fear comes true. Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? Everyone knows she''s a little crazy. Kaycee''s popular syndicated newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her experiences. Worse yet, she has no proof of the threats. Pictures of a dead man mysteriously appear in her home---then vanish before police arrive. Multisensory images flood Kaycee''s mind. Where is all this coming from? Maybe she is going over the edge. High action and psychological suspense collide in this story of terror, twists, and desperate faith. The startling questions surrounding Kaycee pile high. Her descent to answers may prove more than she can survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16744'),
(17036, 'Exposure', 'Brandilyn Collins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When your worst fear comes true. Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? Everyone knows she''s a little crazy. Kaycee''s popular syndicated newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her experiences. Worse yet, she has no proof of the threats. Pictures of a dead man mysteriously appear in her home---then vanish before police arrive. Multisensory images flood Kaycee''s mind. Where is all this coming from? Maybe she is going over the edge. High action and psychological suspense collide in this story of terror, twists, and desperate faith. The startling questions surrounding Kaycee pile high. Her descent to answers may prove more than she can survive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26658'),
(17037, 'Express Lane Meals', 'Rachael Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n How can you get a wholesome, delicious dinner on the table without spending time on long lines at the supermarket? Rachael knows how!Her secret weapon is keeping plenty of versatile, flavorful ingredients in the cupboard, fridge, and freezer, combining these staples with just a few fresh itemsâ€”never more then tenâ€”to create delicious meals for every night of the week. In Express Lane Meals, Rachael provides her personal go-to list of must-have itemsâ€”so you can do a big shop every week then simply zip through the Express Lane to make any of these 30-minute meals.She divides the recipes into three categories: â€œMeals for the Exhausted,â€ â€œ Meals for the Not Too Tired,â€ and â€œBring It On! (But, Be Gentle).â€ No matter which you choose youâ€™ll learn handy tricks and shortcuts to get the most impressive-looking meals on the table in 30 minutes or less. These are Rachaelâ€™s quickest and easiest recipes yet and a breeze to shop forâ€”because you shouldnâ€™t have to spend all of the time Rachael saves you in the kitchen standing in line at the grocery store!RACHAEL RAY IS A VERY BUSY LADY . . .And she knows youâ€™re busy, too. But that doesnâ€™t mean you canâ€™t enjoy a delicious, healthy, and home-cooked meal every night of the week. Not when cooking is as simple as this! In Express Lane Meals, Rachael Ray is back and faster than ever! With her latest batch of recipes this beloved Food Network phenomenon takes her 30-Minute Meal concept to the next level, creating recipes based on staples from a well-stocked pantry and just a few fresh itemsâ€”so few youâ€™ll never be stuck on a long grocery line again. YUMMO!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2012'),
(17038, 'Express Lane Meals', 'Rachael Ray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n How can you get a wholesome, delicious dinner on the table without spending time on long lines at the supermarket? Rachael knows how!Her secret weapon is keeping plenty of versatile, flavorful ingredients in the cupboard, fridge, and freezer, combining these staples with just a few fresh itemsâ€”never more then tenâ€”to create delicious meals for every night of the week. In Express Lane Meals, Rachael provides her personal go-to list of must-have itemsâ€”so you can do a big shop every week then simply zip through the Express Lane to make any of these 30-minute meals.She divides the recipes into three categories: â€œMeals for the Exhausted,â€ â€œ Meals for the Not Too Tired,â€ and â€œBring It On! (But, Be Gentle).â€ No matter which you choose youâ€™ll learn handy tricks and shortcuts to get the most impressive-looking meals on the table in 30 minutes or less. These are Rachaelâ€™s quickest and easiest recipes yet and a breeze to shop forâ€”because you shouldnâ€™t have to spend all of the time Rachael saves you in the kitchen standing in line at the grocery store!RACHAEL RAY IS A VERY BUSY LADY . . .And she knows youâ€™re busy, too. But that doesnâ€™t mean you canâ€™t enjoy a delicious, healthy, and home-cooked meal every night of the week. Not when cooking is as simple as this! In Express Lane Meals, Rachael Ray is back and faster than ever! With her latest batch of recipes this beloved Food Network phenomenon takes her 30-Minute Meal concept to the next level, creating recipes based on staples from a well-stocked pantry and just a few fresh itemsâ€”so few youâ€™ll never be stuck on a long grocery line again. YUMMO!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12143'),
(17039, 'Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter', 'Tom Bissell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as *Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, *and* Oblivion* for, literally, days. If you are reading this flap copy, the same thing can probably be said of you, or of someone you know.Â Until recently, Bissell was somewhat reluctant to admit to his passion for games. In this, he is not alone. Millions of adults spend hours every week playing video games, and the industry itself now reliably outearns Hollywood. But the wider culture seems to regard video games as, at best, well designed if mindless entertainment.Â *Extra Lives* is an impassioned defense of this assailed and misunderstood art form. Bissell argues that we are in a golden age of gamingâ€”but he also believes games could be even better. He offers a fascinating and often hilarious critique of the ways video games dazzle and, just as often, frustrate. Along the way, we get firsthand portraits of some of the best minds (Jonathan Blow, Clint Hocking, Cliff Bleszinski, Peter Molyneux) at work in video game design today, as well as a shattering and deeply moving final chapter that describes, in searing detail, Bissellâ€™s descent into the world of *Grand Theft Auto IV*, a game whose themes mirror his own increasingly self-destructive compulsions.Â Blending memoir, criticism, and first-rate reportage, *Extra Lives* is like no other book on the subject ever published. Whether you love video games, loathe video games, or are merely curious about why they are becoming the dominant popular art form of our time, *Extra Lives* is required reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/632'),
(17040, 'Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter', 'Tom Bissell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as *Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, *and* Oblivion* for, literally, days. If you are reading this flap copy, the same thing can probably be said of you, or of someone you know.Â Until recently, Bissell was somewhat reluctant to admit to his passion for games. In this, he is not alone. Millions of adults spend hours every week playing video games, and the industry itself now reliably outearns Hollywood. But the wider culture seems to regard video games as, at best, well designed if mindless entertainment.Â *Extra Lives* is an impassioned defense of this assailed and misunderstood art form. Bissell argues that we are in a golden age of gamingâ€”but he also believes games could be even better. He offers a fascinating and often hilarious critique of the ways video games dazzle and, just as often, frustrate. Along the way, we get firsthand portraits of some of the best minds (Jonathan Blow, Clint Hocking, Cliff Bleszinski, Peter Molyneux) at work in video game design today, as well as a shattering and deeply moving final chapter that describes, in searing detail, Bissellâ€™s descent into the world of *Grand Theft Auto IV*, a game whose themes mirror his own increasingly self-destructive compulsions.Â Blending memoir, criticism, and first-rate reportage, *Extra Lives* is like no other book on the subject ever published. Whether you love video games, loathe video games, or are merely curious about why they are becoming the dominant popular art form of our time, *Extra Lives* is required reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8562'),
(17041, 'Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter', 'Tom Bissell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as *Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, *and* Oblivion* for, literally, days. If you are reading this flap copy, the same thing can probably be said of you, or of someone you know.Â Until recently, Bissell was somewhat reluctant to admit to his passion for games. In this, he is not alone. Millions of adults spend hours every week playing video games, and the industry itself now reliably outearns Hollywood. But the wider culture seems to regard video games as, at best, well designed if mindless entertainment.Â *Extra Lives* is an impassioned defense of this assailed and misunderstood art form. Bissell argues that we are in a golden age of gamingâ€”but he also believes games could be even better. He offers a fascinating and often hilarious critique of the ways video games dazzle and, just as often, frustrate. Along the way, we get firsthand portraits of some of the best minds (Jonathan Blow, Clint Hocking, Cliff Bleszinski, Peter Molyneux) at work in video game design today, as well as a shattering and deeply moving final chapter that describes, in searing detail, Bissellâ€™s descent into the world of *Grand Theft Auto IV*, a game whose themes mirror his own increasingly self-destructive compulsions.Â Blending memoir, criticism, and first-rate reportage, *Extra Lives* is like no other book on the subject ever published. Whether you love video games, loathe video games, or are merely curious about why they are becoming the dominant popular art form of our time, *Extra Lives* is required reading.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24359'),
(17042, 'Extracurricular Activities', 'Maggie Barbieri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Professional academic and amateur sleuth Alison Bergeron is worried to death about her best friendâ€™s wedding in her latest and wildest adventure yet!â€œQUIRKY, ROMANTICâ€¦fashionable, free-spirited [and] intense â€â€”Tampa TribuneYouâ€™d think, now that sheâ€™s off the hook for murder, that Alison, an English professor at a cushy college campus just north of chaotic New York City, would be able to relax. But how can she, with a wedding in the works? A Ph.D can only go so farâ€¦â€œWill please readers who like action and romance in the same package.â€â€”BooklistThe recently-divorced Alison couldnâ€™t be happier for her best friend, the bride Max. The problem is with the groom. Namely, his best man: the stunningly handsome yet technically married NYPD homicide detective Bobby Crawford. Alison just canâ€™t stop day-dreaming about himâ€”until a new nightmare unfolds. Â â€œSeries Grade: A.â€â€”Susan McBride, author of the Debutante Dropout MysteriesAlisonâ€™s ex-husband has just turned up dead. And now thatâ€™s sheâ€™s being dragged into another murder investigationâ€”his time, involving the Mob-boss parent of a studentâ€”Bobby might be the only man she can trust with her life. But will he ever make Alison his wife? With a killer on the loose, the pursuit of happiness may just have to waitâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3166'),
(17043, 'Extracurricular Activities', 'Maggie Barbieri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Professional academic and amateur sleuth Alison Bergeron is worried to death about her best friendâ€™s wedding in her latest and wildest adventure yet!â€œQUIRKY, ROMANTICâ€¦fashionable, free-spirited [and] intense â€â€”Tampa TribuneYouâ€™d think, now that sheâ€™s off the hook for murder, that Alison, an English professor at a cushy college campus just north of chaotic New York City, would be able to relax. But how can she, with a wedding in the works? A Ph.D can only go so farâ€¦â€œWill please readers who like action and romance in the same package.â€â€”BooklistThe recently-divorced Alison couldnâ€™t be happier for her best friend, the bride Max. The problem is with the groom. Namely, his best man: the stunningly handsome yet technically married NYPD homicide detective Bobby Crawford. Alison just canâ€™t stop day-dreaming about himâ€”until a new nightmare unfolds. Â â€œSeries Grade: A.â€â€”Susan McBride, author of the Debutante Dropout MysteriesAlisonâ€™s ex-husband has just turned up dead. And now thatâ€™s sheâ€™s being dragged into another murder investigationâ€”his time, involving the Mob-boss parent of a studentâ€”Bobby might be the only man she can trust with her life. But will he ever make Alison his wife? With a killer on the loose, the pursuit of happiness may just have to waitâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8326'),
(17044, 'Extracurricular Activities', 'Maggie Barbieri', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Professional academic and amateur sleuth Alison Bergeron is worried to death about her best friendâ€™s wedding in her latest and wildest adventure yet!â€œQUIRKY, ROMANTICâ€¦fashionable, free-spirited [and] intense â€â€”Tampa TribuneYouâ€™d think, now that sheâ€™s off the hook for murder, that Alison, an English professor at a cushy college campus just north of chaotic New York City, would be able to relax. But how can she, with a wedding in the works? A Ph.D can only go so farâ€¦â€œWill please readers who like action and romance in the same package.â€â€”BooklistThe recently-divorced Alison couldnâ€™t be happier for her best friend, the bride Max. The problem is with the groom. Namely, his best man: the stunningly handsome yet technically married NYPD homicide detective Bobby Crawford. Alison just canâ€™t stop day-dreaming about himâ€”until a new nightmare unfolds. Â â€œSeries Grade: A.â€â€”Susan McBride, author of the Debutante Dropout MysteriesAlisonâ€™s ex-husband has just turned up dead. And now thatâ€™s sheâ€™s being dragged into another murder investigationâ€”his time, involving the Mob-boss parent of a studentâ€”Bobby might be the only man she can trust with her life. But will he ever make Alison his wife? With a killer on the loose, the pursuit of happiness may just have to waitâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21285'),
(17045, 'The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, Book 1: The Hero Revealed', 'William Boniface &amp; Stephen Gilpin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 4-7â€“This first book in a new series is great fun, and readers will zip through it faster than a speeding bullet. Ordinary Boy lives in Superopolis, where he appears to be the only citizen with no superpowers at all. Of course O Boy''s friends don''t have an easy time themselves. His best friend, Stench, possesses mighty strength, but every time he uses it he emits aâ€¦well, he lives up to his name. Halogen Boy can glow brightly, but unfortunately he''s far from the brightest bulb in the box. The greatest of them all is the Amazing Indestructo, and O Boy is his greatest fan. But a strange plot involving collector cards, million-dollar promotional contracts, and Indestructo''s greatest adversary, Professor Brain-Drain, shake O Boy''s faith in his heroâ€“in a hilarious way. Along the way, readers who are paying attention will see that O Boy might not be so ordinary after all. Boniface wields a cynical, but definitely kid-friendly, sense of humor, and Gilpin''s illustrations are sharp and witty. Kids who love comic books, superhero animations, and graphic novels will enjoy this story._â€“Walter Minkel, New York Public Library_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 3-5. Ordinary Boy is the only resident of Superopolis, a city of heroes, who doesn''t have superpowers. He is part of the Junior Leaguers team that includes Halogen Boy, whose glowing ability depends on his consumption of apple juice; Plasma Girl, who can transform into a jellylike substance; and Stench, notable for passing overpowering gas. Ordinary Boy''s personal hero is the Amazing Indestructo, the self-proclaimed greatest hero of Superopolis, who is the leader of the League of Ultimate Goodness. When the Junior Leaguers get the opportunity to help the Amazing Indestructo foil the sinister plans of villainous Professor Brain-Drain, Ordinary Boy realizes that even without superpowers, he can still do extraordinary things. Ordinary Boy''s narrative is interspersed with pages from the\n  <em>\n   Li''l Heroes Handbook\n  </em>\n  , offering brief profiles on characters and places in the story. Fast-paced and silly, this first title in the Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy series will appeal to fans of Captain Underpants in search of new adventures.\n  <em>\n   Ed Sullivan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/205'),
(17046, 'The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, Book 1: The Hero Revealed', 'William Boniface &amp; Stephen Gilpin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 4-7â€“This first book in a new series is great fun, and readers will zip through it faster than a speeding bullet. Ordinary Boy lives in Superopolis, where he appears to be the only citizen with no superpowers at all. Of course O Boy''s friends don''t have an easy time themselves. His best friend, Stench, possesses mighty strength, but every time he uses it he emits aâ€¦well, he lives up to his name. Halogen Boy can glow brightly, but unfortunately he''s far from the brightest bulb in the box. The greatest of them all is the Amazing Indestructo, and O Boy is his greatest fan. But a strange plot involving collector cards, million-dollar promotional contracts, and Indestructo''s greatest adversary, Professor Brain-Drain, shake O Boy''s faith in his heroâ€“in a hilarious way. Along the way, readers who are paying attention will see that O Boy might not be so ordinary after all. Boniface wields a cynical, but definitely kid-friendly, sense of humor, and Gilpin''s illustrations are sharp and witty. Kids who love comic books, superhero animations, and graphic novels will enjoy this story._â€“Walter Minkel, New York Public Library_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 3-5. Ordinary Boy is the only resident of Superopolis, a city of heroes, who doesn''t have superpowers. He is part of the Junior Leaguers team that includes Halogen Boy, whose glowing ability depends on his consumption of apple juice; Plasma Girl, who can transform into a jellylike substance; and Stench, notable for passing overpowering gas. Ordinary Boy''s personal hero is the Amazing Indestructo, the self-proclaimed greatest hero of Superopolis, who is the leader of the League of Ultimate Goodness. When the Junior Leaguers get the opportunity to help the Amazing Indestructo foil the sinister plans of villainous Professor Brain-Drain, Ordinary Boy realizes that even without superpowers, he can still do extraordinary things. Ordinary Boy''s narrative is interspersed with pages from the\n  <em>\n   Li''l Heroes Handbook\n  </em>\n  , offering brief profiles on characters and places in the story. Fast-paced and silly, this first title in the Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy series will appeal to fans of Captain Underpants in search of new adventures.\n  <em>\n   Ed Sullivan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8572'),
(17047, 'The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, Book 1: The Hero Revealed', 'William Boniface; Stephen Gilpin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 4-7â€“This first book in a new series is great fun, and readers will zip through it faster than a speeding bullet. Ordinary Boy lives in Superopolis, where he appears to be the only citizen with no superpowers at all. Of course O Boy''s friends don''t have an easy time themselves. His best friend, Stench, possesses mighty strength, but every time he uses it he emits a...well, he lives up to his name. Halogen Boy can glow brightly, but unfortunately he''s far from the brightest bulb in the box. The greatest of them all is the Amazing Indestructo, and O Boy is his greatest fan. But a strange plot involving collector cards, million-dollar promotional contracts, and Indestructo''s greatest adversary, Professor Brain-Drain, shake O Boy''s faith in his heroâ€“in a hilarious way. Along the way, readers who are paying attention will see that O Boy might not be so ordinary after all. Boniface wields a cynical, but definitely kid-friendly, sense of humor, and Gilpin''s illustrations are sharp and witty. Kids who love comic books, superhero animations, and graphic novels will enjoy this story._â€“Walter Minkel, New York Public Library_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Gr. 3-5. Ordinary Boy is the only resident of Superopolis, a city of heroes, who doesn''t have superpowers. He is part of the Junior Leaguers team that includes Halogen Boy, whose glowing ability depends on his consumption of apple juice; Plasma Girl, who can transform into a jellylike substance; and Stench, notable for passing overpowering gas. Ordinary Boy''s personal hero is the Amazing Indestructo, the self-proclaimed greatest hero of Superopolis, who is the leader of the League of Ultimate Goodness. When the Junior Leaguers get the opportunity to help the Amazing Indestructo foil the sinister plans of villainous Professor Brain-Drain, Ordinary Boy realizes that even without superpowers, he can still do extraordinary things. Ordinary Boy''s narrative is interspersed with pages from the\n  <em>\n   Li''l Heroes Handbook\n  </em>\n  , offering brief profiles on characters and places in the story. Fast-paced and silly, this first title in the Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy series will appeal to fans of Captain Underpants in search of new adventures.\n  <em>\n   Ed Sullivan\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24685'),
(17048, 'Extras', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13810'),
(17049, 'Extras', 'Scott Westerfeld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23621'),
(17050, 'Extreme Hard Target Mission 1 - Redeemer', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlierâ€¦Chris Ryan Extreme When an old friend makes a desperate call for help, former SAS Warrant Officer Joe Gardner is thrust back into the line of fire. His journey leads him into the deadliest favela in Brazil, where violent gangs, crazed hitmen and trigger-happy paramilitaries lurk. Gardnerâ€™s only hope of staying alive is through his supreme survival skills and warriorâ€™s instinct.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15412'),
(17051, 'Extreme Hard Target Mission 2 - the Rock', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlierâ€¦Chris Ryan Extreme A chance encounter with an agent from MI6 leads Joe Gardner into a perilous mission in Gibraltar. His objective: bust a major cocaine-smuggling ring involving former a Regiment operator and the Royal Navy. But Gardner isnâ€™t alone. A mysterious killer with expert martial arts skills is shadowing his every move. And itâ€™s about to get noisy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15419'),
(17052, 'Extreme Hard Target Mission 3 - Die Trying', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlierâ€¦Chris Ryan Extreme Dispatched to a postwar Belgrade crawling with criminals and bad memories, Joe Gardner is on a collision course with his one-time Regiment friend John Bald. Garder plans to put a stop to Bald once and for all. But with the Russian mafya and Italian mob closing in, is Gardner too late? If he fails, tens of thousands will die.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15397'),
(17053, 'Extreme Hard Target Mission 4 - Fallout', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier... Chris Ryan Extreme In the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack, Joe Gardner discovers a terrifying secret. In order to protect the truth, he must escort special agent Aimee Milana to safety, all the while hunted by government agents and a former Navy SEAL operator equipped with a lethal weapon. The race is on to reach Parliament Square before the clock runs out - and the world descends into all-out war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15398'),
(17054, 'Extreme Measures: A Thriller', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In the newest devastatingly intense thriller by #1 *New York Times* bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn, his deadly and charismatic hero Mitch Rapp wages a war against a new enemy with the help of a fellow soldier as dedicated and as lethal as they come.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Vince Flynn''s thrillers, featuring counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, have dominated the imagination of readers everywhere. In them, Flynn has captured the secretive world of the fearless men and women, who, bound by duty, risk their lives in a covert war they must hide from even their own political leaders.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, Rapp and his protege, Mike Nash, may have met their match. The CIA has detected and intercepted two terrorist cells, but a third is feared to be on the loose. Led by a dangerous mastermind obsessed with becoming the leader of al-Qaeda, this determined and terrifying group is about to descend on America.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Rapp needs the best on this assignment, and Nash, who has served his government honorably for sixteen years first as an officer in the Marine Corps and then as an operative in an elite counterterrorism team run by Rapp is his choice. Together, they have made careers out of meeting violence with extreme violence and have never wavered in the fight against the jihadists and their culture of death. Both have fought the war on terrorism in secret without accolades or acknowledgment of their personal sacrifices. Both have been forced to lie to virtually every single person they care about, and both have soldiered on with the knowledge that their hard work and lethal tactics have saved thousands of lives.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the political winds have changed in America, and certain leaders on Capitol Hill are pushing to have men like Rapp and Nash put back on a short leash. And then one spring afternoon in Washington, DC, everything changes.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Using his insider knowledge of intelligence agencies and the military, Flynn once again delivers an all-too-real portrayal of a war that is that is waged every day by a handful of brave, devoted souls. Smart, fast-paced, and jaw-droppingly realistic, *Extreme Measures* is *the* political thriller of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/379'),
(17055, 'Extreme Measures: A Thriller', 'Vince Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In the newest devastatingly intense thriller by #1 *New York Times* bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn, his deadly and charismatic hero Mitch Rapp wages a war against a new enemy with the help of a fellow soldier as dedicated and as lethal as they come.** Vince Flynn''s thrillers, featuring counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, have dominated the imagination of readers everywhere. In them, Flynn has captured the secretive world of the fearless men and women, who, bound by duty, risk their lives in a covert war they must hide from even their own political leaders. Now, Rapp and his protege, Mike Nash, may have met their match. The CIA has detected and intercepted two terrorist cells, but a third is feared to be on the loose. Led by a dangerous mastermind obsessed with becoming the leader of al-Qaeda, this determined and terrifying group is about to descend on America. Rapp needs the best on this assignment, and Nash, who has served his government honorably for sixteen years first as an officer in the Marine Corps and then as an operative in an elite counterterrorism team run by Rapp is his choice. Together, they have made careers out of meeting violence with extreme violence and have never wavered in the fight against the jihadists and their culture of death. Both have fought the war on terrorism in secret without accolades or acknowledgment of their personal sacrifices. Both have been forced to lie to virtually every single person they care about, and both have soldiered on with the knowledge that their hard work and lethal tactics have saved thousands of lives. But the political winds have changed in America, and certain leaders on Capitol Hill are pushing to have men like Rapp and Nash put back on a short leash. And then one spring afternoon in Washington, DC, everything changes. Using his insider knowledge of intelligence agencies and the military, Flynn once again delivers an all-too-real portrayal of a war that is that is waged every day by a handful of brave, devoted souls. Smart, fast-paced, and jaw-droppingly realistic, *Extreme Measures* is *the* political thriller of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24610'),
(17056, 'Extremely Loud &amp; Incredibly Close', 'Jonathan Safran Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine - year - old Oskar discovers a key . . . The key belonged to his father, he''s sure of that. But which of New York''s 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter - writer and amateur detective - across New York''s five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4138'),
(17057, 'Extremely Loud &amp; Incredibly Close', 'Jonathan Safran Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine - year - old Oskar discovers a key . . . The key belonged to his father, he''s sure of that. But which of New York''s 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter - writer and amateur detective - across New York''s five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9750'),
(17058, 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close', 'Jonathan Safran Foer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14668'),
(17059, 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel', 'Foer, Jonathan Safran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14714'),
(17060, 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel', 'Foer, Jonathan Safran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20376'),
(17061, 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel', 'Foer, Jonathan Safran', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27868'),
(17062, 'Extremes', 'Kristine Kathryn Rusch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Miles Flint suspects foul play in the death of an ailing fellow Retrieval Artist. Equally suspicious is the sudden death of a young woman during the Moon''s prestigious Extreme Marathon. As Flint investigates, he finds an ominous connection. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20084');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(17063, 'Extremis', 'Chuck Gannon &amp; Steve White &amp; Charles E. Gannon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once before, the sentient races in the known part of the galaxyâ€”humans, Orions, Ophiuchi and Gormâ€”had united to defeat alien invaders. Decades later, the member planets of the alliance had grown complacentâ€”until a huge fleet of ships, each ship larger than a city, arrived, fleeing the loss of their home planet when their star went nova.  They have traveled for centuries, slower than light, and now that they have arrived at the world they intend to make their new home. They regard the fact that the planet is already colonized by humans as a mere inconvenience, the more so since their mode of communication is so different from anything humans use that they do not consider humans and their allies to be truly intelligent. And the arriving aliens knowâ€”or, at least, they believeâ€”that when they die they will be reincarnated, so they do not hesitate to attack humans and their allies with suicidal fury. And, if necessary, they will exterminate all humans and their allies, if thatâ€™s what it takes to occupy the planet.  That was their attitude on arrival, but the conquerors have learned from human technology. They now know all about reactionless drives, so much more efficient than rocket engines. And they have learned about the jump points which make faster-than-light travel possible. With that knowledge, they plan to conquer the entire inhabited region of the galaxyâ€”unless the old alliance of humans and other being can stop them . . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6725'),
(17064, 'Extremis', 'Chuck Gannon &amp; Steve White &amp; Charles E. Gannon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once before, the sentient races in the known part of the galaxyâ€”humans, Orions, Ophiuchi and Gormâ€”had united to defeat alien invaders. Decades later, the member planets of the alliance had grown complacentâ€”until a huge fleet of ships, each ship larger than a city, arrived, fleeing the loss of their home planet when their star went nova.  They have traveled for centuries, slower than light, and now that they have arrived at the world they intend to make their new home. They regard the fact that the planet is already colonized by humans as a mere inconvenience, the more so since their mode of communication is so different from anything humans use that they do not consider humans and their allies to be truly intelligent. And the arriving aliens knowâ€”or, at least, they believeâ€”that when they die they will be reincarnated, so they do not hesitate to attack humans and their allies with suicidal fury. And, if necessary, they will exterminate all humans and their allies, if thatâ€™s what it takes to occupy the planet.  That was their attitude on arrival, but the conquerors have learned from human technology. They now know all about reactionless drives, so much more efficient than rocket engines. And they have learned about the jump points which make faster-than-light travel possible. With that knowledge, they plan to conquer the entire inhabited region of the galaxyâ€”unless the old alliance of humans and other being can stop them . . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9854'),
(17065, 'Extremis', 'Chuck Gannon; Steve White; Charles E. Gannon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once before, the sentient races in the known part of the galaxyâ€”humans, Orions, Ophiuchi and Gormâ€”had united to defeat alien invaders. Decades later, the member planets of the alliance had grown complacentâ€”until a huge fleet of ships, each ship larger than a city, arrived, fleeing the loss of their home planet when their star went nova. They have traveled for centuries, slower than light, and now that they have arrived at the world they intend to make their new home. They regard the fact that the planet is already colonized by humans as a mere inconvenience, the more so since their mode of communication is so different from anything humans use that they do not consider humans and their allies to be truly intelligent. And the arriving aliens knowâ€”or, at least, they believeâ€”that when they die they will be reincarnated, so they do not hesitate to attack humans and their allies with suicidal fury. And, if necessary, they will exterminate all humans and their allies, if thatâ€™s what it takes to occupy the planet. That was their attitude on arrival, but the conquerors have learned from human technology. They now know all about reactionless drives, so much more efficient than rocket engines. And they have learned about the jump points which make faster-than-light travel possible. With that knowledge, they plan to conquer the entire inhabited region of the galaxyâ€”unless the old alliance of humans and other being can stop them . . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23973'),
(17066, 'Exultant (Destiny&#39;s Children)', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When it comes to cutting-edge science fiction, Stephen Baxter is in a league of his own. His mastery of hard science, his fearlessly speculative imagination, and his ability to combine grand philosophical questions with tales of rousing adventure make him essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of humankind. Now, in Exultant, Baxter takes us to a distant future of dazzling promise and deadly threat, in which a far-flung humanity battles for survival against an implacable alien foe. DestinyÂ¿s Children EXULTANT For more than twenty thousand years, humans have been at war with the alien race of Xeelee. It is a war fought with armaments so advanced as to be godlike, a war in which time itself has become an ever-shifting battleground. At the cost of billions of lives, and with ruthless and relentless efficiency, the ruling Coalition has pushed the Xeelee back to the galactic core, where the supermassive black hole known as Chandra serves the Xeelee as both fortress and power source. There, along a front millions of light-years long, a grisly stalemate reigns, until a young pilot, Pirius, faced with certain death, disobeys orders and employs an innovative time-travel maneuver that, for the first time in the history of the war, results in the capture of a Xeelee fighter. But far from being hailed as a hero when he returns to base with his prize, Pirius is court-martialed, disgraced, and sentenced to penal servitude on a bleak asteroid. It is not only Pirius who pays the price. In flying into the future and back again, Pirius returned to a time before heÂ¿d left, a time inhabited by his younger self. And that younger self, by the pitiless logic of Coalition justice, shares the older Pirius guilt and must be punished. Not everyone in the Coalition agrees. Commissary Nilis believes that the elder Pirius, whom he dubs Pirius Blue, may have found a way to defeat the Xeelee. But Nilis can do nothing for Pirius Blue. Instead, he takes charge of the younger Pirius (Pirius Red), and brings him back to Earth, the capital of a vast empire seething with intrigue. There Pirius Red will discover truths that will shatter his preconceived notions of all that he is fighting for, even of what it means to be human. Pirius Blue, meanwhile, will learn truths harsher and more discomfiting still. Yet the most shocking revelation of all is still to come, waiting for them at a place called Chandra. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23008'),
(17067, 'The Eye of the Giant', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor finds himself transported back in time to a legendary lost island in the Pacific. There he encounters an expedition attempting to exploit the island''s sinister secrets. In the present, the Brigadier is left to cope with an epidemic of bizarre oc\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6802'),
(17068, 'The Eye of the Giant', 'Christopher Bulis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor finds himself transported back in time to a legendary lost island in the Pacific. There he encounters an expedition attempting to exploit the island''s sinister secrets. In the present, the Brigadier is left to cope with an epidemic of bizarre oc\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18035'),
(17069, 'The Eye of the Leopard', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, rich and poor, The Eye of the Leopard is a stunning novel from a modern master.Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his recently deceased friend Janice. Africa is a complete shock to Olofson, yet he chooses to stay and make it his home, eventually taking control of a small farm. Here, he learns of the fragile truce between the white and black populations of Zambia, and rumors of an underground army of revolutionaries wearing leopard skins alert him that violence may erupt at any moment. As a wealthy white man, he grows increasingly fearful and returns in his mind to the traumatic events that drove him from Sweden, playing back the complicated events of his past, as his present races toward a thrilling climax.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5155'),
(17070, 'The Eye of the Leopard', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, rich and poor, The Eye of the Leopard is a stunning novel from a modern master.Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his recently deceased friend Janice. Africa is a complete shock to Olofson, yet he chooses to stay and make it his home, eventually taking control of a small farm. Here, he learns of the fragile truce between the white and black populations of Zambia, and rumors of an underground army of revolutionaries wearing leopard skins alert him that violence may erupt at any moment. As a wealthy white man, he grows increasingly fearful and returns in his mind to the traumatic events that drove him from Sweden, playing back the complicated events of his past, as his present races toward a thrilling climax.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11232'),
(17071, 'The Eye of the Leopard', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, rich and poor, The Eye of the Leopard is a stunning novel from a modern master.Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his recently deceased friend Janice. Africa is a complete shock to Olofson, yet he chooses to stay and make it his home, eventually taking control of a small farm. Here, he learns of the fragile truce between the white and black populations of Zambia, and rumors of an underground army of revolutionaries wearing leopard skins alert him that violence may erupt at any moment. As a wealthy white man, he grows increasingly fearful and returns in his mind to the traumatic events that drove him from Sweden, playing back the complicated events of his past, as his present races toward a thrilling climax.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19444'),
(17072, 'The Eye of the Leopard', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, rich and poor, The Eye of the Leopard is a stunning novel from a modern master.Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his recently deceased friend Janice. Africa is a complete shock to Olofson, yet he chooses to stay and make it his home, eventually taking control of a small farm. Here, he learns of the fragile truce between the white and black populations of Zambia, and rumors of an underground army of revolutionaries wearing leopard skins alert him that violence may erupt at any moment. As a wealthy white man, he grows increasingly fearful and returns in his mind to the traumatic events that drove him from Sweden, playing back the complicated events of his past, as his present races toward a thrilling climax.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28122'),
(17073, 'Eye of the Needle', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A spy novel of the highest order." -- _--\n <em>\n  _ Baltimore Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Follett is a master." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Heart-stopping, nerve-freezing...Truly suspenseful...Extraordinarily satisfying." -- _--\n <em>\n  _ Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thrilling." -- _--\n <em>\n  _ The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies'' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassinâ€”code name: "The Needle"â€”who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ken Follett''s unsurpassed and unforgettable masterwork of suspense, intrigue, and the dangerous machinations of the human heartâ€”_Eye of the Needle_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3830'),
(17074, 'Eye of the Needle', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A spy novel of the highest order." -- _--\n <em>\n  _ Baltimore Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Follett is a master." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Heart-stopping, nerve-freezing...Truly suspenseful...Extraordinarily satisfying." -- _--\n <em>\n  _ Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thrilling." -- _--\n <em>\n  _ The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies'' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassinâ€”code name: "The Needle"â€”who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ken Follett''s unsurpassed and unforgettable masterwork of suspense, intrigue, and the dangerous machinations of the human heartâ€”_Eye of the Needle_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9732'),
(17075, 'Eye of the Needle', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A spy novel of the highest order." -- _--\n <em>\n  _ Baltimore Sun\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Follett is a master." --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Time_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Heart-stopping, nerve-freezing...Truly suspenseful...Extraordinarily satisfying." -- _--\n <em>\n  _ Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Thrilling." -- _--\n <em>\n  _ The New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies'' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassinâ€”code name: "The Needle"â€”who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Ken Follett''s unsurpassed and unforgettable masterwork of suspense, intrigue, and the dangerous machinations of the human heartâ€”_Eye of the Needle_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20731'),
(17076, 'Eye of the Storm', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Higgins''s thrillers may evoke a strong sense of deja vu (same basic story, different time frame), but that doesn''t seem to diminish the impact of each new novel. Early in 1991, while the Gulf war is in full bloom, operatives of Saddam Hussein hire legendary terrorist Sean Dillon to take the war to the enemy. A master of disguise and subterfuge, Dillon began his career with the IRA, earning the enmity of Liam Devlin--the unforgettable antihero of The Eagle Has Landed , who makes a featured appearance here--and of Martin Brosnan, an American Special Forces hero and IRA member turned college professor. After Dillon''s attempt to assassinate former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during a visit to France fails, he decides to go after her successor, John Major, and his War Cabinet with a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street. Learning that British Intelligence is recruiting Brosnan to track him down, Dillon confronts his old enemy, a meeting that ends in tragedy and leaves Brosnan bitterly committed to revenge. Although readers can be sure that Dillon''s scheme will be foiled, fun remains in the how and why. Standard Higgins in style, plot and resolution, this is bound for bestsellerdom. BOMC feature alternate; Reader''s Digest Condensed Books selection; audio rights to Dove.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n A world-class assassin goes after British PM John Major in Higgins''s latest firmly engaging round of speculative derring-do. The Day of the Jackal this isn''t, although Sean Dillon--a rogue IRA hit-man who''s also a master thespian--is nearly as charismatic a killer as Forsyth''s Jackal; and the author''s own The Eagle Has Landed it isn''t quite either, though Higgins, a diligent literary recycler, revives the spirit, pacing, and even one major player from that 1975 classic. This is the vigorous, rather simple tale of what might have been behind the real-life, still unexplained, mortar attack on Number Ten Downing Street on February 7, 1991. Here, Saddam Hussein, reeling under the allied bombing of Baghdad, asks oily Iraqi billionaire Michael Aroun to avenge Iraqi honor, which Aroun does by joining forces with Stalinist KGB Colonel Josef Makeev and hiring Dillon to blow away Margaret Thatcher, now visiting in France. When Dillon is betrayed by two hirelings and misses his shot at the Iron Lady, he ups the stakes- -why not, he proposes, go after the current PM (here, a most charming chap) and in fact the entire British War Cabinet? Using his Olivier-like powers to pose as several characters, including a bag-lady, and aided by a sexy KGB spy, Dillon sneaks into England, then Ireland, contacts old criminal/IRA pals, and plans. Arrayed against him in an ever-more suspenseful chase are several stalwart British agents, male and female, and two ex-IRA men, including Liam Devlin of Eagle fame. The mortar attack itself has about as much dramatic impact as a hiccup, but Higgins saves his big melodrama for Dillon''s attempted escape--which will leave readers happily breathless and waiting for a sequel. The action''s so fast, the heroes so valiant, and the villains so blackhearted that not even Higgins''s syntax-crunching prose will keep his fans from driving this--his most enjoyable book in years- -up the charts. (Book-of-the-Month Split Main Selection for July) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4882'),
(17077, 'Eye of the Storm', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Higgins''s thrillers may evoke a strong sense of deja vu (same basic story, different time frame), but that doesn''t seem to diminish the impact of each new novel. Early in 1991, while the Gulf war is in full bloom, operatives of Saddam Hussein hire legendary terrorist Sean Dillon to take the war to the enemy. A master of disguise and subterfuge, Dillon began his career with the IRA, earning the enmity of Liam Devlin--the unforgettable antihero of The Eagle Has Landed , who makes a featured appearance here--and of Martin Brosnan, an American Special Forces hero and IRA member turned college professor. After Dillon''s attempt to assassinate former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during a visit to France fails, he decides to go after her successor, John Major, and his War Cabinet with a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street. Learning that British Intelligence is recruiting Brosnan to track him down, Dillon confronts his old enemy, a meeting that ends in tragedy and leaves Brosnan bitterly committed to revenge. Although readers can be sure that Dillon''s scheme will be foiled, fun remains in the how and why. Standard Higgins in style, plot and resolution, this is bound for bestsellerdom. BOMC feature alternate; Reader''s Digest Condensed Books selection; audio rights to Dove.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n A world-class assassin goes after British PM John Major in Higgins''s latest firmly engaging round of speculative derring-do. The Day of the Jackal this isn''t, although Sean Dillon--a rogue IRA hit-man who''s also a master thespian--is nearly as charismatic a killer as Forsyth''s Jackal; and the author''s own The Eagle Has Landed it isn''t quite either, though Higgins, a diligent literary recycler, revives the spirit, pacing, and even one major player from that 1975 classic. This is the vigorous, rather simple tale of what might have been behind the real-life, still unexplained, mortar attack on Number Ten Downing Street on February 7, 1991. Here, Saddam Hussein, reeling under the allied bombing of Baghdad, asks oily Iraqi billionaire Michael Aroun to avenge Iraqi honor, which Aroun does by joining forces with Stalinist KGB Colonel Josef Makeev and hiring Dillon to blow away Margaret Thatcher, now visiting in France. When Dillon is betrayed by two hirelings and misses his shot at the Iron Lady, he ups the stakes- -why not, he proposes, go after the current PM (here, a most charming chap) and in fact the entire British War Cabinet? Using his Olivier-like powers to pose as several characters, including a bag-lady, and aided by a sexy KGB spy, Dillon sneaks into England, then Ireland, contacts old criminal/IRA pals, and plans. Arrayed against him in an ever-more suspenseful chase are several stalwart British agents, male and female, and two ex-IRA men, including Liam Devlin of Eagle fame. The mortar attack itself has about as much dramatic impact as a hiccup, but Higgins saves his big melodrama for Dillon''s attempted escape--which will leave readers happily breathless and waiting for a sequel. The action''s so fast, the heroes so valiant, and the villains so blackhearted that not even Higgins''s syntax-crunching prose will keep his fans from driving this--his most enjoyable book in years- -up the charts. (Book-of-the-Month Split Main Selection for July) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10359'),
(17078, 'Eye of the storm', 'Jack Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Higgins''s thrillers may evoke a strong sense of deja vu (same basic story, different time frame), but that doesn''t seem to diminish the impact of each new novel. Early in 1991, while the Gulf war is in full bloom, operatives of Saddam Hussein hire legendary terrorist Sean Dillon to take the war to the enemy. A master of disguise and subterfuge, Dillon began his career with the IRA, earning the enmity of Liam Devlin--the unforgettable antihero of The Eagle Has Landed , who makes a featured appearance here--and of Martin Brosnan, an American Special Forces hero and IRA member turned college professor. After Dillon''s attempt to assassinate former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during a visit to France fails, he decides to go after her successor, John Major, and his War Cabinet with a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street. Learning that British Intelligence is recruiting Brosnan to track him down, Dillon confronts his old enemy, a meeting that ends in tragedy and leaves Brosnan bitterly committed to revenge. Although readers can be sure that Dillon''s scheme will be foiled, fun remains in the how and why. Standard Higgins in style, plot and resolution, this is bound for bestsellerdom. BOMC feature alternate; Reader''s Digest Condensed Books selection; audio rights to Dove.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Kirkus Reviews\n</h3>\n<p>\n A world-class assassin goes after British PM John Major in Higgins''s latest firmly engaging round of speculative derring-do. The Day of the Jackal this isn''t, although Sean Dillon--a rogue IRA hit-man who''s also a master thespian--is nearly as charismatic a killer as Forsyth''s Jackal; and the author''s own The Eagle Has Landed it isn''t quite either, though Higgins, a diligent literary recycler, revives the spirit, pacing, and even one major player from that 1975 classic. This is the vigorous, rather simple tale of what might have been behind the real-life, still unexplained, mortar attack on Number Ten Downing Street on February 7, 1991. Here, Saddam Hussein, reeling under the allied bombing of Baghdad, asks oily Iraqi billionaire Michael Aroun to avenge Iraqi honor, which Aroun does by joining forces with Stalinist KGB Colonel Josef Makeev and hiring Dillon to blow away Margaret Thatcher, now visiting in France. When Dillon is betrayed by two hirelings and misses his shot at the Iron Lady, he ups the stakes- -why not, he proposes, go after the current PM (here, a most charming chap) and in fact the entire British War Cabinet? Using his Olivier-like powers to pose as several characters, including a bag-lady, and aided by a sexy KGB spy, Dillon sneaks into England, then Ireland, contacts old criminal/IRA pals, and plans. Arrayed against him in an ever-more suspenseful chase are several stalwart British agents, male and female, and two ex-IRA men, including Liam Devlin of Eagle fame. The mortar attack itself has about as much dramatic impact as a hiccup, but Higgins saves his big melodrama for Dillon''s attempted escape--which will leave readers happily breathless and waiting for a sequel. The action''s so fast, the heroes so valiant, and the villains so blackhearted that not even Higgins''s syntax-crunching prose will keep his fans from driving this--his most enjoyable book in years- -up the charts. (Book-of-the-Month Split Main Selection for July) --\n <em>\n  Copyright Â©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19802'),
(17079, 'The Eye of the World - The Wheel of Time Book 1', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14193'),
(17080, 'Eye of Vengeance', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran journalist King, the Edgar-winning author of the Max Freeman novels (_The Blue Edge of Midnight_, etc.), sets this edgy, brooding stand-alone in a milieu he knows well, the world of the professional crime reporter. Nick Mullins, who covers the crime beat for the\n <em>\n  South Florida Daily News\n </em>\n , is still shattered two years later by the deaths of his wife and one of his twin daughters in an auto accident with a drunk driver. Obsessed with revenge, Mullins spends his off hours stalking the driver, who''s just been released from prison after serving only 18 months. Mullins''s reputation for honesty and integrity endears him to a devoted cadre of readers, including Michael Redman, an ex-cop and former military sniper who begins assassinating criminals Mullins has profiled. As the body count rises, it becomes clear that Redman is indeed working from a list, and that the final name will fulfill a personal debt that he feels he owes Mullins. While the plot unfolds predictably, King''s crisp writing and insights into grief and loss give this novel a depth and poignancy unusual for a thriller.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n King, who won the Edgar Award for\n <em>\n  The Blue Edge of Midnight\n </em>\n (2002), is a former daily journalist who brings both the newsroom and the field to vivid life in his Max Freeman series. His latest is a stand-alone tale about another newsman, Nick Mullins, a crime reporter for the\n <em>\n  South Florida Daily News.\n </em>\n Mullins is a crime victim himself, having lost his wife and one of his twin daughters to a drunk driver. The scenes of Mullins trying to mimic a normal life with his surviving nine-year-old are harrowing. Pressures build for Mullins as he learns two things: the DUI offender who tore apart his family has just been released from prison, and another prisoner, en route to a courthouse plea, has been killed by a sniper. As Mullins investigates the sniper shooting, he learns that the killer has a hit list, all of whose victims have been subjects of Mullins'' own stories. Tension skyrockets as Mullins fights to save his daughter and to surmount his own need for vengeance. Intriguing views of crime scenes from the media side of the tape, masterful plotting, and a credible, striving hero make this a winner.\n <em>\n  Connie Fletcher\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4052'),
(17081, 'Eye of Vengeance', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran journalist King, the Edgar-winning author of the Max Freeman novels (_The Blue Edge of Midnight_, etc.), sets this edgy, brooding stand-alone in a milieu he knows well, the world of the professional crime reporter. Nick Mullins, who covers the crime beat for the\n <em>\n  South Florida Daily News\n </em>\n , is still shattered two years later by the deaths of his wife and one of his twin daughters in an auto accident with a drunk driver. Obsessed with revenge, Mullins spends his off hours stalking the driver, who''s just been released from prison after serving only 18 months. Mullins''s reputation for honesty and integrity endears him to a devoted cadre of readers, including Michael Redman, an ex-cop and former military sniper who begins assassinating criminals Mullins has profiled. As the body count rises, it becomes clear that Redman is indeed working from a list, and that the final name will fulfill a personal debt that he feels he owes Mullins. While the plot unfolds predictably, King''s crisp writing and insights into grief and loss give this novel a depth and poignancy unusual for a thriller.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n King, who won the Edgar Award for\n <em>\n  The Blue Edge of Midnight\n </em>\n (2002), is a former daily journalist who brings both the newsroom and the field to vivid life in his Max Freeman series. His latest is a stand-alone tale about another newsman, Nick Mullins, a crime reporter for the\n <em>\n  South Florida Daily News.\n </em>\n Mullins is a crime victim himself, having lost his wife and one of his twin daughters to a drunk driver. The scenes of Mullins trying to mimic a normal life with his surviving nine-year-old are harrowing. Pressures build for Mullins as he learns two things: the DUI offender who tore apart his family has just been released from prison, and another prisoner, en route to a courthouse plea, has been killed by a sniper. As Mullins investigates the sniper shooting, he learns that the killer has a hit list, all of whose victims have been subjects of Mullins'' own stories. Tension skyrockets as Mullins fights to save his daughter and to surmount his own need for vengeance. Intriguing views of crime scenes from the media side of the tape, masterful plotting, and a credible, striving hero make this a winner.\n <em>\n  Connie Fletcher\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10735'),
(17082, 'Eye of Vengeance', 'Jonathon King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Veteran journalist King, the Edgar-winning author of the Max Freeman novels (_The Blue Edge of Midnight_, etc.), sets this edgy, brooding stand-alone in a milieu he knows well, the world of the professional crime reporter. Nick Mullins, who covers the crime beat for the\n <em>\n  South Florida Daily News\n </em>\n , is still shattered two years later by the deaths of his wife and one of his twin daughters in an auto accident with a drunk driver. Obsessed with revenge, Mullins spends his off hours stalking the driver, who''s just been released from prison after serving only 18 months. Mullins''s reputation for honesty and integrity endears him to a devoted cadre of readers, including Michael Redman, an ex-cop and former military sniper who begins assassinating criminals Mullins has profiled. As the body count rises, it becomes clear that Redman is indeed working from a list, and that the final name will fulfill a personal debt that he feels he owes Mullins. While the plot unfolds predictably, King''s crisp writing and insights into grief and loss give this novel a depth and poignancy unusual for a thriller.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n King, who won the Edgar Award for\n <em>\n  The Blue Edge of Midnight\n </em>\n (2002), is a former daily journalist who brings both the newsroom and the field to vivid life in his Max Freeman series. His latest is a stand-alone tale about another newsman, Nick Mullins, a crime reporter for the\n <em>\n  South Florida Daily News.\n </em>\n Mullins is a crime victim himself, having lost his wife and one of his twin daughters to a drunk driver. The scenes of Mullins trying to mimic a normal life with his surviving nine-year-old are harrowing. Pressures build for Mullins as he learns two things: the DUI offender who tore apart his family has just been released from prison, and another prisoner, en route to a courthouse plea, has been killed by a sniper. As Mullins investigates the sniper shooting, he learns that the killer has a hit list, all of whose victims have been subjects of Mullins'' own stories. Tension skyrockets as Mullins fights to save his daughter and to surmount his own need for vengeance. Intriguing views of crime scenes from the media side of the tape, masterful plotting, and a credible, striving hero make this a winner.\n <em>\n  Connie Fletcher\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20359'),
(17083, 'The Eyes Have It', 'Philip K Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A little whimsy, now and then, makes for good balance. Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Start here:\n <em>\n  It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet. As yet, I haven''t done anything about it; I can''t think of anything to do. I wrote to the Government, and they sent back a pamphlet on the repair and maintenance of frame houses. Anyhow, the whole thing is known; I''m not the first to discover it. Maybe it''s even under control. . . .\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2168'),
(17084, 'The Eyes Have It', 'Philip K Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A little whimsy, now and then, makes for good balance. Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way. . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Start here:\n <em>\n  It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet. As yet, I haven''t done anything about it; I can''t think of anything to do. I wrote to the Government, and they sent back a pamphlet on the repair and maintenance of frame houses. Anyhow, the whole thing is known; I''m not the first to discover it. Maybe it''s even under control. . . .\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22671'),
(17085, 'The Eyes of a King', 'Catherine Banner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD LEO NORTHâ€™S prospects in life are limited. He attends military school, lives with his fearful grandmother, and looks after his brother Stirling. He resists his innate powers, because those who demonstrate any sort of magical ability are considered enemies of the state. But when he finds a blank book in the snow, his typical indifference melts away. From the first moment he touches the book, he senses its strange power. Passages start to appear on the pagesâ€”revealing family secrets, telling the history of Malonia, and uncovering the story of Ryan and Anna, two teens from a parallel universe. When Leoâ€™s seemingly narrow path takes an unexpected tragic turn, he finds himself on a journey from which he can never really return. And, as he slowly begins to lose touch with reality, Ryan and Annaâ€™s story comes to the forefront. Their idyllic summer romanceâ€”seemingly worlds away from Leoâ€”has everything to do with Malonia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6949'),
(17086, 'The Eyes of a King', 'Catherine Banner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD LEO NORTHâ€™S prospects in life are limited. He attends military school, lives with his fearful grandmother, and looks after his brother Stirling. He resists his innate powers, because those who demonstrate any sort of magical ability are considered enemies of the state. But when he finds a blank book in the snow, his typical indifference melts away. From the first moment he touches the book, he senses its strange power. Passages start to appear on the pagesâ€”revealing family secrets, telling the history of Malonia, and uncovering the story of Ryan and Anna, two teens from a parallel universe. When Leoâ€™s seemingly narrow path takes an unexpected tragic turn, he finds himself on a journey from which he can never really return. And, as he slowly begins to lose touch with reality, Ryan and Annaâ€™s story comes to the forefront. Their idyllic summer romanceâ€”seemingly worlds away from Leoâ€”has everything to do with Malonia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8337'),
(17087, 'The Eyes of a King', 'Catherine Banner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD LEO NORTHâ€™S prospects in life are limited. He attends military school, lives with his fearful grandmother, and looks after his brother Stirling. He resists his innate powers, because those who demonstrate any sort of magical ability are considered enemies of the state. But when he finds a blank book in the snow, his typical indifference melts away. From the first moment he touches the book, he senses its strange power. Passages start to appear on the pagesâ€”revealing family secrets, telling the history of Malonia, and uncovering the story of Ryan and Anna, two teens from a parallel universe. When Leoâ€™s seemingly narrow path takes an unexpected tragic turn, he finds himself on a journey from which he can never really return. And, as he slowly begins to lose touch with reality, Ryan and Annaâ€™s story comes to the forefront. Their idyllic summer romanceâ€”seemingly worlds away from Leoâ€”has everything to do with Malonia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16969'),
(17088, 'The Eyes of a King', 'Catherine Banner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD LEO NORTHâ€™S prospects in life are limited. He attends military school, lives with his fearful grandmother, and looks after his brother Stirling. He resists his innate powers, because those who demonstrate any sort of magical ability are considered enemies of the state. But when he finds a blank book in the snow, his typical indifference melts away. From the first moment he touches the book, he senses its strange power. Passages start to appear on the pagesâ€”revealing family secrets, telling the history of Malonia, and uncovering the story of Ryan and Anna, two teens from a parallel universe. When Leoâ€™s seemingly narrow path takes an unexpected tragic turn, he finds himself on a journey from which he can never really return. And, as he slowly begins to lose touch with reality, Ryan and Annaâ€™s story comes to the forefront. Their idyllic summer romanceâ€”seemingly worlds away from Leoâ€”has everything to do with Malonia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26784'),
(17089, 'The Eyes of Darkness', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Tina Evans dreams that her son Danny is still alive. And when she wakes, she finds a message scrawled on Danny''s chalkboard: not dead. Tina searches for the truth and learns that there are some things worse than death. Includes a new Afterword by the author. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6072'),
(17090, 'The Eyes of Darkness', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One year after her little boy Danny dies, his mother swears that she sees him in a stranger''s car, and becoming obsessed with the mystery, she journeys to Las Vegas and the High Sierras in search of the truth. Reissue."\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dean Koontz\n </strong>\n is one of the best selling writers in the world. He lives in Newport Beach with his wife.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8009'),
(17091, 'The Eyes of Darkness', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One year after her little boy Danny dies, his mother swears that she sees him in a stranger''s car, and becoming obsessed with the mystery, she journeys to Las Vegas and the High Sierras in search of the truth. Reissue."\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dean Koontz\n </strong>\n is one of the best selling writers in the world. He lives in Newport Beach with his wife.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10840'),
(17092, 'The eyes of darkness', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One year after her little boy Danny dies, his mother swears that she sees him in a stranger''s car, and becoming obsessed with the mystery, she journeys to Las Vegas and the High Sierras in search of the truth. Reissue."\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Dean Koontz\n </strong>\n is one of the best selling writers in the world. He lives in Newport Beach with his wife.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17914'),
(17093, 'The Eyes of the Beholders', 'A. C. Crispin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After several Federation and Klingon ships disappear while traveling a newly opened trade route, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM is sent to investigate. Their quest leads Captain Picard and his crew to an eerie space graveyard full of ships of every size and description, all of them, dead in space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the center of the graveyard lies a huge, incredibly powerful artifact, constructed by an ancient alien race. And as the crew struggles to solve the mystery of the artifact, they unwittingly trigger its awesome power, a power that threatens insanity and death to all aboard the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After several Federation and Klingon ships disappear while traveling a newly opened trade route, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM is sent to investigate. Their quest leads Captain Picard and his crew to an eerie space graveyard full of ships of every size and description, all of them, dead in space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the center of the graveyard lies a huge, incredibly powerful artifact, constructed by an ancient alien race. And as the crew struggles to solve the mystery of the artifact, they unwittingly trigger its awesome power, a power that threatens insanity and death to all aboard the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23'),
(17094, 'The Eyes of the Beholders', 'A. C. Crispin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After several Federation and Klingon ships disappear while traveling a newly opened trade route, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM is sent to investigate. Their quest leads Captain Picard and his crew to an eerie space graveyard full of ships of every size and description, all of them, dead in space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the center of the graveyard lies a huge, incredibly powerful artifact, constructed by an ancient alien race. And as the crew struggles to solve the mystery of the artifact, they unwittingly trigger its awesome power, a power that threatens insanity and death to all aboard the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  After several Federation and Klingon ships disappear while traveling a newly opened trade route, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM is sent to investigate. Their quest leads Captain Picard and his crew to an eerie space graveyard full of ships of every size and description, all of them, dead in space.\n </p>\n <p>\n  At the center of the graveyard lies a huge, incredibly powerful artifact, constructed by an ancient alien race. And as the crew struggles to solve the mystery of the artifact, they unwittingly trigger its awesome power, a power that threatens insanity and death to all aboard the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17211'),
(17095, 'The Eyes of the Dragon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1008'),
(17096, 'The Eyes of the Dragon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14322'),
(17097, 'The Eyes of the Dragon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23868'),
(17098, 'The Eyre Affair', 'The Eyre Affair', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14723'),
(17099, 'The Eyre Affair', 'The Eyre Affair', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20008'),
(17100, 'The Eyre Affair: A Novel', 'Jasper Fforde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In Jasper Fforde''s Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of BrontÃ«''s novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career. Fforde''s ingenious fantasy-enhanced by a Web site that re-creates the world of the novel--unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully witty mix.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9496');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(17101, 'F Is for Fugitive', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, itâ€™s hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago, the body of Jean Timberlakeâ€”a troubled teen who had a reputation with the boysâ€”was found on the beach. Her boyfriend Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned, but he escaped. After all this time, Baileyâ€™s finally been captured. Believing in his sonâ€™s innocence, Baileyâ€™s father wants Kinsey to find Jeanâ€™s real killer. But most of the residents in this tight-knit community are convinced Bailey strangled Jean. So why are they so reluctant to answer Kinseyâ€™s questions? If thereâ€™s one thing Kinseyâ€™s got plenty of itâ€™s persistence. And thatâ€™s exactly what itâ€™s going to take to crack the lid on this case.As Kinsey gets closer to solving Jeanâ€™s murder, the more dirty little secrets she uncovers in a town where everyone has something to hideâ€”and a killer will kill again to keep the past buried...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/948'),
(17102, 'F Is for Fugitive', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, itâ€™s hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago, the body of Jean Timberlakeâ€”a troubled teen who had a reputation with the boysâ€”was found on the beach. Her boyfriend Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned, but he escaped. After all this time, Baileyâ€™s finally been captured. Believing in his sonâ€™s innocence, Baileyâ€™s father wants Kinsey to find Jeanâ€™s real killer. But most of the residents in this tight-knit community are convinced Bailey strangled Jean. So why are they so reluctant to answer Kinseyâ€™s questions? If thereâ€™s one thing Kinseyâ€™s got plenty of itâ€™s persistence. And thatâ€™s exactly what itâ€™s going to take to crack the lid on this case.As Kinsey gets closer to solving Jeanâ€™s murder, the more dirty little secrets she uncovers in a town where everyone has something to hideâ€”and a killer will kill again to keep the past buried...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15275'),
(17103, 'F Is for Fugitive', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, itâ€™s hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago, the body of Jean Timberlakeâ€”a troubled teen who had a reputation with the boysâ€”was found on the beach. Her boyfriend Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned, but he escaped. After all this time, Baileyâ€™s finally been captured. Believing in his sonâ€™s innocence, Baileyâ€™s father wants Kinsey to find Jeanâ€™s real killer. But most of the residents in this tight-knit community are convinced Bailey strangled Jean. So why are they so reluctant to answer Kinseyâ€™s questions? If thereâ€™s one thing Kinseyâ€™s got plenty of itâ€™s persistence. And thatâ€™s exactly what itâ€™s going to take to crack the lid on this case.As Kinsey gets closer to solving Jeanâ€™s murder, the more dirty little secrets she uncovers in a town where everyone has something to hideâ€”and a killer will kill again to keep the past buried...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24026'),
(17104, 'F Is for Fugitive', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, itâ€™s hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago, the body of Jean Timberlakeâ€”a troubled teen who had a reputation with the boysâ€”was found on the beach. Her boyfriend Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned, but he escaped. After all this time, Baileyâ€™s finally been captured. Believing in his sonâ€™s innocence, Baileyâ€™s father wants Kinsey to find Jeanâ€™s real killer. But most of the residents in this tight-knit community are convinced Bailey strangled Jean. So why are they so reluctant to answer Kinseyâ€™s questions? If thereâ€™s one thing Kinseyâ€™s got plenty of itâ€™s persistence. And thatâ€™s exactly what itâ€™s going to take to crack the lid on this case.As Kinsey gets closer to solving Jeanâ€™s murder, the more dirty little secrets she uncovers in a town where everyone has something to hideâ€”and a killer will kill again to keep the past buried...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26129'),
(17105, 'Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney', 'Howard Sounes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Sounes has earned a well-deserved reputation for writing thoroughly researched, intricately detailed biographies. This comprehensive biography of McCartney is no exception. Sounes seems to have spoken to every living person with any connection to the former Beatle, from the singerâ€™s neighbors near his Kintyre, Scotland, farm to the family veterinarian. Divided into two equally large sectionsâ€”â€œWith the Beatlesâ€ and â€œAfter the Beatlesâ€â€”Fab covers all the highlights of McCartneyâ€™s life and long career: his early days in Liverpool; his meeting with John Lennon; the craziness of Beatlemania; his solo albums; the creation and collapse of his post-Beatles band, Wings; his marriage to Linda Eastman; his last meetings with Lennon; his drug bust in Japan; his forays into classical music; his disastrous second marriage to Heather Mills. This is by no means a hagiography. On the contrary, Sounes gives criticism when warranted, remarking on McCartneyâ€™s flaws both as a musician (settling for the ordinary, or, worse, mediocre rather then putting in the extra effort to create something exceptional) and as a man (a streak of selfishness that could turn callous). Indeed, Sounes is often brutally honest, offering a full portraitâ€”warts and allâ€”of one of the most famous men of the modern era. A must for Beatles and McCartney fans. HIGH-DEMAND BACK STORY: In spite of his persistent mega-fame, this is the first comprehensive, candid, and up-to-date portrait of Sir Paul McCartney, making it a magnet for boomers and serious music lovers. --June Sawyers\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , July 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œEveryone knows who Paul McCartney is. And everyone can imagine how much in demand this biography will be.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus,\n  </em>\n  9/15/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[A] solid addition to the ever-expanding library of books about the Beatle named Paulâ€¦More than 200 interviewsâ€”and no-nonsense attention to detailâ€¦The graceful prose and superb storytelling create a riveting narrative.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , 10/15/10 (starred review)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSounes has earned a well-deserved reputation for writing thoroughly researched, intricately detailed biographies. This comprehensive biography of McCartney is no exception. Sounes seems to have spoken to every living person with any connection to the former Beatleâ€¦Fab covers all the highlights of McCartneyâ€™s life and long careerâ€¦This is by no means a hagiography. On the contrary, Sounes gives criticism when warranted, remarking on McCartneyâ€™s flaws both as a musician and as a man. Indeed, Sounes is often brutally honest, offering a full portraitâ€”warts and allâ€”of one of the most famous men of the modern era. A must for Beatles and McCartney fansâ€¦In spite of his persistent mega-fame, this is the first comprehensive, candid, and up-to-date portrait of Sir Paul McCartney, making it a magnet for boomers and serious music lovers.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  , 10/15/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA probing work that examines McCartneyâ€™s foibles to a much greater extent than, for example, Barry Milesâ€™s authorized_Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now_â€¦There is a ton of engrossing, well-documented material hereâ€¦A worthwhile read for McCartney fans; recommended for all public libraries.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Independent\n  </em>\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  9/24/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExceedingly thoroughâ€¦A good read for those seeking a Pauline perspective on the Beatles plus a look at his solo career.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Stuff.co.nz â€œBlog on Tracks\n <strong>\n  ,â€\n </strong>\n 9/14/10â€œ\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n A fantastic tomeâ€¦Sounes adds a lot to the story and his methodical, meticulous research style means that he''s actually bringing new things outâ€¦Sounes has, through hundreds of interviews, built a book about McCartney that addresses the myth, understands the legend and is balanced; never getting anywhere near the all too common hagiography that is the bane of reading the Â modern music biography/ghost-written-autobiographyâ€¦I found it the perfect balance of entertainment and education/researchâ€”and, as such, it''s\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  one of the best biographies I''ve ever read\n </strong>\n .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Blurt\n </em>\n Online, 10/18/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe portrait painted in Howard Sounesâ€™_FabÂ _is of a man with more to him than meets the eye or earâ€¦Sounes'' treatment of Paul is fairly even-handed though. He doesn''t shy away from the bad and doesn''t overstate the goodâ€¦There''s still a hunger for all things Beatle and Sounes'' book has its place.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Word,\n </em>\n November 2010\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ[T]he first major unauthorized biographyâ€¦. Howard Sounes brings to the task the same solid journalistic values he employed in writing his Dylan biography_Down the Highway_,which succeeded in unearthing troves of new information through the simple expedient of diligent legwork, hunting down the right people, and asking them the right questions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Rolling Stone\n </em>\n , 11/11/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œFew Beatle biographies are as exhaustive as this 634-page epic: Sounes paints an unsparing portrait of McCartneyâ€¦For fans willing to ponder their heroâ€™s flaws,_Fab_delivers all you need to knowâ€”and a lot more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journa\n  </em>\n  l, 10/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œProvide[s] sound background on Mr. McCartney''s working-class roots, the environs of Liverpool, and the bonding of two song-writing youths (Mr. McCartney and John Lennon) who both lost their mothers while still in their teens. The author turns up new details on these early topics.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   San Antonio\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Express-News\n  </em>\n  , 10/24/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] massive, exhaustively researched biography.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Journal of Books\n  </em>\n  , 10/26/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDelivers on every promise it even thinks about makingâ€¦McCartney fans will enjoy hearing some of the never-before-told stories about his familyâ€¦The author handles the rougher topics with a professionalism that attempts to be as unbiased as possibleâ€¦Sounesâ€™ narrative writing style is easy to read. Instead of feeling like a dry, academic work, the book reads almost like a novelâ€¦The 500+ pages do not necessarily fly by, but the tale told is worth the time it takes to tell it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Independent\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 9/24/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œExceedingly thoroughâ€¦A good read for those seeking a Pauline perspective on the Beatles plus a look at his solo career.â€\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Blogcritics.org, 10/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA compelling readâ€¦Since Sounes has dug so deep into McCartney lore, there is bound to be a surprise or two for even for the staunchest admirerâ€¦Hard to put down. Sounes'' writing style is breezy without being slight. His admiration for his subject is evident, even when he is at his most candid, all of which makes_Fab_a worthwhile read.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Desert News_, 10/31/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[The] first exhaustive biography of James Paul McCartney.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Bookviews.com, November 2010\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWill more than satisfy any one of his fans.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n National Post_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  (Canada), 11/1/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMassiveâ€¦Full of intriguing snapshots.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n CBC News_(Canada), 11/4/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA compelling biography.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Record Collector_(UK), December 2010\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMacca examined in high-def accuracyâ€¦Where Sounes scoresâ€¦is in scything through the wild undergrowth of facts, misinformation and myths to present a level-headed portrait of a musician who, obviously, is still held in fascination by the publicâ€¦The definitive take on an extraordinary careerâ€¦Sounes is also admirably responsible in his dissection of the Heather Mills years, sifting through the tabloid salaciousness to outline chains of events with the confident, dispassionate eye of a seasoned and reliable journalist.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Onion\n  </em>\n  , 11/11/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Fab_does a credible job of outlining McCartneyâ€™s life and habits. So much has been written about The Beatlesâ€”and by contrast, so little about McCartneyâ€™s far longer (and during the â€™70s, nearly as popular) solo careerâ€”that Sounesâ€™ equal treatment of the eras is welcome.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Tucson Citizen_, 11/8/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA 634-page epic about Paul McCartney that covers almost every aspect of his lifeâ€¦Sounes has done his homework, his research detailed and meticulousâ€¦The result is a rather unsettling portrait of an incredibly creative, complex man who could be petty and nasty, generous and charitableâ€¦Revealing, well-crafted, and utterly fascinating.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Toronto_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Star\n  </em>\n  , 11/5/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[An] unauthorized biography of the famous and unimaginably wealthy bassist and composerâ€¦A minutely detailed and comprehensive account of the famous musicianâ€™s life up to nowâ€¦On the whole, Sounes renders his subject sympathetically, as a gifted but flawed character.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Montreal_\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Gazette\n </em>\n â€™s â€œWords &amp; Musicâ€ Blog, 11/11/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe first book to properly deal with McCartney''s career after the Beatles.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   BookPage,\n  </em>\n  December 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImpressively thorough and up-to-date.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Kirkus Reviews_website, 10/26/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReveal[s] a side of the â€˜niceâ€™ Beatle most people never knew existed.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n San Francisco_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Book Review,\n  </em>\n  November 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fascinating and nostalgic trip back to when the Beatles changed the course of music forever.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n InfoDad.com, 11/18/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExhaustively researchedâ€¦Name-packed, gossipy, interpretative but not judgmental, and very detail-orientedâ€¦Fans of McCartney will surely find [it] intriguing if they receive it as a gift.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  BlogTalkRadioâ€™s â€œMr. Mediaâ€, 11/18/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHoward Sounes wonâ€™t deny that there have been an awful lot of books about the Beatles and Paul McCartney. But that didnâ€™t give him pause; he just researched and wrote one of the best.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 12/5/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ_Fab_lifts offâ€¦in 1967, with the introduction of its most interesting characterâ€”the rock photographer Linda Eastman, who set her sights on Paul and determined to marry him even before they had metâ€¦Sounesâ€™s portrayal of her is complicated, fascinating in its contradictions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Miami Herald\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 11/28/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe first serious biographical attempt to pay as much attention to the 40-year span that followed McCartneyâ€™s run in the Beatles as it does to his decade within the Fab Fourâ€¦Sounesâ€™ reach is commendable.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  (web-exclusive), 11/22/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œAn engaging, set-the-record-straight biographyâ€¦Sounes writes knowledgeably of the Beatles'' close relationship with their tortured manager, Brian ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5119'),
(17106, 'Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney', 'Howard Sounes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Sounes has earned a well-deserved reputation for writing thoroughly researched, intricately detailed biographies. This comprehensive biography of McCartney is no exception. Sounes seems to have spoken to every living person with any connection to the former Beatle, from the singerâ€™s neighbors near his Kintyre, Scotland, farm to the family veterinarian. Divided into two equally large sectionsâ€”â€œWith the Beatlesâ€ and â€œAfter the Beatlesâ€â€”Fab covers all the highlights of McCartneyâ€™s life and long career: his early days in Liverpool; his meeting with John Lennon; the craziness of Beatlemania; his solo albums; the creation and collapse of his post-Beatles band, Wings; his marriage to Linda Eastman; his last meetings with Lennon; his drug bust in Japan; his forays into classical music; his disastrous second marriage to Heather Mills. This is by no means a hagiography. On the contrary, Sounes gives criticism when warranted, remarking on McCartneyâ€™s flaws both as a musician (settling for the ordinary, or, worse, mediocre rather then putting in the extra effort to create something exceptional) and as a man (a streak of selfishness that could turn callous). Indeed, Sounes is often brutally honest, offering a full portraitâ€”warts and allâ€”of one of the most famous men of the modern era. A must for Beatles and McCartney fans. HIGH-DEMAND BACK STORY: In spite of his persistent mega-fame, this is the first comprehensive, candid, and up-to-date portrait of Sir Paul McCartney, making it a magnet for boomers and serious music lovers. --June Sawyers\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , July 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œEveryone knows who Paul McCartney is. And everyone can imagine how much in demand this biography will be.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus,\n  </em>\n  9/15/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[A] solid addition to the ever-expanding library of books about the Beatle named Paulâ€¦More than 200 interviewsâ€”and no-nonsense attention to detailâ€¦The graceful prose and superb storytelling create a riveting narrative.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , 10/15/10 (starred review)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSounes has earned a well-deserved reputation for writing thoroughly researched, intricately detailed biographies. This comprehensive biography of McCartney is no exception. Sounes seems to have spoken to every living person with any connection to the former Beatleâ€¦Fab covers all the highlights of McCartneyâ€™s life and long careerâ€¦This is by no means a hagiography. On the contrary, Sounes gives criticism when warranted, remarking on McCartneyâ€™s flaws both as a musician and as a man. Indeed, Sounes is often brutally honest, offering a full portraitâ€”warts and allâ€”of one of the most famous men of the modern era. A must for Beatles and McCartney fansâ€¦In spite of his persistent mega-fame, this is the first comprehensive, candid, and up-to-date portrait of Sir Paul McCartney, making it a magnet for boomers and serious music lovers.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  , 10/15/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA probing work that examines McCartneyâ€™s foibles to a much greater extent than, for example, Barry Milesâ€™s authorized_Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now_â€¦There is a ton of engrossing, well-documented material hereâ€¦A worthwhile read for McCartney fans; recommended for all public libraries.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Independent\n  </em>\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  9/24/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExceedingly thoroughâ€¦A good read for those seeking a Pauline perspective on the Beatles plus a look at his solo career.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Stuff.co.nz â€œBlog on Tracks\n <strong>\n  ,â€\n </strong>\n 9/14/10â€œ\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n A fantastic tomeâ€¦Sounes adds a lot to the story and his methodical, meticulous research style means that he''s actually bringing new things outâ€¦Sounes has, through hundreds of interviews, built a book about McCartney that addresses the myth, understands the legend and is balanced; never getting anywhere near the all too common hagiography that is the bane of reading the Â modern music biography/ghost-written-autobiographyâ€¦I found it the perfect balance of entertainment and education/researchâ€”and, as such, it''s\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  one of the best biographies I''ve ever read\n </strong>\n .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Blurt\n </em>\n Online, 10/18/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe portrait painted in Howard Sounesâ€™_FabÂ _is of a man with more to him than meets the eye or earâ€¦Sounes'' treatment of Paul is fairly even-handed though. He doesn''t shy away from the bad and doesn''t overstate the goodâ€¦There''s still a hunger for all things Beatle and Sounes'' book has its place.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Word,\n </em>\n November 2010\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ[T]he first major unauthorized biographyâ€¦. Howard Sounes brings to the task the same solid journalistic values he employed in writing his Dylan biography_Down the Highway_,which succeeded in unearthing troves of new information through the simple expedient of diligent legwork, hunting down the right people, and asking them the right questions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Rolling Stone\n </em>\n , 11/11/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œFew Beatle biographies are as exhaustive as this 634-page epic: Sounes paints an unsparing portrait of McCartneyâ€¦For fans willing to ponder their heroâ€™s flaws,_Fab_delivers all you need to knowâ€”and a lot more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journa\n  </em>\n  l, 10/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œProvide[s] sound background on Mr. McCartney''s working-class roots, the environs of Liverpool, and the bonding of two song-writing youths (Mr. McCartney and John Lennon) who both lost their mothers while still in their teens. The author turns up new details on these early topics.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   San Antonio\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Express-News\n  </em>\n  , 10/24/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] massive, exhaustively researched biography.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Journal of Books\n  </em>\n  , 10/26/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDelivers on every promise it even thinks about makingâ€¦McCartney fans will enjoy hearing some of the never-before-told stories about his familyâ€¦The author handles the rougher topics with a professionalism that attempts to be as unbiased as possibleâ€¦Sounesâ€™ narrative writing style is easy to read. Instead of feeling like a dry, academic work, the book reads almost like a novelâ€¦The 500+ pages do not necessarily fly by, but the tale told is worth the time it takes to tell it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Independent\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 9/24/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œExceedingly thoroughâ€¦A good read for those seeking a Pauline perspective on the Beatles plus a look at his solo career.â€\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Blogcritics.org, 10/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA compelling readâ€¦Since Sounes has dug so deep into McCartney lore, there is bound to be a surprise or two for even for the staunchest admirerâ€¦Hard to put down. Sounes'' writing style is breezy without being slight. His admiration for his subject is evident, even when he is at his most candid, all of which makes_Fab_a worthwhile read.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Desert News_, 10/31/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[The] first exhaustive biography of James Paul McCartney.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Bookviews.com, November 2010\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWill more than satisfy any one of his fans.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n National Post_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  (Canada), 11/1/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMassiveâ€¦Full of intriguing snapshots.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n CBC News_(Canada), 11/4/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA compelling biography.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Record Collector_(UK), December 2010\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMacca examined in high-def accuracyâ€¦Where Sounes scoresâ€¦is in scything through the wild undergrowth of facts, misinformation and myths to present a level-headed portrait of a musician who, obviously, is still held in fascination by the publicâ€¦The definitive take on an extraordinary careerâ€¦Sounes is also admirably responsible in his dissection of the Heather Mills years, sifting through the tabloid salaciousness to outline chains of events with the confident, dispassionate eye of a seasoned and reliable journalist.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Onion\n  </em>\n  , 11/11/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Fab_does a credible job of outlining McCartneyâ€™s life and habits. So much has been written about The Beatlesâ€”and by contrast, so little about McCartneyâ€™s far longer (and during the â€™70s, nearly as popular) solo careerâ€”that Sounesâ€™ equal treatment of the eras is welcome.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Tucson Citizen_, 11/8/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA 634-page epic about Paul McCartney that covers almost every aspect of his lifeâ€¦Sounes has done his homework, his research detailed and meticulousâ€¦The result is a rather unsettling portrait of an incredibly creative, complex man who could be petty and nasty, generous and charitableâ€¦Revealing, well-crafted, and utterly fascinating.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Toronto_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Star\n  </em>\n  , 11/5/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[An] unauthorized biography of the famous and unimaginably wealthy bassist and composerâ€¦A minutely detailed and comprehensive account of the famous musicianâ€™s life up to nowâ€¦On the whole, Sounes renders his subject sympathetically, as a gifted but flawed character.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Montreal_\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Gazette\n </em>\n â€™s â€œWords &amp; Musicâ€ Blog, 11/11/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe first book to properly deal with McCartney''s career after the Beatles.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   BookPage,\n  </em>\n  December 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImpressively thorough and up-to-date.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Kirkus Reviews_website, 10/26/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReveal[s] a side of the â€˜niceâ€™ Beatle most people never knew existed.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n San Francisco_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Book Review,\n  </em>\n  November 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fascinating and nostalgic trip back to when the Beatles changed the course of music forever.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n InfoDad.com, 11/18/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExhaustively researchedâ€¦Name-packed, gossipy, interpretative but not judgmental, and very detail-orientedâ€¦Fans of McCartney will surely find [it] intriguing if they receive it as a gift.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  BlogTalkRadioâ€™s â€œMr. Mediaâ€, 11/18/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHoward Sounes wonâ€™t deny that there have been an awful lot of books about the Beatles and Paul McCartney. But that didnâ€™t give him pause; he just researched and wrote one of the best.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 12/5/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ_Fab_lifts offâ€¦in 1967, with the introduction of its most interesting characterâ€”the rock photographer Linda Eastman, who set her sights on Paul and determined to marry him even before they had metâ€¦Sounesâ€™s portrayal of her is complicated, fascinating in its contradictions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Miami Herald\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 11/28/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe first serious biographical attempt to pay as much attention to the 40-year span that followed McCartneyâ€™s run in the Beatles as it does to his decade within the Fab Fourâ€¦Sounesâ€™ reach is commendable.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  (web-exclusive), 11/22/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œAn engaging, set-the-record-straight biographyâ€¦Sounes writes knowledgeably of the Beatles'' close relationship with their tortured manager, Brian ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12756'),
(17107, 'Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney', 'Howard Sounes', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Sounes has earned a well-deserved reputation for writing thoroughly researched, intricately detailed biographies. This comprehensive biography of McCartney is no exception. Sounes seems to have spoken to every living person with any connection to the former Beatle, from the singerâ€™s neighbors near his Kintyre, Scotland, farm to the family veterinarian. Divided into two equally large sectionsâ€”â€œWith the Beatlesâ€ and â€œAfter the Beatlesâ€â€”Fab covers all the highlights of McCartneyâ€™s life and long career: his early days in Liverpool; his meeting with John Lennon; the craziness of Beatlemania; his solo albums; the creation and collapse of his post-Beatles band, Wings; his marriage to Linda Eastman; his last meetings with Lennon; his drug bust in Japan; his forays into classical music; his disastrous second marriage to Heather Mills. This is by no means a hagiography. On the contrary, Sounes gives criticism when warranted, remarking on McCartneyâ€™s flaws both as a musician (settling for the ordinary, or, worse, mediocre rather then putting in the extra effort to create something exceptional) and as a man (a streak of selfishness that could turn callous). Indeed, Sounes is often brutally honest, offering a full portraitâ€”warts and allâ€”of one of the most famous men of the modern era. A must for Beatles and McCartney fans. HIGH-DEMAND BACK STORY: In spite of his persistent mega-fame, this is the first comprehensive, candid, and up-to-date portrait of Sir Paul McCartney, making it a magnet for boomers and serious music lovers. --June Sawyers\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , July 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œEveryone knows who Paul McCartney is. And everyone can imagine how much in demand this biography will be.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Kirkus,\n  </em>\n  9/15/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ[A] solid addition to the ever-expanding library of books about the Beatle named Paul...More than 200 interviewsâ€”and no-nonsense attention to detail...The graceful prose and superb storytelling create a riveting narrative.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  , 10/15/10 (starred review)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSounes has earned a well-deserved reputation for writing thoroughly researched, intricately detailed biographies. This comprehensive biography of McCartney is no exception. Sounes seems to have spoken to every living person with any connection to the former Beatle...Fab covers all the highlights of McCartneyâ€™s life and long career...This is by no means a hagiography. On the contrary, Sounes gives criticism when warranted, remarking on McCartneyâ€™s flaws both as a musician and as a man. Indeed, Sounes is often brutally honest, offering a full portraitâ€”warts and allâ€”of one of the most famous men of the modern era. A must for Beatles and McCartney fans...In spite of his persistent mega-fame, this is the first comprehensive, candid, and up-to-date portrait of Sir Paul McCartney, making it a magnet for boomers and serious music lovers.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n  , 10/15/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA probing work that examines McCartneyâ€™s foibles to a much greater extent than, for example, Barry Milesâ€™s authorized_Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now_...There is a ton of engrossing, well-documented material here...A worthwhile read for McCartney fans; recommended for all public libraries.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Independent\n  </em>\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  9/24/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExceedingly thorough...A good read for those seeking a Pauline perspective on the Beatles plus a look at his solo career.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Stuff.co.nz â€œBlog on Tracks\n <strong>\n  ,â€\n </strong>\n 9/14/10â€œ\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n A fantastic tome...Sounes adds a lot to the story and his methodical, meticulous research style means that he''s actually bringing new things out...Sounes has, through hundreds of interviews, built a book about McCartney that addresses the myth, understands the legend and is balanced; never getting anywhere near the all too common hagiography that is the bane of reading the modern music biography/ghost-written-autobiography...I found it the perfect balance of entertainment and education/researchâ€”and, as such, it''s\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  one of the best biographies I''ve ever read\n </strong>\n .â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Blurt\n </em>\n Online, 10/18/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe portrait painted in Howard Sounesâ€™_Fab _is of a man with more to him than meets the eye or ear...Sounes'' treatment of Paul is fairly even-handed though. He doesn''t shy away from the bad and doesn''t overstate the good...There''s still a hunger for all things Beatle and Sounes'' book has its place.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Word,\n </em>\n November 2010\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œ[T]he first major unauthorized biography.... Howard Sounes brings to the task the same solid journalistic values he employed in writing his Dylan biography_Down the Highway_,which succeeded in unearthing troves of new information through the simple expedient of diligent legwork, hunting down the right people, and asking them the right questions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Rolling Stone\n </em>\n , 11/11/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œFew Beatle biographies are as exhaustive as this 634-page epic: Sounes paints an unsparing portrait of McCartney...For fans willing to ponder their heroâ€™s flaws,_Fab_delivers all you need to knowâ€”and a lot more.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Wall Street Journa\n  </em>\n  l, 10/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œProvide[s] sound background on Mr. McCartney''s working-class roots, the environs of Liverpool, and the bonding of two song-writing youths (Mr. McCartney and John Lennon) who both lost their mothers while still in their teens. The author turns up new details on these early topics.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   San Antonio\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Express-News\n  </em>\n  , 10/24/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] massive, exhaustively researched biography.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Journal of Books\n  </em>\n  , 10/26/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œDelivers on every promise it even thinks about making...McCartney fans will enjoy hearing some of the never-before-told stories about his family...The author handles the rougher topics with a professionalism that attempts to be as unbiased as possible...Sounesâ€™ narrative writing style is easy to read. Instead of feeling like a dry, academic work, the book reads almost like a novel...The 500+ pages do not necessarily fly by, but the tale told is worth the time it takes to tell it.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  The Independent\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 9/24/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œExceedingly thorough...A good read for those seeking a Pauline perspective on the Beatles plus a look at his solo career.â€\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Blogcritics.org, 10/29/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA compelling read...Since Sounes has dug so deep into McCartney lore, there is bound to be a surprise or two for even for the staunchest admirer...Hard to put down. Sounes'' writing style is breezy without being slight. His admiration for his subject is evident, even when he is at his most candid, all of which makes_Fab_a worthwhile read.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Desert News_, 10/31/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[The] first exhaustive biography of James Paul McCartney.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Bookviews.com, November 2010\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWill more than satisfy any one of his fans.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n National Post_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  (Canada), 11/1/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMassive...Full of intriguing snapshots.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n CBC News_(Canada), 11/4/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA compelling biography.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Record Collector_(UK), December 2010\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMacca examined in high-def accuracy...Where Sounes scores...is in scything through the wild undergrowth of facts, misinformation and myths to present a level-headed portrait of a musician who, obviously, is still held in fascination by the public...The definitive take on an extraordinary career...Sounes is also admirably responsible in his dissection of the Heather Mills years, sifting through the tabloid salaciousness to outline chains of events with the confident, dispassionate eye of a seasoned and reliable journalist.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Onion\n  </em>\n  , 11/11/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Fab_does a credible job of outlining McCartneyâ€™s life and habits. So much has been written about The Beatlesâ€”and by contrast, so little about McCartneyâ€™s far longer (and during the â€™70s, nearly as popular) solo careerâ€”that Sounesâ€™ equal treatment of the eras is welcome.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Tucson Citizen_, 11/8/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA 634-page epic about Paul McCartney that covers almost every aspect of his life...Sounes has done his homework, his research detailed and meticulous...The result is a rather unsettling portrait of an incredibly creative, complex man who could be petty and nasty, generous and charitable...Revealing, well-crafted, and utterly fascinating.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Toronto_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Star\n  </em>\n  , 11/5/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[An] unauthorized biography of the famous and unimaginably wealthy bassist and composer...A minutely detailed and comprehensive account of the famous musicianâ€™s life up to now...On the whole, Sounes renders his subject sympathetically, as a gifted but flawed character.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Montreal_\n <strong>\n </strong>\n <em>\n  Gazette\n </em>\n â€™s â€œWords &amp; Musicâ€ Blog, 11/11/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œThe first book to properly deal with McCartney''s career after the Beatles.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   BookPage,\n  </em>\n  December 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImpressively thorough and up-to-date.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n Kirkus Reviews_website, 10/26/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œReveal[s] a side of the â€˜niceâ€™ Beatle most people never knew existed.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n San Francisco_\n <em>\n </em>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Book Review,\n  </em>\n  November 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fascinating and nostalgic trip back to when the Beatles changed the course of music forever.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n InfoDad.com, 11/18/10\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œExhaustively researched...Name-packed, gossipy, interpretative but not judgmental, and very detail-oriented...Fans of McCartney will surely find [it] intriguing if they receive it as a gift.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  BlogTalkRadioâ€™s â€œMr. Mediaâ€, 11/18/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHoward Sounes wonâ€™t deny that there have been an awful lot of books about the Beatles and Paul McCartney. But that didnâ€™t give him pause; he just researched and wrote one of the best.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 12/5/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œ_Fab_lifts off...in 1967, with the introduction of its most interesting characterâ€”the rock photographer Linda Eastman, who set her sights on Paul and determined to marry him even before they had met...Sounesâ€™s portrayal of her is complicated, fascinating in its contradictions.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Miami Herald\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  , 11/28/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThe first serious biographical attempt to pay as much attention to the 40-year span that followed McCartneyâ€™s run in the Beatles as it does to his decade within the Fab Four...Sounesâ€™ reach is commendable.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </strong>\n _\n <strong>\n  (web-exclusive), 11/22/10\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œAn engaging, set-the-record-straight biography...Sounes writes knowledgeably of the Beatles'' close relationship with their tortured manager, Brian ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19609'),
(17108, 'Fablehaven', 'Brandon Mull; Brandon Dorman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite. Kendra and her brother, Seth, have no idea that their grandfather is the current caretaker of Fablehaven. Inside the gated woods, ancient laws keep relative order among greedy trolls, mischievous satyrs, plotting witches, spiteful imps, and jealous fairies. However, when the rules get broken -- Seth is a bit too curious and reckless for his own good -- powerful forces of evil are unleashed, and Kendra and her brother face the greatest challenge of their lives. To save their family, Fablehaven, and perhaps even the world, Kendra and Seth must find the courage to do what they fear most.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15536'),
(17109, 'Fablehaven', 'Brandon Mull; Brandon Dorman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite. Kendra and her brother, Seth, have no idea that their grandfather is the current caretaker of Fablehaven. Inside the gated woods, ancient laws keep relative order among greedy trolls, mischievous satyrs, plotting witches, spiteful imps, and jealous fairies. However, when the rules get broken -- Seth is a bit too curious and reckless for his own good -- powerful forces of evil are unleashed, and Kendra and her brother face the greatest challenge of their lives. To save their family, Fablehaven, and perhaps even the world, Kendra and Seth must find the courage to do what they fear most.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26646'),
(17110, 'Fablehaven', 'Brandon Mull &amp; Brandon Dorman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite. Kendra and her brother, Seth, have no idea that their grandfather is the current caretaker of Fablehaven. Inside the gated woods, ancient laws keep relative order among greedy trolls, mischievous satyrs, plotting witches, spiteful imps, and jealous fairies. However, when the rules get broken -- Seth is a bit too curious and reckless for his own good -- powerful forces of evil are unleashed, and Kendra and her brother face the greatest challenge of their lives. To save their family, Fablehaven, and perhaps even the world, Kendra and Seth must find the courage to do what they fear most.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26657'),
(17111, 'Fablehaven: Keys to the Demon Prison', 'Brandon Mull; Brandon Dorman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Fablehaven Series, Book 5) EDITORIAL REVIEW: Since ancient times, the great demon prison Zzyzx has protected the world from the most dangerous servants of darkness, including Gorgrog, the Demon King. After centuries of plotting, the Sphinx is on the verge of recovering the five artifacts necessary to open the legendary prison. Facing the potential of a world-ending calamity, all friends of light must unite in a final effort to thwart the Sphinx s designs and find a safe home for the five artifacts. To this end, Kendra, Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn will venture far beyond the walls of Fablehaven to strange and exotic magical preserves across the globe, where the end of every quest becomes the beginning of another. In this explosive series finale, allegiances will be confirmed and secrets revealed as the forces of light and darkness collide in a desperate struggle to control the keys to the demon prison.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15537');
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(17112, 'Fablehaven: Keys to the Demon Prison', 'Brandon Mull; Brandon Dorman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Fablehaven Series, Book 5) EDITORIAL REVIEW: Since ancient times, the great demon prison Zzyzx has protected the world from the most dangerous servants of darkness, including Gorgrog, the Demon King. After centuries of plotting, the Sphinx is on the verge of recovering the five artifacts necessary to open the legendary prison. Facing the potential of a world-ending calamity, all friends of light must unite in a final effort to thwart the Sphinx s designs and find a safe home for the five artifacts. To this end, Kendra, Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn will venture far beyond the walls of Fablehaven to strange and exotic magical preserves across the globe, where the end of every quest becomes the beginning of another. In this explosive series finale, allegiances will be confirmed and secrets revealed as the forces of light and darkness collide in a desperate struggle to control the keys to the demon prison.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26645'),
(17113, 'Fablehaven: Keys to the Demon Prison', 'Brandon Mull &amp; Brandon Dorman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Fablehaven Series, Book 5)\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Since ancient times, the great demon prison Zzyzx has  protected the world from the most dangerous servants of  darkness, including Gorgrog, the Demon King. After centuries  of plotting, the Sphinx is on the verge of recovering the five  artifacts necessary to open the legendary prison.  Facing the potential of a world-ending calamity, all friends of  light must unite in a final effort to thwart the Sphinx s designs  and find a safe home for the five artifacts. To this end, Kendra,  Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn will venture far beyond the  walls of Fablehaven to strange and exotic magical preserves  across the globe, where the end of every quest becomes the  beginning of another. In this explosive series finale, allegiances  will be confirmed and secrets revealed as the forces of light  and darkness collide in a desperate struggle to control the  keys to the demon prison.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26656'),
(17114, 'Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star', 'Brandon Mull', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the end of the school year, Kendra and her brother, Seth, find themselves racing back to Fablehaven, a refuge for mythical and magical creatures. Grandpa Sorenson, the caretaker, invites three specialists--a potion master, a magical relics collector, and a mystical creature trapper--to help protect the property from the Society of the Evening Star, an ancient organization determined to infiltrate the preserve and steal a hidden artifact of great power. Time is running out. The Evening Star is storming the gates. If the artifact falls into the wrong hands, it could mean the downfall of other preserves and possibly the end of the world. Will Kendra learn to use her fairy gifts in time? Will Seth stay out of trouble? Can they overcome paralyzing fear? Find out in book 2 of this bestselling series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15538'),
(17115, 'Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star', 'Brandon Mull', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the end of the school year, Kendra and her brother, Seth, find themselves racing back to Fablehaven, a refuge for mythical and magical creatures. Grandpa Sorenson, the caretaker, invites three specialists--a potion master, a magical relics collector, and a mystical creature trapper--to help protect the property from the Society of the Evening Star, an ancient organization determined to infiltrate the preserve and steal a hidden artifact of great power. Time is running out. The Evening Star is storming the gates. If the artifact falls into the wrong hands, it could mean the downfall of other preserves and possibly the end of the world. Will Kendra learn to use her fairy gifts in time? Will Seth stay out of trouble? Can they overcome paralyzing fear? Find out in book 2 of this bestselling series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26651'),
(17116, 'The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington&#39;s Times', 'Charles Royster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company\n </em>\n begins, appropriately, amidst a time of\n</p>\n<p>\n Fortunately, Royster, an accomplished historian and author of the Francis Parkman Prize-winning __, had more luck getting something valuable out of the Dismal Swamp than his Colonial predecessors. His richly detailed, circuitous saga makes for dense, satisfying reading.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The swamp featured in this book is a vast marshy region in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. In 1763, a small group of investorsAincluding George WashingtonApurchased a huge chunk of this terrain. With the help of slave labor, they hoped to drain parts of the land to make room for farms for tobacco and other crops. They also planned to sell timber and wood shingles from the area''s dense forests and to profit from roads and canals built through the land to transport commerce. The Dismal Swamp Company was largely a failure, not turning any profits until a decade after Washington''s death. More than tracing the unhappy history of one business enterprise, this impressively annotated book by distinguished historian Royster (Louisiana State Univ.) provides a fascinating panorama of colorful characters (including numerous shady entrepreneurs), interesting glimpses into master-slave relations, and expert analyses of both American and British economic developments. Recommended for university and large public libraries.AThomas J. Schaeper, St. Bonaventure Univ., NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6829'),
(17117, 'The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington&#39;s Times', 'Charles Royster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company\n </em>\n begins, appropriately, amidst a time of\n</p>\n<p>\n Fortunately, Royster, an accomplished historian and author of the Francis Parkman Prize-winning __, had more luck getting something valuable out of the Dismal Swamp than his Colonial predecessors. His richly detailed, circuitous saga makes for dense, satisfying reading.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The swamp featured in this book is a vast marshy region in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. In 1763, a small group of investorsAincluding George WashingtonApurchased a huge chunk of this terrain. With the help of slave labor, they hoped to drain parts of the land to make room for farms for tobacco and other crops. They also planned to sell timber and wood shingles from the area''s dense forests and to profit from roads and canals built through the land to transport commerce. The Dismal Swamp Company was largely a failure, not turning any profits until a decade after Washington''s death. More than tracing the unhappy history of one business enterprise, this impressively annotated book by distinguished historian Royster (Louisiana State Univ.) provides a fascinating panorama of colorful characters (including numerous shady entrepreneurs), interesting glimpses into master-slave relations, and expert analyses of both American and British economic developments. Recommended for university and large public libraries.AThomas J. Schaeper, St. Bonaventure Univ., NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12477'),
(17118, 'The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington&#39;s Times', 'Charles Royster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company\n </em>\n begins, appropriately, amidst a time of\n</p>\n<p>\n Fortunately, Royster, an accomplished historian and author of the Francis Parkman Prize-winning __, had more luck getting something valuable out of the Dismal Swamp than his Colonial predecessors. His richly detailed, circuitous saga makes for dense, satisfying reading.\n <em>\n  --Paul Hughes\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The swamp featured in this book is a vast marshy region in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. In 1763, a small group of investorsAincluding George WashingtonApurchased a huge chunk of this terrain. With the help of slave labor, they hoped to drain parts of the land to make room for farms for tobacco and other crops. They also planned to sell timber and wood shingles from the area''s dense forests and to profit from roads and canals built through the land to transport commerce. The Dismal Swamp Company was largely a failure, not turning any profits until a decade after Washington''s death. More than tracing the unhappy history of one business enterprise, this impressively annotated book by distinguished historian Royster (Louisiana State Univ.) provides a fascinating panorama of colorful characters (including numerous shady entrepreneurs), interesting glimpses into master-slave relations, and expert analyses of both American and British economic developments. Recommended for university and large public libraries.AThomas J. Schaeper, St. Bonaventure Univ., NY\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17069'),
(17119, 'The Fabulous Riverboat', 'Philip Jose Farmer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21511'),
(17120, 'A face dragoste aproape perfect', 'Bebe Mihaiescu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26029'),
(17121, 'The face of a stranger', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Richly textured with the sights and sounds of London and its countryside...Solidly absorbing and Perry''s best to date." THE KIRKUS REVIEWS His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detecive. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk''s efforts doubly difficult, since he''s forgotten his professional skills along with everything else.... A Dual Main Selection of the Mystery Guild\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15704'),
(17122, 'The face of a stranger', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Richly textured with the sights and sounds of London and its countryside...Solidly absorbing and Perry''s best to date." THE KIRKUS REVIEWS His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detecive. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk''s efforts doubly difficult, since he''s forgotten his professional skills along with everything else.... A Dual Main Selection of the Mystery Guild\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26373'),
(17123, 'The Face of Fear', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n You and your friend Sarah are being chased by a homicidal maniac through an office building in the middle of the night. You take refuge in an empty office like frightened cockroaches, but the doors are forced open, revealing your antenna-quivering vulnerability. In desperation, you scramble up and down elevator shafts with one lame leg dangling helplessly behind, and try other life-threatening feats that seem to be more appealing than getting an ice-pick through your skull.\n</p>\n<p>\n The most horrifying thing about this scenario: the person chasing you is not a disgruntled co-worker, and it''s not your boss! It''s a notoriously murderous rapist, and he''s just about to get you or Sarah every turn of the way. And then you remember the terror of falling while climbing Mount Everest and you think you''ve figured out how to escape... but have you? You still haven''t figured out who will be crushed by the monster snow-plow!\n</p>\n<p>\n I''ve never read many thrillers before--much less Koontz--but I was trapped with this book in a strange hotel in a strange city, and was then kept awake the rest of the night wondering what those noises were outside my door. Koontz has, apparently, done it again. And I fear I may now be hooked on thrillers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Real suspense... tension upon tension! --\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6108'),
(17124, 'The Face of Fear', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n You and your friend Sarah are being chased by a homicidal maniac through an office building in the middle of the night. You take refuge in an empty office like frightened cockroaches, but the doors are forced open, revealing your antenna-quivering vulnerability. In desperation, you scramble up and down elevator shafts with one lame leg dangling helplessly behind, and try other life-threatening feats that seem to be more appealing than getting an ice-pick through your skull.\n</p>\n<p>\n The most horrifying thing about this scenario: the person chasing you is not a disgruntled co-worker, and it''s not your boss! It''s a notoriously murderous rapist, and he''s just about to get you or Sarah every turn of the way. And then you remember the terror of falling while climbing Mount Everest and you think you''ve figured out how to escape... but have you? You still haven''t figured out who will be crushed by the monster snow-plow!\n</p>\n<p>\n I''ve never read many thrillers before--much less Koontz--but I was trapped with this book in a strange hotel in a strange city, and was then kept awake the rest of the night wondering what those noises were outside my door. Koontz has, apparently, done it again. And I fear I may now be hooked on thrillers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Real suspense... tension upon tension! --\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10823'),
(17125, 'The Face of Fear', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n You and your friend Sarah are being chased by a homicidal maniac through an office building in the middle of the night. You take refuge in an empty office like frightened cockroaches, but the doors are forced open, revealing your antenna-quivering vulnerability. In desperation, you scramble up and down elevator shafts with one lame leg dangling helplessly behind, and try other life-threatening feats that seem to be more appealing than getting an ice-pick through your skull.\n</p>\n<p>\n The most horrifying thing about this scenario: the person chasing you is not a disgruntled co-worker, and it''s not your boss! It''s a notoriously murderous rapist, and he''s just about to get you or Sarah every turn of the way. And then you remember the terror of falling while climbing Mount Everest and you think you''ve figured out how to escape... but have you? You still haven''t figured out who will be crushed by the monster snow-plow!\n</p>\n<p>\n I''ve never read many thrillers before--much less Koontz--but I was trapped with this book in a strange hotel in a strange city, and was then kept awake the rest of the night wondering what those noises were outside my door. Koontz has, apparently, done it again. And I fear I may now be hooked on thrillers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Real suspense... tension upon tension! --\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17912'),
(17126, 'The Face of Fear', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To stop a brutal killer, the NYPD enlists the help of clairvoyant Graham Harris. He sees the murders in his mind--sometimes at the moment they are happening. Then he sees the most terrifying vision of all--his own murder... "Real suspense...tension upon tension."-- *New York Times*"Koontz puts his readers through the emotional wringer!"--  *Associated Press*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27439'),
(17127, 'The Face of the Assassin', 'David Lindsey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forensic artist Paul Bern uses his impressive talents as a sculptor to reconstruct a face on an anonymous skull brought to him under mysterious circumstances in Lindsey''s latest in a long line of expertly constructed thrillers (_The Rules of Silence_, etc.). The more Paul works on the skull, the more he''s convinced that there''s something distinctly disturbing about the emerging features. Soon after he figures it out (long after the reader has done so), he finds himself caught up in a murky world of spies, smugglers and international terrorism. Forced to abandon his idyllic central Texas home, he travels to Mexico City, where he must impersonate his own, recently murdered, CIA agent twin brother. Heavy Rain is the code name of the mission; the purpose is to capture or kill the world''s most feared terrorist, Ghazi Baida. There''s a beautiful agent, Susana MejÃ­a, and the usual collection of Mexican hoods, but the real showstopper is Vicente MondragÃ³n, a man whose entire face has been removed in a drug vendetta, leaving him with nothing more than exposed muscle, bone, gristle, protruding lips and a naked pair of googly eyes. This horror is kept antiseptic by a thin transparent membrane that Vicente must spritz at regular intervals. The novel''s suspense lies in Paul''s ongoing efforts to maintain his identity as his own brother and at the same time attempt to uncover Baida''s terror plan. The plot is deftly handled, the characters are sharp and memorable, there''s a shocker twist at the end and the background information on faces, or the lack thereof, is fascinating.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Paul Bern, a forensic artist, has a fascinating job: re-creating the facial features of homicide or accident victims. But his job gets even more fascinating when a woman shows up at his door with a skull in a bag. She believes it''s the remains of her husband, and she wants Paul to confirm her suspicion. Paul soon learns some things about himself that shock him, and in no time he''s railroaded by the U.S. government into helping them ferret out a group of terrorists in South America. This is a troublesome novel from a brand-name thriller author. Its plot is needlessly far-fetched (you can feel Lindsey struggling to justify putting his fish-out-of-water protagonist into the places the plot requires him to be). Its characters are thin, and Alice, the 17-year-old girl whose "cognitive disconnect" allows her to sense when someone is lying, belongs in a different novel altogether (perhaps something by Dean Koontz, who knows what to do with this kind of character). The prose is workmanlike, for the most part, although the final chapter contains some of the worst writing of the year. Although Lindsey has a large fan base, and he has written some good novels, this is not one of them. It will sell, but finishing it--even for his keenest fans--will be an act of sheer willpower.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6336'),
(17128, 'The Face of the Assassin', 'David Lindsey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forensic artist Paul Bern uses his impressive talents as a sculptor to reconstruct a face on an anonymous skull brought to him under mysterious circumstances in Lindsey''s latest in a long line of expertly constructed thrillers (_The Rules of Silence_, etc.). The more Paul works on the skull, the more he''s convinced that there''s something distinctly disturbing about the emerging features. Soon after he figures it out (long after the reader has done so), he finds himself caught up in a murky world of spies, smugglers and international terrorism. Forced to abandon his idyllic central Texas home, he travels to Mexico City, where he must impersonate his own, recently murdered, CIA agent twin brother. Heavy Rain is the code name of the mission; the purpose is to capture or kill the world''s most feared terrorist, Ghazi Baida. There''s a beautiful agent, Susana MejÃ­a, and the usual collection of Mexican hoods, but the real showstopper is Vicente MondragÃ³n, a man whose entire face has been removed in a drug vendetta, leaving him with nothing more than exposed muscle, bone, gristle, protruding lips and a naked pair of googly eyes. This horror is kept antiseptic by a thin transparent membrane that Vicente must spritz at regular intervals. The novel''s suspense lies in Paul''s ongoing efforts to maintain his identity as his own brother and at the same time attempt to uncover Baida''s terror plan. The plot is deftly handled, the characters are sharp and memorable, there''s a shocker twist at the end and the background information on faces, or the lack thereof, is fascinating.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Paul Bern, a forensic artist, has a fascinating job: re-creating the facial features of homicide or accident victims. But his job gets even more fascinating when a woman shows up at his door with a skull in a bag. She believes it''s the remains of her husband, and she wants Paul to confirm her suspicion. Paul soon learns some things about himself that shock him, and in no time he''s railroaded by the U.S. government into helping them ferret out a group of terrorists in South America. This is a troublesome novel from a brand-name thriller author. Its plot is needlessly far-fetched (you can feel Lindsey struggling to justify putting his fish-out-of-water protagonist into the places the plot requires him to be). Its characters are thin, and Alice, the 17-year-old girl whose "cognitive disconnect" allows her to sense when someone is lying, belongs in a different novel altogether (perhaps something by Dean Koontz, who knows what to do with this kind of character). The prose is workmanlike, for the most part, although the final chapter contains some of the worst writing of the year. Although Lindsey has a large fan base, and he has written some good novels, this is not one of them. It will sell, but finishing it--even for his keenest fans--will be an act of sheer willpower.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11196'),
(17129, 'The Face of the Assassin', 'David Lindsey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forensic artist Paul Bern uses his impressive talents as a sculptor to reconstruct a face on an anonymous skull brought to him under mysterious circumstances in Lindsey''s latest in a long line of expertly constructed thrillers (_The Rules of Silence_, etc.). The more Paul works on the skull, the more he''s convinced that there''s something distinctly disturbing about the emerging features. Soon after he figures it out (long after the reader has done so), he finds himself caught up in a murky world of spies, smugglers and international terrorism. Forced to abandon his idyllic central Texas home, he travels to Mexico City, where he must impersonate his own, recently murdered, CIA agent twin brother. Heavy Rain is the code name of the mission; the purpose is to capture or kill the world''s most feared terrorist, Ghazi Baida. There''s a beautiful agent, Susana MejÃ­a, and the usual collection of Mexican hoods, but the real showstopper is Vicente MondragÃ³n, a man whose entire face has been removed in a drug vendetta, leaving him with nothing more than exposed muscle, bone, gristle, protruding lips and a naked pair of googly eyes. This horror is kept antiseptic by a thin transparent membrane that Vicente must spritz at regular intervals. The novel''s suspense lies in Paul''s ongoing efforts to maintain his identity as his own brother and at the same time attempt to uncover Baida''s terror plan. The plot is deftly handled, the characters are sharp and memorable, there''s a shocker twist at the end and the background information on faces, or the lack thereof, is fascinating.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Paul Bern, a forensic artist, has a fascinating job: re-creating the facial features of homicide or accident victims. But his job gets even more fascinating when a woman shows up at his door with a skull in a bag. She believes it''s the remains of her husband, and she wants Paul to confirm her suspicion. Paul soon learns some things about himself that shock him, and in no time he''s railroaded by the U.S. government into helping them ferret out a group of terrorists in South America. This is a troublesome novel from a brand-name thriller author. Its plot is needlessly far-fetched (you can feel Lindsey struggling to justify putting his fish-out-of-water protagonist into the places the plot requires him to be). Its characters are thin, and Alice, the 17-year-old girl whose "cognitive disconnect" allows her to sense when someone is lying, belongs in a different novel altogether (perhaps something by Dean Koontz, who knows what to do with this kind of character). The prose is workmanlike, for the most part, although the final chapter contains some of the worst writing of the year. Although Lindsey has a large fan base, and he has written some good novels, this is not one of them. It will sell, but finishing it--even for his keenest fans--will be an act of sheer willpower.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17824'),
(17130, 'Face the Fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The final book in Nora Roberts''s bewitching New England-set Three Sisters Island trilogy brings to a close the saga of modern-day witches Nell Channing, Ripley Todd, and Mia Devlin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2476'),
(17131, 'Face the fire', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The final book in Nora Roberts''s bewitching New England-set Three Sisters Island trilogy brings to a close the saga of modern-day witches Nell Channing, Ripley Todd, and Mia Devlin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22289'),
(17132, 'The Face', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Acknowledged as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€(Rolling Stone ) and as one of todayâ€™s most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Koontz has earned the devotion of millions of readers around the world and the praise of critics everywhere for tales of character, mystery, and adventure that strike to the core of what it means to be human. Now he delivers the page-turner of the season, an unforgettable journey to the heart of darkness and to the pinnacle of grace, at once chilling and wickedly funny, a brilliantly observed chronicle of good and evil in our time, of illusion and everlasting truth. Heâ€™s Hollywoodâ€™s most dazzling star, whose flawless countenance inspires the worship of millions and fires the hatred of one twisted soul. His perfectly ordered existence is under siege as a series of terrifying, enigmatic â€œmessagesâ€ breaches the exquisitely calibrated security systems of his legendary Bel Air estate.The boxes arrive mysteriously, one by one, at Channing Manheimâ€™s fortified compound. The threat implicit in their bizarre, disturbing contents seems to escalate with each new delivery. Manheimâ€™s security chief, ex-cop Ethan Truman, is used to looking beneath the surface of things. But until he entered the orbit of a Hollywood icon, he had no idea just how slippery reality could be. Now this good man is all that stands in the way of an insidious killerâ€”and forces that eclipse the most fevered fantasies of a city where dreams and nightmares are the stuff of daily life. As a seemingly endless and ominous rain falls over southern California, Ethan will test the limits of perception and endurance in a world where the truth is as thin as celluloid and answers can be found only in the illusory intersection of shadow and light.Enter a world of marvelous invention, enchantment, and implacable intent, populated by murderous actors and the walking dead, hit men and heroes, long-buried dreams and never-dying hope. Here a magnificent mansion is presided over by a Scottish force of nature known as Mrs. McBee, before whom all men tremble. A mad French chef concocts feasts for the mighty and the malicious. Ming du Lac, spiritual adviser to the stars, has a direct line to the dead. An aptly named cop called Hazard will become Ethanâ€™s ally, an anarchist will sow discord and despair, and a young boy named Fric, imprisoned by celebrity and loneliness, will hear a voice telling him of the approach of something unimaginably evil. Traversing this extraordinary landscape, Ethan will face the secrets of his own tragic past and the unmistakable premonition of his impending violent death as he races against time to solve the macabre riddles of a modern-day beast.A riveting tour de force of suspense, mystery, and miraculous revelation, The Face is that rare novel that entertains, provokes, and uplifts at the same time. It will make you laugh. It will give you chills. It will fill you with hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6077'),
(17133, 'The Face', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Acknowledged as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€(Rolling Stone ) and as one of todayâ€™s most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Koontz has earned the devotion of millions of readers around the world and the praise of critics everywhere for tales of character, mystery, and adventure that strike to the core of what it means to be human. Now he delivers the page-turner of the season, an unforgettable journey to the heart of darkness and to the pinnacle of grace, at once chilling and wickedly funny, a brilliantly observed chronicle of good and evil in our time, of illusion and everlasting truth. Heâ€™s Hollywoodâ€™s most dazzling star, whose flawless countenance inspires the worship of millions and fires the hatred of one twisted soul. His perfectly ordered existence is under siege as a series of terrifying, enigmatic â€œmessagesâ€ breaches the exquisitely calibrated security systems of his legendary Bel Air estate.The boxes arrive mysteriously, one by one, at Channing Manheimâ€™s fortified compound. The threat implicit in their bizarre, disturbing contents seems to escalate with each new delivery. Manheimâ€™s security chief, ex-cop Ethan Truman, is used to looking beneath the surface of things. But until he entered the orbit of a Hollywood icon, he had no idea just how slippery reality could be. Now this good man is all that stands in the way of an insidious killerâ€”and forces that eclipse the most fevered fantasies of a city where dreams and nightmares are the stuff of daily life. As a seemingly endless and ominous rain falls over southern California, Ethan will test the limits of perception and endurance in a world where the truth is as thin as celluloid and answers can be found only in the illusory intersection of shadow and light.Enter a world of marvelous invention, enchantment, and implacable intent, populated by murderous actors and the walking dead, hit men and heroes, long-buried dreams and never-dying hope. Here a magnificent mansion is presided over by a Scottish force of nature known as Mrs. McBee, before whom all men tremble. A mad French chef concocts feasts for the mighty and the malicious. Ming du Lac, spiritual adviser to the stars, has a direct line to the dead. An aptly named cop called Hazard will become Ethanâ€™s ally, an anarchist will sow discord and despair, and a young boy named Fric, imprisoned by celebrity and loneliness, will hear a voice telling him of the approach of something unimaginably evil. Traversing this extraordinary landscape, Ethan will face the secrets of his own tragic past and the unmistakable premonition of his impending violent death as he races against time to solve the macabre riddles of a modern-day beast.A riveting tour de force of suspense, mystery, and miraculous revelation, The Face is that rare novel that entertains, provokes, and uplifts at the same time. It will make you laugh. It will give you chills. It will fill you with hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14487'),
(17134, 'The Face', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Acknowledged as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€(Rolling Stone ) and as one of todayâ€™s most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Koontz has earned the devotion of millions of readers around the world and the praise of critics everywhere for tales of character, mystery, and adventure that strike to the core of what it means to be human. Now he delivers the page-turner of the season, an unforgettable journey to the heart of darkness and to the pinnacle of grace, at once chilling and wickedly funny, a brilliantly observed chronicle of good and evil in our time, of illusion and everlasting truth. Heâ€™s Hollywoodâ€™s most dazzling star, whose flawless countenance inspires the worship of millions and fires the hatred of one twisted soul. His perfectly ordered existence is under siege as a series of terrifying, enigmatic â€œmessagesâ€ breaches the exquisitely calibrated security systems of his legendary Bel Air estate.The boxes arrive mysteriously, one by one, at Channing Manheimâ€™s fortified compound. The threat implicit in their bizarre, disturbing contents seems to escalate with each new delivery. Manheimâ€™s security chief, ex-cop Ethan Truman, is used to looking beneath the surface of things. But until he entered the orbit of a Hollywood icon, he had no idea just how slippery reality could be. Now this good man is all that stands in the way of an insidious killerâ€”and forces that eclipse the most fevered fantasies of a city where dreams and nightmares are the stuff of daily life. As a seemingly endless and ominous rain falls over southern California, Ethan will test the limits of perception and endurance in a world where the truth is as thin as celluloid and answers can be found only in the illusory intersection of shadow and light.Enter a world of marvelous invention, enchantment, and implacable intent, populated by murderous actors and the walking dead, hit men and heroes, long-buried dreams and never-dying hope. Here a magnificent mansion is presided over by a Scottish force of nature known as Mrs. McBee, before whom all men tremble. A mad French chef concocts feasts for the mighty and the malicious. Ming du Lac, spiritual adviser to the stars, has a direct line to the dead. An aptly named cop called Hazard will become Ethanâ€™s ally, an anarchist will sow discord and despair, and a young boy named Fric, imprisoned by celebrity and loneliness, will hear a voice telling him of the approach of something unimaginably evil. Traversing this extraordinary landscape, Ethan will face the secrets of his own tragic past and the unmistakable premonition of his impending violent death as he races against time to solve the macabre riddles of a modern-day beast.A riveting tour de force of suspense, mystery, and miraculous revelation, The Face is that rare novel that entertains, provokes, and uplifts at the same time. It will make you laugh. It will give you chills. It will fill you with hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17913'),
(17135, 'The Face', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Acknowledged as â€œAmericaâ€™s most popular suspense novelistâ€(Rolling Stone ) and as one of todayâ€™s most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Koontz has earned the devotion of millions of readers around the world and the praise of critics everywhere for tales of character, mystery, and adventure that strike to the core of what it means to be human. Now he delivers the page-turner of the season, an unforgettable journey to the heart of darkness and to the pinnacle of grace, at once chilling and wickedly funny, a brilliantly observed chronicle of good and evil in our time, of illusion and everlasting truth. Heâ€™s Hollywoodâ€™s most dazzling star, whose flawless countenance inspires the worship of millions and fires the hatred of one twisted soul. His perfectly ordered existence is under siege as a series of terrifying, enigmatic â€œmessagesâ€ breaches the exquisitely calibrated security systems of his legendary Bel Air estate.The boxes arrive mysteriously, one by one, at Channing Manheimâ€™s fortified compound. The threat implicit in their bizarre, disturbing contents seems to escalate with each new delivery. Manheimâ€™s security chief, ex-cop Ethan Truman, is used to looking beneath the surface of things. But until he entered the orbit of a Hollywood icon, he had no idea just how slippery reality could be. Now this good man is all that stands in the way of an insidious killerâ€”and forces that eclipse the most fevered fantasies of a city where dreams and nightmares are the stuff of daily life. As a seemingly endless and ominous rain falls over southern California, Ethan will test the limits of perception and endurance in a world where the truth is as thin as celluloid and answers can be found only in the illusory intersection of shadow and light.Enter a world of marvelous invention, enchantment, and implacable intent, populated by murderous actors and the walking dead, hit men and heroes, long-buried dreams and never-dying hope. Here a magnificent mansion is presided over by a Scottish force of nature known as Mrs. McBee, before whom all men tremble. A mad French chef concocts feasts for the mighty and the malicious. Ming du Lac, spiritual adviser to the stars, has a direct line to the dead. An aptly named cop called Hazard will become Ethanâ€™s ally, an anarchist will sow discord and despair, and a young boy named Fric, imprisoned by celebrity and loneliness, will hear a voice telling him of the approach of something unimaginably evil. Traversing this extraordinary landscape, Ethan will face the secrets of his own tragic past and the unmistakable premonition of his impending violent death as he races against time to solve the macabre riddles of a modern-day beast.A riveting tour de force of suspense, mystery, and miraculous revelation, The Face is that rare novel that entertains, provokes, and uplifts at the same time. It will make you laugh. It will give you chills. It will fill you with hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27440'),
(17136, 'The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World', 'David Kirkpatrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, **Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effectsâ€”even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebookâ€™s key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the companyâ€™s remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? Kirkpatrick shows how Zuckerberg steadfastly refused to compromise his vision, insistently focusing on growth over profits and preaching that Facebook must dominate (his word) communication on the Internet. In the process, he and a small group of key executives have created a company that has changed social life in the United States and elsewhere, a company that has become a ubiquitous presence in marketing, altering politics, business, and even our sense of our own identity. This is the Facebook Effect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6327'),
(17137, 'The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World', 'David Kirkpatrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, **Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effectsâ€”even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebookâ€™s key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the companyâ€™s remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? Kirkpatrick shows how Zuckerberg steadfastly refused to compromise his vision, insistently focusing on growth over profits and preaching that Facebook must dominate (his word) communication on the Internet. In the process, he and a small group of key executives have created a company that has changed social life in the United States and elsewhere, a company that has become a ubiquitous presence in marketing, altering politics, business, and even our sense of our own identity. This is the Facebook Effect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10790'),
(17138, 'The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World', 'David Kirkpatrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, **Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effectsâ€”even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran. Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebookâ€™s key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the companyâ€™s remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else. How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? Kirkpatrick shows how Zuckerberg steadfastly refused to compromise his vision, insistently focusing on growth over profits and preaching that Facebook must dominate (his word) communication on the Internet. In the process, he and a small group of key executives have created a company that has changed social life in the United States and elsewhere, a company that has become a ubiquitous presence in marketing, altering politics, business, and even our sense of our own identity. This is the Facebook Effect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17344'),
(17139, 'The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World', 'David Kirkpatrick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, **Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effectsâ€”even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran. Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebookâ€™s key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the companyâ€™s remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else. How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? Kirkpatrick shows how Zuckerberg steadfastly refused to compromise his vision, insistently focusing on growth over profits and preaching that Facebook must dominate (his word) communication on the Internet. In the process, he and a small group of key executives have created a company that has changed social life in the United States and elsewhere, a company that has become a ubiquitous presence in marketing, altering politics, business, and even our sense of our own identity. This is the Facebook Effect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27282'),
(17140, 'Faceless Killers', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n First in the Kurt Wallander series.It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didnâ€™t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying womanâ€™s last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they haveâ€“and in the process, the match that could inflame Swedenâ€™s already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments. Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has peaked his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5149');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(17141, 'Faceless Killers', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First in the Kurt Wallander series.It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didnâ€™t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying womanâ€™s last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they haveâ€“and in the process, the match that could inflame Swedenâ€™s already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments. Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has peaked his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28132'),
(17142, 'Faceless Killers (1991)', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One frozen January Morning at 5 am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, victims of violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the press, racial hatred is unleashed. Kurt Wallander is a senior police officer at Ystad, a small town in the wind-lashed Swedish province of Skane. His life is a shambles. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, even his ageing father barely tolerates him. He works tirelessly, eats badly and drinks the nights away in a lonely, neglected flat. But now winter closes its grip on Ystad, and Wallander, his tenacious efforts closely monitored by the tough minded (and disarmingly attractive) district attorney Anette Brolin, must forget his trouble, and throw himself into a battle against time and xenophobia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14257'),
(17143, 'Faceless Killers (1991)', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One frozen January Morning at 5 am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, victims of violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the press, racial hatred is unleashed. Kurt Wallander is a senior police officer at Ystad, a small town in the wind-lashed Swedish province of Skane. His life is a shambles. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, even his ageing father barely tolerates him. He works tirelessly, eats badly and drinks the nights away in a lonely, neglected flat. But now winter closes its grip on Ystad, and Wallander, his tenacious efforts closely monitored by the tough minded (and disarmingly attractive) district attorney Anette Brolin, must forget his trouble, and throw himself into a battle against time and xenophobia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19460'),
(17144, 'Faceless Killers (1991)', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n One frozen January Morning at 5 am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, victims of violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the press, racial hatred is unleashed. Kurt Wallander is a senior police officer at Ystad, a small town in the wind-lashed Swedish province of Skane. His life is a shambles. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, even his ageing father barely tolerates him. He works tirelessly, eats badly and drinks the nights away in a lonely, neglected flat. But now winter closes its grip on Ystad, and Wallander, his tenacious efforts closely monitored by the tough minded (and disarmingly attractive) district attorney Anette Brolin, must forget his trouble, and throw himself into a battle against time and xenophobia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28131'),
(17145, 'The Faceless Ones (Skulduggery Pleasant - Book 3)', 'Landy Derek', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Skulduggery Pleasant #3) SUMMARY: Get ready for the biggest NEW publishing phenomena of 2007!''So you won''t keep anything from me again?" He put his hand to his chest. "Cross my heart and hope to die." "Okay then. Though you don''t actually have a heart," she said. "I know." "And technically, you''ve already died." "I know that too." "Just so we''re clear."Stephanie''s uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn''t fiction.Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source '' the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard.When all hell breaks loose, it''s lucky for Skulduggery that he''s already dead. Though he''s about to discover that being a skeleton doesn''t stop you from being tortured, if the torturer is determined enough. And if there''s anything Skulduggery hates, it''s torture''Åš Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie and Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One thing''s for sure: evil won''t know what''s hit it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20085'),
(17146, 'Factoring humanity', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 02 In the near future, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis, a professor in the University of Toronto psychology department, has devoted her career to deciphering the message. Her estranged husband, Kyle, is working on the development of artificial intelligence systems and new computer technology utilizing quantum effects to produce a near-infinite number of calculations simultaneously.When Heather achieves a breakthrough, the message reveals a startling new technology that rips the barriers of space and time, holding the promise of a new stage of human evolution. In concert with Kyle''s discoveries of the nature of consciousness, the key to limitless exploration---or the end of the human race---appears close at hand.Sawyer has created a gripping thriller, a pulse-pounding tour of the farthest reaches of technology. In the near future, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis, a professor in the University of Toronto psychology department, has devoted her career to deciphering the message. Her estranged husband, Kyle, is working on the development of artificial intelligence systems and new computer technology utilizing quantum effects to produce a near-infinite number of calculations simultaneously.When Heather achieves a breakthrough, the message reveals a startling new technology that rips the barriers of space and time, holding the promise of a new stage of human evolution. In concert with Kyle''s discoveries of the nature of consciousness, the key to limitless exploration---or the end of the human race---appears close at hand.Sawyer has created a gripping thriller, a pulse-pounding tour of the farthest reaches of technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13693'),
(17147, 'Factoring humanity', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 02 In the near future, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis, a professor in the University of Toronto psychology department, has devoted her career to deciphering the message. Her estranged husband, Kyle, is working on the development of artificial intelligence systems and new computer technology utilizing quantum effects to produce a near-infinite number of calculations simultaneously.When Heather achieves a breakthrough, the message reveals a startling new technology that rips the barriers of space and time, holding the promise of a new stage of human evolution. In concert with Kyle''s discoveries of the nature of consciousness, the key to limitless exploration---or the end of the human race---appears close at hand.Sawyer has created a gripping thriller, a pulse-pounding tour of the farthest reaches of technology. In the near future, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis, a professor in the University of Toronto psychology department, has devoted her career to deciphering the message. Her estranged husband, Kyle, is working on the development of artificial intelligence systems and new computer technology utilizing quantum effects to produce a near-infinite number of calculations simultaneously.When Heather achieves a breakthrough, the message reveals a startling new technology that rips the barriers of space and time, holding the promise of a new stage of human evolution. In concert with Kyle''s discoveries of the nature of consciousness, the key to limitless exploration---or the end of the human race---appears close at hand.Sawyer has created a gripping thriller, a pulse-pounding tour of the farthest reaches of technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23251'),
(17148, 'Fade', 'Robert Cormier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Much of Cormier''s fiction poses a paradox: you are most alive just as outside forces obliterate your identity. Cormier''s protagonists want to be anonymous, and their wishes are fulfilled in nightmarish ways. In Fade , which encompasses three stories in three decades, 13-year-old Paul discovers an incredible secret gift: he can become invisible. His long-lost uncle appears, to tell Paul that each generation of the family has one fader, and to warn him of the fade''s dangers. Paul, however, abuses his power and quickly learns its terrible price. Twenty-five years later, Paul, a successful writer, confronts the next fader, his abused nephew Ozzie, whose power is pure vengeance. And 25 years after that, in 1988, Paul''s distant cousin Susan, also a writer, reads his amazing story, and must decide if Paul''s memoir is fact or fiction. Fade is an allegory of the writer''s life. Paul''s actions stem from his compulsion to understand the behavior of the people around him; Susan''s questions and her awful dilemma, which concludes the book, result from her near-pathological writer''s focus on other persons, a purpose her unreachable late cousin serves well. Omniscient powerPaul''s invisibility and Susan''s access to his unpublished workleads to identity-consuming responsibility. At its best, Fade is an examination of the writer''s urge to lose identity and become purely an observer. As in all Cormier''s novels, the protagonists are ciphers whose only affirming action seems to be to assert, however briefly, that they exist. The story is gripping, even when it approaches melodrama, and Cormier concentrates on each action''s inner meaning. Fade works better as allegory than as fantasy; this is Cormier''s most complex, artful work. He seems to challenge himself as a writer, and in doing so, offers a respectful challenge to his readers. Through him, they will discover the extremes of behavior in the quietest human soul. Ages 13-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 10-12 Those who find Cormier''s novels bleak, dark, disturbing, and violent will not be disappointed with his latest. And true to his past, he has given readers a story with more twists and turns than a mile of concertina wire. The first half is set in Frenchtown, a working-class section of a Massachusetts town. The time is the 1930s, and the evocation of life among the French-Canadians (with marvelous names like Omer LaBatt and Rudolphe Toubert), who toiled in sweatshops where celluloid combs were made, is the best thing about the novel. Not that the story line doesn''t work. Cormier uses an old device that guarantees attentiona lead character who can make himself invisible. The rules for fading are as complicated as a missile defense treaty. Paul Moreaux is the teenage fader who narrates the first section, an autobiographical account written after he has become a famous novelist. Readers learn early on that there is a grim side to this gift of fading and that Cormier intends it to represent a potentially evil force within us all. Subsequent sections include a narration by a present-day female cousin, which throws into question the truth of the entire first section, and a concluding section that features another cousin who can fade but who is certainly mad and possibly possessed. So the novel has a bit of many things: magic, murder, mystery, history, romance, diabolical possession, sex (not a lot, but what there is is explicit), and even a touch of incest. The character of Paul is developed especially well. The story is too long, and the plot is too contrived to be taken seriously, but Fade is riveting enough to be appreciated by Cormier fans. Robert E. Unsworth, Scarsdale Junior High School, N.Y.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1705'),
(17149, 'Fade', 'Robert Cormier', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Much of Cormier''s fiction poses a paradox: you are most alive just as outside forces obliterate your identity. Cormier''s protagonists want to be anonymous, and their wishes are fulfilled in nightmarish ways. In Fade , which encompasses three stories in three decades, 13-year-old Paul discovers an incredible secret gift: he can become invisible. His long-lost uncle appears, to tell Paul that each generation of the family has one fader, and to warn him of the fade''s dangers. Paul, however, abuses his power and quickly learns its terrible price. Twenty-five years later, Paul, a successful writer, confronts the next fader, his abused nephew Ozzie, whose power is pure vengeance. And 25 years after that, in 1988, Paul''s distant cousin Susan, also a writer, reads his amazing story, and must decide if Paul''s memoir is fact or fiction. Fade is an allegory of the writer''s life. Paul''s actions stem from his compulsion to understand the behavior of the people around him; Susan''s questions and her awful dilemma, which concludes the book, result from her near-pathological writer''s focus on other persons, a purpose her unreachable late cousin serves well. Omniscient powerPaul''s invisibility and Susan''s access to his unpublished workleads to identity-consuming responsibility. At its best, Fade is an examination of the writer''s urge to lose identity and become purely an observer. As in all Cormier''s novels, the protagonists are ciphers whose only affirming action seems to be to assert, however briefly, that they exist. The story is gripping, even when it approaches melodrama, and Cormier concentrates on each action''s inner meaning. Fade works better as allegory than as fantasy; this is Cormier''s most complex, artful work. He seems to challenge himself as a writer, and in doing so, offers a respectful challenge to his readers. Through him, they will discover the extremes of behavior in the quietest human soul. Ages 13-up.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 10-12 Those who find Cormier''s novels bleak, dark, disturbing, and violent will not be disappointed with his latest. And true to his past, he has given readers a story with more twists and turns than a mile of concertina wire. The first half is set in Frenchtown, a working-class section of a Massachusetts town. The time is the 1930s, and the evocation of life among the French-Canadians (with marvelous names like Omer LaBatt and Rudolphe Toubert), who toiled in sweatshops where celluloid combs were made, is the best thing about the novel. Not that the story line doesn''t work. Cormier uses an old device that guarantees attentiona lead character who can make himself invisible. The rules for fading are as complicated as a missile defense treaty. Paul Moreaux is the teenage fader who narrates the first section, an autobiographical account written after he has become a famous novelist. Readers learn early on that there is a grim side to this gift of fading and that Cormier intends it to represent a potentially evil force within us all. Subsequent sections include a narration by a present-day female cousin, which throws into question the truth of the entire first section, and a concluding section that features another cousin who can fade but who is certainly mad and possibly possessed. So the novel has a bit of many things: magic, murder, mystery, history, romance, diabolical possession, sex (not a lot, but what there is is explicit), and even a touch of incest. The character of Paul is developed especially well. The story is too long, and the plot is too contrived to be taken seriously, but Fade is riveting enough to be appreciated by Cormier fans. Robert E. Unsworth, Scarsdale Junior High School, N.Y.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9112'),
(17150, 'FADE', 'Cormier, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23193'),
(17151, 'Fade Away (1996)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14758'),
(17152, 'Fade Away (1996)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19382'),
(17153, 'Fade Away (1996)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 03', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27056'),
(17154, 'Fade Out', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Dump Stephenie Meyer''s Twilight books and replace them with the Morganvilles'' SFX Magazine ''Addictive and hypnotic'' The Eternal Night\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again...\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the local theatre company. But when one of Eve''s castmates goes missing after starting work on a short documentary, Eve suspects the worst. Claire and Eve soon realize that this film project, whose subject is the vampires themselves, is a whole lot bigger-and way more dangerous-than anyone suspected.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2026'),
(17155, 'Fade Out', 'Rachel Caine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Dump Stephenie Meyer''s Twilight books and replace them with the Morganvilles'' SFX Magazine ''Addictive and hypnotic'' The Eternal Night\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again...\n</p>\n<p>\n Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the local theatre company. But when one of Eve''s castmates goes missing after starting work on a short documentary, Eve suspects the worst. Claire and Eve soon realize that this film project, whose subject is the vampires themselves, is a whole lot bigger-and way more dangerous-than anyone suspected.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8706'),
(17156, 'Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires', 'Caine, Rachel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21492'),
(17157, 'Faded Steel Heat', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Since the end of the war, there had always been bigotry against non-humans in TunFaire. Even though many species had sacrificed in battle, some groups of humans thought the "Golden Rule" translated to  "Humans rule. Now give us your gold." With the streets descending into bloody race riots, and the organized "human" brotherhoods flexing both physical and economic muscle, TunFaire was a hairsbreadth from total chaos. Garrett is a wise-guy private investigator who speaks loudly and carries a big stick.  Backed by a circle of friends no one would wish on their worst enemy Garrett is caught in a conspiracy of hate that pits man against.everybody!  Praise for Glen Cook:  "Lively homage to Chandler and company, with plenty of suspects, sex, and corpses...Cook turns fantasy inside out!" --*Locus*  "Garrett spouts argot and attitude worthy of the hardest-boiled detective who ever pounded mean streets...fun to read!" --*Fantasy Review*  "Fast-paced adventure that combines sword and sorcery with hard-boiled detective fiction!" --*Library Journal*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5352'),
(17158, 'Faded Steel Heat', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Since the end of the war, there had always been bigotry against non-humans in TunFaire. Even though many species had sacrificed in battle, some groups of humans thought the "Golden Rule" translated to "Humans rule. Now give us your gold." With the streets descending into bloody race riots, and the organized "human" brotherhoods flexing both physical and economic muscle, TunFaire was a hairsbreadth from total chaos. Garrett is a wise-guy private investigator who speaks loudly and carries a big stick. Backed by a circle of friends no one would wish on their worst enemy Garrett is caught in a conspiracy of hate that pits man against.everybody! Praise for Glen Cook: "Lively homage to Chandler and company, with plenty of suspects, sex, and corpses...Cook turns fantasy inside out!" --*Locus* "Garrett spouts argot and attitude worthy of the hardest-boiled detective who ever pounded mean streets...fun to read!" --*Fantasy Review* "Fast-paced adventure that combines sword and sorcery with hard-boiled detective fiction!" --*Library Journal*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19316'),
(17159, 'Faded Steel Heat', 'Glen Cook', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Since the end of the war, there had always been bigotry against non-humans in TunFaire. Even though many species had sacrificed in battle, some groups of humans thought the "Golden Rule" translated to "Humans rule. Now give us your gold." With the streets descending into bloody race riots, and the organized "human" brotherhoods flexing both physical and economic muscle, TunFaire was a hairsbreadth from total chaos. Garrett is a wise-guy private investigator who speaks loudly and carries a big stick. Backed by a circle of friends no one would wish on their worst enemy Garrett is caught in a conspiracy of hate that pits man against.everybody! Praise for Glen Cook: "Lively homage to Chandler and company, with plenty of suspects, sex, and corpses...Cook turns fantasy inside out!" --*Locus* "Garrett spouts argot and attitude worthy of the hardest-boiled detective who ever pounded mean streets...fun to read!" --*Fantasy Review* "Fast-paced adventure that combines sword and sorcery with hard-boiled detective fiction!" --*Library Journal*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28009'),
(17160, 'Faded Sun', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The mri race, indestructible until having finally met their match in a war against a new and powerful enemy, are in danger of extinction, leaving three individuals--a warrior, priestess, and human being--to recapture their domination.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15524'),
(17161, 'The Fading Dream: Thorn of Breland', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The award-winning creator of EberronÂ® infiltrates the magical cities of the feyspires.Thornâ€™s latest mission: protect the prince of Cyre, a monarch in name only since his country was destroyed by the Mourning. But in that same cataclysm, seven cities of the Feywildâ€”the feyspiresâ€”were trapped on the plain of Eberron, a concurrence the eladrin who rule the feyspires insist is no coincidence. They insist that with the right pieces they can repair the devastation of the Mourning. All they need are a few missing â€“one in the heart of a mysterious Cyran soldier and one thatâ€™s lodged in Thornâ€™s spine, carrying the soul of the Angel of Flame. Intense secret agent action with all the magic and mystery of Eberronâ€”the Thorn of Breland series has been a perfect mix of fantasy and adventure. James Bond meets J.R.R. Tolkien.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3829'),
(17162, 'The Fading Dream: Thorn of Breland', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The award-winning creator of EberronÂ® infiltrates the magical cities of the feyspires.Thornâ€™s latest mission: protect the prince of Cyre, a monarch in name only since his country was destroyed by the Mourning. But in that same cataclysm, seven cities of the Feywildâ€”the feyspiresâ€”were trapped on the plain of Eberron, a concurrence the eladrin who rule the feyspires insist is no coincidence. They insist that with the right pieces they can repair the devastation of the Mourning. All they need are a few missing â€“one in the heart of a mysterious Cyran soldier and one thatâ€™s lodged in Thornâ€™s spine, carrying the soul of the Angel of Flame. Intense secret agent action with all the magic and mystery of Eberronâ€”the Thorn of Breland series has been a perfect mix of fantasy and adventure. James Bond meets J.R.R. Tolkien.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8252'),
(17163, 'The Fading Dream: Thorn of Breland', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The award-winning creator of EberronÂ® infiltrates the magical cities of the feyspires.Thornâ€™s latest mission: protect the prince of Cyre, a monarch in name only since his country was destroyed by the Mourning. But in that same cataclysm, seven cities of the Feywildâ€”the feyspiresâ€”were trapped on the plain of Eberron, a concurrence the eladrin who rule the feyspires insist is no coincidence. They insist that with the right pieces they can repair the devastation of the Mourning. All they need are a few missing â€“one in the heart of a mysterious Cyran soldier and one thatâ€™s lodged in Thornâ€™s spine, carrying the soul of the Angel of Flame. Intense secret agent action with all the magic and mystery of Eberronâ€”the Thorn of Breland series has been a perfect mix of fantasy and adventure. James Bond meets J.R.R. Tolkien.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20727'),
(17164, 'Faefever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The *New York Times* bestselling author of **Darkfever** and** Bloodfever **returns to Dublinâ€™s Fae-infested shores in a bold, sensual new novel. Hurtling us into a realm of seduction and shadows, Karen Marie Moning tells the enthralling tale of a woman who explores the limits of her mysterious powers as she enters a world of ancient sorceryâ€”and confronts an enemy more insidious than she could ever have imagined.*****He calls me his Queen of the Night. Iâ€™d die for him. Iâ€™d kill for him, too. *When MacKayla Lane receives a torn page from her dead sisterâ€™s journal, she is stunned by Alinaâ€™s desperate words. And now MacKayla* *knows that her sisterâ€™s killer is close. But evil is closer. And suddenly the *sidhe-*seer is on the hunt: For answers. For revenge. And for an ancient book of dark magic so evil, it corrupts anyone who touches it.Macâ€™s quest for the *Sinsar Dubh* takes her into the mean, shape-shifting streets of Dublin, with a suspicious cop on her tail. Forced into a dangerous triangle of alliance with Vâ€™lane, an insatiable Fae prince of lethally erotic tastes, and Jericho Barrons, a man of primal desires and untold secrets, Mac is soon locked in a battle for her body, mind, and soul. As All Hallowsâ€™ Eve approaches and the city descends into chaos, as a shocking truth about the Dark Book is uncovered, not even Mac can prevent a deadly race of immortals from shattering the walls between worldsâ€”with devastating consequences.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3850'),
(17165, 'Faefever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The *New York Times* bestselling author of **Darkfever** and** Bloodfever **returns to Dublinâ€™s Fae-infested shores in a bold, sensual new novel. Hurtling us into a realm of seduction and shadows, Karen Marie Moning tells the enthralling tale of a woman who explores the limits of her mysterious powers as she enters a world of ancient sorceryâ€”and confronts an enemy more insidious than she could ever have imagined.*****He calls me his Queen of the Night. Iâ€™d die for him. Iâ€™d kill for him, too. *When MacKayla Lane receives a torn page from her dead sisterâ€™s journal, she is stunned by Alinaâ€™s desperate words. And now MacKayla* *knows that her sisterâ€™s killer is close. But evil is closer. And suddenly the *sidhe-*seer is on the hunt: For answers. For revenge. And for an ancient book of dark magic so evil, it corrupts anyone who touches it.Macâ€™s quest for the *Sinsar Dubh* takes her into the mean, shape-shifting streets of Dublin, with a suspicious cop on her tail. Forced into a dangerous triangle of alliance with Vâ€™lane, an insatiable Fae prince of lethally erotic tastes, and Jericho Barrons, a man of primal desires and untold secrets, Mac is soon locked in a battle for her body, mind, and soul. As All Hallowsâ€™ Eve approaches and the city descends into chaos, as a shocking truth about the Dark Book is uncovered, not even Mac can prevent a deadly race of immortals from shattering the walls between worldsâ€”with devastating consequences.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11527'),
(17166, 'Faefever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14431'),
(17167, 'Faefever', 'Karen Marie Moning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The *New York Times* bestselling author of **Darkfever** and** Bloodfever **returns to Dublinâ€™s Fae-infested shores in a bold, sensual new novel. Hurtling us into a realm of seduction and shadows, Karen Marie Moning tells the enthralling tale of a woman who explores the limits of her mysterious powers as she enters a world of ancient sorceryâ€”and confronts an enemy more insidious than she could ever have imagined.*****He calls me his Queen of the Night. Iâ€™d die for him. Iâ€™d kill for him, too. *When MacKayla Lane receives a torn page from her dead sisterâ€™s journal, she is stunned by Alinaâ€™s desperate words. And now MacKayla* *knows that her sisterâ€™s killer is close. But evil is closer. And suddenly the *sidhe-*seer is on the hunt: For answers. For revenge. And for an ancient book of dark magic so evil, it corrupts anyone who touches it.Macâ€™s quest for the *Sinsar Dubh* takes her into the mean, shape-shifting streets of Dublin, with a suspicious cop on her tail. Forced into a dangerous triangle of alliance with Vâ€™lane, an insatiable Fae prince of lethally erotic tastes, and Jericho Barrons, a man of primal desires and untold secrets, Mac is soon locked in a battle for her body, mind, and soul. As All Hallowsâ€™ Eve approaches and the city descends into chaos, as a shocking truth about the Dark Book is uncovered, not even Mac can prevent a deadly race of immortals from shattering the walls between worldsâ€”with devastating consequences.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20671'),
(17168, 'Faerie Winter', 'Janni Lee Simner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The long-awaited sequel to Janni Lee Simner''s breathtaking YA fantasy debut,\n  <em>\n   Bones of Faerie\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Liza is a summoner. She can draw life to herself, even from beyond the grave. And because magic works both ways, she can drive life away. Months ago, she used her powers to banish her dangerous father and to rescue her mother, lost in dreams, from the ruined land of Faerie.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Born in the wake of the war between humanity and Faerie, Liza lived in a world where green things never slept, where trees sought to root in living flesh and bone. But now the forests have fallen silent. Even the evergreens'' branches are bare. Winter crops won''t grow, and the threat of starvation looms. And deep in the forest a dark, malevolent will is at work. To face it, Liza will have to find within herself something more powerful than magic alone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here at last is the sequel to\n  <em>\n   Bones of Faerie\n  </em>\n  , for all those fans of dark fantasy and dystopian adventure who thrilled to Janni Lee Simner''s unique vision of a postapocalyptic world infused with magic.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  JANNI LEE SIMNER is the author of\n  <em>\n   Bones of Faerie\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Thief Eyes.\n  </em>\n  Visit Janni at Simner.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4677'),
(17169, 'Faerie Winter', 'Janni Lee Simner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The long-awaited sequel to Janni Lee Simner''s breathtaking YA fantasy debut,\n  <em>\n   Bones of Faerie\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Liza is a summoner. She can draw life to herself, even from beyond the grave. And because magic works both ways, she can drive life away. Months ago, she used her powers to banish her dangerous father and to rescue her mother, lost in dreams, from the ruined land of Faerie.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Born in the wake of the war between humanity and Faerie, Liza lived in a world where green things never slept, where trees sought to root in living flesh and bone. But now the forests have fallen silent. Even the evergreens'' branches are bare. Winter crops won''t grow, and the threat of starvation looms. And deep in the forest a dark, malevolent will is at work. To face it, Liza will have to find within herself something more powerful than magic alone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Here at last is the sequel to\n  <em>\n   Bones of Faerie\n  </em>\n  , for all those fans of dark fantasy and dystopian adventure who thrilled to Janni Lee Simner''s unique vision of a postapocalyptic world infused with magic.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  JANNI LEE SIMNER is the author of\n  <em>\n   Bones of Faerie\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Thief Eyes.\n  </em>\n  Visit Janni at Simner.com.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12748'),
(17170, 'Fahrenheit 451', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1940'),
(17171, 'Fahrenheit 451', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15097'),
(17172, 'Fairy Tales', 'Hans Christian Andersen &amp; Harry Clarke &amp; Jack Zipes &amp; Marte H. Hult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Who has not laughed at the emperorâ€™s new clothes, thrilled to the song of the nightingale, or sympathized with the ugly duckling? In the 170 years since they first began to appear, Hans Christian Andersenâ€™s Fairy Tales have entranced and bewitched millions of readers, adults and children alike.  Writing in the midst of a Europe-wide rebirth of national literature, Anderson broke new ground with his fairy tales in two important ways. First, he composed them in the vernacular, mimicking the language he used in telling them to children aloud. Second, he set his tales in his own land and time, giving rise to his loving descriptions of the Danish countryside. In contrast to such folklorists as the Brothers Grimm, Andersonâ€™s tales are grounded in the real and often focus on the significance of small or overlooked things. Here are all of Andersenâ€™s collected tales, manyâ€”such as â€œThe Little Mermaid,â€ â€œThe Red Shoes,â€ and â€œThe Steadfast Tin Soldierâ€â€”still popular through modern adaptations, and others, including â€œThe Flying Trunkâ€ and â€œThe Most Incredible Thing,â€ well worth rediscovering. Jack Zipes is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. A specialist in folklore and fairy tales, he has authored numerous books of criticism over the last thirty years and edited several major anthologies, including the Norton Anthology of Childrenâ€™s Literature (2005). Marte Hvam Hult holds a Ph.D. in Scandinavian languages and literatures from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen AsbjÃ¸rnsen and a forthcoming translation of AsbjÃ¸rnsenâ€™s Huldreeventyr.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5270'),
(17173, 'Fairy Tales', 'Hans Christian Andersen &amp; Harry Clarke &amp; Jack Zipes &amp; Marte H. Hult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Who has not laughed at the emperorâ€™s new clothes, thrilled to the song of the nightingale, or sympathized with the ugly duckling? In the 170 years since they first began to appear, Hans Christian Andersenâ€™s Fairy Tales have entranced and bewitched millions of readers, adults and children alike.  Writing in the midst of a Europe-wide rebirth of national literature, Anderson broke new ground with his fairy tales in two important ways. First, he composed them in the vernacular, mimicking the language he used in telling them to children aloud. Second, he set his tales in his own land and time, giving rise to his loving descriptions of the Danish countryside. In contrast to such folklorists as the Brothers Grimm, Andersonâ€™s tales are grounded in the real and often focus on the significance of small or overlooked things. Here are all of Andersenâ€™s collected tales, manyâ€”such as â€œThe Little Mermaid,â€ â€œThe Red Shoes,â€ and â€œThe Steadfast Tin Soldierâ€â€”still popular through modern adaptations, and others, including â€œThe Flying Trunkâ€ and â€œThe Most Incredible Thing,â€ well worth rediscovering. Jack Zipes is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. A specialist in folklore and fairy tales, he has authored numerous books of criticism over the last thirty years and edited several major anthologies, including the Norton Anthology of Childrenâ€™s Literature (2005). Marte Hvam Hult holds a Ph.D. in Scandinavian languages and literatures from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen AsbjÃ¸rnsen and a forthcoming translation of AsbjÃ¸rnsenâ€™s Huldreeventyr.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8213'),
(17174, 'Fairy Tales', 'Hans Christian Andersen; Harry Clarke; Jack Zipes; Marte H. Hult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Who has not laughed at the emperorâ€™s new clothes, thrilled to the song of the nightingale, or sympathized with the ugly duckling? In the 170 years since they first began to appear, Hans Christian Andersenâ€™s Fairy Tales have entranced and bewitched millions of readers, adults and children alike. Writing in the midst of a Europe-wide rebirth of national literature, Anderson broke new ground with his fairy tales in two important ways. First, he composed them in the vernacular, mimicking the language he used in telling them to children aloud. Second, he set his tales in his own land and time, giving rise to his loving descriptions of the Danish countryside. In contrast to such folklorists as the Brothers Grimm, Andersonâ€™s tales are grounded in the real and often focus on the significance of small or overlooked things. Here are all of Andersenâ€™s collected tales, manyâ€”such as â€œThe Little Mermaid,â€ â€œThe Red Shoes,â€ and â€œThe Steadfast Tin Soldierâ€â€”still popular through modern adaptations, and others, including â€œThe Flying Trunkâ€ and â€œThe Most Incredible Thing,â€ well worth rediscovering. Jack Zipes is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. A specialist in folklore and fairy tales, he has authored numerous books of criticism over the last thirty years and edited several major anthologies, including the Norton Anthology of Childrenâ€™s Literature (2005). Marte Hvam Hult holds a Ph.D. in Scandinavian languages and literatures from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen AsbjÃ¸rnsen and a forthcoming translation of AsbjÃ¸rnsenâ€™s Huldreeventyr.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15039');
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(17175, 'Fairy Tales', 'Hans Christian Andersen; Harry Clarke; Jack Zipes; Marte H. Hult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Who has not laughed at the emperorâ€™s new clothes, thrilled to the song of the nightingale, or sympathized with the ugly duckling? In the 170 years since they first began to appear, Hans Christian Andersenâ€™s Fairy Tales have entranced and bewitched millions of readers, adults and children alike. Writing in the midst of a Europe-wide rebirth of national literature, Anderson broke new ground with his fairy tales in two important ways. First, he composed them in the vernacular, mimicking the language he used in telling them to children aloud. Second, he set his tales in his own land and time, giving rise to his loving descriptions of the Danish countryside. In contrast to such folklorists as the Brothers Grimm, Andersonâ€™s tales are grounded in the real and often focus on the significance of small or overlooked things. Here are all of Andersenâ€™s collected tales, manyâ€”such as â€œThe Little Mermaid,â€ â€œThe Red Shoes,â€ and â€œThe Steadfast Tin Soldierâ€â€”still popular through modern adaptations, and others, including â€œThe Flying Trunkâ€ and â€œThe Most Incredible Thing,â€ well worth rediscovering. Jack Zipes is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. A specialist in folklore and fairy tales, he has authored numerous books of criticism over the last thirty years and edited several major anthologies, including the Norton Anthology of Childrenâ€™s Literature (2005). Marte Hvam Hult holds a Ph.D. in Scandinavian languages and literatures from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen AsbjÃ¸rnsen and a forthcoming translation of AsbjÃ¸rnsenâ€™s Huldreeventyr.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19397'),
(17176, 'Fairy Tales', 'Hans Christian Andersen; Harry Clarke; Jack Zipes; Marte H. Hult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Who has not laughed at the emperorâ€™s new clothes, thrilled to the song of the nightingale, or sympathized with the ugly duckling? In the 170 years since they first began to appear, Hans Christian Andersenâ€™s Fairy Tales have entranced and bewitched millions of readers, adults and children alike. Writing in the midst of a Europe-wide rebirth of national literature, Anderson broke new ground with his fairy tales in two important ways. First, he composed them in the vernacular, mimicking the language he used in telling them to children aloud. Second, he set his tales in his own land and time, giving rise to his loving descriptions of the Danish countryside. In contrast to such folklorists as the Brothers Grimm, Andersonâ€™s tales are grounded in the real and often focus on the significance of small or overlooked things. Here are all of Andersenâ€™s collected tales, manyâ€”such as â€œThe Little Mermaid,â€ â€œThe Red Shoes,â€ and â€œThe Steadfast Tin Soldierâ€â€”still popular through modern adaptations, and others, including â€œThe Flying Trunkâ€ and â€œThe Most Incredible Thing,â€ well worth rediscovering. Jack Zipes is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. A specialist in folklore and fairy tales, he has authored numerous books of criticism over the last thirty years and edited several major anthologies, including the Norton Anthology of Childrenâ€™s Literature (2005). Marte Hvam Hult holds a Ph.D. in Scandinavian languages and literatures from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen AsbjÃ¸rnsen and a forthcoming translation of AsbjÃ¸rnsenâ€™s Huldreeventyr.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28071'),
(17177, 'Faith', 'Lesley Pearse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 1995, Scotland. The prison of Cornton Vale.Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years she''s been battling for justic - insisting that she didn''t kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with her spirits at their lowest ebb, she receives a letter that takes her back to a different time and memory of an old love ... Twenty years ago was a heady time for Laura: she''d escaped an abusive home and together with new best friend Jackie she''d made a fresh start. The pair had sworn to be sisters for ever. And Stuart had come into their lives - giving Laura a brilliant summer of love. So what went wrong in the intervening years? And why is Stuart writing to Laura now? Does he have faith in her innocence? And can he help free Laura from prison - and her past?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3432'),
(17178, 'Faith', 'Deneane Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After meeting a charming rake at her sisters wedding, Faith Ackerly shall see all her reservations testedand all her dreams come true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8012'),
(17179, 'Faith', 'Deneane Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After meeting a charming rake at her sisters wedding, Faith Ackerly shall see all her reservations testedand all her dreams come true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8963'),
(17180, 'Faith', 'Lesley Pearse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 1995, Scotland. The prison of Cornton Vale.Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years she''s been battling for justic - insisting that she didn''t kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with her spirits at their lowest ebb, she receives a letter that takes her back to a different time and memory of an old love ... Twenty years ago was a heady time for Laura: she''d escaped an abusive home and together with new best friend Jackie she''d made a fresh start. The pair had sworn to be sisters for ever. And Stuart had come into their lives - giving Laura a brilliant summer of love. So what went wrong in the intervening years? And why is Stuart writing to Laura now? Does he have faith in her innocence? And can he help free Laura from prison - and her past?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11846'),
(17181, 'Faith', 'Deneane Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After meeting a charming rake at her sisters wedding, Faith Ackerly shall see all her reservations testedand all her dreams come true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17935'),
(17182, 'Faith', 'Lesley Pearse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 1995, Scotland. The prison of Cornton Vale.Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years she''s been battling for justic - insisting that she didn''t kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with her spirits at their lowest ebb, she receives a letter that takes her back to a different time and memory of an old love ... Twenty years ago was a heady time for Laura: she''d escaped an abusive home and together with new best friend Jackie she''d made a fresh start. The pair had sworn to be sisters for ever. And Stuart had come into their lives - giving Laura a brilliant summer of love. So what went wrong in the intervening years? And why is Stuart writing to Laura now? Does he have faith in her innocence? And can he help free Laura from prison - and her past?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21041'),
(17183, 'Faith', 'Deneane Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After meeting a charming rake at her sisters wedding, Faith Ackerly shall see all her reservations testedand all her dreams come true.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27531'),
(17184, 'Faith of the Fallen', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Terry Goodkind author of the enormously popular Sword of Truth novels, has forged perhaps his best novel yet, pitting Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell against threats to the freedom of the world that will take them to opposite ends of the world to defeat the forces of chaos and anarchy.Emperor Jagang is rising once again in the Old World and Richard must face him, on his own turf. Richard heads into the Old World with Cara, the Mord-Sith, while his beloved Kahlan remains behind. Unwilling to heed an ancient prophecy, Kahlan raises an army and goes into battle against forces threatening armed insurrection in the Midlands.Separated and fighting for their lives, Richard and Kahlan will be tested to the utmost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/765'),
(17185, 'Faith of the Fallen', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Goodkind author of the enormously popular Sword of Truth novels, has forged perhaps his best novel yet, pitting Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell against threats to the freedom of the world that will take them to opposite ends of the world to defeat the forces of chaos and anarchy.Emperor Jagang is rising once again in the Old World and Richard must face him, on his own turf. Richard heads into the Old World with Cara, the Mord-Sith, while his beloved Kahlan remains behind. Unwilling to heed an ancient prophecy, Kahlan raises an army and goes into battle against forces threatening armed insurrection in the Midlands.Separated and fighting for their lives, Richard and Kahlan will be tested to the utmost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15079'),
(17186, 'Faith of the Fallen', 'Terry Goodkind', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Terry Goodkind author of the enormously popular Sword of Truth novels, has forged perhaps his best novel yet, pitting Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell against threats to the freedom of the world that will take them to opposite ends of the world to defeat the forces of chaos and anarchy.Emperor Jagang is rising once again in the Old World and Richard must face him, on his own turf. Richard heads into the Old World with Cara, the Mord-Sith, while his beloved Kahlan remains behind. Unwilling to heed an ancient prophecy, Kahlan raises an army and goes into battle against forces threatening armed insurrection in the Midlands.Separated and fighting for their lives, Richard and Kahlan will be tested to the utmost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24222'),
(17187, 'Faithful Place', 'Tana French', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14695'),
(17188, 'Faithful Place', 'Tana French', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24092'),
(17189, 'The Falcon at the Portal: An Amelia Peabody Mystery', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season--afterthe marriage of young Ramses'' best friend David to Amelia''s niece Lia. But trouble                                    finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts. While                                    Amelia and company try to clear his name and expose the real culprit, the body of                                    an American is found at the bottom of their excavation shaft. As accusations of drug                                    dealing and moral misconduct fly, a child of mysterious antecedents sparks a crisis                                    that threatens to tear the family apart. Amelia brings her brilliant powers of                                    deduction to bear, but someone is shooting bullets at her--and coming awfully close!Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season---after the marriage of young Ramses'' best friend David to Amelia''s niece Lia.  But trouble finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts.  While Amelia and company try to clear his name and expose the real culprit, the body of an American is found at the bottom of their excavation shaft.  As accusations of drug dealing and moral misconduct fly, a child of mysterious antecedents sparks a crisis that threatens to tear the family apart.  Amelia brings her brilliant powers of deduction to bear, but someone is shooting bullets at her---and coming awfully close!Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season---after the marriage of young Ramses'' best friend David to Amelia''s niece Lia.  But trouble finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts.  While Amelia and company try to clear his name and expose the real culprit, the body of an American is found at the bottom of their excavation shaft.  As accusations of drug dealing and moral misconduct fly, a child of mysterious antecedents sparks a crisis that threatens to tear the family apart.  Amelia brings her brilliant powers of deduction to bear, but someone is shooting bullets at her---and coming awfully close!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5737'),
(17190, 'The Falcon at the Portal: An Amelia Peabody Mystery', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season--afterthe marriage of young Ramses'' best friend David to Amelia''s niece Lia. But trouble finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts. While Amelia and company try to clear his name and expose the real culprit, the body of an American is found at the bottom of their excavation shaft. As accusations of drug dealing and moral misconduct fly, a child of mysterious antecedents sparks a crisis that threatens to tear the family apart. Amelia brings her brilliant powers of deduction to bear, but someone is shooting bullets at her--and coming awfully close!Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season---after the marriage of young Ramses'' best friend David to Amelia''s niece Lia. But trouble finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts. While Amelia and company try to clear his name and expose the real culprit, the body of an American is found at the bottom of their excavation shaft. As accusations of drug dealing and moral misconduct fly, a child of mysterious antecedents sparks a crisis that threatens to tear the family apart. Amelia brings her brilliant powers of deduction to bear, but someone is shooting bullets at her---and coming awfully close!Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season---after the marriage of young Ramses'' best friend David to Amelia''s niece Lia. But trouble finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts. While Amelia and company try to clear his name and expose the real culprit, the body of an American is found at the bottom of their excavation shaft. As accusations of drug dealing and moral misconduct fly, a child of mysterious antecedents sparks a crisis that threatens to tear the family apart. Amelia brings her brilliant powers of deduction to bear, but someone is shooting bullets at her---and coming awfully close!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18938'),
(17191, 'The Falcon at the Portal: An Amelia Peabody Mystery', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season--afterthe marriage of young Ramses'' best friend David to Amelia''s niece Lia. But trouble                                    finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts. While                                    Amelia and company try to clear his name and expose the real culprit, the body of                                    an American is found at the bottom of their excavation shaft. As accusations of drug                                    dealing and moral misconduct fly, a child of mysterious antecedents sparks a crisis                                    that threatens to tear the family apart. Amelia brings her brilliant powers of                                    deduction to bear, but someone is shooting bullets at her--and coming awfully close!Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season---after the marriage of young Ramses'' best friend David to Amelia''s niece Lia.  But trouble finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts.  While Amelia and company try to clear his name and expose the real culprit, the body of an American is found at the bottom of their excavation shaft.  As accusations of drug dealing and moral misconduct fly, a child of mysterious antecedents sparks a crisis that threatens to tear the family apart.  Amelia brings her brilliant powers of deduction to bear, but someone is shooting bullets at her---and coming awfully close!Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season---after the marriage of young Ramses'' best friend David to Amelia''s niece Lia.  But trouble finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts.  While Amelia and company try to clear his name and expose the real culprit, the body of an American is found at the bottom of their excavation shaft.  As accusations of drug dealing and moral misconduct fly, a child of mysterious antecedents sparks a crisis that threatens to tear the family apart.  Amelia brings her brilliant powers of deduction to bear, but someone is shooting bullets at her---and coming awfully close!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27718'),
(17192, 'Fall', 'Colin McAdam', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A place of pressure and contradictions, St Ebury is an exclusive boarding school for the children of Canadas elite, where boys must act as men while navigating their adolescence; a mixed school with only a handful of girls. Fall is the most beautiful. At night the bathrooms and beds hum with thoughts of her. Noel, a clever, ghostly loner, prowls the corridors at weekends, filling spare hours working on his body-building. Watching her, always knowing where she is and who shes talking to, he is certain that one day Fall will come to know him deeply. But like everyone else, she is drawn to Julius, the confident and magnetic son of the American ambassador to Canada. They fall in love. Noel keeps watching, happy to see them together. Fall deserves someone like that, for a while. At the beginning of their final year, the two boys room together. Julius grows physically closer to Fall, while Noel boisterous enthusiasm shades into something darker as he imagines himself as a confidante to his popular roommate, sensing that the time has come for him to enter Falls life for ever.A disturbing and unforgettable story of guilt, memory and confused identity, Colin McAdams second novel is a work of power, pitch-perfect observation and searing ambition. It confirms his status as a truly unique talent, one of the few living novelists capable of taking the modern novel and forging from it something startling and wholly new.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6598'),
(17193, 'Fall', 'Colin McAdam', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A place of pressure and contradictions, St Ebury is an exclusive boarding school for the children of Canadas elite, where boys must act as men while navigating their adolescence; a mixed school with only a handful of girls. Fall is the most beautiful. At night the bathrooms and beds hum with thoughts of her. Noel, a clever, ghostly loner, prowls the corridors at weekends, filling spare hours working on his body-building. Watching her, always knowing where she is and who shes talking to, he is certain that one day Fall will come to know him deeply. But like everyone else, she is drawn to Julius, the confident and magnetic son of the American ambassador to Canada. They fall in love. Noel keeps watching, happy to see them together. Fall deserves someone like that, for a while. At the beginning of their final year, the two boys room together. Julius grows physically closer to Fall, while Noel boisterous enthusiasm shades into something darker as he imagines himself as a confidante to his popular roommate, sensing that the time has come for him to enter Falls life for ever.A disturbing and unforgettable story of guilt, memory and confused identity, Colin McAdams second novel is a work of power, pitch-perfect observation and searing ambition. It confirms his status as a truly unique talent, one of the few living novelists capable of taking the modern novel and forging from it something startling and wholly new.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11355'),
(17194, 'Fall', 'Colin McAdam', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A place of pressure and contradictions, St Ebury is an exclusive boarding school for the children of Canadas elite, where boys must act as men while navigating their adolescence; a mixed school with only a handful of girls. Fall is the most beautiful. At night the bathrooms and beds hum with thoughts of her. Noel, a clever, ghostly loner, prowls the corridors at weekends, filling spare hours working on his body-building. Watching her, always knowing where she is and who shes talking to, he is certain that one day Fall will come to know him deeply. But like everyone else, she is drawn to Julius, the confident and magnetic son of the American ambassador to Canada. They fall in love. Noel keeps watching, happy to see them together. Fall deserves someone like that, for a while. At the beginning of their final year, the two boys room together. Julius grows physically closer to Fall, while Noel boisterous enthusiasm shades into something darker as he imagines himself as a confidante to his popular roommate, sensing that the time has come for him to enter Falls life for ever.A disturbing and unforgettable story of guilt, memory and confused identity, Colin McAdams second novel is a work of power, pitch-perfect observation and searing ambition. It confirms his status as a truly unique talent, one of the few living novelists capable of taking the modern novel and forging from it something startling and wholly new.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17402'),
(17195, 'Fall', 'Colin McAdam', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A place of pressure and contradictions, St Ebury is an exclusive boarding school for the children of Canadas elite, where boys must act as men while navigating their adolescence; a mixed school with only a handful of girls. Fall is the most beautiful. At night the bathrooms and beds hum with thoughts of her. Noel, a clever, ghostly loner, prowls the corridors at weekends, filling spare hours working on his body-building. Watching her, always knowing where she is and who shes talking to, he is certain that one day Fall will come to know him deeply. But like everyone else, she is drawn to Julius, the confident and magnetic son of the American ambassador to Canada. They fall in love. Noel keeps watching, happy to see them together. Fall deserves someone like that, for a while. At the beginning of their final year, the two boys room together. Julius grows physically closer to Fall, while Noel boisterous enthusiasm shades into something darker as he imagines himself as a confidante to his popular roommate, sensing that the time has come for him to enter Falls life for ever.A disturbing and unforgettable story of guilt, memory and confused identity, Colin McAdams second novel is a work of power, pitch-perfect observation and searing ambition. It confirms his status as a truly unique talent, one of the few living novelists capable of taking the modern novel and forging from it something startling and wholly new.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27039'),
(17196, 'Fall of Damnos', 'Nick Kyme', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21573'),
(17197, 'Fall of Giants', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself."  -The Denver Post on World Without End   Ken Follett''s World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics as "well-researched, beautifully detailed [with] a terrifically compelling plot" (The Washington Post) and "wonderful history wrapped around a gripping story" (St. Louis Post- Dispatch)  Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women''s suffrage.  Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man''s world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson''s White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy''s sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London...  These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.  In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3832'),
(17198, 'Fall of Giants', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself."  -The Denver Post on World Without End   Ken Follett''s World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics as "well-researched, beautifully detailed [with] a terrifically compelling plot" (The Washington Post) and "wonderful history wrapped around a gripping story" (St. Louis Post- Dispatch)  Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women''s suffrage.  Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man''s world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson''s White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy''s sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London...  These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.  In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9723'),
(17199, 'Fall of Giants', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself." -The Denver Post on World Without End Ken Follett''s World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics as "well-researched, beautifully detailed [with] a terrifically compelling plot" (The Washington Post) and "wonderful history wrapped around a gripping story" (St. Louis Post- Dispatch) Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women''s suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man''s world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson''s White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy''s sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London... These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic. In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20730'),
(17200, 'Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy)', 'Ken Follett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself." -The Denver Post on World Without End Ken Follett''s World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics as "well-researched, beautifully detailed [with] a terrifically compelling plot" (The Washington Post) and "wonderful history wrapped around a gripping story" (St. Louis Post- Dispatch) Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women''s suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man''s world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson''s White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy''s sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London... These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic. In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14692'),
(17201, 'The Fall of Hyperion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This densely plotted book concludes the futuristic tale begun in Hyperion . Earth has long since been destroyed, and humans now occupy more than 150 worlds linked by the Web, an instantaneous travel system created and operated by artificial intelligences (AIs--self-aware, highly advanced computers). These worlds are about to war with the Ousters, a branch of humanity that has disdained dependency on the AIs. At risk are the planet Hyperion, its mysterious Tombs that travel backward in time, and the Shrike, its god/avatar of pain or retribution. The narrative focuses on the government of the Web and its leader, Meina Gladstone, as observed by Joseph Severn, a cybernetic re-creation of the poet John Keats, and seven Shrike pilgrims, who may affect the war''s outcome. Simmons pits good against evil, with the religions of man and those of the machines battling for supremacy. Despite his grand scale, however, he fashions intensely human individuals whom the reader will take to heart.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6485'),
(17202, 'The Fall of Hyperion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This densely plotted book concludes the futuristic tale begun in Hyperion . Earth has long since been destroyed, and humans now occupy more than 150 worlds linked by the Web, an instantaneous travel system created and operated by artificial intelligences (AIs--self-aware, highly advanced computers). These worlds are about to war with the Ousters, a branch of humanity that has disdained dependency on the AIs. At risk are the planet Hyperion, its mysterious Tombs that travel backward in time, and the Shrike, its god/avatar of pain or retribution. The narrative focuses on the government of the Web and its leader, Meina Gladstone, as observed by Joseph Severn, a cybernetic re-creation of the poet John Keats, and seven Shrike pilgrims, who may affect the war''s outcome. Simmons pits good against evil, with the religions of man and those of the machines battling for supremacy. Despite his grand scale, however, he fashions intensely human individuals whom the reader will take to heart.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12644'),
(17203, 'The Fall of Hyperion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13854'),
(17204, 'The Fall of Hyperion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17480'),
(17205, 'The Fall of Hyperion', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27154'),
(17206, 'A Fall of Moondust', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment. A brilliantly imagined story of human ingenuity and survival, A FALL OF MOONDUST is a tour-de-force of psychological suspense and sustained dramatic tension by the field''s foremost author.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15641'),
(17207, 'A Fall of Moondust', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment. A brilliantly imagined story of human ingenuity and survival, A FALL OF MOONDUST is a tour-de-force of psychological suspense and sustained dramatic tension by the field''s foremost author.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26451'),
(17208, 'The Fall of Shane MacKade', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n bA New York Times Bestselling Author /b PFirst published almost a decade ago, the MacKade Brothers books have long been out of print. Now loyal fans can revisit and new readers can be introduced to the MacKades - each one of them on a collision course with love. When shy professor Rebecca Knight captures the interest of the youngest MacKade brother, IThe Fall of Shane MacKade /Ican''t be far behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2413'),
(17209, 'The fall of Shane MacKade', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: bA New York Times Bestselling Author /b PFirst published almost a decade ago, the MacKade Brothers books have long been out of print. Now loyal fans can revisit and new readers can be introduced to the MacKades - each one of them on a collision course with love. When shy professor Rebecca Knight captures the interest of the youngest MacKade brother, IThe Fall of Shane MacKade /Ican''t be far behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22341'),
(17210, 'The Fall of the Dream Machine', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Summary of The fall of the dream machine: when all the world''s a stage, director Cockley will run it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6078'),
(17211, 'The fall of the dream machine', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Summary of The fall of the dream machine: when all the world''s a stage, director Cockley will run it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17911'),
(17212, 'The fall of the dream machine', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Summary of The fall of the dream machine: when all the world''s a stage, director Cockley will run it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27438'),
(17213, 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'Edgar Allan Poe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n 9781434001122\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25868'),
(17214, 'The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History', 'Peter Heather', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long.\n <br />\n A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe''s barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart. He shows first how the Huns overturned the existing strategic balance of power on Rome''s European frontiers, to force the Goths and others to seek refuge inside the Empire. This prompted two generations of struggle, during which new barbarian coalitions, formed in response to Roman hostility, brought the Roman west to its knees. The Goths first destroyed a Roman army at the battle of Hadrianople in 378, and went on to sack Rome in 410. The Vandals spread devastation in Gaul and Spain, before conquering North Africa, the breadbasket of the Western Empire, in 439. We then meet Attila the Hun, whose reign of terror swept from Constantinople to Paris, but whose death in 453 ironically precipitated a final desperate phase of Roman collapse, culminating in the Vandals'' defeat of the massive Byzantine Armada: the west''s last chance for survival.\n <br />\n <br />\n Peter Heather convincingly argues that the Roman Empire was not on the brink of social or moral collapse. What brought it to an end were the barbarians.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14590'),
(17215, 'The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History', 'Peter Heather', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long.\n <br />\n A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe''s barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart. He shows first how the Huns overturned the existing strategic balance of power on Rome''s European frontiers, to force the Goths and others to seek refuge inside the Empire. This prompted two generations of struggle, during which new barbarian coalitions, formed in response to Roman hostility, brought the Roman west to its knees. The Goths first destroyed a Roman army at the battle of Hadrianople in 378, and went on to sack Rome in 410. The Vandals spread devastation in Gaul and Spain, before conquering North Africa, the breadbasket of the Western Empire, in 439. We then meet Attila the Hun, whose reign of terror swept from Constantinople to Paris, but whose death in 453 ironically precipitated a final desperate phase of Roman collapse, culminating in the Vandals'' defeat of the massive Byzantine Armada: the west''s last chance for survival.\n <br />\n <br />\n Peter Heather convincingly argues that the Roman Empire was not on the brink of social or moral collapse. What brought it to an end were the barbarians.\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22660');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(17216, 'Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock &#39;N&#39; Roll, and Mental Illness', 'Mary Forsberg Weiland &amp; Larkin Warren', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Weiland''s lively, vernacular memoir tells the sadly wasted but ultimately self-directed tale of her meteoric rise as a model from impoverished, half-Mexican roots to a precipitous plunge into drug addiction. Growing up in a broken Southern California home in the 1980s, where she lived mostly with her working Mexican mother in near poverty, the author, nÃ©e Forsberg, found autonomy and financial independence early on in modeling; by age 14 she was a finalist for a\n <em>\n  Seventeen\n </em>\n magazine modeling contest and traveling to New York; by 16, she had quit school, been legally emancipated and booked overseas jobs. She also became infatuated with aspiring rock and roller Scott Weiland, who was briefly her driver, and as he became hugely successful with his band, Stone Temple Pilots, he slid into heroin addiction and dragged her along with him. He was also involved with another woman, and the author''s account is a painful re-enactment of her youthful abasement. From partying scene to junkie desperation to psychiatrist''s office, jail and rehab, Forsberg Weiland battled her demons, learning with some surprise that she suffered from bipolar disorder. Having two children with Scott turned her around, though her marriage crumbled when he didn''t change. Weiland''s forthright, resilient can-do spirit injects this sad story with a healthy moral.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFor all the death and devastation detailed in its pages, this book is surprisingly funny.â€ (Reuters )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA brutally honest and compelling account of Mary Weilandâ€™s struggles with addiction and mental illness. Brave, bold and unfiltered, Maryâ€™s writing injects humor and levity in a way that is both entertaining and necessary. I have no doubt that this important book will help save many lives.â€ (Dave Navarro )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMary Weiland describes the depths of madness and addiction with surprising clarity. Fall to Pieces is a wild, gripping story, told with intense emotional honesty.â€ (Terri Cheney, New York Times bestselling author of Manic )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA worthy addition to the rock canon.â€ (New York Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA harrowing story of addiction and mental illness.â€ (People )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWeilandâ€™s lively, vernacular memoir tells the sadly wasted but ultimately self-directed tale of her meteoric rise as a model from impoverished, half-Mexican roots to a precipitous plunge into drug addiction....Weilandâ€™s forthright, resilient can-do spirit injects this sad story with a healthy moral.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMary Weilandâ€™s beautifully crafted memoir takes the reader through the journey that is so very common today, the slow drift into addiction and mental illness. Honest, clear, and accurate, Fall to Pieces is perhaps the most vivid rendition of this experience I have ever come across.â€ (Dr. Drew Pinsky, host of Loveline and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, author of The Mirror Effect and Cracked )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3056'),
(17217, 'Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock &#39;N&#39; Roll, and Mental Illness', 'Mary Forsberg Weiland &amp; Larkin Warren', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Weiland''s lively, vernacular memoir tells the sadly wasted but ultimately self-directed tale of her meteoric rise as a model from impoverished, half-Mexican roots to a precipitous plunge into drug addiction. Growing up in a broken Southern California home in the 1980s, where she lived mostly with her working Mexican mother in near poverty, the author, nÃ©e Forsberg, found autonomy and financial independence early on in modeling; by age 14 she was a finalist for a\n <em>\n  Seventeen\n </em>\n magazine modeling contest and traveling to New York; by 16, she had quit school, been legally emancipated and booked overseas jobs. She also became infatuated with aspiring rock and roller Scott Weiland, who was briefly her driver, and as he became hugely successful with his band, Stone Temple Pilots, he slid into heroin addiction and dragged her along with him. He was also involved with another woman, and the author''s account is a painful re-enactment of her youthful abasement. From partying scene to junkie desperation to psychiatrist''s office, jail and rehab, Forsberg Weiland battled her demons, learning with some surprise that she suffered from bipolar disorder. Having two children with Scott turned her around, though her marriage crumbled when he didn''t change. Weiland''s forthright, resilient can-do spirit injects this sad story with a healthy moral.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFor all the death and devastation detailed in its pages, this book is surprisingly funny.â€ (Reuters )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA brutally honest and compelling account of Mary Weilandâ€™s struggles with addiction and mental illness. Brave, bold and unfiltered, Maryâ€™s writing injects humor and levity in a way that is both entertaining and necessary. I have no doubt that this important book will help save many lives.â€ (Dave Navarro )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMary Weiland describes the depths of madness and addiction with surprising clarity. Fall to Pieces is a wild, gripping story, told with intense emotional honesty.â€ (Terri Cheney, New York Times bestselling author of Manic )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA worthy addition to the rock canon.â€ (New York Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA harrowing story of addiction and mental illness.â€ (People )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWeilandâ€™s lively, vernacular memoir tells the sadly wasted but ultimately self-directed tale of her meteoric rise as a model from impoverished, half-Mexican roots to a precipitous plunge into drug addiction....Weilandâ€™s forthright, resilient can-do spirit injects this sad story with a healthy moral.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMary Weilandâ€™s beautifully crafted memoir takes the reader through the journey that is so very common today, the slow drift into addiction and mental illness. Honest, clear, and accurate, Fall to Pieces is perhaps the most vivid rendition of this experience I have ever come across.â€ (Dr. Drew Pinsky, host of Loveline and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, author of The Mirror Effect and Cracked )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13294'),
(17218, 'Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock &#39;N&#39; Roll, and Mental Illness', 'Mary Forsberg Weiland; Larkin Warren', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Weiland''s lively, vernacular memoir tells the sadly wasted but ultimately self-directed tale of her meteoric rise as a model from impoverished, half-Mexican roots to a precipitous plunge into drug addiction. Growing up in a broken Southern California home in the 1980s, where she lived mostly with her working Mexican mother in near poverty, the author, nÃ©e Forsberg, found autonomy and financial independence early on in modeling; by age 14 she was a finalist for a\n <em>\n  Seventeen\n </em>\n magazine modeling contest and traveling to New York; by 16, she had quit school, been legally emancipated and booked overseas jobs. She also became infatuated with aspiring rock and roller Scott Weiland, who was briefly her driver, and as he became hugely successful with his band, Stone Temple Pilots, he slid into heroin addiction and dragged her along with him. He was also involved with another woman, and the author''s account is a painful re-enactment of her youthful abasement. From partying scene to junkie desperation to psychiatrist''s office, jail and rehab, Forsberg Weiland battled her demons, learning with some surprise that she suffered from bipolar disorder. Having two children with Scott turned her around, though her marriage crumbled when he didn''t change. Weiland''s forthright, resilient can-do spirit injects this sad story with a healthy moral.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFor all the death and devastation detailed in its pages, this book is surprisingly funny.â€ (Reuters )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA brutally honest and compelling account of Mary Weilandâ€™s struggles with addiction and mental illness. Brave, bold and unfiltered, Maryâ€™s writing injects humor and levity in a way that is both entertaining and necessary. I have no doubt that this important book will help save many lives.â€ (Dave Navarro )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMary Weiland describes the depths of madness and addiction with surprising clarity. Fall to Pieces is a wild, gripping story, told with intense emotional honesty.â€ (Terri Cheney, New York Times bestselling author of Manic )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA worthy addition to the rock canon.â€ (New York Post )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA harrowing story of addiction and mental illness.â€ (People )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWeilandâ€™s lively, vernacular memoir tells the sadly wasted but ultimately self-directed tale of her meteoric rise as a model from impoverished, half-Mexican roots to a precipitous plunge into drug addiction....Weilandâ€™s forthright, resilient can-do spirit injects this sad story with a healthy moral.â€ (Publishers Weekly )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMary Weilandâ€™s beautifully crafted memoir takes the reader through the journey that is so very common today, the slow drift into addiction and mental illness. Honest, clear, and accurate, Fall to Pieces is perhaps the most vivid rendition of this experience I have ever come across.â€ (Dr. Drew Pinsky, host of Loveline and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, author of The Mirror Effect and Cracked )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21878'),
(17219, 'The Fall', 'Guillermo Del Toro;Chuck Hogan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the authors of the instant *New York Times* bestseller *The Strain* comes the next volume in one of the most imaginative and frightening thriller series in many, many years Last week they invaded Manhattan. This week they will destroy the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The vampiric virus unleashed in *The Strain* has taken over New York City. It is spreading and soon will envelop the globe. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweatherâ€”head of the Centers for Disease Control''s teamâ€”leads a band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ignited by the Master''s horrific plan, a war erupts between Old and New World vampires, each vying for control. At the center of the conflict lies a book, an ancient text that contains the vampires'' entire history . . . and their darkest secrets. Whoever finds the book can control the outcome of the war and, ultimately, the fate of us all. And it is between these warring forces that humansâ€”powerless and vulnerableâ€”find themselves no longer the consumers but the consumed. Though Eph understands the vampiric plague better than anyone, even he cannot protect those he loves. His ex-wife, Kelly, has been transformed into a bloodcrazed creature of the night, and now she stalks the city looking for her chance to reclaim her Dear One: Zack, Eph''s young son.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the future of humankind in the balance, Eph and his team, guided by the brilliant former professor and Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian and exterminator Vasiliy Fet and joined by a crew of ragtag gangsters, must combat a terror whose ultimate plan is more terrible than anyone has imaginedâ€”a fate worse than annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14787'),
(17220, 'The Fall', 'Albert Camus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a successful Parisian barrister, has come to recognize the deep-seated hypocrisy of his existence. His epigrammatic and, above all, discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, the reader''s own complacency.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16018'),
(17221, 'The Fall', 'Guillermo Del Toro;Chuck Hogan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the authors of the instant *New York Times* bestseller *The Strain* comes the next volume in one of the most imaginative and frightening thriller series in many, many years Last week they invaded Manhattan. This week they will destroy the world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The vampiric virus unleashed in *The Strain* has taken over New York City. It is spreading and soon will envelop the globe. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweatherâ€”head of the Centers for Disease Control''s teamâ€”leads a band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ignited by the Master''s horrific plan, a war erupts between Old and New World vampires, each vying for control. At the center of the conflict lies a book, an ancient text that contains the vampires'' entire history . . . and their darkest secrets. Whoever finds the book can control the outcome of the war and, ultimately, the fate of us all. And it is between these warring forces that humansâ€”powerless and vulnerableâ€”find themselves no longer the consumers but the consumed. Though Eph understands the vampiric plague better than anyone, even he cannot protect those he loves. His ex-wife, Kelly, has been transformed into a bloodcrazed creature of the night, and now she stalks the city looking for her chance to reclaim her Dear One: Zack, Eph''s young son.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the future of humankind in the balance, Eph and his team, guided by the brilliant former professor and Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian and exterminator Vasiliy Fet and joined by a crew of ragtag gangsters, must combat a terror whose ultimate plan is more terrible than anyone has imaginedâ€”a fate worse than annihilation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28047'),
(17222, 'Fallen', 'Lauren Kate', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Luce must spend her senior year at reform school after her boyfriend dies in a mysterious fire. She suspects that the dark shadows that have tormented her all her life had something to do with it. When she meets supernaturally gorgeous Daniel, she feels a familiar longing, making her believe they have met before. Although Cam is clearly interested in her, Luce only wants Daniel, who runs both hot and cold. He tries to keep Luce at a distance, telling her that the truth would kill her as it has many times before. The first chapter is gripping and foreshadows the supernatural elements to come. The plot revolves around lovers who find one another, only to lose one another over and over again in a story that spans centuries. Instead of vampires, though, these are fallen angels. Many elements are not resolved, such as the cause of the fire and why angels are at this school. Still, fans of supernatural romance will be lining up for this book despite its flaws, and begging for a sequel.â€”_Kris Hickey, Columbus Metropolitan Library, OH_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fallen angels sure seem poised to become the new vampires, with a similarly ideal blend of brooding mystery and sexy rebellion. After a fiery accident kills a boy she is crushing on, Luce gets sent to a reform school populated, most notably, by two gorgeous fellas, Daniel and Cam. Cam is safe and charming and eager to win Luceâ€™s affections, while Daniel operates somewhere between aloof and downright hostile toward her. Readers will figure out Luce and Danielâ€™s star-crossed-lovers angle early on, making the hints dropped throughout about past lives and dangerous fates more obvious than compelling. Although thereâ€™s not enough story to justify the length of this series opener, readers who stick with it get rewarded with a climactic payoff that far exceeds the buildup. The final pagesâ€™ flurry of delicious information about whatâ€™s really going on with the cadre of angels and demons will likely leave readers more intrigued by whatâ€™s next than invested in what just happened. Perhaps the sequel will contain an explanation of what these immortal types are doing at a reform school in the first place. Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3533'),
(17223, 'Fallen', 'Lauren Kate', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Luce must spend her senior year at reform school after her boyfriend dies in a mysterious fire. She suspects that the dark shadows that have tormented her all her life had something to do with it. When she meets supernaturally gorgeous Daniel, she feels a familiar longing, making her believe they have met before. Although Cam is clearly interested in her, Luce only wants Daniel, who runs both hot and cold. He tries to keep Luce at a distance, telling her that the truth would kill her as it has many times before. The first chapter is gripping and foreshadows the supernatural elements to come. The plot revolves around lovers who find one another, only to lose one another over and over again in a story that spans centuries. Instead of vampires, though, these are fallen angels. Many elements are not resolved, such as the cause of the fire and why angels are at this school. Still, fans of supernatural romance will be lining up for this book despite its flaws, and begging for a sequel.â€”_Kris Hickey, Columbus Metropolitan Library, OH_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fallen angels sure seem poised to become the new vampires, with a similarly ideal blend of brooding mystery and sexy rebellion. After a fiery accident kills a boy she is crushing on, Luce gets sent to a reform school populated, most notably, by two gorgeous fellas, Daniel and Cam. Cam is safe and charming and eager to win Luceâ€™s affections, while Daniel operates somewhere between aloof and downright hostile toward her. Readers will figure out Luce and Danielâ€™s star-crossed-lovers angle early on, making the hints dropped throughout about past lives and dangerous fates more obvious than compelling. Although thereâ€™s not enough story to justify the length of this series opener, readers who stick with it get rewarded with a climactic payoff that far exceeds the buildup. The final pagesâ€™ flurry of delicious information about whatâ€™s really going on with the cadre of angels and demons will likely leave readers more intrigued by whatâ€™s next than invested in what just happened. Perhaps the sequel will contain an explanation of what these immortal types are doing at a reform school in the first place. Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10650'),
(17224, 'Fallen', 'Tim Lebbon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  _From award-winning author Tim Lebbon comes this harrowing tale of an epic journey, crossing the forbidden boundary separating us from all we fear the most....\n  <br />\n  _To the unknown corners of Noreela, the Voyagers have traveled, returning with fantastic tales of their journeys and discoveries. But no one has ever returned from the Great Divide: a sheer cliff soaring miles above the clouds and rumored to be the end of the world. Until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Voyagers Nomi Hyden and Ramus Rheel would be mortal enemies if their lives and fates weren''t so closely entwined. But now the unlikely pair are brought together for what will be their greatest--and perhaps final--journey. When a grim wanderer named Ten arrives with an ancient parchment he claims to have brought back from the Divide, its arcane glyphs hint at the existence of a realm most consider a myth...and at something amazing sleeping there.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Accompanied by the warrior Beko and his band of armed Serians, Nomi and Ramus set out to discover the truth behind the legends. But soon ambition drives them apart, this epic Voyage becomes a race...and each Voyager is faced with a choice that may alter the history of Noreela forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12205'),
(17225, 'Fallen', 'Lauren Kate', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”Luce must spend her senior year at reform school after her boyfriend dies in a mysterious fire. She suspects that the dark shadows that have tormented her all her life had something to do with it. When she meets supernaturally gorgeous Daniel, she feels a familiar longing, making her believe they have met before. Although Cam is clearly interested in her, Luce only wants Daniel, who runs both hot and cold. He tries to keep Luce at a distance, telling her that the truth would kill her as it has many times before. The first chapter is gripping and foreshadows the supernatural elements to come. The plot revolves around lovers who find one another, only to lose one another over and over again in a story that spans centuries. Instead of vampires, though, these are fallen angels. Many elements are not resolved, such as the cause of the fire and why angels are at this school. Still, fans of supernatural romance will be lining up for this book despite its flaws, and begging for a sequel.â€”_Kris Hickey, Columbus Metropolitan Library, OH_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fallen angels sure seem poised to become the new vampires, with a similarly ideal blend of brooding mystery and sexy rebellion. After a fiery accident kills a boy she is crushing on, Luce gets sent to a reform school populated, most notably, by two gorgeous fellas, Daniel and Cam. Cam is safe and charming and eager to win Luceâ€™s affections, while Daniel operates somewhere between aloof and downright hostile toward her. Readers will figure out Luce and Danielâ€™s star-crossed-lovers angle early on, making the hints dropped throughout about past lives and dangerous fates more obvious than compelling. Although thereâ€™s not enough story to justify the length of this series opener, readers who stick with it get rewarded with a climactic payoff that far exceeds the buildup. The final pagesâ€™ flurry of delicious information about whatâ€™s really going on with the cadre of angels and demons will likely leave readers more intrigued by whatâ€™s next than invested in what just happened. Perhaps the sequel will contain an explanation of what these immortal types are doing at a reform school in the first place. Grades 9-12. --Ian Chipman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20966'),
(17226, 'Fallen Angel', 'Heather Terrell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A new guy named Michael has been watching Ellie at school. It is soon revealed that he remembers Ellie from a trip their families took years ago, though Ellie has no similar recollection. But being near Michael awakens her desire to learn the truth about herself, which seems that only Michael knows. Guess what? Her recurrent dreams about flying are not dreams after all, as the two really can fly. Thatâ€™s not all: both teens can read peopleâ€™s thoughts, and each has developed a taste for blood. Ellie fears that they are vampires until her parents finally tell her the truth about the biblical story of fallen angels. Soon evil is following Ellie, and the teens are forced to choose which side of the ancient battle to align with. Yes, this is yet another entry into the crowded vampire/angel genre of series fiction. There is not a whole lot to set this apart from other recent examples, though the religious aspect is a nice twist, and fans with an insatiable appetite will eat this up, too. Grades 9-12. --Shauna Yusko\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Heaven-sent?\n</p>\n<p>\n Ellie was never particularly good at talking to boysâ€”or anyone other than her best friend and fellow outcast, Ruth. Then she met Michael.\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael is handsome, charming, sweet. And totally into Ellie. Itâ€™s no wonder she is instantly drawn to him. But Michael has a secret. And he knows Ellie is hiding something, too. Theyâ€™ve both discovered they have powers beyond their imagining. Powers that are\n <em>\n  otherworldly\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Ellie and Michael are determined to uncover what they are, and how they got this way . . . together. But the truth has repercussions neither could have imagined. Soon they find themselves center stage in an ancient conflict that threatens to destroy everything they love. And it is no longer clear whether Ellie and Michael will choose the same side.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this electrifying novel, Heather Terrell spins a gripping supernatural tale about true love, destiny, and the battle of good versus evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5114'),
(17227, 'Fallen Angel', 'Heather Terrell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A new guy named Michael has been watching Ellie at school. It is soon revealed that he remembers Ellie from a trip their families took years ago, though Ellie has no similar recollection. But being near Michael awakens her desire to learn the truth about herself, which seems that only Michael knows. Guess what? Her recurrent dreams about flying are not dreams after all, as the two really can fly. Thatâ€™s not all: both teens can read peopleâ€™s thoughts, and each has developed a taste for blood. Ellie fears that they are vampires until her parents finally tell her the truth about the biblical story of fallen angels. Soon evil is following Ellie, and the teens are forced to choose which side of the ancient battle to align with. Yes, this is yet another entry into the crowded vampire/angel genre of series fiction. There is not a whole lot to set this apart from other recent examples, though the religious aspect is a nice twist, and fans with an insatiable appetite will eat this up, too. Grades 9-12. --Shauna Yusko\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Heaven-sent?\n</p>\n<p>\n Ellie was never particularly good at talking to boysâ€”or anyone other than her best friend and fellow outcast, Ruth. Then she met Michael.\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael is handsome, charming, sweet. And totally into Ellie. Itâ€™s no wonder she is instantly drawn to him. But Michael has a secret. And he knows Ellie is hiding something, too. Theyâ€™ve both discovered they have powers beyond their imagining. Powers that are\n <em>\n  otherworldly\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Ellie and Michael are determined to uncover what they are, and how they got this way . . . together. But the truth has repercussions neither could have imagined. Soon they find themselves center stage in an ancient conflict that threatens to destroy everything they love. And it is no longer clear whether Ellie and Michael will choose the same side.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this electrifying novel, Heather Terrell spins a gripping supernatural tale about true love, destiny, and the battle of good versus evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12974'),
(17228, 'Fallen Angel', 'Heather Terrell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n A new guy named Michael has been watching Ellie at school. It is soon revealed that he remembers Ellie from a trip their families took years ago, though Ellie has no similar recollection. But being near Michael awakens her desire to learn the truth about herself, which seems that only Michael knows. Guess what? Her recurrent dreams about flying are not dreams after all, as the two really can fly. Thatâ€™s not all: both teens can read peopleâ€™s thoughts, and each has developed a taste for blood. Ellie fears that they are vampires until her parents finally tell her the truth about the biblical story of fallen angels. Soon evil is following Ellie, and the teens are forced to choose which side of the ancient battle to align with. Yes, this is yet another entry into the crowded vampire/angel genre of series fiction. There is not a whole lot to set this apart from other recent examples, though the religious aspect is a nice twist, and fans with an insatiable appetite will eat this up, too. Grades 9-12. --Shauna Yusko\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Heaven-sent?\n</p>\n<p>\n Ellie was never particularly good at talking to boysâ€”or anyone other than her best friend and fellow outcast, Ruth. Then she met Michael.\n</p>\n<p>\n Michael is handsome, charming, sweet. And totally into Ellie. Itâ€™s no wonder she is instantly drawn to him. But Michael has a secret. And he knows Ellie is hiding something, too. Theyâ€™ve both discovered they have powers beyond their imagining. Powers that are\n <em>\n  otherworldly\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Ellie and Michael are determined to uncover what they are, and how they got this way . . . together. But the truth has repercussions neither could have imagined. Soon they find themselves center stage in an ancient conflict that threatens to destroy everything they love. And it is no longer clear whether Ellie and Michael will choose the same side.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this electrifying novel, Heather Terrell spins a gripping supernatural tale about true love, destiny, and the battle of good versus evil.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19501'),
(17229, 'Fallen Angels', 'Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle; Michael Flynn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When a new technology-free government of the United States is elected to counteract the onset of the greenhouse effect, a devastating ice age results, and two hunted Space Hab astronauts become the planet''s only hope for survival. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20064'),
(17230, 'The Fallen Fortress: The Cleric Quintet', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n R.A. Salvatore''s The Cleric Quintet tells the tale of the scholar-priest Cadderly, who is plucked from the halls of the Edificant Library to fulfill a heroic quest across the land of FaerÃ»n.Cadderly leads the combined forces of Carradoon and Shilmista against Castle Trinity, stronghold of his enemy Aballister. But another mission calls him on a journey leading into a past he hoped he would be able to forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1979'),
(17231, 'The Fallen Fortress: The Cleric Quintet', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n R.A. Salvatore''s The Cleric Quintet tells the tale of the scholar-priest Cadderly, who is plucked from the halls of the Edificant Library to fulfill a heroic quest across the land of FaerÃ»n.Cadderly leads the combined forces of Carradoon and Shilmista against Castle Trinity, stronghold of his enemy Aballister. But another mission calls him on a journey leading into a past he hoped he would be able to forget.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12489'),
(17232, 'Fallen Into the Pit', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Originally published in 1951, but just now making its first American appearance, this mystery launched Peters''s Inspector Felse series. Set in Britain just after WW II, the main sleuth here is not actually George Felse but his 13-year-old son Dominic. He and his best friend, Pussy Hart, are playing when Dom finds the body of Helmut Schauffler, an ex-P.O.W. who had stayed on after the war in the Comerford area. An autopsy indicates that Schauffler''s skull was fractured by blows that were "precise, neat and of murderous intention." Helmut, a loathsome blend of cruelty, cowardice and anti-Semitism, is hardly mourned, but his death so rends the village''s social fabric that solving the case is imperative. In his first murder investigation, George has difficulty viewing his neighbors as suspects, although the area does have its share of demobilized veterans, i.e., trained killers. Even more distressing to George and his wife Bunty is the proprietary--and potentially fatal--interest that Dom takes in the case. By giving the youth a finely balanced blend of doggedness, good luck, ingenuity and foolhardiness, Peters sets out a very effective mystery while expressing, through the gradual unfolding of the character of Helmut,her own serious skepticism that aperson--or a country--can change his--or its--spots. In 1991, Mysterious reissued Flight of the Witch , a Felse mystery written in 1964.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Widely known for her Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries, Peters also built a series around British detective George Felse. This title, which initiated that series, is now published in the United States for the first time.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5677'),
(17233, 'Fallen Into The Pit', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Originally published in 1951, but just now making its first American appearance, this mystery launched Peters''s Inspector Felse series. Set in Britain just after WW II, the main sleuth here is not actually George Felse but his 13-year-old son Dominic. He and his best friend, Pussy Hart, are playing when Dom finds the body of Helmut Schauffler, an ex-P.O.W. who had stayed on after the war in the Comerford area. An autopsy indicates that Schauffler''s skull was fractured by blows that were "precise, neat and of murderous intention." Helmut, a loathsome blend of cruelty, cowardice and anti-Semitism, is hardly mourned, but his death so rends the village''s social fabric that solving the case is imperative. In his first murder investigation, George has difficulty viewing his neighbors as suspects, although the area does have its share of demobilized veterans, i.e., trained killers. Even more distressing to George and his wife Bunty is the proprietary--and potentially fatal--interest that Dom takes in the case. By giving the youth a finely balanced blend of doggedness, good luck, ingenuity and foolhardiness, Peters sets out a very effective mystery while expressing, through the gradual unfolding of the character of Helmut,her own serious skepticism that aperson--or a country--can change his--or its--spots. In 1991, Mysterious reissued Flight of the Witch , a Felse mystery written in 1964.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Widely known for her Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries, Peters also built a series around British detective George Felse. This title, which initiated that series, is now published in the United States for the first time.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18909'),
(17234, 'The Fallen Man', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "They sat for a while, engulfed by sunlight, cool air and silence. A raven planed down from the rim, circled around a cottonwood, landed on a Russian olive across the canyon floor and perched, waiting for them to die."\n</p>\n<p>\n Nobody in the world could have written that paragraph but Tony Hillerman. Two old men sit, surrounded by the natural beauty of Canyon de Chelly, talking about death. The fact that one of the men is Joe Leaphorn, (the Legendary Lieutenant, as his younger colleague Jim Chee irreverently but accurately calls him behind his back) means that something serious has happened--a crime in some way connected to the Navajo people. But Leaphorn has retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, and the only person dead so far is a rich Anglo named Hal Breedlove, who fell while trying to climb Ship Rock 11 years before. Chee is busy on another, more prosaic matter, but he can''t resist helping his thorny mentor on Leaphorn''s first case as a private detective.\n <strong>\n  The Fallen Man\n </strong>\n is brisk, beautiful, funny, and poignant--as good a place as any for first-timers to plunge into Hillerman Country. Then they can catch up on past triumphs with\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA. The latest Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn mystery has vivid descriptions of Native American mythology and traditions but lacks the suspense and tightly woven plot of the earlier titles in this popular series. A skeleton is found on a high ledge of Ship Rock mountain, a place sacred to the Navahos. Tribal Police Lieutenant Chee and the now retired Leaphorn suspect correctly that it belongs to a wealthy rancher missing for 11 years, and Chee tries to discover if it is murder or an accidental death. Meanwhile, Leaphorn is hired by a lawyer to look into the investigation for the rancher''s Eastern family, who want to own his land legally so they can accept a lucrative bid for the mining rights. The obvious suspects, if there was foul play, are the young woman who inherited the ranch and her brother who manages it. In addition to uncovering the cause of death, Chee must determine if the rancher died before or after his 30th birthday when he legally inherited the ranch from a family trust. The continuing rocky romance between Chee and tribal lawyer Janet Pete brings an interesting love angle to the story. Environmentalism and the survival of Native American culture are strong themes.?Penny Stevens, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/422'),
(17235, 'The Fallen Man', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "They sat for a while, engulfed by sunlight, cool air and silence. A raven planed down from the rim, circled around a cottonwood, landed on a Russian olive across the canyon floor and perched, waiting for them to die."\n</p>\n<p>\n Nobody in the world could have written that paragraph but Tony Hillerman. Two old men sit, surrounded by the natural beauty of Canyon de Chelly, talking about death. The fact that one of the men is Joe Leaphorn, (the Legendary Lieutenant, as his younger colleague Jim Chee irreverently but accurately calls him behind his back) means that something serious has happened--a crime in some way connected to the Navajo people. But Leaphorn has retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, and the only person dead so far is a rich Anglo named Hal Breedlove, who fell while trying to climb Ship Rock 11 years before. Chee is busy on another, more prosaic matter, but he can''t resist helping his thorny mentor on Leaphorn''s first case as a private detective.\n <strong>\n  The Fallen Man\n </strong>\n is brisk, beautiful, funny, and poignant--as good a place as any for first-timers to plunge into Hillerman Country. Then they can catch up on past triumphs with\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA. The latest Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn mystery has vivid descriptions of Native American mythology and traditions but lacks the suspense and tightly woven plot of the earlier titles in this popular series. A skeleton is found on a high ledge of Ship Rock mountain, a place sacred to the Navahos. Tribal Police Lieutenant Chee and the now retired Leaphorn suspect correctly that it belongs to a wealthy rancher missing for 11 years, and Chee tries to discover if it is murder or an accidental death. Meanwhile, Leaphorn is hired by a lawyer to look into the investigation for the rancher''s Eastern family, who want to own his land legally so they can accept a lucrative bid for the mining rights. The obvious suspects, if there was foul play, are the young woman who inherited the ranch and her brother who manages it. In addition to uncovering the cause of death, Chee must determine if the rancher died before or after his 30th birthday when he legally inherited the ranch from a family trust. The continuing rocky romance between Chee and tribal lawyer Janet Pete brings an interesting love angle to the story. Environmentalism and the survival of Native American culture are strong themes.?Penny Stevens, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10314'),
(17236, 'The Fallen Man', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "They sat for a while, engulfed by sunlight, cool air and silence. A raven planed down from the rim, circled around a cottonwood, landed on a Russian olive across the canyon floor and perched, waiting for them to die."\n</p>\n<p>\n Nobody in the world could have written that paragraph but Tony Hillerman. Two old men sit, surrounded by the natural beauty of Canyon de Chelly, talking about death. The fact that one of the men is Joe Leaphorn, (the Legendary Lieutenant, as his younger colleague Jim Chee irreverently but accurately calls him behind his back) means that something serious has happened--a crime in some way connected to the Navajo people. But Leaphorn has retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, and the only person dead so far is a rich Anglo named Hal Breedlove, who fell while trying to climb Ship Rock 11 years before. Chee is busy on another, more prosaic matter, but he can''t resist helping his thorny mentor on Leaphorn''s first case as a private detective.\n <strong>\n  The Fallen Man\n </strong>\n is brisk, beautiful, funny, and poignant--as good a place as any for first-timers to plunge into Hillerman Country. Then they can catch up on past triumphs with\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA. The latest Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn mystery has vivid descriptions of Native American mythology and traditions but lacks the suspense and tightly woven plot of the earlier titles in this popular series. A skeleton is found on a high ledge of Ship Rock mountain, a place sacred to the Navahos. Tribal Police Lieutenant Chee and the now retired Leaphorn suspect correctly that it belongs to a wealthy rancher missing for 11 years, and Chee tries to discover if it is murder or an accidental death. Meanwhile, Leaphorn is hired by a lawyer to look into the investigation for the rancher''s Eastern family, who want to own his land legally so they can accept a lucrative bid for the mining rights. The obvious suspects, if there was foul play, are the young woman who inherited the ranch and her brother who manages it. In addition to uncovering the cause of death, Chee must determine if the rancher died before or after his 30th birthday when he legally inherited the ranch from a family trust. The continuing rocky romance between Chee and tribal lawyer Janet Pete brings an interesting love angle to the story. Environmentalism and the survival of Native American culture are strong themes.?Penny Stevens, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library, VA\n <br />\n Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24418'),
(17237, 'Falling for Rachel', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Falling for Rachel Landlocked in Manhattan, rugged seaman Zack Muldoon needed a tough, no-nonsense lawyer to save his kid brother''s delinquent hide. Public defender Rachel Stanislaski was not what he had in mindâ€”until he discovered there was a lot more to the beautiful, coolheaded attorney than met the eye...and found himself falling for her, hook, line and sinker.Convincing Alex When Alex Stanislaski mistakenly arrested daringly bold soap-opera writer Bess McKnee for soliciting, she decided the sexy detective was absolutely perfectâ€”for her research and for herself. Now all she had to do was convince him she was right.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21574'),
(17238, 'Falling Free', 'Lois McMaster Bujold', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what''s wrong and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Could *you* just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation? Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies--now all he had to do was teach them to be free.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20038'),
(17239, 'Falling in Love: Why we Choose the Lovers we Choose', 'Ayala Malachi Pines', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15608'),
(17240, 'Falling Man: A Novel', 'Don Delillo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Falling Man\n </em>\n is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.\n</p>\n<p>\n First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he''d always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his es-tranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes.\n</p>\n<p>\n These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brave and brilliant,\n <em>\n  Falling Man\n </em>\n traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5876'),
(17241, 'Falling Man: A Novel', 'Don Delillo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Falling Man\n </em>\n is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.\n</p>\n<p>\n First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he''d always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his es-tranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes.\n</p>\n<p>\n These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brave and brilliant,\n <em>\n  Falling Man\n </em>\n traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9249'),
(17242, 'Falling Man: A Novel', 'Don Delillo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Falling Man\n </em>\n is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.\n</p>\n<p>\n First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he''d always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his es-tranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes.\n</p>\n<p>\n These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brave and brilliant,\n <em>\n  Falling Man\n </em>\n traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18739');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(17243, 'Fallout', 'David Michaels &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A radical Islamic leader who dreams of the past will do anything in his power to ensure that the future is destroyed--by hitting the technological world where it hurts: oil. Only one man stands in his way--Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell. Available in a Premium Edition. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6213'),
(17244, 'Fallout', 'David Michaels &amp; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A radical Islamic leader who dreams of the past will do anything in his power to ensure that the future is destroyed--by hitting the technological world where it hurts: oil. Only one man stands in his way--Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell. Available in a Premium Edition. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11481'),
(17245, 'Fallout', 'David Michaels; Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A radical Islamic leader who dreams of the past will do anything in his power to ensure that the future is destroyed--by hitting the technological world where it hurts: oil. Only one man stands in his way--Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell. Available in a Premium Edition. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17777'),
(17246, 'The Falls', 'Joyce Carol Oates', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A stunning, major achievement from Joyce Carol Oates, "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (_The Nation_). A haunting story of the powerful spell Niagara Falls casts upon two generations of a family, leading to tragedy, love, loss, and, ultimately, redemption.\n</p>\n<p>\n A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. "The Widow Bride of The Falls," as Ariah comes to be known, begins a relentless, seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side throughout, confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby is unexpectedly transfixed by the strange, otherworldly gaze of this plain, strange woman, falling in love with her though they barely exchange a word. What follows is their passionate love affair, marriage, and children -- a seemingly perfect existence.\n</p>\n<p>\n But the tragedy by which their life together began shadows them, damaging their idyll with distrust, greed, and even murder. What unfurls is a drama of parents and their children; of secrets and sins; of lawsuits, murder, and, eventually, redemption. As Ariah''s children learn that their past is enmeshed with a hushed-up scandal involving radioactive waste, they must confront not only their personal history but America''s murky past: the despoiling of the landscape, and the corruption and greed of the massive industrial expansion of the 1950s and 1960s.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set against the mythic-historic backdrop of Niagara Falls, Joyce Carol Oates explores the American family in crisis, but also America itself in the mid-twentieth century. As in\n <em>\n  We Were the Mulvaneys\n </em>\n , a "darkly engrossing novel" (_Washington Post_ Book World), she examines what happens when the richly interwoven relationships of parents and their children are challenged by circumstances outside the family.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Falls\n </em>\n is a love story gone wrong and righted, and it alone places Joyce Carol Oates definitively in the company of the great American novelists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10993'),
(17247, 'False Colours', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Filled with some very unexpected surprises and quirky characters, I kept a smile on my face several minutes after I finished the novel.\n <em>\n  False Colours\n </em>\n is not only a book written about the romance between Kit and Cressy, but also about relationships, duty and the power of love that sends a strong, warm message throughout the book. (Shellie\n <em>\n  Queue My Review\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer''s eye for detail, character development, and talent for moving a story along is masterful... For sheer fun and entertainment, I highly recommend this novel and give it my highest rating of three regency fans. (Vic Sandborn\n <em>\n  Jane Austen Today\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."\n <br />\n -Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n A missing twin\n <br />\n Something is very wrong, and the Honourable Christopher "Kit" Fancot can sense it. Kit returns to London on leave from the diplomatic service to find that his twin brother Evelyn has disappeared and his extravagant mother''s debts have mounted alarmingly.\n</p>\n<p>\n A quick-minded heiress\n <br />\n The Fancot family''s fortunes are riding on Evelyn''s marriage to the self-possessed Cressy Stavely, and her formidable grandmother''s approval of the match. If Evelyn fails to meet the Dowager Lady Stavely in a few days as planned, the betrothal could be off.\n</p>\n<p>\n A fortune in the balance\n <br />\n When the incorrigible Lady Fancot persuades her son to impersonate his twin (just for one night, she promises) the masquerade sets off a tangled sequence of events that engage Kit''s heart far more deeply than he''d ever anticipated with his brother''s fiancÃ©e-who might know much more about what''s going on than she cares to reveal...\n</p>\n<p>\n "A writer of great wit and style... I''ve read her books to ragged shreds."\n <br />\n -Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer (1902â€“1974) wrote over fifty novels, including Regency romances, mysteries, and historical fiction. She was known as the Queen of Regency romance, and was legendary for her research, historical accuracy, and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. (20080520)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18376'),
(17248, 'False Horizon', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A small Nepali man melts into shadows. A cutthroat crime lord is looking for a miraculous cure. And a map to an impossible dream and a mythic paradise is pointing the way.Archaeologist Annja Creed is in Katmandu, awash in its scents, sounds and liveliness. But this is no sightseeing trip. An old friend is in possession of a map that leads to a place that lies outside our world. But the map is known to one otherâ€”a vicious man who has Annja and her companions right where he wants them. Her hand forced, Annja sets out in search of the fabled Shangri-Laâ€”an expedition of danger and subversion.And her journey will end only with triumphâ€¦or tragedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7851'),
(17249, 'False Horizon', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A small Nepali man melts into shadows. A cutthroat crime lord is looking for a miraculous cure. And a map to an impossible dream and a mythic paradise is pointing the way.Archaeologist Annja Creed is in Katmandu, awash in its scents, sounds and liveliness. But this is no sightseeing trip. An old friend is in possession of a map that leads to a place that lies outside our world. But the map is known to one otherâ€”a vicious man who has Annja and her companions right where he wants them. Her hand forced, Annja sets out in search of the fabled Shangri-Laâ€”an expedition of danger and subversion.And her journey will end only with triumphâ€¦or tragedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8299'),
(17250, 'False Horizon', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A small Nepali man melts into shadows. A cutthroat crime lord is looking for a miraculous cure. And a map to an impossible dream and a mythic paradise is pointing the way.Archaeologist Annja Creed is in Katmandu, awash in its scents, sounds and liveliness. But this is no sightseeing trip. An old friend is in possession of a map that leads to a place that lies outside our world. But the map is known to one otherâ€”a vicious man who has Annja and her companions right where he wants them. Her hand forced, Annja sets out in search of the fabled Shangri-Laâ€”an expedition of danger and subversion.And her journey will end only with triumph...or tragedy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16135'),
(17251, 'False Memory', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  It''s a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It''s the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you run...no matter where you hide.  It''s the fear of yourself.  It''s real.  It can happen to you.  And facing it can be deadly.False MemoryFear for your mind.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6102'),
(17252, 'False Memory', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  It''s a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It''s the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you run...no matter where you hide.  It''s the fear of yourself.  It''s real.  It can happen to you.  And facing it can be deadly.False MemoryFear for your mind.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10833'),
(17253, 'False Memory', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It''s the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you run...no matter where you hide. It''s the fear of yourself. It''s real. It can happen to you. And facing it can be deadly.False MemoryFear for your mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14354'),
(17254, 'False Memory', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  It''s a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It''s the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you run...no matter where you hide. It''s the fear of yourself. It''s real. It can happen to you. And facing it can be deadly.False MemoryFear for your mind.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17833'),
(17255, 'False Memory', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It''s the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you run...no matter where you hide.  It''s the fear of yourself.  It''s real.  It can happen to you.  And facing it can be deadly.False MemoryFear for your mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27392'),
(17256, 'A False Mirror', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n The complex, evocative ninth installment in Todd''s series set in post-WWI England (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  Long Shadow\n </em>\n ) showcases the pseudonymous author''s usual subtle understatement and deft characterization. Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, who has returned from the trench warfare of France haunted by the carnage (and in particular by his order to execute one of his own men), heads to the seaside village of Hampton Regis to defuse a hostage situation. Stephen Mallory, who served under Rutledge''s command in the war and is suspected of viciously assaulting his ex-lover''s husband, demands Rutledge''s presence before he will release his ex-lover and other hostages. To manage the crisis, Rutledge must weather the suspicions of the local police and identify the person responsible for the assault and two subsequent murders. Todd, a mother-and-son writing team, seamlessly melds a fair-play whodunit with psychological suspense in the tradition of P.D. James''s best.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Motive, motive, motive. Is it jealousy? Money? Or something entirely different? Scotland Yard Inspector Rutledge must find the answer when he''s summoned to the small town of Hampton Regis at the behest of Stephen Mallory, accused of viciously attacking one Matthew Hamilton. Afraid of being railroaded for a crime he insists he didn''t commit, Mallory holds Hamilton''s wife and her housekeeper hostage, hoping Rutledge can prove his innocence. It''s tough going for Rutledge, who is dogged by unpleasant memories of Mallory, whom he knew while soldiering in the Great War, and by the echoing voice of Hamish, also a fellow soldier, whose imagined counsel steadies the investigator as he casts about for suspects. Todd, the pseudonym of a mother-son writing team, incorporates touches of both Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie in this character-driven mystery, which builds smoothly but not simply to a climax that is likely to be a genuine surprise.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6841'),
(17257, 'A False Mirror', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n The complex, evocative ninth installment in Todd''s series set in post-WWI England (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  Long Shadow\n </em>\n ) showcases the pseudonymous author''s usual subtle understatement and deft characterization. Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, who has returned from the trench warfare of France haunted by the carnage (and in particular by his order to execute one of his own men), heads to the seaside village of Hampton Regis to defuse a hostage situation. Stephen Mallory, who served under Rutledge''s command in the war and is suspected of viciously assaulting his ex-lover''s husband, demands Rutledge''s presence before he will release his ex-lover and other hostages. To manage the crisis, Rutledge must weather the suspicions of the local police and identify the person responsible for the assault and two subsequent murders. Todd, a mother-and-son writing team, seamlessly melds a fair-play whodunit with psychological suspense in the tradition of P.D. James''s best.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Motive, motive, motive. Is it jealousy? Money? Or something entirely different? Scotland Yard Inspector Rutledge must find the answer when he''s summoned to the small town of Hampton Regis at the behest of Stephen Mallory, accused of viciously attacking one Matthew Hamilton. Afraid of being railroaded for a crime he insists he didn''t commit, Mallory holds Hamilton''s wife and her housekeeper hostage, hoping Rutledge can prove his innocence. It''s tough going for Rutledge, who is dogged by unpleasant memories of Mallory, whom he knew while soldiering in the Great War, and by the echoing voice of Hamish, also a fellow soldier, whose imagined counsel steadies the investigator as he casts about for suspects. Todd, the pseudonym of a mother-son writing team, incorporates touches of both Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie in this character-driven mystery, which builds smoothly but not simply to a climax that is likely to be a genuine surprise.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13006'),
(17258, 'A False Mirror', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n The complex, evocative ninth installment in Todd''s series set in post-WWI England (after 2006''s\n <em>\n  Long Shadow\n </em>\n ) showcases the pseudonymous author''s usual subtle understatement and deft characterization. Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, who has returned from the trench warfare of France haunted by the carnage (and in particular by his order to execute one of his own men), heads to the seaside village of Hampton Regis to defuse a hostage situation. Stephen Mallory, who served under Rutledge''s command in the war and is suspected of viciously assaulting his ex-lover''s husband, demands Rutledge''s presence before he will release his ex-lover and other hostages. To manage the crisis, Rutledge must weather the suspicions of the local police and identify the person responsible for the assault and two subsequent murders. Todd, a mother-and-son writing team, seamlessly melds a fair-play whodunit with psychological suspense in the tradition of P.D. James''s best.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Motive, motive, motive. Is it jealousy? Money? Or something entirely different? Scotland Yard Inspector Rutledge must find the answer when he''s summoned to the small town of Hampton Regis at the behest of Stephen Mallory, accused of viciously attacking one Matthew Hamilton. Afraid of being railroaded for a crime he insists he didn''t commit, Mallory holds Hamilton''s wife and her housekeeper hostage, hoping Rutledge can prove his innocence. It''s tough going for Rutledge, who is dogged by unpleasant memories of Mallory, whom he knew while soldiering in the Great War, and by the echoing voice of Hamish, also a fellow soldier, whose imagined counsel steadies the investigator as he casts about for suspects. Todd, the pseudonym of a mother-son writing team, incorporates touches of both Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie in this character-driven mystery, which builds smoothly but not simply to a climax that is likely to be a genuine surprise.\n <em>\n  Stephanie Zvirin\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17063'),
(17259, 'False Scent', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a poisonous cloud of spray, the curtain falls on a drama queen.Little did beloved British actress Mary Bellamy know that she would be done in at her own birthday party-choked by toxic mist from the bottle of "Slaypest," a deadly insecticide. Basking in the glow of her most adoring fans-who all happened to be her most duplicitous enemies-Mary would make her final performance. When Superintendent Roderick Alleyn arrives, he smells a rat amongst the contemptuous collection of theatre types detained at the party, for this case has the unmistakable scent of murder...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25311'),
(17260, 'Familia Prizzi', 'Richard Condon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25208'),
(17261, 'Family Album', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a collection of three stunning, ethereal novellas. Karen, the adolescent protagonist in "The Talisman," is doing poorly in Catholic boarding school. Every time she attempts to memorize facts, people from her past burst into her imagination: her mother, Natalia, often appears and begs Karen to understand Mark, Natalia''s boyfriend; sometimes Mark arrives smelling like alcohol and tells Karen stories which require him to feel her body; always her friends, Missouri and Nicolasa, come to comfort and advise. In the title story, anecdotes about Ximena''s Nicaraguan family are told through memory, conversation and descriptions of often-faceless photographs. Ximena, a middle-class woman living in Paris, wants to understand the relationship of her own comfortable French life to the tortured existence of her relatives in Samoza''s Nicaragua. "Village of God and the Devil" is the story of the magic village of Deya, where ghosts are as real as memory and imagination. Written in deceptively simple and imaginative prose,\n <strong>\n  Family Album\n </strong>\n is a dynamic blend of the natural and supernatural.\n <em>\n  -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out\n </em>\n . --\n <em>\n  From\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Through forty yearsâ€”from Hollywood''s golden days in World War II to the presentâ€”Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood''s first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from without and within, the Thayers would face the greatest challenges and harshest test a family can endure, to emerge stronger, bound forever by loyalty and love. It is only when Faye is gone that they can each assess how far they have come, and how important their family album is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6364'),
(17262, 'Family Album', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a collection of three stunning, ethereal novellas. Karen, the adolescent protagonist in "The Talisman," is doing poorly in Catholic boarding school. Every time she attempts to memorize facts, people from her past burst into her imagination: her mother, Natalia, often appears and begs Karen to understand Mark, Natalia''s boyfriend; sometimes Mark arrives smelling like alcohol and tells Karen stories which require him to feel her body; always her friends, Missouri and Nicolasa, come to comfort and advise. In the title story, anecdotes about Ximena''s Nicaraguan family are told through memory, conversation and descriptions of often-faceless photographs. Ximena, a middle-class woman living in Paris, wants to understand the relationship of her own comfortable French life to the tortured existence of her relatives in Samoza''s Nicaragua. "Village of God and the Devil" is the story of the magic village of Deya, where ghosts are as real as memory and imagination. Written in deceptively simple and imaginative prose,\n <strong>\n  Family Album\n </strong>\n is a dynamic blend of the natural and supernatural.\n <em>\n  -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out\n </em>\n . --\n <em>\n  From\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Through forty yearsâ€”from Hollywood''s golden days in World War II to the presentâ€”Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood''s first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from without and within, the Thayers would face the greatest challenges and harshest test a family can endure, to emerge stronger, bound forever by loyalty and love. It is only when Faye is gone that they can each assess how far they have come, and how important their family album is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12889'),
(17263, 'Family album', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a collection of three stunning, ethereal novellas. Karen, the adolescent protagonist in "The Talisman," is doing poorly in Catholic boarding school. Every time she attempts to memorize facts, people from her past burst into her imagination: her mother, Natalia, often appears and begs Karen to understand Mark, Natalia''s boyfriend; sometimes Mark arrives smelling like alcohol and tells Karen stories which require him to feel her body; always her friends, Missouri and Nicolasa, come to comfort and advise. In the title story, anecdotes about Ximena''s Nicaraguan family are told through memory, conversation and descriptions of often-faceless photographs. Ximena, a middle-class woman living in Paris, wants to understand the relationship of her own comfortable French life to the tortured existence of her relatives in Samoza''s Nicaragua. "Village of God and the Devil" is the story of the magic village of Deya, where ghosts are as real as memory and imagination. Written in deceptively simple and imaginative prose,\n <strong>\n  Family Album\n </strong>\n is a dynamic blend of the natural and supernatural.\n <em>\n  -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out\n </em>\n . --\n <em>\n  From\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Through forty yearsâ€”from Hollywood''s golden days in World War II to the presentâ€”Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood''s first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from without and within, the Thayers would face the greatest challenges and harshest test a family can endure, to emerge stronger, bound forever by loyalty and love. It is only when Faye is gone that they can each assess how far they have come, and how important their family album is.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17594'),
(17264, 'The Family Man', 'Trish Millburn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/477'),
(17265, 'The Family Man', 'Trish Millburn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11448'),
(17266, 'The Family Man', 'Trish Millburn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24461'),
(17267, 'Family Matters', 'Rohinton Mistry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set during the 1990s in an overcrowded and politically corrupt Bombay, Rohinton Mistry''s\n <em>\n  Family Matters\n </em>\n depicts a family being torn apart by lies, love, and its unresolved demons of the past. Nariman Vakeel is an aging patriarch whose advancing Parkinson''s disease and its related complications threaten to destroy his large Parsi family. When Nariman breaks his ankle and becomes bedridden, his two stepchildren turn his care over to their half-sister, Roxanne, who lives in a two-room flat with her husband and two sons. What follows is each character''s reaction to this situation, from Roxanne''s husband''s struggle to provide for his family without neglecting his conscience to their sons'' coming of age in an era of uncertainty. Expertly interspersed between these dilemmas are Nariman''s tortured remembrances of a forbidden love and its inescapable consequences ("no matter where you go in the world, there is only one story: of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different").\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Family Matters\n </em>\n is a compelling, emotional, and persuasive testimony to the importance of memories in every family''s history. In a poetic style rich with detail, Mistry creates a world where fate dances with free will, and the results are often more familiar than anyone would ever care to admit.\n <em>\n  --Gisele Toueg\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Warm, humane, tender and bittersweet are not the words one would expect to describe a novel that portrays a society where the government is corrupt, the standard of living is barely above poverty level and religious, ethnic and class divisions poison the community. Yet Mistrys compassionate eye and his ability to focus on the small decencies that maintain civilization, preserve the family unit and even lead to happiness attest to his masterly skill as a writer who makes sense of the world by using laughter, as one of his characters observes. Bombay in the mid-1990s, a once-elegant city in the process of deterioration, is mirrored in the physical situation of elderly retired professor Nariman Vakeel, whose body is succumbing to the progressive debilitation of Parkinsons disease. Narimans apartment, which he shares with his two resentful, middle-aged stepchildren, is also in terrible disrepair. But when an accident forces him to recuperate in the tortuously crowded apartment that barely accommodates his daughter Roxana, her husband and two young boys, family tensions are exacerbated and the limits of responsibility and obligation are explored with a full measure of anguish. In the ensuing situation, everyones behavior deteriorates, and the affecting secret of Narimans thwarted lifetime love affair provides a haunting leitmotif. Light moments of domestic interaction, a series of ridiculous comic situations, ironic juxtapositions and tenderly observed human eccentricities provide humorous relief, as the author of A Fine Balance again explores the tightrope act that constitutes life on this planet. Mistry is not just a fiction writer; he''s a philosopher who finds meaning-indeed, perhaps a divine plan in small human interactions. This beautifully paced, elegantly expressed novel is notable for the breadth of its vision as well as its immensely appealing characters and enticing plot.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1565'),
(17268, 'Family Matters', 'Rohinton Mistry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set during the 1990s in an overcrowded and politically corrupt Bombay, Rohinton Mistry''s\n <em>\n  Family Matters\n </em>\n depicts a family being torn apart by lies, love, and its unresolved demons of the past. Nariman Vakeel is an aging patriarch whose advancing Parkinson''s disease and its related complications threaten to destroy his large Parsi family. When Nariman breaks his ankle and becomes bedridden, his two stepchildren turn his care over to their half-sister, Roxanne, who lives in a two-room flat with her husband and two sons. What follows is each character''s reaction to this situation, from Roxanne''s husband''s struggle to provide for his family without neglecting his conscience to their sons'' coming of age in an era of uncertainty. Expertly interspersed between these dilemmas are Nariman''s tortured remembrances of a forbidden love and its inescapable consequences ("no matter where you go in the world, there is only one story: of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different").\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Family Matters\n </em>\n is a compelling, emotional, and persuasive testimony to the importance of memories in every family''s history. In a poetic style rich with detail, Mistry creates a world where fate dances with free will, and the results are often more familiar than anyone would ever care to admit.\n <em>\n  --Gisele Toueg\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Warm, humane, tender and bittersweet are not the words one would expect to describe a novel that portrays a society where the government is corrupt, the standard of living is barely above poverty level and religious, ethnic and class divisions poison the community. Yet Mistrys compassionate eye and his ability to focus on the small decencies that maintain civilization, preserve the family unit and even lead to happiness attest to his masterly skill as a writer who makes sense of the world by using laughter, as one of his characters observes. Bombay in the mid-1990s, a once-elegant city in the process of deterioration, is mirrored in the physical situation of elderly retired professor Nariman Vakeel, whose body is succumbing to the progressive debilitation of Parkinsons disease. Narimans apartment, which he shares with his two resentful, middle-aged stepchildren, is also in terrible disrepair. But when an accident forces him to recuperate in the tortuously crowded apartment that barely accommodates his daughter Roxana, her husband and two young boys, family tensions are exacerbated and the limits of responsibility and obligation are explored with a full measure of anguish. In the ensuing situation, everyones behavior deteriorates, and the affecting secret of Narimans thwarted lifetime love affair provides a haunting leitmotif. Light moments of domestic interaction, a series of ridiculous comic situations, ironic juxtapositions and tenderly observed human eccentricities provide humorous relief, as the author of A Fine Balance again explores the tightrope act that constitutes life on this planet. Mistry is not just a fiction writer; he''s a philosopher who finds meaning-indeed, perhaps a divine plan in small human interactions. This beautifully paced, elegantly expressed novel is notable for the breadth of its vision as well as its immensely appealing characters and enticing plot.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11410'),
(17269, 'Family Matters', 'Rohinton Mistry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set during the 1990s in an overcrowded and politically corrupt Bombay, Rohinton Mistry''s\n <em>\n  Family Matters\n </em>\n depicts a family being torn apart by lies, love, and its unresolved demons of the past. Nariman Vakeel is an aging patriarch whose advancing Parkinson''s disease and its related complications threaten to destroy his large Parsi family. When Nariman breaks his ankle and becomes bedridden, his two stepchildren turn his care over to their half-sister, Roxanne, who lives in a two-room flat with her husband and two sons. What follows is each character''s reaction to this situation, from Roxanne''s husband''s struggle to provide for his family without neglecting his conscience to their sons'' coming of age in an era of uncertainty. Expertly interspersed between these dilemmas are Nariman''s tortured remembrances of a forbidden love and its inescapable consequences ("no matter where you go in the world, there is only one story: of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different").\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Family Matters\n </em>\n is a compelling, emotional, and persuasive testimony to the importance of memories in every family''s history. In a poetic style rich with detail, Mistry creates a world where fate dances with free will, and the results are often more familiar than anyone would ever care to admit.\n <em>\n  --Gisele Toueg\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Warm, humane, tender and bittersweet are not the words one would expect to describe a novel that portrays a society where the government is corrupt, the standard of living is barely above poverty level and religious, ethnic and class divisions poison the community. Yet Mistrys compassionate eye and his ability to focus on the small decencies that maintain civilization, preserve the family unit and even lead to happiness attest to his masterly skill as a writer who makes sense of the world by using laughter, as one of his characters observes. Bombay in the mid-1990s, a once-elegant city in the process of deterioration, is mirrored in the physical situation of elderly retired professor Nariman Vakeel, whose body is succumbing to the progressive debilitation of Parkinsons disease. Narimans apartment, which he shares with his two resentful, middle-aged stepchildren, is also in terrible disrepair. But when an accident forces him to recuperate in the tortuously crowded apartment that barely accommodates his daughter Roxana, her husband and two young boys, family tensions are exacerbated and the limits of responsibility and obligation are explored with a full measure of anguish. In the ensuing situation, everyones behavior deteriorates, and the affecting secret of Narimans thwarted lifetime love affair provides a haunting leitmotif. Light moments of domestic interaction, a series of ridiculous comic situations, ironic juxtapositions and tenderly observed human eccentricities provide humorous relief, as the author of A Fine Balance again explores the tightrope act that constitutes life on this planet. Mistry is not just a fiction writer; he''s a philosopher who finds meaning-indeed, perhaps a divine plan in small human interactions. This beautifully paced, elegantly expressed novel is notable for the breadth of its vision as well as its immensely appealing characters and enticing plot.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23464'),
(17270, 'Family Ties', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her handâ€”until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sisterâ€™s three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.Now, at forty-two, as independent as ever, with a satisfying career and a family that means everything to her, Annie is comfortable being single and staying that way. She appears to have no time for anything else. With her nephew and nieces now young adults and confronting major challenges of their own, Annie is navigating a parentâ€™s difficult passage between lending them a hand and letting go, and suddenly facing an empty nest. The eldest, twenty-eight-year-old Liz, an overworked, struggling editor in a high-powered job at Vogue, has never allowed any man to come close enough to hurt her. Ted, at twenty-four a serious and hardworking law student, is captivated by a much older, much more experienced woman with children, who is leading him much further than he wants to go. And the youngest, twenty-one-year-old Katieâ€”impulsive, artistic, rebelliousâ€”is an art student about to make a choice that will lead her to an entirely different world she is in no way prepared for but determined to embrace.Then, just when least expected, a chance encounter changes Annieâ€™s life yet again in the most unexpected direction of all.Â  From Manhattan to Paris and all the way to Tehran, Family Ties is a novel that reminds us how challenging and unpredictable life can be, and that the powerful bonds of family are the strongest of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6365'),
(17271, 'Family Ties', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her handâ€”until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sisterâ€™s three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.Now, at forty-two, as independent as ever, with a satisfying career and a family that means everything to her, Annie is comfortable being single and staying that way. She appears to have no time for anything else. With her nephew and nieces now young adults and confronting major challenges of their own, Annie is navigating a parentâ€™s difficult passage between lending them a hand and letting go, and suddenly facing an empty nest. The eldest, twenty-eight-year-old Liz, an overworked, struggling editor in a high-powered job at Vogue, has never allowed any man to come close enough to hurt her. Ted, at twenty-four a serious and hardworking law student, is captivated by a much older, much more experienced woman with children, who is leading him much further than he wants to go. And the youngest, twenty-one-year-old Katieâ€”impulsive, artistic, rebelliousâ€”is an art student about to make a choice that will lead her to an entirely different world she is in no way prepared for but determined to embrace.Then, just when least expected, a chance encounter changes Annieâ€™s life yet again in the most unexpected direction of all.Â  From Manhattan to Paris and all the way to Tehran, Family Ties is a novel that reminds us how challenging and unpredictable life can be, and that the powerful bonds of family are the strongest of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12858'),
(17272, 'Family Ties', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her handâ€”until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sisterâ€™s three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.Now, at forty-two, as independent as ever, with a satisfying career and a family that means everything to her, Annie is comfortable being single and staying that way. She appears to have no time for anything else. With her nephew and nieces now young adults and confronting major challenges of their own, Annie is navigating a parentâ€™s difficult passage between lending them a hand and letting go, and suddenly facing an empty nest. The eldest, twenty-eight-year-old Liz, an overworked, struggling editor in a high-powered job at Vogue, has never allowed any man to come close enough to hurt her. Ted, at twenty-four a serious and hardworking law student, is captivated by a much older, much more experienced woman with children, who is leading him much further than he wants to go. And the youngest, twenty-one-year-old Katieâ€”impulsive, artistic, rebelliousâ€”is an art student about to make a choice that will lead her to an entirely different world she is in no way prepared for but determined to embrace.Then, just when least expected, a chance encounter changes Annieâ€™s life yet again in the most unexpected direction of all.Â  From Manhattan to Paris and all the way to Tehran, Family Ties is a novel that reminds us how challenging and unpredictable life can be, and that the powerful bonds of family are the strongest of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17593'),
(17273, 'Family Ties', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her handâ€”until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sisterâ€™s three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.Now, at forty-two, as independent as ever, with a satisfying career and a family that means everything to her, Annie is comfortable being single and staying that way. She appears to have no time for anything else. With her nephew and nieces now young adults and confronting major challenges of their own, Annie is navigating a parentâ€™s difficult passage between lending them a hand and letting go, and suddenly facing an empty nest. The eldest, twenty-eight-year-old Liz, an overworked, struggling editor in a high-powered job at Vogue, has never allowed any man to come close enough to hurt her. Ted, at twenty-four a serious and hardworking law student, is captivated by a much older, much more experienced woman with children, who is leading him much further than he wants to go. And the youngest, twenty-one-year-old Katieâ€”impulsive, artistic, rebelliousâ€”is an art student about to make a choice that will lead her to an entirely different world she is in no way prepared for but determined to embrace.Then, just when least expected, a chance encounter changes Annieâ€™s life yet again in the most unexpected direction of all.Â  From Manhattan to Paris and all the way to Tehran, Family Ties is a novel that reminds us how challenging and unpredictable life can be, and that the powerful bonds of family are the strongest of all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27197'),
(17274, 'The Family', 'Mario Puzo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n ''We are a family,'' Alexander told his children. ''And the loyalty of the family must come before everything and everyone else. We must learn from each other, protect each other, and be bound first and foremost to each other. For if we honour that commitment, we will never be vanquished -- but if we falter in that loyalty, we will all be condemned'' In a tale of brutality and betrayal that crowns Mario Puzo''s remarkable career, he brings us the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history -- the Borgias.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10951'),
(17275, 'The Family', 'Sharlet, Jeff', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14043'),
(17276, 'The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power', 'Jeff Sharlet', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A journalist''s penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism''s most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n They are the Familyâ€”fundamentalism''s avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the new chosenâ€”congressmen, generals, and foreign dictators who meet in confidential cells, to pray and plan for a "leadership led by God," to be won not by force but through "quiet diplomacy." Their base is a leafy estate overlooking the Potomac in Arlington, Virginia, and Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside its walls.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Family* is about the other half of American fundamentalist powerâ€”not its angry masses, but its sophisticated elites. Sharlet follows the story back to Abraham Vereide, an immigrant preacher who in 1935 organized a small group of businessmen sympathetic to European fascism, fusing the far right with his own polite but authoritarian faith. From that core, Vereide built an international network of fundamentalists who spoke the language of establishment power, a "family" that thrives to this day. In public, they host Prayer Breakfasts; in private, they preach a gospel of "biblical capitalism," military might, and American empire. Citing Hitler, Lenin, and Mao as leadership models, the Family''s current leader, Doug Coe, declares, "We work with power where we can, build new power where we can''t."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sharlet''s discoveries dramatically challenge conventional wisdom about American fundamentalism, revealing its crucial role in the unraveling of the New Deal, the waging of the cold war, and the no-holds-barred economics of globalization. The question Sharlet believes we must ask is not "What do fundamentalists want?" but "What have they already done?"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Part history, part investigative journalism, *The Family* is a compelling account of how fundamentalism came to be interwoven with American power, a story that stretches from the religious revivals that have shaken this nation from its beginning to fundamentalism''s new frontiers. No other book about the right has exposed the Family or revealed its far-reaching impact on democracy, and no future reckoning of American fundamentalism will be able to ignore it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4539');
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(17277, 'The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power', 'Jeff Sharlet', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A journalist''s penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism''s most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n They are the Familyâ€”fundamentalism''s avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the new chosenâ€”congressmen, generals, and foreign dictators who meet in confidential cells, to pray and plan for a "leadership led by God," to be won not by force but through "quiet diplomacy." Their base is a leafy estate overlooking the Potomac in Arlington, Virginia, and Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside its walls.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Family* is about the other half of American fundamentalist powerâ€”not its angry masses, but its sophisticated elites. Sharlet follows the story back to Abraham Vereide, an immigrant preacher who in 1935 organized a small group of businessmen sympathetic to European fascism, fusing the far right with his own polite but authoritarian faith. From that core, Vereide built an international network of fundamentalists who spoke the language of establishment power, a "family" that thrives to this day. In public, they host Prayer Breakfasts; in private, they preach a gospel of "biblical capitalism," military might, and American empire. Citing Hitler, Lenin, and Mao as leadership models, the Family''s current leader, Doug Coe, declares, "We work with power where we can, build new power where we can''t."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sharlet''s discoveries dramatically challenge conventional wisdom about American fundamentalism, revealing its crucial role in the unraveling of the New Deal, the waging of the cold war, and the no-holds-barred economics of globalization. The question Sharlet believes we must ask is not "What do fundamentalists want?" but "What have they already done?"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Part history, part investigative journalism, *The Family* is a compelling account of how fundamentalism came to be interwoven with American power, a story that stretches from the religious revivals that have shaken this nation from its beginning to fundamentalism''s new frontiers. No other book about the right has exposed the Family or revealed its far-reaching impact on democracy, and no future reckoning of American fundamentalism will be able to ignore it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12652'),
(17278, 'Fanatics', 'William Bell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A sequel to the very popular Stones, Fanatics is a thrilling story in which the past and present collide in terrifying, riveting ways.Garnet Havelock has just finished his apprenticeship in furniture-making, and has found a workshop for his new business in an old coach house on the isolated estate of recently deceased Professor Eduardo Corbizzi. Garnet signs a contract with the late professor''s long-time companion, the eccentric and inscrutable Mrs. Valentina Stoppini, who presides over the mansion and is its only occupant. The terms of the deal are excellent, but there''s a catch: Garnet has to repair the library''s fire damage and keep all details about the estate confidential. Only after he agrees does Mrs. Stoppini inform him that the professor died of a seizure in the library under mysterious circumstances involving "an accident" and "a small fire." It isn''t long before a distressing collision of past and present drags Garnet towards a horrifying truth he could never have imagined.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8141'),
(17279, 'Fancy Pants', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n LaVyrle SpencerRefreshingly original, witty and touching.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elizabeth LowellWhat the world needs is more books by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n This delectable confection offers unadulterated entertainment. Sleek romantic comedy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  THEY''RE CAVIAR AND BEER. KEROSENE ON FIRE. AND THEY''RE FALLING HEAD-OVER-HEELS IN LOVE....\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n She was the most beautiful British bauble in Europe''s jet-set playgrounds. Now she''s broke, furious, and limping down a backwoods road in an ugly pink Southern Belle gown....\n</p>\n<p>\n He was tall, lean, and all-American gorgeous. He liked his brews cold and women loved to keep him warm. Why in hell is he stopping his car for this woebegone, surly Scarlett?\n</p>\n<p>\n Meet Francesca Day and Dallie Beaudine, two incredible characters whose tangled love affair is at the heart of this ravishing\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller from award-winning author Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Come enjoy the adventure of a lifetime -- an irresistible story that''s touching, hilarious, and hellcat-passionate. You''ll never forget Dallie and the sassy lady who needs a good swift kick in her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/987'),
(17280, 'Fancy Pants', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n LaVyrle SpencerRefreshingly original, witty and touching.\n</p>\n<p>\n Elizabeth LowellWhat the world needs is more books by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </em>\n This delectable confection offers unadulterated entertainment. Sleek romantic comedy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  THEY''RE CAVIAR AND BEER. KEROSENE ON FIRE. AND THEY''RE FALLING HEAD-OVER-HEELS IN LOVE....\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n She was the most beautiful British bauble in Europe''s jet-set playgrounds. Now she''s broke, furious, and limping down a backwoods road in an ugly pink Southern Belle gown....\n</p>\n<p>\n He was tall, lean, and all-American gorgeous. He liked his brews cold and women loved to keep him warm. Why in hell is he stopping his car for this woebegone, surly Scarlett?\n</p>\n<p>\n Meet Francesca Day and Dallie Beaudine, two incredible characters whose tangled love affair is at the heart of this ravishing\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestseller from award-winning author Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Come enjoy the adventure of a lifetime -- an irresistible story that''s touching, hilarious, and hellcat-passionate. You''ll never forget Dallie and the sassy lady who needs a good swift kick in her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11939'),
(17281, 'Fancy Pants', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24041'),
(17282, 'Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Being a kid with wings--constantly on the run--has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the Flock makes her fear the worst. Then, a cryptic message from a young girl arrives, warning them "The sky will fall." And as if an impending apocalypse weren''t bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max''s soul mate: Fang will be the first to die. Max''s desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the team weather the storm, or will the turmoil rip them apart for the last time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4834'),
(17283, 'Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Being a kid with wings--constantly on the run--has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the Flock makes her fear the worst. Then, a cryptic message from a young girl arrives, warning them "The sky will fall." And as if an impending apocalypse weren''t bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max''s soul mate: Fang will be the first to die. Max''s desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the team weather the storm, or will the turmoil rip them apart for the last time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11758'),
(17284, 'Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Being a kid with wings--constantly on the run--has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the Flock makes her fear the worst. Then, a cryptic message from a young girl arrives, warning them "The sky will fall." And as if an impending apocalypse weren''t bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max''s soul mate: Fang will be the first to die. Max''s desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the team weather the storm, or will the turmoil rip them apart for the last time?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19962'),
(17285, 'Fannie&#39;s Last Supper: Re-Creating One Amazing Meal From Fannie Farmer&#39;s 1896 Cookbook', 'Christopher Kimball', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Kimball, founder of Cook''s Illustrated and host of the PBS series America''s Test Kitchen, spent more than two years of "research, recipe testing, and intense planning" in order to host a Victorian dinner based on the recipes of Fannie Farmer, author of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, which was first published in 1896. Kimball is as exhaustive in his research as he is in one of his own test recipes for Cook''s Illustrated, and fans of his work will appreciate his attention to even the smallest morsel of information. Kimball is off on a culinary and historical adventure as he literally traces Fannie Farmer''s steps around Boston at the turn of the century, regaling the reader with a history of Boston, observations of the Victorian character, manner of dress, and cooking implements and appliances available. In the meantime, his own team has been assembled and they are methodically testing recipes and ingredients in Kimball''s 1859 red-brick Boston bowfront. All this work culminates in a foodie''s dream dinner party, complete with Victorian plate settings, an all-star guest list, and 12 courses you won''t find in any restaurant today. A must-read for history buffs, home cooks, and professional chefs alike.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the mid-1990s, Chris Kimball moved into an 1859 Victorian townhouse on the South End of Boston and, as he became accustomed to the quirks and peculiarities of the house and neighborhood, he began to wonder what it was like to live and cook in that era. In particular, he became fascinated with Fannie Farmer''s\n <em>\n  Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n . Published in 1896, it was the best-selling cookbook of its age--full of odd, long-forgotten ingredients, fascinating details about how the recipes were concocted, and some truly amazing dishes (as well as some awful ones).\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Fannie''s Last Supper\n </em>\n , Kimball describes the experience of re-creating one of Fannie Farmer''s amazing menus: a twelve-course Christmas dinner that she served at the end of the century. Kimball immersed himself in composing twenty different recipes--including rissoles, Lobster Ã  l''AmÃ©ricaine, Roast Goose with Chestnut Stuffing and Jus, and Mandarin Cake--with all the inherent difficulties of sourcing unusual animal parts and mastering many now-forgotten techniques, including regulating the heat on a coal cookstove and boiling a calf''s head without its turning to mush, all sans food processor or oven thermometer. Kimball''s research leads to many hilarious scenes, bizarre tastings, and an incredible armchair experience for any reader interested in food and the Victorian era.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fannie''s Last Supper\n </em>\n includes the dishes from the dinner and revised and updated recipes from\n <em>\n  The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n . A culinary thriller. it offers a fresh look at something that most of us take for granted--the American table.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Fannie''s Last Supper\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Chris''s `Fannie'' project is the most ambitious cooking undertaking I''ve ever witnessed outside of a restaurant opening. And as one of the devourers of the ultimate meal, I can tell you it was worth it, at least for me. (I would travel 200 miles for the jellies alone.) But the account of the making of the meal, told here in winning style, is just as impressive: part history and part contemporary journalism, it''s a fascinating story, and absolutely unique."\n <br />\n --Mark Bittman, author of\n <em>\n  How to Cook Everything\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "What a piece of work Christopher Kimball has pulled off. Read this book and join the escapade into what Chris calls the most progressive era in the history of the world. No, it wasn''t ten years ago, it was 110 years ago--the world of Victorian America and Fanny Farmer. Not an iota of dreamy pseudo-food history survives here. Instead, Chris challenges, provokes, entertains, and maybe even outrages our sensibilities. One thing is sure, if he gets his way, you will be rethinking some of today''s accepted political culinary wisdom."\n <br />\n --Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of\n <em>\n  The Splendid Table\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Fannie''s Last Supper_ is a splendid book with recipes and narrative that is based on a twelve-course dinner right out of the back pages of the original 1896\n <em>\n  Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n written by Fannie Farmer. How fantastic is that--traveling back in time to rethink the cooking of the future. A great, informative read with tempting recipes. Bravo!"\n <br />\n --Lidia Bastianich, author of\n <em>\n  Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A dynamic and entertaining book for chefs and home cooks alike. Christopher Kimball delves into the life, times, and recipes of Fannie Farmer, and creates an educational and delicious twelve-course menu that any food lover can sink their teeth into."\n <br />\n --Daniel Humm, Executive Chef, Eleven Madison Park\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6670'),
(17286, 'Fannie&#39;s Last Supper: Re-Creating One Amazing Meal From Fannie Farmer&#39;s 1896 Cookbook', 'Christopher Kimball', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Kimball, founder of Cook''s Illustrated and host of the PBS series America''s Test Kitchen, spent more than two years of "research, recipe testing, and intense planning" in order to host a Victorian dinner based on the recipes of Fannie Farmer, author of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, which was first published in 1896. Kimball is as exhaustive in his research as he is in one of his own test recipes for Cook''s Illustrated, and fans of his work will appreciate his attention to even the smallest morsel of information. Kimball is off on a culinary and historical adventure as he literally traces Fannie Farmer''s steps around Boston at the turn of the century, regaling the reader with a history of Boston, observations of the Victorian character, manner of dress, and cooking implements and appliances available. In the meantime, his own team has been assembled and they are methodically testing recipes and ingredients in Kimball''s 1859 red-brick Boston bowfront. All this work culminates in a foodie''s dream dinner party, complete with Victorian plate settings, an all-star guest list, and 12 courses you won''t find in any restaurant today. A must-read for history buffs, home cooks, and professional chefs alike.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the mid-1990s, Chris Kimball moved into an 1859 Victorian townhouse on the South End of Boston and, as he became accustomed to the quirks and peculiarities of the house and neighborhood, he began to wonder what it was like to live and cook in that era. In particular, he became fascinated with Fannie Farmer''s\n <em>\n  Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n . Published in 1896, it was the best-selling cookbook of its age--full of odd, long-forgotten ingredients, fascinating details about how the recipes were concocted, and some truly amazing dishes (as well as some awful ones).\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Fannie''s Last Supper\n </em>\n , Kimball describes the experience of re-creating one of Fannie Farmer''s amazing menus: a twelve-course Christmas dinner that she served at the end of the century. Kimball immersed himself in composing twenty different recipes--including rissoles, Lobster Ã  l''AmÃ©ricaine, Roast Goose with Chestnut Stuffing and Jus, and Mandarin Cake--with all the inherent difficulties of sourcing unusual animal parts and mastering many now-forgotten techniques, including regulating the heat on a coal cookstove and boiling a calf''s head without its turning to mush, all sans food processor or oven thermometer. Kimball''s research leads to many hilarious scenes, bizarre tastings, and an incredible armchair experience for any reader interested in food and the Victorian era.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fannie''s Last Supper\n </em>\n includes the dishes from the dinner and revised and updated recipes from\n <em>\n  The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n . A culinary thriller. it offers a fresh look at something that most of us take for granted--the American table.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Fannie''s Last Supper\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Chris''s `Fannie'' project is the most ambitious cooking undertaking I''ve ever witnessed outside of a restaurant opening. And as one of the devourers of the ultimate meal, I can tell you it was worth it, at least for me. (I would travel 200 miles for the jellies alone.) But the account of the making of the meal, told here in winning style, is just as impressive: part history and part contemporary journalism, it''s a fascinating story, and absolutely unique."\n <br />\n --Mark Bittman, author of\n <em>\n  How to Cook Everything\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "What a piece of work Christopher Kimball has pulled off. Read this book and join the escapade into what Chris calls the most progressive era in the history of the world. No, it wasn''t ten years ago, it was 110 years ago--the world of Victorian America and Fanny Farmer. Not an iota of dreamy pseudo-food history survives here. Instead, Chris challenges, provokes, entertains, and maybe even outrages our sensibilities. One thing is sure, if he gets his way, you will be rethinking some of today''s accepted political culinary wisdom."\n <br />\n --Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of\n <em>\n  The Splendid Table\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Fannie''s Last Supper_ is a splendid book with recipes and narrative that is based on a twelve-course dinner right out of the back pages of the original 1896\n <em>\n  Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n written by Fannie Farmer. How fantastic is that--traveling back in time to rethink the cooking of the future. A great, informative read with tempting recipes. Bravo!"\n <br />\n --Lidia Bastianich, author of\n <em>\n  Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A dynamic and entertaining book for chefs and home cooks alike. Christopher Kimball delves into the life, times, and recipes of Fannie Farmer, and creates an educational and delicious twelve-course menu that any food lover can sink their teeth into."\n <br />\n --Daniel Humm, Executive Chef, Eleven Madison Park\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10744'),
(17287, 'Fannie&#39;s Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer&#39;s 1896 Cookbook', 'Christopher Kimball', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Kimball, founder of Cook''s Illustrated and host of the PBS series America''s Test Kitchen, spent more than two years of "research, recipe testing, and intense planning" in order to host a Victorian dinner based on the recipes of Fannie Farmer, author of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, which was first published in 1896. Kimball is as exhaustive in his research as he is in one of his own test recipes for Cook''s Illustrated, and fans of his work will appreciate his attention to even the smallest morsel of information. Kimball is off on a culinary and historical adventure as he literally traces Fannie Farmer''s steps around Boston at the turn of the century, regaling the reader with a history of Boston, observations of the Victorian character, manner of dress, and cooking implements and appliances available. In the meantime, his own team has been assembled and they are methodically testing recipes and ingredients in Kimball''s 1859 red-brick Boston bowfront. All this work culminates in a foodie''s dream dinner party, complete with Victorian plate settings, an all-star guest list, and 12 courses you won''t find in any restaurant today. A must-read for history buffs, home cooks, and professional chefs alike.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the mid-1990s, Chris Kimball moved into an 1859 Victorian townhouse on the South End of Boston and, as he became accustomed to the quirks and peculiarities of the house and neighborhood, he began to wonder what it was like to live and cook in that era. In particular, he became fascinated with Fannie Farmer''s\n <em>\n  Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n . Published in 1896, it was the best-selling cookbook of its age--full of odd, long-forgotten ingredients, fascinating details about how the recipes were concocted, and some truly amazing dishes (as well as some awful ones).\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Fannie''s Last Supper\n </em>\n , Kimball describes the experience of re-creating one of Fannie Farmer''s amazing menus: a twelve-course Christmas dinner that she served at the end of the century. Kimball immersed himself in composing twenty different recipes--including rissoles, Lobster Ã  l''AmÃ©ricaine, Roast Goose with Chestnut Stuffing and Jus, and Mandarin Cake--with all the inherent difficulties of sourcing unusual animal parts and mastering many now-forgotten techniques, including regulating the heat on a coal cookstove and boiling a calf''s head without its turning to mush, all sans food processor or oven thermometer. Kimball''s research leads to many hilarious scenes, bizarre tastings, and an incredible armchair experience for any reader interested in food and the Victorian era.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fannie''s Last Supper\n </em>\n includes the dishes from the dinner and revised and updated recipes from\n <em>\n  The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n . A culinary thriller. it offers a fresh look at something that most of us take for granted--the American table.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Praise for\n  <em>\n   Fannie''s Last Supper\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Chris''s `Fannie'' project is the most ambitious cooking undertaking I''ve ever witnessed outside of a restaurant opening. And as one of the devourers of the ultimate meal, I can tell you it was worth it, at least for me. (I would travel 200 miles for the jellies alone.) But the account of the making of the meal, told here in winning style, is just as impressive: part history and part contemporary journalism, it''s a fascinating story, and absolutely unique."\n <br />\n --Mark Bittman, author of\n <em>\n  How to Cook Everything\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "What a piece of work Christopher Kimball has pulled off. Read this book and join the escapade into what Chris calls the most progressive era in the history of the world. No, it wasn''t ten years ago, it was 110 years ago--the world of Victorian America and Fanny Farmer. Not an iota of dreamy pseudo-food history survives here. Instead, Chris challenges, provokes, entertains, and maybe even outrages our sensibilities. One thing is sure, if he gets his way, you will be rethinking some of today''s accepted political culinary wisdom."\n <br />\n --Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of\n <em>\n  The Splendid Table\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Fannie''s Last Supper_ is a splendid book with recipes and narrative that is based on a twelve-course dinner right out of the back pages of the original 1896\n <em>\n  Boston Cooking-School Cook Book\n </em>\n written by Fannie Farmer. How fantastic is that--traveling back in time to rethink the cooking of the future. A great, informative read with tempting recipes. Bravo!"\n <br />\n --Lidia Bastianich, author of\n <em>\n  Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A dynamic and entertaining book for chefs and home cooks alike. Christopher Kimball delves into the life, times, and recipes of Fannie Farmer, and creates an educational and delicious twelve-course menu that any food lover can sink their teeth into."\n <br />\n --Daniel Humm, Executive Chef, Eleven Madison Park\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18085'),
(17288, 'Fantastic Mr Fox', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They''re the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they''ve concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr Fox has a fantastic plan of his own . . . Releasing January 2010, Wes Anderson and Twentieth Century Fox bring to life Roald Dahl''s classic tale in breathtaking stop-motion animation. With a cast that includes George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray, this film is guaranteed to delight Dahl fans of every age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1825'),
(17289, 'Fantastic Mr Fox', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They''re the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they''ve concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr Fox has a fantastic plan of his own . . . Releasing January 2010, Wes Anderson and Twentieth Century Fox bring to life Roald Dahl''s classic tale in breathtaking stop-motion animation. With a cast that includes George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray, this film is guaranteed to delight Dahl fans of every age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9205'),
(17290, 'Fantastic Mr Fox', 'Dahl, Roald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24815'),
(17291, 'Fantastic Mr Fox', 'Roald Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They''re the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they''ve concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr Fox has a fantastic plan of his own . . . Releasing January 2010, Wes Anderson and Twentieth Century Fox bring to life Roald Dahl''s classic tale in breathtaking stop-motion animation. With a cast that includes George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray, this film is guaranteed to delight Dahl fans of every age.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24830'),
(17292, 'Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the phenomenal Isaac Asimov, Fantastic Voyage II, the fabulous sequel to bestselling Fantastic Voyage, is a powerful high-tech thriller set in the near future and in a human brain! A band of Americans and Russians are miniaturized in a joint effort to extract vital information from a comatose scientist''s brain. Certain to become a science fiction classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18291'),
(17293, 'Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the phenomenal Isaac Asimov, Fantastic Voyage II, the fabulous sequel to bestselling Fantastic Voyage, is a powerful high-tech thriller set in the near future and in a human brain! A band of Americans and Russians are miniaturized in a joint effort to extract vital information from a comatose scientist''s brain. Certain to become a science fiction classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28282'),
(17294, 'Fantasy Football for Dummies (ISBN', '0470125071)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21701'),
(17295, 'Fantasy in Death', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They were best friends, driven by one shared vision - to rule the world of virtual reality games. Cill, hard-edged and beautiful, Var and Benny, brains and business acumen, and Bart, the genius behind the idea. Their newest invention, developed to transport the player into a fantastical virtual world, is just about to be launched. Then, suddenly, Bart is found brutally killed, defeated by their own game. Their close-knit group is torn apart. Who could have engineered a virtual death with such devastating consequences? Even Eve Dallas, New York City''s most cunning investigator, is hard-pressed for an answer. But as she digs deeper, peeling back layers of secrets, revenge and misplaced allegiances, she realises with growing dread the depth of the killer''s master plan. And she knows his game is far from over...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2478'),
(17296, 'Fantasy in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They were best friends, driven by one shared vision - to rule the world of virtual reality games. Cill, hard-edged and beautiful, Var and Benny, brains and business acumen, and Bart, the genius behind the idea. Their newest invention, developed to transport the player into a fantastical virtual world, is just about to be launched. Then, suddenly, Bart is found brutally killed, defeated by their own game. Their close-knit group is torn apart. Who could have engineered a virtual death with such devastating consequences? Even Eve Dallas, New York City''s most cunning investigator, is hard-pressed for an answer. But as she digs deeper, peeling back layers of secrets, revenge and misplaced allegiances, she realises with growing dread the depth of the killer''s master plan. And she knows his game is far from over...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13981'),
(17297, 'Fantasy in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They were best friends, driven by one shared vision - to rule the world of virtual reality games. Cill, hard-edged and beautiful, Var and Benny, brains and business acumen, and Bart, the genius behind the idea. Their newest invention, developed to transport the player into a fantastical virtual world, is just about to be launched. Then, suddenly, Bart is found brutally killed, defeated by their own game. Their close-knit group is torn apart. Who could have engineered a virtual death with such devastating consequences? Even Eve Dallas, New York City''s most cunning investigator, is hard-pressed for an answer. But as she digs deeper, peeling back layers of secrets, revenge and misplaced allegiances, she realises with growing dread the depth of the killer''s master plan. And she knows his game is far from over...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22288'),
(17298, 'Fantoma adincurilor', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26057'),
(17299, 'Far From the Madding Crowd', 'Thomas Hardy; Linda M. Shires; Suzanne B. Falck-yi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Far from the Madding Crowd\n </em>\n was the first of Hardy''s novels to give the name Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. Set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year, the story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. This new edition retains the critical text that restores previously deleted and revised passages.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of England''s greatest novelists. Most of his work is set in his native Dorset, on the south coast of England.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22902'),
(17300, 'The Far Pavilions', 'Mary Margaret Kaye', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rip-roaring, heart-tugging, flag-flying, hair-raising, hoof-beating ... the very presence of India The Times A long, romantic adventure story of the highest calibre ... wildly exciting Daily Telegraph Magnificent is the only possible description for The Far Pavilions ... not one of its 950 pages is a page too much Evening Standard A Gone With the Wind of the North-West frontier -- Jan Morris The Times A massive, meticulously researched and fascinating saga about the British in India, encompassing a guarter of a century, from the Mutiny up to war with ferocious Afghan tribemen Sunday Express\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is a magnificent romantic/historical/adventure novel set in India at the time of mutiny. "The Far Pavilions" is a story of 19th Century India, when the thin patina of English rule held down dangerously turbulent undercurrents. It is a story about an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu and his passionate, but dangerous love for an Indian princess. It is the story of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, of high adventure and of the clash between East and West. To the burning plains and snow-capped mountains of this great, humming continent, M.M. Kaye brings her quite exceptional gift of storytelling and meticulous historical accuracy, plus her insight into the human heart.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2958'),
(17301, 'The Far Pavilions', 'Mary Margaret Kaye', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rip-roaring, heart-tugging, flag-flying, hair-raising, hoof-beating ... the very presence of India The Times A long, romantic adventure story of the highest calibre ... wildly exciting Daily Telegraph Magnificent is the only possible description for The Far Pavilions ... not one of its 950 pages is a page too much Evening Standard A Gone With the Wind of the North-West frontier -- Jan Morris The Times A massive, meticulously researched and fascinating saga about the British in India, encompassing a guarter of a century, from the Mutiny up to war with ferocious Afghan tribemen Sunday Express\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is a magnificent romantic/historical/adventure novel set in India at the time of mutiny. "The Far Pavilions" is a story of 19th Century India, when the thin patina of English rule held down dangerously turbulent undercurrents. It is a story about an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu and his passionate, but dangerous love for an Indian princess. It is the story of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, of high adventure and of the clash between East and West. To the burning plains and snow-capped mountains of this great, humming continent, M.M. Kaye brings her quite exceptional gift of storytelling and meticulous historical accuracy, plus her insight into the human heart.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10627'),
(17302, 'The Far Pavilions', 'Mary Margaret Kaye', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Rip-roaring, heart-tugging, flag-flying, hair-raising, hoof-beating ... the very presence of India The Times A long, romantic adventure story of the highest calibre ... wildly exciting Daily Telegraph Magnificent is the only possible description for The Far Pavilions ... not one of its 950 pages is a page too much Evening Standard A Gone With the Wind of the North-West frontier -- Jan Morris The Times A massive, meticulously researched and fascinating saga about the British in India, encompassing a guarter of a century, from the Mutiny up to war with ferocious Afghan tribemen Sunday Express\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This is a magnificent romantic/historical/adventure novel set in India at the time of mutiny. "The Far Pavilions" is a story of 19th Century India, when the thin patina of English rule held down dangerously turbulent undercurrents. It is a story about an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu and his passionate, but dangerous love for an Indian princess. It is the story of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, of high adventure and of the clash between East and West. To the burning plains and snow-capped mountains of this great, humming continent, M.M. Kaye brings her quite exceptional gift of storytelling and meticulous historical accuracy, plus her insight into the human heart.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21861'),
(17303, 'The Far Side of the Dollar', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where starlets and sailors once rubbed shoulders with grifters--and where the present clientele includes a brand-new corpse.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11078'),
(17304, 'The Far Side of the World', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O''Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever written. They set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. If they do not come up with her before she rounds the Horn, they must follow her into the Great South Sea and as far across the Pacific as she may lead them. It is a commission after Jack''s own heart. Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Aubrey has to cope with a succession of disasters -- men overboard, castaways, encounters with savages, storms, typhoons, groundings, shipwrecks, to say nothing of murder and criminal insanity. That the enemy is in fact faithfully dealt with, no one who has the honour of Captain Aubrey''s acquaintance can take leave to doubt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2255'),
(17305, 'The Far Side of the World', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O''Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever written. They set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. If they do not come up with her before she rounds the Horn, they must follow her into the Great South Sea and as far across the Pacific as she may lead them. It is a commission after Jack''s own heart. Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Aubrey has to cope with a succession of disasters -- men overboard, castaways, encounters with savages, storms, typhoons, groundings, shipwrecks, to say nothing of murder and criminal insanity. That the enemy is in fact faithfully dealt with, no one who has the honour of Captain Aubrey''s acquaintance can take leave to doubt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14560'),
(17306, 'The Far Side of the World', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O''Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever written. They set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. If they do not come up with her before she rounds the Horn, they must follow her into the Great South Sea and as far across the Pacific as she may lead them. It is a commission after Jack''s own heart. Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Aubrey has to cope with a succession of disasters -- men overboard, castaways, encounters with savages, storms, typhoons, groundings, shipwrecks, to say nothing of murder and criminal insanity. That the enemy is in fact faithfully dealt with, no one who has the honour of Captain Aubrey''s acquaintance can take leave to doubt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22452'),
(17307, 'A Fare to Remember: Just Whistle\\\\Driven to Distraction\\\\Taken for a Ride', 'Vicki Lewis Thompson &amp; Julie Elizabeth Leto &amp; Kate Hoffmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Convincing these women he''s found their matches is hardly a smooth ride for cabbie Mario Capelli . . .**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Just whistle*** There''s no way jaded Zachary Evans will help new grad Hannah Robertson land a swishy publishing gig. What''s the point? She can''t even hail a cab! But Hannah knows what Zach needs to find his inner optimism. It''s called S-E-X . . . in NYC.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Driven to distraction*** Rachel Marlowe doesn''t know a thing about her supersecretive lover Roman Brach. Sure, the sex is great. But why does he jump at every pager beep? Heck, it''s enough to have him followed. Hmm. Now *there''s* an idea . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Taken for a ride*** No sale! Psychic Sabina Amanar is never going to sell her grandmother''s Eat Village storefront, even if it *is* worth millions. Real-estate developer Alec Harnett predicts Sabina will cave. But first he''s got to wine her, dine her . . . and then fall in love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/331'),
(17308, 'A Fare to Remember: Just Whistle\\\\Driven to Distraction\\\\Taken for a Ride', 'Vicki Lewis Thompson &amp; Julie Elizabeth Leto &amp; Kate Hoffmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Convincing these women he''s found their matches is hardly a smooth ride for cabbie Mario Capelli . . .**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Just whistle*** There''s no way jaded Zachary Evans will help new grad Hannah Robertson land a swishy publishing gig. What''s the point? She can''t even hail a cab! But Hannah knows what Zach needs to find his inner optimism. It''s called S-E-X . . . in NYC.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Driven to distraction*** Rachel Marlowe doesn''t know a thing about her supersecretive lover Roman Brach. Sure, the sex is great. But why does he jump at every pager beep? Heck, it''s enough to have him followed. Hmm. Now *there''s* an idea . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Taken for a ride*** No sale! Psychic Sabina Amanar is never going to sell her grandmother''s Eat Village storefront, even if it *is* worth millions. Real-estate developer Alec Harnett predicts Sabina will cave. But first he''s got to wine her, dine her . . . and then fall in love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13043'),
(17309, 'A Fare To Remember: Just Whistle\\\\Driven To Distraction\\\\Taken For A Ride', 'Vicki Lewis Thompson; Julie Elizabeth Leto; Kate Hoffmann', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Convincing these women he''s found their matches is hardly a smooth ride for cabbie Mario Capelli . . .** ***Just whistle*** There''s no way jaded Zachary Evans will help new grad Hannah Robertson land a swishy publishing gig. What''s the point? She can''t even hail a cab! But Hannah knows what Zach needs to find his inner optimism. It''s called S-E-X . . . in NYC. ***Driven to distraction*** Rachel Marlowe doesn''t know a thing about her supersecretive lover Roman Brach. Sure, the sex is great. But why does he jump at every pager beep? Heck, it''s enough to have him followed. Hmm. Now *there''s* an idea . . . ***Taken for a ride*** No sale! Psychic Sabina Amanar is never going to sell her grandmother''s Eat Village storefront, even if it *is* worth millions. Real-estate developer Alec Harnett predicts Sabina will cave. But first he''s got to wine her, dine her . . . and then fall in love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24541'),
(17310, 'A Farewell to Arms', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14581'),
(17311, 'A Farewell to Arms', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19081'),
(17312, 'A Farewell to Arms', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An American''s love for an English nurse during the First World War ends in tragedy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27771'),
(17313, 'A Farewell to Legs: An Aaron Tucker Mystery', 'Jeffrey Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Work-at-home dad, devoted husband, aspiring screenwriter -- all ways to describe the unwilling sleuth Aaron Tucker, whom one re-viewer dubbed a combination of "Bart Simpson and James Bond." In A Farewell to Legs, the second installment of the Aaron Tucker Mystery Series, Aaron is back on the trail again, this time trying to ferret out the murderer of a former classmate, a D.C. lobbyist whose enemies finally stick it to him, literally -- with a six-inch steak knife. The deceased leaves behind a bombshell of a widow, a hidden bankroll of $13 million, and a cloud of political controversy, all of which lead Aaron to a barrel of red herrings. But in the life of Aaron Tucker, one mystery is never enough (though he''d be quick to tell you otherwise). He''s also been dele-gated the odious task of tracking down Buzbee School''s secret stink-bomber, and his wife, the beautiful attorney Abby Stein, is being stalked by a former client. All in a day''s work for the 5''4" freelance writer, who, as procrastinator extraordinaire, would rather be doing anything but investigating.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4552'),
(17314, 'A Farewell to Legs: An Aaron Tucker Mystery', 'Jeffrey Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Work-at-home dad, devoted husband, aspiring screenwriter -- all ways to describe the unwilling sleuth Aaron Tucker, whom one re-viewer dubbed a combination of "Bart Simpson and James Bond." In A Farewell to Legs, the second installment of the Aaron Tucker Mystery Series, Aaron is back on the trail again, this time trying to ferret out the murderer of a former classmate, a D.C. lobbyist whose enemies finally stick it to him, literally -- with a six-inch steak knife. The deceased leaves behind a bombshell of a widow, a hidden bankroll of $13 million, and a cloud of political controversy, all of which lead Aaron to a barrel of red herrings. But in the life of Aaron Tucker, one mystery is never enough (though he''d be quick to tell you otherwise). He''s also been dele-gated the odious task of tracking down Buzbee School''s secret stink-bomber, and his wife, the beautiful attorney Abby Stein, is being stalked by a former client. All in a day''s work for the 5''4" freelance writer, who, as procrastinator extraordinaire, would rather be doing anything but investigating.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9022');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(17315, 'Farewell, My Lovely', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he''s one of the 20th century''s top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard''s signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Raymond Chandler is a master." --_The New York Times_\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€œ[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.â€ --\n </em>\n The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œChandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.â€ --Robert B. Parker,\n </em>\n The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œPhilip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.â€ --\n </em>\n Los Angeles Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œNobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.â€ â€”_The Boston Book Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œRaymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandlerâ€™s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.â€ --_Literary Review\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œ[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.â€ --Joyce Carol Oates, _The New York Review of Books\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œChandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.â€ â€”Ross Macdonald\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _â€œRaymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.â€ --Erle Stanley Gardner\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _â€œRaymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.â€ --Paul Auster\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Chandler]â€™s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world thatâ€™s like ours, but isnâ€™t. â€ --Carolyn See\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21483'),
(17316, 'Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer', 'Novella Carpenter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This upbeat account of raising poultry, rabbits, pigs and bees in the middle of a rundown neighborhood in Oakland, Calif., will make listeners either run out to reclaim some vacant lots or cringe at the thought that they might one day live next door to and downwind from such a menagerie. Karen White vividly individualizes the colorful locals, including Bobby (who lives in abandoned cars), the Buddhist monks across the way, the skeptical neighbors, the Chinese landlord and the random foragers who help themselves to Carpenter''s bounty. Narrated with cheerful verve, White''s performance will charm even those readers without the slightest inclination to get up close and personal with their future meals.\n <em>\n  A Penguin Press hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 20). (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Audio Review] Highways roared in the distance. Gunshots could be heard a few blocks away. And a homeless man slept in an abandoned car down the street. Among these modern-day urban scenes, author Novella Carpenter put down roots literally turning a vacant lot in Oakland, California, into a working mini-farm, complete with vegetables, herbs, chickens, ducks, and bees. Karen White reads these lively accounts of missteps and delicious victories, including recipes, with the author''s intelligence, humor, and devotion to the American ideal of hard work and self-sufficiency. Farming is about food, and food is always about people. Carpenter''s encounters with third-world neighbors, block parties, and the boy who came to buy a rabbit are beguiling and inspiring. B.P. Ã‚Â© AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine --AudioFile\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2452'),
(17317, 'Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer', 'Novella Carpenter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This upbeat account of raising poultry, rabbits, pigs and bees in the middle of a rundown neighborhood in Oakland, Calif., will make listeners either run out to reclaim some vacant lots or cringe at the thought that they might one day live next door to and downwind from such a menagerie. Karen White vividly individualizes the colorful locals, including Bobby (who lives in abandoned cars), the Buddhist monks across the way, the skeptical neighbors, the Chinese landlord and the random foragers who help themselves to Carpenter''s bounty. Narrated with cheerful verve, White''s performance will charm even those readers without the slightest inclination to get up close and personal with their future meals.\n <em>\n  A Penguin Press hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 20). (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Audio Review] Highways roared in the distance. Gunshots could be heard a few blocks away. And a homeless man slept in an abandoned car down the street. Among these modern-day urban scenes, author Novella Carpenter put down roots literally turning a vacant lot in Oakland, California, into a working mini-farm, complete with vegetables, herbs, chickens, ducks, and bees. Karen White reads these lively accounts of missteps and delicious victories, including recipes, with the author''s intelligence, humor, and devotion to the American ideal of hard work and self-sufficiency. Farming is about food, and food is always about people. Carpenter''s encounters with third-world neighbors, block parties, and the boy who came to buy a rabbit are beguiling and inspiring. B.P. Ã‚Â© AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine --AudioFile\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8814'),
(17318, 'Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer', 'Novella Carpenter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This upbeat account of raising poultry, rabbits, pigs and bees in the middle of a rundown neighborhood in Oakland, Calif., will make listeners either run out to reclaim some vacant lots or cringe at the thought that they might one day live next door to and downwind from such a menagerie. Karen White vividly individualizes the colorful locals, including Bobby (who lives in abandoned cars), the Buddhist monks across the way, the skeptical neighbors, the Chinese landlord and the random foragers who help themselves to Carpenter''s bounty. Narrated with cheerful verve, White''s performance will charm even those readers without the slightest inclination to get up close and personal with their future meals.\n <em>\n  A Penguin Press hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 20). (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n [Audio Review] Highways roared in the distance. Gunshots could be heard a few blocks away. And a homeless man slept in an abandoned car down the street. Among these modern-day urban scenes, author Novella Carpenter put down roots literally turning a vacant lot in Oakland, California, into a working mini-farm, complete with vegetables, herbs, chickens, ducks, and bees. Karen White reads these lively accounts of missteps and delicious victories, including recipes, with the author''s intelligence, humor, and devotion to the American ideal of hard work and self-sufficiency. Farming is about food, and food is always about people. Carpenter''s encounters with third-world neighbors, block parties, and the boy who came to buy a rabbit are beguiling and inspiring. B.P. Ã‚Â© AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine --AudioFile\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22407'),
(17319, 'Farm to Fork', 'Emeril Lagasse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this extraordinary new book, Emeril Lagasse continues his lifelong commitment to using fresh, local ingredients in his restaurants and home kitchen. He has spent the past thirty years building close relationships with farmers, fishermen, and ranchers. "Farm to Fork" is his guide to help you explore the great local bounty through fifteen flavorful chapters--sweet summer in "The Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, and Squash," juicy "Berries, Figs, and Melons," sublime naturally raised meats in "Out on the Range," fresh catch in "Fresh Off the Dock," and home canning tips from "Home Economics: Preserving the Harvest."  Fill your basket with the ripest ingredients from every season at the markets (or your backyard garden) and dig into delicious recipes such as Sweet Potato Ravioli with Sage Brown Butter, Cheesy Creole Tomato Pie, Honey-Brined Pork Chops with Nectarine Chutney, Watermelon Rind Crisp Sweet Pickles, and Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp. Even learn how to make your own cheese and pasta at home. Emeril shares his love for fresh from-the-fields foods--and the heritage of the artisans who bring them to the table.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5725'),
(17320, 'Farm to Fork', 'Emeril Lagasse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this extraordinary new book, Emeril Lagasse continues his lifelong commitment to using fresh, local ingredients in his restaurants and home kitchen. He has spent the past thirty years building close relationships with farmers, fishermen, and ranchers. "Farm to Fork" is his guide to help you explore the great local bounty through fifteen flavorful chapters--sweet summer in "The Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, and Squash," juicy "Berries, Figs, and Melons," sublime naturally raised meats in "Out on the Range," fresh catch in "Fresh Off the Dock," and home canning tips from "Home Economics: Preserving the Harvest."  Fill your basket with the ripest ingredients from every season at the markets (or your backyard garden) and dig into delicious recipes such as Sweet Potato Ravioli with Sage Brown Butter, Cheesy Creole Tomato Pie, Honey-Brined Pork Chops with Nectarine Chutney, Watermelon Rind Crisp Sweet Pickles, and Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp. Even learn how to make your own cheese and pasta at home. Emeril shares his love for fresh from-the-fields foods--and the heritage of the artisans who bring them to the table.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12249'),
(17321, 'Farm to Fork', 'Emeril Lagasse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this extraordinary new book, Emeril Lagasse continues his lifelong commitment to using fresh, local ingredients in his restaurants and home kitchen. He has spent the past thirty years building close relationships with farmers, fishermen, and ranchers. "Farm to Fork" is his guide to help you explore the great local bounty through fifteen flavorful chapters--sweet summer in "The Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, and Squash," juicy "Berries, Figs, and Melons," sublime naturally raised meats in "Out on the Range," fresh catch in "Fresh Off the Dock," and home canning tips from "Home Economics: Preserving the Harvest." Fill your basket with the ripest ingredients from every season at the markets (or your backyard garden) and dig into delicious recipes such as Sweet Potato Ravioli with Sage Brown Butter, Cheesy Creole Tomato Pie, Honey-Brined Pork Chops with Nectarine Chutney, Watermelon Rind Crisp Sweet Pickles, and Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp. Even learn how to make your own cheese and pasta at home. Emeril shares his love for fresh from-the-fields foods--and the heritage of the artisans who bring them to the table.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19019'),
(17322, 'Farm to Fork', 'Emeril Lagasse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this extraordinary new book, Emeril Lagasse continues his lifelong commitment to using fresh, local ingredients in his restaurants and home kitchen. He has spent the past thirty years building close relationships with farmers, fishermen, and ranchers. "Farm to Fork" is his guide to help you explore the great local bounty through fifteen flavorful chapters--sweet summer in "The Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, and Squash," juicy "Berries, Figs, and Melons," sublime naturally raised meats in "Out on the Range," fresh catch in "Fresh Off the Dock," and home canning tips from "Home Economics: Preserving the Harvest." Fill your basket with the ripest ingredients from every season at the markets (or your backyard garden) and dig into delicious recipes such as Sweet Potato Ravioli with Sage Brown Butter, Cheesy Creole Tomato Pie, Honey-Brined Pork Chops with Nectarine Chutney, Watermelon Rind Crisp Sweet Pickles, and Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp. Even learn how to make your own cheese and pasta at home. Emeril shares his love for fresh from-the-fields foods--and the heritage of the artisans who bring them to the table.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27784'),
(17323, 'Farmer in the Sky', 'Robert A Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Earth is crowded and food is rationed, but a colony on Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter, offers an escape for teenager Bill Lermer and his family. Back on Earth, the move sounded like a grand adventure, but Bill soon realizes that life on the frontier is dangerous, and in an alien world with no safety nets, nature is cruelly unforgiving of even small mistakes. Billâ€™s new home is a world of unearthly wondersâ€”and heartbreaking tragedy. He will face hardships, survive dangers, and grow up fast, meeting the challenge of opening up a new world for humanity and finding strengths within himself that he had never suspected existed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22726'),
(17324, 'The Farming of Bones: A Novel', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haiti border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel''s wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5792'),
(17325, 'The Farming of Bones: A Novel', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haiti border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel''s wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9170'),
(17326, 'The Farming of Bones: A Novel', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haiti border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel''s wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18852'),
(17327, 'Farnham&#39;s Freehold', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man, and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn''t expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings.But Farnham''s small group had barely settled down to the back-breaking business of low-tech survival when they found that they were not alone after all. The same nuclear war that had catapulted Farnham two thousand years into the future had destroyed all civilization in the northern hemisphere. And the world had changed in more ways than one.In the new world order, Farnham and his family, being members of the race that had nearly destroyed the world, were fit only to be slaves. After surviving a nuclear war, Farnham had no intention of being anybody''s slave, but the tyrannical power of the Chosen Race reached throughout the world. Even if he managed to escape, where could he run to...?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22727'),
(17328, 'Faro&#39;s Daughter', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A sparkling Regency romance from the queen of the genre\n</p>\n<p>\n Beautiful Deborah Grantham, mistress of her aunt''s elegant gaming house, must find a way to restore herself and her aunt to respectability, preferably without accepting either of two repugnant offers. One is from an older, very rich and rather corpulent lord whose reputation for licentious behavior disgusts her; the other from the young, puppyish scion of a noble family whose relatives are convinced she is a fortune hunter.\n</p>\n<p>\n Max Ravenscar, uncle to her young suitor, comes to buy her off, an insult so scathing that it leads to a volley of passionate reprisals, escalating between them to a level of flair and fury that can only have one conclusion...\n</p>\n<p>\n "My favourite historical novelist--stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours." --Margaret Drabble\n <br />\n "Georgette Heyer is unbeatable." Sunday Telegraph\n <br />\n "Sparkling." Independent on Sunday\n <br />\n "A writer of great wit and style...I''ve read her books to ragged shreds." --Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph (20081021)\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or private life. It is known that she was born in Wimbledon in August 1902, and her first novel, The Black Moth, was published in 1921.\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer published 56 books over the next 53 years, until her death from lung cancer in 1974. Heyer''s large volume of works included Regency romances, mysteries and historical fiction. Known also as the Queen of Regency romance, Heyer was legendary for her research, historical accuracy and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. Her last book, My Lord John, was published posthumously in 1975. She was married to George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer, and they had one son together, Richard.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18377'),
(17329, 'Farseer 1 - Assassin&#39;s Apprentice', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25726'),
(17330, 'Farseer 2 - Royal Assassin', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25727'),
(17331, 'Farseer 3 - Assassin&#39;s Quest', 'Hobb, Robin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25728'),
(17332, 'Farthest Reach: The Last Mythal', 'Richard Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The second in a trilogy of novels from "New York Times "best-selling author Richard Baker.  "Farthest Reach "is the second novel in a trilogy chronicling the tempestuous return of an isolated society of elves to the mainland of the Forgotten Realms world. The events in this trilogy will have a far-reaching impact across the entire setting.  AUTHOR BIO: RICHARD BAKER works as a game designer and Managing Developer for the roleplaying game line at Wizards of the Coast, Inc. A "New York Times "bestselling author with "Condemnation," his additional Forgotten Realms novels include The "City of Ravens." "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1811'),
(17333, 'Farthest Reach: The Last Mythal', 'Richard Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The second in a trilogy of novels from "New York Times "best-selling author Richard Baker.  "Farthest Reach "is the second novel in a trilogy chronicling the tempestuous return of an isolated society of elves to the mainland of the Forgotten Realms world. The events in this trilogy will have a far-reaching impact across the entire setting.  AUTHOR BIO: RICHARD BAKER works as a game designer and Managing Developer for the roleplaying game line at Wizards of the Coast, Inc. A "New York Times "bestselling author with "Condemnation," his additional Forgotten Realms novels include The "City of Ravens." "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8247'),
(17334, 'The Farthest Shore', 'Ursula K. LeGuin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22837'),
(17335, 'Fascination', 'Samantha Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n OBSESSION...?\n</p>\n<p>\n Sage Matthews''s fascination with hacking into computers and creating bugs got her into deep trouble. Just ask special agent Ian Chandler, who handcuffed the fiery redhead--and has been monitoring her every sexy teasing move since.\n</p>\n<p>\n POSSESSION...?\n</p>\n<p>\n Ian has now formed his own crack crime-busting team--The HotWires. His first case? None other than Sage, fresh off probation, but seemingly up to her old tricks. Ian''s hot on her tail, but his plans backfire one sultry steamy night.\n</p>\n<p>\n REDEMPTION...?\n</p>\n<p>\n He tangles with Sage between the sheets--breaking every rule in his personal code of honor. And he''s about to break a few more as his gut instinct tells him she''s been framed again--and only he can prove her innocence....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1477'),
(17336, 'Fascination', 'Samantha Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n OBSESSION...?\n</p>\n<p>\n Sage Matthews''s fascination with hacking into computers and creating bugs got her into deep trouble. Just ask special agent Ian Chandler, who handcuffed the fiery redhead--and has been monitoring her every sexy teasing move since.\n</p>\n<p>\n POSSESSION...?\n</p>\n<p>\n Ian has now formed his own crack crime-busting team--The HotWires. His first case? None other than Sage, fresh off probation, but seemingly up to her old tricks. Ian''s hot on her tail, but his plans backfire one sultry steamy night.\n</p>\n<p>\n REDEMPTION...?\n</p>\n<p>\n He tangles with Sage between the sheets--breaking every rule in his personal code of honor. And he''s about to break a few more as his gut instinct tells him she''s been framed again--and only he can prove her innocence....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10388'),
(17337, 'Fascination', 'Samantha Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n OBSESSION...?\n</p>\n<p>\n Sage Matthews''s fascination with hacking into computers and creating bugs got her into deep trouble. Just ask special agent Ian Chandler, who handcuffed the fiery redhead--and has been monitoring her every sexy teasing move since.\n</p>\n<p>\n POSSESSION...?\n</p>\n<p>\n Ian has now formed his own crack crime-busting team--The HotWires. His first case? None other than Sage, fresh off probation, but seemingly up to her old tricks. Ian''s hot on her tail, but his plans backfire one sultry steamy night.\n</p>\n<p>\n REDEMPTION...?\n</p>\n<p>\n He tangles with Sage between the sheets--breaking every rule in his personal code of honor. And he''s about to break a few more as his gut instinct tells him she''s been framed again--and only he can prove her innocence....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23525'),
(17338, 'Fast Food Nation', 'Eric Schlosser', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eric Schlosser has visited the state of the art labs where scientists recreate the flavours and smells of everything from cooked chicken to fresh strawberries in the test tube and he has spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with some of the worstsafety records in the world. He explores the links between Hollywood and the fast food trade, and the tactics used to target ever younger consumers. In a meticulously researched and powerfully argued account, Fast Food Nation reveals the full price of our appetite for instant gratification.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5569'),
(17339, 'Fast Food Nation', 'Eric Schlosser', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eric Schlosser has visited the state of the art labs where scientists recreate the flavours and smells of everything from cooked chicken to fresh strawberries in the test tube and he has spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with some of the worstsafety records in the world. He explores the links between Hollywood and the fast food trade, and the tactics used to target ever younger consumers. In a meticulously researched and powerfully argued account, Fast Food Nation reveals the full price of our appetite for instant gratification.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12531'),
(17340, 'Fast Food Nation', 'Eric Schlosser', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Eric Schlosser has visited the state of the art labs where scientists recreate the flavours and smells of everything from cooked chicken to fresh strawberries in the test tube and he has spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with some of the worstsafety records in the world. He explores the links between Hollywood and the fast food trade, and the tactics used to target ever younger consumers. In a meticulously researched and powerfully argued account, Fast Food Nation reveals the full price of our appetite for instant gratification.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18963'),
(17341, 'The Fast Track Photographer Business Plan: Build a Successful Photography Venture From the Ground Up', 'Dane Sanders &amp; David Duchemin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n NEW RULES FOR A NEW BUSINESS WORLDThinking about starting a photography business? The first thing you need to know is that the rules have changed. Yesterdayâ€™s business models have collapsed. Creating a successful business in todayâ€™s "Digi-Flat" era requires a sharp new approach, one that Dane Sanders has practiced successfully and taught at Fast Track workshops and seminars all around the world. Some of the things you''ll learn in this book:How to turn the very technologies that are "killing" professional photographyâ€”such as the Internetâ€”into your tools of success-How to lead your business, not let your business lead youÂ Â Â Â  -How systematizing, scaling, and outsourcing are critical concepts even for a one-person business-How to radically rethink marketing, sales, and customer service for the 21st century-How to hone a creative vision that worksâ€”the most powerful step you can take as a businessperson The Fast Track Photographer Business Plan is not about building a "traditional" business plan that looks good on paper and impresses investors. It''s about creating a vibrant, living business plan that will help you thrive in today''s digital "Wild West," where creative content is freely distributed, where no one plays by the rules anymore, and where customers have unprecedented freedom in choosing what to buy and whom to hire. It''s a groundbreaking look at running a creative business. Whether you''re an amateur looking to go pro or a professional whose business has stalled, Dane''s practical, on-the-ground advice will launch you on the fast track to business success. Includes free access to Dane''s online "stress test" to diagnose your business''s strengthsâ€”as well as where it needs help!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12417'),
(17342, 'Fast, Fresh, and Green: More Than 90 Delicious Recipes for Veggie Lovers', 'Susie Middleton &amp; Ben Fink', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Not all these recipes are fast, nor do they all feature green veggies (nor are they consciously ecofocused). The subtitle explains it better: this rainbow of appealing recipes is for those who adore vegetable dishes and want more than an afterthought chapter dedicated to them. Middleton, a former editor-at-large for\n <em>\n  Fine Cooking\n </em>\n magazine, divides recipes by cooking style, instructing readers in braising, hands-on sautÃ©ing, stir-frying, grilling, and more. She offers dishesâ€”braised fingerlings with rosemary and mellow garlic; sautÃ©ed carrots with warm olive and mint dressing; stir-fried swiss chard with pine nuts and balsamic butter; and grill-roasted bell peppers with goat cheese and cherry tomato dressingâ€”with layers of complexity that heighten but don''t overwhelm the flavors of the intended stars, the vegetables. And she employs interesting contrastsâ€”savory and sweet, for exampleâ€”in recipes such as vanilla and cardamom glazed acorn squash rings; roasted turnips and pears with rosemary-honey drizzle; and gingery sweet potato and apple sautÃ© with toasted almonds that are likely to tempt even the vegetable-averse. Fink''s photosâ€”mostly of green veggies, perhaps in a nod to the misnomer titleâ€”show lima beans and peas as mouth-watering, decadent treats.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new bible for all things vegetable from\n <em>\n  Fine Cooking''s\n </em>\n Vegetable Queen is ideal for the millions of cooks who want to get more veggies into their daily diet--and want to feed their families deliciously. Susie Middleton shares her love of great-tasting veggies with a guide to stocking up the pantry, shopping for vegetables, and cooking those veggies in 9 different ways.\n <em>\n  Fast, Fresh &amp; Green\n </em>\n is uniquely organized by technique so that cooks can add new ways to cook veggies to their weeknight repertoires. More than 100 recipes for side dishes--many that can double as starters or main dishes, and many that are vegan--include Spinach with Shallots and Parmigiano, Sweet Potato Mini Fries with Limey Dipping Sauce, Roasted Broccoli with Two Dipping Sauces, Braised Fingerlings with Rosemary and Mellow Garlic, and Summer Vegetable Ragout.Â _Fast,Â __Fresh &amp; Green_Â is an excellent resource for vegetarians and omnivores alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/908'),
(17343, 'Fast, Fresh, and Green: More Than 90 Delicious Recipes for Veggie Lovers', 'Susie Middleton &amp; Ben Fink', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Not all these recipes are fast, nor do they all feature green veggies (nor are they consciously ecofocused). The subtitle explains it better: this rainbow of appealing recipes is for those who adore vegetable dishes and want more than an afterthought chapter dedicated to them. Middleton, a former editor-at-large for\n <em>\n  Fine Cooking\n </em>\n magazine, divides recipes by cooking style, instructing readers in braising, hands-on sautÃ©ing, stir-frying, grilling, and more. She offers dishesâ€”braised fingerlings with rosemary and mellow garlic; sautÃ©ed carrots with warm olive and mint dressing; stir-fried swiss chard with pine nuts and balsamic butter; and grill-roasted bell peppers with goat cheese and cherry tomato dressingâ€”with layers of complexity that heighten but don''t overwhelm the flavors of the intended stars, the vegetables. And she employs interesting contrastsâ€”savory and sweet, for exampleâ€”in recipes such as vanilla and cardamom glazed acorn squash rings; roasted turnips and pears with rosemary-honey drizzle; and gingery sweet potato and apple sautÃ© with toasted almonds that are likely to tempt even the vegetable-averse. Fink''s photosâ€”mostly of green veggies, perhaps in a nod to the misnomer titleâ€”show lima beans and peas as mouth-watering, decadent treats.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new bible for all things vegetable from\n <em>\n  Fine Cooking''s\n </em>\n Vegetable Queen is ideal for the millions of cooks who want to get more veggies into their daily diet--and want to feed their families deliciously. Susie Middleton shares her love of great-tasting veggies with a guide to stocking up the pantry, shopping for vegetables, and cooking those veggies in 9 different ways.\n <em>\n  Fast, Fresh &amp; Green\n </em>\n is uniquely organized by technique so that cooks can add new ways to cook veggies to their weeknight repertoires. More than 100 recipes for side dishes--many that can double as starters or main dishes, and many that are vegan--include Spinach with Shallots and Parmigiano, Sweet Potato Mini Fries with Limey Dipping Sauce, Roasted Broccoli with Two Dipping Sauces, Braised Fingerlings with Rosemary and Mellow Garlic, and Summer Vegetable Ragout.Â _Fast,Â __Fresh &amp; Green_Â is an excellent resource for vegetarians and omnivores alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11473'),
(17344, 'Fast, Fresh, and Green: More Than 90 Delicious Recipes for Veggie Lovers', 'Susie Middleton; Ben Fink', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Not all these recipes are fast, nor do they all feature green veggies (nor are they consciously ecofocused). The subtitle explains it better: this rainbow of appealing recipes is for those who adore vegetable dishes and want more than an afterthought chapter dedicated to them. Middleton, a former editor-at-large for\n <em>\n  Fine Cooking\n </em>\n magazine, divides recipes by cooking style, instructing readers in braising, hands-on sautÃ©ing, stir-frying, grilling, and more. She offers dishesâ€”braised fingerlings with rosemary and mellow garlic; sautÃ©ed carrots with warm olive and mint dressing; stir-fried swiss chard with pine nuts and balsamic butter; and grill-roasted bell peppers with goat cheese and cherry tomato dressingâ€”with layers of complexity that heighten but don''t overwhelm the flavors of the intended stars, the vegetables. And she employs interesting contrastsâ€”savory and sweet, for exampleâ€”in recipes such as vanilla and cardamom glazed acorn squash rings; roasted turnips and pears with rosemary-honey drizzle; and gingery sweet potato and apple sautÃ© with toasted almonds that are likely to tempt even the vegetable-averse. Fink''s photosâ€”mostly of green veggies, perhaps in a nod to the misnomer titleâ€”show lima beans and peas as mouth-watering, decadent treats.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new bible for all things vegetable from\n <em>\n  Fine Cooking''s\n </em>\n Vegetable Queen is ideal for the millions of cooks who want to get more veggies into their daily diet--and want to feed their families deliciously. Susie Middleton shares her love of great-tasting veggies with a guide to stocking up the pantry, shopping for vegetables, and cooking those veggies in 9 different ways.\n <em>\n  Fast, Fresh &amp; Green\n </em>\n is uniquely organized by technique so that cooks can add new ways to cook veggies to their weeknight repertoires. More than 100 recipes for side dishes--many that can double as starters or main dishes, and many that are vegan--include Spinach with Shallots and Parmigiano, Sweet Potato Mini Fries with Limey Dipping Sauce, Roasted Broccoli with Two Dipping Sauces, Braised Fingerlings with Rosemary and Mellow Garlic, and Summer Vegetable Ragout. _Fast, __Fresh &amp; Green_ is an excellent resource for vegetarians and omnivores alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23928'),
(17345, 'Fat Man in History', 'Peter Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A landmark in contemporary Australian literature, The Fat Man in History brought early acclaim to Peter Carey for his brilliant and ingenious fiction. These twelve stories introduce visionary landscapes of intense clarity, where the rules of the game are bizarre yet chillingly familiar.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8089'),
(17346, 'The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir', 'Ken Harmon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harmonâ€™s debut is a combination of heartwarming holiday story and tough guy noir, an interesting mix that creates an enjoyable story. For over 1300 years Gumdrop Coal has served as an elite and highly dedicated elf for The Fat Man (aka Santa Claus) and is the well known creator of the Naught List; the list of children who will be getting coal in their stockings. After Gumdrop loses his job in what he comes to realizes is a frame-up he goes on a noir style revenge mission that encompasses all the neighborhoods of the North Pole, from the Misfits Island to the depths of dark Potterville. Littered with references to popular culture from both the noir and holiday traditions, with characters like Rosebud the journalist, Citizen Candy Cane and the not very bright misfit Sherlock Stetson. Harmonâ€™s novel is a clever tale, but the ending swings too far into heartwarming land, making it much more of a holiday than a noir story and limiting its appeal to a larger audience. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean...and who wears jingle bells on his curly-toed shoes and stands about two-foot three. A man who is, in other words, an elf. But don''t let the green tights and stocking cap fool you: Gumdrop Coal is the roughest, toughest punisher of the naughty since Mike Hammer, even if he does smell like peppermint and fresh-baked cookies."\n <br />\n -_New York Times_ bestselling author Steve Hockensmith (_Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls_) "Noir and Christmas go together like Santa and his reindeer in this stylish elf fable by Ken Harmon, a newcomer who knows noir like he apprenticed with Hammett. An excellent stocking stuffer for the mystery lover in your family."\n <br />\n -_New York Times_ bestselling author John Lescroart "This is one of those wonderful books where I hit my forehead and cry, "Why didn''t I think of that?". As I read I kept hoping it wasn''t as brilliant as I feared - but it is. It''s the "Naughty List" for you, if you don''t buy this book for Christmas!"\n <br />\n -Louise Penny,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  A Brutal Telling\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3652'),
(17347, 'The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir', 'Ken Harmon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harmonâ€™s debut is a combination of heartwarming holiday story and tough guy noir, an interesting mix that creates an enjoyable story. For over 1300 years Gumdrop Coal has served as an elite and highly dedicated elf for The Fat Man (aka Santa Claus) and is the well known creator of the Naught List; the list of children who will be getting coal in their stockings. After Gumdrop loses his job in what he comes to realizes is a frame-up he goes on a noir style revenge mission that encompasses all the neighborhoods of the North Pole, from the Misfits Island to the depths of dark Potterville. Littered with references to popular culture from both the noir and holiday traditions, with characters like Rosebud the journalist, Citizen Candy Cane and the not very bright misfit Sherlock Stetson. Harmonâ€™s novel is a clever tale, but the ending swings too far into heartwarming land, making it much more of a holiday than a noir story and limiting its appeal to a larger audience. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean...and who wears jingle bells on his curly-toed shoes and stands about two-foot three. A man who is, in other words, an elf. But don''t let the green tights and stocking cap fool you: Gumdrop Coal is the roughest, toughest punisher of the naughty since Mike Hammer, even if he does smell like peppermint and fresh-baked cookies."\n <br />\n -_New York Times_ bestselling author Steve Hockensmith (_Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls_) "Noir and Christmas go together like Santa and his reindeer in this stylish elf fable by Ken Harmon, a newcomer who knows noir like he apprenticed with Hammett. An excellent stocking stuffer for the mystery lover in your family."\n <br />\n -_New York Times_ bestselling author John Lescroart "This is one of those wonderful books where I hit my forehead and cry, "Why didn''t I think of that?". As I read I kept hoping it wasn''t as brilliant as I feared - but it is. It''s the "Naughty List" for you, if you don''t buy this book for Christmas!"\n <br />\n -Louise Penny,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  A Brutal Telling\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10208'),
(17348, 'The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir', 'Ken Harmon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harmonâ€™s debut is a combination of heartwarming holiday story and tough guy noir, an interesting mix that creates an enjoyable story. For over 1300 years Gumdrop Coal has served as an elite and highly dedicated elf for The Fat Man (aka Santa Claus) and is the well known creator of the Naught List; the list of children who will be getting coal in their stockings. After Gumdrop loses his job in what he comes to realizes is a frame-up he goes on a noir style revenge mission that encompasses all the neighborhoods of the North Pole, from the Misfits Island to the depths of dark Potterville. Littered with references to popular culture from both the noir and holiday traditions, with characters like Rosebud the journalist, Citizen Candy Cane and the not very bright misfit Sherlock Stetson. Harmonâ€™s novel is a clever tale, but the ending swings too far into heartwarming land, making it much more of a holiday than a noir story and limiting its appeal to a larger audience. --Jessica Moyer\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean...and who wears jingle bells on his curly-toed shoes and stands about two-foot three. A man who is, in other words, an elf. But don''t let the green tights and stocking cap fool you: Gumdrop Coal is the roughest, toughest punisher of the naughty since Mike Hammer, even if he does smell like peppermint and fresh-baked cookies."\n <br />\n -_New York Times_ bestselling author Steve Hockensmith (_Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls_) "Noir and Christmas go together like Santa and his reindeer in this stylish elf fable by Ken Harmon, a newcomer who knows noir like he apprenticed with Hammett. An excellent stocking stuffer for the mystery lover in your family."\n <br />\n -_New York Times_ bestselling author John Lescroart "This is one of those wonderful books where I hit my forehead and cry, "Why didn''t I think of that?". As I read I kept hoping it wasn''t as brilliant as I feared - but it is. It''s the "Naughty List" for you, if you don''t buy this book for Christmas!"\n <br />\n -Louise Penny,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  A Brutal Telling\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20706'),
(17349, 'Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story', 'Adam Rex', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Doug Lee is undead quite by accidentâ€”attacked by a desperate vampire, he finds himself cursed with being fat and fifteen forever. When he has no luck finding some goth chick with a vampire fetish, he resorts to sucking the blood of cows under cover of the night. But it''s just not the same.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Then he meets the new Indian exchange student and falls for herâ€”hard. Yeah, he wants to bite her, but he also wants to prove himself to her. But like the laws of life, love, and high school, the laws of vampire existence are complicatedâ€”it''s not as easy as studying *Dracula*. Especially when the star of *Vampire Hunters* is hot on your trail in an attempt to boost ratings. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Searing, hilarious, and always unexpected, *Fat Vampire* is a satirical tour de force from one of the most original writers of fiction today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4'),
(17350, 'Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story', 'Adam Rex', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Doug Lee is undead quite by accidentâ€”attacked by a desperate vampire, he finds himself cursed with being fat and fifteen forever. When he has no luck finding some goth chick with a vampire fetish, he resorts to sucking the blood of cows under cover of the night. But it''s just not the same.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Then he meets the new Indian exchange student and falls for herâ€”hard. Yeah, he wants to bite her, but he also wants to prove himself to her. But like the laws of life, love, and high school, the laws of vampire existence are complicatedâ€”it''s not as easy as studying *Dracula*. Especially when the star of *Vampire Hunters* is hot on your trail in an attempt to boost ratings. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Searing, hilarious, and always unexpected, *Fat Vampire* is a satirical tour de force from one of the most original writers of fiction today.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12153'),
(17351, 'Fat White Vampire Blues', 'Andrew Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Jules Duchon was a real New Orleans vampire. Born and bred in the working-class Ninth Ward, bitten and smitten with the Big Easy. Driving through the French Quarter, stuck in a row of bumper-to-bumper cars that crept along Decatur Street like a caravan of bone-weary camels, Jules Duchon barely fit behind the steering wheel of his very big Cadillac taxicab. Even with the seat pushed all the way back.Damn, he was hungry.Jules stopped his cab, pressed the wobbly rocker switch that jerked the electric windows reluctantly to life, and stuck his head into the humid night air. â€œHey, baby. You interested in some dinner?â€*â€“from *Fat White Vampire Blues*****Vampire, *nosferatu*, creature of the nightâ€“whatever you call himâ€“Jules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds on Bourbon Street. Weighing in at a whopping four hundred and fifty pounds, swelled up on the sweet, rich blood of people who consume the fattiest diet in the world, Jules is thankful he canâ€™t see his reflection in a mirror. When he turns into a bat, he canâ€™t get his big olâ€™ butt off the ground. Whatâ€™s worse, after more than a century of being undead, heâ€™s watched his neighborhood truly go to hellâ€“and now, a new vampire is looking to drive him out altogether. See, Jules had always been an equal opportunity kind of vampire. And while he would admit that the blood of a black woman is sweeter than the blood of a white man, Jules never drank more than his fair share of either. Enter Malice X . Young, cocky, and black, Malice warns Jules that his days of feasting on sisters and brothers are over. He tells Jules heâ€™d better confine himself to white victimsâ€“or else face the consequences. And then, just to prove he isnâ€™t kidding, Malice burns Julesâ€™s house to the ground. With the help of Maureen, the morbidly obese, stripper-vampire who made him, and Doodlebug, an undead cross-dresser who (literally) flies in from the coastâ€“ Jules must find a way to contend with the hurdles that life throws at him . . . without getting a stake through the heart. Itâ€™s enough to give a man the blues.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15367');
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(17352, 'Fat White Vampire Blues', 'Andrew Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Jules Duchon was a real New Orleans vampire. Born and bred in the working-class Ninth Ward, bitten and smitten with the Big Easy. Driving through the French Quarter, stuck in a row of bumper-to-bumper cars that crept along Decatur Street like a caravan of bone-weary camels, Jules Duchon barely fit behind the steering wheel of his very big Cadillac taxicab. Even with the seat pushed all the way back.Damn, he was hungry.Jules stopped his cab, pressed the wobbly rocker switch that jerked the electric windows reluctantly to life, and stuck his head into the humid night air. â€œHey, baby. You interested in some dinner?â€*â€“from *Fat White Vampire Blues*****Vampire, *nosferatu*, creature of the nightâ€“whatever you call himâ€“Jules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds on Bourbon Street. Weighing in at a whopping four hundred and fifty pounds, swelled up on the sweet, rich blood of people who consume the fattiest diet in the world, Jules is thankful he canâ€™t see his reflection in a mirror. When he turns into a bat, he canâ€™t get his big olâ€™ butt off the ground. Whatâ€™s worse, after more than a century of being undead, heâ€™s watched his neighborhood truly go to hellâ€“and now, a new vampire is looking to drive him out altogether. See, Jules had always been an equal opportunity kind of vampire. And while he would admit that the blood of a black woman is sweeter than the blood of a white man, Jules never drank more than his fair share of either. Enter Malice X . Young, cocky, and black, Malice warns Jules that his days of feasting on sisters and brothers are over. He tells Jules heâ€™d better confine himself to white victimsâ€“or else face the consequences. And then, just to prove he isnâ€™t kidding, Malice burns Julesâ€™s house to the ground. With the help of Maureen, the morbidly obese, stripper-vampire who made him, and Doodlebug, an undead cross-dresser who (literally) flies in from the coastâ€“ Jules must find a way to contend with the hurdles that life throws at him . . . without getting a stake through the heart. Itâ€™s enough to give a man the blues.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16246'),
(17353, 'Fata cu cercel de perla', 'Tracy Cavalier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25011'),
(17354, 'Fata pastorului', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24950'),
(17355, 'The Fatal Englishman', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In\n <strong>\n  The Fatal Englishman\n </strong>\n <em>\n  ,\n </em>\n his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Each had the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation and left something of value behind; yet each one died tragically young.\n <br />\n Christopher Wood, only twenty-nine when he killed himself, was a painter who lived most of his short life in the beau monde of 1920s Paris, WHERE his charm, good looks, and the dissolute life that followed them sometimes frustrated his ambition and achievement as an artist.\n <br />\n Richard Hillary was a WWII fighter pilot who wrote a classic account of his\n <br />\n experiences,\n <em>\n  The Last Enemy,\n </em>\n but died in a mysterious training accident while defying doctor''s orders to stay grounded after horrific burn injuries; he was twenty-three.\n <br />\n Jeremy Wolfenden, hailed by his contemporaries as the brightest Englishman of\n <br />\n his generation, rejected the call of academia to become a hack journalist in Cold War Moscow. A spy, alcoholic, and open homosexual at a time when such activity was still illegal, he died at the age of thirty-one, a victim of his own recklessness and of the peculiar pressures of his time.\n <br />\n Through the lives of these doomed young men, Faulks paints an oblique\n <br />\n portrait of English society as it changed in the twentieth century, from the Victorian era to the modern world.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9510'),
(17356, 'Fatal Flaw', 'William Lashner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Fatal Flaw\n  </em>\n  is a rare delight: a legal thriller with freshness and vitality, qualities too often lacking in this sometimes-tired genre. This third entry in the\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fortunately, William Lashner is as fine a wordsmith as he is a plotter. The settings are crisply evoked, from Philadelphia and Las Vegas to the dirt-poor Appalachians. All the characters are vivid, and a few--including the murder victim--are well-nigh unforgettable. But it''s the narrative voice of Victor Carl that really carries the book. Cynical, funny, streetwise, and ethically flexible, he''s an exceptionally engaging guy. And, like some of the wisecracking private eyes he resembles, he can deliver both breezy sarcasm and real emotional power. My suggestion: Reach past those other legal thrillers and put\n  <em>\n   Fatal Flaw\n  </em>\n  at the top of your reading list.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of this highly readable if predictable third thriller by Lashner (Hostile Witness; Veritas), Philadelphia lawyer Carl answers the late-night distress call of his friend Guy Forrest and finds him naked and sobbing on the front steps of a suburban house. Inside is the corpse of Guy''s lover, Hailey Prouix, the woman for whom he left his devoted wife and kids. Even though at first he''s unconvinced of Guy''s innocence, Carl eventually agrees to represent Guy when he''s charged with murder. Carl also holds an important secret that he keeps from Guy; from his own legal partner, Beth; from everyone, in fact, but the reader: Carl was Hailey Prouix''s lover, too. In the novel''s early chapters, Lashner effectively describes the mind games that Carl plays with himself, rationalizing decisions that are in his own best interest, if not those of his client. Once he believes Guy''s earnest claims, Carl begins to probe Prouix''s past, more to answer his own nagging questions about her than to find her killer or even to save Guy. The trail takes him to Las Vegas and to Prouix''s childhood home in West Virginia. The past sins and crimes that Carl uncovers are of the predictably unspeakable variety. Indeed, the plot has a by-the-numbers feel: in one set piece, Carl is pursued and run off the road by a mystery car with tinted windows. What raises Lashner''s thriller above the ordinary is its rich and resonant first-person narrative. Since his debut in 1995''s Hostile Witness, the character of Carl has aged like fine wine. His wit is sharper and deeper now, but he also displays a bittersweet nostalgia and a more seasoned (if jaded) worldview. He''s a provocative and entertaining guide, far more entertaining than the journey on which he leads us.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/254'),
(17357, 'Fatal Flaw', 'William Lashner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Fatal Flaw\n  </em>\n  is a rare delight: a legal thriller with freshness and vitality, qualities too often lacking in this sometimes-tired genre. This third entry in the\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fortunately, William Lashner is as fine a wordsmith as he is a plotter. The settings are crisply evoked, from Philadelphia and Las Vegas to the dirt-poor Appalachians. All the characters are vivid, and a few--including the murder victim--are well-nigh unforgettable. But it''s the narrative voice of Victor Carl that really carries the book. Cynical, funny, streetwise, and ethically flexible, he''s an exceptionally engaging guy. And, like some of the wisecracking private eyes he resembles, he can deliver both breezy sarcasm and real emotional power. My suggestion: Reach past those other legal thrillers and put\n  <em>\n   Fatal Flaw\n  </em>\n  at the top of your reading list.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of this highly readable if predictable third thriller by Lashner (Hostile Witness; Veritas), Philadelphia lawyer Carl answers the late-night distress call of his friend Guy Forrest and finds him naked and sobbing on the front steps of a suburban house. Inside is the corpse of Guy''s lover, Hailey Prouix, the woman for whom he left his devoted wife and kids. Even though at first he''s unconvinced of Guy''s innocence, Carl eventually agrees to represent Guy when he''s charged with murder. Carl also holds an important secret that he keeps from Guy; from his own legal partner, Beth; from everyone, in fact, but the reader: Carl was Hailey Prouix''s lover, too. In the novel''s early chapters, Lashner effectively describes the mind games that Carl plays with himself, rationalizing decisions that are in his own best interest, if not those of his client. Once he believes Guy''s earnest claims, Carl begins to probe Prouix''s past, more to answer his own nagging questions about her than to find her killer or even to save Guy. The trail takes him to Las Vegas and to Prouix''s childhood home in West Virginia. The past sins and crimes that Carl uncovers are of the predictably unspeakable variety. Indeed, the plot has a by-the-numbers feel: in one set piece, Carl is pursued and run off the road by a mystery car with tinted windows. What raises Lashner''s thriller above the ordinary is its rich and resonant first-person narrative. Since his debut in 1995''s Hostile Witness, the character of Carl has aged like fine wine. His wit is sharper and deeper now, but he also displays a bittersweet nostalgia and a more seasoned (if jaded) worldview. He''s a provocative and entertaining guide, far more entertaining than the journey on which he leads us.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12183'),
(17358, 'Fatal Flaw', 'William Lashner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Fatal Flaw\n  </em>\n  is a rare delight: a legal thriller with freshness and vitality, qualities too often lacking in this sometimes-tired genre. This third entry in the\n </p>\n <p>\n  Fortunately, William Lashner is as fine a wordsmith as he is a plotter. The settings are crisply evoked, from Philadelphia and Las Vegas to the dirt-poor Appalachians. All the characters are vivid, and a few--including the murder victim--are well-nigh unforgettable. But it''s the narrative voice of Victor Carl that really carries the book. Cynical, funny, streetwise, and ethically flexible, he''s an exceptionally engaging guy. And, like some of the wisecracking private eyes he resembles, he can deliver both breezy sarcasm and real emotional power. My suggestion: Reach past those other legal thrillers and put\n  <em>\n   Fatal Flaw\n  </em>\n  at the top of your reading list.\n  <em>\n   --Nicholas H. Allison\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the start of this highly readable if predictable third thriller by Lashner (Hostile Witness; Veritas), Philadelphia lawyer Carl answers the late-night distress call of his friend Guy Forrest and finds him naked and sobbing on the front steps of a suburban house. Inside is the corpse of Guy''s lover, Hailey Prouix, the woman for whom he left his devoted wife and kids. Even though at first he''s unconvinced of Guy''s innocence, Carl eventually agrees to represent Guy when he''s charged with murder. Carl also holds an important secret that he keeps from Guy; from his own legal partner, Beth; from everyone, in fact, but the reader: Carl was Hailey Prouix''s lover, too. In the novel''s early chapters, Lashner effectively describes the mind games that Carl plays with himself, rationalizing decisions that are in his own best interest, if not those of his client. Once he believes Guy''s earnest claims, Carl begins to probe Prouix''s past, more to answer his own nagging questions about her than to find her killer or even to save Guy. The trail takes him to Las Vegas and to Prouix''s childhood home in West Virginia. The past sins and crimes that Carl uncovers are of the predictably unspeakable variety. Indeed, the plot has a by-the-numbers feel: in one set piece, Carl is pursued and run off the road by a mystery car with tinted windows. What raises Lashner''s thriller above the ordinary is its rich and resonant first-person narrative. Since his debut in 1995''s Hostile Witness, the character of Carl has aged like fine wine. His wit is sharper and deeper now, but he also displays a bittersweet nostalgia and a more seasoned (if jaded) worldview. He''s a provocative and entertaining guide, far more entertaining than the journey on which he leads us.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24748'),
(17359, 'Fatal Remedies', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Donna LeonÂ’s multitude of fans around the world has grown with each new Commissario Brunetti novel, and now mystery lovers in the United States can enjoy another compelling episode. In Fatal Remedies, BrunettiÂ’s career is under threat when his professional and personal lives unexpectedly intersect. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city, and Brunetti is shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene is a member of his own family. Meanwhile, he is also under pressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with connections to a suspicious accidental death. Could the two crimes be connected? And will Brunetti be able to prove his familyÂ’s innocence before itÂ’s too late?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5879'),
(17360, 'Fatal Remedies', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Donna LeonÂ’s multitude of fans around the world has grown with each new Commissario Brunetti novel, and now mystery lovers in the United States can enjoy another compelling episode. In Fatal Remedies, BrunettiÂ’s career is under threat when his professional and personal lives unexpectedly intersect. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city, and Brunetti is shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene is a member of his own family. Meanwhile, he is also under pressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with connections to a suspicious accidental death. Could the two crimes be connected? And will Brunetti be able to prove his familyÂ’s innocence before itÂ’s too late?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18748'),
(17361, 'Fatal Remedies', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Donna LeonÂ’s multitude of fans around the world has grown with each new Commissario Brunetti novel, and now mystery lovers in the United States can enjoy another compelling episode. In Fatal Remedies, BrunettiÂ’s career is under threat when his professional and personal lives unexpectedly intersect. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city, and Brunetti is shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene is a member of his own family. Meanwhile, he is also under pressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with connections to a suspicious accidental death. Could the two crimes be connected? And will Brunetti be able to prove his familyÂ’s innocence before itÂ’s too late?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27471'),
(17362, 'The Fatal Shore', 'Robert Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Amazon.com  An extraordinary volume--even a masterpiece--about the early history of   Australia that reads like the finest of novels. Hughes captures everything  in this complex tableau with narrative finesse that drives the reader  ever-deeper into specific facts and greater understanding. He presents  compassionate understanding of the plights of colonists--both freemen  and convicts--and the Aboriginal peoples they displaced. One of the  very best works of history I have ever read.          From Library Journal  For 80 years between 1788 and 1868 England transported its convicts to Australia. This punishment provided the first immigrants and the work force to build the colony. Using diariesï¼Œ lettersï¼Œ and original sourcesï¼Œ Hughes meticulously documents this history. All sides of the story are told: the political and social reasoning behind the Transportation Systemï¼Œ the viewpoint of the captains who had the difficult job of governing and developing the coloniesï¼Œ and of course the dilemma of the prisoners. This is a very thorough and accurate history of Australian colonization written by the author of the book and BBC/Time-Life TV series The Shock of the New . A definitive work that is an essential purchase for both public and academic libraries. BOMC and History Book Club main selections. Judith Nixonï¼Œ Purdue Univ. Libs.ï¼Œ W. Lafayetteï¼Œ Ind.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Informationï¼Œ Inc.   See all Editorial Reviews\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1607'),
(17363, 'The Fatal Shore', 'Robert Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Amazon.com  An extraordinary volume--even a masterpiece--about the early history of   Australia that reads like the finest of novels. Hughes captures everything  in this complex tableau with narrative finesse that drives the reader  ever-deeper into specific facts and greater understanding. He presents  compassionate understanding of the plights of colonists--both freemen  and convicts--and the Aboriginal peoples they displaced. One of the  very best works of history I have ever read.          From Library Journal  For 80 years between 1788 and 1868 England transported its convicts to Australia. This punishment provided the first immigrants and the work force to build the colony. Using diariesï¼Œ lettersï¼Œ and original sourcesï¼Œ Hughes meticulously documents this history. All sides of the story are told: the political and social reasoning behind the Transportation Systemï¼Œ the viewpoint of the captains who had the difficult job of governing and developing the coloniesï¼Œ and of course the dilemma of the prisoners. This is a very thorough and accurate history of Australian colonization written by the author of the book and BBC/Time-Life TV series The Shock of the New . A definitive work that is an essential purchase for both public and academic libraries. BOMC and History Book Club main selections. Judith Nixonï¼Œ Purdue Univ. Libs.ï¼Œ W. Lafayetteï¼Œ Ind.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Informationï¼Œ Inc.   See all Editorial Reviews\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10403'),
(17364, 'The Fatal Shore', 'Robert Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Amazon.com  An extraordinary volume--even a masterpiece--about the early history of   Australia that reads like the finest of novels. Hughes captures everything  in this complex tableau with narrative finesse that drives the reader  ever-deeper into specific facts and greater understanding. He presents  compassionate understanding of the plights of colonists--both freemen  and convicts--and the Aboriginal peoples they displaced. One of the  very best works of history I have ever read.          From Library Journal  For 80 years between 1788 and 1868 England transported its convicts to Australia. This punishment provided the first immigrants and the work force to build the colony. Using diaries, letters, and original sources, Hughes meticulously documents this history. All sides of the story are told: the political and social reasoning behind the Transportation System, the viewpoint of the captains who had the difficult job of governing and developing the colonies, and of course the dilemma of the prisoners. This is a very thorough and accurate history of Australian colonization written by the author of the book and BBC/Time-Life TV series The Shock of the New . A definitive work that is an essential purchase for both public and academic libraries. BOMC and History Book Club main selections. Judith Nixon, Purdue Univ. Libs., W. Lafayette, Ind.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.   See all Editorial Reviews\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23253'),
(17365, 'Fatal Voyage', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan joins the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team mobilized to investigate an airplane crash in North Carolina''s Smoky Mountains, she literally stumbles on a body part that doesn''t match up with the remains of any of the plane''s passengers. The leg she grabs out of the jaws of a coyote feeding on the carnage scattered around the site belongs to an unidentified elderly man, and seems to have no connection with the disaster. But an abandoned hunting lodge near the crash site does, although before Tempe can figure out exactly how they''re linked, she''s pulled off the DMORT unit and forced to stand idly by as her professional reputation goes up in flames. When Andrew Ryan, a detective familiar to readers of Kathy Reichs''s earlier books (__,\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  ), appears on the scene, another mystery begins to unfold. There seems to be no trace of two men on the plane''s manifest, Ryan''s partner and his seatmate, a criminal who was being escorted back to Canada via Washington, D.C., the doomed flight''s final destination, to stand trial for murder.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As usual, Reichs serves up a solid helping of forensic science as the DMORT operatives do their thing, and Tempe traces the remains of a man killed 40 years ago to a series of ritual murders of senior citizens, and further to those whose influence was responsible for her firing. Reichs keeps the narrative moving along despite the somewhat ponderous technical and scientific information; her pacing is brisk and her series heroine in fine form. Tempe''s romantic life gets more interesting with every new adventure. A solid thriller that will please the best-selling author''s regular readers and serve as a good introduction to new ones.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With four crime thrillers to her name, Reichs (Deadly Decisions) seems to have settled into a comfortable routine with forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose adventures grow more engrossing with each outing. Here, Tempe takes on an especially gruesome case in a richly plotted tale about an airline crash, missing body parts and cannibalism. The story opens in the rugged backwoods of North Carolina, where Tempe must identify the dead from the remains of a passenger jet that spiraled straight into the ground. While rummaging through the grisly debris, she comes across a foot that doesn''t appear to match any of the 88 dead people aboard the jet. As investigators determine what brought the plane down, Tempe looks into the mystery of the foot. That seemingly well-intentioned pursuit gets her fired. Her ouster appears to be the doing of Lt. Gov. Parker Davenport, an ambitious politician taking an abnormal interest in the crash. Tempe, determined to restore her reputation, plows back into the case on the sly. What she finds is evidence of a chilling, depraved episode in local history that upends many common perceptions about North Carolina''s political and business elite. Reichs, herself a highly accomplished forensic anthropologist, expertly directs a busy plot that moves with electrical force in the final quarter. She capitalizes on the morbid yet captivating aspects of the forensic trenchwork, yet never lets it overwhelm her story. But it is Reichs''s ongoing development of Tempe a woman in her 50s with a mature understanding of human nature, and a self-deprecating sense of humor that truly lifts the book above many of its peers. (On-sale: July 17)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13676'),
(17366, 'Fatal Voyage', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan joins the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team mobilized to investigate an airplane crash in North Carolina''s Smoky Mountains, she literally stumbles on a body part that doesn''t match up with the remains of any of the plane''s passengers. The leg she grabs out of the jaws of a coyote feeding on the carnage scattered around the site belongs to an unidentified elderly man, and seems to have no connection with the disaster. But an abandoned hunting lodge near the crash site does, although before Tempe can figure out exactly how they''re linked, she''s pulled off the DMORT unit and forced to stand idly by as her professional reputation goes up in flames. When Andrew Ryan, a detective familiar to readers of Kathy Reichs''s earlier books (__,\n  <strong>\n   ,\n  </strong>\n  ), appears on the scene, another mystery begins to unfold. There seems to be no trace of two men on the plane''s manifest, Ryan''s partner and his seatmate, a criminal who was being escorted back to Canada via Washington, D.C., the doomed flight''s final destination, to stand trial for murder.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As usual, Reichs serves up a solid helping of forensic science as the DMORT operatives do their thing, and Tempe traces the remains of a man killed 40 years ago to a series of ritual murders of senior citizens, and further to those whose influence was responsible for her firing. Reichs keeps the narrative moving along despite the somewhat ponderous technical and scientific information; her pacing is brisk and her series heroine in fine form. Tempe''s romantic life gets more interesting with every new adventure. A solid thriller that will please the best-selling author''s regular readers and serve as a good introduction to new ones.\n  <em>\n   --Jane Adams\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With four crime thrillers to her name, Reichs (Deadly Decisions) seems to have settled into a comfortable routine with forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose adventures grow more engrossing with each outing. Here, Tempe takes on an especially gruesome case in a richly plotted tale about an airline crash, missing body parts and cannibalism. The story opens in the rugged backwoods of North Carolina, where Tempe must identify the dead from the remains of a passenger jet that spiraled straight into the ground. While rummaging through the grisly debris, she comes across a foot that doesn''t appear to match any of the 88 dead people aboard the jet. As investigators determine what brought the plane down, Tempe looks into the mystery of the foot. That seemingly well-intentioned pursuit gets her fired. Her ouster appears to be the doing of Lt. Gov. Parker Davenport, an ambitious politician taking an abnormal interest in the crash. Tempe, determined to restore her reputation, plows back into the case on the sly. What she finds is evidence of a chilling, depraved episode in local history that upends many common perceptions about North Carolina''s political and business elite. Reichs, herself a highly accomplished forensic anthropologist, expertly directs a busy plot that moves with electrical force in the final quarter. She capitalizes on the morbid yet captivating aspects of the forensic trenchwork, yet never lets it overwhelm her story. But it is Reichs''s ongoing development of Tempe a woman in her 50s with a mature understanding of human nature, and a self-deprecating sense of humor that truly lifts the book above many of its peers. (On-sale: July 17)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20766'),
(17367, 'A Fatal Waltz', 'Tasha Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Alexander''s charming third novel of romantic suspense set in late Victorian England (after\n <em>\n  The Poisoned Season\n </em>\n ), Lady Emily Ashton is at a country house party when someone shoots her noxious host, Lord Basil Fortescue, with a dueling pistol. After the husband of a good friend is accused of the murder, Emily determines to find the real killer. The only clue, a threatening letter promising a political assassination, drives Emily to Vienna, where she meets the painter Gustav Klimt and shares stolen moments with her fiancÃ©, diplomat Colin Hargreaves. But Emily never forgets her urgent missionâ€”in the service of which she must match wits with double agents and anarchists as well as ally herself temporarily with Colin''s former lover, the sexually sophisticated Kristiana von Lange. The appealing Emily at times comes across as too modern for even the most unconventional Victorian character, and the plot sags in mid-story despite several clever subplots. Still, the book''s entertaining voice and accurate period detail will seduce most readers_. (June)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lady Emily Ashton is back in her third episode of romantic suspense set in the Victorian world of mannerly gentlemen, conniving mothers, and scandals behind closed doors. Forced to join a group of socialites at the home of formidable and odious Lord Fortescue, whom she loathes (and whose daughter covets Emilyâ€™s fiancÃ©, Colin Hargreaves), Emily and others in the party feel little regret when Fortescue is murdered. Unfortunately, her best friendâ€™s husband, Robert, is arrested and imprisoned in the Tower, after witnesses confirm his fight with the victim. Resolved to exonerate Robert, Emily heads for Vienna on the killerâ€™s trail. Austria proves rich with intrigue, and this portion of the story really shines as readers take a tour of nineteenth-century Viennaâ€”its parties and its cafÃ©sâ€”in the wintertime, shadowed by decidedly evil characters. Emilyâ€™s sparkling wit makes up for the somewhat convoluted plot and large cast of characters who move from England to the Continent and back at the slightest provocation. This is a captivating addition to the adventures of an irresistible Victorian iconoclast. --Jen Baker\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/841'),
(17368, 'A Fatal Waltz', 'Tasha Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Alexander''s charming third novel of romantic suspense set in late Victorian England (after\n <em>\n  The Poisoned Season\n </em>\n ), Lady Emily Ashton is at a country house party when someone shoots her noxious host, Lord Basil Fortescue, with a dueling pistol. After the husband of a good friend is accused of the murder, Emily determines to find the real killer. The only clue, a threatening letter promising a political assassination, drives Emily to Vienna, where she meets the painter Gustav Klimt and shares stolen moments with her fiancÃ©, diplomat Colin Hargreaves. But Emily never forgets her urgent missionâ€”in the service of which she must match wits with double agents and anarchists as well as ally herself temporarily with Colin''s former lover, the sexually sophisticated Kristiana von Lange. The appealing Emily at times comes across as too modern for even the most unconventional Victorian character, and the plot sags in mid-story despite several clever subplots. Still, the book''s entertaining voice and accurate period detail will seduce most readers_. (June)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lady Emily Ashton is back in her third episode of romantic suspense set in the Victorian world of mannerly gentlemen, conniving mothers, and scandals behind closed doors. Forced to join a group of socialites at the home of formidable and odious Lord Fortescue, whom she loathes (and whose daughter covets Emilyâ€™s fiancÃ©, Colin Hargreaves), Emily and others in the party feel little regret when Fortescue is murdered. Unfortunately, her best friendâ€™s husband, Robert, is arrested and imprisoned in the Tower, after witnesses confirm his fight with the victim. Resolved to exonerate Robert, Emily heads for Vienna on the killerâ€™s trail. Austria proves rich with intrigue, and this portion of the story really shines as readers take a tour of nineteenth-century Viennaâ€”its parties and its cafÃ©sâ€”in the wintertime, shadowed by decidedly evil characters. Emilyâ€™s sparkling wit makes up for the somewhat convoluted plot and large cast of characters who move from England to the Continent and back at the slightest provocation. This is a captivating addition to the adventures of an irresistible Victorian iconoclast. --Jen Baker\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9339'),
(17369, 'A Fatal Waltz', 'Tasha Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Alexander''s charming third novel of romantic suspense set in late Victorian England (after\n <em>\n  The Poisoned Season\n </em>\n ), Lady Emily Ashton is at a country house party when someone shoots her noxious host, Lord Basil Fortescue, with a dueling pistol. After the husband of a good friend is accused of the murder, Emily determines to find the real killer. The only clue, a threatening letter promising a political assassination, drives Emily to Vienna, where she meets the painter Gustav Klimt and shares stolen moments with her fiancÃ©, diplomat Colin Hargreaves. But Emily never forgets her urgent missionâ€”in the service of which she must match wits with double agents and anarchists as well as ally herself temporarily with Colin''s former lover, the sexually sophisticated Kristiana von Lange. The appealing Emily at times comes across as too modern for even the most unconventional Victorian character, and the plot sags in mid-story despite several clever subplots. Still, the book''s entertaining voice and accurate period detail will seduce most readers_. (June)_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lady Emily Ashton is back in her third episode of romantic suspense set in the Victorian world of mannerly gentlemen, conniving mothers, and scandals behind closed doors. Forced to join a group of socialites at the home of formidable and odious Lord Fortescue, whom she loathes (and whose daughter covets Emilyâ€™s fiancÃ©, Colin Hargreaves), Emily and others in the party feel little regret when Fortescue is murdered. Unfortunately, her best friendâ€™s husband, Robert, is arrested and imprisoned in the Tower, after witnesses confirm his fight with the victim. Resolved to exonerate Robert, Emily heads for Vienna on the killerâ€™s trail. Austria proves rich with intrigue, and this portion of the story really shines as readers take a tour of nineteenth-century Viennaâ€”its parties and its cafÃ©sâ€”in the wintertime, shadowed by decidedly evil characters. Emilyâ€™s sparkling wit makes up for the somewhat convoluted plot and large cast of characters who move from England to the Continent and back at the slightest provocation. This is a captivating addition to the adventures of an irresistible Victorian iconoclast. --Jen Baker\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24076'),
(17370, 'Fate of the Jedi: Omen', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Jedi Order is in crisis. The late Jacen Soloâ€™s shocking transformation into murderous Sith Lord Darth Caedus has cast a damning pall over those who wield the Force for good: Two Jedi Knights have succumbed to an inexplicable and dangerous psychosis, criminal charges have driven Luke Skywalker into self-imposed exile, and power-hungry Chief of State Natasi Daala is exploiting anti-Jedi sentiment to undermine the Orderâ€™s influence within the Galactic Alliance.  Forbidden to intervene in Jedi affairs, Luke is on a desperate mission to uncover the truth behind Jacenâ€™s fall to the dark sideâ€“and to learn whatâ€™s turning peaceful Jedi into raving lunatics. But finding answers will mean venturing into the mind-bending space of the Kathol Rift and bargaining with an alien species as likely to destroy outsiders as deal with them. Still, there is no other choice and no time to lose, as the catastrophic events on Coruscant continue to escalate. Stricken by the same violent dementia that infected her brother, Valin, Jedi Knight Jysella Horn faces an equally grim fate after her capture by Natasi Daalaâ€™s police. And when Han and Leia Solo narrowly foil another deranged Jedi bent on deadly destruction, even acting Jedi Grand Master Kenth Hamner appears willing to bow to Daalaâ€™s iron willâ€“at the expense of the Jedi Order.But an even greater threat is looming. Millennia in the past, a Sith starship crashed on an unknown low-tech planet, leaving the survivors stranded. Over the generations, their numbers have grown, the ways of the dark side have been nurtured, and the time is fast approaching when this lost tribe of Sith will once more take to the stars to reclaim their legendary destiny as rulers of the galaxy. Only one thing stands in their way, a name whispered to them through the Force: Skywalker.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6753'),
(17371, 'Fate of the Jedi: Omen', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Jedi Order is in crisis. The late Jacen Soloâ€™s shocking transformation into murderous Sith Lord Darth Caedus has cast a damning pall over those who wield the Force for good: Two Jedi Knights have succumbed to an inexplicable and dangerous psychosis, criminal charges have driven Luke Skywalker into self-imposed exile, and power-hungry Chief of State Natasi Daala is exploiting anti-Jedi sentiment to undermine the Orderâ€™s influence within the Galactic Alliance.  Forbidden to intervene in Jedi affairs, Luke is on a desperate mission to uncover the truth behind Jacenâ€™s fall to the dark sideâ€“and to learn whatâ€™s turning peaceful Jedi into raving lunatics. But finding answers will mean venturing into the mind-bending space of the Kathol Rift and bargaining with an alien species as likely to destroy outsiders as deal with them. Still, there is no other choice and no time to lose, as the catastrophic events on Coruscant continue to escalate. Stricken by the same violent dementia that infected her brother, Valin, Jedi Knight Jysella Horn faces an equally grim fate after her capture by Natasi Daalaâ€™s police. And when Han and Leia Solo narrowly foil another deranged Jedi bent on deadly destruction, even acting Jedi Grand Master Kenth Hamner appears willing to bow to Daalaâ€™s iron willâ€“at the expense of the Jedi Order.But an even greater threat is looming. Millennia in the past, a Sith starship crashed on an unknown low-tech planet, leaving the survivors stranded. Over the generations, their numbers have grown, the ways of the dark side have been nurtured, and the time is fast approaching when this lost tribe of Sith will once more take to the stars to reclaim their legendary destiny as rulers of the galaxy. Only one thing stands in their way, a name whispered to them through the Force: Skywalker.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9956'),
(17372, 'Fate of the Jedi: Omen', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Jedi Order is in crisis. The late Jacen Soloâ€™s shocking transformation into murderous Sith Lord Darth Caedus has cast a damning pall over those who wield the Force for good: Two Jedi Knights have succumbed to an inexplicable and dangerous psychosis, criminal charges have driven Luke Skywalker into self-imposed exile, and power-hungry Chief of State Natasi Daala is exploiting anti-Jedi sentiment to undermine the Orderâ€™s influence within the Galactic Alliance. Forbidden to intervene in Jedi affairs, Luke is on a desperate mission to uncover the truth behind Jacenâ€™s fall to the dark sideâ€“and to learn whatâ€™s turning peaceful Jedi into raving lunatics. But finding answers will mean venturing into the mind-bending space of the Kathol Rift and bargaining with an alien species as likely to destroy outsiders as deal with them. Still, there is no other choice and no time to lose, as the catastrophic events on Coruscant continue to escalate. Stricken by the same violent dementia that infected her brother, Valin, Jedi Knight Jysella Horn faces an equally grim fate after her capture by Natasi Daalaâ€™s police. And when Han and Leia Solo narrowly foil another deranged Jedi bent on deadly destruction, even acting Jedi Grand Master Kenth Hamner appears willing to bow to Daalaâ€™s iron willâ€“at the expense of the Jedi Order.But an even greater threat is looming. Millennia in the past, a Sith starship crashed on an unknown low-tech planet, leaving the survivors stranded. Over the generations, their numbers have grown, the ways of the dark side have been nurtured, and the time is fast approaching when this lost tribe of Sith will once more take to the stars to reclaim their legendary destiny as rulers of the galaxy. Only one thing stands in their way, a name whispered to them through the Force: Skywalker.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18087'),
(17373, 'Fate of the Jedi: Omen', 'Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Jedi Order is in crisis. The late Jacen Soloâ€™s shocking transformation into murderous Sith Lord Darth Caedus has cast a damning pall over those who wield the Force for good: Two Jedi Knights have succumbed to an inexplicable and dangerous psychosis, criminal charges have driven Luke Skywalker into self-imposed exile, and power-hungry Chief of State Natasi Daala is exploiting anti-Jedi sentiment to undermine the Orderâ€™s influence within the Galactic Alliance. Forbidden to intervene in Jedi affairs, Luke is on a desperate mission to uncover the truth behind Jacenâ€™s fall to the dark sideâ€“and to learn whatâ€™s turning peaceful Jedi into raving lunatics. But finding answers will mean venturing into the mind-bending space of the Kathol Rift and bargaining with an alien species as likely to destroy outsiders as deal with them. Still, there is no other choice and no time to lose, as the catastrophic events on Coruscant continue to escalate. Stricken by the same violent dementia that infected her brother, Valin, Jedi Knight Jysella Horn faces an equally grim fate after her capture by Natasi Daalaâ€™s police. And when Han and Leia Solo narrowly foil another deranged Jedi bent on deadly destruction, even acting Jedi Grand Master Kenth Hamner appears willing to bow to Daalaâ€™s iron willâ€“at the expense of the Jedi Order.But an even greater threat is looming. Millennia in the past, a Sith starship crashed on an unknown low-tech planet, leaving the survivors stranded. Over the generations, their numbers have grown, the ways of the dark side have been nurtured, and the time is fast approaching when this lost tribe of Sith will once more take to the stars to reclaim their legendary destiny as rulers of the galaxy. Only one thing stands in their way, a name whispered to them through the Force: Skywalker.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26906'),
(17374, 'Fateful Lightning', 'William R. Forstchen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lost in another world and time, a regiment of Union soldiers find themselves part of a tactical retreat from the onslaught of the mysterious Merki hordes, reenacting the classic Russian retreats from the French and Germans. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/117'),
(17375, 'Fateful Lightning', 'William R. Forstchen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lost in another world and time, a regiment of Union soldiers find themselves part of a tactical retreat from the onslaught of the mysterious Merki hordes, reenacting the classic Russian retreats from the French and Germans. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24730'),
(17376, 'Fatelessness', 'Imre Kertesz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **One of *Publishers Weekly''s* Fifty Best Books of 1992***Fateless *is a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boyâ€™s experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after the war. Upon his return to his native Budapest still clad in his striped prison clothes, fourteen-year-old George Koves senses the indifference, even hostility, of people on the street.  His former neighbors and friends urge him to put the ordeal out of his mind, while a sympathetic journalist refers to the camps as "the lowest circle of hell."  The boy can relate to neither cliche and is left to ponder the meaning of his experience alone.George''s response to his experience is curiously ambivalent.  In the camps he tries to adjust to his ever-worsening situation by imputing human motives to his inhumane captors.  By imposing his logic--that of a bright, sensitive, though in many ways ordinary teenager - he maintains a precarious semblance of normalcy.  Once freed, he must contend with the "banality of evil" to which he has become accustomed:  when asked why he uses words like "naturally," "undeniably," and "without question" to describe the most horrendous of experiences, he responds, "In the concentration camp it was natural."  Without emotional or spiritual ties to his Jewish heritage and rejected by his country, he ultimately comes to the conclusion that neither his Hungarianness nor his Jewishness was really at the heart of his fate:  rather, there are only "given situations, and within these, further givens."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4994'),
(17377, 'Fatelessness', 'Imre Kertesz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **One of *Publishers Weekly''s* Fifty Best Books of 1992***Fateless *is a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boyâ€™s experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after the war. Upon his return to his native Budapest still clad in his striped prison clothes, fourteen-year-old George Koves senses the indifference, even hostility, of people on the street.  His former neighbors and friends urge him to put the ordeal out of his mind, while a sympathetic journalist refers to the camps as "the lowest circle of hell."  The boy can relate to neither cliche and is left to ponder the meaning of his experience alone.George''s response to his experience is curiously ambivalent.  In the camps he tries to adjust to his ever-worsening situation by imputing human motives to his inhumane captors.  By imposing his logic--that of a bright, sensitive, though in many ways ordinary teenager - he maintains a precarious semblance of normalcy.  Once freed, he must contend with the "banality of evil" to which he has become accustomed:  when asked why he uses words like "naturally," "undeniably," and "without question" to describe the most horrendous of experiences, he responds, "In the concentration camp it was natural."  Without emotional or spiritual ties to his Jewish heritage and rejected by his country, he ultimately comes to the conclusion that neither his Hungarianness nor his Jewishness was really at the heart of his fate:  rather, there are only "given situations, and within these, further givens."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10668');
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(17378, 'Fatelessness', 'Imre Kertesz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **One of *Publishers Weekly''s* Fifty Best Books of 1992***Fateless *is a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boyâ€™s experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after the war. Upon his return to his native Budapest still clad in his striped prison clothes, fourteen-year-old George Koves senses the indifference, even hostility, of people on the street. His former neighbors and friends urge him to put the ordeal out of his mind, while a sympathetic journalist refers to the camps as "the lowest circle of hell." The boy can relate to neither cliche and is left to ponder the meaning of his experience alone.George''s response to his experience is curiously ambivalent. In the camps he tries to adjust to his ever-worsening situation by imputing human motives to his inhumane captors. By imposing his logic--that of a bright, sensitive, though in many ways ordinary teenager - he maintains a precarious semblance of normalcy. Once freed, he must contend with the "banality of evil" to which he has become accustomed: when asked why he uses words like "naturally," "undeniably," and "without question" to describe the most horrendous of experiences, he responds, "In the concentration camp it was natural." Without emotional or spiritual ties to his Jewish heritage and rejected by his country, he ultimately comes to the conclusion that neither his Hungarianness nor his Jewishness was really at the heart of his fate: rather, there are only "given situations, and within these, further givens."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19681'),
(17379, 'Fatelessness', 'Imre Kertesz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **One of *Publishers Weekly''s* Fifty Best Books of 1992***Fateless *is a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boyâ€™s experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after the war. Upon his return to his native Budapest still clad in his striped prison clothes, fourteen-year-old George Koves senses the indifference, even hostility, of people on the street. His former neighbors and friends urge him to put the ordeal out of his mind, while a sympathetic journalist refers to the camps as "the lowest circle of hell." The boy can relate to neither cliche and is left to ponder the meaning of his experience alone.George''s response to his experience is curiously ambivalent. In the camps he tries to adjust to his ever-worsening situation by imputing human motives to his inhumane captors. By imposing his logic--that of a bright, sensitive, though in many ways ordinary teenager - he maintains a precarious semblance of normalcy. Once freed, he must contend with the "banality of evil" to which he has become accustomed: when asked why he uses words like "naturally," "undeniably," and "without question" to describe the most horrendous of experiences, he responds, "In the concentration camp it was natural." Without emotional or spiritual ties to his Jewish heritage and rejected by his country, he ultimately comes to the conclusion that neither his Hungarianness nor his Jewishness was really at the heart of his fate: rather, there are only "given situations, and within these, further givens."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28274'),
(17380, 'Father&#39;s Day Murder', 'Leslie Meier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When her part-time reporting gig gives Lucy the opportunity to attend a Boston newspaper conference, she looks forward to the vacation from domestic bliss. But then Luther Read suddenly drops dead. He is head of a near-bankrupt newspaper dynasty - and father to several resentful children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3356'),
(17381, 'Father&#39;s Day Murder', 'Leslie Meier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When her part-time reporting gig gives Lucy the opportunity to attend a Boston newspaper conference, she looks forward to the vacation from domestic bliss. But then Luther Read suddenly drops dead. He is head of a near-bankrupt newspaper dynasty - and father to several resentful children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21168'),
(17382, 'Fatherland', 'Harris, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14612'),
(17383, 'Fatherland', 'Harris, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23255'),
(17384, 'Fatherland', 'Harris, Robert', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28041'),
(17385, 'Fathers and Sons', 'Ivan Turgenev', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle''s discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn''t acknowledge any authorities, who doesn''t accept a single principle on faith." Turgenev''s masterpiece of generational conflict shocked Russian society when it was published in 1862 and continues today to seem as fresh and outspoken as it did to those who first encountered its nihilistic hero.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25590'),
(17386, 'Faulks on Fiction: The Secret Life of the Novel', 'Sebastian Faulks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n he British invented the novel, with the publication of\n <strong>\n  Robinson Crusoe\n </strong>\n in 1719 marking the arrival of a revolutionary and distinctly modern form of art. But it''s also true, as Sebastian Faulks argues in this remarkable book, that the novel helped invent the British: for the first time we had stories that reflected the experiences of ordinary people, with characters in which we could find our reality, our understanding and our escape.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <strong>\n  Faulks on Fiction\n </strong>\n , Faulks examines many of these enduring fictional characters from over the centuries -- Heroes from Tom Jones to John Self, Lovers from Mr Darcy to Lady Chatterly, Villains from Fagin to Barbara Covett, and Snobs from Emma Woodhouse to James Bond -- and shows us how they mapped and inspired the British psyche, and continue to do so.\n</p>\n<p>\n Published to coincide with a major BBC series,\n <strong>\n  Faulks on Fiction\n </strong>\n is an engaging and opinionated look at the psychology of the British through their literature, and a unique social history of Britain from one of our most respected writers.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n SEBASTIAN FAULKS was born and brought up in Newbury, Berkshire. He worked in journalism before starting to write books. He is best known for the French trilogy,\n <strong>\n  The Girl at the Lion d''Or\n </strong>\n ,\n <strong>\n  Birdsong\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Charlotte Gray\n </strong>\n and is also the author of a triple biography,\n <strong>\n  The Fatal Englishman\n </strong>\n ; a small book of literary parodies,\n <strong>\n  Pistache\n </strong>\n ; and the novel\n <strong>\n  Human Traces\n </strong>\n . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1993 and appointed CBE for services to literature in 2002. He lives in London with his wife and their three children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9509'),
(17387, 'Faun and Games', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Piers Anthony''s most exceptional Xanth adventure ever reveals wnodrous new worlds of mirth and magic!The miraculous and mirth-filled land of Xanth holds many marvels. But now an extraordinary new aspect of this remarkable realm unfolds as young Forrest Faun''s quest takes him to a tiny planet hidden in the heart of Xanth. There, with a delightful "day mare" as his constant companion, Forrest will find more marvels then he ever dreamed of.Packed with magic, mystery, and mirth, Faun &amp; Games is the freshest and most exciting Xanth adventure in a month of Pundays!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2007'),
(17388, 'Faun and Games', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Piers Anthony''s most exceptional Xanth adventure ever reveals wnodrous new worlds of mirth and magic!The miraculous and mirth-filled land of Xanth holds many marvels. But now an extraordinary new aspect of this remarkable realm unfolds as young Forrest Faun''s quest takes him to a tiny planet hidden in the heart of Xanth. There, with a delightful "day mare" as his constant companion, Forrest will find more marvels then he ever dreamed of.Packed with magic, mystery, and mirth, Faun &amp; Games is the freshest and most exciting Xanth adventure in a month of Pundays!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22708'),
(17389, 'Fauritorii de arme', 'A.E. van Vogt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24932'),
(17390, 'Fausta', 'Michel Zevaco', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25347'),
(17391, 'The Favorites: A Novel', 'Mary Yukari Waters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Mary Yukari Waters''s short-story collection, The Laws of Evening, was published, Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio''s Fresh Air said that "Waters''s empathic imagination is so vivid she makes her reader feel like a silent witness to the small acts of cruelty and surrender that the history books can''t record." In her exquisite first novel, Waters explores the complex relationships among three generations of women bound by a painful family history and a culture in which custom dictates behavior.Fourteen-year-old Sarah Rexford, half-Japanese and half-American, feels like an outsider when she visits her family in Japan. She quickly learns that in traditional Kyoto, personal boundaries are firmly drawn and actions are not always what they appear. Sarah learns of a family secret -- an interfamily adoption arranged in the throes of World War II. Her grandmother gave up one of her daughters to the matriarch of the family, and the two families have coexisted quietly, living on the same lane. While this arrangement is never discussed, it looms over the two households. In this carefully articulated world, where every gesture and look has meaning, Sarah must learn the rules by which her mother, aunts, and grandmother live.Delicately balancing drama and restraint, Waters captures these women -- their deep passions and tumultuous histories -- in this tender and moving novel about the power and beauty of mother-daughter relationships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2971'),
(17392, 'The Favorites: A Novel', 'Mary Yukari Waters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Mary Yukari Waters''s short-story collection, The Laws of Evening, was published, Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio''s Fresh Air said that "Waters''s empathic imagination is so vivid she makes her reader feel like a silent witness to the small acts of cruelty and surrender that the history books can''t record." In her exquisite first novel, Waters explores the complex relationships among three generations of women bound by a painful family history and a culture in which custom dictates behavior.Fourteen-year-old Sarah Rexford, half-Japanese and half-American, feels like an outsider when she visits her family in Japan. She quickly learns that in traditional Kyoto, personal boundaries are firmly drawn and actions are not always what they appear. Sarah learns of a family secret -- an interfamily adoption arranged in the throes of World War II. Her grandmother gave up one of her daughters to the matriarch of the family, and the two families have coexisted quietly, living on the same lane. While this arrangement is never discussed, it looms over the two households. In this carefully articulated world, where every gesture and look has meaning, Sarah must learn the rules by which her mother, aunts, and grandmother live.Delicately balancing drama and restraint, Waters captures these women -- their deep passions and tumultuous histories -- in this tender and moving novel about the power and beauty of mother-daughter relationships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13227'),
(17393, 'The favorites: a novel', 'Mary Yukari Waters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Mary Yukari Waters''s short-story collection, The Laws of Evening, was published, Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio''s Fresh Air said that "Waters''s empathic imagination is so vivid she makes her reader feel like a silent witness to the small acts of cruelty and surrender that the history books can''t record." In her exquisite first novel, Waters explores the complex relationships among three generations of women bound by a painful family history and a culture in which custom dictates behavior.Fourteen-year-old Sarah Rexford, half-Japanese and half-American, feels like an outsider when she visits her family in Japan. She quickly learns that in traditional Kyoto, personal boundaries are firmly drawn and actions are not always what they appear. Sarah learns of a family secret -- an interfamily adoption arranged in the throes of World War II. Her grandmother gave up one of her daughters to the matriarch of the family, and the two families have coexisted quietly, living on the same lane. While this arrangement is never discussed, it looms over the two households. In this carefully articulated world, where every gesture and look has meaning, Sarah must learn the rules by which her mother, aunts, and grandmother live.Delicately balancing drama and restraint, Waters captures these women -- their deep passions and tumultuous histories -- in this tender and moving novel about the power and beauty of mother-daughter relationships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21831'),
(17394, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Other American Stories', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson''s savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer''s account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer''s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out." This twenty-fifth-anniversary Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman''s original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved." The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library''s seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world''s best books, at the best prices.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson''s savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer''s account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer''s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out."    This twenty-fifth-anniversary Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman''s original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved." The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library''s seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world''s best books, at the best prices.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5140'),
(17395, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Other American Stories', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson''s savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer''s account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer''s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out." This twenty-fifth-anniversary Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman''s original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved." The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library''s seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world''s best books, at the best prices.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson''s savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer''s account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer''s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out."    This twenty-fifth-anniversary Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman''s original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved." The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library''s seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world''s best books, at the best prices.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13046'),
(17396, 'Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, and other American stories', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson''s savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer''s account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer''s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out." This twenty-fifth-anniversary Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman''s original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved." The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library''s seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world''s best books, at the best prices. SUMMARY: First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson''s savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer''s account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer''s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out." Â Â  This twenty-fifth-anniversary Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman''s original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved." The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library''s seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world''s best books, at the best prices.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28191'),
(17397, 'Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: a savage journey to the heart of the American dream', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.Now this cult classic of gonzo journalism is a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13763'),
(17398, 'Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream', 'Thompson, Hunter S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19580'),
(17399, 'Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream', 'Thompson, Hunter S.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19584'),
(17400, 'Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: a savage journey to the heart of the American dream', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.Now this cult classic of gonzo journalism is a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28190'),
(17401, 'Fear is the key', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n En flyvemaskine lastet med guldbarrer bliver skudt ned over et oliefelt ud for den amerikanske kyst. Gangsterbanden, der stÃ¥r bag nedskydningen, prÃ¸ver at finde flyvraget og fÃ¥ bjÃ¦rget lasten.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15911'),
(17402, 'Fear Itself', 'Walter Mosley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a blockbuster new action thriller by master novelist Walter Mosley, "one of America''s best mystery writers" (New York Times), bookstore owner Paris Minton and the deadliest man in L.A.-Fearless Jones-are back on the streets of 1950s Watts. FEAR ITSELF Mild-mannered Paris Minton is delivered a pile of trouble when Fearless Jones shows up with a simple request: help find a beautiful woman''s husband. Lending a hand gets him hit upside the head, hogtied, kidnapped, and threatened with a gun the size of a cannon. Now he''s wondering whom he should fear more: the people he''s looking for or the people he''s working for. Tangled up with cops, rival millionaires, several corpses, and one of L.A.''s wealthiest women, Paris Minton is in a corner-and not even his invincible friend Fearless can save him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/221'),
(17403, 'Fear Itself', 'Walter Mosley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a blockbuster new action thriller by master novelist Walter Mosley, "one of America''s best mystery writers" (New York Times), bookstore owner Paris Minton and the deadliest man in L.A.-Fearless Jones-are back on the streets of 1950s Watts. FEAR ITSELF Mild-mannered Paris Minton is delivered a pile of trouble when Fearless Jones shows up with a simple request: help find a beautiful woman''s husband. Lending a hand gets him hit upside the head, hogtied, kidnapped, and threatened with a gun the size of a cannon. Now he''s wondering whom he should fear more: the people he''s looking for or the people he''s working for. Tangled up with cops, rival millionaires, several corpses, and one of L.A.''s wealthiest women, Paris Minton is in a corner-and not even his invincible friend Fearless can save him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11498'),
(17404, 'Fear Itself', 'Walter Mosley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a blockbuster new action thriller by master novelist Walter Mosley, "one of America''s best mystery writers" (New York Times), bookstore owner Paris Minton and the deadliest man in L.A.-Fearless Jones-are back on the streets of 1950s Watts. FEAR ITSELF Mild-mannered Paris Minton is delivered a pile of trouble when Fearless Jones shows up with a simple request: help find a beautiful woman''s husband. Lending a hand gets him hit upside the head, hogtied, kidnapped, and threatened with a gun the size of a cannon. Now he''s wondering whom he should fear more: the people he''s looking for or the people he''s working for. Tangled up with cops, rival millionaires, several corpses, and one of L.A.''s wealthiest women, Paris Minton is in a corner-and not even his invincible friend Fearless can save him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24615'),
(17405, 'Fear Nothing', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay, different from anyone you''ve ever met. For Christopher Snow has made his peace with a very rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace the dark. He knows the night as no one else can -- its mystery, its beauty, its terrors, and the eerie silken rhythms that seduce one into believing anything -- even freedom -- is possible.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Until the night Christopher Snow witnesses a series of disturbing incidents that sweep him into a violent mystery only he can solve, a mystery that will force him to rise above all fears and confront the many-layered secrets of Moonlight Bay and its strange inhabitants. A place, like all places, that looks a lot different after dark.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n If you think you''ve got it tough, meet Christopher Snow, the hero of Dean Koontz''s novel Fear Nothing. Not only did his parents die under mysterious circumstances, but he''s also being stalked by shadowy characters who want Snow to stop trying to find out how they died--or else they''ll bump off his remaining loved ones (his supersmart, beer-lapping dog Orson; his best surfing buddy Bobby; and his late-night deejay girlfriend Sasha). And as if being on the lam in his own hometown, Moonlight Bay, California, isn''t bad enough, Snow has to outrun his pursuers without leaving town. He has XP--xeroderma pigmentosum--a rare genetic affliction that forces him to avoid light. Cumulative exposure to sun, fluorescent lights, and the like will give him cancer eventually, and he doesn''t dare leave the place where he''s skillfully "done the mambo with melanoma" for all of his 28 years. Koontz makes the night-town of Moonlight Bay come alive in this sometimes pulse-pounding, sometimes funny, but mostly rather lyrical thriller. Fans of Koontz''s legendary 1986 novel Watchers will love this book''s similar theme: our hero and a loveable super-dog deal with a genetic engineering laboratory run amok. Horror fans will savor the evil mutant rhesus "millennium monkeys" who hunt Snow, the few scenes of eloquent gore, and the plight of certain mutating townsfolk who are, as they put it, "becoming" something very creepy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Koontz gives Snow and Bobby a lingo that does for surfer talk what Austin Powers did for the Swinging ''60s, and his metaphors are almost as madcap as Tom Robbins''s: "As the chains of the swinging light fixture torqued, the links twisted against one another with enough friction to cause an eerie ringing, as if lizard-eyed altar boys in blood-soaked cassocks and surplices were ringing the unmelodious bells of a satanic mass." Sometimes Koontz''s style goes over the top and wipes out, surfer-style, but for the most part, Fear Nothing will have readers bellowing "Cowabunga!"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n YA-Christopher Snow understands the night. He, like the owl, is nocturnal, living on the mysterious darker edge of society. Snow is afflicted with xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare and often-fatal genetic disease that makes ultraviolet rays-even those from lamps and televisions-deadly. His condition makes him a pariah in the isolated small town of Moonlight Bay where the ignorant and insensitive fear what they do not know. As the action begins, Snow''s father dies, leaving him with only a handful of offbeat but fiercely loyal friends to turn to for understanding. At the morgue, Snow accidentally witnesses his father''s body being replaced with the mutilated corpse of a vagrant. Before he can find out what is behind this scandal, he receives a frantic summons from a friend who is brutally murdered before she can finish explaining a strange story about monkeys and a secret project at the government compound at the edge of town. What begins as a disturbing puzzle quickly becomes a sinister conspiracy as Snow uncovers evidence of uncanny intelligence in many of the local animals and inhumanely vicious tendencies in some of the human residents of the Bay. They are "becoming" he learns, but becoming what? Chilling chase scenes steadily increase the breakneck pace as Snow, assisted by his remarkable dog, is pursued through the night by unseen forces. Despite some clunky and unnecessary surfer slang, fans will go wild for this well-plotted thriller.\n <br />\n ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€Robin Deffendall, Prince William Public Library System, VA\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Bantam brags that it is launching the biggest Koontz campaign ever with this thriller, whose protagonist lives by night (he has a genetic order that makes him highly sensitive to light) until he witnesses a murder.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n length: (cm)17.8    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)10.7\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6103'),
(17406, 'Fear Nothing', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay, different from anyone you''ve ever met. For Christopher Snow has made his peace with a very rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace the dark. He knows the night as no one else can -- its mystery, its beauty, its terrors, and the eerie silken rhythms that seduce one into believing anything -- even freedom -- is possible.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Until the night Christopher Snow witnesses a series of disturbing incidents that sweep him into a violent mystery only he can solve, a mystery that will force him to rise above all fears and confront the many-layered secrets of Moonlight Bay and its strange inhabitants. A place, like all places, that looks a lot different after dark.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n If you think you''ve got it tough, meet Christopher Snow, the hero of Dean Koontz''s novel Fear Nothing. Not only did his parents die under mysterious circumstances, but he''s also being stalked by shadowy characters who want Snow to stop trying to find out how they died--or else they''ll bump off his remaining loved ones (his supersmart, beer-lapping dog Orson; his best surfing buddy Bobby; and his late-night deejay girlfriend Sasha). And as if being on the lam in his own hometown, Moonlight Bay, California, isn''t bad enough, Snow has to outrun his pursuers without leaving town. He has XP--xeroderma pigmentosum--a rare genetic affliction that forces him to avoid light. Cumulative exposure to sun, fluorescent lights, and the like will give him cancer eventually, and he doesn''t dare leave the place where he''s skillfully "done the mambo with melanoma" for all of his 28 years. Koontz makes the night-town of Moonlight Bay come alive in this sometimes pulse-pounding, sometimes funny, but mostly rather lyrical thriller. Fans of Koontz''s legendary 1986 novel Watchers will love this book''s similar theme: our hero and a loveable super-dog deal with a genetic engineering laboratory run amok. Horror fans will savor the evil mutant rhesus "millennium monkeys" who hunt Snow, the few scenes of eloquent gore, and the plight of certain mutating townsfolk who are, as they put it, "becoming" something very creepy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Koontz gives Snow and Bobby a lingo that does for surfer talk what Austin Powers did for the Swinging ''60s, and his metaphors are almost as madcap as Tom Robbins''s: "As the chains of the swinging light fixture torqued, the links twisted against one another with enough friction to cause an eerie ringing, as if lizard-eyed altar boys in blood-soaked cassocks and surplices were ringing the unmelodious bells of a satanic mass." Sometimes Koontz''s style goes over the top and wipes out, surfer-style, but for the most part, Fear Nothing will have readers bellowing "Cowabunga!"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n YA-Christopher Snow understands the night. He, like the owl, is nocturnal, living on the mysterious darker edge of society. Snow is afflicted with xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare and often-fatal genetic disease that makes ultraviolet rays-even those from lamps and televisions-deadly. His condition makes him a pariah in the isolated small town of Moonlight Bay where the ignorant and insensitive fear what they do not know. As the action begins, Snow''s father dies, leaving him with only a handful of offbeat but fiercely loyal friends to turn to for understanding. At the morgue, Snow accidentally witnesses his father''s body being replaced with the mutilated corpse of a vagrant. Before he can find out what is behind this scandal, he receives a frantic summons from a friend who is brutally murdered before she can finish explaining a strange story about monkeys and a secret project at the government compound at the edge of town. What begins as a disturbing puzzle quickly becomes a sinister conspiracy as Snow uncovers evidence of uncanny intelligence in many of the local animals and inhumanely vicious tendencies in some of the human residents of the Bay. They are "becoming" he learns, but becoming what? Chilling chase scenes steadily increase the breakneck pace as Snow, assisted by his remarkable dog, is pursued through the night by unseen forces. Despite some clunky and unnecessary surfer slang, fans will go wild for this well-plotted thriller.\n <br />\n ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€Robin Deffendall, Prince William Public Library System, VA\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Bantam brags that it is launching the biggest Koontz campaign ever with this thriller, whose protagonist lives by night (he has a genetic order that makes him highly sensitive to light) until he witnesses a murder.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n length: (cm)17.8    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)10.7\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10834'),
(17407, 'Fear Nothing', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay, different from anyone you''ve ever met. For Christopher Snow has made his peace with a very rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace the dark. He knows the night as no one else can -- its mystery, its beauty, its terrors, and the eerie silken rhythms that seduce one into believing anything -- even freedom -- is possible. Until the night Christopher Snow witnesses a series of disturbing incidents that sweep him into a violent mystery only he can solve, a mystery that will force him to rise above all fears and confront the many-layered secrets of Moonlight Bay and its strange inhabitants. A place, like all places, that looks a lot different after dark. If you think you''ve got it tough, meet Christopher Snow, the hero of Dean Koontz''s novel Fear Nothing. Not only did his parents die under mysterious circumstances, but he''s also being stalked by shadowy characters who want Snow to stop trying to find out how they died--or else they''ll bump off his remaining loved ones (his supersmart, beer-lapping dog Orson; his best surfing buddy Bobby; and his late-night deejay girlfriend Sasha). And as if being on the lam in his own hometown, Moonlight Bay, California, isn''t bad enough, Snow has to outrun his pursuers without leaving town. He has XP--xeroderma pigmentosum--a rare genetic affliction that forces him to avoid light. Cumulative exposure to sun, fluorescent lights, and the like will give him cancer eventually, and he doesn''t dare leave the place where he''s skillfully "done the mambo with melanoma" for all of his 28 years. Koontz makes the night-town of Moonlight Bay come alive in this sometimes pulse-pounding, sometimes funny, but mostly rather lyrical thriller. Fans of Koontz''s legendary 1986 novel Watchers will love this book''s similar theme: our hero and a loveable super-dog deal with a genetic engineering laboratory run amok. Horror fans will savor the evil mutant rhesus "millennium monkeys" who hunt Snow, the few scenes of eloquent gore, and the plight of certain mutating townsfolk who are, as they put it, "becoming" something very creepy. Koontz gives Snow and Bobby a lingo that does for surfer talk what Austin Powers did for the Swinging ''60s, and his metaphors are almost as madcap as Tom Robbins''s: "As the chains of the swinging light fixture torqued, the links twisted against one another with enough friction to cause an eerie ringing, as if lizard-eyed altar boys in blood-soaked cassocks and surplices were ringing the unmelodious bells of a satanic mass." Sometimes Koontz''s style goes over the top and wipes out, surfer-style, but for the most part, Fear Nothing will have readers bellowing "Cowabunga!" YA-Christopher Snow understands the night. He, like the owl, is nocturnal, living on the mysterious darker edge of society. Snow is afflicted with xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare and often-fatal genetic disease that makes ultraviolet rays-even those from lamps and televisions-deadly. His condition makes him a pariah in the isolated small town of Moonlight Bay where the ignorant and insensitive fear what they do not know. As the action begins, Snow''s father dies, leaving him with only a handful of offbeat but fiercely loyal friends to turn to for understanding. At the morgue, Snow accidentally witnesses his father''s body being replaced with the mutilated corpse of a vagrant. Before he can find out what is behind this scandal, he receives a frantic summons from a friend who is brutally murdered before she can finish explaining a strange story about monkeys and a secret project at the government compound at the edge of town. What begins as a disturbing puzzle quickly becomes a sinister conspiracy as Snow uncovers evidence of uncanny intelligence in many of the local animals and inhumanely vicious tendencies in some of the human residents of the Bay. They are "becoming" he learns, but becoming what? Chilling chase scenes steadily increase the breakneck pace as Snow, assisted by his remarkable dog, is pursued through the night by unseen forces. Despite some clunky and unnecessary surfer slang, fans will go wild for this well-plotted thriller. ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€Robin Deffendall, Prince William Public Library System, VA Bantam brags that it is launching the biggest Koontz campaign ever with this thriller, whose protagonist lives by night (he has a genetic order that makes him highly sensitive to light) until he witnesses a murder. length: (cm)17.8 ã€€ã€€ã€€ ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)10.7\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14306');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(17408, 'Fear Nothing', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strong Moonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris has xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)--a light-sensitivity so severe that he cannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-lit room, cannot sit at a computer. Chris''s natural element is the night, and his parents, both academics, chose to live in Moonlight Bay because in a small town Chris can make the nightscape his own--roaming freely through the town on his bike, surfing in the moonlight, exploring while most people sleep.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Chris''s brilliant mother, a scientist, was killed in a car accident 2 years ago, and as the book opens his father, Steven Snow, is dying of cancer; Chris''s protected life is about to change forever. We meet Chris as he is carefully preparing himself to go out in the late-afternoon sun to visit the hospital. In his last moments of life his father tells Chris he is "sorry" and that Chris should "fear nothing"--cryptic words that Chris cannot really relate to.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Steven Snow''s body is removed to the hospital basement for transport to the funeral home/crematorium, and when Chris goes downstairs for a final moment of farewell, he witnesses a frightening and clandestine encounter: the funeral director and another man Chris doesn''t recognize are substituting the body of a hitchhiker for Steven Snow''s body--which is being taken not to the crematorium but to some secret destination.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Chris, this scene is the first intimation of a conspiracy that he will come to realize envelopes many of his townspeople. His parents knew of it and wanted to protect Chris from it. His best friend has had hints of something wrong because of the frightening nocturnal visitors that have come to his beachhouse. And the first person to try to explain to Chris what''s going on--and warn him about the special danger he himself is in--will be hideously murdered.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the 24 hours this book encompasses, Christopher Snow will find out that, sheltered though he''s been, he has the soul of a fighter and an adventurer. By the end of the book he will have killed a man, will have discovered the role his own mother played in the birth of the conspiracy, will have come to recognize the extraordinary guardians that, unknown to him, have watched over him for years. He will realize that some people hate him, others revere him, and neither his own life nor those of anyone he knows will ever be the same.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17832'),
(17409, 'Fear Nothing', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strong Moonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris has xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)--a light-sensitivity so severe that he cannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-lit room, cannot sit at a computer. Chris''s natural element is the night, and his parents, both academics, chose to live in Moonlight Bay because in a small town Chris can make the nightscape his own--roaming freely through the town on his bike, surfing in the moonlight, exploring while most people sleep.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Chris''s brilliant mother, a scientist, was killed in a car accident 2 years ago, and as the book opens his father, Steven Snow, is dying of cancer; Chris''s protected life is about to change forever. We meet Chris as he is carefully preparing himself to go out in the late-afternoon sun to visit the hospital. In his last moments of life his father tells Chris he is "sorry" and that Chris should "fear nothing"--cryptic words that Chris cannot really relate to.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Steven Snow''s body is removed to the hospital basement for transport to the funeral home/crematorium, and when Chris goes downstairs for a final moment of farewell, he witnesses a frightening and clandestine encounter: the funeral director and another man Chris doesn''t recognize are substituting the body of a hitchhiker for Steven Snow''s body--which is being taken not to the crematorium but to some secret destination.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For Chris, this scene is the first intimation of a conspiracy that he will come to realize envelopes many of his townspeople. His parents knew of it and wanted to protect Chris from it. His best friend has had hints of something wrong because of the frightening nocturnal visitors that have come to his beachhouse. And the first person to try to explain to Chris what''s going on--and warn him about the special danger he himself is in--will be hideously murdered.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the 24 hours this book encompasses, Christopher Snow will find out that, sheltered though he''s been, he has the soul of a fighter and an adventurer. By the end of the book he will have killed a man, will have discovered the role his own mother played in the birth of the conspiracy, will have come to recognize the extraordinary guardians that, unknown to him, have watched over him for years. He will realize that some people hate him, others revere him, and neither his own life nor those of anyone he knows will ever be the same.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27388'),
(17410, 'Fear of flying', 'Erica Jong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A stirring book of fable and fantasy...outrageously readable. --\n <em>\n  Fay Weldon\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n An amazing tour de force. --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Cosmopolitan_\n</p>\n<p>\n Fresh, innovative, ingenious...moving. The imagination of the poet she essentially is strikes deep. I recommend it with all my heart. --\n <em>\n  Anthony Burgess\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Originally published in 1973, this uninhibited story of Isadora Wing was a national sensation: fueling fantasies, igniting debates, and even introducing a notorious new phrase to the English language. In\n <em>\n  The New York Times\n </em>\n , Henry Miller compared it to his own classic\n <em>\n  Tropic of Cancer\n </em>\n , predicting, "This book will make literary history, that because of it women are going to find their own voice and give us great sagas of sex, life, joy, and adventure." It went on to sell more than twelve million copies. Today,\n <em>\n  Fear of Flying\n </em>\n is a classic--a timeless tale of self-discovery, liberation, and womanhood.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25850'),
(17411, 'Fear That Man', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6104'),
(17412, 'Fear that man', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17831'),
(17413, 'Fear that man', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27387'),
(17414, 'Fear the Worst (2009)', 'Barclay, Linwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14639'),
(17415, 'Fear the Worst (2009)', 'Barclay, Linwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21202'),
(17416, 'Fear the Worst (2009)', 'Barclay, Linwood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26570'),
(17417, 'Fearless Fourteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Crime:Â ****Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars**. Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldnâ€™t be more proud. He always was the smart one.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Cousin:Â ****Joe Morelli**. Morelli is Domâ€™s cousin. Heâ€™s also a cop. Less than a week after Domâ€™s release from prison, Morelli has shadowy figures breaking into his house and dying in his basement. Meanwhile, Dom has gone missingÂ…\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Catastrophe:Â ****Moonman.** Morelli hires Walter Â“Moonerâ€ Dunphy, stoner and Â“inventorâ€ turned crime fighter, to protect his house. Morelli is low on cash. Mooner will work for potatoes.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Cupcake:Â ****Stephanie Plum**. Stephanie and Morelli have a long-standing relationship that involves sex, affection, and driving each other nuts. Sheâ€™s a bond enforcement agent with more luck than talent, and sheâ€™s involved in this bank-robbery-gone-bad disaster from day one.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Crisis**:Â **Ranger.** Security expert Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, has a job for Stephanie that will involve night work. Morelli has his own ideas regarding Stephanieâ€™s evening activities.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Conclusion:Â Be fearless. Â Read *FOURTEEN*!**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4753'),
(17418, 'Fearless Fourteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Crime:Â ****Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars**. Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldnâ€™t be more proud. He always was the smart one. **The Cousin:Â ****Joe Morelli**. Morelli is Domâ€™s cousin. Heâ€™s also a cop. Less than a week after Domâ€™s release from prison, Morelli has shadowy figures breaking into his house and dying in his basement. Meanwhile, Dom has gone missingÂ… **The Catastrophe:Â ****Moonman.** Morelli hires Walter Â“Moonerâ€ Dunphy, stoner and Â“inventorâ€ turned crime fighter, to protect his house. Morelli is low on cash. Mooner will work for potatoes. **The Cupcake:Â ****Stephanie Plum**. Stephanie and Morelli have a long-standing relationship that involves sex, affection, and driving each other nuts. Sheâ€™s a bond enforcement agent with more luck than talent, and sheâ€™s involved in this bank-robbery-gone-bad disaster from day one. **The Crisis**:Â **Ranger.** Security expert Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, has a job for Stephanie that will involve night work. Morelli has his own ideas regarding Stephanieâ€™s evening activities. **The Conclusion:Â Be fearless. Â Read *FOURTEEN*!**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14999'),
(17419, 'Fearless Jones', 'Walter Mosley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <b>\n   Penzler Pick,\n  </b>\n  Those of us who have been waiting for Walter Mosley to return to mystery writing--and there are many of us--have cause to rejoice. Not only has Mosley written a mystery, he is introducing a new character who could turn out to be as popular as\n  <p>\n   Fearless Jones has a lot in common with Easy, but he also has some characteristics reminiscent of Socrates Fortlow, the "hero" of\n   <i>\n   </i>\n   . When the story begins, the reader is transported to the Los Angeles of the 1950s, a dangerous place and time for a black man. But Paris Minton seems to have beaten the odds. He owns a moderately successful and very satisfying business--a used book store. He spends the time he''s not in the store scouring libraries for discarded books and selling them in just enough quantity to be independent and happy. Yes, he is visited on a regular basis by members of the LAPD who want him to prove to them that he did not steal the books, but that is a small price to pay for independence.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Minton''s peaceful life is interrupted one day when a beautiful woman walks into his store and asks for the Reverend William Grove. In no time flat, Paris has been beaten into unconsciousness by a man following her and has been rewarded by the woman with sex. The lovely Elana Love is obviously trouble, but Paris jumps in feet first and, as a consequence, his store is burned to the ground. It is obviously time to call in Fearless Jones, a man well named. Jones is afraid of nothing, but there is a little matter to be taken care of before he can help. He''s in jail and Paris must raise bail to get him out. Once he does that, the pair embark on a wild ride through Los Angeles on behalf of Elana Love. As always, Mosley depicts the hard-boiled L.A. in a powerful and distinctive way, and we can only hope that this is the first of a series.\n   <i>\n    --Otto Penzler\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  HAbandoning the voice of his premier creation, Easy Rawlins, Mosley mines a new shaft of 1950s Los Angeles with a hero who combines the principles of Easy with the deadliness of Ray "Mouse" Alexander. The result is a violent, heroic and classic piece of noir fiction. Narrator Paris Minton is an appealing figure an easygoing black man for whom the written word is salvation and whose nameless used bookstore in Watts is paradise. Then the beautiful Elana Love enters his store and brings with her more trouble than Paris has ever seen enough trouble that Paris knows his only hope is his friend Fearless Jones. A former soldier, Jones is a riveting new creation. He''s a man of both principle and action with an innate sense of justice and as his name makes clear, he''s afraid of nothing. The novel rips along with a hunt for the girl and a race among competing factions to find a missing bond that''s the key to a fortune. For the black characters it''s a desperate struggle to stay alive in a white world where the deck is stacked. One sly reference tells the reader we''re still in the same world and time inhabited by Easy Rawlins, and that Fearless and Mouse are equally "bad." But Fearless is also a knight-errant and hopefully destined for further adventures as fine as this one. (June 5)Forecast: With a 20-city author tour and major advertising, Mosley''s first thriller since 1996''s A Little Yellow Dog is sure to generate lots of interest and sales.\n  <p>\n   Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/224'),
(17420, 'Fearless Jones', 'Walter Mosley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <b>\n   Penzler Pick,\n  </b>\n  Those of us who have been waiting for Walter Mosley to return to mystery writing--and there are many of us--have cause to rejoice. Not only has Mosley written a mystery, he is introducing a new character who could turn out to be as popular as\n  <p>\n   Fearless Jones has a lot in common with Easy, but he also has some characteristics reminiscent of Socrates Fortlow, the "hero" of\n   <i>\n   </i>\n   . When the story begins, the reader is transported to the Los Angeles of the 1950s, a dangerous place and time for a black man. But Paris Minton seems to have beaten the odds. He owns a moderately successful and very satisfying business--a used book store. He spends the time he''s not in the store scouring libraries for discarded books and selling them in just enough quantity to be independent and happy. Yes, he is visited on a regular basis by members of the LAPD who want him to prove to them that he did not steal the books, but that is a small price to pay for independence.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Minton''s peaceful life is interrupted one day when a beautiful woman walks into his store and asks for the Reverend William Grove. In no time flat, Paris has been beaten into unconsciousness by a man following her and has been rewarded by the woman with sex. The lovely Elana Love is obviously trouble, but Paris jumps in feet first and, as a consequence, his store is burned to the ground. It is obviously time to call in Fearless Jones, a man well named. Jones is afraid of nothing, but there is a little matter to be taken care of before he can help. He''s in jail and Paris must raise bail to get him out. Once he does that, the pair embark on a wild ride through Los Angeles on behalf of Elana Love. As always, Mosley depicts the hard-boiled L.A. in a powerful and distinctive way, and we can only hope that this is the first of a series.\n   <i>\n    --Otto Penzler\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  HAbandoning the voice of his premier creation, Easy Rawlins, Mosley mines a new shaft of 1950s Los Angeles with a hero who combines the principles of Easy with the deadliness of Ray "Mouse" Alexander. The result is a violent, heroic and classic piece of noir fiction. Narrator Paris Minton is an appealing figure an easygoing black man for whom the written word is salvation and whose nameless used bookstore in Watts is paradise. Then the beautiful Elana Love enters his store and brings with her more trouble than Paris has ever seen enough trouble that Paris knows his only hope is his friend Fearless Jones. A former soldier, Jones is a riveting new creation. He''s a man of both principle and action with an innate sense of justice and as his name makes clear, he''s afraid of nothing. The novel rips along with a hunt for the girl and a race among competing factions to find a missing bond that''s the key to a fortune. For the black characters it''s a desperate struggle to stay alive in a white world where the deck is stacked. One sly reference tells the reader we''re still in the same world and time inhabited by Easy Rawlins, and that Fearless and Mouse are equally "bad." But Fearless is also a knight-errant and hopefully destined for further adventures as fine as this one. (June 5)Forecast: With a 20-city author tour and major advertising, Mosley''s first thriller since 1996''s A Little Yellow Dog is sure to generate lots of interest and sales.\n  <p>\n   Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11506'),
(17421, 'Fearless Jones', 'Walter Mosley', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <b>\n   Penzler Pick,\n  </b>\n  Those of us who have been waiting for Walter Mosley to return to mystery writing--and there are many of us--have cause to rejoice. Not only has Mosley written a mystery, he is introducing a new character who could turn out to be as popular as\n  <p>\n   Fearless Jones has a lot in common with Easy, but he also has some characteristics reminiscent of Socrates Fortlow, the "hero" of\n   <i>\n   </i>\n   . When the story begins, the reader is transported to the Los Angeles of the 1950s, a dangerous place and time for a black man. But Paris Minton seems to have beaten the odds. He owns a moderately successful and very satisfying business--a used book store. He spends the time he''s not in the store scouring libraries for discarded books and selling them in just enough quantity to be independent and happy. Yes, he is visited on a regular basis by members of the LAPD who want him to prove to them that he did not steal the books, but that is a small price to pay for independence.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Minton''s peaceful life is interrupted one day when a beautiful woman walks into his store and asks for the Reverend William Grove. In no time flat, Paris has been beaten into unconsciousness by a man following her and has been rewarded by the woman with sex. The lovely Elana Love is obviously trouble, but Paris jumps in feet first and, as a consequence, his store is burned to the ground. It is obviously time to call in Fearless Jones, a man well named. Jones is afraid of nothing, but there is a little matter to be taken care of before he can help. He''s in jail and Paris must raise bail to get him out. Once he does that, the pair embark on a wild ride through Los Angeles on behalf of Elana Love. As always, Mosley depicts the hard-boiled L.A. in a powerful and distinctive way, and we can only hope that this is the first of a series.\n   <i>\n    --Otto Penzler\n   </i>\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  HAbandoning the voice of his premier creation, Easy Rawlins, Mosley mines a new shaft of 1950s Los Angeles with a hero who combines the principles of Easy with the deadliness of Ray "Mouse" Alexander. The result is a violent, heroic and classic piece of noir fiction. Narrator Paris Minton is an appealing figure an easygoing black man for whom the written word is salvation and whose nameless used bookstore in Watts is paradise. Then the beautiful Elana Love enters his store and brings with her more trouble than Paris has ever seen enough trouble that Paris knows his only hope is his friend Fearless Jones. A former soldier, Jones is a riveting new creation. He''s a man of both principle and action with an innate sense of justice and as his name makes clear, he''s afraid of nothing. The novel rips along with a hunt for the girl and a race among competing factions to find a missing bond that''s the key to a fortune. For the black characters it''s a desperate struggle to stay alive in a white world where the deck is stacked. One sly reference tells the reader we''re still in the same world and time inhabited by Easy Rawlins, and that Fearless and Mouse are equally "bad." But Fearless is also a knight-errant and hopefully destined for further adventures as fine as this one. (June 5)Forecast: With a 20-city author tour and major advertising, Mosley''s first thriller since 1996''s A Little Yellow Dog is sure to generate lots of interest and sales.\n  <p>\n   Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24602'),
(17422, 'Fears Unnamed', 'Tim Lebbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A collection of four chilling novellas, two of which are British Fantasy Award winners and one original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/700'),
(17423, 'Fears unnamed', 'Tim Lebbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A collection of four chilling novellas, two of which are British Fantasy Award winners and one original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24315'),
(17424, 'A Fearsome Doubt', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This brilliant and gripping whodunit may well be the best of Todd''s six Rutledge novels (Watchers of Time, etc.). Featuring as its protagonist a Scotland Yard inspector who is among the walking wounded after his WWI traumas, the series has always been compelling. This time, Todd ratchets up the psychological pressures by raising doubts about the one aspect of Rutledge''s life that he has felt secure about: his prewar accomplishments as a policeman. The widow of a convicted killer, who went to the gallows for preying on the infirm elderly, confronts him with a missing jewelry piece found in a neighbor''s possession, suggesting that Rutledge helped execute an innocent man. Reopening the inquiry requires caution not only because of the soul-searching it provokes, which threatens to shatter the inspector''s tenuous grasp on sanity, but also because the case contributed to his superior''s promotion. This old mystery becomes only one of the puzzles Rutledge must resolve when he''s ordered to investigate the poisoning deaths of three disabled soldiers. The solutions to both sets of crimes are logical, satisfying and unexpected, but it is the character of Rutledge himself-intuitive, exquisitely sensitive to mood, the emotions of others and the significance of what is left unsaid-that makes this both an outstanding historical mystery and literate period fiction.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Todd''s sixth work featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge is a well-crafted addition to his popular historical series (e.g., Watchers of Time). Rutledge is taken aback when a persistent Nell Shaw brings him new evidence that could clear her late husband''s name. Had Rutledge and his fellow policemen inadvertently sent an innocent man to his death six years earlier? Reconsidering the pre-World War I case serves to distract the inspector from his current assignment: determining who is killing maimed ex-soldiers in the peaceful countryside in Kent. Rutledge is sidetracked as well by his friendship with Elizabeth Mayhew, the widow of an old school chum. Elizabeth''s feelings for a mysterious stranger further complicate Rutledge''s investigation. Todd expertly demonstrates how shadows from the past intersect with unsolved murders in the present, revealing tantalizing details about Rutledge''s wartime experience in France along the way. Here, Todd downplays the role of Hamish (the dead soldier who lives on in Rutledge''s mind), but he remains a key player in the series. A pleasure to read; highly recommended for all public libraries and collections of historical mysteries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Laurel Bliss, Yale Arts Lib.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6843'),
(17425, 'A Fearsome Doubt', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This brilliant and gripping whodunit may well be the best of Todd''s six Rutledge novels (Watchers of Time, etc.). Featuring as its protagonist a Scotland Yard inspector who is among the walking wounded after his WWI traumas, the series has always been compelling. This time, Todd ratchets up the psychological pressures by raising doubts about the one aspect of Rutledge''s life that he has felt secure about: his prewar accomplishments as a policeman. The widow of a convicted killer, who went to the gallows for preying on the infirm elderly, confronts him with a missing jewelry piece found in a neighbor''s possession, suggesting that Rutledge helped execute an innocent man. Reopening the inquiry requires caution not only because of the soul-searching it provokes, which threatens to shatter the inspector''s tenuous grasp on sanity, but also because the case contributed to his superior''s promotion. This old mystery becomes only one of the puzzles Rutledge must resolve when he''s ordered to investigate the poisoning deaths of three disabled soldiers. The solutions to both sets of crimes are logical, satisfying and unexpected, but it is the character of Rutledge himself-intuitive, exquisitely sensitive to mood, the emotions of others and the significance of what is left unsaid-that makes this both an outstanding historical mystery and literate period fiction.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Todd''s sixth work featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge is a well-crafted addition to his popular historical series (e.g., Watchers of Time). Rutledge is taken aback when a persistent Nell Shaw brings him new evidence that could clear her late husband''s name. Had Rutledge and his fellow policemen inadvertently sent an innocent man to his death six years earlier? Reconsidering the pre-World War I case serves to distract the inspector from his current assignment: determining who is killing maimed ex-soldiers in the peaceful countryside in Kent. Rutledge is sidetracked as well by his friendship with Elizabeth Mayhew, the widow of an old school chum. Elizabeth''s feelings for a mysterious stranger further complicate Rutledge''s investigation. Todd expertly demonstrates how shadows from the past intersect with unsolved murders in the present, revealing tantalizing details about Rutledge''s wartime experience in France along the way. Here, Todd downplays the role of Hamish (the dead soldier who lives on in Rutledge''s mind), but he remains a key player in the series. A pleasure to read; highly recommended for all public libraries and collections of historical mysteries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Laurel Bliss, Yale Arts Lib.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13015'),
(17426, 'A Fearsome Doubt', 'Charles Todd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This brilliant and gripping whodunit may well be the best of Todd''s six Rutledge novels (Watchers of Time, etc.). Featuring as its protagonist a Scotland Yard inspector who is among the walking wounded after his WWI traumas, the series has always been compelling. This time, Todd ratchets up the psychological pressures by raising doubts about the one aspect of Rutledge''s life that he has felt secure about: his prewar accomplishments as a policeman. The widow of a convicted killer, who went to the gallows for preying on the infirm elderly, confronts him with a missing jewelry piece found in a neighbor''s possession, suggesting that Rutledge helped execute an innocent man. Reopening the inquiry requires caution not only because of the soul-searching it provokes, which threatens to shatter the inspector''s tenuous grasp on sanity, but also because the case contributed to his superior''s promotion. This old mystery becomes only one of the puzzles Rutledge must resolve when he''s ordered to investigate the poisoning deaths of three disabled soldiers. The solutions to both sets of crimes are logical, satisfying and unexpected, but it is the character of Rutledge himself-intuitive, exquisitely sensitive to mood, the emotions of others and the significance of what is left unsaid-that makes this both an outstanding historical mystery and literate period fiction.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Todd''s sixth work featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge is a well-crafted addition to his popular historical series (e.g., Watchers of Time). Rutledge is taken aback when a persistent Nell Shaw brings him new evidence that could clear her late husband''s name. Had Rutledge and his fellow policemen inadvertently sent an innocent man to his death six years earlier? Reconsidering the pre-World War I case serves to distract the inspector from his current assignment: determining who is killing maimed ex-soldiers in the peaceful countryside in Kent. Rutledge is sidetracked as well by his friendship with Elizabeth Mayhew, the widow of an old school chum. Elizabeth''s feelings for a mysterious stranger further complicate Rutledge''s investigation. Todd expertly demonstrates how shadows from the past intersect with unsolved murders in the present, revealing tantalizing details about Rutledge''s wartime experience in France along the way. Here, Todd downplays the role of Hamish (the dead soldier who lives on in Rutledge''s mind), but he remains a key player in the series. A pleasure to read; highly recommended for all public libraries and collections of historical mysteries.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Laurel Bliss, Yale Arts Lib.\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17062'),
(17427, 'The Fearsome Particles', 'Trevor Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œTrevor Cole has written an\n <em>\n  Ordinary People\n </em>\n for the 21st century.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Macleanâ€™s\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œColeâ€™s writing is reminiscent of that of Carol Shields: he can be hilariously funny and profoundly serious at the same time. . . . He not only cares about whatâ€™s right in front of him, he makes his readers care too.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Montreal Gazette\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImpressive â€” funny, absorbing. . . . beautifully authentic.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Winnipeg Free Press\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_The Fearsome Particles _is a workplace comedy enveloped by human tragedy, a sympathetic study of postwar trauma played to the laugh track of finely observed farce. . . . Pitch-perfect.â€\n <br />\n â€” John Allemang\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHumour that comes froma deeper, more satisfying place . . . . The book soars.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Quill &amp; Quire\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel is well-plotted, smart and perceptive, and very funny much in the same way that Kingsley Amisâ€™s mature work was darkly humorous even at its most mordant . . . . Cole is one of the best young novelists in this country.â€\n <br />\n â€” _Globe and Mail\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œWith writing like this, Trevor Cole is quickly gaining a reputation as a major talent, deservedly so.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Edmonton Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTrevor Cole is emerging as a master of obsessive-delusional-neurotic-tragicomic fiction. His two novels,\n <em>\n  Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life\n </em>\n (which was shortlisted for a 2004 Governor General''s Award for Fiction) and his latest,\n <em>\n  The Fearsome Particles\n </em>\n , both told from the points of view of obsessive and delusional people, are distressing and sometimes cringe-making funny, their humour akin to that of David Brent trying to assert his power in the BBC TV series\n <em>\n  The Office\n </em>\n . Cole''s skill at evoking this humour suggests that he himself is quiveringly attuned to the tiny shuddersâ€“say, an inexplicable bid in a game of cardsâ€“that suggest the life-threatening fault lines in people''s lives. And Cole''s prose is so confident, compassionate and clear that it draws out that neurotic admission: I wish I''d written that.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Literary Review of Canada\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Good writing declares itself immediately. How comforting for a reader to know â€” after only a few pages in Mr. Cole''s company â€” that he is in such safe hands."\n <br />\n â€”Governor Generalâ€™s Award winner David Gilmour\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cole belongs to the Truman Capote school of stylists; his prose is clear as a mountain stream."\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Toronto Star\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Trevor Cole knows how to tell a story of the I-couldnâ€™t-put-it-down variety. . . . Just delicious!"\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Globe and Mail\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Trevor Coleâ€™s bestselling debut novel garnered rave reviews and comparisons to Truman Capote and Kingsley Amis. Now the Governor Generalâ€™s Award finalist is back with\n <em>\n  The Fearsome Particles\n </em>\n , a brilliantly observed comic tragedy about the widening cracks in a familyâ€™s picture-perfect veneer.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gerald Woodlore, a window screen executive, wakes one morning to find, to his utter dismay, that he has reached the limits of what he can control. The company he works for is rapidly losing market share and a junior assistant seems to be the only one with an idea how to fix it. His wife, Vicki, a luxury real-estate dresser, appears to be bending under the pressures of constructing an image of perfect happiness both at work and at home. But most worrying of all is Gerald and Vickiâ€™s twenty-year-old son, Kyle, who quit school to volunteer with the militaryâ€™s civilian support staff in Afghanistan. Now he has returned early and retreated to his room in the wake of a mysterious and traumatic event.\n</p>\n<p>\n With his trademark wit and strong emotional insight, Trevor Cole has created a compelling, tender story that captures a family at a crucial turning point.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Fearsome Particles\n </em>\n has recently been optioned for film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/473'),
(17428, 'The Fearsome Particles', 'Trevor Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œTrevor Cole has written an\n <em>\n  Ordinary People\n </em>\n for the 21st century.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Macleanâ€™s\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œColeâ€™s writing is reminiscent of that of Carol Shields: he can be hilariously funny and profoundly serious at the same time. . . . He not only cares about whatâ€™s right in front of him, he makes his readers care too.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Montreal Gazette\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImpressive â€” funny, absorbing. . . . beautifully authentic.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Winnipeg Free Press\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_The Fearsome Particles _is a workplace comedy enveloped by human tragedy, a sympathetic study of postwar trauma played to the laugh track of finely observed farce. . . . Pitch-perfect.â€\n <br />\n â€” John Allemang\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHumour that comes froma deeper, more satisfying place . . . . The book soars.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Quill &amp; Quire\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel is well-plotted, smart and perceptive, and very funny much in the same way that Kingsley Amisâ€™s mature work was darkly humorous even at its most mordant . . . . Cole is one of the best young novelists in this country.â€\n <br />\n â€” _Globe and Mail\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œWith writing like this, Trevor Cole is quickly gaining a reputation as a major talent, deservedly so.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Edmonton Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTrevor Cole is emerging as a master of obsessive-delusional-neurotic-tragicomic fiction. His two novels,\n <em>\n  Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life\n </em>\n (which was shortlisted for a 2004 Governor General''s Award for Fiction) and his latest,\n <em>\n  The Fearsome Particles\n </em>\n , both told from the points of view of obsessive and delusional people, are distressing and sometimes cringe-making funny, their humour akin to that of David Brent trying to assert his power in the BBC TV series\n <em>\n  The Office\n </em>\n . Cole''s skill at evoking this humour suggests that he himself is quiveringly attuned to the tiny shuddersâ€“say, an inexplicable bid in a game of cardsâ€“that suggest the life-threatening fault lines in people''s lives. And Cole''s prose is so confident, compassionate and clear that it draws out that neurotic admission: I wish I''d written that.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Literary Review of Canada\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Good writing declares itself immediately. How comforting for a reader to know â€” after only a few pages in Mr. Cole''s company â€” that he is in such safe hands."\n <br />\n â€”Governor Generalâ€™s Award winner David Gilmour\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cole belongs to the Truman Capote school of stylists; his prose is clear as a mountain stream."\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Toronto Star\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Trevor Cole knows how to tell a story of the I-couldnâ€™t-put-it-down variety. . . . Just delicious!"\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Globe and Mail\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Trevor Coleâ€™s bestselling debut novel garnered rave reviews and comparisons to Truman Capote and Kingsley Amis. Now the Governor Generalâ€™s Award finalist is back with\n <em>\n  The Fearsome Particles\n </em>\n , a brilliantly observed comic tragedy about the widening cracks in a familyâ€™s picture-perfect veneer.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gerald Woodlore, a window screen executive, wakes one morning to find, to his utter dismay, that he has reached the limits of what he can control. The company he works for is rapidly losing market share and a junior assistant seems to be the only one with an idea how to fix it. His wife, Vicki, a luxury real-estate dresser, appears to be bending under the pressures of constructing an image of perfect happiness both at work and at home. But most worrying of all is Gerald and Vickiâ€™s twenty-year-old son, Kyle, who quit school to volunteer with the militaryâ€™s civilian support staff in Afghanistan. Now he has returned early and retreated to his room in the wake of a mysterious and traumatic event.\n</p>\n<p>\n With his trademark wit and strong emotional insight, Trevor Cole has created a compelling, tender story that captures a family at a crucial turning point.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Fearsome Particles\n </em>\n has recently been optioned for film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9007'),
(17429, 'The Fearsome Particles', 'Trevor Cole', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œTrevor Cole has written an\n <em>\n  Ordinary People\n </em>\n for the 21st century.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Macleanâ€™s\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œColeâ€™s writing is reminiscent of that of Carol Shields: he can be hilariously funny and profoundly serious at the same time. . . . He not only cares about whatâ€™s right in front of him, he makes his readers care too.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Montreal Gazette\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œImpressive â€” funny, absorbing. . . . beautifully authentic.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Winnipeg Free Press\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_The Fearsome Particles _is a workplace comedy enveloped by human tragedy, a sympathetic study of postwar trauma played to the laugh track of finely observed farce. . . . Pitch-perfect.â€\n <br />\n â€” John Allemang\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHumour that comes froma deeper, more satisfying place . . . . The book soars.â€ â€”\n <em>\n  Quill &amp; Quire\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe novel is well-plotted, smart and perceptive, and very funny much in the same way that Kingsley Amisâ€™s mature work was darkly humorous even at its most mordant . . . . Cole is one of the best young novelists in this country.â€\n <br />\n â€” _Globe and Mail\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œWith writing like this, Trevor Cole is quickly gaining a reputation as a major talent, deservedly so.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Edmonton Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œTrevor Cole is emerging as a master of obsessive-delusional-neurotic-tragicomic fiction. His two novels,\n <em>\n  Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life\n </em>\n (which was shortlisted for a 2004 Governor General''s Award for Fiction) and his latest,\n <em>\n  The Fearsome Particles\n </em>\n , both told from the points of view of obsessive and delusional people, are distressing and sometimes cringe-making funny, their humour akin to that of David Brent trying to assert his power in the BBC TV series\n <em>\n  The Office\n </em>\n . Cole''s skill at evoking this humour suggests that he himself is quiveringly attuned to the tiny shuddersâ€“say, an inexplicable bid in a game of cardsâ€“that suggest the life-threatening fault lines in people''s lives. And Cole''s prose is so confident, compassionate and clear that it draws out that neurotic admission: I wish I''d written that.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Literary Review of Canada\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Good writing declares itself immediately. How comforting for a reader to know â€” after only a few pages in Mr. Cole''s company â€” that he is in such safe hands."\n <br />\n â€”Governor Generalâ€™s Award winner David Gilmour\n</p>\n<p>\n "Cole belongs to the Truman Capote school of stylists; his prose is clear as a mountain stream."\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Toronto Star\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Trevor Cole knows how to tell a story of the I-couldnâ€™t-put-it-down variety. . . . Just delicious!"\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Globe and Mail\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Trevor Coleâ€™s bestselling debut novel garnered rave reviews and comparisons to Truman Capote and Kingsley Amis. Now the Governor Generalâ€™s Award finalist is back with\n <em>\n  The Fearsome Particles\n </em>\n , a brilliantly observed comic tragedy about the widening cracks in a familyâ€™s picture-perfect veneer.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gerald Woodlore, a window screen executive, wakes one morning to find, to his utter dismay, that he has reached the limits of what he can control. The company he works for is rapidly losing market share and a junior assistant seems to be the only one with an idea how to fix it. His wife, Vicki, a luxury real-estate dresser, appears to be bending under the pressures of constructing an image of perfect happiness both at work and at home. But most worrying of all is Gerald and Vickiâ€™s twenty-year-old son, Kyle, who quit school to volunteer with the militaryâ€™s civilian support staff in Afghanistan. Now he has returned early and retreated to his room in the wake of a mysterious and traumatic event.\n</p>\n<p>\n With his trademark wit and strong emotional insight, Trevor Cole has created a compelling, tender story that captures a family at a crucial turning point.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Fearsome Particles\n </em>\n has recently been optioned for film.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24464'),
(17430, 'A Feast for Crows', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and  praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martinâ€™s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in **A Feast for Crows**, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.**A Feast for Crows**It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears....With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in Kingâ€™s Landing. Robb Starkâ€™s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still existâ€”or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out. But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising facesâ€”some familiar, others only just appearingâ€”are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead. It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes...and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guestsâ€”but only a few are the survivors.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5408');
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(17433, 'A Feast for Crows', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martinâ€™s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in **A Feast for Crows**, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.**A Feast for Crows**It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears....With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in Kingâ€™s Landing. Robb Starkâ€™s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still existâ€”or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out. But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising facesâ€”some familiar, others only just appearingâ€”are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead. It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes...and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guestsâ€”but only a few are the survivors.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19250'),
(17434, 'A Feast for Crows', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and  praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martinâ€™s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in **A Feast for Crows**, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.**A Feast for Crows**It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears....With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in Kingâ€™s Landing. Robb Starkâ€™s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still existâ€”or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out. But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising facesâ€”some familiar, others only just appearingâ€”are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead. It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes...and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guestsâ€”but only a few are the survivors.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28005'),
(17435, 'The Feast of All Saints', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Before the Civil War, there lived in Louisiana, people unique in Southern history. For though they were descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. In this dazzling historical novel, Anne Rice chronicles four of these so-called Free People of Color--men and women caught periolously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.\n  <br />\n  "Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere....She makes us believe everything she sees."\n  <br />\n  THE NEW YORK TIMES\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7560'),
(17436, 'The Feast of All Saints', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Before the Civil War, there lived in Louisiana, people unique in Southern history. For though they were descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. In this dazzling historical novel, Anne Rice chronicles four of these so-called Free People of Color--men and women caught periolously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.\n  <br />\n  "Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere....She makes us believe everything she sees."\n  <br />\n  THE NEW YORK TIMES\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12151'),
(17437, 'The Feast of All Saints', 'Anne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before the Civil War, there lived in Louisiana, people unique in Southern history. For though they were descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. In this dazzling historical novel, Anne Rice chronicles four of these so-called Free People of Color--men and women caught periolously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.\n <br />\n "Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere....She makes us believe everything she sees."\n <br />\n THE NEW YORK TIMES\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Before the Civil War, there lived in Louisiana, people unique in Southern history. For though they were descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. In this dazzling historical novel, Anne Rice chronicles four of these so-called Free People of Color--men and women caught periolously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.\n <br />\n "Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere....She makes us believe everything she sees."\n <br />\n THE NEW YORK TIMES\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16390'),
(17438, 'The Feast of the Goat', 'Mario Vargas Llosa &amp; Edith Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists to write about the machinations of Latin American politics. In\n <em>\n  The Feast of the Goat\n </em>\n he offers a vivid re-creation of the Dominican Republic during the final days of General Rafael Trujillo''s insidious and evil regime. Told from several viewpoints, the book has three distinctive, alternating strands. There is Urania Cabral, the daughter of Trujillo''s disgraced secretary of state, who has returned to Santo Domingo after more than 30 years. Now a successful New York lawyer, Urania has never forgiven her aging and paralyzed father, AgustÃ­n, for literally sacrificing her to the carnal despot in the hope of regaining his political post. Flipping back to May of 1961, there is a group of assassins, all equally scarred by Trujillo, waiting to gun the Generalissimo down. Finally there is an astonishing portrait of Trujillo--the Goat--and his grotesque coterie. Llosa depicts Trujillo as a villain of Shakespearean proportions. He is a preening, macho dandy who equates his own virility with the nation''s health. An admirer of Hitler "not for his ideas but for the way he wore a uniform" (fittingly he equips his secret police force with a fleet of black Volkswagen Beetles), Trujillo even has his own Himler in Colonel Abbes Garcia, a vicious torturer with a predilection for the occult.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the novel edges toward Trujillo''s inevitable murder, Urania''s story gets a bit lost in the action; the remaining narratives however, are rarely short of mesmerizing. Trujillo''s death unleashes a new order, but not the one expected by the conspirators. Enslaved by the soul of the dead chief, neither they nor the Trujillo family--who embark on a hideous spree of bloody reprisals--are able to fill the void. Llosa has them all skillfully outmaneuvered by the puppet-president JoaquÃ­n Belaguer, a former poet who is the very antithesis of the machismo Goat. Savage, touching, and bleakly funny, this compelling book gives an all too human face to one of Latin America''s most destructive tyrants.\n <em>\n  --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This wasn''t an enemy he could defeat like the hundreds, the thousands he had confronted and conquered over the years, buying them, intimidating them, killing them." So thinks Rafael Trujillo, "the Goat," dictator of the Dominican Republic, on the morning of May 30, 1961 a day that will end in his assassination. The "enemy" is old age at 70, Trujillo, who has always prided himself on his grooming and discipline, is shaken by bouts of incontinence and impotence. Vargas Llosa divides his narrative between three different story lines. The first concerns Urania Cabral, the daughter of one of Trujillo''s closest associates, AgustÃ­n Cabral. She is 14 at the time of the Trujillo assassination and, as we gradually discover, was betrayed by her father to Trujillo. Since then, she has lived in the U.S. At 49, she impulsively returns on a visit and slowly reveals the root of her alienation. Urania''s character is a little too pat, however. Vargas Llosa''s triumph is Trujillo''s story. We follow the sly, vile despot, with his petty rages, his lust, his dealings with his avaricious family, through his last day, with mingled feelings of repulsion and awe. Like Stalin, Trujillo ruled by turning his rage without warning against his subordinates. Finally, Vargas Llosa crosscuts Urania''s story and Trujillo''s with that of Trujillo''s assassins; first, as they wait to ambush him, and then as they are tracked down, captured and tortured to death, with almost medieval ferocity, by Trujillo''s son, Ramfis. Gathering power as it rolls along, this massive, swift-moving fictional take on a grim period in Dominican history shows that Vargas Llosa is still one of the world''s premier political novelists. (Nov.)Forecast: Vargas Llosa is on solid ground with The Day of the Goat, mining a rich vein. The former Peruvian presidential candidate''s author tour should attract crowds, and a striking jacket will seduce browsers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3058'),
(17439, 'The Feast of the Goat', 'Mario Vargas Llosa &amp; Edith Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists to write about the machinations of Latin American politics. In\n <em>\n  The Feast of the Goat\n </em>\n he offers a vivid re-creation of the Dominican Republic during the final days of General Rafael Trujillo''s insidious and evil regime. Told from several viewpoints, the book has three distinctive, alternating strands. There is Urania Cabral, the daughter of Trujillo''s disgraced secretary of state, who has returned to Santo Domingo after more than 30 years. Now a successful New York lawyer, Urania has never forgiven her aging and paralyzed father, AgustÃ­n, for literally sacrificing her to the carnal despot in the hope of regaining his political post. Flipping back to May of 1961, there is a group of assassins, all equally scarred by Trujillo, waiting to gun the Generalissimo down. Finally there is an astonishing portrait of Trujillo--the Goat--and his grotesque coterie. Llosa depicts Trujillo as a villain of Shakespearean proportions. He is a preening, macho dandy who equates his own virility with the nation''s health. An admirer of Hitler "not for his ideas but for the way he wore a uniform" (fittingly he equips his secret police force with a fleet of black Volkswagen Beetles), Trujillo even has his own Himler in Colonel Abbes Garcia, a vicious torturer with a predilection for the occult.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the novel edges toward Trujillo''s inevitable murder, Urania''s story gets a bit lost in the action; the remaining narratives however, are rarely short of mesmerizing. Trujillo''s death unleashes a new order, but not the one expected by the conspirators. Enslaved by the soul of the dead chief, neither they nor the Trujillo family--who embark on a hideous spree of bloody reprisals--are able to fill the void. Llosa has them all skillfully outmaneuvered by the puppet-president JoaquÃ­n Belaguer, a former poet who is the very antithesis of the machismo Goat. Savage, touching, and bleakly funny, this compelling book gives an all too human face to one of Latin America''s most destructive tyrants.\n <em>\n  --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This wasn''t an enemy he could defeat like the hundreds, the thousands he had confronted and conquered over the years, buying them, intimidating them, killing them." So thinks Rafael Trujillo, "the Goat," dictator of the Dominican Republic, on the morning of May 30, 1961 a day that will end in his assassination. The "enemy" is old age at 70, Trujillo, who has always prided himself on his grooming and discipline, is shaken by bouts of incontinence and impotence. Vargas Llosa divides his narrative between three different story lines. The first concerns Urania Cabral, the daughter of one of Trujillo''s closest associates, AgustÃ­n Cabral. She is 14 at the time of the Trujillo assassination and, as we gradually discover, was betrayed by her father to Trujillo. Since then, she has lived in the U.S. At 49, she impulsively returns on a visit and slowly reveals the root of her alienation. Urania''s character is a little too pat, however. Vargas Llosa''s triumph is Trujillo''s story. We follow the sly, vile despot, with his petty rages, his lust, his dealings with his avaricious family, through his last day, with mingled feelings of repulsion and awe. Like Stalin, Trujillo ruled by turning his rage without warning against his subordinates. Finally, Vargas Llosa crosscuts Urania''s story and Trujillo''s with that of Trujillo''s assassins; first, as they wait to ambush him, and then as they are tracked down, captured and tortured to death, with almost medieval ferocity, by Trujillo''s son, Ramfis. Gathering power as it rolls along, this massive, swift-moving fictional take on a grim period in Dominican history shows that Vargas Llosa is still one of the world''s premier political novelists. (Nov.)Forecast: Vargas Llosa is on solid ground with The Day of the Goat, mining a rich vein. The former Peruvian presidential candidate''s author tour should attract crowds, and a striking jacket will seduce browsers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11155'),
(17440, 'Febra', 'Serge Brussolo', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25147'),
(17441, 'Fed Up', 'Jessica Conant-Park &amp; Susan Conant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The latest in a series with "all the right ingredients-fresh characters, a dash of humor and a sizzling romance."(*Elaine Viets*)**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Part-time student Chloe Carter is planning her best friend''s wedding, working for her parents-and glued to her chef boyfriend, Josh, as he competes to star in a new TV series. The premise: Josh hijacks unsuspecting grocery shoppers and prepares them gourmet dinners. Everything''s going great-until one shopper drops dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the cameras on him from the beginning, Josh is obviously innocent, but Chloe wonders: Was it one of Josh''s competitors? Or the deceased''s husband? Or someone on the crew?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sifting through suspects, Chloe deals with wedding chaos and Josh''s erratic behavior. She''ll have to balance her plate while trying to catch a food felon...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4465'),
(17442, 'Fed Up', 'Jessica Conant-Park &amp; Susan Conant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The latest in a series with "all the right ingredients-fresh characters, a dash of humor and a sizzling romance."(*Elaine Viets*)**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Part-time student Chloe Carter is planning her best friend''s wedding, working for her parents-and glued to her chef boyfriend, Josh, as he competes to star in a new TV series. The premise: Josh hijacks unsuspecting grocery shoppers and prepares them gourmet dinners. Everything''s going great-until one shopper drops dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With the cameras on him from the beginning, Josh is obviously innocent, but Chloe wonders: Was it one of Josh''s competitors? Or the deceased''s husband? Or someone on the crew?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sifting through suspects, Chloe deals with wedding chaos and Josh''s erratic behavior. She''ll have to balance her plate while trying to catch a food felon...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8958'),
(17443, 'The Federalist Papers', 'Alexander Hamilton &amp; James Madison &amp; John Jay &amp; Lawrence Goldman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Federalist Papers--85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press--are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles that still guide our democracy today. The three authors--Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay--were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, the fourth President, and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in American history. Each had played a crucial role in the events of the American Revolution, and their essays make a compelling case for a new and united nation, governed under a written Constitution that endures to this day. The Federalist Papers are an indispensable guide to the intentions of the founding fathers and a canonical text in the development of western political thought. This is the first edition to explain the many classical, mythological, and historical references in the text, and to pay full attention to the erudition of the three authors, which enabled them to place the infant American republic in a long tradition of self-governing states.Lawrence Goldman is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, St Peter''s College, Oxford. He is the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British History, including Britain''s social and political relations with the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7832'),
(17444, 'The Federalist Papers', 'Alexander Hamilton &amp; James Madison &amp; John Jay &amp; Lawrence Goldman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Federalist Papers--85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press--are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles that still guide our democracy today. The three authors--Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay--were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, the fourth President, and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in American history. Each had played a crucial role in the events of the American Revolution, and their essays make a compelling case for a new and united nation, governed under a written Constitution that endures to this day. The Federalist Papers are an indispensable guide to the intentions of the founding fathers and a canonical text in the development of western political thought. This is the first edition to explain the many classical, mythological, and historical references in the text, and to pay full attention to the erudition of the three authors, which enabled them to place the infant American republic in a long tradition of self-governing states.Lawrence Goldman is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, St Peter''s College, Oxford. He is the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British History, including Britain''s social and political relations with the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10172'),
(17445, 'The Federalist papers', 'Alexander Hamilton; James Madison; John Jay; Lawrence Goldman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Federalist Papers--85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press--are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles that still guide our democracy today. The three authors--Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay--were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, the fourth President, and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in American history. Each had played a crucial role in the events of the American Revolution, and their essays make a compelling case for a new and united nation, governed under a written Constitution that endures to this day. The Federalist Papers are an indispensable guide to the intentions of the founding fathers and a canonical text in the development of western political thought. This is the first edition to explain the many classical, mythological, and historical references in the text, and to pay full attention to the erudition of the three authors, which enabled them to place the infant American republic in a long tradition of self-governing states.Lawrence Goldman is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, St Peter''s College, Oxford. He is the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British History, including Britain''s social and political relations with the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16155'),
(17446, 'The Federalist papers', 'Alexander Hamilton; James Madison; John Jay; Lawrence Goldman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Federalist Papers--85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press--are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles that still guide our democracy today. The three authors--Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay--were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, the fourth President, and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in American history. Each had played a crucial role in the events of the American Revolution, and their essays make a compelling case for a new and united nation, governed under a written Constitution that endures to this day. The Federalist Papers are an indispensable guide to the intentions of the founding fathers and a canonical text in the development of western political thought. This is the first edition to explain the many classical, mythological, and historical references in the text, and to pay full attention to the erudition of the three authors, which enabled them to place the infant American republic in a long tradition of self-governing states.Lawrence Goldman is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, St Peter''s College, Oxford. He is the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British History, including Britain''s social and political relations with the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26336'),
(17447, 'The Federalist papers', 'Alexander Hamilton &amp; James Madison &amp; John Jay &amp; Lawrence Goldman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Federalist Papers--85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press--are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles that still guide our democracy today. The three authors--Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay--were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, the fourth President, and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in American history. Each had played a crucial role in the events of the American Revolution, and their essays make a compelling case for a new and united nation, governed under a written Constitution that endures to this day. The Federalist Papers are an indispensable guide to the intentions of the founding fathers and a canonical text in the development of western political thought. This is the first edition to explain the many classical, mythological, and historical references in the text, and to pay full attention to the erudition of the three authors, which enabled them to place the infant American republic in a long tradition of self-governing states.Lawrence Goldman is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, St Peter''s College, Oxford. He is the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British History, including Britain''s social and political relations with the United States.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26337'),
(17448, 'Feed', 'Mira Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.NOW, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives-the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will out, even if it kills them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25331'),
(17449, 'Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy', 'Mira Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives - the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will get out, even if it kills them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2656'),
(17450, 'Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy', 'Mira Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives - the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will get out, even if it kills them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10000'),
(17451, 'Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy', 'Mira Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives - the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will get out, even if it kills them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22072'),
(17452, 'Feeling Lucky', 'Walter Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Satirical military space opera, #1 of 11-book series. Compulsive gambler Joey Czerinski must escape Old Earth fast to elude the bad-ass loan shark gunning for him. Desperate, he borrows funds from a shady Foreign Legion ATM, then gets shipped across space to fight a spider-like alien species. But one lucky roll of the dice could put him back in the game - if he can manage to stay alive!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/209'),
(17453, 'Feeling Lucky', 'Walter Knight', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Satirical military space opera, #1 of 11-book series. Compulsive gambler Joey Czerinski must escape Old Earth fast to elude the bad-ass loan shark gunning for him. Desperate, he borrows funds from a shady Foreign Legion ATM, then gets shipped across space to fight a spider-like alien species. But one lucky roll of the dice could put him back in the game - if he can manage to stay alive!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24623'),
(17454, 'Feersum Endjinn', 'Iain M. Banks', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time ...Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones ...And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt ...And everything is about to change ...For this is the time of the encroachment and, although the dimming sun still shines on the vast, towering walls of Serehfa Fastness, the end is close at hand. The King knows it, his closest advisers know it, yet sill they prosecute the war against the clan Engineers with increasing savagery. The crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent, an emissary who holds the key to all their futures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8148'),
(17455, 'Feet of Clay', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s murder in Discworld! -- which ordinarily is no big deal. But what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the unusual deaths of three elderly Ankh-Morporkians do not bear the clean, efficient marks of the Assassins'' Guild. An apparent lack of any motive is also quite troubling. All Vimes has are some tracks of white clay and more of those bothersome "clue" things that only serve to muck up an investigation. The anger of a fearful populace is already being dangerously channeled toward the city''s small community of golems -- the mindless, absurdly industrious creatures of baked clay who can occasionally be found toiling in the city''s factories. And certain highly placed personages are using the unrest as an excuse to resurrect a monarchy -- which would be bad enough even if the "king" they were grooming wasn''t as empty-headed as your typical animated pottery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/651'),
(17456, 'Feet of Clay', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s murder in Discworld! -- which ordinarily is no big deal. But what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the unusual deaths of three elderly Ankh-Morporkians do not bear the clean, efficient marks of the Assassins'' Guild. An apparent lack of any motive is also quite troubling. All Vimes has are some tracks of white clay and more of those bothersome "clue" things that only serve to muck up an investigation. The anger of a fearful populace is already being dangerously channeled toward the city''s small community of golems -- the mindless, absurdly industrious creatures of baked clay who can occasionally be found toiling in the city''s factories. And certain highly placed personages are using the unrest as an excuse to resurrect a monarchy -- which would be bad enough even if the "king" they were grooming wasn''t as empty-headed as your typical animated pottery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14019'),
(17457, 'Feet of Clay', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It''s murder in Discworld! -- which ordinarily is no big deal. But what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the unusual deaths of three elderly Ankh-Morporkians do not bear the clean, efficient marks of the Assassins'' Guild. An apparent lack of any motive is also quite troubling. All Vimes has are some tracks of white clay and more of those bothersome "clue" things that only serve to muck up an investigation. The anger of a fearful populace is already being dangerously channeled toward the city''s small community of golems -- the mindless, absurdly industrious creatures of baked clay who can occasionally be found toiling in the city''s factories. And certain highly placed personages are using the unrest as an excuse to resurrect a monarchy -- which would be bad enough even if the "king" they were grooming wasn''t as empty-headed as your typical animated pottery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24200'),
(17458, 'Felicia&#39;s Journey', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Felicia''s Journey\n  </em>\n  is a simple tale told with a subtle complexity. Felicia is an Irish country girl who has come to England to look for her jilted lover. Hilditch is a mild-mannered, gentle psychopath who lures the helpless Felicia into his trap. Interestingly, we see the story from each character''s eyes when they are separate, but from Hilditch''s view when they are together. It is an unusual and effective device that distorts the perspective and adds texture to a classic story. Trevor won a\n  <em>\n   Felicia''s Journey\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trevor''s artfully suspenseful tale of a naive and pregnant young Irishwoman''s encounter with a disturbed factory manager spent four weeks on PW''s bestseller list.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/151'),
(17459, 'Felicia&#39;s Journey', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Felicia''s Journey\n  </em>\n  is a simple tale told with a subtle complexity. Felicia is an Irish country girl who has come to England to look for her jilted lover. Hilditch is a mild-mannered, gentle psychopath who lures the helpless Felicia into his trap. Interestingly, we see the story from each character''s eyes when they are separate, but from Hilditch''s view when they are together. It is an unusual and effective device that distorts the perspective and adds texture to a classic story. Trevor won a\n  <em>\n   Felicia''s Journey\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trevor''s artfully suspenseful tale of a naive and pregnant young Irishwoman''s encounter with a disturbed factory manager spent four weeks on PW''s bestseller list.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13073'),
(17460, 'Felicia&#39;s Journey', 'William Trevor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Felicia''s Journey\n  </em>\n  is a simple tale told with a subtle complexity. Felicia is an Irish country girl who has come to England to look for her jilted lover. Hilditch is a mild-mannered, gentle psychopath who lures the helpless Felicia into his trap. Interestingly, we see the story from each character''s eyes when they are separate, but from Hilditch''s view when they are together. It is an unusual and effective device that distorts the perspective and adds texture to a classic story. Trevor won a\n  <em>\n   Felicia''s Journey\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trevor''s artfully suspenseful tale of a naive and pregnant young Irishwoman''s encounter with a disturbed factory manager spent four weeks on PW''s bestseller list.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24705'),
(17461, 'The Fellowship of the Ring', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkienâ€™s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkienâ€™s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4968'),
(17462, 'The Fellowship of the Ring', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkienâ€™s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkienâ€™s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13111'),
(17463, 'The Fellowship of the Ring', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkienâ€™s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkienâ€™s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14031'),
(17464, 'The Fellowship of the Ring', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkienâ€™s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkienâ€™s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19746'),
(17465, 'The Fellowship of the Ring', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkienâ€™s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkienâ€™s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkienâ€™s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elvensmiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28293'),
(17466, 'The Feng Shui Detective', 'Nury Vittachi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mr. Wong is a feng shui consultant, but his cases tend to involve a lot more than just interior decoration. You see, Wong specializes in a certain type of problem premises: crime scenes. He and his brash teenage Aussie-American ex-pat intern (think an Asian Sherlock Holmes paired up with Kelly Osbourne) travel around Singapore solving crimes while trying to decipher each other''s language and behavior. His latest case involves a mysterious young woman who, according to a psychic reading, is doomed to die. Wong''s desperate efforts to save her eventually lead him and his sidekick to Sydney where the story climaxes at the Opera House, a building known for its appalling feng shui. A delightful combination of crafty plotting, quirky humor, and Asian philosophy, the Feng Shui Detective is an investigator like no other!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2453'),
(17467, 'The Feng Shui Detective', 'Nury Vittachi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mr. Wong is a feng shui consultant, but his cases tend to involve a lot more than just interior decoration. You see, Wong specializes in a certain type of problem premises: crime scenes. He and his brash teenage Aussie-American ex-pat intern (think an Asian Sherlock Holmes paired up with Kelly Osbourne) travel around Singapore solving crimes while trying to decipher each other''s language and behavior. His latest case involves a mysterious young woman who, according to a psychic reading, is doomed to die. Wong''s desperate efforts to save her eventually lead him and his sidekick to Sydney where the story climaxes at the Opera House, a building known for its appalling feng shui. A delightful combination of crafty plotting, quirky humor, and Asian philosophy, the Feng Shui Detective is an investigator like no other!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13198'),
(17468, 'The Feng Shui Detective', 'Nury Vittachi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mr. Wong is a feng shui consultant, but his cases tend to involve a lot more than just interior decoration. You see, Wong specializes in a certain type of problem premises: crime scenes. He and his brash teenage Aussie-American ex-pat intern (think an Asian Sherlock Holmes paired up with Kelly Osbourne) travel around Singapore solving crimes while trying to decipher each other''s language and behavior. His latest case involves a mysterious young woman who, according to a psychic reading, is doomed to die. Wong''s desperate efforts to save her eventually lead him and his sidekick to Sydney where the story climaxes at the Opera House, a building known for its appalling feng shui. A delightful combination of crafty plotting, quirky humor, and Asian philosophy, the Feng Shui Detective is an investigator like no other!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22406'),
(17469, 'The Feng Shui Detective&#39;s Casebook', 'Nury Vittachi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A murder in the Philippines, a kidnapping in Thailand, grand theft auto in Singapore: just another day at the office for CF Wong. No, he''s not a detective, he''s a feng shui master, and he''d much rather just get paid, go home, put his feet up, and leave solving crimes to someone who cares. But that''s just not going to happen. CF and his assistant, Joyce, are on a business trip around the Asia Pacific and wherever they go, their unique way of getting to the bottom of the most perplexing cases seems to be needed. Baffling crimes, ingenious schemes, exotic locations and bucket-loads of charm. The Feng Shui Detective''s Casebook is Vittachi at his witty, original best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2454');
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(17470, 'The Feng Shui Detective&#39;s Casebook', 'Nury Vittachi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A murder in the Philippines, a kidnapping in Thailand, grand theft auto in Singapore: just another day at the office for CF Wong. No, he''s not a detective, he''s a feng shui master, and he''d much rather just get paid, go home, put his feet up, and leave solving crimes to someone who cares. But that''s just not going to happen. CF and his assistant, Joyce, are on a business trip around the Asia Pacific and wherever they go, their unique way of getting to the bottom of the most perplexing cases seems to be needed. Baffling crimes, ingenious schemes, exotic locations and bucket-loads of charm. The Feng Shui Detective''s Casebook is Vittachi at his witty, original best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13199'),
(17471, 'The Feng Shui Detective&#39;s Casebook', 'Nury Vittachi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A murder in the Philippines, a kidnapping in Thailand, grand theft auto in Singapore: just another day at the office for CF Wong. No, he''s not a detective, he''s a feng shui master, and he''d much rather just get paid, go home, put his feet up, and leave solving crimes to someone who cares. But that''s just not going to happen. CF and his assistant, Joyce, are on a business trip around the Asia Pacific and wherever they go, their unique way of getting to the bottom of the most perplexing cases seems to be needed. Baffling crimes, ingenious schemes, exotic locations and bucket-loads of charm. The Feng Shui Detective''s Casebook is Vittachi at his witty, original best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22405'),
(17472, 'The Feng-Shui Junkie', 'Brian Gallagher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Julie and Ronan are the perfect married couple: with two incomes, and both personal and professional success, theirs is a lifestyle to envy. That is, until the day Julie comes home unexpectedly early from a week away to find a yellow wonderbra hanging from the doorknob. It seems that in the age-old style it has all gone terribly wrong - Ronan is having an affair. Fuelled by anger, despair and whiskey, Julie embarks on a campaign of detection. Revenge may not be sweet, but it is most definitely worth it . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7081'),
(17473, 'The feng-shui junkie', 'Brian Gallagher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Julie and Ronan are the perfect married couple: with two incomes, and both personal and professional success, theirs is a lifestyle to envy. That is, until the day Julie comes home unexpectedly early from a week away to find a yellow wonderbra hanging from the doorknob. It seems that in the age-old style it has all gone terribly wrong - Ronan is having an affair. Fuelled by anger, despair and whiskey, Julie embarks on a campaign of detection. Revenge may not be sweet, but it is most definitely worth it . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16747'),
(17474, 'The feng-shui junkie', 'Brian Gallagher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Julie and Ronan are the perfect married couple: with two incomes, and both personal and professional success, theirs is a lifestyle to envy. That is, until the day Julie comes home unexpectedly early from a week away to find a yellow wonderbra hanging from the doorknob. It seems that in the age-old style it has all gone terribly wrong - Ronan is having an affair. Fuelled by anger, despair and whiskey, Julie embarks on a campaign of detection. Revenge may not be sweet, but it is most definitely worth it . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26737'),
(17475, 'The Ferguson Affair', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMy favorite . . . [Macdonald] is first among those novelists who raised the genre from its roots in pulp fiction to serious literature.â€ â€”P.D. James, from\n <em>\n  Talking About Detective Fiction\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald.â€ â€”_New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMacdonald should not be limited in audience to connoisseurs of mystery fiction.Â  He is one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.â€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMost mystery writers merely write about crime.Â  Ross Macdonald writes about sin.â€ â€”_The Atlantic_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWithout in the least abating my admiration for Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, I should like to venture the heretical suggestion that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of them.â€ â€”Anthony Boucher\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Macdonald] carried form and style about as far as they would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private detective mysteries.â€ â€”_The Guardian_ (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Ross Macdonald] gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.â€ â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail.Â  Defense lawyer Bill Gunnarson was making the tripâ€”fast.Â  He already knew a kidnapping at the club was tied to the girl''s hot rock, and he suspected that a missing Hollywood starlet was the key to a busy crime ring.Â  But while Gunnarson made his way through a storm of deception, money, drugs, and passions, he couldn''t guess how some big shots and small-timers would all end up with murder in common...Â Â Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1489'),
(17476, 'The Ferguson Affair', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMy favorite . . . [Macdonald] is first among those novelists who raised the genre from its roots in pulp fiction to serious literature.â€ â€”P.D. James, from\n <em>\n  Talking About Detective Fiction\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald.â€ â€”_New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMacdonald should not be limited in audience to connoisseurs of mystery fiction.Â  He is one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.â€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMost mystery writers merely write about crime.Â  Ross Macdonald writes about sin.â€ â€”_The Atlantic_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWithout in the least abating my admiration for Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, I should like to venture the heretical suggestion that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of them.â€ â€”Anthony Boucher\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Macdonald] carried form and style about as far as they would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private detective mysteries.â€ â€”_The Guardian_ (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Ross Macdonald] gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.â€ â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail.Â  Defense lawyer Bill Gunnarson was making the tripâ€”fast.Â  He already knew a kidnapping at the club was tied to the girl''s hot rock, and he suspected that a missing Hollywood starlet was the key to a busy crime ring.Â  But while Gunnarson made his way through a storm of deception, money, drugs, and passions, he couldn''t guess how some big shots and small-timers would all end up with murder in common...Â Â Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11152'),
(17477, 'The Ferguson Affair', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMy favorite . . . [Macdonald] is first among those novelists who raised the genre from its roots in pulp fiction to serious literature.â€ â€”P.D. James, from\n <em>\n  Talking About Detective Fiction\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald.â€ â€”_New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMacdonald should not be limited in audience to connoisseurs of mystery fiction. He is one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.â€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMost mystery writers merely write about crime. Ross Macdonald writes about sin.â€ â€”_The Atlantic_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWithout in the least abating my admiration for Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, I should like to venture the heretical suggestion that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of them.â€ â€”Anthony Boucher\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Macdonald] carried form and style about as far as they would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private detective mysteries.â€ â€”_The Guardian_ (London)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Ross Macdonald] gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.â€ â€”_Chicago Tribune_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail. Defense lawyer Bill Gunnarson was making the tripâ€”fast. He already knew a kidnapping at the club was tied to the girl''s hot rock, and he suspected that a missing Hollywood starlet was the key to a busy crime ring. But while Gunnarson made his way through a storm of deception, money, drugs, and passions, he couldn''t guess how some big shots and small-timers would all end up with murder in common...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23421'),
(17478, 'Ferma animalelor', 'George Orwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25807'),
(17479, 'The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model', 'Anders, Charlie Jane', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <div>\n    <div>\n     Jon and Toku travel the universe suspended in Interdream, only waking up to check up on certain business ventures. Simple. Until one of the business ventures, something called "Earth," objects.\n    </div>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7720'),
(17480, 'The Fermi Paradox is Our Business Model: A Tor.Com Original', 'Anders, Charlie Jane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15394'),
(17481, 'Fertility Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide', 'Susan Warhus', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Your essential guide to FERTILITY options and reproductive HEALTH\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n If you are trying to start a family but are having trouble conceiving, you are not alone. Today, millions are affected by infertility issues.\n <em>\n  Fertility Demystified\n </em>\n explores many common causes of infertility and outlines the latest treatments, guiding you toward successful conception.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written by a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist,\n <em>\n  Fertility Demystified\n </em>\n begins with an overview of the different fertility concerns for men and women along with a discussion of the possible reasons for early pregnancy loss. You''ll find methods for increasing the chances of becoming pregnant--both naturally and through fertility drug therapy--and explanations of the various assisted-reproduction technologies. Also, the complex emotional issues and ethical considerations in the decision-making process are carefully explored.\n</p>\n<p>\n This easy-to-understand guide offers:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explanations of health and lifestyle concerns for both men and women\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips for finding a fertility specialist\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Natural ways to monitor and improve your own fertility\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   An overview of various fertility medications and their risks\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Emerging technologies not yet available in the United States\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Alternatives for the infertile couple--including surrogacy and adoption\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Straightforward and accessible,\n <em>\n  Fertility Demystified\n </em>\n helps you make informed decisions about your fertility options.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Susan Warhus, M.D.\n </strong>\n , a physician and a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist, serves on the advisory board for Childbirth Graphics, the largest U.S. childbirth-education product company. She is the author of two books on pregnancy and childbirth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22959'),
(17482, 'Fever Dream', 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Preston and Child up the emotional ante considerably in their 10th thriller featuring brilliant and eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast (after\n <em>\n  Cemetery Dance\n </em>\n ), one of the best in the series. For 12 years, Pendergast has believed that the death of his wife, Helen, in the jaws of a ferocious red-maned lion in Zambia was just a tragedy, but his chance examination of the gun she carried on the fateful day reveals that someone loaded it with blanks. Pendergast drags his longtime NYPD ally, Lt. Vincent D''Agosta, into a leave of absence that includes travel to Africa as well as the American South. The motive for Helen''s murder appears to be linked to her fascination with John James Audubon and her quest for a mysterious lost Audubon painting. Once again, the bestselling authors show they have few peers at creating taut scenes of suspense. Their restraint in the book''s early sections make the payoffs all the more compelling.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "RenÃ© Auberjonois...lends the proper air of gravitas to his performance. With the underlying story featuring zombies and the undead, it takes the sober Auberjonois to help maintain the credibility of the plot. His sincere delivery is perfect for a strange story that is more than a little creepy." (\n <strong>\n  AudioFile Magazine on CEMETERY DANCE\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] suspenseful tale of urban terror...this taut page-turner can only add to the authors'' growing fan base." (\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly on CEMETERY DANCE\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Narrator As Pendergast discovers that his beloved wife kept a myriad of secrets, Auberjonois''s characterization dramatizes the special agent''s confusion over his wife''s loyalty." (_\n <strong>\n  AudioFile\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5939'),
(17483, 'Fever Dream', 'Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Preston and Child up the emotional ante considerably in their 10th thriller featuring brilliant and eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast (after\n <em>\n  Cemetery Dance\n </em>\n ), one of the best in the series. For 12 years, Pendergast has believed that the death of his wife, Helen, in the jaws of a ferocious red-maned lion in Zambia was just a tragedy, but his chance examination of the gun she carried on the fateful day reveals that someone loaded it with blanks. Pendergast drags his longtime NYPD ally, Lt. Vincent D''Agosta, into a leave of absence that includes travel to Africa as well as the American South. The motive for Helen''s murder appears to be linked to her fascination with John James Audubon and her quest for a mysterious lost Audubon painting. Once again, the bestselling authors show they have few peers at creating taut scenes of suspense. Their restraint in the book''s early sections make the payoffs all the more compelling.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "RenÃ© Auberjonois...lends the proper air of gravitas to his performance. With the underlying story featuring zombies and the undead, it takes the sober Auberjonois to help maintain the credibility of the plot. His sincere delivery is perfect for a strange story that is more than a little creepy." (\n <strong>\n  AudioFile Magazine on CEMETERY DANCE\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] suspenseful tale of urban terror...this taut page-turner can only add to the authors'' growing fan base." (\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly on CEMETERY DANCE\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Narrator As Pendergast discovers that his beloved wife kept a myriad of secrets, Auberjonois''s characterization dramatizes the special agent''s confusion over his wife''s loyalty." (_\n <strong>\n  AudioFile\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12039'),
(17484, 'Fever Dream', 'Douglas Preston;Lincoln Child', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Preston and Child up the emotional ante considerably in their 10th thriller featuring brilliant and eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast (after\n <em>\n  Cemetery Dance\n </em>\n ), one of the best in the series. For 12 years, Pendergast has believed that the death of his wife, Helen, in the jaws of a ferocious red-maned lion in Zambia was just a tragedy, but his chance examination of the gun she carried on the fateful day reveals that someone loaded it with blanks. Pendergast drags his longtime NYPD ally, Lt. Vincent D''Agosta, into a leave of absence that includes travel to Africa as well as the American South. The motive for Helen''s murder appears to be linked to her fascination with John James Audubon and her quest for a mysterious lost Audubon painting. Once again, the bestselling authors show they have few peers at creating taut scenes of suspense. Their restraint in the book''s early sections make the payoffs all the more compelling.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "RenÃ© Auberjonois...lends the proper air of gravitas to his performance. With the underlying story featuring zombies and the undead, it takes the sober Auberjonois to help maintain the credibility of the plot. His sincere delivery is perfect for a strange story that is more than a little creepy." (\n <strong>\n  AudioFile Magazine on CEMETERY DANCE\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "[A] suspenseful tale of urban terror...this taut page-turner can only add to the authors'' growing fan base." (\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly on CEMETERY DANCE\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Narrator As Pendergast discovers that his beloved wife kept a myriad of secrets, Auberjonois''s characterization dramatizes the special agent''s confusion over his wife''s loyalty." (_\n <strong>\n  AudioFile\n </strong>\n _ )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18693'),
(17485, 'Fever Dream (Pendergast)', 'Lincoln Child; Douglas Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen''s tragic death, only to make a stunning-and dreadful-discovery. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa. But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle-her only protection from the beast-had been deliberately loaded with blanks. Who could have wanted Helen dead...and why? With Lieutenant Vincent D''Agosta''s assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife''s murder. It is a journey that sends him deep into her past where he learns much that Helen herself had wished to keep hidden. Helen Pendergast had nursed a secret obsession with the famed naturalist-painter John James Audubon, in particular a long-lost painting of his known as the Black Frame.As Pendergast probes more deeply into the riddle-the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou-he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13656'),
(17486, 'Fever Dream (Pendergast)', 'Lincoln Child; Douglas Preston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen''s tragic death, only to make a stunning-and dreadful-discovery. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa. But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle-her only protection from the beast-had been deliberately loaded with blanks. Who could have wanted Helen dead...and why? With Lieutenant Vincent D''Agosta''s assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife''s murder. It is a journey that sends him deep into her past where he learns much that Helen herself had wished to keep hidden. Helen Pendergast had nursed a secret obsession with the famed naturalist-painter John James Audubon, in particular a long-lost painting of his known as the Black Frame.As Pendergast probes more deeply into the riddle-the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou-he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21139'),
(17487, 'Fever Pitch', 'Nick  Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain he is revered for his status as a fanatical football writer (sorry, fanatical soccer writer), owing to\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n --which is both an autobiography and a footballing Bible rolled into one. Hornby pinpoints 1968 as his formative year--the year he turned 11, the year his parents separated, and the year his father first took him to watch Arsenal play. The author quickly moved "way beyond fandom" into an extreme obsession that has dominated his life, loves, and relationships. His father had initially hoped that Saturday afternoon matches would draw the two closer together, but instead Hornby became completely besotted with the game at the expense of any conversation: "Football may have provided us with a new medium through which we could communicate, but that was not to say that we used it, or what we chose to say was necessarily positive." Girlfriends also played second fiddle to one ball and 11 men. He fantasizes that even if a girlfriend "went into labor at an impossible moment" he would not be able to help out until after the final whistle.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n is not a typical memoir--there are no chapters, just a series of match reports falling into three time frames (childhood, young adulthood, manhood). While watching the May 2, 1972, Reading v. Arsenal match, it became embarrassingly obvious to the then 15-year-old that his white, suburban, middle-class roots made him a wimp with no sense of identity: "Yorkshire men, Lancastrians, Scots, the Irish, blacks, the rich, the poor, even Americans and Australians have something they can sit in pubs and bars and weep about." But a boy from Maidenhead could only dream of coming from a place with "its own tube station and West Indian community and terrible, insoluble social problems."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n reveals the very special intricacies of British football, which readers new to the game will find astonishing, and which Hornby presents with remarkable humor and honesty--the "unique" chants sung at matches, the cold rain-soaked terraces, giant cans of warm beer, the trains known as football specials carrying fans to and from matches in prisonlike conditions, bottles smashing on the tracks, thousands of policemen waiting in anticipation for the cargo of hooligans. The sport and one team in particular have crept into every aspect of Hornby''s life--making him see the world through Arsenal-tinted spectacles.\n <em>\n  --Naomi Gesinger\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brought to print to take advantage of America''s presumed fascination with the ''94 World Cup (the first ever held here), Fever Pitch is a 24-year obsessional diary of English club football (soccer, to us Americans) games Hornby has witnessed and the way these games have become inextricable from his personal life. Hornby is the kind of fanatic who merely shrugs about the "tyranny" the sport exerts over his life--the mumbled excuses he must give at every missed christening or birthday party as a result of a schedule conflict. "Sometimes hurting someone," he writes, "is unavoidable." These occasions tend to bring out "disappointment and tired impatience" in his friends and family, but it is when he is exposed as a "worthless, shallow worm" that the similarly stricken reader can relate to the high costs of caring deeply about a game that means nothing to one''s more well-adjusted friends. These moments are fleeting, however. The book has not been tailored for American audiences, so readers lacking a knowledge of English club football''s rules, traditions, history and players will be left completely in the dark by Hornby''s obscure references. Unfortunately, he has neither Roger Angell''s ability to take us inside the game nor the pathos of Frederick Exley''s brilliantly disturbed autobiographical trilogy. Though Hornby does show flashes of real humor, Fever Pitch features mainly pedestrian insights on life and sport, and then it''s on to the next game--the equivalent, for an American reader, of a nil-nil tie. Author appearances.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2629'),
(17488, 'Fever Pitch', 'Nick  Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain he is revered for his status as a fanatical football writer (sorry, fanatical soccer writer), owing to\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n --which is both an autobiography and a footballing Bible rolled into one. Hornby pinpoints 1968 as his formative year--the year he turned 11, the year his parents separated, and the year his father first took him to watch Arsenal play. The author quickly moved "way beyond fandom" into an extreme obsession that has dominated his life, loves, and relationships. His father had initially hoped that Saturday afternoon matches would draw the two closer together, but instead Hornby became completely besotted with the game at the expense of any conversation: "Football may have provided us with a new medium through which we could communicate, but that was not to say that we used it, or what we chose to say was necessarily positive." Girlfriends also played second fiddle to one ball and 11 men. He fantasizes that even if a girlfriend "went into labor at an impossible moment" he would not be able to help out until after the final whistle.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n is not a typical memoir--there are no chapters, just a series of match reports falling into three time frames (childhood, young adulthood, manhood). While watching the May 2, 1972, Reading v. Arsenal match, it became embarrassingly obvious to the then 15-year-old that his white, suburban, middle-class roots made him a wimp with no sense of identity: "Yorkshire men, Lancastrians, Scots, the Irish, blacks, the rich, the poor, even Americans and Australians have something they can sit in pubs and bars and weep about." But a boy from Maidenhead could only dream of coming from a place with "its own tube station and West Indian community and terrible, insoluble social problems."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n reveals the very special intricacies of British football, which readers new to the game will find astonishing, and which Hornby presents with remarkable humor and honesty--the "unique" chants sung at matches, the cold rain-soaked terraces, giant cans of warm beer, the trains known as football specials carrying fans to and from matches in prisonlike conditions, bottles smashing on the tracks, thousands of policemen waiting in anticipation for the cargo of hooligans. The sport and one team in particular have crept into every aspect of Hornby''s life--making him see the world through Arsenal-tinted spectacles.\n <em>\n  --Naomi Gesinger\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brought to print to take advantage of America''s presumed fascination with the ''94 World Cup (the first ever held here), Fever Pitch is a 24-year obsessional diary of English club football (soccer, to us Americans) games Hornby has witnessed and the way these games have become inextricable from his personal life. Hornby is the kind of fanatic who merely shrugs about the "tyranny" the sport exerts over his life--the mumbled excuses he must give at every missed christening or birthday party as a result of a schedule conflict. "Sometimes hurting someone," he writes, "is unavoidable." These occasions tend to bring out "disappointment and tired impatience" in his friends and family, but it is when he is exposed as a "worthless, shallow worm" that the similarly stricken reader can relate to the high costs of caring deeply about a game that means nothing to one''s more well-adjusted friends. These moments are fleeting, however. The book has not been tailored for American audiences, so readers lacking a knowledge of English club football''s rules, traditions, history and players will be left completely in the dark by Hornby''s obscure references. Unfortunately, he has neither Roger Angell''s ability to take us inside the game nor the pathos of Frederick Exley''s brilliantly disturbed autobiographical trilogy. Though Hornby does show flashes of real humor, Fever Pitch features mainly pedestrian insights on life and sport, and then it''s on to the next game--the equivalent, for an American reader, of a nil-nil tie. Author appearances.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10449'),
(17489, 'Fever Pitch', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is a book about identity, belonging, obsession; about afternoons in the driving rain and bitter cold and glorious, unforgettable goals; getting your head read in Hampstead and punched at Highbury; the dazzling skills of the gods of football and leaving your girlfriend lying fainted on the terraces because Arsenal are about to score. It''s about the moments of ecstasy in one man''s life. And his pain. And it''s about the only true question there is: Which comes first, Football or Life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14947'),
(17490, 'Fever Pitch', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain he is revered for his status as a fanatical football writer (sorry, fanatical soccer writer), owing to\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n --which is both an autobiography and a footballing Bible rolled into one. Hornby pinpoints 1968 as his formative year--the year he turned 11, the year his parents separated, and the year his father first took him to watch Arsenal play. The author quickly moved "way beyond fandom" into an extreme obsession that has dominated his life, loves, and relationships. His father had initially hoped that Saturday afternoon matches would draw the two closer together, but instead Hornby became completely besotted with the game at the expense of any conversation: "Football may have provided us with a new medium through which we could communicate, but that was not to say that we used it, or what we chose to say was necessarily positive." Girlfriends also played second fiddle to one ball and 11 men. He fantasizes that even if a girlfriend "went into labor at an impossible moment" he would not be able to help out until after the final whistle.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n is not a typical memoir--there are no chapters, just a series of match reports falling into three time frames (childhood, young adulthood, manhood). While watching the May 2, 1972, Reading v. Arsenal match, it became embarrassingly obvious to the then 15-year-old that his white, suburban, middle-class roots made him a wimp with no sense of identity: "Yorkshire men, Lancastrians, Scots, the Irish, blacks, the rich, the poor, even Americans and Australians have something they can sit in pubs and bars and weep about." But a boy from Maidenhead could only dream of coming from a place with "its own tube station and West Indian community and terrible, insoluble social problems."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fever Pitch\n </em>\n reveals the very special intricacies of British football, which readers new to the game will find astonishing, and which Hornby presents with remarkable humor and honesty--the "unique" chants sung at matches, the cold rain-soaked terraces, giant cans of warm beer, the trains known as football specials carrying fans to and from matches in prisonlike conditions, bottles smashing on the tracks, thousands of policemen waiting in anticipation for the cargo of hooligans. The sport and one team in particular have crept into every aspect of Hornby''s life--making him see the world through Arsenal-tinted spectacles.\n <em>\n  --Naomi Gesinger\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brought to print to take advantage of America''s presumed fascination with the ''94 World Cup (the first ever held here), Fever Pitch is a 24-year obsessional diary of English club football (soccer, to us Americans) games Hornby has witnessed and the way these games have become inextricable from his personal life. Hornby is the kind of fanatic who merely shrugs about the "tyranny" the sport exerts over his life--the mumbled excuses he must give at every missed christening or birthday party as a result of a schedule conflict. "Sometimes hurting someone," he writes, "is unavoidable." These occasions tend to bring out "disappointment and tired impatience" in his friends and family, but it is when he is exposed as a "worthless, shallow worm" that the similarly stricken reader can relate to the high costs of caring deeply about a game that means nothing to one''s more well-adjusted friends. These moments are fleeting, however. The book has not been tailored for American audiences, so readers lacking a knowledge of English club football''s rules, traditions, history and players will be left completely in the dark by Hornby''s obscure references. Unfortunately, he has neither Roger Angell''s ability to take us inside the game nor the pathos of Frederick Exley''s brilliantly disturbed autobiographical trilogy. Though Hornby does show flashes of real humor, Fever Pitch features mainly pedestrian insights on life and sport, and then it''s on to the next game--the equivalent, for an American reader, of a nil-nil tie. Author appearances.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22320'),
(17491, 'Fevre Dream', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something''s amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesn''t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh''s dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he won''t earn back his investment in a decade. York has his own reasons for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. And they are to be none of Marsh''s concernno matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his actions may prove. Marsh meant to turn down York''s offer. It was too full of secrets that spelled danger. But the promise of both gold and a grand new boat that could make history crushed his resolvecoupled with the terrible force of York''s mesmerizing gaze. Not until the maiden voyage of his new sidewheeler Fevre Dream would Marsh realize he had joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare...and mankind''s most impossible dream. Here is the spellbinding tale of a vampire''s quest to unite his race with humanity, of a garrulous riverman''s dream of immortality, and of the undying legends of the steamboat era and a majestic, ancient river. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5415'),
(17492, 'Fevre Dream', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something''s amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesn''t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh''s dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he won''t earn back his investment in a decade. York has his own reasons for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. And they are to be none of Marsh''s concernno matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his actions may prove. Marsh meant to turn down York''s offer. It was too full of secrets that spelled danger. But the promise of both gold and a grand new boat that could make history crushed his resolvecoupled with the terrible force of York''s mesmerizing gaze. Not until the maiden voyage of his new sidewheeler Fevre Dream would Marsh realize he had joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare...and mankind''s most impossible dream. Here is the spellbinding tale of a vampire''s quest to unite his race with humanity, of a garrulous riverman''s dream of immortality, and of the undying legends of the steamboat era and a majestic, ancient river. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19240'),
(17493, 'Fevre Dream', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something''s amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesn''t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh''s dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he won''t earn back his investment in a decade. York has his own reasons for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. And they are to be none of Marsh''s concernno matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his actions may prove. Marsh meant to turn down York''s offer. It was too full of secrets that spelled danger. But the promise of both gold and a grand new boat that could make history crushed his resolvecoupled with the terrible force of York''s mesmerizing gaze. Not until the maiden voyage of his new sidewheeler Fevre Dream would Marsh realize he had joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare...and mankind''s most impossible dream. Here is the spellbinding tale of a vampire''s quest to unite his race with humanity, of a garrulous riverman''s dream of immortality, and of the undying legends of the steamboat era and a majestic, ancient river. From the Trade Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27998'),
(17494, 'A Few Good Women: America&#39;s Military Women From World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan', 'Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee &amp; Evelyn Monahan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Foreign enemies are less challenging than domestic ones in this earnest history of women''s struggle for entry into and acceptance within the armed forces. Ex-army psychologist Monahan and ex-navy nurse Neidel-Greenlee (coauthors of\n  <em>\n   And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II\n  </em>\n  ) argue that while America has increasingly relied on women to perform crucial military tasks, sometimes under fire, reactionaries in the military and Congress, citing feminine delicacy and other hoary sexist myths, have resisted according them the status, equal pay, opportunities, and respect they deserve. The authors adorn their chronicle of hard-fought institutional change with the generally gung-ho recollections of women soldiers, from WWII''s WAACs and WAVEs to today''s female machine gunners and paratroopers. The authors reserve their heaviest fire for those who oppose putting women in combat roles, especially Sen. James Webb; in a vitriolic critique, they conjecture that God invented death for the express purpose of ridding the world of people like Webb who prefer subjective opinions to objective facts.... This is an occasionally inspiring, but often plodding and doctrinaire account of America''s women in uniform. 83 photos.\n  <em>\n   (Feb. 24)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Images of women in the military have historically centered on volunteers cooking meals or nursing the wounded. Monahan and Neidel-Greenlee, former military women, debunk that image with this history of American women on the front line in battle and in the struggle for full equality in the military. During WWI, the military began reluctantly accepting women, mostly assigning them to clerical work. Once women gained the right to vote, they were able to push ahead with efforts to overcome social conventions that assumed they were pacifists by nature or best suited to supportive roles. Drawing on interviews and archival materials, the authors recount the long history of the various womenâ€™s auxiliaries before women were fully accepted into the military, the long and ongoing struggle for equal pay and opportunity in the military, and fights against sexual indignities. They also chronicle patriotism and bravery as women have served in battle through WWII, Vietnam, and more recent wars in the Middle East. Photographs and interviews with women who have served in the military enliven this fascinating book. --Vanessa Bush\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11011');
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(17495, 'Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq', 'Thomas Ricks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fiasco is a more strongly worded title than you might expect a seasoned military reporter such as Thomas E. Ricks to use, accustomed as he is to the even-handed style of daily newspaper journalism. But Ricks, the Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post and the author of the acclaimed account of Marine Corps boot camp, Making the Corps, has written a thorough and devastating history of the war in Iraq from the planning stages through the continued insurgency in early 2006, and he does not shy away from naming those he finds responsible. His tragic story is divided in two. The first part--the runup to the war and the invasion in 2003--is familiar from books like Cobra II and Plan of Attack, although Ricks uses his many military sources to portray an officer class that was far more skeptical of the war beforehand than generally reported. But the heart of his book is the second half, beginning in August 2003, when, as he writes, the war really began, with the bombing of the Jordanian embassy and the emergence of the insurgency. His strongest critique is that the U.S. military failed to anticipate--and then failed to recognize--the insurgency, and tried to fight it with conventional methods that only fanned its flames. What makes his portrait particularly damning are the dozens of military sources--most of them on record--who join in his critique, and the thousands of pages of internal documents he uses to make his case for a war poorly planned and bravely but blindly fought. --Tom Nissley Making a Fiasco Thomas Ricks spent five tours in Iraq during the war, reporting for the Washington Post and researching and writing Fiasco. Like many of the officers he most admires, when he wanted to understand what was happening as American troops encountered stronger and longer-lived resistance to the occupation than expected, he turned to recent and classic accounts of insurgencies and counterinsurgencies, from the U.S. occupation of the Philippines through the lessons of Vietnam, and he reports on his favorites for us in his list of the 10 books for understanding Iraq that aren''t about Iraq. You can also get a glimpse into his writing process with a much different list he has prepared for us: the music he listened to while writing and researching the book, from Stevie Wonder and Joni Mitchell to Ryan Adams and Josh Ritter. And he took the time to answer a few questions about Fiasco: Amazon.com: As military correspondent for the Post, you have made five trips to Iraq over the last four years. How has it changed over that time? Thomas E. Ricks: It has been markedly worse each time, in terms of security. On my first trip, in April-May 2003, we would walk out on the streets of Baghdad at night, albeit with caution. Even on my second trip, in the summer of 2003, I would feel comfortable hopping in a car and driving 100 miles north from Baghdad to Tikrit. To do either of those things now would be suicidal. In January and February of this year, Baghdad felt worse to me Mogadishu did when I was there in 1993 or Sarajevo did when I was there a few years later. It appeared to me that there was no security, except what you provided for yourself with armed men and careful planning. One Army major described the city to me as being in "the pure Hobbesian state" in which everybody is fighting everybody. By the way, contrary to what I see asserted occasionally, most reporters don''t live in the Green Zone, the walled-off area in central Baghdad that is the headquarters of the American effort in Iraq. Reporters live out in the city, and I think generally have a better feel for what is going on than do people living in the Zone or on big American military bases. In the area of Baghdad I stayed in, I constantly heard gunfire and explosions. Yet an American colonel told me that my neighborhood was deemed "secure." I think that really meant that U.S. troops could drive through it while heavily armed--say, with a .50 caliber machine gun atop a Humvee--and usually not be attacked. I worry that what the Americans measure are threats to U.S. troops and the killings of Iraqis. That neglects a huge spectrum of other significant activities--rapes, robberies, kidnappings, acts of extortion, and, most importantly, acts of violent intimidation. Amazon.com: You cite many strategic errors in the planning and execution of the war, but perhaps the central one is that the U.S. military leadership failed to recognize that they were fighting an insurgency, and their methods of fighting in fact helped to create that insurgency. Can you explain those methods, and their effects? Ricks: The U.S. military that went into Iraq in 2003 was the best military in the world for fighting another military. But it was woefully unprepared for the task at hand. For example, U.S. military culture believes in bringing overwhelming force to bear. Yet classic counterinsurgency doctrine calls for using only the minimal amount of force necessary to get the job done. U.S. soldiers and their commanders, untrained and unschooled in the difficult art of counterinsurgency, tended to improvise. So in the summer of 2003, some soldiers in Baghdad decided that the best way to deter looters was to make them cry--and they sometimes did this by threatening to shoot the children of looters, and even conducting mock executions. More broadly, the Army in the fall of 2003 fell back on what it knew how to do, which was conduct large-scale "cordon-and-sweep" operations. These missions scarfed up thousands of Iraqis, most of them fence-sitting neutrals, and detained them. U.S. military intelligence officials later concluded that 85% of those detained were of no intelligence value. The detention experience frequently was humiliating for Iraqis, a violation of another key counterinsurgency principle: Treat your prisoners well. (Your readers who want to know more about this should read a terrific little book by David Galula titled Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice.) Not every unit was ineffective or counterproductive. I was struck at how successful the 101st Airborne was in Mosul in 2003-04. And some units showed remarkable improvement--the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment had a mediocre first tour of duty in Iraq, but when it went back in 2005 for a second tour, it did extremely well. Col. H.R. McMaster, the regimental commander (and author of a very good book about the Vietnam War, Dereliction of Duty) told his troops that, "Every time you disrespect an Iraqi, you are working for the enemy." I was especially struck by how his regiment handled its prisoners--it even had a program called "Ask the Customer" that quizzed detainees when they were released about whether they felt treated well. This recognized the lesson of past wars that the best way to end an insurgency is to get its leaders to put down their guns and enter the political system, and to get the rank-and-file to desert or switch sides. But it will be harder to discuss the sewage system with the new mayor next year if your troops beat him in his cell when he was your prisoner last year. Amazon.com: But today''s military leadership was formed in Vietnam, when all of those lessons of counterinsurgency were supposedly learned before. Why didn''t that experience translate into a preparation for the current conflict? Ricks: Military experts, such at Andrew Krepinevich (The Army and Vietnam) and Lt. Col. John Nagl (Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife) say that after that war ended, the Army washed its hands of the entire experience and essentially concluded that it was never going to do anything like that again. It was almost as if the very word "counterinsurgency" was banned from official Army discourse. In Iraq, there was a tiny minority of American soldiers early on who understood how to win the occupation. These generally were civil affairs officers and other Special Forces types. But their wisdom often was disregarded. "What you are seeing here is an unconventional war being fought conventionally," one Special Forces lieutenant colonel glumly commented one day in Baghdad. Amazon.com: You''ve been writing about the military for the Post and the Wall Street Journal for years now, and Fiasco is built from the testimony of a remarkable array of sources up and down the chain of command, some off the record but many more on the record. Can you talk about your sources? Is this level of public criticism of a war from within the military precedented?? Ricks: Yeah, reporting the book was a pretty emotional experience. Even having covered this war as it unfolded, I was taken aback by the rage that some officers felt toward the Bush Administration, and especially toward Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. And also toward Paul Wolfowitz, who was then the no. 2 guy at the Pentagon. I think the rage is probably like what the military felt about Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War. What is unprecedented, I think, is that many officers had doubts about the wisdom of invading Iraq, especially in the way we did it. The emotions also hit me pretty hard at times, especially when I was writing my chapter 13, about how widespread abuse was by American soldiers in 2003-04, often because they hadn''t been trained for the mission they faced. I have spent more than 15 years covering the military. I tend to like and admire these people. So when I learned about a 4th Infantry Division soldier shooting an unarmed, handcuffed Iraqi detainee in the stomach, and the investigating MPs saying the soldier should be charged with homicide, and instead the commander simply discharged the soldier from the Army--well, that bothered me. Another thing that struck me with sources was the mountain of information that was available. I read over 30,000 pages of documents for this book. At the end of one interview a guy gave me a CD-ROM with every e-mail he had sent to Ambassador Bremer, who ran the civilian end of the first year of the occupation. Other people showed me diaries, unit log\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13663'),
(17496, 'Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq', 'Thomas Ricks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fiasco is a more strongly worded title than you might expect a seasoned military reporter such as Thomas E. Ricks to use, accustomed as he is to the even-handed style of daily newspaper journalism. But Ricks, the Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post and the author of the acclaimed account of Marine Corps boot camp, Making the Corps, has written a thorough and devastating history of the war in Iraq from the planning stages through the continued insurgency in early 2006, and he does not shy away from naming those he finds responsible. His tragic story is divided in two. The first part--the runup to the war and the invasion in 2003--is familiar from books like Cobra II and Plan of Attack, although Ricks uses his many military sources to portray an officer class that was far more skeptical of the war beforehand than generally reported. But the heart of his book is the second half, beginning in August 2003, when, as he writes, the war really began, with the bombing of the Jordanian embassy and the emergence of the insurgency. His strongest critique is that the U.S. military failed to anticipate--and then failed to recognize--the insurgency, and tried to fight it with conventional methods that only fanned its flames. What makes his portrait particularly damning are the dozens of military sources--most of them on record--who join in his critique, and the thousands of pages of internal documents he uses to make his case for a war poorly planned and bravely but blindly fought. --Tom Nissley Making a Fiasco Thomas Ricks spent five tours in Iraq during the war, reporting for the Washington Post and researching and writing Fiasco. Like many of the officers he most admires, when he wanted to understand what was happening as American troops encountered stronger and longer-lived resistance to the occupation than expected, he turned to recent and classic accounts of insurgencies and counterinsurgencies, from the U.S. occupation of the Philippines through the lessons of Vietnam, and he reports on his favorites for us in his list of the 10 books for understanding Iraq that aren''t about Iraq. You can also get a glimpse into his writing process with a much different list he has prepared for us: the music he listened to while writing and researching the book, from Stevie Wonder and Joni Mitchell to Ryan Adams and Josh Ritter. And he took the time to answer a few questions about Fiasco: Amazon.com: As military correspondent for the Post, you have made five trips to Iraq over the last four years. How has it changed over that time? Thomas E. Ricks: It has been markedly worse each time, in terms of security. On my first trip, in April-May 2003, we would walk out on the streets of Baghdad at night, albeit with caution. Even on my second trip, in the summer of 2003, I would feel comfortable hopping in a car and driving 100 miles north from Baghdad to Tikrit. To do either of those things now would be suicidal. In January and February of this year, Baghdad felt worse to me Mogadishu did when I was there in 1993 or Sarajevo did when I was there a few years later. It appeared to me that there was no security, except what you provided for yourself with armed men and careful planning. One Army major described the city to me as being in "the pure Hobbesian state" in which everybody is fighting everybody. By the way, contrary to what I see asserted occasionally, most reporters don''t live in the Green Zone, the walled-off area in central Baghdad that is the headquarters of the American effort in Iraq. Reporters live out in the city, and I think generally have a better feel for what is going on than do people living in the Zone or on big American military bases. In the area of Baghdad I stayed in, I constantly heard gunfire and explosions. Yet an American colonel told me that my neighborhood was deemed "secure." I think that really meant that U.S. troops could drive through it while heavily armed--say, with a .50 caliber machine gun atop a Humvee--and usually not be attacked. I worry that what the Americans measure are threats to U.S. troops and the killings of Iraqis. That neglects a huge spectrum of other significant activities--rapes, robberies, kidnappings, acts of extortion, and, most importantly, acts of violent intimidation. Amazon.com: You cite many strategic errors in the planning and execution of the war, but perhaps the central one is that the U.S. military leadership failed to recognize that they were fighting an insurgency, and their methods of fighting in fact helped to create that insurgency. Can you explain those methods, and their effects? Ricks: The U.S. military that went into Iraq in 2003 was the best military in the world for fighting another military. But it was woefully unprepared for the task at hand. For example, U.S. military culture believes in bringing overwhelming force to bear. Yet classic counterinsurgency doctrine calls for using only the minimal amount of force necessary to get the job done. U.S. soldiers and their commanders, untrained and unschooled in the difficult art of counterinsurgency, tended to improvise. So in the summer of 2003, some soldiers in Baghdad decided that the best way to deter looters was to make them cry--and they sometimes did this by threatening to shoot the children of looters, and even conducting mock executions. More broadly, the Army in the fall of 2003 fell back on what it knew how to do, which was conduct large-scale "cordon-and-sweep" operations. These missions scarfed up thousands of Iraqis, most of them fence-sitting neutrals, and detained them. U.S. military intelligence officials later concluded that 85% of those detained were of no intelligence value. The detention experience frequently was humiliating for Iraqis, a violation of another key counterinsurgency principle: Treat your prisoners well. (Your readers who want to know more about this should read a terrific little book by David Galula titled Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice.) Not every unit was ineffective or counterproductive. I was struck at how successful the 101st Airborne was in Mosul in 2003-04. And some units showed remarkable improvement--the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment had a mediocre first tour of duty in Iraq, but when it went back in 2005 for a second tour, it did extremely well. Col. H.R. McMaster, the regimental commander (and author of a very good book about the Vietnam War, Dereliction of Duty) told his troops that, "Every time you disrespect an Iraqi, you are working for the enemy." I was especially struck by how his regiment handled its prisoners--it even had a program called "Ask the Customer" that quizzed detainees when they were released about whether they felt treated well. This recognized the lesson of past wars that the best way to end an insurgency is to get its leaders to put down their guns and enter the political system, and to get the rank-and-file to desert or switch sides. But it will be harder to discuss the sewage system with the new mayor next year if your troops beat him in his cell when he was your prisoner last year. Amazon.com: But today''s military leadership was formed in Vietnam, when all of those lessons of counterinsurgency were supposedly learned before. Why didn''t that experience translate into a preparation for the current conflict? Ricks: Military experts, such at Andrew Krepinevich (The Army and Vietnam) and Lt. Col. John Nagl (Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife) say that after that war ended, the Army washed its hands of the entire experience and essentially concluded that it was never going to do anything like that again. It was almost as if the very word "counterinsurgency" was banned from official Army discourse. In Iraq, there was a tiny minority of American soldiers early on who understood how to win the occupation. These generally were civil affairs officers and other Special Forces types. But their wisdom often was disregarded. "What you are seeing here is an unconventional war being fought conventionally," one Special Forces lieutenant colonel glumly commented one day in Baghdad. Amazon.com: You''ve been writing about the military for the Post and the Wall Street Journal for years now, and Fiasco is built from the testimony of a remarkable array of sources up and down the chain of command, some off the record but many more on the record. Can you talk about your sources? Is this level of public criticism of a war from within the military precedented?? Ricks: Yeah, reporting the book was a pretty emotional experience. Even having covered this war as it unfolded, I was taken aback by the rage that some officers felt toward the Bush Administration, and especially toward Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. And also toward Paul Wolfowitz, who was then the no. 2 guy at the Pentagon. I think the rage is probably like what the military felt about Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War. What is unprecedented, I think, is that many officers had doubts about the wisdom of invading Iraq, especially in the way we did it. The emotions also hit me pretty hard at times, especially when I was writing my chapter 13, about how widespread abuse was by American soldiers in 2003-04, often because they hadn''t been trained for the mission they faced. I have spent more than 15 years covering the military. I tend to like and admire these people. So when I learned about a 4th Infantry Division soldier shooting an unarmed, handcuffed Iraqi detainee in the stomach, and the investigating MPs saying the soldier should be charged with homicide, and instead the commander simply discharged the soldier from the Army--well, that bothered me. Another thing that struck me with sources was the mountain of information that was available. I read over 30,000 pages of documents for this book. At the end of one interview a guy gave me a CD-ROM with every e-mail he had sent to Ambassador Bremer, who ran the civilian end of the first year of the occupation. Other people showed me diaries, unit log\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24286'),
(17497, 'Fiction Writer&#39;s Workshop', 'Josip Novakovich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With more than 120 writing exercises, this l earn-by-doing guide is designed to help students improve and expand their fiction according to individual needs and sche dules. ''\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Josip Novakovich is the author of a novel (April Fool''s Day, HarperCollins), three story collections (Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, Yolk and Salvation and Other Disasters), two collections of narrative essays (Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys and Apricots from Chernobyl), and was anthologized in Best American Poetry, Pushcart Prize, and O. Henry Prize Stories. He has received the Whiting Writer?s Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4117'),
(17498, 'Fiction Writer&#39;s Workshop', 'Josip Novakovich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With more than 120 writing exercises, this l earn-by-doing guide is designed to help students improve and expand their fiction according to individual needs and sche dules. ''\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Josip Novakovich is the author of a novel (April Fool''s Day, HarperCollins), three story collections (Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, Yolk and Salvation and Other Disasters), two collections of narrative essays (Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys and Apricots from Chernobyl), and was anthologized in Best American Poetry, Pushcart Prize, and O. Henry Prize Stories. He has received the Whiting Writer?s Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11674'),
(17499, 'Fiction Writer&#39;s Workshop', 'Josip Novakovich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With more than 120 writing exercises, this l earn-by-doing guide is designed to help students improve and expand their fiction according to individual needs and sche dules. ''\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Josip Novakovich is the author of a novel (April Fool''s Day, HarperCollins), three story collections (Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, Yolk and Salvation and Other Disasters), two collections of narrative essays (Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys and Apricots from Chernobyl), and was anthologized in Best American Poetry, Pushcart Prize, and O. Henry Prize Stories. He has received the Whiting Writer?s Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20453'),
(17500, 'Field of 13', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18104'),
(17501, 'Field of Thirteen', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This first collection of short stories by Dick Francis (author of __ and more than 30 other horseracing mysteries) pulls together five new tales with eight that have appeared scattered in periodicals over the last three decades. One of the pleasures of his stories is witnessing the breadth and variety within Francis''s racetrack milieu. In "Dead on Red," a jealous jockey named Davey Rockman hires Emil Jacques, a French assassin and gun collector, to kill the famed rider who stole his job; but Rockman is haunted by his deed much in the same way as is the protagonist in Edgar Allan Poe''s "The Tell-Tale Heart." "Raid at Kingdom Hill" tells of Tricksy Wilcox''s scheme for a not-so-bright bomb scare, a plan that still might yield the payoff of a lifetime. "Collision Course" is free of murder but frames a delightful conflict between an out-of-work newspaperman and a bounder whose faux manners threaten to bring him down at the peak of his racing syndicate career. The Kentucky Derby story, "The Gift," follows Fred Collyer, a drunken writer who overhears plans for a major racing swindle and struggles against alcohol to publish the story by his deadline. And the collection ends with a what-if story called "Haig''s Death" that examines the consequences of the sudden passing of Christopher Haig, an animal feed consultant and race-meeting judge.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poe, who most historians of literature credit as the creator of the short story, declared that a good short story should have nothing extraneous. Francis''s stories, for the most part, obey Poe''s dictum. Each character and description fits tightly into an unfolding plan so that the mystery or twist is revealed with a satisfying economy of words. While\n  <em>\n   Field of 13\n  </em>\n  will appeal to Francis loyalists, newcomers, too, will find much to relish in the short fiction of this mystery grand master.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though nearly two score of his novels have come to print, Francis has published only eight short stories in his 41 years as a bestselling author. That octet, composed mostly in the 1970s and initially appearing in various journals (Sports Illustrated, the Times of London, etc.), is reprinted here, along with five new tales, each introduced in brief by Francis. There''s not a slacker among them, though few champions either. The earliest yarn, "Carrot for a Chestnut," dating from 1970 (eight years after Francis''s first novel), is typical, presenting a morally ordered universe in which malefactors get their due, albeit commonly through indirect means. Here, a jockey who bends a race by feeding a horse a drugged carrot receives his comeuppance by losing his concentration as a result of his crime and getting involved in a nasty accident; as in most of the stories, there''s a light twist to the ending. Horse racing figures in every entry, of course. Sometimes it''s the focus of a crime?as in "Blind Chance," in which a blind boy picks up on how bettors are getting inside info on races with photo finishes. Sometimes, it''s only background, as in "Collision Course," about how a fired newspaper editor hoists poetic justice upon a horrid restaurateur/horse trainer. Most of the stories are superficially clever, but below the quick plotting there''s emotional depth; in "Spring Fever," for instance, Francis plumbs the innocent desperation of unrequited December-May love. And throughout there is Francis''s voice, strong, smart, ironic, developed even at the beginning but maturing in timbre as he hones his skill. Even more than the horse racing, this voice is the tie that binds these 13 tales into a charmed entertainment.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6024'),
(17502, 'Field of Thirteen', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  This first collection of short stories by Dick Francis (author of __ and more than 30 other horseracing mysteries) pulls together five new tales with eight that have appeared scattered in periodicals over the last three decades. One of the pleasures of his stories is witnessing the breadth and variety within Francis''s racetrack milieu. In "Dead on Red," a jealous jockey named Davey Rockman hires Emil Jacques, a French assassin and gun collector, to kill the famed rider who stole his job; but Rockman is haunted by his deed much in the same way as is the protagonist in Edgar Allan Poe''s "The Tell-Tale Heart." "Raid at Kingdom Hill" tells of Tricksy Wilcox''s scheme for a not-so-bright bomb scare, a plan that still might yield the payoff of a lifetime. "Collision Course" is free of murder but frames a delightful conflict between an out-of-work newspaperman and a bounder whose faux manners threaten to bring him down at the peak of his racing syndicate career. The Kentucky Derby story, "The Gift," follows Fred Collyer, a drunken writer who overhears plans for a major racing swindle and struggles against alcohol to publish the story by his deadline. And the collection ends with a what-if story called "Haig''s Death" that examines the consequences of the sudden passing of Christopher Haig, an animal feed consultant and race-meeting judge.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poe, who most historians of literature credit as the creator of the short story, declared that a good short story should have nothing extraneous. Francis''s stories, for the most part, obey Poe''s dictum. Each character and description fits tightly into an unfolding plan so that the mystery or twist is revealed with a satisfying economy of words. While\n  <em>\n   Field of 13\n  </em>\n  will appeal to Francis loyalists, newcomers, too, will find much to relish in the short fiction of this mystery grand master.\n  <em>\n   --Patrick O''Kelley\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though nearly two score of his novels have come to print, Francis has published only eight short stories in his 41 years as a bestselling author. That octet, composed mostly in the 1970s and initially appearing in various journals (Sports Illustrated, the Times of London, etc.), is reprinted here, along with five new tales, each introduced in brief by Francis. There''s not a slacker among them, though few champions either. The earliest yarn, "Carrot for a Chestnut," dating from 1970 (eight years after Francis''s first novel), is typical, presenting a morally ordered universe in which malefactors get their due, albeit commonly through indirect means. Here, a jockey who bends a race by feeding a horse a drugged carrot receives his comeuppance by losing his concentration as a result of his crime and getting involved in a nasty accident; as in most of the stories, there''s a light twist to the ending. Horse racing figures in every entry, of course. Sometimes it''s the focus of a crime?as in "Blind Chance," in which a blind boy picks up on how bettors are getting inside info on races with photo finishes. Sometimes, it''s only background, as in "Collision Course," about how a fired newspaper editor hoists poetic justice upon a horrid restaurateur/horse trainer. Most of the stories are superficially clever, but below the quick plotting there''s emotional depth; in "Spring Fever," for instance, Francis plumbs the innocent desperation of unrequited December-May love. And throughout there is Francis''s voice, strong, smart, ironic, developed even at the beginning but maturing in timbre as he hones his skill. Even more than the horse racing, this voice is the tie that binds these 13 tales into a charmed entertainment.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9763'),
(17503, 'Fiendish Deeds', 'P. J. Bracegirdle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** Do you dare set foot in Spooking?  **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s the terrible town on the hideous hill -- and Joy Wells is a proud resident. A fan of classic horror stories, Joy is convinced that famous author E. A. Peugeot based his spine-tingling tales on Spooking. Take the eerie similarities between the nearby swamp and the setting of his masterpiece, "The Bawl of the Bog Fiend." Could the story be true? Could the bog fiend be on the loose?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Things become truly horrifying when Joy learns that Darlington, the despicable suburban city where she is forced to go to school, is planning to build a water park over her beloved bog. It is up to her to safeguard the endangered area and its secrets. Little does she know that there is someone determined to destroy not only the bog but the town of Spooking itself -- and anyone who dares stand in his way.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n P. J. Bracegirdle spins a yarn of delicious devilry and macabre mayhem in the very first book of *The Joy of Spooking* trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2295'),
(17504, 'Fiendish Deeds', 'P. J. Bracegirdle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** Do you dare set foot in Spooking?  **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s the terrible town on the hideous hill -- and Joy Wells is a proud resident. A fan of classic horror stories, Joy is convinced that famous author E. A. Peugeot based his spine-tingling tales on Spooking. Take the eerie similarities between the nearby swamp and the setting of his masterpiece, "The Bawl of the Bog Fiend." Could the story be true? Could the bog fiend be on the loose?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Things become truly horrifying when Joy learns that Darlington, the despicable suburban city where she is forced to go to school, is planning to build a water park over her beloved bog. It is up to her to safeguard the endangered area and its secrets. Little does she know that there is someone determined to destroy not only the bog but the town of Spooking itself -- and anyone who dares stand in his way.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n P. J. Bracegirdle spins a yarn of delicious devilry and macabre mayhem in the very first book of *The Joy of Spooking* trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8635'),
(17505, 'Fiendish Deeds', 'P. J. Bracegirdle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Do you dare set foot in Spooking? ** It''s the terrible town on the hideous hill -- and Joy Wells is a proud resident. A fan of classic horror stories, Joy is convinced that famous author E. A. Peugeot based his spine-tingling tales on Spooking. Take the eerie similarities between the nearby swamp and the setting of his masterpiece, "The Bawl of the Bog Fiend." Could the story be true? Could the bog fiend be on the loose? Things become truly horrifying when Joy learns that Darlington, the despicable suburban city where she is forced to go to school, is planning to build a water park over her beloved bog. It is up to her to safeguard the endangered area and its secrets. Little does she know that there is someone determined to destroy not only the bog but the town of Spooking itself -- and anyone who dares stand in his way. P. J. Bracegirdle spins a yarn of delicious devilry and macabre mayhem in the very first book of *The Joy of Spooking* trilogy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22428'),
(17506, 'A Fierce Radiance: A Novel', 'Lauren Belfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "City of Light" comes a compelling, richly detailed tale of passion and intrigue set in New York City during the tumultuous early days of World War II.  Claire Shipley is a single mother haunted by the death of her young daughter and by her divorce years ago. She is also an ambitious photojournalist, and in the anxious days after Pearl Harbor, the talented "Life" magazine reporter finds herself on top of one of the nation''s most important stories. In the bustling labs of New York City''s renowned Rockefeller Institute, some of the country''s brightest doctors and researchers are racing to find a cure that will save the lives of thousands of wounded American soldiers and countless others--a miraculous new drug they call penicillin. Little does Claire suspect how much the story will change her own life when the work leads to an intriguing romance.  Though Claire has always managed to keep herself separate from the subjects she covers, this story touches her deeply, stirring memories of her daughter''s sudden illness and death--a loss that might have been prevented by this new "miracle drug." And there is James Stanton, the shy and brilliant physician who coordinates the institute''s top secret research for the military. Drawn to this dedicated, attractive man and his work, Claire unexpectedly finds herself falling in love. But Claire isn''t the only one interested in the secret development of this medicine. Her long-estranged father, Edward Rutherford, a self-made millionaire, understands just how profitable a new drug like penicillin could be. When a researcher at the institute dies under suspicious circumstances, the stakes become starkly clear: a murder has been committed to obtain these lucrative new drugs. With lives and a new love hanging in the balance, Claire will put herself at the center of danger to find a killer--no matter what price she may have to pay.  Lauren Belfer dazzled readers with her debut novel, "City of Light," a "New York Times" notable book of the year. In this highly anticipated follow-up, she deftly captures the uncertainty and spirit, the dreams and hopes, of a nation at war. A sweeping tale of love and betrayal, intrigue and idealism, "A Fierce Radiance" is an ambitious and deeply engaging novel from an author of immense talent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3517'),
(17507, 'A Fierce Radiance: A Novel', 'Lauren Belfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "City of Light" comes a compelling, richly detailed tale of passion and intrigue set in New York City during the tumultuous early days of World War II.  Claire Shipley is a single mother haunted by the death of her young daughter and by her divorce years ago. She is also an ambitious photojournalist, and in the anxious days after Pearl Harbor, the talented "Life" magazine reporter finds herself on top of one of the nation''s most important stories. In the bustling labs of New York City''s renowned Rockefeller Institute, some of the country''s brightest doctors and researchers are racing to find a cure that will save the lives of thousands of wounded American soldiers and countless others--a miraculous new drug they call penicillin. Little does Claire suspect how much the story will change her own life when the work leads to an intriguing romance.  Though Claire has always managed to keep herself separate from the subjects she covers, this story touches her deeply, stirring memories of her daughter''s sudden illness and death--a loss that might have been prevented by this new "miracle drug." And there is James Stanton, the shy and brilliant physician who coordinates the institute''s top secret research for the military. Drawn to this dedicated, attractive man and his work, Claire unexpectedly finds herself falling in love. But Claire isn''t the only one interested in the secret development of this medicine. Her long-estranged father, Edward Rutherford, a self-made millionaire, understands just how profitable a new drug like penicillin could be. When a researcher at the institute dies under suspicious circumstances, the stakes become starkly clear: a murder has been committed to obtain these lucrative new drugs. With lives and a new love hanging in the balance, Claire will put herself at the center of danger to find a killer--no matter what price she may have to pay.  Lauren Belfer dazzled readers with her debut novel, "City of Light," a "New York Times" notable book of the year. In this highly anticipated follow-up, she deftly captures the uncertainty and spirit, the dreams and hopes, of a nation at war. A sweeping tale of love and betrayal, intrigue and idealism, "A Fierce Radiance" is an ambitious and deeply engaging novel from an author of immense talent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8422'),
(17508, 'A Fierce Radiance: A Novel', 'Lauren Belfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "City of Light" comes a compelling, richly detailed tale of passion and intrigue set in New York City during the tumultuous early days of World War II. Claire Shipley is a single mother haunted by the death of her young daughter and by her divorce years ago. She is also an ambitious photojournalist, and in the anxious days after Pearl Harbor, the talented "Life" magazine reporter finds herself on top of one of the nation''s most important stories. In the bustling labs of New York City''s renowned Rockefeller Institute, some of the country''s brightest doctors and researchers are racing to find a cure that will save the lives of thousands of wounded American soldiers and countless others--a miraculous new drug they call penicillin. Little does Claire suspect how much the story will change her own life when the work leads to an intriguing romance. Though Claire has always managed to keep herself separate from the subjects she covers, this story touches her deeply, stirring memories of her daughter''s sudden illness and death--a loss that might have been prevented by this new "miracle drug." And there is James Stanton, the shy and brilliant physician who coordinates the institute''s top secret research for the military. Drawn to this dedicated, attractive man and his work, Claire unexpectedly finds herself falling in love. But Claire isn''t the only one interested in the secret development of this medicine. Her long-estranged father, Edward Rutherford, a self-made millionaire, understands just how profitable a new drug like penicillin could be. When a researcher at the institute dies under suspicious circumstances, the stakes become starkly clear: a murder has been committed to obtain these lucrative new drugs. With lives and a new love hanging in the balance, Claire will put herself at the center of danger to find a killer--no matter what price she may have to pay. Lauren Belfer dazzled readers with her debut novel, "City of Light," a "New York Times" notable book of the year. In this highly anticipated follow-up, she deftly captures the uncertainty and spirit, the dreams and hopes, of a nation at war. A sweeping tale of love and betrayal, intrigue and idealism, "A Fierce Radiance" is an ambitious and deeply engaging novel from an author of immense talent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20980'),
(17509, 'The Fiery Cross', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fiery cross, once used to summon Highland clans to war, now beckons readers to take up Diana Gabaldon''s fifth installment in the __ will thrill to Gabaldon''s trademark detail and sensuality, both displayed liberally throughout the nearly 1,000 pages of\n <em>\n  The Fiery Cross\n </em>\n . In this pre-Revolutionary War period, Claire Fraser and her husband, Jamie, have crossed oceans and centuries to build a life together in the bucolic beauty of North Carolina. But tensions both ancient and recent threaten not only Claire and James, but their daughter, Brianna, her new husband, Roger, and their infant son, Jemmy, as well as members of their clan. Gabaldon delivers on what she does best: poignant storylines, empathetic characters, meticulous detail, and searing passion. Savor every carefully chosen word, readers; it may be a long time until the next installment!\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get ready for Gabaldon. Starting in July, the publisher will set the stage for her latest by actively promoting her backlist titles featuring 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser. In the new novel, Jamie learns from his 20th-century wife that the American Revolution is coming.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6045'),
(17510, 'The Fiery Cross', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fiery cross, once used to summon Highland clans to war, now beckons readers to take up Diana Gabaldon''s fifth installment in the __ will thrill to Gabaldon''s trademark detail and sensuality, both displayed liberally throughout the nearly 1,000 pages of\n <em>\n  The Fiery Cross\n </em>\n . In this pre-Revolutionary War period, Claire Fraser and her husband, Jamie, have crossed oceans and centuries to build a life together in the bucolic beauty of North Carolina. But tensions both ancient and recent threaten not only Claire and James, but their daughter, Brianna, her new husband, Roger, and their infant son, Jemmy, as well as members of their clan. Gabaldon delivers on what she does best: poignant storylines, empathetic characters, meticulous detail, and searing passion. Savor every carefully chosen word, readers; it may be a long time until the next installment!\n <em>\n  --Alison Trinkle\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get ready for Gabaldon. Starting in July, the publisher will set the stage for her latest by actively promoting her backlist titles featuring 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser. In the new novel, Jamie learns from his 20th-century wife that the American Revolution is coming.\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9892'),
(17511, 'The Fiery Cross', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15245'),
(17512, 'The Fiery Cross', 'Diana Gabaldon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon mesmerized readers with her award-winning Outlander novels, four dazzling tales featuring eighteenth-century Scotsman James Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall. Now, in this eagerly awaited fifth volume, Diana Gabaldon continues their extraordinary saga, a masterpiece of pure storytelling that is her most astonishing Outlander novel yet....The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraserâ€™s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecyâ€”a time-travelerâ€™s certain knowledge. Claireâ€™s unique view of the future has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the perilous years aheadâ€”or ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27465');
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(17513, 'A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon', 'Neil Sheehan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prizeâ€”winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed historyâ€“and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schrieverâ€™s quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger.Sheehan melds biography and history, politics and science, to create a sweeping narrative that transports the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. The narrative takes us from Schrieverâ€™s boyhood in Texas as a six-year-old immigrant from Germany in 1917 through his apprenticeship in the open-cockpit biplanes of the Army Air Corps in the 1930s and his participation in battles against the Japanese in the South Pacific during the Second World War. On his return, he finds a new postwar bipolar universe dominated by the antagonism between the United States and the Soviet Union.Inspired by his technological vision, Schriever sets out in 1954 to create the one class of weapons that can enforce peace with the Russiansâ€“intercontinental ballistic missiles that are unstoppable and can destroy the Soviet Union in thirty minutes. In the course of his crusade, he encounters allies and enemies among some of the most intriguing figures of the century: John von Neumann, the Hungarian-born mathematician and mathematical physicist, who was second in genius only to Einstein; Colonel Edward Hall, who created the ultimate ICBM in the Minuteman missile, and his brother, Theodore Hall, who spied for the Russians at Los Alamos and hastened their acquisition of the atomic bomb; Curtis LeMay, the bomber general who tried to exile Schriever and who lost his grip on reality, amassing enough nuclear weapons in his Strategic Air Command to destroy the entire Northern Hemisphere; and Hitlerâ€™s former rocket maker, Wernher von Braun, who along with a colorful, riding-crop-wielding Army general named John Medaris tried to steal the ICBM program.The most powerful men on earth are also put into astonishing relief: Joseph Stalin, the cruel, paranoid Soviet dictator who spurred his own scientists to build him the atomic bomb with threats of death; Dwight Eisenhower, who backed the ICBM program just in time to save it from the bureaucrats; Nikita Khrushchev, who brought the world to the edge of nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and John Kennedy, who saved it.Schriever and his comrades endured the heartbreak of watching missiles explode on the launching pads at Cape Canaveral and savored the triumph of seeing them soar into space. In the end, they accomplished more than achieving a fiery peace in a cold war. Their missiles became the vehicles that opened space for America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2647'),
(17514, 'A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon', 'Neil Sheehan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prizeâ€”winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed historyâ€“and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schrieverâ€™s quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger.Sheehan melds biography and history, politics and science, to create a sweeping narrative that transports the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. The narrative takes us from Schrieverâ€™s boyhood in Texas as a six-year-old immigrant from Germany in 1917 through his apprenticeship in the open-cockpit biplanes of the Army Air Corps in the 1930s and his participation in battles against the Japanese in the South Pacific during the Second World War. On his return, he finds a new postwar bipolar universe dominated by the antagonism between the United States and the Soviet Union.Inspired by his technological vision, Schriever sets out in 1954 to create the one class of weapons that can enforce peace with the Russiansâ€“intercontinental ballistic missiles that are unstoppable and can destroy the Soviet Union in thirty minutes. In the course of his crusade, he encounters allies and enemies among some of the most intriguing figures of the century: John von Neumann, the Hungarian-born mathematician and mathematical physicist, who was second in genius only to Einstein; Colonel Edward Hall, who created the ultimate ICBM in the Minuteman missile, and his brother, Theodore Hall, who spied for the Russians at Los Alamos and hastened their acquisition of the atomic bomb; Curtis LeMay, the bomber general who tried to exile Schriever and who lost his grip on reality, amassing enough nuclear weapons in his Strategic Air Command to destroy the entire Northern Hemisphere; and Hitlerâ€™s former rocket maker, Wernher von Braun, who along with a colorful, riding-crop-wielding Army general named John Medaris tried to steal the ICBM program.The most powerful men on earth are also put into astonishing relief: Joseph Stalin, the cruel, paranoid Soviet dictator who spurred his own scientists to build him the atomic bomb with threats of death; Dwight Eisenhower, who backed the ICBM program just in time to save it from the bureaucrats; Nikita Khrushchev, who brought the world to the edge of nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and John Kennedy, who saved it.Schriever and his comrades endured the heartbreak of watching missiles explode on the launching pads at Cape Canaveral and savored the triumph of seeing them soar into space. In the end, they accomplished more than achieving a fiery peace in a cold war. Their missiles became the vehicles that opened space for America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12640'),
(17515, 'A fiery peace in a cold war: Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon', 'Neil Sheehan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prizeâ€”winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed historyâ€“and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schrieverâ€™s quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger.Sheehan melds biography and history, politics and science, to create a sweeping narrative that transports the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. The narrative takes us from Schrieverâ€™s boyhood in Texas as a six-year-old immigrant from Germany in 1917 through his apprenticeship in the open-cockpit biplanes of the Army Air Corps in the 1930s and his participation in battles against the Japanese in the South Pacific during the Second World War. On his return, he finds a new postwar bipolar universe dominated by the antagonism between the United States and the Soviet Union.Inspired by his technological vision, Schriever sets out in 1954 to create the one class of weapons that can enforce peace with the Russiansâ€“intercontinental ballistic missiles that are unstoppable and can destroy the Soviet Union in thirty minutes. In the course of his crusade, he encounters allies and enemies among some of the most intriguing figures of the century: John von Neumann, the Hungarian-born mathematician and mathematical physicist, who was second in genius only to Einstein; Colonel Edward Hall, who created the ultimate ICBM in the Minuteman missile, and his brother, Theodore Hall, who spied for the Russians at Los Alamos and hastened their acquisition of the atomic bomb; Curtis LeMay, the bomber general who tried to exile Schriever and who lost his grip on reality, amassing enough nuclear weapons in his Strategic Air Command to destroy the entire Northern Hemisphere; and Hitlerâ€™s former rocket maker, Wernher von Braun, who along with a colorful, riding-crop-wielding Army general named John Medaris tried to steal the ICBM program.The most powerful men on earth are also put into astonishing relief: Joseph Stalin, the cruel, paranoid Soviet dictator who spurred his own scientists to build him the atomic bomb with threats of death; Dwight Eisenhower, who backed the ICBM program just in time to save it from the bureaucrats; Nikita Khrushchev, who brought the world to the edge of nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and John Kennedy, who saved it.Schriever and his comrades endured the heartbreak of watching missiles explode on the launching pads at Cape Canaveral and savored the triumph of seeing them soar into space. In the end, they accomplished more than achieving a fiery peace in a cold war. Their missiles became the vehicles that opened space for America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22144'),
(17516, 'Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany&#39;s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman', 'Sam Wasson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audreyâ€”dainty, immaculateâ€”is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complete account of the making of *Breakfast at Tiffany''s*, *Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.* reveals little-known facts about the cinema classic: Truman Capote desperately wanted Marilyn Monroe for the leading role; director Blake Edwards filmed multiple endings; Hepburn herself felt very conflicted about balancing the roles of mother and movie star. With a colorful cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head, Givenchy, "Moon River" composer Henry Mancini, and, of course, Hepburn herself, Wasson immerses us in the America of the late fifties before Woodstock and birth control, when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the country, changing fashion, film, and sex for good. Indeed, cultural touchstones like *Sex and the City* owe a debt of gratitude to *Breakfast at Tiffany''s*.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this meticulously researched gem of a book, Wasson delivers us from the penthouses of the Upper East Side to the pools of Beverly Hills, presenting *Breakfast at Tiffany''s* as we have never seen it beforeâ€”through the eyes of those who made it. Written with delicious prose and considerable wit, *Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.* shines new light on a beloved film and its incomparable star.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1474'),
(17517, 'Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany&#39;s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman', 'Sam Wasson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audreyâ€”dainty, immaculateâ€”is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complete account of the making of *Breakfast at Tiffany''s*, *Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.* reveals little-known facts about the cinema classic: Truman Capote desperately wanted Marilyn Monroe for the leading role; director Blake Edwards filmed multiple endings; Hepburn herself felt very conflicted about balancing the roles of mother and movie star. With a colorful cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head, Givenchy, "Moon River" composer Henry Mancini, and, of course, Hepburn herself, Wasson immerses us in the America of the late fifties before Woodstock and birth control, when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the country, changing fashion, film, and sex for good. Indeed, cultural touchstones like *Sex and the City* owe a debt of gratitude to *Breakfast at Tiffany''s*.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this meticulously researched gem of a book, Wasson delivers us from the penthouses of the Upper East Side to the pools of Beverly Hills, presenting *Breakfast at Tiffany''s* as we have never seen it beforeâ€”through the eyes of those who made it. Written with delicious prose and considerable wit, *Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.* shines new light on a beloved film and its incomparable star.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13230'),
(17518, 'Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany&#39;s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman', 'Sam Wasson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audreyâ€”dainty, immaculateâ€”is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complete account of the making of *Breakfast at Tiffany''s*, *Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.* reveals little-known facts about the cinema classic: Truman Capote desperately wanted Marilyn Monroe for the leading role; director Blake Edwards filmed multiple endings; Hepburn herself felt very conflicted about balancing the roles of mother and movie star. With a colorful cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head, Givenchy, "Moon River" composer Henry Mancini, and, of course, Hepburn herself, Wasson immerses us in the America of the late fifties before Woodstock and birth control, when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the country, changing fashion, film, and sex for good. Indeed, cultural touchstones like *Sex and the City* owe a debt of gratitude to *Breakfast at Tiffany''s*. In this meticulously researched gem of a book, Wasson delivers us from the penthouses of the Upper East Side to the pools of Beverly Hills, presenting *Breakfast at Tiffany''s* as we have never seen it beforeâ€”through the eyes of those who made it. Written with delicious prose and considerable wit, *Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.* shines new light on a beloved film and its incomparable star.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23526'),
(17519, 'The Fifth Elephant', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren''t there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?...When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn''t want to. He''s been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, ruby tights. Of course where cops (even those clad in tights) go, alas, crime follows. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard is found in underground seams along with tusks and teeth and other precious ivory artifacts. It''s up to the dauntless Vimes -- bothered as usual by a familiar cast of Discworld inhabitants (you know, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires and such) -- to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm. Which of course he does. After all, solving mysteries is his job.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/699'),
(17520, 'The Fifth Elephant', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren''t there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?...When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn''t want to. He''s been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, ruby tights. Of course where cops (even those clad in tights) go, alas, crime follows. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard is found in underground seams along with tusks and teeth and other precious ivory artifacts. It''s up to the dauntless Vimes -- bothered as usual by a familiar cast of Discworld inhabitants (you know, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires and such) -- to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm. Which of course he does. After all, solving mysteries is his job.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13912'),
(17521, 'The Fifth Elephant', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren''t there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?...When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn''t want to. He''s been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, ruby tights. Of course where cops (even those clad in tights) go, alas, crime follows. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard is found in underground seams along with tusks and teeth and other precious ivory artifacts. It''s up to the dauntless Vimes -- bothered as usual by a familiar cast of Discworld inhabitants (you know, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires and such) -- to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm. Which of course he does. After all, solving mysteries is his job.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24257'),
(17522, 'The Fifth Mountain', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A Struggle of the Spirit and a Search for the Truth  **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Written with the same masterful prose and clarity of vision that made *The Alchemist* an international phenomenon, *The Fifth Mountain* is Paulo Coelho''s inspiring story of the Biblical prophet Elijah. In the ninth century B.C., the Phoenician princess Jezebel orders the execution of all the prophets who refuse to seek safety in the land of Zarephath, where the unexpectedly finds true love with a young widow. But this newfound rapture is to be cut short, and Elijah sees all of his hopes and dreams irrevocably erased as he is swept into a whirlwind of events that threatens his very existence. In what is truly a literary milestone, Coelho gives a quietly moving account of a man touched by the hand of God who must triumph over his frustrations in a soul-shattering trail of faith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2163'),
(17523, 'The Fifth Mountain', 'Paulo Coelho', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A Struggle of the Spirit and a Search for the Truth ** Written with the same masterful prose and clarity of vision that made *The Alchemist* an international phenomenon, *The Fifth Mountain* is Paulo Coelho''s inspiring story of the Biblical prophet Elijah. In the ninth century B.C., the Phoenician princess Jezebel orders the execution of all the prophets who refuse to seek safety in the land of Zarephath, where the unexpectedly finds true love with a young widow. But this newfound rapture is to be cut short, and Elijah sees all of his hopes and dreams irrevocably erased as he is swept into a whirlwind of events that threatens his very existence. In what is truly a literary milestone, Coelho gives a quietly moving account of a man touched by the hand of God who must triumph over his frustrations in a soul-shattering trail of faith.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22647'),
(17524, 'The Fifth Servant', 'Kenneth Wishnia', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Whoever saves a single life saves the entire world . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1592, as the Catholic Church and the Protestants battle for control of the soul of Europe, Prague is a relatively safe harbor in the religious storm. Ruled by Emperor Rudolph II, the city is a refuge for Jews who live within the gated walls of its ghetto. But their lives are jeopardized when a young Christian girl is found with her throat slashed in a Jewish shop on the eve of Passover. Charged with blood libel, the shopkeeper and his family are arrested. All that stands in the way of a rabid Christian mob is a clever Talmudic scholar, newly arrived from Poland, named Benyamin Ben-Akiva. Pleading the shopkeeper''s innocence to the city''s sheriff, Benyamin is given three days to bring the true killer to justice.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the search will not be easy. Hampered by rabbinic law, and with no allies or connections, Benyamin has only his wits, knowledge, and faith to guide him on his questâ€”a trail that weaves from the city''s teeming streets to the quiet of a shul, from the forbidden back rooms of a ghetto brothel to the emperor''s lavish palace.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Talmud says many things in life depend on *mazl*, luck. Fortunately, Benyamin is blessed, for an unlikely group of heroes will risk their own lives to help him discover the truth: Anya, a Christian butcher''s daughter; the renowned reformist rabbi Judah Loew; a wise herbal healer known as Kassandra the Bohemian; and even the emperor himself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Who would most profit from the girl''s murderâ€”and from having the entire ghetto sealed off? Is the killer a Christian indebted to the girl''s apothecary father? Or a messianic Jew bent on the destruction of his people to precipitate the Messiah''s coming? The desperate search for answers is complicated by the arrival of a new Holy Inquisitor determined to root out witchcraft and heresy, and reclaim the fractious Bohemian territory for Rome. With time running out, Benyamin must dare the impossibleâ€”and commit the unthinkableâ€”to save the Jews of Prague . . . and his own life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Infused with history and spiritual insight, rich in atmosphere and color, *The Fifth Servant* vividly re-creates sixteenth-century Pragueâ€”a bustling city where superstition, ignorance, and hatred clash with curiosity, knowledge, and tolerance; a world in which innocent lives are swept away by political and religious struggles, and righteous men and women sacrifice everything in the name of justice and truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3673'),
(17525, 'The Fifth Servant', 'Kenneth Wishnia', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Whoever saves a single life saves the entire world . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1592, as the Catholic Church and the Protestants battle for control of the soul of Europe, Prague is a relatively safe harbor in the religious storm. Ruled by Emperor Rudolph II, the city is a refuge for Jews who live within the gated walls of its ghetto. But their lives are jeopardized when a young Christian girl is found with her throat slashed in a Jewish shop on the eve of Passover. Charged with blood libel, the shopkeeper and his family are arrested. All that stands in the way of a rabid Christian mob is a clever Talmudic scholar, newly arrived from Poland, named Benyamin Ben-Akiva. Pleading the shopkeeper''s innocence to the city''s sheriff, Benyamin is given three days to bring the true killer to justice.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the search will not be easy. Hampered by rabbinic law, and with no allies or connections, Benyamin has only his wits, knowledge, and faith to guide him on his questâ€”a trail that weaves from the city''s teeming streets to the quiet of a shul, from the forbidden back rooms of a ghetto brothel to the emperor''s lavish palace.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Talmud says many things in life depend on *mazl*, luck. Fortunately, Benyamin is blessed, for an unlikely group of heroes will risk their own lives to help him discover the truth: Anya, a Christian butcher''s daughter; the renowned reformist rabbi Judah Loew; a wise herbal healer known as Kassandra the Bohemian; and even the emperor himself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Who would most profit from the girl''s murderâ€”and from having the entire ghetto sealed off? Is the killer a Christian indebted to the girl''s apothecary father? Or a messianic Jew bent on the destruction of his people to precipitate the Messiah''s coming? The desperate search for answers is complicated by the arrival of a new Holy Inquisitor determined to root out witchcraft and heresy, and reclaim the fractious Bohemian territory for Rome. With time running out, Benyamin must dare the impossibleâ€”and commit the unthinkableâ€”to save the Jews of Prague . . . and his own life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Infused with history and spiritual insight, rich in atmosphere and color, *The Fifth Servant* vividly re-creates sixteenth-century Pragueâ€”a bustling city where superstition, ignorance, and hatred clash with curiosity, knowledge, and tolerance; a world in which innocent lives are swept away by political and religious struggles, and righteous men and women sacrifice everything in the name of justice and truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13438'),
(17526, 'The Fifth Servant', 'Kenneth Wishnia', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Whoever saves a single life saves the entire world . . . In 1592, as the Catholic Church and the Protestants battle for control of the soul of Europe, Prague is a relatively safe harbor in the religious storm. Ruled by Emperor Rudolph II, the city is a refuge for Jews who live within the gated walls of its ghetto. But their lives are jeopardized when a young Christian girl is found with her throat slashed in a Jewish shop on the eve of Passover. Charged with blood libel, the shopkeeper and his family are arrested. All that stands in the way of a rabid Christian mob is a clever Talmudic scholar, newly arrived from Poland, named Benyamin Ben-Akiva. Pleading the shopkeeper''s innocence to the city''s sheriff, Benyamin is given three days to bring the true killer to justice. But the search will not be easy. Hampered by rabbinic law, and with no allies or connections, Benyamin has only his wits, knowledge, and faith to guide him on his questâ€”a trail that weaves from the city''s teeming streets to the quiet of a shul, from the forbidden back rooms of a ghetto brothel to the emperor''s lavish palace. The Talmud says many things in life depend on *mazl*, luck. Fortunately, Benyamin is blessed, for an unlikely group of heroes will risk their own lives to help him discover the truth: Anya, a Christian butcher''s daughter; the renowned reformist rabbi Judah Loew; a wise herbal healer known as Kassandra the Bohemian; and even the emperor himself. Who would most profit from the girl''s murderâ€”and from having the entire ghetto sealed off? Is the killer a Christian indebted to the girl''s apothecary father? Or a messianic Jew bent on the destruction of his people to precipitate the Messiah''s coming? The desperate search for answers is complicated by the arrival of a new Holy Inquisitor determined to root out witchcraft and heresy, and reclaim the fractious Bohemian territory for Rome. With time running out, Benyamin must dare the impossibleâ€”and commit the unthinkableâ€”to save the Jews of Prague . . . and his own life. Infused with history and spiritual insight, rich in atmosphere and color, *The Fifth Servant* vividly re-creates sixteenth-century Pragueâ€”a bustling city where superstition, ignorance, and hatred clash with curiosity, knowledge, and tolerance; a world in which innocent lives are swept away by political and religious struggles, and righteous men and women sacrifice everything in the name of justice and truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20234'),
(17527, 'The Fifth Witness', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n   <br />\n   (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n   <div class="emptyClear">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   From\n   <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000027801">\n    Booklist\n   </a>\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   <p>\n    *Starred Review* Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2910'),
(17528, 'The Fifth Witness', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n   <br />\n   (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n   <div class="emptyClear">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   From\n   <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000027801">\n    Booklist\n   </a>\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   <p>\n    *Starred Review* Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8944'),
(17529, 'The Fifth Witness', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   From Publishers Weekly\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n   <br />\n   (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n   <div class="emptyClear">\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n   From\n   <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000027801">\n    Booklist\n   </a>\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n   <p>\n    *Starred Review* Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n </p>\n <p>\n  HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21960');
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(17530, 'The Fifth Witness: A Novel', 'Connelly, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n  <div class="emptyClear">\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  From\n  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000027801">\n   Booklist\n  </a>\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  <p>\n   *Starred Review* Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14582'),
(17531, 'The Fifth Witness: A Novel', 'Connelly, Michael', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  Starred Review. Connelly''s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller''s first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel''s protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n  <div class="emptyClear">\n  </div>\n </div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  From\n  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000027801">\n   Booklist\n  </a>\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  <p>\n   *Starred Review* Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn''t hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel''s final pages.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Connelly''s latest Mickey Haller novel will benefit from the release in March of a movie version of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Haller novel, starring Matthew McConaughey. 750,000 first printing. --Bill Ott\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27122'),
(17532, 'The Fifth Woman (1996)', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles over the province of Skane, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly bird-watcher he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then another man is reported missing. And once again, Wallander''s life is on hold as he and his close knit team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of viscous murders. Making progress not through revelation but through dogged police work, and forever battling to make sense of the violence of modern Sweden, Wallander will lead a massive investigation to find a killer whose crimes are the product of the new realities that make him despair.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14185'),
(17533, 'The Fifth Woman (1996)', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles over the province of Skane, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly bird-watcher he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then another man is reported missing. And once again, Wallander''s life is on hold as he and his close knit team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of viscous murders. Making progress not through revelation but through dogged police work, and forever battling to make sense of the violence of modern Sweden, Wallander will lead a massive investigation to find a killer whose crimes are the product of the new realities that make him despair.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28121'),
(17534, 'The Fifth Woman', 'Henning Mankell &amp; Steven T. Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series.In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing florist is discovered--strangled and tied to a tree. The only clues Wallander has to go on are a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men. What ensues is a case that will test Wallanderâ€™s strength and patience, because in order to discover the reason behind these murders, he will also need to uncover the elusive connection between these deaths and the earlier unsolved murder in Africa of the fifth woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5156'),
(17535, 'The Fifth Woman', 'Henning Mankell &amp; Steven T. Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series.In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing florist is discovered--strangled and tied to a tree. The only clues Wallander has to go on are a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men. What ensues is a case that will test Wallanderâ€™s strength and patience, because in order to discover the reason behind these murders, he will also need to uncover the elusive connection between these deaths and the earlier unsolved murder in Africa of the fifth woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11230'),
(17536, 'The Fifth Woman', 'Henning Mankell; Steven T. Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series.In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing florist is discovered--strangled and tied to a tree. The only clues Wallander has to go on are a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men. What ensues is a case that will test Wallanderâ€™s strength and patience, because in order to discover the reason behind these murders, he will also need to uncover the elusive connection between these deaths and the earlier unsolved murder in Africa of the fifth woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19443'),
(17537, 'The Fifth Woman', 'Henning Mankell; Steven T. Murray', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series.In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing florist is discovered--strangled and tied to a tree. The only clues Wallander has to go on are a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men. What ensues is a case that will test Wallanderâ€™s strength and patience, because in order to discover the reason behind these murders, he will also need to uncover the elusive connection between these deaths and the earlier unsolved murder in Africa of the fifth woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28106'),
(17538, 'Fifty Degrees Below', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Earth continues its relentless plunge toward environmental collapse in Robinson''s well-done if intensely didactic follow-up to\n  <em>\n   Forty Signs of Rain\n  </em>\n  (2004). As a result of global warming, the Gulf Stream has stalled, and when winter comes, impossibly frigid temperatures hit the Eastern Seaboard and Western Europe. As people starve, multinational corporations explore ways of making a profit from the disaster. When Antarctica''s ice shelves collapse, low-lying island nations quite literally slip beneath the rising waters. In Washington, D.C., clear-sighted scientists must overcome government inertia and stupidity to put into effect policies that may begin to salvage the situation. An enormous fleet of ships is dispatched to the North Atlantic to dump millions of tons of salt into the ocean in the hope of restarting the Gulf Stream. This ecological disaster tale is guaranteed to anger political and economic conservatives of every stripe, but it provides perhaps the most realistic portrayal ever created of the environmental changes that are already occurring on our planet. It should be required reading for anyone concerned about our world''s future.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€“Picking up where\n  <em>\n   Forty Signs of Rain\n  </em>\n  (Bantam, 2004) leaves off, this second book in a planned trilogy finds Earth about to experience the most intense winter on record. Governments worldwide blithely go about their routines in spite of the monumental recent flooding in Washington, DC, and other areas around the globe. When the record-setting cold sets in, people begin freezing to death and starving due to crop failures. Large corporations and world governments use the crisis to attempt to rig elections and plan other agendas to tighten their hold on the public. Meanwhile scientists, especially those at the National Science Foundation, frantically search for a way to shift the weather patterns. The answer seems to be to jump-start the Gulf Stream to get it flowing again; the world watches as millions of tons of salt pour from ships into the ocean in this attempt. While the major plot of ecological chaos plays out, the subplots show how the effects of the weather changes, ecological turmoil, and governmental and big business assaults affect the various characters as they try to survive. This well-researched and expertly written novel about a future that might be coming true all too soon will hopefully serve as a wake-up call about Earths current serious situation._â€“Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3695'),
(17539, 'Fifty Degrees Below', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  Earth continues its relentless plunge toward environmental collapse in Robinson''s well-done if intensely didactic follow-up to\n  <em>\n   Forty Signs of Rain\n  </em>\n  (2004). As a result of global warming, the Gulf Stream has stalled, and when winter comes, impossibly frigid temperatures hit the Eastern Seaboard and Western Europe. As people starve, multinational corporations explore ways of making a profit from the disaster. When Antarctica''s ice shelves collapse, low-lying island nations quite literally slip beneath the rising waters. In Washington, D.C., clear-sighted scientists must overcome government inertia and stupidity to put into effect policies that may begin to salvage the situation. An enormous fleet of ships is dispatched to the North Atlantic to dump millions of tons of salt into the ocean in the hope of restarting the Gulf Stream. This ecological disaster tale is guaranteed to anger political and economic conservatives of every stripe, but it provides perhaps the most realistic portrayal ever created of the environmental changes that are already occurring on our planet. It should be required reading for anyone concerned about our world''s future.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€“Picking up where\n  <em>\n   Forty Signs of Rain\n  </em>\n  (Bantam, 2004) leaves off, this second book in a planned trilogy finds Earth about to experience the most intense winter on record. Governments worldwide blithely go about their routines in spite of the monumental recent flooding in Washington, DC, and other areas around the globe. When the record-setting cold sets in, people begin freezing to death and starving due to crop failures. Large corporations and world governments use the crisis to attempt to rig elections and plan other agendas to tighten their hold on the public. Meanwhile scientists, especially those at the National Science Foundation, frantically search for a way to shift the weather patterns. The answer seems to be to jump-start the Gulf Stream to get it flowing again; the world watches as millions of tons of salt pour from ships into the ocean in this attempt. While the major plot of ecological chaos plays out, the subplots show how the effects of the weather changes, ecological turmoil, and governmental and big business assaults affect the various characters as they try to survive. This well-researched and expertly written novel about a future that might be coming true all too soon will hopefully serve as a wake-up call about Earths current serious situation._â€“Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13570'),
(17540, 'Fifty Degrees Below', 'Robinson, Kim Stanley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20818'),
(17541, 'Fight Club', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Featuring soap made from human fat, waiters at high-class restaurants who do unmentionable things to soup and an underground organization dedicated to inflicting a violent anarchy upon the land, Palahniuk''s apocalyptic first novel is clearly not for the faint of heart. The unnamed (and extremely unreliable) narrator, who makes his living investigating accidents for a car company in order to assess their liability, is combating insomnia and a general sense of anomie by attending a steady series of support-group meetings for the grievously ill, at one of which (testicular cancer) he meets a young woman named Marla. She and the narrator get into a love triangle of sorts with Tyler Durden, a mysterious and gleefully destructive young man with whom the narrator starts a fight club, a secret society that offers young professionals the chance to beat one another to a bloody pulp. Mayhem ensues, beginning with the narrator''s condo exploding and culminating with a terrorist attack on the world''s tallest building. Writing in an ironic deadpan and including something to offend everyone, Palahniuk is a risky writer who takes chances galore, especially with a particularly bizarre plot twist he throws in late in the book. Caustic, outrageous, bleakly funny, violent and always unsettling, Palahniuk''s utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice. Movie rights to Fox 2000.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the world of Fight Club, healthy young people go to meetings of cancer support groups because only there can they find human warmth and compassion. It''s a world where young men gather in the basements of bars to fight strangers "just as long as they have to." And it''s a world where "nobody cared if he lived or died, and the feeling was fucking mutual." Messianic nihilist Tyler Durden is the inventor of Fight Club. Soon thousands of young men across the country are reporting to their work cubes with flattened noses, blackened eyes, and shattered teeth, looking forward to their next bare-knuckle maiming. The oracular, increasingly mysterious Durden then begins to harness the despair, alienation, and violence he sees so clearly into complete anarchy. Every generation frightens and unnerves its parents, and Palahniuk''s first novel is gen X''s most articulate assault yet on baby-boomer sensibilities. This is a dark and disturbing book that dials directly into youthful angst and will likely horrify the parents of teens and twentysomethings. It''s also a powerful, and possibly brilliant, first novel.\n  <em>\n   Thomas Gaughan\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6639'),
(17542, 'Fight Club', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Featuring soap made from human fat, waiters at high-class restaurants who do unmentionable things to soup and an underground organization dedicated to inflicting a violent anarchy upon the land, Palahniuk''s apocalyptic first novel is clearly not for the faint of heart. The unnamed (and extremely unreliable) narrator, who makes his living investigating accidents for a car company in order to assess their liability, is combating insomnia and a general sense of anomie by attending a steady series of support-group meetings for the grievously ill, at one of which (testicular cancer) he meets a young woman named Marla. She and the narrator get into a love triangle of sorts with Tyler Durden, a mysterious and gleefully destructive young man with whom the narrator starts a fight club, a secret society that offers young professionals the chance to beat one another to a bloody pulp. Mayhem ensues, beginning with the narrator''s condo exploding and culminating with a terrorist attack on the world''s tallest building. Writing in an ironic deadpan and including something to offend everyone, Palahniuk is a risky writer who takes chances galore, especially with a particularly bizarre plot twist he throws in late in the book. Caustic, outrageous, bleakly funny, violent and always unsettling, Palahniuk''s utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice. Movie rights to Fox 2000.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the world of Fight Club, healthy young people go to meetings of cancer support groups because only there can they find human warmth and compassion. It''s a world where young men gather in the basements of bars to fight strangers "just as long as they have to." And it''s a world where "nobody cared if he lived or died, and the feeling was fucking mutual." Messianic nihilist Tyler Durden is the inventor of Fight Club. Soon thousands of young men across the country are reporting to their work cubes with flattened noses, blackened eyes, and shattered teeth, looking forward to their next bare-knuckle maiming. The oracular, increasingly mysterious Durden then begins to harness the despair, alienation, and violence he sees so clearly into complete anarchy. Every generation frightens and unnerves its parents, and Palahniuk''s first novel is gen X''s most articulate assault yet on baby-boomer sensibilities. This is a dark and disturbing book that dials directly into youthful angst and will likely horrify the parents of teens and twentysomethings. It''s also a powerful, and possibly brilliant, first novel.\n  <em>\n   Thomas Gaughan\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11780'),
(17543, 'Fight Club', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Featuring soap made from human fat, waiters at high-class restaurants who do unmentionable things to soup and an underground organization dedicated to inflicting a violent anarchy upon the land, Palahniuk''s apocalyptic first novel is clearly not for the faint of heart. The unnamed (and extremely unreliable) narrator, who makes his living investigating accidents for a car company in order to assess their liability, is combating insomnia and a general sense of anomie by attending a steady series of support-group meetings for the grievously ill, at one of which (testicular cancer) he meets a young woman named Marla. She and the narrator get into a love triangle of sorts with Tyler Durden, a mysterious and gleefully destructive young man with whom the narrator starts a fight club, a secret society that offers young professionals the chance to beat one another to a bloody pulp. Mayhem ensues, beginning with the narrator''s condo exploding and culminating with a terrorist attack on the world''s tallest building. Writing in an ironic deadpan and including something to offend everyone, Palahniuk is a risky writer who takes chances galore, especially with a particularly bizarre plot twist he throws in late in the book. Caustic, outrageous, bleakly funny, violent and always unsettling, Palahniuk''s utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice. Movie rights to Fox 2000.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the world of Fight Club, healthy young people go to meetings of cancer support groups because only there can they find human warmth and compassion. It''s a world where young men gather in the basements of bars to fight strangers "just as long as they have to." And it''s a world where "nobody cared if he lived or died, and the feeling was fucking mutual." Messianic nihilist Tyler Durden is the inventor of Fight Club. Soon thousands of young men across the country are reporting to their work cubes with flattened noses, blackened eyes, and shattered teeth, looking forward to their next bare-knuckle maiming. The oracular, increasingly mysterious Durden then begins to harness the despair, alienation, and violence he sees so clearly into complete anarchy. Every generation frightens and unnerves its parents, and Palahniuk''s first novel is gen X''s most articulate assault yet on baby-boomer sensibilities. This is a dark and disturbing book that dials directly into youthful angst and will likely horrify the parents of teens and twentysomethings. It''s also a powerful, and possibly brilliant, first novel.\n <em>\n  Thomas Gaughan\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18009'),
(17544, 'Fight Club: a novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With more than 300,000 copies sold, Chuck Palahniuk''s brilliant first novel and cult classic is being reissued with a new Introduction by the author An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, "Fight Club" is widely recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels of the last decade. Now the author adds his own voice to the critical debate he generated. In a new Introduction, he discusses the various interpretations in the popular media of "Fight Club" and the movie it inspired, as well as his personal reactions to the work''s reception and the influence that the "Fight Club "phenomenon has already had on our culture. Chuck Palahniuk''s darkly funny first novel tells the story of a disenfranchised young man frustrated with his bureacratic job and superficial relationships and disillusioned with the consumer culture''s prepackaged pleasures. Relief for him and his peers comes in the form of Tyler Durden, the intensely charismatic inventor of Fight Club. Waiters, clerks, and middlemen seek out the visceral satisfaction of secret after-hours boxing matches in the basements of bars, thinking they have found a way to live beyond their confining and stultifying lives. But in Tyler''s world there are no rules, no limits, no brakes.Chuck Palahniuk is the bestselling author of "Diary," "Lullaby," and "Choke." He lives and works in Portland, Oregon. In this darkly funny first novel that made Chuck Palahniuk''s reputation as his generation''s most visionary satirist, an estranged young man seeks relief from the emptiness of his work and life in the enigmatic figure of Tyler Durden. Flaunting his disregard for the stultifying conventions of a hollow consumer culture, Tyler devises a series of secret after-hours boxing matches held in the basements of bars. Fight Club offers way for Tyler and his friends to overcome the frustrations of their professional and personal lives, and his idea catches on quickly. But in Tyler''s world there are no rules, no limits, no brakes. An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, "Fight Club" is now recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels published in the last decade. In an insightful new introduction, the author discusses why the story will resonate with readers now more than ever. ""Fight Club" offers diabolically sharp and funny writing."--"The Washington Post Book World" "An astonishing debut . . . "Fight Club" is a dark, unsettling and nerve-chafing satire."--"The Seattle Times " "A powerful, dark, original novel . . . a memorable debut by an important new writer."--Robert Stone\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14228'),
(17545, 'Fight Club: a novel', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n With more than 300,000 copies sold, Chuck Palahniuk''s brilliant first novel and cult classic is being reissued with a new Introduction by the author An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, "Fight Club" is widely recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels of the last decade. Now the author adds his own voice to the critical debate he generated. In a new Introduction, he discusses the various interpretations in the popular media of "Fight Club" and the movie it inspired, as well as his personal reactions to the work''s reception and the influence that the "Fight Club "phenomenon has already had on our culture. Chuck Palahniuk''s darkly funny first novel tells the story of a disenfranchised young man frustrated with his bureacratic job and superficial relationships and disillusioned with the consumer culture''s prepackaged pleasures. Relief for him and his peers comes in the form of Tyler Durden, the intensely charismatic inventor of Fight Club. Waiters, clerks, and middlemen seek out the visceral satisfaction of secret after-hours boxing matches in the basements of bars, thinking they have found a way to live beyond their confining and stultifying lives. But in Tyler''s world there are no rules, no limits, no brakes.Chuck Palahniuk is the bestselling author of "Diary," "Lullaby," and "Choke." He lives and works in Portland, Oregon. In this darkly funny first novel that made Chuck Palahniuk''s reputation as his generation''s most visionary satirist, an estranged young man seeks relief from the emptiness of his work and life in the enigmatic figure of Tyler Durden. Flaunting his disregard for the stultifying conventions of a hollow consumer culture, Tyler devises a series of secret after-hours boxing matches held in the basements of bars. Fight Club offers way for Tyler and his friends to overcome the frustrations of their professional and personal lives, and his idea catches on quickly. But in Tyler''s world there are no rules, no limits, no brakes. An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, "Fight Club" is now recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels published in the last decade. In an insightful new introduction, the author discusses why the story will resonate with readers now more than ever.  ""Fight Club" offers diabolically sharp and funny writing."--"The Washington Post Book World" "An astonishing debut . . . "Fight Club" is a dark, unsettling and nerve-chafing satire."--"The Seattle Times " "A powerful, dark, original novel . . . a memorable debut by an important new writer."--Robert Stone\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26968'),
(17546, 'Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing', 'Tom Clancy &amp; John Gresham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now, for the first time, an insider''s look at an Air Force combat wing--the planes, the technology, and the people--with Tom Clancy as your guide. Tom Clancy''s previous explorations of America''s armed forces,\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , revealed exclusive, never-before-seen information an the people and technology that protect our nation. Now, the acclaimed author of takes to the skies with the U.S. Air Force''s elite: the\n <em>\n  Fighter Wing\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n With his compelling style and unerring eye for detail, Clancy captures the thrill of takeoff, the drama of the dogfight, and the relentless dangers our fighter pilots face every day of their lives, showing readers what it really means to be the best of the best.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fighter Wing\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Detailed analyses of the Air Force''s premier fighter planes, including the F-15 Eagle\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exclusive photographs, illustrations, and diagrams\n </li>\n <li>\n  An insider''s look at the people behind the planes and weapons\n </li>\n <li>\n  Combat strategies and training techniques used by the U.S. Air Force\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling master of the military genre puts readers right in the cockpit.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Clancy''s explorations of America''s armed forces reveal exclusive, never- before-seen information on the people and technology that protect our nation. Here, the acclaimed author takes to the skies with the U.S. Air Force''s elite: the Fighter Wing.\n</p>\n<p>\n With his compelling style and unerring eye for detail, Clancy captures the thrill of takeoff, the drama of the dogfight, and the relentless dangers our fighter pilots face every day of their lives- showing readers what it\n <em>\n  really\n </em>\n means to be the best of the best. This is the ultimate insider''s look at an Air Force combat wing-the planes, the technology, and the people...with Tom Clancy behind the stick.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/533'),
(17547, 'Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing', 'Tom Clancy &amp; John Gresham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now, for the first time, an insider''s look at an Air Force combat wing--the planes, the technology, and the people--with Tom Clancy as your guide. Tom Clancy''s previous explorations of America''s armed forces,\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , revealed exclusive, never-before-seen information an the people and technology that protect our nation. Now, the acclaimed author of takes to the skies with the U.S. Air Force''s elite: the\n <em>\n  Fighter Wing\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n With his compelling style and unerring eye for detail, Clancy captures the thrill of takeoff, the drama of the dogfight, and the relentless dangers our fighter pilots face every day of their lives, showing readers what it really means to be the best of the best.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fighter Wing\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Detailed analyses of the Air Force''s premier fighter planes, including the F-15 Eagle\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exclusive photographs, illustrations, and diagrams\n </li>\n <li>\n  An insider''s look at the people behind the planes and weapons\n </li>\n <li>\n  Combat strategies and training techniques used by the U.S. Air Force\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling master of the military genre puts readers right in the cockpit.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Clancy''s explorations of America''s armed forces reveal exclusive, never- before-seen information on the people and technology that protect our nation. Here, the acclaimed author takes to the skies with the U.S. Air Force''s elite: the Fighter Wing.\n</p>\n<p>\n With his compelling style and unerring eye for detail, Clancy captures the thrill of takeoff, the drama of the dogfight, and the relentless dangers our fighter pilots face every day of their lives- showing readers what it\n <em>\n  really\n </em>\n means to be the best of the best. This is the ultimate insider''s look at an Air Force combat wing-the planes, the technology, and the people...with Tom Clancy behind the stick.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9018'),
(17548, 'Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing', 'Tom Clancy; John Gresham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now, for the first time, an insider''s look at an Air Force combat wing--the planes, the technology, and the people--with Tom Clancy as your guide. Tom Clancy''s previous explorations of America''s armed forces,\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , revealed exclusive, never-before-seen information an the people and technology that protect our nation. Now, the acclaimed author of takes to the skies with the U.S. Air Force''s elite: the\n <em>\n  Fighter Wing\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n With his compelling style and unerring eye for detail, Clancy captures the thrill of takeoff, the drama of the dogfight, and the relentless dangers our fighter pilots face every day of their lives, showing readers what it really means to be the best of the best.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fighter Wing\n </em>\n includes:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Detailed analyses of the Air Force''s premier fighter planes, including the F-15 Eagle\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exclusive photographs, illustrations, and diagrams\n </li>\n <li>\n  An insider''s look at the people behind the planes and weapons\n </li>\n <li>\n  Combat strategies and training techniques used by the U.S. Air Force\n </li>\n</ul>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The #1\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling master of the military genre puts readers right in the cockpit.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tom Clancy''s explorations of America''s armed forces reveal exclusive, never- before-seen information on the people and technology that protect our nation. Here, the acclaimed author takes to the skies with the U.S. Air Force''s elite: the Fighter Wing.\n</p>\n<p>\n With his compelling style and unerring eye for detail, Clancy captures the thrill of takeoff, the drama of the dogfight, and the relentless dangers our fighter pilots face every day of their lives- showing readers what it\n <em>\n  really\n </em>\n means to be the best of the best. This is the ultimate insider''s look at an Air Force combat wing-the planes, the technology, and the people...with Tom Clancy behind the stick.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24338'),
(17549, 'The Fighting Agents', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Fighting Agents\n </em>\n , W.E.B. Griffin retells the story (previously told in\n <em>\n  Behind the Lines\n </em>\n ) of Wendell Fertig, a U.S. Army officer who promoted himself to general and led a ragtag guerrilla force against the Japanese after the fall of the Philippines in 1943. This time, however, Griffin focuses his attention on the OSS, which, among other things, was tasked with resupplying Fertig and reinforcing his efforts to undermine the Japanese war machine. In this fourth volume of a bestselling series featuring the American intelligence service during World War II, James Whittaker, a rakish, romantic army air corps captain who happens to be a close family friend of OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan, is assigned to sneak into the Philippines by submarine and bring gold, arms, and war materiel to the renegade general.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simultaneously, another OSS team tries to carry out a critical mission: getting a German atomic scientist out of Budapest and into allied hands before Hitler''s armies can perfect and unleash the weapon that could win the war for the Axis powers. And in Cairo, a quiet, unassuming pilot named Darmstadter is drafted by the OSS for another highly unlikely mission. Griffin spices up his realistically drawn scenes of military operations, weapons, and training with a somewhat improbable love story focusing on Whittaker and a female OSS operative, but one suspects it''s merely a ruse to draw in distaff readers. Still, the action ranges from Washington to California, Egypt to London, and all points in between, and Griffin''s knowledge of military hearts, minds, and missions has won him a devoted following through five separate series of novels of men (and some women) in battle.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen Lang narrates this fourth installment of Griffin''s "Men at War" series, which began with The Last Heroes. In this episode, the action concerns the extraction of an important German atomic scientist out of Hungary and the establishment of direct contact with the American guerrilla leader in the Philippines, (self-proclaimed) Brigadier-General Wendell Fertig. Griffin''s ability to weave fictional and historical characters never ceases to amaze, and this novel is populated with the usual assortment of colorful and exciting Griffin stalwarts. Lang continues his credible narrative performance of "Soldier Spies" in this work; he is comfortable and confident reading the narrative and brings out the hardened characters of the cast. For all action/adventure collections.DMichael T. Fein, Central Virginia Community Coll., Lynchburg\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/325'),
(17550, 'The Fighting Agents', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Fighting Agents\n </em>\n , W.E.B. Griffin retells the story (previously told in\n <em>\n  Behind the Lines\n </em>\n ) of Wendell Fertig, a U.S. Army officer who promoted himself to general and led a ragtag guerrilla force against the Japanese after the fall of the Philippines in 1943. This time, however, Griffin focuses his attention on the OSS, which, among other things, was tasked with resupplying Fertig and reinforcing his efforts to undermine the Japanese war machine. In this fourth volume of a bestselling series featuring the American intelligence service during World War II, James Whittaker, a rakish, romantic army air corps captain who happens to be a close family friend of OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan, is assigned to sneak into the Philippines by submarine and bring gold, arms, and war materiel to the renegade general.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simultaneously, another OSS team tries to carry out a critical mission: getting a German atomic scientist out of Budapest and into allied hands before Hitler''s armies can perfect and unleash the weapon that could win the war for the Axis powers. And in Cairo, a quiet, unassuming pilot named Darmstadter is drafted by the OSS for another highly unlikely mission. Griffin spices up his realistically drawn scenes of military operations, weapons, and training with a somewhat improbable love story focusing on Whittaker and a female OSS operative, but one suspects it''s merely a ruse to draw in distaff readers. Still, the action ranges from Washington to California, Egypt to London, and all points in between, and Griffin''s knowledge of military hearts, minds, and missions has won him a devoted following through five separate series of novels of men (and some women) in battle.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen Lang narrates this fourth installment of Griffin''s "Men at War" series, which began with The Last Heroes. In this episode, the action concerns the extraction of an important German atomic scientist out of Hungary and the establishment of direct contact with the American guerrilla leader in the Philippines, (self-proclaimed) Brigadier-General Wendell Fertig. Griffin''s ability to weave fictional and historical characters never ceases to amaze, and this novel is populated with the usual assortment of colorful and exciting Griffin stalwarts. Lang continues his credible narrative performance of "Soldier Spies" in this work; he is comfortable and confident reading the narrative and brings out the hardened characters of the cast. For all action/adventure collections.DMichael T. Fein, Central Virginia Community Coll., Lynchburg\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10057'),
(17551, 'The Fighting Agents', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Fighting Agents\n </em>\n , W.E.B. Griffin retells the story (previously told in\n <em>\n  Behind the Lines\n </em>\n ) of Wendell Fertig, a U.S. Army officer who promoted himself to general and led a ragtag guerrilla force against the Japanese after the fall of the Philippines in 1943. This time, however, Griffin focuses his attention on the OSS, which, among other things, was tasked with resupplying Fertig and reinforcing his efforts to undermine the Japanese war machine. In this fourth volume of a bestselling series featuring the American intelligence service during World War II, James Whittaker, a rakish, romantic army air corps captain who happens to be a close family friend of OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan, is assigned to sneak into the Philippines by submarine and bring gold, arms, and war materiel to the renegade general.\n</p>\n<p>\n Simultaneously, another OSS team tries to carry out a critical mission: getting a German atomic scientist out of Budapest and into allied hands before Hitler''s armies can perfect and unleash the weapon that could win the war for the Axis powers. And in Cairo, a quiet, unassuming pilot named Darmstadter is drafted by the OSS for another highly unlikely mission. Griffin spices up his realistically drawn scenes of military operations, weapons, and training with a somewhat improbable love story focusing on Whittaker and a female OSS operative, but one suspects it''s merely a ruse to draw in distaff readers. Still, the action ranges from Washington to California, Egypt to London, and all points in between, and Griffin''s knowledge of military hearts, minds, and missions has won him a devoted following through five separate series of novels of men (and some women) in battle.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stephen Lang narrates this fourth installment of Griffin''s "Men at War" series, which began with The Last Heroes. In this episode, the action concerns the extraction of an important German atomic scientist out of Hungary and the establishment of direct contact with the American guerrilla leader in the Philippines, (self-proclaimed) Brigadier-General Wendell Fertig. Griffin''s ability to weave fictional and historical characters never ceases to amaze, and this novel is populated with the usual assortment of colorful and exciting Griffin stalwarts. Lang continues his credible narrative performance of "Soldier Spies" in this work; he is comfortable and confident reading the narrative and brings out the hardened characters of the cast. For all action/adventure collections.DMichael T. Fein, Central Virginia Community Coll., Lynchburg\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24568');
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(17552, 'A Figure in Hiding', 'Franklin W. Dixon; Paul Laune', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the 16th volume of Applewood Books reproductions of the Original Hardy Boys-Just as You Remember Them. Originally published in 1937, A Figure in Hiding was was ghostwritten by Leslie McFarlane. Its dustjacket art and frontispiece were illustrated by Paul Laune. In A Figure in Hiding, Frank and Joe help their father round up a dark and sinister man posing as an eye surgeon, who promises shady cures to his unsuspecting victims.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four "Franklin W. Dixons" to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four Hardy Boys Mystery Stories to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18439'),
(17553, 'file:///F|/rah/Jack%20Vance/JackVance-TheEyesofTheOverworldUC.txt', 'The Eyes of the Overworld', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18212'),
(17554, 'Final Assault', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A devastating force of Al battleglobes is almost ready--ready to invade and conquer human-occupied space. In a desperate bid for survival, humanity must regroup, calling forth men and machines of the lost Empire, for nothing short of a miracle will save them from the Final Assault.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1115'),
(17555, 'Final Assault', 'Stephen Ames Berry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A devastating force of Al battleglobes is almost ready--ready to invade and conquer human-occupied space. In a desperate bid for survival, humanity must regroup, calling forth men and machines of the lost Empire, for nothing short of a miracle will save them from the Final Assault.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23746'),
(17556, 'The Final Battle', 'Richard A. Lupoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anyone who has followed the adventures of Clive and Neville Folliot and their companions will be waiting for the final installment in this series, in which the heroes at last escape the confines of the mysterious Dungeon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1803'),
(17557, 'The Final Battle', 'Richard A. Lupoff', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anyone who has followed the adventures of Clive and Neville Folliot and their companions will be waiting for the final installment in this series, in which the heroes at last escape the confines of the mysterious Dungeon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11193'),
(17558, 'Final Curtain', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A country house murder, artistic insight and the post-war reunion of Alleyn and Troy combine in Ngaio Marsh''s wittiest and most readable novel.  Agatha Troy, world famous portrait painter, is inveigled into accepting a commission to paint the 70-year-old Sir Henry Ancred, Bart., the Grand Old Man of the stage. But just as she has completed her portrait, the old actor dies.  The dramatic circumstances of his death are such that Scotland Yard is called in -- in the person of Troy''s long-absent husband, Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25314'),
(17559, 'the Final Detail (1999)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 06', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14736'),
(17560, 'the Final Detail (1999)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 06', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19506'),
(17561, 'the Final Detail (1999)', 'Coben, Harlan - Myron 06', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27053'),
(17562, 'Final Gate: The Last Mythal', 'Richard Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the hands of an elf high-mage, the fabled mythals are Faerun''s most potent sources of magical power. But in the hands of a demon princess from a forgotten epoch, they''re the most powerful weapons imaginable. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1814'),
(17563, 'Final Gate: The Last Mythal', 'Richard Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the hands of an elf high-mage, the fabled mythals are Faerun''s most potent sources of magical power. But in the hands of a demon princess from a forgotten epoch, they''re the most powerful weapons imaginable. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8246'),
(17564, 'Final Jeopardy (Alexandra Cooper Mysteries)', 'Linda Fairstein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This critically acclaimed, explosive thriller is a book only prosecutor Linda Fairstein could write. Patricia Cornwall knows the morgue; John Grisham knows the courtroom; but no one knows the inner workings of the D.A.''s office like Linda Fairstein, renowned for two decades as head of Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Now that world comes vividly to life in a brilliant debut novel of shocking realism, powerful insight, and searing suspense.Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan''s top sex crimes prosecutor, awakens one morning to shoking news: a tabloid headline announcing her own brutal murder. But the actual victim was Isabella Lascar, the Hollywood film star who sought refuge at Alex''s Martha''s Vineyard retreat. Was Isabella targeted by a stalker or -- mistaken for Alex -- was she in the wrong place at the wrong time? In an investigation that twists from the back alleys of lower Manhattan to the chic salons of the Upper East Side. Alex knows she''sin final jeopardy...and time is running out. She has to get into the killer''s head before the killer gets to "her."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9506'),
(17565, 'Final Justice', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Newly promoted to sergeantï¼Œ Philadelphia detective Matt Payne finds himself in the middle of three assignments at once: trying to nail down a cop killerï¼Œ a serial rapistï¼Œ and a murderer who fled to France 20 years ago. It s enough to burn out any cop. But Payne s not just any cop. And he s about to show the bad guys that there s no place they can hide from him-or from justice...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/310'),
(17566, 'Final Justice', 'W.E.B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Newly promoted to sergeantï¼Œ Philadelphia detective Matt Payne finds himself in the middle of three assignments at once: trying to nail down a cop killerï¼Œ a serial rapistï¼Œ and a murderer who fled to France 20 years ago. It s enough to burn out any cop. But Payne s not just any cop. And he s about to show the bad guys that there s no place they can hide from him-or from justice...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10045'),
(17567, 'Final justice', 'W. E. B. Griffin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24574'),
(17568, 'The Final Storm: A Novel of the War in the Pacific', 'Jeff Shaara', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A Letter from Author Jeff Shaara\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Though Hollywood has given us countless ways to dramatize the Second World War in the Pacific, the challenge for me was to bring to the reader a story that isnâ€™t simply a rehash of everything youâ€™ve heard before. And, where Hollywood is often less concerned with keeping the history accurate, I have always felt that if Iâ€™m going to tell any story like this, â€œgetting it rightâ€ is key. When dealing with World War II, my research often included conversations with living veterans, and ignoring their truth just to â€œbeef upâ€ the tale, does an incredible injustice to what those veterans accomplished.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the Second World War, the Japanese were unlike any enemy we had ever faced, a very different enemy than the Germans. We had very little understanding of their culture, of how seriously they took their loyalty and obedience to their emperor, and we were completely unprepared for their willingness to die rather than accept the dishonor of surrender. For young soldiers and Marines who faced this determination, the fights often became a slaughter on a scale no one could have imagined. To put a nineteen year old boy into that position, and hope that he responds appropriately is not a typical method of training our young troops.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In researching\n  <em>\n   The Final Storm\n  </em>\n  , I was surprised to find a significant amount of humanity among the Japanese commanders whose voices became a vital part of this story. Okinawa was the last great stronghold that held the American wave away from Japan itself, and the Japanese troops assigned to defend the island country knew that there could be no retreat. The Americans who confronted them had to fight not only this extreme dedication, but the weather and the geography as well. A fight that was scheduled to last a month, took three. How and why are far more interesting to me than a simple history lesson.\n </p>\n <p>\n  If this story is not a history lesson, it is also not an exercise in blood and guts. That kind of story would get old very quickly. What has always drawn me to these stories are the characters. I am not concerned with giving you every detail of the numbers of casualties or the positions of troops. There are historians far more qualified to do that. My job as the storyteller is to find the voices that will carry you (along with me) into the story itself. My search is to find a story beneath the history lesson, to feel it, hear it, smell it, to explore not only the horror, but the laughter (and yes, there is laughter. There has to be.) What kind of thinking and agonizing goes into command decisions? What makes a nineteen year old Marine rise up from a muddy hole to drive forward into the enemy he cannot even see?\n </p>\n <p>\n  While much of\n  <em>\n   The Final Storm\n  </em>\n  focuses on the great struggle for Okinawa, this story does not end there. One more extraordinary drama must be played out, the story of how the Second World War actually ends: the dropping of the first atomic bombs. Through characters such as Paul Tibbets and General Curtis LeMay, I try to show just how much tension and how much mystery surrounded the bombs themselves. Consider that, to the young crews of the aircrafts that were to carry the bombs over Japan, none had any idea what would happen when the bombs were actually exploded, whether their own planes would disintegrate, along with the targets they were seeking. On the ground, the Japanese civilians had already experienced massive bombing strikes from American planes, and so, on that morning of August 6, 1945, the sight of a single B-29 bomber high in the clouds above causes no real concern. That point of view is here as well, a Japanese doctor who is weary of the war, of what he knows to be the propaganda being fed to the people by their military. And yet, he has his own duty to fulfill.\n </p>\n <p>\n  There are debates ongoing today about whether the United States did the â€œright thingâ€ by ending the war the way we did. The decisions made by President Harry Truman are controversial even now. My job is not to anguish over morality, or debate what is politically correct. Ultimately I have one goal: to bring you the best and most accurate story I can, as told by those who were there. With so few veterans of World War Two remaining with us, I believe we must be reminded just why we owe them our thanks, and why their legacies must be remembered. I hope you enjoy the story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  --_Jeff Shaara, May 2011_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  PRAISE FOR JEFF SHAARAâ€™S ACCLAIMED WORLD WAR II NOVELS\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Rising Tide\n  <em>\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWonderful . . . Shaara evokes the agony of desert warfare and the utter chaos of an airborne assault. . . . [A] sprawling, masterful opening act.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_ (starred review)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œShaaraâ€™s research is finely woven into his narrative. . . . Shaara is apparently giving the people what they wantâ€”and what they need.â€â€”_The Wall Street Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The Steel Wave\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMagnificent . . . Intense, compelling, and thoroughly researched, this is much more than just an excellent historical novel.â€â€”_Library Journal\n  <br />\n  Â _\n  <br />\n  â€œPounding with fierce action and human drama, and packed with accurately rendered history,\n  <em>\n   The Steel Wave\n  </em>\n  is an eye-opening reminder of the bitterly high price that combat soldiers have always been called upon to pay.â€â€”_St. Petersburg Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   No Less Than Victory\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[An] incisive portrait of war . . . Shaara [is] one of the grand masters of military fiction.â€”_BookPage_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPowerful . . . impossible to put down until the very end.â€â€”Huntington News Network\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12406'),
(17569, 'Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season', 'Peter Nichols', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the summer of 1871, thirty-two whaling ships, carrying 12-year-old William Fish Williams, son of a whaling captain, and 1,218 other men, women, and children, were destroyed in an Arctic ice storm. In a rescue operation of unparalleled daring and heroism, not a single life was lost, but the impact on America''s first oil industry was fateful and catastrophic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The harvesting of whale oil, which grew from occasional beachcombing into a multi-million dollar industry, made New Bedford, Massachusetts, the wealthiest town in the world. Quaker brothers George and Matthew Howland, the town''s leading whaling merchants, believed they were toiling in a pact with God. As whale oil lubricated the industrial revolution and turned New Bedford into the Saudi Arabia of its day, this belief only grew stronger. But as their whaleships pushed ever farther into uncharted seas in putsuit of a fast-diminishing resource, this oil business was overtaken by new paradigms. When the search for cheaper energy sources produced a new and apparently inexhaustible resource--petroleum oil--the Howlands and many others did not see the change coming, or the devastating effect it would have on an industry that has flourished for two centuries. Almost overnight, it seemed, the world changed. Business and financial institutions collapsed. The Howland brothers saw their fortune vanish and ended their lives as paupers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Willie Fish Williams, and the whalers and their families in the Arctic who watched as their floating community was crushed by the ice closing around them, that change came more swiftly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing on previously unpublished material,\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  splices together two compelling narratives: the Howland brothers'' unprecedented rise and sudden fall with the fortunes of America''s first oil industry--which eerily prefigures today''s modern economic collapse-- and a 12-year-old boy''s vivid observation of a maritime disaster set against the world''s harshest seascape.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Peter Nichols on the Collapse of the World''s First Oil Industry\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As I was completing\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  in the fall of 2008, the domino effect of the world''s collapsing economies had begun. It was startling to read daily accounts of financial disasters, of the sudden impoverishment of wealthy institutions and financiers, while writing of the same process taking place one hundred and thirty years earlier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  is in part about the collapse of the world''s first oil industry - the whale oil business - and the fall from staggering wealth of the Howland brothers, Matthew and George Jr, of New Bedford, Massachusetts. For much of the 19th century, New Bedford was the Houston of the oil world, and the Howlands were its pre-eminent whaleship owners and oil merchants. At a time when the President of the United States'' salary was $25,000, the Howlands were netting around $200,000 annually, with no income tax to pay.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like many, then and now, they didn''t see what was coming. They wouldn''t admit or recognize the inherent instability in their market or its resources, and when the collapse came, they were unprepared.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After the fall of Lehman Brothers, in September of last year, it was impossible for me not to hear exactly the tone behind the words Matthew Howland wrote in letters to his family: "Hastings has failed." Hastings and Company was a New Bedford whale oil and candle manufacturer, one of the long-term bedrock commercial institutions of the town and its industry. The Howlands, along with many others, were deeply involved in its business and financial health, and they were devastated when Hastings went under. The failure sent shockwaves through their community, yet still the Howlands held fast and continued whaling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The business of America is business" said President Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. This was as true in the 1880s, the Howlands'' time, as it is now. To men like Matthew and George Jr, who defined themselves and their lives by business, failure, insolvency, and finally the complete ruin that overtook them in the space of a decade, was accompanied by a shame akin to moral transgression. Both died paupers, bankrupt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Matthew''s son, William Howland, made a good start as a textile manufacturer, but when his business also failed, he committed suicide. His son, Llewellyn Howland, had to leave Harvard after a single semester. A lifetime later, Llewellyn described to his grandson - Matthew''s great-great grandson, Llewellyn Howland III - how he felt on being forced to withdraw from college because there was no more money for his education: "It was a nasty April day, raining, grey, bitter. I looked out of the train window and saw the old men picking through garbage in South Boston, and the ragged children playing in the streets. God! how it frightened me. The squalor of it, the hopelessness of being poor." The sight held a spectral terror for a Howland that was passed down through generations. "Don''t ever forget," Llewellyn told his grandson, "how hard it is to rise, when you''re really, truly down."\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Chronicling the downfall of the vast whaling industry developed in New England over the 18th and 19th centuries, author Nichols (A Voyage for Madmen) presents both an illuminating portrait of Quaker life and industry, and a heart-pounding tale of danger on the open sea. Nichols has a rich understanding of the whale oil ("oyl") industry, and recreates the atmosphere of whaling voyages and villages, particularly wealthy New Bedford, Mass., in sensuous detail: "Emissions of greasy particulate settled over the town like a glaze and gave it the permanent odor of burnt flesh and fat." A collection of ships'' logbooks and letters from whaling captains give character to the phenomenal victories and challenges the seamen-and their family-faced. There is a lot to admire in the whalers; their captains "were master mariners and navigators, among the canniest and most skillful in human history," and their task enormous. Although death and loss were common in the hunt, the 1871 season recounted here marked the beginning of the end for the oyl industry, a major disaster in which an entire fleet was caught in a diabolical arctic weather system.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2120'),
(17570, 'Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season', 'Peter Nichols', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the summer of 1871, thirty-two whaling ships, carrying 12-year-old William Fish Williams, son of a whaling captain, and 1,218 other men, women, and children, were destroyed in an Arctic ice storm. In a rescue operation of unparalleled daring and heroism, not a single life was lost, but the impact on America''s first oil industry was fateful and catastrophic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The harvesting of whale oil, which grew from occasional beachcombing into a multi-million dollar industry, made New Bedford, Massachusetts, the wealthiest town in the world. Quaker brothers George and Matthew Howland, the town''s leading whaling merchants, believed they were toiling in a pact with God. As whale oil lubricated the industrial revolution and turned New Bedford into the Saudi Arabia of its day, this belief only grew stronger. But as their whaleships pushed ever farther into uncharted seas in putsuit of a fast-diminishing resource, this oil business was overtaken by new paradigms. When the search for cheaper energy sources produced a new and apparently inexhaustible resource--petroleum oil--the Howlands and many others did not see the change coming, or the devastating effect it would have on an industry that has flourished for two centuries. Almost overnight, it seemed, the world changed. Business and financial institutions collapsed. The Howland brothers saw their fortune vanish and ended their lives as paupers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Willie Fish Williams, and the whalers and their families in the Arctic who watched as their floating community was crushed by the ice closing around them, that change came more swiftly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing on previously unpublished material,\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  splices together two compelling narratives: the Howland brothers'' unprecedented rise and sudden fall with the fortunes of America''s first oil industry--which eerily prefigures today''s modern economic collapse-- and a 12-year-old boy''s vivid observation of a maritime disaster set against the world''s harshest seascape.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Peter Nichols on the Collapse of the World''s First Oil Industry\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As I was completing\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  in the fall of 2008, the domino effect of the world''s collapsing economies had begun. It was startling to read daily accounts of financial disasters, of the sudden impoverishment of wealthy institutions and financiers, while writing of the same process taking place one hundred and thirty years earlier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  is in part about the collapse of the world''s first oil industry - the whale oil business - and the fall from staggering wealth of the Howland brothers, Matthew and George Jr, of New Bedford, Massachusetts. For much of the 19th century, New Bedford was the Houston of the oil world, and the Howlands were its pre-eminent whaleship owners and oil merchants. At a time when the President of the United States'' salary was $25,000, the Howlands were netting around $200,000 annually, with no income tax to pay.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like many, then and now, they didn''t see what was coming. They wouldn''t admit or recognize the inherent instability in their market or its resources, and when the collapse came, they were unprepared.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After the fall of Lehman Brothers, in September of last year, it was impossible for me not to hear exactly the tone behind the words Matthew Howland wrote in letters to his family: "Hastings has failed." Hastings and Company was a New Bedford whale oil and candle manufacturer, one of the long-term bedrock commercial institutions of the town and its industry. The Howlands, along with many others, were deeply involved in its business and financial health, and they were devastated when Hastings went under. The failure sent shockwaves through their community, yet still the Howlands held fast and continued whaling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The business of America is business" said President Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. This was as true in the 1880s, the Howlands'' time, as it is now. To men like Matthew and George Jr, who defined themselves and their lives by business, failure, insolvency, and finally the complete ruin that overtook them in the space of a decade, was accompanied by a shame akin to moral transgression. Both died paupers, bankrupt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Matthew''s son, William Howland, made a good start as a textile manufacturer, but when his business also failed, he committed suicide. His son, Llewellyn Howland, had to leave Harvard after a single semester. A lifetime later, Llewellyn described to his grandson - Matthew''s great-great grandson, Llewellyn Howland III - how he felt on being forced to withdraw from college because there was no more money for his education: "It was a nasty April day, raining, grey, bitter. I looked out of the train window and saw the old men picking through garbage in South Boston, and the ragged children playing in the streets. God! how it frightened me. The squalor of it, the hopelessness of being poor." The sight held a spectral terror for a Howland that was passed down through generations. "Don''t ever forget," Llewellyn told his grandson, "how hard it is to rise, when you''re really, truly down."\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Chronicling the downfall of the vast whaling industry developed in New England over the 18th and 19th centuries, author Nichols (A Voyage for Madmen) presents both an illuminating portrait of Quaker life and industry, and a heart-pounding tale of danger on the open sea. Nichols has a rich understanding of the whale oil ("oyl") industry, and recreates the atmosphere of whaling voyages and villages, particularly wealthy New Bedford, Mass., in sensuous detail: "Emissions of greasy particulate settled over the town like a glaze and gave it the permanent odor of burnt flesh and fat." A collection of ships'' logbooks and letters from whaling captains give character to the phenomenal victories and challenges the seamen-and their family-faced. There is a lot to admire in the whalers; their captains "were master mariners and navigators, among the canniest and most skillful in human history," and their task enormous. Although death and loss were common in the hunt, the 1871 season recounted here marked the beginning of the end for the oyl industry, a major disaster in which an entire fleet was caught in a diabolical arctic weather system.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11727'),
(17571, 'Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season', 'Peter Nichols', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the summer of 1871, thirty-two whaling ships, carrying 12-year-old William Fish Williams, son of a whaling captain, and 1,218 other men, women, and children, were destroyed in an Arctic ice storm. In a rescue operation of unparalleled daring and heroism, not a single life was lost, but the impact on America''s first oil industry was fateful and catastrophic.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The harvesting of whale oil, which grew from occasional beachcombing into a multi-million dollar industry, made New Bedford, Massachusetts, the wealthiest town in the world. Quaker brothers George and Matthew Howland, the town''s leading whaling merchants, believed they were toiling in a pact with God. As whale oil lubricated the industrial revolution and turned New Bedford into the Saudi Arabia of its day, this belief only grew stronger. But as their whaleships pushed ever farther into uncharted seas in putsuit of a fast-diminishing resource, this oil business was overtaken by new paradigms. When the search for cheaper energy sources produced a new and apparently inexhaustible resource--petroleum oil--the Howlands and many others did not see the change coming, or the devastating effect it would have on an industry that has flourished for two centuries. Almost overnight, it seemed, the world changed. Business and financial institutions collapsed. The Howland brothers saw their fortune vanish and ended their lives as paupers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For Willie Fish Williams, and the whalers and their families in the Arctic who watched as their floating community was crushed by the ice closing around them, that change came more swiftly.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing on previously unpublished material,\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  splices together two compelling narratives: the Howland brothers'' unprecedented rise and sudden fall with the fortunes of America''s first oil industry--which eerily prefigures today''s modern economic collapse-- and a 12-year-old boy''s vivid observation of a maritime disaster set against the world''s harshest seascape.\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Exclusive: Peter Nichols on the Collapse of the World''s First Oil Industry\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  As I was completing\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  in the fall of 2008, the domino effect of the world''s collapsing economies had begun. It was startling to read daily accounts of financial disasters, of the sudden impoverishment of wealthy institutions and financiers, while writing of the same process taking place one hundred and thirty years earlier.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Final Voyage\n  </em>\n  is in part about the collapse of the world''s first oil industry - the whale oil business - and the fall from staggering wealth of the Howland brothers, Matthew and George Jr, of New Bedford, Massachusetts. For much of the 19th century, New Bedford was the Houston of the oil world, and the Howlands were its pre-eminent whaleship owners and oil merchants. At a time when the President of the United States'' salary was $25,000, the Howlands were netting around $200,000 annually, with no income tax to pay.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like many, then and now, they didn''t see what was coming. They wouldn''t admit or recognize the inherent instability in their market or its resources, and when the collapse came, they were unprepared.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After the fall of Lehman Brothers, in September of last year, it was impossible for me not to hear exactly the tone behind the words Matthew Howland wrote in letters to his family: "Hastings has failed." Hastings and Company was a New Bedford whale oil and candle manufacturer, one of the long-term bedrock commercial institutions of the town and its industry. The Howlands, along with many others, were deeply involved in its business and financial health, and they were devastated when Hastings went under. The failure sent shockwaves through their community, yet still the Howlands held fast and continued whaling.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The business of America is business" said President Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. This was as true in the 1880s, the Howlands'' time, as it is now. To men like Matthew and George Jr, who defined themselves and their lives by business, failure, insolvency, and finally the complete ruin that overtook them in the space of a decade, was accompanied by a shame akin to moral transgression. Both died paupers, bankrupt.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Matthew''s son, William Howland, made a good start as a textile manufacturer, but when his business also failed, he committed suicide. His son, Llewellyn Howland, had to leave Harvard after a single semester. A lifetime later, Llewellyn described to his grandson - Matthew''s great-great grandson, Llewellyn Howland III - how he felt on being forced to withdraw from college because there was no more money for his education: "It was a nasty April day, raining, grey, bitter. I looked out of the train window and saw the old men picking through garbage in South Boston, and the ragged children playing in the streets. God! how it frightened me. The squalor of it, the hopelessness of being poor." The sight held a spectral terror for a Howland that was passed down through generations. "Don''t ever forget," Llewellyn told his grandson, "how hard it is to rise, when you''re really, truly down."\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Chronicling the downfall of the vast whaling industry developed in New England over the 18th and 19th centuries, author Nichols (A Voyage for Madmen) presents both an illuminating portrait of Quaker life and industry, and a heart-pounding tale of danger on the open sea. Nichols has a rich understanding of the whale oil ("oyl") industry, and recreates the atmosphere of whaling voyages and villages, particularly wealthy New Bedford, Mass., in sensuous detail: "Emissions of greasy particulate settled over the town like a glaze and gave it the permanent odor of burnt flesh and fat." A collection of ships'' logbooks and letters from whaling captains give character to the phenomenal victories and challenges the seamen-and their family-faced. There is a lot to admire in the whalers; their captains "were master mariners and navigators, among the canniest and most skillful in human history," and their task enormous. Although death and loss were common in the hunt, the 1871 season recounted here marked the beginning of the end for the oyl industry, a major disaster in which an entire fleet was caught in a diabolical arctic weather system.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22644'),
(17572, 'The Final Warning', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n FIRST SHE WAS WATCHED.  In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her - and maybe save the planet while she''s at it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THEN SHE WAS THREATENED. Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control genetic experiment. Max and the other members of the flock - five kids who share her remarkable ability - have been asked to aid a group of environmental scientists studying the effects of global warming. The expedition seems like a perfect combination of adventure, activism - and escaping government forces who are watching the flock all the time.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THIS IS HER FINAL WARNING.  But even in Antarctica, enduring in the harshest weather on our planet, Maximum Ride is an irresistible target in constant danger. For whoever controls her powers could also control the world. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Maximum Ride is James Patterson''s greatest character, a heroine who manages to be human and fearless at once. The Final Warning is an unrelenting new adventure from the writer Time magazine has called "The Man Who Can''t Miss."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4737'),
(17573, 'The Final Warning', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n FIRST SHE WAS WATCHED.  In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her - and maybe save the planet while she''s at it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THEN SHE WAS THREATENED. Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control genetic experiment. Max and the other members of the flock - five kids who share her remarkable ability - have been asked to aid a group of environmental scientists studying the effects of global warming. The expedition seems like a perfect combination of adventure, activism - and escaping government forces who are watching the flock all the time.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THIS IS HER FINAL WARNING.  But even in Antarctica, enduring in the harshest weather on our planet, Maximum Ride is an irresistible target in constant danger. For whoever controls her powers could also control the world. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Maximum Ride is James Patterson''s greatest character, a heroine who manages to be human and fearless at once. The Final Warning is an unrelenting new adventure from the writer Time magazine has called "The Man Who Can''t Miss."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11757'),
(17574, 'The Final Warning', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: FIRST SHE WAS WATCHED. In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her - and maybe save the planet while she''s at it. THEN SHE WAS THREATENED. Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control genetic experiment. Max and the other members of the flock - five kids who share her remarkable ability - have been asked to aid a group of environmental scientists studying the effects of global warming. The expedition seems like a perfect combination of adventure, activism - and escaping government forces who are watching the flock all the time. THIS IS HER FINAL WARNING. But even in Antarctica, enduring in the harshest weather on our planet, Maximum Ride is an irresistible target in constant danger. For whoever controls her powers could also control the world. . . . Maximum Ride is James Patterson''s greatest character, a heroine who manages to be human and fearless at once. The Final Warning is an unrelenting new adventure from the writer Time magazine has called "The Man Who Can''t Miss."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19921'),
(17575, 'Finding Moon', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman''s running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Moon Mathias discovers his dead brother''s baby daughter is waiting for him in Southeast Asia -- a child he didn''t know existed. Finding her in the aftermath of the Vietnam War brings out a side of Moon he had forgotten he possessed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tony Hillerman''s bestselling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations and lyrical evocations of landscapes and cultures. Now he departs his trademark terrain and applies his talents to a story he has wanted to tell for decades about an ordinary man thrust into total chaos.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/549'),
(17576, 'Finding Moon', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman''s running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Moon Mathias discovers his dead brother''s baby daughter is waiting for him in Southeast Asia -- a child he didn''t know existed. Finding her in the aftermath of the Vietnam War brings out a side of Moon he had forgotten he possessed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tony Hillerman''s bestselling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations and lyrical evocations of landscapes and cultures. Now he departs his trademark terrain and applies his talents to a story he has wanted to tell for decades about an ordinary man thrust into total chaos.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10320'),
(17577, 'Finding Moon', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman''s running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Moon Mathias discovers his dead brother''s baby daughter is waiting for him in Southeast Asia -- a child he didn''t know existed. Finding her in the aftermath of the Vietnam War brings out a side of Moon he had forgotten he possessed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tony Hillerman''s bestselling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations and lyrical evocations of landscapes and cultures. Now he departs his trademark terrain and applies his talents to a story he has wanted to tell for decades about an ordinary man thrust into total chaos.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24430'),
(17578, 'Finding the Doorbell: Sexual Satisfaction for the Long Haul', 'Edie Thys Morgan; Cindy Pierce', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The book is a great conversation to have with your husband or significant other. . . . Buy 50 for your best friends." â€”_Phoenix Woman_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With this hands-on approach to arousal, couples will learn how to communicate with each other about their sexual desires, making sex a positive and vital part of every relationship. Showing how trust, open communication, a sense of humor, and basic anatomical knowledge can deepen pleasure, this stimulating manual shows couples simple skills to excite bedroom satisfaction. Humorous stories and anecdotes take the covers off other peopleâ€™s intimate encounters and offer perspective on what is normal for the average healthy adult. While preserving decency, this manual also gently guides partners to make changes that lead to a comfortable, gratifying sex life while dispelling common false assumptionsâ€”such as that size alone matters, having sex guarantees an orgasm, and great sex has to be wildâ€”and demystifies ordinary anxietiesâ€”including how to engage the elusive clitoris, why the average male watches porn, why women fake orgasms, and if a manâ€™s sex drive is really higher than a womanâ€™s.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18631'),
(17579, 'Finding the Dream', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A dream of a conclusion for Nora''s New York Times bestselling trilogy  The daughter of a wealthy hotelier, Laura Templeton had always known comfort and privilege. But when her storybook marriage ends, she is determined to rebuild her life without the Templeton fortune and discover who she really is...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2479'),
(17580, 'Finding the dream', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A dream of a conclusion for Nora''s New York Times bestselling trilogy The daughter of a wealthy hotelier, Laura Templeton had always known comfort and privilege. But when her storybook marriage ends, she is determined to rebuild her life without the Templeton fortune and discover who she really is...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22285'),
(17581, 'A Fine and Bitter Snow', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a tense battle between conservationists and developers of Alaskas pristine wilderness, P.I. Kate Shugak finds herself in a murderous environmentSet in Alaska, Edgar Award-winner Dana Stabenows novels combine a lush and evocative portrait of life in the frozen north with taut suspense and top-notch characters, especially the dynamic Aleutian p.i. Kate Shugak. A perennial bestseller regionally, Stabenows national profile is on the rise, and with A Fine and Bitter Snow, she delivers the novel that can catapult her into the forefront of crime fiction today.In this latest installment, the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near Kates home has battle lines drawn,even in Kates small community. Things heat up when a ranger at the preserve loses his job for political reasons, but when a passionate conservation spokesperson is found poisoned, the war begins in earnest. I9 a gripping story both entertaining and tensenot to mention timelyDana Stabenow brings to life the beauty and the danger of livingand dyingin Alaska.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Change never comes easy, but it comes just the same, and it''s on its way to the Park, to Niniltna, in southeast Alaska. This time it concerns the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near there, near Aleutian P.I. Kate Shugak''s home territory. Battle lines are drawn across their community, but at least it gives Kate something to do. Still just months after her lover''s violent death, though she doesn''t know quite how, she is trying to get back into her daily life. First, tensions run high as their resident park ranger, Dan O''Brien, is deemed "too green for them" by management and asked to take early retirement. Kate rallies the troops inside the Park to fight for his job, but before she can really start throwing her weight around, a long-time Park resident is brutally murdered, another stabbed and left for dead as well. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin enlists Kate to help investigate, and together they tackle the loose ends: motive, timing, opportunity, means. One thing is for certain-in Dana Stabenow''s masterful crime novels about the beauty and the danger of living and dying in Alaska, nothing is as simple as it seems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6516');
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(17582, 'A fine and bitter snow', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a tense battle between conservationists and developers of Alaskas pristine wilderness, P.I. Kate Shugak finds herself in a murderous environmentSet in Alaska, Edgar Award-winner Dana Stabenows novels combine a lush and evocative portrait of life in the frozen north with taut suspense and top-notch characters, especially the dynamic Aleutian p.i. Kate Shugak. A perennial bestseller regionally, Stabenows national profile is on the rise, and with A Fine and Bitter Snow, she delivers the novel that can catapult her into the forefront of crime fiction today.In this latest installment, the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near Kates home has battle lines drawn,even in Kates small community. Things heat up when a ranger at the preserve loses his job for political reasons, but when a passionate conservation spokesperson is found poisoned, the war begins in earnest. I9 a gripping story both entertaining and tensenot to mention timelyDana Stabenow brings to life the beauty and the danger of livingand dyingin Alaska. SUMMARY: Change never comes easy, but it comes just the same, and it''s on its way to the Park, to Niniltna, in southeast Alaska. This time it concerns the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near there, near Aleutian P.I. Kate Shugak''s home territory. Battle lines are drawn across their community, but at least it gives Kate something to do. Still just months after her lover''s violent death, though she doesn''t know quite how, she is trying to get back into her daily life. First, tensions run high as their resident park ranger, Dan O''Brien, is deemed "too green for them" by management and asked to take early retirement. Kate rallies the troops inside the Park to fight for his job, but before she can really start throwing her weight around, a long-time Park resident is brutally murdered, another stabbed and left for dead as well. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin enlists Kate to help investigate, and together they tackle the loose ends: motive, timing, opportunity, means. One thing is for certain-in Dana Stabenow''s masterful crime novels about the beauty and the danger of living and dying in Alaska, nothing is as simple as it seems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17548'),
(17583, 'A fine and bitter snow', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a tense battle between conservationists and developers of Alaskas pristine wilderness, P.I. Kate Shugak finds herself in a murderous environmentSet in Alaska, Edgar Award-winner Dana Stabenows novels combine a lush and evocative portrait of life in the frozen north with taut suspense and top-notch characters, especially the dynamic Aleutian p.i. Kate Shugak. A perennial bestseller regionally, Stabenows national profile is on the rise, and with A Fine and Bitter Snow, she delivers the novel that can catapult her into the forefront of crime fiction today.In this latest installment, the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near Kates home has battle lines drawn,even in Kates small community. Things heat up when a ranger at the preserve loses his job for political reasons, but when a passionate conservation spokesperson is found poisoned, the war begins in earnest. I9 a gripping story both entertaining and tensenot to mention timelyDana Stabenow brings to life the beauty and the danger of livingand dyingin Alaska. SUMMARY: Change never comes easy, but it comes just the same, and it''s on its way to the Park, to Niniltna, in southeast Alaska. This time it concerns the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near there, near Aleutian P.I. Kate Shugak''s home territory. Battle lines are drawn across their community, but at least it gives Kate something to do. Still just months after her lover''s violent death, though she doesn''t know quite how, she is trying to get back into her daily life. First, tensions run high as their resident park ranger, Dan O''Brien, is deemed "too green for them" by management and asked to take early retirement. Kate rallies the troops inside the Park to fight for his job, but before she can really start throwing her weight around, a long-time Park resident is brutally murdered, another stabbed and left for dead as well. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin enlists Kate to help investigate, and together they tackle the loose ends: motive, timing, opportunity, means. One thing is for certain-in Dana Stabenow''s masterful crime novels about the beauty and the danger of living and dying in Alaska, nothing is as simple as it seems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27142'),
(17584, 'A Fine Balance', 'Rohinton Mistry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the Toronto-based Mistry (Such a Long Journey, 1991), a splendid tale of contemporary India that, in chronicling the sufferings of outcasts and innocents trying to survive in the\n  <code>\n   State of Internal Emergency'''' of the 1970s, grapples with the great question of how to live in the face of death and despair. Though Mistry is too fine a writer to indulge in polemics, this second novel is also a quietly passionate indictment of a corrupt and ineluctably cruel society. India under Indira Gandhi has become a country ruled by thugs who maim and kill for money and power. The four protagonists (all victims of the times) are: Dina, 40-ish, poor and widowed after only three years of marriage; Maneck, the son of an old school friend of Dina''s; and two tailors, Ishvar and his nephew Om, members of the Untouchable caste. For a few months, this unlikely quartet share a tranquil happiness in a nameless city--a city of squalid streets teeming with beggars, where politicians, in the name of progress, abuse the poor and the powerless. Dina, whose dreams of attending college ended when her father died, is now trying to support herself with seamstress work; Maneck, a tenderhearted boy, has been sent to college because the family business is failing; and the two tailors find work with Dina. Though the four survive encounters with various thugs and are saved from disaster by a quirky character known as the Beggarmaster, the times are not propitious for happiness. On a visit back home, Om and Ishvar are forcibly sterilized; Maneck, devastated by the murder of an activist classmate, goes abroad. But Dina and the tailors, who have learned\n  </code>\n  to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair,'''' keep going. A sweeping story, in a thoroughly Indian setting, that combines Dickens''s vivid sympathy for the poor with Solzhenitsyn''s controlled outrage, celebrating both the resilience of the human spirit and the searing heartbreak of failed dreams. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Astonishing. . . . A rich and varied spectacle, full of wisdom and laughter and the touches of the unexpectedly familiar through which literature illuminates life." --_Wall Street Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "A serious and important work . . . the product of high intelligence and passionate conviction."\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  New York Review of Books\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Monumental. . . . Few have caught the real sorrow and inexplicable strength of India, the unaccountable crookedness and sweetness, as well as Mistry." --Pico Iyer,\n  </em>\n  Time\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Those who continue to harp on the decline of the novel . . . ought to consider Rohinton Mistry. He needs no infusion of magic realism to vivify the real. The real world, through his eyes, is magical." --\n  </em>\n  The New York Times_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1562'),
(17585, 'A Fine Balance', 'Rohinton Mistry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the Toronto-based Mistry (Such a Long Journey, 1991), a splendid tale of contemporary India that, in chronicling the sufferings of outcasts and innocents trying to survive in the\n  <code>\n   State of Internal Emergency'''' of the 1970s, grapples with the great question of how to live in the face of death and despair. Though Mistry is too fine a writer to indulge in polemics, this second novel is also a quietly passionate indictment of a corrupt and ineluctably cruel society. India under Indira Gandhi has become a country ruled by thugs who maim and kill for money and power. The four protagonists (all victims of the times) are: Dina, 40-ish, poor and widowed after only three years of marriage; Maneck, the son of an old school friend of Dina''s; and two tailors, Ishvar and his nephew Om, members of the Untouchable caste. For a few months, this unlikely quartet share a tranquil happiness in a nameless city--a city of squalid streets teeming with beggars, where politicians, in the name of progress, abuse the poor and the powerless. Dina, whose dreams of attending college ended when her father died, is now trying to support herself with seamstress work; Maneck, a tenderhearted boy, has been sent to college because the family business is failing; and the two tailors find work with Dina. Though the four survive encounters with various thugs and are saved from disaster by a quirky character known as the Beggarmaster, the times are not propitious for happiness. On a visit back home, Om and Ishvar are forcibly sterilized; Maneck, devastated by the murder of an activist classmate, goes abroad. But Dina and the tailors, who have learned\n  </code>\n  to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair,'''' keep going. A sweeping story, in a thoroughly Indian setting, that combines Dickens''s vivid sympathy for the poor with Solzhenitsyn''s controlled outrage, celebrating both the resilience of the human spirit and the searing heartbreak of failed dreams. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Astonishing. . . . A rich and varied spectacle, full of wisdom and laughter and the touches of the unexpectedly familiar through which literature illuminates life." --_Wall Street Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "A serious and important work . . . the product of high intelligence and passionate conviction."\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  New York Review of Books\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Monumental. . . . Few have caught the real sorrow and inexplicable strength of India, the unaccountable crookedness and sweetness, as well as Mistry." --Pico Iyer,\n  </em>\n  Time\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Those who continue to harp on the decline of the novel . . . ought to consider Rohinton Mistry. He needs no infusion of magic realism to vivify the real. The real world, through his eyes, is magical." --\n  </em>\n  The New York Times_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11409'),
(17586, 'A Fine Balance', 'Rohinton Mistry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  From the Toronto-based Mistry (Such a Long Journey, 1991), a splendid tale of contemporary India that, in chronicling the sufferings of outcasts and innocents trying to survive in the\n  <code>\n   State of Internal Emergency'''' of the 1970s, grapples with the great question of how to live in the face of death and despair. Though Mistry is too fine a writer to indulge in polemics, this second novel is also a quietly passionate indictment of a corrupt and ineluctably cruel society. India under Indira Gandhi has become a country ruled by thugs who maim and kill for money and power. The four protagonists (all victims of the times) are: Dina, 40-ish, poor and widowed after only three years of marriage; Maneck, the son of an old school friend of Dina''s; and two tailors, Ishvar and his nephew Om, members of the Untouchable caste. For a few months, this unlikely quartet share a tranquil happiness in a nameless city--a city of squalid streets teeming with beggars, where politicians, in the name of progress, abuse the poor and the powerless. Dina, whose dreams of attending college ended when her father died, is now trying to support herself with seamstress work; Maneck, a tenderhearted boy, has been sent to college because the family business is failing; and the two tailors find work with Dina. Though the four survive encounters with various thugs and are saved from disaster by a quirky character known as the Beggarmaster, the times are not propitious for happiness. On a visit back home, Om and Ishvar are forcibly sterilized; Maneck, devastated by the murder of an activist classmate, goes abroad. But Dina and the tailors, who have learned\n  </code>\n  to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair,'''' keep going. A sweeping story, in a thoroughly Indian setting, that combines Dickens''s vivid sympathy for the poor with Solzhenitsyn''s controlled outrage, celebrating both the resilience of the human spirit and the searing heartbreak of failed dreams. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Astonishing. . . . A rich and varied spectacle, full of wisdom and laughter and the touches of the unexpectedly familiar through which literature illuminates life." --_Wall Street Journal\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "A serious and important work . . . the product of high intelligence and passionate conviction."\n  </em>\n  <em>\n   --\n  </em>\n  New York Review of Books\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Monumental. . . . Few have caught the real sorrow and inexplicable strength of India, the unaccountable crookedness and sweetness, as well as Mistry." --Pico Iyer,\n  </em>\n  Time\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "Those who continue to harp on the decline of the novel . . . ought to consider Rohinton Mistry. He needs no infusion of magic realism to vivify the real. The real world, through his eyes, is magical." --\n  </em>\n  The New York Times_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23362'),
(17587, 'A Fine Cast of Characters', 'J. Dane Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A suicide on a dark bridge over a rushing river is interrupted. A young woman''s dream of opening her own bakery is ruined by the discovery of an unknown stairwell. A student''s Internet plagiarism has dire consequences. All this and much more on the winding path among A Fine Cast of Characters.  J. Dane Tyler weaves a web of short stories in this, his debut publication.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4916'),
(17588, 'A Fine Cast of Characters', 'J. Dane Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A suicide on a dark bridge over a rushing river is interrupted. A young woman''s dream of opening her own bakery is ruined by the discovery of an unknown stairwell. A student''s Internet plagiarism has dire consequences. All this and much more on the winding path among A Fine Cast of Characters.  J. Dane Tyler weaves a web of short stories in this, his debut publication.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13086'),
(17589, 'A Fine Cast of Characters', 'J. Dane Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A suicide on a dark bridge over a rushing river is interrupted. A young woman''s dream of opening her own bakery is ruined by the discovery of an unknown stairwell. A student''s Internet plagiarism has dire consequences. All this and much more on the winding path among A Fine Cast of Characters. J. Dane Tyler weaves a web of short stories in this, his debut publication.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19716'),
(17590, 'Fine Things', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bernard Fine is happy with his life. In his early 30s, he has just been made senior vice-president of Wolff''s Department Store in his hometown of New York. He is not pleased, therefore, when he is sent to California to open up a posh new Wolff''s in San Francisco. His luck changes, though, when he falls in love with an enchanting five-year-old named Jane, and with her mother, Liz O''Reilly. Jane adores strong, sensitive Bernie and all three are blissfully happy until tragedy strikes the Fine family. In short, this is a story about the power of love and the unity of family to surmount grief and misfortune. The narrative moves slowly in parts and the dialogue is somewhat trite, but the characters are likeable and the story entertaining. Sure to be in demand by Steel fans. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections.Maria A. Perez-Stable, Western Michigan University Libraries, Kalamazoo\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Steel is one of the best." --\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6368'),
(17591, 'Fine Things', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bernard Fine is happy with his life. In his early 30s, he has just been made senior vice-president of Wolff''s Department Store in his hometown of New York. He is not pleased, therefore, when he is sent to California to open up a posh new Wolff''s in San Francisco. His luck changes, though, when he falls in love with an enchanting five-year-old named Jane, and with her mother, Liz O''Reilly. Jane adores strong, sensitive Bernie and all three are blissfully happy until tragedy strikes the Fine family. In short, this is a story about the power of love and the unity of family to surmount grief and misfortune. The narrative moves slowly in parts and the dialogue is somewhat trite, but the characters are likeable and the story entertaining. Sure to be in demand by Steel fans. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections.Maria A. Perez-Stable, Western Michigan University Libraries, Kalamazoo\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Steel is one of the best." --\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12866'),
(17592, 'Fine things', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bernard Fine is happy with his life. In his early 30s, he has just been made senior vice-president of Wolff''s Department Store in his hometown of New York. He is not pleased, therefore, when he is sent to California to open up a posh new Wolff''s in San Francisco. His luck changes, though, when he falls in love with an enchanting five-year-old named Jane, and with her mother, Liz O''Reilly. Jane adores strong, sensitive Bernie and all three are blissfully happy until tragedy strikes the Fine family. In short, this is a story about the power of love and the unity of family to surmount grief and misfortune. The narrative moves slowly in parts and the dialogue is somewhat trite, but the characters are likeable and the story entertaining. Sure to be in demand by Steel fans. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections.Maria A. Perez-Stable, Western Michigan University Libraries, Kalamazoo\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Steel is one of the best." --\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17590'),
(17593, 'Finger Lickin&#39; Fifteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New Jersey bail-bonds office worker Lula is a witness to celebrity chef, Stanley Chipotle, losing his head, literally. Now Lula and Stephanie Plum, a bond enforcement officer, are on the hunt to identify the killers before Lula is next on the chopping block. Meantime, security expert Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, has recruited Stephanie for a top secret mission. Someone on the inside at Rangeman is leaking client information, determined to bring the company down. Can Stephanie hunt down a killer, a traitor, and keep her Grandma out of the sauce?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4756'),
(17594, 'Finger Lickin&#39; Fifteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n New Jersey bail-bonds office worker Lula is a witness to celebrity chef, Stanley Chipotle, losing his head, literally. Now Lula and Stephanie Plum, a bond enforcement officer, are on the hunt to identify the killers before Lula is next on the chopping block. Meantime, security expert Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, has recruited Stephanie for a top secret mission. Someone on the inside at Rangeman is leaking client information, determined to bring the company down. Can Stephanie hunt down a killer, a traitor, and keep her Grandma out of the sauce?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9595'),
(17595, 'Finger Lickin&#39; Fifteen', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: New Jersey bail-bonds office worker Lula is a witness to celebrity chef, Stanley Chipotle, losing his head, literally. Now Lula and Stephanie Plum, a bond enforcement officer, are on the hunt to identify the killers before Lula is next on the chopping block. Meantime, security expert Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, has recruited Stephanie for a top secret mission. Someone on the inside at Rangeman is leaking client information, determined to bring the company down. Can Stephanie hunt down a killer, a traitor, and keep her Grandma out of the sauce?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14908'),
(17596, 'Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality', 'Barbara Bradley Hagerty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Barbara Bradley Hagerty on\n  <em>\n   Fingerprints of God\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It took me more than a decade to muster the courage to write\n <em>\n  Fingerprints of God.\n </em>\n The seed was planted on June 10, 1995, when I was reporting a story for the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n Sunday Magazine about evangelical churches. Kathy Younge and I were sitting on a bench outside Saddleback Church. She told me that her melanoma had returned after a remission, and she believed that the disease was not meant to kill her, but to give her a transcendent purpose. As we talked, the night darkened to indigo. The streetlamp next to our bench cast a perfect circle around us, creating the eerie sense that we were actors on a stage. The temperature had dropped into the 50''s. I was shivering but pinned to the spot, riveted by Kathy and her serene faith.\n</p>\n<p>\n My body responded before my brain, alerting me to some unseen change. My skin began to tingle and my heart started beating a little faster. Imperceptibly at first, the air around us thickened; it grew warmer and heavier, as if someone had moved into the circle and was breathing on us. I glanced at Kathy. She had fallen silent mid-sentence. Neither of us spoke. Gradually, and ever so gently, I felt engulfed by a presence I could feel but could not touch. After a minute, although it seemed longer, the presence melted away. We sat quietly, while I waited for the earth to steady itself. I was too spooked to continue with the interview, and a few minutes later I was driving back to my hotel room.\n</p>\n<p>\n But I could not shake the questions. Was that experience a delusion, or was it real? Is there a spiritual reality that exists beyond our everyday physical world? Is there evidence of God? Not just peopleâ€™s beliefs, but hard, scientific evidence? And most basic of all: Is there more than this? For a decade, I looked for books that would answer these questions. Finding none, I decided to investigate the only way I knew how â€“ as a journalist.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 2006, I took a year-long leave of absence from National Public Radio to research the emerging science of spirituality. I spoke with dozens of prominent scientists who are bushwhacking through this controversial territory, often drawing the ire or ridicule of their colleagues who believe that everything can be explained by material means. In the meantime, I took a journey peppered with surprises and ridiculous situations. I traveled to Canada and donned the "God helmet" to see if activating my temporal lobes would unleash an encounter with the "divine." I attended to a peyote ceremony (although, like our former president, I barely ingested) and visited Johns Hopkins University in search of a chemical that would manufacture a mystical experience. I arranged for a minister to have his brain scanned while he prayed at the University of Pennsylvania, and tried to see if I could physically change my own brain through two weeks of meditation at the University of Wisconsin.\n</p>\n<p>\n And I spent endless hours with people who had enjoyed dramatic spiritual experiences. Some had had spontaneous mystical experiences, right out of the blue. Some transcendent moments were triggered by a trauma, others by drugs, or epilepsy, or near-death experiences. Some people spent hundreds of hours in prayer and meditation to cultivate the ability to connect with the divine.\n</p>\n<p>\n I confess that my exploration was not an entirely clinical. I was raised a Christian Scientist, and while I now consider myself a serious mainstream Christian, I have always believed in the presence and power of God. At the beginning I nursed a nagging concern that perhaps this God business is just a ruse, self medication in the face of certain death. I fretted that science would prove that all mystery, all transcendent experience, can be boiled down to brain chemistry and genetics.\n</p>\n<p>\n What I foundâ€”well, youâ€™ll have to see. But I can say this: By the end of my research, I had redefined God and my view of reality. And perhaps at the end of the book, you will too.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In her first book, National Public Radio correspondent Hagerty acts as a tour guide through the rocky terrain of scientists who study religious experience. Is there a so-called God gene? Why do some people have mystical experiences while others never see the so-called light? Right up front, Hagerty reveals that this is not an entirely objective exercise. As a Christian, she wants to understand her own mystical encounter with the divine and why she believes when others do not. Yet to each interview, whether with a world-renowned neuroscientist or a back-road mystic, she brings a suitably skeptical eye. Along the way, she manages to explain some pretty cutting-edge scienceâ€”psychoneuroimmunology, anyone?â€”and unravel some people''s pretty hard-to-comprehend religious experiences without sacrificing depth or complexity. Then, with equal aplomb, she dances off to peyote ceremonies, church services and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. The real beauty of this book lies in watching Hagerty gracefully balance her own trust in faith and science and, in the end, come down with one foot planted firmly in both.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7343'),
(17597, 'Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality', 'Barbara Bradley Hagerty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Barbara Bradley Hagerty on\n  <em>\n   Fingerprints of God\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It took me more than a decade to muster the courage to write\n <em>\n  Fingerprints of God.\n </em>\n The seed was planted on June 10, 1995, when I was reporting a story for the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n Sunday Magazine about evangelical churches. Kathy Younge and I were sitting on a bench outside Saddleback Church. She told me that her melanoma had returned after a remission, and she believed that the disease was not meant to kill her, but to give her a transcendent purpose. As we talked, the night darkened to indigo. The streetlamp next to our bench cast a perfect circle around us, creating the eerie sense that we were actors on a stage. The temperature had dropped into the 50''s. I was shivering but pinned to the spot, riveted by Kathy and her serene faith.\n</p>\n<p>\n My body responded before my brain, alerting me to some unseen change. My skin began to tingle and my heart started beating a little faster. Imperceptibly at first, the air around us thickened; it grew warmer and heavier, as if someone had moved into the circle and was breathing on us. I glanced at Kathy. She had fallen silent mid-sentence. Neither of us spoke. Gradually, and ever so gently, I felt engulfed by a presence I could feel but could not touch. After a minute, although it seemed longer, the presence melted away. We sat quietly, while I waited for the earth to steady itself. I was too spooked to continue with the interview, and a few minutes later I was driving back to my hotel room.\n</p>\n<p>\n But I could not shake the questions. Was that experience a delusion, or was it real? Is there a spiritual reality that exists beyond our everyday physical world? Is there evidence of God? Not just peopleâ€™s beliefs, but hard, scientific evidence? And most basic of all: Is there more than this? For a decade, I looked for books that would answer these questions. Finding none, I decided to investigate the only way I knew how â€“ as a journalist.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 2006, I took a year-long leave of absence from National Public Radio to research the emerging science of spirituality. I spoke with dozens of prominent scientists who are bushwhacking through this controversial territory, often drawing the ire or ridicule of their colleagues who believe that everything can be explained by material means. In the meantime, I took a journey peppered with surprises and ridiculous situations. I traveled to Canada and donned the "God helmet" to see if activating my temporal lobes would unleash an encounter with the "divine." I attended to a peyote ceremony (although, like our former president, I barely ingested) and visited Johns Hopkins University in search of a chemical that would manufacture a mystical experience. I arranged for a minister to have his brain scanned while he prayed at the University of Pennsylvania, and tried to see if I could physically change my own brain through two weeks of meditation at the University of Wisconsin.\n</p>\n<p>\n And I spent endless hours with people who had enjoyed dramatic spiritual experiences. Some had had spontaneous mystical experiences, right out of the blue. Some transcendent moments were triggered by a trauma, others by drugs, or epilepsy, or near-death experiences. Some people spent hundreds of hours in prayer and meditation to cultivate the ability to connect with the divine.\n</p>\n<p>\n I confess that my exploration was not an entirely clinical. I was raised a Christian Scientist, and while I now consider myself a serious mainstream Christian, I have always believed in the presence and power of God. At the beginning I nursed a nagging concern that perhaps this God business is just a ruse, self medication in the face of certain death. I fretted that science would prove that all mystery, all transcendent experience, can be boiled down to brain chemistry and genetics.\n</p>\n<p>\n What I foundâ€”well, youâ€™ll have to see. But I can say this: By the end of my research, I had redefined God and my view of reality. And perhaps at the end of the book, you will too.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In her first book, National Public Radio correspondent Hagerty acts as a tour guide through the rocky terrain of scientists who study religious experience. Is there a so-called God gene? Why do some people have mystical experiences while others never see the so-called light? Right up front, Hagerty reveals that this is not an entirely objective exercise. As a Christian, she wants to understand her own mystical encounter with the divine and why she believes when others do not. Yet to each interview, whether with a world-renowned neuroscientist or a back-road mystic, she brings a suitably skeptical eye. Along the way, she manages to explain some pretty cutting-edge scienceâ€”psychoneuroimmunology, anyone?â€”and unravel some people''s pretty hard-to-comprehend religious experiences without sacrificing depth or complexity. Then, with equal aplomb, she dances off to peyote ceremonies, church services and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. The real beauty of this book lies in watching Hagerty gracefully balance her own trust in faith and science and, in the end, come down with one foot planted firmly in both.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10062'),
(17598, 'Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality', 'Barbara Bradley Hagerty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Barbara Bradley Hagerty on\n  <em>\n   Fingerprints of God\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n It took me more than a decade to muster the courage to write\n <em>\n  Fingerprints of God.\n </em>\n The seed was planted on June 10, 1995, when I was reporting a story for the\n <em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n </em>\n Sunday Magazine about evangelical churches. Kathy Younge and I were sitting on a bench outside Saddleback Church. She told me that her melanoma had returned after a remission, and she believed that the disease was not meant to kill her, but to give her a transcendent purpose. As we talked, the night darkened to indigo. The streetlamp next to our bench cast a perfect circle around us, creating the eerie sense that we were actors on a stage. The temperature had dropped into the 50''s. I was shivering but pinned to the spot, riveted by Kathy and her serene faith.\n</p>\n<p>\n My body responded before my brain, alerting me to some unseen change. My skin began to tingle and my heart started beating a little faster. Imperceptibly at first, the air around us thickened; it grew warmer and heavier, as if someone had moved into the circle and was breathing on us. I glanced at Kathy. She had fallen silent mid-sentence. Neither of us spoke. Gradually, and ever so gently, I felt engulfed by a presence I could feel but could not touch. After a minute, although it seemed longer, the presence melted away. We sat quietly, while I waited for the earth to steady itself. I was too spooked to continue with the interview, and a few minutes later I was driving back to my hotel room.\n</p>\n<p>\n But I could not shake the questions. Was that experience a delusion, or was it real? Is there a spiritual reality that exists beyond our everyday physical world? Is there evidence of God? Not just peopleâ€™s beliefs, but hard, scientific evidence? And most basic of all: Is there more than this? For a decade, I looked for books that would answer these questions. Finding none, I decided to investigate the only way I knew how â€“ as a journalist.\n</p>\n<p>\n In 2006, I took a year-long leave of absence from National Public Radio to research the emerging science of spirituality. I spoke with dozens of prominent scientists who are bushwhacking through this controversial territory, often drawing the ire or ridicule of their colleagues who believe that everything can be explained by material means. In the meantime, I took a journey peppered with surprises and ridiculous situations. I traveled to Canada and donned the "God helmet" to see if activating my temporal lobes would unleash an encounter with the "divine." I attended to a peyote ceremony (although, like our former president, I barely ingested) and visited Johns Hopkins University in search of a chemical that would manufacture a mystical experience. I arranged for a minister to have his brain scanned while he prayed at the University of Pennsylvania, and tried to see if I could physically change my own brain through two weeks of meditation at the University of Wisconsin.\n</p>\n<p>\n And I spent endless hours with people who had enjoyed dramatic spiritual experiences. Some had had spontaneous mystical experiences, right out of the blue. Some transcendent moments were triggered by a trauma, others by drugs, or epilepsy, or near-death experiences. Some people spent hundreds of hours in prayer and meditation to cultivate the ability to connect with the divine.\n</p>\n<p>\n I confess that my exploration was not an entirely clinical. I was raised a Christian Scientist, and while I now consider myself a serious mainstream Christian, I have always believed in the presence and power of God. At the beginning I nursed a nagging concern that perhaps this God business is just a ruse, self medication in the face of certain death. I fretted that science would prove that all mystery, all transcendent experience, can be boiled down to brain chemistry and genetics.\n</p>\n<p>\n What I foundâ€”well, youâ€™ll have to see. But I can say this: By the end of my research, I had redefined God and my view of reality. And perhaps at the end of the book, you will too.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. In her first book, National Public Radio correspondent Hagerty acts as a tour guide through the rocky terrain of scientists who study religious experience. Is there a so-called God gene? Why do some people have mystical experiences while others never see the so-called light? Right up front, Hagerty reveals that this is not an entirely objective exercise. As a Christian, she wants to understand her own mystical encounter with the divine and why she believes when others do not. Yet to each interview, whether with a world-renowned neuroscientist or a back-road mystic, she brings a suitably skeptical eye. Along the way, she manages to explain some pretty cutting-edge scienceâ€”psychoneuroimmunology, anyone?â€”and unravel some people''s pretty hard-to-comprehend religious experiences without sacrificing depth or complexity. Then, with equal aplomb, she dances off to peyote ceremonies, church services and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. The real beauty of this book lies in watching Hagerty gracefully balance her own trust in faith and science and, in the end, come down with one foot planted firmly in both.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16549'),
(17599, 'Fingersmith', 'Sarah Waters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Growing up as a foster child among a family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder hopes to pay back that kindness by playing a key role in a swindle scheme devised by their leader, Gentleman, who is planning to con a fortune out of the naive Maud Lily, but Sue''s growing pity for their helpless victim could destroy the plot. By the author of Tipping the Velvet. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25137'),
(17600, 'Finity&#39;s End', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Cyteen and Rider at the Gate now brings forth a major new novel set in her Merchanter universe.Set in the far-future age introduced in her Hugo Award-winning novels Cyteen and Downbelow Station, C. J. Cherryh tells the story of the oldest Merchanter ship of all, Finity''s End. In an era of spies, pirate traders, and uneasy alliances, the Company Wars are over, the hunt for the fleet is winding down, and the ship is coming home to reclaim her trade routes. Having lost an entire generation, the youngest crew members, bred and trained for war, must race their most critical battle of all -- survival in a time of lasting peace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15526'),
(17601, 'The Finkler Questione', 'Howard Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...'' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they''ve never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czech always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. &gt;Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor''s grand, central London apartment. It''s a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you have less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends'' losses. And it''s that very evening, at exactly 11:30 pm, as Treslove, walking home, hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country, that he is attacked. And after this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. The Finkler Questionis a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5102'),
(17602, 'The Finkler Questione', 'Howard Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...'' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they''ve never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czech always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. &gt;Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor''s grand, central London apartment. It''s a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you have less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends'' losses. And it''s that very evening, at exactly 11:30 pm, as Treslove, walking home, hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country, that he is attacked. And after this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. The Finkler Questionis a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10489'),
(17603, 'The Finkler Questione', 'Howard Jacobson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...'' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they''ve never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czech always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. &gt;Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor''s grand, central London apartment. It''s a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you have less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends'' losses. And it''s that very evening, at exactly 11:30 pm, as Treslove, walking home, hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country, that he is attacked. And after this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. The Finkler Questionis a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19614'),
(17604, 'Finnegans wake', 'James Joyce', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses (1922), James Joyce set himself an even greater challenge for his next book -- the night. "A nocturnal state.... That is what I want to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream." The work, which would exhaust two decades of his life and the odd resources of some sixty languages, culminated with the 1939 publication of Joyce''s final and most revolutionary work, Finnegans Wake.A story with no real beginning or end (it ends in the middle of a sentence and begins in the middle of the same sentence), this "book of Doublends Jined" is as remarkable for its prose as for its circular structure. Written in a fantastic dream-language, forged from polyglot puns and portmanteau words, the Wake features some of Joyce''s most hilarious characters: the Irish barkeep Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Shem the Penman, Shaun the Postman, and Anna Livia Plurabelle. Sixty years after its publication, it remains in Anthony Burgess''s words, "a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25577'),
(17605, 'Finny', 'Justin Kramon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Justin Kramonâ€™s debut novel, Finny, is a sweeping, enchanting voyage, an insightful story about a young womanâ€™s complicated path to adulthood. We meet Finny Short as an observant, defiant fourteen-year-old who canâ€™t make sense of her familyâ€™s unusual habits: Her mother offers guidance appropriate for a forty-year-old socialite; her father quotes Nietzsche over pancakes. Finny figures sheâ€™s stuck with this lonely lot until she meets Earl Henckel, a boy who comes from an even stranger place than she does. Unhappy with Finnyâ€™s budding romance with Earl, her parents ship her off to Thorndon boarding school. But mischief follows Finny as she befriends New York heiress Judith Turngate, a girl whose charm belies a disquieting reckless streak.Finnyâ€™s relationships with Earl and Judith open her up to dizzying possibilities of love and loss and propel her into a remarkable adventure spanning twenty years and two continents. Justin Kramon has given us a wickedly funny odyssey with a moving and original love story at its core. Finny introduces us to an unforgettable heroine, a charmingly intricate world, and an uncommonly entertaining and gifted young novelist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4042');
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(17606, 'Finny', 'Justin Kramon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Justin Kramonâ€™s debut novel, Finny, is a sweeping, enchanting voyage, an insightful story about a young womanâ€™s complicated path to adulthood. We meet Finny Short as an observant, defiant fourteen-year-old who canâ€™t make sense of her familyâ€™s unusual habits: Her mother offers guidance appropriate for a forty-year-old socialite; her father quotes Nietzsche over pancakes. Finny figures sheâ€™s stuck with this lonely lot until she meets Earl Henckel, a boy who comes from an even stranger place than she does. Unhappy with Finnyâ€™s budding romance with Earl, her parents ship her off to Thorndon boarding school. But mischief follows Finny as she befriends New York heiress Judith Turngate, a girl whose charm belies a disquieting reckless streak.Finnyâ€™s relationships with Earl and Judith open her up to dizzying possibilities of love and loss and propel her into a remarkable adventure spanning twenty years and two continents. Justin Kramon has given us a wickedly funny odyssey with a moving and original love story at its core. Finny introduces us to an unforgettable heroine, a charmingly intricate world, and an uncommonly entertaining and gifted young novelist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20611'),
(17607, 'Fintanile paradisului', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26058'),
(17608, 'Fionavar 1 - The Summer Tree', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14245'),
(17609, 'Fionavar 1 - The Summer Tree', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28028'),
(17610, 'Fionavar 2 - The Wandering Fire', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14130'),
(17611, 'Fionavar 2 - The Wandering Fire', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28027'),
(17612, 'Fionavar 3 - The Darkest Road', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14287'),
(17613, 'Fionavar 3 - The Darkest Road', 'Guy Gavriel Kay', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28026'),
(17614, 'Fire', 'Kristin Cashore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A must-read title for all fans of Patrick Rothfuss and Trudi Canavan,\n <em>\n  Fire\n </em>\n is an exceptional fantasy novel. From the deft characterisation to the gripping story, the fast-paced action to the evocative prose, this is one of the strongest fantasy novels of the year.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set in a world of stunningly beautiful, exceptionally dangerous monsters, Fire is one of the most dangerous monsters of allâ€”a human one. Marked out by her vivid red hair, she''s more than attractive. Fire is mesmerising.\n</p>\n<p>\n But with this extraordinary beauty comes influence and power. People who are susceptible to her appeal will do anything for her attention, and for her affection. They will turn away from their families, their work, and their duties for her. They will forget their responsibilities to please her...and worse, crush nations, neglect kingdoms and abuse their power.\n</p>\n<p>\n Aware of her power, and afraid of it, Fire lives in a corner of the world away from people, and away from temptation. Until the day comes when she is neededâ€”a day when, for her king, she has to stand against not only his enemies, but also against herself...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3559'),
(17615, 'Fire', 'Kristin Cashore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A must-read title for all fans of Patrick Rothfuss and Trudi Canavan,\n <em>\n  Fire\n </em>\n is an exceptional fantasy novel. From the deft characterisation to the gripping story, the fast-paced action to the evocative prose, this is one of the strongest fantasy novels of the year.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set in a world of stunningly beautiful, exceptionally dangerous monsters, Fire is one of the most dangerous monsters of allâ€”a human one. Marked out by her vivid red hair, she''s more than attractive. Fire is mesmerising.\n</p>\n<p>\n But with this extraordinary beauty comes influence and power. People who are susceptible to her appeal will do anything for her attention, and for her affection. They will turn away from their families, their work, and their duties for her. They will forget their responsibilities to please her...and worse, crush nations, neglect kingdoms and abuse their power.\n</p>\n<p>\n Aware of her power, and afraid of it, Fire lives in a corner of the world away from people, and away from temptation. Until the day comes when she is neededâ€”a day when, for her king, she has to stand against not only his enemies, but also against herself...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8772'),
(17616, 'Fire', 'Kristin Cashore', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A must-read title for all fans of Patrick Rothfuss and Trudi Canavan,\n <em>\n  Fire\n </em>\n is an exceptional fantasy novel. From the deft characterisation to the gripping story, the fast-paced action to the evocative prose, this is one of the strongest fantasy novels of the year.\n</p>\n<p>\n Set in a world of stunningly beautiful, exceptionally dangerous monsters, Fire is one of the most dangerous monsters of allâ€”a human one. Marked out by her vivid red hair, she''s more than attractive. Fire is mesmerising.\n</p>\n<p>\n But with this extraordinary beauty comes influence and power. People who are susceptible to her appeal will do anything for her attention, and for her affection. They will turn away from their families, their work, and their duties for her. They will forget their responsibilities to please her...and worse, crush nations, neglect kingdoms and abuse their power.\n</p>\n<p>\n Aware of her power, and afraid of it, Fire lives in a corner of the world away from people, and away from temptation. Until the day comes when she is neededâ€”a day when, for her king, she has to stand against not only his enemies, but also against herself...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20905'),
(17617, 'Fire and Hemlock', 'Diana Wynne Jones', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Version 1.0\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18110'),
(17618, 'Fire and Ice', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this brand new mystery series by Dana Stabenow, the Edgar Award-winning author returns to the Alaskan setting she''s famous for, but with a wonderful new character--state trooper Liam Campbell.  Liam''s just been transferred from Anchorage to the small fishing village of Newenham, Alaska--where a local pilot seems to have lost his head."Evocative."--*Dallas Morning News* "Stunning."--*Booklist**"Liam Campbell is a delightful character, already fully formed in the skilled, inventive mind of Miss Stabenow, and meeting him is a pleasure." --*Washington Times*"Evocative writing, intelligent plotting...intensely believable." --*Dallas Morning News*"Lots of quirky people, adventures, and scenery." --*Kirkus Reviews*"This much mayhem has rarely been in surer literary hands."--*Publishers Weekly** First in a new series* Stabenow is a national bestseller and Edgar Award winner* "Alaska''s finest mystery writer." --*Anchorage Daily News*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this brand new mystery series by Dana Stabenow, the Edgar Award-winning author returns to the Alaskan setting she''s famous for, but with a wonderful new character--state trooper Liam Campbell.  Liam''s just been transferred from Anchorage to the small fishing village of Newenham, Alaska--where a local pilot seems to have lost his head."Evocative."--*Dallas Morning News* "Stunning."--*Booklist**"Liam Campbell is a delightful character, already fully formed in the skilled, inventive mind of Miss Stabenow, and meeting him is a pleasure." --*Washington Times*"Evocative writing, intelligent plotting...intensely believable." --*Dallas Morning News*"Lots of quirky people, adventures, and scenery." --*Kirkus Reviews*"This much mayhem has rarely been in surer literary hands."--*Publishers Weekly** First in a new series* Stabenow is a national bestseller and Edgar Award winner* "Alaska''s finest mystery writer." --*Anchorage Daily News*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6533'),
(17619, 'Fire and ice', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this brand new mystery series by Dana Stabenow, the Edgar Award-winning author returns to the Alaskan setting she''s famous for, but with a wonderful new character--state trooper Liam Campbell. Liam''s just been transferred from Anchorage to the small fishing village of Newenham, Alaska--where a local pilot seems to have lost his head."Evocative."--*Dallas Morning News* "Stunning."--*Booklist**"Liam Campbell is a delightful character, already fully formed in the skilled, inventive mind of Miss Stabenow, and meeting him is a pleasure." --*Washington Times*"Evocative writing, intelligent plotting...intensely believable." --*Dallas Morning News*"Lots of quirky people, adventures, and scenery." --*Kirkus Reviews*"This much mayhem has rarely been in surer literary hands."--*Publishers Weekly** First in a new series* Stabenow is a national bestseller and Edgar Award winner* "Alaska''s finest mystery writer." --*Anchorage Daily News* EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this brand new mystery series by Dana Stabenow, the Edgar Award-winning author returns to the Alaskan setting she''s famous for, but with a wonderful new character--state trooper Liam Campbell. Liam''s just been transferred from Anchorage to the small fishing village of Newenham, Alaska--where a local pilot seems to have lost his head."Evocative."--*Dallas Morning News* "Stunning."--*Booklist**"Liam Campbell is a delightful character, already fully formed in the skilled, inventive mind of Miss Stabenow, and meeting him is a pleasure." --*Washington Times*"Evocative writing, intelligent plotting...intensely believable." --*Dallas Morning News*"Lots of quirky people, adventures, and scenery." --*Kirkus Reviews*"This much mayhem has rarely been in surer literary hands."--*Publishers Weekly** First in a new series* Stabenow is a national bestseller and Edgar Award winner* "Alaska''s finest mystery writer." --*Anchorage Daily News*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17536'),
(17620, 'Fire and ice', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this brand new mystery series by Dana Stabenow, the Edgar Award-winning author returns to the Alaskan setting she''s famous for, but with a wonderful new character--state trooper Liam Campbell. Liam''s just been transferred from Anchorage to the small fishing village of Newenham, Alaska--where a local pilot seems to have lost his head."Evocative."--*Dallas Morning News* "Stunning."--*Booklist**"Liam Campbell is a delightful character, already fully formed in the skilled, inventive mind of Miss Stabenow, and meeting him is a pleasure." --*Washington Times*"Evocative writing, intelligent plotting...intensely believable." --*Dallas Morning News*"Lots of quirky people, adventures, and scenery." --*Kirkus Reviews*"This much mayhem has rarely been in surer literary hands."--*Publishers Weekly** First in a new series* Stabenow is a national bestseller and Edgar Award winner* "Alaska''s finest mystery writer." --*Anchorage Daily News* EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this brand new mystery series by Dana Stabenow, the Edgar Award-winning author returns to the Alaskan setting she''s famous for, but with a wonderful new character--state trooper Liam Campbell. Liam''s just been transferred from Anchorage to the small fishing village of Newenham, Alaska--where a local pilot seems to have lost his head."Evocative."--*Dallas Morning News* "Stunning."--*Booklist**"Liam Campbell is a delightful character, already fully formed in the skilled, inventive mind of Miss Stabenow, and meeting him is a pleasure." --*Washington Times*"Evocative writing, intelligent plotting...intensely believable." --*Dallas Morning News*"Lots of quirky people, adventures, and scenery." --*Kirkus Reviews*"This much mayhem has rarely been in surer literary hands."--*Publishers Weekly** First in a new series* Stabenow is a national bestseller and Edgar Award winner* "Alaska''s finest mystery writer." --*Anchorage Daily News*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27234'),
(17621, 'The Fire Baby', 'Jim Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the stifling heat wave of June 1976, an American plane crashes on the Cambridgeshire Fens, the point of impact the remote Black Bank Farm. Out of the flames walks a young woman, Maggie Beck, clutching a baby in her arms.Twenty-seven years later, Maggie is dying. Journalist Philip Dryden knows this because Maggie is lying in the hospital ward next to his wife Laura. As Maggie prepares to leave this world, Laura---locked in a coma for four years---appears to be slowly returning to it. And for the last few days, she has listened to Maggie''s death-bed confession surrounding events on the night of the crash all those years ago.It''s a confession that will blow open the murder story that Dryden is covering. But can Laura somehow communicate to her husband the shocking secrets she has learned?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4364'),
(17622, 'The Fire Baby', 'Jim Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the stifling heat wave of June 1976, an American plane crashes on the Cambridgeshire Fens, the point of impact the remote Black Bank Farm. Out of the flames walks a young woman, Maggie Beck, clutching a baby in her arms.Twenty-seven years later, Maggie is dying. Journalist Philip Dryden knows this because Maggie is lying in the hospital ward next to his wife Laura. As Maggie prepares to leave this world, Laura---locked in a coma for four years---appears to be slowly returning to it. And for the last few days, she has listened to Maggie''s death-bed confession surrounding events on the night of the crash all those years ago.It''s a confession that will blow open the murder story that Dryden is covering. But can Laura somehow communicate to her husband the shocking secrets she has learned?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10717'),
(17623, 'Fire Ice', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The hero of "Serpent" and "Blue Gold" confronts a deadly global plot, in the breathtaking new Kurt Austin adventure. Austin, leader of NUMA''s Special Assignment Team, faces a new menace, in the form of a mining tycoon who has proclaimed himself Czar of Russia. Claiming Romanov ancestry and backed by billions of dollars, he is determined to overthrow the already-shaky Russian government - and US opposition doesn''t bother him one bit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6711'),
(17624, 'Fire Ice', 'Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The hero of "Serpent" and "Blue Gold" confronts a deadly global plot, in the breathtaking new Kurt Austin adventure. Austin, leader of NUMA''s Special Assignment Team, faces a new menace, in the form of a mining tycoon who has proclaimed himself Czar of Russia. Claiming Romanov ancestry and backed by billions of dollars, he is determined to overthrow the already-shaky Russian government - and US opposition doesn''t bother him one bit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17456'),
(17625, 'Fire Ice', 'Clive Cussler &amp; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The hero of "Serpent" and "Blue Gold" confronts a deadly global plot, in the breathtaking new Kurt Austin adventure. Austin, leader of NUMA''s Special Assignment Team, faces a new menace, in the form of a mining tycoon who has proclaimed himself Czar of Russia. Claiming Romanov ancestry and backed by billions of dollars, he is determined to overthrow the already-shaky Russian government - and US opposition doesn''t bother him one bit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27008'),
(17626, 'Fire Ice', 'Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The hero of "Serpent" and "Blue Gold" confronts a deadly global plot, in the breathtaking new Kurt Austin adventure. Austin, leader of NUMA''s Special Assignment Team, faces a new menace, in the form of a mining tycoon who has proclaimed himself Czar of Russia. Claiming Romanov ancestry and backed by billions of dollars, he is determined to overthrow the already-shaky Russian government - and US opposition doesn''t bother him one bit.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27095'),
(17627, 'The Fire Kimono', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Japan, March 1700. Near a Shinto shrine in the hills, a windstorm knocks down a tree to uncover a human skeleton, long buried and forgotten. Meanwhile, in the nearby city of Edo, troops ambush and attack Lady Reiko, the wife of Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power and influence in the shogun''s court. The troops who attacked Reiko appear to belong to Sano''s fiercest enemy, Lord Matsudaira, who denies all responsibility. But if the rivals are not to blame for each other''s misfortune, who is? Just as Sano''s strife with Matsudaira begins to escalate to the brink of war, the shogun orders Sano to investigate the origins of the mysterious skeleton, buried with swords that identify it as belonging to the shogun''s cousin, who disappeared forty years earlier on the night that a cursed kimono touched off a fire that nearly destroyed the city. Suddenly, Sano and Reiko are forced to confront dangerous, long-buried secrets that expose Sano''s own mother as the possible culprit. The shogun gives Sano and Reiko just three days to clear her nameor risk losing not only their position at court but their families'' lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3632'),
(17628, 'The Fire Kimono', 'Laura Joh Rowland', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Set in 1700, Rowland''s outstanding 13th Sano Ichiro mystery (after 2007''s\n  <em>\n   The Snow Empress\n  </em>\n  ) finds Sano, whom the shogun raised to the rank of chamberlain several books back, waging a fierce struggle with his chief rival, Lord Matsudaira. The stakes are raised at the outset when Matsudaira''s forces almost succeed in killing Sano''s wife and occasional sleuthing partner, Reiko. The chamberlain soon suspects that someone else may have been behind the attack, but soon he faces a more daunting taskâ€”proving his mother innocent of the murder of one of the shogun''s cousins, who vanished during the great fire that destroyed much of Edo and whose skeletal remains were just uncovered by chance. Sano must now question everything he thought he knew about his mother, with his own family facing execution should she be found guilty. Rowland has given her hero his greatest challenge yet in this suspenseful look at feudal Japan.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€”Sano Ichiro, second in command to the shogun, is preparing for war against his enemy, Lord Matsudaira. The shogun is weak and unable to rule effectively and the two wage battle behind his back, each wanting to stop the other from gaining more power. In the thick of this enmity, a skeleton is unearthed and discovered to be the body of the shogun''s cousin, murdered 40 years earlier. Sano is sent to investigate, only to find that his own mother is implicated. He must not only save her from execution, but also come to terms with the secrets she''s held all his life. This turn of events provides Lord Matsudaira with the fodder he needs to try to oust Sano. The story threads are neatly tied up to create a satisfactory ending that leaves readers wanting more about these all-too-human characters. This series stars Sano and his wife, Reiko, who solve mysteries. The book can be read on its own, but it would be a richer experience for teens familiar with the preceding titles. The plot is complicated, with many auxiliary stories taking place alongside the thread of the mystery. Rowland brings Sano, his wife, a cast of supporting characters, and 18th-century Japan to life with a sweet, simple writing style.â€”_Connie Williams, Kenilworth Jr. High, Petaluma, CA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20950'),
(17629, 'Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout', 'Philip Connors', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the\n <em>\n  Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n and talked his way into a job far from the streets of lower Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Spending nearly half the year in a 7'' x 7'' tower, 10,000 feet above sea level in remote New Mexico, his tasks were simple: keep watch over one of the most fire-prone forests in the country and sound the alarm at the first sign of smoke.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fire Season\n </em>\n is Connors''s remarkable reflection on work, our place in the wild, and the charms of solitude. The landscape over which he keeps watch is rugged and roadlessâ€”it was the first region in the world to be officially placed off limits to industrial machinesâ€”and it typically gets hit by lightning more than 30,000 times per year. Connors recounts his days and nights in this forbidding land, untethered from the comforts of modern life: the eerie pleasure of being alone in his glass-walled perch with only his dog Alice for company; occasional visits from smokejumpers and long-distance hikers; the strange dance of communion and wariness with bears, elk, and other wild creatures; trips to visit the hidden graves of buffalo soldiers slain during the Apache wars of the nineteenth century; and always the majesty and might of lightning storms and untamed fire.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written with narrative verve and startling beauty, and filled with reflections on his literary forebears who also served as lookoutsâ€”among them Edward Abbey, Jack Kerouac, Norman Maclean, and Gary Snyderâ€”_Fire Season_ is a book to stand the test of time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8067'),
(17630, 'Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems', 'Mark Doty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mark Doty''s Fire to Fire collects the best of Mark Doty''s seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. Doty''s subjectsâ€”our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire''s transformative power, and art''s ability to give shape to human livesâ€”echo and develop across twenty years of poems. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought; here one of contemporary American poetry''s most lauded, recognizable voices speaks to the crises and possibilities of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3091'),
(17631, 'Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems', 'Mark Doty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mark Doty''s Fire to Fire collects the best of Mark Doty''s seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. Doty''s subjectsâ€”our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire''s transformative power, and art''s ability to give shape to human livesâ€”echo and develop across twenty years of poems. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought; here one of contemporary American poetry''s most lauded, recognizable voices speaks to the crises and possibilities of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10888'),
(17632, 'Fire to fire: new and selected poems', 'Mark Doty', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mark Doty''s Fire to Fire collects the best of Mark Doty''s seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. Doty''s subjectsâ€”our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire''s transformative power, and art''s ability to give shape to human livesâ€”echo and develop across twenty years of poems. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought; here one of contemporary American poetry''s most lauded, recognizable voices speaks to the crises and possibilities of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21756'),
(17633, 'A Fire Upon the Deep', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this Hugo-winning 1991 SF novel, Vernor Vinge gives us a wild new cosmology, a galaxy-spanning "Net of a Million Lies," some finely imagined aliens, and much nail-biting suspense.\n</p>\n<p>\n Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy''s Slow Zone--but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unguessable, godlike "Powers." When human meddling wakes an old Power, the Blight, this spreads like a wildfire mind virus that turns whole civilizations into its unthinking tools. And the half-mythical Countermeasure, if it exists, is lost with two human children on primitive Tines World.\n</p>\n<p>\n Serious complications follow. One paranoid alien alliance blames humanity for the Blight and launches a genocidal strike. Pham Nuwen, the man who knows about Countermeasure, escapes this ruin in the spacecraft\n <em>\n  Out of Band\n </em>\n --heading for more violence and treachery, with 500 warships soon in hot pursuit. On his destination world, the fascinating Tines are intelligent only in combination: named "individuals" are small packs of the doglike aliens. Primitive doesn''t mean stupid, and opposed Tine leaders wheedle the young castaways for information about guns and radios. Low-tech war looms, with elaborately nested betrayals and schemes to seize\n <em>\n  Out of Band\n </em>\n if it ever arrives. The tension becomes extreme... while half the Beyond debates the issues on galactic Usenet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vinge''s climax is suitably mindboggling. This epic combines the flash and dazzle of old-style space opera with modern, polished thoughtfulness. Pham Nuwen also appears in the nifty prequel set 30,000 years earlier, __. Both recommended.\n <em>\n  --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It has been six years since Vinge''s last book ( Marooned in Realtime ), but the wait proves worthwhile in this stimulating tale filled with ideas, action and likable, believable characters, both alien and human. Vinge presents a galaxy divided into Zones--regions where different physical constraints allow very different technological and mental possibilities. Earth remains in the "Slowness" zone, where nothing can travel faster than light and minds are fairly limited. The action of the book is in the "Beyond," where translight travel and other marvels exist, and humans are one of many intelligent species. One human colony has been experimenting with ancient technology in order to find a path to the "Transcend," where intelligence and power are so great as to seem godlike. Instead they release the Blight, an evil power, from a billion-year captivity. As the Blight begins to spread, a few humans flee with a secret that might destroy it, but they are stranded in a primitive low-tech world barely in the Beyond. While the Blight destroys whole races and star systems, a team of two humans and two aliens races to rescue the others, pursued by the Blight''s agents and other enemies. With uninterrupted pacing, suspense without contrivance, and deftly drawn aliens who can be pleasantly comical without becoming cute, Vinge offers heart-pounding, mind-expanding science fiction at its best.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/326'),
(17634, 'A Fire Upon the Deep', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this Hugo-winning 1991 SF novel, Vernor Vinge gives us a wild new cosmology, a galaxy-spanning "Net of a Million Lies," some finely imagined aliens, and much nail-biting suspense.\n</p>\n<p>\n Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy''s Slow Zone--but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unguessable, godlike "Powers." When human meddling wakes an old Power, the Blight, this spreads like a wildfire mind virus that turns whole civilizations into its unthinking tools. And the half-mythical Countermeasure, if it exists, is lost with two human children on primitive Tines World.\n</p>\n<p>\n Serious complications follow. One paranoid alien alliance blames humanity for the Blight and launches a genocidal strike. Pham Nuwen, the man who knows about Countermeasure, escapes this ruin in the spacecraft\n <em>\n  Out of Band\n </em>\n --heading for more violence and treachery, with 500 warships soon in hot pursuit. On his destination world, the fascinating Tines are intelligent only in combination: named "individuals" are small packs of the doglike aliens. Primitive doesn''t mean stupid, and opposed Tine leaders wheedle the young castaways for information about guns and radios. Low-tech war looms, with elaborately nested betrayals and schemes to seize\n <em>\n  Out of Band\n </em>\n if it ever arrives. The tension becomes extreme... while half the Beyond debates the issues on galactic Usenet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vinge''s climax is suitably mindboggling. This epic combines the flash and dazzle of old-style space opera with modern, polished thoughtfulness. Pham Nuwen also appears in the nifty prequel set 30,000 years earlier, __. Both recommended.\n <em>\n  --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It has been six years since Vinge''s last book ( Marooned in Realtime ), but the wait proves worthwhile in this stimulating tale filled with ideas, action and likable, believable characters, both alien and human. Vinge presents a galaxy divided into Zones--regions where different physical constraints allow very different technological and mental possibilities. Earth remains in the "Slowness" zone, where nothing can travel faster than light and minds are fairly limited. The action of the book is in the "Beyond," where translight travel and other marvels exist, and humans are one of many intelligent species. One human colony has been experimenting with ancient technology in order to find a path to the "Transcend," where intelligence and power are so great as to seem godlike. Instead they release the Blight, an evil power, from a billion-year captivity. As the Blight begins to spread, a few humans flee with a secret that might destroy it, but they are stranded in a primitive low-tech world barely in the Beyond. While the Blight destroys whole races and star systems, a team of two humans and two aliens races to rescue the others, pursued by the Blight''s agents and other enemies. With uninterrupted pacing, suspense without contrivance, and deftly drawn aliens who can be pleasantly comical without becoming cute, Vinge offers heart-pounding, mind-expanding science fiction at its best.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13202'),
(17635, 'A Fire Upon the Deep', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this Hugo-winning 1991 SF novel, Vernor Vinge gives us a wild new cosmology, a galaxy-spanning "Net of a Million Lies," some finely imagined aliens, and much nail-biting suspense.\n</p>\n<p>\n Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy''s Slow Zone--but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unguessable, godlike "Powers." When human meddling wakes an old Power, the Blight, this spreads like a wildfire mind virus that turns whole civilizations into its unthinking tools. And the half-mythical Countermeasure, if it exists, is lost with two human children on primitive Tines World.\n</p>\n<p>\n Serious complications follow. One paranoid alien alliance blames humanity for the Blight and launches a genocidal strike. Pham Nuwen, the man who knows about Countermeasure, escapes this ruin in the spacecraft\n <em>\n  Out of Band\n </em>\n --heading for more violence and treachery, with 500 warships soon in hot pursuit. On his destination world, the fascinating Tines are intelligent only in combination: named "individuals" are small packs of the doglike aliens. Primitive doesn''t mean stupid, and opposed Tine leaders wheedle the young castaways for information about guns and radios. Low-tech war looms, with elaborately nested betrayals and schemes to seize\n <em>\n  Out of Band\n </em>\n if it ever arrives. The tension becomes extreme... while half the Beyond debates the issues on galactic Usenet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vinge''s climax is suitably mindboggling. This epic combines the flash and dazzle of old-style space opera with modern, polished thoughtfulness. Pham Nuwen also appears in the nifty prequel set 30,000 years earlier, __. Both recommended.\n <em>\n  --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It has been six years since Vinge''s last book ( Marooned in Realtime ), but the wait proves worthwhile in this stimulating tale filled with ideas, action and likable, believable characters, both alien and human. Vinge presents a galaxy divided into Zones--regions where different physical constraints allow very different technological and mental possibilities. Earth remains in the "Slowness" zone, where nothing can travel faster than light and minds are fairly limited. The action of the book is in the "Beyond," where translight travel and other marvels exist, and humans are one of many intelligent species. One human colony has been experimenting with ancient technology in order to find a path to the "Transcend," where intelligence and power are so great as to seem godlike. Instead they release the Blight, an evil power, from a billion-year captivity. As the Blight begins to spread, a few humans flee with a secret that might destroy it, but they are stranded in a primitive low-tech world barely in the Beyond. While the Blight destroys whole races and star systems, a team of two humans and two aliens races to rescue the others, pursued by the Blight''s agents and other enemies. With uninterrupted pacing, suspense without contrivance, and deftly drawn aliens who can be pleasantly comical without becoming cute, Vinge offers heart-pounding, mind-expanding science fiction at its best.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13895'),
(17636, 'A Fire Upon the Deep', 'Vernor Vinge', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this Hugo-winning 1991 SF novel, Vernor Vinge gives us a wild new cosmology, a galaxy-spanning "Net of a Million Lies," some finely imagined aliens, and much nail-biting suspense.\n</p>\n<p>\n Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy''s Slow Zone--but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unguessable, godlike "Powers." When human meddling wakes an old Power, the Blight, this spreads like a wildfire mind virus that turns whole civilizations into its unthinking tools. And the half-mythical Countermeasure, if it exists, is lost with two human children on primitive Tines World.\n</p>\n<p>\n Serious complications follow. One paranoid alien alliance blames humanity for the Blight and launches a genocidal strike. Pham Nuwen, the man who knows about Countermeasure, escapes this ruin in the spacecraft\n <em>\n  Out of Band\n </em>\n --heading for more violence and treachery, with 500 warships soon in hot pursuit. On his destination world, the fascinating Tines are intelligent only in combination: named "individuals" are small packs of the doglike aliens. Primitive doesn''t mean stupid, and opposed Tine leaders wheedle the young castaways for information about guns and radios. Low-tech war looms, with elaborately nested betrayals and schemes to seize\n <em>\n  Out of Band\n </em>\n if it ever arrives. The tension becomes extreme... while half the Beyond debates the issues on galactic Usenet.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vinge''s climax is suitably mindboggling. This epic combines the flash and dazzle of old-style space opera with modern, polished thoughtfulness. Pham Nuwen also appears in the nifty prequel set 30,000 years earlier, __. Both recommended.\n <em>\n  --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It has been six years since Vinge''s last book ( Marooned in Realtime ), but the wait proves worthwhile in this stimulating tale filled with ideas, action and likable, believable characters, both alien and human. Vinge presents a galaxy divided into Zones--regions where different physical constraints allow very different technological and mental possibilities. Earth remains in the "Slowness" zone, where nothing can travel faster than light and minds are fairly limited. The action of the book is in the "Beyond," where translight travel and other marvels exist, and humans are one of many intelligent species. One human colony has been experimenting with ancient technology in order to find a path to the "Transcend," where intelligence and power are so great as to seem godlike. Instead they release the Blight, an evil power, from a billion-year captivity. As the Blight begins to spread, a few humans flee with a secret that might destroy it, but they are stranded in a primitive low-tech world barely in the Beyond. While the Blight destroys whole races and star systems, a team of two humans and two aliens races to rescue the others, pursued by the Blight''s agents and other enemies. With uninterrupted pacing, suspense without contrivance, and deftly drawn aliens who can be pleasantly comical without becoming cute, Vinge offers heart-pounding, mind-expanding science fiction at its best.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24544'),
(17637, 'Fire Watch', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Winner of six Nebula and five Hugo awards, Connie Willis is one of the most acclaimed and imaginative authors of our time.Â Â Her startling and powerful works have redefined the boundaries of contemporary science fiction.Â Â Here in one volume are twelve of her greatest stories, including double award-winner "Fire Watch," set in the universe of Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, in which a time-traveling student learns one of history''s hardest lessons.Â Â In "A Letter from the Clearys," a routine message from distant friends shatters the fragile world of a beleaguered family.Â Â In "The Sidon in the Mirror," a mutant with the unconscious urge to become other people finds himself becoming both killer and victim.Â Â Disturbing, revealing, and provocative, this remarkable collection of short fiction brings together some of the best work of an incomparable writer whose ability to amaze, confound, and enlighten never fails.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6625'),
(17638, 'Fire Watch', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Winner of six Nebula and five Hugo awards, Connie Willis is one of the most acclaimed and imaginative authors of our time.Â Â Her startling and powerful works have redefined the boundaries of contemporary science fiction.Â Â Here in one volume are twelve of her greatest stories, including double award-winner "Fire Watch," set in the universe of Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, in which a time-traveling student learns one of history''s hardest lessons.Â Â In "A Letter from the Clearys," a routine message from distant friends shatters the fragile world of a beleaguered family.Â Â In "The Sidon in the Mirror," a mutant with the unconscious urge to become other people finds himself becoming both killer and victim.Â Â Disturbing, revealing, and provocative, this remarkable collection of short fiction brings together some of the best work of an incomparable writer whose ability to amaze, confound, and enlighten never fails.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13361'),
(17639, 'Fire Watch', 'Connie Willis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Winner of six Nebula and five Hugo awards, Connie Willis is one of the most acclaimed and imaginative authors of our time.Â Â Her startling and powerful works have redefined the boundaries of contemporary science fiction.Â Â Here in one volume are twelve of her greatest stories, including double award-winner "Fire Watch," set in the universe of Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, in which a time-traveling student learns one of history''s hardest lessons.Â Â In "A Letter from the Clearys," a routine message from distant friends shatters the fragile world of a beleaguered family.Â Â In "The Sidon in the Mirror," a mutant with the unconscious urge to become other people finds himself becoming both killer and victim.Â Â Disturbing, revealing, and provocative, this remarkable collection of short fiction brings together some of the best work of an incomparable writer whose ability to amaze, confound, and enlighten never fails.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17463'),
(17640, 'Fire Your Boss', 'Stephen M. Pollan &amp; Mark Levine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This stimulating, iconoclastic career-development primer is a rare example of the self-help/motivational genre with a difference. Life coach Pollan and his collaborator Levine, authors of the contrarian retirement planning guide Die Broke, donâ€™t mean the title literally; itâ€™s just a metaphor for taking control of your work life, one that rejects all the high-minded shibboleths of traditional business motivation. They argue that companies are "amoral legal constructs" that care nothing for their workers. Bosses are dictators rather than mentors or servant-leaders. Jobs canâ€™t provide psychological or spiritual fulfillment; people should get those things from their lives away from workâ€”where they should spend as little time as possible. The authors elaborate these insights into a refreshingly cynical take on workplace issues. Success doesnâ€™t depend on doing a good job, they say, but on soothing and flattering the boss. Workers shouldnâ€™t wallow in unrequited loyalty to the company, but ought to be constantly "fishing" for better jobs. Other rules: rely on personal ties, because landing a job is a matter of "who you know, not what you know"; donâ€™t personalize your cubicle, because that might encourage you to spend more time at work; above all, donâ€™t try to follow your heart or make a difference in your career: "the job of your dreams is the one that pays the most money." The authors provide lots of shrewd tips on job hunting, negotiating, manipulation and brown-nosing, but their book transcends the merely pragmatic. Their call to "end this destructive pursuit of meaningful work" mounts a subversive challenge to the idea of the calling, and thus to the Protestant work ethic at the very core of the motivational worldview.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fire Your Boss\n <br />\n And Hire Yourself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Impossible? Not according to nationally bestselling author Stephen M. Pollan. As he says in this new and empowering book, "You don''t have to accept your current work situation. You can be in control of your job and your stream of income, so you''re never again subject to the whims, prejudices, moods, or circumstances of your so-called boss."\n</p>\n<p>\n In today''s difficult work environment, gone are the days of finding satisfaction through your job, gone is the time when your job was secure, and gone are the days when your employer cared about you. This new environment requires new rules, and Pollan has provided surprisingly fresh and intriguing methods for finding "success" on the job.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pollan''s bold and unique message begins with the idea that you must "fire your boss." By this he means you can no longer rely on your manager or your company for economic security. Instead, you must put yourself in charge of your working life. In this thought-provoking and counterintuitive career guide, Pollan presents a seven-step program and a series of exercises that give you the confidence, power, and will to achieve the life of your dreams.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once you have changed your mind-set and learned the new rules of the game, you can start the process of moving to a richer, more enriching, and more enjoyable life. And the best part about it? Your boss will love you for it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1048');
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(17641, 'Fire Your Boss', 'Stephen M. Pollan &amp; Mark Levine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This stimulating, iconoclastic career-development primer is a rare example of the self-help/motivational genre with a difference. Life coach Pollan and his collaborator Levine, authors of the contrarian retirement planning guide Die Broke, donâ€™t mean the title literally; itâ€™s just a metaphor for taking control of your work life, one that rejects all the high-minded shibboleths of traditional business motivation. They argue that companies are "amoral legal constructs" that care nothing for their workers. Bosses are dictators rather than mentors or servant-leaders. Jobs canâ€™t provide psychological or spiritual fulfillment; people should get those things from their lives away from workâ€”where they should spend as little time as possible. The authors elaborate these insights into a refreshingly cynical take on workplace issues. Success doesnâ€™t depend on doing a good job, they say, but on soothing and flattering the boss. Workers shouldnâ€™t wallow in unrequited loyalty to the company, but ought to be constantly "fishing" for better jobs. Other rules: rely on personal ties, because landing a job is a matter of "who you know, not what you know"; donâ€™t personalize your cubicle, because that might encourage you to spend more time at work; above all, donâ€™t try to follow your heart or make a difference in your career: "the job of your dreams is the one that pays the most money." The authors provide lots of shrewd tips on job hunting, negotiating, manipulation and brown-nosing, but their book transcends the merely pragmatic. Their call to "end this destructive pursuit of meaningful work" mounts a subversive challenge to the idea of the calling, and thus to the Protestant work ethic at the very core of the motivational worldview.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fire Your Boss\n <br />\n And Hire Yourself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Impossible? Not according to nationally bestselling author Stephen M. Pollan. As he says in this new and empowering book, "You don''t have to accept your current work situation. You can be in control of your job and your stream of income, so you''re never again subject to the whims, prejudices, moods, or circumstances of your so-called boss."\n</p>\n<p>\n In today''s difficult work environment, gone are the days of finding satisfaction through your job, gone is the time when your job was secure, and gone are the days when your employer cared about you. This new environment requires new rules, and Pollan has provided surprisingly fresh and intriguing methods for finding "success" on the job.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pollan''s bold and unique message begins with the idea that you must "fire your boss." By this he means you can no longer rely on your manager or your company for economic security. Instead, you must put yourself in charge of your working life. In this thought-provoking and counterintuitive career guide, Pollan presents a seven-step program and a series of exercises that give you the confidence, power, and will to achieve the life of your dreams.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once you have changed your mind-set and learned the new rules of the game, you can start the process of moving to a richer, more enriching, and more enjoyable life. And the best part about it? Your boss will love you for it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11979'),
(17642, 'Fire Your Boss', 'Stephen M. Pollan; Mark Levine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This stimulating, iconoclastic career-development primer is a rare example of the self-help/motivational genre with a difference. Life coach Pollan and his collaborator Levine, authors of the contrarian retirement planning guide Die Broke, donâ€™t mean the title literally; itâ€™s just a metaphor for taking control of your work life, one that rejects all the high-minded shibboleths of traditional business motivation. They argue that companies are "amoral legal constructs" that care nothing for their workers. Bosses are dictators rather than mentors or servant-leaders. Jobs canâ€™t provide psychological or spiritual fulfillment; people should get those things from their lives away from workâ€”where they should spend as little time as possible. The authors elaborate these insights into a refreshingly cynical take on workplace issues. Success doesnâ€™t depend on doing a good job, they say, but on soothing and flattering the boss. Workers shouldnâ€™t wallow in unrequited loyalty to the company, but ought to be constantly "fishing" for better jobs. Other rules: rely on personal ties, because landing a job is a matter of "who you know, not what you know"; donâ€™t personalize your cubicle, because that might encourage you to spend more time at work; above all, donâ€™t try to follow your heart or make a difference in your career: "the job of your dreams is the one that pays the most money." The authors provide lots of shrewd tips on job hunting, negotiating, manipulation and brown-nosing, but their book transcends the merely pragmatic. Their call to "end this destructive pursuit of meaningful work" mounts a subversive challenge to the idea of the calling, and thus to the Protestant work ethic at the very core of the motivational worldview.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fire Your Boss\n <br />\n And Hire Yourself.\n</p>\n<p>\n Impossible? Not according to nationally bestselling author Stephen M. Pollan. As he says in this new and empowering book, "You don''t have to accept your current work situation. You can be in control of your job and your stream of income, so you''re never again subject to the whims, prejudices, moods, or circumstances of your so-called boss."\n</p>\n<p>\n In today''s difficult work environment, gone are the days of finding satisfaction through your job, gone is the time when your job was secure, and gone are the days when your employer cared about you. This new environment requires new rules, and Pollan has provided surprisingly fresh and intriguing methods for finding "success" on the job.\n</p>\n<p>\n Pollan''s bold and unique message begins with the idea that you must "fire your boss." By this he means you can no longer rely on your manager or your company for economic security. Instead, you must put yourself in charge of your working life. In this thought-provoking and counterintuitive career guide, Pollan presents a seven-step program and a series of exercises that give you the confidence, power, and will to achieve the life of your dreams.\n</p>\n<p>\n Once you have changed your mind-set and learned the new rules of the game, you can start the process of moving to a richer, more enriching, and more enjoyable life. And the best part about it? Your boss will love you for it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23843'),
(17643, 'Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits', 'Robin McKinley &amp; Peter Dickinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Master storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson, the team behind Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, collaborate again to create five captivating tales incorporating the element of fire. In McKinleyâ€™s â€œFirst Flight,â€ a boy and his pet foogit unexpectedly take a dangerous ride on a dragon, and her â€œHellhoundâ€ stars a mysterious dog as a key player in an eerie graveyard showdown. Dickinson introduces a young man who must defeat the creature threatening his clan in â€œFireworm,â€ a slave who saves his village with a fiery magic spell in â€œSalamander Man,â€ and a girl whose new friend, the guardian of a mystical bird, is much older than he appears in â€œPhoenix.â€ With time periods ranging from prehistoric to present day, and settings as varied as a graveyard, a medieval marketplace and a dragon academy, these stories are sure to intrigue and delight the authorsâ€™ longtime fans and newcomers alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11039'),
(17644, 'Firefight', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15400'),
(17645, 'Fireflies', 'David Morrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the bestselling novels of suspense master David Morrell, fear is the main subject. But Morrell himself had never known genuine terror until he watched his 15-year-old son wage a heroic but doomed struggle with cancer. This is one fathers powerful and unforgettable story of fierce love, impenetrable loss, and an unexpected, breathtaking encounter with the miraculous. Ultimately, Fireflies is a tribute to the undying human spirit that has already given new hope to enthralled and grateful readers around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6234'),
(17646, 'Fireflies', 'David Morrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the bestselling novels of suspense master David Morrell, fear is the main subject. But Morrell himself had never known genuine terror until he watched his 15-year-old son wage a heroic but doomed struggle with cancer. This is one fathers powerful and unforgettable story of fierce love, impenetrable loss, and an unexpected, breathtaking encounter with the miraculous. Ultimately, Fireflies is a tribute to the undying human spirit that has already given new hope to enthralled and grateful readers around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11547'),
(17647, 'Fireflies', 'David Morrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the bestselling novels of suspense master David Morrell, fear is the main subject. But Morrell himself had never known genuine terror until he watched his 15-year-old son wage a heroic but doomed struggle with cancer. This is one fathers powerful and unforgettable story of fierce love, impenetrable loss, and an unexpected, breathtaking encounter with the miraculous. Ultimately, Fireflies is a tribute to the undying human spirit that has already given new hope to enthralled and grateful readers around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17757'),
(17648, 'Fireflies', 'David Morrell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the bestselling novels of suspense master David Morrell, fear is the main subject. But Morrell himself had never known genuine terror until he watched his 15-year-old son wage a heroic but doomed struggle with cancer. This is one fathers powerful and unforgettable story of fierce love, impenetrable loss, and an unexpected, breathtaking encounter with the miraculous. Ultimately, Fireflies is a tribute to the undying human spirit that has already given new hope to enthralled and grateful readers around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27356'),
(17649, 'Fireflies in December', 'Jennifer Erin Valent', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jessilyn Lassiter never knew that hatred could lurk in the human heart until the summer of 1932 when she turned 13. When her best friend, Gemma, loses her parents in a tragic fire, Jessilyn''s father vows to care for her as one of his own, despite the fact that Gemma is black and prejudice is prevalent in their southern Virginia town. Violence springs up as a ragtag band of Ku Klux Klan members unite and decide to take matters into their own hands. As tensions mount in the small community, loyalties are tested and Jessilyn is forced to say good-bye to the carefree days of her youth. *Fireflies in December* is the 2007 winner of the Christian Writers Guild''s Operation First Novel contest, and a 2010 Christy Award winner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4492'),
(17650, 'Fireflies in December', 'Jennifer Erin Valent', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jessilyn Lassiter never knew that hatred could lurk in the human heart until the summer of 1932 when she turned 13. When her best friend, Gemma, loses her parents in a tragic fire, Jessilyn''s father vows to care for her as one of his own, despite the fact that Gemma is black and prejudice is prevalent in their southern Virginia town. Violence springs up as a ragtag band of Ku Klux Klan members unite and decide to take matters into their own hands. As tensions mount in the small community, loyalties are tested and Jessilyn is forced to say good-bye to the carefree days of her youth. *Fireflies in December* is the 2007 winner of the Christian Writers Guild''s Operation First Novel contest, and a 2010 Christy Award winner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13169'),
(17651, 'Firefly', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Using the same Florida setting as his horror novel Shade of the Tree , Anthony here conjures up a nightmarish creature who stalks humans through sexual attraction and leaves them grotesquely sucked dry of their protoplasm. When bodies reduced to skin and skeleton are found on a remote wildlife sanctuary, the reclusive owner of the estate refuses to call in outside help to track down the killer. His employees are left to fend for themselves against the menace of a predator who lures them in the way a firefly traps its prey--by emitting pheromones, powerfully sexual chemicals--and uses digestive acids to dissolve the bodies of its victims. Speculating about the power of an alien monster to decimate the human race, Anthony devotes much of the narrative to plumbing his characters'' past experiences, many of them couched in allegorical terms, and examining the differences between love and sex, with emphasis on sexual abuse. Absorbed in working out his theme, Anthony unfortunately overlooks flawed logic and plot inconsistencies. While some readers may find his ideas intriguing, many will be put off by a narrative that verges on the pornographic.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A mysterious monster stalks a private wildlife preserve, leaving behind only the skin and bones of its victims--and an overpowering pheromonic residue. The author of a multitude of fantasy and sf series and single novels tries his hand at horror with mixed results, producing an unfortunate trivialization of the problems that beset the novel''s protagonists. Despite Anthony''s strong imagination and affection for his characters, this is not recommended.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2008'),
(17652, 'Firefly', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Using the same Florida setting as his horror novel Shade of the Tree , Anthony here conjures up a nightmarish creature who stalks humans through sexual attraction and leaves them grotesquely sucked dry of their protoplasm. When bodies reduced to skin and skeleton are found on a remote wildlife sanctuary, the reclusive owner of the estate refuses to call in outside help to track down the killer. His employees are left to fend for themselves against the menace of a predator who lures them in the way a firefly traps its prey--by emitting pheromones, powerfully sexual chemicals--and uses digestive acids to dissolve the bodies of its victims. Speculating about the power of an alien monster to decimate the human race, Anthony devotes much of the narrative to plumbing his characters'' past experiences, many of them couched in allegorical terms, and examining the differences between love and sex, with emphasis on sexual abuse. Absorbed in working out his theme, Anthony unfortunately overlooks flawed logic and plot inconsistencies. While some readers may find his ideas intriguing, many will be put off by a narrative that verges on the pornographic.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A mysterious monster stalks a private wildlife preserve, leaving behind only the skin and bones of its victims--and an overpowering pheromonic residue. The author of a multitude of fantasy and sf series and single novels tries his hand at horror with mixed results, producing an unfortunate trivialization of the problems that beset the novel''s protagonists. Despite Anthony''s strong imagination and affection for his characters, this is not recommended.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22707'),
(17653, 'Firehand', 'Andre Norton - Time Traders 5 - Firehand (v1.1)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15860'),
(17654, 'Fires of Azeroth', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There was a star Gate in Azeroth marked by alien fires that Morgaine must seal. But Morgaine and Vanye have brought devastation to the peaceful land. For the hordes of Shiuan were on their heels, determined to conquer a new land for themselves and to avenge their lost planet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15527'),
(17655, 'The Fires of Heaven', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan again plunges us into his extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world:. ... Into the forbidden city of Rhuidean, where Rand al''Thor, now the Dragon Reborn, must conceal his present endeavor from all about him, even Egwene and Moiraine. ... Into the Amyrlin''s study in the White Tower, where the Amyrlin, Flaida do Avriny a''Roihan, is weaving new plans. ... Into Andor, where Siuan Sanche and her companions, including the false Dragon Logain, have been arrested for barn-burning. ... Into the luxurious hidden chamber where the Forsaken Rahvin is meeting with three of his fellows to ensure their ultimate victory over the Dragon. ... Into the Queen''s court in Caemlyn, where Morgase is curiously in thrall to the handsome Lord Gaebril. For once the Dragon walks the land, the fires of heaven fall where they will, until all men''s lives are ablaze. And in Shayol Ghul, the Dark One stirs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1626'),
(17656, 'The Fires of Heaven', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan again plunges us into his extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world:. ... Into the forbidden city of Rhuidean, where Rand al''Thor, now the Dragon Reborn, must conceal his present endeavor from all about him, even Egwene and Moiraine. ... Into the Amyrlin''s study in the White Tower, where the Amyrlin, Flaida do Avriny a''Roihan, is weaving new plans. ... Into Andor, where Siuan Sanche and her companions, including the false Dragon Logain, have been arrested for barn-burning. ... Into the luxurious hidden chamber where the Forsaken Rahvin is meeting with three of his fellows to ensure their ultimate victory over the Dragon. ... Into the Queen''s court in Caemlyn, where Morgase is curiously in thrall to the handsome Lord Gaebril. For once the Dragon walks the land, the fires of heaven fall where they will, until all men''s lives are ablaze. And in Shayol Ghul, the Dark One stirs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10611'),
(17657, 'The fires of heaven', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan again plunges us into his extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world:. ... Into the forbidden city of Rhuidean, where Rand al''Thor, now the Dragon Reborn, must conceal his present endeavor from all about him, even Egwene and Moiraine. ... Into the Amyrlin''s study in the White Tower, where the Amyrlin, Flaida do Avriny a''Roihan, is weaving new plans. ... Into Andor, where Siuan Sanche and her companions, including the false Dragon Logain, have been arrested for barn-burning. ... Into the luxurious hidden chamber where the Forsaken Rahvin is meeting with three of his fellows to ensure their ultimate victory over the Dragon. ... Into the Queen''s court in Caemlyn, where Morgase is curiously in thrall to the handsome Lord Gaebril. For once the Dragon walks the land, the fires of heaven fall where they will, until all men''s lives are ablaze. And in Shayol Ghul, the Dark One stirs.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23241'),
(17658, 'Fires of Prophecy: Book Two of the Morcyth Saga', 'Brian Pratt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Trapped within the City of Light when it fell to the Empire, James young friend and companion Miko had been captured by the Empires forces and is now being taken as a slave into the Empire. The last thing hed told Miko before they were separated was: Ill find you. Now James, with the help of some new found allies, travels into the Empire to rescue his friend. Acting as a caravan merchant from Cardri, he goes from city to city in his attempt to find his friend. From the City of Light, to the slave markets of Korazan, even unto the Empires capital itself, James continues in his search for his friend Miko, unwilling to leave him to his fate. In this exciting second book of the epic fantasy series,The Morcyth Saga, Brian S. Pratt has continued to give us the heart pounding action that his readers so much enjoyed in the first novel. For more aboutThe Morcyth Saga, go to:morcythsaga.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7122'),
(17659, 'Fires of Prophecy: Book Two of the Morcyth Saga', 'Brian Pratt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Trapped within the City of Light when it fell to the Empire, James young friend and companion Miko had been captured by the Empires forces and is now being taken as a slave into the Empire. The last thing hed told Miko before they were separated was: Ill find you. Now James, with the help of some new found allies, travels into the Empire to rescue his friend. Acting as a caravan merchant from Cardri, he goes from city to city in his attempt to find his friend. From the City of Light, to the slave markets of Korazan, even unto the Empires capital itself, James continues in his search for his friend Miko, unwilling to leave him to his fate. In this exciting second book of the epic fantasy series,The Morcyth Saga, Brian S. Pratt has continued to give us the heart pounding action that his readers so much enjoyed in the first novel. For more aboutThe Morcyth Saga, go to:morcythsaga.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12059'),
(17660, 'Fires of Prophecy: Book Two of the Morcyth Saga', 'Brian Pratt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Trapped within the City of Light when it fell to the Empire, James young friend and companion Miko had been captured by the Empires forces and is now being taken as a slave into the Empire. The last thing hed told Miko before they were separated was: Ill find you. Now James, with the help of some new found allies, travels into the Empire to rescue his friend. Acting as a caravan merchant from Cardri, he goes from city to city in his attempt to find his friend. From the City of Light, to the slave markets of Korazan, even unto the Empires capital itself, James continues in his search for his friend Miko, unwilling to leave him to his fate. In this exciting second book of the epic fantasy series,The Morcyth Saga, Brian S. Pratt has continued to give us the heart pounding action that his readers so much enjoyed in the first novel. For more aboutThe Morcyth Saga, go to:morcythsaga.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16802'),
(17661, 'Firestarter', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n FIRESTARTER is the mesmerising and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift. The power of pyrokinesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1100'),
(17662, 'Firestarter', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n FIRESTARTER is the mesmerising and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift. The power of pyrokinesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10810'),
(17663, 'Firestarter', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FIRESTARTER is the mesmerising and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift. The power of pyrokinesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14325'),
(17664, 'Firestarter', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FIRESTARTER is the mesmerising and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift. The power of pyrokinesis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23824'),
(17665, 'Firestorm', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Combat vets David Sherman and Dan Cragg know firsthand the courage, sacrifice, and hell of warâ€“and their experiences have made the popular Starfist novels thrill rides of the highest order. Now the explosive action continues on the remote planet Ravenette, where the Marines of the Confederationâ€™s 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) find themselves up against a full-fledged rebellionâ€“and a lethally loose cannon of a commanding officer. Desperate to thwart unrelenting aliens and their quest to obliterate humankind, The Confederation has beefed up its defenses. But to the citizens on the outer edges of Human Space around Ravenetteâ€“unaware that a deadly enemy even existsâ€“the governmentâ€™s move seems oppressive, and ten planets have responded with a war of secession.In touch-and-go battles with the seceding planets, the 34th FIST has emerged battered but unbowed, refusing to give up . . . even while under the command of a fanatical general. The enemy determined to strike, a new mission must be carried out, though the troops will likely return in body bags.Should Ensign Charlie Bass and his Marines somehow survive the nightmarishly difficult amphibious landing, they can expect to be outmanned, outgunned, and out-armored in a fierce duel against fresh soldiers. But like any Marine worth his salt, Bass knows thereâ€™s only one way to go when facing impossible odds: on the offense with all guns firing. Thereâ€™s no other choiceâ€“because if life was easy, thereâ€™d be no need to send in the Marines.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17259'),
(17666, 'Firestorm', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Combat vets David Sherman and Dan Cragg know firsthand the courage, sacrifice, and hell of warâ€“and their experiences have made the popular Starfist novels thrill rides of the highest order. Now the explosive action continues on the remote planet Ravenette, where the Marines of the Confederationâ€™s 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) find themselves up against a full-fledged rebellionâ€“and a lethally loose cannon of a commanding officer. Desperate to thwart unrelenting aliens and their quest to obliterate humankind, The Confederation has beefed up its defenses. But to the citizens on the outer edges of Human Space around Ravenetteâ€“unaware that a deadly enemy even existsâ€“the governmentâ€™s move seems oppressive, and ten planets have responded with a war of secession.In touch-and-go battles with the seceding planets, the 34th FIST has emerged battered but unbowed, refusing to give up . . . even while under the command of a fanatical general. The enemy determined to strike, a new mission must be carried out, though the troops will likely return in body bags.Should Ensign Charlie Bass and his Marines somehow survive the nightmarishly difficult amphibious landing, they can expect to be outmanned, outgunned, and out-armored in a fierce duel against fresh soldiers. But like any Marine worth his salt, Bass knows thereâ€™s only one way to go when facing impossible odds: on the offense with all guns firing. Thereâ€™s no other choiceâ€“because if life was easy, thereâ€™d be no need to send in the Marines.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27323'),
(17667, 'Firewall', 'Henning Mankell &amp; Ebba Segerberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective. The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police''s next move. Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them In their gripping police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitalised world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5150'),
(17668, 'Firewall', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Helsinki, December 1999. Nick Stone, Ex-Sas, Now A K Working For British Intelligence On Deniable Operations, Is Tough, Resourceful, Ruthless, Highly Trained And Desperately In Need Of Cash...Offered The Lucrative Freelance Job Of Kidnapping A Mafia Warlord And Delivering Him To St Petersburg, It Seems To Stone That His Problems Are Over. In Fact, They Are Only Just Beginning.Stone Enters The Bleak Underworld Of The Former Soviet Republic Of Estonia, Where Unknown Aggressors Stalk The Bitter Landscape, And He Soon Finds Himself Caught Between Implacable Enemies. For Russia Has Embarked Upon A Concerted Cyber-Espionage Offensive, Hacking Into Some Of The West S Most Sensitive Military Secrets. American And British Intelligence Agencies Are Determined To Thwart Them. And The Mafia Are Waiting In The Wings With Their Own Chillingly Brutal Solution...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7985'),
(17669, 'Firewall', 'Henning Mankell &amp; Ebba Segerberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective. The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police''s next move. Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them In their gripping police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitalised world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11228'),
(17670, 'Firewall', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Helsinki, December 1999. Nick Stone, Ex-Sas, Now A K Working For British Intelligence On Deniable Operations, Is Tough, Resourceful, Ruthless, Highly Trained And Desperately In Need Of Cash...Offered The Lucrative Freelance Job Of Kidnapping A Mafia Warlord And Delivering Him To St Petersburg, It Seems To Stone That His Problems Are Over. In Fact, They Are Only Just Beginning.Stone Enters The Bleak Underworld Of The Former Soviet Republic Of Estonia, Where Unknown Aggressors Stalk The Bitter Landscape, And He Soon Finds Himself Caught Between Implacable Enemies. For Russia Has Embarked Upon A Concerted Cyber-Espionage Offensive, Hacking Into Some Of The West S Most Sensitive Military Secrets. American And British Intelligence Agencies Are Determined To Thwart Them. And The Mafia Are Waiting In The Wings With Their Own Chillingly Brutal Solution...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15979'),
(17671, 'Firewall', 'Henning Mankell; Ebba Segerberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective. The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police''s next move. Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them In their gripping police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitalised world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19459'),
(17672, 'Firewall', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Helsinki, December 1999. Nick Stone, Ex-Sas, Now A K Working For British Intelligence On Deniable Operations, Is Tough, Resourceful, Ruthless, Highly Trained And Desperately In Need Of Cash...Offered The Lucrative Freelance Job Of Kidnapping A Mafia Warlord And Delivering Him To St Petersburg, It Seems To Stone That His Problems Are Over. In Fact, They Are Only Just Beginning.Stone Enters The Bleak Underworld Of The Former Soviet Republic Of Estonia, Where Unknown Aggressors Stalk The Bitter Landscape, And He Soon Finds Himself Caught Between Implacable Enemies. For Russia Has Embarked Upon A Concerted Cyber-Espionage Offensive, Hacking Into Some Of The West S Most Sensitive Military Secrets. American And British Intelligence Agencies Are Determined To Thwart Them. And The Mafia Are Waiting In The Wings With Their Own Chillingly Brutal Solution...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26302'),
(17673, 'Firewall', 'Henning Mankell; Ebba Segerberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective. The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police''s next move. Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them In their gripping police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitalised world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28112'),
(17674, 'Firewall (1998)', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Not too long ago, Henning Mankell was a well-kept secret, but his latest book, Firewall, will be received by readers worldwide with much fanfare, which is as it should be; Mankell is something special. Some of the initial resistance to Mankell''s work might be understandable; like one of the greatest of all filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman, Mankell is from a country noted for Nordic gloom and the lazy-minded are not always prepared to go beyond stereotypes. Their loss: like his cinematic compatriot (Mankell is in fact married to Bergman''s daughter), this is an artist of rare achievement.\n <br />\n Firewall continues Mankell''s unvarnished portraits of modern life, in which society and all its institutions (not least the family) are on the edge. Here, his long-term protagonist, Inspector Kurt Wallander, moves into new area of crime: cyberspace. Various deaths have occurred: the user of a cash machine, a taxi driver killed by two young girls. The country is plunged into blackout by an electricity failure, and a grim find is made at a power station. What''s the connection? Wallander finds himself on the trail of cyber terrorists with shady anarchic aims. But can his own malfunctioning team of coppers pull together to help catch them--or is there a fifth columnist in the police? Plotting here is impeccable, although Firewall may not be a prime entry point for those new to Mankell. But Wallander (here worried about his diabetes and failure to lose weight) is one of the great literary coppers: enthusiasts need not hesitate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14286'),
(17675, 'Firewall (1998)', 'Henning Mankell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Not too long ago, Henning Mankell was a well-kept secret, but his latest book, Firewall, will be received by readers worldwide with much fanfare, which is as it should be; Mankell is something special. Some of the initial resistance to Mankell''s work might be understandable; like one of the greatest of all filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman, Mankell is from a country noted for Nordic gloom and the lazy-minded are not always prepared to go beyond stereotypes. Their loss: like his cinematic compatriot (Mankell is in fact married to Bergman''s daughter), this is an artist of rare achievement.\n <br />\n Firewall continues Mankell''s unvarnished portraits of modern life, in which society and all its institutions (not least the family) are on the edge. Here, his long-term protagonist, Inspector Kurt Wallander, moves into new area of crime: cyberspace. Various deaths have occurred: the user of a cash machine, a taxi driver killed by two young girls. The country is plunged into blackout by an electricity failure, and a grim find is made at a power station. What''s the connection? Wallander finds himself on the trail of cyber terrorists with shady anarchic aims. But can his own malfunctioning team of coppers pull together to help catch them--or is there a fifth columnist in the police? Plotting here is impeccable, although Firewall may not be a prime entry point for those new to Mankell. But Wallander (here worried about his diabetes and failure to lose weight) is one of the great literary coppers: enthusiasts need not hesitate.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28128'),
(17676, 'Firewalls for Dummies (ISBN', '0764540483)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15510'),
(17677, 'The Firm', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he hadÂ Â his choice of the best in America. He made a deadlyÂ Â mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on withÂ Â Bendini, Lambert &amp; Locke of Memphis, he thought heÂ Â and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way.Â Â The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his schoolÂ Â loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him aÂ Â decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what hisÂ Â brother Ray -- doing fifteen years in a TennesseeÂ Â jail -- already knew. You never get nothing forÂ Â nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch''sÂ Â firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between aÂ Â rock and a hard place, with no choice -- if heÂ Â wants to live.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4321'),
(17678, 'The Firm', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he hadÂ Â his choice of the best in America. He made a deadlyÂ Â mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on withÂ Â Bendini, Lambert &amp; Locke of Memphis, he thought heÂ Â and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way.Â Â The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his schoolÂ Â loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him aÂ Â decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what hisÂ Â brother Ray -- doing fifteen years in a TennesseeÂ Â jail -- already knew. You never get nothing forÂ Â nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch''sÂ Â firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between aÂ Â rock and a hard place, with no choice -- if heÂ Â wants to live.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10118'),
(17679, 'The Firm', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he hadÂ Â his choice of the best in America. He made a deadlyÂ Â mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on withÂ Â Bendini, Lambert &amp; Locke of Memphis, he thought heÂ Â and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way.Â Â The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his schoolÂ Â loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him aÂ Â decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what hisÂ Â brother Ray -- doing fifteen years in a TennesseeÂ Â jail -- already knew. You never get nothing forÂ Â nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch''sÂ Â firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between aÂ Â rock and a hard place, with no choice -- if heÂ Â wants to live.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15229'),
(17680, 'The Firm', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he hadÂ Â his choice of the best in America. He made a deadlyÂ Â mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on withÂ Â Bendini, Lambert &amp; Locke of Memphis, he thought heÂ Â and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way.Â Â The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his schoolÂ Â loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him aÂ Â decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what hisÂ Â brother Ray -- doing fifteen years in a TennesseeÂ Â jail -- already knew. You never get nothing forÂ Â nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch''sÂ Â firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between aÂ Â rock and a hard place, with no choice -- if heÂ Â wants to live.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21376'),
(17681, 'The First American', 'H.W. Brands', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14823'),
(17682, 'The First American', 'H.W. Brands', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19419'),
(17683, 'The First American', 'H.W. Brands', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28077'),
(17684, 'The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin', 'H.W. Brands', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  National Bestseller\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n He was the foremost American of his day, yet today he is little more than a mythic caricature in the public imagination. Benjamin Franklin, perhaps\n <em>\n  the\n </em>\n pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography.\n</p>\n<p>\n Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin was in every respect America''s first Renaissance man. From penniless runaway to highly successful printer, from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an alliance with France that ensured America''s independence, Franklin went from obscurity to become one of the world''s most admired figures, whose circle included the likes of Voltaire, Hume, Burke, and Kant. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and a host of other sources, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has written a thoroughly engaging biography of the eighteenth-century genius. A much needed reminder of Franklin''s greatness and humanity,\n <strong>\n  The First American\n </strong>\n _ _is a work of meticulous scholarship that provides a magnificent tour of a legendary historical figure, a vital era in American life, and the countless arenas in which the protean Franklin left his legacy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8120'),
(17685, 'First and Only', 'Dan Abnett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n IN THE CHAOS-INFESTED Sabbat\n <br />\n Worlds, Imperial Commissar Gaunt\n <br />\n must lead his men through as mich\n <br />\n in-fighting amongst rival regiments as\n <br />\n against the heretical forces of Chaos.\n <br />\n First and Only is an epic saga of\n <br />\n planetary conquest, grand ambition,\n <br />\n treachery and honour.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6608'),
(17686, 'First and Only', 'Dan Abnett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n IN THE CHAOS-INFESTED Sabbat\n <br />\n Worlds, Imperial Commissar Gaunt\n <br />\n must lead his men through as mich\n <br />\n in-fighting amongst rival regiments as\n <br />\n against the heretical forces of Chaos.\n <br />\n First and Only is an epic saga of\n <br />\n planetary conquest, grand ambition,\n <br />\n treachery and honour.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9366'),
(17687, 'First and Only', 'Dan Abnett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n IN THE CHAOS-INFESTED Sabbat\n <br />\n Worlds, Imperial Commissar Gaunt\n <br />\n must lead his men through as mich\n <br />\n in-fighting amongst rival regiments as\n <br />\n against the heretical forces of Chaos.\n <br />\n First and Only is an epic saga of\n <br />\n planetary conquest, grand ambition,\n <br />\n treachery and honour.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17534'),
(17688, 'First and Only', 'Dan Abnett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n IN THE CHAOS-INFESTED Sabbat\n <br />\n Worlds, Imperial Commissar Gaunt\n <br />\n must lead his men through as mich\n <br />\n in-fighting amongst rival regiments as\n <br />\n against the heretical forces of Chaos.\n <br />\n First and Only is an epic saga of\n <br />\n planetary conquest, grand ambition,\n <br />\n treachery and honour.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27206');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(17689, 'The First Battle', 'Otto J. Lehrack', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The First Battle is a graphic account of the first major clash of the Viet Nam War. On August 18, 1965, regiment fought regiment on the Van Tuong Peninsula near the new Marine base at Chu Lai. On the American side were three battalions of Marines under the command of Colonel Oscar Peatross, a hero of two previous wars. His opponent was the 1st Viet Cong Regiment commanded by Nguyen Dinh Trong, a veteran of many fights against the French and the South Vietnamese. Codenamed Operation Starlite, this action was a resounding success for the Marines and its result was cause for great optimism about America''s future in Viet Nam. Those expecting a book about Americans in battle will not be disappointed by the detailed descriptions of how the fight unfolded. Marine participants from private to colonel were interviewed during the book''s research phase. The battle is seen from the mud level, by those who were at the point of the spear. But this is not just another war story told exclusively from the American side. In researching the book, the author talked with and walked the battlefield with men who fought with the 1st Viet Cong Regiment. All were accomplished combat veterans years before the U.S. entry into the war. The reader is planted squarely in America in1965, the year that truly began the long American involvement. Operation Starlite sent the Viet Nam War into the headlines across the nation and into the minds of Americans, where it took up residence for more than a decade. Starlite was the first step in Viet Nam''s becoming America''s tar baby. The subtitle of the book is: Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Viet Nam. Blood debt, han tu in Vietnamese, can mean revenge, debt of honor, or blood owed for blood spilled. The Blood Debt came into Vietnamese usage early in the war with the United States. With this battle, the Johnson Administration began compiling its own Blood Debt, this one to the American people. The book also looks at the ongoing conflict between the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marines about the methodology of the Viet Nam War. With decades of experience with insurrection and rebellion, the Marines were institutionally oriented to base the struggle on pacification of the population. The Army, on the other hand, having largely trained to meet the Soviet Army on the plains of Germany, opted for search-and-destroy missions against Communist main force units. The history of the Viet Nam War is littered with many "what ifs." This may be the biggest of them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10946'),
(17690, 'The First Billion: A Novel', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Money makes the world go round for Jett Gavallon, a high-tech entrepreneur who''s on the brink of bringing a Russian telecom startup to market with an IPO worth billions. But when his best friend and second-in-command disappears after Gavallon sends him to Moscow to make sure the new company is on the up and up, Jett begins to have second thoughts, which are exactly what his Russian partners can''t afford. Beset by an FBI task force looking into Mercury Broadband''s financing by Russian mobsters, rumors of fraud being circulated by a Drudge-like online financial gossip columnist, and the discovery that his former lover is not who he thought she was, Jett puts his fortune on the line in a desperate attempt to save his company--and ultimately, his life. An exciting, fast-paced adventure by an author who puts his experience in international banking to work in the service of this carefully plotted thriller.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reich continues to struggle, trying to recapture his early success. After a rather intriguing setup, this third novel gradually evolves into something more like an unintentional parody than a real thriller. Following the altogether lackluster Allan Folsom-esque Nazi war crimes plot of The Runner, the Swiss banker-turned-thriller writer returns to the more familiar arena of international finance, which provided the intriguing backdrop of his 1998 bestselling debut, Numbered Account. But action and pacing are made to substitute for the authenticity and credibility that distinguished his promising first novel. Borrowing to the hilt in a go-for-broke move, Jett Gavallan, ex-Gulf War fighter pilot turned founding CEO of Frisco-based Black Jet Securities an up-and-coming investment banking firm puts all his chips on the line for the chance to take public Mercury Broadband (Russia''s answer to AOL) with shares worth $2 billion. The pot of gold at the end of his rainbow is a cool $70 million, but all is not blue skies. An enigmatic online financial analyst, Private Eye-PO, starts warning investors that the deal is bad, leading Jett to send partner Grafton Byrnes undercover to Moscow to verify the legitimacy of Mercury Broadband. Graf calls in with a coded warning that all is not well, Jett''s investigator locates the real Private Eye-PO in Delray Beach, Fla., and bodies begin piling up. Credibility wanes and action spins out of control as Jett and an old flame embark on an intercontinental plane and car chase. Comic-book dialogue ("Kind of you, Mr. Gavallan. It''s not often a disloyal, disgraceful slut gets any TLC") makes this thriller read like an old Saturday Night Live skit, which may give it kitsch appeal but undermines its dramatic effect.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6717'),
(17691, 'The First Billion: A Novel', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Money makes the world go round for Jett Gavallon, a high-tech entrepreneur who''s on the brink of bringing a Russian telecom startup to market with an IPO worth billions. But when his best friend and second-in-command disappears after Gavallon sends him to Moscow to make sure the new company is on the up and up, Jett begins to have second thoughts, which are exactly what his Russian partners can''t afford. Beset by an FBI task force looking into Mercury Broadband''s financing by Russian mobsters, rumors of fraud being circulated by a Drudge-like online financial gossip columnist, and the discovery that his former lover is not who he thought she was, Jett puts his fortune on the line in a desperate attempt to save his company--and ultimately, his life. An exciting, fast-paced adventure by an author who puts his experience in international banking to work in the service of this carefully plotted thriller.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reich continues to struggle, trying to recapture his early success. After a rather intriguing setup, this third novel gradually evolves into something more like an unintentional parody than a real thriller. Following the altogether lackluster Allan Folsom-esque Nazi war crimes plot of The Runner, the Swiss banker-turned-thriller writer returns to the more familiar arena of international finance, which provided the intriguing backdrop of his 1998 bestselling debut, Numbered Account. But action and pacing are made to substitute for the authenticity and credibility that distinguished his promising first novel. Borrowing to the hilt in a go-for-broke move, Jett Gavallan, ex-Gulf War fighter pilot turned founding CEO of Frisco-based Black Jet Securities an up-and-coming investment banking firm puts all his chips on the line for the chance to take public Mercury Broadband (Russia''s answer to AOL) with shares worth $2 billion. The pot of gold at the end of his rainbow is a cool $70 million, but all is not blue skies. An enigmatic online financial analyst, Private Eye-PO, starts warning investors that the deal is bad, leading Jett to send partner Grafton Byrnes undercover to Moscow to verify the legitimacy of Mercury Broadband. Graf calls in with a coded warning that all is not well, Jett''s investigator locates the real Private Eye-PO in Delray Beach, Fla., and bodies begin piling up. Credibility wanes and action spins out of control as Jett and an old flame embark on an intercontinental plane and car chase. Comic-book dialogue ("Kind of you, Mr. Gavallan. It''s not often a disloyal, disgraceful slut gets any TLC") makes this thriller read like an old Saturday Night Live skit, which may give it kitsch appeal but undermines its dramatic effect.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12116'),
(17692, 'The first billion: a novel', 'Christopher Reich', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Money makes the world go round for Jett Gavallon, a high-tech entrepreneur who''s on the brink of bringing a Russian telecom startup to market with an IPO worth billions. But when his best friend and second-in-command disappears after Gavallon sends him to Moscow to make sure the new company is on the up and up, Jett begins to have second thoughts, which are exactly what his Russian partners can''t afford. Beset by an FBI task force looking into Mercury Broadband''s financing by Russian mobsters, rumors of fraud being circulated by a Drudge-like online financial gossip columnist, and the discovery that his former lover is not who he thought she was, Jett puts his fortune on the line in a desperate attempt to save his company--and ultimately, his life. An exciting, fast-paced adventure by an author who puts his experience in international banking to work in the service of this carefully plotted thriller.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Reich continues to struggle, trying to recapture his early success. After a rather intriguing setup, this third novel gradually evolves into something more like an unintentional parody than a real thriller. Following the altogether lackluster Allan Folsom-esque Nazi war crimes plot of The Runner, the Swiss banker-turned-thriller writer returns to the more familiar arena of international finance, which provided the intriguing backdrop of his 1998 bestselling debut, Numbered Account. But action and pacing are made to substitute for the authenticity and credibility that distinguished his promising first novel. Borrowing to the hilt in a go-for-broke move, Jett Gavallan, ex-Gulf War fighter pilot turned founding CEO of Frisco-based Black Jet Securities an up-and-coming investment banking firm puts all his chips on the line for the chance to take public Mercury Broadband (Russia''s answer to AOL) with shares worth $2 billion. The pot of gold at the end of his rainbow is a cool $70 million, but all is not blue skies. An enigmatic online financial analyst, Private Eye-PO, starts warning investors that the deal is bad, leading Jett to send partner Grafton Byrnes undercover to Moscow to verify the legitimacy of Mercury Broadband. Graf calls in with a coded warning that all is not well, Jett''s investigator locates the real Private Eye-PO in Delray Beach, Fla., and bodies begin piling up. Credibility wanes and action spins out of control as Jett and an old flame embark on an intercontinental plane and car chase. Comic-book dialogue ("Kind of you, Mr. Gavallan. It''s not often a disloyal, disgraceful slut gets any TLC") makes this thriller read like an old Saturday Night Live skit, which may give it kitsch appeal but undermines its dramatic effect.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18044'),
(17693, 'First Contact: Or, It&#39;s Later Than You Think', 'Evan Mandery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A satirical joyride in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, First Contact introduces us to the hyper-intelligent Rigelians, who admire Woody Allen movies and Bundt cake, and who urge the people of Earth to mend their ways to avoid destruction of their planet. But the president of the United States, a God-fearing, science-doubting fitness fanatic, is skeptical of the evidence presented to him and sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of his young attach, an alien scam artist, several raccoons, and a scientist who has predicted the end of the universe. Parrot sketch excluded.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5618'),
(17694, 'First Contact: Or, It&#39;s Later Than You Think', 'Evan Mandery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A satirical joyride in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, First Contact introduces us to the hyper-intelligent Rigelians, who admire Woody Allen movies and Bundt cake, and who urge the people of Earth to mend their ways to avoid destruction of their planet. But the president of the United States, a God-fearing, science-doubting fitness fanatic, is skeptical of the evidence presented to him and sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of his young attach, an alien scam artist, several raccoons, and a scientist who has predicted the end of the universe. Parrot sketch excluded.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11243'),
(17695, 'First Contact: Or, It&#39;s Later Than You Think', 'Evan Mandery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A satirical joyride in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, First Contact introduces us to the hyper-intelligent Rigelians, who admire Woody Allen movies and Bundt cake, and who urge the people of Earth to mend their ways to avoid destruction of their planet. But the president of the United States, a God-fearing, science-doubting fitness fanatic, is skeptical of the evidence presented to him and sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of his young attach, an alien scam artist, several raccoons, and a scientist who has predicted the end of the universe. Parrot sketch excluded.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19051'),
(17696, 'First Contact: Or, It&#39;s Later Than You Think', 'Evan Mandery', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A satirical joyride in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, First Contact introduces us to the hyper-intelligent Rigelians, who admire Woody Allen movies and Bundt cake, and who urge the people of Earth to mend their ways to avoid destruction of their planet. But the president of the United States, a God-fearing, science-doubting fitness fanatic, is skeptical of the evidence presented to him and sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of his young attach, an alien scam artist, several raccoons, and a scientist who has predicted the end of the universe. Parrot sketch excluded.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27742'),
(17697, 'First Degree', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The mysterious legacy of defense attorney Andy Carpenter''s late father has made him a rich man--22 million dollars rich, to be exact. But as Andy relaxes in his office, imagining ways to spend his money, he has an unexpected visitor: a stranger who confesses to decapitating and burning a man--cooly relying on the confidentiality of attorney-client privilege. When an innocent man is charged with the crime, Andy decides to take on the case. But the case becomes personal when, in a stunning development, Andy''s client is exonerated and his girlfriend, Laurie Collins, is accused of the crime. When the man who originally confessed to the murder turns up dead, Andy realizes that this is much bigger than one crime. Who committed the murders? Who framed Laurie? In the case of his life, Andy must prove Laurie''s innocence in this thrilling mystery from the always inventive David Rosenfelt.- Open and Shut (Mysterious Press, 5/02) was a Mystery Guild(R) Featured Alternate. Bulgarian, French, and German rights to the book were sold before publication. Its 5/03 mass market release will tie in with the hardcover release of First Degree.- David Rosenfelt writes legal mysteries with the same authority and sense of drama that has ensured the success of Robert B. Parker, Robert Crais, and Harlan Coben.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6162'),
(17698, 'First Degree', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The mysterious legacy of defense attorney Andy Carpenter''s late father has made him a rich man--22 million dollars rich, to be exact. But as Andy relaxes in his office, imagining ways to spend his money, he has an unexpected visitor: a stranger who confesses to decapitating and burning a man--cooly relying on the confidentiality of attorney-client privilege. When an innocent man is charged with the crime, Andy decides to take on the case. But the case becomes personal when, in a stunning development, Andy''s client is exonerated and his girlfriend, Laurie Collins, is accused of the crime. When the man who originally confessed to the murder turns up dead, Andy realizes that this is much bigger than one crime. Who committed the murders? Who framed Laurie? In the case of his life, Andy must prove Laurie''s innocence in this thrilling mystery from the always inventive David Rosenfelt.- Open and Shut (Mysterious Press, 5/02) was a Mystery Guild(R) Featured Alternate. Bulgarian, French, and German rights to the book were sold before publication. Its 5/03 mass market release will tie in with the hardcover release of First Degree.- David Rosenfelt writes legal mysteries with the same authority and sense of drama that has ensured the success of Robert B. Parker, Robert Crais, and Harlan Coben.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13496'),
(17699, 'First degree', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The mysterious legacy of defense attorney Andy Carpenter''s late father has made him a rich man--22 million dollars rich, to be exact. But as Andy relaxes in his office, imagining ways to spend his money, he has an unexpected visitor: a stranger who confesses to decapitating and burning a man--cooly relying on the confidentiality of attorney-client privilege. When an innocent man is charged with the crime, Andy decides to take on the case. But the case becomes personal when, in a stunning development, Andy''s client is exonerated and his girlfriend, Laurie Collins, is accused of the crime. When the man who originally confessed to the murder turns up dead, Andy realizes that this is much bigger than one crime. Who committed the murders? Who framed Laurie? In the case of his life, Andy must prove Laurie''s innocence in this thrilling mystery from the always inventive David Rosenfelt.- Open and Shut (Mysterious Press, 5/02) was a Mystery Guild(R) Featured Alternate. Bulgarian, French, and German rights to the book were sold before publication. Its 5/03 mass market release will tie in with the hardcover release of First Degree.- David Rosenfelt writes legal mysteries with the same authority and sense of drama that has ensured the success of Robert B. Parker, Robert Crais, and Harlan Coben.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17875'),
(17700, 'First degree', 'David Rosenfelt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The mysterious legacy of defense attorney Andy Carpenter''s late father has made him a rich man--22 million dollars rich, to be exact. But as Andy relaxes in his office, imagining ways to spend his money, he has an unexpected visitor: a stranger who confesses to decapitating and burning a man--cooly relying on the confidentiality of attorney-client privilege. When an innocent man is charged with the crime, Andy decides to take on the case. But the case becomes personal when, in a stunning development, Andy''s client is exonerated and his girlfriend, Laurie Collins, is accused of the crime. When the man who originally confessed to the murder turns up dead, Andy realizes that this is much bigger than one crime. Who committed the murders? Who framed Laurie? In the case of his life, Andy must prove Laurie''s innocence in this thrilling mystery from the always inventive David Rosenfelt.- Open and Shut (Mysterious Press, 5/02) was a Mystery Guild(R) Featured Alternate. Bulgarian, French, and German rights to the book were sold before publication. Its 5/03 mass market release will tie in with the hardcover release of First Degree.- David Rosenfelt writes legal mysteries with the same authority and sense of drama that has ensured the success of Robert B. Parker, Robert Crais, and Harlan Coben.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27348'),
(17701, 'First Family', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When she turned the page and her gaze flickered over the date on top it was as though the lightening outside had somehow grounded right into her. A billion volts of pain, a shriek of anguish you could actually see, and feel, as it pierced her. Camp David, USA. A birthday party turns into a nightmare when a child is snatched after the celebrations. The First Lady enlists the services of Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to bring the child home safely. But she and King share a past. Years ago he saved her then senator husband from political disaster. And this may not be all that passed between them. With Michelle still battling her own demons, the two are pushed to the limit, with forces aligned on all sides against them -and the line between friend and foe impossible to define ...or defend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6269'),
(17702, 'First Family', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When she turned the page and her gaze flickered over the date on top it was as though the lightening outside had somehow grounded right into her. A billion volts of pain, a shriek of anguish you could actually see, and feel, as it pierced her. Camp David, USA. A birthday party turns into a nightmare when a child is snatched after the celebrations. The First Lady enlists the services of Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to bring the child home safely. But she and King share a past. Years ago he saved her then senator husband from political disaster. And this may not be all that passed between them. With Michelle still battling her own demons, the two are pushed to the limit, with forces aligned on all sides against them -and the line between friend and foe impossible to define ...or defend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17658'),
(17703, 'First Family', 'David Baldacci', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When she turned the page and her gaze flickered over the date on top it was as though the lightening outside had somehow grounded right into her. A billion volts of pain, a shriek of anguish you could actually see, and feel, as it pierced her. Camp David, USA. A birthday party turns into a nightmare when a child is snatched after the celebrations. The First Lady enlists the services of Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to bring the child home safely. But she and King share a past. Years ago he saved her then senator husband from political disaster. And this may not be all that passed between them. With Michelle still battling her own demons, the two are pushed to the limit, with forces aligned on all sides against them -and the line between friend and foe impossible to define ...or defend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27253'),
(17704, 'First Family: Abigail and John Adams', 'Joseph J. Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of "Founding Brothers" and "His Excellency "brings America''s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic''s tenuous early years.John and Abigail Adams left an indelible and remarkably preserved portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both Adamses were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was clearly the more gifted of the two), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. Joseph J. Ellis distills this unprecedented and unsurpassed record to give us an account both intimate and panoramic; part biography, part political history, and part love story. Ellis describes the first meeting between the two as inauspicious--John was twenty-four, Abigail just fifteen, and each was entirely unimpressed with the other. But they soon began a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later. Over the next decades, the couple were separated nearly as much as they were together. John''s political career took him first to Philadelphia, where he became the boldest advocate for the measures that would lead to the Declaration of Independence. Yet in order to attend the Second Continental Congress, he left his wife and children in the middle of the war zone that had by then engulfed Massachusetts. Later he was sent to Paris, where he served as a minister to the court of France alongside Benjamin Franklin. These years apart stressed the Adamses'' union almost beyond what it could bear: Abigail grew lonely, while the Adams children suffered from their father''s absence. John was elected the nation''s first vice president, but by the time of his reelection, Abigail''s health prevented her from joining him in Philadelphia, the interim capital. She no doubt had further reservations about moving to the swamp on the Potomac when John became president, although this time he persuaded her. President Adams inherited a weak and bitterly divided country from George Washington. The political situation was perilous at best, and he needed his closest advisor by his side: "I can do nothing," John told Abigail after his election, "without you." In Ellis''s rich and striking new history, John and Abigail''s relationship unfolds in the context of America''s birth as a nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4084'),
(17705, 'First Family: Abigail and John Adams', 'Joseph J. Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of "Founding Brothers" and "His Excellency "brings America''s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic''s tenuous early years.John and Abigail Adams left an indelible and remarkably preserved portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both Adamses were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was clearly the more gifted of the two), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. Joseph J. Ellis distills this unprecedented and unsurpassed record to give us an account both intimate and panoramic; part biography, part political history, and part love story. Ellis describes the first meeting between the two as inauspicious--John was twenty-four, Abigail just fifteen, and each was entirely unimpressed with the other. But they soon began a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later. Over the next decades, the couple were separated nearly as much as they were together. John''s political career took him first to Philadelphia, where he became the boldest advocate for the measures that would lead to the Declaration of Independence. Yet in order to attend the Second Continental Congress, he left his wife and children in the middle of the war zone that had by then engulfed Massachusetts. Later he was sent to Paris, where he served as a minister to the court of France alongside Benjamin Franklin. These years apart stressed the Adamses'' union almost beyond what it could bear: Abigail grew lonely, while the Adams children suffered from their father''s absence. John was elected the nation''s first vice president, but by the time of his reelection, Abigail''s health prevented her from joining him in Philadelphia, the interim capital. She no doubt had further reservations about moving to the swamp on the Potomac when John became president, although this time he persuaded her. President Adams inherited a weak and bitterly divided country from George Washington. The political situation was perilous at best, and he needed his closest advisor by his side: "I can do nothing," John told Abigail after his election, "without you." In Ellis''s rich and striking new history, John and Abigail''s relationship unfolds in the context of America''s birth as a nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9557'),
(17706, 'First Family: Abigail and John Adams', 'Joseph J. Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of "Founding Brothers" and "His Excellency "brings America''s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic''s tenuous early years.John and Abigail Adams left an indelible and remarkably preserved portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both Adamses were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was clearly the more gifted of the two), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. Joseph J. Ellis distills this unprecedented and unsurpassed record to give us an account both intimate and panoramic; part biography, part political history, and part love story. Ellis describes the first meeting between the two as inauspicious--John was twenty-four, Abigail just fifteen, and each was entirely unimpressed with the other. But they soon began a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later. Over the next decades, the couple were separated nearly as much as they were together. John''s political career took him first to Philadelphia, where he became the boldest advocate for the measures that would lead to the Declaration of Independence. Yet in order to attend the Second Continental Congress, he left his wife and children in the middle of the war zone that had by then engulfed Massachusetts. Later he was sent to Paris, where he served as a minister to the court of France alongside Benjamin Franklin. These years apart stressed the Adamses'' union almost beyond what it could bear: Abigail grew lonely, while the Adams children suffered from their father''s absence. John was elected the nation''s first vice president, but by the time of his reelection, Abigail''s health prevented her from joining him in Philadelphia, the interim capital. She no doubt had further reservations about moving to the swamp on the Potomac when John became president, although this time he persuaded her. President Adams inherited a weak and bitterly divided country from George Washington. The political situation was perilous at best, and he needed his closest advisor by his side: "I can do nothing," John told Abigail after his election, "without you." In Ellis''s rich and striking new history, John and Abigail''s relationship unfolds in the context of America''s birth as a nation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20483'),
(17707, 'The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder and the Birth of the American Mafia', 'Mike Dash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Before the notorious Five Families who dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half century, there was the one-fingered criminal genius Giuseppe Morelloâ€“known as â€œThe Clutch Handâ€â€“and his lethal coterie of associates. In The First Family, historian, journalist, and New York Times bestselling author Mike Dash brings to life this little-known story, following the rise of the Mafia in America from the 1890s to the 1920s, from the lawless villages of Sicily to the streets of Little Italy. Using an impressive array of primary sourcesâ€“hitherto untapped Secret Service archives, prison records, trial transcripts, and interviews with surviving family membersâ€“this is the first Mafia history that applies scholarly rigor to the story of the Morello syndicate and the birth of organized crime on these shores.Progressing from small-time scams to counterfeiting rings to even bigger criminal enterprises, Giuseppe Morello exerted ruthless control of Italian neighborhoods in New York, and through adroit coordination with other Sicilian crime families, his Clutch Hand soon reached far beyond the Hudson River.The men who battled Morelloâ€™s crews were themselves colorful and legendary figures, including William Flynn, a fearless Secret Service agent, and Lieutenant Detective Giuseppe â€œJoeâ€ Petrosino of the New York Police Departmentâ€™s elite Italian Squad, whose pursuit of the brutal gangs ultimately cost him his life. Combining first-rate scholarship and pulse-quickening action, and set amid rustic Sicilian landscapes and the streets of old New York, The First Family is a groundbreaking account of the crucial period when the American criminal underworld exploded with violent fury across the nation.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2739'),
(17708, 'The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder and the Birth of the American Mafia', 'Mike Dash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Before the notorious Five Families who dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half century, there was the one-fingered criminal genius Giuseppe Morelloâ€“known as â€œThe Clutch Handâ€â€“and his lethal coterie of associates. In The First Family, historian, journalist, and New York Times bestselling author Mike Dash brings to life this little-known story, following the rise of the Mafia in America from the 1890s to the 1920s, from the lawless villages of Sicily to the streets of Little Italy. Using an impressive array of primary sourcesâ€“hitherto untapped Secret Service archives, prison records, trial transcripts, and interviews with surviving family membersâ€“this is the first Mafia history that applies scholarly rigor to the story of the Morello syndicate and the birth of organized crime on these shores.Progressing from small-time scams to counterfeiting rings to even bigger criminal enterprises, Giuseppe Morello exerted ruthless control of Italian neighborhoods in New York, and through adroit coordination with other Sicilian crime families, his Clutch Hand soon reached far beyond the Hudson River.The men who battled Morelloâ€™s crews were themselves colorful and legendary figures, including William Flynn, a fearless Secret Service agent, and Lieutenant Detective Giuseppe â€œJoeâ€ Petrosino of the New York Police Departmentâ€™s elite Italian Squad, whose pursuit of the brutal gangs ultimately cost him his life. Combining first-rate scholarship and pulse-quickening action, and set amid rustic Sicilian landscapes and the streets of old New York, The First Family is a groundbreaking account of the crucial period when the American criminal underworld exploded with violent fury across the nation.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9152'),
(17709, 'The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder and the Birth of the American Mafia', 'Mike Dash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Before the notorious Five Families who dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half century, there was the one-fingered criminal genius Giuseppe Morelloâ€“known as â€œThe Clutch Handâ€â€“and his lethal coterie of associates. In The First Family, historian, journalist, and New York Times bestselling author Mike Dash brings to life this little-known story, following the rise of the Mafia in America from the 1890s to the 1920s, from the lawless villages of Sicily to the streets of Little Italy. Using an impressive array of primary sourcesâ€“hitherto untapped Secret Service archives, prison records, trial transcripts, and interviews with surviving family membersâ€“this is the first Mafia history that applies scholarly rigor to the story of the Morello syndicate and the birth of organized crime on these shores.Progressing from small-time scams to counterfeiting rings to even bigger criminal enterprises, Giuseppe Morello exerted ruthless control of Italian neighborhoods in New York, and through adroit coordination with other Sicilian crime families, his Clutch Hand soon reached far beyond the Hudson River.The men who battled Morelloâ€™s crews were themselves colorful and legendary figures, including William Flynn, a fearless Secret Service agent, and Lieutenant Detective Giuseppe â€œJoeâ€ Petrosino of the New York Police Departmentâ€™s elite Italian Squad, whose pursuit of the brutal gangs ultimately cost him his life. Combining first-rate scholarship and pulse-quickening action, and set amid rustic Sicilian landscapes and the streets of old New York, The First Family is a groundbreaking account of the crucial period when the American criminal underworld exploded with violent fury across the nation.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22096'),
(17710, 'First Flight', 'Mary Robinette Kowal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The past is another country, in Mary Robinette Kowal''s Tor.com tale of time travel and aviation history. "First Flight" is a finalist for the 2010 Locus Award. The winner of the 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of short fiction published in Strange Horizons, Cosmos, and Asimov''s. Her first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, will be published by Tor in 2010.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2967'),
(17711, 'First Flight', 'Mary Robinette Kowal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The past is another country, in Mary Robinette Kowal''s Tor.com tale of time travel and aviation history. "First Flight" is a finalist for the 2010 Locus Award. The winner of the 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of short fiction published in Strange Horizons, Cosmos, and Asimov''s. Her first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, will be published by Tor in 2010.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10806'),
(17712, 'First Flight', 'Mary Robinette Kowal', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The past is another country, in Mary Robinette Kowal''s Tor.com tale of time travel and aviation history. "First Flight" is a finalist for the 2010 Locus Award. The winner of the 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of short fiction published in Strange Horizons, Cosmos, and Asimov''s. Her first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, will be published by Tor in 2010.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21844'),
(17713, 'The First Forty-Nine Stone', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25856'),
(17714, 'The First King of Shannara', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Horrified by the misuse of magic they had witnessed during the First War of the Races, the Druids at Paranor devoted themselves to the study of the old sciences, from the period before the collapse of civilization a thousand years before. Only the Bremen and a few trusted associates still studied the arcane arts. And for his persistence, Bremen found himself outcast, avoided by all but the few free-thinkers among the Druids.But his removal from Paranor was not altogether a terrible thing, for Bremen learned that dark forces were on the move from the Northlands. That seemingly invincible armies of trolls were fast conquering all that lay to their south. That the scouts for the army--and its principal assassins--were Skull Bearers, disfigured and transformed Druids who had fallen prey to the seductions of the magic arts. And that at the heart of the evil tide was an archmage and former Druid named Brona!Using the special skills he had acquired through his own study of Magic, Bremen was able to penetrate the huge camp of the Troll army and learn many of its secrets. And he immediately understood that if the peoples of the Four Lands were to escape eternal subjugation they would need to unite. But, even united, they would need a weapon, something so powerful that the evil magic of Brona, the Warlock Lord, would fail before its might...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/753'),
(17715, 'The First King of Shannara', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Horrified by the misuse of magic they had witnessed during the First War of the Races, the Druids at Paranor devoted themselves to the study of the old sciences, from the period before the collapse of civilization a thousand years before. Only the Bremen and a few trusted associates still studied the arcane arts. And for his persistence, Bremen found himself outcast, avoided by all but the few free-thinkers among the Druids.But his removal from Paranor was not altogether a terrible thing, for Bremen learned that dark forces were on the move from the Northlands. That seemingly invincible armies of trolls were fast conquering all that lay to their south. That the scouts for the army--and its principal assassins--were Skull Bearers, disfigured and transformed Druids who had fallen prey to the seductions of the magic arts. And that at the heart of the evil tide was an archmage and former Druid named Brona!Using the special skills he had acquired through his own study of Magic, Bremen was able to penetrate the huge camp of the Troll army and learn many of its secrets. And he immediately understood that if the peoples of the Four Lands were to escape eternal subjugation they would need to unite. But, even united, they would need a weapon, something so powerful that the evil magic of Brona, the Warlock Lord, would fail before its might...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24133'),
(17716, 'First Lady', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Praise for Susan Elizabeth Phillips: ''a wicked comedy...don''t miss'' CLOSER ''No one tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' JAYNE ANNE KRENTZ ''Funny, sexy, funny, fast, funny, wonderful - and hilarious! If you can read Susan Elizabeth Phillips without laughing out loud, check for a pulse! What the world needs is more books by Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' ELIZABETH LOWELL ''Witty, moving, passionate and tender...pure up-to-the-minute entertainment...well-written, funny, sexy, and altogether satisfying.'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/990'),
(17717, 'First Lady', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Praise for Susan Elizabeth Phillips: ''a wicked comedy...don''t miss'' CLOSER ''No one tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' JAYNE ANNE KRENTZ ''Funny, sexy, funny, fast, funny, wonderful - and hilarious! If you can read Susan Elizabeth Phillips without laughing out loud, check for a pulse! What the world needs is more books by Susan Elizabeth Phillips'' ELIZABETH LOWELL ''Witty, moving, passionate and tender...pure up-to-the-minute entertainment...well-written, funny, sexy, and altogether satisfying.'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11938'),
(17718, 'First Lady', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24022'),
(17719, 'First Lord&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The next book in the thrilling *New York Times* bestselling series.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For years he has endured the endless trials and triumphs of a man whose skill and power could not be restrained. Battling ancient enemies, forging new alliances, and confronting the corruption within his own land, Gaius Octavian became a legendary man of war-and the rightful First Lord of Alera.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But now, the savage Vord are on the march, and Gaius must lead his legions to the Calderon Valley to stand against them-using all of his intelligence, ingenuity, and furycraft to save their world from eternal darkness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4517'),
(17720, 'First Lord&#39;s Fury', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The next book in the thrilling *New York Times* bestselling series.** For years he has endured the endless trials and triumphs of a man whose skill and power could not be restrained. Battling ancient enemies, forging new alliances, and confronting the corruption within his own land, Gaius Octavian became a legendary man of war-and the rightful First Lord of Alera. But now, the savage Vord are on the march, and Gaius must lead his legions to the Calderon Valley to stand against them-using all of his intelligence, ingenuity, and furycraft to save their world from eternal darkness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15117'),
(17721, 'First Love, Last Rites', 'Ian McEwan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "McEwan [has] a powerful talent that is both weird and wonderful." --\n  <em>\n   Boston Sunday Globe\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ian McEwan''s fictional world combin[es] the bleak, dreamlike quality of de Chirico''s city-scapes with the strange eroticism of canvases by Balthus. Menace lies crouched between the lines of his neat, angular prose, and weird, grisly things occur in his books with nearly casual aplomb." --\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "McEwan is a splendid magician of fear." --\n  <em>\n   Village Voice Literary Supplement\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "McEwan [has] a powerful talent that is both weird and wonderful." --\n  <em>\n   Boston Sunday Globe\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Ian McEwan''s fictional world combin[es] the bleak, dreamlike quality of de Chirico''s city-scapes with the strange eroticism of canvases by Balthus. Menace lies crouched between the lines of his neat, angular prose, and weird, grisly things occur in his books with nearly casual aplomb." --\n  <em>\n   The New York Times\n  </em>\n  <br />\n </p>\n <p>\n  "McEwan is a splendid magician of fear." --\n  <em>\n   Village Voice Literary Supplement\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25704'),
(17722, 'First Meetings: In Ender&#39;s Universe', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender''s Game -winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel-and enter his Universe through this collection of stories. "The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. In the years between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. They may have found their man-or boy-in John Paul Wiggin.... In "Teacher''s Pest"-a novella written especially for this collection-a brilliant but arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now a university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student. "The Investment Counselor" is set after the end of the Bugger Wars. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive-until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xeoncide. Also reprinted here is the original award-winning novella, "Ender''s Game," which first appeared in 1977.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2380');
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(17723, 'First Meetings: In Ender&#39;s Universe', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender''s Game -winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel-and enter his Universe through this collection of stories. "The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. In the years between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. They may have found their man-or boy-in John Paul Wiggin.... In "Teacher''s Pest"-a novella written especially for this collection-a brilliant but arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now a university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student. "The Investment Counselor" is set after the end of the Bugger Wars. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive-until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xeoncide. Also reprinted here is the original award-winning novella, "Ender''s Game," which first appeared in 1977.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22348'),
(17724, 'The First Men in the Moon', 'H. G. Wells', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When penniless businessman Mr. Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr. Cavor, an absentminded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford that the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by money, and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two embark on the expedition. But neither are prepared for what they findâ€”a world of freezing nights, boiling days, and sinister alien life, in which they may be trapped forever.\n <br />\n -First time in Penguin Classics\n <br />\n -Includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, suggestions for further reading, and detailed notes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12308'),
(17725, 'The First Person: And Other Stories', 'Ali Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In these energetic, exhilarating stories, Ali Smith portrays a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery, and love. In "Astute Fiery Luxurious," a misdelivered package throws the life of a couple into disarray. A boy''s unexplained illness in "I Know Something You Don''t Know" drives his mother to seek guidance from homeopathic healers, with inconclusive results. In "The Child," an unnervingly mature young boy voices offensive humor that genteel society would rather not acknowledge. And a confident older woman meets her awkward fourteen-year-old self in "Writ" but can''t figure out how to guide her-or even whether she should. As Smith explores the subtle links between what we know and what we feel, she creates an exuberant, masterly collection that is packed full of ideas, humor, nuance, and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7747'),
(17726, 'The First Person: And Other Stories', 'Ali Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In these energetic, exhilarating stories, Ali Smith portrays a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery, and love. In "Astute Fiery Luxurious," a misdelivered package throws the life of a couple into disarray. A boy''s unexplained illness in "I Know Something You Don''t Know" drives his mother to seek guidance from homeopathic healers, with inconclusive results. In "The Child," an unnervingly mature young boy voices offensive humor that genteel society would rather not acknowledge. And a confident older woman meets her awkward fourteen-year-old self in "Writ" but can''t figure out how to guide her-or even whether she should. As Smith explores the subtle links between what we know and what we feel, she creates an exuberant, masterly collection that is packed full of ideas, humor, nuance, and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12709'),
(17727, 'The First Person: And Other Stories', 'Ali Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In these energetic, exhilarating stories, Ali Smith portrays a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery, and love. In "Astute Fiery Luxurious," a misdelivered package throws the life of a couple into disarray. A boy''s unexplained illness in "I Know Something You Don''t Know" drives his mother to seek guidance from homeopathic healers, with inconclusive results. In "The Child," an unnervingly mature young boy voices offensive humor that genteel society would rather not acknowledge. And a confident older woman meets her awkward fourteen-year-old self in "Writ" but can''t figure out how to guide her-or even whether she should. As Smith explores the subtle links between what we know and what we feel, she creates an exuberant, masterly collection that is packed full of ideas, humor, nuance, and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16091'),
(17728, 'The First Person: And Other Stories', 'Ali Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In these energetic, exhilarating stories, Ali Smith portrays a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery, and love. In "Astute Fiery Luxurious," a misdelivered package throws the life of a couple into disarray. A boy''s unexplained illness in "I Know Something You Don''t Know" drives his mother to seek guidance from homeopathic healers, with inconclusive results. In "The Child," an unnervingly mature young boy voices offensive humor that genteel society would rather not acknowledge. And a confident older woman meets her awkward fourteen-year-old self in "Writ" but can''t figure out how to guide her-or even whether she should. As Smith explores the subtle links between what we know and what we feel, she creates an exuberant, masterly collection that is packed full of ideas, humor, nuance, and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26279'),
(17729, 'the First Rule (2010)', 'Crais, Robert - Joe Pike 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14864'),
(17730, 'the First Rule (2010)', 'Crais, Robert - Joe Pike 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23284'),
(17731, 'the First Rule (2010)', 'Crais, Robert - Joe Pike 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27057'),
(17732, 'First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers', 'Loung Ung', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Written in the present tense,\n <em>\n  First They Killed My Father\n </em>\n will put you right in the midst of the action--action you''ll wish had never happened. It''s a tough read, but definitely a worthwhile one, and the author''s personality and strength shine through on every page. Covering the years from 1975 to 1979, the story moves from the deaths of multiple family members to the forced separation of the survivors, leading ultimately to the reuniting of much of the family, followed by marriages and immigrations. The brutality seems unending--beatings, starvation, attempted rape, mental cruelty--and yet the narrator (a young girl) never stops fighting for escape and survival. Sad and courageous, her life and the lives of her young siblings provide quite a powerful example of how war can so deeply affect children--especially a war in which they are trained to be an integral part of the armed forces. For anyone interested in Cambodia''s recent history, this book shares a valuable personal view of events.\n <em>\n  --Jill Lightner\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1975, Ung, now the national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World, was the five-year-old child of a large, affluent family living in Phnom Penh, the cosmopolitan Cambodian capital. As extraordinarily well-educated Chinese-Cambodians, with the father a government agent, her family was in great danger when the Khmer Rouge took over the country and throughout Pol Pot''s barbaric regime. Her parents'' strength and her father''s knowledge of Khmer Rouge ideology enabled the family to survive together for a while, posing as illiterate peasants, moving first between villages, and then from one work camp to another. The father was honest with the children, explaining dangers and how to avoid them, and this, along with clear sight, intelligence and the pragmatism of a young child, helped Ung to survive the war. Her restrained, unsentimental account of the four years she spent surviving the regime before escaping with a brother to Thailand and eventually the United States is astonishing--not just because of the tragedies, but also because of the immense love for her family that Ung holds onto, no matter how she is brutalized. She describes the physical devastation she is surrounded by but always returns to her memories and hopes for those she loves. Her joyful memories of life in Phnom Penh are close even as she is being trained as a child soldier, and as, one after another, both parents and two of her six siblings are murdered in the camps. Skillfully constructed, this account also stands as an eyewitness history of the period, because as a child Ung was so aware of her surroundings, and because as an adult writer she adds details to clarify the family''s moves and separations. Twenty-five years after the rise of the Khmer Rouge, this powerful account is a triumph. 8 pages b&amp;w photos.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3301'),
(17733, 'First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers', 'Loung Ung', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Written in the present tense,\n <em>\n  First They Killed My Father\n </em>\n will put you right in the midst of the action--action you''ll wish had never happened. It''s a tough read, but definitely a worthwhile one, and the author''s personality and strength shine through on every page. Covering the years from 1975 to 1979, the story moves from the deaths of multiple family members to the forced separation of the survivors, leading ultimately to the reuniting of much of the family, followed by marriages and immigrations. The brutality seems unending--beatings, starvation, attempted rape, mental cruelty--and yet the narrator (a young girl) never stops fighting for escape and survival. Sad and courageous, her life and the lives of her young siblings provide quite a powerful example of how war can so deeply affect children--especially a war in which they are trained to be an integral part of the armed forces. For anyone interested in Cambodia''s recent history, this book shares a valuable personal view of events.\n <em>\n  --Jill Lightner\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1975, Ung, now the national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World, was the five-year-old child of a large, affluent family living in Phnom Penh, the cosmopolitan Cambodian capital. As extraordinarily well-educated Chinese-Cambodians, with the father a government agent, her family was in great danger when the Khmer Rouge took over the country and throughout Pol Pot''s barbaric regime. Her parents'' strength and her father''s knowledge of Khmer Rouge ideology enabled the family to survive together for a while, posing as illiterate peasants, moving first between villages, and then from one work camp to another. The father was honest with the children, explaining dangers and how to avoid them, and this, along with clear sight, intelligence and the pragmatism of a young child, helped Ung to survive the war. Her restrained, unsentimental account of the four years she spent surviving the regime before escaping with a brother to Thailand and eventually the United States is astonishing--not just because of the tragedies, but also because of the immense love for her family that Ung holds onto, no matter how she is brutalized. She describes the physical devastation she is surrounded by but always returns to her memories and hopes for those she loves. Her joyful memories of life in Phnom Penh are close even as she is being trained as a child soldier, and as, one after another, both parents and two of her six siblings are murdered in the camps. Skillfully constructed, this account also stands as an eyewitness history of the period, because as a child Ung was so aware of her surroundings, and because as an adult writer she adds details to clarify the family''s moves and separations. Twenty-five years after the rise of the Khmer Rouge, this powerful account is a triumph. 8 pages b&amp;w photos.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13076'),
(17734, 'First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers', 'Loung Ung', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Written in the present tense,\n <em>\n  First They Killed My Father\n </em>\n will put you right in the midst of the action--action you''ll wish had never happened. It''s a tough read, but definitely a worthwhile one, and the author''s personality and strength shine through on every page. Covering the years from 1975 to 1979, the story moves from the deaths of multiple family members to the forced separation of the survivors, leading ultimately to the reuniting of much of the family, followed by marriages and immigrations. The brutality seems unending--beatings, starvation, attempted rape, mental cruelty--and yet the narrator (a young girl) never stops fighting for escape and survival. Sad and courageous, her life and the lives of her young siblings provide quite a powerful example of how war can so deeply affect children--especially a war in which they are trained to be an integral part of the armed forces. For anyone interested in Cambodia''s recent history, this book shares a valuable personal view of events.\n <em>\n  --Jill Lightner\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1975, Ung, now the national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World, was the five-year-old child of a large, affluent family living in Phnom Penh, the cosmopolitan Cambodian capital. As extraordinarily well-educated Chinese-Cambodians, with the father a government agent, her family was in great danger when the Khmer Rouge took over the country and throughout Pol Pot''s barbaric regime. Her parents'' strength and her father''s knowledge of Khmer Rouge ideology enabled the family to survive together for a while, posing as illiterate peasants, moving first between villages, and then from one work camp to another. The father was honest with the children, explaining dangers and how to avoid them, and this, along with clear sight, intelligence and the pragmatism of a young child, helped Ung to survive the war. Her restrained, unsentimental account of the four years she spent surviving the regime before escaping with a brother to Thailand and eventually the United States is astonishing--not just because of the tragedies, but also because of the immense love for her family that Ung holds onto, no matter how she is brutalized. She describes the physical devastation she is surrounded by but always returns to her memories and hopes for those she loves. Her joyful memories of life in Phnom Penh are close even as she is being trained as a child soldier, and as, one after another, both parents and two of her six siblings are murdered in the camps. Skillfully constructed, this account also stands as an eyewitness history of the period, because as a child Ung was so aware of her surroundings, and because as an adult writer she adds details to clarify the family''s moves and separations. Twenty-five years after the rise of the Khmer Rouge, this powerful account is a triumph. 8 pages b&amp;w photos.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21270'),
(17735, 'First to Fight', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Marines, we have just become a low-tech deep recon patrol . . ."Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force, and supporting arms, and carrying only a day''s water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charlie Bass and his seven-man team faced a grim future seventy-five light-years from home. The only thing between his Marines and safety was eighty-five miles of uncharted, waterless terrain and two thousand bloodthirsty savages with state-of-the-art weapons in their hands and murder on their minds. But the enemy didn''t reckon on the warrior cunning of Marines'' Marine Charlie Bass and the courage of the few good men who would follow him anywhere--even to death. . . "HARD TO PUT DOWN . . . Any book written by Cragg and Sherman is bound to be addictive, and this is the first in what promises to be a great adventure series. FIRST TO FIGHT is rousing, rugged, and just plain fun."--Ralph Peters, New York Times bestselling author of Red Army\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25896'),
(17736, 'The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt', 'T. J. Stiles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.\n</p>\n<p>\n Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius â€œCommodoreâ€ Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washingtonâ€™s presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nationâ€™s largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. Lincoln consulted him on steamship strategy during the Civil War; Jay Gould was first his uneasy ally and then sworn enemy; and Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States, was his spiritual counselor. We see Vanderbilt help to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporationâ€”in fact, as T. J. Stiles elegantly argues, Vanderbilt did more than perhaps any other individual to create the economic world we live in today.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n , Stiles offers the first complete, authoritative biography of this titan, and the first comprehensive account of the Commodoreâ€™s personal life. It is a sweeping, fast-moving epic, and a complex portrait of the great man. Vanderbilt, Stiles shows, embraced the philosophy of the Jacksonian Democrats and withstood attacks by his conservative enemies for being too competitive. He was a visionary who pioneered business models. He was an unschooled fistfighter who came to command the respect of New Yorkâ€™s social elite. And he was a father who struggled with a gambling-addicted son, a husband who was loving yet abusive, and, finally, an old man who was obsessed with contacting the dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n is the exhilarating story of a man and a nation maturing together: the powerful account of a man whose life was as epic and complex as American history itself.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Excerpts from an Interview with T.J. Stiles\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Your last book was a\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  T.J. Stiles:\n </strong>\n I was drawn by who he was as a person, the lack of writing about him, and the historical themes that defined his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like Jesse James, Vanderbilt was man of action--decisive, dramatic, and always interesting. He courted physical danger, fought high-stakes financial battles, and always set the terms of his existence. Like Jesse James, Vanderbilt has not been the subject of much serious research. And like Jesse James, Vanderbilt opened a window on the making of modern America. Vanderbilt was central to the rise of the corporation, the emergence of Wall Street, and the birth of big business. His was a dramatic life played out on an enormous stage.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How long have you been working on this book and what kind of research went into it?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n I worked on it for more than six years. My research was challenging because Vanderbilt kept no diary, preserved no letters, and left behind no collection of papers. Second, the last serious biography about him was written in 1942. The increasing digitization of newspapers and Congressional documents helped, but I did most of my work the old-fashioned way, digging through archives and sitting in front of microfilm readers. My biggest discovery came when I stumbled upon the Old Records Division of the New York County Clerkâ€™s Office; I spent months there going through original lawsuit papers from as early as 1816. I uncovered entire episodes of Vanderbiltâ€™s life that no one ever suspected--fistfights, steamboats ramming each other, inside trading and noncompetition agreements, details about his physical office and epic tales of betrayal. I also focused on Vanderbiltâ€™s associates and rivals, and found priceless letters about him in their papers. Of course, I spent months more going through the papers of his various railroad corporations at the New York Public Library. I found so much new material that I decided to include a lengthy bibliographical essay.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Throughout the book, you highlight Vanderbilt''s role in the making of the modern idea of economic regulation. You also write, "The Commodoreâ€™s life left its mark on Americansâ€™ most basic beliefs about equality and opportunity." Where in our modern institutions do you think his legacy is most apparent?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n Vanderbilt early on voiced a political philosophy rooted in radical Jacksonianism. He believed in individual equality, in the right to compete freely. He denounced monopolies and corporations. This strain of thought remains a key part of American values. Yet he ended his life at the pinnacle of an incredibly unequal society, the master of a giant corporation that overshadowed almost every other business in America. That late-life transformation strongly influenced the new acceptance of government regulation that arose after the Civil War. I donâ€™t think so much that Vanderbiltâ€™s legacy can be seen in our institutions as much as our economic culture--the rise of the modern idea that government should intervene to regulate large businesses, and redress the balance of wealth and power in society.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What do you think Vanderbilt would have to say about our current economic climate; its root causes as well as the ever increasing bail-outs of giant corporations?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n When the Panic of 1873 hit, Vanderbilt gave an immediate analysis to a newspaper reporter that virtually describes the current situation. The problem was asset inflation: a speculative bubble (in his case, railroads, in our case, real estate) that tamped down skepticism about the value of securities issued by overvalued companies (or, in our case, mortgage-backed securities based on shaky home loans). Eager to ride the rising wave, banks in New York marketed the securities abroad, giving a stamp of approval, much as they have done with mortgage-backed securities today. In other words, Vanderbilt would have understood the root causes of our crisis, despite the great differences in the economy between then and now. And, though he usually looked askance at government intervention, the seriousness of the situation might have led him to approve of strong action. Itâ€™s hard to say, because he denounced subsidies, yet after the Panic of 1873 he also urged the federal government to pump new money into the economy. In any case, he would have had a sophisticated grasp of our conundrum.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Your own family history recently made national news when it was discovered, at The Smithsonian in Washington, DC, that one of President Lincoln''s watches contained a secret inscription from your great-great grandfather. That must have been pretty exciting for you, not only as a family member but as a historian who has written extensively about the Civil War. How do you feel about this news and what do you make of all the attention it received?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n The news accounts floored me. I never expected this favorite family story, one I never quite believed, to enter national mythology. My great-great-grandfather, Jonathan Dillon, was an Irish immigrant who was working in a Washington, D.C., watch repair shop when Fort Sumter was fired on. He happened to be holding Lincoln''s watch in his hand. He made an inscription on the back of the dial, closed it up, and said nothing to Lincoln about it. My second cousin, Douglas Stiles, tracked the watch to the Smithsonian''s Museum of American History, and convinced the director to open the watch up and check. The message was there--a little different from my great-great-grandfather''s memory, but it was there.\n</p>\n<p>\n I think it struck a chord with the nation at the moment of Lincoln''s bicentennial. Here was a plucky, immigrant watchmaker who left a silent message of encouragement in Lincoln''s pocket. No fanfare, nothing attention grabbing, just a patriotic, very human little act. I grew up with this story, and named my own son Dillon, in a kind of chain tribute to Jonathan Dillon, the watchmaker. (My father''s middle name is Dillon, and of course it was my great-grandmother Isabella Dillon''s maiden name.) When he was born in 2007, I often told the story about Lincoln''s watch. If I had my doubts about it, I figured that no one would dare tear open Lincoln''s watch to check. Glad they did.\n</p>\n<p>\n As a historian, I found it particularly startling to be brought so close to perhaps the most important American of any era. I wrote about Lincoln in\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n . Now I know that, as he held an urgent conference with Cornelius Vanderbilt over how best to deal with the Confederate ironclad Merrimack, he might have had in his pocket a secret message from my great-great-grandfather. The story adds an immediacy to the past, showing how close any one of us is to great historical events.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Joanne Chan)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the panic of 1869, Cornelius Vanderbilt â€œappeared in the role of a hero,â€ Stiles writes, praised for steadying the markets with his confidence and his cash. In reality, Vanderbiltâ€™s own machinations had helped push the markets to the brink. He gambled not only his fortune but, with it, the â€œhealth of the national economy,â€ and â€œthe only thing more remarkable than his recklessness was his success.â€ Vanderbilt started out running a ferry off Staten Island and went on to control shipping lines and railroads; he built Grand Central with his own money. The canvas of his life is so large that giants like Jay Gould appear as bit characters. (Thereâ€™s also Tennessee Claflin, a â€œmagnetic physicianâ€ and clairvoyant turned stockbroker; Stiles thinks that she and Vanderbilt had an affair but discounts some of the more vivid stories about their relationship.) Mark Twain described Vanderbilt as something like the Grinch, the â€œidol of . . . a crawling swarm of small soulsâ€â€”a cartoon that Stiles does a good job of redrawing.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/931'),
(17737, 'The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt', 'T. J. Stiles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.\n</p>\n<p>\n Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius â€œCommodoreâ€ Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washingtonâ€™s presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nationâ€™s largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. Lincoln consulted him on steamship strategy during the Civil War; Jay Gould was first his uneasy ally and then sworn enemy; and Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States, was his spiritual counselor. We see Vanderbilt help to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporationâ€”in fact, as T. J. Stiles elegantly argues, Vanderbilt did more than perhaps any other individual to create the economic world we live in today.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n , Stiles offers the first complete, authoritative biography of this titan, and the first comprehensive account of the Commodoreâ€™s personal life. It is a sweeping, fast-moving epic, and a complex portrait of the great man. Vanderbilt, Stiles shows, embraced the philosophy of the Jacksonian Democrats and withstood attacks by his conservative enemies for being too competitive. He was a visionary who pioneered business models. He was an unschooled fistfighter who came to command the respect of New Yorkâ€™s social elite. And he was a father who struggled with a gambling-addicted son, a husband who was loving yet abusive, and, finally, an old man who was obsessed with contacting the dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n is the exhilarating story of a man and a nation maturing together: the powerful account of a man whose life was as epic and complex as American history itself.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Excerpts from an Interview with T.J. Stiles\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Your last book was a\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  T.J. Stiles:\n </strong>\n I was drawn by who he was as a person, the lack of writing about him, and the historical themes that defined his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like Jesse James, Vanderbilt was man of action--decisive, dramatic, and always interesting. He courted physical danger, fought high-stakes financial battles, and always set the terms of his existence. Like Jesse James, Vanderbilt has not been the subject of much serious research. And like Jesse James, Vanderbilt opened a window on the making of modern America. Vanderbilt was central to the rise of the corporation, the emergence of Wall Street, and the birth of big business. His was a dramatic life played out on an enormous stage.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How long have you been working on this book and what kind of research went into it?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n I worked on it for more than six years. My research was challenging because Vanderbilt kept no diary, preserved no letters, and left behind no collection of papers. Second, the last serious biography about him was written in 1942. The increasing digitization of newspapers and Congressional documents helped, but I did most of my work the old-fashioned way, digging through archives and sitting in front of microfilm readers. My biggest discovery came when I stumbled upon the Old Records Division of the New York County Clerkâ€™s Office; I spent months there going through original lawsuit papers from as early as 1816. I uncovered entire episodes of Vanderbiltâ€™s life that no one ever suspected--fistfights, steamboats ramming each other, inside trading and noncompetition agreements, details about his physical office and epic tales of betrayal. I also focused on Vanderbiltâ€™s associates and rivals, and found priceless letters about him in their papers. Of course, I spent months more going through the papers of his various railroad corporations at the New York Public Library. I found so much new material that I decided to include a lengthy bibliographical essay.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Throughout the book, you highlight Vanderbilt''s role in the making of the modern idea of economic regulation. You also write, "The Commodoreâ€™s life left its mark on Americansâ€™ most basic beliefs about equality and opportunity." Where in our modern institutions do you think his legacy is most apparent?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n Vanderbilt early on voiced a political philosophy rooted in radical Jacksonianism. He believed in individual equality, in the right to compete freely. He denounced monopolies and corporations. This strain of thought remains a key part of American values. Yet he ended his life at the pinnacle of an incredibly unequal society, the master of a giant corporation that overshadowed almost every other business in America. That late-life transformation strongly influenced the new acceptance of government regulation that arose after the Civil War. I donâ€™t think so much that Vanderbiltâ€™s legacy can be seen in our institutions as much as our economic culture--the rise of the modern idea that government should intervene to regulate large businesses, and redress the balance of wealth and power in society.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What do you think Vanderbilt would have to say about our current economic climate; its root causes as well as the ever increasing bail-outs of giant corporations?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n When the Panic of 1873 hit, Vanderbilt gave an immediate analysis to a newspaper reporter that virtually describes the current situation. The problem was asset inflation: a speculative bubble (in his case, railroads, in our case, real estate) that tamped down skepticism about the value of securities issued by overvalued companies (or, in our case, mortgage-backed securities based on shaky home loans). Eager to ride the rising wave, banks in New York marketed the securities abroad, giving a stamp of approval, much as they have done with mortgage-backed securities today. In other words, Vanderbilt would have understood the root causes of our crisis, despite the great differences in the economy between then and now. And, though he usually looked askance at government intervention, the seriousness of the situation might have led him to approve of strong action. Itâ€™s hard to say, because he denounced subsidies, yet after the Panic of 1873 he also urged the federal government to pump new money into the economy. In any case, he would have had a sophisticated grasp of our conundrum.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Your own family history recently made national news when it was discovered, at The Smithsonian in Washington, DC, that one of President Lincoln''s watches contained a secret inscription from your great-great grandfather. That must have been pretty exciting for you, not only as a family member but as a historian who has written extensively about the Civil War. How do you feel about this news and what do you make of all the attention it received?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n The news accounts floored me. I never expected this favorite family story, one I never quite believed, to enter national mythology. My great-great-grandfather, Jonathan Dillon, was an Irish immigrant who was working in a Washington, D.C., watch repair shop when Fort Sumter was fired on. He happened to be holding Lincoln''s watch in his hand. He made an inscription on the back of the dial, closed it up, and said nothing to Lincoln about it. My second cousin, Douglas Stiles, tracked the watch to the Smithsonian''s Museum of American History, and convinced the director to open the watch up and check. The message was there--a little different from my great-great-grandfather''s memory, but it was there.\n</p>\n<p>\n I think it struck a chord with the nation at the moment of Lincoln''s bicentennial. Here was a plucky, immigrant watchmaker who left a silent message of encouragement in Lincoln''s pocket. No fanfare, nothing attention grabbing, just a patriotic, very human little act. I grew up with this story, and named my own son Dillon, in a kind of chain tribute to Jonathan Dillon, the watchmaker. (My father''s middle name is Dillon, and of course it was my great-grandmother Isabella Dillon''s maiden name.) When he was born in 2007, I often told the story about Lincoln''s watch. If I had my doubts about it, I figured that no one would dare tear open Lincoln''s watch to check. Glad they did.\n</p>\n<p>\n As a historian, I found it particularly startling to be brought so close to perhaps the most important American of any era. I wrote about Lincoln in\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n . Now I know that, as he held an urgent conference with Cornelius Vanderbilt over how best to deal with the Confederate ironclad Merrimack, he might have had in his pocket a secret message from my great-great-grandfather. The story adds an immediacy to the past, showing how close any one of us is to great historical events.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Joanne Chan)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the panic of 1869, Cornelius Vanderbilt â€œappeared in the role of a hero,â€ Stiles writes, praised for steadying the markets with his confidence and his cash. In reality, Vanderbiltâ€™s own machinations had helped push the markets to the brink. He gambled not only his fortune but, with it, the â€œhealth of the national economy,â€ and â€œthe only thing more remarkable than his recklessness was his success.â€ Vanderbilt started out running a ferry off Staten Island and went on to control shipping lines and railroads; he built Grand Central with his own money. The canvas of his life is so large that giants like Jay Gould appear as bit characters. (Thereâ€™s also Tennessee Claflin, a â€œmagnetic physicianâ€ and clairvoyant turned stockbroker; Stiles thinks that she and Vanderbilt had an affair but discounts some of the more vivid stories about their relationship.) Mark Twain described Vanderbilt as something like the Grinch, the â€œidol of . . . a crawling swarm of small soulsâ€â€”a cartoon that Stiles does a good job of redrawing.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12892');
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(17738, 'The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt', 'T. J. Stiles', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Book Description\n </strong>\n <br />\n A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.\n</p>\n<p>\n Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius â€œCommodoreâ€ Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washingtonâ€™s presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nationâ€™s largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. Lincoln consulted him on steamship strategy during the Civil War; Jay Gould was first his uneasy ally and then sworn enemy; and Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States, was his spiritual counselor. We see Vanderbilt help to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporationâ€”in fact, as T. J. Stiles elegantly argues, Vanderbilt did more than perhaps any other individual to create the economic world we live in today.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n , Stiles offers the first complete, authoritative biography of this titan, and the first comprehensive account of the Commodoreâ€™s personal life. It is a sweeping, fast-moving epic, and a complex portrait of the great man. Vanderbilt, Stiles shows, embraced the philosophy of the Jacksonian Democrats and withstood attacks by his conservative enemies for being too competitive. He was a visionary who pioneered business models. He was an unschooled fistfighter who came to command the respect of New Yorkâ€™s social elite. And he was a father who struggled with a gambling-addicted son, a husband who was loving yet abusive, and, finally, an old man who was obsessed with contacting the dead.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n is the exhilarating story of a man and a nation maturing together: the powerful account of a man whose life was as epic and complex as American history itself.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Excerpts from an Interview with T.J. Stiles\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Question:\n </strong>\n Your last book was a\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  T.J. Stiles:\n </strong>\n I was drawn by who he was as a person, the lack of writing about him, and the historical themes that defined his life.\n</p>\n<p>\n Like Jesse James, Vanderbilt was man of action--decisive, dramatic, and always interesting. He courted physical danger, fought high-stakes financial battles, and always set the terms of his existence. Like Jesse James, Vanderbilt has not been the subject of much serious research. And like Jesse James, Vanderbilt opened a window on the making of modern America. Vanderbilt was central to the rise of the corporation, the emergence of Wall Street, and the birth of big business. His was a dramatic life played out on an enormous stage.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How long have you been working on this book and what kind of research went into it?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n I worked on it for more than six years. My research was challenging because Vanderbilt kept no diary, preserved no letters, and left behind no collection of papers. Second, the last serious biography about him was written in 1942. The increasing digitization of newspapers and Congressional documents helped, but I did most of my work the old-fashioned way, digging through archives and sitting in front of microfilm readers. My biggest discovery came when I stumbled upon the Old Records Division of the New York County Clerkâ€™s Office; I spent months there going through original lawsuit papers from as early as 1816. I uncovered entire episodes of Vanderbiltâ€™s life that no one ever suspected--fistfights, steamboats ramming each other, inside trading and noncompetition agreements, details about his physical office and epic tales of betrayal. I also focused on Vanderbiltâ€™s associates and rivals, and found priceless letters about him in their papers. Of course, I spent months more going through the papers of his various railroad corporations at the New York Public Library. I found so much new material that I decided to include a lengthy bibliographical essay.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Throughout the book, you highlight Vanderbilt''s role in the making of the modern idea of economic regulation. You also write, "The Commodoreâ€™s life left its mark on Americansâ€™ most basic beliefs about equality and opportunity." Where in our modern institutions do you think his legacy is most apparent?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n Vanderbilt early on voiced a political philosophy rooted in radical Jacksonianism. He believed in individual equality, in the right to compete freely. He denounced monopolies and corporations. This strain of thought remains a key part of American values. Yet he ended his life at the pinnacle of an incredibly unequal society, the master of a giant corporation that overshadowed almost every other business in America. That late-life transformation strongly influenced the new acceptance of government regulation that arose after the Civil War. I donâ€™t think so much that Vanderbiltâ€™s legacy can be seen in our institutions as much as our economic culture--the rise of the modern idea that government should intervene to regulate large businesses, and redress the balance of wealth and power in society.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What do you think Vanderbilt would have to say about our current economic climate; its root causes as well as the ever increasing bail-outs of giant corporations?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n When the Panic of 1873 hit, Vanderbilt gave an immediate analysis to a newspaper reporter that virtually describes the current situation. The problem was asset inflation: a speculative bubble (in his case, railroads, in our case, real estate) that tamped down skepticism about the value of securities issued by overvalued companies (or, in our case, mortgage-backed securities based on shaky home loans). Eager to ride the rising wave, banks in New York marketed the securities abroad, giving a stamp of approval, much as they have done with mortgage-backed securities today. In other words, Vanderbilt would have understood the root causes of our crisis, despite the great differences in the economy between then and now. And, though he usually looked askance at government intervention, the seriousness of the situation might have led him to approve of strong action. Itâ€™s hard to say, because he denounced subsidies, yet after the Panic of 1873 he also urged the federal government to pump new money into the economy. In any case, he would have had a sophisticated grasp of our conundrum.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Your own family history recently made national news when it was discovered, at The Smithsonian in Washington, DC, that one of President Lincoln''s watches contained a secret inscription from your great-great grandfather. That must have been pretty exciting for you, not only as a family member but as a historian who has written extensively about the Civil War. How do you feel about this news and what do you make of all the attention it received?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  TJS:\n </strong>\n The news accounts floored me. I never expected this favorite family story, one I never quite believed, to enter national mythology. My great-great-grandfather, Jonathan Dillon, was an Irish immigrant who was working in a Washington, D.C., watch repair shop when Fort Sumter was fired on. He happened to be holding Lincoln''s watch in his hand. He made an inscription on the back of the dial, closed it up, and said nothing to Lincoln about it. My second cousin, Douglas Stiles, tracked the watch to the Smithsonian''s Museum of American History, and convinced the director to open the watch up and check. The message was there--a little different from my great-great-grandfather''s memory, but it was there.\n</p>\n<p>\n I think it struck a chord with the nation at the moment of Lincoln''s bicentennial. Here was a plucky, immigrant watchmaker who left a silent message of encouragement in Lincoln''s pocket. No fanfare, nothing attention grabbing, just a patriotic, very human little act. I grew up with this story, and named my own son Dillon, in a kind of chain tribute to Jonathan Dillon, the watchmaker. (My father''s middle name is Dillon, and of course it was my great-grandmother Isabella Dillon''s maiden name.) When he was born in 2007, I often told the story about Lincoln''s watch. If I had my doubts about it, I figured that no one would dare tear open Lincoln''s watch to check. Glad they did.\n</p>\n<p>\n As a historian, I found it particularly startling to be brought so close to perhaps the most important American of any era. I wrote about Lincoln in\n <em>\n  The First Tycoon\n </em>\n . Now I know that, as he held an urgent conference with Cornelius Vanderbilt over how best to deal with the Confederate ironclad Merrimack, he might have had in his pocket a secret message from my great-great-grandfather. The story adds an immediacy to the past, showing how close any one of us is to great historical events.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Joanne Chan)\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the panic of 1869, Cornelius Vanderbilt â€œappeared in the role of a hero,â€ Stiles writes, praised for steadying the markets with his confidence and his cash. In reality, Vanderbiltâ€™s own machinations had helped push the markets to the brink. He gambled not only his fortune but, with it, the â€œhealth of the national economy,â€ and â€œthe only thing more remarkable than his recklessness was his success.â€ Vanderbilt started out running a ferry off Staten Island and went on to control shipping lines and railroads; he built Grand Central with his own money. The canvas of his life is so large that giants like Jay Gould appear as bit characters. (Thereâ€™s also Tennessee Claflin, a â€œmagnetic physicianâ€ and clairvoyant turned stockbroker; Stiles thinks that she and Vanderbilt had an affair but discounts some of the more vivid stories about their relationship.) Mark Twain described Vanderbilt as something like the Grinch, the â€œidol of . . . a crawling swarm of small soulsâ€â€”a cartoon that Stiles does a good job of redrawing.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24111'),
(17739, 'The First World War', 'Hew Strachan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It will soon be close to a century since the outbreak of the First World War, yet as   military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative one-volume   history, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. Written in crisp,   compelling prose and enlivened with vivid photographsâ€”including early color   photographsâ€”*The First World War* re-creates this world-altering conflict both on   and off the battlefield. Strachan offers a fresh and truly global perspective on how the   Great War not only redrew the map of the world but also set in motion the most   dangerous conflicts of today, especially in such hot spots as the Middle East and the   Balkans. Deeply learned and powerfully written, *The First World War* is a   landmark work of contemporary history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5066'),
(17740, 'The First World War', 'Hew Strachan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It will soon be close to a century since the outbreak of the First World War, yet as   military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative one-volume   history, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. Written in crisp,   compelling prose and enlivened with vivid photographsâ€”including early color   photographsâ€”*The First World War* re-creates this world-altering conflict both on   and off the battlefield. Strachan offers a fresh and truly global perspective on how the   Great War not only redrew the map of the world but also set in motion the most   dangerous conflicts of today, especially in such hot spots as the Middle East and the   Balkans. Deeply learned and powerfully written, *The First World War* is a   landmark work of contemporary history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12431'),
(17741, 'The First World War', 'Hew Strachan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It will soon be close to a century since the outbreak of the First World War, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative one-volume history, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. Written in crisp, compelling prose and enlivened with vivid photographsâ€”including early color photographsâ€”*The First World War* re-creates this world-altering conflict both on and off the battlefield. Strachan offers a fresh and truly global perspective on how the Great War not only redrew the map of the world but also set in motion the most dangerous conflicts of today, especially in such hot spots as the Middle East and the Balkans. Deeply learned and powerfully written, *The First World War* is a landmark work of contemporary history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19564'),
(17742, 'The First World War', 'Hew Strachan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It will soon be close to a century since the outbreak of the First World War, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative one-volume history, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. Written in crisp, compelling prose and enlivened with vivid photographsâ€”including early color photographsâ€”*The First World War* re-creates this world-altering conflict both on and off the battlefield. Strachan offers a fresh and truly global perspective on how the Great War not only redrew the map of the world but also set in motion the most dangerous conflicts of today, especially in such hot spots as the Middle East and the Balkans. Deeply learned and powerfully written, *The First World War* is a landmark work of contemporary history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28125'),
(17743, 'Firstborn', 'Arthur C. Clarke; Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though supposedly the last volume of Clarke and Baxter''s Time Odyssey series (after 2005''s\n <em>\n  Sunstorm\n </em>\n ), this intriguing and frustrating installment of the high-octane space opera ends with an astounding cliffhanger just as humans have begun to confront the ancient and super-powerful Firstborn, who attack any species that might become a rival. Having barely survived a Firstborn-created solar flare, Earth now must cope with a meteor bomb approaching from deep space. Tensions rise between secretive, paranoid forces on Earth and equally suspicious groups among the Spacers, whose identification with humanity''s home is waning. Meanwhile, in a pocket universe created by the Firstborn for some inscrutable purpose, slices from different Terran eons nervously adjust to each other. The narrative leaps about too much to develop characters, but Clarke has never been as interested in individuals as in humanity''s ability to accept change as a species. It''s too early to tell whether that theme will be enough to carry the story to a coherent conclusion.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter\n</p>\n<p>\n Sunstorm\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œClarke and Baxter have mastered the art of saving the world in blockbuster style.â€\n <br />\n â€“Entertainment Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn absolute must for science fiction fans.â€\n <br />\n â€“All Things Considered\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSure to blow your mind.â€\n <br />\n â€“BookMarks\n</p>\n<p>\n Timeâ€™s Eye\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWonderfully entertaining . . . a story that engrosses you with its dramatized ideas about the nature of existence.â€\n <br />\n â€“Chicago Tribune\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œA rousing adventure.â€\n <br />\n â€“The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA fast and engaging read.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€“\n </em>\n Rocky Mountain News\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n _\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15644'),
(17744, 'Firstborn', 'Arthur C. Clarke &amp; Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Firstbornâ€“the mysterious race of aliens who first became known to science fiction fans as the builders of the iconic black monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey*â€“*have inhabited legendary master of science fiction Sir Arthur C. Clarkeâ€™s writing for decades. With Timeâ€™s Eye and Sunstorm, the first two books in their acclaimed Time Odyssey series, Clarke and his brilliant co-author Stephen Baxter imagined a near-future in which the Firstborn seek to stop the advance of human civilization by employing a technology indistinguishable from magic.Their first act was the Discontinuity, in which Earth was carved into sections from different eras of history, restitched into a patchwork world, and renamed Mir. Mirâ€™s inhabitants included such notables as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and United Nations peacekeeper Bisesa Dutt. For reasons unknown to her, Bisesa entered into communication with an alien artifact of inscrutable purpose and godlike powerâ€“a power that eventually returned her to Earth. There, she played an instrumental role in humanityâ€™s race against time to stop a doomsday event: a massive solar storm triggered by the alien Firstborn designed to eradicate all life from the planet. That fate was averted at an inconceivable price. Now, twenty-seven years later, the Firstborn are back.This time, they are pulling no punches: They have sent a â€œquantum bomb.â€ Speeding toward Earth, it is a device that human scientists can barely comprehend, that cannot be stopped or destroyedâ€“and one that will obliterate Earth.Bisesaâ€™s desperate quest for answers sends her first to Mars and then to Mir, which is itself threatened with extinction. The end seems inevitable. But as shocking new insights emerge into the nature of the Firstborn and their chilling plans for mankind, an unexpected ally appears from light-years away.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26449'),
(17745, 'Fisa de inregistrare', 'Ioana Baetica', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25646'),
(17746, 'A Fish Dinner in Memison', 'E.R. Eddson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5799'),
(17747, 'A Fish Dinner in Memison', 'E.R. Eddson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Fish Dinner in Memison is a novel centering on the characters of King Mezentius and Fiorinda; much is revealed about the links between principal characters and the separate worlds of the novel, not fully resolved in the other novels in the trilogy. The character of Lessingham is also resolved to its greatest extent in all the novels of the trilogy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18803'),
(17748, 'A Fish Dinner in Memison', 'E.R. Eddson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Fish Dinner in Memison is a novel centering on the characters of King Mezentius and Fiorinda; much is revealed about the links between principal characters and the separate worlds of the novel, not fully resolved in the other novels in the trilogy. The character of Lessingham is also resolved to its greatest extent in all the novels of the trilogy\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27625'),
(17749, 'Fistandantilus Reborn', 'Douglas Niles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Lost Gods BookEmilo Haversack is unusually worried for a kender -- though he can''t for the life of him remember what his problem is. Still, he''s been wandering across Ansalon for quite some time, trying to remember what''s wrong. All he can recall is the name of a very evil, very dead wizard . . . Fistandantilus.Joined by a young kendermaid, a human lad, and a devout, if somewhat naive priest, Emilo is drawn into a mysterious quest. As he draws closer to the secret of his past, he and his friends find themselves caught in an increasingly sinister web of intrigue.And as the conclusion of the adventure approaches, the companions learn that their pourpose is one that could catapult them from Krynn -- and forever change the destiny of the world they leave behind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18647'),
(17750, 'A Fistfull of Charms', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14650'),
(17751, 'A Fistfull of Charms', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20846'),
(17752, 'Five Are Together Again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18531'),
(17753, 'Five Days in Paris', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Peter Haskell, the debonair star of\n <em>\n  Five Days in Paris\n </em>\n , has it all: a beautiful wife, three children, and a dreamy job. He''s a magnate at one of the world''s largest pharmaceutical conglomerates, Viotec, on the brink of revolutionizing cancer treatment. "It would be Peter''s one major contribution to the human race," says the narrator--and if he can get it on the fast track toward approval by the Food and Drug Administration, he can mitigate the hell of chemotherapy for patients worldwide. Heady stuff, but it''s nothing compared to what Peter finds in Paris at his favorite hotel, the Ritz, which he likens to heaven. "The brocades on the wall were a warm peach ... the fireplace apricot marble and the window and bedcoverings were in the same matching silks and satins." All Peter needs now is a beauty to match such decor, and he finds her in lovely Olivia Thatcher, the neglected wife of Anderson Thatcher, a powerful senator. Peter and Olivia meet at the Ritz, fall head over heels at Place Vendome, and have a 120-hour affair in the city of love. Back home, they find they cannot live without each other--a secret that, once revealed, could wreak havoc. Swirling with lust, politics, love, and epicurean appetites for the best life has to offer,\n <em>\n  Five Days in Paris\n </em>\n has all the essentials of a classic Steel entertainment.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n FIVE DAYS IN PARIS Danielle Steel. Dell, $6.50 ISBN 0-44022284-2. Steel''s 36th novel, an 18-week PW bestseller, is a tale of l''amour fou between two Americans in Paris who are married to other people.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6370'),
(17754, 'Five Days in Paris', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Peter Haskell, the debonair star of\n <em>\n  Five Days in Paris\n </em>\n , has it all: a beautiful wife, three children, and a dreamy job. He''s a magnate at one of the world''s largest pharmaceutical conglomerates, Viotec, on the brink of revolutionizing cancer treatment. "It would be Peter''s one major contribution to the human race," says the narrator--and if he can get it on the fast track toward approval by the Food and Drug Administration, he can mitigate the hell of chemotherapy for patients worldwide. Heady stuff, but it''s nothing compared to what Peter finds in Paris at his favorite hotel, the Ritz, which he likens to heaven. "The brocades on the wall were a warm peach ... the fireplace apricot marble and the window and bedcoverings were in the same matching silks and satins." All Peter needs now is a beauty to match such decor, and he finds her in lovely Olivia Thatcher, the neglected wife of Anderson Thatcher, a powerful senator. Peter and Olivia meet at the Ritz, fall head over heels at Place Vendome, and have a 120-hour affair in the city of love. Back home, they find they cannot live without each other--a secret that, once revealed, could wreak havoc. Swirling with lust, politics, love, and epicurean appetites for the best life has to offer,\n <em>\n  Five Days in Paris\n </em>\n has all the essentials of a classic Steel entertainment.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n FIVE DAYS IN PARIS Danielle Steel. Dell, $6.50 ISBN 0-44022284-2. Steel''s 36th novel, an 18-week PW bestseller, is a tale of l''amour fou between two Americans in Paris who are married to other people.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12775'),
(17755, 'Five Days in Paris', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Peter Haskell, the debonair star of\n <em>\n  Five Days in Paris\n </em>\n , has it all: a beautiful wife, three children, and a dreamy job. He''s a magnate at one of the world''s largest pharmaceutical conglomerates, Viotec, on the brink of revolutionizing cancer treatment. "It would be Peter''s one major contribution to the human race," says the narrator--and if he can get it on the fast track toward approval by the Food and Drug Administration, he can mitigate the hell of chemotherapy for patients worldwide. Heady stuff, but it''s nothing compared to what Peter finds in Paris at his favorite hotel, the Ritz, which he likens to heaven. "The brocades on the wall were a warm peach ... the fireplace apricot marble and the window and bedcoverings were in the same matching silks and satins." All Peter needs now is a beauty to match such decor, and he finds her in lovely Olivia Thatcher, the neglected wife of Anderson Thatcher, a powerful senator. Peter and Olivia meet at the Ritz, fall head over heels at Place Vendome, and have a 120-hour affair in the city of love. Back home, they find they cannot live without each other--a secret that, once revealed, could wreak havoc. Swirling with lust, politics, love, and epicurean appetites for the best life has to offer,\n <em>\n  Five Days in Paris\n </em>\n has all the essentials of a classic Steel entertainment.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n FIVE DAYS IN PARIS Danielle Steel. Dell, $6.50 ISBN 0-44022284-2. Steel''s 36th novel, an 18-week PW bestseller, is a tale of l''amour fou between two Americans in Paris who are married to other people.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17589'),
(17756, 'Five Fall Into Adventure', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18532'),
(17757, 'Five Flavors of Dumb', 'Antony John', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 9 Upâ€“When in a rush of uncommon bravado high school senior Piper offers to manage Dumb, her school''s most popular student rock band, her family thinks it must be a joke. A retiring student and member of the chess team, Piper is neither the stereotypical band manager nor a typical teen: she is profoundly hearing impaired. After she discovers that her parents have spent the majority of her college money to treat her infant sister''s deafness with cochlear implants, Piper''s quest to get Dumb a paying gig leads her to consider her managerial role as a potential source of income. John''s novel is written with a reverence for popular musicâ€“particularly the work of Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobainâ€“and a respect for its ambitious teen characters. Although Piper''s hearing is a characterizing detail that could have been used solely to add a type of politically incorrect and screwball humor to the story, her abilities are seen as assets: while lip reading allows her access to public conversation, she is not above using sign language to obscure her intentions. The parallel attention to Piper''s hearing family and the strain her parents'' decision to treat her sister with cochlear implants adds to the greater story and informs the novel''s direction and ending in a satisfying way. Set in the Pacific Northwest, this rock-and-roll novel joins the ranks of Randy Powell''s equally thoughtful Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star (Farrar, 2003) and Blake Nelson''s Rock Star Superstar (Viking, 2004).â€“Amy S. Pattee, Simmons College, Boston. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I loved it and laughed out loud. Hilarious and so smart. Dumb proves that everyone, no matter what, deserves to be heard." Ã‘Catherine Gilbert Murdoch, author of\n <em>\n  Dairy Queen\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7536'),
(17758, 'Five Flavors of Dumb', 'Antony John', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 9 Upâ€“When in a rush of uncommon bravado high school senior Piper offers to manage Dumb, her school''s most popular student rock band, her family thinks it must be a joke. A retiring student and member of the chess team, Piper is neither the stereotypical band manager nor a typical teen: she is profoundly hearing impaired. After she discovers that her parents have spent the majority of her college money to treat her infant sister''s deafness with cochlear implants, Piper''s quest to get Dumb a paying gig leads her to consider her managerial role as a potential source of income. John''s novel is written with a reverence for popular musicâ€“particularly the work of Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobainâ€“and a respect for its ambitious teen characters. Although Piper''s hearing is a characterizing detail that could have been used solely to add a type of politically incorrect and screwball humor to the story, her abilities are seen as assets: while lip reading allows her access to public conversation, she is not above using sign language to obscure her intentions. The parallel attention to Piper''s hearing family and the strain her parents'' decision to treat her sister with cochlear implants adds to the greater story and informs the novel''s direction and ending in a satisfying way. Set in the Pacific Northwest, this rock-and-roll novel joins the ranks of Randy Powell''s equally thoughtful Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star (Farrar, 2003) and Blake Nelson''s Rock Star Superstar (Viking, 2004).â€“Amy S. Pattee, Simmons College, Boston. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I loved it and laughed out loud. Hilarious and so smart. Dumb proves that everyone, no matter what, deserves to be heard." Ã‘Catherine Gilbert Murdoch, author of\n <em>\n  Dairy Queen\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10513'),
(17759, 'Five Flavors of Dumb', 'Antony John', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 9 Upâ€“When in a rush of uncommon bravado high school senior Piper offers to manage Dumb, her school''s most popular student rock band, her family thinks it must be a joke. A retiring student and member of the chess team, Piper is neither the stereotypical band manager nor a typical teen: she is profoundly hearing impaired. After she discovers that her parents have spent the majority of her college money to treat her infant sister''s deafness with cochlear implants, Piper''s quest to get Dumb a paying gig leads her to consider her managerial role as a potential source of income. John''s novel is written with a reverence for popular musicâ€“particularly the work of Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobainâ€“and a respect for its ambitious teen characters. Although Piper''s hearing is a characterizing detail that could have been used solely to add a type of politically incorrect and screwball humor to the story, her abilities are seen as assets: while lip reading allows her access to public conversation, she is not above using sign language to obscure her intentions. The parallel attention to Piper''s hearing family and the strain her parents'' decision to treat her sister with cochlear implants adds to the greater story and informs the novel''s direction and ending in a satisfying way. Set in the Pacific Northwest, this rock-and-roll novel joins the ranks of Randy Powell''s equally thoughtful Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star (Farrar, 2003) and Blake Nelson''s Rock Star Superstar (Viking, 2004).â€“Amy S. Pattee, Simmons College, Boston. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "I loved it and laughed out loud. Hilarious and so smart. Dumb proves that everyone, no matter what, deserves to be heard." Ã‘Catherine Gilbert Murdoch, author of\n <em>\n  Dairy Queen\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16426'),
(17760, 'Five Get Into a Fix', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18533'),
(17761, 'Five Get Into Trouble', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Famous Five are distraught! Dick has been kidnapped - mistaken for somebody else! The gang finally track him down - to a lonely, abandoned house - but then they too are seized and held captive! Now that all of them are miles from home, and from help, how will the intrepid Five get themselves out of this mess . . ?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5573'),
(17762, 'Five Get Into Trouble', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Famous Five are distraught! Dick has been kidnapped - mistaken for somebody else! The gang finally track him down - to a lonely, abandoned house - but then they too are seized and held captive! Now that all of them are miles from home, and from help, how will the intrepid Five get themselves out of this mess . . ?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18978'),
(17763, 'Five Get Into Trouble', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Famous Five are distraught! Dick has been kidnapped - mistaken for somebody else! The gang finally track him down - to a lonely, abandoned house - but then they too are seized and held captive! Now that all of them are miles from home, and from help, how will the intrepid Five get themselves out of this mess . . ?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27745'),
(17764, 'Five Go Adventuring Again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s a thief at Kirrin Cottage! The Famous Five think they know who it is, but they need to prove it! Where can they find evidence? The discovery of an old map and very unusual hiding place is all they need to get to the bottom of this mystery and uncover the true culprit!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5575'),
(17765, 'Five go adventuring again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There''s a thief at Kirrin Cottage! The Famous Five think they know who it is, but they need to prove it! Where can they find evidence? The discovery of an old map and very unusual hiding place is all they need to get to the bottom of this mystery and uncover the true culprit!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18977'),
(17766, 'Five go adventuring again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There''s a thief at Kirrin Cottage! The Famous Five think they know who it is, but they need to prove it! Where can they find evidence? The discovery of an old map and very unusual hiding place is all they need to get to the bottom of this mystery and uncover the true culprit!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27744'),
(17767, 'Five Go Down to the Sea', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18534'),
(17768, 'Five Go Off in a Caravan', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A caravan holiday for the Famous Five is bound to be an adventure! And when they stumble across a circus troupe, the gang are thrilled. But some of the circus people have more sinister plans than just clowning around . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5576'),
(17769, 'Five Go Off in a Caravan', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A caravan holiday for the Famous Five is bound to be an adventure! And when they stumble across a circus troupe, the gang are thrilled. But some of the circus people have more sinister plans than just clowning around . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18974'),
(17770, 'Five Go Off in a Caravan', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A caravan holiday for the Famous Five is bound to be an adventure! And when they stumble across a circus troupe, the gang are thrilled. But some of the circus people have more sinister plans than just clowning around . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27743'),
(17771, 'Five Go Off to Camp', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Spook trains in the dead of night! And they seem to vanish into thin air - but where do they go? The Famous Five are on to it! But discovery of an unusual underground tunnel system, and a secret train-service, has them puzzled. If they follow the tracks, will they solve the mystery?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5580'),
(17772, 'Five go off to camp', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Spook trains in the dead of night! And they seem to vanish into thin air - but where do they go? The Famous Five are on to it! But discovery of an unusual underground tunnel system, and a secret train-service, has them puzzled. If they follow the tracks, will they solve the mystery?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18973'),
(17773, 'Five go off to camp', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Spook trains in the dead of night! And they seem to vanish into thin air - but where do they go? The Famous Five are on to it! But discovery of an unusual underground tunnel system, and a secret train-service, has them puzzled. If they follow the tracks, will they solve the mystery?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27740'),
(17774, 'Five Go to Billycock Hill', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18535'),
(17775, 'Five Go to Demons Rock', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18530'),
(17776, 'Five Go to Mystery Moor', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18536'),
(17777, 'Five Go to Smuggler&#39;s Top', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18537'),
(17778, 'Five Great Novels. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Martian Time-Slip. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Ubik. A Scanner Darkly', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This volume contains DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (filmed as BLADERUNNER), MARTIAN TIME SLIP, UBIK, THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH and A SCANNER DARKLY. Taken together they represent the best of Philip K. Dick''s unique imagination. In Dick''s writing nothing is what it seems, our sense of the world''s order is fatally undermined and mass media tells us nothing but artful lies. Films such as THE MATRIX and THE TRUMAN SHOW would not have been made but for Philip K. Dick. His work has never been more timely.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2072'),
(17779, 'Five great novels. The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Martian time-slip. Do Androids dream of electric sheep?. Ubik. A scanner darkly', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This volume contains DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (filmed as BLADERUNNER), MARTIAN TIME SLIP, UBIK, THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH and A SCANNER DARKLY. Taken together they represent the best of Philip K. Dick''s unique imagination. In Dick''s writing nothing is what it seems, our sense of the world''s order is fatally undermined and mass media tells us nothing but artful lies. Films such as THE MATRIX and THE TRUMAN SHOW would not have been made but for Philip K. Dick. His work has never been more timely.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15296'),
(17780, 'Five great novels. The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Martian time-slip. Do Androids dream of electric sheep?. Ubik. A scanner darkly', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This volume contains DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (filmed as BLADERUNNER), MARTIAN TIME SLIP, UBIK, THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH and A SCANNER DARKLY. Taken together they represent the best of Philip K. Dick''s unique imagination. In Dick''s writing nothing is what it seems, our sense of the world''s order is fatally undermined and mass media tells us nothing but artful lies. Films such as THE MATRIX and THE TRUMAN SHOW would not have been made but for Philip K. Dick. His work has never been more timely.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22694'),
(17781, 'Five Have a Mystery to Solve', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18538'),
(17782, 'Five Have a Wonderful Time', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Famous Five are having a brilliant time - on holiday in horse-drawn caravans - and they''ve discovered a ruined castle nearby! The castle looked deserted from a distance - but is that a face at the window? Or is it a trick of the light? The Famous Five just have to find out! Just who is hiding in the castle?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5581'),
(17783, 'Five have a wonderful time', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Famous Five are having a brilliant time - on holiday in horse-drawn caravans - and they''ve discovered a ruined castle nearby! The castle looked deserted from a distance - but is that a face at the window? Or is it a trick of the light? The Famous Five just have to find out! Just who is hiding in the castle?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18969'),
(17784, 'Five have a wonderful time', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Famous Five are having a brilliant time - on holiday in horse-drawn caravans - and they''ve discovered a ruined castle nearby! The castle looked deserted from a distance - but is that a face at the window? Or is it a trick of the light? The Famous Five just have to find out! Just who is hiding in the castle?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27739'),
(17785, 'Five Have Plenty of Fun', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18539'),
(17786, 'Five Little Pigs', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Take one dead lothario; add his jealous wife accused of his murder; toss in a devoted daughter who wants to clear her mother''s name, and you get one of the greatest challenges of Hercule Poirot''s career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/85'),
(17787, 'Five Little Pigs', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Take one dead lothario; add his jealous wife accused of his murder; toss in a devoted daughter who wants to clear her mother''s name, and you get one of the greatest challenges of Hercule Poirot''s career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17152'),
(17788, 'Five on a Hike Together', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18540'),
(17789, 'Five on a Secret Trail', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18541'),
(17790, 'Five on a Treasure Island', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The very first Famous Five adventure, featuring Julian, Dick, Anne, not forgetting tomboy George and her beloved dog, Timmy! There''s a shipwreck off Kirrin Island! But where is the treasure? The Famous Five are on the trail - looking for clues - but they''re not alone! Someone else has got the same idea. Time is running out for the Famous Five, who will follow the clues and get to the treasure first?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5582'),
(17791, 'Five on a treasure island', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The very first Famous Five adventure, featuring Julian, Dick, Anne, not forgetting tomboy George and her beloved dog, Timmy! There''s a shipwreck off Kirrin Island! But where is the treasure? The Famous Five are on the trail - looking for clues - but they''re not alone! Someone else has got the same idea. Time is running out for the Famous Five, who will follow the clues and get to the treasure first?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18968'),
(17792, 'Five on a treasure island', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The very first Famous Five adventure, featuring Julian, Dick, Anne, not forgetting tomboy George and her beloved dog, Timmy! There''s a shipwreck off Kirrin Island! But where is the treasure? The Famous Five are on the trail - looking for clues - but they''re not alone! Someone else has got the same idea. Time is running out for the Famous Five, who will follow the clues and get to the treasure first?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27738'),
(17793, 'Five on Finniston Farm', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18654'),
(17794, 'Five on Kirrin Island Again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What can Uncle Quentin be up to - all alone - on Kirrin Island. He won''t let anyone visit - not even George and the rest of the Famous Five. But Quentin isn''t really all alone on the island - somebody is watching his every move!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5584'),
(17795, 'Five on Kirrin Island Again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What can Uncle Quentin be up to - all alone - on Kirrin Island. He won''t let anyone visit - not even George and the rest of the Famous Five. But Quentin isn''t really all alone on the island - somebody is watching his every move!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19033'),
(17796, 'Five on Kirrin Island Again', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What can Uncle Quentin be up to - all alone - on Kirrin Island. He won''t let anyone visit - not even George and the rest of the Famous Five. But Quentin isn''t really all alone on the island - somebody is watching his every move!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27737'),
(17797, 'The Five Orange Pips', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15631');
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(17798, 'Five Past Midnight', 'James Thayer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s remarkable that practicing lawyers such as Seattle''s James Thayer find the time, not to mention the psychic energy, to write smashing, fact-packed thrillers like this top-drawer tale, in which a lone assassin is sent into Germany at the end of World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to knock off Hitler. Unlike other "what if?" books such as\n <em>\n  The Day of the Jackal,\n </em>\n where readers know from the start that the plot to kill de Gaulle didn''t succeed,\n <em>\n  Five Past Midnight\n </em>\n winds up in the ruins of Hitler''s bunker, where the Nazi leader indeed met his end. Whether or not it was at the hands of American commando Jack Cray is up to readers to decide--and Thayer does his best to sway the jury in favor of his client. His last gripping thriller,\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Worn out though it be, the action hero bestriding a cartoonish world is a versatile stock character with regular appeal--provided the antagonist is suitably bad. Thayer picks the baddest of the bad--Adolf Hitler in Berlin, 1945. On the flimsy rumor that Hitler will continue the war from the Alps, special forces assassin Jack Cray is dispatched to stop him. Any cement head can kill, but to do so with Cray''s disguises and efficiency--with knives! guns! bare hands!--shows he''s a pro that no Gestapo thugs could possibly stop. Their efforts are short hurdles that Cray overcomes in ever more spectacular fashion. Locked up in a POW prison? Escape by faking death. Approaching a roadblock? Hide in a beef carcass. Need a German uniform? A sniper rifle? Fake documents? Cray steals, with the occasional help of a spy, everything he needs in a series of scrapes and escapes as he closes on Hitler''s bunker, where Cray''s SS ally awaits. A silly beach-time diversion with the noisy explosiveness that more people ask for by name--Thayer.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4674'),
(17799, 'Five Past Midnight', 'James Thayer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s remarkable that practicing lawyers such as Seattle''s James Thayer find the time, not to mention the psychic energy, to write smashing, fact-packed thrillers like this top-drawer tale, in which a lone assassin is sent into Germany at the end of World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to knock off Hitler. Unlike other "what if?" books such as\n <em>\n  The Day of the Jackal,\n </em>\n where readers know from the start that the plot to kill de Gaulle didn''t succeed,\n <em>\n  Five Past Midnight\n </em>\n winds up in the ruins of Hitler''s bunker, where the Nazi leader indeed met his end. Whether or not it was at the hands of American commando Jack Cray is up to readers to decide--and Thayer does his best to sway the jury in favor of his client. His last gripping thriller,\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Worn out though it be, the action hero bestriding a cartoonish world is a versatile stock character with regular appeal--provided the antagonist is suitably bad. Thayer picks the baddest of the bad--Adolf Hitler in Berlin, 1945. On the flimsy rumor that Hitler will continue the war from the Alps, special forces assassin Jack Cray is dispatched to stop him. Any cement head can kill, but to do so with Cray''s disguises and efficiency--with knives! guns! bare hands!--shows he''s a pro that no Gestapo thugs could possibly stop. Their efforts are short hurdles that Cray overcomes in ever more spectacular fashion. Locked up in a POW prison? Escape by faking death. Approaching a roadblock? Hide in a beef carcass. Need a German uniform? A sniper rifle? Fake documents? Cray steals, with the occasional help of a spy, everything he needs in a series of scrapes and escapes as he closes on Hitler''s bunker, where Cray''s SS ally awaits. A silly beach-time diversion with the noisy explosiveness that more people ask for by name--Thayer.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12972'),
(17800, 'Five Past Midnight', 'James Thayer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s remarkable that practicing lawyers such as Seattle''s James Thayer find the time, not to mention the psychic energy, to write smashing, fact-packed thrillers like this top-drawer tale, in which a lone assassin is sent into Germany at the end of World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to knock off Hitler. Unlike other "what if?" books such as\n <em>\n  The Day of the Jackal,\n </em>\n where readers know from the start that the plot to kill de Gaulle didn''t succeed,\n <em>\n  Five Past Midnight\n </em>\n winds up in the ruins of Hitler''s bunker, where the Nazi leader indeed met his end. Whether or not it was at the hands of American commando Jack Cray is up to readers to decide--and Thayer does his best to sway the jury in favor of his client. His last gripping thriller,\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Worn out though it be, the action hero bestriding a cartoonish world is a versatile stock character with regular appeal--provided the antagonist is suitably bad. Thayer picks the baddest of the bad--Adolf Hitler in Berlin, 1945. On the flimsy rumor that Hitler will continue the war from the Alps, special forces assassin Jack Cray is dispatched to stop him. Any cement head can kill, but to do so with Cray''s disguises and efficiency--with knives! guns! bare hands!--shows he''s a pro that no Gestapo thugs could possibly stop. Their efforts are short hurdles that Cray overcomes in ever more spectacular fashion. Locked up in a POW prison? Escape by faking death. Approaching a roadblock? Hide in a beef carcass. Need a German uniform? A sniper rifle? Fake documents? Cray steals, with the occasional help of a spy, everything he needs in a series of scrapes and escapes as he closes on Hitler''s bunker, where Cray''s SS ally awaits. A silly beach-time diversion with the noisy explosiveness that more people ask for by name--Thayer.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19966'),
(17801, 'Five People You Meet In Heaven', 'Mitch Albom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14570'),
(17802, 'Five People You Meet In Heaven', 'Mitch Albom', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22143'),
(17803, 'Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood', 'Bill Hayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "We''re born in blood. Our family histories are contained in it, our bodies nourished by it daily. Five quarts run through each of us, along some sixty thousand miles of arteries, veins, and capillaries."\n <br />\n --from_\n <em>\n  Five Quarts\n </em>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n In the national bestseller Sleep Demons, Bill Hayes took us on a trailblazing trip through the night country of insomnia. Now he is our guide on a whirlwind journey through history, literature, mythology, and science by means of the great red river that runs five quarts strong through our bodies.\n</p>\n<p>\n Profusely illustrated, the journey stretches from ancient Rome, where gladiators drank the blood of vanquished foes to gain strength and courage, to modern-day laboratories, where high-tech machines test blood for diseases and dedicated scientists search for elusive cures. Along the way, there will be world-changing triumphs: William Harvey''s discovery of the circulation of the blood; Antoni van Leeuwenhoek''s advances in making the invisible world visible in the early days of the microscope; Dr. Paul Ehrlich''s Nobel-Prize-winning work in immunology; Dr. Jay Levy''s codiscovery of the virus that causes AIDS. Yet there will also be ignorance and tragedy: the widespread practice of bloodletting via incision and the use of leeches, which harmed more than it healed; the introduction of hemophilia into the genetic pool of nineteenth-century European royalty thanks to the dynastic ambitions of Queen Victoria; the alleged spread of contaminated blood through a phlebotomist''s negligence in modern-day California.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is also a personal voyage, in which Hayes recounts the impact of the vital fluid in his daily life, from growing up in a household of five sisters and their monthly cycles, to coming out as a gay man during the explosive early days of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, to his enduring partnership with an HIV-positive man.\n</p>\n<p>\n As much a biography of blood as it is a memoir of how this rich substance has shaped one man''s life,\n <em>\n  Five Quarts\n </em>\n is by turns whimsical and provocative, informative and moving. It will get under your skin.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7163'),
(17804, 'Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood', 'Bill Hayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "We''re born in blood. Our family histories are contained in it, our bodies nourished by it daily. Five quarts run through each of us, along some sixty thousand miles of arteries, veins, and capillaries."\n <br />\n --from_\n <em>\n  Five Quarts\n </em>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n In the national bestseller Sleep Demons, Bill Hayes took us on a trailblazing trip through the night country of insomnia. Now he is our guide on a whirlwind journey through history, literature, mythology, and science by means of the great red river that runs five quarts strong through our bodies.\n</p>\n<p>\n Profusely illustrated, the journey stretches from ancient Rome, where gladiators drank the blood of vanquished foes to gain strength and courage, to modern-day laboratories, where high-tech machines test blood for diseases and dedicated scientists search for elusive cures. Along the way, there will be world-changing triumphs: William Harvey''s discovery of the circulation of the blood; Antoni van Leeuwenhoek''s advances in making the invisible world visible in the early days of the microscope; Dr. Paul Ehrlich''s Nobel-Prize-winning work in immunology; Dr. Jay Levy''s codiscovery of the virus that causes AIDS. Yet there will also be ignorance and tragedy: the widespread practice of bloodletting via incision and the use of leeches, which harmed more than it healed; the introduction of hemophilia into the genetic pool of nineteenth-century European royalty thanks to the dynastic ambitions of Queen Victoria; the alleged spread of contaminated blood through a phlebotomist''s negligence in modern-day California.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is also a personal voyage, in which Hayes recounts the impact of the vital fluid in his daily life, from growing up in a household of five sisters and their monthly cycles, to coming out as a gay man during the explosive early days of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, to his enduring partnership with an HIV-positive man.\n</p>\n<p>\n As much a biography of blood as it is a memoir of how this rich substance has shaped one man''s life,\n <em>\n  Five Quarts\n </em>\n is by turns whimsical and provocative, informative and moving. It will get under your skin.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10227'),
(17805, 'Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood', 'Bill Hayes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n "We''re born in blood. Our family histories are contained in it, our bodies nourished by it daily. Five quarts run through each of us, along some sixty thousand miles of arteries, veins, and capillaries."\n <br />\n --from_\n <em>\n  Five Quarts\n </em>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n In the national bestseller Sleep Demons, Bill Hayes took us on a trailblazing trip through the night country of insomnia. Now he is our guide on a whirlwind journey through history, literature, mythology, and science by means of the great red river that runs five quarts strong through our bodies.\n</p>\n<p>\n Profusely illustrated, the journey stretches from ancient Rome, where gladiators drank the blood of vanquished foes to gain strength and courage, to modern-day laboratories, where high-tech machines test blood for diseases and dedicated scientists search for elusive cures. Along the way, there will be world-changing triumphs: William Harvey''s discovery of the circulation of the blood; Antoni van Leeuwenhoek''s advances in making the invisible world visible in the early days of the microscope; Dr. Paul Ehrlich''s Nobel-Prize-winning work in immunology; Dr. Jay Levy''s codiscovery of the virus that causes AIDS. Yet there will also be ignorance and tragedy: the widespread practice of bloodletting via incision and the use of leeches, which harmed more than it healed; the introduction of hemophilia into the genetic pool of nineteenth-century European royalty thanks to the dynastic ambitions of Queen Victoria; the alleged spread of contaminated blood through a phlebotomist''s negligence in modern-day California.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is also a personal voyage, in which Hayes recounts the impact of the vital fluid in his daily life, from growing up in a household of five sisters and their monthly cycles, to coming out as a gay man during the explosive early days of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, to his enduring partnership with an HIV-positive man.\n</p>\n<p>\n As much a biography of blood as it is a memoir of how this rich substance has shaped one man''s life,\n <em>\n  Five Quarts\n </em>\n is by turns whimsical and provocative, informative and moving. It will get under your skin.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16695'),
(17806, 'Five Run Away Together', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Who''s been on George''s island? And what is locked in the mysterious trunk hidden on Kirrin Island? The Famous Five think they''re on the trail of smugglers - until they hear a child scream ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5586'),
(17807, 'Five run away together', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Who''s been on George''s island? And what is locked in the mysterious trunk hidden on Kirrin Island? The Famous Five think they''re on the trail of smugglers - until they hear a child scream ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19032'),
(17808, 'Five run away together', 'Enid Blyton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Who''s been on George''s island? And what is locked in the mysterious trunk hidden on Kirrin Island? The Famous Five think they''re on the trail of smugglers - until they hear a child scream ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27736'),
(17809, 'FJ_DeServed', 'Fiona Jayde', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18505'),
(17810, 'Flamethrower', 'Maggie Estep', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Ruby Murphyâ€”Brooklyn resident, cat whisperer and mad-dash urban bicyclistâ€”notices a human leg in her psychiatrist''s fish tank in her third diverting sleuthing adventure (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  Gargantuan\n </em>\n ), the limb proves to belong to Tobias Ray, the estranged spouse of Dr. Jody Ray, Ruby''s coolly professional therapist. Once over the shock, Jody begs Ruby to help hunt for Tobias, an apparent kidnapping victim. But just when Ruby finds the one-legged Tobias, Jody disappears. Meanwhile, Ruby is inexplicably fired from her job at the Coney Island Museum; her live-in boyfriend suddenly needs "space"; and her only loyal friend is Jack Valentine, her beloved horse. Though the plot meanders and takes a tortoise-and-hare nap occasionally, Estep''s wry observations, razor-sharp wit and deliciously vivid characters will keep readers turning the pages.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMaggie Estep is a writer of a thousand voices. . . . She can get into just about anyoneâ€™s head, including the horses who are such strong, individualized characters in this series.â€ â€”_New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Estepâ€™s] vividly drawn characters and the wit of their interchanges . . . rip through the constraints of the [mystery] genre. I was blown away by the gale force of Estepâ€™s talent.â€ â€”Salon.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is a book that burns like brilliance at its zenith.â€ â€”Ken Bruen, author of\n <em>\n  The Dramatist\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMaggie Estep writes like no one else. She is one of my favorite writers, and_ Flamethrower_ might be her best book. Do yourself a favor and read all of her books now.â€ â€”Sara Gran, author of\n <em>\n  Dope\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Come Closer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA tour de force of mystery fiction and a maniacally hilarious black comedy . . . Ruby Murphy is a terrifically flawed protagonist, operating one step ahead of disaster. . . . With\n <em>\n  Flamethrower\n </em>\n , Estep is at the top of her game.â€ â€”Jason Starr, author of_ Lights Out_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œItâ€™s always such a joy to enter Maggie Estepâ€™s world, where everyoneâ€”dogs, horses, people, and placesâ€”is unique, real, and treated with respect, even when theyâ€™re completely demented. Ruby Murphy is a great character and I enjoy every minute I spend with her.â€ â€”S. J. Rozan, author of\n <em>\n  Absent Friends\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3167'),
(17811, 'Flamethrower', 'Maggie Estep', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Ruby Murphyâ€”Brooklyn resident, cat whisperer and mad-dash urban bicyclistâ€”notices a human leg in her psychiatrist''s fish tank in her third diverting sleuthing adventure (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  Gargantuan\n </em>\n ), the limb proves to belong to Tobias Ray, the estranged spouse of Dr. Jody Ray, Ruby''s coolly professional therapist. Once over the shock, Jody begs Ruby to help hunt for Tobias, an apparent kidnapping victim. But just when Ruby finds the one-legged Tobias, Jody disappears. Meanwhile, Ruby is inexplicably fired from her job at the Coney Island Museum; her live-in boyfriend suddenly needs "space"; and her only loyal friend is Jack Valentine, her beloved horse. Though the plot meanders and takes a tortoise-and-hare nap occasionally, Estep''s wry observations, razor-sharp wit and deliciously vivid characters will keep readers turning the pages.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMaggie Estep is a writer of a thousand voices. . . . She can get into just about anyoneâ€™s head, including the horses who are such strong, individualized characters in this series.â€ â€”_New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Estepâ€™s] vividly drawn characters and the wit of their interchanges . . . rip through the constraints of the [mystery] genre. I was blown away by the gale force of Estepâ€™s talent.â€ â€”Salon.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is a book that burns like brilliance at its zenith.â€ â€”Ken Bruen, author of\n <em>\n  The Dramatist\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMaggie Estep writes like no one else. She is one of my favorite writers, and_ Flamethrower_ might be her best book. Do yourself a favor and read all of her books now.â€ â€”Sara Gran, author of\n <em>\n  Dope\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Come Closer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA tour de force of mystery fiction and a maniacally hilarious black comedy . . . Ruby Murphy is a terrifically flawed protagonist, operating one step ahead of disaster. . . . With\n <em>\n  Flamethrower\n </em>\n , Estep is at the top of her game.â€ â€”Jason Starr, author of_ Lights Out_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œItâ€™s always such a joy to enter Maggie Estepâ€™s world, where everyoneâ€”dogs, horses, people, and placesâ€”is unique, real, and treated with respect, even when theyâ€™re completely demented. Ruby Murphy is a great character and I enjoy every minute I spend with her.â€ â€”S. J. Rozan, author of\n <em>\n  Absent Friends\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9622'),
(17812, 'Flamethrower', 'Maggie Estep', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Ruby Murphyâ€”Brooklyn resident, cat whisperer and mad-dash urban bicyclistâ€”notices a human leg in her psychiatrist''s fish tank in her third diverting sleuthing adventure (after 2004''s\n <em>\n  Gargantuan\n </em>\n ), the limb proves to belong to Tobias Ray, the estranged spouse of Dr. Jody Ray, Ruby''s coolly professional therapist. Once over the shock, Jody begs Ruby to help hunt for Tobias, an apparent kidnapping victim. But just when Ruby finds the one-legged Tobias, Jody disappears. Meanwhile, Ruby is inexplicably fired from her job at the Coney Island Museum; her live-in boyfriend suddenly needs "space"; and her only loyal friend is Jack Valentine, her beloved horse. Though the plot meanders and takes a tortoise-and-hare nap occasionally, Estep''s wry observations, razor-sharp wit and deliciously vivid characters will keep readers turning the pages.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œMaggie Estep is a writer of a thousand voices. . . . She can get into just about anyoneâ€™s head, including the horses who are such strong, individualized characters in this series.â€ â€”_New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Estepâ€™s] vividly drawn characters and the wit of their interchanges . . . rip through the constraints of the [mystery] genre. I was blown away by the gale force of Estepâ€™s talent.â€ â€”Salon.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis is a book that burns like brilliance at its zenith.â€ â€”Ken Bruen, author of\n <em>\n  The Dramatist\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œMaggie Estep writes like no one else. She is one of my favorite writers, and_ Flamethrower_ might be her best book. Do yourself a favor and read all of her books now.â€ â€”Sara Gran, author of\n <em>\n  Dope\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Come Closer\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA tour de force of mystery fiction and a maniacally hilarious black comedy . . . Ruby Murphy is a terrifically flawed protagonist, operating one step ahead of disaster. . . . With\n <em>\n  Flamethrower\n </em>\n , Estep is at the top of her game.â€ â€”Jason Starr, author of_ Lights Out_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œItâ€™s always such a joy to enter Maggie Estepâ€™s world, where everyoneâ€”dogs, horses, people, and placesâ€”is unique, real, and treated with respect, even when theyâ€™re completely demented. Ruby Murphy is a great character and I enjoy every minute I spend with her.â€ â€”S. J. Rozan, author of\n <em>\n  Absent Friends\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21284'),
(17813, 'Flannery: A Life of Flannery O&#39;Connor', 'Brad Gooch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gooch (_City Poet:__The Life and Times of Frank O''Hara_) offers a surprisingly bloodless biography of Flannery O''Connor (1925â€“1964), who, despite the author''s diligent scholarship, remains enigmatic. She emerges only in her excerpted letters, speeches and fiction, where she is as sharp-tongued, censorious, piteously observant and mordantly funny as her beloved short stories. There is little genuinely interesting new material, but there are small gemsâ€”the full story of O''Connor''s friendship with the mysterious A. of her letters, for instance. Perhaps mindful of the writer''s dislike of being exposed in print, Gooch errs on the side of delicacy; he does not sufficiently explore her attitudes toward blacks and how the early onset of lupus left her sequestered on her mother''s Georgia farm, without the male companionship she craved. Instead, he plumbs O''Connor''s fiction for buried fragments of her daily life, and the revelations are hardly astonishing. Readers looking for more startling tidbits will be disappointed by this account that brims with the quiet satisfactions the author took in her industry (I sit all day typing and grinning like the Cheshire cat), her faith, friends and stoic approach to a debilitating disease. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Feb. 25)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drawing on recently unsealed letters and an impressive array of interviews, Gooch provides the first major biography of Flannery Oï¿½Connor since she died in 1964, at the age of thirty-nine. He presents a writer influenced by the early death of her father and the retreat from city life to country; an Irish Catholic upbringing that evolved into an adult fascination with theology; and a Southern small-town culture whose matrons, including Oï¿½Connorï¿½s mother, were happy for her success but put off by the unladylike nature of her workï¿½ï¿½Everybody here shakes my hand but nobody reads my stories.ï¿½ Though she spent time in both the Midwest and the Northeast, lupus narrowed the circle of her life to a dairy farm in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she collected exotic birds. Goochï¿½s account is meticulous, but Oï¿½Connorï¿½s sedate, chaste life is pale in comparison with her fantastic fictionï¿½a contrast that underscores her inscrutable genius.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7203'),
(17814, 'Flannery: A Life of Flannery O&#39;Connor', 'Brad Gooch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gooch (_City Poet:__The Life and Times of Frank O''Hara_) offers a surprisingly bloodless biography of Flannery O''Connor (1925â€“1964), who, despite the author''s diligent scholarship, remains enigmatic. She emerges only in her excerpted letters, speeches and fiction, where she is as sharp-tongued, censorious, piteously observant and mordantly funny as her beloved short stories. There is little genuinely interesting new material, but there are small gemsâ€”the full story of O''Connor''s friendship with the mysterious A. of her letters, for instance. Perhaps mindful of the writer''s dislike of being exposed in print, Gooch errs on the side of delicacy; he does not sufficiently explore her attitudes toward blacks and how the early onset of lupus left her sequestered on her mother''s Georgia farm, without the male companionship she craved. Instead, he plumbs O''Connor''s fiction for buried fragments of her daily life, and the revelations are hardly astonishing. Readers looking for more startling tidbits will be disappointed by this account that brims with the quiet satisfactions the author took in her industry (I sit all day typing and grinning like the Cheshire cat), her faith, friends and stoic approach to a debilitating disease. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Feb. 25)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drawing on recently unsealed letters and an impressive array of interviews, Gooch provides the first major biography of Flannery Oï¿½Connor since she died in 1964, at the age of thirty-nine. He presents a writer influenced by the early death of her father and the retreat from city life to country; an Irish Catholic upbringing that evolved into an adult fascination with theology; and a Southern small-town culture whose matrons, including Oï¿½Connorï¿½s mother, were happy for her success but put off by the unladylike nature of her workï¿½ï¿½Everybody here shakes my hand but nobody reads my stories.ï¿½ Though she spent time in both the Midwest and the Northeast, lupus narrowed the circle of her life to a dairy farm in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she collected exotic birds. Goochï¿½s account is meticulous, but Oï¿½Connorï¿½s sedate, chaste life is pale in comparison with her fantastic fictionï¿½a contrast that underscores her inscrutable genius.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9947'),
(17815, 'Flannery: A Life of Flannery O&#39;Connor', 'Brad Gooch', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gooch (_City Poet:__The Life and Times of Frank O''Hara_) offers a surprisingly bloodless biography of Flannery O''Connor (1925â€“1964), who, despite the author''s diligent scholarship, remains enigmatic. She emerges only in her excerpted letters, speeches and fiction, where she is as sharp-tongued, censorious, piteously observant and mordantly funny as her beloved short stories. There is little genuinely interesting new material, but there are small gemsâ€”the full story of O''Connor''s friendship with the mysterious A. of her letters, for instance. Perhaps mindful of the writer''s dislike of being exposed in print, Gooch errs on the side of delicacy; he does not sufficiently explore her attitudes toward blacks and how the early onset of lupus left her sequestered on her mother''s Georgia farm, without the male companionship she craved. Instead, he plumbs O''Connor''s fiction for buried fragments of her daily life, and the revelations are hardly astonishing. Readers looking for more startling tidbits will be disappointed by this account that brims with the quiet satisfactions the author took in her industry (I sit all day typing and grinning like the Cheshire cat), her faith, friends and stoic approach to a debilitating disease. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Feb. 25)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Drawing on recently unsealed letters and an impressive array of interviews, Gooch provides the first major biography of Flannery Oï¿½Connor since she died in 1964, at the age of thirty-nine. He presents a writer influenced by the early death of her father and the retreat from city life to country; an Irish Catholic upbringing that evolved into an adult fascination with theology; and a Southern small-town culture whose matrons, including Oï¿½Connorï¿½s mother, were happy for her success but put off by the unladylike nature of her workï¿½ï¿½Everybody here shakes my hand but nobody reads my stories.ï¿½ Though she spent time in both the Midwest and the Northeast, lupus narrowed the circle of her life to a dairy farm in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she collected exotic birds. Goochï¿½s account is meticulous, but Oï¿½Connorï¿½s sedate, chaste life is pale in comparison with her fantastic fictionï¿½a contrast that underscores her inscrutable genius.\n <br />\n Copyright Â©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16653'),
(17816, 'Flashback', 'Dan Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The United States has suffered a crippling economic and moral collapse fueled by Flashback, the cheap aerosol drug that allows its users to fully re-experience the best moments of their lives. It''s a drug so sweet and addictive, it holds the nation in its thrall, devastating millions. A group of Japanese advisors essentially run the government, and the son of one of them has been killed. Fallen detective Nick Bottom is hired to investigate.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nick knows Flashback -- he''s an addict himself. After his wife was killed, he started flashing to be with her, and he only takes the case to get money to fuel his habit. His motivation changes when he uncovers evidence that suggests that the creation and appearance of Flashback--and America''s capitulation to it--was an orchestrated plot that may have been responsible for his wife''s death. Could America''s total surrender to Flashback be the result of a large and terrible conspiracy? Nick is the one man who may be able to change the course of an entire nation turning away from the future to live in the past.\n</p>\n<p>\n With his superlative blend of suspense and adventure, Dan Simmons shows why he is one of the most versatile writers at work today -- drawing on the conventions of science fiction, fantasy, and horror to create a pioneering, page-turning thriller.\n</p>\n<p>\n Genre:\n <a href="/science-fiction/">\n  Science Fiction\n </a>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12393'),
(17817, 'Flashfire', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Packed with hard-core action written by battle-savvy combat veterans, the explosive Starfist series has become hugely popular across America. Now the saga of the courageous Marines continues in Flashfire, as the 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) ventures to the edge of Human Space to fight a number of enemies . . . some on their own side.Tensions erupt between the Confederation and several frontier worlds when civilians are shot dead at an army base on the planet Ravenette. Enraged, the Ravenette government and nine neighboring planets form a coalition, and their first act of secession is to overrun Ravenetteâ€™s Confederation garrison. With the armed forces of ten worlds seizing the brutal upper hand, the embattled troops need helpâ€“nowâ€“and they need it bad.Enter the Marines of the 34th FIST. As the nearest ready-to-deploy unit, the team is sent to Ravenette with orders to hold the line until reinforcements arrive. The upcoming operation promises to be no picnic, for while sophisticates may ridicule the backward ways of the uncouth frontier folk, no one scoffs at their fighting ability.Charlie Bass doesnâ€™t mince words for his men in Company Lâ€™s third platoon. Two army divisionsâ€“perhaps thirty thousand soldiersâ€“are being overwhelmed, and somebody expects a thousand Marines to save the day. As pompous Confederation generals wreak even more havoc than the enemy, there are those who call the mission suicide . . . but not the Marines. Of course it sounds hopeless, but for Marines like Charlie Bass and the rest of the 34th FIST, accomplishing the impossible comes with the territory.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17261'),
(17818, 'Flashfire', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Packed with hard-core action written by battle-savvy combat veterans, the explosive Starfist series has become hugely popular across America. Now the saga of the courageous Marines continues in Flashfire, as the 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) ventures to the edge of Human Space to fight a number of enemies . . . some on their own side.Tensions erupt between the Confederation and several frontier worlds when civilians are shot dead at an army base on the planet Ravenette. Enraged, the Ravenette government and nine neighboring planets form a coalition, and their first act of secession is to overrun Ravenetteâ€™s Confederation garrison. With the armed forces of ten worlds seizing the brutal upper hand, the embattled troops need helpâ€“nowâ€“and they need it bad.Enter the Marines of the 34th FIST. As the nearest ready-to-deploy unit, the team is sent to Ravenette with orders to hold the line until reinforcements arrive. The upcoming operation promises to be no picnic, for while sophisticates may ridicule the backward ways of the uncouth frontier folk, no one scoffs at their fighting ability.Charlie Bass doesnâ€™t mince words for his men in Company Lâ€™s third platoon. Two army divisionsâ€“perhaps thirty thousand soldiersâ€“are being overwhelmed, and somebody expects a thousand Marines to save the day. As pompous Confederation generals wreak even more havoc than the enemy, there are those who call the mission suicide . . . but not the Marines. Of course it sounds hopeless, but for Marines like Charlie Bass and the rest of the 34th FIST, accomplishing the impossible comes with the territory.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27320'),
(17819, 'Flashforward', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Robert J. Sawyerâ€™s award-winning science fiction has garnered both popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times called Frameshift â€œfilled to bursting with ideas, characters, and incidents.â€ His novels are fixtures on the Hugo and Nebula ballots. Now, his award-winning novel Flash Forward is becoming a network TV series, expected to air in the fall of 2009. In pursuit of an elusive nuclear particle, an experiment goes incredibly awry, and, for a few moments, the consciousness of the entire human race is thrown ahead by about twenty years. As the implications truly hit home, the pressure to repeat the experiment builds. Everyone wants a glimpse of their future, a chance to flash forward and see their successesâ€¦or learn how to avoid their failures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13617'),
(17820, 'Flashforward', 'Robert J. Sawyer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Robert J. Sawyerâ€™s award-winning science fiction has garnered both popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times called Frameshift â€œfilled to bursting with ideas, characters, and incidents.â€ His novels are fixtures on the Hugo and Nebula ballots. Now, his award-winning novel Flash Forward is becoming a network TV series, expected to air in the fall of 2009. In pursuit of an elusive nuclear particle, an experiment goes incredibly awry, and, for a few moments, the consciousness of the entire human race is thrown ahead by about twenty years. As the implications truly hit home, the pressure to repeat the experiment builds. Everyone wants a glimpse of their future, a chance to flash forward and see their successesâ€¦or learn how to avoid their failures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23250'),
(17821, 'Flat Stanley', 'Jeff Brown &amp; Scott Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poor Stanley. He''s a perfectly normal boy until one morning he wakes up flat. After his parents peel the incriminating bulletin board off of him, Stanley must adjust to life as a pancake. He is a boy who takes this kind of thing in stride, though, and soon he''s enjoying the advantages of squashedness. Sliding under closed doors is fun, and it''s gratifying to be of use to his mother when she drops her ring through a narrow metal grating. Expensive plane fare to California? No problem. Svelte Stanley folds comfortably into a brown paper envelope. There''s even room left over in there for an egg-salad sandwich. But Stanley''s true moment of glory comes when a gang of thieves begins stealing paintings from the Famous Museum of Art. The case seems hopeless--until our two-dimensional hero saves the day. Here is one boy who doesn''t let his profile-challenged body stop him from living life fully--that is, until his brother finds a way to help him become well rounded again. Jeff Brown''s matter-of-fact tone and Tomi Ungerer''s witty and engaging drawings tickle the funny bone, making this 1964 classic a perennial favorite. (Ages 4 to 8)\n  <em>\n   --Emilie Coulter\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kindergarten-Grade 3â€“Based on Jeff Brown''s original story (HarperCollins, 1964), this oversize picture book condenses some of the adventures of the ever-popular character who was flattened by a bulletin board. Ending up four feet tall, a foot wide, and half-an-inch thick, Stanley discovers that being flat is not only novel (he can slip under cracks), but also exciting. He is mailed off to California in a large envelope; he can be flown like a huge kite; and one night, disguised as a shepherdess, he hides in a painting in the art museum and foils some thieves. Full-page, cartoon illustrations in watercolor and crayon enhance the story while remaining true to the original. This version of an old favorite will introduce a beloved character to a new generation of younger children. It should have wide appeal._â€“Sally R. Dow, Ossining Public Library, NY_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4628'),
(17822, 'Flat Stanley', 'Jeff Brown &amp; Scott Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">\n   Amazon.com Review\n  </span>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Poor Stanley. He''s a perfectly normal boy until one morning he wakes up flat. After his parents peel the incriminating bulletin board off of him, Stanley must adjust to life as a pancake. He is a boy who takes this kind of thing in stride, though, and soon he''s enjoying the advantages of squashedness. Sliding under closed doors is fun, and it''s gratifying to be of use to his mother when she drops her ring through a narrow metal grating. Expensive plane fare to California? No problem. Svelte Stanley folds comfortably into a brown paper envelope. There''s even room left over in there for an egg-salad sandwich. But Stanley''s true moment of glory comes when a gang of thieves begins stealing paintings from the Famous Museum of Art. The case seems hopeless--until our two-dimensional hero saves the day. Here is one boy who doesn''t let his profile-challenged body stop him from living life fully--that is, until his brother finds a way to help him become well rounded again. Jeff Brown''s matter-of-fact tone and Tomi Ungerer''s witty and engaging drawings tickle the funny bone, making this 1964 classic a perennial favorite. (Ages 4 to 8)\n  <em>\n   --Emilie Coulter\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kindergarten-Grade 3â€“Based on Jeff Brown''s original story (HarperCollins, 1964), this oversize picture book condenses some of the adventures of the ever-popular character who was flattened by a bulletin board. Ending up four feet tall, a foot wide, and half-an-inch thick, Stanley discovers that being flat is not only novel (he can slip under cracks), but also exciting. He is mailed off to California in a large envelope; he can be flown like a huge kite; and one night, disguised as a shepherdess, he hides in a painting in the art museum and foils some thieves. Full-page, cartoon illustrations in watercolor and crayon enhance the story while remaining true to the original. This version of an old favorite will introduce a beloved character to a new generation of younger children. It should have wide appeal._â€“Sally R. Dow, Ossining Public Library, NY_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8621'),
(17823, 'Flatland', 'Edwin A. Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers with its witty satire of Victorian society and its unique insights, by analogy, into the fourth dimension.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5794'),
(17824, 'Flatland', 'Edwin A. Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers with its witty satire of Victorian society and its unique insights, by analogy, into the fourth dimension.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9373'),
(17825, 'Flatland', 'Edwin A. Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers with its witty satire of Victorian society and its unique insights, by analogy, into the fourth dimension.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15047'),
(17826, 'Flatland', 'Edwin A. Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers with its witty satire of Victorian society and its unique insights, by analogy, into the fourth dimension.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18851'),
(17827, 'Flatland', 'Edwin A. Abbott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers with its witty satire of Victorian society and its unique insights, by analogy, into the fourth dimension.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27562'),
(17828, 'Flaubert&#39;s Parrot', 'Julian Barnes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Barnes''s prize-winning novel has charmed readers since its first publication in 1984 - ''A tour de force'' Germaine Greer; ''A book to revel in'' Joseph Heller; ''A delight'' John Fowles; ''An intricate and delightful novel'' Graham Greene - and has become a classic. Our narrator is Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor with a passion for Flaubert. As he leads us on an investigative trip through France and through the past, we are offered a glimpse of the writer who so fascinates him. At the same time the layers of Braithwaite''s own past are peeled away to reveal someone infinitely more troubled than he first seemed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8154'),
(17829, 'Flawless', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the exclusive town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, where the sweetest smiles hide the darkest secrets, four pretty little liarsâ€”Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hannaâ€”have been very bad girls. . . .   Spencer stole her sister''s boyfriend. Aria is brokenhearted over her English teacher. Emily likes her new friend Maya . . . as much more than a friend. And Hanna''s obsession with looking flawless is literally making her sick. But the most horrible secret of all is something so scandalous it could destroy their perfect little lives.   And someone named "A" is threatening to do just that.   At first they thought A was Alison, their friend who vanished three years ago . . . but then Alison turned up dead. So could A be Melissa, Spencer''s ultracompetitive sister? Or Maya, who wants Emily all to herself? What about Toby, the mysterious guy who left town right after Alison went missing?   One thing''s for certain: A''s got the dirt to bury them all alive, and with every crumpled note, wicked IM, and vindictive text message A sends, the girls get a little closer to losing it all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1386'),
(17830, 'Flawless', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the exclusive town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, where the sweetest smiles hide the darkest secrets, four pretty little liarsâ€”Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hannaâ€”have been very bad girls. . . . Spencer stole her sister''s boyfriend. Aria is brokenhearted over her English teacher. Emily likes her new friend Maya . . . as much more than a friend. And Hanna''s obsession with looking flawless is literally making her sick. But the most horrible secret of all is something so scandalous it could destroy their perfect little lives. And someone named "A" is threatening to do just that. At first they thought A was Alison, their friend who vanished three years ago . . . but then Alison turned up dead. So could A be Melissa, Spencer''s ultracompetitive sister? Or Maya, who wants Emily all to herself? What about Toby, the mysterious guy who left town right after Alison went missing? One thing''s for certain: A''s got the dirt to bury them all alive, and with every crumpled note, wicked IM, and vindictive text message A sends, the girls get a little closer to losing it all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23499');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(17831, 'Fledgling: A Novel', 'Octavia E. Butler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Octavia E. Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction---period. . . . A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of human nature."--"The Washington Post Book World" "Readers familiar with . . . "Parable of the Sower" and "Bloodchild" will recall that [Butler] never asks easy questions or settles for easy answers."--Gerald Jonas in "The New York Times" "Fledgling," Octavia Butler''s first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted--and still wants--to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. "Fledgling" is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human. Octavia E. Butler is the author of 11 novels, including "Kindred," "Dawn," and "Parable of the Sower." Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and numerous other literary awards, she has been acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations that range from the distant past to the far future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2458'),
(17832, 'Fledgling: a novel', 'Octavia E. Butler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Octavia E. Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction---period. . . . A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of human nature."--"The Washington Post Book World" "Readers familiar with . . . "Parable of the Sower" and "Bloodchild" will recall that [Butler] never asks easy questions or settles for easy answers."--Gerald Jonas in "The New York Times" "Fledgling," Octavia Butler''s first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted--and still wants--to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. "Fledgling" is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human. Octavia E. Butler is the author of 11 novels, including "Kindred," "Dawn," and "Parable of the Sower." Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and numerous other literary awards, she has been acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations that range from the distant past to the far future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22401'),
(17833, 'Fleet of Worlds', 'Larry Niven', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20065'),
(17834, 'Flesh and Blood', 'Michael Cunningham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author of *The Hours* and *Specimen Days* comes a generous, masterfully crafted novelÂ with all the power of a Greek tragedy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The epic tale of an American family, *Flesh and Blood* follows three generations of the Stassos clan as it is transformed by ambition, love, and history. Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American girl, and they have three children, each fated to a complex life. Susan is oppressed by her beauty and her father''s affections; Billy is brilliant, and gay; Zoe is a wild, heedless visionary. As the years pass, their lives unfold in ways that compel them--and their parents--to meet ever greater challenges.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Michael Cunningham** is the bestselling author of *The Hours,* which won the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into an Academy AwardÂ–winning film. He lives in New York.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author of *The Hours* and *Specimen Days* comes a generous, masterfully crafted novelÂ with all the power of a Greek tragedy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The epic tale of an American family, *Flesh and Blood* follows three generations of the Stassos clan as it is transformed by ambition, love, and history. Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American girl, and they have three children, each fated to a complex life. Susan is oppressed by her beauty and her father''s affections; Billy is brilliant, and gay; Zoe is a wild, heedless visionary. As the years pass, their lives unfold in ways that compel themÂ—and their parentsÂ—to meet ever greater challenges.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A work of dramatic humanity at a high and poetic level."Â—***Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Reading Michael Cunningham is like putting on see-through glasses. He''s got this way of exposing his characters'' deepest inclinations and motivations, letting us peer through glass directly into their souls."Â—***The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The book buzzcuts like Edward Scissorhands through the conventionally dull pastures of the American family saga."Â—***Vanity Fair***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“Family defines us, one way or another. In Cunningham''s empathic and searing family drama, the haphazardness of genetics and fate plays in mocking counterpart to the predictability of heartache. Cunningham is a tenacious and word-perfect writer with acute insight into the eccentricity of personalities and the chemistry of intimate relationships. He stretches this sorrowful saga across an entire century, beginning in 1935 in Greece, where a boy suffers poverty and neglect. Constantine Stassos eventually immigrates to the U.S., where he marries a lovely and industrious young woman, amasses a fortune, and turns his attractive home into a living hell. No one goes unscathed, from his suffocating wife, Mary, through his self-negating eldest daughter, his acerbic gay son, and his younger daughter, Zoe, a strangely feral child. As the years go by and abrupt social changes become the rack upon which families are wrenched and broken, each member of the Stassos clan struggles to achieve love and respect. Cunningham, in a remarkable performance, inhabits the psyche of each of his striking characters as they find themselves in one surprising situation after another.â€Â—**Donna Seaman, *Booklist***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The cheers that greeted his literary debut, *A Home at the End of the World*, will resound again for Cunningham''s second novel. Here his prose is again rich, graceful and luminous, and he exhibits a remarkable maturity of vision and understanding of the human condition. The marriage of Greek immigrant Constantine to Mary, the offspring of an Italian clan, is a mismatch of incompatible personalities, a union that is later maintained in a delicate balance between incomprehension and rage. The birth of their three children exacerbates the tension and leaves its indelible mark unto the third generation. When he becomes a partner in a shoddy construction company, Con lifts the Stassos family from near-poverty in Elizabeth, N.J., to a nouveau-riche enclave on Long Island, but his lifelong concern with money, and with exhibiting "manliness," erupts into violent behavior that alienates his only son, Billy, even before the boy realizes that he is a homosexual. Con damages the other children, too; Susan escapes his sexual overtures through an early marriage, and wild, feral Zoe joins the drug culture in New York. Yet Cunningham condemns no one; he understands that Con ''exists in a chaos of yearning . . . [of] love and . . . hunger and . . . bottomless grief,'' and he portrays the other characters with equal sympathy. In delineating the story of this disconnected family, each member floating in his or her own sphere of bewilderment, anger, mistrust and fear but inextricably bound to others by flesh and blood, Cunningham illuminates the chasm between parents and children in contemporary America, beginning in the 1970s, when drug use and sexual freedom broke traditional constraints. Both fate and accident determine all of the characters'' lives. Con betrays beautiful, distant Mary with his partner''s fat, plain secretaryÂ—and ends up married to her. Mary becomes friends with Cassandra, a drag queen who is the godmother of Zoe''s illegitimate half-black son. Billy renames himself Will, and finally finds a loving companion. All the characters are fallible and come late to self-knowledge. Cunningham''s portraits are so honest and sensitive that we can see into their souls. His prose is both restrained and mesmerizing: individual scenesÂ—such as one of teenagers in a car wreckÂ—become incandescent images. In the end, what remains of Con and Mary''s failed dreams of their lives and those of their children and grandchildren becomes a transcendent testament to the power of human endurance."Â—***Publishers Weekly***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The story of Constantine Stassos freshly examines the American immigrant experience and conflict between generations. He, wife Mary, and three children Susan, Will, and Zoe seemingly embody solid middle-class values. However, Constantine''s cruelty, voracious appetites, and questionable business practices poison his marriage and brutalize his children. Through painful quests for independence, personal balance, and community, the Stassos children learn acceptance of themselves and their siblings. Fairly brief episodes, often occuring years apart, recount key moments in the establishment, disintegration, and reconfiguration of the family. Thoroughly realized action, vivid character delineation, and the splendid control of language guarantee both the unity and powerful impact of this successful novel . . . Very highly recommended."Â—**Jane S. Bakerman, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, *Library Journal***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2800'),
(17835, 'Flesh and Blood', 'Michael Cunningham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author of *The Hours* and *Specimen Days* comes a generous, masterfully crafted novelÂ with all the power of a Greek tragedy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The epic tale of an American family, *Flesh and Blood* follows three generations of the Stassos clan as it is transformed by ambition, love, and history. Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American girl, and they have three children, each fated to a complex life. Susan is oppressed by her beauty and her father''s affections; Billy is brilliant, and gay; Zoe is a wild, heedless visionary. As the years pass, their lives unfold in ways that compel them--and their parents--to meet ever greater challenges.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Michael Cunningham** is the bestselling author of *The Hours,* which won the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into an Academy AwardÂ–winning film. He lives in New York.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the bestselling author of *The Hours* and *Specimen Days* comes a generous, masterfully crafted novelÂ with all the power of a Greek tragedy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The epic tale of an American family, *Flesh and Blood* follows three generations of the Stassos clan as it is transformed by ambition, love, and history. Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American girl, and they have three children, each fated to a complex life. Susan is oppressed by her beauty and her father''s affections; Billy is brilliant, and gay; Zoe is a wild, heedless visionary. As the years pass, their lives unfold in ways that compel themÂ—and their parentsÂ—to meet ever greater challenges.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A work of dramatic humanity at a high and poetic level."Â—***Los Angeles Times\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Reading Michael Cunningham is like putting on see-through glasses. He''s got this way of exposing his characters'' deepest inclinations and motivations, letting us peer through glass directly into their souls."Â—***The Boston Globe\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The book buzzcuts like Edward Scissorhands through the conventionally dull pastures of the American family saga."Â—***Vanity Fair***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â“Family defines us, one way or another. In Cunningham''s empathic and searing family drama, the haphazardness of genetics and fate plays in mocking counterpart to the predictability of heartache. Cunningham is a tenacious and word-perfect writer with acute insight into the eccentricity of personalities and the chemistry of intimate relationships. He stretches this sorrowful saga across an entire century, beginning in 1935 in Greece, where a boy suffers poverty and neglect. Constantine Stassos eventually immigrates to the U.S., where he marries a lovely and industrious young woman, amasses a fortune, and turns his attractive home into a living hell. No one goes unscathed, from his suffocating wife, Mary, through his self-negating eldest daughter, his acerbic gay son, and his younger daughter, Zoe, a strangely feral child. As the years go by and abrupt social changes become the rack upon which families are wrenched and broken, each member of the Stassos clan struggles to achieve love and respect. Cunningham, in a remarkable performance, inhabits the psyche of each of his striking characters as they find themselves in one surprising situation after another.â€Â—**Donna Seaman, *Booklist***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The cheers that greeted his literary debut, *A Home at the End of the World*, will resound again for Cunningham''s second novel. Here his prose is again rich, graceful and luminous, and he exhibits a remarkable maturity of vision and understanding of the human condition. The marriage of Greek immigrant Constantine to Mary, the offspring of an Italian clan, is a mismatch of incompatible personalities, a union that is later maintained in a delicate balance between incomprehension and rage. The birth of their three children exacerbates the tension and leaves its indelible mark unto the third generation. When he becomes a partner in a shoddy construction company, Con lifts the Stassos family from near-poverty in Elizabeth, N.J., to a nouveau-riche enclave on Long Island, but his lifelong concern with money, and with exhibiting "manliness," erupts into violent behavior that alienates his only son, Billy, even before the boy realizes that he is a homosexual. Con damages the other children, too; Susan escapes his sexual overtures through an early marriage, and wild, feral Zoe joins the drug culture in New York. Yet Cunningham condemns no one; he understands that Con ''exists in a chaos of yearning . . . [of] love and . . . hunger and . . . bottomless grief,'' and he portrays the other characters with equal sympathy. In delineating the story of this disconnected family, each member floating in his or her own sphere of bewilderment, anger, mistrust and fear but inextricably bound to others by flesh and blood, Cunningham illuminates the chasm between parents and children in contemporary America, beginning in the 1970s, when drug use and sexual freedom broke traditional constraints. Both fate and accident determine all of the characters'' lives. Con betrays beautiful, distant Mary with his partner''s fat, plain secretaryÂ—and ends up married to her. Mary becomes friends with Cassandra, a drag queen who is the godmother of Zoe''s illegitimate half-black son. Billy renames himself Will, and finally finds a loving companion. All the characters are fallible and come late to self-knowledge. Cunningham''s portraits are so honest and sensitive that we can see into their souls. His prose is both restrained and mesmerizing: individual scenesÂ—such as one of teenagers in a car wreckÂ—become incandescent images. In the end, what remains of Con and Mary''s failed dreams of their lives and those of their children and grandchildren becomes a transcendent testament to the power of human endurance."Â—***Publishers Weekly***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Â \n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "The story of Constantine Stassos freshly examines the American immigrant experience and conflict between generations. He, wife Mary, and three children Susan, Will, and Zoe seemingly embody solid middle-class values. However, Constantine''s cruelty, voracious appetites, and questionable business practices poison his marriage and brutalize his children. Through painful quests for independence, personal balance, and community, the Stassos children learn acceptance of themselves and their siblings. Fairly brief episodes, often occuring years apart, recount key moments in the establishment, disintegration, and reconfiguration of the family. Thoroughly realized action, vivid character delineation, and the splendid control of language guarantee both the unity and powerful impact of this successful novel . . . Very highly recommended."Â—**Jane S. Bakerman, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, *Library Journal***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9132'),
(17836, 'Flesh and Blood', 'Michael Cunningham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the bestselling author of *The Hours* and *Specimen Days* comes a generous, masterfully crafted novelÂ with all the power of a Greek tragedy. Â  The epic tale of an American family, *Flesh and Blood* follows three generations of the Stassos clan as it is transformed by ambition, love, and history. Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American girl, and they have three children, each fated to a complex life. Susan is oppressed by her beauty and her father''s affections; Billy is brilliant, and gay; Zoe is a wild, heedless visionary. As the years pass, their lives unfold in ways that compel them--and their parents--to meet ever greater challenges. **Michael Cunningham** is the bestselling author of *The Hours,* which won the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into an Academy AwardÂ–winning film. He lives in New York. From the bestselling author of *The Hours* and *Specimen Days* comes a generous, masterfully crafted novelÂ with all the power of a Greek tragedy. Â  The epic tale of an American family, *Flesh and Blood* follows three generations of the Stassos clan as it is transformed by ambition, love, and history. Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American girl, and they have three children, each fated to a complex life. Susan is oppressed by her beauty and her father''s affections; Billy is brilliant, and gay; Zoe is a wild, heedless visionary. As the years pass, their lives unfold in ways that compel themÂ—and their parentsÂ—to meet ever greater challenges. "A work of dramatic humanity at a high and poetic level."Â—***Los Angeles Times ***Â  "Reading Michael Cunningham is like putting on see-through glasses. He''s got this way of exposing his characters'' deepest inclinations and motivations, letting us peer through glass directly into their souls."Â—***The Boston Globe ***Â  "The book buzzcuts like Edward Scissorhands through the conventionally dull pastures of the American family saga."Â—***Vanity Fair*** Â  Â“Family defines us, one way or another. In Cunningham''s empathic and searing family drama, the haphazardness of genetics and fate plays in mocking counterpart to the predictability of heartache. Cunningham is a tenacious and word-perfect writer with acute insight into the eccentricity of personalities and the chemistry of intimate relationships. He stretches this sorrowful saga across an entire century, beginning in 1935 in Greece, where a boy suffers poverty and neglect. Constantine Stassos eventually immigrates to the U.S., where he marries a lovely and industrious young woman, amasses a fortune, and turns his attractive home into a living hell. No one goes unscathed, from his suffocating wife, Mary, through his self-negating eldest daughter, his acerbic gay son, and his younger daughter, Zoe, a strangely feral child. As the years go by and abrupt social changes become the rack upon which families are wrenched and broken, each member of the Stassos clan struggles to achieve love and respect. Cunningham, in a remarkable performance, inhabits the psyche of each of his striking characters as they find themselves in one surprising situation after another.â€Â—**Donna Seaman, *Booklist*** Â  "The cheers that greeted his literary debut, *A Home at the End of the World*, will resound again for Cunningham''s second novel. Here his prose is again rich, graceful and luminous, and he exhibits a remarkable maturity of vision and understanding of the human condition. The marriage of Greek immigrant Constantine to Mary, the offspring of an Italian clan, is a mismatch of incompatible personalities, a union that is later maintained in a delicate balance between incomprehension and rage. The birth of their three children exacerbates the tension and leaves its indelible mark unto the third generation. When he becomes a partner in a shoddy construction company, Con lifts the Stassos family from near-poverty in Elizabeth, N.J., to a nouveau-riche enclave on Long Island, but his lifelong concern with money, and with exhibiting "manliness," erupts into violent behavior that alienates his only son, Billy, even before the boy realizes that he is a homosexual. Con damages the other children, too; Susan escapes his sexual overtures through an early marriage, and wild, feral Zoe joins the drug culture in New York. Yet Cunningham condemns no one; he understands that Con ''exists in a chaos of yearning . . . [of] love and . . . hunger and . . . bottomless grief,'' and he portrays the other characters with equal sympathy. In delineating the story of this disconnected family, each member floating in his or her own sphere of bewilderment, anger, mistrust and fear but inextricably bound to others by flesh and blood, Cunningham illuminates the chasm between parents and children in contemporary America, beginning in the 1970s, when drug use and sexual freedom broke traditional constraints. Both fate and accident determine all of the characters'' lives. Con betrays beautiful, distant Mary with his partner''s fat, plain secretaryÂ—and ends up married to her. Mary becomes friends with Cassandra, a drag queen who is the godmother of Zoe''s illegitimate half-black son. Billy renames himself Will, and finally finds a loving companion. All the characters are fallible and come late to self-knowledge. Cunningham''s portraits are so honest and sensitive that we can see into their souls. His prose is both restrained and mesmerizing: individual scenesÂ—such as one of teenagers in a car wreckÂ—become incandescent images. In the end, what remains of Con and Mary''s failed dreams of their lives and those of their children and grandchildren becomes a transcendent testament to the power of human endurance."Â—***Publishers Weekly*** Â  "The story of Constantine Stassos freshly examines the American immigrant experience and conflict between generations. He, wife Mary, and three children Susan, Will, and Zoe seemingly embody solid middle-class values. However, Constantine''s cruelty, voracious appetites, and questionable business practices poison his marriage and brutalize his children. Through painful quests for independence, personal balance, and community, the Stassos children learn acceptance of themselves and their siblings. Fairly brief episodes, often occuring years apart, recount key moments in the establishment, disintegration, and reconfiguration of the family. Thoroughly realized action, vivid character delineation, and the splendid control of language guarantee both the unity and powerful impact of this successful novel . . . Very highly recommended."Â—**Jane S. Bakerman, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, *Library Journal***\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21909'),
(17837, 'Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel', 'Jefferson Bass', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of the entertaining second Body Farm novel from the pseudonymous Bass (the writing team of forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass and journalist Jon Jefferson), Dr. Bill Brockton ties a dead man dressed in drag to a tree at the Body Farm (a facility he heads outside Knoxville, Tenn., devoted to researching postmortem decay), in an effort to replicate a recent murder. Dr. Bill''s just beginning a romantic relationship with another participant in this experiment, Chattanooga medical examiner Dr. Jess Carter. The story veers wildly from fascinating forensics with a high yuck factor to sophomoric and corny romantic byplay, often in the same scene. Fans of the bestselling first book in the series,\n <em>\n  Carved in Bone\n </em>\n , and readers with a penchant for the gross and grisly will take to Dr. Bill, a hero with a big heart who isn''t afraid to tackle complicated issues while solving mildly engrossing mysteries. Dr. Bass and Jefferson are the coauthors of\n <em>\n  Death''s Acre\n </em>\n , about the actual Body Farm.\n <em>\n  7-city author tour. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton, who made his debut in\n <em>\n  Carved in Bone\n </em>\n (2005), returns to defend himself against a charge of murder. The mummified body of a woman is found in a cave in Tennessee. Brockton, who works at the University of Tennessee''s Body Farm (founded in real life by Bill Bass, one-half of "Jefferson Bass"), has seen his share of gruesome sights, but this one has him stymied. And when a second body turns up, Brockton finds himself square in the spotlight. The second Body Farm mystery is as smoothly written as the first (Bass'' coauthor, Jon Jefferson, is an accomplished journalist), but it goes a lot farther in exploring its protagonist, a man who spends his life looking at death. The story is razor sharp, too, with a nice mixture of mystery and horror. Fans of forensic fiction will want to add this author to their list of favorites.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4548'),
(17838, 'Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel', 'Jefferson Bass', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of the entertaining second Body Farm novel from the pseudonymous Bass (the writing team of forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass and journalist Jon Jefferson), Dr. Bill Brockton ties a dead man dressed in drag to a tree at the Body Farm (a facility he heads outside Knoxville, Tenn., devoted to researching postmortem decay), in an effort to replicate a recent murder. Dr. Bill''s just beginning a romantic relationship with another participant in this experiment, Chattanooga medical examiner Dr. Jess Carter. The story veers wildly from fascinating forensics with a high yuck factor to sophomoric and corny romantic byplay, often in the same scene. Fans of the bestselling first book in the series,\n <em>\n  Carved in Bone\n </em>\n , and readers with a penchant for the gross and grisly will take to Dr. Bill, a hero with a big heart who isn''t afraid to tackle complicated issues while solving mildly engrossing mysteries. Dr. Bass and Jefferson are the coauthors of\n <em>\n  Death''s Acre\n </em>\n , about the actual Body Farm.\n <em>\n  7-city author tour. (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton, who made his debut in\n <em>\n  Carved in Bone\n </em>\n (2005), returns to defend himself against a charge of murder. The mummified body of a woman is found in a cave in Tennessee. Brockton, who works at the University of Tennessee''s Body Farm (founded in real life by Bill Bass, one-half of "Jefferson Bass"), has seen his share of gruesome sights, but this one has him stymied. And when a second body turns up, Brockton finds himself square in the spotlight. The second Body Farm mystery is as smoothly written as the first (Bass'' coauthor, Jon Jefferson, is an accomplished journalist), but it goes a lot farther in exploring its protagonist, a man who spends his life looking at death. The story is razor sharp, too, with a nice mixture of mystery and horror. Fans of forensic fiction will want to add this author to their list of favorites.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8373'),
(17839, 'The Flesh in the Furnace', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Early Koontz story of a race of living puppets doing the bidding of the Puppet Master.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6081'),
(17840, 'The flesh in the furnace', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Early Koontz story of a race of living puppets doing the bidding of the Puppet Master.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17910'),
(17841, 'Fletch', 'Gregory Mcdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n FletchHeâ€™s an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently heâ€™s living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find to the source of the drugs they live for. FletchHeâ€™s taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesnâ€™t appreciate his style. Or the expense account items heâ€™s racking up. Or his definition of the word deadline. Or the divorce lawyers who keep showing up at the office.FletchSo when multimillionaire Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch the job of a lifetime, which could be worth a fortune, heâ€™s intrigued and decides to do a little investigation. What he discovers is that the proposition is anything but what it seems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5206'),
(17842, 'Fletch', 'Gregory Mcdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FletchHeâ€™s an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently heâ€™s living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find to the source of the drugs they live for. FletchHeâ€™s taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesnâ€™t appreciate his style. Or the expense account items heâ€™s racking up. Or his definition of the word deadline. Or the divorce lawyers who keep showing up at the office.FletchSo when multimillionaire Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch the job of a lifetime, which could be worth a fortune, heâ€™s intrigued and decides to do a little investigation. What he discovers is that the proposition is anything but what it seems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19409'),
(17843, 'Fletch', 'Gregory Mcdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: FletchHeâ€™s an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently heâ€™s living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find to the source of the drugs they live for. FletchHeâ€™s taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesnâ€™t appreciate his style. Or the expense account items heâ€™s racking up. Or his definition of the word deadline. Or the divorce lawyers who keep showing up at the office.FletchSo when multimillionaire Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch the job of a lifetime, which could be worth a fortune, heâ€™s intrigued and decides to do a little investigation. What he discovers is that the proposition is anything but what it seems.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28058'),
(17844, 'Fletch&#39;s Fortune', 'Gregory Mcdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?Bright and entertaining?. Fletch, as irreverent and smart as ever, is back.? --_The New York Times Book Review _\n</p>\n<p>\n ?Good old-fashioned page-turning fun, a flair that has been absent from novels of this sort since the days of vintage James Bond.? _--Penthouse\n</p>\n<p>\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fletchâ€™s Fortune\n</p>\n<p>\n He hadnâ€™t been a practicing journalist for years, although people remembered him and he still has a few contacts. And heâ€™s pretty sure he hasnâ€™t paid his dues to the American Journalism Alliance anytime recently. But somebody has.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fletchâ€™s Fortune\n</p>\n<p>\n Enjoying himself on the French Riviera, developing a killer tan, and sleeping with the neighborâ€™s wife, Fletch is feeling pretty flush. But when agents Eggers and Fabens show up with a little more information about Fletch than is comfortable and an invitation to the A.J.A. convention, how could he refuse?\n</p>\n<p>\n Fletchâ€™s Fortune\n</p>\n<p>\n So he finds himself enlisted as a spy among his peers. But before he can even set up his surveillance, thereâ€™s a murder. And almost everybodyâ€™s a suspect. Because a lot of people were employed by Walter March, and most of them had a reason to hate him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5208'),
(17845, 'Fletch&#39;s Fortune', 'Gregory Mcdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?Bright and entertaining?. Fletch, as irreverent and smart as ever, is back.? --_The New York Times Book Review _\n</p>\n<p>\n ?Good old-fashioned page-turning fun, a flair that has been absent from novels of this sort since the days of vintage James Bond.? _--Penthouse\n</p>\n<p>\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fletchâ€™s Fortune\n</p>\n<p>\n He hadnâ€™t been a practicing journalist for years, although people remembered him and he still has a few contacts. And heâ€™s pretty sure he hasnâ€™t paid his dues to the American Journalism Alliance anytime recently. But somebody has.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fletchâ€™s Fortune\n</p>\n<p>\n Enjoying himself on the French Riviera, developing a killer tan, and sleeping with the neighborâ€™s wife, Fletch is feeling pretty flush. But when agents Eggers and Fabens show up with a little more information about Fletch than is comfortable and an invitation to the A.J.A. convention, how could he refuse?\n</p>\n<p>\n Fletchâ€™s Fortune\n</p>\n<p>\n So he finds himself enlisted as a spy among his peers. But before he can even set up his surveillance, thereâ€™s a murder. And almost everybodyâ€™s a suspect. Because a lot of people were employed by Walter March, and most of them had a reason to hate him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11388'),
(17846, 'Fletch&#39;s Fortune', 'Gregory Mcdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ?Bright and entertaining?. Fletch, as irreverent and smart as ever, is back.? --_The New York Times Book Review _\n</p>\n<p>\n ?Good old-fashioned page-turning fun, a flair that has been absent from novels of this sort since the days of vintage James Bond.? _--Penthouse\n</p>\n<p>\n _ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fletchâ€™s Fortune\n</p>\n<p>\n He hadnâ€™t been a practicing journalist for years, although people remembered him and he still has a few contacts. And heâ€™s pretty sure he hasnâ€™t paid his dues to the American Journalism Alliance anytime recently. But somebody has.\n</p>\n<p>\n Fletchâ€™s Fortune\n</p>\n<p>\n Enjoying himself on the French Riviera, developing a killer tan, and sleeping with the neighborâ€™s wife, Fletch is feeling pretty flush. But when agents Eggers and Fabens show up with a little more information about Fletch than is comfortable and an invitation to the A.J.A. convention, how could he refuse?\n</p>\n<p>\n Fletchâ€™s Fortune\n</p>\n<p>\n So he finds himself enlisted as a spy among his peers. But before he can even set up his surveillance, thereâ€™s a murder. And almost everybodyâ€™s a suspect. Because a lot of people were employed by Walter March, and most of them had a reason to hate him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19408'),
(17847, 'A Flicker of Doubt', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Harrison Black is kayaking on the Gunpowder River in front of River''s Edge when he thinks he hits a submerged log.  As he looks closer into the water though, he discovers that it''s a body.  Horrified, Harrison tries to bring it to shore, only to realize that it is his ex girlfriend!  Harrison dives into the case, and tries to find out how Becka really died.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/704'),
(17848, 'A Flicker of Doubt', 'Tim Myers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Harrison Black is kayaking on the Gunpowder River in front of River''s Edge when he thinks he hits a submerged log. As he looks closer into the water though, he discovers that it''s a body. Horrified, Harrison tries to bring it to shore, only to realize that it is his ex girlfriend! Harrison dives into the case, and tries to find out how Becka really died.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24313'),
(17849, 'The Flickering Torch Mystery', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When two suspicious plane accidents occur near an eastern airport, the two Hardy brothers investigate the case and find themselves in greater danger than they anticipated.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18460'),
(17850, 'Flight in Yiktor', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15861'),
(17851, 'Flight Into Darkness', 'Sarah Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Singer and spy Celestine de Joyeuse must finally come to terms with her father''s legacy in this complex sequel to 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Tracing the Shadow\n  </em>\n  . While serving Francia''s King Enguerrand, Celestine longs to destroy the Magus Linnaius, whom she believes betrayed her father to the Inquisition. Celestine is aided by Faie, a spirit bound by her father to protect her, but Faie was responsible for keeping the balance between the mortal world and the realm of the dead, and now lost souls haunt the living. The story ties up minor plot threads from Ash''s Tears of Atramon trilogy, but its dependence on backstory will challenge new readers, while fans of\n  <em>\n   Tracing the Shadow\n  </em>\n  will wonder why previously major characters have been relegated to token roles.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Those who enjoyed the intricate Tracing the Shadow (2008) will want to read the conclusion of its story, set in the world of the Tears of Artamon trilogy. It continues the exploits of dozens of characters in several different countries, dealing with politics, mythology, espionage, ghosts, religion, music, and romance. A prophecy predicts the end of the world if the Drakhaouls, who change the people they inhabit and can fly as dragons, are freed and brought into the world of the living. Rieuk Mordiern finally begins to love again but faces betrayal before venturing into the Rift and getting lost for years. Musicians Celestine (formerly Klervie) and Jagu go spying in Muscobar, and when they are targeted by the inquisition, Celestine gets her appearance altered to become an opera-companyâ€™s cleaning lady (though she is soon performing in it). An exorcism gone wrong slays a monarchâ€™s best friend, seven daemons escape the Rift and possess highly placed men, and characters and story lines eventually converge. A challenging journey for characters and readers alike. --Diana Tixier Herald\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1397'),
(17852, 'Flight Into Darkness', 'Sarah Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Singer and spy Celestine de Joyeuse must finally come to terms with her father''s legacy in this complex sequel to 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Tracing the Shadow\n  </em>\n  . While serving Francia''s King Enguerrand, Celestine longs to destroy the Magus Linnaius, whom she believes betrayed her father to the Inquisition. Celestine is aided by Faie, a spirit bound by her father to protect her, but Faie was responsible for keeping the balance between the mortal world and the realm of the dead, and now lost souls haunt the living. The story ties up minor plot threads from Ash''s Tears of Atramon trilogy, but its dependence on backstory will challenge new readers, while fans of\n  <em>\n   Tracing the Shadow\n  </em>\n  will wonder why previously major characters have been relegated to token roles.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Those who enjoyed the intricate Tracing the Shadow (2008) will want to read the conclusion of its story, set in the world of the Tears of Artamon trilogy. It continues the exploits of dozens of characters in several different countries, dealing with politics, mythology, espionage, ghosts, religion, music, and romance. A prophecy predicts the end of the world if the Drakhaouls, who change the people they inhabit and can fly as dragons, are freed and brought into the world of the living. Rieuk Mordiern finally begins to love again but faces betrayal before venturing into the Rift and getting lost for years. Musicians Celestine (formerly Klervie) and Jagu go spying in Muscobar, and when they are targeted by the inquisition, Celestine gets her appearance altered to become an opera-companyâ€™s cleaning lady (though she is soon performing in it). An exorcism gone wrong slays a monarchâ€™s best friend, seven daemons escape the Rift and possess highly placed men, and characters and story lines eventually converge. A challenging journey for characters and readers alike. --Diana Tixier Herald\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8259'),
(17853, 'Flight Into Darkness', 'Sarah Ash', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Singer and spy Celestine de Joyeuse must finally come to terms with her father''s legacy in this complex sequel to 2008''s\n <em>\n  Tracing the Shadow\n </em>\n . While serving Francia''s King Enguerrand, Celestine longs to destroy the Magus Linnaius, whom she believes betrayed her father to the Inquisition. Celestine is aided by Faie, a spirit bound by her father to protect her, but Faie was responsible for keeping the balance between the mortal world and the realm of the dead, and now lost souls haunt the living. The story ties up minor plot threads from Ash''s Tears of Atramon trilogy, but its dependence on backstory will challenge new readers, while fans of\n <em>\n  Tracing the Shadow\n </em>\n will wonder why previously major characters have been relegated to token roles.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those who enjoyed the intricate Tracing the Shadow (2008) will want to read the conclusion of its story, set in the world of the Tears of Artamon trilogy. It continues the exploits of dozens of characters in several different countries, dealing with politics, mythology, espionage, ghosts, religion, music, and romance. A prophecy predicts the end of the world if the Drakhaouls, who change the people they inhabit and can fly as dragons, are freed and brought into the world of the living. Rieuk Mordiern finally begins to love again but faces betrayal before venturing into the Rift and getting lost for years. Musicians Celestine (formerly Klervie) and Jagu go spying in Muscobar, and when they are targeted by the inquisition, Celestine gets her appearance altered to become an opera-companyâ€™s cleaning lady (though she is soon performing in it). An exorcism gone wrong slays a monarchâ€™s best friend, seven daemons escape the Rift and possess highly placed men, and characters and story lines eventually converge. A challenging journey for characters and readers alike. --Diana Tixier Herald\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23483'),
(17854, 'Flight of a Witch', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This trio of novels by the author of the acclaimed Brother Cadfael mysteries features Detective Chief Inspector George Felse, said to be among the best-portrayed British policemen in fiction today.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When beautiful Annet Beck disappears into the remote Welsh Country believed to be the domain of witches and returns five days later, claiming she was only gone for two hours, Detective Inspector George Felse steps in to investigate. Reprint.\n <em>\n  AB. K. PW.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5680'),
(17855, 'Flight of a Witch', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This trio of novels by the author of the acclaimed Brother Cadfael mysteries features Detective Chief Inspector George Felse, said to be among the best-portrayed British policemen in fiction today.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When beautiful Annet Beck disappears into the remote Welsh Country believed to be the domain of witches and returns five days later, claiming she was only gone for two hours, Detective Inspector George Felse steps in to investigate. Reprint.\n <em>\n  AB. K. PW.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18908');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(17856, 'Flight of Shadows', 'Sigmund Brouwer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Futuristic speculative Christian fiction is rare, and Brouwer (_Broken Angel_) does it with the skills of an episodic storyteller that make a reader wonder when the movie is coming out. In a postapocalyptic setting, people live in their cars, called soovies, the government has runaway power, and social classes are stratified into Influentials, Industrials, Illegals, Invisibles. When Caitlyn, an Invisible whose life was a government DNA experiment gone bad, breaks free, she is pursued by a bounty hunter for the Influentials. What''s darkly horrifying about the book is the plausibility of the story, built on world conflicts in which water causes war, ethicless DNA testing turns a profit, and immigration is intended to create a labor class bordering on slavery. With vivid character description and fascinating details (implanted credit card chips in the finger tips are used for purchases), Brouwer paints a fierce future. The world as he sees it could decay to this dismal degree without the redemption found in the Judeo-Christian ethic and renewed democracy that puts power under people rather than over them.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Praise for\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Flight of Shadows\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ__Flight of Shadows is as haunting as it is intense. Brouwer keeps the pages\n  <br />\n  turning in this deftly written sequel that engages the intellect and paints\n  <br />\n  a frightening picture of a near-future world where the boundaries of\n  <br />\n  morality are testedâ€¦and broken.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”JEREMY ROBINSON, author of\n  <strong>\n   Antarktos Rising and\n  </strong>\n  Pulse\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1208'),
(17857, 'Flight of Shadows', 'Sigmund Brouwer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Futuristic speculative Christian fiction is rare, and Brouwer (_Broken Angel_) does it with the skills of an episodic storyteller that make a reader wonder when the movie is coming out. In a postapocalyptic setting, people live in their cars, called soovies, the government has runaway power, and social classes are stratified into Influentials, Industrials, Illegals, Invisibles. When Caitlyn, an Invisible whose life was a government DNA experiment gone bad, breaks free, she is pursued by a bounty hunter for the Influentials. What''s darkly horrifying about the book is the plausibility of the story, built on world conflicts in which water causes war, ethicless DNA testing turns a profit, and immigration is intended to create a labor class bordering on slavery. With vivid character description and fascinating details (implanted credit card chips in the finger tips are used for purchases), Brouwer paints a fierce future. The world as he sees it could decay to this dismal degree without the redemption found in the Judeo-Christian ethic and renewed democracy that puts power under people rather than over them.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Praise for\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Flight of Shadows\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ__Flight of Shadows is as haunting as it is intense. Brouwer keeps the pages\n  <br />\n  turning in this deftly written sequel that engages the intellect and paints\n  <br />\n  a frightening picture of a near-future world where the boundaries of\n  <br />\n  morality are testedâ€¦and broken.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”JEREMY ROBINSON, author of\n  <strong>\n   Antarktos Rising and\n  </strong>\n  Pulse\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8642'),
(17858, 'Flight of Shadows', 'Sigmund Brouwer', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Futuristic speculative Christian fiction is rare, and Brouwer (_Broken Angel_) does it with the skills of an episodic storyteller that make a reader wonder when the movie is coming out. In a postapocalyptic setting, people live in their cars, called soovies, the government has runaway power, and social classes are stratified into Influentials, Industrials, Illegals, Invisibles. When Caitlyn, an Invisible whose life was a government DNA experiment gone bad, breaks free, she is pursued by a bounty hunter for the Influentials. What''s darkly horrifying about the book is the plausibility of the story, built on world conflicts in which water causes war, ethicless DNA testing turns a profit, and immigration is intended to create a labor class bordering on slavery. With vivid character description and fascinating details (implanted credit card chips in the finger tips are used for purchases), Brouwer paints a fierce future. The world as he sees it could decay to this dismal degree without the redemption found in the Judeo-Christian ethic and renewed democracy that puts power under people rather than over them.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  Praise for\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _\n  <strong>\n   Flight of Shadows\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ__Flight of Shadows is as haunting as it is intense. Brouwer keeps the pages\n  <br />\n  turning in this deftly written sequel that engages the intellect and paints\n  <br />\n  a frightening picture of a near-future world where the boundaries of\n  <br />\n  morality are tested...and broken.â€\n  <br />\n  â€”JEREMY ROBINSON, author of\n  <strong>\n   Antarktos Rising and\n  </strong>\n  Pulse\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23699'),
(17859, 'Flight of the Nighthawks', 'Raymond E. Feist', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n " A new evil threatens Midkemia, its web stretching from the deepest criminal underworld all the way up to the highest seats of power in ancient Kesh. And the Conclave of Shadows, charged unexpectedly with the training of two apprentices, must also best powerful agents of the darkest magic . . . for the fate of two worlds lies in the balance. The New York Times bestselling author and master of fantasy Raymond E. Feist returns to his signature world of Midkemia in this first book in a gripping new trilogy that ushers in the third, and most dramatic, Riftwar yet: the Darkwar. In the middle of the night on Sorcerer''s Isle, the powerful sorcerer Pug is awakened from a nightmare that portends destruction for all of Midkemia. Disturbed by the dream, Pug calls for a convening of the Conclave of Shadows. Though Pug does not yet know it, his son Magnus has discovered the cause of Pug''s prophetic dream: a beacon has been unleashed, directing a vast army of alien invaders to Midkemia, an army so formidable that even the might of the Tsurani Empire might fall before its fury. Meanwhile, in far Stardock town, two boys are coming of age. But on the dusty path that leads them from home they are thrust by fate into a life undreamed of, becoming enmeshed in intrigue, murder, and treason. Though untrained and unready, they are called upon by the mysterious Conclave to travel deep into the heart of the Empire of Great Kesh, to confront a plot so dark and twisted it will implicate even the highest-ranking nobles of the Empire, even members of the royal family itself. And behind this plot they discover the ancient Brotherhood of Death, the clan of assassins known as the Nighthawks. And Pug will find himself once again facing his old nemesis, the evil wizard formerly known as Sidi, now Leso Varen, in a confrontation with everything at stake: his honor, his life, and the future of Midkemia. "\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1853'),
(17860, 'Flight of the Phoenix (Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist, Book I)', 'R. L. LaFevers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n (Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist Book 1) EDITORIAL REVIEW: Nathaniel Fluddâ€™s life has taken a turn for the worst. With his parents lost at sea, he lands on the doorstep of a distant cousinÂ—the worldâ€™s last remaining beastologist. Soon Nate is whisked off on his first expedition, to Arabia, where the worldâ€™s only phoenix prepares to lay its new egg. When disaster strikes, Nate quickly finds himself all alone. Will he be able to see the phoenix safely hatched, keep his accidental pet gremlin out of trouble, and rescue his guardian from the Bedouin? If he fails, nothing will stand between the worldâ€™s mythical creatures and extinction. Too bad Nateâ€™s not the sort of boy who enjoys adventure . . .yet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21485'),
(17861, 'Flinx Transcendent: A Pip &amp; Flinx Adventure', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Flinx and his feisty minidrag, Pip, reunite with old friends for one final slam-bang universe rescue in the 14th title of one of science fiction''s longest running series. After the devastating events of 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Quofum\n  </em>\n  , Flinx is at his most self-destructive. His malaise is compounded by his knowledge of the Great Evil that threatens to destroy all intelligent life, a monster only he can defeat. On his way to that fateful confrontation, dodging dark agents of the Order of Null, Flinx negotiates a temporary peace between the human Commonwealth and the AAnn, reconciles with his one true love, Clarity Held, and reunites with his old mentors Truzenzuzex and the sociologist-soldier Tse-Mallory. Once the story picks up steam, the pace never slows. Flinx fans will delight in seeing familiar faces come together for one last grand adventure.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the conclusion of Fosterâ€™s long-running series, Flinx finally gets to unleash his mental powers to save the universe. With Pip faithfully at his side, Flinx has challenged himself to visit the AAnn home world, an endeavor that may be suicidal but certainly will be interesting. Unfortunately, a minor slip-up arouses official suspicion; he has to send Teacher (his ship) away and fend for himself. Hiding on AAnn, he is discovered only by a remarkably open-minded AAnn youth. The subsequent adventures are steeped in the over-the-top danger and triumph that series followers expect. When Flinx finally leaves AAnn, he is reassured that sentient life is worth saving and feels ready to find the relics of long-dead civilizations with which he might neutralize the great evil bent on destroying everything in its path. Before the inevitable showdown, he picks up some old friends and his beloved Charity Held. All loose Flinxian ends are tied up before the end of the entertaining trip Foster has led readers on since 1972 (see The Tar-Aiym Krang to start all over again). --Regina Schroeder\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7803'),
(17862, 'Flinx Transcendent: A Pip &amp; Flinx Adventure', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Flinx and his feisty minidrag, Pip, reunite with old friends for one final slam-bang universe rescue in the 14th title of one of science fiction''s longest running series. After the devastating events of 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Quofum\n  </em>\n  , Flinx is at his most self-destructive. His malaise is compounded by his knowledge of the Great Evil that threatens to destroy all intelligent life, a monster only he can defeat. On his way to that fateful confrontation, dodging dark agents of the Order of Null, Flinx negotiates a temporary peace between the human Commonwealth and the AAnn, reconciles with his one true love, Clarity Held, and reunites with his old mentors Truzenzuzex and the sociologist-soldier Tse-Mallory. Once the story picks up steam, the pace never slows. Flinx fans will delight in seeing familiar faces come together for one last grand adventure.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the conclusion of Fosterâ€™s long-running series, Flinx finally gets to unleash his mental powers to save the universe. With Pip faithfully at his side, Flinx has challenged himself to visit the AAnn home world, an endeavor that may be suicidal but certainly will be interesting. Unfortunately, a minor slip-up arouses official suspicion; he has to send Teacher (his ship) away and fend for himself. Hiding on AAnn, he is discovered only by a remarkably open-minded AAnn youth. The subsequent adventures are steeped in the over-the-top danger and triumph that series followers expect. When Flinx finally leaves AAnn, he is reassured that sentient life is worth saving and feels ready to find the relics of long-dead civilizations with which he might neutralize the great evil bent on destroying everything in its path. Before the inevitable showdown, he picks up some old friends and his beloved Charity Held. All loose Flinxian ends are tied up before the end of the entertaining trip Foster has led readers on since 1972 (see The Tar-Aiym Krang to start all over again). --Regina Schroeder\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9823'),
(17863, 'Flinx Transcendent: A Pip &amp; Flinx Adventure', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Flinx and his feisty minidrag, Pip, reunite with old friends for one final slam-bang universe rescue in the 14th title of one of science fiction''s longest running series. After the devastating events of 2008''s\n  <em>\n   Quofum\n  </em>\n  , Flinx is at his most self-destructive. His malaise is compounded by his knowledge of the Great Evil that threatens to destroy all intelligent life, a monster only he can defeat. On his way to that fateful confrontation, dodging dark agents of the Order of Null, Flinx negotiates a temporary peace between the human Commonwealth and the AAnn, reconciles with his one true love, Clarity Held, and reunites with his old mentors Truzenzuzex and the sociologist-soldier Tse-Mallory. Once the story picks up steam, the pace never slows. Flinx fans will delight in seeing familiar faces come together for one last grand adventure.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the conclusion of Fosterâ€™s long-running series, Flinx finally gets to unleash his mental powers to save the universe. With Pip faithfully at his side, Flinx has challenged himself to visit the AAnn home world, an endeavor that may be suicidal but certainly will be interesting. Unfortunately, a minor slip-up arouses official suspicion; he has to send Teacher (his ship) away and fend for himself. Hiding on AAnn, he is discovered only by a remarkably open-minded AAnn youth. The subsequent adventures are steeped in the over-the-top danger and triumph that series followers expect. When Flinx finally leaves AAnn, he is reassured that sentient life is worth saving and feels ready to find the relics of long-dead civilizations with which he might neutralize the great evil bent on destroying everything in its path. Before the inevitable showdown, he picks up some old friends and his beloved Charity Held. All loose Flinxian ends are tied up before the end of the entertaining trip Foster has led readers on since 1972 (see The Tar-Aiym Krang to start all over again). --Regina Schroeder\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16052'),
(17864, 'Flip This Zombie', 'Jesse Petersen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Zombie Apocalypse has been good to Sarah and David. Their marriage is better than ever. They communicate well, share responsibilities, and now, they''re starting a business. ZombieBusters-for all your zombie extermination needs.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are lots of zombies and that means lots of customers...Except one of them doesn''t want the zombies dead, he wants them alive and ready for experimentation. Mad scientists make for difficult clients and this time, Sarah and David might have bitten off more than they can chew.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n A Facebook application once told Jesse Petersen that she''d only survive a day in a zombie outbreak, but she doesn''t believe that. For one, she''s a good shot and two, she has an aversion to bodily fluids, so she''d never go digging around in zombie goo. Until the zombie apocalypse, she lives in the Midwest with her husband and two cats. Find out more about the author at www.jessepetersen.net.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4458'),
(17865, 'Flip This Zombie', 'Jesse Petersen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Zombie Apocalypse has been good to Sarah and David. Their marriage is better than ever. They communicate well, share responsibilities, and now, they''re starting a business. ZombieBusters-for all your zombie extermination needs.\n</p>\n<p>\n There are lots of zombies and that means lots of customers...Except one of them doesn''t want the zombies dead, he wants them alive and ready for experimentation. Mad scientists make for difficult clients and this time, Sarah and David might have bitten off more than they can chew.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n A Facebook application once told Jesse Petersen that she''d only survive a day in a zombie outbreak, but she doesn''t believe that. For one, she''s a good shot and two, she has an aversion to bodily fluids, so she''d never go digging around in zombie goo. Until the zombie apocalypse, she lives in the Midwest with her husband and two cats. Find out more about the author at www.jessepetersen.net.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11991'),
(17866, 'Flirt', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** The *New York Times* bestselling series. ** When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows, though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced, is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn''t the miracle he thinks he needs. The creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington''s grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3493'),
(17867, 'Flirt', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** The *New York Times* bestselling series. ** When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows, though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced, is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn''t the miracle he thinks he needs. The creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington''s grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15310'),
(17868, 'Flirt', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** The *New York Times* bestselling series. ** When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows, though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced, is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn''t the miracle he thinks he needs. The creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington''s grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21000'),
(17869, 'Flirtation', 'Samantha Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EJ Beaumont is one big flirt. Not exactly the best trait for a cop, but it''s an asset on his current undercover investigation for the HotWires team. He''s flirting big-time with sexy online psychic Charlotte Gerard, who''s reportedly running a lonely hearts scam. He is going to nail her cute butt but good!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Charlotte can sense there''s something special about her newest client, Ethan Jared. All the cards point to the fact they *will* be passionate lovers--soon. But it''s the hints of danger troubling her most. And when she''s forced to run to him for protection, can she really trust him with her heart and her life?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EJ Beaumont is one big flirt. Not exactly the best trait for a cop, but it''s an asset on his current undercover investigation for the HotWires team. He''s flirting big-time with sexy online psychic Charlotte Gerard, who''s reportedly running a lonely hearts scam. He is going to nail her cute butt but good!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Charlotte can sense there''s something special about her newest client, Ethan Jared. All the cards point to the fact they *will* be passionate lovers--soon. But it''s the hints of danger troubling her most. And when she''s forced to run to him for protection, can she really trust him with her heart and her life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1480'),
(17870, 'Flirtation', 'Samantha Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EJ Beaumont is one big flirt. Not exactly the best trait for a cop, but it''s an asset on his current undercover investigation for the HotWires team. He''s flirting big-time with sexy online psychic Charlotte Gerard, who''s reportedly running a lonely hearts scam. He is going to nail her cute butt but good!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Charlotte can sense there''s something special about her newest client, Ethan Jared. All the cards point to the fact they *will* be passionate lovers--soon. But it''s the hints of danger troubling her most. And when she''s forced to run to him for protection, can she really trust him with her heart and her life?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EJ Beaumont is one big flirt. Not exactly the best trait for a cop, but it''s an asset on his current undercover investigation for the HotWires team. He''s flirting big-time with sexy online psychic Charlotte Gerard, who''s reportedly running a lonely hearts scam. He is going to nail her cute butt but good!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Charlotte can sense there''s something special about her newest client, Ethan Jared. All the cards point to the fact they *will* be passionate lovers--soon. But it''s the hints of danger troubling her most. And when she''s forced to run to him for protection, can she really trust him with her heart and her life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10389'),
(17871, 'Flirtation', 'Samantha Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: EJ Beaumont is one big flirt. Not exactly the best trait for a cop, but it''s an asset on his current undercover investigation for the HotWires team. He''s flirting big-time with sexy online psychic Charlotte Gerard, who''s reportedly running a lonely hearts scam. He is going to nail her cute butt but good! Charlotte can sense there''s something special about her newest client, Ethan Jared. All the cards point to the fact they *will* be passionate lovers--soon. But it''s the hints of danger troubling her most. And when she''s forced to run to him for protection, can she really trust him with her heart and her life? EDITORIAL REVIEW: EJ Beaumont is one big flirt. Not exactly the best trait for a cop, but it''s an asset on his current undercover investigation for the HotWires team. He''s flirting big-time with sexy online psychic Charlotte Gerard, who''s reportedly running a lonely hearts scam. He is going to nail her cute butt but good! Charlotte can sense there''s something special about her newest client, Ethan Jared. All the cards point to the fact they *will* be passionate lovers--soon. But it''s the hints of danger troubling her most. And when she''s forced to run to him for protection, can she really trust him with her heart and her life?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23524'),
(17872, 'Flirting With Disaster', 'Jane Graves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n HE WAS THE MAN SHE COULDN''T HAVE . . .On a humanitarian mission to fly doctors to a remote village in Mexico, pilot Lisa Merrick discovers something sinister lurking behind the organization in charge. Her plane is sabotaged, leaving her trapped in the Mexican wilderness with a price on her head and no way out. Injured and desperate, she manages to contact the one man she knows will help her: Dave DeMarco, a tough but compassionate Texas cop she was once wildly in love with, a man who left her with nothing but a whispered promise that now provides her only hope.. . . SHE WAS THE WOMAN HE COULDN''T FORGETDave DeMarco is stunned when a woman from his past phones him late one night with an incredible story of smuggling, sabotage, and attempted murder. Just hearing Lisa Merrickâ€™s voice brings back memories Dave doesnâ€™t want to face, but a promise he once made leaves him no choice but to help her. Soon, though, his mission to rescue Lisa becomes a struggle for survival against an enemy who wants them both dead. When the danger they face clashes with the passion that still burns between them, Dave vows to protect the woman he never stopped lovingâ€“and keep her in his life forever. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4712'),
(17873, 'Flirting With Disaster', 'Jane Graves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n HE WAS THE MAN SHE COULDN''T HAVE . . .On a humanitarian mission to fly doctors to a remote village in Mexico, pilot Lisa Merrick discovers something sinister lurking behind the organization in charge. Her plane is sabotaged, leaving her trapped in the Mexican wilderness with a price on her head and no way out. Injured and desperate, she manages to contact the one man she knows will help her: Dave DeMarco, a tough but compassionate Texas cop she was once wildly in love with, a man who left her with nothing but a whispered promise that now provides her only hope.. . . SHE WAS THE WOMAN HE COULDN''T FORGETDave DeMarco is stunned when a woman from his past phones him late one night with an incredible story of smuggling, sabotage, and attempted murder. Just hearing Lisa Merrickâ€™s voice brings back memories Dave doesnâ€™t want to face, but a promise he once made leaves him no choice but to help her. Soon, though, his mission to rescue Lisa becomes a struggle for survival against an enemy who wants them both dead. When the danger they face clashes with the passion that still burns between them, Dave vows to protect the woman he never stopped lovingâ€“and keep her in his life forever. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9995'),
(17874, 'Flirting with Disaster', 'Jane Graves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: HE WAS THE MAN SHE COULDN''T HAVE . . .On a humanitarian mission to fly doctors to a remote village in Mexico, pilot Lisa Merrick discovers something sinister lurking behind the organization in charge. Her plane is sabotaged, leaving her trapped in the Mexican wilderness with a price on her head and no way out. Injured and desperate, she manages to contact the one man she knows will help her: Dave DeMarco, a tough but compassionate Texas cop she was once wildly in love with, a man who left her with nothing but a whispered promise that now provides her only hope.. . . SHE WAS THE WOMAN HE COULDN''T FORGETDave DeMarco is stunned when a woman from his past phones him late one night with an incredible story of smuggling, sabotage, and attempted murder. Just hearing Lisa Merrickâ€™s voice brings back memories Dave doesnâ€™t want to face, but a promise he once made leaves him no choice but to help her. Soon, though, his mission to rescue Lisa becomes a struggle for survival against an enemy who wants them both dead. When the danger they face clashes with the passion that still burns between them, Dave vows to protect the woman he never stopped lovingâ€“and keep her in his life forever. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19901'),
(17875, 'Flirting With Temptation', 'Kelley St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Babette Robinson changes careers and lovers as easily as she changes hairstyles. But after losing her last job, she''s beginning to see that her feather-to-the-wind mentality can be unsatisfying in the long run. She''s been helping a string of friends solve their relationship problems, and when one pal points out to Babette that she could make a career out of curing people''s romantic ills, she decides to dub herself "The Love Doctor" -- a match-mender-for-hire. Living in Birmingham, Alabama, with its elite class of wealthy women, Babette has access to the ideal clientele, including the well-known Birmingham socialite Kitty Carelle. Having unceremoniously dumped her lover, Kitty now regrets her hasty decision and wants him back. Trouble is, the man Kitty seeks to recapture is none other than Jeff Eubanks -- Babette''s ex! The carefree Babette of three years ago had written him off with a shrug, yet now she can''t help remembering that he did give her the absolute best sex of her life...not to mention his charm, good looks, and brains. To save her newfound career and prove she can stick with something--if not someone--Babette is determined to mend Kitty and Jeff''s broken relationship, but Jeff has other plans. He was crazy about Babette when she suddenly bailed on their relationship, and after Kitty did the same he became convinced that no woman can ever commit. To prove his point, Jeff issues Babette a challenge: no flirting for a week, and he''ll talk to Kitty. That is, if, after seven tempting nights on the beach with Jeff, it''s still with Kitty that she wants him to reconcile.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3808'),
(17876, 'Flirting With Temptation', 'Kelley St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Babette Robinson changes careers and lovers as easily as she changes hairstyles. But after losing her last job, she''s beginning to see that her feather-to-the-wind mentality can be unsatisfying in the long run. She''s been helping a string of friends solve their relationship problems, and when one pal points out to Babette that she could make a career out of curing people''s romantic ills, she decides to dub herself "The Love Doctor" -- a match-mender-for-hire. Living in Birmingham, Alabama, with its elite class of wealthy women, Babette has access to the ideal clientele, including the well-known Birmingham socialite Kitty Carelle. Having unceremoniously dumped her lover, Kitty now regrets her hasty decision and wants him back. Trouble is, the man Kitty seeks to recapture is none other than Jeff Eubanks -- Babette''s ex! The carefree Babette of three years ago had written him off with a shrug, yet now she can''t help remembering that he did give her the absolute best sex of her life...not to mention his charm, good looks, and brains. To save her newfound career and prove she can stick with something--if not someone--Babette is determined to mend Kitty and Jeff''s broken relationship, but Jeff has other plans. He was crazy about Babette when she suddenly bailed on their relationship, and after Kitty did the same he became convinced that no woman can ever commit. To prove his point, Jeff issues Babette a challenge: no flirting for a week, and he''ll talk to Kitty. That is, if, after seven tempting nights on the beach with Jeff, it''s still with Kitty that she wants him to reconcile.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10511'),
(17877, 'Flirting with Temptation', 'Kelley St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Babette Robinson changes careers and lovers as easily as she changes hairstyles. But after losing her last job, she''s beginning to see that her feather-to-the-wind mentality can be unsatisfying in the long run. She''s been helping a string of friends solve their relationship problems, and when one pal points out to Babette that she could make a career out of curing people''s romantic ills, she decides to dub herself "The Love Doctor" -- a match-mender-for-hire. Living in Birmingham, Alabama, with its elite class of wealthy women, Babette has access to the ideal clientele, including the well-known Birmingham socialite Kitty Carelle. Having unceremoniously dumped her lover, Kitty now regrets her hasty decision and wants him back. Trouble is, the man Kitty seeks to recapture is none other than Jeff Eubanks -- Babette''s ex! The carefree Babette of three years ago had written him off with a shrug, yet now she can''t help remembering that he did give her the absolute best sex of her life...not to mention his charm, good looks, and brains. To save her newfound career and prove she can stick with something--if not someone--Babette is determined to mend Kitty and Jeff''s broken relationship, but Jeff has other plans. He was crazy about Babette when she suddenly bailed on their relationship, and after Kitty did the same he became convinced that no woman can ever commit. To prove his point, Jeff issues Babette a challenge: no flirting for a week, and he''ll talk to Kitty. That is, if, after seven tempting nights on the beach with Jeff, it''s still with Kitty that she wants him to reconcile.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20753'),
(17878, 'The Flock', 'James Robert Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stealth, cunning and killer instinct have ensured the survival of the flock of this gonzo eco-thriller''s title, a population of prehistoric, predatory, highly intelligent giant proto-birds who''ve roamed for thousands of years in the trackless savanna of what''s now a government military reservation in central Florida. Smith''s entertaining debut kicks into high gear when the birds get caught between conflicting environmental and business interests. Vance Holcomb, a billionaire rogue environmentalist, is trying to protect the lurking creatures, while the Berg Brothers, a Disney-style entertainment conglomerate, crave the land as residential real estate. When a right-wing militia is hired to destroy the flock, a naÃ¯ve young Fish and Wildlife officer and his girlfriend find themselves caught in the resulting melee. Smith maps out a complex living environment that makes the flock''s continued existence almost believable and depicts human characters who match the killer birds in adaptability. If the book''s conclusion feels a bit cynically anticlimactic, it still shows that humans are the deadliest predators of all.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Smith maps out a complex living environment that makes the flock''s continued existence almost believable and depicts human characters who match the killer birds in adaptability." --_Publishers Weekly__\n</p>\n<p>\n _"This book has everything a crypto fan could want; prehistoric beasts with near human intelligence; a large corporate entity intent on turning the last wild areas of Florida into suburbia; a self made billionaire ecologist intent on preserving these same areas; and a retired Marine colonel with his own militia and a desire for mayhem. Smith does a wonderful job of brewing these disparate ingredients into a tasty story. And the fact that the hero is not much of a hero leaves a pleasant after taste on the palate."--Cryptozoology.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "I read a lot of fiction, little of it sticking to the mental ribs, but The Flock delivered and will be one of those I revisit down the road, for sure. Give it a read, you won''t be sorry!"--Steve Bissette\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4759'),
(17879, 'The Flock', 'James Robert Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stealth, cunning and killer instinct have ensured the survival of the flock of this gonzo eco-thriller''s title, a population of prehistoric, predatory, highly intelligent giant proto-birds who''ve roamed for thousands of years in the trackless savanna of what''s now a government military reservation in central Florida. Smith''s entertaining debut kicks into high gear when the birds get caught between conflicting environmental and business interests. Vance Holcomb, a billionaire rogue environmentalist, is trying to protect the lurking creatures, while the Berg Brothers, a Disney-style entertainment conglomerate, crave the land as residential real estate. When a right-wing militia is hired to destroy the flock, a naÃ¯ve young Fish and Wildlife officer and his girlfriend find themselves caught in the resulting melee. Smith maps out a complex living environment that makes the flock''s continued existence almost believable and depicts human characters who match the killer birds in adaptability. If the book''s conclusion feels a bit cynically anticlimactic, it still shows that humans are the deadliest predators of all.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Smith maps out a complex living environment that makes the flock''s continued existence almost believable and depicts human characters who match the killer birds in adaptability." --_Publishers Weekly__\n</p>\n<p>\n _"This book has everything a crypto fan could want; prehistoric beasts with near human intelligence; a large corporate entity intent on turning the last wild areas of Florida into suburbia; a self made billionaire ecologist intent on preserving these same areas; and a retired Marine colonel with his own militia and a desire for mayhem. Smith does a wonderful job of brewing these disparate ingredients into a tasty story. And the fact that the hero is not much of a hero leaves a pleasant after taste on the palate."--Cryptozoology.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "I read a lot of fiction, little of it sticking to the mental ribs, but The Flock delivered and will be one of those I revisit down the road, for sure. Give it a read, you won''t be sorry!"--Steve Bissette\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12797'),
(17880, 'The Flock', 'James Robert Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19907'),
(17881, 'Flood', 'Andrew H. Vachss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Burkeâ€™s newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her â€” so she can kill him with her bare hands.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this cauterizing thriller, Andrew Vachssâ€™s renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a childâ€™s murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is blind and the penthouses are as dangerous as the basements. Fearfully knowing, crackling with narrative tension, and written in prose as forceful as a hollow-point slug, Flood is Burke at his deadliest â€” and Vachss at the peak of his form.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn extraordinary thriller. . . . Vachss never flinches from the horror.â€ â€” Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBurke would eat Spade and Marlowe for breakfast, not even spitting out the bones. [He] is one tough, mean, pray-God-you-donâ€™t-meet-him hombre.â€ â€” Boston Herald\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12331'),
(17882, 'Flood Tide', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n AN UNDERWATER GRAVEYARD IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST...A MYSTERIOUS SEAPORT IN THE LOUISIANA BAYOUS...A DIABOLICAL PLOT TO DESTROY AMERICA!When NUMA agent DIRK PITTÂ® rescues a beautiful undercover agent in a daring underwater operation at Orion Lake, just north of Seattle, he confronts a sinister network run by Qin Shang, a ruthless smuggler who sells Chinese immigrants into slavery. Shang''s campaign contributions have bought him a collection of powerful U.S. politicians, but Pitt is not a man to be subverted by politics. As he moves to probe Shang''s mystifying seaport in the Louisiana bayous, his investigation involves him in an adrenaline-pumped race up the Mississippi River and a desperate dash to recover sunken Chinese treasures lost half a century before. And in Qin Shang, Pitt faces ones of his most formidable foes -- a madman bent on killing thousands of innocent civilians with a catastrophic surge of mass destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6713'),
(17883, 'Flood Tide', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: AN UNDERWATER GRAVEYARD IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST...A MYSTERIOUS SEAPORT IN THE LOUISIANA BAYOUS...A DIABOLICAL PLOT TO DESTROY AMERICA!When NUMA agent DIRK PITTÂ® rescues a beautiful undercover agent in a daring underwater operation at Orion Lake, just north of Seattle, he confronts a sinister network run by Qin Shang, a ruthless smuggler who sells Chinese immigrants into slavery. Shang''s campaign contributions have bought him a collection of powerful U.S. politicians, but Pitt is not a man to be subverted by politics. As he moves to probe Shang''s mystifying seaport in the Louisiana bayous, his investigation involves him in an adrenaline-pumped race up the Mississippi River and a desperate dash to recover sunken Chinese treasures lost half a century before. And in Qin Shang, Pitt faces ones of his most formidable foes -- a madman bent on killing thousands of innocent civilians with a catastrophic surge of mass destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14973'),
(17884, 'Flood Tide', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: AN UNDERWATER GRAVEYARD IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST...A MYSTERIOUS SEAPORT IN THE LOUISIANA BAYOUS...A DIABOLICAL PLOT TO DESTROY AMERICA!When NUMA agent DIRK PITTÂ® rescues a beautiful undercover agent in a daring underwater operation at Orion Lake, just north of Seattle, he confronts a sinister network run by Qin Shang, a ruthless smuggler who sells Chinese immigrants into slavery. Shang''s campaign contributions have bought him a collection of powerful U.S. politicians, but Pitt is not a man to be subverted by politics. As he moves to probe Shang''s mystifying seaport in the Louisiana bayous, his investigation involves him in an adrenaline-pumped race up the Mississippi River and a desperate dash to recover sunken Chinese treasures lost half a century before. And in Qin Shang, Pitt faces ones of his most formidable foes -- a madman bent on killing thousands of innocent civilians with a catastrophic surge of mass destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17455'),
(17885, 'Flood Tide', 'Clive Cussler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n AN UNDERWATER GRAVEYARD IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST...A MYSTERIOUS SEAPORT IN THE LOUISIANA BAYOUS...A DIABOLICAL PLOT TO DESTROY AMERICA!When NUMA agent DIRK PITTÂ® rescues a beautiful undercover agent in a daring underwater operation at Orion Lake, just north of Seattle, he confronts a sinister network run by Qin Shang, a ruthless smuggler who sells Chinese immigrants into slavery. Shang''s campaign contributions have bought him a collection of powerful U.S. politicians, but Pitt is not a man to be subverted by politics. As he moves to probe Shang''s mystifying seaport in the Louisiana bayous, his investigation involves him in an adrenaline-pumped race up the Mississippi River and a desperate dash to recover sunken Chinese treasures lost half a century before. And in Qin Shang, Pitt faces ones of his most formidable foes -- a madman bent on killing thousands of innocent civilians with a catastrophic surge of mass destruction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27007'),
(17886, 'Floodgate', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15912');
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(17887, 'The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush', 'Howard Blum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Michael Korda on\n  <em>\n   The Floor of Heaven\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â© Lars Lonninge   _\n <strong>\n  Michael Korda\n </strong>\n is the Editor in Chief Emeritus of Simon &amp; Schuster.\n <strong>\n  Â  His books include\n </strong>\n <em>\n  With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  Ike: An American Hero\n </em>\n ;\n <em>\n  Another Life\n </em>\n <em>\n  _and\n </em>\n Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia.\n</p>\n<p>\n At frequent intervals the â€œWesternâ€ has been declared dead and buried, this despite the fact that Larry McMurtry has been keeping it alive and well for almost half a century, and that in the motion picture business it regularly reappears and scores a huge success, as in Clint Eastwoodâ€™s\n <em>\n  The Unforgiven\n </em>\n or the Cohen brothersâ€™ brilliant remake of\n <em>\n  True Grit\n </em>\n . As Faulkner put it, the past is not only not dead, it is not even past. Judging by the daily newspaper, events along the border with Mexico seem pretty much like events along the border in the days of the Earp brothers, except that drug smuggling has replaced cattle rustling. The Old West is not only not dead, it is still there, and filled with bigger-than-life figures and endless shootings.\n</p>\n<p>\n Of course the West that is fixed in the American mind tends to look towards the south, and resonates to the clink of spurs and the jangle of bridles and bits. The most unusual aspect of Howard Blumâ€™s brilliantly readable new book is that while itâ€™s clearly a non-fiction Western story, it takes place along the border of Canada, not Mexico, and is centered on the Yukon Gold Rush, in Alaska, rather than Texas.\n</p>\n<p>\n To say that it reads like a novel is a clichÃ© of course--people say that about half the non-fiction books published, and itâ€™s mostly not true--but in this case Howard Blumâ€™s narrative skill is such that\n <em>\n  The Floor of Heaven\n </em>\n does read like a novel, and a rich and entertaining one at that. At the heart of it of course is the discovery of gold in 1896, and the way it draws people like a magnet to a hitherto pretty empty spot on the map (to the extent that it was mapped at all), and one moreover with a killer climate. Blum manages to make this exciting reading--the first fifty pages of the book, in which he â€œsets upâ€ the event and his major characters are so artfully done that one only gradually realizes that these are real people, not fictional characters, and that Blum has in fact done a painstaking job of research, and uncovered a remarkable amount of documentation--in fact his main problem, as he himself notes, is that these people left too much material behind them, not any lack of it. As in Larry McMurtryâ€™s books, the villains and heroes of the West were so busy telling their stories to writers while they were still alive and kicking that itâ€™s a wonder they ever found time to rob a bank.\n</p>\n<p>\n Blumâ€™s chief characters, are a Marine Corps deserter named George Carmack, whose discovery sets off the stampede to the Yukon, a flamboyant western villain named â€œSoapyâ€ Smith, and a cowboy turned Pinkerton detective named Charlie Siringo, and it would be a disservice to the reader to tell the story of the interaction between them, which is full of suspense, and includes, at the very end, a real-life western gunfight. Suffice to say that he managers at once to produce a very readable work of history and an amazing real-life adventure story, peopled with characters that any novelist would be proud to have invented: first rate entertainment.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  --Michael Korda\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Blum, author of the bestselling and Edgar-winning American Lightning, displays all his creative gifts here. Using primary source materials from the three individuals around whom the narrative revolves, he tells a fascinating story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. Charlie Siringo was a larger-than-life hero, a cowboy turned successful businessman turned Pinkerton detective renowned for his sense of duty. Jefferson "Soapy" Smith epitomized the frontier "confidence man" who considered dishonesty a way of life. George Carmack, the prospector who precipitated the great Alaska gold rush that drew the men together, deserted from the Marines, married a Native American, and pursued his prospecting dreams to the Klondike. Detailing crimes perpetrated and solved, relationships both happy and tragic, hardships unthinkable in the modern age, and the cold, magical allure of Alaska and the Yukon, Blum captures the spirit and mood of the last of the Old West. The final pages, especially, are filled with drama and a strange yearning. From a purely historical perspective, there should have been more information on Alaska as a Russian colony and American territory, but as an exciting narrative, this is a huge success. 8 pages of b&amp;w photos; 1 map. (Apr.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8129'),
(17888, 'Florence of Arabia', 'Christopher Buckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire worldâ€“Arab-American relationsâ€“in a blistering comic novel sure to offend the few it doesnâ€™t delight.Appalled by the punishment of her rebellious friend Nazrah, youngest and most petulant wife of Prince Bawad of Wasabia, Florence Farfarletti decides to draw a line in the sand. As Deputy to the deputy assistant secretary for Near East Affairs, Florence invents a far-reaching, wide-ranging plan for female emancipation in that part of the world.The U.S. government, of course, tells her to forget it. Publicly, that is. Privately, sheâ€™s enlisted in a top-secret mission to impose equal rights for the sexes on the small emirate of Matar (pronounced â€œMutterâ€), the â€œSwitzerland of the Persian Gulf.â€ Her crack team: a CIA killer, a snappy PR man, and a brilliant but frustrated gay bureaucrat. Her weapon: TV shows.The lineup on TV Matar includes A Thousand and One Mornings, a daytime talk show that features self-defense tips to be used against boyfriends during Ramadan; an addictive soap opera featuring strangely familiar members of the Matar royal family; and a sitcom about an inept but ruthless squad of religious police, pitched as â€œFriends from Hell.â€The result: the first deadly car bombs in the country since 1936, a fatwa against the stationâ€™s entire staff, a struggle for control of the kingdom, and, of course, interference from the French. And thatâ€™s only the beginning.A merciless dismantling of both American ineptitude and Arabic intolerance, Florence of Arabia is Christopher Buckleyâ€™s funniest and most serious novel yet, a biting satire of how U.S. good intentions can cause the Shiite to hit the fan.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6780'),
(17889, 'Florence of Arabia', 'Christopher Buckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire worldâ€“Arab-American relationsâ€“in a blistering comic novel sure to offend the few it doesnâ€™t delight.Appalled by the punishment of her rebellious friend Nazrah, youngest and most petulant wife of Prince Bawad of Wasabia, Florence Farfarletti decides to draw a line in the sand. As Deputy to the deputy assistant secretary for Near East Affairs, Florence invents a far-reaching, wide-ranging plan for female emancipation in that part of the world.The U.S. government, of course, tells her to forget it. Publicly, that is. Privately, sheâ€™s enlisted in a top-secret mission to impose equal rights for the sexes on the small emirate of Matar (pronounced â€œMutterâ€), the â€œSwitzerland of the Persian Gulf.â€ Her crack team: a CIA killer, a snappy PR man, and a brilliant but frustrated gay bureaucrat. Her weapon: TV shows.The lineup on TV Matar includes A Thousand and One Mornings, a daytime talk show that features self-defense tips to be used against boyfriends during Ramadan; an addictive soap opera featuring strangely familiar members of the Matar royal family; and a sitcom about an inept but ruthless squad of religious police, pitched as â€œFriends from Hell.â€The result: the first deadly car bombs in the country since 1936, a fatwa against the stationâ€™s entire staff, a struggle for control of the kingdom, and, of course, interference from the French. And thatâ€™s only the beginning.A merciless dismantling of both American ineptitude and Arabic intolerance, Florence of Arabia is Christopher Buckleyâ€™s funniest and most serious novel yet, a biting satire of how U.S. good intentions can cause the Shiite to hit the fan.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18068'),
(17890, 'Florence of Arabia', 'Christopher Buckley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire worldâ€“Arab-American relationsâ€“in a blistering comic novel sure to offend the few it doesnâ€™t delight.Appalled by the punishment of her rebellious friend Nazrah, youngest and most petulant wife of Prince Bawad of Wasabia, Florence Farfarletti decides to draw a line in the sand. As Deputy to the deputy assistant secretary for Near East Affairs, Florence invents a far-reaching, wide-ranging plan for female emancipation in that part of the world.The U.S. government, of course, tells her to forget it. Publicly, that is. Privately, sheâ€™s enlisted in a top-secret mission to impose equal rights for the sexes on the small emirate of Matar (pronounced â€œMutterâ€), the â€œSwitzerland of the Persian Gulf.â€ Her crack team: a CIA killer, a snappy PR man, and a brilliant but frustrated gay bureaucrat. Her weapon: TV shows.The lineup on TV Matar includes A Thousand and One Mornings, a daytime talk show that features self-defense tips to be used against boyfriends during Ramadan; an addictive soap opera featuring strangely familiar members of the Matar royal family; and a sitcom about an inept but ruthless squad of religious police, pitched as â€œFriends from Hell.â€The result: the first deadly car bombs in the country since 1936, a fatwa against the stationâ€™s entire staff, a struggle for control of the kingdom, and, of course, interference from the French. And thatâ€™s only the beginning.A merciless dismantling of both American ineptitude and Arabic intolerance, Florence of Arabia is Christopher Buckleyâ€™s funniest and most serious novel yet, a biting satire of how U.S. good intentions can cause the Shiite to hit the fan.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26892'),
(17891, 'Flori pentru Algernon', 'Daniel Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25907'),
(17892, 'Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n &gt;On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of life.Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2073'),
(17893, 'Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n &gt;On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of life.Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9272'),
(17894, 'Flow my tears, the policeman said', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: &gt;On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of life.Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15172'),
(17895, 'Flow my tears, the policeman said', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n &gt;On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of life.Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22693'),
(17896, 'Flowers for Algernon', 'Daniel Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Daniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic,\n  <em>\n   Flowers for Algernon\n  </em>\n  . As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation\n  <em>\n   Charly\n  </em>\n  (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Following his doctor''s instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can''t even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   I dint know mice were so smart.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration, the effects begin to show and the reports steadily improve: "Punctuation, is? fun!" But getting smarter brings cruel shocks, as Charlie realizes that his merry "friends" at the bakery where he sweeps the floor have all along been laughing at him, never with him. The IQ rise continues, taking him steadily past the human average to genius level and beyond, until he''s as intellectually alone as the old, foolish Charlie ever was--and now painfully aware of it. Then, ominously, the smart mouse Algernon begins to deteriorate...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Flowers for Algernon\n  </em>\n  is a timeless tear-jerker with a terrific emotional impact.\n  <em>\n   --David Langford\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PRAISE FOR FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON\n  <br />\n  "A tale that is convincing, suspenseful and touching."--_The New York Times _\n  <br />\n  "An ingeniously touching story . . . Moving . . . Intensely real."--_The Baltimore Sun_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6471'),
(17897, 'Flowers for Algernon', 'Daniel Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Daniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic,\n  <em>\n   Flowers for Algernon\n  </em>\n  . As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation\n  <em>\n   Charly\n  </em>\n  (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Following his doctor''s instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can''t even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   I dint know mice were so smart.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration, the effects begin to show and the reports steadily improve: "Punctuation, is? fun!" But getting smarter brings cruel shocks, as Charlie realizes that his merry "friends" at the bakery where he sweeps the floor have all along been laughing at him, never with him. The IQ rise continues, taking him steadily past the human average to genius level and beyond, until he''s as intellectually alone as the old, foolish Charlie ever was--and now painfully aware of it. Then, ominously, the smart mouse Algernon begins to deteriorate...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Flowers for Algernon\n  </em>\n  is a timeless tear-jerker with a terrific emotional impact.\n  <em>\n   --David Langford\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PRAISE FOR FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON\n  <br />\n  "A tale that is convincing, suspenseful and touching."--_The New York Times _\n  <br />\n  "An ingeniously touching story . . . Moving . . . Intensely real."--_The Baltimore Sun_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10662'),
(17898, 'Flowers for Algernon', 'Daniel Keyes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Daniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic,\n  <em>\n   Flowers for Algernon\n  </em>\n  . As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation\n  <em>\n   Charly\n  </em>\n  (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Following his doctor''s instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can''t even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving:\n </p>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   I dint know mice were so smart.\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration, the effects begin to show and the reports steadily improve: "Punctuation, is? fun!" But getting smarter brings cruel shocks, as Charlie realizes that his merry "friends" at the bakery where he sweeps the floor have all along been laughing at him, never with him. The IQ rise continues, taking him steadily past the human average to genius level and beyond, until he''s as intellectually alone as the old, foolish Charlie ever was--and now painfully aware of it. Then, ominously, the smart mouse Algernon begins to deteriorate...\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Flowers for Algernon\n  </em>\n  is a timeless tear-jerker with a terrific emotional impact.\n  <em>\n   --David Langford\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  PRAISE FOR FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON\n  <br />\n  "A tale that is convincing, suspenseful and touching."--_The New York Times _\n  <br />\n  "An ingeniously touching story . . . Moving . . . Intensely real."--_The Baltimore Sun_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17490'),
(17899, 'Flu', 'Wayne Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <span id="freeText8706277083493538698" style="" class="reviewText">\n  There''s a nasty flu going round. An epidemic, they call it. The posters say to cover your mouth when you sneeze, and throw away the tissue. But such simple measures won''t stop this flu. Because when you catch the flu, armed police come and lock you in your house to die alone. When you catch this flu, it kills you in days. And when you catch this flu, two hours after it''s killed you, your eyelids snap open again..."Flu" is a pacey, terrifying, frighteningly real zombie horror story.\n </span>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/247'),
(17900, 'Flu', 'Wayne Simmons', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <span id="freeText8706277083493538698" style="" class="reviewText">\n  There''s a nasty flu going round. An epidemic, they call it. The posters say to cover your mouth when you sneeze, and throw away the tissue. But such simple measures won''t stop this flu. Because when you catch the flu, armed police come and lock you in your house to die alone. When you catch this flu, it kills you in days. And when you catch this flu, two hours after it''s killed you, your eyelids snap open again..."Flu" is a pacey, terrifying, frighteningly real zombie horror story.\n </span>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24581'),
(17901, 'Fluke, Or I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After reverently lambasting the most cherished rites and credos of virtually every one of the world''s major religions in his transcendently hilarious novel *Lamb*, the one and only Christopher Moore returns with a wild look at interspecies communication, adventure on the high seas, and an eons-old mystery.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn is in love -- with the salt air and sun-drenched waters off Maui ... and especially with the majestic ocean-dwelling behemoths that have been bleeping and hooting their haunting music for more than twenty million years. But just why do the humpback whales sing? That''s the question that has Nate and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing any large marine mammal that crosses their path. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n No one on Nate''s team has ever seen such a thing; not his longtime partner, photographer Clay Demodocus, not their saucy young research assistant, Amy. Not even spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman, Kona (the former Preston Applebaum of New Jersey), could boast such a sighting in one of his dope-induced hallucinations. And when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot -- and their research facility is summarily trashed -- Nate realizes that something very fishy indeed is going on.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This, apparently, is big, involving dangerously interested other parties -- competitive researchers, the cutthroat tourist industry, perhaps even the military. The weirdness only gets weirder when a call comes in from Nate''s big-bucks benefactor saying that a whale has made contact -- by phone. And it''s asking for a hot pastrami and Swiss on rye. Suddenly the answer to the question that has daunted and driven Nate throughout his adult life is within his reach. But it''s waiting for him in the form of an amazing adventure beneath the waves, 623 feet down, somewhere off the coast of Chile. And it''s not what anyone would think.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It must be said: Christopher Moore''s *Fluke* is a whale of a novel.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Just why do humpback whales sing?That''s the question that has marine biologist Nate Quinnand his crew poking, charting, recording andphotographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Thatis, until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts itstail into the air to display a cryptic message spelledout in foot-high letters: BITE ME.Trouble is, Nate''s beginning to wonder if he hasn''t spentjust a little too much time in the sun. ''Cause no oneelse saw a thing- not his longtime partner, ClayDemodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; noteven the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (nePreston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of filmreturns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot- andhis research facility is trashed- Nate realizes somethingvery fishy indeed is going on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25972'),
(17902, 'Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Just why do humpback whales sing?That''s the question that has marine biologist Nate Quinnand his crew poking, charting, recording andphotographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Thatis, until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts itstail into the air to display a cryptic message spelledout in foot-high letters: BITE ME.Trouble is, Nate''s beginning to wonder if he hasn''t spentjust a little too much time in the sun. ''Cause no oneelse saw a thing- not his longtime partner, ClayDemodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; noteven the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (nePreston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of filmreturns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot- andhis research facility is trashed- Nate realizes somethingvery fishy indeed is going on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6692'),
(17903, 'Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Just why do humpback whales sing?That''s the question that has marine biologist Nate Quinnand his crew poking, charting, recording andphotographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Thatis, until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts itstail into the air to display a cryptic message spelledout in foot-high letters: BITE ME.Trouble is, Nate''s beginning to wonder if he hasn''t spentjust a little too much time in the sun. ''Cause no oneelse saw a thing- not his longtime partner, ClayDemodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; noteven the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (nePreston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of filmreturns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot- andhis research facility is trashed- Nate realizes somethingvery fishy indeed is going on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18065'),
(17904, 'Flux', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Star humans were engineered to exist within the mantle of a star, mere tools of their Earth-evolved makers in a war against the Xeelee, owners of the universe. Stephen Baxter''s third novel in his magnificent Xeelee Sequence is an exotic and endearing story of an abandoned people.Abandoned to their fate, their history lost along with contact with their makers, Star people survive in an environment that is possibly the strangest in science fiction. Microscopic inhabitants of superfluid air above a Quantum Sea and below the tangled Crust of the Star, swimming in an electric-blue grid, the Magfield, which is subject to violent storms, Star people struggle, like us, to make sense of their world''Â¦ and the threat hanging over it.Though the truth is far more disturbing and ominous than they feared, they will confront, finally, their makers, and they will rebel against the purpose for which they were created.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1120'),
(17905, 'Flux', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Seven tales of possible fates for the human race by one of science fiction''s most revered authors portrays the inner struggles of characters exploring their hidden selves. Reprint.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8031'),
(17906, 'Flux', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Seven tales of possible fates for the human race by one of science fiction''s most revered authors portrays the inner struggles of characters exploring their hidden selves. Reprint.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22347'),
(17907, 'The Fly on the Wall', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œFascinating...breathless suspense.â€ (Minneapolis Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTony Hillermanâ€™s novels are like no others.â€ (San Diego Union-Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Hillerman] is a master at his game.â€ (Chattanooga Times )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Cotton was a simple man with one desire: to write the greatest story of his life and have enough life left to read all about it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reporter John Cotton knows what to do when he finds a great story, but he is a little afraid when a big story begins to find him.Â  It starts when a fellow reporter is murdered and his notebook, filled with information about a tax scam, ends up in John''s hands.Â  Not long afterwards, a body is discovered in John''s car.Â  Then John''s car ends up in the river, a bomb is found in his apartment, and his girlfriend drops out of sight.Â  It''s up to John to unravel the mystery of the notebook and why anyone would kill for the information it contains.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/426'),
(17908, 'The Fly on the Wall', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œFascinating...breathless suspense.â€ (Minneapolis Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTony Hillermanâ€™s novels are like no others.â€ (San Diego Union-Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Hillerman] is a master at his game.â€ (Chattanooga Times )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Cotton was a simple man with one desire: to write the greatest story of his life and have enough life left to read all about it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reporter John Cotton knows what to do when he finds a great story, but he is a little afraid when a big story begins to find him.Â  It starts when a fellow reporter is murdered and his notebook, filled with information about a tax scam, ends up in John''s hands.Â  Not long afterwards, a body is discovered in John''s car.Â  Then John''s car ends up in the river, a bomb is found in his apartment, and his girlfriend drops out of sight.Â  It''s up to John to unravel the mystery of the notebook and why anyone would kill for the information it contains.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10323'),
(17909, 'The Fly on the Wall', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œFascinating...breathless suspense.â€ (Minneapolis Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTony Hillermanâ€™s novels are like no others.â€ (San Diego Union-Tribune )\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ[Hillerman] is a master at his game.â€ (Chattanooga Times )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Cotton was a simple man with one desire: to write the greatest story of his life and have enough life left to read all about it.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reporter John Cotton knows what to do when he finds a great story, but he is a little afraid when a big story begins to find him. It starts when a fellow reporter is murdered and his notebook, filled with information about a tax scam, ends up in John''s hands. Not long afterwards, a body is discovered in John''s car. Then John''s car ends up in the river, a bomb is found in his apartment, and his girlfriend drops out of sight. It''s up to John to unravel the mystery of the notebook and why anyone would kill for the information it contains.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24417'),
(17910, 'FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio', 'Richard Neer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. On a golden web by a master weaver driven by fifty thousand magical watts of crystal clear power . . . before the days of trashy, hedonistic dumbspeak and disposable three-minute ditties . . . in the days where rock lived at many addresses in many cities." fromFM As a young man, Richard Neer dreamed of landing a job at WNEW in New Yorkone of the revolutionary FM stations across the country that were changing the face of radio by rejecting strict formatting and letting disc jockeys play whatever they wanted. He felt that when he got there, he''d have made the big time. Little did he know he''d have shaped rock history as well. FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio chronicles the birth, growth, and death of free-form rock-and-roll radio through the stories of the movement''s flagship stations. In the late sixties and early seventiesat stations like KSAN in San Francisco, WBCN in Boston, WMMR in Philadelphia, KMET in Los Angeles, WNEW, and othersdisc jockeys became the gatekeepers, critics, and gurus of new music. Jocks like Scott Muni, Vin Scelsa, Jonathan Schwartz, and Neer developed loyal followings and had incredible influence on their listeners and on the early careers of artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Genesis, the Cars, and many others. Full of fascinating firsthand stories, FM documents the commodification of an iconoclastic phenomenon, revealing how counterculture was coopted and consumed by the mainstream. Richard Neer was an eyewitness to, and participant in, this history. FM is the tale of his exhilarating ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1862'),
(17911, 'FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio', 'Richard Neer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. On a golden web by a master weaver driven by fifty thousand magical watts of crystal clear power . . . before the days of trashy, hedonistic dumbspeak and disposable three-minute ditties . . . in the days where rock lived at many addresses in many cities." fromFM As a young man, Richard Neer dreamed of landing a job at WNEW in New Yorkone of the revolutionary FM stations across the country that were changing the face of radio by rejecting strict formatting and letting disc jockeys play whatever they wanted. He felt that when he got there, he''d have made the big time. Little did he know he''d have shaped rock history as well. FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio chronicles the birth, growth, and death of free-form rock-and-roll radio through the stories of the movement''s flagship stations. In the late sixties and early seventiesat stations like KSAN in San Francisco, WBCN in Boston, WMMR in Philadelphia, KMET in Los Angeles, WNEW, and othersdisc jockeys became the gatekeepers, critics, and gurus of new music. Jocks like Scott Muni, Vin Scelsa, Jonathan Schwartz, and Neer developed loyal followings and had incredible influence on their listeners and on the early careers of artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Genesis, the Cars, and many others. Full of fascinating firsthand stories, FM documents the commodification of an iconoclastic phenomenon, revealing how counterculture was coopted and consumed by the mainstream. Richard Neer was an eyewitness to, and participant in, this history. FM is the tale of his exhilarating ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11614'),
(17912, 'Fodor&#39;s New York City 2012', 'Fodor&#39;s', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Get inspired and plan your next trip with Fodorâ€™s ebook travel guide to New York City.\n</p>\n<p>\n Intelligent Planning\n <em>\n </em>\n :Â  Discover all of the essential, up-to-date travel insights you expect in a Fodorâ€™s guide, including Fodorâ€™s Choice dining and lodging, top experiences and attractions, and detailed planning advice.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Easy Navigation for E-Readers\n <em>\n </em>\n :Â  Whether youâ€™re reading this ebook from start to finish or jumping from chapter to chapter as you develop your itinerary, Fodorâ€™s makes it easy to find the information you need with a single touch. In addition to a traditional main table of contents for the ebook, each chapter opens with its own table of contents, making it easy to browse.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Full-Color Photos and Maps\n <em>\n </em>\n :Â  Itâ€™s hard not to fall in love with New York City as you flip through a vivid full-color photo album. Explore the layout of the city and popular neighborhoods with easy-to-read full-color maps.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Whatâ€™s Covered? Get to Know New York City\n <em>\n </em>\n :Â  Iconic landmarks, stunning architecture, renowned food, and stellar shopping--New York City has it all, and you can get it in a New York minute. First time visitors should head to Lower Manhattan to tour heavy-duty landmarks like Wall Street and Battery Park. Board a ferry to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty or pay your respects at the Ground Zero construction site. Stop in Chinatown and Little Italy to chow down on noodles, pastries, and other goodies.\n <br />\n Midtown is the place to take in the lights of Times Square and a Broadway show, wander around the green goodness of Central Park, and take in prime landmarks like Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Terminal, the Chrysler building, and the New York Public Library.\n <br />\n Visitorâ€™s looking to explore NYC like a local should head to the Lower East Side and explore the large variety of dining options in the East Village. Hit SoHo, NoLita, and TriBeCa to have your pick of sidewalk merchants and tiny boutiques. Greenwich Village is the playground for wealthy celebs and socialites while the Meatpacking District nearby has evolved into a swanky clubbing and late-night scene for the young.\n <br />\n The Upper East Side offers the Museum Mile and Madison Avenueâ€™s hot boutiques while the Upper West Side is home to Columbia students and Lincoln Center. Further uptown, Harlem offers a hotbed of African-American and Hispanic-American culture.Â \n <br />\n And donâ€™t forget about the outer boroughs. Brooklyn is the home of Coney Island, Prospect Park, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Staten Island harbors a commuter-transporting ferry and Queens has pockets of Greek, Indian, and Dominican communities, as well as Citi Field. The Bronx is famous for Yankee Stadium, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo. East Village or Harlem, Brooklyn or the Bronx, wherever you head, your itinerary will be a voyage of discovery.\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n Note\n <em>\n </em>\n :Â  This ebook edition is adapted from\n <em>\n  Fodor''s New York City 2012\n </em>\n but differs in some content.Â  Additionally, the ebook edition includes photographs and maps that will appear on black-and-white devices but are optimized for devices that support full-color images.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9493'),
(17913, 'The Folklore of Discworld', 'Terry Pratchett &amp; Jacqueline Simpson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the most interesting and critically underrated novelists we have â€¦\n <strong>\n  The Folklore of Discworld\n </strong>\n â€” co-authored with the eminent folklorist Jacqueline Simpson â€” emphasizes his irreverence and drollery.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  The Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPratchett is, like Mark Twain or Jonathan Swift, not just a great writer but also an original thinker â€¦ funny, exciting, lighthearted and, like all the best comedy, very serious.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Guardian\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett joins up with a leading folklorist to reveal the legends, myths and customs of Discworld, together with helpful hints from Planet Earth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, and fairy tales: our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got here. It is the same on Discworld, except that beings, which on Earth are creatures of the imagination â€” like vampires, trolls, witches and, possibly, gods â€” are real, alive and, in some cases kicking, on the Disc.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <strong>\n  The Folklore of Discworld\n </strong>\n , Terry Pratchett teams up with leading British folklorist Jacqueline Simpson to take an irreverent yet illuminating look at the living myths and folklore that are reflected, celebrated and affectionately libelled in the uniquely imaginative universe of Discworld.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/702'),
(17914, 'The Folklore of Discworld', 'Terry Pratchett &amp; Jacqueline Simpson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the most interesting and critically underrated novelists we have â€¦\n <strong>\n  The Folklore of Discworld\n </strong>\n â€” co-authored with the eminent folklorist Jacqueline Simpson â€” emphasizes his irreverence and drollery.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  The Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPratchett is, like Mark Twain or Jonathan Swift, not just a great writer but also an original thinker â€¦ funny, exciting, lighthearted and, like all the best comedy, very serious.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Guardian\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett joins up with a leading folklorist to reveal the legends, myths and customs of Discworld, together with helpful hints from Planet Earth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, and fairy tales: our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got here. It is the same on Discworld, except that beings, which on Earth are creatures of the imagination â€” like vampires, trolls, witches and, possibly, gods â€” are real, alive and, in some cases kicking, on the Disc.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <strong>\n  The Folklore of Discworld\n </strong>\n , Terry Pratchett teams up with leading British folklorist Jacqueline Simpson to take an irreverent yet illuminating look at the living myths and folklore that are reflected, celebrated and affectionately libelled in the uniquely imaginative universe of Discworld.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12061'),
(17915, 'The Folklore of Discworld', 'Terry Pratchett; Jacqueline Simpson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the most interesting and critically underrated novelists we have â€¦\n <strong>\n  The Folklore of Discworld\n </strong>\n â€” co-authored with the eminent folklorist Jacqueline Simpson â€” emphasizes his irreverence and drollery.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  The Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPratchett is, like Mark Twain or Jonathan Swift, not just a great writer but also an original thinker â€¦ funny, exciting, lighthearted and, like all the best comedy, very serious.â€\n <br />\n â€”\n <em>\n  Guardian\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Terry Pratchett joins up with a leading folklorist to reveal the legends, myths and customs of Discworld, together with helpful hints from Planet Earth.\n</p>\n<p>\n Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, and fairy tales: our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got here. It is the same on Discworld, except that beings, which on Earth are creatures of the imagination â€” like vampires, trolls, witches and, possibly, gods â€” are real, alive and, in some cases kicking, on the Disc.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <strong>\n  The Folklore of Discworld\n </strong>\n , Terry Pratchett teams up with leading British folklorist Jacqueline Simpson to take an irreverent yet illuminating look at the living myths and folklore that are reflected, celebrated and affectionately libelled in the uniquely imaginative universe of Discworld.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24256'),
(17916, 'Folktales From Africa: The Baboons Who Went This Way and That', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n TALES THAT SPEAK FROM THE AFRICAN HEARTA man with a tree growing out of his head? A woman with children made of wax? A bird that can be milked?Let Alexander McCall Smith once again take you to a land where the bizarre is everyday and magic is real, with more illustrated stories from The Girl Who Married A Lion, his celebration of African folktales.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7839'),
(17917, 'Folktales From Africa: The Baboons Who Went This Way and That', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n TALES THAT SPEAK FROM THE AFRICAN HEARTA man with a tree growing out of his head? A woman with children made of wax? A bird that can be milked?Let Alexander McCall Smith once again take you to a land where the bizarre is everyday and magic is real, with more illustrated stories from The Girl Who Married A Lion, his celebration of African folktales.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12716');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(17918, 'Folktales from Africa: the Baboons who went this way and that', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: TALES THAT SPEAK FROM THE AFRICAN HEARTA man with a tree growing out of his head? A woman with children made of wax? A bird that can be milked?Let Alexander McCall Smith once again take you to a land where the bizarre is everyday and magic is real, with more illustrated stories from The Girl Who Married A Lion, his celebration of African folktales.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16151'),
(17919, 'Folktales from Africa: the Baboons who went this way and that', 'Alexander McCall Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: TALES THAT SPEAK FROM THE AFRICAN HEARTA man with a tree growing out of his head? A woman with children made of wax? A bird that can be milked?Let Alexander McCall Smith once again take you to a land where the bizarre is everyday and magic is real, with more illustrated stories from The Girl Who Married A Lion, his celebration of African folktales.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26330'),
(17920, 'Follow the Stars Home', 'Luanne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Acclaimed novelist Luanne Rice "touches the deepest, most tender corners of the heart" (Tami Hoag, author ofA Thin Dark Line). Her stories remind us how precious and fragile life can beand that we must risk our hearts every day to know happiness.Follow the Stars Homeis just such a novel: a story of poignancy and heartbreak, grace and courage. Being a good mother is never simple: each day brings new choices and challenges. For Dianne Robbins, being a devoted single mother has resulted in her greatest joy and her darkest hours. Weeks before her daughter was born, she and her husband, Tim McIntosh, received the news every parent fears. Tim had not reckoned on their child being anything less than perfect, and abruptly fled to a solitary existence on the sea, leaving Dianne with a newbornalmost alone. It was Tim''s brother, Alan, the town pediatrician, who stood by Dianne and her exceptional daughter. Throughout years of waiting, watching, and caring, Alan hid his love for his brother''s wife. But one of the many hard choices Dianne has made is to close her heart toward any manespecially one named McIntosh. It will take a very special twelve-year-old to remind them all that love comes in many forms and can be received with as much grace as it is given. As lyrical and moving as the poetry of nature,Follow the Stars Homeis a miracle of storytelling that will take your breath away. If words alone can dare us to confront our fears and to choose joy over sorrow, then Luanne Rice''s magnificent novel is a benediction and a call to celebrate our lives. says acclaimed author Luanne Rice. "I always say the same thing: love. It''s an easy answer, but like love itself, far from simple." And her new novel, FOLLOW THE STARS HOME, demonstrates that on each finely wrought page. Being a good mother is never simple: each day brings new choices and challenges. For Dianne Robbins, being a devoted single mother has resulted in her greatest joy and her darkest hours. Weeks before her child was born, she and her husband, Tim McIntosh, received the news every parent fears. Tim had not reckoned on their child being anything less than perfect, and abruptly fled to a solitary existence on the sea. Dianne was left with a newbornalmost alone. It was Tim''s brother, Alan, the town pediatrician, who stood by Dianne and her exceptional daughter. Throughout these years of waiting, watching, and caring, Alan hid his love for his brother''s wife. But Dianne has chosen to close her heart toward all menespecially those named McIntosh. It will take a very special twelve-year-old to remind them all that love comes in many forms, and can be received with as much grace as it is given. Film rights optioned by Hallmark for television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3304'),
(17921, 'Follow the Stars Home', 'Luanne Rice', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Acclaimed novelist Luanne Rice "touches the deepest, most tender corners of the heart" (Tami Hoag, author ofA Thin Dark Line). Her stories remind us how precious and fragile life can beand that we must risk our hearts every day to know happiness.Follow the Stars Homeis just such a novel: a story of poignancy and heartbreak, grace and courage. Being a good mother is never simple: each day brings new choices and challenges. For Dianne Robbins, being a devoted single mother has resulted in her greatest joy and her darkest hours. Weeks before her daughter was born, she and her husband, Tim McIntosh, received the news every parent fears. Tim had not reckoned on their child being anything less than perfect, and abruptly fled to a solitary existence on the sea, leaving Dianne with a newbornalmost alone. It was Tim''s brother, Alan, the town pediatrician, who stood by Dianne and her exceptional daughter. Throughout years of waiting, watching, and caring, Alan hid his love for his brother''s wife. But one of the many hard choices Dianne has made is to close her heart toward any manespecially one named McIntosh. It will take a very special twelve-year-old to remind them all that love comes in many forms and can be received with as much grace as it is given. As lyrical and moving as the poetry of nature,Follow the Stars Homeis a miracle of storytelling that will take your breath away. If words alone can dare us to confront our fears and to choose joy over sorrow, then Luanne Rice''s magnificent novel is a benediction and a call to celebrate our lives. says acclaimed author Luanne Rice. "I always say the same thing: love. It''s an easy answer, but like love itself, far from simple." And her new novel, FOLLOW THE STARS HOME, demonstrates that on each finely wrought page. Being a good mother is never simple: each day brings new choices and challenges. For Dianne Robbins, being a devoted single mother has resulted in her greatest joy and her darkest hours. Weeks before her child was born, she and her husband, Tim McIntosh, received the news every parent fears. Tim had not reckoned on their child being anything less than perfect, and abruptly fled to a solitary existence on the sea. Dianne was left with a newbornalmost alone. It was Tim''s brother, Alan, the town pediatrician, who stood by Dianne and her exceptional daughter. Throughout these years of waiting, watching, and caring, Alan hid his love for his brother''s wife. But Dianne has chosen to close her heart toward all menespecially those named McIntosh. It will take a very special twelve-year-old to remind them all that love comes in many forms, and can be received with as much grace as it is given. Film rights optioned by Hallmark for television.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21269'),
(17922, 'Folly Beach', 'Dorothea Benton Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Experience the wild beauty and sultry magic of\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank''s Carolina LowcountryÂ—where the pull of family is as powerful as the ocean tides and love can strike faster than lightning in summer. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Folly Beach\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Home is the place that knows us best. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  A woman returns to the past to find her future in this enchanting new tale of loss, acceptance, family, and love.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With its sandy beaches and bohemian charms, surfers and suits alike consider Folly Beach to be one of South Carolina''s most historic and romantic spots. It is also the land of Cate Cooper''s childhood, the place where all the ghosts of her past roam freely. Cate never thought she''d wind up in this tiny cottage named the Porgy House on this breathtakingly lovely strip of coast. But circumstances have changed, thanks to her newly dead husband whose financialÂ—and emotionalÂ—bull and mendacity have left Cate homeless, broke, and unmoored.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet Folly Beach holds more than just memories. Once upon a time another woman found unexpected bliss and comfort within its welcoming arms. An artist, writer, and colleague of the revered George Gershwin, Dorothy Heyward enjoyed the greatest moments of her life at Folly with her beloved husband, DuBose. And though the Heywards are long gone, their passion and spirit lingers in every mango sunset and gentle ocean breeze.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And for Cate, Folly, too, holds the promise of unexpected fulfillment when she is forced to look at her life and the zany characters that are her family anew. To her surprise, she will discover that you can go home again. Folly Beach doesn''t just hold the girl she once was . . . it also holds the promise of the woman she''s always wantedÂ—and is finally readyÂ—to become.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Folly Beach\n  </em>\n  , filled with the irresistible charm, saucy wit, and lush atmosphere that have won her the devotion of fans and propelled her books to bestsellerdom, is vintage Dorothea Benton Frank.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9486'),
(17923, 'The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Bittman, New York Times columnist and bestselling author (How to Cook Everything) provides a rational approach to eating that not only improves health but also helps the environment. Extolling the benefits of a plant-heavy diet, Bittman offers more than 500 healthful recipes that feature unprocessed fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and whole grains and reduce all types of meat to backup players. In addition, he shares five basic principles for sane eating that are easy to implement and understand as well as an unusually helpful pantry section and handy charts for substituting produce and seafood by season. Recipes focus on flavor, such as lemony zucchini risotto, which uses brown rice, and curried chickpeas and cauliflower with chicken. His chapter on beans offers a particularly varied selection, like a lentil stir-fry with mushrooms and caramelized onions, white beans and shrimp burgers, and beer-glazed black beans with chorizo and orange. Bittman also provides a resourceful index of dishes that can be made quickly as well as meals that can be made ahead of time. Practical and balanced, this collection will shape the way we cook at home for years to come.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two years ago, prolific cookbook author and newspaper columnist Bittman published a cogent injunction urging Americans to redirect their eating habits toward more environmentally friendly and agriculturally sustainable diets and away from sugary, meat-centric meals. Since that first volume offered only a few recipes, Bittman has come to the aid of cooks who need much more specific kitchen support. So he has engaged his formidable creativity to generate a cornucopia of recipes to inspire people to rethink what they prepare for meals. Bittmanâ€™s innovative approach starts at the market with teaching shoppers to spot and buy seasonal, fresh vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. The bookâ€™s hundreds of recipes give menu planners maximum flexibility in just about every category of cookery. Many appetizer and main-dish recipes call for some meat or seafood, but in controlled quantities. Bittmanâ€™s visionary imagination sparkles on every page, and even cooks who may not wholly resonate with his planetary concerns will find themselves intrigued and inspired on virtually every page. Promise of weight loss as a side benefit adds additional incentive. Bittman eschews rigorously exacting nutritional tables in favor of empowering cooks to find healthy balances based on broad principles of disciplined, intelligent, aware, yet joyful consumption. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3071'),
(17924, 'The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Bittman, New York Times columnist and bestselling author (How to Cook Everything) provides a rational approach to eating that not only improves health but also helps the environment. Extolling the benefits of a plant-heavy diet, Bittman offers more than 500 healthful recipes that feature unprocessed fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and whole grains and reduce all types of meat to backup players. In addition, he shares five basic principles for sane eating that are easy to implement and understand as well as an unusually helpful pantry section and handy charts for substituting produce and seafood by season. Recipes focus on flavor, such as lemony zucchini risotto, which uses brown rice, and curried chickpeas and cauliflower with chicken. His chapter on beans offers a particularly varied selection, like a lentil stir-fry with mushrooms and caramelized onions, white beans and shrimp burgers, and beer-glazed black beans with chorizo and orange. Bittman also provides a resourceful index of dishes that can be made quickly as well as meals that can be made ahead of time. Practical and balanced, this collection will shape the way we cook at home for years to come.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two years ago, prolific cookbook author and newspaper columnist Bittman published a cogent injunction urging Americans to redirect their eating habits toward more environmentally friendly and agriculturally sustainable diets and away from sugary, meat-centric meals. Since that first volume offered only a few recipes, Bittman has come to the aid of cooks who need much more specific kitchen support. So he has engaged his formidable creativity to generate a cornucopia of recipes to inspire people to rethink what they prepare for meals. Bittmanâ€™s innovative approach starts at the market with teaching shoppers to spot and buy seasonal, fresh vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. The bookâ€™s hundreds of recipes give menu planners maximum flexibility in just about every category of cookery. Many appetizer and main-dish recipes call for some meat or seafood, but in controlled quantities. Bittmanâ€™s visionary imagination sparkles on every page, and even cooks who may not wholly resonate with his planetary concerns will find themselves intrigued and inspired on virtually every page. Promise of weight loss as a side benefit adds additional incentive. Bittman eschews rigorously exacting nutritional tables in favor of empowering cooks to find healthy balances based on broad principles of disciplined, intelligent, aware, yet joyful consumption. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8550'),
(17925, 'The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Bittman, New York Times columnist and bestselling author (How to Cook Everything) provides a rational approach to eating that not only improves health but also helps the environment. Extolling the benefits of a plant-heavy diet, Bittman offers more than 500 healthful recipes that feature unprocessed fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and whole grains and reduce all types of meat to backup players. In addition, he shares five basic principles for sane eating that are easy to implement and understand as well as an unusually helpful pantry section and handy charts for substituting produce and seafood by season. Recipes focus on flavor, such as lemony zucchini risotto, which uses brown rice, and curried chickpeas and cauliflower with chicken. His chapter on beans offers a particularly varied selection, like a lentil stir-fry with mushrooms and caramelized onions, white beans and shrimp burgers, and beer-glazed black beans with chorizo and orange. Bittman also provides a resourceful index of dishes that can be made quickly as well as meals that can be made ahead of time. Practical and balanced, this collection will shape the way we cook at home for years to come.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Two years ago, prolific cookbook author and newspaper columnist Bittman published a cogent injunction urging Americans to redirect their eating habits toward more environmentally friendly and agriculturally sustainable diets and away from sugary, meat-centric meals. Since that first volume offered only a few recipes, Bittman has come to the aid of cooks who need much more specific kitchen support. So he has engaged his formidable creativity to generate a cornucopia of recipes to inspire people to rethink what they prepare for meals. Bittmanâ€™s innovative approach starts at the market with teaching shoppers to spot and buy seasonal, fresh vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. The bookâ€™s hundreds of recipes give menu planners maximum flexibility in just about every category of cookery. Many appetizer and main-dish recipes call for some meat or seafood, but in controlled quantities. Bittmanâ€™s visionary imagination sparkles on every page, and even cooks who may not wholly resonate with his planetary concerns will find themselves intrigued and inspired on virtually every page. Promise of weight loss as a side benefit adds additional incentive. Bittman eschews rigorously exacting nutritional tables in favor of empowering cooks to find healthy balances based on broad principles of disciplined, intelligent, aware, yet joyful consumption. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21766'),
(17926, 'Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating With More Than 75 Recipes', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cookbook author Bittman (_How to Cook Everything_) offers this no-nonsense volume loaded with compelling information about how the food we eat is doing damage to the environment, what changes to make and why. Authors have covered this topic before (Michael Pollan, for example, in\n <em>\n  The Omnivores Dilemma\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  In Defense of Food\n </em>\n ), but Bittman takes a practical turn by concluding with 77 recipes that make earth-friendly eating doable and appealing. His collection of reliable recipes even includes such meat dishes as Thai beef salad, which isnt meat-heavy, but rather has just the right balance of meat to greens. There are also such staples as super-simple mixed rice; chicken not pie; and modern bouillabaisse. Bittman decries consumption of over-refined carbohydrates, but doesnt leave off without some sweets, including chocolate semolina pudding and nutty oatmeal cookiesâ€”suggesting, as the whole book does, that a diet in synch with the needs of the earth doesnt result in a sense of utter deprivation.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Only America could produce a Mark Bittman. One moment, heâ€™s traversing Spain on public television with celebrities in tow, peddling the newest fad in high-end dining and drooling over prodigious quantities of savory food in tight closeup. The next moment heâ€™s promoting minimalist cooking. Now he reports his own passionate belief in agricultural sustainability and slow food, and he touts a new diet thatÂ not only offers guilt-free pleasure but also makes Americans look as good as the beautiful people he hangs out with. His prescription: become aware of where food comes from; choose foods intelligently; pay attention to broad, inclusive nutritional principles; balance intake and exercise; snack judiciously; and make sure that whatever one eats, itâ€™s as attractive to the palate as it is to the waistline. Bittmanâ€™s fame will generate lots of attention, and his commonsense advice, while not new, bears the hallmarks of contemporary nutritional wisdom. Recipes included. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3068'),
(17927, 'Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating With More Than 75 Recipes', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cookbook author Bittman (_How to Cook Everything_) offers this no-nonsense volume loaded with compelling information about how the food we eat is doing damage to the environment, what changes to make and why. Authors have covered this topic before (Michael Pollan, for example, in\n <em>\n  The Omnivores Dilemma\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  In Defense of Food\n </em>\n ), but Bittman takes a practical turn by concluding with 77 recipes that make earth-friendly eating doable and appealing. His collection of reliable recipes even includes such meat dishes as Thai beef salad, which isnt meat-heavy, but rather has just the right balance of meat to greens. There are also such staples as super-simple mixed rice; chicken not pie; and modern bouillabaisse. Bittman decries consumption of over-refined carbohydrates, but doesnt leave off without some sweets, including chocolate semolina pudding and nutty oatmeal cookiesâ€”suggesting, as the whole book does, that a diet in synch with the needs of the earth doesnt result in a sense of utter deprivation.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Only America could produce a Mark Bittman. One moment, heâ€™s traversing Spain on public television with celebrities in tow, peddling the newest fad in high-end dining and drooling over prodigious quantities of savory food in tight closeup. The next moment heâ€™s promoting minimalist cooking. Now he reports his own passionate belief in agricultural sustainability and slow food, and he touts a new diet thatÂ not only offers guilt-free pleasure but also makes Americans look as good as the beautiful people he hangs out with. His prescription: become aware of where food comes from; choose foods intelligently; pay attention to broad, inclusive nutritional principles; balance intake and exercise; snack judiciously; and make sure that whatever one eats, itâ€™s as attractive to the palate as it is to the waistline. Bittmanâ€™s fame will generate lots of attention, and his commonsense advice, while not new, bears the hallmarks of contemporary nutritional wisdom. Recipes included. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8555'),
(17928, 'Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes', 'Mark Bittman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cookbook author Bittman (_How to Cook Everything_) offers this no-nonsense volume loaded with compelling information about how the food we eat is doing damage to the environment, what changes to make and why. Authors have covered this topic before (Michael Pollan, for example, in\n <em>\n  The Omnivores Dilemma\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  In Defense of Food\n </em>\n ), but Bittman takes a practical turn by concluding with 77 recipes that make earth-friendly eating doable and appealing. His collection of reliable recipes even includes such meat dishes as Thai beef salad, which isnt meat-heavy, but rather has just the right balance of meat to greens. There are also such staples as super-simple mixed rice; chicken not pie; and modern bouillabaisse. Bittman decries consumption of over-refined carbohydrates, but doesnt leave off without some sweets, including chocolate semolina pudding and nutty oatmeal cookiesâ€”suggesting, as the whole book does, that a diet in synch with the needs of the earth doesnt result in a sense of utter deprivation.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Only America could produce a Mark Bittman. One moment, heâ€™s traversing Spain on public television with celebrities in tow, peddling the newest fad in high-end dining and drooling over prodigious quantities of savory food in tight closeup. The next moment heâ€™s promoting minimalist cooking. Now he reports his own passionate belief in agricultural sustainability and slow food, and he touts a new diet thatÂ not only offers guilt-free pleasure but also makes Americans look as good as the beautiful people he hangs out with. His prescription: become aware of where food comes from; choose foods intelligently; pay attention to broad, inclusive nutritional principles; balance intake and exercise; snack judiciously; and make sure that whatever one eats, itâ€™s as attractive to the palate as it is to the waistline. Bittmanâ€™s fame will generate lots of attention, and his commonsense advice, while not new, bears the hallmarks of contemporary nutritional wisdom. Recipes included. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21775'),
(17929, 'The Food of a Younger Land', 'Mark Kurlansky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the *New York Times*-bestselling author of *Cod* and *Salt*.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Award-winning *New York Times*-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system brought the country closer together; before chain restaurants imposed uniformity and low quality; and before the Frigidaire meant frozen food in mass quantities, the nation''s food was seasonal, regional, and traditional. It helped form the distinct character, attitudes, and customs of those who ate it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the 1930s, with the country gripped by the Great Depression and millions of Americans struggling to get by, FDR created the Federal Writers'' Project under the New Deal as a make-work program for artists and authors. A number of writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and Nelson Algren, were dispatched all across America to chronicle the eating habits, traditions, and struggles of local people. The project, called "America Eats," was abandoned in the early 1940s because of the World War and never completed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Food of a Younger Land* unearths this forgotten literary and historical treasure and brings it to exuberant life. Mark Kurlansky''s brilliant book captures these remarkable stories, and combined with authentic recipes, anecdotes, photos, and his own musings and analysis, evokes a bygone era when Americans had never heard of fast food and the grocery superstore was a thing of the future. Kurlansky serves as a guide to this hearty and poignant look at the country''s roots.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From New York automats to Georgia Coca-Cola parties, from Arkansas possum-eating clubs to Puget Sound salmon feasts, from Choctaw funerals to South Carolina barbecues, the WPA writers found Americans in their regional niches and eating an enormous diversity of meals. From Mississippi chittlins to Indiana persimmon puddings, Maine lobsters, and Montana beavertails, they recorded the curiosities, commonalities, and communities of American food.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3110'),
(17930, 'The Food of a Younger Land', 'Mark Kurlansky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the *New York Times*-bestselling author of *Cod* and *Salt*.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Award-winning *New York Times*-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system brought the country closer together; before chain restaurants imposed uniformity and low quality; and before the Frigidaire meant frozen food in mass quantities, the nation''s food was seasonal, regional, and traditional. It helped form the distinct character, attitudes, and customs of those who ate it.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the 1930s, with the country gripped by the Great Depression and millions of Americans struggling to get by, FDR created the Federal Writers'' Project under the New Deal as a make-work program for artists and authors. A number of writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and Nelson Algren, were dispatched all across America to chronicle the eating habits, traditions, and struggles of local people. The project, called "America Eats," was abandoned in the early 1940s because of the World War and never completed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Food of a Younger Land* unearths this forgotten literary and historical treasure and brings it to exuberant life. Mark Kurlansky''s brilliant book captures these remarkable stories, and combined with authentic recipes, anecdotes, photos, and his own musings and analysis, evokes a bygone era when Americans had never heard of fast food and the grocery superstore was a thing of the future. Kurlansky serves as a guide to this hearty and poignant look at the country''s roots.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From New York automats to Georgia Coca-Cola parties, from Arkansas possum-eating clubs to Puget Sound salmon feasts, from Choctaw funerals to South Carolina barbecues, the WPA writers found Americans in their regional niches and eating an enormous diversity of meals. From Mississippi chittlins to Indiana persimmon puddings, Maine lobsters, and Montana beavertails, they recorded the curiosities, commonalities, and communities of American food.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10785'),
(17931, 'The food of a younger land: a portrait of American food : before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation&#39;s food was seasonal, regional, and traditional : from the lost WPA files', 'Mark Kurlansky', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the *New York Times*-bestselling author of *Cod* and *Salt*.** Award-winning *New York Times*-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system brought the country closer together; before chain restaurants imposed uniformity and low quality; and before the Frigidaire meant frozen food in mass quantities, the nation''s food was seasonal, regional, and traditional. It helped form the distinct character, attitudes, and customs of those who ate it. In the 1930s, with the country gripped by the Great Depression and millions of Americans struggling to get by, FDR created the Federal Writers'' Project under the New Deal as a make-work program for artists and authors. A number of writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and Nelson Algren, were dispatched all across America to chronicle the eating habits, traditions, and struggles of local people. The project, called "America Eats," was abandoned in the early 1940s because of the World War and never completed. *The Food of a Younger Land* unearths this forgotten literary and historical treasure and brings it to exuberant life. Mark Kurlansky''s brilliant book captures these remarkable stories, and combined with authentic recipes, anecdotes, photos, and his own musings and analysis, evokes a bygone era when Americans had never heard of fast food and the grocery superstore was a thing of the future. Kurlansky serves as a guide to this hearty and poignant look at the country''s roots. From New York automats to Georgia Coca-Cola parties, from Arkansas possum-eating clubs to Puget Sound salmon feasts, from Choctaw funerals to South Carolina barbecues, the WPA writers found Americans in their regional niches and eating an enormous diversity of meals. From Mississippi chittlins to Indiana persimmon puddings, Maine lobsters, and Montana beavertails, they recorded the curiosities, commonalities, and communities of American food.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21705'),
(17932, 'Food of the Gods', 'Terence McKenna', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14149'),
(17933, 'Food of the Gods', 'Terence McKenna', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24157'),
(17934, 'Food Rules: An Eater&#39;s Manual', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** A pocket compendium of food wisdom-from the author of *The Omnivore''s Dilemma* and *In Defense of Food* **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Michael Pollan, our nation''s most trusted resource for food-related issues, offers this indispensible guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible, and easy to use, *Food Rules* is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely, many drawn from a variety of ethnic or cultural traditions. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat-buffet, this handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect guide for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2786'),
(17935, 'Food Rules: An Eater&#39;s Manual', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** A pocket compendium of food wisdom-from the author of *The Omnivore''s Dilemma* and *In Defense of Food* **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Michael Pollan, our nation''s most trusted resource for food-related issues, offers this indispensible guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible, and easy to use, *Food Rules* is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely, many drawn from a variety of ethnic or cultural traditions. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat-buffet, this handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect guide for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11988'),
(17936, 'Food Rules: An Eater&#39;s Manual', 'Michael Pollan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A pocket compendium of food wisdom-from the author of *The Omnivore''s Dilemma* and *In Defense of Food* ** Michael Pollan, our nation''s most trusted resource for food-related issues, offers this indispensible guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible, and easy to use, *Food Rules* is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely, many drawn from a variety of ethnic or cultural traditions. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat-buffet, this handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect guide for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22022'),
(17937, 'Foods That Combat Aging', 'Deborah Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While it is impossible to stop the passage of time, there are ways to prevent it from taking its toll on your appearance and your healthâ€”without resorting to injections and painful, expensive plastic surgery. The secret is in the foods you eat every day! The right diet can renew your energy; help you to maintain smooth, clear skin and a youthful glow; and actually add years to your life. This remarkable handbook will be your Fountain of Youthâ€”providing meal plans, delicious recipes, and essential information that will enable you to turn back the clock and get a fresh and healthy new start on life!   Your indispensable guide to looking and feeling younger   An easy-to-use nutrition counter covering more than 3,000 foods, broken down by their anti-aging nutrients Mouth-watering recipes to revitalize the body and soul How to shop, how to eat, what to look for to achieve optimum health and maximize your quality of life in later years   And much more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5973'),
(17938, 'Foods That Combat Aging', 'Deborah Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While it is impossible to stop the passage of time, there are ways to prevent it from taking its toll on your appearance and your healthâ€”without resorting to injections and painful, expensive plastic surgery. The secret is in the foods you eat every day! The right diet can renew your energy; help you to maintain smooth, clear skin and a youthful glow; and actually add years to your life. This remarkable handbook will be your Fountain of Youthâ€”providing meal plans, delicious recipes, and essential information that will enable you to turn back the clock and get a fresh and healthy new start on life!   Your indispensable guide to looking and feeling younger   An easy-to-use nutrition counter covering more than 3,000 foods, broken down by their anti-aging nutrients Mouth-watering recipes to revitalize the body and soul How to shop, how to eat, what to look for to achieve optimum health and maximize your quality of life in later years   And much more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11560'),
(17939, 'Foods That Combat Aging', 'Deborah Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: While it is impossible to stop the passage of time, there are ways to prevent it from taking its toll on your appearance and your healthâ€”without resorting to injections and painful, expensive plastic surgery. The secret is in the foods you eat every day! The right diet can renew your energy; help you to maintain smooth, clear skin and a youthful glow; and actually add years to your life. This remarkable handbook will be your Fountain of Youthâ€”providing meal plans, delicious recipes, and essential information that will enable you to turn back the clock and get a fresh and healthy new start on life! Your indispensable guide to looking and feeling younger An easy-to-use nutrition counter covering more than 3,000 foods, broken down by their anti-aging nutrients Mouth-watering recipes to revitalize the body and soul How to shop, how to eat, what to look for to achieve optimum health and maximize your quality of life in later years And much more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17960'),
(17940, 'Foods That Combat Aging', 'Deborah Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: While it is impossible to stop the passage of time, there are ways to prevent it from taking its toll on your appearance and your healthâ€”without resorting to injections and painful, expensive plastic surgery. The secret is in the foods you eat every day! The right diet can renew your energy; help you to maintain smooth, clear skin and a youthful glow; and actually add years to your life. This remarkable handbook will be your Fountain of Youthâ€”providing meal plans, delicious recipes, and essential information that will enable you to turn back the clock and get a fresh and healthy new start on life! Your indispensable guide to looking and feeling younger An easy-to-use nutrition counter covering more than 3,000 foods, broken down by their anti-aging nutrients Mouth-watering recipes to revitalize the body and soul How to shop, how to eat, what to look for to achieve optimum health and maximize your quality of life in later years And much more!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27384'),
(17941, 'Fool', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank . . . If that''s the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Verily speaks Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, who hath writteneth much that is of grand wit and belly-busting mirth, including such laurelled bestsellers of the *Times of Olde Newe Yorke* as *Lamb*, *A Dirty Job*, and *You Suck* (no offense). Now he takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) in a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughtersâ€”a rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust . . . and a ghost (there''s always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fool\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear''s cherished fool for years, from the time the king''s grown daughtersâ€”selfish, scheming Goneril, sadistic (but erotic-fantasy-grade-hot) Regan, and sweet, loyal Cordeliaâ€”were mere girls. So naturally Pocket is at his brainless, elderly liege''s side when Learâ€”at the insidious urging of Edmund, the bastard (in every way imaginable) son of the Earl of Gloucesterâ€”demands that his kids swear their undying love and devotion before a collection of assembled guests. Of course Goneril and Regan are only too happy to brownnose Dad. But Cordelia believes that her father''s request is kind of . . . well . . . stupid, and her blunt honesty ends up costing her her rightful share of the kingdom and earns her a banishment to boot.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Well, now the bangers and mash have really hit the fan. The whole damn country''s about to go to hell in a handbasket because of a stubborn old fart''s wounded pride. And the only person who can possibly make things right . . . is Pocket, a small and slight clown with a biting sense of humor. He''s already managed to sidestep catastrophe (and the vengeful blades of many an offended nobleman) on numerous occasions, using his razor-sharp mind, rapier wit . . . and the equally well-honed daggers he keeps conveniently hidden behind his back. Now he''s going to have to do some very fancy maneuveringâ€”cast some spells, incite a few assassinations, start a war or two (the usual stuff)â€”to get Cordelia back into Daddy Lear''s good graces, to derail the fiendish power plays of Cordelia''s twisted sisters, to rescue his gigantic, gigantically dim, and always randy friend and apprentice fool, Drool, from repeated beatings . . . and to shag every lusciously shaggable wench who''s amenable to shagging along the way.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pocket may be a fool . . . but he''s definitely not an idiot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6693'),
(17942, 'Fool', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank . . . If that''s the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!" Verily speaks Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, who hath writteneth much that is of grand wit and belly-busting mirth, including such laurelled bestsellers of the *Times of Olde Newe Yorke* as *Lamb*, *A Dirty Job*, and *You Suck* (no offense). Now he takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) in a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughtersâ€”a rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust . . . and a ghost (there''s always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head. Fool A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear''s cherished fool for years, from the time the king''s grown daughtersâ€”selfish, scheming Goneril, sadistic (but erotic-fantasy-grade-hot) Regan, and sweet, loyal Cordeliaâ€”were mere girls. So naturally Pocket is at his brainless, elderly liege''s side when Learâ€”at the insidious urging of Edmund, the bastard (in every way imaginable) son of the Earl of Gloucesterâ€”demands that his kids swear their undying love and devotion before a collection of assembled guests. Of course Goneril and Regan are only too happy to brownnose Dad. But Cordelia believes that her father''s request is kind of . . . well . . . stupid, and her blunt honesty ends up costing her her rightful share of the kingdom and earns her a banishment to boot. Well, now the bangers and mash have really hit the fan. The whole damn country''s about to go to hell in a handbasket because of a stubborn old fart''s wounded pride. And the only person who can possibly make things right . . . is Pocket, a small and slight clown with a biting sense of humor. He''s already managed to sidestep catastrophe (and the vengeful blades of many an offended nobleman) on numerous occasions, using his razor-sharp mind, rapier wit . . . and the equally well-honed daggers he keeps conveniently hidden behind his back. Now he''s going to have to do some very fancy maneuveringâ€”cast some spells, incite a few assassinations, start a war or two (the usual stuff)â€”to get Cordelia back into Daddy Lear''s good graces, to derail the fiendish power plays of Cordelia''s twisted sisters, to rescue his gigantic, gigantically dim, and always randy friend and apprentice fool, Drool, from repeated beatings . . . and to shag every lusciously shaggable wench who''s amenable to shagging along the way. Pocket may be a fool . . . but he''s definitely not an idiot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14455');
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(17943, 'Fool', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank . . . If that''s the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!" Verily speaks Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, who hath writteneth much that is of grand wit and belly-busting mirth, including such laurelled bestsellers of the *Times of Olde Newe Yorke* as *Lamb*, *A Dirty Job*, and *You Suck* (no offense). Now he takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) in a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughtersâ€”a rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust . . . and a ghost (there''s always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head. Fool A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear''s cherished fool for years, from the time the king''s grown daughtersâ€”selfish, scheming Goneril, sadistic (but erotic-fantasy-grade-hot) Regan, and sweet, loyal Cordeliaâ€”were mere girls. So naturally Pocket is at his brainless, elderly liege''s side when Learâ€”at the insidious urging of Edmund, the bastard (in every way imaginable) son of the Earl of Gloucesterâ€”demands that his kids swear their undying love and devotion before a collection of assembled guests. Of course Goneril and Regan are only too happy to brownnose Dad. But Cordelia believes that her father''s request is kind of . . . well . . . stupid, and her blunt honesty ends up costing her her rightful share of the kingdom and earns her a banishment to boot. Well, now the bangers and mash have really hit the fan. The whole damn country''s about to go to hell in a handbasket because of a stubborn old fart''s wounded pride. And the only person who can possibly make things right . . . is Pocket, a small and slight clown with a biting sense of humor. He''s already managed to sidestep catastrophe (and the vengeful blades of many an offended nobleman) on numerous occasions, using his razor-sharp mind, rapier wit . . . and the equally well-honed daggers he keeps conveniently hidden behind his back. Now he''s going to have to do some very fancy maneuveringâ€”cast some spells, incite a few assassinations, start a war or two (the usual stuff)â€”to get Cordelia back into Daddy Lear''s good graces, to derail the fiendish power plays of Cordelia''s twisted sisters, to rescue his gigantic, gigantically dim, and always randy friend and apprentice fool, Drool, from repeated beatings . . . and to shag every lusciously shaggable wench who''s amenable to shagging along the way. Pocket may be a fool . . . but he''s definitely not an idiot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18062'),
(17944, 'Fool', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank . . . If that''s the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!"\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Verily speaks Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, who hath writteneth much that is of grand wit and belly-busting mirth, including such laurelled bestsellers of the *Times of Olde Newe Yorke* as *Lamb*, *A Dirty Job*, and *You Suck* (no offense). Now he takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) in a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughtersâ€”a rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust . . . and a ghost (there''s always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Fool\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear''s cherished fool for years, from the time the king''s grown daughtersâ€”selfish, scheming Goneril, sadistic (but erotic-fantasy-grade-hot) Regan, and sweet, loyal Cordeliaâ€”were mere girls. So naturally Pocket is at his brainless, elderly liege''s side when Learâ€”at the insidious urging of Edmund, the bastard (in every way imaginable) son of the Earl of Gloucesterâ€”demands that his kids swear their undying love and devotion before a collection of assembled guests. Of course Goneril and Regan are only too happy to brownnose Dad. But Cordelia believes that her father''s request is kind of . . . well . . . stupid, and her blunt honesty ends up costing her her rightful share of the kingdom and earns her a banishment to boot.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Well, now the bangers and mash have really hit the fan. The whole damn country''s about to go to hell in a handbasket because of a stubborn old fart''s wounded pride. And the only person who can possibly make things right . . . is Pocket, a small and slight clown with a biting sense of humor. He''s already managed to sidestep catastrophe (and the vengeful blades of many an offended nobleman) on numerous occasions, using his razor-sharp mind, rapier wit . . . and the equally well-honed daggers he keeps conveniently hidden behind his back. Now he''s going to have to do some very fancy maneuveringâ€”cast some spells, incite a few assassinations, start a war or two (the usual stuff)â€”to get Cordelia back into Daddy Lear''s good graces, to derail the fiendish power plays of Cordelia''s twisted sisters, to rescue his gigantic, gigantically dim, and always randy friend and apprentice fool, Drool, from repeated beatings . . . and to shag every lusciously shaggable wench who''s amenable to shagging along the way.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Pocket may be a fool . . . but he''s definitely not an idiot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26997'),
(17945, 'A Fool and His Honey', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Charlaine Harris''s beloved amateur sleuth, liberated Southern belle Aurora Teagarden, makes her long- anticipated return in this charming mystery about family secrets and small-town intrigue. Everything in Roe''s life finally seems to be going her way. She''s newly and quite happily married to Martin Bartell, happy to be back at her part-time job at the library, and settled into her dream home just outside Lawrenceton, Georgia--and there haven''t been any dead bodies in Roe''s life for quite a while. But when mild-mannered Darius Quattermain goes crazy in her backyard when he should be stacking firewood, it turns out to be just the first in a string of troublesome events. The next is the arrival of Martin''s flighty niece Regina, who shows up unannounced with a baby no one knew she was expecting. Before anyone can figure out what''s going on, Regina disappears, leaving behind her baby--and her husband, Craig, whose brutally murdered corpse is discovered on the outside steps of Roe and Martin''s home. Now the existence of the baby is only the first question of many--such as, Where did Craig come from? Who went after him with the ax? And why? Roe and Martin abandon the sunny warmth of Georgia for snowy Corinth, Ohio, hoping that tracing Regina and Craig''s steps will get them some answers. In this fifth book in Charlaine Harris''s series blending mystery, humor, and a hearty helping of Southern charm, there''s just no telling what they''ll find.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6992'),
(17946, 'A Fool and His Honey', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Charlaine Harris''s beloved amateur sleuth, liberated Southern belle Aurora Teagarden, makes her long- anticipated return in this charming mystery about family secrets and small-town intrigue. Everything in Roe''s life finally seems to be going her way. She''s newly and quite happily married to Martin Bartell, happy to be back at her part-time job at the library, and settled into her dream home just outside Lawrenceton, Georgia--and there haven''t been any dead bodies in Roe''s life for quite a while. But when mild-mannered Darius Quattermain goes crazy in her backyard when he should be stacking firewood, it turns out to be just the first in a string of troublesome events. The next is the arrival of Martin''s flighty niece Regina, who shows up unannounced with a baby no one knew she was expecting. Before anyone can figure out what''s going on, Regina disappears, leaving behind her baby--and her husband, Craig, whose brutally murdered corpse is discovered on the outside steps of Roe and Martin''s home. Now the existence of the baby is only the first question of many--such as, Where did Craig come from? Who went after him with the ax? And why? Roe and Martin abandon the sunny warmth of Georgia for snowy Corinth, Ohio, hoping that tracing Regina and Craig''s steps will get them some answers. In this fifth book in Charlaine Harris''s series blending mystery, humor, and a hearty helping of Southern charm, there''s just no telling what they''ll find.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16932'),
(17947, 'A Fool and His Honey', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Charlaine Harris''s beloved amateur sleuth, liberated Southern belle Aurora Teagarden, makes her long- anticipated return in this charming mystery about family secrets and small-town intrigue. Everything in Roe''s life finally seems to be going her way. She''s newly and quite happily married to Martin Bartell, happy to be back at her part-time job at the library, and settled into her dream home just outside Lawrenceton, Georgia--and there haven''t been any dead bodies in Roe''s life for quite a while. But when mild-mannered Darius Quattermain goes crazy in her backyard when he should be stacking firewood, it turns out to be just the first in a string of troublesome events. The next is the arrival of Martin''s flighty niece Regina, who shows up unannounced with a baby no one knew she was expecting. Before anyone can figure out what''s going on, Regina disappears, leaving behind her baby--and her husband, Craig, whose brutally murdered corpse is discovered on the outside steps of Roe and Martin''s home. Now the existence of the baby is only the first question of many--such as, Where did Craig come from? Who went after him with the ax? And why? Roe and Martin abandon the sunny warmth of Georgia for snowy Corinth, Ohio, hoping that tracing Regina and Craig''s steps will get them some answers. In this fifth book in Charlaine Harris''s series blending mystery, humor, and a hearty helping of Southern charm, there''s just no telling what they''ll find.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26843'),
(17948, 'Fool Moon', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the corpse of a brutally mutilated murder victim turns up at the time of the full moon, accompanied by some most unusual paw prints, professional wizard and supernatural investigator Harry Dresden finds himself searching Chicago for the werewolf stalking the city. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4521'),
(17949, 'Fool Moon', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When the corpse of a brutally mutilated murder victim turns up at the time of the full moon, accompanied by some most unusual paw prints, professional wizard and supernatural investigator Harry Dresden finds himself searching Chicago for the werewolf stalking the city. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8732'),
(17950, 'Fool Moon', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When the corpse of a brutally mutilated murder victim turns up at the time of the full moon, accompanied by some most unusual paw prints, professional wizard and supernatural investigator Harry Dresden finds himself searching Chicago for the werewolf stalking the city. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14895'),
(17951, 'Fool: A Novel', 'Christopher Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank . . . If that''s the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!" Verily speaks Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, who hath writteneth much that is of grand wit and belly-busting mirth, including such laurelled bestsellers of the Times of Olde Newe Yorke as Lamb, A Dirty Job, and You Suck (no offense). Now he takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) in a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughters--a rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust . . . and a ghost (there''s always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head. Fool. A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear''s cherished fool for years, from the time the king''s grown daughters--selfish, scheming Goneril, sadistic (but erotic-fantasy-grade-hot) Regan, and sweet, loyal Cordelia--were mere girls. So naturally Pocket is at his brainless, elderly liege''s side when Lear--at the insidious urging of Edmund, the bastard (in every way imaginable) son of the Earl of Gloucester--demands that his kids swear their undying love and devotion before a collection of assembled guests. Of course Goneril and Regan are only too happy to brownnose Dad. But Cordelia believes that her father''s request is kind of . . . well . . . stupid, and her blunt honesty ends up costing her her rightful share of the kingdom and earns her a banishment to boot. Well, now the bangers and mash have really hit the fan. The whole damn country''s about to go to hell in a handbasket because of a stubborn old fart''s wounded pride. And the only person who can possibly make things right . . . is Pocket, a small and slight clown with a biting sense of humor. He''s already managed to sidestep catastrophe (and the vengeful blades of many an offended nobleman) on numerous occasions, using his razor-sharp mind, rapier wit . . . and the equally well-honed daggers he keeps conveniently hidden behind his back. Now he''s going to have to do some very fancy maneuvering--cast some spells, incite a few assassinations, start a war or two (the usual stuff)--to get Cordelia back into Daddy Lear''s good graces, to derail the fiendish power plays of Cordelia''s twisted sisters, to rescue his gigantic, gigantically dim, and always randy friend and apprentice fool, Drool, from repeated beatings . . . and to shag every lusciously shaggable wench who''s amenable to shagging along the way. Pocket may be a fool . . . but he''s definitely not an idiot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25973'),
(17952, 'Fool&#39;s Errand', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Robin Hobb has emerged as one of todayâ€™s foremost fantasy authors. Now she continues the adventures of one of her most popular heroes in the first book of what promises to be her most spectacular trilogy yet. **Foolâ€™s Errand**For fifteen years FitzChivalry Farseer has lived in self-imposed exile, assumed to be dead by almost all who once cared about him. But that is about to change when destiny seeks him once again. Prince Dutiful, the young heir to the Farseer throne, has vanished and FitzChivalry, possessed of magical skills both royal and profane, is the only one who can retrieve him in time for his betrothal ceremony--thus sparing the Six Duchies profound political embarrassment...or worse. But even Fitz does not suspect the web of treachery that awaits him or how his loyalties to his Queen, his partner, and those who share his magic will be tested to the breaking point.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1509'),
(17953, 'Fool&#39;s Errand', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Robin Hobb has emerged as one of todayâ€™s foremost fantasy authors. Now she continues the adventures of one of her most popular heroes in the first book of what promises to be her most spectacular trilogy yet. **Foolâ€™s Errand**For fifteen years FitzChivalry Farseer has lived in self-imposed exile, assumed to be dead by almost all who once cared about him. But that is about to change when destiny seeks him once again. Prince Dutiful, the young heir to the Farseer throne, has vanished and FitzChivalry, possessed of magical skills both royal and profane, is the only one who can retrieve him in time for his betrothal ceremony--thus sparing the Six Duchies profound political embarrassment...or worse. But even Fitz does not suspect the web of treachery that awaits him or how his loyalties to his Queen, his partner, and those who share his magic will be tested to the breaking point.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10384'),
(17954, 'Fool&#39;s errand', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Robin Hobb has emerged as one of todayâ€™s foremost fantasy authors. Now she continues the adventures of one of her most popular heroes in the first book of what promises to be her most spectacular trilogy yet. **Foolâ€™s Errand**For fifteen years FitzChivalry Farseer has lived in self-imposed exile, assumed to be dead by almost all who once cared about him. But that is about to change when destiny seeks him once again. Prince Dutiful, the young heir to the Farseer throne, has vanished and FitzChivalry, possessed of magical skills both royal and profane, is the only one who can retrieve him in time for his betrothal ceremony--thus sparing the Six Duchies profound political embarrassment...or worse. But even Fitz does not suspect the web of treachery that awaits him or how his loyalties to his Queen, his partner, and those who share his magic will be tested to the breaking point.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15183'),
(17955, 'Fool&#39;s errand', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Robin Hobb has emerged as one of todayâ€™s foremost fantasy authors. Now she continues the adventures of one of her most popular heroes in the first book of what promises to be her most spectacular trilogy yet. **Foolâ€™s Errand**For fifteen years FitzChivalry Farseer has lived in self-imposed exile, assumed to be dead by almost all who once cared about him. But that is about to change when destiny seeks him once again. Prince Dutiful, the young heir to the Farseer throne, has vanished and FitzChivalry, possessed of magical skills both royal and profane, is the only one who can retrieve him in time for his betrothal ceremony--thus sparing the Six Duchies profound political embarrassment...or worse. But even Fitz does not suspect the web of treachery that awaits him or how his loyalties to his Queen, his partner, and those who share his magic will be tested to the breaking point.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23322'),
(17956, 'Fool&#39;s Fate', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A heralded writer of epic fantasy, Robin Hobb has given readers worlds within worlds in her heroic Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies. Now she takes the final step in the breathtaking trilogy of the Tawny Man, as the tale of FitzChivalry Farseer comes to an epic end. Rife with boundless adventure and unforgettable characters, Foolâ€™s Fate is destined to become a classic of the genre.Assassin, spy, and Skillmaster, FitzChivalry Farseer, now known only as man-at-arms Tom Badgerlock, has become firmly ensconced in the queenâ€™s court at Buckkeep. Only a few are aware of his fabled, tangled pastâ€”and the sacrifices he made to survive it. And fewer know of his possession of the Skill magic. With Prince Dutiful, his assassin-mentor Chade, and the simpleminded yet strongly Skilled Thick, FitzChivalry strives to aid the prince on a quest that could ultimately secure peace between the Six Duchies and the Outislandsâ€”and win Dutiful the hand of the Narcheska Elliania. For the Narcheska has set the prince on an unfathomable task: to behead a dragon trapped in iceâ€”the legendary Icefyre, on the island of Aslevjal. Yet not all the clans of the Outislands support the princeâ€™s effort to behead their legendary defender. Are there darker forces at work behind the Narcheskaâ€™s imperious demand? As the prince and his coterie set sail, FitzChivalry works behind the scenes, playing nursemaid to the ailing Thick, while striving to strengthen their Skillâ€”ultimately bringing his unacknowledged daughter into the web of the Skill magic, where the truth must finally unfold.The quest emerges amid riddles that must be unraveled, a clash of cultures, and the ultimate betrayal. For knowing that the Fool has foretold he will die on the island of ice, FitzChivalry has plotted with Chade to leave his dearest friend behind. But fate cannot so easily be defied.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1512'),
(17957, 'Fool&#39;s Fate', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A heralded writer of epic fantasy, Robin Hobb has given readers worlds within worlds in her heroic Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies. Now she takes the final step in the breathtaking trilogy of the Tawny Man, as the tale of FitzChivalry Farseer comes to an epic end. Rife with boundless adventure and unforgettable characters, Foolâ€™s Fate is destined to become a classic of the genre.Assassin, spy, and Skillmaster, FitzChivalry Farseer, now known only as man-at-arms Tom Badgerlock, has become firmly ensconced in the queenâ€™s court at Buckkeep. Only a few are aware of his fabled, tangled pastâ€”and the sacrifices he made to survive it. And fewer know of his possession of the Skill magic. With Prince Dutiful, his assassin-mentor Chade, and the simpleminded yet strongly Skilled Thick, FitzChivalry strives to aid the prince on a quest that could ultimately secure peace between the Six Duchies and the Outislandsâ€”and win Dutiful the hand of the Narcheska Elliania. For the Narcheska has set the prince on an unfathomable task: to behead a dragon trapped in iceâ€”the legendary Icefyre, on the island of Aslevjal. Yet not all the clans of the Outislands support the princeâ€™s effort to behead their legendary defender. Are there darker forces at work behind the Narcheskaâ€™s imperious demand? As the prince and his coterie set sail, FitzChivalry works behind the scenes, playing nursemaid to the ailing Thick, while striving to strengthen their Skillâ€”ultimately bringing his unacknowledged daughter into the web of the Skill magic, where the truth must finally unfold.The quest emerges amid riddles that must be unraveled, a clash of cultures, and the ultimate betrayal. For knowing that the Fool has foretold he will die on the island of ice, FitzChivalry has plotted with Chade to leave his dearest friend behind. But fate cannot so easily be defied.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10382'),
(17958, 'Fool&#39;s Fate', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A heralded writer of epic fantasy, Robin Hobb has given readers worlds within worlds in her heroic Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies. Now she takes the final step in the breathtaking trilogy of the Tawny Man, as the tale of FitzChivalry Farseer comes to an epic end. Rife with boundless adventure and unforgettable characters, Foolâ€™s Fate is destined to become a classic of the genre.Assassin, spy, and Skillmaster, FitzChivalry Farseer, now known only as man-at-arms Tom Badgerlock, has become firmly ensconced in the queenâ€™s court at Buckkeep. Only a few are aware of his fabled, tangled pastâ€”and the sacrifices he made to survive it. And fewer know of his possession of the Skill magic. With Prince Dutiful, his assassin-mentor Chade, and the simpleminded yet strongly Skilled Thick, FitzChivalry strives to aid the prince on a quest that could ultimately secure peace between the Six Duchies and the Outislandsâ€”and win Dutiful the hand of the Narcheska Elliania. For the Narcheska has set the prince on an unfathomable task: to behead a dragon trapped in iceâ€”the legendary Icefyre, on the island of Aslevjal. Yet not all the clans of the Outislands support the princeâ€™s effort to behead their legendary defender. Are there darker forces at work behind the Narcheskaâ€™s imperious demand? As the prince and his coterie set sail, FitzChivalry works behind the scenes, playing nursemaid to the ailing Thick, while striving to strengthen their Skillâ€”ultimately bringing his unacknowledged daughter into the web of the Skill magic, where the truth must finally unfold.The quest emerges amid riddles that must be unraveled, a clash of cultures, and the ultimate betrayal. For knowing that the Fool has foretold he will die on the island of ice, FitzChivalry has plotted with Chade to leave his dearest friend behind. But fate cannot so easily be defied.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15065'),
(17959, 'Fool&#39;s Fate', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A heralded writer of epic fantasy, Robin Hobb has given readers worlds within worlds in her heroic Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies. Now she takes the final step in the breathtaking trilogy of the Tawny Man, as the tale of FitzChivalry Farseer comes to an epic end. Rife with boundless adventure and unforgettable characters, Foolâ€™s Fate is destined to become a classic of the genre.Assassin, spy, and Skillmaster, FitzChivalry Farseer, now known only as man-at-arms Tom Badgerlock, has become firmly ensconced in the queenâ€™s court at Buckkeep. Only a few are aware of his fabled, tangled pastâ€”and the sacrifices he made to survive it. And fewer know of his possession of the Skill magic. With Prince Dutiful, his assassin-mentor Chade, and the simpleminded yet strongly Skilled Thick, FitzChivalry strives to aid the prince on a quest that could ultimately secure peace between the Six Duchies and the Outislandsâ€”and win Dutiful the hand of the Narcheska Elliania. For the Narcheska has set the prince on an unfathomable task: to behead a dragon trapped in iceâ€”the legendary Icefyre, on the island of Aslevjal. Yet not all the clans of the Outislands support the princeâ€™s effort to behead their legendary defender. Are there darker forces at work behind the Narcheskaâ€™s imperious demand? As the prince and his coterie set sail, FitzChivalry works behind the scenes, playing nursemaid to the ailing Thick, while striving to strengthen their Skillâ€”ultimately bringing his unacknowledged daughter into the web of the Skill magic, where the truth must finally unfold.The quest emerges amid riddles that must be unraveled, a clash of cultures, and the ultimate betrayal. For knowing that the Fool has foretold he will die on the island of ice, FitzChivalry has plotted with Chade to leave his dearest friend behind. But fate cannot so easily be defied.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23321'),
(17960, '&#39;Football - Bloody Hell!&#39;: The Story of Alex Ferguson', 'Patrick Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Britain''s most respected sportswriter takes on the greatest football manager of all time. The true biography of Sir Alex Ferguson has yet to be written. Until now. Alex Ferguson is the most fascinating and controversial figure in football today. He is also the most successful. His twenty-five-year tenure of the Manchester United dugout has seen him win everything there is to be won in football, many times over. His reign as manager has led to the rise of Manchester United to become the biggest football club in the world. This book, written by the award-winning and critically acclaimed Patrick Barclay, will fill in the gaps left by Ferguson''s own book,Managing My Life. Everyone who bought that book will want Barclay''s comprehensive, objective analysis of Ferguson, the good and the bad, and the occasionally ugly and it will also appeal hugely to those outside the Manchester United extended family for whom Ferguson has often acted as a red rag. Having known Ferguson for a quarter of a century, Barclay believes him to be generous-spirited as well as ruthless and relentlessly competitive; in such an almost larger-than-life character, there is room for countless facets. And it is these facets that Barclay seeks to explore and explain. Leaving no stone unturned, Barclay has spoken with everyone who knows Ferguson best; former players, fellow managers, friends and foes. The result is''Football - Bloody Hell!'', the definitive, objective account of this fascinating man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2346'),
(17961, '&#39;Football - Bloody Hell!&#39;: The Story of Alex Ferguson', 'Patrick Barclay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Britain''s most respected sportswriter takes on the greatest football manager of all time. The true biography of Sir Alex Ferguson has yet to be written. Until now. Alex Ferguson is the most fascinating and controversial figure in football today. He is also the most successful. His twenty-five-year tenure of the Manchester United dugout has seen him win everything there is to be won in football, many times over. His reign as manager has led to the rise of Manchester United to become the biggest football club in the world. This book, written by the award-winning and critically acclaimed Patrick Barclay, will fill in the gaps left by Ferguson''s own book,Managing My Life. Everyone who bought that book will want Barclay''s comprehensive, objective analysis of Ferguson, the good and the bad, and the occasionally ugly and it will also appeal hugely to those outside the Manchester United extended family for whom Ferguson has often acted as a red rag. Having known Ferguson for a quarter of a century, Barclay believes him to be generous-spirited as well as ruthless and relentlessly competitive; in such an almost larger-than-life character, there is room for countless facets. And it is these facets that Barclay seeks to explore and explain. Leaving no stone unturned, Barclay has spoken with everyone who knows Ferguson best; former players, fellow managers, friends and foes. The result is''Football - Bloody Hell!'', the definitive, objective account of this fascinating man.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8323'),
(17962, 'The Football Fan&#39;s Manifesto', 'Michael Tunison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Football Fan''s Ten Commandments You Must Choose Your Team by the Age of Eight. Value That Team Above All Else, Even Yourself. Under No Circumstances Can You Switch Teams (And Expect to Live). There is a Limit to the Amount of Merchandise You Can Own (But It''s Very Generous). Sportsmanship is for the Athletes. Fans Can Gloat Endlessly. A Self-Induced Coma to Skip the Off-season is a Practical Solution to an Annoying Problem. An Inoffensive Fantasy Football Name is a Lame Fantasy Football Name. Wealth Doesn''t Matter So Long As You Don''t Have to Work Weekends. Respect Superstitions. If Your Team Lost, It''s Because You Jinxed Them. In Life, the Order of Importance: Football First, Football Second, Football Third, Family . . . uh, I Don''t Know, twelfth?  These are just the basics if you wish to be a True Football Fan. The full picture is much more complex and boozy. Thankfully, "The Football Fan''s Manifesto" is your very own playbook to the strict rules and bylaws that must be scrupulously observed. After all, trash-talking is an intricate science and running onto the field a dangerous but irresistible pursuit. There are many lessons to be learned, especially that choosing a favorite team to live and die with is not a choice made easily: It''s the most important decision of your life!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2683'),
(17963, 'The Football Fan&#39;s Manifesto', 'Michael Tunison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Football Fan''s Ten Commandments You Must Choose Your Team by the Age of Eight. Value That Team Above All Else, Even Yourself. Under No Circumstances Can You Switch Teams (And Expect to Live). There is a Limit to the Amount of Merchandise You Can Own (But It''s Very Generous). Sportsmanship is for the Athletes. Fans Can Gloat Endlessly. A Self-Induced Coma to Skip the Off-season is a Practical Solution to an Annoying Problem. An Inoffensive Fantasy Football Name is a Lame Fantasy Football Name. Wealth Doesn''t Matter So Long As You Don''t Have to Work Weekends. Respect Superstitions. If Your Team Lost, It''s Because You Jinxed Them. In Life, the Order of Importance: Football First, Football Second, Football Third, Family . . . uh, I Don''t Know, twelfth?  These are just the basics if you wish to be a True Football Fan. The full picture is much more complex and boozy. Thankfully, "The Football Fan''s Manifesto" is your very own playbook to the strict rules and bylaws that must be scrupulously observed. After all, trash-talking is an intricate science and running onto the field a dangerous but irresistible pursuit. There are many lessons to be learned, especially that choosing a favorite team to live and die with is not a choice made easily: It''s the most important decision of your life!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13059'),
(17964, 'The Football Fan&#39;s Manifesto', 'Michael Tunison', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Football Fan''s Ten Commandments You Must Choose Your Team by the Age of Eight. Value That Team Above All Else, Even Yourself. Under No Circumstances Can You Switch Teams (And Expect to Live). There is a Limit to the Amount of Merchandise You Can Own (But It''s Very Generous). Sportsmanship is for the Athletes. Fans Can Gloat Endlessly. A Self-Induced Coma to Skip the Off-season is a Practical Solution to an Annoying Problem. An Inoffensive Fantasy Football Name is a Lame Fantasy Football Name. Wealth Doesn''t Matter So Long As You Don''t Have to Work Weekends. Respect Superstitions. If Your Team Lost, It''s Because You Jinxed Them. In Life, the Order of Importance: Football First, Football Second, Football Third, Family . . . uh, I Don''t Know, twelfth? These are just the basics if you wish to be a True Football Fan. The full picture is much more complex and boozy. Thankfully, "The Football Fan''s Manifesto" is your very own playbook to the strict rules and bylaws that must be scrupulously observed. After all, trash-talking is an intricate science and running onto the field a dangerous but irresistible pursuit. There are many lessons to be learned, especially that choosing a favorite team to live and die with is not a choice made easily: It''s the most important decision of your life!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22048'),
(17965, 'Footprints', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When her longtime friend claims to have evidence of Big Foot''s existence, archaeologist Annja Creed can''t resist checking it out for herselfâ€”she''s been debating the subject for years. Annja''s curiosity leads her deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest, to meet Jenny where the supposed trail has been left by the one and only Sasquatch. But when Annja arrives at the destination, a group of armed thugs warn her to leave the area, and her friend is nowhere to be found. Now the search for Sasquatch turns into a rescue mission, and Annja has only her instincts to guide her in a forest full of predators, scavengers and spirits. And someone, or something, does not want her thereâ€¦.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When her longtime friend claims to have evidence of Big Foot''s existence, archaeologist Annja Creed can''t resist checking it out for herselfâ€”she''s been debating the subject for years. Annja''s curiosity leads her deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest, to meet Jenny where the supposed trail has been left by the one and only Sasquatch.But when Annja arrives at the destination, a group of armed thugs warn her to leave the area, and her friend is nowhere to be found. Now the search for Sasquatch turns into a rescue mission, and Annja has only her instincts to guide her in a forest full of predators, scavengers and spirits. And someone, or something, does not want her thereâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7852'),
(17966, 'Footprints', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When her longtime friend claims to have evidence of Big Foot''s existence, archaeologist Annja Creed can''t resist checking it out for herselfâ€”she''s been debating the subject for years. Annja''s curiosity leads her deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest, to meet Jenny where the supposed trail has been left by the one and only Sasquatch. But when Annja arrives at the destination, a group of armed thugs warn her to leave the area, and her friend is nowhere to be found. Now the search for Sasquatch turns into a rescue mission, and Annja has only her instincts to guide her in a forest full of predators, scavengers and spirits. And someone, or something, does not want her thereâ€¦. SUMMARY: When her longtime friend claims to have evidence of Big Foot''s existence, archaeologist Annja Creed can''t resist checking it out for herselfâ€”she''s been debating the subject for years. Annja''s curiosity leads her deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest, to meet Jenny where the supposed trail has been left by the one and only Sasquatch.But when Annja arrives at the destination, a group of armed thugs warn her to leave the area, and her friend is nowhere to be found. Now the search for Sasquatch turns into a rescue mission, and Annja has only her instincts to guide her in a forest full of predators, scavengers and spirits. And someone, or something, does not want her thereâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16132'),
(17967, 'Footprints', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When her longtime friend claims to have evidence of Big Foot''s existence, archaeologist Annja Creed can''t resist checking it out for herselfâ€”she''s been debating the subject for years. Annja''s curiosity leads her deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest, to meet Jenny where the supposed trail has been left by the one and only Sasquatch. But when Annja arrives at the destination, a group of armed thugs warn her to leave the area, and her friend is nowhere to be found. Now the search for Sasquatch turns into a rescue mission, and Annja has only her instincts to guide her in a forest full of predators, scavengers and spirits. And someone, or something, does not want her thereâ€¦.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When her longtime friend claims to have evidence of Big Foot''s existence, archaeologist Annja Creed can''t resist checking it out for herselfâ€”she''s been debating the subject for years. Annja''s curiosity leads her deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest, to meet Jenny where the supposed trail has been left by the one and only Sasquatch.But when Annja arrives at the destination, a group of armed thugs warn her to leave the area, and her friend is nowhere to be found. Now the search for Sasquatch turns into a rescue mission, and Annja has only her instincts to guide her in a forest full of predators, scavengers and spirits. And someone, or something, does not want her thereâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26275'),
(17968, 'Footprints Under the Window', 'Franklin W. Dixon; J. Clemens Gretta', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Footprints lead to the breakup of a ring smuggling Chinese aliens. Published originally in 1933.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four "Franklin W. Dixons" to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four Hardy Boys Mystery Stories to the total.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18442'),
(17969, 'For a Few Demons More', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14750'),
(17970, 'For a Few Demons More', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20840'),
(17971, 'For Crying Out Loud!: The World According to Clarkson', 'Jeremy Clarkson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4518'),
(17972, 'For Kicks', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody sets up a mystery better than Dick Francis. --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the New York Times bestselling author of Field of 13, 10 Lb. Penalty, To the Hilt, and so many more...a com-pelling and chilling tale of drugged racehorses, double-dealers, and masterful detection that confirms Dick Francis''s reputation as "mystery''s Gibraltar." (Chicago Sun-Times)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6026'),
(17973, 'For Kicks', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nobody sets up a mystery better than Dick Francis. --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n San Francisco Chronicle_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n From the New York Times bestselling author of Field of 13, 10 Lb. Penalty, To the Hilt, and so many more...a com-pelling and chilling tale of drugged racehorses, double-dealers, and masterful detection that confirms Dick Francis''s reputation as "mystery''s Gibraltar." (Chicago Sun-Times)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9769'),
(17974, 'For Love of Evil', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In today''s multilingual, multicultural society, the need for interpreters has never been greater.  This book introduces students, researchers and practitioners to the fast-developing discipline of Interpreting Studies.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Written by a leading researcher in the field, Introducing  Interpreting Studies  guides the reader through international conference, court and hospital interpreting, in both signed and spoken modalities.  The book begins by exploring the ways in which the field evolved, looking at historical developments, concepts, influential models and methodological approaches.  It then moves on to consider the main areas of research in the field, before reviewing the major trends of Interpreting Studies, reflecting on how the subject will develop in the future and offering direction to those undertaking research of their own.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Featuring chapter summaries, guides to the main points covered in the book and suggestions for further reading, this practical and user-friendly textbook is the definitive map of this important and growing field.  The book can be used on its own, or to accompany The Interpreting Studies Reader (Routledge, 2002).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2011'),
(17975, 'For love of evil', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In today''s multilingual, multicultural society, the need for interpreters has never been greater. This book introduces students, researchers and practitioners to the fast-developing discipline of Interpreting Studies. Written by a leading researcher in the field, Introducing Interpreting Studies guides the reader through international conference, court and hospital interpreting, in both signed and spoken modalities. The book begins by exploring the ways in which the field evolved, looking at historical developments, concepts, influential models and methodological approaches. It then moves on to consider the main areas of research in the field, before reviewing the major trends of Interpreting Studies, reflecting on how the subject will develop in the future and offering direction to those undertaking research of their own. Featuring chapter summaries, guides to the main points covered in the book and suggestions for further reading, this practical and user-friendly textbook is the definitive map of this important and growing field. The book can be used on its own, or to accompany The Interpreting Studies Reader (Routledge, 2002).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22706'),
(17976, 'For Love of Mother-Not', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely campelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer''s block. One hundred credits and he was hers.\n</p>\n<p>\n For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew -- even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip''s venom . . . and Flinx''s unusual Talents.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely campelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer''s block. One hundred credits and he was hers.\n</p>\n<p>\n For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew -- even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip''s venom . . . and Flinx''s unusual Talents.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7806');
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(17978, 'For Love of Mother-Not', 'Alan Dean Foster', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely campelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer''s block. One hundred credits and he was hers.\n</p>\n<p>\n For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew -- even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip''s venom . . . and Flinx''s unusual Talents.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely campelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer''s block. One hundred credits and he was hers.\n</p>\n<p>\n For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew -- even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip.\n</p>\n<p>\n Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip''s venom . . . and Flinx''s unusual Talents.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16051'),
(17979, 'For Now, Forever', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2481'),
(17980, 'For Now, Forever', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22284'),
(17981, 'For Sale in Palm Springs: The Henry Wright Mystery Series', 'Albert Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A murdered real estate agent. Unsatisfied home buyers. A possible celebrity scam. A secret society! Join retired police chief Henry Wright in figuring out who killed Palm Springs real estate mogul Rex Thornbird in this page turning thriller that will keep you guessing. This first book in the Henry Wright Mystery Series takes our detective from Palm Springs to the Silicon Valley to find the killer!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7843'),
(17982, 'For Sale in Palm Springs: The Henry Wright Mystery Series', 'Albert Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A murdered real estate agent. Unsatisfied home buyers. A possible celebrity scam. A secret society! Join retired police chief Henry Wright in figuring out who killed Palm Springs real estate mogul Rex Thornbird in this page turning thriller that will keep you guessing. This first book in the Henry Wright Mystery Series takes our detective from Palm Springs to the Silicon Valley to find the killer!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16016'),
(17983, 'For Sale in Palm Springs: The Henry Wright Mystery Series', 'Albert Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A murdered real estate agent. Unsatisfied home buyers. A possible celebrity scam. A secret society! Join retired police chief Henry Wright in figuring out who killed Palm Springs real estate mogul Rex Thornbird in this page turning thriller that will keep you guessing. This first book in the Henry Wright Mystery Series takes our detective from Palm Springs to the Silicon Valley to find the killer!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26287'),
(17984, 'For the Birds', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22982'),
(17985, 'For the Love of Lilah', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A New York Times Bestseller**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The four Calhoun sisters and a special sister-by-marriage are all united by a decades-old legend and the determination to save the Towers, their magnificent family mansion on the rocky coast of Maine. Sweet sister Lilah saved a mysterious stranger from drowning. Adrift in a storm, Max thought he had hallucinated the beautiful mermaid who came to his rescue. But Lilah was a woman of flesh and blood . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2483'),
(17986, 'For the Love of Lilah', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A New York Times Bestseller** The four Calhoun sisters and a special sister-by-marriage are all united by a decades-old legend and the determination to save the Towers, their magnificent family mansion on the rocky coast of Maine. Sweet sister Lilah saved a mysterious stranger from drowning. Adrift in a storm, Max thought he had hallucinated the beautiful mermaid who came to his rescue. But Lilah was a woman of flesh and blood . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22283'),
(17987, 'For the Love of Mike', 'Rhys Bowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A woman ahead of her time, Molly Murphy is determined to be a private detective. Having inherited the cases of her deceased mentor, Paddy Reilly, she''s following philandering husbands, tracking down a runaway Dublin debutante, and working in a sweatshop to discover who''s purloining dress designs. None of her jobs seem dangerous...at first. When a woman''s body is fished out of the East River, Molly fears it''s the missing society girl. Then Molly''s sometime beau, police captain Daniel Sullivan, reveals that another corpse may be the girl''s scalawag lover, Mike Kelly. But Molly has to know their identities for certain. Now as threads of passion and greed weave a tapestry of violence, Molly descends into the underworld of the gangs of New York. It''s no place for a lady, and even a scrappy Irish lass may need more than her street smarts to get the truth...and get out alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1946'),
(17988, 'For the Love of Mike', 'Rhys Bowen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A woman ahead of her time, Molly Murphy is determined to be a private detective. Having inherited the cases of her deceased mentor, Paddy Reilly, she''s following philandering husbands, tracking down a runaway Dublin debutante, and working in a sweatshop to discover who''s purloining dress designs. None of her jobs seem dangerous...at first. When a woman''s body is fished out of the East River, Molly fears it''s the missing society girl. Then Molly''s sometime beau, police captain Daniel Sullivan, reveals that another corpse may be the girl''s scalawag lover, Mike Kelly. But Molly has to know their identities for certain. Now as threads of passion and greed weave a tapestry of violence, Molly descends into the underworld of the gangs of New York. It''s no place for a lady, and even a scrappy Irish lass may need more than her street smarts to get the truth...and get out alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8537'),
(17989, 'For the New Intellectual', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26024'),
(17990, 'For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is Ayn Rand''s challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy--and ethic of rational self-interest--that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality--"a philosophy for living on Earth"--are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7393'),
(17991, 'For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is Ayn Rand''s challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy--and ethic of rational self-interest--that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality--"a philosophy for living on Earth"--are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12078'),
(17992, 'For the new intellectual: the philosophy of Ayn Rand', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is Ayn Rand''s challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy--and ethic of rational self-interest--that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality--"a philosophy for living on Earth"--are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16505'),
(17993, 'For the new intellectual: the philosophy of Ayn Rand', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is Ayn Rand''s challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy--and ethic of rational self-interest--that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality--"a philosophy for living on Earth"--are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26566'),
(17994, 'For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago', 'Simon Baatz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1924, Nathan Leopold, 19, and Richard Loeb, 18, both intellectually precocious scions of wealthy Jewish Chicago families, kidnapped and brutally murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in an attempt to commit the perfect crime. Historian Baatz, of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, replays the crime (on which Meyer Levin''s 1956 novel\n <em>\n  Compulsion\n </em>\n was based) from the killers'' point of view, detailing their intense, often sexual, relationship that culminated in the murder. But they left a crucial piece of evidence and eventually confessed to the murder. Clarence Darrow cleverly had the boys plead guilty to avoid a trial, and the legendary defense attorney went head to head with State''s Attorney Robert Crowe in a sentencing hearing before Judge John Caverly. Both sides trotted out psychiatrists to testify whether Leopold and Loeb were mentally ill. Darrow''s gamble paid off in life sentences. Loeb was murdered in prison in 1936; Leopold was eventually paroled in 1958. Baatz gives an acute portrait of the two murderers bound together in a web of fantasy, but his heavy reliance on novelistic techniques (there!â€”he had done it) and meandering pacing prevent this from being as convincing as his exhaustive research deserves. B&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb have been the objects of derision and curiosity ever since the sensational murder they committed on Chicagoâ€™s South Side in 1924. These two privileged teenagers, who killed little Bobby Franks, a neighbor, alsoÂ from a privileged family,Â just for the thrill of achieving the perfect crime (â€œa murder that would never be solvedâ€), have become almost legendary â€œbad boys.â€Â Baatzâ€™s comprehensive account of the case succeeds in identifyingÂ their peculiar personality traits as well as what it was in the nature of their relationship thatÂ made themÂ believeÂ in their infallibility in performingÂ the ultimate crime. All of Leopold and Loebâ€™sÂ intense planning quickly unraveled, however, whenÂ the victimâ€™s body was discovered soon after the murder; the murderers had counted on the body never being located. The second strong point of this exhaustively researched and rivetingly presented account is the thoroughness with which the authorÂ reconstructs the police investigation and the trial itself; a vivid portrait of the famous lawyer Clarence Darrow, who defended Leopold and Loeb, is a fascinating by-product. One of the best true-crime books of thisÂ or any other season. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1222'),
(17995, 'For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago', 'Simon Baatz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1924, Nathan Leopold, 19, and Richard Loeb, 18, both intellectually precocious scions of wealthy Jewish Chicago families, kidnapped and brutally murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in an attempt to commit the perfect crime. Historian Baatz, of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, replays the crime (on which Meyer Levin''s 1956 novel\n <em>\n  Compulsion\n </em>\n was based) from the killers'' point of view, detailing their intense, often sexual, relationship that culminated in the murder. But they left a crucial piece of evidence and eventually confessed to the murder. Clarence Darrow cleverly had the boys plead guilty to avoid a trial, and the legendary defense attorney went head to head with State''s Attorney Robert Crowe in a sentencing hearing before Judge John Caverly. Both sides trotted out psychiatrists to testify whether Leopold and Loeb were mentally ill. Darrow''s gamble paid off in life sentences. Loeb was murdered in prison in 1936; Leopold was eventually paroled in 1958. Baatz gives an acute portrait of the two murderers bound together in a web of fantasy, but his heavy reliance on novelistic techniques (there!â€”he had done it) and meandering pacing prevent this from being as convincing as his exhaustive research deserves. B&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb have been the objects of derision and curiosity ever since the sensational murder they committed on Chicagoâ€™s South Side in 1924. These two privileged teenagers, who killed little Bobby Franks, a neighbor, alsoÂ from a privileged family,Â just for the thrill of achieving the perfect crime (â€œa murder that would never be solvedâ€), have become almost legendary â€œbad boys.â€Â Baatzâ€™s comprehensive account of the case succeeds in identifyingÂ their peculiar personality traits as well as what it was in the nature of their relationship thatÂ made themÂ believeÂ in their infallibility in performingÂ the ultimate crime. All of Leopold and Loebâ€™sÂ intense planning quickly unraveled, however, whenÂ the victimâ€™s body was discovered soon after the murder; the murderers had counted on the body never being located. The second strong point of this exhaustively researched and rivetingly presented account is the thoroughness with which the authorÂ reconstructs the police investigation and the trial itself; a vivid portrait of the famous lawyer Clarence Darrow, who defended Leopold and Loeb, is a fascinating by-product. One of the best true-crime books of thisÂ or any other season. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8303'),
(17996, 'For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago', 'Simon Baatz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1924, Nathan Leopold, 19, and Richard Loeb, 18, both intellectually precocious scions of wealthy Jewish Chicago families, kidnapped and brutally murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in an attempt to commit the perfect crime. Historian Baatz, of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, replays the crime (on which Meyer Levin''s 1956 novel\n <em>\n  Compulsion\n </em>\n was based) from the killers'' point of view, detailing their intense, often sexual, relationship that culminated in the murder. But they left a crucial piece of evidence and eventually confessed to the murder. Clarence Darrow cleverly had the boys plead guilty to avoid a trial, and the legendary defense attorney went head to head with State''s Attorney Robert Crowe in a sentencing hearing before Judge John Caverly. Both sides trotted out psychiatrists to testify whether Leopold and Loeb were mentally ill. Darrow''s gamble paid off in life sentences. Loeb was murdered in prison in 1936; Leopold was eventually paroled in 1958. Baatz gives an acute portrait of the two murderers bound together in a web of fantasy, but his heavy reliance on novelistic techniques (there!â€”he had done it) and meandering pacing prevent this from being as convincing as his exhaustive research deserves. B&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Aug.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb have been the objects of derision and curiosity ever since the sensational murder they committed on Chicagoâ€™s South Side in 1924. These two privileged teenagers, who killed little Bobby Franks, a neighbor, alsoÂ from a privileged family,Â just for the thrill of achieving the perfect crime (â€œa murder that would never be solvedâ€), have become almost legendary â€œbad boys.â€Â Baatzâ€™s comprehensive account of the case succeeds in identifyingÂ their peculiar personality traits as well as what it was in the nature of their relationship thatÂ made themÂ believeÂ in their infallibility in performingÂ the ultimate crime. All of Leopold and Loebâ€™sÂ intense planning quickly unraveled, however, whenÂ the victimâ€™s body was discovered soon after the murder; the murderers had counted on the body never being located. The second strong point of this exhaustively researched and rivetingly presented account is the thoroughness with which the authorÂ reconstructs the police investigation and the trial itself; a vivid portrait of the famous lawyer Clarence Darrow, who defended Leopold and Loeb, is a fascinating by-product. One of the best true-crime books of thisÂ or any other season. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23688'),
(17997, 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  For Whom the Bell Tolls\n </em>\n begins and ends in a pine-scented forest, somewhere in Spain. The year is 1937 and the Spanish Civil War is in full swing. Robert Jordan, a demolitions expert attached to the International Brigades, lies "flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees." The sylvan setting, however, is at sharp odds with the reason Jordan is there: he has come to blow up a bridge on behalf of the antifascist guerrilla forces. He hopes he''ll be able to rely on their local leader, Pablo, to help carry out the mission, but upon meeting him, Jordan has his doubts: "I don''t like that sadness, he thought. That sadness is bad. That''s the sadness they get before they quit or before they betray. That is the sadness that comes before the sell-out." For Pablo, it seems, has had enough of the war. He has amassed for himself a small herd of horses and wants only to stay quietly in the hills and attract as little attention as possible. Jordan''s arrival--and his mission--have seriously alarmed him.\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "I am tired of being hunted. Here we are all right. Now if you blow a bridge here, we will be hunted. If they know we are here and hunt for us with planes, they will find us. If they send Moors to hunt us out, they will find us and we must go. I am tired of all this. You hear?" He turned to Robert Jordan. "What right have you, a foreigner, to come to me and tell me what I must do?"\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n In one short chapter Hemingway lays out the blueprint for what is to come: Jordan''s sense of duty versus Pablo''s dangerous self-interest and weariness with the war. Complicating matters even more are two members of the guerrilla leader''s small band: his "woman" Pilar, and Maria, a young woman whom Pablo rescued from a Republican prison train. Unlike her man, Pilar is still fiercely devoted to the cause and as Pablo''s loyalty wanes, she becomes the moral center of the group. Soon Jordan finds himself caught between the two, even as his own resolve is tested by his growing feelings for Maria.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  For Whom the Bell Tolls\n </em>\n combines two of the author''s recurring obsessions: war and personal honor. The pivotal battle scene involving El Sordo''s last stand is a showcase for Hemingway''s narrative powers, but the quieter, ongoing conflict within Robert Jordan as he struggles to fulfill his mission perhaps at the cost of his own life is a testament to his creator''s psychological acuity. By turns brutal and compassionate, it is arguably Hemingway''s most mature work and one of the best war novels of the 20th century.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "''The best book Hemingway has written'' New York Times"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5597'),
(17998, 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan''s love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo''s last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author''s previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15309'),
(17999, 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  For Whom the Bell Tolls\n </em>\n begins and ends in a pine-scented forest, somewhere in Spain. The year is 1937 and the Spanish Civil War is in full swing. Robert Jordan, a demolitions expert attached to the International Brigades, lies "flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees." The sylvan setting, however, is at sharp odds with the reason Jordan is there: he has come to blow up a bridge on behalf of the antifascist guerrilla forces. He hopes he''ll be able to rely on their local leader, Pablo, to help carry out the mission, but upon meeting him, Jordan has his doubts: "I don''t like that sadness, he thought. That sadness is bad. That''s the sadness they get before they quit or before they betray. That is the sadness that comes before the sell-out." For Pablo, it seems, has had enough of the war. He has amassed for himself a small herd of horses and wants only to stay quietly in the hills and attract as little attention as possible. Jordan''s arrival--and his mission--have seriously alarmed him.\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "I am tired of being hunted. Here we are all right. Now if you blow a bridge here, we will be hunted. If they know we are here and hunt for us with planes, they will find us. If they send Moors to hunt us out, they will find us and we must go. I am tired of all this. You hear?" He turned to Robert Jordan. "What right have you, a foreigner, to come to me and tell me what I must do?"\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n In one short chapter Hemingway lays out the blueprint for what is to come: Jordan''s sense of duty versus Pablo''s dangerous self-interest and weariness with the war. Complicating matters even more are two members of the guerrilla leader''s small band: his "woman" Pilar, and Maria, a young woman whom Pablo rescued from a Republican prison train. Unlike her man, Pilar is still fiercely devoted to the cause and as Pablo''s loyalty wanes, she becomes the moral center of the group. Soon Jordan finds himself caught between the two, even as his own resolve is tested by his growing feelings for Maria.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  For Whom the Bell Tolls\n </em>\n combines two of the author''s recurring obsessions: war and personal honor. The pivotal battle scene involving El Sordo''s last stand is a showcase for Hemingway''s narrative powers, but the quieter, ongoing conflict within Robert Jordan as he struggles to fulfill his mission perhaps at the cost of his own life is a testament to his creator''s psychological acuity. By turns brutal and compassionate, it is arguably Hemingway''s most mature work and one of the best war novels of the 20th century.\n <em>\n  --Alix Wilber\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "''The best book Hemingway has written'' New York Times"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19077'),
(18000, 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan''s love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo''s last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author''s previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27764'),
(18001, 'For Whom the Minivan Rolls: An Aaron Tucker Mystery', 'Jeffrey Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Aaron Tucker isn''t a detective.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So he''s baffled when the richest guy in his New Jersey town insists that Aaron, and Aaron alone, investigate the disappearance of this wife, who inexplicably vanished from their home in the middle of the night.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A freelance writer, former investigative reporter, stay-at-home dad, aspiring screenwriter, and expert on consumer electronics, Aaron reluctantly says yes, and continually wishes he hadn''t. The more he uncovers, the more complicated, and bizarre, the story becomes.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He receives anonymous death threats, is plagued by a mysterious minivan that seems to be lurking everywhere he travels, and he is suddenly entangled in the town''s mayoral election.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A traditional detective Aaron Tucker is not. He''s 5''4" and weighs less then Robert B. Parker''s leather jacket. But he''s funny, down-to-earth, lovable, and resourceful.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4554'),
(18002, 'For Whom the Minivan Rolls: An Aaron Tucker Mystery', 'Jeffrey Cohen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Aaron Tucker isn''t a detective.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So he''s baffled when the richest guy in his New Jersey town insists that Aaron, and Aaron alone, investigate the disappearance of this wife, who inexplicably vanished from their home in the middle of the night.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A freelance writer, former investigative reporter, stay-at-home dad, aspiring screenwriter, and expert on consumer electronics, Aaron reluctantly says yes, and continually wishes he hadn''t. The more he uncovers, the more complicated, and bizarre, the story becomes.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He receives anonymous death threats, is plagued by a mysterious minivan that seems to be lurking everywhere he travels, and he is suddenly entangled in the town''s mayoral election.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A traditional detective Aaron Tucker is not. He''s 5''4" and weighs less then Robert B. Parker''s leather jacket. But he''s funny, down-to-earth, lovable, and resourceful.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9020'),
(18003, 'For Your Eyes Only: A James Bond Novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The destruction of a Russian hideout at SHAPE headquarters near Paris; the planned assassination of a Cuban thug in America; the tracking of a heroin ring from Rome to Venice and beyond; for Bond it is just routine. For anyone else - certain death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5054'),
(18004, 'For your eyes only: a James Bond novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The destruction of a Russian hideout at SHAPE headquarters near Paris; the planned assassination of a Cuban thug in America; the tracking of a heroin ring from Rome to Venice and beyond; for Bond it is just routine. For anyone else - certain death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19669'),
(18005, 'For your eyes only: a James Bond novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The destruction of a Russian hideout at SHAPE headquarters near Paris; the planned assassination of a Cuban thug in America; the tracking of a heroin ring from Rome to Venice and beyond; for Bond it is just routine. For anyone else - certain death.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28220'),
(18006, 'Forbidden City', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A stunning artifact holds the key to an untapped power of global destructionâ€”\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While working on a dig in the California wilderness, archaeologist-adventurer Annja Creed uncovers evidence of a tragedy that''s linked to Chinese miners during the days of the Gold Rush. A sudden attack on the site by shadow if gures drives Annja to if nd the connection to a mysterious buried city in China. Lured by legends of gold, betrayal and the vengeance of a Han Dynasty overlord,  Annja travels on the Orient Express, battling avaricious treasure hunters and a modern-day descendant of an ancient league of assassins. Her adversaries will stop at nothing to stake their claim on the fabled lost city, where a Han leader''s dark past promises doom for those who dare to reveal its evil power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7853'),
(18007, 'Forbidden City', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A stunning artifact holds the key to an untapped power of global destructionâ€” While working on a dig in the California wilderness, archaeologist-adventurer Annja Creed uncovers evidence of a tragedy that''s linked to Chinese miners during the days of the Gold Rush. A sudden attack on the site by shadow if gures drives Annja to if nd the connection to a mysterious buried city in China. Lured by legends of gold, betrayal and the vengeance of a Han Dynasty overlord, Annja travels on the Orient Express, battling avaricious treasure hunters and a modern-day descendant of an ancient league of assassins. Her adversaries will stop at nothing to stake their claim on the fabled lost city, where a Han leader''s dark past promises doom for those who dare to reveal its evil power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16131'),
(18008, 'Forbidden City', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A stunning artifact holds the key to an untapped power of global destructionâ€”\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While working on a dig in the California wilderness, archaeologist-adventurer Annja Creed uncovers evidence of a tragedy that''s linked to Chinese miners during the days of the Gold Rush. A sudden attack on the site by shadow if gures drives Annja to if nd the connection to a mysterious buried city in China. Lured by legends of gold, betrayal and the vengeance of a Han Dynasty overlord,  Annja travels on the Orient Express, battling avaricious treasure hunters and a modern-day descendant of an ancient league of assassins. Her adversaries will stop at nothing to stake their claim on the fabled lost city, where a Han leader''s dark past promises doom for those who dare to reveal its evil power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26274'),
(18009, 'Forbidden the Stars', 'Valmore Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Just what sci-fi ought to be and so often isn''t!" --reader, Jim\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It is a solid piece of science fiction and something that reminds me slightly of the Clarke and the Herbert." --reader, Andrew\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is extremely imaginative and well written! Perfect sci-fi!" --reader, Liz\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the end of the 21st century, a catastrophic accident in the asteroid belt has left two surveyors dead, but the asteroid itself is completely missing, along with their young son, Alex Manez, who was accompanying them. On the outer edge of the solar system, the first manned mission to Pluto, led by the youngest female astronaut in NASA history, has led to an historic discovery: there is a marker left there by an alien race for humankind to find. We are not alone! While studying the alien marker, it begins to react and, four hours later, the missing asteroid appears in a Plutonian orbit, along with young Alex Manez, who has developed some alarming side-effects from his exposure to the kinetic element they call Kinemet. From the depths of a criminal empire based on Luna, an expatriate seizes the opportunity to wrest control of outer space, and takes swift action. The secret to faster-than-light speed is up for grabs, and the race for interstellar space is on!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/430'),
(18010, 'Forbidden the Stars', 'Valmore Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Just what sci-fi ought to be and so often isn''t!" --reader, Jim\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It is a solid piece of science fiction and something that reminds me slightly of the Clarke and the Herbert." --reader, Andrew\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is extremely imaginative and well written! Perfect sci-fi!" --reader, Liz\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the end of the 21st century, a catastrophic accident in the asteroid belt has left two surveyors dead, but the asteroid itself is completely missing, along with their young son, Alex Manez, who was accompanying them. On the outer edge of the solar system, the first manned mission to Pluto, led by the youngest female astronaut in NASA history, has led to an historic discovery: there is a marker left there by an alien race for humankind to find. We are not alone! While studying the alien marker, it begins to react and, four hours later, the missing asteroid appears in a Plutonian orbit, along with young Alex Manez, who has developed some alarming side-effects from his exposure to the kinetic element they call Kinemet. From the depths of a criminal empire based on Luna, an expatriate seizes the opportunity to wrest control of outer space, and takes swift action. The secret to faster-than-light speed is up for grabs, and the race for interstellar space is on!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9174'),
(18011, 'Forbidden the Stars', 'Valmore Daniels', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Just what sci-fi ought to be and so often isn''t!" --reader, Jim\n </p>\n <p>\n  "It is a solid piece of science fiction and something that reminds me slightly of the Clarke and the Herbert." --reader, Andrew\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is extremely imaginative and well written! Perfect sci-fi!" --reader, Liz\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the end of the 21st century, a catastrophic accident in the asteroid belt has left two surveyors dead, but the asteroid itself is completely missing, along with their young son, Alex Manez, who was accompanying them. On the outer edge of the solar system, the first manned mission to Pluto, led by the youngest female astronaut in NASA history, has led to an historic discovery: there is a marker left there by an alien race for humankind to find. We are not alone! While studying the alien marker, it begins to react and, four hours later, the missing asteroid appears in a Plutonian orbit, along with young Alex Manez, who has developed some alarming side-effects from his exposure to the kinetic element they call Kinemet. From the depths of a criminal empire based on Luna, an expatriate seizes the opportunity to wrest control of outer space, and takes swift action. The secret to faster-than-light speed is up for grabs, and the race for interstellar space is on!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24503'),
(18012, 'Force 10 From Navarone', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15913'),
(18013, 'Ford Country', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25496'),
(18014, 'Ford County: Stories', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Pat Conroy Reviews\n  <em>\n   Ford County\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pat Conroy is most recently the author of the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   Ford County\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In the mail last week, I received a copy of John Grishamâ€™s latest fiction. It surprised me that the book was comprised of seven short stories. From the time I first began publishing at Doubleday, they have always made sure that I received a copy of a Grisham book long before it went on sale in the bookstores. He has written 22 books, and Iâ€™ve read them all as soon as they were available in crisp review copies.\n</p>\n<p>\n I have loved the Grisham books for the same reason that I love the works of\n</p>\n<p>\n John surprised me by entering the ring of danger that the short story represents for all writers. In the world of writing, the poets come first as they finger the language like worry beads and wonder where their next meal is coming from. The art of the short story writer is one of economy, concision, and the genius of trying to craft a whole world inside a mason jar. The modern world punishes the short story writer with inattention. The literary reviews keep the short story alive and finger-popping in America today, while the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n tries to strangle the form with its bare hands. But a great short story is a source of joy, and the reading of\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Ford County\n </em>\n is the best writing that John Grisham has ever done. One of the many things Iâ€™ve admired about his books is his intimate chronicle of Mississippi life in the generations following\n <em>\n  Ford County\n </em>\n are that damned good._--Pat Conroy_\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© David G. Spielman)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Returning to the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, longtime bestseller Grisham presents seven short stories about the residents of Ford County, Miss. Each story explores different themes-mourning, revenge, justice, acceptance, evolution-but all flirt with the legal profession, the staple of (former attorney) Grisham''s oeuvre. Fans will be excited to settle back into Grisham''s world, and these easily digestible stories don''t disappoint, despite their brevity. Full of strong characters, simple but resonant plotlines, and charming Southern accents, this collection is solid throughout; though his literary aspirations may seem quaint, Grisham succeeds admirably in his crowd-pleasing craft while avoiding pat endings or oversimplifying (perhaps best exemplified in "Michael''s Room," which finds a lawyer facing the consequences of successfully defending a doctor against a malpractice suit). As always, Grisham balances his lawyerly preoccupations with a deep respect for his undereducated and overlooked characters.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4303'),
(18015, 'Ford County: Stories', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Pat Conroy Reviews\n  <em>\n   Ford County\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pat Conroy is most recently the author of the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   Ford County\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n In the mail last week, I received a copy of John Grishamâ€™s latest fiction. It surprised me that the book was comprised of seven short stories. From the time I first began publishing at Doubleday, they have always made sure that I received a copy of a Grisham book long before it went on sale in the bookstores. He has written 22 books, and Iâ€™ve read them all as soon as they were available in crisp review copies.\n</p>\n<p>\n I have loved the Grisham books for the same reason that I love the works of\n</p>\n<p>\n John surprised me by entering the ring of danger that the short story represents for all writers. In the world of writing, the poets come first as they finger the language like worry beads and wonder where their next meal is coming from. The art of the short story writer is one of economy, concision, and the genius of trying to craft a whole world inside a mason jar. The modern world punishes the short story writer with inattention. The literary reviews keep the short story alive and finger-popping in America today, while the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n tries to strangle the form with its bare hands. But a great short story is a source of joy, and the reading of\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Ford County\n </em>\n is the best writing that John Grisham has ever done. One of the many things Iâ€™ve admired about his books is his intimate chronicle of Mississippi life in the generations following\n <em>\n  Ford County\n </em>\n are that damned good._--Pat Conroy_\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© David G. Spielman)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Returning to the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, longtime bestseller Grisham presents seven short stories about the residents of Ford County, Miss. Each story explores different themes-mourning, revenge, justice, acceptance, evolution-but all flirt with the legal profession, the staple of (former attorney) Grisham''s oeuvre. Fans will be excited to settle back into Grisham''s world, and these easily digestible stories don''t disappoint, despite their brevity. Full of strong characters, simple but resonant plotlines, and charming Southern accents, this collection is solid throughout; though his literary aspirations may seem quaint, Grisham succeeds admirably in his crowd-pleasing craft while avoiding pat endings or oversimplifying (perhaps best exemplified in "Michael''s Room," which finds a lawyer facing the consequences of successfully defending a doctor against a malpractice suit). As always, Grisham balances his lawyerly preoccupations with a deep respect for his undereducated and overlooked characters.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10120');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(18016, 'Ford County: stories', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, *A Time to Kill*.Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who''s been locked away on death row for eleven years. It could well be their last visit.Mack Stafford, a hard-drinking and low-grossing run-of-the-mill divorce lawyer gets a miracle phone call with a completely unexpected offer to settle some old, forgotten cases for more money than he has ever seen. Mack is suddenly bored with the law, fed up with his wife and his life, and makes drastic plans to finally escape.Quiet, dull Sidney, a data collector for an insurance company, perfects his blackjack skills in hopes of bringing down the casino empire of Clanton''s most ambitious hustler, Bobby Carl Leach, who, among other crimes, has stolen Sidney''s wife.Three good ol'' boys from rural Ford County begin a journey to the big city of Memphis to give blood to a grievously injured friend. However, they are unable to drive past a beer store as the trip takes longer and longer. The journey comes to an abrupt end when they make a fateful stop at a Memphis strip club.The Quiet Haven Retirement Home is the final stop for the elderly of Clanton. It''s a sad, languid place with little controversy, until Gilbert arrives. Posing as a lowly paid bedpan boy, he is in reality a brilliant stalker with an uncanny ability to sniff out the assets of those "seniors" he professes to love.One of the hazards of litigating against people in a small town is that one day, long after the trial, you will probably come face-to-face with someone you''ve beaten in a lawsuit. Lawyer Stanley Wade bumps into an old adversary, a man with a long memory, and the encounter becomes a violent ordeal.Clanton is rocked with the rumor that the gay son of a prominent family has finally come home, to die. Of AIDS. Fear permeates the town as gossip runs unabated. But in Lowtown, the colored section of Clanton, the young man finds a soul mate in his final days.Featuring a cast of characters you''ll never forget, these stories bring Ford County to vivid and colorful life. Often hilarious, frequently moving, and always entertaining, this collection makes it abundantly clear why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15231'),
(18017, 'Ford County: stories', 'John Grisham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, *A Time to Kill*.Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who''s been locked away on death row for eleven years. It could well be their last visit.Mack Stafford, a hard-drinking and low-grossing run-of-the-mill divorce lawyer gets a miracle phone call with a completely unexpected offer to settle some old, forgotten cases for more money than he has ever seen. Mack is suddenly bored with the law, fed up with his wife and his life, and makes drastic plans to finally escape.Quiet, dull Sidney, a data collector for an insurance company, perfects his blackjack skills in hopes of bringing down the casino empire of Clanton''s most ambitious hustler, Bobby Carl Leach, who, among other crimes, has stolen Sidney''s wife.Three good ol'' boys from rural Ford County begin a journey to the big city of Memphis to give blood to a grievously injured friend. However, they are unable to drive past a beer store as the trip takes longer and longer. The journey comes to an abrupt end when they make a fateful stop at a Memphis strip club.The Quiet Haven Retirement Home is the final stop for the elderly of Clanton. It''s a sad, languid place with little controversy, until Gilbert arrives. Posing as a lowly paid bedpan boy, he is in reality a brilliant stalker with an uncanny ability to sniff out the assets of those "seniors" he professes to love.One of the hazards of litigating against people in a small town is that one day, long after the trial, you will probably come face-to-face with someone you''ve beaten in a lawsuit. Lawyer Stanley Wade bumps into an old adversary, a man with a long memory, and the encounter becomes a violent ordeal.Clanton is rocked with the rumor that the gay son of a prominent family has finally come home, to die. Of AIDS. Fear permeates the town as gossip runs unabated. But in Lowtown, the colored section of Clanton, the young man finds a soul mate in his final days.Featuring a cast of characters you''ll never forget, these stories bring Ford County to vivid and colorful life. Often hilarious, frequently moving, and always entertaining, this collection makes it abundantly clear why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21393'),
(18018, 'Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal&#39;s Journey From Down Under to All Over', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The leap between dreamy child living in a provincial Australian neighborhood and journalist hopscotching through war zones is massive. In\n <em>\n  Foreign Correspondence\n </em>\n , Geraldine Brooks (_chador_, much less a bulletproof vest," she says. Preserved in the cellar of her parents'' home in Sydney were letters Brooks had received as a teenager from several international pen pals, around whom she spun a romantic view of the world. Wondering about the reality of their lives and the progression of her own, she tracks them down in France, Japan, the Middle East, and New York. En route, Brooks delivers a wonderful meditation on childhood and adolescence lashed with rich details and quirky humor. Speaking of a current pen pal, she notes: "Raed, from the West Bank, stoned my car in 1987; now he writes to tell me how he''s faring in college."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Bored with her insular life in a suburb of Sydney, Australia, 11-year-old Geraldine Brooks turned to pen pals as an antidote. Her correspondence began across town with the daughter of a favorite journalist whose cosmopolitan life was a striking contrast to that of her own working-class family. Other pen pals included Joanie from New Jersey; Mishal, an Israeli Christian Arab; Cohen, an Israeli Jew; and Janine, a farmer''s daughter who wrote from a tiny French village. Geraldine''s global correspondence is enlightening, entertaining, myth shattering, and heartbreaking. In Joanie, she found a true and rare soulmate; however, the girl suffered a hidden anguish, hints of which were dismissed by her Australian friend. When Joanie died from anorexia, Geraldine''s grief and regret moved her to greater knowledge and deeper compassion. The author grew up to become a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, living the life she sought vicariously from her pen pals. Her return home upon her father''s death and the rediscovery of the letters prompted her to find out what happened to those individuals. Her efforts were met with enthusiasm by all except Mishal, and the subsequent meetings with the reluctant Israeli as well as with Joanie''s mother provided satisfying closure. The last pages of the memoir find the mature adventurer coming full circle to an appreciation for the small-town life she had once so derided. The desire to explore the lives of others and to express one''s individuality is strong in most young adults, who will readily identify with this intriguing memoir.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Jackie Gropman, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5453'),
(18019, 'Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal&#39;s Journey From Down Under to All Over', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The leap between dreamy child living in a provincial Australian neighborhood and journalist hopscotching through war zones is massive. In\n <em>\n  Foreign Correspondence\n </em>\n , Geraldine Brooks (_chador_, much less a bulletproof vest," she says. Preserved in the cellar of her parents'' home in Sydney were letters Brooks had received as a teenager from several international pen pals, around whom she spun a romantic view of the world. Wondering about the reality of their lives and the progression of her own, she tracks them down in France, Japan, the Middle East, and New York. En route, Brooks delivers a wonderful meditation on childhood and adolescence lashed with rich details and quirky humor. Speaking of a current pen pal, she notes: "Raed, from the West Bank, stoned my car in 1987; now he writes to tell me how he''s faring in college."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Bored with her insular life in a suburb of Sydney, Australia, 11-year-old Geraldine Brooks turned to pen pals as an antidote. Her correspondence began across town with the daughter of a favorite journalist whose cosmopolitan life was a striking contrast to that of her own working-class family. Other pen pals included Joanie from New Jersey; Mishal, an Israeli Christian Arab; Cohen, an Israeli Jew; and Janine, a farmer''s daughter who wrote from a tiny French village. Geraldine''s global correspondence is enlightening, entertaining, myth shattering, and heartbreaking. In Joanie, she found a true and rare soulmate; however, the girl suffered a hidden anguish, hints of which were dismissed by her Australian friend. When Joanie died from anorexia, Geraldine''s grief and regret moved her to greater knowledge and deeper compassion. The author grew up to become a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, living the life she sought vicariously from her pen pals. Her return home upon her father''s death and the rediscovery of the letters prompted her to find out what happened to those individuals. Her efforts were met with enthusiasm by all except Mishal, and the subsequent meetings with the reluctant Israeli as well as with Joanie''s mother provided satisfying closure. The last pages of the memoir find the mature adventurer coming full circle to an appreciation for the small-town life she had once so derided. The desire to explore the lives of others and to express one''s individuality is strong in most young adults, who will readily identify with this intriguing memoir.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Jackie Gropman, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8657'),
(18020, 'Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal&#39;s Journey From Down Under to All Over', 'Geraldine Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The leap between dreamy child living in a provincial Australian neighborhood and journalist hopscotching through war zones is massive. In\n <em>\n  Foreign Correspondence\n </em>\n , Geraldine Brooks (_chador_, much less a bulletproof vest," she says. Preserved in the cellar of her parents'' home in Sydney were letters Brooks had received as a teenager from several international pen pals, around whom she spun a romantic view of the world. Wondering about the reality of their lives and the progression of her own, she tracks them down in France, Japan, the Middle East, and New York. En route, Brooks delivers a wonderful meditation on childhood and adolescence lashed with rich details and quirky humor. Speaking of a current pen pal, she notes: "Raed, from the West Bank, stoned my car in 1987; now he writes to tell me how he''s faring in college."\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-Bored with her insular life in a suburb of Sydney, Australia, 11-year-old Geraldine Brooks turned to pen pals as an antidote. Her correspondence began across town with the daughter of a favorite journalist whose cosmopolitan life was a striking contrast to that of her own working-class family. Other pen pals included Joanie from New Jersey; Mishal, an Israeli Christian Arab; Cohen, an Israeli Jew; and Janine, a farmer''s daughter who wrote from a tiny French village. Geraldine''s global correspondence is enlightening, entertaining, myth shattering, and heartbreaking. In Joanie, she found a true and rare soulmate; however, the girl suffered a hidden anguish, hints of which were dismissed by her Australian friend. When Joanie died from anorexia, Geraldine''s grief and regret moved her to greater knowledge and deeper compassion. The author grew up to become a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, living the life she sought vicariously from her pen pals. Her return home upon her father''s death and the rediscovery of the letters prompted her to find out what happened to those individuals. Her efforts were met with enthusiasm by all except Mishal, and the subsequent meetings with the reluctant Israeli as well as with Joanie''s mother provided satisfying closure. The last pages of the memoir find the mature adventurer coming full circle to an appreciation for the small-town life she had once so derided. The desire to explore the lives of others and to express one''s individuality is strong in most young adults, who will readily identify with this intriguing memoir.\n <br />\n <em>\n  Jackie Gropman, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19253'),
(18021, 'Foreign Foes', 'Dave Galanter &amp; Greg Brodeur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Hidran race and the Klingon Empire have been at each other''s throats for seventy years, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard has been asked to do the near-impossible: take the "U.S.S. Enterprise"(TM) to the planet Velex to mediate a treaty that will end the conflict between these two aggressive species. Things get off to a rocky start -- then turn deadly as the Hidran ambassador mysteriously dies, and kills a Klingon delegate as a last act of vengence.  When Lt.Worf is charged with the ambassador''s assassinaton, and Commander Riker and Counselor Troi are trapped far below the surface of the planet, Captain Picard must not only act to save the Hidranas and Klingons from each other, but to save his Klingon officer from a hideous death sentence...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6386'),
(18022, 'Foreign Foes', 'Dave Galanter; Greg Brodeur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Hidran race and the Klingon Empire have been at each other''s throats for seventy years, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard has been asked to do the near-impossible: take the "U.S.S. Enterprise"(TM) to the planet Velex to mediate a treaty that will end the conflict between these two aggressive species. Things get off to a rocky start -- then turn deadly as the Hidran ambassador mysteriously dies, and kills a Klingon delegate as a last act of vengence. When Lt.Worf is charged with the ambassador''s assassinaton, and Commander Riker and Counselor Troi are trapped far below the surface of the planet, Captain Picard must not only act to save the Hidranas and Klingons from each other, but to save his Klingon officer from a hideous death sentence...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17713'),
(18023, 'Foreign Influence: A Thriller', 'Brad Thor', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Thor''s formulaic ninth Scot Harvath thriller (after The Apostle), the exâ€“navy SEAL has lost his job with the disbanding under a new presidential administration of the Apex Project, a Department of Homeland Security secret antiterrorist program that didn''t worry about obeying any rules. Fortunately, Harvath lands on his feet with the Carlton Group, funded covertly by the Department of Defense, with an identical mission. After a bus full of Americans is blown up in Rome, Harvath travels to Europe to track down a man known as the Troll, who''s been implicated in the bombing. Meanwhile, John Vaughn, a Chicago cop who somehow moonlights as an attorney for private clients, seeks to identify the Middle Easternâ€“looking man who ran down a woman with his cab. Predictably, Vaughn uncovers a plot against civilian targets in Chicago. Bumbling CIA agents make members of the secret Carlton Group look even more heroic. Fans of TV''s 24 may enjoy the over-the-top setups, but even they might wish for a little more sophistication.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œQuite possibly the next coming of Robert Ludlum.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_Chicago Tribune_, on\n <em>\n  The Last Patriot\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "The Master of thrillers"\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Bookreporter.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne of the best thriller writers in the business."\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”_The Ottawa Citizen_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFrightening, illuminating and always entertaining, Thor gives us yet another work of pulse-quickening clarity. If youâ€™re not hyperventilating once youâ€™ve reached the last page, then you werenâ€™t paying attention.â€ â€“Joe Hartlaub, bookreporter.com\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12348'),
(18024, 'Foreigner', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: With a new introduction by the author The first book in C.J.Cherryh''s eponymous series, Foreigner begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true science fiction odyssey, following a civilization from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien species in distant sectors of space. It is the masterwork of a truly remarkable author.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15528'),
(18025, 'The Forest House', 'Marion Zimmer Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The amazing prequel to Marion Zimmer Bradley''s bestselling The Mists of Avalon--now in paperback. Inside the walls of the Forest House, in a remote part of Britain, a secret sect of Druidic priestesses guards the ancient rites of learning, healing, and magic against the onslaught of invading Romans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21455'),
(18026, 'Forest Mage', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Plague has ravaged the prestigious King''s Cavalla of Gernia, decimating the ranks of both cadets and instructors. Yet Nevare Burvelle has made an astonishingly robust recovery, defeating his sworn nemesis while in the throes of the disease and freeing himselfâ€”he believesâ€”from the Speck magic that infected him. And now he is journeying home to Widevale, anticipating a tender reunion with his beautiful fiancÃ©e, Carsina, and a bright future as a commissioned officer.   But there is no haven in the bosom of his kinfolk, for his nights are haunted by grim visions of treacheryâ€”and his days are tormented by a strange side-effect of the plague that shames his family and repulses the lady of his heart. And as the still-potent magic in his blood roars to life, Nevare realizes a terrible truth: that the enemy who seeks to destroy everything he loves dwells perhaps not without but within him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1514'),
(18027, 'Forest Mage', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Plague has ravaged the prestigious King''s Cavalla of Gernia, decimating the ranks of both cadets and instructors. Yet Nevare Burvelle has made an astonishingly robust recovery, defeating his sworn nemesis while in the throes of the disease and freeing himselfâ€”he believesâ€”from the Speck magic that infected him. And now he is journeying home to Widevale, anticipating a tender reunion with his beautiful fiancÃ©e, Carsina, and a bright future as a commissioned officer. But there is no haven in the bosom of his kinfolk, for his nights are haunted by grim visions of treacheryâ€”and his days are tormented by a strange side-effect of the plague that shames his family and repulses the lady of his heart. And as the still-potent magic in his blood roars to life, Nevare realizes a terrible truth: that the enemy who seeks to destroy everything he loves dwells perhaps not without but within him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23318'),
(18028, 'A Forest of Stars', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five years after attacking the human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm, the hydrogues maintain absolute control over stardrive fuel...and their embargo is strangling human civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n On Earth, mankind suffers from renewed attacks by the hydrogues and decides to use a cybernetic army to fight them. Yet the Terran leaders don''t realize that these military robots have already exterminated their own makers - and may soon turn on humanity. Once the rulers of an expanding empire, humans have become the galaxy''s most endangered species. But the sudden appearance of incredible new beings will destroy all balances of power.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now for humans and the myriad alien factions in the universe, the real war is about to begin...and genocide may be the result.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kevin J. Anderson has written 41 national bestsellers and has over 20 million books in print worldwide in thirty languages. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers'' Choice Award. Find out more about Kevin Anderson at www.wordfire.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3690'),
(18029, 'A Forest of Stars', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five years after attacking the human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm, the hydrogues maintain absolute control over stardrive fuel...and their embargo is strangling human civilization.\n</p>\n<p>\n On Earth, mankind suffers from renewed attacks by the hydrogues and decides to use a cybernetic army to fight them. Yet the Terran leaders don''t realize that these military robots have already exterminated their own makers - and may soon turn on humanity. Once the rulers of an expanding empire, humans have become the galaxy''s most endangered species. But the sudden appearance of incredible new beings will destroy all balances of power.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now for humans and the myriad alien factions in the universe, the real war is about to begin...and genocide may be the result.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kevin J. Anderson has written 41 national bestsellers and has over 20 million books in print worldwide in thirty languages. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers'' Choice Award. Find out more about Kevin Anderson at www.wordfire.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20829'),
(18030, 'The Forest', 'Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With such novels as\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , Edward Rutherfurd has laid claim to\n <em>\n  place\n </em>\n , in which the characters tend to play second fiddle to the setting.\n <em>\n  The Forest\n </em>\n is the most ambitious example yet of Rutherfurd''s art. This time the location is that bosky patch of English real estate known as the New Forest. Other writers have tackled the area before. But\n <em>\n  The Forest\n </em>\n is surely the definitive chronicle, with all the local stories, legends, and apocrypha woven into an irresistible narrative--think of\n</p>\n<p>\n Opening with the assassination of King William II in 1099, the book covers nearly a millennium''s worth of history. Rutherfurd creates generation after generation of adroitly realized characters, the best of whom defy our generic expectations: the canny Brother Adam, for example, is that rarest of literary creatures, a virtuous man who doesn''t end up being simply bland and anodyne. Rutherfurd may be at his best when dealing with big-canvas events like the bloody Monmouth Rebellion of 1685. But he''s no slouch at detailing more microcosmic conflicts, like this head-butting contest between two buck deer:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Her buck had hit firmer ground and his feet suddenly got a purchase on the grass. His hindquarters shivering, he dug in. She saw the shoulders rise and his neck bear down. And now the interloper was slipping on the wet leaves. Slowly, cautiously, their antlers locked, the two straining bucks began to turn. Now they were both on grass. Suddenly the interloper disengaged. He gave his head a twist. The jagged spike was aiming at the buck''s eye.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Bestial behavior? Perhaps. Yet the level of human folly and brutality scattered throughout\n <em>\n  The Forest\n </em>\n makes the foregoing passage resemble an outtake from\n <em>\n  Bambi\n </em>\n --and gives this sylvan saga a very memorable edge.\n <em>\n  --Barry Forshaw\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As he did most recently--and with greater success--in London (LJ 6/15/97), Rutherfurd offers a sweeping picture of an area of England by focusing on a few families who lived there. This time he concentrates on the New Forest, part of the southern coast of England bounded by the English Channel. Rutherfurd traces the lives of peasants, smugglers, churchmen, woodsmen, and upper-class families from the 11th to the 20th centuries. These assorted men and women take part in the events surrounding the death of King Rufus (William the Conqueror''s son), the failure of the Spanish Armada, England''s Civil War, and more. Rutherfurd has always used his characters more as placeholders in history than as living human beings, but those in The Forest are particularly one-dimensional. That, plus the annoyingly Michener-like didactic tone of the narrative, makes this a hard book to recommend, even for fans of Rutherfurd. Still, readers looking for a fictional overview of English history will find it here in spades. Think of it as a Cliffs Notes with much heft.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -Nancy Pearl, Washington Ctr. for the Book, Seattle\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5779'),
(18031, 'The Forest', 'Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With such novels as\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , Edward Rutherfurd has laid claim to\n <em>\n  place\n </em>\n , in which the characters tend to play second fiddle to the setting.\n <em>\n  The Forest\n </em>\n is the most ambitious example yet of Rutherfurd''s art. This time the location is that bosky patch of English real estate known as the New Forest. Other writers have tackled the area before. But\n <em>\n  The Forest\n </em>\n is surely the definitive chronicle, with all the local stories, legends, and apocrypha woven into an irresistible narrative--think of\n</p>\n<p>\n Opening with the assassination of King William II in 1099, the book covers nearly a millennium''s worth of history. Rutherfurd creates generation after generation of adroitly realized characters, the best of whom defy our generic expectations: the canny Brother Adam, for example, is that rarest of literary creatures, a virtuous man who doesn''t end up being simply bland and anodyne. Rutherfurd may be at his best when dealing with big-canvas events like the bloody Monmouth Rebellion of 1685. But he''s no slouch at detailing more microcosmic conflicts, like this head-butting contest between two buck deer:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Her buck had hit firmer ground and his feet suddenly got a purchase on the grass. His hindquarters shivering, he dug in. She saw the shoulders rise and his neck bear down. And now the interloper was slipping on the wet leaves. Slowly, cautiously, their antlers locked, the two straining bucks began to turn. Now they were both on grass. Suddenly the interloper disengaged. He gave his head a twist. The jagged spike was aiming at the buck''s eye.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Bestial behavior? Perhaps. Yet the level of human folly and brutality scattered throughout\n <em>\n  The Forest\n </em>\n makes the foregoing passage resemble an outtake from\n <em>\n  Bambi\n </em>\n --and gives this sylvan saga a very memorable edge.\n <em>\n  --Barry Forshaw\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As he did most recently--and with greater success--in London (LJ 6/15/97), Rutherfurd offers a sweeping picture of an area of England by focusing on a few families who lived there. This time he concentrates on the New Forest, part of the southern coast of England bounded by the English Channel. Rutherfurd traces the lives of peasants, smugglers, churchmen, woodsmen, and upper-class families from the 11th to the 20th centuries. These assorted men and women take part in the events surrounding the death of King Rufus (William the Conqueror''s son), the failure of the Spanish Armada, England''s Civil War, and more. Rutherfurd has always used his characters more as placeholders in history than as living human beings, but those in The Forest are particularly one-dimensional. That, plus the annoyingly Michener-like didactic tone of the narrative, makes this a hard book to recommend, even for fans of Rutherfurd. Still, readers looking for a fictional overview of English history will find it here in spades. Think of it as a Cliffs Notes with much heft.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -Nancy Pearl, Washington Ctr. for the Book, Seattle\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12518'),
(18032, 'The Forest', 'Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13848'),
(18033, 'The Forest', 'Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With such novels as\n <strong>\n  and\n </strong>\n , Edward Rutherfurd has laid claim to\n <em>\n  place\n </em>\n , in which the characters tend to play second fiddle to the setting.\n <em>\n  The Forest\n </em>\n is the most ambitious example yet of Rutherfurd''s art. This time the location is that bosky patch of English real estate known as the New Forest. Other writers have tackled the area before. But\n <em>\n  The Forest\n </em>\n is surely the definitive chronicle, with all the local stories, legends, and apocrypha woven into an irresistible narrative--think of\n</p>\n<p>\n Opening with the assassination of King William II in 1099, the book covers nearly a millennium''s worth of history. Rutherfurd creates generation after generation of adroitly realized characters, the best of whom defy our generic expectations: the canny Brother Adam, for example, is that rarest of literary creatures, a virtuous man who doesn''t end up being simply bland and anodyne. Rutherfurd may be at his best when dealing with big-canvas events like the bloody Monmouth Rebellion of 1685. But he''s no slouch at detailing more microcosmic conflicts, like this head-butting contest between two buck deer:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Her buck had hit firmer ground and his feet suddenly got a purchase on the grass. His hindquarters shivering, he dug in. She saw the shoulders rise and his neck bear down. And now the interloper was slipping on the wet leaves. Slowly, cautiously, their antlers locked, the two straining bucks began to turn. Now they were both on grass. Suddenly the interloper disengaged. He gave his head a twist. The jagged spike was aiming at the buck''s eye.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Bestial behavior? Perhaps. Yet the level of human folly and brutality scattered throughout\n <em>\n  The Forest\n </em>\n makes the foregoing passage resemble an outtake from\n <em>\n  Bambi\n </em>\n --and gives this sylvan saga a very memorable edge.\n <em>\n  --Barry Forshaw\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As he did most recently--and with greater success--in London (LJ 6/15/97), Rutherfurd offers a sweeping picture of an area of England by focusing on a few families who lived there. This time he concentrates on the New Forest, part of the southern coast of England bounded by the English Channel. Rutherfurd traces the lives of peasants, smugglers, churchmen, woodsmen, and upper-class families from the 11th to the 20th centuries. These assorted men and women take part in the events surrounding the death of King Rufus (William the Conqueror''s son), the failure of the Spanish Armada, England''s Civil War, and more. Rutherfurd has always used his characters more as placeholders in history than as living human beings, but those in The Forest are particularly one-dimensional. That, plus the annoyingly Michener-like didactic tone of the narrative, makes this a hard book to recommend, even for fans of Rutherfurd. Still, readers looking for a fictional overview of English history will find it here in spades. Think of it as a Cliffs Notes with much heft.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -Nancy Pearl, Washington Ctr. for the Book, Seattle\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18860'),
(18034, 'The Forest', 'Edward Rutherfurd', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27568'),
(18035, 'Forests of Gleor', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4566'),
(18036, 'Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll', 'Lord &amp; M. G', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Since Barbie''s introduction in 1959, her impact on baby boomers has been revolutionary. Far from being a toy designed by men to enslave women, she was a toy invented by women to teach women what-- for better or worse-- was expected of them. In telling Barbie''s fascinating story, cultural critic and investigative journalist M. G. Lord, herself a first-generation Barbie owner, has written a provocative, zany, occasionally shocking book that will change how you look at the doll and the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3260'),
(18037, 'Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll', 'Lord &amp; M. G', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Since Barbie''s introduction in 1959, her impact on baby boomers has been revolutionary. Far from being a toy designed by men to enslave women, she was a toy invented by women to teach women what-- for better or worse-- was expected of them. In telling Barbie''s fascinating story, cultural critic and investigative journalist M. G. Lord, herself a first-generation Barbie owner, has written a provocative, zany, occasionally shocking book that will change how you look at the doll and the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11222'),
(18038, 'Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll', 'Lord; M. G', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Since Barbie''s introduction in 1959, her impact on baby boomers has been revolutionary. Far from being a toy designed by men to enslave women, she was a toy invented by women to teach women what-- for better or worse-- was expected of them. In telling Barbie''s fascinating story, cultural critic and investigative journalist M. G. Lord, herself a first-generation Barbie owner, has written a provocative, zany, occasionally shocking book that will change how you look at the doll and the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21311'),
(18039, 'Forever Free', 'Joe Haldeman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You can''t lose for winning--especially, it would seem, if you''re Joe Haldeman. Suffering the same fate as many an author who''s dared to pen unconventional sequels to a ferociously loved book (in this case,\n  <strong>\n   ), Haldeman has risked the ire of his many devoted admirers a second time (the first sequel was the award-spangled\n  </strong>\n  ). But Haldeman''s call--not too surprisingly--proves to be a deft one, giving us a book that, while significantly different from its predecessor, turns out to be equally captivating and sensitive, in many ways even more thought-provoking. (Sure, it doesn''t match\n  <em>\n   The Forever War\n  </em>\n  for sheer impact, but then again, what does?)\n </p>\n <p>\n  As in\n  <em>\n   The Forever War\n  </em>\n  , the heart of this story is the dry, ironic bite of fighting-suit vet William Mandella, now middle-aged and a parent (along with his love and comrade-in-arms Marygay) to two teen-aged kids. The family leads a spartan life on the cold and desolate planet Middle Finger, which serves as a sort of genetic safe-deposit box for the current incarnation of humanity, an inhuman race of group-mind clones known as Man. But the animals in the zoo are getting restless, and a core group of vets led by William and Marygay plot an unusual escape: hijacking a reconditioned time ship and using it to take a 40,000 light-year tour (over 10 years of their own time) to rejoin the world they know only after 2,000 generations have passed. Much of the action involves the hatching and fruition of this plot, but Haldeman doesn''t really mix things up until nearing the end, when he dissolves physics as we know it and calls down the wrath of God itself.\n  <em>\n   --Paul Hughes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this long-awaited sequel to The Forever War, Haldeman describes the postwar life of retired soldiers William and Marygay Mandella on the half-frozen planet Middle Finger, where they and other humans have been secluded by the newly evolved, superhuman race of Man. The long war with the Taurans is over and William and company are little more than relics, kept around to provide archaic genes should the Man ever wish to alter their own, cloned near-perfection. Dissatisfied with their stagnant lives, William and his fellow vets steal a starship. They plan to travel so far and fast that time dilation will allow them to return only a decade older but millennia in their world''s future. Disaster strikes just days into their voyage, however, when their antimatter engines mysteriously malfunction in direct violation of the laws of physics. Returning home in escape craft, Mandella and his mates discover that everyone on the planet has disappeared, leaving only their clothes behind. Further, all communication with the outside universe has been cut off. Despite a slow start, Haldeman builds considerable tension with the mystery that confronts his human survivors of what appears to be the complete disappearance of not only humanity, but also of Man and the Taurans. Some truly weird events have occurred and Haldeman gives them a genuinely spooky feel. Mandella''s laconic narrative, so effective in getting across The Forever War''s antiwar message, proves just as effective in this sequel. The novel is weakened, however, by what feels like an overly hasty conclusion, burdened by Haldeman''s decision to invoke not one but two deus ex machinae in the book''s final chapters. Still, this is a well-written and worthy sequel to one of SF''s enduring classics. (Dec.) FYI: Haldeman''s The Forever War (1974) and Forever Peace (1997) each won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best SF novel.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4353'),
(18040, 'Forever Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enoughâ€”readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mysteryâ€”and altogether irresistibly odd.Weâ€™re all a little odd beneath the surface. Heâ€™s the most unlikely hero youâ€™ll ever meetâ€”an ordinary guy with a modest job you might never look at twice. But thereâ€™s so much more to any of us than meets the eyeâ€”and that goes triple for Odd Thomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everyday events. Odd never asked to communicate with the deadâ€”itâ€™s something that just happened. But as the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, heâ€™s got a duty to do the right thing. Thatâ€™s the way Odd sees it and thatâ€™s why heâ€™s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death.A childhood friend of Oddâ€™s has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. Whether youâ€™re meeting Odd Thomas for the first time or heâ€™s already an old friend, youâ€™ll be led on an unforgettable journey through a world of terror, wonder and delightâ€”to a revelation that can change your life. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6107'),
(18041, 'Forever Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enoughâ€”readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mysteryâ€”and altogether irresistibly odd.Weâ€™re all a little odd beneath the surface. Heâ€™s the most unlikely hero youâ€™ll ever meetâ€”an ordinary guy with a modest job you might never look at twice. But thereâ€™s so much more to any of us than meets the eyeâ€”and that goes triple for Odd Thomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everyday events. Odd never asked to communicate with the deadâ€”itâ€™s something that just happened. But as the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, heâ€™s got a duty to do the right thing. Thatâ€™s the way Odd sees it and thatâ€™s why heâ€™s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death.A childhood friend of Oddâ€™s has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. Whether youâ€™re meeting Odd Thomas for the first time or heâ€™s already an old friend, youâ€™ll be led on an unforgettable journey through a world of terror, wonder and delightâ€”to a revelation that can change your life. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14387'),
(18042, 'Forever Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enoughâ€”readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mysteryâ€”and altogether irresistibly odd.Weâ€™re all a little odd beneath the surface. Heâ€™s the most unlikely hero youâ€™ll ever meetâ€”an ordinary guy with a modest job you might never look at twice. But thereâ€™s so much more to any of us than meets the eyeâ€”and that goes triple for Odd Thomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everyday events. Odd never asked to communicate with the deadâ€”itâ€™s something that just happened. But as the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, heâ€™s got a duty to do the right thing. Thatâ€™s the way Odd sees it and thatâ€™s why heâ€™s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death.A childhood friend of Oddâ€™s has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. Whether youâ€™re meeting Odd Thomas for the first time or heâ€™s already an old friend, youâ€™ll be led on an unforgettable journey through a world of terror, wonder and delightâ€”to a revelation that can change your life. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17343');
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(18043, 'Forever Odd', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enoughâ€”readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mysteryâ€”and altogether irresistibly odd.Weâ€™re all a little odd beneath the surface. Heâ€™s the most unlikely hero youâ€™ll ever meetâ€”an ordinary guy with a modest job you might never look at twice. But thereâ€™s so much more to any of us than meets the eyeâ€”and that goes triple for Odd Thomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everyday events. Odd never asked to communicate with the deadâ€”itâ€™s something that just happened. But as the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, heâ€™s got a duty to do the right thing. Thatâ€™s the way Odd sees it and thatâ€™s why heâ€™s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death.A childhood friend of Oddâ€™s has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. Whether youâ€™re meeting Odd Thomas for the first time or heâ€™s already an old friend, youâ€™ll be led on an unforgettable journey through a world of terror, wonder and delightâ€”to a revelation that can change your life. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27386'),
(18044, 'Forever Peace', 'Joe Haldeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is Joe Haldeman''s triumphant return to the thoughtful science fiction that made his The Forever War a multiple award-winner. In the year 2043, the Ngumi War has raged for eight years. Julian Class is a "soldier boy, " and for him war is indeed hell. For Julian it might be worth dying just to stop living. But he and his lover have made a terrifying scientific discovery that could literally put the Universe back to square one. For Julian the discovery is tempting.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18136'),
(18045, 'The Forever War', 'Joe Haldeman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In the 1970s Joe Haldeman approached more than a dozen different publishers before he finally found one interested in\n  <em>\n   The Forever War\n  </em>\n  . The book went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, although a large chunk of the story had been cut out before it saw publication. Now Haldeman and Avon Books have released the definitive version of\n  <em>\n   The Forever War\n  </em>\n  , published for the first time as Haldeman originally intended. The book tells the timeless story of war, in this case a conflict between humanity and the alien Taurans. Humans first bumped heads with the Taurans when we began using collapsars to travel the stars. Although the collapsars provide nearly instantaneous travel across vast distances, the relativistic speeds associated with the process means that time passes slower for those aboard ship. For William Mandella, a physics student drafted as a soldier, that means more than 27 years will have passed between his first encounter with the Taurans and his homecoming, though he himself will have aged only a year. When Mandella finds that he can''t adjust to Earth after being gone so long from home, he reenlists, only to find himself shuttled endlessly from battle to battle as the centuries pass.\n  <em>\n   --Craig E. Engler\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "To say that\n  <em>\n   The Forever War\n  </em>\n  is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I''ve read."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   William Gibson\n  </strong>\n  , author of _Neuromancer, Spook Country\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre''s ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon''s\n  <em>\n   More Than Human\n  </em>\n  , Dick''s\n  <em>\n   The Man In The High Castle\n  </em>\n  , LeGuin''s\n  <em>\n   Dispossessed\n  </em>\n  , Gibson''s\n  <em>\n   Neuromancer\n  </em>\n  .\n  <em>\n   The Forever War\n  </em>\n  is one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   Jonathan Lethem\n  </strong>\n  , author of _Gun With Occcasional Music, Fortress of Solitude\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . .Â  . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella''s attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and trueÂ  . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human.Â  Simply extraordinary."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   Junot Diaz\n  </strong>\n  , Pulitzer Prize winning author of _The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"If there was a Fort Knox for Science Fiction writers, we''d have to lock Joe Haldeman up."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   Stephen King\n  </strong>\n  , author of _The Shining, The Dead Zone, The Stand\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "\n  </em>\n  The Forever War_ is not just a great Science Fiction novel, it''s a great Vietnam war novel - and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction.Â  A classic to grace either genre."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   Iain M. Banks\n  </strong>\n  , author of _Use of Weapons, The Player of Games, Matter\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time. That it happens to be set in the future only broadens and enhances its message."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   Greg Bear\n  </strong>\n  , author of _Moving Mars, Eon, The Forge of God\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œA parable whose lessons are needful learning once more.â€\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   John Scalzi\n  </strong>\n  , author of _Old Manâ€™s War, The Ghost Brigades, Zoeâ€™s Tale\n </p>\n <p>\n  _"I first read this twenty years ago and have never forgotten the wonder and fury it kindled at the time.Â  Anyone who talks about the glory of war has obviously never read it.Â  A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all.Â  Only a writer as skillfull and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war''s dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deplou the sam fascination to show just what kind of effect this orchestrated barbarism can have on the human soul."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   Peter F. Hamilton\n  </strong>\n  , author of _Pandoraâ€™s Star, Judas Unchained, The Dreaming Void\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œIn a literature of ideas,\n  <em>\n   The Forever War\n  </em>\n  is a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relatavistic time-distortion and world-shaking ideas about the futility of war. In today''s world, where we think declaring war on abstract nouns like TERROR is a winning strategy, we need THE FOREVER WAR."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   Cory Doctorow\n  </strong>\n  , author of _Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother X\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œIt is to the Vietnam War what\n  <em>\n   Catch-22\n  </em>\n  was to World War II, the definitive, bleakly comic satire.â€\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   Thomas M. Disch\n  </strong>\n  , author of _Camp\n  <strong>\n   Concentration\n  </strong>\n  , 334\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "\n  </em>\n  The Forever War_ does what the very best science fiction does. It deals with extremes both societal and teleological; it places a frame around humankind''s place in the universe to show us what is outside the frame; and it functions simultaneously at the literal and metaphorical level.Â  Inarguably one of the genre''s great novels, it is also among the finest novels ever written about war."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <strong>\n   James Sallis\n  </strong>\n  , author of\n  <em>\n   The Long Legged Fly, Drive, Cripple Creek\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4357'),
(18046, 'The Forever War', 'Dexter Filkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinningNew York Timescorrespondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as "reporting of the highest quality imaginable," we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins''s narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: deserts, mountains, and streets of carnage; a public amputation performed by Taliban; children frolicking in minefields; skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52s; a night''s sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero. We embark on a foot patrol through the shadowy streets of Ramadi, venture into a torture chamber run by Saddam Hussein. We go into the homes of suicide bombers and into street-to-street fighting with a battalion of marines. We meet Iraqi insurgents, an American captain who loses a quarter of his men in eight days, and a young soldier from Georgia on a rooftop at midnight reminiscing about his girlfriend back home. A car bomb explodes, bullets fly, and a mother cradles her blinded son. Like no other book,The Forever Warallows us a visceral understanding of today''s battlefields and of the experiences of the people on the ground, warriors and innocents alike. It is a brilliant, fearless work, not just about America''s wars after 9/11, but ultimately about the nature of war itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8011'),
(18047, 'The Forever War', 'Dexter Filkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinningNew York Timescorrespondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as "reporting of the highest quality imaginable," we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins''s narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: deserts, mountains, and streets of carnage; a public amputation performed by Taliban; children frolicking in minefields; skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52s; a night''s sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero. We embark on a foot patrol through the shadowy streets of Ramadi, venture into a torture chamber run by Saddam Hussein. We go into the homes of suicide bombers and into street-to-street fighting with a battalion of marines. We meet Iraqi insurgents, an American captain who loses a quarter of his men in eight days, and a young soldier from Georgia on a rooftop at midnight reminiscing about his girlfriend back home. A car bomb explodes, bullets fly, and a mother cradles her blinded son. Like no other book,The Forever Warallows us a visceral understanding of today''s battlefields and of the experiences of the people on the ground, warriors and innocents alike. It is a brilliant, fearless work, not just about America''s wars after 9/11, but ultimately about the nature of war itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9726'),
(18048, 'The Forever War', 'Haldeman, Joe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15350'),
(18049, 'Forfeit', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18105'),
(18050, 'The Forge of Christendom', 'Tom Holland', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In AD 900, few would have guessed that the splintering kingdoms of Christendom were candidates for future greatness. Hemmed in by implacable enemies on three sides, and by ocean on the fourth, it seemed that the Christian people had nowhere to turn. Indeed, there were many who fearedcast in the Millennium''s shadowthat they were nearing the time when the Antichrist would appear, drowning the world in blood and heralding its end. But the Antichrist did not appear, and Christendom did not collapse. Instead, forged from the convulsions of those terrible times, there emerged a new civilization as the Christian people set to the heroic task of building a Jerusalem on earth themselves. With an epic sweep that transports us from the crucifixion to the First Crusade, and from the glitter of Constantinople to the bleak shores of Canada, Tom Holland''s The Forge of Christendomis a brilliant study of a truly fateful revolution: the emergence of Western Europe for the first time as a distinctive and expansionist power. It was the age of Otto the Great and William the Conqueror, of Caliphs and Viking sea-kings, of hermits, monks, and serfs. It witnessed the spread of castles, the invention of knighthood, and the founding of a papal monarchy. Above all, it brought people to fear that the end days might be at hand, and yet alsowith an effort so prodigious that it has the power to move us stillto invent themselves anew. A momentous achievement: for this was nothing less than the founding of the modern West. It is an epic story that Tom Holland renders with the narrative skill and wide-angled scope of a novelist and the careful scholarship a historian. It will transform its readers'' conception of the origins of the Modern West.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9439'),
(18051, 'Forge of the Mind Slayers', 'Tim Waggoner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Living in the war-ravaged realm of Eberron, assassin-turned-priest Diran Bastiaan and his half-orc sidekick, Ghaji, make an unlikely pair. One looks like the stuff of nightmares, while the other is "a conduit through which the holy force of Good could work its will in the physical world." Together, they have traveled throughout the archipelagic Lhazaar Principalities sharing numerous wild adventures, but none were as dangerous as the one they currently face. When a gang of bloodthirsty pirates kidnaps Diran''s former lover (a beautiful ex-mercenary killer named Makala), the priest of the Silver Flame and his half-breed wingman vow to get her -- and countless other abductees -- back no matter what the cost. But the seafaring raiders are no ordinary criminals; they''re led by the infamous vampire Onkar, who in turn serves a being unfathomably more evil than himselfâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/576'),
(18052, 'Forge of the Mind Slayers', 'Tim Waggoner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Living in the war-ravaged realm of Eberron, assassin-turned-priest Diran Bastiaan and his half-orc sidekick, Ghaji, make an unlikely pair. One looks like the stuff of nightmares, while the other is "a conduit through which the holy force of Good could work its will in the physical world." Together, they have traveled throughout the archipelagic Lhazaar Principalities sharing numerous wild adventures, but none were as dangerous as the one they currently face. When a gang of bloodthirsty pirates kidnaps Diran''s former lover (a beautiful ex-mercenary killer named Makala), the priest of the Silver Flame and his half-breed wingman vow to get her -- and countless other abductees -- back no matter what the cost. But the seafaring raiders are no ordinary criminals; they''re led by the infamous vampire Onkar, who in turn serves a being unfathomably more evil than himselfâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13259'),
(18053, 'Forge of the Mind Slayers', 'Tim Waggoner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Living in the war-ravaged realm of Eberron, assassin-turned-priest Diran Bastiaan and his half-orc sidekick, Ghaji, make an unlikely pair. One looks like the stuff of nightmares, while the other is "a conduit through which the holy force of Good could work its will in the physical world." Together, they have traveled throughout the archipelagic Lhazaar Principalities sharing numerous wild adventures, but none were as dangerous as the one they currently face. When a gang of bloodthirsty pirates kidnaps Diran''s former lover (a beautiful ex-mercenary killer named Makala), the priest of the Silver Flame and his half-breed wingman vow to get her -- and countless other abductees -- back no matter what the cost. But the seafaring raiders are no ordinary criminals; they''re led by the infamous vampire Onkar, who in turn serves a being unfathomably more evil than himselfâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24304'),
(18054, 'Forged of Steele Bundle', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Only a special woman can win the heart of a brother...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meet the Steeles: Chance, Sebastian, Morgan, and Vanessa. Running the family-owned Steele Corporation, these hard-working relatives are successful in business...and once they meet that special someone, they''re lucky in love, too. Experience all the passion and romance of\n  <em>\n   USA TODAY\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Brenda Jackson''s complete Forged of Steele series in one handy bundle. Bundle includes:\n  <em>\n   Solid Soul, Night Heat, Beyond Temptation,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Risky Pleasures\n  </em>\n  , plus the free bonus novella\n  <em>\n   Never Too Late\n  </em>\n  that introduces all the Steeles!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15543'),
(18055, 'Forged of Steele Bundle (Books 1-4)', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Only a special woman can win the heart of a brother...\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Meet the Steeles: Chance, Sebastian, Morgan, and Vanessa. Running the family-owned Steele Corporation, these hard-working relatives are successful in business...and once they meet that special someone, they''re lucky in love, too. Experience all the passion and romance of\n  <em>\n   USA TODAY\n  </em>\n  bestselling author Brenda Jackson''s complete Forged of Steele series in one handy bundle. Bundle includes:\n  <em>\n   Solid Soul, Night Heat, Beyond Temptation,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Risky Pleasures\n  </em>\n  , plus the free bonus novella\n  <em>\n   Never Too Late\n  </em>\n  that introduces all the Steeles!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7126'),
(18056, 'The Forger&#39;s Spell', 'Edward Dolnick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger''s Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter, Han van Meegeren, who dared to impersonate Vermeer centuries later. The con man''s mark was Hermann Goering, one of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a fanatic collector of art.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9387'),
(18057, 'Forging the Darksword', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Outlawed by the mage-priests of Thimhallen since the Iron Wars, the Ninth Mystery, called Technology, has survived only among society''s outcasts until a young man born without magic and a priest who is a catalyst of magical energy form an alliance that shakes their complacent and stagnant world. The authors of the "Dragonlance" series again demonstrate their talent for vivid world-crafting and strong characterization in a novel that will appeal to fans of epic fantasy. Recommended. JC\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n /Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman In the enchanted realm of Merilon, magic is life. Born without magical abilities, Joram is left for dead but grows to manhood with the help of his constant vigilance and sleight-of-hand skills. When he meets the scholarly catalyst Saryon, the two join forces, attempting to forge the powerful magic-absorbing Darksword and ov.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3122'),
(18058, 'Forging the Darksword', 'Margaret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Outlawed by the mage-priests of Thimhallen since the Iron Wars, the Ninth Mystery, called Technology, has survived only among society''s outcasts until a young man born without magic and a priest who is a catalyst of magical energy form an alliance that shakes their complacent and stagnant world. The authors of the "Dragonlance" series again demonstrate their talent for vivid world-crafting and strong characterization in a novel that will appeal to fans of epic fantasy. Recommended. JC\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n /Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman In the enchanted realm of Merilon, magic is life. Born without magical abilities, Joram is left for dead but grows to manhood with the help of his constant vigilance and sleight-of-hand skills. When he meets the scholarly catalyst Saryon, the two join forces, attempting to forge the powerful magic-absorbing Darksword and ov.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13282'),
(18059, 'Forgiving Ararat', 'Gita Nazareth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE #1 BESTSELLER IN HEAVEN...AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON EARTH. "Think Alice Sebold (''The Lovely Bones'') meets William Young (''The Shack'') and John Grisham (''The Firm'')...in the afterlife." Brek Cuttler, a young lawyer, new mother, and wife of a popular television news reporter, dies unexpectedly and, arriving in heaven, learns she has been chosen to join the elite lawyers who defend souls at the Final Judgment. Yet Brek longs for her lost life, and the cause of her death remains a mystery. Searching for answers, Brek attempts to re-create the world she once knew and visits her family in their dreams; but it is her first client in heaven, a young convict, who holds the secret-a shocking crime long repressed. Guided by her mentor, Luas, a lawyer who has been prosecuting souls for thousands of years, Brek embarks on a quest traversing heaven and earth to bring her killer to justice, uncovering an interlocking past that places her own soul in jeopardy. Entering the courtroom to face her killer at the Final Judgment, Brek must make a momentous choice that will alter her eternity. POSTHUMOUS PRAISE FOR FORGIVING ARARAT: "This glorious, triumphant work leads its readers from the wrathful lands of the east...and back to the Garden of Eden." -John Steinbeck, author of Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. "With mythical prose at times approaching verse, Forgiving Ararat works a miracle, bridging the chasm between life and death." -Emily Dickinson, author of Poems. "At the center of Forgiving Ararat is the Trial each of us must one day face-and the profound metamorphosis each of us must undergo to win." -Franz Kafka, author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis. "This book is the next ''Lovely Bones!''" -Anonymous Recently Departed Reader\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5328'),
(18060, 'Forgiving Ararat', 'Gita Nazareth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE #1 BESTSELLER IN HEAVEN...AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON EARTH. "Think Alice Sebold (''The Lovely Bones'') meets William Young (''The Shack'') and John Grisham (''The Firm'')...in the afterlife." Brek Cuttler, a young lawyer, new mother, and wife of a popular television news reporter, dies unexpectedly and, arriving in heaven, learns she has been chosen to join the elite lawyers who defend souls at the Final Judgment. Yet Brek longs for her lost life, and the cause of her death remains a mystery. Searching for answers, Brek attempts to re-create the world she once knew and visits her family in their dreams; but it is her first client in heaven, a young convict, who holds the secret-a shocking crime long repressed. Guided by her mentor, Luas, a lawyer who has been prosecuting souls for thousands of years, Brek embarks on a quest traversing heaven and earth to bring her killer to justice, uncovering an interlocking past that places her own soul in jeopardy. Entering the courtroom to face her killer at the Final Judgment, Brek must make a momentous choice that will alter her eternity. POSTHUMOUS PRAISE FOR FORGIVING ARARAT: "This glorious, triumphant work leads its readers from the wrathful lands of the east...and back to the Garden of Eden." -John Steinbeck, author of Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. "With mythical prose at times approaching verse, Forgiving Ararat works a miracle, bridging the chasm between life and death." -Emily Dickinson, author of Poems. "At the center of Forgiving Ararat is the Trial each of us must one day face-and the profound metamorphosis each of us must undergo to win." -Franz Kafka, author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis. "This book is the next ''Lovely Bones!''" -Anonymous Recently Departed Reader\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11615'),
(18061, 'Forgiving Ararat', 'Gita Nazareth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE #1 BESTSELLER IN HEAVEN...AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON EARTH. "Think Alice Sebold (''The Lovely Bones'') meets William Young (''The Shack'') and John Grisham (''The Firm'')...in the afterlife." Brek Cuttler, a young lawyer, new mother, and wife of a popular television news reporter, dies unexpectedly and, arriving in heaven, learns she has been chosen to join the elite lawyers who defend souls at the Final Judgment. Yet Brek longs for her lost life, and the cause of her death remains a mystery. Searching for answers, Brek attempts to re-create the world she once knew and visits her family in their dreams; but it is her first client in heaven, a young convict, who holds the secret-a shocking crime long repressed. Guided by her mentor, Luas, a lawyer who has been prosecuting souls for thousands of years, Brek embarks on a quest traversing heaven and earth to bring her killer to justice, uncovering an interlocking past that places her own soul in jeopardy. Entering the courtroom to face her killer at the Final Judgment, Brek must make a momentous choice that will alter her eternity. POSTHUMOUS PRAISE FOR FORGIVING ARARAT: "This glorious, triumphant work leads its readers from the wrathful lands of the east...and back to the Garden of Eden." -John Steinbeck, author of Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. "With mythical prose at times approaching verse, Forgiving Ararat works a miracle, bridging the chasm between life and death." -Emily Dickinson, author of Poems. "At the center of Forgiving Ararat is the Trial each of us must one day face-and the profound metamorphosis each of us must undergo to win." -Franz Kafka, author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis. "This book is the next ''Lovely Bones!''" -Anonymous Recently Departed Reader\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19331'),
(18062, 'Forgiving Ararat', 'Gita Nazareth', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE #1 BESTSELLER IN HEAVEN...AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON EARTH. "Think Alice Sebold (''The Lovely Bones'') meets William Young (''The Shack'') and John Grisham (''The Firm'')...in the afterlife." Brek Cuttler, a young lawyer, new mother, and wife of a popular television news reporter, dies unexpectedly and, arriving in heaven, learns she has been chosen to join the elite lawyers who defend souls at the Final Judgment. Yet Brek longs for her lost life, and the cause of her death remains a mystery. Searching for answers, Brek attempts to re-create the world she once knew and visits her family in their dreams; but it is her first client in heaven, a young convict, who holds the secret-a shocking crime long repressed. Guided by her mentor, Luas, a lawyer who has been prosecuting souls for thousands of years, Brek embarks on a quest traversing heaven and earth to bring her killer to justice, uncovering an interlocking past that places her own soul in jeopardy. Entering the courtroom to face her killer at the Final Judgment, Brek must make a momentous choice that will alter her eternity. POSTHUMOUS PRAISE FOR FORGIVING ARARAT: "This glorious, triumphant work leads its readers from the wrathful lands of the east...and back to the Garden of Eden." -John Steinbeck, author of Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. "With mythical prose at times approaching verse, Forgiving Ararat works a miracle, bridging the chasm between life and death." -Emily Dickinson, author of Poems. "At the center of Forgiving Ararat is the Trial each of us must one day face-and the profound metamorphosis each of us must undergo to win." -Franz Kafka, author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis. "This book is the next ''Lovely Bones!''" -Anonymous Recently Departed Reader\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26171'),
(18063, 'The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II', 'Gregory A. Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Now in paperbackâ€”the â€œamazingâ€( James Bradley, *New York Times* bestselling author of *Flags of Our Fathers*) never-before-told story of the greatest escape of the Second World War.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 downed airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this unforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery is now being told for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5335'),
(18064, 'The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II', 'Gregory A. Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Now in paperbackâ€”the â€œamazingâ€( James Bradley, *New York Times* bestselling author of *Flags of Our Fathers*) never-before-told story of the greatest escape of the Second World War.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 downed airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this unforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery is now being told for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9822'),
(18065, 'The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II', 'Gregory A. Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now in paperbackâ€”the â€œamazingâ€( James Bradley, *New York Times* bestselling author of *Flags of Our Fathers*) never-before-told story of the greatest escape of the Second World War.** In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 downed airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this unforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery is now being told for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19428'),
(18066, 'The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II', 'Gregory A. Freeman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now in paperbackâ€”the â€œamazingâ€( James Bradley, *New York Times* bestselling author of *Flags of Our Fathers*) never-before-told story of the greatest escape of the Second World War.** In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 downed airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this unforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery is now being told for the first time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28074'),
(18067, 'The Forgotten Garden', 'Kate Morton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the internationally bestselling author of The House at Riverton, an unforgettable new novel that transports the reader from the back alleys of poverty of pre-World War I London to the shores of colonial Australia where so many made a fresh start, and back to the windswept coast of Cornwall, England, past and presentA tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book -- a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and with very little to go on, "Nell" sets out on a journey to England to try to trace her story, to fi nd her real identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14295'),
(18068, 'The Forgotten Garden', 'Kate Morton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From the internationally bestselling author of The House at Riverton, an unforgettable new novel that transports the reader from the back alleys of poverty of pre-World War I London to the shores of colonial Australia where so many made a fresh start, and back to the windswept coast of Cornwall, England, past and presentA tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book -- a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and with very little to go on, "Nell" sets out on a journey to England to try to trace her story, to fi nd her real identity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20670'),
(18069, 'The Forgotten Legion', 'Ben Kane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in the late Roman Republic, in the first century B.C.E., *The Forgotten Legion* is a tale of the greatest empire of the ancient world from the perspective of those on the lowest rungs of its society.  Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery to a enslaved mother who is much beloved by them, and much abused by their owner. At 13 years old, they and their mother are sold: Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome, and their mother into obscurity and death in the salt mines.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tarquinius is an Etruscan, a warrior and soothsayer, born enemy of Rome and trained by the last haruspex in the forgotten arts of divination. A runaway slave, then an AWOL Legionaire, he has a long foretold destiny that will take him to the very ends of the known world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Brennus is a Gaul from the Allobreges tribe. In the battle against the Roman army, his entire family, perhaps his entire tribe, is slaughtered, and only he survives to be sold as a slave to be trained as a gladiator. He rises to become one of the most famous and feared gladiators of his day - and mentor to the boy slave, Romulus, who dreams night and day of escape and of revenge.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The lives of these four characters are bound and interwoven in a marvellous story which begins in a Rome riven by corruption, violence and political enmities, but ends far away, where Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius find themselves fighting against the Parthians and overwhelming odds - survivors of one of the most legendary battles in Roman military history and destined to become part of one of the most compelling, enduring legends:  The Forgotten Legion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7314'),
(18070, 'The Forgotten Legion', 'Ben Kane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in the late Roman Republic, in the first century B.C.E., *The Forgotten Legion* is a tale of the greatest empire of the ancient world from the perspective of those on the lowest rungs of its society.  Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery to a enslaved mother who is much beloved by them, and much abused by their owner. At 13 years old, they and their mother are sold: Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome, and their mother into obscurity and death in the salt mines.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tarquinius is an Etruscan, a warrior and soothsayer, born enemy of Rome and trained by the last haruspex in the forgotten arts of divination. A runaway slave, then an AWOL Legionaire, he has a long foretold destiny that will take him to the very ends of the known world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Brennus is a Gaul from the Allobreges tribe. In the battle against the Roman army, his entire family, perhaps his entire tribe, is slaughtered, and only he survives to be sold as a slave to be trained as a gladiator. He rises to become one of the most famous and feared gladiators of his day - and mentor to the boy slave, Romulus, who dreams night and day of escape and of revenge.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The lives of these four characters are bound and interwoven in a marvellous story which begins in a Rome riven by corruption, violence and political enmities, but ends far away, where Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius find themselves fighting against the Parthians and overwhelming odds - survivors of one of the most legendary battles in Roman military history and destined to become part of one of the most compelling, enduring legends:  The Forgotten Legion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10659'),
(18071, 'The Forgotten Legion', 'Ben Kane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in the late Roman Republic, in the first century B.C.E., *The Forgotten Legion* is a tale of the greatest empire of the ancient world from the perspective of those on the lowest rungs of its society. Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery to a enslaved mother who is much beloved by them, and much abused by their owner. At 13 years old, they and their mother are sold: Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome, and their mother into obscurity and death in the salt mines. Tarquinius is an Etruscan, a warrior and soothsayer, born enemy of Rome and trained by the last haruspex in the forgotten arts of divination. A runaway slave, then an AWOL Legionaire, he has a long foretold destiny that will take him to the very ends of the known world. Brennus is a Gaul from the Allobreges tribe. In the battle against the Roman army, his entire family, perhaps his entire tribe, is slaughtered, and only he survives to be sold as a slave to be trained as a gladiator. He rises to become one of the most famous and feared gladiators of his day - and mentor to the boy slave, Romulus, who dreams night and day of escape and of revenge. The lives of these four characters are bound and interwoven in a marvellous story which begins in a Rome riven by corruption, violence and political enmities, but ends far away, where Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius find themselves fighting against the Parthians and overwhelming odds - survivors of one of the most legendary battles in Roman military history and destined to become part of one of the most compelling, enduring legends: The Forgotten Legion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16629'),
(18072, 'The Forgotten Legion', 'Ben Kane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in the late Roman Republic, in the first century B.C.E., *The Forgotten Legion* is a tale of the greatest empire of the ancient world from the perspective of those on the lowest rungs of its society. Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery to a enslaved mother who is much beloved by them, and much abused by their owner. At 13 years old, they and their mother are sold: Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome, and their mother into obscurity and death in the salt mines. Tarquinius is an Etruscan, a warrior and soothsayer, born enemy of Rome and trained by the last haruspex in the forgotten arts of divination. A runaway slave, then an AWOL Legionaire, he has a long foretold destiny that will take him to the very ends of the known world. Brennus is a Gaul from the Allobreges tribe. In the battle against the Roman army, his entire family, perhaps his entire tribe, is slaughtered, and only he survives to be sold as a slave to be trained as a gladiator. He rises to become one of the most famous and feared gladiators of his day - and mentor to the boy slave, Romulus, who dreams night and day of escape and of revenge. The lives of these four characters are bound and interwoven in a marvellous story which begins in a Rome riven by corruption, violence and political enmities, but ends far away, where Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius find themselves fighting against the Parthians and overwhelming odds - survivors of one of the most legendary battles in Roman military history and destined to become part of one of the most compelling, enduring legends: The Forgotten Legion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26541'),
(18073, 'the Forgotten Man (2005)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 10', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14565'),
(18074, 'the Forgotten Man (2005)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 10', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23283'),
(18075, 'the Forgotten Man (2005)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 10', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27062'),
(18076, 'Forgotten Soldier', 'Guy Sajer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18355'),
(18077, 'The Forgotten Soldier', 'Guy Sajer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This book recountsthe horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer''s war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a simple, desperate struggle for survival against cold, hunger, and above all the terrifying Soviet artillery. As a member of the elite Gross Deutschland Division, he fought in all the great battles from Kursk to Kharkov. His German footsoldier''s perspective makes The Forgotten Soldiera unique war memoir, the book that the Christian Science Monitorsaid "may well be the book about World War II which has been so long awaited." Now it has been handsomely republished as a hardcover containing fifty rare German combat photos of life and death at the eastern front. The photos of troops battling through snow, mud, burned villages, and rubble-strewn cities depict the hardships and destructiveness of war. Many are originally from the private collections of German soldiers and have never been published before. This volume is a deluxe edition of a true classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5244'),
(18078, 'The Forgotten Soldier', 'Guy Sajer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This book recountsthe horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer''s war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a simple, desperate struggle for survival against cold, hunger, and above all the terrifying Soviet artillery. As a member of the elite Gross Deutschland Division, he fought in all the great battles from Kursk to Kharkov. His German footsoldier''s perspective makes The Forgotten Soldiera unique war memoir, the book that the Christian Science Monitorsaid "may well be the book about World War II which has been so long awaited." Now it has been handsomely republished as a hardcover containing fifty rare German combat photos of life and death at the eastern front. The photos of troops battling through snow, mud, burned villages, and rubble-strewn cities depict the hardships and destructiveness of war. Many are originally from the private collections of German soldiers and have never been published before. This volume is a deluxe edition of a true classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12505'),
(18079, 'The Forgotten Village', 'John Steinbeck &amp; Rosa Harvan Kline &amp; Alexander Hackensmid', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The novelist who wrote *The Grapes of Wrath* and the director who produced *Crisis and Lights Out* in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but *The Forgotten Village* is unique among them in that the text was written before a single picture was shot. The book and the movie from which it was made have, thus, a continuity and a dramatic growth not to be found in the so-called "documentary" films.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The camera crew that, headed by Kline and with Steinbeck''s script at hand, recorded this narrative of birth and death, of witch doctors and vaccines, of the old Mexico and the new, spent nine months off the trails of Mexico. They traveled thousands of miles to find just the village they needed; they borrowed children from the government school, took men from the fields, their wives from the markets, and old medicine woman from her hut by the side of the trail. The motion picture they made (for release in 1941) is 8000 feet long. From this wealth of pictures 136 photographs were selected for their intrinsic beauty and for the graceful harmony with which they accompany Steinbeck''s text.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This new script-photograph technique of narration conveys its ideas with unexcelled brilliance and immediacy. In the hands of such master story-tellers as Steinbeck and Kline, it makes the reader catch his breath for the beauty and the truth of the tale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4229');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(18080, 'The Forgotten Village', 'John Steinbeck &amp; Rosa Harvan Kline &amp; Alexander Hackensmid', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The novelist who wrote *The Grapes of Wrath* and the director who produced *Crisis and Lights Out* in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but *The Forgotten Village* is unique among them in that the text was written before a single picture was shot. The book and the movie from which it was made have, thus, a continuity and a dramatic growth not to be found in the so-called "documentary" films.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The camera crew that, headed by Kline and with Steinbeck''s script at hand, recorded this narrative of birth and death, of witch doctors and vaccines, of the old Mexico and the new, spent nine months off the trails of Mexico. They traveled thousands of miles to find just the village they needed; they borrowed children from the government school, took men from the fields, their wives from the markets, and old medicine woman from her hut by the side of the trail. The motion picture they made (for release in 1941) is 8000 feet long. From this wealth of pictures 136 photographs were selected for their intrinsic beauty and for the graceful harmony with which they accompany Steinbeck''s text.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This new script-photograph technique of narration conveys its ideas with unexcelled brilliance and immediacy. In the hands of such master story-tellers as Steinbeck and Kline, it makes the reader catch his breath for the beauty and the truth of the tale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12432'),
(18081, 'The Forgotten Village', 'John Steinbeck; Rosa Harvan Kline; Alexander Hackensmid', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The novelist who wrote *The Grapes of Wrath* and the director who produced *Crisis and Lights Out* in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but *The Forgotten Village* is unique among them in that the text was written before a single picture was shot. The book and the movie from which it was made have, thus, a continuity and a dramatic growth not to be found in the so-called "documentary" films. The camera crew that, headed by Kline and with Steinbeck''s script at hand, recorded this narrative of birth and death, of witch doctors and vaccines, of the old Mexico and the new, spent nine months off the trails of Mexico. They traveled thousands of miles to find just the village they needed; they borrowed children from the government school, took men from the fields, their wives from the markets, and old medicine woman from her hut by the side of the trail. The motion picture they made (for release in 1941) is 8000 feet long. From this wealth of pictures 136 photographs were selected for their intrinsic beauty and for the graceful harmony with which they accompany Steinbeck''s text. This new script-photograph technique of narration conveys its ideas with unexcelled brilliance and immediacy. In the hands of such master story-tellers as Steinbeck and Kline, it makes the reader catch his breath for the beauty and the truth of the tale.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20326'),
(18082, 'The Forgotten War', 'William R. Forstchen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The legendary Starfleet Captain Lucien Murat, a contemporary of Christopher Pike, disappeared during a battle with the alien Tarn. Now, generations later, Captain Picard is conducting delicate diplomatic negotiations with the Tarn when the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  discovers the descendants of Murat and his crew stranded on a desolate planet, still fighting a war that ended decades ago.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The human castaways face destruction, but more than these precious lives are at stake. Unless Picard can find a solution, a lost hero''s legacy may ignite a new era of interstellar war!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/121'),
(18083, 'The Forgotten War', 'William R. Forstchen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The legendary Starfleet Captain Lucien Murat, a contemporary of Christopher Pike, disappeared during a battle with the alien Tarn. Now, generations later, Captain Picard is conducting delicate diplomatic negotiations with the Tarn when the\n  <em>\n   Starship EnterpriseTM\n  </em>\n  discovers the descendants of Murat and his crew stranded on a desolate planet, still fighting a war that ended decades ago.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The human castaways face destruction, but more than these precious lives are at stake. Unless Picard can find a solution, a lost hero''s legacy may ignite a new era of interstellar war!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24728'),
(18084, 'Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia', 'Christopher Bayly &amp; Tim Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Combining breathtaking, evocative narrative with razor-sharp historical analysis, Bayly and Harper provide a dramatic account of independent Asia''s baptism of fire in the turbulent aftermath of the Second World War. They capture in vivid detail the euphoria and trauma that swept the crescent stretching from Calcutta to Singapore as Britain''s Asian empire unraveled. This brilliant book is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the history of Britain, Asia and empire.\n  <br />\n  --Sugata Bose, author of\n  <em>\n   A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire\n  </em>\n  (20070701)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like their earlier collaborative volume,\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies\n  </em>\n  , Bayly and Harper''s new book presents a fascinating story of Britain''s Asian empire in transition. Europeans, Americans, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Burmese, Malays, Indonesians, and many others interacted as they sought to define anew the nature of empire, territory, and citizenship. There is no better way to understand the region''s survival and emergence as a center of economic development and prosperity than to revisit the immediate postwar years under the expert guidance provided by Bayly and Harper.\n  <br />\n  --Akira Iriye, Professor of History Emeritus, Harvard University (20070813)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  is an insightful and original look at the fate of Britain''s Asian Empire in the wake of World War II. Engaging and provocative, the masterful discussion of the Malayan Emergency will be of interest to all concerned with the dilemmas presented by insurgencies in our contemporary world.\n  <br />\n  --Ronald Spector, author of\n  <em>\n   In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Struggle for a Postwar Asia\n  </em>\n  (20070809)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Historians Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper chronicle the ensuing struggles for Britain''s Southeast Asian colonies in\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia\n  </em>\n  , the sequel to their much-praised history of Britain''s Asian empire during World War II,\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941â€“1945\n  </em>\n  . Primarily a diplomatic and political history rather than a military history, the new book focuses on the causes of armed conflict. After Japan''s capitulation, Messrs. Bayly and Harper contend, Southeast Asia remained in a state of war for the same reasons it had entered into such a state: poverty, imperialism, and ethnic, religious, and ideological conflict. The authors have mined a very large number of sources. Most of their new historical unearthing can be found in the intricacies of Southeast Asian politics, which they describe in great detail and with careful nuance. Those deeply interested in the politics of Burma or Malaysia or other Southeast Asian countries will find much to delight them here.\n  <br />\n  --Mark Moyar (_New York Sun_ 20070901)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two years after their brilliant and vivid\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-45\n  </em>\n  , the Cambridge historians Bayly and Harper produce a sequel that examines Britain''s conflicts in Southeast Asia in the four years after the Second World War. While adroitly analyzing Britain''s hard-fought battle against insurrectionary forces in Malaya, the authors explore lesser-known episodes: Bengalese and Burmese skirmishes seldom highlighted in accounts of the Raj''s end, and the British interregnums between the ends of the Japanese occupations of Indonesia and Vietnam and the restorations of the respective former colonial administrations. (_The Atlantic_ 20080401)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Authoritative.\n  <br />\n  --Pankaj Mishra (_New Yorker_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  [A] compelling book...An extraordinary cast of characters populate\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  ...The authors write that "the end of empire is not a pretty thing if examined too closely," but when examined so ably it is certainly fascinating.\n  <br />\n  --Philip Delves Broughton (_Wall Street Journal_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  The authors are particularly good in their analysis of the problems of state building, on the one hand, and nation building, on the other. (_Foreign Affairs_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  movingly brings out the travails of ordinary people who got caught up within a vicious cycle of political turmoil, economic deprivation, and violence. This is a â€œmust readâ€ for those interested in histories of British imperialism and decolonization in Asia and those who would like an introduction to the comparative regional histories of nation-states in Southeast Asia after 1945.\n  <br />\n  --Haimanti Roy (_Journal of British Studies_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is neither an old-fashioned â€œtop downâ€ history of imperial politics in the region, nor a regional â€œbottom upâ€ account of nationalist resistance to European rule. Rather, it shows how British illusions about the nature of Britainâ€™s power in Southeast Asia collided with Asian national movements. This book addresses an important phase of that tragic history, for which, as the authors show, Britain bore considerable responsibility.\n  <br />\n  --A. Martin Wainwright (_American Historical Review_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In September 1945, after the fall of the atomic bomb--and with it, the Japanese empire--Asia was dominated by the British. Governing a vast crescent of land that stretched from India through Burma and down to Singapore, and with troops occupying the French and Dutch colonies in southern Vietnam and Indonesia, Britain''s imperial might had never seemed stronger.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet within a few violent years, British power in the region would crumble, and myriad independent nations would struggle into existence. Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper show how World War II never really ended in these ravaged Asian lands but instead continued in bloody civil wars, anti-colonial insurrections, and inter-communal massacres. These years became the most formative in modern Asian history, as Western imperialism vied with nascent nationalist and communist revolutionaries for political control.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  , a sequel to the authors'' acclaimed\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies\n  </em>\n  , is a panoramic account of the bitter wars of the end of empire, seen not only through the eyes of the fighters, but also through the personal stories of ordinary people: the poor and bewildered caught up in India''s Hindu-Muslim massacres; the peasant farmers ravaged by warfare between British forces and revolutionaries in Malaya; the Burmese minorities devastated by separatist revolt. Throughout, we are given a stunning portrait of societies poised between the hope of independence and the fear of strife.\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  vividly brings to life the inescapable conflicts and manifold dramas that shaped today''s Asia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (20070425)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6775'),
(18085, 'Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia', 'Christopher Bayly &amp; Tim Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Combining breathtaking, evocative narrative with razor-sharp historical analysis, Bayly and Harper provide a dramatic account of independent Asia''s baptism of fire in the turbulent aftermath of the Second World War. They capture in vivid detail the euphoria and trauma that swept the crescent stretching from Calcutta to Singapore as Britain''s Asian empire unraveled. This brilliant book is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the history of Britain, Asia and empire.\n  <br />\n  --Sugata Bose, author of\n  <em>\n   A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire\n  </em>\n  (20070701)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Like their earlier collaborative volume,\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies\n  </em>\n  , Bayly and Harper''s new book presents a fascinating story of Britain''s Asian empire in transition. Europeans, Americans, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Burmese, Malays, Indonesians, and many others interacted as they sought to define anew the nature of empire, territory, and citizenship. There is no better way to understand the region''s survival and emergence as a center of economic development and prosperity than to revisit the immediate postwar years under the expert guidance provided by Bayly and Harper.\n  <br />\n  --Akira Iriye, Professor of History Emeritus, Harvard University (20070813)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  is an insightful and original look at the fate of Britain''s Asian Empire in the wake of World War II. Engaging and provocative, the masterful discussion of the Malayan Emergency will be of interest to all concerned with the dilemmas presented by insurgencies in our contemporary world.\n  <br />\n  --Ronald Spector, author of\n  <em>\n   In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Struggle for a Postwar Asia\n  </em>\n  (20070809)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Historians Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper chronicle the ensuing struggles for Britain''s Southeast Asian colonies in\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia\n  </em>\n  , the sequel to their much-praised history of Britain''s Asian empire during World War II,\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941â€“1945\n  </em>\n  . Primarily a diplomatic and political history rather than a military history, the new book focuses on the causes of armed conflict. After Japan''s capitulation, Messrs. Bayly and Harper contend, Southeast Asia remained in a state of war for the same reasons it had entered into such a state: poverty, imperialism, and ethnic, religious, and ideological conflict. The authors have mined a very large number of sources. Most of their new historical unearthing can be found in the intricacies of Southeast Asian politics, which they describe in great detail and with careful nuance. Those deeply interested in the politics of Burma or Malaysia or other Southeast Asian countries will find much to delight them here.\n  <br />\n  --Mark Moyar (_New York Sun_ 20070901)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two years after their brilliant and vivid\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-45\n  </em>\n  , the Cambridge historians Bayly and Harper produce a sequel that examines Britain''s conflicts in Southeast Asia in the four years after the Second World War. While adroitly analyzing Britain''s hard-fought battle against insurrectionary forces in Malaya, the authors explore lesser-known episodes: Bengalese and Burmese skirmishes seldom highlighted in accounts of the Raj''s end, and the British interregnums between the ends of the Japanese occupations of Indonesia and Vietnam and the restorations of the respective former colonial administrations. (_The Atlantic_ 20080401)\n </p>\n <p>\n  Authoritative.\n  <br />\n  --Pankaj Mishra (_New Yorker_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  [A] compelling book...An extraordinary cast of characters populate\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  ...The authors write that "the end of empire is not a pretty thing if examined too closely," but when examined so ably it is certainly fascinating.\n  <br />\n  --Philip Delves Broughton (_Wall Street Journal_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  The authors are particularly good in their analysis of the problems of state building, on the one hand, and nation building, on the other. (_Foreign Affairs_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  movingly brings out the travails of ordinary people who got caught up within a vicious cycle of political turmoil, economic deprivation, and violence. This is a â€œmust readâ€ for those interested in histories of British imperialism and decolonization in Asia and those who would like an introduction to the comparative regional histories of nation-states in Southeast Asia after 1945.\n  <br />\n  --Haimanti Roy (_Journal of British Studies_ )\n </p>\n <p>\n  This book is neither an old-fashioned â€œtop downâ€ history of imperial politics in the region, nor a regional â€œbottom upâ€ account of nationalist resistance to European rule. Rather, it shows how British illusions about the nature of Britainâ€™s power in Southeast Asia collided with Asian national movements. This book addresses an important phase of that tragic history, for which, as the authors show, Britain bore considerable responsibility.\n  <br />\n  --A. Martin Wainwright (_American Historical Review_ )\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In September 1945, after the fall of the atomic bomb--and with it, the Japanese empire--Asia was dominated by the British. Governing a vast crescent of land that stretched from India through Burma and down to Singapore, and with troops occupying the French and Dutch colonies in southern Vietnam and Indonesia, Britain''s imperial might had never seemed stronger.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Yet within a few violent years, British power in the region would crumble, and myriad independent nations would struggle into existence. Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper show how World War II never really ended in these ravaged Asian lands but instead continued in bloody civil wars, anti-colonial insurrections, and inter-communal massacres. These years became the most formative in modern Asian history, as Western imperialism vied with nascent nationalist and communist revolutionaries for political control.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  , a sequel to the authors'' acclaimed\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Armies\n  </em>\n  , is a panoramic account of the bitter wars of the end of empire, seen not only through the eyes of the fighters, but also through the personal stories of ordinary people: the poor and bewildered caught up in India''s Hindu-Muslim massacres; the peasant farmers ravaged by warfare between British forces and revolutionaries in Malaya; the Burmese minorities devastated by separatist revolt. Throughout, we are given a stunning portrait of societies poised between the hope of independence and the fear of strife.\n  <em>\n   Forgotten Wars\n  </em>\n  vividly brings to life the inescapable conflicts and manifold dramas that shaped today''s Asia.\n </p>\n <p>\n  (20070425)\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8475'),
(18086, 'Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia', 'Christopher Bayly; Tim Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18070'),
(18087, 'Forsaken House: The Last Mythal', 'Richard Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The first in a new trilogy of novels from New York Times best-selling author Richard Baker. Forsaken House is the first title in a new trilogy chronicling the tempestuous return of an isolated society of elves to the mainland of the Forgotten Realms world. The events in this trilogy will have far-reaching impact across the entire setting.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Richad Baker\n  </strong>\n  works as a game designer and Managing Developer for the roleplaying game line at Wizards of the Coast, Inc. A New York Times best-selling author with Condemnation, his additional Forgotten Realms novels include The City of Ravens and the forthcoming Last Mythal trilogy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1815'),
(18088, 'Forsaken House: The Last Mythal', 'Richard Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The first in a new trilogy of novels from New York Times best-selling author Richard Baker. Forsaken House is the first title in a new trilogy chronicling the tempestuous return of an isolated society of elves to the mainland of the Forgotten Realms world. The events in this trilogy will have far-reaching impact across the entire setting.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Richad Baker\n  </strong>\n  works as a game designer and Managing Developer for the roleplaying game line at Wizards of the Coast, Inc. A New York Times best-selling author with Condemnation, his additional Forgotten Realms novels include The City of Ravens and the forthcoming Last Mythal trilogy.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8250'),
(18089, 'The Forsyte Saga - Complete', 'John Galsworthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25493'),
(18090, 'Forsyte Saga vol.1', 'John Galsworthy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25492'),
(18091, 'The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the desolate and fog-bound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay, in the eastern province of Massachusetts that would become Maine, the Scotsâ€”the only British troops between Canada and New Yorkâ€”harry rebel privateers and give shelter to American loyalists.   In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to â€œcaptivate, kill or destroyâ€ the foreign invaders. Second in command is Peleg Wadsworth, a veteran of the battles at Lexington and Long Island, once aide to General Washington, and a man who sees clearly what must be done to expel the invaders.   But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeatâ€”and have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides: an untested eighteen-year-old Scottish lieutenant named John Moore, who will begin an illustrious military career; and a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere, who will face court-martial for disobedience and cowardice.   Grounded firmly in history, inimitably told in Cornwellâ€™s thrilling narrative style, The Fort is the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between a superpower and a nation in the making.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7211'),
(18092, 'The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the desolate and fog-bound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay, in the eastern province of Massachusetts that would become Maine, the Scotsâ€”the only British troops between Canada and New Yorkâ€”harry rebel privateers and give shelter to American loyalists.   In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to â€œcaptivate, kill or destroyâ€ the foreign invaders. Second in command is Peleg Wadsworth, a veteran of the battles at Lexington and Long Island, once aide to General Washington, and a man who sees clearly what must be done to expel the invaders.   But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeatâ€”and have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides: an untested eighteen-year-old Scottish lieutenant named John Moore, who will begin an illustrious military career; and a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere, who will face court-martial for disobedience and cowardice.   Grounded firmly in history, inimitably told in Cornwellâ€™s thrilling narrative style, The Fort is the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between a superpower and a nation in the making.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9109'),
(18093, 'The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the desolate and fog-bound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay, in the eastern province of Massachusetts that would become Maine, the Scotsâ€”the only British troops between Canada and New Yorkâ€”harry rebel privateers and give shelter to American loyalists. In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to â€œcaptivate, kill or destroyâ€ the foreign invaders. Second in command is Peleg Wadsworth, a veteran of the battles at Lexington and Long Island, once aide to General Washington, and a man who sees clearly what must be done to expel the invaders. But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeatâ€”and have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides: an untested eighteen-year-old Scottish lieutenant named John Moore, who will begin an illustrious military career; and a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere, who will face court-martial for disobedience and cowardice. Grounded firmly in history, inimitably told in Cornwellâ€™s thrilling narrative style, The Fort is the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between a superpower and a nation in the making.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16681'),
(18094, 'The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the desolate and fog-bound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay, in the eastern province of Massachusetts that would become Maine, the Scotsâ€”the only British troops between Canada and New Yorkâ€”harry rebel privateers and give shelter to American loyalists. In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to â€œcaptivate, kill or destroyâ€ the foreign invaders. Second in command is Peleg Wadsworth, a veteran of the battles at Lexington and Long Island, once aide to General Washington, and a man who sees clearly what must be done to expel the invaders. But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeatâ€”and have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides: an untested eighteen-year-old Scottish lieutenant named John Moore, who will begin an illustrious military career; and a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere, who will face court-martial for disobedience and cowardice. Grounded firmly in history, inimitably told in Cornwellâ€™s thrilling narrative style, The Fort is the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between a superpower and a nation in the making.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26626'),
(18095, 'The Fortress of Solitude', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  If there still remains any doubt, this novel confirms Lethem''s status as the poet of Brooklyn and of motherless boys. Projected through the prism of race relations, black music and pop art, Lethem''s stunning, disturbing and authoritatively observed narrative covers three decades of turbulent events on Dean Street, Brooklyn. When Abraham and Rachel Ebdus arrive there in the early 1970s, they are among the first whites to venture into a mainly black neighborhood that is just beginning to be called Boerum Hill. Abraham is a painter who abandons his craft to construct tiny, virtually indistinguishable movie frames in which nothing happens. Ex-hippie Rachel, a misguided liberal who will soon abandon her family, insists on sending their son, Dylan, to public school, where he stands out like a white flag. Desperately lonely, regularly attacked and abused by the black kids ("yoked," in the parlance), Dylan is saved by his unlikely friendship with his neighbor Mingus Rude, the son of a once-famous black singer, Barnett Rude Jr., who is now into cocaine and rage at the world. The story of Dylan and Mingus, both motherless boys, is one of loyalty and betrayal, and eventually different paths in life. Dylan will become a music journalist, and Mingus, for all his intelligence, kindness, verbal virtuosity and courage, will wind up behind bars. Meanwhile, the plot manages to encompass pop music from punk rock to rap, avant-garde art, graffiti, drug use, gentrification, the New York prison system-and to sing a vibrant, sometimes heartbreaking ballad of Brooklyn throughout. Lethem seems to have devoured the ''70s, ''80s and ''90s-inhaled them whole-and he reproduces them faithfully on the page, in prose as supple as silk and as bright, explosive and illuminating as fireworks. Scary and funny and seriously surreal, the novel hurtles on a trajectory that feels inevitable. By the time Dylan begins to break out of the fortress of solitude that has been his life, readers have shared his pain and understood his dreams.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dylan Ebdus is a white kid on a black-and-brown street. As he struggles through public school in 1970s Brooklyn, he is "yoked"--put in a headlock--and frisked for change on a daily basis. Testing into a good Manhattan school, he steps into a long-lasting role: vulnerable among street kids, he''s street-smart compared to his new, privileged pals, and loathes himself as a poseur with both crowds. When he finds a ring that grants the power of flight, he''s afraid to use it, but his black friend, Mingus, is not. They try their hand at crime fighting, but like many teenage endeavors, the project fizzles out. Lethem is a tremendous writer, and in the first half he uses magnificent language to capture the complexity of a child''s worldview. When he jump-cuts to Dylan''s adulthood, however, his switch to a more conventional narrative style is disappointing. The story regains momentum when Dylan rediscovers the ring and a new power it offers, then returns to his old street and ponders a sacrifice: whether to give the ring to the boy who yoked him the most. Lethem explores many avenues: the origins of gentrification, the development of soul music, the genealogy of graffiti, the seeds of the crack epidemic. The different concepts converge in the closing pages, but this often-excellent novel labors under the weight of its ambition.\n  <em>\n   Keir Graff\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4119'),
(18096, 'The Fortress of Solitude', 'Jonathan Lethem', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20394'),
(18097, 'The Fortress of the Pearl', 'Moorcock, Micheal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21614'),
(18098, 'Fortunate Harbor', 'Emilie Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A juicy, sprawling beach read with a suspenseful twist, Richards''s sunny sequel to\n <em>\n  Happiness Key\n </em>\n reveals the next life step for Tracy Deloche and her tenant friends in Florida. The group of seaside cottages are the only asset Tracy retained after her ex-husband, CJ Craimer, landed in prison because of some shady business dealings. The former Bel-Air trophy wife now works at a recreation center while treasuring her support system: Rishi and Janya Kapur, a young Indian-American couple trying to have a baby; pie maker entrepreneur Wanda and cop husband Ken Gray; Alice Brook and her granddaughter, Olivia Symington; plus secretive newcomers Dana Turner and her daughter, Lizzie, who dish up a poignant mystery for Tracy and friends to solve. When CJ unexpectedly shows up, wanting to reconnect after he''s released from prison pending a new trial, Tracy ponders giving him a second chance. But then there''s Marsh Egan, her off/on environmentalist boyfriend whose troublemaking ex, Sylvia, is also back in town. Secrets, friendships, and the Florida gulf coast all come into play in Richards''s engaging latest.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The five women who own cottages at Happiness Key could not be more different, but that doesn''t stop them from being friends. Janya hasn''t been able to get pregnant, and her husband has turned cold and distant. For support she turns to Tracy, a type A businesswoman who is being stalked by her criminal ex-husband as she tries to reenter the dating world. But Tracy''s problems can''t compare to those of Wanda, who has lost her job and struggles to start a business of her own as suggested by Alice, who has offered to babysit the daughter of new Happiness Key resident Dana. Women''s-fiction favorite Richards uses wit, suspense, and the relatable and extremely touching friendships of her main characters to weave an exciting and mysterious story revolving around a secret Dana is hiding whose revelation may well change their lives forever. --Claire Orphan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5727'),
(18099, 'Fortunate Harbor', 'Emilie Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A juicy, sprawling beach read with a suspenseful twist, Richards''s sunny sequel to\n <em>\n  Happiness Key\n </em>\n reveals the next life step for Tracy Deloche and her tenant friends in Florida. The group of seaside cottages are the only asset Tracy retained after her ex-husband, CJ Craimer, landed in prison because of some shady business dealings. The former Bel-Air trophy wife now works at a recreation center while treasuring her support system: Rishi and Janya Kapur, a young Indian-American couple trying to have a baby; pie maker entrepreneur Wanda and cop husband Ken Gray; Alice Brook and her granddaughter, Olivia Symington; plus secretive newcomers Dana Turner and her daughter, Lizzie, who dish up a poignant mystery for Tracy and friends to solve. When CJ unexpectedly shows up, wanting to reconnect after he''s released from prison pending a new trial, Tracy ponders giving him a second chance. But then there''s Marsh Egan, her off/on environmentalist boyfriend whose troublemaking ex, Sylvia, is also back in town. Secrets, friendships, and the Florida gulf coast all come into play in Richards''s engaging latest.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The five women who own cottages at Happiness Key could not be more different, but that doesn''t stop them from being friends. Janya hasn''t been able to get pregnant, and her husband has turned cold and distant. For support she turns to Tracy, a type A businesswoman who is being stalked by her criminal ex-husband as she tries to reenter the dating world. But Tracy''s problems can''t compare to those of Wanda, who has lost her job and struggles to start a business of her own as suggested by Alice, who has offered to babysit the daughter of new Happiness Key resident Dana. Women''s-fiction favorite Richards uses wit, suspense, and the relatable and extremely touching friendships of her main characters to weave an exciting and mysterious story revolving around a secret Dana is hiding whose revelation may well change their lives forever. --Claire Orphan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13574'),
(18100, 'Fortunate Harbor', 'Emilie Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A juicy, sprawling beach read with a suspenseful twist, Richards''s sunny sequel to\n <em>\n  Happiness Key\n </em>\n reveals the next life step for Tracy Deloche and her tenant friends in Florida. The group of seaside cottages are the only asset Tracy retained after her ex-husband, CJ Craimer, landed in prison because of some shady business dealings. The former Bel-Air trophy wife now works at a recreation center while treasuring her support system: Rishi and Janya Kapur, a young Indian-American couple trying to have a baby; pie maker entrepreneur Wanda and cop husband Ken Gray; Alice Brook and her granddaughter, Olivia Symington; plus secretive newcomers Dana Turner and her daughter, Lizzie, who dish up a poignant mystery for Tracy and friends to solve. When CJ unexpectedly shows up, wanting to reconnect after he''s released from prison pending a new trial, Tracy ponders giving him a second chance. But then there''s Marsh Egan, her off/on environmentalist boyfriend whose troublemaking ex, Sylvia, is also back in town. Secrets, friendships, and the Florida gulf coast all come into play in Richards''s engaging latest.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The five women who own cottages at Happiness Key could not be more different, but that doesn''t stop them from being friends. Janya hasn''t been able to get pregnant, and her husband has turned cold and distant. For support she turns to Tracy, a type A businesswoman who is being stalked by her criminal ex-husband as she tries to reenter the dating world. But Tracy''s problems can''t compare to those of Wanda, who has lost her job and struggles to start a business of her own as suggested by Alice, who has offered to babysit the daughter of new Happiness Key resident Dana. Women''s-fiction favorite Richards uses wit, suspense, and the relatable and extremely touching friendships of her main characters to weave an exciting and mysterious story revolving around a secret Dana is hiding whose revelation may well change their lives forever. --Claire Orphan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19013'),
(18101, 'The Fortunate Pilgrim', 'Mario Puzo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Puzo has called this 1965 pre-Godfather novel his personal favorite of his oeuvre. It recounts the life of Lucia Santa Angeluzzi-Corbo, a Southern Italian immigrant who settles in New York in the 1920s. This "very colorful and perceptive novel" remains "highly readable" for today''s audience (LJ 3/15/65).\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  efore The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo''s classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell''s Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant, comic and violent, and with a new preface by the author, The Fortunate Pilgrim is Italian-American fiction at its very best.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3054'),
(18102, 'The Fortunate Pilgrim', 'Mario Puzo', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Puzo has called this 1965 pre-Godfather novel his personal favorite of his oeuvre. It recounts the life of Lucia Santa Angeluzzi-Corbo, a Southern Italian immigrant who settles in New York in the 1920s. This "very colorful and perceptive novel" remains "highly readable" for today''s audience (LJ 3/15/65).\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  efore The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo''s classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell''s Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant, comic and violent, and with a new preface by the author, The Fortunate Pilgrim is Italian-American fiction at its very best.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12107'),
(18103, 'Fortune Cookie', 'Bryce Courtenay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for Samuel Oswald Wing, an advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who run the agency, are not what they seem. There is soon trouble when Simon falls in love with the forbidden Mercy B. Lord, the illegitimate daughter of a Japanese officer and a Chinese mother who abandoned her on the doorstep of a Catholic orphanage.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With no family or connections, this beautiful young woman is powerless to resist the evil influence of Beatrice Fong, a manipulative businesswoman, who, in league with the Wing brothers, lures her into the dark and dangerous international trade in sex workers and heroin trafficking involving the American CIA. Simon, my unlikely hero, must save her at any cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7028'),
(18104, 'Fortune Cookie', 'Bryce Courtenay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for Samuel Oswald Wing, an advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who run the agency, are not what they seem. There is soon trouble when Simon falls in love with the forbidden Mercy B. Lord, the illegitimate daughter of a Japanese officer and a Chinese mother who abandoned her on the doorstep of a Catholic orphanage.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With no family or connections, this beautiful young woman is powerless to resist the evil influence of Beatrice Fong, a manipulative businesswoman, who, in league with the Wing brothers, lures her into the dark and dangerous international trade in sex workers and heroin trafficking involving the American CIA. Simon, my unlikely hero, must save her at any cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9096'),
(18105, 'Fortune Cookie', 'Bryce Courtenay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for Samuel Oswald Wing, an advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who run the agency, are not what they seem. There is soon trouble when Simon falls in love with the forbidden Mercy B. Lord, the illegitimate daughter of a Japanese officer and a Chinese mother who abandoned her on the doorstep of a Catholic orphanage. With no family or connections, this beautiful young woman is powerless to resist the evil influence of Beatrice Fong, a manipulative businesswoman, who, in league with the Wing brothers, lures her into the dark and dangerous international trade in sex workers and heroin trafficking involving the American CIA. Simon, my unlikely hero, must save her at any cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16842'),
(18106, 'The Fortune of War', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing  book, which towers over its current rivals in  the genre like a three-decker over a ship''s  longboat."''Times Literary Supplement\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen''s past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2256'),
(18107, 'The Fortune of War', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship''s longboat."''Times Literary Supplement Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen''s past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14370'),
(18108, 'The Fortune of War', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship''s longboat."''Times Literary Supplement Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen''s past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance. .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22451'),
(18109, 'Fortune&#39;s Bride', 'Roberta Gellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Robert Moreton loved his life and duty in the army, it was all he ever wanted. He was happy to be sent to Portugal. . .until he came across Esmeralda Talbot, shipwrecked in a small Portuguese village and in danger of being forced to marry the headman''s son. Robert rescued Esmeralda, intending to send her immediately to England. Only there was no way he could do so, and to save her reputation from ruin, he married her. Esmeralda could not believe her luck. She had been in love with Robert since years before when he had danced with her at the Governor''s ball in India. Married to her dream! Now all she had to do was keep him from fulfilling his promise to annul the marriage. Robert knew life was brighter and better than it had ever been before-but he had no idea why. Esmeralda did not dare hint at her passion for him, lest her too-honorable husband send her to England. How was she ever to get Robert to realize he was in love and wanted to keep her beside him forever? Publisher''s Note: This book was originally published elsewhere in 1983.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1623');
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(18110, 'Fortune&#39;s Bride', 'Roberta Gellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Robert Moreton loved his life and duty in the army, it was all he ever wanted. He was happy to be sent to Portugal. . .until he came across Esmeralda Talbot, shipwrecked in a small Portuguese village and in danger of being forced to marry the headman''s son. Robert rescued Esmeralda, intending to send her immediately to England. Only there was no way he could do so, and to save her reputation from ruin, he married her. Esmeralda could not believe her luck. She had been in love with Robert since years before when he had danced with her at the Governor''s ball in India. Married to her dream! Now all she had to do was keep him from fulfilling his promise to annul the marriage. Robert knew life was brighter and better than it had ever been before-but he had no idea why. Esmeralda did not dare hint at her passion for him, lest her too-honorable husband send her to England. How was she ever to get Robert to realize he was in love and wanted to keep her beside him forever? Publisher''s Note: This book was originally published elsewhere in 1983.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23350'),
(18111, 'Fortune&#39;s Light', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dante Maxima Seven -- a world known to its inhabitants as Imprima. A world where "Madragi" -- huge social/economic entities wealthy beyond compare -- control the fate of millions..  Years ago, William Riker was part of the Starfleet delegation that opened Imprima to the Federation. Now the disappearance of an old friend -- Teller Conlon, who also served on that team -- draws Riker and the Enterprise(TM) across the galaxy, back to Imprima.  Because the jewel known as Fortune''s Light -- one of " Madraga" Criathis''s most priceless possessions -- has been stolen. And Teller Conlon stands accused of its theft. Now Riker must discover the truth behind the disappearance of both his friend and Fortune''s Light, no easy task on a world where treachery and intrigue are commonplace...and where even an old friend''s embrace may conceal the deadly bite of a dagger''s blade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2838'),
(18112, 'Fortune&#39;s Light', 'Michael Jan Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dante Maxima Seven -- a world known to its inhabitants as Imprima. A world where "Madragi" -- huge social/economic entities wealthy beyond compare -- control the fate of millions.. Years ago, William Riker was part of the Starfleet delegation that opened Imprima to the Federation. Now the disappearance of an old friend -- Teller Conlon, who also served on that team -- draws Riker and the Enterprise(TM) across the galaxy, back to Imprima. Because the jewel known as Fortune''s Light -- one of " Madraga" Criathis''s most priceless possessions -- has been stolen. And Teller Conlon stands accused of its theft. Now Riker must discover the truth behind the disappearance of both his friend and Fortune''s Light, no easy task on a world where treachery and intrigue are commonplace...and where even an old friend''s embrace may conceal the deadly bite of a dagger''s blade.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21994'),
(18113, 'Fortune&#39;s Rocks: A Novel', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hester Prynne never had it so good! The year is 1899, and Olympia Biddeford, the headstrong daughter of a Boston Brahmin family, has decided to test the limits of her cloistered world. Spending the summer at her father''s New Hampshire estate, the teenage heroine of\n <em>\n  Fortune''s Rocks\n </em>\n is entranced with the visiting salon of artists, writers, and lawyers. She''s especially captivated, however, by John Haskell, a charismatic physician who ministers to the blue-collar community in the nearby mill towns. This middle-aged Good Samaritan hires Olympia to assist him as a nurse, and their collaboration soon evolves into a fiery love affair. Alas, it''s only a matter of weeks before this passionate exercise in managed care is exposed--with disastrous consequences for the young, impregnated heroine. Even her adoring father now considers her "an overplump sixteen-year-old girl whose judgment can no longer be trusted," and insists that she break off her relationship:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "There is nothing more to be said on this subject," he says. She bites her lip to keep from crying out further. She holds the arms of her chair so tightly she later will have cramps in her fingers. She will refuse to obey him, she thinks. She will accept his implied challenge and set off on her own. But in the next moment, she asks herself: How will she be able to do that? Without her father''s support, she cannot hope to survive. And if she herself does not survive, then a child cannot live."\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n In the end, Anita Shreve''s seventh novel is a polished, supremely entertaining variation on __, with Olympia and Haskell sitting in for Catherine and Heathcliff. The author did some meticulous research for her New England background, which gives this study of one particular wayward woman some extra historical heft. Some readers may find the plot twists a bit pat. And despite Olympia''s efforts to be an independent woman, she overcomes her trials largely as a result of her family''s wealth and station, which takes the edge off Shreve''s feminist message. Still,\n <em>\n  Fortune''s Rocks\n </em>\n is a romance in the classic sense of the word, and should be enjoyed as such, unless the reader is absolutely allergic to happy endings.\n <em>\n  --Ted Leventhal\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The time is the turn of the last century, the setting a rocky New Hampshire coastline resort area nicknamed "Fortune''s Rocks." Olympia Biddeford, age 15, is walking the beach, feeling the first stirrings of her womanhood. The strong-willed daughter of an upstanding Boston couple, she soon "learns of desire" as she begins a passionate affair with a married writer, John Haskell, three times her age. From the moment they meet (he is a visiting friend of her father''s), they experience a sexual sparkAOlympia feels "liquid" in his presence. Soon, they fall into sinful trysting. Shreve (The Pilot''s Wife) serves up these opening events with breathless immediacy. Once the plot gets a chance to developAOlympia gets pregnant, gives up child, fights to get child backAit settles down considerably, turning into a modernized The Scarlet Letter, a tale of a woman attaining feminist independence by living outside her period''s societal mores. Reading, Brown (of TV''s The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd) clearly has the most fun at the beginning, where the story''s real heat and flushed excitement pours out. Listeners, too, may grow colder as the plot loses its torrid, forbidden edge. Based on the 1999 Little, Brown hardcover. (Dec.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7568'),
(18114, 'Fortune&#39;s Rocks: A Novel', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hester Prynne never had it so good! The year is 1899, and Olympia Biddeford, the headstrong daughter of a Boston Brahmin family, has decided to test the limits of her cloistered world. Spending the summer at her father''s New Hampshire estate, the teenage heroine of\n <em>\n  Fortune''s Rocks\n </em>\n is entranced with the visiting salon of artists, writers, and lawyers. She''s especially captivated, however, by John Haskell, a charismatic physician who ministers to the blue-collar community in the nearby mill towns. This middle-aged Good Samaritan hires Olympia to assist him as a nurse, and their collaboration soon evolves into a fiery love affair. Alas, it''s only a matter of weeks before this passionate exercise in managed care is exposed--with disastrous consequences for the young, impregnated heroine. Even her adoring father now considers her "an overplump sixteen-year-old girl whose judgment can no longer be trusted," and insists that she break off her relationship:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "There is nothing more to be said on this subject," he says. She bites her lip to keep from crying out further. She holds the arms of her chair so tightly she later will have cramps in her fingers. She will refuse to obey him, she thinks. She will accept his implied challenge and set off on her own. But in the next moment, she asks herself: How will she be able to do that? Without her father''s support, she cannot hope to survive. And if she herself does not survive, then a child cannot live."\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n In the end, Anita Shreve''s seventh novel is a polished, supremely entertaining variation on __, with Olympia and Haskell sitting in for Catherine and Heathcliff. The author did some meticulous research for her New England background, which gives this study of one particular wayward woman some extra historical heft. Some readers may find the plot twists a bit pat. And despite Olympia''s efforts to be an independent woman, she overcomes her trials largely as a result of her family''s wealth and station, which takes the edge off Shreve''s feminist message. Still,\n <em>\n  Fortune''s Rocks\n </em>\n is a romance in the classic sense of the word, and should be enjoyed as such, unless the reader is absolutely allergic to happy endings.\n <em>\n  --Ted Leventhal\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The time is the turn of the last century, the setting a rocky New Hampshire coastline resort area nicknamed "Fortune''s Rocks." Olympia Biddeford, age 15, is walking the beach, feeling the first stirrings of her womanhood. The strong-willed daughter of an upstanding Boston couple, she soon "learns of desire" as she begins a passionate affair with a married writer, John Haskell, three times her age. From the moment they meet (he is a visiting friend of her father''s), they experience a sexual sparkAOlympia feels "liquid" in his presence. Soon, they fall into sinful trysting. Shreve (The Pilot''s Wife) serves up these opening events with breathless immediacy. Once the plot gets a chance to developAOlympia gets pregnant, gives up child, fights to get child backAit settles down considerably, turning into a modernized The Scarlet Letter, a tale of a woman attaining feminist independence by living outside her period''s societal mores. Reading, Brown (of TV''s The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd) clearly has the most fun at the beginning, where the story''s real heat and flushed excitement pours out. Listeners, too, may grow colder as the plot loses its torrid, forbidden edge. Based on the 1999 Little, Brown hardcover. (Dec.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12696'),
(18115, 'Fortune&#39;s rocks: a novel', 'Anita Shreve', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hester Prynne never had it so good! The year is 1899, and Olympia Biddeford, the headstrong daughter of a Boston Brahmin family, has decided to test the limits of her cloistered world. Spending the summer at her father''s New Hampshire estate, the teenage heroine of\n <em>\n  Fortune''s Rocks\n </em>\n is entranced with the visiting salon of artists, writers, and lawyers. She''s especially captivated, however, by John Haskell, a charismatic physician who ministers to the blue-collar community in the nearby mill towns. This middle-aged Good Samaritan hires Olympia to assist him as a nurse, and their collaboration soon evolves into a fiery love affair. Alas, it''s only a matter of weeks before this passionate exercise in managed care is exposed--with disastrous consequences for the young, impregnated heroine. Even her adoring father now considers her "an overplump sixteen-year-old girl whose judgment can no longer be trusted," and insists that she break off her relationship:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "There is nothing more to be said on this subject," he says. She bites her lip to keep from crying out further. She holds the arms of her chair so tightly she later will have cramps in her fingers. She will refuse to obey him, she thinks. She will accept his implied challenge and set off on her own. But in the next moment, she asks herself: How will she be able to do that? Without her father''s support, she cannot hope to survive. And if she herself does not survive, then a child cannot live."\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n In the end, Anita Shreve''s seventh novel is a polished, supremely entertaining variation on __, with Olympia and Haskell sitting in for Catherine and Heathcliff. The author did some meticulous research for her New England background, which gives this study of one particular wayward woman some extra historical heft. Some readers may find the plot twists a bit pat. And despite Olympia''s efforts to be an independent woman, she overcomes her trials largely as a result of her family''s wealth and station, which takes the edge off Shreve''s feminist message. Still,\n <em>\n  Fortune''s Rocks\n </em>\n is a romance in the classic sense of the word, and should be enjoyed as such, unless the reader is absolutely allergic to happy endings.\n <em>\n  --Ted Leventhal\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The time is the turn of the last century, the setting a rocky New Hampshire coastline resort area nicknamed "Fortune''s Rocks." Olympia Biddeford, age 15, is walking the beach, feeling the first stirrings of her womanhood. The strong-willed daughter of an upstanding Boston couple, she soon "learns of desire" as she begins a passionate affair with a married writer, John Haskell, three times her age. From the moment they meet (he is a visiting friend of her father''s), they experience a sexual sparkAOlympia feels "liquid" in his presence. Soon, they fall into sinful trysting. Shreve (The Pilot''s Wife) serves up these opening events with breathless immediacy. Once the plot gets a chance to developAOlympia gets pregnant, gives up child, fights to get child backAit settles down considerably, turning into a modernized The Scarlet Letter, a tale of a woman attaining feminist independence by living outside her period''s societal mores. Reading, Brown (of TV''s The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd) clearly has the most fun at the beginning, where the story''s real heat and flushed excitement pours out. Listeners, too, may grow colder as the plot loses its torrid, forbidden edge. Based on the 1999 Little, Brown hardcover. (Dec.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16266'),
(18116, 'Forty Signs of Rain', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this cerebral near-future novel, the first in a trilogy, Robinson (_The Years of Rice and Salt_) explores the events leading up to a worldwide catastrophe brought on by global warming. Each of his various viewpoint characters holds a small piece of the puzzle and can see calamity coming, but is helpless before the indifference of the politicians and capitalists who run America. Anna Quibler, a National Science Foundation official in Washington, D.C., sifts through dozens of funding proposals each day, while her husband, Charlie, handles life as a stay-at-home dad and telecommutes to his job as an environmental adviser to a liberal senator. Another scientist, Frank Vanderwal, finds his sterile worldview turned upside down after attending a lecture on Buddhist attitudes toward science given by the ambassador from Khembalung, a nation virtually inundated by the rising Indian Ocean. Robinson''s tale lacks the drama and excitement of such other novels dealing with global climate change as Bruce Sterling''s\n <em>\n  Heavy Weather\n </em>\n and John Barnes''s\n <em>\n  Mother of Storms\n </em>\n , but his portrayal of how actual scientists would deal with this disaster-in-the-making is utterly convincing. Robinson clearly cares deeply about our planet''s future, and he makes the reader care as well. FYI:_Robinson''s Mars_ trilogy (_Red Mars_, etc.) received one Nebula and two Hugo awards.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“An elegantly crafted and beguiling novel set in the very near future. Anna Quibler is a technocrat at the National Science Foundation while her husband, Charlie, takes care of their toddler and telecommutes as a legislative consultant to a senator. Their family life is a delight to observe, as are the interactions of the scientists at the NSF and related organizations. When a Buddhist delegation, whose country is being flooded because of climate change, opens an embassy near the NSF, the Quiblers befriend them and teach them to work the system of politics and grants. The Buddhists, in turn, affect the scientists in delightful and unexpectedly significant ways. The characters all share information and theories, appreciating the threat that global warming poses, but they just can''t seem to awaken a sense of urgency in the politicians who could do something about it. (Robinson''s characterizations of politicians are barbed, and often hilarious.) As the scientists focus on the minutiae of their lives, the specter of global warming looms over all, inexorably causing a change here, a change there, until all the imbalances combine to bring about a brilliantly visualized catastrophe that readers will not soon forget. Even as he outlines frighteningly plausible scenarios backed up by undeniable facts, the author charms with domesticity and humor. This beautifully paced novel stands on its own, but it is the first of a trilogy. As readers wait impatiently for the next volume, they will probably find themselves paying closer attention to science, to politics, and to the weather._â€“Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3698'),
(18117, 'Forty Signs of Rain', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this cerebral near-future novel, the first in a trilogy, Robinson (_The Years of Rice and Salt_) explores the events leading up to a worldwide catastrophe brought on by global warming. Each of his various viewpoint characters holds a small piece of the puzzle and can see calamity coming, but is helpless before the indifference of the politicians and capitalists who run America. Anna Quibler, a National Science Foundation official in Washington, D.C., sifts through dozens of funding proposals each day, while her husband, Charlie, handles life as a stay-at-home dad and telecommutes to his job as an environmental adviser to a liberal senator. Another scientist, Frank Vanderwal, finds his sterile worldview turned upside down after attending a lecture on Buddhist attitudes toward science given by the ambassador from Khembalung, a nation virtually inundated by the rising Indian Ocean. Robinson''s tale lacks the drama and excitement of such other novels dealing with global climate change as Bruce Sterling''s\n <em>\n  Heavy Weather\n </em>\n and John Barnes''s\n <em>\n  Mother of Storms\n </em>\n , but his portrayal of how actual scientists would deal with this disaster-in-the-making is utterly convincing. Robinson clearly cares deeply about our planet''s future, and he makes the reader care as well. FYI:_Robinson''s Mars_ trilogy (_Red Mars_, etc.) received one Nebula and two Hugo awards.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“An elegantly crafted and beguiling novel set in the very near future. Anna Quibler is a technocrat at the National Science Foundation while her husband, Charlie, takes care of their toddler and telecommutes as a legislative consultant to a senator. Their family life is a delight to observe, as are the interactions of the scientists at the NSF and related organizations. When a Buddhist delegation, whose country is being flooded because of climate change, opens an embassy near the NSF, the Quiblers befriend them and teach them to work the system of politics and grants. The Buddhists, in turn, affect the scientists in delightful and unexpectedly significant ways. The characters all share information and theories, appreciating the threat that global warming poses, but they just can''t seem to awaken a sense of urgency in the politicians who could do something about it. (Robinson''s characterizations of politicians are barbed, and often hilarious.) As the scientists focus on the minutiae of their lives, the specter of global warming looms over all, inexorably causing a change here, a change there, until all the imbalances combine to bring about a brilliantly visualized catastrophe that readers will not soon forget. Even as he outlines frighteningly plausible scenarios backed up by undeniable facts, the author charms with domesticity and humor. This beautifully paced novel stands on its own, but it is the first of a trilogy. As readers wait impatiently for the next volume, they will probably find themselves paying closer attention to science, to politics, and to the weather._â€“Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13568'),
(18118, 'Forty Signs of Rain', 'Robinson, Kim Stanley', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20817'),
(18119, 'Forty Stories', 'Anton Chekhov &amp; Robert Payne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean -- wherever my imagination ranges."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Anton Chekhov\n </p>\n <p>\n  If any one writer can be said to have invented the modem short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories. The abashed happiness of a woman in the presence of the husband who abandoned her years before. The obsequious terror of the official who accidentally sneezes on a general. The poignant astonishment of an aging Don Juan overtaken by love. Spanning the entirety of Chekhov''s career and including such masterpieces as "Surgery," "The Huntsman," "Anyuta," "Sleepy-head," "The Lady With the Pet Dog," and "The Bishop," this collection manages to be amusing, dazzling, and supremely moving -- often within a single page.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vintage Classic are-quality paperback editions of the world''s greatest written works. They are durably bound and are printed exclusively on acid-free paper.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Language Notes\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Text: English (translation)\n  <br />\n  Original Language: Russian\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7526'),
(18120, 'Forty Stories', 'Anton Chekhov &amp; Robert Payne', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean -- wherever my imagination ranges."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- Anton Chekhov\n </p>\n <p>\n  If any one writer can be said to have invented the modem short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories. The abashed happiness of a woman in the presence of the husband who abandoned her years before. The obsequious terror of the official who accidentally sneezes on a general. The poignant astonishment of an aging Don Juan overtaken by love. Spanning the entirety of Chekhov''s career and including such masterpieces as "Surgery," "The Huntsman," "Anyuta," "Sleepy-head," "The Lady With the Pet Dog," and "The Bishop," this collection manages to be amusing, dazzling, and supremely moving -- often within a single page.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Vintage Classic are-quality paperback editions of the world''s greatest written works. They are durably bound and are printed exclusively on acid-free paper.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Language Notes\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Text: English (translation)\n  <br />\n  Original Language: Russian\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8873'),
(18121, 'Forty Stories', 'Anton Chekhov; Robert Payne', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean -- wherever my imagination ranges."\n</p>\n<p>\n -- Anton Chekhov\n</p>\n<p>\n If any one writer can be said to have invented the modem short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing.\n</p>\n<p>\n And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories. The abashed happiness of a woman in the presence of the husband who abandoned her years before. The obsequious terror of the official who accidentally sneezes on a general. The poignant astonishment of an aging Don Juan overtaken by love. Spanning the entirety of Chekhov''s career and including such masterpieces as "Surgery," "The Huntsman," "Anyuta," "Sleepy-head," "The Lady With the Pet Dog," and "The Bishop," this collection manages to be amusing, dazzling, and supremely moving -- often within a single page.\n</p>\n<p>\n Vintage Classic are-quality paperback editions of the world''s greatest written works. They are durably bound and are printed exclusively on acid-free paper.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Language Notes\n</h3>\n<p>\n Text: English (translation)\n <br />\n Original Language: Russian\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16431'),
(18122, 'Forward the Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Grand Master of science fiction brings his most famous work, the epic Foundation series, to a posthumous close in this volume. Returning to the format of earlier books in the saga, he presents the story in discrete, novella-length segments, finally grappling with the figure at the center of the entire series: the adult Hari Seldon, creator of psychohistory and father of the Foundation itself (the young Seldon was featured in the previous series novel, Prelude to Foundation ). Here, Seldon confronts various threats to the Empire or to the psychohistory project, thwarting them for the most part by his characteristic brand of informed intuition. In part I, Seldon recognizes the rise of a dangerous anti-Imperial movement led by the charismatic Jo-Jo Joranum, and defuses it while simultaneously backing into the post of First Minister. In the second segment (of five), Seldon narrowly avoids an attempt on his life but cannot prevent the assassination of the Emperor Cleon I. Seldon faces personal as well as political setbacks while civilization crumbles. This volume neatly sews up the series, though it offers few real surprises. Most interesting is the glimpse it affords of Asimov himself, obviously personified in Seldon. The psychohistorian''s vast intellectual interest, his concern for the future of learning in a time of decline, and his frustration in the face of mortality, ring true with special poignance. Asimov''s fans should savor this final taste of his unique persona.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-This prequel to the "Foundation" series chronicles the life of Hari Sheldon as he struggles with his developing science of psychohistory in order to secure humanity''s survival. It works best when read in conjunction with the previous six titles. However, Asimov has left readers with a fascinating portrayal of a man set against the backdrop of the "rise and fall of the galactic empire." It is well written and peopled with believable characters. Essential for all science-fiction collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5008'),
(18123, 'Forward the Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This hardback edition matches the binding and cover design of The Isaac Asimov Collection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15277'),
(18124, 'Forward the Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The late Grand Master of science fiction brings his most famous work, the epic Foundation series, to a posthumous close in this volume. Returning to the format of earlier books in the saga, he presents the story in discrete, novella-length segments, finally grappling with the figure at the center of the entire series: the adult Hari Seldon, creator of psychohistory and father of the Foundation itself (the young Seldon was featured in the previous series novel, Prelude to Foundation ). Here, Seldon confronts various threats to the Empire or to the psychohistory project, thwarting them for the most part by his characteristic brand of informed intuition. In part I, Seldon recognizes the rise of a dangerous anti-Imperial movement led by the charismatic Jo-Jo Joranum, and defuses it while simultaneously backing into the post of First Minister. In the second segment (of five), Seldon narrowly avoids an attempt on his life but cannot prevent the assassination of the Emperor Cleon I. Seldon faces personal as well as political setbacks while civilization crumbles. This volume neatly sews up the series, though it offers few real surprises. Most interesting is the glimpse it affords of Asimov himself, obviously personified in Seldon. The psychohistorian''s vast intellectual interest, his concern for the future of learning in a time of decline, and his frustration in the face of mortality, ring true with special poignance. Asimov''s fans should savor this final taste of his unique persona.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-This prequel to the "Foundation" series chronicles the life of Hari Sheldon as he struggles with his developing science of psychohistory in order to secure humanity''s survival. It works best when read in conjunction with the previous six titles. However, Asimov has left readers with a fascinating portrayal of a man set against the backdrop of the "rise and fall of the galactic empire." It is well written and peopled with believable characters. Essential for all science-fiction collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19646'),
(18125, 'Forward the foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This hardback edition matches the binding and cover design of The Isaac Asimov Collection.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28281'),
(18126, 'Foucault&#39;s Pendulum', 'Umberto Eco', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance."THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEThree clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating a long lazy game--until the game starts taking over....Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco--or indeed anyone--has ever devised.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/396'),
(18127, 'Foucault&#39;s Pendulum', 'Umberto Eco', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlledâ€”a point located in Paris, France, at Foucaultâ€™s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth. Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15329'),
(18128, 'Foucault&#39;s Pendulum', 'Umberto Eco', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance."THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEThree clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating a long lazy game--until the game starts taking over....Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco--or indeed anyone--has ever devised.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24548'),
(18129, 'Foul Play', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Amy Klasse loses her TV job to a dancing chicken, handsome veterinarian Jake Elliott rescues her with an offer to be his receptionist. Jake just can''t resist a damsel in distress, and Amy certainly doesn''t mind Jake''s charming sincerity.   Then suddenly the job-stealing chicken disappears and Amy is suspected of foul play. Amy and Jake search for clues to prove her innocence. But will Jake be able to prove to Amy that love, too, is a mystery worth solving?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4757'),
(18130, 'Foul Play', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Amy Klasse loses her TV job to a dancing chicken, handsome veterinarian Jake Elliott rescues her with an offer to be his receptionist. Jake just can''t resist a damsel in distress, and Amy certainly doesn''t mind Jake''s charming sincerity.   Then suddenly the job-stealing chicken disappears and Amy is suspected of foul play. Amy and Jake search for clues to prove her innocence. But will Jake be able to prove to Amy that love, too, is a mystery worth solving?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9599'),
(18131, 'Foul Play', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Amy Klasse loses her TV job to a dancing chicken, handsome veterinarian Jake Elliott rescues her with an offer to be his receptionist. Jake just can''t resist a damsel in distress, and Amy certainly doesn''t mind Jake''s charming sincerity. Then suddenly the job-stealing chicken disappears and Amy is suspected of foul play. Amy and Jake search for clues to prove her innocence. But will Jake be able to prove to Amy that love, too, is a mystery worth solving?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15226'),
(18132, 'Found Money', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For anyone who''s ever dreamed of finding a cash windfall, Grippando''s (The Abduction) new crime novel offers a cautionary tale of greed, family secrets and the dangers of getting what you wish for. Just before Frank Duffy dies, he tells his physician son, Ryan, that there is $2 million hidden in the attic, and that Frank got the money through blackmail?albeit off someone who "deserved it." The level-headed Ryan considers both claims unbelievable?until he finds the money. What secrets had his mild-mannered, hard-working father been hiding? Meanwhile, Amy Parkins, while struggling to support her daughter and her grandmother and to put herself through law school, receives $200,000 from an anonymous benefactor, apparently Frank Duffy, whom she''d never met. Why? Could the gift have anything to do with her mother''s mysterious suicide 20 years earlier? Troubled by the criminal implications of his father''s legacy, Ryan decides he can''t touch the cash until he knows where it came from. His questions kick off a wild ride involving lawyers and guns, Panamanian banks, seductive strangers and too much FBI interest for comfort. Amy, too, tries to trace the money, putting her on a collision course with Ryan and his greed-maddened family. As Ryan and Amy search for the money''s source and meaning, they uncover a conspiracy involving high-ranking government officials, multi-billion-dollar corporations and a hidden crime committed on a hot summer night years ago. The final revelation is a real kicker, but it would carry even more force if overly tricky plot contrivances hadn''t diluted the suspense of what came before.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grippando (The Abduction, LJ 3/15/98) has done it again, crafting a thrilling scenario filled with terrifying images of money''s dark side. Dr. Ryan Duffy returns home to attend his father''s funeral, expecting to console his mother. Instead, his father''s dying words, wrought with allusions to blackmail, encourage Ryan to seek out an unexpected pile of cash squirreled away in the attic. Mom is not talking about the millions there, and Ryan''s pregnant sister and abusive brother-in-law turn sinister. Meanwhile, single mom Amy Parkens receives an anonymous package from the dying Duffy Senior?$200,000 in cash in a crockpot box. Amy traces the money to the Duffys through the crockpot warranty, and this results in an immediate but wary attraction between Amy and Ryan. The pair circle around a decades-old mystery involving their parents and those they considered their most trusted friends and allies. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Susan A. Zappia, Maricopa Cty. Lib. Dist., Phoenix\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4861'),
(18133, 'Found Money', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For anyone who''s ever dreamed of finding a cash windfall, Grippando''s (The Abduction) new crime novel offers a cautionary tale of greed, family secrets and the dangers of getting what you wish for. Just before Frank Duffy dies, he tells his physician son, Ryan, that there is $2 million hidden in the attic, and that Frank got the money through blackmail?albeit off someone who "deserved it." The level-headed Ryan considers both claims unbelievable?until he finds the money. What secrets had his mild-mannered, hard-working father been hiding? Meanwhile, Amy Parkins, while struggling to support her daughter and her grandmother and to put herself through law school, receives $200,000 from an anonymous benefactor, apparently Frank Duffy, whom she''d never met. Why? Could the gift have anything to do with her mother''s mysterious suicide 20 years earlier? Troubled by the criminal implications of his father''s legacy, Ryan decides he can''t touch the cash until he knows where it came from. His questions kick off a wild ride involving lawyers and guns, Panamanian banks, seductive strangers and too much FBI interest for comfort. Amy, too, tries to trace the money, putting her on a collision course with Ryan and his greed-maddened family. As Ryan and Amy search for the money''s source and meaning, they uncover a conspiracy involving high-ranking government officials, multi-billion-dollar corporations and a hidden crime committed on a hot summer night years ago. The final revelation is a real kicker, but it would carry even more force if overly tricky plot contrivances hadn''t diluted the suspense of what came before.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grippando (The Abduction, LJ 3/15/98) has done it again, crafting a thrilling scenario filled with terrifying images of money''s dark side. Dr. Ryan Duffy returns home to attend his father''s funeral, expecting to console his mother. Instead, his father''s dying words, wrought with allusions to blackmail, encourage Ryan to seek out an unexpected pile of cash squirreled away in the attic. Mom is not talking about the millions there, and Ryan''s pregnant sister and abusive brother-in-law turn sinister. Meanwhile, single mom Amy Parkens receives an anonymous package from the dying Duffy Senior?$200,000 in cash in a crockpot box. Amy traces the money to the Duffys through the crockpot warranty, and this results in an immediate but wary attraction between Amy and Ryan. The pair circle around a decades-old mystery involving their parents and those they considered their most trusted friends and allies. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Susan A. Zappia, Maricopa Cty. Lib. Dist., Phoenix\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10040'),
(18134, 'Found Money', 'James Grippando', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n For anyone who''s ever dreamed of finding a cash windfall, Grippando''s (The Abduction) new crime novel offers a cautionary tale of greed, family secrets and the dangers of getting what you wish for. Just before Frank Duffy dies, he tells his physician son, Ryan, that there is $2 million hidden in the attic, and that Frank got the money through blackmail?albeit off someone who "deserved it." The level-headed Ryan considers both claims unbelievable?until he finds the money. What secrets had his mild-mannered, hard-working father been hiding? Meanwhile, Amy Parkins, while struggling to support her daughter and her grandmother and to put herself through law school, receives $200,000 from an anonymous benefactor, apparently Frank Duffy, whom she''d never met. Why? Could the gift have anything to do with her mother''s mysterious suicide 20 years earlier? Troubled by the criminal implications of his father''s legacy, Ryan decides he can''t touch the cash until he knows where it came from. His questions kick off a wild ride involving lawyers and guns, Panamanian banks, seductive strangers and too much FBI interest for comfort. Amy, too, tries to trace the money, putting her on a collision course with Ryan and his greed-maddened family. As Ryan and Amy search for the money''s source and meaning, they uncover a conspiracy involving high-ranking government officials, multi-billion-dollar corporations and a hidden crime committed on a hot summer night years ago. The final revelation is a real kicker, but it would carry even more force if overly tricky plot contrivances hadn''t diluted the suspense of what came before.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grippando (The Abduction, LJ 3/15/98) has done it again, crafting a thrilling scenario filled with terrifying images of money''s dark side. Dr. Ryan Duffy returns home to attend his father''s funeral, expecting to console his mother. Instead, his father''s dying words, wrought with allusions to blackmail, encourage Ryan to seek out an unexpected pile of cash squirreled away in the attic. Mom is not talking about the millions there, and Ryan''s pregnant sister and abusive brother-in-law turn sinister. Meanwhile, single mom Amy Parkens receives an anonymous package from the dying Duffy Senior?$200,000 in cash in a crockpot box. Amy traces the money to the Duffys through the crockpot warranty, and this results in an immediate but wary attraction between Amy and Ryan. The pair circle around a decades-old mystery involving their parents and those they considered their most trusted friends and allies. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  -?Susan A. Zappia, Maricopa Cty. Lib. Dist., Phoenix\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19817'),
(18135, 'Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Foundation\n </em>\n marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn''t look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (_Foundation_,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for "Best All-Time Series." It''s science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field.\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.\n</p>\n<p>\n But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind''s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5011'),
(18136, 'Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the futureâ€”a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empireâ€”both scientists and scholarsâ€”and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankindâ€™s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slavesâ€”or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14901');
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(18137, 'Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Foundation\n </em>\n marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn''t look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (_Foundation_,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n ) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for "Best All-Time Series." It''s science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field.\n <em>\n  --Brooks Peck\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.\n</p>\n<p>\n But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind''s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19645'),
(18138, 'Foundation', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the futureâ€”a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empireâ€”both scientists and scholarsâ€”and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankindâ€™s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slavesâ€”or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28280'),
(18139, 'Foundation (The Foundation Series)', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the futureâ€”a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empireâ€”both scientists and scholarsâ€”and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankindâ€™s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slavesâ€”or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction. From the Hardcover edition.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Long after Earth was forgotten, a peaceful and unified galaxy took shape, an Empire governed from the majestic city planet of Trantor. The system worked, and grew, for countless generations. Everyone believed it would work forever. Everyone except Hari Seldon. As the great scientific thinker of his age, Seldon could not be ignored. Reluctantly, the Commission of Public Safety agreed to finance the Seldon Plan. The coming disaster was predicted by Seldonâ€™s advances in psychohistory, the mathematics of very large human numbers, and it could not be averted. The Empire was doomed. Soon Trantor would lie in ruins. Chaos would overtake humanity. But the Seldon Plan was a long term strategy to minimise the worst of what was to come. Two Foundations were set up at opposite ends of the galaxy. Of the Second nothing can be told. It guards the secrets of psychohistory. Foundation is the story of the First Foundation, on the remote planet of Terminus, from which those secrets were withheld.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25633'),
(18140, 'Foundation &amp; Chaos', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25631'),
(18141, 'Foundation 1 - Foundation', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26044'),
(18142, 'Foundation 2 - Foundation and Empire', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26045'),
(18143, 'Foundation 3 - Second Foundation', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26046'),
(18144, 'Foundation 4 - Foundation&#39;s Edge', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26047'),
(18145, 'Foundation 5 - Foundation and Earth', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26048'),
(18146, 'Foundation 6 - Prelude to Foundation', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26049'),
(18147, 'Foundation 7 - Forward the Foundation', 'Asimov, Isaac', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26050'),
(18148, 'Foundation and chaos', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Isaac Asimov''s renowned Foundation Trilogy pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern science fiction and shaped many of its best writers. With the permission and blessing of the Asimov estate, the epic saga left unfinished by the Grand Master himself now continues with this second masterful volume.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With Hari Seldon on trial for treason, the Galactic Empire''s long-anticipated migration to Star''s End is about to begin. But the mission''s brilliant robot leader, R. Daneel Olivaw, has discovered a potential enemy far deadlier--and closer--than he ever imagined. *One of his own kind.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A freak accident erases the basic commandments in humaniform robot Lodovik Trema''s positronic brain. Now Lodovic''s service to humankind is no longer bound by destiny, but by will. To ensure his loyalty, Daneel has Lodovic secretly reprogrammed. But can he be trusted? Now, other robots are beginning to question their mission--and Daneel''s strategy. And stirrings of rebellion, too, are infecting their human counterparts. Among them is a young woman with awesome psychic abilities, a reluctant leader with the power to join man and robot in a quest for common freedom.or mutual destruction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Foundation Saga Continues **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Read Gregory Benford''s *Foundation''s Fear,* the first novel in this bold new series and *Secret Foundation,* the concluding volume from David Brin.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25634'),
(18149, 'Foundation and Earth', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man''s fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8159'),
(18150, 'Foundation and Earth', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man''s fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15017'),
(18151, 'Foundation and Earth', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man''s fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia. Springing from the same impulse that has fed his myriad nonfiction work, the novel''s debate is enlivened by Asimov''s fervid curiosity and his restless urge to explain everything, right down to the human passions that have largely vanished from his fiction. In fact, the characters, the tie-ins to Asimov''s Robot series and the search''s revelations suffer from the impersonal neatness that has handicapped Asimov''s other fiction. He has, however, found an ingenious way around his clumsiness with novelistic narrative by employing a formal fairy tale structure in which the different worlds represent tasks or gifts or wishes, their fair aspect hiding a deadly surprise. As a result, this rather lightweight addendum to the series breathes in a way his heavier, more substantial books seldom do. Paperback rights to Ballantine/Del Rey; BOMC alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man''s fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19644'),
(18152, 'Foundation and Earth', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man''s fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man''s fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28279'),
(18153, 'Foundation and Empire', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanityâ€™s light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence.Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empireâ€”still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empireâ€™s glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon.But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called The Muleâ€”a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleetsâ€¦a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5012'),
(18154, 'Foundation and Empire', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Isaac Asimov Collection Edition. Decorative imitation leather blue Hardcover with gold imprinted spine. Originally available from Doubleday by subscription only.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14911'),
(18155, 'Foundation and Empire', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanityâ€™s light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence.Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empireâ€”still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empireâ€™s glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon.But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called The Muleâ€”a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleetsâ€¦a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19643'),
(18156, 'Foundation and empire', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Isaac Asimov Collection Edition. Decorative imitation leather blue Hardcover with gold imprinted spine. Originally available from Doubleday by subscription only.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Isaac Asimov Collection Edition. Decorative imitation leather blue Hardcover with gold imprinted spine. Originally available from Doubleday by subscription only.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28278'),
(18157, 'Foundation&#39;s Edge', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5014'),
(18158, 'Foundation&#39;s Edge', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15257'),
(18159, 'Foundation&#39;s Edge', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19642'),
(18160, 'Foundation&#39;s Edge', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Now, 498 years after its founding, the Foundation seemed to be following the Seldon Plan perfectly. Too perfectly. Now an impossible planet -- with impossible powers -- threatens to upset the Seldon Plan for good unless two men, sworn enemies, can work together to save it!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28277'),
(18161, 'Foundation&#39;s fear', 'Gregory Benford &amp; Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n First in the stunning Second Foundation Trilogy\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hari Seldon has been nominated as First Minister by Emperor Clean. But as his appointment is being considered, Hari''s simple life grows complex with bodyguards, assassination attempts, staff discord and the continuing public debate over artificial intelligence. As the friction over whether robots have souls heats up, two A.l.s, Joan of Arc and Voltaire, go rogue and flee. The chase is on.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A rousing adventure that combines intellectual debate with the ingenious possibilities of true science fiction, *Foundation''s* Fear will bring Asimov''s greatest creation back to a new and bestselling life.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Gregory Benford won the Neubla Award in 1980 for his novel Timescape.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "[Benford] brings out the complexities of a galactic empire that Asimov never filled out..the first book stands well on its own."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *''Denver Post*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "[Benford] took on the huge task of answering questions [raised in the original], and difficult as it may sound, he pulled it off with style..Rest assured, Asimov''s work is in good hands."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *''Craig E. Engler\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Editor and Publisher\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n of Science Fiction Weekly*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A richly rewarding delight.Benford writes up to his usual high standard and excels in bringing Asimovian concepts.to vivid, visually compelling life."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *''Publishers Weekly*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n (starred review)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Intriguing and engrossing.[a] curious blend of reinventions and retrospective criticism."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ''*Kirkus Reviews*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n (starred review)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25752'),
(18162, 'Foundation&#39;s Friends', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25636'),
(18163, 'Foundation&#39;s Triumph', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One Last Adventure!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Isaac Asimov''s Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction.The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of Psychohistory, *Foundation* pioneered many themes of modern science fiction. Now, with the approval of the Asimov estate, three of today''s most acclaimed authors have completed the epic the Grand Master left unfinished.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Second Foundation Trilogy begins with Gregory Benford''s *Foundation''s Fear,* telling the origins of Hari Seldon, the Foundation''s creator. Greg Bear''s *Foundation and Chaos* relates the epic tale of Seldon''s downfall and the first stirrings of robotic rebellion. Now, in David Brin''s *Foundation''s Triumph,* Seldon is about to escape exile and risk everything for one final quest-a search for knowledge and the power it bestows. The outcome of this final journey may secure humankind''s future-or witness its final downfall...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25637'),
(18164, 'The Foundations of Paradise', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Published in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke''s recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not necessarily liking what they find. The religious images that run throughout Clarke''s work also are present here.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Clarke once again sounds his grand theme...man is most himself when he...challenges the very laws of the universe." --\n  <em>\n   -The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7459'),
(18165, 'The Foundations of Paradise', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Published in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke''s recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not necessarily liking what they find. The religious images that run throughout Clarke''s work also are present here.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Clarke once again sounds his grand theme...man is most himself when he...challenges the very laws of the universe." --\n  <em>\n   -The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8955'),
(18166, 'Founding America: Documents From the Revolution to the Bill of Rights', 'Jack N. Rakove', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, by Various, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â Modern American politicians refer to â€œthe foundersâ€ so often that theyâ€™re in danger of becoming clichÃ©s. But Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail and John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe, and the other authors included in this new collection were a wholly uniqueâ€”and complexâ€”group of individuals, graced with extraordinary intellectual powers, a profound dedication to their ideals, and a striking ability to articulate those ideals in clear and passionate prose.Â This original anthology of their writings, many of them far less familiar to us than they should be, demonstrates the depth of their thinkingâ€”and of their disagreements. It covers the full range of events from 1773 to 1789: that is, from the early debates about whether the North American colonies should declare their independence from England, to the ratification of the Constitution and the first ten amendments (the Bill of Rights).Â Among the documents included are papers from the first and second Continental Congresses, the Articles of Confederation, Washingtonâ€™s Farewell Address to his armies, and extensive excerpts from the Federalist papers and the Madisonâ€“Jefferson correspondence on the Constitution.Â Jack N. Rakove is W.Â  R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1980. He is the author of four books on the American Revolutionary era, including The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, and Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, which received the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in History.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4909'),
(18167, 'Founding America: Documents From the Revolution to the Bill of Rights', 'Jack N. Rakove', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, by Various, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â Modern American politicians refer to â€œthe foundersâ€ so often that theyâ€™re in danger of becoming clichÃ©s. But Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail and John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe, and the other authors included in this new collection were a wholly uniqueâ€”and complexâ€”group of individuals, graced with extraordinary intellectual powers, a profound dedication to their ideals, and a striking ability to articulate those ideals in clear and passionate prose.Â This original anthology of their writings, many of them far less familiar to us than they should be, demonstrates the depth of their thinkingâ€”and of their disagreements. It covers the full range of events from 1773 to 1789: that is, from the early debates about whether the North American colonies should declare their independence from England, to the ratification of the Constitution and the first ten amendments (the Bill of Rights).Â Among the documents included are papers from the first and second Continental Congresses, the Articles of Confederation, Washingtonâ€™s Farewell Address to his armies, and extensive excerpts from the Federalist papers and the Madisonâ€“Jefferson correspondence on the Constitution.Â Jack N. Rakove is W.Â  R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1980. He is the author of four books on the American Revolutionary era, including The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, and Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, which received the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in History.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12087'),
(18168, 'Founding America: Documents From the Revolution to the Bill of Rights', 'Jack N. Rakove', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, by Various, is part of the Barnes &amp; Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &amp; Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes &amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.Â Modern American politicians refer to â€œthe foundersâ€ so often that theyâ€™re in danger of becoming clichÃ©s. But Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail and John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe, and the other authors included in this new collection were a wholly uniqueâ€”and complexâ€”group of individuals, graced with extraordinary intellectual powers, a profound dedication to their ideals, and a striking ability to articulate those ideals in clear and passionate prose.Â This original anthology of their writings, many of them far less familiar to us than they should be, demonstrates the depth of their thinkingâ€”and of their disagreements. It covers the full range of events from 1773 to 1789: that is, from the early debates about whether the North American colonies should declare their independence from England, to the ratification of the Constitution and the first ten amendments (the Bill of Rights).Â Among the documents included are papers from the first and second Continental Congresses, the Articles of Confederation, Washingtonâ€™s Farewell Address to his armies, and extensive excerpts from the Federalist papers and the Madisonâ€“Jefferson correspondence on the Constitution.Â Jack N. Rakove is W.Â  R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1980. He is the author of four books on the American Revolutionary era, including The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, and Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, which received the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in History.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19803'),
(18169, 'Foundling', 'D. M. Cornish', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Meet RossamÃ¼nda foundling, a boy with a girls name who is about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor of the Half-Continent. What starts as a simple journey becomes a dangerous and complicated set of battles and decisions. Humans, monsters, unearthly creatures . . . who among these can RossamÃ¼nd trust? D. M. Cornish has created an entirely original world, grounded in his own deft, classically influenced illustrations. Foundling is a magic-laced, Dickensian adventure that will transport the reader.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6580'),
(18170, 'Foundling', 'D. M. Cornish', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Meet RossamÃ¼nda foundling, a boy with a girls name who is about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor of the Half-Continent. What starts as a simple journey becomes a dangerous and complicated set of battles and decisions. Humans, monsters, unearthly creatures . . . who among these can RossamÃ¼nd trust? D. M. Cornish has created an entirely original world, grounded in his own deft, classically influenced illustrations. Foundling is a magic-laced, Dickensian adventure that will transport the reader.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9110'),
(18171, 'Foundling', 'D. M. Cornish', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Meet RossamÃ¼nda foundling, a boy with a girls name who is about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor of the Half-Continent. What starts as a simple journey becomes a dangerous and complicated set of battles and decisions. Humans, monsters, unearthly creatures . . . who among these can RossamÃ¼nd trust? D. M. Cornish has created an entirely original world, grounded in his own deft, classically influenced illustrations. Foundling is a magic-laced, Dickensian adventure that will transport the reader.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17395'),
(18172, 'Foundling', 'D. M. Cornish', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Meet RossamÃ¼nda foundling, a boy with a girls name who is about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor of the Half-Continent. What starts as a simple journey becomes a dangerous and complicated set of battles and decisions. Humans, monsters, unearthly creatures . . . who among these can RossamÃ¼nd trust? D. M. Cornish has created an entirely original world, grounded in his own deft, classically influenced illustrations. Foundling is a magic-laced, Dickensian adventure that will transport the reader.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27116'),
(18173, 'The Foundling', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer is just as enjoyable for the tenth time as the first, proving a delight to all readers. These new releases with beautiful cover artwork are a welcome addition to any regency romance lover''s bookshelf. A Night Owl Romance TOP PICK, November 2009 (Danya\n <em>\n  Night Owl Romance\n </em>\n 20091123)\n</p>\n<p>\n Almost every time I read a book by Georgette Heyer, I find myself saying, "Ooooh, this is my new favorite!" and it''s happened, again.\n <br />\n (Anna Horner\n <em>\n  Bookfoolery and Babble\n </em>\n 20091124)\n</p>\n<p>\n Anyone who appreciates romance and mystery will enjoy The\n <em>\n  Foundling\n </em>\n . (Gabrielle Pantera\n <em>\n  GoshTV,net\n </em>\n 20091124)\n</p>\n<p>\n Witty, unexpected, and great fun. (Gaby Lupus\n <em>\n  Starting Fresh\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n Fans of Georgette Heyer will appreciate seeing all the things they love best about the author-her writing style, spirited dialogue, and attention to detail-on display in The\n <em>\n  Foundling\n </em>\n . (Kay James\n <em>\n  Romance Reader at Heart\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n Fantastic... The\n <em>\n  Foundling\n </em>\n will definitely have a place of honor on my bookshelf. (Carrie Zimmerman\n <em>\n  The Book Girl\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n Delightful... I love how funny Heyer is! (Meghan Kawka\n <em>\n  Medieval Bookworm\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n No matter how villainous the villains may be, no matter how topsy turvy the heroine''s path to love or fulfillment Georgette Heyer''s world is one that comes with a happy ending. (Danielle Torres\n <em>\n  A Work in Progress\n </em>\n 20091130)\n</p>\n<p>\n Another lovely reading experience, brought to you by Georgette Heyer. I think that this one is my favorite so far by her. (Jessica West\n <em>\n  The Curious Reader\n </em>\n 20091203)\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer''s social commentary add a different dimension to a novel already filled to brimming with relevant historical details! (Megan Snider\n <em>\n  Write Meg!\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the perfect time to curl up on the couch with your favorite blanket and a nice hot mug of tea and good ole Georgette. (Fargis Heather\n <em>\n  Capricious Reader\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n One of readers'', librarians'' and booksellers'' most frequently requested Heyers, The Foundling features Gilly, the seventh Duke of Sale.\n</p>\n<p>\n A diffident young man of 24 years, easily pushed around by his overprotective uncle and the retinue of devoted family retainers who won''t let him lift a finger for himself, the Duke sometimes wishes he could be a commoner. One day he decides to set out to discover whether he is "a man, or only a Duke."\n</p>\n<p>\n Beginning with an incognito journey into the countryside to confront a blackmailer, he encounters a runaway school boy, a beautiful but airheaded orphan, one of literature''s most appealing and well-spoken comic villains, and a series of alarming and even life threatening events from which he can extricate himself only with the help of his shy and lovely fiancÃ©...\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  PRAISE FOR GEORGETTE HEYER:\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Our Georgette Heyer display of the Sourcebooks reprints has been a huge success, not only to those early fans like myself, but to many new readers who appreciate her style and wit."\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Nancy Olson, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Publishers Weekly\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to."\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Katie Fforde\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  "Absolute monarch of the Regency romance."\n </em>\n <br />\n <strong>\n  Kirkus Reviews\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n (20091118)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18392'),
(18174, 'Fountain Society', 'Wes Craven', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *As a film director, Wes Craven gave you nightmares and made you scream. As a novelist, he''ll thrill you with a shocking tale born in cutting-edge science and bred in eternal fear.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Hope for an ingenious superweapon is dying as physicist Peter Jance''s health fails. But with one brilliant, controversial, and top-secret operation, new life is granted:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ...to the U.S. military''s dream defense system,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ...to a torrid love triangle transcending time and memory,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ...and to a cold and unspeakable government conspiracy to create an elite circle of immortals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22768'),
(18175, 'The Fountain', 'Mary Nichols', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It was Norfolk, 1920. Barbara Bosgrove has lived in the charming market town of Melsham all her life, and is looking forward to the annual Harvest Supper dinner and ball - the first since the dark days of the First World War. Her widowed father will be her escort, but it is not long before George Kennett seeks her out for a dance. He has had his eye on her since spotting her punting on the Cam with her great friend Penny, and Penny''s charming brother Simon. George vows to win Barbara''s hand in marriage - a woman of her prestige would help raise his prospects considerably, and George is nothing if not a man of ambition - and begins a slow and steady courtship. Little by little, Barbara is won over, and eventually agrees to marry George; although he can be rather serious at times - lacking the fun and spontaneity of Simon - she believes he is a man she can rely on. Little does she realize how wrong she can be. Worn down by several years of marriage, during which George has been continually unfaithful to her and callously ruthless in his business plans to the point of illegality, Barbara feels she has lost all the vitality of her youth.  But her old friend Simon is not prepared to let Barbara lose sight of the woman she really is - the woman he has always loved. He reawakens Barbara''s passion and fighting spirit, but at what cost?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2965'),
(18176, 'The Fountain', 'Mary Nichols', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It was Norfolk, 1920. Barbara Bosgrove has lived in the charming market town of Melsham all her life, and is looking forward to the annual Harvest Supper dinner and ball - the first since the dark days of the First World War. Her widowed father will be her escort, but it is not long before George Kennett seeks her out for a dance. He has had his eye on her since spotting her punting on the Cam with her great friend Penny, and Penny''s charming brother Simon. George vows to win Barbara''s hand in marriage - a woman of her prestige would help raise his prospects considerably, and George is nothing if not a man of ambition - and begins a slow and steady courtship. Little by little, Barbara is won over, and eventually agrees to marry George; although he can be rather serious at times - lacking the fun and spontaneity of Simon - she believes he is a man she can rely on. Little does she realize how wrong she can be. Worn down by several years of marriage, during which George has been continually unfaithful to her and callously ruthless in his business plans to the point of illegality, Barbara feels she has lost all the vitality of her youth.  But her old friend Simon is not prepared to let Barbara lose sight of the woman she really is - the woman he has always loved. He reawakens Barbara''s passion and fighting spirit, but at what cost?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11728');
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(18177, 'The Fountain', 'Mary Nichols', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: It was Norfolk, 1920. Barbara Bosgrove has lived in the charming market town of Melsham all her life, and is looking forward to the annual Harvest Supper dinner and ball - the first since the dark days of the First World War. Her widowed father will be her escort, but it is not long before George Kennett seeks her out for a dance. He has had his eye on her since spotting her punting on the Cam with her great friend Penny, and Penny''s charming brother Simon. George vows to win Barbara''s hand in marriage - a woman of her prestige would help raise his prospects considerably, and George is nothing if not a man of ambition - and begins a slow and steady courtship. Little by little, Barbara is won over, and eventually agrees to marry George; although he can be rather serious at times - lacking the fun and spontaneity of Simon - she believes he is a man she can rely on. Little does she realize how wrong she can be. Worn down by several years of marriage, during which George has been continually unfaithful to her and callously ruthless in his business plans to the point of illegality, Barbara feels she has lost all the vitality of her youth. But her old friend Simon is not prepared to let Barbara lose sight of the woman she really is - the woman he has always loved. He reawakens Barbara''s passion and fighting spirit, but at what cost?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21851'),
(18178, 'The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A special edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Randâ€™s centennial.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When it was first published in 1943, *The Fountainhead*--containing Ayn Randâ€™s   daringly original literary vision with the seeds of her groundbreaking philosophy,   Objectivismâ€”won immediate worldwide acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an   intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his   explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This centennial   edition of *The Fountainhead*, celebrating the controversial and eduring legacy of   its author, features an afterword by Randâ€™s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, offering   some of Ayn Randâ€™s personal notes on the development of her masterwork.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26027'),
(18179, 'The Fountainhead', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A special edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Randâ€™s centennial.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When it was first published in 1943, *The Fountainhead*--containing Ayn Randâ€™s   daringly original literary vision with the seeds of her groundbreaking philosophy,   Objectivismâ€”won immediate worldwide acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an   intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his   explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This centennial   edition of *The Fountainhead*, celebrating the controversial and eduring legacy of   its author, features an afterword by Randâ€™s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, offering   some of Ayn Randâ€™s personal notes on the development of her masterwork.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7407'),
(18180, 'The Fountainhead', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A special edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Randâ€™s centennial.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When it was first published in 1943, *The Fountainhead*--containing Ayn Randâ€™s   daringly original literary vision with the seeds of her groundbreaking philosophy,   Objectivismâ€”won immediate worldwide acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an   intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his   explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This centennial   edition of *The Fountainhead*, celebrating the controversial and eduring legacy of   its author, features an afterword by Randâ€™s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, offering   some of Ayn Randâ€™s personal notes on the development of her masterwork.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12067'),
(18181, 'The fountainhead', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A special edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Rands centennial. When it was first published in 1943, The Fountainhead--containing Ayn Rands daringly original literary vision with the seeds of her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivismwon immediate worldwide acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This centennial edition of The Fountainhead, celebrating the controversial and eduring legacy of its author, features an afterword by Rands literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, offering some of Ayn Rands personal notes on the development of her masterwork. A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly. --The New York Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14044'),
(18182, 'The Fountainhead', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A special edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Randâ€™s centennial.** When it was first published in 1943, *The Fountainhead*--containing Ayn Randâ€™s daringly original literary vision with the seeds of her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivismâ€”won immediate worldwide acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This centennial edition of *The Fountainhead*, celebrating the controversial and eduring legacy of its author, features an afterword by Randâ€™s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, offering some of Ayn Randâ€™s personal notes on the development of her masterwork.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16495'),
(18183, 'The Fountainhead', 'Ayn Rand', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A special edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Randâ€™s centennial.** When it was first published in 1943, *The Fountainhead*--containing Ayn Randâ€™s daringly original literary vision with the seeds of her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivismâ€”won immediate worldwide acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This centennial edition of *The Fountainhead*, celebrating the controversial and eduring legacy of its author, features an afterword by Randâ€™s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, offering some of Ayn Randâ€™s personal notes on the development of her masterwork.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26561'),
(18184, 'The Fountains of Paradise', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Published in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke''s recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not necessarily liking what they find. The religious images that run throughout Clarke''s work also are present here.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Clarke once again sounds his grand theme...man is most himself when he...challenges the very laws of the universe." --\n  <em>\n   -The New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15654'),
(18185, 'The Fountains of Paradise', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Vannemar Morgans dream is to link Earth to the stars with the greatest engineering feat of all timea 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. For the only possible site on the planet for Morgans Orbital Tower is the monastery atop the Sacred Mountain of Sri Kanda.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26512'),
(18186, 'The Fountains of Youth', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Credibly written but lacking in emotional range, this third installment in Stableford''s Living in the Future series imagines a time when most humans--nearly immortal--aren''t much preoccupied with the subject of death. Born more than five centuries ago, in 2520, Mortimer Gray is an emortal, a sturdy genetic composite who was raised in the Himalayas by the standard group of eight adults. These days, unlike most of his contemporaries, Gray--who long ago discovered his potential mortality when he barely survived a massive underwater volcanic eruption--is obsessed with death, and in fact has undertaken a massive study of how human''s ideas about it have affected history. Well before completing the work, several centuries and nine volumes later, he became both famous as a popular scholar and notorious as an influence on the Thanaticists, militant believers in keeping death a part of the human condition to the point of organizing ritual suicides and creating "recreational diseases." (Meanwhile, Gray''s world has remained in flux--experiments are turning humans into cyborgs or genetically altered beings with four hands; interstellar probes have encountered intelligent aliens.) Gray is in some ways a fine narrator, able to reflect on the events circling around him with a historian''s critical eye--but because he''s rather detached, it''s hard to get involved in his story. Moreover, Stableford has written much of this book as if he was composing a literary essay (complete with excessive foreshadowing)--which makes reading it a bit of a chore.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7146'),
(18187, 'The Fountains of Youth', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Credibly written but lacking in emotional range, this third installment in Stableford''s Living in the Future series imagines a time when most humans--nearly immortal--aren''t much preoccupied with the subject of death. Born more than five centuries ago, in 2520, Mortimer Gray is an emortal, a sturdy genetic composite who was raised in the Himalayas by the standard group of eight adults. These days, unlike most of his contemporaries, Gray--who long ago discovered his potential mortality when he barely survived a massive underwater volcanic eruption--is obsessed with death, and in fact has undertaken a massive study of how human''s ideas about it have affected history. Well before completing the work, several centuries and nine volumes later, he became both famous as a popular scholar and notorious as an influence on the Thanaticists, militant believers in keeping death a part of the human condition to the point of organizing ritual suicides and creating "recreational diseases." (Meanwhile, Gray''s world has remained in flux--experiments are turning humans into cyborgs or genetically altered beings with four hands; interstellar probes have encountered intelligent aliens.) Gray is in some ways a fine narrator, able to reflect on the events circling around him with a historian''s critical eye--but because he''s rather detached, it''s hard to get involved in his story. Moreover, Stableford has written much of this book as if he was composing a literary essay (complete with excessive foreshadowing)--which makes reading it a bit of a chore.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12818'),
(18188, 'The Fountains of Youth', 'Brian Stableford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Credibly written but lacking in emotional range, this third installment in Stableford''s Living in the Future series imagines a time when most humans--nearly immortal--aren''t much preoccupied with the subject of death. Born more than five centuries ago, in 2520, Mortimer Gray is an emortal, a sturdy genetic composite who was raised in the Himalayas by the standard group of eight adults. These days, unlike most of his contemporaries, Gray--who long ago discovered his potential mortality when he barely survived a massive underwater volcanic eruption--is obsessed with death, and in fact has undertaken a massive study of how human''s ideas about it have affected history. Well before completing the work, several centuries and nine volumes later, he became both famous as a popular scholar and notorious as an influence on the Thanaticists, militant believers in keeping death a part of the human condition to the point of organizing ritual suicides and creating "recreational diseases." (Meanwhile, Gray''s world has remained in flux--experiments are turning humans into cyborgs or genetically altered beings with four hands; interstellar probes have encountered intelligent aliens.) Gray is in some ways a fine narrator, able to reflect on the events circling around him with a historian''s critical eye--but because he''s rather detached, it''s hard to get involved in his story. Moreover, Stableford has written much of this book as if he was composing a literary essay (complete with excessive foreshadowing)--which makes reading it a bit of a chore.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16791'),
(18189, 'Four Blind Mice', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n On the verge of resigning from the D.C. police force, Detective Alex Cross knows he can''t refuse this case.  His partner John Sampson has a friend who has been framed for murder and is facing the gas chamber.  His accusers? The United States Army.  As a new woman in Cross''s life brings him hope in the face of a devastating loss at home, Cross and Sampson go up against codes of honor and silence and three ruthless killers.  But a bigger threat lies in wait: Their controller, a lethal genius who will introduce Cross to new depths of terror . . the last of the FOUR BLIND MICE. (2002)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4837'),
(18190, 'Four Blind Mice', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On the verge of resigning from the D.C. police force, Detective Alex Cross knows he can''t refuse this case. His partner John Sampson has a friend who has been framed for murder and is facing the gas chamber. His accusers? The United States Army. As a new woman in Cross''s life brings him hope in the face of a devastating loss at home, Cross and Sampson go up against codes of honor and silence and three ruthless killers. But a bigger threat lies in wait: Their controller, a lethal genius who will introduce Cross to new depths of terror . . the last of the FOUR BLIND MICE. (2002)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13933'),
(18191, 'Four Blind Mice', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: On the verge of resigning from the D.C. police force, Detective Alex Cross knows he can''t refuse this case. His partner John Sampson has a friend who has been framed for murder and is facing the gas chamber. His accusers? The United States Army. As a new woman in Cross''s life brings him hope in the face of a devastating loss at home, Cross and Sampson go up against codes of honor and silence and three ruthless killers. But a bigger threat lies in wait: Their controller, a lethal genius who will introduce Cross to new depths of terror . . the last of the FOUR BLIND MICE. (2002)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19961'),
(18192, 'Four Dukes and a Devil', 'Cathy Maxwell &amp; Elaine Fox &amp; Jeaniene Frost &amp; Tracy Anne Warren &amp; Sophia Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What do you do with three dukes'' a dog named Duke'' and a devil? You put them into an anthology! Weâ€²ve combined five of todayâ€²s bestselling and popular authors into one volume to deliver romance like youâ€²ve never experienced before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6968'),
(18193, 'Four Dukes and a Devil', 'Cathy Maxwell &amp; Elaine Fox &amp; Jeaniene Frost &amp; Tracy Anne Warren &amp; Sophia Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What do you do with three dukes'' a dog named Duke'' and a devil? You put them into an anthology! Weâ€²ve combined five of todayâ€²s bestselling and popular authors into one volume to deliver romance like youâ€²ve never experienced before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11376'),
(18194, 'Four Dukes and a Devil', 'Cathy Maxwell; Elaine Fox; Jeaniene Frost; Tracy Anne Warren; Sophia Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What do you do with three dukes'' a dog named Duke'' and a devil? You put them into an anthology! Weâ€²ve combined five of todayâ€²s bestselling and popular authors into one volume to deliver romance like youâ€²ve never experienced before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16951'),
(18195, 'Four Dukes and a Devil', 'Cathy Maxwell; Elaine Fox; Jeaniene Frost; Tracy Anne Warren; Sophia Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: What do you do with three dukes'' a dog named Duke'' and a devil? You put them into an anthology! Weâ€²ve combined five of todayâ€²s bestselling and popular authors into one volume to deliver romance like youâ€²ve never experienced before.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26855'),
(18196, 'Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food', 'Paul Greenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex and confusing marketplace. We stand at the edge of a cataclysm; there is a distinct possibility that our children''s children will never eat a wild fish that has swum freely in the sea. In Four Fish, award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary journey, exploring the history of the fish that dominate our menus---salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna-and examining where each stands at this critical moment in time. He visits Norwegian mega farms that use genetic techniques once pioneered on sheep to grow millions of pounds of salmon a year. He travels to the ancestral river of the Yupik Eskimos to see the only Fair Trade certified fishing company in the world. He investigates the way PCBs and mercury find their way into seafood; discovers how Mediterranean sea bass went global; Challenges the author of Cod to taste the difference between a farmed and a wild cod; and almost sinks to the bottom of the South Pacific while searching for an alternative to endangered bluefin tuna. Fish, Greenberg reveals, are the last truly wild food - for now. By examining the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, he shows how we can start to heal the oceans and fight for a world where healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2183'),
(18197, 'Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food', 'Paul Greenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex and confusing marketplace. We stand at the edge of a cataclysm; there is a distinct possibility that our children''s children will never eat a wild fish that has swum freely in the sea. In Four Fish, award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary journey, exploring the history of the fish that dominate our menus---salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna-and examining where each stands at this critical moment in time. He visits Norwegian mega farms that use genetic techniques once pioneered on sheep to grow millions of pounds of salmon a year. He travels to the ancestral river of the Yupik Eskimos to see the only Fair Trade certified fishing company in the world. He investigates the way PCBs and mercury find their way into seafood; discovers how Mediterranean sea bass went global; Challenges the author of Cod to taste the difference between a farmed and a wild cod; and almost sinks to the bottom of the South Pacific while searching for an alternative to endangered bluefin tuna. Fish, Greenberg reveals, are the last truly wild food - for now. By examining the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, he shows how we can start to heal the oceans and fight for a world where healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10092'),
(18198, 'Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food', 'Paul Greenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex and confusing marketplace. We stand at the edge of a cataclysm; there is a distinct possibility that our children''s children will never eat a wild fish that has swum freely in the sea. In Four Fish, award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary journey, exploring the history of the fish that dominate our menus---salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna-and examining where each stands at this critical moment in time. He visits Norwegian mega farms that use genetic techniques once pioneered on sheep to grow millions of pounds of salmon a year. He travels to the ancestral river of the Yupik Eskimos to see the only Fair Trade certified fishing company in the world. He investigates the way PCBs and mercury find their way into seafood; discovers how Mediterranean sea bass went global; Challenges the author of Cod to taste the difference between a farmed and a wild cod; and almost sinks to the bottom of the South Pacific while searching for an alternative to endangered bluefin tuna. Fish, Greenberg reveals, are the last truly wild food - for now. By examining the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, he shows how we can start to heal the oceans and fight for a world where healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22500'),
(18199, 'Four Past Midnight', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The scary story has never been the same since.     An extraordinary quartet of full-length novellas: *The Langoliers*, *Secret Window*, *Secret Garden*, *The Library Policeman*, and *The Sun Dog*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1101'),
(18200, 'Four Past Midnight', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The scary story has never been the same since. An extraordinary quartet of full-length novellas: *The Langoliers*, *Secret Window*, *Secret Garden*, *The Library Policeman*, and *The Sun Dog*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14444'),
(18201, 'Four Past Midnight', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A collection of four stories on the theme of ''midnight'', the moment when the familiar world gives way to an alternative reality, and a new and terrifying world is revealed. By the author of CARRIE, THE SHINING and THE DARK HALF.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23823'),
(18202, 'The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio', 'William J. Bernstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Four Pillars of Investing offers a comprehensive, incisive and pithy treatment of the issues. --\n  <em>\n   Barron''s; May 27, 2002\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sound, sensible advice from a hero to frustrated investors everywhere\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  William Bernstein''s\n  <em>\n   The Four Pillars of Investing\n  </em>\n  gives investors the tools they need to construct top-returning portfoliosÂ­Â­without the help of a financial adviser. In a relaxed, nonthreatening style, Dr. Bernstein provides a distinctive blend of market history, investing theory, and behavioral finance, one designed to help every investor become more self-sufficient and make betterinformed investment decisions.\n  <em>\n   The 4 Pillars of Investing\n  </em>\n  explains how any investor can build a solid foundation for investing by focusing on four essential lessons, each building upon the other. Containing all of the tools needed to achieve investing success, without the help of a financial advisor, it presents:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Practical investing advice based on fascinating history lessons from the market\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Exercises to determine risk tolerance as an investor\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   An easy-to-understand explanation of risk and reward in the capital markets\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/249'),
(18203, 'The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio', 'William J. Bernstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Four Pillars of Investing offers a comprehensive, incisive and pithy treatment of the issues. --\n  <em>\n   Barron''s; May 27, 2002\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sound, sensible advice from a hero to frustrated investors everywhere\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  William Bernstein''s\n  <em>\n   The Four Pillars of Investing\n  </em>\n  gives investors the tools they need to construct top-returning portfoliosÂ­Â­without the help of a financial adviser. In a relaxed, nonthreatening style, Dr. Bernstein provides a distinctive blend of market history, investing theory, and behavioral finance, one designed to help every investor become more self-sufficient and make betterinformed investment decisions.\n  <em>\n   The 4 Pillars of Investing\n  </em>\n  explains how any investor can build a solid foundation for investing by focusing on four essential lessons, each building upon the other. Containing all of the tools needed to achieve investing success, without the help of a financial advisor, it presents:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Practical investing advice based on fascinating history lessons from the market\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Exercises to determine risk tolerance as an investor\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   An easy-to-understand explanation of risk and reward in the capital markets\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8455'),
(18204, 'The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio', 'William J. Bernstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Four Pillars of Investing offers a comprehensive, incisive and pithy treatment of the issues. --\n  <em>\n   Barron''s; May 27, 2002\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Sound, sensible advice from a hero to frustrated investors everywhere\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  William Bernstein''s\n  <em>\n   The Four Pillars of Investing\n  </em>\n  gives investors the tools they need to construct top-returning portfoliosÂ­Â­without the help of a financial adviser. In a relaxed, nonthreatening style, Dr. Bernstein provides a distinctive blend of market history, investing theory, and behavioral finance, one designed to help every investor become more self-sufficient and make betterinformed investment decisions.\n  <em>\n   The 4 Pillars of Investing\n  </em>\n  explains how any investor can build a solid foundation for investing by focusing on four essential lessons, each building upon the other. Containing all of the tools needed to achieve investing success, without the help of a financial advisor, it presents:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Practical investing advice based on fascinating history lessons from the market\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Exercises to determine risk tolerance as an investor\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   An easy-to-understand explanation of risk and reward in the capital markets\n  </li>\n </ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24751'),
(18205, 'Four to Score', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Three to Get Deadly***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A "saintly" old candy-store owner is on the lam-and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises, Stephanie finds herself dealing with dead drug dealers and slippery fugitives on the chase of her life. And with the help of eccentric friends and family, Steph must see to it that this case doesn''t end up being her last...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Four to Score***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Stephanie Plum, Trenton, New Jersey''s favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter, is back--and on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who''s skipped bail. With then help of 73-year-old Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker Lula, a transvestite musician named Sally Sweet, and the all-too-hospitable, all-too-sexy Joe Morelli, Stephanie might just catch her woman. Then again, with more mishaps than there are exits on the Jersey Turnpike--including murders, firebombs, and Stephanie''s arch-rival bounty hunter chasing after the same fugative--Stephanie better watch her back big-time if she wants to live to crack this case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7939'),
(18206, 'Four to Score', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Three to Get Deadly***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A "saintly" old candy-store owner is on the lam-and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises, Stephanie finds herself dealing with dead drug dealers and slippery fugitives on the chase of her life. And with the help of eccentric friends and family, Steph must see to it that this case doesn''t end up being her last...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***Four to Score***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Stephanie Plum, Trenton, New Jersey''s favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter, is back--and on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who''s skipped bail. With then help of 73-year-old Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker Lula, a transvestite musician named Sally Sweet, and the all-too-hospitable, all-too-sexy Joe Morelli, Stephanie might just catch her woman. Then again, with more mishaps than there are exits on the Jersey Turnpike--including murders, firebombs, and Stephanie''s arch-rival bounty hunter chasing after the same fugative--Stephanie better watch her back big-time if she wants to live to crack this case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9602'),
(18207, 'Four to Score', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***Three to Get Deadly*** A "saintly" old candy-store owner is on the lam-and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises, Stephanie finds herself dealing with dead drug dealers and slippery fugitives on the chase of her life. And with the help of eccentric friends and family, Steph must see to it that this case doesn''t end up being her last... ***Four to Score*** Stephanie Plum, Trenton, New Jersey''s favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter, is back--and on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who''s skipped bail. With then help of 73-year-old Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker Lula, a transvestite musician named Sally Sweet, and the all-too-hospitable, all-too-sexy Joe Morelli, Stephanie might just catch her woman. Then again, with more mishaps than there are exits on the Jersey Turnpike--including murders, firebombs, and Stephanie''s arch-rival bounty hunter chasing after the same fugative--Stephanie better watch her back big-time if she wants to live to crack this case.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15028'),
(18208, 'Four Weeks to a Better Behaved Child', 'Christine Chandler; Laura McGrath', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17233'),
(18209, 'The Fourth Durango', 'Ross Thomas &amp; Sarah Paretsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A tiny, godforsaken California town named Durango is the setting for Thomas''s ( Out on the Rim ) tense new novel, a suspense story laced with wry wit. The town''s mayor, plucky Barbara Huckins, and its chief of police, Sid Fork, are part-time lovers and ex-San Francisco hippies who drifted into Durango 20 years back. The action begins when Jack Adair, an acid-tongued judge falsely accused of taking a big bribe, drops into Durango to hide from whoever wants him silenced. Poor Adair already has a daughter in a mental hospital, a disbarred attorney for a son-in-law and a gay son who committed suicide (or was it murder?). Barbara and Sid, an unlikely duo assisted by no less than four detectives, follow a trail warm with corpses to a brutal killer who dresses up as a priest or a plumber. The socko climax takes place on the Fourth of July, with readers kept in the dark right through the fireworks. In this offbeat diversion, Thomas builds suspense and character almost casually, once again proving himself a master of the crime thriller. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild alternate; Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Fourth Durango\n </em>\n is not your ordinary Durango. It''s not in Spain, or Mexico, and it''s not a ski town in the Colorado Rockies, although Durangos do exist in all of those places. This Durango has an industry, albeit a rather odd one-it is a hideout business, a place where people pay to find sanctuary from former friends and associates who are either trying to kill them, or have them killed. Into this Durango comes a former chief justice of a state supreme court, followed by son-in-law Kelly Vines to act as his emissary to the beautiful and savvy mayor. Following them come a false priest, and a run of murders. It takes a Ross Thomas to stir these characters into a witty and ingenious mix readers will not be able to -and certainly would not want to-resist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1491'),
(18210, 'The Fourth Durango', 'Ross Thomas &amp; Sarah Paretsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A tiny, godforsaken California town named Durango is the setting for Thomas''s ( Out on the Rim ) tense new novel, a suspense story laced with wry wit. The town''s mayor, plucky Barbara Huckins, and its chief of police, Sid Fork, are part-time lovers and ex-San Francisco hippies who drifted into Durango 20 years back. The action begins when Jack Adair, an acid-tongued judge falsely accused of taking a big bribe, drops into Durango to hide from whoever wants him silenced. Poor Adair already has a daughter in a mental hospital, a disbarred attorney for a son-in-law and a gay son who committed suicide (or was it murder?). Barbara and Sid, an unlikely duo assisted by no less than four detectives, follow a trail warm with corpses to a brutal killer who dresses up as a priest or a plumber. The socko climax takes place on the Fourth of July, with readers kept in the dark right through the fireworks. In this offbeat diversion, Thomas builds suspense and character almost casually, once again proving himself a master of the crime thriller. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild alternate; Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Fourth Durango\n </em>\n is not your ordinary Durango. It''s not in Spain, or Mexico, and it''s not a ski town in the Colorado Rockies, although Durangos do exist in all of those places. This Durango has an industry, albeit a rather odd one-it is a hideout business, a place where people pay to find sanctuary from former friends and associates who are either trying to kill them, or have them killed. Into this Durango comes a former chief justice of a state supreme court, followed by son-in-law Kelly Vines to act as his emissary to the beautiful and savvy mayor. Following them come a false priest, and a run of murders. It takes a Ross Thomas to stir these characters into a witty and ingenious mix readers will not be able to -and certainly would not want to-resist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13052'),
(18211, 'The Fourth Durango', 'Ross Thomas; Sarah Paretsky', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A tiny, godforsaken California town named Durango is the setting for Thomas''s ( Out on the Rim ) tense new novel, a suspense story laced with wry wit. The town''s mayor, plucky Barbara Huckins, and its chief of police, Sid Fork, are part-time lovers and ex-San Francisco hippies who drifted into Durango 20 years back. The action begins when Jack Adair, an acid-tongued judge falsely accused of taking a big bribe, drops into Durango to hide from whoever wants him silenced. Poor Adair already has a daughter in a mental hospital, a disbarred attorney for a son-in-law and a gay son who committed suicide (or was it murder?). Barbara and Sid, an unlikely duo assisted by no less than four detectives, follow a trail warm with corpses to a brutal killer who dresses up as a priest or a plumber. The socko climax takes place on the Fourth of July, with readers kept in the dark right through the fireworks. In this offbeat diversion, Thomas builds suspense and character almost casually, once again proving himself a master of the crime thriller. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild alternate; Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections.\n <br />\n Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Fourth Durango\n </em>\n is not your ordinary Durango. It''s not in Spain, or Mexico, and it''s not a ski town in the Colorado Rockies, although Durangos do exist in all of those places. This Durango has an industry, albeit a rather odd one-it is a hideout business, a place where people pay to find sanctuary from former friends and associates who are either trying to kill them, or have them killed. Into this Durango comes a former chief justice of a state supreme court, followed by son-in-law Kelly Vines to act as his emissary to the beautiful and savvy mayor. Following them come a false priest, and a run of murders. It takes a Ross Thomas to stir these characters into a witty and ingenious mix readers will not be able to -and certainly would not want to-resist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23418'),
(18212, 'The Fourth Man', 'K.O. Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Award-winning author Kjell Ola Dahl has attained cult status in his home country of Norway with his sharp, riveting bestsellers. Over the last decade he has found audiences in ten other countries and finally, with his gripping and intelligent novel, The Fourth Man, the master of Norwegian crime writing is crossing the Atlantic.In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank FrÃ¸lich of the Oslo Police saves the life of Elizabeth Faremo, a dark-haired beauty with mysterious eyes who was inadvertently caught in the crossfire. Some weeks later, FrÃ¸lich coincidentally runs into her again---but their ensuing affair is no accident.By the time he learns that she is no stranger---but rather the sister of a wanted member of a larceny gang---it is already too late.In the middle of the night, FrÃ¸lich receives a call that a young guard has been killed in the course of an attempted break-in. Scrambling to respond, he realizes that Elizabeth is no longer in his bed. And all at once, FrÃ¸lichâ€™s life has changed. In a turn of events cryptic, erotic, and complex, he finds himself a prime murder suspect and under the watch of his doubting colleagues.Led through the dark underworld of Oslo and his own soul, FrÃ¸lich---suspended from the force, blindly in love, and on the hunt for some hint of truth in a vortex of darkness and lies---must find out if he is being used . . . before his life unravels beyond repair.The Fourth Man is a sexy, fast-paced psychological thriller that puts a modern twist on the classic noir story of the femme fatale. K. O. Dahl has crafted a dark, poetic, and incredibly complex crime novel for his U.S. debut---the first in a series of detective novels from this rising international mystery star.Praise for The Fourth Man:â€œA Norwegian Mankellâ€---Norra Vasterbotten (Sweden)â€œI have read many clever and thrilling crime novels through my life, but often they have nothing to do with real life. If I donâ€™t believe in them, they donâ€™t impress me. But when K.O. Dahl tells his stories, I believe every single word.â€---Karin Fossum, author of The Indian Brideâ€œAn absorbing study of sexual enthrallment, dogged police work and a harrowing twist or two: Fans of proceduralsâ€¦will snap this one up.â€---Kirkusâ€œRecommend to fans of Karin Fossum and Kjell Eriksson. Dahl is a formidable talent whose books may well become as popular in the US as in Norway.â€ ---Booklistâ€œA crime master of style... Dahlâ€™s original trait, the rich language, is here fully developed. He is perhaps the most literary of our crime writers. He fully masters the use of images and re-takes that serve to emphasize and strengthen the text, the latter a risky business regardless of genre. In addition to this, he is a proper devil at describing emotions, and throughout the entire spectrum at thatâ€¦. Conclusion: Kjell Ola Dahl has again written an excellent crime novel.â€---Aftenposten (Norway)â€œEffective and entertaining crimeâ€¦.We let ourselves be both mesmerized and entertainedâ€¦â€---Adresseavisen (Norway)â€œElite crime writingâ€¦ Kjell Ola Dahl is one of the big names of Norwegian crime fiction, and The Fourth Man shows why: here, the plot is effectively narrated, the drive forward is dynamic and the reader is served his seconds over and over againâ€¦â€---Stavanger Aftenblad (Norway)â€œHigh-shine crimeâ€¦ a crime novel solidly and aptly constructed. Chock full of action, with precise shifts in tempo, sparkling good dialogue and a plot that carries all the way through.â€ ---Bergens Tidende (Norway)â€œA suspenseful and well costructed storyâ€¦ Stringent and directed towards an astounding denouement.â€---MÃ¼nchner Merkur (Germany)â€œâ€¦an excellent crime novel has seen the light of dayâ€¦â€---Hersfelder Zeitung (Germany)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3904'),
(18213, 'The Fourth Man', 'K.O. Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Award-winning author Kjell Ola Dahl has attained cult status in his home country of Norway with his sharp, riveting bestsellers. Over the last decade he has found audiences in ten other countries and finally, with his gripping and intelligent novel, The Fourth Man, the master of Norwegian crime writing is crossing the Atlantic.In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank FrÃ¸lich of the Oslo Police saves the life of Elizabeth Faremo, a dark-haired beauty with mysterious eyes who was inadvertently caught in the crossfire. Some weeks later, FrÃ¸lich coincidentally runs into her again---but their ensuing affair is no accident.By the time he learns that she is no stranger---but rather the sister of a wanted member of a larceny gang---it is already too late.In the middle of the night, FrÃ¸lich receives a call that a young guard has been killed in the course of an attempted break-in. Scrambling to respond, he realizes that Elizabeth is no longer in his bed. And all at once, FrÃ¸lichâ€™s life has changed. In a turn of events cryptic, erotic, and complex, he finds himself a prime murder suspect and under the watch of his doubting colleagues.Led through the dark underworld of Oslo and his own soul, FrÃ¸lich---suspended from the force, blindly in love, and on the hunt for some hint of truth in a vortex of darkness and lies---must find out if he is being used . . . before his life unravels beyond repair.The Fourth Man is a sexy, fast-paced psychological thriller that puts a modern twist on the classic noir story of the femme fatale. K. O. Dahl has crafted a dark, poetic, and incredibly complex crime novel for his U.S. debut---the first in a series of detective novels from this rising international mystery star.Praise for The Fourth Man:â€œA Norwegian Mankellâ€---Norra Vasterbotten (Sweden)â€œI have read many clever and thrilling crime novels through my life, but often they have nothing to do with real life. If I donâ€™t believe in them, they donâ€™t impress me. But when K.O. Dahl tells his stories, I believe every single word.â€---Karin Fossum, author of The Indian Brideâ€œAn absorbing study of sexual enthrallment, dogged police work and a harrowing twist or two: Fans of proceduralsâ€¦will snap this one up.â€---Kirkusâ€œRecommend to fans of Karin Fossum and Kjell Eriksson. Dahl is a formidable talent whose books may well become as popular in the US as in Norway.â€ ---Booklistâ€œA crime master of style... Dahlâ€™s original trait, the rich language, is here fully developed. He is perhaps the most literary of our crime writers. He fully masters the use of images and re-takes that serve to emphasize and strengthen the text, the latter a risky business regardless of genre. In addition to this, he is a proper devil at describing emotions, and throughout the entire spectrum at thatâ€¦. Conclusion: Kjell Ola Dahl has again written an excellent crime novel.â€---Aftenposten (Norway)â€œEffective and entertaining crimeâ€¦.We let ourselves be both mesmerized and entertainedâ€¦â€---Adresseavisen (Norway)â€œElite crime writingâ€¦ Kjell Ola Dahl is one of the big names of Norwegian crime fiction, and The Fourth Man shows why: here, the plot is effectively narrated, the drive forward is dynamic and the reader is served his seconds over and over againâ€¦â€---Stavanger Aftenblad (Norway)â€œHigh-shine crimeâ€¦ a crime novel solidly and aptly constructed. Chock full of action, with precise shifts in tempo, sparkling good dialogue and a plot that carries all the way through.â€ ---Bergens Tidende (Norway)â€œA suspenseful and well costructed storyâ€¦ Stringent and directed towards an astounding denouement.â€---MÃ¼nchner Merkur (Germany)â€œâ€¦an excellent crime novel has seen the light of dayâ€¦â€---Hersfelder Zeitung (Germany)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9118');
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(18214, 'The Fourth Man', 'K.O. Dahl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Award-winning author Kjell Ola Dahl has attained cult status in his home country of Norway with his sharp, riveting bestsellers. Over the last decade he has found audiences in ten other countries and finally, with his gripping and intelligent novel, The Fourth Man, the master of Norwegian crime writing is crossing the Atlantic.In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank FrÃ¸lich of the Oslo Police saves the life of Elizabeth Faremo, a dark-haired beauty with mysterious eyes who was inadvertently caught in the crossfire. Some weeks later, FrÃ¸lich coincidentally runs into her again---but their ensuing affair is no accident.By the time he learns that she is no stranger---but rather the sister of a wanted member of a larceny gang---it is already too late.In the middle of the night, FrÃ¸lich receives a call that a young guard has been killed in the course of an attempted break-in. Scrambling to respond, he realizes that Elizabeth is no longer in his bed. And all at once, FrÃ¸lichâ€™s life has changed. In a turn of events cryptic, erotic, and complex, he finds himself a prime murder suspect and under the watch of his doubting colleagues.Led through the dark underworld of Oslo and his own soul, FrÃ¸lich---suspended from the force, blindly in love, and on the hunt for some hint of truth in a vortex of darkness and lies---must find out if he is being used . . . before his life unravels beyond repair.The Fourth Man is a sexy, fast-paced psychological thriller that puts a modern twist on the classic noir story of the femme fatale. K. O. Dahl has crafted a dark, poetic, and incredibly complex crime novel for his U.S. debut---the first in a series of detective novels from this rising international mystery star.Praise for The Fourth Man:â€œA Norwegian Mankellâ€---Norra Vasterbotten (Sweden)â€œI have read many clever and thrilling crime novels through my life, but often they have nothing to do with real life. If I donâ€™t believe in them, they donâ€™t impress me. But when K.O. Dahl tells his stories, I believe every single word.â€---Karin Fossum, author of The Indian Brideâ€œAn absorbing study of sexual enthrallment, dogged police work and a harrowing twist or two: Fans of procedurals...will snap this one up.â€---Kirkusâ€œRecommend to fans of Karin Fossum and Kjell Eriksson. Dahl is a formidable talent whose books may well become as popular in the US as in Norway.â€ ---Booklistâ€œA crime master of style... Dahlâ€™s original trait, the rich language, is here fully developed. He is perhaps the most literary of our crime writers. He fully masters the use of images and re-takes that serve to emphasize and strengthen the text, the latter a risky business regardless of genre. In addition to this, he is a proper devil at describing emotions, and throughout the entire spectrum at that.... Conclusion: Kjell Ola Dahl has again written an excellent crime novel.â€---Aftenposten (Norway)â€œEffective and entertaining crime....We let ourselves be both mesmerized and entertained...â€---Adresseavisen (Norway)â€œElite crime writing... Kjell Ola Dahl is one of the big names of Norwegian crime fiction, and The Fourth Man shows why: here, the plot is effectively narrated, the drive forward is dynamic and the reader is served his seconds over and over again...â€---Stavanger Aftenblad (Norway)â€œHigh-shine crime... a crime novel solidly and aptly constructed. Chock full of action, with precise shifts in tempo, sparkling good dialogue and a plot that carries all the way through.â€ ---Bergens Tidende (Norway)â€œA suspenseful and well costructed story... Stringent and directed towards an astounding denouement.â€---MÃ¼nchner Merkur (Germany)â€œ...an excellent crime novel has seen the light of day...â€---Hersfelder Zeitung (Germany)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20554'),
(18215, 'The Fourth Stall', 'Chris Rylander', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sixth-graders Mac and Vince have been running an advice and assistance service for fellow grade-school students since they were in kindergarten. Mac is a problem solver, Vince is a whiz at keeping track of the money and favors they earn, and both boys are avid Chicago Cubs fans. Their ï¿½officeï¿½ is located in an underused school bathroom, hence this first novelï¿½s title. The business takes a beatingï¿½and then so does the boysï¿½ friendshipï¿½when an older kid applies muscle to the threats he has made to grade-schoolers who owe gambling debts. Rylander has created a cast of memorable and varied characters, replete with emotional as well as social lives. Mac narrates the convoluted tale with the arch flatness of a 1940s satire of the noir detective genre, so swallowing even the more preposterous coincidences is easy for the sake of the storyï¿½s fun. An excellent boy book that would do well in a father-son book discussion. Grades 4-7. --Francisca Goldsmith\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Here is an original - a story that really gets how guys are pals.... Do yourself a favor.Â  Read it.Â  Now."Â _ -\n  <strong>\n   Jon Scieszka\n  </strong>\n  (__NYT Best-Selling author_)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "The Fourth Stall makes good use of non sequitur humor and a healthy dose of schoolyard violence to draw in even the most apprehensive young reader... a robust story rich in action, adventure, humor, and friendship.\n  </em>\n  "__\n  <br />\n  --VOYA\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Rylander has created a cast of memorable and varied characters, replete with emotional as well as social lives...Â An excellent boy book that would do well in a father-son book discussion._"_Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  --Booklist\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Boys and girls alike will be biting theirÂ nails, laughing out loud and begging for theÂ next installment. Fans of Jeff Kinney, Gordon Kormon andÂ Jon Scieszka will find a new hero inÂ Rylander." --Sioux Falls Argus Leader\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sometimes middle-school readers just wanna have fun. And Rylander, thankfully, steers well clear of made-for-TV life lessons."__ --The Cleveland Plain Dealer\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6739'),
(18216, 'The Fourth Stall', 'Chris Rylander', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sixth-graders Mac and Vince have been running an advice and assistance service for fellow grade-school students since they were in kindergarten. Mac is a problem solver, Vince is a whiz at keeping track of the money and favors they earn, and both boys are avid Chicago Cubs fans. Their ï¿½officeï¿½ is located in an underused school bathroom, hence this first novelï¿½s title. The business takes a beatingï¿½and then so does the boysï¿½ friendshipï¿½when an older kid applies muscle to the threats he has made to grade-schoolers who owe gambling debts. Rylander has created a cast of memorable and varied characters, replete with emotional as well as social lives. Mac narrates the convoluted tale with the arch flatness of a 1940s satire of the noir detective genre, so swallowing even the more preposterous coincidences is easy for the sake of the storyï¿½s fun. An excellent boy book that would do well in a father-son book discussion. Grades 4-7. --Francisca Goldsmith\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Here is an original - a story that really gets how guys are pals.... Do yourself a favor.Â  Read it.Â  Now."Â _ -\n  <strong>\n   Jon Scieszka\n  </strong>\n  (__NYT Best-Selling author_)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "The Fourth Stall makes good use of non sequitur humor and a healthy dose of schoolyard violence to draw in even the most apprehensive young reader... a robust story rich in action, adventure, humor, and friendship.\n  </em>\n  "__\n  <br />\n  --VOYA\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Rylander has created a cast of memorable and varied characters, replete with emotional as well as social lives...Â An excellent boy book that would do well in a father-son book discussion._"_Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  --Booklist\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Boys and girls alike will be biting theirÂ nails, laughing out loud and begging for theÂ next installment. Fans of Jeff Kinney, Gordon Kormon andÂ Jon Scieszka will find a new hero inÂ Rylander." --Sioux Falls Argus Leader\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sometimes middle-school readers just wanna have fun. And Rylander, thankfully, steers well clear of made-for-TV life lessons."__ --The Cleveland Plain Dealer\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12509'),
(18217, 'The Fourth Stall', 'Chris Rylander', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sixth-graders Mac and Vince have been running an advice and assistance service for fellow grade-school students since they were in kindergarten. Mac is a problem solver, Vince is a whiz at keeping track of the money and favors they earn, and both boys are avid Chicago Cubs fans. Their ï¿½officeï¿½ is located in an underused school bathroom, hence this first novelï¿½s title. The business takes a beatingï¿½and then so does the boysï¿½ friendshipï¿½when an older kid applies muscle to the threats he has made to grade-schoolers who owe gambling debts. Rylander has created a cast of memorable and varied characters, replete with emotional as well as social lives. Mac narrates the convoluted tale with the arch flatness of a 1940s satire of the noir detective genre, so swallowing even the more preposterous coincidences is easy for the sake of the storyï¿½s fun. An excellent boy book that would do well in a father-son book discussion. Grades 4-7. --Francisca Goldsmith\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Here is an original - a story that really gets how guys are pals.... Do yourself a favor. Read it. Now." _ -\n  <strong>\n   Jon Scieszka\n  </strong>\n  (__NYT Best-Selling author_)\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "The Fourth Stall makes good use of non sequitur humor and a healthy dose of schoolyard violence to draw in even the most apprehensive young reader... a robust story rich in action, adventure, humor, and friendship.\n  </em>\n  "__\n  <br />\n  --VOYA\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Rylander has created a cast of memorable and varied characters, replete with emotional as well as social lives... An excellent boy book that would do well in a father-son book discussion._"_\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Booklist\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Boys and girls alike will be biting their nails, laughing out loud and begging for the next installment. Fans of Jeff Kinney, Gordon Kormon and Jon Scieszka will find a new hero in Rylander." --Sioux Falls Argus Leader\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Sometimes middle-school readers just wanna have fun. And Rylander, thankfully, steers well clear of made-for-TV life lessons."__ --The Cleveland Plain Dealer\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17143'),
(18218, 'The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army', 'David Cloud &amp; Greg Jaffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They survived the military''s brutal winnowing to reach its top echelon. They became the Army''s most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next century. Theirs is a story of successes and failures, of ambitions achieved and thwarted, of the responsibilities and perils of command. The careers of this elite quartet show how the most powerful military force in the world entered a major war unprepared, and how the Army, drawing on a reservoir of talent that few thought it possessed, saved itself from crushing defeat against a ruthless, low-tech foe. In *The Fourth Star*, you''ll follow:â€¢Gen. John Abizaid, one of the Army''s most brilliant minds. Fluent in Arabic, he forged an unconventional path in the military to make himself an expert on the Middle East, but this unique background made him skeptical of the war he found himself leading. â€¢Gen. George Casey Jr., the son of the highest-ranking general to be killed in the Vietnam War. Casey had grown up in the Army and won praise for his common touch and skill as a soldier. He was determined not to repeat the mistakes of Vietnam but would take much of the blame as Iraq collapsed around him. â€¢Gen. Peter Chiarelli, an emotional, take-charge leader who, more than any other senior officer, felt the sting of the Army''s failures in Iraq. He drove his soldiers, the chain of command, and the U.S. government to rethink the occupation plansâ€“yet rarely achieved the results he sought.â€¢Gen. David Petraeus, a driven soldier-scholar. Determined to reach the Army''s summit almost since the day he entered West Point, he sometimes alienated peers with his ambition and competitiveness. When he finally got his chance in Iraq, heâ€“more than anyoneâ€“changed the Army''s conception of what was possible. Masterfully written and richly reported, *The Fourth Star* ranges far beyond today''s battlefields, evoking the Army''s tumultuous history since Vietnam through these four captivating lives and ultimately revealing a fascinating irony: In an institution that prizes obedience, the most effective warriors are often those who dare to question the prevailing orthodoxy and in doing so redefine the American way of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6317'),
(18219, 'The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army', 'David Cloud; Greg Jaffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They survived the military''s brutal winnowing to reach its top echelon. They became the Army''s most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next century. Theirs is a story of successes and failures, of ambitions achieved and thwarted, of the responsibilities and perils of command. The careers of this elite quartet show how the most powerful military force in the world entered a major war unprepared, and how the Army, drawing on a reservoir of talent that few thought it possessed, saved itself from crushing defeat against a ruthless, low-tech foe. In *The Fourth Star*, you''ll follow:â€¢Gen. John Abizaid, one of the Army''s most brilliant minds. Fluent in Arabic, he forged an unconventional path in the military to make himself an expert on the Middle East, but this unique background made him skeptical of the war he found himself leading. â€¢Gen. George Casey Jr., the son of the highest-ranking general to be killed in the Vietnam War. Casey had grown up in the Army and won praise for his common touch and skill as a soldier. He was determined not to repeat the mistakes of Vietnam but would take much of the blame as Iraq collapsed around him. â€¢Gen. Peter Chiarelli, an emotional, take-charge leader who, more than any other senior officer, felt the sting of the Army''s failures in Iraq. He drove his soldiers, the chain of command, and the U.S. government to rethink the occupation plansâ€“yet rarely achieved the results he sought.â€¢Gen. David Petraeus, a driven soldier-scholar. Determined to reach the Army''s summit almost since the day he entered West Point, he sometimes alienated peers with his ambition and competitiveness. When he finally got his chance in Iraq, heâ€“more than anyoneâ€“changed the Army''s conception of what was possible. Masterfully written and richly reported, *The Fourth Star* ranges far beyond today''s battlefields, evoking the Army''s tumultuous history since Vietnam through these four captivating lives and ultimately revealing a fascinating irony: In an institution that prizes obedience, the most effective warriors are often those who dare to question the prevailing orthodoxy and in doing so redefine the American way of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17704'),
(18220, 'The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army', 'David Cloud; Greg Jaffe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They survived the military''s brutal winnowing to reach its top echelon. They became the Army''s most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next century. Theirs is a story of successes and failures, of ambitions achieved and thwarted, of the responsibilities and perils of command. The careers of this elite quartet show how the most powerful military force in the world entered a major war unprepared, and how the Army, drawing on a reservoir of talent that few thought it possessed, saved itself from crushing defeat against a ruthless, low-tech foe. In *The Fourth Star*, you''ll follow:â€¢Gen. John Abizaid, one of the Army''s most brilliant minds. Fluent in Arabic, he forged an unconventional path in the military to make himself an expert on the Middle East, but this unique background made him skeptical of the war he found himself leading. â€¢Gen. George Casey Jr., the son of the highest-ranking general to be killed in the Vietnam War. Casey had grown up in the Army and won praise for his common touch and skill as a soldier. He was determined not to repeat the mistakes of Vietnam but would take much of the blame as Iraq collapsed around him. â€¢Gen. Peter Chiarelli, an emotional, take-charge leader who, more than any other senior officer, felt the sting of the Army''s failures in Iraq. He drove his soldiers, the chain of command, and the U.S. government to rethink the occupation plansâ€“yet rarely achieved the results he sought.â€¢Gen. David Petraeus, a driven soldier-scholar. Determined to reach the Army''s summit almost since the day he entered West Point, he sometimes alienated peers with his ambition and competitiveness. When he finally got his chance in Iraq, heâ€“more than anyoneâ€“changed the Army''s conception of what was possible. Masterfully written and richly reported, *The Fourth Star* ranges far beyond today''s battlefields, evoking the Army''s tumultuous history since Vietnam through these four captivating lives and ultimately revealing a fascinating irony: In an institution that prizes obedience, the most effective warriors are often those who dare to question the prevailing orthodoxy and in doing so redefine the American way of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27225'),
(18221, 'Frabato Magicianul', 'Franz Bardon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25841'),
(18222, 'A Fraction of the Whole: A Novel', 'Steve Toltz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  At the heart of this sprawling, dizzying debut from a quirky, assured Australian writer are two men: Jasper Dean, a judgmental but forgiving son, and Martin, his brilliant but dysfunctional father. Jasper, in an Australian prison in his early 20s, scribbles out the story of their picaresque adventures, noting cryptically early on that [m]y father''s body will never be found. As he tells it, Jasper has been uneasily bonded to his father through thick and thin, which includes Martin''s stint managing a squalid strip club during Jasper''s adolescence; an Australian outback home literally hidden within impenetrable mazes; Martin''s ill-fated scheme to make every Australian a millionaire; and a feverish odyssey through Thailand''s menacing jungles. Toltz''s exuberant, looping narrativeâ€”thick with his characters'' outsized longings and with their crazy argumentsâ€”sometimes blows past plot entirely, but comic drive and Toltz''s far-out imagination carry the epic story, which puts the two (and Martin''s own nemesis, his outlaw brother, Terry) on an irreverent roller-coaster ride from obscurity to infamy. Comparisons to\n  <em>\n   Special Topics in Calamity Physics\n  </em>\n  are likely, but this nutty tour de force has a more tender, more worldly spin.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œ_A Fraction of the Whole_ is that rarest of long booksâ€“\n  <strong>\n   utterly worth it\n  </strong>\n  ...The story starts in a prison riot and ends on a plane, and there is\n  <strong>\n   not one forgettable episode\n  </strong>\n  in between...It reads like Mark Twain with access to an intercontinental Airbus...\n  <strong>\n   This book moves; it bucks and rocks\n  </strong>\n  in a world that feels more than a hemisphere away...So comically dark and inviting that you have no choice but to step into its icy wake.â€ â€”_Esquire\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œRollicking...laugh-out-loud funny.â€ â€”\n  </em>\n  Entertainment Weekly_\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œA rich father-and-son story\n  <strong>\n   packed with incident, humor, and characters reminiscent of the styles of Charles Dickens and John Irving\n  </strong>\n  ...Occasionally, a big, sprawling first novel fights its way into print with a flourish, at which point its ambition and the eccentricities of its â€˜firstnessâ€™ can become its best marketing tools. Such is the case with\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  , a book that is willfully misanthropic and very funny...like Irving, Toltz makes\n  <strong>\n   minor characters leap off the page\n  </strong>\n  ...Heâ€™s a superb, disturbing phrasemaker...this long novel, which lives or dies in the brilliance of its writing, has a subtle, compelling structure..._A Fraction of the Whole_\n  <strong>\n   soars like a rocket\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œCombines the\n  <strong>\n   hilarious\n  </strong>\n  high-low reference points of early Martin Amis with the annihilating punk inventiveness of Chuck Palahniuk.â€ â€”_Best Life\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œOne of the best books Iâ€™ve ever read.\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  is better than\n  <em>\n   The Corrections\n  </em>\n  , and Toltz did it in one book while it took Franzen two to get\n  <em>\n   The Corrections\n  </em>\n  out into the world. Granted, you have your whole life to write your first novel, but my God,\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  does things that most writers canâ€™t do in a lifetime... A\n  <strong>\n   wildly addictive\n  </strong>\n  exploration into a manâ€™s soul, a\n  <strong>\n   profoundly moving\n  </strong>\n  experience almost religious in its execution and possibly one of the sharpest and irresistibly humorous post-modern adventures Iâ€™ve had the pleasure to read... Steve Toltz has written\n  <strong>\n   a masterpiece, a smashing debut that will long be remembered as a colossal example of just how good fiction can be\n  </strong>\n  . He keeps you wired to the page from the jump and he defies gravity all the way to the end.â€ â€”Ainâ€™t It Cool News\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFirst novels these days too seldom dare to raise their voices above an elegant whisper or an ironic murmur. Not so\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  , a riotously funny first novel that is\n  <strong>\n   harder to ignore than a crate of puppies\n  </strong>\n  , twice as playful and just about as messy. This is not a book to be read so much as an experience to be wallowed in. Mr. Toltzâ€™s merry chaosâ€“a mix of metaphysical inquiry, ribald jokes, freakish occurrences and verbal dynamite booming across the pageâ€“\n  <strong>\n   deserves a place next to\n   <em>\n    A Confederacy of Dunces\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  in a category that might be called the undergraduate ecstatic.\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  is a sort of Voltaire-meets-Vonnegut tale.â€ â€”_Wall Street Journal\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œMadcap, exhausting, and true in the way the best lies always are.â€ â€”_New York Observer\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œWild...an odyssey thatâ€™s\n  <strong>\n   inspired, sorta stoned, tender, and very funny\n  </strong>\n  . Sometimes all at the same time. Toltzâ€™s invention is as breathtaking as the speed of his narrative in a book that seems to have had all the boring parts snipped...There is wit on every page...Jorge Luis Borges is obviously an influence on Toltz. There is also a bit of John Irving and Tom Robbins here in the wacky characters and narrative drive.\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  even has a touch of the weary philosophizing of Vonnegut, too. In its structureâ€“and especially in its endingâ€“there is even a pinch of Tristram Shandy. Very good company, all.â€ â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ\n  <strong>\n   Hold on tight\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   because you are about to ride a juggernaut of words\n  </strong>\n  , where things will go by very quickly and you better pay attention...The real pleasure in reading this book is the pace and the language. What Toltz has done masterfully is have his way with every aspect of modern life. He racks â€˜em up and knocks â€˜em down with a laser wit, a fine turn of phrase and a\n  <strong>\n   devastatingly funny\n  </strong>\n  outlook on everything human.â€ â€”_Seattle Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œ\n  <strong>\n   An\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   exuberantly funny debut novel that you should just go away and read\n  </strong>\n  ...There is plenty to laugh at in\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  â€“and also, goodness knows, there is plenty of plot and the narrative pace of a puppy with attention deficit disorder. But it also has a heart...\n  <strong>\n   A grand achievement\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   and the debut of a great comic talent\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Sunday Times_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSparkling comic writing...It gives off the unmistakable whiff of\n  <strong>\n   a book that might just contain the secret of life\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Independent_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis\n  <strong>\n   absurdly incident-laden, feverish, farcical\n  </strong>\n  life story bears the watermark of long gestation. Whatâ€™s more, it\n  <strong>\n   stands above the vast majority of debut novels\n  </strong>\n  because it seems so marvelously sure of itself and what it should be...Toltzâ€™s\n  <strong>\n   fizzing, acid, funny\n  </strong>\n  prose is capable of a kind of broken, lyrical beauty...Amid the dizzying whirl of events, Toltz never loses sight of a deep current that runs throughout his story...Itâ€™s a spiritual search that allows a conclusion that finds an affecting depth of feeling. Yes,\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  is\n  <strong>\n   a wildly looping rollercoaster\n  </strong>\n  . But thereâ€™s much more to it than meaningless exhilaration.â€ â€”_Independent on Sunday_ (UK)\n  <br />\n  â€œWith tinges of magical realism and buckets of misanthropic humor it''s\n  <strong>\n   a clever and funny debut\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Observer_ (UK)\n  <br />\n  â€œVery light on its feet, skipping from anecdote, to rant, to reflection, like a stone skimming across a pond...Thereâ€™s a section about a labyrinth that you could imagine Borges writing, another about a lottery gone wrong that made me think of Vonnegut, and a strange, lovely account of childhood illness that had echoes of Garcia Marquez. In some ways it\n  <strong>\n   plays like a modern Arabian Nights\n  </strong>\n  ...The inevitability of disaster is heartbreaking...\n  <strong>\n   Brilliant\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Guardian_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œQuirky, satirical, and absolutely delirious..._A Fraction of the Whole_ is\n  <strong>\n   one of the most hilarious, original literary romps in years with sizzle on each and every page\n  </strong>\n  . Hold on tight and enjoy the ride.â€ â€”_Tucson Citizen_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA sprawling, dizzying debut...Comic drive and Steve Toltzâ€™s far-out imagination carry the epic story . . .\n  <strong>\n   a nutty tour de force\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€“_Publishers Weekly_, starred review\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhat satirical fun is found on the madcap pages of this rough-and-tumble tale...This\n  <strong>\n   hilarious\n  </strong>\n  , sneaky smart first novel is as big and rangy as Australia . . . Toltz salts it all with uproarious ruminations on freedom, the soul, love, death, and the meaning of life. This is one\n  <strong>\n   rampaging and irresistible\n  </strong>\n  debut.â€ â€“_Booklist_, starred review\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe\n  <strong>\n   perfect vacation read\n  </strong>\n  for just about everyone...This book allows you to romp along with the characters on an epic journey with two crazy Australian brothers who you fall madly in love with despite their wild, degenerate lives...packed with so many rich characters, setting descriptions, philosophy and fun you need something to aid digestion after each reading...Steve Toltz is\n  <strong>\n   hilarious\n  </strong>\n  , smart, with a fantastic imagination...His novel is a rollicking worldwide adventure...\n  <strong>\n   Take time to enjoy this one; you wonâ€™t be disappointed\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_The Daily Planet_, Telluride, CO\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_A Fraction of the Whole_ belongs to a neglected subgenre: serious fiction that refuses to take itself seriously. A ballsy, beautifully idiosyncratic epic, it asks dizzying primal questions about mortality, belief, and the shadowy, unmapped alleyways of human thoughtâ€“and Toltz manages his metaphysics like a master surfer riding a colossal wave...Itâ€™s a madcap,\n  <strong>\n   propulsive\n  </strong>\n  story...The energy of the writing is\n  <strong>\n   brilliantly infectious\n  </strong>\n  ...The novelâ€™s heart is as big as its intellect...It feels like an added bonus that, for all its hilarious misanthropy,\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   testifies to the power of even the most reluctant love\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Sunday Business Post_ (Ireland)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPacked with plots, sub-plots, sub-sub-plots, tangents, flashbacks, diversions, philosophical wanderings and spectacular set pieces...\n  <strong>\n   Fuelled by brilliant ideas and driven by an original, bracing, and very funny voice\n  </strong>\n  .â€ --_The Age_ (Australia)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ\n  <strong>\n   Reads like the trajectory of a gleefully crazed Roman candle\n  </strong>\n  ...a sprawling, entertaining, decidedly quirky, and at times\n  <strong>\n   laugh-out-loud funny\n  </strong>\n  romp reminiscent of John Irvingâ€™s family sagas.â€ â€”_Library Journal\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1005'),
(18223, 'A Fraction of the Whole: A Novel', 'Steve Toltz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  At the heart of this sprawling, dizzying debut from a quirky, assured Australian writer are two men: Jasper Dean, a judgmental but forgiving son, and Martin, his brilliant but dysfunctional father. Jasper, in an Australian prison in his early 20s, scribbles out the story of their picaresque adventures, noting cryptically early on that [m]y father''s body will never be found. As he tells it, Jasper has been uneasily bonded to his father through thick and thin, which includes Martin''s stint managing a squalid strip club during Jasper''s adolescence; an Australian outback home literally hidden within impenetrable mazes; Martin''s ill-fated scheme to make every Australian a millionaire; and a feverish odyssey through Thailand''s menacing jungles. Toltz''s exuberant, looping narrativeâ€”thick with his characters'' outsized longings and with their crazy argumentsâ€”sometimes blows past plot entirely, but comic drive and Toltz''s far-out imagination carry the epic story, which puts the two (and Martin''s own nemesis, his outlaw brother, Terry) on an irreverent roller-coaster ride from obscurity to infamy. Comparisons to\n  <em>\n   Special Topics in Calamity Physics\n  </em>\n  are likely, but this nutty tour de force has a more tender, more worldly spin.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œ_A Fraction of the Whole_ is that rarest of long booksâ€“\n  <strong>\n   utterly worth it\n  </strong>\n  ...The story starts in a prison riot and ends on a plane, and there is\n  <strong>\n   not one forgettable episode\n  </strong>\n  in between...It reads like Mark Twain with access to an intercontinental Airbus...\n  <strong>\n   This book moves; it bucks and rocks\n  </strong>\n  in a world that feels more than a hemisphere away...So comically dark and inviting that you have no choice but to step into its icy wake.â€ â€”_Esquire\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œRollicking...laugh-out-loud funny.â€ â€”\n  </em>\n  Entertainment Weekly_\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œA rich father-and-son story\n  <strong>\n   packed with incident, humor, and characters reminiscent of the styles of Charles Dickens and John Irving\n  </strong>\n  ...Occasionally, a big, sprawling first novel fights its way into print with a flourish, at which point its ambition and the eccentricities of its â€˜firstnessâ€™ can become its best marketing tools. Such is the case with\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  , a book that is willfully misanthropic and very funny...like Irving, Toltz makes\n  <strong>\n   minor characters leap off the page\n  </strong>\n  ...Heâ€™s a superb, disturbing phrasemaker...this long novel, which lives or dies in the brilliance of its writing, has a subtle, compelling structure..._A Fraction of the Whole_\n  <strong>\n   soars like a rocket\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œCombines the\n  <strong>\n   hilarious\n  </strong>\n  high-low reference points of early Martin Amis with the annihilating punk inventiveness of Chuck Palahniuk.â€ â€”_Best Life\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œOne of the best books Iâ€™ve ever read.\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  is better than\n  <em>\n   The Corrections\n  </em>\n  , and Toltz did it in one book while it took Franzen two to get\n  <em>\n   The Corrections\n  </em>\n  out into the world. Granted, you have your whole life to write your first novel, but my God,\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  does things that most writers canâ€™t do in a lifetime... A\n  <strong>\n   wildly addictive\n  </strong>\n  exploration into a manâ€™s soul, a\n  <strong>\n   profoundly moving\n  </strong>\n  experience almost religious in its execution and possibly one of the sharpest and irresistibly humorous post-modern adventures Iâ€™ve had the pleasure to read... Steve Toltz has written\n  <strong>\n   a masterpiece, a smashing debut that will long be remembered as a colossal example of just how good fiction can be\n  </strong>\n  . He keeps you wired to the page from the jump and he defies gravity all the way to the end.â€ â€”Ainâ€™t It Cool News\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFirst novels these days too seldom dare to raise their voices above an elegant whisper or an ironic murmur. Not so\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  , a riotously funny first novel that is\n  <strong>\n   harder to ignore than a crate of puppies\n  </strong>\n  , twice as playful and just about as messy. This is not a book to be read so much as an experience to be wallowed in. Mr. Toltzâ€™s merry chaosâ€“a mix of metaphysical inquiry, ribald jokes, freakish occurrences and verbal dynamite booming across the pageâ€“\n  <strong>\n   deserves a place next to\n   <em>\n    A Confederacy of Dunces\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  in a category that might be called the undergraduate ecstatic.\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  is a sort of Voltaire-meets-Vonnegut tale.â€ â€”_Wall Street Journal\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œMadcap, exhausting, and true in the way the best lies always are.â€ â€”_New York Observer\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œWild...an odyssey thatâ€™s\n  <strong>\n   inspired, sorta stoned, tender, and very funny\n  </strong>\n  . Sometimes all at the same time. Toltzâ€™s invention is as breathtaking as the speed of his narrative in a book that seems to have had all the boring parts snipped...There is wit on every page...Jorge Luis Borges is obviously an influence on Toltz. There is also a bit of John Irving and Tom Robbins here in the wacky characters and narrative drive.\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  even has a touch of the weary philosophizing of Vonnegut, too. In its structureâ€“and especially in its endingâ€“there is even a pinch of Tristram Shandy. Very good company, all.â€ â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ\n  <strong>\n   Hold on tight\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   because you are about to ride a juggernaut of words\n  </strong>\n  , where things will go by very quickly and you better pay attention...The real pleasure in reading this book is the pace and the language. What Toltz has done masterfully is have his way with every aspect of modern life. He racks â€˜em up and knocks â€˜em down with a laser wit, a fine turn of phrase and a\n  <strong>\n   devastatingly funny\n  </strong>\n  outlook on everything human.â€ â€”_Seattle Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œ\n  <strong>\n   An\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   exuberantly funny debut novel that you should just go away and read\n  </strong>\n  ...There is plenty to laugh at in\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  â€“and also, goodness knows, there is plenty of plot and the narrative pace of a puppy with attention deficit disorder. But it also has a heart...\n  <strong>\n   A grand achievement\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   and the debut of a great comic talent\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Sunday Times_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSparkling comic writing...It gives off the unmistakable whiff of\n  <strong>\n   a book that might just contain the secret of life\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Independent_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis\n  <strong>\n   absurdly incident-laden, feverish, farcical\n  </strong>\n  life story bears the watermark of long gestation. Whatâ€™s more, it\n  <strong>\n   stands above the vast majority of debut novels\n  </strong>\n  because it seems so marvelously sure of itself and what it should be...Toltzâ€™s\n  <strong>\n   fizzing, acid, funny\n  </strong>\n  prose is capable of a kind of broken, lyrical beauty...Amid the dizzying whirl of events, Toltz never loses sight of a deep current that runs throughout his story...Itâ€™s a spiritual search that allows a conclusion that finds an affecting depth of feeling. Yes,\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  is\n  <strong>\n   a wildly looping rollercoaster\n  </strong>\n  . But thereâ€™s much more to it than meaningless exhilaration.â€ â€”_Independent on Sunday_ (UK)\n  <br />\n  â€œWith tinges of magical realism and buckets of misanthropic humor it''s\n  <strong>\n   a clever and funny debut\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Observer_ (UK)\n  <br />\n  â€œVery light on its feet, skipping from anecdote, to rant, to reflection, like a stone skimming across a pond...Thereâ€™s a section about a labyrinth that you could imagine Borges writing, another about a lottery gone wrong that made me think of Vonnegut, and a strange, lovely account of childhood illness that had echoes of Garcia Marquez. In some ways it\n  <strong>\n   plays like a modern Arabian Nights\n  </strong>\n  ...The inevitability of disaster is heartbreaking...\n  <strong>\n   Brilliant\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Guardian_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œQuirky, satirical, and absolutely delirious..._A Fraction of the Whole_ is\n  <strong>\n   one of the most hilarious, original literary romps in years with sizzle on each and every page\n  </strong>\n  . Hold on tight and enjoy the ride.â€ â€”_Tucson Citizen_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA sprawling, dizzying debut...Comic drive and Steve Toltzâ€™s far-out imagination carry the epic story . . .\n  <strong>\n   a nutty tour de force\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€“_Publishers Weekly_, starred review\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhat satirical fun is found on the madcap pages of this rough-and-tumble tale...This\n  <strong>\n   hilarious\n  </strong>\n  , sneaky smart first novel is as big and rangy as Australia . . . Toltz salts it all with uproarious ruminations on freedom, the soul, love, death, and the meaning of life. This is one\n  <strong>\n   rampaging and irresistible\n  </strong>\n  debut.â€ â€“_Booklist_, starred review\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe\n  <strong>\n   perfect vacation read\n  </strong>\n  for just about everyone...This book allows you to romp along with the characters on an epic journey with two crazy Australian brothers who you fall madly in love with despite their wild, degenerate lives...packed with so many rich characters, setting descriptions, philosophy and fun you need something to aid digestion after each reading...Steve Toltz is\n  <strong>\n   hilarious\n  </strong>\n  , smart, with a fantastic imagination...His novel is a rollicking worldwide adventure...\n  <strong>\n   Take time to enjoy this one; you wonâ€™t be disappointed\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_The Daily Planet_, Telluride, CO\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_A Fraction of the Whole_ belongs to a neglected subgenre: serious fiction that refuses to take itself seriously. A ballsy, beautifully idiosyncratic epic, it asks dizzying primal questions about mortality, belief, and the shadowy, unmapped alleyways of human thoughtâ€“and Toltz manages his metaphysics like a master surfer riding a colossal wave...Itâ€™s a madcap,\n  <strong>\n   propulsive\n  </strong>\n  story...The energy of the writing is\n  <strong>\n   brilliantly infectious\n  </strong>\n  ...The novelâ€™s heart is as big as its intellect...It feels like an added bonus that, for all its hilarious misanthropy,\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   testifies to the power of even the most reluctant love\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Sunday Business Post_ (Ireland)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPacked with plots, sub-plots, sub-sub-plots, tangents, flashbacks, diversions, philosophical wanderings and spectacular set pieces...\n  <strong>\n   Fuelled by brilliant ideas and driven by an original, bracing, and very funny voice\n  </strong>\n  .â€ --_The Age_ (Australia)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ\n  <strong>\n   Reads like the trajectory of a gleefully crazed Roman candle\n  </strong>\n  ...a sprawling, entertaining, decidedly quirky, and at times\n  <strong>\n   laugh-out-loud funny\n  </strong>\n  romp reminiscent of John Irvingâ€™s family sagas.â€ â€”_Library Journal\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13101');
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(18224, 'A Fraction of the Whole: A Novel', 'Steve Toltz', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review.\n  </em>\n  At the heart of this sprawling, dizzying debut from a quirky, assured Australian writer are two men: Jasper Dean, a judgmental but forgiving son, and Martin, his brilliant but dysfunctional father. Jasper, in an Australian prison in his early 20s, scribbles out the story of their picaresque adventures, noting cryptically early on that [m]y father''s body will never be found. As he tells it, Jasper has been uneasily bonded to his father through thick and thin, which includes Martin''s stint managing a squalid strip club during Jasper''s adolescence; an Australian outback home literally hidden within impenetrable mazes; Martin''s ill-fated scheme to make every Australian a millionaire; and a feverish odyssey through Thailand''s menacing jungles. Toltz''s exuberant, looping narrativeâ€”thick with his characters'' outsized longings and with their crazy argumentsâ€”sometimes blows past plot entirely, but comic drive and Toltz''s far-out imagination carry the epic story, which puts the two (and Martin''s own nemesis, his outlaw brother, Terry) on an irreverent roller-coaster ride from obscurity to infamy. Comparisons to\n  <em>\n   Special Topics in Calamity Physics\n  </em>\n  are likely, but this nutty tour de force has a more tender, more worldly spin.\n  <em>\n   (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œ_A Fraction of the Whole_ is that rarest of long booksâ€“\n  <strong>\n   utterly worth it\n  </strong>\n  ...The story starts in a prison riot and ends on a plane, and there is\n  <strong>\n   not one forgettable episode\n  </strong>\n  in between...It reads like Mark Twain with access to an intercontinental Airbus...\n  <strong>\n   This book moves; it bucks and rocks\n  </strong>\n  in a world that feels more than a hemisphere away...So comically dark and inviting that you have no choice but to step into its icy wake.â€ â€”_Esquire\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   â€œRollicking...laugh-out-loud funny.â€ â€”\n  </em>\n  Entertainment Weekly_\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œA rich father-and-son story\n  <strong>\n   packed with incident, humor, and characters reminiscent of the styles of Charles Dickens and John Irving\n  </strong>\n  ...Occasionally, a big, sprawling first novel fights its way into print with a flourish, at which point its ambition and the eccentricities of its â€˜firstnessâ€™ can become its best marketing tools. Such is the case with\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  , a book that is willfully misanthropic and very funny...like Irving, Toltz makes\n  <strong>\n   minor characters leap off the page\n  </strong>\n  ...Heâ€™s a superb, disturbing phrasemaker...this long novel, which lives or dies in the brilliance of its writing, has a subtle, compelling structure..._A Fraction of the Whole_\n  <strong>\n   soars like a rocket\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Los Angeles Times_\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _â€œCombines the\n  <strong>\n   hilarious\n  </strong>\n  high-low reference points of early Martin Amis with the annihilating punk inventiveness of Chuck Palahniuk.â€ â€”_Best Life\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œOne of the best books Iâ€™ve ever read.\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  is better than\n  <em>\n   The Corrections\n  </em>\n  , and Toltz did it in one book while it took Franzen two to get\n  <em>\n   The Corrections\n  </em>\n  out into the world. Granted, you have your whole life to write your first novel, but my God,\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  does things that most writers canâ€™t do in a lifetime... A\n  <strong>\n   wildly addictive\n  </strong>\n  exploration into a manâ€™s soul, a\n  <strong>\n   profoundly moving\n  </strong>\n  experience almost religious in its execution and possibly one of the sharpest and irresistibly humorous post-modern adventures Iâ€™ve had the pleasure to read... Steve Toltz has written\n  <strong>\n   a masterpiece, a smashing debut that will long be remembered as a colossal example of just how good fiction can be\n  </strong>\n  . He keeps you wired to the page from the jump and he defies gravity all the way to the end.â€ â€”Ainâ€™t It Cool News\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œFirst novels these days too seldom dare to raise their voices above an elegant whisper or an ironic murmur. Not so\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  , a riotously funny first novel that is\n  <strong>\n   harder to ignore than a crate of puppies\n  </strong>\n  , twice as playful and just about as messy. This is not a book to be read so much as an experience to be wallowed in. Mr. Toltzâ€™s merry chaosâ€“a mix of metaphysical inquiry, ribald jokes, freakish occurrences and verbal dynamite booming across the pageâ€“\n  <strong>\n   deserves a place next to\n   <em>\n    A Confederacy of Dunces\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n  in a category that might be called the undergraduate ecstatic.\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  is a sort of Voltaire-meets-Vonnegut tale.â€ â€”_Wall Street Journal\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  â€œMadcap, exhausting, and true in the way the best lies always are.â€ â€”_New York Observer\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œWild...an odyssey thatâ€™s\n  <strong>\n   inspired, sorta stoned, tender, and very funny\n  </strong>\n  . Sometimes all at the same time. Toltzâ€™s invention is as breathtaking as the speed of his narrative in a book that seems to have had all the boring parts snipped...There is wit on every page...Jorge Luis Borges is obviously an influence on Toltz. There is also a bit of John Irving and Tom Robbins here in the wacky characters and narrative drive.\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  even has a touch of the weary philosophizing of Vonnegut, too. In its structureâ€“and especially in its endingâ€“there is even a pinch of Tristram Shandy. Very good company, all.â€ â€”_Chicago Sun-Times_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ\n  <strong>\n   Hold on tight\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   because you are about to ride a juggernaut of words\n  </strong>\n  , where things will go by very quickly and you better pay attention...The real pleasure in reading this book is the pace and the language. What Toltz has done masterfully is have his way with every aspect of modern life. He racks â€˜em up and knocks â€˜em down with a laser wit, a fine turn of phrase and a\n  <strong>\n   devastatingly funny\n  </strong>\n  outlook on everything human.â€ â€”_Seattle Times\n </p>\n <p>\n  _â€œ\n  <strong>\n   An\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   exuberantly funny debut novel that you should just go away and read\n  </strong>\n  ...There is plenty to laugh at in\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  â€“and also, goodness knows, there is plenty of plot and the narrative pace of a puppy with attention deficit disorder. But it also has a heart...\n  <strong>\n   A grand achievement\n  </strong>\n  <strong>\n   and the debut of a great comic talent\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Sunday Times_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œSparkling comic writing...It gives off the unmistakable whiff of\n  <strong>\n   a book that might just contain the secret of life\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Independent_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis\n  <strong>\n   absurdly incident-laden, feverish, farcical\n  </strong>\n  life story bears the watermark of long gestation. Whatâ€™s more, it\n  <strong>\n   stands above the vast majority of debut novels\n  </strong>\n  because it seems so marvelously sure of itself and what it should be...Toltzâ€™s\n  <strong>\n   fizzing, acid, funny\n  </strong>\n  prose is capable of a kind of broken, lyrical beauty...Amid the dizzying whirl of events, Toltz never loses sight of a deep current that runs throughout his story...Itâ€™s a spiritual search that allows a conclusion that finds an affecting depth of feeling. Yes,\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  is\n  <strong>\n   a wildly looping rollercoaster\n  </strong>\n  . But thereâ€™s much more to it than meaningless exhilaration.â€ â€”_Independent on Sunday_ (UK)\n  <br />\n  â€œWith tinges of magical realism and buckets of misanthropic humor it''s\n  <strong>\n   a clever and funny debut\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Observer_ (UK)\n  <br />\n  â€œVery light on its feet, skipping from anecdote, to rant, to reflection, like a stone skimming across a pond...Thereâ€™s a section about a labyrinth that you could imagine Borges writing, another about a lottery gone wrong that made me think of Vonnegut, and a strange, lovely account of childhood illness that had echoes of Garcia Marquez. In some ways it\n  <strong>\n   plays like a modern Arabian Nights\n  </strong>\n  ...The inevitability of disaster is heartbreaking...\n  <strong>\n   Brilliant\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Guardian_ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œQuirky, satirical, and absolutely delirious..._A Fraction of the Whole_ is\n  <strong>\n   one of the most hilarious, original literary romps in years with sizzle on each and every page\n  </strong>\n  . Hold on tight and enjoy the ride.â€ â€”_Tucson Citizen_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA sprawling, dizzying debut...Comic drive and Steve Toltzâ€™s far-out imagination carry the epic story . . .\n  <strong>\n   a nutty tour de force\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€“_Publishers Weekly_, starred review\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhat satirical fun is found on the madcap pages of this rough-and-tumble tale...This\n  <strong>\n   hilarious\n  </strong>\n  , sneaky smart first novel is as big and rangy as Australia . . . Toltz salts it all with uproarious ruminations on freedom, the soul, love, death, and the meaning of life. This is one\n  <strong>\n   rampaging and irresistible\n  </strong>\n  debut.â€ â€“_Booklist_, starred review\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe\n  <strong>\n   perfect vacation read\n  </strong>\n  for just about everyone...This book allows you to romp along with the characters on an epic journey with two crazy Australian brothers who you fall madly in love with despite their wild, degenerate lives...packed with so many rich characters, setting descriptions, philosophy and fun you need something to aid digestion after each reading...Steve Toltz is\n  <strong>\n   hilarious\n  </strong>\n  , smart, with a fantastic imagination...His novel is a rollicking worldwide adventure...\n  <strong>\n   Take time to enjoy this one; you wonâ€™t be disappointed\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_The Daily Planet_, Telluride, CO\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ_A Fraction of the Whole_ belongs to a neglected subgenre: serious fiction that refuses to take itself seriously. A ballsy, beautifully idiosyncratic epic, it asks dizzying primal questions about mortality, belief, and the shadowy, unmapped alleyways of human thoughtâ€“and Toltz manages his metaphysics like a master surfer riding a colossal wave...Itâ€™s a madcap,\n  <strong>\n   propulsive\n  </strong>\n  story...The energy of the writing is\n  <strong>\n   brilliantly infectious\n  </strong>\n  ...The novelâ€™s heart is as big as its intellect...It feels like an added bonus that, for all its hilarious misanthropy,\n  <em>\n   A Fraction of the Whole\n  </em>\n  <strong>\n   testifies to the power of even the most reluctant love\n  </strong>\n  .â€ â€”_Sunday Business Post_ (Ireland)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œPacked with plots, sub-plots, sub-sub-plots, tangents, flashbacks, diversions, philosophical wanderings and spectacular set pieces...\n  <strong>\n   Fuelled by brilliant ideas and driven by an original, bracing, and very funny voice\n  </strong>\n  .â€ --_The Age_ (Australia)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œ\n  <strong>\n   Reads like the trajectory of a gleefully crazed Roman candle\n  </strong>\n  ...a sprawling, entertaining, decidedly quirky, and at times\n  <strong>\n   laugh-out-loud funny\n  </strong>\n  romp reminiscent of John Irvingâ€™s family sagas.â€ â€”_Library Journal\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23974'),
(18225, 'The fracture zone: a return to the Balkans', 'Simon Winchester', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23020'),
(18226, 'The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans', 'Simon Winchester', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Simon Winchester, a British newspaper reporter for 30 years and the author of 13 books (including __), has turned his attention to the Balkans, an area he visited years ago on a road trip from Vienna to Istanbul--a journey he retraced in the spring of 1999.\n <em>\n  The Fracture Zone\n </em>\n describes both of those trips, concentrating on the history and character of the region more than the recent war and its aftermath. Winchester has spent most of his career as a foreign correspondent, but his more recent occupations as historian and a writer for\n <em>\n  CondÃ© Nast Traveler\n </em>\n are in evidence here. Winchester''s angle on the Balkans is unique and well written: those who have been bewildered at best and bored at worst by the Balkan conflict may find that\n <em>\n  The Fracture Zone\n </em>\n captures their interest better than hundreds of news accounts of war atrocities. "Why is there, and seemingly always has been, this dire inevitability about the Balkans being so fractious and unsettled a corner of the world?" Winchester wonders aloud. That eternal question continues to plague world statesmen and, though not fully answered here, affords the opportunity for an interesting exploration.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As NATO planes began to atttack Belgrade last March, British journalist Winchester (The Professor and the Madman) visited the Kosovar refugee camps in Macedonia, where he was shocked by the "Bruegel-scene of mass misery" that confronted him: international aid workers had not yet organized proper food and sanitation for the thousands of people crammed into a muddy field surrounded by Macedonian police. The sight provoked Winchester to visit as much of the Balkans as he could, in hope of grasping the complexities that had led to the debacle. Starting out from Vienna, he continued into Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia, where he found that nationalist citizens still refer to the Muslim Kosovars as "Turks." Although he sets his travels against the history of the BalkansAfrom the battles of the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires through the Croatian massacre of Jews, Serbs, Gypsies and homosexuals during WWII to the recent war in KosovoAhis conclusions are too pat to make his analysis significant. Taking a fatalistic attitude, he views the region''s problems as little more than the fruit of "classic Balkan hatreds, ancient and modern." Still, Winchester''s extensive interviews make his book notable. Almost every page contains the reflections of ordinary citizens, who reveal to Winchester their hatreds, their troubles and their hopes, lending richness and authenticity to his account. His unsentimental descriptions of the area''s destroyed mosques, burned houses and virulent graffiti serve as a poignant reminder that the effects of war last long after the planes are gone.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1171'),
(18227, 'The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans', 'Simon Winchester', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Simon Winchester, a British newspaper reporter for 30 years and the author of 13 books (including __), has turned his attention to the Balkans, an area he visited years ago on a road trip from Vienna to Istanbul--a journey he retraced in the spring of 1999.\n <em>\n  The Fracture Zone\n </em>\n describes both of those trips, concentrating on the history and character of the region more than the recent war and its aftermath. Winchester has spent most of his career as a foreign correspondent, but his more recent occupations as historian and a writer for\n <em>\n  CondÃ© Nast Traveler\n </em>\n are in evidence here. Winchester''s angle on the Balkans is unique and well written: those who have been bewildered at best and bored at worst by the Balkan conflict may find that\n <em>\n  The Fracture Zone\n </em>\n captures their interest better than hundreds of news accounts of war atrocities. "Why is there, and seemingly always has been, this dire inevitability about the Balkans being so fractious and unsettled a corner of the world?" Winchester wonders aloud. That eternal question continues to plague world statesmen and, though not fully answered here, affords the opportunity for an interesting exploration.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n As NATO planes began to atttack Belgrade last March, British journalist Winchester (The Professor and the Madman) visited the Kosovar refugee camps in Macedonia, where he was shocked by the "Bruegel-scene of mass misery" that confronted him: international aid workers had not yet organized proper food and sanitation for the thousands of people crammed into a muddy field surrounded by Macedonian police. The sight provoked Winchester to visit as much of the Balkans as he could, in hope of grasping the complexities that had led to the debacle. Starting out from Vienna, he continued into Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia, where he found that nationalist citizens still refer to the Muslim Kosovars as "Turks." Although he sets his travels against the history of the BalkansAfrom the battles of the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires through the Croatian massacre of Jews, Serbs, Gypsies and homosexuals during WWII to the recent war in KosovoAhis conclusions are too pat to make his analysis significant. Taking a fatalistic attitude, he views the region''s problems as little more than the fruit of "classic Balkan hatreds, ancient and modern." Still, Winchester''s extensive interviews make his book notable. Almost every page contains the reflections of ordinary citizens, who reveal to Winchester their hatreds, their troubles and their hopes, lending richness and authenticity to his account. His unsentimental descriptions of the area''s destroyed mosques, burned houses and virulent graffiti serve as a poignant reminder that the effects of war last long after the planes are gone.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13357'),
(18228, 'Fragile Things', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped in a game of murder and monsters . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a Hugo Award-winning short story set in a strangely altered Victorian England, the great detective Sherlock Holmes must solve a most unsettling royal murder . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams-;and nightmares . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a Locus Award-winning tale, the members of an excusive epicurean club lament that they''ve eaten everything that can be eaten, with the exception of a legendary, rare, and exceedingly dangerous Egyptian bird . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Such marvelous creations and more-;including a short story set in the world of The Matrix, and others set in the worlds of gothic fiction and children''s fiction-;can be found in this extraordinary collection, which showcases Gaiman''s storytelling brilliance as well as his terrifyingly entertaining dark sense of humor. By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most unique writers of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2620'),
(18229, 'Fragile Things', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . . In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped in a game of murder and monsters . . . In a Hugo Award-winning short story set in a strangely altered Victorian England, the great detective Sherlock Holmes must solve a most unsettling royal murder . . . Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams-;and nightmares . . . In a Locus Award-winning tale, the members of an excusive epicurean club lament that they''ve eaten everything that can be eaten, with the exception of a legendary, rare, and exceedingly dangerous Egyptian bird . . . Such marvelous creations and more-;including a short story set in the world of The Matrix, and others set in the worlds of gothic fiction and children''s fiction-;can be found in this extraordinary collection, which showcases Gaiman''s storytelling brilliance as well as his terrifyingly entertaining dark sense of humor. By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most unique writers of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22163'),
(18230, 'Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night . . .  Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreamsâ€”and nightmares . . .  In a Hugo Awardâ€“winning story, a great detective must solve a most unsettling royal murder in a strangely altered Victorian England . . . These marvelous creations and more showcase the unparalleled invention and storytelling brillianceâ€”and the terrifyingly dark and entertaining witâ€”of the incomparable Neil Gaiman. By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most original writers of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14616'),
(18231, 'Fragment', 'Warren Fahy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this powerhouse of suspense - as brilliantly imagined as Jurassic Park and The Ruins - scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they''ve seen before . . . an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards. The time is now. The place is theTrident, a long-range research vessel hired by the reality TV show Sealife. Aboard is a cast of ambitious young scientists. With a director dying for drama, tiny Henders Island might be just what the show needs. Until the first scientist sets foot on Henders - and the ultimate test of survival begins . . . For when they reach the island''s shores, scientists are utterly unprepared for what they find - creatures unlike any ever recorded in natural history. This is not a lost world frozen in time, an island of mutants, or a lab where science has gone mad: this is the Earth as it might have looked after evolving on a separate path for half a billion years. Soon the scientists will stumble on something more shocking than anything humanity has ever encountered: because among the terrors of Henders Island, one life form defies any scientific theory - and must be saved at any cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/237'),
(18232, 'Fragment', 'Warren Fahy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this powerhouse of suspense - as brilliantly imagined as Jurassic Park and The Ruins - scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they''ve seen before . . . an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards. The time is now. The place is theTrident, a long-range research vessel hired by the reality TV show Sealife. Aboard is a cast of ambitious young scientists. With a director dying for drama, tiny Henders Island might be just what the show needs. Until the first scientist sets foot on Henders - and the ultimate test of survival begins . . . For when they reach the island''s shores, scientists are utterly unprepared for what they find - creatures unlike any ever recorded in natural history. This is not a lost world frozen in time, an island of mutants, or a lab where science has gone mad: this is the Earth as it might have looked after evolving on a separate path for half a billion years. Soon the scientists will stumble on something more shocking than anything humanity has ever encountered: because among the terrors of Henders Island, one life form defies any scientific theory - and must be saved at any cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9671'),
(18233, 'Fragment', 'Warren Fahy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this powerhouse of suspense - as brilliantly imagined as Jurassic Park and The Ruins - scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they''ve seen before . . . an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards. The time is now. The place is theTrident, a long-range research vessel hired by the reality TV show Sealife. Aboard is a cast of ambitious young scientists. With a director dying for drama, tiny Henders Island might be just what the show needs. Until the first scientist sets foot on Henders - and the ultimate test of survival begins . . . For when they reach the island''s shores, scientists are utterly unprepared for what they find - creatures unlike any ever recorded in natural history. This is not a lost world frozen in time, an island of mutants, or a lab where science has gone mad: this is the Earth as it might have looked after evolving on a separate path for half a billion years. Soon the scientists will stumble on something more shocking than anything humanity has ever encountered: because among the terrors of Henders Island, one life form defies any scientific theory - and must be saved at any cost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24586'),
(18234, 'The Frailty of Flesh', 'Sandra Ruttan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a young boy is found murdered in a park, the boys brother says that his sister was the murdererbut shes nowhere to be found. Constables Hart and Tain find evidence that the sister is innocent and is actually a potential victim herself. Now they need to find her before sheand the rest of her familyis killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1372'),
(18235, 'The Frailty of Flesh', 'Sandra Ruttan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When a young boy is found murdered in a park, the boys brother says that his sister was the murdererbut shes nowhere to be found. Constables Hart and Tain find evidence that the sister is innocent and is actually a potential victim herself. Now they need to find her before sheand the rest of her familyis killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12515'),
(18236, 'The Frailty of Flesh', 'Sandra Ruttan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When a young boy is found murdered in a park, the boys brother says that his sister was the murdererbut shes nowhere to be found. Constables Hart and Tain find evidence that the sister is innocent and is actually a potential victim herself. Now they need to find her before sheand the rest of her familyis killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23513'),
(18237, 'Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences', 'Howard Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  More than 200,00 copies of earlier editions have been sold; this reissue includes a new introduction by the author to mark the twenty-first birthday of this remarkable book.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Howard Gardner\n  </strong>\n  is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville''s Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5097'),
(18238, 'Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences', 'Howard Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  More than 200,00 copies of earlier editions have been sold; this reissue includes a new introduction by the author to mark the twenty-first birthday of this remarkable book.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Howard Gardner\n  </strong>\n  is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville''s Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9850'),
(18239, 'Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences', 'Howard Gardner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  More than 200,00 copies of earlier editions have been sold; this reissue includes a new introduction by the author to mark the twenty-first birthday of this remarkable book.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Howard Gardner\n  </strong>\n  is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville''s Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19532'),
(18240, 'The Franchiser', 'Stanley Elkin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The comic story of a man''s obsessive quest to build a fast food empire across America For the better part of the 1970s, entrepreneur Ben Flesh could expand his business kingdom with the snap of his fingers. His fast food restaurants and electronics stores were all a part of his rapidly growing domain, remaking America one enterprise at a time. But when a series of personal and professional catastrophes strike unexpectedly, Ben finds himself on the verge of losing it all. Hailed as one of Stanley Elkin''s greatest works, The Franchiser is a biting satire of American consumerism and the story of one man''s all-consuming determination to create his lasting legacy, one business at a time. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9521'),
(18241, 'Frank: The Voice', 'James Kaplan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Peter Bogdanovich Reviews\n   <em>\n    Frank: The Voice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Peter Bogdanovich is an acclaimed director, producer, writer, actor, film critic, and author. He has directed over 25 feature films, including international award winners\n   <em>\n    Frank: The Voice\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  There has never been a book of this kind or quality about Frank Sinatra. Like the formidable novelist he is, James Kaplan has somehow managed to get inside the man and the legend, to such a degree that you feel you are living Sinatraâ€™s life with him, almost day by day. Yet it is the fastest read.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From his violent, deforming, traumatic birth, through his Hoboken childhood with a super-dominating mother and a weak father, through the heady, unprecedented bobby-sox years, his young marriage to the virtually saint-like Nancy, their three kids, his numerous--almost serial--infidelities, through the tumultuous affair with Ava Gardner--detailed as never before--through the much-frowned-on divorce, the suicide attempts, rivetingly onward through the near total collapse of his career, and right up through the miraculous comeback with the Oscar for\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sinatra the musician has never been taken as seriously or chronicled with such sensitivity and depth; it has never been as clear how very much the singer had to do with all aspects of his recordings and performances. This is a warts-and-all work, with a staggering amount of research to back everything up, revealing Nancy Sr. in all her grace, and Frank in all his moods, but it is never salacious or malicious, only honest, forthright and civilized. Nobody can be prepared for the life of a phenomenon--which Sinatra was--the first show business phenomenon of the 20th century, long before Elvis or the Beatles, and far more complicated and multi-layered. Being very human, Frank did the best he could with it all, and James Kaplan has done a magnificently resonant chronicle of the first half of an incredible journey. It leaves you hungering for the second volume!\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In this riveting and fast-paced biography, Kaplan, coauthor with Jerry Lewis of Dean and Me, chronicles Sinatra''s somewhat unlikely meteoric ascent to success, his failures, and his rebirth as a star of song and screen. With exhaustive, and sometimes exhausting, detail, Kaplan engagingly re-creates the young Sinatra''s childhood in Hoboken, N.J., where young Frank was born, in 1915. By the time he was 12, Sinatra was singing for quarters on top of the piano in the bar in his father''s tavern. At 21, Frankie joined a group that became known as the Hoboken Four, and everyone soon recognized Sinatra''s great vocal gift. Kaplan expertly conducts us on a journey through Sinatra''s early years with Tommy Dorsey and his long solo career; Sinatra''s first marriage to Nancy Barbato and his more famous marriage to Ava Gardner; and through Sinatra''s movie career and his rebirth in the early 1950s. Although Sinatra''s career often faltered in the late 1940s, his partnership with Nelson Riddle and the release of the song "Young at Heart" in 1953 began Sinatra''s comeback. Kaplan''s enthralling tale of an American icon serves as an introduction of "old blue eyes" to a new generation of listeners while winning the hearts of Sinatra''s diehard fans. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4884'),
(18242, 'Frank: The Voice', 'James Kaplan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Peter Bogdanovich Reviews\n   <em>\n    Frank: The Voice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Peter Bogdanovich is an acclaimed director, producer, writer, actor, film critic, and author. He has directed over 25 feature films, including international award winners\n   <em>\n    Frank: The Voice\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  There has never been a book of this kind or quality about Frank Sinatra. Like the formidable novelist he is, James Kaplan has somehow managed to get inside the man and the legend, to such a degree that you feel you are living Sinatraâ€™s life with him, almost day by day. Yet it is the fastest read.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From his violent, deforming, traumatic birth, through his Hoboken childhood with a super-dominating mother and a weak father, through the heady, unprecedented bobby-sox years, his young marriage to the virtually saint-like Nancy, their three kids, his numerous--almost serial--infidelities, through the tumultuous affair with Ava Gardner--detailed as never before--through the much-frowned-on divorce, the suicide attempts, rivetingly onward through the near total collapse of his career, and right up through the miraculous comeback with the Oscar for\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sinatra the musician has never been taken as seriously or chronicled with such sensitivity and depth; it has never been as clear how very much the singer had to do with all aspects of his recordings and performances. This is a warts-and-all work, with a staggering amount of research to back everything up, revealing Nancy Sr. in all her grace, and Frank in all his moods, but it is never salacious or malicious, only honest, forthright and civilized. Nobody can be prepared for the life of a phenomenon--which Sinatra was--the first show business phenomenon of the 20th century, long before Elvis or the Beatles, and far more complicated and multi-layered. Being very human, Frank did the best he could with it all, and James Kaplan has done a magnificently resonant chronicle of the first half of an incredible journey. It leaves you hungering for the second volume!\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In this riveting and fast-paced biography, Kaplan, coauthor with Jerry Lewis of Dean and Me, chronicles Sinatra''s somewhat unlikely meteoric ascent to success, his failures, and his rebirth as a star of song and screen. With exhaustive, and sometimes exhausting, detail, Kaplan engagingly re-creates the young Sinatra''s childhood in Hoboken, N.J., where young Frank was born, in 1915. By the time he was 12, Sinatra was singing for quarters on top of the piano in the bar in his father''s tavern. At 21, Frankie joined a group that became known as the Hoboken Four, and everyone soon recognized Sinatra''s great vocal gift. Kaplan expertly conducts us on a journey through Sinatra''s early years with Tommy Dorsey and his long solo career; Sinatra''s first marriage to Nancy Barbato and his more famous marriage to Ava Gardner; and through Sinatra''s movie career and his rebirth in the early 1950s. Although Sinatra''s career often faltered in the late 1940s, his partnership with Nelson Riddle and the release of the song "Young at Heart" in 1953 began Sinatra''s comeback. Kaplan''s enthralling tale of an American icon serves as an introduction of "old blue eyes" to a new generation of listeners while winning the hearts of Sinatra''s diehard fans. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10657'),
(18243, 'Frank: The Voice', 'James Kaplan', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Peter Bogdanovich Reviews\n   <em>\n    Frank: The Voice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Peter Bogdanovich is an acclaimed director, producer, writer, actor, film critic, and author. He has directed over 25 feature films, including international award winners\n   <em>\n    Frank: The Voice\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  There has never been a book of this kind or quality about Frank Sinatra. Like the formidable novelist he is, James Kaplan has somehow managed to get inside the man and the legend, to such a degree that you feel you are living Sinatraâ€™s life with him, almost day by day. Yet it is the fastest read.\n </p>\n <p>\n  From his violent, deforming, traumatic birth, through his Hoboken childhood with a super-dominating mother and a weak father, through the heady, unprecedented bobby-sox years, his young marriage to the virtually saint-like Nancy, their three kids, his numerous--almost serial--infidelities, through the tumultuous affair with Ava Gardner--detailed as never before--through the much-frowned-on divorce, the suicide attempts, rivetingly onward through the near total collapse of his career, and right up through the miraculous comeback with the Oscar for\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sinatra the musician has never been taken as seriously or chronicled with such sensitivity and depth; it has never been as clear how very much the singer had to do with all aspects of his recordings and performances. This is a warts-and-all work, with a staggering amount of research to back everything up, revealing Nancy Sr. in all her grace, and Frank in all his moods, but it is never salacious or malicious, only honest, forthright and civilized. Nobody can be prepared for the life of a phenomenon--which Sinatra was--the first show business phenomenon of the 20th century, long before Elvis or the Beatles, and far more complicated and multi-layered. Being very human, Frank did the best he could with it all, and James Kaplan has done a magnificently resonant chronicle of the first half of an incredible journey. It leaves you hungering for the second volume!\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In this riveting and fast-paced biography, Kaplan, coauthor with Jerry Lewis of Dean and Me, chronicles Sinatra''s somewhat unlikely meteoric ascent to success, his failures, and his rebirth as a star of song and screen. With exhaustive, and sometimes exhausting, detail, Kaplan engagingly re-creates the young Sinatra''s childhood in Hoboken, N.J., where young Frank was born, in 1915. By the time he was 12, Sinatra was singing for quarters on top of the piano in the bar in his father''s tavern. At 21, Frankie joined a group that became known as the Hoboken Four, and everyone soon recognized Sinatra''s great vocal gift. Kaplan expertly conducts us on a journey through Sinatra''s early years with Tommy Dorsey and his long solo career; Sinatra''s first marriage to Nancy Barbato and his more famous marriage to Ava Gardner; and through Sinatra''s movie career and his rebirth in the early 1950s. Although Sinatra''s career often faltered in the late 1940s, his partnership with Nelson Riddle and the release of the song "Young at Heart" in 1953 began Sinatra''s comeback. Kaplan''s enthralling tale of an American icon serves as an introduction of "old blue eyes" to a new generation of listeners while winning the hearts of Sinatra''s diehard fans. (Nov.) (c)\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19884'),
(18244, 'Frankenstein', 'Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Shelley''s enduringly popular and rich gothic tale confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science--topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind''s ability to act as creator of the modern world. This new edition, based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text, draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, and shows the relationship of Frankenstein''s experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2970'),
(18245, 'Frankenstein', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings his fertile imagination and unparalleled storytelling abilities to one of the most timelessâ€”and terrifyingâ€”creations in all of fiction: the legend of Frankenstein. In Lost Souls, Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong and forges a new legend uniquely suited to our timesâ€”a story of revenge, redemption, and the razor-thin line that separates humanity from inhumanity as we consider a new invitation to apocalypse.  The work of creation has begun again. Only now things will be different. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the futureâ€”heâ€™s ready to populate it. Using stem cells, â€œorganicâ€ silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumansâ€”the perfect melding of flesh and machine. With a powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and a secret location where the enemies of progress canâ€™t find him, Victor is certain that this time, nothing and no one can stop him.It is up to five people to prove him wrong. In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself. They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson Oâ€™Connor and Michael Maddison; Victorâ€™s engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victorâ€™s first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewedâ€”and testedâ€”by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom, and joy, and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they could not have imagined. They will need all these resources, and more. For a monumental battle is about to commence that will require all their ingenuity and courage, as it defines what we are to be . . . and if we are to be at all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8005'),
(18246, 'Frankenstein', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings his fertile imagination and unparalleled storytelling abilities to one of the most timelessâ€”and terrifyingâ€”creations in all of fiction: the legend of Frankenstein. In Lost Souls, Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong and forges a new legend uniquely suited to our timesâ€”a story of revenge, redemption, and the razor-thin line that separates humanity from inhumanity as we consider a new invitation to apocalypse.  The work of creation has begun again. Only now things will be different. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the futureâ€”heâ€™s ready to populate it. Using stem cells, â€œorganicâ€ silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumansâ€”the perfect melding of flesh and machine. With a powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and a secret location where the enemies of progress canâ€™t find him, Victor is certain that this time, nothing and no one can stop him.It is up to five people to prove him wrong. In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself. They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson Oâ€™Connor and Michael Maddison; Victorâ€™s engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victorâ€™s first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewedâ€”and testedâ€”by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom, and joy, and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they could not have imagined. They will need all these resources, and more. For a monumental battle is about to commence that will require all their ingenuity and courage, as it defines what we are to be . . . and if we are to be at all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10832');
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(18247, 'Frankenstein', 'Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Shelley''s enduringly popular and rich gothic tale confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science--topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind''s ability to act as creator of the modern world. This new edition, based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text, draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, and shows the relationship of Frankenstein''s experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12626'),
(18248, 'Frankenstein', 'Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Shelley''s enduringly popular and rich gothic tale confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science--topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind''s ability to act as creator of the modern world. This new edition, based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text, draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, and shows the relationship of Frankenstein''s experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13992'),
(18249, 'Frankenstein', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings his fertile imagination and unparalleled storytelling abilities to one of the most timelessâ€”and terrifyingâ€”creations in all of fiction: the legend of Frankenstein. In Lost Souls, Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong and forges a new legend uniquely suited to our timesâ€”a story of revenge, redemption, and the razor-thin line that separates humanity from inhumanity as we consider a new invitation to apocalypse. The work of creation has begun again. Only now things will be different. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the futureâ€”heâ€™s ready to populate it. Using stem cells, â€œorganicâ€ silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumansâ€”the perfect melding of flesh and machine. With a powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and a secret location where the enemies of progress canâ€™t find him, Victor is certain that this time, nothing and no one can stop him.It is up to five people to prove him wrong. In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself. They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson Oâ€™Connor and Michael Maddison; Victorâ€™s engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victorâ€™s first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewedâ€”and testedâ€”by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom, and joy, and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they could not have imagined. They will need all these resources, and more. For a monumental battle is about to commence that will require all their ingenuity and courage, as it defines what we are to be . . . and if we are to be at all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17964'),
(18250, 'Frankenstein', 'Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Shelley''s enduringly popular and rich gothic tale confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science--topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind''s ability to act as creator of the modern world. This new edition, based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text, draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, and shows the relationship of Frankenstein''s experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21840'),
(18251, 'Frankenstein', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings his fertile imagination and unparalleled storytelling abilities to one of the most timelessâ€”and terrifyingâ€”creations in all of fiction: the legend of Frankenstein. In Lost Souls, Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong and forges a new legend uniquely suited to our timesâ€”a story of revenge, redemption, and the razor-thin line that separates humanity from inhumanity as we consider a new invitation to apocalypse. The work of creation has begun again. Only now things will be different. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the futureâ€”heâ€™s ready to populate it. Using stem cells, â€œorganicâ€ silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumansâ€”the perfect melding of flesh and machine. With a powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and a secret location where the enemies of progress canâ€™t find him, Victor is certain that this time, nothing and no one can stop him.It is up to five people to prove him wrong. In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself. They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson Oâ€™Connor and Michael Maddison; Victorâ€™s engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victorâ€™s first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewedâ€”and testedâ€”by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom, and joy, and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they could not have imagined. They will need all these resources, and more. For a monumental battle is about to commence that will require all their ingenuity and courage, as it defines what we are to be . . . and if we are to be at all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27382'),
(18252, 'Frankenstein 1 - Prodigal Son', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25444'),
(18253, 'Frankenstein 2 - City of Night', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25445'),
(18254, 'Frankenstein 3 - Dead and Alive', 'Koontz, Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25446'),
(18255, 'Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus: the 1818 text', 'Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Shelley''s enduringly popular and rich gothic tale confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science--topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind''s ability to act as creator of the modern world. This new edition, based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text, draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, and shows the relationship of Frankenstein''s experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25370'),
(18256, 'Frankenstein: City of Night', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. The mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic continue. . . . They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever createdand they must be destroyed. Not even Victor Heliosonce Frankensteincan stop the engineered killers hers"s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Only the one-time "monster" Deucalion and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson Ors"Connor and Michael Maddison, stand in their way. But as the three race to uncover the true dimensions of an age-old conspiracy, they will discover that Victorrs"s new, improved models have infiltrated every level of the cityrs"s society . . . and far beyond.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25888'),
(18257, 'Frankenstein: Dead and Alive', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . .As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victorâ€™s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalionâ€™s centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless visionâ€“and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victorâ€™s malignant mind could have conceivedâ€“an indestructible entity that steps out of humankindâ€™s collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose, beyond imagining.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25889'),
(18258, 'Frankenstein: Lost Souls', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Dean Koontz brings his fertile imagination and unparalleled storytelling abilities to one of the most timelessâ€”and terrifyingâ€”creations in all of fiction: the legend of Frankenstein. In **Lost Souls**, Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong and forges a new legend uniquely suited to our timesâ€”a story of revenge, redemption, and the razor-thin line that separates humanity from inhumanity as we consider a new invitation to apocalypse. ** **The work of creation has begun again. Only now things will be different. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the futureâ€”heâ€™s ready to populate it. Using stem cells, â€œorganicâ€ silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumansâ€”the perfect melding of flesh and machine. With a powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and a secret location where the enemies of progress canâ€™t find him, Victor is certain that this time, nothing and no one can stop him.It is up to five people to prove him wrong. In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself. They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson Oâ€™Connor and Michael Maddison; Victorâ€™s engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victorâ€™s first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewedâ€”and testedâ€”by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom, and joy, and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they could not have imagined. They will need all these resources, and more. For a monumental battle is about to commence that will require all their ingenuity and courage, as it defines what we are to be . . . and if we are to be at all.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25890'),
(18259, 'Frankenstein: Prodigal Son', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of . . . Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Deucalion''s path will lead him to cool, tough police detective Carson O''Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire raceof killers who are much moreand lessthan human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor Heliosonce known as Frankenstein.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25891'),
(18260, 'Frankenstein: The Dead Town', 'Dean R. Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n FRANKENSTEIN: THE DEAD TOWN The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattered survivors band together to weather the onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the world. As they ready for battle against overwhelming odds, they will learn the full scope of Victor Frankensteinâ€™s nihilistic plan to remake the future â€” and the terrifying reach of his shadowy, powerful supporters. Now the good will make their last, best stand. In a climax that will shatter every expectation, their destinies and the fate of humanity hang in the balance. â€œKoontz is a master of the edge-of-your-seat, paranoid thriller and perhaps the leading American practitioner of the form.â€ â€”The Star-Ledger â€œKoontz writes first-rate suspense, scary and stylish.â€ â€”Los Angeles Times â€œA rarity among bestselling writers, Koontz continues to pursue new ways of telling stories, never content with repeating himself. He writes of hope and love in the midst of evil in profoundly inspiring and moving ways.â€ â€”Chicago Sun-Times\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9396'),
(18261, 'Franny and Zooey: a novel', 'J D. Salinger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25594'),
(18262, 'Frayed', 'Tom Piccirilli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Eddie''s doing his best to get by, but every day the good fight just gets harder. And now there''s a new burden to shoulder. Gray - his best friend and nemesis in literature, romance, and life - has landed in a bizarre mental hospital, known for its radical treatments, because Gray couldn''t bear the weight of an unspeakable trauma.  Now Eddie''s invited to a party at Eddie''s house...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22872'),
(18263, 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything', 'Steven D. Levitt &amp; Stephen J. Dubner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?   What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?   How much do parents really matter?   These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday lifeâ€”from cheating and crime to parenting and sportsâ€”and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head. Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they show that economics is, at root, the study of incentivesâ€”how people get what they want or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan. What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter. Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1013'),
(18264, 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything', 'Steven D. Levitt &amp; Stephen J. Dubner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?   What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?   How much do parents really matter?   These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday lifeâ€”from cheating and crime to parenting and sportsâ€”and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head. Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they show that economics is, at root, the study of incentivesâ€”how people get what they want or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan. What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter. Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11115'),
(18265, 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything', 'Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday lifeâ€”from cheating and crime to parenting and sportsâ€”and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head. Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they show that economics is, at root, the study of incentivesâ€”how people get what they want or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. SUMMARY: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan. What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter. Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14485'),
(18266, 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything', 'Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday lifeâ€”from cheating and crime to parenting and sportsâ€”and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head. Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they show that economics is, at root, the study of incentivesâ€”how people get what they want or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. SUMMARY: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan. What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter. Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23968'),
(18267, 'Freaks and Revelations', 'Davida Wills Hurwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This raw, moving novel follows two teenagers-one, a Mohawk-wearing 17-year-old violent misfit; the other, a gay 13-year-old cast out by his family, hustling on the streets and trying to survive. Acclaimed author Davida Wills Hurwin creates a riveting narrative told in alternating perspectives of their lives before and after the violent hate crime that changed both their futures. This tragic but ultimately inspirational journey of two polarized teens, their violent first meeting, and their peaceful reunion years later is an unforgettable story of survival and forgiveness. This story is inspired by the real lives of Matthew Boger and Timothy Zaal, who have shared their story on The Oprah Winfrey Show and NPR.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6232'),
(18268, 'Freaks and Revelations', 'Davida Wills Hurwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This raw, moving novel follows two teenagers-one, a Mohawk-wearing 17-year-old violent misfit; the other, a gay 13-year-old cast out by his family, hustling on the streets and trying to survive. Acclaimed author Davida Wills Hurwin creates a riveting narrative told in alternating perspectives of their lives before and after the violent hate crime that changed both their futures. This tragic but ultimately inspirational journey of two polarized teens, their violent first meeting, and their peaceful reunion years later is an unforgettable story of survival and forgiveness. This story is inspired by the real lives of Matthew Boger and Timothy Zaal, who have shared their story on The Oprah Winfrey Show and NPR.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10473'),
(18269, 'Freaks and Revelations', 'Davida Wills Hurwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This raw, moving novel follows two teenagers-one, a Mohawk-wearing 17-year-old violent misfit; the other, a gay 13-year-old cast out by his family, hustling on the streets and trying to survive. Acclaimed author Davida Wills Hurwin creates a riveting narrative told in alternating perspectives of their lives before and after the violent hate crime that changed both their futures. This tragic but ultimately inspirational journey of two polarized teens, their violent first meeting, and their peaceful reunion years later is an unforgettable story of survival and forgiveness. This story is inspired by the real lives of Matthew Boger and Timothy Zaal, who have shared their story on The Oprah Winfrey Show and NPR.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17880'),
(18270, 'Freaks and Revelations', 'Davida Wills Hurwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This raw, moving novel follows two teenagers-one, a Mohawk-wearing 17-year-old violent misfit; the other, a gay 13-year-old cast out by his family, hustling on the streets and trying to survive. Acclaimed author Davida Wills Hurwin creates a riveting narrative told in alternating perspectives of their lives before and after the violent hate crime that changed both their futures. This tragic but ultimately inspirational journey of two polarized teens, their violent first meeting, and their peaceful reunion years later is an unforgettable story of survival and forgiveness. This story is inspired by the real lives of Matthew Boger and Timothy Zaal, who have shared their story on The Oprah Winfrey Show and NPR.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27426'),
(18271, 'Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture of Consumption', 'Murray Milner Jr.', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murray Milner has done more than perhaps any other American sociologist to remind us that ''status'' remains a primary mode of stratification, one that is dependent on cultural, not material power. He first set out this claim in his study of the Hindu caste system. In this new installment of his research program, he applies his considerable powers to American teenagers, and he shows how they produce caste systems of an equally deep and irrational kind.\n <em>\n  Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids\n </em>\n is exemplary sociological research and theory. It is also wise and witty, and often touching as well.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“Jeffrey C. Alexander, co-editor of\n  <em>\n   The New Social Theory Reader: Contemporary Debates\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A rare book! Social science at its best, yet full of messages for parents, educators, and anybody who cares about the next generation.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“Amitai Etzioni, author of\n  <em>\n   My Brother''s Keeper: A Memoir and a Message\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Milner explains why high school cliques have so much power and can inflict so much pain. Anyone who cares about adolescents--parents, teachers, principals, and teenagers themselves--should definitely read this book. I couldn''t stop reading it, and can''t wait to discuss it with my students. It is sociological analysis at its best!.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“Caroline Hodges Persell, co-author of\n  <em>\n   Preparing for Power: America''s Elite Boarding Schools\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What do high school kids and Indian castes have in common? Murray Milner, expert on both, presents the results of a collective ethnography which is surely the most comprehensive sociological picture we have of high school society. Methodologically, theoretically, and substantively, this book is state of the art.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“Randall Collins, author of\n  <em>\n   Macrohistory: Essays in Sociology of the Long Run\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Countless books are written about the world of the teenager, but this one is unique in its discussion of the link between teen status systems and consumer culture. This scholarly study, based on two years of fieldwork with teens in one school and written interviews with teens in schools around the country, is recommended for students, researchers, and educators.\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€“Library Journal, 2004\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this timely and insightful book, award-winning sociologist Murray Milner tries to understand why teenagers behave the way they do. Drawing upon two years of intensive fieldwork in one high school and 300 written interviews about high schools across the country, he argues that consumer culture has greatly impacted the way our youth relate to one another and understand themselves and society. He also suggests that the status systems in high schools are in and of themselves an important contributing factor to the creation and maintenance of consumer capitalism explaining the importance of designer jeans and designer drugs in an effort to be the coolest kid in the class.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21586'),
(18272, 'Freaky Deaky', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14250'),
(18273, 'Freaky Deaky', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Leonard starts and ends his latest page turner with a bang, and between explosions we meet a vivid group of characters who are mainly veterans of the youth rebellion of the 1960s. Chief among them are Chris Mankowski, 38-year-old Detroit police sergeant, newly transferred from the bomb squad to sex crimes; Woody Ricks, alcoholic auto scion; Donnell Lewis, ex-Black Panther who is acting as Woody''s driver, nursemaid and would-be swindler; Robin Abbott, ex-con, exfugitive (she bombed a federal office building) who has plans for a million dollar movie based on Woody''s life, with help from her old boyfriend and erstwhile bombing partner Skip Gibbs, now a movie dynamite expert. The only character who does not have ties to the ''60s is Greta ("Who''s Huey Newton?") Wyatt, stagenamed Ginger Jones, who meets Chris when she reports that Woody has assaulted her. When Chris pursues the investigation, he is suspended from the force, ostensibly for nonresidence in Detroit but really because of Woody''s clout. Now determined to get to the bottom of things, Chris is caught up in a web of scams plotted by Robin, Skip and Donnell. Leonard (Bandits, Glitz) excels here with his trademark menace and his deadpan, throwaway humor. His superlative ear for the vernacular makes all the characters spring to life; Woody,"always in low with his dims on," is a brilliant creation. This bang-up novel has bestseller written all over it. BOMC featured selection; major ad/promo; author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Soon after Chris Mankowskilately transferred from the bomb squad to sex crimesvisits rich, mindless alcoholic Woody Ricks on a rape complaint, someone blows up Woody''s limousinealong with Woody''s brother Mark. Ghosts from their student activist past have returned to haunt them. One ex-Panther even now takes care of Woody, and two ex-demonstrators hope to extort cash. Leonard''s latest sports the usual draws of crisp dialogue, satiric wit, and crazy characterization, but it also lacks the pervasive sparkle of Glitz . Better than most, though, and with a wild finale that hoists the villains by their own petard. BOMC featured selection. REK\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18937'),
(18274, 'Freaky Deaky', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27648'),
(18275, 'Fred and Ted Like to Fly', 'Peter Anthony Eastman', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Fred and Ted--beloved stars of P.D. Eastman''s\n <em>\n  Big Dog . . . Little Dog\n </em>\n and son Peter Eastman''s\n <em>\n  Fred and Ted Go Camping\n </em>\n â€”fly off on an island vacation in this simplified version of the Beginner Book\n <em>\n  Fred and Ted Like to Fly\n </em>\n .Â  Perfect for babies (and parents) who love dogs, planes, and/or tropical idylls, this charming introduction to opposites is also a perfect introduction to Fred and Ted!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9395'),
(18276, 'Frederica', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n The novel ends on a most satisfying note, and I can think of no better way of spending a chilly winter evening - wrapped in a down comforter with my pooch sleeping by my side - than reading this gem of a book. (Vic Sandborn\n <em>\n  Jane Austen''s World\n </em>\n 20090526)\n</p>\n<p>\n There was a playful, light-hearted feel to this book that, along with the engaging characters, totally charmed me. (Deborah White\n <em>\n  Genre Reviews\n </em>\n 20090526)\n</p>\n<p>\n If the modern day romance novel is the wonder bread of the literary world, Georgette Heyer would offer readers the fiber-heavy complexity of whole grains. (Rebecca Laney\n <em>\n  Becky''s Book Blog\n </em>\n 20090527)\n</p>\n<p>\n I think Ms. Heyer''s writing is just so smart and witty... I highly recommend FREDERICA if you are looking for a good summer read. It is a very entertaining story with lots of romance. (Julie Peterson\n <em>\n  Booking Mama\n </em>\n 20090527)\n</p>\n<p>\n I liked\n <em>\n  Frederica\n </em>\n a lot, especially the banter between\n <em>\n  Frederica\n </em>\n and Alverstone... (Christina Maclean\n <em>\n  Chris'' Book-a-Rama\n </em>\n 20090529)\n</p>\n<p>\n I had previously posted on my blog that I was looking for that next favorite book, and I found it here with\n <em>\n  Frederica\n </em>\n . This book is funny, charming and full of interesting characters. (Naida Milenkovic\n <em>\n  The Bookworm 07\n </em>\n 20090529)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Frederica\n </em>\n is a fun, witty and intelligent read... I highly recommend this novel to anyone who likes a good historical romance. (Alyce Reese\n <em>\n  At Home with Books\n </em>\n 20090601)\n</p>\n<p>\n Verdict: delightful repartee, a good Hero and crazy kids as secondary characters = win. (Ana\n <em>\n  The Book Smugglers\n </em>\n 20090603)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Frederica\n </em>\n is a powerful Regency romance, that every fan of the genre should read. (Marlene\n <em>\n  Once Upon a Romance\n </em>\n 20090612)\n</p>\n<p>\n [A] fun, charming book...\n <em>\n  Frederica\n </em>\n is a keeper, going on my bookshelf. (Lesa Holstine\n <em>\n  Lesa''s Book Critiques\n </em>\n 20090629)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a great book that explores both the relationships of the characters, and the Regency era itself. Fun, entertaining, enthralling! (Wendi Barker\n <em>\n  Wendi''s Book Corner\n </em>\n 20090821)\n</p>\n<p>\n The novel is humorous, light-hearted... a nice, comfortable way to get your Austen-fix. (Keira Gillet\n <em>\n  Love Romance Passion\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n [F]ull of family, humor, society do''s and don''ts and of course, romance.\n <br />\n (Kristi Herbrand\n <em>\n  Books and Needlepoint\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n The characters can''t help but be loveable - from the sister who is beautiful and can''t tell anyone no, to the brother who can''t help but be ernest, to the heroine herself. It all keeps you coming back for more. (Nicole Heffernan\n <em>\n  A Blog of Books\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  One of readers favorites, Frederica is full of surprises\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When Frederica brings her younger siblings to London determined to secure a brilliant marriage for her beautiful sister, she seeks out their distant cousin the Marquis of Alverstoke. Lovely, competent, and refreshingly straightforward, Frederica makes such a strong impression that to his own amazement, the Marquis agrees to help launch them all into society.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Lord Alverstoke cant resist wanting to help her\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Normally wary of his family, which includes two overbearing sisters and innumerable favor-seekers, Lord Alverstoke does his best to keep his distance. But with his enterprising - and altogether entertaining - country cousins getting into one scrape after another right on his doorstep, before he knows it the Marquis finds himself dangerously embroiled...\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  WHAT READERS SAY:\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A writer of great wit and style... I''ve read her books to ragged shreds." - Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph\n <br />\n "Stylish, witty, and bang up to the mark!" - Punch\n <br />\n "One of Georgette Heyer''s more adorable heroines." - Saturday Review\n <br />\n "Classic Heyerâ€”the author at her best!"\n <br />\n "Not only do the characters seize your heart from the first moment, they are three dimensional and so alive. It is just wonderful!"\n <br />\n "What a great book. One of my favourites, as the most beautiful is not the heroine."\n <br />\n "Witty, enchanting, and impossible to put down. This is one of Heyer''s best works and one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read."\n <br />\n "A wonderfully written witty tale of the downfall of a cynic. I was charmed."\n</p>\n<p>\n (20090123)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18378'),
(18277, 'Free Fall', 'Robert Crais', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Elvis Cole''s first appearance in The Monkey''s Raincoat garnered Robert Crais the prestigious Anthony and Macavity awards as well as nominations for Edgar and Shamus honors. With the next two electrifying entries in this bestselling series, Stalking the Angel and Lullaby Town, the legion of Elvis fans expanded among readers and critics alike. Now in Free Fall Elvis gets caught up in his hottest case yet, a case that tests the limits of the human heart as Elvis uncovers a world of cops gone wrong in L.A.''s most explosive neighborhood. Jennifer Sheridan has a good job, a great future, and an engagement ring from the man she loves, a member of an elite LAPD plainclothes unit operating in the war zone known as South Central Los Angeles. But her great future is suddenly in jeopardy - and it''s her cop fiance who''s the problem. Jennifer is certain that Mark Thurman is in some kind of trouble, and she wants Elvis Cole to find out what it is. Elvis never could say no to a woman in love, so he takes on the case only to find that some jobs are easier than others: Before Elvis even has a chance to leave his office, Thurman himself drops by to discourage Elvis from proceeding with the investigation. Jennifer''s suspicion that he''s in trouble is off track, he says; there''s no trouble, there''s just another woman - it may not be pretty, but it''s not criminal, either. Elvis''s investigation seems to bear out Thurman''s claim. Then he discovers the very thorough, nearly undetectable search someone has made of his office. Someone with a lot of practice at careful inspections. Someone like a cop. Suddenly the case turns deadly as Elvis and his enigmatic partner Joe Pike plummet into a world of racist cops,South Central street gangs, and conspiracies of silence. But Jennifer Sheridan won''t give up on her man so easily, and the case kicks over into white-hot overdrive as Elvis and Joe find themselves framed for a crime they didn''t commit, and L.A.''s deadliest street gang targets Mark a\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8074'),
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(18279, 'Free Fall (1993)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 04', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23189'),
(18280, 'Free Fall (1993)', 'Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 04', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27077');
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(18281, 'Free Fire', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n When four environmental activists employed by Yellowstone Park are murdered in an isolated area, the Wyoming governor sends outspoken Joe Pickett, fired in his last outing,\n <em>\n  In Plain Sight\n </em>\n (2006), from the state''s game and fish department, to investigate in Anthony-winner Box''s absorbing seventh crime novel, his best yet. Helped by astute park ranger Judy Demming and his antisocial pal, falconer Nate Romanowski, Joe gradually connects the murders to competition for bio-mining rights in Yellowstone''s hot springs. Joe''s often harassed family is on the sidelines, except for a startling appearance by his long-estranged father. Box skillfully weaves ominous scientific phenomena and legal loopholes peculiar to Yellowstone into his story of corruption, greed and deception. The author vividly evokes Yellowstone''s natural beauty, but the book''s real power emanates from Pickett''s (and Box''s) passion for preserving the wilderness and stopping those who would cynically destroy it.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Box set the standards so high with his Joe Pickett series that, once in a while, he''s had a hard time getting over the bar himself, as with\n <em>\n  In Plain Sight\n </em>\n (2006), where he just tripped it with his toe. In\n <em>\n  ree Fire\n </em>\n , however, he gets over cleanly. Pickett, having been fired as a game warden, is working as foreman of his father-in-law''s ranch when Wyoming''s loose-cannon governor, Spencer Rulon, reinstates him--not to work his old district but to investigate, without official support, a crime in Yellowstone National Park. A lawyer has found a legal loophole that allows him to kill four campers and walk away scot-free, enraging Rulon. (A remote, uninhabited part of the park, soon dubbed the "Zone of Death," has murky jurisdiction and no residents to form a jury.) But, sure as Pickett is hard on government vehicles, there''s something even more sinister than a twisted legal mind behind the murders. Box is a master at working New West issues into his stories--here it''s something called biomining--exploring pro and con arguments without missing a storytelling beat. And, mining series gold, he''s forged a perfect alloy of familiar and fresh. Though Joe''s far out in no-man''s-land, as professionally on his own as he''s ever been, the family man''s moral compass is as strong as ever. And setting the action in the bubbling Yellowstone caldera--which could blow sky high any minute, we''re told--is a masterstroke, lending both urgency and the long view to the proceedings. Once again, recommended for practically everybody.\n <em>\n  Keir Graff\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7057'),
(18282, 'Free Fire', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n When four environmental activists employed by Yellowstone Park are murdered in an isolated area, the Wyoming governor sends outspoken Joe Pickett, fired in his last outing,\n <em>\n  In Plain Sight\n </em>\n (2006), from the state''s game and fish department, to investigate in Anthony-winner Box''s absorbing seventh crime novel, his best yet. Helped by astute park ranger Judy Demming and his antisocial pal, falconer Nate Romanowski, Joe gradually connects the murders to competition for bio-mining rights in Yellowstone''s hot springs. Joe''s often harassed family is on the sidelines, except for a startling appearance by his long-estranged father. Box skillfully weaves ominous scientific phenomena and legal loopholes peculiar to Yellowstone into his story of corruption, greed and deception. The author vividly evokes Yellowstone''s natural beauty, but the book''s real power emanates from Pickett''s (and Box''s) passion for preserving the wilderness and stopping those who would cynically destroy it.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Box set the standards so high with his Joe Pickett series that, once in a while, he''s had a hard time getting over the bar himself, as with\n <em>\n  In Plain Sight\n </em>\n (2006), where he just tripped it with his toe. In\n <em>\n  ree Fire\n </em>\n , however, he gets over cleanly. Pickett, having been fired as a game warden, is working as foreman of his father-in-law''s ranch when Wyoming''s loose-cannon governor, Spencer Rulon, reinstates him--not to work his old district but to investigate, without official support, a crime in Yellowstone National Park. A lawyer has found a legal loophole that allows him to kill four campers and walk away scot-free, enraging Rulon. (A remote, uninhabited part of the park, soon dubbed the "Zone of Death," has murky jurisdiction and no residents to form a jury.) But, sure as Pickett is hard on government vehicles, there''s something even more sinister than a twisted legal mind behind the murders. Box is a master at working New West issues into his stories--here it''s something called biomining--exploring pro and con arguments without missing a storytelling beat. And, mining series gold, he''s forged a perfect alloy of familiar and fresh. Though Joe''s far out in no-man''s-land, as professionally on his own as he''s ever been, the family man''s moral compass is as strong as ever. And setting the action in the bubbling Yellowstone caldera--which could blow sky high any minute, we''re told--is a masterstroke, lending both urgency and the long view to the proceedings. Once again, recommended for practically everybody.\n <em>\n  Keir Graff\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8517'),
(18283, 'Free Fire', 'C. J. Box', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n When four environmental activists employed by Yellowstone Park are murdered in an isolated area, the Wyoming governor sends outspoken Joe Pickett, fired in his last outing,\n <em>\n  In Plain Sight\n </em>\n (2006), from the state''s game and fish department, to investigate in Anthony-winner Box''s absorbing seventh crime novel, his best yet. Helped by astute park ranger Judy Demming and his antisocial pal, falconer Nate Romanowski, Joe gradually connects the murders to competition for bio-mining rights in Yellowstone''s hot springs. Joe''s often harassed family is on the sidelines, except for a startling appearance by his long-estranged father. Box skillfully weaves ominous scientific phenomena and legal loopholes peculiar to Yellowstone into his story of corruption, greed and deception. The author vividly evokes Yellowstone''s natural beauty, but the book''s real power emanates from Pickett''s (and Box''s) passion for preserving the wilderness and stopping those who would cynically destroy it.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Box set the standards so high with his Joe Pickett series that, once in a while, he''s had a hard time getting over the bar himself, as with\n <em>\n  In Plain Sight\n </em>\n (2006), where he just tripped it with his toe. In\n <em>\n  ree Fire\n </em>\n , however, he gets over cleanly. Pickett, having been fired as a game warden, is working as foreman of his father-in-law''s ranch when Wyoming''s loose-cannon governor, Spencer Rulon, reinstates him--not to work his old district but to investigate, without official support, a crime in Yellowstone National Park. A lawyer has found a legal loophole that allows him to kill four campers and walk away scot-free, enraging Rulon. (A remote, uninhabited part of the park, soon dubbed the "Zone of Death," has murky jurisdiction and no residents to form a jury.) But, sure as Pickett is hard on government vehicles, there''s something even more sinister than a twisted legal mind behind the murders. Box is a master at working New West issues into his stories--here it''s something called biomining--exploring pro and con arguments without missing a storytelling beat. And, mining series gold, he''s forged a perfect alloy of familiar and fresh. Though Joe''s far out in no-man''s-land, as professionally on his own as he''s ever been, the family man''s moral compass is as strong as ever. And setting the action in the bubbling Yellowstone caldera--which could blow sky high any minute, we''re told--is a masterstroke, lending both urgency and the long view to the proceedings. Once again, recommended for practically everybody.\n <em>\n  Keir Graff\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16807'),
(18284, 'A Free Man of Color', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Barbara Hambly''s rich and poignant thriller, it''s 1833 and Ben January--a man of mixed blood making his living as a musician because he''s not allowed to practice surgery--is back home in New Orleans after years of freedom in Paris. Trying to walk a caste line more complicated than India''s, January risks his precarious position to investigate the killing of a young woman who--like his own younger, lighter half-sister--is the mistress of a wealthy white man. What has changed most in New Orleans while Ben was away is the influence of the white Americans: rough, ignorant, instinctively racist. Only one of these--a policeman named Abishag Shaw--seems to understand that January is at least as smart and valuable as he is, and even he at times appears to be ready to side with the white majority and pin the crime on Ben.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With this historical novel, Hambly departs from her usual work in the sf/fantasy genre (e.g., Traveling with the Dead, LJ 8/95). Her new work is set in 19th-century Louisiana Creole society, where it was customary for a man to have a wife and also to keep a mistress in her own house. Benjamin January, a free Creole with dark brown skin, has returned to this society after living in Paris for more than a decade. He is trained as a surgeon, but in Louisiana, he makes his living playing the piano. Soon he is the main suspect in the death of a wealthy man''s young mistress, found murdered at a ball. January spends the rest of the book gathering evidence in his defense with the help of his sisters and a host of other colorful characters he encounters on the run. The result is a complicated mystery that could have used more romantic involvement. Recommended for larger libraries.?Shirley Coleman, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., Mich.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7349'),
(18285, 'A Free Man of Color', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Barbara Hambly''s rich and poignant thriller, it''s 1833 and Ben January--a man of mixed blood making his living as a musician because he''s not allowed to practice surgery--is back home in New Orleans after years of freedom in Paris. Trying to walk a caste line more complicated than India''s, January risks his precarious position to investigate the killing of a young woman who--like his own younger, lighter half-sister--is the mistress of a wealthy white man. What has changed most in New Orleans while Ben was away is the influence of the white Americans: rough, ignorant, instinctively racist. Only one of these--a policeman named Abishag Shaw--seems to understand that January is at least as smart and valuable as he is, and even he at times appears to be ready to side with the white majority and pin the crime on Ben.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With this historical novel, Hambly departs from her usual work in the sf/fantasy genre (e.g., Traveling with the Dead, LJ 8/95). Her new work is set in 19th-century Louisiana Creole society, where it was customary for a man to have a wife and also to keep a mistress in her own house. Benjamin January, a free Creole with dark brown skin, has returned to this society after living in Paris for more than a decade. He is trained as a surgeon, but in Louisiana, he makes his living playing the piano. Soon he is the main suspect in the death of a wealthy man''s young mistress, found murdered at a ball. January spends the rest of the book gathering evidence in his defense with the help of his sisters and a host of other colorful characters he encounters on the run. The result is a complicated mystery that could have used more romantic involvement. Recommended for larger libraries.?Shirley Coleman, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., Mich.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10173'),
(18286, 'A Free Man of Color', 'Barbara Hambly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Barbara Hambly''s rich and poignant thriller, it''s 1833 and Ben January--a man of mixed blood making his living as a musician because he''s not allowed to practice surgery--is back home in New Orleans after years of freedom in Paris. Trying to walk a caste line more complicated than India''s, January risks his precarious position to investigate the killing of a young woman who--like his own younger, lighter half-sister--is the mistress of a wealthy white man. What has changed most in New Orleans while Ben was away is the influence of the white Americans: rough, ignorant, instinctively racist. Only one of these--a policeman named Abishag Shaw--seems to understand that January is at least as smart and valuable as he is, and even he at times appears to be ready to side with the white majority and pin the crime on Ben.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With this historical novel, Hambly departs from her usual work in the sf/fantasy genre (e.g., Traveling with the Dead, LJ 8/95). Her new work is set in 19th-century Louisiana Creole society, where it was customary for a man to have a wife and also to keep a mistress in her own house. Benjamin January, a free Creole with dark brown skin, has returned to this society after living in Paris for more than a decade. He is trained as a surgeon, but in Louisiana, he makes his living playing the piano. Soon he is the main suspect in the death of a wealthy man''s young mistress, found murdered at a ball. January spends the rest of the book gathering evidence in his defense with the help of his sisters and a host of other colorful characters he encounters on the run. The result is a complicated mystery that could have used more romantic involvement. Recommended for larger libraries.?Shirley Coleman, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., Mich.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16542'),
(18287, 'Freedom', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about familyPatty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paulâ€”the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walterâ€™s dreams. Together with Walterâ€”environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family manâ€”she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katzâ€”outrÃ© rocker and Walterâ€™s college best friend and rivalâ€”still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become â€œa very different kind of neighbor,â€ an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the streetâ€™s attentive eyes? In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedomâ€™s intensely realized characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4105'),
(18288, 'Freedom', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about familyPatty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paulâ€”the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walterâ€™s dreams. Together with Walterâ€”environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family manâ€”she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katzâ€”outrÃ© rocker and Walterâ€™s college best friend and rivalâ€”still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become â€œa very different kind of neighbor,â€ an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the streetâ€™s attentive eyes? In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedomâ€™s intensely realized characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9831'),
(18289, 'Freedom', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about familyPatty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paulâ€”the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walterâ€™s dreams. Together with Walterâ€”environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family manâ€”she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katzâ€”outrÃ© rocker and Walterâ€™s college best friend and rivalâ€”still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become â€œa very different kind of neighbor,â€ an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the streetâ€™s attentive eyes? In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedomâ€™s intensely realized characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15152'),
(18290, 'Freedom', 'Jonathan Franzen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about familyPatty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paulâ€”the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walterâ€™s dreams. Together with Walterâ€”environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family manâ€”she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katzâ€”outrÃ© rocker and Walterâ€™s college best friend and rivalâ€”still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become â€œa very different kind of neighbor,â€ an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the streetâ€™s attentive eyes? In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedomâ€™s intensely realized characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20407'),
(18291, 'Freedom Summer', 'Bruce W. Watson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A majestic history of the summer of ''64, which forever changed race relations in America In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers'' shacks. But by the time their first night in the state had ended, three volunteers were dead, black churches had burned, and America had a new definition of freedom. This remarkable chapter in American history, the basis for the controversial film Mississippi Burning, is now the subject of Bruce Watson''s thoughtful and riveting historical narrative. Using in- depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi and the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state. Freedom Summer presents finely rendered portraits of the courageous black citizens-and Northern volunteers-who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life. Few books have provided such an intimate look at race relations during the deadliest days of the Civil Rights movement, and Freedom Summer will appeal to readers of Taylor Branch and Doug Blackmon.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12321'),
(18292, 'Freedom&#39;s Challenge', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Deportees from many worlds, the colonists of Freedom''s Landing have made a new home for themselves on the planet where they were abandoned. Now they have the technology they need to go back to war with the deadly Eosi--with a surprise strike at enslaved planet Earth itself! Kris Bjornson has come a long way since the day alien slave ships scooped her up in Denver with thousands of others. Dropped on an apparently uninhabited world with the rest, she has fallen in love with Zainal, a renegade Cattani, and has worked for years to make this fertile planet, Botany, into a home. Now she has a house of sorts, a child she adores, and a respected place in the community. But she still feels a soldier''s duty to escape and rejoin the struggle. The Eosi overlords have tight control of many worlds; as they continue to drop their captives on Botany, however, the original colonists learn that there are freedom fighters on every captured world. There are rebels even among the warlike Cattani, and Earth is full of pockets of resistance. Now that the settlers on Botany are well-fed, and have technology stolen from visiting Cattani warships, they might be able to help. The trip to Earth will be heartbreaking, they realize. All of Earth''s major cities are in ruins. Humans with technical ability have been enslaved, or mind-wiped. Crops and animals have been herded into spaceships for the use of alien overlords, while Earth''s people starve. But the colonists of Botany can load their stolen ship with grain and supplies to help the resistance fighters. Most important, they can bring hope: it is possible to fight back against the Eosi and their Cattani enforcers. Earth can again be free!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15733'),
(18293, 'Freedom&#39;s Choice', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Kris Bjornson and her fellow slaves were dumped on an uninhabited planet by their Catteni masters, there was no guarantee they would live through the first day. Without the help of Zainal, a renegade Catteni exiled by his own people, they might all have been food for the terrifying predators of the new world. But the colonists have learned to survive, and now they have a busy little civilization growing in the caves and fields of the planet they named Botany. Automated farming machines left behind by the true owners of this world have provided metal and parts for inventions that make their lives easier - and also have made them wonder about the identity of these "farmers". Botany''s owners seem to keep watch on their world with automatic scanners; surely they will come in person sometime, if only to see who is trespassing on their land. Maybe they will help Earth against the Catteni and Eosi, who have enslaved many worlds. As the colonists no longer face death every day, questions arise. Should they settle in here, where they have begun to feel at home, bearing children and creating a new society? Many believe they could do better this time at living in peace with one another and with the planet. Others, though, argue passionately that their duty is to escape, to get back to Earth and rejoin the battle against the Catteni oppressors. For Kris Bjornson, who loves the Catteni rebel Zainal, the choice is hard. She knows she and Zainal cannot have a child, and she would do anything to see Earth again. But Kris knows too that this life - building a house brick by brick with Zainal, harvesting what they grow in the fields, and exploring the vast expanses they have yet to colonize - is the best she has ever known.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15734'),
(18294, 'Freedom&#39;s Landing', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It''s the dawning of a new age for mankind when the Catteni descend to Earth and easily overcome the Earth''s population. Thousands are herded onto slave ships headed for the intergalactic auction block. Kris Bjornsen is captured in Denver on her way to her college classes and wakes up on the primitive planet Barevi. Courageous and resourceful, she manages a single-woman escape from the Catteni and is living in the wilds of the planet when she comes to the aid of a Catteni soldier pursued by his own ranks. Recaptured together, they join forces with other slaves to outwit their captors and a hostile planetary environment. Listeners will delight in this "against-the-odds" story of survival, ingenuity and romance. As her audience has come to expect of McCaffrey, she delivers a rich and intricate science fiction adventure in Freedom''s Landing, sure to win over even more listeners and add to her legions of fans.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15735'),
(18295, 'Freedom&#39;s Ransom', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Kris Bjornsen and her fellow slaves were dumped on an uninhabited planet by the alien Catteni overlords, they would surely have died-without the help of Zainal, a renegade Catteni exiled by his own people. But they did survive on the planet they named Botany, and in time they drove the Catteni away from Earth and neighboring planets. Technologically limited but rich in natural resources, Botany must find its place in the newly configured universe. A trip to Earth shows Kris and Zainal how desperately the devastated home planet needs what Botany can give. Other worlds too have had their wealth skimmed by the Catteni regime; the nearby planet of Barevi is little more than a corrupt bazaar, where bits and pieces of Earth''s once powerful technology can be traded for with grain and mineral ores. Earth needs food. Botany needs technology-and, some say, the will to protect itself from being overrun by refugees. As alien influence fades, the people of Botany must decide what kind of world they will become.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15740'),
(18296, 'The French Lieutenant&#39;s Woman', 'John Fowles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A brilliant success... It is a passionate piece of writing as well as an immaculate example of storytelling Financial Times Compulsively readable Irish Times A splendid, lucid, profoundly satisfying work of art, a book which I want almost immediately to read again New Statesman Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power Sunday Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tells the story of Charles Smithson''s infatuation with the unusual Sarah Woodruff, whilst being engaged to a young lady of a good family and a considerable dowry. The author re-creates the feel of a Victorian novel. He also wrote "The Collector" and "The Magus".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14749'),
(18297, 'The French Lieutenant&#39;s Woman', 'John Fowles', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A brilliant success... It is a passionate piece of writing as well as an immaculate example of storytelling Financial Times Compulsively readable Irish Times A splendid, lucid, profoundly satisfying work of art, a book which I want almost immediately to read again New Statesman Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power Sunday Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tells the story of Charles Smithson''s infatuation with the unusual Sarah Woodruff, whilst being engaged to a young lady of a good family and a considerable dowry. The author re-creates the feel of a Victorian novel. He also wrote "The Collector" and "The Magus".\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21405'),
(18298, 'French Polished Murder', 'Elise Hyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n You don''t stumble upon a series like the Daring Finds novels every day... Divorced mom, Candyce "Dyce" Dare is the owner of the furniture refinishing store Daring Finds. When she discovers decades-old letters inside an antique piano she''s renovating, she becomes distracted by an investigation that puts her at odds with the letter-writer''s very powerful local family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5834'),
(18299, 'French Polished Murder', 'Elise Hyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n You don''t stumble upon a series like the Daring Finds novels every day... Divorced mom, Candyce "Dyce" Dare is the owner of the furniture refinishing store Daring Finds. When she discovers decades-old letters inside an antique piano she''s renovating, she becomes distracted by an investigation that puts her at odds with the letter-writer''s very powerful local family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10467'),
(18300, 'French Polished Murder', 'Elise Hyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: You don''t stumble upon a series like the Daring Finds novels every day... Divorced mom, Candyce "Dyce" Dare is the owner of the furniture refinishing store Daring Finds. When she discovers decades-old letters inside an antique piano she''s renovating, she becomes distracted by an investigation that puts her at odds with the letter-writer''s very powerful local family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18897'),
(18301, 'French Polished Murder', 'Elise Hyatt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: You don''t stumble upon a series like the Daring Finds novels every day... Divorced mom, Candyce "Dyce" Dare is the owner of the furniture refinishing store Daring Finds. When she discovers decades-old letters inside an antique piano she''s renovating, she becomes distracted by an investigation that puts her at odds with the letter-writer''s very powerful local family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27697'),
(18302, 'French Pressed', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Murder takes the plunge in the sixth book in the Coffeehouse mystery series. Clare Cosi''s daughter, Joy, is interning - and falling - for a top New York chef when his kitchen turns cutthroat, and Joy becomes a murder suspect. Clare knows she must catch the real killer - even if it lands her in the hottest water of her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6679'),
(18303, 'French Pressed', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Murder takes the plunge in the sixth book in the Coffeehouse mystery series. Clare Cosi''s daughter, Joy, is interning - and falling - for a top New York chef when his kitchen turns cutthroat, and Joy becomes a murder suspect. Clare knows she must catch the real killer - even if it lands her in the hottest water of her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9080'),
(18304, 'French Pressed', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Murder takes the plunge in the sixth book in the Coffeehouse mystery series. Clare Cosi''s daughter, Joy, is interning - and falling - for a top New York chef when his kitchen turns cutthroat, and Joy becomes a murder suspect. Clare knows she must catch the real killer - even if it lands her in the hottest water of her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17362'),
(18305, 'French Pressed', 'Cleo Coyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Murder takes the plunge in the sixth book in the Coffeehouse mystery series. Clare Cosi''s daughter, Joy, is interning - and falling - for a top New York chef when his kitchen turns cutthroat, and Joy becomes a murder suspect. Clare knows she must catch the real killer - even if it lands her in the hottest water of her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27034'),
(18306, 'The Frenzy', 'Francesca Lia Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 8 Upâ€“Liv went through more than mere pubescent changes on her 13th birthday, and as time goes on, she only feels like her true self when she is in the woods. While struggling to determine what really happened to her that fateful night, Liv, now 17, also grapples with being estranged from her parents, dating a boy they would not approve of, and keeping her best friend''s secrets. Once she learns the truthâ€“that she is a werewolfâ€“Liv must determine where she really fits. Does she belong with her pack or can she make things work with the guy she loves? While many of the werewolf traits are reminiscent of Stephenie Meyer''s â€œTwilightâ€ series (Little, Brown), the similarities end there. Block''s focus is not so much on the fact that Liv is a werewolf, but rather on how she deals with this information and how it impacts those she cares about. There are issues of friendship, difficulties with parents, questions about a love relationship, and even an underlying mystery about a string of serial murders that take place in Liv''s beloved woods. Block does a nice job of weaving all these elements into a solid story that makes a quick but engaging read for fans of supernatural fiction. Reluctant readers will enjoy this story as well because of its pacing and manageable chapters.â€“Gina Bowling, South Gibson County High School, Medina, TN. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Red-haired Olivia doesnâ€™t look like her parents and is locked in typical teen struggles with their values. But things arenâ€™t normal otherwise. Livâ€™s hair is embarrassingly rich on every part of her bodyâ€”even her toesâ€”and her police-chief dad hasnâ€™t been able to solve the brutal murders of four hunters in the local woods. Readers will figure out that Liv is a werewolf several chapters before she does, and Blockâ€™s spin on modern werewolf lore includes a dose of small-minded, small-town meanness that Livâ€”with a black boyfriend, a gay best friend who commits suicide, and a mom who is fashion sensitive and emotionally shallowâ€”must deal with. From another writer, this would be passing fare for the magical-creature hungry, but missing here are Blockâ€™s insouciant and pithy dialogue, her usual stellar balancing of scene and action, and other hallmarks that readers adore inâ€”and expect fromâ€”her writing. Werewolf fans will accept this, as will those who consume anything by a favorite author, but this is a mere a gateway to Blockâ€™s more creative titles. Grades 9-12. --Francisca Goldsmith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5518'),
(18307, 'The Frenzy', 'Francesca Lia Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 8 Upâ€“Liv went through more than mere pubescent changes on her 13th birthday, and as time goes on, she only feels like her true self when she is in the woods. While struggling to determine what really happened to her that fateful night, Liv, now 17, also grapples with being estranged from her parents, dating a boy they would not approve of, and keeping her best friend''s secrets. Once she learns the truthâ€“that she is a werewolfâ€“Liv must determine where she really fits. Does she belong with her pack or can she make things work with the guy she loves? While many of the werewolf traits are reminiscent of Stephenie Meyer''s â€œTwilightâ€ series (Little, Brown), the similarities end there. Block''s focus is not so much on the fact that Liv is a werewolf, but rather on how she deals with this information and how it impacts those she cares about. There are issues of friendship, difficulties with parents, questions about a love relationship, and even an underlying mystery about a string of serial murders that take place in Liv''s beloved woods. Block does a nice job of weaving all these elements into a solid story that makes a quick but engaging read for fans of supernatural fiction. Reluctant readers will enjoy this story as well because of its pacing and manageable chapters.â€“Gina Bowling, South Gibson County High School, Medina, TN. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Red-haired Olivia doesnâ€™t look like her parents and is locked in typical teen struggles with their values. But things arenâ€™t normal otherwise. Livâ€™s hair is embarrassingly rich on every part of her bodyâ€”even her toesâ€”and her police-chief dad hasnâ€™t been able to solve the brutal murders of four hunters in the local woods. Readers will figure out that Liv is a werewolf several chapters before she does, and Blockâ€™s spin on modern werewolf lore includes a dose of small-minded, small-town meanness that Livâ€”with a black boyfriend, a gay best friend who commits suicide, and a mom who is fashion sensitive and emotionally shallowâ€”must deal with. From another writer, this would be passing fare for the magical-creature hungry, but missing here are Blockâ€™s insouciant and pithy dialogue, her usual stellar balancing of scene and action, and other hallmarks that readers adore inâ€”and expect fromâ€”her writing. Werewolf fans will accept this, as will those who consume anything by a favorite author, but this is a mere a gateway to Blockâ€™s more creative titles. Grades 9-12. --Francisca Goldsmith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8508'),
(18308, 'The Frenzy', 'Francesca Lia Block', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 8 Upâ€“Liv went through more than mere pubescent changes on her 13th birthday, and as time goes on, she only feels like her true self when she is in the woods. While struggling to determine what really happened to her that fateful night, Liv, now 17, also grapples with being estranged from her parents, dating a boy they would not approve of, and keeping her best friend''s secrets. Once she learns the truthâ€“that she is a werewolfâ€“Liv must determine where she really fits. Does she belong with her pack or can she make things work with the guy she loves? While many of the werewolf traits are reminiscent of Stephenie Meyer''s â€œTwilightâ€ series (Little, Brown), the similarities end there. Block''s focus is not so much on the fact that Liv is a werewolf, but rather on how she deals with this information and how it impacts those she cares about. There are issues of friendship, difficulties with parents, questions about a love relationship, and even an underlying mystery about a string of serial murders that take place in Liv''s beloved woods. Block does a nice job of weaving all these elements into a solid story that makes a quick but engaging read for fans of supernatural fiction. Reluctant readers will enjoy this story as well because of its pacing and manageable chapters.â€“Gina Bowling, South Gibson County High School, Medina, TN. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Red-haired Olivia doesnâ€™t look like her parents and is locked in typical teen struggles with their values. But things arenâ€™t normal otherwise. Livâ€™s hair is embarrassingly rich on every part of her bodyâ€”even her toesâ€”and her police-chief dad hasnâ€™t been able to solve the brutal murders of four hunters in the local woods. Readers will figure out that Liv is a werewolf several chapters before she does, and Blockâ€™s spin on modern werewolf lore includes a dose of small-minded, small-town meanness that Livâ€”with a black boyfriend, a gay best friend who commits suicide, and a mom who is fashion sensitive and emotionally shallowâ€”must deal with. From another writer, this would be passing fare for the magical-creature hungry, but missing here are Blockâ€™s insouciant and pithy dialogue, her usual stellar balancing of scene and action, and other hallmarks that readers adore inâ€”and expect fromâ€”her writing. Werewolf fans will accept this, as will those who consume anything by a favorite author, but this is a mere a gateway to Blockâ€™s more creative titles. Grades 9-12. --Francisca Goldsmith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19073'),
(18309, 'Fresh', 'Mark McNay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *â€œThe rhythm changed and the chickens came down faster and faster. Sean found it hard to catch up and they piled like corpses in the rain.  As he tried to pick one up another would bounce off the back off his hand. Sometimes their legs, or shorn feet, would dig him right in the finger. It was like when youâ€™re in a fight and the guy gets a couple in.â€ (p. 16)*****Most of Sean Oâ€™Gradyâ€™s days are depressingly similar. He not only lives in a town he thought he would leave years ago, but he works a mindless, dead-end job in the fresh meat section at the local chicken processing plant. And as if he needed a reminder of the banality of life, the conveyor belt that flanks the wall where he works beats out a hypnotic rhythm thatâ€™s inescapable:*Bum-titty-bum-titty-bum-titty.*But it isnâ€™t all bad. Fresh is the least of the gag-inducing departments in the plant and Seanâ€™s uncle Albert works alongside him. Albert and his wife, Jessie, took Sean and his brother Archie in after their mother died, and treated them as if they were their own.Sean hasnâ€™t turned out too badly either: he has steady work at the plant, a good woman as his wife, and a fine daughter. But Archie is another matter. He got started as a career criminal early on, with stints in jail for teenage joy rides and small-time drug trafficking. That escalated soon enough and Archie is in prison â€“ again.Or so Sean thinks. One day Sean discovers that Archie is due out that very same day, and he panics. His brother had given him â‚¤1000 to keep while he was away and Sean has spent the money. Sean is certain that if he canâ€™t get Archieâ€™s money in time, his brother will kill him.And he has good reason to believe the worst. Archieâ€™s best friend and de facto henchman has already made it known that Sean had better be ready to hand over the cash or suffer the consequences. Sean has witnessed his brotherâ€™s brutality first-hand, which confirms his conviction that any brotherly affection Archie might have for Sean wonâ€™t stand in the way of him getting his money back â€“ all of it.With the down-at-heel joie de vivre of Roddy Doyle and the wacko plottings of Irvine Welsh, **Fresh** is a white-knuckle ride through one forgettable day in the life of Sean Oâ€™Grady. Mark McNayâ€™s debut will leave you bowled-over and breathless and marks the arrival of a major new talent.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3119');
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(18310, 'Fresh', 'Mark McNay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *â€œThe rhythm changed and the chickens came down faster and faster. Sean found it hard to catch up and they piled like corpses in the rain.  As he tried to pick one up another would bounce off the back off his hand. Sometimes their legs, or shorn feet, would dig him right in the finger. It was like when youâ€™re in a fight and the guy gets a couple in.â€ (p. 16)*****Most of Sean Oâ€™Gradyâ€™s days are depressingly similar. He not only lives in a town he thought he would leave years ago, but he works a mindless, dead-end job in the fresh meat section at the local chicken processing plant. And as if he needed a reminder of the banality of life, the conveyor belt that flanks the wall where he works beats out a hypnotic rhythm thatâ€™s inescapable:*Bum-titty-bum-titty-bum-titty.*But it isnâ€™t all bad. Fresh is the least of the gag-inducing departments in the plant and Seanâ€™s uncle Albert works alongside him. Albert and his wife, Jessie, took Sean and his brother Archie in after their mother died, and treated them as if they were their own.Sean hasnâ€™t turned out too badly either: he has steady work at the plant, a good woman as his wife, and a fine daughter. But Archie is another matter. He got started as a career criminal early on, with stints in jail for teenage joy rides and small-time drug trafficking. That escalated soon enough and Archie is in prison â€“ again.Or so Sean thinks. One day Sean discovers that Archie is due out that very same day, and he panics. His brother had given him â‚¤1000 to keep while he was away and Sean has spent the money. Sean is certain that if he canâ€™t get Archieâ€™s money in time, his brother will kill him.And he has good reason to believe the worst. Archieâ€™s best friend and de facto henchman has already made it known that Sean had better be ready to hand over the cash or suffer the consequences. Sean has witnessed his brotherâ€™s brutality first-hand, which confirms his conviction that any brotherly affection Archie might have for Sean wonâ€™t stand in the way of him getting his money back â€“ all of it.With the down-at-heel joie de vivre of Roddy Doyle and the wacko plottings of Irvine Welsh, **Fresh** is a white-knuckle ride through one forgettable day in the life of Sean Oâ€™Grady. Mark McNayâ€™s debut will leave you bowled-over and breathless and marks the arrival of a major new talent.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11445'),
(18311, 'Fresh', 'Mark McNay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *â€œThe rhythm changed and the chickens came down faster and faster. Sean found it hard to catch up and they piled like corpses in the rain. As he tried to pick one up another would bounce off the back off his hand. Sometimes their legs, or shorn feet, would dig him right in the finger. It was like when youâ€™re in a fight and the guy gets a couple in.â€ (p. 16)*****Most of Sean Oâ€™Gradyâ€™s days are depressingly similar. He not only lives in a town he thought he would leave years ago, but he works a mindless, dead-end job in the fresh meat section at the local chicken processing plant. And as if he needed a reminder of the banality of life, the conveyor belt that flanks the wall where he works beats out a hypnotic rhythm thatâ€™s inescapable:*Bum-titty-bum-titty-bum-titty.*But it isnâ€™t all bad. Fresh is the least of the gag-inducing departments in the plant and Seanâ€™s uncle Albert works alongside him. Albert and his wife, Jessie, took Sean and his brother Archie in after their mother died, and treated them as if they were their own.Sean hasnâ€™t turned out too badly either: he has steady work at the plant, a good woman as his wife, and a fine daughter. But Archie is another matter. He got started as a career criminal early on, with stints in jail for teenage joy rides and small-time drug trafficking. That escalated soon enough and Archie is in prison â€“ again.Or so Sean thinks. One day Sean discovers that Archie is due out that very same day, and he panics. His brother had given him â‚¤1000 to keep while he was away and Sean has spent the money. Sean is certain that if he canâ€™t get Archieâ€™s money in time, his brother will kill him.And he has good reason to believe the worst. Archieâ€™s best friend and de facto henchman has already made it known that Sean had better be ready to hand over the cash or suffer the consequences. Sean has witnessed his brotherâ€™s brutality first-hand, which confirms his conviction that any brotherly affection Archie might have for Sean wonâ€™t stand in the way of him getting his money back â€“ all of it.With the down-at-heel joie de vivre of Roddy Doyle and the wacko plottings of Irvine Welsh, **Fresh** is a white-knuckle ride through one forgettable day in the life of Sean Oâ€™Grady. Mark McNayâ€™s debut will leave you bowled-over and breathless and marks the arrival of a major new talent.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21740'),
(18312, 'Fresh and Fast Vegan: Quick, Delicious, and Creative Recipes to Nourish Aspiring and Devoted Vegans', 'Amanda Grant', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This reissue of UK food editor Amanda Grant''s (The Powerful Cookbook) 1999 classic (known then as The New Vegan) is just as flavorful and inspired as it was upon its first release. Giving vegans over 140 options for appetizers, soups, mains, and desserts suitable for any season or occasion, Grant proves again and again that healthy food can be prepared simply and quickly: DIY vegetable chips and Lemon Tahini Dip, a light and zesty pasta with fresh ginger and basil, and an Apricot and Raspberry Cobbler all come together quickly and without fuss, and globe-trotting dishes like Spanish Potato Gratin, an English twist on Tortilla EspaÃ±ol, and Thai Pumpkin and Coconut Soup, will help fight palate fatigue. Even dedicated carnivores will find a way to make room for crave-worthy comforts such as Warm Lemon and Olive Oil Beans on Rosemary Mashed Potatoes and a Bright Red Pepper Pesto Linguine that uses deep-fried hazelnuts in lieu of pine nuts, giving inspired cooks more dishes to incorporate into their repertoire. Bookended with dietary recommendations and suggested menus, with nutritional information accompanying each dish, Grant''s classic remains a go-to resource for committed vegans.\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Publishers Weekly,\n </em>\n 10/18/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œJust as flavorful and inspired as it was upon its first releaseâ€¦Grant proves again and again that healthy food can be prepared simply and quicklyâ€¦Bookended with dietary recommendations and suggested menus, with nutritional information accompanying each dish, Grant''s classic remains a go-to resource for committed vegans.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Tucson Citizen\n  </em>\n  , 10/25/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn ideal source for the vegan as well as those who simply want to eat healthier foods. Amanda Grantâ€¦serves up recipes that are fairly basic, easy to prepare, andâ€”best of allâ€”delicious.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n Examiner.com, 11/11/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA great cookbook for newbies and for those who donâ€™t want to spend a ton of time in the kitchen.Â The recipes are unfussy with good descriptions and instructions. It would make a great holiday gift as well.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Midwest\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  _ Book Review, _November 2010\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEnthusiastically recommended for all busy meal providers (not just vegans)!â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n <em>\n  Portland\n </em>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n _ Oregonian_, 12/21/10\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n One of the â€œBest Cookbooks of 2010â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Vegan Soapbox, 12/18/10\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis book fills a gap in the ever-increasing number of options for vegan cooks.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9476'),
(18313, 'Fresh Flavor Fast: 250 Easy, Delicious Recipes for Any Time of Day', 'Martha Stewart Living Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sample Recipe from\n  <em>\n   Everyday Food: Fresh Flavor Fast\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Serves 4\n <br />\n Prep time: 15 minutes\n <br />\n Total time: 15 minutes\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pesto made with parsley and sharp Pecorino Romano cheese (and without nuts) makes a colorful topping for tender lamb chops. It could also be tossed with pasta, spread on sandwiches, or mixed with cream cheese for a dip to serve with cruditÃ©s.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lamb Chops\n </strong>\n <br />\n 8 lamb loin chops (each 4 ounces and 1 inch thick)\n <br />\n Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper\n <br />\n 1/2 cup Parsley Pesto (recipe below)\n</p>\n<p>\n Heat a large skillet over medium. Pat dry lamb with paper towels. Season chops on both sides with salt and pepper. Cook (in two batches, if necessary) 4 to 6 minutes per side for medium-rare. Serve immediately, topped with pesto.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Parsley Pesto\n </strong>\n <br />\n Makes 1/2 cup\n <br />\n 2 cups packed fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves\n <br />\n 3/4 cup grated Pecorino Romano cheese (2 ounces)\n <br />\n 1 small garlic clove, coarsely chopped\n <br />\n 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for storing (optional)\n <br />\n Freshly ground pepper\n</p>\n<p>\n In a food processor, finely chop parsley, cheese, and garlic. With the motor running, add oil in a slow, steady stream; season with pepper. Serve immediately, or transfer to an airtight container and cover with a thin layer of oil; refrigerate up to 4 days or freeze up to 3 months.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Freezing Pesto\n </strong>\n <br />\n Pesto keeps very well in the freezer, so itâ€™s worth making extra. Freeze it in small airtight containers, covered with a thin layer of olive oil. Defrost in the refrigerator before using.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With 250 tempting recipes to take you from breakfast all the way through dessert,\n <em>\n  Everyday Food:Â Fresh Flavor Fast\n </em>\n Â is the indispensable collection that home cooks yearn for. Organized into familiar categoriesâ€”including sandwiches and pizzas, appetizers, salads, soups and stews, pastas, main courses, and side dishesâ€”this highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling\n <em>\n  Everyday Food: Great Food Fast\n </em>\n helps you whip up the perfect dish any time of day. Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Here is a book for the way we cook and eat now, with an emphasis on stretching meals (for example, leftovers from a roasted chicken are used to make a quick gumbo and roasted vegetables perform a second act as a vibrant pizza topping), turning to economical ingredients that deliver great results (such as flank steak, served with a piquant parsley-garlic sauce), and making healthier versions of comfort foods without skimping on flavor (like a lower-calorie chicken potpie). A section on enticing vegetarian main dishes as well as a roster of irresistible desserts round out this comprehensive collection. Hereâ€™s a taste of whatâ€™s inside: Â \n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Breakfast:\n </strong>\n Jam-Filled French Toast Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Sandwiches and Pizzas:\n </strong>\n Eggplant and Mozzarella Melt Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Appetizers:\n </strong>\n Goat Cheese Crostini Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Salads:\n </strong>\n BLT Salad with Buttermilk Dressing Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Soups and Stews:\n </strong>\n Minestrone Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Pastas:\n </strong>\n Spaghetti Puttanesca Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Main Courses\n </strong>\n : Meatballs with Rosemary Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Vegetarian\n </strong>\n : Mushroom and Parmesan Risotto Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Side Dishes:\n </strong>\n Roasted Sweet Potato Fries Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Desserts:\n </strong>\n Gingered Blackberry and Plum ShortcakesÂ Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Brimming with great time- and budget-saving tips as well as smart kitchen techniques,\n <em>\n  Everyday Food:Â Fresh Flavor Fast\n </em>\n Â helps you use what you have on hand to make everyoneâ€™s favorite foods. With an easy-to-read format, a photograph of each and every dish, and plenty of ideas to keep you inspired, this is the cookbook you will turn to day after day for wonderfully simple, delicious meals.Â Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3033'),
(18314, 'Fresh Flavor Fast: 250 Easy, Delicious Recipes for Any Time of Day', 'Martha Stewart Living Magazine', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Sample Recipe from\n  <em>\n   Everyday Food: Fresh Flavor Fast\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Serves 4\n <br />\n Prep time: 15 minutes\n <br />\n Total time: 15 minutes\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Pesto made with parsley and sharp Pecorino Romano cheese (and without nuts) makes a colorful topping for tender lamb chops. It could also be tossed with pasta, spread on sandwiches, or mixed with cream cheese for a dip to serve with cruditÃ©s.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Lamb Chops\n </strong>\n <br />\n 8 lamb loin chops (each 4 ounces and 1 inch thick)\n <br />\n Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper\n <br />\n 1/2 cup Parsley Pesto (recipe below)\n</p>\n<p>\n Heat a large skillet over medium. Pat dry lamb with paper towels. Season chops on both sides with salt and pepper. Cook (in two batches, if necessary) 4 to 6 minutes per side for medium-rare. Serve immediately, topped with pesto.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Parsley Pesto\n </strong>\n <br />\n Makes 1/2 cup\n <br />\n 2 cups packed fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves\n <br />\n 3/4 cup grated Pecorino Romano cheese (2 ounces)\n <br />\n 1 small garlic clove, coarsely chopped\n <br />\n 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for storing (optional)\n <br />\n Freshly ground pepper\n</p>\n<p>\n In a food processor, finely chop parsley, cheese, and garlic. With the motor running, add oil in a slow, steady stream; season with pepper. Serve immediately, or transfer to an airtight container and cover with a thin layer of oil; refrigerate up to 4 days or freeze up to 3 months.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Freezing Pesto\n </strong>\n <br />\n Pesto keeps very well in the freezer, so itâ€™s worth making extra. Freeze it in small airtight containers, covered with a thin layer of olive oil. Defrost in the refrigerator before using.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With 250 tempting recipes to take you from breakfast all the way through dessert,\n <em>\n  Everyday Food:Â Fresh Flavor Fast\n </em>\n Â is the indispensable collection that home cooks yearn for. Organized into familiar categoriesâ€”including sandwiches and pizzas, appetizers, salads, soups and stews, pastas, main courses, and side dishesâ€”this highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling\n <em>\n  Everyday Food: Great Food Fast\n </em>\n helps you whip up the perfect dish any time of day. Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Here is a book for the way we cook and eat now, with an emphasis on stretching meals (for example, leftovers from a roasted chicken are used to make a quick gumbo and roasted vegetables perform a second act as a vibrant pizza topping), turning to economical ingredients that deliver great results (such as flank steak, served with a piquant parsley-garlic sauce), and making healthier versions of comfort foods without skimping on flavor (like a lower-calorie chicken potpie). A section on enticing vegetarian main dishes as well as a roster of irresistible desserts round out this comprehensive collection. Hereâ€™s a taste of whatâ€™s inside: Â \n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Breakfast:\n </strong>\n Jam-Filled French Toast Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Sandwiches and Pizzas:\n </strong>\n Eggplant and Mozzarella Melt Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Appetizers:\n </strong>\n Goat Cheese Crostini Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Salads:\n </strong>\n BLT Salad with Buttermilk Dressing Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Soups and Stews:\n </strong>\n Minestrone Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Pastas:\n </strong>\n Spaghetti Puttanesca Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Main Courses\n </strong>\n : Meatballs with Rosemary Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Vegetarian\n </strong>\n : Mushroom and Parmesan Risotto Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Side Dishes:\n </strong>\n Roasted Sweet Potato Fries Â \n <br />\n <strong>\n  Desserts:\n </strong>\n Gingered Blackberry and Plum ShortcakesÂ Â Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Brimming with great time- and budget-saving tips as well as smart kitchen techniques,\n <em>\n  Everyday Food:Â Fresh Flavor Fast\n </em>\n Â helps you use what you have on hand to make everyoneâ€™s favorite foods. With an easy-to-read format, a photograph of each and every dish, and plenty of ideas to keep you inspired, this is the cookbook you will turn to day after day for wonderfully simple, delicious meals.Â Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11277'),
(18315, 'Friction', 'Samantha Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sarah Jessup is supposed to be taking some R &amp; R. A former hacker, she''s now legit as a member of the crack HotWires team, investigating computer crime on Uncle Sam''s dime. Taking her first real vacation in years means leaving the laptop--and handcuffs--at home. Or so she thinks.\n</p>\n<p>\n After one too many run-ins with sexy Logan Sullivan at the beach, Sarah is ready to indulge in a fling. Until she accidentally discovers he''s a renegade cop on leave working a cold case--one involving an Internet sex scandal. Is Logan just using their relationship for cover? And how''s he going to react when Sarah pulls out her own police badge?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1481'),
(18316, 'Friction', 'Samantha Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sarah Jessup is supposed to be taking some R &amp; R. A former hacker, she''s now legit as a member of the crack HotWires team, investigating computer crime on Uncle Sam''s dime. Taking her first real vacation in years means leaving the laptop--and handcuffs--at home. Or so she thinks.\n</p>\n<p>\n After one too many run-ins with sexy Logan Sullivan at the beach, Sarah is ready to indulge in a fling. Until she accidentally discovers he''s a renegade cop on leave working a cold case--one involving an Internet sex scandal. Is Logan just using their relationship for cover? And how''s he going to react when Sarah pulls out her own police badge?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10390'),
(18317, 'Friction', 'Samantha Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sarah Jessup is supposed to be taking some R &amp; R. A former hacker, she''s now legit as a member of the crack HotWires team, investigating computer crime on Uncle Sam''s dime. Taking her first real vacation in years means leaving the laptop--and handcuffs--at home. Or so she thinks.\n</p>\n<p>\n After one too many run-ins with sexy Logan Sullivan at the beach, Sarah is ready to indulge in a fling. Until she accidentally discovers he''s a renegade cop on leave working a cold case--one involving an Internet sex scandal. Is Logan just using their relationship for cover? And how''s he going to react when Sarah pulls out her own police badge?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23523'),
(18318, 'Friday', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as ''Boss''. Operating from and over a near-future Earth, in which North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, where culture has become bizarrely vulgarized and chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on shuttlecock assignment at Boss'' seemingly whimsical behest. From New Zealand to Canada, from one to another of the new states of America''s disunion, she keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions to one calamity and scrape after another.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22728'),
(18319, 'Friday&#39;s Child', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n It would, I think, be difficult to read this book without a smile on your face. The antics of the happy couple and their supporters and detractors seem delightfully silly compared with most romance fare today. If you are in need of a few hours of escape, I heartily recommend "_Friday''s Child_" by Georgette Heyer. (Julie\n <em>\n  Queue My Review\n </em>\n 20080616)\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Friday''s Child\n </em>\n is a cut above the rest, which is saying quite a lot since this is Georgette Heyer we''re talking about and all her books happen to be fantastic.\n <em>\n  Friday''s Child\n </em>\n is filled with likable characters that stick with you and witty dialogue that will make you laugh out loud. (Katie Trattner\n <em>\n  Blog Critics\n </em>\n 20080903)\n</p>\n<p>\n Sparkling with wit, filled to the brim with wonderfully developed characters and with Heyer''s expert eye capturing the atmosphere with great accuracy, the book is a must-read for anyone who reads, period! (Rashmi Srinivas\n <em>\n  A Book Blogger''s Diary\n </em>\n 20080714)\n</p>\n<p>\n I cannot count the number of times I have read and re-read Friday''s Child; and each re-reading is still a joy. So vivid are the characters, so real the world Heyer recreates that a return visit never fails to entertain. (Hilary Williamson\n <em>\n  Book Loons\n </em>\n 20080728)\n</p>\n<p>\n The characters are interesting, likable, and believable and the dialogue between them is a high point of the book. I recommend Friday''s Child to anyone who wishes that Jane Austen had written more books. (Kim Izzat\n <em>\n  Good Clean Reads\n </em>\n 20081002)\n</p>\n<p>\n I really enjoyed Friday''s Child and can''t wait to delve into my next GH novel. (Ames\n <em>\n  Book Binge\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Friday''s Child\n </em>\n is a wonderful tale of regency England by master storyteller, Georgette Heyer... If you are in a mood for great comedy and endearing characters,\n <em>\n  Friday''s Child\n </em>\n is the book for you! (Kate Garrrabant\n <em>\n  Ramblings on Romance\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n This is Jane Austen as presented on the Carol Burnett show and it''s more fun than a bag of cats. (Orin Judd\n <em>\n  Brothers Judd\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A lightsome, brightsome comedy."\n <br />\n -Kirkus Reviews\n</p>\n<p>\n "Nimble, light-hearted chronicle of high London society in the time of the Regency."\n <br />\n -The New Yorker\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer''s sparkling romances have charmed and delighted millions of readers. Her characters brilliantly illuminate one of the most exciting and fascinating eras of English history-when drawing rooms sparkled with well-dressed nobility and romantic intrigues ruled the day. Heyer''s heroines are smart and independent; her heroes are dashing noblemen who know how to handle a horse, fight a duel, or address a lady. And her sense of humor is legendary.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the incomparable Miss Milbourne spurns the impetuous Lord Sherington''s marriage proposal (she laughs at him-laughs!) he vows to marry the next female he encounters, who happens to be the young, penniless Miss Hero Wantage, who has adored him all her life. Whisking her off to London, Sherry discovers there is no end to the scrapes his young, green bride can get into, and she discovers the excitement and glamorous social scene of the ton. Not until a deep misunderstanding erupts and Sherry almost loses his bride, does he plumb the depths of his own heart, and surprises himself with the love he finds there.\n</p>\n<p>\n "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."\n <br />\n -Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer (1902â€“1974) wrote over fifty novels, including Regency romances, mysteries, and historical fiction. She was known as the Queen of Regency romance, and was legendary for her research, historical accuracy, and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. (20080520)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18379'),
(18320, 'Friends in High Places', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Commissario Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat concerned to investigate the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years before, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, even a cop, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant local government department. But when the bureaucrat rings him at work, clearly scared by some information he plans to give Brunetti, and is then found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is clearly going on that has implications rather greater tean the fate of Guido''s own apartment. Brunetti''s investigations take him into unfamiliar areas of Venetian life - drug abuse and loan-sharking - while the deaths of two young drug addicts and the arrest, and subsequent release, of a suspected drug-dealer reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have friends in high places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5882'),
(18321, 'Friends in high places', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Commissario Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat concerned to investigate the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years before, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, even a cop, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant local government department. But when the bureaucrat rings him at work, clearly scared by some information he plans to give Brunetti, and is then found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is clearly going on that has implications rather greater tean the fate of Guido''s own apartment. Brunetti''s investigations take him into unfamiliar areas of Venetian life - drug abuse and loan-sharking - while the deaths of two young drug addicts and the arrest, and subsequent release, of a suspected drug-dealer reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have friends in high places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18747'),
(18322, 'Friends in high places', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Commissario Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat concerned to investigate the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years before, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, even a cop, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant local government department. But when the bureaucrat rings him at work, clearly scared by some information he plans to give Brunetti, and is then found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is clearly going on that has implications rather greater tean the fate of Guido''s own apartment. Brunetti''s investigations take him into unfamiliar areas of Venetian life - drug abuse and loan-sharking - while the deaths of two young drug addicts and the arrest, and subsequent release, of a suspected drug-dealer reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have friends in high places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27468'),
(18323, 'The Frightened Man', 'Kenneth Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n London in 1900 is a sprawling, chaotic web of change and expansion, perfect for a man like Denton, an American with a violent past seeking anonymity as an outsider. But his notoriety as the author of several dark novelsâ€”and the well-known story that, decades before, he had gunned down four men in the American Westâ€”sometimes brings unwanted visitors to his door. When a terrified man shows up one evening and says that he is being pursued by the long-gone Jack the Ripper, Denton dismisses him as one more victim of Londonâ€™s lunacy. But then the mutilated body of a teenaged prostitute named Stella Minter is found in Londonâ€™s East End. . . .        Disappointed by the lack of police concern, Denton determines to pursue the murderer, even after itâ€™s clear that heâ€™s become the next target. As Denton begins to peel away the layers of the lurid and horrifying murder, he finds himself exploring the dark underbelly of the bursting metropolis, a place so vast that Denton is forced to follow nothing but his instincts through the maze of Londonâ€”its pubs, its police offices, its dark alleys and disreputable neighborhoodsâ€”to find a murderer who is himself an agent of the cityâ€™s cancerous growth. And along the way Denton is lucky enough to find an ally in a woman with a past as haunted and a spirit as independent as his own.        Kenneth Cameron has brought turn-of-the-century London vividly to life in this intelligent and compelling crime novel. The Frightened Man delves far deeper than the mere circumstances of a murder to investigate the unseenâ€”the secrets harbored in Londonâ€™s immeasurable streets and in the dark side of human nature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3665'),
(18324, 'The Frightened Man', 'Kenneth Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n London in 1900 is a sprawling, chaotic web of change and expansion, perfect for a man like Denton, an American with a violent past seeking anonymity as an outsider. But his notoriety as the author of several dark novelsâ€”and the well-known story that, decades before, he had gunned down four men in the American Westâ€”sometimes brings unwanted visitors to his door. When a terrified man shows up one evening and says that he is being pursued by the long-gone Jack the Ripper, Denton dismisses him as one more victim of Londonâ€™s lunacy. But then the mutilated body of a teenaged prostitute named Stella Minter is found in Londonâ€™s East End. . . .        Disappointed by the lack of police concern, Denton determines to pursue the murderer, even after itâ€™s clear that heâ€™s become the next target. As Denton begins to peel away the layers of the lurid and horrifying murder, he finds himself exploring the dark underbelly of the bursting metropolis, a place so vast that Denton is forced to follow nothing but his instincts through the maze of Londonâ€”its pubs, its police offices, its dark alleys and disreputable neighborhoodsâ€”to find a murderer who is himself an agent of the cityâ€™s cancerous growth. And along the way Denton is lucky enough to find an ally in a woman with a past as haunted and a spirit as independent as his own.        Kenneth Cameron has brought turn-of-the-century London vividly to life in this intelligent and compelling crime novel. The Frightened Man delves far deeper than the mere circumstances of a murder to investigate the unseenâ€”the secrets harbored in Londonâ€™s immeasurable streets and in the dark side of human nature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8835'),
(18325, 'The Frightened Man', 'Kenneth Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: London in 1900 is a sprawling, chaotic web of change and expansion, perfect for a man like Denton, an American with a violent past seeking anonymity as an outsider. But his notoriety as the author of several dark novelsâ€”and the well-known story that, decades before, he had gunned down four men in the American Westâ€”sometimes brings unwanted visitors to his door. When a terrified man shows up one evening and says that he is being pursued by the long-gone Jack the Ripper, Denton dismisses him as one more victim of Londonâ€™s lunacy. But then the mutilated body of a teenaged prostitute named Stella Minter is found in Londonâ€™s East End. . . . Disappointed by the lack of police concern, Denton determines to pursue the murderer, even after itâ€™s clear that heâ€™s become the next target. As Denton begins to peel away the layers of the lurid and horrifying murder, he finds himself exploring the dark underbelly of the bursting metropolis, a place so vast that Denton is forced to follow nothing but his instincts through the maze of Londonâ€”its pubs, its police offices, its dark alleys and disreputable neighborhoodsâ€”to find a murderer who is himself an agent of the cityâ€™s cancerous growth. And along the way Denton is lucky enough to find an ally in a woman with a past as haunted and a spirit as independent as his own. Kenneth Cameron has brought turn-of-the-century London vividly to life in this intelligent and compelling crime novel. The Frightened Man delves far deeper than the mere circumstances of a murder to investigate the unseenâ€”the secrets harbored in Londonâ€™s immeasurable streets and in the dark side of human nature.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20700'),
(18326, 'The Frog Prince and Other Stories', 'Walter Crane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Walter Crane (1845-1915) was an English artist. Born in Liverpool, he was part of the Arts and Crafts movement. He produced paintings, illustrations, children''s books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts. In 1862 his picture The Lady of Shalott was exhibited at the Royal Academy, but the Academy steadily refused his maturer work; and after the opening of the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 he ceased to send pictures to Burlington House. In 1864 he began to illustrate a series of Sixpenny Toy-Books of Nursery Rhymes in Three Colours for Edmund Evans. He was allowed more freedom in a series beginning with The Frog Prince (1874) which showed markedly the influence of Japanese art, and of long visit to Italy following on his marriage in 1871. From the early 1880s, Crane was closely associated with the Socialist movement. He provided the weekly cartoons for the Socialist Organs Justice, The Commonweal and The Clarion. One of his last major works would be his Lunettes at the Royal West of England Academy which were painted in 1913.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/355'),
(18327, 'The Frog Prince and Other Stories', 'Walter Crane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Walter Crane (1845-1915) was an English artist. Born in Liverpool, he was part of the Arts and Crafts movement. He produced paintings, illustrations, children''s books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts. In 1862 his picture The Lady of Shalott was exhibited at the Royal Academy, but the Academy steadily refused his maturer work; and after the opening of the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 he ceased to send pictures to Burlington House. In 1864 he began to illustrate a series of Sixpenny Toy-Books of Nursery Rhymes in Three Colours for Edmund Evans. He was allowed more freedom in a series beginning with The Frog Prince (1874) which showed markedly the influence of Japanese art, and of long visit to Italy following on his marriage in 1871. From the early 1880s, Crane was closely associated with the Socialist movement. He provided the weekly cartoons for the Socialist Organs Justice, The Commonweal and The Clarion. One of his last major works would be his Lunettes at the Royal West of England Academy which were painted in 1913.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24628'),
(18328, 'The Frog Princess', 'E. D. Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This debut novel follows the adventures of 14-year-old Princess Emeralda and the talking frog she meets one day in a swamp. The frog begs her to give him a kiss so that he will turn back into Prince Eadric, his identity before an evil witch turned him into an amphibian. When the young royal obliges, she, too, is transformed into a frog, and the two leap off in search of the spell-casting witch to ask her to reverse her handiwork. Describing the duo''s futile quest in laborious detail, the author pads her tale with some curiously drab characters, including another witch (who hopes to use Emeralda and Eadric in a spell she''s concocting) and a bat and snake who reside in her cottage. The tale occasionally offers peppy dialogue and some comical scenes-particularly as the newly transformed Emeralda adjusts to catching flies with her tongue ("My eye-tongue coordination wasn''t very good," she admits). Unfortunately, the plot doesn''t make much of the magical elements (for example, the characters'' encounters with a dragon and a nymph seem inconsequential), resulting in a disappointingly flat fantasy. Ages 8-14.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-6â€“In E.D. Baker''s twist on the classic fairy tale (Bloomsbury, 2002), Princess Emeralda has quite an adventure when she kisses a prince-turned-frog and everything goes terribly awry. The book follows her exciting quest, along with the frog prince Eadric, to transform themselves back into their human selves. The text itself is weak, with poor story logic, many fruitless tangents, and excessive detail. However, the dialogue between the perky princess, her valiant but foolish prince, and some of the other odd characters they encounter is often genuinely funny. Narrator Katherine Kellgren produces a variety of voices that are well tailored to the characters and their personalities. This romantic comedy and non-violent adventure would appeal to youngsters fond of twisted fairy tales, but some of the jokes and sophisticated vocabulary will be beyond the intended audience.â€“_Jenna Innes, Edmonton Public Library, Alberta, Canada_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5781'),
(18329, 'The Frog Princess', 'E. D. Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This debut novel follows the adventures of 14-year-old Princess Emeralda and the talking frog she meets one day in a swamp. The frog begs her to give him a kiss so that he will turn back into Prince Eadric, his identity before an evil witch turned him into an amphibian. When the young royal obliges, she, too, is transformed into a frog, and the two leap off in search of the spell-casting witch to ask her to reverse her handiwork. Describing the duo''s futile quest in laborious detail, the author pads her tale with some curiously drab characters, including another witch (who hopes to use Emeralda and Eadric in a spell she''s concocting) and a bat and snake who reside in her cottage. The tale occasionally offers peppy dialogue and some comical scenes-particularly as the newly transformed Emeralda adjusts to catching flies with her tongue ("My eye-tongue coordination wasn''t very good," she admits). Unfortunately, the plot doesn''t make much of the magical elements (for example, the characters'' encounters with a dragon and a nymph seem inconsequential), resulting in a disappointingly flat fantasy. Ages 8-14.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-6â€“In E.D. Baker''s twist on the classic fairy tale (Bloomsbury, 2002), Princess Emeralda has quite an adventure when she kisses a prince-turned-frog and everything goes terribly awry. The book follows her exciting quest, along with the frog prince Eadric, to transform themselves back into their human selves. The text itself is weak, with poor story logic, many fruitless tangents, and excessive detail. However, the dialogue between the perky princess, her valiant but foolish prince, and some of the other odd characters they encounter is often genuinely funny. Narrator Katherine Kellgren produces a variety of voices that are well tailored to the characters and their personalities. This romantic comedy and non-violent adventure would appeal to youngsters fond of twisted fairy tales, but some of the jokes and sophisticated vocabulary will be beyond the intended audience.â€“_Jenna Innes, Edmonton Public Library, Alberta, Canada_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8263'),
(18330, 'The Frog Princess', 'E. D. Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This debut novel follows the adventures of 14-year-old Princess Emeralda and the talking frog she meets one day in a swamp. The frog begs her to give him a kiss so that he will turn back into Prince Eadric, his identity before an evil witch turned him into an amphibian. When the young royal obliges, she, too, is transformed into a frog, and the two leap off in search of the spell-casting witch to ask her to reverse her handiwork. Describing the duo''s futile quest in laborious detail, the author pads her tale with some curiously drab characters, including another witch (who hopes to use Emeralda and Eadric in a spell she''s concocting) and a bat and snake who reside in her cottage. The tale occasionally offers peppy dialogue and some comical scenes-particularly as the newly transformed Emeralda adjusts to catching flies with her tongue ("My eye-tongue coordination wasn''t very good," she admits). Unfortunately, the plot doesn''t make much of the magical elements (for example, the characters'' encounters with a dragon and a nymph seem inconsequential), resulting in a disappointingly flat fantasy. Ages 8-14.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 4-6â€“In E.D. Baker''s twist on the classic fairy tale (Bloomsbury, 2002), Princess Emeralda has quite an adventure when she kisses a prince-turned-frog and everything goes terribly awry. The book follows her exciting quest, along with the frog prince Eadric, to transform themselves back into their human selves. The text itself is weak, with poor story logic, many fruitless tangents, and excessive detail. However, the dialogue between the perky princess, her valiant but foolish prince, and some of the other odd characters they encounter is often genuinely funny. Narrator Katherine Kellgren produces a variety of voices that are well tailored to the characters and their personalities. This romantic comedy and non-violent adventure would appeal to youngsters fond of twisted fairy tales, but some of the jokes and sophisticated vocabulary will be beyond the intended audience.â€“_Jenna Innes, Edmonton Public Library, Alberta, Canada_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18783'),
(18331, 'From a Buick 8', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n WANT TO GO FOR A RIDE...?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there''s a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years -- because there''s more power under the hood than anyone can handle....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1102'),
(18332, 'From a Buick 8', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: WANT TO GO FOR A RIDE...? In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there''s a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years -- because there''s more power under the hood than anyone can handle....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14510'),
(18333, 'From a Buick 8', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: WANT TO GO FOR A RIDE...? In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there''s a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years -- because there''s more power under the hood than anyone can handle....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23821'),
(18334, 'From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children&#39;s Books', 'Kathleen T. Horning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *From Cover to Cover* has been considered *the* definitive guide to reading, reviewing, and critically evaluating children''s books since its original publication in 1997. Now revised and updated, it remains an invaluable resource offering a fresh, up-to-date look at a fast-changing field.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n All-new material includes:   An updated introduction that reflects the many changes in the children''s book industry A section on genres, including a discussion of graphic novels A section on children''s literature blogs An introduction of two new major genre awardsâ€”the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal and the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award *And* more than 90 percent of the books cited have been updated to more recent publications!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3786'),
(18335, 'From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children&#39;s Books', 'Kathleen T. Horning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *From Cover to Cover* has been considered *the* definitive guide to reading, reviewing, and critically evaluating children''s books since its original publication in 1997. Now revised and updated, it remains an invaluable resource offering a fresh, up-to-date look at a fast-changing field.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n All-new material includes:   An updated introduction that reflects the many changes in the children''s book industry A section on genres, including a discussion of graphic novels A section on children''s literature blogs An introduction of two new major genre awardsâ€”the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal and the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award *And* more than 90 percent of the books cited have been updated to more recent publications!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10438'),
(18336, 'From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children&#39;s Books', 'Kathleen T. Horning', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *From Cover to Cover* has been considered *the* definitive guide to reading, reviewing, and critically evaluating children''s books since its original publication in 1997. Now revised and updated, it remains an invaluable resource offering a fresh, up-to-date look at a fast-changing field. All-new material includes: An updated introduction that reflects the many changes in the children''s book industry A section on genres, including a discussion of graphic novels A section on children''s literature blogs An introduction of two new major genre awardsâ€”the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal and the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award *And* more than 90 percent of the books cited have been updated to more recent publications!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20629'),
(18337, 'From Dawn to Deceit', 'Terry Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Are the Wall Street players Jasper Cunningham encounters along his quest for power merely a pawn in his murderous passion for wealth? From Dawn to Deceit reveals the saga of a self-made multimillionaire whose greed and malice succumb him to fight the justice system to regain his freedom and stature in the business world. Through flashbacks of the adulterous years preceding Jasper''s arrest and trial, we encounter cold-blooded murders, corporate fraud and embezzlement, and justified rape. In his journey, Jasper affiliates with seemingly faithful lovers and underworld cohorts who become jointly entangled in their common goal-the pursuit of wealth, sex, and power. But who can Jasper trust? The layers of deception only accelerate after his verdict.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/786');
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(18338, 'From Dawn to Deceit', 'Terry Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Are the Wall Street players Jasper Cunningham encounters along his quest for power merely a pawn in his murderous passion for wealth? From Dawn to Deceit reveals the saga of a self-made multimillionaire whose greed and malice succumb him to fight the justice system to regain his freedom and stature in the business world. Through flashbacks of the adulterous years preceding Jasper''s arrest and trial, we encounter cold-blooded murders, corporate fraud and embezzlement, and justified rape. In his journey, Jasper affiliates with seemingly faithful lovers and underworld cohorts who become jointly entangled in their common goal-the pursuit of wealth, sex, and power. But who can Jasper trust? The layers of deception only accelerate after his verdict.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10591'),
(18339, 'From Dawn to Deceit', 'Terry Joseph', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Are the Wall Street players Jasper Cunningham encounters along his quest for power merely a pawn in his murderous passion for wealth? From Dawn to Deceit reveals the saga of a self-made multimillionaire whose greed and malice succumb him to fight the justice system to regain his freedom and stature in the business world. Through flashbacks of the adulterous years preceding Jasper''s arrest and trial, we encounter cold-blooded murders, corporate fraud and embezzlement, and justified rape. In his journey, Jasper affiliates with seemingly faithful lovers and underworld cohorts who become jointly entangled in their common goal-the pursuit of wealth, sex, and power. But who can Jasper trust? The layers of deception only accelerate after his verdict.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24212'),
(18340, 'From Dead to Worse', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6884'),
(18341, 'From Dead to Worse', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10187'),
(18342, 'From Dead to Worse', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15234'),
(18343, 'From Dead to Worse', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17032'),
(18344, 'From Dead to Worse', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26824'),
(18345, 'From Eternity to Here', 'Sean Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward?**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Time moves forward, not backward-everyone knows you can''t unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today''s hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and other universes, too. In *From Eternity to Here*, Sean Carroll argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely from the past to the future, owes its existence to conditions *before* the Big Bang itself-a period modern cosmology of which Einstein never dreamed. Increasingly, though, physicists are going out into realms that make the theory of relativity seem like child''s play. Carroll''s scenario is not only elegant, it''s laid out in the same easy-to- understand language that has made his group blog, Cosmic Variance, the most popular physics blog on the Net.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *From Eternity to Here* uses ideas at the cutting edge of theoretical physics to explore how properties of spacetime before the Big Bang can explain the flow of time we experience in our everyday lives. Carroll suggests that we live in a baby universe, part of a large family of universes in which many of our siblings experience an arrow of time running in the opposite direction. It''s an ambitious, fascinating picture of the universe on an ultra-large scale, one that will captivate fans of popular physics blockbusters like *Elegant Universe* and *A Brief History of Time*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1347'),
(18346, 'From Eternity to Here', 'Sean Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward?**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Time moves forward, not backward-everyone knows you can''t unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today''s hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and other universes, too. In *From Eternity to Here*, Sean Carroll argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely from the past to the future, owes its existence to conditions *before* the Big Bang itself-a period modern cosmology of which Einstein never dreamed. Increasingly, though, physicists are going out into realms that make the theory of relativity seem like child''s play. Carroll''s scenario is not only elegant, it''s laid out in the same easy-to- understand language that has made his group blog, Cosmic Variance, the most popular physics blog on the Net.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *From Eternity to Here* uses ideas at the cutting edge of theoretical physics to explore how properties of spacetime before the Big Bang can explain the flow of time we experience in our everyday lives. Carroll suggests that we live in a baby universe, part of a large family of universes in which many of our siblings experience an arrow of time running in the opposite direction. It''s an ambitious, fascinating picture of the universe on an ultra-large scale, one that will captivate fans of popular physics blockbusters like *Elegant Universe* and *A Brief History of Time*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8797'),
(18347, 'From Eternity to Here', 'Sean Carroll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward?** Time moves forward, not backward-everyone knows you can''t unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today''s hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and other universes, too. In *From Eternity to Here*, Sean Carroll argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely from the past to the future, owes its existence to conditions *before* the Big Bang itself-a period modern cosmology of which Einstein never dreamed. Increasingly, though, physicists are going out into realms that make the theory of relativity seem like child''s play. Carroll''s scenario is not only elegant, it''s laid out in the same easy-to- understand language that has made his group blog, Cosmic Variance, the most popular physics blog on the Net. *From Eternity to Here* uses ideas at the cutting edge of theoretical physics to explore how properties of spacetime before the Big Bang can explain the flow of time we experience in our everyday lives. Carroll suggests that we live in a baby universe, part of a large family of universes in which many of our siblings experience an arrow of time running in the opposite direction. It''s an ambitious, fascinating picture of the universe on an ultra-large scale, one that will captivate fans of popular physics blockbusters like *Elegant Universe* and *A Brief History of Time*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23604'),
(18348, 'From First Kicks to First Steps: Nurturing Your Baby 039 s Development from Pregnancy Through the First Year of Life', 'Alan Greene M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15950'),
(18349, 'From Hell With Love', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This gripping, fast-paced, emotionally intense fourth volume in Green''s Secret Histories series (after 2009''s\n <em>\n  The Spy Who Haunted Me\n </em>\n ) is sure to delight fans of paranormal investigator Eddie Drood and his girlfriend, the fabulously strong and strong-willed witch Molly Metcalf. An insignificant villain, Doctor Delirium, plans to acquire a powerful, mysterious item at a secret sale. This simple event explodes into complexity when someone kills the Drood matriarch and turns Eddie''s family into a deadly mob, with horrifying consequences. The real enemy is truly worthy of the Drood clan: a race of immortals who plan to breach the gates of heaven itself. Fans of the series will be delighted by the deft combination of urban fantasy adventure, sharp-edged sarcasm, and treachery upon treachery, which make this installment strong enough to stand alone as a great introduction to Green''s work.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s no walk in the park for a Drood, a member of the family that has protected humanity from the things that go bump in the night for centuries. They aren''t much liked by the creatures they kill, by ungrateful humans, or even by one another.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now their Matriarch is dead, and it''s up to Eddie Drood, acting head of the family, to figure out whodunit. Unpopular opinion is divided: it was either Eddie''s best girl, Molly. Or Eddie himself. And Eddie knows he didn''t do it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1271'),
(18350, 'From Hell With Love', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This gripping, fast-paced, emotionally intense fourth volume in Green''s Secret Histories series (after 2009''s\n <em>\n  The Spy Who Haunted Me\n </em>\n ) is sure to delight fans of paranormal investigator Eddie Drood and his girlfriend, the fabulously strong and strong-willed witch Molly Metcalf. An insignificant villain, Doctor Delirium, plans to acquire a powerful, mysterious item at a secret sale. This simple event explodes into complexity when someone kills the Drood matriarch and turns Eddie''s family into a deadly mob, with horrifying consequences. The real enemy is truly worthy of the Drood clan: a race of immortals who plan to breach the gates of heaven itself. Fans of the series will be delighted by the deft combination of urban fantasy adventure, sharp-edged sarcasm, and treachery upon treachery, which make this installment strong enough to stand alone as a great introduction to Green''s work.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s no walk in the park for a Drood, a member of the family that has protected humanity from the things that go bump in the night for centuries. They aren''t much liked by the creatures they kill, by ungrateful humans, or even by one another.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now their Matriarch is dead, and it''s up to Eddie Drood, acting head of the family, to figure out whodunit. Unpopular opinion is divided: it was either Eddie''s best girl, Molly. Or Eddie himself. And Eddie knows he didn''t do it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9969'),
(18351, 'From Hell With Love', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This gripping, fast-paced, emotionally intense fourth volume in Green''s Secret Histories series (after 2009''s\n <em>\n  The Spy Who Haunted Me\n </em>\n ) is sure to delight fans of paranormal investigator Eddie Drood and his girlfriend, the fabulously strong and strong-willed witch Molly Metcalf. An insignificant villain, Doctor Delirium, plans to acquire a powerful, mysterious item at a secret sale. This simple event explodes into complexity when someone kills the Drood matriarch and turns Eddie''s family into a deadly mob, with horrifying consequences. The real enemy is truly worthy of the Drood clan: a race of immortals who plan to breach the gates of heaven itself. Fans of the series will be delighted by the deft combination of urban fantasy adventure, sharp-edged sarcasm, and treachery upon treachery, which make this installment strong enough to stand alone as a great introduction to Green''s work.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s no walk in the park for a Drood, a member of the family that has protected humanity from the things that go bump in the night for centuries. They aren''t much liked by the creatures they kill, by ungrateful humans, or even by one another.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now their Matriarch is dead, and it''s up to Eddie Drood, acting head of the family, to figure out whodunit. Unpopular opinion is divided: it was either Eddie''s best girl, Molly. Or Eddie himself. And Eddie knows he didn''t do it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23646'),
(18352, 'From Russia With Love: A James Bond Novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every major foreign government organization has a file on British secret agent James Bond. Now, Russia''s lethal SMERSH organization has targeted him for elimination. SMERSH has the perfect bait in the irresistible Tatiana Romanova, who lures 007 to Istanbul promising the top-secret Spektor cipher machine. But when Bond walks willingly into the trap, a game of cross and double-cross ensues, with Bond both the stakes and the prize.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5055'),
(18353, 'From Russia with love: a James Bond novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Every major foreign government organization has a file on British secret agent James Bond. Now, Russia''s lethal SMERSH organization has targeted him for elimination. SMERSH has the perfect bait in the irresistible Tatiana Romanova, who lures 007 to Istanbul promising the top-secret Spektor cipher machine. But when Bond walks willingly into the trap, a game of cross and double-cross ensues, with Bond both the stakes and the prize.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19666'),
(18354, 'From Russia with love: a James Bond novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Every major foreign government organization has a file on British secret agent James Bond. Now, Russia''s lethal SMERSH organization has targeted him for elimination. SMERSH has the perfect bait in the irresistible Tatiana Romanova, who lures 007 to Istanbul promising the top-secret Spektor cipher machine. But when Bond walks willingly into the trap, a game of cross and double-cross ensues, with Bond both the stakes and the prize.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28219'),
(18355, 'From the Corner of His Eye', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy.He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams.His story will change the way you see the world.**On the heels of his #1 bestseller **False Memory**, Dean Koontz brings together his most compelling themes and an unforgettable cast of characters to create what is perhaps the most thrilling and emotionally powerful work of his critically acclaimed career. Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search that will consume his life. And a girl is born from a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty and the man who stalks him. At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As he copes with his blindness and proves to be a prodigy, his mother counsels him that all things happen for a reason and that every personâ€™s life has an effect on every other personâ€™s, in often unknowable ways. At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it, why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds and entwines with others results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping suspense, and high adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6111'),
(18356, 'From the Corner of His Eye', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy.He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams.His story will change the way you see the world.**On the heels of his #1 bestseller **False Memory**, Dean Koontz brings together his most compelling themes and an unforgettable cast of characters to create what is perhaps the most thrilling and emotionally powerful work of his critically acclaimed career. Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search that will consume his life. And a girl is born from a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty and the man who stalks him. At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As he copes with his blindness and proves to be a prodigy, his mother counsels him that all things happen for a reason and that every personâ€™s life has an effect on every other personâ€™s, in often unknowable ways. At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it, why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds and entwines with others results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping suspense, and high adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14518'),
(18357, 'From the Corner of His Eye', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy.He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams.His story will change the way you see the world.**On the heels of his #1 bestseller **False Memory**, Dean Koontz brings together his most compelling themes and an unforgettable cast of characters to create what is perhaps the most thrilling and emotionally powerful work of his critically acclaimed career. Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search that will consume his life. And a girl is born from a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty and the man who stalks him. At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As he copes with his blindness and proves to be a prodigy, his mother counsels him that all things happen for a reason and that every personâ€™s life has an effect on every other personâ€™s, in often unknowable ways. At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it, why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds and entwines with others results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping suspense, and high adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17959'),
(18358, 'From the Corner of His Eye', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy.He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams.His story will change the way you see the world.On the heels of his #1 bestseller False Memory, Dean Koontz brings together his most compelling themes and an unforgettable cast of characters to create what is perhaps the most thrilling and emotionally powerful work of his critically acclaimed career. Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search that will consume his life. And a girl is born from a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty and the man who stalks him. At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As he copes with his blindness and proves to be a prodigy, his mother counsels him that all things happen for a reason and that every personâ€™s life has an effect on every other personâ€™s, in often unknowable ways. At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it, why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds and entwines with others results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping suspense, and high adventure.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27378'),
(18359, 'From the Earth to the Moon', 'Jules Verne &amp; Lowell Bair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novel by Jules Verne, published as De la Terre a la Lune (1865) and also published as The Baltimore Gun Club and The American Gun Club. Although the novel was subtitled Trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes ("Direct Passage in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes"), the actual journey to the Moon was depicted in the book''s sequel, Autour de la Lune (1870; Round the Moon). From the Earth to the Moon concerns a group of obsessive American Civil War veterans, members of the Baltimore Gun Club, who conceive the idea of creating an enormous cannon in order to shoot a "space-bullet" to the Moon from a site in Florida. -- __\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verneâ€™s prophetic novel of manâ€™s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicaneâ€™s adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a â€œmannedâ€ flight, one manâ€™s dream turns into an international space race.\n</p>\n<p>\n A story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination,\n <strong>\n  From the Earth to the Moon\n </strong>\n is as uncanny in its accuracy and as filled with authentic detail and startling immediacy as Verneâ€™s timeless masterpieces\n <strong>\n  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Around the World in Eighty Days.\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3951'),
(18360, 'From the Earth to the Moon', 'Jules Verne &amp; Lowell Bair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novel by Jules Verne, published as De la Terre a la Lune (1865) and also published as The Baltimore Gun Club and The American Gun Club. Although the novel was subtitled Trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes ("Direct Passage in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes"), the actual journey to the Moon was depicted in the book''s sequel, Autour de la Lune (1870; Round the Moon). From the Earth to the Moon concerns a group of obsessive American Civil War veterans, members of the Baltimore Gun Club, who conceive the idea of creating an enormous cannon in order to shoot a "space-bullet" to the Moon from a site in Florida. -- __\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verneâ€™s prophetic novel of manâ€™s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicaneâ€™s adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a â€œmannedâ€ flight, one manâ€™s dream turns into an international space race.\n</p>\n<p>\n A story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination,\n <strong>\n  From the Earth to the Moon\n </strong>\n is as uncanny in its accuracy and as filled with authentic detail and startling immediacy as Verneâ€™s timeless masterpieces\n <strong>\n  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Around the World in Eighty Days.\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13212'),
(18361, 'From the Earth to the Moon', 'Jules Verne; Lowell Bair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Novel by Jules Verne, published as De la Terre a la Lune (1865) and also published as The Baltimore Gun Club and The American Gun Club. Although the novel was subtitled Trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes ("Direct Passage in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes"), the actual journey to the Moon was depicted in the book''s sequel, Autour de la Lune (1870; Round the Moon). From the Earth to the Moon concerns a group of obsessive American Civil War veterans, members of the Baltimore Gun Club, who conceive the idea of creating an enormous cannon in order to shoot a "space-bullet" to the Moon from a site in Florida. -- __\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verneâ€™s prophetic novel of manâ€™s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicaneâ€™s adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a â€œmannedâ€ flight, one manâ€™s dream turns into an international space race.\n</p>\n<p>\n A story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination,\n <strong>\n  From the Earth to the Moon\n </strong>\n is as uncanny in its accuracy and as filled with authentic detail and startling immediacy as Verneâ€™s timeless masterpieces\n <strong>\n  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea\n </strong>\n and\n <strong>\n  Around the World in Eighty Days.\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20597'),
(18362, 'From This Moment On', 'Shania Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From bestselling and award-winning country/pop star Shania Twain, an in-depth look at her hard-scrabble childhood and her rise to worldwide fame.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1266'),
(18363, 'From This Moment On', 'Shania Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From bestselling and award-winning country/pop star Shania Twain, an in-depth look at her hard-scrabble childhood and her rise to worldwide fame.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13104'),
(18364, 'From This Moment On', 'Shania Twain', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n From bestselling and award-winning country/pop star Shania Twain, an in-depth look at her hard-scrabble childhood and her rise to worldwide fame.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23574'),
(18365, 'From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor', 'Jerry Della Femina &amp; Charles Sopkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œBrilliant. . .Best enjoyed after a three-martini lunch.â€ â€“GQ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhen there was some debate about whether something was accurate or not, Jerry said ''You''re not even close. It was so much worse than what you''re seeing on the show.''"\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Matthew Weiner, creator and executive producer of\n  <em>\n   Mad Men (GQ)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReads like the transcript of a tape made at a bar or cocktail party with the recorder propped up next to the raconteur at the center of the crowd.â€ â€“_Salon_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe ''Mad Men'' of this book were not mad at all. They were clever and articulate proponents of the American Dream. The book evokes a long-lost era of American self-confidence and optimism, and helps explain how America became a cultural icon.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Maurice Saatchi, co-founder of Saatchi &amp; Saatchi and M&amp;C Saatchi\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vividly reminiscent of the goings-on at Sterling Cooper\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  the late nights, the three-martini lunches, the sex on couches, and, of course, the actual work of plugging products\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  this is the story of what Madison Avenue was really like in the â€™60s. A worldwide bestseller when first published in 1970, this frank, irreverent, and hilarious memoir is a one-of-a-kind cult classic.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4440'),
(18366, 'From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor', 'Jerry Della Femina &amp; Charles Sopkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œBrilliant. . .Best enjoyed after a three-martini lunch.â€ â€“GQ (UK)\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œWhen there was some debate about whether something was accurate or not, Jerry said ''You''re not even close. It was so much worse than what you''re seeing on the show.''"\n </p>\n <p>\n  --Matthew Weiner, creator and executive producer of\n  <em>\n   Mad Men (GQ)\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œReads like the transcript of a tape made at a bar or cocktail party with the recorder propped up next to the raconteur at the center of the crowd.â€ â€“_Salon_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThe ''Mad Men'' of this book were not mad at all. They were clever and articulate proponents of the American Dream. The book evokes a long-lost era of American self-confidence and optimism, and helps explain how America became a cultural icon.â€\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Maurice Saatchi, co-founder of Saatchi &amp; Saatchi and M&amp;C Saatchi\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Vividly reminiscent of the goings-on at Sterling Cooper\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  the late nights, the three-martini lunches, the sex on couches, and, of course, the actual work of plugging products\n  <strong>\n   â€”\n  </strong>\n  this is the story of what Madison Avenue was really like in the â€™60s. A worldwide bestseller when first published in 1970, this frank, irreverent, and hilarious memoir is a one-of-a-kind cult classic.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9618'),
(18367, 'Frontier Courtship', 'Valerie Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n She had made a solemn promise to see her younger sister to safety in California. But the endless journey across the frontier was proving a heartbreaking test of courage and endurance for Faith Beal. All she had to sustain her was her steadfast belief in a loving Godâ€” and the guiding hand of a stranger who truly seemed heaven-sent.â€¦and LoveConnell McClain was her selfless guardian as their wagon train slowly made its way west. And as they shared the dangers of the trailâ€”and the closeness of a covered wagonâ€”Faith felt the first tender stirrings of love for this roughhewn yet caring man. But would the secrets that seemed to haunt him threaten their growing feelings for one another?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/423'),
(18368, 'Frontier Courtship', 'Valerie Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n She had made a solemn promise to see her younger sister to safety in California. But the endless journey across the frontier was proving a heartbreaking test of courage and endurance for Faith Beal. All she had to sustain her was her steadfast belief in a loving Godâ€” and the guiding hand of a stranger who truly seemed heaven-sent.â€¦and LoveConnell McClain was her selfless guardian as their wagon train slowly made its way west. And as they shared the dangers of the trailâ€”and the closeness of a covered wagonâ€”Faith felt the first tender stirrings of love for this roughhewn yet caring man. But would the secrets that seemed to haunt him threaten their growing feelings for one another?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10126'),
(18369, 'Frontier Courtship', 'Valerie Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n She had made a solemn promise to see her younger sister to safety in California. But the endless journey across the frontier was proving a heartbreaking test of courage and endurance for Faith Beal. All she had to sustain her was her steadfast belief in a loving Godâ€” and the guiding hand of a stranger who truly seemed heaven-sent.â€¦and LoveConnell McClain was her selfless guardian as their wagon train slowly made its way west. And as they shared the dangers of the trailâ€”and the closeness of a covered wagonâ€”Faith felt the first tender stirrings of love for this roughhewn yet caring man. But would the secrets that seemed to haunt him threaten their growing feelings for one another?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24507'),
(18370, 'Frontier Fury', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A covert airdrop lands Mack Bolan inside the brutal northern Pakistan border territory. From deep within a terrorist cell an informant has leaked crucial information to Stony Man Farm. He knows the location of two of the highest-ranking members of al Qaeda. They are the most wanted men in the world, and they''ve spent years dodging American troops and plotting further attacks worldwide.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Bolan is in hostile territory on a mission to eliminate men who will stop at nothing in pursuit of vengeance. And he faces government troops determined to protect the terrorists. With time running out and the enemy closing in, the Executioner must do what no one else has--settle the score.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5903'),
(18371, 'Frontier Fury', 'Don Pendleton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A covert airdrop lands Mack Bolan inside the brutal northern Pakistan border territory. From deep within a terrorist cell an informant has leaked crucial information to Stony Man Farm. He knows the location of two of the highest-ranking members of al Qaeda. They are the most wanted men in the world, and they''ve spent years dodging American troops and plotting further attacks worldwide.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Bolan is in hostile territory on a mission to eliminate men who will stop at nothing in pursuit of vengeance. And he faces government troops determined to protect the terrorists. With time running out and the enemy closing in, the Executioner must do what no one else has--settle the score.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11914'),
(18372, 'Frost at Christmas', 'R. D. Wingfield', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n DETECTIVE INSPECTOR JACK FROST\n <br />\n Jack Frost, Denton Division, is not beloved by his superiors. In fact, he''s something of a pain in the brass: unkempt and unruly, with a taste for crude humor and a tendency to cut corners. They''d like nothing better than to bounce him from the department. The only problem is, Frost''s the one D.I. who, by hook or by crook, always seems to fmd a way to get the job done.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ten days to Christmas, and Jack Frost is in no mood to celebrate. Once Frost takes reluctant charge of a district-wide search for a missing child, his commanding officer, Divisional Commander Mullett, orders him to interview a local crank who fancies herself a psychic. To make matters worse, he''s been assigned a new sidekick for the investigation: the Chief Constable''s nephew, Clive Barnard--one name Frost wouldn''t mind seeing on a missing persons report. But Barnard isn''t about to disappear, so the inspector will have to find the girl despite him, in his own unique fashion. When the crank''s tip leads to a long-buried corpse, Frost finds himself embroiled in an old unsolved case better left untouched. But Frost never could leave the dirt alone, even if it means putting his career--and his life--in jeopardy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1984'),
(18373, 'Frost at Christmas', 'R. D. Wingfield', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n DETECTIVE INSPECTOR JACK FROST\n <br />\n Jack Frost, Denton Division, is not beloved by his superiors. In fact, he''s something of a pain in the brass: unkempt and unruly, with a taste for crude humor and a tendency to cut corners. They''d like nothing better than to bounce him from the department. The only problem is, Frost''s the one D.I. who, by hook or by crook, always seems to fmd a way to get the job done.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ten days to Christmas, and Jack Frost is in no mood to celebrate. Once Frost takes reluctant charge of a district-wide search for a missing child, his commanding officer, Divisional Commander Mullett, orders him to interview a local crank who fancies herself a psychic. To make matters worse, he''s been assigned a new sidekick for the investigation: the Chief Constable''s nephew, Clive Barnard--one name Frost wouldn''t mind seeing on a missing persons report. But Barnard isn''t about to disappear, so the inspector will have to find the girl despite him, in his own unique fashion. When the crank''s tip leads to a long-buried corpse, Frost finds himself embroiled in an old unsolved case better left untouched. But Frost never could leave the dirt alone, even if it means putting his career--and his life--in jeopardy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13464'),
(18374, 'Frost Moon', 'Anthony Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In an alternate Atlanta where magic is practiced openly, where witches sip coffee at local cafes, shapeshifters party at urban clubs, vampires rule the southern night like gangsters, and mysterious creatures command dark caverns beneath the city, Dakota Frost''s talents are coveted by all.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n She''s the best magical tattooist in the southeast, a Skindancer, able to bring her amazing tats to life. When a serial killer begins stalking Atlanta''s tattooed elite, the police and the  Feds seek Dakota''s help.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Can she find the killer on the dark fringe of the city''s Edgeworld?  Among its powerful outcasts and tortured loners, what kind of  enemies and allies will she attract?  Will they see her as an invader, as a seducer, as an unexpected champion ... or as delicious prey?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n FROST MOON is Book One of the SKINDANCER fantasy series by debut author Anthony Francis. Filled with unforgettable characters, spine-tingling action, kinky rebellion and edgy love, FROST MOON is classic storytelling at its best, and Dakota Frost is an irresistible new star of fantasy fiction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anthony Francis is a computer scientist who works at the ''Search Engine That Starts With A G''. By day he studies human and other minds to design intelligent machines and emotional robots; by night he writes fiction and draws comic books. He received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Georgia Tech.  He lives in San Jose with his wife and cats but his heart will always belong in Atlanta.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7492'),
(18375, 'Frost Moon', 'Anthony Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In an alternate Atlanta where magic is practiced openly, where witches sip coffee at local cafes, shapeshifters party at urban clubs, vampires rule the southern night like gangsters, and mysterious creatures command dark caverns beneath the city, Dakota Frost''s talents are coveted by all.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n She''s the best magical tattooist in the southeast, a Skindancer, able to bring her amazing tats to life. When a serial killer begins stalking Atlanta''s tattooed elite, the police and the  Feds seek Dakota''s help.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Can she find the killer on the dark fringe of the city''s Edgeworld?  Among its powerful outcasts and tortured loners, what kind of  enemies and allies will she attract?  Will they see her as an invader, as a seducer, as an unexpected champion ... or as delicious prey?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n FROST MOON is Book One of the SKINDANCER fantasy series by debut author Anthony Francis. Filled with unforgettable characters, spine-tingling action, kinky rebellion and edgy love, FROST MOON is classic storytelling at its best, and Dakota Frost is an irresistible new star of fantasy fiction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anthony Francis is a computer scientist who works at the ''Search Engine That Starts With A G''. By day he studies human and other minds to design intelligent machines and emotional robots; by night he writes fiction and draws comic books. He received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Georgia Tech.  He lives in San Jose with his wife and cats but his heart will always belong in Atlanta.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9772'),
(18376, 'Frost Moon', 'Anthony Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In an alternate Atlanta where magic is practiced openly, where witches sip coffee at local cafes, shapeshifters party at urban clubs, vampires rule the southern night like gangsters, and mysterious creatures command dark caverns beneath the city, Dakota Frost''s talents are coveted by all. She''s the best magical tattooist in the southeast, a Skindancer, able to bring her amazing tats to life. When a serial killer begins stalking Atlanta''s tattooed elite, the police and the Feds seek Dakota''s help. Can she find the killer on the dark fringe of the city''s Edgeworld? Among its powerful outcasts and tortured loners, what kind of enemies and allies will she attract? Will they see her as an invader, as a seducer, as an unexpected champion ... or as delicious prey? FROST MOON is Book One of the SKINDANCER fantasy series by debut author Anthony Francis. Filled with unforgettable characters, spine-tingling action, kinky rebellion and edgy love, FROST MOON is classic storytelling at its best, and Dakota Frost is an irresistible new star of fantasy fiction. Anthony Francis is a computer scientist who works at the ''Search Engine That Starts With A G''. By day he studies human and other minds to design intelligent machines and emotional robots; by night he writes fiction and draws comic books. He received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Georgia Tech. He lives in San Jose with his wife and cats but his heart will always belong in Atlanta.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16341'),
(18377, 'Frost Moon', 'Anthony Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In an alternate Atlanta where magic is practiced openly, where witches sip coffee at local cafes, shapeshifters party at urban clubs, vampires rule the southern night like gangsters, and mysterious creatures command dark caverns beneath the city, Dakota Frost''s talents are coveted by all. She''s the best magical tattooist in the southeast, a Skindancer, able to bring her amazing tats to life. When a serial killer begins stalking Atlanta''s tattooed elite, the police and the Feds seek Dakota''s help. Can she find the killer on the dark fringe of the city''s Edgeworld? Among its powerful outcasts and tortured loners, what kind of enemies and allies will she attract? Will they see her as an invader, as a seducer, as an unexpected champion ... or as delicious prey? FROST MOON is Book One of the SKINDANCER fantasy series by debut author Anthony Francis. Filled with unforgettable characters, spine-tingling action, kinky rebellion and edgy love, FROST MOON is classic storytelling at its best, and Dakota Frost is an irresistible new star of fantasy fiction. Anthony Francis is a computer scientist who works at the ''Search Engine That Starts With A G''. By day he studies human and other minds to design intelligent machines and emotional robots; by night he writes fiction and draws comic books. He received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Georgia Tech. He lives in San Jose with his wife and cats but his heart will always belong in Atlanta.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26419'),
(18378, 'Frostbite: A Werewolf Tale', 'David Wellington', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For Cheyenne Clark, there''s a bad moon on the rise . . . There''s one sound a woman doesn''t want to hear when she''s lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl. When a strange wolf''s teeth slash Cheyenne''s ankle to the bone, her old life ends, and she becomes the very monster that has haunted her nightmares for years. Worse, the only one who can understand what Chey has become is the man-or wolf-who''s doomed her to this fate. He also wants to chop her head off with an axe. Yet as the line between human and beast blurs, so too does the distinction between hunter and hunted . . . for Chey is more than just the victim she appears to be. But once she''s within killing range, she may find that-even for a werewolf-it''s not always easy to go for the jugular.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6223'),
(18379, 'Frostbite: A Werewolf Tale', 'David Wellington', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For Cheyenne Clark, there''s a bad moon on the rise . . . There''s one sound a woman doesn''t want to hear when she''s lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl. When a strange wolf''s teeth slash Cheyenne''s ankle to the bone, her old life ends, and she becomes the very monster that has haunted her nightmares for years. Worse, the only one who can understand what Chey has become is the man-or wolf-who''s doomed her to this fate. He also wants to chop her head off with an axe. Yet as the line between human and beast blurs, so too does the distinction between hunter and hunted . . . for Chey is more than just the victim she appears to be. But once she''s within killing range, she may find that-even for a werewolf-it''s not always easy to go for the jugular.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17896'),
(18380, 'Frostbite: A Werewolf Tale', 'David Wellington', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For Cheyenne Clark, there''s a bad moon on the rise . . . There''s one sound a woman doesn''t want to hear when she''s lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl. When a strange wolf''s teeth slash Cheyenne''s ankle to the bone, her old life ends, and she becomes the very monster that has haunted her nightmares for years. Worse, the only one who can understand what Chey has become is the man-or wolf-who''s doomed her to this fate. He also wants to chop her head off with an axe. Yet as the line between human and beast blurs, so too does the distinction between hunter and hunted . . . for Chey is more than just the victim she appears to be. But once she''s within killing range, she may find that-even for a werewolf-it''s not always easy to go for the jugular.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27434');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(18381, 'The Frozen Rabbi', 'Steve Stern', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n And what happens when Bernie Karp, the impressionable fifteen-year-old son of the couple in whose home the rabbi lies frozen, inadvertently thaws out the ancient man? Such are the questions raised in this wickedly funny and ingenious novel by author Steve Stern, who, according to the "Washington Post Book World," belongs in the company of such writers as Stanley Elkin, Cynthia Ozick, Michael Chabon, Mark Helprin, and Philip Roth, all of them "innovative and restless practitioners of contemporary American-Jewish fantasy." When the rabbi comes fully and mischievously to life, Bernie finds himself on an unexpected odyssey to understand his heritage (Jewish), his role in life (nebbish hero), and his destiny (to ensure the rabbi''s future). and the reader enters the lives of the people who struggled to transport the holy man''s block of ice, surviving pogroms, a transatlantic journey (in steerage, of course), an ice-house fire in Manhattan''s Lower East Side, and finally, a train trip to the city on the Mississippi. An epic novel in the spirit of Michael Chabon''s "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," Steve Stern''s "The Frozen Rabbi" is a wildly entertaining yet deeply thoughtful look at the burdens inherent in handing down traditions from one generation to the next.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1004'),
(18382, 'The Frozen Rabbi', 'Steve Stern', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n And what happens when Bernie Karp, the impressionable fifteen-year-old son of the couple in whose home the rabbi lies frozen, inadvertently thaws out the ancient man? Such are the questions raised in this wickedly funny and ingenious novel by author Steve Stern, who, according to the "Washington Post Book World," belongs in the company of such writers as Stanley Elkin, Cynthia Ozick, Michael Chabon, Mark Helprin, and Philip Roth, all of them "innovative and restless practitioners of contemporary American-Jewish fantasy." When the rabbi comes fully and mischievously to life, Bernie finds himself on an unexpected odyssey to understand his heritage (Jewish), his role in life (nebbish hero), and his destiny (to ensure the rabbi''s future). and the reader enters the lives of the people who struggled to transport the holy man''s block of ice, surviving pogroms, a transatlantic journey (in steerage, of course), an ice-house fire in Manhattan''s Lower East Side, and finally, a train trip to the city on the Mississippi. An epic novel in the spirit of Michael Chabon''s "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," Steve Stern''s "The Frozen Rabbi" is a wildly entertaining yet deeply thoughtful look at the burdens inherent in handing down traditions from one generation to the next.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12907'),
(18383, 'The Frozen Rabbi', 'Steve Stern', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: And what happens when Bernie Karp, the impressionable fifteen-year-old son of the couple in whose home the rabbi lies frozen, inadvertently thaws out the ancient man? Such are the questions raised in this wickedly funny and ingenious novel by author Steve Stern, who, according to the "Washington Post Book World," belongs in the company of such writers as Stanley Elkin, Cynthia Ozick, Michael Chabon, Mark Helprin, and Philip Roth, all of them "innovative and restless practitioners of contemporary American-Jewish fantasy." When the rabbi comes fully and mischievously to life, Bernie finds himself on an unexpected odyssey to understand his heritage (Jewish), his role in life (nebbish hero), and his destiny (to ensure the rabbi''s future). and the reader enters the lives of the people who struggled to transport the holy man''s block of ice, surviving pogroms, a transatlantic journey (in steerage, of course), an ice-house fire in Manhattan''s Lower East Side, and finally, a train trip to the city on the Mississippi. An epic novel in the spirit of Michael Chabon''s "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," Steve Stern''s "The Frozen Rabbi" is a wildly entertaining yet deeply thoughtful look at the burdens inherent in handing down traditions from one generation to the next.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23975'),
(18384, 'Fry: A Memoir', 'Stephen Fry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry''s autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Now he is not just a multi-award-winning comedian and actor, but also an author, director and presenter. In January 2010, he was awarded the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards. Much loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. This dazzling memoir promises to be a courageously frank, honest and poignant read. It will detail some of the most turbulent and least well known years of his life with writing that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you and, above all, surprise you.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1176'),
(18385, 'Fry: A Memoir', 'Stephen Fry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry''s autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Now he is not just a multi-award-winning comedian and actor, but also an author, director and presenter. In January 2010, he was awarded the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards. Much loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. This dazzling memoir promises to be a courageously frank, honest and poignant read. It will detail some of the most turbulent and least well known years of his life with writing that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you and, above all, surprise you.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9541'),
(18386, 'Fry: A Memoir', 'Stephen Fry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry''s autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Now he is not just a multi-award-winning comedian and actor, but also an author, director and presenter. In January 2010, he was awarded the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards. Much loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. This dazzling memoir promises to be a courageously frank, honest and poignant read. It will detail some of the most turbulent and least well known years of his life with writing that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you and, above all, surprise you.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23779'),
(18387, 'Fuckin&#39; Lie Down Already', 'Tom Piccirilli', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Clay was an honest New York City cop driven to bring down the mob and make his city a little safer, even when it seemed like nothing he did made any difference. He always played by the rules until a two-bit junkie hit man destroyed his family and left him for dead. But Clay won''t let himself lie down until he gets one last thing: revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22873'),
(18388, 'Fugitive Pieces', 'Anne Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry. With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption.As Michaels follows Jakob across two continents, she lets us witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss. Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work, a book that should not so much be read as it should be surrendered to.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7640'),
(18389, 'Fugitive Pieces', 'Anne Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry. With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption.As Michaels follows Jakob across two continents, she lets us witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss. Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work, a book that should not so much be read as it should be surrendered to.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11395'),
(18390, 'Fugitive pieces', 'Anne Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry. With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption.As Michaels follows Jakob across two continents, she lets us witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss. Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work, a book that should not so much be read as it should be surrendered to.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16380'),
(18391, 'Fugitive pieces', 'Anne Michaels', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry. With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption.As Michaels follows Jakob across two continents, she lets us witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss. Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work, a book that should not so much be read as it should be surrendered to.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26382'),
(18392, 'A Fugitive Truth: An Emma Fielding Mystery', 'Dana Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The past''s blood stains the present The opportunity of a lifetime awaits archaeologist Emma Fielding in the Berkshire foothills of Western Massachusetts: the chance to study the eighteenth-century diary of Margaret Chandler, the accused witch and murderess whose home Emma excavated only months before. However, the three other Shrewsbury Foundation fellows she must share the premises with are a disturbingly odd bunch, and before too long one of them is dead. But Emma can find no solace in the bleak beauty of the surrounding wilderness, for there are dark secrets encoded in Madam Chandler''s writings, and shocking parallels between an ancient slaying and the strange, brutal demise of her colleague. When the killer strikes again, Emma realizes her own life is at stake. And suddenly there is no choice left: she is driven to investigate bloody crimes past and present -- before her own death becomes a footnote in a chilling, three-centuries-old story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6500'),
(18393, 'A Fugitive Truth: An Emma Fielding Mystery', 'Dana Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The past''s blood stains the present The opportunity of a lifetime awaits archaeologist Emma Fielding in the Berkshire foothills of Western Massachusetts: the chance to study the eighteenth-century diary of Margaret Chandler, the accused witch and murderess whose home Emma excavated only months before. However, the three other Shrewsbury Foundation fellows she must share the premises with are a disturbingly odd bunch, and before too long one of them is dead. But Emma can find no solace in the bleak beauty of the surrounding wilderness, for there are dark secrets encoded in Madam Chandler''s writings, and shocking parallels between an ancient slaying and the strange, brutal demise of her colleague. When the killer strikes again, Emma realizes her own life is at stake. And suddenly there is no choice left: she is driven to investigate bloody crimes past and present -- before her own death becomes a footnote in a chilling, three-centuries-old story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8843'),
(18394, 'A Fugitive Truth: An Emma Fielding Mystery', 'Dana Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The past''s blood stains the present The opportunity of a lifetime awaits archaeologist Emma Fielding in the Berkshire foothills of Western Massachusetts: the chance to study the eighteenth-century diary of Margaret Chandler, the accused witch and murderess whose home Emma excavated only months before. However, the three other Shrewsbury Foundation fellows she must share the premises with are a disturbingly odd bunch, and before too long one of them is dead. But Emma can find no solace in the bleak beauty of the surrounding wilderness, for there are dark secrets encoded in Madam Chandler''s writings, and shocking parallels between an ancient slaying and the strange, brutal demise of her colleague. When the killer strikes again, Emma realizes her own life is at stake. And suddenly there is no choice left: she is driven to investigate bloody crimes past and present -- before her own death becomes a footnote in a chilling, three-centuries-old story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17471'),
(18395, 'A Fugitive Truth: An Emma Fielding Mystery', 'Dana Cameron', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The past''s blood stains the present The opportunity of a lifetime awaits archaeologist Emma Fielding in the Berkshire foothills of Western Massachusetts: the chance to study the eighteenth-century diary of Margaret Chandler, the accused witch and murderess whose home Emma excavated only months before. However, the three other Shrewsbury Foundation fellows she must share the premises with are a disturbingly odd bunch, and before too long one of them is dead. But Emma can find no solace in the bleak beauty of the surrounding wilderness, for there are dark secrets encoded in Madam Chandler''s writings, and shocking parallels between an ancient slaying and the strange, brutal demise of her colleague. When the killer strikes again, Emma realizes her own life is at stake. And suddenly there is no choice left: she is driven to investigate bloody crimes past and present -- before her own death becomes a footnote in a chilling, three-centuries-old story.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27150'),
(18396, 'Fugitives &amp; Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Want to know where Chuck Palahniukâ€™s tonsils currently reside?Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets?Curious about Chuckâ€™s debut in an MTV music video?What goes on at the Scum Center?How do you get to the Apocalypse CafÃ©?In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers, and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of Americaâ€™s â€œfugitives and refugees.â€ Get to know these folks, the â€œmost cracked of the crackpots,â€ as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise believe actually exist. No other travel guide will give you this kind of access to â€œa little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly, sincere, fascinating people who maybe shouldâ€™ve kept their mouths shut.â€Here are strange personal museums, weird annual events, and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingersâ€™ sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabeâ€™s famous 1940s Self-Cleaning House. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa Rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland zoo. Oh, the list goes on and on.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of America''s ''fugitives and refugees.'' Get to know these folks, the "most cracked of the crackpots,'' as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise actually believe actually exist. No other travel guide will give you this kind of access to "a little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly sincere, fascinating people who maybe should''ve kept their mouths shut."Here are strange personal museums, wierd annual events and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingers'' sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabe''s famous 1940''s Self-cleaning house. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland Zoo.Oh, the list goes on and on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25976'),
(18397, 'Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of America''s ''fugitives and refugees.'' Get to know these folks, the "most cracked of the crackpots,'' as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise actually believe actually exist. No other travel guide will give you this kind of access to "a little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly sincere, fascinating people who maybe should''ve kept their mouths shut."Here are strange personal museums, wierd annual events and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingers'' sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabe''s famous 1940''s Self-cleaning house. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland Zoo.Oh, the list goes on and on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6640'),
(18398, 'Fugitives and refugees: a walk in Portland, Oregon', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of America''s ''fugitives and refugees.'' Get to know these folks, the "most cracked of the crackpots,'' as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise actually believe actually exist. No other travel guide will give you this kind of access to "a little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly sincere, fascinating people who maybe should''ve kept their mouths shut."Here are strange personal museums, wierd annual events and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingers'' sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabe''s famous 1940''s Self-cleaning house. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland Zoo.Oh, the list goes on and on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14366'),
(18399, 'Fugitives and refugees: a walk in Portland, Oregon', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of America''s ''fugitives and refugees.'' Get to know these folks, the "most cracked of the crackpots,'' as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise actually believe actually exist. No other travel guide will give you this kind of access to "a little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly sincere, fascinating people who maybe should''ve kept their mouths shut."Here are strange personal museums, wierd annual events and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingers'' sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabe''s famous 1940''s Self-cleaning house. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland Zoo.Oh, the list goes on and on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17384'),
(18400, 'Fugitives and refugees: a walk in Portland, Oregon', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of America''s ''fugitives and refugees.'' Get to know these folks, the "most cracked of the crackpots,'' as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise actually believe actually exist. No other travel guide will give you this kind of access to "a little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly sincere, fascinating people who maybe should''ve kept their mouths shut."Here are strange personal museums, wierd annual events and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingers'' sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabe''s famous 1940''s Self-cleaning house. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland Zoo.Oh, the list goes on and on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26967'),
(18401, 'Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk through Portland, Oregon', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk''s tonsils currently reside? Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets? Curious about Chuck''s debut in an MTV music video? What goes on at the Scum Center? How do you get to the Apocalypse Caf-? In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers, and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of America''s "fugitives and refugees." Get to know these folks, the "most cracked of the crackpots," as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise believe actually exist. No other travel guide will give you this kind of access to "a little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly, sincere, fascinating people who maybe should''ve kept their mouths shut."Here are strange personal museums, weird annual events, and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingers'' sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabe''s famous 1940s Self-Cleaning House. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa Rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland zoo. Oh, the list goes on and on.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10985'),
(18402, 'Full Blast', 'Janet Evanovich &amp; Charlotte Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s never a dull moment for the residents of Beaumont, South Carolina. Lately, a heat wave''s spiked the mercury-and everyone''s sex drive! These days, when Jamie runs into Max, it''s all she can do not to tear his clothes off-and the feeling is mutual. But trouble seems to follow Max like moths to a flame, and Jamie suspects he''s all wrong for her. Meanwhile, the lingerie shop is having a sale on edible underwear, while the bakery''s selling aphrodisiac-laced brownies and x-rated birthday cakes. Even Jamie''s dog, Fleas, is dodging passes from the amorous French poodle next door! But when someone starts bumping off some of the town''s more annoying citizens, all clues lead straight to the new personals section in Jamie''s newspaper. Pretty soon, things are getting hot and heavy, as Max and Jamie start uncovering secrets-and undressing each other...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4614'),
(18403, 'Full Bloom', 'Janet Evanovich &amp; Charlotte Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dear Reader, The temperature''s on "sizzle" again in Beaumont, South Carolina, where peach trees are in season and ripe for the picking. So is its newest entrepreneur, Annie Fortenberry, who has inherited her grandmother''s B&amp;B (and its eccentric handyman Erdle Thorney). According to a local psychic she also inherited a spirit from its glory days as a brothel-not the kind of publicity the Peach Tree Bed &amp; Breakfast needs if it''s hosting millionaire Max Holt''s upcoming wedding! If rumors of a naughty, prank-playing ghost aren''t stressful enough, a mysterious man has arrived with an eye on Annie and her master suite. Wes Bridges is all leather and denim, sporting a two-day beard, straddling a Harley, and sending the B&amp;B''s testosterone level through the roof. Annie''s cool demeanor may be dropping as fast as Wes''s jeans, but leave it to her missing ex-husband to dampen the passion! Turns out someone has done him in, and all evidence points to Annie! Wrapped up in a murder plot, Annie must find the killer, save her own neck, and get back to where she was-wrapped up in Wes''s strong loving arms...We guarantee that you''re going to have as much fun reading Full Bloom as we had writing it! (Even if we were surprised by the ending!) And you won''t want to miss the hair-raising shenanigans when Fleas, the hound dog, meets the most cantankerous, snooty, bad-tempered, twenty-two pound orange cat....Janet and Charlotte\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4615'),
(18404, 'Full Circle', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Coming of age during the turbulent 1960s, Tana Roberts dreams of having a successful career and is willing to sacrifice everything to achieve her goal, only to discover that she can have a life that includes a career, love, and peace of mind. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 1960s. Kennedy. Martin Luther King. Civil rights. Viet Nam. TanaRoberts comes of age in this turbulent decade, and begins a journey that willlead her from New York to the South during the heat of racial unrest. Athoroughly modern young woman, she yearns for a career and is willing tosacrifice everything to get it. And it''s only much later that Tana discoversthat she can have it all. Career. Love. And peace of mind. As she comes ofage, at last, and comes full circle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6373'),
(18405, 'Full Circle', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Coming of age during the turbulent 1960s, Tana Roberts dreams of having a successful career and is willing to sacrifice everything to achieve her goal, only to discover that she can have a life that includes a career, love, and peace of mind. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 1960s. Kennedy. Martin Luther King. Civil rights. Viet Nam. TanaRoberts comes of age in this turbulent decade, and begins a journey that willlead her from New York to the South during the heat of racial unrest. Athoroughly modern young woman, she yearns for a career and is willing tosacrifice everything to get it. And it''s only much later that Tana discoversthat she can have it all. Career. Love. And peace of mind. As she comes ofage, at last, and comes full circle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12875'),
(18406, 'Full circle', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Coming of age during the turbulent 1960s, Tana Roberts dreams of having a successful career and is willing to sacrifice everything to achieve her goal, only to discover that she can have a life that includes a career, love, and peace of mind. Reissue.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 1960s. Kennedy. Martin Luther King. Civil rights. Viet Nam. TanaRoberts comes of age in this turbulent decade, and begins a journey that willlead her from New York to the South during the heat of racial unrest. Athoroughly modern young woman, she yearns for a career and is willing tosacrifice everything to get it. And it''s only much later that Tana discoversthat she can have it all. Career. Love. And peace of mind. As she comes ofage, at last, and comes full circle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17588'),
(18407, 'Full Dark House', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s no surprise to find plenty of gothic touches in British author Fowler''s debut mystery, the first in a series, given the renown of his horror fiction (_Rune_, etc.). When 80-year-old police detective Arthur Bryant gets blown up in an explosion at the North London Peculiar Crimes Unit headquarters, his longtime partner, John May, investigates his death. After some long, lecturing dialogue and an early chapter told from the viewpoint of a character who turns out to be of no consequence, the author reaches the core of his storyâ€”a flashback to the duo''s first case during the London Blitz. In late 1940, the Palace Theatre is staging a production\n <em>\n  of Orpheus in the Underworld\n </em>\n when the body of a dancer is found, sans feet. From this point forward, the intrigues of the theater murders, which decimate the cast, create considerable drama. The potency of Greek myth, conjured up by the opera being staged, is skillfully played out in the detectives'' theories about the killer. The dynamic between May and Bryant makes for compelling reading, while the hubris of a police underling, Sidney Biddle, provides additional tension. Both past and present plots reach satisfying resolutions. Now that Fowler has set the stage, no doubt his second Bryant and May mystery will get off to a better start.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“This mystery features the impending retirement of a Scotland Yard detective and the death of another. When Arthur Bryant is apparently blown up, his erstwhile partner, John May, begins reflecting on their first case together more than 60 years earlier. May, a raw recruit of 19, and Bryant, a 23-year-old detective, became the core of the Peculiar Crimes Unit, created to handle cases that were too important to ignore, yet that somehow seemed disproportionately insignificant in the face of the hundreds of civilians killed each night during the Blitz. Both men had been hurried through training and were suddenly faced with the strange case of the Palace Phantom, a killer victimizing the cast in an elaborate production of Offenbach''s\n <em>\n  Orpheus in the Underworld\n </em>\n . May was both intrigued by and dismayed at Bryant''s methods and seeming flights of fancy. He used everything from crime-scene forensics to spiritualists to help him build his case. Fowler skillfully shifts the action between 1940 and the 21st century, building suspense and growing awareness as each case comes to its respective climax. Not surprisingly, they are connected. The details of wartime London and the destruction and deprivation of daily life are vividly conveyed. Today''s teens will identify with the young lives so drastically affected by the war while following the clues, and red herrings, to a satisfactory conclusion._â€“Susan H. Woodcock, Fairfax County Public Library, Chantilly, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6812'),
(18408, 'Full Dark House', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s no surprise to find plenty of gothic touches in British author Fowler''s debut mystery, the first in a series, given the renown of his horror fiction (_Rune_, etc.). When 80-year-old police detective Arthur Bryant gets blown up in an explosion at the North London Peculiar Crimes Unit headquarters, his longtime partner, John May, investigates his death. After some long, lecturing dialogue and an early chapter told from the viewpoint of a character who turns out to be of no consequence, the author reaches the core of his storyâ€”a flashback to the duo''s first case during the London Blitz. In late 1940, the Palace Theatre is staging a production\n <em>\n  of Orpheus in the Underworld\n </em>\n when the body of a dancer is found, sans feet. From this point forward, the intrigues of the theater murders, which decimate the cast, create considerable drama. The potency of Greek myth, conjured up by the opera being staged, is skillfully played out in the detectives'' theories about the killer. The dynamic between May and Bryant makes for compelling reading, while the hubris of a police underling, Sidney Biddle, provides additional tension. Both past and present plots reach satisfying resolutions. Now that Fowler has set the stage, no doubt his second Bryant and May mystery will get off to a better start.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“This mystery features the impending retirement of a Scotland Yard detective and the death of another. When Arthur Bryant is apparently blown up, his erstwhile partner, John May, begins reflecting on their first case together more than 60 years earlier. May, a raw recruit of 19, and Bryant, a 23-year-old detective, became the core of the Peculiar Crimes Unit, created to handle cases that were too important to ignore, yet that somehow seemed disproportionately insignificant in the face of the hundreds of civilians killed each night during the Blitz. Both men had been hurried through training and were suddenly faced with the strange case of the Palace Phantom, a killer victimizing the cast in an elaborate production of Offenbach''s\n <em>\n  Orpheus in the Underworld\n </em>\n . May was both intrigued by and dismayed at Bryant''s methods and seeming flights of fancy. He used everything from crime-scene forensics to spiritualists to help him build his case. Fowler skillfully shifts the action between 1940 and the 21st century, building suspense and growing awareness as each case comes to its respective climax. Not surprisingly, they are connected. The details of wartime London and the destruction and deprivation of daily life are vividly conveyed. Today''s teens will identify with the young lives so drastically affected by the war while following the clues, and red herrings, to a satisfactory conclusion._â€“Susan H. Woodcock, Fairfax County Public Library, Chantilly, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9790'),
(18409, 'Full Dark House', 'Christopher Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s no surprise to find plenty of gothic touches in British author Fowler''s debut mystery, the first in a series, given the renown of his horror fiction (_Rune_, etc.). When 80-year-old police detective Arthur Bryant gets blown up in an explosion at the North London Peculiar Crimes Unit headquarters, his longtime partner, John May, investigates his death. After some long, lecturing dialogue and an early chapter told from the viewpoint of a character who turns out to be of no consequence, the author reaches the core of his storyâ€”a flashback to the duo''s first case during the London Blitz. In late 1940, the Palace Theatre is staging a production\n <em>\n  of Orpheus in the Underworld\n </em>\n when the body of a dancer is found, sans feet. From this point forward, the intrigues of the theater murders, which decimate the cast, create considerable drama. The potency of Greek myth, conjured up by the opera being staged, is skillfully played out in the detectives'' theories about the killer. The dynamic between May and Bryant makes for compelling reading, while the hubris of a police underling, Sidney Biddle, provides additional tension. Both past and present plots reach satisfying resolutions. Now that Fowler has set the stage, no doubt his second Bryant and May mystery will get off to a better start.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“This mystery features the impending retirement of a Scotland Yard detective and the death of another. When Arthur Bryant is apparently blown up, his erstwhile partner, John May, begins reflecting on their first case together more than 60 years earlier. May, a raw recruit of 19, and Bryant, a 23-year-old detective, became the core of the Peculiar Crimes Unit, created to handle cases that were too important to ignore, yet that somehow seemed disproportionately insignificant in the face of the hundreds of civilians killed each night during the Blitz. Both men had been hurried through training and were suddenly faced with the strange case of the Palace Phantom, a killer victimizing the cast in an elaborate production of Offenbach''s\n <em>\n  Orpheus in the Underworld\n </em>\n . May was both intrigued by and dismayed at Bryant''s methods and seeming flights of fancy. He used everything from crime-scene forensics to spiritualists to help him build his case. Fowler skillfully shifts the action between 1940 and the 21st century, building suspense and growing awareness as each case comes to its respective climax. Not surprisingly, they are connected. The details of wartime London and the destruction and deprivation of daily life are vividly conveyed. Today''s teens will identify with the young lives so drastically affected by the war while following the clues, and red herrings, to a satisfactory conclusion._â€“Susan H. Woodcock, Fairfax County Public Library, Chantilly, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18028'),
(18410, 'Full Dark, No Stars', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars\n </em>\n , you know youâ€™re in for a treat--that is, if your idea of a good time is spent curled up in a ball wondering why-oh-why you started reading after dark. King fans (and those who have always wanted to give him a shot) will devour this collection of campfire tales where marriages sway under the weight of pitch-black secrets, greed and guilt poison and fester, and the only thing you can count on is that "there are always worse things waiting."\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars\n </em>\n features four one-sitting yarns showcasing King at his gritty, gruesome, giddy best, so be sure to check under the bed before getting started.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Justin Cronin, Suzanne Collins, Margaret Atwood, and T.C. Boyle Review Stephen King''s\n  <em>\n   Full Dark, No Stars\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "King is Poe''s modern heir, and no writer has a richer sense of the dark rooms in the human psyche and fiction''s singular power to capture them."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fast-paced and beautifully plotted, ''Big Driver'' pulls you into Tess''s fragmented mind and holds you hostage until the story concludes."\n</p>\n<p>\n "It wouldn''t be Stephen King if somebody''s messily bleeding neck did not sprout a huge white knob. As it were."\n</p>\n<p>\n "[King''s] very ordinary-looking devil has no use for human souls, which, in these enervated times, ''have become poor and transparent things.''"\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Eerie twists of fate drive the four longish stories in King''s first collection since Just After Sunset (2008). In "1922," a farmer murders his wife to retain the family land she hopes to sell, then watches his life unravel hideously as the consequences of the killing suggest a near-supernatural revenge. "Big Driver" tells of an otherwise ordinary woman who discovers her extraordinary capacity for retribution after she is raped and left for dead. "A Good Marriage" explores the aftermath of a wife''s discovery of her milquetoast husband''s sinister secret life, while "Fair Extension," the book''s most disturbing story, follows the relationship between a man and the best friend on whom he preternaturally shifts all his bad luck and misfortune. As in Different Seasons (1982), King takes a mostly nonfantastic approach to grim themes. Now, as then, these tales show how a skilled storyteller with a good tale to tell can make unsettling fiction compulsively readable. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1103'),
(18411, 'Full Dark, No Stars', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars\n </em>\n , you know youâ€™re in for a treat--that is, if your idea of a good time is spent curled up in a ball wondering why-oh-why you started reading after dark. King fans (and those who have always wanted to give him a shot) will devour this collection of campfire tales where marriages sway under the weight of pitch-black secrets, greed and guilt poison and fester, and the only thing you can count on is that "there are always worse things waiting."\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars\n </em>\n features four one-sitting yarns showcasing King at his gritty, gruesome, giddy best, so be sure to check under the bed before getting started.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Justin Cronin, Suzanne Collins, Margaret Atwood, and T.C. Boyle Review Stephen King''s\n  <em>\n   Full Dark, No Stars\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "King is Poe''s modern heir, and no writer has a richer sense of the dark rooms in the human psyche and fiction''s singular power to capture them."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fast-paced and beautifully plotted, ''Big Driver'' pulls you into Tess''s fragmented mind and holds you hostage until the story concludes."\n</p>\n<p>\n "It wouldn''t be Stephen King if somebody''s messily bleeding neck did not sprout a huge white knob. As it were."\n</p>\n<p>\n "[King''s] very ordinary-looking devil has no use for human souls, which, in these enervated times, ''have become poor and transparent things.''"\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Eerie twists of fate drive the four longish stories in King''s first collection since Just After Sunset (2008). In "1922," a farmer murders his wife to retain the family land she hopes to sell, then watches his life unravel hideously as the consequences of the killing suggest a near-supernatural revenge. "Big Driver" tells of an otherwise ordinary woman who discovers her extraordinary capacity for retribution after she is raped and left for dead. "A Good Marriage" explores the aftermath of a wife''s discovery of her milquetoast husband''s sinister secret life, while "Fair Extension," the book''s most disturbing story, follows the relationship between a man and the best friend on whom he preternaturally shifts all his bad luck and misfortune. As in Different Seasons (1982), King takes a mostly nonfantastic approach to grim themes. Now, as then, these tales show how a skilled storyteller with a good tale to tell can make unsettling fiction compulsively readable. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9531');
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(18412, 'Full Dark, No Stars', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars\n </em>\n , you know youâ€™re in for a treat--that is, if your idea of a good time is spent curled up in a ball wondering why-oh-why you started reading after dark. King fans (and those who have always wanted to give him a shot) will devour this collection of campfire tales where marriages sway under the weight of pitch-black secrets, greed and guilt poison and fester, and the only thing you can count on is that "there are always worse things waiting."\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars\n </em>\n features four one-sitting yarns showcasing King at his gritty, gruesome, giddy best, so be sure to check under the bed before getting started.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Justin Cronin, Suzanne Collins, Margaret Atwood, and T.C. Boyle Review Stephen King''s\n  <em>\n   Full Dark, No Stars\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "King is Poe''s modern heir, and no writer has a richer sense of the dark rooms in the human psyche and fiction''s singular power to capture them."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fast-paced and beautifully plotted, ''Big Driver'' pulls you into Tess''s fragmented mind and holds you hostage until the story concludes."\n</p>\n<p>\n "It wouldn''t be Stephen King if somebody''s messily bleeding neck did not sprout a huge white knob. As it were."\n</p>\n<p>\n "[King''s] very ordinary-looking devil has no use for human souls, which, in these enervated times, ''have become poor and transparent things.''"\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Eerie twists of fate drive the four longish stories in King''s first collection since Just After Sunset (2008). In "1922," a farmer murders his wife to retain the family land she hopes to sell, then watches his life unravel hideously as the consequences of the killing suggest a near-supernatural revenge. "Big Driver" tells of an otherwise ordinary woman who discovers her extraordinary capacity for retribution after she is raped and left for dead. "A Good Marriage" explores the aftermath of a wife''s discovery of her milquetoast husband''s sinister secret life, while "Fair Extension," the book''s most disturbing story, follows the relationship between a man and the best friend on whom he preternaturally shifts all his bad luck and misfortune. As in Different Seasons (1982), King takes a mostly nonfantastic approach to grim themes. Now, as then, these tales show how a skilled storyteller with a good tale to tell can make unsettling fiction compulsively readable. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14425'),
(18413, 'Full Dark, No Stars', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars\n </em>\n , you know youâ€™re in for a treat--that is, if your idea of a good time is spent curled up in a ball wondering why-oh-why you started reading after dark. King fans (and those who have always wanted to give him a shot) will devour this collection of campfire tales where marriages sway under the weight of pitch-black secrets, greed and guilt poison and fester, and the only thing you can count on is that "there are always worse things waiting."\n <em>\n  Full Dark, No Stars\n </em>\n features four one-sitting yarns showcasing King at his gritty, gruesome, giddy best, so be sure to check under the bed before getting started.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: Justin Cronin, Suzanne Collins, Margaret Atwood, and T.C. Boyle Review Stephen King''s\n  <em>\n   Full Dark, No Stars\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "King is Poe''s modern heir, and no writer has a richer sense of the dark rooms in the human psyche and fiction''s singular power to capture them."\n</p>\n<p>\n "Fast-paced and beautifully plotted, ''Big Driver'' pulls you into Tess''s fragmented mind and holds you hostage until the story concludes."\n</p>\n<p>\n "It wouldn''t be Stephen King if somebody''s messily bleeding neck did not sprout a huge white knob. As it were."\n</p>\n<p>\n "[King''s] very ordinary-looking devil has no use for human souls, which, in these enervated times, ''have become poor and transparent things.''"\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Eerie twists of fate drive the four longish stories in King''s first collection since Just After Sunset (2008). In "1922," a farmer murders his wife to retain the family land she hopes to sell, then watches his life unravel hideously as the consequences of the killing suggest a near-supernatural revenge. "Big Driver" tells of an otherwise ordinary woman who discovers her extraordinary capacity for retribution after she is raped and left for dead. "A Good Marriage" explores the aftermath of a wife''s discovery of her milquetoast husband''s sinister secret life, while "Fair Extension," the book''s most disturbing story, follows the relationship between a man and the best friend on whom he preternaturally shifts all his bad luck and misfortune. As in Different Seasons (1982), King takes a mostly nonfantastic approach to grim themes. Now, as then, these tales show how a skilled storyteller with a good tale to tell can make unsettling fiction compulsively readable. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23820'),
(18414, 'Full House', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Filled with Evanovich''s trademark style and wit, Full House is romantic suspense with a twist...Her life was pleasant, proper, and predictable-- until he showed up and trouble moved in...Polo instructor Nicholas Kaharchek senses danger the minute he sees Billie Pearce. She represents everything he''s so artfully avoided. Happy in her home life, a divorced mother of two, Billie is the epitome of stability. They have nothing in common.To his horror, Nick is fascinated-- and irresistibly attracted. When Billie generously offers to share her home with Nick''s crazy cousin Deedee for a while, Nick finds himself visiting-- often. And while each is slowly seduced by the other''s charms, and both are wildly encouraged by devious Deedee, Billie and Nick find out that what they have in common is most important of all. But neither one knows that danger is lurking where they least expect it and a killer is closing in on them.Sneak peek of Visions of Sugar Plums inside!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4616'),
(18415, 'Full Scoop', 'Janet Evanovich &amp; Charlotte Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dear Reader: Mercury''s in retrograde, and folks in Beaumont, South Carolina are dealing with gossip, scandal, misunderstandings, and more secrets than ever. Â¬'' Local pediatrician MaggieÂ¬'' Farnsworth hasÂ¬'' even bigger worries. Her wild-girl past has caught up with her in the form of her ex-boyfriend, a jailbird who just flew the coop--and is bent on tracking down Maggie and her daughter. Fortunately, FBI agent Zack Madden is on hand for protection. Unfortunately, his presence is turning up the heat on an attraction Maggie simply has no time for...or does she? But Maggie and Zack aren''t the only ones getting busy: Fleas, the hound dog, is up to his old tricks--this time with Butterbean, a very allluring...goat? Jamie Swift and millionaire Max Holt have babies on the brain. And resident psychic-slash-astrologer Destiny is fighting a crush of her own. Since the town''s ice cream parlor isÂ¬'' a magnet for gossip, no one can keep a secret and the sticky situations are getting even stickier...Â¬'' It''s the wildest time yet in the town we love to write about, with the characters we can''t get enough of. So sit back, relax, and enjoy a FULL SCOOP of fun, adventure, and romance. Janet and Charlotte\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4620'),
(18416, 'Full Speed', 'Janet Evanovich &amp; Charlotte Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Dear Reader,\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Welcome to the world of Jamie Swift and Max Holt! My good friend Charlotte Hughes and I have teamed up to create a series of books featuring these two characters and they''ve taken on a life of their own! These books are not set in the same world as my Stephanie Plum novels, but what they have in common is lovable, dysfunctional characters, villains you love to hate, and a cross-eyed way of looking at life. Jamie and Max have intense chemistry-even though they drive each other crazy. Max thinks Jamie is a magnet for trouble and Jamie thinks Max is the most annoyingly sexy, mysterious man she''s ever met. She knows she should stay away from him. But boy, oh boy, do the sparks fly when they get together. Jamie is a newspaper owner from a small southern town. And in *Full Speed*, she''s after the story of a lifetime. Max Holt is right in the middle of that story, and so Jamie tracks down the millionaire playboy, forcing him to take her on as partner. What follows is a story of a corrupt minister, a gang of mobsters on the loose, a hound dog called Fleas, a wise-cracking computer genius, and lots of love in the fast lane. Not to mention plenty of steamy action between Jamie and Max.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So have fun with *Full Speed*. We''re going to sign off now and get back to creating more romantic adventures between Jamie Swift and Max Holt. Enjoy and happy reading!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Janet and Charlotte\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4621'),
(18417, 'Full Tilt', 'Janet Evanovich &amp; Charlotte Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He lives life in the fast lane and she''s along for the ride-with no brakes....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jamie Swift has one priority in quiet Beaumont, South Carolina: running the local newspaper. Romance runs second. But with the arrival of her silent partner, the notoriously mysterious and sexy Maximillian Holt, Jamie''s life gets shaken up. Max claims he''s here to give his brother-in-law a vote of confidence. A former wrestler, Frankie Fontana''s now taking his shots in the political ring. Beaumont could use a mayor with scruples, but what it gets is a crime-and what Jamie gets is a story that''s taking her for a ride on the wild side, complete with two assassins, a washed-up stripper, and an insane poacher. Between a spray of bullets and a fast getaway could it get any more romantic-or dangerous? Max and Jamie are betting their lives on a long shot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4622'),
(18418, 'Fundatia', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25638'),
(18419, 'Fundatia Renascuta', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25642'),
(18420, 'Fundatia si Imperiul', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25643'),
(18421, 'Fundatia si Pamantul', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25644'),
(18422, 'Funeral in Blue', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her haunting new Victorian novel, Anne Perry brings to rich and passionate life the city that she has made her own. Once more she shares the intimacy of London''s opulent drawing rooms and guides readers through gaslit thoroughfares that echo with hooves on cobblestones, the cries of street vendors, the shouts of newsboys reporting the headlines . . . of two beautiful women found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. One of the victims is the wife of Hester Monk''s colleague, surgeon Dr. Kristian Beck, a Viennese emigre who swiftly becomes the principal suspect. Now investigator William Monk and his wife seek evidence to save Beck from the hangman, hoping to penetrate not only the mystery of Elissa Beck''s death, but the riddle of her life. . . .From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7518'),
(18423, 'Funeral in Blue', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her haunting new Victorian novel, Anne Perry brings to rich and passionate life the city that she has made her own. Once more she shares the intimacy of London''s opulent drawing rooms and guides readers through gaslit thoroughfares that echo with hooves on cobblestones, the cries of street vendors, the shouts of newsboys reporting the headlines . . . of two beautiful women found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. One of the victims is the wife of Hester Monk''s colleague, surgeon Dr. Kristian Beck, a Viennese emigre who swiftly becomes the principal suspect. Now investigator William Monk and his wife seek evidence to save Beck from the hangman, hoping to penetrate not only the mystery of Elissa Beck''s death, but the riddle of her life. . . .From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16353'),
(18424, 'Funeral in Blue', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her haunting new Victorian novel, Anne Perry brings to rich and passionate life the city that she has made her own. Once more she shares the intimacy of London''s opulent drawing rooms and guides readers through gaslit thoroughfares that echo with hooves on cobblestones, the cries of street vendors, the shouts of newsboys reporting the headlines . . . of two beautiful women found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. One of the victims is the wife of Hester Monk''s colleague, surgeon Dr. Kristian Beck, a Viennese emigre who swiftly becomes the principal suspect. Now investigator William Monk and his wife seek evidence to save Beck from the hangman, hoping to penetrate not only the mystery of Elissa Beck''s death, but the riddle of her life. . . .From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26374'),
(18425, 'The Funhouse', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Years after leaving the carnivalï¼Œ her hated first husbandï¼Œ and   the child she could never loveï¼Œ Ellen has a new lifeï¼Œ a new husbandï¼Œ   and two beautiful childrenï¼Œ but now the carnival is coming back to   townï¼Œ and Ellen is going to have to pay for her sins. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6082'),
(18426, 'The Funhouse', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she hated and begat a child she could never love. Now Ellen has a new life, a new husband and two normal children. Memory is drowned in alcohol and prayers--neither of which will save her kids when the carnival comes back to town. A premiere release by the bestselling author of Dragon Tears.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17909'),
(18427, 'The Funhouse', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she hated and begat a child she could never love. Now Ellen has a new life, a new husband and two normal children. Memory is drowned in alcohol and prayers--neither of which will save her kids when the carnival comes back to town. A premiere release by the bestselling author of Dragon Tears.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27437'),
(18428, 'Funland', 'Richard Laymon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The resort of Boleta Bay is not the carefree place it used to be. A series of unexplained disappearances, and holiday-makers threatened by an army of leering bums, casts a shadow over summer pleasures. But now Boleda Bay is fighting back and their campaign leads them to the abandoned Funhouse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1840'),
(18429, 'Funland', 'Richard Laymon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The resort of Boleta Bay is not the carefree place it used to be. A series of unexplained disappearances, and holiday-makers threatened by an army of leering bums, casts a shadow over summer pleasures. But now Boleda Bay is fighting back and their campaign leads them to the abandoned Funhouse.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12228'),
(18430, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned', 'Michael J. Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the tradition of TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE and THE LAST LECTURE comes an inspiring book of life lessons from Michael J Fox. Michael J Fox didn t finish high school, but he has gone on to receive honorary degrees from several universities and has achieved the highest accolades for his acting, as well as his writing. In his new book, he inspires and motivates his readers to work hard, achieve the most they can and maximise their abilities - all with his trademark optimism, warmth and humour. From moving to Los Angeles fresh from Canada, without a high school degree and learning to live on a wage; to taking on roles in Family Ties and the Back to the Future movies and nearly crashing and burning; and then learning to cope first with the death of his father and then with his own diagnosis of Parkinson''s disease, MJF shares what he''s learned about life, work, love, family and happiness and everything else along the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2831'),
(18431, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned', 'Michael J. Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the tradition of TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE and THE LAST LECTURE comes an inspiring book of life lessons from Michael J Fox. Michael J Fox didn t finish high school, but he has gone on to receive honorary degrees from several universities and has achieved the highest accolades for his acting, as well as his writing. In his new book, he inspires and motivates his readers to work hard, achieve the most they can and maximise their abilities - all with his trademark optimism, warmth and humour. From moving to Los Angeles fresh from Canada, without a high school degree and learning to live on a wage; to taking on roles in Family Ties and the Back to the Future movies and nearly crashing and burning; and then learning to cope first with the death of his father and then with his own diagnosis of Parkinson''s disease, MJF shares what he''s learned about life, work, love, family and happiness and everything else along the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9778'),
(18432, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned', 'Michael J. Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the tradition of TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE and THE LAST LECTURE comes an inspiring book of life lessons from Michael J Fox. Michael J Fox didn t finish high school, but he has gone on to receive honorary degrees from several universities and has achieved the highest accolades for his acting, as well as his writing. In his new book, he inspires and motivates his readers to work hard, achieve the most they can and maximise their abilities - all with his trademark optimism, warmth and humour. From moving to Los Angeles fresh from Canada, without a high school degree and learning to live on a wage; to taking on roles in Family Ties and the Back to the Future movies and nearly crashing and burning; and then learning to cope first with the death of his father and then with his own diagnosis of Parkinson''s disease, MJF shares what he''s learned about life, work, love, family and happiness and everything else along the way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22002'),
(18433, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Your Wedding', 'Cindy K. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Associate history professor, Kari Montgomery, has carried the feelings of loss and inadequacy ever since she broke off her engagement to Geoffrey Hudson. All that changes when she looks into a pair of steel blue eyes as she attempts to make it through a rain storm the day of her cousin Emily''s wedding. But even though Kari begins to feel compelled toward him, she isn''t sure if she can love again or if she is even worthy of that love. Youth pastor Randy Steele has a sense of humor and a pair of remarkable eyes that make him fascinating to most of the women he meets. As he tries to get Kari to see her own worthiness and ability to let God heal her heart, he realizes that he also has something in his own life to heal - the relationship with his parents. But can he reach Kari and show her how wonderful life can be with God in control of their futures?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6658'),
(18434, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Your Wedding', 'Cindy K. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Associate history professor, Kari Montgomery, has carried the feelings of loss and inadequacy ever since she broke off her engagement to Geoffrey Hudson. All that changes when she looks into a pair of steel blue eyes as she attempts to make it through a rain storm the day of her cousin Emily''s wedding. But even though Kari begins to feel compelled toward him, she isn''t sure if she can love again or if she is even worthy of that love. Youth pastor Randy Steele has a sense of humor and a pair of remarkable eyes that make him fascinating to most of the women he meets. As he tries to get Kari to see her own worthiness and ability to let God heal her heart, he realizes that he also has something in his own life to heal - the relationship with his parents. But can he reach Kari and show her how wonderful life can be with God in control of their futures?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17371'),
(18435, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Your Wedding', 'Cindy K. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Associate history professor, Kari Montgomery, has carried the feelings of loss and inadequacy ever since she broke off her engagement to Geoffrey Hudson. All that changes when she looks into a pair of steel blue eyes as she attempts to make it through a rain storm the day of her cousin Emily''s wedding. But even though Kari begins to feel compelled toward him, she isn''t sure if she can love again or if she is even worthy of that love. Youth pastor Randy Steele has a sense of humor and a pair of remarkable eyes that make him fascinating to most of the women he meets. As he tries to get Kari to see her own worthiness and ability to let God heal her heart, he realizes that he also has something in his own life to heal - the relationship with his parents. But can he reach Kari and show her how wonderful life can be with God in control of their futures?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26955'),
(18436, 'Furia', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25173'),
(18437, 'Furies of Calderon', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the realm of Alera, where people bond with the furies--elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal--fifteen-year-old Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. But when his homeland erupts in chaos--when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies-- Tavi''s simple courage will turn the tides of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4523'),
(18438, 'Furies of Calderon', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the realm of Alera, where people bond with the furies--elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal--fifteen-year-old Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. But when his homeland erupts in chaos--when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies-- Tavi''s simple courage will turn the tides of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15093'),
(18439, 'Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century', 'Sam Kashner &amp; Nancy Schoenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The definitive story of Hollywood''s most famous couple   He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romanceâ€”often called "the marriage of the century"â€”was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love affair of its day.   For the first time, Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kashner and acclaimed biographer Nancy Schoenberger tell the complete story of this larger-than-life couple, showing how their romance and two marriages commanded the attention of the world. Also for the first time, in exclusive access given to the authors, Elizabeth Taylor herself gives never-revealed details and firsthand accounts of her life with Burton.   Drawing upon brand-new information and interviewsâ€”and on Burton''s private, passionate, and heartbreaking letters to Taylorâ€”Furious Love sheds new light on the movies, the sex, the scandal, the fame, the brawls, the booze, the bitter separations, and, of course, the fabled jewels. It offers an intimate glimpse into Elizabeth and Richard''s privileged world and their elite circle of friends, among them Princess Grace, Montgomery Clift, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Peter O''Toole, Michael Caine, Marlon Brando, Rex Harrison, Mike Nichols, Laurence Olivier, Robert Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, NoÃ‹l Coward, John Huston, Ava Gardner, the Rothschilds, Maria Callas, and Aristotle Onassis. It provides an entertaining, eye-opening look at their films, their wildly lucrative reign in Europe and in Hollywoodâ€”and the price they paid for their extravagant lives.   Shocking and unsparing in its honesty, Furious Love explores the very public marriage of "Liz and Dick" as well as the private struggles of Elizabeth and Richard, including Le Scandale, their affair on the set of the notorious epic Cleopatra that earned them condemnation from the Vatican; Burton''s hardscrabble youth in Wales; the crippling alcoholism that nearly destroyed his career and contributed to his early death; the medical issues that plagued both him and Elizabeth; and the failed aspirations and shame that haunted him throughout their relationship. As Kashner and Schoenberger illuminate the events and choices that shaped this illustrious couple''s story, they demonstrate how the legendary pair presaged America''s changing attitudes toward sex, marriage, morality, and celebrity. Yet ultimately, as the authors show, Elizabeth and Richard shared something priceless beyond the drama: enduring love.   Addictive and entertaining, Furious Love is more than a celebrity biography; it''s an honest yet sympathetic portrait of a man, a woman, and a passion that shocked and mesmerized the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1467'),
(18440, 'Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century', 'Sam Kashner &amp; Nancy Schoenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The definitive story of Hollywood''s most famous couple   He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romanceâ€”often called "the marriage of the century"â€”was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love affair of its day.   For the first time, Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kashner and acclaimed biographer Nancy Schoenberger tell the complete story of this larger-than-life couple, showing how their romance and two marriages commanded the attention of the world. Also for the first time, in exclusive access given to the authors, Elizabeth Taylor herself gives never-revealed details and firsthand accounts of her life with Burton.   Drawing upon brand-new information and interviewsâ€”and on Burton''s private, passionate, and heartbreaking letters to Taylorâ€”Furious Love sheds new light on the movies, the sex, the scandal, the fame, the brawls, the booze, the bitter separations, and, of course, the fabled jewels. It offers an intimate glimpse into Elizabeth and Richard''s privileged world and their elite circle of friends, among them Princess Grace, Montgomery Clift, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Peter O''Toole, Michael Caine, Marlon Brando, Rex Harrison, Mike Nichols, Laurence Olivier, Robert Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, NoÃ‹l Coward, John Huston, Ava Gardner, the Rothschilds, Maria Callas, and Aristotle Onassis. It provides an entertaining, eye-opening look at their films, their wildly lucrative reign in Europe and in Hollywoodâ€”and the price they paid for their extravagant lives.   Shocking and unsparing in its honesty, Furious Love explores the very public marriage of "Liz and Dick" as well as the private struggles of Elizabeth and Richard, including Le Scandale, their affair on the set of the notorious epic Cleopatra that earned them condemnation from the Vatican; Burton''s hardscrabble youth in Wales; the crippling alcoholism that nearly destroyed his career and contributed to his early death; the medical issues that plagued both him and Elizabeth; and the failed aspirations and shame that haunted him throughout their relationship. As Kashner and Schoenberger illuminate the events and choices that shaped this illustrious couple''s story, they demonstrate how the legendary pair presaged America''s changing attitudes toward sex, marriage, morality, and celebrity. Yet ultimately, as the authors show, Elizabeth and Richard shared something priceless beyond the drama: enduring love.   Addictive and entertaining, Furious Love is more than a celebrity biography; it''s an honest yet sympathetic portrait of a man, a woman, and a passion that shocked and mesmerized the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10652'),
(18441, 'Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century', 'Sam Kashner; Nancy Schoenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The definitive story of Hollywood''s most famous couple He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romanceâ€”often called "the marriage of the century"â€”was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love affair of its day. For the first time, Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kashner and acclaimed biographer Nancy Schoenberger tell the complete story of this larger-than-life couple, showing how their romance and two marriages commanded the attention of the world. Also for the first time, in exclusive access given to the authors, Elizabeth Taylor herself gives never-revealed details and firsthand accounts of her life with Burton. Drawing upon brand-new information and interviewsâ€”and on Burton''s private, passionate, and heartbreaking letters to Taylorâ€”Furious Love sheds new light on the movies, the sex, the scandal, the fame, the brawls, the booze, the bitter separations, and, of course, the fabled jewels. It offers an intimate glimpse into Elizabeth and Richard''s privileged world and their elite circle of friends, among them Princess Grace, Montgomery Clift, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Peter O''Toole, Michael Caine, Marlon Brando, Rex Harrison, Mike Nichols, Laurence Olivier, Robert Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, NoÃ‹l Coward, John Huston, Ava Gardner, the Rothschilds, Maria Callas, and Aristotle Onassis. It provides an entertaining, eye-opening look at their films, their wildly lucrative reign in Europe and in Hollywoodâ€”and the price they paid for their extravagant lives. Shocking and unsparing in its honesty, Furious Love explores the very public marriage of "Liz and Dick" as well as the private struggles of Elizabeth and Richard, including Le Scandale, their affair on the set of the notorious epic Cleopatra that earned them condemnation from the Vatican; Burton''s hardscrabble youth in Wales; the crippling alcoholism that nearly destroyed his career and contributed to his early death; the medical issues that plagued both him and Elizabeth; and the failed aspirations and shame that haunted him throughout their relationship. As Kashner and Schoenberger illuminate the events and choices that shaped this illustrious couple''s story, they demonstrate how the legendary pair presaged America''s changing attitudes toward sex, marriage, morality, and celebrity. Yet ultimately, as the authors show, Elizabeth and Richard shared something priceless beyond the drama: enduring love. Addictive and entertaining, Furious Love is more than a celebrity biography; it''s an honest yet sympathetic portrait of a man, a woman, and a passion that shocked and mesmerized the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23534'),
(18442, 'Furnicile', 'Bernard Werber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26021'),
(18443, 'Further Adventures', 'Jon Stephen Fink', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To Whom It May Concernâ€”I was The Green Ray. Now it can be toldâ€”the story which many tried to silence, many refused to believe, and many did not want to hear. In the depths of the Great Depression, the voice of a radio superhero known as The Green Ray entertained America. Forty years later, the man behind the characterâ€”two-bit voice actor Ray Green, known to his family as Reuven Agranovskyâ€”is caught in an all-night blackout in the desert town of Mason, New Mexico, where a chain of events is set in motion that forces The Green Ray out of retirement. But at seventy-three, Ray faces a differentâ€”and far more terrifyingâ€”world. A wildly inventive, raucously funny novel of heroism, neurosis, and transcendence, Further Adventures was ahead of its time when it was first published fifteen years ago. Like Ray Green himself, it now reemerges in a newly revised "author''s cut" for a new generation of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4080'),
(18444, 'Further Adventures', 'Jon Stephen Fink', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n To Whom It May Concernâ€”I was The Green Ray. Now it can be toldâ€”the story which many tried to silence, many refused to believe, and many did not want to hear. In the depths of the Great Depression, the voice of a radio superhero known as The Green Ray entertained America. Forty years later, the man behind the characterâ€”two-bit voice actor Ray Green, known to his family as Reuven Agranovskyâ€”is caught in an all-night blackout in the desert town of Mason, New Mexico, where a chain of events is set in motion that forces The Green Ray out of retirement. But at seventy-three, Ray faces a differentâ€”and far more terrifyingâ€”world. A wildly inventive, raucously funny novel of heroism, neurosis, and transcendence, Further Adventures was ahead of its time when it was first published fifteen years ago. Like Ray Green himself, it now reemerges in a newly revised "author''s cut" for a new generation of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9717'),
(18445, 'Further Adventures', 'Jon Stephen Fink', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: To Whom It May Concernâ€”I was The Green Ray. Now it can be toldâ€”the story which many tried to silence, many refused to believe, and many did not want to hear. In the depths of the Great Depression, the voice of a radio superhero known as The Green Ray entertained America. Forty years later, the man behind the characterâ€”two-bit voice actor Ray Green, known to his family as Reuven Agranovskyâ€”is caught in an all-night blackout in the desert town of Mason, New Mexico, where a chain of events is set in motion that forces The Green Ray out of retirement. But at seventy-three, Ray faces a differentâ€”and far more terrifyingâ€”world. A wildly inventive, raucously funny novel of heroism, neurosis, and transcendence, Further Adventures was ahead of its time when it was first published fifteen years ago. Like Ray Green himself, it now reemerges in a newly revised "author''s cut" for a new generation of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20431'),
(18446, 'The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe', 'Daniel Defoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6455'),
(18447, 'The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe', 'Daniel Defoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17506'),
(18448, 'The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe', 'Daniel Defoe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Short excerpt: the desire of seeing my new plantation in the island, and the colony I left there, ran in my head continually. I dreamed of it all night, and my imagination ran upon it all day: it was uppermost in all my thoughts, and my fancy worked so steadily and strongly upon it that I talked of it in my sleep\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27210'),
(18449, 'Fury', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Corso is a pariah -- a journalist once vilified for making up "facts" on a major crime story. Yet slow, sheltered Leanne Samples trusts no one but Corso to tell the world that her courtroom testimony that put Walter Leroy "Trashman" Himes on Death Row was a lie. Convicted of the savage slaying of eight Seattle women, Himes is only six days from execution, unless Frank Corso and outcast photographer Meg Dougherty into a struggle that goes far beyond right, wrong, truth, and justice. Because the lowly and the powerful alike all want Himes dead at any cost -- despite startling new evidence that threatens to devastate a city once again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5491'),
(18450, 'Fury', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Corso is a pariah -- a journalist once vilified for making up "facts" on a major crime story. Yet slow, sheltered Leanne Samples trusts no one but Corso to tell the world that her courtroom testimony that put Walter Leroy "Trashman" Himes on Death Row was a lie. Convicted of the savage slaying of eight Seattle women, Himes is only six days from execution, unless Frank Corso and outcast photographer Meg Dougherty into a struggle that goes far beyond right, wrong, truth, and justice. Because the lowly and the powerful alike all want Himes dead at any cost -- despite startling new evidence that threatens to devastate a city once again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9699'),
(18451, 'Fury', 'G. M. Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Frank Corso is a pariah -- a journalist once vilified for making up "facts" on a major crime story. Yet slow, sheltered Leanne Samples trusts no one but Corso to tell the world that her courtroom testimony that put Walter Leroy "Trashman" Himes on Death Row was a lie. Convicted of the savage slaying of eight Seattle women, Himes is only six days from execution, unless Frank Corso and outcast photographer Meg Dougherty into a struggle that goes far beyond right, wrong, truth, and justice. Because the lowly and the powerful alike all want Himes dead at any cost -- despite startling new evidence that threatens to devastate a city once again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19126'),
(18452, 'A Fury Scorned', 'Pamela Sargent &amp; George Zebrowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face annihilation. Although the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  has come to lead the rescue operation, there is no way to evacuate a population of over twenty million, leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet''s children, its greatest leaders and thinkers, or its irreplaceable archeological treasures? No matter what he decides, millions must be sacrificed -- unless another solution can be found.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With time running out, Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III, or doom both the planet and the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  as well.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face utter annihilation. Although the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM has come to lead the rescue operation, there is no way to evacuate a population of over one hundred million, leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet''s children, its greatest leaders and thinkers, or its irreplaceable archeological treasures? No matter what he decides, millions must be sacrificed -- unless another solution can be found.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With time running out, Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III, or doom both the planet and the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  as well.END\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2313'),
(18453, 'A Fury Scorned', 'Pamela Sargent; George Zebrowski', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face annihilation. Although the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. EnterpriseTM\n  </em>\n  has come to lead the rescue operation, there is no way to evacuate a population of over twenty million, leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet''s children, its greatest leaders and thinkers, or its irreplaceable archeological treasures? No matter what he decides, millions must be sacrificed -- unless another solution can be found.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With time running out, Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III, or doom both the planet and the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  as well.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  With their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face utter annihilation. Although the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM has come to lead the rescue operation, there is no way to evacuate a population of over one hundred million, leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet''s children, its greatest leaders and thinkers, or its irreplaceable archeological treasures? No matter what he decides, millions must be sacrificed -- unless another solution can be found.\n </p>\n <p>\n  With time running out, Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III, or doom both the planet and the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  as well.END\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22509');
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(18454, 'The Fury', 'Jason Pinter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Am I my brother''s keeper?\n </p>\n <p>\n  If I''d known I had a brother, I might have been. But he''s deadâ€”shot point-blank in a rat-hole apartment, wasted by hunger and heroin. Stephen Gaines, a man with whom I shared nothingâ€¦except a father.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For some reason this stranger who shared my blood came to me for helpâ€¦and I blew him off thinking he was just some junkie. Now I''m forced to question everything I ever knewâ€¦and figure out why this man was murdered in cold blood.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All I can do for Stephen Gaines now is find his killerâ€”and with the help of Amanda Davies uncover the whole, hard truth. If it means tracking down a vicious drug kingpinâ€”who may or may not existâ€”then so be itâ€¦.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At nine in the morning, the offices of the\n  <em>\n   New York Gazette\n  </em>\n  are quiet. Reporters read the morning papers, prepare to call their sources and blink off hangovers over steaming cups of coffee. Today, however, it was a different kind of quiet. The kind of quiet where everyone seems to be waiting for the roof to cave in, or the floor to suddenly give way and fall out from under you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Every morning I would swipe my ID card, wave hello to the security guards who''d gradually warmed to me over the years and wait for the elevator with lots of other people who also looked like they''d rather still be in bed. I would exit the elevators at the twelfth floor, passing the receptionist, always too busy to acknowledge staffers, and walk to my desk. The offices of the\n  <em>\n   New York Gazette\n  </em>\n  towered over Rockefeller Center, giving me a panoramic view of one of the busiest streets in the city. Yet when I navigated the mess of chairs and debris and entered the cubicle farm on this day, I noticed the other journalists who shared my row were nowhere to be seen. There were no faces hunched far too close to computer screens, no whispered chats about the umpteenth death knell sounded for our industry. No reporters haggling over verb usage and tense like it was a matter of life or death. It seemed every day across our industry there were more layoffs, more cutbacks, more reasons to fear the end. And it had been drilled repeatedly into us by our corporate overlords and the media that if the sickle wasn''t already lancing the air above our heads, it was in the midst of being lowered into place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I couldn''t worry about that. Still a few years shy of thirty, it had been my lifelong ambition to work at a prestigious, thriving newspaper. And while one could debate whether the\n  <em>\n   Gazette\n  </em>\n  was thriving, in my short time here I''d had the chance to work alongside some of the greats, including my idol, Jack O''Donnell.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I''d also been wanted for murder and targeted by a deranged serial killer. Hey, who doesn''t complain about their job sometimes?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Externally, you might think I looked the same. Internally, though, I was a different man. A man learns who he is when his life, innocence and freedom are challenged. I was stronger than I ever knew I could be, but deep down I wished I hadn''t needed to find that out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When I navigated the maze of empty desks to arrive at mine, I put my coffee and muffin on the desk, sat down and debated whether to ignore the silence or see what was causing the sound vacuum. I reached for the plastic tab on my coffee, but immediately thought twice. To ignore the strange stillness of the office would have gone against every bone in my body, and probably triggered some sort of spontaneous combustion. Curiosity not only killed the cat, but made my breakfast grow cold. So I stood back up and took a lap around the news floor to see what the hell was going on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I didn''t have to go far.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A group of half a dozen reporters were huddled around the desk of Evelyn Waterstone, the\n  <em>\n   Gazette''s\n  </em>\n  Metro editor. They were talking under their breaths, worried looks in their eyes. I wondered if there were going to be layoffs. If some of my colleaguesâ€”perhaps even myselfâ€”would be out of a job. That Evelyn''s desk had seemingly replaced the watercooler as center of office scoop was itself noteworthy. Evelyn stayed as far away from gossip as those who gossiped stayed away from her. Whatever happened had to be big enough to pique her interest. I walked up casually, inserting myself into the conversation through proximity alone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Evelyn Waterstone was a short, squat woman whose haircut resembled a well-manicured putting greenâ€” only this particular green was gray with ageâ€”and whose broad shoulders would have been a welcome addition to most offensive lines. She was a disciplinarian in the gentlest sense of the word. It took several years for her to warm up to me, but when my work ethic and the quality of my reporting became clear, Evelyn began to grudgingly show me a modicum of respect. Still, I don''t think you''d ever see the two of us tossing back a couple of longnecks after hours. I made an effort never to stop by her desk unless I had a specific question, and Evelyn never stormed by mine unless I''d made some terrible grammatical mistake that, to Evelyn, was only slightly worse of an offense than treason.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Morning, Parker," Evelyn said. She held a black thermos between her fleshy hands, and took a long, drawn-out sip. "Another beautiful day at your friendly local newspaper." She sniffed the air. "Glad to see you''ve begun showering regularly again."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Morning, Evelyn," I said, nodded to the other reporters, who offered the same.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You hear about Rourke?" she said. I hadn''t, and told her so. She raised her arms dramatically as if recounting some heroic tale. "This paper''s most controversial sportswriterâ€”who incidentally once told a linebacker he would â€˜whup his ass like a donkey''â€”got mugged yesterday on his way home from the office. Well, I shouldn''t say mugged, because the guy didn''t take any money, but Frank ended up getting the donkey side of the whupping."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Really?" I said, incredulous. "Rourke?" I had no love lost for Frank Rourke, considering the man had once left a bag of excrement on my deskâ€”but the man''s swagger seemed to come from years of always being the one guy who was able to leave the fight on his own two feet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Seems some hothead took umbrage to Frank''s calling the Yankees â€˜the most poorly run organization since FEMA.'' Some disgruntled asshat from the Bronx. Anyway, this guy waits outside of the office until Frank leaves. Then he yells, â€˜Yo, Rourke!'' Frank turns his head, and gets a sockful of quarters up against the side of his temple."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s terrible, is he okay?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Concussion, he''ll be fine. Police arrested the fan, I''m just hoping he might have damaged the area of Frank''s brain that makes him such an asshole. Maybe he''ll have one of those\n  <em>\n   Regarding Henry\n  </em>\n  kind of epiphanies and come back a better man."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s probably too much to expect."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We can dream, Parker. We can dream."\n </p>\n <p>\n  As we chatted, I noticed another group of reporters huddled together in the hallway looking like they''d just been told management had decided to restructure by throwing them out the twelfth floor windows. The group shifted nervously, whispering amongst themselves. Never wanting to be the last one in the know, I approached, said, "I thought Frank was going to be fine, what gives?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jonas Levinson, the\n  <em>\n   Gazette''s\n  </em>\n  science editor, said, "Frank is the least of our concerns. Though, as a matter of fact, something has died this morning. Something to be mourned as long as we''re employed by this godforsaken newspaper. As of today, good taste, my friend, has kicked the bucket."\n </p>\n <p>\n  I stared at Jonas, waiting for some kind of an explanation. Levinson was a tall man, balding, who wore a different bow tie to the office every day. He very seldom exaggerated his feelings, so at Jonas''s remark a flock of butterflies began to flutter around in my stomach.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m not following you," I said to Jonas. "Good taste? Jonas, care to explain?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Just follow the eyes, Parker," Jonas said. "Follow the eyes."\n </p>\n <p>\n  I opened my mouth to ask another question, but then I realized what he was saying. The eyes of every member of our group were focused on two individuals making their way across the\n  <em>\n   Gazette''s\n  </em>\n  floor. They were stopping at every desk, popping into each office for a few moments. It looks like some sort of introduction ritual was taking place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Immediately this struck me as odd. I''d never met another employee during a walkaround, and had not received one myself. The fact that this one person was being given the grand tour made it clear he was someone the brass wanted to coddle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the two men I recognized immediately as Wallace Langston, editor in chief. Wallace was in his midfifties, lean with a neatly trimmed beard. His brown hair was flecked with gray, and he had the slightly bent posture of a man who''d spent the majority of his years hunched over a keyboard. Wallace had been a staunch supporter of mine in the years I''d been employed by the paper, and even though now more than ever he was feeling the crunch of his corporate masters insisting on higher profit margins, he knew what it took to print good news. If not my idol, he was a good, loyal mentor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Is he," I said, "introducing someone around the office?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That is precisely what it looks like," Jonas replied.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Evelyn walked up and said, "I never met a damn person until my first staff meeting. I got as much of an introduction as my stove has to a cooking pot."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Me, neither," I said. When I started at the\n  <em>\n   Gazette,\n  </em>\n  I didn''t know anybody other than Jack O''Donnell. Jack was my boyhood idol, the man most aspiring reporters dreamt of becoming. He and I had grown close over the last few years, but recently he''d lost his battle with the bottle and left the\n  <em>\n   Gazette.\n  </em>\n  I hadn''t spoken to him in a few months. I''d tried his home, his cell phone, even walked by his Clinton apartment a few times, but never got a hold of the man. It was clear Jack needed some time alone with his demons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ironically the first reporter I''d met was a woman named Paulina Cole. We worked next to each other when I first started at the\n  <em>\n   Gazette.\n  </em>\n  Soon she left for a job at the rival\n  <em>\n   Dispatch,\n  </em>\n  where through a combination of balls, brass and more balls she''d become one of the most talked-about writers in the city. Paulina was cold, calculating, ruthless and, worst of all, damn smart. She knew what people wanted to readâ€”namely, anything where if you squeezed a page, dirt or juice came outâ€” and gave it to them. She was part of the reason Jack had left the\n  <em>\n   Gazette.\n  </em>\n  She''d managed to pay off numerous people in order to discover the extent of Jack''s drinking habits, and then ran a front-page article (with unflattering pictures) depicting Jack as the ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4692'),
(18455, 'The Fury', 'Jason Pinter', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Am I my brother''s keeper?\n </p>\n <p>\n  If I''d known I had a brother, I might have been. But he''s deadâ€”shot point-blank in a rat-hole apartment, wasted by hunger and heroin. Stephen Gaines, a man with whom I shared nothingâ€¦except a father.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For some reason this stranger who shared my blood came to me for helpâ€¦and I blew him off thinking he was just some junkie. Now I''m forced to question everything I ever knewâ€¦and figure out why this man was murdered in cold blood.\n </p>\n <p>\n  All I can do for Stephen Gaines now is find his killerâ€”and with the help of Amanda Davies uncover the whole, hard truth. If it means tracking down a vicious drug kingpinâ€”who may or may not existâ€”then so be itâ€¦.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At nine in the morning, the offices of the\n  <em>\n   New York Gazette\n  </em>\n  are quiet. Reporters read the morning papers, prepare to call their sources and blink off hangovers over steaming cups of coffee. Today, however, it was a different kind of quiet. The kind of quiet where everyone seems to be waiting for the roof to cave in, or the floor to suddenly give way and fall out from under you.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Every morning I would swipe my ID card, wave hello to the security guards who''d gradually warmed to me over the years and wait for the elevator with lots of other people who also looked like they''d rather still be in bed. I would exit the elevators at the twelfth floor, passing the receptionist, always too busy to acknowledge staffers, and walk to my desk. The offices of the\n  <em>\n   New York Gazette\n  </em>\n  towered over Rockefeller Center, giving me a panoramic view of one of the busiest streets in the city. Yet when I navigated the mess of chairs and debris and entered the cubicle farm on this day, I noticed the other journalists who shared my row were nowhere to be seen. There were no faces hunched far too close to computer screens, no whispered chats about the umpteenth death knell sounded for our industry. No reporters haggling over verb usage and tense like it was a matter of life or death. It seemed every day across our industry there were more layoffs, more cutbacks, more reasons to fear the end. And it had been drilled repeatedly into us by our corporate overlords and the media that if the sickle wasn''t already lancing the air above our heads, it was in the midst of being lowered into place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I couldn''t worry about that. Still a few years shy of thirty, it had been my lifelong ambition to work at a prestigious, thriving newspaper. And while one could debate whether the\n  <em>\n   Gazette\n  </em>\n  was thriving, in my short time here I''d had the chance to work alongside some of the greats, including my idol, Jack O''Donnell.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I''d also been wanted for murder and targeted by a deranged serial killer. Hey, who doesn''t complain about their job sometimes?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Externally, you might think I looked the same. Internally, though, I was a different man. A man learns who he is when his life, innocence and freedom are challenged. I was stronger than I ever knew I could be, but deep down I wished I hadn''t needed to find that out.\n </p>\n <p>\n  When I navigated the maze of empty desks to arrive at mine, I put my coffee and muffin on the desk, sat down and debated whether to ignore the silence or see what was causing the sound vacuum. I reached for the plastic tab on my coffee, but immediately thought twice. To ignore the strange stillness of the office would have gone against every bone in my body, and probably triggered some sort of spontaneous combustion. Curiosity not only killed the cat, but made my breakfast grow cold. So I stood back up and took a lap around the news floor to see what the hell was going on.\n </p>\n <p>\n  I didn''t have to go far.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A group of half a dozen reporters were huddled around the desk of Evelyn Waterstone, the\n  <em>\n   Gazette''s\n  </em>\n  Metro editor. They were talking under their breaths, worried looks in their eyes. I wondered if there were going to be layoffs. If some of my colleaguesâ€”perhaps even myselfâ€”would be out of a job. That Evelyn''s desk had seemingly replaced the watercooler as center of office scoop was itself noteworthy. Evelyn stayed as far away from gossip as those who gossiped stayed away from her. Whatever happened had to be big enough to pique her interest. I walked up casually, inserting myself into the conversation through proximity alone.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Evelyn Waterstone was a short, squat woman whose haircut resembled a well-manicured putting greenâ€” only this particular green was gray with ageâ€”and whose broad shoulders would have been a welcome addition to most offensive lines. She was a disciplinarian in the gentlest sense of the word. It took several years for her to warm up to me, but when my work ethic and the quality of my reporting became clear, Evelyn began to grudgingly show me a modicum of respect. Still, I don''t think you''d ever see the two of us tossing back a couple of longnecks after hours. I made an effort never to stop by her desk unless I had a specific question, and Evelyn never stormed by mine unless I''d made some terrible grammatical mistake that, to Evelyn, was only slightly worse of an offense than treason.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Morning, Parker," Evelyn said. She held a black thermos between her fleshy hands, and took a long, drawn-out sip. "Another beautiful day at your friendly local newspaper." She sniffed the air. "Glad to see you''ve begun showering regularly again."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Morning, Evelyn," I said, nodded to the other reporters, who offered the same.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You hear about Rourke?" she said. I hadn''t, and told her so. She raised her arms dramatically as if recounting some heroic tale. "This paper''s most controversial sportswriterâ€”who incidentally once told a linebacker he would â€˜whup his ass like a donkey''â€”got mugged yesterday on his way home from the office. Well, I shouldn''t say mugged, because the guy didn''t take any money, but Frank ended up getting the donkey side of the whupping."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Really?" I said, incredulous. "Rourke?" I had no love lost for Frank Rourke, considering the man had once left a bag of excrement on my deskâ€”but the man''s swagger seemed to come from years of always being the one guy who was able to leave the fight on his own two feet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Seems some hothead took umbrage to Frank''s calling the Yankees â€˜the most poorly run organization since FEMA.'' Some disgruntled asshat from the Bronx. Anyway, this guy waits outside of the office until Frank leaves. Then he yells, â€˜Yo, Rourke!'' Frank turns his head, and gets a sockful of quarters up against the side of his temple."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s terrible, is he okay?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Concussion, he''ll be fine. Police arrested the fan, I''m just hoping he might have damaged the area of Frank''s brain that makes him such an asshole. Maybe he''ll have one of those\n  <em>\n   Regarding Henry\n  </em>\n  kind of epiphanies and come back a better man."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That''s probably too much to expect."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We can dream, Parker. We can dream."\n </p>\n <p>\n  As we chatted, I noticed another group of reporters huddled together in the hallway looking like they''d just been told management had decided to restructure by throwing them out the twelfth floor windows. The group shifted nervously, whispering amongst themselves. Never wanting to be the last one in the know, I approached, said, "I thought Frank was going to be fine, what gives?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jonas Levinson, the\n  <em>\n   Gazette''s\n  </em>\n  science editor, said, "Frank is the least of our concerns. Though, as a matter of fact, something has died this morning. Something to be mourned as long as we''re employed by this godforsaken newspaper. As of today, good taste, my friend, has kicked the bucket."\n </p>\n <p>\n  I stared at Jonas, waiting for some kind of an explanation. Levinson was a tall man, balding, who wore a different bow tie to the office every day. He very seldom exaggerated his feelings, so at Jonas''s remark a flock of butterflies began to flutter around in my stomach.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''m not following you," I said to Jonas. "Good taste? Jonas, care to explain?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Just follow the eyes, Parker," Jonas said. "Follow the eyes."\n </p>\n <p>\n  I opened my mouth to ask another question, but then I realized what he was saying. The eyes of every member of our group were focused on two individuals making their way across the\n  <em>\n   Gazette''s\n  </em>\n  floor. They were stopping at every desk, popping into each office for a few moments. It looks like some sort of introduction ritual was taking place.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Immediately this struck me as odd. I''d never met another employee during a walkaround, and had not received one myself. The fact that this one person was being given the grand tour made it clear he was someone the brass wanted to coddle.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One of the two men I recognized immediately as Wallace Langston, editor in chief. Wallace was in his midfifties, lean with a neatly trimmed beard. His brown hair was flecked with gray, and he had the slightly bent posture of a man who''d spent the majority of his years hunched over a keyboard. Wallace had been a staunch supporter of mine in the years I''d been employed by the paper, and even though now more than ever he was feeling the crunch of his corporate masters insisting on higher profit margins, he knew what it took to print good news. If not my idol, he was a good, loyal mentor.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Is he," I said, "introducing someone around the office?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That is precisely what it looks like," Jonas replied.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Evelyn walked up and said, "I never met a damn person until my first staff meeting. I got as much of an introduction as my stove has to a cooking pot."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Me, neither," I said. When I started at the\n  <em>\n   Gazette,\n  </em>\n  I didn''t know anybody other than Jack O''Donnell. Jack was my boyhood idol, the man most aspiring reporters dreamt of becoming. He and I had grown close over the last few years, but recently he''d lost his battle with the bottle and left the\n  <em>\n   Gazette.\n  </em>\n  I hadn''t spoken to him in a few months. I''d tried his home, his cell phone, even walked by his Clinton apartment a few times, but never got a hold of the man. It was clear Jack needed some time alone with his demons.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Ironically the first reporter I''d met was a woman named Paulina Cole. We worked next to each other when I first started at the\n  <em>\n   Gazette.\n  </em>\n  Soon she left for a job at the rival\n  <em>\n   Dispatch,\n  </em>\n  where through a combination of balls, brass and more balls she''d become one of the most talked-about writers in the city. Paulina was cold, calculating, ruthless and, worst of all, damn smart. She knew what people wanted to readâ€”namely, anything where if you squeezed a page, dirt or juice came outâ€” and gave it to them. She was part of the reason Jack had left the\n  <em>\n   Gazette.\n  </em>\n  She''d managed to pay off numerous people in order to discover the extent of Jack''s drinking habits, and then ran a front-page article (with unflattering pictures) depicting Jack as the ...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12010'),
(18456, 'Fury: A Novel', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fury\n </em>\n is a gloss on fin-de-siÃ¨cle angst from the master of the quintuple entendre.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, in New York, he is filled with wrath. Solanka is far from being an Everyman, but his fury is a kind of Everyfury. It''s road rage writ large--the natural reaction to an excess of mental traffic. There are several books running simultaneously here: a mystery, a family romance, a bitingly satirical portrait of millennial Manhattan, and a sci-fi revolutionary fantasy. A single fragment gives a sense of Rushdie''s reflexive multiplicity: when Solanka finally faces his memories of childhood, he recalls "his damn Yoknapatawpha, his accursed Malgudi." Here''s a writer who, leading us into the tender places of his protagonist''s soul, stops long enough to reference not just Faulkner but Narayan as well. If it sounds like a bit of a mess, it is. If it sounds frighteningly intelligent, it''s that too.\n <em>\n  --Claire Dederer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sea change has invigorated Rushdie. His new novel is very much an American book, a bitingly satiric, often wildly farcical picture of American society in the first years of the 21st century. The twice transplanted protagonist (Bombay born, Cambridge educated, now Manhattan resident) Prof. Malik Solanka is an unimaginably wealthy man, transformed from a philosophy professor into a BBC-TV star, then into the inventor of a wildly popular doll called Little Brain. Compelled to relinquish control of the doll when it metamorphoses into an industry, the furious Solanka flees London for an apartment on Manhattan''s Upper West Side. His prose crackling with irony, Rushdie catches roiling undercurrents of incivility and inchoate anger: in cab drivers, moviegoers and sidewalk pedestrians; in ethnic antagonisms; in political confrontations; and in Solly himself, as he tries to surmount his guilt over having abandoned a loving wife and three-year-old son in England, and as he becomes involved with two new women. Rushdie''s brilliantly observant portrait of "this money-mad burg" is mercilessly au courant, with references to George Gush and Al Bore, to Elian and Tony Soprano, and to "shawls made from the chin fluff of extinct mountain goats." The action is helter-skelter fast and refreshingly concise; this is a slender book for Rushdie, and his relatively narrow focus results in a crisper narrative; there are fewer puns and a deeper emotional involvement with his characters. Still, his tendency to go over the top leads to some incredulity for the reader; it''s a bit much that short, unprepossessing Solly is a magnet for gorgeous, articulate women, who all tend to speak in the same didactic monologues. On the whole, however, readers will nod in acknowledgement of Rushdie''s recognition that "the whole world was burning on a shorter fuse." Rushdie remains a master of satire that rings true with unsettling acuity and dark, comedic brilliance. Agent, Andrew Wylie. 8-city author tour. (Sept. 11)Forecast: Rushdie has never been so sharply observant of the American psyche and the contemporary scene, and thus so relevant to U.S. readers. His increasing visibility after the isolation of the fatwa years should create a buzz of interest in this novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1450'),
(18457, 'Fury: A Novel', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fury\n </em>\n is a gloss on fin-de-siÃ¨cle angst from the master of the quintuple entendre.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, in New York, he is filled with wrath. Solanka is far from being an Everyman, but his fury is a kind of Everyfury. It''s road rage writ large--the natural reaction to an excess of mental traffic. There are several books running simultaneously here: a mystery, a family romance, a bitingly satirical portrait of millennial Manhattan, and a sci-fi revolutionary fantasy. A single fragment gives a sense of Rushdie''s reflexive multiplicity: when Solanka finally faces his memories of childhood, he recalls "his damn Yoknapatawpha, his accursed Malgudi." Here''s a writer who, leading us into the tender places of his protagonist''s soul, stops long enough to reference not just Faulkner but Narayan as well. If it sounds like a bit of a mess, it is. If it sounds frighteningly intelligent, it''s that too.\n <em>\n  --Claire Dederer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sea change has invigorated Rushdie. His new novel is very much an American book, a bitingly satiric, often wildly farcical picture of American society in the first years of the 21st century. The twice transplanted protagonist (Bombay born, Cambridge educated, now Manhattan resident) Prof. Malik Solanka is an unimaginably wealthy man, transformed from a philosophy professor into a BBC-TV star, then into the inventor of a wildly popular doll called Little Brain. Compelled to relinquish control of the doll when it metamorphoses into an industry, the furious Solanka flees London for an apartment on Manhattan''s Upper West Side. His prose crackling with irony, Rushdie catches roiling undercurrents of incivility and inchoate anger: in cab drivers, moviegoers and sidewalk pedestrians; in ethnic antagonisms; in political confrontations; and in Solly himself, as he tries to surmount his guilt over having abandoned a loving wife and three-year-old son in England, and as he becomes involved with two new women. Rushdie''s brilliantly observant portrait of "this money-mad burg" is mercilessly au courant, with references to George Gush and Al Bore, to Elian and Tony Soprano, and to "shawls made from the chin fluff of extinct mountain goats." The action is helter-skelter fast and refreshingly concise; this is a slender book for Rushdie, and his relatively narrow focus results in a crisper narrative; there are fewer puns and a deeper emotional involvement with his characters. Still, his tendency to go over the top leads to some incredulity for the reader; it''s a bit much that short, unprepossessing Solly is a magnet for gorgeous, articulate women, who all tend to speak in the same didactic monologues. On the whole, however, readers will nod in acknowledgement of Rushdie''s recognition that "the whole world was burning on a shorter fuse." Rushdie remains a master of satire that rings true with unsettling acuity and dark, comedic brilliance. Agent, Andrew Wylie. 8-city author tour. (Sept. 11)Forecast: Rushdie has never been so sharply observant of the American psyche and the contemporary scene, and thus so relevant to U.S. readers. His increasing visibility after the isolation of the fatwa years should create a buzz of interest in this novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12449'),
(18458, 'Fury: A Novel', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Fury\n </em>\n is a gloss on fin-de-siÃ¨cle angst from the master of the quintuple entendre.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, in New York, he is filled with wrath. Solanka is far from being an Everyman, but his fury is a kind of Everyfury. It''s road rage writ large--the natural reaction to an excess of mental traffic. There are several books running simultaneously here: a mystery, a family romance, a bitingly satirical portrait of millennial Manhattan, and a sci-fi revolutionary fantasy. A single fragment gives a sense of Rushdie''s reflexive multiplicity: when Solanka finally faces his memories of childhood, he recalls "his damn Yoknapatawpha, his accursed Malgudi." Here''s a writer who, leading us into the tender places of his protagonist''s soul, stops long enough to reference not just Faulkner but Narayan as well. If it sounds like a bit of a mess, it is. If it sounds frighteningly intelligent, it''s that too.\n <em>\n  --Claire Dederer\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sea change has invigorated Rushdie. His new novel is very much an American book, a bitingly satiric, often wildly farcical picture of American society in the first years of the 21st century. The twice transplanted protagonist (Bombay born, Cambridge educated, now Manhattan resident) Prof. Malik Solanka is an unimaginably wealthy man, transformed from a philosophy professor into a BBC-TV star, then into the inventor of a wildly popular doll called Little Brain. Compelled to relinquish control of the doll when it metamorphoses into an industry, the furious Solanka flees London for an apartment on Manhattan''s Upper West Side. His prose crackling with irony, Rushdie catches roiling undercurrents of incivility and inchoate anger: in cab drivers, moviegoers and sidewalk pedestrians; in ethnic antagonisms; in political confrontations; and in Solly himself, as he tries to surmount his guilt over having abandoned a loving wife and three-year-old son in England, and as he becomes involved with two new women. Rushdie''s brilliantly observant portrait of "this money-mad burg" is mercilessly au courant, with references to George Gush and Al Bore, to Elian and Tony Soprano, and to "shawls made from the chin fluff of extinct mountain goats." The action is helter-skelter fast and refreshingly concise; this is a slender book for Rushdie, and his relatively narrow focus results in a crisper narrative; there are fewer puns and a deeper emotional involvement with his characters. Still, his tendency to go over the top leads to some incredulity for the reader; it''s a bit much that short, unprepossessing Solly is a magnet for gorgeous, articulate women, who all tend to speak in the same didactic monologues. On the whole, however, readers will nod in acknowledgement of Rushdie''s recognition that "the whole world was burning on a shorter fuse." Rushdie remains a master of satire that rings true with unsettling acuity and dark, comedic brilliance. Agent, Andrew Wylie. 8-city author tour. (Sept. 11)Forecast: Rushdie has never been so sharply observant of the American psyche and the contemporary scene, and thus so relevant to U.S. readers. His increasing visibility after the isolation of the fatwa years should create a buzz of interest in this novel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23443'),
(18459, 'Future of Humanity-Essay', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25647'),
(18460, 'Fuzzy Nation', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20187'),
(18461, 'G Is for Gumshoe', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "One of the sassiest, most appealing of the recent spate of female gunshoes . . . ''G'' is for glorious, galloping read, and I can''t wait for ''H'' ."--Louise Bernikow, CosmopolitanGood and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty''s hit list. It''s the last that convinces Kinsey even she can''t handle whoever''s been hired to whack her, and she gets herself a bodyguard: Robert Dietz, a Porsche-driving P.I. who takes guarding Kinsey''s body very seriously. With Dietz watching her for the merest sign of her usual recklessness, Kinsey plunges into her case. And before it''s over, she''ll unearth the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, come fact-to-face with her own mortality. . . . "Wit is the most versatile weapon in Sue Grafton''s well-stocked arsenal, and she uses it with disarming precision. . . . Grafton excels in this milieu."--Newsweek"The story is complex; the body-count high; the sexual encounters feverish; and the villains chilling--in another can''t-put-it-down outing for this talented author."--Kirkus ReviewsFrom the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/949'),
(18462, 'G Is for Gumshoe', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "One of the sassiest, most appealing of the recent spate of female gunshoes . . . ''G'' is for glorious, galloping read, and I can''t wait for ''H'' ."--Louise Bernikow, CosmopolitanGood and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty''s hit list. It''s the last that convinces Kinsey even she can''t handle whoever''s been hired to whack her, and she gets herself a bodyguard: Robert Dietz, a Porsche-driving P.I. who takes guarding Kinsey''s body very seriously. With Dietz watching her for the merest sign of her usual recklessness, Kinsey plunges into her case. And before it''s over, she''ll unearth the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, come fact-to-face with her own mortality. . . . "Wit is the most versatile weapon in Sue Grafton''s well-stocked arsenal, and she uses it with disarming precision. . . . Grafton excels in this milieu."--Newsweek"The story is complex; the body-count high; the sexual encounters feverish; and the villains chilling--in another can''t-put-it-down outing for this talented author."--Kirkus ReviewsFrom the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15070'),
(18463, 'G Is for Gumshoe', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "One of the sassiest, most appealing of the recent spate of female gunshoes . . . ''G'' is for glorious, galloping read, and I can''t wait for ''H'' ."--Louise Bernikow, CosmopolitanGood and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty''s hit list. It''s the last that convinces Kinsey even she can''t handle whoever''s been hired to whack her, and she gets herself a bodyguard: Robert Dietz, a Porsche-driving P.I. who takes guarding Kinsey''s body very seriously. With Dietz watching her for the merest sign of her usual recklessness, Kinsey plunges into her case. And before it''s over, she''ll unearth the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, come fact-to-face with her own mortality. . . . "Wit is the most versatile weapon in Sue Grafton''s well-stocked arsenal, and she uses it with disarming precision. . . . Grafton excels in this milieu."--Newsweek"The story is complex; the body-count high; the sexual encounters feverish; and the villains chilling--in another can''t-put-it-down outing for this talented author."--Kirkus ReviewsFrom the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24025'),
(18464, 'G&#39;Day to Die: A Passport to Peril Mystery', 'Maddy Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Emily Andrew lands in the Land of Oz -- Australia, that is -- she and her hearty group of world-touring seniors know they''re not in Iowa anymore. Winter is summer, drains drain counterclockwise, and all the comforts of home are, well, back home. Even Emily''s love life is upside down: her darling detective Etienne Miceli has yet to propose, while gorgeous tour director Duncan Lazarus is vying to be more than just mates. Emily is preoccupied calming the group''s jitters about the outback''s killers, from sunstroke to snake bites. But when a fellow traveler turns up dead, Emily fears something far more toxic has struck: human greed. Someone has stumbled upon a natural wonder that could turn science on its head -- was this priceless discovery the catalyst for murder? Before the dust settles, a second untimely death occurs. If Emily can''t stop a killer in their tracks, this Aussie adventure just may be her last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3253'),
(18465, 'G&#39;Day to Die: A Passport to Peril Mystery', 'Maddy Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Emily Andrew lands in the Land of Oz -- Australia, that is -- she and her hearty group of world-touring seniors know they''re not in Iowa anymore. Winter is summer, drains drain counterclockwise, and all the comforts of home are, well, back home. Even Emily''s love life is upside down: her darling detective Etienne Miceli has yet to propose, while gorgeous tour director Duncan Lazarus is vying to be more than just mates. Emily is preoccupied calming the group''s jitters about the outback''s killers, from sunstroke to snake bites. But when a fellow traveler turns up dead, Emily fears something far more toxic has struck: human greed. Someone has stumbled upon a natural wonder that could turn science on its head -- was this priceless discovery the catalyst for murder? Before the dust settles, a second untimely death occurs. If Emily can''t stop a killer in their tracks, this Aussie adventure just may be her last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10395'),
(18466, 'G&#39;Day to Die: A Passport to Peril Mystery', 'Maddy Hunter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Emily Andrew lands in the Land of Oz -- Australia, that is -- she and her hearty group of world-touring seniors know they''re not in Iowa anymore. Winter is summer, drains drain counterclockwise, and all the comforts of home are, well, back home. Even Emily''s love life is upside down: her darling detective Etienne Miceli has yet to propose, while gorgeous tour director Duncan Lazarus is vying to be more than just mates. Emily is preoccupied calming the group''s jitters about the outback''s killers, from sunstroke to snake bites. But when a fellow traveler turns up dead, Emily fears something far more toxic has struck: human greed. Someone has stumbled upon a natural wonder that could turn science on its head -- was this priceless discovery the catalyst for murder? Before the dust settles, a second untimely death occurs. If Emily can''t stop a killer in their tracks, this Aussie adventure just may be her last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21305'),
(18467, 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life', 'Gerald Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this exhaustive and enlightening biography--nearly two decades in the making--Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century''s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, from his upbringing in backwater Columbia and early journalism career, to the publication of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" at age forty, and the wealth and fame that followed. Based on interviews with more than three hundred of Garcia Marquez''s closest friends, family members, fellow authors, and detractors--as well as the many hours Martin spent with ''Gabo'' himself--the result is a revelation of both the writer and the man. It is as gripping as any of Gabriel Garcia Marquez''s powerful journalism, as enthralling as any of his acclaimed and beloved fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25769'),
(18468, 'Gabriel&#39;s Horn', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The stranger could be insane. Or he just might be our salvation.Archaeologist Annja Creed is more than curious when a decrepit, ancient-looking man visits her, claiming the end of the world is near. The stranger spins wild tales and speaks as if he actually knew King Arthur. But, strangest of all, he insists that Annja is the only one who can stop the horrible event that is about to happen. When Annja''s mentor and friend Roux goes missing, she quickly realizes there may be something to the stranger''s stories. Making her way through the dark and violent underbelly of Istanbul, Annja must find her missing friend and the Holy Grail before the relic gets  into the wrong hands. She may not fully believe the fate of the world is on the line, but she doesn''t really want to die fi nding out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7854'),
(18469, 'Gabriel&#39;s Horn', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The stranger could be insane. Or he just might be our salvation.Archaeologist Annja Creed is more than curious when a decrepit, ancient-looking man visits her, claiming the end of the world is near. The stranger spins wild tales and speaks as if he actually knew King Arthur. But, strangest of all, he insists that Annja is the only one who can stop the horrible event that is about to happen. When Annja''s mentor and friend Roux goes missing, she quickly realizes there may be something to the stranger''s stories. Making her way through the dark and violent underbelly of Istanbul, Annja must find her missing friend and the Holy Grail before the relic gets into the wrong hands. She may not fully believe the fate of the world is on the line, but she doesn''t really want to die fi nding out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16130'),
(18470, 'Gabriel&#39;s Horn', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The stranger could be insane. Or he just might be our salvation.Archaeologist Annja Creed is more than curious when a decrepit, ancient-looking man visits her, claiming the end of the world is near. The stranger spins wild tales and speaks as if he actually knew King Arthur. But, strangest of all, he insists that Annja is the only one who can stop the horrible event that is about to happen. When Annja''s mentor and friend Roux goes missing, she quickly realizes there may be something to the stranger''s stories. Making her way through the dark and violent underbelly of Istanbul, Annja must find her missing friend and the Holy Grail before the relic gets  into the wrong hands. She may not fully believe the fate of the world is on the line, but she doesn''t really want to die fi nding out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26273'),
(18471, 'Galactic Pot-Healer', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Joe Fernwright works as a pot-healer, a repairer of ceramics, in a dull future where there isn''t much call for his skills. He''s broke and bored when the offer from the Glimmung comes along. It might just be the answer to both his financial and spiritual problems, even if it does mean working on a strange project on Plowman''s Planet with other assorted odd creatures. The only thing is that the Glimmung may just be divine and ask for more than Joe''s commitment to the job . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2074'),
(18472, 'Galactic Pot-Healer', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Joe Fernwright works as a pot-healer, a repairer of ceramics, in a dull future where there isn''t much call for his skills. He''s broke and bored when the offer from the Glimmung comes along. It might just be the answer to both his financial and spiritual problems, even if it does mean working on a strange project on Plowman''s Planet with other assorted odd creatures. The only thing is that the Glimmung may just be divine and ask for more than Joe''s commitment to the job . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9274'),
(18473, 'Galactic Pot-healer', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Joe Fernwright works as a pot-healer, a repairer of ceramics, in a dull future where there isn''t much call for his skills. He''s broke and bored when the offer from the Glimmung comes along. It might just be the answer to both his financial and spiritual problems, even if it does mean working on a strange project on Plowman''s Planet with other assorted odd creatures. The only thing is that the Glimmung may just be divine and ask for more than Joe''s commitment to the job . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22692'),
(18474, 'Galaxy', 'Richard Walton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25195'),
(18475, 'The Galaxy Primes', 'E.E. &quot;Doc&quot; Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men and two women, all Psionic Primes, lost in an experimental spaceship billions of parsecs from home. And as they mentally charted the cosmos to find their way back to Earth, their own loves and hates were as startling as the worlds they encountered... Here is E. E. Smith''s classic science fiction novel -- one of the greatest space operas of all time!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18636');
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(18476, 'Galileo&#39;s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love', 'Dava Sobel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief--that the earth revolved around the sun. But did you know he had a daughter? In\n <em>\n  Galileo''s Daughter\n </em>\n , Dava Sobel (author of the bestselling\n <em>\n  Longitude\n </em>\n ) tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste. Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly attached to me." Their loving correspondence revealed much about their world: the agonies of the bubonic plague, the hardships of monastic life, even Galileo''s occasional forgetfulness ("The little basket, which I sent you recently with several pastries, is not mine, and therefore I wish you to return it to me").\n</p>\n<p>\n While Galileo tangled with the Church, Maria Celeste--whose adopted name was a tribute to her father''s fascination with the heavens--provided moral and emotional support with her frequent letters, approving of his work because she knew the depth of his faith. As Sobel notes, "It is difficult today ... to see the Earth at the center of the Universe. Yet that is where Galileo found it." With her fluid prose and graceful turn of phrase, Sobel breathes life into Galileo, his daughter, and the earth-centered world in which they lived.\n <em>\n  --Sunny Delaney\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Despite its title, this impressive book proves to be less the story of Galileo''s elder daughter, the oldest of his three illegitimate children, and more the story of Galileo himself and his trial before the Inquisition for arguing that Earth moves around the Sun. That familiar tale is given a new slant by Sobel''s translationAfor the first time into EnglishAof the 124 surviving letters to Galileo by his daughter, Suor Maria Celeste, a Clarisse nun who died at age 33; his letters to her are lost, presumably destroyed by Maria Celeste''s convent after her death. Her letters may not in themselves justify a book; they are devout, full of pious love for the father she addresses as "Sire," only rarely offering information or insight. But Sobel uses them as the accompaniment to, rather than the core of, her story, sounding the element of faith and piety so often missing in other retellings of Galileo''s story. For Sobel shows that, in renouncing his discoveries, Galileo acted not just to save his skin but also out of a genuine need to align himself with his church. With impressive skill and economy, she portrays the social and psychological forces at work in Galileo''s trial, particularly the political pressures of the Thirty Years'' War, and the passage of the plague through Italy, which cut off travel between Florence, where Galileo lived, and Rome, the seat of the Pope and the Inquisition, delaying Galileo''s appearance there and giving his enemies time to conspire. In a particularly memorable way, Sobel vivifies the hard life of the "Poor Clares," who lived in such abject poverty and seclusion that many were driven mad by their confinement. It''s a wholly involving tale, a worthy follow-up (after four years) to Sobel''s surprise bestseller, Longitude. (Oct.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12375'),
(18477, 'Galore', 'Michael Crummey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to find inside it is a man, silent and reeking of fish, but remarkably alive. The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town scrambling for answers as its most prominent citizens weigh in on whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle or demon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though Judah is a shocking addition, the town of Paradise Deep is already full of unusual characters. King-me Sellers, self-appointed patriarch, has it in for an inscrutable woman known only as Devine''s Widow, with whom he has a decades-old feud. Her granddaughter, Mary Tryphena, is just a child when Judah washes ashore, but finds herself tied to him all her life in ways she never expects. Galore is the story of the saga that develops between these families, full of bitterness and love, spanning two centuries.\n</p>\n<p>\n With Paradise Deep, award-winning novelist...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2796'),
(18478, 'Galore', 'Michael Crummey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to find inside it is a man, silent and reeking of fish, but remarkably alive. The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town scrambling for answers as its most prominent citizens weigh in on whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle or demon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though Judah is a shocking addition, the town of Paradise Deep is already full of unusual characters. King-me Sellers, self-appointed patriarch, has it in for an inscrutable woman known only as Devine''s Widow, with whom he has a decades-old feud. Her granddaughter, Mary Tryphena, is just a child when Judah washes ashore, but finds herself tied to him all her life in ways she never expects. Galore is the story of the saga that develops between these families, full of bitterness and love, spanning two centuries.\n</p>\n<p>\n With Paradise Deep, award-winning novelist...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9154'),
(18479, 'Galore', 'Michael Crummey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to find inside it is a man, silent and reeking of fish, but remarkably alive. The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town scrambling for answers as its most prominent citizens weigh in on whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle or demon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Though Judah is a shocking addition, the town of Paradise Deep is already full of unusual characters. King-me Sellers, self-appointed patriarch, has it in for an inscrutable woman known only as Devine''s Widow, with whom he has a decades-old feud. Her granddaughter, Mary Tryphena, is just a child when Judah washes ashore, but finds herself tied to him all her life in ways she never expects. Galore is the story of the saga that develops between these families, full of bitterness and love, spanning two centuries.\n</p>\n<p>\n With Paradise Deep, award-winning novelist...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21911'),
(18480, 'Gambit: Siege', 'Karen Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  On the Outer Rim, the planet Lanteeb has no strategic value, no political power, and one enormous problem: It has been invaded by an emboldened Separatist Alliance. To find out why, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi have snuck onto Lanteeb--and now look oblivion in the eye. . . .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hiding their lightsabers beneath their dusty disguises, Anakin and Obi-Wan draw on their Jedi skills to stay one step ahead of Lok Durd''s droid army on Lanteeb. The Jedi know that a captive scientist has given Durd the keys to a terrifying bioweapon. Durd knows that the Jedi are on his planet. With Yoda calling on the powers of the Jedi Council, with a new Separatist technology jamming the Guardians'' communications, and with a traitor at the heart of the Republic''s government, the wheels of war are turning. But the Separatists have blockaded Lanteeb. The finishing touches are being put on a weapon to destroy whole worlds. And it will be up to the two Jedi Knights and their most trusted comrades to liberate Lanteeb or forever suffer the consequences.Â \n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Karen Miller was born in Vancouver, Canada, but was raised in Sydney, Australia, where she still lives today. She has worked as a public servant, a receptionist, in the horse industry, in local government, in publishing, in telecommunications, as a college lecturer, and she ran her own science fiction/fantasy/mystery bookshop. So far she''s written eight fantasy novels and two Stargate SG-1 tie-ins, as well as Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Wild Space.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20130'),
(18481, 'The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq', 'Thomas E. Ricks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thomas E. Rick''s news-breaking follow up to the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  &lt; bestseller\n  <em>\n   Fiasco\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Now updated to fully document the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005,\n <em>\n  The Gamble\n </em>\n is the definitive account of the insurgency within the U.S. military that led to a radical shift in America''s strategy. Based on unprecedented real-time access to the military''s entire chain of command, Ricks examines the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the surge was launched, and a very different war began. His stunning conclusion, stated in the last line of the book, is that "the events for which the Iraq war will be remembered probably have not yet happened."\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thomas E. Ricks\n </strong>\n is\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n ''s special military correspondent and a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting. He is the author if\n <em>\n  Fiasco, Making the Corps,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Soldier''s Story\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/634'),
(18482, 'The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq', 'Thomas E. Ricks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thomas E. Rick''s news-breaking follow up to the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  &lt; bestseller\n  <em>\n   Fiasco\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Now updated to fully document the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005,\n <em>\n  The Gamble\n </em>\n is the definitive account of the insurgency within the U.S. military that led to a radical shift in America''s strategy. Based on unprecedented real-time access to the military''s entire chain of command, Ricks examines the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the surge was launched, and a very different war began. His stunning conclusion, stated in the last line of the book, is that "the events for which the Iraq war will be remembered probably have not yet happened."\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thomas E. Ricks\n </strong>\n is\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n ''s special military correspondent and a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting. He is the author if\n <em>\n  Fiasco, Making the Corps,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Soldier''s Story\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13562'),
(18483, 'The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq', 'Thomas E. Ricks', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thomas E. Rick''s news-breaking follow up to the #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  &lt; bestseller\n  <em>\n   Fiasco\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Now updated to fully document the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005,\n <em>\n  The Gamble\n </em>\n is the definitive account of the insurgency within the U.S. military that led to a radical shift in America''s strategy. Based on unprecedented real-time access to the military''s entire chain of command, Ricks examines the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the surge was launched, and a very different war began. His stunning conclusion, stated in the last line of the book, is that "the events for which the Iraq war will be remembered probably have not yet happened."\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Thomas E. Ricks\n </strong>\n is\n <em>\n  The Washington Post\n </em>\n ''s special military correspondent and a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting. He is the author if\n <em>\n  Fiasco, Making the Corps,\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  A Soldier''s Story\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24285'),
(18484, 'Game Change', 'John Heilemann', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14660'),
(18485, 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime', 'John Heilemann &amp; Mark Halperin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "This shit would be really interesting if we weren''t in the middle of it."â€”Barack Obama, September 2008   In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clintonâ€”and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama''s partner and America''s face to the world. The mercurial performance of John McCain and the mesmerizing emergence of Sarah Palin. But despite the wall-to-wall media coverage of this spellbinding drama, remarkably little of the real story behind the headlines has yet been told.   In Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the country''s leading political reporters, use their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns. How did Obama convince himself that, despite the thinness of his rÃ‰sumÃ‰, he could somehow beat the odds to become the nation''s first African American president? How did the tumultuous relationship between the Clintons shapeâ€”and warpâ€”Hillary''s supposedly unstoppable bid? What was behind her husband''s furious outbursts and devastating political miscalculations? Why did McCain make the novice governor of Alaska his running mate? And was Palin merely painfully out of her depthâ€”or troubled in more serious ways?   Game Change answers those questions and more, laying bare the secret history of the 2008 campaign. Heilemann and Halperin take us inside the Obama machine, where staffers referred to the candidate as "Black Jesus." They unearth the quiet conspiracy in the U.S. Senate to prod Obama into the race, driven in part by the fears of senior Democrats that Bill Clinton''s personal life might cripple Hillary''s presidential prospects. They expose the twisted tale of John Edwards''s affair with Rielle Hunter, the truth behind the downfall of Rudy Giuliani, and the doubts of those responsible for vetting Palin about her readiness for the Republican ticketâ€”along with the McCain campaign staff''s worries about her fitness for office. And they reveal how, in an emotional late-night phone call, Obama succeeded in wooing Clinton, despite her staunch resistance, to become his secretary of state.   Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character driven and dialogue rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, this is the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4338'),
(18486, 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime', 'John Heilemann &amp; Mark Halperin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "This shit would be really interesting if we weren''t in the middle of it."â€”Barack Obama, September 2008   In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clintonâ€”and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama''s partner and America''s face to the world. The mercurial performance of John McCain and the mesmerizing emergence of Sarah Palin. But despite the wall-to-wall media coverage of this spellbinding drama, remarkably little of the real story behind the headlines has yet been told.   In Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the country''s leading political reporters, use their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns. How did Obama convince himself that, despite the thinness of his rÃ‰sumÃ‰, he could somehow beat the odds to become the nation''s first African American president? How did the tumultuous relationship between the Clintons shapeâ€”and warpâ€”Hillary''s supposedly unstoppable bid? What was behind her husband''s furious outbursts and devastating political miscalculations? Why did McCain make the novice governor of Alaska his running mate? And was Palin merely painfully out of her depthâ€”or troubled in more serious ways?   Game Change answers those questions and more, laying bare the secret history of the 2008 campaign. Heilemann and Halperin take us inside the Obama machine, where staffers referred to the candidate as "Black Jesus." They unearth the quiet conspiracy in the U.S. Senate to prod Obama into the race, driven in part by the fears of senior Democrats that Bill Clinton''s personal life might cripple Hillary''s presidential prospects. They expose the twisted tale of John Edwards''s affair with Rielle Hunter, the truth behind the downfall of Rudy Giuliani, and the doubts of those responsible for vetting Palin about her readiness for the Republican ticketâ€”along with the McCain campaign staff''s worries about her fitness for office. And they reveal how, in an emotional late-night phone call, Obama succeeded in wooing Clinton, despite her staunch resistance, to become his secretary of state.   Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character driven and dialogue rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, this is the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10219'),
(18487, 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime', 'John Heilemann; Mark Halperin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "This shit would be really interesting if we weren''t in the middle of it."â€”Barack Obama, September 2008 In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clintonâ€”and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama''s partner and America''s face to the world. The mercurial performance of John McCain and the mesmerizing emergence of Sarah Palin. But despite the wall-to-wall media coverage of this spellbinding drama, remarkably little of the real story behind the headlines has yet been told. In Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the country''s leading political reporters, use their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns. How did Obama convince himself that, despite the thinness of his rÃ‰sumÃ‰, he could somehow beat the odds to become the nation''s first African American president? How did the tumultuous relationship between the Clintons shapeâ€”and warpâ€”Hillary''s supposedly unstoppable bid? What was behind her husband''s furious outbursts and devastating political miscalculations? Why did McCain make the novice governor of Alaska his running mate? And was Palin merely painfully out of her depthâ€”or troubled in more serious ways? Game Change answers those questions and more, laying bare the secret history of the 2008 campaign. Heilemann and Halperin take us inside the Obama machine, where staffers referred to the candidate as "Black Jesus." They unearth the quiet conspiracy in the U.S. Senate to prod Obama into the race, driven in part by the fears of senior Democrats that Bill Clinton''s personal life might cripple Hillary''s presidential prospects. They expose the twisted tale of John Edwards''s affair with Rielle Hunter, the truth behind the downfall of Rudy Giuliani, and the doubts of those responsible for vetting Palin about her readiness for the Republican ticketâ€”along with the McCain campaign staff''s worries about her fitness for office. And they reveal how, in an emotional late-night phone call, Obama succeeded in wooing Clinton, despite her staunch resistance, to become his secretary of state. Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character driven and dialogue rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, this is the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20275'),
(18488, 'Game of Patience', 'Susanne Alleyn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After\n <em>\n  A Far Better Rest\n </em>\n (2000), an homage to Dickens''s\n <em>\n  A Tale of Two Cities\n </em>\n , Alleyn returns to postrevolutionary Paris in her second novel, a taut police procedural. In the fall of 1796, police spy Aristide Ravel, who''s haunted by fears that he has helped send dozens of innocent victims to the guillotine, and his employer, Commissaire Brasseur, investigate the slaying of Jean-Louis Saint-Ange, a property owner who lived on his rents, and Saint-Ange''s ex-lover, CÃ©lie Montereau. Saint-Ange had apparently been extorting money from aristocratic families, and few, including his colorful porter, Grangier, mourn his demise. Despite qualms about "mistakenly being the cause of a man''s death," Aristide dutifully interviews anxious former associates of CÃ©lie and her well-to-do parents in search of the truth. Full of authentic historical detail, ranging from the rise of General Bonaparte to the antics of flamboyant\n <em>\n  incroyables\n </em>\n (cross-dressers), the story builds to an emotionally charged climax in which Aristide reveals painful secrets from his own past.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alleyn brought revolutionary-era France to life vividly in her debut novel,_ A Far Better_\n <em>\n  Rest\n </em>\n (2000), a reimagining of Dickens''\n <em>\n  A\n </em>\n Tale of Two Cities, and she revisits the era in this mystery. Aristide Ravel, an associate of the police force, is called in when Louis Saint-Ange, a man of means but questionable repute, is found murdered alongside a young woman. At first Ravel and his associate, Commissaire Brasseur, focus on Saint-Ange, a blackmailer with dirt on many upper-class denizens, but when they identify the girl as Celie Montereau, a young woman from a wealthy family, they begin to dig into the girl''s past only to discover she bore an illegitimate child and had a clandestine lover. Ravel and Brasseur track the young man, but even as the evidence mounts against him, Ravel fears he might be innocent and loathes the idea of convicting an innocent man in an climate that has already seen so much bloodshed. Grounded by a complex, haunted hero, the suspense in this layered mystery builds slowly but reaches a breakneck speed.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/906'),
(18489, 'Game of Patience', 'Susanne Alleyn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After\n <em>\n  A Far Better Rest\n </em>\n (2000), an homage to Dickens''s\n <em>\n  A Tale of Two Cities\n </em>\n , Alleyn returns to postrevolutionary Paris in her second novel, a taut police procedural. In the fall of 1796, police spy Aristide Ravel, who''s haunted by fears that he has helped send dozens of innocent victims to the guillotine, and his employer, Commissaire Brasseur, investigate the slaying of Jean-Louis Saint-Ange, a property owner who lived on his rents, and Saint-Ange''s ex-lover, CÃ©lie Montereau. Saint-Ange had apparently been extorting money from aristocratic families, and few, including his colorful porter, Grangier, mourn his demise. Despite qualms about "mistakenly being the cause of a man''s death," Aristide dutifully interviews anxious former associates of CÃ©lie and her well-to-do parents in search of the truth. Full of authentic historical detail, ranging from the rise of General Bonaparte to the antics of flamboyant\n <em>\n  incroyables\n </em>\n (cross-dressers), the story builds to an emotionally charged climax in which Aristide reveals painful secrets from his own past.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alleyn brought revolutionary-era France to life vividly in her debut novel,_ A Far Better_\n <em>\n  Rest\n </em>\n (2000), a reimagining of Dickens''\n <em>\n  A\n </em>\n Tale of Two Cities, and she revisits the era in this mystery. Aristide Ravel, an associate of the police force, is called in when Louis Saint-Ange, a man of means but questionable repute, is found murdered alongside a young woman. At first Ravel and his associate, Commissaire Brasseur, focus on Saint-Ange, a blackmailer with dirt on many upper-class denizens, but when they identify the girl as Celie Montereau, a young woman from a wealthy family, they begin to dig into the girl''s past only to discover she bore an illegitimate child and had a clandestine lover. Ravel and Brasseur track the young man, but even as the evidence mounts against him, Ravel fears he might be innocent and loathes the idea of convicting an innocent man in an climate that has already seen so much bloodshed. Grounded by a complex, haunted hero, the suspense in this layered mystery builds slowly but reaches a breakneck speed.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9305'),
(18490, 'Game of Patience', 'Susanne Alleyn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After\n <em>\n  A Far Better Rest\n </em>\n (2000), an homage to Dickens''s\n <em>\n  A Tale of Two Cities\n </em>\n , Alleyn returns to postrevolutionary Paris in her second novel, a taut police procedural. In the fall of 1796, police spy Aristide Ravel, who''s haunted by fears that he has helped send dozens of innocent victims to the guillotine, and his employer, Commissaire Brasseur, investigate the slaying of Jean-Louis Saint-Ange, a property owner who lived on his rents, and Saint-Ange''s ex-lover, CÃ©lie Montereau. Saint-Ange had apparently been extorting money from aristocratic families, and few, including his colorful porter, Grangier, mourn his demise. Despite qualms about "mistakenly being the cause of a man''s death," Aristide dutifully interviews anxious former associates of CÃ©lie and her well-to-do parents in search of the truth. Full of authentic historical detail, ranging from the rise of General Bonaparte to the antics of flamboyant\n <em>\n  incroyables\n </em>\n (cross-dressers), the story builds to an emotionally charged climax in which Aristide reveals painful secrets from his own past.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Alleyn brought revolutionary-era France to life vividly in her debut novel,_ A Far Better_\n <em>\n  Rest\n </em>\n (2000), a reimagining of Dickens''\n <em>\n  A\n </em>\n Tale of Two Cities, and she revisits the era in this mystery. Aristide Ravel, an associate of the police force, is called in when Louis Saint-Ange, a man of means but questionable repute, is found murdered alongside a young woman. At first Ravel and his associate, Commissaire Brasseur, focus on Saint-Ange, a blackmailer with dirt on many upper-class denizens, but when they identify the girl as Celie Montereau, a young woman from a wealthy family, they begin to dig into the girl''s past only to discover she bore an illegitimate child and had a clandestine lover. Ravel and Brasseur track the young man, but even as the evidence mounts against him, Ravel fears he might be innocent and loathes the idea of convicting an innocent man in an climate that has already seen so much bloodshed. Grounded by a complex, haunted hero, the suspense in this layered mystery builds slowly but reaches a breakneck speed.\n <em>\n  Kristine Huntley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23930'),
(18491, 'A Game of Thrones', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin'' s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin'' s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. A Game of Thrones Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom'' s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win thatdeadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5410'),
(18492, 'A Game of Thrones', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin'' s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin'' s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. A Game of Thrones Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom'' s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win thatdeadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11262'),
(18493, 'A Game Of Thrones', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14514'),
(18494, 'A Game Of Thrones', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin'' s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin'' s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. A Game of Thrones Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom'' s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win thatdeadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19247'),
(18495, 'A Game Of Thrones', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin'' s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin'' s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. A Game of Thrones Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom'' s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win thatdeadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28004'),
(18496, 'The Game On! Diet: Kick Your Friend&#39;s Butt While Shrinking Your Own', 'Krista Vernoff &amp; Az Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Game On! Diet* is not a diet. It''s a bold new approach to fitness that turns the latest, smartest, most successful health science into a fun, fierce, and exhilarating game. Developed by Az Ferguson, to help *Grey''s Anatomy* writer Krista Vernoff shed forty pounds of postpregnancy weight, it is the ideal program for busy people who should be working out but have a thousand good excuses not to.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Az keeps you motivated and Krista keeps you laughing as they show you how to organize opposing teams, set goals, and compete to earn points for daily exercise, healthy meal plans, and positive lifestyle changes. With *The Game On! Diet*, the process of losing weight, for the first time ever, is actually fun. After all, what''s better than a bikini body . . . *and* bragging rights?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Get out there and lose . . . to win! *Game on!*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3743'),
(18497, 'The Game On! Diet: Kick Your Friend&#39;s Butt While Shrinking Your Own', 'Krista Vernoff &amp; Az Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Game On! Diet* is not a diet. It''s a bold new approach to fitness that turns the latest, smartest, most successful health science into a fun, fierce, and exhilarating game. Developed by Az Ferguson, to help *Grey''s Anatomy* writer Krista Vernoff shed forty pounds of postpregnancy weight, it is the ideal program for busy people who should be working out but have a thousand good excuses not to.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Az keeps you motivated and Krista keeps you laughing as they show you how to organize opposing teams, set goals, and compete to earn points for daily exercise, healthy meal plans, and positive lifestyle changes. With *The Game On! Diet*, the process of losing weight, for the first time ever, is actually fun. After all, what''s better than a bikini body . . . *and* bragging rights?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Get out there and lose . . . to win! *Game on!*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13211'),
(18498, 'The Game On! Diet: Kick Your Friend&#39;s Butt While Shrinking Your Own', 'Krista Vernoff; Az Ferguson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Game On! Diet* is not a diet. It''s a bold new approach to fitness that turns the latest, smartest, most successful health science into a fun, fierce, and exhilarating game. Developed by Az Ferguson, to help *Grey''s Anatomy* writer Krista Vernoff shed forty pounds of postpregnancy weight, it is the ideal program for busy people who should be working out but have a thousand good excuses not to. Az keeps you motivated and Krista keeps you laughing as they show you how to organize opposing teams, set goals, and compete to earn points for daily exercise, healthy meal plans, and positive lifestyle changes. With *The Game On! Diet*, the process of losing weight, for the first time ever, is actually fun. After all, what''s better than a bikini body . . . *and* bragging rights? Get out there and lose . . . to win! *Game on!*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20914'),
(18499, 'Game Over', 'Adele Parks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cas Perry wants nothing to do with love -- her dad walking out on her mother was quite enough romantic drama, thank you very much. And why should she bother with relationships when she can manipulate just about any man for sex? The steely-hearted TV producer plays with other people''s love lives and orchestrates unscripted fireworks on the edgy reality show "Sex with an Ex" -- a ratings blockbuster that is sending her already-hot career skyrocketing.  Now, the woman who has all the answers meets the man who, for the first time, poses questions other than "buy you a drink?." Stunningly handsome Darren would be a sensation on "Sex with an Ex" -- and Cas needs him to ensure the show''s success. So why is she wining and dining the sexiest man she''s ever met -- and talking about family values, marriage, and fidelity? Darren''s principles are changing the rules of attraction. And this may be one game Cas won''t mind losing....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12'),
(18500, 'Game Over', 'Adele Parks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Cas Perry wants nothing to do with love -- her dad walking out on her mother was quite enough romantic drama, thank you very much. And why should she bother with relationships when she can manipulate just about any man for sex? The steely-hearted TV producer plays with other people''s love lives and orchestrates unscripted fireworks on the edgy reality show "Sex with an Ex" -- a ratings blockbuster that is sending her already-hot career skyrocketing.  Now, the woman who has all the answers meets the man who, for the first time, poses questions other than "buy you a drink?." Stunningly handsome Darren would be a sensation on "Sex with an Ex" -- and Cas needs him to ensure the show''s success. So why is she wining and dining the sexiest man she''s ever met -- and talking about family values, marriage, and fidelity? Darren''s principles are changing the rules of attraction. And this may be one game Cas won''t mind losing....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11783'),
(18501, 'Game Over', 'Adele Parks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Cas Perry wants nothing to do with love -- her dad walking out on her mother was quite enough romantic drama, thank you very much. And why should she bother with relationships when she can manipulate just about any man for sex? The steely-hearted TV producer plays with other people''s love lives and orchestrates unscripted fireworks on the edgy reality show "Sex with an Ex" -- a ratings blockbuster that is sending her already-hot career skyrocketing. Now, the woman who has all the answers meets the man who, for the first time, poses questions other than "buy you a drink?." Stunningly handsome Darren would be a sensation on "Sex with an Ex" -- and Cas needs him to ensure the show''s success. So why is she wining and dining the sexiest man she''s ever met -- and talking about family values, marriage, and fidelity? Darren''s principles are changing the rules of attraction. And this may be one game Cas won''t mind losing....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17214'),
(18502, 'The Game-Players of Titan', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this sardonically funny gem of speculative fiction, Philip K. Dick creates a novel that manages to be simultaneously unpredictable and perversely logical. Poor Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley. He''s also lost his wife, but he''ll get a new one as soon as he rolls a three. It''s all part of the rules of Bluff, the game that''s become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of the planet Earth. But the rules are about to change--drastically and terminally--because Pete Garden will be playing his next game against an opponent who isn''t even human, for stakes that are a lot higher than Berkeley. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2089'),
(18503, 'The Game-Players of Titan', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this sardonically funny gem of speculative fiction, Philip K. Dick creates a novel that manages to be simultaneously unpredictable and perversely logical. Poor Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley. He''s also lost his wife, but he''ll get a new one as soon as he rolls a three. It''s all part of the rules of Bluff, the game that''s become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of the planet Earth. But the rules are about to change--drastically and terminally--because Pete Garden will be playing his next game against an opponent who isn''t even human, for stakes that are a lot higher than Berkeley. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9275'),
(18504, 'The Game-Players of Titan', 'Philip K. Dick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this sardonically funny gem of speculative fiction, Philip K. Dick creates a novel that manages to be simultaneously unpredictable and perversely logical. Poor Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley. He''s also lost his wife, but he''ll get a new one as soon as he rolls a three. It''s all part of the rules of Bluff, the game that''s become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of the planet Earth. But the rules are about to change--drastically and terminally--because Pete Garden will be playing his next game against an opponent who isn''t even human, for stakes that are a lot higher than Berkeley. "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22670'),
(18505, 'The Game', 'Neil Strauss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In The Game, Neil Strauss delves into the bizarre underworld of `pickup artists'' - men who have devoted their lives to different techniques of seducing women. These are men with their own vernacular and codes of honour, who operate online and in person, who are so committed to honing their strategies that they give each other seminars and live together in shared houses - or `Projects'', as they like to call them. Neil Strauss lived amongst the players and survived - but not before he became one of them. In the course of two years, he transformed himself from a self-confessed balding, skinny writer into the quick-thinking, smooth-talking Style, a character irresistible to women, half psychologist, half magician. He became friends with the other players. He used his Game techniques on Britney Spears. By turns jaw-dropping, poignant and side-splittingly funny, The Game is a gripping portrait of a mad, self-referential community in the process of slow implosion. With guest appearances from Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise (whose character in Magnolia is based on a real-life pickup artist) and Courtney Love, who lived with Neil in `Project Hollywood'' for a while, The Game is also the most sensational relationships manual since The Rules - essential reading for men and women alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2648');
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(18506, 'The Game', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Laurie R. Kingâ€™s bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a rich and atmospheric tale that takes them to India to save the life of one of literatureâ€™s most fabled heroes.Itâ€™s the second day of the new year, 1924, and Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes. But the fragile peace will be fleetingâ€”for a visit with Holmesâ€™s gravely ill brother, Mycroft, brings news of an intrigue that is sure to halt their respite. Mycroft, who has ties to the highest levels of the government, has just received a strange package. The oilskin-wrapped packet contains the papers of a missing English spy named Kimball Oâ€™Haraâ€”indeed, the same Kimball who served as the inspiration for Rudyard Kiplingâ€™s famed Kim. An orphaned English boy turned loose in India, Kim long used his cunning to spy for the Crown. But after inexplicably withdrawing from the â€œGreat Gameâ€ of border espionage, heâ€™s gone missing and is feared taken hostageâ€”or even killed.When Russell learns of Holmesâ€™s own secret friendship with Kim some thirty years before, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But even before they arrive, danger will show its face in everything from a suspicious passenger on board their steamer to an â€œaccidentâ€ that very nearly claims their lives. Once in India, Russell and Holmes must travel incognitoâ€”no small task for the English lady and her lanky companion. But after a twist of fate forces the couple to part ways, Russell learns that in this faraway place itâ€™s often impossible to tell friend from foeâ€”and that some games must be played out until their deadly end.Showcasing Kingâ€™s masterful plotting and skill at making history leap from the page, The Game brings alive an India fraught with unrest and poised for changeâ€”and an unpredictable mystery with brilliance and character to match.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8028'),
(18507, 'The Game', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Laurie R. Kingâ€™s bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a rich and atmospheric tale that takes them to India to save the life of one of literatureâ€™s most fabled heroes.Itâ€™s the second day of the new year, 1924, and Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes. But the fragile peace will be fleetingâ€”for a visit with Holmesâ€™s gravely ill brother, Mycroft, brings news of an intrigue that is sure to halt their respite. Mycroft, who has ties to the highest levels of the government, has just received a strange package. The oilskin-wrapped packet contains the papers of a missing English spy named Kimball Oâ€™Haraâ€”indeed, the same Kimball who served as the inspiration for Rudyard Kiplingâ€™s famed Kim. An orphaned English boy turned loose in India, Kim long used his cunning to spy for the Crown. But after inexplicably withdrawing from the â€œGreat Gameâ€ of border espionage, heâ€™s gone missing and is feared taken hostageâ€”or even killed.When Russell learns of Holmesâ€™s own secret friendship with Kim some thirty years before, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But even before they arrive, danger will show its face in everything from a suspicious passenger on board their steamer to an â€œaccidentâ€ that very nearly claims their lives. Once in India, Russell and Holmes must travel incognitoâ€”no small task for the English lady and her lanky companion. But after a twist of fate forces the couple to part ways, Russell learns that in this faraway place itâ€™s often impossible to tell friend from foeâ€”and that some games must be played out until their deadly end.Showcasing Kingâ€™s masterful plotting and skill at making history leap from the page, The Game brings alive an India fraught with unrest and poised for changeâ€”and an unpredictable mystery with brilliance and character to match.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10730'),
(18508, 'The Game', 'Neil Strauss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In The Game, Neil Strauss delves into the bizarre underworld of `pickup artists'' - men who have devoted their lives to different techniques of seducing women. These are men with their own vernacular and codes of honour, who operate online and in person, who are so committed to honing their strategies that they give each other seminars and live together in shared houses - or `Projects'', as they like to call them. Neil Strauss lived amongst the players and survived - but not before he became one of them. In the course of two years, he transformed himself from a self-confessed balding, skinny writer into the quick-thinking, smooth-talking Style, a character irresistible to women, half psychologist, half magician. He became friends with the other players. He used his Game techniques on Britney Spears. By turns jaw-dropping, poignant and side-splittingly funny, The Game is a gripping portrait of a mad, self-referential community in the process of slow implosion. With guest appearances from Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise (whose character in Magnolia is based on a real-life pickup artist) and Courtney Love, who lived with Neil in `Project Hollywood'' for a while, The Game is also the most sensational relationships manual since The Rules - essential reading for men and women alike.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13838'),
(18509, 'The Game', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21089'),
(18510, 'Gameprey', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik &amp; Mel Odom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A computer game convention becomes a hunting ground when the monsters from a new game escape and attack two members of the Net Force Explorers in virtual reality. Though nobody believes the danger is real, Matt and Maj call in the rest of the Explorers to discover who is behind the deadly rampage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/536'),
(18511, 'Gameprey', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve R. Pieczenik &amp; Mel Odom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A computer game convention becomes a hunting ground when the monsters from a new game escape and attack two members of the Net Force Explorers in virtual reality. Though nobody believes the danger is real, Matt and Maj call in the rest of the Explorers to discover who is behind the deadly rampage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8994'),
(18512, 'Gameprey', 'Tom Clancy; Steve R. Pieczenik; Mel Odom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A computer game convention becomes a hunting ground when the monsters from a new game escape and attack two members of the Net Force Explorers in virtual reality. Though nobody believes the danger is real, Matt and Maj call in the rest of the Explorers to discover who is behind the deadly rampage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24337'),
(18513, 'Games of State', 'Tom Clancy; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the newly unified Germany, old horrors are reborn. It is the beginning of Chaos Days, a time when neo-Nazi groups gather to spread violence and resurrect dead dreams. But this year Germany isn''t the only target. Plans are afoot to destabilize Europe and cause turmoil throughout the United States. Paul Hood and his team, already in Germany to buy a technology for the new Regional Op-Center, become entangled in the crisis. They uncover a shocking force behind the chaos -- a group that uses cutting-edge technology to promote hate and to influence world events. A powerful profile of America''s defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology, Tom Clancy''s Op-Center is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik -- inspiring this and other gripping novels.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25000'),
(18514, 'Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets', 'Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **First introduced in *Freakonomics*, here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of Chicago''s most notorious gangs**  The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world''s attention when it was first described in *Freakonomics*. *Gang Leader for a Day* is the fascinating full story of how  Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrÅ½e into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.  When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago''s most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty. A first-year grad student hoping to impress his professors with his boldness, he never imagined that as a result of the assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT''s protection, documenting what he saw there.  Over the next seven years, Venkatesh got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his privileged position of unprecedented access, he observed JT and the rest of the gang as they operated their crack-selling business, conducted PR within their community, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang''s complex organizational structure.  In Hollywood-speak, *Gang Leader for a Day* is *The Wire* meets Harvard University. It''s a brazen, page turning, and fundamentally honest view into the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in what is tantamount to an urban war zone. It is also the story of a complicated friendship between Sudhir and JT-two young and ambitious men a universe apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/943'),
(18515, 'Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets', 'Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **First introduced in *Freakonomics*, here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of Chicago''s most notorious gangs**  The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world''s attention when it was first described in *Freakonomics*. *Gang Leader for a Day* is the fascinating full story of how  Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrÅ½e into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.  When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago''s most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty. A first-year grad student hoping to impress his professors with his boldness, he never imagined that as a result of the assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT''s protection, documenting what he saw there.  Over the next seven years, Venkatesh got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his privileged position of unprecedented access, he observed JT and the rest of the gang as they operated their crack-selling business, conducted PR within their community, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang''s complex organizational structure.  In Hollywood-speak, *Gang Leader for a Day* is *The Wire* meets Harvard University. It''s a brazen, page turning, and fundamentally honest view into the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in what is tantamount to an urban war zone. It is also the story of a complicated friendship between Sudhir and JT-two young and ambitious men a universe apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13220'),
(18516, 'Gang leader for a day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets', 'Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **First introduced in *Freakonomics*, here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of Chicago''s most notorious gangs** The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world''s attention when it was first described in *Freakonomics*. *Gang Leader for a Day* is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrÅ½e into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment. When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago''s most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty. A first-year grad student hoping to impress his professors with his boldness, he never imagined that as a result of the assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT''s protection, documenting what he saw there. Over the next seven years, Venkatesh got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his privileged position of unprecedented access, he observed JT and the rest of the gang as they operated their crack-selling business, conducted PR within their community, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang''s complex organizational structure. In Hollywood-speak, *Gang Leader for a Day* is *The Wire* meets Harvard University. It''s a brazen, page turning, and fundamentally honest view into the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in what is tantamount to an urban war zone. It is also the story of a complicated friendship between Sudhir and JT-two young and ambitious men a universe apart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24032'),
(18517, 'The Gang That Wouldn&#39;t Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution', 'Marc Weingarten', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Advance Praise for\n  <em>\n   The Gang That Wouldnâ€™t Write Straight\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œItâ€™s always complicated to write about writing (and about writers), but Marc Weingarten does it effortlessly. Every character in\n <em>\n  The Gang That Wouldnâ€™t Write Straight\n </em>\n is compelling and necessary. If this book doesnâ€™t make you want to be a journalist, nothing will.â€ â€”Chuck Klosterman, author of\n <em>\n  Killing Yourself to Live\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWell-researched, beautifully wroughtâ€”this is an addictively readable history of the revolution in American journalism.â€ â€”T. C. Boyle, author of\n <em>\n  Drop City\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWeingarten is a strong, fresh voice in contemporary cultural criticism.â€ â€”Alvin Toffler, author of\n <em>\n  Future Shock\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  . . . In Cold Blood, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Armies of the Night . . .\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Starting in 1965 and spanning a ten-year period, a group of writers including Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, John Sack, and Michael Herr emerged and joined a few of their pioneering elders, including Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, to remake American letters. The perfect chroniclers of an age of frenzied cultural change, they were blessed with the insight that traditional tools of reporting would prove inadequate to tell the story of a nation manically hopscotching from hope to doom and back againâ€”from war to rock, assassination to drugs, hippies to Yippies, Kennedy to the dark lord Nixon. Traditional just-the-facts reporting simply couldnâ€™t provide a neat and symmetrical order to this chaos.\n</p>\n<p>\n Marc Weingarten has interviewed many of the major players to provide a startling behind-the-scenes account of the rise and fall of the most revolutionary literary outpouring of the postwar era, set against the backdrop of some of the most turbulentâ€”and significantâ€”years in contemporary American life. These are the stories behind those stories, from Tom Wolfeâ€™s white-suited adventures in the counterculture to Hunter S. Thompsonâ€™s drug-addled invention of gonzo to Michael Herrâ€™s redefinition of war reporting in the hell of Vietnam. Weingarten also tells the deeper backstory, recounting the rich and surprising history of the editors and the magazines who made the movement possible, notably the three greatest editors of the eraâ€”Harold Hayes at\n <em>\n  Esquire\n </em>\n , Clay Felker at\n <em>\n  New York\n </em>\n , and Jann Wenner at\n <em>\n  Rolling Stone\n </em>\n . And finally Weingarten takes us through the demise of the New Journalists, a tragedy of hubris, miscalculation, and corporate menacing.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the story of perhaps the last great good time in American journalism, a time when writers didnâ€™t just cover stories but immersed themselves in them, and when journalism didnâ€™t just report America but reshaped it.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œWithin a seven-year period,\n </em>\n a group of writers emerged, seemingly out of nowhereâ€”Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, John Sack, Michael Herrâ€”to impose some order on all of this American mayhem, each in his or her own distinctive manner (a few old hands, like Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, chipped in, as well). They came to tell us stories about ourselves in ways that we couldnâ€™t, stories about the way life was being lived in the sixties and seventies and what it all meant to us. The stakes were high; deep fissures were rending the social fabric, the world was out of order. So they became our master explainers, our town criers, even our moral conscienceâ€”the New Journalists.â€\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€”from the Introduction\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12306'),
(18518, 'Garadina din Rama', 'Arthur C. Clarke &amp; Gentry Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26059'),
(18519, 'A Garden of Earthly Delights', 'Joyce Carol Oates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Joyce Carol Oatesâ€™s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, determined not to repeat her motherâ€™s life, Clara struggles for independence by way of her relationships with four very different men: her father, a family man turned itinerant laborer, smoldering with resentment; the mysterious Lowry, who rescues Clara as a teenager and offers her the possibility of love; Revere, a wealthy landowner who provides Clara with stability; and Swan, Claraâ€™s son, who bears the psychological and spiritual burden of his motherâ€™s ambition.A masterly work from a writer with â€œthe uncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her Americaâ€ (National Review), A Garden of Earthly Delights is the opening stanza in what would become one of the most powerful and engrossing story arcs in literature.A Garden of Earthly Delights is the first novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, Expensive People, them, and Wonderland, are also available from the Modern Library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3955'),
(18520, 'A Garden of Earthly Delights', 'Joyce Carol Oates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Joyce Carol Oatesâ€™s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, determined not to repeat her motherâ€™s life, Clara struggles for independence by way of her relationships with four very different men: her father, a family man turned itinerant laborer, smoldering with resentment; the mysterious Lowry, who rescues Clara as a teenager and offers her the possibility of love; Revere, a wealthy landowner who provides Clara with stability; and Swan, Claraâ€™s son, who bears the psychological and spiritual burden of his motherâ€™s ambition.A masterly work from a writer with â€œthe uncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her Americaâ€ (National Review), A Garden of Earthly Delights is the opening stanza in what would become one of the most powerful and engrossing story arcs in literature.A Garden of Earthly Delights is the first novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, Expensive People, them, and Wonderland, are also available from the Modern Library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11715'),
(18521, 'A Garden of Earthly Delights', 'Joyce Carol Oates', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Joyce Carol Oatesâ€™s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, determined not to repeat her motherâ€™s life, Clara struggles for independence by way of her relationships with four very different men: her father, a family man turned itinerant laborer, smoldering with resentment; the mysterious Lowry, who rescues Clara as a teenager and offers her the possibility of love; Revere, a wealthy landowner who provides Clara with stability; and Swan, Claraâ€™s son, who bears the psychological and spiritual burden of his motherâ€™s ambition.A masterly work from a writer with â€œthe uncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her Americaâ€ (National Review), A Garden of Earthly Delights is the opening stanza in what would become one of the most powerful and engrossing story arcs in literature.A Garden of Earthly Delights is the first novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, Expensive People, them, and Wonderland, are also available from the Modern Library.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20240'),
(18522, 'Garden of Eden', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n An edited version of a narrative abandoned by the Nobel laureate, The Garden of Eden is about a young American couple in Europe on an extended honeymoon. PW stated that while the manuscript is of scholarly interest, it does not hold up as a "bona fide Hemingway novel."\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A few shards survive in the sandy ruins of Hemingway''s garden of Eden: the pastoral and sensual delights of loving and swimming in Provence and Spain; the pleasure the hero, a novelist, feels when he writes "truly" about his father and hunting in Africa. The rest is madness, cruelty, and corruption. Unfortunately, neither the joy nor the terror profoundly engages the reader. The bisexual grotesqueries that bind David Bourne, his antic wife, and their complaisant woman lover are for the most part silly or banal, not even sufficiently bizarre to shock. What we have here is juiceless gossip. As fiction, the book utterly failsclumsily plotted, thematically vague and indecisive, the characters unfleshed caricatures. Even Hemingway''s lyrical eloquence is stripped to frayed cliches. How then to justify publishing an edited version of a manuscript Hemingway labored over unsuccessfully for 15 years? Arthur Waldhorn, English Dept., City Coll., CUNY\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18507'),
(18523, 'The Garden Of Eden', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An edited version of a narrative abandoned by the Nobel laureate, The Garden of Eden is about a young American couple in Europe on an extended honeymoon. PW stated that while the manuscript is of scholarly interest, it does not hold up as a "bona fide Hemingway novel."\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A few shards survive in the sandy ruins of Hemingway''s garden of Eden: the pastoral and sensual delights of loving and swimming in Provence and Spain; the pleasure the hero, a novelist, feels when he writes "truly" about his father and hunting in Africa. The rest is madness, cruelty, and corruption. Unfortunately, neither the joy nor the terror profoundly engages the reader. The bisexual grotesqueries that bind David Bourne, his antic wife, and their complaisant woman lover are for the most part silly or banal, not even sufficiently bizarre to shock. What we have here is juiceless gossip. As fiction, the book utterly failsclumsily plotted, thematically vague and indecisive, the characters unfleshed caricatures. Even Hemingway''s lyrical eloquence is stripped to frayed cliches. How then to justify publishing an edited version of a manuscript Hemingway labored over unsuccessfully for 15 years? Arthur Waldhorn, English Dept., City Coll., CUNY\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25857'),
(18524, 'The Garden of Rama', 'Arthur C. Clarke;Gentry Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the year 2130 a mysterious spaceship, Rama, arrived in the solar system. It was huge - big enough to contain a city and a sea - and empty, apparently abandoned. By the time Rama departed for its next unknown destination, many wonders had been uncovered, but few mysteries solved. Only one thing was clear: everything the enigmatic builders of Rama did, they did in threes.Now Rama II is on its way out of the solar system. Aboard it are three humans, two men and a woman, left behind when the expedition departed. Ahead of them lies the unknown, a voyage no human has ever experienced.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15656'),
(18525, 'The Garden of Rama', 'Arthur C. Clarke;Gentry Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the year 2130 a mysterious spaceship, Rama, arrived in the solar system. It was huge - big enough to contain a city and a sea - and empty, apparently abandoned. By the time Rama departed for its next unknown destination, many wonders had been uncovered, but few mysteries solved. Only one thing was clear: everything the enigmatic builders of Rama did, they did in threes.Now Rama II is on its way out of the solar system. Aboard it are three humans, two men and a woman, left behind when the expedition departed. Ahead of them lies the unknown, a voyage no human has ever experienced.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26503'),
(18526, 'The Garden of Rama', 'Arthur C. Clarke &amp; Gentry Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the spellbinding Arthur C. Clarke tradition, here is an exhilarating adventure into the hearts of both the Universe and mankind...By the twenty-third century Earth has already had two encounters with massive, mysterious robotic spacecraft from beyond our solar system--the incontestable proof of an alien technology that far exceeds our own. Now three human cosmonauts are trapped aboard a labyrinthine Raman vessel, where it will take all of their physical and mental resources to surviv. Only twelve years into their journey do these intrepid travelers learn their destination and face their ultimate challenge: a rendevous with a Raman base--and the unseen architects of their galactic home. The cosmonauts have given up family, friends, and possessions to live a new kind of life. But the answers that await them at the Raman Node will require an even greater sacrifice--if humanity is indeed ready to learn the awe-inspiring truth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26509'),
(18527, 'The Garden Party and Other Stories', 'Katherine Mansfield &amp; Lorna Sage', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield''s tragically short life. Many are set in the author''s native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic "The Daughters of the Late Colonel", and the short, sharp sketch "Miss Brill", in which a lonely woman''s precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in "At the Bay". ''All that I write,'' Mansfield said, ''all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.''\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in New Zealand in 1888, Kathering Mansfield Beauchamp was primarily a writer of short stories. She published Prelude and The Garden Party and Other Stories before her premature death from TB in 1923. One more book (Something Childish) and her journal and letters were published posthumously.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3773'),
(18528, 'The Garden Party and Other Stories', 'Katherine Mansfield &amp; Lorna Sage', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield''s tragically short life. Many are set in the author''s native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic "The Daughters of the Late Colonel", and the short, sharp sketch "Miss Brill", in which a lonely woman''s precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in "At the Bay". ''All that I write,'' Mansfield said, ''all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.''\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in New Zealand in 1888, Kathering Mansfield Beauchamp was primarily a writer of short stories. She published Prelude and The Garden Party and Other Stories before her premature death from TB in 1923. One more book (Something Childish) and her journal and letters were published posthumously.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11223'),
(18529, 'The Garden Party and Other Stories', 'Katherine Mansfield; Lorna Sage', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield''s tragically short life. Many are set in the author''s native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic "The Daughters of the Late Colonel", and the short, sharp sketch "Miss Brill", in which a lonely woman''s precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in "At the Bay". ''All that I write,'' Mansfield said, ''all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.''\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Born in New Zealand in 1888, Kathering Mansfield Beauchamp was primarily a writer of short stories. She published Prelude and The Garden Party and Other Stories before her premature death from TB in 1923. One more book (Something Childish) and her journal and letters were published posthumously.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20640'),
(18530, 'Garden Spells', 'Sarah Addison Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it.â€¦The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.A successful caterer, Claire Waverley prepares dishes made with her mystical plantsâ€”from the nasturtiums that aid in keeping secrets and the pansies that make children thoughtful, to the snapdragons intended to discourage the attentions of her amorous neighbor. Meanwhile, her elderly cousin, Evanelle, is known for distributing unexpected gifts whose uses become uncannily clear. They are the last of the Waverleysâ€”except for Claireâ€™s rebellious sister, Sydney, who fled Bascom the moment she could, abandoning Claire, as their own mother had years before.When Sydney suddenly returns home with a young daughter of her own, Claireâ€™s quiet life is turned upside downâ€”along with the protective boundary she has so carefully constructed around her heart. Together again in the house they grew up in, Sydney takes stock of all she left behind, as Claire struggles to heal the wounds of the past. And soon the sisters realize they must deal with their common legacyâ€”if they are ever to feel at home in Bascomâ€”or with each other. Enchanting and heartfelt, this captivating novel is sure to cast a spell with a style all its ownâ€¦.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1393'),
(18531, 'Garden Spells', 'Sarah Addison Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it.â€¦The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.A successful caterer, Claire Waverley prepares dishes made with her mystical plantsâ€”from the nasturtiums that aid in keeping secrets and the pansies that make children thoughtful, to the snapdragons intended to discourage the attentions of her amorous neighbor. Meanwhile, her elderly cousin, Evanelle, is known for distributing unexpected gifts whose uses become uncannily clear. They are the last of the Waverleysâ€”except for Claireâ€™s rebellious sister, Sydney, who fled Bascom the moment she could, abandoning Claire, as their own mother had years before.When Sydney suddenly returns home with a young daughter of her own, Claireâ€™s quiet life is turned upside downâ€”along with the protective boundary she has so carefully constructed around her heart. Together again in the house they grew up in, Sydney takes stock of all she left behind, as Claire struggles to heal the wounds of the past. And soon the sisters realize they must deal with their common legacyâ€”if they are ever to feel at home in Bascomâ€”or with each other. Enchanting and heartfelt, this captivating novel is sure to cast a spell with a style all its ownâ€¦.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9315'),
(18532, 'Garden Spells', 'Sarah Addison Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it.â€¦The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.A successful caterer, Claire Waverley prepares dishes made with her mystical plantsâ€”from the nasturtiums that aid in keeping secrets and the pansies that make children thoughtful, to the snapdragons intended to discourage the attentions of her amorous neighbor. Meanwhile, her elderly cousin, Evanelle, is known for distributing unexpected gifts whose uses become uncannily clear. They are the last of the Waverleysâ€”except for Claireâ€™s rebellious sister, Sydney, who fled Bascom the moment she could, abandoning Claire, as their own mother had years before.When Sydney suddenly returns home with a young daughter of her own, Claireâ€™s quiet life is turned upside downâ€”along with the protective boundary she has so carefully constructed around her heart. Together again in the house they grew up in, Sydney takes stock of all she left behind, as Claire struggles to heal the wounds of the past. And soon the sisters realize they must deal with their common legacyâ€”if they are ever to feel at home in Bascomâ€”or with each other. Enchanting and heartfelt, this captivating novel is sure to cast a spell with a style all its ownâ€¦.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23487'),
(18533, 'Gardens of the Moon', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A thrilling first fantasy novel by an exciting and original new voice in the genre. The vast Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, its subject states bled dry by interminable warfare and clashes with Anomander Rake, Lord of Moonâ€™s Spawn, and the mysterious Tiste Andii. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet the Empressâ€™ rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his cynical squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, sole surviving sorceress of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to heal the still living and mourn the many dead. The Empress has other ideas. However, it would appear the Empire is not the only player in this great game. A more sinister, shadowbound force is poised to make its first move. Conceived and written on an epic scale,Gardens of the Moonis a breathtaking achievement â€” a novel in which grand design, a dark and complex mythology, wild and wayward magic and a host of enduring characters combine with thrilling, powerful storytelling to resounding effect.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14727'),
(18534, 'Gardens of the Moon &amp; Deadhouse Gates', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gardens Of The Moon: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, the vast, sprawling Malazan empire simmers with discontent. Even its imperial legions yearn for some respite. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his Bridgeburners and for Tattersail, sole surviving sorceress of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, still holds out - and Empress Lasseen-s ambition knows no bounds.However, it seems the empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister forces gather as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand-Conceived and written on an epic scale, Gardens of the Moon is a breathtaking achievement - a novel in which grand design, a dark and complex mythology, wild and wayward magic and a host of enduring characters combine with thrilling, powerful storytelling to resounding effect. Acclaimed by writers, critics and readers alike, here is the opening chapter in what has been hailed a landmark of epic fantasy: the awesome -The Malazan Book of the Fallen-. Deadhouse Gates: Malazan: Book Of The Fallen 2Weakened by events in Darujhistan, the Malazan Empire teeters on the brink of anarchy. In the vast dominion ofSeven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha-ik gathers an army around her in preparation for the long-prophesied uprising named the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in its size and savagery, it will embroil in one of the bloodiest conflicts it has ever known: a maelstrom of fanaticism and bloodlust that will shape destinies and give birth to legends-In the Otataral mines, Felisin, youngest daughter of the disgraced House of Paran, dreams of revenge against the sister who sentenced her to a life of slavery. Escape leads her to raraku, where her soul will be reborn and her future made clear. The now-outlawed Bridgeburners, Fiddler and the assassin Kalam, have vowed to return the once god-possessed Apsalar to her homeland, and to confront and kill the Empress Laseen, but events will overtake them too. Meanwhile, Coltaine, the charismatic commander of the Malaz 7th Army, will lead his battered, war-weary troops in a last, valient running battle to save the lives of thirty thousand refugees and, in so doing, secure an illustrious place in the Empire-s chequered history. And into this blighted land come two ancient wanderers, Mappo and his half-Jaghut companion Icarium, bearers of a devastating secret that threatens to break free of its chains-Set in a brilliantly-realized world ravaged by anarchy and dark, uncontrollable magic, Deadhouse Gates is the thrilling, brutal second chapter in the Malazan Book of the Fallen. A powerful novel of war, intrigue and betrayal, it confirms Steven Erikson as a storyteller of breathtaking skill, imagination and originality - a new master of epic fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1019'),
(18535, 'Gardens of the Moon &amp; Deadhouse Gates', 'Steven Erikson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Gardens Of The Moon: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, the vast, sprawling Malazan empire simmers with discontent. Even its imperial legions yearn for some respite. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his Bridgeburners and for Tattersail, sole surviving sorceress of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, still holds out - and Empress Lasseen-s ambition knows no bounds.However, it seems the empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister forces gather as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand-Conceived and written on an epic scale, Gardens of the Moon is a breathtaking achievement - a novel in which grand design, a dark and complex mythology, wild and wayward magic and a host of enduring characters combine with thrilling, powerful storytelling to resounding effect. Acclaimed by writers, critics and readers alike, here is the opening chapter in what has been hailed a landmark of epic fantasy: the awesome -The Malazan Book of the Fallen-. Deadhouse Gates: Malazan: Book Of The Fallen 2Weakened by events in Darujhistan, the Malazan Empire teeters on the brink of anarchy. In the vast dominion ofSeven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha-ik gathers an army around her in preparation for the long-prophesied uprising named the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in its size and savagery, it will embroil in one of the bloodiest conflicts it has ever known: a maelstrom of fanaticism and bloodlust that will shape destinies and give birth to legends-In the Otataral mines, Felisin, youngest daughter of the disgraced House of Paran, dreams of revenge against the sister who sentenced her to a life of slavery. Escape leads her to raraku, where her soul will be reborn and her future made clear. The now-outlawed Bridgeburners, Fiddler and the assassin Kalam, have vowed to return the once god-possessed Apsalar to her homeland, and to confront and kill the Empress Laseen, but events will overtake them too. Meanwhile, Coltaine, the charismatic commander of the Malaz 7th Army, will lead his battered, war-weary troops in a last, valient running battle to save the lives of thirty thousand refugees and, in so doing, secure an illustrious place in the Empire-s chequered history. And into this blighted land come two ancient wanderers, Mappo and his half-Jaghut companion Icarium, bearers of a devastating secret that threatens to break free of its chains-Set in a brilliantly-realized world ravaged by anarchy and dark, uncontrollable magic, Deadhouse Gates is the thrilling, brutal second chapter in the Malazan Book of the Fallen. A powerful novel of war, intrigue and betrayal, it confirms Steven Erikson as a storyteller of breathtaking skill, imagination and originality - a new master of epic fantasy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9634');
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(18536, 'Gargantua and Pantagruel', 'Francois Rabelais &amp; Sir Thomas Urquhart &amp; Peter Antony Motteux', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Collective title of five comic novels by Francois Rabelais, published between 1532 and 1564. The novels present the comic and satiric story of the giant Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The first two novels were published under the anagrammatic pseudonym Alcofribas (Alcofrybas) Nasier. The first book, commonly called Pantagruel (1532), deals with some of the fantastic incidents of the early years of Pantagruel. While at the University of Paris he receives a letter from his father that is still considered an essential exposition of French Renaissance ideals. In Paris Pantagruel also meets the cunning rogue Panurge, who becomes his companion throughout the series. In Gargantua (1534), old-fashioned scholastic pedagogy is ridiculed and contrasted with the humanist ideal of King Francis I, whose efforts to reform the French church Rabelais supported. Le Tiers Livre (1546; "The Third Book") is Rabelais''s most profound and erudite work. In it Pantagruel has become a sage; Panurge is self-absorbed and bedeviled, wondering if he should marry. He consults various prognosticators, allowing Rabelais to hold forth on sex, love, and marriage, and to satirize fortune tellers, judges, and poets. Panurge persuades Pantagruel and friends to join him on a voyage to the Oracle of the Holy Bottle in Cathay for an answer. This they do in Le Quart Livre (1552; "The Fourth Book"), which reflects the era''s interest in exploration; the Pantagruelians encounter a series of islands that present opportunities for the author to satirize the religious and political forces wreaking havoc on 16th-century Christendom. In a fifth book, Le Cinquieme Livre (1564; of doubtful authenticity), the band arrives at the temple of the Holy Bottle, where the oracle answers Panurge with a single word: "Drink!" -- __\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An elaborate parody written in the 16th century, "Gargantua and Pantagruel" is a comic blend of energetic realism and carnival fantasy. The two main characters are giants, a father and his son, who have numerous adventures. Many different types of people are satirized during their chivalric exploits, from lawyers to theologians, generals to monarchs, with humor that is often grotesque or obscene. Intertwined with this crude comedy, however, is the wisdom of Renaissance learning, which exposes countless examples of human foolishness. Divided into two volumes, one describes a sullied giant who grows into a grand knight and prince, and the other portrays his erudite son who himself becomes a Renaissance Socrates. Rabelais'' work is full of freedom and laughter, as well as a certain understanding that will give readers a renewed worldview.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5527'),
(18537, 'Gargantua and Pantagruel', 'Francois Rabelais &amp; Sir Thomas Urquhart &amp; Peter Antony Motteux', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Collective title of five comic novels by Francois Rabelais, published between 1532 and 1564. The novels present the comic and satiric story of the giant Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The first two novels were published under the anagrammatic pseudonym Alcofribas (Alcofrybas) Nasier. The first book, commonly called Pantagruel (1532), deals with some of the fantastic incidents of the early years of Pantagruel. While at the University of Paris he receives a letter from his father that is still considered an essential exposition of French Renaissance ideals. In Paris Pantagruel also meets the cunning rogue Panurge, who becomes his companion throughout the series. In Gargantua (1534), old-fashioned scholastic pedagogy is ridiculed and contrasted with the humanist ideal of King Francis I, whose efforts to reform the French church Rabelais supported. Le Tiers Livre (1546; "The Third Book") is Rabelais''s most profound and erudite work. In it Pantagruel has become a sage; Panurge is self-absorbed and bedeviled, wondering if he should marry. He consults various prognosticators, allowing Rabelais to hold forth on sex, love, and marriage, and to satirize fortune tellers, judges, and poets. Panurge persuades Pantagruel and friends to join him on a voyage to the Oracle of the Holy Bottle in Cathay for an answer. This they do in Le Quart Livre (1552; "The Fourth Book"), which reflects the era''s interest in exploration; the Pantagruelians encounter a series of islands that present opportunities for the author to satirize the religious and political forces wreaking havoc on 16th-century Christendom. In a fifth book, Le Cinquieme Livre (1564; of doubtful authenticity), the band arrives at the temple of the Holy Bottle, where the oracle answers Panurge with a single word: "Drink!" -- __\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An elaborate parody written in the 16th century, "Gargantua and Pantagruel" is a comic blend of energetic realism and carnival fantasy. The two main characters are giants, a father and his son, who have numerous adventures. Many different types of people are satirized during their chivalric exploits, from lawyers to theologians, generals to monarchs, with humor that is often grotesque or obscene. Intertwined with this crude comedy, however, is the wisdom of Renaissance learning, which exposes countless examples of human foolishness. Divided into two volumes, one describes a sullied giant who grows into a grand knight and prince, and the other portrays his erudite son who himself becomes a Renaissance Socrates. Rabelais'' work is full of freedom and laughter, as well as a certain understanding that will give readers a renewed worldview.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12091'),
(18538, 'Gargantua and Pantagruel', 'Francois Rabelais', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19068'),
(18539, 'Gargantuan: A Ruby Murphy Mystery', 'Maggie Estep', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five separate narrators tell a sometimes muddled story involving race fixing, kidnapping and murder in Estepâ€™s second Ruby Murphy mystery (after 2003â€™s Hex), set primarily at New Yorkâ€™s Belmont Park. The most distinctive voice belongs to Ruby, a good-hearted gal whoâ€™s taken up with a troubled jockey, Attila Johnson, after the unexpected departure of her FBI agent boyfriend, Ed Burke. Attila, torn between his attraction to Ruby and his love for his seriously disturbed wife, also has problems on the track where heâ€™s trying to overcome past mistakes. Ed Burke, Rubyâ€™s pal Big Sal and sad loner Ben Nester provide the other points-of-view, but their combined tale of tangled relationships, misunderstandings and jealousies isnâ€™t always easy to follow. Still, Estepâ€™s ability to take readers into the "backside" at the racetrack where the horses, jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers work make this an entertaining ride.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Maggie Estepâ€™s critically praised heroine, Ruby Murphy, is back! Back in Coney Island with a bunch of endearing misfits, back at the racetrack ogling thoroughbreds, and back learning that, on the seamy side of the sport of kings, survival can be a long shot.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rubyâ€™s life is nothing if not complicated: sheâ€™s spending a lot of her time worrying about a jockey named Attila Johnson; a good-hearted Teamster with a bad back; a neighbor who is suspicious of anything that moves; one very fat cat who craves raw meat; a missing FBI agent; an underused piano; a few fine horsesâ€”and the sure knowledge that somehow, somewhere, there is a killer among them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3168'),
(18540, 'Gargantuan: A Ruby Murphy Mystery', 'Maggie Estep', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five separate narrators tell a sometimes muddled story involving race fixing, kidnapping and murder in Estepâ€™s second Ruby Murphy mystery (after 2003â€™s Hex), set primarily at New Yorkâ€™s Belmont Park. The most distinctive voice belongs to Ruby, a good-hearted gal whoâ€™s taken up with a troubled jockey, Attila Johnson, after the unexpected departure of her FBI agent boyfriend, Ed Burke. Attila, torn between his attraction to Ruby and his love for his seriously disturbed wife, also has problems on the track where heâ€™s trying to overcome past mistakes. Ed Burke, Rubyâ€™s pal Big Sal and sad loner Ben Nester provide the other points-of-view, but their combined tale of tangled relationships, misunderstandings and jealousies isnâ€™t always easy to follow. Still, Estepâ€™s ability to take readers into the "backside" at the racetrack where the horses, jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers work make this an entertaining ride.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Maggie Estepâ€™s critically praised heroine, Ruby Murphy, is back! Back in Coney Island with a bunch of endearing misfits, back at the racetrack ogling thoroughbreds, and back learning that, on the seamy side of the sport of kings, survival can be a long shot.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rubyâ€™s life is nothing if not complicated: sheâ€™s spending a lot of her time worrying about a jockey named Attila Johnson; a good-hearted Teamster with a bad back; a neighbor who is suspicious of anything that moves; one very fat cat who craves raw meat; a missing FBI agent; an underused piano; a few fine horsesâ€”and the sure knowledge that somehow, somewhere, there is a killer among them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9623'),
(18541, 'Gargantuan: A Ruby Murphy Mystery', 'Maggie Estep', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Five separate narrators tell a sometimes muddled story involving race fixing, kidnapping and murder in Estepâ€™s second Ruby Murphy mystery (after 2003â€™s Hex), set primarily at New Yorkâ€™s Belmont Park. The most distinctive voice belongs to Ruby, a good-hearted gal whoâ€™s taken up with a troubled jockey, Attila Johnson, after the unexpected departure of her FBI agent boyfriend, Ed Burke. Attila, torn between his attraction to Ruby and his love for his seriously disturbed wife, also has problems on the track where heâ€™s trying to overcome past mistakes. Ed Burke, Rubyâ€™s pal Big Sal and sad loner Ben Nester provide the other points-of-view, but their combined tale of tangled relationships, misunderstandings and jealousies isnâ€™t always easy to follow. Still, Estepâ€™s ability to take readers into the "backside" at the racetrack where the horses, jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers work make this an entertaining ride.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Maggie Estepâ€™s critically praised heroine, Ruby Murphy, is back! Back in Coney Island with a bunch of endearing misfits, back at the racetrack ogling thoroughbreds, and back learning that, on the seamy side of the sport of kings, survival can be a long shot.\n</p>\n<p>\n Rubyâ€™s life is nothing if not complicated: sheâ€™s spending a lot of her time worrying about a jockey named Attila Johnson; a good-hearted Teamster with a bad back; a neighbor who is suspicious of anything that moves; one very fat cat who craves raw meat; a missing FBI agent; an underused piano; a few fine horsesâ€”and the sure knowledge that somehow, somewhere, there is a killer among them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21280'),
(18542, 'Gary Paulsen', 'Notes from the Dog (v5)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18411'),
(18543, 'A Gate at the Stairs', 'Lorrie Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her best-selling story collection, Birds of America (â€œ[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerabilityâ€ â€”James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss.Now, in her dazzling new novelâ€”her first in more than a decadeâ€”Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love.As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmerâ€”his â€œKeltjin potatoesâ€ are justifiably famousâ€”has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir.Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny.The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own.As the year unfolds and she is drawn deeper into each of these lives, her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her: her parents are frailer; her brother, aimless and lost in high school, contemplates joining the military. Tassie finds herself becoming more and more the stranger she felt herself to be, and as life and love unravel dramatically, even shockingly, she is forever changed.This long-awaited new novel by one of the most heralded writers of the past two decades is lyrical, funny, moving, and devastating; Lorrie Mooreâ€™s most ambitious book to dateâ€”textured, beguiling, and wise.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3273'),
(18544, 'A Gate at the Stairs', 'Lorrie Moore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her best-selling story collection, Birds of America (â€œ[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerabilityâ€ â€”James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss.Now, in her dazzling new novelâ€”her first in more than a decadeâ€”Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love.As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmerâ€”his â€œKeltjin potatoesâ€ are justifiably famousâ€”has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir.Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny.The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own.As the year unfolds and she is drawn deeper into each of these lives, her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her: her parents are frailer; her brother, aimless and lost in high school, contemplates joining the military. Tassie finds herself becoming more and more the stranger she felt herself to be, and as life and love unravel dramatically, even shockingly, she is forever changed.This long-awaited new novel by one of the most heralded writers of the past two decades is lyrical, funny, moving, and devastating; Lorrie Mooreâ€™s most ambitious book to dateâ€”textured, beguiling, and wise.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21199'),
(18545, 'The Gate House', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of bestseller DeMille will welcome this sequel to\n <em>\n  The Gold Coast\n </em>\n (1990), in which Susan Sutter, then the wife of tax attorney John Sutter, had a torrid affair with Frank Bellarosa, a powerful Mafia boss and the Sutters'' neighbor on Long Island''s tony Gold Coast, with fatal results for Bellarosa. After divorcing Susan, John sailed the world for three years, then built himself a new life in London. Now John has returned to the small gatehouse that was once part of his ex-wife''s family estate, only to find Bellarosa''s thuggish son, Anthony, living next door. In another coincidence, Susan has just reacquired the six-bedroom guest cottage where she and John lived as a married couple on her family''s former property. Susan and John soon begin to explore an improbable reconciliation, even as they suspect she may be in Anthony''s gun sights. The plot more than takes its time getting to its violent and predictable resolution, but DeMille devotees should have plenty of fun along the way.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this long-awaited but ponderous sequel to\n <em>\n  The Gold Coast\n </em>\n (1990), it is ten years later, and John Sutter has returned for the funeral of a woman who isn''t dead yet. He''s also looking to restart his life and possibly hook up with his ex-wife, Susan, who''d had an affair with a local Mafia don she later killed. Confounding the problem is the don''s son, who has taken over the family business and wants vengeance against both John and Susan. While there are interesting characters, and Sutter''s first-person observations are clever, it takes forever for the action to get going. Even an exciting climax doesn''t help. DeMille has developed a reputation for fast-paced action thrillers, and this is neither. His name will guarantee a level of success, and those patrons who enjoyed reading about the lives of the rich and decadent in\n <em>\n  The Gold Coast\n </em>\n will enjoy this sequel. The rest will hope DeMille''s next effort is more compelling. For larger collections. [See Prepub Alert,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 6/15/08.]â€”Robert Conroy, Warren, MI\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2659'),
(18546, 'The Gate House', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of bestseller DeMille will welcome this sequel to\n <em>\n  The Gold Coast\n </em>\n (1990), in which Susan Sutter, then the wife of tax attorney John Sutter, had a torrid affair with Frank Bellarosa, a powerful Mafia boss and the Sutters'' neighbor on Long Island''s tony Gold Coast, with fatal results for Bellarosa. After divorcing Susan, John sailed the world for three years, then built himself a new life in London. Now John has returned to the small gatehouse that was once part of his ex-wife''s family estate, only to find Bellarosa''s thuggish son, Anthony, living next door. In another coincidence, Susan has just reacquired the six-bedroom guest cottage where she and John lived as a married couple on her family''s former property. Susan and John soon begin to explore an improbable reconciliation, even as they suspect she may be in Anthony''s gun sights. The plot more than takes its time getting to its violent and predictable resolution, but DeMille devotees should have plenty of fun along the way.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this long-awaited but ponderous sequel to\n <em>\n  The Gold Coast\n </em>\n (1990), it is ten years later, and John Sutter has returned for the funeral of a woman who isn''t dead yet. He''s also looking to restart his life and possibly hook up with his ex-wife, Susan, who''d had an affair with a local Mafia don she later killed. Confounding the problem is the don''s son, who has taken over the family business and wants vengeance against both John and Susan. While there are interesting characters, and Sutter''s first-person observations are clever, it takes forever for the action to get going. Even an exciting climax doesn''t help. DeMille has developed a reputation for fast-paced action thrillers, and this is neither. His name will guarantee a level of success, and those patrons who enjoyed reading about the lives of the rich and decadent in\n <em>\n  The Gold Coast\n </em>\n will enjoy this sequel. The rest will hope DeMille''s next effort is more compelling. For larger collections. [See Prepub Alert,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 6/15/08.]â€”Robert Conroy, Warren, MI\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9234'),
(18547, 'The Gate House', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fans of bestseller DeMille will welcome this sequel to\n <em>\n  The Gold Coast\n </em>\n (1990), in which Susan Sutter, then the wife of tax attorney John Sutter, had a torrid affair with Frank Bellarosa, a powerful Mafia boss and the Sutters'' neighbor on Long Island''s tony Gold Coast, with fatal results for Bellarosa. After divorcing Susan, John sailed the world for three years, then built himself a new life in London. Now John has returned to the small gatehouse that was once part of his ex-wife''s family estate, only to find Bellarosa''s thuggish son, Anthony, living next door. In another coincidence, Susan has just reacquired the six-bedroom guest cottage where she and John lived as a married couple on her family''s former property. Susan and John soon begin to explore an improbable reconciliation, even as they suspect she may be in Anthony''s gun sights. The plot more than takes its time getting to its violent and predictable resolution, but DeMille devotees should have plenty of fun along the way.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this long-awaited but ponderous sequel to\n <em>\n  The Gold Coast\n </em>\n (1990), it is ten years later, and John Sutter has returned for the funeral of a woman who isn''t dead yet. He''s also looking to restart his life and possibly hook up with his ex-wife, Susan, who''d had an affair with a local Mafia don she later killed. Confounding the problem is the don''s son, who has taken over the family business and wants vengeance against both John and Susan. While there are interesting characters, and Sutter''s first-person observations are clever, it takes forever for the action to get going. Even an exciting climax doesn''t help. DeMille has developed a reputation for fast-paced action thrillers, and this is neither. His name will guarantee a level of success, and those patrons who enjoyed reading about the lives of the rich and decadent in\n <em>\n  The Gold Coast\n </em>\n will enjoy this sequel. The rest will hope DeMille''s next effort is more compelling. For larger collections. [See Prepub Alert,\n <em>\n  LJ\n </em>\n 6/15/08.]â€”Robert Conroy, Warren, MI\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22238'),
(18548, 'Gate of Ivrel', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Scattered about the galaxy were the time-space Gates of a vanished but not forgotten alien race. In their time, long before the rise of the native civilizations, they had terrorized a hundred worlds -- not from villainy but from folly, from tampering with the strands that held a universe together. Now the task was to uproot these Gates, destroy their potency for mischief, take horror out of the hands of the few who hungered for power by misuse of the Gates.... This is the story of one such Gate and one such world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15966'),
(18549, 'The Gate of the Cat', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15894'),
(18550, 'Gates of Fire: A Novel of Thermopylae', 'Steven Pressfield', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13765'),
(18551, 'Gates of Fire: A Novel of Thermopylae', 'Steven Pressfield', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23944'),
(18552, 'The Gates of Night: The Dreaming Dark', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A band of war-weary soldiers have uncovered a plot that may tear the very fabric of reality forever. To save their own lives and to prevent a long-banished race of monsters from unleashing an army of horrors upon the waking world, they must reach the very heart of Dal Quor. To stop the cataclysm in time, they must fight their way toÂ .Â  "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3831'),
(18553, 'The Gates of Night: The Dreaming Dark', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A band of war-weary soldiers have uncovered a plot that may tear the very fabric of reality forever. To save their own lives and to prevent a long-banished race of monsters from unleashing an army of horrors upon the waking world, they must reach the very heart of Dal Quor. To stop the cataclysm in time, they must fight their way toÂ .Â  "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8262'),
(18554, 'The Gates of Night: The Dreaming Dark', 'Keith Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A band of war-weary soldiers have uncovered a plot that may tear the very fabric of reality forever. To save their own lives and to prevent a long-banished race of monsters from unleashing an army of horrors upon the waking world, they must reach the very heart of Dal Quor. To stop the cataclysm in time, they must fight their way to . "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20723'),
(18555, 'The Gates of November', 'Chaim Potok', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev comes an epic work of nonfiction chronicling the stormy lives of a Jewish father and son whose stories span the entire history of the Soviet Union. Solomon Slepak, an inflexible old-guard Bolshevik - military commander, diplomat, propagandist - not only miraculously survived the murderous purges of the thirties and late forties, despite his high visibility and his Jewish origins, but retained to the last his unwavering faith in the Communist Party. His son, Volodya, was raised as a true believer and easily entered the elite Moscow world of scientists and engineers - until, choosing the path of dissent, he became an internationally renowned "refusenik" hero. For eighteen years he and his wife, Masha, were the objects of government persecution for the "crime" of attempting to leave the Soviet Union - five of those years lost in Siberia as punishment for hanging a banner from the balcony of their Moscow apartment which read "Let us go to our son in Israel". The circumstances that shaped Solomon and Volodya Slepak - their personal and public histories and the clash of their ideologies - form the substance of this remarkable account of a family and a nation. Chaim Potok, who first met the younger Slepaks when they were still under siege in Moscow, tells their story with deep understanding and empathy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6981'),
(18556, 'The Gates of November', 'Chaim Potok', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev comes an epic work of nonfiction chronicling the stormy lives of a Jewish father and son whose stories span the entire history of the Soviet Union. Solomon Slepak, an inflexible old-guard Bolshevik - military commander, diplomat, propagandist - not only miraculously survived the murderous purges of the thirties and late forties, despite his high visibility and his Jewish origins, but retained to the last his unwavering faith in the Communist Party. His son, Volodya, was raised as a true believer and easily entered the elite Moscow world of scientists and engineers - until, choosing the path of dissent, he became an internationally renowned "refusenik" hero. For eighteen years he and his wife, Masha, were the objects of government persecution for the "crime" of attempting to leave the Soviet Union - five of those years lost in Siberia as punishment for hanging a banner from the balcony of their Moscow apartment which read "Let us go to our son in Israel". The circumstances that shaped Solomon and Volodya Slepak - their personal and public histories and the clash of their ideologies - form the substance of this remarkable account of a family and a nation. Chaim Potok, who first met the younger Slepaks when they were still under siege in Moscow, tells their story with deep understanding and empathy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11964'),
(18557, 'The gates of November', 'Chaim Potok', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev comes an epic work of nonfiction chronicling the stormy lives of a Jewish father and son whose stories span the entire history of the Soviet Union. Solomon Slepak, an inflexible old-guard Bolshevik - military commander, diplomat, propagandist - not only miraculously survived the murderous purges of the thirties and late forties, despite his high visibility and his Jewish origins, but retained to the last his unwavering faith in the Communist Party. His son, Volodya, was raised as a true believer and easily entered the elite Moscow world of scientists and engineers - until, choosing the path of dissent, he became an internationally renowned "refusenik" hero. For eighteen years he and his wife, Masha, were the objects of government persecution for the "crime" of attempting to leave the Soviet Union - five of those years lost in Siberia as punishment for hanging a banner from the balcony of their Moscow apartment which read "Let us go to our son in Israel". The circumstances that shaped Solomon and Volodya Slepak - their personal and public histories and the clash of their ideologies - form the substance of this remarkable account of a family and a nation. Chaim Potok, who first met the younger Slepaks when they were still under siege in Moscow, tells their story with deep understanding and empathy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16942'),
(18558, 'The gates of November', 'Chaim Potok', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev comes an epic work of nonfiction chronicling the stormy lives of a Jewish father and son whose stories span the entire history of the Soviet Union. Solomon Slepak, an inflexible old-guard Bolshevik - military commander, diplomat, propagandist - not only miraculously survived the murderous purges of the thirties and late forties, despite his high visibility and his Jewish origins, but retained to the last his unwavering faith in the Communist Party. His son, Volodya, was raised as a true believer and easily entered the elite Moscow world of scientists and engineers - until, choosing the path of dissent, he became an internationally renowned "refusenik" hero. For eighteen years he and his wife, Masha, were the objects of government persecution for the "crime" of attempting to leave the Soviet Union - five of those years lost in Siberia as punishment for hanging a banner from the balcony of their Moscow apartment which read "Let us go to our son in Israel". The circumstances that shaped Solomon and Volodya Slepak - their personal and public histories and the clash of their ideologies - form the substance of this remarkable account of a family and a nation. Chaim Potok, who first met the younger Slepaks when they were still under siege in Moscow, tells their story with deep understanding and empathy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26849'),
(18559, 'The Gates of Winter', 'Mark Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fifth novel in the Last Rune saga continues the tale of a complex conflict between hidden users of magic on our Earth and open users of magic on an alternate Earth called Eldh. The action jumps between worlds and times, not to mention among the viewpoints of a cast of characters grown so large that it is beginning to demand a few lists. Nevertheless, those who have stayed with the story since\n <em>\n  Beyond the Pale\n </em>\n (1998) kicked it off are going to enjoy themselves.\n <em>\n  The Gates of Winter\n </em>\n picks up right where\n <em>\n  Blood of Mystery\n </em>\n [BKL Ap 1 02] left off, and there is plenty of action in both worlds as heroes and villains alike try to win the race to find Travis, the Runemaster. Besides its plentitude, the action is brisk throughout, building to a climactic battle at the gate between the worlds at the very end of the book--an ending, be it noted, that not merely promises but guarantees at least one further volume.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a masterwork of brilliant storytelling, the epic fantasy of two parallel worlds--mystical Eldh and modern Earth--takes a surprising turn in Book Five of Mark Anthonyâ€™s thrilling saga of magic, suspense, and adventure_, The Last Rune_.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n The Gates of Winter\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n The enigmatic Shemal has known only two Runebreakers. One, her rival Kelephon, served the Pale King and his army of apocalypse. The other was Travis Wilder, the Runebreaker of prophecy.Now, in outcast and newly made Runebreaker Larad, Shemal has found a weapon to open the door between worlds. As the shadow of Shemalâ€™s master, the vengeful god Mohg, Lord of Nightfall, looms, Grace Beckett seeks to harness wild magic and Travis Wilder joins her in the struggle between warriors and mages, witches\n <br />\n and kings and betrayers of every form.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the time of final reckoning approaches, Travis and Grace will find themselves facing a dark conspiracy of evil whose virulence threatens to overwhelm anyone who stands in its way. Yet if they donâ€™t succeed in stopping it, two worlds will be lost forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3066'),
(18560, 'The Gates of Winter', 'Mark Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fifth novel in the Last Rune saga continues the tale of a complex conflict between hidden users of magic on our Earth and open users of magic on an alternate Earth called Eldh. The action jumps between worlds and times, not to mention among the viewpoints of a cast of characters grown so large that it is beginning to demand a few lists. Nevertheless, those who have stayed with the story since\n <em>\n  Beyond the Pale\n </em>\n (1998) kicked it off are going to enjoy themselves.\n <em>\n  The Gates of Winter\n </em>\n picks up right where\n <em>\n  Blood of Mystery\n </em>\n [BKL Ap 1 02] left off, and there is plenty of action in both worlds as heroes and villains alike try to win the race to find Travis, the Runemaster. Besides its plentitude, the action is brisk throughout, building to a climactic battle at the gate between the worlds at the very end of the book--an ending, be it noted, that not merely promises but guarantees at least one further volume.\n <em>\n  Roland Green\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a masterwork of brilliant storytelling, the epic fantasy of two parallel worlds--mystical Eldh and modern Earth--takes a surprising turn in Book Five of Mark Anthonyâ€™s thrilling saga of magic, suspense, and adventure_, The Last Rune_.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n The Gates of Winter\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n The enigmatic Shemal has known only two Runebreakers. One, her rival Kelephon, served the Pale King and his army of apocalypse. The other was Travis Wilder, the Runebreaker of prophecy.Now, in outcast and newly made Runebreaker Larad, Shemal has found a weapon to open the door between worlds. As the shadow of Shemalâ€™s master, the vengeful god Mohg, Lord of Nightfall, looms, Grace Beckett seeks to harness wild magic and Travis Wilder joins her in the struggle between warriors and mages, witches\n <br />\n and kings and betrayers of every form.\n</p>\n<p>\n As the time of final reckoning approaches, Travis and Grace will find themselves facing a dark conspiracy of evil whose virulence threatens to overwhelm anyone who stands in its way. Yet if they donâ€™t succeed in stopping it, two worlds will be lost forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8186'),
(18561, 'The Gates', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A strange novel for strange young people. Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe''en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don''t mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron Collider that creates a gap in the universe. A gap in which there is a pair of enormous gates. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out...Can Samuel persuade anyone to take this seriously? Can he harness the power of science to save the world as we know it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14658'),
(18562, 'The Gates', 'John Connolly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A strange novel for strange young people. Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe''en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don''t mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron Collider that creates a gap in the universe. A gap in which there is a pair of enormous gates. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out...Can Samuel persuade anyone to take this seriously? Can he harness the power of science to save the world as we know it?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21395'),
(18563, 'Gateway', 'Frederik Pohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!THE HEECHEE SAGABook One:GATEWAYBook Two:BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZONBook Three: HEECHEE RENDEZVOUSBook Four: THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEEFrom the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18450'),
(18564, 'Gateways', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Gateways*, Jack heads south to Florida when he learns his estranged father isÂ in a coma after a car accident.Â  In the hospital Jack meets weird old Anya, one of his father''s neighbors, who seems to know an awful lot about his family.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In an isolated area of the Everglades,Â a young woman named Semelee who has strange talents and lives with a group of misshapen men, feelsÂ Jack''s presence. She senses that he''s "special," like her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Back at his Dad''sÂ senior community, Gateways South, there''s a ban on watering. Florida is going through an unusual drought, and everything is brown and wilting.Â  Everything exceptÂ Anya''s lawn, whichÂ is a deep green.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Who is Anya? Who is Semelee, and what is her connection to the recent strange deaths of Gateways residents? And what are the "lights" Jack keeps hearing about? Lights that emanate twice a year from a sinkhole deep in the Everglades . . . lights from another place, another reality.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n If he is to protect his father from becoming the next fatality at Gateways, there are questions Jack must answer, and dangerous secrets he must uncover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5642'),
(18565, 'Gateways', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In *Gateways*, Jack heads south to Florida when he learns his estranged father isÂ in a coma after a car accident.Â  In the hospital Jack meets weird old Anya, one of his father''s neighbors, who seems to know an awful lot about his family. In an isolated area of the Everglades,Â a young woman named Semelee who has strange talents and lives with a group of misshapen men, feelsÂ Jack''s presence. She senses that he''s "special," like her. Back at his Dad''sÂ senior community, Gateways South, there''s a ban on watering. Florida is going through an unusual drought, and everything is brown and wilting.Â  Everything exceptÂ Anya''s lawn, whichÂ is a deep green. Who is Anya? Who is Semelee, and what is her connection to the recent strange deaths of Gateways residents? And what are the "lights" Jack keeps hearing about? Lights that emanate twice a year from a sinkhole deep in the Everglades . . . lights from another place, another reality. If he is to protect his father from becoming the next fatality at Gateways, there are questions Jack must answer, and dangerous secrets he must uncover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19038'),
(18566, 'Gateways', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In *Gateways*, Jack heads south to Florida when he learns his estranged father isÂ in a coma after a car accident.Â  In the hospital Jack meets weird old Anya, one of his father''s neighbors, who seems to know an awful lot about his family. In an isolated area of the Everglades,Â a young woman named Semelee who has strange talents and lives with a group of misshapen men, feelsÂ Jack''s presence. She senses that he''s "special," like her. Back at his Dad''sÂ senior community, Gateways South, there''s a ban on watering. Florida is going through an unusual drought, and everything is brown and wilting.Â  Everything exceptÂ Anya''s lawn, whichÂ is a deep green. Who is Anya? Who is Semelee, and what is her connection to the recent strange deaths of Gateways residents? And what are the "lights" Jack keeps hearing about? Lights that emanate twice a year from a sinkhole deep in the Everglades . . . lights from another place, another reality. If he is to protect his father from becoming the next fatality at Gateways, there are questions Jack must answer, and dangerous secrets he must uncover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27852'),
(18567, 'Gateways 03: Doors Into Chaos', 'Robert Greenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  More than 200,000 years ago, the ancient Iconians created a network of interdimensional Gateways providing instantaneous transportation across unimaginable distances. Once known as the "Demons of Air and Darkness," the Iconians mysteriously vanished many millennia ago, never to return -- or so it was believed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GATEWAYS\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  DOORS INTO CHAOS\n </p>\n <p>\n  Summoned to an emergency briefing at Starfleet Headquarters, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is stunned to discover that the legendary Iconians have returned at last, and are offering to sell the secrets of their advanced technology to the Federation. To prove their sincerity, they have reactivated their long-abandoned Gateways, but the results have been strife and chaos throughout the entire Alpha Quadrant. Now Picard and his crew must contend with feuding Klingons and Romulans as the captain seeks to discover the sinister truth behind the Iconians'' unexpected rebirth!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Together with Pocket Books Star Trek editor John J. Ordover, Robert Greenberger created the overall Gateways concept which forms the basis of the seven-part crossover series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7964'),
(18568, 'Gateways 03: Doors Into Chaos', 'Robert Greenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  More than 200,000 years ago, the ancient Iconians created a network of interdimensional Gateways providing instantaneous transportation across unimaginable distances. Once known as the "Demons of Air and Darkness," the Iconians mysteriously vanished many millennia ago, never to return -- or so it was believed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   GATEWAYS\n  </strong>\n  <br />\n  DOORS INTO CHAOS\n </p>\n <p>\n  Summoned to an emergency briefing at Starfleet Headquarters, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is stunned to discover that the legendary Iconians have returned at last, and are offering to sell the secrets of their advanced technology to the Federation. To prove their sincerity, they have reactivated their long-abandoned Gateways, but the results have been strife and chaos throughout the entire Alpha Quadrant. Now Picard and his crew must contend with feuding Klingons and Romulans as the captain seeks to discover the sinister truth behind the Iconians'' unexpected rebirth!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Together with Pocket Books Star Trek editor John J. Ordover, Robert Greenberger created the overall Gateways concept which forms the basis of the seven-part crossover series.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23259'),
(18569, 'Gateways 07: What Lay Beyond', 'Diane Carey &amp; Peter David &amp; Keith R. A. DeCandido &amp; Robert Greenberger &amp; Susan Wright &amp; Christie Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Created by the ancient Iconians, the Gateways offer instantaneous transport across unimaginable distances. Throughout the known galaxy, the sudden reactivation of the Gateways has destabilized interstellar relations -- and forced several of Starfleet''s finest commanders to leap through separate Gateways into the unknown.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Captain James T. Kirk of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek, The Original Series.\n  </em>\n  Captain Jean-Luc Picard of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: The Next Generation (R).\n  </em>\n  Colonel Kira Nerys of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (R).\n  </em>\n  Captain Kathryn Janeway of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Voyager (R).\n  </em>\n  Captains Calhoun and Shelby of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: New Frontier .\n  </em>\n  Captain Nick Keller of\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: New Earth.\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  All of these heroes have taken the ultimate gamble: hurling themselves through a Gateway without any forewarning of what lay beyond. Now each must face his or her own unique challenge, while struggling to find a way back to the ships and homes left behind....\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   What Lay Beyond\n  </em>\n  brings the Gateways saga to a spectacular finish, in all-star collaboration by six popular, bestselling Star TrekÂ® authors. Among them,\n  <strong>\n   Diane Carey, Peter David, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Cristie Golden, Robert Greenberger,\n  </strong>\n  and\n  <strong>\n   Susan Wright\n  </strong>\n  have written dozens of Star TrekÂ® novels. This is their first mega-collaboration.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5962');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(18570, 'Gather Together in My Name', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this incredible second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2905'),
(18571, 'Gather Together in My Name', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this incredible second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8194'),
(18572, 'Gather Together in My Name', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this incredible second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21863'),
(18573, 'Gather, Darkness!', 'Fritz Leiber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Gather, Darkness!" (originally serialized in "Astounding Science Fiction" in 1943) remains of of Fritz Leiber''s classic novels, a tale of the world 360 years after a nuclear holocaust, when priests rule using trickery and techology -- and of Armon Jarles,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5473'),
(18574, 'Gather, Darkness!', 'Fritz Leiber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Gather, Darkness!" (originally serialized in "Astounding Science Fiction" in 1943) remains of of Fritz Leiber''s classic novels, a tale of the world 360 years after a nuclear holocaust, when priests rule using trickery and techology -- and of Armon Jarles,\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19134'),
(18575, 'Gather, Darkness!', 'Fritz Leiber', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27912'),
(18576, 'The Gathering Dark', 'Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christopher Golden''s long-awaited return to his critically-acclaimed Shadow Saga features Peter Octavian-once a vampire, now a powerful mage-as the only man powerful enough to stop a supernatural armageddon...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6655'),
(18577, 'The Gathering Dark', 'Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christopher Golden''s long-awaited return to his critically-acclaimed Shadow Saga features Peter Octavian-once a vampire, now a powerful mage-as the only man powerful enough to stop a supernatural armageddon...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9955'),
(18578, 'The Gathering Dark', 'Christopher Golden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Christopher Golden''s long-awaited return to his critically-acclaimed Shadow Saga features Peter Octavian-once a vampire, now a powerful mage-as the only man powerful enough to stop a supernatural armageddon...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18016'),
(18579, 'The Gathering Storm', 'Winston Churchill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  None\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The first volume of Churchill''s Noble-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. THE GATHERING STORM depicts the rise of Hitler and the indifference of the leaders of the European democracies to the clouds of the gathering storm. Churchill incorporate contemporary documentation and his own reminiscence in this opening memoir.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/171'),
(18580, 'The Gathering Storm', 'Robert Jordan &amp; Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tarmon Gaiâ€™don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The final volume of the Wheel of Time, *A Memory of Light,* was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, *New York Times* bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordanâ€™s editor---his wife, Harriet McDougal---to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents *The Gathering Storm* as the first of three novels that will make up *A Memory of Light.* This short sequence will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing to a close a journey begun almost twenty years ago and marking the conclusion of the Wheel of Time, the preeminent fantasy epic of our era.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this epic novel, Robert Jordanâ€™s international bestselling series begins its dramatic conclusion. Rand alâ€™Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. As he attempts to halt the Seanchan encroachment northward---wishing he could form at least a temporary truce with the invaders---his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Egwene alâ€™Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. As days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent, Egwene works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai while providing leadership in the face of increasing uncertainty and despair. Her fight will prove the mettle of the Aes Sedai, and her conflict will decide the future of the White Tower---and possibly the world itself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8033'),
(18581, 'The Gathering Storm', 'Winston Churchill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  None\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The first volume of Churchill''s Noble-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. THE GATHERING STORM depicts the rise of Hitler and the indifference of the leaders of the European democracies to the clouds of the gathering storm. Churchill incorporate contemporary documentation and his own reminiscence in this opening memoir.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8897'),
(18582, 'The Gathering Storm', 'Robert Jordan &amp; Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Tarmon Gaiâ€™don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The final volume of the Wheel of Time, *A Memory of Light,* was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, *New York Times* bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordanâ€™s editor---his wife, Harriet McDougal---to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents *The Gathering Storm* as the first of three novels that will make up *A Memory of Light.* This short sequence will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing to a close a journey begun almost twenty years ago and marking the conclusion of the Wheel of Time, the preeminent fantasy epic of our era.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this epic novel, Robert Jordanâ€™s international bestselling series begins its dramatic conclusion. Rand alâ€™Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. As he attempts to halt the Seanchan encroachment northward---wishing he could form at least a temporary truce with the invaders---his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Egwene alâ€™Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. As days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent, Egwene works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai while providing leadership in the face of increasing uncertainty and despair. Her fight will prove the mettle of the Aes Sedai, and her conflict will decide the future of the White Tower---and possibly the world itself.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10598'),
(18583, 'The Gathering Storm', 'Robert Jordan; Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Tarmon Gaiâ€™don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready. The final volume of the Wheel of Time, *A Memory of Light,* was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, *New York Times* bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordanâ€™s editor---his wife, Harriet McDougal---to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents *The Gathering Storm* as the first of three novels that will make up *A Memory of Light.* This short sequence will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing to a close a journey begun almost twenty years ago and marking the conclusion of the Wheel of Time, the preeminent fantasy epic of our era. In this epic novel, Robert Jordanâ€™s international bestselling series begins its dramatic conclusion. Rand alâ€™Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. As he attempts to halt the Seanchan encroachment northward---wishing he could form at least a temporary truce with the invaders---his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself. Egwene alâ€™Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. As days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent, Egwene works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai while providing leadership in the face of increasing uncertainty and despair. Her fight will prove the mettle of the Aes Sedai, and her conflict will decide the future of the White Tower---and possibly the world itself. The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23240'),
(18584, 'The Gathering Storm', 'Winston Churchill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  None\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  The first volume of Churchill''s Noble-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. THE GATHERING STORM depicts the rise of Hitler and the indifference of the leaders of the European democracies to the clouds of the gathering storm. Churchill incorporate contemporary documentation and his own reminiscence in this opening memoir.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24788'),
(18585, 'The Gathering', 'Anne Enright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland''s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a return to an intimate canvas and moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family haunted by the past. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him--something that happened in their grandmother''s house in the winter of 1968. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, she shows how memories warp and secrets fester. The Gathering is a family epic, clarified through Anne Enright''s unblinking eye. This is a novel about love and disappointment, about how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. The Gathering sends fresh blood through the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. As in all of Anne Enright''s work, this is a book of draing, wit, and insight, her distinctive intelligence twisting the world a fraction and giving it back to us in a new and unforgettable light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7605'),
(18586, 'The Gathering', 'Anne Enright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland''s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a return to an intimate canvas and moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family haunted by the past. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him--something that happened in their grandmother''s house in the winter of 1968. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, she shows how memories warp and secrets fester. The Gathering is a family epic, clarified through Anne Enright''s unblinking eye. This is a novel about love and disappointment, about how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. The Gathering sends fresh blood through the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. As in all of Anne Enright''s work, this is a book of draing, wit, and insight, her distinctive intelligence twisting the world a fraction and giving it back to us in a new and unforgettable light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9648'),
(18587, 'The gathering', 'Anne Enright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland''s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a return to an intimate canvas and moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family haunted by the past. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him--something that happened in their grandmother''s house in the winter of 1968. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, she shows how memories warp and secrets fester. The Gathering is a family epic, clarified through Anne Enright''s unblinking eye. This is a novel about love and disappointment, about how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. The Gathering sends fresh blood through the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. As in all of Anne Enright''s work, this is a book of draing, wit, and insight, her distinctive intelligence twisting the world a fraction and giving it back to us in a new and unforgettable light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16301'),
(18588, 'The gathering', 'Anne Enright', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland''s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a return to an intimate canvas and moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family haunted by the past. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him--something that happened in their grandmother''s house in the winter of 1968. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, she shows how memories warp and secrets fester. The Gathering is a family epic, clarified through Anne Enright''s unblinking eye. This is a novel about love and disappointment, about how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. The Gathering sends fresh blood through the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. As in all of Anne Enright''s work, this is a book of draing, wit, and insight, her distinctive intelligence twisting the world a fraction and giving it back to us in a new and unforgettable light.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26394'),
(18589, 'Gauntlgrym', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Drizzt joins Bruenor on his quest for the fabled dwarven kingdom of Gauntlgrym: ruins said to be rich with ancient treasure and arcane lore. But before they even get close, another drow and dwarf pair stumbles across it first: Jarlaxle and Athrogate.  In their search for treasure and magic, Jarlaxle and Athrogate inadvertently set into motion a catastrophe that could spell disaster for the unsuspecting people of the city of Neverwinterâ€”a catastrophe big enough to lure even the mercenary Jarlaxle into risking his own coin and skin to stop it. Unfortunately, the more they uncover about the secret of Gauntlgrym, the more it looks like they canâ€™t stop it on their own. Theyâ€™ll need help, and from the last people they ever thought to fight alongside again: Drizzt and Bruenor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1974'),
(18590, 'Gauntlgrym', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Drizzt joins Bruenor on his quest for the fabled dwarven kingdom of Gauntlgrym: ruins said to be rich with ancient treasure and arcane lore. But before they even get close, another drow and dwarf pair stumbles across it first: Jarlaxle and Athrogate.  In their search for treasure and magic, Jarlaxle and Athrogate inadvertently set into motion a catastrophe that could spell disaster for the unsuspecting people of the city of Neverwinterâ€”a catastrophe big enough to lure even the mercenary Jarlaxle into risking his own coin and skin to stop it. Unfortunately, the more they uncover about the secret of Gauntlgrym, the more it looks like they canâ€™t stop it on their own. Theyâ€™ll need help, and from the last people they ever thought to fight alongside again: Drizzt and Bruenor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12485'),
(18591, 'Gaza in Crisis', 'Chomsky, Noam &amp; Pappe, Ilan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21576'),
(18592, 'Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel&#39;s War Against the Palestinians', 'Noam Chomsky &amp; Ilan Pappe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although much of the material collected here precedes Israel''s recent military attack on a Gaza-bound international flotilla of embargo-breaking humanitarian aid, this succinct and eye-opening collection of recent interviews and essays from the renowned linguist and activist Chomsky (Hopes and Prospects) and prominent Israeli historian PappÃ© (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine) gives essential context to the crisis. The reader will find Chomsky''s consistent positions on everything from the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the issue of a one- versus two-state settlement. PappÃ© adds vital and unexpected historical background, including a chapter on the deep American evangelical roots in the support of Zionism and the birth of modern Arab nationalism in Palestine. PappÃ© and Chomsky are not perfectly in synch on every point: Chomsky remains skeptical of an academic boycott of Israel, for instance, called for in the past by PappÃ© and others. But the fundamentals of the crisis--and its scale in humanitarian, moral and political terms--are clear, as well as clearly expressed, between them. This sober and unflinching analysis should be read and reckoned with by anyone concerned with practicable change in the long-suffering region. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet."â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ilan PappÃ© is Israel''s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian."â€”John Pilger\n</p>\n<p>\n Described by a UN fact-finding mission as "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate, and terrorize a civilian population," Israel''s Operation Cast Lead thrust the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip into the center of the debate about the Israel/Palestine conflict.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Gaza in Crisis\n </em>\n , Noam Chomsky and Ilan PappÃ©, two of the issue''s most insightful and prominent critical voices, survey the fallout from Israel''s conduct in Gaza and place it into the context of Israel''s longstanding occupation of Palestine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Noam Chomsky\n </strong>\n is one of the world''s foremost social critics, and one of its most prolific. He is author of\n <em>\n  Failed States\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Hegemony or Survival\n </em>\n , both\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellers. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and is institute professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ilan PappÃ©\n </strong>\n is professor of history at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, where he is also co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies, director of the Palestine Studies Centre, and a longtime political activist. He is the author of\n <em>\n  The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2527'),
(18593, 'Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel&#39;s War Against the Palestinians', 'Noam Chomsky &amp; Ilan Pappe', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although much of the material collected here precedes Israel''s recent military attack on a Gaza-bound international flotilla of embargo-breaking humanitarian aid, this succinct and eye-opening collection of recent interviews and essays from the renowned linguist and activist Chomsky (Hopes and Prospects) and prominent Israeli historian PappÃ© (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine) gives essential context to the crisis. The reader will find Chomsky''s consistent positions on everything from the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the issue of a one- versus two-state settlement. PappÃ© adds vital and unexpected historical background, including a chapter on the deep American evangelical roots in the support of Zionism and the birth of modern Arab nationalism in Palestine. PappÃ© and Chomsky are not perfectly in synch on every point: Chomsky remains skeptical of an academic boycott of Israel, for instance, called for in the past by PappÃ© and others. But the fundamentals of the crisis--and its scale in humanitarian, moral and political terms--are clear, as well as clearly expressed, between them. This sober and unflinching analysis should be read and reckoned with by anyone concerned with practicable change in the long-suffering region. (Nov.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet."â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ilan PappÃ© is Israel''s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian."â€”John Pilger\n</p>\n<p>\n Described by a UN fact-finding mission as "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate, and terrorize a civilian population," Israel''s Operation Cast Lead thrust the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip into the center of the debate about the Israel/Palestine conflict.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Gaza in Crisis\n </em>\n , Noam Chomsky and Ilan PappÃ©, two of the issue''s most insightful and prominent critical voices, survey the fallout from Israel''s conduct in Gaza and place it into the context of Israel''s longstanding occupation of Palestine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Noam Chomsky\n </strong>\n is one of the world''s foremost social critics, and one of its most prolific. He is author of\n <em>\n  Failed States\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Hegemony or Survival\n </em>\n , both\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestsellers. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and is institute professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Ilan PappÃ©\n </strong>\n is professor of history at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, where he is also co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies, director of the Palestine Studies Centre, and a longtime political activist. He is the author of\n <em>\n  The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8927'),
(18594, 'Geek Love', 'Katherine Dunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14834'),
(18595, 'Geek Love', 'Katherine Dunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20650'),
(18596, 'Geek, Rebooted', 'Top Gear', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25007'),
(18597, 'Geektastic', 'Holly Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Acclaimed authors Holly Black (Ironside)and Cecil Castellucci (Boy Proof) have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best selling and most promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, John Green, Tracy Lynn, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Barry Lyga, Wendy Mass, Garth Nix, Scott Westerfield, Lisa Yee, and Sara Zarr.With illustrated interstitials from comic book artists Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O''Malley, Geektastic covers all things geeky, from Klingons and Jedi Knights to fan fiction, theater geeks, and cosplayers. Whether you''re a former, current, or future geek, or if you just want to get in touch with your inner geek, Geektastic will help you get your geek on!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5082'),
(18598, 'Geektastic', 'Holly Black', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Acclaimed authors Holly Black (Ironside)and Cecil Castellucci (Boy Proof) have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best selling and most promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, John Green, Tracy Lynn, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Barry Lyga, Wendy Mass, Garth Nix, Scott Westerfield, Lisa Yee, and Sara Zarr.With illustrated interstitials from comic book artists Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O''Malley, Geektastic covers all things geeky, from Klingons and Jedi Knights to fan fiction, theater geeks, and cosplayers. Whether you''re a former, current, or future geek, or if you just want to get in touch with your inner geek, Geektastic will help you get your geek on!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8542'),
(18599, 'Geis of the Gargoyle', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Since Xanth began, the gargoyles of that magical place have been under a magical compulsion to protect the purity of the Swan Knee River which flows in to Xanth from dreary Mundania. But recently the pollution from the outside world has grown ever greater, and young Gary Gar, latest in a long line of gargoyle guardians, is finding it ever more difficult to fulfill his responsibilities.So Gary does what any sensible Xanth resident with a dire dilemma would do. He goes to see the Good Magician Humfrey, who sends him on a peculiar quest--to transform himself into human shape, tutor a precocious child with more than her share of wild magical talents, and find a philter which can restore the river to its previous pristine state.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2013'),
(18600, 'Geis of the Gargoyle', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Since Xanth began, the gargoyles of that magical place have been under a magical compulsion to protect the purity of the Swan Knee River which flows in to Xanth from dreary Mundania. But recently the pollution from the outside world has grown ever greater, and young Gary Gar, latest in a long line of gargoyle guardians, is finding it ever more difficult to fulfill his responsibilities.So Gary does what any sensible Xanth resident with a dire dilemma would do. He goes to see the Good Magician Humfrey, who sends him on a peculiar quest--to transform himself into human shape, tutor a precocious child with more than her share of wild magical talents, and find a philter which can restore the river to its previous pristine state.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22700'),
(18601, 'Gemworld 01: Book One', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dazzling to behold, Gemworld is one of the wonders of the Federation: an artificial world composed entirely of crystal, its atmosphere held in place by a sophisticated network of force fields. Home to a half dozen different sentient races, this singular world is a low-gravity playpen of mammoth spires, endless fractal staircases, gemstone arcs, and dazzling prisms, oil carefully nurtured by the planet''s many inhabitants -- until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lieutenant Melora Pozlor, who previously served on\n  <em>\n   Deep Space Nineâ„¢,\n  </em>\n  is currently stationed aboard the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  where an urgent telepathic summons alerts her to the danger threatening her homeworld.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The crystals that once sheltered her people, and several other alien species, are now growing at a vastly accelerated and uncontrollable rate, wreaking havoc throughout the planet. Captain Picard orders the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  on a rescue mission to Gemworld, but they arrive to find a world in chaos -- and an unexpected menace that traps the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  along with the fragile civilization they hoped to save!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mammoth prisms and spindly spires stretched across the pale blue sky, catching the sun in a ripple of rainbow shimmers. Stairlike forms seemed to stretch forever, crossing and weaving in an endless dance of structure and light. From a distance, the crystalline fingers and branches looked fragile, like coral growing in a fish tank. But at close range, the giant prisms were as solid as marble columns, and as smooth and dazzling as diamonds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dwarfed by the towering crystals were five young humanoids; they soared among the spires like birds flying through a forest. Sails billowed from their arms and legs to catch the convection currents, but the fliers mostly depended upon graceful acrobatics to propel themselves. Tandra, the team leader of the five youths, glided to a thick green monolith, tagged up like a swimmer making a lap turn, then bounded off in an altered direction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two young Elaysians followed her lead, bouncing off the same crystal and racing after her. The other two members of the science team took different angles at the big monolith and soared off in parallel trajectories. One of the boys rolled into a midair somersault, just having fun. This close to the core of the planet, crystals grew in profusion, so there were plenty of smooth surfaces for pushing off.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tandra frowned, deepening the crease around her V-shaped forehead ridges. Once they reached the hollow core, she knew they would have to be more careful with their flight patterns. She glanced over her shoulder to make sure the robotic hover-platform was following them. At a discreet distance, the meter-long disc floated along, its small thrusters making minute course changes. Once they reached the core, Tandra knew they might need the platform, for a push-off or a roost.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Laughing and chatting, the five students soared from one spidery, crystalline structure to another, plunging deeper into the center of the unique planet. To the few visitors who came here, Gemworld looked more like the intricate skeleton of a planet, or a giant snowflake made of prisms. For the Elaysians, it was a crystalline aviary. For the other sentient races, Gemworld was what they made of it. All of the inhabitants knew it was a special place, even if very few of them had ever seen a conventional planet for comparison.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Tandra flew through a stand of rainbow-hued prisms -- old growth before the natural geometry had been improved by fractal models -- she gaped at the exquisite beauty. She thought angrily about the outsiders who claimed that Gemworld wasn''t a real planet. They pointed to its forcefields and lack of mass, thinking that such a place had to be artificial, despite its immense size. They simply didn''t understand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although the crystals looked cold and foreboding, even with their uncanny beauty, they sheltered a surprising variety of life. What could an outsider know about that? Outsiders couldn''t stay long enough to really appreciate Gemworld because the low gravity was harmful to most gravity-dependent species. Although humans'' muscles were a dozen times more developed, they could never soar between the sparkling archways like Elaysians born and raised in this gossamer cage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A clearing loomed on the far side of a thicket of crystals, and Tandra realized they were getting close to the core of Gemworld. At one time, it had been a molten, metallic mass like a conventional planetary core, but the Ancients had sacrificed it to fuel the crystal. Now the inhabitants were slowly rebuilding the core with new crystal growth, which was the reason for the students'' outing today.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite the fact it was empty -- or because of it -- Tandra found the core of Gemworld an eerie place to travel. Since it was hollow and equidistant from the massive crystal constructs surrounding it, the core was the most weightless part of the planet. Only trace gravity was measurable here.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As they flew farther into the ancient heart of the planet and the old-growth crystal, the light became more refracted and eerie, as if the ancient ocean were still there. Tandra felt the weight of ages, how many ages nobody knew, except perhaps the Lipuls. And even they had gaps in their history. The sparkling hues of the upper levels had given way to rust, olive, and sage colors, and the weathered facets were striated from elements that hadn''t assaulted them for millions of years.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tandra could well imagine the great oceans that pummeled these prisms eons ago, when even the Lipuls and the Gendlii were single-celled animals. Gemworld had been young then. Now it was old. But it was still a planet, thought Tandra, despite its low gravity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Glancing around, she noted that her friends gave little regard to their solemn surroundings as they soared and tumbled through a swooping archway. They were just a flock of young people on a field trip, thought Tandra, and she shouldn''t judge them too harshly. Hovering so close to the birthplace of the planet always gave her a sense of history -- and a chill -- but today it seemed more eerie than usual.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ll hold up at the purple prism!" Tandra shouted to her comrades.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Oh, we can make it across!" scoffed one of the boys, soaring past her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ll hold up!" she shouted back. "I''m the team leader."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tandra knew she couldn''t do much if the others disobeyed, but none of them wanted to get stuck out here in the wilderness. They wanted to measure the new stand, see if the fractal modeling program was working as expected, and get out of here. It was too lovely a day to be plodding through kilometer after kilometer of empty air. Although the outing had been fun so far, it had also been long, and the young Elaysians were impatient to return to their research base about four hundred prisms above them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One by one, the students alighted softly on the ancient purple spire at the edge of the clearing. Tandra gazed into the hollow marrow of the crystal and could see its pulsing gel center. It was a sight she always found reassuring, because it meant that Lipuls probably lived within the marrow. Before the students lay a wide expanse of nothingness, broken up by little islands of discarded equipment, dust, and debris, all of it floating uselessly. In the distance, the edge of the crystal growth shimmered like a mirage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "How much farther?" asked Lucio, the cutest of the boys, with his slight frame and rare dark hair.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll find out." From her backpack, Tandra took a small handheld device and turned it on. She waited a few seconds until the positioning device communicated with the shell that circled the planet and fixed their current position. As the students hovered around her, Tandra punched in the coordinates of their destination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "About two hundred prisms." Tandra took a bit of ground crystal from her pocket and tossed it into the air to check the air currents. Now she knew what kind of arc to take to stay on course. "We can cover it in an hour if we get good jumps. Everyone, take a drink, because there won''t be time to stop."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Taking her advice, the young Elaysians pulled out sip tubes and sipped from water bladders built into their backpacks. One by one, they used the hovercraft to crouch on the rough-hewn monolith then bound off into the wide-open wilderness. Strung out like a line of migrant birds, the Elaysians soared gracefully across the hollow core of Gemworld.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tandra realized she would have to rely heavily on the positioning device, so she took it out of her backpack and slipped the strap around her neck, letting it float behind her. A quick glance assured her that the rest of the team and the hover-platform were following dutifully behind, then she double-checked to make sure they were on course. Finally satisfied that they would reach their destination in due time, the team leader spread her sails to catch the prevailing air currents.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It didn''t take long for her to realize that somethi\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4171');
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(18602, 'Gemworld 01: Book One', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Dazzling to behold, Gemworld is one of the wonders of the Federation: an artificial world composed entirely of crystal, its atmosphere held in place by a sophisticated network of force fields. Home to a half dozen different sentient races, this singular world is a low-gravity playpen of mammoth spires, endless fractal staircases, gemstone arcs, and dazzling prisms, oil carefully nurtured by the planet''s many inhabitants -- until now.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lieutenant Melora Pozlor, who previously served on\n  <em>\n   Deep Space NineTM,\n  </em>\n  is currently stationed aboard the\n  <em>\n   Starship EnterpriseTM\n  </em>\n  where an urgent telepathic summons alerts her to the danger threatening her homeworld.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The crystals that once sheltered her people, and several other alien species, are now growing at a vastly accelerated and uncontrollable rate, wreaking havoc throughout the planet. Captain Picard orders the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  on a rescue mission to Gemworld, but they arrive to find a world in chaos -- and an unexpected menace that traps the crew of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  along with the fragile civilization they hoped to save!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Mammoth prisms and spindly spires stretched across the pale blue sky, catching the sun in a ripple of rainbow shimmers. Stairlike forms seemed to stretch forever, crossing and weaving in an endless dance of structure and light. From a distance, the crystalline fingers and branches looked fragile, like coral growing in a fish tank. But at close range, the giant prisms were as solid as marble columns, and as smooth and dazzling as diamonds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Dwarfed by the towering crystals were five young humanoids; they soared among the spires like birds flying through a forest. Sails billowed from their arms and legs to catch the convection currents, but the fliers mostly depended upon graceful acrobatics to propel themselves. Tandra, the team leader of the five youths, glided to a thick green monolith, tagged up like a swimmer making a lap turn, then bounded off in an altered direction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Two young Elaysians followed her lead, bouncing off the same crystal and racing after her. The other two members of the science team took different angles at the big monolith and soared off in parallel trajectories. One of the boys rolled into a midair somersault, just having fun. This close to the core of the planet, crystals grew in profusion, so there were plenty of smooth surfaces for pushing off.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tandra frowned, deepening the crease around her V-shaped forehead ridges. Once they reached the hollow core, she knew they would have to be more careful with their flight patterns. She glanced over her shoulder to make sure the robotic hover-platform was following them. At a discreet distance, the meter-long disc floated along, its small thrusters making minute course changes. Once they reached the core, Tandra knew they might need the platform, for a push-off or a roost.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Laughing and chatting, the five students soared from one spidery, crystalline structure to another, plunging deeper into the center of the unique planet. To the few visitors who came here, Gemworld looked more like the intricate skeleton of a planet, or a giant snowflake made of prisms. For the Elaysians, it was a crystalline aviary. For the other sentient races, Gemworld was what they made of it. All of the inhabitants knew it was a special place, even if very few of them had ever seen a conventional planet for comparison.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As Tandra flew through a stand of rainbow-hued prisms -- old growth before the natural geometry had been improved by fractal models -- she gaped at the exquisite beauty. She thought angrily about the outsiders who claimed that Gemworld wasn''t a real planet. They pointed to its forcefields and lack of mass, thinking that such a place had to be artificial, despite its immense size. They simply didn''t understand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Although the crystals looked cold and foreboding, even with their uncanny beauty, they sheltered a surprising variety of life. What could an outsider know about that? Outsiders couldn''t stay long enough to really appreciate Gemworld because the low gravity was harmful to most gravity-dependent species. Although humans'' muscles were a dozen times more developed, they could never soar between the sparkling archways like Elaysians born and raised in this gossamer cage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A clearing loomed on the far side of a thicket of crystals, and Tandra realized they were getting close to the core of Gemworld. At one time, it had been a molten, metallic mass like a conventional planetary core, but the Ancients had sacrificed it to fuel the crystal. Now the inhabitants were slowly rebuilding the core with new crystal growth, which was the reason for the students'' outing today.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite the fact it was empty -- or because of it -- Tandra found the core of Gemworld an eerie place to travel. Since it was hollow and equidistant from the massive crystal constructs surrounding it, the core was the most weightless part of the planet. Only trace gravity was measurable here.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As they flew farther into the ancient heart of the planet and the old-growth crystal, the light became more refracted and eerie, as if the ancient ocean were still there. Tandra felt the weight of ages, how many ages nobody knew, except perhaps the Lipuls. And even they had gaps in their history. The sparkling hues of the upper levels had given way to rust, olive, and sage colors, and the weathered facets were striated from elements that hadn''t assaulted them for millions of years.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tandra could well imagine the great oceans that pummeled these prisms eons ago, when even the Lipuls and the Gendlii were single-celled animals. Gemworld had been young then. Now it was old. But it was still a planet, thought Tandra, despite its low gravity.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Glancing around, she noted that her friends gave little regard to their solemn surroundings as they soared and tumbled through a swooping archway. They were just a flock of young people on a field trip, thought Tandra, and she shouldn''t judge them too harshly. Hovering so close to the birthplace of the planet always gave her a sense of history -- and a chill -- but today it seemed more eerie than usual.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ll hold up at the purple prism!" Tandra shouted to her comrades.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Oh, we can make it across!" scoffed one of the boys, soaring past her.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ll hold up!" she shouted back. "I''m the team leader."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tandra knew she couldn''t do much if the others disobeyed, but none of them wanted to get stuck out here in the wilderness. They wanted to measure the new stand, see if the fractal modeling program was working as expected, and get out of here. It was too lovely a day to be plodding through kilometer after kilometer of empty air. Although the outing had been fun so far, it had also been long, and the young Elaysians were impatient to return to their research base about four hundred prisms above them.\n </p>\n <p>\n  One by one, the students alighted softly on the ancient purple spire at the edge of the clearing. Tandra gazed into the hollow marrow of the crystal and could see its pulsing gel center. It was a sight she always found reassuring, because it meant that Lipuls probably lived within the marrow. Before the students lay a wide expanse of nothingness, broken up by little islands of discarded equipment, dust, and debris, all of it floating uselessly. In the distance, the edge of the crystal growth shimmered like a mirage.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "How much farther?" asked Lucio, the cutest of the boys, with his slight frame and rare dark hair.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I''ll find out." From her backpack, Tandra took a small handheld device and turned it on. She waited a few seconds until the positioning device communicated with the shell that circled the planet and fixed their current position. As the students hovered around her, Tandra punched in the coordinates of their destination.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "About two hundred prisms." Tandra took a bit of ground crystal from her pocket and tossed it into the air to check the air currents. Now she knew what kind of arc to take to stay on course. "We can cover it in an hour if we get good jumps. Everyone, take a drink, because there won''t be time to stop."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Taking her advice, the young Elaysians pulled out sip tubes and sipped from water bladders built into their backpacks. One by one, they used the hovercraft to crouch on the rough-hewn monolith then bound off into the wide-open wilderness. Strung out like a line of migrant birds, the Elaysians soared gracefully across the hollow core of Gemworld.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tandra realized she would have to rely heavily on the positioning device, so she took it out of her backpack and slipped the strap around her neck, letting it float behind her. A quick glance assured her that the rest of the team and the hover-platform were following dutifully behind, then she double-checked to make sure they were on course. Finally satisfied that they would reach their destination in due time, the team leader spread her sails to catch the prevailing air currents.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It didn''t take long for her to realize that somethi\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20419'),
(18603, 'Gemworld 02: Book Two', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sparkling like a three-dimensional snowflake in the depths of space, Gernworld once was one of the Federation''s greatest marvels. Six different alien races coexisted peacefully on an artificial world composed entirely of crystal -- until the very substance of Gemworld began to multiply out of control, tearing the world apart. Now the entire planet -- and the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  as well-faces total destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The only way to stop the disaster is to turn off the vast network of force fields holding Gemworld''s atmosphere in place, but to do so will require the cooperation of each of the planet''s half dozen alien civilizations, one of which sabotaged Gemworld in the first place. With time running out, Captain Picard and his crew, including a lovestruck Lieutenant Barclay, must embark on a hazardous trek across the dying planet to find and unite the chief engineers from many strange and exotic races -- while watching out for a mass murderer determined to destroy a world!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lieutenant Melora Pazlar hovered above a row of terminals in a weightless, cylindrical chamber inside the protective shell that encircled Gemworld. This chamber was a monitoring station which was usually populated by Elaysian and Alpusta engineers. The Elaysians were in residence, but now so was an away team from the Federation starship\n  <em>\n   Enterprise.\n  </em>\n  Melora hardly considered herself to be a member of\n  <em>\n   that\n  </em>\n  crew, having been on board only a few hours before her dreams had been invaded by the Lipuls'' call for help.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Melora glanced at one of the screens. Far beneath the shell and its labyrinth of collectors, generators, pumps, and forcefields floated Gemworld itself -- a dazzling, multihued cluster of spires, prisms, and archways. Seen from afar, her crystalline world was an awesome bauble glimmering in the vastness of space. From within, it was a forest of massive monoliths, dancing light beams, and perpetual shadow.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not only was Melora''s body suspended in midair, which was normal, but her mind felt as if it were suspended, too. She was reminded of the out-of-body experiences humans often claimed to have had, even though few of them ever took the time to understand such phenomena.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It wasn''t surprising that the Lipuls'' dreamships had first contacted humans, out of all the Federation species. Unlike Elaysians, humans were open-minded, even generous and outgoing. But like Elaysians, they could also be obstinate and blunt. That bluntness was now being amply demonstrated by the harsh words of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, as he lectured Tangre Bertoran and a handful of Elaysian engineers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In standard Federation language, the captain had already told them they had the equivalent of eight days to live. Did her fellow Elaysians even know how short a time period that was? They didn''t have\n  <em>\n   days\n  </em>\n  on Gemworld, in the accepted sense, only refracted sunlight and a strange sort of twilight in the shadows. Gemworld had been inhabited ever since the universe was young, and they thought they had surmounted every obstacle. How could her people possibly comprehend that their life expectancy had come down to eight rotations of a faraway alien planet?\n </p>\n <p>\n  She could tell by the concern on Reg Barclay''s face that he understood their predicament -- and the truth of Picard''s dire prediction. Counselor Deanna Troi listened with her usual detachment as the captain finished his summation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That is quite impossible, Captain," said Tangre Bertoran, in a tone of voice usually reserved for small children who have told grandiose lies. The silver-haired Peer of the Jeptah shook his head in pity. "Thoron radiation is naturally occurring in our atmosphere. And in Earth''s too, I understand. It couldn''t harm all life on Gemworld, only those who spend too much time near the mutant crystal."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Which continues to grow every day," insisted the captain. "Commander Data is not given to making errant predictions. Trust me when I say that we have to shut down the darkmatter collectors and the dimensional rift in eight days -- by whatever means -- or we''ll all die. If we have to shut down the shell to accomplish that goal, then so be it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bertoran wrinkled his nose and forehead ridges as if sniffing a foul odor. "Captain, we don''t talk about ''shutting down the shell,'' even in jest....That is like saying we need to destroy the Earth in order to stop a weed from growing. Yes, it will work -- but at what cost?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  The captain gestured broadly, making it clear how frustrated he felt. "I don''t want\n  <em>\n   anyone\n  </em>\n  to die, especially not two billion inhabitants. My first officer and chief engineer think that we can power your forcefields from the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  for a brief period, taking over while the shell is turned off. You know how all those systems are intertwined -- there''s no other choice. If we''re successful, Gemworld won''t lose any of her atmosphere."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "And if you''re wrong, we''ll all be dead," replied Bertoran snidely.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We have eight days to put something together," answered Picard, sounding as if that were plenty of time. "We have considerable experience with forcefields, and my people have already gotten a head start on this. Your people can help by making sealed shelters, bottling air -- whatever is necessary. Believe me, I wouldn''t suggest this course if I didn''t think we could do it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tangre Bertoran grimaced his displeasure. "What you''re asking goes against all my upbringing and common sense. It''s akin to\n  <em>\n   murder.\n  </em>\n  I don''t know, Captain...I need to see Commander Data''s sensor readings before I agree to this."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ve got them." Picard gestured, and Reg Barclay fumbled in a pouch on his belt, finally producing an isolinear chip. Melora smiled at the contrast between this gleaming storage device and the aged violet prism that hung from Reg''s neck.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Can you read isolinear chips?" asked the captain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bertoran sneered. "After we joined the Federation, it took us about two weeks to master your language and technology. Now you wish to destroy\n  <em>\n   ours\n  </em>\n  in a heartbeat."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Your technology has turned against you," said Deanna Troi, speaking up for the first time since the meeting began. Hesitantly, the counselor floated down from the circular doorway, looking uneasy in her weightless state. "We wouldn''t go to this much trouble to destroy you. The only thing that can destroy you is doing nothing."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tangre Bertoran scowled and snatched the isolinear chip from Reg''s hand. "Give me a moment."\n </p>\n <p>\n  He and his entourage retreated to a monitoring console, where they plugged in the chip and studied the data, muttering in low tones. Melora hovered overhead, uncertain whether she should join her fellow Elaysians or stay with her unfamiliar crew. Since coming back to Gemworld, she had felt increasingly torn between her duty to Starfleet and a natural inclination to protect her people and her homeworld. The two shouldn''t be mutually exclusive, but Starfleet represented the whole Federation, not just one peculiar planet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her split allegiance had never been an issue before, because Gemworld had always seemed like a memory from a past life, something that would never intrude on her Starfleet commitments. But being here, visiting her old enclave, seeing the frightened faces and the crumbling, mutant crystal -- it had become clear that Gemworld needed her more than Starfleet did.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For now, the dimensional rift not only threatened their solar system, but it could endanger the entire quadrant if left unchecked. Captain Picard had made it clear that he would sacrifice his ship and every soul on her planet to keep that from happening. And he probably wouldn''t hesitate to use the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise''s\n  </em>\n  weapon systems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reg Barclay looked at Melora and smiled sweetly, jarring her out of her depressing reverie. His boyish, earnest face brought out a smile in her, and she realized how glad she was to see him again. Here she was -- perhaps in the last days of her life -- and she had met a perfectly charming man who doted on her and strove to protect her. In fact, he strove to protect\n  <em>\n   all\n  </em>\n  of her people, as proven by the shard around his neck.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He was an unlikely hero -- and an even more unlikely acting senior engineer for the Elaysians -- yet he performed both duties valiantly. Looking at Reg brought out a respect and affection in Melora that she had thought she could never feel for anyone. And her feelings were amplified by the guilt she felt over not being totally honest with him....The last thing she wanted to do was to hurt Reg, or any member of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  crew. They were trying to help, but they didn''t fully understand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Did Reg know how she felt about him? Did it even matter -- with all the obstacles they faced?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Yes, it matters,\n  </em>\n  decided Melora. This should be a time to feel for one another -- to seek love, and give it. What did it mean to fight for life if\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4173'),
(18604, 'Gemworld 02: Book Two', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Sparkling like a three-dimensional snowflake in the depths of space, Gernworld once was one of the Federation''s greatest marvels. Six different alien races coexisted peacefully on an artificial world composed entirely of crystal -- until the very substance of Gemworld began to multiply out of control, tearing the world apart. Now the entire planet -- and the\n  <em>\n   Starship EnterpriseTM\n  </em>\n  as well-faces total destruction.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The only way to stop the disaster is to turn off the vast network of force fields holding Gemworld''s atmosphere in place, but to do so will require the cooperation of each of the planet''s half dozen alien civilizations, one of which sabotaged Gemworld in the first place. With time running out, Captain Picard and his crew, including a lovestruck Lieutenant Barclay, must embark on a hazardous trek across the dying planet to find and unite the chief engineers from many strange and exotic races -- while watching out for a mass murderer determined to destroy a world!\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Chapter One\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Lieutenant Melora Pazlar hovered above a row of terminals in a weightless, cylindrical chamber inside the protective shell that encircled Gemworld. This chamber was a monitoring station which was usually populated by Elaysian and Alpusta engineers. The Elaysians were in residence, but now so was an away team from the Federation starship\n  <em>\n   Enterprise.\n  </em>\n  Melora hardly considered herself to be a member of\n  <em>\n   that\n  </em>\n  crew, having been on board only a few hours before her dreams had been invaded by the Lipuls'' call for help.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Melora glanced at one of the screens. Far beneath the shell and its labyrinth of collectors, generators, pumps, and forcefields floated Gemworld itself -- a dazzling, multihued cluster of spires, prisms, and archways. Seen from afar, her crystalline world was an awesome bauble glimmering in the vastness of space. From within, it was a forest of massive monoliths, dancing light beams, and perpetual shadow.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Not only was Melora''s body suspended in midair, which was normal, but her mind felt as if it were suspended, too. She was reminded of the out-of-body experiences humans often claimed to have had, even though few of them ever took the time to understand such phenomena.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It wasn''t surprising that the Lipuls'' dreamships had first contacted humans, out of all the Federation species. Unlike Elaysians, humans were open-minded, even generous and outgoing. But like Elaysians, they could also be obstinate and blunt. That bluntness was now being amply demonstrated by the harsh words of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, as he lectured Tangre Bertoran and a handful of Elaysian engineers.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In standard Federation language, the captain had already told them they had the equivalent of eight days to live. Did her fellow Elaysians even know how short a time period that was? They didn''t have\n  <em>\n   days\n  </em>\n  on Gemworld, in the accepted sense, only refracted sunlight and a strange sort of twilight in the shadows. Gemworld had been inhabited ever since the universe was young, and they thought they had surmounted every obstacle. How could her people possibly comprehend that their life expectancy had come down to eight rotations of a faraway alien planet?\n </p>\n <p>\n  She could tell by the concern on Reg Barclay''s face that he understood their predicament -- and the truth of Picard''s dire prediction. Counselor Deanna Troi listened with her usual detachment as the captain finished his summation.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "That is quite impossible, Captain," said Tangre Bertoran, in a tone of voice usually reserved for small children who have told grandiose lies. The silver-haired Peer of the Jeptah shook his head in pity. "Thoron radiation is naturally occurring in our atmosphere. And in Earth''s too, I understand. It couldn''t harm all life on Gemworld, only those who spend too much time near the mutant crystal."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Which continues to grow every day," insisted the captain. "Commander Data is not given to making errant predictions. Trust me when I say that we have to shut down the darkmatter collectors and the dimensional rift in eight days -- by whatever means -- or we''ll all die. If we have to shut down the shell to accomplish that goal, then so be it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bertoran wrinkled his nose and forehead ridges as if sniffing a foul odor. "Captain, we don''t talk about ''shutting down the shell,'' even in jest....That is like saying we need to destroy the Earth in order to stop a weed from growing. Yes, it will work -- but at what cost?"\n </p>\n <p>\n  The captain gestured broadly, making it clear how frustrated he felt. "I don''t want\n  <em>\n   anyone\n  </em>\n  to die, especially not two billion inhabitants. My first officer and chief engineer think that we can power your forcefields from the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  for a brief period, taking over while the shell is turned off. You know how all those systems are intertwined -- there''s no other choice. If we''re successful, Gemworld won''t lose any of her atmosphere."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "And if you''re wrong, we''ll all be dead," replied Bertoran snidely.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We have eight days to put something together," answered Picard, sounding as if that were plenty of time. "We have considerable experience with forcefields, and my people have already gotten a head start on this. Your people can help by making sealed shelters, bottling air -- whatever is necessary. Believe me, I wouldn''t suggest this course if I didn''t think we could do it."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tangre Bertoran grimaced his displeasure. "What you''re asking goes against all my upbringing and common sense. It''s akin to\n  <em>\n   murder.\n  </em>\n  I don''t know, Captain...I need to see Commander Data''s sensor readings before I agree to this."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "We''ve got them." Picard gestured, and Reg Barclay fumbled in a pouch on his belt, finally producing an isolinear chip. Melora smiled at the contrast between this gleaming storage device and the aged violet prism that hung from Reg''s neck.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Can you read isolinear chips?" asked the captain.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bertoran sneered. "After we joined the Federation, it took us about two weeks to master your language and technology. Now you wish to destroy\n  <em>\n   ours\n  </em>\n  in a heartbeat."\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Your technology has turned against you," said Deanna Troi, speaking up for the first time since the meeting began. Hesitantly, the counselor floated down from the circular doorway, looking uneasy in her weightless state. "We wouldn''t go to this much trouble to destroy you. The only thing that can destroy you is doing nothing."\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tangre Bertoran scowled and snatched the isolinear chip from Reg''s hand. "Give me a moment."\n </p>\n <p>\n  He and his entourage retreated to a monitoring console, where they plugged in the chip and studied the data, muttering in low tones. Melora hovered overhead, uncertain whether she should join her fellow Elaysians or stay with her unfamiliar crew. Since coming back to Gemworld, she had felt increasingly torn between her duty to Starfleet and a natural inclination to protect her people and her homeworld. The two shouldn''t be mutually exclusive, but Starfleet represented the whole Federation, not just one peculiar planet.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Her split allegiance had never been an issue before, because Gemworld had always seemed like a memory from a past life, something that would never intrude on her Starfleet commitments. But being here, visiting her old enclave, seeing the frightened faces and the crumbling, mutant crystal -- it had become clear that Gemworld needed her more than Starfleet did.\n </p>\n <p>\n  For now, the dimensional rift not only threatened their solar system, but it could endanger the entire quadrant if left unchecked. Captain Picard had made it clear that he would sacrifice his ship and every soul on her planet to keep that from happening. And he probably wouldn''t hesitate to use the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise''s\n  </em>\n  weapon systems.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Reg Barclay looked at Melora and smiled sweetly, jarring her out of her depressing reverie. His boyish, earnest face brought out a smile in her, and she realized how glad she was to see him again. Here she was -- perhaps in the last days of her life -- and she had met a perfectly charming man who doted on her and strove to protect her. In fact, he strove to protect\n  <em>\n   all\n  </em>\n  of her people, as proven by the shard around his neck.\n </p>\n <p>\n  He was an unlikely hero -- and an even more unlikely acting senior engineer for the Elaysians -- yet he performed both duties valiantly. Looking at Reg brought out a respect and affection in Melora that she had thought she could never feel for anyone. And her feelings were amplified by the guilt she felt over not being totally honest with him....The last thing she wanted to do was to hurt Reg, or any member of the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  crew. They were trying to help, but they didn''t fully understand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Did Reg know how she felt about him? Did it even matter -- with all the obstacles they faced?\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Yes, it matters,\n  </em>\n  decided Melora. This should be a time to feel for one another -- to seek love, and give it. What did it mean to fight for life if\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20418'),
(18605, 'The Gendarme', 'M. T. Mustian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **What would you do if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost- only to reappear, but with such shocking revelations that you wish you had never remembered... **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Emmett Conn is an old man, near the end of his life. A World War I veteran, he''s been affected by memory loss since being injured during the war. To those around him, he''s simply a confused man, fading in and out of senility. But what they don''t know is that Emmett has been beset by memories, of events he and others have denied or purposely forgotten.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Emmett''s dreams he''s a gendarme, escorting Armenians from Turkey. A young woman among them, Araxie, captivates and enthralls him. But then the trek ends, the war separates them. He is injured. Seven decades later, as his grasp on the boundaries between past and present begins to break down, Emmett sets out on a final journey, to find Araxie and beg her forgiveness.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mark Mustian has written a remarkable novel about the power of memory-and the ability of people, individually and collectively, to forget. Depicting how love can transcend nationalities, politics, and religion, how racism creates divisions where none truly exist, and how the human spirit fights to survive even in the face of hopelessness, *The Gendarme* is a transcendent novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3235'),
(18606, 'The Gendarme', 'M. T. Mustian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **What would you do if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost- only to reappear, but with such shocking revelations that you wish you had never remembered... **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Emmett Conn is an old man, near the end of his life. A World War I veteran, he''s been affected by memory loss since being injured during the war. To those around him, he''s simply a confused man, fading in and out of senility. But what they don''t know is that Emmett has been beset by memories, of events he and others have denied or purposely forgotten.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Emmett''s dreams he''s a gendarme, escorting Armenians from Turkey. A young woman among them, Araxie, captivates and enthralls him. But then the trek ends, the war separates them. He is injured. Seven decades later, as his grasp on the boundaries between past and present begins to break down, Emmett sets out on a final journey, to find Araxie and beg her forgiveness.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mark Mustian has written a remarkable novel about the power of memory-and the ability of people, individually and collectively, to forget. Depicting how love can transcend nationalities, politics, and religion, how racism creates divisions where none truly exist, and how the human spirit fights to survive even in the face of hopelessness, *The Gendarme* is a transcendent novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11582'),
(18607, 'The Gendarme', 'M. T. Mustian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **What would you do if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost- only to reappear, but with such shocking revelations that you wish you had never remembered... ** Emmett Conn is an old man, near the end of his life. A World War I veteran, he''s been affected by memory loss since being injured during the war. To those around him, he''s simply a confused man, fading in and out of senility. But what they don''t know is that Emmett has been beset by memories, of events he and others have denied or purposely forgotten. In Emmett''s dreams he''s a gendarme, escorting Armenians from Turkey. A young woman among them, Araxie, captivates and enthralls him. But then the trek ends, the war separates them. He is injured. Seven decades later, as his grasp on the boundaries between past and present begins to break down, Emmett sets out on a final journey, to find Araxie and beg her forgiveness. Mark Mustian has written a remarkable novel about the power of memory-and the ability of people, individually and collectively, to forget. Depicting how love can transcend nationalities, politics, and religion, how racism creates divisions where none truly exist, and how the human spirit fights to survive even in the face of hopelessness, *The Gendarme* is a transcendent novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21332'),
(18608, 'Gene of Isis', 'Traci Harding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mia Montrose is a 21st century woman with a doctorate in ancient languages, Ashlee Granville is a 19th century clairvoyant, entering into marriage. Lillet de Lac is a 13th century priestess of an ancient order. Despite time, distance and cultures these woman have several things in common.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/445'),
(18609, 'Gene of Isis', 'Traci Harding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Mia Montrose is a 21st century woman with a doctorate in ancient languages, Ashlee Granville is a 19th century clairvoyant, entering into marriage. Lillet de Lac is a 13th century priestess of an ancient order. Despite time, distance and cultures these woman have several things in common.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10124'),
(18610, 'Gene of Isis', 'Traci Harding', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Mia Montrose is a 21st century woman with a doctorate in ancient languages, Ashlee Granville is a 19th century clairvoyant, entering into marriage. Lillet de Lac is a 13th century priestess of an ancient order. Despite time, distance and cultures these woman have several things in common.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24490'),
(18611, 'Genellan: Planetfall', 'Scott G. Gier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Genellana beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent cliff dwellers waited in fear for the day the bear people would return, killing them for their fur... Genellanthe only refuge for a ships crew and a detachment of spacer Marines, abandoned by a fleet fleeing from alien attackers. Stranded on Genellan, the humans struggled to make a home for themselves untilthey hoped against hopethe fleet would return to rescue them. Lt. Sharl Buccari tried desperately to hold on to the threads of command over the spacers and the Marinesto keep her crew together and alive. Winter was coming. No one knew if the winged natives would be friend or foe. And now the bear people were returning, intent on destroying the humansbut not before stealing the secret of hyperlight drive, the key to interstellar flight...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1314'),
(18612, 'Genellan: Planetfall', 'Scott G. Gier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Genellana beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent cliff dwellers waited in fear for the day the bear people would return, killing them for their fur... Genellanthe only refuge for a ships crew and a detachment of spacer Marines, abandoned by a fleet fleeing from alien attackers. Stranded on Genellan, the humans struggled to make a home for themselves untilthey hoped against hopethe fleet would return to rescue them. Lt. Sharl Buccari tried desperately to hold on to the threads of command over the spacers and the Marinesto keep her crew together and alive. Winter was coming. No one knew if the winged natives would be friend or foe. And now the bear people were returning, intent on destroying the humansbut not before stealing the secret of hyperlight drive, the key to interstellar flight...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9881'),
(18613, 'Genellan: Planetfall', 'Scott G. Gier', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Genellana beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent cliff dwellers waited in fear for the day the bear people would return, killing them for their fur... Genellanthe only refuge for a ships crew and a detachment of spacer Marines, abandoned by a fleet fleeing from alien attackers. Stranded on Genellan, the humans struggled to make a home for themselves untilthey hoped against hopethe fleet would return to rescue them. Lt. Sharl Buccari tried desperately to hold on to the threads of command over the spacers and the Marinesto keep her crew together and alive. Winter was coming. No one knew if the winged natives would be friend or foe. And now the bear people were returning, intent on destroying the humansbut not before stealing the secret of hyperlight drive, the key to interstellar flight...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23545'),
(18614, 'General SS', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25077'),
(18615, 'The General&#39;s Daughter', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Long before the John Travolta film of\n <em>\n  The General''s Daughter\n </em>\n (which the author extols in the foreword), Nelson DeMille''s seventh mystery was the breakout hit of his career. The rapid-fire dialogue and scenes are cinematic, and the storytelling puts most movies to shame.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book has three heroes: Paul Brenner and Cynthia Sunhill of the army''s Criminal Investigation Division and Capt. Ann Campbell, found dead with her underpants around her neck on the firing range at Fort Hadley, Georgia. Brenner and Sunhill are lowly warrant officers, but as investigators they can theoretically arrest their superiors--as long as their case is airtight. This ups the tension level, as does the fact that Brenner and Sunhill once had an adulterous affair.\n</p>\n<p>\n The chief problem, though, is too many suspects. Capt. Campbell, the daughter of the general who runs the base, is literally a poster woman for the New Army, a West Point grad and Gulf War hero who posed in a life-size recruitment poster. It''s pinned up on her basement wall--and when the sleuths touch the poster it swings back to reveal a hidden playroom stocked with sex toys and videos of many army guys in pig masks and the captain in high heels. She was a high-IQ "two percenter"--and Brenner finds that two percenters often wind up on his desk as homicide suspects. Why is this one a victim? It has something to do with the collected works of Nietzsche on her bookshelf, corruption in high places, and the rag and bone shop of the heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is one racy read, and it crackles with authenticity. DeMille is a Vietnam veteran who does for military justice what John Grisham does for civilians.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the wit and panache of his bestselling The Gold Coast , DeMille''s latest effort may disappoint his fans. The author returns to his more customary stylish-suspense-novel mode but retains a smart-aleck narrator--here, Paul Brenner, of the Army''s Criminal Investigation Division. At Fort Hadley, Ga., Ann Campbell, daughter of the post commander, is found murdered under bizarre circumstances. Brenner learns that Ann''s entire personal life, in fact, veered toward the bizarre; she even had a secret basement "playroom" in her home. Moral turpitude runs riot at Fort Hadley, and Brenner must wade through muck of all sorts to discover the killer''s identity. Too much muck, as it turns out: the detective work becomes repetitious, and suspense is unfortunately in short supply. Brenner''s one-liners have none of the punch of John Sutter''s wry observations in The Gold Coast --indeed, the device of a waggish narrator doesn''t fit these proceedings; the wisecracks seem grafted on. So, too, does a resumed romance between Brenner and an old flame--we don''t get a good enough picture of either to care about whatever sparks might fly. Characterization in general is fuzzy, though DeMille captures the often unquestioning regimen of life on a military base. One only wishes that his tale had more spirit and dash. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7956'),
(18616, 'The General&#39;s Daughter', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Long before the John Travolta film of\n <em>\n  The General''s Daughter\n </em>\n (which the author extols in the foreword), Nelson DeMille''s seventh mystery was the breakout hit of his career. The rapid-fire dialogue and scenes are cinematic, and the storytelling puts most movies to shame.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book has three heroes: Paul Brenner and Cynthia Sunhill of the army''s Criminal Investigation Division and Capt. Ann Campbell, found dead with her underpants around her neck on the firing range at Fort Hadley, Georgia. Brenner and Sunhill are lowly warrant officers, but as investigators they can theoretically arrest their superiors--as long as their case is airtight. This ups the tension level, as does the fact that Brenner and Sunhill once had an adulterous affair.\n</p>\n<p>\n The chief problem, though, is too many suspects. Capt. Campbell, the daughter of the general who runs the base, is literally a poster woman for the New Army, a West Point grad and Gulf War hero who posed in a life-size recruitment poster. It''s pinned up on her basement wall--and when the sleuths touch the poster it swings back to reveal a hidden playroom stocked with sex toys and videos of many army guys in pig masks and the captain in high heels. She was a high-IQ "two percenter"--and Brenner finds that two percenters often wind up on his desk as homicide suspects. Why is this one a victim? It has something to do with the collected works of Nietzsche on her bookshelf, corruption in high places, and the rag and bone shop of the heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is one racy read, and it crackles with authenticity. DeMille is a Vietnam veteran who does for military justice what John Grisham does for civilians.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the wit and panache of his bestselling The Gold Coast , DeMille''s latest effort may disappoint his fans. The author returns to his more customary stylish-suspense-novel mode but retains a smart-aleck narrator--here, Paul Brenner, of the Army''s Criminal Investigation Division. At Fort Hadley, Ga., Ann Campbell, daughter of the post commander, is found murdered under bizarre circumstances. Brenner learns that Ann''s entire personal life, in fact, veered toward the bizarre; she even had a secret basement "playroom" in her home. Moral turpitude runs riot at Fort Hadley, and Brenner must wade through muck of all sorts to discover the killer''s identity. Too much muck, as it turns out: the detective work becomes repetitious, and suspense is unfortunately in short supply. Brenner''s one-liners have none of the punch of John Sutter''s wry observations in The Gold Coast --indeed, the device of a waggish narrator doesn''t fit these proceedings; the wisecracks seem grafted on. So, too, does a resumed romance between Brenner and an old flame--we don''t get a good enough picture of either to care about whatever sparks might fly. Characterization in general is fuzzy, though DeMille captures the often unquestioning regimen of life on a military base. One only wishes that his tale had more spirit and dash. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9243'),
(18617, 'The General&#39;s Daughter', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Long before the John Travolta film of\n <em>\n  The General''s Daughter\n </em>\n (which the author extols in the foreword), Nelson DeMille''s seventh mystery was the breakout hit of his career. The rapid-fire dialogue and scenes are cinematic, and the storytelling puts most movies to shame.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book has three heroes: Paul Brenner and Cynthia Sunhill of the army''s Criminal Investigation Division and Capt. Ann Campbell, found dead with her underpants around her neck on the firing range at Fort Hadley, Georgia. Brenner and Sunhill are lowly warrant officers, but as investigators they can theoretically arrest their superiors--as long as their case is airtight. This ups the tension level, as does the fact that Brenner and Sunhill once had an adulterous affair.\n</p>\n<p>\n The chief problem, though, is too many suspects. Capt. Campbell, the daughter of the general who runs the base, is literally a poster woman for the New Army, a West Point grad and Gulf War hero who posed in a life-size recruitment poster. It''s pinned up on her basement wall--and when the sleuths touch the poster it swings back to reveal a hidden playroom stocked with sex toys and videos of many army guys in pig masks and the captain in high heels. She was a high-IQ "two percenter"--and Brenner finds that two percenters often wind up on his desk as homicide suspects. Why is this one a victim? It has something to do with the collected works of Nietzsche on her bookshelf, corruption in high places, and the rag and bone shop of the heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is one racy read, and it crackles with authenticity. DeMille is a Vietnam veteran who does for military justice what John Grisham does for civilians.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the wit and panache of his bestselling The Gold Coast , DeMille''s latest effort may disappoint his fans. The author returns to his more customary stylish-suspense-novel mode but retains a smart-aleck narrator--here, Paul Brenner, of the Army''s Criminal Investigation Division. At Fort Hadley, Ga., Ann Campbell, daughter of the post commander, is found murdered under bizarre circumstances. Brenner learns that Ann''s entire personal life, in fact, veered toward the bizarre; she even had a secret basement "playroom" in her home. Moral turpitude runs riot at Fort Hadley, and Brenner must wade through muck of all sorts to discover the killer''s identity. Too much muck, as it turns out: the detective work becomes repetitious, and suspense is unfortunately in short supply. Brenner''s one-liners have none of the punch of John Sutter''s wry observations in The Gold Coast --indeed, the device of a waggish narrator doesn''t fit these proceedings; the wisecracks seem grafted on. So, too, does a resumed romance between Brenner and an old flame--we don''t get a good enough picture of either to care about whatever sparks might fly. Characterization in general is fuzzy, though DeMille captures the often unquestioning regimen of life on a military base. One only wishes that his tale had more spirit and dash. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15218');
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(18618, 'The General&#39;s Daughter', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Long before the John Travolta film of\n <em>\n  The General''s Daughter\n </em>\n (which the author extols in the foreword), Nelson DeMille''s seventh mystery was the breakout hit of his career. The rapid-fire dialogue and scenes are cinematic, and the storytelling puts most movies to shame.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book has three heroes: Paul Brenner and Cynthia Sunhill of the army''s Criminal Investigation Division and Capt. Ann Campbell, found dead with her underpants around her neck on the firing range at Fort Hadley, Georgia. Brenner and Sunhill are lowly warrant officers, but as investigators they can theoretically arrest their superiors--as long as their case is airtight. This ups the tension level, as does the fact that Brenner and Sunhill once had an adulterous affair.\n</p>\n<p>\n The chief problem, though, is too many suspects. Capt. Campbell, the daughter of the general who runs the base, is literally a poster woman for the New Army, a West Point grad and Gulf War hero who posed in a life-size recruitment poster. It''s pinned up on her basement wall--and when the sleuths touch the poster it swings back to reveal a hidden playroom stocked with sex toys and videos of many army guys in pig masks and the captain in high heels. She was a high-IQ "two percenter"--and Brenner finds that two percenters often wind up on his desk as homicide suspects. Why is this one a victim? It has something to do with the collected works of Nietzsche on her bookshelf, corruption in high places, and the rag and bone shop of the heart.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is one racy read, and it crackles with authenticity. DeMille is a Vietnam veteran who does for military justice what John Grisham does for civilians.\n <em>\n  --Tim Appelo\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the wit and panache of his bestselling The Gold Coast , DeMille''s latest effort may disappoint his fans. The author returns to his more customary stylish-suspense-novel mode but retains a smart-aleck narrator--here, Paul Brenner, of the Army''s Criminal Investigation Division. At Fort Hadley, Ga., Ann Campbell, daughter of the post commander, is found murdered under bizarre circumstances. Brenner learns that Ann''s entire personal life, in fact, veered toward the bizarre; she even had a secret basement "playroom" in her home. Moral turpitude runs riot at Fort Hadley, and Brenner must wade through muck of all sorts to discover the killer''s identity. Too much muck, as it turns out: the detective work becomes repetitious, and suspense is unfortunately in short supply. Brenner''s one-liners have none of the punch of John Sutter''s wry observations in The Gold Coast --indeed, the device of a waggish narrator doesn''t fit these proceedings; the wisecracks seem grafted on. So, too, does a resumed romance between Brenner and an old flame--we don''t get a good enough picture of either to care about whatever sparks might fly. Characterization in general is fuzzy, though DeMille captures the often unquestioning regimen of life on a military base. One only wishes that his tale had more spirit and dash. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22235'),
(18619, 'The Generals', 'Simon Scarrow &amp; Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Scarrow builds up a fascinating picture of a world at war and sets the stage for the looming confrontation between these two military giants -- an enthralling sequel'' -- Good Reading, Australia ''One of the great duels in history, between two of its most fascinating characters. Simon Scarrow brings Wellington and Napoleon to life with a vengeance.'' -- Paul Strathern, author of NAPOLEON IN EGYPT\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The second in this epic quartet of novels focusing on two giants of European history, Wellington and Napoleon It''s 1796 as THE GENERALS opens, and both Arthur Wellesly (later Wellington) and Napoleon Bonaparte are making their mark as men of military genius. Wellesley, as commander of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, is sent to India, where his skill and bravery make a remarkable impression on his superiors. Napoleon''s role as commander of the Army of Italy leads to success in battle and rapid political progress. By 1804, Napoleon has established himself as Emperor, and has his sights set on conquering all of Europe. The time has come for Wellesly to stand against Napoleon in the confrontation that lies ahead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1161'),
(18620, 'The Generals', 'Simon Scarrow &amp; Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Scarrow builds up a fascinating picture of a world at war and sets the stage for the looming confrontation between these two military giants -- an enthralling sequel'' -- Good Reading, Australia ''One of the great duels in history, between two of its most fascinating characters. Simon Scarrow brings Wellington and Napoleon to life with a vengeance.'' -- Paul Strathern, author of NAPOLEON IN EGYPT\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The second in this epic quartet of novels focusing on two giants of European history, Wellington and Napoleon It''s 1796 as THE GENERALS opens, and both Arthur Wellesly (later Wellington) and Napoleon Bonaparte are making their mark as men of military genius. Wellesley, as commander of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, is sent to India, where his skill and bravery make a remarkable impression on his superiors. Napoleon''s role as commander of the Army of Italy leads to success in battle and rapid political progress. By 1804, Napoleon has established himself as Emperor, and has his sights set on conquering all of Europe. The time has come for Wellesly to stand against Napoleon in the confrontation that lies ahead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12546'),
(18621, 'The Generals', 'Simon Scarrow; Simon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''Scarrow builds up a fascinating picture of a world at war and sets the stage for the looming confrontation between these two military giants -- an enthralling sequel'' -- Good Reading, Australia ''One of the great duels in history, between two of its most fascinating characters. Simon Scarrow brings Wellington and Napoleon to life with a vengeance.'' -- Paul Strathern, author of NAPOLEON IN EGYPT\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The second in this epic quartet of novels focusing on two giants of European history, Wellington and Napoleon It''s 1796 as THE GENERALS opens, and both Arthur Wellesly (later Wellington) and Napoleon Bonaparte are making their mark as men of military genius. Wellesley, as commander of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, is sent to India, where his skill and bravery make a remarkable impression on his superiors. Napoleon''s role as commander of the Army of Italy leads to success in battle and rapid political progress. By 1804, Napoleon has established himself as Emperor, and has his sights set on conquering all of Europe. The time has come for Wellesly to stand against Napoleon in the confrontation that lies ahead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23738'),
(18622, 'Generalul in labirintul sau', 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25793'),
(18623, 'Generation Warriors', 'Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Moon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Lunzie, fresh from her adventures in The Death of Sleep , has discovered that the one good heavyworlder she ever met isn''t so good after all. Fordeliton, sent to investigate the connection between the super-rich and the planet pirates, and is now dying from a mysterious, slow poison. Dupaynil, who has made the mistake of pushing Sassinak too far, and has been exiled to Seti space. Aygar, who is out of prove he has brains as well heavyworlder brawn. And then there''s Sassinak, ordered to report to Fed Central for the trial of mutineer Tanegli. She''s been told to disarm her shop when it enters restricted space; she''s been told her crew can''t have liberty of leave; and she''s been told to follow all the rules. But the only person who might be able to stop the disaster ahead has never been to follow the rules...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15741'),
(18624, 'Genesis', 'Keith R. A. DeCandido', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Hive: a subterranean genetic research facility owned and operated by Umbrella, an immensely powerful corporation with interests in everything from human longevity to biowarfare. With computerized defenses and heavily armed human backup, the Hive is impregnable and invulnerable. Or so Umbrella believes.\n</p>\n<p>\n But something has gone fatally wrong. The Hive has lost containment of its most lethal and horrific creation: a virus that kills and reanimates human life, reducing the entire facility staff of five hundred men and women to mindless creatures with a single driving force -- hunger. And the key to stopping them rests with one young woman who cannot even remember who she is.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Keith R.A. Decandido is a top genre author whose tie-in novels for Pocket include several Star Trek titles across all series as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelizations. He is also known for his Star Trek: The Next Generation comicbook miniseries Perchance to Dream, and is the editor of several science-fiction and fantasy anthologies.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3747'),
(18625, 'Genesis', 'Bernard Beckett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Go forward in time: it''s nearing the end of the century. Do you see a dramatically altered New Zealand? In GENESIS, Bernard Beckett, one of our most provocative writers for young adults, gives us his view of a brave new world. In a terrifying and stifling examination environment a young Academy candidate, Anaximander, is put through a gruelling exercise in interpreting the history and origins of her society. Through her answers, we learn that in 2052, New Zealand has been renamed The Republic after a reforming Governor, Plato. It has separated itself from a plague-ridden globe with a gargantuan ring fence guarded with military outposts. All approaching boats, exploratory air craft or refugees are shot on sight. Society is strictly divided and individuals deviate from their assigned roles at their peril. When one man, Adam Forde (2058-2077) insists on his right to independent thought and action, The Republic is set at grave risk. Adam is imprisoned: his sentence is to become the participant in a programming experiment with a new brand of artificial intelligence. Through Anaximander''s rendition of Adam''s debates with Artfink, the computer, and her own increasingly disturbing encounter with members of the Academy, we are confronted with unresolved questions raised by science and philosophy. Centuries old, these conundrums have gained new urgency in the face of rapidly developing technologies. What is consciousness? What makes us human? What separates us from the animal and mechanistic worlds? If artificial intelligence were developed to a high enough capability, what status could humanity still claim? As a species, we may have built in our own obsolescence, even if the planet itself is preserved. Outstanding and original, Beckett''s dramatic narrative has a stunning closure that turns the reading experience on its head. Genesis will fuel intense debate about ethics and meaning between intellectually hungry young adults.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7989'),
(18626, 'Genesis', 'Bernard Beckett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Go forward in time: it''s nearing the end of the century. Do you see a dramatically altered New Zealand? In GENESIS, Bernard Beckett, one of our most provocative writers for young adults, gives us his view of a brave new world. In a terrifying and stifling examination environment a young Academy candidate, Anaximander, is put through a gruelling exercise in interpreting the history and origins of her society. Through her answers, we learn that in 2052, New Zealand has been renamed The Republic after a reforming Governor, Plato. It has separated itself from a plague-ridden globe with a gargantuan ring fence guarded with military outposts. All approaching boats, exploratory air craft or refugees are shot on sight. Society is strictly divided and individuals deviate from their assigned roles at their peril. When one man, Adam Forde (2058-2077) insists on his right to independent thought and action, The Republic is set at grave risk. Adam is imprisoned: his sentence is to become the participant in a programming experiment with a new brand of artificial intelligence. Through Anaximander''s rendition of Adam''s debates with Artfink, the computer, and her own increasingly disturbing encounter with members of the Academy, we are confronted with unresolved questions raised by science and philosophy. Centuries old, these conundrums have gained new urgency in the face of rapidly developing technologies. What is consciousness? What makes us human? What separates us from the animal and mechanistic worlds? If artificial intelligence were developed to a high enough capability, what status could humanity still claim? As a species, we may have built in our own obsolescence, even if the planet itself is preserved. Outstanding and original, Beckett''s dramatic narrative has a stunning closure that turns the reading experience on its head. Genesis will fuel intense debate about ethics and meaning between intellectually hungry young adults.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16606'),
(18627, 'Genesis', 'Bernard Beckett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Go forward in time: it''s nearing the end of the century. Do you see a dramatically altered New Zealand? In GENESIS, Bernard Beckett, one of our most provocative writers for young adults, gives us his view of a brave new world. In a terrifying and stifling examination environment a young Academy candidate, Anaximander, is put through a gruelling exercise in interpreting the history and origins of her society. Through her answers, we learn that in 2052, New Zealand has been renamed The Republic after a reforming Governor, Plato. It has separated itself from a plague-ridden globe with a gargantuan ring fence guarded with military outposts. All approaching boats, exploratory air craft or refugees are shot on sight. Society is strictly divided and individuals deviate from their assigned roles at their peril. When one man, Adam Forde (2058-2077) insists on his right to independent thought and action, The Republic is set at grave risk. Adam is imprisoned: his sentence is to become the participant in a programming experiment with a new brand of artificial intelligence. Through Anaximander''s rendition of Adam''s debates with Artfink, the computer, and her own increasingly disturbing encounter with members of the Academy, we are confronted with unresolved questions raised by science and philosophy. Centuries old, these conundrums have gained new urgency in the face of rapidly developing technologies. What is consciousness? What makes us human? What separates us from the animal and mechanistic worlds? If artificial intelligence were developed to a high enough capability, what status could humanity still claim? As a species, we may have built in our own obsolescence, even if the planet itself is preserved. Outstanding and original, Beckett''s dramatic narrative has a stunning closure that turns the reading experience on its head. Genesis will fuel intense debate about ethics and meaning between intellectually hungry young adults.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26655'),
(18628, 'Genesis ; Battle Cry ; Homecoming', 'Jack McKinney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here you''ll find three ROBETCH novels for the price of one. Collected for the first time in one volume, you''ll find GENESIS, BATTLE CRY, and HOMECOMING--three electrifying futuristic adventures that let loose the Robotech Defense Force against the most fearsome conquerers in the universe.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here you''ll find three ROBETCH novels for the price of one. Collected for the first time in one volume, you''ll find GENESIS, BATTLE CRY, and HOMECOMING--three electrifying futuristic adventures that let loose the Robotech Defense Force against the most fearsome conquerers in the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4908'),
(18629, 'Genesis ; Battle Cry ; Homecoming', 'Jack McKinney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here you''ll find three ROBETCH novels for the price of one. Collected for the first time in one volume, you''ll find GENESIS, BATTLE CRY, and HOMECOMING--three electrifying futuristic adventures that let loose the Robotech Defense Force against the most fearsome conquerers in the universe.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here you''ll find three ROBETCH novels for the price of one. Collected for the first time in one volume, you''ll find GENESIS, BATTLE CRY, and HOMECOMING--three electrifying futuristic adventures that let loose the Robotech Defense Force against the most fearsome conquerers in the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11339'),
(18630, 'Genesis ; Battle Cry ; Homecoming', 'Jack McKinney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here you''ll find three ROBETCH novels for the price of one. Collected for the first time in one volume, you''ll find GENESIS, BATTLE CRY, and HOMECOMING--three electrifying futuristic adventures that let loose the Robotech Defense Force against the most fearsome conquerers in the universe.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Inside Flap\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here you''ll find three ROBETCH novels for the price of one. Collected for the first time in one volume, you''ll find GENESIS, BATTLE CRY, and HOMECOMING--three electrifying futuristic adventures that let loose the Robotech Defense Force against the most fearsome conquerers in the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19804'),
(18631, 'Genesis Force', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Following on the success and popularity of "Genesis Wave: " Books One, Two, and Three, John Vornholt pulls together a group of "Star Trek(TM)" heroes with a mission unlike any other!  The passing of the Genesis Wave has damaged hundreds of worlds in the newly named "Genesis Sector," and chaos reigns throughout that area of space. Each world has been changed in different ways, and a group of extraordinary men and women -- some old friends, some new faces -- have been assigned the job of getting the devastated planets back on their feet.  Their first job: To resettle an entire displaced alien race on its altered home planet, where the dead come back to life, microbes have reached gigantic size, and the new ecology taking over the world is one not fit for man nor genetically altered beast....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4174'),
(18632, 'Genesis Force', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Following on the success and popularity of "Genesis Wave: " Books One, Two, and Three, John Vornholt pulls together a group of "Star Trek(TM)" heroes with a mission unlike any other! The passing of the Genesis Wave has damaged hundreds of worlds in the newly named "Genesis Sector," and chaos reigns throughout that area of space. Each world has been changed in different ways, and a group of extraordinary men and women -- some old friends, some new faces -- have been assigned the job of getting the devastated planets back on their feet. Their first job: To resettle an entire displaced alien race on its altered home planet, where the dead come back to life, microbes have reached gigantic size, and the new ecology taking over the world is one not fit for man nor genetically altered beast....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20417'),
(18633, 'The Genesis Plague', 'Michael Byrnes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n At the dawn of civilization ...An exotic stranger appears in a Mesopotamian village and is venerated as a goddess ...until she unleashes a horror beyond anything humankind has ever known. At the sunset of civilization ...A mercenary unit in northern Iraq, led by Sergeant Jason Yaeger, has trapped radical Islam''s most wanted target in a mysterious cave that sits at the heart of the Genesis story. When a Marine platoon seeks to control the extraction mission, a threat far more ominous is found lurking beneath the mountains. Meanwhile in Boston, Massachusetts, Agent Thomas Flaherty helps archaeologist Brooke Thompson escape assassination by a Las Vegas televangelist intent on using the cave''s deepest secret to bring the Middle East to its knees.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2873'),
(18634, 'The Genesis Plague', 'Michael Byrnes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n At the dawn of civilization ...An exotic stranger appears in a Mesopotamian village and is venerated as a goddess ...until she unleashes a horror beyond anything humankind has ever known. At the sunset of civilization ...A mercenary unit in northern Iraq, led by Sergeant Jason Yaeger, has trapped radical Islam''s most wanted target in a mysterious cave that sits at the heart of the Genesis story. When a Marine platoon seeks to control the extraction mission, a threat far more ominous is found lurking beneath the mountains. Meanwhile in Boston, Massachusetts, Agent Thomas Flaherty helps archaeologist Brooke Thompson escape assassination by a Las Vegas televangelist intent on using the cave''s deepest secret to bring the Middle East to its knees.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8716'),
(18635, 'The Genesis Plague', 'Michael Byrnes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n At the dawn of civilization ...An exotic stranger appears in a Mesopotamian village and is venerated as a goddess ...until she unleashes a horror beyond anything humankind has ever known. At the sunset of civilization ...A mercenary unit in northern Iraq, led by Sergeant Jason Yaeger, has trapped radical Islam''s most wanted target in a mysterious cave that sits at the heart of the Genesis story. When a Marine platoon seeks to control the extraction mission, a threat far more ominous is found lurking beneath the mountains. Meanwhile in Boston, Massachusetts, Agent Thomas Flaherty helps archaeologist Brooke Thompson escape assassination by a Las Vegas televangelist intent on using the cave''s deepest secret to bring the Middle East to its knees.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21902'),
(18636, 'The Genesis Secret', 'Tom Knox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **"Sinister, macabre, relentless and rich...the ideal blend of both *The Da Vinci Code* and *Raiders of the Lost Ark*."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -Bill Loehfelm, author of *Fresh Kills* **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n War-reporter Rob Luttrell is expecting a soft assignment when he''s sent to Kurdistan to cover the excavation of the world''s oldest human civilization. But, soon after he arrives, the site is violated, first by sabotage-and then by death. Meanwhile, a Scotland Yard detective investigating a series of spectacularly grisly murders discovers a link between the victims and what is happening in Kurdistan. As the two men race to prevent more deaths, they close in on a biblical era secret that will shake the foundations of the modern world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Genesis Secret* and its audacious blend of science, history, and suspense burst onto the scene, becoming a sleeper hardcover hit. The paperback publication of this wonderfully atmospheric, fast-paced thriller is sure to find an even broader audience and catapult debut novelist Tom Knox into the ranks of bestselling authors like Raymond Khoury, Kate Mosse, and Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/485'),
(18637, 'The Genesis Secret', 'Tom Knox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **"Sinister, macabre, relentless and rich...the ideal blend of both *The Da Vinci Code* and *Raiders of the Lost Ark*."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n -Bill Loehfelm, author of *Fresh Kills* **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n War-reporter Rob Luttrell is expecting a soft assignment when he''s sent to Kurdistan to cover the excavation of the world''s oldest human civilization. But, soon after he arrives, the site is violated, first by sabotage-and then by death. Meanwhile, a Scotland Yard detective investigating a series of spectacularly grisly murders discovers a link between the victims and what is happening in Kurdistan. As the two men race to prevent more deaths, they close in on a biblical era secret that will shake the foundations of the modern world.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Genesis Secret* and its audacious blend of science, history, and suspense burst onto the scene, becoming a sleeper hardcover hit. The paperback publication of this wonderfully atmospheric, fast-paced thriller is sure to find an even broader audience and catapult debut novelist Tom Knox into the ranks of bestselling authors like Raymond Khoury, Kate Mosse, and Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10758'),
(18638, 'The Genesis Secret', 'Tom Knox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **"Sinister, macabre, relentless and rich...the ideal blend of both *The Da Vinci Code* and *Raiders of the Lost Ark*." -Bill Loehfelm, author of *Fresh Kills* ** War-reporter Rob Luttrell is expecting a soft assignment when he''s sent to Kurdistan to cover the excavation of the world''s oldest human civilization. But, soon after he arrives, the site is violated, first by sabotage-and then by death. Meanwhile, a Scotland Yard detective investigating a series of spectacularly grisly murders discovers a link between the victims and what is happening in Kurdistan. As the two men race to prevent more deaths, they close in on a biblical era secret that will shake the foundations of the modern world. *The Genesis Secret* and its audacious blend of science, history, and suspense burst onto the scene, becoming a sleeper hardcover hit. The paperback publication of this wonderfully atmospheric, fast-paced thriller is sure to find an even broader audience and catapult debut novelist Tom Knox into the ranks of bestselling authors like Raymond Khoury, Kate Mosse, and Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24378'),
(18639, 'The Genesis Wave 01: Book One', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Intended to create life from nothingness, the Genesis Device had the potential to become a weapon of awe-inspiring destructiveness, capable of rearranging matter and life energy on a planetary scale. After the cataclysmic explosion of the Genesis Planet, and the Klingon Empire''s attempt to steal the top-secret technology, Starfleet wisely decided to destroy all data and records on Project Genesis, hoping to bury its deadly secrets forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now a mysterious wave of energy is sweeping across the Alpha Quadrant, transforming matter on a molecular level to create bizarre new landscapes and life-forms. Billions of living beings and hundreds of inhabited worlds lie in the path of the mutagenic wave, which is expanding outward toward Earth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To discover the origin of the wave, Captain Picard and his crew must probe the long-buried mysteries. But even if he can uncover the shocking history of the Genesis Wave, is there any way to save the future from its unleashed fury?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Vornholt is the author of several Star Trek novels including two of the bestselling four-volume Next Generation/Deep Space Nine Dominion War sequence.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4182'),
(18640, 'The Genesis Wave 01: Book One', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Intended to create life from nothingness, the Genesis Device had the potential to become a weapon of awe-inspiring destructiveness, capable of rearranging matter and life energy on a planetary scale. After the cataclysmic explosion of the Genesis Planet, and the Klingon Empire''s attempt to steal the top-secret technology, Starfleet wisely decided to destroy all data and records on Project Genesis, hoping to bury its deadly secrets forever.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But now a mysterious wave of energy is sweeping across the Alpha Quadrant, transforming matter on a molecular level to create bizarre new landscapes and life-forms. Billions of living beings and hundreds of inhabited worlds lie in the path of the mutagenic wave, which is expanding outward toward Earth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  To discover the origin of the wave, Captain Picard and his crew must probe the long-buried mysteries. But even if he can uncover the shocking history of the Genesis Wave, is there any way to save the future from its unleashed fury?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Vornholt is the author of several Star Trek novels including two of the bestselling four-volume Next Generation/Deep Space Nine Dominion War sequence.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20410'),
(18641, 'The Genesis Wave 02: Book Two', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The spectacular conclusion to the thrilling double-sized adventure!  Like an unstoppable cosmic storm, the dreaded Genesis Wave continues to sweep across the Alpha Quadrant, transforming entire planets on a molecular level and threatening entire civilizations with extinction. Based on the long-hidden scientific secrets of Dr. Carol Marcus, who has mysteriously disappeared, the wave of mutagenic protomatter seems to have come from nowhere, posing a cataclysmic menace to life as we know it.  To combat the rushing terror of the wave, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the "Starship Enterprise"(TM) have been forced into an uneasy alliance with both the Klingons and the Romulan Empire, both of whom may crave the forbidden secrets of the Genesis technology for themselves. The finest engineers of three civilizations, including Geordi La Forge and his long-lost love, Dr. Leah Brahms, must race against time to devise some way of halting the deadly wave before yet another world is transformed into something entirely alien and unrecognizable.  But even if, against all odds, the Genesis Wave can be defeated, Picard and his potentially treacherous allies must still confront the greater mystery of what unknown intelligence dared to launch the wave against an unsuspecting galaxy -- and for what malevolent purpose....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4185'),
(18642, 'The Genesis Wave 02: Book Two', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The spectacular conclusion to the thrilling double-sized adventure! Like an unstoppable cosmic storm, the dreaded Genesis Wave continues to sweep across the Alpha Quadrant, transforming entire planets on a molecular level and threatening entire civilizations with extinction. Based on the long-hidden scientific secrets of Dr. Carol Marcus, who has mysteriously disappeared, the wave of mutagenic protomatter seems to have come from nowhere, posing a cataclysmic menace to life as we know it. To combat the rushing terror of the wave, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the "Starship Enterprise"(TM) have been forced into an uneasy alliance with both the Klingons and the Romulan Empire, both of whom may crave the forbidden secrets of the Genesis technology for themselves. The finest engineers of three civilizations, including Geordi La Forge and his long-lost love, Dr. Leah Brahms, must race against time to devise some way of halting the deadly wave before yet another world is transformed into something entirely alien and unrecognizable. But even if, against all odds, the Genesis Wave can be defeated, Picard and his potentially treacherous allies must still confront the greater mystery of what unknown intelligence dared to launch the wave against an unsuspecting galaxy -- and for what malevolent purpose....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20409'),
(18643, 'The Genesis Wave 03: Book Three', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fearsome progeny of forbidden technology, the Genesis Wave swept across the Alpha Quadrant, creating new life at the expense of everything that lay in its path. Only through the valiant efforts of Captain Picard and his crew was the Wave halted, and the cataclysmic threat to the Federation averted. Or so it seemed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the harrowing aftermath of the crisis, the Genesis Device falls into the hands of a dangerous religious zealot. But that disaster may pale beside an even more dire emergency, as Data develops a disturbing theory regarding the full cosmic consequences of the Genesis Effect: Can life truly be created from nothing, or must the entire Galaxy pay a terrible price for what Genesis has wrought?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Vornholt is the author of several Star Trek novels including two of the bestselling four-volume Next Generation/Deep Space Nine DOMINION WAR sequence.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4186'),
(18644, 'The Genesis Wave 03: Book Three', 'John Vornholt', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The fearsome progeny of forbidden technology, the Genesis Wave swept across the Alpha Quadrant, creating new life at the expense of everything that lay in its path. Only through the valiant efforts of Captain Picard and his crew was the Wave halted, and the cataclysmic threat to the Federation averted. Or so it seemed.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the harrowing aftermath of the crisis, the Genesis Device falls into the hands of a dangerous religious zealot. But that disaster may pale beside an even more dire emergency, as Data develops a disturbing theory regarding the full cosmic consequences of the Genesis Effect: Can life truly be created from nothing, or must the entire Galaxy pay a terrible price for what Genesis has wrought?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  John Vornholt is the author of several Star Trek novels including two of the bestselling four-volume Next Generation/Deep Space Nine DOMINION WAR sequence.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20404'),
(18645, 'Genghis: Birth of an Empire', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujinâ€™s young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin enduredâ€”and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon.Through a series of courageous raids against the Tartars, Temujinâ€™s legend grew. And so did the challenges he facedâ€”from the machinations of a Chinese ambassador to the brutal abduction of his young wife, Borte. Blessed with ferocious courage, it was the young warriorâ€™s ability to learn, to imagine, and to judge the hearts of others that propelled him to greater and greater power. Until Temujin was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into one, to make the earth tremble under the hoofbeats of a thousand warhorses, to subject unknown nations and even empires to his will.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6615'),
(18646, 'Genghis: Birth of an Empire', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujinâ€™s young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin enduredâ€”and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon.Through a series of courageous raids against the Tartars, Temujinâ€™s legend grew. And so did the challenges he facedâ€”from the machinations of a Chinese ambassador to the brutal abduction of his young wife, Borte. Blessed with ferocious courage, it was the young warriorâ€™s ability to learn, to imagine, and to judge the hearts of others that propelled him to greater and greater power. Until Temujin was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into one, to make the earth tremble under the hoofbeats of a thousand warhorses, to subject unknown nations and even empires to his will.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17469'),
(18647, 'Genghis: Birth of an Empire', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujinâ€™s young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin enduredâ€”and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon.Through a series of courageous raids against the Tartars, Temujinâ€™s legend grew. And so did the challenges he facedâ€”from the machinations of a Chinese ambassador to the brutal abduction of his young wife, Borte. Blessed with ferocious courage, it was the young warriorâ€™s ability to learn, to imagine, and to judge the hearts of others that propelled him to greater and greater power. Until Temujin was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into one, to make the earth tremble under the hoofbeats of a thousand warhorses, to subject unknown nations and even empires to his will.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27130'),
(18648, 'Genghis: Bones of the Hills: A Novel', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Conn Iggulden, #1 bestselling author of six historical epics and coauthor of the international sensation The Dangerous Book for Boys, comes a magnificent new work of fiction. Here, the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan, stalked by enemies seen and unseen and plagued by a divided family, leads a sprawling force of horsemen beyond the realm of their known world. He will bring a storm to Arab lands and face the armies of the shah in all their strength.From the fierce cold plains of Mongolia to the Korean Peninsula, Genghisâ€™s brothers, sons, and commanders have made emperors bow, slaughtering vast armies of fighting men. But as Genghis enters a strange new land of towering mountains and arid desert, he stirs an enemy greater than any he has met before. Under his command, Shah Ala-ud-Din Mohammed has thousands of fierce Arab warriors, teeming cavalry, and terrifying armored elephants. When Genghis strikes, the Arabs prove their mettle. On the verge of defeat, Genghis is forced to leave his own vast encampment, and the women and children in it, in the path of an enraged, savage enemy.While the Mongolsâ€”men, women, and childrenâ€”fight back, as secret assassins are sent into the night, another battle is taking shape. Two of Genghisâ€™s sons, Jochi and Chagatai, are steeped in enmity. Warriors choose between them, and a murderer commits an unspeakable crime. Soon the most powerful man in the world, who has brought devastation to this land, must choose a successor. And when he does, it will touch off the most bitter conflict of all.In a novel that ranges from the fertile lands of the Chin to the dust and rock of Afghanistan, Conn Iggulden weaves the epic story of historyâ€™s most enigmatic conqueror â€”those who feared him, those who defied him, and those whose bones he left behind.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6618'),
(18649, 'Genghis: Bones of the Hills: A Novel', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From Conn Iggulden, #1 bestselling author of six historical epics and coauthor of the international sensation The Dangerous Book for Boys, comes a magnificent new work of fiction. Here, the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan, stalked by enemies seen and unseen and plagued by a divided family, leads a sprawling force of horsemen beyond the realm of their known world. He will bring a storm to Arab lands and face the armies of the shah in all their strength.From the fierce cold plains of Mongolia to the Korean Peninsula, Genghisâ€™s brothers, sons, and commanders have made emperors bow, slaughtering vast armies of fighting men. But as Genghis enters a strange new land of towering mountains and arid desert, he stirs an enemy greater than any he has met before. Under his command, Shah Ala-ud-Din Mohammed has thousands of fierce Arab warriors, teeming cavalry, and terrifying armored elephants. When Genghis strikes, the Arabs prove their mettle. On the verge of defeat, Genghis is forced to leave his own vast encampment, and the women and children in it, in the path of an enraged, savage enemy.While the Mongolsâ€”men, women, and childrenâ€”fight back, as secret assassins are sent into the night, another battle is taking shape. Two of Genghisâ€™s sons, Jochi and Chagatai, are steeped in enmity. Warriors choose between them, and a murderer commits an unspeakable crime. Soon the most powerful man in the world, who has brought devastation to this land, must choose a successor. And when he does, it will touch off the most bitter conflict of all.In a novel that ranges from the fertile lands of the Chin to the dust and rock of Afghanistan, Conn Iggulden weaves the epic story of historyâ€™s most enigmatic conqueror â€”those who feared him, those who defied him, and those whose bones he left behind.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10461'),
(18650, 'Genghis: Bones of the Hills: A Novel', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Conn Iggulden, #1 bestselling author of six historical epics and coauthor of the international sensation The Dangerous Book for Boys, comes a magnificent new work of fiction. Here, the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan, stalked by enemies seen and unseen and plagued by a divided family, leads a sprawling force of horsemen beyond the realm of their known world. He will bring a storm to Arab lands and face the armies of the shah in all their strength.From the fierce cold plains of Mongolia to the Korean Peninsula, Genghisâ€™s brothers, sons, and commanders have made emperors bow, slaughtering vast armies of fighting men. But as Genghis enters a strange new land of towering mountains and arid desert, he stirs an enemy greater than any he has met before. Under his command, Shah Ala-ud-Din Mohammed has thousands of fierce Arab warriors, teeming cavalry, and terrifying armored elephants. When Genghis strikes, the Arabs prove their mettle. On the verge of defeat, Genghis is forced to leave his own vast encampment, and the women and children in it, in the path of an enraged, savage enemy.While the Mongolsâ€”men, women, and childrenâ€”fight back, as secret assassins are sent into the night, another battle is taking shape. Two of Genghisâ€™s sons, Jochi and Chagatai, are steeped in enmity. Warriors choose between them, and a murderer commits an unspeakable crime. Soon the most powerful man in the world, who has brought devastation to this land, must choose a successor. And when he does, it will touch off the most bitter conflict of all.In a novel that ranges from the fertile lands of the Chin to the dust and rock of Afghanistan, Conn Iggulden weaves the epic story of historyâ€™s most enigmatic conqueror â€”those who feared him, those who defied him, and those whose bones he left behind.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17468'),
(18651, 'Genghis: Bones of the Hills: A Novel', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From Conn Iggulden, #1 bestselling author of six historical epics and coauthor of the international sensation The Dangerous Book for Boys, comes a magnificent new work of fiction. Here, the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan, stalked by enemies seen and unseen and plagued by a divided family, leads a sprawling force of horsemen beyond the realm of their known world. He will bring a storm to Arab lands and face the armies of the shah in all their strength.From the fierce cold plains of Mongolia to the Korean Peninsula, Genghisâ€™s brothers, sons, and commanders have made emperors bow, slaughtering vast armies of fighting men. But as Genghis enters a strange new land of towering mountains and arid desert, he stirs an enemy greater than any he has met before. Under his command, Shah Ala-ud-Din Mohammed has thousands of fierce Arab warriors, teeming cavalry, and terrifying armored elephants. When Genghis strikes, the Arabs prove their mettle. On the verge of defeat, Genghis is forced to leave his own vast encampment, and the women and children in it, in the path of an enraged, savage enemy.While the Mongolsâ€”men, women, and childrenâ€”fight back, as secret assassins are sent into the night, another battle is taking shape. Two of Genghisâ€™s sons, Jochi and Chagatai, are steeped in enmity. Warriors choose between them, and a murderer commits an unspeakable crime. Soon the most powerful man in the world, who has brought devastation to this land, must choose a successor. And when he does, it will touch off the most bitter conflict of all.In a novel that ranges from the fertile lands of the Chin to the dust and rock of Afghanistan, Conn Iggulden weaves the epic story of historyâ€™s most enigmatic conqueror â€”those who feared him, those who defied him, and those whose bones he left behind.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27129');
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(18652, 'Genghis: Empire of Silver', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Great Khan is dead. His vast empire hangs in the balance, an empire he forged with raw courage, guile, tactical brilliance, unswerving dedication to his people, and the force of his own indomitable will. Now the very qualities that united the fierce Mongol tribes threaten to tear them apart, as the heirs of Genghis maneuver for dominance. In the end, only one can command . . . Â *** THE EMPIRE OF SILVER** Â  Conn Igguldenâ€™s #1 internationally bestselling epics of historical fiction have enthralled millions of readers around the world. In his spectacular novels about the life and legacy of Genghis Khan, he has traced the path of the legendary conqueror from the harsh grasslands of his youth to the pinnacle of an unprecedented empire. Now, even as they struggle for supremacy among themselves, Genghisâ€™s sons and grandsons extend the reach of his vision, taking their armies farther than ever before, into southern China and across the steppes and rugged mountains of Russia to the vulnerable heart of Europe, where they will face the most courageous warriors the West commands. Â  Genghisâ€™s tough and canny heir, Ogedai, is on the verge of being proclaimed the new Khan. But Ogedai has mysteriously delayed his coronation ceremony to complete a fantastic project many deem a folly: the building of Karakorum, a magnificent city amid the wild plains. His puzzling decision emboldens his arrogant brother Chagetai to violently challenge him, while their noble sibling Tolui and his beautiful, wily wife, Sorhatani, will be caught between the two. Chagetaiâ€™s attempt at rebellion reveals shocking truths about Ogedaiâ€™s health and imperiled future. As one brother awaits his fate, another awaits his moment to seize power, while spies and assassins play out the ambitions and destinies of their masters.  With his celebrated synthesis of riveting storytelling and peerless historical detail, Conn Iggulden takes his saga of the great Mongol khans to unforgettable new heights, bringing these fabled conquerors and their singular people to vivid life for a new generation of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6619'),
(18653, 'Genghis: Empire of Silver', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Great Khan is dead. His vast empire hangs in the balance, an empire he forged with raw courage, guile, tactical brilliance, unswerving dedication to his people, and the force of his own indomitable will. Now the very qualities that united the fierce Mongol tribes threaten to tear them apart, as the heirs of Genghis maneuver for dominance. In the end, only one can command . . . Â *** THE EMPIRE OF SILVER** Â  Conn Igguldenâ€™s #1 internationally bestselling epics of historical fiction have enthralled millions of readers around the world. In his spectacular novels about the life and legacy of Genghis Khan, he has traced the path of the legendary conqueror from the harsh grasslands of his youth to the pinnacle of an unprecedented empire. Now, even as they struggle for supremacy among themselves, Genghisâ€™s sons and grandsons extend the reach of his vision, taking their armies farther than ever before, into southern China and across the steppes and rugged mountains of Russia to the vulnerable heart of Europe, where they will face the most courageous warriors the West commands. Â  Genghisâ€™s tough and canny heir, Ogedai, is on the verge of being proclaimed the new Khan. But Ogedai has mysteriously delayed his coronation ceremony to complete a fantastic project many deem a folly: the building of Karakorum, a magnificent city amid the wild plains. His puzzling decision emboldens his arrogant brother Chagetai to violently challenge him, while their noble sibling Tolui and his beautiful, wily wife, Sorhatani, will be caught between the two. Chagetaiâ€™s attempt at rebellion reveals shocking truths about Ogedaiâ€™s health and imperiled future. As one brother awaits his fate, another awaits his moment to seize power, while spies and assassins play out the ambitions and destinies of their masters.  With his celebrated synthesis of riveting storytelling and peerless historical detail, Conn Iggulden takes his saga of the great Mongol khans to unforgettable new heights, bringing these fabled conquerors and their singular people to vivid life for a new generation of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10460'),
(18654, 'Genghis: Empire of Silver', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Great Khan is dead. His vast empire hangs in the balance, an empire he forged with raw courage, guile, tactical brilliance, unswerving dedication to his people, and the force of his own indomitable will. Now the very qualities that united the fierce Mongol tribes threaten to tear them apart, as the heirs of Genghis maneuver for dominance. In the end, only one can command . . . Â *** THE EMPIRE OF SILVER** Â  Conn Igguldenâ€™s #1 internationally bestselling epics of historical fiction have enthralled millions of readers around the world. In his spectacular novels about the life and legacy of Genghis Khan, he has traced the path of the legendary conqueror from the harsh grasslands of his youth to the pinnacle of an unprecedented empire. Now, even as they struggle for supremacy among themselves, Genghisâ€™s sons and grandsons extend the reach of his vision, taking their armies farther than ever before, into southern China and across the steppes and rugged mountains of Russia to the vulnerable heart of Europe, where they will face the most courageous warriors the West commands. Â  Genghisâ€™s tough and canny heir, Ogedai, is on the verge of being proclaimed the new Khan. But Ogedai has mysteriously delayed his coronation ceremony to complete a fantastic project many deem a folly: the building of Karakorum, a magnificent city amid the wild plains. His puzzling decision emboldens his arrogant brother Chagetai to violently challenge him, while their noble sibling Tolui and his beautiful, wily wife, Sorhatani, will be caught between the two. Chagetaiâ€™s attempt at rebellion reveals shocking truths about Ogedaiâ€™s health and imperiled future. As one brother awaits his fate, another awaits his moment to seize power, while spies and assassins play out the ambitions and destinies of their masters. With his celebrated synthesis of riveting storytelling and peerless historical detail, Conn Iggulden takes his saga of the great Mongol khans to unforgettable new heights, bringing these fabled conquerors and their singular people to vivid life for a new generation of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17467'),
(18655, 'Genghis: Empire of Silver', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Great Khan is dead. His vast empire hangs in the balance, an empire he forged with raw courage, guile, tactical brilliance, unswerving dedication to his people, and the force of his own indomitable will. Now the very qualities that united the fierce Mongol tribes threaten to tear them apart, as the heirs of Genghis maneuver for dominance. In the end, only one can command . . . Â *** THE EMPIRE OF SILVER** Â  Conn Igguldenâ€™s #1 internationally bestselling epics of historical fiction have enthralled millions of readers around the world. In his spectacular novels about the life and legacy of Genghis Khan, he has traced the path of the legendary conqueror from the harsh grasslands of his youth to the pinnacle of an unprecedented empire. Now, even as they struggle for supremacy among themselves, Genghisâ€™s sons and grandsons extend the reach of his vision, taking their armies farther than ever before, into southern China and across the steppes and rugged mountains of Russia to the vulnerable heart of Europe, where they will face the most courageous warriors the West commands. Â  Genghisâ€™s tough and canny heir, Ogedai, is on the verge of being proclaimed the new Khan. But Ogedai has mysteriously delayed his coronation ceremony to complete a fantastic project many deem a folly: the building of Karakorum, a magnificent city amid the wild plains. His puzzling decision emboldens his arrogant brother Chagetai to violently challenge him, while their noble sibling Tolui and his beautiful, wily wife, Sorhatani, will be caught between the two. Chagetaiâ€™s attempt at rebellion reveals shocking truths about Ogedaiâ€™s health and imperiled future. As one brother awaits his fate, another awaits his moment to seize power, while spies and assassins play out the ambitions and destinies of their masters. With his celebrated synthesis of riveting storytelling and peerless historical detail, Conn Iggulden takes his saga of the great Mongol khans to unforgettable new heights, bringing these fabled conquerors and their singular people to vivid life for a new generation of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27128'),
(18656, 'Genghis: Lords of the Bow', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The #1 bestselling author Conn Iggulden, coauthor of the international sensation The Dangerous Book for Boys, delivers a masterful novel of the mighty Mongol conquerorâ€”as Genghis Khan sets out to unify an entire continent under his rule. For centuries, Mongol tribes had warred with one another. But now, under Genghis Khan, they have united as one nation, setting their sights on a common enemy: the great, slumbering walled empire of the Chin. Genghis will lead his warriors across the Gobi Desert and into a realm his people had never seen beforeâ€”with gleaming cities, soaring walls, and canals. Laying siege to one fortress after another, he will crush each enemy in a different wayâ€”until his army faces the ultimate test of all.In the city of Yenkingâ€”modern-day Beijingâ€”the Chin will make their final stand, setting a trap for the Mongol raiders, confident behind their towering walls. But Genghis will strike with breathtaking audacity, never ceasing until the Emperor himself is forced to kneel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6620'),
(18657, 'Genghis: Lords of the Bow', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The #1 bestselling author Conn Iggulden, coauthor of the international sensation The Dangerous Book for Boys, delivers a masterful novel of the mighty Mongol conquerorâ€”as Genghis Khan sets out to unify an entire continent under his rule. For centuries, Mongol tribes had warred with one another. But now, under Genghis Khan, they have united as one nation, setting their sights on a common enemy: the great, slumbering walled empire of the Chin. Genghis will lead his warriors across the Gobi Desert and into a realm his people had never seen beforeâ€”with gleaming cities, soaring walls, and canals. Laying siege to one fortress after another, he will crush each enemy in a different wayâ€”until his army faces the ultimate test of all.In the city of Yenkingâ€”modern-day Beijingâ€”the Chin will make their final stand, setting a trap for the Mongol raiders, confident behind their towering walls. But Genghis will strike with breathtaking audacity, never ceasing until the Emperor himself is forced to kneel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17466'),
(18658, 'Genghis: Lords of the Bow', 'Conn Iggulden', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The #1 bestselling author Conn Iggulden, coauthor of the international sensation The Dangerous Book for Boys, delivers a masterful novel of the mighty Mongol conquerorâ€”as Genghis Khan sets out to unify an entire continent under his rule. For centuries, Mongol tribes had warred with one another. But now, under Genghis Khan, they have united as one nation, setting their sights on a common enemy: the great, slumbering walled empire of the Chin. Genghis will lead his warriors across the Gobi Desert and into a realm his people had never seen beforeâ€”with gleaming cities, soaring walls, and canals. Laying siege to one fortress after another, he will crush each enemy in a different wayâ€”until his army faces the ultimate test of all.In the city of Yenkingâ€”modern-day Beijingâ€”the Chin will make their final stand, setting a trap for the Mongol raiders, confident behind their towering walls. But Genghis will strike with breathtaking audacity, never ceasing until the Emperor himself is forced to kneel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27127'),
(18659, 'Genius', 'Gleick, James', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18198'),
(18660, 'The Genius in All of Us', 'David W. Shenk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic â€œgiftedness,â€ and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual. DNA does not make us who we are. â€œForget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence,â€ he writes. â€œIn recent years, a mountain of scientific evidence has emerged suggesting a completely new paradigm: not talent scarcity, but latent talent abundance.â€ Integrating cutting-edge research from a wide swath of disciplinesâ€”cognitive science, genetics, biology, child developmentâ€”Shenk offers a highly optimistic new view of human potential. The problem isn''t our inadequate genetic assets, but our inability, so far, to tap into what we already have. IQ testing and widespread acceptance of â€œinnateâ€ abilities have created an unnecessarily pessimistic view of humanityâ€”and fostered much misdirected public policy, especially in education. The truth is much more exciting. Genes are not a â€œblueprintâ€ that bless some with greatness and doom most of us to mediocrity or worse. Rather our individual destinies are a product of the complex interplay between genes and outside stimuli-a dynamic that we, as people and as parents, can influence. This is a revolutionary and optimistic message. We are not prisoners of our DNA. We all have the potential for greatness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12396'),
(18661, 'Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman', 'James Gleick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A genius, a great mathematician once said, performs magic, does things that nobody else could do. To his scientific colleagues, Richard Feynman was a magician of the highest caliber. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic critic of the space shuttle commission, Nobel Prize winner for work that gave physicists a new way of describing and calculating the interactions of subatomic particles, Richard Feynman left his mark on virtually every area of modern physics. Originality was his obsession. Never content with what he knew or with what others knew, Feynman ceaselessly questioned scientific truths. But there was also another side to him, one which made him a legendary figure among scientists. His curiosity moved well beyond things scientific: he taught himself how to play drums, to give massages, to write Chinese, to crack safes. In Genius, James Gleick, author of the acclaimed best-seller Chaos, shows us a Feynman few have seen. He penetrates beyond the gleeful showman depicted in Feynman''s own memoirs and reveals a darker Feynman: his ambition, his periods of despair and uncertainty, his intense emotional nature. From his childhood on the beaches and backlots of Far Rockaway and his first tinkering with radios and differential equations to the machine shops at MIT and the early theoretical work at Princeton - work that foreshadowed his famous notion of antiparticles traveling backward in time - to the tragic death of his wife while he was working at Los Alamos, Genius shows how one scientist''s vision was formed. As that vision crystallized in work that reinvented quantum mechanics, we see Feynman''s impact on the elite particle-physicscommunity, and how Feynman grew to be at odds with the very community that idolized him. Finally, Gleick explores the nature of genius, our obsession with it and why the very idea may belong to another time. Genius records the life of a scientist who has forever changed science - and changed what it means to know something in this uncertain century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4856'),
(18662, 'Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman', 'James Gleick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A genius, a great mathematician once said, performs magic, does things that nobody else could do. To his scientific colleagues, Richard Feynman was a magician of the highest caliber. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic critic of the space shuttle commission, Nobel Prize winner for work that gave physicists a new way of describing and calculating the interactions of subatomic particles, Richard Feynman left his mark on virtually every area of modern physics. Originality was his obsession. Never content with what he knew or with what others knew, Feynman ceaselessly questioned scientific truths. But there was also another side to him, one which made him a legendary figure among scientists. His curiosity moved well beyond things scientific: he taught himself how to play drums, to give massages, to write Chinese, to crack safes. In Genius, James Gleick, author of the acclaimed best-seller Chaos, shows us a Feynman few have seen. He penetrates beyond the gleeful showman depicted in Feynman''s own memoirs and reveals a darker Feynman: his ambition, his periods of despair and uncertainty, his intense emotional nature. From his childhood on the beaches and backlots of Far Rockaway and his first tinkering with radios and differential equations to the machine shops at MIT and the early theoretical work at Princeton - work that foreshadowed his famous notion of antiparticles traveling backward in time - to the tragic death of his wife while he was working at Los Alamos, Genius shows how one scientist''s vision was formed. As that vision crystallized in work that reinvented quantum mechanics, we see Feynman''s impact on the elite particle-physicscommunity, and how Feynman grew to be at odds with the very community that idolized him. Finally, Gleick explores the nature of genius, our obsession with it and why the very idea may belong to another time. Genius records the life of a scientist who has forever changed science - and changed what it means to know something in this uncertain century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15045'),
(18663, 'A Gentleman&#39;s Game: A Queen &amp; Country Novel', 'Greg Rucka', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inspired by his Eisner Awardâ€“winning Queen &amp; Country graphic novel series, the author of the adrenaline-charged Atticus Kodiac thrillers (_Critical Space_) offers up this British cloak-and-dagger hardcover introducing Tara Chace, an intrepid, relentless female assassin. In a coolly orchestrated terrorist raid chillingly reminiscent of September 11, a well-trained trio of al Qaedaâ€“linked fanatics bomb London subway trains at three major stations, killing 372. In retaliation, Minder One (the head assassin of Her Majesty''s Secret Intelligent Service) Tara Chace is given the assignment of killing Dr. Faud bin Abdullah al-Shimmari, a Saudi Arabian religious leader. She can''t undertake an operation inside Faud''s high-security Saudi homeland, but when the Mossad gets involved on a mission of its own, the hit is scheduled to take place on Yemeni soil. In a bit of bad luck, Chace completes her primary mission with a daring hit on Faud inside the Great Mosque, but ignites international outrage when she blows away a Saudi prince, too. As a result, her queen and countrymen betray her, and she is forced to flee with one final chance to avoid being sacrificed as a pawn in a worldwide political chess game. Though a trifle muddled by bureaucratese, the novel''s superb pacing, offbeat characters, wry plot twists and damning insight into oily schizoid Middle Eastern diplomacy add up to an engrossing read.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a little tricky, so pay attention. This novel is based on Rucka''s comic-book series,\n <em>\n  Queen &amp; Country\n </em>\n , which was in turn inspired by (or perhaps directly based on) a 25-year-old British television series called\n <em>\n  The Sandbaggers\n </em>\n . The comic-book series chronicles the adventures of Tara Chace, a Special Intelligence Service agent (otherwise known as a minder or a sandbagger) who takes on dangerous missions for the British government. In the novel, she is tasked with the assassination of the mastermind behind a series of terrorist attacks that took the lives of more than 300 British citizens. The relationships between some of Rucka''s characters mirror the relationships between similar characters in the TV series, and there are even scenes in the novel that are very much like scenes in episodes of the series. Also like the series, the novel is as much about the political machinations behind a mission as it is about the mission itself, and Rucka does an excellent job of building the tension and suspense. It''s a story about people whose lives are controlled--and often sacrificed--by government officials whose decisions are always politically motivated. There are echoes of le Carre here, to be sure, although the tone is less cerebral. Those who know\n <em>\n  The Sandbaggers\n </em>\n will be intrigued, but the novel will also interest anyone with a taste for classic British espionage. A sequel would be most welcome.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5325'),
(18664, 'A Gentleman&#39;s Game: A Queen &amp; Country Novel', 'Greg Rucka', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inspired by his Eisner Awardâ€“winning Queen &amp; Country graphic novel series, the author of the adrenaline-charged Atticus Kodiac thrillers (_Critical Space_) offers up this British cloak-and-dagger hardcover introducing Tara Chace, an intrepid, relentless female assassin. In a coolly orchestrated terrorist raid chillingly reminiscent of September 11, a well-trained trio of al Qaedaâ€“linked fanatics bomb London subway trains at three major stations, killing 372. In retaliation, Minder One (the head assassin of Her Majesty''s Secret Intelligent Service) Tara Chace is given the assignment of killing Dr. Faud bin Abdullah al-Shimmari, a Saudi Arabian religious leader. She can''t undertake an operation inside Faud''s high-security Saudi homeland, but when the Mossad gets involved on a mission of its own, the hit is scheduled to take place on Yemeni soil. In a bit of bad luck, Chace completes her primary mission with a daring hit on Faud inside the Great Mosque, but ignites international outrage when she blows away a Saudi prince, too. As a result, her queen and countrymen betray her, and she is forced to flee with one final chance to avoid being sacrificed as a pawn in a worldwide political chess game. Though a trifle muddled by bureaucratese, the novel''s superb pacing, offbeat characters, wry plot twists and damning insight into oily schizoid Middle Eastern diplomacy add up to an engrossing read.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a little tricky, so pay attention. This novel is based on Rucka''s comic-book series,\n <em>\n  Queen &amp; Country\n </em>\n , which was in turn inspired by (or perhaps directly based on) a 25-year-old British television series called\n <em>\n  The Sandbaggers\n </em>\n . The comic-book series chronicles the adventures of Tara Chace, a Special Intelligence Service agent (otherwise known as a minder or a sandbagger) who takes on dangerous missions for the British government. In the novel, she is tasked with the assassination of the mastermind behind a series of terrorist attacks that took the lives of more than 300 British citizens. The relationships between some of Rucka''s characters mirror the relationships between similar characters in the TV series, and there are even scenes in the novel that are very much like scenes in episodes of the series. Also like the series, the novel is as much about the political machinations behind a mission as it is about the mission itself, and Rucka does an excellent job of building the tension and suspense. It''s a story about people whose lives are controlled--and often sacrificed--by government officials whose decisions are always politically motivated. There are echoes of le Carre here, to be sure, although the tone is less cerebral. Those who know\n <em>\n  The Sandbaggers\n </em>\n will be intrigued, but the novel will also interest anyone with a taste for classic British espionage. A sequel would be most welcome.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12461'),
(18665, 'A gentleman&#39;s game: a queen &amp; country novel', 'Greg Rucka', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inspired by his Eisner Awardâ€“winning Queen &amp; Country graphic novel series, the author of the adrenaline-charged Atticus Kodiac thrillers (_Critical Space_) offers up this British cloak-and-dagger hardcover introducing Tara Chace, an intrepid, relentless female assassin. In a coolly orchestrated terrorist raid chillingly reminiscent of September 11, a well-trained trio of al Qaedaâ€“linked fanatics bomb London subway trains at three major stations, killing 372. In retaliation, Minder One (the head assassin of Her Majesty''s Secret Intelligent Service) Tara Chace is given the assignment of killing Dr. Faud bin Abdullah al-Shimmari, a Saudi Arabian religious leader. She can''t undertake an operation inside Faud''s high-security Saudi homeland, but when the Mossad gets involved on a mission of its own, the hit is scheduled to take place on Yemeni soil. In a bit of bad luck, Chace completes her primary mission with a daring hit on Faud inside the Great Mosque, but ignites international outrage when she blows away a Saudi prince, too. As a result, her queen and countrymen betray her, and she is forced to flee with one final chance to avoid being sacrificed as a pawn in a worldwide political chess game. Though a trifle muddled by bureaucratese, the novel''s superb pacing, offbeat characters, wry plot twists and damning insight into oily schizoid Middle Eastern diplomacy add up to an engrossing read.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is a little tricky, so pay attention. This novel is based on Rucka''s comic-book series,\n <em>\n  Queen &amp; Country\n </em>\n , which was in turn inspired by (or perhaps directly based on) a 25-year-old British television series called\n <em>\n  The Sandbaggers\n </em>\n . The comic-book series chronicles the adventures of Tara Chace, a Special Intelligence Service agent (otherwise known as a minder or a sandbagger) who takes on dangerous missions for the British government. In the novel, she is tasked with the assassination of the mastermind behind a series of terrorist attacks that took the lives of more than 300 British citizens. The relationships between some of Rucka''s characters mirror the relationships between similar characters in the TV series, and there are even scenes in the novel that are very much like scenes in episodes of the series. Also like the series, the novel is as much about the political machinations behind a mission as it is about the mission itself, and Rucka does an excellent job of building the tension and suspense. It''s a story about people whose lives are controlled--and often sacrificed--by government officials whose decisions are always politically motivated. There are echoes of le Carre here, to be sure, although the tone is less cerebral. Those who know\n <em>\n  The Sandbaggers\n </em>\n will be intrigued, but the novel will also interest anyone with a taste for classic British espionage. A sequel would be most welcome.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19301'),
(18666, 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', 'Anita Loos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The great American novel . . ."\n <br />\n -- Edith Wharton\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lorelei Lee and her best friend Dorothy take the world by storm in their search for the ideal suitor, the richer the better. Lorelei meets an American millionaire who might just be the one. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was made into a delightful classic film starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell (1953) and features the song ''Diamonds are a Girl''s Best Friend''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7558'),
(18667, 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', 'Anita Loos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The great American novel . . ."\n <br />\n -- Edith Wharton\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lorelei Lee and her best friend Dorothy take the world by storm in their search for the ideal suitor, the richer the better. Lorelei meets an American millionaire who might just be the one. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was made into a delightful classic film starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell (1953) and features the song ''Diamonds are a Girl''s Best Friend''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11138'),
(18668, 'Gentlemen prefer blondes', 'Anita Loos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The great American novel . . ."\n <br />\n -- Edith Wharton\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lorelei Lee and her best friend Dorothy take the world by storm in their search for the ideal suitor, the richer the better. Lorelei meets an American millionaire who might just be the one. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was made into a delightful classic film starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell (1953) and features the song ''Diamonds are a Girl''s Best Friend''.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16269'),
(18669, 'Gentlemen Prefer Succubi', 'Jill Myles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Who Knew An Angel Could Get A Girl In So Much Devilish Trouble?Jackie Brighton woke up in a Dumpster this morning, and her day has only gotten weirder. Her familiar B-cups have somehow become double Ds, her sex drive is insatiable, and apparently she had her fi rst one-night stand ever...with a fallen angel. All she remembers is gorgeous Noah''s oddly hypnotic blue eyes...and then a dark stranger whose bite transformed her into an immortal siren with a sexy Itch. With help from Noah, Jackie begins to adapt to her new lifestyle -- until she accidentally sends Noah into the deadly clutches of the vampire queen and lands herself in a fi erce battle for an ancient halo with the queen''s wickedly hot righthand man. Who just happens to be the vampire who originally bit her. How''s a girl supposed to save the world when the enemy''s so hard to resist?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4474'),
(18670, 'Gentlemen Prefer Succubi', 'Jill Myles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Who Knew An Angel Could Get A Girl In So Much Devilish Trouble?Jackie Brighton woke up in a Dumpster this morning, and her day has only gotten weirder. Her familiar B-cups have somehow become double Ds, her sex drive is insatiable, and apparently she had her fi rst one-night stand ever...with a fallen angel. All she remembers is gorgeous Noah''s oddly hypnotic blue eyes...and then a dark stranger whose bite transformed her into an immortal siren with a sexy Itch. With help from Noah, Jackie begins to adapt to her new lifestyle -- until she accidentally sends Noah into the deadly clutches of the vampire queen and lands herself in a fi erce battle for an ancient halo with the queen''s wickedly hot righthand man. Who just happens to be the vampire who originally bit her. How''s a girl supposed to save the world when the enemy''s so hard to resist?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11579'),
(18671, 'Gentlemen Prefer Succubi', 'Jill Myles', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Who Knew An Angel Could Get A Girl In So Much Devilish Trouble?Jackie Brighton woke up in a Dumpster this morning, and her day has only gotten weirder. Her familiar B-cups have somehow become double Ds, her sex drive is insatiable, and apparently she had her fi rst one-night stand ever...with a fallen angel. All she remembers is gorgeous Noah''s oddly hypnotic blue eyes...and then a dark stranger whose bite transformed her into an immortal siren with a sexy Itch. With help from Noah, Jackie begins to adapt to her new lifestyle -- until she accidentally sends Noah into the deadly clutches of the vampire queen and lands herself in a fi erce battle for an ancient halo with the queen''s wickedly hot righthand man. Who just happens to be the vampire who originally bit her. How''s a girl supposed to save the world when the enemy''s so hard to resist?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26162'),
(18672, 'Geomancer', 'Ian Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two hundred years after the Forbidding was broken, Santhenar is locked in war with the lyrinx - intelligent, winged predators who will do anything to gain their own world. Despite the development of battle clankers and mastery of the crystals that power them, humanity is losing. Tiaan, a lonely crystal worker in a clanker manufactory, is experimenting with an entirely new kind of crystal when she begins to have extraordinary visions. The crystal has woken her latent talent for geomancy, the most powerful of all the Secret Arts - and the most perilous. Falsely accused of sabotage by her rival, Irisis, Tiaan flees for her life. Struggling to control her talent and hunted by the lyrinx, Tiaan follows her visions all the way to Tirthrax, greatest peak on all the Three Worlds, where a nightmare awaits her . Find out more about this title and others at www.orbitbooks.co.uk\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5068'),
(18673, 'Geomancer', 'Ian Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Two hundred years after the Forbidding was broken, Santhenar is locked in war with the lyrinx - intelligent, winged predators who will do anything to gain their own world. Despite the development of battle clankers and mastery of the crystals that power them, humanity is losing. Tiaan, a lonely crystal worker in a clanker manufactory, is experimenting with an entirely new kind of crystal when she begins to have extraordinary visions. The crystal has woken her latent talent for geomancy, the most powerful of all the Secret Arts - and the most perilous. Falsely accused of sabotage by her rival, Irisis, Tiaan flees for her life. Struggling to control her talent and hunted by the lyrinx, Tiaan follows her visions all the way to Tirthrax, greatest peak on all the Three Worlds, where a nightmare awaits her . Find out more about this title and others at www.orbitbooks.co.uk\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10431'),
(18674, 'Geomancer', 'Ian Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two hundred years after the Forbidding was broken, Santhenar is locked in war with the lyrinx - intelligent, winged predators who will do anything to gain their own world. Despite the development of battle clankers and mastery of the crystals that power them, humanity is losing. Tiaan, a lonely crystal worker in a clanker manufactory, is experimenting with an entirely new kind of crystal when she begins to have extraordinary visions. The crystal has woken her latent talent for geomancy, the most powerful of all the Secret Arts - and the most perilous. Falsely accused of sabotage by her rival, Irisis, Tiaan flees for her life. Struggling to control her talent and hunted by the lyrinx, Tiaan follows her visions all the way to Tirthrax, greatest peak on all the Three Worlds, where a nightmare awaits her . Find out more about this title and others at www.orbitbooks.co.uk\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19651'),
(18675, 'Geomancer', 'Ian Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Two hundred years after the Forbidding was broken, Santhenar is locked in war with the lyrinx - intelligent, winged predators who will do anything to gain their own world. Despite the development of battle clankers and mastery of the crystals that power them, humanity is losing. Tiaan, a lonely crystal worker in a clanker manufactory, is experimenting with an entirely new kind of crystal when she begins to have extraordinary visions. The crystal has woken her latent talent for geomancy, the most powerful of all the Secret Arts - and the most perilous. Falsely accused of sabotage by her rival, Irisis, Tiaan flees for her life. Struggling to control her talent and hunted by the lyrinx, Tiaan follows her visions all the way to Tirthrax, greatest peak on all the Three Worlds, where a nightmare awaits her . Find out more about this title and others at www.orbitbooks.co.uk\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28201'),
(18676, 'Geordie Sharp 01: Stand By, Stand By', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n All of Chris Ryan''s bestselling novels in stunning new cover reissue\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15413'),
(18677, 'Geordie Sharp 02: Zero Option', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n SAS Sergeant Geordie Sharp is required to undertake two top-secret missions, in the full knowledge that, if things go wrong, the authorities will deny all involvement. In the first mission he is to serve as a commander of a hit team on a Black, or 100 per cent non-attributable operation assigned to the SAW, the Regiment''s ultra-secret Subversive Action Wing. His target is an Iraqi who defected to Libya after the Gulf War. The aim is to kill him and leave no clue to the identity or origin of the assassins. Returning to base, Sharp finds he must also carry out a high-level political assassination on mainland Britain. If he fails, his four-year-old son will die at the hands of the IRA. Trapped between opposing forces in a fight to the death, he twists and turns through a nightmare maze, desperately seeking some way of averting tragedy. Who will be hit the hardest â€” Geordie Sharp or the British government?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15385'),
(18678, 'Geordie Sharp 03: The Kremlin Device', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15418'),
(18679, 'Geordie Sharp 04: Tenth Man Down', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15392'),
(18680, 'George Mills', 'Stanley Elkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A comedy that cuts so many ways that it leaves us bleeding with laughter." --\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A true artist . . . Stanley Elkin never lets us down. . . . I read his books with pleasure and also with respect." --\n  <em>\n   Saul Bellow\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stanley Elkinâ€™s imagination should be declared a national landmark." --\n  <em>\n   Paul Auster\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An ambitiousâ€š digressiveâ€š and endlessly entertaining account of the thousand-year history of the George Millsesâ€š GEORGE MILLS is the antithesis to the typical Horatio Alger story. Since the First Crusadeâ€š there has always been a George Millsâ€š whoâ€”despite his best effortsâ€”is unable to improve his position in life or that of his descendants. Insteadâ€š all the George Millses are forced to accept their lot as true blue-collar workersâ€š serving important personages in a series of odd jobs ranging from horse talker in a salt mine to working as a furniture mover in contemporary St. Louis. But the latest in the long line of George Millses may also be the lastâ€š as he obsesses about his familyâ€™s history and determines that he will be the one to break this doomed cycle of servitude.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1230'),
(18681, 'George Mills', 'Stanley Elkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A comedy that cuts so many ways that it leaves us bleeding with laughter." --\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A true artist . . . Stanley Elkin never lets us down. . . . I read his books with pleasure and also with respect." --\n  <em>\n   Saul Bellow\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stanley Elkinâ€™s imagination should be declared a national landmark." --\n  <em>\n   Paul Auster\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An ambitiousâ€š digressiveâ€š and endlessly entertaining account of the thousand-year history of the George Millsesâ€š GEORGE MILLS is the antithesis to the typical Horatio Alger story. Since the First Crusadeâ€š there has always been a George Millsâ€š whoâ€”despite his best effortsâ€”is unable to improve his position in life or that of his descendants. Insteadâ€š all the George Millses are forced to accept their lot as true blue-collar workersâ€š serving important personages in a series of odd jobs ranging from horse talker in a salt mine to working as a furniture mover in contemporary St. Louis. But the latest in the long line of George Millses may also be the lastâ€š as he obsesses about his familyâ€™s history and determines that he will be the one to break this doomed cycle of servitude.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9567'),
(18682, 'George Mills', 'Stanley Elkin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "A comedy that cuts so many ways that it leaves us bleeding with laughter." --\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A true artist . . . Stanley Elkin never lets us down. . . . I read his books with pleasure and also with respect." --\n  <em>\n   Saul Bellow\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Stanley Elkinâ€™s imagination should be declared a national landmark." --\n  <em>\n   Paul Auster\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An ambitiousâ€š digressiveâ€š and endlessly entertaining account of the thousand-year history of the George Millsesâ€š GEORGE MILLS is the antithesis to the typical Horatio Alger story. Since the First Crusadeâ€š there has always been a George Millsâ€š whoâ€”despite his best effortsâ€”is unable to improve his position in life or that of his descendants. Insteadâ€š all the George Millses are forced to accept their lot as true blue-collar workersâ€š serving important personages in a series of odd jobs ranging from horse talker in a salt mine to working as a furniture mover in contemporary St. Louis. But the latest in the long line of George Millses may also be the lastâ€š as he obsesses about his familyâ€™s history and determines that he will be the one to break this doomed cycle of servitude.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23763'),
(18683, 'George R. R. Martin&#39;s a Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle', 'George R.R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: left; ">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n  George R. R. Martin''s A Song of Ice and Fire series has become, in many ways, the gold standard for modern epic fantasy. Martinâ€”dubbed the "American Tolkien" byÂ \n  <i>\n   Time\n  </i>\n  Â magazineâ€”has created a world that is as rich and vital as any piece of historical fiction, set in an age of knights and chivalry and filled with a plethora of fascinating, multidimensional characters that you love, hate to love, or love to hate as they struggle for control of a divided kingdom. It is this very vitality that has led it to be adapted as the HBO miniseries â€œGame of Thrones.â€\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This bundle includes the following novels:\n  <br />\n  A GAME OF THRONES\n  <br />\n  A CLASH OF KINGS\n  <br />\n  A STORM OF SWORDS\n  <br />\n  A FEAST FOR CROWS\n </div>\n</span>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11051');
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(18684, 'George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I', 'Miranda Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The slippery slope into horrific armed conflict is a tale often told about World War I, but this authorâ€™s take on the antecedents of the European war of 1914â€“18 is distinct. Carter views the shifting alliance entanglements of the Great Powers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and especially the growing animosity and rivalry between Britain and Germany, with particular focus on the attitudes and actions of three royal first cousins: Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, and King George V of Great Britain (who also reigned as emperor of India, hence the bookâ€™s title reference to three emperors). Rich in concrete detail, elegant in style, and wise, fresh, and knowledgeable in interpretation, the authorâ€™s account observes a profound anachronism at play: that these three monarchs, in what they didnâ€™t realize were the waning days of the institution of monarchy, handled foreign diplomacy as if it were a family business. Despite the reality of growing fissures separating their countries, â€œeach emperor continued to paper over the cracks with cousinly gestures, each increasingly irrelevant.â€ Europe plunged over the precipice of war in August 1914, revealing in stark terms the inability of royal familial ties to control and contain national disagreements; as the author has it, the fact that Wilhelm, Nicholas, and George were out of touch with actual politics could not have been more apparent. An irresistible narrative for history buffs. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Miranda Carter''s George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm:\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œMiranda Carter has written an engrossing and important book. While keeping her focus on the three cousins and their extended families, she skillfully interweaves and summarizes all important elements of how the war came aboutâ€¦Carter has given us an original book, highly recommended.â€ ---_The Dallas Morning News_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Masterfully crafted. . . Carter has presented one of the most cohesive explorations of the dying days of European royalty and the coming of political modernity. . . Carter has delivered another gem." --_Bookpage_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ms. Carter writes incisively about the overlapping events that led to the Great War and changed the world. . . George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm is an impressive book. Ms. Carter has clearly not bitten off more than she can chew for she -- as John Updike once wrote of Gunter Grass -- ''chews it enthusiasticallyÂ before our eyes.''" --The New York TimesÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "An irresistably entertaining and illuminating chronicle . . . Readers with fond memories of Robert Massie and Barbara Tuchman can expect similar pleasures in this witty, shrewd examination of the twilight of the great European monarchies." â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully fresh and beautifully choreographed work of history." â€”Craig Brown,\n <em>\n  Mail on Sunday\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A hauntingly tempting proposition for a book . . . The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V, and Nicholas II are . . . a prism though which to tell the march to the first World War, the creation of the modern industrial world and the follies of hereditary courts and the eccentricities of their royal trans-European cousinhood . . . An entertaining and accessible study of power and personality." â€”Simon Sebag Montefiore, _Financial Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Carter draws masterful portraits of her subjects and tells the complicated story of Europeâ€™s failing international relations well . . . A highly readable and well-documented account." â€”Margaret MacMillan, _The Spectator\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œI couldnâ€™t put this book down. The whole thing really lives and breathes â€“ and itâ€™s very funny. That these three absurd men could ever have held the fate of Europe in their hands is a fact as hilarious as it is terrifying.â€ â€“ Zadie Smith\n</p>\n<p>\n "[An] enterprising history of imperial vicissitudes and royal reversals." --The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2664'),
(18685, 'George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I', 'Miranda Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The slippery slope into horrific armed conflict is a tale often told about World War I, but this authorâ€™s take on the antecedents of the European war of 1914â€“18 is distinct. Carter views the shifting alliance entanglements of the Great Powers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and especially the growing animosity and rivalry between Britain and Germany, with particular focus on the attitudes and actions of three royal first cousins: Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, and King George V of Great Britain (who also reigned as emperor of India, hence the bookâ€™s title reference to three emperors). Rich in concrete detail, elegant in style, and wise, fresh, and knowledgeable in interpretation, the authorâ€™s account observes a profound anachronism at play: that these three monarchs, in what they didnâ€™t realize were the waning days of the institution of monarchy, handled foreign diplomacy as if it were a family business. Despite the reality of growing fissures separating their countries, â€œeach emperor continued to paper over the cracks with cousinly gestures, each increasingly irrelevant.â€ Europe plunged over the precipice of war in August 1914, revealing in stark terms the inability of royal familial ties to control and contain national disagreements; as the author has it, the fact that Wilhelm, Nicholas, and George were out of touch with actual politics could not have been more apparent. An irresistible narrative for history buffs. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Miranda Carter''s George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm:\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œMiranda Carter has written an engrossing and important book. While keeping her focus on the three cousins and their extended families, she skillfully interweaves and summarizes all important elements of how the war came aboutâ€¦Carter has given us an original book, highly recommended.â€ ---_The Dallas Morning News_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Masterfully crafted. . . Carter has presented one of the most cohesive explorations of the dying days of European royalty and the coming of political modernity. . . Carter has delivered another gem." --_Bookpage_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ms. Carter writes incisively about the overlapping events that led to the Great War and changed the world. . . George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm is an impressive book. Ms. Carter has clearly not bitten off more than she can chew for she -- as John Updike once wrote of Gunter Grass -- ''chews it enthusiasticallyÂ before our eyes.''" --The New York TimesÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n "An irresistably entertaining and illuminating chronicle . . . Readers with fond memories of Robert Massie and Barbara Tuchman can expect similar pleasures in this witty, shrewd examination of the twilight of the great European monarchies." â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully fresh and beautifully choreographed work of history." â€”Craig Brown,\n <em>\n  Mail on Sunday\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A hauntingly tempting proposition for a book . . . The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V, and Nicholas II are . . . a prism though which to tell the march to the first World War, the creation of the modern industrial world and the follies of hereditary courts and the eccentricities of their royal trans-European cousinhood . . . An entertaining and accessible study of power and personality." â€”Simon Sebag Montefiore, _Financial Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Carter draws masterful portraits of her subjects and tells the complicated story of Europeâ€™s failing international relations well . . . A highly readable and well-documented account." â€”Margaret MacMillan, _The Spectator\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œI couldnâ€™t put this book down. The whole thing really lives and breathes â€“ and itâ€™s very funny. That these three absurd men could ever have held the fate of Europe in their hands is a fact as hilarious as it is terrifying.â€ â€“ Zadie Smith\n</p>\n<p>\n "[An] enterprising history of imperial vicissitudes and royal reversals." --The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8792'),
(18686, 'George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I', 'Miranda Carter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The slippery slope into horrific armed conflict is a tale often told about World War I, but this authorâ€™s take on the antecedents of the European war of 1914â€“18 is distinct. Carter views the shifting alliance entanglements of the Great Powers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and especially the growing animosity and rivalry between Britain and Germany, with particular focus on the attitudes and actions of three royal first cousins: Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, and King George V of Great Britain (who also reigned as emperor of India, hence the bookâ€™s title reference to three emperors). Rich in concrete detail, elegant in style, and wise, fresh, and knowledgeable in interpretation, the authorâ€™s account observes a profound anachronism at play: that these three monarchs, in what they didnâ€™t realize were the waning days of the institution of monarchy, handled foreign diplomacy as if it were a family business. Despite the reality of growing fissures separating their countries, â€œeach emperor continued to paper over the cracks with cousinly gestures, each increasingly irrelevant.â€ Europe plunged over the precipice of war in August 1914, revealing in stark terms the inability of royal familial ties to control and contain national disagreements; as the author has it, the fact that Wilhelm, Nicholas, and George were out of touch with actual politics could not have been more apparent. An irresistible narrative for history buffs. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for Miranda Carter''s George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm:\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œMiranda Carter has written an engrossing and important book. While keeping her focus on the three cousins and their extended families, she skillfully interweaves and summarizes all important elements of how the war came about...Carter has given us an original book, highly recommended.â€ ---_The Dallas Morning News_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Masterfully crafted. . . Carter has presented one of the most cohesive explorations of the dying days of European royalty and the coming of political modernity. . . Carter has delivered another gem." --_Bookpage_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Ms. Carter writes incisively about the overlapping events that led to the Great War and changed the world. . . George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm is an impressive book. Ms. Carter has clearly not bitten off more than she can chew for she -- as John Updike once wrote of Gunter Grass -- ''chews it enthusiastically before our eyes.''" --The New York Times\n</p>\n<p>\n "An irresistably entertaining and illuminating chronicle . . . Readers with fond memories of Robert Massie and Barbara Tuchman can expect similar pleasures in this witty, shrewd examination of the twilight of the great European monarchies." â€”Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "A wonderfully fresh and beautifully choreographed work of history." â€”Craig Brown,\n <em>\n  Mail on Sunday\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A hauntingly tempting proposition for a book . . . The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V, and Nicholas II are . . . a prism though which to tell the march to the first World War, the creation of the modern industrial world and the follies of hereditary courts and the eccentricities of their royal trans-European cousinhood . . . An entertaining and accessible study of power and personality." â€”Simon Sebag Montefiore, _Financial Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n "Carter draws masterful portraits of her subjects and tells the complicated story of Europeâ€™s failing international relations well . . . A highly readable and well-documented account." â€”Margaret MacMillan, _The Spectator\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œI couldnâ€™t put this book down. The whole thing really lives and breathes â€“ and itâ€™s very funny. That these three absurd men could ever have held the fate of Europe in their hands is a fact as hilarious as it is terrifying.â€ â€“ Zadie Smith\n</p>\n<p>\n "[An] enterprising history of imperial vicissitudes and royal reversals." --The New York Times Book Review\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22152'),
(18687, 'George&#39;s Marvellous Medicine', 'Roald Dahl &amp; Quentin Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n George''s grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered-up mouth like a dog''s bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of thick brown medicine, but it doesn''t seem to do her any good. She''s always just as horrid after she''s taken it as she was before.So when George is left alone to look after her one morning, it''s just the chance he needs...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1827'),
(18688, 'George&#39;s Marvellous Medicine', 'Roald Dahl &amp; Quentin Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n George''s grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered-up mouth like a dog''s bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of thick brown medicine, but it doesn''t seem to do her any good. She''s always just as horrid after she''s taken it as she was before.So when George is left alone to look after her one morning, it''s just the chance he needs...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9203'),
(18689, 'George&#39;s Marvellous Medicine', 'Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: George''s grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered-up mouth like a dog''s bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of thick brown medicine, but it doesn''t seem to do her any good. She''s always just as horrid after she''s taken it as she was before.So when George is left alone to look after her one morning, it''s just the chance he needs...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24827'),
(18690, 'Geosynchron', 'David Louis Edelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **DAVID LOUIS EDELMAN''S BUSINESS SCIENCE FICTION SAGA THAT BEGAN WITH *INFOQUAKE* AND *MULTIREAL* COMES TO A STUNNING CONCLUSION WITH *GEOSYNCHRON*, THE LAST BOOK OF THE JUMP 225 TRILOGY.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Defense and Wellness Council is enmeshed in full-scale civil war between Len Borda and the mysterious Magan Kai Lee. Quell has escaped from prison and is stirring up rebellion in the Islands with the aid of a brash young leader named Josiah. Jara and the apprentices of the Surina/Natch MultiReal Fiefcorp still find themselves fighting off legal attacks from their competitors and from Margaret Surina''s unscrupulous heirs -- even though MultiReal has completely vanished.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The quest for the truth will lead to the edges of civilization, from the tumultuous society of the Pacific Islands to the lawless orbital colony of 49th Heaven; and through the deeps of time, from the hidden agenda of the Surina family to the real truth behind the Autonomous Revolt that devastated humanity hundreds of years ago.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meanwhile, Natch has awakened in a windowless prison with nothing but a haze of memory to clue him in as to how he got there. He''s still receiving strange hallucinatory messages from Margaret Surina and the nature of reality is buckling all around him. When the smoke clears, Natch must make the ultimate decision -- whether to save a world that has scorned and discarded him, or to save the only person he has ever loved: himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6174'),
(18691, 'Geosynchron', 'David Louis Edelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **DAVID LOUIS EDELMAN''S BUSINESS SCIENCE FICTION SAGA THAT BEGAN WITH *INFOQUAKE* AND *MULTIREAL* COMES TO A STUNNING CONCLUSION WITH *GEOSYNCHRON*, THE LAST BOOK OF THE JUMP 225 TRILOGY.** The Defense and Wellness Council is enmeshed in full-scale civil war between Len Borda and the mysterious Magan Kai Lee. Quell has escaped from prison and is stirring up rebellion in the Islands with the aid of a brash young leader named Josiah. Jara and the apprentices of the Surina/Natch MultiReal Fiefcorp still find themselves fighting off legal attacks from their competitors and from Margaret Surina''s unscrupulous heirs -- even though MultiReal has completely vanished. The quest for the truth will lead to the edges of civilization, from the tumultuous society of the Pacific Islands to the lawless orbital colony of 49th Heaven; and through the deeps of time, from the hidden agenda of the Surina family to the real truth behind the Autonomous Revolt that devastated humanity hundreds of years ago. Meanwhile, Natch has awakened in a windowless prison with nothing but a haze of memory to clue him in as to how he got there. He''s still receiving strange hallucinatory messages from Margaret Surina and the nature of reality is buckling all around him. When the smoke clears, Natch must make the ultimate decision -- whether to save a world that has scorned and discarded him, or to save the only person he has ever loved: himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17812'),
(18692, 'Geosynchron', 'David Louis Edelman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n **DAVID LOUIS EDELMAN''S BUSINESS SCIENCE FICTION SAGA THAT BEGAN WITH *INFOQUAKE* AND *MULTIREAL* COMES TO A STUNNING CONCLUSION WITH *GEOSYNCHRON*, THE LAST BOOK OF THE JUMP 225 TRILOGY.** The Defense and Wellness Council is enmeshed in full-scale civil war between Len Borda and the mysterious Magan Kai Lee. Quell has escaped from prison and is stirring up rebellion in the Islands with the aid of a brash young leader named Josiah. Jara and the apprentices of the Surina/Natch MultiReal Fiefcorp still find themselves fighting off legal attacks from their competitors and from Margaret Surina''s unscrupulous heirs -- even though MultiReal has completely vanished. The quest for the truth will lead to the edges of civilization, from the tumultuous society of the Pacific Islands to the lawless orbital colony of 49th Heaven; and through the deeps of time, from the hidden agenda of the Surina family to the real truth behind the Autonomous Revolt that devastated humanity hundreds of years ago. Meanwhile, Natch has awakened in a windowless prison with nothing but a haze of memory to clue him in as to how he got there. He''s still receiving strange hallucinatory messages from Margaret Surina and the nature of reality is buckling all around him. When the smoke clears, Natch must make the ultimate decision -- whether to save a world that has scorned and discarded him, or to save the only person he has ever loved: himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27270'),
(18693, 'Gerald&#39;s Game', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Stephen King cranks up the suspense in a different kind of bedtime story. A game of seduction between a husband and wife goes horribly awry when the husband suddenly dies. But the wife''s nightmare has just begun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1104'),
(18694, 'Gerald&#39;s Game', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Stephen King cranks up the suspense in a different kind of bedtime story. A game of seduction between a husband and wife goes horribly awry when the husband suddenly dies. But the wife''s nightmare has just begun.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14352'),
(18695, 'Gerald&#39;s Game', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When rough sex between Jessie and Gerald Burlingame turns deadly, leaving Gerald dead and Jessie handcuffed to the bed, it sets in motion a terrifying and psychologically twisted twenty-eight hours.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23819'),
(18696, 'German Baking Today', 'Dr. Oetker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5945'),
(18697, 'German Baking Today', 'Dr. Oetker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18805'),
(18698, 'German Baking Today', 'Dr. Oetker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27555'),
(18699, 'German Cooking Today', 'Dr. Oetker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5947'),
(18700, 'German Cooking Today', 'Dr. Oetker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18804'),
(18701, 'German Cooking Today', 'Dr. Oetker', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27554'),
(18702, 'Germinal', 'Emile Zola', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27781'),
(18703, 'Gertrud', 'Hermann Hesse', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25721'),
(18704, 'Gestapo', 'Sven Hassel', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25078'),
(18705, 'Get Cooking: 150 Simple Recipes to Get You Started in the Kitchen', 'Mollie Katzen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. There''s an inherent difficulty in encapsulating basic kitchen knowledge in a single book, but Katzen''s latest is a fresh, contemporary entry in the 101 subgenre. This is likely because she has some experienceâ€”Katzen''s\n  <em>\n   The Moosewood Cookbook\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Enchanted Broccoli Forest\n  </em>\n  cookbooks have been unofficial required reading for cooking students for decades, and her latest speaks directly to a newer, more food-savvy generation of just-starting-out cooks. Launched in conjunction with a companion Web site and illustrated by Katzen''s own photographs, this newest is divided into basic categories like soups, salads, pastas and desserts. Naturally, given her meatless pedigree, she gives vegetarian options with bright flavors (acorn squash stuffed with fruited basmati pilaf; mango curry) their own chapter. While the recipes cover the traditional home repertoireâ€”spaghetti and meatballs, an excellent and simple roast chicken, apple crispâ€”Katzen also sneaks in some more intriguing flavors by way of a North African red lentil soup, cherry clafouti and Thai green curry along with explanations of more unusual ingredients like jicama and panko. Encouraging cooks to experiment with additions and flavor combinations, she suggests alternatives in a running Get Creative sidebar. Rounding out the training is a short primer on kitchen tools, pantry items and photos that illustrate vegetable chopping techniques. Katzen''s enthusiasm for the subject and her ability to keep the proceedings truly simple makes for the rare beginner''s book that accomplishes its mission. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œKatzenâ€™s latest is a fresh, contemporary entry in the 101 subgenre...Her enthusiasm for the subject and her ability to keep the proceedings truly simple makes for the rare beginnerâ€™s book that accomplishes its mission.â€ (Publishers Weekly (starred review) )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2676'),
(18706, 'Get Cooking: 150 Simple Recipes to Get You Started in the Kitchen', 'Mollie Katzen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. There''s an inherent difficulty in encapsulating basic kitchen knowledge in a single book, but Katzen''s latest is a fresh, contemporary entry in the 101 subgenre. This is likely because she has some experienceâ€”Katzen''s\n  <em>\n   The Moosewood Cookbook\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Enchanted Broccoli Forest\n  </em>\n  cookbooks have been unofficial required reading for cooking students for decades, and her latest speaks directly to a newer, more food-savvy generation of just-starting-out cooks. Launched in conjunction with a companion Web site and illustrated by Katzen''s own photographs, this newest is divided into basic categories like soups, salads, pastas and desserts. Naturally, given her meatless pedigree, she gives vegetarian options with bright flavors (acorn squash stuffed with fruited basmati pilaf; mango curry) their own chapter. While the recipes cover the traditional home repertoireâ€”spaghetti and meatballs, an excellent and simple roast chicken, apple crispâ€”Katzen also sneaks in some more intriguing flavors by way of a North African red lentil soup, cherry clafouti and Thai green curry along with explanations of more unusual ingredients like jicama and panko. Encouraging cooks to experiment with additions and flavor combinations, she suggests alternatives in a running Get Creative sidebar. Rounding out the training is a short primer on kitchen tools, pantry items and photos that illustrate vegetable chopping techniques. Katzen''s enthusiasm for the subject and her ability to keep the proceedings truly simple makes for the rare beginner''s book that accomplishes its mission. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œKatzenâ€™s latest is a fresh, contemporary entry in the 101 subgenre...Her enthusiasm for the subject and her ability to keep the proceedings truly simple makes for the rare beginnerâ€™s book that accomplishes its mission.â€ (Publishers Weekly (starred review) )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10647'),
(18707, 'Get Cooking: 150 Simple Recipes to Get You Started in the Kitchen', 'Mollie Katzen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. There''s an inherent difficulty in encapsulating basic kitchen knowledge in a single book, but Katzen''s latest is a fresh, contemporary entry in the 101 subgenre. This is likely because she has some experienceâ€”Katzen''s\n  <em>\n   The Moosewood Cookbook\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Enchanted Broccoli Forest\n  </em>\n  cookbooks have been unofficial required reading for cooking students for decades, and her latest speaks directly to a newer, more food-savvy generation of just-starting-out cooks. Launched in conjunction with a companion Web site and illustrated by Katzen''s own photographs, this newest is divided into basic categories like soups, salads, pastas and desserts. Naturally, given her meatless pedigree, she gives vegetarian options with bright flavors (acorn squash stuffed with fruited basmati pilaf; mango curry) their own chapter. While the recipes cover the traditional home repertoireâ€”spaghetti and meatballs, an excellent and simple roast chicken, apple crispâ€”Katzen also sneaks in some more intriguing flavors by way of a North African red lentil soup, cherry clafouti and Thai green curry along with explanations of more unusual ingredients like jicama and panko. Encouraging cooks to experiment with additions and flavor combinations, she suggests alternatives in a running Get Creative sidebar. Rounding out the training is a short primer on kitchen tools, pantry items and photos that illustrate vegetable chopping techniques. Katzen''s enthusiasm for the subject and her ability to keep the proceedings truly simple makes for the rare beginner''s book that accomplishes its mission. Photos.\n  <em>\n   (Oct.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œKatzenâ€™s latest is a fresh, contemporary entry in the 101 subgenre...Her enthusiasm for the subject and her ability to keep the proceedings truly simple makes for the rare beginnerâ€™s book that accomplishes its mission.â€ (Publishers Weekly (starred review) )\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22135'),
(18708, 'Get Off the Unicorn', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the lady who taught dragons to fly and rockets to sing.477.THE SMALLEST DRAGON BOY. The only thing Keevan wanted in his life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon.477. But Keevan was small and there were always more boys than there were dragons - someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn''t exactly the foremost candidate but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly prized dragons of all.477.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15742'),
(18709, 'Get Shorty', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14128'),
(18710, 'Get Shorty', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Nobody\n </em>\n writes openings like Elmore Leonard. Case in point: "When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years ago they were having one of their off-and-on cold winters: thirty-four degrees the day he met Tommy Carlo for lunch at Vesuvio''s on South Collins and had his leather jacket ripped off." You need to know about this because you need to know why there''s bad blood between Chili Palmer and Ray Bones, the guy who stole his coat and is now his boss--and has ordered him to collect $4,200 from a dead guy. Except the guy didn''t die; he went to Las Vegas with $300,000. So Chili goes to Las Vegas, one thing leads to another, and pretty soon he''s in Los Angeles, hanging out with a movie producer named Harry Zimm and learning what it takes to be a player in Hollywood.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Get Shorty\n </em>\n is classic Elmore Leonard: While other people write "crime fiction," Leonard''s come up with a masterful social comedy that happens to be about criminals (and other fast operators). He''s a master of snappy dialogue\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n dizzying plot twists. The best parts of\n <em>\n  Get Shorty\n </em>\n move along so briskly you almost forget there''s somebody with a firm control over the story. And you''ll be rooting for Chili to get the money, the girl,\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n the studio deal.\n <em>\n  --Ron Hogan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Taking his latest fictive turn in Hollywood, Leonard, whose oeuvre includes screenplays as well as such bestselling novels as Glitz and Freaky Deaky , adds insider knowledge to his signature humor in this roundly satisfying behind-the-scenes tour of filmdom. Slightly disaffected Chili Palmer, a small-time loan shark with big-time style, is a vintage Leonard hero. Following a bad debt from Miami to Las Vegas and on to Beverly Hills, Chili hooks up with Harry Zimm, once a leading director of grade-B horror flicks, now trying to make a comeback. While succumbing to the siren call of celluloid, Chili also narrows in on the bad debt, in the process running up against a sharp-dressing hood with whose money Harry has played too loose. In Leonard''s seamless handling, the complex plot flows through twists of revenge, murder and romance, as Chili, his authentic cool making a mark in the capital of sham ("Don''t talk when you don''t have to" is his very un-Hollywood motto), cagily gets it together with Karen Flores, Harry''s former lover and featured star. A perfect resolution puts punch in the title and will keep readers smiling for days. Chili and his story are Leonard''s best yet. First serial rights to Rolling Stone; BOMC and QPB selections; major ad/promo, author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18934'),
(18711, 'Get Shorty', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n is now a major motion picture directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman, RenÃš Russo and Danny DeVito.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27647'),
(18712, 'Get Your M.B.A. Part-Time: For the Part-Time Student With a Full-Time Life', 'Robyn Frank-Pedersen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kaplan''s Get Your M.B.A. Part-Time is written for the professional interested in balancing work and schoo. ItÂ outlines the entire process---from selecting the right program to graduation. This straightforward guide covers:Â * NEW! A chapter on getting your MBA online* Tips to help readers find the program that best meets their career goals and scheduling needs* Step-by-step explanation of the application process* Strategies for financing an M.B.A.* Advice from current business students and recent graduates\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1548'),
(18713, 'Get Your M.B.A. Part-Time: For the Part-Time Student With a Full-Time Life', 'Robyn Frank-Pedersen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Kaplan''s Get Your M.B.A. Part-Time is written for the professional interested in balancing work and schoo. ItÂ outlines the entire process---from selecting the right program to graduation. This straightforward guide covers:Â * NEW! A chapter on getting your MBA online* Tips to help readers find the program that best meets their career goals and scheduling needs* Step-by-step explanation of the application process* Strategies for financing an M.B.A.* Advice from current business students and recent graduates\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9836'),
(18714, 'Get Your M.B.A. Part-Time: For the Part-Time Student With a Full-Time Life', 'Robyn Frank-Pedersen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Kaplan''s Get Your M.B.A. Part-Time is written for the professional interested in balancing work and schoo. It outlines the entire process---from selecting the right program to graduation. This straightforward guide covers: * NEW! A chapter on getting your MBA online* Tips to help readers find the program that best meets their career goals and scheduling needs* Step-by-step explanation of the application process* Strategies for financing an M.B.A.* Advice from current business students and recent graduates\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23386'),
(18715, 'The Getaway', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The story of a bank robbery and its aftermath, of cross and double-cross, told with the unflinching eye of America''s greatest crimewriter, THE GETAWAY is a Dante-esque tour of the underworld, a place where no motive is pure and no tie is too sacred to be betrayed in a nightmarish split second.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18139'),
(18716, 'Getting In: A Novel', 'Karen Stabiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Karen Stabiner''s GETTING IN [is] humorous (in a wry kind of way) but  pointed and surprisingly engaging novel about parental and teen  obsessiveness regarding the college application process in independent  schools and the debilitating, distorting impact of it on kids and  families. Must read for college-prep kids and their parents."   --Patrick Basset, President, National Association of Independent Schools\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A savvy insider''s take on a high-stakes, cutthroat campaign--except it''s not about getting into the White House, but about getting into the perfect college. Stabiner''s sharp, witty tale is as essential as a good SAT prep course--but a hell of a lot more fun."  --Arianna Huffington\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "*Getting In* takes an edgy, knowing look inside the lives and minds of love-crazed parents--galvanized equally by desperation and devotion--as they try with all their might to thrust their cherished children into the universities of their dreams."  --Carolyn See, *Making a Literary Life*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Karen Stabiner has clearly been through the crazy circus that is college admissions, and lucky for the rest of us she took pitch-perfect notes. You will come away from her book reassured that all the other families of applicants are even loonier than yours--or reassured that you fit right in. What do you *mean*, this is fiction?"  --Lisa Belkin, *New York Times* parenting writer (and hardy survivor of her son''s college application process)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Q: What does a parent need to survive the college application process?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A. A sense of humor.  B. A therapist on 24-hour call.  C. A large bank balance.  D. All of the above.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Getting In* is the roller-coaster story of five very different Los Angeles families united by a single obsession: acceptance at a top college, preferably one that makes their friends and neighbors green with envy. At an elite private school and a nearby public school, families devote themselves to getting their seniors into the perfect school--even if the odds are stacked against them, even if they can''t afford the $50,000 annual price tag, even if the effort requires a level of deceit, and even if the object of all this attention wants to go somewhere else.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Getting In* is a delightfully smart comedy of class and entitlement, of love and ambition, set in a world where a fat envelope from a top school matters more than anything . . . almost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3857'),
(18717, 'Getting In: A Novel', 'Karen Stabiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Karen Stabiner''s GETTING IN [is] humorous (in a wry kind of way) but  pointed and surprisingly engaging novel about parental and teen  obsessiveness regarding the college application process in independent  schools and the debilitating, distorting impact of it on kids and  families. Must read for college-prep kids and their parents."   --Patrick Basset, President, National Association of Independent Schools\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A savvy insider''s take on a high-stakes, cutthroat campaign--except it''s not about getting into the White House, but about getting into the perfect college. Stabiner''s sharp, witty tale is as essential as a good SAT prep course--but a hell of a lot more fun."  --Arianna Huffington\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "*Getting In* takes an edgy, knowing look inside the lives and minds of love-crazed parents--galvanized equally by desperation and devotion--as they try with all their might to thrust their cherished children into the universities of their dreams."  --Carolyn See, *Making a Literary Life*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Karen Stabiner has clearly been through the crazy circus that is college admissions, and lucky for the rest of us she took pitch-perfect notes. You will come away from her book reassured that all the other families of applicants are even loonier than yours--or reassured that you fit right in. What do you *mean*, this is fiction?"  --Lisa Belkin, *New York Times* parenting writer (and hardy survivor of her son''s college application process)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Q: What does a parent need to survive the college application process?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A. A sense of humor.  B. A therapist on 24-hour call.  C. A large bank balance.  D. All of the above.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Getting In* is the roller-coaster story of five very different Los Angeles families united by a single obsession: acceptance at a top college, preferably one that makes their friends and neighbors green with envy. At an elite private school and a nearby public school, families devote themselves to getting their seniors into the perfect school--even if the odds are stacked against them, even if they can''t afford the $50,000 annual price tag, even if the effort requires a level of deceit, and even if the object of all this attention wants to go somewhere else.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Getting In* is a delightfully smart comedy of class and entitlement, of love and ambition, set in a world where a fat envelope from a top school matters more than anything . . . almost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12822'),
(18718, 'Getting In: A Novel', 'Karen Stabiner', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Karen Stabiner''s GETTING IN [is] humorous (in a wry kind of way) but pointed and surprisingly engaging novel about parental and teen obsessiveness regarding the college application process in independent schools and the debilitating, distorting impact of it on kids and families. Must read for college-prep kids and their parents." --Patrick Basset, President, National Association of Independent Schools "A savvy insider''s take on a high-stakes, cutthroat campaign--except it''s not about getting into the White House, but about getting into the perfect college. Stabiner''s sharp, witty tale is as essential as a good SAT prep course--but a hell of a lot more fun." --Arianna Huffington "*Getting In* takes an edgy, knowing look inside the lives and minds of love-crazed parents--galvanized equally by desperation and devotion--as they try with all their might to thrust their cherished children into the universities of their dreams." --Carolyn See, *Making a Literary Life* "Karen Stabiner has clearly been through the crazy circus that is college admissions, and lucky for the rest of us she took pitch-perfect notes. You will come away from her book reassured that all the other families of applicants are even loonier than yours--or reassured that you fit right in. What do you *mean*, this is fiction?" --Lisa Belkin, *New York Times* parenting writer (and hardy survivor of her son''s college application process) Q: What does a parent need to survive the college application process? A. A sense of humor. B. A therapist on 24-hour call. C. A large bank balance. D. All of the above. *Getting In* is the roller-coaster story of five very different Los Angeles families united by a single obsession: acceptance at a top college, preferably one that makes their friends and neighbors green with envy. At an elite private school and a nearby public school, families devote themselves to getting their seniors into the perfect school--even if the odds are stacked against them, even if they can''t afford the $50,000 annual price tag, even if the effort requires a level of deceit, and even if the object of all this attention wants to go somewhere else. *Getting In* is a delightfully smart comedy of class and entitlement, of love and ambition, set in a world where a fat envelope from a top school matters more than anything . . . almost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20663'),
(18719, 'Getting Old Is a Disaster', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Back from schlepping all over New York City, P.I. Gladdy Gold is happy to be on her Florida turf again. Especially now that she and boyfriend Jack Langford are officially an item. But no sooner have the yenta brigade gotten back to their routineâ€”complete with poolside stretching and kvetchingâ€”than a notorious outlaw, a.k.a. the â€œGrandpa Bandit,â€ issues Gladdyâ€™s detective agency a direct challenge: Catch me if you can.The dapper thief has already knocked over six Fort Lauderdale banks, with no end in sight. Itâ€™s up to Gladdy and the girls to stop him before he hits the next one. But when a killer hurricane leads to the discovery of a fifty-year-old skeleton, they have to put the bandit on the back burner. With the storm wreaking havoc and a dark mystery swirling around the Lanai Gardens retirement community, Gladdy and the girls are about to confront a ruthless killer determined to bury the pastâ€”and them along with itâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1805'),
(18720, 'Getting old is a disaster', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Back from schlepping all over New York City, P.I. Gladdy Gold is happy to be on her Florida turf again. Especially now that she and boyfriend Jack Langford are officially an item. But no sooner have the yenta brigade gotten back to their routineâ€”complete with poolside stretching and kvetchingâ€”than a notorious outlaw, a.k.a. the â€œGrandpa Bandit,â€ issues Gladdyâ€™s detective agency a direct challenge: Catch me if you can.The dapper thief has already knocked over six Fort Lauderdale banks, with no end in sight. Itâ€™s up to Gladdy and the girls to stop him before he hits the next one. But when a killer hurricane leads to the discovery of a fifty-year-old skeleton, they have to put the bandit on the back burner. With the storm wreaking havoc and a dark mystery swirling around the Lanai Gardens retirement community, Gladdy and the girls are about to confront a ruthless killer determined to bury the pastâ€”and them along with itâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24848'),
(18721, 'Getting Old Is Criminal', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gladdy Gold had reached a golden moment. There she was, soaking in a hot tub with a man she adored, far from Fort Lauderdale and her nosy neighborsâ€¦until an urgent message sent her running home. Now her exotic vacation is a memory, Gladdyâ€™s would-be beau, Jack, is furious, and not only are the girls of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency all alive and wellâ€”theyâ€™re onto a hot new murder case.Is a retirement-home Romeo to blame for the mysterious deaths in Floridaâ€™s most luxurious communities? Gladdy and her curious kibitzers will have to go undercover to find outâ€”covering themselves with as many fancy-schmancy airs as possible. But with Gladdyâ€™s drama queen sister Evvie playing the role of a Palm Beach flirt, their fun and games turn deadly. For by the time the girls ID their perp, Evvie is in the arms of a killerâ€”and loving it.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1807'),
(18722, 'Getting Old Is Criminal', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gladdy Gold had reached a golden moment. There she was, soaking in a hot tub with a man she adored, far from Fort Lauderdale and her nosy neighborsâ€¦until an urgent message sent her running home. Now her exotic vacation is a memory, Gladdyâ€™s would-be beau, Jack, is furious, and not only are the girls of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency all alive and wellâ€”theyâ€™re onto a hot new murder case.Is a retirement-home Romeo to blame for the mysterious deaths in Floridaâ€™s most luxurious communities? Gladdy and her curious kibitzers will have to go undercover to find outâ€”covering themselves with as many fancy-schmancy airs as possible. But with Gladdyâ€™s drama queen sister Evvie playing the role of a Palm Beach flirt, their fun and games turn deadly. For by the time the girls ID their perp, Evvie is in the arms of a killerâ€”and loving it.â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24847');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(18723, 'Getting Old Is Murder', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sheâ€™s not Miss Marple. Her friends are no Charlieâ€™s Angels. Nevertheless, 75-year-old Gladdy Gold and her gang of eccentric Fort Lauderdale retirees are out, about, and hunting down a killerâ€“one who is silently stalking them.Selma Beller was the first to goâ€“but Gladdy and her neighbors never suspected murder until another of their friends died in an eerily similar way. Now a handsome young detective wonâ€™t listen to them, Hy Binder wonâ€™t stop telling them dirty jokes, and crazy old Greta Kronk is doing everything humanly possible to make herself into a suspect. But amid the endless rounds of poolside kibitzing, early-bird specials, bittersweet memories, and interminable grocery-shopping trips, Gladdy and her gals are about to discover how the murders are being committed. And when it comes to catching this culpritâ€“time really is running outâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1810'),
(18724, 'Getting Old Is Murder', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sheâ€™s not Miss Marple. Her friends are no Charlieâ€™s Angels. Nevertheless, 75-year-old Gladdy Gold and her gang of eccentric Fort Lauderdale retirees are out, about, and hunting down a killerâ€“one who is silently stalking them.Selma Beller was the first to goâ€“but Gladdy and her neighbors never suspected murder until another of their friends died in an eerily similar way. Now a handsome young detective wonâ€™t listen to them, Hy Binder wonâ€™t stop telling them dirty jokes, and crazy old Greta Kronk is doing everything humanly possible to make herself into a suspect. But amid the endless rounds of poolside kibitzing, early-bird specials, bittersweet memories, and interminable grocery-shopping trips, Gladdy and her gals are about to discover how the murders are being committed. And when it comes to catching this culpritâ€“time really is running outâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24846'),
(18725, 'Getting Old Is the Best Revenge', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œNEVER TRUST ANYONE UNDER SEVENTY-FIVE!â€Thatâ€™s the motto of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency. Donâ€™t laugh: having solved a case of serial murder, Gladdy and her eccentric neighbors are building their reputation between canasta games and pool exercisesâ€“hunting down everything from lost pocketbooks to missing octogenarians. And when a jealous woman sets them after her wayward husband, and a flasher strikes their retirement complex, two seemingly unrelated cases collide with a third: a series of dastardly murders targeting Floridaâ€™s wealthiest wives. But when the girls win tickets for a luxury bingo cruise, they hit the jackpot. Because this ship is carrying not only Floridaâ€™s fiercest bingo competitors but also a killerâ€“and itâ€™s up to Gladdy and her friends to stop him before one of them becomes his next victimâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1812'),
(18726, 'Getting Old Is the Best Revenge', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œNEVER TRUST ANYONE UNDER SEVENTY-FIVE!â€Thatâ€™s the motto of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency. Donâ€™t laugh: having solved a case of serial murder, Gladdy and her eccentric neighbors are building their reputation between canasta games and pool exercisesâ€“hunting down everything from lost pocketbooks to missing octogenarians. And when a jealous woman sets them after her wayward husband, and a flasher strikes their retirement complex, two seemingly unrelated cases collide with a third: a series of dastardly murders targeting Floridaâ€™s wealthiest wives. But when the girls win tickets for a luxury bingo cruise, they hit the jackpot. Because this ship is carrying not only Floridaâ€™s fiercest bingo competitors but also a killerâ€“and itâ€™s up to Gladdy and her friends to stop him before one of them becomes his next victimâ€¦.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24843'),
(18727, 'Getting Old Is to Die For', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gladdy Gold may have gone from dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker to South Florida retiree, but she''s loving every minute of it. Between poolside gossip, a hot-to-trot boyfriend, and a booming detective business, life couldn''t be sunnier--until a trip back north with her sister Evvie leads to murder and mayhem starring the usual suspects. Unbeknownst to Gladdy, her fellow detectives are hot on her trail. Sophie, Bella, and Ida no sooner land their tootsies in the Big Apple than trouble promptly finds them. But while the girls go deep undercover, posing as bag ladies to catch a criminal, there''s another surprise awaiting Gladdy. Her boyfriend, Jack, is in town too--and he''s reopening a forty-seven-year-old cold case: the murder of Gladdy''s husband. Can Gladdy and Jack join forces to solve a decades-old crime--and maybe heal some wounded hearts in the process? "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1813'),
(18728, 'Getting Old Is to Die for', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Gladdy Gold may have gone from dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker to South Florida retiree, but she''s loving every minute of it. Between poolside gossip, a hot-to-trot boyfriend, and a booming detective business, life couldn''t be sunnier--until a trip back north with her sister Evvie leads to murder and mayhem starring the usual suspects. Unbeknownst to Gladdy, her fellow detectives are hot on her trail. Sophie, Bella, and Ida no sooner land their tootsies in the Big Apple than trouble promptly finds them. But while the girls go deep undercover, posing as bag ladies to catch a criminal, there''s another surprise awaiting Gladdy. Her boyfriend, Jack, is in town too--and he''s reopening a forty-seven-year-old cold case: the murder of Gladdy''s husband. Can Gladdy and Jack join forces to solve a decades-old crime--and maybe heal some wounded hearts in the process? "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24841'),
(18729, 'Getting Old Is Tres Dangereux', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Fort Lauderdale, self-proclaimed private eye Gladdy Gold is less interested in her cases than in her whirlwind romance with silver-haired Jack Langford. But just as Jack is about to pop the question to Gladdy, a curvaceous redhead from France interrupts with a mysterious agenda. She and Jack, it turns out, will always have Paris. And to make matters worse, the seductress is being stalked by a killer.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Michelle DuBois is famous for her steamy bestselling exposÃ©s -- and now someone wants to silence her forever. While Jack is bodyguarding his former lover, Gladdy must save her busybody friends from the pricey seances of a phony-baloney New Age guru. That''s when Gladdy comes face-to-face with a dear departed friend with a message. . . . Between a little jealousy and a geriatric assassin, Jack is in more danger than he knows. And Gladdy is the one woman with the je ne sais quoi that could just save his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1816'),
(18730, 'Getting Old Is Tres Dangereux', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Fort Lauderdale, self-proclaimed private eye Gladdy Gold is less interested in her cases than in her whirlwind romance with silver-haired Jack Langford. But just as Jack is about to pop the question to Gladdy, a curvaceous redhead from France interrupts with a mysterious agenda. She and Jack, it turns out, will always have Paris. And to make matters worse, the seductress is being stalked by a killer.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Michelle DuBois is famous for her steamy bestselling exposÃ©s -- and now someone wants to silence her forever. While Jack is bodyguarding his former lover, Gladdy must save her busybody friends from the pricey seances of a phony-baloney New Age guru. That''s when Gladdy comes face-to-face with a dear departed friend with a message. . . . Between a little jealousy and a geriatric assassin, Jack is in more danger than he knows. And Gladdy is the one woman with the je ne sais quoi that could just save his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12248'),
(18731, 'Getting Old Is Tres Dangereux', 'Rita Lakin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Fort Lauderdale, self-proclaimed private eye Gladdy Gold is less interested in her cases than in her whirlwind romance with silver-haired Jack Langford. But just as Jack is about to pop the question to Gladdy, a curvaceous redhead from France interrupts with a mysterious agenda. She and Jack, it turns out, will always have Paris. And to make matters worse, the seductress is being stalked by a killer. Michelle DuBois is famous for her steamy bestselling exposÃ©s -- and now someone wants to silence her forever. While Jack is bodyguarding his former lover, Gladdy must save her busybody friends from the pricey seances of a phony-baloney New Age guru. That''s when Gladdy comes face-to-face with a dear departed friend with a message. . . . Between a little jealousy and a geriatric assassin, Jack is in more danger than he knows. And Gladdy is the one woman with the je ne sais quoi that could just save his life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24839'),
(18732, 'Getting Pregnant Naturally: Healthy Choices to Boost Your Chances of Conceiving Without Fertility Drugs', 'Winifred Conkling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Before turning to high-tech fertility treatments, the 15 percent of all  couples who experience fertility problems might consider reading and trying  the many conception tips in Winifred Conkling''s highly helpful Getting  Pregnant Naturally: Healthy Choices to Boost Your Chances of Conceiving  Without Fertility Drugs. Conkling, an experienced medical and natural  health writer and mother of two children (one who took a long time to  conceive), differentiates between "infertile" and "subfertile" couples, and  asserts that more than half of all couples who have failed to conceive in a  year or more of trying can go on to get pregnant and have healthy babies.  Her book describes how.\n <br />\n Conkling begins with a clear description of the complicated mechanics of  conception and the basics of enhancing conception chances.  Combining  accessible and straightforward information with simple checklists, she  then presents dietary suggestions (men should avoid cottonseed oil, a  natural antifertility agent), herbal remedies, homeopathy, acupressure  (complete with pressure-point maps), and stress-reduction techniques  (including enjoying good orgasms, biofeedback, meditation, visualization,  massage, and refraining from adopting a child as a means to reduce  infertility stress). For each suggestion and remedy, a complete,  easy-to-follow description is provided. Getting Pregnant Naturally  concludes with lifestyle suggestions such as losing weight gradually (if  needed) and avoiding bicycling (for men), as well as quitting smoking and  recreational drugs, minimizing air travel, and limiting computer use (there  may be a link between computer use and miscarriage). A 27-page appendix  listing resources rounds out this highly helpful guide.  --Ericka Lutz\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/170'),
(18733, 'Getting Pregnant Naturally: Healthy Choices to Boost Your Chances of Conceiving Without Fertility Drugs', 'Winifred Conkling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Before turning to high-tech fertility treatments, the 15 percent of all  couples who experience fertility problems might consider reading and trying  the many conception tips in Winifred Conkling''s highly helpful Getting  Pregnant Naturally: Healthy Choices to Boost Your Chances of Conceiving  Without Fertility Drugs. Conkling, an experienced medical and natural  health writer and mother of two children (one who took a long time to  conceive), differentiates between "infertile" and "subfertile" couples, and  asserts that more than half of all couples who have failed to conceive in a  year or more of trying can go on to get pregnant and have healthy babies.  Her book describes how.\n <br />\n Conkling begins with a clear description of the complicated mechanics of  conception and the basics of enhancing conception chances.  Combining  accessible and straightforward information with simple checklists, she  then presents dietary suggestions (men should avoid cottonseed oil, a  natural antifertility agent), herbal remedies, homeopathy, acupressure  (complete with pressure-point maps), and stress-reduction techniques  (including enjoying good orgasms, biofeedback, meditation, visualization,  massage, and refraining from adopting a child as a means to reduce  infertility stress). For each suggestion and remedy, a complete,  easy-to-follow description is provided. Getting Pregnant Naturally  concludes with lifestyle suggestions such as losing weight gradually (if  needed) and avoiding bicycling (for men), as well as quitting smoking and  recreational drugs, minimizing air travel, and limiting computer use (there  may be a link between computer use and miscarriage). A 27-page appendix  listing resources rounds out this highly helpful guide.  --Ericka Lutz\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8957'),
(18734, 'Getting Pregnant Naturally: Healthy Choices To Boost Your Chances Of Conceiving Without Fertility Drugs', 'Winifred Conkling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Before turning to high-tech fertility treatments, the 15 percent of all couples who experience fertility problems might consider reading and trying the many conception tips in Winifred Conkling''s highly helpful Getting Pregnant Naturally: Healthy Choices to Boost Your Chances of Conceiving Without Fertility Drugs. Conkling, an experienced medical and natural health writer and mother of two children (one who took a long time to conceive), differentiates between "infertile" and "subfertile" couples, and asserts that more than half of all couples who have failed to conceive in a year or more of trying can go on to get pregnant and have healthy babies. Her book describes how. Conkling begins with a clear description of the complicated mechanics of conception and the basics of enhancing conception chances. Combining accessible and straightforward information with simple checklists, she then presents dietary suggestions (men should avoid cottonseed oil, a natural antifertility agent), herbal remedies, homeopathy, acupressure (complete with pressure-point maps), and stress-reduction techniques (including enjoying good orgasms, biofeedback, meditation, visualization, massage, and refraining from adopting a child as a means to reduce infertility stress). For each suggestion and remedy, a complete, easy-to-follow description is provided. Getting Pregnant Naturally concludes with lifestyle suggestions such as losing weight gradually (if needed) and avoiding bicycling (for men), as well as quitting smoking and recreational drugs, minimizing air travel, and limiting computer use (there may be a link between computer use and miscarriage). A 27-page appendix listing resources rounds out this highly helpful guide. --Ericka Lutz\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24789'),
(18735, 'Getting Things Done', 'David Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you''d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called\n <em>\n  Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Not quite. Yes,\n <em>\n  Getting Things Done\n </em>\n offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do''s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you''re working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible\n <em>\n  Fast Company\n </em>\n has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)\n</p>\n<p>\n As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen''s is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can''t junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket"\n</p>\n<p>\n That''s where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen''s system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen''s ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there''s anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It''s commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). --_Timothy Murphy_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Allen, a management consultant and executive coach, provides insights into attaining maximum efficiency and at the same time relaxing whenever one needs or wants to. Readers learn that there is no single means for perfecting organizational efficiency or productivity; rather, the author offers tools to focus energies strategically and tactically without letting anything fall through the cracks. He provides tips, techniques, and tricks for implementation of his workflow management plan, which has two basic components: capture all the things that need to get done into a workable, dependable system; and discipline oneself to make front-end decisions with an action plan for all inputs into that system. In short, do it (quickly), delegate it (appropriately), or defer it. While an infomercial for the author''s consulting practice, this road map for organizational efficiency may help many who have too much to do in too little time, both professionally and in their personal lives.\n <em>\n  Mary Whaley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6258'),
(18736, 'Getting Things Done', 'David Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you''d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called\n <em>\n  Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Not quite. Yes,\n <em>\n  Getting Things Done\n </em>\n offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do''s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you''re working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible\n <em>\n  Fast Company\n </em>\n has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)\n</p>\n<p>\n As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen''s is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can''t junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket"\n</p>\n<p>\n That''s where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen''s system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen''s ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there''s anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It''s commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). --_Timothy Murphy_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Allen, a management consultant and executive coach, provides insights into attaining maximum efficiency and at the same time relaxing whenever one needs or wants to. Readers learn that there is no single means for perfecting organizational efficiency or productivity; rather, the author offers tools to focus energies strategically and tactically without letting anything fall through the cracks. He provides tips, techniques, and tricks for implementation of his workflow management plan, which has two basic components: capture all the things that need to get done into a workable, dependable system; and discipline oneself to make front-end decisions with an action plan for all inputs into that system. In short, do it (quickly), delegate it (appropriately), or defer it. While an infomercial for the author''s consulting practice, this road map for organizational efficiency may help many who have too much to do in too little time, both professionally and in their personal lives.\n <em>\n  Mary Whaley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9321'),
(18737, 'Getting Things Done', 'David Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you''d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called\n <em>\n  Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Not quite. Yes,\n <em>\n  Getting Things Done\n </em>\n offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do''s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you''re working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible\n <em>\n  Fast Company\n </em>\n has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)\n</p>\n<p>\n As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen''s is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can''t junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket"\n</p>\n<p>\n That''s where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen''s system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen''s ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there''s anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It''s commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). --_Timothy Murphy_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Allen, a management consultant and executive coach, provides insights into attaining maximum efficiency and at the same time relaxing whenever one needs or wants to. Readers learn that there is no single means for perfecting organizational efficiency or productivity; rather, the author offers tools to focus energies strategically and tactically without letting anything fall through the cracks. He provides tips, techniques, and tricks for implementation of his workflow management plan, which has two basic components: capture all the things that need to get done into a workable, dependable system; and discipline oneself to make front-end decisions with an action plan for all inputs into that system. In short, do it (quickly), delegate it (appropriately), or defer it. While an infomercial for the author''s consulting practice, this road map for organizational efficiency may help many who have too much to do in too little time, both professionally and in their personal lives.\n <em>\n  Mary Whaley\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17663'),
(18738, 'Getting to Happy', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fifteen years after Waiting to Exhale, McMillan brings back Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin--now in their 50s--for a disappointing and uninspired outing. As the story opens, Gloria is very happy, Savannah believes she might be happy, Bernadine is fighting addiction and losing ground, and single mother Robin is trying to resign herself to being alone while things at her job begin to unravel. Within the first few chapters, Gloria and Savannah are struck by disaster, and things go rapidly downhill from there for everyone. Most of the misery has to do with men who lie, steal, cheat, or disappear, or with adult children who face similar problems. Unfortunately, the beloved cast isn''t given a story worthy of them; instead, this reunion reads like a catalogue of personal catastrophes annotated with very long, rambling discussions, with more emphasis on simple drama than character.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n For McMillan fans (and they are legion, given the immense popularity of her novels and film adaptations), the publication of\n <em>\n  Getting to Happy\n </em>\n will be welcome news. The novel is full of the juicy romantic entanglements, family dysfunction, and high drama that readers have come to anticipate. The novel is not without its shortcomings; most critics noted the occasional clunky writing and predictable plot line. After all, McMillan''s characters are the same as before--older and heavier, perhaps, but not necessarily happier or wiser. Still, the novel is entertaining, escapist fare, and "_Getting to Happy_ is pretty much required reading for anyone who cared about\n <em>\n  Waiting to Exhale\n </em>\n " (_Miami Herald_).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/791'),
(18739, 'Getting to Happy', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fifteen years after Waiting to Exhale, McMillan brings back Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin--now in their 50s--for a disappointing and uninspired outing. As the story opens, Gloria is very happy, Savannah believes she might be happy, Bernadine is fighting addiction and losing ground, and single mother Robin is trying to resign herself to being alone while things at her job begin to unravel. Within the first few chapters, Gloria and Savannah are struck by disaster, and things go rapidly downhill from there for everyone. Most of the misery has to do with men who lie, steal, cheat, or disappear, or with adult children who face similar problems. Unfortunately, the beloved cast isn''t given a story worthy of them; instead, this reunion reads like a catalogue of personal catastrophes annotated with very long, rambling discussions, with more emphasis on simple drama than character.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n For McMillan fans (and they are legion, given the immense popularity of her novels and film adaptations), the publication of\n <em>\n  Getting to Happy\n </em>\n will be welcome news. The novel is full of the juicy romantic entanglements, family dysfunction, and high drama that readers have come to anticipate. The novel is not without its shortcomings; most critics noted the occasional clunky writing and predictable plot line. After all, McMillan''s characters are the same as before--older and heavier, perhaps, but not necessarily happier or wiser. Still, the novel is entertaining, escapist fare, and "_Getting to Happy_ is pretty much required reading for anyone who cared about\n <em>\n  Waiting to Exhale\n </em>\n " (_Miami Herald_).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11325'),
(18740, 'Getting to Happy', 'Terry McMillan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Fifteen years after Waiting to Exhale, McMillan brings back Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin--now in their 50s--for a disappointing and uninspired outing. As the story opens, Gloria is very happy, Savannah believes she might be happy, Bernadine is fighting addiction and losing ground, and single mother Robin is trying to resign herself to being alone while things at her job begin to unravel. Within the first few chapters, Gloria and Savannah are struck by disaster, and things go rapidly downhill from there for everyone. Most of the misery has to do with men who lie, steal, cheat, or disappear, or with adult children who face similar problems. Unfortunately, the beloved cast isn''t given a story worthy of them; instead, this reunion reads like a catalogue of personal catastrophes annotated with very long, rambling discussions, with more emphasis on simple drama than character.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n For McMillan fans (and they are legion, given the immense popularity of her novels and film adaptations), the publication of\n <em>\n  Getting to Happy\n </em>\n will be welcome news. The novel is full of the juicy romantic entanglements, family dysfunction, and high drama that readers have come to anticipate. The novel is not without its shortcomings; most critics noted the occasional clunky writing and predictable plot line. After all, McMillan''s characters are the same as before--older and heavier, perhaps, but not necessarily happier or wiser. Still, the novel is entertaining, escapist fare, and "_Getting to Happy_ is pretty much required reading for anyone who cared about\n <em>\n  Waiting to Exhale\n </em>\n " (_Miami Herald_).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24210'),
(18741, 'The Ghost At Dawn&#39;s House', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15736'),
(18742, 'The Ghost at Skeleton Rock', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n</h3>\n<p>\n A cryptic note from their father leads the Hardy boys to the Caribbean where they must solve the mystery, but only if they can successfully evade the henchmen who are trailing them. Author: Franklin W. Dixon Reading Level: Ages 8 to 14 years Publisher: Penguin Group USA Format: Hardcover, 192 pages ISBN: 9780448089379\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18461'),
(18743, 'The Ghost Brigades (omw2)', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: John Perry has at last found peace in a violent universe, living quietly with his family in one of humanity''s many colonies. It''s a good life, yet there''s something . . . missing. When John and his wife Jane are asked to lead a new colony world, he jumps at the chance to explore the universe once more. But they soon find out that nothing is what it seems, for his new colony are merely pawns in an interstellar game of war and diplomacy between humanity''s Colonial Union and a new, seemingly unstoppable alien alliance that is dedicated to ending all human colonization. As this contest rages above, Perry struggles to keep his terrified colonists alive in the face of threats both alien and familiar, on a planet yet to reveal its own fatal secrets. EDITORIAL REVIEW: They are the special wing of the Colonial Defence Forces, elite troops created from DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF''s toughest operations. The universe is a dangerous place for humanity, as three hostile races combine to halt our further expansion into space. Their linchpin is a turncoat scientist, Charles Boutin, who unfortunately knows the CDF''s biggest military secrets. And to prevail against this alliance, they must find out why Boutin did what he did.Jared Dirac is the only human able to provide answers, being a superhuman hybrid created form Boutin''s own DNA. Jared''s brain should therefore be able to access Boutin''s electronic memories ...but when that appears to fail, Jared is instead passed on to the Ghost Brigades. Then, just as time is running out, Boutin''s memories slowly begin to surface within him...but all this while the enemy is planning something much worse for mankind than just military defeat. Praise for "Old Man''s War": ''Clever dialogue, fast-paced story and strong characters.'' - "The Times". ''An original idea, which is brilliantly executed'' - "Sc-Fi Now".\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13772'),
(18744, 'The Ghost Brigades', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fast-paced interstellar military drama doesn''t quite meet the high expectations set by its predecessor, Scalzi''s acclaimed\n <em>\n  Old Man''s War\n </em>\n (2005), but it comes impressively close. Shifting focus from seniors in young bodies to infants in old bodies, it follows Jared Dirac, a superhuman soldier, from unusual birth to ambiguous death. Dirac is an altered clone of Charles Boutin, a military scientist who betrayed humankind to alien aggressors, and the Colonial Defense Forces'' only hope of finding Boutin lies in transplanting his memories into Dirac''s brain. When the transplant seems to fail, Dirac is sent to Special Forces, known as the Ghost Brigades for their habit of creating new soldiers from the DNA of the dead. His indoctrination there comes in handy when Boutin''s memories begin to surface. Scalzi pays gleeful homage to\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Forever War\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Starship Troopers\n </em>\n , sometimes at the expense of originality. All he needs to make the jump from good to great is to trust in his own ideas.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though it''s a sequel of sorts to his 2005 debut,\n <em>\n  Old Man''s War\n </em>\n , John Scalzi''s new novel is hardly business as usual. Beyond the battles and the portent of humanity''s end, Scalzi plays with deeper issues of identity in an increasingly technological world in this second volume of a proposed trilogy. A switch from first person to third and one narrator (Dirac) who is unaware of his own role in the story might hold the book back from must-read status, but otherwise\n <em>\n  The Ghost Brigades\n </em>\n gleams with the best traits of thoughtful SF.[HTML_REMOVED]\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4210'),
(18745, 'The Ghost Brigades', 'John Scalzi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This fast-paced interstellar military drama doesn''t quite meet the high expectations set by its predecessor, Scalzi''s acclaimed\n <em>\n  Old Man''s War\n </em>\n (2005), but it comes impressively close. Shifting focus from seniors in young bodies to infants in old bodies, it follows Jared Dirac, a superhuman soldier, from unusual birth to ambiguous death. Dirac is an altered clone of Charles Boutin, a military scientist who betrayed humankind to alien aggressors, and the Colonial Defense Forces'' only hope of finding Boutin lies in transplanting his memories into Dirac''s brain. When the transplant seems to fail, Dirac is sent to Special Forces, known as the Ghost Brigades for their habit of creating new soldiers from the DNA of the dead. His indoctrination there comes in handy when Boutin''s memories begin to surface. Scalzi pays gleeful homage to\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  The Forever War\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Starship Troopers\n </em>\n , sometimes at the expense of originality. All he needs to make the jump from good to great is to trust in his own ideas.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though it''s a sequel of sorts to his 2005 debut,\n <em>\n  Old Man''s War\n </em>\n , John Scalzi''s new novel is hardly business as usual. Beyond the battles and the portent of humanity''s end, Scalzi plays with deeper issues of identity in an increasingly technological world in this second volume of a proposed trilogy. A switch from first person to third and one narrator (Dirac) who is unaware of his own role in the story might hold the book back from must-read status, but otherwise\n <em>\n  The Ghost Brigades\n </em>\n gleams with the best traits of thoughtful SF.[HTML_REMOVED]\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12556'),
(18746, 'The Ghost Brigades', 'Scalzi, John', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20350'),
(18747, 'The Ghost Chronicles', 'Maureen Wood &amp; Ron Kolek', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The perfect combination for a paranormal investigation."  David Wells, Most Haunted  A unique collection of episodes from the case files of the New England Ghost Project Journey into a world of the unexplained and the unknown, a world where what you can''t see captivates all your attention. A trance medium and a paranormal scientist team up in this spellbinding collection of 17 supernatural mysteries, a mere sampling of the spooky episodes in their vast ghost hunting case files. Former skeptic Ron Kolek, with his infrared camera and EMF meter, and fifth-generation psychic Maureen Wood, with her sixth sense and pendulum, have become experts in investigating ghosts, whether they''re helping the descendant of an accused witch, checking out the spirits of Lizzie Borden''s slain parents, or assisting a monk with an exorcism. Their unique partnership adds a new dimension, and their adventures will test the senses and challenge everyday thinking...and just might make you believe in the paranormal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7953'),
(18748, 'The Ghost Chronicles', 'Maureen Wood &amp; Ron Kolek', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "The perfect combination for a paranormal investigation."  David Wells, Most Haunted  A unique collection of episodes from the case files of the New England Ghost Project Journey into a world of the unexplained and the unknown, a world where what you can''t see captivates all your attention. A trance medium and a paranormal scientist team up in this spellbinding collection of 17 supernatural mysteries, a mere sampling of the spooky episodes in their vast ghost hunting case files. Former skeptic Ron Kolek, with his infrared camera and EMF meter, and fifth-generation psychic Maureen Wood, with her sixth sense and pendulum, have become experts in investigating ghosts, whether they''re helping the descendant of an accused witch, checking out the spirits of Lizzie Borden''s slain parents, or assisting a monk with an exorcism. Their unique partnership adds a new dimension, and their adventures will test the senses and challenge everyday thinking...and just might make you believe in the paranormal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13416'),
(18749, 'The Ghost Chronicles', 'Maureen Wood', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21884'),
(18750, 'Ghost Country', 'Patrick Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of Lee''s dramatic sequel to Breach, gun men hit the motorcade in which Paige Campbell, who has just met with the U.S. president, is riding through Washington, D.C., and kill everyone but her. Before she''s captured, Campbell uses her cellphone to get off a call for help to Bethany Stewart, her colleague in the shadowy outfit known as Tangent. Stewart, in turn, recruits Travis Chase, who was once briefly involved in a Tangent operation, and reveals to him the existence of an "entity" resembling a dark metal cylinder that opens a hole in time. Since the entity has shown a horrific future for humanity, Chase and Stewart, who suspects the president was behind the motorcade attack, must scramble to save their friend and forestall devastation in the years to come. Lee imaginatively blends a Baldacci-like political tale of betrayals and assassination with time travel in a thoughtful science-fictional thriller. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWOW! Double Wow! Starkly original,\n <em>\n  Ghost Country\n </em>\n by Patrick Lee will make Asimov and Heinlein cheer with the angels. The techno-thriller meets Sci-Fi, and the result is mind-blowing. Makes Tom Clancy look like the slowest child in the class.â€ (Stephen Coonts,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSettle back and savor this one. Patrick Lee has an intense brand of storytelling. Heâ€™s a most welcome addition to the genre. The real deal. I look forward to reading more from him.â€ (Steve Berry,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of T_he Emperor''s Tomb_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPatrick Leeâ€™s\n <em>\n  Ghost Country\n </em>\n is in a word: Brilliant. Less a novel, than an adventure, it left me breathless and awed. Itâ€™s explosive, innovative and ultimately mind-blowing. Pure exhilaration from the first page to the last.â€ (James Rollins,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Doomsday Key\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2347'),
(18751, 'Ghost Country', 'Patrick Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of Lee''s dramatic sequel to Breach, gun men hit the motorcade in which Paige Campbell, who has just met with the U.S. president, is riding through Washington, D.C., and kill everyone but her. Before she''s captured, Campbell uses her cellphone to get off a call for help to Bethany Stewart, her colleague in the shadowy outfit known as Tangent. Stewart, in turn, recruits Travis Chase, who was once briefly involved in a Tangent operation, and reveals to him the existence of an "entity" resembling a dark metal cylinder that opens a hole in time. Since the entity has shown a horrific future for humanity, Chase and Stewart, who suspects the president was behind the motorcade attack, must scramble to save their friend and forestall devastation in the years to come. Lee imaginatively blends a Baldacci-like political tale of betrayals and assassination with time travel in a thoughtful science-fictional thriller. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWOW! Double Wow! Starkly original,\n <em>\n  Ghost Country\n </em>\n by Patrick Lee will make Asimov and Heinlein cheer with the angels. The techno-thriller meets Sci-Fi, and the result is mind-blowing. Makes Tom Clancy look like the slowest child in the class.â€ (Stephen Coonts,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSettle back and savor this one. Patrick Lee has an intense brand of storytelling. Heâ€™s a most welcome addition to the genre. The real deal. I look forward to reading more from him.â€ (Steve Berry,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of T_he Emperor''s Tomb_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPatrick Leeâ€™s\n <em>\n  Ghost Country\n </em>\n is in a word: Brilliant. Less a novel, than an adventure, it left me breathless and awed. Itâ€™s explosive, innovative and ultimately mind-blowing. Pure exhilaration from the first page to the last.â€ (James Rollins,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Doomsday Key\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12189'),
(18752, 'Ghost Country', 'Patrick Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of Lee''s dramatic sequel to Breach, gun men hit the motorcade in which Paige Campbell, who has just met with the U.S. president, is riding through Washington, D.C., and kill everyone but her. Before she''s captured, Campbell uses her cellphone to get off a call for help to Bethany Stewart, her colleague in the shadowy outfit known as Tangent. Stewart, in turn, recruits Travis Chase, who was once briefly involved in a Tangent operation, and reveals to him the existence of an "entity" resembling a dark metal cylinder that opens a hole in time. Since the entity has shown a horrific future for humanity, Chase and Stewart, who suspects the president was behind the motorcade attack, must scramble to save their friend and forestall devastation in the years to come. Lee imaginatively blends a Baldacci-like political tale of betrayals and assassination with time travel in a thoughtful science-fictional thriller. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWOW! Double Wow! Starkly original,\n <em>\n  Ghost Country\n </em>\n by Patrick Lee will make Asimov and Heinlein cheer with the angels. The techno-thriller meets Sci-Fi, and the result is mind-blowing. Makes Tom Clancy look like the slowest child in the class.â€ (Stephen Coonts,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œSettle back and savor this one. Patrick Lee has an intense brand of storytelling. Heâ€™s a most welcome addition to the genre. The real deal. I look forward to reading more from him.â€ (Steve Berry,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of T_he Emperor''s Tomb_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPatrick Leeâ€™s\n <em>\n  Ghost Country\n </em>\n is in a word: Brilliant. Less a novel, than an adventure, it left me breathless and awed. Itâ€™s explosive, innovative and ultimately mind-blowing. Pure exhilaration from the first page to the last.â€ (James Rollins,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Doomsday Key\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22476');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(18753, 'The Ghost King', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Don''t miss the gripping conclusion to Salvatore''s\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  best-selling Transitions trilogy!\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the Spellplague ravages FaerÃ»n, Drizzt and his companions are caught in the chaos. Seeking out the help of the priest Cadderlyâ€“the hero of the recently reissued series The Cleric Quintetâ€“Drizzt finds himself facing his most powerful and elusive foe, the twisted Crenshinibon, the demonic crystal shard he believed had been destroyed years ago.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1980'),
(18754, 'The Ghost King', 'R. A. Salvatore', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Don''t miss the gripping conclusion to Salvatore''s\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  best-selling Transitions trilogy!\n </p>\n <p>\n  When the Spellplague ravages FaerÃ»n, Drizzt and his companions are caught in the chaos. Seeking out the help of the priest Cadderlyâ€“the hero of the recently reissued series The Cleric Quintetâ€“Drizzt finds himself facing his most powerful and elusive foe, the twisted Crenshinibon, the demonic crystal shard he believed had been destroyed years ago.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Hardcover edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12488'),
(18755, 'Ghost Memories', 'Heather Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham presents the prequel the Bone Island Trilogy....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the early nineteenth century, pirates and privateers still wreaked havoc in the Caribbean. Bartholomew Miller had been one of them. After years of plying the seas for England as a privateer, he finally found a home and love on Bone Island off the Florida coast.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Bartholomew also made enemies in his time--enemies that would take everything Bartholomew loved and create a curse to haunt Bone Island for centuries..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5101'),
(18756, 'Ghost Memories', 'Heather Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham presents the prequel the Bone Island Trilogy....\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the early nineteenth century, pirates and privateers still wreaked havoc in the Caribbean. Bartholomew Miller had been one of them. After years of plying the seas for England as a privateer, he finally found a home and love on Bone Island off the Florida coast.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Bartholomew also made enemies in his time--enemies that would take everything Bartholomew loved and create a curse to haunt Bone Island for centuries..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10017'),
(18757, 'Ghost Memories', 'Heather Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham presents the prequel the Bone Island Trilogy.... In the early nineteenth century, pirates and privateers still wreaked havoc in the Caribbean. Bartholomew Miller had been one of them. After years of plying the seas for England as a privateer, he finally found a home and love on Bone Island off the Florida coast. But Bartholomew also made enemies in his time--enemies that would take everything Bartholomew loved and create a curse to haunt Bone Island for centuries..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19511'),
(18758, 'Ghost Memories', 'Heather Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham presents the prequel the Bone Island Trilogy.... In the early nineteenth century, pirates and privateers still wreaked havoc in the Caribbean. Bartholomew Miller had been one of them. After years of plying the seas for England as a privateer, he finally found a home and love on Bone Island off the Florida coast. But Bartholomew also made enemies in his time--enemies that would take everything Bartholomew loved and create a curse to haunt Bone Island for centuries..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28162'),
(18759, 'The Ghost Mountain Boys', 'James E. Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world''s largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep valleys, and fetid swamps. Coveted by the Japanese for its strategic position, New Guinea became the site of one of the South Pacific''s most savage campaigns. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division''s Ghost Mountain Boys were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campaign: to march 130 miles over the rugged Owen Stanley Mountains and to protect the right flank of the Australian army as they fought to push the Japanese back to the village of Buna on New Guinea''s north coast.\n</p>\n<p>\n Comprised of National Guardsmen from Michigan and Wisconsin, reserve officers, and draftees from across the country, the 32nd Division lacked more than training--they were without even the basics necessary for survival. The men were not issued the specialized clothing that later became standard issue for soldiers fighting in the South Pacific; they fought in hastily dyed combat fatigues that bled in the intense humidity and left them with festering sores. They waded through brush and vines without the aid of machetes. They did not have insect repellent. Without waterproof containers, their matches were useless and the quinine and vitamin pills they carried, as well as salt and chlorination tablets, crumbled in their pockets. Exhausted and pushed to the brink of human endurance, the Ghost Mountain Boys fell victim to malnutrition and disease. Forty-two days after they set out, they arrived two miles south of Buna, nearly shattered by the experience.\n</p>\n<p>\n Arrival in Buna provided no respite. The 32nd Division was ordered to launch an immediate assault on the Japanese position. After two months of furious--sometimes hand-to-hand--combat, the decimated division finally achieved victory. The ferocity of the struggle for Buna was summed up in Time magazine on December 28, 1942, three weeks before the Japanese army was defeated: "Nowhere in the world today are American soldiers engaged in fighting so desperate, so merciless, so bitter, or so bloody."\n</p>\n<p>\n Reminiscent of classics like\n <em>\n  Band of Brothers\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  The Things They Carried\n </em>\n , this harrowing portrait of a largely overlooked campaign is part war diary, part extreme adventure tale, and (through letters, journals, and interviews) part biography of a group of men who fought to survive in an environment every bit as fierce as the enemy they faced.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Hardcover edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8092'),
(18760, 'Ghost of the Well of Souls', 'Jack L. Chalker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack L. Chalker was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 17, 1944. While still in high school, he began writing for the amateur science-fiction press, and in 1960 he launched the Hugo-nominated amateur magazine Mirage. A year later he founded Mirage Press, which grew into a major specialty publisher of nonfiction and reference books on science fiction and fantasy. His first novel, A Jungle of Stars, was published in 1976, and he became a full-time novelist two years later with the major popular success of Midnight at the Well of Souls. Chalker is an active conservationist and enjoys traveling, consumer electronics, and computers. He is also a noted speaker on science fiction and fantasy at numerous colleges and universities. He is a passionate lover of steamboats, in particular ferryboats, and has ridden more than three hundred ferries in the United States and elsewhere. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4893'),
(18761, 'Ghost of the Well of Souls', 'Jack L. Chalker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack L. Chalker was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 17, 1944. While still in high school, he began writing for the amateur science-fiction press, and in 1960 he launched the Hugo-nominated amateur magazine Mirage. A year later he founded Mirage Press, which grew into a major specialty publisher of nonfiction and reference books on science fiction and fantasy. His first novel, A Jungle of Stars, was published in 1976, and he became a full-time novelist two years later with the major popular success of Midnight at the Well of Souls. Chalker is an active conservationist and enjoys traveling, consumer electronics, and computers. He is also a noted speaker on science fiction and fantasy at numerous colleges and universities. He is a passionate lover of steamboats, in particular ferryboats, and has ridden more than three hundred ferries in the United States and elsewhere. "From the Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19773'),
(18762, 'The Ghost Pit', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Â©Stephen Baxter 2001 First published in Isaac Asimov''s Science Fiction Magazine, July 2001 Nominee, Hugo Award 2002 (Best Short Story)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23026'),
(18763, 'Ghost Recon', 'Tom Clancy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17280'),
(18764, 'Ghost Shadow', 'Heather Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There are those who walk among us who are no longer alive, but not yet crossed over. They seek retributionhellip;vengeancehellip;to warn. Among the living, few intuit their presence.Katie O''Hara is one who can.As she''s drawn deeper and deeper into a gruesome years-old murder, whispered warnings from a spectral friend become more and more insistent. But Katiemustuncover the truth: could David Beckett really be guilty of his fiancee''s murder?Worse-the body count''s rising on the Island of Bones, andthe dead seem to be reenacting some macabre tableaux from history. The danger is increasing by the moment-especially as Katie finds herself irresistibly drawn to David, who may be responsible for more than just one killinghellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5103'),
(18765, 'Ghost Shadow', 'Heather Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There are those who walk among us who are no longer alive, but not yet crossed over. They seek retributionhellip;vengeancehellip;to warn. Among the living, few intuit their presence.Katie O''Hara is one who can.As she''s drawn deeper and deeper into a gruesome years-old murder, whispered warnings from a spectral friend become more and more insistent. But Katiemustuncover the truth: could David Beckett really be guilty of his fiancee''s murder?Worse-the body count''s rising on the Island of Bones, andthe dead seem to be reenacting some macabre tableaux from history. The danger is increasing by the moment-especially as Katie finds herself irresistibly drawn to David, who may be responsible for more than just one killinghellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10011'),
(18766, 'Ghost Shadow', 'Heather Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are those who walk among us who are no longer alive, but not yet crossed over. They seek retributionhellip;vengeancehellip;to warn. Among the living, few intuit their presence.Katie O''Hara is one who can.As she''s drawn deeper and deeper into a gruesome years-old murder, whispered warnings from a spectral friend become more and more insistent. But Katiemustuncover the truth: could David Beckett really be guilty of his fiancee''s murder?Worse-the body count''s rising on the Island of Bones, andthe dead seem to be reenacting some macabre tableaux from history. The danger is increasing by the moment-especially as Katie finds herself irresistibly drawn to David, who may be responsible for more than just one killinghellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19510'),
(18767, 'Ghost Shadow', 'Heather Graham', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are those who walk among us who are no longer alive, but not yet crossed over. They seek retributionhellip;vengeancehellip;to warn. Among the living, few intuit their presence.Katie O''Hara is one who can.As she''s drawn deeper and deeper into a gruesome years-old murder, whispered warnings from a spectral friend become more and more insistent. But Katiemustuncover the truth: could David Beckett really be guilty of his fiancee''s murder?Worse-the body count''s rising on the Island of Bones, andthe dead seem to be reenacting some macabre tableaux from history. The danger is increasing by the moment-especially as Katie finds herself irresistibly drawn to David, who may be responsible for more than just one killinghellip;.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28161'),
(18768, 'Ghost Ship', 'Diane Carey', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1995, a Russian aircraft carrier is destroyed by a mysterious creature that just as mysteriously disappears thereafter. Three hundred years later, Counsellor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare in which she senses the voices of the crew of that Russian ship, whose life-essences were somehow absorbed by the creature that destroyed them. And the nightmare heralds a danger to the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM itself, for if Picard can''t discover a way to communicate with the creature, it could absorb his crew just as it did the Russians.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In 1995, a Russian aircraft carrier is destroyed by a mysterious creature that just as mysteriously disappears thereafter. Three hundred years later, Counsellor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare in which she senses the voices of the crew of that Russian ship, whose life-essences were somehow absorbed by the creature that destroyed them. And the nightmare heralds a danger to the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM itself, for if Picard can''t discover a way to communicate with the creature, it could absorb his crew just as it did the Russians.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5963'),
(18769, 'Ghost Stories', 'Lorna Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   In 2010 thousands of people submitted ghost stories to The Daily Telegraph''s first ghost story competition. Standards were chillingly high and only the spookiest went through to the shortlist of six. Presented here are short stories from Gill Baconnier, Justin Crozier, Ceri Hughes, Pat Black, Craig Drew and the winner, Richard Crompton, whose story â€˜Friendsâ€™ is an uncanny take on social networking. Currently available only in ebook form they are the perfect company for a long winter''s night.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3272'),
(18770, 'Ghost Stories', 'Lorna Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   In 2010 thousands of people submitted ghost stories to The Daily Telegraph''s first ghost story competition. Standards were chillingly high and only the spookiest went through to the shortlist of six. Presented here are short stories from Gill Baconnier, Justin Crozier, Ceri Hughes, Pat Black, Craig Drew and the winner, Richard Crompton, whose story â€˜Friendsâ€™ is an uncanny take on social networking. Currently available only in ebook form they are the perfect company for a long winter''s night.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8629'),
(18771, 'Ghost Stories', 'Lorna Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   In 2010 thousands of people submitted ghost stories to The Daily Telegraph''s first ghost story competition. Standards were chillingly high and only the spookiest went through to the shortlist of six. Presented here are short stories from Gill Baconnier, Justin Crozier, Ceri Hughes, Pat Black, Craig Drew and the winner, Richard Crompton, whose story â€˜Friendsâ€™ is an uncanny take on social networking. Currently available only in ebook form they are the perfect company for a long winter''s night.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21200'),
(18772, 'Ghost Story', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *In life, not every sin goes unpunished.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **GHOST STORY**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and get away with murder.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Peter Straub''s classic bestseller is a work of "superb horror" *(The Washington Post Book World)* that, like any good ghost story, stands the test of time -- and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2140'),
(18773, 'Ghost Story', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *In life, not every sin goes unpunished.* **GHOST STORY** For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and get away with murder. Peter Straub''s classic bestseller is a work of "superb horror" *(The Washington Post Book World)* that, like any good ghost story, stands the test of time -- and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13832'),
(18774, 'Ghost Story', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *In life, not every sin goes unpunished.* **GHOST STORY** For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and get away with murder. Peter Straub''s classic bestseller is a work of "superb horror" *(The Washington Post Book World)* that, like any good ghost story, stands the test of time -- and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22632'),
(18775, 'Ghost Wars', 'Steve Coll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the managing editor of the *Washington Post*, a news-breaking account of the CIA''s involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden''s al Qaeda.    For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been the playing field for intense covert operations by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies-invisible wars which sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks and which provide its context. From the Soviet invasion in 1979 through the summer of 2001, the CIA, KGB, Pakistan''s ISI, and Saudi Arabia''s General Intelligence Department all operated directly and secretly in Afghanistan. They primed Afghan factions with cash and weapons, secretly trained guerrilla forces, funded propaganda, and manipulated politics. In the midst of these struggles bin Laden conceived and then built his global organization.    Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll tells the secret history of the CIA''s role in Afghanistan, from its covert program against Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989, to the rise of the Taliban and the emergence of bin Laden, to the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998. Based on extensive firsthand accounts, *Ghost Wars*ok  is the inside story that goes well beyond anything previously published on U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. It chronicles the roles of midlevel CIA officers, their Afghan allies, and top spy masters such as Bill Casey, Saudi Arabia''s Prince Turki al Faisal, and George Tenet. And it describes heated debates within the American government and the often poisonous, mistrustful relations between the CIA and foreign intelligence agencies.    *Ghost Wars* answers the questions so many have asked since the horrors of September 11: To what extent did America''s best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/965'),
(18776, 'Ghost Wars', 'Steve Coll', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n From the managing editor of the *Washington Post*, a news-breaking account of the CIA''s involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden''s al Qaeda.    For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been the playing field for intense covert operations by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies-invisible wars which sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks and which provide its context. From the Soviet invasion in 1979 through the summer of 2001, the CIA, KGB, Pakistan''s ISI, and Saudi Arabia''s General Intelligence Department all operated directly and secretly in Afghanistan. They primed Afghan factions with cash and weapons, secretly trained guerrilla forces, funded propaganda, and manipulated politics. In the midst of these struggles bin Laden conceived and then built his global organization.    Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll tells the secret history of the CIA''s role in Afghanistan, from its covert program against Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989, to the rise of the Taliban and the emergence of bin Laden, to the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998. Based on extensive firsthand accounts, *Ghost Wars*ok  is the inside story that goes well beyond anything previously published on U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. It chronicles the roles of midlevel CIA officers, their Afghan allies, and top spy masters such as Bill Casey, Saudi Arabia''s Prince Turki al Faisal, and George Tenet. And it describes heated debates within the American government and the often poisonous, mistrustful relations between the CIA and foreign intelligence agencies.    *Ghost Wars* answers the questions so many have asked since the horrors of September 11: To what extent did America''s best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8977'),
(18777, 'Ghost Wars', 'Steve Coll', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23878'),
(18778, 'Ghosted', 'Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown, an account of the author''s undercover year in Toronto''s Tent City, Bishop-Stall''s debut novel breaks hearts. Emotionally damaged by childhood and adolescent traumas, druggie drifter and alcoholic gambler Mason Dubisee pushes the "Dogfather" hot dog cart in downtown Toronto during the day and sporadically tackles his stalled novel at night. Between his agonizingly described hangovers, Mason also writes suicide notes for various disturbed personalities. He falls in desperate love with Willy, a hemiplegic with a heart of gold and a heroin habit of her own, and runs afoul of a psychopathic prisoner on parole, who steals Mason''s file from Mason''s sometime shrink, who has serious problems of her own. Bishop-Stall''s gritty, experimental style and grungy subject matter may turn off some readers, but his occasionally inchoate if conventional message about the "toughness and grace" of people who have saved one another will resonate with many.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mason Dubisee, who has just turned 30, is struggling to churn out a novel as he battles his gambling and cocaine addictions. After his childhood friend and drug dealer, Chaz, finds him an apartment and a job selling hot dogs in Toronto, one of Masonâ€™s lunchtime customers commissions him to write a love letter that later turns out to be a suicide note. This prompts Mason to seek out work as a suicide-note writer. He feels guilty about this occupation, spending long nights at Chazâ€™s illegal bar, The Cave, where he meets and slowly falls in love with Willy, a beautiful young hemiplegic woman addicted to heroin. As their romance develops, Mason becomes increasingly aware that crafting a suicide note for his latest customer, a recent ex-con, will be more dangerous than he bargained for. This somewhat sophomoric novel becomes increasingly more suspenseful as Mason struggles to save the lives of those closest to him and as he seeks out redemption for his former sins. An adventurous, wild page-turner of a debut from Canadian author Bishop-Stall. --Julie Hunt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1276'),
(18779, 'Ghosted', 'Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown, an account of the author''s undercover year in Toronto''s Tent City, Bishop-Stall''s debut novel breaks hearts. Emotionally damaged by childhood and adolescent traumas, druggie drifter and alcoholic gambler Mason Dubisee pushes the "Dogfather" hot dog cart in downtown Toronto during the day and sporadically tackles his stalled novel at night. Between his agonizingly described hangovers, Mason also writes suicide notes for various disturbed personalities. He falls in desperate love with Willy, a hemiplegic with a heart of gold and a heroin habit of her own, and runs afoul of a psychopathic prisoner on parole, who steals Mason''s file from Mason''s sometime shrink, who has serious problems of her own. Bishop-Stall''s gritty, experimental style and grungy subject matter may turn off some readers, but his occasionally inchoate if conventional message about the "toughness and grace" of people who have saved one another will resonate with many.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mason Dubisee, who has just turned 30, is struggling to churn out a novel as he battles his gambling and cocaine addictions. After his childhood friend and drug dealer, Chaz, finds him an apartment and a job selling hot dogs in Toronto, one of Masonâ€™s lunchtime customers commissions him to write a love letter that later turns out to be a suicide note. This prompts Mason to seek out work as a suicide-note writer. He feels guilty about this occupation, spending long nights at Chazâ€™s illegal bar, The Cave, where he meets and slowly falls in love with Willy, a beautiful young hemiplegic woman addicted to heroin. As their romance develops, Mason becomes increasingly aware that crafting a suicide note for his latest customer, a recent ex-con, will be more dangerous than he bargained for. This somewhat sophomoric novel becomes increasingly more suspenseful as Mason struggles to save the lives of those closest to him and as he seeks out redemption for his former sins. An adventurous, wild page-turner of a debut from Canadian author Bishop-Stall. --Julie Hunt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8182'),
(18780, 'Ghosted', 'Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Like Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown, an account of the author''s undercover year in Toronto''s Tent City, Bishop-Stall''s debut novel breaks hearts. Emotionally damaged by childhood and adolescent traumas, druggie drifter and alcoholic gambler Mason Dubisee pushes the "Dogfather" hot dog cart in downtown Toronto during the day and sporadically tackles his stalled novel at night. Between his agonizingly described hangovers, Mason also writes suicide notes for various disturbed personalities. He falls in desperate love with Willy, a hemiplegic with a heart of gold and a heroin habit of her own, and runs afoul of a psychopathic prisoner on parole, who steals Mason''s file from Mason''s sometime shrink, who has serious problems of her own. Bishop-Stall''s gritty, experimental style and grungy subject matter may turn off some readers, but his occasionally inchoate if conventional message about the "toughness and grace" of people who have saved one another will resonate with many.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mason Dubisee, who has just turned 30, is struggling to churn out a novel as he battles his gambling and cocaine addictions. After his childhood friend and drug dealer, Chaz, finds him an apartment and a job selling hot dogs in Toronto, one of Masonâ€™s lunchtime customers commissions him to write a love letter that later turns out to be a suicide note. This prompts Mason to seek out work as a suicide-note writer. He feels guilty about this occupation, spending long nights at Chazâ€™s illegal bar, The Cave, where he meets and slowly falls in love with Willy, a beautiful young hemiplegic woman addicted to heroin. As their romance develops, Mason becomes increasingly aware that crafting a suicide note for his latest customer, a recent ex-con, will be more dangerous than he bargained for. This somewhat sophomoric novel becomes increasingly more suspenseful as Mason struggles to save the lives of those closest to him and as he seeks out redemption for his former sins. An adventurous, wild page-turner of a debut from Canadian author Bishop-Stall. --Julie Hunt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23668'),
(18781, 'Ghosts', 'Hans Holzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hans Holzer is a world-renowned parapsychologist and author of several paranormal books including\n <em>\n  Ghosts: True Encounters with the World Beyond\n </em>\n is a gigantic volume, documenting almost 200 cases of haunted houses, ships, castles, and just about any place imaginable! The cases are far more complex than just your average white-sheeted ghoul in the attic. Holzer examines the differences between "real ghosts," who reveal themselves to living people, and psychic impressions, which occur to many witnesses, always at the same time and place. There is also solid advice for interpreting paranormal signals--and even photographs of ghostly apparitions. This is an informative read, but one that is open to personal interpretation.\n <em>\n  --Naomi Gesinger\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this definitive inquiry into ghostly manifestations and the nature of "the other side," the world''s leading authority on the subject presents hundreds of case histories, tips on interpreting sounds and other signals from beyond and more. Photographs of haunted places and authenticated shots of actual ghosts and spirits are featured throughout the book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5271'),
(18782, 'Ghosts', 'Hans Holzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hans Holzer is a world-renowned parapsychologist and author of several paranormal books including\n <em>\n  Ghosts: True Encounters with the World Beyond\n </em>\n is a gigantic volume, documenting almost 200 cases of haunted houses, ships, castles, and just about any place imaginable! The cases are far more complex than just your average white-sheeted ghoul in the attic. Holzer examines the differences between "real ghosts," who reveal themselves to living people, and psychic impressions, which occur to many witnesses, always at the same time and place. There is also solid advice for interpreting paranormal signals--and even photographs of ghostly apparitions. This is an informative read, but one that is open to personal interpretation.\n <em>\n  --Naomi Gesinger\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this definitive inquiry into ghostly manifestations and the nature of "the other side," the world''s leading authority on the subject presents hundreds of case histories, tips on interpreting sounds and other signals from beyond and more. Photographs of haunted places and authenticated shots of actual ghosts and spirits are featured throughout the book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10344'),
(18783, 'Ghosts', 'Hans Holzer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Hans Holzer is a world-renowned parapsychologist and author of several paranormal books including\n <em>\n  Ghosts: True Encounters with the World Beyond\n </em>\n is a gigantic volume, documenting almost 200 cases of haunted houses, ships, castles, and just about any place imaginable! The cases are far more complex than just your average white-sheeted ghoul in the attic. Holzer examines the differences between "real ghosts," who reveal themselves to living people, and psychic impressions, which occur to many witnesses, always at the same time and place. There is also solid advice for interpreting paranormal signals--and even photographs of ghostly apparitions. This is an informative read, but one that is open to personal interpretation.\n <em>\n  --Naomi Gesinger\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this definitive inquiry into ghostly manifestations and the nature of "the other side," the world''s leading authority on the subject presents hundreds of case histories, tips on interpreting sounds and other signals from beyond and more. Photographs of haunted places and authenticated shots of actual ghosts and spirits are featured throughout the book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19394'),
(18784, 'Ghosts and Roses', 'Kelley St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When a spirit from beyond begs Gage Vicknair to rescue a stranger named Makayla, he never expects that stranger to be the same sensuous woman he''s been enjoying so thoroughly in his nightly fantasies. But Makayla is very real and she''s living a nightmare.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A vengeful murderer is determined to get her. And Gage is equally determined to save her.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Because the only way he and Makayla can have the love they''ve dreamed of is if they''re still around to live it....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3810'),
(18785, 'Ghosts and Roses', 'Kelley St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: When a spirit from beyond begs Gage Vicknair to rescue a stranger named Makayla, he never expects that stranger to be the same sensuous woman he''s been enjoying so thoroughly in his nightly fantasies. But Makayla is very real and she''s living a nightmare. A vengeful murderer is determined to get her. And Gage is equally determined to save her. Because the only way he and Makayla can have the love they''ve dreamed of is if they''re still around to live it....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20750'),
(18786, 'The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic', 'Robert L. O&#39;Connell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Military historian O''Connell (_Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression_) has established the new standard for studies of the second conflict between Rome and Carthage. In dramatic and comprehensive fashion, he describes the rivalry, based on temperament and territory, that led to the slaughter at Cannae in 216 B.C.E. and beyond. Focusing chiefly on Hannibal and his Roman nemesis Scipio Africanus, he also awards proper consideration to Fabius Maximus, whose strategy of attrition and delay could have saved countless Roman lives. Differences in Roman and Carthaginian tactics, armament, and philosophy are explained, as is the importance of religious belief to both cultures. O''Connell shatters the popular myth of the invincibility of the Carthaginians'' fabled elephants, the panzer pachyderms. The ghosts of the title are the Roman survivors of Cannae, who were unwanted reminders of defeat. They were banished to Sicily until Scipio Africanus incorporated them into the army that achieved the final Roman victory at Zama. Unfortunately, a lack of sources restricts O''Connell''s ability to provide much information on the Carthaginian home front, but ample attention is given to the political maneuvers that shaped Roman policy. 6 maps.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Second Punic War began over Roman and Carthaginian competing claims in Spain and quickly escalated into a life-and-death struggle for control of the western Mediterranean. At the center of the struggle was Hannibal''s invasion and ravaging of Italy over a span of 15 years, during which he inflicted a series of devastating defeats upon successive Roman armies, climaxed by the slaughter of an estimated 50,000 Romans at Cannae in southern Italy in 216 B.C. This outstanding account of the background of the Italian campaign and of the battle itself is primarily a military history, but O''Connell avoids excessive use of military jargon and explains the tactics and strategies in terms nonspecialists can easily comprehend. He also pays ample attention to the political aspects of the war and shows how the ability of the Roman Senate to persevere and change strategy was critical to Rome''s survival and eventual triumph. This is a superb chronicle of events that shaped the fate of Western civilization. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1643'),
(18787, 'The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic', 'Robert L. O&#39;Connell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Military historian O''Connell (_Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression_) has established the new standard for studies of the second conflict between Rome and Carthage. In dramatic and comprehensive fashion, he describes the rivalry, based on temperament and territory, that led to the slaughter at Cannae in 216 B.C.E. and beyond. Focusing chiefly on Hannibal and his Roman nemesis Scipio Africanus, he also awards proper consideration to Fabius Maximus, whose strategy of attrition and delay could have saved countless Roman lives. Differences in Roman and Carthaginian tactics, armament, and philosophy are explained, as is the importance of religious belief to both cultures. O''Connell shatters the popular myth of the invincibility of the Carthaginians'' fabled elephants, the panzer pachyderms. The ghosts of the title are the Roman survivors of Cannae, who were unwanted reminders of defeat. They were banished to Sicily until Scipio Africanus incorporated them into the army that achieved the final Roman victory at Zama. Unfortunately, a lack of sources restricts O''Connell''s ability to provide much information on the Carthaginian home front, but ample attention is given to the political maneuvers that shaped Roman policy. 6 maps.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Second Punic War began over Roman and Carthaginian competing claims in Spain and quickly escalated into a life-and-death struggle for control of the western Mediterranean. At the center of the struggle was Hannibal''s invasion and ravaging of Italy over a span of 15 years, during which he inflicted a series of devastating defeats upon successive Roman armies, climaxed by the slaughter of an estimated 50,000 Romans at Cannae in southern Italy in 216 B.C. This outstanding account of the background of the Italian campaign and of the battle itself is primarily a military history, but O''Connell avoids excessive use of military jargon and explains the tactics and strategies in terms nonspecialists can easily comprehend. He also pays ample attention to the political aspects of the war and shows how the ability of the Roman Senate to persevere and change strategy was critical to Rome''s survival and eventual triumph. This is a superb chronicle of events that shaped the fate of Western civilization. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11748'),
(18788, 'The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic', 'Robert L. O&#39;Connell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Military historian O''Connell (_Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression_) has established the new standard for studies of the second conflict between Rome and Carthage. In dramatic and comprehensive fashion, he describes the rivalry, based on temperament and territory, that led to the slaughter at Cannae in 216 B.C.E. and beyond. Focusing chiefly on Hannibal and his Roman nemesis Scipio Africanus, he also awards proper consideration to Fabius Maximus, whose strategy of attrition and delay could have saved countless Roman lives. Differences in Roman and Carthaginian tactics, armament, and philosophy are explained, as is the importance of religious belief to both cultures. O''Connell shatters the popular myth of the invincibility of the Carthaginians'' fabled elephants, the panzer pachyderms. The ghosts of the title are the Roman survivors of Cannae, who were unwanted reminders of defeat. They were banished to Sicily until Scipio Africanus incorporated them into the army that achieved the final Roman victory at Zama. Unfortunately, a lack of sources restricts O''Connell''s ability to provide much information on the Carthaginian home front, but ample attention is given to the political maneuvers that shaped Roman policy. 6 maps.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Second Punic War began over Roman and Carthaginian competing claims in Spain and quickly escalated into a life-and-death struggle for control of the western Mediterranean. At the center of the struggle was Hannibal''s invasion and ravaging of Italy over a span of 15 years, during which he inflicted a series of devastating defeats upon successive Roman armies, climaxed by the slaughter of an estimated 50,000 Romans at Cannae in southern Italy in 216 B.C. This outstanding account of the background of the Italian campaign and of the battle itself is primarily a military history, but O''Connell avoids excessive use of military jargon and explains the tactics and strategies in terms nonspecialists can easily comprehend. He also pays ample attention to the political aspects of the war and shows how the ability of the Roman Senate to persevere and change strategy was critical to Rome''s survival and eventual triumph. This is a superb chronicle of events that shaped the fate of Western civilization. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23328'),
(18789, 'The Ghosts of N-Space', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is called in to help when terrifying demons break through from another dimension and begin to wreak havoc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7285'),
(18790, 'The Ghosts of N-Space', 'Barry Letts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Doctor is called in to help when terrifying demons break through from another dimension and begin to wreak havoc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16582'),
(18791, 'The Ghostway', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks.  This is all Tribal Policeman Jim Chee needs to set him off on an odyssey that moves from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L.A. to an ancient healing ceremony where death is the cure, and into the dark heart of murder and revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/427'),
(18792, 'The Ghostway', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks.  This is all Tribal Policeman Jim Chee needs to set him off on an odyssey that moves from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L.A. to an ancient healing ceremony where death is the cure, and into the dark heart of murder and revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10324'),
(18793, 'The Ghostway', 'Tony Hillerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks. This is all Tribal Policeman Jim Chee needs to set him off on an odyssey that moves from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L.A. to an ancient healing ceremony where death is the cure, and into the dark heart of murder and revenge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24416');
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(18794, 'Ghostwritten: A Novel', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A magnificent achievement and an utterly engrossing experience, Ghostwritten is a novel set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, featuring a whole host of characters. An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what connects him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? A woman on a holy mountain talks to a tree - and the tree talks back - unaware of the effect the financial irregularities of a burnt-out lawyer will have on her life. A Mongolian gangster, a redundant English spy in Saint Petersburg with a knack for forging masterpieces, a despondent ''zookeeper'', a nuclear scientist, a ghostwriter, a ghost, and a late night New York DJ whose hard-boiled scepticism has been his undoing - all have tales to tell.\n</p>\n<p>\n Add to this saxophones and causality, Buddha, cherry blossoms, island cities, a mind unhooked from memory, the Trans Siberian Express, hidden narratives of the new world''s order, circles and roulette in London, ''The White Album'', Baggins...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6224'),
(18795, 'Ghostwritten: A Novel', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A magnificent achievement and an utterly engrossing experience, Ghostwritten is a novel set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, featuring a whole host of characters. An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what connects him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? A woman on a holy mountain talks to a tree - and the tree talks back - unaware of the effect the financial irregularities of a burnt-out lawyer will have on her life. A Mongolian gangster, a redundant English spy in Saint Petersburg with a knack for forging masterpieces, a despondent ''zookeeper'', a nuclear scientist, a ghostwriter, a ghost, and a late night New York DJ whose hard-boiled scepticism has been his undoing - all have tales to tell.\n</p>\n<p>\n Add to this saxophones and causality, Buddha, cherry blossoms, island cities, a mind unhooked from memory, the Trans Siberian Express, hidden narratives of the new world''s order, circles and roulette in London, ''The White Album'', Baggins...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11401'),
(18796, 'Ghostwritten: a novel', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A magnificent achievement and an utterly engrossing experience, Ghostwritten is a novel set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, featuring a whole host of characters. An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what connects him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? A woman on a holy mountain talks to a tree - and the tree talks back - unaware of the effect the financial irregularities of a burnt-out lawyer will have on her life. A Mongolian gangster, a redundant English spy in Saint Petersburg with a knack for forging masterpieces, a despondent ''zookeeper'', a nuclear scientist, a ghostwriter, a ghost, and a late night New York DJ whose hard-boiled scepticism has been his undoing - all have tales to tell.\n</p>\n<p>\n Add to this saxophones and causality, Buddha, cherry blossoms, island cities, a mind unhooked from memory, the Trans Siberian Express, hidden narratives of the new world''s order, circles and roulette in London, ''The White Album'', Baggins...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17765'),
(18797, 'Ghostwritten: a novel', 'David Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A magnificent achievement and an utterly engrossing experience, Ghostwritten is a novel set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, featuring a whole host of characters. An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what connects him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? A woman on a holy mountain talks to a tree - and the tree talks back - unaware of the effect the financial irregularities of a burnt-out lawyer will have on her life. A Mongolian gangster, a redundant English spy in Saint Petersburg with a knack for forging masterpieces, a despondent ''zookeeper'', a nuclear scientist, a ghostwriter, a ghost, and a late night New York DJ whose hard-boiled scepticism has been his undoing - all have tales to tell.\n</p>\n<p>\n Add to this saxophones and causality, Buddha, cherry blossoms, island cities, a mind unhooked from memory, the Trans Siberian Express, hidden narratives of the new world''s order, circles and roulette in London, ''The White Album'', Baggins...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27360'),
(18798, 'Ghouls Gone Wild', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "A hair-raising tale that will keep readers engrossed in the ghost-driven action." --\n  <em>\n   Darque Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n New in the national bestselling series\n</p>\n<p>\n Psychic M.J. Holliday finds herself in a witchy situation...\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When M.J. and her friends travel to a small town near Edinburgh, Scotland, to film the first installment of their new cable TV show\n <em>\n  Ghoul Getters\n </em>\n , they find plenty of spooky action in a series of supposedly haunted caverns. But when they discover the body of a maintenance worker, the cause of death is reminiscent of an old legend involving a witch''s wrath...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/361'),
(18799, 'Ghouls Gone Wild', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  "A hair-raising tale that will keep readers engrossed in the ghost-driven action." --\n  <em>\n   Darque Reviews\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n New in the national bestselling series\n</p>\n<p>\n Psychic M.J. Holliday finds herself in a witchy situation...\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When M.J. and her friends travel to a small town near Edinburgh, Scotland, to film the first installment of their new cable TV show\n <em>\n  Ghoul Getters\n </em>\n , they find plenty of spooky action in a series of supposedly haunted caverns. But when they discover the body of a maintenance worker, the cause of death is reminiscent of an old legend involving a witch''s wrath...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24526'),
(18800, 'Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A demonic guest terrorizes a haunted hotel\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When ghost hunter and medium M.J. Holliday appears on a television show called\n  <em>\n   Haunted Possessions\n  </em>\n  , she encounters an evil knife that releases a demon. Now all hell has broken loose in the haunted hotel where M.J. is stayingâ€”and itâ€™s up to her to give the uninvited guest an early checkout.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/364'),
(18801, 'Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   A demonic guest terrorizes a haunted hotel\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  When ghost hunter and medium M.J. Holliday appears on a television show called\n  <em>\n   Haunted Possessions\n  </em>\n  , she encounters an evil knife that releases a demon. Now all hell has broken loose in the haunted hotel where M.J. is stayingâ€”and itâ€™s up to her to give the uninvited guest an early checkout.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24525'),
(18802, 'Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Laurie''s frantically fun, if at times cartoonish, fifth Ghost Hunter mystery (after March 2010''s Ghouls Gone Wild), M.J. Holliday and the Ghoul Getters cable TV show crew face some anxious moments at Dunlow, a haunted Irish castle, especially after their producer, Peter "Gopher" Gophner, goes missing. Treacherous tides can make it tricky to reach Dunlow, which is located on an island. Another challenge is the powerful castle phantom guarding the hidden treasure of Lord Ranald Dunnyvale, who ransomed some survivors of the Spanish Armada back in the 16th century for a hefty sum. Reminiscent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer''s bunch, Laurie''s enthusiastic, punchy ghost busters make this paranormal series one teens can also enjoy. (Dec. 28)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When M.J. Holliday and the crew of her cable TV show,\n  <em>\n   Ghoul Getters\n  </em>\n  , venture to the haunted ruins of Dunlow Castle in Ireland, drawn by the legend of hidden treasure, they hope the road will rise up to meet them, that the wind will always be at their backs-and that the resident phantom won''t push them off a cliff. If they treasure their lives, M.J. and her ghost busters need to get the drop on the menacing phantom...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/365'),
(18803, 'Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Laurie''s frantically fun, if at times cartoonish, fifth Ghost Hunter mystery (after March 2010''s Ghouls Gone Wild), M.J. Holliday and the Ghoul Getters cable TV show crew face some anxious moments at Dunlow, a haunted Irish castle, especially after their producer, Peter "Gopher" Gophner, goes missing. Treacherous tides can make it tricky to reach Dunlow, which is located on an island. Another challenge is the powerful castle phantom guarding the hidden treasure of Lord Ranald Dunnyvale, who ransomed some survivors of the Spanish Armada back in the 16th century for a hefty sum. Reminiscent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer''s bunch, Laurie''s enthusiastic, punchy ghost busters make this paranormal series one teens can also enjoy. (Dec. 28)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When M.J. Holliday and the crew of her cable TV show,\n  <em>\n   Ghoul Getters\n  </em>\n  , venture to the haunted ruins of Dunlow Castle in Ireland, drawn by the legend of hidden treasure, they hope the road will rise up to meet them, that the wind will always be at their backs-and that the resident phantom won''t push them off a cliff. If they treasure their lives, M.J. and her ghost busters need to get the drop on the menacing phantom...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12260'),
(18804, 'Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls', 'Victoria Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Laurie''s frantically fun, if at times cartoonish, fifth Ghost Hunter mystery (after March 2010''s Ghouls Gone Wild), M.J. Holliday and the Ghoul Getters cable TV show crew face some anxious moments at Dunlow, a haunted Irish castle, especially after their producer, Peter "Gopher" Gophner, goes missing. Treacherous tides can make it tricky to reach Dunlow, which is located on an island. Another challenge is the powerful castle phantom guarding the hidden treasure of Lord Ranald Dunnyvale, who ransomed some survivors of the Spanish Armada back in the 16th century for a hefty sum. Reminiscent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer''s bunch, Laurie''s enthusiastic, punchy ghost busters make this paranormal series one teens can also enjoy. (Dec. 28)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When M.J. Holliday and the crew of her cable TV show,\n  <em>\n   Ghoul Getters\n  </em>\n  , venture to the haunted ruins of Dunlow Castle in Ireland, drawn by the legend of hidden treasure, they hope the road will rise up to meet them, that the wind will always be at their backs-and that the resident phantom won''t push them off a cliff. If they treasure their lives, M.J. and her ghost busters need to get the drop on the menacing phantom...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24524'),
(18805, 'The Giant Book of Poetry', 'William H. Roetzheim', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Giant Book of Poetry is an illustrated anthology of over 575 poems, more than 750 pages and over 60 illustrations representing ancient, classical, modern, and contemporary time periods along with a good selection of English translations of world poets. Footnotes include notes on form, definitions for unusual words, and hints on interpretation. The book includes an introduction by the editor and an appendix covering poetry meter, as well as indexes by author, title, subject, source language, and first line. The publisher is also releasing an audio CD version of the book and the book includes an index pointing from each poem to the corresponding audio CD and track, and an index pointing from each audio CD and track to the corresponding poem location in the book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12273'),
(18806, 'A Gift of Dragons', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Anne McCaffrey (The Skies of Pern) collects four tales of Pern in A Gift of Dragons, including a new adventure written especially for this volume, "Ever the Twain." Tom Kidd''s illustrations of cuddly dragons and their human companions add extra value.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A dragon-hatching at Ista Weyr provides twin brother and sister Neru and Nian with their first crisis of love and duty in "Ever the Twain," original to this illustrated collection of four Pern stories by McCaffrey. Also included are "The Smallest Dragonboy," about a young boy''s fervent desire to bond with a baby dragon; the author''s classic "The Girl Who Heard Dragons," the story of a girl with an unusual talent; and "Runner of Pern," a tale involving one of Pern''s most important and least glamorous occupations. Tom Kidd''s moody, atmospheric illustrations give a visual focus to these tales and help create a work of the imagination that belongs in most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7625'),
(18807, 'A Gift of Dragons', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Anne McCaffrey (The Skies of Pern) collects four tales of Pern in A Gift of Dragons, including a new adventure written especially for this volume, "Ever the Twain." Tom Kidd''s illustrations of cuddly dragons and their human companions add extra value.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A dragon-hatching at Ista Weyr provides twin brother and sister Neru and Nian with their first crisis of love and duty in "Ever the Twain," original to this illustrated collection of four Pern stories by McCaffrey. Also included are "The Smallest Dragonboy," about a young boy''s fervent desire to bond with a baby dragon; the author''s classic "The Girl Who Heard Dragons," the story of a girl with an unusual talent; and "Runner of Pern," a tale involving one of Pern''s most important and least glamorous occupations. Tom Kidd''s moody, atmospheric illustrations give a visual focus to these tales and help create a work of the imagination that belongs in most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11344'),
(18808, 'A Gift of Dragons', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bestseller Anne McCaffrey (The Skies of Pern) collects four tales of Pern in A Gift of Dragons, including a new adventure written especially for this volume, "Ever the Twain." Tom Kidd''s illustrations of cuddly dragons and their human companions add extra value.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n A dragon-hatching at Ista Weyr provides twin brother and sister Neru and Nian with their first crisis of love and duty in "Ever the Twain," original to this illustrated collection of four Pern stories by McCaffrey. Also included are "The Smallest Dragonboy," about a young boy''s fervent desire to bond with a baby dragon; the author''s classic "The Girl Who Heard Dragons," the story of a girl with an unusual talent; and "Runner of Pern," a tale involving one of Pern''s most important and least glamorous occupations. Tom Kidd''s moody, atmospheric illustrations give a visual focus to these tales and help create a work of the imagination that belongs in most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16291'),
(18809, 'The Gift', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in the 1950s, Steel''s account of a family coming to terms with a child''s death spent 12 weeks on PW''s bestseller list.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In reviewing the last few Steel novels,\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n has tried to make the argument that the author and her readers deserve more respect than they get. Steel does not exploit the romance genre for its racy, dark, or semipornographic underpinnings; she has taken one element of the medieval love-tale, adapted its gentle, loving, and hopeful outlook to the modern world, and produced a satisfying set of variations on her theme.\n <em>\n  The Gift\n </em>\n is Steel to perfection. A small work, it tells the tale of two 16-year-olds whose meeting restores life to both. The death of Tommy''s little sister wrecks a family''s happiness. The unwanted pregnancy of Maribeth threatens to ruin her attempt to lift herself out of an anti-intellectual and sexist environment. But when the two meet, love, support, sensitivity, and some much-needed wisdom redeem the bleak circumstances of their lives and bring the story to its satisfying conclusion. Clich{â€š}ed, sentimental? Maybe, but Steel\n <em>\n  believes\n </em>\n in the goodness of her characters and here, more than ever before, shows absolute faith in a simple tale of rewarded virtue. This is the author at her best: mature, to the point, refreshed by the tale of her young lovers. Not great art, perhaps, but in its own way almost perfect.\n <em>\n  Stuart Whitwell\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6423'),
(18810, 'The Gift', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in the 1950s, Steel''s account of a family coming to terms with a child''s death spent 12 weeks on PW''s bestseller list.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In reviewing the last few Steel novels,\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n has tried to make the argument that the author and her readers deserve more respect than they get. Steel does not exploit the romance genre for its racy, dark, or semipornographic underpinnings; she has taken one element of the medieval love-tale, adapted its gentle, loving, and hopeful outlook to the modern world, and produced a satisfying set of variations on her theme.\n <em>\n  The Gift\n </em>\n is Steel to perfection. A small work, it tells the tale of two 16-year-olds whose meeting restores life to both. The death of Tommy''s little sister wrecks a family''s happiness. The unwanted pregnancy of Maribeth threatens to ruin her attempt to lift herself out of an anti-intellectual and sexist environment. But when the two meet, love, support, sensitivity, and some much-needed wisdom redeem the bleak circumstances of their lives and bring the story to its satisfying conclusion. Clich{â€š}ed, sentimental? Maybe, but Steel\n <em>\n  believes\n </em>\n in the goodness of her characters and here, more than ever before, shows absolute faith in a simple tale of rewarded virtue. This is the author at her best: mature, to the point, refreshed by the tale of her young lovers. Not great art, perhaps, but in its own way almost perfect.\n <em>\n  Stuart Whitwell\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12855'),
(18811, 'The Gift', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in the 1950s, Steel''s account of a family coming to terms with a child''s death spent 12 weeks on PW''s bestseller list.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n In reviewing the last few Steel novels,\n <em>\n  Booklist\n </em>\n has tried to make the argument that the author and her readers deserve more respect than they get. Steel does not exploit the romance genre for its racy, dark, or semipornographic underpinnings; she has taken one element of the medieval love-tale, adapted its gentle, loving, and hopeful outlook to the modern world, and produced a satisfying set of variations on her theme.\n <em>\n  The Gift\n </em>\n is Steel to perfection. A small work, it tells the tale of two 16-year-olds whose meeting restores life to both. The death of Tommy''s little sister wrecks a family''s happiness. The unwanted pregnancy of Maribeth threatens to ruin her attempt to lift herself out of an anti-intellectual and sexist environment. But when the two meet, love, support, sensitivity, and some much-needed wisdom redeem the bleak circumstances of their lives and bring the story to its satisfying conclusion. Clich{â€š}ed, sentimental? Maybe, but Steel\n <em>\n  believes\n </em>\n in the goodness of her characters and here, more than ever before, shows absolute faith in a simple tale of rewarded virtue. This is the author at her best: mature, to the point, refreshed by the tale of her young lovers. Not great art, perhaps, but in its own way almost perfect.\n <em>\n  Stuart Whitwell\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17642'),
(18812, 'The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World', 'Lewis Hyde', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe best book I know of for talented but unacknowledged creators. . . . A masterpiece.â€ â€”Margaret Atwood\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNo one who is invested in any kind of art . . . can read\n <em>\n  The Gift\n </em>\n and remain unchanged.â€ â€”David Foster Wallace\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFew books are such life-changers as\n <em>\n  The Gift\n </em>\n : epiphany, in sculpted prose.â€ â€”Jonathan Lethem\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA manifesto of sorts for anyone who makes art [and] cares for it.â€ â€”Zadie Smith\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis long-awaited new edition of Lewis Hyde''s groundbreaking and influential study of creativity is a cause for across-the-board celebration.â€ â€”Geoff Dyer\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n By now a modern classic,\n <em>\n  The Gift\n </em>\n is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An illuminating and transformative book, and completely original in its view of the world,\n <em>\n  The Gift\n </em>\n is cherished by artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers. It is in itself a gift to all who discover the classic wisdom found in its pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3361'),
(18813, 'The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World', 'Lewis Hyde', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe best book I know of for talented but unacknowledged creators. . . . A masterpiece.â€ â€”Margaret Atwood\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œNo one who is invested in any kind of art . . . can read\n <em>\n  The Gift\n </em>\n and remain unchanged.â€ â€”David Foster Wallace\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFew books are such life-changers as\n <em>\n  The Gift\n </em>\n : epiphany, in sculpted prose.â€ â€”Jonathan Lethem\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA manifesto of sorts for anyone who makes art [and] cares for it.â€ â€”Zadie Smith\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThis long-awaited new edition of Lewis Hyde''s groundbreaking and influential study of creativity is a cause for across-the-board celebration.â€ â€”Geoff Dyer\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n By now a modern classic,\n <em>\n  The Gift\n </em>\n is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An illuminating and transformative book, and completely original in its view of the world,\n <em>\n  The Gift\n </em>\n is cherished by artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers. It is in itself a gift to all who discover the classic wisdom found in its pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10465'),
(18814, 'The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World', 'Lewis Hyde', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An illuminating and transformative book, and completely original in its view of the world, The Gift is cherished by artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers. It is in itself a gift to all who discover the classic wisdom found in its pages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21160'),
(18815, 'Gifts of War', 'Mackenzie Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n During the Christmas Truce of 1914, Hal Montgomery, a British soldier, is given a photo by a German soldier, Wilhelm Wetzlar, and they make a pact. Hal promises to find his enemy''s English girlfriend, Sam, and let her know her fiance is alive and thinking of her. Several weeks later, Halnow injuredis discharged from the army and goes to Stratford on Avon to fulfill his promise. But things take an unexpected turn when he meets the woman in the photo and falls in love with her himself. As their romance blossoms, Sam shares with Hal her most private confidence: Her newborn son is of German lineage, information that threatens her reputation and her job as a schoolteacher. Fearful that he will lose Sam, Hal holds tight to the secretand the photographthat brought them together. The scene shifts to London, where Hal becomes involved with military intelligence and is introduced to Sam''s sisters and a different kind of secrecy. Against the broader landscape of England in wartime,Gifts of Warcaptures the era and the fates of men and women caught in the sweep of history. A vivid tale of romance, adventure, and intrigue, the novel is a remarkable narrative that explores what made War World I so tragic, so revolutionary, and so exciting. It also announces a gifted new novelist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3247'),
(18816, 'Gifts of War', 'Mackenzie Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n During the Christmas Truce of 1914, Hal Montgomery, a British soldier, is given a photo by a German soldier, Wilhelm Wetzlar, and they make a pact. Hal promises to find his enemy''s English girlfriend, Sam, and let her know her fiance is alive and thinking of her. Several weeks later, Halnow injuredis discharged from the army and goes to Stratford on Avon to fulfill his promise. But things take an unexpected turn when he meets the woman in the photo and falls in love with her himself. As their romance blossoms, Sam shares with Hal her most private confidence: Her newborn son is of German lineage, information that threatens her reputation and her job as a schoolteacher. Fearful that he will lose Sam, Hal holds tight to the secretand the photographthat brought them together. The scene shifts to London, where Hal becomes involved with military intelligence and is introduced to Sam''s sisters and a different kind of secrecy. Against the broader landscape of England in wartime,Gifts of Warcaptures the era and the fates of men and women caught in the sweep of history. A vivid tale of romance, adventure, and intrigue, the novel is a remarkable narrative that explores what made War World I so tragic, so revolutionary, and so exciting. It also announces a gifted new novelist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9689'),
(18817, 'Gifts of War', 'Mackenzie Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: During the Christmas Truce of 1914, Hal Montgomery, a British soldier, is given a photo by a German soldier, Wilhelm Wetzlar, and they make a pact. Hal promises to find his enemy''s English girlfriend, Sam, and let her know her fiance is alive and thinking of her. Several weeks later, Halnow injuredis discharged from the army and goes to Stratford on Avon to fulfill his promise. But things take an unexpected turn when he meets the woman in the photo and falls in love with her himself. As their romance blossoms, Sam shares with Hal her most private confidence: Her newborn son is of German lineage, information that threatens her reputation and her job as a schoolteacher. Fearful that he will lose Sam, Hal holds tight to the secretand the photographthat brought them together. The scene shifts to London, where Hal becomes involved with military intelligence and is introduced to Sam''s sisters and a different kind of secrecy. Against the broader landscape of England in wartime,Gifts of Warcaptures the era and the fates of men and women caught in the sweep of history. A vivid tale of romance, adventure, and intrigue, the novel is a remarkable narrative that explores what made War World I so tragic, so revolutionary, and so exciting. It also announces a gifted new novelist.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21309'),
(18818, 'Gilded Age', 'Mark Twain &amp; Charles Dudley Warner &amp; Ron Powers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Introduction by Ron PowersIncludes Newly Commissioned EndnotesArguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name. Co-written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, this rollicking novel is rife with unscrupulous politicians, colorful plutocrats, and blindly optimistic speculators caught up in a frenzy of romance, murder, and surefire deals gone bust. First published in 1873 and filled with unforgettable characters such as the vainglorious Colonel Sellers and the ruthless Senator Dilsworthy, The Gilded Age is a hilarious and instructive lesson in American history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12335'),
(18819, 'Gilded Chain', 'Dave Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the heels of his resoundingly praised fantasy series THE GREAT GAME, author Dave Duncan returns to the form with which he originally established his reputation: the epic sword-and-sorcery adventure. The breathtaking saga of THE KING''S BLADES begins with THE GILDED CHAIN, the relentlessly exciting story of an unparalleled swordsman trained from early childhood to take his place among the King''s elite corps of warrior/bodyguards in a dangerously uncertain fantasy realm. Audaciously taking as his own name of Kingdom''s most fabled champion of long ago, Durandel sees his lifelong dream of serving his liege dashed to bits whenhe is bonded for life, not to his beloved king, but to an effete noble fop. ButDestiny has inscrutable plans for this able young knight in an ancient, isolated cityin a land far from the blood intrigues of the perilous court. On a mission thatpromises glory and great treasures, grisly secrets of opulence and immortality willbe revealed--while countless betrayals and untold horrors combine to threaten a remarkable future prophesied for a warrior who could be the mightiest hero in the history of the monarchy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17283'),
(18820, 'Gilded Chain', 'Dave Duncan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the heels of his resoundingly praised fantasy series THE GREAT GAME, author Dave Duncan returns to the form with which he originally established his reputation: the epic sword-and-sorcery adventure. The breathtaking saga of THE KING''S BLADES begins with THE GILDED CHAIN, the relentlessly exciting story of an unparalleled swordsman trained from early childhood to take his place among the King''s elite corps of warrior/bodyguards in a dangerously uncertain fantasy realm. Audaciously taking as his own name of Kingdom''s most fabled champion of long ago, Durandel sees his lifelong dream of serving his liege dashed to bits whenhe is bonded for life, not to his beloved king, but to an effete noble fop. ButDestiny has inscrutable plans for this able young knight in an ancient, isolated cityin a land far from the blood intrigues of the perilous court. On a mission thatpromises glory and great treasures, grisly secrets of opulence and immortality willbe revealed--while countless betrayals and untold horrors combine to threaten a remarkable future prophesied for a warrior who could be the mightiest hero in the history of the monarchy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27268'),
(18821, 'Gilead (2005 Pulitzer Prize)', 'Marilynne Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 1981, Marilynne Robinson wrote Housekeeping, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and became a modern classic. Since then, she has written two pieces of nonfiction: Mother Country and The Death of Adam. With Gilead, we have, at last, another work of fiction. As with The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzards''s return, 22 years after The Transit of Venus, it was worth the long wait. Books such as these take time, and thought, and a certain kind of genius. There are no invidious comparisons to be made. Robinson''s books are unalike in every way but one: the same incisive thought and careful prose illuminate both. The narrator, John Ames, is 76, a preacher who has lived almost all of his life in Gilead, Iowa. He is writing a letter to his almost seven-year-old son, the blessing of his second marriage. It is a summing-up, an apologia, a consideration of his life. Robinson takes the story away from being simply the reminiscences of one man and moves it into the realm of a meditation on fathers and children, particularly sons, on faith, and on the imperfectability of man. The reason for the letter is Ames''s failing health. He wants to leave an account of himself for this son who will never really know him. His greatest regret is that he hasn''t much to leave them, in worldly terms. "Your mother told you I''m writing your begats, and you seemed very pleased with the idea. Well, then. What should I record for you?" In the course of the narrative, John Ames records himself, inside and out, in a meditative style. Robinson''s prose asks the reader to slow down to the pace of an old man in Gilead, Iowa, in 1956. Ames writes of his father and grandfather, estranged over his grandfather''s departure for Kansas to march for abolition and his father''s lifelong pacifism. The tension between them, their love for each other and their inability to bridge the chasm of their beliefs is a constant source of rumination for John Ames. Fathers and sons. The other constant in the book is Ames''s friendship since childhood with "old Boughton," a Presbyterian minister. Boughton, father of many children, favors his son, named John Ames Boughton, above all others. Ames must constantly monitor his tendency to be envious of Boughton''s bounteous family; his first wife died in childbirth and the baby died almost immediately after her. Jack Boughton is a ne''er-do-well, Ames knows it and strives to love him as he knows he should. Jack arrives in Gilead after a long absence, full of charm and mischief, causing Ames to wonder what influence he might have on Ames''s young wife and son when Ames dies. These are the things that Ames tells his son about: his ancestors, the nature of love and friendship, the part that faith and prayer play in every life and an awareness of one''s own culpability. There is also reconciliation without resignation, self-awareness without deprecation, abundant good humor, philosophical queries--Jack asks, "''Do you ever wonder why American Christianity seems to wait for the real thinking to be done elsewhere?''"--and an ongoing sense of childlike wonder at the beauty and variety of God''s world. In Marilynne Robinson''s hands, there is a balm in Gilead, as the old spiritual tells us. --Valerie Ryan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13673'),
(18822, 'Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day', 'Jack Boulware &amp; Silke Tudor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An oral history of the modern punk-revival''s West Coast Birthplace\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Outside of New York and London, California''s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world.\n  <em>\n   Gimme Something Better\n  </em>\n  brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra''s bid for mayor, the rise of\n  <em>\n   Maximum RocknRoll\n  </em>\n  magazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco''s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley''s Gilman Street. Compiled by longtime Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor,\n  <em>\n   Gimme Something Better\n  </em>\n  chronicles more than two decades of punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence, told by the people who made it happen.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jack Boulware\n  </strong>\n  is the author of\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Bizarro\n  </em>\n  , and was a columnist at\n  <em>\n   SF Weekly\n  </em>\n  throughout the 1990s. His writing has appeared in many publications including\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Playboy\n  </em>\n  and _ Mojo_.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Silke Tudor\n  </strong>\n  was born in the Bay Area and reared on punk. She was a columnist at\n  <em>\n   SF Weekly\n  </em>\n  and the\n  <em>\n   Village Voice\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4877'),
(18823, 'Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day', 'Jack Boulware &amp; Silke Tudor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An oral history of the modern punk-revival''s West Coast Birthplace\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Outside of New York and London, California''s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world.\n  <em>\n   Gimme Something Better\n  </em>\n  brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra''s bid for mayor, the rise of\n  <em>\n   Maximum RocknRoll\n  </em>\n  magazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco''s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley''s Gilman Street. Compiled by longtime Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor,\n  <em>\n   Gimme Something Better\n  </em>\n  chronicles more than two decades of punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence, told by the people who made it happen.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jack Boulware\n  </strong>\n  is the author of\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Bizarro\n  </em>\n  , and was a columnist at\n  <em>\n   SF Weekly\n  </em>\n  throughout the 1990s. His writing has appeared in many publications including\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Playboy\n  </em>\n  and _ Mojo_.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Silke Tudor\n  </strong>\n  was born in the Bay Area and reared on punk. She was a columnist at\n  <em>\n   SF Weekly\n  </em>\n  and the\n  <em>\n   Village Voice\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8565'),
(18824, 'Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day', 'Jack Boulware; Silke Tudor', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An oral history of the modern punk-revival''s West Coast Birthplace\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Outside of New York and London, California''s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world.\n  <em>\n   Gimme Something Better\n  </em>\n  brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra''s bid for mayor, the rise of\n  <em>\n   Maximum RocknRoll\n  </em>\n  magazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco''s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley''s Gilman Street. Compiled by longtime Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor,\n  <em>\n   Gimme Something Better\n  </em>\n  chronicles more than two decades of punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence, told by the people who made it happen.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Jack Boulware\n  </strong>\n  is the author of\n  <em>\n   San Francisco Bizarro\n  </em>\n  , and was a columnist at\n  <em>\n   SF Weekly\n  </em>\n  throughout the 1990s. His writing has appeared in many publications including\n  <em>\n   The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Playboy\n  </em>\n  and _ Mojo_.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Silke Tudor\n  </strong>\n  was born in the Bay Area and reared on punk. She was a columnist at\n  <em>\n   SF Weekly\n  </em>\n  and the\n  <em>\n   Village Voice\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19699'),
(18825, 'Ginger and Ganesh: Adventures in Indian Cooking, Culture, and Love', 'Nani Power', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Ginger and Ganesh\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn the same vein as Elizabeth Gilbertâ€™s\n <em>\n  Eat, Pray, Love\n </em>\n , this book weaves together one womanâ€™s encounter with Indian cuisine and culture and her own life, love, and spirituality. This descriptive, introspective narrative . . . is also informative for those wishing to focus on the food.â€ â€”_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Nani Power\n</p>\n<p>\n "A formidable young writer . . . one who can put you in mind of both Mary Gaitskill and Denis Johnson." â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Power] has an astonishing talent . . . deeply affecting." â€”_Bookforum_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Power weaves a fine yarn of the lost and lonely seeking intimacy and love.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_ on\n <em>\n  Sea of Tears\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œPlease teach me Indian cooking! I will bring ingredients and pay you for your trouble. I would like to know about your culture as well.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n And with this posting on Craigslist, so begins Nani Powerâ€™s journey to learn traditional Indian cooking in the most ancient of waysâ€”woman to woman. Welcomed warmly into the homes of strangers, Power meets women of all ages and backgrounds, and from them learns the skills that were passed on to them from their own mothers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Through the senses of the kitchen, Power re-examines her own path as a woman. She takes the reader into a culture, a cuisine, and the female psyche, with recipes and stories from each chapter revealing the struggle of modern women. Along the way, she manages to fall in love when she least expects to.\n</p>\n<p>\n The recipes shared in this collection are far from ordinary; they are treasured family recipes from vegetarian homes in Indiaâ€”from homemade cheese cubes in a rich cilantro and almond curry to coconut-stuffed okra and luscious potato-curry dumplings. Powerâ€™s recipes and stories pave the road to understanding a culture that is at the same time ancient and so very much part of our modern world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2725'),
(18826, 'Ginger and Ganesh: Adventures in Indian Cooking, Culture, and Love', 'Nani Power', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Ginger and Ganesh\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn the same vein as Elizabeth Gilbertâ€™s\n <em>\n  Eat, Pray, Love\n </em>\n , this book weaves together one womanâ€™s encounter with Indian cuisine and culture and her own life, love, and spirituality. This descriptive, introspective narrative . . . is also informative for those wishing to focus on the food.â€ â€”_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Nani Power\n</p>\n<p>\n "A formidable young writer . . . one who can put you in mind of both Mary Gaitskill and Denis Johnson." â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Power] has an astonishing talent . . . deeply affecting." â€”_Bookforum_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Power weaves a fine yarn of the lost and lonely seeking intimacy and love.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_ on\n <em>\n  Sea of Tears\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œPlease teach me Indian cooking! I will bring ingredients and pay you for your trouble. I would like to know about your culture as well.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n And with this posting on Craigslist, so begins Nani Powerâ€™s journey to learn traditional Indian cooking in the most ancient of waysâ€”woman to woman. Welcomed warmly into the homes of strangers, Power meets women of all ages and backgrounds, and from them learns the skills that were passed on to them from their own mothers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Through the senses of the kitchen, Power re-examines her own path as a woman. She takes the reader into a culture, a cuisine, and the female psyche, with recipes and stories from each chapter revealing the struggle of modern women. Along the way, she manages to fall in love when she least expects to.\n</p>\n<p>\n The recipes shared in this collection are far from ordinary; they are treasured family recipes from vegetarian homes in Indiaâ€”from homemade cheese cubes in a rich cilantro and almond curry to coconut-stuffed okra and luscious potato-curry dumplings. Powerâ€™s recipes and stories pave the road to understanding a culture that is at the same time ancient and so very much part of our modern world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11082');
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(18827, 'Ginger and Ganesh: Adventures in Indian Cooking, Culture, and Love', 'Nani Power', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Praise for\n <em>\n  Ginger and Ganesh\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn the same vein as Elizabeth Gilbertâ€™s\n <em>\n  Eat, Pray, Love\n </em>\n , this book weaves together one womanâ€™s encounter with Indian cuisine and culture and her own life, love, and spirituality. This descriptive, introspective narrative . . . is also informative for those wishing to focus on the food.â€ â€”_Library Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n Praise for Nani Power\n</p>\n<p>\n "A formidable young writer . . . one who can put you in mind of both Mary Gaitskill and Denis Johnson." â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Power] has an astonishing talent . . . deeply affecting." â€”_Bookforum_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Power weaves a fine yarn of the lost and lonely seeking intimacy and love.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_ on\n <em>\n  Sea of Tears\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œPlease teach me Indian cooking! I will bring ingredients and pay you for your trouble. I would like to know about your culture as well.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n And with this posting on Craigslist, so begins Nani Powerâ€™s journey to learn traditional Indian cooking in the most ancient of waysâ€”woman to woman. Welcomed warmly into the homes of strangers, Power meets women of all ages and backgrounds, and from them learns the skills that were passed on to them from their own mothers.\n</p>\n<p>\n Through the senses of the kitchen, Power re-examines her own path as a woman. She takes the reader into a culture, a cuisine, and the female psyche, with recipes and stories from each chapter revealing the struggle of modern women. Along the way, she manages to fall in love when she least expects to.\n</p>\n<p>\n The recipes shared in this collection are far from ordinary; they are treasured family recipes from vegetarian homes in Indiaâ€”from homemade cheese cubes in a rich cilantro and almond curry to coconut-stuffed okra and luscious potato-curry dumplings. Powerâ€™s recipes and stories pave the road to understanding a culture that is at the same time ancient and so very much part of our modern world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22093'),
(18828, 'The Ginger Man', 'J. P. Donleavy &amp; Jay McInerney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n First published in Paris in 1955, and originally banned in the United States, J. P. Donleavy''s first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavys wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Danger-field, a young American ne''er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. He barely has time for his studies and avoids bill collectors, makes love to almost anything in a skirt, and tries to survive without having to descend into the bottomless pit of steady work. Dangerfield''s appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4963'),
(18829, 'The Ginger Man', 'J. P. Donleavy &amp; Jay McInerney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n First published in Paris in 1955, and originally banned in the United States, J. P. Donleavy''s first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavys wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Danger-field, a young American ne''er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. He barely has time for his studies and avoids bill collectors, makes love to almost anything in a skirt, and tries to survive without having to descend into the bottomless pit of steady work. Dangerfield''s appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10909'),
(18830, 'The Ginger Man', 'J. P. Donleavy; Jay McInerney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First published in Paris in 1955, and originally banned in the United States, J. P. Donleavy''s first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavys wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Danger-field, a young American ne''er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. He barely has time for his studies and avoids bill collectors, makes love to almost anything in a skirt, and tries to survive without having to descend into the bottomless pit of steady work. Dangerfield''s appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19749'),
(18831, 'The Ginger Man', 'J. P. Donleavy; Jay McInerney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: First published in Paris in 1955, and originally banned in the United States, J. P. Donleavy''s first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavys wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Danger-field, a young American ne''er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. He barely has time for his studies and avoids bill collectors, makes love to almost anything in a skirt, and tries to survive without having to descend into the bottomless pit of steady work. Dangerfield''s appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28297'),
(18832, 'Gingerbread', 'Rachel Cohn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *"I have promised to be a model citizen daughter....I have confined my Shrimp time to making out with him in the Java the Hut supply closet and quick feels on the cold hard sand at the beach during our breaks, but enough is enough....Delia and I are planning a party at Wallace and Shrimp''s house and I am spending the night whether Sid and Nancy notice or not. I will be as wild as I wanna be."*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After being kicked out of a fancy New England boarding school, Cyd Charisse is back home in San Francisco with her parents, Sid and Nancy, in a household that drives her crazy. Lucky for Cyd, she''s always had Gingerbread, her childhood rag doll and confidante.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After Cyd tests her parents'' permissiveness, she is grounded in Alcatraz (as Cyd calls her room) and forbidden to see Shrimp, her surfer boyfriend. But when her incarceration proves too painful for the whole family, Cyd''s parents decide to send her to New York to meet her biological father and his family, whom Cyd has always longed to know.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Summer in the city is not what Cyd Charisse expects -- and Cyd isn''t what her newfound family expects, either.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With *Gingerbread,* debut author Rachel Cohn creates a spirited world of in-your-face characters who are going to stay with readers for a long time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2029'),
(18833, 'Gingham Bride', 'Jillian Hart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fiona O''Rourke doesn''t believe in loveâ€”and certainly not in a marriage arranged by her cruel father. And even if her unexpected betrothed seems honorable and kind, can she trust his motivesâ€¦or the attraction between them?Ian McPherson came to Montana to salvage his family''s dwindling fortune, not to take a wife. But he''s instantly drawn to Fiona. He wants to protect herâ€”even if that means pretending that they''re engaged. In a season of surprises and miracles, there''s nothing he won''t give to show Fiona his love is for always.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4482'),
(18834, 'Gingham Bride', 'Jillian Hart', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Fiona O''Rourke doesn''t believe in loveâ€”and certainly not in a marriage arranged by her cruel father. And even if her unexpected betrothed seems honorable and kind, can she trust his motivesâ€¦or the attraction between them?Ian McPherson came to Montana to salvage his family''s dwindling fortune, not to take a wife. But he''s instantly drawn to Fiona. He wants to protect herâ€”even if that means pretending that they''re engaged. In a season of surprises and miracles, there''s nothing he won''t give to show Fiona his love is for always.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10253'),
(18835, 'The Girl Had Guts', 'Theodore Sturgeon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22920'),
(18836, 'The Girl in the Blue Dress', 'Mary Burchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Can a man fall in love with a painting? The girl in the blue dress was in a portrait that Franklin Lowell had owned and admired for years. And when, at last, he met the original model for the picture, it seemed to be too late. Not only was she in love with the artist who had painted her, but Franklin himself was engaged to another woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3048'),
(18837, 'The girl in the blue dress', 'Mary Burchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Can a man fall in love with a painting? The girl in the blue dress was in a portrait that Franklin Lowell had owned and admired for years. And when, at last, he met the original model for the picture, it seemed to be too late. Not only was she in love with the artist who had painted her, but Franklin himself was engaged to another woman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21770'),
(18838, 'The Girl in the Glass', 'Jeffery Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to master grifter Thomas Schell. Together with Schell''s gruff and powerful partner, they sail comfortably through hard times, scamming New York''s grieving rich with elaborate, ingeniously staged sÃ©ances -- until an impossible occurrence changes everything. While "communing with spirits," Schell sees an image of a young girl in a pane of glass, silently entreating the con man for help. Though well aware that his otherworldly "powers" are a sham, Schell inexplicably offers his services to help find the lost child -- drawing Diego along with him into a tangled maze of deadly secrets and terrible experimentation. At once a hypnotically compelling mystery and a stunningly evocative portrait of Depression-era New York, The Girl in the Glass is a masterly literary adventure from a writer of exemplary vision and skill.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18161'),
(18839, 'The Girl in the Green Raincoat: A Novel', 'Laura Lippman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Originally serialized in the New York Times Magazine, Lippman''s Tess Monaghan novella turns the intrepid Baltimore PI''s at-risk late-pregnancy bed rest into a compellingly edgy riff on Hitchcock''s Rear Window. Lovingly tucked up on her winterized sun porch, Tess marshals her forces--doting artist boyfriend Crow, best friend Whitney Talbot, middle-aged assistant gumshoe Mrs. Blossom, and researcher Dorie Starnes--to probe the disappearance of a chic blonde green-raincoated dog walker she''d been watching from her comfy prison. Tess also takes in the missing woman''s abandoned green-slickered Italian greyhound from hell, a miniature canine terrorist whose anti-housebreaking vendetta offers comic relief from Tess''s threatened pre-eclampsia, her obsessive unraveling of a complex scam, and her last-trimester spats with Crow about their future. Though postpartum Tess turns alternately weepy and shrill, that condition won''t last, and this entertaining romp leaves plenty of hints of detective-mother exploits to come. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Rear Window, Jimmy Stewart played a photographer who spies on his neighbors while recuperating from a broken leg. In Lippmanâ€™s latest entry in her long-running series featuring Tess Monaghan, a hugely pregnant Tess, suffering from preeclampsia, is ordered to spend the last two months of her pregnancy on bed rest. And, shades of Rear Window, it doesnâ€™t take long for the curious and incredibly bored investigator to procure a pair of binoculars and start spying on the dog walkers in the park across the street. Sheâ€™s especially interested in the girl in the green raincoat and her prancing little greyhound. When, later in the week, she spots the dog running through the park alone, she determines to track down the petâ€™s missing mistress. And what she finds is a guilty-looking husband with two dead wives and a dead girlfriend in his past. In addition to the central mystery, Lippman provides witty writing and a running theme on the meaning of family, and there are also welcome appearances by Tessâ€™ independent-minded best friend, Whitney; her long-suffering boyfriend, Crow; and her ace employee, Mrs. Blossom. Another winning entry in the series. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Itâ€™s always an event when Laura Lippman, who has won every major crime-fiction award going, delivers a new Tess Monaghan story. This novella first appeared in serial format in the New York Times Magazine. --Joanne Wilkinson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7949'),
(18840, 'The Girl in the Green Raincoat: A Novel', 'Laura Lippman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Originally serialized in the New York Times Magazine, Lippman''s Tess Monaghan novella turns the intrepid Baltimore PI''s at-risk late-pregnancy bed rest into a compellingly edgy riff on Hitchcock''s Rear Window. Lovingly tucked up on her winterized sun porch, Tess marshals her forces--doting artist boyfriend Crow, best friend Whitney Talbot, middle-aged assistant gumshoe Mrs. Blossom, and researcher Dorie Starnes--to probe the disappearance of a chic blonde green-raincoated dog walker she''d been watching from her comfy prison. Tess also takes in the missing woman''s abandoned green-slickered Italian greyhound from hell, a miniature canine terrorist whose anti-housebreaking vendetta offers comic relief from Tess''s threatened pre-eclampsia, her obsessive unraveling of a complex scam, and her last-trimester spats with Crow about their future. Though postpartum Tess turns alternately weepy and shrill, that condition won''t last, and this entertaining romp leaves plenty of hints of detective-mother exploits to come. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Rear Window, Jimmy Stewart played a photographer who spies on his neighbors while recuperating from a broken leg. In Lippmanâ€™s latest entry in her long-running series featuring Tess Monaghan, a hugely pregnant Tess, suffering from preeclampsia, is ordered to spend the last two months of her pregnancy on bed rest. And, shades of Rear Window, it doesnâ€™t take long for the curious and incredibly bored investigator to procure a pair of binoculars and start spying on the dog walkers in the park across the street. Sheâ€™s especially interested in the girl in the green raincoat and her prancing little greyhound. When, later in the week, she spots the dog running through the park alone, she determines to track down the petâ€™s missing mistress. And what she finds is a guilty-looking husband with two dead wives and a dead girlfriend in his past. In addition to the central mystery, Lippman provides witty writing and a running theme on the meaning of family, and there are also welcome appearances by Tessâ€™ independent-minded best friend, Whitney; her long-suffering boyfriend, Crow; and her ace employee, Mrs. Blossom. Another winning entry in the series. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Itâ€™s always an event when Laura Lippman, who has won every major crime-fiction award going, delivers a new Tess Monaghan story. This novella first appeared in serial format in the New York Times Magazine. --Joanne Wilkinson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11184'),
(18841, 'The Girl in the Green Raincoat: A Novel', 'Laura Lippman', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Originally serialized in the New York Times Magazine, Lippman''s Tess Monaghan novella turns the intrepid Baltimore PI''s at-risk late-pregnancy bed rest into a compellingly edgy riff on Hitchcock''s Rear Window. Lovingly tucked up on her winterized sun porch, Tess marshals her forces--doting artist boyfriend Crow, best friend Whitney Talbot, middle-aged assistant gumshoe Mrs. Blossom, and researcher Dorie Starnes--to probe the disappearance of a chic blonde green-raincoated dog walker she''d been watching from her comfy prison. Tess also takes in the missing woman''s abandoned green-slickered Italian greyhound from hell, a miniature canine terrorist whose anti-housebreaking vendetta offers comic relief from Tess''s threatened pre-eclampsia, her obsessive unraveling of a complex scam, and her last-trimester spats with Crow about their future. Though postpartum Tess turns alternately weepy and shrill, that condition won''t last, and this entertaining romp leaves plenty of hints of detective-mother exploits to come. (Jan.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In Rear Window, Jimmy Stewart played a photographer who spies on his neighbors while recuperating from a broken leg. In Lippmanâ€™s latest entry in her long-running series featuring Tess Monaghan, a hugely pregnant Tess, suffering from preeclampsia, is ordered to spend the last two months of her pregnancy on bed rest. And, shades of Rear Window, it doesnâ€™t take long for the curious and incredibly bored investigator to procure a pair of binoculars and start spying on the dog walkers in the park across the street. Sheâ€™s especially interested in the girl in the green raincoat and her prancing little greyhound. When, later in the week, she spots the dog running through the park alone, she determines to track down the petâ€™s missing mistress. And what she finds is a guilty-looking husband with two dead wives and a dead girlfriend in his past. In addition to the central mystery, Lippman provides witty writing and a running theme on the meaning of family, and there are also welcome appearances by Tessâ€™ independent-minded best friend, Whitney; her long-suffering boyfriend, Crow; and her ace employee, Mrs. Blossom. Another winning entry in the series. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Itâ€™s always an event when Laura Lippman, who has won every major crime-fiction award going, delivers a new Tess Monaghan story. This novella first appeared in serial format in the New York Times Magazine. --Joanne Wilkinson\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20938'),
(18842, 'Girl in Translation', 'Jean Kwok', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family''s future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Through Kimberly''s story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, *Girl in Translation* is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4602'),
(18843, 'Girl in Translation', 'Jean Kwok', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family''s future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Through Kimberly''s story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, *Girl in Translation* is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12269'),
(18844, 'Girl in Translation', 'Jean Kwok', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. ** When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family''s future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles. Through Kimberly''s story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, *Girl in Translation* is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19986'),
(18845, 'Girl Missing', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY.She''s young. She''s beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a notebook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. THE NEXT BODY IS A WARNING.When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the city streets: a shadowy madman without mercy or apparent motive. The police are sceptical. The mayor won''t listen. And Kat''s chief suspect is one of the city''s most prominent citizens.THE FINAL BODY . . . MIGHT BE HERS.With the death toll rising, Kat races to expose a deadly conspiracy and the brutal killer at its heart - a killer who will stalk her from the dangerous streets of the inner city to the corridors of power. Because he''s closer than she ever dreamt. And every move she makes could be her very last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/721'),
(18846, 'Girl Missing', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY.She''s young. She''s beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a notebook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. THE NEXT BODY IS A WARNING.When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the city streets: a shadowy madman without mercy or apparent motive. The police are sceptical. The mayor won''t listen. And Kat''s chief suspect is one of the city''s most prominent citizens.THE FINAL BODY . . . MIGHT BE HERS.With the death toll rising, Kat races to expose a deadly conspiracy and the brutal killer at its heart - a killer who will stalk her from the dangerous streets of the inner city to the corridors of power. Because he''s closer than she ever dreamt. And every move she makes could be her very last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9906'),
(18847, 'Girl Missing', 'Tess Gerritsen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY.She''s young. She''s beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a notebook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. THE NEXT BODY IS A WARNING.When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the city streets: a shadowy madman without mercy or apparent motive. The police are sceptical. The mayor won''t listen. And Kat''s chief suspect is one of the city''s most prominent citizens.THE FINAL BODY . . . MIGHT BE HERS.With the death toll rising, Kat races to expose a deadly conspiracy and the brutal killer at its heart - a killer who will stalk her from the dangerous streets of the inner city to the corridors of power. Because he''s closer than she ever dreamt. And every move she makes could be her very last.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24242'),
(18848, 'The Girl of His Dreams', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Donna Leon''s "Commissario Guido Brunetti" mysteries have won legions of fans for their evocative portraits of Venetian life. In her novels, food, family, art, history, and local politics play as central a role as an unsolved crime. In "The Girl of His Dreams" when a friend of Brunetti''s brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work, calls with a request, Brunetti suspects the man''s motives. A new, American-style Protestant sect has begun to meet in the city, and it''s possible the priest is merely apprehensive of the competition. But the preacher could also be fleecing his growing flock, so Brunetti and Paola, along with Inspector Vianello and his wife, go undercover. But the investigation has to be put aside when, one cold and rainy morning, a body is found floating in a canal. It is a child, a gypsy girl. Brunetti suspects she fell off a nearby roof while fleeing an apartment she had robbed. He has to inform the distrustful parents, encamped on the mainland, and soon finds himself haunted by the crime--and the girl. Thought-provoking, eye-opening, and profoundly moving, "The Girl of His Dreams" is classic Donna Leon, a spectacular, heart-wrenching addition to the series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5890'),
(18849, 'The Girl of His Dreams', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Donna Leon''s "Commissario Guido Brunetti" mysteries have won legions of fans for their evocative portraits of Venetian life. In her novels, food, family, art, history, and local politics play as central a role as an unsolved crime. In "The Girl of His Dreams" when a friend of Brunetti''s brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work, calls with a request, Brunetti suspects the man''s motives. A new, American-style Protestant sect has begun to meet in the city, and it''s possible the priest is merely apprehensive of the competition. But the preacher could also be fleecing his growing flock, so Brunetti and Paola, along with Inspector Vianello and his wife, go undercover. But the investigation has to be put aside when, one cold and rainy morning, a body is found floating in a canal. It is a child, a gypsy girl. Brunetti suspects she fell off a nearby roof while fleeing an apartment she had robbed. He has to inform the distrustful parents, encamped on the mainland, and soon finds himself haunted by the crime--and the girl. Thought-provoking, eye-opening, and profoundly moving, "The Girl of His Dreams" is classic Donna Leon, a spectacular, heart-wrenching addition to the series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18743'),
(18850, 'The Girl of His Dreams', 'Donna Leon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Donna Leon''s "Commissario Guido Brunetti" mysteries have won legions of fans for their evocative portraits of Venetian life. In her novels, food, family, art, history, and local politics play as central a role as an unsolved crime. In "The Girl of His Dreams" when a friend of Brunetti''s brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work, calls with a request, Brunetti suspects the man''s motives. A new, American-style Protestant sect has begun to meet in the city, and it''s possible the priest is merely apprehensive of the competition. But the preacher could also be fleecing his growing flock, so Brunetti and Paola, along with Inspector Vianello and his wife, go undercover. But the investigation has to be put aside when, one cold and rainy morning, a body is found floating in a canal. It is a child, a gypsy girl. Brunetti suspects she fell off a nearby roof while fleeing an apartment she had robbed. He has to inform the distrustful parents, encamped on the mainland, and soon finds himself haunted by the crime--and the girl. Thought-provoking, eye-opening, and profoundly moving, "The Girl of His Dreams" is classic Donna Leon, a spectacular, heart-wrenching addition to the series.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27616'),
(18851, 'Girl on the Platform', 'Josephine Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n _Being aware of people, who for whatever reason find it difficult to read, I was only too pleased to write The Girl On The Platform. Reading is an exciting and demanding pleasure, which I believe should be enjoyed by everyone. I hope that all those who read this story find the same joy and belonging that I found in the writing of it_ Josephine CoxBest mates Mark and Pete board a train to London for their lads'' night out.As Pete finds a seat he notices a girl sitting on a bench. She looks sad and lonely. When the train leaves, he can''t get her out of his mind because in her, he has seen a glimpse of himself.Over the coming months Pete sees the girl often, but when tempted to speak to her, his courage fails.Then one day she simply disappears. Hopelessly besotted by this girl he believes to be his kindred spirit, Pete will not rest until he finds her_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4102'),
(18852, 'Girl on the Platform', 'Josephine Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n _Being aware of people, who for whatever reason find it difficult to read, I was only too pleased to write The Girl On The Platform. Reading is an exciting and demanding pleasure, which I believe should be enjoyed by everyone. I hope that all those who read this story find the same joy and belonging that I found in the writing of it_ Josephine CoxBest mates Mark and Pete board a train to London for their lads'' night out.As Pete finds a seat he notices a girl sitting on a bench. She looks sad and lonely. When the train leaves, he can''t get her out of his mind because in her, he has seen a glimpse of himself.Over the coming months Pete sees the girl often, but when tempted to speak to her, his courage fails.Then one day she simply disappears. Hopelessly besotted by this girl he believes to be his kindred spirit, Pete will not rest until he finds her_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9084'),
(18853, 'Girl on the Platform', 'Josephine Cox', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n _Being aware of people, who for whatever reason find it difficult to read, I was only too pleased to write The Girl On The Platform. Reading is an exciting and demanding pleasure, which I believe should be enjoyed by everyone. I hope that all those who read this story find the same joy and belonging that I found in the writing of it_ Josephine CoxBest mates Mark and Pete board a train to London for their lads'' night out.As Pete finds a seat he notices a girl sitting on a bench. She looks sad and lonely. When the train leaves, he can''t get her out of his mind because in her, he has seen a glimpse of himself.Over the coming months Pete sees the girl often, but when tempted to speak to her, his courage fails.Then one day she simply disappears. Hopelessly besotted by this girl he believes to be his kindred spirit, Pete will not rest until he finds her_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20465'),
(18854, 'Girl Out Back', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6859'),
(18855, 'Girl Out Back', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13386'),
(18856, 'Girl out back', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17037'),
(18857, 'Girl out back', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26882'),
(18858, 'The Girl She Used to Be', 'David Cristofano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Melody Grace McCartney was six years old, she and her parents witnessed an act of violence so brutal that it changed their lives forever. The federal government lured them into the Witness Protection Program with the promise of safety, and they went gratefully. But the program took Melody''s name, her home, her innocence, and, ultimately, her family. She''s been May Adams, Karen Smith, Anne Johnson, and countless others--everyone but the one person she longs to be: herself. So when the feds spirit her off to begin yet another new life in another town, she''s stunned when a man confronts her and calls her by her real name. Jonathan Bovaro, the mafioso sent to hunt her down, knows her, the real her, and it''s a dangerous thrill that Melody can''t resist. He''s insistent that she''s just a pawn in the government''s war against the Bovaro family. But can she trust her life and her identity to this vicious stranger whose acts of violence are legendary?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6321'),
(18859, 'The Girl She Used to Be', 'David Cristofano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Melody Grace McCartney was six years old, she and her parents witnessed an act of violence so brutal that it changed their lives forever. The federal government lured them into the Witness Protection Program with the promise of safety, and they went gratefully. But the program took Melody''s name, her home, her innocence, and, ultimately, her family. She''s been May Adams, Karen Smith, Anne Johnson, and countless others--everyone but the one person she longs to be: herself. So when the feds spirit her off to begin yet another new life in another town, she''s stunned when a man confronts her and calls her by her real name. Jonathan Bovaro, the mafioso sent to hunt her down, knows her, the real her, and it''s a dangerous thrill that Melody can''t resist. He''s insistent that she''s just a pawn in the government''s war against the Bovaro family. But can she trust her life and her identity to this vicious stranger whose acts of violence are legendary?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9183'),
(18860, 'The Girl She Used to Be', 'David Cristofano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Melody Grace McCartney was six years old, she and her parents witnessed an act of violence so brutal that it changed their lives forever. The federal government lured them into the Witness Protection Program with the promise of safety, and they went gratefully. But the program took Melody''s name, her home, her innocence, and, ultimately, her family. She''s been May Adams, Karen Smith, Anne Johnson, and countless others--everyone but the one person she longs to be: herself. So when the feds spirit her off to begin yet another new life in another town, she''s stunned when a man confronts her and calls her by her real name. Jonathan Bovaro, the mafioso sent to hunt her down, knows her, the real her, and it''s a dangerous thrill that Melody can''t resist. He''s insistent that she''s just a pawn in the government''s war against the Bovaro family. But can she trust her life and her identity to this vicious stranger whose acts of violence are legendary?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17699'),
(18861, 'The Girl She Used to Be', 'David Cristofano', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Melody Grace McCartney was six years old, she and her parents witnessed an act of violence so brutal that it changed their lives forever. The federal government lured them into the Witness Protection Program with the promise of safety, and they went gratefully. But the program took Melody''s name, her home, her innocence, and, ultimately, her family. She''s been May Adams, Karen Smith, Anne Johnson, and countless others--everyone but the one person she longs to be: herself. So when the feds spirit her off to begin yet another new life in another town, she''s stunned when a man confronts her and calls her by her real name. Jonathan Bovaro, the mafioso sent to hunt her down, knows her, the real her, and it''s a dangerous thrill that Melody can''t resist. He''s insistent that she''s just a pawn in the government''s war against the Bovaro family. But can she trust her life and her identity to this vicious stranger whose acts of violence are legendary?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27223'),
(18862, 'The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel', 'Sarah Addison Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her latest enchanting novel, "New York Times" bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world--no matter how out of place they feel. Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother''s life. Such as, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly? And why did she vow never to return? But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew--a reclusive, real-life gentle giant--she realizes that mysteries aren''t solved in Mullaby, they''re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor bakes hope in the form of cakes. Everyone in Mullaby adores Julia Winterson''s cakes--which is a good thing, because Julia can''t seem to stop baking them. She offers them to satisfy the town''s sweet tooth but also in the hope of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Flour, eggs, milk, and sugar . . . Baking is the only language the proud but vulnerable Julia has to communicate what is truly in her heart. But is it enough to call back to her those she''s hurt in the past? Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily''s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits, the unexpected fits right in. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1394'),
(18863, 'The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel', 'Sarah Addison Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her latest enchanting novel, "New York Times" bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world--no matter how out of place they feel. Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother''s life. Such as, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly? And why did she vow never to return? But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew--a reclusive, real-life gentle giant--she realizes that mysteries aren''t solved in Mullaby, they''re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor bakes hope in the form of cakes. Everyone in Mullaby adores Julia Winterson''s cakes--which is a good thing, because Julia can''t seem to stop baking them. She offers them to satisfy the town''s sweet tooth but also in the hope of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Flour, eggs, milk, and sugar . . . Baking is the only language the proud but vulnerable Julia has to communicate what is truly in her heart. But is it enough to call back to her those she''s hurt in the past? Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily''s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits, the unexpected fits right in. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9310'),
(18864, 'The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel', 'Sarah Addison Allen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In her latest enchanting novel, "New York Times" bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world--no matter how out of place they feel. Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother''s life. Such as, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly? And why did she vow never to return? But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew--a reclusive, real-life gentle giant--she realizes that mysteries aren''t solved in Mullaby, they''re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor bakes hope in the form of cakes. Everyone in Mullaby adores Julia Winterson''s cakes--which is a good thing, because Julia can''t seem to stop baking them. She offers them to satisfy the town''s sweet tooth but also in the hope of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Flour, eggs, milk, and sugar . . . Baking is the only language the proud but vulnerable Julia has to communicate what is truly in her heart. But is it enough to call back to her those she''s hurt in the past? Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily''s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits, the unexpected fits right in. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23486'),
(18865, 'The Girl Who Could Fly', 'Victoria Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5â€“8â€”Somewhere in the U.S., in a small farming community called Lowland County, a girl named Piper McCloud is born to a simple, God-fearing farmer and his wife. Piper has a special talent: she can fly. What follows is an uneasy mix of fantasy and science fiction that has plot points that are fairly derivative. When her talent for flying is discovered, a charismatic director of a special school takes Piper under her wing. She arrives at an amazing place with multiple floors and discovers a lot of other kids with extraordinary powers, tooâ€”as well as a nefarious plot to remove their special talents by altering their DNA. Character development is achieved by the author telling, not showing, readers, and speech patterns are not always successful. Piper''s rural, colloquial manner of speech seems out of place in a time period that appears to be present day and borders on caricature, especially when she utters phrases such as, "Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit!" The writing style is clunky, and the author strives to be clever with wordplay. For example, the evil director of the school is named Dr. Letitia Hellion, and the German professor, whose accent is almost unintelligible, is named Dr. Mumbley. The acronym for the school, or institute, is I.N.S.A.N.E. (Institute of Normalcy, Stability, and NonExceptionality). The book ends with the kids taking over the school, and the affirmation of everyone''s differences, and everyone''s right to "be themselves." Libraries looking for engaging fantasy will want to look elsewhere.â€”_Jennifer Ralston, Harford County Public Library, Belcamp, MD_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  In thisÂ terrific debut novel, readers meet Piper McCloud, the late-in-life daughter of farmers. Her parents revel in conformity, so itâ€™s disconcerting at best when Piper shows a talent for flying.Â Homeschooled and kept away from outsiders, Piper is lonely. Finally, herÂ parents let her go to a community picnic, whereÂ she thinks sheâ€™ll meet new friends. Instead, she terrifies the neighbors byÂ flying upÂ toÂ catch a ball during aÂ kidsâ€™Â game.Â In no time, the McCloud farm is besieged. Then, out of a helicopter comes the empathetic Dr. Letitia Hellion,Â who whisks Piper off toÂ a secret school for kids with special talents. But are things there what they seem to be? No.Â Forester getsÂ almost everything right here. The story soars, just like Piper, with enough loop-de-loops to keepÂ kids uncertain about what will come next.Â Her plainspoken heroine has aÂ big heart and a strong streak of defiance,Â andÂ Piperâ€™s reactionsÂ always seem true, even in the midst of sf machinations. ManyÂ other charactersÂ are alsoÂ clearly setÂ within the context of theirÂ lives, giving themÂ dimensionÂ sometimes lacking in supporting casts. Best of all are the bookâ€™s strong, lightly wrapped messagesÂ about friendship andÂ authenticity and the difference between doing well and doing good.Â Give this to fans of Trenton Lee Stuartâ€™s The Mysterious Benedict SocietyÂ (2007). Grades 4-7. --Ilene Cooper\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/358');
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(18866, 'The Girl Who Could Fly', 'Victoria Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5â€“8â€”Somewhere in the U.S., in a small farming community called Lowland County, a girl named Piper McCloud is born to a simple, God-fearing farmer and his wife. Piper has a special talent: she can fly. What follows is an uneasy mix of fantasy and science fiction that has plot points that are fairly derivative. When her talent for flying is discovered, a charismatic director of a special school takes Piper under her wing. She arrives at an amazing place with multiple floors and discovers a lot of other kids with extraordinary powers, tooâ€”as well as a nefarious plot to remove their special talents by altering their DNA. Character development is achieved by the author telling, not showing, readers, and speech patterns are not always successful. Piper''s rural, colloquial manner of speech seems out of place in a time period that appears to be present day and borders on caricature, especially when she utters phrases such as, "Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit!" The writing style is clunky, and the author strives to be clever with wordplay. For example, the evil director of the school is named Dr. Letitia Hellion, and the German professor, whose accent is almost unintelligible, is named Dr. Mumbley. The acronym for the school, or institute, is I.N.S.A.N.E. (Institute of Normalcy, Stability, and NonExceptionality). The book ends with the kids taking over the school, and the affirmation of everyone''s differences, and everyone''s right to "be themselves." Libraries looking for engaging fantasy will want to look elsewhere.â€”_Jennifer Ralston, Harford County Public Library, Belcamp, MD_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  In thisÂ terrific debut novel, readers meet Piper McCloud, the late-in-life daughter of farmers. Her parents revel in conformity, so itâ€™s disconcerting at best when Piper shows a talent for flying.Â Homeschooled and kept away from outsiders, Piper is lonely. Finally, herÂ parents let her go to a community picnic, whereÂ she thinks sheâ€™ll meet new friends. Instead, she terrifies the neighbors byÂ flying upÂ toÂ catch a ball during aÂ kidsâ€™Â game.Â In no time, the McCloud farm is besieged. Then, out of a helicopter comes the empathetic Dr. Letitia Hellion,Â who whisks Piper off toÂ a secret school for kids with special talents. But are things there what they seem to be? No.Â Forester getsÂ almost everything right here. The story soars, just like Piper, with enough loop-de-loops to keepÂ kids uncertain about what will come next.Â Her plainspoken heroine has aÂ big heart and a strong streak of defiance,Â andÂ Piperâ€™s reactionsÂ always seem true, even in the midst of sf machinations. ManyÂ other charactersÂ are alsoÂ clearly setÂ within the context of theirÂ lives, giving themÂ dimensionÂ sometimes lacking in supporting casts. Best of all are the bookâ€™s strong, lightly wrapped messagesÂ about friendship andÂ authenticity and the difference between doing well and doing good.Â Give this to fans of Trenton Lee Stuartâ€™s The Mysterious Benedict SocietyÂ (2007). Grades 4-7. --Ilene Cooper\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9683'),
(18867, 'The Girl Who Could Fly', 'Victoria Forester', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Grade 5â€“8â€”Somewhere in the U.S., in a small farming community called Lowland County, a girl named Piper McCloud is born to a simple, God-fearing farmer and his wife. Piper has a special talent: she can fly. What follows is an uneasy mix of fantasy and science fiction that has plot points that are fairly derivative. When her talent for flying is discovered, a charismatic director of a special school takes Piper under her wing. She arrives at an amazing place with multiple floors and discovers a lot of other kids with extraordinary powers, tooâ€”as well as a nefarious plot to remove their special talents by altering their DNA. Character development is achieved by the author telling, not showing, readers, and speech patterns are not always successful. Piper''s rural, colloquial manner of speech seems out of place in a time period that appears to be present day and borders on caricature, especially when she utters phrases such as, "Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit!" The writing style is clunky, and the author strives to be clever with wordplay. For example, the evil director of the school is named Dr. Letitia Hellion, and the German professor, whose accent is almost unintelligible, is named Dr. Mumbley. The acronym for the school, or institute, is I.N.S.A.N.E. (Institute of Normalcy, Stability, and NonExceptionality). The book ends with the kids taking over the school, and the affirmation of everyone''s differences, and everyone''s right to "be themselves." Libraries looking for engaging fantasy will want to look elsewhere.â€”_Jennifer Ralston, Harford County Public Library, Belcamp, MD_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  In this terrific debut novel, readers meet Piper McCloud, the late-in-life daughter of farmers. Her parents revel in conformity, so itâ€™s disconcerting at best when Piper shows a talent for flying. Homeschooled and kept away from outsiders, Piper is lonely. Finally, her parents let her go to a community picnic, where she thinks sheâ€™ll meet new friends. Instead, she terrifies the neighbors by flying up to catch a ball during a kidsâ€™ game. In no time, the McCloud farm is besieged. Then, out of a helicopter comes the empathetic Dr. Letitia Hellion, who whisks Piper off to a secret school for kids with special talents. But are things there what they seem to be? No. Forester gets almost everything right here. The story soars, just like Piper, with enough loop-de-loops to keep kids uncertain about what will come next. Her plainspoken heroine has a big heart and a strong streak of defiance, and Piperâ€™s reactions always seem true, even in the midst of sf machinations. Many other characters are also clearly set within the context of their lives, giving them dimension sometimes lacking in supporting casts. Best of all are the bookâ€™s strong, lightly wrapped messages about friendship and authenticity and the difference between doing well and doing good. Give this to fans of Trenton Lee Stuartâ€™s The Mysterious Benedict Society (2007). Grades 4-7. --Ilene Cooper\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24528'),
(18868, 'The Girl Who Heard Dragons', 'Anne McCaffrey', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anne McCaffrey''s dragons are the stuff of which SF/fantasy legends are made. All of her dragon books for many years have been national bestsellers. She is one of the most popular writers ever in fantasy and science fiction.The Girl Who Heard Dragons is a feast for McCaffrey fans and for all readers - a big, satisfying compilation of her fiction never before collected in book form. Best of all, it opens with an original short novel of Pern, "The Girl Who Heard Dragons." In addition, the book contains 24 beautiful black and white drawings by award-winning artist Michael Whelan.Romance, humor, colorful description and affecting characters are Anne McCaffrey''s hallmarks and the fifteen stories herein have these virtues in abundance. No wonder the Chicago Sun-Times described her as a "master of the well-told tale.""The Girl Who Heard Dragons" is the story of Aramina, a teenage girl of Pern who hears dragons - a skill which does not seem likely to help solve her family''s problems. They are "holdless," and must constantly roam the land, trying to hide from bandits. Aramina''s mother fears losing her daughter completely to the life of a dragonrider, but McCaffrey has another fate in mind for her young heroine.The fourteen other stories - all just as good - are:Velvet Fields Euterpe on a Fling Duty Calls A Sleeping Humpty Dumpty Beauty The Mandalay CureA Flock of Geese The Greatest Love A Quiet One If Madam Likes You... Zulei, Grace, Nimshi and the DamnyankeeCinderella Switch Habit Is an Old Horse Lady-in-WaitingThe Bones Do Lie\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15764'),
(18869, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larssonâ€™s internationally best-selling trilogy**Lisbeth Salanderâ€”the heart of Larssonâ€™s two previous novelsâ€”lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Sheâ€™s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, sheâ€™ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revengeâ€”against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/921'),
(18870, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larssonâ€™s internationally best-selling trilogy**Lisbeth Salanderâ€”the heart of Larssonâ€™s two previous novelsâ€”lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Sheâ€™s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, sheâ€™ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revengeâ€”against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12186'),
(18871, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larssonâ€™s internationally best-selling trilogy**Lisbeth Salanderâ€”the heart of Larssonâ€™s two previous novelsâ€”lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Sheâ€™s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, sheâ€™ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revengeâ€”against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14468'),
(18872, 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#39;s Nest', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larssonâ€™s internationally best-selling trilogy**Lisbeth Salanderâ€”the heart of Larssonâ€™s two previous novelsâ€”lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Sheâ€™s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, sheâ€™ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revengeâ€”against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24043'),
(18873, 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Trisha McFarland is a plucky 9-year-old hiking with her brother and mom, who is grimly determined to give the kids a good time on their weekends together. Trisha''s mom is recently divorced, and her brother is feuding with her for moving from Boston to small-town Maine, where classmates razz him. Trisha steps off the trail for a pee and a respite from the bickering. And gets lost.\n <br />\n Trisha''s odyssey succeeds on several levels. King renders her consciousness of increasing peril beautifully, from the "first minnowy flutter of disquiet" in her guts to her into-the-wild tumbles to her descent into hallucinations, the nicest being her beloved Red Sox baseball pitcher Tom Gordon, whose exploits she listens to on her Walkman. The nature writing is accurate, tense, and sometimes lyrical, from the maddening whine of the no-see-um mosquito to the profound obbligato of the "Subaudible" (Trisha''s dad''s term for nature''s intimations of God). Our identification with Trisha deepens as we learn about her loved ones: Dad, a dreamboat whose beer habit could sink him; loving but stubborn Mom; Trisha''s best pal, Pepsi Robichaud, vividly evoked by her colorful sayings ("Don''t go all GIRLY on me, McFarland!"). The personal associations triggered by a full moon, the running monologue with which she stays sane--we who have been lost in woods will recognize these things.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1010'),
(18874, 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Trisha McFarland is a plucky 9-year-old hiking with her brother and mom, who is grimly determined to give the kids a good time on their weekends together. Trisha''s mom is recently divorced, and her brother is feuding with her for moving from Boston to small-town Maine, where classmates razz him. Trisha steps off the trail for a pee and a respite from the bickering. And gets lost. Trisha''s odyssey succeeds on several levels. King renders her consciousness of increasing peril beautifully, from the "first minnowy flutter of disquiet" in her guts to her into-the-wild tumbles to her descent into hallucinations, the nicest being her beloved Red Sox baseball pitcher Tom Gordon, whose exploits she listens to on her Walkman. The nature writing is accurate, tense, and sometimes lyrical, from the maddening whine of the no-see-um mosquito to the profound obbligato of the "Subaudible" (Trisha''s dad''s term for nature''s intimations of God). Our identification with Trisha deepens as we learn about her loved ones: Dad, a dreamboat whose beer habit could sink him; loving but stubborn Mom; Trisha''s best pal, Pepsi Robichaud, vividly evoked by her colorful sayings ("Don''t go all GIRLY on me, McFarland!"). The personal associations triggered by a full moon, the running monologue with which she stays sane--we who have been lost in woods will recognize these things.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14507'),
(18875, 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Trisha McFarland is a plucky 9-year-old hiking with her brother and mom, who is grimly determined to give the kids a good time on their weekends together. Trisha''s mom is recently divorced, and her brother is feuding with her for moving from Boston to small-town Maine, where classmates razz him. Trisha steps off the trail for a pee and a respite from the bickering. And gets lost. Trisha''s odyssey succeeds on several levels. King renders her consciousness of increasing peril beautifully, from the "first minnowy flutter of disquiet" in her guts to her into-the-wild tumbles to her descent into hallucinations, the nicest being her beloved Red Sox baseball pitcher Tom Gordon, whose exploits she listens to on her Walkman. The nature writing is accurate, tense, and sometimes lyrical, from the maddening whine of the no-see-um mosquito to the profound obbligato of the "Subaudible" (Trisha''s dad''s term for nature''s intimations of God). Our identification with Trisha deepens as we learn about her loved ones: Dad, a dreamboat whose beer habit could sink him; loving but stubborn Mom; Trisha''s best pal, Pepsi Robichaud, vividly evoked by her colorful sayings ("Don''t go all GIRLY on me, McFarland!"). The personal associations triggered by a full moon, the running monologue with which she stays sane--we who have been lost in woods will recognize these things.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23867'),
(18876, 'The Girl Who Played With Fire', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" â€“The Washington Post), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story.Mikael Blomkvistâ€”crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millenniumâ€”has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander. Now, as Blomkvistâ€”alone in his belief in her innocenceâ€”plunges into his own investigation of the slayings, Salander is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/922'),
(18877, 'The Girl Who Played With Fire', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" â€“The Washington Post), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story.Mikael Blomkvistâ€”crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millenniumâ€”has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander. Now, as Blomkvistâ€”alone in his belief in her innocenceâ€”plunges into his own investigation of the slayings, Salander is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12185'),
(18878, 'The Girl Who Played with Fire', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" â€“The Washington Post), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story.Mikael Blomkvistâ€”crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millenniumâ€”has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander. Now, as Blomkvistâ€”alone in his belief in her innocenceâ€”plunges into his own investigation of the slayings, Salander is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14369'),
(18879, 'The Girl Who Played with Fire', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" â€“The Washington Post), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story.Mikael Blomkvistâ€”crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millenniumâ€”has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander. Now, as Blomkvistâ€”alone in his belief in her innocenceâ€”plunges into his own investigation of the slayings, Salander is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24040'),
(18880, 'The Girl Who Stopped Swimming', 'Joshilyn Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jackson matches effortless Southern storytelling with a keen eye for character and heart-stopping circumstances. Laurel, a high-end quilt maker, sees the ghost of a little girl in her bedroom one night. When it leads her to the backyard and a dead girl in the swimming pool, the life Laurel had hoped to build in her gated Florida neighborhood with her video-game designer husband, David, and their tween daughter, Shelby, starts to fall apart. Though the police clear the drowning as accidental, it soon appears that Shelby and her friend Bet may have been involved. Bet, who lives in DeLop, Laurel''s impoverished hometown, was staying over the night of the drowning and plays an increasingly important role as the truth behind the drowning comes to light. Meanwhile, Laurel''s sister, Thalia, whose unconventional ways are anathema to Laurel''s staid existence, comes to stay with the family and helps sort things out. Subplots abound: Laurel thinks David is having an affair, and Thalia reveals some ugly family secrets involving the death of their uncle. What makes this novel shine are its revelations about the dark side of Southern society and Thalia and Laurel''s finely honed relationship, which shows just how much thicker blood is than water.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a great tale [that] builds to an exciting and violent ending, one that surprises and yet seems to fit."\n <br />\n -_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n "... buoyant and moving ....beautifully balanced between magical and realist fiction... closer in tone and voice to Alice Sebold''s ''The Lovely Bones'' or Richard Ford''s Frank Bascombe trilogy."\n <br />\n -_Atlanta Journal Constitution_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A ghost story, family psychodrama, and murder mystery all in one. Jackson''s latest is a wild, smartly calibrated achievement. A-."\n <br />\n -_Entertainment Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Jackson matches effortless Southern storytelling with a keen eye for character and heart-stopping circumstances."\n <br />\n -_Publisher''s Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Joshilyn Jackson has done it again... her skillful unraveling of family secrets and betrayal left me breathless. You must read this book!"\n <br />\n -Sara Gruen,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4110'),
(18881, 'The Girl Who Stopped Swimming', 'Joshilyn Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jackson matches effortless Southern storytelling with a keen eye for character and heart-stopping circumstances. Laurel, a high-end quilt maker, sees the ghost of a little girl in her bedroom one night. When it leads her to the backyard and a dead girl in the swimming pool, the life Laurel had hoped to build in her gated Florida neighborhood with her video-game designer husband, David, and their tween daughter, Shelby, starts to fall apart. Though the police clear the drowning as accidental, it soon appears that Shelby and her friend Bet may have been involved. Bet, who lives in DeLop, Laurel''s impoverished hometown, was staying over the night of the drowning and plays an increasingly important role as the truth behind the drowning comes to light. Meanwhile, Laurel''s sister, Thalia, whose unconventional ways are anathema to Laurel''s staid existence, comes to stay with the family and helps sort things out. Subplots abound: Laurel thinks David is having an affair, and Thalia reveals some ugly family secrets involving the death of their uncle. What makes this novel shine are its revelations about the dark side of Southern society and Thalia and Laurel''s finely honed relationship, which shows just how much thicker blood is than water.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a great tale [that] builds to an exciting and violent ending, one that surprises and yet seems to fit."\n <br />\n -_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n "... buoyant and moving ....beautifully balanced between magical and realist fiction... closer in tone and voice to Alice Sebold''s ''The Lovely Bones'' or Richard Ford''s Frank Bascombe trilogy."\n <br />\n -_Atlanta Journal Constitution_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A ghost story, family psychodrama, and murder mystery all in one. Jackson''s latest is a wild, smartly calibrated achievement. A-."\n <br />\n -_Entertainment Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Jackson matches effortless Southern storytelling with a keen eye for character and heart-stopping circumstances."\n <br />\n -_Publisher''s Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Joshilyn Jackson has done it again... her skillful unraveling of family secrets and betrayal left me breathless. You must read this book!"\n <br />\n -Sara Gruen,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10516'),
(18882, 'The Girl Who Stopped Swimming', 'Joshilyn Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Jackson matches effortless Southern storytelling with a keen eye for character and heart-stopping circumstances. Laurel, a high-end quilt maker, sees the ghost of a little girl in her bedroom one night. When it leads her to the backyard and a dead girl in the swimming pool, the life Laurel had hoped to build in her gated Florida neighborhood with her video-game designer husband, David, and their tween daughter, Shelby, starts to fall apart. Though the police clear the drowning as accidental, it soon appears that Shelby and her friend Bet may have been involved. Bet, who lives in DeLop, Laurel''s impoverished hometown, was staying over the night of the drowning and plays an increasingly important role as the truth behind the drowning comes to light. Meanwhile, Laurel''s sister, Thalia, whose unconventional ways are anathema to Laurel''s staid existence, comes to stay with the family and helps sort things out. Subplots abound: Laurel thinks David is having an affair, and Thalia reveals some ugly family secrets involving the death of their uncle. What makes this novel shine are its revelations about the dark side of Southern society and Thalia and Laurel''s finely honed relationship, which shows just how much thicker blood is than water.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "...a great tale [that] builds to an exciting and violent ending, one that surprises and yet seems to fit."\n <br />\n -_USA Today_\n</p>\n<p>\n "... buoyant and moving ....beautifully balanced between magical and realist fiction... closer in tone and voice to Alice Sebold''s ''The Lovely Bones'' or Richard Ford''s Frank Bascombe trilogy."\n <br />\n -_Atlanta Journal Constitution_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A ghost story, family psychodrama, and murder mystery all in one. Jackson''s latest is a wild, smartly calibrated achievement. A-."\n <br />\n -_Entertainment Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Jackson matches effortless Southern storytelling with a keen eye for character and heart-stopping circumstances."\n <br />\n -_Publisher''s Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Joshilyn Jackson has done it again... her skillful unraveling of family secrets and betrayal left me breathless. You must read this book!"\n <br />\n -Sara Gruen,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20457'),
(18883, 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the wealthy Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle Henrik, a powerful industry magnate who doted on Harriet, is convinced that she was murdered - by one of their own relatives. Journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate. Before long, Mikael starts to link Harriet''s disappearance to a string of gruesome murders. Enter private investigator and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander - a fierce young woman with a set of vibrant tattoos and a capacity for cool, remorseless rage. This unlikely pair delves into the Vanger family''s sinister past. The Vangers are not only feuding and secretive but also violently dysfunctional And Mikael and Lisbeth are about to discover how far the family is prepared to go to protect themselves...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/925'),
(18884, 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the wealthy Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle Henrik, a powerful industry magnate who doted on Harriet, is convinced that she was murdered - by one of their own relatives. Journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate. Before long, Mikael starts to link Harriet''s disappearance to a string of gruesome murders. Enter private investigator and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander - a fierce young woman with a set of vibrant tattoos and a capacity for cool, remorseless rage. This unlikely pair delves into the Vanger family''s sinister past. The Vangers are not only feuding and secretive but also violently dysfunctional And Mikael and Lisbeth are about to discover how far the family is prepared to go to protect themselves...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12184'),
(18885, 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the wealthy Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle Henrik, a powerful industry magnate who doted on Harriet, is convinced that she was murdered - by one of their own relatives. Journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate. Before long, Mikael starts to link Harriet''s disappearance to a string of gruesome murders. Enter private investigator and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander - a fierce young woman with a set of vibrant tattoos and a capacity for cool, remorseless rage. This unlikely pair delves into the Vanger family''s sinister past. The Vangers are not only feuding and secretive but also violently dysfunctional And Mikael and Lisbeth are about to discover how far the family is prepared to go to protect themselves...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14313'),
(18886, 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', 'Stieg Larsson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Chinese edition of Man som hatar kvinnor [The girl with the dragon tattoo]. #1 on NYTimes Books 9/08. First of a trilogy by late Swedish journalist Steig Larsson. A young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden disappeared and her uncle is determined to find out what happened. He hired a man with an assistant - a 24-year-old girl, a hacker, a genius, with a tattoo. Maureen Corrigan labels it "super-smart noir with a feminist jolt." In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.\n <br />\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson''s **The Girl  with the Dragon Tattoo** combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial  intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet  Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden''s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years  ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires  Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction,  to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander.  Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24039'),
(18887, 'A Girl&#39;s Guide to Guns and Monsters', 'Martin Harry Greenberg &amp; Kerrie Hughes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Brilliant, original sci-fi and fantasy stories featuring brave and bold heroines\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Thirteen urban and paranormal tales of strong women, armed with weapons they are not afraid to use, as well as fists and feet of fury, who face monsters and bad guys-and are not above rescuing men in the process.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9464'),
(18888, 'Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls', 'Lyn Mikel Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For some time, reality TV, talk shows, soap-operas, and sitcoms have turned their spotlights on women and girls who thrive on competition and nastiness. Few fairytales lack the evil stepmother, wicked witch, or jealous sister. Even cartoons feature mean and sassy girls who only become sweet and innocent when adults appear. And recently, popular books and magazines have turned their gaze away from ways of positively influencing girls'' independence and self-esteem and towards the topic of girls'' meanness to other girls. What does this say about the way our culture views girlhood? How much do these portrayals affect the way girls view themselves? In Girlfighting, psychologist and educator Lyn Mikel Brown scrutinizes the way our culture nurtures and reinforces this sort of meanness in girls. She argues that the old adage "girls will be girls"gossipy, competitive, cliquish, backstabbing and the idea that fighting is part of a developmental stage or a rite-of-passage, are not acceptable explanations. Instead, she asserts, girls are discouraged from expressing strong feelings and are pressured to fulfill unrealistic expectations, to be popular, and struggle to find their way in a society that still reinforces gender stereotypes and places greater value on boys. Under such pressure, in their frustration and anger, girls (often unconsciously) find it less risky to take out their fears and anxieties on other girls instead of challenging the ways boys treat them, the way the media represents them, or the way the culture at large supports sexist practices. Girlfightingtraces the changes in girls'' thoughts, actions and feelings from childhood into young adulthood, providing the developmental understanding and theoretical explanation often lacking in other conversations. Through interviews with over 400 girls of diverse racial, economic, and geographic backgrounds, Brown chronicles the labyrinthine journey girls take from direct and outspoken children who like and trust other girls, to distrusting and competitive young women. She argues that this familiar pathway can and should be interrupted and provides ways to move beyond girlfighting to build girl allies and to support coalitions among girls. By allowing the voices of girls to be heard, Brown demonstrates the complex and often contradictory realities girls face, helping us to better understand and critique the socializing forces in their lives and challenging us to rethink the messages we send them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20029'),
(18889, 'The Girls From Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship', 'Jeffrey Zaslow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **From the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller *The Last Lecture* comes a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of eleven girls and the ten women they became.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meet the Ames Girls: eleven childhood friends who formed a special bond growing up in Ames, Iowa.  As young women, they moved to eight different states, yet managed to maintain an enduring friendship that would carry them through college and careers, marriage and motherhood, dating and divorce, a child''s illness and the mysterious death of one member of their group.  Capturing their remarkable story, *The Girls from Ames* is a testament to the deep bonds of women as they experience life''s joys and challenges -- and the power of friendship to triumph over heartbreak and unexpected tragedy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The girls, now in their forties, have a lifetime of memories in common, some evocative of their generation and some that will resonate with any woman who has ever had a friend.  Photograph by photograph, recollection by recollection, occasionally with tears and often with great laughter, their sweeping and moving story is shared by Jeffrey Zaslow, *Wall Street Journal* columnist, as he attempts to define the matchless bonds of female friendship.  It demonstrates how close female relationships can shape every aspect of women''s lives - their sense of themselves, their choice of men, their need for validation, their relationships with their mothers, their dreams for their daughters - and reveals how such friendships thrive, rewarding those who have committed to them.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Girls from Ames* is the story of a group of ordinary women who built an extraordinary friendship.  With both universal insights and deeply personal moments, it is a book that every woman will relate to and be inspired by.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4473'),
(18890, 'The Girls From Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship', 'Jeffrey Zaslow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **From the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller *The Last Lecture* comes a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of eleven girls and the ten women they became.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Meet the Ames Girls: eleven childhood friends who formed a special bond growing up in Ames, Iowa.  As young women, they moved to eight different states, yet managed to maintain an enduring friendship that would carry them through college and careers, marriage and motherhood, dating and divorce, a child''s illness and the mysterious death of one member of their group.  Capturing their remarkable story, *The Girls from Ames* is a testament to the deep bonds of women as they experience life''s joys and challenges -- and the power of friendship to triumph over heartbreak and unexpected tragedy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The girls, now in their forties, have a lifetime of memories in common, some evocative of their generation and some that will resonate with any woman who has ever had a friend.  Photograph by photograph, recollection by recollection, occasionally with tears and often with great laughter, their sweeping and moving story is shared by Jeffrey Zaslow, *Wall Street Journal* columnist, as he attempts to define the matchless bonds of female friendship.  It demonstrates how close female relationships can shape every aspect of women''s lives - their sense of themselves, their choice of men, their need for validation, their relationships with their mothers, their dreams for their daughters - and reveals how such friendships thrive, rewarding those who have committed to them.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Girls from Ames* is the story of a group of ordinary women who built an extraordinary friendship.  With both universal insights and deeply personal moments, it is a book that every woman will relate to and be inspired by.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13425'),
(18891, 'Girls in Trucks', 'Katie Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante.  She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias *don''t *do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Sarah can''t quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they''ve left behind.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When life''s complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia"- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Girls in Trucks* introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3800'),
(18892, 'Girls in Trucks', 'Katie Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante.  She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias *don''t *do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But Sarah can''t quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they''ve left behind.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When life''s complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia"- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Girls in Trucks* introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9161'),
(18893, 'Girls in Trucks', 'Katie Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias *don''t *do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.) But Sarah can''t quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they''ve left behind. When life''s complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia"- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best. *Girls in Trucks* introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20757');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(18894, 'Girls of Riyadh', 'Raja Abd Allah Sani &amp; Marilyn Booth &amp; Rajaa Alsanea', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Four upper-class Saudi Arabian women negotiate the clash between tradition and the encroaching West in this debut novel by 25-year-old Saudi Alsanea. Though timid by American chick lit standards, it was banned in Saudi Arabia for its scandalous portrayal of secular life. Framed as a series of e-mails sent to the e-subscribers of an Internet group, the story follows an unnamed narrator who recounts the misadventures of her best friends, Gamrah, Lamees, Michelle and Sadeemâ€”all fashionable, educated, wealthy 20-somethings looking for true love. Their world is dominated by prayer, family loyalty and physical modesty, but the voracious consumption of luxury goods (designer name dropping is muted but present) and yearnings for female empowerment are also part of the package. Lines like the talk was as soft as the granules in my daily facial soap or Sadeem was feeling so sad that her chest was constricted in sorrow appear with woeful frequency, and the details about the roles of technology, beauty and Western pop culture in the lives of contemporary Saudi women aren''t revelatory. Readers looking for quality Arabic fiction have much better options.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Four close girlfriends from upper-class Saudi families attend university and medical school in Riyadh and in Chicago and San Francisco. They talk in chat rooms, IM on their mobiles to their boyfriends and each other. But even with all the hip technology, they cannot escape deep-seated oppressive traditions after they return to Riyadh. Sadeem''s fiancÃ© dumps her after she has sex with him. Gamrah''s husband divorces her after she discovers he is having an affair. Michelle and Faisal adore each other, but he gives her up when his family says so. The Religious Police arrest one couple in a coffee bar. But most families don''t need official help to interfere in women''s lives. Translated from the Arabic, this debut novel was immediately banned in Saudi Arabia. The 25-year-old Saudi writer (now studying in Chicago but planning to return home) tells it from the inside, complete with the contradictions and betrayals that define daily lfe. The Sex and the Cityâ€“type drama is fast, wry, witty, and anguished. And so are the politics: "He appreciates her independence. But can''t find his." Rochman, Hazel\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1895'),
(18895, 'Girls of Riyadh', 'Raja Abd Allah Sani &amp; Marilyn Booth &amp; Rajaa Alsanea', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Four upper-class Saudi Arabian women negotiate the clash between tradition and the encroaching West in this debut novel by 25-year-old Saudi Alsanea. Though timid by American chick lit standards, it was banned in Saudi Arabia for its scandalous portrayal of secular life. Framed as a series of e-mails sent to the e-subscribers of an Internet group, the story follows an unnamed narrator who recounts the misadventures of her best friends, Gamrah, Lamees, Michelle and Sadeemâ€”all fashionable, educated, wealthy 20-somethings looking for true love. Their world is dominated by prayer, family loyalty and physical modesty, but the voracious consumption of luxury goods (designer name dropping is muted but present) and yearnings for female empowerment are also part of the package. Lines like the talk was as soft as the granules in my daily facial soap or Sadeem was feeling so sad that her chest was constricted in sorrow appear with woeful frequency, and the details about the roles of technology, beauty and Western pop culture in the lives of contemporary Saudi women aren''t revelatory. Readers looking for quality Arabic fiction have much better options.\n  <em>\n   (July)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Four close girlfriends from upper-class Saudi families attend university and medical school in Riyadh and in Chicago and San Francisco. They talk in chat rooms, IM on their mobiles to their boyfriends and each other. But even with all the hip technology, they cannot escape deep-seated oppressive traditions after they return to Riyadh. Sadeem''s fiancÃ© dumps her after she has sex with him. Gamrah''s husband divorces her after she discovers he is having an affair. Michelle and Faisal adore each other, but he gives her up when his family says so. The Religious Police arrest one couple in a coffee bar. But most families don''t need official help to interfere in women''s lives. Translated from the Arabic, this debut novel was immediately banned in Saudi Arabia. The 25-year-old Saudi writer (now studying in Chicago but planning to return home) tells it from the inside, complete with the contradictions and betrayals that define daily lfe. The Sex and the Cityâ€“type drama is fast, wry, witty, and anguished. And so are the politics: "He appreciates her independence. But can''t find his." Rochman, Hazel\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12446'),
(18896, 'The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt', 'Hannelore Brenner-Wonschick &amp; Hannelore Brenner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brenner, a Berlin-based journalist, focuses on 10 former child survivors, women in their late 70s, who went through the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust. She notes that 12,000 children entered the camp from 1942 to 1944, but only a few hundred survived to war''s end, and a handful of women of Room 28 in the camp''s Girls'' Home, now scattered around the world, reunited for the first time in 1991. The insights of the survivors and stories of the camp''s victims are unforgettable and full of poignant humanity, conveyed through letters, photos, diaries and remembrances. Forced into exile and almost certain death under the Nazi regime, the children confronted hunger, cold, terror and the soul''s endurance as many of the girls of Room 28 were slowly eliminated; the small band of survivors is committed to keeping their memory alive. Well-detailed and inspiring, Brenner''s book, especially her heartfelt epilogue, pays glowing tribute to these heroic survivors. B&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This beautiful evocation of heartwarming friendship in the darkest of times is unforgettable."\n <br />\n â€”Elie Wiesel\n</p>\n<p>\n "The insights of the survivors and stories of the camp''s victims are unforgettable and full of poignant humanity, conveyed through letters, photos, diaries, and remembrances. . . . Well detailed and inspiring, Brenner''s book, especially her heartfelt epilogue, pays glowing tribute to these heroic survivors."\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrenner chronicles the remarkable artistic experiments undertaken by the girls, especially their enthusiastic production of the childrenâ€™s opera BrundibÃ¡r. An inspiring story of courage rendered through impressive personal and historical detail.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The story of this children''s home in Theresienstadt takes us to the limit of the bearable, to the place where compassion, fear, and the temptation to simply turn away all lie in wait. To resist that temptation--isn''t that what the historical record must achieve?\n <br />\n â€”_DIE ZEIT\n</p>\n<p>\n _"This handful of girls wanted their memories of their dead friends and their time in Theresienstadt not to be forgotten. They wanted to make the story of their survival, and the love and friendship that their caretakers showerd them, unforgettable. Together with the author, they have succeeded. In Hannelore Brenner, these women have found someone who listened to them, who read their albums of poetry, their diaries, and their chronicles, and who has written a wonderful book."\n <br />\n â€”_PRAGER ZEITUNG\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Brenner has gathered together these stories with great sensitivity. She makes the past spring to life and gracefully places the personal memories of these girls into a historical context, while at the same time offering solid research and background information regarding life in Theresienstadt and the political situation of the time."\n <br />\n â€”_SÃ„CHSISCHE ZEITUNG_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5268'),
(18897, 'The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt', 'Hannelore Brenner-Wonschick &amp; Hannelore Brenner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brenner, a Berlin-based journalist, focuses on 10 former child survivors, women in their late 70s, who went through the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust. She notes that 12,000 children entered the camp from 1942 to 1944, but only a few hundred survived to war''s end, and a handful of women of Room 28 in the camp''s Girls'' Home, now scattered around the world, reunited for the first time in 1991. The insights of the survivors and stories of the camp''s victims are unforgettable and full of poignant humanity, conveyed through letters, photos, diaries and remembrances. Forced into exile and almost certain death under the Nazi regime, the children confronted hunger, cold, terror and the soul''s endurance as many of the girls of Room 28 were slowly eliminated; the small band of survivors is committed to keeping their memory alive. Well-detailed and inspiring, Brenner''s book, especially her heartfelt epilogue, pays glowing tribute to these heroic survivors. B&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This beautiful evocation of heartwarming friendship in the darkest of times is unforgettable."\n <br />\n â€”Elie Wiesel\n</p>\n<p>\n "The insights of the survivors and stories of the camp''s victims are unforgettable and full of poignant humanity, conveyed through letters, photos, diaries, and remembrances. . . . Well detailed and inspiring, Brenner''s book, especially her heartfelt epilogue, pays glowing tribute to these heroic survivors."\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrenner chronicles the remarkable artistic experiments undertaken by the girls, especially their enthusiastic production of the childrenâ€™s opera BrundibÃ¡r. An inspiring story of courage rendered through impressive personal and historical detail.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The story of this children''s home in Theresienstadt takes us to the limit of the bearable, to the place where compassion, fear, and the temptation to simply turn away all lie in wait. To resist that temptation--isn''t that what the historical record must achieve?\n <br />\n â€”_DIE ZEIT\n</p>\n<p>\n _"This handful of girls wanted their memories of their dead friends and their time in Theresienstadt not to be forgotten. They wanted to make the story of their survival, and the love and friendship that their caretakers showerd them, unforgettable. Together with the author, they have succeeded. In Hannelore Brenner, these women have found someone who listened to them, who read their albums of poetry, their diaries, and their chronicles, and who has written a wonderful book."\n <br />\n â€”_PRAGER ZEITUNG\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Brenner has gathered together these stories with great sensitivity. She makes the past spring to life and gracefully places the personal memories of these girls into a historical context, while at the same time offering solid research and background information regarding life in Theresienstadt and the political situation of the time."\n <br />\n â€”_SÃ„CHSISCHE ZEITUNG_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8592'),
(18898, 'The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt', 'Hannelore Brenner-Wonschick; Hannelore Brenner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Brenner, a Berlin-based journalist, focuses on 10 former child survivors, women in their late 70s, who went through the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust. She notes that 12,000 children entered the camp from 1942 to 1944, but only a few hundred survived to war''s end, and a handful of women of Room 28 in the camp''s Girls'' Home, now scattered around the world, reunited for the first time in 1991. The insights of the survivors and stories of the camp''s victims are unforgettable and full of poignant humanity, conveyed through letters, photos, diaries and remembrances. Forced into exile and almost certain death under the Nazi regime, the children confronted hunger, cold, terror and the soul''s endurance as many of the girls of Room 28 were slowly eliminated; the small band of survivors is committed to keeping their memory alive. Well-detailed and inspiring, Brenner''s book, especially her heartfelt epilogue, pays glowing tribute to these heroic survivors. B&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "This beautiful evocation of heartwarming friendship in the darkest of times is unforgettable."\n <br />\n â€”Elie Wiesel\n</p>\n<p>\n "The insights of the survivors and stories of the camp''s victims are unforgettable and full of poignant humanity, conveyed through letters, photos, diaries, and remembrances. . . . Well detailed and inspiring, Brenner''s book, especially her heartfelt epilogue, pays glowing tribute to these heroic survivors."\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBrenner chronicles the remarkable artistic experiments undertaken by the girls, especially their enthusiastic production of the childrenâ€™s opera BrundibÃ¡r. An inspiring story of courage rendered through impressive personal and historical detail.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Kirkus Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n "The story of this children''s home in Theresienstadt takes us to the limit of the bearable, to the place where compassion, fear, and the temptation to simply turn away all lie in wait. To resist that temptation--isn''t that what the historical record must achieve?\n <br />\n â€”_DIE ZEIT\n</p>\n<p>\n _"This handful of girls wanted their memories of their dead friends and their time in Theresienstadt not to be forgotten. They wanted to make the story of their survival, and the love and friendship that their caretakers showerd them, unforgettable. Together with the author, they have succeeded. In Hannelore Brenner, these women have found someone who listened to them, who read their albums of poetry, their diaries, and their chronicles, and who has written a wonderful book."\n <br />\n â€”_PRAGER ZEITUNG\n</p>\n<p>\n "_Brenner has gathered together these stories with great sensitivity. She makes the past spring to life and gracefully places the personal memories of these girls into a historical context, while at the same time offering solid research and background information regarding life in Theresienstadt and the political situation of the time."\n <br />\n â€”_SÃ„CHSISCHE ZEITUNG_\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19398'),
(18899, 'Give Me Liberty', 'Anne Brock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7599'),
(18900, 'Give me liberty', 'Anne Brock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16304'),
(18901, 'Give me liberty', 'Anne Brock', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26401'),
(18902, 'The Given Day', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14186'),
(18903, 'The Given Day', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17991'),
(18904, 'The Given Day', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27494'),
(18905, 'The Giver', 'Lois Lowry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jonas''s world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back. "From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3256'),
(18906, 'The Giver', 'Lois Lowry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jonas''s world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back. "From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14497'),
(18907, 'The Giver', 'Lois Lowry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jonas''s world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back. "From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21237'),
(18908, 'Giving Up the Ghost', 'Alexa Snow &amp; Jane Davitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7828'),
(18909, 'Giving Up the Ghost', 'Alexa Snow; Jane Davitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16158'),
(18910, 'Giving Up the Ghost', 'Alexa Snow; Jane Davitt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26212'),
(18911, 'The Glades', 'Clifton Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">\n <h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(176, 163, 119); ">\n  Synopsis\n </h3>\n</span>\n<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n Jim Longworth is an attractive and brilliant Chicago homicide detective with a reputation for being difficult. When his captain wrongfully accuses him of sleeping with his wife and shoots him, he is exiled and forced to relocate. He lands in the sleepy, middle-of-nowhere town of Palm Glade, outside of Florida s Everglades, where sunshine and golf are plentiful and crime is seemingly at a minimum. But Longworth soon finds out this town isn t quite as idyllic as he originally thought, when murders keep piling up. Each case pulls Longworth off the golf course and reluctantly into his element as one of the sharpest homicide detectives to wear a badge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6691'),
(18912, 'The Glades', 'Clifton Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">\n <h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(176, 163, 119); ">\n  Synopsis\n </h3>\n</span>\n<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n Jim Longworth is an attractive and brilliant Chicago homicide detective with a reputation for being difficult. When his captain wrongfully accuses him of sleeping with his wife and shoots him, he is exiled and forced to relocate. He lands in the sleepy, middle-of-nowhere town of Palm Glade, outside of Florida s Everglades, where sunshine and golf are plentiful and crime is seemingly at a minimum. But Longworth soon finds out this town isn t quite as idyllic as he originally thought, when murders keep piling up. Each case pulls Longworth off the golf course and reluctantly into his element as one of the sharpest homicide detectives to wear a badge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8830'),
(18913, 'The Glades', 'Clifton Campbell', '<div class="comments">\n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">\n <h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(176, 163, 119); ">\n  Synopsis\n </h3>\n</span>\n<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">\n Jim Longworth is an attractive and brilliant Chicago homicide detective with a reputation for being difficult. When his captain wrongfully accuses him of sleeping with his wife and shoots him, he is exiled and forced to relocate. He lands in the sleepy, middle-of-nowhere town of Palm Glade, outside of Florida s Everglades, where sunshine and golf are plentiful and crime is seemingly at a minimum. But Longworth soon finds out this town isn t quite as idyllic as he originally thought, when murders keep piling up. Each case pulls Longworth off the golf course and reluctantly into his element as one of the sharpest homicide detectives to wear a badge.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17356'),
(18914, 'Gladiators of Hapanu', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4568'),
(18915, 'Glamorama', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Arguably the novel of the 1990s...**Glamorama** should  establish Ellis as the most fearless and ambitious writer of his  generation...A must read." --*The Seattle Times*The  author of **American Psycho** and **Less Than Zero** continues  to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of  the modern world.  In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret  Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the  volume exponentially.Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs who  exists in magazines and gossip columns and whose life resembles an  ultra-hip movie, is living with one beautiful model and having an  affair with another.  And then it''s time to move on to the next stage.  But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7186'),
(18916, 'Glamorama', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Arguably the novel of the 1990s...**Glamorama** should  establish Ellis as the most fearless and ambitious writer of his  generation...A must read." --*The Seattle Times*The  author of **American Psycho** and **Less Than Zero** continues  to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of  the modern world.  In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret  Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the  volume exponentially.Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs who  exists in magazines and gossip columns and whose life resembles an  ultra-hip movie, is living with one beautiful model and having an  affair with another.  And then it''s time to move on to the next stage.  But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9563'),
(18917, 'Glamorama', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Arguably the novel of the 1990s...**Glamorama** should establish Ellis as the most fearless and ambitious writer of his generation...A must read." --*The Seattle Times*The author of **American Psycho** and **Less Than Zero** continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world. In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the volume exponentially.Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs who exists in magazines and gossip columns and whose life resembles an ultra-hip movie, is living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. And then it''s time to move on to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14929'),
(18918, 'Glamorama', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Arguably the novel of the 1990s...**Glamorama** should establish Ellis as the most fearless and ambitious writer of his generation...A must read." --*The Seattle Times*The author of **American Psycho** and **Less Than Zero** continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world. In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the volume exponentially.Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs who exists in magazines and gossip columns and whose life resembles an ultra-hip movie, is living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. And then it''s time to move on to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16768'),
(18919, 'Glamorama', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Arguably the novel of the 1990s...**Glamorama** should establish Ellis as the most fearless and ambitious writer of his generation...A must read." --*The Seattle Times*The author of **American Psycho** and **Less Than Zero** continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world. In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the volume exponentially.Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs who exists in magazines and gossip columns and whose life resembles an ultra-hip movie, is living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. And then it''s time to move on to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26750'),
(18920, 'Glamorama: a novel', 'Bret Easton Ellis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n We''ll slide down the surface of things . . .From his first novel--**Less Than Zero**, published when he was still a college student--to his most recent--the fierce **American Psycho**Bret Easton Ellis has been a powerful and original presence in contemporary literature, whether giving voice to a previously inchoate generation or provoking a controversy that raged throughout the culture. Now he takes a quantum leap forward: an awesome reckoning of the American Century at endgame. In **Glamorama**, a young man in what is recognizably fashion- and celebrity-obsessed Manhattan is gradually, imperceptibly drawn into a shadowy looking-glass of that society, there and in London and Paris, and then finds himself trapped on the other side, in a much darker place where fame and terrorism and family and politics are inextricably linked and sometimes indistinguishable. At once implicated and horror-stricken, his ways of escape blocked at every turn, he ultimately discovers--back on the other, familiar side--that there was no mirror, no escape, no world but this one in which hotels implode and planes fall from the sky. Time and again, the novel confounds one''s expectations of it, and Bret Ellis accomplishes the transitions from comic to surreal to horrific to humane with astonishing confidence. Matching ambition with artistic maturity, **Glamorama** is at once hilarious, savage in its worldly observation, and compassionate in its vision: a defining novel of our times.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26009'),
(18921, 'The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English', 'Roy Peter Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grammar is a subject that typically induces wincing, wheezing, or worse. Clark, a lifelong whiz at the subject, wants readers to fully appreciate the importance of good grammar and the qualities of superior writing. To that end, he has laid out several entertaining, easy-to-follow rules, governing everything from punctuation to alliteration, that promise to dramatically improve one''s writing and develop an appreciation for language. Clark draws on examples ranging from DeLillo to Rowling, a breadth of text that readers will appreciate as much as the author''s humorous approach. Who knew that a discussion of grammar could induce laughter? This is an eminently readable, extremely enjoyable guide that readers will find highly useful on their path to development, not just as writers, but as readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Very much a manual for the 21st century...a welcome addition to the bookshelf of anyone who cares about language-and is willing to argue about it." (\n <strong>\n  Ammon Shea, the\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "A fine common-sense guide to the proper use of language." (\n <strong>\n  Barbara Fisher, the\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "An engaging and witty exploration of the shifting rules of English grammar...Clark shows breathtaking knowledge of how language is used in the real world and a passionate commitment to helping writers make good choices." (\n <strong>\n  Chuck Leddy,\n  <em>\n   Minneapolis Star Tribune\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Roy Peter] Clark takes readers through a well-paced presentation...he conveys the magic that is to be found in English, in its ever active evolution." (\n <strong>\n  Margaret Heilbrun,\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Clark...has laid out several entertaining, easy-to-follow rules, governing everything from punctuation to alliteration, that promise to dramatically improve one''s writing and develop an appreciation for language. Who knew that a discussion of grammar could induce laughter? This is an eminently readable, extremely enjoyable guide that readers will find highly useful on their path to development, not just as writers, but as readers." (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "What I learned from this book:\n</p>\n<p>\n 1) That grammar has meant mastery of all arts and letters (to the Greeks) and power, magic, and enchantment (to the Scots). Wow.\n</p>\n<p>\n 2) That for the artful writer, no decision is too small, including whether to use\n <em>\n  a\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  the\n </em>\n . Awesome.\n</p>\n<p>\n 3) That there are right-branching, left-branching, and middle-branching sentences. How cool!\n</p>\n<p>\n 4) That Roy Peter Clark, a modern-day Pied Piper of grammar, makes good writing both approachable and doable. Phew!" (\n <strong>\n  Constance Hale, author of\n  <em>\n   Sin and Syntax\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Who, other than a word-lover like Roy Peter Clark, would dare link "glamour" with (ugh) "grammar"? Here it is--a book of enchantment about words and how words work and what they mean and how to spell them, where even lowly semicolons get appreciated as "swinging gates" in a sentence. Who''d a thunk a book on grammar could be fun? And humorous. Check out "cleave" and "cleaveage."" (\n <strong>\n  Sister Helen Prejean, author of\n  <em>\n   Dead Man Walking\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language." (\n <strong>\n  Anne Hull, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter,\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "If ''Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne,'' as Quentin Crisp once said, then Ralph Keyes has given word and language lovers a deeply fragrant-and thoroughly enjoyable-book." (\n <strong>\n  Dr. Mardy Grothe, author of\n  <em>\n   Oxymoronica\n  </em>\n  and other quotation anthologies\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "If there is indeed a glamour to grammar, I should have known Roy Peter Clark would be the one to spot it. Clark is a trusty guide for anyone wanting to avoid the (many) pitfalls and scale the (hard-won) peaks of perpetrating prose." (\n <strong>\n  Ben Yagoda, author of _Memoir: A History\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing_\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Roy Peter Clark takes the language so seriously he dares to play with it. What other English professor would seriously write ''A good pun is its own reword.''_The Glamour of Grammar_ is required fun, seriously." (\n <strong>\n  Eugene C. Patterson, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and retired chairman and CEO,\n  <em>\n   St. Petersburg Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Roy Peter Clark, the Jedi master of writing coaches, has delivered another indispensable classic for every author, young and old.\n <em>\n  The Glamour of Gramma\n </em>\n r crackles with wit and wisdom and with page after page of rock-solid strategies to guide writers toward prose that sings with vivid clarity. Somehow, Clark makes grammar seem both playful and understandable, even for those who have trouble telling the difference between a dangling participle and a wandering antecedent." (\n <strong>\n  Thomas French, author of\n  <em>\n   Zoo Story\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "An indispensible book in this Twitter world where so few words must push your story forward. Roy Peter Clark shows you a fun way to say exactly what you mean." (\n <strong>\n  Bob Dotson, NBC News National Correspondent for the\n  <em>\n   Today Show\n  </em>\n  ''s "American Story with Bob Dotson"\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1497'),
(18922, 'The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English', 'Roy Peter Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grammar is a subject that typically induces wincing, wheezing, or worse. Clark, a lifelong whiz at the subject, wants readers to fully appreciate the importance of good grammar and the qualities of superior writing. To that end, he has laid out several entertaining, easy-to-follow rules, governing everything from punctuation to alliteration, that promise to dramatically improve one''s writing and develop an appreciation for language. Clark draws on examples ranging from DeLillo to Rowling, a breadth of text that readers will appreciate as much as the author''s humorous approach. Who knew that a discussion of grammar could induce laughter? This is an eminently readable, extremely enjoyable guide that readers will find highly useful on their path to development, not just as writers, but as readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Very much a manual for the 21st century...a welcome addition to the bookshelf of anyone who cares about language-and is willing to argue about it." (\n <strong>\n  Ammon Shea, the\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "A fine common-sense guide to the proper use of language." (\n <strong>\n  Barbara Fisher, the\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "An engaging and witty exploration of the shifting rules of English grammar...Clark shows breathtaking knowledge of how language is used in the real world and a passionate commitment to helping writers make good choices." (\n <strong>\n  Chuck Leddy,\n  <em>\n   Minneapolis Star Tribune\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Roy Peter] Clark takes readers through a well-paced presentation...he conveys the magic that is to be found in English, in its ever active evolution." (\n <strong>\n  Margaret Heilbrun,\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Clark...has laid out several entertaining, easy-to-follow rules, governing everything from punctuation to alliteration, that promise to dramatically improve one''s writing and develop an appreciation for language. Who knew that a discussion of grammar could induce laughter? This is an eminently readable, extremely enjoyable guide that readers will find highly useful on their path to development, not just as writers, but as readers." (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "What I learned from this book:\n</p>\n<p>\n 1) That grammar has meant mastery of all arts and letters (to the Greeks) and power, magic, and enchantment (to the Scots). Wow.\n</p>\n<p>\n 2) That for the artful writer, no decision is too small, including whether to use\n <em>\n  a\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  the\n </em>\n . Awesome.\n</p>\n<p>\n 3) That there are right-branching, left-branching, and middle-branching sentences. How cool!\n</p>\n<p>\n 4) That Roy Peter Clark, a modern-day Pied Piper of grammar, makes good writing both approachable and doable. Phew!" (\n <strong>\n  Constance Hale, author of\n  <em>\n   Sin and Syntax\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Who, other than a word-lover like Roy Peter Clark, would dare link "glamour" with (ugh) "grammar"? Here it is--a book of enchantment about words and how words work and what they mean and how to spell them, where even lowly semicolons get appreciated as "swinging gates" in a sentence. Who''d a thunk a book on grammar could be fun? And humorous. Check out "cleave" and "cleaveage."" (\n <strong>\n  Sister Helen Prejean, author of\n  <em>\n   Dead Man Walking\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language." (\n <strong>\n  Anne Hull, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter,\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "If ''Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne,'' as Quentin Crisp once said, then Ralph Keyes has given word and language lovers a deeply fragrant-and thoroughly enjoyable-book." (\n <strong>\n  Dr. Mardy Grothe, author of\n  <em>\n   Oxymoronica\n  </em>\n  and other quotation anthologies\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "If there is indeed a glamour to grammar, I should have known Roy Peter Clark would be the one to spot it. Clark is a trusty guide for anyone wanting to avoid the (many) pitfalls and scale the (hard-won) peaks of perpetrating prose." (\n <strong>\n  Ben Yagoda, author of _Memoir: A History\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing_\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Roy Peter Clark takes the language so seriously he dares to play with it. What other English professor would seriously write ''A good pun is its own reword.''_The Glamour of Grammar_ is required fun, seriously." (\n <strong>\n  Eugene C. Patterson, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and retired chairman and CEO,\n  <em>\n   St. Petersburg Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Roy Peter Clark, the Jedi master of writing coaches, has delivered another indispensable classic for every author, young and old.\n <em>\n  The Glamour of Gramma\n </em>\n r crackles with wit and wisdom and with page after page of rock-solid strategies to guide writers toward prose that sings with vivid clarity. Somehow, Clark makes grammar seem both playful and understandable, even for those who have trouble telling the difference between a dangling participle and a wandering antecedent." (\n <strong>\n  Thomas French, author of\n  <em>\n   Zoo Story\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "An indispensible book in this Twitter world where so few words must push your story forward. Roy Peter Clark shows you a fun way to say exactly what you mean." (\n <strong>\n  Bob Dotson, NBC News National Correspondent for the\n  <em>\n   Today Show\n  </em>\n  ''s "American Story with Bob Dotson"\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8960'),
(18923, 'The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English', 'Roy Peter Clark', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grammar is a subject that typically induces wincing, wheezing, or worse. Clark, a lifelong whiz at the subject, wants readers to fully appreciate the importance of good grammar and the qualities of superior writing. To that end, he has laid out several entertaining, easy-to-follow rules, governing everything from punctuation to alliteration, that promise to dramatically improve one''s writing and develop an appreciation for language. Clark draws on examples ranging from DeLillo to Rowling, a breadth of text that readers will appreciate as much as the author''s humorous approach. Who knew that a discussion of grammar could induce laughter? This is an eminently readable, extremely enjoyable guide that readers will find highly useful on their path to development, not just as writers, but as readers.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Very much a manual for the 21st century...a welcome addition to the bookshelf of anyone who cares about language-and is willing to argue about it." (\n <strong>\n  Ammon Shea, the\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "A fine common-sense guide to the proper use of language." (\n <strong>\n  Barbara Fisher, the\n  <em>\n   Boston Globe\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "An engaging and witty exploration of the shifting rules of English grammar...Clark shows breathtaking knowledge of how language is used in the real world and a passionate commitment to helping writers make good choices." (\n <strong>\n  Chuck Leddy,\n  <em>\n   Minneapolis Star Tribune\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "[Roy Peter] Clark takes readers through a well-paced presentation...he conveys the magic that is to be found in English, in its ever active evolution." (\n <strong>\n  Margaret Heilbrun,\n  <em>\n   Library Journal\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Clark...has laid out several entertaining, easy-to-follow rules, governing everything from punctuation to alliteration, that promise to dramatically improve one''s writing and develop an appreciation for language. Who knew that a discussion of grammar could induce laughter? This is an eminently readable, extremely enjoyable guide that readers will find highly useful on their path to development, not just as writers, but as readers." (\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "What I learned from this book:\n</p>\n<p>\n 1) That grammar has meant mastery of all arts and letters (to the Greeks) and power, magic, and enchantment (to the Scots). Wow.\n</p>\n<p>\n 2) That for the artful writer, no decision is too small, including whether to use\n <em>\n  a\n </em>\n or\n <em>\n  the\n </em>\n . Awesome.\n</p>\n<p>\n 3) That there are right-branching, left-branching, and middle-branching sentences. How cool!\n</p>\n<p>\n 4) That Roy Peter Clark, a modern-day Pied Piper of grammar, makes good writing both approachable and doable. Phew!" (\n <strong>\n  Constance Hale, author of\n  <em>\n   Sin and Syntax\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Who, other than a word-lover like Roy Peter Clark, would dare link "glamour" with (ugh) "grammar"? Here it is--a book of enchantment about words and how words work and what they mean and how to spell them, where even lowly semicolons get appreciated as "swinging gates" in a sentence. Who''d a thunk a book on grammar could be fun? And humorous. Check out "cleave" and "cleaveage."" (\n <strong>\n  Sister Helen Prejean, author of\n  <em>\n   Dead Man Walking\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language." (\n <strong>\n  Anne Hull, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter,\n  <em>\n   The Washington Post\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "If ''Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne,'' as Quentin Crisp once said, then Ralph Keyes has given word and language lovers a deeply fragrant-and thoroughly enjoyable-book." (\n <strong>\n  Dr. Mardy Grothe, author of\n  <em>\n   Oxymoronica\n  </em>\n  and other quotation anthologies\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "If there is indeed a glamour to grammar, I should have known Roy Peter Clark would be the one to spot it. Clark is a trusty guide for anyone wanting to avoid the (many) pitfalls and scale the (hard-won) peaks of perpetrating prose." (\n <strong>\n  Ben Yagoda, author of _Memoir: A History\n  <em>\n   and\n  </em>\n  The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing_\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Roy Peter Clark takes the language so seriously he dares to play with it. What other English professor would seriously write ''A good pun is its own reword.''_The Glamour of Grammar_ is required fun, seriously." (\n <strong>\n  Eugene C. Patterson, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and retired chairman and CEO,\n  <em>\n   St. Petersburg Times\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "Roy Peter Clark, the Jedi master of writing coaches, has delivered another indispensable classic for every author, young and old.\n <em>\n  The Glamour of Gramma\n </em>\n r crackles with wit and wisdom and with page after page of rock-solid strategies to guide writers toward prose that sings with vivid clarity. Somehow, Clark makes grammar seem both playful and understandable, even for those who have trouble telling the difference between a dangling participle and a wandering antecedent." (\n <strong>\n  Thomas French, author of\n  <em>\n   Zoo Story\n  </em>\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n "An indispensible book in this Twitter world where so few words must push your story forward. Roy Peter Clark shows you a fun way to say exactly what you mean." (\n <strong>\n  Bob Dotson, NBC News National Correspondent for the\n  <em>\n   Today Show\n  </em>\n  ''s "American Story with Bob Dotson"\n </strong>\n )\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23409');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(18924, 'The Glass Castle: A Memoir', 'Jeannette Walls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children''s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn''t stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents'' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home. What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms. For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story. A regular contributor to MSNBC.com, she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4624'),
(18925, 'The glass castle: a memoir', 'Jeannette Walls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children''s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn''t stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents'' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home. What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms. For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story. A regular contributor to MSNBC.com, she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13893'),
(18926, 'The Glass Devil', 'Helene Tursten', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œKnow[s] how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural.â€â€”*The Philadelphia Inquirer*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The principal of a high school telephones his friend, Inspector Andersson of the GÃ¶teborg Crime Police; one of his teachers failed to show up for work. To Inspector Irene Hussâ€™ surprise, on the basis of this vague complaint her boss drives out with her to a remote cottage in snowbound southern Sweden to investigate. There they find a body, its head blasted by a rifle. Teacher Jacob Schyttelius has been murdered. When they go to break the news to his elderly parents, Pastor Sten Schyttelius and his wife, they find the couple dead in their beds, each shot between the eyes. Upside-down pentagrams have been drawn in blood on their computer screens. The only surviving member of the family is a daughter, now residing in London, but she is too distressed to be interviewed. Is the killer a member of a satanic cult? Is it the parish treasurer, rumored to have been embezzling church funds? Or one of the assistant pastors, tired of waiting for a promotion? Perhaps the attractive blonde who sings in church and practices witchcraft? Irene Huss has a hunch that the answer lies in England, and she travels there twice to discover the reason for this triple homicide.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Helene Tursten** is the author of *Detective Inspector Huss* and *The Torso.* The latter is now a German film, and her series is being filmed for Swedish television. She lives with her husband in GÃ¶teborg.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5137'),
(18927, 'The Glass Devil', 'Helene Tursten', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œKnow[s] how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural.â€â€”*The Philadelphia Inquirer*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The principal of a high school telephones his friend, Inspector Andersson of the GÃ¶teborg Crime Police; one of his teachers failed to show up for work. To Inspector Irene Hussâ€™ surprise, on the basis of this vague complaint her boss drives out with her to a remote cottage in snowbound southern Sweden to investigate. There they find a body, its head blasted by a rifle. Teacher Jacob Schyttelius has been murdered. When they go to break the news to his elderly parents, Pastor Sten Schyttelius and his wife, they find the couple dead in their beds, each shot between the eyes. Upside-down pentagrams have been drawn in blood on their computer screens. The only surviving member of the family is a daughter, now residing in London, but she is too distressed to be interviewed. Is the killer a member of a satanic cult? Is it the parish treasurer, rumored to have been embezzling church funds? Or one of the assistant pastors, tired of waiting for a promotion? Perhaps the attractive blonde who sings in church and practices witchcraft? Irene Huss has a hunch that the answer lies in England, and she travels there twice to discover the reason for this triple homicide.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Helene Tursten** is the author of *Detective Inspector Huss* and *The Torso.* The latter is now a German film, and her series is being filmed for Swedish television. She lives with her husband in GÃ¶teborg.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13057'),
(18928, 'The Glass Devil', 'Helene Tursten', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: â€œKnow[s] how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural.â€â€”*The Philadelphia Inquirer* The principal of a high school telephones his friend, Inspector Andersson of the GÃ¶teborg Crime Police; one of his teachers failed to show up for work. To Inspector Irene Hussâ€™ surprise, on the basis of this vague complaint her boss drives out with her to a remote cottage in snowbound southern Sweden to investigate. There they find a body, its head blasted by a rifle. Teacher Jacob Schyttelius has been murdered. When they go to break the news to his elderly parents, Pastor Sten Schyttelius and his wife, they find the couple dead in their beds, each shot between the eyes. Upside-down pentagrams have been drawn in blood on their computer screens. The only surviving member of the family is a daughter, now residing in London, but she is too distressed to be interviewed. Is the killer a member of a satanic cult? Is it the parish treasurer, rumored to have been embezzling church funds? Or one of the assistant pastors, tired of waiting for a promotion? Perhaps the attractive blonde who sings in church and practices witchcraft? Irene Huss has a hunch that the answer lies in England, and she travels there twice to discover the reason for this triple homicide. **Helene Tursten** is the author of *Detective Inspector Huss* and *The Torso.* The latter is now a German film, and her series is being filmed for Swedish television. She lives with her husband in GÃ¶teborg.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19473'),
(18929, 'The Glass Devil', 'Helene Tursten', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: â€œKnow[s] how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural.â€â€”*The Philadelphia Inquirer* The principal of a high school telephones his friend, Inspector Andersson of the GÃ¶teborg Crime Police; one of his teachers failed to show up for work. To Inspector Irene Hussâ€™ surprise, on the basis of this vague complaint her boss drives out with her to a remote cottage in snowbound southern Sweden to investigate. There they find a body, its head blasted by a rifle. Teacher Jacob Schyttelius has been murdered. When they go to break the news to his elderly parents, Pastor Sten Schyttelius and his wife, they find the couple dead in their beds, each shot between the eyes. Upside-down pentagrams have been drawn in blood on their computer screens. The only surviving member of the family is a daughter, now residing in London, but she is too distressed to be interviewed. Is the killer a member of a satanic cult? Is it the parish treasurer, rumored to have been embezzling church funds? Or one of the assistant pastors, tired of waiting for a promotion? Perhaps the attractive blonde who sings in church and practices witchcraft? Irene Huss has a hunch that the answer lies in England, and she travels there twice to discover the reason for this triple homicide. **Helene Tursten** is the author of *Detective Inspector Huss* and *The Torso.* The latter is now a German film, and her series is being filmed for Swedish television. She lives with her husband in GÃ¶teborg.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28140'),
(18930, 'The Glass Key', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Hammett''s prose was clean and entirely unique. His characters were as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction. His gift of invention never tempted him beyond the limits of credibility."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- The New York Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett''s tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel.Â Â This classic Hammet work of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6367'),
(18931, 'The Glass Key', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Hammett''s prose was clean and entirely unique. His characters were as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction. His gift of invention never tempted him beyond the limits of credibility."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- The New York Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett''s tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel.Â Â This classic Hammet work of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10151'),
(18932, 'The Glass Key', 'Dashiell Hammett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Hammett''s prose was clean and entirely unique. His characters were as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction. His gift of invention never tempted him beyond the limits of credibility."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- The New York Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett''s tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel. This classic Hammet work of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17576'),
(18933, 'The Glass Lake', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of Lough Glass. Until the day she disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on the unfathomable lake that gave the town its name. Ravishing Helen McMahon, the Dubliner with film-star looks and unfulfilled dreams, never belonged in Lough Glass, not the way her genial pharmacist-husband Martin belonged, or their spirited daughter Kit. Suddenly, she is gone and Kit is haunted by the memory of her mother, seen through a window, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down her face. Now Kit, too, has secrets: of the night she discovered a letter on Martin''s pillow and burned it, unopened. The night her mother was lost. The night everything changed forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14643'),
(18934, 'The Glass Lake', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of Lough Glass. Until the day she disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on the unfathomable lake that gave the town its name. Ravishing Helen McMahon, the Dubliner with film-star looks and unfulfilled dreams, never belonged in Lough Glass, not the way her genial pharmacist-husband Martin belonged, or their spirited daughter Kit. Suddenly, she is gone and Kit is haunted by the memory of her mother, seen through a window, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down her face. Now Kit, too, has secrets: of the night she discovered a letter on Martin''s pillow and burned it, unopened. The night her mother was lost. The night everything changed forever...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21287'),
(18935, 'The Glassblower of Murano', 'Marina Fiorato', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the dissolution of her marriage, beautiful English artist Leonora Manin is hired as an apprentice glassblower in the Venetian suburb of Murano, in Fiorato''s strong U.S. debut. Leonora''s ancestor was master glassmaker Corradino Manin, and her new boss plans to exploit that connection. But centuries-old jealousies and treachery surface and the public relations campaign is suddenly canceled. A modern-day relative of Corradino''s mentor resents Leonora, while a journalist who was once involved with Alessandro Bardolino, Leonora''s new love, decides she wants him back. Complex connections, but nothing compared to those in Corradino''s time, when draconian Venetian laws enslaved glassmakers on Murano to insure techniques would remain exclusive to Venice. The author''s descriptive prose brings the beauty and danger of 17th-century Venice vividly to life, when Corradino became a traitor seeking freedom for himself and his secret daughter. Leonora''s determined to investigate Corradino, but throughout, Alessandro''s allegiance is suspect. Those who enjoy intrigue and European history will be easily drawn into this romantic story.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Switching between modern-day andÂ seventeenth-century Venice, Fioratoâ€™s novel is an intriguing mix of history, mystery, art, music, poetry, romance, and politics. Corradino Maninâ€™s family was brutally murdered by Veniceâ€™s Council of Ten; Corradino was only saved because his patron saw in the young boy a prodigious gift for glassblowing. Corradino quickly learned to make exquisite glass mirrors and chandeliers for which the Venetian island of Murano soon became renowned. The process of making Murano glass quickly became a secret jealously guarded by the government, but when Corradino is invited to use his talents in the court of King Louis XIV, he is sorely tempted, even though it means leaving his beloved little daughter, Leonora, and endangering his life. This gripping plot is interwoven with a second, similarly intriguingÂ story revolving around another Leonora, this one aÂ modern-day descendent of Corradino. Leonora has come to Venice to escape an unhappy marriage, enhance her skill as a glassblower, and learn more about her mysterious ancestor. Writing with charm and authenticity, Fiorato produces a blend of historical mystery and modern romance that is thoroughly entertaining. --Emily Melton\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3150'),
(18936, 'The Glassblower of Murano', 'Marina Fiorato', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n After the dissolution of her marriage, beautiful English artist Leonora Manin is hired as an apprentice glassblower in the Venetian suburb of Murano, in Fiorato''s strong U.S. debut. Leonora''s ancestor was master glassmaker Corradino Manin, and her new boss plans to exploit that connection. But centuries-old jealousies and treachery surface and the public relations campaign is suddenly canceled. A modern-day relative of Corradino''s mentor resents Leonora, while a journalist who was once involved with Alessandro Bardolino, Leonora''s new love, decides she wants him back. Complex connections, but nothing compared to those in Corradino''s time, when draconian Venetian laws enslaved glassmakers on Murano to insure techniques would remain exclusive to Venice. The author''s descriptive prose brings the beauty and danger of 17th-century Venice vividly to life, when Corradino became a traitor seeking freedom for himself and his secret daughter. Leonora''s determined to investigate Corradino, but throughout, Alessandro''s allegiance is suspect. Those who enjoy intrigue and European history will be easily drawn into this romantic story.\n <em>\n  (June)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Switching between modern-day andÂ seventeenth-century Venice, Fioratoâ€™s novel is an intriguing mix of history, mystery, art, music, poetry, romance, and politics. Corradino Maninâ€™s family was brutally murdered by Veniceâ€™s Council of Ten; Corradino was only saved because his patron saw in the young boy a prodigious gift for glassblowing. Corradino quickly learned to make exquisite glass mirrors and chandeliers for which the Venetian island of Murano soon became renowned. The process of making Murano glass quickly became a secret jealously guarded by the government, but when Corradino is invited to use his talents in the court of King Louis XIV, he is sorely tempted, even though it means leaving his beloved little daughter, Leonora, and endangering his life. This gripping plot is interwoven with a second, similarly intriguingÂ story revolving around another Leonora, this one aÂ modern-day descendent of Corradino. Leonora has come to Venice to escape an unhappy marriage, enhance her skill as a glassblower, and learn more about her mysterious ancestor. Writing with charm and authenticity, Fiorato produces a blend of historical mystery and modern romance that is thoroughly entertaining. --Emily Melton\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9716'),
(18937, 'Glasul de otel', 'Sean McMullen', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25144'),
(18938, 'Glide Path', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15645'),
(18939, 'Glimpse', 'Stacey Wallace Benefiel &amp; Valerie Wallace &amp; Robert Benefiel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Zellie Wells has a devastating crush on Avery Adams, the son of her mom''s high school sweetheart. At her sixteenth birthday party, held in the basement of her dad''s church, she finally finds the courage to talk to him. Turns out, the devastating crush is mutual. As Avery takes her hand and leads her out onto the makeshift dance floor, Zellie is overwhelmed by her first vision of his death; shocking because not only are they both covered in his blood, but they''re old, like 35, and she is pregnant. Afraid to tell anyone about the vision, (she''d just be labeled a freaky black magic witch, right?) Zellie keeps the knowledge of Avery''s future to herself and tries to act like any other teenager in love. When they get caught on their way to a secret rendezvous by her mom and his dad, they are forbidden to see each other. Convinced that their parents are freaking out unnecessarily, Avery and Zellie vow to be together no matter what. They continue their relationship in secret until Zellie learns that their parents are just trying to prevent her and Avery from suffering like they did. The visions are hereditary, they''re dangerous, and if they stay together the visions will come true. Now Zellie must choose between severing all ties with Avery, like her mom did to prevent his father''s death, and finding a way to change Avery''s future\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stacey lives in Beaverton, Oregon with her husband and their two young children. Glimpse is her debut novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1210'),
(18940, 'Glimpse', 'Stacey Wallace Benefiel; Valerie Wallace; Robert Benefiel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Zellie Wells has a devastating crush on Avery Adams, the son of her mom''s high school sweetheart. At her sixteenth birthday party, held in the basement of her dad''s church, she finally finds the courage to talk to him. Turns out, the devastating crush is mutual. As Avery takes her hand and leads her out onto the makeshift dance floor, Zellie is overwhelmed by her first vision of his death; shocking because not only are they both covered in his blood, but they''re old, like 35, and she is pregnant. Afraid to tell anyone about the vision, (she''d just be labeled a freaky black magic witch, right?) Zellie keeps the knowledge of Avery''s future to herself and tries to act like any other teenager in love. When they get caught on their way to a secret rendezvous by her mom and his dad, they are forbidden to see each other. Convinced that their parents are freaking out unnecessarily, Avery and Zellie vow to be together no matter what. They continue their relationship in secret until Zellie learns that their parents are just trying to prevent her and Avery from suffering like they did. The visions are hereditary, they''re dangerous, and if they stay together the visions will come true. Now Zellie must choose between severing all ties with Avery, like her mom did to prevent his father''s death, and finding a way to change Avery''s future\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Stacey lives in Beaverton, Oregon with her husband and their two young children. Glimpse is her debut novel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23707'),
(18941, 'The Glimpses of the Moon (Webster&#39;s French Thesaurus Edition)', 'Icon Group International, Inc. Staff; Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader deciphera words meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18277'),
(18942, 'The Glimpses of the Moon', 'Edith Wharton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25872'),
(18943, 'The Glister', 'John Burnside', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Acclaimed author John Burnside delivers a profound, page-turning novel about innocence, evil, morality, and the dark corners of the human psyche. Mysterious illnesses affect the inhabitants of the post-industrial village of Innertown, and a pervasive sense of malaise hangs everywhere. So when teenage boys disappear into the poisoned woods surrounding the villagers"s abandoned chemical plant, no one notices, or if they do, they donrs"t say a thing. Not even the townrs"s only cop, whose leads have long since died. To one boy, however, the chemical plant is beautiful, and it is there he will enact a plan to change the fate of the children of Innertown. To do so he will have to confront the blinding reality that burns in the chemical plantrs"s cavernous center.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4425'),
(18944, 'The Glister', 'John Burnside', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Acclaimed author John Burnside delivers a profound, page-turning novel about innocence, evil, morality, and the dark corners of the human psyche. Mysterious illnesses affect the inhabitants of the post-industrial village of Innertown, and a pervasive sense of malaise hangs everywhere. So when teenage boys disappear into the poisoned woods surrounding the villagers"s abandoned chemical plant, no one notices, or if they do, they donrs"t say a thing. Not even the townrs"s only cop, whose leads have long since died. To one boy, however, the chemical plant is beautiful, and it is there he will enact a plan to change the fate of the children of Innertown. To do so he will have to confront the blinding reality that burns in the chemical plantrs"s cavernous center.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21408'),
(18945, 'The Glitch in Sleep', 'John Hulme &amp; Michael Wexler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Becker Drane knows exactly how The World works You know the rain we had two weeks ago, or that nightmare you had last night? Becker Drane can tell you exactly who or what was responsible because Becker works as a Fixer for The Seems. From the Department of Weather to the Department of Time, The Seems is the world-behind-our-World, and it keeps everything running smoothly.Â  But every so often, something goes wrong. When a Glitch makes its way into the Department of Sleep, Becker is called in for his very first Fixer assignment and heâ€™s got to get it right. But this Mission is tricky, and his regular Tools arenâ€™t up to the test. If Becker doesnâ€™t find a Fix fast, he just might lose the coolest job everâ€”and The World will lose a lot more than a good nightâ€™s sleep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4339'),
(18946, 'The Glitch in Sleep', 'John Hulme &amp; Michael Wexler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Becker Drane knows exactly how The World works You know the rain we had two weeks ago, or that nightmare you had last night? Becker Drane can tell you exactly who or what was responsible because Becker works as a Fixer for The Seems. From the Department of Weather to the Department of Time, The Seems is the world-behind-our-World, and it keeps everything running smoothly.Â  But every so often, something goes wrong. When a Glitch makes its way into the Department of Sleep, Becker is called in for his very first Fixer assignment and heâ€™s got to get it right. But this Mission is tricky, and his regular Tools arenâ€™t up to the test. If Becker doesnâ€™t find a Fix fast, he just might lose the coolest job everâ€”and The World will lose a lot more than a good nightâ€™s sleep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10398'),
(18947, 'The Glitch in Sleep', 'John Hulme; Michael Wexler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Becker Drane knows exactly how The World works You know the rain we had two weeks ago, or that nightmare you had last night? Becker Drane can tell you exactly who or what was responsible because Becker works as a Fixer for The Seems. From the Department of Weather to the Department of Time, The Seems is the world-behind-our-World, and it keeps everything running smoothly. But every so often, something goes wrong. When a Glitch makes its way into the Department of Sleep, Becker is called in for his very first Fixer assignment and heâ€™s got to get it right. But this Mission is tricky, and his regular Tools arenâ€™t up to the test. If Becker doesnâ€™t find a Fix fast, he just might lose the coolest job everâ€”and The World will lose a lot more than a good nightâ€™s sleep.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20270'),
(18948, 'Glitter Baby', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Welcome to the world of the Glitter Baby\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Fleur Savagar is the most beautiful woman in the world . . . to everyone but herself. With her oversized hands and paddle-boat feet, her streaky blond hair and funny green eyes, she lives a life filled with secrets that began before she was born. That was when her bewitching mother left home to find James Dean and met Errol Flynn instead. Now Fleur has to grow up quickly, and life won''t make that easy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jake Koranda is both New York''s most brilliant playwright and Hollywood''s hottest actor. Difficult, talented, and tormented, he has no patience for international glamour girls, not even ones with beautiful bodies and smart-aleck mouths. But there''s more to the Glitter Baby than shine, and Fleur''s tougher than Jake expects. Even with the odds stacked against her, she''s fiercely determined to discover the woman she''s destined to be.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An ugly duckling who can''t believe she''s turned into a swan . . . A tough-guy movie star with a haunted past . . . In a land of broken dreams, can two unlikely lovers trust their hearts?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Susan Elizabeth Phillips soared onto the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller list with\n  <em>\n   Dream a Little Dream\n  </em>\n  . She''s the only four-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America''s prestigious Favorite Book of the Year Award. A resident of the Chicago suburbs, Phillips is also a hiker, a gardener, a reader, a wife, and the mother of two grown sons.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/991'),
(18949, 'Glitter Baby', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <blockquote>\n  <p>\n   Welcome to the world of the Glitter Baby\n  </p>\n </blockquote>\n <p>\n  Fleur Savagar is the most beautiful woman in the world . . . to everyone but herself. With her oversized hands and paddle-boat feet, her streaky blond hair and funny green eyes, she lives a life filled with secrets that began before she was born. That was when her bewitching mother left home to find James Dean and met Errol Flynn instead. Now Fleur has to grow up quickly, and life won''t make that easy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Jake Koranda is both New York''s most brilliant playwright and Hollywood''s hottest actor. Difficult, talented, and tormented, he has no patience for international glamour girls, not even ones with beautiful bodies and smart-aleck mouths. But there''s more to the Glitter Baby than shine, and Fleur''s tougher than Jake expects. Even with the odds stacked against her, she''s fiercely determined to discover the woman she''s destined to be.\n </p>\n <p>\n  An ugly duckling who can''t believe she''s turned into a swan . . . A tough-guy movie star with a haunted past . . . In a land of broken dreams, can two unlikely lovers trust their hearts?\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Susan Elizabeth Phillips soared onto the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller list with\n  <em>\n   Dream a Little Dream\n  </em>\n  . She''s the only four-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America''s prestigious Favorite Book of the Year Award. A resident of the Chicago suburbs, Phillips is also a hiker, a gardener, a reader, a wife, and the mother of two grown sons.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11957'),
(18950, 'Glitter Baby', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24021'),
(18951, 'Glitz', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Psycho mama''s boy Teddy Magyk has a serious jones for the Miami cop who put him away for raping a senior citizen -- but he wants to hit Vincent Mora where it really hurts before killing him. So when a beautiful Puerto Rican hooker takes a swan dive from an Atlantic City high-rise and Vincent naturally shows up to investigate the questionable death of his "special friend," Teddy figures he''s got his prey just where he wants him. But the A.C. dazzle is blinding the Magic Man to a couple of very hard truths: Vincent Mora doesn''t forgive and forget ... and he doesn''t die easy.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vincent Mora just can''t win. He''s been shot, his girlfriend is about to be tossed off a balcony, and there''s a vengeful creep looking to even a twisted score. Set against the tacky glitter of Atlantic City''s billion-dollar casinos, Glitz has all the classic Leonard touches: quirky characters, colorful and cinematic scenes, and dialogue that''s, well, to die for.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18551'),
(18952, 'Glorious One-Pot Meals: A Revolutionary New Quick and Healthy Approach to Dutch-Oven Cooking', 'Elizabeth Yarnell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sometimes the simplest-seeming cookbooks yield the most surprising revelations, as in nutritionist Yarnell''s guide to one-pot cooking. Yarnell''s signature infusion method, cooking in a dutch oven at a very hot temperature renders layered vegetables, starches and proteins like tandoori salmon and kale with butternut squash over basmati rice, into a surprisingly well-textured, hearty meal. (It''s also foolproof: when you smell the aroma of dinner, you''re three minutes from the end of the cooking time.) Dishes like citrus ginger chicken with root vegetables; penne puttanesca; and fiesta steak are simple choices for busy weeknight dinners. The real genius, of course, is the single potâ€”Yarnell''s all-inclusive meals don''t require the usual juggling of oven times to coordinate complementary dishes, and cleanup is simplified even further by a preliminary canola oil spritz on the pot. Her emphasis on whole foods, abundant servings of vegetables, moderate amounts of protein and the incorporation of whole grains like amaranth and quinoa justifies her health claims. Yarnell also guides readers in creating their own custom versions of the one-pot meal, even offering a one-pot meal weekly grocery list.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWhen I hear â€˜crisp vegetables, tender meats, incredible flavor, ONE pot, and ready in less than thirty minutes,â€™ I say COUNT ME IN! Thatâ€™s my Quick Fix mantra! Who doesnâ€™t cherish strategies that deliver wholesome, family-friendly meals in just minutes? All in one pot, which makes for easy cleanup.\n <em>\n  Glorious One-Pot Meals\n </em>\n offers tons of variety, from the fabulously ordinary to the incredibly extraordinary. Fish dishes range from Very, Very Mild Fish to Honey-Chili Trout and Pistachio Halibut (with lavender!). Elizabeth tempts you with All-American Pot Roast and Corned Beef and Cabbage and then wows you with Amaranth Chili. Ready to move beyond Simply Chicken and Chicken Marsala? Then try the African Peanut Butter Stew. Or leap from Glorious Macaroni and Cheese to Aloo Gobi (a flavor-packed, Indian feast). If youâ€™ve got a pot, youâ€™ve got a meal. Thereâ€™s truly something for everyone.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Robin Miller, host of Food Networkâ€™s â€œQuick Fix Meals with Robin Millerâ€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5748'),
(18953, 'Glorious One-Pot Meals: A Revolutionary New Quick and Healthy Approach to Dutch-Oven Cooking', 'Elizabeth Yarnell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sometimes the simplest-seeming cookbooks yield the most surprising revelations, as in nutritionist Yarnell''s guide to one-pot cooking. Yarnell''s signature infusion method, cooking in a dutch oven at a very hot temperature renders layered vegetables, starches and proteins like tandoori salmon and kale with butternut squash over basmati rice, into a surprisingly well-textured, hearty meal. (It''s also foolproof: when you smell the aroma of dinner, you''re three minutes from the end of the cooking time.) Dishes like citrus ginger chicken with root vegetables; penne puttanesca; and fiesta steak are simple choices for busy weeknight dinners. The real genius, of course, is the single potâ€”Yarnell''s all-inclusive meals don''t require the usual juggling of oven times to coordinate complementary dishes, and cleanup is simplified even further by a preliminary canola oil spritz on the pot. Her emphasis on whole foods, abundant servings of vegetables, moderate amounts of protein and the incorporation of whole grains like amaranth and quinoa justifies her health claims. Yarnell also guides readers in creating their own custom versions of the one-pot meal, even offering a one-pot meal weekly grocery list.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWhen I hear â€˜crisp vegetables, tender meats, incredible flavor, ONE pot, and ready in less than thirty minutes,â€™ I say COUNT ME IN! Thatâ€™s my Quick Fix mantra! Who doesnâ€™t cherish strategies that deliver wholesome, family-friendly meals in just minutes? All in one pot, which makes for easy cleanup.\n <em>\n  Glorious One-Pot Meals\n </em>\n offers tons of variety, from the fabulously ordinary to the incredibly extraordinary. Fish dishes range from Very, Very Mild Fish to Honey-Chili Trout and Pistachio Halibut (with lavender!). Elizabeth tempts you with All-American Pot Roast and Corned Beef and Cabbage and then wows you with Amaranth Chili. Ready to move beyond Simply Chicken and Chicken Marsala? Then try the African Peanut Butter Stew. Or leap from Glorious Macaroni and Cheese to Aloo Gobi (a flavor-packed, Indian feast). If youâ€™ve got a pot, youâ€™ve got a meal. Thereâ€™s truly something for everyone.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Robin Miller, host of Food Networkâ€™s â€œQuick Fix Meals with Robin Millerâ€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13453'),
(18954, 'Glorious One-Pot Meals: A Revolutionary New Quick and Healthy Approach to Dutch-Oven Cooking', 'Elizabeth Yarnell', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Sometimes the simplest-seeming cookbooks yield the most surprising revelations, as in nutritionist Yarnell''s guide to one-pot cooking. Yarnell''s signature infusion method, cooking in a dutch oven at a very hot temperature renders layered vegetables, starches and proteins like tandoori salmon and kale with butternut squash over basmati rice, into a surprisingly well-textured, hearty meal. (It''s also foolproof: when you smell the aroma of dinner, you''re three minutes from the end of the cooking time.) Dishes like citrus ginger chicken with root vegetables; penne puttanesca; and fiesta steak are simple choices for busy weeknight dinners. The real genius, of course, is the single potâ€”Yarnell''s all-inclusive meals don''t require the usual juggling of oven times to coordinate complementary dishes, and cleanup is simplified even further by a preliminary canola oil spritz on the pot. Her emphasis on whole foods, abundant servings of vegetables, moderate amounts of protein and the incorporation of whole grains like amaranth and quinoa justifies her health claims. Yarnell also guides readers in creating their own custom versions of the one-pot meal, even offering a one-pot meal weekly grocery list.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œWhen I hear â€˜crisp vegetables, tender meats, incredible flavor, ONE pot, and ready in less than thirty minutes,â€™ I say COUNT ME IN! Thatâ€™s my Quick Fix mantra! Who doesnâ€™t cherish strategies that deliver wholesome, family-friendly meals in just minutes? All in one pot, which makes for easy cleanup.\n <em>\n  Glorious One-Pot Meals\n </em>\n offers tons of variety, from the fabulously ordinary to the incredibly extraordinary. Fish dishes range from Very, Very Mild Fish to Honey-Chili Trout and Pistachio Halibut (with lavender!). Elizabeth tempts you with All-American Pot Roast and Corned Beef and Cabbage and then wows you with Amaranth Chili. Ready to move beyond Simply Chicken and Chicken Marsala? Then try the African Peanut Butter Stew. Or leap from Glorious Macaroni and Cheese to Aloo Gobi (a flavor-packed, Indian feast). If youâ€™ve got a pot, youâ€™ve got a meal. Thereâ€™s truly something for everyone.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€”Robin Miller, host of Food Networkâ€™s â€œQuick Fix Meals with Robin Millerâ€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18928'),
(18955, 'Glory in Death', 'Nora Roberts &amp; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''a perfect balance of suspense, futuristic police procedural and steamy romancetruly fine entertainmentsure to leave you hungering for more'' Publisher''s Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2486'),
(18956, 'Glory in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''a perfect balance of suspense, futuristic police procedural and steamy romancetruly fine entertainmentsure to leave you hungering for more'' Publisher''s Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13930'),
(18957, 'Glory in Death', 'Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: ''a perfect balance of suspense, futuristic police procedural and steamy romancetruly fine entertainmentsure to leave you hungering for more'' Publisher''s Weekly\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22282'),
(18958, 'Glory Road', 'Robert A. Heinlein; Samuel R. Delany', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia, but he hadn''t given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him: "ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years old, in perfect health, at least six feet tall, weigh about 190 pounds, fluent English, with some French, proficient in all weapons, some knowledge of engineering and mathematics essential, willing to travel, no family or emotional ties, indomitably courageous and handsome of face and figure. Permanent employment, very high pay, glorious adventure, great danger. You must apply in person, rue Dante, Nice, 2me etage, apt. D." How could you not answer an ad like that, especially when it seemed to describe you perfectly? Well, except maybe for the "handsome" part, but that was in the eye of the beholder anyway. So he went to that apartment and was greeted by the most beautiful woman he''d ever met. She seemed to have many names, but agreed he could call her "Star." A pretty appropriate name, as it turned out, for the empress of twenty universes. Robert A. Heinlein''s one true fantasy novel, " Glory Road "is as much fun today as when he wrote it after "Stranger in a Strange Land." Heinlein proves himself as adept with sword and sorcery as with rockets and slide rules and the result is exciting, satirical, fast-paced, funny and tremendously readable -- a favorite of all who have read it. "Glory Road" is a masterpiece of escapist entertainment with a typically Heinleinian sting in its tail. Tor is proud to return this all-time classic to hardcover to be discovered by a new generation of readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22729');
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(18959, 'The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook', 'Elana Amsterdam', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOutstanding gluten-free goodies... this lovely cookbook, full of enticing photos, has my mouth watering.â€\n <br />\n â€”_DeliciousLiving Magazine: Blog_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThe need is huge for cookbooks for celiacs on limited diets. They will welcome\n <em>\n  The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook\n </em>\n when it arrives.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Providence Journal_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œFlour Girl: Gluten-Free Almond Joyâ€\n <br />\n â€”Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAmsterdamâ€™s recipes will carry you through the day, with pancakes for breakfast, pizza for lunch, and quiche for dinner. She takes classic recipes...and adapts them to almond flour, creating plenty of meal options.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Cookbook Digest_\n</p>\n<p>\n "We all need to pay attention to the food we eat, all of the time. For people with celiac disease, this is normally an even greater challenge--but not for Elana! Her healthful and flavorful recipes taste as good as they are good for you. Made with almond flour and high in protein and fiber,Â these dishes are sure to even please the gluten eaters in your family!"Â \n <br />\n â€”Alice Bast, President and Founder of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor many people, normal food becomes off-limits when they find they have an allergy or condition, such as celiac disease. To wrestle new limitations into foods that are every bit as delicious and appealing (if not more so) is a coup to be celebrated. Having tried the chocolate chip cookies, I speak from experience when I say there is nothing lacking in these recipes. They are truly wholesome and delicious!â€\n <br />\n â€”DEBORAH MADISON, _Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œElana has a tremendous gift for creating classic recipes using healthy ingredients. Her high-protein, gluten-free treats are incredibly tasty! I highly recommend this book if you are looking for good food that is also good for you.â€\n <br />\n â€”DR. ROBERT ROUNTREE, _Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œLocal hero Elana Amsterdam (straight out of Boulder) offers dozens of wheatless recipes from chicken parmesan to chocolate cake, all of which call for gluten-free almond flour. Enough of the recipes will appeal to gluten-eaters to make this collection a great go-to resource for blended families and/or hosts cooking for gluten-intolerant guests. Readers with a sweet tooth are especially well-served here, but savory recipes like salmon burgers round out the roster.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”The Denver Post\n </em>\n , â€œCausing a STIR: Best Cookbooks of 2009â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn her\n <em>\n  Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook\n </em>\n , the ingenious celiac Elana Amsterdam offers another possible approach, a sandwich bread made from finely milled almond flour (do not use Bob''s Red Mill brand) and almond butter that is nutty and versatile. Amsterdam''s recipes are refreshingly simple, as the almond flour reduces the need for the expensive and obscure mix of flours other gluten-free recipes require.... But the ground nut has other virtues, including high amounts of protein and vitamins and low glycemic impact. Amsterdam employs it in a range of dishes, from shortbread cookies and carrot cake to a savory tart with kale. Her snappy herbed crackers, which are a welcome change from commercial nut-thins and dry rice crisps, are equally easy to make and delicious.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n â€”_The Philadelphia Inquirer, â€œGluten-Free But Still Tastyâ€\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prevalence of celiac disease and gluten sensitivity among millions of adults and children has created the need for gluten-free recipes that are as nutritious and tasty as their traditional counterparts. Popular food blogger Elana Amsterdam offers ninety-nine family-friendly classics--from Pancakes to Eggplant Parmesan to Chocolate Cake--that feature her gluten-free ingredient of choice, almond flour. Because these recipes are low glycemic, low in cholesterol and dairy, and high in protein and fiber, they are also ideal for people with diabetes, obesity, and high cholesterol.\n</p>\n<p>\n So whether youâ€™re looking for a quick breakfast treat, a comfort food entrÃ©e, or a showstopping dessert,\n <em>\n  The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook\n </em>\n proves that gluten-free cooking can mean healthy eating for everyone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5810'),
(18960, 'The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook', 'Elana Amsterdam', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOutstanding gluten-free goodies... this lovely cookbook, full of enticing photos, has my mouth watering.â€\n <br />\n â€”_DeliciousLiving Magazine: Blog_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThe need is huge for cookbooks for celiacs on limited diets. They will welcome\n <em>\n  The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook\n </em>\n when it arrives.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Providence Journal_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œFlour Girl: Gluten-Free Almond Joyâ€\n <br />\n â€”Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAmsterdamâ€™s recipes will carry you through the day, with pancakes for breakfast, pizza for lunch, and quiche for dinner. She takes classic recipes...and adapts them to almond flour, creating plenty of meal options.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Cookbook Digest_\n</p>\n<p>\n "We all need to pay attention to the food we eat, all of the time. For people with celiac disease, this is normally an even greater challenge--but not for Elana! Her healthful and flavorful recipes taste as good as they are good for you. Made with almond flour and high in protein and fiber,Â these dishes are sure to even please the gluten eaters in your family!"Â \n <br />\n â€”Alice Bast, President and Founder of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor many people, normal food becomes off-limits when they find they have an allergy or condition, such as celiac disease. To wrestle new limitations into foods that are every bit as delicious and appealing (if not more so) is a coup to be celebrated. Having tried the chocolate chip cookies, I speak from experience when I say there is nothing lacking in these recipes. They are truly wholesome and delicious!â€\n <br />\n â€”DEBORAH MADISON, _Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œElana has a tremendous gift for creating classic recipes using healthy ingredients. Her high-protein, gluten-free treats are incredibly tasty! I highly recommend this book if you are looking for good food that is also good for you.â€\n <br />\n â€”DR. ROBERT ROUNTREE, _Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œLocal hero Elana Amsterdam (straight out of Boulder) offers dozens of wheatless recipes from chicken parmesan to chocolate cake, all of which call for gluten-free almond flour. Enough of the recipes will appeal to gluten-eaters to make this collection a great go-to resource for blended families and/or hosts cooking for gluten-intolerant guests. Readers with a sweet tooth are especially well-served here, but savory recipes like salmon burgers round out the roster.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”The Denver Post\n </em>\n , â€œCausing a STIR: Best Cookbooks of 2009â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn her\n <em>\n  Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook\n </em>\n , the ingenious celiac Elana Amsterdam offers another possible approach, a sandwich bread made from finely milled almond flour (do not use Bob''s Red Mill brand) and almond butter that is nutty and versatile. Amsterdam''s recipes are refreshingly simple, as the almond flour reduces the need for the expensive and obscure mix of flours other gluten-free recipes require.... But the ground nut has other virtues, including high amounts of protein and vitamins and low glycemic impact. Amsterdam employs it in a range of dishes, from shortbread cookies and carrot cake to a savory tart with kale. Her snappy herbed crackers, which are a welcome change from commercial nut-thins and dry rice crisps, are equally easy to make and delicious.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n â€”_The Philadelphia Inquirer, â€œGluten-Free But Still Tastyâ€\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prevalence of celiac disease and gluten sensitivity among millions of adults and children has created the need for gluten-free recipes that are as nutritious and tasty as their traditional counterparts. Popular food blogger Elana Amsterdam offers ninety-nine family-friendly classics--from Pancakes to Eggplant Parmesan to Chocolate Cake--that feature her gluten-free ingredient of choice, almond flour. Because these recipes are low glycemic, low in cholesterol and dairy, and high in protein and fiber, they are also ideal for people with diabetes, obesity, and high cholesterol.\n</p>\n<p>\n So whether youâ€™re looking for a quick breakfast treat, a comfort food entrÃ©e, or a showstopping dessert,\n <em>\n  The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook\n </em>\n proves that gluten-free cooking can mean healthy eating for everyone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8217'),
(18961, 'The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook', 'Elana Amsterdam', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œOutstanding gluten-free goodies... this lovely cookbook, full of enticing photos, has my mouth watering.â€\n <br />\n â€”_DeliciousLiving Magazine: Blog_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œThe need is huge for cookbooks for celiacs on limited diets. They will welcome\n <em>\n  The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook\n </em>\n when it arrives.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Providence Journal_\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n â€œFlour Girl: Gluten-Free Almond Joyâ€\n <br />\n â€”Washington Post\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAmsterdamâ€™s recipes will carry you through the day, with pancakes for breakfast, pizza for lunch, and quiche for dinner. She takes classic recipes...and adapts them to almond flour, creating plenty of meal options.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Cookbook Digest_\n</p>\n<p>\n "We all need to pay attention to the food we eat, all of the time. For people with celiac disease, this is normally an even greater challenge--but not for Elana! Her healthful and flavorful recipes taste as good as they are good for you. Made with almond flour and high in protein and fiber, these dishes are sure to even please the gluten eaters in your family!"\n <br />\n â€”Alice Bast, President and Founder of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFor many people, normal food becomes off-limits when they find they have an allergy or condition, such as celiac disease. To wrestle new limitations into foods that are every bit as delicious and appealing (if not more so) is a coup to be celebrated. Having tried the chocolate chip cookies, I speak from experience when I say there is nothing lacking in these recipes. They are truly wholesome and delicious!â€\n <br />\n â€”DEBORAH MADISON, _Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œElana has a tremendous gift for creating classic recipes using healthy ingredients. Her high-protein, gluten-free treats are incredibly tasty! I highly recommend this book if you are looking for good food that is also good for you.â€\n <br />\n â€”DR. ROBERT ROUNTREE, _Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œLocal hero Elana Amsterdam (straight out of Boulder) offers dozens of wheatless recipes from chicken parmesan to chocolate cake, all of which call for gluten-free almond flour. Enough of the recipes will appeal to gluten-eaters to make this collection a great go-to resource for blended families and/or hosts cooking for gluten-intolerant guests. Readers with a sweet tooth are especially well-served here, but savory recipes like salmon burgers round out the roster.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”The Denver Post\n </em>\n , â€œCausing a STIR: Best Cookbooks of 2009â€\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn her\n <em>\n  Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook\n </em>\n , the ingenious celiac Elana Amsterdam offers another possible approach, a sandwich bread made from finely milled almond flour (do not use Bob''s Red Mill brand) and almond butter that is nutty and versatile. Amsterdam''s recipes are refreshingly simple, as the almond flour reduces the need for the expensive and obscure mix of flours other gluten-free recipes require.... But the ground nut has other virtues, including high amounts of protein and vitamins and low glycemic impact. Amsterdam employs it in a range of dishes, from shortbread cookies and carrot cake to a savory tart with kale. Her snappy herbed crackers, which are a welcome change from commercial nut-thins and dry rice crisps, are equally easy to make and delicious.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n â€”_The Philadelphia Inquirer, â€œGluten-Free But Still Tastyâ€\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The prevalence of celiac disease and gluten sensitivity among millions of adults and children has created the need for gluten-free recipes that are as nutritious and tasty as their traditional counterparts. Popular food blogger Elana Amsterdam offers ninety-nine family-friendly classics--from Pancakes to Eggplant Parmesan to Chocolate Cake--that feature her gluten-free ingredient of choice, almond flour. Because these recipes are low glycemic, low in cholesterol and dairy, and high in protein and fiber, they are also ideal for people with diabetes, obesity, and high cholesterol.\n</p>\n<p>\n So whether youâ€™re looking for a quick breakfast treat, a comfort food entrÃ©e, or a showstopping dessert,\n <em>\n  The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook\n </em>\n proves that gluten-free cooking can mean healthy eating for everyone.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18838'),
(18962, 'The Glycemic Index Diet for Dummies', 'Meri Raffetto', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get proven results from this safe, effective, and easy-to-follow diet\n</p>\n<p>\n Using the glycemic index is a proven method of losing and maintaining weight safely and quickly.\n <em>\n  The Glycemic Index Diet For Dummies\n </em>\n presents this system in an easy-to-apply manner, giving you the tools and tips you need to shed unwanted pounds and improve your overall health.\n</p>\n<p>\n Recommends foods that boost metabolism, promote weight loss, and provide longer-lasting energy\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Features delicious recipes for glycemic-friendly cooking at home\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes exercises for maintaining glycemic index weight loss and promoting physical fitness\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers guidance on shopping for food as well as eating at restaurants and away from home\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll not only see how to apply the glycemic index to your existing diet plan, but also how to develop a lifestyle based around improving your overall health.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lose weight and improve your overall health\n</p>\n<p>\n Eating fewer carbohydrates may be trendy â€” but since your body needs them to function, eliminating too many carbs from your diet is neither healthy nor practical. Enter the glycemic index, a proven method for calculating the way carbohydrates act in your body to help you lose weight safely, quickly, and effectively. The Glycemic Index Diet For Dummies presents this system in an easy-to-apply manner, giving you the tools and tips you need to shed unwanted pounds and improve your overall health.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore the glycemic index â€” find out exactly what the glycemic index is and how you can use it to develop a healthier diet and lifestyle\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get your health back on track â€” use a low-glycemic diet to help control diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, hypothyroidism, metabolic syndrome, and other health conditions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Eat the low-glycemic way â€” get helpful, easy-to-follow guidelines for adding low-glycemic foods to your meals at home, while dining out, and on the go\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy and delicious recipes for a low-glycemic diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Common low-glycemic and high-fiber foods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simple strategies to increase your metabolism\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on reading food labels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidelines for dining out\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Healthy-eating strategies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best ways to stay on track with a low-glycemic diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to modify your favorite meals for a low-glycemic diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A sensible exercise plan that you can stick with\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the glycemic index to achieve your weight-loss goals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your overall wellness and control specific health conditions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Eat and cook the low-glycemic way\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make positive, sustainable lifestyle and diet changes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2954'),
(18963, 'The Glycemic Index Diet for Dummies', 'Meri Raffetto', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get proven results from this safe, effective, and easy-to-follow diet\n</p>\n<p>\n Using the glycemic index is a proven method of losing and maintaining weight safely and quickly.\n <em>\n  The Glycemic Index Diet For Dummies\n </em>\n presents this system in an easy-to-apply manner, giving you the tools and tips you need to shed unwanted pounds and improve your overall health.\n</p>\n<p>\n Recommends foods that boost metabolism, promote weight loss, and provide longer-lasting energy\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Features delicious recipes for glycemic-friendly cooking at home\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes exercises for maintaining glycemic index weight loss and promoting physical fitness\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers guidance on shopping for food as well as eating at restaurants and away from home\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll not only see how to apply the glycemic index to your existing diet plan, but also how to develop a lifestyle based around improving your overall health.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lose weight and improve your overall health\n</p>\n<p>\n Eating fewer carbohydrates may be trendy â€” but since your body needs them to function, eliminating too many carbs from your diet is neither healthy nor practical. Enter the glycemic index, a proven method for calculating the way carbohydrates act in your body to help you lose weight safely, quickly, and effectively. The Glycemic Index Diet For Dummies presents this system in an easy-to-apply manner, giving you the tools and tips you need to shed unwanted pounds and improve your overall health.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore the glycemic index â€” find out exactly what the glycemic index is and how you can use it to develop a healthier diet and lifestyle\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get your health back on track â€” use a low-glycemic diet to help control diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, hypothyroidism, metabolic syndrome, and other health conditions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Eat the low-glycemic way â€” get helpful, easy-to-follow guidelines for adding low-glycemic foods to your meals at home, while dining out, and on the go\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy and delicious recipes for a low-glycemic diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Common low-glycemic and high-fiber foods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simple strategies to increase your metabolism\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on reading food labels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidelines for dining out\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Healthy-eating strategies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best ways to stay on track with a low-glycemic diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to modify your favorite meals for a low-glycemic diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A sensible exercise plan that you can stick with\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the glycemic index to achieve your weight-loss goals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your overall wellness and control specific health conditions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Eat and cook the low-glycemic way\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make positive, sustainable lifestyle and diet changes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12090'),
(18964, 'The Glycemic Index Diet for Dummies', 'Meri Raffetto', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Get proven results from this safe, effective, and easy-to-follow diet\n</p>\n<p>\n Using the glycemic index is a proven method of losing and maintaining weight safely and quickly.\n <em>\n  The Glycemic Index Diet For Dummies\n </em>\n presents this system in an easy-to-apply manner, giving you the tools and tips you need to shed unwanted pounds and improve your overall health.\n</p>\n<p>\n Recommends foods that boost metabolism, promote weight loss, and provide longer-lasting energy\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Features delicious recipes for glycemic-friendly cooking at home\n </li>\n <li>\n  Includes exercises for maintaining glycemic index weight loss and promoting physical fitness\n </li>\n <li>\n  Offers guidance on shopping for food as well as eating at restaurants and away from home\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n You''ll not only see how to apply the glycemic index to your existing diet plan, but also how to develop a lifestyle based around improving your overall health.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lose weight and improve your overall health\n</p>\n<p>\n Eating fewer carbohydrates may be trendy â€” but since your body needs them to function, eliminating too many carbs from your diet is neither healthy nor practical. Enter the glycemic index, a proven method for calculating the way carbohydrates act in your body to help you lose weight safely, quickly, and effectively. The Glycemic Index Diet For Dummies presents this system in an easy-to-apply manner, giving you the tools and tips you need to shed unwanted pounds and improve your overall health.\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Explore the glycemic index â€” find out exactly what the glycemic index is and how you can use it to develop a healthier diet and lifestyle\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Get your health back on track â€” use a low-glycemic diet to help control diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, hypothyroidism, metabolic syndrome, and other health conditions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Eat the low-glycemic way â€” get helpful, easy-to-follow guidelines for adding low-glycemic foods to your meals at home, while dining out, and on the go\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Open the book and find:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Easy and delicious recipes for a low-glycemic diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Common low-glycemic and high-fiber foods\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Simple strategies to increase your metabolism\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Tips on reading food labels\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Guidelines for dining out\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Healthy-eating strategies\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   The best ways to stay on track with a low-glycemic diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   How to modify your favorite meals for a low-glycemic diet\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   A sensible exercise plan that you can stick with\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Learn to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Use the glycemic index to achieve your weight-loss goals\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Improve your overall wellness and control specific health conditions\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Eat and cook the low-glycemic way\n  </p>\n </li>\n <li>\n  <p>\n   Make positive, sustainable lifestyle and diet changes\n  </p>\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21925'),
(18965, 'The Glycemic Load Diet: A Powerful New Program for Losing Weight and Reversing Insulin Resistance', 'Rob Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  A cardiologist''s revolutionary weight-loss plan that allows dieters to enjoy good carbs while still losing weight\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n The glycemic index has been the basis of many popular diets. But it doesn''t take into account the serving sizes people actually eat and eliminates too many foods for dieters to stick with it. Now Dr. Robert Thompson''s breakthrough program uses the glycemic load--the glycemic index adjusted for serving size--to take the GI a step forward. The glycemic load is a more accurate and effective tool in controlling weight and insulin resistance, allowing dieters to eat more foods while still burning fat, cutting cravings, and speeding up their metabolism. Safe, simple, and scientifically proven, it''s the smartest weight-loss plan yet.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  It''s not about willpower--it''s about your body chemistry\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ve tried dieting, and, after some initial success, you always seem to put the weight back on. Stop blaming yourself! The problem isn''t with you; it''s with the diets themselves.\n</p>\n<p>\n Many are based on the glycemic index, which doesn''t make a distinction between good carbohydrates, such as carrots, from bad ones like starches--potatoes, white pasta, sugar, etc. Nor do they take into account real-life serving sizes; the GI numbers are based on lab-controlled portions. The good news is that nutritional scientists have developed the\n <em>\n  glycemic load\n </em>\n , a powerful new tool for controlling weight that''s based on what people_ actually eat_ and allows for more of a variety of foods.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Glycemic-Load Diet,\n </em>\n cardiologist Dr. Rob Thompson unveils a revolutionary eating and exercise plan that helps you reverse insulin resistance, allowing you to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Eat more of the foods you like\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eliminate cravings for starchy foods\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eat chocolate and still lose weight!\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speed up your metabolism with regular, non-strenuous exercise\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep the weight off without "dieting"\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1712'),
(18966, 'The Glycemic Load Diet: A Powerful New Program for Losing Weight and Reversing Insulin Resistance', 'Rob Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  A cardiologist''s revolutionary weight-loss plan that allows dieters to enjoy good carbs while still losing weight\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n The glycemic index has been the basis of many popular diets. But it doesn''t take into account the serving sizes people actually eat and eliminates too many foods for dieters to stick with it. Now Dr. Robert Thompson''s breakthrough program uses the glycemic load--the glycemic index adjusted for serving size--to take the GI a step forward. The glycemic load is a more accurate and effective tool in controlling weight and insulin resistance, allowing dieters to eat more foods while still burning fat, cutting cravings, and speeding up their metabolism. Safe, simple, and scientifically proven, it''s the smartest weight-loss plan yet.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  It''s not about willpower--it''s about your body chemistry\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ve tried dieting, and, after some initial success, you always seem to put the weight back on. Stop blaming yourself! The problem isn''t with you; it''s with the diets themselves.\n</p>\n<p>\n Many are based on the glycemic index, which doesn''t make a distinction between good carbohydrates, such as carrots, from bad ones like starches--potatoes, white pasta, sugar, etc. Nor do they take into account real-life serving sizes; the GI numbers are based on lab-controlled portions. The good news is that nutritional scientists have developed the\n <em>\n  glycemic load\n </em>\n , a powerful new tool for controlling weight that''s based on what people_ actually eat_ and allows for more of a variety of foods.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Glycemic-Load Diet,\n </em>\n cardiologist Dr. Rob Thompson unveils a revolutionary eating and exercise plan that helps you reverse insulin resistance, allowing you to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Eat more of the foods you like\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eliminate cravings for starchy foods\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eat chocolate and still lose weight!\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speed up your metabolism with regular, non-strenuous exercise\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep the weight off without "dieting"\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13044'),
(18967, 'The Glycemic Load Diet: A Powerful New Program for Losing Weight and Reversing Insulin Resistance', 'Rob Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  A cardiologist''s revolutionary weight-loss plan that allows dieters to enjoy good carbs while still losing weight\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n The glycemic index has been the basis of many popular diets. But it doesn''t take into account the serving sizes people actually eat and eliminates too many foods for dieters to stick with it. Now Dr. Robert Thompson''s breakthrough program uses the glycemic load--the glycemic index adjusted for serving size--to take the GI a step forward. The glycemic load is a more accurate and effective tool in controlling weight and insulin resistance, allowing dieters to eat more foods while still burning fat, cutting cravings, and speeding up their metabolism. Safe, simple, and scientifically proven, it''s the smartest weight-loss plan yet.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  It''s not about willpower--it''s about your body chemistry\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n You''ve tried dieting, and, after some initial success, you always seem to put the weight back on. Stop blaming yourself! The problem isn''t with you; it''s with the diets themselves.\n</p>\n<p>\n Many are based on the glycemic index, which doesn''t make a distinction between good carbohydrates, such as carrots, from bad ones like starches--potatoes, white pasta, sugar, etc. Nor do they take into account real-life serving sizes; the GI numbers are based on lab-controlled portions. The good news is that nutritional scientists have developed the\n <em>\n  glycemic load\n </em>\n , a powerful new tool for controlling weight that''s based on what people_ actually eat_ and allows for more of a variety of foods.\n</p>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  The Glycemic-Load Diet,\n </em>\n cardiologist Dr. Rob Thompson unveils a revolutionary eating and exercise plan that helps you reverse insulin resistance, allowing you to:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Eat more of the foods you like\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eliminate cravings for starchy foods\n </li>\n <li>\n  Eat chocolate and still lose weight!\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speed up your metabolism with regular, non-strenuous exercise\n </li>\n <li>\n  Keep the weight off without "dieting"\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24866'),
(18968, 'Go Home, Stranger', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6860'),
(18969, 'Go Home, Stranger', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13385'),
(18970, 'Go home, stranger', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17036'),
(18971, 'Go home, stranger', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26881'),
(18972, 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: Or, Pearls Before Swine', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[Vonnegut] at his wildest best.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA brilliantly funny satire on almost everything.â€â€”Conrad Aiken\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Vonnegut was] our finest black humorist. . . . We laugh in self-defense.â€â€”_The Atlantic Monthly_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eliot Rosewaterâ€”drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundationâ€”is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout.\n <em>\n  God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater\n </em>\n is Kurt Vonnegutâ€™s funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3596'),
(18973, 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: Or, Pearls Before Swine', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[Vonnegut] at his wildest best.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA brilliantly funny satire on almost everything.â€â€”Conrad Aiken\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Vonnegut was] our finest black humorist. . . . We laugh in self-defense.â€â€”_The Atlantic Monthly_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eliot Rosewaterâ€”drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundationâ€”is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout.\n <em>\n  God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater\n </em>\n is Kurt Vonnegutâ€™s funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13266'),
(18974, 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: Or, Pearls Before Swine', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[Vonnegut] at his wildest best.â€â€”_The New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA brilliantly funny satire on almost everything.â€â€”Conrad Aiken\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Vonnegut was] our finest black humorist. . . . We laugh in self-defense.â€â€”_The Atlantic Monthly_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Eliot Rosewaterâ€”drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundationâ€”is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout.\n <em>\n  God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater\n </em>\n is Kurt Vonnegutâ€™s funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20874'),
(18975, 'The God Delusion', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his sensational international bestseller, the preeminent scientist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins delivers a hard-hitting, impassioned, but humorous rebuttal of religious belief. With rigor and wit, Dawkins eviscerates the arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of the existence of a supreme being. He makes a compelling case that faith is not just irrational, but potentially deadly. In a preface written for the paperback edition, Dawkins responds to some of the controversies the book has incited. This brilliantly argued, provocative book challenges all of us to test our beliefs, no matter what beliefs we hold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1820'),
(18976, 'The God Delusion', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his sensational international bestseller, the preeminent scientist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins delivers a hard-hitting, impassioned, but humorous rebuttal of religious belief. With rigor and wit, Dawkins eviscerates the arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of the existence of a supreme being. He makes a compelling case that faith is not just irrational, but potentially deadly. In a preface written for the paperback edition, Dawkins responds to some of the controversies the book has incited. This brilliantly argued, provocative book challenges all of us to test our beliefs, no matter what beliefs we hold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9287'),
(18977, 'The God Delusion', 'Dawkins, Richard', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15181'),
(18978, 'God Don&#39;t Like Ugly', 'Mary Monroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this richly drawn novel set on the streets, porches and in the parlors of 1960s Ohio, Mary Monroe brings to life the bond between two girls from opposite sides of the tracks--and the shattering event that changes their lives forever.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At the heart of the story is Annette Goode, a shy, awkward girl who keeps a terrible secret. Mr. Boatwright, the boarder her hardworking mother has taken in, abuses her daily. Frightened and ashamed, Annette withdraws into a world of books and food.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the summer Annette turns thirteen, something incredible happens: Rhoda Nelson chooses her as a friend. Rhoda, who is everything Annette is not--gorgeous, slim, and worldly--welcomes Annette into the heart of her eccentric family, which includes her handsome and dignified father; her lovely, fragile, "Muh''Dear;" her brooding, dangerous brother Jock; and her colorful white relatives--half-crazy Uncle Johnny; sultry Aunt Lola; and scary, surly Granny Goose.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With Rhoda''s help, Annette survives adolescence and blossoms into a woman. But after her beautiful best friend makes a stunning confession about a horrific childhood crime, Annette''s world will never be the same.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A moving tale of the intricacies of friendship, the awful devastation of silence, and the renewing spirit of survival."--*Ebony *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Watch out Toni Morrison, there is a new sister in town."--*Rapport*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2964'),
(18979, 'God Don&#39;t Like Ugly', 'Mary Monroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this richly drawn novel set on the streets, porches and in the parlors of 1960s Ohio, Mary Monroe brings to life the bond between two girls from opposite sides of the tracks--and the shattering event that changes their lives forever.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At the heart of the story is Annette Goode, a shy, awkward girl who keeps a terrible secret. Mr. Boatwright, the boarder her hardworking mother has taken in, abuses her daily. Frightened and ashamed, Annette withdraws into a world of books and food.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the summer Annette turns thirteen, something incredible happens: Rhoda Nelson chooses her as a friend. Rhoda, who is everything Annette is not--gorgeous, slim, and worldly--welcomes Annette into the heart of her eccentric family, which includes her handsome and dignified father; her lovely, fragile, "Muh''Dear;" her brooding, dangerous brother Jock; and her colorful white relatives--half-crazy Uncle Johnny; sultry Aunt Lola; and scary, surly Granny Goose.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With Rhoda''s help, Annette survives adolescence and blossoms into a woman. But after her beautiful best friend makes a stunning confession about a horrific childhood crime, Annette''s world will never be the same.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A moving tale of the intricacies of friendship, the awful devastation of silence, and the renewing spirit of survival."--*Ebony *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Watch out Toni Morrison, there is a new sister in town."--*Rapport*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11523'),
(18980, 'God Don&#39;t Like Ugly', 'Mary Monroe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this richly drawn novel set on the streets, porches and in the parlors of 1960s Ohio, Mary Monroe brings to life the bond between two girls from opposite sides of the tracks--and the shattering event that changes their lives forever. At the heart of the story is Annette Goode, a shy, awkward girl who keeps a terrible secret. Mr. Boatwright, the boarder her hardworking mother has taken in, abuses her daily. Frightened and ashamed, Annette withdraws into a world of books and food. But the summer Annette turns thirteen, something incredible happens: Rhoda Nelson chooses her as a friend. Rhoda, who is everything Annette is not--gorgeous, slim, and worldly--welcomes Annette into the heart of her eccentric family, which includes her handsome and dignified father; her lovely, fragile, "Muh''Dear;" her brooding, dangerous brother Jock; and her colorful white relatives--half-crazy Uncle Johnny; sultry Aunt Lola; and scary, surly Granny Goose. With Rhoda''s help, Annette survives adolescence and blossoms into a woman. But after her beautiful best friend makes a stunning confession about a horrific childhood crime, Annette''s world will never be the same. "A moving tale of the intricacies of friendship, the awful devastation of silence, and the renewing spirit of survival."--*Ebony * "Watch out Toni Morrison, there is a new sister in town."--*Rapport*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21856'),
(18981, 'God Emperor of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SCIENCE FICTION SERIES IN HISTORYWith more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert''s magnificent DUNE books stand among the major achievements of the imagination. God Emperor of Dune is the astonishing fourth book in the series. Centuries have passed on Dune itself, and the planet is green with life. Leto, the son of Dune''s savior, is still alive but far from human, and the fate of all humanity hangs on his awesome sacrifice...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5540'),
(18982, 'God Emperor of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SCIENCE FICTION SERIES IN HISTORYWith more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert''s magnificent DUNE books stand among the major achievements of the imagination. God Emperor of Dune is the astonishing fourth book in the series. Centuries have passed on Dune itself, and the planet is green with life. Leto, the son of Dune''s savior, is still alive but far from human, and the fate of all humanity hangs on his awesome sacrifice...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10274'),
(18983, 'God Emperor of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A beautiful new package with a new introduction... Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the oncedesert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the worldâ€™s savior, the Emperor Paul Muadâ€™Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanityâ€™s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him nearimmortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past 3,500 years. Letoâ€™s rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has not only made his appearance inhuman, but his morality. A rebellion has risen to oppose the despotâ€™s rule, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family. But Siona is unaware that Letoâ€™s vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted...or could possibly conceive...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14991'),
(18984, 'God Emperor of Dune', 'Herbert, Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19054'),
(18985, 'God Emperor of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SCIENCE FICTION SERIES IN HISTORYWith more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert''s magnificent DUNE books stand among the major achievements of the imagination. God Emperor of Dune is the astonishing fourth book in the series. Centuries have passed on Dune itself, and the planet is green with life. Leto, the son of Dune''s savior, is still alive but far from human, and the fate of all humanity hangs on his awesome sacrifice...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A beautiful new package with a new introduction... Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the oncedesert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the worldâ€™s savior, the Emperor Paul Muadâ€™Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanityâ€™s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him nearimmortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past 3,500 years. Letoâ€™s rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has not only made his appearance inhuman, but his morality. A rebellion has risen to oppose the despotâ€™s rule, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family. But Siona is unaware that Letoâ€™s vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted...or could possibly conceive...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27828'),
(18986, 'God Hates Us All', 'Hank Moody &amp; Jonathan Grotenstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wry literary masterpiece,\n  <em>\n   God Hates Us All\n  </em>\n  is a coming-of-age tale for the apathetic generation. Hank Moody''s self-loathing yet darkly likeable narrator is a college drop-out-turned-accidental-drug-dealer enveloped in a world of contradictions. His boss -- a bong-hitting, dreadlocked Pontiff figure -- runs a remarkably organized and ingenious illegal trade patronized by, among others, a sweater-set-wearing Upper East Sider, a Wall Street hotshot, and a wannabe rock star with a hard-to-resist model girlfriend. The lonely narrator yearns for more than the tenuous but intimate thread he shares with his clients. To escape his mother''s desperate expectations, his father''s endless disappointments, and his certifiably insane ex-girlfriend, he moves to the city''s mecca of ambitious slackers -- the Chelsea Hotel -- where the pursuit of lust (and the rock star''s girlfriend) sends him on a series of well-intentioned misadventures that lead him right back where he started. Told in a unique and subtle voice,\n  <em>\n   God Hates Us All\n  </em>\n  is ironic, optimistic, and unforgettable.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hank Moody''s critically acclaimed novel,\n  <em>\n   God Hates Us All\n  </em>\n  , was made into the major motion picture_ A Crazy Little Thing Called Love_. Originally from New York, he currently lives in Los Angeles, where the sunshine exacerbates his writer''s block. He has a twelve-year-old daughter, Becca, with his ex-girlfriend Karen, and until the three of them are together, he''ll take whatever he can get.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5265');
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(18987, 'God Hates Us All', 'Hank Moody &amp; Jonathan Grotenstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wry literary masterpiece,\n  <em>\n   God Hates Us All\n  </em>\n  is a coming-of-age tale for the apathetic generation. Hank Moody''s self-loathing yet darkly likeable narrator is a college drop-out-turned-accidental-drug-dealer enveloped in a world of contradictions. His boss -- a bong-hitting, dreadlocked Pontiff figure -- runs a remarkably organized and ingenious illegal trade patronized by, among others, a sweater-set-wearing Upper East Sider, a Wall Street hotshot, and a wannabe rock star with a hard-to-resist model girlfriend. The lonely narrator yearns for more than the tenuous but intimate thread he shares with his clients. To escape his mother''s desperate expectations, his father''s endless disappointments, and his certifiably insane ex-girlfriend, he moves to the city''s mecca of ambitious slackers -- the Chelsea Hotel -- where the pursuit of lust (and the rock star''s girlfriend) sends him on a series of well-intentioned misadventures that lead him right back where he started. Told in a unique and subtle voice,\n  <em>\n   God Hates Us All\n  </em>\n  is ironic, optimistic, and unforgettable.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hank Moody''s critically acclaimed novel,\n  <em>\n   God Hates Us All\n  </em>\n  , was made into the major motion picture_ A Crazy Little Thing Called Love_. Originally from New York, he currently lives in Los Angeles, where the sunshine exacerbates his writer''s block. He has a twelve-year-old daughter, Becca, with his ex-girlfriend Karen, and until the three of them are together, he''ll take whatever he can get.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11503'),
(18988, 'God Hates Us All', 'Hank Moody; Jonathan Grotenstein', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A wry literary masterpiece,\n  <em>\n   God Hates Us All\n  </em>\n  is a coming-of-age tale for the apathetic generation. Hank Moody''s self-loathing yet darkly likeable narrator is a college drop-out-turned-accidental-drug-dealer enveloped in a world of contradictions. His boss -- a bong-hitting, dreadlocked Pontiff figure -- runs a remarkably organized and ingenious illegal trade patronized by, among others, a sweater-set-wearing Upper East Sider, a Wall Street hotshot, and a wannabe rock star with a hard-to-resist model girlfriend. The lonely narrator yearns for more than the tenuous but intimate thread he shares with his clients. To escape his mother''s desperate expectations, his father''s endless disappointments, and his certifiably insane ex-girlfriend, he moves to the city''s mecca of ambitious slackers -- the Chelsea Hotel -- where the pursuit of lust (and the rock star''s girlfriend) sends him on a series of well-intentioned misadventures that lead him right back where he started. Told in a unique and subtle voice,\n  <em>\n   God Hates Us All\n  </em>\n  is ironic, optimistic, and unforgettable.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hank Moody''s critically acclaimed novel,\n  <em>\n   God Hates Us All\n  </em>\n  , was made into the major motion picture_ A Crazy Little Thing Called Love_. Originally from New York, he currently lives in Los Angeles, where the sunshine exacerbates his writer''s block. He has a twelve-year-old daughter, Becca, with his ex-girlfriend Karen, and until the three of them are together, he''ll take whatever he can get.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19403'),
(18989, 'A God in Ruins', 'Leon Uris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A God in RuinsSpanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick O''Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can shatter his political amibitions, threaten his life, and tear the country apart--a secret buried for over a half century--that even he does not know...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3412'),
(18990, 'A God in Ruins', 'Leon Uris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A God in RuinsSpanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick O''Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can shatter his political amibitions, threaten his life, and tear the country apart--a secret buried for over a half century--that even he does not know...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21070'),
(18991, 'God is not Great', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17230'),
(18992, 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christopher Hitchens, described in theLondon Observeras "one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time" takes on his biggest subject yetthe increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell''sWhy I Am Not a Christianand Sam Harris''s recent bestseller,The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope''s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6665'),
(18993, 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christopher Hitchens, described in theLondon Observeras "one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time" takes on his biggest subject yetthe increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell''sWhy I Am Not a Christianand Sam Harris''s recent bestseller,The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope''s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10310'),
(18994, 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christopher Hitchens, described in theLondon Observeras "one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time" takes on his biggest subject yetthe increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell''sWhy I Am Not a Christianand Sam Harris''s recent bestseller,The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope''s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14987'),
(18995, 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christopher Hitchens, described in theLondon Observeras "one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time" takes on his biggest subject yetthe increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell''sWhy I Am Not a Christianand Sam Harris''s recent bestseller,The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope''s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26884'),
(18996, 'The God Machine', 'Thomas E. Sniegoski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** Hellboy, a bloodred, cloven-hoofed demon raised by the United States government, is a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He questions the unknown -- then beats it into submission. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Religious artifacts from every faith are disappearing without a trace. The identity of the perpetrator is a complete mystery until Hellboy and Liz Sherman -- acting on an unlikely tip from a ghost -- foil a museum heist attempted by crude, robotic constructs inhabited by human spirits.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One of these freed human spirits offers to help Hellboy track down those who imprisoned him: a fanatical order of psychics obsessed with creating a new messiah, one that will bring about a new stage of evolution for mankind -- whether mankind is willing or not. Now only Hellboy and his colleagues stand between a vulnerable humanity and an evil, vengeful *god*....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/635'),
(18997, 'The God Machine', 'Thomas E. Sniegoski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ** Hellboy, a bloodred, cloven-hoofed demon raised by the United States government, is a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He questions the unknown -- then beats it into submission. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Religious artifacts from every faith are disappearing without a trace. The identity of the perpetrator is a complete mystery until Hellboy and Liz Sherman -- acting on an unlikely tip from a ghost -- foil a museum heist attempted by crude, robotic constructs inhabited by human spirits.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n One of these freed human spirits offers to help Hellboy track down those who imprisoned him: a fanatical order of psychics obsessed with creating a new messiah, one that will bring about a new stage of evolution for mankind -- whether mankind is willing or not. Now only Hellboy and his colleagues stand between a vulnerable humanity and an evil, vengeful *god*....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12778'),
(18998, 'The God Machine', 'Thomas E. Sniegoski', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** Hellboy, a bloodred, cloven-hoofed demon raised by the United States government, is a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He questions the unknown -- then beats it into submission. ** Religious artifacts from every faith are disappearing without a trace. The identity of the perpetrator is a complete mystery until Hellboy and Liz Sherman -- acting on an unlikely tip from a ghost -- foil a museum heist attempted by crude, robotic constructs inhabited by human spirits. One of these freed human spirits offers to help Hellboy track down those who imprisoned him: a fanatical order of psychics obsessed with creating a new messiah, one that will bring about a new stage of evolution for mankind -- whether mankind is willing or not. Now only Hellboy and his colleagues stand between a vulnerable humanity and an evil, vengeful *god*....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24284'),
(18999, 'The God of Small Things', 'Arundhati Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry. The God of Small Things is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that''s completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13819'),
(19000, 'The God of Small Things', 'Arundhati Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry. The God of Small Things is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that''s completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16459'),
(19001, 'The god of small things', 'Arundhati Roy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. "The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers'' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . .Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family--their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist''s moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river "graygreen."  With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it. The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.The God of Small Things takes on the Big Themes--Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26475'),
(19002, 'The God of the Hive', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Laurie R. Kingâ€™s latest Mary Russellâ€“Sherlock Holmes mystery, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller of ingenious surprises and unrelenting suspenseâ€”as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice. It began as a problem in one of Holmesâ€™ beloved beehives, led to a murderous cult, and endedâ€”or so theyâ€™d hopedâ€”with a daring escape from a sacrificial altar. Instead, Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have stirred the wrath and the limitless resources of those theyâ€™ve thwarted. Now they are separated and on the run, wanted by the police, and pursued across the Continent by a ruthless enemy with powerful connections.Unstoppable together, Russell and Holmes will have to survive this time apart, maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes. With Holmesâ€™ young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didnâ€™t know she had. But has the couple already made a fatal mistake by separating, making themselves easier targets for the shadowy government agents sent to silence them? From hidden rooms in London shops and rustic forest cabins to rickety planes over Scotland and boats on the frozen North Sea, Russell and Holmes work their way back to each other while uncovering answers to a mystery that will take both of them to solve. A hermit with a mysterious past and a beautiful young female doctor with a secret, a cruelly scarred flyer and an obsessed man of the cloth, Holmesâ€™ brother, Mycroft, and an Intelligence agent who knows too much: Everyone Russell and Holmes meet could either speed their safe reunion or betray them to their enemiesâ€”in the most complex, shocking, and deeply personal case of their career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3457'),
(19003, 'The God of the Hive', 'Laurie R. King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Laurie R. Kingâ€™s latest Mary Russellâ€“Sherlock Holmes mystery, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller of ingenious surprises and unrelenting suspenseâ€”as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice. It began as a problem in one of Holmesâ€™ beloved beehives, led to a murderous cult, and endedâ€”or so theyâ€™d hopedâ€”with a daring escape from a sacrificial altar. Instead, Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have stirred the wrath and the limitless resources of those theyâ€™ve thwarted. Now they are separated and on the run, wanted by the police, and pursued across the Continent by a ruthless enemy with powerful connections.Unstoppable together, Russell and Holmes will have to survive this time apart, maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes. With Holmesâ€™ young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didnâ€™t know she had. But has the couple already made a fatal mistake by separating, making themselves easier targets for the shadowy government agents sent to silence them? From hidden rooms in London shops and rustic forest cabins to rickety planes over Scotland and boats on the frozen North Sea, Russell and Holmes work their way back to each other while uncovering answers to a mystery that will take both of them to solve. A hermit with a mysterious past and a beautiful young female doctor with a secret, a cruelly scarred flyer and an obsessed man of the cloth, Holmesâ€™ brother, Mycroft, and an Intelligence agent who knows too much: Everyone Russell and Holmes meet could either speed their safe reunion or betray them to their enemiesâ€”in the most complex, shocking, and deeply personal case of their career.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10733'),
(19004, 'The God of the Hive', 'King, Laurie R.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21088'),
(19005, 'God of Thunder', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Archaeologist Annja Creed narrowly escapes an attack by unknown fi gures when she tries to collect a package near her loft. She later learns that the senderâ€”an old colleague named Felliniâ€”has been brutally murdered. Fellini had been researching the Hammer of Thor, the Norse god of thunder, and had linked it to a Viking warrior and a twelfth-century Latvian village. A coded message in Fellini''s package leads Annja on a wild chase along the canals of Venice to Latvia for more clues to an ancient treasure. Rumored to be hidden deep in the forests of Latvia for nine hundred years, this fabled prize is also sought by a ruthless corps of mercenaries. And they will do anything to fi nd it. Including killing Annja Creed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7855'),
(19006, 'God Of Thunder', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Archaeologist Annja Creed narrowly escapes an attack by unknown fi gures when she tries to collect a package near her loft. She later learns that the senderâ€”an old colleague named Felliniâ€”has been brutally murdered. Fellini had been researching the Hammer of Thor, the Norse god of thunder, and had linked it to a Viking warrior and a twelfth-century Latvian village. A coded message in Fellini''s package leads Annja on a wild chase along the canals of Venice to Latvia for more clues to an ancient treasure. Rumored to be hidden deep in the forests of Latvia for nine hundred years, this fabled prize is also sought by a ruthless corps of mercenaries. And they will do anything to fi nd it. Including killing Annja Creed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16127'),
(19007, 'God Of Thunder', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Archaeologist Annja Creed narrowly escapes an attack by unknown fi gures when she tries to collect a package near her loft. She later learns that the senderâ€”an old colleague named Felliniâ€”has been brutally murdered. Fellini had been researching the Hammer of Thor, the Norse god of thunder, and had linked it to a Viking warrior and a twelfth-century Latvian village. A coded message in Fellini''s package leads Annja on a wild chase along the canals of Venice to Latvia for more clues to an ancient treasure. Rumored to be hidden deep in the forests of Latvia for nine hundred years, this fabled prize is also sought by a ruthless corps of mercenaries. And they will do anything to fi nd it. Including killing Annja Creed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26272'),
(19008, 'The God Project', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Saul has instincts of a natural storyteller."--_People_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Something is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts. Something that causes healthy babies to turn cold in their cribs. Something that strikes at the heart of every parent''s darkest fears. Something is taking the children one by one. Now, an entire town waits on the edge of panic for the next nightmare. there must be a reason for the terror. they all know it. But no one ever suspected...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4203'),
(19009, 'The God Project', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Saul has instincts of a natural storyteller."--_People_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Something is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts. Something that causes healthy babies to turn cold in their cribs. Something that strikes at the heart of every parent''s darkest fears. Something is taking the children one by one. Now, an entire town waits on the edge of panic for the next nightmare. there must be a reason for the terror. they all know it. But no one ever suspected...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12579'),
(19010, 'The God Project', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Saul has instincts of a natural storyteller."--_People_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Something is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts. Something that causes healthy babies to turn cold in their cribs. Something that strikes at the heart of every parent''s darkest fears. Something is taking the children one by one. Now, an entire town waits on the edge of panic for the next nightmare. there must be a reason for the terror. they all know it. But no one ever suspected...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20355'),
(19011, 'God Save the Child', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he''s run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It doesn''t take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser''s only lead and he isn''t talking...except with his fists. But when push comes to shove, when a boy''s life is on the line, Spenser can speak that language too.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Spenser is everyman''s fantasy: social critic, gourmet cook, physically fit, sculptor, and of course, unabashed participant in  a non-destructive sexual relationship. Parker has taken his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald." (The Boston Globe)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1769'),
(19012, 'God Save the Child', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he''s run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn''t take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser''s only lead and he isn''t talking...except with his fists. But when push comes to shove, when a boy''s life is on the line, Spenser can speak that language too. "Spenser is everyman''s fantasy: social critic, gourmet cook, physically fit, sculptor, and of course, unabashed participant in a non-destructive sexual relationship. Parker has taken his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald." (The Boston Globe)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23177'),
(19013, 'God Save the Child (1974)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 02', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13791'),
(19014, 'God: The Failed Hypothesis', 'Victor J. Stenger', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22831'),
(19015, 'God&#39;s Fury, England&#39;s Fire', 'Michael Braddick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21653'),
(19016, 'God&#39;s Fury, England&#39;s Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars', 'Michael J. Braddick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were killed in the civil wars than in the First World War. This sense of overwhelming trauma gives this major new history its title: "God''s Fury, England''s Fire". The name of a pamphlet written after the king''s surrender, it sums up the widespread feeling within England that the seemingly endless nightmare that had destroyed families, towns and livelihoods was ordained by a vengeful God - that the people of England had sinned and were now being punished.As with all civil wars, however, "God''s Fury" could support or destroy either side in the conflict. Was God angry at Charles I for failing to support the true, protestant, religion and refusing to work with Parliament? Or was God angry with those who had dared challenge His anointed Sovereign? Michael Braddick''s remarkable book gives the reader a vivid and enduring sense both of what it was like to live through events of uncontrollable violence and what really animated the different sides.The killing of Charles I and the declaration of a republic - events which even now seem in an English context utterly astounding - were by no means the only outcomes, and Braddick brilliantly describes the twists and turns that led to the most radical solutions of all to the country''s political implosion. He also describes very effectively the influence of events in Scotland, Ireland and the European mainland on the conflict in England. "God''s Fury, England''s Fire" allows readers to understand once more the events that have so fundamentally marked this country and which still resonate centuries after their bloody ending.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Braddick is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558--1700 and State Formation in Early Modern England, c.1500--1700.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2828'),
(19017, 'God&#39;s Fury, England&#39;s Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars', 'Michael J. Braddick', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were killed in the civil wars than in the First World War. This sense of overwhelming trauma gives this major new history its title: "God''s Fury, England''s Fire". The name of a pamphlet written after the king''s surrender, it sums up the widespread feeling within England that the seemingly endless nightmare that had destroyed families, towns and livelihoods was ordained by a vengeful God - that the people of England had sinned and were now being punished.As with all civil wars, however, "God''s Fury" could support or destroy either side in the conflict. Was God angry at Charles I for failing to support the true, protestant, religion and refusing to work with Parliament? Or was God angry with those who had dared challenge His anointed Sovereign? Michael Braddick''s remarkable book gives the reader a vivid and enduring sense both of what it was like to live through events of uncontrollable violence and what really animated the different sides.The killing of Charles I and the declaration of a republic - events which even now seem in an English context utterly astounding - were by no means the only outcomes, and Braddick brilliantly describes the twists and turns that led to the most radical solutions of all to the country''s political implosion. He also describes very effectively the influence of events in Scotland, Ireland and the European mainland on the conflict in England. "God''s Fury, England''s Fire" allows readers to understand once more the events that have so fundamentally marked this country and which still resonate centuries after their bloody ending.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Michael Braddick is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558--1700 and State Formation in Early Modern England, c.1500--1700.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8626'),
(19018, 'God&#39;s Gift', 'Dee Henderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Missionary work in Africa was the most difficult and faith-affirming labor James Graham had ever faced, and warm, homey presents from a Good Samaritan back home gave him hope to carry on. But an injury halted his work and sent him home to Chicago. There, James met Rachel Ashcroft, who''d sent those thoughtful gifts, and he was intrigued by the sadness that shadowed her features. Bringing the light back into Rachel''s face gave him new purpose, but was this respite only temporary? Or could James release his past and open his heart to receive Rachel''s gift of love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5982'),
(19019, 'God&#39;s Gift', 'Dee Henderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Missionary work in Africa was the most difficult and faith-affirming labor James Graham had ever faced, and warm, homey presents from a Good Samaritan back home gave him hope to carry on. But an injury halted his work and sent him home to Chicago. There, James met Rachel Ashcroft, who''d sent those thoughtful gifts, and he was intrigued by the sadness that shadowed her features. Bringing the light back into Rachel''s face gave him new purpose, but was this respite only temporary? Or could James release his past and open his heart to receive Rachel''s gift of love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10295'),
(19020, 'God&#39;s Gift', 'Dee Henderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Missionary work in Africa was the most difficult and faith-affirming labor James Graham had ever faced, and warm, homey presents from a Good Samaritan back home gave him hope to carry on. But an injury halted his work and sent him home to Chicago. There, James met Rachel Ashcroft, who''d sent those thoughtful gifts, and he was intrigued by the sadness that shadowed her features. Bringing the light back into Rachel''s face gave him new purpose, but was this respite only temporary? Or could James release his past and open his heart to receive Rachel''s gift of love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17953'),
(19021, 'God&#39;s Gift', 'Dee Henderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Missionary work in Africa was the most difficult and faith-affirming labor James Graham had ever faced, and warm, homey presents from a Good Samaritan back home gave him hope to carry on. But an injury halted his work and sent him home to Chicago. There, James met Rachel Ashcroft, who''d sent those thoughtful gifts, and he was intrigued by the sadness that shadowed her features. Bringing the light back into Rachel''s face gave him new purpose, but was this respite only temporary? Or could James release his past and open his heart to receive Rachel''s gift of love?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27380'),
(19022, 'God&#39;s War', 'Kameron Hurley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers will be fascinated by the setting of this slow-starting but compelling far-future debut. On a planet settled by Muslims and ravaged by constant war and pollution, Nyx, a former government-sponsored assassin or "bel dame," gets by as a bounty hunter. Her assistant is the foreign magician Rhys, who can control the ubiquitous insects that drive the planet''s technology. When the government asks them to hunt down an off-worlder who possesses technology that could end the war, they find themselves facing off against foreign agents and their fellow bel dames. Hurley''s world-building is phenomenal, with casual references to insectile technology and the world''s history that provide atmosphere without info dumps. Far too many pages are spent introducing the characters, but the story is highly engaging once it starts, and Hurley smoothly handles tricky themes such as race, class, religion, and gender without sacrificing action. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Hurley''s world-building is phenomenal... (she) smoothly handles tricky themes such as race, class, religion, and gender without sacrificing action." --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "An aggressively dark, highly original SF-fantasy novel with tight, cutting prose and some of the most inventive world-building I''ve seen in a while." - Stefan Raets, Fantasy Literature.com --fantasyliterature.com/hurleykameron.html\n</p>\n<p>\n Kameron Hurley''s a brave, unflinching, truly original writer with a unique vision--her fiction burns right through your brain and your heart. --Jeff VanderMeer, author of Finch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3911'),
(19023, 'God&#39;s War', 'Kameron Hurley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers will be fascinated by the setting of this slow-starting but compelling far-future debut. On a planet settled by Muslims and ravaged by constant war and pollution, Nyx, a former government-sponsored assassin or "bel dame," gets by as a bounty hunter. Her assistant is the foreign magician Rhys, who can control the ubiquitous insects that drive the planet''s technology. When the government asks them to hunt down an off-worlder who possesses technology that could end the war, they find themselves facing off against foreign agents and their fellow bel dames. Hurley''s world-building is phenomenal, with casual references to insectile technology and the world''s history that provide atmosphere without info dumps. Far too many pages are spent introducing the characters, but the story is highly engaging once it starts, and Hurley smoothly handles tricky themes such as race, class, religion, and gender without sacrificing action. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Hurley''s world-building is phenomenal... (she) smoothly handles tricky themes such as race, class, religion, and gender without sacrificing action." --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "An aggressively dark, highly original SF-fantasy novel with tight, cutting prose and some of the most inventive world-building I''ve seen in a while." - Stefan Raets, Fantasy Literature.com --fantasyliterature.com/hurleykameron.html\n</p>\n<p>\n Kameron Hurley''s a brave, unflinching, truly original writer with a unique vision--her fiction burns right through your brain and your heart. --Jeff VanderMeer, author of Finch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10475'),
(19024, 'God&#39;s War', 'Kameron Hurley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers will be fascinated by the setting of this slow-starting but compelling far-future debut. On a planet settled by Muslims and ravaged by constant war and pollution, Nyx, a former government-sponsored assassin or "bel dame," gets by as a bounty hunter. Her assistant is the foreign magician Rhys, who can control the ubiquitous insects that drive the planet''s technology. When the government asks them to hunt down an off-worlder who possesses technology that could end the war, they find themselves facing off against foreign agents and their fellow bel dames. Hurley''s world-building is phenomenal, with casual references to insectile technology and the world''s history that provide atmosphere without info dumps. Far too many pages are spent introducing the characters, but the story is highly engaging once it starts, and Hurley smoothly handles tricky themes such as race, class, religion, and gender without sacrificing action. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "Hurley''s world-building is phenomenal... (she) smoothly handles tricky themes such as race, class, religion, and gender without sacrificing action." --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n "An aggressively dark, highly original SF-fantasy novel with tight, cutting prose and some of the most inventive world-building I''ve seen in a while." - Stefan Raets, Fantasy Literature.com --fantasyliterature.com/hurleykameron.html\n</p>\n<p>\n Kameron Hurley''s a brave, unflinching, truly original writer with a unique vision--her fiction burns right through your brain and your heart. --Jeff VanderMeer, author of Finch\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20546'),
(19025, 'The Godfather of Kathmandu', 'John Burdett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sonchai Jitpleecheepâ€”John Burdettâ€™s inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soulâ€”is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama based in Kathmandu who has become his guru. There are, however, obstacles in Sonchaiâ€™s path to nirvana. Police Colonel Vikorn has just named Sonchai his consigliere (heâ€™s been studying The Godfather on DVD): to troubleshoot, babysit, defuse, procure, reconnoiterâ€”do whatever needs to be done in Vikornâ€™s ongoing battle with Army General Zinna for control of Bangkokâ€™s network of illegal enterprises. And though Tietsin is enlightened and (eerily) charismatic, he also has forty million dollarsâ€™ worth of heroin for sale. If Sonchai truly wants to be an initiate into Tietsinâ€™s â€œapocalyptic Buddhism,â€ he has to pull off a deal that will bring Vikorn and Zinna to the same side of the table. Further complicating the challenge is Tara: a Tantric practitioner who captivates Sonchai with her remarkable otherworldly techniques.Here is Sonchai put to the extreme testâ€”as a cop, as a Buddhist, as an impossibly earthbound manâ€”in John Burdettâ€™s most wildly inventive, darkly comic, and wickedly entertaining novel yet.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4424'),
(19026, 'The Godfather of Kathmandu', 'John Burdett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sonchai Jitpleecheepâ€”John Burdettâ€™s inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soulâ€”is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama based in Kathmandu who has become his guru. There are, however, obstacles in Sonchaiâ€™s path to nirvana. Police Colonel Vikorn has just named Sonchai his consigliere (heâ€™s been studying The Godfather on DVD): to troubleshoot, babysit, defuse, procure, reconnoiterâ€”do whatever needs to be done in Vikornâ€™s ongoing battle with Army General Zinna for control of Bangkokâ€™s network of illegal enterprises. And though Tietsin is enlightened and (eerily) charismatic, he also has forty million dollarsâ€™ worth of heroin for sale. If Sonchai truly wants to be an initiate into Tietsinâ€™s â€œapocalyptic Buddhism,â€ he has to pull off a deal that will bring Vikorn and Zinna to the same side of the table. Further complicating the challenge is Tara: a Tantric practitioner who captivates Sonchai with her remarkable otherworldly techniques.Here is Sonchai put to the extreme testâ€”as a cop, as a Buddhist, as an impossibly earthbound manâ€”in John Burdettâ€™s most wildly inventive, darkly comic, and wickedly entertaining novel yet.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8694'),
(19027, 'The Godfather of Kathmandu', 'John Burdett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sonchai Jitpleecheepâ€”John Burdettâ€™s inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soulâ€”is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama based in Kathmandu who has become his guru. There are, however, obstacles in Sonchaiâ€™s path to nirvana. Police Colonel Vikorn has just named Sonchai his consigliere (heâ€™s been studying The Godfather on DVD): to troubleshoot, babysit, defuse, procure, reconnoiterâ€”do whatever needs to be done in Vikornâ€™s ongoing battle with Army General Zinna for control of Bangkokâ€™s network of illegal enterprises. And though Tietsin is enlightened and (eerily) charismatic, he also has forty million dollarsâ€™ worth of heroin for sale. If Sonchai truly wants to be an initiate into Tietsinâ€™s â€œapocalyptic Buddhism,â€ he has to pull off a deal that will bring Vikorn and Zinna to the same side of the table. Further complicating the challenge is Tara: a Tantric practitioner who captivates Sonchai with her remarkable otherworldly techniques.Here is Sonchai put to the extreme testâ€”as a cop, as a Buddhist, as an impossibly earthbound manâ€”in John Burdettâ€™s most wildly inventive, darkly comic, and wickedly entertaining novel yet.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21409'),
(19028, 'The Godfather', 'Mario Puzo &amp; Peter Bart &amp; Robert J. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo''s\n  <em>\n   The Godfather\n  </em>\n  that Corleone first appears. As Corleone''s desperate struggle to control the Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. Filled with the requisite valor, love, and rancor of a great epic,\n  <em>\n   The Godfather\n  </em>\n  is the definitive gangster novel.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though not out of print, this 1969 gangster potboiler here makes the leap to trade paperback. Thanks to Francis Coppola''s brilliant film adaptation, this story has achieved cult status with millions of fans, who continue to read it. In addition to its larger size, this incarnation offers a new introduction and afterword. How could you refuse?\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3055'),
(19029, 'The Godfather', 'Mario Puzo &amp; Peter Bart &amp; Robert J. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo''s\n  <em>\n   The Godfather\n  </em>\n  that Corleone first appears. As Corleone''s desperate struggle to control the Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. Filled with the requisite valor, love, and rancor of a great epic,\n  <em>\n   The Godfather\n  </em>\n  is the definitive gangster novel.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though not out of print, this 1969 gangster potboiler here makes the leap to trade paperback. Thanks to Francis Coppola''s brilliant film adaptation, this story has achieved cult status with millions of fans, who continue to read it. In addition to its larger size, this incarnation offers a new introduction and afterword. How could you refuse?\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12100');
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(19030, 'The Godfather', 'Mario Puzo; Peter Bart; Robert Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Godfather is the Mafia leader Vito Corleone, a benevolent despot who stops at nothing to gain and hold power. Set in Long Island, Hollywood and Sicily, this is a story of a feudal society within society which does not hesitate to consolidate its power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14069'),
(19031, 'Gods and Androids', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15862'),
(19032, 'Gods at War: Shotgun Takeovers, Government by Deal, and the Private Equity Implosion', 'Steven M. Davidoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An engaging exploration of modern-day deals and deal-making\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  details the recent deals and events that have forever changed the world of billion-dollar deal-making. This book is a whirlwind tour of the players determining the destiny of corporate America, including the government, private equity, strategic buyers, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It not only examines many of the game-changing takeover events that have occurred in the past years, but also puts them into context and exposes what is really going on behind the scenes on Wall Street.\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  completely covers the strategic issues that guide the modern-day deal, and since they unfold under the shadow of the law, it also focuses on the legal aspects of deal-making and takeovers.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Each chapter unfolds through the lens of a recent transaction, from the battle between Yahoo! and Microsoft to the United Rental/Cerberus dispute\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Provides in-depth explanations and analysis of the events and actors that have shaped this fast-moving field\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Examines the federal government''s regulation by deal approach to saving the financial system and explains the government''s biggest "deals", including its bail-outs of AIG, Bank of America, and Citigroup\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Filled with in-depth insights that will enhance your understanding of this field,\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  offers an engaging look at deals and deal-makers in the context of recent historical events. It''s a book for those who want to understand deals, takeovers, and the people and institutions who shape our world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While the financial community looks to regain its footing, dealmakers will continue to do what they''ve always doneâ€”structure deals that drive the fate of corporate America. With powerful professionals competing to create and close better deals, these executives, like gods, will determine the future of companies and our economy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Author Steven Davidoff understands both the intricacies of these deals and the forces driving them. Writing as "The Deal Professor" for the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  "DealBook," he provides daily commentary on the latest takeover news and has become a nationally known authority on this fast-moving field. Now, with\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  , Davidoff introduces you to this trillion-dollar businessâ€”from private equity and government to hedge funds and sovereign wealth fundsâ€”and reveals the recent events that have changed the way the game is played.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  is the definitive story of deal-making. Opening with an engaging look at the evolution of this discipline, the book quickly moves into the modern eraâ€”where deal-making has become a truly global endeavorâ€”and works its way through the current financial crisis and beyond. Page by page, it skillfully details:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The private equity boom and its implosion\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The return of the strategic transaction and hostile takeover\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The failure of the investment banking model\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The government''s deal-making during the recent financial crisis\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    And much more\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Each chapter unfolds through the lens of recent events, from the battle between Yahoo! and Microsoft to the United Rentals/Cerberus dispute. Along the way, you''ll also become familiar with the federal government''s regulation by deal approach to saving the financial systemâ€”which included the serial bailouts of AIG, Bank of America, Citigroup, and others. In describing the dynamic events of this period, Davidoff not only reveals how deals are accomplished in modern capital markets, but he also details the transformation that the takeover marketplace is undergoing and its prospects for the future. In doing so, he puts forth a definitive view and theory of deals and deal-making.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The financial revolution, globalization, and financial crises have permanently changed deal-makingâ€”creating perils and opportunities for both dealmakers and regulators. With\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  as your guide, you''ll gain a better understanding of this discipline and discover the various events, individuals, and institutions that continue to shape this competitive arena.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1049'),
(19033, 'Gods at War: Shotgun Takeovers, Government by Deal, and the Private Equity Implosion', 'Steven M. Davidoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An engaging exploration of modern-day deals and deal-making\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  details the recent deals and events that have forever changed the world of billion-dollar deal-making. This book is a whirlwind tour of the players determining the destiny of corporate America, including the government, private equity, strategic buyers, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It not only examines many of the game-changing takeover events that have occurred in the past years, but also puts them into context and exposes what is really going on behind the scenes on Wall Street.\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  completely covers the strategic issues that guide the modern-day deal, and since they unfold under the shadow of the law, it also focuses on the legal aspects of deal-making and takeovers.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Each chapter unfolds through the lens of a recent transaction, from the battle between Yahoo! and Microsoft to the United Rental/Cerberus dispute\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Provides in-depth explanations and analysis of the events and actors that have shaped this fast-moving field\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Examines the federal government''s regulation by deal approach to saving the financial system and explains the government''s biggest "deals", including its bail-outs of AIG, Bank of America, and Citigroup\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Filled with in-depth insights that will enhance your understanding of this field,\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  offers an engaging look at deals and deal-makers in the context of recent historical events. It''s a book for those who want to understand deals, takeovers, and the people and institutions who shape our world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While the financial community looks to regain its footing, dealmakers will continue to do what they''ve always doneâ€”structure deals that drive the fate of corporate America. With powerful professionals competing to create and close better deals, these executives, like gods, will determine the future of companies and our economy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Author Steven Davidoff understands both the intricacies of these deals and the forces driving them. Writing as "The Deal Professor" for the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  "DealBook," he provides daily commentary on the latest takeover news and has become a nationally known authority on this fast-moving field. Now, with\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  , Davidoff introduces you to this trillion-dollar businessâ€”from private equity and government to hedge funds and sovereign wealth fundsâ€”and reveals the recent events that have changed the way the game is played.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  is the definitive story of deal-making. Opening with an engaging look at the evolution of this discipline, the book quickly moves into the modern eraâ€”where deal-making has become a truly global endeavorâ€”and works its way through the current financial crisis and beyond. Page by page, it skillfully details:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The private equity boom and its implosion\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The return of the strategic transaction and hostile takeover\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The failure of the investment banking model\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The government''s deal-making during the recent financial crisis\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    And much more\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Each chapter unfolds through the lens of recent events, from the battle between Yahoo! and Microsoft to the United Rentals/Cerberus dispute. Along the way, you''ll also become familiar with the federal government''s regulation by deal approach to saving the financial systemâ€”which included the serial bailouts of AIG, Bank of America, Citigroup, and others. In describing the dynamic events of this period, Davidoff not only reveals how deals are accomplished in modern capital markets, but he also details the transformation that the takeover marketplace is undergoing and its prospects for the future. In doing so, he puts forth a definitive view and theory of deals and deal-making.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The financial revolution, globalization, and financial crises have permanently changed deal-makingâ€”creating perils and opportunities for both dealmakers and regulators. With\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  as your guide, you''ll gain a better understanding of this discipline and discover the various events, individuals, and institutions that continue to shape this competitive arena.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9136'),
(19034, 'Gods at War: Shotgun Takeovers, Government by Deal, and the Private Equity Implosion', 'Steven M. Davidoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   An engaging exploration of modern-day deals and deal-making\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  details the recent deals and events that have forever changed the world of billion-dollar deal-making. This book is a whirlwind tour of the players determining the destiny of corporate America, including the government, private equity, strategic buyers, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  It not only examines many of the game-changing takeover events that have occurred in the past years, but also puts them into context and exposes what is really going on behind the scenes on Wall Street.\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  completely covers the strategic issues that guide the modern-day deal, and since they unfold under the shadow of the law, it also focuses on the legal aspects of deal-making and takeovers.\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Each chapter unfolds through the lens of a recent transaction, from the battle between Yahoo! and Microsoft to the United Rental/Cerberus dispute\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Provides in-depth explanations and analysis of the events and actors that have shaped this fast-moving field\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Examines the federal government''s regulation by deal approach to saving the financial system and explains the government''s biggest "deals", including its bail-outs of AIG, Bank of America, and Citigroup\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Filled with in-depth insights that will enhance your understanding of this field,\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  offers an engaging look at deals and deal-makers in the context of recent historical events. It''s a book for those who want to understand deals, takeovers, and the people and institutions who shape our world.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While the financial community looks to regain its footing, dealmakers will continue to do what they''ve always doneâ€”structure deals that drive the fate of corporate America. With powerful professionals competing to create and close better deals, these executives, like gods, will determine the future of companies and our economy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Author Steven Davidoff understands both the intricacies of these deals and the forces driving them. Writing as "The Deal Professor" for the\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  "DealBook," he provides daily commentary on the latest takeover news and has become a nationally known authority on this fast-moving field. Now, with\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  , Davidoff introduces you to this trillion-dollar businessâ€”from private equity and government to hedge funds and sovereign wealth fundsâ€”and reveals the recent events that have changed the way the game is played.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  is the definitive story of deal-making. Opening with an engaging look at the evolution of this discipline, the book quickly moves into the modern eraâ€”where deal-making has become a truly global endeavorâ€”and works its way through the current financial crisis and beyond. Page by page, it skillfully details:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The private equity boom and its implosion\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The return of the strategic transaction and hostile takeover\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The failure of the investment banking model\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    The government''s deal-making during the recent financial crisis\n   </p>\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   <p>\n    And much more\n   </p>\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Each chapter unfolds through the lens of recent events, from the battle between Yahoo! and Microsoft to the United Rentals/Cerberus dispute. Along the way, you''ll also become familiar with the federal government''s regulation by deal approach to saving the financial systemâ€”which included the serial bailouts of AIG, Bank of America, Citigroup, and others. In describing the dynamic events of this period, Davidoff not only reveals how deals are accomplished in modern capital markets, but he also details the transformation that the takeover marketplace is undergoing and its prospects for the future. In doing so, he puts forth a definitive view and theory of deals and deal-making.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The financial revolution, globalization, and financial crises have permanently changed deal-makingâ€”creating perils and opportunities for both dealmakers and regulators. With\n  <em>\n   Gods at War\n  </em>\n  as your guide, you''ll gain a better understanding of this discipline and discover the various events, individuals, and institutions that continue to shape this competitive arena.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23945'),
(19035, 'The Gods Themselves', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun.  They know the truth--but who will listen?  They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy--but who will believe?  These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth''s survival.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18253'),
(19036, 'the Godwulf Manuscript (1973)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13817'),
(19037, 'the Godwulf Manuscript (1973)', 'Parker, Robert B - Spenser 01', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23215'),
(19038, 'The Godwulf Manuscript', 'Robert B. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Robert B. Parker has taken his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald".--The Boston Globe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1679'),
(19039, 'Gog', 'Giovanni Papini', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25783'),
(19040, 'Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland&#39;s Glory', 'Lisa Jardine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  England''s almost bloodless Glorious Revolution of 1688, in which the Dutch king William of Orange overthrew James II, began as a hostile takeover but rapidly turned into a friendly merger, according to British historian Jardine (_The Awful End of Prince William the Silent_). She explores the fascinating Anglo-Dutch relationship to answer how and why two sworn foes became friends so seamlessly. Jardine focuses mainly on the subterranean intellectual, cultural and scientific intersections between the two countries and finds that contacts were continuous and mutually advantageous for decades before William''s invasion. Cross-border fertilization resulted in two of the greatest painters of the ageâ€”Peter Paul Rubens and Anton van Dyckâ€”working for English patrons while esteemed members of the Royal Society (such as Isaac Newton) corresponded with their Netherlandish counterparts (such as Christian Huygens). By looking so closely at elite opinion, however, Jardine too lightly dismisses the virility of petty nationalism lower down the scale and too easily glosses over the very real military tensions between the two powers. Nevertheless, this is a highly original work that will appeal to fans of Simon Schama''s groundbreaking\n  <em>\n   The Embarrassment of Riches.\n  </em>\n  Color and b&amp;w illus.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Exploring the cultural interchange between England and the Netherlands in the mid-1600s, historian Jardine focuses on the royal and courtier circles that cultivated the arts and sciences blossoming in that period. Her effusively illustrated book reproduces nearly 100 contemporary images of paintings and prints, each of whichÂ leads into theÂ text,Â which discusses their connective role between the two countries. Jardine also traces the connections between the House of Stuart and the House of Orange, whose political interactions culminated in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the drama of which historically overshadows their rich web of cultural relationships, Jardineâ€™s inquiry suggests. Indeed the antagonists James II and William of Orange are instantly recognizable to history readers, whereas Jardineâ€™s protagonist is hardly known. He is Constantijn Huygens (1596â€“1687), a Dutch diplomat and connoisseur of painting, architecture, and garden design, and father ofÂ Christian, the renowned astronomer, and Constantijn, who was Williamâ€™s secretary during the invasion of England. Weaving the fortunes of the Huygens clan into dynastic dynamics, Jardine richly displays the society in which Rubens and van Dyck flourished. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3283'),
(19041, 'Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland&#39;s Glory', 'Lisa Jardine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  England''s almost bloodless Glorious Revolution of 1688, in which the Dutch king William of Orange overthrew James II, began as a hostile takeover but rapidly turned into a friendly merger, according to British historian Jardine (_The Awful End of Prince William the Silent_). She explores the fascinating Anglo-Dutch relationship to answer how and why two sworn foes became friends so seamlessly. Jardine focuses mainly on the subterranean intellectual, cultural and scientific intersections between the two countries and finds that contacts were continuous and mutually advantageous for decades before William''s invasion. Cross-border fertilization resulted in two of the greatest painters of the ageâ€”Peter Paul Rubens and Anton van Dyckâ€”working for English patrons while esteemed members of the Royal Society (such as Isaac Newton) corresponded with their Netherlandish counterparts (such as Christian Huygens). By looking so closely at elite opinion, however, Jardine too lightly dismisses the virility of petty nationalism lower down the scale and too easily glosses over the very real military tensions between the two powers. Nevertheless, this is a highly original work that will appeal to fans of Simon Schama''s groundbreaking\n  <em>\n   The Embarrassment of Riches.\n  </em>\n  Color and b&amp;w illus.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Exploring the cultural interchange between England and the Netherlands in the mid-1600s, historian Jardine focuses on the royal and courtier circles that cultivated the arts and sciences blossoming in that period. Her effusively illustrated book reproduces nearly 100 contemporary images of paintings and prints, each of whichÂ leads into theÂ text,Â which discusses their connective role between the two countries. Jardine also traces the connections between the House of Stuart and the House of Orange, whose political interactions culminated in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the drama of which historically overshadows their rich web of cultural relationships, Jardineâ€™s inquiry suggests. Indeed the antagonists James II and William of Orange are instantly recognizable to history readers, whereas Jardineâ€™s protagonist is hardly known. He is Constantijn Huygens (1596â€“1687), a Dutch diplomat and connoisseur of painting, architecture, and garden design, and father ofÂ Christian, the renowned astronomer, and Constantijn, who was Williamâ€™s secretary during the invasion of England. Weaving the fortunes of the Huygens clan into dynastic dynamics, Jardine richly displays the society in which Rubens and van Dyck flourished. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10560'),
(19042, 'Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland&#39;s Glory', 'Lisa Jardine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  England''s almost bloodless Glorious Revolution of 1688, in which the Dutch king William of Orange overthrew James II, began as a hostile takeover but rapidly turned into a friendly merger, according to British historian Jardine (_The Awful End of Prince William the Silent_). She explores the fascinating Anglo-Dutch relationship to answer how and why two sworn foes became friends so seamlessly. Jardine focuses mainly on the subterranean intellectual, cultural and scientific intersections between the two countries and finds that contacts were continuous and mutually advantageous for decades before William''s invasion. Cross-border fertilization resulted in two of the greatest painters of the ageâ€”Peter Paul Rubens and Anton van Dyckâ€”working for English patrons while esteemed members of the Royal Society (such as Isaac Newton) corresponded with their Netherlandish counterparts (such as Christian Huygens). By looking so closely at elite opinion, however, Jardine too lightly dismisses the virility of petty nationalism lower down the scale and too easily glosses over the very real military tensions between the two powers. Nevertheless, this is a highly original work that will appeal to fans of Simon Schama''s groundbreaking\n  <em>\n   The Embarrassment of Riches.\n  </em>\n  Color and b&amp;w illus.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Exploring the cultural interchange between England and the Netherlands in the mid-1600s, historian Jardine focuses on the royal and courtier circles that cultivated the arts and sciences blossoming in that period. Her effusively illustrated book reproduces nearly 100 contemporary images of paintings and prints, each of which leads into the text, which discusses their connective role between the two countries. Jardine also traces the connections between the House of Stuart and the House of Orange, whose political interactions culminated in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the drama of which historically overshadows their rich web of cultural relationships, Jardineâ€™s inquiry suggests. Indeed the antagonists James II and William of Orange are instantly recognizable to history readers, whereas Jardineâ€™s protagonist is hardly known. He is Constantijn Huygens (1596â€“1687), a Dutch diplomat and connoisseur of painting, architecture, and garden design, and father of Christian, the renowned astronomer, and Constantijn, who was Williamâ€™s secretary during the invasion of England. Weaving the fortunes of the Huygens clan into dynastic dynamics, Jardine richly displays the society in which Rubens and van Dyck flourished. --Gilbert Taylor\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21185'),
(19043, 'Going Postal', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses - until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it''s Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position - and the hulking golem watchdog who comes along with it, just in case Moist was considering abandoning his responsibilities prematurely. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be a near-impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office building; and with only a few creaky old postmen and one rather unstable, pin-obsessed youth available to deliver it. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, money-hungry Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical head, Mr. Reacher Gilt. But it says on the building neither rain nor snow nor glo m of ni t ... Inspiring words (admittedly, some of the bronze letters have been stolen), and for once in his wretched life Moist is going to fight. And if the bold and impossible are what''s called for, he''ll do it - in order to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every human being (not to mention troll, dwarf, and, yes, even golem) requires - hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/654'),
(19044, 'Going Postal', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses - until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it''s Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position - and the hulking golem watchdog who comes along with it, just in case Moist was considering abandoning his responsibilities prematurely. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be a near-impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office building; and with only a few creaky old postmen and one rather unstable, pin-obsessed youth available to deliver it. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, money-hungry Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical head, Mr. Reacher Gilt. But it says on the building neither rain nor snow nor glo m of ni t ... Inspiring words (admittedly, some of the bronze letters have been stolen), and for once in his wretched life Moist is going to fight. And if the bold and impossible are what''s called for, he''ll do it - in order to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every human being (not to mention troll, dwarf, and, yes, even golem) requires - hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14113'),
(19045, 'Going Postal', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses - until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it''s Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position - and the hulking golem watchdog who comes along with it, just in case Moist was considering abandoning his responsibilities prematurely. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be a near-impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office building; and with only a few creaky old postmen and one rather unstable, pin-obsessed youth available to deliver it. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, money-hungry Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical head, Mr. Reacher Gilt. But it says on the building neither rain nor snow nor glo m of ni t ... Inspiring words (admittedly, some of the bronze letters have been stolen), and for once in his wretched life Moist is going to fight. And if the bold and impossible are what''s called for, he''ll do it - in order to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every human being (not to mention troll, dwarf, and, yes, even golem) requires - hope.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24199'),
(19046, 'Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan&#39;s Workplaces to Clinton&#39;s Columbine and Beyond', 'Mark Ames', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An eye-opening look at the phenomenon of school and workplace shootings in America, Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has plagued - and baffled - America for the last three decades, and offers some provocative answers to the oft-asked question, "Why?" By juxtaposing the historical place of rage in America with the social climate that has existed since the 1980s - when Reaganomics began to widen the gap between executive and average-worker earnings - the author crafts a convincing argument that these schoolyard and office massacres can be seen as modern-day slave rebellions. He presents many fascinating and unexpected cases in detail. Like slave rebellions, these massacres are doomed, gory, sometimes even inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood. Taking up where Bowling for Columbine left off, this book seeks to set these murders in their proper context and thereby reveal their meaning.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3065'),
(19047, 'Going Rogue: An American Life', 'Sarah Palin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the most recognizable women in the world. As chief executive of America''s largest state, she had built a record as a reformer who cast aside politics-as-usual and pushed through changes other politicians only talked about: Energy independence. Ethics reform. And the biggest private sector infrastructure project in U.S. history. And while revitalizing public school funding and ensuring the state met its responsibilities to seniors and Alaska Native populations, Palin also beat the political "good ol'' boys club" at their own game and brought Big Oil to heel. Like her GOP running mate, John McCain, Palin wasn''t a packaged and over-produced candidate. She was a Main Street American woman: a working mom, wife of a blue collar union man, and mother of five children, the eldest of whom was serving his country in a yearlong deployment in Iraq and the youngest, an infant with special needs. Palin''s hometown story touched a populist nerve, rallying hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans to the GOP ticket. But as the campaign unfolded, Palin became a lightning rod for both praise and criticism. Supporters called her "refreshing" and "honest," a kitchen-table public servant they felt would fight for their interests. Opponents derided her as a wide-eyed Pollyanna unprepared for national leadership. But none of them knew the real Sarah Palin. In this eagerly anticipated memoir, Palin paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska; meeting her lifelong love; her decision to enter politics; the importance of faith and family; and the unique joys and trials of life as a high-profile working mother. She also opens up for the first time about the 2008 presidential race, providing a rare, mom''s-eye view of high-stakes national politicsâ€”from patriots dedicated to "Country First" to slick politicos bent on winning at any cost. *Going Rogue* traces one ordinary citizen''s extraordinary journey and imparts Palin''s vision of a way forward for America and her unfailing hope in the greatest nation on earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13692'),
(19048, 'Going Rogue: An American Life', 'Sarah Palin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the most recognizable women in the world. As chief executive of America''s largest state, she had built a record as a reformer who cast aside politics-as-usual and pushed through changes other politicians only talked about: Energy independence. Ethics reform. And the biggest private sector infrastructure project in U.S. history. And while revitalizing public school funding and ensuring the state met its responsibilities to seniors and Alaska Native populations, Palin also beat the political "good ol'' boys club" at their own game and brought Big Oil to heel. Like her GOP running mate, John McCain, Palin wasn''t a packaged and over-produced candidate. She was a Main Street American woman: a working mom, wife of a blue collar union man, and mother of five children, the eldest of whom was serving his country in a yearlong deployment in Iraq and the youngest, an infant with special needs. Palin''s hometown story touched a populist nerve, rallying hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans to the GOP ticket. But as the campaign unfolded, Palin became a lightning rod for both praise and criticism. Supporters called her "refreshing" and "honest," a kitchen-table public servant they felt would fight for their interests. Opponents derided her as a wide-eyed Pollyanna unprepared for national leadership. But none of them knew the real Sarah Palin. In this eagerly anticipated memoir, Palin paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska; meeting her lifelong love; her decision to enter politics; the importance of faith and family; and the unique joys and trials of life as a high-profile working mother. She also opens up for the first time about the 2008 presidential race, providing a rare, mom''s-eye view of high-stakes national politicsâ€”from patriots dedicated to "Country First" to slick politicos bent on winning at any cost. *Going Rogue* traces one ordinary citizen''s extraordinary journey and imparts Palin''s vision of a way forward for America and her unfailing hope in the greatest nation on earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23568'),
(19049, 'Gold Boy, Emerald Girl', 'Yiyun Li', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   BONUS: This edition contains a reader''s guide.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner and acclaimed author of\n   <b>\n    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\n   </b>\n   and\n   <b>\n    The Vagrants\n   </b>\n   , gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty, in which history, politics, and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   In the title story, a professor introduces her middle-aged son to a favorite student, unaware of the student''s true affections. In "A Man Like Him," a lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. In "The Proprietress," a reporter from Shanghai travels to a small town to write an article about the local prison, only to discover a far more intriguing story involving a shopkeeper who offers refuge to the wives and children of inmates. In "House Fire," a young man who suspects his father of sleeping with the young man''s wife seeks the help of a detective agency run by a group of feisty old women.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty,\n   <b>\n    Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\n   </b>\n   reveals worlds strange and familiar, and cultures both traditional and modern, to create a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h5>\n  Excerpts\n </h5>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   From the book...\n  </i>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   <i>\n    KindnessChapter One\n   </i>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   i am a forty-one-year-old woman living by myself, in the same one- bedroom flat where I have always lived, in a derelict building on the outskirts of Beijing that is threatened to be demolished by government-backed real estate developers. Apart from a trip to a cheap seaside resort, taken with my parents the summer I turned five, I have not traveled much; I spent a year in an army camp in central China, but other than that I have never lived away from home. In college, after a few failed attempts to convince me of the importance of being a community member, my adviser stopped acknowledging my presence, and the bed assigned to me was taken over by the five other girls in the dorm and their trunks.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I have not married, and naturally have no children. I have few friends, though as I have never left the neighborhood, I have enough acquaintances, most of them a generation or two older. Being around them is comforting; never is there a day when I feel that I am alone in aging.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I teach mathematics in a third-tier middle school. I do not love my job or my students, but I have noticed that even the most meager attention I give to the students is returned by a few of them with respect and gratitude and sometimes inexplicable infatuation. I pity those children more than I appreciate them, as I can see where they are heading in their lives. It is a terrible thing, even for an indifferent person like me, to see the bleakness lurking in someone else''s life.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I have no hobby that takes me outside my flat during my spare time. I do not own a television set, but I have a roomful of books at least half a century older than I am. I have never in my life hurt a soul, or, if I have done any harm unintentionally the pain I inflicted was the most trivial kind, forgotten the moment it was felt-if indeed it could be felt in any way. But that cannot be a happy life, or much of a life at all, you might say. That may very well be true. "Why are you unhappy?" To this day, if I close my eyes I can feel Lieutenant Wei''s finger under my chin, lifting my face to a spring night. "Tell me, how can we make you happy?"\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The questions, put to me twenty-three years ago, have remained unanswerable, though it no longer matters, as, you see, Lieutenant Wei died three weeks ago, at age forty-six, mother of a teenage daughter, wife of a stationery merchant, veteran of Unit 20256, People''s Liberation Army, from which she retired at age forty-three, already afflicted with a malignant tumor. She was Major Wei in the funeral announcement. I do not know why the news of her death was mailed to me except perhaps that the funeral committee-it was from such a committee that the letter had come, befitting her status- thought I was one of her long-lost friends, my name scribbled in an old address book. I wonder if the announcement was sent to the other girls, though not many of them would still be at the same address. I remember the day Lieutenant Wei''s wedding invitation arrived, in a distant past, and thinking then that it would be the last time I would hear from her.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I did not go to the funeral, as I had not gone to her wedding, both of which took place two hours by train from Beijing. It is a hassle to travel for a wedding, but more so for a funeral. One has to face strangers'' tears and, worse, one has to repeat words of condolence to irrelevant people.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   When I was five, a peddler came to our neighborhood one Sunday with a bamboo basket full of spring chicks. I was trailing behind my father for our weekly shopping of rationed food, and when the peddler put a chick in my palm, its small body soft and warm and shivering constantly, I cried before I could...\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <h5>\n  Reviews\n </h5>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Francine Prose,\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   The New York Times Book Review,\n  </i>\n  Editor''s Choice...\n </div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   "A literary voice that brings to mind Nabokov''s description of Chekhov''s narrative style: ''The story is told in the most natural way possible...the way one person relates to another the most important things in his life, slowly and yet without a break, in a slightly subdued voice.'' As in reading Chekhov, one is struck by how profoundly important the lives or ordinary people are made to seem, and by what a sizable chunk of existence -- an entire life or several lives -- has been compressed into a few pages....[Yiyun Li] succeeds in making the details of a very particular (and very sharply drawn) time and place express something broader and more universal....[Li''s stories] have the power to create hushed intervals that resonate with emotion....\n   <i>\n    Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\n   </i>\n   is an example of the treasure an artist can fashion from the raw materials of ordinary existence."\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   San Francisco Chronicle Book Review,\n  </i>\n  Cover Review...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Li''s collection well deserves a celebration with its sophistication and honesty, which often derive from a deep understanding of the history, culture and politics of China, and of their impact on ordinary people. . . . Yes, sorrows may arise during times of reflection, but it''s impossible not to fall in love with the privacy and tranquility of the time and place."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Marie Claire\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "With their quiet authority, exquisite control, and illumination of those quicksilver moments on which entire lives pivot, Li''s tales lodge in your rib cage long after you''ve finished reading....[Li will] remind you of what it''s like to be human in today''s increasingly fragmented world."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Cleveland Plain Dealer\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Breathtaking....starkly wondrous....gorgeous fiction....Yiyun Li writes in simple, penetrating prose....[Li] is an impresario of our essential loneliness.  Still, these nine stories are not sad, but astringently beautiful."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Junot DÃ­az...\n  </i>\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Li is extraordinary . . . a storyteller of the first order . . . each tale in this collection is as wild and beautiful and thorny as a heart. . . Li inhabits the lives of her characters with such force and compassion that one cannot help but marvel at her remarkable talents."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Vogue\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Masterly....nuanced....Li conjures a bewildering new economy China, but her eloquent understanding of people struggling to help one another ''make a world that would accommodate their loneliness'' feels universal."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Elle\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Delectable....subtle and assured....[Li] finds the pulse points in the lives of her Chinese and Chinese-American characters and renders her findings with empathy and exactitude."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Time Out New York\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Li displays a staggering poise and grace in her latest collection of short stories....the yarns spun in\n  <i>\n   Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\n  </i>\n  prove to be as varied as humanity itself."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   New York Observer\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "[Li''s] writing is minimal, yet packed with detail. At times, it feels like she is reporting in the manner of a journalist; at others she teeters on the verge of lyricism, often walking this line within a single paragraph."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </i>\n  (starred review)...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "A stellar assortment of stories...further proof that Li deserves to be considered among the best living fiction writers."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </i>\n  (starred review)...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Brilliant...a frighteningly lucid vision of human fate."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <h5>\n  About the Author\n </h5>\n <div>\n  <script>\n  </script>\n  <p>\n   Yiyun Li is the author of\n   <i>\n    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\n   </i>\n   and\n   <i>\n    The Vagrants.\n   </i>\n   A native of Beijing and a graduate of the Iowa Writers'' Workshop, she is the recipient of the Frank O''Connor International Short Story Award, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Whiting Writers'' Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. In 2007,\n   <i>\n    Granta\n   </i>\n   named her one of the best American novelists under thirty-five. Her work has appeared in\n   <i>\n    The\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    Short Stories,\n   </i>\n   and\n   <i>\n    The O. Henry Prize Stories,\n   </i>\n   among others. She teaches writing at the University of California, Davis, and lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and their two sons.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/119');
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(19050, 'Gold Boy, Emerald Girl', 'Yiyun Li', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   BONUS: This edition contains a reader''s guide.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner and acclaimed author of\n   <b>\n    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\n   </b>\n   and\n   <b>\n    The Vagrants\n   </b>\n   , gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty, in which history, politics, and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   In the title story, a professor introduces her middle-aged son to a favorite student, unaware of the student''s true affections. In "A Man Like Him," a lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. In "The Proprietress," a reporter from Shanghai travels to a small town to write an article about the local prison, only to discover a far more intriguing story involving a shopkeeper who offers refuge to the wives and children of inmates. In "House Fire," a young man who suspects his father of sleeping with the young man''s wife seeks the help of a detective agency run by a group of feisty old women.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty,\n   <b>\n    Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\n   </b>\n   reveals worlds strange and familiar, and cultures both traditional and modern, to create a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h5>\n  Excerpts\n </h5>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   From the book...\n  </i>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   <i>\n    KindnessChapter One\n   </i>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   i am a forty-one-year-old woman living by myself, in the same one- bedroom flat where I have always lived, in a derelict building on the outskirts of Beijing that is threatened to be demolished by government-backed real estate developers. Apart from a trip to a cheap seaside resort, taken with my parents the summer I turned five, I have not traveled much; I spent a year in an army camp in central China, but other than that I have never lived away from home. In college, after a few failed attempts to convince me of the importance of being a community member, my adviser stopped acknowledging my presence, and the bed assigned to me was taken over by the five other girls in the dorm and their trunks.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I have not married, and naturally have no children. I have few friends, though as I have never left the neighborhood, I have enough acquaintances, most of them a generation or two older. Being around them is comforting; never is there a day when I feel that I am alone in aging.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I teach mathematics in a third-tier middle school. I do not love my job or my students, but I have noticed that even the most meager attention I give to the students is returned by a few of them with respect and gratitude and sometimes inexplicable infatuation. I pity those children more than I appreciate them, as I can see where they are heading in their lives. It is a terrible thing, even for an indifferent person like me, to see the bleakness lurking in someone else''s life.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I have no hobby that takes me outside my flat during my spare time. I do not own a television set, but I have a roomful of books at least half a century older than I am. I have never in my life hurt a soul, or, if I have done any harm unintentionally the pain I inflicted was the most trivial kind, forgotten the moment it was felt-if indeed it could be felt in any way. But that cannot be a happy life, or much of a life at all, you might say. That may very well be true. "Why are you unhappy?" To this day, if I close my eyes I can feel Lieutenant Wei''s finger under my chin, lifting my face to a spring night. "Tell me, how can we make you happy?"\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The questions, put to me twenty-three years ago, have remained unanswerable, though it no longer matters, as, you see, Lieutenant Wei died three weeks ago, at age forty-six, mother of a teenage daughter, wife of a stationery merchant, veteran of Unit 20256, People''s Liberation Army, from which she retired at age forty-three, already afflicted with a malignant tumor. She was Major Wei in the funeral announcement. I do not know why the news of her death was mailed to me except perhaps that the funeral committee-it was from such a committee that the letter had come, befitting her status- thought I was one of her long-lost friends, my name scribbled in an old address book. I wonder if the announcement was sent to the other girls, though not many of them would still be at the same address. I remember the day Lieutenant Wei''s wedding invitation arrived, in a distant past, and thinking then that it would be the last time I would hear from her.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I did not go to the funeral, as I had not gone to her wedding, both of which took place two hours by train from Beijing. It is a hassle to travel for a wedding, but more so for a funeral. One has to face strangers'' tears and, worse, one has to repeat words of condolence to irrelevant people.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   When I was five, a peddler came to our neighborhood one Sunday with a bamboo basket full of spring chicks. I was trailing behind my father for our weekly shopping of rationed food, and when the peddler put a chick in my palm, its small body soft and warm and shivering constantly, I cried before I could...\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <h5>\n  Reviews\n </h5>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Francine Prose,\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   The New York Times Book Review,\n  </i>\n  Editor''s Choice...\n </div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   "A literary voice that brings to mind Nabokov''s description of Chekhov''s narrative style: ''The story is told in the most natural way possible...the way one person relates to another the most important things in his life, slowly and yet without a break, in a slightly subdued voice.'' As in reading Chekhov, one is struck by how profoundly important the lives or ordinary people are made to seem, and by what a sizable chunk of existence -- an entire life or several lives -- has been compressed into a few pages....[Yiyun Li] succeeds in making the details of a very particular (and very sharply drawn) time and place express something broader and more universal....[Li''s stories] have the power to create hushed intervals that resonate with emotion....\n   <i>\n    Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\n   </i>\n   is an example of the treasure an artist can fashion from the raw materials of ordinary existence."\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   San Francisco Chronicle Book Review,\n  </i>\n  Cover Review...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Li''s collection well deserves a celebration with its sophistication and honesty, which often derive from a deep understanding of the history, culture and politics of China, and of their impact on ordinary people. . . . Yes, sorrows may arise during times of reflection, but it''s impossible not to fall in love with the privacy and tranquility of the time and place."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Marie Claire\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "With their quiet authority, exquisite control, and illumination of those quicksilver moments on which entire lives pivot, Li''s tales lodge in your rib cage long after you''ve finished reading....[Li will] remind you of what it''s like to be human in today''s increasingly fragmented world."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Cleveland Plain Dealer\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Breathtaking....starkly wondrous....gorgeous fiction....Yiyun Li writes in simple, penetrating prose....[Li] is an impresario of our essential loneliness.  Still, these nine stories are not sad, but astringently beautiful."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Junot DÃ­az...\n  </i>\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Li is extraordinary . . . a storyteller of the first order . . . each tale in this collection is as wild and beautiful and thorny as a heart. . . Li inhabits the lives of her characters with such force and compassion that one cannot help but marvel at her remarkable talents."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Vogue\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Masterly....nuanced....Li conjures a bewildering new economy China, but her eloquent understanding of people struggling to help one another ''make a world that would accommodate their loneliness'' feels universal."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Elle\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Delectable....subtle and assured....[Li] finds the pulse points in the lives of her Chinese and Chinese-American characters and renders her findings with empathy and exactitude."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Time Out New York\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Li displays a staggering poise and grace in her latest collection of short stories....the yarns spun in\n  <i>\n   Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\n  </i>\n  prove to be as varied as humanity itself."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   New York Observer\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "[Li''s] writing is minimal, yet packed with detail. At times, it feels like she is reporting in the manner of a journalist; at others she teeters on the verge of lyricism, often walking this line within a single paragraph."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </i>\n  (starred review)...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "A stellar assortment of stories...further proof that Li deserves to be considered among the best living fiction writers."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </i>\n  (starred review)...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Brilliant...a frighteningly lucid vision of human fate."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <h5>\n  About the Author\n </h5>\n <div>\n  <script>\n  </script>\n  <p>\n   Yiyun Li is the author of\n   <i>\n    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\n   </i>\n   and\n   <i>\n    The Vagrants.\n   </i>\n   A native of Beijing and a graduate of the Iowa Writers'' Workshop, she is the recipient of the Frank O''Connor International Short Story Award, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Whiting Writers'' Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. In 2007,\n   <i>\n    Granta\n   </i>\n   named her one of the best American novelists under thirty-five. Her work has appeared in\n   <i>\n    The\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    Short Stories,\n   </i>\n   and\n   <i>\n    The O. Henry Prize Stories,\n   </i>\n   among others. She teaches writing at the University of California, Davis, and lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and their two sons.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11099'),
(19051, 'Gold Boy, Emerald Girl', 'Yiyun Li', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   BONUS: This edition contains a reader''s guide.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner and acclaimed author of\n   <b>\n    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\n   </b>\n   and\n   <b>\n    The Vagrants\n   </b>\n   , gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty, in which history, politics, and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   In the title story, a professor introduces her middle-aged son to a favorite student, unaware of the student''s true affections. In "A Man Like Him," a lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. In "The Proprietress," a reporter from Shanghai travels to a small town to write an article about the local prison, only to discover a far more intriguing story involving a shopkeeper who offers refuge to the wives and children of inmates. In "House Fire," a young man who suspects his father of sleeping with the young man''s wife seeks the help of a detective agency run by a group of feisty old women.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty,\n   <b>\n    Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\n   </b>\n   reveals worlds strange and familiar, and cultures both traditional and modern, to create a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h5>\n  Excerpts\n </h5>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   From the book...\n  </i>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   <i>\n    KindnessChapter One\n   </i>\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   i am a forty-one-year-old woman living by myself, in the same one- bedroom flat where I have always lived, in a derelict building on the outskirts of Beijing that is threatened to be demolished by government-backed real estate developers. Apart from a trip to a cheap seaside resort, taken with my parents the summer I turned five, I have not traveled much; I spent a year in an army camp in central China, but other than that I have never lived away from home. In college, after a few failed attempts to convince me of the importance of being a community member, my adviser stopped acknowledging my presence, and the bed assigned to me was taken over by the five other girls in the dorm and their trunks.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I have not married, and naturally have no children. I have few friends, though as I have never left the neighborhood, I have enough acquaintances, most of them a generation or two older. Being around them is comforting; never is there a day when I feel that I am alone in aging.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I teach mathematics in a third-tier middle school. I do not love my job or my students, but I have noticed that even the most meager attention I give to the students is returned by a few of them with respect and gratitude and sometimes inexplicable infatuation. I pity those children more than I appreciate them, as I can see where they are heading in their lives. It is a terrible thing, even for an indifferent person like me, to see the bleakness lurking in someone else''s life.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I have no hobby that takes me outside my flat during my spare time. I do not own a television set, but I have a roomful of books at least half a century older than I am. I have never in my life hurt a soul, or, if I have done any harm unintentionally the pain I inflicted was the most trivial kind, forgotten the moment it was felt-if indeed it could be felt in any way. But that cannot be a happy life, or much of a life at all, you might say. That may very well be true. "Why are you unhappy?" To this day, if I close my eyes I can feel Lieutenant Wei''s finger under my chin, lifting my face to a spring night. "Tell me, how can we make you happy?"\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   The questions, put to me twenty-three years ago, have remained unanswerable, though it no longer matters, as, you see, Lieutenant Wei died three weeks ago, at age forty-six, mother of a teenage daughter, wife of a stationery merchant, veteran of Unit 20256, People''s Liberation Army, from which she retired at age forty-three, already afflicted with a malignant tumor. She was Major Wei in the funeral announcement. I do not know why the news of her death was mailed to me except perhaps that the funeral committee-it was from such a committee that the letter had come, befitting her status- thought I was one of her long-lost friends, my name scribbled in an old address book. I wonder if the announcement was sent to the other girls, though not many of them would still be at the same address. I remember the day Lieutenant Wei''s wedding invitation arrived, in a distant past, and thinking then that it would be the last time I would hear from her.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   I did not go to the funeral, as I had not gone to her wedding, both of which took place two hours by train from Beijing. It is a hassle to travel for a wedding, but more so for a funeral. One has to face strangers'' tears and, worse, one has to repeat words of condolence to irrelevant people.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   When I was five, a peddler came to our neighborhood one Sunday with a bamboo basket full of spring chicks. I was trailing behind my father for our weekly shopping of rationed food, and when the peddler put a chick in my palm, its small body soft and warm and shivering constantly, I cried before I could...\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <h5>\n  Reviews\n </h5>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Francine Prose,\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   The New York Times Book Review,\n  </i>\n  Editor''s Choice...\n </div>\n <div>\n  <p>\n   "A literary voice that brings to mind Nabokov''s description of Chekhov''s narrative style: ''The story is told in the most natural way possible...the way one person relates to another the most important things in his life, slowly and yet without a break, in a slightly subdued voice.'' As in reading Chekhov, one is struck by how profoundly important the lives or ordinary people are made to seem, and by what a sizable chunk of existence -- an entire life or several lives -- has been compressed into a few pages....[Yiyun Li] succeeds in making the details of a very particular (and very sharply drawn) time and place express something broader and more universal....[Li''s stories] have the power to create hushed intervals that resonate with emotion....\n   <i>\n    Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\n   </i>\n   is an example of the treasure an artist can fashion from the raw materials of ordinary existence."\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   San Francisco Chronicle Book Review,\n  </i>\n  Cover Review...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Li''s collection well deserves a celebration with its sophistication and honesty, which often derive from a deep understanding of the history, culture and politics of China, and of their impact on ordinary people. . . . Yes, sorrows may arise during times of reflection, but it''s impossible not to fall in love with the privacy and tranquility of the time and place."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Marie Claire\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "With their quiet authority, exquisite control, and illumination of those quicksilver moments on which entire lives pivot, Li''s tales lodge in your rib cage long after you''ve finished reading....[Li will] remind you of what it''s like to be human in today''s increasingly fragmented world."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Cleveland Plain Dealer\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Breathtaking....starkly wondrous....gorgeous fiction....Yiyun Li writes in simple, penetrating prose....[Li] is an impresario of our essential loneliness. Still, these nine stories are not sad, but astringently beautiful."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Junot DÃ­az...\n  </i>\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Li is extraordinary . . . a storyteller of the first order . . . each tale in this collection is as wild and beautiful and thorny as a heart. . . Li inhabits the lives of her characters with such force and compassion that one cannot help but marvel at her remarkable talents."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Vogue\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Masterly....nuanced....Li conjures a bewildering new economy China, but her eloquent understanding of people struggling to help one another ''make a world that would accommodate their loneliness'' feels universal."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Elle\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Delectable....subtle and assured....[Li] finds the pulse points in the lives of her Chinese and Chinese-American characters and renders her findings with empathy and exactitude."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Time Out New York\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Li displays a staggering poise and grace in her latest collection of short stories....the yarns spun in\n  <i>\n   Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\n  </i>\n  prove to be as varied as humanity itself."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   New York Observer\n  </i>\n  ...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "[Li''s] writing is minimal, yet packed with detail. At times, it feels like she is reporting in the manner of a journalist; at others she teeters on the verge of lyricism, often walking this line within a single paragraph."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Kirkus Reviews\n  </i>\n  (starred review)...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "A stellar assortment of stories...further proof that Li deserves to be considered among the best living fiction writers."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <div>\n  <i>\n  </i>\n  <i>\n   Publishers Weekly\n  </i>\n  (starred review)...\n </div>\n <div>\n  "Brilliant...a frighteningly lucid vision of human fate."\n </div>\n <div>\n </div>\n <h5>\n  About the Author\n </h5>\n <div>\n  <script>\n  </script>\n  <p>\n   Yiyun Li is the author of\n   <i>\n    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\n   </i>\n   and\n   <i>\n    The Vagrants.\n   </i>\n   A native of Beijing and a graduate of the Iowa Writers'' Workshop, she is the recipient of the Frank O''Connor International Short Story Award, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Whiting Writers'' Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. In 2007,\n   <i>\n    Granta\n   </i>\n   named her one of the best American novelists under thirty-five. Her work has appeared in\n   <i>\n    The\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American\n   </i>\n   <i>\n    Short Stories,\n   </i>\n   and\n   <i>\n    The O. Henry Prize Stories,\n   </i>\n   among others. She teaches writing at the University of California, Davis, and lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and their two sons.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24756'),
(19052, 'Gold Coast', 'Elmore Leonard', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When he kicked off, Florida mob boss Frank DiCilia left his gorgeous widow Karen everything, but with strings attached. She loses the millions, the cars, the palatial Gold Coast mansion if she ever gets involved with another man. And there''s a crazy cowboy-wannabe thug named Roland who''s acting as Frank''s eyes beyond the grave, making sure Karen doesn''t dally, with serious muscle, if necessary. But now Cal Maguire''s come into the picture. A sexy, street-smart Detroit ex-con, Cal''s got a line and a scam for every occasion. And he''s got the perfect plan for getting Karen DiCilia her money\n <em>\n  and\n </em>\n her freedom ... if it doesn''t get them both killed first.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gorgeous widow Karen diCilia just found out what it really means to be married to the mob. Her mafia husband Frank left her millions and a Florida Gold Coast mansion. He also left orders that she''d lose everything the day she slept with another man. With his boys as enforcers, Karen was soon a lonely lady. Then she meets Detroit''s Cal Maguire, a sexy, street-smart ex-con with a scam to get Karen her money and freedom . . . or get them both killed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18553'),
(19053, 'The Gold Coast', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  What happens to a priggish, WASPy, disillusioned Wall Street lawyer when a Mafia crime boss moves into the mansion next door in his posh Long Island neighborhood? He ends up representing the gangster on a murder rap and even perjures himself so the mafiosostet lc can be released on $5 million bail. That''s the premise of DeMille''s ( The Charm School ) bloated, unpersuasive thriller. Attorney John Sutter has problems that would daunt even Fitzgerald''s Jay Gatsby. His marriage is crumbling, despite kinky sex games with his self-centered wife, Susan, who''s the mistress of his underworld client Frank Bellarosa. The IRS is after Sutter, and his law firm wants to dump him. As a sardonic morality tale of one man''s self-willed disintegration, the impact is flattened by its elitist narrator''s patrician tones. A comic courtroom scene and some punches at the end, however, redeem the novel somewhat. BOMC main selection; film rights to Guber/Peters-Columbia.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Captivating...addictive...irresistible.'' - WASHINGTON POST ''The so-called ''Gold Coast'' will never be the same again'' - DAILY MAIL\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2559'),
(19054, 'The Gold Coast', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  What happens to a priggish, WASPy, disillusioned Wall Street lawyer when a Mafia crime boss moves into the mansion next door in his posh Long Island neighborhood? He ends up representing the gangster on a murder rap and even perjures himself so the mafiosostet lc can be released on $5 million bail. That''s the premise of DeMille''s ( The Charm School ) bloated, unpersuasive thriller. Attorney John Sutter has problems that would daunt even Fitzgerald''s Jay Gatsby. His marriage is crumbling, despite kinky sex games with his self-centered wife, Susan, who''s the mistress of his underworld client Frank Bellarosa. The IRS is after Sutter, and his law firm wants to dump him. As a sardonic morality tale of one man''s self-willed disintegration, the impact is flattened by its elitist narrator''s patrician tones. A comic courtroom scene and some punches at the end, however, redeem the novel somewhat. BOMC main selection; film rights to Guber/Peters-Columbia.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Captivating...addictive...irresistible.'' - WASHINGTON POST ''The so-called ''Gold Coast'' will never be the same again'' - DAILY MAIL\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9225'),
(19055, 'The Gold Coast', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  What happens to a priggish, WASPy, disillusioned Wall Street lawyer when a Mafia crime boss moves into the mansion next door in his posh Long Island neighborhood? He ends up representing the gangster on a murder rap and even perjures himself so the mafiosostet lc can be released on $5 million bail. That''s the premise of DeMille''s ( The Charm School ) bloated, unpersuasive thriller. Attorney John Sutter has problems that would daunt even Fitzgerald''s Jay Gatsby. His marriage is crumbling, despite kinky sex games with his self-centered wife, Susan, who''s the mistress of his underworld client Frank Bellarosa. The IRS is after Sutter, and his law firm wants to dump him. As a sardonic morality tale of one man''s self-willed disintegration, the impact is flattened by its elitist narrator''s patrician tones. A comic courtroom scene and some punches at the end, however, redeem the novel somewhat. BOMC main selection; film rights to Guber/Peters-Columbia.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Captivating...addictive...irresistible.'' - WASHINGTON POST ''The so-called ''Gold Coast'' will never be the same again'' - DAILY MAIL\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15221'),
(19056, 'The Gold Coast', 'Nelson DeMille', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  What happens to a priggish, WASPy, disillusioned Wall Street lawyer when a Mafia crime boss moves into the mansion next door in his posh Long Island neighborhood? He ends up representing the gangster on a murder rap and even perjures himself so the mafiosostet lc can be released on $5 million bail. That''s the premise of DeMille''s ( The Charm School ) bloated, unpersuasive thriller. Attorney John Sutter has problems that would daunt even Fitzgerald''s Jay Gatsby. His marriage is crumbling, despite kinky sex games with his self-centered wife, Susan, who''s the mistress of his underworld client Frank Bellarosa. The IRS is after Sutter, and his law firm wants to dump him. As a sardonic morality tale of one man''s self-willed disintegration, the impact is flattened by its elitist narrator''s patrician tones. A comic courtroom scene and some punches at the end, however, redeem the novel somewhat. BOMC main selection; film rights to Guber/Peters-Columbia.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Captivating...addictive...irresistible.'' - WASHINGTON POST ''The so-called ''Gold Coast'' will never be the same again'' - DAILY MAIL\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22234'),
(19057, 'Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection', 'Isaac Asimov', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction''s transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large. The first section contains stories that range from the humorous to the profound, at the heart of which is the title story, "Gold," a moving and revealing drama about a writer who gambles everything on a chance at immortality: a gamble Asimov himself made -- and won. The second section contains the grand master''s ruminations on the SF genre itself. And the final section is comprised of Asimov''s thoughts on the craft and writing of science fiction.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25648'),
(19058, 'The Golden Acorn', 'Catherine Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY:\n  </u>\n </b>\n <br />\n The Brit Writers'' Awards (www.britwriters.co.uk) is nothing short of a writing and publishing phenomenon. It has attracted tens of thousands of entries in its eight categories and is offering the largest prize ever for unpublished writers in a creative writing competition. Infinite Ideas will publish this year''s deserved winner of the Children''s story category, Catherine Cooper''s wonderful novel The Golden Acorn. When Jack Brenin finds a golden acorn lying in the grass, little does he know that it is the beginning of a thrilling and magical adventure. Just an ordinary boy, Jack has been chosen for a hugely important task, and enters a world he believed only existed in legend. Full of twists and turns, talking ravens and mischievous Spriggans, The Golden Acorn is a hugely entertaining and exciting tale from a very talented new author. Your kids will love it, and so will you!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6951'),
(19059, 'The Golden Acorn', 'Catherine Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY:\n  </u>\n </b>\n <br />\n The Brit Writers'' Awards (www.britwriters.co.uk) is nothing short of a writing and publishing phenomenon. It has attracted tens of thousands of entries in its eight categories and is offering the largest prize ever for unpublished writers in a creative writing competition. Infinite Ideas will publish this year''s deserved winner of the Children''s story category, Catherine Cooper''s wonderful novel The Golden Acorn. When Jack Brenin finds a golden acorn lying in the grass, little does he know that it is the beginning of a thrilling and magical adventure. Just an ordinary boy, Jack has been chosen for a hugely important task, and enters a world he believed only existed in legend. Full of twists and turns, talking ravens and mischievous Spriggans, The Golden Acorn is a hugely entertaining and exciting tale from a very talented new author. Your kids will love it, and so will you!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9047'),
(19060, 'The Golden Acorn', 'Catherine Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n <b>\n  <u>\n   SUMMARY:\n  </u>\n </b>\n <br />\n The Brit Writers'' Awards (www.britwriters.co.uk) is nothing short of a writing and publishing phenomenon. It has attracted tens of thousands of entries in its eight categories and is offering the largest prize ever for unpublished writers in a creative writing competition. Infinite Ideas will publish this year''s deserved winner of the Children''s story category, Catherine Cooper''s wonderful novel The Golden Acorn. When Jack Brenin finds a golden acorn lying in the grass, little does he know that it is the beginning of a thrilling and magical adventure. Just an ordinary boy, Jack has been chosen for a hugely important task, and enters a world he believed only existed in legend. Full of twists and turns, talking ravens and mischievous Spriggans, The Golden Acorn is a hugely entertaining and exciting tale from a very talented new author. Your kids will love it, and so will you!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16967'),
(19061, 'Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol IX', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  roduct Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Harl Vincent, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION\n  <br />\n  By Poul Anderson\n  <br />\n  THE MIND MASTER\n  <br />\n  by Arthur J. Burks\n  <br />\n  THE ULTIMATE WEAPON\n  <br />\n  by John Wood Campbell\n  <br />\n  TO REMEMBER CHARLIE BY\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  LET ''EM BREATHE SPACE!\n  <br />\n  By Lester Del Rey\n  <br />\n  THE DEMI-URGE\n  <br />\n  By Thomas M. Disch\n  <br />\n  PHARAOH''S BROKER\n  <br />\n  By Ellsworth Douglass\n  <br />\n  THE MAN WHO STAKED THE STARS\n  <br />\n  By Charles Dye\n  <br />\n  THE TALKATIVE TREE\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  CUM GRANO SALIS\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE DARK WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Henry Kuttner\n  <br />\n  THE INVADERS\n  <br />\n  By Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE SOLAR MAGNET\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE COFFIN CURE\n  <br />\n  by Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  THE DARK DOOR\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  NAUDSONC\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  OMNILINGUAL\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  DANGER\n  <br />\n  by Fletcher Pratt and Irvin Lester\n  <br />\n  MR. CHIPFELLOW''S JACKPOT\n  <br />\n  by Dick Purcell\n  <br />\n  THE GREEN BeRET\n  <br />\n  By Tom Purdom\n  <br />\n  A FILBERT IS A NUT\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  MEDAL OF HONOR\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  MERCENARY\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  THE DEATH-CLOUD\n  <br />\n  By Nat Schachner and Arthur L. Zagat\n  <br />\n  WATCH THE SKY\n  <br />\n  by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  DEATH WISH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  WARRIOR RACE\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  TWO PLUS TWO MAKES CRAZY\n  <br />\n  By Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  THE SUCCESS MACHINE\n  <br />\n  By Henry Slesar\n  <br />\n  HELPFULLY YOURS\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  NARAKAN RIFLES, ABOUT FACE!\n  <br />\n  By Jan Smith\n  <br />\n  STOP LOOK AnD DIG\n  <br />\n  By George O. Smith\n  <br />\n  THE VENUS TRAP\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  THE HOUSE FROM NOWHERE\n  <br />\n  by Arthur G. Stangland\n  <br />\n  INSIDE JOHN BARTH\n  <br />\n  By William W. Stuart\n  <br />\n  THE JUNKMAKERS\n  <br />\n  By Albert Teichner\n  <br />\n  HIGH DRAGON BUMP\n  <br />\n  By Don Thompson\n  <br />\n  LARSON''S LUCK\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  MARTIAN V. F. W.\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  SILVER DOME\n  <br />\n  By Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  STRANGE ALLIANCE\n  <br />\n  By Bryce Walton\n  <br />\n  THE IDEAL\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  The RISK PROFESSION\n  <br />\n  By Donald E. Westlake\n  <br />\n  TO MARS VIA THE MOON\n  <br />\n  By Mark Wicks\n  <br />\n  THE INHABITED\n  <br />\n  By Richard Wilson\n  <br />\n  THE VERY SECRET AGENT\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE GHOST WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  NO MOVING PARTS\n  <br />\n  By Murray F. Yaco\n  <br />\n  THE LANSON SCREEN\n  <br />\n  By Arthur Leo Zagat\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22816'),
(19062, 'Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol VIII', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds, Paul Ernst, Laurence Janifer, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Harl Vincent, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  THE BURNING BRIDGE by Poul Anderson\n  <br />\n  LORDS OF THE STRATOSPHERE by Arthur J. Burks\n  <br />\n  THE WEAKLING by Everett B. Cole\n  <br />\n  IMPACT by Irving E. Cox, Jr.\n  <br />\n  THE CRACK OF DOOM by Robert Cromie\n  <br />\n  NO PETS ALLOWED by M. A. Cummings\n  <br />\n  MONKEY ON HIS BACK by Charles V. De Vet\n  <br />\n  TEST ROCKET! by Jack Douglas\n  <br />\n  THE RED HELL OF JUPITER by Paul Ernst\n  <br />\n  THE OUTBREAK OF PEACE by H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  MASTER OF NONE by Neil Goble\n  <br />\n  UNTHINKABLE by Rog Phillips\n  <br />\n  THE WAR OF THE WENUSES by C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas\n  <br />\n  NATIVE SON by T. D. Hamm\n  <br />\n  WIZARD by Laurence Mark Janifer\n  <br />\n  THE UNTOUCHABLE by Stephen A. Kallis\n  <br />\n  BREAD OVERHEAD by Fritz Leiber\n  <br />\n  SCRIMSHAW by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE MACHINE THAT SAVED THE WORLD by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  SPIES DIE HARD! by Arnold Marmor\n  <br />\n  GIANTS ON THE EARTH by S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE STUTTERER by R. R. Merliss\n  <br />\n  GENERAL MAX SHORTER by Kris Neville\n  <br />\n  MARTYR By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  MEETING OF THE BOARD by Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  HE WALKED AROUND THE HORSES by H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  HUNTER PATROL by H. Beam Piper and John J. Mcguire\n  <br />\n  GUN FOR HIRE by Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  I''M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF by Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  SEE? by Edward G. Robles, Jr.\n  <br />\n  I WAS A TEEN-AGE SECRET WEAPON by Richard Sabia\n  <br />\n  THE STAR HYACINTHS by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  THE WINDS OF TIME by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  A MATTER OF MAGNITUDE by Al Sevcik\n  <br />\n  HOULIHAN''S EQUATION by Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  MY FATHER, THE CAT by Henry Slesar\n  <br />\n  INSTINCT by George O. Smith\n  <br />\n  NO HIDING PLACE by Richard R. Smith\n  <br />\n  JUBILATION, U.S.A. by G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  THE TERROR OF AIR-LEVEL SIX by Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  DAWN OF FLAME by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  PROTEUS ISLAND by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  DEVIL CRYSTALS OF ARRET by Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE QUANTUM JUMP by Robert Wicks\n  <br />\n  DOUBLE TAKE by Richard Wilson\n  <br />\n  WITH A VENGEANCE by J. B. Woodley\n  <br />\n  THE DEATH TRAPS OF FX-31 by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  THE FORGOTTEN PLANET by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  COLLECTOR''S ITEM by Robert F. Young\n  <br />\n  CHILDREN OF TOMORROW by Arthur Leo Zagat\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22819'),
(19063, 'Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol X', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Mack Reynolds, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Phillip K. Dick, Frederik Pohl, Clifford D. Simak, Raymond Z. Gallun, Andre Norton, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  THE RECORD OF CURRUPIRA\n  <br />\n  By Robert Abernathy\n  <br />\n  THE DRAW\n  <br />\n  By Jerome Bixby\n  <br />\n  CONTROL GROUP\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  THE EEL\n  <br />\n  By Miriam Allen DeFord\n  <br />\n  BADGE OF INFAMY\n  <br />\n  By Lester del Rey\n  <br />\n  SECOND VARIETY\n  <br />\n  By Philip K. Dick\n  <br />\n  OUT OF THE EARTH\n  <br />\n  By George Edrich\n  <br />\n  THE VERY BLACK\n  <br />\n  By Dean Evans\n  <br />\n  THE WEDGE\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  THE PLANET STRAPPERS\n  <br />\n  By Raymond Z. Gallun\n  <br />\n  HAIL TO THE CHIEF\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THIN EDGE\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  SPACE PRISON\n  <br />\n  By Tom Godwin\n  <br />\n  THE TERRIBLE ANSWER\n  <br />\n  By Arthur G. Hill\n  <br />\n  THE WOMAN-STEALERS OF THRAYX\n  <br />\n  By Fox B. Holden\n  <br />\n  THE DAY OF THE DOG\n  <br />\n  By Andersen Horne\n  <br />\n  ADVANCED CHEMISTRY\n  <br />\n  By Jack G. Huekels\n  <br />\n  FIELD TRIP\n  <br />\n  By Gene Hunter\n  <br />\n  THE SHINING COW\n  <br />\n  By Alex James\n  <br />\n  ROUGH TRANSLATION\n  <br />\n  By Jean M. Janis\n  <br />\n  JOHN JONES''S DOLLAR\n  <br />\n  By Harry Stephen Keeler\n  <br />\n  SECURITY\n  <br />\n  By Ernest M. Kenyon\n  <br />\n  THE MAD PLANET\n  <br />\n  by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE THIEF OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  REEL LIFE FILMS\n  <br />\n  By Sam Merwin\n  <br />\n  SONG IN A MINOR KEY\n  <br />\n  By C. L. Moore\n  <br />\n  STAR HUNTER\n  <br />\n  By Andre Norton\n  <br />\n  CONTAMINATION CREW\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  DERELICT\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  ALL DAY WEDNESDAY\n  <br />\n  By Richard Olin\n  <br />\n  THE HAPPY MAN\n  <br />\n  By Gerald W. Page\n  <br />\n  OOMPHEL IN THE SKY\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  OPERATION R.S.V.P.\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE TUNNEL UNDER THE WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Frederik Pohl\n  <br />\n  SUMMIT\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  LION LOOSE\n  <br />\n  By James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  THE WORLD THAT COULDN''T BE\n  <br />\n  By Clifford D. Simak\n  <br />\n  TELEMPATHY\n  <br />\n  By Vance Simonds\n  <br />\n  LOOT OF THE VOID\n  <br />\n  By Edwin K. Sloat\n  <br />\n  COLLECTOR''S ITEM\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  PERFECT CONTROL\n  <br />\n  By Richard Stockham\n  <br />\n  SOLAR STIFF\n  <br />\n  By Chas. A. Stopher\n  <br />\n  MAN MADE\n  <br />\n  By Albert R. Teichner\n  <br />\n  PLEASANT JOURNEY\n  <br />\n  By Richard F. Thieme\n  <br />\n  THERE WILL BE SCHOOL TOMORROW\n  <br />\n  By V. E. Thiessen\n  <br />\n  THE POINT OF VIEW\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  ROBOTS OF THE WORLD! ARISE!\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE TERRIBLE TENTACLES OF L-472\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  MEMBERSHIP DRIVE\n  <br />\n  By Murray F. Yaco\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22817'),
(19064, 'Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol XI', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  roduct Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert Bloch, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  RING ONCE FOR DEATH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Arthur\n  <br />\n  THIS CROWDED EARTH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Bloch\n  <br />\n  THE LANI PEOPLE\n  <br />\n  By J. F. Bone\n  <br />\n  MIZORA: A PROPHECY\n  <br />\n  By Mary E. Bradley\n  <br />\n  THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE\n  <br />\n  By Marion Zimmer Bradley\n  <br />\n  FELONY\n  <br />\n  By James Causey\n  <br />\n  THE SKY IS FALLING\n  <br />\n  By Lester del Rey\n  <br />\n  STAMPED CAUTION\n  <br />\n  By Raymond Z. Gallun\n  <br />\n  CARD ... TRICK\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  DAMNED IF YOU DON''T\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  MECCANIA: THE SUPER-STATE\n  <br />\n  By Owen Gregory\n  <br />\n  BREAKING POINT\n  <br />\n  by James E. Gunn\n  <br />\n  THE SMILER\n  <br />\n  By Albert Hernhunter\n  <br />\n  THE LOVE OF FRANK NINETEEN\n  <br />\n  By David C. Knight\n  <br />\n  THE SIX FINGERS OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By R. A. Lafferty\n  <br />\n  MARS CONFIDENTIAL!\n  <br />\n  By Jack Lait &amp; Lee Mortimer\n  <br />\n  THE RUNAWAY SKYSCRAPER\n  <br />\n  By Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE WATER EATER\n  <br />\n  By Win Marks\n  <br />\n  BEYOND PANDORA\n  <br />\n  By Robert J. Martin\n  <br />\n  MOTHER AMERICA\n  <br />\n  By Sam Mcclatchie, M.D.\n  <br />\n  WHEN CAVERNS YAWNED\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE LINK\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  POLICE OPERATION\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  SONNY\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  HOLES INCORPORATED\n  <br />\n  By L. Major Reynolds\n  <br />\n  WHERE I WASN''T GOING\n  <br />\n  By Walt and Leigh Richmond\n  <br />\n  DECISION\n  <br />\n  By Frank M. Robinson\n  <br />\n  THE PREMIERE\n  <br />\n  By Richard Sabia\n  <br />\n  OPERATION LORELIE\n  <br />\n  By William P. Salton\n  <br />\n  FELINE RED\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sampson\n  <br />\n  ZERO DATA\n  <br />\n  By Charles Saphro\n  <br />\n  WATCHBIRD\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  JIMSY AND THE MONSTERS\n  <br />\n  By Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  THE VILBAR PARTY\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  BRKNK''S BOUNTY\n  <br />\n  By Jerry Sohl\n  <br />\n  B-12''s MOON GLOW\n  <br />\n  By Charles A. Stearns\n  <br />\n  GARTH AND THE VISITOR\n  <br />\n  By L. J. Stecher\n  <br />\n  VITAL INGREDIENT\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  THE OBSERVERS\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  VULCAN''S WORKSHOP\n  <br />\n  By Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  FORGET ME NEARLY\n  <br />\n  By F. L. Wallace\n  <br />\n  TO EACH HIS STAR\n  <br />\n  By Bryce Walton\n  <br />\n  THE WORLDS OF IF\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  THE SEED OF THE TOC-TOC BIRDS\n  <br />\n  By George Henry Weiss\n  <br />\n  THE CAVERN OF THE SHINING ONES\n  <br />\n  By Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON\n  <br />\n  By H.G. Wells\n  <br />\n  COGITO, ERGO SUM\n  <br />\n  By John Foster West\n  <br />\n  CAT AND MOUSE\n  <br />\n  By Ralph Williams\n  <br />\n  HOMO INFERIOR\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE INFRA-MEDIANS\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22818');
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(19065, 'Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol XI', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  roduct Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert Bloch, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  RING ONCE FOR DEATH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Arthur\n  <br />\n  THIS CROWDED EARTH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Bloch\n  <br />\n  THE LANI PEOPLE\n  <br />\n  By J. F. Bone\n  <br />\n  MIZORA: A PROPHECY\n  <br />\n  By Mary E. Bradley\n  <br />\n  THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE\n  <br />\n  By Marion Zimmer Bradley\n  <br />\n  FELONY\n  <br />\n  By James Causey\n  <br />\n  THE SKY IS FALLING\n  <br />\n  By Lester del Rey\n  <br />\n  STAMPED CAUTION\n  <br />\n  By Raymond Z. Gallun\n  <br />\n  CARD ... TRICK\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  DAMNED IF YOU DON''T\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  MECCANIA: THE SUPER-STATE\n  <br />\n  By Owen Gregory\n  <br />\n  BREAKING POINT\n  <br />\n  by James E. Gunn\n  <br />\n  THE SMILER\n  <br />\n  By Albert Hernhunter\n  <br />\n  THE LOVE OF FRANK NINETEEN\n  <br />\n  By David C. Knight\n  <br />\n  THE SIX FINGERS OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By R. A. Lafferty\n  <br />\n  MARS CONFIDENTIAL!\n  <br />\n  By Jack Lait &amp; Lee Mortimer\n  <br />\n  THE RUNAWAY SKYSCRAPER\n  <br />\n  By Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE WATER EATER\n  <br />\n  By Win Marks\n  <br />\n  BEYOND PANDORA\n  <br />\n  By Robert J. Martin\n  <br />\n  MOTHER AMERICA\n  <br />\n  By Sam Mcclatchie, M.D.\n  <br />\n  WHEN CAVERNS YAWNED\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE LINK\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  POLICE OPERATION\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  SONNY\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  HOLES INCORPORATED\n  <br />\n  By L. Major Reynolds\n  <br />\n  WHERE I WASN''T GOING\n  <br />\n  By Walt and Leigh Richmond\n  <br />\n  DECISION\n  <br />\n  By Frank M. Robinson\n  <br />\n  THE PREMIERE\n  <br />\n  By Richard Sabia\n  <br />\n  OPERATION LORELIE\n  <br />\n  By William P. Salton\n  <br />\n  FELINE RED\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sampson\n  <br />\n  ZERO DATA\n  <br />\n  By Charles Saphro\n  <br />\n  WATCHBIRD\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  JIMSY AND THE MONSTERS\n  <br />\n  By Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  THE VILBAR PARTY\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  BRKNK''S BOUNTY\n  <br />\n  By Jerry Sohl\n  <br />\n  B-12''s MOON GLOW\n  <br />\n  By Charles A. Stearns\n  <br />\n  GARTH AND THE VISITOR\n  <br />\n  By L. J. Stecher\n  <br />\n  VITAL INGREDIENT\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  THE OBSERVERS\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  VULCAN''S WORKSHOP\n  <br />\n  By Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  FORGET ME NEARLY\n  <br />\n  By F. L. Wallace\n  <br />\n  TO EACH HIS STAR\n  <br />\n  By Bryce Walton\n  <br />\n  THE WORLDS OF IF\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  THE SEED OF THE TOC-TOC BIRDS\n  <br />\n  By George Henry Weiss\n  <br />\n  THE CAVERN OF THE SHINING ONES\n  <br />\n  By Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON\n  <br />\n  By H.G. Wells\n  <br />\n  COGITO, ERGO SUM\n  <br />\n  By John Foster West\n  <br />\n  CAT AND MOUSE\n  <br />\n  By Ralph Williams\n  <br />\n  HOMO INFERIOR\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE INFRA-MEDIANS\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24559'),
(19066, 'Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol XIII', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty classic science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Phillip K. Dick, Walter M. Miller, Roger Aycock, Edmond Hamilton, Stephen Marlowe, Randall Garrett, Mack Reynolds, H.B. Fyfe, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  ONCE UPON A PLANET\n  <br />\n  By J. J. Allerton\n  <br />\n  MR. PRESIDENT\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Arr\n  <br />\n  THE FRIGHTENED PLANET\n  <br />\n  By Sidney Austen\n  <br />\n  PET FARM\n  <br />\n  By Roger D. Aycock\n  <br />\n  THE PLOTTERS\n  <br />\n  By Alexander Blade\n  <br />\n  LOVE STORY\n  <br />\n  By Irving E. Cox, Jr.\n  <br />\n  THE TRAP\n  <br />\n  By Betsy Curtis\n  <br />\n  CLEAN BREAK\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  THE VARIABLE MAN\n  <br />\n  By Philip K. Dick\n  <br />\n  UNIFORM OF A MAN\n  <br />\n  By Dave Dryfoos\n  <br />\n  CATEGORY PHOENIX\n  <br />\n  By Boyd Ellanby\n  <br />\n  SKIN GAME\n  <br />\n  By Charles E. Fritch\n  <br />\n  LET THERE BE LIGHT\n  <br />\n  By Horace B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  SUITE MENTALE\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE MEASURE OF A MAN\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE SPHERE OF SLEEP\n  <br />\n  By Chester S. Geier\n  <br />\n  A THOUGHT FOR TOMORROW\n  <br />\n  By Robert E. Gilbert\n  <br />\n  BOOMERANG BULLETS\n  <br />\n  By James A. Goldthwaite\n  <br />\n  THE DOOR INTO INFINITY\n  <br />\n  By Edmond Hamilton\n  <br />\n  BEYOND THE THUNDER\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Hickey\n  <br />\n  FEET OF CLAY\n  <br />\n  By Phillip Hoskins\n  <br />\n  THE UNLEARNED\n  <br />\n  By Raymond F. Jones\n  <br />\n  PROJECT HUSH\n  <br />\n  By Phillip Klass\n  <br />\n  TAPE JOCKEY\n  <br />\n  By Tom Leahy\n  <br />\n  OOGIE FINDS LOVE\n  <br />\n  By Berkeley Livingston\n  <br />\n  BREEDER REACTION\n  <br />\n  By Winston Marks\n  <br />\n  BROWN JOHN''S BODY\n  <br />\n  By Winston Marks\n  <br />\n  EARTHSMITH\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Marlowe\n  <br />\n  WORLD BEYOND PLUTO\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Marlowe\n  <br />\n  THE HITCH HIKERS\n  <br />\n  By Vernon L. McCain\n  <br />\n  LIFE SENTENCE\n  <br />\n  By James McConnell\n  <br />\n  THE AMBASSADOR\n  <br />\n  By Sam Merwin, Jr.\n  <br />\n  WAY OF A REBEL\n  <br />\n  By Walter Miller, Jr.\n  <br />\n  OF TIME AND TEXAS\n  <br />\n  By William F. Nolan\n  <br />\n  THY NAME IS WOMAN\n  <br />\n  By Kenneth O''Hara\n  <br />\n  THE HELL SHIP\n  <br />\n  By Ray Palmer\n  <br />\n  THE MERCENARIES\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE OCTOPUS CYCLE\n  <br />\n  By Irvin Lester and Fletcher Pratt\n  <br />\n  THE SWORD\n  <br />\n  By Frank Quattrocchi\n  <br />\n  CODE THREE\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  THE COMMON MAN\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  THE BOOK\n  <br />\n  By Michael Shaara\n  <br />\n  PROBABILITY\n  <br />\n  By Louis Trimble\n  <br />\n  SUCCESS STORY\n  <br />\n  By Robert Turner\n  <br />\n  THE JUDAS VALLEY\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  MOON GLOW\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  WHEN THE MOON TURNED GREEN\n  <br />\n  By Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE END OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By Wallace West\n  <br />\n  PLANET OF THE GODS\n  <br />\n  By Robert Moore Williams\n  <br />\n  THE GOD IN THE BOX\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22820'),
(19067, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume I: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Williamson, Phillip Jose Farmer, Lester Del Rey, Leigh Brackett, Fredric Brown, Murray Leinster, Ben Bova, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Contents:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder (James De Mille)\n <br />\n A World by the Tale (Randall Garrett)\n <br />\n A World is Born (Leigh Brackett)\n <br />\n Accidental Death (Peter Baily)\n <br />\n Arena (Fredric Brown)\n <br />\n Atom Boy (Ray Cummings)\n <br />\n Beyond Lies the Wub (Phillip K. Dick)\n <br />\n Blind Spot (Bascom Jones)\n <br />\n Cully (Jack Egan)\n <br />\n Dead Giveaway (Randall Garrett)\n <br />\n Dead Ringer (Lester Del Rey)\n <br />\n Dead World (Jack Douglas)\n <br />\n Divinity (Joseph Samachson)\n <br />\n Four Miles Within (Anthony Gilmore)\n <br />\n Heist Job on Thizar (Randall Garrett)\n <br />\n Hex (Laurence Janifer)\n <br />\n In the Year 2889 (Jules Verne)\n <br />\n Indulgence of Negu Mah (Robert Arthur)\n <br />\n Lease to Doomsday (Lee Archer)\n <br />\n Lost in Translation (Laurence Janifer)\n <br />\n McIlvaneâ€™s Star (August Derleth)\n <br />\n Missing Link (Frank Herbert)\n <br />\n Next Logical Step (Ben Bova)\n <br />\n Pandemic (J.F. Bone)\n <br />\n Remember the Alamo (T.R. Fehrenbach)\n <br />\n Salvage in Space (Jack Williamson)\n <br />\n Security (Poul Anderson)\n <br />\n Subspace Survivors (E.E. â€œDocâ€ Smith)\n <br />\n The Aliens (Murray Leinster)\n <br />\n The Big Trip Up Yonder (Kurt Vonnegut)\n <br />\n The Chronic Argonauts (H.G. Wells)\n <br />\n The Cosmic Express (Jack Williamson)\n <br />\n The Day Time Stopped Moving (Bradner Buckner)\n <br />\n The Eternal Wall (Raymond Z. Gallun)\n <br />\n The Gifts of Asti (Andre Norton)\n <br />\n The Hated (Frederick Pohl)\n <br />\n The Last Evolution (John W. Campbell)\n <br />\n The Man Who Saw the Future (Edmond Hamilton)\n <br />\n The Memory of Mars (Raymond F. Jones)\n <br />\n The Moon is Green (Fritz Leiber)\n <br />\n The Nothing Equation (Tom Godwin)\n <br />\n The Power and the Glory (Charles W. Diffin)\n <br />\n The Radiant Shell (Paul Ernst)\n <br />\n The Stoker and the Stars (Algis Budrys)\n <br />\n The Street That Wasnâ€™t There (Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. Simak)\n <br />\n The World Behind the Moon (Paul Ernst)\n <br />\n There is a Reaper (Charles De Vet)\n <br />\n They Twinkled Like Jewels (Phillip JosÃ© Farmer)\n <br />\n Waste Not, Want (Dave Dryfoos)\n <br />\n Year of the Big Thaw (Marion Zimmer Bradley)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/453'),
(19068, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume I: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Williamson, Phillip Jose Farmer, Lester Del Rey, Leigh Brackett, Fredric Brown, Murray Leinster, Ben Bova, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Contents:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder (James De Mille)\n <br />\n A World by the Tale (Randall Garrett)\n <br />\n A World is Born (Leigh Brackett)\n <br />\n Accidental Death (Peter Baily)\n <br />\n Arena (Fredric Brown)\n <br />\n Atom Boy (Ray Cummings)\n <br />\n Beyond Lies the Wub (Phillip K. Dick)\n <br />\n Blind Spot (Bascom Jones)\n <br />\n Cully (Jack Egan)\n <br />\n Dead Giveaway (Randall Garrett)\n <br />\n Dead Ringer (Lester Del Rey)\n <br />\n Dead World (Jack Douglas)\n <br />\n Divinity (Joseph Samachson)\n <br />\n Four Miles Within (Anthony Gilmore)\n <br />\n Heist Job on Thizar (Randall Garrett)\n <br />\n Hex (Laurence Janifer)\n <br />\n In the Year 2889 (Jules Verne)\n <br />\n Indulgence of Negu Mah (Robert Arthur)\n <br />\n Lease to Doomsday (Lee Archer)\n <br />\n Lost in Translation (Laurence Janifer)\n <br />\n McIlvaneâ€™s Star (August Derleth)\n <br />\n Missing Link (Frank Herbert)\n <br />\n Next Logical Step (Ben Bova)\n <br />\n Pandemic (J.F. Bone)\n <br />\n Remember the Alamo (T.R. Fehrenbach)\n <br />\n Salvage in Space (Jack Williamson)\n <br />\n Security (Poul Anderson)\n <br />\n Subspace Survivors (E.E. â€œDocâ€ Smith)\n <br />\n The Aliens (Murray Leinster)\n <br />\n The Big Trip Up Yonder (Kurt Vonnegut)\n <br />\n The Chronic Argonauts (H.G. Wells)\n <br />\n The Cosmic Express (Jack Williamson)\n <br />\n The Day Time Stopped Moving (Bradner Buckner)\n <br />\n The Eternal Wall (Raymond Z. Gallun)\n <br />\n The Gifts of Asti (Andre Norton)\n <br />\n The Hated (Frederick Pohl)\n <br />\n The Last Evolution (John W. Campbell)\n <br />\n The Man Who Saw the Future (Edmond Hamilton)\n <br />\n The Memory of Mars (Raymond F. Jones)\n <br />\n The Moon is Green (Fritz Leiber)\n <br />\n The Nothing Equation (Tom Godwin)\n <br />\n The Power and the Glory (Charles W. Diffin)\n <br />\n The Radiant Shell (Paul Ernst)\n <br />\n The Stoker and the Stars (Algis Budrys)\n <br />\n The Street That Wasnâ€™t There (Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. Simak)\n <br />\n The World Behind the Moon (Paul Ernst)\n <br />\n There is a Reaper (Charles De Vet)\n <br />\n They Twinkled Like Jewels (Phillip JosÃ© Farmer)\n <br />\n Waste Not, Want (Dave Dryfoos)\n <br />\n Year of the Big Thaw (Marion Zimmer Bradley)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13156'),
(19069, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume II: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty short stories by more than forty masters of science fiction. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Ben Bova, Cordwainer Smith, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Harry Harrison, Jack Williamson, Lester Del Rey, Fredric Brown, Murray Leinster, C.M. Kornbluth, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Andre Norton, H. Beam Piper, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Contents:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Question of Courage, J.F. Bone\n <br />\n The Duelling Maching, Ben Bova\n <br />\n Keep Out, Frederic Brown\n <br />\n Indirection, Everett B. Cole\n <br />\n The Game of Rat and Dragon, Cordwainer Smith\n <br />\n The World Beyond, Raymond Cummings\n <br />\n Victory, Lester Del Rey\n <br />\n The Defenders, Phillip K. Dick\n <br />\n The Hammer of Thor, Charles Willard Diffin\n <br />\n The Planetoid of Peril, Paul Ernst\n <br />\n The Jupiter Weapon, Charles L. Fontenay\n <br />\n This World Must Die, H.B. Fyfe\n <br />\n Psichopath, Randall Garrett\n <br />\n The Man Who Hated Mars, Randall Garrett\n <br />\n Hawk Carse, Anthony Gilmore\n <br />\n The Helpful Hand of God, Tom Godwin\n <br />\n A Scientist Rises, D.W. Hall\n <br />\n Monsters of Mars, Edmond Hamilton\n <br />\n The Sargasso of Space, Edmond Hamilton\n <br />\n The K-Factor, Harry Harrison\n <br />\n The Misplaced Battleship, Harry Harrison\n <br />\n Walls of Acid, Henry Hasse\n <br />\n Old Rambling House, Frank Herbert\n <br />\n Made in Tanganyika, Carl Jacobi\n <br />\n Sight Gag, Lawrence Janifer\n <br />\n Get Out of Our Skies, E. K. Jarvis\n <br />\n Cubs of the Wolf, Raymond F. Jones\n <br />\n The Cosmic Expense Account, C.M. Kornbluth\n <br />\n We Didnâ€™t Do Anything Wrong, Hardly, Roger Kuykendall\n <br />\n The Great Potlatch Riots, Allen Kim Lang\n <br />\n Gamblerâ€™s World, Keith Laumer\n <br />\n No Great Magic, Fritz Leiber\n <br />\n The Ambulance Made Two Trips, Murray Leinster\n <br />\n The Leader, Murray Leinster\n <br />\n The Mississippi Saucer, Frank Belknap Long\n <br />\n Summer Snow Storm, Stephen Marlowe\n <br />\n The Attack From Space, S.P. Meek\n <br />\n The Great Drought, S.P. Meek\n <br />\n Death of Spaceman, Walter M. Miller, Jr.\n <br />\n The People of the Crater, Andre Norton\n <br />\n An Ounce of Cure, Alan Nourse\n <br />\n Image of the Gods, Alan Nourse\n <br />\n A Slave is a Slave, H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n Day of the Moron, H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n Pythias, Frederick Pohl\n <br />\n The Hunters, Joseph Samachson\n <br />\n The Judas Valley, Robert Silverberg\n <br />\n Project Mastodon, Clifford D. Simak\n <br />\n 2BR02B, Kurt Vonnegut\n <br />\n The Pygmy Planet, Jack Williamson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/447'),
(19070, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume II: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty short stories by more than forty masters of science fiction. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Ben Bova, Cordwainer Smith, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Harry Harrison, Jack Williamson, Lester Del Rey, Fredric Brown, Murray Leinster, C.M. Kornbluth, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Andre Norton, H. Beam Piper, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Contents:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A Question of Courage, J.F. Bone\n <br />\n The Duelling Maching, Ben Bova\n <br />\n Keep Out, Frederic Brown\n <br />\n Indirection, Everett B. Cole\n <br />\n The Game of Rat and Dragon, Cordwainer Smith\n <br />\n The World Beyond, Raymond Cummings\n <br />\n Victory, Lester Del Rey\n <br />\n The Defenders, Phillip K. Dick\n <br />\n The Hammer of Thor, Charles Willard Diffin\n <br />\n The Planetoid of Peril, Paul Ernst\n <br />\n The Jupiter Weapon, Charles L. Fontenay\n <br />\n This World Must Die, H.B. Fyfe\n <br />\n Psichopath, Randall Garrett\n <br />\n The Man Who Hated Mars, Randall Garrett\n <br />\n Hawk Carse, Anthony Gilmore\n <br />\n The Helpful Hand of God, Tom Godwin\n <br />\n A Scientist Rises, D.W. Hall\n <br />\n Monsters of Mars, Edmond Hamilton\n <br />\n The Sargasso of Space, Edmond Hamilton\n <br />\n The K-Factor, Harry Harrison\n <br />\n The Misplaced Battleship, Harry Harrison\n <br />\n Walls of Acid, Henry Hasse\n <br />\n Old Rambling House, Frank Herbert\n <br />\n Made in Tanganyika, Carl Jacobi\n <br />\n Sight Gag, Lawrence Janifer\n <br />\n Get Out of Our Skies, E. K. Jarvis\n <br />\n Cubs of the Wolf, Raymond F. Jones\n <br />\n The Cosmic Expense Account, C.M. Kornbluth\n <br />\n We Didnâ€™t Do Anything Wrong, Hardly, Roger Kuykendall\n <br />\n The Great Potlatch Riots, Allen Kim Lang\n <br />\n Gamblerâ€™s World, Keith Laumer\n <br />\n No Great Magic, Fritz Leiber\n <br />\n The Ambulance Made Two Trips, Murray Leinster\n <br />\n The Leader, Murray Leinster\n <br />\n The Mississippi Saucer, Frank Belknap Long\n <br />\n Summer Snow Storm, Stephen Marlowe\n <br />\n The Attack From Space, S.P. Meek\n <br />\n The Great Drought, S.P. Meek\n <br />\n Death of Spaceman, Walter M. Miller, Jr.\n <br />\n The People of the Crater, Andre Norton\n <br />\n An Ounce of Cure, Alan Nourse\n <br />\n Image of the Gods, Alan Nourse\n <br />\n A Slave is a Slave, H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n Day of the Moron, H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n Pythias, Frederick Pohl\n <br />\n The Hunters, Joseph Samachson\n <br />\n The Judas Valley, Robert Silverberg\n <br />\n Project Mastodon, Clifford D. Simak\n <br />\n 2BR02B, Kurt Vonnegut\n <br />\n The Pygmy Planet, Jack Williamson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13146'),
(19071, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume II: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty short stories by more than forty masters of science fiction. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by Ben Bova, Cordwainer Smith, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Harry Harrison, Jack Williamson, Lester Del Rey, Fredric Brown, Murray Leinster, C.M. Kornbluth, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Andre Norton, H. Beam Piper, and many others. This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents: A Question of Courage, J.F. Bone The Duelling Maching, Ben Bova Keep Out, Frederic Brown Indirection, Everett B. Cole The Game of Rat and Dragon, Cordwainer Smith The World Beyond, Raymond Cummings Victory, Lester Del Rey The Defenders, Phillip K. Dick The Hammer of Thor, Charles Willard Diffin The Planetoid of Peril, Paul Ernst The Jupiter Weapon, Charles L. Fontenay This World Must Die, H.B. Fyfe Psichopath, Randall Garrett The Man Who Hated Mars, Randall Garrett Hawk Carse, Anthony Gilmore The Helpful Hand of God, Tom Godwin A Scientist Rises, D.W. Hall Monsters of Mars, Edmond Hamilton The Sargasso of Space, Edmond Hamilton The K-Factor, Harry Harrison The Misplaced Battleship, Harry Harrison Walls of Acid, Henry Hasse Old Rambling House, Frank Herbert Made in Tanganyika, Carl Jacobi Sight Gag, Lawrence Janifer Get Out of Our Skies, E. K. Jarvis Cubs of the Wolf, Raymond F. Jones The Cosmic Expense Account, C.M. Kornbluth We Didnâ€™t Do Anything Wrong, Hardly, Roger Kuykendall The Great Potlatch Riots, Allen Kim Lang Gamblerâ€™s World, Keith Laumer No Great Magic, Fritz Leiber The Ambulance Made Two Trips, Murray Leinster The Leader, Murray Leinster The Mississippi Saucer, Frank Belknap Long Summer Snow Storm, Stephen Marlowe The Attack From Space, S.P. Meek The Great Drought, S.P. Meek Death of Spaceman, Walter M. Miller, Jr. The People of the Crater, Andre Norton An Ounce of Cure, Alan Nourse Image of the Gods, Alan Nourse A Slave is a Slave, H. Beam Piper Day of the Moron, H. Beam Piper Pythias, Frederick Pohl The Hunters, Joseph Samachson The Judas Valley, Robert Silverberg Project Mastodon, Clifford D. Simak 2BR02B, Kurt Vonnegut The Pygmy Planet, Jack Williamson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24564'),
(19072, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume III: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n his Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty short stories by more than forty masters of science fiction. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, Murray Leinster, Walter M. Miller, Jr., H. Beam Piper, Clifford Simak, Robert Silverberg, Jack Williamson, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Contents:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Man Who Came Early, Poul Anderson\n <br />\n The Cuckoo Clock, Wesley Barefoot\n <br />\n Zen, Jerome Bixby\n <br />\n Say Hello for Me, Frank Coggins\n <br />\n The Guardians, Irving Cox\n <br />\n Martians Never Die, Lucius Daniel\n <br />\n Foundling on Venus, John and Dorothy De Coucy\n <br />\n Vital Ingredient, Charles De Vet\n <br />\n The Skull, Phillip K. Dick\n <br />\n The Eye of Allah, Charles W. Diffin\n <br />\n Tree, Spare that Woodman, Dave Dryfoos\n <br />\n Service With a Smile, Charles L. Fontenay\n <br />\n The Monster, Randall Garrett\n <br />\n The Last Supper, T.D. Hamm\n <br />\n The Passenger, Kenneth Harmon\n <br />\n Goodbye Dead Man!, Tom W. Harris\n <br />\n The Velvet Glove, Harry Harrison\n <br />\n Prelude to Space, Robert W. Haseltine\n <br />\n Tight Squeeze, Dean C. Ing\n <br />\n The Jameson Satellite, Neal R. Jones\n <br />\n A Matter of Importance, Murray Leinster\n <br />\n The One and the Many, Stephen Marlowe\n <br />\n Shepherd of the Planets, Alan Mattox\n <br />\n Planet of Dreams, James McKimmey\n <br />\n Stolen Brains, S.P. Meek\n <br />\n The Hoofer, Walter M. Miller Jr.\n <br />\n PRoblem, Alan Nourse\n <br />\n The Return, H. Beam Piper &amp; John G. McGuire\n <br />\n Time and Time Again, H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n The Day of the Boomer Dukes, Frederick Pohl\n <br />\n The Hohokam Dig, Theodore Pratt\n <br />\n Make Mine Homogenized, Rick Raphael\n <br />\n Revolution, Mack Reynolds\n <br />\n Spawn of the Comet, H. Thompson Rich\n <br />\n Runaway, Joseph Samachson\n <br />\n DP, Arthur Dekker Savage\n <br />\n Pirates of the Gorm, Nat Schachner\n <br />\n Gone Fishing, James H. Schmitz\n <br />\n Alien Offer, Al Sevcik\n <br />\n Forever, Robert Sheckley\n <br />\n The Hour of Battle, Robert Sheckley\n <br />\n The Happy Unfortunate, Robert Silverberg\n <br />\n The Street That Wasnâ€™t There, Clifford D. Simak &amp; Carl Jacobi\n <br />\n The Delegate from Venus, Henry Slesar\n <br />\n The Big Fix, George O. Smith\n <br />\n Vortex Blaster, E.E. â€œDocâ€ Smith\n <br />\n The Planet of Dread, R.F. Starzl\n <br />\n Sweet Their Blood and Sticky, Albert F. Teichner\n <br />\n Homesick, Lyn Venable\n <br />\n The Meteor Girl, Jack Williamson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/444'),
(19073, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume III: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n his Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty short stories by more than forty masters of science fiction. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, Murray Leinster, Walter M. Miller, Jr., H. Beam Piper, Clifford Simak, Robert Silverberg, Jack Williamson, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Contents:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Man Who Came Early, Poul Anderson\n <br />\n The Cuckoo Clock, Wesley Barefoot\n <br />\n Zen, Jerome Bixby\n <br />\n Say Hello for Me, Frank Coggins\n <br />\n The Guardians, Irving Cox\n <br />\n Martians Never Die, Lucius Daniel\n <br />\n Foundling on Venus, John and Dorothy De Coucy\n <br />\n Vital Ingredient, Charles De Vet\n <br />\n The Skull, Phillip K. Dick\n <br />\n The Eye of Allah, Charles W. Diffin\n <br />\n Tree, Spare that Woodman, Dave Dryfoos\n <br />\n Service With a Smile, Charles L. Fontenay\n <br />\n The Monster, Randall Garrett\n <br />\n The Last Supper, T.D. Hamm\n <br />\n The Passenger, Kenneth Harmon\n <br />\n Goodbye Dead Man!, Tom W. Harris\n <br />\n The Velvet Glove, Harry Harrison\n <br />\n Prelude to Space, Robert W. Haseltine\n <br />\n Tight Squeeze, Dean C. Ing\n <br />\n The Jameson Satellite, Neal R. Jones\n <br />\n A Matter of Importance, Murray Leinster\n <br />\n The One and the Many, Stephen Marlowe\n <br />\n Shepherd of the Planets, Alan Mattox\n <br />\n Planet of Dreams, James McKimmey\n <br />\n Stolen Brains, S.P. Meek\n <br />\n The Hoofer, Walter M. Miller Jr.\n <br />\n PRoblem, Alan Nourse\n <br />\n The Return, H. Beam Piper &amp; John G. McGuire\n <br />\n Time and Time Again, H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n The Day of the Boomer Dukes, Frederick Pohl\n <br />\n The Hohokam Dig, Theodore Pratt\n <br />\n Make Mine Homogenized, Rick Raphael\n <br />\n Revolution, Mack Reynolds\n <br />\n Spawn of the Comet, H. Thompson Rich\n <br />\n Runaway, Joseph Samachson\n <br />\n DP, Arthur Dekker Savage\n <br />\n Pirates of the Gorm, Nat Schachner\n <br />\n Gone Fishing, James H. Schmitz\n <br />\n Alien Offer, Al Sevcik\n <br />\n Forever, Robert Sheckley\n <br />\n The Hour of Battle, Robert Sheckley\n <br />\n The Happy Unfortunate, Robert Silverberg\n <br />\n The Street That Wasnâ€™t There, Clifford D. Simak &amp; Carl Jacobi\n <br />\n The Delegate from Venus, Henry Slesar\n <br />\n The Big Fix, George O. Smith\n <br />\n Vortex Blaster, E.E. â€œDocâ€ Smith\n <br />\n The Planet of Dread, R.F. Starzl\n <br />\n Sweet Their Blood and Sticky, Albert F. Teichner\n <br />\n Homesick, Lyn Venable\n <br />\n The Meteor Girl, Jack Williamson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13142'),
(19074, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume III: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n his Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty short stories by more than forty masters of science fiction. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, Murray Leinster, Walter M. Miller, Jr., H. Beam Piper, Clifford Simak, Robert Silverberg, Jack Williamson, and many others. This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents: The Man Who Came Early, Poul Anderson The Cuckoo Clock, Wesley Barefoot Zen, Jerome Bixby Say Hello for Me, Frank Coggins The Guardians, Irving Cox Martians Never Die, Lucius Daniel Foundling on Venus, John and Dorothy De Coucy Vital Ingredient, Charles De Vet The Skull, Phillip K. Dick The Eye of Allah, Charles W. Diffin Tree, Spare that Woodman, Dave Dryfoos Service With a Smile, Charles L. Fontenay The Monster, Randall Garrett The Last Supper, T.D. Hamm The Passenger, Kenneth Harmon Goodbye Dead Man!, Tom W. Harris The Velvet Glove, Harry Harrison Prelude to Space, Robert W. Haseltine Tight Squeeze, Dean C. Ing The Jameson Satellite, Neal R. Jones A Matter of Importance, Murray Leinster The One and the Many, Stephen Marlowe Shepherd of the Planets, Alan Mattox Planet of Dreams, James McKimmey Stolen Brains, S.P. Meek The Hoofer, Walter M. Miller Jr. PRoblem, Alan Nourse The Return, H. Beam Piper &amp; John G. McGuire Time and Time Again, H. Beam Piper The Day of the Boomer Dukes, Frederick Pohl The Hohokam Dig, Theodore Pratt Make Mine Homogenized, Rick Raphael Revolution, Mack Reynolds Spawn of the Comet, H. Thompson Rich Runaway, Joseph Samachson DP, Arthur Dekker Savage Pirates of the Gorm, Nat Schachner Gone Fishing, James H. Schmitz Alien Offer, Al Sevcik Forever, Robert Sheckley The Hour of Battle, Robert Sheckley The Happy Unfortunate, Robert Silverberg The Street That Wasnâ€™t There, Clifford D. Simak &amp; Carl Jacobi The Delegate from Venus, Henry Slesar The Big Fix, George O. Smith Vortex Blaster, E.E. â€œDocâ€ Smith The Planet of Dread, R.F. Starzl Sweet Their Blood and Sticky, Albert F. Teichner Homesick, Lyn Venable The Meteor Girl, Jack Williamson\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24563'),
(19075, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume IV: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description\n <br />\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by fifty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, Frank Herbert, Murray Leinster, H. Beam Piper, Robert Silverberg, Algis Budrys, Fritz Leiber, Edmond Hamilton, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Contents\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE VALOR OF CAPPEN VARRA, by Poul Anderson\n <br />\n THE ISSAHAR ARTIFACTS, by Jesse Franklin Bone\n <br />\n EARTHMEN BEARING GIFTS, by Fredric Brown\n <br />\n CITADEL, by Algis Budrys\n <br />\n SENSE FROM THOUGHT DIVIDE, by Mark Clifton\n <br />\n ALARM CLOCK, by Everett B. Cole\n <br />\n THE SCALPEL OF DOOM, by Ray Cummings\n <br />\n THE CRYSTAL CRYPT, by Philip K. Dick\n <br />\n DISQUALIFIED, by Charles L. Fontenay\n <br />\n A TRANSMUTATION OF MUDDLES, by H. B. Fyfe\n <br />\n A SPACESHIP NAMED McGUIRE, by Randall Garrett\n <br />\n AND DEVIOUS THE LINE OF DUTY, by Tom Godwin\n <br />\n THE GOLDEN JUDGE, by Nathaniel Gordon\n <br />\n THE WORLD OF THE CRYSTAL CITIES, by George Griffith\n <br />\n RAIDERS INVISIBLE, by D. W. Hall\n <br />\n THE MAN WHO EVOLVED, by Edmond Hamilton\n <br />\n THE UNDERSEA TUBE, by L. Taylor Hansen\n <br />\n NAVY DAY, by Harry Harrison\n <br />\n THE BEGINNING, by Henry Hasse\n <br />\n OPERATION HAYSTACK, by Frank Herbert\n <br />\n I''LL KILL YOU TOMORROW, by Helen Huber\n <br />\n THE LONG VOYAGE, by Carl Jacobi\n <br />\n THE MAN WHO PLAYED TO LOSE, by Laurence Mark Janifer\n <br />\n THE GREAT GRAY PLAGUE, by Raymond F. Jones\n <br />\n THE PLAGUE, by Teddy Keller\n <br />\n THE ADVENTURER, by C. M. Kornbluth\n <br />\n GREYLORN, by Keith Laumer\n <br />\n THE CREATURE FROM CLEVELAND DEPTHS, by Fritz Leiber\n <br />\n ATTENTION SAINT PATRICK, by Murray Leinster\n <br />\n THE CALM MAN, by Frank Belknap Long\n <br />\n A PLACE IN THE SUN, by Stephen Marlowe\n <br />\n PIPE OF PEACE, by James McKimmey, Jr.\n <br />\n B. C. 30,000, by S. P. Meek\n <br />\n ALL CATS ARE GRAY, by Andre Norton\n <br />\n BEAR TRAP, by Alan E. Nourse\n <br />\n CROSSROADS OF DESTINY, by H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n THE THIRST QUENCHERS, by Rick Raphael\n <br />\n COMBAT, by Mack Reynolds\n <br />\n DEAD MAN''S PLANET, by Joseph Samachson\n <br />\n TREES ARE WHERE YOU FIND THEM, by Arthur Dekker Savage\n <br />\n AN INCIDENT ON ROUTE 12, by James H. Schmitz\n <br />\n SURVIVAL TACTICS, by Al Sevcik\n <br />\n MINOR DETAIL, by Jack Sharkey\n <br />\n RESURRECTION, by Robert J. Shea\n <br />\n THE LEECH, by Robert Sheckley\n <br />\n THE CLEAN AND WHOLESOME LAND, by Ralph Sholto\n <br />\n POSTMARK GANYMEDE, By Robert Silverberg\n <br />\n THE MOST SENTIMENTAL MAN, by Evelyn E. Smith\n <br />\n SUBJECTIVITY, by Norman Spinrad\n <br />\n IN THE ORBIT OF SATURN, by R. F. Starzl\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/448'),
(19076, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume IV: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description\n <br />\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by fifty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, Frank Herbert, Murray Leinster, H. Beam Piper, Robert Silverberg, Algis Budrys, Fritz Leiber, Edmond Hamilton, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n Contents\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n THE VALOR OF CAPPEN VARRA, by Poul Anderson\n <br />\n THE ISSAHAR ARTIFACTS, by Jesse Franklin Bone\n <br />\n EARTHMEN BEARING GIFTS, by Fredric Brown\n <br />\n CITADEL, by Algis Budrys\n <br />\n SENSE FROM THOUGHT DIVIDE, by Mark Clifton\n <br />\n ALARM CLOCK, by Everett B. Cole\n <br />\n THE SCALPEL OF DOOM, by Ray Cummings\n <br />\n THE CRYSTAL CRYPT, by Philip K. Dick\n <br />\n DISQUALIFIED, by Charles L. Fontenay\n <br />\n A TRANSMUTATION OF MUDDLES, by H. B. Fyfe\n <br />\n A SPACESHIP NAMED McGUIRE, by Randall Garrett\n <br />\n AND DEVIOUS THE LINE OF DUTY, by Tom Godwin\n <br />\n THE GOLDEN JUDGE, by Nathaniel Gordon\n <br />\n THE WORLD OF THE CRYSTAL CITIES, by George Griffith\n <br />\n RAIDERS INVISIBLE, by D. W. Hall\n <br />\n THE MAN WHO EVOLVED, by Edmond Hamilton\n <br />\n THE UNDERSEA TUBE, by L. Taylor Hansen\n <br />\n NAVY DAY, by Harry Harrison\n <br />\n THE BEGINNING, by Henry Hasse\n <br />\n OPERATION HAYSTACK, by Frank Herbert\n <br />\n I''LL KILL YOU TOMORROW, by Helen Huber\n <br />\n THE LONG VOYAGE, by Carl Jacobi\n <br />\n THE MAN WHO PLAYED TO LOSE, by Laurence Mark Janifer\n <br />\n THE GREAT GRAY PLAGUE, by Raymond F. Jones\n <br />\n THE PLAGUE, by Teddy Keller\n <br />\n THE ADVENTURER, by C. M. Kornbluth\n <br />\n GREYLORN, by Keith Laumer\n <br />\n THE CREATURE FROM CLEVELAND DEPTHS, by Fritz Leiber\n <br />\n ATTENTION SAINT PATRICK, by Murray Leinster\n <br />\n THE CALM MAN, by Frank Belknap Long\n <br />\n A PLACE IN THE SUN, by Stephen Marlowe\n <br />\n PIPE OF PEACE, by James McKimmey, Jr.\n <br />\n B. C. 30,000, by S. P. Meek\n <br />\n ALL CATS ARE GRAY, by Andre Norton\n <br />\n BEAR TRAP, by Alan E. Nourse\n <br />\n CROSSROADS OF DESTINY, by H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n THE THIRST QUENCHERS, by Rick Raphael\n <br />\n COMBAT, by Mack Reynolds\n <br />\n DEAD MAN''S PLANET, by Joseph Samachson\n <br />\n TREES ARE WHERE YOU FIND THEM, by Arthur Dekker Savage\n <br />\n AN INCIDENT ON ROUTE 12, by James H. Schmitz\n <br />\n SURVIVAL TACTICS, by Al Sevcik\n <br />\n MINOR DETAIL, by Jack Sharkey\n <br />\n RESURRECTION, by Robert J. Shea\n <br />\n THE LEECH, by Robert Sheckley\n <br />\n THE CLEAN AND WHOLESOME LAND, by Ralph Sholto\n <br />\n POSTMARK GANYMEDE, By Robert Silverberg\n <br />\n THE MOST SENTIMENTAL MAN, by Evelyn E. Smith\n <br />\n SUBJECTIVITY, by Norman Spinrad\n <br />\n IN THE ORBIT OF SATURN, by R. F. Starzl\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13145'),
(19077, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume IV: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by fifty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, Frank Herbert, Murray Leinster, H. Beam Piper, Robert Silverberg, Algis Budrys, Fritz Leiber, Edmond Hamilton, and many others. This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents THE VALOR OF CAPPEN VARRA, by Poul Anderson THE ISSAHAR ARTIFACTS, by Jesse Franklin Bone EARTHMEN BEARING GIFTS, by Fredric Brown CITADEL, by Algis Budrys SENSE FROM THOUGHT DIVIDE, by Mark Clifton ALARM CLOCK, by Everett B. Cole THE SCALPEL OF DOOM, by Ray Cummings THE CRYSTAL CRYPT, by Philip K. Dick DISQUALIFIED, by Charles L. Fontenay A TRANSMUTATION OF MUDDLES, by H. B. Fyfe A SPACESHIP NAMED McGUIRE, by Randall Garrett AND DEVIOUS THE LINE OF DUTY, by Tom Godwin THE GOLDEN JUDGE, by Nathaniel Gordon THE WORLD OF THE CRYSTAL CITIES, by George Griffith RAIDERS INVISIBLE, by D. W. Hall THE MAN WHO EVOLVED, by Edmond Hamilton THE UNDERSEA TUBE, by L. Taylor Hansen NAVY DAY, by Harry Harrison THE BEGINNING, by Henry Hasse OPERATION HAYSTACK, by Frank Herbert I''LL KILL YOU TOMORROW, by Helen Huber THE LONG VOYAGE, by Carl Jacobi THE MAN WHO PLAYED TO LOSE, by Laurence Mark Janifer THE GREAT GRAY PLAGUE, by Raymond F. Jones THE PLAGUE, by Teddy Keller THE ADVENTURER, by C. M. Kornbluth GREYLORN, by Keith Laumer THE CREATURE FROM CLEVELAND DEPTHS, by Fritz Leiber ATTENTION SAINT PATRICK, by Murray Leinster THE CALM MAN, by Frank Belknap Long A PLACE IN THE SUN, by Stephen Marlowe PIPE OF PEACE, by James McKimmey, Jr. B. C. 30,000, by S. P. Meek ALL CATS ARE GRAY, by Andre Norton BEAR TRAP, by Alan E. Nourse CROSSROADS OF DESTINY, by H. Beam Piper THE THIRST QUENCHERS, by Rick Raphael COMBAT, by Mack Reynolds DEAD MAN''S PLANET, by Joseph Samachson TREES ARE WHERE YOU FIND THEM, by Arthur Dekker Savage AN INCIDENT ON ROUTE 12, by James H. Schmitz SURVIVAL TACTICS, by Al Sevcik MINOR DETAIL, by Jack Sharkey RESURRECTION, by Robert J. Shea THE LEECH, by Robert Sheckley THE CLEAN AND WHOLESOME LAND, by Ralph Sholto POSTMARK GANYMEDE, By Robert Silverberg THE MOST SENTIMENTAL MAN, by Evelyn E. Smith SUBJECTIVITY, by Norman Spinrad IN THE ORBIT OF SATURN, by R. F. Starzl\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24565'),
(19078, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume IX: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  roduct Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Harl Vincent, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION\n  <br />\n  By Poul Anderson\n  <br />\n  THE MIND MASTER\n  <br />\n  by Arthur J. Burks\n  <br />\n  THE ULTIMATE WEAPON\n  <br />\n  by John Wood Campbell\n  <br />\n  TO REMEMBER CHARLIE BY\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  LET ''EM BREATHE SPACE!\n  <br />\n  By Lester Del Rey\n  <br />\n  THE DEMI-URGE\n  <br />\n  By Thomas M. Disch\n  <br />\n  PHARAOH''S BROKER\n  <br />\n  By Ellsworth Douglass\n  <br />\n  THE MAN WHO STAKED THE STARS\n  <br />\n  By Charles Dye\n  <br />\n  THE TALKATIVE TREE\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  CUM GRANO SALIS\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE DARK WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Henry Kuttner\n  <br />\n  THE INVADERS\n  <br />\n  By Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE SOLAR MAGNET\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE COFFIN CURE\n  <br />\n  by Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  THE DARK DOOR\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  NAUDSONC\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  OMNILINGUAL\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  DANGER\n  <br />\n  by Fletcher Pratt and Irvin Lester\n  <br />\n  MR. CHIPFELLOW''S JACKPOT\n  <br />\n  by Dick Purcell\n  <br />\n  THE GREEN BeRET\n  <br />\n  By Tom Purdom\n  <br />\n  A FILBERT IS A NUT\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  MEDAL OF HONOR\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  MERCENARY\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  THE DEATH-CLOUD\n  <br />\n  By Nat Schachner and Arthur L. Zagat\n  <br />\n  WATCH THE SKY\n  <br />\n  by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  DEATH WISH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  WARRIOR RACE\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  TWO PLUS TWO MAKES CRAZY\n  <br />\n  By Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  THE SUCCESS MACHINE\n  <br />\n  By Henry Slesar\n  <br />\n  HELPFULLY YOURS\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  NARAKAN RIFLES, ABOUT FACE!\n  <br />\n  By Jan Smith\n  <br />\n  STOP LOOK AnD DIG\n  <br />\n  By George O. Smith\n  <br />\n  THE VENUS TRAP\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  THE HOUSE FROM NOWHERE\n  <br />\n  by Arthur G. Stangland\n  <br />\n  INSIDE JOHN BARTH\n  <br />\n  By William W. Stuart\n  <br />\n  THE JUNKMAKERS\n  <br />\n  By Albert Teichner\n  <br />\n  HIGH DRAGON BUMP\n  <br />\n  By Don Thompson\n  <br />\n  LARSON''S LUCK\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  MARTIAN V. F. W.\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  SILVER DOME\n  <br />\n  By Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  STRANGE ALLIANCE\n  <br />\n  By Bryce Walton\n  <br />\n  THE IDEAL\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  The RISK PROFESSION\n  <br />\n  By Donald E. Westlake\n  <br />\n  TO MARS VIA THE MOON\n  <br />\n  By Mark Wicks\n  <br />\n  THE INHABITED\n  <br />\n  By Richard Wilson\n  <br />\n  THE VERY SECRET AGENT\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE GHOST WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  NO MOVING PARTS\n  <br />\n  By Murray F. Yaco\n  <br />\n  THE LANSON SCREEN\n  <br />\n  By Arthur Leo Zagat\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/449');
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(19079, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume IX: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  roduct Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Harl Vincent, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION\n  <br />\n  By Poul Anderson\n  <br />\n  THE MIND MASTER\n  <br />\n  by Arthur J. Burks\n  <br />\n  THE ULTIMATE WEAPON\n  <br />\n  by John Wood Campbell\n  <br />\n  TO REMEMBER CHARLIE BY\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  LET ''EM BREATHE SPACE!\n  <br />\n  By Lester Del Rey\n  <br />\n  THE DEMI-URGE\n  <br />\n  By Thomas M. Disch\n  <br />\n  PHARAOH''S BROKER\n  <br />\n  By Ellsworth Douglass\n  <br />\n  THE MAN WHO STAKED THE STARS\n  <br />\n  By Charles Dye\n  <br />\n  THE TALKATIVE TREE\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  CUM GRANO SALIS\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE DARK WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Henry Kuttner\n  <br />\n  THE INVADERS\n  <br />\n  By Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE SOLAR MAGNET\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE COFFIN CURE\n  <br />\n  by Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  THE DARK DOOR\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  NAUDSONC\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  OMNILINGUAL\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  DANGER\n  <br />\n  by Fletcher Pratt and Irvin Lester\n  <br />\n  MR. CHIPFELLOW''S JACKPOT\n  <br />\n  by Dick Purcell\n  <br />\n  THE GREEN BeRET\n  <br />\n  By Tom Purdom\n  <br />\n  A FILBERT IS A NUT\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  MEDAL OF HONOR\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  MERCENARY\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  THE DEATH-CLOUD\n  <br />\n  By Nat Schachner and Arthur L. Zagat\n  <br />\n  WATCH THE SKY\n  <br />\n  by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  DEATH WISH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  WARRIOR RACE\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  TWO PLUS TWO MAKES CRAZY\n  <br />\n  By Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  THE SUCCESS MACHINE\n  <br />\n  By Henry Slesar\n  <br />\n  HELPFULLY YOURS\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  NARAKAN RIFLES, ABOUT FACE!\n  <br />\n  By Jan Smith\n  <br />\n  STOP LOOK AnD DIG\n  <br />\n  By George O. Smith\n  <br />\n  THE VENUS TRAP\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  THE HOUSE FROM NOWHERE\n  <br />\n  by Arthur G. Stangland\n  <br />\n  INSIDE JOHN BARTH\n  <br />\n  By William W. Stuart\n  <br />\n  THE JUNKMAKERS\n  <br />\n  By Albert Teichner\n  <br />\n  HIGH DRAGON BUMP\n  <br />\n  By Don Thompson\n  <br />\n  LARSON''S LUCK\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  MARTIAN V. F. W.\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  SILVER DOME\n  <br />\n  By Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  STRANGE ALLIANCE\n  <br />\n  By Bryce Walton\n  <br />\n  THE IDEAL\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  The RISK PROFESSION\n  <br />\n  By Donald E. Westlake\n  <br />\n  TO MARS VIA THE MOON\n  <br />\n  By Mark Wicks\n  <br />\n  THE INHABITED\n  <br />\n  By Richard Wilson\n  <br />\n  THE VERY SECRET AGENT\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE GHOST WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  NO MOVING PARTS\n  <br />\n  By Murray F. Yaco\n  <br />\n  THE LANSON SCREEN\n  <br />\n  By Arthur Leo Zagat\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13144'),
(19080, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume V: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description\n <br />\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, H. Beam Piper, Edmund Hamilton, Paul Ernst, Fredric Brown, Randall Garrett, Jack Williamson, Stanley Weinbaum, C.M. Kornbluth, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Contents:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n OPERATION EARTHWORM by Joe Archibald\n <br />\n AGGRAVATION OF ELMER by Robert Andrew Arthur\n <br />\n LAST RESORT by Stephen Bartholomew\n <br />\n WHERE THERE''S HOPE, by Jerome Bixby\n <br />\n ZERO HOUR by Alexander Blade\n <br />\n LIGHTER THAN YOU THINK by Nelson Bond\n <br />\n A PRIZE FOR EDIE by Jesse Franklin Bone\n <br />\n THE EINSTEIN SEE-SAW by Miles John Breuer\n <br />\n HALL OF MIRRORS by Fredric Brown\n <br />\n WEAK ON SQUARE ROOTS by Russell Burton\n <br />\n HARD GUY by H. B. Carleton\n <br />\n THE PERFECTIONISTS by Arnold Castle\n <br />\n COMPETITION by James Causey\n <br />\n FINAL WEAPON by Everett B. Cole\n <br />\n BEYOND THE VANISHING POINT by Ray Cummings\n <br />\n THE GUN by Philip K. Dick\n <br />\n MAROONED UNDER THE SEA by Paul Ernst\n <br />\n THE GIFT BEARER by Charles L. Fontenay\n <br />\n EXILE by H. B. Fyfe\n <br />\n AFTER A FEW WORDS by Randall Garrett\n <br />\n THE BLUFF OF THE HAWK by Anthony Gilmore\n <br />\n CRY FROM A FAR PLANET by Tom Godwin\n <br />\n THE SECOND SATELLITE by Edmond Hamilton\n <br />\n TOY SHOP by Harry Harrison\n <br />\n THE ALTAR AT MIDNIGHT by C.M. Kornbluth\n <br />\n ALL DAY SEPTEMBER by Roger Kuykendall\n <br />\n JOIN OUR GANG? by Sterling E. Lanier\n <br />\n DISTURBING SUN by Philip Latham\n <br />\n THE YILLIAN WAY by Keith Laumer\n <br />\n ONE MARTIAN AFTERNOON by Tom Leahy\n <br />\n JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT by William Lee\n <br />\n A BOTTLE OF OLD WINE by Richard O. Lewis\n <br />\n DAUGHTERS OF DOOM by Herbert Livingston\n <br />\n G-R-R-R...! by Robert Donald Locke\n <br />\n NEXT DOOR, NEXT WORLD by Robert Donald Locke\n <br />\n THE BIG TOMORROW by Paul Lohrman\n <br />\n THE MAN FROM TIME by Frank Belknap Long\n <br />\n WHEN I GROW UP by Richard E. Lowe\n <br />\n AND ALL THE EARTH A GRAVE by C.C. MacApp\n <br />\n BLACK EYES AND THE DAILY GRIND by Stephen Marlowe\n <br />\n PUSHBUTTON WAR by Joseph P. Martino\n <br />\n REX EX MACHINA by Frederic Max\n <br />\n DEAREST by H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n SORRY: WRONG DIMENSION by Ross Rocklynne\n <br />\n THE SECOND VOICE by Mann Rubin\n <br />\n CREATURES OF VIBRATION by Harl Vincent\n <br />\n A MARTIAN ODYSSEY by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n <br />\n THE LAKE OF LIGHT by Jack Williamson\n <br />\n UNDER ARCTIC ICE by H.G. Winter\n <br />\n LONESOME HEARTS by Russ Winterbotham\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/306'),
(19081, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume V: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description\n <br />\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Included within this work are stories by Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, H. Beam Piper, Edmund Hamilton, Paul Ernst, Fredric Brown, Randall Garrett, Jack Williamson, Stanley Weinbaum, C.M. Kornbluth, and many others.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Contents:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n OPERATION EARTHWORM by Joe Archibald\n <br />\n AGGRAVATION OF ELMER by Robert Andrew Arthur\n <br />\n LAST RESORT by Stephen Bartholomew\n <br />\n WHERE THERE''S HOPE, by Jerome Bixby\n <br />\n ZERO HOUR by Alexander Blade\n <br />\n LIGHTER THAN YOU THINK by Nelson Bond\n <br />\n A PRIZE FOR EDIE by Jesse Franklin Bone\n <br />\n THE EINSTEIN SEE-SAW by Miles John Breuer\n <br />\n HALL OF MIRRORS by Fredric Brown\n <br />\n WEAK ON SQUARE ROOTS by Russell Burton\n <br />\n HARD GUY by H. B. Carleton\n <br />\n THE PERFECTIONISTS by Arnold Castle\n <br />\n COMPETITION by James Causey\n <br />\n FINAL WEAPON by Everett B. Cole\n <br />\n BEYOND THE VANISHING POINT by Ray Cummings\n <br />\n THE GUN by Philip K. Dick\n <br />\n MAROONED UNDER THE SEA by Paul Ernst\n <br />\n THE GIFT BEARER by Charles L. Fontenay\n <br />\n EXILE by H. B. Fyfe\n <br />\n AFTER A FEW WORDS by Randall Garrett\n <br />\n THE BLUFF OF THE HAWK by Anthony Gilmore\n <br />\n CRY FROM A FAR PLANET by Tom Godwin\n <br />\n THE SECOND SATELLITE by Edmond Hamilton\n <br />\n TOY SHOP by Harry Harrison\n <br />\n THE ALTAR AT MIDNIGHT by C.M. Kornbluth\n <br />\n ALL DAY SEPTEMBER by Roger Kuykendall\n <br />\n JOIN OUR GANG? by Sterling E. Lanier\n <br />\n DISTURBING SUN by Philip Latham\n <br />\n THE YILLIAN WAY by Keith Laumer\n <br />\n ONE MARTIAN AFTERNOON by Tom Leahy\n <br />\n JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT by William Lee\n <br />\n A BOTTLE OF OLD WINE by Richard O. Lewis\n <br />\n DAUGHTERS OF DOOM by Herbert Livingston\n <br />\n G-R-R-R...! by Robert Donald Locke\n <br />\n NEXT DOOR, NEXT WORLD by Robert Donald Locke\n <br />\n THE BIG TOMORROW by Paul Lohrman\n <br />\n THE MAN FROM TIME by Frank Belknap Long\n <br />\n WHEN I GROW UP by Richard E. Lowe\n <br />\n AND ALL THE EARTH A GRAVE by C.C. MacApp\n <br />\n BLACK EYES AND THE DAILY GRIND by Stephen Marlowe\n <br />\n PUSHBUTTON WAR by Joseph P. Martino\n <br />\n REX EX MACHINA by Frederic Max\n <br />\n DEAREST by H. Beam Piper\n <br />\n SORRY: WRONG DIMENSION by Ross Rocklynne\n <br />\n THE SECOND VOICE by Mann Rubin\n <br />\n CREATURES OF VIBRATION by Harl Vincent\n <br />\n A MARTIAN ODYSSEY by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n <br />\n THE LAKE OF LIGHT by Jack Williamson\n <br />\n UNDER ARCTIC ICE by H.G. Winter\n <br />\n LONESOME HEARTS by Russ Winterbotham\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13154'),
(19082, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume V: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Product Description This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, H. Beam Piper, Edmund Hamilton, Paul Ernst, Fredric Brown, Randall Garrett, Jack Williamson, Stanley Weinbaum, C.M. Kornbluth, and many others. This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents: OPERATION EARTHWORM by Joe Archibald AGGRAVATION OF ELMER by Robert Andrew Arthur LAST RESORT by Stephen Bartholomew WHERE THERE''S HOPE, by Jerome Bixby ZERO HOUR by Alexander Blade LIGHTER THAN YOU THINK by Nelson Bond A PRIZE FOR EDIE by Jesse Franklin Bone THE EINSTEIN SEE-SAW by Miles John Breuer HALL OF MIRRORS by Fredric Brown WEAK ON SQUARE ROOTS by Russell Burton HARD GUY by H. B. Carleton THE PERFECTIONISTS by Arnold Castle COMPETITION by James Causey FINAL WEAPON by Everett B. Cole BEYOND THE VANISHING POINT by Ray Cummings THE GUN by Philip K. Dick MAROONED UNDER THE SEA by Paul Ernst THE GIFT BEARER by Charles L. Fontenay EXILE by H. B. Fyfe AFTER A FEW WORDS by Randall Garrett THE BLUFF OF THE HAWK by Anthony Gilmore CRY FROM A FAR PLANET by Tom Godwin THE SECOND SATELLITE by Edmond Hamilton TOY SHOP by Harry Harrison THE ALTAR AT MIDNIGHT by C.M. Kornbluth ALL DAY SEPTEMBER by Roger Kuykendall JOIN OUR GANG? by Sterling E. Lanier DISTURBING SUN by Philip Latham THE YILLIAN WAY by Keith Laumer ONE MARTIAN AFTERNOON by Tom Leahy JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT by William Lee A BOTTLE OF OLD WINE by Richard O. Lewis DAUGHTERS OF DOOM by Herbert Livingston G-R-R-R...! by Robert Donald Locke NEXT DOOR, NEXT WORLD by Robert Donald Locke THE BIG TOMORROW by Paul Lohrman THE MAN FROM TIME by Frank Belknap Long WHEN I GROW UP by Richard E. Lowe AND ALL THE EARTH A GRAVE by C.C. MacApp BLACK EYES AND THE DAILY GRIND by Stephen Marlowe PUSHBUTTON WAR by Joseph P. Martino REX EX MACHINA by Frederic Max DEAREST by H. Beam Piper SORRY: WRONG DIMENSION by Ross Rocklynne THE SECOND VOICE by Mann Rubin CREATURES OF VIBRATION by Harl Vincent A MARTIAN ODYSSEY by Stanley G. Weinbaum THE LAKE OF LIGHT by Jack Williamson UNDER ARCTIC ICE by H.G. Winter LONESOME HEARTS by Russ Winterbotham\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24562'),
(19083, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume VI: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Included within this work are stories by Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, H. Beam Piper,Paul Ernst, Fredric Brown, Randall Garrett, Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Marlowe, Harl Vincent, and many others.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Contents:\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   HAPPY ENDING by Mack Reynolds and Fredric Brown\n   <br />\n   TEETHING RING by James Causey\n   <br />\n   MILLENNIUM by Everett B. Cole\n   <br />\n   BEYOND THE DOOR by Philip K. Dick\n   <br />\n   THE SILK AND THE SONG by Charles L. Fontenay\n   <br />\n   FLAMEDOWN by H. B. Fyfe\n   <br />\n   ANCHORITE by Randall Garrett\n   <br />\n   THE AFFAIR OF THE BRAINS by Anthony Gilmore\n   <br />\n   WE''RE FRIENDS, NOW by Henry Hasse\n   <br />\n   CHARLEY de MILO by Laurence Mark Janifer\n   <br />\n   THE FIRST ONE by Herbert D. Kastle\n   <br />\n   IT COULD BE ANYTHING by Keith Laumer\n   <br />\n   WHAT''S HE DOING IN THERE? By Fritz Leiber\n   <br />\n   EVIDENCE by Murray Leinster\n   <br />\n   THE MAN THE MARTIANS MADE by Frank Belknap Long\n   <br />\n   MY SHIPMATEâ€”COLUMBUS by Stephen Marlowe\n   <br />\n   COLD LIGHT by S. P. Meek\n   <br />\n   CIRCUS by Alan E. Nourse\n   <br />\n   FLIGHT FROM TOMORROW by H. Beam Piper\n   <br />\n   EXPEDITER by Mack Reynolds\n   <br />\n   HAM SANDWICH by James H. Schmitz\n   <br />\n   THE HELPFUL ROBOTS by Robert J. Shea\n   <br />\n   BESIDE STILL WATERS by Robert Sheckley\n   <br />\n   THE HUNTED HEROES by Robert Silverberg\n   <br />\n   THE SPACE ROVER by Edwin K. Sloat\n   <br />\n   BENEFACTOR by George H. Smith\n   <br />\n   THE MARTIAN CABAL by R. F. Starzl\n   <br />\n   THE REAL HARD SELL by William W. Stuart\n   <br />\n   THE BLUE GERM by Martin Swayne\n   <br />\n   FAITHFULLY YOURS by Lou Tabakow\n   <br />\n   VALLEY OF THE CROEN by Lee Tarbell\n   <br />\n   CEREBRUM by Albert Teichner\n   <br />\n   THE MAN WHO ROCKED THE EARTH by Arthur TrainÂ \n   <br />\n   WANTED: 7 FEARLESS ENGINEERS! by Frederick Orlin Tremaine\n   <br />\n   EQUATION OF DOOM by Gerald Vance\n   <br />\n   THE OBSERVERS by G. L. Vandenburg\n   <br />\n   GROVE OF THE UNBORN by Lyn Venable\n   <br />\n   GRAY DENIM by Harl Vincent\n   <br />\n   WANDERER OF INFINITY by Harl Vincent\n   <br />\n   SHOCK ABSORBER by E. G. Von Wald\n   <br />\n   The 4-D DOODLER by Graph Waldeyer\n   <br />\n   A MATTER OF PROPORTION by Anne Walker\n   <br />\n   BOLDEN''S PETS by F. L. Wallace\n   <br />\n   RAIDERS OF THE UNIVERSES by Donald Wandrei\n   <br />\n   ATTRITION by Jim Wannamaker\n   <br />\n   THE HEADS OF APEX by George Henry Weiss\n   <br />\n   THE INHABITED by Richard Wilson\n   <br />\n   LONGEVITY by Therese Windser\n   <br />\n   THE MINUS WOMAN by Russ Winterbotham\n   <br />\n   THE SERVANT PROBLEM by Robert J. Young\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/305'),
(19084, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume VI: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Included within this work are stories by Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, H. Beam Piper,Paul Ernst, Fredric Brown, Randall Garrett, Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Marlowe, Harl Vincent, and many others.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Contents:\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   HAPPY ENDING by Mack Reynolds and Fredric Brown\n   <br />\n   TEETHING RING by James Causey\n   <br />\n   MILLENNIUM by Everett B. Cole\n   <br />\n   BEYOND THE DOOR by Philip K. Dick\n   <br />\n   THE SILK AND THE SONG by Charles L. Fontenay\n   <br />\n   FLAMEDOWN by H. B. Fyfe\n   <br />\n   ANCHORITE by Randall Garrett\n   <br />\n   THE AFFAIR OF THE BRAINS by Anthony Gilmore\n   <br />\n   WE''RE FRIENDS, NOW by Henry Hasse\n   <br />\n   CHARLEY de MILO by Laurence Mark Janifer\n   <br />\n   THE FIRST ONE by Herbert D. Kastle\n   <br />\n   IT COULD BE ANYTHING by Keith Laumer\n   <br />\n   WHAT''S HE DOING IN THERE? By Fritz Leiber\n   <br />\n   EVIDENCE by Murray Leinster\n   <br />\n   THE MAN THE MARTIANS MADE by Frank Belknap Long\n   <br />\n   MY SHIPMATEâ€”COLUMBUS by Stephen Marlowe\n   <br />\n   COLD LIGHT by S. P. Meek\n   <br />\n   CIRCUS by Alan E. Nourse\n   <br />\n   FLIGHT FROM TOMORROW by H. Beam Piper\n   <br />\n   EXPEDITER by Mack Reynolds\n   <br />\n   HAM SANDWICH by James H. Schmitz\n   <br />\n   THE HELPFUL ROBOTS by Robert J. Shea\n   <br />\n   BESIDE STILL WATERS by Robert Sheckley\n   <br />\n   THE HUNTED HEROES by Robert Silverberg\n   <br />\n   THE SPACE ROVER by Edwin K. Sloat\n   <br />\n   BENEFACTOR by George H. Smith\n   <br />\n   THE MARTIAN CABAL by R. F. Starzl\n   <br />\n   THE REAL HARD SELL by William W. Stuart\n   <br />\n   THE BLUE GERM by Martin Swayne\n   <br />\n   FAITHFULLY YOURS by Lou Tabakow\n   <br />\n   VALLEY OF THE CROEN by Lee Tarbell\n   <br />\n   CEREBRUM by Albert Teichner\n   <br />\n   THE MAN WHO ROCKED THE EARTH by Arthur TrainÂ \n   <br />\n   WANTED: 7 FEARLESS ENGINEERS! by Frederick Orlin Tremaine\n   <br />\n   EQUATION OF DOOM by Gerald Vance\n   <br />\n   THE OBSERVERS by G. L. Vandenburg\n   <br />\n   GROVE OF THE UNBORN by Lyn Venable\n   <br />\n   GRAY DENIM by Harl Vincent\n   <br />\n   WANDERER OF INFINITY by Harl Vincent\n   <br />\n   SHOCK ABSORBER by E. G. Von Wald\n   <br />\n   The 4-D DOODLER by Graph Waldeyer\n   <br />\n   A MATTER OF PROPORTION by Anne Walker\n   <br />\n   BOLDEN''S PETS by F. L. Wallace\n   <br />\n   RAIDERS OF THE UNIVERSES by Donald Wandrei\n   <br />\n   ATTRITION by Jim Wannamaker\n   <br />\n   THE HEADS OF APEX by George Henry Weiss\n   <br />\n   THE INHABITED by Richard Wilson\n   <br />\n   LONGEVITY by Therese Windser\n   <br />\n   THE MINUS WOMAN by Russ Winterbotham\n   <br />\n   THE SERVANT PROBLEM by Robert J. Young\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13152'),
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(19086, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume VII: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Included within this work are stories by Randall Garrett, H. Beam Piper, Fredric Brown, Randall Garrett, Clifford D. Simak, Murray Leinster, Edmond Hamilton, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds and many others. This collection also includes the novellas THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES by Fritz Leiber and the classic story of time travel THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Contents:\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   THE BARBARIAN by Poul Anderson\n   <br />\n   TWO TIMER by Fredric Brown\n   <br />\n   FLIGHT THROUGH TOMORROW by Stanton Coblentz\n   <br />\n   THE PLAYERS by Everett B. Cole\n   <br />\n   THE SOUND OF SILENCE by Barbara Constant\n   <br />\n   EGOCENTRIC ORBIT by John Cory\n   <br />\n   A CHOICE OF MIRACLES by James A. Cox\n   <br />\n   TRADERâ€™S RISK by Roger Dee\n   <br />\n   DEAD WORLD by Jack Douglas\n   <br />\n   SHOW BUSINESS by Boyd Ellanby\n   <br />\n   DISOWNED by Victor Endersby\n   <br />\n   ONE OUT OF TEN by J. Anthony Ferlaine\n   <br />\n   THE CIRCUIT RIDERS by R. C. FitzPatrick\n   <br />\n   WIND by Charles L. Fontenay\n   <br />\n   THE FLYING CUSPIDORS by V. R. Francis\n   <br />\n   I LIKE MARTIAN MUSIC by Charles E. Fritch\n   <br />\n   IRRESISTIBLE WEAPON by H. B. Fyfe\n   <br />\n   SATELLITE SYSTEM by H. B. Fyfe\n   <br />\n   BELLY LAUGH by Randall Garrett\n   <br />\n   FIFTY PER CENT PROPHET by Randall Garrett\n   <br />\n   THE TENTACLES FROM BELOW by Anthony Gilmore\n   <br />\n   THE STARS, MY BROTHERS by Edmond Hamilton\n   <br />\n   IT''S A SMALL SOLAR SYSTEM by Allan Howard\n   <br />\n   MEX by Laurence Mark Janifer\n   <br />\n   THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES by Fritz Leiber\n   <br />\n   MORALE by Murray Leinster\n   <br />\n   SAND DOOM by Murray Leinster\n   <br />\n   THE SKY TRAP by Frank Belknap Long\n   <br />\n   POISONED AIR by S. P. Meek\n   <br />\n   THE BLACK LAMP by S. P. Meek\n   <br />\n   INFINITE INTRUDER by Alan E. Nourse\n   <br />\n   LETTER OF THE LAW by Alan E. Nourse\n   <br />\n   GENESIS by H. Beam Piper\n   <br />\n   GRAVEYARD OF DREAMS by H. Beam Piper\n   <br />\n   DOGFIGHTâ€”1973 by Mack Reynolds\n   <br />\n   FREEDOM by Mack Reynolds\n   <br />\n   NOVICE by James H. Schmitz\n   <br />\n   ONENESS by James H. Schmitz\n   <br />\n   THE DOPE ON MARS by Jack Sharkey\n   <br />\n   HELLHOUNDS OF THE COSMOS by Clifford D. Simak\n   <br />\n   DREAM TOWN by Henry Slesar\n   <br />\n   HEART by Henry Slesar\n   <br />\n   HISTORY REPEATS by George O. Smith\n   <br />\n   PYGMALION''S SPECTACLES by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n   <br />\n   THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells\n   <br />\n   THE TERROR FROM THE DEPTHS by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n   <br />\n   VAMPIRES OF SPACE by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n   <br />\n   UNSPECIALIST by Murray F. Yaco\n   <br />\n   STAR MOTHER by Robert F. Young\n   <br />\n   THE GREAT DOME ON MERCURY by Arthur L. Zagat\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/301'),
(19087, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume VII: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Included within this work are stories by Randall Garrett, H. Beam Piper, Fredric Brown, Randall Garrett, Clifford D. Simak, Murray Leinster, Edmond Hamilton, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds and many others. This collection also includes the novellas THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES by Fritz Leiber and the classic story of time travel THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Contents:\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   THE BARBARIAN by Poul Anderson\n   <br />\n   TWO TIMER by Fredric Brown\n   <br />\n   FLIGHT THROUGH TOMORROW by Stanton Coblentz\n   <br />\n   THE PLAYERS by Everett B. Cole\n   <br />\n   THE SOUND OF SILENCE by Barbara Constant\n   <br />\n   EGOCENTRIC ORBIT by John Cory\n   <br />\n   A CHOICE OF MIRACLES by James A. Cox\n   <br />\n   TRADERâ€™S RISK by Roger Dee\n   <br />\n   DEAD WORLD by Jack Douglas\n   <br />\n   SHOW BUSINESS by Boyd Ellanby\n   <br />\n   DISOWNED by Victor Endersby\n   <br />\n   ONE OUT OF TEN by J. Anthony Ferlaine\n   <br />\n   THE CIRCUIT RIDERS by R. C. FitzPatrick\n   <br />\n   WIND by Charles L. Fontenay\n   <br />\n   THE FLYING CUSPIDORS by V. R. Francis\n   <br />\n   I LIKE MARTIAN MUSIC by Charles E. Fritch\n   <br />\n   IRRESISTIBLE WEAPON by H. B. Fyfe\n   <br />\n   SATELLITE SYSTEM by H. B. Fyfe\n   <br />\n   BELLY LAUGH by Randall Garrett\n   <br />\n   FIFTY PER CENT PROPHET by Randall Garrett\n   <br />\n   THE TENTACLES FROM BELOW by Anthony Gilmore\n   <br />\n   THE STARS, MY BROTHERS by Edmond Hamilton\n   <br />\n   IT''S A SMALL SOLAR SYSTEM by Allan Howard\n   <br />\n   MEX by Laurence Mark Janifer\n   <br />\n   THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES by Fritz Leiber\n   <br />\n   MORALE by Murray Leinster\n   <br />\n   SAND DOOM by Murray Leinster\n   <br />\n   THE SKY TRAP by Frank Belknap Long\n   <br />\n   POISONED AIR by S. P. Meek\n   <br />\n   THE BLACK LAMP by S. P. Meek\n   <br />\n   INFINITE INTRUDER by Alan E. Nourse\n   <br />\n   LETTER OF THE LAW by Alan E. Nourse\n   <br />\n   GENESIS by H. Beam Piper\n   <br />\n   GRAVEYARD OF DREAMS by H. Beam Piper\n   <br />\n   DOGFIGHTâ€”1973 by Mack Reynolds\n   <br />\n   FREEDOM by Mack Reynolds\n   <br />\n   NOVICE by James H. Schmitz\n   <br />\n   ONENESS by James H. Schmitz\n   <br />\n   THE DOPE ON MARS by Jack Sharkey\n   <br />\n   HELLHOUNDS OF THE COSMOS by Clifford D. Simak\n   <br />\n   DREAM TOWN by Henry Slesar\n   <br />\n   HEART by Henry Slesar\n   <br />\n   HISTORY REPEATS by George O. Smith\n   <br />\n   PYGMALION''S SPECTACLES by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n   <br />\n   THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells\n   <br />\n   THE TERROR FROM THE DEPTHS by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n   <br />\n   VAMPIRES OF SPACE by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n   <br />\n   UNSPECIALIST by Murray F. Yaco\n   <br />\n   STAR MOTHER by Robert F. Young\n   <br />\n   THE GREAT DOME ON MERCURY by Arthur L. Zagat\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13148'),
(19088, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume VII: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Included within this work are stories by Randall Garrett, H. Beam Piper, Fredric Brown, Randall Garrett, Clifford D. Simak, Murray Leinster, Edmond Hamilton, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds and many others. This collection also includes the novellas THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES by Fritz Leiber and the classic story of time travel THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   Contents:\n   <br />\n   <br />\n   THE BARBARIAN by Poul Anderson\n   <br />\n   TWO TIMER by Fredric Brown\n   <br />\n   FLIGHT THROUGH TOMORROW by Stanton Coblentz\n   <br />\n   THE PLAYERS by Everett B. Cole\n   <br />\n   THE SOUND OF SILENCE by Barbara Constant\n   <br />\n   EGOCENTRIC ORBIT by John Cory\n   <br />\n   A CHOICE OF MIRACLES by James A. Cox\n   <br />\n   TRADERâ€™S RISK by Roger Dee\n   <br />\n   DEAD WORLD by Jack Douglas\n   <br />\n   SHOW BUSINESS by Boyd Ellanby\n   <br />\n   DISOWNED by Victor Endersby\n   <br />\n   ONE OUT OF TEN by J. Anthony Ferlaine\n   <br />\n   THE CIRCUIT RIDERS by R. C. FitzPatrick\n   <br />\n   WIND by Charles L. Fontenay\n   <br />\n   THE FLYING CUSPIDORS by V. R. Francis\n   <br />\n   I LIKE MARTIAN MUSIC by Charles E. Fritch\n   <br />\n   IRRESISTIBLE WEAPON by H. B. Fyfe\n   <br />\n   SATELLITE SYSTEM by H. B. Fyfe\n   <br />\n   BELLY LAUGH by Randall Garrett\n   <br />\n   FIFTY PER CENT PROPHET by Randall Garrett\n   <br />\n   THE TENTACLES FROM BELOW by Anthony Gilmore\n   <br />\n   THE STARS, MY BROTHERS by Edmond Hamilton\n   <br />\n   IT''S A SMALL SOLAR SYSTEM by Allan Howard\n   <br />\n   MEX by Laurence Mark Janifer\n   <br />\n   THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES by Fritz Leiber\n   <br />\n   MORALE by Murray Leinster\n   <br />\n   SAND DOOM by Murray Leinster\n   <br />\n   THE SKY TRAP by Frank Belknap Long\n   <br />\n   POISONED AIR by S. P. Meek\n   <br />\n   THE BLACK LAMP by S. P. Meek\n   <br />\n   INFINITE INTRUDER by Alan E. Nourse\n   <br />\n   LETTER OF THE LAW by Alan E. Nourse\n   <br />\n   GENESIS by H. Beam Piper\n   <br />\n   GRAVEYARD OF DREAMS by H. Beam Piper\n   <br />\n   DOGFIGHTâ€”1973 by Mack Reynolds\n   <br />\n   FREEDOM by Mack Reynolds\n   <br />\n   NOVICE by James H. Schmitz\n   <br />\n   ONENESS by James H. Schmitz\n   <br />\n   THE DOPE ON MARS by Jack Sharkey\n   <br />\n   HELLHOUNDS OF THE COSMOS by Clifford D. Simak\n   <br />\n   DREAM TOWN by Henry Slesar\n   <br />\n   HEART by Henry Slesar\n   <br />\n   HISTORY REPEATS by George O. Smith\n   <br />\n   PYGMALION''S SPECTACLES by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n   <br />\n   THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells\n   <br />\n   THE TERROR FROM THE DEPTHS by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n   <br />\n   VAMPIRES OF SPACE by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n   <br />\n   UNSPECIALIST by Murray F. Yaco\n   <br />\n   STAR MOTHER by Robert F. Young\n   <br />\n   THE GREAT DOME ON MERCURY by Arthur L. Zagat\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24560'),
(19089, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume VIII: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds, Paul Ernst, Laurence Janifer, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Harl Vincent, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  THE BURNING BRIDGE by Poul Anderson\n  <br />\n  LORDS OF THE STRATOSPHERE by Arthur J. Burks\n  <br />\n  THE WEAKLING by Everett B. Cole\n  <br />\n  IMPACT by Irving E. Cox, Jr.\n  <br />\n  THE CRACK OF DOOM by Robert Cromie\n  <br />\n  NO PETS ALLOWED by M. A. Cummings\n  <br />\n  MONKEY ON HIS BACK by Charles V. De Vet\n  <br />\n  TEST ROCKET! by Jack Douglas\n  <br />\n  THE RED HELL OF JUPITER by Paul Ernst\n  <br />\n  THE OUTBREAK OF PEACE by H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  MASTER OF NONE by Neil Goble\n  <br />\n  UNTHINKABLE by Rog Phillips\n  <br />\n  THE WAR OF THE WENUSES by C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas\n  <br />\n  NATIVE SON by T. D. Hamm\n  <br />\n  WIZARD by Laurence Mark Janifer\n  <br />\n  THE UNTOUCHABLE by Stephen A. Kallis\n  <br />\n  BREAD OVERHEAD by Fritz Leiber\n  <br />\n  SCRIMSHAW by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE MACHINE THAT SAVED THE WORLD by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  SPIES DIE HARD! by Arnold Marmor\n  <br />\n  GIANTS ON THE EARTH by S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE STUTTERER by R. R. Merliss\n  <br />\n  GENERAL MAX SHORTER by Kris Neville\n  <br />\n  MARTYR By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  MEETING OF THE BOARD by Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  HE WALKED AROUND THE HORSES by H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  HUNTER PATROL by H. Beam Piper and John J. Mcguire\n  <br />\n  GUN FOR HIRE by Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  I''M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF by Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  SEE? by Edward G. Robles, Jr.\n  <br />\n  I WAS A TEEN-AGE SECRET WEAPON by Richard Sabia\n  <br />\n  THE STAR HYACINTHS by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  THE WINDS OF TIME by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  A MATTER OF MAGNITUDE by Al Sevcik\n  <br />\n  HOULIHAN''S EQUATION by Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  MY FATHER, THE CAT by Henry Slesar\n  <br />\n  INSTINCT by George O. Smith\n  <br />\n  NO HIDING PLACE by Richard R. Smith\n  <br />\n  JUBILATION, U.S.A. by G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  THE TERROR OF AIR-LEVEL SIX by Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  DAWN OF FLAME by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  PROTEUS ISLAND by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  DEVIL CRYSTALS OF ARRET by Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE QUANTUM JUMP by Robert Wicks\n  <br />\n  DOUBLE TAKE by Richard Wilson\n  <br />\n  WITH A VENGEANCE by J. B. Woodley\n  <br />\n  THE DEATH TRAPS OF FX-31 by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  THE FORGOTTEN PLANET by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  COLLECTOR''S ITEM by Robert F. Young\n  <br />\n  CHILDREN OF TOMORROW by Arthur Leo Zagat\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7974'),
(19090, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume VIII: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds, Paul Ernst, Laurence Janifer, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Harl Vincent, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  THE BURNING BRIDGE by Poul Anderson\n  <br />\n  LORDS OF THE STRATOSPHERE by Arthur J. Burks\n  <br />\n  THE WEAKLING by Everett B. Cole\n  <br />\n  IMPACT by Irving E. Cox, Jr.\n  <br />\n  THE CRACK OF DOOM by Robert Cromie\n  <br />\n  NO PETS ALLOWED by M. A. Cummings\n  <br />\n  MONKEY ON HIS BACK by Charles V. De Vet\n  <br />\n  TEST ROCKET! by Jack Douglas\n  <br />\n  THE RED HELL OF JUPITER by Paul Ernst\n  <br />\n  THE OUTBREAK OF PEACE by H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  MASTER OF NONE by Neil Goble\n  <br />\n  UNTHINKABLE by Rog Phillips\n  <br />\n  THE WAR OF THE WENUSES by C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas\n  <br />\n  NATIVE SON by T. D. Hamm\n  <br />\n  WIZARD by Laurence Mark Janifer\n  <br />\n  THE UNTOUCHABLE by Stephen A. Kallis\n  <br />\n  BREAD OVERHEAD by Fritz Leiber\n  <br />\n  SCRIMSHAW by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE MACHINE THAT SAVED THE WORLD by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  SPIES DIE HARD! by Arnold Marmor\n  <br />\n  GIANTS ON THE EARTH by S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE STUTTERER by R. R. Merliss\n  <br />\n  GENERAL MAX SHORTER by Kris Neville\n  <br />\n  MARTYR By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  MEETING OF THE BOARD by Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  HE WALKED AROUND THE HORSES by H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  HUNTER PATROL by H. Beam Piper and John J. Mcguire\n  <br />\n  GUN FOR HIRE by Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  I''M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF by Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  SEE? by Edward G. Robles, Jr.\n  <br />\n  I WAS A TEEN-AGE SECRET WEAPON by Richard Sabia\n  <br />\n  THE STAR HYACINTHS by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  THE WINDS OF TIME by James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  A MATTER OF MAGNITUDE by Al Sevcik\n  <br />\n  HOULIHAN''S EQUATION by Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  MY FATHER, THE CAT by Henry Slesar\n  <br />\n  INSTINCT by George O. Smith\n  <br />\n  NO HIDING PLACE by Richard R. Smith\n  <br />\n  JUBILATION, U.S.A. by G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  THE TERROR OF AIR-LEVEL SIX by Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  DAWN OF FLAME by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  PROTEUS ISLAND by Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  DEVIL CRYSTALS OF ARRET by Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE QUANTUM JUMP by Robert Wicks\n  <br />\n  DOUBLE TAKE by Richard Wilson\n  <br />\n  WITH A VENGEANCE by J. B. Woodley\n  <br />\n  THE DEATH TRAPS OF FX-31 by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  THE FORGOTTEN PLANET by Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  COLLECTOR''S ITEM by Robert F. Young\n  <br />\n  CHILDREN OF TOMORROW by Arthur Leo Zagat\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13143'),
(19091, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume X: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Mack Reynolds, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Phillip K. Dick, Frederik Pohl, Clifford D. Simak, Raymond Z. Gallun, Andre Norton, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  THE RECORD OF CURRUPIRA\n  <br />\n  By Robert Abernathy\n  <br />\n  THE DRAW\n  <br />\n  By Jerome Bixby\n  <br />\n  CONTROL GROUP\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  THE EEL\n  <br />\n  By Miriam Allen DeFord\n  <br />\n  BADGE OF INFAMY\n  <br />\n  By Lester del Rey\n  <br />\n  SECOND VARIETY\n  <br />\n  By Philip K. Dick\n  <br />\n  OUT OF THE EARTH\n  <br />\n  By George Edrich\n  <br />\n  THE VERY BLACK\n  <br />\n  By Dean Evans\n  <br />\n  THE WEDGE\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  THE PLANET STRAPPERS\n  <br />\n  By Raymond Z. Gallun\n  <br />\n  HAIL TO THE CHIEF\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THIN EDGE\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  SPACE PRISON\n  <br />\n  By Tom Godwin\n  <br />\n  THE TERRIBLE ANSWER\n  <br />\n  By Arthur G. Hill\n  <br />\n  THE WOMAN-STEALERS OF THRAYX\n  <br />\n  By Fox B. Holden\n  <br />\n  THE DAY OF THE DOG\n  <br />\n  By Andersen Horne\n  <br />\n  ADVANCED CHEMISTRY\n  <br />\n  By Jack G. Huekels\n  <br />\n  FIELD TRIP\n  <br />\n  By Gene Hunter\n  <br />\n  THE SHINING COW\n  <br />\n  By Alex James\n  <br />\n  ROUGH TRANSLATION\n  <br />\n  By Jean M. Janis\n  <br />\n  JOHN JONES''S DOLLAR\n  <br />\n  By Harry Stephen Keeler\n  <br />\n  SECURITY\n  <br />\n  By Ernest M. Kenyon\n  <br />\n  THE MAD PLANET\n  <br />\n  by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE THIEF OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  REEL LIFE FILMS\n  <br />\n  By Sam Merwin\n  <br />\n  SONG IN A MINOR KEY\n  <br />\n  By C. L. Moore\n  <br />\n  STAR HUNTER\n  <br />\n  By Andre Norton\n  <br />\n  CONTAMINATION CREW\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  DERELICT\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  ALL DAY WEDNESDAY\n  <br />\n  By Richard Olin\n  <br />\n  THE HAPPY MAN\n  <br />\n  By Gerald W. Page\n  <br />\n  OOMPHEL IN THE SKY\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  OPERATION R.S.V.P.\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE TUNNEL UNDER THE WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Frederik Pohl\n  <br />\n  SUMMIT\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  LION LOOSE\n  <br />\n  By James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  THE WORLD THAT COULDN''T BE\n  <br />\n  By Clifford D. Simak\n  <br />\n  TELEMPATHY\n  <br />\n  By Vance Simonds\n  <br />\n  LOOT OF THE VOID\n  <br />\n  By Edwin K. Sloat\n  <br />\n  COLLECTOR''S ITEM\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  PERFECT CONTROL\n  <br />\n  By Richard Stockham\n  <br />\n  SOLAR STIFF\n  <br />\n  By Chas. A. Stopher\n  <br />\n  MAN MADE\n  <br />\n  By Albert R. Teichner\n  <br />\n  PLEASANT JOURNEY\n  <br />\n  By Richard F. Thieme\n  <br />\n  THERE WILL BE SCHOOL TOMORROW\n  <br />\n  By V. E. Thiessen\n  <br />\n  THE POINT OF VIEW\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  ROBOTS OF THE WORLD! ARISE!\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE TERRIBLE TENTACLES OF L-472\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  MEMBERSHIP DRIVE\n  <br />\n  By Murray F. Yaco\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/315'),
(19092, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume X: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Mack Reynolds, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Phillip K. Dick, Frederik Pohl, Clifford D. Simak, Raymond Z. Gallun, Andre Norton, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  THE RECORD OF CURRUPIRA\n  <br />\n  By Robert Abernathy\n  <br />\n  THE DRAW\n  <br />\n  By Jerome Bixby\n  <br />\n  CONTROL GROUP\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  THE EEL\n  <br />\n  By Miriam Allen DeFord\n  <br />\n  BADGE OF INFAMY\n  <br />\n  By Lester del Rey\n  <br />\n  SECOND VARIETY\n  <br />\n  By Philip K. Dick\n  <br />\n  OUT OF THE EARTH\n  <br />\n  By George Edrich\n  <br />\n  THE VERY BLACK\n  <br />\n  By Dean Evans\n  <br />\n  THE WEDGE\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  THE PLANET STRAPPERS\n  <br />\n  By Raymond Z. Gallun\n  <br />\n  HAIL TO THE CHIEF\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THIN EDGE\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  SPACE PRISON\n  <br />\n  By Tom Godwin\n  <br />\n  THE TERRIBLE ANSWER\n  <br />\n  By Arthur G. Hill\n  <br />\n  THE WOMAN-STEALERS OF THRAYX\n  <br />\n  By Fox B. Holden\n  <br />\n  THE DAY OF THE DOG\n  <br />\n  By Andersen Horne\n  <br />\n  ADVANCED CHEMISTRY\n  <br />\n  By Jack G. Huekels\n  <br />\n  FIELD TRIP\n  <br />\n  By Gene Hunter\n  <br />\n  THE SHINING COW\n  <br />\n  By Alex James\n  <br />\n  ROUGH TRANSLATION\n  <br />\n  By Jean M. Janis\n  <br />\n  JOHN JONES''S DOLLAR\n  <br />\n  By Harry Stephen Keeler\n  <br />\n  SECURITY\n  <br />\n  By Ernest M. Kenyon\n  <br />\n  THE MAD PLANET\n  <br />\n  by Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE THIEF OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  REEL LIFE FILMS\n  <br />\n  By Sam Merwin\n  <br />\n  SONG IN A MINOR KEY\n  <br />\n  By C. L. Moore\n  <br />\n  STAR HUNTER\n  <br />\n  By Andre Norton\n  <br />\n  CONTAMINATION CREW\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  DERELICT\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  ALL DAY WEDNESDAY\n  <br />\n  By Richard Olin\n  <br />\n  THE HAPPY MAN\n  <br />\n  By Gerald W. Page\n  <br />\n  OOMPHEL IN THE SKY\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  OPERATION R.S.V.P.\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE TUNNEL UNDER THE WORLD\n  <br />\n  By Frederik Pohl\n  <br />\n  SUMMIT\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  LION LOOSE\n  <br />\n  By James H. Schmitz\n  <br />\n  DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  THE WORLD THAT COULDN''T BE\n  <br />\n  By Clifford D. Simak\n  <br />\n  TELEMPATHY\n  <br />\n  By Vance Simonds\n  <br />\n  LOOT OF THE VOID\n  <br />\n  By Edwin K. Sloat\n  <br />\n  COLLECTOR''S ITEM\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  PERFECT CONTROL\n  <br />\n  By Richard Stockham\n  <br />\n  SOLAR STIFF\n  <br />\n  By Chas. A. Stopher\n  <br />\n  MAN MADE\n  <br />\n  By Albert R. Teichner\n  <br />\n  PLEASANT JOURNEY\n  <br />\n  By Richard F. Thieme\n  <br />\n  THERE WILL BE SCHOOL TOMORROW\n  <br />\n  By V. E. Thiessen\n  <br />\n  THE POINT OF VIEW\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  ROBOTS OF THE WORLD! ARISE!\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE TERRIBLE TENTACLES OF L-472\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  MEMBERSHIP DRIVE\n  <br />\n  By Murray F. Yaco\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13157');
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(19093, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume XI: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  roduct Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert Bloch, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  RING ONCE FOR DEATH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Arthur\n  <br />\n  THIS CROWDED EARTH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Bloch\n  <br />\n  THE LANI PEOPLE\n  <br />\n  By J. F. Bone\n  <br />\n  MIZORA: A PROPHECY\n  <br />\n  By Mary E. Bradley\n  <br />\n  THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE\n  <br />\n  By Marion Zimmer Bradley\n  <br />\n  FELONY\n  <br />\n  By James Causey\n  <br />\n  THE SKY IS FALLING\n  <br />\n  By Lester del Rey\n  <br />\n  STAMPED CAUTION\n  <br />\n  By Raymond Z. Gallun\n  <br />\n  CARD ... TRICK\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  DAMNED IF YOU DON''T\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  MECCANIA: THE SUPER-STATE\n  <br />\n  By Owen Gregory\n  <br />\n  BREAKING POINT\n  <br />\n  by James E. Gunn\n  <br />\n  THE SMILER\n  <br />\n  By Albert Hernhunter\n  <br />\n  THE LOVE OF FRANK NINETEEN\n  <br />\n  By David C. Knight\n  <br />\n  THE SIX FINGERS OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By R. A. Lafferty\n  <br />\n  MARS CONFIDENTIAL!\n  <br />\n  By Jack Lait &amp; Lee Mortimer\n  <br />\n  THE RUNAWAY SKYSCRAPER\n  <br />\n  By Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE WATER EATER\n  <br />\n  By Win Marks\n  <br />\n  BEYOND PANDORA\n  <br />\n  By Robert J. Martin\n  <br />\n  MOTHER AMERICA\n  <br />\n  By Sam Mcclatchie, M.D.\n  <br />\n  WHEN CAVERNS YAWNED\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE LINK\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  POLICE OPERATION\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  SONNY\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  HOLES INCORPORATED\n  <br />\n  By L. Major Reynolds\n  <br />\n  WHERE I WASN''T GOING\n  <br />\n  By Walt and Leigh Richmond\n  <br />\n  DECISION\n  <br />\n  By Frank M. Robinson\n  <br />\n  THE PREMIERE\n  <br />\n  By Richard Sabia\n  <br />\n  OPERATION LORELIE\n  <br />\n  By William P. Salton\n  <br />\n  FELINE RED\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sampson\n  <br />\n  ZERO DATA\n  <br />\n  By Charles Saphro\n  <br />\n  WATCHBIRD\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  JIMSY AND THE MONSTERS\n  <br />\n  By Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  THE VILBAR PARTY\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  BRKNK''S BOUNTY\n  <br />\n  By Jerry Sohl\n  <br />\n  B-12''s MOON GLOW\n  <br />\n  By Charles A. Stearns\n  <br />\n  GARTH AND THE VISITOR\n  <br />\n  By L. J. Stecher\n  <br />\n  VITAL INGREDIENT\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  THE OBSERVERS\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  VULCAN''S WORKSHOP\n  <br />\n  By Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  FORGET ME NEARLY\n  <br />\n  By F. L. Wallace\n  <br />\n  TO EACH HIS STAR\n  <br />\n  By Bryce Walton\n  <br />\n  THE WORLDS OF IF\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  THE SEED OF THE TOC-TOC BIRDS\n  <br />\n  By George Henry Weiss\n  <br />\n  THE CAVERN OF THE SHINING ONES\n  <br />\n  By Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON\n  <br />\n  By H.G. Wells\n  <br />\n  COGITO, ERGO SUM\n  <br />\n  By John Foster West\n  <br />\n  CAT AND MOUSE\n  <br />\n  By Ralph Williams\n  <br />\n  HOMO INFERIOR\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE INFRA-MEDIANS\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/313'),
(19094, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume XI: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  roduct Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert Bloch, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Contents\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  RING ONCE FOR DEATH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Arthur\n  <br />\n  THIS CROWDED EARTH\n  <br />\n  By Robert Bloch\n  <br />\n  THE LANI PEOPLE\n  <br />\n  By J. F. Bone\n  <br />\n  MIZORA: A PROPHECY\n  <br />\n  By Mary E. Bradley\n  <br />\n  THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE\n  <br />\n  By Marion Zimmer Bradley\n  <br />\n  FELONY\n  <br />\n  By James Causey\n  <br />\n  THE SKY IS FALLING\n  <br />\n  By Lester del Rey\n  <br />\n  STAMPED CAUTION\n  <br />\n  By Raymond Z. Gallun\n  <br />\n  CARD ... TRICK\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  DAMNED IF YOU DON''T\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  MECCANIA: THE SUPER-STATE\n  <br />\n  By Owen Gregory\n  <br />\n  BREAKING POINT\n  <br />\n  by James E. Gunn\n  <br />\n  THE SMILER\n  <br />\n  By Albert Hernhunter\n  <br />\n  THE LOVE OF FRANK NINETEEN\n  <br />\n  By David C. Knight\n  <br />\n  THE SIX FINGERS OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By R. A. Lafferty\n  <br />\n  MARS CONFIDENTIAL!\n  <br />\n  By Jack Lait &amp; Lee Mortimer\n  <br />\n  THE RUNAWAY SKYSCRAPER\n  <br />\n  By Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  THE WATER EATER\n  <br />\n  By Win Marks\n  <br />\n  BEYOND PANDORA\n  <br />\n  By Robert J. Martin\n  <br />\n  MOTHER AMERICA\n  <br />\n  By Sam Mcclatchie, M.D.\n  <br />\n  WHEN CAVERNS YAWNED\n  <br />\n  By S. P. Meek\n  <br />\n  THE LINK\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  POLICE OPERATION\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  SONNY\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  HOLES INCORPORATED\n  <br />\n  By L. Major Reynolds\n  <br />\n  WHERE I WASN''T GOING\n  <br />\n  By Walt and Leigh Richmond\n  <br />\n  DECISION\n  <br />\n  By Frank M. Robinson\n  <br />\n  THE PREMIERE\n  <br />\n  By Richard Sabia\n  <br />\n  OPERATION LORELIE\n  <br />\n  By William P. Salton\n  <br />\n  FELINE RED\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sampson\n  <br />\n  ZERO DATA\n  <br />\n  By Charles Saphro\n  <br />\n  WATCHBIRD\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  JIMSY AND THE MONSTERS\n  <br />\n  By Walt Sheldon\n  <br />\n  THE VILBAR PARTY\n  <br />\n  By Evelyn E. Smith\n  <br />\n  BRKNK''S BOUNTY\n  <br />\n  By Jerry Sohl\n  <br />\n  B-12''s MOON GLOW\n  <br />\n  By Charles A. Stearns\n  <br />\n  GARTH AND THE VISITOR\n  <br />\n  By L. J. Stecher\n  <br />\n  VITAL INGREDIENT\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  THE OBSERVERS\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  VULCAN''S WORKSHOP\n  <br />\n  By Harl Vincent\n  <br />\n  FORGET ME NEARLY\n  <br />\n  By F. L. Wallace\n  <br />\n  TO EACH HIS STAR\n  <br />\n  By Bryce Walton\n  <br />\n  THE WORLDS OF IF\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  THE SEED OF THE TOC-TOC BIRDS\n  <br />\n  By George Henry Weiss\n  <br />\n  THE CAVERN OF THE SHINING ONES\n  <br />\n  By Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON\n  <br />\n  By H.G. Wells\n  <br />\n  COGITO, ERGO SUM\n  <br />\n  By John Foster West\n  <br />\n  CAT AND MOUSE\n  <br />\n  By Ralph Williams\n  <br />\n  HOMO INFERIOR\n  <br />\n  By Mari Wolf\n  <br />\n  THE INFRA-MEDIANS\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13151'),
(19095, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume XII: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Terry Carr, Mack Reynolds, Henry Kuttner, Raymond Cummings, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  FLATLAND\n  <br />\n  By Edwin A. Abbott\n  <br />\n  WORLD OF THE DRONE\n  <br />\n  By Robert Abernathy\n  <br />\n  TO CHOKE AN OCEAN\n  <br />\n  By J. F. Bone\n  <br />\n  BRIDE OF THE DARK ONE\n  <br />\n  By Florence Verbell Brown\n  <br />\n  IF AT FIRST YOU DON''T . . .\n  <br />\n  By John Brudy\n  <br />\n  WHAT NEED OF MAN?\n  <br />\n  By Harold Calin\n  <br />\n  WARLORD OF KOR\n  <br />\n  By Terry Carr\n  <br />\n  THE PEACEMAKER\n  <br />\n  By Alfred Coppel\n  <br />\n  THE CARTELS JUNGLE\n  <br />\n  By Irving E. Cox, Jr.\n  <br />\n  THE WHITE INVADERS\n  <br />\n  By Raymond King Cummings\n  <br />\n  THE ETHICAL WAY\n  <br />\n  By Joseph Farrell\n  <br />\n  ATOM DRIVE\n  <br />\n  By Charles Fontenay\n  <br />\n  EVIL OUT OF ONZAR\n  <br />\n  By Mark Ganes\n  <br />\n  HANGING BY A THREAD\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  IN CASE OF FIRE\n  <br />\n  ByÂ \n  <br />\n  THE PLANET WITH NO NIGHTMARE\n  <br />\n  By Jim Harmon\n  <br />\n  THE FLOATING ISLAND OF MADNESS\n  <br />\n  By Jason Kirby\n  <br />\n  THE EGO MACHINE\n  <br />\n  By Henry Kuttner\n  <br />\n  THE GREAT POTLATCH RIOTS\n  <br />\n  By Allen Kim Lang\n  <br />\n  INVASION\n  <br />\n  By Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  COLLECTIVUM\n  <br />\n  By Mike Lewis\n  <br />\n  TULAN\n  <br />\n  By C. C. MacApp\n  <br />\n  GAMES\n  <br />\n  By Katherine MacLean\n  <br />\n  THE DEADLY DAUGHTERS\n  <br />\n  By Winston K. Marks\n  <br />\n  CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE\n  <br />\n  By J. Francis McComas\n  <br />\n  GEORGE LOVES GISTLA\n  <br />\n  By James McKimmey, Jr.\n  <br />\n  SMALL WORLD\n  <br />\n  By William F. Nolan\n  <br />\n  THE NATIVE SOIL\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  AS LONG AS YOU WISH\n  <br />\n  By John O''Keefe\n  <br />\n  THE GOOD NEIGHBORS\n  <br />\n  By Edgar Pangborn\n  <br />\n  THIS ONE PROBLEM\n  <br />\n  By M. C. Pease\n  <br />\n  LOST IN THE FUTURE\n  <br />\n  By John Victor Peterson\n  <br />\n  TEMPLE TROUBLE\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE ANSWER\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE KNIGHTS OF ARTHUR\n  <br />\n  By Frederik Pohl\n  <br />\n  UNBORN TOMORROW\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  SLAVES OF MERCURY\n  <br />\n  By Nat Schachner\n  <br />\n  MUTINEER\n  <br />\n  By Robert J. Shea\n  <br />\n  AN''S POISON\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  STARMAN''S QUEST\n  <br />\n  By Robert Silverberg\n  <br />\n  MASTERS OF SPACE\n  <br />\n  By Edward E. Smith &amp; E. Everett Evans\n  <br />\n  THE FOURTH R\n  <br />\n  By George O. Smith\n  <br />\n  THE ULTROOM ERROR\n  <br />\n  By Jerry Sohl\n  <br />\n  THE PSILENT PARTNER\n  <br />\n  By Edward S. Staub and John Victo\n  <br />\n  THE MAROONER\n  <br />\n  By Charles A. Stearns\n  <br />\n  THE MAN WHO ROCKED THE EARTH\n  <br />\n  By Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood\n  <br />\n  SJAMBAK\n  <br />\n  By Jack Vance\n  <br />\n  VALLEY OF DREAMS\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  PRIESTESS OF THE FLAME\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  OUT AROUND RIGEL\n  <br />\n  By Robert H. Wilson Â  Â  Â \n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/312'),
(19096, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume XII: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Terry Carr, Mack Reynolds, Henry Kuttner, Raymond Cummings, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  Contents:\n  <br />\n  FLATLAND\n  <br />\n  By Edwin A. Abbott\n  <br />\n  WORLD OF THE DRONE\n  <br />\n  By Robert Abernathy\n  <br />\n  TO CHOKE AN OCEAN\n  <br />\n  By J. F. Bone\n  <br />\n  BRIDE OF THE DARK ONE\n  <br />\n  By Florence Verbell Brown\n  <br />\n  IF AT FIRST YOU DON''T . . .\n  <br />\n  By John Brudy\n  <br />\n  WHAT NEED OF MAN?\n  <br />\n  By Harold Calin\n  <br />\n  WARLORD OF KOR\n  <br />\n  By Terry Carr\n  <br />\n  THE PEACEMAKER\n  <br />\n  By Alfred Coppel\n  <br />\n  THE CARTELS JUNGLE\n  <br />\n  By Irving E. Cox, Jr.\n  <br />\n  THE WHITE INVADERS\n  <br />\n  By Raymond King Cummings\n  <br />\n  THE ETHICAL WAY\n  <br />\n  By Joseph Farrell\n  <br />\n  ATOM DRIVE\n  <br />\n  By Charles Fontenay\n  <br />\n  EVIL OUT OF ONZAR\n  <br />\n  By Mark Ganes\n  <br />\n  HANGING BY A THREAD\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  IN CASE OF FIRE\n  <br />\n  ByÂ \n  <br />\n  THE PLANET WITH NO NIGHTMARE\n  <br />\n  By Jim Harmon\n  <br />\n  THE FLOATING ISLAND OF MADNESS\n  <br />\n  By Jason Kirby\n  <br />\n  THE EGO MACHINE\n  <br />\n  By Henry Kuttner\n  <br />\n  THE GREAT POTLATCH RIOTS\n  <br />\n  By Allen Kim Lang\n  <br />\n  INVASION\n  <br />\n  By Murray Leinster\n  <br />\n  COLLECTIVUM\n  <br />\n  By Mike Lewis\n  <br />\n  TULAN\n  <br />\n  By C. C. MacApp\n  <br />\n  GAMES\n  <br />\n  By Katherine MacLean\n  <br />\n  THE DEADLY DAUGHTERS\n  <br />\n  By Winston K. Marks\n  <br />\n  CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE\n  <br />\n  By J. Francis McComas\n  <br />\n  GEORGE LOVES GISTLA\n  <br />\n  By James McKimmey, Jr.\n  <br />\n  SMALL WORLD\n  <br />\n  By William F. Nolan\n  <br />\n  THE NATIVE SOIL\n  <br />\n  By Alan E. Nourse\n  <br />\n  AS LONG AS YOU WISH\n  <br />\n  By John O''Keefe\n  <br />\n  THE GOOD NEIGHBORS\n  <br />\n  By Edgar Pangborn\n  <br />\n  THIS ONE PROBLEM\n  <br />\n  By M. C. Pease\n  <br />\n  LOST IN THE FUTURE\n  <br />\n  By John Victor Peterson\n  <br />\n  TEMPLE TROUBLE\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE ANSWER\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE KNIGHTS OF ARTHUR\n  <br />\n  By Frederik Pohl\n  <br />\n  UNBORN TOMORROW\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  SLAVES OF MERCURY\n  <br />\n  By Nat Schachner\n  <br />\n  MUTINEER\n  <br />\n  By Robert J. Shea\n  <br />\n  AN''S POISON\n  <br />\n  By Robert Sheckley\n  <br />\n  STARMAN''S QUEST\n  <br />\n  By Robert Silverberg\n  <br />\n  MASTERS OF SPACE\n  <br />\n  By Edward E. Smith &amp; E. Everett Evans\n  <br />\n  THE FOURTH R\n  <br />\n  By George O. Smith\n  <br />\n  THE ULTROOM ERROR\n  <br />\n  By Jerry Sohl\n  <br />\n  THE PSILENT PARTNER\n  <br />\n  By Edward S. Staub and John Victo\n  <br />\n  THE MAROONER\n  <br />\n  By Charles A. Stearns\n  <br />\n  THE MAN WHO ROCKED THE EARTH\n  <br />\n  By Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood\n  <br />\n  SJAMBAK\n  <br />\n  By Jack Vance\n  <br />\n  VALLEY OF DREAMS\n  <br />\n  By Stanley G. Weinbaum\n  <br />\n  PRIESTESS OF THE FLAME\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n  <br />\n  OUT AROUND RIGEL\n  <br />\n  By Robert H. Wilson Â  Â  Â \n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13155'),
(19097, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume XIII: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty classic science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Phillip K. Dick, Walter M. Miller, Roger Aycock, Edmond Hamilton, Stephen Marlowe, Randall Garrett, Mack Reynolds, H.B. Fyfe, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  ONCE UPON A PLANET\n  <br />\n  By J. J. Allerton\n  <br />\n  MR. PRESIDENT\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Arr\n  <br />\n  THE FRIGHTENED PLANET\n  <br />\n  By Sidney Austen\n  <br />\n  PET FARM\n  <br />\n  By Roger D. Aycock\n  <br />\n  THE PLOTTERS\n  <br />\n  By Alexander Blade\n  <br />\n  LOVE STORY\n  <br />\n  By Irving E. Cox, Jr.\n  <br />\n  THE TRAP\n  <br />\n  By Betsy Curtis\n  <br />\n  CLEAN BREAK\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  THE VARIABLE MAN\n  <br />\n  By Philip K. Dick\n  <br />\n  UNIFORM OF A MAN\n  <br />\n  By Dave Dryfoos\n  <br />\n  CATEGORY PHOENIX\n  <br />\n  By Boyd Ellanby\n  <br />\n  SKIN GAME\n  <br />\n  By Charles E. Fritch\n  <br />\n  LET THERE BE LIGHT\n  <br />\n  By Horace B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  SUITE MENTALE\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE MEASURE OF A MAN\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE SPHERE OF SLEEP\n  <br />\n  By Chester S. Geier\n  <br />\n  A THOUGHT FOR TOMORROW\n  <br />\n  By Robert E. Gilbert\n  <br />\n  BOOMERANG BULLETS\n  <br />\n  By James A. Goldthwaite\n  <br />\n  THE DOOR INTO INFINITY\n  <br />\n  By Edmond Hamilton\n  <br />\n  BEYOND THE THUNDER\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Hickey\n  <br />\n  FEET OF CLAY\n  <br />\n  By Phillip Hoskins\n  <br />\n  THE UNLEARNED\n  <br />\n  By Raymond F. Jones\n  <br />\n  PROJECT HUSH\n  <br />\n  By Phillip Klass\n  <br />\n  TAPE JOCKEY\n  <br />\n  By Tom Leahy\n  <br />\n  OOGIE FINDS LOVE\n  <br />\n  By Berkeley Livingston\n  <br />\n  BREEDER REACTION\n  <br />\n  By Winston Marks\n  <br />\n  BROWN JOHN''S BODY\n  <br />\n  By Winston Marks\n  <br />\n  EARTHSMITH\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Marlowe\n  <br />\n  WORLD BEYOND PLUTO\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Marlowe\n  <br />\n  THE HITCH HIKERS\n  <br />\n  By Vernon L. McCain\n  <br />\n  LIFE SENTENCE\n  <br />\n  By James McConnell\n  <br />\n  THE AMBASSADOR\n  <br />\n  By Sam Merwin, Jr.\n  <br />\n  WAY OF A REBEL\n  <br />\n  By Walter Miller, Jr.\n  <br />\n  OF TIME AND TEXAS\n  <br />\n  By William F. Nolan\n  <br />\n  THY NAME IS WOMAN\n  <br />\n  By Kenneth O''Hara\n  <br />\n  THE HELL SHIP\n  <br />\n  By Ray Palmer\n  <br />\n  THE MERCENARIES\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE OCTOPUS CYCLE\n  <br />\n  By Irvin Lester and Fletcher Pratt\n  <br />\n  THE SWORD\n  <br />\n  By Frank Quattrocchi\n  <br />\n  CODE THREE\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  THE COMMON MAN\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  THE BOOK\n  <br />\n  By Michael Shaara\n  <br />\n  PROBABILITY\n  <br />\n  By Louis Trimble\n  <br />\n  SUCCESS STORY\n  <br />\n  By Robert Turner\n  <br />\n  THE JUDAS VALLEY\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  MOON GLOW\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  WHEN THE MOON TURNED GREEN\n  <br />\n  By Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE END OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By Wallace West\n  <br />\n  PLANET OF THE GODS\n  <br />\n  By Robert Moore Williams\n  <br />\n  THE GOD IN THE BOX\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/309'),
(19098, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume XIII: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3 class="productDescriptionSource">\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <div class="productDescriptionWrapper">\n  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty classic science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Phillip K. Dick, Walter M. Miller, Roger Aycock, Edmond Hamilton, Stephen Marlowe, Randall Garrett, Mack Reynolds, H.B. Fyfe, and many others.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  This collection includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  ONCE UPON A PLANET\n  <br />\n  By J. J. Allerton\n  <br />\n  MR. PRESIDENT\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Arr\n  <br />\n  THE FRIGHTENED PLANET\n  <br />\n  By Sidney Austen\n  <br />\n  PET FARM\n  <br />\n  By Roger D. Aycock\n  <br />\n  THE PLOTTERS\n  <br />\n  By Alexander Blade\n  <br />\n  LOVE STORY\n  <br />\n  By Irving E. Cox, Jr.\n  <br />\n  THE TRAP\n  <br />\n  By Betsy Curtis\n  <br />\n  CLEAN BREAK\n  <br />\n  By Roger Dee\n  <br />\n  THE VARIABLE MAN\n  <br />\n  By Philip K. Dick\n  <br />\n  UNIFORM OF A MAN\n  <br />\n  By Dave Dryfoos\n  <br />\n  CATEGORY PHOENIX\n  <br />\n  By Boyd Ellanby\n  <br />\n  SKIN GAME\n  <br />\n  By Charles E. Fritch\n  <br />\n  LET THERE BE LIGHT\n  <br />\n  By Horace B. Fyfe\n  <br />\n  SUITE MENTALE\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE MEASURE OF A MAN\n  <br />\n  By Randall Garrett\n  <br />\n  THE SPHERE OF SLEEP\n  <br />\n  By Chester S. Geier\n  <br />\n  A THOUGHT FOR TOMORROW\n  <br />\n  By Robert E. Gilbert\n  <br />\n  BOOMERANG BULLETS\n  <br />\n  By James A. Goldthwaite\n  <br />\n  THE DOOR INTO INFINITY\n  <br />\n  By Edmond Hamilton\n  <br />\n  BEYOND THE THUNDER\n  <br />\n  By H. B. Hickey\n  <br />\n  FEET OF CLAY\n  <br />\n  By Phillip Hoskins\n  <br />\n  THE UNLEARNED\n  <br />\n  By Raymond F. Jones\n  <br />\n  PROJECT HUSH\n  <br />\n  By Phillip Klass\n  <br />\n  TAPE JOCKEY\n  <br />\n  By Tom Leahy\n  <br />\n  OOGIE FINDS LOVE\n  <br />\n  By Berkeley Livingston\n  <br />\n  BREEDER REACTION\n  <br />\n  By Winston Marks\n  <br />\n  BROWN JOHN''S BODY\n  <br />\n  By Winston Marks\n  <br />\n  EARTHSMITH\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Marlowe\n  <br />\n  WORLD BEYOND PLUTO\n  <br />\n  By Stephen Marlowe\n  <br />\n  THE HITCH HIKERS\n  <br />\n  By Vernon L. McCain\n  <br />\n  LIFE SENTENCE\n  <br />\n  By James McConnell\n  <br />\n  THE AMBASSADOR\n  <br />\n  By Sam Merwin, Jr.\n  <br />\n  WAY OF A REBEL\n  <br />\n  By Walter Miller, Jr.\n  <br />\n  OF TIME AND TEXAS\n  <br />\n  By William F. Nolan\n  <br />\n  THY NAME IS WOMAN\n  <br />\n  By Kenneth O''Hara\n  <br />\n  THE HELL SHIP\n  <br />\n  By Ray Palmer\n  <br />\n  THE MERCENARIES\n  <br />\n  By H. Beam Piper\n  <br />\n  THE OCTOPUS CYCLE\n  <br />\n  By Irvin Lester and Fletcher Pratt\n  <br />\n  THE SWORD\n  <br />\n  By Frank Quattrocchi\n  <br />\n  CODE THREE\n  <br />\n  By Rick Raphael\n  <br />\n  THE COMMON MAN\n  <br />\n  By Mack Reynolds\n  <br />\n  THE BOOK\n  <br />\n  By Michael Shaara\n  <br />\n  PROBABILITY\n  <br />\n  By Louis Trimble\n  <br />\n  SUCCESS STORY\n  <br />\n  By Robert Turner\n  <br />\n  THE JUDAS VALLEY\n  <br />\n  By Gerald Vance\n  <br />\n  MOON GLOW\n  <br />\n  By G. L. Vandenburg\n  <br />\n  WHEN THE MOON TURNED GREEN\n  <br />\n  By Hal K. Wells\n  <br />\n  THE END OF TIME\n  <br />\n  By Wallace West\n  <br />\n  PLANET OF THE GODS\n  <br />\n  By Robert Moore Williams\n  <br />\n  THE GOD IN THE BOX\n  <br />\n  By Sewell Peaslee Wright\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13147'),
(19099, 'The Golden Age of Science Fiction: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories', 'Various', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s. Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Williamson, Phillip Jose Farmer, Lester Del Rey, Leigh Brackett, Fredric Brown, Murray Leinster, Ben Bova, and many others. This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents: A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder (James De Mille) A World by the Tale (Randall Garrett) A World is Born (Leigh Brackett) Accidental Death (Peter Baily) Arena (Fredric Brown) Atom Boy (Ray Cummings) Beyond Lies the Wub (Phillip K. Dick) Blind Spot (Bascom Jones) Cully (Jack Egan) Dead Giveaway (Randall Garrett) Dead Ringer (Lester Del Rey) Dead World (Jack Douglas) Divinity (Joseph Samachson) Four Miles Within (Anthony Gilmore) Heist Job on Thizar (Randall Garrett) Hex (Laurence Janifer) In the Year 2889 (Jules Verne) Indulgence of Negu Mah (Robert Arthur) Lease to Doomsday (Lee Archer) Lost in Translation (Laurence Janifer) McIlvaneâ€™s Star (August Derleth) Missing Link (Frank Herbert) Next Logical Step (Ben Bova) Pandemic (J.F. Bone) Remember the Alamo (T.R. Fehrenbach) Salvage in Space (Jack Williamson) Security (Poul Anderson) Subspace Survivors (E.E. â€œDocâ€ Smith) The Aliens (Murray Leinster) The Big Trip Up Yonder (Kurt Vonnegut) The Chronic Argonauts (H.G. Wells) The Cosmic Express (Jack Williamson) The Day Time Stopped Moving (Bradner Buckner) The Eternal Wall (Raymond Z. Gallun) The Gifts of Asti (Andre Norton) The Hated (Frederick Pohl) The Last Evolution (John W. Campbell) The Man Who Saw the Future (Edmond Hamilton) The Memory of Mars (Raymond F. Jones) The Moon is Green (Fritz Leiber) The Nothing Equation (Tom Godwin) The Power and the Glory (Charles W. Diffin) The Radiant Shell (Paul Ernst) The Stoker and the Stars (Algis Budrys) The Street That Wasnâ€™t There (Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. Simak) The World Behind the Moon (Paul Ernst) There is a Reaper (Charles De Vet) They Twinkled Like Jewels (Phillip JosÃ© Farmer) Waste Not, Want (Dave Dryfoos) Year of the Big Thaw (Marion Zimmer Bradley)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22815'),
(19100, 'The Golden Asse', 'Lucius Apuleius', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25399'),
(19101, 'The Golden Bowl', 'Henry James &amp; Ruth Bernard Yeazell &amp; Philip Horne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie. They are rich, finely appreciative of European art and culture, and deeply attached to each other. Maggie has all the innocent charm of so many of Jamess young American heroines. She is engaged to Amerigo, an impoverished Italian prince; he must marry money, and as his name suggests, an American heiress is the perfect solution. The golden bowl, first seen in a London curio shop, is used emblematically throughout the novel. Not solid gold but gilded crystal, the perfect surface conceals a flaw; it is symbolic of the relationship between the main characters and of the world in which they move. Also in Europe is an old friend of Maggies, Charlotte Stant, a girl of great charm and independence, and Maggie is blindly ignorant of the fact that she and the prince are lovers. Maggie and Amerigo are married and have a son, but Maggie remains dependent for real intimacy on her father, and she and Amerigo grow increasingly apart. Feeling that her father has suffered a loss through her marriage, Maggie decides to find him a wife, and her choice falls on Charlotte. Charlottes affair with the prince continues and Adam Verver seems to her to be a suitable and convenient match. When Maggie herself finally comes into possession of the golden bowl, the flaw is revealed to her, and, inadvertently, the truth about Amerigo and Charlotte. Fanny Assingham (an older woman, aware of the truth from the beginning) deliberately breaks the bowl, and this marks the end of Maggies innocence. She is no pathetic heroine-victim, however. Abstaining from outcry and outrage she instead takes the reins and maneuvers people and events. She still wants to be with Amerigo, but he must continue to be worth having and they must all be saved further humiliations and indignities. To be a wife she must cease to be a daughter; Adam Verver and the unhappy Charlotte are banished forever to America, and the new Maggie will establish a real marriage with Amerigo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9423'),
(19102, 'The Golden Compass', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "SUPERB . . . WONDER-FILLED."--The Washington Post Book WorldIt was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford''s motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra''s greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust--found only in the vast Arctic expanse of the North--was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it.Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from witches, gypsies, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle . . ."VERY GRAND INDEED . . . Scene after scene of power and beauty."--The New York Times"A ROUSING, PAGE-TURNING ADVENTURE that promises to please fantasy readers of all ages."--Library Journal (starred review)"POWERFUL . . . SPARKLES WITH CHILDLIKE WONDER."--The Boston Sunday Globe\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2118'),
(19103, 'The Golden Compass', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "SUPERB . . . WONDER-FILLED."--The Washington Post Book WorldIt was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford''s motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra''s greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust--found only in the vast Arctic expanse of the North--was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it.Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from witches, gypsies, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle . . ."VERY GRAND INDEED . . . Scene after scene of power and beauty."--The New York Times"A ROUSING, PAGE-TURNING ADVENTURE that promises to please fantasy readers of all ages."--Library Journal (starred review)"POWERFUL . . . SPARKLES WITH CHILDLIKE WONDER."--The Boston Sunday Globe\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12026'),
(19104, 'The Golden Compass', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "SUPERB . . . WONDER-FILLED."--The Washington Post Book WorldIt was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford''s motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra''s greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust--found only in the vast Arctic expanse of the North--was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it.Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from witches, gypsies, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle . . ."VERY GRAND INDEED . . . Scene after scene of power and beauty."--The New York Times"A ROUSING, PAGE-TURNING ADVENTURE that promises to please fantasy readers of all ages."--Library Journal (starred review)"POWERFUL . . . SPARKLES WITH CHILDLIKE WONDER."--The Boston Sunday Globe\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14029'),
(19105, 'The Golden Elephant', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After risking her life to uncover a Chinese imperial seal, only to have it stolen by a cunning tomb robber, archaeologist Annja Creed feels she has endured one treasure-hunting fiasco too many. But when a mysterious collector offers a reward for a priceless golden elephant, Annja gives in. After all, there are bills to be paid, adventures to be had.The artifact is said to be hidden in a vast and ancient temple complex in the mountainous jungles of Southeast Asia, and Annja must meet with various scholars in order to pinpoint its location. But when each expert she visits is found dead, Annja fears someone else is after the artifact.And her. And she''s probably next on the killer''s list.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7775'),
(19106, 'The Golden Elephant', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After risking her life to uncover a Chinese imperial seal, only to have it stolen by a cunning tomb robber, archaeologist Annja Creed feels she has endured one treasure-hunting fiasco too many. But when a mysterious collector offers a reward for a priceless golden elephant, Annja gives in. After all, there are bills to be paid, adventures to be had.The artifact is said to be hidden in a vast and ancient temple complex in the mountainous jungles of Southeast Asia, and Annja must meet with various scholars in order to pinpoint its location. But when each expert she visits is found dead, Annja fears someone else is after the artifact.And her. And she''s probably next on the killer''s list.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16099'),
(19107, 'The Golden Elephant', 'Alex Archer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After risking her life to uncover a Chinese imperial seal, only to have it stolen by a cunning tomb robber, archaeologist Annja Creed feels she has endured one treasure-hunting fiasco too many. But when a mysterious collector offers a reward for a priceless golden elephant, Annja gives in. After all, there are bills to be paid, adventures to be had.The artifact is said to be hidden in a vast and ancient temple complex in the mountainous jungles of Southeast Asia, and Annja must meet with various scholars in order to pinpoint its location. But when each expert she visits is found dead, Annja fears someone else is after the artifact.And her. And she''s probably next on the killer''s list.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26256'),
(19108, 'Golden Fool', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The acclaimed *Farseer* and *Liveship Traders* trilogies established Robin Hobb as one of the most splendidly imaginative practitioners of world-class fantasy. Now, in Book 2 of her most stunning trilogy yet, Hobb continues the soul-shattering tale of FitzChivalry Farseer. With rich characters, breathtaking magic, and sweeping action, **Golden Fool** brings the reluctant adventurer further into the fray in an epic of sacrifice, salvation, and untold treachery.**Golden Fool**Prince Dutiful has been rescued from his Piebald kidnappers and the court has resumed its normal rhythms. But for FitzChivalry Farseer, a return to isolation is impossible. Though gutted by the loss of his wolf bondmate, Nighteyes, Fitz must take up residence at Buckkeep and resume his tasks as Chadeâ€™s apprentice assassin. Posing as Tom Badgerlock, bodyguard to Lord Golden, FitzChivalry becomes the eyes and ears behind the walls. And with his old mentor failing visibly, Fitz is forced to take on more burdens as he attempts to guide a kingdom straying closer to civil strife each day.The problems are legion.  Prince Dutifulâ€™s betrothal to the Narcheska Elliania of the Out Islands is fraught with tension, and the Narcheska herself appears to be hiding an array of secrets. Then, amid Piebald threats and the increasing persecution of the Witted, FitzChivalry must ensure that no one betrays the Princeâ€™s secretâ€”a secret that could topple the Farseer throne: that he, like Fitz, possesses the dread â€œbeast magic.â€Meanwhile, FitzChivalry must impart to the Prince his limited knowledge of the Skill: the hereditary and addictive magic of the Farseers. In the process, they discover within Buckkeep one who has a wild and powerful talent for it, and whose enmity for Fitz may have disastrous consequences for all.Only Fitzâ€™s enduring friendship with the Fool brings him any solace. But even that is shattered when unexpected visitors from Bingtown reveal devastating secrets from the Foolâ€™s past. Now, bereft of support and adrift in intrigue, Fitzâ€™s biggest challenge may be simply to survive the inescapable and violent path that fate has laid out for him.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1515'),
(19109, 'Golden Fool', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The acclaimed *Farseer* and *Liveship Traders* trilogies established Robin Hobb as one of the most splendidly imaginative practitioners of world-class fantasy. Now, in Book 2 of her most stunning trilogy yet, Hobb continues the soul-shattering tale of FitzChivalry Farseer. With rich characters, breathtaking magic, and sweeping action, **Golden Fool** brings the reluctant adventurer further into the fray in an epic of sacrifice, salvation, and untold treachery.**Golden Fool**Prince Dutiful has been rescued from his Piebald kidnappers and the court has resumed its normal rhythms. But for FitzChivalry Farseer, a return to isolation is impossible. Though gutted by the loss of his wolf bondmate, Nighteyes, Fitz must take up residence at Buckkeep and resume his tasks as Chadeâ€™s apprentice assassin. Posing as Tom Badgerlock, bodyguard to Lord Golden, FitzChivalry becomes the eyes and ears behind the walls. And with his old mentor failing visibly, Fitz is forced to take on more burdens as he attempts to guide a kingdom straying closer to civil strife each day.The problems are legion.  Prince Dutifulâ€™s betrothal to the Narcheska Elliania of the Out Islands is fraught with tension, and the Narcheska herself appears to be hiding an array of secrets. Then, amid Piebald threats and the increasing persecution of the Witted, FitzChivalry must ensure that no one betrays the Princeâ€™s secretâ€”a secret that could topple the Farseer throne: that he, like Fitz, possesses the dread â€œbeast magic.â€Meanwhile, FitzChivalry must impart to the Prince his limited knowledge of the Skill: the hereditary and addictive magic of the Farseers. In the process, they discover within Buckkeep one who has a wild and powerful talent for it, and whose enmity for Fitz may have disastrous consequences for all.Only Fitzâ€™s enduring friendship with the Fool brings him any solace. But even that is shattered when unexpected visitors from Bingtown reveal devastating secrets from the Foolâ€™s past. Now, bereft of support and adrift in intrigue, Fitzâ€™s biggest challenge may be simply to survive the inescapable and violent path that fate has laid out for him.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10383'),
(19110, 'Golden fool', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The acclaimed *Farseer* and *Liveship Traders* trilogies established Robin Hobb as one of the most splendidly imaginative practitioners of world-class fantasy. Now, in Book 2 of her most stunning trilogy yet, Hobb continues the soul-shattering tale of FitzChivalry Farseer. With rich characters, breathtaking magic, and sweeping action, **Golden Fool** brings the reluctant adventurer further into the fray in an epic of sacrifice, salvation, and untold treachery.**Golden Fool**Prince Dutiful has been rescued from his Piebald kidnappers and the court has resumed its normal rhythms. But for FitzChivalry Farseer, a return to isolation is impossible. Though gutted by the loss of his wolf bondmate, Nighteyes, Fitz must take up residence at Buckkeep and resume his tasks as Chadeâ€™s apprentice assassin. Posing as Tom Badgerlock, bodyguard to Lord Golden, FitzChivalry becomes the eyes and ears behind the walls. And with his old mentor failing visibly, Fitz is forced to take on more burdens as he attempts to guide a kingdom straying closer to civil strife each day.The problems are legion. Prince Dutifulâ€™s betrothal to the Narcheska Elliania of the Out Islands is fraught with tension, and the Narcheska herself appears to be hiding an array of secrets. Then, amid Piebald threats and the increasing persecution of the Witted, FitzChivalry must ensure that no one betrays the Princeâ€™s secretâ€”a secret that could topple the Farseer throne: that he, like Fitz, possesses the dread â€œbeast magic.â€Meanwhile, FitzChivalry must impart to the Prince his limited knowledge of the Skill: the hereditary and addictive magic of the Farseers. In the process, they discover within Buckkeep one who has a wild and powerful talent for it, and whose enmity for Fitz may have disastrous consequences for all.Only Fitzâ€™s enduring friendship with the Fool brings him any solace. But even that is shattered when unexpected visitors from Bingtown reveal devastating secrets from the Foolâ€™s past. Now, bereft of support and adrift in intrigue, Fitzâ€™s biggest challenge may be simply to survive the inescapable and violent path that fate has laid out for him.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15304'),
(19111, 'Golden fool', 'Robin Hobb', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  The acclaimed *Farseer* and *Liveship Traders* trilogies established Robin Hobb as one of the most splendidly imaginative practitioners of world-class fantasy. Now, in Book 2 of her most stunning trilogy yet, Hobb continues the soul-shattering tale of FitzChivalry Farseer. With rich characters, breathtaking magic, and sweeping action, **Golden Fool** brings the reluctant adventurer further into the fray in an epic of sacrifice, salvation, and untold treachery.**Golden Fool**Prince Dutiful has been rescued from his Piebald kidnappers and the court has resumed its normal rhythms. But for FitzChivalry Farseer, a return to isolation is impossible. Though gutted by the loss of his wolf bondmate, Nighteyes, Fitz must take up residence at Buckkeep and resume his tasks as Chadeâ€™s apprentice assassin. Posing as Tom Badgerlock, bodyguard to Lord Golden, FitzChivalry becomes the eyes and ears behind the walls. And with his old mentor failing visibly, Fitz is forced to take on more burdens as he attempts to guide a kingdom straying closer to civil strife each day.The problems are legion. Prince Dutifulâ€™s betrothal to the Narcheska Elliania of the Out Islands is fraught with tension, and the Narcheska herself appears to be hiding an array of secrets. Then, amid Piebald threats and the increasing persecution of the Witted, FitzChivalry must ensure that no one betrays the Princeâ€™s secretâ€”a secret that could topple the Farseer throne: that he, like Fitz, possesses the dread â€œbeast magic.â€Meanwhile, FitzChivalry must impart to the Prince his limited knowledge of the Skill: the hereditary and addictive magic of the Farseers. In the process, they discover within Buckkeep one who has a wild and powerful talent for it, and whose enmity for Fitz may have disastrous consequences for all.Only Fitzâ€™s enduring friendship with the Fool brings him any solace. But even that is shattered when unexpected visitors from Bingtown reveal devastating secrets from the Foolâ€™s past. Now, bereft of support and adrift in intrigue, Fitzâ€™s biggest challenge may be simply to survive the inescapable and violent path that fate has laid out for him.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23317'),
(19112, 'The Golden Gate', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Startlingly good!tense!ingenious'' Sunday Express ''Alistair MacLean is a magnificent storyteller'' Sunday Mirror\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed masster of action and suspense. A ROLLING FOR KNOX is how the journalists describe the Presidential motorcade as it enters San Francisco across the Golden Gate. Even the ever-watchful FBI believe it is impregnable -- as it has to be with the President and two Arab potentates aboard. But halfway across the bridge the unthinkable happens. Before the eyes of the world a master criminal pulls off the most spectacular kidnapping in modern times!\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15927'),
(19113, 'The Golden Gizmo', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Toddy Kent was born with a talent for finding easy money, but Toddy''s gift has the habit of deserting him when he needs it most. When he discovers a seemingly limitless ( and illicit) source of pure gold, Toddy''s wife suddenly is murdered and he himself is on the run from a sinister man with no chin and a singing Doberman.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18140');
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(19114, 'The Golden Mean', 'Annabel Lyon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Golden Mean\n  </em>\n  portrays lives that grow bigger as they unfold--in this case, two of the most notable lives ever lived, those of Alexander the Great and his tutor, Aristotle. In sharply executed, revealing dialogue, Lyon draws contrasts between the rational, sensitive Aristotle and the charming, dangerous Alexander, and we''re reminded of another sense of the Golden Mean, the classical ideal of a balance between extremes. In this subtle, earthy story, we watch as the events of Aristotleâ€™s life mold the ideas that made him famous, and watch those ideas in turn mold the prince of Macedon who would one day "open his mouth and swallow the whole world." Lyon draws the curtain back on the smoke-filled huts and palace chambers that shaped the lives of these two great men, whose mutual admiration and intellect transformed civilization. Itâ€™s historical fiction at its finest.\n  <em>\n   --Juliet Disparte\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Hilary Mantel Reviews\n   <em>\n    The Golden Mean\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Hilary Mantel is the author of ten novels, including\n   <em>\n    The New York Times, The New York Review of Books,\n   </em>\n   and the\n   <em>\n    London Review of Books\n   </em>\n   . She lives in England. Read her review of\n   <em>\n    The Golden Mean\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  I think this quietly ambitious and beautifully achieved novel is one of the most convincing historical novels I have ever read. Lyon makes her reader avid for every detail of this strange world, whether domestic or medical or military, and she has steeped herself in the thinking of the time. She makes her characters entirely solid and real, while respecting their otherness, the distance between us. That is what characterized Mary Renault''s novels, and I think that she would have deeply admired this book. There is a particular difficulty for the novelist in putting on the page characters, like Aristotle and Alexander, who are so famous that they have a mythic quality--there is the danger that anything you say will be bathetic. Lyon avoids this by clear-eyed directness, by freshness of vision, and prose that is clean and careful. And I thought that she chose to end the story at precisely the right point. Part of me said "please let there be more," but at the same time I recognize the job is done. Throughout, I think her judgment is sound and true, and the reader trusts her voice from the first paragraph.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The bond between teacher and student occupies the center of Canadian Lyon''s debut novel covering the three years during which Aristotle tutored the young Alexander the Great, before Alexander''s accession to the throne of Macedonia. The philosopher narrates, recounting his arrival in the court of Philip of Macedon, Aristotle''s upbringing, and his bond with the ruling family. The teenaged Alexander is headstrong and arrogant, but also insecure and vulnerable. "Every student is both a challenge and a laurel leaf," Aristotle says in an early, disputatious meeting. "I haven''t seen anything in you that tells me you''re extraordinary in any way." Alexander matures as he absorbs Aristotle''s core principles. "You must look for the mean between extremes, the point of balance," Aristotle advises the future military genius. Lyon depicts Aristotle''s desire to instill a sense of virtue in his royal pupil in clear, often earthy language, and brings 4th-century Greece to startling life. Lyon richly imagines Aristotle''s stint as Macedon''s royal academician, who gave Alexander the intellectual tools to not only rule but to civilize.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7595'),
(19115, 'The Golden Mean', 'Annabel Lyon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Golden Mean\n  </em>\n  portrays lives that grow bigger as they unfold--in this case, two of the most notable lives ever lived, those of Alexander the Great and his tutor, Aristotle. In sharply executed, revealing dialogue, Lyon draws contrasts between the rational, sensitive Aristotle and the charming, dangerous Alexander, and we''re reminded of another sense of the Golden Mean, the classical ideal of a balance between extremes. In this subtle, earthy story, we watch as the events of Aristotleâ€™s life mold the ideas that made him famous, and watch those ideas in turn mold the prince of Macedon who would one day "open his mouth and swallow the whole world." Lyon draws the curtain back on the smoke-filled huts and palace chambers that shaped the lives of these two great men, whose mutual admiration and intellect transformed civilization. Itâ€™s historical fiction at its finest.\n  <em>\n   --Juliet Disparte\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Hilary Mantel Reviews\n   <em>\n    The Golden Mean\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Hilary Mantel is the author of ten novels, including\n   <em>\n    The New York Times, The New York Review of Books,\n   </em>\n   and the\n   <em>\n    London Review of Books\n   </em>\n   . She lives in England. Read her review of\n   <em>\n    The Golden Mean\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  I think this quietly ambitious and beautifully achieved novel is one of the most convincing historical novels I have ever read. Lyon makes her reader avid for every detail of this strange world, whether domestic or medical or military, and she has steeped herself in the thinking of the time. She makes her characters entirely solid and real, while respecting their otherness, the distance between us. That is what characterized Mary Renault''s novels, and I think that she would have deeply admired this book. There is a particular difficulty for the novelist in putting on the page characters, like Aristotle and Alexander, who are so famous that they have a mythic quality--there is the danger that anything you say will be bathetic. Lyon avoids this by clear-eyed directness, by freshness of vision, and prose that is clean and careful. And I thought that she chose to end the story at precisely the right point. Part of me said "please let there be more," but at the same time I recognize the job is done. Throughout, I think her judgment is sound and true, and the reader trusts her voice from the first paragraph.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The bond between teacher and student occupies the center of Canadian Lyon''s debut novel covering the three years during which Aristotle tutored the young Alexander the Great, before Alexander''s accession to the throne of Macedonia. The philosopher narrates, recounting his arrival in the court of Philip of Macedon, Aristotle''s upbringing, and his bond with the ruling family. The teenaged Alexander is headstrong and arrogant, but also insecure and vulnerable. "Every student is both a challenge and a laurel leaf," Aristotle says in an early, disputatious meeting. "I haven''t seen anything in you that tells me you''re extraordinary in any way." Alexander matures as he absorbs Aristotle''s core principles. "You must look for the mean between extremes, the point of balance," Aristotle advises the future military genius. Lyon depicts Aristotle''s desire to instill a sense of virtue in his royal pupil in clear, often earthy language, and brings 4th-century Greece to startling life. Lyon richly imagines Aristotle''s stint as Macedon''s royal academician, who gave Alexander the intellectual tools to not only rule but to civilize.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11171'),
(19116, 'The Golden Mean', 'Annabel Lyon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Golden Mean\n  </em>\n  portrays lives that grow bigger as they unfold--in this case, two of the most notable lives ever lived, those of Alexander the Great and his tutor, Aristotle. In sharply executed, revealing dialogue, Lyon draws contrasts between the rational, sensitive Aristotle and the charming, dangerous Alexander, and we''re reminded of another sense of the Golden Mean, the classical ideal of a balance between extremes. In this subtle, earthy story, we watch as the events of Aristotleâ€™s life mold the ideas that made him famous, and watch those ideas in turn mold the prince of Macedon who would one day "open his mouth and swallow the whole world." Lyon draws the curtain back on the smoke-filled huts and palace chambers that shaped the lives of these two great men, whose mutual admiration and intellect transformed civilization. Itâ€™s historical fiction at its finest.\n  <em>\n   --Juliet Disparte\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Hilary Mantel Reviews\n   <em>\n    The Golden Mean\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Hilary Mantel is the author of ten novels, including\n   <em>\n    The New York Times, The New York Review of Books,\n   </em>\n   and the\n   <em>\n    London Review of Books\n   </em>\n   . She lives in England. Read her review of\n   <em>\n    The Golden Mean\n   </em>\n   :\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  I think this quietly ambitious and beautifully achieved novel is one of the most convincing historical novels I have ever read. Lyon makes her reader avid for every detail of this strange world, whether domestic or medical or military, and she has steeped herself in the thinking of the time. She makes her characters entirely solid and real, while respecting their otherness, the distance between us. That is what characterized Mary Renault''s novels, and I think that she would have deeply admired this book. There is a particular difficulty for the novelist in putting on the page characters, like Aristotle and Alexander, who are so famous that they have a mythic quality--there is the danger that anything you say will be bathetic. Lyon avoids this by clear-eyed directness, by freshness of vision, and prose that is clean and careful. And I thought that she chose to end the story at precisely the right point. Part of me said "please let there be more," but at the same time I recognize the job is done. Throughout, I think her judgment is sound and true, and the reader trusts her voice from the first paragraph.\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The bond between teacher and student occupies the center of Canadian Lyon''s debut novel covering the three years during which Aristotle tutored the young Alexander the Great, before Alexander''s accession to the throne of Macedonia. The philosopher narrates, recounting his arrival in the court of Philip of Macedon, Aristotle''s upbringing, and his bond with the ruling family. The teenaged Alexander is headstrong and arrogant, but also insecure and vulnerable. "Every student is both a challenge and a laurel leaf," Aristotle says in an early, disputatious meeting. "I haven''t seen anything in you that tells me you''re extraordinary in any way." Alexander matures as he absorbs Aristotle''s core principles. "You must look for the mean between extremes, the point of balance," Aristotle advises the future military genius. Lyon depicts Aristotle''s desire to instill a sense of virtue in his royal pupil in clear, often earthy language, and brings 4th-century Greece to startling life. Lyon richly imagines Aristotle''s stint as Macedon''s royal academician, who gave Alexander the intellectual tools to not only rule but to civilize.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16307'),
(19117, 'The Golden One: A Novel of Suspense', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. In these perilous times, archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her extended family must confront shocking dangers. But it is son Ramses who faces the most dire threat, answering a call that will carry him to the fabled seaport of Gaza on a mission as personal as it is perilous -- where death will be the certain consequence of exposure. While far away, Ramses''s beautiful wife, Nefret, guards a secret of her own ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18550'),
(19118, 'The Golden One: A Novel of Suspense', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. In these perilous times, archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her extended family must confront shocking dangers. But it is son Ramses who faces the most dire threat, answering a call that will carry him to the fabled seaport of Gaza on a mission as personal as it is perilous -- where death will be the certain consequence of exposure. While far away, Ramses''s beautiful wife, Nefret, guards a secret of her own ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27717'),
(19119, 'The Golden Prince', 'Rebecca Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the outset of Dean''s solid historical, the highly arranged life of the 17-year-old prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII, takes a drastic turn. One day in May 1911 while speeding in his motorcar, the prince, known as David, hits a young woman, Rose Houghton, riding on her bicycle near her home, Snowberry Manor. He rushes Rose to the manor house, where he falls almost instantly in love with her youngest sister, Lily. David spends much time at Snowberry, where he can pretend to be an ordinary man. He proposes to Lily, but his father, George V, refuses to allow the marriage. When David threatens to abdicate his right to the throne, Lily must choose between her own well-being and that of England. Besides creating a complicated lead in the prince, Dean (Palace Circle) deftly balances an array of well-drawn characters. Only the cartoonish villain, Captain Cullen, rings false. (Dec.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "With her insight into the era, Dean brilliantly depicts the man and England so well that readers will believe they are part of the whirlwind that was 1911 England. Through her elegant prose and vibrant descriptions, that world comes to life." --_The Romantic Times\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Well researched and well written, this is romantic historical fiction at its best.Â " --_Library Journal_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1901'),
(19120, 'The Golden Prince', 'Rebecca Dean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At the outset of Dean''s solid historical, the highly arranged life of the 17-year-old prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII, takes a drastic turn. One day in May 1911 while speeding in his motorcar, the prince, known as David, hits a young woman, Rose Houghton, riding on her bicycle near her home, Snowberry Manor. He rushes Rose to the manor house, where he falls almost instantly in love with her youngest sister, Lily. David spends much time at Snowberry, where he can pretend to be an ordinary man. He proposes to Lily, but his father, George V, refuses to allow the marriage. When David threatens to abdicate his right to the throne, Lily must choose between her own well-being and that of England. Besides creating a complicated lead in the prince, Dean (Palace Circle) deftly balances an array of well-drawn characters. Only the cartoonish villain, Captain Cullen, rings false. (Dec.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "With her insight into the era, Dean brilliantly depicts the man and England so well that readers will believe they are part of the whirlwind that was 1911 England. Through her elegant prose and vibrant descriptions, that world comes to life." --_The Romantic Times\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Well researched and well written, this is romantic historical fiction at its best.Â " --_Library Journal_\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9270'),
(19121, 'The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World&#39;s Most Astonishing Number', 'Mario Livio', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: *phi*, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago because of its crucial role in the construction of the pentagram, to which magical properties had been attributed. Since then it has shown a propensity to appear in the most astonishing variety of places, from mollusk shells, sunflower florets, and rose petals to the shape of the galaxy. Psychological studies have investigated whether the Golden Ratio is the most aesthetically pleasing proportion extant, and it has been asserted that the creators of the Pyramids and the Parthenon employed it. It is believed to feature in works of art from Leonardo da Vinci''s *Mona Lisa *to Salvador Dali''s *The Sacrament of the Last Supper*, and poets and composers have used it in their works. It has even been found to be connected to the behavior of the stock market!*The Golden Ratio* is a captivating journey through art and architecture, botany and biology, physics and mathematics. It tells the human story of numerous phi-fixated individuals, including the followers of Pythagoras who believed that this proportion revealed the hand of God; astronomer Johannes Kepler, who saw phi as the greatest treasure of geometry; such Renaissance thinkers as mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa; and such masters of the modern world as Goethe, Cezanne, Bartok, and physicist Roger Penrose.  Wherever his quest for the meaning of phi takes him, Mario Livio reveals the world as a place where order, beauty, and eternal mystery will always coexist.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3053'),
(19122, 'The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World&#39;s Most Astonishing Number', 'Mario Livio', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: *phi*, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago because of its crucial role in the construction of the pentagram, to which magical properties had been attributed. Since then it has shown a propensity to appear in the most astonishing variety of places, from mollusk shells, sunflower florets, and rose petals to the shape of the galaxy. Psychological studies have investigated whether the Golden Ratio is the most aesthetically pleasing proportion extant, and it has been asserted that the creators of the Pyramids and the Parthenon employed it. It is believed to feature in works of art from Leonardo da Vinci''s *Mona Lisa *to Salvador Dali''s *The Sacrament of the Last Supper*, and poets and composers have used it in their works. It has even been found to be connected to the behavior of the stock market!*The Golden Ratio* is a captivating journey through art and architecture, botany and biology, physics and mathematics. It tells the human story of numerous phi-fixated individuals, including the followers of Pythagoras who believed that this proportion revealed the hand of God; astronomer Johannes Kepler, who saw phi as the greatest treasure of geometry; such Renaissance thinkers as mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa; and such masters of the modern world as Goethe, Cezanne, Bartok, and physicist Roger Penrose.  Wherever his quest for the meaning of phi takes him, Mario Livio reveals the world as a place where order, beauty, and eternal mystery will always coexist.*From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11166'),
(19123, 'The Golden Rendezvous', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15928'),
(19124, 'Golden Soak', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18332'),
(19125, 'The Golden Steed', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7940'),
(19126, 'A Golden Web', 'Barbara Quick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alessandra is desperate to escape.   Desperate to escape her stepmother, who''s locked her away for a year; to escape the cloister that awaits her and the marriage plans that have been made for her; to escape the expectations that limit her and every other girl in fourteenth-century Italy. There''s no tolerance in her quiet village for Alessandra and her keen intelligence and unconventional ideas.   In defiant pursuit of her dreams, Alessandra undertakes an audacious quest, her bravery equaled only by the dangers she faces. Disguised and alone in a city of spies and scholars, Alessandra will find a love she could not foresee -- and an enduring fame.   In this exquisite imagining of the centuries-old story of Alessandra Giliani, the world''s first female anatomist, acclaimed novelist Barbara Quick gives readers the drama, romance, and rich historical detail for which she is known as she shines a light on an unforgotten -- and unforgettable -- heroine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7265'),
(19127, 'A Golden Web', 'Barbara Quick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Alessandra is desperate to escape.   Desperate to escape her stepmother, who''s locked her away for a year; to escape the cloister that awaits her and the marriage plans that have been made for her; to escape the expectations that limit her and every other girl in fourteenth-century Italy. There''s no tolerance in her quiet village for Alessandra and her keen intelligence and unconventional ideas.   In defiant pursuit of her dreams, Alessandra undertakes an audacious quest, her bravery equaled only by the dangers she faces. Disguised and alone in a city of spies and scholars, Alessandra will find a love she could not foresee -- and an enduring fame.   In this exquisite imagining of the centuries-old story of Alessandra Giliani, the world''s first female anatomist, acclaimed novelist Barbara Quick gives readers the drama, romance, and rich historical detail for which she is known as she shines a light on an unforgotten -- and unforgettable -- heroine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12096'),
(19128, 'A Golden Web', 'Barbara Quick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alessandra is desperate to escape. Desperate to escape her stepmother, who''s locked her away for a year; to escape the cloister that awaits her and the marriage plans that have been made for her; to escape the expectations that limit her and every other girl in fourteenth-century Italy. There''s no tolerance in her quiet village for Alessandra and her keen intelligence and unconventional ideas. In defiant pursuit of her dreams, Alessandra undertakes an audacious quest, her bravery equaled only by the dangers she faces. Disguised and alone in a city of spies and scholars, Alessandra will find a love she could not foresee -- and an enduring fame. In this exquisite imagining of the centuries-old story of Alessandra Giliani, the world''s first female anatomist, acclaimed novelist Barbara Quick gives readers the drama, romance, and rich historical detail for which she is known as she shines a light on an unforgotten -- and unforgettable -- heroine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16597'),
(19129, 'A Golden Web', 'Barbara Quick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Alessandra is desperate to escape. Desperate to escape her stepmother, who''s locked her away for a year; to escape the cloister that awaits her and the marriage plans that have been made for her; to escape the expectations that limit her and every other girl in fourteenth-century Italy. There''s no tolerance in her quiet village for Alessandra and her keen intelligence and unconventional ideas. In defiant pursuit of her dreams, Alessandra undertakes an audacious quest, her bravery equaled only by the dangers she faces. Disguised and alone in a city of spies and scholars, Alessandra will find a love she could not foresee -- and an enduring fame. In this exquisite imagining of the centuries-old story of Alessandra Giliani, the world''s first female anatomist, acclaimed novelist Barbara Quick gives readers the drama, romance, and rich historical detail for which she is known as she shines a light on an unforgotten -- and unforgettable -- heroine.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26574'),
(19130, 'Goldfinger: 007, a James Bond Novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his cash in gold bars and his women dressed only in gold paint. After smuggling tons of gold out of Britain into secret vaults in Switzerland, this powerful villain is planning the biggest and most daring heist in history-robbing all the gold in Fort Knox. That is, unless Secret Agent 007 can foil his plan. In one of Ian Fleming''s most popular adventures, James Bond tracks this most dangerous foe across two continents and takes on two of the most memorable villains ever created-a human weapon named Oddjob and a luscious female crime boss named Pussy Galore. REVIEW; A superlative thriller from our foremost literary magician. (The New York Herald Tribune)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5056'),
(19131, 'Goldfinger: 007, a James Bond novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his cash in gold bars and his women dressed only in gold paint. After smuggling tons of gold out of Britain into secret vaults in Switzerland, this powerful villain is planning the biggest and most daring heist in history-robbing all the gold in Fort Knox. That is, unless Secret Agent 007 can foil his plan. In one of Ian Fleming''s most popular adventures, James Bond tracks this most dangerous foe across two continents and takes on two of the most memorable villains ever created-a human weapon named Oddjob and a luscious female crime boss named Pussy Galore. REVIEW; A superlative thriller from our foremost literary magician. (The New York Herald Tribune)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19665'),
(19132, 'Goldfinger: 007, a James Bond novel', 'Ian Fleming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his cash in gold bars and his women dressed only in gold paint. After smuggling tons of gold out of Britain into secret vaults in Switzerland, this powerful villain is planning the biggest and most daring heist in history-robbing all the gold in Fort Knox. That is, unless Secret Agent 007 can foil his plan. In one of Ian Fleming''s most popular adventures, James Bond tracks this most dangerous foe across two continents and takes on two of the most memorable villains ever created-a human weapon named Oddjob and a luscious female crime boss named Pussy Galore. REVIEW; A superlative thriller from our foremost literary magician. (The New York Herald Tribune)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28218'),
(19133, 'Golem in the Gears', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Grundy Golem got no respect. So, to prove himself, he volunteered for a quest to find the long-lost dragon, Stanley Steamer. On the way, he somehow manages to free a damsel in distress-- but not without incurring the wrath of the Sea Hag in the process. And when it comes to avenging herself on Grundy, the Sea Hag will never give up....From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2016'),
(19134, 'Golem in the Gears', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Grundy Golem got no respect. So, to prove himself, he volunteered for a quest to find the long-lost dragon, Stanley Steamer. On the way, he somehow manages to free a damsel in distress-- but not without incurring the wrath of the Sea Hag in the process. And when it comes to avenging herself on Grundy, the Sea Hag will never give up....From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22699'),
(19135, 'Gone for Good (2002)', 'Coben, Harlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14851'),
(19136, 'Gone for Good (2002)', 'Coben, Harlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18666'),
(19137, 'Gone for Good (2002)', 'Coben, Harlan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27075'),
(19138, 'Gone South', 'Robert R. McCammon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The New York Times bestselling author of Boy''s Life reaches the peak of his storytelling powers with this visionary masterpiece of violence and redemption. Flooded by memories, poisoned by the deadly fallout of Agent Orange, and desperate for work, Dan Lambert kills a man in a moment of blind fear and fury. Now he is on the run, fleeing to the Louisiana bayous.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23100'),
(19139, 'Gone Tomorrow', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan-by dozens of people with one thing in common: They''re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, the finish line comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3525'),
(19140, 'Gone Tomorrow', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan-by dozens of people with one thing in common: They''re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, the finish line comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14967'),
(19141, 'Gone Tomorrow', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan-by dozens of people with one thing in common: They''re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, the finish line comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21037'),
(19142, 'Gone With the Wind', 'Margaret Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Margaret Mitchell''s epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives. In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3099'),
(19143, 'Gone with the wind', 'Margaret Mitchell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Unknown\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14423'),
(19144, 'Gone, Baby, Gone', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cheese Olamon, "a six-foot-two, four-hundred-and-thirty-pound yellow-haired Scandinavian who''d somehow arrived at the misconception he was black," is telling his old grammar school friends Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro why they have to convince another mutual chum, the gun dealer Bubba Rugowski, that Cheese didn''t try to have him killed. "You let Bubba know I''m clean when it comes to what happened to him. You want me alive. Okay? Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone." Of all the chilling, completely credible scenes of sadness, destruction, and betrayal in Dennis Lehane''s fourth and very possibly best book about Kenzie and Gennaro, this moment stands out because it captures in a few pages the essence of Lehane''s success.\n</p>\n<p>\n Private detectives Kenzie and Gennaro, who live in the same working-class Dorchester neighborhood of Boston where they grew up, have gone to visit drug dealer Cheese in prison because they think he''s involved in the kidnapping of 4-year-old Amanda McCready. Without sentimentalizing the grotesque figure of Cheese, Lehane tells us enough about his past to make us understand why he and the two detectives might share enough trust to possibly save a child''s life when all the best efforts of traditional law enforcement have failed. By putting Kenzie and Gennaro just to one side of the law (but not totally outside; they have several cop friends, a very important part of the story), Lehane adds depth and edge to traditional genre relationships. The lifelong love affair between Kenzie and Gennaro--interrupted by her marriage to his best friend--is another perfectly controlled element that grows and changes as we watch. Surrounded by dead, abused, and missing children, Kenzie mourns and rages while Gennaro longs for one of her own. So the choices made by both of them in the final pages of this absolutely gripping story have the inevitability of life and the dazzling beauty of art.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other Kenzie/Gennaro books available in paperback: __,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vanished, in this complex and unsettling fourth case for PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro (after Sacred, 1997) is four-year-old Amanda McCready, taken one night from her apartment in Dorchester, a working-class section of Boston, where her mother had left her alone. Kenzie and Gennaro, hired by the child''s aunt and uncle, join in an unlikely alliance with Remy Broussard and Nick Raftopoulos, known as Poole, the two cops with the department''s Crimes Against Children squad who are assigned to the case. In tracing the history of Amanda''s neglectful mother, whose past involved her with a drug lord and his minions, the foursome quickly find themselves tangling with Boston''s crime underworld and involved in what appears to be a coup among criminals. Lehane develops plenty of tension between various pairs of parties: the good guys looking for Amanda and the bad guys who may know where she is; the two PIs and the two cops; various police and federal agencies; opposing camps in the underworld; and Patrick and Angie, who are lovers as well as business partners. All is delivered with abundant violence?e.g., bloated and mutilated corpses; gangland executions; shoot-outs with weapons of prodigious firepower; descriptions of sexual abuse of small children; threats of rape and murder?that serves to make Amanda''s likely fate all the more chilling. Lehane tackles corruption in many forms as he brings his complicated plot to its satisfying resolution, at the same time leaving readers to ponder moral questions about social and individual responsibility long after the last page is turned. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6012'),
(19145, 'Gone, Baby, Gone', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cheese Olamon, "a six-foot-two, four-hundred-and-thirty-pound yellow-haired Scandinavian who''d somehow arrived at the misconception he was black," is telling his old grammar school friends Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro why they have to convince another mutual chum, the gun dealer Bubba Rugowski, that Cheese didn''t try to have him killed. "You let Bubba know I''m clean when it comes to what happened to him. You want me alive. Okay? Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone." Of all the chilling, completely credible scenes of sadness, destruction, and betrayal in Dennis Lehane''s fourth and very possibly best book about Kenzie and Gennaro, this moment stands out because it captures in a few pages the essence of Lehane''s success.\n</p>\n<p>\n Private detectives Kenzie and Gennaro, who live in the same working-class Dorchester neighborhood of Boston where they grew up, have gone to visit drug dealer Cheese in prison because they think he''s involved in the kidnapping of 4-year-old Amanda McCready. Without sentimentalizing the grotesque figure of Cheese, Lehane tells us enough about his past to make us understand why he and the two detectives might share enough trust to possibly save a child''s life when all the best efforts of traditional law enforcement have failed. By putting Kenzie and Gennaro just to one side of the law (but not totally outside; they have several cop friends, a very important part of the story), Lehane adds depth and edge to traditional genre relationships. The lifelong love affair between Kenzie and Gennaro--interrupted by her marriage to his best friend--is another perfectly controlled element that grows and changes as we watch. Surrounded by dead, abused, and missing children, Kenzie mourns and rages while Gennaro longs for one of her own. So the choices made by both of them in the final pages of this absolutely gripping story have the inevitability of life and the dazzling beauty of art.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other Kenzie/Gennaro books available in paperback: __,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vanished, in this complex and unsettling fourth case for PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro (after Sacred, 1997) is four-year-old Amanda McCready, taken one night from her apartment in Dorchester, a working-class section of Boston, where her mother had left her alone. Kenzie and Gennaro, hired by the child''s aunt and uncle, join in an unlikely alliance with Remy Broussard and Nick Raftopoulos, known as Poole, the two cops with the department''s Crimes Against Children squad who are assigned to the case. In tracing the history of Amanda''s neglectful mother, whose past involved her with a drug lord and his minions, the foursome quickly find themselves tangling with Boston''s crime underworld and involved in what appears to be a coup among criminals. Lehane develops plenty of tension between various pairs of parties: the good guys looking for Amanda and the bad guys who may know where she is; the two PIs and the two cops; various police and federal agencies; opposing camps in the underworld; and Patrick and Angie, who are lovers as well as business partners. All is delivered with abundant violence?e.g., bloated and mutilated corpses; gangland executions; shoot-outs with weapons of prodigious firepower; descriptions of sexual abuse of small children; threats of rape and murder?that serves to make Amanda''s likely fate all the more chilling. Lehane tackles corruption in many forms as he brings his complicated plot to its satisfying resolution, at the same time leaving readers to ponder moral questions about social and individual responsibility long after the last page is turned. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12182'),
(19146, 'Gone, Baby, Gone', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don''t want the case. But after pleas from the child''s aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everythingâ€”their relationship, their sanity, and even their livesâ€”to find a little girl-lost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14490'),
(19147, 'Gone, Baby, Gone', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Cheese Olamon, "a six-foot-two, four-hundred-and-thirty-pound yellow-haired Scandinavian who''d somehow arrived at the misconception he was black," is telling his old grammar school friends Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro why they have to convince another mutual chum, the gun dealer Bubba Rugowski, that Cheese didn''t try to have him killed. "You let Bubba know I''m clean when it comes to what happened to him. You want me alive. Okay? Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone." Of all the chilling, completely credible scenes of sadness, destruction, and betrayal in Dennis Lehane''s fourth and very possibly best book about Kenzie and Gennaro, this moment stands out because it captures in a few pages the essence of Lehane''s success.\n</p>\n<p>\n Private detectives Kenzie and Gennaro, who live in the same working-class Dorchester neighborhood of Boston where they grew up, have gone to visit drug dealer Cheese in prison because they think he''s involved in the kidnapping of 4-year-old Amanda McCready. Without sentimentalizing the grotesque figure of Cheese, Lehane tells us enough about his past to make us understand why he and the two detectives might share enough trust to possibly save a child''s life when all the best efforts of traditional law enforcement have failed. By putting Kenzie and Gennaro just to one side of the law (but not totally outside; they have several cop friends, a very important part of the story), Lehane adds depth and edge to traditional genre relationships. The lifelong love affair between Kenzie and Gennaro--interrupted by her marriage to his best friend--is another perfectly controlled element that grows and changes as we watch. Surrounded by dead, abused, and missing children, Kenzie mourns and rages while Gennaro longs for one of her own. So the choices made by both of them in the final pages of this absolutely gripping story have the inevitability of life and the dazzling beauty of art.\n</p>\n<p>\n Other Kenzie/Gennaro books available in paperback: __,\n <strong>\n  ,\n </strong>\n .\n <em>\n  --Dick Adler\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Vanished, in this complex and unsettling fourth case for PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro (after Sacred, 1997) is four-year-old Amanda McCready, taken one night from her apartment in Dorchester, a working-class section of Boston, where her mother had left her alone. Kenzie and Gennaro, hired by the child''s aunt and uncle, join in an unlikely alliance with Remy Broussard and Nick Raftopoulos, known as Poole, the two cops with the department''s Crimes Against Children squad who are assigned to the case. In tracing the history of Amanda''s neglectful mother, whose past involved her with a drug lord and his minions, the foursome quickly find themselves tangling with Boston''s crime underworld and involved in what appears to be a coup among criminals. Lehane develops plenty of tension between various pairs of parties: the good guys looking for Amanda and the bad guys who may know where she is; the two PIs and the two cops; various police and federal agencies; opposing camps in the underworld; and Patrick and Angie, who are lovers as well as business partners. All is delivered with abundant violence?e.g., bloated and mutilated corpses; gangland executions; shoot-outs with weapons of prodigious firepower; descriptions of sexual abuse of small children; threats of rape and murder?that serves to make Amanda''s likely fate all the more chilling. Lehane tackles corruption in many forms as he brings his complicated plot to its satisfying resolution, at the same time leaving readers to ponder moral questions about social and individual responsibility long after the last page is turned. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18000'),
(19148, 'Gone, Baby, Gone', 'Dennis Lehane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don''t want the case. But after pleas from the child''s aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everythingâ€”their relationship, their sanity, and even their livesâ€”to find a little girl-lost.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27512'),
(19149, 'Gonzo Papers - The Great Shark Hunt', 'Thompson, Hunter S', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25029'),
(19150, 'Good Bones', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''A marvellous miniature sample case of Atwood''s sensuous and sardonic talents'' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ''Savagely hilarous'' THE LIST ''Her wit and humour are perfectly complemented by a penetrating eye for the false and absurd'' THE SUNDAY TIMES ''Full of fun and invention, with an edge that cuts through preconceptions...an entertaining sampler of Atwood''s cleverness and imagination'' NICOLETTE JONES, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n These wise and witty writings home in on Shakespeare, tree stumps, ecological disasters, bodies (male and female), and theology, amongst other matters. We hear Gertrude''s version of what really happened in Hamlet; an ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves,and a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula hopelessly wrong. Good Bones is pure distilled Atwood - deliciously strong and bittersweet.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8161');
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(19151, 'Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning', 'Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi''s definition of leadership, the personal is political. The best-selling author of __ interviewed several dozen exemplary CEOs whose wisdom provides the radical job description of the bookâ€™s premise: "Leaders must make it possible for employees to work with joy, to their heartâ€™s content, while responding to the needs of society." Csikszentmihalyi leverages his definition of "flow"â€”-the capacity for full engagement in an activityâ€”-to create a blueprint for a workplace in which bringing out the best in workers comes before products and profit. When leaders select and reward employees who find satisfaction at work, they can create an upwardly moral organization.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this view, leadership is a privilege that requires checking ego in the coatroom and peering into the mirror to ask tough questions. For example, "How do I determine if something is right or wrong?" Or, "What is my business doing to benefit human well being?" He offers some inspiring stories from leaders who engage employees to go with the flow, including Body Shop CEO Anita Roddick, Patagonia crown prince Yvon Chouinard, and media mogul Ted Turner. Some of Csikszentmihalyiâ€™s advice will sound familiar. Yet he creates a compellingly fresh vision of good business in both a material and spiritual sense. Ultimately, the success of this book lies in its powerful, non-flaky ability to define corporate soul in terms of a company becoming a stakeholder in an entity larger than itself.--_Barbara Mackoff_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Asking business leaders to turn a profit in this climate is tough enough, but psychologist Csikszentmihalyi challenges them to do something even tougher: make people happy. The author first explored flow, the enjoyment felt when an individual is focused on a complex task, in 1991''s bestselling Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, and he has often returned to the subject (The Evolving Self; Creativity; etc.). Now he wants to show business leaders how to foster flow and use their psychic energy to enhance the happiness of their employees, customers and even themselves. The advice book offers predictable but sound guidance to business leaders: know oneself, set clear goals for employees and consider the consequences of business decisions. Insightful quotes from figures like Aristotle, Dante Alighieri and John Locke provide some historical grounding, but mostly the author focuses on how modern businesses motivate employees and contribute to the common good. By conducting extensive interviews, the author collects the secrets of successful business leaders, including the Body Shop CEO Anita Roddick; McDonald''s chairman and CEO Jack Greenberg; and AOL Time Warner''s Ted Turner. Roddick, for example, says that looking at company''s lavatories and cafeteria can reveal a lot about a firm''s corporate culture and the happiness of its employees. If a firm fails to create a clean, healthy environment for its workers, it probably isn''t doing much good. Csikszentmihalyi shows how moral responsibility, respect for the environment and clean bathrooms can make a business good and the whole world better.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2728'),
(19152, 'Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning', 'Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi''s definition of leadership, the personal is political. The best-selling author of __ interviewed several dozen exemplary CEOs whose wisdom provides the radical job description of the bookâ€™s premise: "Leaders must make it possible for employees to work with joy, to their heartâ€™s content, while responding to the needs of society." Csikszentmihalyi leverages his definition of "flow"â€”-the capacity for full engagement in an activityâ€”-to create a blueprint for a workplace in which bringing out the best in workers comes before products and profit. When leaders select and reward employees who find satisfaction at work, they can create an upwardly moral organization.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this view, leadership is a privilege that requires checking ego in the coatroom and peering into the mirror to ask tough questions. For example, "How do I determine if something is right or wrong?" Or, "What is my business doing to benefit human well being?" He offers some inspiring stories from leaders who engage employees to go with the flow, including Body Shop CEO Anita Roddick, Patagonia crown prince Yvon Chouinard, and media mogul Ted Turner. Some of Csikszentmihalyiâ€™s advice will sound familiar. Yet he creates a compellingly fresh vision of good business in both a material and spiritual sense. Ultimately, the success of this book lies in its powerful, non-flaky ability to define corporate soul in terms of a company becoming a stakeholder in an entity larger than itself.--_Barbara Mackoff_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Asking business leaders to turn a profit in this climate is tough enough, but psychologist Csikszentmihalyi challenges them to do something even tougher: make people happy. The author first explored flow, the enjoyment felt when an individual is focused on a complex task, in 1991''s bestselling Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, and he has often returned to the subject (The Evolving Self; Creativity; etc.). Now he wants to show business leaders how to foster flow and use their psychic energy to enhance the happiness of their employees, customers and even themselves. The advice book offers predictable but sound guidance to business leaders: know oneself, set clear goals for employees and consider the consequences of business decisions. Insightful quotes from figures like Aristotle, Dante Alighieri and John Locke provide some historical grounding, but mostly the author focuses on how modern businesses motivate employees and contribute to the common good. By conducting extensive interviews, the author collects the secrets of successful business leaders, including the Body Shop CEO Anita Roddick; McDonald''s chairman and CEO Jack Greenberg; and AOL Time Warner''s Ted Turner. Roddick, for example, says that looking at company''s lavatories and cafeteria can reveal a lot about a firm''s corporate culture and the happiness of its employees. If a firm fails to create a clean, healthy environment for its workers, it probably isn''t doing much good. Csikszentmihalyi shows how moral responsibility, respect for the environment and clean bathrooms can make a business good and the whole world better.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9145'),
(19153, 'Good business: leadership, flow, and the making of meaning', 'Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n In psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi''s definition of leadership, the personal is political. The best-selling author of __ interviewed several dozen exemplary CEOs whose wisdom provides the radical job description of the bookâ€™s premise: "Leaders must make it possible for employees to work with joy, to their heartâ€™s content, while responding to the needs of society." Csikszentmihalyi leverages his definition of "flow"â€”-the capacity for full engagement in an activityâ€”-to create a blueprint for a workplace in which bringing out the best in workers comes before products and profit. When leaders select and reward employees who find satisfaction at work, they can create an upwardly moral organization.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this view, leadership is a privilege that requires checking ego in the coatroom and peering into the mirror to ask tough questions. For example, "How do I determine if something is right or wrong?" Or, "What is my business doing to benefit human well being?" He offers some inspiring stories from leaders who engage employees to go with the flow, including Body Shop CEO Anita Roddick, Patagonia crown prince Yvon Chouinard, and media mogul Ted Turner. Some of Csikszentmihalyiâ€™s advice will sound familiar. Yet he creates a compellingly fresh vision of good business in both a material and spiritual sense. Ultimately, the success of this book lies in its powerful, non-flaky ability to define corporate soul in terms of a company becoming a stakeholder in an entity larger than itself.--_Barbara Mackoff_\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Asking business leaders to turn a profit in this climate is tough enough, but psychologist Csikszentmihalyi challenges them to do something even tougher: make people happy. The author first explored flow, the enjoyment felt when an individual is focused on a complex task, in 1991''s bestselling Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, and he has often returned to the subject (The Evolving Self; Creativity; etc.). Now he wants to show business leaders how to foster flow and use their psychic energy to enhance the happiness of their employees, customers and even themselves. The advice book offers predictable but sound guidance to business leaders: know oneself, set clear goals for employees and consider the consequences of business decisions. Insightful quotes from figures like Aristotle, Dante Alighieri and John Locke provide some historical grounding, but mostly the author focuses on how modern businesses motivate employees and contribute to the common good. By conducting extensive interviews, the author collects the secrets of successful business leaders, including the Body Shop CEO Anita Roddick; McDonald''s chairman and CEO Jack Greenberg; and AOL Time Warner''s Ted Turner. Roddick, for example, says that looking at company''s lavatories and cafeteria can reveal a lot about a firm''s corporate culture and the happiness of its employees. If a firm fails to create a clean, healthy environment for its workers, it probably isn''t doing much good. Csikszentmihalyi shows how moral responsibility, respect for the environment and clean bathrooms can make a business good and the whole world better.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22102'),
(19154, 'Good Bye Stacey, Good Bye', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15727'),
(19155, 'Good Calories, Bad Calories', 'Gary Taubes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19184'),
(19156, 'Good Calories, Bad Calories', 'Gary Taubes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27920'),
(19157, 'Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease', 'Gary Taubes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this groundbreaking book, the result of seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet with more and more people acting on this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues persuasively that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates (white flour, sugar, easily digested starches) and sugarsâ€“via their dramatic and longterm effects on insulin, the hormone that regulates fat accumulationâ€“and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. There are good calories, and bad ones.Good CaloriesThese are from foods without easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars. These foods can be eaten without restraint.Meat, fish, fowl, cheese, eggs, butter, and non-starchy vegetables. Bad CaloriesThese are from foods that stimulate excessive insulin secretion and so make us fat and increase our risk of chronic diseaseâ€”all refined and easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars. The key is not how much vitamins and minerals they contain, but how quickly they are digested. (So apple juice or even green vegetable juices are not necessarily any healthier than soda.) Bread and other baked goods, potatoes, yams, rice, pasta, cereal grains, corn, sugar (sucrose and high fructose corn syrup), ice cream, candy, soft drinks, fruit juices, bananas and other tropical fruits, and beer. Taubes traces how the common assumption that carbohydrates are fattening was abandoned in the 1960s when fat and cholesterol were blamed for heart disease and then â€“wronglyâ€“were seen as the causes of a host of other maladies, including cancer. He shows us how these unproven hypotheses were emphatically embraced by authorities in nutrition, public health, and clinical medicine, in spite of how well-conceived clinical trials have consistently refuted them. He also documents the dietary trials of carbohydrate-restriction, which consistently show that the fewer carbohydrates we consume, the leaner we will be. With precise references to the most significant existing clinical studies, he convinces us that there is no compelling scientific evidence demonstrating that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease, that salt causes high blood pressure, and that fiber is a necessary part of a healthy diet. Based on the evidence that does exist, he leads us to conclude that the only healthy way to lose weight and remain lean is to eat fewer carbohydrates or to change the type of the carbohydrates we do eat, and, for some of us, perhaps to eat virtually none at all.The 11 Critical Conclusions of Good Calories, Bad Calories: 1. Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, does not cause heart disease. 2. Carbohydrates do, because of their effect on the hormone insulin. The more easily-digestible and refined the carbohydrates and the more fructose they contain, the greater the effect on our health, weight, and well-being. 3. Sugarsâ€”sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup specificallyâ€”are particularly harmful. The glucose in these sugars raises insulin levels; the fructose they contain overloads the liver.4. Refined carbohydrates, starches, and sugars are also the most likely dietary causes of cancer, Alzheimerâ€™s Disease, and the other common chronic diseases of modern times. 5. Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating and not sedentary behavior. 6. Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter any more than it causes a child to grow taller. 7. Exercise does not make us lose excess fat; it makes us hungry. 8. We get fat because of an imbalanceâ€”a disequilibriumâ€”in the hormonal regulation of fat tissue and fat metabolism. More fat is stored in the fat tissue than is mobilized and used for fuel. We become leaner when the hormonal regulation of the fat tissue reverses this imbalance. 9. Insulin is the primary regulator of fat storage. When insulin levels are elevated, we stockpile calories as fat. When insulin levels fall, we release fat from our fat tissue and burn it for fuel. 10. By stimulating insulin secretion, carbohydrates make us fat and ultimately cause obesity. By driving fat accumulation, carbohydrates also increase hunger and decrease the amount of energy we expend in metabolism and physical activity.11. The fewer carbohydrates we eat, the leaner we will be. Good Calories, Bad Calories is a tour de force of scientific investigationâ€“certain to redefine the ongoing debate about the foods we eat and their effects on our health.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5432'),
(19158, 'Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease', 'Gary Taubes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this groundbreaking book, the result of seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet with more and more people acting on this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues persuasively that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates (white flour, sugar, easily digested starches) and sugarsâ€“via their dramatic and longterm effects on insulin, the hormone that regulates fat accumulationâ€“and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. There are good calories, and bad ones.Good CaloriesThese are from foods without easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars. These foods can be eaten without restraint.Meat, fish, fowl, cheese, eggs, butter, and non-starchy vegetables. Bad CaloriesThese are from foods that stimulate excessive insulin secretion and so make us fat and increase our risk of chronic diseaseâ€”all refined and easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars. The key is not how much vitamins and minerals they contain, but how quickly they are digested. (So apple juice or even green vegetable juices are not necessarily any healthier than soda.) Bread and other baked goods, potatoes, yams, rice, pasta, cereal grains, corn, sugar (sucrose and high fructose corn syrup), ice cream, candy, soft drinks, fruit juices, bananas and other tropical fruits, and beer. Taubes traces how the common assumption that carbohydrates are fattening was abandoned in the 1960s when fat and cholesterol were blamed for heart disease and then â€“wronglyâ€“were seen as the causes of a host of other maladies, including cancer. He shows us how these unproven hypotheses were emphatically embraced by authorities in nutrition, public health, and clinical medicine, in spite of how well-conceived clinical trials have consistently refuted them. He also documents the dietary trials of carbohydrate-restriction, which consistently show that the fewer carbohydrates we consume, the leaner we will be. With precise references to the most significant existing clinical studies, he convinces us that there is no compelling scientific evidence demonstrating that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease, that salt causes high blood pressure, and that fiber is a necessary part of a healthy diet. Based on the evidence that does exist, he leads us to conclude that the only healthy way to lose weight and remain lean is to eat fewer carbohydrates or to change the type of the carbohydrates we do eat, and, for some of us, perhaps to eat virtually none at all.The 11 Critical Conclusions of Good Calories, Bad Calories: 1. Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, does not cause heart disease. 2. Carbohydrates do, because of their effect on the hormone insulin. The more easily-digestible and refined the carbohydrates and the more fructose they contain, the greater the effect on our health, weight, and well-being. 3. Sugarsâ€”sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup specificallyâ€”are particularly harmful. The glucose in these sugars raises insulin levels; the fructose they contain overloads the liver.4. Refined carbohydrates, starches, and sugars are also the most likely dietary causes of cancer, Alzheimerâ€™s Disease, and the other common chronic diseases of modern times. 5. Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating and not sedentary behavior. 6. Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter any more than it causes a child to grow taller. 7. Exercise does not make us lose excess fat; it makes us hungry. 8. We get fat because of an imbalanceâ€”a disequilibriumâ€”in the hormonal regulation of fat tissue and fat metabolism. More fat is stored in the fat tissue than is mobilized and used for fuel. We become leaner when the hormonal regulation of the fat tissue reverses this imbalance. 9. Insulin is the primary regulator of fat storage. When insulin levels are elevated, we stockpile calories as fat. When insulin levels fall, we release fat from our fat tissue and burn it for fuel. 10. By stimulating insulin secretion, carbohydrates make us fat and ultimately cause obesity. By driving fat accumulation, carbohydrates also increase hunger and decrease the amount of energy we expend in metabolism and physical activity.11. The fewer carbohydrates we eat, the leaner we will be. Good Calories, Bad Calories is a tour de force of scientific investigationâ€“certain to redefine the ongoing debate about the foods we eat and their effects on our health.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12991'),
(19159, 'Good Daughters', 'Joyce Maynard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They were born on the same day, in the same hospital, into families that could hardly have been less alike. Ruth is an artist and a romantic, with a rich and passionate imaginative life. Dana is a scientist and realist whose faith is firmly planted in what she can see or hear or touch. Yet these two very different women share the same struggle to make sense of their place in a world in which neither of them has ever truly felt she belonged. Told in the alternating voices of Ruth and Dana, The Good Daughters follows these "birthday sisters" as they make their way through the decades, from the 1950s to the present. Master storyteller Joyce Maynard chronicles the unlikely ways the two women''s lives intersect-from childhood and adolescence to first loves, first sex, marriage, and parenthood; from the deaths of parents to divorce, the loss of home, and the loss of a beloved partner-until an unavoidable moment when a long-held secret from the past alters everything....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3965'),
(19160, 'Good Daughters', 'Joyce Maynard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n They were born on the same day, in the same hospital, into families that could hardly have been less alike. Ruth is an artist and a romantic, with a rich and passionate imaginative life. Dana is a scientist and realist whose faith is firmly planted in what she can see or hear or touch. Yet these two very different women share the same struggle to make sense of their place in a world in which neither of them has ever truly felt she belonged. Told in the alternating voices of Ruth and Dana, The Good Daughters follows these "birthday sisters" as they make their way through the decades, from the 1950s to the present. Master storyteller Joyce Maynard chronicles the unlikely ways the two women''s lives intersect-from childhood and adolescence to first loves, first sex, marriage, and parenthood; from the deaths of parents to divorce, the loss of home, and the loss of a beloved partner-until an unavoidable moment when a long-held secret from the past alters everything....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11365'),
(19161, 'Good Daughters', 'Joyce Maynard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: They were born on the same day, in the same hospital, into families that could hardly have been less alike. Ruth is an artist and a romantic, with a rich and passionate imaginative life. Dana is a scientist and realist whose faith is firmly planted in what she can see or hear or touch. Yet these two very different women share the same struggle to make sense of their place in a world in which neither of them has ever truly felt she belonged. Told in the alternating voices of Ruth and Dana, The Good Daughters follows these "birthday sisters" as they make their way through the decades, from the 1950s to the present. Master storyteller Joyce Maynard chronicles the unlikely ways the two women''s lives intersect-from childhood and adolescence to first loves, first sex, marriage, and parenthood; from the deaths of parents to divorce, the loss of home, and the loss of a beloved partner-until an unavoidable moment when a long-held secret from the past alters everything....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20522'),
(19162, 'A Good Day to Die', 'Simon Kernick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dennis Milne is back! A dark, gritty, utterly page-turning novel set in London''s meanest of mean streets: the follow-up to the hugely acclaimed debut, The Business of Dying. When Dennis Milne -- now living under an assumed identity in the Philippines -- hears that his old friend and colleague Malik has been gunned down in a restaurant, he decides to go back to the violent city he once called home, and bring the murderer to book. Milne arrives in a pre-Christmas London that is cold and hostile. But he is no longer a policeman; no longer charged with keeping the peace and upholding the law. Although his friends at the King''s Cross station do not know that Milne is back in town, it soon becomes clear that his arrival has been expected by men who are after his blood. Hungry for revenge and determined to uphold his own very rough brand of justice, Milne''s search for the person behind his friend''s death leaves a trail of death and destruction that is more wide-reaching than even he could have expected. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1249'),
(19163, 'A Good Day to Die', 'Simon Kernick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dennis Milne is back! A dark, gritty, utterly page-turning novel set in London''s meanest of mean streets: the follow-up to the hugely acclaimed debut, The Business of Dying. When Dennis Milne -- now living under an assumed identity in the Philippines -- hears that his old friend and colleague Malik has been gunned down in a restaurant, he decides to go back to the violent city he once called home, and bring the murderer to book. Milne arrives in a pre-Christmas London that is cold and hostile. But he is no longer a policeman; no longer charged with keeping the peace and upholding the law. Although his friends at the King''s Cross station do not know that Milne is back in town, it soon becomes clear that his arrival has been expected by men who are after his blood. Hungry for revenge and determined to uphold his own very rough brand of justice, Milne''s search for the person behind his friend''s death leaves a trail of death and destruction that is more wide-reaching than even he could have expected. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10677'),
(19164, 'A Good Day To Die', 'Simon Kernick', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Dennis Milne is back! A dark, gritty, utterly page-turning novel set in London''s meanest of mean streets: the follow-up to the hugely acclaimed debut, The Business of Dying. When Dennis Milne -- now living under an assumed identity in the Philippines -- hears that his old friend and colleague Malik has been gunned down in a restaurant, he decides to go back to the violent city he once called home, and bring the murderer to book. Milne arrives in a pre-Christmas London that is cold and hostile. But he is no longer a policeman; no longer charged with keeping the peace and upholding the law. Although his friends at the King''s Cross station do not know that Milne is back in town, it soon becomes clear that his arrival has been expected by men who are after his blood. Hungry for revenge and determined to uphold his own very rough brand of justice, Milne''s search for the person behind his friend''s death leaves a trail of death and destruction that is more wide-reaching than even he could have expected. "From the Hardcover edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23673'),
(19165, 'A Good Fall', 'Ha Jin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 (â€œFinely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone.â€â€“Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award-winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. With the same profound attention to detail that is a hallmark of his previous acclaimed works of fiction, Ha Jin depicts here the full spectrum of immigrant life and the daily strugglesâ€“some minute, some grandâ€“faced by these men, women, and children. A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs of his girlfriendâ€™s parakeet; a group of young children declare their wish to change their names so that they might sound more â€œAmerican,â€ unaware of how deeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help of a reluctant former student. All of Ha Jinâ€™s characters struggle in situations that stir within them a desire to remain attached to their native land and traditions, as they also explore and take advantage of the newfound freedom, both social and economic, that life in a new country offers. In these deeply moving, acutely insightful, and often strikingly humorous stories we are reminded again of the storytelling prowess of this superb writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5260'),
(19166, 'A Good Fall', 'Ha Jin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 (â€œFinely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone.â€â€“Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award-winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. With the same profound attention to detail that is a hallmark of his previous acclaimed works of fiction, Ha Jin depicts here the full spectrum of immigrant life and the daily strugglesâ€“some minute, some grandâ€“faced by these men, women, and children. A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs of his girlfriendâ€™s parakeet; a group of young children declare their wish to change their names so that they might sound more â€œAmerican,â€ unaware of how deeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help of a reluctant former student. All of Ha Jinâ€™s characters struggle in situations that stir within them a desire to remain attached to their native land and traditions, as they also explore and take advantage of the newfound freedom, both social and economic, that life in a new country offers. In these deeply moving, acutely insightful, and often strikingly humorous stories we are reminded again of the storytelling prowess of this superb writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10531'),
(19167, 'A good fall', 'Ha Jin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 (â€œFinely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone.â€â€“Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award-winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. With the same profound attention to detail that is a hallmark of his previous acclaimed works of fiction, Ha Jin depicts here the full spectrum of immigrant life and the daily strugglesâ€“some minute, some grandâ€“faced by these men, women, and children. A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs of his girlfriendâ€™s parakeet; a group of young children declare their wish to change their names so that they might sound more â€œAmerican,â€ unaware of how deeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help of a reluctant former student. All of Ha Jinâ€™s characters struggle in situations that stir within them a desire to remain attached to their native land and traditions, as they also explore and take advantage of the newfound freedom, both social and economic, that life in a new country offers. In these deeply moving, acutely insightful, and often strikingly humorous stories we are reminded again of the storytelling prowess of this superb writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19418'),
(19168, 'A good fall', 'Ha Jin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 (â€œFinely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone.â€â€“Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award-winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. With the same profound attention to detail that is a hallmark of his previous acclaimed works of fiction, Ha Jin depicts here the full spectrum of immigrant life and the daily strugglesâ€“some minute, some grandâ€“faced by these men, women, and children. A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs of his girlfriendâ€™s parakeet; a group of young children declare their wish to change their names so that they might sound more â€œAmerican,â€ unaware of how deeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help of a reluctant former student. All of Ha Jinâ€™s characters struggle in situations that stir within them a desire to remain attached to their native land and traditions, as they also explore and take advantage of the newfound freedom, both social and economic, that life in a new country offers. In these deeply moving, acutely insightful, and often strikingly humorous stories we are reminded again of the storytelling prowess of this superb writer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28076'),
(19169, 'Good Girls Don&#39;t', 'Kelley St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In high school, Bill Brannon was head over heels for his childhood friend Lettie Campbell. Twelve years later, Bill has almost forgotten his crush on the wild and feisty Lettie. Almost. But when fate reunites them, he realizes that some opportunities shouldn''t be missed. Lettie Campbell wants to start her own business--designing lingerie. Her dream is going to become a reality with the cash she''s bringing in as a cheating consultant at My Alibi, a company that lies for cheaters 24/7. When her sister, Amy, asks her to help a friend by providing an alibi, Lettie agrees. Lying to strangers is easy. But lying to the friend you''ve had since fifth grade is hard.As the lies pile up and Lettie and Bill burn up the sheets, she will have to come clean. Because the person she''s lying to is Bill--and no amount of lies will help her when he discovers he''s been conned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3812'),
(19170, 'Good Girls Don&#39;t', 'Kelley St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In high school, Bill Brannon was head over heels for his childhood friend Lettie Campbell. Twelve years later, Bill has almost forgotten his crush on the wild and feisty Lettie. Almost. But when fate reunites them, he realizes that some opportunities shouldn''t be missed. Lettie Campbell wants to start her own business--designing lingerie. Her dream is going to become a reality with the cash she''s bringing in as a cheating consultant at My Alibi, a company that lies for cheaters 24/7. When her sister, Amy, asks her to help a friend by providing an alibi, Lettie agrees. Lying to strangers is easy. But lying to the friend you''ve had since fifth grade is hard.As the lies pile up and Lettie and Bill burn up the sheets, she will have to come clean. Because the person she''s lying to is Bill--and no amount of lies will help her when he discovers he''s been conned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10512'),
(19171, 'Good Girls Don&#39;t', 'Kelley St. John', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In high school, Bill Brannon was head over heels for his childhood friend Lettie Campbell. Twelve years later, Bill has almost forgotten his crush on the wild and feisty Lettie. Almost. But when fate reunites them, he realizes that some opportunities shouldn''t be missed. Lettie Campbell wants to start her own business--designing lingerie. Her dream is going to become a reality with the cash she''s bringing in as a cheating consultant at My Alibi, a company that lies for cheaters 24/7. When her sister, Amy, asks her to help a friend by providing an alibi, Lettie agrees. Lying to strangers is easy. But lying to the friend you''ve had since fifth grade is hard.As the lies pile up and Lettie and Bill burn up the sheets, she will have to come clean. Because the person she''s lying to is Bill--and no amount of lies will help her when he discovers he''s been conned.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20749'),
(19172, 'Good In Bed', 'Jennifer Weiner', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She''s even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body. But the day she opens up a national women''s magazine and sees the words "Loving a Larger Woman" above her ex-boyfriend''s byline, Cannie is plunged into misery...and the most amazing year of her life. From Philadelphia to Hollywood and back home again, she charts a new course for herself: mourning her losses, facing her past, and figuring out who she is and who she can become.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13776'),
(19173, 'Good Luck Life: The Essential Guide to Chinese American Celebrations and Culture', 'Rosemary Gong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œCharming...a good buy.â€ (Library Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFinally, a guidebook I can refer to for answers on how and why Chinese Americans celebrate and observe special occasions.â€ (Judy Yung, Professor of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGood Luck Life is a great resource to Chinese traditions and celebrations, offering explanations of the customs and their symbolism.â€ (Ming Tsai, Food Network chef and author of Simply Ming )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGood Luck Life is a cultural treasure chest - itâ€™s a wonderful legacy to pass on to future generations.â€ (Martin Yan )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Good Luck Life\n </em>\n is the first book to explain the meanings of Chinese rituals and to offer advice on when and how to plan for Chinese holidays and special occasions such as Chinese weddings, the Red Egg and Ginger party to welcome a new baby, significant birthdays, and the inevitable funeral. Packed with practical information,\n <em>\n  Good Luck Life\n </em>\n contains an abundance of facts, legends, foods, old-village recipes, and quick planning guides for Chinese New Year, Clear Brightness, Dragon Boat, Mid-Autumn, and many other festivals.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written with warmth and wit,\n <em>\n  Good Luck Life\n </em>\n is beautifully designed as an easily accessible cultural guide that includes an explanation of the Lunar Calendar, tips on Chinese table etiquette for dining with confidence, and dos and don''ts from wise Auntie Lao, who recounts ancient Chinese beliefs and superstitions. This is your map for celebrating a good luck life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1488'),
(19174, 'Good Luck Life: The Essential Guide to Chinese American Celebrations and Culture', 'Rosemary Gong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œCharming...a good buy.â€ (Library Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFinally, a guidebook I can refer to for answers on how and why Chinese Americans celebrate and observe special occasions.â€ (Judy Yung, Professor of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGood Luck Life is a great resource to Chinese traditions and celebrations, offering explanations of the customs and their symbolism.â€ (Ming Tsai, Food Network chef and author of Simply Ming )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGood Luck Life is a cultural treasure chest - itâ€™s a wonderful legacy to pass on to future generations.â€ (Martin Yan )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Good Luck Life\n </em>\n is the first book to explain the meanings of Chinese rituals and to offer advice on when and how to plan for Chinese holidays and special occasions such as Chinese weddings, the Red Egg and Ginger party to welcome a new baby, significant birthdays, and the inevitable funeral. Packed with practical information,\n <em>\n  Good Luck Life\n </em>\n contains an abundance of facts, legends, foods, old-village recipes, and quick planning guides for Chinese New Year, Clear Brightness, Dragon Boat, Mid-Autumn, and many other festivals.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written with warmth and wit,\n <em>\n  Good Luck Life\n </em>\n is beautifully designed as an easily accessible cultural guide that includes an explanation of the Lunar Calendar, tips on Chinese table etiquette for dining with confidence, and dos and don''ts from wise Auntie Lao, who recounts ancient Chinese beliefs and superstitions. This is your map for celebrating a good luck life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9948'),
(19175, 'Good Luck Life: The Essential Guide to Chinese American Celebrations and Culture', 'Rosemary Gong', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œCharming...a good buy.â€ (Library Journal )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œFinally, a guidebook I can refer to for answers on how and why Chinese Americans celebrate and observe special occasions.â€ (Judy Yung, Professor of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGood Luck Life is a great resource to Chinese traditions and celebrations, offering explanations of the customs and their symbolism.â€ (Ming Tsai, Food Network chef and author of Simply Ming )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGood Luck Life is a cultural treasure chest - itâ€™s a wonderful legacy to pass on to future generations.â€ (Martin Yan )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Good Luck Life\n </em>\n is the first book to explain the meanings of Chinese rituals and to offer advice on when and how to plan for Chinese holidays and special occasions such as Chinese weddings, the Red Egg and Ginger party to welcome a new baby, significant birthdays, and the inevitable funeral. Packed with practical information,\n <em>\n  Good Luck Life\n </em>\n contains an abundance of facts, legends, foods, old-village recipes, and quick planning guides for Chinese New Year, Clear Brightness, Dragon Boat, Mid-Autumn, and many other festivals.\n</p>\n<p>\n Written with warmth and wit,\n <em>\n  Good Luck Life\n </em>\n is beautifully designed as an easily accessible cultural guide that includes an explanation of the Lunar Calendar, tips on Chinese table etiquette for dining with confidence, and dos and don''ts from wise Auntie Lao, who recounts ancient Chinese beliefs and superstitions. This is your map for celebrating a good luck life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23422'),
(19176, 'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ* is the remarkable new piece of fiction from best-selling and famously atheistic author Philip Pullman. By challenging the events of the gospels, Pullman puts forward his own compelling and plausible version of the life of Jesus, and in so doing, does what all great books do: makes the reader ask questions.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Pullmanâ€™s own words, Â“The story I tell comes out of the tension within the dual nature of Jesus Christ, but what I do with it is my responsibility alone. Parts of it read like a novel, parts like history, and parts like a fairy tale; I wanted it to be like that because it is, among other things, a story about how stories become stories.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Written with unstinting authority, *The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ* is a pithy, erudite, subtle, and powerful book by a controversial and beloved author. It is a text to be read and reread, studied and unpacked, much like the Good Book itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2121'),
(19177, 'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ', 'Philip Pullman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ* is the remarkable new piece of fiction from best-selling and famously atheistic author Philip Pullman. By challenging the events of the gospels, Pullman puts forward his own compelling and plausible version of the life of Jesus, and in so doing, does what all great books do: makes the reader ask questions.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Pullmanâ€™s own words, Â“The story I tell comes out of the tension within the dual nature of Jesus Christ, but what I do with it is my responsibility alone. Parts of it read like a novel, parts like history, and parts like a fairy tale; I wanted it to be like that because it is, among other things, a story about how stories become stories.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Written with unstinting authority, *The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ* is a pithy, erudite, subtle, and powerful book by a controversial and beloved author. It is a text to be read and reread, studied and unpacked, much like the Good Book itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12030');
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(19178, 'Good Morning, Killer', 'April Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n FBI Special Agent Ana Gray returns in this complex, involving thriller about a dedicated officer''s search for a serial rapist that proceeds alongside her passionate and obsessive love affair with a fellow cop, Santa Monica detective Andrew Berringer. Before their relationship culminates in a violent episode that leaves him clinging for life and her accused of attempted murder, the deviant who brutalized the teenage girl Ana has taken into her heart and under her wing has found another victim, and Ana''s efforts to stop him before he kills her drive Smith''s stunning narrative to a shocking denouement. But the author has additional surprises in store for the reader that involve Andrew''s motivations for escalating their passion--to keep Ana from reopening a closed case involving bank robbery, fraud, and deception, which will lead her to reevaluate the man, and the obsession, that has brought her to the brink of personal and professional oblivion. While many authors who feature the same protagonist in all their mysteries simply serve up the same character in different scenarios in each new outing, April Smith expertly illuminates aspects of her heroine''s psychological life and devotion to justice that deepen our understanding about who she is--a complicated, brave, multidimensional woman it is a pleasure to meet in this engrossing and powerful novel.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Intelligent and uncompromising, this second in a series by Smith reprises the successes of her acclaimed first thriller, North of Montana. Feisty, unconventional FBI Special Agent Ana Grey is teamed with tough but compassionate Police Det. Andrew Berringer on a kidnapping case involving Santa Monica teen Juliana Meyer-Murphy. Grey and Berringer continue the tempestuous personal relationship begun in Smith''s first novel: "That''s how we met. Working the same bank robbery, dubbed `Mission Impossible'' because the bandit came in through the roof. We don''t always catch the bad guys, but we''re great with the nicknames." After Juliana is released alive but physically and psychologically devastated, the case becomes personal for Ana. Learning the harrowing particulars of Juliana''s ordeal and observing the well-meaning but brutally invasive examinations the girl must undergo-described in clinical detail-she grows more and more obsessed with the demented killer/rapist, a charismatic ex-marine. As the chase intensifies, so does Ana''s troubled relationship with Andrew. An argument that escalates into physical confrontation changes the lives of both when Ana pulls a gun and fires. While Ana is still in the middle of the fallout, the kidnapping case ends in a Silence of the Lambs-style standoff at the killer''s private gallery of horrors. Smith''s finely calibrated, unsentimental writing and tart humor make her a standout in the genre. She doesn''t just tell a story; she illuminates the human condition through the pain and complex lives-and deaths-of her compelling characters.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7411'),
(19179, 'Good Morning, Killer', 'April Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n FBI Special Agent Ana Gray returns in this complex, involving thriller about a dedicated officer''s search for a serial rapist that proceeds alongside her passionate and obsessive love affair with a fellow cop, Santa Monica detective Andrew Berringer. Before their relationship culminates in a violent episode that leaves him clinging for life and her accused of attempted murder, the deviant who brutalized the teenage girl Ana has taken into her heart and under her wing has found another victim, and Ana''s efforts to stop him before he kills her drive Smith''s stunning narrative to a shocking denouement. But the author has additional surprises in store for the reader that involve Andrew''s motivations for escalating their passion--to keep Ana from reopening a closed case involving bank robbery, fraud, and deception, which will lead her to reevaluate the man, and the obsession, that has brought her to the brink of personal and professional oblivion. While many authors who feature the same protagonist in all their mysteries simply serve up the same character in different scenarios in each new outing, April Smith expertly illuminates aspects of her heroine''s psychological life and devotion to justice that deepen our understanding about who she is--a complicated, brave, multidimensional woman it is a pleasure to meet in this engrossing and powerful novel.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Intelligent and uncompromising, this second in a series by Smith reprises the successes of her acclaimed first thriller, North of Montana. Feisty, unconventional FBI Special Agent Ana Grey is teamed with tough but compassionate Police Det. Andrew Berringer on a kidnapping case involving Santa Monica teen Juliana Meyer-Murphy. Grey and Berringer continue the tempestuous personal relationship begun in Smith''s first novel: "That''s how we met. Working the same bank robbery, dubbed `Mission Impossible'' because the bandit came in through the roof. We don''t always catch the bad guys, but we''re great with the nicknames." After Juliana is released alive but physically and psychologically devastated, the case becomes personal for Ana. Learning the harrowing particulars of Juliana''s ordeal and observing the well-meaning but brutally invasive examinations the girl must undergo-described in clinical detail-she grows more and more obsessed with the demented killer/rapist, a charismatic ex-marine. As the chase intensifies, so does Ana''s troubled relationship with Andrew. An argument that escalates into physical confrontation changes the lives of both when Ana pulls a gun and fires. While Ana is still in the middle of the fallout, the kidnapping case ends in a Silence of the Lambs-style standoff at the killer''s private gallery of horrors. Smith''s finely calibrated, unsentimental writing and tart humor make her a standout in the genre. She doesn''t just tell a story; she illuminates the human condition through the pain and complex lives-and deaths-of her compelling characters.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12708'),
(19180, 'Good Morning, Killer', 'April Smith', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n FBI Special Agent Ana Gray returns in this complex, involving thriller about a dedicated officer''s search for a serial rapist that proceeds alongside her passionate and obsessive love affair with a fellow cop, Santa Monica detective Andrew Berringer. Before their relationship culminates in a violent episode that leaves him clinging for life and her accused of attempted murder, the deviant who brutalized the teenage girl Ana has taken into her heart and under her wing has found another victim, and Ana''s efforts to stop him before he kills her drive Smith''s stunning narrative to a shocking denouement. But the author has additional surprises in store for the reader that involve Andrew''s motivations for escalating their passion--to keep Ana from reopening a closed case involving bank robbery, fraud, and deception, which will lead her to reevaluate the man, and the obsession, that has brought her to the brink of personal and professional oblivion. While many authors who feature the same protagonist in all their mysteries simply serve up the same character in different scenarios in each new outing, April Smith expertly illuminates aspects of her heroine''s psychological life and devotion to justice that deepen our understanding about who she is--a complicated, brave, multidimensional woman it is a pleasure to meet in this engrossing and powerful novel.\n <em>\n  --Jane Adams\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Intelligent and uncompromising, this second in a series by Smith reprises the successes of her acclaimed first thriller, North of Montana. Feisty, unconventional FBI Special Agent Ana Grey is teamed with tough but compassionate Police Det. Andrew Berringer on a kidnapping case involving Santa Monica teen Juliana Meyer-Murphy. Grey and Berringer continue the tempestuous personal relationship begun in Smith''s first novel: "That''s how we met. Working the same bank robbery, dubbed `Mission Impossible'' because the bandit came in through the roof. We don''t always catch the bad guys, but we''re great with the nicknames." After Juliana is released alive but physically and psychologically devastated, the case becomes personal for Ana. Learning the harrowing particulars of Juliana''s ordeal and observing the well-meaning but brutally invasive examinations the girl must undergo-described in clinical detail-she grows more and more obsessed with the demented killer/rapist, a charismatic ex-marine. As the chase intensifies, so does Ana''s troubled relationship with Andrew. An argument that escalates into physical confrontation changes the lives of both when Ana pulls a gun and fires. While Ana is still in the middle of the fallout, the kidnapping case ends in a Silence of the Lambs-style standoff at the killer''s private gallery of horrors. Smith''s finely calibrated, unsentimental writing and tart humor make her a standout in the genre. She doesn''t just tell a story; she illuminates the human condition through the pain and complex lives-and deaths-of her compelling characters.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16415'),
(19181, 'Good Omens', 'Neil Gaiman;Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road, and the world''s last two remaining witch-finders are getting ready to fight the good fight, armed with awkwardly antiquated instructions and stick pins. Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. . . . Right. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan.   Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon -- each of whom has lived among Earth''s mortals for many millennia and has grown rather fond of the lifestyle -- are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they''ve got to find and kill the Antichrist (which is a shame, as he''s a really nice kid). There''s just one glitch: someone seems to have misplaced him. . . .   First published in 1990, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett''s brilliantly dark and screamingly funny take on humankind''s final judgment is back -- and just in time -- in a new hardcover edition (which includes an introduction by the authors, comments by each about the other, and answers to some still-burning questions about their wildly popular collaborative effort) that the devout and the damned alike will surely cherish until the end of all things.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14588'),
(19182, 'Good Omens', 'Neil Gaiman; Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world''s only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demonâ€”both of whom have lived amongst Earth''s mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyleâ€”are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22162'),
(19183, 'Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch', 'Neil Gaiman &amp; Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world''s only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.   So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demonâ€”both of whom have lived amongst Earth''s mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyleâ€”are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.   And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2623'),
(19184, 'Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch', 'Neil Gaiman &amp; Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n There is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road, and the world''s last two remaining witch-finders are getting ready to fight the good fight, armed with awkwardly antiquated instructions and stick pins. Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. . . . Right. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan.   Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon -- each of whom has lived among Earth''s mortals for many millennia and has grown rather fond of the lifestyle -- are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they''ve got to find and kill the Antichrist (which is a shame, as he''s a really nice kid). There''s just one glitch: someone seems to have misplaced him. . . .   First published in 1990, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett''s brilliantly dark and screamingly funny take on humankind''s final judgment is back -- and just in time -- in a new hardcover edition (which includes an introduction by the authors, comments by each about the other, and answers to some still-burning questions about their wildly popular collaborative effort) that the devout and the damned alike will surely cherish until the end of all things.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9873'),
(19185, 'The Good Rain: Across Time &amp; Terrain in the Pacific Northwest', 'Timothy Egan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Egan succeeds in capturing the richness and beauty of the Pacific Northwest (and it''s possibly imminent destruction) with rich description, appropriately chosen and reported interviews, and visits to exactly the places I would have chosen for such a book. From manicured gardens in essentially English Vancouver, B.C., to Indian reservations in western Washington, to the proud rural communities in eastern Washington, and visits to the precipitous peaks and brooding volcanos of the Cascade Mountains, Egan captures the presences and peoples of this region more effectively than most any other book I have encountered. Highly Recommended.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Pacific Northwest, with its giant trees, fascinating coastline, mighty Columbia River, and not-always-dormant volcanoes, has inspired a number of personal narratives. In this book, reminiscent of Ivan Doig''s Winter Brothers ( LJ 10/15/80), New York Times reporter Egan interweaves personal experiences and conversations with observations of nature and historical information. He travels through Washington, Oregon, and southern Vancouver, following the route taken by an earlier traveler, Theodore Winthrop, 150 years ago. A conservationist ethic pervades the book; Egan discusses major problems such as the cutting of the forests. A nicely done narrative for the general reader.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Joseph Hannibal, Cleveland Museum of Natural History\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9518'),
(19186, 'The Good Soldier', 'Ford Madox Ford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25824'),
(19187, 'The Good Son: A Novel', 'Michael Gruber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***New York Times***** bestselling author Michael Gruber, a member of "the elite ranks of those who can both chill the blood and challenge the mind" (*The Denver Post*), delivers a taut, multilayered, riveting novel of suspense**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply religious woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, has become the de facto leader of the kidnapped group. While her son Theo, an ex-Delta soldier, uses his military connections to find and free the victims, Sonia tries to keep them all alive by working her way into the kidnappers'' psyches and interpreting their dreams. With her knowledge of their language, her familiarity with their religion, and her Jungian training, Sonia confounds her captors with her insights and beliefs. Meanwhile, when the kidnappers decide to kill their captives, one by one, in retaliation for perceived crimes against their country, Theo races against the clock to try and save their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2822'),
(19188, 'The Good Son: A Novel', 'Michael Gruber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***New York Times***** bestselling author Michael Gruber, a member of "the elite ranks of those who can both chill the blood and challenge the mind" (*The Denver Post*), delivers a taut, multilayered, riveting novel of suspense**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply religious woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, has become the de facto leader of the kidnapped group. While her son Theo, an ex-Delta soldier, uses his military connections to find and free the victims, Sonia tries to keep them all alive by working her way into the kidnappers'' psyches and interpreting their dreams. With her knowledge of their language, her familiarity with their religion, and her Jungian training, Sonia confounds her captors with her insights and beliefs. Meanwhile, when the kidnappers decide to kill their captives, one by one, in retaliation for perceived crimes against their country, Theo races against the clock to try and save their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10106'),
(19189, 'The Good Son: A Novel', 'Michael Gruber', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***New York Times***** bestselling author Michael Gruber, a member of "the elite ranks of those who can both chill the blood and challenge the mind" (*The Denver Post*), delivers a taut, multilayered, riveting novel of suspense** Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply religious woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, has become the de facto leader of the kidnapped group. While her son Theo, an ex-Delta soldier, uses his military connections to find and free the victims, Sonia tries to keep them all alive by working her way into the kidnappers'' psyches and interpreting their dreams. With her knowledge of their language, her familiarity with their religion, and her Jungian training, Sonia confounds her captors with her insights and beliefs. Meanwhile, when the kidnappers decide to kill their captives, one by one, in retaliation for perceived crimes against their country, Theo races against the clock to try and save their lives.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22006'),
(19190, 'Good Things I Wish You', 'A. Manette Ansay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romancesâ€”one historical, the other modern-dayâ€”separated by thousands of miles and well over a century.   Battling feelings of loss and apathy in the wake of a painful divorce, novelist Jeanette struggles to complete a book about the long-term relationship between Clara Schumann, a celebrated pianist and the wife of the composer Robert Schumann, and her husband''s protÃ‰gÃ‰, the handsome young composer Johannes Brahms. Although this legendary love triangle has been studied exhaustively, Jeanetteâ€”herself a gifted pianistâ€”wonders about the enduring nature of Clara and Johannes''s lifelong attachment. Were they just "best friends," as both steadfastly claimed? Or was the relationship complicated by desires that may or may not have been consummated?   Through a chance encounter, Jeanette meets Hart, a mysterious, worldly entrepreneur who is a native of Clara''s birthplace, Leipzig, Germany. Hart''s casual help with translations quickly blossoms into something more. There are things about men and women, he insists, that do not change. The two embark on a whirlwind emotional journey that leads Jeanette across Germany and Switzerland to a crossroads similar to that faced by Clara Schumannâ€”also a mother, also an artistâ€”more than a century earlier.   Accompanied by photographs, sketches, and notes from past and present, A. Manette Ansay''s original blend of fiction and history captures the timeless nature of love and friendship between women and men.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/33'),
(19191, 'Good Things I Wish You', 'A. Manette Ansay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romancesâ€”one historical, the other modern-dayâ€”separated by thousands of miles and well over a century.   Battling feelings of loss and apathy in the wake of a painful divorce, novelist Jeanette struggles to complete a book about the long-term relationship between Clara Schumann, a celebrated pianist and the wife of the composer Robert Schumann, and her husband''s protÃ‰gÃ‰, the handsome young composer Johannes Brahms. Although this legendary love triangle has been studied exhaustively, Jeanetteâ€”herself a gifted pianistâ€”wonders about the enduring nature of Clara and Johannes''s lifelong attachment. Were they just "best friends," as both steadfastly claimed? Or was the relationship complicated by desires that may or may not have been consummated?   Through a chance encounter, Jeanette meets Hart, a mysterious, worldly entrepreneur who is a native of Clara''s birthplace, Leipzig, Germany. Hart''s casual help with translations quickly blossoms into something more. There are things about men and women, he insists, that do not change. The two embark on a whirlwind emotional journey that leads Jeanette across Germany and Switzerland to a crossroads similar to that faced by Clara Schumannâ€”also a mother, also an artistâ€”more than a century earlier.   Accompanied by photographs, sketches, and notes from past and present, A. Manette Ansay''s original blend of fiction and history captures the timeless nature of love and friendship between women and men.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8188'),
(19192, 'Good Things I Wish You', 'A. Manette Ansay', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romancesâ€”one historical, the other modern-dayâ€”separated by thousands of miles and well over a century. Battling feelings of loss and apathy in the wake of a painful divorce, novelist Jeanette struggles to complete a book about the long-term relationship between Clara Schumann, a celebrated pianist and the wife of the composer Robert Schumann, and her husband''s protÃ‰gÃ‰, the handsome young composer Johannes Brahms. Although this legendary love triangle has been studied exhaustively, Jeanetteâ€”herself a gifted pianistâ€”wonders about the enduring nature of Clara and Johannes''s lifelong attachment. Were they just "best friends," as both steadfastly claimed? Or was the relationship complicated by desires that may or may not have been consummated? Through a chance encounter, Jeanette meets Hart, a mysterious, worldly entrepreneur who is a native of Clara''s birthplace, Leipzig, Germany. Hart''s casual help with translations quickly blossoms into something more. There are things about men and women, he insists, that do not change. The two embark on a whirlwind emotional journey that leads Jeanette across Germany and Switzerland to a crossroads similar to that faced by Clara Schumannâ€”also a mother, also an artistâ€”more than a century earlier. Accompanied by photographs, sketches, and notes from past and present, A. Manette Ansay''s original blend of fiction and history captures the timeless nature of love and friendship between women and men.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17194'),
(19193, 'A Good Woman', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the fires of World War I, Danielle Steel takes us on an unforgettable journey in her new novelâ€”a spellbinding tale of war, loss, history, and one womanâ€™s unbreakable spirit....Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her privileged world forever. Finding strength within her grief, Annabelle pours herself into volunteer work, nursing the poor, igniting a passion for medicine that would shape the course of her life. But for Annabelle, first love, and a seemingly idyllic marriage, will soon bring more griefâ€”this time caused by the secrets of the human heart. Betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to lose herself in a life of service. There, in the heart of the First World War, in a groundbreaking field hospital run by women, Annabelle finds her true calling, working as an ambulance medic on the front lines, studying medicine, saving lives. And when the war ends, Annabelle begins a new life in Parisâ€”now a doctor, a mother, her past almost forgottenâ€¦until a fateful meeting opens her heart to the world she had left behind. Finding strength in the most unlikely of friendships, pulling together the broken fragments of her life, Annabelle will return to New York one more timeâ€”this time as a changed woman, a woman of substance, infused with lifeâ€™s experience, building a future filled with hopeâ€¦out of the rich soil of the past. Filled with breathtaking images and historical detail, Danielle Steelâ€™s new novel introduces one of her most unique and fascinating characters: Annabelle Worthington, a remarkable woman, a good woman, a true survivor who triumphs against overwhelming odds. For Annabelleâ€™s story is more than compelling fiction, it is a powerful celebration of life, dignity, and courageâ€”and a testament to the human will to survive.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6522'),
(19194, 'A Good Woman', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the fires of World War I, Danielle Steel takes us on an unforgettable journey in her new novelâ€”a spellbinding tale of war, loss, history, and one womanâ€™s unbreakable spirit....Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her privileged world forever. Finding strength within her grief, Annabelle pours herself into volunteer work, nursing the poor, igniting a passion for medicine that would shape the course of her life. But for Annabelle, first love, and a seemingly idyllic marriage, will soon bring more griefâ€”this time caused by the secrets of the human heart. Betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to lose herself in a life of service. There, in the heart of the First World War, in a groundbreaking field hospital run by women, Annabelle finds her true calling, working as an ambulance medic on the front lines, studying medicine, saving lives. And when the war ends, Annabelle begins a new life in Parisâ€”now a doctor, a mother, her past almost forgottenâ€¦until a fateful meeting opens her heart to the world she had left behind. Finding strength in the most unlikely of friendships, pulling together the broken fragments of her life, Annabelle will return to New York one more timeâ€”this time as a changed woman, a woman of substance, infused with lifeâ€™s experience, building a future filled with hopeâ€¦out of the rich soil of the past. Filled with breathtaking images and historical detail, Danielle Steelâ€™s new novel introduces one of her most unique and fascinating characters: Annabelle Worthington, a remarkable woman, a good woman, a true survivor who triumphs against overwhelming odds. For Annabelleâ€™s story is more than compelling fiction, it is a powerful celebration of life, dignity, and courageâ€”and a testament to the human will to survive.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12864'),
(19195, 'A Good Woman', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the fires of World War I, Danielle Steel takes us on an unforgettable journey in her new novelâ€”a spellbinding tale of war, loss, history, and one womanâ€™s unbreakable spirit....Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her privileged world forever. Finding strength within her grief, Annabelle pours herself into volunteer work, nursing the poor, igniting a passion for medicine that would shape the course of her life. But for Annabelle, first love, and a seemingly idyllic marriage, will soon bring more griefâ€”this time caused by the secrets of the human heart. Betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to lose herself in a life of service. There, in the heart of the First World War, in a groundbreaking field hospital run by women, Annabelle finds her true calling, working as an ambulance medic on the front lines, studying medicine, saving lives. And when the war ends, Annabelle begins a new life in Parisâ€”now a doctor, a mother, her past almost forgottenâ€¦until a fateful meeting opens her heart to the world she had left behind. Finding strength in the most unlikely of friendships, pulling together the broken fragments of her life, Annabelle will return to New York one more timeâ€”this time as a changed woman, a woman of substance, infused with lifeâ€™s experience, building a future filled with hopeâ€¦out of the rich soil of the past. Filled with breathtaking images and historical detail, Danielle Steelâ€™s new novel introduces one of her most unique and fascinating characters: Annabelle Worthington, a remarkable woman, a good woman, a true survivor who triumphs against overwhelming odds. For Annabelleâ€™s story is more than compelling fiction, it is a powerful celebration of life, dignity, and courageâ€”and a testament to the human will to survive.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17611'),
(19196, 'A Good Woman', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the fires of World War I, Danielle Steel takes us on an unforgettable journey in her new novelâ€”a spellbinding tale of war, loss, history, and one womanâ€™s unbreakable spirit....Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her privileged world forever. Finding strength within her grief, Annabelle pours herself into volunteer work, nursing the poor, igniting a passion for medicine that would shape the course of her life. But for Annabelle, first love, and a seemingly idyllic marriage, will soon bring more griefâ€”this time caused by the secrets of the human heart. Betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to lose herself in a life of service. There, in the heart of the First World War, in a groundbreaking field hospital run by women, Annabelle finds her true calling, working as an ambulance medic on the front lines, studying medicine, saving lives. And when the war ends, Annabelle begins a new life in Parisâ€”now a doctor, a mother, her past almost forgottenâ€¦until a fateful meeting opens her heart to the world she had left behind. Finding strength in the most unlikely of friendships, pulling together the broken fragments of her life, Annabelle will return to New York one more timeâ€”this time as a changed woman, a woman of substance, infused with lifeâ€™s experience, building a future filled with hopeâ€¦out of the rich soil of the past. Filled with breathtaking images and historical detail, Danielle Steelâ€™s new novel introduces one of her most unique and fascinating characters: Annabelle Worthington, a remarkable woman, a good woman, a true survivor who triumphs against overwhelming odds. For Annabelleâ€™s story is more than compelling fiction, it is a powerful celebration of life, dignity, and courageâ€”and a testament to the human will to survive.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27198'),
(19197, 'The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The gripping, suspenseful, and wry 10th tale in the Nightside supernatural detective series proves every bit the equal of Jim Butcher''s better-known Harry Dresden books. The action picks up not long after 2009''s\n <em>\n  Just Another Judgement Day\n </em>\n as Lord Screech, an elf claiming to be a peace emissary who has just negotiated a treaty between powerful elvish rivals, enlists PI John Taylor''s help in getting safe passage to a portal to another realm. Despite his misgivings about Screech''s honesty, Taylor and Ms. Fate, a transvestite crime fighter who might have heard of taste, but only as something other people had, battle werewolves and Neanderthals to deliver Screech to his destination and tackle several other challenges. Longtime fans and first timers alike will applaud Green''s blend of fantasy, mystery, and humor.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Taylor, the Nightsideâ€™s finest PI, returns for a series of particularly difficult jobs. First, heâ€™s hired to escort an elf across town. It doesnâ€™t seem like much, but elves are not well-liked in the Nightside, and that turns a simple cross-town drive into an epic battle. Then Larry Oblivion, the Dead Detective, asks for help finding his younger brother, who hasnâ€™t been seen since the Lilith War. Taylor saw him disappear, but his Sight indicated that he wasnâ€™t dead, so heâ€™s out there somewhere. As if that werenâ€™t enough, Walker, the agent of the Authorities whoâ€™s an old friend of Johnâ€™s father, wants something from John. Walkerâ€™s dying, and he wants John to take on a job. Taylor knows better, but accidents do happen. Taylorâ€™s snappy wit and quick thinking make for another entertaining Nightside volume. While the Nightside books do rather follow a formula, itâ€™s one that delivers consistently. The Nightside may be the most bizarre place imaginable, but itâ€™s fun to read about. --Regina Schroeder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1288'),
(19198, 'The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The gripping, suspenseful, and wry 10th tale in the Nightside supernatural detective series proves every bit the equal of Jim Butcher''s better-known Harry Dresden books. The action picks up not long after 2009''s\n <em>\n  Just Another Judgement Day\n </em>\n as Lord Screech, an elf claiming to be a peace emissary who has just negotiated a treaty between powerful elvish rivals, enlists PI John Taylor''s help in getting safe passage to a portal to another realm. Despite his misgivings about Screech''s honesty, Taylor and Ms. Fate, a transvestite crime fighter who might have heard of taste, but only as something other people had, battle werewolves and Neanderthals to deliver Screech to his destination and tackle several other challenges. Longtime fans and first timers alike will applaud Green''s blend of fantasy, mystery, and humor.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Taylor, the Nightsideâ€™s finest PI, returns for a series of particularly difficult jobs. First, heâ€™s hired to escort an elf across town. It doesnâ€™t seem like much, but elves are not well-liked in the Nightside, and that turns a simple cross-town drive into an epic battle. Then Larry Oblivion, the Dead Detective, asks for help finding his younger brother, who hasnâ€™t been seen since the Lilith War. Taylor saw him disappear, but his Sight indicated that he wasnâ€™t dead, so heâ€™s out there somewhere. As if that werenâ€™t enough, Walker, the agent of the Authorities whoâ€™s an old friend of Johnâ€™s father, wants something from John. Walkerâ€™s dying, and he wants John to take on a job. Taylor knows better, but accidents do happen. Taylorâ€™s snappy wit and quick thinking make for another entertaining Nightside volume. While the Nightside books do rather follow a formula, itâ€™s one that delivers consistently. The Nightside may be the most bizarre place imaginable, but itâ€™s fun to read about. --Regina Schroeder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10109'),
(19199, 'The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The gripping, suspenseful, and wry 10th tale in the Nightside supernatural detective series proves every bit the equal of Jim Butcher''s better-known Harry Dresden books. The action picks up not long after 2009''s\n <em>\n  Just Another Judgement Day\n </em>\n as Lord Screech, an elf claiming to be a peace emissary who has just negotiated a treaty between powerful elvish rivals, enlists PI John Taylor''s help in getting safe passage to a portal to another realm. Despite his misgivings about Screech''s honesty, Taylor and Ms. Fate, a transvestite crime fighter who might have heard of taste, but only as something other people had, battle werewolves and Neanderthals to deliver Screech to his destination and tackle several other challenges. Longtime fans and first timers alike will applaud Green''s blend of fantasy, mystery, and humor.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Taylor, the Nightsideâ€™s finest PI, returns for a series of particularly difficult jobs. First, heâ€™s hired to escort an elf across town. It doesnâ€™t seem like much, but elves are not well-liked in the Nightside, and that turns a simple cross-town drive into an epic battle. Then Larry Oblivion, the Dead Detective, asks for help finding his younger brother, who hasnâ€™t been seen since the Lilith War. Taylor saw him disappear, but his Sight indicated that he wasnâ€™t dead, so heâ€™s out there somewhere. As if that werenâ€™t enough, Walker, the agent of the Authorities whoâ€™s an old friend of Johnâ€™s father, wants something from John. Walkerâ€™s dying, and he wants John to take on a job. Taylor knows better, but accidents do happen. Taylorâ€™s snappy wit and quick thinking make for another entertaining Nightside volume. While the Nightside books do rather follow a formula, itâ€™s one that delivers consistently. The Nightside may be the most bizarre place imaginable, but itâ€™s fun to read about. --Regina Schroeder\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23742'),
(19200, 'The Good, The Bad, and the Undead', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14676'),
(19201, 'The Good, The Bad, and the Undead', 'Kim Harrison', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20833'),
(19202, 'Goodbye California', 'Alistair &amp; MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Earthquake country,''said the Professor. ''San Francisco is geologically and seismologically a city that waits to die. Los Angeles is ringed by earthquake centres - seven massive quakes so far. We have no idea where the next, the monster, will hitâ€¦''â€¦until a criminal fanatic kidnaps a nuclear scientist and builds his own atomic bombs. If exploded on California''s fault lines they could trigger off the mightiest earthquake of them all - killing half its population and dumping the entire city of San Francisco into the sea.Goodbye Californiaâ€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7664'),
(19203, 'Goodbye California', 'Alistair &amp; MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Earthquake country,''said the Professor. ''San Francisco is geologically and seismologically a city that waits to die. Los Angeles is ringed by earthquake centres - seven massive quakes so far. We have no idea where the next, the monster, will hitâ€¦''â€¦until a criminal fanatic kidnaps a nuclear scientist and builds his own atomic bombs. If exploded on California''s fault lines they could trigger off the mightiest earthquake of them all - killing half its population and dumping the entire city of San Francisco into the sea.Goodbye Californiaâ€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9325'),
(19204, 'Goodbye California', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''Earthquake country,''said the Professor. ''San Francisco is geologically and seismologically a city that waits to die. Los Angeles is ringed by earthquake centres - seven massive quakes so far. We have no idea where the next, the monster, will hitâ€¦''â€¦until a criminal fanatic kidnaps a nuclear scientist and builds his own atomic bombs. If exploded on California''s fault lines they could trigger off the mightiest earthquake of them all - killing half its population and dumping the entire city of San Francisco into the sea.Goodbye Californiaâ€¦\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16171'),
(19205, 'Goodbye Dolly', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While attending her first major doll show, Gretchen Birch, a doll restoration artist, is forced to investigate the murder of a sleazy reporter when the killer begins sending her boxes of Kewpie dolls with cryptic, threatening messages that contain the clues to cracking this case. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6123'),
(19206, 'Goodbye Dolly', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n While attending her first major doll show, Gretchen Birch, a doll restoration artist, is forced to investigate the murder of a sleazy reporter when the killer begins sending her boxes of Kewpie dolls with cryptic, threatening messages that contain the clues to cracking this case. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8268'),
(19207, 'Goodbye Dolly', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: While attending her first major doll show, Gretchen Birch, a doll restoration artist, is forced to investigate the murder of a sleazy reporter when the killer begins sending her boxes of Kewpie dolls with cryptic, threatening messages that contain the clues to cracking this case. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17979'),
(19208, 'Goodbye Dolly', 'Deb Baker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: While attending her first major doll show, Gretchen Birch, a doll restoration artist, is forced to investigate the murder of a sleazy reporter when the killer begins sending her boxes of Kewpie dolls with cryptic, threatening messages that contain the clues to cracking this case. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27404'),
(19209, 'The Goodbye Look', 'Ross Macdonald', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In\n <strong>\n  The Goodbye Look\n </strong>\n , Lew Archer is hired to investigate a burglary at the mission-style mansion of Irene and Larry Chalmers. The prime suspect, their son Nick, has a talent for disappearing, and the Chalmerses are a family with money and memories to burn. As Archer zeros in on Nick, he discovers a troubled blonde, a stash of wartime letters, a mysterious hobo. Then a stiff turns up in a car on an empty beach. And Nick turns up with a Colt .45. In\n <strong>\n  The Goodbye Look\n </strong>\n , Ross Macdonald delves into the world of the rich and the troubled and reveals that the past has a deadly way of catching up to the present.\n</p>\n<p>\n If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his pre-decessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  From the Trade Paperback edition.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11066');
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(19210, 'Goody Two-Shoes', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n [The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes is a children''s story by an anonymous author, published in 1765. The story is the origin of the popular phrase "goody two-shoes," often used to describe an excessively or annoyingly virtuous person. In more recent years, the phrase has developed a more negative connotation, implying that the virtuousness of a "goody two-shoes" is insincere.[1]PlotGoody Two-Shoes is a variation of the Cinderella story. The fable tells of Goody Two-Shoes, the nickname of a poor orphan girl named Margery Meanwell, who goes through life with only one shoe. When she is given a complete pair by a rich gentleman, she is so happy, that she tells everyone that she has "two shoes." Later, Margery becomes a teacher, and marries a rich widower. This earning of wealth serves as proof that her virtuousness has been rewarded, a popular theme in children''s literature of the era.]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goody_Two_ShoesPlease, Enjoy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7476'),
(19211, 'Goody Two-Shoes', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: [The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes is a children''s story by an anonymous author, published in 1765. The story is the origin of the popular phrase "goody two-shoes," often used to describe an excessively or annoyingly virtuous person. In more recent years, the phrase has developed a more negative connotation, implying that the virtuousness of a "goody two-shoes" is insincere.[1]PlotGoody Two-Shoes is a variation of the Cinderella story. The fable tells of Goody Two-Shoes, the nickname of a poor orphan girl named Margery Meanwell, who goes through life with only one shoe. When she is given a complete pair by a rich gentleman, she is so happy, that she tells everyone that she has "two shoes." Later, Margery becomes a teacher, and marries a rich widower. This earning of wealth serves as proof that her virtuousness has been rewarded, a popular theme in children''s literature of the era.]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goody_Two_ShoesPlease, Enjoy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16355'),
(19212, 'Goody Two-Shoes', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: [The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes is a children''s story by an anonymous author, published in 1765. The story is the origin of the popular phrase "goody two-shoes," often used to describe an excessively or annoyingly virtuous person. In more recent years, the phrase has developed a more negative connotation, implying that the virtuousness of a "goody two-shoes" is insincere.[1]PlotGoody Two-Shoes is a variation of the Cinderella story. The fable tells of Goody Two-Shoes, the nickname of a poor orphan girl named Margery Meanwell, who goes through life with only one shoe. When she is given a complete pair by a rich gentleman, she is so happy, that she tells everyone that she has "two shoes." Later, Margery becomes a teacher, and marries a rich widower. This earning of wealth serves as proof that her virtuousness has been rewarded, a popular theme in children''s literature of the era.]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goody_Two_ShoesPlease, Enjoy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26434'),
(19213, 'Google Analytics, 3rd Edition', 'Jerri L. Ledford &amp; Joe Teixeira &amp; Mary E. Tyler', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With 2 billion sites on the Web, who''s looking at yours?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Google Analytics can tell you. With great new features including advanced customization and segmentation capabilities, Analytics supplies information about your site visitors that helps you ramp up the value of your site. And like its two previous editions, this guide shows you what''s new in Google Analytics, how to get the most from the program, and what to do with what you learn.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Understand the concepts, set up your Google Analytics program, use the right goals and filters, and read the reports\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Learn to interpret and apply Analytics results, even if you''re not a Web pro\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n See how other companies use Analytics data\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Explore new features such as AdSense integration, cost data settings, motion charts, custom reports, and event tracking\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Apply the information you''ll get from reports on traffic, visitors, content, site searches, and more\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Drill down deeper with advanced techniques, tips, and hacks\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Note:** CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25516'),
(19214, 'Googled', 'Ken Auletta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. This is a ride on the Google wave, and the fullest account of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses. With unprecedented access to Googles founders and executives, as well as to those in media who are struggling to keep their heads above water, Ken Auletta reveals how the industry is being disrupted and redefined. Auletta goes inside Googles closed-door meetings, introducing Googles notoriously private founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as those who work with and against them. In Googled, the reader discovers the secret sauce of the company''s success and why the worlds of new and old media often communicate as if residents of different planets. It may send chills down traditionalists spines, but its a crucial roadmap to the future of media business: the Google story may well be the canary in the coal mine.Googled is candid, objective and authoritative. Crucially, its not just a history or reportage: its ahead of the curve and unlike any other Google books, which tend to have been near-histories, somewhat starstruck, now out of date or which fail to look at the full synthesis of business and technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3822'),
(19215, 'Googled', 'Ken Auletta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. This is a ride on the Google wave, and the fullest account of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses. With unprecedented access to Googles founders and executives, as well as to those in media who are struggling to keep their heads above water, Ken Auletta reveals how the industry is being disrupted and redefined. Auletta goes inside Googles closed-door meetings, introducing Googles notoriously private founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as those who work with and against them. In Googled, the reader discovers the secret sauce of the company''s success and why the worlds of new and old media often communicate as if residents of different planets. It may send chills down traditionalists spines, but its a crucial roadmap to the future of media business: the Google story may well be the canary in the coal mine.Googled is candid, objective and authoritative. Crucially, its not just a history or reportage: its ahead of the curve and unlike any other Google books, which tend to have been near-histories, somewhat starstruck, now out of date or which fail to look at the full synthesis of business and technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8317'),
(19216, 'Googled', 'Ken Auletta', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. This is a ride on the Google wave, and the fullest account of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses. With unprecedented access to Googles founders and executives, as well as to those in media who are struggling to keep their heads above water, Ken Auletta reveals how the industry is being disrupted and redefined. Auletta goes inside Googles closed-door meetings, introducing Googles notoriously private founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as those who work with and against them. In Googled, the reader discovers the secret sauce of the company''s success and why the worlds of new and old media often communicate as if residents of different planets. It may send chills down traditionalists spines, but its a crucial roadmap to the future of media business: the Google story may well be the canary in the coal mine.Googled is candid, objective and authoritative. Crucially, its not just a history or reportage: its ahead of the curve and unlike any other Google books, which tend to have been near-histories, somewhat starstruck, now out of date or which fail to look at the full synthesis of business and technology.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20738'),
(19217, 'Goon', 'Edward Lee', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Relentless as a Texas Death-Match, GOON is a no-holds-barred festival of body slams; an insatiable orgy of pile-drivers and sexual grotesqueries, of neck-breakers, drop-kicks, and more blood and guts than a fish-market floor. Goon, this human juggernaut, this masked rack of guts, muscle and mayhem. Is Goon just a wrestler gone insane? Or is he something hideously worse?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18584'),
(19218, 'Goose in the Pond', 'Earlene Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  When Benni finds a dead woman lying facedown in the lake, dressed in a Mother Goose costume, her investigation takes her inside the Storyteller''s Guild.There she discovers that Mother Goose was telling more than fairy tales -- she was a gossip columnist who aired the kind of secrets that destroy lives -- and inspire revenge...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Benni Harper finds a local storyteller''s body in the lake in the fourth mystery of this series. Benni has recently married the handsome Latino police chief; the murder comes just before a storytelling festival she has organized. Further complications include the arrival of assorted, unmatched relatives who stay for dinner and beyond; tensions between rabid environmentalists and locals; and the emotional bumps and whorls of Benni''s second marriage. The dialogue is often engaging, and the local California color more so, but the plot is full--perhaps overfull--of hot buttons. There are the storytelling and quilting references (each of Fowler''s books has a quilt pattern as its title) as well as plotlines that include a homeless person, lost computer files, unbiquitous coffeehouses, spouse abuse, an unfavorable comparison to Hillary Rodham Clinton, the local library, and a reference librarian. The most fully realized characters are two minor but crucial ones: Benni''s redoubtable grandmother, Dove, and her newly met stepson, Sam. Pleasant enough.\n  <em>\n   GraceAnne DeCandido\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A fourth appearance for Benni Harper (Kansas Troubles, 1996, etc.), curator of the Folk Art Museum in San Celina, California- -recently married to the town''s Chief of Police Gabe Ortiz--who''s now deep in preparations for the museum''s first storytelling festival, to be combined with a show of handmade quilts. It''s Benni''s misfortune to discover the murdered body of Nora Cooper, a storyteller at the local library. Nora''s brother Nick is head reference librarian there, under director Jillian Sinclair, a niece of the library''s chief benefactor, Constance Sinclair. Nora, meanwhile, was involved in a bitter divorce settlement with soon- to-be-ex-husband Roy, who lives with girlfriend Grace Winter, a stableowner. They''re Gabe''s prime suspects until it''s revealed that Nora was the author of the Tattler, an unsigned scandal-mongering column in the town''s newspaper. It seems both library and museum staffs are chock-full of people with nasty secrets Nora was busy unearthing. Gabe works hard to restrain Benni''s rampant investigating instincts--with good reason, as it turns out in the out-of-left-field, unsatisfying denouement. Much time is spent on Gabe and Benni''s cluttered domestic life as they play reluctant hosts to Gabe''s troubled son Sam, Benni''s beloved but trying grandmother Dove and flighty cousin Rita--a setup as overpopulated, artificial, and unconvincing as the murder mystery. Quilters and storytelling enthusiasts may find some joy here; others will find this one heavy on chitchat but low on substance. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5813'),
(19219, 'Goose in the Pond', 'Earlene Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  When Benni finds a dead woman lying facedown in the lake, dressed in a Mother Goose costume, her investigation takes her inside the Storyteller''s Guild.There she discovers that Mother Goose was telling more than fairy tales -- she was a gossip columnist who aired the kind of secrets that destroy lives -- and inspire revenge...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Benni Harper finds a local storyteller''s body in the lake in the fourth mystery of this series. Benni has recently married the handsome Latino police chief; the murder comes just before a storytelling festival she has organized. Further complications include the arrival of assorted, unmatched relatives who stay for dinner and beyond; tensions between rabid environmentalists and locals; and the emotional bumps and whorls of Benni''s second marriage. The dialogue is often engaging, and the local California color more so, but the plot is full--perhaps overfull--of hot buttons. There are the storytelling and quilting references (each of Fowler''s books has a quilt pattern as its title) as well as plotlines that include a homeless person, lost computer files, unbiquitous coffeehouses, spouse abuse, an unfavorable comparison to Hillary Rodham Clinton, the local library, and a reference librarian. The most fully realized characters are two minor but crucial ones: Benni''s redoubtable grandmother, Dove, and her newly met stepson, Sam. Pleasant enough.\n  <em>\n   GraceAnne DeCandido\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A fourth appearance for Benni Harper (Kansas Troubles, 1996, etc.), curator of the Folk Art Museum in San Celina, California- -recently married to the town''s Chief of Police Gabe Ortiz--who''s now deep in preparations for the museum''s first storytelling festival, to be combined with a show of handmade quilts. It''s Benni''s misfortune to discover the murdered body of Nora Cooper, a storyteller at the local library. Nora''s brother Nick is head reference librarian there, under director Jillian Sinclair, a niece of the library''s chief benefactor, Constance Sinclair. Nora, meanwhile, was involved in a bitter divorce settlement with soon- to-be-ex-husband Roy, who lives with girlfriend Grace Winter, a stableowner. They''re Gabe''s prime suspects until it''s revealed that Nora was the author of the Tattler, an unsigned scandal-mongering column in the town''s newspaper. It seems both library and museum staffs are chock-full of people with nasty secrets Nora was busy unearthing. Gabe works hard to restrain Benni''s rampant investigating instincts--with good reason, as it turns out in the out-of-left-field, unsatisfying denouement. Much time is spent on Gabe and Benni''s cluttered domestic life as they play reluctant hosts to Gabe''s troubled son Sam, Benni''s beloved but trying grandmother Dove and flighty cousin Rita--a setup as overpopulated, artificial, and unconvincing as the murder mystery. Quilters and storytelling enthusiasts may find some joy here; others will find this one heavy on chitchat but low on substance. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9789'),
(19220, 'Goose in the Pond', 'Earlene Fowler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n  <br />\n  When Benni finds a dead woman lying facedown in the lake, dressed in a Mother Goose costume, her investigation takes her inside the Storyteller''s Guild.There she discovers that Mother Goose was telling more than fairy tales -- she was a gossip columnist who aired the kind of secrets that destroy lives -- and inspire revenge...\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Benni Harper finds a local storyteller''s body in the lake in the fourth mystery of this series. Benni has recently married the handsome Latino police chief; the murder comes just before a storytelling festival she has organized. Further complications include the arrival of assorted, unmatched relatives who stay for dinner and beyond; tensions between rabid environmentalists and locals; and the emotional bumps and whorls of Benni''s second marriage. The dialogue is often engaging, and the local California color more so, but the plot is full--perhaps overfull--of hot buttons. There are the storytelling and quilting references (each of Fowler''s books has a quilt pattern as its title) as well as plotlines that include a homeless person, lost computer files, unbiquitous coffeehouses, spouse abuse, an unfavorable comparison to Hillary Rodham Clinton, the local library, and a reference librarian. The most fully realized characters are two minor but crucial ones: Benni''s redoubtable grandmother, Dove, and her newly met stepson, Sam. Pleasant enough.\n  <em>\n   GraceAnne DeCandido\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Kirkus Reviews\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A fourth appearance for Benni Harper (Kansas Troubles, 1996, etc.), curator of the Folk Art Museum in San Celina, California- -recently married to the town''s Chief of Police Gabe Ortiz--who''s now deep in preparations for the museum''s first storytelling festival, to be combined with a show of handmade quilts. It''s Benni''s misfortune to discover the murdered body of Nora Cooper, a storyteller at the local library. Nora''s brother Nick is head reference librarian there, under director Jillian Sinclair, a niece of the library''s chief benefactor, Constance Sinclair. Nora, meanwhile, was involved in a bitter divorce settlement with soon- to-be-ex-husband Roy, who lives with girlfriend Grace Winter, a stableowner. They''re Gabe''s prime suspects until it''s revealed that Nora was the author of the Tattler, an unsigned scandal-mongering column in the town''s newspaper. It seems both library and museum staffs are chock-full of people with nasty secrets Nora was busy unearthing. Gabe works hard to restrain Benni''s rampant investigating instincts--with good reason, as it turns out in the out-of-left-field, unsatisfying denouement. Much time is spent on Gabe and Benni''s cluttered domestic life as they play reluctant hosts to Gabe''s troubled son Sam, Benni''s beloved but trying grandmother Dove and flighty cousin Rita--a setup as overpopulated, artificial, and unconvincing as the murder mystery. Quilters and storytelling enthusiasts may find some joy here; others will find this one heavy on chitchat but low on substance. --\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18793'),
(19221, 'The Gordian Knot', 'Bernhard Schlink', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Schlink''s unremarkable stand-alone thriller, the fortunes of Georg Polger, a German living in France who''s struggling to make ends meet as a translator, change after he receives an offer of steady employment translating technical manuals. The naÃ¯ve Polger doesn''t suspect anything untoward about the job, even after learning his employer has paid him to duplicate work already done. When he finds that his new lover, FranÃ§oise Kramsky, is covertly photographing confidential plans for a new military helicopter, Polger''s search for the truth takes him to pre-9/11 New York City, where the plot goes somewhat off the rails. Schlink fails to make the transformation of his colorless, mild-mannered hero into an action figure convincing. Those looking for a more engaging protagonist will find one in the author''s detective series featuring Gerald Self (Self''s Murder, etc.). (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Georg Polger is down and out in Provence. The translating assignments that pay his bills arenâ€™t coming fast enough. When a new translation firm opens near his village, he finds work, money, and love with Francoise, the firmâ€™s beautiful secretary. Soon, theyâ€™re living together, and Georgâ€™s life is perfect. But that changes when he discovers Francoise photographing diagrams of a revolutionary new helicopter that are part of his latest assignment. Francoise disappears, and Georg understands that heâ€™s been a pawn in an espionage operation. Impetuously, Georg travels to New York to find Francoise and try to understand what happened to his perfect life. Schlink, whose Holocaust novel The Reader (1997) was a best-seller, seems bent on defying genre categorization. Individual scenes in this novel might recall Kafka and Camus, but the primary focus is on quotidian events. Thereâ€™s an espionage element, but naive, self-important Georg is the easiest of marks, and the erratic Francoise is hardly a practiced seductress. In the end, this offbeat, engaging novel is simply the moving story of two flawed people. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7221'),
(19222, 'The Gordian Knot', 'Bernhard Schlink', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Schlink''s unremarkable stand-alone thriller, the fortunes of Georg Polger, a German living in France who''s struggling to make ends meet as a translator, change after he receives an offer of steady employment translating technical manuals. The naÃ¯ve Polger doesn''t suspect anything untoward about the job, even after learning his employer has paid him to duplicate work already done. When he finds that his new lover, FranÃ§oise Kramsky, is covertly photographing confidential plans for a new military helicopter, Polger''s search for the truth takes him to pre-9/11 New York City, where the plot goes somewhat off the rails. Schlink fails to make the transformation of his colorless, mild-mannered hero into an action figure convincing. Those looking for a more engaging protagonist will find one in the author''s detective series featuring Gerald Self (Self''s Murder, etc.). (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Georg Polger is down and out in Provence. The translating assignments that pay his bills arenâ€™t coming fast enough. When a new translation firm opens near his village, he finds work, money, and love with Francoise, the firmâ€™s beautiful secretary. Soon, theyâ€™re living together, and Georgâ€™s life is perfect. But that changes when he discovers Francoise photographing diagrams of a revolutionary new helicopter that are part of his latest assignment. Francoise disappears, and Georg understands that heâ€™s been a pawn in an espionage operation. Impetuously, Georg travels to New York to find Francoise and try to understand what happened to his perfect life. Schlink, whose Holocaust novel The Reader (1997) was a best-seller, seems bent on defying genre categorization. Individual scenes in this novel might recall Kafka and Camus, but the primary focus is on quotidian events. Thereâ€™s an espionage element, but naive, self-important Georg is the easiest of marks, and the erratic Francoise is hardly a practiced seductress. In the end, this offbeat, engaging novel is simply the moving story of two flawed people. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12535'),
(19223, 'The Gordian Knot', 'Bernhard Schlink', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In Schlink''s unremarkable stand-alone thriller, the fortunes of Georg Polger, a German living in France who''s struggling to make ends meet as a translator, change after he receives an offer of steady employment translating technical manuals. The naÃ¯ve Polger doesn''t suspect anything untoward about the job, even after learning his employer has paid him to duplicate work already done. When he finds that his new lover, FranÃ§oise Kramsky, is covertly photographing confidential plans for a new military helicopter, Polger''s search for the truth takes him to pre-9/11 New York City, where the plot goes somewhat off the rails. Schlink fails to make the transformation of his colorless, mild-mannered hero into an action figure convincing. Those looking for a more engaging protagonist will find one in the author''s detective series featuring Gerald Self (Self''s Murder, etc.). (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Georg Polger is down and out in Provence. The translating assignments that pay his bills arenâ€™t coming fast enough. When a new translation firm opens near his village, he finds work, money, and love with Francoise, the firmâ€™s beautiful secretary. Soon, theyâ€™re living together, and Georgâ€™s life is perfect. But that changes when he discovers Francoise photographing diagrams of a revolutionary new helicopter that are part of his latest assignment. Francoise disappears, and Georg understands that heâ€™s been a pawn in an espionage operation. Impetuously, Georg travels to New York to find Francoise and try to understand what happened to his perfect life. Schlink, whose Holocaust novel The Reader (1997) was a best-seller, seems bent on defying genre categorization. Individual scenes in this novel might recall Kafka and Camus, but the primary focus is on quotidian events. Thereâ€™s an espionage element, but naive, self-important Georg is the easiest of marks, and the erratic Francoise is hardly a practiced seductress. In the end, this offbeat, engaging novel is simply the moving story of two flawed people. --Thomas Gaughan\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16668'),
(19224, 'Gorgeous', 'Rachel Vail', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Allison Avery''s cell phone is possessed--literally. Maybe. Growing up between two sisters of blond beauty, fiery and sarcastic Allison is fed up with being invisible. When the devil appears in a dream and offers to trade Allison good looks for her cell phone, she makes the deal. How much damage can a little phone do anyway?  Allison begins to get tons of attention: new friends, a boyfriend, a chance to win a modeling contest. Is it all the devil''s work, or is something more mysterious happening?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1887'),
(19225, 'Gorgeous', 'Rachel Vail', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Allison Avery''s cell phone is possessed--literally. Maybe. Growing up between two sisters of blond beauty, fiery and sarcastic Allison is fed up with being invisible. When the devil appears in a dream and offers to trade Allison good looks for her cell phone, she makes the deal. How much damage can a little phone do anyway?  Allison begins to get tons of attention: new friends, a boyfriend, a chance to win a modeling contest. Is it all the devil''s work, or is something more mysterious happening?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13171'),
(19226, 'Gorgias', 'Platon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25234'),
(19227, 'Gossamer', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23009'),
(19228, 'Goth Opera', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜The time of humanity on this world has come to an end. The long night is starting. The age of the undead is upon us.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Manchester, 1993. The vampires of Great Britain have received a message: the long-awaited arrival of their evil messiah is imminent. Itâ€™s time for a recruitment drive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On holiday in Tasmania with Tegan and the Doctor, Nyssa is attacked by a demonic child. She escapes unharmed - except for two small wounds in her neck.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Why are the descendants of the Great Vampire so desperate to obtain the blood of a Time Lord? And what is their connection to a forbidden ancient Gallifreyan cult?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2328'),
(19229, 'Goth Opera', 'Paul Cornell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   <b>\n    â€˜The time of humanity on this world has come to an end. The long night is starting. The age of the undead is upon us.â€™\n   </b>\n  </font>\n </span>\n <p>\n  Manchester, 1993. The vampires of Great Britain have received a message: the long-awaited arrival of their evil messiah is imminent. Itâ€™s time for a recruitment drive.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On holiday in Tasmania with Tegan and the Doctor, Nyssa is attacked by a demonic child. She escapes unharmed - except for two small wounds in her neck.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">\n   Why are the descendants of the Great Vampire so desperate to obtain the blood of a Time Lord? And what is their connection to a forbidden ancient Gallifreyan cult?\n  </font>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22512'),
(19230, 'Gradina zeitei de jad', 'Anonymous', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26069'),
(19231, 'The Graffiti Subculture: Youth, Masculinity and Identity in London and New York', 'Nancy MacDonald', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "By demonstrating the importance of gender in the formation and dynamics of youth subcultures, this book represents a challenge to the canon of subcultural theory. A thoughtful and insightful contribution which deserves to become an important text in (sub)cultural studies." â€”Rosalind Gill, London School of Economics and Political Science\n</p>\n<p>\n "Macdonald has gone to the heart of the graffiti writers'' world and brought to bear the most thorough and provocative research. Her success depends, in part, on her forthrightness, her refusal to condescend and her respect for the writers'' enterprise and voice. Her informants are heard loud and clear giving this book an authentic tone that stays in tune with the language of the streets. Macdonald maps out this, largely male, rite of passage and presents adolescence as a period between two worlds: literally in the subway tunnels, figuratively in the subcultural underground. Her candid and often humorous description of the fieldwork process, her unusual perspective as a woman observing men and her well documented conclusions make this book essential reading in the fields of anthropology, sociology and juvenile justice and a very enjoyable read for anyone else interested in art, youth and human nature." â€”Henry Chalfont, author of_ Subway Art_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Subcultures may come and go, but graffiti has stuck around with no sell-by date in sight. In its lifecourse it has rarely been subjected to an analysis that is not only academically persuasive, but also wrapped in the walking, talking, painting actions of graffiti coda. This book offers a fascinating portal into the mind of the graffiti writer." â€”Ephraim Webber, editor of\n <em>\n  Graphotism Magazine\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This book is the most extensive contribution to our understanding of the graffiti subculture to date. Using insights from ethnographic research conducted in London and New York, this book explores the varying ways young men use graffiti to construct masculinity, claim power, and establish independence from the institutions which define, and often limit, them as young people. Forging a link between subcultural practice and identity construction, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in new understandings of youth and their subcultures.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21587'),
(19232, 'The Grafton Girls', 'Annie Groves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new Liverpool-based World War Two saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. A unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain.When Diane Wilson leaves Cambridge for Liverpool, destined for Derby House and war work as a teleprint operator, she is intent on mending her broken heart. But will hundreds of miles ease the pain of her betrayal?From the moment she first lays eyes on Myra Stone in the Wavertree terrace she is billeted to, Diane senses she''s bad news. But does Myra''s bitterness and caustic wit belie a secret heartache?Ruthie starts work at the munitions factory, enduring terrible conditions in order to put food on the table for herself and her widowed mother. But Ruthie is befriended by lively and vivacious Jess Hunt who injects colour and fun into the drab surroundings.All four women are brought together at The Grafton, the local dance hall favoured by American GIs as well as the local girls. In this heady, uncertain time, infatuation and passion blossom. But has each girl found true love - or true trouble?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7462'),
(19233, 'The Grafton Girls', 'Annie Groves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new Liverpool-based World War Two saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. A unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain.When Diane Wilson leaves Cambridge for Liverpool, destined for Derby House and war work as a teleprint operator, she is intent on mending her broken heart. But will hundreds of miles ease the pain of her betrayal?From the moment she first lays eyes on Myra Stone in the Wavertree terrace she is billeted to, Diane senses she''s bad news. But does Myra''s bitterness and caustic wit belie a secret heartache?Ruthie starts work at the munitions factory, enduring terrible conditions in order to put food on the table for herself and her widowed mother. But Ruthie is befriended by lively and vivacious Jess Hunt who injects colour and fun into the drab surroundings.All four women are brought together at The Grafton, the local dance hall favoured by American GIs as well as the local girls. In this heady, uncertain time, infatuation and passion blossom. But has each girl found true love - or true trouble?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10108'),
(19234, 'The Grafton Girls', 'Annie Groves', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The new Liverpool-based World War Two saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. A unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain.When Diane Wilson leaves Cambridge for Liverpool, destined for Derby House and war work as a teleprint operator, she is intent on mending her broken heart. But will hundreds of miles ease the pain of her betrayal?From the moment she first lays eyes on Myra Stone in the Wavertree terrace she is billeted to, Diane senses she''s bad news. But does Myra''s bitterness and caustic wit belie a secret heartache?Ruthie starts work at the munitions factory, enduring terrible conditions in order to put food on the table for herself and her widowed mother. But Ruthie is befriended by lively and vivacious Jess Hunt who injects colour and fun into the drab surroundings.All four women are brought together at The Grafton, the local dance hall favoured by American GIs as well as the local girls. In this heady, uncertain time, infatuation and passion blossom. But has each girl found true love - or true trouble?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16370'),
(19235, 'The Grail King', 'Joy Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in 130 AD on the Isle of Avalon, a lonely young druid finds more than he expected on a quest for the lost Grail of Avalonâ€”he finds a bewitching Roman beauty. It is a loosely linked sequel to *Celtic Fire*, Nashâ€™s Golden Heart Award-nominated debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4134'),
(19236, 'The Grail King', 'Joy Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in 130 AD on the Isle of Avalon, a lonely young druid finds more than he expected on a quest for the lost Grail of Avalonâ€”he finds a bewitching Roman beauty. It is a loosely linked sequel to *Celtic Fire*, Nashâ€™s Golden Heart Award-nominated debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11627'),
(19237, 'The Grail King', 'Joy Nash', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in 130 AD on the Isle of Avalon, a lonely young druid finds more than he expected on a quest for the lost Grail of Avalonâ€”he finds a bewitching Roman beauty. It is a loosely linked sequel to *Celtic Fire*, Nashâ€™s Golden Heart Award-nominated debut.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20439'),
(19238, 'Grail Quest 01 Harlequin', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14690'),
(19239, 'Grail Quest 01 Harlequin', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26648'),
(19240, 'Grail Quest 02 Vagabond', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14645'),
(19241, 'Grail Quest 02 Vagabond', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16676'),
(19242, 'Grail Quest 02 Vagabond', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26647'),
(19243, 'Grail Quest 03 Heretic', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14655'),
(19244, 'Grail Quest 03 Heretic', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16601'),
(19245, 'Grail Quest 03 Heretic', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26643'),
(19246, 'Gramma', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22984'),
(19247, 'The Grand Design', 'Stephen Hawking &amp; Leonard Mlodinow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€˜The Grand Designâ€™ uses the science to which Stephen Hawking has devoted his life to answer the questions - What are the laws of nature? What is the nature of reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? Where did the universe come from? Did the universe need a Creator? What is the Grand Design? Illustrations accompany the text of this contribution to understanding the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1187'),
(19248, 'The Grand Design', 'Stephen Hawking &amp; Leonard Mlodinow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€˜The Grand Designâ€™ uses the science to which Stephen Hawking has devoted his life to answer the questions - What are the laws of nature? What is the nature of reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? Where did the universe come from? Did the universe need a Creator? What is the Grand Design? Illustrations accompany the text of this contribution to understanding the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10231'),
(19249, 'The Grand Design', 'Stephen Hawking;Leonard Mlodinow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€˜The Grand Designâ€™ uses the science to which Stephen Hawking has devoted his life to answer the questions - What are the laws of nature? What is the nature of reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? Where did the universe come from? Did the universe need a Creator? What is the Grand Design? Illustrations accompany the text of this contribution to understanding the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14988'),
(19250, 'The Grand Design', 'Stephen Hawking; Leonard Mlodinow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€˜The Grand Designâ€™ uses the science to which Stephen Hawking has devoted his life to answer the questions - What are the laws of nature? What is the nature of reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? Where did the universe come from? Did the universe need a Creator? What is the Grand Design? Illustrations accompany the text of this contribution to understanding the universe.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23773'),
(19251, 'The Grand Ellipse', 'Paula Volsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richly inventive and breathlessly paced, this variation on the old "around the world" race theme surpasses Volsky''s earlier acclaimed fantasy The White Tribunal in deft characterizations and sly, wry wit. Tottering on the brink of war, the Vonahr republic watches uneasily as Grewzland''s "vainglorious mystic" imperior Ogron blitzes his unprepared neighbors. The traditionally neutral Low Herz, however, ruled by Ogron''s womanizing dilettante cousin, Miltzin IX, possesses a fantastic new magical weapon with a mind of its ownDthe green Sentient Masterfire. When Miltzin decrees an international race called "The Grand Ellipse" for the wealth and status of a Herzian barony, luscious Vonahrish bluestocking Luzelle Devaire accepts her government''s secret commission: win the race, convince the lascivious Miltzin to sell Masterfire to Vonahr, and thus annihilate Grewzland''s militaristic threat for good. She also hopes to escape the life of genteel wifely servitude that her domineering father has arranged for her. As feisty and resourceful as her Victorian ancestors, Luzelle finds herself drawn to her two chief rivals, the elegant Vonahrish ex-Marquis Girays v''Alisante, her former fianc , and the noble Grewzian Overcommander Karsler Stornzof, product of the mystical Promontory, where honor counts more than life''s blood itself. Although Volsky''s well-crafted novel uses the traditional quest format common in fantasies, Luzelle and her admirers provide thrilling entertainment for readers of all genres as they hurtle from one narrow escape to another. Brimming with vibrant, exotic settings and Volsky''s knack for utterly convincing dialogue (impeded only slightly by contorted consonants in proper names), this lively adventure makes for unflagging reading enjoyment that should appeal to a wide swath of SF and fantasy fans. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When an ambitious and fanatical tyrant threatens to invade the rational republic of Vonahr, the leaders of that land resort to desperate measures to acquire a magical creation that could mean the difference between conquest and freedom. To help her country, a young Vonahrish adventuress enters the spectacular race known as the Grand Ellipse in the hopes of winning an audience with the king, who possesses the secret of "Sentient Fire." The author of The White Tribunal excels in portraying fantasy worlds steeped in quasihistorical authenticity and convincing "period detail." Reminiscent of Jules Verne''s Around the World in 80 Days and other "great race" novels, Volsky''s latest sf adventure features an engaging heroine determined to live by her own rules, even at the cost of her heart''s desire.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2252'),
(19252, 'The Grand Ellipse', 'Paula Volsky', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Richly inventive and breathlessly paced, this variation on the old "around the world" race theme surpasses Volsky''s earlier acclaimed fantasy The White Tribunal in deft characterizations and sly, wry wit. Tottering on the brink of war, the Vonahr republic watches uneasily as Grewzland''s "vainglorious mystic" imperior Ogron blitzes his unprepared neighbors. The traditionally neutral Low Herz, however, ruled by Ogron''s womanizing dilettante cousin, Miltzin IX, possesses a fantastic new magical weapon with a mind of its ownDthe green Sentient Masterfire. When Miltzin decrees an international race called "The Grand Ellipse" for the wealth and status of a Herzian barony, luscious Vonahrish bluestocking Luzelle Devaire accepts her government''s secret commission: win the race, convince the lascivious Miltzin to sell Masterfire to Vonahr, and thus annihilate Grewzland''s militaristic threat for good. She also hopes to escape the life of genteel wifely servitude that her domineering father has arranged for her. As feisty and resourceful as her Victorian ancestors, Luzelle finds herself drawn to her two chief rivals, the elegant Vonahrish ex-Marquis Girays v''Alisante, her former fianc , and the noble Grewzian Overcommander Karsler Stornzof, product of the mystical Promontory, where honor counts more than life''s blood itself. Although Volsky''s well-crafted novel uses the traditional quest format common in fantasies, Luzelle and her admirers provide thrilling entertainment for readers of all genres as they hurtle from one narrow escape to another. Brimming with vibrant, exotic settings and Volsky''s knack for utterly convincing dialogue (impeded only slightly by contorted consonants in proper names), this lively adventure makes for unflagging reading enjoyment that should appeal to a wide swath of SF and fantasy fans. (Oct.)\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When an ambitious and fanatical tyrant threatens to invade the rational republic of Vonahr, the leaders of that land resort to desperate measures to acquire a magical creation that could mean the difference between conquest and freedom. To help her country, a young Vonahrish adventuress enters the spectacular race known as the Grand Ellipse in the hopes of winning an audience with the king, who possesses the secret of "Sentient Fire." The author of The White Tribunal excels in portraying fantasy worlds steeped in quasihistorical authenticity and convincing "period detail." Reminiscent of Jules Verne''s Around the World in 80 Days and other "great race" novels, Volsky''s latest sf adventure features an engaging heroine determined to live by her own rules, even at the cost of her heart''s desire.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13194');
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(19253, 'The Grand Ellipse', 'Paula Volsky', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Paula Volsky, author of\n <b>\n  The White Tribunal\n </b>\n , returns with a spectacular saga of adventure and intrigue, romance and rebellion -- beginning with a wondrous discovery that could forever alter the fate of the free world....\n <br />\n <br />\n In the modern, civilized republic of Vonahr, the need for magic seems a thing of the past. But soon the Vonahrish will find that magic is their only hope -- for an imperialistic race of fanatics, intent on conquering the world, now masses on Vonahr''s borders.\n <br />\n <br />\n Vonahr''s slim chance for salvation lies in a nearby neutral kingdom, where a brilliant savant has conjured up the ultimate weapon: Sentient Fire, a miraculous flame that responds to the command of its maker.\n <br />\n <br />\n Low Hetz''s mad, flamboyant king refuses to relinquish the secret -- so the desperate government of Vonahr sends the exquisitely beautiful adventurer Luzelle Devaire to turn his head and change his mind. But to gain an audience, Luzelle must win the Grand Ellipse, a test of...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22527'),
(19254, 'The Grand Finale', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author comes a revised, repackaged novel sure to please her many fans. She writes "high speed comic mayhem" ("Detroit Free Press"); she''s "a blast of fresh air" ("Washington Post"); "side-splitting funny" ("Publishers Weekly") and "a winner" ("Glamour"). In other words, she''s Janet Evanovich.  Berry Knudson had a talent for disaster, but when she climbed a tree to rescue a kitten, she wasn''t prepared for the scrumptious hunk undressing in a nearby window, or her dive downward that smashed Jake Sawyer''s pizza and won his heart! But was there room in her chaotic schedule for a risk-taking inventor with dreams? She took classes, delivered pizzas, and cared for three eccentric old ladies she rescued from the train station. But Jake thrived on a challenge, and he could be very inventive. Could he teach her there was time to make butterscotch pudding and let herself be loved?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4657'),
(19255, 'The Grand Finale', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author comes a revised, repackaged novel sure to please her many fans. She writes "high speed comic mayhem" ("Detroit Free Press"); she''s "a blast of fresh air" ("Washington Post"); "side-splitting funny" ("Publishers Weekly") and "a winner" ("Glamour"). In other words, she''s Janet Evanovich. Berry Knudson had a talent for disaster, but when she climbed a tree to rescue a kitten, she wasn''t prepared for the scrumptious hunk undressing in a nearby window, or her dive downward that smashed Jake Sawyer''s pizza and won his heart! But was there room in her chaotic schedule for a risk-taking inventor with dreams? She took classes, delivered pizzas, and cared for three eccentric old ladies she rescued from the train station. But Jake thrived on a challenge, and he could be very inventive. Could he teach her there was time to make butterscotch pudding and let herself be loved?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20010'),
(19256, 'Grand Junction', 'Maurice G. Dantec', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Visionary, gripping, sumptuous and tantalizing, Grande Junction is a masterwork of hip, literary science fiction. On October 4, 2057, most electronic devices on Earth are infected and destroyed by unknown viruses, and billions of people dependent on machine interfaces are killed as a result. Twelve years later, the survivors are sunk in a new Dark Age, a grim afterworld in which the only law is the law of the jungle. In the sprawling ruins of Grande Junction, a thriving urban community centered on an abandoned spaceport, civilization is hanging on by its fingernails. In this last fragile outpost of knowledge and reason, hope and faith, a second wave of lethal viruses is unleashedviruses that attack human beings directly, stripping away language, thought, humanity itself. But it is also here that a young boy, a guitar-playing prodigy named Link de Nova, discovers within himself the power to fight a malevolent entity determined to remake the world in its own bleak image. Now, as the viruses spread and enemies converge on Grande Junction, Link and his friends and protectors, Chrysler Campbell and Yuri McCoy, prepare to fight for the survival of the human race with rifles, radios, and rock ''n'' roll.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2878'),
(19257, 'Grand Junction', 'Maurice G. Dantec', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Visionary, gripping, sumptuous and tantalizing, Grande Junction is a masterwork of hip, literary science fiction. On October 4, 2057, most electronic devices on Earth are infected and destroyed by unknown viruses, and billions of people dependent on machine interfaces are killed as a result. Twelve years later, the survivors are sunk in a new Dark Age, a grim afterworld in which the only law is the law of the jungle. In the sprawling ruins of Grande Junction, a thriving urban community centered on an abandoned spaceport, civilization is hanging on by its fingernails. In this last fragile outpost of knowledge and reason, hope and faith, a second wave of lethal viruses is unleashedviruses that attack human beings directly, stripping away language, thought, humanity itself. But it is also here that a young boy, a guitar-playing prodigy named Link de Nova, discovers within himself the power to fight a malevolent entity determined to remake the world in its own bleak image. Now, as the viruses spread and enemies converge on Grande Junction, Link and his friends and protectors, Chrysler Campbell and Yuri McCoy, prepare to fight for the survival of the human race with rifles, radios, and rock ''n'' roll.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9173'),
(19258, 'Grand Junction', 'Maurice G. Dantec', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Visionary, gripping, sumptuous and tantalizing, Grande Junction is a masterwork of hip, literary science fiction. On October 4, 2057, most electronic devices on Earth are infected and destroyed by unknown viruses, and billions of people dependent on machine interfaces are killed as a result. Twelve years later, the survivors are sunk in a new Dark Age, a grim afterworld in which the only law is the law of the jungle. In the sprawling ruins of Grande Junction, a thriving urban community centered on an abandoned spaceport, civilization is hanging on by its fingernails. In this last fragile outpost of knowledge and reason, hope and faith, a second wave of lethal viruses is unleashedviruses that attack human beings directly, stripping away language, thought, humanity itself. But it is also here that a young boy, a guitar-playing prodigy named Link de Nova, discovers within himself the power to fight a malevolent entity determined to remake the world in its own bleak image. Now, as the viruses spread and enemies converge on Grande Junction, Link and his friends and protectors, Chrysler Campbell and Yuri McCoy, prepare to fight for the survival of the human race with rifles, radios, and rock ''n'' roll.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21883'),
(19259, 'The Grand Sophy', 'Georgette Heyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Of all Georgette Heyer''s treasure trove of witty and scintillating Regencies, The\n <em>\n  Grand Sophy\n </em>\n is my long-time favorite. (Hilary Williamson\n <em>\n  Book Loons\n </em>\n 20090707)\n</p>\n<p>\n I was... absorbed by Sophy''s antics and rooting for the characters I had come to love. When I turned the last page, I could only wish them all the happiest of ever afters.\n <br />\n (Vic Sandborn\n <em>\n  Jane Austen''s World\n </em>\n 20090710)\n</p>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  Grand Sophy\n </em>\n was an exciting, charming read. The characters grab you and don''t let go. (Anna Lemkau\n <em>\n  Anna''s Book Blog\n </em>\n 20090710)\n</p>\n<p>\n [F]resh and lively... I couldn''t have asked for a better - or happier - ending. (Meg Snider\n <em>\n  Write Meg\n </em>\n 20090713)\n</p>\n<p>\n After reading this book, I am happy to declare that I fell in love with Heyer''s writing and I think the plot and the characters are very engaging! (Melody\n <em>\n  Melody''s Reading Corner\n </em>\n 20090731)\n</p>\n<p>\n Fun, engaging and hilarious, I can not recommend it more highly. Sophy is a devilishly fine girl. (Laurel Ann Natress\n <em>\n  AustenProse\n </em>\n 20090731)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is a fun little novel that I''m happy to recommend. (Rebecca Laney\n <em>\n  Becky''s Book Reviews\n </em>\n 20090731)\n</p>\n<p>\n This is regency romance with a sense of humor. Sophy grabs you and takes you on a ride you don''t want to end. (Sanchez Nely\n <em>\n  All About the {n}\n </em>\n 20090813)\n</p>\n<p>\n Sophy is molded by Georgette Heyer''s genius and she''s a great character. (_The Book Binge_ 20090813)\n</p>\n<p>\n Georgette Heyer was known as the "Queen of the Regency romances", and deservedly so... The characters are unique, and the conversations are enjoyable and witty. (Lesa Holstine\n <em>\n  Lesa''s Book Critiques\n </em>\n 20090824)\n</p>\n<p>\n The\n <em>\n  Grand Sophy\n </em>\n is lively and emotive; a thoroughly satisfying read for all regency era, Historical Romance fans! (Bobbie Crawford-McCoy\n <em>\n  Book Reviews by Bobbie\n </em>\n 20090828)\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer wrote a complex and detailed story that really encourages us to think and interact rather than sit idly by and watch the fun happen. (Cinnamon Brown\n <em>\n  A Journey of Books\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<p>\n Heyer perfectly twisted a tale that includes a cast of characters you''ll root for and some you''ll root against, which makes it all the more fun. (Sabrina Heise\n <em>\n  Cheeky Reads\n </em>\n )\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Sophy sets everything right for her desperate family in one of Georgette Heyer''s most popular Regency romances.\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n When Lady Ombersley agrees to take in her young niece, no one expects Sophy, who sweeps in and immediately takes the ton by storm. Sophy discovers that her aunt''s family is in desperate need of her talent for setting everything right: Ceclia is in love with a poet, Charles has tyrannical tendencies that are being aggravated by his grim fiancee, her uncle is of no use at all, and the younger children are in desperate need of some fun and freedom. By the time she''s done, Sophy has commandeered Charles''s horses, his household, and finally, his heart. (20090623)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18393'),
(19260, 'Grandpa Book', 'Todd Parr', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n DESCRIPTION: With his characteristic vibrant illustrations and simple but poignant text, Todd Parr celebrates the special bond between grandparents and grandchildren. From dancing grandmas and hula-hooping grandpas to grandmas and grandpas in wheelchairs and in nursing homes, these two books are a tribute to all the different kinds of grandparents in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10984'),
(19261, 'Granny Dan', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For over a decade, young Danina Petroskova has known no life but that of the ballet and her mentor Madame Markova. When a deathly illness steals her from the stage, the young dancer is inconsolable, and, desperate to speed her recovery, Madame Markova agrees to hand Danina over to the talented Dr. Nikolai Obrajensky for treatment. Convalescing with the Romanovs at the Tsarskoe Selo palace, Danina learns to live in and love the world beyond the ballet. And while grateful for Nikolai''s companionship, she is startled by the intense emotions growing inside her for the married doctor. Drawn to Danina, Nikolai cannot ignore the passion between them either, and the strength of their love quickly overpowers their resistance. Soon Madame Markova and Nikolai''s wife remind them of their previous obligations, and as the Revolution hovers on the horizon, the two must make a decision that will change their lives forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n As if a romance set in the twilight years of czarist Russia doesn''t have enough intrinsic pathos, Danielle Steel takes great care to give her hero and heroine the bittersweet combination of incomparable virtue and external duties. When the young prima ballerina and the married doctor meet, they are drawn to the corresponding sense of integrity and duty in each other. However, when love and duty conflict, the struggle is never easy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Maestro Steel knows where the heartstrings are, and she plays them with her reliable talents. While students of history may cringe at the simplified approach to the historical period, readers just looking for a good time have found it. With the tough-but-loving mother figure, the ill-but-lovable Prince Alexander, the borrowed ball gowns, and the emotional grand jetÃ©, this book has everything a TV movie needs except a small, cuddly pet. Put your feet up, set aside your spoilsport logic, and enjoy this novel for what it is: a classic romance.\n <em>\n  --Nancy R.E. O''Brien\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a fable compact enough to be swallowed in a single gulp, the prolific Steel (Bittersweet) offers a granddaughter''s tribute to Danina Petroskova, "Granny Dan," a Russian immigrant who left the glamorous world of the St. Petersburg Ballet and lived thereafter as a Vermont housewife. The unnamed narrator always loved her grandmother, with her elegant braided hair, roller skates and soft Russian accent. Granny Dan rarely speaks of her life in Russia before the revolution, but when she dies, at almost 90, the narrator inherits a pair of ballet shoes and a packet of love letters that tell the dramatic story of her former existence. Committed at age seven to the ballet, in her teens Danina becomes a prima ballerina who enchants the czar and czarina, becoming the royal children''s boon companion. Stricken by influenza at 19, Danina''s life is saved by Czarevitch Alexei''s physician, Nikolai Obrajensky, with whom she falls passionately in love. This fairy tale is fully outfitted with dreamy details such as ermine-trimmed gowns, covered sleighs and royal balls in glittering palaces. The historical technicalities are glossed over: in this book the Russian czar is a nice man who let the revolution go too far because he wanted his people to express their feelings. The love story is pure melodrama, with Nikolai a princely man married to a "dreadful Englishwoman," and the couple tormented by their unquenchable passions, lofty joys and ultimate tragedy. Steel doesn''t unfold the plot so much as restate the same point: that Granny Dan led an extraordinary life of romance and heartbreak; this slim confection holds few surprises in telling the Cinderella story in reverse.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6374'),
(19262, 'Granny Dan', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For over a decade, young Danina Petroskova has known no life but that of the ballet and her mentor Madame Markova. When a deathly illness steals her from the stage, the young dancer is inconsolable, and, desperate to speed her recovery, Madame Markova agrees to hand Danina over to the talented Dr. Nikolai Obrajensky for treatment. Convalescing with the Romanovs at the Tsarskoe Selo palace, Danina learns to live in and love the world beyond the ballet. And while grateful for Nikolai''s companionship, she is startled by the intense emotions growing inside her for the married doctor. Drawn to Danina, Nikolai cannot ignore the passion between them either, and the strength of their love quickly overpowers their resistance. Soon Madame Markova and Nikolai''s wife remind them of their previous obligations, and as the Revolution hovers on the horizon, the two must make a decision that will change their lives forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n As if a romance set in the twilight years of czarist Russia doesn''t have enough intrinsic pathos, Danielle Steel takes great care to give her hero and heroine the bittersweet combination of incomparable virtue and external duties. When the young prima ballerina and the married doctor meet, they are drawn to the corresponding sense of integrity and duty in each other. However, when love and duty conflict, the struggle is never easy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Maestro Steel knows where the heartstrings are, and she plays them with her reliable talents. While students of history may cringe at the simplified approach to the historical period, readers just looking for a good time have found it. With the tough-but-loving mother figure, the ill-but-lovable Prince Alexander, the borrowed ball gowns, and the emotional grand jetÃ©, this book has everything a TV movie needs except a small, cuddly pet. Put your feet up, set aside your spoilsport logic, and enjoy this novel for what it is: a classic romance.\n <em>\n  --Nancy R.E. O''Brien\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a fable compact enough to be swallowed in a single gulp, the prolific Steel (Bittersweet) offers a granddaughter''s tribute to Danina Petroskova, "Granny Dan," a Russian immigrant who left the glamorous world of the St. Petersburg Ballet and lived thereafter as a Vermont housewife. The unnamed narrator always loved her grandmother, with her elegant braided hair, roller skates and soft Russian accent. Granny Dan rarely speaks of her life in Russia before the revolution, but when she dies, at almost 90, the narrator inherits a pair of ballet shoes and a packet of love letters that tell the dramatic story of her former existence. Committed at age seven to the ballet, in her teens Danina becomes a prima ballerina who enchants the czar and czarina, becoming the royal children''s boon companion. Stricken by influenza at 19, Danina''s life is saved by Czarevitch Alexei''s physician, Nikolai Obrajensky, with whom she falls passionately in love. This fairy tale is fully outfitted with dreamy details such as ermine-trimmed gowns, covered sleighs and royal balls in glittering palaces. The historical technicalities are glossed over: in this book the Russian czar is a nice man who let the revolution go too far because he wanted his people to express their feelings. The love story is pure melodrama, with Nikolai a princely man married to a "dreadful Englishwoman," and the couple tormented by their unquenchable passions, lofty joys and ultimate tragedy. Steel doesn''t unfold the plot so much as restate the same point: that Granny Dan led an extraordinary life of romance and heartbreak; this slim confection holds few surprises in telling the Cinderella story in reverse.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12862'),
(19263, 'Granny Dan', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n For over a decade, young Danina Petroskova has known no life but that of the ballet and her mentor Madame Markova. When a deathly illness steals her from the stage, the young dancer is inconsolable, and, desperate to speed her recovery, Madame Markova agrees to hand Danina over to the talented Dr. Nikolai Obrajensky for treatment. Convalescing with the Romanovs at the Tsarskoe Selo palace, Danina learns to live in and love the world beyond the ballet. And while grateful for Nikolai''s companionship, she is startled by the intense emotions growing inside her for the married doctor. Drawn to Danina, Nikolai cannot ignore the passion between them either, and the strength of their love quickly overpowers their resistance. Soon Madame Markova and Nikolai''s wife remind them of their previous obligations, and as the Revolution hovers on the horizon, the two must make a decision that will change their lives forever.\n</p>\n<p>\n As if a romance set in the twilight years of czarist Russia doesn''t have enough intrinsic pathos, Danielle Steel takes great care to give her hero and heroine the bittersweet combination of incomparable virtue and external duties. When the young prima ballerina and the married doctor meet, they are drawn to the corresponding sense of integrity and duty in each other. However, when love and duty conflict, the struggle is never easy.\n</p>\n<p>\n Maestro Steel knows where the heartstrings are, and she plays them with her reliable talents. While students of history may cringe at the simplified approach to the historical period, readers just looking for a good time have found it. With the tough-but-loving mother figure, the ill-but-lovable Prince Alexander, the borrowed ball gowns, and the emotional grand jetÃ©, this book has everything a TV movie needs except a small, cuddly pet. Put your feet up, set aside your spoilsport logic, and enjoy this novel for what it is: a classic romance.\n <em>\n  --Nancy R.E. O''Brien\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In a fable compact enough to be swallowed in a single gulp, the prolific Steel (Bittersweet) offers a granddaughter''s tribute to Danina Petroskova, "Granny Dan," a Russian immigrant who left the glamorous world of the St. Petersburg Ballet and lived thereafter as a Vermont housewife. The unnamed narrator always loved her grandmother, with her elegant braided hair, roller skates and soft Russian accent. Granny Dan rarely speaks of her life in Russia before the revolution, but when she dies, at almost 90, the narrator inherits a pair of ballet shoes and a packet of love letters that tell the dramatic story of her former existence. Committed at age seven to the ballet, in her teens Danina becomes a prima ballerina who enchants the czar and czarina, becoming the royal children''s boon companion. Stricken by influenza at 19, Danina''s life is saved by Czarevitch Alexei''s physician, Nikolai Obrajensky, with whom she falls passionately in love. This fairy tale is fully outfitted with dreamy details such as ermine-trimmed gowns, covered sleighs and royal balls in glittering palaces. The historical technicalities are glossed over: in this book the Russian czar is a nice man who let the revolution go too far because he wanted his people to express their feelings. The love story is pure melodrama, with Nikolai a princely man married to a "dreadful Englishwoman," and the couple tormented by their unquenchable passions, lofty joys and ultimate tragedy. Steel doesn''t unfold the plot so much as restate the same point: that Granny Dan led an extraordinary life of romance and heartbreak; this slim confection holds few surprises in telling the Cinderella story in reverse.\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17587'),
(19264, 'Grantchester Grind', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This sequel to Tom Sharpe''s classic comic novel Porterhouse Blue takes the reader back to the hilarious goings- on at Porterhouse College.     Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion- previously head porter, now elevated to Master- is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke. So the tricky business of appointing a new Master must start all over again. Meanwhile the College''s monstrous debts refuse to go away, and a sinister American media mogul seems determined to make a television documentary on the premises, destroying part of the chapel in the process. Moreover, the widow of the previous Master is convinced that her husband was murdered, so she plants an agent in the Senior Common Room to dig up an unpleasant truth that everyone else would prefer kept under the carpet. Faced with such continuing crises, the instinct of the true Porterhouse man is to reach for the bottle- or to fall back on the subtle and traditional Cambridge skills of blackmail and kidnap. But will those be enough?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/504'),
(19265, 'Grantchester Grind', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This sequel to Tom Sharpe''s classic comic novel Porterhouse Blue takes the reader back to the hilarious goings- on at Porterhouse College. Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion- previously head porter, now elevated to Master- is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke. So the tricky business of appointing a new Master must start all over again. Meanwhile the College''s monstrous debts refuse to go away, and a sinister American media mogul seems determined to make a television documentary on the premises, destroying part of the chapel in the process. Moreover, the widow of the previous Master is convinced that her husband was murdered, so she plants an agent in the Senior Common Room to dig up an unpleasant truth that everyone else would prefer kept under the carpet. Faced with such continuing crises, the instinct of the true Porterhouse man is to reach for the bottle- or to fall back on the subtle and traditional Cambridge skills of blackmail and kidnap. But will those be enough?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24466'),
(19266, 'The Grapes of Wrath', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaâ€™s   greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin   Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Of this initial group of six titles, *The Grapes of Wrath* is in a new edition with a completely revised   introduction and, for the first time, detailed notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersâ€”and to the many   who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4230'),
(19267, 'The Grapes of Wrath', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaâ€™s   greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin   Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Of this initial group of six titles, *The Grapes of Wrath* is in a new edition with a completely revised   introduction and, for the first time, detailed notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersâ€”and to the many   who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12840'),
(19268, 'The Grapes of Wrath', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13974'),
(19269, 'The Grapes of Wrath', 'John Steinbeck', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaâ€™s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Of this initial group of six titles, *The Grapes of Wrath* is in a new edition with a completely revised introduction and, for the first time, detailed notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersâ€”and to the many who revisit them again and again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20325'),
(19270, 'Grass', 'Sheri S. Tepper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: What could be more commonplace than grass, or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets -- and nothing will ever be the same again . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23045'),
(19271, 'Grass for His Pillow', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Both Takeo and Kaede have visions of their future. Takeo works to escape the Tribe and fulfill the last wishes of his adoptive father, Lord Shigeru Otori. And Kaede, heir to two seats of power, moves forward step by step, aided by her own wits and a precarious alliance with Lord Fujiwara. In their separate worlds, the two long for each other, knowing that they are meant to be together, wondering if they will ever see each other again. . . .  ''The beauty, savagery and strangeness of Hearn''s gripping tale is heightened by her exquisite, crystalline prose. The second instalment in the "Tales of the Otori" is, astonishingly, even better than " Across the Nightingale Floor"'' - Amanda Craig, " Independent on Sunday"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3367'),
(19272, 'Grass for his Pillow', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Both Takeo and Kaede have visions of their future. Takeo works to escape the Tribe and fulfill the last wishes of his adoptive father, Lord Shigeru Otori. And Kaede, heir to two seats of power, moves forward step by step, aided by her own wits and a precarious alliance with Lord Fujiwara. In their separate worlds, the two long for each other, knowing that they are meant to be together, wondering if they will ever see each other again. . . . ''The beauty, savagery and strangeness of Hearn''s gripping tale is heightened by her exquisite, crystalline prose. The second instalment in the "Tales of the Otori" is, astonishingly, even better than " Across the Nightingale Floor"'' - Amanda Craig, " Independent on Sunday"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21151'),
(19273, 'The Grass Widow&#39;s Tale', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A reissue of the crime novel first published in 1968, featuring the detective George Felse.Previous reissues include A NICE DERANGEMENT OF EPITAPHS and THE KNOCKER ON DEATH''S DOOR.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With her policeman husband gone to investigate yet another murder on the eve of her 41st birthday, Bunty Felse feels dejected until she finds herself involved in kidnapping, chases and murder. Bishop''s smoothly flowing voice deftly narrates the story, keeping the tension and suspense moving forward. Balancing timing and pace with the momentum of the story, she adroitly dramatizes the emotions of the characters. The minor characters'' voices are as easily distinguished and individualized as those of the main characters. The Scottish accents are most enjoyable. P.A.J. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5693'),
(19274, 'The Grass Widow&#39;s Tale', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A reissue of the crime novel first published in 1968, featuring the detective George Felse.Previous reissues include A NICE DERANGEMENT OF EPITAPHS and THE KNOCKER ON DEATH''S DOOR.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With her policeman husband gone to investigate yet another murder on the eve of her 41st birthday, Bunty Felse feels dejected until she finds herself involved in kidnapping, chases and murder. Bishop''s smoothly flowing voice deftly narrates the story, keeping the tension and suspense moving forward. Balancing timing and pace with the momentum of the story, she adroitly dramatizes the emotions of the characters. The minor characters'' voices are as easily distinguished and individualized as those of the main characters. The Scottish accents are most enjoyable. P.A.J. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18900'),
(19275, 'Gratitude', 'Joseph Kertes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n March 1944: Warâ€™s darkest period descends upon Hungaryâ€™s Jews. By the time it ends in January 1945, over half a million Jews will have been murdered. Gratitude tells the story of that period, through the eyes of the wealthy Beck family, whose lives and loves are saved and lost. At the center of it all is Paul Beck, a young lawyer whose chance meeting with a visiting Swede, Raoul Wallenberg, may alter the inevitability of the Jewsâ€™ fate. Like The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Gratitude captures forever the pain and passion of oneâ€™s family precious moment in time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4087'),
(19276, 'Gratitude', 'Joseph Kertes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n March 1944: Warâ€™s darkest period descends upon Hungaryâ€™s Jews. By the time it ends in January 1945, over half a million Jews will have been murdered. Gratitude tells the story of that period, through the eyes of the wealthy Beck family, whose lives and loves are saved and lost. At the center of it all is Paul Beck, a young lawyer whose chance meeting with a visiting Swede, Raoul Wallenberg, may alter the inevitability of the Jewsâ€™ fate. Like The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Gratitude captures forever the pain and passion of oneâ€™s family precious moment in time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10669'),
(19277, 'Gratitude', 'Joseph Kertes', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: March 1944: Warâ€™s darkest period descends upon Hungaryâ€™s Jews. By the time it ends in January 1945, over half a million Jews will have been murdered. Gratitude tells the story of that period, through the eyes of the wealthy Beck family, whose lives and loves are saved and lost. At the center of it all is Paul Beck, a young lawyer whose chance meeting with a visiting Swede, Raoul Wallenberg, may alter the inevitability of the Jewsâ€™ fate. Like The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Gratitude captures forever the pain and passion of oneâ€™s family precious moment in time.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20482'),
(19278, 'A Grave Denied', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead and was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property for Johnny Morgan, a teenaged boy in her care. But she, the Park''s unofficial p.i., seems to have known less about him than anyone. Alaska is a place where anybody can bury his history and start fresh, and for any reason, but this particular mystery comes to light when Len Dreyer turns up murdered. His body is discovered, frozen solid, in the path of a receding glacier with the hole from a shotgun blast in his chest. No one even knew he was missing, but it turns out he''s been missing for months. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin asks Kate to help him dig into Dreyer''s background, in the hope of finding some reason for his murder. She takes the case, mindful of the need for gainful employment as she copes with her responsibility for Johnny, a constant reminder of his father, her dead lover. Little does she imagine that by trying to provide for him she just might put him right in the path of danger.A talented writer at the prime of her abilities, Stabenow delivers a masterful crime novel that turns out to be as much about living as it is about dying.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead and was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property for Johnny Morgan, a teenaged boy in her care. But she, the Park''s unofficial p.i., seems to have known less about him than anyone. Alaska is a place where anybody can bury his history and start fresh, and for any reason, but this particular mystery comes to light when Len Dreyer turns up murdered. His body is discovered, frozen solid, in the path of a receding glacier with the hole from a shotgun blast in his chest. No one even knew he was missing, but it turns out he''s been missing for months. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin asks Kate to help him dig into Dreyer''s background, in the hope of finding some reason for his murder. She takes the case, mindful of the need for gainful employment as she copes with her responsibility for Johnny, a constant reminder of his father, her dead lover. Little does she imagine that by trying to provide for him she just might put him right in the path of danger.A talented writer at the prime of her abilities, Stabenow delivers a masterful crime novel that turns out to be as much about living as it is about dying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6518'),
(19279, 'A grave denied', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead and was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property for Johnny Morgan, a teenaged boy in her care. But she, the Park''s unofficial p.i., seems to have known less about him than anyone. Alaska is a place where anybody can bury his history and start fresh, and for any reason, but this particular mystery comes to light when Len Dreyer turns up murdered. His body is discovered, frozen solid, in the path of a receding glacier with the hole from a shotgun blast in his chest. No one even knew he was missing, but it turns out he''s been missing for months. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin asks Kate to help him dig into Dreyer''s background, in the hope of finding some reason for his murder. She takes the case, mindful of the need for gainful employment as she copes with her responsibility for Johnny, a constant reminder of his father, her dead lover. Little does she imagine that by trying to provide for him she just might put him right in the path of danger.A talented writer at the prime of her abilities, Stabenow delivers a masterful crime novel that turns out to be as much about living as it is about dying. SUMMARY: Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead and was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property for Johnny Morgan, a teenaged boy in her care. But she, the Park''s unofficial p.i., seems to have known less about him than anyone. Alaska is a place where anybody can bury his history and start fresh, and for any reason, but this particular mystery comes to light when Len Dreyer turns up murdered. His body is discovered, frozen solid, in the path of a receding glacier with the hole from a shotgun blast in his chest. No one even knew he was missing, but it turns out he''s been missing for months. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin asks Kate to help him dig into Dreyer''s background, in the hope of finding some reason for his murder. She takes the case, mindful of the need for gainful employment as she copes with her responsibility for Johnny, a constant reminder of his father, her dead lover. Little does she imagine that by trying to provide for him she just might put him right in the path of danger.A talented writer at the prime of her abilities, Stabenow delivers a masterful crime novel that turns out to be as much about living as it is about dying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17547'),
(19280, 'A grave denied', 'Dana Stabenow', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead and was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property for Johnny Morgan, a teenaged boy in her care. But she, the Park''s unofficial p.i., seems to have known less about him than anyone. Alaska is a place where anybody can bury his history and start fresh, and for any reason, but this particular mystery comes to light when Len Dreyer turns up murdered. His body is discovered, frozen solid, in the path of a receding glacier with the hole from a shotgun blast in his chest. No one even knew he was missing, but it turns out he''s been missing for months. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin asks Kate to help him dig into Dreyer''s background, in the hope of finding some reason for his murder. She takes the case, mindful of the need for gainful employment as she copes with her responsibility for Johnny, a constant reminder of his father, her dead lover. Little does she imagine that by trying to provide for him she just might put him right in the path of danger.A talented writer at the prime of her abilities, Stabenow delivers a masterful crime novel that turns out to be as much about living as it is about dying. SUMMARY: Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead and was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property for Johnny Morgan, a teenaged boy in her care. But she, the Park''s unofficial p.i., seems to have known less about him than anyone. Alaska is a place where anybody can bury his history and start fresh, and for any reason, but this particular mystery comes to light when Len Dreyer turns up murdered. His body is discovered, frozen solid, in the path of a receding glacier with the hole from a shotgun blast in his chest. No one even knew he was missing, but it turns out he''s been missing for months. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin asks Kate to help him dig into Dreyer''s background, in the hope of finding some reason for his murder. She takes the case, mindful of the need for gainful employment as she copes with her responsibility for Johnny, a constant reminder of his father, her dead lover. Little does she imagine that by trying to provide for him she just might put him right in the path of danger.A talented writer at the prime of her abilities, Stabenow delivers a masterful crime novel that turns out to be as much about living as it is about dying.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27140'),
(19281, 'A Grave in the Cotswolds', 'Rebecca Tope', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''The classic English village mystery is alive and well and living in Gloucestershire'' Sherlock Magazine\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Undertaker Drew Slocombe is not having a good day. His business is failing, the car needs an MOT (safety inspection) and heâ€™s driving 120 miles to the Cotswolds to carry out the late Greta Simmondsâ€™ final wishes. Unfortunately, when he gets there, a string of bureaucratic mistakes means that heâ€™s now the chief suspect of a murder inquiry. Heâ€™s beginning to wish he had never heard of Greta Simmonds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thea Osborne and her loyal spaniel Hepzie are still pursuing their occupation as house-sitters, despite the disastrous incidents of the past. At the moment they are staying in Greta Simmondsâ€™ house, which is currently between ownership. Thea is torn between moving back home or waiting for the execution of the will. After all, she does have outstanding payments due. Then the discovery of a body in a nearby field takes the decision out of Theaâ€™s hands, and she finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation once again. Having befriended the policeâ€™s only suspect, Drew Slocombe, Thea believes him to be innocent. As Thea and Drew work together to clear his name, it slowly dawns on them that in a village simmering with secrets, a means and a motive could be laid at anybodyâ€™s door.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1920'),
(19282, 'A Grave in the Cotswolds', 'Rebecca Tope', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''The classic English village mystery is alive and well and living in Gloucestershire'' Sherlock Magazine\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Undertaker Drew Slocombe is not having a good day. His business is failing, the car needs an MOT (safety inspection) and heâ€™s driving 120 miles to the Cotswolds to carry out the late Greta Simmondsâ€™ final wishes. Unfortunately, when he gets there, a string of bureaucratic mistakes means that heâ€™s now the chief suspect of a murder inquiry. Heâ€™s beginning to wish he had never heard of Greta Simmonds.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Thea Osborne and her loyal spaniel Hepzie are still pursuing their occupation as house-sitters, despite the disastrous incidents of the past. At the moment they are staying in Greta Simmondsâ€™ house, which is currently between ownership. Thea is torn between moving back home or waiting for the execution of the will. After all, she does have outstanding payments due. Then the discovery of a body in a nearby field takes the decision out of Theaâ€™s hands, and she finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation once again. Having befriended the policeâ€™s only suspect, Drew Slocombe, Thea believes him to be innocent. As Thea and Drew work together to clear his name, it slowly dawns on them that in a village simmering with secrets, a means and a motive could be laid at anybodyâ€™s door.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13094'),
(19283, 'Grave Mistake', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A spa stay turns into a homicidal holiday...A bit snobbish and a trifle high-strung, Sybil Foster prides herself on owning the finest estate in Upper Quintern and hiring the best gardener. In fact, she is rapturous over the new asparagus beds when a visit from her unwelcome stepson sends her scurrying to a chic spa for a rest cure, a liaison with the spa''s director...and an apparent suicide. Her autopsy holds one surprise, a secret drawer a second. And Inspector Roderick Alleyn, C.I.D., digging about Upper Quintern, may unearth still a third...deeply buried motive for murder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25315'),
(19284, 'Grave Peril', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Now in hardcover from the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Dresden Files*.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Harry Dresdenâ€™s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicagoâ€™s only professional wizard.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But in all of Harryâ€™s years of supernatural sleuthing, heâ€™s never faced anything like this: the spirit worldâ€™s gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing troubleâ€”and not just of the door-slamming, â€˜booâ€™- shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Someoneâ€”or somethingâ€”is stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesnâ€™t figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4524');
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(19285, 'Grave Peril', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Now in hardcover from the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Dresden Files*.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Harry Dresdenâ€™s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicagoâ€™s only professional wizard.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But in all of Harryâ€™s years of supernatural sleuthing, heâ€™s never faced anything like this: the spirit worldâ€™s gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing troubleâ€”and not just of the door-slamming, â€˜booâ€™- shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Someoneâ€”or somethingâ€”is stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesnâ€™t figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8727'),
(19286, 'Grave Peril', 'Jim Butcher', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now in hardcover from the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Dresden Files*.** Harry Dresdenâ€™s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicagoâ€™s only professional wizard. But in all of Harryâ€™s years of supernatural sleuthing, heâ€™s never faced anything like this: the spirit worldâ€™s gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing troubleâ€”and not just of the door-slamming, â€˜booâ€™- shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly. Someoneâ€”or somethingâ€”is stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesnâ€™t figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15007'),
(19287, 'Grave Secret', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New in the series from New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as sisters. But, as always happens when they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface.  To make matters worse, Tolliver learns from his older brother that their father is out of jail and trying to reestablish contact with other family members. Tolliver wants no part of the man- but he may not have a choice in the matter.  Soon, family secrets ensnare them both, as Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister, Cameron, so many years before. And what she finds out will change her world forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6886'),
(19288, 'Grave Secret', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New in the series from New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as sisters. But, as always happens when they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface.  To make matters worse, Tolliver learns from his older brother that their father is out of jail and trying to reestablish contact with other family members. Tolliver wants no part of the man- but he may not have a choice in the matter.  Soon, family secrets ensnare them both, as Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister, Cameron, so many years before. And what she finds out will change her world forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10196'),
(19289, 'Grave Secret', 'Charlaine Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n New in the series from New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as sisters. But, as always happens when they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface. To make matters worse, Tolliver learns from his older brother that their father is out of jail and trying to reestablish contact with other family members. Tolliver wants no part of the man- but he may not have a choice in the matter. Soon, family secrets ensnare them both, as Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister, Cameron, so many years before. And what she finds out will change her world forever.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17028'),
(19290, 'Grave Secrets: A Novel', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  It was a summer morning in 1982 when soldiers ravaged the village of Chupan Ya, raping and killing women and children. Twenty-three victims are said to lie in the well where, twenty years later, Dr. Temperance Brennan and a team from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation now dig. No records were kept. To their families, the dead are "the disappeared." Forensic anthropologist for the medical examiners in North Carolina and Montreal, Tempe is in Guatemala for a month''s service to help some families identify and bury their dead. She digs in a cold, damp pit where she finds a hair clip, a fragment of cloth, a tiny sneaker. Her trowel touches something hard: the hip of a child no more than two years old. It''s heartbreaking work. Something savage happened here twenty years ago. The violence continues today. The team is packing up for the day when an urgent satellite call comes in. Two colleagues are under attack. Shots ring out, and Tempe listens in horror to a woman''s screams. Then there is silence. Dead silence. With this new violence, everything changes, both for the team and for Tempe, who''s asked by the Guatemalan police for her expertise on another case. Four privileged young women have vanished from Guatemala City in recent months. One is the Canadian ambassador''s daughter. Some remains have turned up in a septic tank, and Tempe unfortunately knows septic tanks. Teaming with Special Crimes Investigator Bartolome Galiano, and with Montreal detective Andrew Ryan, who may have more than just professional reasons to join her on the case, Tempe soon finds herself in a dangerous web that stretches far beyond Guatemala''s borders. The stakes are huge. As power, money, greed, and science converge, Tempe must make life-altering choices. From cutting-edge science in the lab, where Tempe studies fetal bones and cat hair DNA, to a chilling en-counter in a lonely morgue, "Grave Secrets" is powerful, page-turning entertainment from a crime fiction superstar who combines riveting authenticity with witty, elegant prose.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13690'),
(19291, 'Grave Secrets: A Novel', 'Kathy Reichs', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  It was a summer morning in 1982 when soldiers ravaged the village of Chupan Ya, raping and killing women and children. Twenty-three victims are said to lie in the well where, twenty years later, Dr. Temperance Brennan and a team from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation now dig. No records were kept. To their families, the dead are "the disappeared." Forensic anthropologist for the medical examiners in North Carolina and Montreal, Tempe is in Guatemala for a month''s service to help some families identify and bury their dead. She digs in a cold, damp pit where she finds a hair clip, a fragment of cloth, a tiny sneaker. Her trowel touches something hard: the hip of a child no more than two years old. It''s heartbreaking work. Something savage happened here twenty years ago. The violence continues today. The team is packing up for the day when an urgent satellite call comes in. Two colleagues are under attack. Shots ring out, and Tempe listens in horror to a woman''s screams. Then there is silence. Dead silence. With this new violence, everything changes, both for the team and for Tempe, who''s asked by the Guatemalan police for her expertise on another case. Four privileged young women have vanished from Guatemala City in recent months. One is the Canadian ambassador''s daughter. Some remains have turned up in a septic tank, and Tempe unfortunately knows septic tanks. Teaming with Special Crimes Investigator Bartolome Galiano, and with Montreal detective Andrew Ryan, who may have more than just professional reasons to join her on the case, Tempe soon finds herself in a dangerous web that stretches far beyond Guatemala''s borders. The stakes are huge. As power, money, greed, and science converge, Tempe must make life-altering choices. From cutting-edge science in the lab, where Tempe studies fetal bones and cat hair DNA, to a chilling en-counter in a lonely morgue, "Grave Secrets" is powerful, page-turning entertainment from a crime fiction superstar who combines riveting authenticity with witty, elegant prose.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20765'),
(19292, 'The Grave Tattoo', 'Val McDermid', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An intriguing, 200-year-old mystery propels this multilayered stand-alone from British author McDermid set in England''s Lake District. Scholar Jane Gresham pursues her theory that HMS\n  <em>\n   Bounty\n  </em>\n  mutineer Fletcher Christian returned secretly from exile to his homeland in the late 18th century. A shriveled body found in a bog seems to bear resemblance to this dashing hero, right down to the South Sea tattoos that blacken his buttocks. Jane searches relentlessly for a lost manuscript by the poet Wordsworth that relates Christian''s tale in tantalizing excerpts between chapters. Various subplots complicate her quest, including a fraught friendship with precocious 13-year-old Tenille, a lonely, mixed-race girl who also loves Romantic poetry. With a feminist, socially conscious spin, McDermid (_The Distant Echo_) vividly contrasts marginal subsistence in London''s dismal Marshpool neighborhood with the Lake District''s bucolic lifestyle. Boasting blurbs from such notable authors as Harlan Coben, Tess Gerritsen and Joseph Finder, this could be McDermid''s break-out book.\n  <em>\n   100,000 printing; author tour. (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€”During an English summer of record-breaking rains, a peat bog in the Lake District opens to reveal a 200-year-old body bearing South Pacific island tattoos. The area, home to Romantic poets, is where Jane Gresham, Wordsworth scholar, grew up, and she finds her interest piqued by the news. She has long believed that Fletcher Christian, HMS\n  <em>\n   Bounty\n  </em>\n  mutineer, didn''t die on Pitcairn Island but returned to England. She has theorized that Christian recounted his adventures to his old schoolmate Wordsworth, who wrote them down, and those documents and a related poem, now worth millions, lay forgotten in a local home. In the race to retrieve the valuable manuscripts, Jane finds herself competing against sinister forces that would stop at nothing, including murder, to reach them first. The suspenseful story and its subplots, which include Jane''s friendship with 13-year-old poetry-loving Tenille, who lives in Jane''s London public housing project, create an absorbing thriller. McDermid establishes a strong sense of place in the atmospheric and pastoral Lake District that contrasts sharply with the sprawling housing project. Historical and literary references to Wordsworth''s life and work and to the South Pacific adventures of the\n  <em>\n   Bounty\n  </em>\n  mutineers all help to make this novel come alive. Teens will enjoy the lively characters, brisk pace, and careful unraveling of the centuries-old mystery with its satisfactory conclusion.â€”_Susanne Bardelson, Kitsap Regional Library, WA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/420'),
(19293, 'The Grave Tattoo', 'Val McDermid', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An intriguing, 200-year-old mystery propels this multilayered stand-alone from British author McDermid set in England''s Lake District. Scholar Jane Gresham pursues her theory that HMS\n  <em>\n   Bounty\n  </em>\n  mutineer Fletcher Christian returned secretly from exile to his homeland in the late 18th century. A shriveled body found in a bog seems to bear resemblance to this dashing hero, right down to the South Sea tattoos that blacken his buttocks. Jane searches relentlessly for a lost manuscript by the poet Wordsworth that relates Christian''s tale in tantalizing excerpts between chapters. Various subplots complicate her quest, including a fraught friendship with precocious 13-year-old Tenille, a lonely, mixed-race girl who also loves Romantic poetry. With a feminist, socially conscious spin, McDermid (_The Distant Echo_) vividly contrasts marginal subsistence in London''s dismal Marshpool neighborhood with the Lake District''s bucolic lifestyle. Boasting blurbs from such notable authors as Harlan Coben, Tess Gerritsen and Joseph Finder, this could be McDermid''s break-out book.\n  <em>\n   100,000 printing; author tour. (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€”During an English summer of record-breaking rains, a peat bog in the Lake District opens to reveal a 200-year-old body bearing South Pacific island tattoos. The area, home to Romantic poets, is where Jane Gresham, Wordsworth scholar, grew up, and she finds her interest piqued by the news. She has long believed that Fletcher Christian, HMS\n  <em>\n   Bounty\n  </em>\n  mutineer, didn''t die on Pitcairn Island but returned to England. She has theorized that Christian recounted his adventures to his old schoolmate Wordsworth, who wrote them down, and those documents and a related poem, now worth millions, lay forgotten in a local home. In the race to retrieve the valuable manuscripts, Jane finds herself competing against sinister forces that would stop at nothing, including murder, to reach them first. The suspenseful story and its subplots, which include Jane''s friendship with 13-year-old poetry-loving Tenille, who lives in Jane''s London public housing project, create an absorbing thriller. McDermid establishes a strong sense of place in the atmospheric and pastoral Lake District that contrasts sharply with the sprawling housing project. Historical and literary references to Wordsworth''s life and work and to the South Pacific adventures of the\n  <em>\n   Bounty\n  </em>\n  mutineers all help to make this novel come alive. Teens will enjoy the lively characters, brisk pace, and careful unraveling of the centuries-old mystery with its satisfactory conclusion.â€”_Susanne Bardelson, Kitsap Regional Library, WA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11309'),
(19294, 'The Grave Tattoo', 'Val McDermid', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An intriguing, 200-year-old mystery propels this multilayered stand-alone from British author McDermid set in England''s Lake District. Scholar Jane Gresham pursues her theory that HMS\n  <em>\n   Bounty\n  </em>\n  mutineer Fletcher Christian returned secretly from exile to his homeland in the late 18th century. A shriveled body found in a bog seems to bear resemblance to this dashing hero, right down to the South Sea tattoos that blacken his buttocks. Jane searches relentlessly for a lost manuscript by the poet Wordsworth that relates Christian''s tale in tantalizing excerpts between chapters. Various subplots complicate her quest, including a fraught friendship with precocious 13-year-old Tenille, a lonely, mixed-race girl who also loves Romantic poetry. With a feminist, socially conscious spin, McDermid (_The Distant Echo_) vividly contrasts marginal subsistence in London''s dismal Marshpool neighborhood with the Lake District''s bucolic lifestyle. Boasting blurbs from such notable authors as Harlan Coben, Tess Gerritsen and Joseph Finder, this could be McDermid''s break-out book.\n  <em>\n   100,000 printing; author tour. (Feb.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Adult/High Schoolâ€”During an English summer of record-breaking rains, a peat bog in the Lake District opens to reveal a 200-year-old body bearing South Pacific island tattoos. The area, home to Romantic poets, is where Jane Gresham, Wordsworth scholar, grew up, and she finds her interest piqued by the news. She has long believed that Fletcher Christian, HMS\n  <em>\n   Bounty\n  </em>\n  mutineer, didn''t die on Pitcairn Island but returned to England. She has theorized that Christian recounted his adventures to his old schoolmate Wordsworth, who wrote them down, and those documents and a related poem, now worth millions, lay forgotten in a local home. In the race to retrieve the valuable manuscripts, Jane finds herself competing against sinister forces that would stop at nothing, including murder, to reach them first. The suspenseful story and its subplots, which include Jane''s friendship with 13-year-old poetry-loving Tenille, who lives in Jane''s London public housing project, create an absorbing thriller. McDermid establishes a strong sense of place in the atmospheric and pastoral Lake District that contrasts sharply with the sprawling housing project. Historical and literary references to Wordsworth''s life and work and to the South Pacific adventures of the\n  <em>\n   Bounty\n  </em>\n  mutineers all help to make this novel come alive. Teens will enjoy the lively characters, brisk pace, and careful unraveling of the centuries-old mystery with its satisfactory conclusion.â€”_Susanne Bardelson, Kitsap Regional Library, WA_\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24508'),
(19295, 'The Graveyard Book', 'Neil Gaiman &amp; Dave McKean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  He would be completely normal if he didn''t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jackâ€”who has already killed Bod''s family. . . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his *New York Times* bestselling modern classic *Coraline*. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2638'),
(19296, 'The Graveyard Book', 'Neil Gaiman &amp; Dave McKean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  He would be completely normal if he didn''t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jackâ€”who has already killed Bod''s family. . . .\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his *New York Times* bestselling modern classic *Coraline*. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9874'),
(19297, 'The Graveyard Book', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He would be completely normal if he didn''t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jackâ€”who has already killed Bod''s family. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his *New York Times* bestselling modern classic *Coraline*. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14997'),
(19298, 'The Graveyard Book', 'Neil Gaiman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He would be completely normal if he didn''t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jackâ€”who has already killed Bod''s family. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his *New York Times* bestselling modern classic *Coraline*. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22149'),
(19299, 'A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Halloween Night, 1954.Â  A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios.Â  An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall.Â  There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery -- and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1936'),
(19300, 'The Gravity Mine', 'Stephen Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Â© Stephen Baxter 2000, 2001. This story first appeared in Asimov''s SF, April 2000, and is shortlisted for the 2001 short fiction Hugo Award.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23027'),
(19301, 'Gravity&#39;s Rainbow', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel''s title,\n  <em>\n   Gravity''s Rainbow\n  </em>\n  , refers to the rocket''s vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Slothrop''s father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy''s future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone''s privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That''s just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon''s book. It''s pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon''s cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger''s brief\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pynchon doesn''t want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though.\n  <em>\n   Gravity''s Rainbow\n  </em>\n  uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It''s a trip, and it will last.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. The sprawling narrative comprises numerous threads having to do either directly or tangentially with the secret development and deployment of a rocket by the Nazis near the end of World War II. Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop is an American working for Allied Intelligence in London. Agents of the Firm, a clandestine military organization, are investigating an apparent connection between Slothrop''s erections and the targeting of incoming V-2 rockets. As a child, Slothrop was the subject of experiments conducted by a Harvard professor who is now a Nazi rocket scientist. Slothrop''s quest for the truth behind these implications leads him on a nightmarish journey of either historic discovery or profound paranoia, depending on his own and the reader''s interpretation. The novel won the National Book Award for fiction in 1974. -- __\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/672'),
(19302, 'Gravity&#39;s Rainbow', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel''s title,\n  <em>\n   Gravity''s Rainbow\n  </em>\n  , refers to the rocket''s vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Slothrop''s father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy''s future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone''s privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That''s just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon''s book. It''s pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon''s cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger''s brief\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pynchon doesn''t want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though.\n  <em>\n   Gravity''s Rainbow\n  </em>\n  uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It''s a trip, and it will last.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. The sprawling narrative comprises numerous threads having to do either directly or tangentially with the secret development and deployment of a rocket by the Nazis near the end of World War II. Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop is an American working for Allied Intelligence in London. Agents of the Firm, a clandestine military organization, are investigating an apparent connection between Slothrop''s erections and the targeting of incoming V-2 rockets. As a child, Slothrop was the subject of experiments conducted by a Harvard professor who is now a Nazi rocket scientist. Slothrop''s quest for the truth behind these implications leads him on a nightmarish journey of either historic discovery or profound paranoia, depending on his own and the reader''s interpretation. The novel won the National Book Award for fiction in 1974. -- __\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14036'),
(19303, 'Gravity&#39;s Rainbow', 'Thomas Pynchon', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel''s title,\n  <em>\n   Gravity''s Rainbow\n  </em>\n  , refers to the rocket''s vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Slothrop''s father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy''s future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone''s privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.\n </p>\n <p>\n  That''s just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon''s book. It''s pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon''s cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger''s brief\n </p>\n <p>\n  Pynchon doesn''t want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though.\n  <em>\n   Gravity''s Rainbow\n  </em>\n  uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It''s a trip, and it will last.\n  <em>\n   --Tim Appelo\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. The sprawling narrative comprises numerous threads having to do either directly or tangentially with the secret development and deployment of a rocket by the Nazis near the end of World War II. Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop is an American working for Allied Intelligence in London. Agents of the Firm, a clandestine military organization, are investigating an apparent connection between Slothrop''s erections and the targeting of incoming V-2 rockets. As a child, Slothrop was the subject of experiments conducted by a Harvard professor who is now a Nazi rocket scientist. Slothrop''s quest for the truth behind these implications leads him on a nightmarish journey of either historic discovery or profound paranoia, depending on his own and the reader''s interpretation. The novel won the National Book Award for fiction in 1974. -- __\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24344'),
(19304, 'The Gray Man', 'Mark Greaney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man-a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there''s no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3105'),
(19305, 'The Gray Man', 'Mark Greaney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man-a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there''s no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21748'),
(19306, 'The Great Airport Mystery', 'Franklin W. Dixon', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n A plot to take another man''s job involves a downed plane and the return of a man presumed dead.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four "Franklin W. Dixons" to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four Hardy Boys Mystery Stories to the total.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18462'),
(19307, 'The Great Altruist', 'Z. D. Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Genesis is a confident and brash time-traveler, sure of her abilities, and ready to use them on behalf on anyone in need of fixing a past mistake. But when she tries to help a young Holocaust survivor prevent World War II, she is forced to recognize that her powers are not without a price.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Defeated and filled with regret, James Grant suddenly enters her life. Depressed over a lost love, James is taken back in time on a journey to save his parent''s marriage while learning that living in the past will destroy his future.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Still filled with remorse, Genesis tries to leave James - the man she now loves - and live a life of solitude when she learns of her true origin and loses all of her powers...and just when humanity will need them the most!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Halfway around the world, an organization bent on destroying civilization and starting anew is gathering its final members for a mission into Earth''s future to gather weapons of mass destruction. When James is dragged into their scheme, he is forced to choose between saving Genesis, his new bride, and the rest of the world. What follows is an adventure filled with backstabbing parents, ruthless secret societies, and a battle across time and space between Genesis reborn and the organization''s most twisted agent.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/133'),
(19308, 'The Great Altruist', 'Z. D. Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Genesis is a confident and brash time-traveler, sure of her abilities, and ready to use them on behalf on anyone in need of fixing a past mistake. But when she tries to help a young Holocaust survivor prevent World War II, she is forced to recognize that her powers are not without a price.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Defeated and filled with regret, James Grant suddenly enters her life. Depressed over a lost love, James is taken back in time on a journey to save his parent''s marriage while learning that living in the past will destroy his future.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Still filled with remorse, Genesis tries to leave James - the man she now loves - and live a life of solitude when she learns of her true origin and loses all of her powers...and just when humanity will need them the most!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Halfway around the world, an organization bent on destroying civilization and starting anew is gathering its final members for a mission into Earth''s future to gather weapons of mass destruction. When James is dragged into their scheme, he is forced to choose between saving Genesis, his new bride, and the rest of the world. What follows is an adventure filled with backstabbing parents, ruthless secret societies, and a battle across time and space between Genesis reborn and the organization''s most twisted agent.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13563'),
(19309, 'The Great Altruist', 'Z. D. Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Genesis is a confident and brash time-traveler, sure of her abilities, and ready to use them on behalf on anyone in need of fixing a past mistake. But when she tries to help a young Holocaust survivor prevent World War II, she is forced to recognize that her powers are not without a price.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Defeated and filled with regret, James Grant suddenly enters her life. Depressed over a lost love, James is taken back in time on a journey to save his parent''s marriage while learning that living in the past will destroy his future.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Still filled with remorse, Genesis tries to leave James - the man she now loves - and live a life of solitude when she learns of her true origin and loses all of her powers...and just when humanity will need them the most!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Halfway around the world, an organization bent on destroying civilization and starting anew is gathering its final members for a mission into Earth''s future to gather weapons of mass destruction. When James is dragged into their scheme, he is forced to choose between saving Genesis, his new bride, and the rest of the world. What follows is an adventure filled with backstabbing parents, ruthless secret societies, and a battle across time and space between Genesis reborn and the organization''s most twisted agent.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24742'),
(19310, 'Great American Craft Beer: A Guide to the Nation&#39;s Finest Beers and Breweries', 'Andy Crouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  Great American Craft Beer\n </em>\n takes readers on a passionate and informative journey through the most palate pleasing ales and lagers produced in America today. Built on the inalienable truth that there is a beer out there for everyone, the book directs readers to focus on the flavors they already enjoy tasting, such as sweet fruits, roasted coffee, or bitter hops. More than 80 styles and 340 beer profiles are accompanied by full-color photographs and illustrations of the beers and beer labels. This unconventional approach allows drinkers of all experience levels to step right up to the bar and order their next pint with confidence. If you like the taste of...fresh oranges tangy lemons ripe raspberries creamy pumpkin toasted caramel rich espresso bananas dark chocolate smoked meats...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8056'),
(19311, 'The Great American Steamboat Race: The Natchez and the Robert E. Lee and the Climax of an Era', 'Benton Rain Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Running from New Orleans to St. Louis in the summer of 1870, the race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez remains the world''s most famous steamboat race. This book tells the story of the dramatic contest, which was won by the stripped-down, cargoless Robert E. Lee after three days, 18 hours, and 14 minutes of steaming through day, night and fog. The Natchez finished the race only hours later, having been delayed by carrying her normal load and tying up overnight because of the intense fog. Providing details on not only the race narrative but also on the boats themselves, the book gives an intimate look at the majestic vessels that conquered the country''s greatest waterway and defined the bravado of 19th-century America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7339'),
(19312, 'The great American steamboat race: the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee and the climax of an era', 'Benton Rain Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Running from New Orleans to St. Louis in the summer of 1870, the race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez remains the world''s most famous steamboat race. This book tells the story of the dramatic contest, which was won by the stripped-down, cargoless Robert E. Lee after three days, 18 hours, and 14 minutes of steaming through day, night and fog. The Natchez finished the race only hours later, having been delayed by carrying her normal load and tying up overnight because of the intense fog. Providing details on not only the race narrative but also on the boats themselves, the book gives an intimate look at the majestic vessels that conquered the country''s greatest waterway and defined the bravado of 19th-century America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16607'),
(19313, 'The great American steamboat race: the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee and the climax of an era', 'Benton Rain Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Running from New Orleans to St. Louis in the summer of 1870, the race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez remains the world''s most famous steamboat race. This book tells the story of the dramatic contest, which was won by the stripped-down, cargoless Robert E. Lee after three days, 18 hours, and 14 minutes of steaming through day, night and fog. The Natchez finished the race only hours later, having been delayed by carrying her normal load and tying up overnight because of the intense fog. Providing details on not only the race narrative but also on the boats themselves, the book gives an intimate look at the majestic vessels that conquered the country''s greatest waterway and defined the bravado of 19th-century America.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26659'),
(19314, 'The Great Bazaar and Other Stories', 'Peter V. Brett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons--bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting and killing humanity for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization, and it is only by hiding behind wards, ancient symbols with the power to repel the demons, that they survive. A handful of Messengers brave the night to keep the lines of communication open between the increasingly isolated populace.But there was a time when the demons were not so bold. A time when wards did more than hold the demons at bay. They allowed man to fight back, and to win. Messenger Arlen Bales will search anywhere, dare anything, to return this magic to the world.Abban, a merchant in the Great Bazaar of Krasia, purports to sell everything a man''s heart could desire, including, perhaps, the key to Arlen''s quest.In addition to the title novelette, The Great Bazaar and Other Stories contains a number of scenes not included in The Painted Man (published in the US as The Warded Man) as well as a glossary and a grimoire, making it an essential guide to one of the most exciting epic fantasy series currently being published.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2150'),
(19315, 'The Great Bazaar and Other Stories', 'Peter V. Brett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons--bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting and killing humanity for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization, and it is only by hiding behind wards, ancient symbols with the power to repel the demons, that they survive. A handful of Messengers brave the night to keep the lines of communication open between the increasingly isolated populace.But there was a time when the demons were not so bold. A time when wards did more than hold the demons at bay. They allowed man to fight back, and to win. Messenger Arlen Bales will search anywhere, dare anything, to return this magic to the world.Abban, a merchant in the Great Bazaar of Krasia, purports to sell everything a man''s heart could desire, including, perhaps, the key to Arlen''s quest.In addition to the title novelette, The Great Bazaar and Other Stories contains a number of scenes not included in The Painted Man (published in the US as The Warded Man) as well as a glossary and a grimoire, making it an essential guide to one of the most exciting epic fantasy series currently being published.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22610');
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(19316, 'The Great Big Cheese Cookbook', 'Running Press', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board offers a massive cookbook dedicated to all manner of cheese recipes that cannot fail to convince even the most resolutely antidairy partisan that every kitchen must sport a refrigerator full of one of the world''s oldest edibles. Cheeses from the Badger State''s farms consist virtually of cows'' milk alone. Goat and cheese varieties still languish in obscurity. These recipes testify to growing American taste for more assertively flavored cheeses such as blue and for less-common Italian varieties such as the liquid mascarpone. Inclusion of a number of Mexican-inspired dishes illustrates the mainstreaming of south-of-the-border cooking even in the upper Midwest. Although this book breaks no new ground and appeals to the most general audience of supermarket shoppers and cooks, it glimpses budding sophistication among both cheese producers and consumers. Color photographs throughout help sell the recipes'' promised delights. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n The Gourmet Retailer.com, June 2010\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œEvery so often a cookbook comes out that is not only a good collection of recipes but is a boon for the industry as wellâ€¦ So it is with great enthusiasm that I trumpet the arrival of a new book that can take its rightful place on the shelf alongside those modern classics, â€œ_The Great Big Cheese Cookbook_â€, a great new resource for cooking with cheese from the folks at the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board (WMMB)â€¦ What is perhaps most exciting about a cookbook such as this one is the business point of view. It lifts cheese off the snack tray and adds it to the kitchen pantry, where it becomes an integral part of the cooking processâ€¦. This one is a must-have for any cheese lover or cheesemonger.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Sacramento Book Review,Â \n  </em>\n  August 29, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThese creations are sure to whet any cheese-loverâ€™s appetite. Clifton Fadiman once said â€œCheese is milkâ€™s leap towards immortalityâ€ and this book is filled with delectable recipes that will immortalize anyone.â€Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1504'),
(19317, 'The Great Big Cheese Cookbook', 'Running Press', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board offers a massive cookbook dedicated to all manner of cheese recipes that cannot fail to convince even the most resolutely antidairy partisan that every kitchen must sport a refrigerator full of one of the world''s oldest edibles. Cheeses from the Badger State''s farms consist virtually of cows'' milk alone. Goat and cheese varieties still languish in obscurity. These recipes testify to growing American taste for more assertively flavored cheeses such as blue and for less-common Italian varieties such as the liquid mascarpone. Inclusion of a number of Mexican-inspired dishes illustrates the mainstreaming of south-of-the-border cooking even in the upper Midwest. Although this book breaks no new ground and appeals to the most general audience of supermarket shoppers and cooks, it glimpses budding sophistication among both cheese producers and consumers. Color photographs throughout help sell the recipes'' promised delights. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n The Gourmet Retailer.com, June 2010\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œEvery so often a cookbook comes out that is not only a good collection of recipes but is a boon for the industry as wellâ€¦ So it is with great enthusiasm that I trumpet the arrival of a new book that can take its rightful place on the shelf alongside those modern classics, â€œ_The Great Big Cheese Cookbook_â€, a great new resource for cooking with cheese from the folks at the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board (WMMB)â€¦ What is perhaps most exciting about a cookbook such as this one is the business point of view. It lifts cheese off the snack tray and adds it to the kitchen pantry, where it becomes an integral part of the cooking processâ€¦. This one is a must-have for any cheese lover or cheesemonger.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Sacramento Book Review,Â \n  </em>\n  August 29, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThese creations are sure to whet any cheese-loverâ€™s appetite. Clifton Fadiman once said â€œCheese is milkâ€™s leap towards immortalityâ€ and this book is filled with delectable recipes that will immortalize anyone.â€Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12043'),
(19318, 'The Great Big Cheese Cookbook', 'Running Press', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board offers a massive cookbook dedicated to all manner of cheese recipes that cannot fail to convince even the most resolutely antidairy partisan that every kitchen must sport a refrigerator full of one of the world''s oldest edibles. Cheeses from the Badger State''s farms consist virtually of cows'' milk alone. Goat and cheese varieties still languish in obscurity. These recipes testify to growing American taste for more assertively flavored cheeses such as blue and for less-common Italian varieties such as the liquid mascarpone. Inclusion of a number of Mexican-inspired dishes illustrates the mainstreaming of south-of-the-border cooking even in the upper Midwest. Although this book breaks no new ground and appeals to the most general audience of supermarket shoppers and cooks, it glimpses budding sophistication among both cheese producers and consumers. Color photographs throughout help sell the recipes'' promised delights. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n The Gourmet Retailer.com, June 2010\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œEvery so often a cookbook comes out that is not only a good collection of recipes but is a boon for the industry as well... So it is with great enthusiasm that I trumpet the arrival of a new book that can take its rightful place on the shelf alongside those modern classics, â€œ_The Great Big Cheese Cookbook_â€, a great new resource for cooking with cheese from the folks at the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board (WMMB)... What is perhaps most exciting about a cookbook such as this one is the business point of view. It lifts cheese off the snack tray and adds it to the kitchen pantry, where it becomes an integral part of the cooking process.... This one is a must-have for any cheese lover or cheesemonger.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Sacramento Book Review,\n  </em>\n  August 29, 2010\n </strong>\n <br />\n â€œThese creations are sure to whet any cheese-loverâ€™s appetite. Clifton Fadiman once said â€œCheese is milkâ€™s leap towards immortalityâ€ and this book is filled with delectable recipes that will immortalize anyone.â€\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23396'),
(19319, 'The Great Democracies (Barnes &amp; Noble Library of Essential Reading): A History of the English-Speaking Peoples', 'Winston Spencer Churchill; William Gallup', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n We are still working on filling in the product descriptions. If you need more information please call or email us.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22749'),
(19320, 'The Great Democracies', 'Winston Spencer Churchill &amp; William Gallup', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  We are still working on filling in the product descriptions. If you need more information please call or email us.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/177'),
(19321, 'The Great Democracies', 'Winston Spencer Churchill &amp; William Gallup', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  We are still working on filling in the product descriptions. If you need more information please call or email us.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8893'),
(19322, 'The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941', 'Robert S. McElvaine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  AÂ _New York Times_Â Notable Book\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt would be hard to find a fairer or more balanced account of how the American people and their leaders learned to grapple with their greatest economic crisis.â€ â€”_New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA thorough work of scholarship, a lively story, and a highly original feat of analysis.â€â€”_Business WeekÂ _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is essential reading.â€ â€”Studs Terkel\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaineâ€™s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed insight into the machinations of politicians and economists who struggled to revive the battered economy, personal stories from the average people who were hardest hit by an economic crisis beyond their control, and an evocative depiction of the popular culture of the decade, McElvaine paints an epic picture of an America brought to its kneesâ€”but also brought together by peopleâ€™s widely shared plight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a new introduction, McElvaine draws striking parallels between the roots of the Great Depression and the economic meltdown that followed in the wake of the credit crisis of 2008. He also examines the resurgence of anti-regulation free market ideology, beginning in the Reagan era, and argues that some economists and politicians revised history and ignored the lessons of the Depression era.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1595'),
(19323, 'The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941', 'Robert S. McElvaine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  AÂ _New York Times_Â Notable Book\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt would be hard to find a fairer or more balanced account of how the American people and their leaders learned to grapple with their greatest economic crisis.â€ â€”_New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA thorough work of scholarship, a lively story, and a highly original feat of analysis.â€â€”_Business WeekÂ _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is essential reading.â€ â€”Studs Terkel\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaineâ€™s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed insight into the machinations of politicians and economists who struggled to revive the battered economy, personal stories from the average people who were hardest hit by an economic crisis beyond their control, and an evocative depiction of the popular culture of the decade, McElvaine paints an epic picture of an America brought to its kneesâ€”but also brought together by peopleâ€™s widely shared plight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a new introduction, McElvaine draws striking parallels between the roots of the Great Depression and the economic meltdown that followed in the wake of the credit crisis of 2008. He also examines the resurgence of anti-regulation free market ideology, beginning in the Reagan era, and argues that some economists and politicians revised history and ignored the lessons of the Depression era.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11383'),
(19324, 'The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941', 'Robert S. McElvaine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A _New York Times_ Notable Book\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œIt would be hard to find a fairer or more balanced account of how the American people and their leaders learned to grapple with their greatest economic crisis.â€ â€”_New York Times Book Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA thorough work of scholarship, a lively story, and a highly original feat of analysis.â€â€”_Business Week _\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œThis is essential reading.â€ â€”Studs Terkel\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaineâ€™s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed insight into the machinations of politicians and economists who struggled to revive the battered economy, personal stories from the average people who were hardest hit by an economic crisis beyond their control, and an evocative depiction of the popular culture of the decade, McElvaine paints an epic picture of an America brought to its kneesâ€”but also brought together by peopleâ€™s widely shared plight.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In a new introduction, McElvaine draws striking parallels between the roots of the Great Depression and the economic meltdown that followed in the wake of the credit crisis of 2008. He also examines the resurgence of anti-regulation free market ideology, beginning in the Reagan era, and argues that some economists and politicians revised history and ignored the lessons of the Depression era.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23364'),
(19325, 'The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire', 'Taibbi, Matt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13822'),
(19326, 'The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire', 'Taibbi, Matt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21821'),
(19327, 'Great Expectations', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Great Expectations*, by **Charles Dickens**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.** *Great Expectations*, described by G. K. Chesterton as a â€œstudy in human weakness and the slow human surrender,â€ may be called **Charles Dickens**â€™s finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career.In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the ruined garden where he meets the bitter and crazy Miss Havisham and her foster child Estella, with whom he immediately falls in love. After a secret benefactor gives him a fortune, Pip moves to London, where he cultivates great expectations for a life which would allow him to discard his impoverished beginnings and socialize with the idle upper class. As Pip struggles to become a gentleman and is tormented endlessly by the beautiful Estella, he slowly learns the truth about himself and his illusions.Written in the last decade of his life, *Great Expectations* reveals Dickensâ€™s dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure, and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickensâ€™s most popular. Richly comic and immensely readable, *Great Expectations* overspills with vividly drawn characters, moral maelstroms, and the sorrow and pity of love.**Radhika Jones** is a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the managing editor of *Grand Street magazine*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6928'),
(19328, 'Great Expectations', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Great Expectations*, by **Charles Dickens**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.** *Great Expectations*, described by G. K. Chesterton as a â€œstudy in human weakness and the slow human surrender,â€ may be called **Charles Dickens**â€™s finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career.In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the ruined garden where he meets the bitter and crazy Miss Havisham and her foster child Estella, with whom he immediately falls in love. After a secret benefactor gives him a fortune, Pip moves to London, where he cultivates great expectations for a life which would allow him to discard his impoverished beginnings and socialize with the idle upper class. As Pip struggles to become a gentleman and is tormented endlessly by the beautiful Estella, he slowly learns the truth about himself and his illusions.Written in the last decade of his life, *Great Expectations* reveals Dickensâ€™s dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure, and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickensâ€™s most popular. Richly comic and immensely readable, *Great Expectations* overspills with vividly drawn characters, moral maelstroms, and the sorrow and pity of love.**Radhika Jones** is a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the managing editor of *Grand Street magazine*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9247'),
(19329, 'Great Expectations', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Great Expectations*, by **Charles Dickens**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.** *Great Expectations*, described by G. K. Chesterton as a â€œstudy in human weakness and the slow human surrender,â€ may be called **Charles Dickens**â€™s finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career.In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the ruined garden where he meets the bitter and crazy Miss Havisham and her foster child Estella, with whom he immediately falls in love. After a secret benefactor gives him a fortune, Pip moves to London, where he cultivates great expectations for a life which would allow him to discard his impoverished beginnings and socialize with the idle upper class. As Pip struggles to become a gentleman and is tormented endlessly by the beautiful Estella, he slowly learns the truth about himself and his illusions.Written in the last decade of his life, *Great Expectations* reveals Dickensâ€™s dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure, and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickensâ€™s most popular. Richly comic and immensely readable, *Great Expectations* overspills with vividly drawn characters, moral maelstroms, and the sorrow and pity of love.**Radhika Jones** is a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the managing editor of *Grand Street magazine*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15046'),
(19330, 'Great Expectations', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Great Expectations*, by **Charles Dickens**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.** *Great Expectations*, described by G. K. Chesterton as a â€œstudy in human weakness and the slow human surrender,â€ may be called **Charles Dickens**â€™s finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career.In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the ruined garden where he meets the bitter and crazy Miss Havisham and her foster child Estella, with whom he immediately falls in love. After a secret benefactor gives him a fortune, Pip moves to London, where he cultivates great expectations for a life which would allow him to discard his impoverished beginnings and socialize with the idle upper class. As Pip struggles to become a gentleman and is tormented endlessly by the beautiful Estella, he slowly learns the truth about himself and his illusions.Written in the last decade of his life, *Great Expectations* reveals Dickensâ€™s dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure, and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickensâ€™s most popular. Richly comic and immensely readable, *Great Expectations* overspills with vividly drawn characters, moral maelstroms, and the sorrow and pity of love.**Radhika Jones** is a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the managing editor of *Grand Street magazine*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16986'),
(19331, 'Great Expectations', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Great Expectations*, by **Charles Dickens**, is part of the *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics** *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics*: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices &amp; Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. *Barnes &amp; Noble Classics *pulls together a constellation of influencesâ€”biographical, historical, and literaryâ€”to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.** *Great Expectations*, described by G. K. Chesterton as a â€œstudy in human weakness and the slow human surrender,â€ may be called **Charles Dickens**â€™s finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career.In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the ruined garden where he meets the bitter and crazy Miss Havisham and her foster child Estella, with whom he immediately falls in love. After a secret benefactor gives him a fortune, Pip moves to London, where he cultivates great expectations for a life which would allow him to discard his impoverished beginnings and socialize with the idle upper class. As Pip struggles to become a gentleman and is tormented endlessly by the beautiful Estella, he slowly learns the truth about himself and his illusions.Written in the last decade of his life, *Great Expectations* reveals Dickensâ€™s dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure, and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickensâ€™s most popular. Richly comic and immensely readable, *Great Expectations* overspills with vividly drawn characters, moral maelstroms, and the sorrow and pity of love.**Radhika Jones** is a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the managing editor of *Grand Street magazine*.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26922'),
(19332, 'Great Food, All Day Long: Cook Splendidly, Eat Smart', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now in her 80s, writer Angelou, a food lover who has struggled with weight and health concerns, learned the value of portion control. In this cookbook, she recommends eating great food (no calorie counting) in small portions all day long. Her recipes come from childhood and from her travels and include reworked concoctions influenced and inspired by other cookbooks she loves. Angelou breaks the rules of what to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with recipes for meals to eat any time of the day. The emphasis is on food so flavorful that whenever it is eaten, it is savored and so satisfying that small portions are enough. Among the recipes for creamy pork hash, chicken tetrazzini, Swedish hash, and oxtail stew are recollections from her life and commentary on acquired tastes and eating beyond physical fullness. In addition to the meat dishes are sections for vegetarians and recipes for soups and desserts. Gorgeous illustrations and extended commentary add to the appeal of this book. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Praise for Maya Angelouâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Hallelujah! The Welcome Table\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA tour-de-force collaboration of two of Angelouâ€™s major passionsâ€”writing and cooking . . . She also shares the poignant, pithy and sometimes hilarious memories that accompany each dish.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Ebony\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPoet and literary legend Maya Angelou is as mighty with her spoon and spatula as she is with her world-renowned pen.â€\n <br />\n _â€”Chicago Sun-Times\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n â€œSerious comfort food . . . The poetâ€™s life [is] laid out like a colorful banquet. . . . Meals serve as metaphors for life experience.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe life of the poet-autobiographer . . . comes even more alive through plumes of aromas, a palette of flavors and a recipe box of memories.â€\n <br />\n _â€”Seattle Post-Intelligencer\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œEach recipe is thoughtfully conceived and made even more enticing by the personal history attached to it. . . . The result is as divine as the woman herself, full of flavor, passion and hard work.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Oakland Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Readers] will find not only a wealth of dishes . . . but a close-up, personal glimpse of a compelling writer and her family.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”New York Daily News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWritten in the exuberant tone of an impromptu dinner gathering.â€\n <br />\n _â€”Newsweek\n <br />\n _Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2906'),
(19333, 'Great Food, All Day Long: Cook Splendidly, Eat Smart', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now in her 80s, writer Angelou, a food lover who has struggled with weight and health concerns, learned the value of portion control. In this cookbook, she recommends eating great food (no calorie counting) in small portions all day long. Her recipes come from childhood and from her travels and include reworked concoctions influenced and inspired by other cookbooks she loves. Angelou breaks the rules of what to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with recipes for meals to eat any time of the day. The emphasis is on food so flavorful that whenever it is eaten, it is savored and so satisfying that small portions are enough. Among the recipes for creamy pork hash, chicken tetrazzini, Swedish hash, and oxtail stew are recollections from her life and commentary on acquired tastes and eating beyond physical fullness. In addition to the meat dishes are sections for vegetarians and recipes for soups and desserts. Gorgeous illustrations and extended commentary add to the appeal of this book. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Praise for Maya Angelouâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Hallelujah! The Welcome Table\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA tour-de-force collaboration of two of Angelouâ€™s major passionsâ€”writing and cooking . . . She also shares the poignant, pithy and sometimes hilarious memories that accompany each dish.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Ebony\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPoet and literary legend Maya Angelou is as mighty with her spoon and spatula as she is with her world-renowned pen.â€\n <br />\n _â€”Chicago Sun-Times\n <br />\n _Â \n <br />\n â€œSerious comfort food . . . The poetâ€™s life [is] laid out like a colorful banquet. . . . Meals serve as metaphors for life experience.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe life of the poet-autobiographer . . . comes even more alive through plumes of aromas, a palette of flavors and a recipe box of memories.â€\n <br />\n _â€”Seattle Post-Intelligencer\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œEach recipe is thoughtfully conceived and made even more enticing by the personal history attached to it. . . . The result is as divine as the woman herself, full of flavor, passion and hard work.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Oakland Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Readers] will find not only a wealth of dishes . . . but a close-up, personal glimpse of a compelling writer and her family.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”New York Daily News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWritten in the exuberant tone of an impromptu dinner gathering.â€\n <br />\n _â€”Newsweek\n <br />\n _Â \n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8195'),
(19334, 'Great Food, All Day Long: Cook Splendidly, Eat Smart', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Now in her 80s, writer Angelou, a food lover who has struggled with weight and health concerns, learned the value of portion control. In this cookbook, she recommends eating great food (no calorie counting) in small portions all day long. Her recipes come from childhood and from her travels and include reworked concoctions influenced and inspired by other cookbooks she loves. Angelou breaks the rules of what to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with recipes for meals to eat any time of the day. The emphasis is on food so flavorful that whenever it is eaten, it is savored and so satisfying that small portions are enough. Among the recipes for creamy pork hash, chicken tetrazzini, Swedish hash, and oxtail stew are recollections from her life and commentary on acquired tastes and eating beyond physical fullness. In addition to the meat dishes are sections for vegetarians and recipes for soups and desserts. Gorgeous illustrations and extended commentary add to the appeal of this book. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  Praise for Maya Angelouâ€™s\n  <em>\n   Hallelujah! The Welcome Table\n  </em>\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA tour-de-force collaboration of two of Angelouâ€™s major passionsâ€”writing and cooking . . . She also shares the poignant, pithy and sometimes hilarious memories that accompany each dish.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Ebony\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPoet and literary legend Maya Angelou is as mighty with her spoon and spatula as she is with her world-renowned pen.â€\n <br />\n _â€”Chicago Sun-Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œSerious comfort food . . . The poetâ€™s life [is] laid out like a colorful banquet. . . . Meals serve as metaphors for life experience.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe life of the poet-autobiographer . . . comes even more alive through plumes of aromas, a palette of flavors and a recipe box of memories.â€\n <br />\n _â€”Seattle Post-Intelligencer\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œEach recipe is thoughtfully conceived and made even more enticing by the personal history attached to it. . . . The result is as divine as the woman herself, full of flavor, passion and hard work.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”Oakland Tribune\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Readers] will find not only a wealth of dishes . . . but a close-up, personal glimpse of a compelling writer and her family.â€\n <br />\n <em>\n  â€”New York Daily News\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWritten in the exuberant tone of an impromptu dinner gathering.â€\n <br />\n _â€”Newsweek\n <br />\n _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21860'),
(19335, 'The Great Gatsby', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury.    Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald''s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick''s cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5477'),
(19336, 'The Great Gatsby', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury. Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald''s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick''s cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15038'),
(19337, 'The Great Gatsby', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury. Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald''s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick''s cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19109'),
(19338, 'The Great Gatsby', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury. Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald''s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick''s cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27825'),
(19339, 'The Great Gatsby', 'Francis Scott Fitzgerald', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury.    Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald''s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick''s cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27848'),
(19340, 'Great House', 'Nicole Krauss', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen deskthat contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession,of the lives it passes through.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14190'),
(19341, 'Great House: A Novel', 'Nicole Krauss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Great House\n </em>\n looms a tremendous desk. It may have belonged to Federico GarcÃ­a Lorca, the great poet and dramatist who was one of thousands executed by Fascists in 1936, when the Spanish Civil War began. We know that the desk stood in Weisz''s father''s study in Budapest on a night in 1944, when the first stone shattered their window. After the war, Weisz hunts furniture looted from Jewish homes by the Nazis. He scours the world for the fragments to reassemble that study''s every element, but the desk eludes him, and he and his children live at the edges of its absence. Meanwhile, it spends a few decades in an attic in England, where a woman exhumes the memories she can''t speak except through violent stories. She gives the desk to the young Chilean-Jewish poet Daniel Varsky, who takes it to New York and passes it on (before he returns to Chile and disappears under Pinochet) to Nadia, who writes seven novels on it before Varsky''s daughter calls to claim it. Crossing decades and continents, the stories of\n <em>\n  Great House\n </em>\n narrate feeling more than fact. Krauss''s characters inhabit "a state of perpetual regret and longing for a place we only know existed because we remember a keyhole, a tile, the way the threshold was worn under an open door," and a desk whose multitude of drawers becomes a mausoleum of memory.\n <em>\n  --Mari Malcolm\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This stunning work showcases Krauss''s consistent talent. The novel consists of four stories divided among eight chapters, all touching on themes of loss and recovery, and anchored to a massive writing desk that resurfaces among numerous households, much to the bewilderment and existential tension of those in its orbit, among them a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis. Much like in Krauss''s The History of Love, the sharply etched characters seem at first arbitrarily linked across time and space, but Krauss pulls together the disparate elements, settings, characters, and fragile connective tissue to form a formidable and haunting mosaic of loss and profound sorrow.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2490'),
(19342, 'Great House: A Novel', 'Nicole Krauss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Great House\n </em>\n looms a tremendous desk. It may have belonged to Federico GarcÃ­a Lorca, the great poet and dramatist who was one of thousands executed by Fascists in 1936, when the Spanish Civil War began. We know that the desk stood in Weisz''s father''s study in Budapest on a night in 1944, when the first stone shattered their window. After the war, Weisz hunts furniture looted from Jewish homes by the Nazis. He scours the world for the fragments to reassemble that study''s every element, but the desk eludes him, and he and his children live at the edges of its absence. Meanwhile, it spends a few decades in an attic in England, where a woman exhumes the memories she can''t speak except through violent stories. She gives the desk to the young Chilean-Jewish poet Daniel Varsky, who takes it to New York and passes it on (before he returns to Chile and disappears under Pinochet) to Nadia, who writes seven novels on it before Varsky''s daughter calls to claim it. Crossing decades and continents, the stories of\n <em>\n  Great House\n </em>\n narrate feeling more than fact. Krauss''s characters inhabit "a state of perpetual regret and longing for a place we only know existed because we remember a keyhole, a tile, the way the threshold was worn under an open door," and a desk whose multitude of drawers becomes a mausoleum of memory.\n <em>\n  --Mari Malcolm\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This stunning work showcases Krauss''s consistent talent. The novel consists of four stories divided among eight chapters, all touching on themes of loss and recovery, and anchored to a massive writing desk that resurfaces among numerous households, much to the bewilderment and existential tension of those in its orbit, among them a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis. Much like in Krauss''s The History of Love, the sharply etched characters seem at first arbitrarily linked across time and space, but Krauss pulls together the disparate elements, settings, characters, and fragile connective tissue to form a formidable and haunting mosaic of loss and profound sorrow.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10802');
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(19343, 'Great House: A Novel', 'Nicole Krauss', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Great House\n </em>\n looms a tremendous desk. It may have belonged to Federico GarcÃ­a Lorca, the great poet and dramatist who was one of thousands executed by Fascists in 1936, when the Spanish Civil War began. We know that the desk stood in Weisz''s father''s study in Budapest on a night in 1944, when the first stone shattered their window. After the war, Weisz hunts furniture looted from Jewish homes by the Nazis. He scours the world for the fragments to reassemble that study''s every element, but the desk eludes him, and he and his children live at the edges of its absence. Meanwhile, it spends a few decades in an attic in England, where a woman exhumes the memories she can''t speak except through violent stories. She gives the desk to the young Chilean-Jewish poet Daniel Varsky, who takes it to New York and passes it on (before he returns to Chile and disappears under Pinochet) to Nadia, who writes seven novels on it before Varsky''s daughter calls to claim it. Crossing decades and continents, the stories of\n <em>\n  Great House\n </em>\n narrate feeling more than fact. Krauss''s characters inhabit "a state of perpetual regret and longing for a place we only know existed because we remember a keyhole, a tile, the way the threshold was worn under an open door," and a desk whose multitude of drawers becomes a mausoleum of memory.\n <em>\n  --Mari Malcolm\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This stunning work showcases Krauss''s consistent talent. The novel consists of four stories divided among eight chapters, all touching on themes of loss and recovery, and anchored to a massive writing desk that resurfaces among numerous households, much to the bewilderment and existential tension of those in its orbit, among them a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis. Much like in Krauss''s The History of Love, the sharply etched characters seem at first arbitrarily linked across time and space, but Krauss pulls together the disparate elements, settings, characters, and fragile connective tissue to form a formidable and haunting mosaic of loss and profound sorrow.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22263'),
(19344, 'The Great Hunt', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen. THE WHEEL OF TIME Book One: "The Eye of the World"Book Two: "The Great Hunt"Book Three: "The Dragon Reborn"Book Four: "The Shadow Rising"Book Five: "The Fires of Heaven"Book Six: "Lord of Chaos"Book Seven: "A Crown of Swords"Book Eight: "The Path of Daggers"Book Nine: "Winter''s Heart"Book Ten: "Crossroads of Twilight"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1627'),
(19345, 'The Great Hunt', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen. THE WHEEL OF TIME Book One: "The Eye of the World"Book Two: "The Great Hunt"Book Three: "The Dragon Reborn"Book Four: "The Shadow Rising"Book Five: "The Fires of Heaven"Book Six: "Lord of Chaos"Book Seven: "A Crown of Swords"Book Eight: "The Path of Daggers"Book Nine: "Winter''s Heart"Book Ten: "Crossroads of Twilight"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10619'),
(19346, 'The great hunt', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen. THE WHEEL OF TIME Book One: "The Eye of the World"Book Two: "The Great Hunt"Book Three: "The Dragon Reborn"Book Four: "The Shadow Rising"Book Five: "The Fires of Heaven"Book Six: "Lord of Chaos"Book Seven: "A Crown of Swords"Book Eight: "The Path of Daggers"Book Nine: "Winter''s Heart"Book Ten: "Crossroads of Twilight"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14389'),
(19347, 'The great hunt', 'Robert Jordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen. THE WHEEL OF TIME Book One: "The Eye of the World"Book Two: "The Great Hunt"Book Three: "The Dragon Reborn"Book Four: "The Shadow Rising"Book Five: "The Fires of Heaven"Book Six: "Lord of Chaos"Book Seven: "A Crown of Swords"Book Eight: "The Path of Daggers"Book Nine: "Winter''s Heart"Book Ten: "Crossroads of Twilight"\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23239'),
(19348, 'The Great Lover', 'Jill Dawson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nell Golightly is living out her widowhood in Cambridgeshire when she receives a strange request: a Tahitian woman, claiming to be the daughter of the poet Rupert Brooke, writes to ask what he was like: how did he sound, what did he smell like, how did it feel to wrap your arms around him? So Nell turns her mind to 1909 when, as a seventeen-year-old housemaid, she first encountered the young poet. He was already causing a stir - not only with his poems and famed good looks, but also by his taboo-breaking behaviour and radical politics. Intrigued, she watched as Rupert skilfully managed his male and female admirers, all of whom seemed to be in love with him. Soon Nell realised that despite her good sense, she was falling for him too. But could he love a housemaid? Was he, in fact, capable of love at all? In a dazzling act of imagination, Jill Dawson gives voice to Rupert Brooke himself in a dual narrative that unfolds in both his own words and those of her spirited fictional character, Nell. A memorable tale of love in many guises, of heartbreak and loss, the novel brings Brooke vividly to life as it shows him to have been a far more interesting, complex and troubled figure than the romanticised version allows.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4467'),
(19349, 'The Great Lover', 'Jill Dawson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Nell Golightly is living out her widowhood in Cambridgeshire when she receives a strange request: a Tahitian woman, claiming to be the daughter of the poet Rupert Brooke, writes to ask what he was like: how did he sound, what did he smell like, how did it feel to wrap your arms around him? So Nell turns her mind to 1909 when, as a seventeen-year-old housemaid, she first encountered the young poet. He was already causing a stir - not only with his poems and famed good looks, but also by his taboo-breaking behaviour and radical politics. Intrigued, she watched as Rupert skilfully managed his male and female admirers, all of whom seemed to be in love with him. Soon Nell realised that despite her good sense, she was falling for him too. But could he love a housemaid? Was he, in fact, capable of love at all? In a dazzling act of imagination, Jill Dawson gives voice to Rupert Brooke himself in a dual narrative that unfolds in both his own words and those of her spirited fictional character, Nell. A memorable tale of love in many guises, of heartbreak and loss, the novel brings Brooke vividly to life as it shows him to have been a far more interesting, complex and troubled figure than the romanticised version allows.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9280'),
(19350, 'The Great Pursuit', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A Totally Filthy Novel To Put The Literary World In Spasms - But Sure To Make A Shameful Pile Of Money In America. Frensic, A Literary Agent With A ''Nose For A Bestseller'' (As Well As Port And Snuff), Places This Hot Property With Hutchmeyer - Who Is The Least Respected Publisher In The World. And A Gullible Author Is Despatched Across The Atlantic For A Chaotic Publicity Tour.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/508'),
(19351, 'The Great Pursuit', 'Tom Sharpe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A Totally Filthy Novel To Put The Literary World In Spasms - But Sure To Make A Shameful Pile Of Money In America. Frensic, A Literary Agent With A ''Nose For A Bestseller'' (As Well As Port And Snuff), Places This Hot Property With Hutchmeyer - Who Is The Least Respected Publisher In The World. And A Gullible Author Is Despatched Across The Atlantic For A Chaotic Publicity Tour.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24458'),
(19352, 'Great Sex Secret', 'Kim Marshall', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Mutual satisfaction during lovemaking - true fulfillment for both partners - really matters, especially in long-term love relationships. But because of the way our bodies "interface" during straightforward intercourse, women are often left unsatisfied. Throughout history, one-sided sex has been the norm - male contentment and female frustration. Even today, with our improved understanding of sexual anatomy, many couples are still in the same fix. Marshall''s carefully researched and superbly written book tells what a few fortunate lovers have discovered - and almost never talk about. "The Great Sex Secret" gives a detailed, straightforward description of three approaches that reliably deliver mutual satisfaction. This book is a perfect conversation-starter for couples who want to find their way to sexual happiness but are having difficulty talking about the details.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20101'),
(19353, 'The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales From a Strange Time', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In addition to being a testament to the undeniably beatifying properties of American excess--literary, political, chemical, you name it--Hunter Thompson is the high priest of the ad hominem attack. Anyone unlucky enough to get in the way of his satirical sledgehammer will end up with soup for brains. Still, even Thompson needs a good villain to get properly lathered up; that''s why he peaked simultaneously with America''s 37th president, Richard Milhous Nixon. Tricky Dick was Thompson''s dark-jowled, pale-calved Muse, and with his departure Thompson seemed to lose his place a bit. Swatting flies with a baseball bat. You need look no further for this writer''s best: this collection of pieces, first published in 1979, spans all of Thompson''s primo era, including short pieces and selections from longer works. The Great Shark Hunt sports a few articles filed by a pre-Gonzo Hunter S. Thompson, which show flickers of passion but no real fire; the first experiments with the author''s drug-fueled brand of journalism at the Kentucky Derby; and finally the gigs that made him an American institution, in Las Vegas and on the 1972 campaign trail. Thompson''s style is so unique that a reader is tempted to think that he leapt, fully formed, into Gonzohood. However, along with the crazy, careening prose itself, one of the auxiliary pleasures of The Great Shark Hunt is the map that it gives of Thompson''s ascent (or descent, if you prefer) from the workaday hyperbole of sports writing to the hell-blast vigor of his later work. The drugs are, by and large, a distraction--lifestyle points that get in the way of the genuinely perceptive journalism that Thompson created. (But they are there, always, and in quantity.) If you''re looking for insight into the underbelly of America, Hunter S. Thompson is your best and only guide, and The Great Shark Hunt is an excellent place to begin the grim safari. --Michael Gerber\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5148'),
(19354, 'The great shark hunt: strange tales from a strange time', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In addition to being a testament to the undeniably beatifying properties of American excess--literary, political, chemical, you name it--Hunter Thompson is the high priest of the ad hominem attack. Anyone unlucky enough to get in the way of his satirical sledgehammer will end up with soup for brains. Still, even Thompson needs a good villain to get properly lathered up; that''s why he peaked simultaneously with America''s 37th president, Richard Milhous Nixon. Tricky Dick was Thompson''s dark-jowled, pale-calved Muse, and with his departure Thompson seemed to lose his place a bit. Swatting flies with a baseball bat. You need look no further for this writer''s best: this collection of pieces, first published in 1979, spans all of Thompson''s primo era, including short pieces and selections from longer works. The Great Shark Hunt sports a few articles filed by a pre-Gonzo Hunter S. Thompson, which show flickers of passion but no real fire; the first experiments with the author''s drug-fueled brand of journalism at the Kentucky Derby; and finally the gigs that made him an American institution, in Las Vegas and on the 1972 campaign trail. Thompson''s style is so unique that a reader is tempted to think that he leapt, fully formed, into Gonzohood. However, along with the crazy, careening prose itself, one of the auxiliary pleasures of The Great Shark Hunt is the map that it gives of Thompson''s ascent (or descent, if you prefer) from the workaday hyperbole of sports writing to the hell-blast vigor of his later work. The drugs are, by and large, a distraction--lifestyle points that get in the way of the genuinely perceptive journalism that Thompson created. (But they are there, always, and in quantity.) If you''re looking for insight into the underbelly of America, Hunter S. Thompson is your best and only guide, and The Great Shark Hunt is an excellent place to begin the grim safari. --Michael Gerber\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19574'),
(19355, 'The great shark hunt: strange tales from a strange time', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In addition to being a testament to the undeniably beatifying properties of American excess--literary, political, chemical, you name it--Hunter Thompson is the high priest of the ad hominem attack. Anyone unlucky enough to get in the way of his satirical sledgehammer will end up with soup for brains. Still, even Thompson needs a good villain to get properly lathered up; that''s why he peaked simultaneously with America''s 37th president, Richard Milhous Nixon. Tricky Dick was Thompson''s dark-jowled, pale-calved Muse, and with his departure Thompson seemed to lose his place a bit. Swatting flies with a baseball bat. You need look no further for this writer''s best: this collection of pieces, first published in 1979, spans all of Thompson''s primo era, including short pieces and selections from longer works. The Great Shark Hunt sports a few articles filed by a pre-Gonzo Hunter S. Thompson, which show flickers of passion but no real fire; the first experiments with the author''s drug-fueled brand of journalism at the Kentucky Derby; and finally the gigs that made him an American institution, in Las Vegas and on the 1972 campaign trail. Thompson''s style is so unique that a reader is tempted to think that he leapt, fully formed, into Gonzohood. However, along with the crazy, careening prose itself, one of the auxiliary pleasures of The Great Shark Hunt is the map that it gives of Thompson''s ascent (or descent, if you prefer) from the workaday hyperbole of sports writing to the hell-blast vigor of his later work. The drugs are, by and large, a distraction--lifestyle points that get in the way of the genuinely perceptive journalism that Thompson created. (But they are there, always, and in quantity.) If you''re looking for insight into the underbelly of America, Hunter S. Thompson is your best and only guide, and The Great Shark Hunt is an excellent place to begin the grim safari. --Michael Gerber\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28185'),
(19356, 'The Great Simolean Caper', 'Neal Stephenson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21583'),
(19357, 'Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India', 'Joseph Lelyveld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brilliantly illuminating book on Mahatma Gandhi that enriches our understanding of his means, his accomplishments, and his failures.Gandhi has long been considered a visionary and a martyr. And certainly, he was that rare leader wholly devoted to his people. But in this ambitious, stirring, original study, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winner Joseph Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhiâ€™s accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtroddenâ€”against Gandhiâ€™s own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.Lelyveld traces the roots of Gandhiâ€™s philosophy of reform to South Africa, exploring in unmatched depth the campaigns for social justice he undertook there, and chronicling his continued efforts when he returned to India. We see why he became known as Mahatmaâ€”Great Soulâ€”but we also see clearly that he was unable to achieve all the goals he set for himself and his country, suffering bitter disappointment at this shortfall, most profoundly in 1947 when India was partitioned.Here is a profoundly intelligent, vital reconsideration of Gandhiâ€™s extraordinary accomplishments, of his fierce but finally unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4089'),
(19358, 'Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India', 'Joseph Lelyveld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brilliantly illuminating book on Mahatma Gandhi that enriches our understanding of his means, his accomplishments, and his failures.Gandhi has long been considered a visionary and a martyr. And certainly, he was that rare leader wholly devoted to his people. But in this ambitious, stirring, original study, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winner Joseph Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhiâ€™s accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtroddenâ€”against Gandhiâ€™s own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.Lelyveld traces the roots of Gandhiâ€™s philosophy of reform to South Africa, exploring in unmatched depth the campaigns for social justice he undertook there, and chronicling his continued efforts when he returned to India. We see why he became known as Mahatmaâ€”Great Soulâ€”but we also see clearly that he was unable to achieve all the goals he set for himself and his country, suffering bitter disappointment at this shortfall, most profoundly in 1947 when India was partitioned.Here is a profoundly intelligent, vital reconsideration of Gandhiâ€™s extraordinary accomplishments, of his fierce but finally unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11135'),
(19359, 'Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India', 'Joseph Lelyveld', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brilliantly illuminating book on Mahatma Gandhi that enriches our understanding of his means, his accomplishments, and his failures.Gandhi has long been considered a visionary and a martyr. And certainly, he was that rare leader wholly devoted to his people. But in this ambitious, stirring, original study, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winner Joseph Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhiâ€™s accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtroddenâ€”against Gandhiâ€™s own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.Lelyveld traces the roots of Gandhiâ€™s philosophy of reform to South Africa, exploring in unmatched depth the campaigns for social justice he undertook there, and chronicling his continued efforts when he returned to India. We see why he became known as Mahatmaâ€”Great Soulâ€”but we also see clearly that he was unable to achieve all the goals he set for himself and his country, suffering bitter disappointment at this shortfall, most profoundly in 1947 when India was partitioned.Here is a profoundly intelligent, vital reconsideration of Gandhiâ€™s extraordinary accomplishments, of his fierce but finally unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20481'),
(19360, 'The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History,Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better', 'Tyler Cowen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   America is in disarray and our economy is failing us. We have been through the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, unemployment remains stubbornly high, and talk of a double-dip recession persists. Americans are not pulling the world economy out of its sluggish state -- if anything we are looking to Asia to drive a recovery.Median wages have risen only slowly since the 1970s, and this multi-decade stagnation is not yet over. By contrast, the living standards of earlier generations would double every few decades. The Democratic Party seeks to expand government spending even when the middle class feels squeezed, the public sector doesnâ€™t always perform well, and we have no good plan for paying for forthcoming entitlement spending. To the extent Republicans have a consistent platform, it consists of unrealistic claims about how tax cuts will raise revenue and stimulate economic growth. The Republicans, when they hold power, are often a bigger fiscal disaster than the Democrats. How did we get into this mess?Imagine a tropical island where the citrus and bananas hang from the trees. Low-hanging literal fruit -- you donâ€™t even have to cook the stuff.In a figurative sense, the American economy has enjoyed lots of low-hanging fruit since at least the seventeenth century: free land; immigrant labor; and powerful new technologies. Yet during the last forty years, that low-hanging fruit started disappearing and we started pretending it was still there. We have failed to recognize that we are at a technological plateau and the trees are barer than we would like to think. Thatâ€™s it. That is what has gone wrong.The problem wonâ€™t be solved overnight, but there are reasons to be optimistic. We simply have to recognize the underlying causes of our past prosperityâ€”low hanging fruitâ€”and how we will come upon more of it.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/389'),
(19361, 'The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History,Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better', 'Tyler Cowen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   America is in disarray and our economy is failing us. We have been through the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, unemployment remains stubbornly high, and talk of a double-dip recession persists. Americans are not pulling the world economy out of its sluggish state -- if anything we are looking to Asia to drive a recovery.Median wages have risen only slowly since the 1970s, and this multi-decade stagnation is not yet over. By contrast, the living standards of earlier generations would double every few decades. The Democratic Party seeks to expand government spending even when the middle class feels squeezed, the public sector doesnâ€™t always perform well, and we have no good plan for paying for forthcoming entitlement spending. To the extent Republicans have a consistent platform, it consists of unrealistic claims about how tax cuts will raise revenue and stimulate economic growth. The Republicans, when they hold power, are often a bigger fiscal disaster than the Democrats. How did we get into this mess?Imagine a tropical island where the citrus and bananas hang from the trees. Low-hanging literal fruit -- you donâ€™t even have to cook the stuff.In a figurative sense, the American economy has enjoyed lots of low-hanging fruit since at least the seventeenth century: free land; immigrant labor; and powerful new technologies. Yet during the last forty years, that low-hanging fruit started disappearing and we started pretending it was still there. We have failed to recognize that we are at a technological plateau and the trees are barer than we would like to think. Thatâ€™s it. That is what has gone wrong.The problem wonâ€™t be solved overnight, but there are reasons to be optimistic. We simply have to recognize the underlying causes of our past prosperityâ€”low hanging fruitâ€”and how we will come upon more of it.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9085'),
(19362, 'The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History,Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better', 'Tyler Cowen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   America is in disarray and our economy is failing us. We have been through the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, unemployment remains stubbornly high, and talk of a double-dip recession persists. Americans are not pulling the world economy out of its sluggish state -- if anything we are looking to Asia to drive a recovery.Median wages have risen only slowly since the 1970s, and this multi-decade stagnation is not yet over. By contrast, the living standards of earlier generations would double every few decades. The Democratic Party seeks to expand government spending even when the middle class feels squeezed, the public sector doesnâ€™t always perform well, and we have no good plan for paying for forthcoming entitlement spending. To the extent Republicans have a consistent platform, it consists of unrealistic claims about how tax cuts will raise revenue and stimulate economic growth. The Republicans, when they hold power, are often a bigger fiscal disaster than the Democrats. How did we get into this mess?Imagine a tropical island where the citrus and bananas hang from the trees. Low-hanging literal fruit -- you donâ€™t even have to cook the stuff.In a figurative sense, the American economy has enjoyed lots of low-hanging fruit since at least the seventeenth century: free land; immigrant labor; and powerful new technologies. Yet during the last forty years, that low-hanging fruit started disappearing and we started pretending it was still there. We have failed to recognize that we are at a technological plateau and the trees are barer than we would like to think. Thatâ€™s it. That is what has gone wrong.The problem wonâ€™t be solved overnight, but there are reasons to be optimistic. We simply have to recognize the underlying causes of our past prosperityâ€”low hanging fruitâ€”and how we will come upon more of it.\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24552'),
(19363, 'Great Tales From English History', 'Robert Lacey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England''s past, highlighting the spread of the English language, the rejection of both a religion and a traditional view of kingly authority, and an unstoppable movement toward intellectual and political freedom from 1387 to 1689. Opening with Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales and culminating in William and Mary''s "Glorious Revolution," Lacey revisits some of the truly classic stories of English history: the Battle of Agincourt, where Henry V''s skilled archers defeated a French army three times as large; the tragic tale of the two young princes locked in the Tower of London (and almost certainly murdered) by their usurping uncle, Richard III; Henry VIII''s schismatic divorce, not just from his wife but from the authority of the Catholic Church; "Bloody Mary" and the burning of religious dissidents; Sir Francis Drake''s dramatic, if questionable, part in the defeat of the Spanish Armada; and the terrible and transformative Great Fire of London, to name but a few. Here Anglophiles will find their favorite English kings and queens, villains and victims, authors and architects - from Richard II to Anne Boleyn, the Virgin Queen to Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Pepys to Christopher Wren, and many more. Continuing the "eminently readable, highly enjoyable" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) history he began in volume I of Great Tales from English History, Robert Lacey has drawn on the most up-to-date research to present a taut and riveting narrative, breathing life into the most pivotal characters and exciting landmarks in England''s history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10941'),
(19364, 'Great Tales from English History, Book 2', 'Robert Lacey', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England''s past, highlighting the spread of the English language, the rejection of both a religion and a traditional view of kingly authority, and an unstoppable movement toward intellectual and political freedom from 1387 to 1689. Opening with Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales and culminating in William and Mary''s "Glorious Revolution," Lacey revisits some of the truly classic stories of English history: the Battle of Agincourt, where Henry V''s skilled archers defeated a French army three times as large; the tragic tale of the two young princes locked in the Tower of London (and almost certainly murdered) by their usurping uncle, Richard III; Henry VIII''s schismatic divorce, not just from his wife but fr...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10940'),
(19365, 'The Great Train Robbery', 'Michael Crichton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London -- and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city''s most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century -- the daring theft of a fortune in gold.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England''s industrial era: the mighty steam locomotive. Based on remarkable fact, and alive with the gripping suspense, surprise, and authenticity that are his trademark, Michael Crichton''s classic adventure is a breathtaking thrill-ride that races along tracks of steel at breakneck speed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21667'),
(19366, 'The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time', 'Jeff Deck &amp; Benjamin D. Herson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The signs of the times are missing apostrophes.Â The world needed a hero, but how would an editor with no off-switch answer the call? For Jeff Deck, the writing was literally on the wall: â€œNO TRESSPASSING.â€ In that moment, his greater purpose became clear.Â  Dark hordes of typos had descended upon civilizationâ€¦ and only he could wield the marker to defeat them.Â Recruiting his friend Benjamin and other valiant companions, he created the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL). Armed with markers, chalk, and correction fluid, they circumnavigated America, righting the glaring errors displayed in grocery stores, museums, malls, restaurants, mini-golf courses, beaches, and even a national park. Jeff and Benjamin championed the cause of clear communication, blogging about their adventures transforming horor into horror, itâ€™s into its, and coconunut into coconut.Â But at the Grand Canyon, they took one correction too far: fixing the bad grammar in a fake Native American watchtower.Â  The government charged them with defacing federal propertyÂ  and summoned them to courtâ€”with a typo-ridden complaint that claimed that they had violated â€œcriminal statues.â€ Now the press turned these paragons of punctuation into â€œgrammar vigilantes,â€ airing errors about their errant errand..Â The radiant dream of TEAL would not fade, though.Â  Â Beneath all those misspelled words and mislaid apostrophes, Jeff and Benjamin unearthed deeper dilemmas about education, race, history, and how we communicate. Ultimately their typo-hunting journey tells a larger story not just of proper punctuation but of the power of language and literacyâ€”and the importance of always taking a second look.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4640'),
(19367, 'The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time', 'Jeff Deck &amp; Benjamin D. Herson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The signs of the times are missing apostrophes.Â The world needed a hero, but how would an editor with no off-switch answer the call? For Jeff Deck, the writing was literally on the wall: â€œNO TRESSPASSING.â€ In that moment, his greater purpose became clear.Â  Dark hordes of typos had descended upon civilizationâ€¦ and only he could wield the marker to defeat them.Â Recruiting his friend Benjamin and other valiant companions, he created the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL). Armed with markers, chalk, and correction fluid, they circumnavigated America, righting the glaring errors displayed in grocery stores, museums, malls, restaurants, mini-golf courses, beaches, and even a national park. Jeff and Benjamin championed the cause of clear communication, blogging about their adventures transforming horor into horror, itâ€™s into its, and coconunut into coconut.Â But at the Grand Canyon, they took one correction too far: fixing the bad grammar in a fake Native American watchtower.Â  The government charged them with defacing federal propertyÂ  and summoned them to courtâ€”with a typo-ridden complaint that claimed that they had violated â€œcriminal statues.â€ Now the press turned these paragons of punctuation into â€œgrammar vigilantes,â€ airing errors about their errant errand..Â The radiant dream of TEAL would not fade, though.Â  Â Beneath all those misspelled words and mislaid apostrophes, Jeff and Benjamin unearthed deeper dilemmas about education, race, history, and how we communicate. Ultimately their typo-hunting journey tells a larger story not just of proper punctuation but of the power of language and literacyâ€”and the importance of always taking a second look.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9267'),
(19368, 'The Great War: American Front', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Turtledove''s second multivolume saga of 20th-century "alternative history," __, takes place in a world in which the Confederate States win the Civil War and in 1914, allied with England and France, go to war against the United States once more. All the horrors of World War I, such as trench warfare and mustard gas, are present, only this time they''re situated in a North American theater of operations where the U.S. fights enemies on both its northern and southern borders while Confederate blacks, studying up on left-wing radicals Karl Marx and Abe Lincoln, prepare for the revolution. As in Turtledove''s earlier Worldwar series, the majority of attention is paid to an assortment of people at the battlefields and home fronts, their stories unfolding in gradual increments that, at least so far, only intermittently connect with each other. And there''s not as much in the way of "real" historical figures popping up in this first volume of The Great War series, save for cameo appearances by U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, Confederate president Woodrow Wilson, an aging General Custer, and a handful of others. It remains to be seen whether future entries in the series will feature such obvious candidates for inclusion as the young Ernest Hemingway, and\n <em>\n  how\n </em>\n they''ll appear in this strange new world.\n <em>\n  --Ron Hogan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This masterpiece of alternate history takes place in the same world as Turtledove''s How Few Remain and begins a projected tetralogy of a First World War fought with Germany and the U.S. allied against Britain, France and the Confederacy. The reader is drawn in at once as a German cruiser approaches Boston and Jeb Stuart III trains his artillery on the Capitol Dome, and Turtledove sustains high interest throughout the lengthy narrative. As in How Few Remain, the author gives full recognition to social and economic factors (e.g., how conscription impacts politics; how labor shortages affect the position of barely emancipated blacks in the Confederacy). He also plausibly depicts the opening stages of race war. In addition, he unleashes the horrors of trench warfare on American soil and shows how an American army of occupation might look from the point of view of the occupied Canadians. With shocking vividness, Turtledove demonstrates the extreme fragility of our modern world, and how much of it has depended on a United States of America. This is state-of-the-art alternate history, nothing less. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5209'),
(19369, 'The Great War: American Front', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Turtledove''s second multivolume saga of 20th-century "alternative history," __, takes place in a world in which the Confederate States win the Civil War and in 1914, allied with England and France, go to war against the United States once more. All the horrors of World War I, such as trench warfare and mustard gas, are present, only this time they''re situated in a North American theater of operations where the U.S. fights enemies on both its northern and southern borders while Confederate blacks, studying up on left-wing radicals Karl Marx and Abe Lincoln, prepare for the revolution. As in Turtledove''s earlier Worldwar series, the majority of attention is paid to an assortment of people at the battlefields and home fronts, their stories unfolding in gradual increments that, at least so far, only intermittently connect with each other. And there''s not as much in the way of "real" historical figures popping up in this first volume of The Great War series, save for cameo appearances by U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, Confederate president Woodrow Wilson, an aging General Custer, and a handful of others. It remains to be seen whether future entries in the series will feature such obvious candidates for inclusion as the young Ernest Hemingway, and\n <em>\n  how\n </em>\n they''ll appear in this strange new world.\n <em>\n  --Ron Hogan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This masterpiece of alternate history takes place in the same world as Turtledove''s How Few Remain and begins a projected tetralogy of a First World War fought with Germany and the U.S. allied against Britain, France and the Confederacy. The reader is drawn in at once as a German cruiser approaches Boston and Jeb Stuart III trains his artillery on the Capitol Dome, and Turtledove sustains high interest throughout the lengthy narrative. As in How Few Remain, the author gives full recognition to social and economic factors (e.g., how conscription impacts politics; how labor shortages affect the position of barely emancipated blacks in the Confederacy). He also plausibly depicts the opening stages of race war. In addition, he unleashes the horrors of trench warfare on American soil and shows how an American army of occupation might look from the point of view of the occupied Canadians. With shocking vividness, Turtledove demonstrates the extreme fragility of our modern world, and how much of it has depended on a United States of America. This is state-of-the-art alternate history, nothing less. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13134'),
(19370, 'The Great War: American Front', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Turtledove''s second multivolume saga of 20th-century "alternative history," __, takes place in a world in which the Confederate States win the Civil War and in 1914, allied with England and France, go to war against the United States once more. All the horrors of World War I, such as trench warfare and mustard gas, are present, only this time they''re situated in a North American theater of operations where the U.S. fights enemies on both its northern and southern borders while Confederate blacks, studying up on left-wing radicals Karl Marx and Abe Lincoln, prepare for the revolution. As in Turtledove''s earlier Worldwar series, the majority of attention is paid to an assortment of people at the battlefields and home fronts, their stories unfolding in gradual increments that, at least so far, only intermittently connect with each other. And there''s not as much in the way of "real" historical figures popping up in this first volume of The Great War series, save for cameo appearances by U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, Confederate president Woodrow Wilson, an aging General Custer, and a handful of others. It remains to be seen whether future entries in the series will feature such obvious candidates for inclusion as the young Ernest Hemingway, and\n <em>\n  how\n </em>\n they''ll appear in this strange new world.\n <em>\n  --Ron Hogan\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This masterpiece of alternate history takes place in the same world as Turtledove''s How Few Remain and begins a projected tetralogy of a First World War fought with Germany and the U.S. allied against Britain, France and the Confederacy. The reader is drawn in at once as a German cruiser approaches Boston and Jeb Stuart III trains his artillery on the Capitol Dome, and Turtledove sustains high interest throughout the lengthy narrative. As in How Few Remain, the author gives full recognition to social and economic factors (e.g., how conscription impacts politics; how labor shortages affect the position of barely emancipated blacks in the Confederacy). He also plausibly depicts the opening stages of race war. In addition, he unleashes the horrors of trench warfare on American soil and shows how an American army of occupation might look from the point of view of the occupied Canadians. With shocking vividness, Turtledove demonstrates the extreme fragility of our modern world, and how much of it has depended on a United States of America. This is state-of-the-art alternate history, nothing less. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19456'),
(19371, 'The Great War: Breakthroughs', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The historian and the creative writer unite in Turtledove to craft another impressive novel, this one the third in his series about an alternate WWI (American Front, Walk in Hell), which has seen a weakened Confederate States of America not only combating the U.S.A. but facing a communist revolt from within staged by its black slaves. In this imaginative sequel, Turtledove displays his usual mastery at maintaining suspense across a broad canvas, with characters that fans will be glad to encounter again: feisty Southern aristocrat Anne Colleton leads a group of militiamen to try to wrest control of her shattered plantation, Marshlands, from the Reds; short-order cook Nellie Semphroch and her amorous daughter escape trial as collaborators thanks to a visit from Teddy Roosevelt; General Custer and his unprecedented command of the army''s "barrels"AtanksAdivision leads to the U.S. scoring some lightning-fast victories. Peace is won, but at a high cost: working mother Sylvia Enos must face the future without a job and as a widow, while Confederate sub commander Roger Kimball may face a war crimes tribunal. Echoing the Treaty of Versailles, the victors make the grave mistake of punishing their enemies so that they dream of revenge. Although a complete and skillfully executed tale in itself, this epic story leaves enough plot threads dangling to demand a fourth novel to tie them up. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As World War I rages across a divided American continent, the beleaguered United States seeks the opportune moment to gain revenge against its Confederate enemies regardless of the cost. Building on the momentum of the previous two series novels, The Great War: American Front and The Great War: Walk in Hell, Turtledove follows his large cast of historical and fictional characters through the turning point of the war to end all wars. Alternate history''s grand master displays his acute knowledge of American history as well as his keen imagination as he paints a vivid portrait of a past that could have been. A good choice for most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5213');
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(19372, 'The Great War: Breakthroughs', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The historian and the creative writer unite in Turtledove to craft another impressive novel, this one the third in his series about an alternate WWI (American Front, Walk in Hell), which has seen a weakened Confederate States of America not only combating the U.S.A. but facing a communist revolt from within staged by its black slaves. In this imaginative sequel, Turtledove displays his usual mastery at maintaining suspense across a broad canvas, with characters that fans will be glad to encounter again: feisty Southern aristocrat Anne Colleton leads a group of militiamen to try to wrest control of her shattered plantation, Marshlands, from the Reds; short-order cook Nellie Semphroch and her amorous daughter escape trial as collaborators thanks to a visit from Teddy Roosevelt; General Custer and his unprecedented command of the army''s "barrels"AtanksAdivision leads to the U.S. scoring some lightning-fast victories. Peace is won, but at a high cost: working mother Sylvia Enos must face the future without a job and as a widow, while Confederate sub commander Roger Kimball may face a war crimes tribunal. Echoing the Treaty of Versailles, the victors make the grave mistake of punishing their enemies so that they dream of revenge. Although a complete and skillfully executed tale in itself, this epic story leaves enough plot threads dangling to demand a fourth novel to tie them up. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As World War I rages across a divided American continent, the beleaguered United States seeks the opportune moment to gain revenge against its Confederate enemies regardless of the cost. Building on the momentum of the previous two series novels, The Great War: American Front and The Great War: Walk in Hell, Turtledove follows his large cast of historical and fictional characters through the turning point of the war to end all wars. Alternate history''s grand master displays his acute knowledge of American history as well as his keen imagination as he paints a vivid portrait of a past that could have been. A good choice for most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13131'),
(19373, 'The Great War: Breakthroughs', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The historian and the creative writer unite in Turtledove to craft another impressive novel, this one the third in his series about an alternate WWI (American Front, Walk in Hell), which has seen a weakened Confederate States of America not only combating the U.S.A. but facing a communist revolt from within staged by its black slaves. In this imaginative sequel, Turtledove displays his usual mastery at maintaining suspense across a broad canvas, with characters that fans will be glad to encounter again: feisty Southern aristocrat Anne Colleton leads a group of militiamen to try to wrest control of her shattered plantation, Marshlands, from the Reds; short-order cook Nellie Semphroch and her amorous daughter escape trial as collaborators thanks to a visit from Teddy Roosevelt; General Custer and his unprecedented command of the army''s "barrels"AtanksAdivision leads to the U.S. scoring some lightning-fast victories. Peace is won, but at a high cost: working mother Sylvia Enos must face the future without a job and as a widow, while Confederate sub commander Roger Kimball may face a war crimes tribunal. Echoing the Treaty of Versailles, the victors make the grave mistake of punishing their enemies so that they dream of revenge. Although a complete and skillfully executed tale in itself, this epic story leaves enough plot threads dangling to demand a fourth novel to tie them up. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n As World War I rages across a divided American continent, the beleaguered United States seeks the opportune moment to gain revenge against its Confederate enemies regardless of the cost. Building on the momentum of the previous two series novels, The Great War: American Front and The Great War: Walk in Hell, Turtledove follows his large cast of historical and fictional characters through the turning point of the war to end all wars. Alternate history''s grand master displays his acute knowledge of American history as well as his keen imagination as he paints a vivid portrait of a past that could have been. A good choice for most libraries.\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19455'),
(19374, 'The Great War: Walk in Hell', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Turtledove marches on through history with\n <em>\n  The Great War: Walk in Hell\n </em>\n . In his alternate timeline, the Confederate States of America won the Civil War, aided by Britain and France. In the 1880s (\n <strong>\n  ), Americans fought again after the CSA acquired parts of Mexico--and the CSA won again. When WWI begins with Archduke Ferdinand''s assassination in 1914 (\n </strong>\n ), the 34-state USA under Teddy Roosevelt allies with Imperial Germany and Austria against Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Canada, and Woodrow Wilson''s CSA. Trenches divide Canada, fierce fighting rages from Tennessee and Kentucky into Pennsylvania, a Mormon uprising against the USA consumes Utah, and a black socialist rebellion distracts the CSA, where slavery has ended but blacks still await full citizenship.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Walk in Hell\n </em>\n takes us from fall, 1915, through 1916. Soldiers, sailors, and airmen continue the fight, but much happens behind the lines too. Turtledove''s characters include Jewish immigrants who are socialist and antiwar, a widow running a coffee house in CSA-occupied Washington, D.C., who passes information to the USA, and two Canadian farmers living under U.S. occupation in Quebec and Manitoba. He vividly conveys the human side of war. When Joe Hammerschmitt gets a shoulder wound in the Virginia trenches:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  ... pain warred with exultation on his long, thin face. Exultation won. ''Got me a hometowner, looks like,'' he said happily. Half the men up there with him made sympathetic noises; the other half looked frankly jealous. Hammerschmitt was going to be out of the firing line for weeks, maybe months, to come, and they still risked not just death but horrible mutilation every day.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Some find Turtledove''s cast too large, the story''s action too slow. Others complain that\n <em>\n  Walk in Hell\n </em>\n is too similar to his Worldwar series. Alternate history buffs, however, will marvel at his mastery of detail, enjoy following his logic as he pursues military and social developments onward in time, and find it hard to wait for the next in the series.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Hugo Award-winning master of alternate world histories presents the second volume in the WWI series he began last year with The Great War: American Front. In Turtledove''s version of the War to End All Wars, conflict rages on the American continent between the USA (with 34 states) and the Confederate States of America, which won secession during the Civil War. Allied with Germany and France, the USA in 1915 hopes to take advantage of a weakened CSA, which is plagued by a socialist revolution engineered by its former slaves. Setting his tale on a suitably large canvas, Turtledove introduces a variety of characters who exemplify the diverse political and economic circumstances of the period: Anne Colleton, a former Confederate landowner, must learn to cooperate with her activist fieldhands; Flora Hamburger, a New York intellectual, fights against class injustice and runs for a seat as a socialist congresswoman; Confederate sub commander Roger Kimball plans a risky attack on New York Harbor. Turtledove judiciously blends famous historical characters into the plot, so readers learn of General Custer''s frustration at being unable to conquer Tennessee and see Woodrow Wilson as a Confederate president. Although there are numerous battle scenes, the gore is restrained. Instead, the author emphasizes character, and his thorough knowledge of the period''s history will, as usual, captivate his readers, Foreign rights sold in the U.K. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5214'),
(19375, 'The Great War: Walk in Hell', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Turtledove marches on through history with\n <em>\n  The Great War: Walk in Hell\n </em>\n . In his alternate timeline, the Confederate States of America won the Civil War, aided by Britain and France. In the 1880s (\n <strong>\n  ), Americans fought again after the CSA acquired parts of Mexico--and the CSA won again. When WWI begins with Archduke Ferdinand''s assassination in 1914 (\n </strong>\n ), the 34-state USA under Teddy Roosevelt allies with Imperial Germany and Austria against Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Canada, and Woodrow Wilson''s CSA. Trenches divide Canada, fierce fighting rages from Tennessee and Kentucky into Pennsylvania, a Mormon uprising against the USA consumes Utah, and a black socialist rebellion distracts the CSA, where slavery has ended but blacks still await full citizenship.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Walk in Hell\n </em>\n takes us from fall, 1915, through 1916. Soldiers, sailors, and airmen continue the fight, but much happens behind the lines too. Turtledove''s characters include Jewish immigrants who are socialist and antiwar, a widow running a coffee house in CSA-occupied Washington, D.C., who passes information to the USA, and two Canadian farmers living under U.S. occupation in Quebec and Manitoba. He vividly conveys the human side of war. When Joe Hammerschmitt gets a shoulder wound in the Virginia trenches:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  ... pain warred with exultation on his long, thin face. Exultation won. ''Got me a hometowner, looks like,'' he said happily. Half the men up there with him made sympathetic noises; the other half looked frankly jealous. Hammerschmitt was going to be out of the firing line for weeks, maybe months, to come, and they still risked not just death but horrible mutilation every day.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Some find Turtledove''s cast too large, the story''s action too slow. Others complain that\n <em>\n  Walk in Hell\n </em>\n is too similar to his Worldwar series. Alternate history buffs, however, will marvel at his mastery of detail, enjoy following his logic as he pursues military and social developments onward in time, and find it hard to wait for the next in the series.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Hugo Award-winning master of alternate world histories presents the second volume in the WWI series he began last year with The Great War: American Front. In Turtledove''s version of the War to End All Wars, conflict rages on the American continent between the USA (with 34 states) and the Confederate States of America, which won secession during the Civil War. Allied with Germany and France, the USA in 1915 hopes to take advantage of a weakened CSA, which is plagued by a socialist revolution engineered by its former slaves. Setting his tale on a suitably large canvas, Turtledove introduces a variety of characters who exemplify the diverse political and economic circumstances of the period: Anne Colleton, a former Confederate landowner, must learn to cooperate with her activist fieldhands; Flora Hamburger, a New York intellectual, fights against class injustice and runs for a seat as a socialist congresswoman; Confederate sub commander Roger Kimball plans a risky attack on New York Harbor. Turtledove judiciously blends famous historical characters into the plot, so readers learn of General Custer''s frustration at being unable to conquer Tennessee and see Woodrow Wilson as a Confederate president. Although there are numerous battle scenes, the gore is restrained. Instead, the author emphasizes character, and his thorough knowledge of the period''s history will, as usual, captivate his readers, Foreign rights sold in the U.K. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13128'),
(19376, 'The Great War: Walk in Hell', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Harry Turtledove marches on through history with\n <em>\n  The Great War: Walk in Hell\n </em>\n . In his alternate timeline, the Confederate States of America won the Civil War, aided by Britain and France. In the 1880s (\n <strong>\n  ), Americans fought again after the CSA acquired parts of Mexico--and the CSA won again. When WWI begins with Archduke Ferdinand''s assassination in 1914 (\n </strong>\n ), the 34-state USA under Teddy Roosevelt allies with Imperial Germany and Austria against Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Canada, and Woodrow Wilson''s CSA. Trenches divide Canada, fierce fighting rages from Tennessee and Kentucky into Pennsylvania, a Mormon uprising against the USA consumes Utah, and a black socialist rebellion distracts the CSA, where slavery has ended but blacks still await full citizenship.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Walk in Hell\n </em>\n takes us from fall, 1915, through 1916. Soldiers, sailors, and airmen continue the fight, but much happens behind the lines too. Turtledove''s characters include Jewish immigrants who are socialist and antiwar, a widow running a coffee house in CSA-occupied Washington, D.C., who passes information to the USA, and two Canadian farmers living under U.S. occupation in Quebec and Manitoba. He vividly conveys the human side of war. When Joe Hammerschmitt gets a shoulder wound in the Virginia trenches:\n</p>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  ... pain warred with exultation on his long, thin face. Exultation won. ''Got me a hometowner, looks like,'' he said happily. Half the men up there with him made sympathetic noises; the other half looked frankly jealous. Hammerschmitt was going to be out of the firing line for weeks, maybe months, to come, and they still risked not just death but horrible mutilation every day.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Some find Turtledove''s cast too large, the story''s action too slow. Others complain that\n <em>\n  Walk in Hell\n </em>\n is too similar to his Worldwar series. Alternate history buffs, however, will marvel at his mastery of detail, enjoy following his logic as he pursues military and social developments onward in time, and find it hard to wait for the next in the series.\n <em>\n  --Nona Vero\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The Hugo Award-winning master of alternate world histories presents the second volume in the WWI series he began last year with The Great War: American Front. In Turtledove''s version of the War to End All Wars, conflict rages on the American continent between the USA (with 34 states) and the Confederate States of America, which won secession during the Civil War. Allied with Germany and France, the USA in 1915 hopes to take advantage of a weakened CSA, which is plagued by a socialist revolution engineered by its former slaves. Setting his tale on a suitably large canvas, Turtledove introduces a variety of characters who exemplify the diverse political and economic circumstances of the period: Anne Colleton, a former Confederate landowner, must learn to cooperate with her activist fieldhands; Flora Hamburger, a New York intellectual, fights against class injustice and runs for a seat as a socialist congresswoman; Confederate sub commander Roger Kimball plans a risky attack on New York Harbor. Turtledove judiciously blends famous historical characters into the plot, so readers learn of General Custer''s frustration at being unable to conquer Tennessee and see Woodrow Wilson as a Confederate president. Although there are numerous battle scenes, the gore is restrained. Instead, the author emphasizes character, and his thorough knowledge of the period''s history will, as usual, captivate his readers, Foreign rights sold in the U.K. (Aug.)\n <br />\n Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19453'),
(19377, 'Greater Than the Sum', 'Christopher L. Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   Starship Rhea\n  </em>\n  has discovered a cluster of carbon planets that seems to be the source of the quantum energies rippling through a section of space. A landing party finds unusual life-forms inhabiting one of the planets. One officer, Lieutenant T''Ryssa Chen -- a half-Vulcan -- makes a tenuous connection with them. But before any progress can be made, the\n  <em>\n   Rhea\n  </em>\n  comes under attack from the\n  <em>\n   Einstein\n  </em>\n  -- a Starfleet vessel now controlled by the Borg. The landing party can only listen in horror as their comrades are assimilated. The Borg descend to the planet, and just as Chen accepts that she will be assimilated, the lieutenant is whisked two thousand light-years away.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A quantum slipstream -- instantaneous transportation -- is controlled by these beings in the cluster, and in the heart of the cluster there is now a Borg ship. Cut off from the rest of the Borg collective, the\n  <em>\n   Einstein\n  </em>\n  cannot be allowed to rejoin it. For the sake of humanity, the Borg cannot gain access to quantum slipstream technology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Starfleet Command gives Captain Picard carte blanche: do whatever he must to help the beings in the cluster, and stop the\n  <em>\n   Einstein\n  </em>\n  no matter the cost.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Christopher L. Bennett\n  </strong>\n  is the author of two previous works of\n  <em>\n   Titan\n  </em>\n  fiction, the novel\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Titan: Orionâ€™s Hounds\n  </em>\n  and the short story "Empathy" in the\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows\n  </em>\n  anthology. He has also authored such critically acclaimed novels as\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Ex Machina, Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Buried Age\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: The Next Generation: Greater Than the Sum\n  </em>\n  , as well as the alternate\n  <em>\n   Voyager\n  </em>\n  tale\n  <em>\n   Places of Exile\n  </em>\n  in\n  <em>\n   Myriad Universes: Infinityâ€™s Prism\n  </em>\n  . Shorter works include\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: SCE\n  </em>\n  #29:\n  <em>\n   Aftermath\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Mere Anarchy: The Darkness Drops Again\n  </em>\n  , as well as short stories in the anniversary anthologies\n  <em>\n   Constellations\n  </em>\n  (original series),\n  <em>\n   The Skyâ€™s The Limit\n  </em>\n  (TNG),\n  <em>\n   Prophecy and Change\n  </em>\n  (DS9), and\n  <em>\n   Distant Shores\n  </em>\n  (VGR). Beyond\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  , he has penned the novels\n  <em>\n   X-Men: Watchers on the Walls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder\n  </em>\n  , and is also developing original science fiction novel concepts\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6674'),
(19378, 'Greater Than the Sum', 'Christopher L. Bennett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The\n  <em>\n   Starship Rhea\n  </em>\n  has discovered a cluster of carbon planets that seems to be the source of the quantum energies rippling through a section of space. A landing party finds unusual life-forms inhabiting one of the planets. One officer, Lieutenant T''Ryssa Chen -- a half-Vulcan -- makes a tenuous connection with them. But before any progress can be made, the\n  <em>\n   Rhea\n  </em>\n  comes under attack from the\n  <em>\n   Einstein\n  </em>\n  -- a Starfleet vessel now controlled by the Borg. The landing party can only listen in horror as their comrades are assimilated. The Borg descend to the planet, and just as Chen accepts that she will be assimilated, the lieutenant is whisked two thousand light-years away.\n </p>\n <p>\n  A quantum slipstream -- instantaneous transportation -- is controlled by these beings in the cluster, and in the heart of the cluster there is now a Borg ship. Cut off from the rest of the Borg collective, the\n  <em>\n   Einstein\n  </em>\n  cannot be allowed to rejoin it. For the sake of humanity, the Borg cannot gain access to quantum slipstream technology.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Starfleet Command gives Captain Picard carte blanche: do whatever he must to help the beings in the cluster, and stop the\n  <em>\n   Einstein\n  </em>\n  no matter the cost.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Christopher L. Bennett\n  </strong>\n  is the author of two previous works of\n  <em>\n   Titan\n  </em>\n  fiction, the novel\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Titan: Orionâ€™s Hounds\n  </em>\n  and the short story "Empathy" in the\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows\n  </em>\n  anthology. He has also authored such critically acclaimed novels as\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Ex Machina, Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Buried Age\n  </em>\n  , and\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: The Next Generation: Greater Than the Sum\n  </em>\n  , as well as the alternate\n  <em>\n   Voyager\n  </em>\n  tale\n  <em>\n   Places of Exile\n  </em>\n  in\n  <em>\n   Myriad Universes: Infinityâ€™s Prism\n  </em>\n  . Shorter works include\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: SCE\n  </em>\n  #29:\n  <em>\n   Aftermath\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Star Trek: Mere Anarchy: The Darkness Drops Again\n  </em>\n  , as well as short stories in the anniversary anthologies\n  <em>\n   Constellations\n  </em>\n  (original series),\n  <em>\n   The Skyâ€™s The Limit\n  </em>\n  (TNG),\n  <em>\n   Prophecy and Change\n  </em>\n  (DS9), and\n  <em>\n   Distant Shores\n  </em>\n  (VGR). Beyond\n  <em>\n   Star Trek\n  </em>\n  , he has penned the novels\n  <em>\n   X-Men: Watchers on the Walls\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder\n  </em>\n  , and is also developing original science fiction novel concepts\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18084'),
(19379, 'The Greatest Knight', 'Elizabeth Chadwick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14868'),
(19380, 'The Greatest Knight', 'Elizabeth Chadwick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18877'),
(19381, 'The Greatest Knight', 'Elizabeth Chadwick', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27668'),
(19382, 'The Greatest Show on Earth', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1859 Charles Darwin''s masterpiece, *On the Origin of Species*, shook society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Now the author of the iconic work *The God Delusion* takes them to task.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Greatest Show on Earth* is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements and many more, he makes the airtight case that "we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Greatest Show on Earth* comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing as never before. In American schools, and in schools around the world, insidious attempts are made to undermine the status of science in the classroom. Dawkins wields a devastating argument against this ignorance, but his unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master''s vision of life, in all its splendor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1821'),
(19383, 'The Greatest Show on Earth', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1859 Charles Darwin''s masterpiece, *On the Origin of Species*, shook society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Now the author of the iconic work *The God Delusion* takes them to task.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Greatest Show on Earth* is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements and many more, he makes the airtight case that "we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Greatest Show on Earth* comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing as never before. In American schools, and in schools around the world, insidious attempts are made to undermine the status of science in the classroom. Dawkins wields a devastating argument against this ignorance, but his unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master''s vision of life, in all its splendor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9281'),
(19384, 'The Greatest Show on Earth', 'Richard Dawkins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In 1859 Charles Darwin''s masterpiece, *On the Origin of Species*, shook society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Now the author of the iconic work *The God Delusion* takes them to task.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Greatest Show on Earth* is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements and many more, he makes the airtight case that "we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Greatest Show on Earth* comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing as never before. In American schools, and in schools around the world, insidious attempts are made to undermine the status of science in the classroom. Dawkins wields a devastating argument against this ignorance, but his unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master''s vision of life, in all its splendor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15273'),
(19385, 'The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-The-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History', 'Gregory Zuckerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall.  Paulson''s background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or how to wager against housing.  He had spent a career as an also-ran on Wall Street. But Paulson was convinced this was his chance to make his mark. He just wasn''t sure how to do it.  Colleagues at investment banks scoffed at him and investors dismissed him.  Even pros skeptical about housing shied away from the complicated derivative investments that Paulson was just learning about.  But Paulson and a handful of renegade investors such as Jeffrey Greene and Michael Burry began to bet heavily against risky mortgages and precarious financial companies. Timing is everything, though. Initially, Paulson and the others lost tens of millions of dollars as real estate and stocks continued to soar. Rather than back down, however, Paulson redoubled his bets, putting his hedge fund and his reputation on the line.     In the summer of 2007, the markets began to implode, bringing Paulson early profits, but also sparking efforts to rescue real estate and derail him. By year''s end, though, John Paulson had pulled off the greatest trade in financial history, earning more than $15 billion for his firm--a figure that dwarfed George Soros''s billion-dollar currency trade in 1992.  Paulson made billions more in 2008 by transforming his gutsy move.  Some of the underdog investors who attempted the daring trade also reaped fortunes. But others who got the timing wrong met devastating failure, discovering that being early and right wasn''t nearly enough.     Written by the prizewinning reporter who broke the story in The Wall Street Journal, The Greatest Trade Ever is a superbly written, fast-paced, behind-the-scenes narrative of how a contrarian foresaw an escalating financial crisis--that outwitted Chuck Prince, Stanley O''Neal, Richard Fuld, and Wall Street''s titans--to make financial history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5210'),
(19386, 'The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History', 'Gregory Zuckerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Paulson''s background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or how to wager against housing. He had spent a career as an also-ran on Wall Street. But Paulson was convinced this was his chance to make his mark. He just wasn''t sure how to do it. Colleagues at investment banks scoffed at him and investors dismissed him. Even pros skeptical about housing shied away from the complicated derivative investments that Paulson was just learning about. But Paulson and a handful of renegade investors such as Jeffrey Greene and Michael Burry began to bet heavily against risky mortgages and precarious financial companies. Timing is everything, though. Initially, Paulson and the others lost tens of millions of dollars as real estate and stocks continued to soar. Rather than back down, however, Paulson redoubled his bets, putting his hedge fund and his reputation on the line. In the summer of 2007, the markets began to implode, bringing Paulson early profits, but also sparking efforts to rescue real estate and derail him. By year''s end, though, John Paulson had pulled off the greatest trade in financial history, earning more than $15 billion for his firm--a figure that dwarfed George Soros''s billion-dollar currency trade in 1992. Paulson made billions more in 2008 by transforming his gutsy move. Some of the underdog investors who attempted the daring trade also reaped fortunes. But others who got the timing wrong met devastating failure, discovering that being early and right wasn''t nearly enough. Written by the prizewinning reporter who broke the story in The Wall Street Journal, The Greatest Trade Ever is a superbly written, fast-paced, behind-the-scenes narrative of how a contrarian foresaw an escalating financial crisis--that outwitted Chuck Prince, Stanley O''Neal, Richard Fuld, and Wall Street''s titans--to make financial history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19407'),
(19387, 'The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History', 'Gregory Zuckerman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall.  Paulson''s background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or how to wager against housing.  He had spent a career as an also-ran on Wall Street. But Paulson was convinced this was his chance to make his mark. He just wasn''t sure how to do it.  Colleagues at investment banks scoffed at him and investors dismissed him.  Even pros skeptical about housing shied away from the complicated derivative investments that Paulson was just learning about.  But Paulson and a handful of renegade investors such as Jeffrey Greene and Michael Burry began to bet heavily against risky mortgages and precarious financial companies. Timing is everything, though. Initially, Paulson and the others lost tens of millions of dollars as real estate and stocks continued to soar. Rather than back down, however, Paulson redoubled his bets, putting his hedge fund and his reputation on the line.     In the summer of 2007, the markets began to implode, bringing Paulson early profits, but also sparking efforts to rescue real estate and derail him. By year''s end, though, John Paulson had pulled off the greatest trade in financial history, earning more than $15 billion for his firm--a figure that dwarfed George Soros''s billion-dollar currency trade in 1992.  Paulson made billions more in 2008 by transforming his gutsy move.  Some of the underdog investors who attempted the daring trade also reaped fortunes. But others who got the timing wrong met devastating failure, discovering that being early and right wasn''t nearly enough.     Written by the prizewinning reporter who broke the story in The Wall Street Journal, The Greatest Trade Ever is a superbly written, fast-paced, behind-the-scenes narrative of how a contrarian foresaw an escalating financial crisis--that outwitted Chuck Prince, Stanley O''Neal, Richard Fuld, and Wall Street''s titans--to make financial history.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28057'),
(19388, 'Greek Odyssey', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15446'),
(19389, 'Green for Life', 'Victoria Boutenko', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIn\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n , Victoria Boutenko focuses on the benefits of greens and offers 45 of her favorite green smoothie recipes.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Green for Life _is a revolutionary but simple idea whose time has come. It is a clear inspiration and great resource to readers who desire to lead healthier lives.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Midwest Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn more than thirty-five years of practice as a psychiatrist affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, I have learned one thing very well: Human behavior is very hard to change. Now Victoria Boutenko is persuading me otherwise. â€¦ Thirty days of green smoothies will change how you feel, and how you feel about yourself. Thatâ€™s no small achievement for one small book.â€\n <br />\n â€”A. William Menzin, MD, Harvard Medical School, from the foreword\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œVictoria Boutenkoâ€™s clear, simple, masterful concept is so valuable, so powerfulâ€”we can expect to see and feel the world of health rocked to its foundations within the decade.â€\n <br />\n â€”Thomas C. Chavez, homeopath and author of\n <em>\n  Body Electronics\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œVictoria, you did it again! I love your new book. It will bring health to millions, reduce future risks of degenerative diseases for new generations, and make life easier for all of us now. A must read!â€\n <br />\n â€”Dr. Ruza Bodganovich, internationally renowned lecturer and author of_ The Cure is in the Cause_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRaw food expert Victoria Boutenko wants you to eat more leafy greens, but she knows chomping on big bunches of them can be difficult. So, in the second edition of her book\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n , originally published in 2005, she instead recommends blending kale, spinach, chard, and the like with different fruits and vegetables and drinking a quart of the resulting green smoothie every day... Already own the book? The new version includes nutritional information on Boutenko''s favorite edible weeds (stinging nettles, dandelions, lambsquarters); testimonials from smoothie converts, who marvel at how their various ailments disappear after going green; and some 20 additional recipes for smoothies and puddings, which Boutenko perfected over six years of experimentation.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Vegetarian Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n is the book that makes the case, the proof, if you will, that green smoothies are the missing link in human nutritionâ€¦ After you read the science and the amazing testimonials, you''ll beÂ itching to make your first smoothieâ€¦ Few books are as â€˜must-haveâ€™ as this oneâ€¦ 10+ out of 10.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Raw Mocha Angel_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œ_Green for Life_ is a book of hope and encouragement, as it shares a simple and viable way to revitalize your life.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Lily of the Valley_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAmazing and inspiring...\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n is impossible to read without craving a fresh, green smoothie. Why? The information and stories in the book (including dozens of first person experiences from those who changed their diets after reading the first edition of\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n ) are compelling, even shocking, and offer the promise of healing for any of us with health and skin issues... pick up this influential book and start getting greens into your daily routine!â€\n <br />\n â€”_Beauty is Wellness_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Green for Life_]_ _is extremely motivating. Itâ€™s short, itâ€™s interesting, and it makes you want to run to your nearest green grocer for an armload of greens to shove into your blender.â€\n <br />\n â€”_All Things Nourishing_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œGreen for Life\n </em>\n is a very informative book if you are just getting into the green smoothie revolution. Lots of information and case studies on why green smoothies are beneficial, along with a recipe section. Chlorophyll is liquid sunshine!â€\n <br />\n â€”_In My Mindâ€™s Zen Garden_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n As a nutrition professional I frequently discover new diets and eating habits.Â  Many claim to offer optimal health or weight loss, disease control or the next thing. I find myself reading diet books with a certain skepticismâ€¦ [Victoria Boutenkoâ€™s] research finds many benefits to adding green smoothies to the daily diet... I highly recommend reading [_Green for Life_], and trying the smoothies, to anyone.Â  If your health is declining, your weight is increasing or decreasing unexpectedly, or if you would like overall health benefits of amazing greensâ€¦read this book!â€\n <br />\n â€”Rachel Fox, RD,\n <em>\n  Eat Drink Better\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Green for Life_ offers] background, logistics, health information, facts, and even a short study with people trying out the smoothie lifestyle. I thoroughly enjoyed this book! ... I noticed a difference in myself after only one day drinking the smoothies.Â That shocked me. I felt so betrayed by my own desires of wanting ''regular'' food. I felt more energized, didn''t need as much sleep the night afterward, and could tell my digestion was betterâ€¦ I''m glad to know there''s an easy way to add greens and fruits to my dietâ€¦ helpful and informative.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n Kari,\n <em>\n  Reading For Sanity\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Boutenko] makes it clear throughout [_Green for Life_] that consuming vitamin-packed smoothies is not only the most effective way for our bodies to absorb essential nutrients, adding just one quart of green smoothie a day to one''s diet can help with everything from weight loss and cravings, to healing skin conditions and reversing diabetes. She literally has pages and pages of inspiring testimonials, which is helpful for us as readers since we can pinpoint our trouble spot and then look through the book for a way to tackle it with the help of greens.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Beauty Snob_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGo green with in-season fruits and veggies via one of Victoria Boutenkoâ€™s\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n smoothie recipes. Our fave, the Aloe-Ha.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Posh Mom Life_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA good beginner''s guide that is ripe for discussion.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Elevate Difference_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyone knows they need to eat more fruits and vegetables, but consuming even the minimum FDA-recommended five servings a day can be challenging. In\n <em>\n  Green for Life,\n </em>\n raw foods pioneer Victoria Boutenko presents an overlooked powerhouse of nutrition in this equation: greens. For their bounty of minerals and nutrients, greens exceed other vegetables in value.\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n details the immense health benefits of greens and suggests an easy way to consume them in sufficient quantities: the green smoothie. This quick, simple drink benefits everyone, regardless of lifestyle, diet, or environment. Green smoothies eliminate toxins, correct nutritional deficiencies, and are delicious as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n includes the latest information on the abundance of protein in greens, the benefits of fiber, the role of greens in homeostasis, the significance of stomach acid, how greens make the body more alkaline, the healing power of chlorophyll, and more. Also included are the results of a pilot study demonstrating the effectiveness of adding just one quart of green smoothies a day to oneâ€™s diet, without changing anything else in dietary intake. Green smoothie testimonials and recipes give readers confidence and motivation in exploring green smoothies for themselves. This updated edition offers important new research on the role that omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids play in metabolic health and includes nutritional data on select green smoothies and updated findings on organic versus conventional produce. Offering more in-depth nutritional and experiential information than Boutenkoâ€™s recently released\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution, Green for Life\n </em>\n makes an ideal companion piece to its recipe-rich successor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/351');
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(19390, 'Green for Life', 'Victoria Boutenko', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œIn\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n , Victoria Boutenko focuses on the benefits of greens and offers 45 of her favorite green smoothie recipes.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Green for Life _is a revolutionary but simple idea whose time has come. It is a clear inspiration and great resource to readers who desire to lead healthier lives.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Midwest Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIn more than thirty-five years of practice as a psychiatrist affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, I have learned one thing very well: Human behavior is very hard to change. Now Victoria Boutenko is persuading me otherwise. â€¦ Thirty days of green smoothies will change how you feel, and how you feel about yourself. Thatâ€™s no small achievement for one small book.â€\n <br />\n â€”A. William Menzin, MD, Harvard Medical School, from the foreword\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œVictoria Boutenkoâ€™s clear, simple, masterful concept is so valuable, so powerfulâ€”we can expect to see and feel the world of health rocked to its foundations within the decade.â€\n <br />\n â€”Thomas C. Chavez, homeopath and author of\n <em>\n  Body Electronics\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œVictoria, you did it again! I love your new book. It will bring health to millions, reduce future risks of degenerative diseases for new generations, and make life easier for all of us now. A must read!â€\n <br />\n â€”Dr. Ruza Bodganovich, internationally renowned lecturer and author of_ The Cure is in the Cause_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRaw food expert Victoria Boutenko wants you to eat more leafy greens, but she knows chomping on big bunches of them can be difficult. So, in the second edition of her book\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n , originally published in 2005, she instead recommends blending kale, spinach, chard, and the like with different fruits and vegetables and drinking a quart of the resulting green smoothie every day... Already own the book? The new version includes nutritional information on Boutenko''s favorite edible weeds (stinging nettles, dandelions, lambsquarters); testimonials from smoothie converts, who marvel at how their various ailments disappear after going green; and some 20 additional recipes for smoothies and puddings, which Boutenko perfected over six years of experimentation.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Vegetarian Times_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n is the book that makes the case, the proof, if you will, that green smoothies are the missing link in human nutritionâ€¦ After you read the science and the amazing testimonials, you''ll beÂ itching to make your first smoothieâ€¦ Few books are as â€˜must-haveâ€™ as this oneâ€¦ 10+ out of 10.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Raw Mocha Angel_\n <br />\n <em>\n  Â \n </em>\n <br />\n â€œ_Green for Life_ is a book of hope and encouragement, as it shares a simple and viable way to revitalize your life.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Lily of the Valley_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAmazing and inspiring...\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n is impossible to read without craving a fresh, green smoothie. Why? The information and stories in the book (including dozens of first person experiences from those who changed their diets after reading the first edition of\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n ) are compelling, even shocking, and offer the promise of healing for any of us with health and skin issues... pick up this influential book and start getting greens into your daily routine!â€\n <br />\n â€”_Beauty is Wellness_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Green for Life_]_ _is extremely motivating. Itâ€™s short, itâ€™s interesting, and it makes you want to run to your nearest green grocer for an armload of greens to shove into your blender.â€\n <br />\n â€”_All Things Nourishing_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œGreen for Life\n </em>\n is a very informative book if you are just getting into the green smoothie revolution. Lots of information and case studies on why green smoothies are beneficial, along with a recipe section. Chlorophyll is liquid sunshine!â€\n <br />\n â€”_In My Mindâ€™s Zen Garden_\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n As a nutrition professional I frequently discover new diets and eating habits.Â  Many claim to offer optimal health or weight loss, disease control or the next thing. I find myself reading diet books with a certain skepticismâ€¦ [Victoria Boutenkoâ€™s] research finds many benefits to adding green smoothies to the daily diet... I highly recommend reading [_Green for Life_], and trying the smoothies, to anyone.Â  If your health is declining, your weight is increasing or decreasing unexpectedly, or if you would like overall health benefits of amazing greensâ€¦read this book!â€\n <br />\n â€”Rachel Fox, RD,\n <em>\n  Eat Drink Better\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Green for Life_ offers] background, logistics, health information, facts, and even a short study with people trying out the smoothie lifestyle. I thoroughly enjoyed this book! ... I noticed a difference in myself after only one day drinking the smoothies.Â That shocked me. I felt so betrayed by my own desires of wanting ''regular'' food. I felt more energized, didn''t need as much sleep the night afterward, and could tell my digestion was betterâ€¦ I''m glad to know there''s an easy way to add greens and fruits to my dietâ€¦ helpful and informative.â€\n <br />\n <strong>\n  â€”\n </strong>\n Kari,\n <em>\n  Reading For Sanity\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Boutenko] makes it clear throughout [_Green for Life_] that consuming vitamin-packed smoothies is not only the most effective way for our bodies to absorb essential nutrients, adding just one quart of green smoothie a day to one''s diet can help with everything from weight loss and cravings, to healing skin conditions and reversing diabetes. She literally has pages and pages of inspiring testimonials, which is helpful for us as readers since we can pinpoint our trouble spot and then look through the book for a way to tackle it with the help of greens.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Beauty Snob_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œGo green with in-season fruits and veggies via one of Victoria Boutenkoâ€™s\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n smoothie recipes. Our fave, the Aloe-Ha.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Posh Mom Life_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA good beginner''s guide that is ripe for discussion.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Elevate Difference_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everyone knows they need to eat more fruits and vegetables, but consuming even the minimum FDA-recommended five servings a day can be challenging. In\n <em>\n  Green for Life,\n </em>\n raw foods pioneer Victoria Boutenko presents an overlooked powerhouse of nutrition in this equation: greens. For their bounty of minerals and nutrients, greens exceed other vegetables in value.\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n details the immense health benefits of greens and suggests an easy way to consume them in sufficient quantities: the green smoothie. This quick, simple drink benefits everyone, regardless of lifestyle, diet, or environment. Green smoothies eliminate toxins, correct nutritional deficiencies, and are delicious as well.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n includes the latest information on the abundance of protein in greens, the benefits of fiber, the role of greens in homeostasis, the significance of stomach acid, how greens make the body more alkaline, the healing power of chlorophyll, and more. Also included are the results of a pilot study demonstrating the effectiveness of adding just one quart of green smoothies a day to oneâ€™s diet, without changing anything else in dietary intake. Green smoothie testimonials and recipes give readers confidence and motivation in exploring green smoothies for themselves. This updated edition offers important new research on the role that omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids play in metabolic health and includes nutritional data on select green smoothies and updated findings on organic versus conventional produce. Offering more in-depth nutritional and experiential information than Boutenkoâ€™s recently released\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution, Green for Life\n </em>\n makes an ideal companion piece to its recipe-rich successor.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8551'),
(19391, 'Green for Life', 'Boutenko, Victoria', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24531'),
(19392, 'Green Gone Wrong', 'Rogers, Heather', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18321'),
(19393, 'Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution', 'Heather Rogers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In Gone Tomorrow (2005), Rogers detailed everything that is wrong about wasteful packaging and choked landfills. Here she exposes how the â€œgreenâ€ movement is failing to live up to the promise of sustainability and stewardship of the environment when the solutions are hijacked by economic and political interests. Industrial organic farms now resemble the conventional farms they were meant to replace; biofuels such as ethanol and palm oil raise food prices and replace precious rain forests, displacing indigenous peoples and creating more greenhouse gases than they save; carbon dioxideâ€“offsetting projects are mismanaged into failure. Yet, despite the title, Rogers found solutions that do work, such as truly organic farming methods, cutting-edge green architecture in Germany and the UK, and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Yet our corporate and political leaders continue to incentivize what poses the least challenge to established power structures, leaving out those such as the dedicated, truly organic farmers, who can barely make ends meet. Once again Rogersâ€™ clear-headed approach proves effective in uncovering the truths behind the mantle of greenwashing. --David Siegfried\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The climate crisis is far too urgent to squander another decade on false solutions. This carefully researched, deeply human, and eminently sensible investigation arrives just in the nick of time. Let''s hope it inspires a radical course correction."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Naomi Klein, author of\n <em>\n  The Shock Doctrine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHeather Rogers reminds us with vivid examples that there''s no way we can just subcontract our environmental conscience to the new breed of green marketers. We have a very narrow window to preserve some version of our planet, and we can''t afford the kind of egregious mistakes this volume identifies with such precision. If it''s too good to be true, it''s not true--even if it comes with a shiny green wrapper.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --Bill McKibben, author\n <em>\n  Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "With deft and adventuresome reporting from around the world, Heather Rogers looks beneath the surface of today''s market- based "solutions" to our environmental challenges and skillfully distinguishes between reality and illusion. Business as usual won''t do, Rogers tells us, no matter how much we green it."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Annie Leonard, author of\n <em>\n  The Story of Stuff\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Heather Rogers brilliantly and lethally exposes "green" capitalism for the chicanery that it is. While it may be disappointing to find out that "organic" and even "fair trade" don''t mean squat - not to mention, of course, "carbon offsetting," which turns out to be even stupider than it sounds - these pages make clear what the answer is: stop making colorful excuses for the system that''s driving us off the cliff, and instead make shifts in our economic priorities to bring about real change. May Rogers''s book guide our feet."\n</p>\n<p>\n --The Yes Men\n</p>\n<p>\n "By going beyond exposÃ‰ to analysis, Rogers gives a deeper assessment of environmental problems and solutions than the usual global-warming investigative book."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n Rogers â€œexposes how the â€œgreenâ€ movement is failing to live up to the promise of sustainability and stewardship of the environment when the solutions are hijacked by economic and political interests. [Her] clear-headed approach proves effective in uncovering the truths behind the mantle of greenwashing.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5113'),
(19394, 'Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution', 'Heather Rogers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n In Gone Tomorrow (2005), Rogers detailed everything that is wrong about wasteful packaging and choked landfills. Here she exposes how the â€œgreenâ€ movement is failing to live up to the promise of sustainability and stewardship of the environment when the solutions are hijacked by economic and political interests. Industrial organic farms now resemble the conventional farms they were meant to replace; biofuels such as ethanol and palm oil raise food prices and replace precious rain forests, displacing indigenous peoples and creating more greenhouse gases than they save; carbon dioxideâ€“offsetting projects are mismanaged into failure. Yet, despite the title, Rogers found solutions that do work, such as truly organic farming methods, cutting-edge green architecture in Germany and the UK, and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Yet our corporate and political leaders continue to incentivize what poses the least challenge to established power structures, leaving out those such as the dedicated, truly organic farmers, who can barely make ends meet. Once again Rogersâ€™ clear-headed approach proves effective in uncovering the truths behind the mantle of greenwashing. --David Siegfried\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The climate crisis is far too urgent to squander another decade on false solutions. This carefully researched, deeply human, and eminently sensible investigation arrives just in the nick of time. Let''s hope it inspires a radical course correction."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Naomi Klein, author of\n <em>\n  The Shock Doctrine\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHeather Rogers reminds us with vivid examples that there''s no way we can just subcontract our environmental conscience to the new breed of green marketers. We have a very narrow window to preserve some version of our planet, and we can''t afford the kind of egregious mistakes this volume identifies with such precision. If it''s too good to be true, it''s not true--even if it comes with a shiny green wrapper.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --Bill McKibben, author\n <em>\n  Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "With deft and adventuresome reporting from around the world, Heather Rogers looks beneath the surface of today''s market- based "solutions" to our environmental challenges and skillfully distinguishes between reality and illusion. Business as usual won''t do, Rogers tells us, no matter how much we green it."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Annie Leonard, author of\n <em>\n  The Story of Stuff\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Heather Rogers brilliantly and lethally exposes "green" capitalism for the chicanery that it is. While it may be disappointing to find out that "organic" and even "fair trade" don''t mean squat - not to mention, of course, "carbon offsetting," which turns out to be even stupider than it sounds - these pages make clear what the answer is: stop making colorful excuses for the system that''s driving us off the cliff, and instead make shifts in our economic priorities to bring about real change. May Rogers''s book guide our feet."\n</p>\n<p>\n --The Yes Men\n</p>\n<p>\n "By going beyond exposÃ‰ to analysis, Rogers gives a deeper assessment of environmental problems and solutions than the usual global-warming investigative book."\n</p>\n<p>\n --Publishers Weekly\n</p>\n<p>\n Rogers â€œexposes how the â€œgreenâ€ movement is failing to live up to the promise of sustainability and stewardship of the environment when the solutions are hijacked by economic and political interests. [Her] clear-headed approach proves effective in uncovering the truths behind the mantle of greenwashing.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n --Booklist\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13541'),
(19395, 'Green Hills of Africa', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  "There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man''s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."\n </p>\n <p>\n  -- ERNEST HEMINGWAY\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n In the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. "I had quite a trip," the author told his friend Philip Percival, with characteristic understatement.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Green Hills of Africa\n </em>\n is Hemingway''s account of that expedition, of what it taught him about Africa and himself. Richly evocative of the region''s natural beauty, tremendously alive to its character, culture, and customs, and pregnant with a hard-won wisdom gained from the extraordinary situations it describes, it is widely held to be one of the twentieth century''s classic travelogues.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n 6 1.5-hour cassettes\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18508'),
(19396, 'Green Hills of Africa', 'Ernest Hemingway', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27763'),
(19397, 'Green Mars', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kim Stanley Robinson has earned a reputation as the master of Mars fiction, writing books that are scientific, sociological and, best yet, fantastic.\n <strong>\n  Green Mars\n </strong>\n continues the story of humans settling the planet in a process called "terraforming." In\n <strong>\n  Green Mars\n </strong>\n , which won the 1994\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sequel to Red Mars details an early 22nd-century Mars controlled by Earth''s metanationals, gigantic corporations intent on exploiting Mars. Debate among the settlers--some native-born, some the surviving members of the First Hundred--is divided between the minimalist areoformists, who have come to love Mars in all its harshness, and the terraformists, who want to replicate Earth. As the surface of Mars warms and is seeded with genetically altered plants, the settlers await Earth''s self-destruction, which they hope will give them a chance to claim their independence. They travel endlessly over every inch of Mars--no mean feat, since most of the First Hundred are criminals wanted for their roles in the failed revolt of 2061--with each kilometer and each group of settlers they meet described in laborious detail. When they''re not traveling, these colonists contemplate the history of which they have been a part and which they can only partially recall as a result of their longevity treatments. With the collapse of Earth society and internecine battles among the metanationals, the Martian settlers liberate their cities and declare their planet free. This wide-ranging novel is loaded with all manner of scientific and historical detail, but the story bogs down under its very breadth and seems almost like a Martian year--twice as long as it needs to be. The next and final volume in the trilogy will be Blue Mars .\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3699'),
(19398, 'Green Mars', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Kim Stanley Robinson has earned a reputation as the master of Mars fiction, writing books that are scientific, sociological and, best yet, fantastic.\n <strong>\n  Green Mars\n </strong>\n continues the story of humans settling the planet in a process called "terraforming." In\n <strong>\n  Green Mars\n </strong>\n , which won the 1994\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The sequel to Red Mars details an early 22nd-century Mars controlled by Earth''s metanationals, gigantic corporations intent on exploiting Mars. Debate among the settlers--some native-born, some the surviving members of the First Hundred--is divided between the minimalist areoformists, who have come to love Mars in all its harshness, and the terraformists, who want to replicate Earth. As the surface of Mars warms and is seeded with genetically altered plants, the settlers await Earth''s self-destruction, which they hope will give them a chance to claim their independence. They travel endlessly over every inch of Mars--no mean feat, since most of the First Hundred are criminals wanted for their roles in the failed revolt of 2061--with each kilometer and each group of settlers they meet described in laborious detail. When they''re not traveling, these colonists contemplate the history of which they have been a part and which they can only partially recall as a result of their longevity treatments. With the collapse of Earth society and internecine battles among the metanationals, the Martian settlers liberate their cities and declare their planet free. This wide-ranging novel is loaded with all manner of scientific and historical detail, but the story bogs down under its very breadth and seems almost like a Martian year--twice as long as it needs to be. The next and final volume in the trilogy will be Blue Mars .\n <br />\n Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13571'),
(19399, 'Green Mars', 'Kim Stanley Robinson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20816'),
(19400, 'The Green Mile', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary''s death-row facility, *The Green Mile* is the riveting and tragic story of John Coffey, a giant, preternaturally gentle inmate condemned to death for the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls. It is a story narrated years later by Paul Edgecomb, the ward superintendent compelled to help every prisoner spend his last days peacefully and every man walk the green mile to execution with his humanity intact.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Edgecomb has sent seventy-eight inmates to their date with "old sparky," but he''s never encountered one like Coffey -- a man who wants to die, yet has the power to heal. And in this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecomb discovers the terrible truth about Coffey''s gift, a truth that challenges his most cherished beliefs -- and ours.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Originally published in 1996 in six self-contained monthly installments, *The Green Mile* is an astonishingly rich and complex novel that delivers over and over again. Each individual volume became a huge success when first published, and all six were on the *New York Times* bestseller list simultaneously. Three years later, when Frank Darabont made *The Green Mile* into an award-winning movie starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, the book returned to the bestseller list -- and stayed there for months.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And now -- with a new introduction by King''s foreign agent Ralph Vicinanza, as well as the author''s own foreword -- we have the first hardcover edition of this magnificent novel in which "King surpasses our expectations, leaves us spellbound and hungry for the next twist of plot" *(The Boston Globe).*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With illustrations and a new frontispiece for this edition by Mark Geyer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1011'),
(19401, 'The green mile', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary''s death-row facility, *The Green Mile* is the riveting and tragic story of John Coffey, a giant, preternaturally gentle inmate condemned to death for the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls. It is a story narrated years later by Paul Edgecomb, the ward superintendent compelled to help every prisoner spend his last days peacefully and every man walk the green mile to execution with his humanity intact. Edgecomb has sent seventy-eight inmates to their date with "old sparky," but he''s never encountered one like Coffey -- a man who wants to die, yet has the power to heal. And in this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecomb discovers the terrible truth about Coffey''s gift, a truth that challenges his most cherished beliefs -- and ours. Originally published in 1996 in six self-contained monthly installments, *The Green Mile* is an astonishingly rich and complex novel that delivers over and over again. Each individual volume became a huge success when first published, and all six were on the *New York Times* bestseller list simultaneously. Three years later, when Frank Darabont made *The Green Mile* into an award-winning movie starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, the book returned to the bestseller list -- and stayed there for months. And now -- with a new introduction by King''s foreign agent Ralph Vicinanza, as well as the author''s own foreword -- we have the first hardcover edition of this magnificent novel in which "King surpasses our expectations, leaves us spellbound and hungry for the next twist of plot" *(The Boston Globe).* With illustrations and a new frontispiece for this edition by Mark Geyer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14402'),
(19402, 'The green mile', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary''s death-row facility, *The Green Mile* is the riveting and tragic story of John Coffey, a giant, preternaturally gentle inmate condemned to death for the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls. It is a story narrated years later by Paul Edgecomb, the ward superintendent compelled to help every prisoner spend his last days peacefully and every man walk the green mile to execution with his humanity intact. Edgecomb has sent seventy-eight inmates to their date with "old sparky," but he''s never encountered one like Coffey -- a man who wants to die, yet has the power to heal. And in this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecomb discovers the terrible truth about Coffey''s gift, a truth that challenges his most cherished beliefs -- and ours. Originally published in 1996 in six self-contained monthly installments, *The Green Mile* is an astonishingly rich and complex novel that delivers over and over again. Each individual volume became a huge success when first published, and all six were on the *New York Times* bestseller list simultaneously. Three years later, when Frank Darabont made *The Green Mile* into an award-winning movie starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, the book returned to the bestseller list -- and stayed there for months. And now -- with a new introduction by King''s foreign agent Ralph Vicinanza, as well as the author''s own foreword -- we have the first hardcover edition of this magnificent novel in which "King surpasses our expectations, leaves us spellbound and hungry for the next twist of plot" *(The Boston Globe).* With illustrations and a new frontispiece for this edition by Mark Geyer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23866'),
(19403, 'The Green Pearl', 'Jack Vance', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In THE GREEN PEARL, King Aillas of Troicinet defends the peace of the Elder Isles against both the Ska marauders who once enslaved him and the wicked King Casmir. While organizing the unruly barons in the frontiers of his land, Aillas goes out of his way to capture the lovely Ska noblewoman who once stung him with her disregard. When he gets separated from his men, his dream of forcing the lady''s recognition becomes the toil of dragging a defiant captive across lands governed by Casmir''s henchmen. Meanwhile, the world of magic has gone on the move. The concentrated malice of the witch Desmki has manifested as a green pearl, breeding lust and envy and death; and a sorcerer in Casmir''s employ abducts the princess Glyneth, in a bid to draw Aillas and friends on a hopeless rescue mission across a bizarre and deadly alternate world.A masterpiece of romantic, picaresque adventure, THE GREEN PEARL extends the epic founded with LYONESSE: SULDRUN''S GARDEN and concluded in the World Fantasy Award-winning MADOUC. The ElectricStory eBook comprises the definitive text assembled and re-edited by the Vance Integral Edition project with the close collaboration of Mr. Vance himself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18213'),
(19404, 'Green Shadows, White Whale', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1943'),
(19405, 'Green Shadows, White Whale', 'Ray Bradbury', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8628'),
(19406, 'Green Smoothie Revolution: The Radical Leap Towards Natural Health', 'Victoria Boutenko', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In more than thirty-five years of practice as a psychiatrist affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, I have learned one thing very well: Human behavior is very hard to change. Now Victoria Boutenko is persuading me otherwise.â€¦ Thirty days of green smoothies will change how you feel, and how you feel about yourself. Thatâ€™s no small achievement for one small book."\n <br />\n â€”A. William Menzin, MD, Harvard Medical School\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Green Smoothie Revolution: The Radical Leap Toward Natural Health_ is one among many naturopathic books available that attempt to get people eating healthily againâ€¦ Filled with easy, quick recipes that combine familiar and unusual fruits, vegetables and greens, Victoria Boutenko serves up an excellent book to readers who will all be hungry for more.â€\n <br />\n â€”Examiner.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book is groundbreaking and needed by a population whose health is threatened by its own processed food supply. From a naturopathic perspective, the most important constituents of healing are here in these new recipesâ€”enzymes, amino acids, fiber, minerals, antioxidants, and much more. Victoria Boutenko has an intense sense of curiosity combined with a brilliant mind... Join the Green Smoothie Revolution! You may not buy a more important book this year!"\n <br />\n â€”Ariel Policano, ND\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is clear that Victoria Boutenko did her homework, because I found myself highlighting sentences on nearly every page. Though Victoria includes ample science in her book, the tone is very conversational and easy to read...This book has truly inspired me to get back on track with more green smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Basil &amp; Spice_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI rarely say this, but I am a big fan of this book. I would recommend reading\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n and then picking up a copy of\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n to launch your new understanding of health and nutrition to the next level.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Ridgefield Wellness_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBoutenkoâ€™s book is a simple guide for anyone who wants to find out what all the green smoothie fuss is about. Readers will learn why green smoothies are so healthy, why we should have more greens in the first place, and what health changes one might expect from this lifestyle changeâ€¦ I know right where to go for added health inspiration.â€\n <br />\n â€”dkMommySpot.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPublic health could be completely revolutionized by following Victoria''s adviceâ€¦ Green smoothies are for everyone, not expensive, and [Victoria Boutenko] even tells you which greens you can find through foragingâ€¦ Highly recommended.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Eco Mamaâ€™s Guide to Living Green_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Green Smoothie Revolution] provides lots of info and inspiration â€” basically anything you could ever want to know about green, blended drinks.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Nutritionista\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œIn\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n , Victoria has truly created a companion guide to\n <em>\n  Green For Life\n </em>\n â€¦ Together, both of these books create all you need to know about Green Smoothies. There are a vast amount of recipes included in this book, with bonus recipes for pets!â€_\n <br />\n â€”Raw Food Right Now\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œYou may not think that reading about how humans and chimps share 99.4% of the same genes is exciting, but it is! Boutenko has unlocked the missing component in human nutritionâ€¦Her passion for healing is clear.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Raw Mocha Angel\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n Green Smoothie Revolution_ is an educational and inspiring reference book, giving us an understanding of the power and miracle of greensâ€¦ Everyone should have a copy of this book.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Raw Epicurean_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhat a great resource for overall health and nutrition!â€\n <br />\n â€”_Naptime Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe great part about [_Green Smoothie Revolution_] is the variety of recipesâ€¦that are all fun and differentâ€¦Overall this is a great book for those interested in raw foods, green smoothies and healthy new ways to get greens into ones diet.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Cooking for a Vegan Lover\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œOne really important concept that I learned from\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n wasâ€¦even if one does not adopt a â€˜raw foods diet,â€™ but supplements a regular diet with one or two green smoothies a day, there are still immense health benefits.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Lily of the Valley_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Green Smoothie Revolution_ has] lots of great information and ideas for smoothiesâ€¦ I love the idea of getting my favorite dark, leafy green vegetables into such an easy snack or light breakfastâ€¦They keep me full longer than fruit alone and are perfect before an early morning workout.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Find Your Balance Health\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ[\n </em>\n Green Smoothie Revolution_] is a nice primer on a very easy way to amp up your nutritional habitsâ€¦ Raw foods can be intimidating but this is such an easy first step.â€_\n <br />\n _â€”Best-SellingBooks.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI love this bookâ€¦ I usually throw a little bit of everything into the smoothies I make (veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, etc.), but this book gave me some inspiration for a slightly different approach. Boutenko stresses the importance of dark leafy greens, and gives lots of recipes for incorporating these healthy plants into smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Mulberry Spot\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œThere are some amazingly good points in the book, and I absolutely support the daily consumption of green smoothiesâ€¦ If you want great smoothie recipes, I totally recommend this book.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Julie Loves Dogs\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ[\n </em>\n Green Smoothie Revolution_] is a great bookâ€¦I highly recommend itâ€¦ [the book contains] loads of recipes and tips, and also provides a detailed understanding of why you should go raw, and the wonderful healing power of green smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Wellwoman\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œ[_Green Smoothie Revolution_] will not only help you become personally greener, but it will spark your creativity gene and give you the green light to experiment.â€_\n <br />\n â€”GoRawMe_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe book is crammed with recipes, but the basic idea is easy to run with.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Star News_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI highly recommend [_Green Smoothie Revolution_]â€¦ reading this book has convinced me that green smoothies can truly deliver. Already, I have tried a few of the recipes in the book, I can definitely feel the nutritional boost in energy from this amazing beverage!â€\n <br />\n â€”Carlos Rull,\n <em>\n  Raw2Zen\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI had some questions and thoughts about the smoothies that I planned on figuring out by doing some e-search, but this book gave me all the info I was looking for! I finished it in under a day.â€\n <br />\n â€”Sabine,\n <em>\n  The Fruit Persuit\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œGreen Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n provides comprehensive information with a large selection of recipes from the creator of green smoothies, Victoria Boutenko. It will appeal to dieters who are ready to make a dramatic lifestyle change as well as those wishing to improve the nutritional quality of their diet.â€\n <br />\n â€”EveryDiet.org\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn earthy, health enthusiast, informational collection of eating your veggies, greens, and fruits through smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Reading For Sanity_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thanks to processed and fast foods, being overworked, and feeling stressed while eating on the fly, it is increasingly difficult for most of us to eat anywhere near a balanced diet. We may not be obviously sick, but may suffer from lack of focus, insomnia, sluggishness, or any host of symptoms caused by nutritional deficiency.\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n takes aim at this silent epidemic by restoring balance to our diets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combining nutrition and know-how with recipes that pack a powerhouse punch, Victoria Boutenko reintroduces long neglected fruits, vegetables, and greens in the most persuasive style for our busy lives: with fast prep and delicious results. Featuring 200 recipes,\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n offers both simplicity (4 ripe pears, 1 bunch parsley, 2 cups water; blend well) and enough variety to keep taste buds happy and nutrients coming from a wealth of options.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/354'),
(19407, 'Green Smoothie Revolution: The Radical Leap Towards Natural Health', 'Victoria Boutenko', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In more than thirty-five years of practice as a psychiatrist affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, I have learned one thing very well: Human behavior is very hard to change. Now Victoria Boutenko is persuading me otherwise.â€¦ Thirty days of green smoothies will change how you feel, and how you feel about yourself. Thatâ€™s no small achievement for one small book."\n <br />\n â€”A. William Menzin, MD, Harvard Medical School\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Green Smoothie Revolution: The Radical Leap Toward Natural Health_ is one among many naturopathic books available that attempt to get people eating healthily againâ€¦ Filled with easy, quick recipes that combine familiar and unusual fruits, vegetables and greens, Victoria Boutenko serves up an excellent book to readers who will all be hungry for more.â€\n <br />\n â€”Examiner.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book is groundbreaking and needed by a population whose health is threatened by its own processed food supply. From a naturopathic perspective, the most important constituents of healing are here in these new recipesâ€”enzymes, amino acids, fiber, minerals, antioxidants, and much more. Victoria Boutenko has an intense sense of curiosity combined with a brilliant mind... Join the Green Smoothie Revolution! You may not buy a more important book this year!"\n <br />\n â€”Ariel Policano, ND\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is clear that Victoria Boutenko did her homework, because I found myself highlighting sentences on nearly every page. Though Victoria includes ample science in her book, the tone is very conversational and easy to read...This book has truly inspired me to get back on track with more green smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Basil &amp; Spice_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI rarely say this, but I am a big fan of this book. I would recommend reading\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n and then picking up a copy of\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n to launch your new understanding of health and nutrition to the next level.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Ridgefield Wellness_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBoutenkoâ€™s book is a simple guide for anyone who wants to find out what all the green smoothie fuss is about. Readers will learn why green smoothies are so healthy, why we should have more greens in the first place, and what health changes one might expect from this lifestyle changeâ€¦ I know right where to go for added health inspiration.â€\n <br />\n â€”dkMommySpot.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPublic health could be completely revolutionized by following Victoria''s adviceâ€¦ Green smoothies are for everyone, not expensive, and [Victoria Boutenko] even tells you which greens you can find through foragingâ€¦ Highly recommended.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Eco Mamaâ€™s Guide to Living Green_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Green Smoothie Revolution] provides lots of info and inspiration â€” basically anything you could ever want to know about green, blended drinks.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Nutritionista\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œIn\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n , Victoria has truly created a companion guide to\n <em>\n  Green For Life\n </em>\n â€¦ Together, both of these books create all you need to know about Green Smoothies. There are a vast amount of recipes included in this book, with bonus recipes for pets!â€_\n <br />\n â€”Raw Food Right Now\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œYou may not think that reading about how humans and chimps share 99.4% of the same genes is exciting, but it is! Boutenko has unlocked the missing component in human nutritionâ€¦Her passion for healing is clear.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Raw Mocha Angel\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n Green Smoothie Revolution_ is an educational and inspiring reference book, giving us an understanding of the power and miracle of greensâ€¦ Everyone should have a copy of this book.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Raw Epicurean_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhat a great resource for overall health and nutrition!â€\n <br />\n â€”_Naptime Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe great part about [_Green Smoothie Revolution_] is the variety of recipesâ€¦that are all fun and differentâ€¦Overall this is a great book for those interested in raw foods, green smoothies and healthy new ways to get greens into ones diet.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Cooking for a Vegan Lover\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œOne really important concept that I learned from\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n wasâ€¦even if one does not adopt a â€˜raw foods diet,â€™ but supplements a regular diet with one or two green smoothies a day, there are still immense health benefits.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Lily of the Valley_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Green Smoothie Revolution_ has] lots of great information and ideas for smoothiesâ€¦ I love the idea of getting my favorite dark, leafy green vegetables into such an easy snack or light breakfastâ€¦They keep me full longer than fruit alone and are perfect before an early morning workout.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Find Your Balance Health\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ[\n </em>\n Green Smoothie Revolution_] is a nice primer on a very easy way to amp up your nutritional habitsâ€¦ Raw foods can be intimidating but this is such an easy first step.â€_\n <br />\n _â€”Best-SellingBooks.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI love this bookâ€¦ I usually throw a little bit of everything into the smoothies I make (veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, etc.), but this book gave me some inspiration for a slightly different approach. Boutenko stresses the importance of dark leafy greens, and gives lots of recipes for incorporating these healthy plants into smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Mulberry Spot\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œThere are some amazingly good points in the book, and I absolutely support the daily consumption of green smoothiesâ€¦ If you want great smoothie recipes, I totally recommend this book.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Julie Loves Dogs\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ[\n </em>\n Green Smoothie Revolution_] is a great bookâ€¦I highly recommend itâ€¦ [the book contains] loads of recipes and tips, and also provides a detailed understanding of why you should go raw, and the wonderful healing power of green smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Wellwoman\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œ[_Green Smoothie Revolution_] will not only help you become personally greener, but it will spark your creativity gene and give you the green light to experiment.â€_\n <br />\n â€”GoRawMe_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe book is crammed with recipes, but the basic idea is easy to run with.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Star News_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI highly recommend [_Green Smoothie Revolution_]â€¦ reading this book has convinced me that green smoothies can truly deliver. Already, I have tried a few of the recipes in the book, I can definitely feel the nutritional boost in energy from this amazing beverage!â€\n <br />\n â€”Carlos Rull,\n <em>\n  Raw2Zen\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI had some questions and thoughts about the smoothies that I planned on figuring out by doing some e-search, but this book gave me all the info I was looking for! I finished it in under a day.â€\n <br />\n â€”Sabine,\n <em>\n  The Fruit Persuit\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œGreen Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n provides comprehensive information with a large selection of recipes from the creator of green smoothies, Victoria Boutenko. It will appeal to dieters who are ready to make a dramatic lifestyle change as well as those wishing to improve the nutritional quality of their diet.â€\n <br />\n â€”EveryDiet.org\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn earthy, health enthusiast, informational collection of eating your veggies, greens, and fruits through smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Reading For Sanity_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thanks to processed and fast foods, being overworked, and feeling stressed while eating on the fly, it is increasingly difficult for most of us to eat anywhere near a balanced diet. We may not be obviously sick, but may suffer from lack of focus, insomnia, sluggishness, or any host of symptoms caused by nutritional deficiency.\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n takes aim at this silent epidemic by restoring balance to our diets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combining nutrition and know-how with recipes that pack a powerhouse punch, Victoria Boutenko reintroduces long neglected fruits, vegetables, and greens in the most persuasive style for our busy lives: with fast prep and delicious results. Featuring 200 recipes,\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n offers both simplicity (4 ripe pears, 1 bunch parsley, 2 cups water; blend well) and enough variety to keep taste buds happy and nutrients coming from a wealth of options.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8552');
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(19408, 'Green Smoothie Revolution: The Radical Leap Towards Natural Health', 'Victoria Boutenko', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "In more than thirty-five years of practice as a psychiatrist affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, I have learned one thing very well: Human behavior is very hard to change. Now Victoria Boutenko is persuading me otherwise.... Thirty days of green smoothies will change how you feel, and how you feel about yourself. Thatâ€™s no small achievement for one small book."\n <br />\n â€”A. William Menzin, MD, Harvard Medical School\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_Green Smoothie Revolution: The Radical Leap Toward Natural Health_ is one among many naturopathic books available that attempt to get people eating healthily again... Filled with easy, quick recipes that combine familiar and unusual fruits, vegetables and greens, Victoria Boutenko serves up an excellent book to readers who will all be hungry for more.â€\n <br />\n â€”Examiner.com\n</p>\n<p>\n "This book is groundbreaking and needed by a population whose health is threatened by its own processed food supply. From a naturopathic perspective, the most important constituents of healing are here in these new recipesâ€”enzymes, amino acids, fiber, minerals, antioxidants, and much more. Victoria Boutenko has an intense sense of curiosity combined with a brilliant mind... Join the Green Smoothie Revolution! You may not buy a more important book this year!"\n <br />\n â€”Ariel Policano, ND\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œIt is clear that Victoria Boutenko did her homework, because I found myself highlighting sentences on nearly every page. Though Victoria includes ample science in her book, the tone is very conversational and easy to read...This book has truly inspired me to get back on track with more green smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Basil &amp; Spice_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI rarely say this, but I am a big fan of this book. I would recommend reading\n <em>\n  Green for Life\n </em>\n and then picking up a copy of\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n to launch your new understanding of health and nutrition to the next level.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Ridgefield Wellness_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBoutenkoâ€™s book is a simple guide for anyone who wants to find out what all the green smoothie fuss is about. Readers will learn why green smoothies are so healthy, why we should have more greens in the first place, and what health changes one might expect from this lifestyle change... I know right where to go for added health inspiration.â€\n <br />\n â€”dkMommySpot.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œPublic health could be completely revolutionized by following Victoria''s advice... Green smoothies are for everyone, not expensive, and [Victoria Boutenko] even tells you which greens you can find through foraging... Highly recommended.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Eco Mamaâ€™s Guide to Living Green_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[Green Smoothie Revolution] provides lots of info and inspiration â€” basically anything you could ever want to know about green, blended drinks.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Nutritionista\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œIn\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n , Victoria has truly created a companion guide to\n <em>\n  Green For Life\n </em>\n ... Together, both of these books create all you need to know about Green Smoothies. There are a vast amount of recipes included in this book, with bonus recipes for pets!â€_\n <br />\n â€”Raw Food Right Now\n</p>\n<p>\n _â€œYou may not think that reading about how humans and chimps share 99.4% of the same genes is exciting, but it is! Boutenko has unlocked the missing component in human nutrition...Her passion for healing is clear.â€\n <br />\n â€”_The Raw Mocha Angel\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ\n </em>\n Green Smoothie Revolution_ is an educational and inspiring reference book, giving us an understanding of the power and miracle of greens... Everyone should have a copy of this book.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Raw Epicurean_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œWhat a great resource for overall health and nutrition!â€\n <br />\n â€”_Naptime Reviews_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe great part about [_Green Smoothie Revolution_] is the variety of recipes...that are all fun and different...Overall this is a great book for those interested in raw foods, green smoothies and healthy new ways to get greens into ones diet.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Cooking for a Vegan Lover\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œOne really important concept that I learned from\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n was...even if one does not adopt a â€˜raw foods diet,â€™ but supplements a regular diet with one or two green smoothies a day, there are still immense health benefits.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Lily of the Valley_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[_Green Smoothie Revolution_ has] lots of great information and ideas for smoothies... I love the idea of getting my favorite dark, leafy green vegetables into such an easy snack or light breakfast...They keep me full longer than fruit alone and are perfect before an early morning workout.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Find Your Balance Health\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ[\n </em>\n Green Smoothie Revolution_] is a nice primer on a very easy way to amp up your nutritional habits... Raw foods can be intimidating but this is such an easy first step.â€_\n <br />\n _â€”Best-SellingBooks.com\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI love this book... I usually throw a little bit of everything into the smoothies I make (veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, etc.), but this book gave me some inspiration for a slightly different approach. Boutenko stresses the importance of dark leafy greens, and gives lots of recipes for incorporating these healthy plants into smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Mulberry Spot\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œThere are some amazingly good points in the book, and I absolutely support the daily consumption of green smoothies... If you want great smoothie recipes, I totally recommend this book.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Julie Loves Dogs\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œ[\n </em>\n Green Smoothie Revolution_] is a great book...I highly recommend it... [the book contains] loads of recipes and tips, and also provides a detailed understanding of why you should go raw, and the wonderful healing power of green smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Wellwoman\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œ[_Green Smoothie Revolution_] will not only help you become personally greener, but it will spark your creativity gene and give you the green light to experiment.â€_\n <br />\n â€”GoRawMe_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe book is crammed with recipes, but the basic idea is easy to run with.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Star News_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI highly recommend [_Green Smoothie Revolution_]... reading this book has convinced me that green smoothies can truly deliver. Already, I have tried a few of the recipes in the book, I can definitely feel the nutritional boost in energy from this amazing beverage!â€\n <br />\n â€”Carlos Rull,\n <em>\n  Raw2Zen\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œI had some questions and thoughts about the smoothies that I planned on figuring out by doing some e-search, but this book gave me all the info I was looking for! I finished it in under a day.â€\n <br />\n â€”Sabine,\n <em>\n  The Fruit Persuit\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œGreen Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n provides comprehensive information with a large selection of recipes from the creator of green smoothies, Victoria Boutenko. It will appeal to dieters who are ready to make a dramatic lifestyle change as well as those wishing to improve the nutritional quality of their diet.â€\n <br />\n â€”EveryDiet.org\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAn earthy, health enthusiast, informational collection of eating your veggies, greens, and fruits through smoothies.â€\n <br />\n â€”_Reading For Sanity_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thanks to processed and fast foods, being overworked, and feeling stressed while eating on the fly, it is increasingly difficult for most of us to eat anywhere near a balanced diet. We may not be obviously sick, but may suffer from lack of focus, insomnia, sluggishness, or any host of symptoms caused by nutritional deficiency.\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n takes aim at this silent epidemic by restoring balance to our diets.\n</p>\n<p>\n Combining nutrition and know-how with recipes that pack a powerhouse punch, Victoria Boutenko reintroduces long neglected fruits, vegetables, and greens in the most persuasive style for our busy lives: with fast prep and delicious results. Featuring 200 recipes,\n <em>\n  Green Smoothie Revolution\n </em>\n offers both simplicity (4 ripe pears, 1 bunch parsley, 2 cups water; blend well) and enough variety to keep taste buds happy and nutrients coming from a wealth of options.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24530'),
(19409, 'Green: The Beginning and the End', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As foretold by ancient prophets, an apocalypse destroyed Earth during the twenty-first century. But two thousand years later Elyon set upon the Earth a new Adam. This time, He gave humanity an advantage. What was once unseen became seen. It was good and it was called . . . Green. But the evil Teeleh bided his time in a Black Forest. Then, when least expected, twenty-four-year-old Thomas Hunter fell asleep in our world and awoke in that future Black Forest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14611'),
(19410, 'Green: The Beginning and the End', 'Ted Dekker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n As foretold by ancient prophets, an apocalypse destroyed Earth during the twenty-first century. But two thousand years later Elyon set upon the Earth a new Adam. This time, He gave humanity an advantage. What was once unseen became seen. It was good and it was called . . . Green. But the evil Teeleh bided his time in a Black Forest. Then, when least expected, twenty-four-year-old Thomas Hunter fell asleep in our world and awoke in that future Black Forest.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24058'),
(19411, 'The Greenlanders', 'Jane Smiley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this vast, intricately patterned novel, Smiley accurately captures the voice of the medieval sagas. Understated, scattered with dreams and warnings, darkened by the brooding sense of unavoidable disasters to come, it is the tale of a Scandinavian settlement that lasted perhaps 500 years. With a meticulous attention to detail, the novel brings daily activities to lifefrom cheese making to hunting walruswhile examining the passions of a people under stress. The action centers on the family of Gunnar Asgeirsson. Gunnar''s sister Margret is married off to Olaf, but he fails to consummate the marriage, and Margret begins a clandestine affair with a Norwegian sailor, Skuli Gudmundsson, who has stayed on in Greenland as a household retainer. Violence and tragedy ensue, and as Margret''s unhappiness increases, her character hardens, and she offers her labor as an itinerant servingwoman. Although Margret is not always onstage, the novel spans the years of her long life. A foil to Margret, but no luckier, is Gunnar''s wife, Birgitta, who is gifted with second sight. It is she who sums up the overriding sense of futility: "We have come to the ending of the world, for in Greenland the world must end as it goes on, that is with hunger and storms and freezing." Like the original Norse sagas, The Greenlanders roves restlessly from one folk group to another. Many of their destinies interlock, and certain exterior forces prey upon them all: the harsh climate; the marauding "skraelings," aboriginal Eskimos regarded as demons; outbreaks of bubonic plague and famine. Compulsive feuding, a witchcraft craze and a willingness to heed the apocalyptic prophecies of the madman Larus help to tear the society apart. As in her previous fiction (Duplicate Keys, The Age of Grief), this novel reveals Smiley''s skill in delineating the behavior of individuals confined within a group. Her depiction of an isolated medieval folk battling for survival has a modern relevance. 50,000 first printing; Literary Guild alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Of proven skill when writing short stories and conventional novels, Smiley here attempts a family saga set among the Norse peoples of 14th-century Greenland. Centered on the fortunes of farmer Asgeir Gunnarsson and his children and grandchildren, the narrative pictures a bleak, declining society. Founded by Erik the Red, the Greenland colonies flourished for centuries; then trade shipments were cut off by the Black Death in Europe, the climate grew colder, and native peoples became increasingly hostile. Vivid, even stunning descriptions of the land and customs of these "lost settlements" are the book''s strong points. Characterizations are less successful; many personalities remain wooden throughout the lengthy action. Nevertheless, the exotic subject matter will appeal to historical novel fans.Starr E. Smith, Georgetown Univ. Lib., Washington, D.C.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4735'),
(19412, 'The Greenlanders', 'Jane Smiley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this vast, intricately patterned novel, Smiley accurately captures the voice of the medieval sagas. Understated, scattered with dreams and warnings, darkened by the brooding sense of unavoidable disasters to come, it is the tale of a Scandinavian settlement that lasted perhaps 500 years. With a meticulous attention to detail, the novel brings daily activities to lifefrom cheese making to hunting walruswhile examining the passions of a people under stress. The action centers on the family of Gunnar Asgeirsson. Gunnar''s sister Margret is married off to Olaf, but he fails to consummate the marriage, and Margret begins a clandestine affair with a Norwegian sailor, Skuli Gudmundsson, who has stayed on in Greenland as a household retainer. Violence and tragedy ensue, and as Margret''s unhappiness increases, her character hardens, and she offers her labor as an itinerant servingwoman. Although Margret is not always onstage, the novel spans the years of her long life. A foil to Margret, but no luckier, is Gunnar''s wife, Birgitta, who is gifted with second sight. It is she who sums up the overriding sense of futility: "We have come to the ending of the world, for in Greenland the world must end as it goes on, that is with hunger and storms and freezing." Like the original Norse sagas, The Greenlanders roves restlessly from one folk group to another. Many of their destinies interlock, and certain exterior forces prey upon them all: the harsh climate; the marauding "skraelings," aboriginal Eskimos regarded as demons; outbreaks of bubonic plague and famine. Compulsive feuding, a witchcraft craze and a willingness to heed the apocalyptic prophecies of the madman Larus help to tear the society apart. As in her previous fiction (Duplicate Keys, The Age of Grief), this novel reveals Smiley''s skill in delineating the behavior of individuals confined within a group. Her depiction of an isolated medieval folk battling for survival has a modern relevance. 50,000 first printing; Literary Guild alternate.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Of proven skill when writing short stories and conventional novels, Smiley here attempts a family saga set among the Norse peoples of 14th-century Greenland. Centered on the fortunes of farmer Asgeir Gunnarsson and his children and grandchildren, the narrative pictures a bleak, declining society. Founded by Erik the Red, the Greenland colonies flourished for centuries; then trade shipments were cut off by the Black Death in Europe, the climate grew colder, and native peoples became increasingly hostile. Vivid, even stunning descriptions of the land and customs of these "lost settlements" are the book''s strong points. Characterizations are less successful; many personalities remain wooden throughout the lengthy action. Nevertheless, the exotic subject matter will appeal to historical novel fans.Starr E. Smith, Georgetown Univ. Lib., Washington, D.C.\n <br />\n Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12720'),
(19413, 'Greenwitch (Dark 3)', 'Susan Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Grades 4-7--In this third book in Susan Cooper''s Dark Is Rising sequence (McElderry, 1985), Simon, Jane, and Barney return to Cornwall with their Uncle Merry after learning that the grail they had found in Over Sea, Under Stone (Harcourt, 1966) has been stolen from the British Museum. Will Stanton and his American uncle come to Cornwall as well, and initially there is some tension between the children. The locals are preparing for a celebration in which the women fashion a being from sticks and leaves and toss it into the sea. Jane''s kindness wins the favor of this mystical effigy and it yields its secret the manuscript that will make it possible to decipher the writing on the grail. Although the grail has been stolen by the Dark, it is found and the writing proves to be the prophetic rhyme whose words will be fulfilled in the next books. The story requires some knowledge of the previous books, and only becomes complete after reading the subsequent books. This exciting and beautifully written story is filled with magic and mystery. It is unfortunate that the man who stole the grail identifies himself as part Romany, or Gypsy, thus reinforcing a negative stereotype. Alec Jennings does a superb job of reading this tale, as he has done with the first two books in the series. His expression and pacing suit the story well, and he is at ease with Cornish names and words. There are two places where editing cuts words short: when Merry tells the children to "look it up" it sounds like "crit up," and when the thief tells Barney to "open the box" it sounds like "pen the box." These quibbles aside, the technical quality is excellent. Libraries in which this series is popular will want this recording if they are buying the others in the sequence. Otherwise, The Dark Is Rising (Aug. 1999, p. 68) and The Grey King (Oct. 2001, p. 89) are more vital purchases.\n  <br />\n  <i>\n   Louise L. Sherman, formerly Anna C. Scott School\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  "When most people hear ''large-print book,'' they immediately think senior citizen. But large-print editions of popular children''s books -- from the powerhouse\n  <i>\n   Harry Potter\n  </i>\n  series to timeless classics like\n  <i>\n   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer\n  </i>\n  -- are now making their way onto the shelves of the Children''s Department at the Canton Library. . . . Although large-print editions are targeted to the visually-impaired or dyslexic child, they can also be used by standard-vision readers. So Kershner [Children''s librarian at the Canton Public Library] has decided against creating a special section in the Children''s Department (as exists in the Adult Department) opting instead to intersperse large-print books on the shelves with the regular print versions of the same titles."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <i>\n   The Observer and Eccentric\n  </i>\n  (October 2000) (\n  <i>\n   The Observer and Eccentric\n  </i>\n  )\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Thorndike Press has helped me not only find books I want to read, but they also look like regular books. That''s important when you''re a kid and you can only read Large Print, you want your book to look like all the other books. I''m reading a lot more now that we have found Thorndike Press."\n  <br />\n  -- Jim Bernardin, Islamorada, FL\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Everyone loves to read, there''s nothing like curling up with a good book. We''re a reading family, so when our son was diagnosed with Stargardt''s Disease and only able to read Large Print, it was particularly difficult. Books on tape are wonderful but they don''t fill the void of actually reading a good story. Large Print books have been around a long time for older people, but to find a good novel for a young person in Large Print began to feel nearly impossible. The books that Thorndike Press publishes have truly made a difference in my son''s reading life. He can enjoy current novels as well as some of the classics that he missed reading when it became too difficult with regular print."\n  <br />\n  -- Sara Bernardin, Islamorada, FL\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Susan Cooper is one of the few contemporary writers who . . . create the kind of sweeping conflict between good and evil that lies at the heart of all great fantasy."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <i>\n   Psychology Today\n  </i>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14654'),
(19414, 'Greenwitch (Dark 3)', 'Susan Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Grades 4-7--In this third book in Susan Cooper''s Dark Is Rising sequence (McElderry, 1985), Simon, Jane, and Barney return to Cornwall with their Uncle Merry after learning that the grail they had found in Over Sea, Under Stone (Harcourt, 1966) has been stolen from the British Museum. Will Stanton and his American uncle come to Cornwall as well, and initially there is some tension between the children. The locals are preparing for a celebration in which the women fashion a being from sticks and leaves and toss it into the sea. Jane''s kindness wins the favor of this mystical effigy and it yields its secret the manuscript that will make it possible to decipher the writing on the grail. Although the grail has been stolen by the Dark, it is found and the writing proves to be the prophetic rhyme whose words will be fulfilled in the next books. The story requires some knowledge of the previous books, and only becomes complete after reading the subsequent books. This exciting and beautifully written story is filled with magic and mystery. It is unfortunate that the man who stole the grail identifies himself as part Romany, or Gypsy, thus reinforcing a negative stereotype. Alec Jennings does a superb job of reading this tale, as he has done with the first two books in the series. His expression and pacing suit the story well, and he is at ease with Cornish names and words. There are two places where editing cuts words short: when Merry tells the children to "look it up" it sounds like "crit up," and when the thief tells Barney to "open the box" it sounds like "pen the box." These quibbles aside, the technical quality is excellent. Libraries in which this series is popular will want this recording if they are buying the others in the sequence. Otherwise, The Dark Is Rising (Aug. 1999, p. 68) and The Grey King (Oct. 2001, p. 89) are more vital purchases.\n  <br />\n  <i>\n   Louise L. Sherman, formerly Anna C. Scott School\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  "When most people hear ''large-print book,'' they immediately think senior citizen. But large-print editions of popular children''s books -- from the powerhouse\n  <i>\n   Harry Potter\n  </i>\n  series to timeless classics like\n  <i>\n   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer\n  </i>\n  -- are now making their way onto the shelves of the Children''s Department at the Canton Library. . . . Although large-print editions are targeted to the visually-impaired or dyslexic child, they can also be used by standard-vision readers. So Kershner [Children''s librarian at the Canton Public Library] has decided against creating a special section in the Children''s Department (as exists in the Adult Department) opting instead to intersperse large-print books on the shelves with the regular print versions of the same titles."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <i>\n   The Observer and Eccentric\n  </i>\n  (October 2000) (\n  <i>\n   The Observer and Eccentric\n  </i>\n  )\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Thorndike Press has helped me not only find books I want to read, but they also look like regular books. That''s important when you''re a kid and you can only read Large Print, you want your book to look like all the other books. I''m reading a lot more now that we have found Thorndike Press."\n  <br />\n  -- Jim Bernardin, Islamorada, FL\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Everyone loves to read, there''s nothing like curling up with a good book. We''re a reading family, so when our son was diagnosed with Stargardt''s Disease and only able to read Large Print, it was particularly difficult. Books on tape are wonderful but they don''t fill the void of actually reading a good story. Large Print books have been around a long time for older people, but to find a good novel for a young person in Large Print began to feel nearly impossible. The books that Thorndike Press publishes have truly made a difference in my son''s reading life. He can enjoy current novels as well as some of the classics that he missed reading when it became too difficult with regular print."\n  <br />\n  -- Sara Bernardin, Islamorada, FL\n  <br />\n  <br />\n  "Susan Cooper is one of the few contemporary writers who . . . create the kind of sweeping conflict between good and evil that lies at the heart of all great fantasy."\n  <br />\n  --\n  <i>\n   Psychology Today\n  </i>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23998'),
(19415, 'Grey Griffins: The Clockwork Chronicles #1: The Brimstone Key', 'Derek Benz &amp; Jon S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brand new adventure starring The Grey Griffins!Max---the leaderNatalia---the brainsErnie---the changelingHarley---the muscle A year ago, the Grey Griffins were just regular kids from Avalon, Minnesota. That was before they learned about the existence of evil fairies, werewolves, and other things that go bump in the night. Now they are monster-hunters, celebrated heroes, and allies to the legendary Templar knights---but even heroes have to go to school. When the Griffins enroll at Iron Bridge Academy, a school to train young recruits in the fight against the forces of evil, they find themselves at the center of a whole new adventure. The Clockwork King, a Templar foe from days past, has returned to finish the plan he set in motion decades ago. A plot to steal the souls of changelings---humans infused with fairy blood and supernatural abilities---in order to power his army of clockwork war machines. In The Brimstone Key, authors Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis deftly blend the mystical wonder of steampunk with magic and adventure to create an action-packed thrill ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6019'),
(19416, 'Grey Griffins: The Clockwork Chronicles #1: The Brimstone Key', 'Derek Benz &amp; Jon S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A brand new adventure starring The Grey Griffins!Max---the leaderNatalia---the brainsErnie---the changelingHarley---the muscle A year ago, the Grey Griffins were just regular kids from Avalon, Minnesota. That was before they learned about the existence of evil fairies, werewolves, and other things that go bump in the night. Now they are monster-hunters, celebrated heroes, and allies to the legendary Templar knights---but even heroes have to go to school. When the Griffins enroll at Iron Bridge Academy, a school to train young recruits in the fight against the forces of evil, they find themselves at the center of a whole new adventure. The Clockwork King, a Templar foe from days past, has returned to finish the plan he set in motion decades ago. A plot to steal the souls of changelings---humans infused with fairy blood and supernatural abilities---in order to power his army of clockwork war machines. In The Brimstone Key, authors Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis deftly blend the mystical wonder of steampunk with magic and adventure to create an action-packed thrill ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8487'),
(19417, 'Grey Griffins: The Clockwork Chronicles #1: The Brimstone Key', 'Derek Benz; Jon S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A brand new adventure starring The Grey Griffins!Max---the leaderNatalia---the brainsErnie---the changelingHarley---the muscle A year ago, the Grey Griffins were just regular kids from Avalon, Minnesota. That was before they learned about the existence of evil fairies, werewolves, and other things that go bump in the night. Now they are monster-hunters, celebrated heroes, and allies to the legendary Templar knights---but even heroes have to go to school. When the Griffins enroll at Iron Bridge Academy, a school to train young recruits in the fight against the forces of evil, they find themselves at the center of a whole new adventure. The Clockwork King, a Templar foe from days past, has returned to finish the plan he set in motion decades ago. A plot to steal the souls of changelings---humans infused with fairy blood and supernatural abilities---in order to power his army of clockwork war machines. In The Brimstone Key, authors Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis deftly blend the mystical wonder of steampunk with magic and adventure to create an action-packed thrill ride.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27488'),
(19418, 'The Grey King (Dark 4)', 'Susan Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Gr 5-8-While recovering from hepatitis, Will Stanton is sent to a farm in Wales where he is soon caught up in the battle against "the Dark." He struggles to recall the prophetic lines he once memorized and gradually, as he learns the local place names of the geographic features around him, the meaning of the lines becomes clear to him. Through Bran, a young boy with mysterious origins who becomes Will''s friend, Will fulfills the prophecies and once again defeats the Dark. This fourth book of Susan Cooper''s The Dark Is Rising series (S&amp;S Childrens, 1975) won the 1976 Newbery Medal. Twenty-five years later, it is still as powerful and mesmerizing as when it was first published. Richard Mitchley''s reading is excellent and heightens listeners'' enjoyment of Cooper''s prose. His ease with Welsh pronunciation and the distinctive cadence of Welsh English adds greatly to the authenticity of the story''s setting, which is an essential element of this book. He gives the characters distinctive voices without actually doing voices for each. Children not familiar with the earlier books in the series may find the basic premise a bit confusing since Will''s status as an "old one" and the conflict between the light and the dark are not given much explanation. However, this audiobook is so well done that those who enjoy fantasy will relish it. It will also be a good choice for older children with reading disabilities when they need to "read" a Newbery title.\n  <p>\n   <i>\n    Louise L. Sherman, formerly Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJ\n   </i>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Psychology Today "Susan Cooper is one of the few contemporary writers who has the vivid imagination, the narrative powers, and the moral vision that permit her to create the kind of sweeping conflict between good and evil that lies at the heart of all great fantasy. Tolkien had it. So did C.S. Lewis. And Cooper writes in the same tradition."\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14717'),
(19419, 'The Grey King (Dark 4)', 'Susan Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Gr 5-8-While recovering from hepatitis, Will Stanton is sent to a farm in Wales where he is soon caught up in the battle against "the Dark." He struggles to recall the prophetic lines he once memorized and gradually, as he learns the local place names of the geographic features around him, the meaning of the lines becomes clear to him. Through Bran, a young boy with mysterious origins who becomes Will''s friend, Will fulfills the prophecies and once again defeats the Dark. This fourth book of Susan Cooper''s The Dark Is Rising series (S&amp;S Childrens, 1975) won the 1976 Newbery Medal. Twenty-five years later, it is still as powerful and mesmerizing as when it was first published. Richard Mitchley''s reading is excellent and heightens listeners'' enjoyment of Cooper''s prose. His ease with Welsh pronunciation and the distinctive cadence of Welsh English adds greatly to the authenticity of the story''s setting, which is an essential element of this book. He gives the characters distinctive voices without actually doing voices for each. Children not familiar with the earlier books in the series may find the basic premise a bit confusing since Will''s status as an "old one" and the conflict between the light and the dark are not given much explanation. However, this audiobook is so well done that those who enjoy fantasy will relish it. It will also be a good choice for older children with reading disabilities when they need to "read" a Newbery title.\n  <p>\n   <i>\n    Louise L. Sherman, formerly Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJ\n   </i>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n  </p>\n </div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <div>\n  Psychology Today "Susan Cooper is one of the few contemporary writers who has the vivid imagination, the narrative powers, and the moral vision that permit her to create the kind of sweeping conflict between good and evil that lies at the heart of all great fantasy. Tolkien had it. So did C.S. Lewis. And Cooper writes in the same tradition."\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23994'),
(19420, 'The Grey Man', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A STUNNING ACTION THRILLER FROM A REAL-LIFE HERO. Kevin Dodds leads a dull, uneventful life. He has a steady job at the bank, a nice house and car. His wife goes to Bingo on a Saturday night, but he usually stays in to save money. But Kevin has spent enough quiet nights in watching TV and decides he''d like a night out himself. And he''s not talking about a pint and a packet of peanuts down at the local. He''s going to attempt to pull off a daring bank robbery single handed. Kevin is about to take a heart-thumping step into the unknown.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was ''badged'' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, ''will remain in regimental history for ever''. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army''s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in two phenomenal bestsellers, Bravo Two Zero, which was filmed in 1998 starring Sean Bean, and Immediate Action. He is the author of the bestselling novels, Remote Control, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light, Liberation Day and Dark Winter. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7658'),
(19421, 'The Grey Man', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A STUNNING ACTION THRILLER FROM A REAL-LIFE HERO. Kevin Dodds leads a dull, uneventful life. He has a steady job at the bank, a nice house and car. His wife goes to Bingo on a Saturday night, but he usually stays in to save money. But Kevin has spent enough quiet nights in watching TV and decides he''d like a night out himself. And he''s not talking about a pint and a packet of peanuts down at the local. He''s going to attempt to pull off a daring bank robbery single handed. Kevin is about to take a heart-thumping step into the unknown.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was ''badged'' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, ''will remain in regimental history for ever''. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army''s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in two phenomenal bestsellers, Bravo Two Zero, which was filmed in 1998 starring Sean Bean, and Immediate Action. He is the author of the bestselling novels, Remote Control, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light, Liberation Day and Dark Winter. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11463'),
(19422, 'The Grey Man', 'Andy McNab', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A STUNNING ACTION THRILLER FROM A REAL-LIFE HERO. Kevin Dodds leads a dull, uneventful life. He has a steady job at the bank, a nice house and car. His wife goes to Bingo on a Saturday night, but he usually stays in to save money. But Kevin has spent enough quiet nights in watching TV and decides he''d like a night out himself. And he''s not talking about a pint and a packet of peanuts down at the local. He''s going to attempt to pull off a daring bank robbery single handed. Kevin is about to take a heart-thumping step into the unknown.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was ''badged'' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, ''will remain in regimental history for ever''. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army''s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in two phenomenal bestsellers, Bravo Two Zero, which was filmed in 1998 starring Sean Bean, and Immediate Action. He is the author of the bestselling novels, Remote Control, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light, Liberation Day and Dark Winter. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16281'),
(19423, 'Greybeard', 'Brian Aldiss', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The sombre story of a group of people in their fifties who face the fact that there is no younger generation coming to replace them; instead nature is rushing back to obliterate the disaster they have brought on theselves. Was slighty revised.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15531'),
(19424, 'A Grief Observed', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 6, C.S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four brief, intensely happy years, Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. To defend himself against the loss of belief in God, Lewis wrote this journal, an eloquent statement of rediscovered faith. In it he freely confesses his doubts, his rage, and his awareness of human frailty. In it he finds again the way back to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7066'),
(19425, 'A Grief Observed', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 6, C.S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four brief, intensely happy years, Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. To defend himself against the loss of belief in God, Lewis wrote this journal, an eloquent statement of rediscovered faith. In it he freely confesses his doubts, his rage, and his awareness of human frailty. In it he finds again the way back to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11104'),
(19426, 'A Grief Observed', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 6, C.S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four brief, intensely happy years, Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. To defend himself against the loss of belief in God, Lewis wrote this journal, an eloquent statement of rediscovered faith. In it he freely confesses his doubts, his rage, and his awareness of human frailty. In it he finds again the way back to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16890'),
(19427, 'A Grief Observed', 'C. S. Lewis', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: 6, C.S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four brief, intensely happy years, Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. To defend himself against the loss of belief in God, Lewis wrote this journal, an eloquent statement of rediscovered faith. In it he freely confesses his doubts, his rage, and his awareness of human frailty. In it he finds again the way back to life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26783'),
(19428, 'The Grief Recovery Handbook', 'John W. James; Russell Friedman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n</h3>\n<p>\n Revised edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20172'),
(19429, 'The Grifters', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18141'),
(19430, 'Griftopia', 'Matt Taibbi', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13716'),
(19431, 'Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America', 'Matt Taibbi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Taibbi eviscerates Wall Street for what he considers frauds perpetrated on the American people over the last ten years. Deftly delving deeply into complicated financial history and lingo, Taibbi deftly lays the subject bare, rendering heretofore-dense subject matter simple without being simplistic. Blame for the recent mortgage collapse, commodities bubble, and tech bubble are laid at the feet of a relatively small number of bankers and traders who, in the author''s opinion, act without fear of reciprocity from a U.S. government no longer representative of the American people. He begins by awarding the title "Biggest Asshole In The Universe" to former-Fed Chief Alan Greenspan, taking him to task for willfully or stupidly disemboweling what little regulation the financial markets may have had before his tenure. This theme resounds throughout, and Taibbi asserts that the collusion between Wall Street and the White House has effectively turned the United States into a massive casino, in which working Americans are regularly bilked out of their savings and homes while the wealthy are repeatedly rewarded for their graft. It''s an important and worthy read, but not for the Randian disciple or Goldman-Sachs alum. (Nov.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Rolling Stone contributing editor Taibbi delivers a blistering examination of the upheaval that has roiled the American economic system over the past several years. At the heart of the upheaval, he says, is a vein of greed running up and down the real-estate industry, from mortgage brokers who falsified customer loan applications to banks that parceled out mortgages to second and third parties to rating agencies that signed off on highly suspect loans. Taibbi saves a good deal of venom for former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, arguing that Greenspanâ€™s philosophy of easy cash, limited government oversight of markets, and bailing out â€œtoo big to failâ€ financial institutions all fueled the recent economic meltdown. And Taibbi profiles a recently passed health-care bill severely compromised by an all-powerful insurance lobby. As critical as he is of the processâ€”a process not likely to get fixed any time soonâ€”he doesnâ€™t seem to carry an agenda; instead, like any good investigative reporter, he mostly follows his nose. --Alan Moores\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2979'),
(19432, 'Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America', 'Matt Taibbi', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. Taibbi eviscerates Wall Street for what he considers frauds perpetrated on the American people over the last ten years. Deftly delving deeply into complicated financial history and lingo, Taibbi deftly lays the subject bare, rendering heretofore-dense subject matter simple without being simplistic. Blame for the recent mortgage collapse, commodities bubble, and tech bubble are laid at the feet of a relatively small number of bankers and traders who, in the author''s opinion, act without fear of reciprocity from a U.S. government no longer representative of the American people. He begins by awarding the title "Biggest Asshole In The Universe" to former-Fed Chief Alan Greenspan, taking him to task for willfully or stupidly disemboweling what little regulation the financial markets may have had before his tenure. This theme resounds throughout, and Taibbi asserts that the collusion between Wall Street and the White House has effectively turned the United States into a massive casino, in which working Americans are regularly bilked out of their savings and homes while the wealthy are repeatedly rewarded for their graft. It''s an important and worthy read, but not for the Randian disciple or Goldman-Sachs alum. (Nov.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  Rolling Stone contributing editor Taibbi delivers a blistering examination of the upheaval that has roiled the American economic system over the past several years. At the heart of the upheaval, he says, is a vein of greed running up and down the real-estate industry, from mortgage brokers who falsified customer loan applications to banks that parceled out mortgages to second and third parties to rating agencies that signed off on highly suspect loans. Taibbi saves a good deal of venom for former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, arguing that Greenspanâ€™s philosophy of easy cash, limited government oversight of markets, and bailing out â€œtoo big to failâ€ financial institutions all fueled the recent economic meltdown. And Taibbi profiles a recently passed health-care bill severely compromised by an all-powerful insurance lobby. As critical as he is of the processâ€”a process not likely to get fixed any time soonâ€”he doesnâ€™t seem to carry an agenda; instead, like any good investigative reporter, he mostly follows his nose. --Alan Moores\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13003'),
(19433, 'Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America', 'Taibbi, Matt', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21824'),
(19434, 'The Grimm Legacy', 'Polly Shulman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Elizabeth has a new job at an unusual libraryA- a lending library of objects, not books. In a secret room in the basement lies the Grimm Collection. ThatA''s where the librarians lock away powerful items straight out of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales: seven-league boots, a table that produces a feast at the blink of an eye, Snow WhiteA''s stepmotherA''s sinister mirror that talks in riddles. When the magical objects start to disappear, Elizabeth embarks on a dangerous quest to catch the thief before she can be accused of the crimeA-or captured by the thief. Polly Shulman has created a contemporary fantasy with a fascinating setting and premise, starring an ordinary girl whose after-school job is far from ordinaryA- and leads to a world of excitement, romance and magical intrigue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1960');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(19435, 'The Grimm Legacy', 'Polly Shulman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Elizabeth has a new job at an unusual libraryA- a lending library of objects, not books. In a secret room in the basement lies the Grimm Collection. ThatA''s where the librarians lock away powerful items straight out of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales: seven-league boots, a table that produces a feast at the blink of an eye, Snow WhiteA''s stepmotherA''s sinister mirror that talks in riddles. When the magical objects start to disappear, Elizabeth embarks on a dangerous quest to catch the thief before she can be accused of the crimeA-or captured by the thief. Polly Shulman has created a contemporary fantasy with a fascinating setting and premise, starring an ordinary girl whose after-school job is far from ordinaryA- and leads to a world of excitement, romance and magical intrigue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12687'),
(19436, 'Grimm&#39;s Fairy Tales', 'Grimm Brothers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once upon a time, two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations. When they began in 1812 they had just 86 stories that rather harshly reflected the difficult life of European peasantry. Subsequent editions would grow to hold over 200 tales. As time passed, the Brothers Grimm found that their collection of fairy tales, with all of its royalty, magical creatures, and brave adventures, entranced those who read them. This compilation of fairy tales which includes the complete canon of over 200 tales has become a beloved set of classical stories the world over. Presented here in this edition is the faithful translation of Margaret Hunt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5211'),
(19437, 'Grimm&#39;s Fairy Tales', 'Grimm Brothers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once upon a time, two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations. When they began in 1812 they had just 86 stories that rather harshly reflected the difficult life of European peasantry. Subsequent editions would grow to hold over 200 tales. As time passed, the Brothers Grimm found that their collection of fairy tales, with all of its royalty, magical creatures, and brave adventures, entranced those who read them. This compilation of fairy tales which includes the complete canon of over 200 tales has become a beloved set of classical stories the world over. Presented here in this edition is the faithful translation of Margaret Hunt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8643'),
(19438, 'Grimm&#39;s Fairy Tales', 'Grimm Brothers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once upon a time, two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations. When they began in 1812 they had just 86 stories that rather harshly reflected the difficult life of European peasantry. Subsequent editions would grow to hold over 200 tales. As time passed, the Brothers Grimm found that their collection of fairy tales, with all of its royalty, magical creatures, and brave adventures, entranced those who read them. This compilation of fairy tales which includes the complete canon of over 200 tales has become a beloved set of classical stories the world over. Presented here in this edition is the faithful translation of Margaret Hunt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15263'),
(19439, 'Grimm&#39;s Fairy Tales', 'Grimm Brothers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Once upon a time, two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations. When they began in 1812 they had just 86 stories that rather harshly reflected the difficult life of European peasantry. Subsequent editions would grow to hold over 200 tales. As time passed, the Brothers Grimm found that their collection of fairy tales, with all of its royalty, magical creatures, and brave adventures, entranced those who read them. This compilation of fairy tales which includes the complete canon of over 200 tales has become a beloved set of classical stories the world over. Presented here in this edition is the faithful translation of Margaret Hunt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19406'),
(19440, 'Grimm&#39;s Fairy Tales', 'Grimm Brothers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Brothers Grimm The Grimm brothers were early 19th century writers best known for their fairy tales coming from Scandinavian, Icelandic and Germanic origins. By 1807 there was a growing interest in German folk tales. The Grim brothers were academics who invited friends to their home and asked them to relate stories they had heard. They soon published their first collection of tales and from there several more volumes followed. Included in this collection are Hansel and Gretel, Briar Rose, The Fisherman and His Wife, Rapunzel, The Frog Prince, Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltshin, Tom Thumb and many more. These stories are a delight to read and will rekindle up many childhood memories as they are reread.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Once upon a time, two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations. When they began in 1812 they had just 86 stories that rather harshly reflected the difficult life of European peasantry. Subsequent editions would grow to hold over 200 tales. As time passed, the Brothers Grimm found that their collection of fairy tales, with all of its royalty, magical creatures, and brave adventures, entranced those who read them. This compilation of fairy tales which includes the complete canon of over 200 tales has become a beloved set of classical stories the world over. Presented here in this edition is the faithful translation of Margaret Hunt.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28054'),
(19441, 'The Grimrose Path: A Trickster Novel', 'Rob Thurman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **National bestselling author of *Roadkill* **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bar owner Triva Iktomi knows that inhuman creatures of light and darkness roam Las Vegas-especially since she''s a bit more than human herself. She''s just been approached with an unusual proposition. Something has slaughtered almost one thousand demons in six months. And the killing isn''t going to stop unless Trixa and her friends step into the fight...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1715'),
(19442, 'The Grimrose Path: A Trickster Novel', 'Rob Thurman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **National bestselling author of *Roadkill* **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Bar owner Triva Iktomi knows that inhuman creatures of light and darkness roam Las Vegas-especially since she''s a bit more than human herself. She''s just been approached with an unusual proposition. Something has slaughtered almost one thousand demons in six months. And the killing isn''t going to stop unless Trixa and her friends step into the fight...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13032'),
(19443, 'The Grimrose Path: A Trickster Novel', 'Rob Thurman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **National bestselling author of *Roadkill* ** Bar owner Triva Iktomi knows that inhuman creatures of light and darkness roam Las Vegas-especially since she''s a bit more than human herself. She''s just been approached with an unusual proposition. Something has slaughtered almost one thousand demons in six months. And the killing isn''t going to stop unless Trixa and her friends step into the fight...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24864'),
(19444, 'Grimus', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing, and ultimately the burden, of living forever. Eventually, he grows weary of the sameness of life and journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis, and he sets out to scale the island''s peak, from which the mysterious and corrosive Grimus Effect emits. Through a series of thrilling quests and encounters, Flapping Eagle comes face-to-face with the island''s creator and unwinds the mysteries of his own humanity.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n length: (cm)20.3    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)13.3\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1451'),
(19445, 'Grimus', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing, and ultimately the burden, of living forever. Eventually, he grows weary of the sameness of life and journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis, and he sets out to scale the island''s peak, from which the mysterious and corrosive Grimus Effect emits. Through a series of thrilling quests and encounters, Flapping Eagle comes face-to-face with the island''s creator and unwinds the mysteries of his own humanity.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n <br />\n length: (cm)20.3    ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€            ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ã€€ width:(cm)13.3\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12441'),
(19446, 'Grimus', 'Salman Rushdie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23442'),
(19447, 'Grip of the Shadow Plague', 'Brandon Mull; Brandon Dorman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Very strange things are afoot at Fablehaven. Someone or something has released a plague that transforms beings of light into creatures of darkness. Seth discovers the problem early, but as the infectious disease spreads, it becomes clear that the preserve cannot hold out for long. In dire need of help, the Sorensons question where to turn. The Sphinx has always given sound advice -- but is he a traitor? Inside the Quiet Box, Vanessa might have information that could lead to a cure -- but can she be trusted?Meanwhile, Kendra and members of the Knights of the Dawn must journey to a distant preserve and retrieve another hidden artifact. Will the Society of the Evening Star recover it first? Will the plague eclipse all light at Fablehaven?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15539'),
(19448, 'Grip of the Shadow Plague', 'Brandon Mull; Brandon Dorman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Very strange things are afoot at Fablehaven. Someone or something has released a plague that transforms beings of light into creatures of darkness. Seth discovers the problem early, but as the infectious disease spreads, it becomes clear that the preserve cannot hold out for long. In dire need of help, the Sorensons question where to turn. The Sphinx has always given sound advice -- but is he a traitor? Inside the Quiet Box, Vanessa might have information that could lead to a cure -- but can she be trusted?Meanwhile, Kendra and members of the Knights of the Dawn must journey to a distant preserve and retrieve another hidden artifact. Will the Society of the Evening Star recover it first? Will the plague eclipse all light at Fablehaven?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26644'),
(19449, 'Grip of the Shadow Plague', 'Brandon Mull &amp; Brandon Dorman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Very strange things are afoot at Fablehaven. Someone or something has released a plague that transforms beings of light into creatures of darkness. Seth discovers the problem early, but as the infectious disease spreads, it becomes clear that the preserve cannot hold out for long. In dire need of help, the Sorensons question where to turn. The Sphinx has always given sound advice -- but is he a traitor? Inside the Quiet Box, Vanessa might have information that could lead to a cure -- but can she be trusted?Meanwhile, Kendra and members of the Knights of the Dawn must journey to a distant preserve and retrieve another hidden artifact. Will the Society of the Evening Star recover it first? Will the plague eclipse all light at Fablehaven?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26650'),
(19450, 'The Gripping Hand', 'Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Robert Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read." *The San Francisco Chronicle* declared that "as science fiction, *The Mote in God''s Eye* is one of the most important novels ever published." Now Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, award winning authors of such bestsellers as *Footfall *and *The Legacy of Heorot,* return us to the Mote, and to the universe of Kevin Renner and Horace Bury, of Rod Blaine and Sally Fowler. There, 25 years have passed since humanity quarantined the mysterious aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own solar system. They have spent a quarter century analyzing and agonizing over the deadly threat posed by the only aliens mankind has ever encountered-- a race divided into distinct biological forms, each serving a different function. Master, Mediator, Engineer. Warrior. Each supremely adapted to its task, yet doomed by millions of years of evolution to an inescapable fate. For the Moties must breed-- or die. And now the fragile wall separating them and the galaxy beyond is beginning to crumble.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20071'),
(19451, 'Groapa', 'Eugen Barbu', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25860'),
(19452, 'Ground Zero: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On September 11, 2001, a man drifts in a boat off lower Manhattan as the towers burn. He removes a small box from his pocket and presses a button. As he waits for the south tower to collapse, he thinks: The vast majority will blame the collapse on the crazy Arabs who hijacked the planes and the Islamic extremists who funded themâ€”the obvious choice. A few will notice inconsistencies and point fingers elsewhere, blaming the government or Big Oil or some other powerful but faceless entity. No oneâ€”absolutely no oneâ€”will guess the truth behind the who and why of this day.Â Years later, someone does. Repairman Jackâ€™s childhood friend, Weezy Connell (the genius girl from the Tor Teen novel, Jack: Secret Histories), has started fitting together the pieces of the puzzle and anonymously posting her conclusions on the Web. But she canâ€™t stay anonymous forever. Someone is after her. Jack becomes involved in her troubles and in the paranoid mazes of the 9/11 Truth Movement, where conspiracy theories point in every direction.Â Theyâ€™re all wrong. The truth is stranger, darker, and more evil than anyone can imagine. It involves the cosmic shadow war into which Jack has been drafted. And if the plot behind it--millennia in the planning--succeeds, it will forever change life on this Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5643'),
(19453, 'Ground Zero: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On September 11, 2001, a man drifts in a boat off lower Manhattan as the towers burn. He removes a small box from his pocket and presses a button. As he waits for the south tower to collapse, he thinks: The vast majority will blame the collapse on the crazy Arabs who hijacked the planes and the Islamic extremists who funded themâ€”the obvious choice. A few will notice inconsistencies and point fingers elsewhere, blaming the government or Big Oil or some other powerful but faceless entity. No oneâ€”absolutely no oneâ€”will guess the truth behind the who and why of this day.Â Years later, someone does. Repairman Jackâ€™s childhood friend, Weezy Connell (the genius girl from the Tor Teen novel, Jack: Secret Histories), has started fitting together the pieces of the puzzle and anonymously posting her conclusions on the Web. But she canâ€™t stay anonymous forever. Someone is after her. Jack becomes involved in her troubles and in the paranoid mazes of the 9/11 Truth Movement, where conspiracy theories point in every direction.Â Theyâ€™re all wrong. The truth is stranger, darker, and more evil than anyone can imagine. It involves the cosmic shadow war into which Jack has been drafted. And if the plot behind it--millennia in the planning--succeeds, it will forever change life on this Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19037'),
(19454, 'Ground Zero: A Repairman Jack Novel', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On September 11, 2001, a man drifts in a boat off lower Manhattan as the towers burn. He removes a small box from his pocket and presses a button. As he waits for the south tower to collapse, he thinks: The vast majority will blame the collapse on the crazy Arabs who hijacked the planes and the Islamic extremists who funded themâ€”the obvious choice. A few will notice inconsistencies and point fingers elsewhere, blaming the government or Big Oil or some other powerful but faceless entity. No oneâ€”absolutely no oneâ€”will guess the truth behind the who and why of this day.Â Years later, someone does. Repairman Jackâ€™s childhood friend, Weezy Connell (the genius girl from the Tor Teen novel, Jack: Secret Histories), has started fitting together the pieces of the puzzle and anonymously posting her conclusions on the Web. But she canâ€™t stay anonymous forever. Someone is after her. Jack becomes involved in her troubles and in the paranoid mazes of the 9/11 Truth Movement, where conspiracy theories point in every direction.Â Theyâ€™re all wrong. The truth is stranger, darker, and more evil than anyone can imagine. It involves the cosmic shadow war into which Jack has been drafted. And if the plot behind it--millennia in the planning--succeeds, it will forever change life on this Earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27851'),
(19455, 'Grounded', 'David Bischoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While answering a distress call from a scientific station in a remote part of the glaxy, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  becomes infected with a mysterious alien life form which feeds on and transforms inorganic materials.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Starship begins to gradually disintegrate, and Starfleet is forced to order its evacuation and destruction to prevent the dangerous infection form spreading throughout the galaxy. It''s the end of an era for Captain Picard and his crew, who are scheduled for transfers that will split them up among different Starfleet vessels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But even as the end draws neear for the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢,\n  </em>\n  Captain Picard begins to formulate a desperate plan to save his ship and preserve his crew -- a plan that will force him to defy Starfleet orders and lead him to a connfrontation with a malevolent alien force -- which has the power to destroy the entire Federation.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While answering a distress call from a scientific station in a remote part of the galaxy, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM becomes infected with a mysterious alien life form which feeds on and transforms inorganic materials.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Starship begins to gradually disintegrate, and Starfleet is forced to order its evacuation and destruction to prevent the dangerous infection from spreading throughout the galaxy. It''s the end of an era for Captain Picard and his crew, who are scheduled for transfers that will split them up among different Starfleet vessels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the end draws near for the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  , Captain Picard begins to formulat a desperate plan to save his ship and preserve his crew, a plan that will force him to defy Starfleet orders and lead him to a confrontation with a malevolent alien force which has the power to destroy the entire Federation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6300'),
(19456, 'Grounded', 'David Bischoff', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While answering a distress call from a scientific station in a remote part of the glaxy, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterpriseâ„¢\n  </em>\n  becomes infected with a mysterious alien life form which feeds on and transforms inorganic materials.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Starship begins to gradually disintegrate, and Starfleet is forced to order its evacuation and destruction to prevent the dangerous infection form spreading throughout the galaxy. It''s the end of an era for Captain Picard and his crew, who are scheduled for transfers that will split them up among different Starfleet vessels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But even as the end draws neear for the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterpriseâ„¢,\n  </em>\n  Captain Picard begins to formulate a desperate plan to save his ship and preserve his crew -- a plan that will force him to defy Starfleet orders and lead him to a connfrontation with a malevolent alien force -- which has the power to destroy the entire Federation.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While answering a distress call from a scientific station in a remote part of the galaxy, the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM becomes infected with a mysterious alien life form which feeds on and transforms inorganic materials.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The Starship begins to gradually disintegrate, and Starfleet is forced to order its evacuation and destruction to prevent the dangerous infection from spreading throughout the galaxy. It''s the end of an era for Captain Picard and his crew, who are scheduled for transfers that will split them up among different Starfleet vessels.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As the end draws near for the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  , Captain Picard begins to formulat a desperate plan to save his ship and preserve his crew, a plan that will force him to defy Starfleet orders and lead him to a confrontation with a malevolent alien force which has the power to destroy the entire Federation.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17722'),
(19457, 'The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole', 'Sue Townsend', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''The new book takes up the diary where the last left off, and is quite as classic'' Financial Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At fourteen, Adrian Mole''s life continues to be nothing but a set of tragic circumstances: His tempestuous relationship with an alluring schoolmate tortures him, while his intellectualism continues to be ignored by the British press. Despite it all he remains as agonizingly funny as ever in this, the second of his diaries.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/964'),
(19458, 'The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole', 'Sue Townsend', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''The new book takes up the diary where the last left off, and is quite as classic'' Financial Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At fourteen, Adrian Mole''s life continues to be nothing but a set of tragic circumstances: His tempestuous relationship with an alluring schoolmate tortures him, while his intellectualism continues to be ignored by the British press. Despite it all he remains as agonizingly funny as ever in this, the second of his diaries.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13089'),
(19459, 'The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole', 'Sue Townsend', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''The new book takes up the diary where the last left off, and is quite as classic'' Financial Times\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At fourteen, Adrian Mole''s life continues to be nothing but a set of tragic circumstances: His tempestuous relationship with an alluring schoolmate tortures him, while his intellectualism continues to be ignored by the British press. Despite it all he remains as agonizingly funny as ever in this, the second of his diaries.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24004'),
(19460, 'Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny', 'Marlo Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some know her as the star of the 1960s TV show That Girl, or creator of Free to Be... You and Me, or perhaps major fund-raiser for St. Jude Children''s Research Hospital. Thomas, author of five bestselling books, here focuses on a role she''s had her entire life: daughter. Laughter was the soundtrack for Thomas''s formative years in 1950s Beverly Hills. Her father, comedian Danny Thomas, regularly had funny friends--including Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, and George Burns--over to the family home. The author, actress, feminist, and philanthropist shares fond memories of enjoying and learning from these comedy luminaries, and of being a Hollywood kid long before game-changers like the Internet and cable TV. She chronicles her path from childhood to adulthood; particularly interesting tidbits include her meeting and marrying Phil Donahue, becoming friends with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug, and, with her siblings, "producing" her father''s funeral. But this book is more than a well-written memoir. Thomas also includes interviews with comedy powerhouses galore, from Tina Fey to Alan Alda, Chris Rock to Ben and Jerry Stiller. On the whole, this book offers a delightful firsthand look at how comedy has become integral to American culture--and the way it''s shaped one woman''s colorful life.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thomas, star of the classic sitcom That Girl and daughter of comedy legend Danny Thomas, has taken an interesting approach to the usual Hollywood memoir. Chapters exploring her life as the daughter of comedy royalty, and her struggles to establish an independent identity for herself, alternate with profiles of contemporary comedians (Seinfeld, Leno, Stiller, Rock, Crystal, Rivers, Williams, Fey, Wright, and Colbert, among others). We see how her father inspired her, and we also see how he inspired the professionals who came after him. Thomasâ€™ personal stories are heartwarming and entertaining. Her father, who came by his legendary status by dint of hard work and perfect delivery, comes across as a driven man who always made time for his family and who never made any secret of the fact that he loved his little girl. It was a privileged childhood, to be sure, and you canâ€™t help being a little envious of someone who grew up around the likes of Milton Berle, George Burns, and Sid Caesar. The profiles of other comedians allow us to see Danny Thomas through othersâ€™ eyes, too, offering a different perspective on the man and his legacy. An engaging, highly informative memoirâ€”definitely not the routine show-biz autobiography. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3022'),
(19461, 'Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny', 'Marlo Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some know her as the star of the 1960s TV show That Girl, or creator of Free to Be... You and Me, or perhaps major fund-raiser for St. Jude Children''s Research Hospital. Thomas, author of five bestselling books, here focuses on a role she''s had her entire life: daughter. Laughter was the soundtrack for Thomas''s formative years in 1950s Beverly Hills. Her father, comedian Danny Thomas, regularly had funny friends--including Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, and George Burns--over to the family home. The author, actress, feminist, and philanthropist shares fond memories of enjoying and learning from these comedy luminaries, and of being a Hollywood kid long before game-changers like the Internet and cable TV. She chronicles her path from childhood to adulthood; particularly interesting tidbits include her meeting and marrying Phil Donahue, becoming friends with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug, and, with her siblings, "producing" her father''s funeral. But this book is more than a well-written memoir. Thomas also includes interviews with comedy powerhouses galore, from Tina Fey to Alan Alda, Chris Rock to Ben and Jerry Stiller. On the whole, this book offers a delightful firsthand look at how comedy has become integral to American culture--and the way it''s shaped one woman''s colorful life.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thomas, star of the classic sitcom That Girl and daughter of comedy legend Danny Thomas, has taken an interesting approach to the usual Hollywood memoir. Chapters exploring her life as the daughter of comedy royalty, and her struggles to establish an independent identity for herself, alternate with profiles of contemporary comedians (Seinfeld, Leno, Stiller, Rock, Crystal, Rivers, Williams, Fey, Wright, and Colbert, among others). We see how her father inspired her, and we also see how he inspired the professionals who came after him. Thomasâ€™ personal stories are heartwarming and entertaining. Her father, who came by his legendary status by dint of hard work and perfect delivery, comes across as a driven man who always made time for his family and who never made any secret of the fact that he loved his little girl. It was a privileged childhood, to be sure, and you canâ€™t help being a little envious of someone who grew up around the likes of Milton Berle, George Burns, and Sid Caesar. The profiles of other comedians allow us to see Danny Thomas through othersâ€™ eyes, too, offering a different perspective on the man and his legacy. An engaging, highly informative memoirâ€”definitely not the routine show-biz autobiography. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13053'),
(19462, 'Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny', 'Marlo Thomas', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Some know her as the star of the 1960s TV show That Girl, or creator of Free to Be... You and Me, or perhaps major fund-raiser for St. Jude Children''s Research Hospital. Thomas, author of five bestselling books, here focuses on a role she''s had her entire life: daughter. Laughter was the soundtrack for Thomas''s formative years in 1950s Beverly Hills. Her father, comedian Danny Thomas, regularly had funny friends--including Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, and George Burns--over to the family home. The author, actress, feminist, and philanthropist shares fond memories of enjoying and learning from these comedy luminaries, and of being a Hollywood kid long before game-changers like the Internet and cable TV. She chronicles her path from childhood to adulthood; particularly interesting tidbits include her meeting and marrying Phil Donahue, becoming friends with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug, and, with her siblings, "producing" her father''s funeral. But this book is more than a well-written memoir. Thomas also includes interviews with comedy powerhouses galore, from Tina Fey to Alan Alda, Chris Rock to Ben and Jerry Stiller. On the whole, this book offers a delightful firsthand look at how comedy has become integral to American culture--and the way it''s shaped one woman''s colorful life.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Thomas, star of the classic sitcom That Girl and daughter of comedy legend Danny Thomas, has taken an interesting approach to the usual Hollywood memoir. Chapters exploring her life as the daughter of comedy royalty, and her struggles to establish an independent identity for herself, alternate with profiles of contemporary comedians (Seinfeld, Leno, Stiller, Rock, Crystal, Rivers, Williams, Fey, Wright, and Colbert, among others). We see how her father inspired her, and we also see how he inspired the professionals who came after him. Thomasâ€™ personal stories are heartwarming and entertaining. Her father, who came by his legendary status by dint of hard work and perfect delivery, comes across as a driven man who always made time for his family and who never made any secret of the fact that he loved his little girl. It was a privileged childhood, to be sure, and you canâ€™t help being a little envious of someone who grew up around the likes of Milton Berle, George Burns, and Sid Caesar. The profiles of other comedians allow us to see Danny Thomas through othersâ€™ eyes, too, offering a different perspective on the man and his legacy. An engaging, highly informative memoirâ€”definitely not the routine show-biz autobiography. --David Pitt\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21796'),
(19463, 'Growth of the Soil', 'Knut Hamsun', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25442'),
(19464, 'Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq', 'John C. McManus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Grunts, renowned historian John C. McManus demonstrates that, from the invasion beaches of the Second World War to the deserts of the Middle East, the foot soldier has been the most indispensible-and most overlooked-factor in wartime victory.  Advances in weaponry have threatened to render the infantryman obsolete for centuries. Even today, precision-guided munitions, nuclear bombs, aerial drones, computers, and satellites have made victory in modern warfare seem like a simple matter of superior hardware, negating the need for ground soldiers. In truth, even as technology advanced at a dizzying pace throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, ground soldiers, especially infantry "grunts," did almost all of the fighting and dying in America''s wars.  Examining ten critical battles, McManus covers six decades of warfare-from the 1944 fight on the island of Guam to today''s counterinsurgency combat in Iraq-in which the skills and courage of American troops proved the crucial difference between victory and defeat. Penetrating the flowery rhetoric of headlines and standard battle narratives, McManus exposes the shocking brutal realities of modern ground combat.  Based on years of archival research and personal interviews with veterans, this powerful history reveals the ugly face of war in a way that few books have. Grunts demonstrates the vital, and too often forgotten, importance of the human element in protecting the American nation, and advances a passionate plea for fundamental change in our understanding of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4428'),
(19465, 'Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq', 'John C. McManus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In Grunts, renowned historian John C. McManus demonstrates that, from the invasion beaches of the Second World War to the deserts of the Middle East, the foot soldier has been the most indispensible-and most overlooked-factor in wartime victory.  Advances in weaponry have threatened to render the infantryman obsolete for centuries. Even today, precision-guided munitions, nuclear bombs, aerial drones, computers, and satellites have made victory in modern warfare seem like a simple matter of superior hardware, negating the need for ground soldiers. In truth, even as technology advanced at a dizzying pace throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, ground soldiers, especially infantry "grunts," did almost all of the fighting and dying in America''s wars.  Examining ten critical battles, McManus covers six decades of warfare-from the 1944 fight on the island of Guam to today''s counterinsurgency combat in Iraq-in which the skills and courage of American troops proved the crucial difference between victory and defeat. Penetrating the flowery rhetoric of headlines and standard battle narratives, McManus exposes the shocking brutal realities of modern ground combat.  Based on years of archival research and personal interviews with veterans, this powerful history reveals the ugly face of war in a way that few books have. Grunts demonstrates the vital, and too often forgotten, importance of the human element in protecting the American nation, and advances a passionate plea for fundamental change in our understanding of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11326'),
(19466, 'Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq', 'John C. McManus', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In Grunts, renowned historian John C. McManus demonstrates that, from the invasion beaches of the Second World War to the deserts of the Middle East, the foot soldier has been the most indispensible-and most overlooked-factor in wartime victory. Advances in weaponry have threatened to render the infantryman obsolete for centuries. Even today, precision-guided munitions, nuclear bombs, aerial drones, computers, and satellites have made victory in modern warfare seem like a simple matter of superior hardware, negating the need for ground soldiers. In truth, even as technology advanced at a dizzying pace throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, ground soldiers, especially infantry "grunts," did almost all of the fighting and dying in America''s wars. Examining ten critical battles, McManus covers six decades of warfare-from the 1944 fight on the island of Guam to today''s counterinsurgency combat in Iraq-in which the skills and courage of American troops proved the crucial difference between victory and defeat. Penetrating the flowery rhetoric of headlines and standard battle narratives, McManus exposes the shocking brutal realities of modern ground combat. Based on years of archival research and personal interviews with veterans, this powerful history reveals the ugly face of war in a way that few books have. Grunts demonstrates the vital, and too often forgotten, importance of the human element in protecting the American nation, and advances a passionate plea for fundamental change in our understanding of war.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21407'),
(19467, 'Gryphon: New and Selected Stories', 'Charles Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Baxter''s skill with short fiction is confirmed in this stellar collection of 23 stories, seven of which are new. The title story is deservedly a classic, and other favorites, such as "Fenstad''s Mother," have gathered resonance as well, and the new stories show Baxter working a quirky beat. In each, the acutely observed real world is rocked by the exotic or surreal. In "Poor Devil," the "devils" are a self-destructive couple headed for a divorce, while, in "Ghosts," a stranger enters a young woman''s house and tells her they are soul mates. She accuses him of being a devil, but his intentions are much less sinister than she imagines. "Nightfall had always brought his devils out," the narrator says in "The Old Murderer," a touching story about an alcoholic and an ex-con, each trying to get through the day. In "Royal Blue," arguably the best of the new stories, an undertow of mystery shadows a handsome young art dealer who understands that 9/11 has affected a fundamental change in his life. In Baxter''s comic-melancholic world, people may be incapable of averting sadness or violence, but they survive. (Jan.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Baxter is a well-regarded short story writer who should be more widely appreciated. He is a consummate chroniclerâ€”depictorâ€”of ordinary lives with which the majority of good fiction readers can identify. (â€œIn my university town there are hundreds of men like Harrelson,â€ says one narrator, whose recognition of the type will be shared by all of us.) Baxter attaches to these lives an eccentric aspect, which, ironically, heightens their universalityâ€”we all have our quirksâ€”and which increases our responsiveness to them. This volume pulls stories from the authorâ€™s four previous collections and adds seven previously uncollected stories. As in all big compilations, quality varies. The superior stories, including the title story (a delightful first-person narrative, from the perspective of a fourth-grade boy, about an odd substitute teacher), showcase Baxterâ€™s first-rate talents in the form: sophisticated humor, exact writing style, plots at once ordinary and extraordinary, and in, common with all masters of the form, wizardry at the fetching opening line. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6908'),
(19468, 'Gryphon: New and Selected Stories', 'Charles Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Baxter''s skill with short fiction is confirmed in this stellar collection of 23 stories, seven of which are new. The title story is deservedly a classic, and other favorites, such as "Fenstad''s Mother," have gathered resonance as well, and the new stories show Baxter working a quirky beat. In each, the acutely observed real world is rocked by the exotic or surreal. In "Poor Devil," the "devils" are a self-destructive couple headed for a divorce, while, in "Ghosts," a stranger enters a young woman''s house and tells her they are soul mates. She accuses him of being a devil, but his intentions are much less sinister than she imagines. "Nightfall had always brought his devils out," the narrator says in "The Old Murderer," a touching story about an alcoholic and an ex-con, each trying to get through the day. In "Royal Blue," arguably the best of the new stories, an undertow of mystery shadows a handsome young art dealer who understands that 9/11 has affected a fundamental change in his life. In Baxter''s comic-melancholic world, people may be incapable of averting sadness or violence, but they survive. (Jan.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Baxter is a well-regarded short story writer who should be more widely appreciated. He is a consummate chroniclerâ€”depictorâ€”of ordinary lives with which the majority of good fiction readers can identify. (â€œIn my university town there are hundreds of men like Harrelson,â€ says one narrator, whose recognition of the type will be shared by all of us.) Baxter attaches to these lives an eccentric aspect, which, ironically, heightens their universalityâ€”we all have our quirksâ€”and which increases our responsiveness to them. This volume pulls stories from the authorâ€™s four previous collections and adds seven previously uncollected stories. As in all big compilations, quality varies. The superior stories, including the title story (a delightful first-person narrative, from the perspective of a fourth-grade boy, about an odd substitute teacher), showcase Baxterâ€™s first-rate talents in the form: sophisticated humor, exact writing style, plots at once ordinary and extraordinary, and in, common with all masters of the form, wizardry at the fetching opening line. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8340'),
(19469, 'Gryphon: New and Selected Stories', 'Charles Baxter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Baxter''s skill with short fiction is confirmed in this stellar collection of 23 stories, seven of which are new. The title story is deservedly a classic, and other favorites, such as "Fenstad''s Mother," have gathered resonance as well, and the new stories show Baxter working a quirky beat. In each, the acutely observed real world is rocked by the exotic or surreal. In "Poor Devil," the "devils" are a self-destructive couple headed for a divorce, while, in "Ghosts," a stranger enters a young woman''s house and tells her they are soul mates. She accuses him of being a devil, but his intentions are much less sinister than she imagines. "Nightfall had always brought his devils out," the narrator says in "The Old Murderer," a touching story about an alcoholic and an ex-con, each trying to get through the day. In "Royal Blue," arguably the best of the new stories, an undertow of mystery shadows a handsome young art dealer who understands that 9/11 has affected a fundamental change in his life. In Baxter''s comic-melancholic world, people may be incapable of averting sadness or violence, but they survive. (Jan.) (c)\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Baxter is a well-regarded short story writer who should be more widely appreciated. He is a consummate chroniclerâ€”depictorâ€”of ordinary lives with which the majority of good fiction readers can identify. (â€œIn my university town there are hundreds of men like Harrelson,â€ says one narrator, whose recognition of the type will be shared by all of us.) Baxter attaches to these lives an eccentric aspect, which, ironically, heightens their universalityâ€”we all have our quirksâ€”and which increases our responsiveness to them. This volume pulls stories from the authorâ€™s four previous collections and adds seven previously uncollected stories. As in all big compilations, quality varies. The superior stories, including the title story (a delightful first-person narrative, from the perspective of a fourth-grade boy, about an odd substitute teacher), showcase Baxterâ€™s first-rate talents in the form: sophisticated humor, exact writing style, plots at once ordinary and extraordinary, and in, common with all masters of the form, wizardry at the fetching opening line. --Brad Hooper\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17000'),
(19470, 'Guardian of the Horizon', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A hitherto lost journal of Amelia Peabody''s has been miraculously recovered -- a chronicle from one of the "missing years" -- 1907-1908 -- shedding new light on an already exceptional career, a remarkable family . . . and an unexpected terror Ousted from their most recent archaeological dig and banned from the Valley of the Kings, the Emersons are spending the summer at home in England, when a mysterious messenger arrives. Claiming to be the brother of their dear friend Tarek, prince of the mysterious Lost Oasis, the herald brings news of a strange malady that has struck down Tarek''s heir and conveys his urgent need for help. Driven by loyalty, the family sets off in secret, braving the treacherous desert climate on a trek fraught with dangers. Guided by only a crumbling map, the Emersons are unaware that deception is leading them onward into a nest of vipers -- where a dreadful fate may await.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18543');
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(19471, 'Guardian of the Horizon', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A hitherto lost journal of Amelia Peabody''s has been miraculously recovered -- a chronicle from one of the "missing years" -- 1907-1908 -- shedding new light on an already exceptional career, a remarkable family . . . and an unexpected terror Ousted from their most recent archaeological dig and banned from the Valley of the Kings, the Emersons are spending the summer at home in England, when a mysterious messenger arrives. Claiming to be the brother of their dear friend Tarek, prince of the mysterious Lost Oasis, the herald brings news of a strange malady that has struck down Tarek''s heir and conveys his urgent need for help. Driven by loyalty, the family sets off in secret, braving the treacherous desert climate on a trek fraught with dangers. Guided by only a crumbling map, the Emersons are unaware that deception is leading them onward into a nest of vipers -- where a dreadful fate may await.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26175'),
(19472, 'Guardians of the Coral Throne', 'Jeffrey Lord', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A''s special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at the beginning of each novel and forced to rely on his wits and strength. Richard Blade was distinctly British, and all the stories are set in England (at least at the beginning and end, with Blade being teleported to some other dimension for the bulk of each tale).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4570'),
(19473, 'Guardians of the West', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Discover the magic of The Malloreonâ€“David Eddingsâ€™s acclaimed series, the sequel to his bestselling The Belgariad. Now the first three Malloreon books appear in a single volume, taking us on an epic quest across strange lands among gods, kings, sorcerers, and ordinary men. It is a gripping tale of two ancient warring destinies fighting a battle of good against evil.Garion has slain the evil God Torak and is now the King of Riva. The prophecy has been fulfilledâ€“or so it seems. For there is a dire warning, as a great evil brews in the East. Now Garion once again finds himself with the fate of the world resting on his shoulders. When Garionâ€™s infant son is kidnapped by Zandramas, the Child of Dark, a great quest begins to rescue the child. Among those on the dangerous mission are Garion and his wife, Queen Ceâ€™Nedra, and the immortal Belgarath the Sorcerer and his daughter, Polgara. They must make their way through the foul swamps of Nyissa, then into the lands of the Murgos. Along the way, they will face grave dangersâ€“captivity, a horde of demons, a fatal plagueâ€“while Zandramas plots to use Garionâ€™s son in a chilling ritual that will make the Dark Prophecy supreme. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6342'),
(19474, 'Guardians of the West', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Discover the magic of The Malloreonâ€“David Eddingsâ€™s acclaimed series, the sequel to his bestselling The Belgariad. Now the first three Malloreon books appear in a single volume, taking us on an epic quest across strange lands among gods, kings, sorcerers, and ordinary men. It is a gripping tale of two ancient warring destinies fighting a battle of good against evil.Garion has slain the evil God Torak and is now the King of Riva. The prophecy has been fulfilledâ€“or so it seems. For there is a dire warning, as a great evil brews in the East. Now Garion once again finds himself with the fate of the world resting on his shoulders. When Garionâ€™s infant son is kidnapped by Zandramas, the Child of Dark, a great quest begins to rescue the child. Among those on the dangerous mission are Garion and his wife, Queen Ceâ€™Nedra, and the immortal Belgarath the Sorcerer and his daughter, Polgara. They must make their way through the foul swamps of Nyissa, then into the lands of the Murgos. Along the way, they will face grave dangersâ€“captivity, a horde of demons, a fatal plagueâ€“while Zandramas plots to use Garionâ€™s son in a chilling ritual that will make the Dark Prophecy supreme. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15019'),
(19475, 'Guardians of the West', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Discover the magic of The Malloreonâ€“David Eddingsâ€™s acclaimed series, the sequel to his bestselling The Belgariad. Now the first three Malloreon books appear in a single volume, taking us on an epic quest across strange lands among gods, kings, sorcerers, and ordinary men. It is a gripping tale of two ancient warring destinies fighting a battle of good against evil.Garion has slain the evil God Torak and is now the King of Riva. The prophecy has been fulfilledâ€“or so it seems. For there is a dire warning, as a great evil brews in the East. Now Garion once again finds himself with the fate of the world resting on his shoulders. When Garionâ€™s infant son is kidnapped by Zandramas, the Child of Dark, a great quest begins to rescue the child. Among those on the dangerous mission are Garion and his wife, Queen Ceâ€™Nedra, and the immortal Belgarath the Sorcerer and his daughter, Polgara. They must make their way through the foul swamps of Nyissa, then into the lands of the Murgos. Along the way, they will face grave dangersâ€“captivity, a horde of demons, a fatal plagueâ€“while Zandramas plots to use Garionâ€™s son in a chilling ritual that will make the Dark Prophecy supreme. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17680'),
(19476, 'Guardians of the West', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Discover the magic of The Malloreonâ€“David Eddingsâ€™s acclaimed series, the sequel to his bestselling The Belgariad. Now the first three Malloreon books appear in a single volume, taking us on an epic quest across strange lands among gods, kings, sorcerers, and ordinary men. It is a gripping tale of two ancient warring destinies fighting a battle of good against evil.Garion has slain the evil God Torak and is now the King of Riva. The prophecy has been fulfilledâ€“or so it seems. For there is a dire warning, as a great evil brews in the East. Now Garion once again finds himself with the fate of the world resting on his shoulders. When Garionâ€™s infant son is kidnapped by Zandramas, the Child of Dark, a great quest begins to rescue the child. Among those on the dangerous mission are Garion and his wife, Queen Ceâ€™Nedra, and the immortal Belgarath the Sorcerer and his daughter, Polgara. They must make their way through the foul swamps of Nyissa, then into the lands of the Murgos. Along the way, they will face grave dangersâ€“captivity, a horde of demons, a fatal plagueâ€“while Zandramas plots to use Garionâ€™s son in a chilling ritual that will make the Dark Prophecy supreme. . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27338'),
(19477, 'Guards! Guards!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Here there be dragons . . . and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don''t understand italics) has appeared in Discworld''s greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all . . .).Meanwhile, back at Unseen University, an ancient and long-forgotten volume -- The Summoning of Dragons -- is missing from the Library''s shelves. To the rescue come Captain Vimes, Constable Carrot, and the rest of the Night Watch who, along with other brave citizens, risk everything, including a good roasting, to dethrone the flying monarch and restore order to Ankh-Morpork (before it''s burned to a crisp). A rare tale, well done as only Terry Pratchett can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/655'),
(19478, 'Guards! Guards!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Here there be dragons . . . and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don''t understand italics) has appeared in Discworld''s greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all . . .).Meanwhile, back at Unseen University, an ancient and long-forgotten volume -- The Summoning of Dragons -- is missing from the Library''s shelves. To the rescue come Captain Vimes, Constable Carrot, and the rest of the Night Watch who, along with other brave citizens, risk everything, including a good roasting, to dethrone the flying monarch and restore order to Ankh-Morpork (before it''s burned to a crisp). A rare tale, well done as only Terry Pratchett can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13989'),
(19479, 'Guards! Guards!', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Here there be dragons . . . and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don''t understand italics) has appeared in Discworld''s greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all . . .).Meanwhile, back at Unseen University, an ancient and long-forgotten volume -- The Summoning of Dragons -- is missing from the Library''s shelves. To the rescue come Captain Vimes, Constable Carrot, and the rest of the Night Watch who, along with other brave citizens, risk everything, including a good roasting, to dethrone the flying monarch and restore order to Ankh-Morpork (before it''s burned to a crisp). A rare tale, well done as only Terry Pratchett can.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24197'),
(19480, 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society', 'Mary Ann Shaffer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13686'),
(19481, 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society', 'Mary Ann Shaffer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21771'),
(19482, 'Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2. 0: 1001 Unconventional Tips, Tricks, and Tactics to Land Your Dream Job', 'Jay Conrad Levinson; David E. Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In Today''s Job Jungle, the Guerrilla is King\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You''ll learn how to build a compelling new network in days that gets you sit-down meetings with decision makers who can hire you, for jobs that aren''t advertised or don''t even exist yet."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Kevin Donlin\n  </strong>\n  , creator, TheSimpleJobSearch.com; co-creator, The Guerrilla Job Search Home Study Course\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book is brilliant. Packed with stories, examples, and tactics to help you at any point in your job search-this book is all about landing a real job with intense competition in a minimal amount of time."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Jason Alba\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, JibberJobber.com; author,\n  <em>\n   I''m on LinkedInâ€”Now What???\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Recruiters: read this book! You''re going to need it. When people start following the advice in\n  <em>\n   Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0\n  </em>\n  , you''re going to be looking for a job."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Shelly Harrison\n  </strong>\n  , founder and CEO, Launch Pad\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Job hunters don''t need to be told the ''what'' of job hunting, they want and need to know the ''hows.'' They are all here and then some."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Dave Opton\n  </strong>\n  , founder and CEO, ExecuNet.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Changes in information and communication technologies have created new opportunities and pitfalls for the job seeker. Stand out from the crowd and truly shine by illuminating your most important talents to the broadest audienceâ€”in a cost-effective fashion."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Sam Zales\n  </strong>\n  , President, Zoom Information Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t get lost on the battlefield, win the war.\n  <em>\n   Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0\n  </em>\n  will give you the ammunition to get noticed."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Donato Diorio\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, Broadlook Technologies\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Lays out a straightforward and detailed ''plan of attack'' for every step of a job search...an indispensable tool for job seekers to land the interview."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Gautam Godhwani\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, SimplyHired.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Competition for the best positions is especially fierce and every candidate will be looking for an edge. If you want to get the edge...you need to get this great new book."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Steven Rothberg\n  </strong>\n  , founder, CollegeRecruiter.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The only book that explains step by step, how to land interviews with the companies you choose AND create a high-visibility profile attracting employers-like a moth to a flame."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Terrence Kulka\n  </strong>\n  , Director, Executive MBA Program, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Beyond your Guerrilla Resume...here''s how to take charge of your personal brand, and stand out from the crowd leveraging LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, and more."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Peter Clayton\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, Total Picture Radio\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   P.S.â€”We knew you''d read this far. How did we know this? Please turn to Chapter 5 and read, "One Unusual Way to End Your Guerrilla Cover Letter."\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ready! Aim! Hired!\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is an immensely helpful book, with the ancient wisdom of recruiters, and the up-to-date insights of two skilled Internet surfers. If you''re job-hunting, you''ll be grateful to learn the tips and tricks of these two seasoned veterans. I learned a lot myself."\n  <br />\n  â€”Richard N. Bolles, author, What Color Is Your Parachute?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I have been an apprentice, a company president, and a CEO. No other single source provides a more contemporary and embracing job search bible. This book offers literally hundreds of little known insider tips, strategies, out-of-the-box success stories, hands-on exercises, and pearls of wisdom. Many readers will hear the words, ''You''re Hired'' due to David Perry, Jay Levinson, and Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters."\n  <br />\n  â€”Kelly Perdew, Executive Vice President, Trump Ice winner of The Apprentice 2\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters is an absolutely ''right on'' book for today''s job market. It not only has great job search tips but it takes you into the electronic job search system better than anything I''ve seen written to date."\n  <br />\n  â€”William J. Morin, Chairman and CEO, WJM Associates, Inc. former CEO of DBM\n </p>\n <p>\n  Using a typically unconventional Guerrilla approach, authors Levinson and Perry cover all the basics of a winning campaign. This book covers:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Using the Internet for everything from research and job searches to your own Web site, blogs, and podcasting\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Performing an extreme resume makeover and creating a higher-powered value-based resume\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harnessing the full power of Google, LinkedIn, and ZoomInfo to uncover opportunities in the "hidden job market" ahead of your competition (or other job hunters)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Branding yourself and selling your strengths in resumes, letters, e-mail, and interviews\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters includes real-life war stories from successful job hunters and expert tips and tactics from over 100 prominent headhunters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18172'),
(19483, 'Guerrilla Marking for Job Hunters 2.0', 'Jay Conrad Levinson &amp; David E. Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In Today''s Job Jungle, the Guerrilla is King\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You''ll learn how to build a compelling new network in days that gets you sit-down meetings with decision makers who can hire you, for jobs that aren''t advertised or don''t even exist yet."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Kevin Donlin\n  </strong>\n  , creator, TheSimpleJobSearch.com; co-creator, The Guerrilla Job Search Home Study Course\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book is brilliant. Packed with stories, examples, and tactics to help you at any point in your job search-this book is all about landing a real job with intense competition in a minimal amount of time."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Jason Alba\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, JibberJobber.com; author,\n  <em>\n   I''m on LinkedInâ€”Now What???\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Recruiters: read this book! You''re going to need it. When people start following the advice in\n  <em>\n   Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0\n  </em>\n  , you''re going to be looking for a job."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Shelly Harrison\n  </strong>\n  , founder and CEO, Launch Pad\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Job hunters don''t need to be told the ''what'' of job hunting, they want and need to know the ''hows.'' They are all here and then some."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Dave Opton\n  </strong>\n  , founder and CEO, ExecuNet.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Changes in information and communication technologies have created new opportunities and pitfalls for the job seeker. Stand out from the crowd and truly shine by illuminating your most important talents to the broadest audienceâ€”in a cost-effective fashion."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Sam Zales\n  </strong>\n  , President, Zoom Information Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t get lost on the battlefield, win the war.\n  <em>\n   Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0\n  </em>\n  will give you the ammunition to get noticed."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Donato Diorio\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, Broadlook Technologies\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Lays out a straightforward and detailed ''plan of attack'' for every step of a job search...an indispensable tool for job seekers to land the interview."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Gautam Godhwani\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, SimplyHired.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Competition for the best positions is especially fierce and every candidate will be looking for an edge. If you want to get the edge...you need to get this great new book."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Steven Rothberg\n  </strong>\n  , founder, CollegeRecruiter.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The only book that explains step by step, how to land interviews with the companies you choose AND create a high-visibility profile attracting employers-like a moth to a flame."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Terrence Kulka\n  </strong>\n  , Director, Executive MBA Program, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Beyond your Guerrilla Resume...here''s how to take charge of your personal brand, and stand out from the crowd leveraging LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, and more."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Peter Clayton\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, Total Picture Radio\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   P.S.â€”We knew you''d read this far. How did we know this? Please turn to Chapter 5 and read, "One Unusual Way to End Your Guerrilla Cover Letter."\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ready! Aim! Hired!\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is an immensely helpful book, with the ancient wisdom of recruiters, and the up-to-date insights of two skilled Internet surfers. If you''re job-hunting, you''ll be grateful to learn the tips and tricks of these two seasoned veterans. I learned a lot myself."\n  <br />\n  â€”Richard N. Bolles, author, What Color Is Your Parachute?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I have been an apprentice, a company president, and a CEO. No other single source provides a more contemporary and embracing job search bible. This book offers literally hundreds of little known insider tips, strategies, out-of-the-box success stories, hands-on exercises, and pearls of wisdom. Many readers will hear the words, ''You''re Hired'' due to David Perry, Jay Levinson, and Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters."\n  <br />\n  â€”Kelly Perdew, Executive Vice President, Trump Ice winner of The Apprentice 2\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters is an absolutely ''right on'' book for today''s job market. It not only has great job search tips but it takes you into the electronic job search system better than anything I''ve seen written to date."\n  <br />\n  â€”William J. Morin, Chairman and CEO, WJM Associates, Inc. former CEO of DBM\n </p>\n <p>\n  Using a typically unconventional Guerrilla approach, authors Levinson and Perry cover all the basics of a winning campaign. This book covers:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Using the Internet for everything from research and job searches to your own Web site, blogs, and podcasting\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Performing an extreme resume makeover and creating a higher-powered value-based resume\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harnessing the full power of Google, LinkedIn, and ZoomInfo to uncover opportunities in the "hidden job market" ahead of your competition (or other job hunters)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Branding yourself and selling your strengths in resumes, letters, e-mail, and interviews\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters includes real-life war stories from successful job hunters and expert tips and tactics from over 100 prominent headhunters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4581'),
(19484, 'Guerrilla Marking for Job Hunters 2.0', 'Jay Conrad Levinson &amp; David E. Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   In Today''s Job Jungle, the Guerrilla is King\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "You''ll learn how to build a compelling new network in days that gets you sit-down meetings with decision makers who can hire you, for jobs that aren''t advertised or don''t even exist yet."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Kevin Donlin\n  </strong>\n  , creator, TheSimpleJobSearch.com; co-creator, The Guerrilla Job Search Home Study Course\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This book is brilliant. Packed with stories, examples, and tactics to help you at any point in your job search-this book is all about landing a real job with intense competition in a minimal amount of time."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Jason Alba\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, JibberJobber.com; author,\n  <em>\n   I''m on LinkedInâ€”Now What???\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Recruiters: read this book! You''re going to need it. When people start following the advice in\n  <em>\n   Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0\n  </em>\n  , you''re going to be looking for a job."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Shelly Harrison\n  </strong>\n  , founder and CEO, Launch Pad\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Job hunters don''t need to be told the ''what'' of job hunting, they want and need to know the ''hows.'' They are all here and then some."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Dave Opton\n  </strong>\n  , founder and CEO, ExecuNet.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Changes in information and communication technologies have created new opportunities and pitfalls for the job seeker. Stand out from the crowd and truly shine by illuminating your most important talents to the broadest audienceâ€”in a cost-effective fashion."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Sam Zales\n  </strong>\n  , President, Zoom Information Inc.\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Don''t get lost on the battlefield, win the war.\n  <em>\n   Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0\n  </em>\n  will give you the ammunition to get noticed."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Donato Diorio\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, Broadlook Technologies\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Lays out a straightforward and detailed ''plan of attack'' for every step of a job search...an indispensable tool for job seekers to land the interview."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Gautam Godhwani\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, SimplyHired.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Competition for the best positions is especially fierce and every candidate will be looking for an edge. If you want to get the edge...you need to get this great new book."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Steven Rothberg\n  </strong>\n  , founder, CollegeRecruiter.com\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The only book that explains step by step, how to land interviews with the companies you choose AND create a high-visibility profile attracting employers-like a moth to a flame."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Terrence Kulka\n  </strong>\n  , Director, Executive MBA Program, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Beyond your Guerrilla Resume...here''s how to take charge of your personal brand, and stand out from the crowd leveraging LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, and more."\n  <br />\n  â€”\n  <strong>\n   Peter Clayton\n  </strong>\n  , CEO, Total Picture Radio\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   P.S.â€”We knew you''d read this far. How did we know this? Please turn to Chapter 5 and read, "One Unusual Way to End Your Guerrilla Cover Letter."\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Back Cover\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ready! Aim! Hired!\n </p>\n <p>\n  "This is an immensely helpful book, with the ancient wisdom of recruiters, and the up-to-date insights of two skilled Internet surfers. If you''re job-hunting, you''ll be grateful to learn the tips and tricks of these two seasoned veterans. I learned a lot myself."\n  <br />\n  â€”Richard N. Bolles, author, What Color Is Your Parachute?\n </p>\n <p>\n  "I have been an apprentice, a company president, and a CEO. No other single source provides a more contemporary and embracing job search bible. This book offers literally hundreds of little known insider tips, strategies, out-of-the-box success stories, hands-on exercises, and pearls of wisdom. Many readers will hear the words, ''You''re Hired'' due to David Perry, Jay Levinson, and Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters."\n  <br />\n  â€”Kelly Perdew, Executive Vice President, Trump Ice winner of The Apprentice 2\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters is an absolutely ''right on'' book for today''s job market. It not only has great job search tips but it takes you into the electronic job search system better than anything I''ve seen written to date."\n  <br />\n  â€”William J. Morin, Chairman and CEO, WJM Associates, Inc. former CEO of DBM\n </p>\n <p>\n  Using a typically unconventional Guerrilla approach, authors Levinson and Perry cover all the basics of a winning campaign. This book covers:\n </p>\n <ul>\n  <li>\n   Using the Internet for everything from research and job searches to your own Web site, blogs, and podcasting\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Performing an extreme resume makeover and creating a higher-powered value-based resume\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Harnessing the full power of Google, LinkedIn, and ZoomInfo to uncover opportunities in the "hidden job market" ahead of your competition (or other job hunters)\n  </li>\n  <li>\n   Branding yourself and selling your strengths in resumes, letters, e-mail, and interviews\n  </li>\n </ul>\n <p>\n  Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters includes real-life war stories from successful job hunters and expert tips and tactics from over 100 prominent headhunters.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11117'),
(19485, 'A Guest in My Own Country', 'George Konrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography &amp; Memoir\n <br />\n <br />\n A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe''s leading intellectuals.\n <br />\n <br />\n When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the Hungarian countryside the day before deportations swept through his home town. Ultimately, they were the only Jewish children of the town to survive the Holocaust.\n <br />\n <br />\n A Guest in My Own Country recalls the life of one of Eastern Europe''s most accomplished modern writers, beginning with his survival during the final months of the war. Konrad captures the dangers, the hopes, the betrayals and courageous acts of the period through a series of carefully chosen episodes that occasionally border on the surreal (as when a dead German soldier begins to speak, attempting to justify his actions).\n <br />\n <br />\n The end of the war launches the young man on a remarkable...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5384'),
(19486, 'A Guest in My Own Country', 'George Konrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography &amp; Memoir\n <br />\n <br />\n A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe''s leading intellectuals.\n <br />\n <br />\n When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the Hungarian countryside the day before deportations swept through his home town. Ultimately, they were the only Jewish children of the town to survive the Holocaust.\n <br />\n <br />\n A Guest in My Own Country recalls the life of one of Eastern Europe''s most accomplished modern writers, beginning with his survival during the final months of the war. Konrad captures the dangers, the hopes, the betrayals and courageous acts of the period through a series of carefully chosen episodes that occasionally border on the surreal (as when a dead German soldier begins to speak, attempting to justify his actions).\n <br />\n <br />\n The end of the war launches the young man on a remarkable...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10845'),
(19487, 'A Guest in my Own Country', 'George Konrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography &amp; Memoir\n <br />\n <br />\n A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe''s leading intellectuals.\n <br />\n <br />\n When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the Hungarian countryside the day before deportations swept through his home town. Ultimately, they were the only Jewish children of the town to survive the Holocaust.\n <br />\n <br />\n A Guest in My Own Country recalls the life of one of Eastern Europe''s most accomplished modern writers, beginning with his survival during the final months of the war. Konrad captures the dangers, the hopes, the betrayals and courageous acts of the period through a series of carefully chosen episodes that occasionally border on the surreal (as when a dead German soldier begins to speak, attempting to justify his actions).\n <br />\n <br />\n The end of the war launches the young man on a remarkable...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19271'),
(19488, 'A Guide to the Good Life', 'William B. Irvine', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Another valuable ally in your personal morale campaign can be found in William B. Irvine''s\n  <em>\n   A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy\n  </em>\n  , which removes the grim grey mask of noble, resigned fatalism attached to the popular conception of Stoic philosophy and lets the humanity out and the air in.... It is a work of clarion clarity, and you won''t have to read that far into it before the phrase ''stoic joy'' ceases sounding like an oxymoron and becomes a workable proposition."--James Wolcott,\n  <em>\n   Vanity Fair\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Irvine''s book excels as a guide for practicing Stoics or for individuals seeking to improve that practice." --_The Common Review_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Irvine''s intended audience is nonphilosophers, but everyone can profit from his clear presentation on the on the benefits of using philosophical doctrines to live a meaningful life."--_Library Journal_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If, however, you are skeptical that even therapy will make you happy -- if you are looking for a life philosophy --\n  <em>\n   A Guide to the Good Life\n  </em>\n  is for you.... Irvine''s book is more thought-provoking."--_Austin American-Statesman_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "He writes in clear, almost jargon-free prose that is well suited to his target audience, and maintains a cheerful tone throughout the book...that perfectly expresses the sort of rationally grounded upbeat attitude that is one of the payoffs of becoming a practicing Stoic.... I can firmly recommend Irvine''s A Guide to the Good Life to anyone interested in exploring some of the ways philosophical work can be brought to bear on the ordinary problems of living.... there is a great deal of useful thinking and excellent advice to be found in it, presented in a clear, straightforward and often charming manner."--Lauren Tillinghast,\n  <em>\n   Metapsychology Online Reviews\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Bill Irvine has given us a great gift: the most accessible and inviting description of modern Stoicism available. Read this book and be prepared to change your life!"--Sharon Lebell, author of Epictetus''s\n  <em>\n   The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Well-written and so compelling, this is a rare example of a book that actually will make a difference in the lives of its readers. Whether it''s coping with grief or arriving at lasting happiness, Irvine shows, with care and verve, ancient Stoic wisdom to be ever relevant and very, very helpful." --Gary Klein, author of\n  <em>\n   Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Never have I seen so delightful, empathetic, and supple a presentation of Stoicism as Irvine gives us here. Hardly Christian even in sensibilities, the Stoics were, none the less, wise in the ways of life, a benison Irvine exposes, and then delivers here, with panache and great acumen."--Phyllis Tickle, author of\n  <em>\n   The Divine Hours\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Irvine''s calm yet impassioned presentation of a Western philosophy of life that one can actually abide by and practice will be good medicine for many readers...I heartily recommend it." --_The Christian Century_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In\n  <em>\n   A Guide to the Good Life\n  </em>\n  , William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insight and advice are still remarkably applicable to modern lives.\n  <br />\n  In\n  <em>\n   A Guide to the Good Life\n  </em>\n  , Irvine offers a refreshing presentation of Stoicism, showing how this ancient philosophy can still direct us toward a better life. Using the psychological insights and the practical techniques of the Stoics, Irvine offers a roadmap for anyone seeking to avoid the feelings of chronic dissatisfaction that plague so many of us. Irvine looks at various Stoic techniques for attaining tranquility and shows how to put these techniques to work in our own life. As he does so, he describes his own experiences practicing Stoicism and offers valuable first-hand advice for anyone wishing to live better by following in the footsteps of these ancient philosophers. Readers learn how to minimize worry, how to let go of the past and focus our efforts on the things we can control, and how to deal with insults, grief, old age, and the distracting temptations of fame and fortune. We learn from Marcus Aurelius the importance of prizing only things of true value, and from Epictetus we learn how to be more content with what we have.\n  <br />\n  Finally,\n  <em>\n   A Guide to the Good Life\n  </em>\n  shows readers how to become thoughtful observers of their own life. If we watch ourselves as we go about our daily business and later reflect on what we saw, we can better identify the sources of distress and eventually avoid that pain in our life. By doing this, the Stoics thought, we can hope to attain a truly joyful life.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9427'),
(19489, 'Guild Wars: Edge of Destiny', 'J. Robert King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Destiny Called - They Answered\n</p>\n<p>\n In the dark recesses of Tyria, elder dragons have awoken from millennial slumbers. First came Primordus, which stirred in the Depths forcing the asura to flee to the surface. Half a century later, Jormag awoke and drove the norn from the frozen climes of the Northern Shiverpeaks, corrupting sons and brothers along the way. A generation later, Zhaitan arose in a cataclysmic event that reshaped a continent and flooded the capital of the human nation of Kryta.\n</p>\n<p>\n The races of Tyria stand on the edge of destiny. Heroes have battled against dragon minions, only to be corrupted into service of the enemy. Armies have marched on the dragons and been swep aside. The dwarves sacrificed their entire race to defeat a single dragon champion. The age of mortals may soon be over. Â \n</p>\n<p>\n This is a time for heroes. While the races of Tyria stand apart, six heroic individuals will come together to fight for their people: Eir, the norn huntress with the soul of an artist; Snaff, the asuran geÂ­nius, and his ambitious assistant Zojja; Rytlock, the ferocious charr warrior in exile; Caithe, a deadly sylvari with deep secrets; and Logan, the valiant human guardian dealing with divided loyalties. Together they become Destinyâ€™s Edge. Together they answer the call. But will it be enough?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4988'),
(19490, 'Guild Wars: Edge of Destiny', 'J. Robert King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Destiny Called - They Answered\n</p>\n<p>\n In the dark recesses of Tyria, elder dragons have awoken from millennial slumbers. First came Primordus, which stirred in the Depths forcing the asura to flee to the surface. Half a century later, Jormag awoke and drove the norn from the frozen climes of the Northern Shiverpeaks, corrupting sons and brothers along the way. A generation later, Zhaitan arose in a cataclysmic event that reshaped a continent and flooded the capital of the human nation of Kryta.\n</p>\n<p>\n The races of Tyria stand on the edge of destiny. Heroes have battled against dragon minions, only to be corrupted into service of the enemy. Armies have marched on the dragons and been swep aside. The dwarves sacrificed their entire race to defeat a single dragon champion. The age of mortals may soon be over. Â \n</p>\n<p>\n This is a time for heroes. While the races of Tyria stand apart, six heroic individuals will come together to fight for their people: Eir, the norn huntress with the soul of an artist; Snaff, the asuran geÂ­nius, and his ambitious assistant Zojja; Rytlock, the ferocious charr warrior in exile; Caithe, a deadly sylvari with deep secrets; and Logan, the valiant human guardian dealing with divided loyalties. Together they become Destinyâ€™s Edge. Together they answer the call. But will it be enough?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10741'),
(19491, 'Guild Wars: Edge of Destiny', 'J. Robert King', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Destiny Called - They Answered\n</p>\n<p>\n In the dark recesses of Tyria, elder dragons have awoken from millennial slumbers. First came Primordus, which stirred in the Depths forcing the asura to flee to the surface. Half a century later, Jormag awoke and drove the norn from the frozen climes of the Northern Shiverpeaks, corrupting sons and brothers along the way. A generation later, Zhaitan arose in a cataclysmic event that reshaped a continent and flooded the capital of the human nation of Kryta.\n</p>\n<p>\n The races of Tyria stand on the edge of destiny. Heroes have battled against dragon minions, only to be corrupted into service of the enemy. Armies have marched on the dragons and been swep aside. The dwarves sacrificed their entire race to defeat a single dragon champion. The age of mortals may soon be over. Â \n</p>\n<p>\n This is a time for heroes. While the races of Tyria stand apart, six heroic individuals will come together to fight for their people: Eir, the norn huntress with the soul of an artist; Snaff, the asuran geÂ­nius, and his ambitious assistant Zojja; Rytlock, the ferocious charr warrior in exile; Caithe, a deadly sylvari with deep secrets; and Logan, the valiant human guardian dealing with divided loyalties. Together they become Destinyâ€™s Edge. Together they answer the call. But will it be enough?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19715'),
(19492, 'Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon', 'Matt Forbeck &amp; Jeff Grubb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n 250 years ago, Ascalon burned . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Desperate to defend his land from advancing hordes of bestial charr, King Adelbern summoned the all-powerful Foefire to repel the invaders. But magic can be a double-edged swordâ€”the Foefire burned both charr and human alike. While the charr corpses smoldered, the slain Ascalonians arose again, transformed by their kingâ€™s rage into ghostly protectors and charged with guarding the realm . . . forever. The once mighty kingdom became a haunted shadow of its former glory.\n</p>\n<p>\n Centuries later, the descendants of Ascalon, exiled to the nation of Kryta, are besieged on all sides. To save humankind, Queen Jennah seeks to negotiate a treaty with the hated charr. But one obstacle remains. The charr legions wonâ€™t sign the truce until their most prized possession, the Claw of the Khan-Ur,is returned from the ruins of fallen Ascalon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now a mismatched band of adventurers, each plagued by ghosts of their own, sets forth into a haunted, war-torn land to retrieve the Claw. Without the artifact, there is no hope for peace between human and charrâ€”but the undead king who rules Ascalon wonâ€™t give it up easily, and not everyone wants peace!\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2975'),
(19493, 'Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon', 'Matt Forbeck &amp; Jeff Grubb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n 250 years ago, Ascalon burned . . .\n</p>\n<p>\n Desperate to defend his land from advancing hordes of bestial charr, King Adelbern summoned the all-powerful Foefire to repel the invaders. But magic can be a double-edged swordâ€”the Foefire burned both charr and human alike. While the charr corpses smoldered, the slain Ascalonians arose again, transformed by their kingâ€™s rage into ghostly protectors and charged with guarding the realm . . . forever. The once mighty kingdom became a haunted shadow of its former glory.\n</p>\n<p>\n Centuries later, the descendants of Ascalon, exiled to the nation of Kryta, are besieged on all sides. To save humankind, Queen Jennah seeks to negotiate a treaty with the hated charr. But one obstacle remains. The charr legions wonâ€™t sign the truce until their most prized possession, the Claw of the Khan-Ur,is returned from the ruins of fallen Ascalon.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now a mismatched band of adventurers, each plagued by ghosts of their own, sets forth into a haunted, war-torn land to retrieve the Claw. Without the artifact, there is no hope for peace between human and charrâ€”but the undead king who rules Ascalon wonâ€™t give it up easily, and not everyone wants peace!\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9709'),
(19494, 'Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon', 'Matt Forbeck;Jeff Grubb', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 250 years ago, Ascalon burned . . . Desperate to defend his land from advancing hordes of bestial charr, King Adelbern summoned the all-powerful Foefire to repel the invaders. But magic can be a double-edged swordâ€”the Foefire burned both charr and human alike. While the charr corpses smoldered, the slain Ascalonians arose again, transformed by their kingâ€™s rage into ghostly protectors and charged with guarding the realm . . . forever. The once mighty kingdom became a haunted shadow of its former glory.Centuries later, the descendants of Ascalon, exiled to the nation of Kryta, are besieged on all sides. To save humankind, Queen Jennah seeks to negotiate a treaty with the hated charr. But one obstacle remains. The charr legions wonâ€™t sign the truce until their most prized possession, the Claw of the Khan-Ur,is returned from the ruins of fallen Ascalon.Now a mismatched band of adventurers, each plagued by ghosts of their own, sets forth into a haunted, war-torn land to retrieve the Claw. Without the artifact, there is no hope for peace between human and charrâ€”but the undead king who rules Ascalon wonâ€™t give it up easily, and not everyone wants peace!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21827'),
(19495, 'Guilty Pleasures', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3496'),
(19496, 'Guilty Pleasures', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15317'),
(19497, 'Guilty Pleasures', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20999'),
(19498, 'The Guilty', 'Jason Pinter', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Still relatively fresh out of J-school but already a hot scribe at the New York\n <em>\n  Gazette\n </em>\n , Henry Parker (from Pinter''s\n <em>\n  The Mark\n </em>\n ) files another hair-raising story in the Big Bad Apple. This time the juicy journo''s on the trail of the Boy, a sharpshooting serial killer who kills his prey using an antique Winchester 1873, the gun that won the West. The first victim is celebrity diva Athena Paradis, and the killer leaves a note quoting a piece of Henry''s. Henry''s research reveals a bizarre connection between Henry and a long-dead outlaw of the American West, and, as victims pile up, Henry wonders if the Boy is out for vengeance. The intrepid journalist must think fast on his feet to stop him, even if it means asking for help from a rival\n <em>\n  Dispatch\n </em>\n journalist, the lovely Paulina Cole. Tension mounts, bullets fly and Pinter''s cool fusion of a new outlaw with blood ties to an old one hits the mark. The resolution is a ripsnorter, leaving thrill fans ready for the next Henry Parker newsflash.\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A suspenseful and shocking tale that will leave readers clamoring for the next Henry Parker novel." --\n <em>\n  Library Journal\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the best thrillers of the year." --\n <em>\n  Press &amp; Sun-Bulletin\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Readers who enjoyed Pinter''s first book, THE MARK, won''t be disappointed with his followup." --\n <em>\n  Romantic Times\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4564');
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(19500, 'Guises of the Mind', 'Rebecca Neason', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The world Capulon IV is finally ready to join the Federation aften years of waiting. All that remains is the ruler''s coronation and a routine signing of the final treaty. When the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢ and their passengers -- a group of women from a religious order dedicated to helping the downtrodden -- arrive for the event they expect to find a world willing and happy to receicve them. Instead, they encounter deceit and treachery. The crown prince, once excited and eager to join the Federation, now refuses even to speak with Captain Picard.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beaming to the surface in an attempt to work out the problem, Picard, Troi, and Mother Veronica, the abbess of the nuns, are drugged and captured. Now they must somehow excape and stop the crowning. If they cannot prevent it, the King will be omnipotent, with the power to destroy the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  and all of Capulon IV as well...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1913'),
(19501, 'Gulag: A History', 'Anne Applebaum', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nearly 30 million prisoners passed through the Soviet Union''s labor camps in their more than 60 years of operation. This remarkable volume, the first fully documented history of the gulag, describes how, largely under Stalin''s watch, a regulated, centralized system of prison labor-unprecedented in scope-gradually arose out of the chaos of the Russian Revolution. Fueled by waves of capricious arrests, this prison labor came to underpin the Soviet economy. Applebaum, a former Warsaw correspondent for the Economist and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, draws on newly accessible Soviet archives as well as scores of camp memoirs and interviews with survivors to trace the gulag''s origins and expansion. By the gulag''s peak years in the early 1950s, there were camps in every part of the country, and slave labor was used not only for mining and heavy industries but for producing every kind of consumer product (chairs, lamps, toys, those ubiquitous fur hats) and some of the country''s most important science and engineering (Sergei Korolev, the architect of the Soviet space program, began his work in a special prison laboratory). Applebaum details camp life, including strategies for survival; the experiences of women and children in the camps; sexual relationships and marriages between prisoners; and rebellions, strikes and escapes. There is almost too much dark irony to bear in this tragic, gripping account. Applebaum''s lucid prose and painstaking consideration of the competing theories about aspects of camp life and policy are always compelling. She includes an appendix in which she discusses the various ways of calculating how many died in the camps, and throughout the book she thoughtfully reflects on why the gulag does not loom as large in the Western imagination as, for instance, the Holocaust.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n More than a full-scale history of the Soviet Gulag, this work by the Spectator''s deputy editor asks why it is so little remembered in both Russia and the West.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8168'),
(19502, 'Gulf Coast Girl: Original Title, Scorpion Reef', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6861'),
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(19504, 'Gulf coast girl: original title, Scorpion reef', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17035'),
(19505, 'Gulf coast girl: original title, Scorpion reef', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26880'),
(19506, 'Gulliver&#39;s Fugitives', 'Keith Sharee &amp; Jonathan Frakes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a crew from the Enterprise are beamed onto the planet Rampart - a world where works of fiction are considered the ultimate crime - they find themselves in the middle of a civil war. A war which will determine not only the future of the planet, but the life of Captain Picard as well.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While searching for the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Huxley\n  </em>\n  , missing for more than 10 years, the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM stumbles across a forgotten colony of humans on a planet called Rampart, where fiction and works of the imagination of any kind are considered a heinous crime. A survey team beams aboard the ship to search for "contraband," and the crew are drawn immediately into a vicious civil war between Rampart''s mind police and a band of determined rebels.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3758'),
(19507, 'Gulliver&#39;s Fugitives', 'Keith Sharee; Jonathan Frakes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When a crew from the Enterprise are beamed onto the planet Rampart - a world where works of fiction are considered the ultimate crime - they find themselves in the middle of a civil war. A war which will determine not only the future of the planet, but the life of Captain Picard as well.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  While searching for the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Huxley\n  </em>\n  , missing for more than 10 years, the\n  <em>\n   Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM stumbles across a forgotten colony of humans on a planet called Rampart, where fiction and works of the imagination of any kind are considered a heinous crime. A survey team beams aboard the ship to search for "contraband," and the crew are drawn immediately into a vicious civil war between Rampart''s mind police and a band of determined rebels.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20694'),
(19508, 'Gulliver&#39;s Travels', 'Jonathan Swift', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked, he washes up on an island called Lilliput, where the people are only six inches tall. This is just the beginning of many amazing adventures in which Gulliver meets giants and kings, a dangerous pet monkey and a cat the size of an ox.BLJames Riordan''s first novel, Sweet Clarinet, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children''s Novel Award in 1998\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4045'),
(19509, 'Gulliver&#39;s Travels', 'Jonathan Swift', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked, he washes up on an island called Lilliput, where the people are only six inches tall. This is just the beginning of many amazing adventures in which Gulliver meets giants and kings, a dangerous pet monkey and a cat the size of an ox.BLJames Riordan''s first novel, Sweet Clarinet, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children''s Novel Award in 1998\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12430'),
(19510, 'Gulliver&#39;s Travels', 'Jonathan Swift', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked, he washes up on an island called Lilliput, where the people are only six inches tall. This is just the beginning of many amazing adventures in which Gulliver meets giants and kings, a dangerous pet monkey and a cat the size of an ox.BLJames Riordan''s first novel, Sweet Clarinet, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children''s Novel Award in 1998\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13886'),
(19511, 'Gulliver&#39;s Travels', 'Jonathan Swift', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked, he washes up on an island called Lilliput, where the people are only six inches tall. This is just the beginning of many amazing adventures in which Gulliver meets giants and kings, a dangerous pet monkey and a cat the size of an ox.BLJames Riordan''s first novel, Sweet Clarinet, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children''s Novel Award in 1998\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20367'),
(19512, 'The Gun Seller', 'Hugh Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" (Vanity Fair) -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy.Cold-blooded murder just isn''t Thomas Lang''s cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead -- a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favorite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales. Up against rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer looking to make a high-tech killing, Lang''s out to save the leggy lady he has come to love...and prevent an international bloodbath to boot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14220'),
(19513, 'The Gun Seller', 'Hugh Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" (Vanity Fair) -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy.Cold-blooded murder just isn''t Thomas Lang''s cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead -- a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favorite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales. Up against rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer looking to make a high-tech killing, Lang''s out to save the leggy lady he has come to love...and prevent an international bloodbath to boot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19590'),
(19514, 'The Gun Seller', 'Hugh Laurie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" (Vanity Fair) -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy.Cold-blooded murder just isn''t Thomas Lang''s cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead -- a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favorite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales. Up against rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer looking to make a high-tech killing, Lang''s out to save the leggy lady he has come to love...and prevent an international bloodbath to boot.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28200'),
(19515, 'The Gun', 'C. J. Chivers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This superior history of the AK family of assault rifles begins with the invention of the machine gun by Hiram Maxim and traces automatic weapons through WWII. In 1947, Russian army officer Mikhail Kalashnikov adapted a German design of automatic infantry rifle to become the AK (for Avtomat Kalashnikov). It first attracted world attention in Vietnam by proving superior to the American M-16. Since then it has developed several relatives and been produced in many other countries, the total running into the hundreds of millions. It has armed regular armies, irregular armies, police forces, terrorists, common criminals, and ordinary householders in the majority of the worldâ€™s countries, creating a proliferation problem that has to date killed far more people than the nuclear kind. The author is a former U.S. Marine officer and prizewinning journalist who has written incisively and researched exhaustively. It lends force to his arguments that some of his informants have been assassinated with assault rifles for talking. --Roland Green\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Advance Praise for\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC. J. Chiversâ€™\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  does exactly what the best art history or music writing doesâ€”it opens our eyes to see anew the familiar. Chivers'' reach and scope is syncretic, omnivorousâ€”he is dazzling in his research and reporting. This is a book about connections between people and culture, people and history, nations with nations. Chivers pulls together vast threads of an expanding portrait and what emerges is startling.\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  is filled with a sense of discovery in the way that John McPheeâ€™s work is filled with delight, tribulation, and surprise.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Doug Stanton, author of\n  <em>\n   Horse Soldiers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€œThe Gun\n  </em>\n  is for those who wonder how we fight today and why we fight that way. C. J. Chivers has given us a seminal work that will be respected by future generations trying to understand us.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --James Bradley, author of\n  <em>\n   Flags of Our Fathers, Fly Boys,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Imperial Cruise\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œ_The Gun_ is a model of research, historical writing, military expertise, and a soldierâ€™s ungrudging respect for a weapon that really works.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Thomas Powers, author of\n  <em>\n   Intelligence Wars\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC. J. Chilvers tells a remarkable story of how this one, superbly reliable firearm became the most abundant ever produced, and was to exceed the consequences even of Soviet nuclear know-how in the Cold War, and beyond.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Alistair Horne, author of\n  <em>\n   The Price of Glory\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Savage War of Peace\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œThanks to C. J. Chivers, every G.I. and Marine in Vietnam who threw down his jammed M-16 in despair can trace the development of the better weapon he envied.\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  is part a biography of Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47, part grim social history and, in all its parts, entirely absorbing.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --A. J. Langguth,\n  <em>\n   Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC.J. Chivers, a brilliant war correspondent, is an equally capable military historian. By telling the story of a gun--well, not just any gun but arguably â€˜theâ€™ gun--he reveals much about crime, war, and terror, and he does so in convincing and compelling fashion.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Evan Thomas, author of\n  <em>\n   The War Lovers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7060'),
(19516, 'The Gun', 'C. J. Chivers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This superior history of the AK family of assault rifles begins with the invention of the machine gun by Hiram Maxim and traces automatic weapons through WWII. In 1947, Russian army officer Mikhail Kalashnikov adapted a German design of automatic infantry rifle to become the AK (for Avtomat Kalashnikov). It first attracted world attention in Vietnam by proving superior to the American M-16. Since then it has developed several relatives and been produced in many other countries, the total running into the hundreds of millions. It has armed regular armies, irregular armies, police forces, terrorists, common criminals, and ordinary householders in the majority of the worldâ€™s countries, creating a proliferation problem that has to date killed far more people than the nuclear kind. The author is a former U.S. Marine officer and prizewinning journalist who has written incisively and researched exhaustively. It lends force to his arguments that some of his informants have been assassinated with assault rifles for talking. --Roland Green\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Advance Praise for\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC. J. Chiversâ€™\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  does exactly what the best art history or music writing doesâ€”it opens our eyes to see anew the familiar. Chivers'' reach and scope is syncretic, omnivorousâ€”he is dazzling in his research and reporting. This is a book about connections between people and culture, people and history, nations with nations. Chivers pulls together vast threads of an expanding portrait and what emerges is startling.\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  is filled with a sense of discovery in the way that John McPheeâ€™s work is filled with delight, tribulation, and surprise.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Doug Stanton, author of\n  <em>\n   Horse Soldiers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€œThe Gun\n  </em>\n  is for those who wonder how we fight today and why we fight that way. C. J. Chivers has given us a seminal work that will be respected by future generations trying to understand us.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --James Bradley, author of\n  <em>\n   Flags of Our Fathers, Fly Boys,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Imperial Cruise\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œ_The Gun_ is a model of research, historical writing, military expertise, and a soldierâ€™s ungrudging respect for a weapon that really works.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Thomas Powers, author of\n  <em>\n   Intelligence Wars\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC. J. Chilvers tells a remarkable story of how this one, superbly reliable firearm became the most abundant ever produced, and was to exceed the consequences even of Soviet nuclear know-how in the Cold War, and beyond.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Alistair Horne, author of\n  <em>\n   The Price of Glory\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Savage War of Peace\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œThanks to C. J. Chivers, every G.I. and Marine in Vietnam who threw down his jammed M-16 in despair can trace the development of the better weapon he envied.\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  is part a biography of Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47, part grim social history and, in all its parts, entirely absorbing.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --A. J. Langguth,\n  <em>\n   Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC.J. Chivers, a brilliant war correspondent, is an equally capable military historian. By telling the story of a gun--well, not just any gun but arguably â€˜theâ€™ gun--he reveals much about crime, war, and terror, and he does so in convincing and compelling fashion.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Evan Thomas, author of\n  <em>\n   The War Lovers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8934'),
(19517, 'The Gun', 'C. J. Chivers', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n This superior history of the AK family of assault rifles begins with the invention of the machine gun by Hiram Maxim and traces automatic weapons through WWII. In 1947, Russian army officer Mikhail Kalashnikov adapted a German design of automatic infantry rifle to become the AK (for Avtomat Kalashnikov). It first attracted world attention in Vietnam by proving superior to the American M-16. Since then it has developed several relatives and been produced in many other countries, the total running into the hundreds of millions. It has armed regular armies, irregular armies, police forces, terrorists, common criminals, and ordinary householders in the majority of the worldâ€™s countries, creating a proliferation problem that has to date killed far more people than the nuclear kind. The author is a former U.S. Marine officer and prizewinning journalist who has written incisively and researched exhaustively. It lends force to his arguments that some of his informants have been assassinated with assault rifles for talking. --Roland Green\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Advance Praise for\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC. J. Chiversâ€™\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  does exactly what the best art history or music writing doesâ€”it opens our eyes to see anew the familiar. Chivers'' reach and scope is syncretic, omnivorousâ€”he is dazzling in his research and reporting. This is a book about connections between people and culture, people and history, nations with nations. Chivers pulls together vast threads of an expanding portrait and what emerges is startling.\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  is filled with a sense of discovery in the way that John McPheeâ€™s work is filled with delight, tribulation, and surprise.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Doug Stanton, author of\n  <em>\n   Horse Soldiers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   â€œThe Gun\n  </em>\n  is for those who wonder how we fight today and why we fight that way. C. J. Chivers has given us a seminal work that will be respected by future generations trying to understand us.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --James Bradley, author of\n  <em>\n   Flags of Our Fathers, Fly Boys,\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Imperial Cruise\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œ_The Gun_ is a model of research, historical writing, military expertise, and a soldierâ€™s ungrudging respect for a weapon that really works.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Thomas Powers, author of\n  <em>\n   Intelligence Wars\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC. J. Chilvers tells a remarkable story of how this one, superbly reliable firearm became the most abundant ever produced, and was to exceed the consequences even of Soviet nuclear know-how in the Cold War, and beyond.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Alistair Horne, author of\n  <em>\n   The Price of Glory\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Savage War of Peace\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œThanks to C. J. Chivers, every G.I. and Marine in Vietnam who threw down his jammed M-16 in despair can trace the development of the better weapon he envied.\n  <em>\n   The Gun\n  </em>\n  is part a biography of Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47, part grim social history and, in all its parts, entirely absorbing.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --A. J. Langguth,\n  <em>\n   Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  â€œC.J. Chivers, a brilliant war correspondent, is an equally capable military historian. By telling the story of a gun--well, not just any gun but arguably â€˜theâ€™ gun--he reveals much about crime, war, and terror, and he does so in convincing and compelling fashion.â€\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  --Evan Thomas, author of\n  <em>\n   The War Lovers\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16894'),
(19518, 'Gunn&#39;s Golden Rules', 'Tim Gunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the runway of life, Tim Gunn is the perfect life coach.  Youâ€™ve watched him mentor talented designers on the hit television show Project Runway. Now the inimitable Tim Gunn shares his personal secrets for â€œmaking it workâ€â€”in your career, relationships, and life. Filled with delightfully dishy stories of fashionâ€™s greatest divas, behind-the-scenes glimpses of Runwayâ€™s biggest drama queens, and never-before-revealed insights into Timâ€™s private life, Gunnâ€™s Golden Rules is like no other how-to book youâ€™ve ever read. In the world according to Tim, there are no shortcuts to success. Hard work, creativity, and skill are just the beginning. By following eighteen tried-and-true principles, you can apply Timâ€™s rules to anything you set your mind to. Youâ€™ll learn why Tim frowns on displays of bad behavior, like the vitriolic outburst by Martha Stewartâ€™s daughter about her motherâ€™s name-brand merchandise. Youâ€™ll discover the downfalls of divadom as he describes Vogueâ€™s AndrÃ© Leon Talley being hand-fed grapes and Anna Wintour being carried downstairs by her bodyguards. And youâ€™ll get Timâ€™s view on the backstabbing by one designer on Project Runway and how it brilliantly backfired. Then there are his down-to-earth guidelines for making life betterâ€”for yourself and othersâ€”in small and large ways, especially in an age that favors comfort over politeness, ease over style. Texting at the dinner table? Wearing shorts to the theater? Not in Timâ€™s book. Living a well-mannered life of integrity and character is hard work, he admits, but the rewards are many: being a good friend, being glamorous and attractive, and being a successâ€” much like Tim himself! He is never one to mince words. But Tim Gunn is always warm, witty, wise, and wonderfully supportiveâ€” just the mentor you need to design a happy, creative, and fulfilling life that will never go out of style.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/693'),
(19519, 'Gunn&#39;s Golden Rules', 'Tim Gunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n On the runway of life, Tim Gunn is the perfect life coach.  Youâ€™ve watched him mentor talented designers on the hit television show Project Runway. Now the inimitable Tim Gunn shares his personal secrets for â€œmaking it workâ€â€”in your career, relationships, and life. Filled with delightfully dishy stories of fashionâ€™s greatest divas, behind-the-scenes glimpses of Runwayâ€™s biggest drama queens, and never-before-revealed insights into Timâ€™s private life, Gunnâ€™s Golden Rules is like no other how-to book youâ€™ve ever read. In the world according to Tim, there are no shortcuts to success. Hard work, creativity, and skill are just the beginning. By following eighteen tried-and-true principles, you can apply Timâ€™s rules to anything you set your mind to. Youâ€™ll learn why Tim frowns on displays of bad behavior, like the vitriolic outburst by Martha Stewartâ€™s daughter about her motherâ€™s name-brand merchandise. Youâ€™ll discover the downfalls of divadom as he describes Vogueâ€™s AndrÃ© Leon Talley being hand-fed grapes and Anna Wintour being carried downstairs by her bodyguards. And youâ€™ll get Timâ€™s view on the backstabbing by one designer on Project Runway and how it brilliantly backfired. Then there are his down-to-earth guidelines for making life betterâ€”for yourself and othersâ€”in small and large ways, especially in an age that favors comfort over politeness, ease over style. Texting at the dinner table? Wearing shorts to the theater? Not in Timâ€™s book. Living a well-mannered life of integrity and character is hard work, he admits, but the rewards are many: being a good friend, being glamorous and attractive, and being a successâ€” much like Tim himself! He is never one to mince words. But Tim Gunn is always warm, witty, wise, and wonderfully supportiveâ€” just the mentor you need to design a happy, creative, and fulfilling life that will never go out of style.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10093'),
(19520, 'Gunn&#39;s Golden Rules', 'Tim Gunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: On the runway of life, Tim Gunn is the perfect life coach. Youâ€™ve watched him mentor talented designers on the hit television show Project Runway. Now the inimitable Tim Gunn shares his personal secrets for â€œmaking it workâ€â€”in your career, relationships, and life. Filled with delightfully dishy stories of fashionâ€™s greatest divas, behind-the-scenes glimpses of Runwayâ€™s biggest drama queens, and never-before-revealed insights into Timâ€™s private life, Gunnâ€™s Golden Rules is like no other how-to book youâ€™ve ever read. In the world according to Tim, there are no shortcuts to success. Hard work, creativity, and skill are just the beginning. By following eighteen tried-and-true principles, you can apply Timâ€™s rules to anything you set your mind to. Youâ€™ll learn why Tim frowns on displays of bad behavior, like the vitriolic outburst by Martha Stewartâ€™s daughter about her motherâ€™s name-brand merchandise. Youâ€™ll discover the downfalls of divadom as he describes Vogueâ€™s AndrÃ© Leon Talley being hand-fed grapes and Anna Wintour being carried downstairs by her bodyguards. And youâ€™ll get Timâ€™s view on the backstabbing by one designer on Project Runway and how it brilliantly backfired. Then there are his down-to-earth guidelines for making life betterâ€”for yourself and othersâ€”in small and large ways, especially in an age that favors comfort over politeness, ease over style. Texting at the dinner table? Wearing shorts to the theater? Not in Timâ€™s book. Living a well-mannered life of integrity and character is hard work, he admits, but the rewards are many: being a good friend, being glamorous and attractive, and being a successâ€” much like Tim himself! He is never one to mince words. But Tim Gunn is always warm, witty, wise, and wonderfully supportiveâ€” just the mentor you need to design a happy, creative, and fulfilling life that will never go out of style.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24318'),
(19521, 'The Guns of August', 'Barbara Wertheim Tuchman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFascinating . . . One of the finest works of history written . . . A splendid and glittering performance.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The New York Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œMORE DRAMATIC THAN FICTION . . . A MAGNIFICENT NARRATIVE . . . elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained . . . The product of painstaking and sophisticated research.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Chicago Tribune_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA BRILLIANT PIECE OF MILITARY HISTORY which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchillâ€™s statement that the first month of World War I was â€˜a drama never surpassed.â€™ A writer with an impeccable sense of telling detail, Mrs. Tuchman is able to evoke both the enormous pattern of the tragedy and the minutiae which make it human.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Newsweek_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] BEAUTIFULLY ORGANIZED, COMPELLING NARRATIVE.â€\n <br />\n â€“_San Francisco Chronicle\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œAN EPIC NEVER FLAGGING IN SUSPENSE . . . It seemed hardly possible that anything new of significance could be said about the prelude to and the first month of World War I. But this is exactly what Mrs. Tuchman has succeeded in doing . . . by transforming the dramaâ€™s protagonists as well as its immense supporting cast, from half-legendary and half shadowy figures into full-dimensional, believable persons.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Christian Science Monitor_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEXCELLENT . . . [_The Guns of August_] has a vitality that transcends its narrative virtues.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Wall Street Journal_\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."\n <br />\n CHICAGO TRIBUNE\n <br />\n Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn''t. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7268'),
(19522, 'The Guns of August', 'Barbara Wertheim Tuchman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFascinating . . . One of the finest works of history written . . . A splendid and glittering performance.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The New York Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œMORE DRAMATIC THAN FICTION . . . A MAGNIFICENT NARRATIVE . . . elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained . . . The product of painstaking and sophisticated research.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Chicago Tribune_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA BRILLIANT PIECE OF MILITARY HISTORY which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchillâ€™s statement that the first month of World War I was â€˜a drama never surpassed.â€™ A writer with an impeccable sense of telling detail, Mrs. Tuchman is able to evoke both the enormous pattern of the tragedy and the minutiae which make it human.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Newsweek_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] BEAUTIFULLY ORGANIZED, COMPELLING NARRATIVE.â€\n <br />\n â€“_San Francisco Chronicle\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œAN EPIC NEVER FLAGGING IN SUSPENSE . . . It seemed hardly possible that anything new of significance could be said about the prelude to and the first month of World War I. But this is exactly what Mrs. Tuchman has succeeded in doing . . . by transforming the dramaâ€™s protagonists as well as its immense supporting cast, from half-legendary and half shadowy figures into full-dimensional, believable persons.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Christian Science Monitor_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEXCELLENT . . . [_The Guns of August_] has a vitality that transcends its narrative virtues.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Wall Street Journal_\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."\n <br />\n CHICAGO TRIBUNE\n <br />\n Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn''t. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13060'),
(19523, 'The Guns of August', 'Barbara Wertheim Tuchman', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œFascinating . . . One of the finest works of history written . . . A splendid and glittering performance.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The New York Times\n <br />\n _\n <br />\n â€œMORE DRAMATIC THAN FICTION . . . A MAGNIFICENT NARRATIVE . . . elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained . . . The product of painstaking and sophisticated research.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Chicago Tribune_\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œA BRILLIANT PIECE OF MILITARY HISTORY which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchillâ€™s statement that the first month of World War I was â€˜a drama never surpassed.â€™ A writer with an impeccable sense of telling detail, Mrs. Tuchman is able to evoke both the enormous pattern of the tragedy and the minutiae which make it human.â€\n <br />\n â€“_Newsweek_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] BEAUTIFULLY ORGANIZED, COMPELLING NARRATIVE.â€\n <br />\n â€“_San Francisco Chronicle\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n _\n <br />\n â€œAN EPIC NEVER FLAGGING IN SUSPENSE . . . It seemed hardly possible that anything new of significance could be said about the prelude to and the first month of World War I. But this is exactly what Mrs. Tuchman has succeeded in doing . . . by transforming the dramaâ€™s protagonists as well as its immense supporting cast, from half-legendary and half shadowy figures into full-dimensional, believable persons.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Christian Science Monitor_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œEXCELLENT . . . [_The Guns of August_] has a vitality that transcends its narrative virtues.â€\n <br />\n â€“_The Wall Street Journal_\n <em>\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n "More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."\n <br />\n CHICAGO TRIBUNE\n <br />\n Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn''t. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16596'),
(19524, 'The Guns of Avalon', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Seeking vengeance against his usurping brother, Eric, Corwin, the rightful heir to the throne, ventures into the dark world of Shadow in order to gather ammunition, and is distracted by a beautiful and mysterious woman. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23114'),
(19525, 'Guns of Brixton', 'Mark Timlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2989'),
(19526, 'Guns of Brixton', 'Mark Timlin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21822'),
(19527, 'Guns of Navarone', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An entire navy had tried to silence the guns of Navarone and failed. Full-scale attacks had been driven back. Now they were sending in just five men, each one a specialist in dealing death.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  An entire navy had tried to silence the guns of Navarone and failed. Full-scale attacks had been driven back. Now they were sending in just five men, each one a specialist in dealing death.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15914'),
(19528, 'Guns Will Keep Us Together', 'Leslie Langtry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dakota Bombay prided himself on his blond Bond image---bad-guy killer by day, lady-killer by night. Then his life gets both shaken and stirred by an irate grandmother demanding a marketing plan for the family assassination business, a precocious six-year-old son Dak never knew he had, and a mysterious redhead who''s erased his decades-old preference for blondes. Suddenly the perennial playboy is knee deep in pie charts and thinking he may have found the perfect mom for his boy. She''s smart, funny, and directs a funeral home no less---what could be better? Now if he can just take out a team of rival assassins without getting killed himself, they can all live trigger-happily ever after.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3351'),
(19529, 'Guns Will Keep Us Together', 'Leslie Langtry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Dakota Bombay prided himself on his blond Bond image---bad-guy killer by day, lady-killer by night. Then his life gets both shaken and stirred by an irate grandmother demanding a marketing plan for the family assassination business, a precocious six-year-old son Dak never knew he had, and a mysterious redhead who''s erased his decades-old preference for blondes. Suddenly the perennial playboy is knee deep in pie charts and thinking he may have found the perfect mom for his boy. She''s smart, funny, and directs a funeral home no less---what could be better? Now if he can just take out a team of rival assassins without getting killed himself, they can all live trigger-happily ever after.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12212'),
(19530, 'Guns Will Keep Us Together', 'Leslie Langtry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Dakota Bombay prided himself on his blond Bond image---bad-guy killer by day, lady-killer by night. Then his life gets both shaken and stirred by an irate grandmother demanding a marketing plan for the family assassination business, a precocious six-year-old son Dak never knew he had, and a mysterious redhead who''s erased his decades-old preference for blondes. Suddenly the perennial playboy is knee deep in pie charts and thinking he may have found the perfect mom for his boy. She''s smart, funny, and directs a funeral home no less---what could be better? Now if he can just take out a team of rival assassins without getting killed himself, they can all live trigger-happily ever after.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21174'),
(19531, 'Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies', 'Jared M. Diamond', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a  stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age   hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates   that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and   Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous   wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and   herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a   head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures,   shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of   settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did   differences in societies arise? Why weren''t native Australians,   Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles   pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological   differences.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of   animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in   their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel   encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and   religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as   the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jared Diamond, professor of physiology at the UCLA Medical School, is  the author of **The Third Chimpanzee**, awarded the 1992 *Los  Angeles Times* Science Book Award. He is a regular contributor to  **Natural History** and **Discover** magazines and lives in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4682'),
(19532, 'Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies', 'Jared M. Diamond', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a  stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age   hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates   that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and   Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous   wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and   herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a   head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures,   shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of   settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did   differences in societies arise? Why weren''t native Australians,   Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles   pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological   differences.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of   animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in   their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel   encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and   religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as   the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Jared Diamond, professor of physiology at the UCLA Medical School, is  the author of **The Third Chimpanzee**, awarded the 1992 *Los  Angeles Times* Science Book Award. He is a regular contributor to  **Natural History** and **Discover** magazines and lives in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9292');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(19533, 'Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies', 'Jared M. Diamond', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide. The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren''t native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. Jared Diamond, professor of physiology at the UCLA Medical School, is the author of **The Third Chimpanzee**, awarded the 1992 *Los Angeles Times* Science Book Award. He is a regular contributor to **Natural History** and **Discover** magazines and lives in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15159'),
(19534, 'The Gunslinger', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The foundation of the epic Dark Tower series This heroic fantasy, set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, features one of Stephen King''s most powerful creations-The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier Western legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1015'),
(19535, 'The Gunslinger', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The foundation of the epic Dark Tower series This heroic fantasy, set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, features one of Stephen King''s most powerful creations-The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier Western legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10722'),
(19536, 'The gunslinger', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The foundation of the epic Dark Tower series This heroic fantasy, set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, features one of Stephen King''s most powerful creations-The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier Western legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14418'),
(19537, 'The gunslinger', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The foundation of the epic Dark Tower series This heroic fantasy, set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, features one of Stephen King''s most powerful creations-The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier Western legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23865'),
(19538, 'GURPS for Dummies (ISBN', '0471783293)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15380'),
(19539, 'Gutshot Straight', 'Lou Berney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A crime caper in the tradition of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, this fast and funny debut is the story of "Shake" Bouchon, fresh out of prison and ready for life on the straight and narrowâ€”well, maybe after *one* last job. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Charles "Shake" Bouchon, professional wheel man, walks out of prison after a three-year stretch for grand theft auto, he''s got only two problems: he''s too nice a guy for the life he''s led and not nice enough for any other.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So he says yes when he''s asked to run a simple errand for his former boss and lover, Alexandra Ilandryan, the formidable *pakhan* of the Armenian mob in Los Angeles. All Shake has to do is deliver a package to Las Vegas and pick up a briefcase.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only the package turns out to be a wholesome young housewife named Gina whose husband has run afoul of Dick Moby, aka "The Whale," an unpleasant four-hundred-pound Vegas strip-club owner. Shake hates to think what''s going to happen to Gina when he delivers her to The Whale, so in a move that''s as noble as it is boneheaded, he decides to set her free.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Shake and Gina are on the run to Panama, hoping to unload the very valuableâ€”and highly unusualâ€”contents of The Whale''s briefcase. Shake could end up a rich man, but first he''ll have to outmaneuver two angry crime bosses, a murderous Armenian thug plagued by erectile superfunction, a former pro football player who blames Shake for his romantic woes, and a billionaire swindler with a flair for the theatrical. Not to mention, and not the least, Shake will need to survive his own heart, since he''s going to discover that wholesome housewife Gina is even more intriguing, and a lot more complicated, than he ever imagined.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Full of blindsided double-crosses and hard shots to the head, *Gutshot Straight* is a tale of love, luck, and larceny against the odds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3277'),
(19540, 'Gutshot Straight', 'Lou Berney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A crime caper in the tradition of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, this fast and funny debut is the story of "Shake" Bouchon, fresh out of prison and ready for life on the straight and narrowâ€”well, maybe after *one* last job. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Charles "Shake" Bouchon, professional wheel man, walks out of prison after a three-year stretch for grand theft auto, he''s got only two problems: he''s too nice a guy for the life he''s led and not nice enough for any other.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n So he says yes when he''s asked to run a simple errand for his former boss and lover, Alexandra Ilandryan, the formidable *pakhan* of the Armenian mob in Los Angeles. All Shake has to do is deliver a package to Las Vegas and pick up a briefcase.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only the package turns out to be a wholesome young housewife named Gina whose husband has run afoul of Dick Moby, aka "The Whale," an unpleasant four-hundred-pound Vegas strip-club owner. Shake hates to think what''s going to happen to Gina when he delivers her to The Whale, so in a move that''s as noble as it is boneheaded, he decides to set her free.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now Shake and Gina are on the run to Panama, hoping to unload the very valuableâ€”and highly unusualâ€”contents of The Whale''s briefcase. Shake could end up a rich man, but first he''ll have to outmaneuver two angry crime bosses, a murderous Armenian thug plagued by erectile superfunction, a former pro football player who blames Shake for his romantic woes, and a billionaire swindler with a flair for the theatrical. Not to mention, and not the least, Shake will need to survive his own heart, since he''s going to discover that wholesome housewife Gina is even more intriguing, and a lot more complicated, than he ever imagined.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Full of blindsided double-crosses and hard shots to the head, *Gutshot Straight* is a tale of love, luck, and larceny against the odds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8465'),
(19541, 'Gutshot Straight', 'Lou Berney', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: A crime caper in the tradition of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, this fast and funny debut is the story of "Shake" Bouchon, fresh out of prison and ready for life on the straight and narrowâ€”well, maybe after *one* last job. . . . When Charles "Shake" Bouchon, professional wheel man, walks out of prison after a three-year stretch for grand theft auto, he''s got only two problems: he''s too nice a guy for the life he''s led and not nice enough for any other. So he says yes when he''s asked to run a simple errand for his former boss and lover, Alexandra Ilandryan, the formidable *pakhan* of the Armenian mob in Los Angeles. All Shake has to do is deliver a package to Las Vegas and pick up a briefcase. Only the package turns out to be a wholesome young housewife named Gina whose husband has run afoul of Dick Moby, aka "The Whale," an unpleasant four-hundred-pound Vegas strip-club owner. Shake hates to think what''s going to happen to Gina when he delivers her to The Whale, so in a move that''s as noble as it is boneheaded, he decides to set her free. Now Shake and Gina are on the run to Panama, hoping to unload the very valuableâ€”and highly unusualâ€”contents of The Whale''s briefcase. Shake could end up a rich man, but first he''ll have to outmaneuver two angry crime bosses, a murderous Armenian thug plagued by erectile superfunction, a former pro football player who blames Shake for his romantic woes, and a billionaire swindler with a flair for the theatrical. Not to mention, and not the least, Shake will need to survive his own heart, since he''s going to discover that wholesome housewife Gina is even more intriguing, and a lot more complicated, than he ever imagined. Full of blindsided double-crosses and hard shots to the head, *Gutshot Straight* is a tale of love, luck, and larceny against the odds.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20230'),
(19542, 'Guys Read: Funny Business', 'Jon Scieszka &amp; Mac Barnett &amp; Adam Rex &amp; Kate DiCamillo &amp; Christopher Paul Curtis &amp; Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 5-8â€“Building on the success of Guys Write for Guys Read (Viking, 2005), Scieszka continues his mission to take the â€œreluctantâ€ out of readers with this first volume of the â€œGuys Read Library.â€ For this title, Scieszka invited some of today''s top writers of children''s fiction to contribute a humorous short story. Not surprisingly, the resulting compilation has something for everyone. Looking for a story heavy on the ick-factor? Suggest Jack Gantos''s â€œThe Bloody Souvenir,â€ in which the Pagoda brothers return to wreak more havoc. David Yoo''s â€œA Fistful of Feathersâ€ features a bloodthirsty turkey intent on destroying the narrator''s life. Eoin Colfer offers an autobiographical piece that shares how his younger brother was his real-life inspiration for Artemis Fowl. Kate DiCamillo and Scieszka team up to offer a hilarious correspondence between Joe and an author who knows how to hold her own with unmotivated students. While these shorter stories may not have the liveliness of the authors'' full novels, each one is solid, and more importantly, it offers an introduction to that author''s style and voice. Don''t be surprised if students come seeking longer works by David Lubar, Christopher Paul Curtis, and other contributors after sampling them in this collection. Scieszka promises future volumes featuring other genres, among them nonfiction, sports, and action/adventure._Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The funny fellow (Jon Scieszka) with the impressive title (Emeritus National Ambassador for Childrenâ€™s Literature) presents a collection of 10 humorous (you were expecting tragedy?) stories by some leading lights in literature for young readers. This is the first volume of the promised official Guys Read library, which is named for Scieszkaâ€™s well-known Web site, designed, like this book, to encourage boys to read. And what better way to start than with this collection of howlers by the likes of Eoin Colfer, David Lubar, Christopher Paul Curtis, and other yuk-inducing luminaries. Standouts include Kate DiCamillo (the lone female among the authors) and editor Scieszkaâ€™s charmer of a story in letters between a famous author named Maureen Oâ€™Toople and a boy named Joe; David Yooâ€™s wacky, laugh-out-loud story about a disappointed father and an evil turkey; and from the diabolical imagination of Jack Gantos, a cautionary tale about dangerous friends and rusty pliers. A must-have collection for the boys in your libraryâ€”and while youâ€™re at it, get a copy for the girls, too! Grades 4-7. --Michael Cart\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4074'),
(19543, 'Guys Read: Funny Business', 'Jon Scieszka &amp; Mac Barnett &amp; Adam Rex &amp; Kate DiCamillo &amp; Christopher Paul Curtis &amp; Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 5-8â€“Building on the success of Guys Write for Guys Read (Viking, 2005), Scieszka continues his mission to take the â€œreluctantâ€ out of readers with this first volume of the â€œGuys Read Library.â€ For this title, Scieszka invited some of today''s top writers of children''s fiction to contribute a humorous short story. Not surprisingly, the resulting compilation has something for everyone. Looking for a story heavy on the ick-factor? Suggest Jack Gantos''s â€œThe Bloody Souvenir,â€ in which the Pagoda brothers return to wreak more havoc. David Yoo''s â€œA Fistful of Feathersâ€ features a bloodthirsty turkey intent on destroying the narrator''s life. Eoin Colfer offers an autobiographical piece that shares how his younger brother was his real-life inspiration for Artemis Fowl. Kate DiCamillo and Scieszka team up to offer a hilarious correspondence between Joe and an author who knows how to hold her own with unmotivated students. While these shorter stories may not have the liveliness of the authors'' full novels, each one is solid, and more importantly, it offers an introduction to that author''s style and voice. Don''t be surprised if students come seeking longer works by David Lubar, Christopher Paul Curtis, and other contributors after sampling them in this collection. Scieszka promises future volumes featuring other genres, among them nonfiction, sports, and action/adventure._Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The funny fellow (Jon Scieszka) with the impressive title (Emeritus National Ambassador for Childrenâ€™s Literature) presents a collection of 10 humorous (you were expecting tragedy?) stories by some leading lights in literature for young readers. This is the first volume of the promised official Guys Read library, which is named for Scieszkaâ€™s well-known Web site, designed, like this book, to encourage boys to read. And what better way to start than with this collection of howlers by the likes of Eoin Colfer, David Lubar, Christopher Paul Curtis, and other yuk-inducing luminaries. Standouts include Kate DiCamillo (the lone female among the authors) and editor Scieszkaâ€™s charmer of a story in letters between a famous author named Maureen Oâ€™Toople and a boy named Joe; David Yooâ€™s wacky, laugh-out-loud story about a disappointed father and an evil turkey; and from the diabolical imagination of Jack Gantos, a cautionary tale about dangerous friends and rusty pliers. A must-have collection for the boys in your libraryâ€”and while youâ€™re at it, get a copy for the girls, too! Grades 4-7. --Michael Cart\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12606'),
(19544, 'Guys Read: Funny Business', 'Jon Scieszka; Mac Barnett; Adam Rex; Kate DiCamillo; Christopher Paul Curtis; Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gr 5-8â€“Building on the success of Guys Write for Guys Read (Viking, 2005), Scieszka continues his mission to take the â€œreluctantâ€ out of readers with this first volume of the â€œGuys Read Library.â€ For this title, Scieszka invited some of today''s top writers of children''s fiction to contribute a humorous short story. Not surprisingly, the resulting compilation has something for everyone. Looking for a story heavy on the ick-factor? Suggest Jack Gantos''s â€œThe Bloody Souvenir,â€ in which the Pagoda brothers return to wreak more havoc. David Yoo''s â€œA Fistful of Feathersâ€ features a bloodthirsty turkey intent on destroying the narrator''s life. Eoin Colfer offers an autobiographical piece that shares how his younger brother was his real-life inspiration for Artemis Fowl. Kate DiCamillo and Scieszka team up to offer a hilarious correspondence between Joe and an author who knows how to hold her own with unmotivated students. While these shorter stories may not have the liveliness of the authors'' full novels, each one is solid, and more importantly, it offers an introduction to that author''s style and voice. Don''t be surprised if students come seeking longer works by David Lubar, Christopher Paul Curtis, and other contributors after sampling them in this collection. Scieszka promises future volumes featuring other genres, among them nonfiction, sports, and action/adventure._Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA_\n <br />\n Â© Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n The funny fellow (Jon Scieszka) with the impressive title (Emeritus National Ambassador for Childrenâ€™s Literature) presents a collection of 10 humorous (you were expecting tragedy?) stories by some leading lights in literature for young readers. This is the first volume of the promised official Guys Read library, which is named for Scieszkaâ€™s well-known Web site, designed, like this book, to encourage boys to read. And what better way to start than with this collection of howlers by the likes of Eoin Colfer, David Lubar, Christopher Paul Curtis, and other yuk-inducing luminaries. Standouts include Kate DiCamillo (the lone female among the authors) and editor Scieszkaâ€™s charmer of a story in letters between a famous author named Maureen Oâ€™Toople and a boy named Joe; David Yooâ€™s wacky, laugh-out-loud story about a disappointed father and an evil turkey; and from the diabolical imagination of Jack Gantos, a cautionary tale about dangerous friends and rusty pliers. A must-have collection for the boys in your libraryâ€”and while youâ€™re at it, get a copy for the girls, too! Grades 4-7. --Michael Cart\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20434'),
(19545, 'Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Prolific writer Lackey (The Phoenix Endangered) tackles the complex legend of King Arthur''s queens in this compelling and heart-wrenching retelling. When warrior-woman Braith announces that the Young Princess Gwen is marked by Epona, the goddess of horses, Gwen''s father allows her to train on the warrior path. Although Gwen is deep into training, in the background of her life lay the tales of two other women with the same name-Gwenhwyfar the Golden-both of whom were married to King Arthur. The story of Arthur''s kingdom unfolds as Gwen''s path as a warrior involves Lancelin, Arthur''s closest Companion, and Medraut, the illegitimate and magic-born child of Arthur and his half-sister, Anna Morgause. Lackey places the story in the early dark ages, rather than in the romanticized Camelot of the later Romances. She creates a vibrant world where the old religion and culture of the Celts vies with the invading traditions of the White Christ''s followers and Roman influence. Gwen is an independent and formidable woman, determined to follow her dreams, but also dedicated to her duty and to the good of Arthur''s kingdom. Though the ending of Arthur''s story comes as no surprise, the way that Lackey reweaves old tales to create something new and powerful, with a compelling and sympathetic heroine, is this retelling''s strength.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The bestselling author of the\n  <em>\n   Valdemar\n  </em>\n  novels pens a classic tale about King Arthur''s legendary queen.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Gwenhwyfar moves in a world where gods walk among their pagan worshipers, where nebulous visions warn of future perils, and where there are two paths for a woman: the path of the Blessing or the rarer path of the Warrior. Gwenhwyfar chooses the latter, giving up the power that she is born into. Yet the daughter of a King is never truly free to follow her own calling. Acting as the "son" her father never had, when called upon to serve another purpose by the Ladies of the Well, she bows to circumstances to become Arthur''s queen-only to find herself facing temptation and treachery, intrigue and betrayal, but also love and redemption..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2951'),
(19546, 'Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Prolific writer Lackey (The Phoenix Endangered) tackles the complex legend of King Arthur''s queens in this compelling and heart-wrenching retelling. When warrior-woman Braith announces that the Young Princess Gwen is marked by Epona, the goddess of horses, Gwen''s father allows her to train on the warrior path. Although Gwen is deep into training, in the background of her life lay the tales of two other women with the same name-Gwenhwyfar the Golden-both of whom were married to King Arthur. The story of Arthur''s kingdom unfolds as Gwen''s path as a warrior involves Lancelin, Arthur''s closest Companion, and Medraut, the illegitimate and magic-born child of Arthur and his half-sister, Anna Morgause. Lackey places the story in the early dark ages, rather than in the romanticized Camelot of the later Romances. She creates a vibrant world where the old religion and culture of the Celts vies with the invading traditions of the White Christ''s followers and Roman influence. Gwen is an independent and formidable woman, determined to follow her dreams, but also dedicated to her duty and to the good of Arthur''s kingdom. Though the ending of Arthur''s story comes as no surprise, the way that Lackey reweaves old tales to create something new and powerful, with a compelling and sympathetic heroine, is this retelling''s strength.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The bestselling author of the\n  <em>\n   Valdemar\n  </em>\n  novels pens a classic tale about King Arthur''s legendary queen.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Gwenhwyfar moves in a world where gods walk among their pagan worshipers, where nebulous visions warn of future perils, and where there are two paths for a woman: the path of the Blessing or the rarer path of the Warrior. Gwenhwyfar chooses the latter, giving up the power that she is born into. Yet the daughter of a King is never truly free to follow her own calling. Acting as the "son" her father never had, when called upon to serve another purpose by the Ladies of the Well, she bows to circumstances to become Arthur''s queen-only to find herself facing temptation and treachery, intrigue and betrayal, but also love and redemption..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12258'),
(19547, 'Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit', 'Mercedes Lackey', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Prolific writer Lackey (The Phoenix Endangered) tackles the complex legend of King Arthur''s queens in this compelling and heart-wrenching retelling. When warrior-woman Braith announces that the Young Princess Gwen is marked by Epona, the goddess of horses, Gwen''s father allows her to train on the warrior path. Although Gwen is deep into training, in the background of her life lay the tales of two other women with the same name-Gwenhwyfar the Golden-both of whom were married to King Arthur. The story of Arthur''s kingdom unfolds as Gwen''s path as a warrior involves Lancelin, Arthur''s closest Companion, and Medraut, the illegitimate and magic-born child of Arthur and his half-sister, Anna Morgause. Lackey places the story in the early dark ages, rather than in the romanticized Camelot of the later Romances. She creates a vibrant world where the old religion and culture of the Celts vies with the invading traditions of the White Christ''s followers and Roman influence. Gwen is an independent and formidable woman, determined to follow her dreams, but also dedicated to her duty and to the good of Arthur''s kingdom. Though the ending of Arthur''s story comes as no surprise, the way that Lackey reweaves old tales to create something new and powerful, with a compelling and sympathetic heroine, is this retelling''s strength.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The bestselling author of the\n  <em>\n   Valdemar\n  </em>\n  novels pens a classic tale about King Arthur''s legendary queen.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Gwenhwyfar moves in a world where gods walk among their pagan worshipers, where nebulous visions warn of future perils, and where there are two paths for a woman: the path of the Blessing or the rarer path of the Warrior. Gwenhwyfar chooses the latter, giving up the power that she is born into. Yet the daughter of a King is never truly free to follow her own calling. Acting as the "son" her father never had, when called upon to serve another purpose by the Ladies of the Well, she bows to circumstances to become Arthur''s queen-only to find herself facing temptation and treachery, intrigue and betrayal, but also love and redemption..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21927'),
(19548, 'Gypsy', 'Lesley Pearse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Liverpool, 1893, and tragedy sends Beth Bolton on a journey far from home ...Fifteen-year-old Beth''s dreams are shattered when she, her brother Sam and baby sister Molly are orphaned. Sam believes that only in America can they make their fortunes so, reluctantly leaving Molly with adoptive parents, brother and sister embark on the greatest adventure of their lives.Onboard the steamer to New York there are rogues aplenty. But Beth''s talent with the fiddle earns her the nickname Gypsy - and the friendship of charismatic gambler Theo and sharp-witted Londoner, Jack. And after dodging trouble across America, finally the foursome head for the dangerous mountains of Canada and the Klondike river in search of gold.How far must Beth go to find happiness? And will her travels lead this gypsy to a place she can call home?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3435'),
(19549, 'Gypsy', 'Lesley Pearse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Liverpool, 1893, and tragedy sends Beth Bolton on a journey far from home ...Fifteen-year-old Beth''s dreams are shattered when she, her brother Sam and baby sister Molly are orphaned. Sam believes that only in America can they make their fortunes so, reluctantly leaving Molly with adoptive parents, brother and sister embark on the greatest adventure of their lives.Onboard the steamer to New York there are rogues aplenty. But Beth''s talent with the fiddle earns her the nickname Gypsy - and the friendship of charismatic gambler Theo and sharp-witted Londoner, Jack. And after dodging trouble across America, finally the foursome head for the dangerous mountains of Canada and the Klondike river in search of gold.How far must Beth go to find happiness? And will her travels lead this gypsy to a place she can call home?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11848'),
(19550, 'Gypsy', 'Lesley Pearse', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Liverpool, 1893, and tragedy sends Beth Bolton on a journey far from home ...Fifteen-year-old Beth''s dreams are shattered when she, her brother Sam and baby sister Molly are orphaned. Sam believes that only in America can they make their fortunes so, reluctantly leaving Molly with adoptive parents, brother and sister embark on the greatest adventure of their lives.Onboard the steamer to New York there are rogues aplenty. But Beth''s talent with the fiddle earns her the nickname Gypsy - and the friendship of charismatic gambler Theo and sharp-witted Londoner, Jack. And after dodging trouble across America, finally the foursome head for the dangerous mountains of Canada and the Klondike river in search of gold.How far must Beth go to find happiness? And will her travels lead this gypsy to a place she can call home?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21035'),
(19551, 'H Is for Homicide', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Sue Graftonâ€™s PI Kinsey Millhone tackles insurance fraud in her latest outingâ€”and finds that sheâ€™ll have to commit some deceit of her own to catch a cold-blooded killerâ€¦*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **H IS FOR HUSTLERâ€¦**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When PI Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s good friend and colleague Parnell Perkins is found murdered in the parking lot behind California Fidelity Insurance, she canâ€™t believe he had any enemies. The only clue that raises a red flag for Kinsey is one of Parnellâ€™s files on a Bibianna Diaz, who appears to have made a lucrative career out of scamming insurance companies with phony claimsâ€¦\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **H IS FOR HAZARDOUSâ€¦**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Taking an alias, Kinsey goes undercover to befriend Bibianna, hoping sheâ€™ll get close enough to catch the con artist at her own game. But Kinsey never dreams that hanging out with Bibianna will get them both thrown in jail. And when theyâ€™re released, Bibiannaâ€™s very jealous, very dangerous ex-fiancÃ© Raymond Maldonado is waiting for them.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***H IS FOR HOMICIDE***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Kinsey soon discovers the short-tempered thug is the kingpin behind Bibiannaâ€™s and countless other phony insurance claims. But was Raymond also responsible for Parnellâ€™s death? All Kinsey knows is that sheâ€™ll have to think quick to nab one of the most treacherous criminals sheâ€™s come face to face withâ€”and keep herself aliveâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/950'),
(19552, 'H Is for Homicide', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: * #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Sue Graftonâ€™s PI Kinsey Millhone tackles insurance fraud in her latest outingâ€”and finds that sheâ€™ll have to commit some deceit of her own to catch a cold-blooded killerâ€¦* **H IS FOR HUSTLERâ€¦** When PI Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s good friend and colleague Parnell Perkins is found murdered in the parking lot behind California Fidelity Insurance, she canâ€™t believe he had any enemies. The only clue that raises a red flag for Kinsey is one of Parnellâ€™s files on a Bibianna Diaz, who appears to have made a lucrative career out of scamming insurance companies with phony claimsâ€¦ **H IS FOR HAZARDOUSâ€¦** Taking an alias, Kinsey goes undercover to befriend Bibianna, hoping sheâ€™ll get close enough to catch the con artist at her own game. But Kinsey never dreams that hanging out with Bibianna will get them both thrown in jail. And when theyâ€™re released, Bibiannaâ€™s very jealous, very dangerous ex-fiancÃ© Raymond Maldonado is waiting for them. ***H IS FOR HOMICIDE*** Kinsey soon discovers the short-tempered thug is the kingpin behind Bibiannaâ€™s and countless other phony insurance claims. But was Raymond also responsible for Parnellâ€™s death? All Kinsey knows is that sheâ€™ll have to think quick to nab one of the most treacherous criminals sheâ€™s come face to face withâ€”and keep herself aliveâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14940'),
(19553, 'H Is for Homicide', 'Sue Grafton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: * #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Sue Graftonâ€™s PI Kinsey Millhone tackles insurance fraud in her latest outingâ€”and finds that sheâ€™ll have to commit some deceit of her own to catch a cold-blooded killerâ€¦* **H IS FOR HUSTLERâ€¦** When PI Kinsey Millhoneâ€™s good friend and colleague Parnell Perkins is found murdered in the parking lot behind California Fidelity Insurance, she canâ€™t believe he had any enemies. The only clue that raises a red flag for Kinsey is one of Parnellâ€™s files on a Bibianna Diaz, who appears to have made a lucrative career out of scamming insurance companies with phony claimsâ€¦ **H IS FOR HAZARDOUSâ€¦** Taking an alias, Kinsey goes undercover to befriend Bibianna, hoping sheâ€™ll get close enough to catch the con artist at her own game. But Kinsey never dreams that hanging out with Bibianna will get them both thrown in jail. And when theyâ€™re released, Bibiannaâ€™s very jealous, very dangerous ex-fiancÃ© Raymond Maldonado is waiting for them. ***H IS FOR HOMICIDE*** Kinsey soon discovers the short-tempered thug is the kingpin behind Bibiannaâ€™s and countless other phony insurance claims. But was Raymond also responsible for Parnellâ€™s death? All Kinsey knows is that sheâ€™ll have to think quick to nab one of the most treacherous criminals sheâ€™s come face to face withâ€”and keep herself aliveâ€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24024'),
(19554, 'H.M.S. Surprise', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed  it." ''Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press  Third in the series of Aubrey/Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and  smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the  distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive,  pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy  enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But  somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize  that could make him rich beyond his wildest  dream: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the  China Fleet... .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2357'),
(19555, 'H.M.S. Surprise', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it." ''Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press Third in the series of Aubrey/Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could make him rich beyond his wildest dream: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet... .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14355'),
(19556, 'H.M.S. Surprise', 'Patrick O&#39;Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it." ''Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press Third in the series of Aubrey/Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could make him rich beyond his wildest dream: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet... .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22456'),
(19557, 'H.R.H.', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a novel where ancient traditions conflict with reality and the pressures of modern  life, a young European princess proves that simplicity, courage, and dignity win  the day and forever alter her world. In blue jeans and a pullover, Princess Christianna  is a young woman of her times: born in Europe, educated in America, worried about  the future of the world she lives in, responsible beyond her years.  Christianna  is the only daughter of the Reigning Prince of a European nation that takes its royalty  seriouslyâ€“and her father has ironclad plans for Christiannaâ€™s life, a burden that  is almost unbearable. Now, after four years at Berkeley, life in her fatherâ€™s palace  cannot distract Christianna from what she sees outside the kingdomâ€“the suffering  of children, the ravages of terrorism and disease.  Determined to make a difference  in the world, she persuades His Royal Highness, her father, to let her volunteer  for the Red Cross in East Africa.  And for Christianna, a journey of discovery, change,  and awakening begins. Under a searing East African sun, Christianna plunges into  the dusty, bustling life of an international relief camp, finding a passion and a  calling among the brave doctors and volunteers.  Finally free from the scrutiny of  her royal life, Christianna struggles to keep her identity a secret from her new  friends and coworkersâ€“even from Parker Williams, the young doctor from Doctors Without  Borders who works alongside Christianna and shares her dedication to healing.  But  as violence approaches and invades the camp, and the pressures of her royal life  beckon her home, Christiannaâ€™s struggle for freedom takes an extraordinary turn.   By a simple twist of fate, in one shocking moment, Christiannaâ€™s life is changed  foreverâ€“in ways she never could have foreseen. From the splendor of a princeâ€™s palace  to the chaos of war-torn nations, Danielle Steel takes us into fascinating new worlds.   Filled with unforgettable images and a remarkable cast of characters, **H.R.H.** is  a novel of the conflict between old and new worlds, responsibility versus freedom,  and duty versus love. *From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6376'),
(19558, 'H.R.H.', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In a novel where ancient traditions conflict with reality and the pressures of modern  life, a young European princess proves that simplicity, courage, and dignity win  the day and forever alter her world. In blue jeans and a pullover, Princess Christianna  is a young woman of her times: born in Europe, educated in America, worried about  the future of the world she lives in, responsible beyond her years.  Christianna  is the only daughter of the Reigning Prince of a European nation that takes its royalty  seriouslyâ€“and her father has ironclad plans for Christiannaâ€™s life, a burden that  is almost unbearable. Now, after four years at Berkeley, life in her fatherâ€™s palace  cannot distract Christianna from what she sees outside the kingdomâ€“the suffering  of children, the ravages of terrorism and disease.  Determined to make a difference  in the world, she persuades His Royal Highness, her father, to let her volunteer  for the Red Cross in East Africa.  And for Christianna, a journey of discovery, change,  and awakening begins. Under a searing East African sun, Christianna plunges into  the dusty, bustling life of an international relief camp, finding a passion and a  calling among the brave doctors and volunteers.  Finally free from the scrutiny of  her royal life, Christianna struggles to keep her identity a secret from her new  friends and coworkersâ€“even from Parker Williams, the young doctor from Doctors Without  Borders who works alongside Christianna and shares her dedication to healing.  But  as violence approaches and invades the camp, and the pressures of her royal life  beckon her home, Christiannaâ€™s struggle for freedom takes an extraordinary turn.   By a simple twist of fate, in one shocking moment, Christiannaâ€™s life is changed  foreverâ€“in ways she never could have foreseen. From the splendor of a princeâ€™s palace  to the chaos of war-torn nations, Danielle Steel takes us into fascinating new worlds.   Filled with unforgettable images and a remarkable cast of characters, **H.R.H.** is  a novel of the conflict between old and new worlds, responsibility versus freedom,  and duty versus love. *From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12846'),
(19559, 'H.R.H.', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a novel where ancient traditions conflict with reality and the pressures of modern life, a young European princess proves that simplicity, courage, and dignity win the day and forever alter her world. In blue jeans and a pullover, Princess Christianna is a young woman of her times: born in Europe, educated in America, worried about the future of the world she lives in, responsible beyond her years. Christianna is the only daughter of the Reigning Prince of a European nation that takes its royalty seriouslyâ€“and her father has ironclad plans for Christiannaâ€™s life, a burden that is almost unbearable. Now, after four years at Berkeley, life in her fatherâ€™s palace cannot distract Christianna from what she sees outside the kingdomâ€“the suffering of children, the ravages of terrorism and disease. Determined to make a difference in the world, she persuades His Royal Highness, her father, to let her volunteer for the Red Cross in East Africa. And for Christianna, a journey of discovery, change, and awakening begins. Under a searing East African sun, Christianna plunges into the dusty, bustling life of an international relief camp, finding a passion and a calling among the brave doctors and volunteers. Finally free from the scrutiny of her royal life, Christianna struggles to keep her identity a secret from her new friends and coworkersâ€“even from Parker Williams, the young doctor from Doctors Without Borders who works alongside Christianna and shares her dedication to healing. But as violence approaches and invades the camp, and the pressures of her royal life beckon her home, Christiannaâ€™s struggle for freedom takes an extraordinary turn. By a simple twist of fate, in one shocking moment, Christiannaâ€™s life is changed foreverâ€“in ways she never could have foreseen. From the splendor of a princeâ€™s palace to the chaos of war-torn nations, Danielle Steel takes us into fascinating new worlds. Filled with unforgettable images and a remarkable cast of characters, **H.R.H.** is a novel of the conflict between old and new worlds, responsibility versus freedom, and duty versus love. *From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17586'),
(19560, 'H.R.H.', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a novel where ancient traditions conflict with reality and the pressures of modern life, a young European princess proves that simplicity, courage, and dignity win the day and forever alter her world. In blue jeans and a pullover, Princess Christianna is a young woman of her times: born in Europe, educated in America, worried about the future of the world she lives in, responsible beyond her years. Christianna is the only daughter of the Reigning Prince of a European nation that takes its royalty seriouslyâ€“and her father has ironclad plans for Christiannaâ€™s life, a burden that is almost unbearable. Now, after four years at Berkeley, life in her fatherâ€™s palace cannot distract Christianna from what she sees outside the kingdomâ€“the suffering of children, the ravages of terrorism and disease. Determined to make a difference in the world, she persuades His Royal Highness, her father, to let her volunteer for the Red Cross in East Africa. And for Christianna, a journey of discovery, change, and awakening begins. Under a searing East African sun, Christianna plunges into the dusty, bustling life of an international relief camp, finding a passion and a calling among the brave doctors and volunteers. Finally free from the scrutiny of her royal life, Christianna struggles to keep her identity a secret from her new friends and coworkersâ€“even from Parker Williams, the young doctor from Doctors Without Borders who works alongside Christianna and shares her dedication to healing. But as violence approaches and invades the camp, and the pressures of her royal life beckon her home, Christiannaâ€™s struggle for freedom takes an extraordinary turn. By a simple twist of fate, in one shocking moment, Christiannaâ€™s life is changed foreverâ€“in ways she never could have foreseen. From the splendor of a princeâ€™s palace to the chaos of war-torn nations, Danielle Steel takes us into fascinating new worlds. Filled with unforgettable images and a remarkable cast of characters, **H.R.H.** is a novel of the conflict between old and new worlds, responsibility versus freedom, and duty versus love. *From the Hardcover edition.*\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27195');
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(19561, 'The Habitation of the Blessed', 'Catherynne M. Valente', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1165, a letter ostensibly written by the distant Christian king Prester John describing a kingdom of wonders rocked medieval Europe. In this enchanting retelling of the legend, the first volume in a projected trilogy, Hugo nominee Valente (Palimpsest) imagines what might have been discovered by Rome''s ambassadors if the letter had not been a hoax. Nothing is quite as fabulous as the pious priests had hoped. Prester John and St. Thomas the Twin married nonhuman women; the Fountain of Youth does not sparkle, but instead "oozes thick and oily, globbed with algae and the eggs of improbable mayflies." Three very different personalities narrate: the brooding Prester John himself; his carefree and openhearted wife, the blemmye Hagia; and maternal Imtithal of the elephant-eared panotii. Filled with lyrical prose and fabled creatures, this languorous fairy tale is as captivating as Prester John''s original letter. (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the story of a place that never was: the kingdom of Prester John, the utopia described by an anonymous, twelfth-century document which captured the imagination of the medieval world and drove hundreds of lost souls to seek out its secrets, inspiring explorers, missionaries, and kings for centuries. But what if it were all true? What if there was such a place, and a poor, broken priest once stumbled past its borders, discovering, not a Christian paradise, but a country where everything is possible, immortality is easily had, and the Western world is nothing but a dim and distant dream?\n</p>\n<p>\n Brother Hiob of Luzerne, on missionary work in the Himalayan wilderness on the eve of the eighteenth century, discovers a village guarding a miraculous tree whose branches sprout books instead of fruit. These strange books chronicle the history of the kingdom of Prester John, and Hiob becomes obsessed with the tales they tell. The Habitation of the Blessed recounts the fragmented narratives found within these living volumes, revealing the life of a priest named John, and his rise to power in this country of impossible richness. John''s tale weaves together with the confessions of his wife Hagia, a blemmye--a headless creature who carried her face on her chest--as well as the tender, jeweled nursery stories of Imtithal, nanny to the royal family. Hugo and World Fantasy award nominee Catherynne M. Valente reimagines the legends of Prester John in this stunning tour de force.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6955'),
(19562, 'The Habitation of the Blessed', 'Catherynne M. Valente', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In 1165, a letter ostensibly written by the distant Christian king Prester John describing a kingdom of wonders rocked medieval Europe. In this enchanting retelling of the legend, the first volume in a projected trilogy, Hugo nominee Valente (Palimpsest) imagines what might have been discovered by Rome''s ambassadors if the letter had not been a hoax. Nothing is quite as fabulous as the pious priests had hoped. Prester John and St. Thomas the Twin married nonhuman women; the Fountain of Youth does not sparkle, but instead "oozes thick and oily, globbed with algae and the eggs of improbable mayflies." Three very different personalities narrate: the brooding Prester John himself; his carefree and openhearted wife, the blemmye Hagia; and maternal Imtithal of the elephant-eared panotii. Filled with lyrical prose and fabled creatures, this languorous fairy tale is as captivating as Prester John''s original letter. (Dec.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the story of a place that never was: the kingdom of Prester John, the utopia described by an anonymous, twelfth-century document which captured the imagination of the medieval world and drove hundreds of lost souls to seek out its secrets, inspiring explorers, missionaries, and kings for centuries. But what if it were all true? What if there was such a place, and a poor, broken priest once stumbled past its borders, discovering, not a Christian paradise, but a country where everything is possible, immortality is easily had, and the Western world is nothing but a dim and distant dream?\n</p>\n<p>\n Brother Hiob of Luzerne, on missionary work in the Himalayan wilderness on the eve of the eighteenth century, discovers a village guarding a miraculous tree whose branches sprout books instead of fruit. These strange books chronicle the history of the kingdom of Prester John, and Hiob becomes obsessed with the tales they tell. The Habitation of the Blessed recounts the fragmented narratives found within these living volumes, revealing the life of a priest named John, and his rise to power in this country of impossible richness. John''s tale weaves together with the confessions of his wife Hagia, a blemmye--a headless creature who carried her face on her chest--as well as the tender, jeweled nursery stories of Imtithal, nanny to the royal family. Hugo and World Fantasy award nominee Catherynne M. Valente reimagines the legends of Prester John in this stunning tour de force.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13168'),
(19563, 'The Habitation of the Blessed', 'Catherynne M. Valente', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This is the story of a place that never was: the kingdom of Prester John, the utopia described by an anonymous, twelfth-century document which captured the imagination of the medieval world and drove hundreds of lost souls to seek out its secrets, inspiring explorers, missionaries, and kings for centuries. But what if it were all true? What if there was such a place, and a poor, broken priest once stumbled past its borders, discovering, not a Christian paradise, but a country where everything is possible, immortality is easily had, and the Western world is nothing but a dim and distant dream?Brother Hiob of Luzerne, on missionary work in the Himalayan wilderness on the eve of the eighteenth century, discovers a village guarding a miraculous tree whose branches sprout books instead of fruit. These strange books chronicle the history of the kingdom of Prester John, and Hiob becomes obsessed with the tales they tell. The Habitation of the Blessed recounts the fragmented narratives found within these living volumes, revealing the life of a priest named John, and his rise to power in this country of impossible richness. John''s tale weaves together with the confessions of his wife Hagia, a blemmye--a headless creature who carried her face on her chest--as well as the tender, jeweled nursery stories of Imtithal, nanny to the royal family. Hugo and World Fantasy award nominee Catherynne M. Valente reimagines the legends of Prester John in this stunning tour de force.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16962'),
(19564, 'Hacking for Dummies (ISBN', '076455784X)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20098'),
(19565, 'Hacking Wireless Networks for Dummies (ISBN', '0764597302)', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20099'),
(19566, 'Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition', 'Jon Erickson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n While other books merely show how to run existing exploits,\n <i>\n  Hacking: The Art of Exploitation\n </i>\n broke ground as the first book to explain how hacking and software exploits work and how readers could develop and implement their own. In the extensively updated and expanded second edition, author Jon Erickson again uses practical examples to illustrate the most common computer security issues in three related fields: programming, networking and cryptography. Includes a live CD, which provides a Linux programming environment and all of its benefits without the hassle of installing a new operating system.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4058'),
(19567, 'Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition', 'Jon Erickson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n While other books merely show how to run existing exploits,\n <i>\n  Hacking: The Art of Exploitation\n </i>\n broke ground as the first book to explain how hacking and software exploits work and how readers could develop and implement their own. In the extensively updated and expanded second edition, author Jon Erickson again uses practical examples to illustrate the most common computer security issues in three related fields: programming, networking and cryptography. Includes a live CD, which provides a Linux programming environment and all of its benefits without the hassle of installing a new operating system.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9646'),
(19568, 'Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition', 'Jon Erickson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n While other books merely show how to run existing exploits,\n <i>\n  Hacking: The Art of Exploitation\n </i>\n broke ground as the first book to explain how hacking and software exploits work and how readers could develop and implement their own. In the extensively updated and expanded second edition, author Jon Erickson again uses practical examples to illustrate the most common computer security issues in three related fields: programming, networking and cryptography. Includes a live CD, which provides a Linux programming environment and all of its benefits without the hassle of installing a new operating system.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20360'),
(19569, 'Hacking: The Next Generation', 'Nitesh Dhanjani &amp; Billy Rios &amp; Brett Hardin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With the advent of rich Internet applications, the explosion of social media, and the increased use of powerful cloud computing infrastructures, a new generation of attackers has added cunning new techniques to its arsenal. For anyone involved in defending an application or a network of systems,\n <em>\n  Hacking: The Next Generation\n </em>\n is one of the few books to identify a variety of emerging attack vectors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2517'),
(19570, 'Hacking: The Next Generation', 'Nitesh Dhanjani &amp; Billy Rios &amp; Brett Hardin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With the advent of rich Internet applications, the explosion of social media, and the increased use of powerful cloud computing infrastructures, a new generation of attackers has added cunning new techniques to its arsenal. For anyone involved in defending an application or a network of systems,\n <em>\n  Hacking: The Next Generation\n </em>\n is one of the few books to identify a variety of emerging attack vectors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9293'),
(19571, 'Hacking: The Next Generation', 'Nitesh Dhanjani;Billy Rios;Brett Hardin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n With the advent of rich Internet applications, the explosion of social media, and the increased use of powerful cloud computing infrastructures, a new generation of attackers has added cunning new techniques to its arsenal. For anyone involved in defending an application or a network of systems,\n <em>\n  Hacking: The Next Generation\n </em>\n is one of the few books to identify a variety of emerging attack vectors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22244'),
(19572, 'Hades', 'Russell Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of the pseudonymous Andrews''s intelligent page-turner, his third Justin Westwood thriller (after\n <em>\n  Midas\n </em>\n ), Westwood, the police chief of the quiet Long Island community of East End Harbor, has just begun a torrid affair with Abigail Harmon, the stunning wife of a wealthy investor, when a late-night phone call informs him that her husband has been found brutally murdered. Placed in the uncomfortable position of being the widow''s alibi as well as the prime suspect in the eyes of an ambitious local prosecutor angling for an eventual gubernatorial race, Westwood has a personal stake in tracking down the killer. The twisty plot provides the appealing Westwood with plenty of challenges, though his heroics sometimes border on the implausible (especially when he''s battling a lethal team of Asian assassins). Under his actual name, Peter Gethers, Andrews is the author of several bestselling nonfiction books, including\n <em>\n  The Cat Who Went to Paris\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With its third installment, after\n <em>\n  Aphrodite\n </em>\n (2003) and\n <em>\n  Midas\n </em>\n (2005), the Justin Westwood series seems to be settling in for a long run. Westwood, the troubled small-town police chief, is faced with a case that is a touch too personal for his liking: a Wall Street bigwig has been murdered, and Westwood happens to have been between the sheets with the victim''s wife at the time. Now he is looking at conspiracy charges, at the very least, and the only way to clear his name is to solve the murder, break up a multinational conspiracy, and face down memories of his own deeply disturbed past. Andrews explores a few more levels of the enigmatic Westwood, who ditched the big city--where he was a homicide detective--after a tragedy that the author hints at but never fully reveals. The author''s plots may be a bit too conspiracy minded for some readers, but those who like their crime novels dark, mysterious, and labyrinthine will have a great time.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1510'),
(19573, 'Hades', 'Russell Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of the pseudonymous Andrews''s intelligent page-turner, his third Justin Westwood thriller (after\n <em>\n  Midas\n </em>\n ), Westwood, the police chief of the quiet Long Island community of East End Harbor, has just begun a torrid affair with Abigail Harmon, the stunning wife of a wealthy investor, when a late-night phone call informs him that her husband has been found brutally murdered. Placed in the uncomfortable position of being the widow''s alibi as well as the prime suspect in the eyes of an ambitious local prosecutor angling for an eventual gubernatorial race, Westwood has a personal stake in tracking down the killer. The twisty plot provides the appealing Westwood with plenty of challenges, though his heroics sometimes border on the implausible (especially when he''s battling a lethal team of Asian assassins). Under his actual name, Peter Gethers, Andrews is the author of several bestselling nonfiction books, including\n <em>\n  The Cat Who Went to Paris\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With its third installment, after\n <em>\n  Aphrodite\n </em>\n (2003) and\n <em>\n  Midas\n </em>\n (2005), the Justin Westwood series seems to be settling in for a long run. Westwood, the troubled small-town police chief, is faced with a case that is a touch too personal for his liking: a Wall Street bigwig has been murdered, and Westwood happens to have been between the sheets with the victim''s wife at the time. Now he is looking at conspiracy charges, at the very least, and the only way to clear his name is to solve the murder, break up a multinational conspiracy, and face down memories of his own deeply disturbed past. Andrews explores a few more levels of the enigmatic Westwood, who ditched the big city--where he was a homicide detective--after a tragedy that the author hints at but never fully reveals. The author''s plots may be a bit too conspiracy minded for some readers, but those who like their crime novels dark, mysterious, and labyrinthine will have a great time.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8203'),
(19574, 'Hades', 'Russell Andrews', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At the start of the pseudonymous Andrews''s intelligent page-turner, his third Justin Westwood thriller (after\n <em>\n  Midas\n </em>\n ), Westwood, the police chief of the quiet Long Island community of East End Harbor, has just begun a torrid affair with Abigail Harmon, the stunning wife of a wealthy investor, when a late-night phone call informs him that her husband has been found brutally murdered. Placed in the uncomfortable position of being the widow''s alibi as well as the prime suspect in the eyes of an ambitious local prosecutor angling for an eventual gubernatorial race, Westwood has a personal stake in tracking down the killer. The twisty plot provides the appealing Westwood with plenty of challenges, though his heroics sometimes border on the implausible (especially when he''s battling a lethal team of Asian assassins). Under his actual name, Peter Gethers, Andrews is the author of several bestselling nonfiction books, including\n <em>\n  The Cat Who Went to Paris\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  (Mar.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n With its third installment, after\n <em>\n  Aphrodite\n </em>\n (2003) and\n <em>\n  Midas\n </em>\n (2005), the Justin Westwood series seems to be settling in for a long run. Westwood, the troubled small-town police chief, is faced with a case that is a touch too personal for his liking: a Wall Street bigwig has been murdered, and Westwood happens to have been between the sheets with the victim''s wife at the time. Now he is looking at conspiracy charges, at the very least, and the only way to clear his name is to solve the murder, break up a multinational conspiracy, and face down memories of his own deeply disturbed past. Andrews explores a few more levels of the enigmatic Westwood, who ditched the big city--where he was a homicide detective--after a tragedy that the author hints at but never fully reveals. The author''s plots may be a bit too conspiracy minded for some readers, but those who like their crime novels dark, mysterious, and labyrinthine will have a great time.\n <em>\n  David Pitt\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23391'),
(19575, 'The Hades Factor', 'Robert Ludlum &amp; Gayle Lynds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n An unknown doomsday virus has claimed the lives of four people - including the fiancee of Covert One''s Lt. Col. Jon Smith. Devastated and enraged, Smith uncovers evidence that this was no accident; someone out there has the virus and the pandemic that threatens millions of lives was planned...Not knowing who to trust or where to turn, Smith assembles a private team to fight against the deadly virus. As the death toll mounts, the quest leads them to the highest levels of power and the darkest corners of the earth. And Smith and his team must hunt down a genius determined to destroy them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1669'),
(19576, 'The Hades Factor', 'Robert Ludlum; Gayle Lynds', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: An unknown doomsday virus has claimed the lives of four people - including the fiancee of Covert One''s Lt. Col. Jon Smith. Devastated and enraged, Smith uncovers evidence that this was no accident; someone out there has the virus and the pandemic that threatens millions of lives was planned...Not knowing who to trust or where to turn, Smith assembles a private team to fight against the deadly virus. As the death toll mounts, the quest leads them to the highest levels of power and the darkest corners of the earth. And Smith and his team must hunt down a genius determined to destroy them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23302'),
(19577, 'The Hadrian Memorandum', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Folsom''s improbable sequel to his equally improbable\n  <em>\n   The Machiavelli Covenant\n  </em>\n  (2006) takes ex-LAPD detective Nicholas Marten, who''s trying to create a new life for himself as a landscape architect in England, to Equatorial Guinea, at the behest of the U.S. president, John Henry Harris, who became his confidante in the previous book. In a village on the island of Bioko, Marten meets Willy Dorhn, a 78-year-old German-born priest, who shows him photos of rebels being armed by members of a U.S. security firm hired to protect American oil workers. Soon after, soldiers who serve the impoverished country''s brutal dictator attack the village, leaving Dorhn dead and Marten a fugitive. Marten''s efforts to report what he''s learned to people he can trust lead him to Germany and Portugal. Readers expecting a nuanced look at corruption in sub-Saharan Africa in the vein of John le CarrÃ©''s\n  <em>\n   The Constant Gardener\n  </em>\n  will be disappointed.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œFolsom sets a frenetic pace from the start . . . reading this book is like watching\n  <em>\n   24\n  </em>\n  .â€ â€”_The Tampa Tribune_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHigh impact thriller writing with an almost visceral impact.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_ Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMore twists and turns than a strand of DNA.â€â€”William Peter Blatty,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Dimiter\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7675'),
(19578, 'The Hadrian Memorandum', 'Allan Folsom', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Bestseller Folsom''s improbable sequel to his equally improbable\n  <em>\n   The Machiavelli Covenant\n  </em>\n  (2006) takes ex-LAPD detective Nicholas Marten, who''s trying to create a new life for himself as a landscape architect in England, to Equatorial Guinea, at the behest of the U.S. president, John Henry Harris, who became his confidante in the previous book. In a village on the island of Bioko, Marten meets Willy Dorhn, a 78-year-old German-born priest, who shows him photos of rebels being armed by members of a U.S. security firm hired to protect American oil workers. Soon after, soldiers who serve the impoverished country''s brutal dictator attack the village, leaving Dorhn dead and Marten a fugitive. Marten''s efforts to report what he''s learned to people he can trust lead him to Germany and Portugal. Readers expecting a nuanced look at corruption in sub-Saharan Africa in the vein of John le CarrÃ©''s\n  <em>\n   The Constant Gardener\n  </em>\n  will be disappointed.\n  <em>\n   (Nov.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œFolsom sets a frenetic pace from the start . . . reading this book is like watching\n  <em>\n   24\n  </em>\n  .â€ â€”_The Tampa Tribune_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œHigh impact thriller writing with an almost visceral impact.â€â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMore twists and turns than a strand of DNA.â€â€”William Peter Blatty,\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of\n  <em>\n   Dimiter\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16216'),
(19579, 'Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai', 'Tsunetomo Yamamoto &amp; William Scott Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hagakure ("In the Shadow of Leaves"'') is a manual for the samurai classes consisting of a series of short anecdotes and reflections that give both insight and instruction-in the philosophy and code of behavior that foster the true spirit of Bushido-the Way of the Warrior. It is not a book of philosophy as most would understand the word: it is a collection of thoughts and sayings recorded over a period of seven years, and as such covers a wide variety of subjects, often in no particular sequence.  The work represents an attitude far removed from our modern pragmatism and materialism, and posesses an intuitive rather than rational appeal in its assertion that Bushido is a Way of Dying, and that only a samurai retainer prepared and willing to die at any moment can be totally true to his lord. While Hagakure was for many years a secret text known only to the warrior vassals of the Hizen fief to which the author belonged, it later came to be recognized as a classic exposition of samurai thought and came to influence many subsequent generations, including Yukio Mishima.  This translation offers 300 selections that constitute the core texts of the 1,300 present in the original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/387'),
(19580, 'Hagakure: the book of the samurai', 'Tsunetomo Yamamoto; William Scott Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hagakure ("In the Shadow of Leaves"'') is a manual for the samurai classes consisting of a series of short anecdotes and reflections that give both insight and instruction-in the philosophy and code of behavior that foster the true spirit of Bushido-the Way of the Warrior. It is not a book of philosophy as most would understand the word: it is a collection of thoughts and sayings recorded over a period of seven years, and as such covers a wide variety of subjects, often in no particular sequence. The work represents an attitude far removed from our modern pragmatism and materialism, and posesses an intuitive rather than rational appeal in its assertion that Bushido is a Way of Dying, and that only a samurai retainer prepared and willing to die at any moment can be totally true to his lord. While Hagakure was for many years a secret text known only to the warrior vassals of the Hizen fief to which the author belonged, it later came to be recognized as a classic exposition of samurai thought and came to influence many subsequent generations, including Yukio Mishima. This translation offers 300 selections that constitute the core texts of the 1,300 present in the original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23164'),
(19581, 'Haiti Noir', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <p>\n    Featuring brand-new stories by: Edwidge Danticat, Rodney Saint-Eloi, Madison Smartt Bell, Gary Victor, M.J. FiÃ¨vre, Marvin Victor, Yanick Lahens, Louis-Philipe Dalembert, Kettly Mars, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Evelyne Trouillot, Katia Ulysse, Ibi Aanu Zoboi, Nadine Pinede, and others.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Haiti has a tragic history and continues to be one of the most destitute places on the planet, especially in the aftermath of the earthquake. Here, however, Danticat reveals that even while the subject matter remains dark, the caliber of Haitian writing is of the highest order.\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5789'),
(19582, 'Haiti Noir', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <p>\n    Featuring brand-new stories by: Edwidge Danticat, Rodney Saint-Eloi, Madison Smartt Bell, Gary Victor, M.J. FiÃ¨vre, Marvin Victor, Yanick Lahens, Louis-Philipe Dalembert, Kettly Mars, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Evelyne Trouillot, Katia Ulysse, Ibi Aanu Zoboi, Nadine Pinede, and others.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Haiti has a tragic history and continues to be one of the most destitute places on the planet, especially in the aftermath of the earthquake. Here, however, Danticat reveals that even while the subject matter remains dark, the caliber of Haitian writing is of the highest order.\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9171'),
(19583, 'Haiti Noir', 'Edwidge Danticat', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">\n  <h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">\n   Product Description\n  </h3>\n  <div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">\n   <p>\n    Featuring brand-new stories by: Edwidge Danticat, Rodney Saint-Eloi, Madison Smartt Bell, Gary Victor, M.J. FiÃ¨vre, Marvin Victor, Yanick Lahens, Louis-Philipe Dalembert, Kettly Mars, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Evelyne Trouillot, Katia Ulysse, Ibi Aanu Zoboi, Nadine Pinede, and others.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Haiti has a tragic history and continues to be one of the most destitute places on the planet, especially in the aftermath of the earthquake. Here, however, Danticat reveals that even while the subject matter remains dark, the caliber of Haitian writing is of the highest order.\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18854'),
(19584, 'Half a Life', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n A devastatingly moving and often very funny novel from a masterful voice. In a corner of India untouched by anti-colonial agitation Willie Chandran''s father stood at odds with the world - aspiring to greatness while living the dreary life marked out for him by his ancestors. In an attempt to defy his past he lives with a low-caste woman, only to find himself at the mercy of his own fury. From this unhappy union the compelling character of Willie Chandran emerges: oddly like his father, naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. Willie is drawn to England and the immigrant community of post-war London, its dingy West End clubs and sexual encounters. But it is his first experience of love that may bring him the fulfillment he so desperately seeks. His wife Ana leads him to her homeland in Portuguese Africa, whose inhabitants are uncertainly living out the last days of colonialism. Naipaul delineates the relationship between father and son with wonderful clarity and compassion; and the comic brilliance of the London scenes and penetrating descriptions of Africa are hard to beat.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11006'),
(19585, 'Half a Life: A Novel', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Half a Life\n </em>\n finds the veteran Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul on familiar territory, blending autobiography and fiction in an exploration of the "half lives" of individuals brought up in the English colonies and educated in metropolitan cities.\n</p>\n<p>\n Naipaul''s protagonist is Willie Somerset Chandran, named after Somerset Maugham''s encounter with Willie''s father in the 1930s while traveling "to get material for a novel about spirituality." Willie travels to England for his education, where he becomes "part of the special, passing bohemian-immigrant life of London of the late 1950s." Willie soon realizes that his colonial background allows him to write short stories for well-meaning white liberals, and he begins "to understand that he was free to present himself as he wished" and that he could "remake himself and his past" through his writing. The effect is suffocating rather than liberating, and he marries a vaguely sketched "girl or young woman from an African country," who has read his one published book. Willie begins another "half life" in colonial Mozambique, where he soon tires of the domestic and sexual tedium of plantation life and flees to Germany, mournfully reflecting that "I have been hiding for too long."\n</p>\n<p>\n This is classic Naipaul, with its effortless dissection of the damaging personal consequences of post-war decolonization, but its virtue seems its primary vice, as the novel feels like a conflation of several earlier Naipaul books, including\n <strong>\n  and the brilliant\n </strong>\n . Consequently, some readers may well find that\n <em>\n  Half a Life\n </em>\n reads more like half a novel.\n <em>\n  --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n V.S. Naipaul has often been accused of being ungenerous, especially in his scathing accounts of Third World countries. His slim new novel tacitly poses the question of the worth of generosity without clarity and purpose. Willie Chandran, the central figure here, is born in India in the 1930s, the son of a bitter mixed caste marriage between a Brahmin and a "backwards" person, or untouchable. Willie learns as a child to despise his father''s ineffectuality and his mother''s coarseness. His father''s vague motive in marrying his mother had been to break out of the provincial mold in which he was raised and to "live out a life of sacrifice," but too late he discovered that he retained all the prejudices of his caste and despised his wife. Going to London on a scholarship, Willie mixes in immigrant and bohemian circles, and even publishes a book. Naipaul''s detached rendering of Willie''s travails shows what happens to a young man who pieces his life together around the great, central dread of not being taken seriously the image of his father as an "idler" is always in his mind. Willie meets Ana, a woman of mixed African descent, when she writes him a fan letter about his novel. They become lovers. Willie goes back with Ana to her large outback estate in the "half and half" world of a Portuguese colony like Mozambique, where he remains for 18 years. Naipaul''s plain narrative is studded with beautifully realized scenes, such as the London party at which a newspaper editor reads his own, self-written obituary, or the night Willie goes to an African brothel with Alvaro, an estate overseer. Although this novel does not aspire to the breadth of Naipaul''s earlier fiction, it reminds us that his vision is on par with Conrad''s or Graham Greene''s. 40,000 first printing; 5-city author tour.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/402'),
(19586, 'Half a Life: A Novel', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Half a Life\n </em>\n finds the veteran Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul on familiar territory, blending autobiography and fiction in an exploration of the "half lives" of individuals brought up in the English colonies and educated in metropolitan cities.\n</p>\n<p>\n Naipaul''s protagonist is Willie Somerset Chandran, named after Somerset Maugham''s encounter with Willie''s father in the 1930s while traveling "to get material for a novel about spirituality." Willie travels to England for his education, where he becomes "part of the special, passing bohemian-immigrant life of London of the late 1950s." Willie soon realizes that his colonial background allows him to write short stories for well-meaning white liberals, and he begins "to understand that he was free to present himself as he wished" and that he could "remake himself and his past" through his writing. The effect is suffocating rather than liberating, and he marries a vaguely sketched "girl or young woman from an African country," who has read his one published book. Willie begins another "half life" in colonial Mozambique, where he soon tires of the domestic and sexual tedium of plantation life and flees to Germany, mournfully reflecting that "I have been hiding for too long."\n</p>\n<p>\n This is classic Naipaul, with its effortless dissection of the damaging personal consequences of post-war decolonization, but its virtue seems its primary vice, as the novel feels like a conflation of several earlier Naipaul books, including\n <strong>\n  and the brilliant\n </strong>\n . Consequently, some readers may well find that\n <em>\n  Half a Life\n </em>\n reads more like half a novel.\n <em>\n  --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n V.S. Naipaul has often been accused of being ungenerous, especially in his scathing accounts of Third World countries. His slim new novel tacitly poses the question of the worth of generosity without clarity and purpose. Willie Chandran, the central figure here, is born in India in the 1930s, the son of a bitter mixed caste marriage between a Brahmin and a "backwards" person, or untouchable. Willie learns as a child to despise his father''s ineffectuality and his mother''s coarseness. His father''s vague motive in marrying his mother had been to break out of the provincial mold in which he was raised and to "live out a life of sacrifice," but too late he discovered that he retained all the prejudices of his caste and despised his wife. Going to London on a scholarship, Willie mixes in immigrant and bohemian circles, and even publishes a book. Naipaul''s detached rendering of Willie''s travails shows what happens to a young man who pieces his life together around the great, central dread of not being taken seriously the image of his father as an "idler" is always in his mind. Willie meets Ana, a woman of mixed African descent, when she writes him a fan letter about his novel. They become lovers. Willie goes back with Ana to her large outback estate in the "half and half" world of a Portuguese colony like Mozambique, where he remains for 18 years. Naipaul''s plain narrative is studded with beautifully realized scenes, such as the London party at which a newspaper editor reads his own, self-written obituary, or the night Willie goes to an African brothel with Alvaro, an estate overseer. Although this novel does not aspire to the breadth of Naipaul''s earlier fiction, it reminds us that his vision is on par with Conrad''s or Graham Greene''s. 40,000 first printing; 5-city author tour.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11654'),
(19587, 'Half a Life: A Novel', 'V. S. Naipaul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Half a Life\n </em>\n finds the veteran Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul on familiar territory, blending autobiography and fiction in an exploration of the "half lives" of individuals brought up in the English colonies and educated in metropolitan cities.\n</p>\n<p>\n Naipaul''s protagonist is Willie Somerset Chandran, named after Somerset Maugham''s encounter with Willie''s father in the 1930s while traveling "to get material for a novel about spirituality." Willie travels to England for his education, where he becomes "part of the special, passing bohemian-immigrant life of London of the late 1950s." Willie soon realizes that his colonial background allows him to write short stories for well-meaning white liberals, and he begins "to understand that he was free to present himself as he wished" and that he could "remake himself and his past" through his writing. The effect is suffocating rather than liberating, and he marries a vaguely sketched "girl or young woman from an African country," who has read his one published book. Willie begins another "half life" in colonial Mozambique, where he soon tires of the domestic and sexual tedium of plantation life and flees to Germany, mournfully reflecting that "I have been hiding for too long."\n</p>\n<p>\n This is classic Naipaul, with its effortless dissection of the damaging personal consequences of post-war decolonization, but its virtue seems its primary vice, as the novel feels like a conflation of several earlier Naipaul books, including\n <strong>\n  and the brilliant\n </strong>\n . Consequently, some readers may well find that\n <em>\n  Half a Life\n </em>\n reads more like half a novel.\n <em>\n  --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n V.S. Naipaul has often been accused of being ungenerous, especially in his scathing accounts of Third World countries. His slim new novel tacitly poses the question of the worth of generosity without clarity and purpose. Willie Chandran, the central figure here, is born in India in the 1930s, the son of a bitter mixed caste marriage between a Brahmin and a "backwards" person, or untouchable. Willie learns as a child to despise his father''s ineffectuality and his mother''s coarseness. His father''s vague motive in marrying his mother had been to break out of the provincial mold in which he was raised and to "live out a life of sacrifice," but too late he discovered that he retained all the prejudices of his caste and despised his wife. Going to London on a scholarship, Willie mixes in immigrant and bohemian circles, and even publishes a book. Naipaul''s detached rendering of Willie''s travails shows what happens to a young man who pieces his life together around the great, central dread of not being taken seriously the image of his father as an "idler" is always in his mind. Willie meets Ana, a woman of mixed African descent, when she writes him a fan letter about his novel. They become lovers. Willie goes back with Ana to her large outback estate in the "half and half" world of a Portuguese colony like Mozambique, where he remains for 18 years. Naipaul''s plain narrative is studded with beautifully realized scenes, such as the London party at which a newspaper editor reads his own, self-written obituary, or the night Willie goes to an African brothel with Alvaro, an estate overseer. Although this novel does not aspire to the breadth of Naipaul''s earlier fiction, it reminds us that his vision is on par with Conrad''s or Graham Greene''s. 40,000 first printing; 5-city author tour.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24520'),
(19588, 'Half broke horses: a true-life novel', 'Jeannette Walls', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this true-life novel by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose megaselling memoir, The Glass Castle, recalled her own upbringing, writes in what she recalls as Lily''s plainspoken voice, whose recital provides plenty of drama and suspense as she ricochets from one challenge to another. Having been educated in fits and starts because of her parents'' penury, Lily becomes a teacher at age 15 in a remote frontier town she reaches after a solo 28-day ride. Marriage to a bigamist almost saps her spirit, but later she weds a rancher with whom she shares two children and a strain of plucky resilience. (They sell bootleg liquor during Prohibition, hiding the bottles under a baby''s crib.) Lily is a spirited heroine, fiercely outspoken against hypocrisy and prejudice, a rodeo rider and fearless breaker of horses, and a ruthless poker player. Assailed by flash floods, tornados and droughts, Lily never gets far from hardscrabble drudgery in several statesâ€”New Mexico, Arizona, Illinoisâ€”but hers is one of those heartwarming stories about indomitable women that will always find an audience. SUMMARY: Jeannette Walls''s "The Glass Castle" was "nothing short of spectacular" ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic. ""Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did."" So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls''s magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn''t need to be fed if they weren''t working, and they didn''t leave big piles of manure all over the place") and fly a plane, and, with her husband, ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette''s memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in "The Glass Castle." Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn''t fit the mold. "Half Broke Horses" is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen''s "Out of Africa" or Beryl Markham''s "West with the Night." It will transfix readers everywhere.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13633'),
(19589, 'The Half Life of Stars: A Novel', 'Louise Wener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Claire''s older brother, Daniel, has disappeared. He leaves work one Friday afternoon, shortly before Christmas, and vanishes into thin air. Married, successful, rich, there seems no reason why he would abandon his life. Has he been killed? Has he been kidnapped? Or has he just had enough?   Set between London and Miami, this is the story of a family with ghosts to bury. It opens on the day of the Challenger shuttle explosion at Cape Canaveral: a tragic moment that rips this family apart and sets Daniel''s disappearance in motion some 18 years later. In the midst of it all sits Claireâ€”divorced, irresponsible, fluent in six foreign languages yet hopeless at interpreting life. It is Claire who knows Daniel best. It is Claire who becomes convinced that she knows where her older brother is and sets off on a journey to find him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3299'),
(19590, 'The Half Life of Stars: A Novel', 'Louise Wener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Claire''s older brother, Daniel, has disappeared. He leaves work one Friday afternoon, shortly before Christmas, and vanishes into thin air. Married, successful, rich, there seems no reason why he would abandon his life. Has he been killed? Has he been kidnapped? Or has he just had enough?   Set between London and Miami, this is the story of a family with ghosts to bury. It opens on the day of the Challenger shuttle explosion at Cape Canaveral: a tragic moment that rips this family apart and sets Daniel''s disappearance in motion some 18 years later. In the midst of it all sits Claireâ€”divorced, irresponsible, fluent in six foreign languages yet hopeless at interpreting life. It is Claire who knows Daniel best. It is Claire who becomes convinced that she knows where her older brother is and sets off on a journey to find him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13267');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(19591, 'The Half Life of Stars: A Novel', 'Louise Wener', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Claire''s older brother, Daniel, has disappeared. He leaves work one Friday afternoon, shortly before Christmas, and vanishes into thin air. Married, successful, rich, there seems no reason why he would abandon his life. Has he been killed? Has he been kidnapped? Or has he just had enough? Set between London and Miami, this is the story of a family with ghosts to bury. It opens on the day of the Challenger shuttle explosion at Cape Canaveral: a tragic moment that rips this family apart and sets Daniel''s disappearance in motion some 18 years later. In the midst of it all sits Claireâ€”divorced, irresponsible, fluent in six foreign languages yet hopeless at interpreting life. It is Claire who knows Daniel best. It is Claire who becomes convinced that she knows where her older brother is and sets off on a journey to find him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21271'),
(19592, 'Half Moon Investigations', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Meet Fletcher Moon. Half-pint schoolboy and fully qualified private investigator. Since graduating online, he has solved all sorts of minor mysteries at school and at home. It was only a matter of time before things got serious. When Fletcher investigates a spate of crimes in the town of Lock, the finger of suspicion is soon pointing in the direction of shady brothers Herod and Red Sharkey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5624'),
(19593, 'Half Moon Investigations', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Meet Fletcher Moon. Half-pint schoolboy and fully qualified private investigator. Since graduating online, he has solved all sorts of minor mysteries at school and at home. It was only a matter of time before things got serious. When Fletcher investigates a spate of crimes in the town of Lock, the finger of suspicion is soon pointing in the direction of shady brothers Herod and Red Sharkey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8987'),
(19594, 'Half Moon Investigations', 'Eoin Colfer', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Meet Fletcher Moon. Half-pint schoolboy and fully qualified private investigator. Since graduating online, he has solved all sorts of minor mysteries at school and at home. It was only a matter of time before things got serious. When Fletcher investigates a spate of crimes in the town of Lock, the finger of suspicion is soon pointing in the direction of shady brothers Herod and Red Sharkey.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19005'),
(19595, 'Half Moon Street', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Secrets and lies, calumnies and evasions: in Anne Perry''s Victorian mysteries, these elements, rather than a hat or gloves, a bustle or a watch fob, are the usual accoutrements of refined ladies and gentlemen.\n <em>\n  Half Moon Street\n </em>\n marks the return of Inspector Thomas Pitt (20 novels now, beginning with __ and still going strong) to the cobblestoned streets and elegant drawing rooms of 19th-century London.\n</p>\n<p>\n The inhabitants of those drawing rooms aren''t usually thrilled to see him, because he always comes bearing bad news. This time, a body has turned up in a boat on the Thames: Delbert Cathcart, a talented portrait photographer with a taste for blackmail. Clad in a velvet dress, wrists manacled, legs spread grotesquely, skull crushed, Cathcart reminds Pitt of a perverse echo of the Lady of Shalott, or perhaps a debased Ophelia. Which of Cathcart''s clients could have been pushed so far as to retaliate in such hideous fashion?\n</p>\n<p>\n Pitt''s official investigation is usually combined with another more idiosyncratic approach to the crime; this secondary analysis gives Perry free rein to dissect the manners and morals of Victorian society. In\n <em>\n  Half Moon Street\n </em>\n , the genteel inquisition falls to Caroline Fielding, Charlotte''s mother (Charlotte, who must need a bit of rest after so many outings, has been packed off to Paris for a vacation; her presence in the book is restricted to letters marveling, rather tediously, at the scandalous iniquities of the Moulin Rouge dance hall). Perry''s readers will no doubt remember that Caroline scandalized society by marrying a much younger actor, Joshua.\n <em>\n  Half Moon Street\n </em>\n introduces Caroline to his theatrical world, and to Cecily Antrim, a beautiful actress with liberal politics. Cecily poses both a personal and philosophical threat to Caroline, who is disturbed by her willingness to expose the realities of female sexuality on stage: "Should such things be said? Was there something indecent in the exposure of feelings so intimate? To know it herself was one thing, to realize that others also knew was quite different. It was being publicly naked rather than privately." This fear of exposure resonates through the worlds of theatrical and photographic art, as actors, diplomats, and genteel citizens race to hide their secrets from Pitt and Caroline.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Perry evokes the London atmosphere with her usual skill, her narrative lacks its usual finesse. Rather than balancing Pitt''s and Caroline''s investigation, the novel lurches between them so that it seems all too often that Perry, in pursuit of one story, has forgotten the other. Additionally, Caroline''s reaction to feminist politics and sexuality is inexplicably repetitive; her turgid expressions of horror seem the result of an overly eager copy-and-paste procedure. One hopes that this is a momentary lapse in an otherwise solid series.\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in Oscar Wilde''s London in 1891, Perry''s new Thomas Pitt mystery is all about the importance of being earnest. Superintendent Pitt is summoned to the Thames when police discover the body of a young man dressed in a torn green velvet gown, manacled to a punt, "in parody of ecstasy and death." At first it seems the victim is Henri Bonnard, a functionary in the French embassy; eventually, Pitt and dour sidekick Sergeant Tellman identify the body as Delbert Cathcart, a gifted photographer. Was there a connection between Cathcart and lookalike Bonnard? Why was Cathcart''s body arranged in that disturbing "feminine pose," which Perry repeatedly describes as a "mockery" of paintings of the Lady of Shallot and Ophelia? Meanwhile, Pitt''s mother-in-law, Caroline Fielding, recently married to an actor 17 years her junior, blushes and stammers as her husband and his theater friends expound on Ibsen. While she''s clarifying her views on the irresponsibility of pornography, Caroline spends long hours entertaining Samuel Ellison, her late husband''s American half-brother, who tearfully recounts his nation''s history ("I watched the white man strengthen and the red man die"). For a grandma, Caroline is an oddly jejune character, and her moralistic musings overwhelm the mystery plot, which stagnates early on. What''s clearly intended to be intellectually challenging comes across as silly and pretentious. There''s even a pub scene in which Wilde himself witlessly pontificates, and "a pale young Irishman addressed by his fellows as Yeats, stare[s] moodily into the distance." 15-city author tour; audio rights to Random House Audio. (Apr..\n <br />\n <em>\n  - moodily into the distance." 15-city author tour; audio rights to Random House Audio. (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7521'),
(19596, 'Half Moon Street', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Secrets and lies, calumnies and evasions: in Anne Perry''s Victorian mysteries, these elements, rather than a hat or gloves, a bustle or a watch fob, are the usual accoutrements of refined ladies and gentlemen.\n <em>\n  Half Moon Street\n </em>\n marks the return of Inspector Thomas Pitt (20 novels now, beginning with __ and still going strong) to the cobblestoned streets and elegant drawing rooms of 19th-century London.\n</p>\n<p>\n The inhabitants of those drawing rooms aren''t usually thrilled to see him, because he always comes bearing bad news. This time, a body has turned up in a boat on the Thames: Delbert Cathcart, a talented portrait photographer with a taste for blackmail. Clad in a velvet dress, wrists manacled, legs spread grotesquely, skull crushed, Cathcart reminds Pitt of a perverse echo of the Lady of Shalott, or perhaps a debased Ophelia. Which of Cathcart''s clients could have been pushed so far as to retaliate in such hideous fashion?\n</p>\n<p>\n Pitt''s official investigation is usually combined with another more idiosyncratic approach to the crime; this secondary analysis gives Perry free rein to dissect the manners and morals of Victorian society. In\n <em>\n  Half Moon Street\n </em>\n , the genteel inquisition falls to Caroline Fielding, Charlotte''s mother (Charlotte, who must need a bit of rest after so many outings, has been packed off to Paris for a vacation; her presence in the book is restricted to letters marveling, rather tediously, at the scandalous iniquities of the Moulin Rouge dance hall). Perry''s readers will no doubt remember that Caroline scandalized society by marrying a much younger actor, Joshua.\n <em>\n  Half Moon Street\n </em>\n introduces Caroline to his theatrical world, and to Cecily Antrim, a beautiful actress with liberal politics. Cecily poses both a personal and philosophical threat to Caroline, who is disturbed by her willingness to expose the realities of female sexuality on stage: "Should such things be said? Was there something indecent in the exposure of feelings so intimate? To know it herself was one thing, to realize that others also knew was quite different. It was being publicly naked rather than privately." This fear of exposure resonates through the worlds of theatrical and photographic art, as actors, diplomats, and genteel citizens race to hide their secrets from Pitt and Caroline.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Perry evokes the London atmosphere with her usual skill, her narrative lacks its usual finesse. Rather than balancing Pitt''s and Caroline''s investigation, the novel lurches between them so that it seems all too often that Perry, in pursuit of one story, has forgotten the other. Additionally, Caroline''s reaction to feminist politics and sexuality is inexplicably repetitive; her turgid expressions of horror seem the result of an overly eager copy-and-paste procedure. One hopes that this is a momentary lapse in an otherwise solid series.\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in Oscar Wilde''s London in 1891, Perry''s new Thomas Pitt mystery is all about the importance of being earnest. Superintendent Pitt is summoned to the Thames when police discover the body of a young man dressed in a torn green velvet gown, manacled to a punt, "in parody of ecstasy and death." At first it seems the victim is Henri Bonnard, a functionary in the French embassy; eventually, Pitt and dour sidekick Sergeant Tellman identify the body as Delbert Cathcart, a gifted photographer. Was there a connection between Cathcart and lookalike Bonnard? Why was Cathcart''s body arranged in that disturbing "feminine pose," which Perry repeatedly describes as a "mockery" of paintings of the Lady of Shallot and Ophelia? Meanwhile, Pitt''s mother-in-law, Caroline Fielding, recently married to an actor 17 years her junior, blushes and stammers as her husband and his theater friends expound on Ibsen. While she''s clarifying her views on the irresponsibility of pornography, Caroline spends long hours entertaining Samuel Ellison, her late husband''s American half-brother, who tearfully recounts his nation''s history ("I watched the white man strengthen and the red man die"). For a grandma, Caroline is an oddly jejune character, and her moralistic musings overwhelm the mystery plot, which stagnates early on. What''s clearly intended to be intellectually challenging comes across as silly and pretentious. There''s even a pub scene in which Wilde himself witlessly pontificates, and "a pale young Irishman addressed by his fellows as Yeats, stare[s] moodily into the distance." 15-city author tour; audio rights to Random House Audio. (Apr..\n <br />\n <em>\n  - moodily into the distance." 15-city author tour; audio rights to Random House Audio. (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11876'),
(19597, 'Half Moon Street', 'Anne Perry', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Secrets and lies, calumnies and evasions: in Anne Perry''s Victorian mysteries, these elements, rather than a hat or gloves, a bustle or a watch fob, are the usual accoutrements of refined ladies and gentlemen.\n <em>\n  Half Moon Street\n </em>\n marks the return of Inspector Thomas Pitt (20 novels now, beginning with __ and still going strong) to the cobblestoned streets and elegant drawing rooms of 19th-century London.\n</p>\n<p>\n The inhabitants of those drawing rooms aren''t usually thrilled to see him, because he always comes bearing bad news. This time, a body has turned up in a boat on the Thames: Delbert Cathcart, a talented portrait photographer with a taste for blackmail. Clad in a velvet dress, wrists manacled, legs spread grotesquely, skull crushed, Cathcart reminds Pitt of a perverse echo of the Lady of Shalott, or perhaps a debased Ophelia. Which of Cathcart''s clients could have been pushed so far as to retaliate in such hideous fashion?\n</p>\n<p>\n Pitt''s official investigation is usually combined with another more idiosyncratic approach to the crime; this secondary analysis gives Perry free rein to dissect the manners and morals of Victorian society. In\n <em>\n  Half Moon Street\n </em>\n , the genteel inquisition falls to Caroline Fielding, Charlotte''s mother (Charlotte, who must need a bit of rest after so many outings, has been packed off to Paris for a vacation; her presence in the book is restricted to letters marveling, rather tediously, at the scandalous iniquities of the Moulin Rouge dance hall). Perry''s readers will no doubt remember that Caroline scandalized society by marrying a much younger actor, Joshua.\n <em>\n  Half Moon Street\n </em>\n introduces Caroline to his theatrical world, and to Cecily Antrim, a beautiful actress with liberal politics. Cecily poses both a personal and philosophical threat to Caroline, who is disturbed by her willingness to expose the realities of female sexuality on stage: "Should such things be said? Was there something indecent in the exposure of feelings so intimate? To know it herself was one thing, to realize that others also knew was quite different. It was being publicly naked rather than privately." This fear of exposure resonates through the worlds of theatrical and photographic art, as actors, diplomats, and genteel citizens race to hide their secrets from Pitt and Caroline.\n</p>\n<p>\n While Perry evokes the London atmosphere with her usual skill, her narrative lacks its usual finesse. Rather than balancing Pitt''s and Caroline''s investigation, the novel lurches between them so that it seems all too often that Perry, in pursuit of one story, has forgotten the other. Additionally, Caroline''s reaction to feminist politics and sexuality is inexplicably repetitive; her turgid expressions of horror seem the result of an overly eager copy-and-paste procedure. One hopes that this is a momentary lapse in an otherwise solid series.\n <em>\n  --Kelly Flynn\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Set in Oscar Wilde''s London in 1891, Perry''s new Thomas Pitt mystery is all about the importance of being earnest. Superintendent Pitt is summoned to the Thames when police discover the body of a young man dressed in a torn green velvet gown, manacled to a punt, "in parody of ecstasy and death." At first it seems the victim is Henri Bonnard, a functionary in the French embassy; eventually, Pitt and dour sidekick Sergeant Tellman identify the body as Delbert Cathcart, a gifted photographer. Was there a connection between Cathcart and lookalike Bonnard? Why was Cathcart''s body arranged in that disturbing "feminine pose," which Perry repeatedly describes as a "mockery" of paintings of the Lady of Shallot and Ophelia? Meanwhile, Pitt''s mother-in-law, Caroline Fielding, recently married to an actor 17 years her junior, blushes and stammers as her husband and his theater friends expound on Ibsen. While she''s clarifying her views on the irresponsibility of pornography, Caroline spends long hours entertaining Samuel Ellison, her late husband''s American half-brother, who tearfully recounts his nation''s history ("I watched the white man strengthen and the red man die"). For a grandma, Caroline is an oddly jejune character, and her moralistic musings overwhelm the mystery plot, which stagnates early on. What''s clearly intended to be intellectually challenging comes across as silly and pretentious. There''s even a pub scene in which Wilde himself witlessly pontificates, and "a pale young Irishman addressed by his fellows as Yeats, stare[s] moodily into the distance." 15-city author tour; audio rights to Random House Audio. (Apr..\n <br />\n <em>\n  - moodily into the distance." 15-city author tour; audio rights to Random House Audio. (Apr.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16350'),
(19598, 'Half Share', 'Nathan Lowell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  After Ishmael Wang is promoted to the environmental section, he''s caught in a swirl of mystery, doubt, belief, lust and a really nice fitting pair of jeans. He has to come to grips with what it means to be a spacer while he''s still trying to figure out what it means to be a man. Join Ishmael, Brillo, Pip, and the rest of the crew of the Lois McKendrick as they help the newest member of the crew adjust to life in the Deep Dark.Half Share is the sequel to Quarter Share, also available at Podiobooks.com.Note: Some scenes in Half Share involve adult themes, nudity, sex and references to religions not based on Judeo-Christian traditions. Read at your own risk.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2574'),
(19599, 'Half Share', 'Nathan Lowell', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <meta charset="utf-8" />\n <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">\n  After Ishmael Wang is promoted to the environmental section, he''s caught in a swirl of mystery, doubt, belief, lust and a really nice fitting pair of jeans. He has to come to grips with what it means to be a spacer while he''s still trying to figure out what it means to be a man. Join Ishmael, Brillo, Pip, and the rest of the crew of the Lois McKendrick as they help the newest member of the crew adjust to life in the Deep Dark.Half Share is the sequel to Quarter Share, also available at Podiobooks.com.Note: Some scenes in Half Share involve adult themes, nudity, sex and references to religions not based on Judeo-Christian traditions. Read at your own risk.\n </span>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11215'),
(19600, 'Half Share', 'Lowell, Nathan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22200'),
(19601, 'Half the Blood of Brooklyn', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œOne of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century.â€â€“Stephen Kingâ€œHard-boiled horror, pulp noir vampires, decaying urban soulsâ€“ youâ€™re gonna need a shower after this one. . . . [Huston] kicks down the door of horror.â€â€“Fangoria, on Already DeadThereâ€™s only so much room on the Island, only so much blood, and Manhattanâ€™s Vampyre Clans arenâ€™t interested in sharing. So when the Vyrus-infected dregs of New Yorkâ€™s outer boroughs start creeping across the bridges and through the tunnels, the Clans want to know why. Bad luck for PI and general hard case Joe Pitt. See, Joe used to be a Rogue, used to work off his own dime, picked his own gigs, but tight times and a terminally ill girlfriend pushed him into the arms of the renegade Society Clan. Now he has all the cash and blood he needs, but at a steep price. The price tonight is crossing the bridge, rolling to Coney Island, finding the Freak Clan, and figuring out whatâ€™s driving that bunch of savages to scratch at the Societyâ€™s door. No need to look far. The answer lies around the corner in Gravesend. Convenient, all those graves.From uptown to the boardwalk, war drums are beating. Murderous family feuds and personal grudges are being drawn and brandished, along with the long knives. Blood will spill and, big surprise, Joeâ€™s in the middle. But hey, why should this night be different from any other?Sunset to sunrise: put off a war, keep your head attached to your neck, and save your girl. Check. Joeâ€™s on the case. Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novelsâ€œIn conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.â€â€“Entertainment Weekly â€œ[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.â€â€“The Philadelphia Inquirer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6892'),
(19602, 'Half the Blood of Brooklyn', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: â€œOne of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century.â€â€“Stephen Kingâ€œHard-boiled horror, pulp noir vampires, decaying urban soulsâ€“ youâ€™re gonna need a shower after this one. . . . [Huston] kicks down the door of horror.â€â€“Fangoria, on Already DeadThereâ€™s only so much room on the Island, only so much blood, and Manhattanâ€™s Vampyre Clans arenâ€™t interested in sharing. So when the Vyrus-infected dregs of New Yorkâ€™s outer boroughs start creeping across the bridges and through the tunnels, the Clans want to know why. Bad luck for PI and general hard case Joe Pitt. See, Joe used to be a Rogue, used to work off his own dime, picked his own gigs, but tight times and a terminally ill girlfriend pushed him into the arms of the renegade Society Clan. Now he has all the cash and blood he needs, but at a steep price. The price tonight is crossing the bridge, rolling to Coney Island, finding the Freak Clan, and figuring out whatâ€™s driving that bunch of savages to scratch at the Societyâ€™s door. No need to look far. The answer lies around the corner in Gravesend. Convenient, all those graves.From uptown to the boardwalk, war drums are beating. Murderous family feuds and personal grudges are being drawn and brandished, along with the long knives. Blood will spill and, big surprise, Joeâ€™s in the middle. But hey, why should this night be different from any other?Sunset to sunrise: put off a war, keep your head attached to your neck, and save your girl. Check. Joeâ€™s on the case. Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novelsâ€œIn conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.â€â€“Entertainment Weekly â€œ[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.â€â€“The Philadelphia Inquirer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17122'),
(19603, 'Half the Blood of Brooklyn', 'Charlie Huston', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n â€œOne of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century.â€â€“Stephen Kingâ€œHard-boiled horror, pulp noir vampires, decaying urban soulsâ€“ youâ€™re gonna need a shower after this one. . . . [Huston] kicks down the door of horror.â€â€“Fangoria, on Already DeadThereâ€™s only so much room on the Island, only so much blood, and Manhattanâ€™s Vampyre Clans arenâ€™t interested in sharing. So when the Vyrus-infected dregs of New Yorkâ€™s outer boroughs start creeping across the bridges and through the tunnels, the Clans want to know why. Bad luck for PI and general hard case Joe Pitt. See, Joe used to be a Rogue, used to work off his own dime, picked his own gigs, but tight times and a terminally ill girlfriend pushed him into the arms of the renegade Society Clan. Now he has all the cash and blood he needs, but at a steep price. The price tonight is crossing the bridge, rolling to Coney Island, finding the Freak Clan, and figuring out whatâ€™s driving that bunch of savages to scratch at the Societyâ€™s door. No need to look far. The answer lies around the corner in Gravesend. Convenient, all those graves.From uptown to the boardwalk, war drums are beating. Murderous family feuds and personal grudges are being drawn and brandished, along with the long knives. Blood will spill and, big surprise, Joeâ€™s in the middle. But hey, why should this night be different from any other?Sunset to sunrise: put off a war, keep your head attached to your neck, and save your girl. Check. Joeâ€™s on the case. Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novelsâ€œIn conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.â€â€“Entertainment Weekly â€œ[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.â€â€“The Philadelphia Inquirer\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26952'),
(19604, 'Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide', 'Nicholas D. Kristof &amp; Sheryl WuDunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era''s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS. Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women''s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it''s also the best strategy for fighting poverty. Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, "Half the Sky" is essential reading for every global citizen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2587'),
(19605, 'Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide', 'Nicholas D. Kristof &amp; Sheryl WuDunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era''s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS. Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women''s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it''s also the best strategy for fighting poverty. Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, "Half the Sky" is essential reading for every global citizen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10793'),
(19606, 'Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide', 'Nicholas D. Kristof; Sheryl WuDunn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era''s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS. Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women''s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it''s also the best strategy for fighting poverty. Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, "Half the Sky" is essential reading for every global citizen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22207'),
(19607, 'The Half-Made World', 'Felix Gilman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A fantastical reimagining of the American West which draws its influence from steampunk, the American western tradition, and magical realismThe world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappearedâ€”the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. Now theyâ€™re just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope. To the west lies a vast, uncharted world, inhabited only by the legends of the immortal and powerful Hill People, who live at one with the earth and its elements. Liv Alverhyusen, a doctor of the new science of psychology, travels to the edge of themade world to a spiritually protected mental institution in order to study the minds of those broken by the Gun and the Line. In its rooms lies an old general of the Red Republic, a man whose shattered mind just may hold the secret to stopping the Gun and the Line. And either side will do anything to understand how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5490'),
(19608, 'The Half-Made World', 'Felix Gilman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A fantastical reimagining of the American West which draws its influence from steampunk, the American western tradition, and magical realismThe world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappearedâ€”the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. Now theyâ€™re just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope. To the west lies a vast, uncharted world, inhabited only by the legends of the immortal and powerful Hill People, who live at one with the earth and its elements. Liv Alverhyusen, a doctor of the new science of psychology, travels to the edge of themade world to a spiritually protected mental institution in order to study the minds of those broken by the Gun and the Line. In its rooms lies an old general of the Red Republic, a man whose shattered mind just may hold the secret to stopping the Gun and the Line. And either side will do anything to understand how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10003'),
(19609, 'The Half-Made World', 'Felix Gilman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A fantastical reimagining of the American West which draws its influence from steampunk, the American western tradition, and magical realismThe world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappearedâ€”the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. Now theyâ€™re just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope. To the west lies a vast, uncharted world, inhabited only by the legends of the immortal and powerful Hill People, who live at one with the earth and its elements. Liv Alverhyusen, a doctor of the new science of psychology, travels to the edge of themade world to a spiritually protected mental institution in order to study the minds of those broken by the Gun and the Line. In its rooms lies an old general of the Red Republic, a man whose shattered mind just may hold the secret to stopping the Gun and the Line. And either side will do anything to understand how.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19101'),
(19610, 'Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories With Recipes', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers familiar with Angelou''s\n <em>\n  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\n </em>\n will find what may be the secret ingredient of her success in this collection of tear- and laughter-provoking vignettes with 73 savory recipes. Here''s Angelou''s grandmother''s Chicken and Dumplings, Crackling Corn Bread and Caramel Cake. Big brother Bailey makes a mean batch of Smothered Pork Chops and knows how to stretch them for a week''s worth of meals. Mother, who "cooked wonderful meals and was very poignant about how to present them," can make a Roasted Capon play second fiddle to Red Rice. As the wider world beckons, Angelou dines. Sometimes she''s the worker; having passed herself off as an experienced Creole cook, she becomes one with her Braised Short Ribs. Other times, she''s the hostess serving what M.F.K. Fisher pronounces "the first honest cassoulet I have eaten in years." A batch of spoon bread nets Angelou a job and compliment: "If you can write half as good as you can cook, you are going to be famous." She does, and the food world widens (tamales, patÃ©, minestrone, chachouka), and the fellow diners often have famous names (Oprah, Jessica Mitford, Rosa Guy). The food remains delectable and comfortable, and Angelou''s directions are minimal but clear enough for experienced cooks. Color photos not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Angelou has feasted at both ends of the food spectrum and everywhere in between. Her appreciation of good food has given her stamina and has enriched the texture of her days. In this memoir of significant meals, the poet recalls her grandmother''s ironic discovery that rich folks relished wilted lettuce while she was investing in ice to keep her greens crisp. In another recollection, Angelou recalls her brother Bailey''s advice on how to stretch a pork chop or two into enough different meals to please even her ravenous young son. As Angelou''s renown swells, so does her purse, and before long she''s sitting down to tables where nothing is impossible. Humble beef stew becomes beef Wellington and lemon meringue pie elegant eclairs. But Angelou''s savoring of well-made food is a single continuum. Her recipes for favorite dishes derive from traditions as diverse as the origins of menudo, minestrone, spoon bread, tomato souffle, and hog head cheese. Angelou''s fans curious about their hero''s appetites will find tasty satisfaction here.\n <em>\n  Mark Knoblauch\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2907'),
(19611, 'Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories With Recipes', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers familiar with Angelou''s\n <em>\n  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\n </em>\n will find what may be the secret ingredient of her success in this collection of tear- and laughter-provoking vignettes with 73 savory recipes. Here''s Angelou''s grandmother''s Chicken and Dumplings, Crackling Corn Bread and Caramel Cake. Big brother Bailey makes a mean batch of Smothered Pork Chops and knows how to stretch them for a week''s worth of meals. Mother, who "cooked wonderful meals and was very poignant about how to present them," can make a Roasted Capon play second fiddle to Red Rice. As the wider world beckons, Angelou dines. Sometimes she''s the worker; having passed herself off as an experienced Creole cook, she becomes one with her Braised Short Ribs. Other times, she''s the hostess serving what M.F.K. Fisher pronounces "the first honest cassoulet I have eaten in years." A batch of spoon bread nets Angelou a job and compliment: "If you can write half as good as you can cook, you are going to be famous." She does, and the food world widens (tamales, patÃ©, minestrone, chachouka), and the fellow diners often have famous names (Oprah, Jessica Mitford, Rosa Guy). The food remains delectable and comfortable, and Angelou''s directions are minimal but clear enough for experienced cooks. Color photos not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Angelou has feasted at both ends of the food spectrum and everywhere in between. Her appreciation of good food has given her stamina and has enriched the texture of her days. In this memoir of significant meals, the poet recalls her grandmother''s ironic discovery that rich folks relished wilted lettuce while she was investing in ice to keep her greens crisp. In another recollection, Angelou recalls her brother Bailey''s advice on how to stretch a pork chop or two into enough different meals to please even her ravenous young son. As Angelou''s renown swells, so does her purse, and before long she''s sitting down to tables where nothing is impossible. Humble beef stew becomes beef Wellington and lemon meringue pie elegant eclairs. But Angelou''s savoring of well-made food is a single continuum. Her recipes for favorite dishes derive from traditions as diverse as the origins of menudo, minestrone, spoon bread, tomato souffle, and hog head cheese. Angelou''s fans curious about their hero''s appetites will find tasty satisfaction here.\n <em>\n  Mark Knoblauch\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8196'),
(19612, 'Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories With Recipes', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Readers familiar with Angelou''s\n <em>\n  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\n </em>\n will find what may be the secret ingredient of her success in this collection of tear- and laughter-provoking vignettes with 73 savory recipes. Here''s Angelou''s grandmother''s Chicken and Dumplings, Crackling Corn Bread and Caramel Cake. Big brother Bailey makes a mean batch of Smothered Pork Chops and knows how to stretch them for a week''s worth of meals. Mother, who "cooked wonderful meals and was very poignant about how to present them," can make a Roasted Capon play second fiddle to Red Rice. As the wider world beckons, Angelou dines. Sometimes she''s the worker; having passed herself off as an experienced Creole cook, she becomes one with her Braised Short Ribs. Other times, she''s the hostess serving what M.F.K. Fisher pronounces "the first honest cassoulet I have eaten in years." A batch of spoon bread nets Angelou a job and compliment: "If you can write half as good as you can cook, you are going to be famous." She does, and the food world widens (tamales, patÃ©, minestrone, chachouka), and the fellow diners often have famous names (Oprah, Jessica Mitford, Rosa Guy). The food remains delectable and comfortable, and Angelou''s directions are minimal but clear enough for experienced cooks. Color photos not seen by\n <em>\n  PW\n </em>\n .\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Angelou has feasted at both ends of the food spectrum and everywhere in between. Her appreciation of good food has given her stamina and has enriched the texture of her days. In this memoir of significant meals, the poet recalls her grandmother''s ironic discovery that rich folks relished wilted lettuce while she was investing in ice to keep her greens crisp. In another recollection, Angelou recalls her brother Bailey''s advice on how to stretch a pork chop or two into enough different meals to please even her ravenous young son. As Angelou''s renown swells, so does her purse, and before long she''s sitting down to tables where nothing is impossible. Humble beef stew becomes beef Wellington and lemon meringue pie elegant eclairs. But Angelou''s savoring of well-made food is a single continuum. Her recipes for favorite dishes derive from traditions as diverse as the origins of menudo, minestrone, spoon bread, tomato souffle, and hog head cheese. Angelou''s fans curious about their hero''s appetites will find tasty satisfaction here.\n <em>\n  Mark Knoblauch\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21859'),
(19613, 'Hallowe&#39;en Party', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Volume 70 (1969) in the Agatha Christie Collection. Limited edition of 1000 copies world wide.  At a Hallowe''en party, Joyce -- a hostile thirteen-year-old -- boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.  That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the ''evil presence''. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/86'),
(19614, 'Hallowe&#39;en party', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Volume 70 (1969) in the Agatha Christie Collection. Limited edition of 1000 copies world wide. At a Hallowe''en party, Joyce -- a hostile thirteen-year-old -- boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the ''evil presence''. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17151'),
(19615, 'Halo', 'Alexandra Adornetto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Three angels are sent down to bring good to the world: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. But she is the most human, and when she is romantically drawn to a mortal boy, the angels fear she will not be strong enough to save anyoneâ€”especially herselfâ€”from the Dark Forces. Is love a great enough power against evil?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7703'),
(19616, 'Halo', 'Alexandra Adornetto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Three angels are sent down to bring good to the world: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. But she is the most human, and when she is romantically drawn to a mortal boy, the angels fear she will not be strong enough to save anyoneâ€”especially herselfâ€”from the Dark Forces. Is love a great enough power against evil?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9312'),
(19617, 'Halo', 'Alexandra Adornetto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Three angels are sent down to bring good to the world: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. But she is the most human, and when she is romantically drawn to a mortal boy, the angels fear she will not be strong enough to save anyoneâ€”especially herselfâ€”from the Dark Forces. Is love a great enough power against evil?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16141'),
(19618, 'Halo', 'Alexandra Adornetto', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Three angels are sent down to bring good to the world: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. But she is the most human, and when she is romantically drawn to a mortal boy, the angels fear she will not be strong enough to save anyoneâ€”especially herselfâ€”from the Dark Forces. Is love a great enough power against evil?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26317');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(19619, 'Halo: Contact Harvest', 'Joseph Staten', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is how it began... It is the year 2524.  Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space.  But we have trespassed on holy ground--strayed into the path of an aggressive alien empire known as the Covenant.  What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter catapults mankind into a struggle for its very existence. But humanity is also locked in a bitter civil war known as the Insurrection.  So the survival of Harvest''s citizens falls to a squad of battle-weary UNSC Marines and their inexperienced colonial militia trainees.  In this unlikely group of heroes, one stands above the rest...a young Marine staff sergeant named Avery Johnson.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4099'),
(19620, 'Halo: Contact Harvest', 'Joseph Staten', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is how it began... It is the year 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space. But we have trespassed on holy ground--strayed into the path of an aggressive alien empire known as the Covenant. What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter catapults mankind into a struggle for its very existence. But humanity is also locked in a bitter civil war known as the Insurrection. So the survival of Harvest''s citizens falls to a squad of battle-weary UNSC Marines and their inexperienced colonial militia trainees. In this unlikely group of heroes, one stands above the rest...a young Marine staff sergeant named Avery Johnson.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20471'),
(19621, 'Halo: Cryptum', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But one species--eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge--achieved dominance.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They were the Forerunners--the keepers of the Mantle, the next stage of life in the Universeâ€™s Living Time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then they vanished.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is their story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting\n  </em>\n  is a young rebellious Forerunner.Â He is aÂ Manipular, untried--yet to become part of the adult Forerunner society, where vast knowledge and duty waits. He comes from a family of Builders, the Forerunnersâ€™ highest and most politically powerful rate. It is the Builders who create the grand technology that facilitates Forerunner dominance over the known universe.Â  It is the Builders who believe they must shoulder the greatest burden of the Mantle--as shepherds and guardians of all life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bornstellar is marked to become a great Builder just like his father.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But this Manipular has other plans.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  He is obsessed with lost treasures of the past. His reckless passion to seek out the marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors--long-vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent---forces his fatherâ€™s hand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bornstellar is sent to live among the Miners, where he must come to terms with where his duty truly lies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But powerful forces are at play.Â  Forerunner society is at a major crux. Past threats are once again proving relentless. Dire solutions--machines and strategies never before contemplated--are being called up, and fissures in Forerunner power are leading to chaos.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On a Lifeworkerâ€™s experimental planet, Bornstellarâ€™s rebellious course crosses the paths of two humans, and the long lifeline of a great military leader, forever changing Bornstellarâ€™s destiny â€¦and the fate of the entire galaxy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is a tale of life, death, intergalactic horror, exile, and maturity. It is a story of overwhelming change--and of human origins. Â For the Mantle may not lie upon the shoulders of Forerunners forever.Â Â Â \n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Greg Bear is a multiple Nebula and Hugo award-winning author whose works have been celebrated for their vision, scope, intensity, and sheer drama. His novels include his newest, Moving Mars, Queen of Angels, The Forge of God, Eon, Eternity, and Blood Music. He lives in Washington State.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5304'),
(19622, 'Halo: Cryptum', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But one species--eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge--achieved dominance.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They were the Forerunners--the keepers of the Mantle, the next stage of life in the Universeâ€™s Living Time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then they vanished.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is their story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting\n  </em>\n  is a young rebellious Forerunner.Â He is aÂ Manipular, untried--yet to become part of the adult Forerunner society, where vast knowledge and duty waits. He comes from a family of Builders, the Forerunnersâ€™ highest and most politically powerful rate. It is the Builders who create the grand technology that facilitates Forerunner dominance over the known universe.Â  It is the Builders who believe they must shoulder the greatest burden of the Mantle--as shepherds and guardians of all life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bornstellar is marked to become a great Builder just like his father.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But this Manipular has other plans.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  He is obsessed with lost treasures of the past. His reckless passion to seek out the marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors--long-vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent---forces his fatherâ€™s hand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bornstellar is sent to live among the Miners, where he must come to terms with where his duty truly lies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But powerful forces are at play.Â  Forerunner society is at a major crux. Past threats are once again proving relentless. Dire solutions--machines and strategies never before contemplated--are being called up, and fissures in Forerunner power are leading to chaos.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On a Lifeworkerâ€™s experimental planet, Bornstellarâ€™s rebellious course crosses the paths of two humans, and the long lifeline of a great military leader, forever changing Bornstellarâ€™s destiny â€¦and the fate of the entire galaxy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is a tale of life, death, intergalactic horror, exile, and maturity. It is a story of overwhelming change--and of human origins. Â For the Mantle may not lie upon the shoulders of Forerunners forever.Â Â Â \n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Greg Bear is a multiple Nebula and Hugo award-winning author whose works have been celebrated for their vision, scope, intensity, and sheer drama. His novels include his newest, Moving Mars, Queen of Angels, The Forge of God, Eon, Eternity, and Blood Music. He lives in Washington State.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8463'),
(19623, 'Halo: Cryptum', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But one species--eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge--achieved dominance.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness.\n </p>\n <p>\n  They were the Forerunners--the keepers of the Mantle, the next stage of life in the Universeâ€™s Living Time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  And then they vanished.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is their story.\n </p>\n <p>\n  _\n </p>\n <p>\n  __Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting\n  </em>\n  is a young rebellious Forerunner.Â He is aÂ Manipular, untried--yet to become part of the adult Forerunner society, where vast knowledge and duty waits. He comes from a family of Builders, the Forerunnersâ€™ highest and most politically powerful rate. It is the Builders who create the grand technology that facilitates Forerunner dominance over the known universe.Â  It is the Builders who believe they must shoulder the greatest burden of the Mantle--as shepherds and guardians of all life.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bornstellar is marked to become a great Builder just like his father.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But this Manipular has other plans.Â \n </p>\n <p>\n  He is obsessed with lost treasures of the past. His reckless passion to seek out the marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors--long-vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent---forces his fatherâ€™s hand.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Bornstellar is sent to live among the Miners, where he must come to terms with where his duty truly lies.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But powerful forces are at play.Â  Forerunner society is at a major crux. Past threats are once again proving relentless. Dire solutions--machines and strategies never before contemplated--are being called up, and fissures in Forerunner power are leading to chaos.\n </p>\n <p>\n  On a Lifeworkerâ€™s experimental planet, Bornstellarâ€™s rebellious course crosses the paths of two humans, and the long lifeline of a great military leader, forever changing Bornstellarâ€™s destiny â€¦and the fate of the entire galaxy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  This is a tale of life, death, intergalactic horror, exile, and maturity. It is a story of overwhelming change--and of human origins. Â For the Mantle may not lie upon the shoulders of Forerunners forever.Â Â Â \n </p>\n <h3>\n  About the Author\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Greg Bear is a multiple Nebula and Hugo award-winning author whose works have been celebrated for their vision, scope, intensity, and sheer drama. His novels include his newest, Moving Mars, Queen of Angels, The Forge of God, Eon, Eternity, and Blood Music. He lives in Washington State.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19326'),
(19624, 'Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe', 'Eric Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When humanity expanded beyond the safety of Earth to new stars and horizons, they never dreamed what dangers they would encounter there.  When the alien juggernaut known as the Covenant declared holy war upon the fragile human empire, millions of lives were lostâ€”but, millions of heroes rose to the challenge.  In such a far-reaching conflict, not many of the stories of these heroes, both human and alien, have a chance to become legend.  This collection holds eleven stories that dive into the depths of the vast Halo universe, not only from the perspective of those who fought and died to save humanity, but also those who vowed to wipe humanity out of existence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5657'),
(19625, 'Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe', 'Eric Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When humanity expanded beyond the safety of Earth to new stars and horizons, they never dreamed what dangers they would encounter there. When the alien juggernaut known as the Covenant declared holy war upon the fragile human empire, millions of lives were lostâ€”but, millions of heroes rose to the challenge. In such a far-reaching conflict, not many of the stories of these heroes, both human and alien, have a chance to become legend. This collection holds eleven stories that dive into the depths of the vast Halo universe, not only from the perspective of those who fought and died to save humanity, but also those who vowed to wipe humanity out of existence.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18975'),
(19626, 'Halo: First Strike', 'Eric S. Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The Human-Covenant war rages on as the alien juggernaut sweeps inexorably toward its final goal: destruction of all human life!***Halo has been destroyed, and the threat it posed to sentient life, neutralized. But victory has come at a terrible cost for the UNSC. Thousands of valiant soldiers fell in the battle to prevent the alien construct from falling into the enemyâ€™s clutches. Now, everything depends on the Spartan known as the â€œMaster Chief.â€ Yet even with the aid of the artificial intelligence Cortana, the Master Chief will be hard-pressed to rescue survivors and evade the Covenant ships patrolling the remains of Halo in debris-strewn space. Ahead lies a dangerous voyage home, through a gauntlet of Covenant forces. For the sake of all, the Master Chief and his war-torn squad must not only survive, but take the fight to the enemy with a decisive first strike.**This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.****Bungie, Halo, Xbox, the Microsoft Game Studios logo and the Xbox Logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Used under license. Â© 2003 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5662'),
(19627, 'Halo: First Strike', 'Eric S. Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***The Human-Covenant war rages on as the alien juggernaut sweeps inexorably toward its final goal: destruction of all human life!***Halo has been destroyed, and the threat it posed to sentient life, neutralized. But victory has come at a terrible cost for the UNSC. Thousands of valiant soldiers fell in the battle to prevent the alien construct from falling into the enemyâ€™s clutches. Now, everything depends on the Spartan known as the â€œMaster Chief.â€ Yet even with the aid of the artificial intelligence Cortana, the Master Chief will be hard-pressed to rescue survivors and evade the Covenant ships patrolling the remains of Halo in debris-strewn space. Ahead lies a dangerous voyage home, through a gauntlet of Covenant forces. For the sake of all, the Master Chief and his war-torn squad must not only survive, but take the fight to the enemy with a decisive first strike.**This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.****Bungie, Halo, Xbox, the Microsoft Game Studios logo and the Xbox Logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Used under license. Â© 2003 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.**\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18972'),
(19628, 'Halo: Ghosts of Onyx', 'Eric S. Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Continuing the saga of the award-winning Xboxâ„¢ game!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The Spartan-II program has gone public. Tales of super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But just how many Spartans are left?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n While the Master Chief defends a besieged Earth, and the myriad factions of the Covenant continue their crusade to eliminate humanity, an ultrasecret cell of the Office of Naval Intelligence known as â€œSection Threeâ€ devises a plan to buy the UNSC vital time. Theyâ€™re going to need hundreds of willing soldiers, though . . . and one more Spartan to get the job done.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The planet Onyx is virtually abandoned and the perfect place to set this new plan in motion. But when the Master Chief destroys Halo, something is triggered deep within Onyx: Ancient Forerunner technology stirs, and fleets of UNSC and Covenant race to claim it to change the course of the Human-Covenant War.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But this reawakened and ancient force may have plans of its own  . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This novel is based on a mature-rated game.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Microsoft, the Microsoft Game Studios Logo, Bungie, the Bungie Logo, Halo, the Halo logo, Xbox, and the Xbox logos are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries and are used under license from owner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5664'),
(19629, 'Halo: Ghosts of Onyx', 'Eric S. Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Continuing the saga of the award-winning Xboxâ„¢ game! The Spartan-II program has gone public. Tales of super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend. But just how many Spartans are left? While the Master Chief defends a besieged Earth, and the myriad factions of the Covenant continue their crusade to eliminate humanity, an ultrasecret cell of the Office of Naval Intelligence known as â€œSection Threeâ€ devises a plan to buy the UNSC vital time. Theyâ€™re going to need hundreds of willing soldiers, though . . . and one more Spartan to get the job done. The planet Onyx is virtually abandoned and the perfect place to set this new plan in motion. But when the Master Chief destroys Halo, something is triggered deep within Onyx: Ancient Forerunner technology stirs, and fleets of UNSC and Covenant race to claim it to change the course of the Human-Covenant War. But this reawakened and ancient force may have plans of its own . . . This novel is based on a mature-rated game. Microsoft, the Microsoft Game Studios Logo, Bungie, the Bungie Logo, Halo, the Halo logo, Xbox, and the Xbox logos are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries and are used under license from owner.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18971'),
(19630, 'Halo: The Cole Protocol', 'Tobias S. Buckell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. Many are called upon to rid the universe of lingering navigation data that would reveal the location of Earth. Among them is Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes. Thrust back into action after being sidelined, Keyes is saddled with a top secret mission by ONI. One that will take him deep behind enemy lines, to a corner of the universe where nothing is as it seems. Out beyond the Outer Colonies lies the planet Hesiod, a gas giant surrounded by a vast asteroid belt. As the Covenant continues to glass the human occupied planets near Hesiod, many of the survivors, helped by a stronghold of human Insurrectionists, are fleeing to the asteroid belt for refuge. They have transformed the tumbling satellites into a tenuous, yet ingenious, settlement known as the Rubble--and have come face-to-face with a Covenant settlement of Kig-Yar . . . yet somehow survived. News of this unlikely treaty has spread to the warring sides. Luckily for the UNSC, this uneasy alliance is in the path of the Spartan Gray Team, a three-man renegade squad whose simple task is to wreak havoc from behind enemy lines in any way they see fit. But the Prophets have also sent their best---an ambitious and ruthless Elite, whose quest for nobility and rank is matched only by his brutality . . . and who will do anything to secure his Ascendancy and walk the Path.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/610'),
(19631, 'Halo: The Cole Protocol', 'Tobias S. Buckell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. Many are called upon to rid the universe of lingering navigation data that would reveal the location of Earth. Among them is Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes. Thrust back into action after being sidelined, Keyes is saddled with a top secret mission by ONI. One that will take him deep behind enemy lines, to a corner of the universe where nothing is as it seems. Out beyond the Outer Colonies lies the planet Hesiod, a gas giant surrounded by a vast asteroid belt. As the Covenant continues to glass the human occupied planets near Hesiod, many of the survivors, helped by a stronghold of human Insurrectionists, are fleeing to the asteroid belt for refuge. They have transformed the tumbling satellites into a tenuous, yet ingenious, settlement known as the Rubble--and have come face-to-face with a Covenant settlement of Kig-Yar . . . yet somehow survived. News of this unlikely treaty has spread to the warring sides. Luckily for the UNSC, this uneasy alliance is in the path of the Spartan Gray Team, a three-man renegade squad whose simple task is to wreak havoc from behind enemy lines in any way they see fit. But the Prophets have also sent their best---an ambitious and ruthless Elite, whose quest for nobility and rank is matched only by his brutality . . . and who will do anything to secure his Ascendancy and walk the Path.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24389'),
(19632, 'Halo: The Fall of Reach', 'Eric Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***The Definitive Edition to the First and Bestselling Halo Novel, Including Twenty-seven Pages of New Material***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Legends are not simply born...they are willed into existence.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Humanity has expanded beyond the Sol System. There are hundreds of planets we now call "home."\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The United Nations Space Command now struggles to control this vast empire.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n After exhausting all strategies to keep seething insurrections from exploding into interplanetary civil war, the UNSC has one last hope.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n At the Office of Naval Intelligence, Dr. Catherine Halsey has been hard at work on a top secret program that could bring an end to all this conflict...and it starts with seventy-five children, among them a six year old boy named John.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Halsey never guessed that this little boy would become humanity''s final hope against a vast alien force hell-bent on wiping us out.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This is the story of John, Spartan-117â€¦the Master Chief, and of the battles that brought humanity face to face with its possible extinction.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ***\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This new Tor edition will serve as the definitive version of the novel that started Halo fans reading the series, and features brand-new material, including: ****\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n ****\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5659'),
(19633, 'Halo: The Fall of Reach', 'Eric Nylund', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***The Definitive Edition to the First and Bestselling Halo Novel, Including Twenty-seven Pages of New Material*** *** **Legends are not simply born...they are willed into existence.** Humanity has expanded beyond the Sol System. There are hundreds of planets we now call "home." The United Nations Space Command now struggles to control this vast empire. After exhausting all strategies to keep seething insurrections from exploding into interplanetary civil war, the UNSC has one last hope. At the Office of Naval Intelligence, Dr. Catherine Halsey has been hard at work on a top secret program that could bring an end to all this conflict...and it starts with seventy-five children, among them a six year old boy named John. Halsey never guessed that this little boy would become humanity''s final hope against a vast alien force hell-bent on wiping us out. This is the story of John, Spartan-117â€¦the Master Chief, and of the battles that brought humanity face to face with its possible extinction. *** This new Tor edition will serve as the definitive version of the novel that started Halo fans reading the series, and features brand-new material, including: **** ****\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18970'),
(19634, 'Halo: The Flood', 'William C. Dietz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Human-Covenant War, a desperate struggle for humankindâ€™s very survival, has reached its boiling point on the mysterious, ring world called Halo. But the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien military force known, are not the only peril lying in wait.As the fortress world of Reach and its brave defenders were bombarded to rubble, a single cruiser fled the carnage with the battleâ€™s only human survivorsâ€”Captain Keyes, his crew of a few hundred Marines, and the last remaining SPARTAN super-soldier, the Master Chief.With the cruiserâ€™s artificial intelligence, Cortana, concealed in his battle armor, the Master Chief crash lands on Halo in the midst of a massive Covenant occupation. Curiously, the alien soldiers appear to be searching for something hidden on the ring. Built by a long-dead race, Halo harbors many deadly secrets, but one overshadows them all. Now the Master Chief must lead the scattered troops in a brutal race to unravel Haloâ€™s darkest mysteryâ€”and unleash its greatest source of power. . . .This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/210'),
(19635, 'Halo: The Flood', 'William C. Dietz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The Human-Covenant War, a desperate struggle for humankindâ€™s very survival, has reached its boiling point on the mysterious, ring world called Halo. But the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien military force known, are not the only peril lying in wait.As the fortress world of Reach and its brave defenders were bombarded to rubble, a single cruiser fled the carnage with the battleâ€™s only human survivorsâ€”Captain Keyes, his crew of a few hundred Marines, and the last remaining SPARTAN super-soldier, the Master Chief.With the cruiserâ€™s artificial intelligence, Cortana, concealed in his battle armor, the Master Chief crash lands on Halo in the midst of a massive Covenant occupation. Curiously, the alien soldiers appear to be searching for something hidden on the ring. Built by a long-dead race, Halo harbors many deadly secrets, but one overshadows them all. Now the Master Chief must lead the scattered troops in a brutal race to unravel Haloâ€™s darkest mysteryâ€”and unleash its greatest source of power. . . .This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24682'),
(19636, 'Halt&#39;s Peril', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The renegade outlaw group known as the Outsiders may have been chased from Clonmel, but not before killing HaltÃ•s only brother. Now Rangers Halt and Will, along with the young warrior Horace, are in pursuit. The Outsiders have done an effective job of dividing the kingdom into factions and are looking to overtake Araluen. It will take every bit of skill and cunning for the Rangers to survive. Some may not be so lucky. The international bestselling RangerÃ•s Apprentice series turns up the tension in John FlanaganÃ•s latest epic of battles and bravery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4276'),
(19637, 'Halt&#39;s Peril', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Continuing the story line begun in The Kings of Clonmel (2010), book 9 of the Rangerâ€™s Apprentice series sends Halt, Will, and Horace back on the trail of the same vicious, thieving outlaws. When a poisoned arrow takes Halt out of his senses and soon threatens his life, his younger comrades must take the lead to save him and continue their mission. A fine addition to a popular series, this volume sends the three main characters into adventures that they can survive only by relying on one other. Series fans will enjoy the dialogue and camaraderie as much as the action. Grades 5-8. --Carolyn Phelan\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The renegade outlaw group known as the Outsiders may have been chased from Clonmel, but not before killing Halt''s only brother. Now Rangers Halt and Will, along with the young warrior Horace, are in pursuit. The Outsiders have done an effective job of dividing the kingdom into factions and are looking to overtake Araluen. It will take every bit of skill and cunning for the Rangers to survive. Some may not be so lucky.\n</p>\n<p>\n The international bestselling Ranger''s Apprentice series turns up the tension in John Flanagan''s latest epic of battles and bravery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14904'),
(19638, 'Halt&#39;s Peril', 'John Flanagan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The renegade outlaw group known as the Outsiders may have been chased from Clonmel, but not before killing HaltÃ•s only brother. Now Rangers Halt and Will, along with the young warrior Horace, are in pursuit. The Outsiders have done an effective job of dividing the kingdom into factions and are looking to overtake Araluen. It will take every bit of skill and cunning for the Rangers to survive. Some may not be so lucky. The international bestselling RangerÃ•s Apprentice series turns up the tension in John FlanaganÃ•s latest epic of battles and bravery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21422'),
(19639, 'Halta', 'Clifford D. Simak', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25966'),
(19640, 'Ham on Rye', 'Charles Bukowski', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library''s collection of D. H. Lawrence,\n <em>\n  Ham on Rye\n </em>\n offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast''s coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8111'),
(19641, 'Hamlet', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart)  The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.  Each volume features:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Authoritative, reliable texts\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * High quality introductions and notes\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * New, more readable trade trim size\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare''s life and the selection of texts\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/125'),
(19642, 'Hamlet', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart)  The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.  Each volume features:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * Authoritative, reliable texts\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * High quality introductions and notes\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * New, more readable trade trim size\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare''s life and the selection of texts\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12544'),
(19643, 'Hamlet', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare''s life and the selection of texts\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14054'),
(19644, 'Hamlet', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare''s life and the selection of texts\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24726'),
(19645, 'The Hammer of God', 'Arthur C. Clarke', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In 2110, when an asteroid enters the solar system on a direct collision course with Earth, it is up to Captain Robert Singh and the crew of the spacecraft Goliath to find a way to avert catastrophe. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26036'),
(19646, 'The Hammer', 'K. J. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gignomai is the youngest brother in the current generation of met''Oc, a once-noble family exiled on an island for their role in a vaguely remembered civil war.\n</p>\n<p>\n On this island, a colony was founded seventy years ago. The plan was originally for the colonists to mine silver, but there turned out not to be any.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, an uneasy peace exists on the island, between the colonists and the met''Oc. The met''Oc are tolerated, in spite of occasional cattle stealing raids, since they alone possess the weapons considered necessary protection against the island''s savages.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gignomai is about to discover exactly what it is expected of him, and what it means to defy his family. He is the hammer who will provide the spark that will ignite a brutal and bloody war.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n K.J. Parker is a pseudonym. Find more about the author at www.kjparker.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3889'),
(19647, 'The Hammer', 'K. J. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gignomai is the youngest brother in the current generation of met''Oc, a once-noble family exiled on an island for their role in a vaguely remembered civil war.\n</p>\n<p>\n On this island, a colony was founded seventy years ago. The plan was originally for the colonists to mine silver, but there turned out not to be any.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, an uneasy peace exists on the island, between the colonists and the met''Oc. The met''Oc are tolerated, in spite of occasional cattle stealing raids, since they alone possess the weapons considered necessary protection against the island''s savages.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gignomai is about to discover exactly what it is expected of him, and what it means to defy his family. He is the hammer who will provide the spark that will ignite a brutal and bloody war.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n K.J. Parker is a pseudonym. Find more about the author at www.kjparker.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11810'),
(19648, 'The Hammer', 'K. J. Parker', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Gignomai is the youngest brother in the current generation of met''Oc, a once-noble family exiled on an island for their role in a vaguely remembered civil war.\n</p>\n<p>\n On this island, a colony was founded seventy years ago. The plan was originally for the colonists to mine silver, but there turned out not to be any.\n</p>\n<p>\n Now, an uneasy peace exists on the island, between the colonists and the met''Oc. The met''Oc are tolerated, in spite of occasional cattle stealing raids, since they alone possess the weapons considered necessary protection against the island''s savages.\n</p>\n<p>\n Gignomai is about to discover exactly what it is expected of him, and what it means to defy his family. He is the hammer who will provide the spark that will ignite a brutal and bloody war.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n K.J. Parker is a pseudonym. Find more about the author at www.kjparker.com.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20566'),
(19649, 'Hand in Glove', 'Ngaio Marsh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Who had a hand in the murder of a country gent?All manner of friction fills the English country house shared by genteel retiree Percival Pyke Period and fuddy-duddy lawyer Harry Cartell. Until one of them, after a flamboyant dowager''s treasure hunt party, is found murdered-face down in the mire of an open drain. Which of Superintendent Roderick Alleyn''s suspects-linked by a tangled set of relationships-wore a crucial, missing pair of gloves to commit this dirty deed?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25316'),
(19650, 'The Hand of Ethelberta', 'Thomas Hardy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy was edited for three audiences. The first includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL or TOEIC preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement (AP) or similar examinations. By using the Webster''s French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French or English.TOEFL, TOEIC, AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.Websters edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to difficult, yet commonly used words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher awords meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult wo\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22904'),
(19651, 'The Hand of Oberon', 'Roger Zelazny', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Returning to Shadow Earth to investigate a threat against his life, Corwin discovers that the Jewel of Judgment has been stolen by his traitorous brother, Brand, who plans to use the enigmatic gem to reshape the universe. Reissue.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23115'),
(19652, 'The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors', 'Michele Young-Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **When lightning strikes, lives are changed.****Â **BECCAÂ *On a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No one believed herâ€”not her philandering father or her drunk, love-sick motherâ€”not even when her watch kept losing time and a spooky halo of light appeared overhead in photographs. Becca was struck again when she was sixteen. She survived, but over time she would learn that outsmarting lightning was the least of her concerns.*Â BUCKLEYÂ *In rural Arkansas, Buckley R. Pitankâ€™s world seemed plagued by disaster. Ashamed but protective of his obese mother, fearful of his scathing grandmother, and always running from bullies (including his pseudo-evangelical stepfather), he needed a miracle to set him free. At thirteen years old, Buckley witnessed a lightning strike that would change everything.*Â Now an art student in New York City, Becca Burke is a gifted but tortured painter who strives to recapture the intensity of her lightning-strike memories on canvas. On the night of her first gallery opening, a stranger appears and is captivated by her art. Who is this odd young man with whom she shares a mysterious connection? When Buckley and Becca finally meet, neither is prepared for the charge of emotionsâ€”or for the perilous event that will bring them even closer to one another, and to the families theyâ€™ve been running from for as long as they can remember. Crackling with atmosphere and eccentric characters, *The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors* explores the magic of nature and the power of redemption in a novel as beautiful and unpredictable as lightning itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2698'),
(19653, 'The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors', 'Michele Young-Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **When lightning strikes, lives are changed.****Â **BECCAÂ *On a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No one believed herâ€”not her philandering father or her drunk, love-sick motherâ€”not even when her watch kept losing time and a spooky halo of light appeared overhead in photographs. Becca was struck again when she was sixteen. She survived, but over time she would learn that outsmarting lightning was the least of her concerns.*Â BUCKLEYÂ *In rural Arkansas, Buckley R. Pitankâ€™s world seemed plagued by disaster. Ashamed but protective of his obese mother, fearful of his scathing grandmother, and always running from bullies (including his pseudo-evangelical stepfather), he needed a miracle to set him free. At thirteen years old, Buckley witnessed a lightning strike that would change everything.*Â Now an art student in New York City, Becca Burke is a gifted but tortured painter who strives to recapture the intensity of her lightning-strike memories on canvas. On the night of her first gallery opening, a stranger appears and is captivated by her art. Who is this odd young man with whom she shares a mysterious connection? When Buckley and Becca finally meet, neither is prepared for the charge of emotionsâ€”or for the perilous event that will bring them even closer to one another, and to the families theyâ€™ve been running from for as long as they can remember. Crackling with atmosphere and eccentric characters, *The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors* explores the magic of nature and the power of redemption in a novel as beautiful and unpredictable as lightning itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13436'),
(19654, 'The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors', 'Michele Young-Stone', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **When lightning strikes, lives are changed.****Â **BECCAÂ *On a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No one believed herâ€”not her philandering father or her drunk, love-sick motherâ€”not even when her watch kept losing time and a spooky halo of light appeared overhead in photographs. Becca was struck again when she was sixteen. She survived, but over time she would learn that outsmarting lightning was the least of her concerns.*Â BUCKLEYÂ *In rural Arkansas, Buckley R. Pitankâ€™s world seemed plagued by disaster. Ashamed but protective of his obese mother, fearful of his scathing grandmother, and always running from bullies (including his pseudo-evangelical stepfather), he needed a miracle to set him free. At thirteen years old, Buckley witnessed a lightning strike that would change everything.*Â Now an art student in New York City, Becca Burke is a gifted but tortured painter who strives to recapture the intensity of her lightning-strike memories on canvas. On the night of her first gallery opening, a stranger appears and is captivated by her art. Who is this odd young man with whom she shares a mysterious connection? When Buckley and Becca finally meet, neither is prepared for the charge of emotionsâ€”or for the perilous event that will bring them even closer to one another, and to the families theyâ€™ve been running from for as long as they can remember. Crackling with atmosphere and eccentric characters, *The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors* explores the magic of nature and the power of redemption in a novel as beautiful and unpredictable as lightning itself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22037');
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(19655, 'Handbook of Empirical Social Work Practice, Mental Disorders', 'Bruce A. Thyer; John S. Wodarski', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Covers clinically effective treatments for over twenty of the major mental, behavioral, and emotional diagnoses in the DSM-IV\n</p>\n<p>\n The last two decades in social work have seen tremendous strides in field research, from the development of improved research designs to more accurate methods of problem measurement and outcome analysis. Drawing upon these significant advances, the two-volume Handbook of Empirical Social Work Practice brings together empirically validated interventions for many of the psychosocial problems most frequently encountered by social workers in their daily practice.\n</p>\n<p>\n Unlike other books in the field that employ a theory-based approach to treatment, this handbook focuses on the best-supported methods of helping clients with particular problems irrespective of theoretical biases, offering clinicians a valuable compendium of practice guidelines for treatment.\n</p>\n<p>\n Edited and authored by recognized experts in the field, the Handbook of Empirical Social Work Practice is clearly written and organized for easy reference. Volume One covers clinically effective treatments for over twenty of the major mental, behavioral, and emotional diagnoses in the DSM-IV(TM), including:\n <br />\n * Disorders typically diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence\n <br />\n * Substance-related disorders\n <br />\n * Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders\n <br />\n * Mood and anxiety disorders\n <br />\n * Sexual and eating disorders\n <br />\n * Personality disorders\n</p>\n<p>\n With information that is at once accessible and up to date, the Handbook of Empirical Social Work Practice is a vital source of guidance for today''s clinical social workers and other practicing mental health professionals, as well as students.\n</p>\n<p>\n "One of the best tools to promote the values of the [social work] profession is that of empirical social work practice. ''Telling the truth'' is one of these values, and discovering the truth is something that empirical research is very good at. This book presents credible reviews of contemporary empirical literature pertaining to selected behavioral, affective, and intellectual disorders, and their psychosocial assessment and treatment. That such a book is now possible is a striking affirmation of the merits of the approach to social work called empirical clinical practice."\n <br />\n -from the Handbook of Empirical Social Work Practice\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n A state-of-the-art overview of empirically-validated treatments for psychological and social disorders. Organized by DSM diagnoses and social problems, this reference is a jargon-free guide to the psychosocial interventions that have been shown to be clinically effective for each type of psychological, behavioral, and social problem.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15504'),
(19656, 'A handful of dust', 'Evelyn Waugh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Evelyn Waughâ€™s 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Lady Brenda Last embarks on an affair with the worthless John Beaver out of boredom with her husband, she sets in motion a sequence of tragicomic disasters that reveal Waugh at his most scathing. The action is set in the brittle social world recognizable from Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, darkened and deepened by Waughâ€™s own experience of sexual betrayal. As Tony is driven by the urbane savagery of this world to seek solace in the wilds of the Brazilian jungle, A Handful of Dust  demonstrates the incomparably brilliant and wicked wit of one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s most accomplished novelists.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25821'),
(19657, 'Handful of Stardust', 'Yvonne Whittal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/128'),
(19658, 'Handful of stardust', 'Yvonne Whittal', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24744'),
(19659, 'Handle With Care: A Novel', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Things break all the time.Day breaks, waves break, voices break.Promises break.Hearts break.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Every expectant parent will tell you that they don''t want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O''Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they''d been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it''s all worth it because Willow is, well, funny as it seems, perfect. She''s smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte should have known earlier of Willow''s illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Emotionally riveting and profoundly moving, *Handle with Care* brings us into the heart of a family bound by an incredible burden, a desperate will to keep their ties from breaking, and, ultimately, a powerful capacity for love. Written with the grace and wisdom she''s become famous for, beloved #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Jodi Picoult offers us an unforgettable novel about the fragility of life and the lengths we will go to protect it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4426'),
(19660, 'The Handmaid&#39;s Tale', 'Margaret Atwood &amp; Valerie Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a startling departure from her previous novels ( Lady Oracle , Surfacing ), respected Canadian poet and novelist Atwood presents here a fable of the near future. In the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, far-right Schlafly/Falwell-type ideals have been carried to extremes in the monotheocratic government. The resulting society is a feminist''s nightmare: women are strictly controlled, unable to have jobs or money and assigned to various classes: the chaste, childless Wives; the housekeeping Marthas; and the reproductive Handmaids, who turn their offspring over to the "morally fit" Wives. The tale is told by Offred (read: "of Fred"), a Handmaid who recalls the past and tells how the chilling society came to be. This powerful, memorable novel is highly recommended for most libraries. BOMC featured alternate. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The most poetically satisfying and intense of all Atwood''s novels."-_Maclean''s_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The Handmaid''s Tale is in the honorable tradition of\n  <em>\n   Brave New World\n  </em>\n  and other warnings of dystopia. It''s imaginative even audacious, and conveys a chilling sense of fear and menace."-_The Globe and Mail_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Handmaid''s Tale_ brings out the very best in Atwood--moral vision, biting humor, and a poet''s imagination."-_Chatelaine_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3083'),
(19661, 'The Handmaid&#39;s Tale', 'Margaret Atwood', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In a startling departure from her previous novels ( Lady Oracle , Surfacing ), respected Canadian poet and novelist Atwood presents here a fable of the near future. In the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, far-right Schlafly/Falwell-type ideals have been carried to extremes in the monotheocratic government. The resulting society is a feminist''s nightmare: women are strictly controlled, unable to have jobs or money and assigned to various classes: the chaste, childless Wives; the housekeeping Marthas; and the reproductive Handmaids, who turn their offspring over to the "morally fit" Wives. The tale is told by Offred (read: "of Fred"), a Handmaid who recalls the past and tells how the chilling society came to be. This powerful, memorable novel is highly recommended for most libraries. BOMC featured alternate. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "The most poetically satisfying and intense of all Atwood''s novels."-_Maclean''s_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "The Handmaid''s Tale is in the honorable tradition of\n  <em>\n   Brave New World\n  </em>\n  and other warnings of dystopia. It''s imaginative even audacious, and conveys a chilling sense of fear and menace."-_The Globe and Mail_\n </p>\n <p>\n  "_The Handmaid''s Tale_ brings out the very best in Atwood--moral vision, biting humor, and a poet''s imagination."-_Chatelaine_\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15258'),
(19662, 'Hands of Flame', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From School Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Lawyer Margrit Knight is one of the few humans aware of New York City''s otherworldy denizens; known as the Negotiator among the Old Races who dwell behind the scenes, she calls upon her allies, a fallen dragon and her vampire employer, when her gargoyle lover is kidnapped and placed on trial by his "peers." While wrapping up many loose ends, the concluding volume of Murphy''s Negotiator trilogy (_Heart of Stone; House of Cards_) leaves open the possibility of future explorations into an urban fantasy that brings some unusual creatures, such as gargoyles, djinn, and selkies, into the modern world. Margrit is a gutsy, resourceful heroine who can walk a fine line between the paranormal and the real world. A good choice for most libraries, with particular appeal to fans of Charles de Lint and Jim Butcher.\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  African American Hispanic Legal Aid lawyer Margrit Knight, who discovered the existence of the Old Races in Heart of Stone (2007), has been changed by love for the gargoyle Alban and being saved from death by vampire blood. Now Alban, self-exiled from his people to protect a secret, is bound for criminal court, and the strict Old Races trial procedures will open his memories to the tribunal. Margrit fearlessly throws herself into situation after peril-filled situation to avert war among Old Races factions and iron things out with the dragon Janx and her new boss, vampire Eliseo Daisani. The Negotiator trilogy wraps up nicely. --Diana Tixier Herald\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7043'),
(19663, 'Hands of Flame', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16826'),
(19664, 'Hands of Flame', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26702'),
(19665, 'Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love', 'Myron Uhlberg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  : With touching simplicity, author Myron Uhlberg recounts his complex childhood spent bridging the gap between sign language and the spoken word. As the hearing son of deaf parents, young Myron served as their emissary to the audible world while enduring the painful ignorance of a society that dismissed the hearing-impaired as "dummies." Yet eliciting pity is not the aim of this memoir.\n  <em>\n   Hands of My Father\n  </em>\n  is less about the challenges Uhlberg faced, and more about the love that bound his family together. Amid each tale of hardship, he describes moments so profoundly tender that you are immediately excused for the lump forming in the back of your throat. "All that I needed, in order to understand how much my father loved me," he explains, "was the feel of his arms around me." Though there may have been much to struggle against, Uhlberg''s stories reveal that he had even more to be thankful for. -\n  <em>\n   Dave Callanan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this memoir about growing up the son of deaf parents in 1940s Brooklyn, Uhlberg recalls the time his uncle told him he saw his nephew as cleaved into two parts, half hearing, half deaf, forever joined together. These worlds come together in this work, his first for adults, as Uhlberg, who has written several children''s books (including\n  <em>\n   Dad, Jackie, and Me\n  </em>\n  , which won a 2006 Patterson Prize) effortlessly weaves his way through a childhood of trying to interpret the speaking world for his parents while trying to learn the lessons of life from the richly executed Technicolor language of his father''s hands. With the interconnection of two different worlds, there is bound to be humor, and Uhlberg is able to laugh at himself and his family''s situation. He recounts unsuccessfully trying to reinterpret his teacher''s constructive criticism for his parents and finding himself pressed into duty interpreting the Joe Louis prize fights for his dad. There are, of course, more poignant moments, as Uhlberg tries to explain the sound of waves for his curious father or when he finds himself in charge of caring for his epileptic baby brother because his parents can''t hear the seizures. As Uhlberg grows up through the polio epidemic, WWII and Jackie Robinson''s arrival in Brooklyn, he also grows out of his insecurities about his family and the way they are viewed as outsiders. Instead, looking back, he gives readers a well-crafted, heartwarming tale of family love and understanding.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2690'),
(19666, 'Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love', 'Myron Uhlberg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  : With touching simplicity, author Myron Uhlberg recounts his complex childhood spent bridging the gap between sign language and the spoken word. As the hearing son of deaf parents, young Myron served as their emissary to the audible world while enduring the painful ignorance of a society that dismissed the hearing-impaired as "dummies." Yet eliciting pity is not the aim of this memoir.\n  <em>\n   Hands of My Father\n  </em>\n  is less about the challenges Uhlberg faced, and more about the love that bound his family together. Amid each tale of hardship, he describes moments so profoundly tender that you are immediately excused for the lump forming in the back of your throat. "All that I needed, in order to understand how much my father loved me," he explains, "was the feel of his arms around me." Though there may have been much to struggle against, Uhlberg''s stories reveal that he had even more to be thankful for. -\n  <em>\n   Dave Callanan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this memoir about growing up the son of deaf parents in 1940s Brooklyn, Uhlberg recalls the time his uncle told him he saw his nephew as cleaved into two parts, half hearing, half deaf, forever joined together. These worlds come together in this work, his first for adults, as Uhlberg, who has written several children''s books (including\n  <em>\n   Dad, Jackie, and Me\n  </em>\n  , which won a 2006 Patterson Prize) effortlessly weaves his way through a childhood of trying to interpret the speaking world for his parents while trying to learn the lessons of life from the richly executed Technicolor language of his father''s hands. With the interconnection of two different worlds, there is bound to be humor, and Uhlberg is able to laugh at himself and his family''s situation. He recounts unsuccessfully trying to reinterpret his teacher''s constructive criticism for his parents and finding himself pressed into duty interpreting the Joe Louis prize fights for his dad. There are, of course, more poignant moments, as Uhlberg tries to explain the sound of waves for his curious father or when he finds himself in charge of caring for his epileptic baby brother because his parents can''t hear the seizures. As Uhlberg grows up through the polio epidemic, WWII and Jackie Robinson''s arrival in Brooklyn, he also grows out of his insecurities about his family and the way they are viewed as outsiders. Instead, looking back, he gives readers a well-crafted, heartwarming tale of family love and understanding.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13078'),
(19667, 'Hands of my father: a hearing boy, his deaf parents, and the language of love', 'Myron Uhlberg', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n  </strong>\n  : With touching simplicity, author Myron Uhlberg recounts his complex childhood spent bridging the gap between sign language and the spoken word. As the hearing son of deaf parents, young Myron served as their emissary to the audible world while enduring the painful ignorance of a society that dismissed the hearing-impaired as "dummies." Yet eliciting pity is not the aim of this memoir.\n  <em>\n   Hands of My Father\n  </em>\n  is less about the challenges Uhlberg faced, and more about the love that bound his family together. Amid each tale of hardship, he describes moments so profoundly tender that you are immediately excused for the lump forming in the back of your throat. "All that I needed, in order to understand how much my father loved me," he explains, "was the feel of his arms around me." Though there may have been much to struggle against, Uhlberg''s stories reveal that he had even more to be thankful for. -\n  <em>\n   Dave Callanan\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  In this memoir about growing up the son of deaf parents in 1940s Brooklyn, Uhlberg recalls the time his uncle told him he saw his nephew as cleaved into two parts, half hearing, half deaf, forever joined together. These worlds come together in this work, his first for adults, as Uhlberg, who has written several children''s books (including\n  <em>\n   Dad, Jackie, and Me\n  </em>\n  , which won a 2006 Patterson Prize) effortlessly weaves his way through a childhood of trying to interpret the speaking world for his parents while trying to learn the lessons of life from the richly executed Technicolor language of his father''s hands. With the interconnection of two different worlds, there is bound to be humor, and Uhlberg is able to laugh at himself and his family''s situation. He recounts unsuccessfully trying to reinterpret his teacher''s constructive criticism for his parents and finding himself pressed into duty interpreting the Joe Louis prize fights for his dad. There are, of course, more poignant moments, as Uhlberg tries to explain the sound of waves for his curious father or when he finds himself in charge of caring for his epileptic baby brother because his parents can''t hear the seizures. As Uhlberg grows up through the polio epidemic, WWII and Jackie Robinson''s arrival in Brooklyn, he also grows out of his insecurities about his family and the way they are viewed as outsiders. Instead, looking back, he gives readers a well-crafted, heartwarming tale of family love and understanding.\n  <em>\n   (Apr.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22120'),
(19668, 'Hangfire', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Six agents have died hideously trying to penetrate the crime families behind a vast empire of pleasure and debauchery-- Now it''s up to the Marines to break the circle. Most people will visit Havanagas only in their dreams, for few can afford the exclusive resort planet that recreates ancient worlds and caters to every taste. Witches are burned at the stake in medieval towns while riotous hordes fill Rome''s Coliseum to watch gladiators battle. Even the basest of human lusts are satiated by deadly sex acts and a thriving slave trade. The crime bosses'' control of Havanagas and its people is brutally effective. Now three Marines from Co. L''s 3rd Platoon--masquerading as discharged military buddies on holiday--are going in to break the kingpins'' bloody stranglehold. From bordellos and rebellious enclaves to the very pit of the Coliseum filled with deadly beasts, Corporal Pasquin and Lance Corporals Claypoole and Dean face certain death with only their wits and skills as weapons. But they''re Marines, built to survive. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17262'),
(19669, 'Hangfire', 'David Sherman; Dan Cragg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Six agents have died hideously trying to penetrate the crime families behind a vast empire of pleasure and debauchery-- Now it''s up to the Marines to break the circle. Most people will visit Havanagas only in their dreams, for few can afford the exclusive resort planet that recreates ancient worlds and caters to every taste. Witches are burned at the stake in medieval towns while riotous hordes fill Rome''s Coliseum to watch gladiators battle. Even the basest of human lusts are satiated by deadly sex acts and a thriving slave trade. The crime bosses'' control of Havanagas and its people is brutally effective. Now three Marines from Co. L''s 3rd Platoon--masquerading as discharged military buddies on holiday--are going in to break the kingpins'' bloody stranglehold. From bordellos and rebellious enclaves to the very pit of the Coliseum filled with deadly beasts, Corporal Pasquin and Lance Corporals Claypoole and Dean face certain death with only their wits and skills as weapons. But they''re Marines, built to survive. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27319'),
(19670, 'Hanging Hill', 'Mo Hayder', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What if you found yourself divorced and penniless? With no skills and a teenage daughter to support? What if the only way to survive was to do things you never thought possible, to go places you never knew existed These are questions Cal has never really thought about before. Married to a successful business man, shes always been a bit of a dreamer. Until now. Her sister Zoe is her polar opposite. A detective inspector working out of Bath Central, she loves her job, and oozes self-confidence. No one would guess that she hides a crippling secret that dates back twenty years, and which if exposed may destroy her.Then Cals daughter gets into difficulties, and Cal finds she needs cash lots of it fast. With no one to help her, she is forced into a criminal world of extreme pornography and illegal drugs; a world in which teenage girls can go missing.Two sisters intent on survival. Until one does something so terrifying that theres no way back\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2670'),
(19671, 'Hanging Hill', 'Mo Hayder', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What if you found yourself divorced and penniless? With no skills and a teenage daughter to support? What if the only way to survive was to do things you never thought possible, to go places you never knew existed These are questions Cal has never really thought about before. Married to a successful business man, shes always been a bit of a dreamer. Until now. Her sister Zoe is her polar opposite. A detective inspector working out of Bath Central, she loves her job, and oozes self-confidence. No one would guess that she hides a crippling secret that dates back twenty years, and which if exposed may destroy her.Then Cals daughter gets into difficulties, and Cal finds she needs cash lots of it fast. With no one to help her, she is forced into a criminal world of extreme pornography and illegal drugs; a world in which teenage girls can go missing.Two sisters intent on survival. Until one does something so terrifying that theres no way back\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10228'),
(19672, 'Hanging Hill', 'Mo Hayder', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n What if you found yourself divorced and penniless? With no skills and a teenage daughter to support? What if the only way to survive was to do things you never thought possible, to go places you never knew existed These are questions Cal has never really thought about before. Married to a successful business man, shes always been a bit of a dreamer. Until now. Her sister Zoe is her polar opposite. A detective inspector working out of Bath Central, she loves her job, and oozes self-confidence. No one would guess that she hides a crippling secret that dates back twenty years, and which if exposed may destroy her.Then Cals daughter gets into difficulties, and Cal finds she needs cash lots of it fast. With no one to help her, she is forced into a criminal world of extreme pornography and illegal drugs; a world in which teenage girls can go missing.Two sisters intent on survival. Until one does something so terrifying that theres no way back\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22137'),
(19673, 'Hanging On', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n M*A*S*H* meets CATCH-22 in the most riotous, ribald, WW II military madhouse ever!  It all began when Major Kelly''s Army engineers were dropped into Nazi-occupied France and ordered to keep a bridge open until the Allies arrived.  Except the mission was a secret and nobody knew they were there--nobody except the Luftwaffe, which kept bombing the bridge ... which meant the GI''s kept rebuilding it ... which meant the Luftwaffe kept bombing it... which meant the tension was doing funny things to Major Kelly''s men''s minds ... which mean anything could happen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6112'),
(19674, 'Hanging on', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n All Began When Major Kelly''s Army Engineers Were Dropped Into Nazi-occupied France And Ordered to Keep a Bridge Open Until the Allies Arrived. Simple, Except the Mission Was a Secret And Nobody Knew They Were There - Nobody Except the Luftwaffe, Which Kept Bombing the Bridge.which Meantthe Gi''s Kept Rebuilding It.which Meant the Luftwaffe Kept Bombing It. Which Meant the Tension Was Doing Funny Things to Major Kelly''s Men''s Minds.which Meant Anything Could Happen - And You Can Bet Your Last C-ration It Did! Koontz''s comic novel of WWII, "written before I realized comic novels don''t sell" he says now.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17958'),
(19675, 'The Hangman&#39;s Daughter', 'Oliver Potzsch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Germany, 1660: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at the stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau. When more children disappear and an orphan boy is found deadâ€”marked by the same tattooâ€”the mounting hysteria threatens to erupt into chaos.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Before the unrest forces him to torture and execute the very woman who aided in the birth of his children, Jakob must unravel the truth. With the help of his clever daughter, Magdelena, and Simon, the university-educated son of the townâ€™s physician, Jakob discovers that a devil is indeed loose in Schongau. But it may be too late to prevent bloodshed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A brilliantly detailed, fast-paced historical thriller, The Hangmanâ€™s Daughter is the first novel from German television screenwriter Oliver PÃ¶tzsch, a descendent of the Kuisls, a famous Bavarian executioner clan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2364'),
(19676, 'The Hangman&#39;s Daughter', 'Oliver Potzsch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Germany, 1660: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at the stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau. When more children disappear and an orphan boy is found deadâ€”marked by the same tattooâ€”the mounting hysteria threatens to erupt into chaos.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Before the unrest forces him to torture and execute the very woman who aided in the birth of his children, Jakob must unravel the truth. With the help of his clever daughter, Magdelena, and Simon, the university-educated son of the townâ€™s physician, Jakob discovers that a devil is indeed loose in Schongau. But it may be too late to prevent bloodshed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A brilliantly detailed, fast-paced historical thriller, The Hangmanâ€™s Daughter is the first novel from German television screenwriter Oliver PÃ¶tzsch, a descendent of the Kuisls, a famous Bavarian executioner clan.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11961'),
(19677, 'Hank Reinhardt&#39;s Book of the Sword', 'Hank Reinhardt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The sword is the most revered of all of manâ€™s weapons. Although the club is older, the knife more universal, and the firearm much more efficient, it is to the sword that most decoration, myth, mysticism and reverence has been given. The katana has been called â€œThe Soul of the Samurai,â€ the Vikings lavished love, care and attached wonderful names to their weapons. The sword has been the symbol of Justice, of Vengeance, and of Mercy. No one artifact has so captured the imagination as has the sword. As our society has grown more and more advanced, and more reliant on technology, there has been an increased interest in the weapons of the past. The romance of the sword is very much aliveâ€”but movies, books and fiction of all types have romanticized the past, and particularly the sword, beyond all recognition of the real thing. Drawing on information from grave excavations, illustrations of battle scenes, and many classical and medieval literary sources, this book discusses how contemporaries showed swords were used. Building on Oakeshott and other authoritative writers on the subject, this volume, representing ten years of writing and a lifetime of experience, will add to the body of knowledge of the history of swords by illustrating not only the beauty of the form of the sword, but also their beauty of function.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5266'),
(19678, 'Hank Reinhardt&#39;s Book of the Sword', 'Hank Reinhardt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sword is the most revered of all of manâ€™s weapons. Although the club is older, the knife more universal, and the firearm much more efficient, it is to the sword that most decoration, myth, mysticism and reverence has been given. The katana has been called â€œThe Soul of the Samurai,â€ the Vikings lavished love, care and attached wonderful names to their weapons. The sword has been the symbol of Justice, of Vengeance, and of Mercy. No one artifact has so captured the imagination as has the sword. As our society has grown more and more advanced, and more reliant on technology, there has been an increased interest in the weapons of the past. The romance of the sword is very much aliveâ€”but movies, books and fiction of all types have romanticized the past, and particularly the sword, beyond all recognition of the real thing. Drawing on information from grave excavations, illustrations of battle scenes, and many classical and medieval literary sources, this book discusses how contemporaries showed swords were used. Building on Oakeshott and other authoritative writers on the subject, this volume, representing ten years of writing and a lifetime of experience, will add to the body of knowledge of the history of swords by illustrating not only the beauty of the form of the sword, but also their beauty of function.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19402'),
(19679, 'Hank Reinhardt&#39;s Book of the Sword', 'Hank Reinhardt', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The sword is the most revered of all of manâ€™s weapons. Although the club is older, the knife more universal, and the firearm much more efficient, it is to the sword that most decoration, myth, mysticism and reverence has been given. The katana has been called â€œThe Soul of the Samurai,â€ the Vikings lavished love, care and attached wonderful names to their weapons. The sword has been the symbol of Justice, of Vengeance, and of Mercy. No one artifact has so captured the imagination as has the sword. As our society has grown more and more advanced, and more reliant on technology, there has been an increased interest in the weapons of the past. The romance of the sword is very much aliveâ€”but movies, books and fiction of all types have romanticized the past, and particularly the sword, beyond all recognition of the real thing. Drawing on information from grave excavations, illustrations of battle scenes, and many classical and medieval literary sources, this book discusses how contemporaries showed swords were used. Building on Oakeshott and other authoritative writers on the subject, this volume, representing ten years of writing and a lifetime of experience, will add to the body of knowledge of the history of swords by illustrating not only the beauty of the form of the sword, but also their beauty of function.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28073'),
(19680, 'Hank Williams', 'Colin Escott &amp; George Merritt &amp; William MacEwen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Hank Williams died in the backseat of a car at age 29, he left behind grieving fans, friends and family, as well as eight guns, eight pairs of boots, 11 hats and a saddle. Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway by Colin Escott and Kira Florita gathers together just about every last piece of paper having anything do to with country music''s greatest and most tragic star (hence the postmortem inventory). Much of the material is new: included in this volume are the handwritten lyrics to 30 songs never recorded or published, private family correspondence and some 150 previously unpublished photographs, including Hank''s first baby photo.\n</p>\n<p>\n Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Although he never made it to 30 and died nearly a half-century ago, singer/songwriter Hank Williams continues to exert tremendous influence on all spheres of popular music. The country crooner also continues to invite biographical treatment. In 1998, music historian Escott (Hank Williams: A Biography) and Florita, former marketer of the Hank Williams catalog for Mercury Records Nashville, produced the Grammy-winning, ten-CD set The Complete Hank Williams. While working on that project, they amassed a huge number of photographs, documents, and published and unpublished song lyrics. That iconography forms the basis of Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway, an appealing coffee-table book that is being cross-promoted with the tribute album, Timeless. Composed of captions by the authors and excerpts of interviews with Williams and his family and friends, the text is somewhat sparse but to the point and well written. Rick Bragg also contributes an elegant foreword. Koon''s Hank Williams, So Lonesome was first published as Hank Williams: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1993). This second take features expanded biographical coverage and important discussions of Williams''s songs. Also significant are the author''s attempts to separate the facts of Williams''s life and work from the mythology of the musician and his thoughtful assessment of sources. In eliminating the reference-book qualities of the earlier Greenwood volume, Koons has made a significant contribution to Williams literature for fans and scholars. As a pair, these books nearly perfectly complement each other, but, unfortunately, neither contains a discography. In addition, the Escott and Florita volume lacks a bibliography (perfectly acceptable for a work of this kind), and the Koons book contains only a scaled-back one. Despite these shortcomings, both books avoid sensationalizing their complex subject and are highly recommended for public libraries and academic libraries with a popular culture focus. James E. Perone, Mount Union Coll., Alliance, OH\n <br />\n Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9512'),
(19681, 'Hannibal', 'Thomas Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n You remember Hannibal Lecter: gentleman, genius, cannibal. Seven years have passed since Dr. Lecter escaped from custody. And for seven years he''s been at large, free to savor the scents, the essences, of an unguarded world. But intruders have entered Dr. Lecter''s world, piercing his new identity, sensing the evil that surrounds him. For the multimillionaire Hannibal left maimed, for a corrupt Italian policeman, and for FBI agent Clarice Starling, who once stood before Lecter and who has never been the same, the final hunt for Hannibal Lecter has begun. All of them, in their separate ways, want to find Dr. Lecter. And all three will get their wish. But only one will live long enough to savor the reward....From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/646'),
(19682, 'Hannibal', 'Thomas Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: You remember Hannibal Lecter: gentleman, genius, cannibal. Seven years have passed since Dr. Lecter escaped from custody. And for seven years he''s been at large, free to savor the scents, the essences, of an unguarded world. But intruders have entered Dr. Lecter''s world, piercing his new identity, sensing the evil that surrounds him. For the multimillionaire Hannibal left maimed, for a corrupt Italian policeman, and for FBI agent Clarice Starling, who once stood before Lecter and who has never been the same, the final hunt for Hannibal Lecter has begun. All of them, in their separate ways, want to find Dr. Lecter. And all three will get their wish. But only one will live long enough to savor the reward....From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15286'),
(19683, 'Hannibal', 'Thomas Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: You remember Hannibal Lecter: gentleman, genius, cannibal. Seven years have passed since Dr. Lecter escaped from custody. And for seven years he''s been at large, free to savor the scents, the essences, of an unguarded world. But intruders have entered Dr. Lecter''s world, piercing his new identity, sensing the evil that surrounds him. For the multimillionaire Hannibal left maimed, for a corrupt Italian policeman, and for FBI agent Clarice Starling, who once stood before Lecter and who has never been the same, the final hunt for Hannibal Lecter has begun. All of them, in their separate ways, want to find Dr. Lecter. And all three will get their wish. But only one will live long enough to savor the reward....From the Paperback edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24278'),
(19684, 'Happiness Key', 'Emilie Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A divorcÃ©e is handed a swath of Gulf Coast Florida real estate in Richards''s slow if involving latest. After Tracy Deloche''s ex-husband lands in federal prison, she takes control of his Happiness Key development, which consists mostly of a handful of ramshackle cottages. Her tenantsâ€”Wanda Gray, Janya Kapur, Alice Brooks and Herb Krauseâ€”are misfits, but when Herb dies, Tracy goes on a quest to find his family that ends up forcing her to bond with her tenants in ways she never thought possible. In the meantime, the mismatched crew learns that in helping each other, they are really helping themselves. This quintessential beach read is full of intrigue, romance, comedy and a splash of mystery, and while it could be shorter and faster paced, the women at its centerâ€”and the problems they faceâ€”are fully believable. They deserve a better plot.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Meet four women who think they share nothing but a spit of land called Happiness Key.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With her husband in prison, pampered Tracy Deloche is left with five ramshackle beach houses and no idea how to start over. Janya Kapur left her close-knit Indian family for an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. Wanda Gray takes a job guaranteed to destroy her already failing marriageâ€”if her husband cares enough to notice. Widow Alice Brooks has grown forgetful and confused. Her family comes to stay with her, but Alice isn''t sure she''s grateful.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the only other resident of Happiness Key dies alone in his cottage, the four women warily join forces to find his family. Together they discover difficult truths about their own lives and the men they loveâ€”and uncover the treasure of an unlikely friendship.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5728'),
(19685, 'Happiness Key', 'Emilie Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A divorcÃ©e is handed a swath of Gulf Coast Florida real estate in Richards''s slow if involving latest. After Tracy Deloche''s ex-husband lands in federal prison, she takes control of his Happiness Key development, which consists mostly of a handful of ramshackle cottages. Her tenantsâ€”Wanda Gray, Janya Kapur, Alice Brooks and Herb Krauseâ€”are misfits, but when Herb dies, Tracy goes on a quest to find his family that ends up forcing her to bond with her tenants in ways she never thought possible. In the meantime, the mismatched crew learns that in helping each other, they are really helping themselves. This quintessential beach read is full of intrigue, romance, comedy and a splash of mystery, and while it could be shorter and faster paced, the women at its centerâ€”and the problems they faceâ€”are fully believable. They deserve a better plot.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Meet four women who think they share nothing but a spit of land called Happiness Key.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With her husband in prison, pampered Tracy Deloche is left with five ramshackle beach houses and no idea how to start over. Janya Kapur left her close-knit Indian family for an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. Wanda Gray takes a job guaranteed to destroy her already failing marriageâ€”if her husband cares enough to notice. Widow Alice Brooks has grown forgetful and confused. Her family comes to stay with her, but Alice isn''t sure she''s grateful.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the only other resident of Happiness Key dies alone in his cottage, the four women warily join forces to find his family. Together they discover difficult truths about their own lives and the men they loveâ€”and uncover the treasure of an unlikely friendship.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13576'),
(19686, 'Happiness Key', 'Emilie Richards', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n A divorcÃ©e is handed a swath of Gulf Coast Florida real estate in Richards''s slow if involving latest. After Tracy Deloche''s ex-husband lands in federal prison, she takes control of his Happiness Key development, which consists mostly of a handful of ramshackle cottages. Her tenantsâ€”Wanda Gray, Janya Kapur, Alice Brooks and Herb Krauseâ€”are misfits, but when Herb dies, Tracy goes on a quest to find his family that ends up forcing her to bond with her tenants in ways she never thought possible. In the meantime, the mismatched crew learns that in helping each other, they are really helping themselves. This quintessential beach read is full of intrigue, romance, comedy and a splash of mystery, and while it could be shorter and faster paced, the women at its centerâ€”and the problems they faceâ€”are fully believable. They deserve a better plot.\n <em>\n  (July)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Meet four women who think they share nothing but a spit of land called Happiness Key.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n With her husband in prison, pampered Tracy Deloche is left with five ramshackle beach houses and no idea how to start over. Janya Kapur left her close-knit Indian family for an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. Wanda Gray takes a job guaranteed to destroy her already failing marriageâ€”if her husband cares enough to notice. Widow Alice Brooks has grown forgetful and confused. Her family comes to stay with her, but Alice isn''t sure she''s grateful.\n</p>\n<p>\n When the only other resident of Happiness Key dies alone in his cottage, the four women warily join forces to find his family. Together they discover difficult truths about their own lives and the men they loveâ€”and uncover the treasure of an unlikely friendship.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19012'),
(19687, 'Happiness Now!', 'Robert Holden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Happiness NOW!\n  </em>\n </strong>\n is a truly powerful and radical exploration of one of lifeâ€™s most treasured goals. Packed with rich insights and practical wisdom, It offers a message of profound hope and healing for a generation that is often too busy chasing happiness to be truly happy.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Robert Holden, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n presents a personal, warm, and entertaining account of how he developed his pioneering work with The Happiness Project. Using a highly creative mix of stories, exercises, meditations, poetry, and prayer, Robert shares his distinctive philosophy and practice of â€œthe how of happiness.â€\n</p>\n<p>\n Visionary and practical, challenging and compassionate,\n <em>\n  Happiness NOW!\n </em>\n gives you valuable keys to true self-acceptance, everyday abundance, loving relationships, inner success, and lasting joyâ€”starting NOW!\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   The greatest pain of all is the fear that happiness might somehow elude us forever; the greatest joy of all is the realization that the potential for happiness is available to us now and always.\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Robert Holden, Ph.D.,\n </strong>\n is the Director of The Happiness Project and Success Intelligence. His innovative work on happiness and success has been featured on\n <em>\n  Oprah\n </em>\n and in two major BBC-TV documentaries,\n <em>\n  The Happiness Formula\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  How to Be Happy,\n </em>\n shown in 16 countries to more than 30 million television viewers. Heâ€™s the author of ten best-selling books, including\n <em>\n  Success Intelligence\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Shift Happens!\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9438');
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(19688, 'Happy Families: Stories', 'Carlos Fuentes &amp; Edith Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The internationally acclaimed author Carlos Fuentes, winner of the Cervantes Prize and the Latin Civilization Award, delivers a stunning work of fiction about family and love across an expanse of Mexican life, reminding us why he has been called â€œa combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesenâ€ (Newsweek). In these masterly vignettes, Fuentes explores Tolstoyâ€™s classic observation that â€œhappy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.â€ In â€œA Family Like Any Other,â€ each member of the Pagan family lives in isolation, despite sharing a tiny house. In â€œThe Mariachiâ€™s Mother,â€ the limitless devotion of a woman is revealed as she secretly tends to her estranged sonâ€™s wounds. â€œSweetheartsâ€ reunites old lovers unexpectedly and opens up the possibilities for other lives and other loves. These are just a few of the remarkable stories in Happy Families, but they all inhabit Fuentesâ€™s trademark Mexico, where modern obsessions bump up against those of the mythic past, and the result is a triumphant display of the many ways we reach out to one another and find salvation through irrepressible acts of love.In this spectacular translation, the acclaimed Edith Grossman captures the full weight of Fuentesâ€™s range. Whether writing in the language of the street or in straightforward, elegant prose, Fuentes gives us stories connected by love, including the failure of loveâ€“between spouses, lovers, parents and children, siblings. From the Mexican presidential palace to the novels of the poor and the vast expanse of humanity in between, Happy Families is a magnificent portrait of modern life in all its complicated beauty, as told by one of the worldâ€™s most celebrated writers.Praise for Carlos FuentesWinner of the Cervantes PrizeThe Old Gringoâ€œA dazzling novel that possesses the weight and resonance of myth [and] the fierce magic of a remembered dream.â€â€“The New York TimesThe Death of Artemio Cruzâ€œRemarkable in the scope of the human drama it pictures, the corrosive satire and sharp dialogue.â€â€“The New York Times Book Review The Years with Laura DÃ­azâ€œReading this magnificent novel is like standing beneath the dome of the Sistine Chapel. . . . The breadth and enormity of this accomplishment is breathtaking.â€â€“The Denver PostThis I Believeâ€œEngaging, offering surprising conclusions, provocations or turns of phrase . . . Put down the page-turner and dare to drink these full-bodied, red, shining words.â€â€“Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe Eagleâ€™s Throneâ€œDazzling, razor-sharp . . . prescient . . . a feast of political insight.â€â€“The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7045'),
(19689, 'Happy Families: Stories', 'Carlos Fuentes &amp; Edith Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The internationally acclaimed author Carlos Fuentes, winner of the Cervantes Prize and the Latin Civilization Award, delivers a stunning work of fiction about family and love across an expanse of Mexican life, reminding us why he has been called â€œa combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesenâ€ (Newsweek). In these masterly vignettes, Fuentes explores Tolstoyâ€™s classic observation that â€œhappy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.â€ In â€œA Family Like Any Other,â€ each member of the Pagan family lives in isolation, despite sharing a tiny house. In â€œThe Mariachiâ€™s Mother,â€ the limitless devotion of a woman is revealed as she secretly tends to her estranged sonâ€™s wounds. â€œSweetheartsâ€ reunites old lovers unexpectedly and opens up the possibilities for other lives and other loves. These are just a few of the remarkable stories in Happy Families, but they all inhabit Fuentesâ€™s trademark Mexico, where modern obsessions bump up against those of the mythic past, and the result is a triumphant display of the many ways we reach out to one another and find salvation through irrepressible acts of love.In this spectacular translation, the acclaimed Edith Grossman captures the full weight of Fuentesâ€™s range. Whether writing in the language of the street or in straightforward, elegant prose, Fuentes gives us stories connected by love, including the failure of loveâ€“between spouses, lovers, parents and children, siblings. From the Mexican presidential palace to the novels of the poor and the vast expanse of humanity in between, Happy Families is a magnificent portrait of modern life in all its complicated beauty, as told by one of the worldâ€™s most celebrated writers.Praise for Carlos FuentesWinner of the Cervantes PrizeThe Old Gringoâ€œA dazzling novel that possesses the weight and resonance of myth [and] the fierce magic of a remembered dream.â€â€“The New York TimesThe Death of Artemio Cruzâ€œRemarkable in the scope of the human drama it pictures, the corrosive satire and sharp dialogue.â€â€“The New York Times Book Review The Years with Laura DÃ­azâ€œReading this magnificent novel is like standing beneath the dome of the Sistine Chapel. . . . The breadth and enormity of this accomplishment is breathtaking.â€â€“The Denver PostThis I Believeâ€œEngaging, offering surprising conclusions, provocations or turns of phrase . . . Put down the page-turner and dare to drink these full-bodied, red, shining words.â€â€“Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe Eagleâ€™s Throneâ€œDazzling, razor-sharp . . . prescient . . . a feast of political insight.â€â€“The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9923'),
(19690, 'Happy Families: Stories', 'Carlos Fuentes; Edith Grossman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The internationally acclaimed author Carlos Fuentes, winner of the Cervantes Prize and the Latin Civilization Award, delivers a stunning work of fiction about family and love across an expanse of Mexican life, reminding us why he has been called â€œa combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesenâ€ (Newsweek). In these masterly vignettes, Fuentes explores Tolstoyâ€™s classic observation that â€œhappy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.â€ In â€œA Family Like Any Other,â€ each member of the Pagan family lives in isolation, despite sharing a tiny house. In â€œThe Mariachiâ€™s Mother,â€ the limitless devotion of a woman is revealed as she secretly tends to her estranged sonâ€™s wounds. â€œSweetheartsâ€ reunites old lovers unexpectedly and opens up the possibilities for other lives and other loves. These are just a few of the remarkable stories in Happy Families, but they all inhabit Fuentesâ€™s trademark Mexico, where modern obsessions bump up against those of the mythic past, and the result is a triumphant display of the many ways we reach out to one another and find salvation through irrepressible acts of love.In this spectacular translation, the acclaimed Edith Grossman captures the full weight of Fuentesâ€™s range. Whether writing in the language of the street or in straightforward, elegant prose, Fuentes gives us stories connected by love, including the failure of loveâ€“between spouses, lovers, parents and children, siblings. From the Mexican presidential palace to the novels of the poor and the vast expanse of humanity in between, Happy Families is a magnificent portrait of modern life in all its complicated beauty, as told by one of the worldâ€™s most celebrated writers.Praise for Carlos FuentesWinner of the Cervantes PrizeThe Old Gringoâ€œA dazzling novel that possesses the weight and resonance of myth [and] the fierce magic of a remembered dream.â€â€“The New York TimesThe Death of Artemio Cruzâ€œRemarkable in the scope of the human drama it pictures, the corrosive satire and sharp dialogue.â€â€“The New York Times Book Review The Years with Laura DÃ­azâ€œReading this magnificent novel is like standing beneath the dome of the Sistine Chapel. . . . The breadth and enormity of this accomplishment is breathtaking.â€â€“The Denver PostThis I Believeâ€œEngaging, offering surprising conclusions, provocations or turns of phrase . . . Put down the page-turner and dare to drink these full-bodied, red, shining words.â€â€“Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe Eagleâ€™s Throneâ€œDazzling, razor-sharp . . . prescient . . . a feast of political insight.â€â€“The Washington Post Book World\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16922'),
(19691, 'Harbingers', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julioâ€™s when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say itâ€™s too early to worry, but Timmy knows something bad has happened. Jack says heâ€™ll put the word out on the street. This innocent request triggers a chain of seemingly coincidental events that lead Jack into the darkest days of his life.Â As has become evident in the series, Jack has been singled out, unwillingly, as the champion of one of the two supernatural forces contending for control of all human life on Earth. Neither of these forces are good or evil, just dangerous and amoral. They value and notice individual humans about as much as we do mosquitoes. Â Jack is desperate . . . and the last thing you want to do is make Jack desperate. Thatâ€™s when things begin to blow up and people begin to die.Â A hang-onto-your-hat-and-heart thriller of triumph and tragedy that barrels along at F. Paul Wilsonâ€™s trademark breakneck pace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5646'),
(19692, 'Harbingers', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julioâ€™s when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say itâ€™s too early to worry, but Timmy knows something bad has happened. Jack says heâ€™ll put the word out on the street. This innocent request triggers a chain of seemingly coincidental events that lead Jack into the darkest days of his life.Â As has become evident in the series, Jack has been singled out, unwillingly, as the champion of one of the two supernatural forces contending for control of all human life on Earth. Neither of these forces are good or evil, just dangerous and amoral. They value and notice individual humans about as much as we do mosquitoes. Â Jack is desperate . . . and the last thing you want to do is make Jack desperate. Thatâ€™s when things begin to blow up and people begin to die.Â A hang-onto-your-hat-and-heart thriller of triumph and tragedy that barrels along at F. Paul Wilsonâ€™s trademark breakneck pace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19036'),
(19693, 'Harbingers', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julioâ€™s when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say itâ€™s too early to worry, but Timmy knows something bad has happened. Jack says heâ€™ll put the word out on the street. This innocent request triggers a chain of seemingly coincidental events that lead Jack into the darkest days of his life.Â As has become evident in the series, Jack has been singled out, unwillingly, as the champion of one of the two supernatural forces contending for control of all human life on Earth. Neither of these forces are good or evil, just dangerous and amoral. They value and notice individual humans about as much as we do mosquitoes. Â Jack is desperate . . . and the last thing you want to do is make Jack desperate. Thatâ€™s when things begin to blow up and people begin to die.Â A hang-onto-your-hat-and-heart thriller of triumph and tragedy that barrels along at F. Paul Wilsonâ€™s trademark breakneck pace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27847'),
(19694, 'Hard Bitten', 'Chloe Neill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for the Chicagoland Vampires Novels:\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A wonderfully compelling vampire heroine."\n  <br />\n  -_USA Today_ Bestselling Author Julie Kenner\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If you loved Nancy Drew but always wished she was an undead sword-wielding badass, Merit is your kind of girl."\n  <br />\n  -Geek Monthly (geekmonthly.com)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smart, sexy, and delightful. A must-read."\n  <br />\n  -Candace Havens, author of\n  <em>\n   Dragons Prefer Blondes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A fun cast of quirky characters and smoking'' hot sexual tension...A stunning combination."\n  <br />\n  -Tate Hallaway, author of\n  <em>\n   Honeymoon of the Dead\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "There''s a new talent in town, and if this debut is any indication, she''s here to stay. Not only does Neill introduce an indomitable and funny heroine, her secondary characters are enormously intriguing and make terrific foils. While the tone of this first-person Chicagoland Vampire series starter is generally light, there is an undercurrent of danger. Truly excellent."\n  <br />\n  -_Romantic Times_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "Neill creates a strong-minded, sharp-witted heroine who will appeal to fans of Charlaine Harris''s Sookie Stackhouse series and Laurell K. Hamilton''s Anita Blake." -_Library Journal_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Times are hard for newly minted vampire Merit. Ever since shapeshifters announced their presence to the world, humans have been rallying against supernaturals-and they''re camping outside of Cadogan House with protest signs that could turn to pitchforks at any moment. Inside its doors, things between Merit and her Master, green-eyed heartbreaker Ethan Sullivan are...tense. But then the mayor of Chicago calls Merit and Ethan to a clandestine meeting and tells them about a violent vamp attack that has left three women missing. His message is simple: get your House in order. Or else.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Merit needs to get to the bottom of this crime, but it doesn''t help that she can''t tell who''s on her side. So she secretly calls in a favor from someone who''s tall, dark, and part of underground vamp group that may have some deep intel on the attack. Merit soon finds herself in the heady, dark heart of Chicago''s supernatural society-a world full of vampires who seem ready to fulfill the protesting human''s worst fears, and a place where she''ll learn that you can''t be a vampire without getting a little blood on your hands...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6805'),
(19695, 'Hard Bitten', 'Chloe Neill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for the Chicagoland Vampires Novels:\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A wonderfully compelling vampire heroine."\n  <br />\n  -_USA Today_ Bestselling Author Julie Kenner\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If you loved Nancy Drew but always wished she was an undead sword-wielding badass, Merit is your kind of girl."\n  <br />\n  -Geek Monthly (geekmonthly.com)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smart, sexy, and delightful. A must-read."\n  <br />\n  -Candace Havens, author of\n  <em>\n   Dragons Prefer Blondes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A fun cast of quirky characters and smoking'' hot sexual tension...A stunning combination."\n  <br />\n  -Tate Hallaway, author of\n  <em>\n   Honeymoon of the Dead\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "There''s a new talent in town, and if this debut is any indication, she''s here to stay. Not only does Neill introduce an indomitable and funny heroine, her secondary characters are enormously intriguing and make terrific foils. While the tone of this first-person Chicagoland Vampire series starter is generally light, there is an undercurrent of danger. Truly excellent."\n  <br />\n  -_Romantic Times_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "Neill creates a strong-minded, sharp-witted heroine who will appeal to fans of Charlaine Harris''s Sookie Stackhouse series and Laurell K. Hamilton''s Anita Blake." -_Library Journal_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Times are hard for newly minted vampire Merit. Ever since shapeshifters announced their presence to the world, humans have been rallying against supernaturals-and they''re camping outside of Cadogan House with protest signs that could turn to pitchforks at any moment. Inside its doors, things between Merit and her Master, green-eyed heartbreaker Ethan Sullivan are...tense. But then the mayor of Chicago calls Merit and Ethan to a clandestine meeting and tells them about a violent vamp attack that has left three women missing. His message is simple: get your House in order. Or else.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Merit needs to get to the bottom of this crime, but it doesn''t help that she can''t tell who''s on her side. So she secretly calls in a favor from someone who''s tall, dark, and part of underground vamp group that may have some deep intel on the attack. Merit soon finds herself in the heady, dark heart of Chicago''s supernatural society-a world full of vampires who seem ready to fulfill the protesting human''s worst fears, and a place where she''ll learn that you can''t be a vampire without getting a little blood on your hands...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11608'),
(19696, 'Hard Bitten', 'Chloe Neill', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Praise for the Chicagoland Vampires Novels:\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A wonderfully compelling vampire heroine."\n  <br />\n  -_USA Today_ Bestselling Author Julie Kenner\n </p>\n <p>\n  "If you loved Nancy Drew but always wished she was an undead sword-wielding badass, Merit is your kind of girl."\n  <br />\n  -Geek Monthly (geekmonthly.com)\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Smart, sexy, and delightful. A must-read."\n  <br />\n  -Candace Havens, author of\n  <em>\n   Dragons Prefer Blondes\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A fun cast of quirky characters and smoking'' hot sexual tension...A stunning combination."\n  <br />\n  -Tate Hallaway, author of\n  <em>\n   Honeymoon of the Dead\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "There''s a new talent in town, and if this debut is any indication, she''s here to stay. Not only does Neill introduce an indomitable and funny heroine, her secondary characters are enormously intriguing and make terrific foils. While the tone of this first-person Chicagoland Vampire series starter is generally light, there is an undercurrent of danger. Truly excellent."\n  <br />\n  -_Romantic Times_\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   "Neill creates a strong-minded, sharp-witted heroine who will appeal to fans of Charlaine Harris''s Sookie Stackhouse series and Laurell K. Hamilton''s Anita Blake." -_Library Journal_\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Times are hard for newly minted vampire Merit. Ever since shapeshifters announced their presence to the world, humans have been rallying against supernaturals-and they''re camping outside of Cadogan House with protest signs that could turn to pitchforks at any moment. Inside its doors, things between Merit and her Master, green-eyed heartbreaker Ethan Sullivan are...tense. But then the mayor of Chicago calls Merit and Ethan to a clandestine meeting and tells them about a violent vamp attack that has left three women missing. His message is simple: get your House in order. Or else.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Merit needs to get to the bottom of this crime, but it doesn''t help that she can''t tell who''s on her side. So she secretly calls in a favor from someone who''s tall, dark, and part of underground vamp group that may have some deep intel on the attack. Merit soon finds herself in the heady, dark heart of Chicago''s supernatural society-a world full of vampires who seem ready to fulfill the protesting human''s worst fears, and a place where she''ll learn that you can''t be a vampire without getting a little blood on your hands...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17089'),
(19697, 'Hard Candy', 'Andrew Vachss', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke â€” the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children â€” is up against a soft-spoken messiah who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes. But in doing so Burke becomes a target for an entire Mafia family, a whore with a heart of cyanide, and a contract killer as implacable as a heat-seeking missile. Written with Vachss'' signature narrative overdrive â€” and with his unnerving familiarity with the sub-basement of American crime â€” Hard Candy is vintage Burke.\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œBurke fills a void. . . . With his soiled white hat, this Lone Ranger. . . asks difficult questions while shining light into the darkest recesses.â€ â€” Chicago Tribune\n <br />\n â€œThereâ€™s no way to put a [Vachss book] down once youâ€™ve begun. . . . The plot hooks are engaging and the one-liners pierce like bullets.â€ â€” Detroit Free Press\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12328'),
(19698, 'A Hard Day&#39;s Knight', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Private investigator John Taylor returns in the 12th novel (after 2010''s The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny) of the Nightside, "the dark, secret, brooding heart of London." Having killed the former Walker, the voice of the Authorities, Taylor''s now the closet thing the Nightside has to a leader. When the sword Excalibur shows up in the mail, he must return to London Proper to consult with the descendants of the Knights of the Round Table. The blood runs red (and golden) as he teams up with King Arthur and tangles with Merlin, elven royalty, traitor knights, sons of the devil, the Lady of the Lake, and various creatively named denizens of the Nightside. Taylor''s irrepressible sarcasm and a twisted take on quotidian scenes compensate for a few too many solemn, self-important pronouncements and evil-overlord lectures. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Taylor is a P.I. with a special talent for finding lost things in the dark and secret center of London known as the Nightside. He''s also the reluctant owner of a very special-and dangerous-weapon. Excalibur, the legendary sword. To find out why he was chosen to wield it, John must consult the Last Defenders of Camelot, a group of knights who dwell in a place that some find more frightening than the Nightside.\n</p>\n<p>\n London Proper. It''s been years since John''s been back-and there are good reasons for that.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1261'),
(19699, 'A Hard Day&#39;s Knight', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Private investigator John Taylor returns in the 12th novel (after 2010''s The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny) of the Nightside, "the dark, secret, brooding heart of London." Having killed the former Walker, the voice of the Authorities, Taylor''s now the closet thing the Nightside has to a leader. When the sword Excalibur shows up in the mail, he must return to London Proper to consult with the descendants of the Knights of the Round Table. The blood runs red (and golden) as he teams up with King Arthur and tangles with Merlin, elven royalty, traitor knights, sons of the devil, the Lady of the Lake, and various creatively named denizens of the Nightside. Taylor''s irrepressible sarcasm and a twisted take on quotidian scenes compensate for a few too many solemn, self-important pronouncements and evil-overlord lectures. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Taylor is a P.I. with a special talent for finding lost things in the dark and secret center of London known as the Nightside. He''s also the reluctant owner of a very special-and dangerous-weapon. Excalibur, the legendary sword. To find out why he was chosen to wield it, John must consult the Last Defenders of Camelot, a group of knights who dwell in a place that some find more frightening than the Nightside.\n</p>\n<p>\n London Proper. It''s been years since John''s been back-and there are good reasons for that.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10103'),
(19700, 'A Hard Day&#39;s Knight', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Private investigator John Taylor returns in the 12th novel (after 2010''s The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny) of the Nightside, "the dark, secret, brooding heart of London." Having killed the former Walker, the voice of the Authorities, Taylor''s now the closet thing the Nightside has to a leader. When the sword Excalibur shows up in the mail, he must return to London Proper to consult with the descendants of the Knights of the Round Table. The blood runs red (and golden) as he teams up with King Arthur and tangles with Merlin, elven royalty, traitor knights, sons of the devil, the Lady of the Lake, and various creatively named denizens of the Nightside. Taylor''s irrepressible sarcasm and a twisted take on quotidian scenes compensate for a few too many solemn, self-important pronouncements and evil-overlord lectures. (Jan.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n John Taylor is a P.I. with a special talent for finding lost things in the dark and secret center of London known as the Nightside. He''s also the reluctant owner of a very special-and dangerous-weapon. Excalibur, the legendary sword. To find out why he was chosen to wield it, John must consult the Last Defenders of Camelot, a group of knights who dwell in a place that some find more frightening than the Nightside.\n</p>\n<p>\n London Proper. It''s been years since John''s been back-and there are good reasons for that.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23656'),
(19701, 'Hard Eight', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hard Up Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum has a big problem on her hands: Seven-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared. Evelyn''s estranged husband, Steven, a shady owner of a seedy bar, is not at all happy. Finding a kidnapped child is not an assignment for a bounty hunter. But Evelyn''s grandmother lives next door to Stephanie''s parents, so Stephanie follows the trail left by Annie and Evelyn-and finds a lot more than she bargained for. Hard Risk Steven Soder is somehow linked with a very scary Eddie Abruzzi. Trenton cop and on-again, off-again fianceacute; Joe Morelli and Stephanie''s mentor and tormentor, Ranger, warn Stephanie about Abruzzi, but it''s Abruzzi''s eyes and mannerisms that frighten Stephanie most. Stephanie needs Ranger''s savvy and expertise, and she''s willing to accept his help to find Annie even though it might mean getting too involved with Ranger. Stephanie, Ranger, Lula (who''s not going to miss riding with Ranger), and Evelyn''s lawyer/Laundromat manager set out to find Annie. The search turns out to be a race among Stephanie''s posse, the True Blue Bonds'' agent-a Rangerette known as Jeanne Ellen Burrows-and the Abruzzi crew. Plus, there''s a killer rabbit on the loose! Hard Eight Strap on your helmet and get ready for the ride of your life! Hard Eight. The world of Stephanie Plum has never been wilder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4623'),
(19702, 'Hard Eight', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hard Up Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum has a big problem on her hands: Seven-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared. Evelyn''s estranged husband, Steven, a shady owner of a seedy bar, is not at all happy. Finding a kidnapped child is not an assignment for a bounty hunter. But Evelyn''s grandmother lives next door to Stephanie''s parents, so Stephanie follows the trail left by Annie and Evelyn-and finds a lot more than she bargained for. Hard Risk Steven Soder is somehow linked with a very scary Eddie Abruzzi. Trenton cop and on-again, off-again fianceacute; Joe Morelli and Stephanie''s mentor and tormentor, Ranger, warn Stephanie about Abruzzi, but it''s Abruzzi''s eyes and mannerisms that frighten Stephanie most. Stephanie needs Ranger''s savvy and expertise, and she''s willing to accept his help to find Annie even though it might mean getting too involved with Ranger. Stephanie, Ranger, Lula (who''s not going to miss riding with Ranger), and Evelyn''s lawyer/Laundromat manager set out to find Annie. The search turns out to be a race among Stephanie''s posse, the True Blue Bonds'' agent-a Rangerette known as Jeanne Ellen Burrows-and the Abruzzi crew. Plus, there''s a killer rabbit on the loose! Hard Eight Strap on your helmet and get ready for the ride of your life! Hard Eight. The world of Stephanie Plum has never been wilder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9603'),
(19703, 'Hard eight', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hard Up Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum has a big problem on her hands: Seven-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared. Evelyn''s estranged husband, Steven, a shady owner of a seedy bar, is not at all happy. Finding a kidnapped child is not an assignment for a bounty hunter. But Evelyn''s grandmother lives next door to Stephanie''s parents, so Stephanie follows the trail left by Annie and Evelyn-and finds a lot more than she bargained for. Hard Risk Steven Soder is somehow linked with a very scary Eddie Abruzzi. Trenton cop and on-again, off-again fianceacute; Joe Morelli and Stephanie''s mentor and tormentor, Ranger, warn Stephanie about Abruzzi, but it''s Abruzzi''s eyes and mannerisms that frighten Stephanie most. Stephanie needs Ranger''s savvy and expertise, and she''s willing to accept his help to find Annie even though it might mean getting too involved with Ranger. Stephanie, Ranger, Lula (who''s not going to miss riding with Ranger), and Evelyn''s lawyer/Laundromat manager set out to find Annie. The search turns out to be a race among Stephanie''s posse, the True Blue Bonds'' agent-a Rangerette known as Jeanne Ellen Burrows-and the Abruzzi crew. Plus, there''s a killer rabbit on the loose! Hard Eight Strap on your helmet and get ready for the ride of your life! Hard Eight. The world of Stephanie Plum has never been wilder.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15224'),
(19704, 'Hard Frost', 'R. D. Wingfield', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wingfield writes the mystery/police procedural series featuring Detective Inspector Jack Frost, dramatized for television in the series A Touch of Frost (seen in America on the Arts &amp; Entertainment cable channel). This novel, Wingfield''s fourth book in the series, is read by British actor and announcer Robin Browne, who skillfully imitates, for the benefit of the television series'' fans, the voice and accents of actor David Jason, who portrays Frost on TV. The novel finds the insubordinate, coarse, yet intuitive Frost stumbling from crisis to crisis with a caseload that simultaneously includes the murder of a burglar-blackmailer, a child-murder and related child-abduction, the kidnapping and ransom of a local teenager, a child-stabbing pervert, and the murder of three children by their unbalanced mother, all while under severe time constraints and while dealing with personnel pressures within the department. The portrayal of the Denton police force, especially the dialog and interplay among characters, rings true, depressingly so at times. The novel is essential for all mystery collections.AKristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "What impresses me most is the extraordinarilyÂ Â vivid interplay between the police characters. FrostÂ Â himself is splendidly drawn." --\n <em>\n  TheÂ Â Times, London.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1985'),
(19705, 'Hard Frost', 'R. D. Wingfield', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Wingfield writes the mystery/police procedural series featuring Detective Inspector Jack Frost, dramatized for television in the series A Touch of Frost (seen in America on the Arts &amp; Entertainment cable channel). This novel, Wingfield''s fourth book in the series, is read by British actor and announcer Robin Browne, who skillfully imitates, for the benefit of the television series'' fans, the voice and accents of actor David Jason, who portrays Frost on TV. The novel finds the insubordinate, coarse, yet intuitive Frost stumbling from crisis to crisis with a caseload that simultaneously includes the murder of a burglar-blackmailer, a child-murder and related child-abduction, the kidnapping and ransom of a local teenager, a child-stabbing pervert, and the murder of three children by their unbalanced mother, all while under severe time constraints and while dealing with personnel pressures within the department. The portrayal of the Denton police force, especially the dialog and interplay among characters, rings true, depressingly so at times. The novel is essential for all mystery collections.AKristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "What impresses me most is the extraordinarilyÂ Â vivid interplay between the police characters. FrostÂ Â himself is splendidly drawn." --\n <em>\n  TheÂ Â Times, London.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13462'),
(19706, 'Hard News', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rune, the shrewd and spunky heroine of Manhattan Is My Beat , returns with a new job as a camerawoman for a local TV news station, but she still believes in magic and lives by her own rules. Rune thinks that Randy Boggs, convicted killer of network news head Lance Hopper, is innocent, and she persuades network dragon lady Piper Sutton, the country''s top news anchor, to let her investigate and produce a segment on the murder. Endearing, with lots of moxie but no experience, Rune learns the hard way as she blunders through the world of big-time investigative reporting, making mistakes and trusting the wrong people. She also has to act as a mother to her flaky friend Claire''s three-year-old, Ophelia, when Claire runs off to Boston in search of a better life. Deaver''s background as a journalist helps him to vivify the competitive, even back-stabbing caste system of network news and to successfully depict the tedium as well as the excitement a reporter experiences when breaking a major story. He writes with clarity, compassion and intelligence, and with a decidedly human and contemporary slant.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n After viewing a video of a convicted murderer, houseboat dwelling Rune ( Death of a Blue Movie Star , Bantam, 1990) decides the man is innocent; she then convinces her employer, Network News, to sponsor her investigation. Why Rune believes what she does remains inexplicable, which necessitates a great deal of persuasion on her (and the author''s) part. Ultimately, Rune finds herself mixed up with the convict, her bosses, and a cute three-year-old. Despite its extended exposition, this tale of a news scoop gone wrong should appeal to fans.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4550'),
(19707, 'Hard News', 'Jeffery Deaver', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rune, the shrewd and spunky heroine of Manhattan Is My Beat , returns with a new job as a camerawoman for a local TV news station, but she still believes in magic and lives by her own rules. Rune thinks that Randy Boggs, convicted killer of network news head Lance Hopper, is innocent, and she persuades network dragon lady Piper Sutton, the country''s top news anchor, to let her investigate and produce a segment on the murder. Endearing, with lots of moxie but no experience, Rune learns the hard way as she blunders through the world of big-time investigative reporting, making mistakes and trusting the wrong people. She also has to act as a mother to her flaky friend Claire''s three-year-old, Ophelia, when Claire runs off to Boston in search of a better life. Deaver''s background as a journalist helps him to vivify the competitive, even back-stabbing caste system of network news and to successfully depict the tedium as well as the excitement a reporter experiences when breaking a major story. He writes with clarity, compassion and intelligence, and with a decidedly human and contemporary slant.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n After viewing a video of a convicted murderer, houseboat dwelling Rune ( Death of a Blue Movie Star , Bantam, 1990) decides the man is innocent; she then convinces her employer, Network News, to sponsor her investigation. Why Rune believes what she does remains inexplicable, which necessitates a great deal of persuasion on her (and the author''s) part. Ultimately, Rune finds herself mixed up with the convict, her bosses, and a cute three-year-old. Despite its extended exposition, this tale of a news scoop gone wrong should appeal to fans.\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9268'),
(19708, 'A Hard Rain', 'Dean Wesley Smith &amp; Gene Roddenberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Captain Jean-Luc Picard has long enjoyed playing the part of Dixon Hill, a hard-boiled private eye straight out of American pulpfiction. His holographic excursions into 1940s San Francisco, a colorful world of gunplay and gangsters, provide a welcome diversion from his hefty responsibilities as a Starfleet captain. But not this time. The Starship Enterprise? has lost power and control, its own momentum carrying it ever deeper into a dangerous zone of warped space and time. And the only way out is hidden somewhere in the mean streets and back alleys of old Frisco. But so is a cold-blooded murderer.... Now Dixon Hill, alias Jean-Luc Picard, must get to the bottom of a tangled mystery that threatens the lives of everyone aboard the Enterprise !\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6109'),
(19709, 'A Hard Rain', 'Dean Wesley Smith; Gene Roddenberry', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Captain Jean-Luc Picard has long enjoyed playing the part of Dixon Hill, a hard-boiled private eye straight out of American pulpfiction. His holographic excursions into 1940s San Francisco, a colorful world of gunplay and gangsters, provide a welcome diversion from his hefty responsibilities as a Starfleet captain. But not this time. The Starship Enterprise? has lost power and control, its own momentum carrying it ever deeper into a dangerous zone of warped space and time. And the only way out is hidden somewhere in the mean streets and back alleys of old Frisco. But so is a cold-blooded murderer.... Now Dixon Hill, alias Jean-Luc Picard, must get to the bottom of a tangled mystery that threatens the lives of everyone aboard the Enterprise !\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17985'),
(19710, 'Hard Revolution: A Novel', 'George P. Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author''s admirers are familiar with middle-aged black PI Derek Strange, featured in several novels (Soul Circus, etc.) so strong that one critic has dubbed Pelecanos the Zola of contemporary crime fiction. This memorable tale is a prequel to those novels, set in Washington, D.C., mostly just before and during the 1968 riots sparked by the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. The first few chapters, though, unfold in 1959, introducing major characters whose paths will entwine later: Derek-who''s nabbed for shoplifting but given a break that will set his life on a (more or less) law-abiding pat-hand his older brother, Dennis; their hardworking parents; and some ancillary figures. By 1968, Derek is a young cop partnered with a white guy; Dennis is a pot-smoking slacker; and many of their acquaintances from ''59 are working dead-end jobs with an eye toward crime. The ensuing narrative swirls around two scenarios: a plan by Dennis and two street-thug pals to rob a local Greek-owned store (Pelecanos wrote extensively about D.C.''s Greek community in early novels, and many of the nonblack characters here are Greek-American) and a plot by three young white hoods to rob a bank, but only after they drunkenly kill a young black man for sport. The action is fueled by the heat of race relations, which Pelecanos explores with acuity-particularly in his portrayal of Derek, who as a black cop is considered an enemy by many other blacks. Written in rich, observant prose, the novel is a brilliant study of a society tearing apart as racial tensions escalate after the King killing; no wonder some observers have pointed to Pelecanos as the kind of thriller writer who should be nominated for a National Book Award.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pelecanos first introduced a 50-something Derek Strange in\n <em>\n  Right as Rain\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Hell to Pay\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Soul Circus\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  Hard Revolution\n </em>\n takes us back in time and juxtaposes Derek''s childhood with his early years as a cop. Pelecanos, a hard-boiled crime writer, sets this novel, like his previous ones, in a gritty, violent, and racist Washington, D.C. He makes no excuses for the era or place, describing the city and its workings in detailed, urgent, and often offensive prose. It''s not a page-turner, but rather a window into the hope--and despair--of an era. The characters seek redemption, but don''t always find it. At heart, notes\n <em>\n  The\n </em>\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n , the story speaks to "the ways Americans love, betray, help and cannot help one another."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5395'),
(19711, 'Hard Revolution: A Novel', 'George P. Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author''s admirers are familiar with middle-aged black PI Derek Strange, featured in several novels (Soul Circus, etc.) so strong that one critic has dubbed Pelecanos the Zola of contemporary crime fiction. This memorable tale is a prequel to those novels, set in Washington, D.C., mostly just before and during the 1968 riots sparked by the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. The first few chapters, though, unfold in 1959, introducing major characters whose paths will entwine later: Derek-who''s nabbed for shoplifting but given a break that will set his life on a (more or less) law-abiding pat-hand his older brother, Dennis; their hardworking parents; and some ancillary figures. By 1968, Derek is a young cop partnered with a white guy; Dennis is a pot-smoking slacker; and many of their acquaintances from ''59 are working dead-end jobs with an eye toward crime. The ensuing narrative swirls around two scenarios: a plan by Dennis and two street-thug pals to rob a local Greek-owned store (Pelecanos wrote extensively about D.C.''s Greek community in early novels, and many of the nonblack characters here are Greek-American) and a plot by three young white hoods to rob a bank, but only after they drunkenly kill a young black man for sport. The action is fueled by the heat of race relations, which Pelecanos explores with acuity-particularly in his portrayal of Derek, who as a black cop is considered an enemy by many other blacks. Written in rich, observant prose, the novel is a brilliant study of a society tearing apart as racial tensions escalate after the King killing; no wonder some observers have pointed to Pelecanos as the kind of thriller writer who should be nominated for a National Book Award.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pelecanos first introduced a 50-something Derek Strange in\n <em>\n  Right as Rain\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Hell to Pay\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Soul Circus\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  Hard Revolution\n </em>\n takes us back in time and juxtaposes Derek''s childhood with his early years as a cop. Pelecanos, a hard-boiled crime writer, sets this novel, like his previous ones, in a gritty, violent, and racist Washington, D.C. He makes no excuses for the era or place, describing the city and its workings in detailed, urgent, and often offensive prose. It''s not a page-turner, but rather a window into the hope--and despair--of an era. The characters seek redemption, but don''t always find it. At heart, notes\n <em>\n  The\n </em>\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n , the story speaks to "the ways Americans love, betray, help and cannot help one another."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11925');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(19712, 'Hard Revolution: A Novel', 'George P. Pelecanos', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The author''s admirers are familiar with middle-aged black PI Derek Strange, featured in several novels (Soul Circus, etc.) so strong that one critic has dubbed Pelecanos the Zola of contemporary crime fiction. This memorable tale is a prequel to those novels, set in Washington, D.C., mostly just before and during the 1968 riots sparked by the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. The first few chapters, though, unfold in 1959, introducing major characters whose paths will entwine later: Derek-who''s nabbed for shoplifting but given a break that will set his life on a (more or less) law-abiding pat-hand his older brother, Dennis; their hardworking parents; and some ancillary figures. By 1968, Derek is a young cop partnered with a white guy; Dennis is a pot-smoking slacker; and many of their acquaintances from ''59 are working dead-end jobs with an eye toward crime. The ensuing narrative swirls around two scenarios: a plan by Dennis and two street-thug pals to rob a local Greek-owned store (Pelecanos wrote extensively about D.C.''s Greek community in early novels, and many of the nonblack characters here are Greek-American) and a plot by three young white hoods to rob a bank, but only after they drunkenly kill a young black man for sport. The action is fueled by the heat of race relations, which Pelecanos explores with acuity-particularly in his portrayal of Derek, who as a black cop is considered an enemy by many other blacks. Written in rich, observant prose, the novel is a brilliant study of a society tearing apart as racial tensions escalate after the King killing; no wonder some observers have pointed to Pelecanos as the kind of thriller writer who should be nominated for a National Book Award.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Pelecanos first introduced a 50-something Derek Strange in\n <em>\n  Right as Rain\n </em>\n ,\n <em>\n  Hell to Pay\n </em>\n , and\n <em>\n  Soul Circus\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  Hard Revolution\n </em>\n takes us back in time and juxtaposes Derek''s childhood with his early years as a cop. Pelecanos, a hard-boiled crime writer, sets this novel, like his previous ones, in a gritty, violent, and racist Washington, D.C. He makes no excuses for the era or place, describing the city and its workings in detailed, urgent, and often offensive prose. It''s not a page-turner, but rather a window into the hope--and despair--of an era. The characters seek redemption, but don''t always find it. At heart, notes\n <em>\n  The\n </em>\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n , the story speaks to "the ways Americans love, betray, help and cannot help one another."\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© 2004 Phillips &amp; Nelson Media, Inc.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19261'),
(19713, 'Hard Target', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4766'),
(19714, 'Hard Target', 'James Rouch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Epub2Go.com v1.2\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19895'),
(19715, 'Hard Times', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6929'),
(19716, 'Hard Times', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9239'),
(19717, 'Hard Times', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15102'),
(19718, 'Hard Times', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16985'),
(19719, 'Hard Times', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26921'),
(19720, 'Hard times for these times', 'Charles Dickens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and â€˜bully of humanityâ€™ Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimized weaver Stephen Blackpool, Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25986'),
(19721, 'The Hard Way Up', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6'),
(19722, 'The Hard Way Up', 'A. Bertram Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17219'),
(19723, 'The Hard Way: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money because Edward Lane, the man who paid it, would do anything to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And Jack Reacher is the best manhunter in the world. On the trail of vicious kidnappers, Reacher learns the chilling secrets of his employer''s past . . . and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He knows that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: He''s already in way too deep to stop now. And if he has to do it the hard way, he will.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3548'),
(19724, 'The Hard Way: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money because Edward Lane, the man who paid it, would do anything to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And Jack Reacher is the best manhunter in the world. On the trail of vicious kidnappers, Reacher learns the chilling secrets of his employer''s past . . . and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He knows that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: He''s already in way too deep to stop now. And if he has to do it the hard way, he will.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15362'),
(19725, 'The Hard Way: A Reacher Novel', 'Lee Child', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money because Edward Lane, the man who paid it, would do anything to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And Jack Reacher is the best manhunter in the world. On the trail of vicious kidnappers, Reacher learns the chilling secrets of his employer''s past . . . and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He knows that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: He''s already in way too deep to stop now. And if he has to do it the hard way, he will.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20233'),
(19726, 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murakami''s lightning prose more than sustains the elaborate plot of this thriller, set in a Tokyo of the near future.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects'' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator of this excellent book by Murakami, one of Japan''s best-selling novelists and winner of the prestigious Tanizaki prize. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his mind and his shadow, from which he has been severed by the grim, dark "replacement" consciousness implanted in him by a dotty neurophysiologist. Both worlds share the unearthly theme of unicorn skulls that moan and glow. Murakami''s fast-paced style, full of hip internationalism, slangy allegory, and intrigue, has been adroitly translated. Murakami is also author of A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 10/15/89); his new work is recommended for academic libraries and public libraries emphasizing serious contemporary fiction.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - D.E. Perushek, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5237'),
(19727, 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murakami''s lightning prose more than sustains the elaborate plot of this thriller, set in a Tokyo of the near future.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects'' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator of this excellent book by Murakami, one of Japan''s best-selling novelists and winner of the prestigious Tanizaki prize. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his mind and his shadow, from which he has been severed by the grim, dark "replacement" consciousness implanted in him by a dotty neurophysiologist. Both worlds share the unearthly theme of unicorn skulls that moan and glow. Murakami''s fast-paced style, full of hip internationalism, slangy allegory, and intrigue, has been adroitly translated. Murakami is also author of A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 10/15/89); his new work is recommended for academic libraries and public libraries emphasizing serious contemporary fiction.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - D.E. Perushek, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11624'),
(19728, 'Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel', 'Haruki Murakami', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Murakami''s lightning prose more than sustains the elaborate plot of this thriller, set in a Tokyo of the near future.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects'' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator of this excellent book by Murakami, one of Japan''s best-selling novelists and winner of the prestigious Tanizaki prize. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his mind and his shadow, from which he has been severed by the grim, dark "replacement" consciousness implanted in him by a dotty neurophysiologist. Both worlds share the unearthly theme of unicorn skulls that moan and glow. Murakami''s fast-paced style, full of hip internationalism, slangy allegory, and intrigue, has been adroitly translated. Murakami is also author of A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 10/15/89); his new work is recommended for academic libraries and public libraries emphasizing serious contemporary fiction.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - D.E. Perushek, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19527'),
(19729, 'Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies &amp; the Truth About Reality', 'Brad Warner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a Zen story about a teacher who holds up his finger, then reminds his student to look beyond the finger itself, to what the finger is pointing at-the moon. That''s what this book does: it transcends itself-and with outrageous style. Warner, an early-''80s hardcore punk musician, discovered Zen in college, moved to Japan to make B-grade monster movies, and eventually became a bona fide Zen master by formally receiving "dharma transmission." Yet true to his punk spirit, he relentlessly demands that all teaching, all beliefs, all authority-including his own-must be questioned. ("Why should you listen to me? Who the hell am I?... No one. No one at all.") By turns wickedly funny, profane, challenging and iconoclastic-but always with genuine kindness-Warner devotes chapters to some common Zen notions such as the oneness of reality ("Why Gene Simmons Is Not a Zen Master"), reincarnation ("In My Next Life I Want to Come Back as a Pair of Lucy Liu''s Panties") and the vital importance of the present moment ("Eating a Tangerine is Real Enlightenment"). Yet this is no litany of Zen orthodoxy designed for study. By liberally sharing anecdotes from his own life as a down-and-out punk rocker and maker of monster movies, Warner constantly focuses on the importance of a direct experience of reality in all its rawness over adherence to any set of beliefs-even Zen ones. Entertaining, bold and refreshingly direct, this book is likely to change the way one experiences other books about Zen-and maybe even the way one experiences reality.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School--Warner has appropriated the phrase "Question authority," a longtime battle cry for the punk-rock aesthetic, for use as a Buddhist mantra. Much of his book is laid out like a memoir. Readers follow the author from high school and his interest in ''70s rock music and philosophical thought through his musical career under names like Zero Defex and Dimentia 13 and finally to his dream job with the Japanese television studio that produces the popular live-action children''s show,\n <em>\n  Ultra Man\n </em>\n . The common threads throughout are a rabid interest in transcendental meditation and enlightenment. A conversational tone and endless streams of pop references to everything from Minor Threat to\n <em>\n  TheMatrix\n </em>\n movies make this a readable and even fun book. Warner stresses that enlightenment and meditation do not come easy, which separates his writing dramatically from many other Western books on Buddhism. It''s nice to see someone with strong ties to rock coming down so hard on people like Terence McKenna or even the Beatles, who promoted drug use as a way toward higher thought. Although some of Warner''s connections between Buddhism and the various pieces of pop culture are simplified, his idea of questioning is particularly striking. Not just questioning authority, but friends, oneself, and, yes, him. This wonderfully engaging primer just might get those more dubious, less willing readers to look at the world a bit differently._--Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7224'),
(19730, 'Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies &amp; the Truth About Reality', 'Brad Warner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a Zen story about a teacher who holds up his finger, then reminds his student to look beyond the finger itself, to what the finger is pointing at-the moon. That''s what this book does: it transcends itself-and with outrageous style. Warner, an early-''80s hardcore punk musician, discovered Zen in college, moved to Japan to make B-grade monster movies, and eventually became a bona fide Zen master by formally receiving "dharma transmission." Yet true to his punk spirit, he relentlessly demands that all teaching, all beliefs, all authority-including his own-must be questioned. ("Why should you listen to me? Who the hell am I?... No one. No one at all.") By turns wickedly funny, profane, challenging and iconoclastic-but always with genuine kindness-Warner devotes chapters to some common Zen notions such as the oneness of reality ("Why Gene Simmons Is Not a Zen Master"), reincarnation ("In My Next Life I Want to Come Back as a Pair of Lucy Liu''s Panties") and the vital importance of the present moment ("Eating a Tangerine is Real Enlightenment"). Yet this is no litany of Zen orthodoxy designed for study. By liberally sharing anecdotes from his own life as a down-and-out punk rocker and maker of monster movies, Warner constantly focuses on the importance of a direct experience of reality in all its rawness over adherence to any set of beliefs-even Zen ones. Entertaining, bold and refreshingly direct, this book is likely to change the way one experiences other books about Zen-and maybe even the way one experiences reality.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School--Warner has appropriated the phrase "Question authority," a longtime battle cry for the punk-rock aesthetic, for use as a Buddhist mantra. Much of his book is laid out like a memoir. Readers follow the author from high school and his interest in ''70s rock music and philosophical thought through his musical career under names like Zero Defex and Dimentia 13 and finally to his dream job with the Japanese television studio that produces the popular live-action children''s show,\n <em>\n  Ultra Man\n </em>\n . The common threads throughout are a rabid interest in transcendental meditation and enlightenment. A conversational tone and endless streams of pop references to everything from Minor Threat to\n <em>\n  TheMatrix\n </em>\n movies make this a readable and even fun book. Warner stresses that enlightenment and meditation do not come easy, which separates his writing dramatically from many other Western books on Buddhism. It''s nice to see someone with strong ties to rock coming down so hard on people like Terence McKenna or even the Beatles, who promoted drug use as a way toward higher thought. Although some of Warner''s connections between Buddhism and the various pieces of pop culture are simplified, his idea of questioning is particularly striking. Not just questioning authority, but friends, oneself, and, yes, him. This wonderfully engaging primer just might get those more dubious, less willing readers to look at the world a bit differently._--Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13233'),
(19731, 'Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies &amp; the Truth About Reality', 'Brad Warner', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n There''s a Zen story about a teacher who holds up his finger, then reminds his student to look beyond the finger itself, to what the finger is pointing at-the moon. That''s what this book does: it transcends itself-and with outrageous style. Warner, an early-''80s hardcore punk musician, discovered Zen in college, moved to Japan to make B-grade monster movies, and eventually became a bona fide Zen master by formally receiving "dharma transmission." Yet true to his punk spirit, he relentlessly demands that all teaching, all beliefs, all authority-including his own-must be questioned. ("Why should you listen to me? Who the hell am I?... No one. No one at all.") By turns wickedly funny, profane, challenging and iconoclastic-but always with genuine kindness-Warner devotes chapters to some common Zen notions such as the oneness of reality ("Why Gene Simmons Is Not a Zen Master"), reincarnation ("In My Next Life I Want to Come Back as a Pair of Lucy Liu''s Panties") and the vital importance of the present moment ("Eating a Tangerine is Real Enlightenment"). Yet this is no litany of Zen orthodoxy designed for study. By liberally sharing anecdotes from his own life as a down-and-out punk rocker and maker of monster movies, Warner constantly focuses on the importance of a direct experience of reality in all its rawness over adherence to any set of beliefs-even Zen ones. Entertaining, bold and refreshingly direct, this book is likely to change the way one experiences other books about Zen-and maybe even the way one experiences reality.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High School--Warner has appropriated the phrase "Question authority," a longtime battle cry for the punk-rock aesthetic, for use as a Buddhist mantra. Much of his book is laid out like a memoir. Readers follow the author from high school and his interest in ''70s rock music and philosophical thought through his musical career under names like Zero Defex and Dimentia 13 and finally to his dream job with the Japanese television studio that produces the popular live-action children''s show,\n <em>\n  Ultra Man\n </em>\n . The common threads throughout are a rabid interest in transcendental meditation and enlightenment. A conversational tone and endless streams of pop references to everything from Minor Threat to\n <em>\n  TheMatrix\n </em>\n movies make this a readable and even fun book. Warner stresses that enlightenment and meditation do not come easy, which separates his writing dramatically from many other Western books on Buddhism. It''s nice to see someone with strong ties to rock coming down so hard on people like Terence McKenna or even the Beatles, who promoted drug use as a way toward higher thought. Although some of Warner''s connections between Buddhism and the various pieces of pop culture are simplified, his idea of questioning is particularly striking. Not just questioning authority, but friends, oneself, and, yes, him. This wonderfully engaging primer just might get those more dubious, less willing readers to look at the world a bit differently._--Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16757'),
(19732, 'The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz', 'Ron Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He''s the porn world''s Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he''s starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of them, and over the last twenty years has become porn''s biggest ambassador to the mainstream. He''s appeared in 60 regular films, 14 music videos, and VH1''s *Surreal Life*, starred in the critically acclaimed *Porn star* (a movie about his life), and in *Being Ron Jeremy* (a take off on *Being John Malkovich*), co-starring Andy Dick. And that''s just the tip of the iceberg. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ron Jeremy is a born storyteller (funny, considering he doesn''t do a lot of talking in his films). He knows where all the bodies are buried, and in this outrageous autobiography he not only shows you the grave but also gives you the back story on the tombstone. Get ready for *Ron Jeremy*â€”a scandalously entertaining deep insider''s view of the porn industry and its emergence into popular culture, and a delectable self-portrait of the amazingly endowed Everyman every man wanted to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1574'),
(19733, 'The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz', 'Ron Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He''s the porn world''s Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he''s starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of them, and over the last twenty years has become porn''s biggest ambassador to the mainstream. He''s appeared in 60 regular films, 14 music videos, and VH1''s *Surreal Life*, starred in the critically acclaimed *Porn star* (a movie about his life), and in *Being Ron Jeremy* (a take off on *Being John Malkovich*), co-starring Andy Dick. And that''s just the tip of the iceberg. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ron Jeremy is a born storyteller (funny, considering he doesn''t do a lot of talking in his films). He knows where all the bodies are buried, and in this outrageous autobiography he not only shows you the grave but also gives you the back story on the tombstone. Get ready for *Ron Jeremy*â€”a scandalously entertaining deep insider''s view of the porn industry and its emergence into popular culture, and a delectable self-portrait of the amazingly endowed Everyman every man wanted to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10545'),
(19734, 'The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz', 'Ron Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He''s the porn world''s Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he''s starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of them, and over the last twenty years has become porn''s biggest ambassador to the mainstream. He''s appeared in 60 regular films, 14 music videos, and VH1''s *Surreal Life*, starred in the critically acclaimed *Porn star* (a movie about his life), and in *Being Ron Jeremy* (a take off on *Being John Malkovich*), co-starring Andy Dick. And that''s just the tip of the iceberg. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ron Jeremy is a born storyteller (funny, considering he doesn''t do a lot of talking in his films). He knows where all the bodies are buried, and in this outrageous autobiography he not only shows you the grave but also gives you the back story on the tombstone. Get ready for *Ron Jeremy*â€”a scandalously entertaining deep insider''s view of the porn industry and its emergence into popular culture, and a delectable self-portrait of the amazingly endowed Everyman every man wanted to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14523'),
(19735, 'The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz', 'Ron Jeremy', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He''s the porn world''s Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he''s starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of them, and over the last twenty years has become porn''s biggest ambassador to the mainstream. He''s appeared in 60 regular films, 14 music videos, and VH1''s *Surreal Life*, starred in the critically acclaimed *Porn star* (a movie about his life), and in *Being Ron Jeremy* (a take off on *Being John Malkovich*), co-starring Andy Dick. And that''s just the tip of the iceberg. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Ron Jeremy is a born storyteller (funny, considering he doesn''t do a lot of talking in his films). He knows where all the bodies are buried, and in this outrageous autobiography he not only shows you the grave but also gives you the back story on the tombstone. Get ready for *Ron Jeremy*â€”a scandalously entertaining deep insider''s view of the porn industry and its emergence into popular culture, and a delectable self-portrait of the amazingly endowed Everyman every man wanted to be.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23455'),
(19736, 'The Hare With Amber Eyes', 'Edmund de Waal', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Best of the Month, September 2010\n </strong>\n : At the heart of Edmund de Waal''s strange and graceful family memoir,\n <em>\n  The Hare with Amber Eyes\n </em>\n , is a one-of-a-kind inherited collection of ornamental Japanese carvings known as netsuke. The netsuke are tiny and tactile--they sit in the palm of your hand--and de Waal is drawn to them as "small, tough explosions of exactitude." He''s also drawn to the story behind them, and for years he put aside his own work as a world-renowned potter and curator to uncover the rich and tragic family history of which the carvings are one of the few concrete legacies. De Waal''s family was the Ephrussis, wealthy Jewish grain traders who branched out from Russia across the capitals of Europe before seeing their empire destroyed by the Nazis. Beginning with his art connoisseur ancestor Charles (a model for Proust''s Swann), who acquired the netsuke during the European rage for Japonisme, de Waal traces the collection from Japan to Europe--where they were saved from the brutal bureaucracy of the Nazi Anschluss in the pockets of a family servant--and back to Japan and Europe again. Throughout, he writes with a tough, funny, and elegant attention to detail and personality that does full justice to the exactitude of the little carvings that first roused his curiosity.\n <em>\n  --Tom Nissley\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this family history, de Waal, a potter and curator of ceramics at the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, describes the experiences of his family, the Ephrussis, during the turmoil of the 20th century. Grain merchants in Odessa, various family members migrated to Vienna and Paris, becoming successful bankers. Secular Jews, they sought assimilation in a period of virulent anti-Semitism. In Paris, Charles Ephrussi purchased a large collection of Japanese netsuke, tiny hand-carved figures including a hare with amber eyes. The collection passed to Viktor Ephrussi in Vienna and became the family''s greatest legacy. Loyal citizens of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Vienna Ephrussis were devastated by the outcome of WWI and were later driven from their home by the imposition of Nazi rule over Austria. After WWII, they discovered that their maid, Anna, had preserved the netsuke collection, which Ignace Ephrussi inherited, and he settled in postwar Japan. Today, the netsuke reside with de Waal (descended from the family''s Vienna branch) and serve as the embodiment of his family history. A somewhat rambling narrative with special appeal to art historians, this account is nonetheless rich in drama and valuable anecdote. 20 b&amp;w illus.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12313'),
(19737, 'Harem of Aman Akbar', 'Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Rasa joins Aman''s two other wives, Amollia and Aster, and travels to Sindupore in order to save Aman from the djinn who has changed him into a donkey\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5839'),
(19738, 'Harem of Aman Akbar', 'Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rasa joins Aman''s two other wives, Amollia and Aster, and travels to Sindupore in order to save Aman from the djinn who has changed him into a donkey\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18894'),
(19739, 'Harem of Aman Akbar', 'Elizabeth Ann Scarborough', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Rasa joins Aman''s two other wives, Amollia and Aster, and travels to Sindupore in order to save Aman from the djinn who has changed him into a donkey\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27692'),
(19740, 'Harlequin', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first in a new series, introducing a splendid hero, against the background of Europe in the One Hundred Years'' War. Thomas of Hookton becomes an archer in the army of King Edward III. He revels in the life of an army at war with France and becomes known for his wildness and his fearsome skills.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7206'),
(19741, 'Harlequin', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first in a new series, introducing a splendid hero, against the background of Europe in the One Hundred Years'' War. Thomas of Hookton becomes an archer in the army of King Edward III. He revels in the life of an army at war with France and becomes known for his wildness and his fearsome skills.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16602'),
(19742, 'Harlequin', 'Bernard Cornwell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first in a new series, introducing a splendid hero, against the background of Europe in the One Hundred Years'' War. Thomas of Hookton becomes an archer in the army of King Edward III. He revels in the life of an army at war with France and becomes known for his wildness and his fearsome skills.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26642'),
(19743, 'The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A priceless treasure for collectors and fans, "The Harlequin Tea Set" brings together nine brilliant Christie stories that have remained long out of print--until now. Featuring beloved Christie detectives such as Hercule Poirot and Mr. Harley Quin, as well as new characters, these stories will charm and fascinate the millions of Christie fans around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7886'),
(19744, 'The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A priceless treasure for collectors and fans, "The Harlequin Tea Set" brings together nine brilliant Christie stories that have remained long out of print--until now. Featuring beloved Christie detectives such as Hercule Poirot and Mr. Harley Quin, as well as new characters, these stories will charm and fascinate the millions of Christie fans around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15998'),
(19745, 'The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A priceless treasure for collectors and fans, "The Harlequin Tea Set" brings together nine brilliant Christie stories that have remained long out of print--until now. Featuring beloved Christie detectives such as Hercule Poirot and Mr. Harley Quin, as well as new characters, these stories will charm and fascinate the millions of Christie fans around the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26239'),
(19746, 'The Harlequin', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Readers haven''t seen anything yet-new in the "fabulously imagined series" (*Publishers Weekly*) from the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anita Blake is about to face the challenge of her life. Into her world-a world already overflowing with power-have come creatures so feared that powerful, centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names. It is forbidden to speak of The Harlequin unless you''ve been contacted. And to be contacted by The Harlequin is to be under sentence of death.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Long-time rivals for Anita''s affections, Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, alpha-werewolf, will need to become allies. Shapeshifters Nathaniel and Micah will have to step up their support. And then there''s Edward. In this situation, Anita knows that she needs to call the one man who has always been there for her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3512'),
(19747, 'The Harlequin', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Readers haven''t seen anything yet-new in the "fabulously imagined series" (*Publishers Weekly*) from the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author. Anita Blake is about to face the challenge of her life. Into her world-a world already overflowing with power-have come creatures so feared that powerful, centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names. It is forbidden to speak of The Harlequin unless you''ve been contacted. And to be contacted by The Harlequin is to be under sentence of death. Long-time rivals for Anita''s affections, Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, alpha-werewolf, will need to become allies. Shapeshifters Nathaniel and Micah will have to step up their support. And then there''s Edward. In this situation, Anita knows that she needs to call the one man who has always been there for her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15366'),
(19748, 'The Harlequin', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Readers haven''t seen anything yet-new in the "fabulously imagined series" (*Publishers Weekly*) from the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author. Anita Blake is about to face the challenge of her life. Into her world-a world already overflowing with power-have come creatures so feared that powerful, centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names. It is forbidden to speak of The Harlequin unless you''ve been contacted. And to be contacted by The Harlequin is to be under sentence of death. Long-time rivals for Anita''s affections, Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, alpha-werewolf, will need to become allies. Shapeshifters Nathaniel and Micah will have to step up their support. And then there''s Edward. In this situation, Anita knows that she needs to call the one man who has always been there for her...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20985'),
(19749, 'Harlot by the Side of the Road', 'Jonathan Kirsch', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Kirsch, an attorney and book critic, retells some of the juicier stories of the Bible in contemporary language. He expands upon the original biblical text to make the stories highly readable and includes with each the original text in modern translation and a brief sketch of the scholarly research and the speculation surrounding it. For those to whom Bible stories suggest "Disneyesque animals and simple uplifting moral lessons," this book may be a bit of a shock. Kirsch shows that the Bible is not a children''s book. Then, as now, rape, incest, prostitution, murder, and strange religious cults were a part of life. As Kirsch says, "The Bible is a map of the human heart, and no secret chamber or hidden passage is left out." Kirsch contends that returning to the Bible can offer insight into modern issues. Mostly, however, he offers an irresistible popularization of some unfamiliar stories. Some readers will enjoy it; others will be highly offended. Recommended for public libraries.?C. Robert Nixon, MLS, Lafayette, Ind.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Booklist\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Although some of these biblical tales are not as "forbidden" as Kirsch makes out--both David''s and Lot''s stories have been on TV''s\n  <em>\n   Mysteries of the Bible\n  </em>\n  they do contain far more sex and violence than most readers would expect to find in a holy book. Demonstrating meticulous research and an enticing style, Kirsch recounts the rape of Dinah, in which the seducer of Jacob''s daughter, along with 300 of his men, are circumcised and then murdered when they are too weak from their surgery to run; the seduction of Judah by his daughter-in-law Tamar; and the murder of Uriah by David, in order that David may have Uriah''s wife, Bathsheba. Along the way, Kirsch comments perceptively on the implications of numerous instances of what he calls the "gyno-sadism" of the Bible--women being raped, gang-raped, and murdered. Along with excerpts from the\n  <em>\n   Holy Scriptures according to Maoretic Text\n  </em>\n  , Kirsch retells the stories, places them in the context of the time, and thoroughly addresses levels of meaning for both the ancient and modern readers. Fascinating reading.\n  <em>\n   Ilene Cooper\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9398'),
(19750, 'The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea', 'Michael Harney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ever since the Boston Tea Party, Americans have never exhibited the same passion for tea that so many others in the world cultivate. Much of the tea consumed here is iced tea. Harney setsÂ out to change American minds and educate their palates. Writing in language typically reserved for wine, Harney describes the distinctive tastes, colors, and mouthfeel of teas from each of the major groups: white, green, oolong, yellow, and black. He divides the green teas into Chinese and Japanese, and the black into Chinese and â€œBritish legacy,â€ a catchall term for teas from India and other remnants of the British Empire. He also recommends proper brewing temperatures and the appropriate brewing time for each tea variety. Harneyâ€™s comprehensive analyses of the differences among teas make this a noteworthy book for tea drinkers and a worthwhile reference tool for librarians. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The countryâ€™s leading connoisseur presents a comprehensive guide for developing your tea palate\n </strong>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n </em>\n transforms tea drinkers into tea experts. Written by one of the countryâ€™s leading tea professionals,\n <em>\n  The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n </em>\n is an illuminating resource for tea drinkers interested in developing and refining their palate as well as their understanding of the complex agricultural, historical, and cultural significance of tea.\n</p>\n<p>\n Drawing on his singular experience, Michael Harney masterly explores the full range of teas, revealing how each tea is distinctive, with a taste that derives from a precise combination of cultivation and production techniques, and influenced by the geography as well as its history. These lively profiles of diverse tea varietiesâ€”from delicate white tea to aged black puerh teaâ€”include brewing instructions and vivid descriptions of the beverage scent, taste, and appearance; everything you need to become a connoisseur.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tea has long been popular in the United States, but only recently have Americans treated this nuanced beverage with a deeper curiosity, more refined approach, and wider appetite.\n <em>\n  The Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n reports that total U.S. tea sales are nearly four times what they were in 1990, and this growing population of discriminate consumers will celebrate the new vocabulary provided in\n <em>\n  The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Unique in scope, candor, and accessibility,\n <em>\n  The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n </em>\n will quickly become the classic reference and staple in the library of every serious tea drinker.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2825'),
(19751, 'The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea', 'Michael Harney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Ever since the Boston Tea Party, Americans have never exhibited the same passion for tea that so many others in the world cultivate. Much of the tea consumed here is iced tea. Harney setsÂ out to change American minds and educate their palates. Writing in language typically reserved for wine, Harney describes the distinctive tastes, colors, and mouthfeel of teas from each of the major groups: white, green, oolong, yellow, and black. He divides the green teas into Chinese and Japanese, and the black into Chinese and â€œBritish legacy,â€ a catchall term for teas from India and other remnants of the British Empire. He also recommends proper brewing temperatures and the appropriate brewing time for each tea variety. Harneyâ€™s comprehensive analyses of the differences among teas make this a noteworthy book for tea drinkers and a worthwhile reference tool for librarians. --Mark Knoblauch\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The countryâ€™s leading connoisseur presents a comprehensive guide for developing your tea palate\n </strong>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n </em>\n transforms tea drinkers into tea experts. Written by one of the countryâ€™s leading tea professionals,\n <em>\n  The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n </em>\n is an illuminating resource for tea drinkers interested in developing and refining their palate as well as their understanding of the complex agricultural, historical, and cultural significance of tea.\n</p>\n<p>\n Drawing on his singular experience, Michael Harney masterly explores the full range of teas, revealing how each tea is distinctive, with a taste that derives from a precise combination of cultivation and production techniques, and influenced by the geography as well as its history. These lively profiles of diverse tea varietiesâ€”from delicate white tea to aged black puerh teaâ€”include brewing instructions and vivid descriptions of the beverage scent, taste, and appearance; everything you need to become a connoisseur.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tea has long been popular in the United States, but only recently have Americans treated this nuanced beverage with a deeper curiosity, more refined approach, and wider appetite.\n <em>\n  The Wall Street Journal\n </em>\n reports that total U.S. tea sales are nearly four times what they were in 1990, and this growing population of discriminate consumers will celebrate the new vocabulary provided in\n <em>\n  The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n </em>\n .\n</p>\n<p>\n Unique in scope, candor, and accessibility,\n <em>\n  The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n </em>\n will quickly become the classic reference and staple in the library of every serious tea drinker.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10207');
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(19752, 'The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea', 'Michael Harney', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Ever since the Boston Tea Party, Americans have never exhibited the same passion for tea that so many others in the world cultivate. Much of the tea consumed here is iced tea. Harney setsÂ out to change American minds and educate their palates. Writing in language typically reserved for wine, Harney describes the distinctive tastes, colors, and mouthfeel of teas from each of the major groups: white, green, oolong, yellow, and black. He divides the green teas into Chinese and Japanese, and the black into Chinese and â€œBritish legacy,â€ a catchall term for teas from India and other remnants of the British Empire. He also recommends proper brewing temperatures and the appropriate brewing time for each tea variety. Harneyâ€™s comprehensive analyses of the differences among teas make this a noteworthy book for tea drinkers and a worthwhile reference tool for librarians. --Mark Knoblauch\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   The countryâ€™s leading connoisseur presents a comprehensive guide for developing your tea palate\n  </strong>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n  </em>\n  transforms tea drinkers into tea experts. Written by one of the countryâ€™s leading tea professionals,\n  <em>\n   The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n  </em>\n  is an illuminating resource for tea drinkers interested in developing and refining their palate as well as their understanding of the complex agricultural, historical, and cultural significance of tea.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Drawing on his singular experience, Michael Harney masterly explores the full range of teas, revealing how each tea is distinctive, with a taste that derives from a precise combination of cultivation and production techniques, and influenced by the geography as well as its history. These lively profiles of diverse tea varietiesâ€”from delicate white tea to aged black puerh teaâ€”include brewing instructions and vivid descriptions of the beverage scent, taste, and appearance; everything you need to become a connoisseur.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Tea has long been popular in the United States, but only recently have Americans treated this nuanced beverage with a deeper curiosity, more refined approach, and wider appetite.\n  <em>\n   The Wall Street Journal\n  </em>\n  reports that total U.S. tea sales are nearly four times what they were in 1990, and this growing population of discriminate consumers will celebrate the new vocabulary provided in\n  <em>\n   The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Unique in scope, candor, and accessibility,\n  <em>\n   The Harney &amp; Sons Guide to Tea\n  </em>\n  will quickly become the classic reference and staple in the library of every serious tea drinker.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22004'),
(19753, 'Harpist in the Wind', 'Patricia A. McKillip', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the midst of conflict and unrest the Prince of Hed solves the puzzle of his future when he learns to harp the wind, discovers who the shape changers are, and understands his own relationship to Deth, harpist of the wizard Ohm.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21549'),
(19754, 'Harpy Thyme', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Gloha is the only creature of her kind in all the world of Xanth, the beautiful offspring of a chance mating between a harpy and a goblin. As she grew to womanhood, she wondered where where she would find the one true love with whom she could share her life.So, naturally, she sets off to find the Good Magician Humfrey to ask him for an Answer to the riddle of her heart''s desire. But hUmfrey, for mysterious reason of his own, propels her instead on a perilous quest in search of truth, friendship, and, just possibly, happiness.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2017'),
(19755, 'Harriet', 'Jilly Cooper', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Shy, dreamy, and incurably romantic, HArriet Poole was shattered when her brief affair with Simon Villiers, Oxford''s leading playboy undergraduate, ended abruptly, leaving her penniless, alone and pregnant. Still hopelessly in love with Simon, she took baby William and burried herself in deepest Yorkshire as nanny to the children of Cory Erskine, a somewhat eccentric scriptwriter.Local tongues were just beginning to wag when a whole host of visitors began to arrive to disrupt Harriet''s peaceful routine: first Cory''s estranged wife Noel, hellbent on winning Cory back, then Cory''s glamorous brother Kit, whose old affair with Noel didn''t stop him making passes at Harriet - and finally, of all people, Simon . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4488'),
(19756, 'Harrison State Park &#39;68', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22985'),
(19757, 'Harry Bosch Novels, The: Volume 2: The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, Angels Flight', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n An incendiary page turner.-Janet Maslin, New York Times on\n <em>\n  City of Bones\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A Spartan saga of good and evil"-Cathy Burke,\n <em>\n  People\n </em>\n (Book of the Week)\n</p>\n<p>\n "The most talented of crime writers."â€”_The New Yorker_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A taut minidrama in which even minor characters . . . play standout roles that burn with conviction."-Marilyn Stasio,\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  City of Bones\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Harry [Bosch] is a Chandlerian knight errant: tough, shrewd, and principled enough to pursue the truth despite formidable opposition."â€”_Booklist_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Connelly diabolically teases readers while scaring the hell out of them"â€”_Kirkus Reviews _\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''ve left many ''page-turners'' unfinished, but I finished\n <em>\n  Chasing the Dime\n </em>\n â€”and then read it all over again. In fact, I can''t tell you what I would pay for a bookshelf full of thrillers like this one."â€”_Time Out New York_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n THE LAST COYOTE: LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is suspended from the force for attacking his commanding officer. Unable to remain idle, he investigates the long-unsolved murder of a Hollywood prostitute-his mother. TRUNK MUSIC:Harry returns to the force to investigate the murder of a movie producer with Mafia ties.Up against both the LAPD''s organized crime unit and the Mob, Harry follows the money trail to Las Vegas, where the case becomes personal. ANGELS FLIGHT:The murder of a prominent attorney who made his career suing the police for racism and brutality lands Harry''s friends and associates on the list of suspects-and he must work closely with longtime enemies suspicious of his maverick ways to investigate them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2897'),
(19758, 'Harry Bosch Novels, The: Volume 2: The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, Angels Flight', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n An incendiary page turner.-Janet Maslin, New York Times on\n <em>\n  City of Bones\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A Spartan saga of good and evil"-Cathy Burke,\n <em>\n  People\n </em>\n (Book of the Week)\n</p>\n<p>\n "The most talented of crime writers."â€”_The New Yorker_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A taut minidrama in which even minor characters . . . play standout roles that burn with conviction."-Marilyn Stasio,\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  City of Bones\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Harry [Bosch] is a Chandlerian knight errant: tough, shrewd, and principled enough to pursue the truth despite formidable opposition."â€”_Booklist_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Connelly diabolically teases readers while scaring the hell out of them"â€”_Kirkus Reviews _\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''ve left many ''page-turners'' unfinished, but I finished\n <em>\n  Chasing the Dime\n </em>\n â€”and then read it all over again. In fact, I can''t tell you what I would pay for a bookshelf full of thrillers like this one."â€”_Time Out New York_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n THE LAST COYOTE: LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is suspended from the force for attacking his commanding officer. Unable to remain idle, he investigates the long-unsolved murder of a Hollywood prostitute-his mother. TRUNK MUSIC:Harry returns to the force to investigate the murder of a movie producer with Mafia ties.Up against both the LAPD''s organized crime unit and the Mob, Harry follows the money trail to Las Vegas, where the case becomes personal. ANGELS FLIGHT:The murder of a prominent attorney who made his career suing the police for racism and brutality lands Harry''s friends and associates on the list of suspects-and he must work closely with longtime enemies suspicious of his maverick ways to investigate them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9091'),
(19759, 'Harry Bosch Novels, The: Volume 2: The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, Angels Flight', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n An incendiary page turner.-Janet Maslin, New York Times on\n <em>\n  City of Bones\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "A Spartan saga of good and evil"-Cathy Burke,\n <em>\n  People\n </em>\n (Book of the Week)\n</p>\n<p>\n "The most talented of crime writers."â€”_The New Yorker_\n</p>\n<p>\n "A taut minidrama in which even minor characters . . . play standout roles that burn with conviction."-Marilyn Stasio,\n <em>\n  New York Times Book Review\n </em>\n on\n <em>\n  City of Bones\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "Harry [Bosch] is a Chandlerian knight errant: tough, shrewd, and principled enough to pursue the truth despite formidable opposition."â€”_Booklist_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Connelly diabolically teases readers while scaring the hell out of them"â€”_Kirkus Reviews _\n</p>\n<p>\n "I''ve left many ''page-turners'' unfinished, but I finished\n <em>\n  Chasing the Dime\n </em>\n â€”and then read it all over again. In fact, I can''t tell you what I would pay for a bookshelf full of thrillers like this one."â€”_Time Out New York_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n THE LAST COYOTE: LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is suspended from the force for attacking his commanding officer. Unable to remain idle, he investigates the long-unsolved murder of a Hollywood prostitute-his mother. TRUNK MUSIC:Harry returns to the force to investigate the murder of a movie producer with Mafia ties.Up against both the LAPD''s organized crime unit and the Mob, Harry follows the money trail to Las Vegas, where the case becomes personal. ANGELS FLIGHT:The murder of a prominent attorney who made his career suing the police for racism and brutality lands Harry''s friends and associates on the list of suspects-and he must work closely with longtime enemies suspicious of his maverick ways to investigate them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21958'),
(19760, 'The Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, the Black Ice, the Concrete Blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For the first time in one volume, the three novels that introduced Michael Connelly''s great LAPD homicide detective, maverick Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch. The Black Echo (Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel) For Harry Bosch-hero, loner, nighthawk-the body stuffed in a drainpipe off Mulholland Drive isn''t just another statistic. This one is personal. Billy Meadows was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat," fighting the VC and the fear they used to call the Black Echo. Harry let Meadows down once. He won''t do it again. The Black Ice The corpse in the hotel room seems to be that of a missing LAPD narcotics officer. Rumors abound that the cop had crossed over-selling a new drug called Black Ice. Now Harry''s making some dangerous connections, leading from the cop to a string of bloody murders, and from Hollywood Boulevard''s drug bazaar to Mexico''s dusty back alleys. In this lethal game, Harry is likely to be the next victim. The Concrete Blonde When Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the police were convinced it marked the end of the hunt for the Dollmaker-L.A.''s most bizarre serial killer. But now Church''s widow is accusing Harry of killing the wrong man-a charge that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker''s macabre signature. For the second time, Harry must hunt the murderer down, before he strikes again. Together, these three novels are the perfect way to discover, or rediscover, the sleuth the New York Times Book Review called a "wonderful, old-fashioned hero who isn''t afraid to walk through the flames."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2911'),
(19761, 'The Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, the Black Ice, the Concrete Blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n For the first time in one volume, the three novels that introduced Michael Connelly''s great LAPD homicide detective, maverick Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch. The Black Echo (Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel) For Harry Bosch-hero, loner, nighthawk-the body stuffed in a drainpipe off Mulholland Drive isn''t just another statistic. This one is personal. Billy Meadows was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat," fighting the VC and the fear they used to call the Black Echo. Harry let Meadows down once. He won''t do it again. The Black Ice The corpse in the hotel room seems to be that of a missing LAPD narcotics officer. Rumors abound that the cop had crossed over-selling a new drug called Black Ice. Now Harry''s making some dangerous connections, leading from the cop to a string of bloody murders, and from Hollywood Boulevard''s drug bazaar to Mexico''s dusty back alleys. In this lethal game, Harry is likely to be the next victim. The Concrete Blonde When Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the police were convinced it marked the end of the hunt for the Dollmaker-L.A.''s most bizarre serial killer. But now Church''s widow is accusing Harry of killing the wrong man-a charge that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker''s macabre signature. For the second time, Harry must hunt the murderer down, before he strikes again. Together, these three novels are the perfect way to discover, or rediscover, the sleuth the New York Times Book Review called a "wonderful, old-fashioned hero who isn''t afraid to walk through the flames."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8174'),
(19762, 'The Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: For the first time in one volume, the three novels that introduced Michael Connelly''s great LAPD homicide detective, maverick Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch. The Black Echo (Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel) For Harry Bosch-hero, loner, nighthawk-the body stuffed in a drainpipe off Mulholland Drive isn''t just another statistic. This one is personal. Billy Meadows was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat," fighting the VC and the fear they used to call the Black Echo. Harry let Meadows down once. He won''t do it again. The Black Ice The corpse in the hotel room seems to be that of a missing LAPD narcotics officer. Rumors abound that the cop had crossed over-selling a new drug called Black Ice. Now Harry''s making some dangerous connections, leading from the cop to a string of bloody murders, and from Hollywood Boulevard''s drug bazaar to Mexico''s dusty back alleys. In this lethal game, Harry is likely to be the next victim. The Concrete Blonde When Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the police were convinced it marked the end of the hunt for the Dollmaker-L.A.''s most bizarre serial killer. But now Church''s widow is accusing Harry of killing the wrong man-a charge that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker''s macabre signature. For the second time, Harry must hunt the murderer down, before he strikes again. Together, these three novels are the perfect way to discover, or rediscover, the sleuth the New York Times Book Review called a "wonderful, old-fashioned hero who isn''t afraid to walk through the flames."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21965'),
(19763, 'The Harry Bosch Novels: The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, &amp; Angels Flight', 'Michael Connelly', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The Last Coyote: LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is suspended from the force for attacking his commanding officer. Unable to remain idle, he investigates the long-unsolved murder of a Hollywood prostitute. Trunk Music: Harry returns to the force to investigate the murder of a movie producer with Mafia ties. Up against both the LAPD''s organized crime unit and the mob, Harry follows the money trail to Las Vegas, where the case becomes personal. Angels Flight: The murder of a prominent African-American attorney who made his career suing the police for racism and brutality means that Harry''s friends and associates have become suspects; and he must work closely with longtime enemies suspicious of his maverick ways to investigate them. Together for the first time, these three chilling, pulse-pounding novels chart the volatile, breakneck career of the sleuth the New York Post calls "the quintessential mystery book hero" and prove that "Michael Connelly''s Harry Bosch novels are the most impressive body of work by any writer of crime thrillers now active" (Washington Post).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25348'),
(19764, 'Harry Potter - Pocalul de foc', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25557'),
(19765, 'Harry Potter 1 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#39;s Stone', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25558'),
(19766, 'Harry Potter 2 - Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25559'),
(19767, 'Harry Potter 3 - Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25560'),
(19768, 'Harry Potter 4 - Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25561'),
(19769, 'Harry Potter 5 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25562'),
(19770, 'Harry Potter 6 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25565'),
(19771, 'Harry Potter 7 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'J.K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25566'),
(19772, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Young wizard Harry Potter finds himself back at the miserable Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He doesn''t realize the difficulty of the task that awaits him. Harry must pull out all the stops in order to find his missing friend. No Canadian Rights for the Harry Potter Series HARRY POTTER and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and (c) Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Harry Potter publishing rights (c) J. K. Rowling. (s05)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4939'),
(19773, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Young wizard Harry Potter finds himself back at the miserable Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He doesn''t realize the difficulty of the task that awaits him. Harry must pull out all the stops in order to find his missing friend. No Canadian Rights for the Harry Potter Series HARRY POTTER and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and (c) Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Harry Potter publishing rights (c) J. K. Rowling. (s05)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12502'),
(19774, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more released on the school.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13843'),
(19775, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Young wizard Harry Potter finds himself back at the miserable Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He doesn''t realize the difficulty of the task that awaits him. Harry must pull out all the stops in order to find his missing friend. No Canadian Rights for the Harry Potter Series HARRY POTTER and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and (c) Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Harry Potter publishing rights (c) J. K. Rowling. (s05)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19697'),
(19776, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Potter is preparing to leave the Dursleys and Privet Drive for the last time. But the future that awaits him is full of danger, not only for him, but for anyone close to him - and Harry has already lost so much. Only by destroying Voldemort''s remaining Horcruxes can Harry free himself and overcome the Dark Lord''s forces of evil. In this dramatic conclusion to the Harry Potter series, Harry must leave his most loyal friends behind, and in a final perilous journey find the strength and the will to face his terrifying destiny: a deadly confrontation that is his alone to fight. In this thrilling climax to the phenomenally bestselling series, J.K. Rowling reveals all to her eagerly waiting readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4940'),
(19777, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Potter is preparing to leave the Dursleys and Privet Drive for the last time. But the future that awaits him is full of danger, not only for him, but for anyone close to him - and Harry has already lost so much. Only by destroying Voldemort''s remaining Horcruxes can Harry free himself and overcome the Dark Lord''s forces of evil. In this dramatic conclusion to the Harry Potter series, Harry must leave his most loyal friends behind, and in a final perilous journey find the strength and the will to face his terrifying destiny: a deadly confrontation that is his alone to fight. In this thrilling climax to the phenomenally bestselling series, J.K. Rowling reveals all to her eagerly waiting readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12495'),
(19778, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14074'),
(19779, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Harry Potter is preparing to leave the Dursleys and Privet Drive for the last time. But the future that awaits him is full of danger, not only for him, but for anyone close to him - and Harry has already lost so much. Only by destroying Voldemort''s remaining Horcruxes can Harry free himself and overcome the Dark Lord''s forces of evil. In this dramatic conclusion to the Harry Potter series, Harry must leave his most loyal friends behind, and in a final perilous journey find the strength and the will to face his terrifying destiny: a deadly confrontation that is his alone to fight. In this thrilling climax to the phenomenally bestselling series, J.K. Rowling reveals all to her eagerly waiting readers.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19696'),
(19780, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can''t wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry needs to be on his guard at all times - his worst enemy is preparing a terrible fate for him. With characteristic wit, fast-paced humour and marvellous emotional depth, J.K. Rowling has proved herself yet again to be a master storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4944'),
(19781, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can''t wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry needs to be on his guard at all times - his worst enemy is preparing a terrible fate for him. With characteristic wit, fast-paced humour and marvellous emotional depth, J.K. Rowling has proved herself yet again to be a master storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12492'),
(19782, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14040'),
(19783, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can''t wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry needs to be on his guard at all times - his worst enemy is preparing a terrible fate for him. With characteristic wit, fast-paced humour and marvellous emotional depth, J.K. Rowling has proved herself yet again to be a master storyteller.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19695'),
(19784, 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''In a brief statement on Friday night, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He Who Must Not Be Named has returned to this country and is once more active."It is with great regret that I must confirm that the wizard styling himself Lord - well, you know who I mean - is alive and among us again," said Fudge.These dramatic words appeared in the final pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.In the midst of this battle of good and evil, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes up the story of Harry Potter''s sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with Voldemort''s power and followers increasing day by day . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4945'),
(19785, 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''In a brief statement on Friday night, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He Who Must Not Be Named has returned to this country and is once more active."It is with great regret that I must confirm that the wizard styling himself Lord - well, you know who I mean - is alive and among us again," said Fudge.These dramatic words appeared in the final pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.In the midst of this battle of good and evil, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes up the story of Harry Potter''s sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with Voldemort''s power and followers increasing day by day . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12491'),
(19786, 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Scholastic\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13939'),
(19787, 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''In a brief statement on Friday night, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He Who Must Not Be Named has returned to this country and is once more active."It is with great regret that I must confirm that the wizard styling himself Lord - well, you know who I mean - is alive and among us again," said Fudge.These dramatic words appeared in the final pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.In the midst of this battle of good and evil, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes up the story of Harry Potter''s sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with Voldemort''s power and followers increasing day by day . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19694'),
(19788, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *I say to you all, once again--in the light of\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Lord Voldemortâ€™s return, we are only as strong\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  as we are united, as weak as we are divided.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Lord Voldemortâ€™s gift for spreading discord and\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.*\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  So spoke Albus Dumbledore at the end of Harry Potterâ€™s fourth  year at Hogwarts. But as Harry enters his fifth year at wizard school,  it seems those bonds have never been more sorely tested. Lord  Voldemortâ€™s rise has opened a rift in the wizarding world between  those who believe the truth about his return, and those who prefer to  believe itâ€™s all madness and lies--just more trouble from  Harry Potter.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Add to this a host of other worries for Harryâ€¦\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ A venomous, disgruntled house-elf\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ And of course, what every student dreads: end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¦and youâ€™d know what Harry faces during the day. But at  night itâ€™s even worse, because then he dreams of a single door in a  silent corridor. And this door is somehow more terrifying than every  other nightmare combined.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowlingâ€™s seven-part  story, Harry Potter confronts the unreliability of the very government  of the magical world, and the impotence of the authorities at  Hogwarts.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Despite this (or perhaps because of it) Harry finds depth and strength  in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty and  unbearable sacrifice.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Though thick runs the plot (as well as the spine), readers will  race through these pages, and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only  for the next train back.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4947'),
(19789, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *I say to you all, once again--in the light of\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Lord Voldemortâ€™s return, we are only as strong\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  as we are united, as weak as we are divided.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Lord Voldemortâ€™s gift for spreading discord and\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.*\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  So spoke Albus Dumbledore at the end of Harry Potterâ€™s fourth  year at Hogwarts. But as Harry enters his fifth year at wizard school,  it seems those bonds have never been more sorely tested. Lord  Voldemortâ€™s rise has opened a rift in the wizarding world between  those who believe the truth about his return, and those who prefer to  believe itâ€™s all madness and lies--just more trouble from  Harry Potter.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Add to this a host of other worries for Harryâ€¦\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ A venomous, disgruntled house-elf\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ And of course, what every student dreads: end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¦and youâ€™d know what Harry faces during the day. But at  night itâ€™s even worse, because then he dreams of a single door in a  silent corridor. And this door is somehow more terrifying than every  other nightmare combined.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowlingâ€™s seven-part  story, Harry Potter confronts the unreliability of the very government  of the magical world, and the impotence of the authorities at  Hogwarts.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Despite this (or perhaps because of it) Harry finds depth and strength  in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty and  unbearable sacrifice.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Though thick runs the plot (as well as the spine), readers will  race through these pages, and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only  for the next train back.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12501'),
(19790, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14075'),
(19791, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  *I say to you all, once again--in the light of\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Lord Voldemortâ€™s return, we are only as strong\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  as we are united, as weak as we are divided.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Lord Voldemortâ€™s gift for spreading discord and\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.*\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  So spoke Albus Dumbledore at the end of Harry Potterâ€™s fourth year at Hogwarts. But as Harry enters his fifth year at wizard school, it seems those bonds have never been more sorely tested. Lord Voldemortâ€™s rise has opened a rift in the wizarding world between those who believe the truth about his return, and those who prefer to believe itâ€™s all madness and lies--just more trouble from Harry Potter.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Add to this a host of other worries for Harryâ€¦\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ A venomous, disgruntled house-elf\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¢ And of course, what every student dreads: end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  â€¦and youâ€™d know what Harry faces during the day. But at night itâ€™s even worse, because then he dreams of a single door in a silent corridor. And this door is somehow more terrifying than every other nightmare combined.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowlingâ€™s seven-part story, Harry Potter confronts the unreliability of the very government of the magical world, and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Despite this (or perhaps because of it) Harry finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty and unbearable sacrifice.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Though thick runs the plot (as well as the spine), readers will race through these pages, and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only for the next train back.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19693'),
(19792, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents'' deaths.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4948'),
(19793, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents'' deaths.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12494'),
(19794, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents'' deaths.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13951'),
(19795, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', 'J. K. Rowling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents'' deaths.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19690'),
(19796, 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#39;s Stone', 'Rowling, J.K.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13808'),
(19797, 'The Harsh Cry of the Heron', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The surprise fourth installment, the epic conclusion of Lian Hearn''s beloved, bestselling Tales of the Otori.\n <br />\n <br />\n The Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the Otori is a truly epic novel. It is the rich and satisfying conclusion to the Tales of the Otori series that both completes the characters'' lives-prophesied and otherwise-and brilliantly illuminates unexpected aspects of the entire Otori saga. The Harsh Cry of the Heron is the only fitting end to such a stirring series: a book that takes the storytelling achievement of Lian Hearn''s fantastic medieval Japanese world to startling new heights of drama and action.\n <br />\n <br />\n Hearn''s Otori series is the best (and only) literary expression of a cultural phenomenon that has swept through cinema (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), comics (manga), and popular culture at large. And, with this book, Hearn delivers in full ninja vs. samurai fashion the kinetic, simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting resolution that the Otori''s hundreds of thousands of fans richly deserve-whose epic satisfaction will surely draw even more readers into the fold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3369'),
(19798, 'The Harsh Cry of the Heron', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The surprise fourth installment, the epic conclusion of Lian Hearn''s beloved, bestselling Tales of the Otori.\n <br />\n <br />\n The Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the Otori is a truly epic novel. It is the rich and satisfying conclusion to the Tales of the Otori series that both completes the characters'' lives-prophesied and otherwise-and brilliantly illuminates unexpected aspects of the entire Otori saga. The Harsh Cry of the Heron is the only fitting end to such a stirring series: a book that takes the storytelling achievement of Lian Hearn''s fantastic medieval Japanese world to startling new heights of drama and action.\n <br />\n <br />\n Hearn''s Otori series is the best (and only) literary expression of a cultural phenomenon that has swept through cinema (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), comics (manga), and popular culture at large. And, with this book, Hearn delivers in full ninja vs. samurai fashion the kinetic, simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting resolution that the Otori''s hundreds of thousands of fans richly deserve-whose epic satisfaction will surely draw even more readers into the fold.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21147'),
(19799, 'Hart&#39;s Hope', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Review\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€œA fantastic tapestry woven around wholly believable characters.â€ â€“ Fantasy Review\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n â€” Enter the city of Hartâ€™s Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent, riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city was captured by a rebellious lord, Palicrovol, who overthrew the cruel king, Nasilee, hated by his people.\n <br />\n <br />\n Palicrovol, too, was cruel, as befitted a king. He took the true mantle of kinghood by forcing Asineth, now Queen by her fatherâ€™s death, to marry him, raping her to consummate the marriage. [But he was not cruel enough to rule.] He let her live after her humiliation; live to bear a daughter; live to return from exile and retake the throne of Hartâ€™s Hope.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But she, in turn, sent Palicrovol into exile to breed a son who would, in the name of the God, take back the kingdom from its cruel Queen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2385'),
(19800, 'Hart&#39;s Hope', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Review â€œA fantastic tapestry woven around wholly believable characters.â€ â€“ Fantasy Review â€” Enter the city of Hartâ€™s Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent, riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city was captured by a rebellious lord, Palicrovol, who overthrew the cruel king, Nasilee, hated by his people.\n <br />\n <br />\n Palicrovol, too, was cruel, as befitted a king. He took the true mantle of kinghood by forcing Asineth, now Queen by her fatherâ€™s death, to marry him, raping her to consummate the marriage. [But he was not cruel enough to rule.] He let her live after her humiliation; live to bear a daughter; live to return from exile and retake the throne of Hartâ€™s Hope. But she, in turn, sent Palicrovol into exile to breed a son who would, in the name of the God, take back the kingdom from its cruel Queen.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22337'),
(19801, 'The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating During Pregnancy', 'W. Allan Walker; Courtney Humphries', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n _\n <strong>\n  No strict diets, no scary guidelines--just the essential nutrition expectant moms need to start their babies on the road to lifelong health\n </strong>\n _\n</p>\n<p>\n All parents know that kids need nutritious foods as they grow. But new research confirms that what you eats during pregnancy can also profoundly affect the health of your baby when that baby becomes an adult--for better or for worse. Endorsed by the Harvard Medical School and written by one of the world''s leading experts in nutrition for pregnant women and babies, this guide offers more solid information and medically sound advice on prenatal nutrition than any other book on the market.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Back Cover\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Give your unborn baby a head start on a lifetime of good health\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n What you eat during pregnancy has a strong influence on your baby''s health at birth. But did you know that it also can have a\n <em>\n  lifelong\n </em>\n impact on your child''s health? The latest scientific research indicates that good nutrition begins in the womb, and healthy eating habits during pregnancy can actually help lower your child''s risk of obesity, hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, and a host of other problems later in life.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Healthy Eating During Pregnancy\n </em>\n arms you with the information you need to give your baby the very best--even before birth. One of Harvard Medical School''s top experts in pediatrics and nutrition, Dr. W. Alan Walker draws upon the latest research and his more than two decades of clinical experience to explain, in plain English, the science of prenatal nutrition. More important, he gives you:\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Nutritional guidelines from preconception to year one\n </li>\n <li>\n  Foods to eat and foods to avoid\n </li>\n <li>\n  A critical look at vitamins and other supplements\n </li>\n <li>\n  Menus and delicious recipes that make healthy eating easy\n </li>\n <li>\n  Exercises that help guarantee optimal health for you and baby\n </li>\n <li>\n  Expert advice on breast-feeding and how to be sure your baby is properly nourished during weaning\n </li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22810'),
(19802, 'The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath', 'John Steinbeck &amp; Charles Wollenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Recently listed in the Top 100 List of the Century''s Best American Journalism\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote for "The San Francisco News" in 1936, three years before _The Grapes of Wrath_. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters'' camps and Hoovervilles of California. Here he found once strong, independent farmersâ€”the backbone of rural Americaâ€”so reduced in dignity, beaten in spirit, sick, sullen, and defeated that they had been "cast down to a kind of subhumanity." He contrasts their misery with the hope offered by government resettlement camps, where self-help committees, child nurseries, quilting and sewing projects, and decent sanitation were restoring dignity and indeed saving lives.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n _The Harvest Gypsies_ gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, a major event in California history, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeck''s masterpiece, _The Grapes of Wrath_. Included are twenty-two photographs by Dorothea Lange and others, many of which accompanied Steinbeck''s original articles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4231');
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(19803, 'The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath', 'John Steinbeck; Charles Wollenberg', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Recently listed in the Top 100 List of the Century''s Best American Journalism Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote for "The San Francisco News" in 1936, three years before _The Grapes of Wrath_. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters'' camps and Hoovervilles of California. Here he found once strong, independent farmersâ€”the backbone of rural Americaâ€”so reduced in dignity, beaten in spirit, sick, sullen, and defeated that they had been "cast down to a kind of subhumanity." He contrasts their misery with the hope offered by government resettlement camps, where self-help committees, child nurseries, quilting and sewing projects, and decent sanitation were restoring dignity and indeed saving lives. _The Harvest Gypsies_ gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, a major event in California history, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeck''s masterpiece, _The Grapes of Wrath_. Included are twenty-two photographs by Dorothea Lange and others, many of which accompanied Steinbeck''s original articles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20324'),
(19804, 'Harvest Home', 'Thomas Tryon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Ned Constantine and his family abandon hectic New York for a tranquil New England village where they unknowingly become part of the secret Harvest Home ritual\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/678'),
(19805, 'Harvest home', 'Thomas Tryon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Ned Constantine and his family abandon hectic New York for a tranquil New England village where they unknowingly become part of the secret Harvest Home ritual\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24335'),
(19806, 'Harvest Hunting', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n We''re the D''Artigo sisters: sexy, savvy operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But being half-human, half-Fae means our supernatural talents can go haywire at any time. My sister Camille is a wicked good witch whose life recently took a drastic turn. Menolly''s a vampire who''s still getting the hang of being undead. And me? I''m Delilah, a werecat with a very interesting love life. But life isn''t all fun and games. We''re on the trail of the demon general who has decided that we''ve become quite a nuisance...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s Samhain, and the Autumn Lord, has called for my training to begin with the Death Maidens...and I find that I like it. But we''ve got problems: werewolves are going missing and a new magical drug, "Wolf Briar," is being used as a weapon. My dear Chase and I have come to a delicate crossroads and there''s no turning back from our decision. And most dangerous of all: Stacia Bonecrusher has put a bounty on our heads. Now it''s a race to take out the demon general before she realizes the sixth Spirit Seal is within her reach...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/109'),
(19807, 'Harvest Hunting', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n We''re the D''Artigo sisters: sexy, savvy operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But being half-human, half-Fae means our supernatural talents can go haywire at any time. My sister Camille is a wicked good witch whose life recently took a drastic turn. Menolly''s a vampire who''s still getting the hang of being undead. And me? I''m Delilah, a werecat with a very interesting love life. But life isn''t all fun and games. We''re on the trail of the demon general who has decided that we''ve become quite a nuisance...\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n It''s Samhain, and the Autumn Lord, has called for my training to begin with the Death Maidens...and I find that I like it. But we''ve got problems: werewolves are going missing and a new magical drug, "Wolf Briar," is being used as a weapon. My dear Chase and I have come to a delicate crossroads and there''s no turning back from our decision. And most dangerous of all: Stacia Bonecrusher has put a bounty on our heads. Now it''s a race to take out the demon general before she realizes the sixth Spirit Seal is within her reach...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9867'),
(19808, 'Harvest Hunting', 'Yasmine Galenorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n We''re the D''Artigo sisters: sexy, savvy operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But being half-human, half-Fae means our supernatural talents can go haywire at any time. My sister Camille is a wicked good witch whose life recently took a drastic turn. Menolly''s a vampire who''s still getting the hang of being undead. And me? I''m Delilah, a werecat with a very interesting love life. But life isn''t all fun and games. We''re on the trail of the demon general who has decided that we''ve become quite a nuisance... It''s Samhain, and the Autumn Lord, has called for my training to begin with the Death Maidens...and I find that I like it. But we''ve got problems: werewolves are going missing and a new magical drug, "Wolf Briar," is being used as a weapon. My dear Chase and I have come to a delicate crossroads and there''s no turning back from our decision. And most dangerous of all: Stacia Bonecrusher has put a bounty on our heads. Now it''s a race to take out the demon general before she realizes the sixth Spirit Seal is within her reach...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24769'),
(19809, 'Harvest Moon', 'Robyn Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock''s sudden collapse at work is a wake-up call. Disillusioned and burned out, she''s retreated to her sister Jillian''s house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Puttering in Jill''s garden and cooking with her heirloom vegetables is wonderful, but Virgin River is a far cry from San Francisco. Kelly''s starting to feel a little\n  <i>\n   too\n  </i>\n  unmotivated...until she meets Lief Holbrook. The handsome widower looks more like a lumberjack than a sophisticated screenwriterâ€”a combination Kelly finds irresistible. But less appealing is Lief''s rebellious stepdaughter, Courtney. She''s the reason they moved from L.A., but Courtney''s finding plenty of trouble even in Virgin River.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kelly''s never fallen for a guy with such serious baggage, but some things are worth fighting for. Besides, a bratty teenager can''t be any worse than a histrionic chef...right?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1544'),
(19810, 'Harvest Moon', 'Robyn Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock''s sudden collapse at work is a wake-up call. Disillusioned and burned out, she''s retreated to her sister Jillian''s house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Puttering in Jill''s garden and cooking with her heirloom vegetables is wonderful, but Virgin River is a far cry from San Francisco. Kelly''s starting to feel a little\n  <i>\n   too\n  </i>\n  unmotivated...until she meets Lief Holbrook. The handsome widower looks more like a lumberjack than a sophisticated screenwriterâ€”a combination Kelly finds irresistible. But less appealing is Lief''s rebellious stepdaughter, Courtney. She''s the reason they moved from L.A., but Courtney''s finding plenty of trouble even in Virgin River.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kelly''s never fallen for a guy with such serious baggage, but some things are worth fighting for. Besides, a bratty teenager can''t be any worse than a histrionic chef...right?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8809'),
(19811, 'Harvest Moon', 'Robyn Carr', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  Rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock''s sudden collapse at work is a wake-up call. Disillusioned and burned out, she''s retreated to her sister Jillian''s house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Puttering in Jill''s garden and cooking with her heirloom vegetables is wonderful, but Virgin River is a far cry from San Francisco. Kelly''s starting to feel a little\n  <i>\n   too\n  </i>\n  unmotivated...until she meets Lief Holbrook. The handsome widower looks more like a lumberjack than a sophisticated screenwriterâ€”a combination Kelly finds irresistible. But less appealing is Lief''s rebellious stepdaughter, Courtney. She''s the reason they moved from L.A., but Courtney''s finding plenty of trouble even in Virgin River.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Kelly''s never fallen for a guy with such serious baggage, but some things are worth fighting for. Besides, a bratty teenager can''t be any worse than a histrionic chef...right?\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23390'),
(19812, 'Harvesting the Heart', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Picoult ( Songs of the Humpback Whales ) brings her considerable talents to this contemporary story of a young woman in search of her identity. Abandoned by her mother when she was five years old, Paige O''Toole has been left with painful doubts about her self-worth. She leaves her Chicago home for Cambridge, Mass., at 18 to fulfill herself as an artist, but must work in a diner because she can''t afford art school. When she marries Harvard medical student Nicholas Prescott, his parents disown him, disapproving of their Irish Catholic daughter-in-law. Again Paige is forced to sideline her creative needs and work as a waitress in order to support Nicholas until he is able to establish his career as a cardiac surgeon. Paige is soon overwhelmed by the demands of Nicholas''s socially sophisticated world, and after the birth of their son, Max, she becomes emotionally and physically exhausted. Unable to communicate her terrors about herself to Nicholas, she leaves him to search for her mother, who may hold the answers to her life. Told in flashbacks, this is a realistic story of childhood and adolescence, the demands of motherhood, the hard paths of personal growth and the generosity of spirit required by love. Picoult''s imagery is startling and brilliant; her characters move credibly through this affecting drama.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her second novel, the author of Songs of the Humpback Whale ( LJ 5/15/92) recounts with power and grace a young woman''s efforts to achieve "grandeur... andthe ability to be comfortable in the world." Paige O''Toole Prescott, a gifted portraitist, sets aside her art to support her husband, Nicholas, during his medical training. His wealthy parents reject Paige, who already suffers from self-doubt after being abandoned by her mother. Despite Nicholas''s success as a surgeon and the young couple''s love for each other, the birth of their son catapults them into emotional crisis. Paige''s resulting quest for courage and self-confidence forces Nicholas, her parents, and her in-laws to reevaluate their attitudes, standards, and behavior. Picoult considers various forces that can unite or fracture families and examines the complexities of the human heart both literally and figuratively. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Jane S. Bakerman, Indiana State Univ., Terre Haute\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4427'),
(19813, 'Harvesting the Heart', 'Jodi Picoult', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Picoult ( Songs of the Humpback Whales ) brings her considerable talents to this contemporary story of a young woman in search of her identity. Abandoned by her mother when she was five years old, Paige O''Toole has been left with painful doubts about her self-worth. She leaves her Chicago home for Cambridge, Mass., at 18 to fulfill herself as an artist, but must work in a diner because she can''t afford art school. When she marries Harvard medical student Nicholas Prescott, his parents disown him, disapproving of their Irish Catholic daughter-in-law. Again Paige is forced to sideline her creative needs and work as a waitress in order to support Nicholas until he is able to establish his career as a cardiac surgeon. Paige is soon overwhelmed by the demands of Nicholas''s socially sophisticated world, and after the birth of their son, Max, she becomes emotionally and physically exhausted. Unable to communicate her terrors about herself to Nicholas, she leaves him to search for her mother, who may hold the answers to her life. Told in flashbacks, this is a realistic story of childhood and adolescence, the demands of motherhood, the hard paths of personal growth and the generosity of spirit required by love. Picoult''s imagery is startling and brilliant; her characters move credibly through this affecting drama.\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n In her second novel, the author of Songs of the Humpback Whale ( LJ 5/15/92) recounts with power and grace a young woman''s efforts to achieve "grandeur... andthe ability to be comfortable in the world." Paige O''Toole Prescott, a gifted portraitist, sets aside her art to support her husband, Nicholas, during his medical training. His wealthy parents reject Paige, who already suffers from self-doubt after being abandoned by her mother. Despite Nicholas''s success as a surgeon and the young couple''s love for each other, the birth of their son catapults them into emotional crisis. Paige''s resulting quest for courage and self-confidence forces Nicholas, her parents, and her in-laws to reevaluate their attitudes, standards, and behavior. Picoult considers various forces that can unite or fracture families and examines the complexities of the human heart both literally and figuratively. Highly recommended.\n <br />\n <em>\n  - Jane S. Bakerman, Indiana State Univ., Terre Haute\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12021'),
(19814, 'A Hat Full of Sky', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Something is coming after Tiffany ... Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic -- not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this! What Tiffany doesn''t know is that an insidious, disembodied creature is pursuing her. This time, neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the fierce, six-inch-high Wee Free Men can protect her. In the end, it will take all of Tiffany''s inner strength to save herself ... if it can be done at all. A Story of Discworld\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/796'),
(19815, 'A Hat Full Of Sky', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Something is coming after Tiffany ... Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic -- not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this! What Tiffany doesn''t know is that an insidious, disembodied creature is pursuing her. This time, neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the fierce, six-inch-high Wee Free Men can protect her. In the end, it will take all of Tiffany''s inner strength to save herself ... if it can be done at all. A Story of Discworld\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13894'),
(19816, 'A Hat Full Of Sky', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Something is coming after Tiffany ... Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic -- not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this! What Tiffany doesn''t know is that an insidious, disembodied creature is pursuing her. This time, neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the fierce, six-inch-high Wee Free Men can protect her. In the end, it will take all of Tiffany''s inner strength to save herself ... if it can be done at all. A Story of Discworld\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24207'),
(19817, 'Hatchet', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the pilot of a small, two-person plane has a heart attack and dies, Brian has to crash land in the forest of a Canadian wilderness. He has little time to realize how alone he is, because he is so busy just trying to survive. And learning to survive, to plan on food not just for a day but untiland ifhe is rescued, only begins when he stops pitying himself and understands that no one can help him. He is on his own, without his divorced father, whom he was to visit, or his mother, whom Brian saw kissing another man before the divorce. This is a heart-stopping story: it seems that at every moment Brian is forced to face a life-and-death decision, and every page makes readers wonder at the density of descriptive detail Paulsen has expertly woven together. Poetic texture and realistic events are combined to create something beyond adventure, a book that plunges readers into the cleft of the protagonist''s experience. Ages 11-13.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8-12 Brian Robeson, 13, is the only passenger on a small plane flying him to visit his father in the Canadian wilderness when the pilot has a heart attack and dies. The plane drifts off course and finally crashes into a small lake. Miraculously Brian is able to swim free of the plane, arriving on a sandy tree-lined shore with only his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present. The novel chronicles in gritty detail Brian''s mistakes, setbacks, and small triumphs as, with the help of the hatchet, he manages to survive the 54 days alone in the wilderness. Paulsen effectively shows readers how Brian learns patienceto watch, listen, and think before he actsas he attempts to build a fire, to fish and hunt, and to make his home under a rock overhang safe and comfortable. An epilogue discussing the lasting effects of Brian''s stay in the wilderness and his dim chance of survival had winter come upon him before rescue adds credibility to the story. Paulsen tells a fine adventure story, but the sub-plot concerning Brian''s preoccupation with his parents'' divorce seems a bit forced and detracts from the book. As he did in Dogsong (Bradbury, 1985), Paulsen emphasizes character growth through a careful balancing of specific details of survival with the protagonist''s thoughts and emotions. Barbara Chatton, College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5396'),
(19818, 'Hatchet', 'Gary Paulsen', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the pilot of a small, two-person plane has a heart attack and dies, Brian has to crash land in the forest of a Canadian wilderness. He has little time to realize how alone he is, because he is so busy just trying to survive. And learning to survive, to plan on food not just for a day but untiland ifhe is rescued, only begins when he stops pitying himself and understands that no one can help him. He is on his own, without his divorced father, whom he was to visit, or his mother, whom Brian saw kissing another man before the divorce. This is a heart-stopping story: it seems that at every moment Brian is forced to face a life-and-death decision, and every page makes readers wonder at the density of descriptive detail Paulsen has expertly woven together. Poetic texture and realistic events are combined to create something beyond adventure, a book that plunges readers into the cleft of the protagonist''s experience. Ages 11-13.\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8-12 Brian Robeson, 13, is the only passenger on a small plane flying him to visit his father in the Canadian wilderness when the pilot has a heart attack and dies. The plane drifts off course and finally crashes into a small lake. Miraculously Brian is able to swim free of the plane, arriving on a sandy tree-lined shore with only his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present. The novel chronicles in gritty detail Brian''s mistakes, setbacks, and small triumphs as, with the help of the hatchet, he manages to survive the 54 days alone in the wilderness. Paulsen effectively shows readers how Brian learns patienceto watch, listen, and think before he actsas he attempts to build a fire, to fish and hunt, and to make his home under a rock overhang safe and comfortable. An epilogue discussing the lasting effects of Brian''s stay in the wilderness and his dim chance of survival had winter come upon him before rescue adds credibility to the story. Paulsen tells a fine adventure story, but the sub-plot concerning Brian''s preoccupation with his parents'' divorce seems a bit forced and detracts from the book. As he did in Dogsong (Bradbury, 1985), Paulsen emphasizes character growth through a careful balancing of specific details of survival with the protagonist''s thoughts and emotions. Barbara Chatton, College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie\n <br />\n Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19222'),
(19819, 'Hate List', 'Jennifer Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Five months ago, Valerie Leftman''s boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets.Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4481'),
(19820, 'Hate List', 'Jennifer Brown', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Five months ago, Valerie Leftman''s boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets.Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8620'),
(19821, 'Haunted', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF THE SMART, SEXY â€” SUPERNATURAL â€” WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLDEve Levine â€” half-demon, black witch and devoted mother â€” has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and canâ€™t be killed again â€” which comes in handy when youâ€™ve made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isnâ€™t too bad â€” all she needs to do is find a way to communicate with her daughter, Savannah, and sheâ€™ll be happy.But fate â€” or more exactly, the Fates â€” have other plans. Eve owes them a favor, and theyâ€™ve just called it in. An evil spirit called the Nix has escaped from hell. She feeds on chaos and death, and is very good at persuading people to kill for her. The Fates want Eve to hunt her down before she does any more damage, but the Nix is a dangerous enemy â€” previous hunters have been driven insane in the process. As if thatâ€™s not problem enough, the only way to stop her is with an angelâ€™s sword. And Eve is no angel. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3779'),
(19822, 'Haunted', 'Kelley Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF THE SMART, SEXY â€” SUPERNATURAL â€” WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLDEve Levine â€” half-demon, black witch and devoted mother â€” has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and canâ€™t be killed again â€” which comes in handy when youâ€™ve made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isnâ€™t too bad â€” all she needs to do is find a way to communicate with her daughter, Savannah, and sheâ€™ll be happy.But fate â€” or more exactly, the Fates â€” have other plans. Eve owes them a favor, and theyâ€™ve just called it in. An evil spirit called the Nix has escaped from hell. She feeds on chaos and death, and is very good at persuading people to kill for her. The Fates want Eve to hunt her down before she does any more damage, but the Nix is a dangerous enemy â€” previous hunters have been driven insane in the process. As if thatâ€™s not problem enough, the only way to stop her is with an angelâ€™s sword. And Eve is no angel. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20773'),
(19823, 'Haunted', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. Theyâ€™re told by people who have answered an ad for a writerâ€™s retreat and unwittingly joined a â€œSurvivorâ€-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show that will surely be made from their plight. This is one of the most disturbing and outrageous books youâ€™ll ever read, one that could only come from the mind of Chuck Palahniuk.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26966'),
(19824, 'The Haunted Air', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n F. Paul Wilson''s engaging, self-employed, off-the-books fixer, Repairman Jack, returns for another intense, action-packed adventure just a little over the border into the weird, in *The Haunted Air*. First introduced years ago in the bestseller *The Tomb*, Jack has been the hero of a series of exciting novels set in and around New York City, including *Legacies*, *Conspiracies*,* All the Rage*, and *Hosts*. "Repairman Jack is a wonderful character, ultracompetent but still vulnerable. Wilson strolls into X-Files territory and makes it his own, keeping the action brisk and the level of suspense steadily rising," said the *San Francisco Examiner &amp; Chronicle.*Repairman Jack doesn''t believe a house can be haunted. But he''s about to change that tune . . .It started off as a lark, a late-night jaunt from a boring party to the home of a psychic medium, with Jack dragged along as a reluctant participant.  But as soon as Jack and Gia step across the threshold, the house and the earth itself shake to the accompaniment of a tortured scream.Menelaus Manor sits atop a major geologic fault known as Cameron''s Line.  But that''s not it''s only problem.  The house has a horrific history.  Its original owner died of cancer; his son blew his brains out in the basement; the couple that bought it next were found dead in their bed with their throats slashed; shortly thereafter a child was horribly mutilated in an upstairs bedroom. The current owners, Lyle and Charlie Kenton, clever practitioners of spiritualist hocus-pocus, use high-tech tricks to dupe their marks.  Perhaps they''re too good: they''ve lured too many clients from other mediums and are now under attack.  Unable to go to the police for fear of exposing their own scams, they hire Repairman Jack to fix their problem.\\tJack takes the job, figuring he''ll straighten out the situation by engaging in one of his favorite pastimes: scamming a scammer.  But soon he learns that this fix-it involves more than professional jealousy in the spook trade.  The earthquake marked the awakening of something in Menelaus Manor, something that used to be someone, an entity full of rage and brought back for a specific purpose.  But this entity has an agenda all its own . . .    Before he''s finished Jack will travel from the seamy world of psychic scams to the inner circle of a well-connected murder cult, and finally into the dark heart of madness where he must strike a deal with a rage-filed entity returned from the dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5652'),
(19825, 'The Haunted Air', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: F. Paul Wilson''s engaging, self-employed, off-the-books fixer, Repairman Jack, returns for another intense, action-packed adventure just a little over the border into the weird, in *The Haunted Air*. First introduced years ago in the bestseller *The Tomb*, Jack has been the hero of a series of exciting novels set in and around New York City, including *Legacies*, *Conspiracies*,* All the Rage*, and *Hosts*. "Repairman Jack is a wonderful character, ultracompetent but still vulnerable. Wilson strolls into X-Files territory and makes it his own, keeping the action brisk and the level of suspense steadily rising," said the *San Francisco Examiner &amp; Chronicle.*Repairman Jack doesn''t believe a house can be haunted. But he''s about to change that tune . . .It started off as a lark, a late-night jaunt from a boring party to the home of a psychic medium, with Jack dragged along as a reluctant participant. But as soon as Jack and Gia step across the threshold, the house and the earth itself shake to the accompaniment of a tortured scream.Menelaus Manor sits atop a major geologic fault known as Cameron''s Line. But that''s not it''s only problem. The house has a horrific history. Its original owner died of cancer; his son blew his brains out in the basement; the couple that bought it next were found dead in their bed with their throats slashed; shortly thereafter a child was horribly mutilated in an upstairs bedroom. The current owners, Lyle and Charlie Kenton, clever practitioners of spiritualist hocus-pocus, use high-tech tricks to dupe their marks. Perhaps they''re too good: they''ve lured too many clients from other mediums and are now under attack. Unable to go to the police for fear of exposing their own scams, they hire Repairman Jack to fix their problem. Jack takes the job, figuring he''ll straighten out the situation by engaging in one of his favorite pastimes: scamming a scammer. But soon he learns that this fix-it involves more than professional jealousy in the spook trade. The earthquake marked the awakening of something in Menelaus Manor, something that used to be someone, an entity full of rage and brought back for a specific purpose. But this entity has an agenda all its own . . . Before he''s finished Jack will travel from the seamy world of psychic scams to the inner circle of a well-connected murder cult, and finally into the dark heart of madness where he must strike a deal with a rage-filed entity returned from the dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19116'),
(19826, 'The Haunted Air', 'F. Paul Wilson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: F. Paul Wilson''s engaging, self-employed, off-the-books fixer, Repairman Jack, returns for another intense, action-packed adventure just a little over the border into the weird, in *The Haunted Air*. First introduced years ago in the bestseller *The Tomb*, Jack has been the hero of a series of exciting novels set in and around New York City, including *Legacies*, *Conspiracies*,* All the Rage*, and *Hosts*. "Repairman Jack is a wonderful character, ultracompetent but still vulnerable. Wilson strolls into X-Files territory and makes it his own, keeping the action brisk and the level of suspense steadily rising," said the *San Francisco Examiner &amp; Chronicle.*Repairman Jack doesn''t believe a house can be haunted. But he''s about to change that tune . . .It started off as a lark, a late-night jaunt from a boring party to the home of a psychic medium, with Jack dragged along as a reluctant participant. But as soon as Jack and Gia step across the threshold, the house and the earth itself shake to the accompaniment of a tortured scream.Menelaus Manor sits atop a major geologic fault known as Cameron''s Line. But that''s not it''s only problem. The house has a horrific history. Its original owner died of cancer; his son blew his brains out in the basement; the couple that bought it next were found dead in their bed with their throats slashed; shortly thereafter a child was horribly mutilated in an upstairs bedroom. The current owners, Lyle and Charlie Kenton, clever practitioners of spiritualist hocus-pocus, use high-tech tricks to dupe their marks. Perhaps they''re too good: they''ve lured too many clients from other mediums and are now under attack. Unable to go to the police for fear of exposing their own scams, they hire Repairman Jack to fix their problem. Jack takes the job, figuring he''ll straighten out the situation by engaging in one of his favorite pastimes: scamming a scammer. But soon he learns that this fix-it involves more than professional jealousy in the spook trade. The earthquake marked the awakening of something in Menelaus Manor, something that used to be someone, an entity full of rage and brought back for a specific purpose. But this entity has an agenda all its own . . . Before he''s finished Jack will travel from the seamy world of psychic scams to the inner circle of a well-connected murder cult, and finally into the dark heart of madness where he must strike a deal with a rage-filed entity returned from the dead.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27837'),
(19827, 'The Haunted Fort', 'Franklin W. Dixon; R. H. Tandy', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n For action, mystery and cliff-hanging suspense, read THE HARDY BOYS MYSTERY STORIES - featuring the thrilling adventures of America''s favorite detective duo, Frank and Joe Hardy. Millions of young readers have teamed up with the Hardy Boys, helping them in their quest to bring criminals to justice. Be a part of the fun! Start your collection of original hardcover Hardy Boys Mysteries today!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18463'),
(19828, 'Haunted: A Novel of Stories', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Haunted* by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales youâ€™ll ever encounterâ€”sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined â€œWritersâ€™ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,â€ and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of â€œreal lifeâ€ that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But â€œhereâ€ turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside worldâ€”and where heat and power and, most important, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more extreme the stories they tellâ€”and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/nonfiction blockbuster that will surely be made from their plight.*Haunted* is on one level a satire of reality televisionâ€”*The Real World* meets *Alive*. It draws from a great literary traditionâ€”*The Canterbury Tales*, *The Decameron*, the English storytellers in the Villa Diodati who produced, among other works, *Frankenstein*â€”to tell an utterly contemporary tale of people desperate that their story be told at any cost. Appallingly entertaining, *Haunted* is Chuck Palahniuk at his finestâ€”which means his most extreme and his most provocative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6641'),
(19829, 'Haunted: A Novel of Stories', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Haunted* by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales youâ€™ll ever encounterâ€”sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined â€œWritersâ€™ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,â€ and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of â€œreal lifeâ€ that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But â€œhereâ€ turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside worldâ€”and where heat and power and, most important, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more extreme the stories they tellâ€”and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/nonfiction blockbuster that will surely be made from their plight.*Haunted* is on one level a satire of reality televisionâ€”*The Real World* meets *Alive*. It draws from a great literary traditionâ€”*The Canterbury Tales*, *The Decameron*, the English storytellers in the Villa Diodati who produced, among other works, *Frankenstein*â€”to tell an utterly contemporary tale of people desperate that their story be told at any cost. Appallingly entertaining, *Haunted* is Chuck Palahniuk at his finestâ€”which means his most extreme and his most provocative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11781'),
(19830, 'Haunted: a novel of stories', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Haunted* by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales youâ€™ll ever encounterâ€”sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined â€œWritersâ€™ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,â€ and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of â€œreal lifeâ€ that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But â€œhereâ€ turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside worldâ€”and where heat and power and, most important, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more extreme the stories they tellâ€”and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/nonfiction blockbuster that will surely be made from their plight.*Haunted* is on one level a satire of reality televisionâ€”*The Real World* meets *Alive*. It draws from a great literary traditionâ€”*The Canterbury Tales*, *The Decameron*, the English storytellers in the Villa Diodati who produced, among other works, *Frankenstein*â€”to tell an utterly contemporary tale of people desperate that their story be told at any cost. Appallingly entertaining, *Haunted* is Chuck Palahniuk at his finestâ€”which means his most extreme and his most provocative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14301'),
(19831, 'Haunted: a novel of stories', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Haunted* by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales youâ€™ll ever encounterâ€”sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined â€œWritersâ€™ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,â€ and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of â€œreal lifeâ€ that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But â€œhereâ€ turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside worldâ€”and where heat and power and, most important, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more extreme the stories they tellâ€”and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/nonfiction blockbuster that will surely be made from their plight.*Haunted* is on one level a satire of reality televisionâ€”*The Real World* meets *Alive*. It draws from a great literary traditionâ€”*The Canterbury Tales*, *The Decameron*, the English storytellers in the Villa Diodati who produced, among other works, *Frankenstein*â€”to tell an utterly contemporary tale of people desperate that their story be told at any cost. Appallingly entertaining, *Haunted* is Chuck Palahniuk at his finestâ€”which means his most extreme and his most provocative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17383'),
(19832, 'Haunted: a novel of stories', 'Chuck Palahniuk', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Haunted* by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales youâ€™ll ever encounterâ€”sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined â€œWritersâ€™ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,â€ and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of â€œreal lifeâ€ that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But â€œhereâ€ turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside worldâ€”and where heat and power and, most important, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more extreme the stories they tellâ€”and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/nonfiction blockbuster that will surely be made from their plight.*Haunted* is on one level a satire of reality televisionâ€”*The Real World* meets *Alive*. It draws from a great literary traditionâ€”*The Canterbury Tales*, *The Decameron*, the English storytellers in the Villa Diodati who produced, among other works, *Frankenstein*â€”to tell an utterly contemporary tale of people desperate that their story be told at any cost. Appallingly entertaining, *Haunted* is Chuck Palahniuk at his finestâ€”which means his most extreme and his most provocative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26965'),
(19833, 'The Haunting of Hill House', 'Shirley Jackson &amp; Laura Miller', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Shirley Jackson''s\n <em>\n  The Haunting of Hill House\n </em>\n has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages.\n</p>\n<p>\n Eleanor Vance has always been a loner--shy, vulnerable, and bitterly resentful of the 11 years she lost while nursing her dying mother. "She had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words." Eleanor has always sensed that one day something\n <em>\n  big\n </em>\n would happen, and one day it does. She receives an unusual invitation from Dr. John Montague, a man fascinated by "supernatural manifestations." He organizes a ghost watch, inviting people who have been touched by otherworldly events. A paranormal incident from Eleanor''s childhood qualifies her to be a part of Montague''s bizarre study--along with headstrong Theodora, his assistant, and Luke, a well-to-do aristocrat. They meet at Hill House--a notorious estate in New England.\n</p>\n<p>\n Hill House is a foreboding structure of towers, buttresses, Gothic spires, gargoyles, strange angles, and rooms within rooms--a place "without kindness, never meant to be lived in...."\n</p>\n<p>\n Although Eleanor''s initial reaction is to flee, the house has a mesmerizing effect, and she begins to feel a strange kind of bliss that entices her to stay. Eleanor is a magnet for the supernatural--she hears deathly wails, feels terrible chills, and sees ghostly apparitions. Once again she feels isolated and alone--neither Theo nor Luke attract so much eerie company. But the physical horror of Hill House is always subtle; more disturbing is the emotional torment Eleanor endures. Intense, literary, and harrowing,\n <em>\n  The Haunting of Hill House\n </em>\n belongs in the same dark league as Henry James''s classic ghost story,\n <em>\n  The Turn of the Screw\n </em>\n .\n <em>\n  --Naomi Gesinger\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n ''''Makes your blood chill and your scalp prickle. . . Shirley Jackson is the master of the haunted tale.'''' --_New York Times Book Review_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''Now widely regarded as the greatest haunted-house story ever written.'''' --_Wall Street Journal_\n</p>\n<p>\n ''''Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders.'''' --Dorothy Parker,\n <em>\n  Esquire\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9419'),
(19834, 'The Haunting of Hill House: A Drama of Suspense in Three Acts', 'F. Andrew Leslie &amp; Shirley Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A dramatization of the novel in which an anthropologist conducts an unusual research project in a reputedly haunted house.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5630'),
(19835, 'The haunting of Hill House: a drama of suspense in three acts', 'F. Andrew Leslie; Shirley Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A dramatization of the novel in which an anthropologist conducts an unusual research project in a reputedly haunted house.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23620'),
(19836, 'The haunting of Hill House: a drama of suspense in three acts', 'F. Andrew Leslie; Shirley Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A dramatization of the novel in which an anthropologist conducts an unusual research project in a reputedly haunted house.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27865'),
(19837, 'Have a Baby and Look Better Than Ever: An Holistic Guide to Health and Fitness During and After Pregnancy', 'Yinka Thomas; Tonia Buxton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22753'),
(19838, 'Have a Little Faith', 'Mitch Albom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''Will you do my eulogy?'' With those words, Mitch Albom begins his return to non-fiction. In this book he gravitates to an inner-city pastor of a church that houses the homeless. As his own cleric slowly lets go, Albom writes his farewell, having learned that a faithful heart comes in many forms and places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2668');
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(19839, 'Have a Little Faith', 'Mitch Albom', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n ''Will you do my eulogy?'' With those words, Mitch Albom begins his return to non-fiction. In this book he gravitates to an inner-city pastor of a church that houses the homeless. As his own cleric slowly lets go, Albom writes his farewell, having learned that a faithful heart comes in many forms and places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22142'),
(19840, 'Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child&#39;s Attitude, Behavior &amp; Character in 5 Days', 'Kevin Leman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anyone who has dealt with a strong-willed child knows that it is no easy task to turn bad behavior around. But the popularity of TV programs like Supernanny and Nanny 911 shows that parents have had it up to here and are ready to try anything to get their children to behave. Bestselling author and psychologist Dr. Kevin Leman is here to help. Have a New Kid by Friday shows parents how to reverse negative behavior in their children--fast! With his signature wit and encouragement, Dr. Leman offers hope and real, practical, doable strategies for regaining control and becoming the parents they always wanted to be. Focusing on changing a child''s attitude, behavior, and character, it contains chapters for each day of the week and a special section with advice on everything from rolling eyes to sibling rivalry to talking back to punching walls and much, much more. This large section of more than 100 specific topics is indexed, allowing parents to flip immediately to any areas of concern for witty, straightforward, and gutsy plans of action.EXCERPT FROM CATALOGI''ve got news for you. Since the beginning of time, kids have been unionized, and they''ve got a game plan to drive you bonkers. Don''t believe it? Take a look around....In today''s society, kids even shorter than a yardstick are calling the shots. Some hedonistic little suckers of the ankle-biter battalion have even graduated to emeritus status and are holding down the hormone group division. Then there''s the already-adult children who return home to your cozy little nest and stay and stay and stay.... You know all about that. If you picked up this book, you picked it up for a reason. You''d like to see a few things--or maybe many--change in your house. You may have small concerns, or big concerns, about your child at this point.... I''ll be blunt. You got a big job to do as a parent, and a short window to do it in. If you believe that you, as a parent, are to be in healthy authority over your child, this book is for you. If you don''t believe that you, as a parent, are to be in healthy authority over your child, put this book down right now and buy another.... But I''ve got a Midas muffler guarantee for you. If you stick to the simple strategies in this book--strategies that any parent can carry out--you''ll have a new kid by Friday. You can have a great kid, and you can be a great parent. Your relationship with your child can change in just one week.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3655'),
(19841, 'Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child&#39;s Attitude, Behavior &amp; Character in 5 Days', 'Kevin Leman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Anyone who has dealt with a strong-willed child knows that it is no easy task to turn bad behavior around. But the popularity of TV programs like Supernanny and Nanny 911 shows that parents have had it up to here and are ready to try anything to get their children to behave. Bestselling author and psychologist Dr. Kevin Leman is here to help. Have a New Kid by Friday shows parents how to reverse negative behavior in their children--fast! With his signature wit and encouragement, Dr. Leman offers hope and real, practical, doable strategies for regaining control and becoming the parents they always wanted to be. Focusing on changing a child''s attitude, behavior, and character, it contains chapters for each day of the week and a special section with advice on everything from rolling eyes to sibling rivalry to talking back to punching walls and much, much more. This large section of more than 100 specific topics is indexed, allowing parents to flip immediately to any areas of concern for witty, straightforward, and gutsy plans of action.EXCERPT FROM CATALOGI''ve got news for you. Since the beginning of time, kids have been unionized, and they''ve got a game plan to drive you bonkers. Don''t believe it? Take a look around....In today''s society, kids even shorter than a yardstick are calling the shots. Some hedonistic little suckers of the ankle-biter battalion have even graduated to emeritus status and are holding down the hormone group division. Then there''s the already-adult children who return home to your cozy little nest and stay and stay and stay.... You know all about that. If you picked up this book, you picked it up for a reason. You''d like to see a few things--or maybe many--change in your house. You may have small concerns, or big concerns, about your child at this point.... I''ll be blunt. You got a big job to do as a parent, and a short window to do it in. If you believe that you, as a parent, are to be in healthy authority over your child, this book is for you. If you don''t believe that you, as a parent, are to be in healthy authority over your child, put this book down right now and buy another.... But I''ve got a Midas muffler guarantee for you. If you stick to the simple strategies in this book--strategies that any parent can carry out--you''ll have a new kid by Friday. You can have a great kid, and you can be a great parent. Your relationship with your child can change in just one week.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11134'),
(19842, 'Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child&#39;s Attitude, Behavior &amp; Character in 5 Days', 'Kevin Leman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Anyone who has dealt with a strong-willed child knows that it is no easy task to turn bad behavior around. But the popularity of TV programs like Supernanny and Nanny 911 shows that parents have had it up to here and are ready to try anything to get their children to behave. Bestselling author and psychologist Dr. Kevin Leman is here to help. Have a New Kid by Friday shows parents how to reverse negative behavior in their children--fast! With his signature wit and encouragement, Dr. Leman offers hope and real, practical, doable strategies for regaining control and becoming the parents they always wanted to be. Focusing on changing a child''s attitude, behavior, and character, it contains chapters for each day of the week and a special section with advice on everything from rolling eyes to sibling rivalry to talking back to punching walls and much, much more. This large section of more than 100 specific topics is indexed, allowing parents to flip immediately to any areas of concern for witty, straightforward, and gutsy plans of action.EXCERPT FROM CATALOGI''ve got news for you. Since the beginning of time, kids have been unionized, and they''ve got a game plan to drive you bonkers. Don''t believe it? Take a look around....In today''s society, kids even shorter than a yardstick are calling the shots. Some hedonistic little suckers of the ankle-biter battalion have even graduated to emeritus status and are holding down the hormone group division. Then there''s the already-adult children who return home to your cozy little nest and stay and stay and stay.... You know all about that. If you picked up this book, you picked it up for a reason. You''d like to see a few things--or maybe many--change in your house. You may have small concerns, or big concerns, about your child at this point.... I''ll be blunt. You got a big job to do as a parent, and a short window to do it in. If you believe that you, as a parent, are to be in healthy authority over your child, this book is for you. If you don''t believe that you, as a parent, are to be in healthy authority over your child, put this book down right now and buy another.... But I''ve got a Midas muffler guarantee for you. If you stick to the simple strategies in this book--strategies that any parent can carry out--you''ll have a new kid by Friday. You can have a great kid, and you can be a great parent. Your relationship with your child can change in just one week.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20786'),
(19843, 'Have Glove, Will Travel: Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond', 'Bill Lee &amp; Richard Lally &amp; Dick Lally', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It was 1982 when Bill Lee was famously booted from the Montreal Expos after he went AWOL in protest of another playerâ€™s mistreatment by management. His reputation for antics both on and off the field guaranteed that no other club would pick him up. The Ace from Space had landed on professional baseballâ€™s blacklist, and so it was that one of the most popular major-league pitchers of our day was fated to pack his bags and wander the globe searching for a ball game. Have Glove, Will Travel is the chronicle of an amazing odyssey that began more than twenty years ago and continues today. Unable to live without baseball, Lee went anywhere he could find a game, beginning in the dank and dreary locker room of a Canadian hockey team that later became a softball team. We follow him around the world as he competes in pickup games, town tournaments, senior leagues, and fantasy camps, barnstorming like a modern Satchel Paige around the United States, South America, China, Cuba, Russia, and every province in Canada.At the heart of this story are the rollicking, colorful characters Lee meets during his travels, and the mishaps that befall him whether heâ€™s sober or stoned. Thereâ€™s the eccentric Latin pitching master Lee plays with in Cuba, who once struck out Ernest Hemingway. And a hilarious story that takes place in the backwoods of a British Columbia timber town, where Lee and Hall-of-Famer Ferguson Jenkins go fishing and end up being chased back to their pickup truck by a 450-pound black bear.Have Glove, Will Travel is so much more than the average baseball book. Leeâ€™s humor, keen eye for detail, and extraordinary pitching intellect are always on display, but in the end this book is a love story about a middle-aged maverick who refused to stop pursuing his passion for a boyâ€™s game long after the grown-ups told him he couldnâ€™t play on their team anymore. Readers who loved Leeâ€™s bestselling The Wrong Stuff, also written with Richard Lally, will find the long wait for this rich and wonderful sequel well worth it. Those who havenâ€™t yet encountered the literary Bill Lee have a great treat in store.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7166'),
(19844, 'Have Glove, Will Travel: Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond', 'Bill Lee &amp; Richard Lally &amp; Dick Lally', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It was 1982 when Bill Lee was famously booted from the Montreal Expos after he went AWOL in protest of another playerâ€™s mistreatment by management. His reputation for antics both on and off the field guaranteed that no other club would pick him up. The Ace from Space had landed on professional baseballâ€™s blacklist, and so it was that one of the most popular major-league pitchers of our day was fated to pack his bags and wander the globe searching for a ball game. Have Glove, Will Travel is the chronicle of an amazing odyssey that began more than twenty years ago and continues today. Unable to live without baseball, Lee went anywhere he could find a game, beginning in the dank and dreary locker room of a Canadian hockey team that later became a softball team. We follow him around the world as he competes in pickup games, town tournaments, senior leagues, and fantasy camps, barnstorming like a modern Satchel Paige around the United States, South America, China, Cuba, Russia, and every province in Canada.At the heart of this story are the rollicking, colorful characters Lee meets during his travels, and the mishaps that befall him whether heâ€™s sober or stoned. Thereâ€™s the eccentric Latin pitching master Lee plays with in Cuba, who once struck out Ernest Hemingway. And a hilarious story that takes place in the backwoods of a British Columbia timber town, where Lee and Hall-of-Famer Ferguson Jenkins go fishing and end up being chased back to their pickup truck by a 450-pound black bear.Have Glove, Will Travel is so much more than the average baseball book. Leeâ€™s humor, keen eye for detail, and extraordinary pitching intellect are always on display, but in the end this book is a love story about a middle-aged maverick who refused to stop pursuing his passion for a boyâ€™s game long after the grown-ups told him he couldnâ€™t play on their team anymore. Readers who loved Leeâ€™s bestselling The Wrong Stuff, also written with Richard Lally, will find the long wait for this rich and wonderful sequel well worth it. Those who havenâ€™t yet encountered the literary Bill Lee have a great treat in store.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12201'),
(19845, 'Have Glove, Will Travel: Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond', 'Bill Lee;Richard Lally;Dick Lally', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n It was 1982 when Bill Lee was famously booted from the Montreal Expos after he went AWOL in protest of another playerâ€™s mistreatment by management. His reputation for antics both on and off the field guaranteed that no other club would pick him up. The Ace from Space had landed on professional baseballâ€™s blacklist, and so it was that one of the most popular major-league pitchers of our day was fated to pack his bags and wander the globe searching for a ball game. Have Glove, Will Travel is the chronicle of an amazing odyssey that began more than twenty years ago and continues today. Unable to live without baseball, Lee went anywhere he could find a game, beginning in the dank and dreary locker room of a Canadian hockey team that later became a softball team. We follow him around the world as he competes in pickup games, town tournaments, senior leagues, and fantasy camps, barnstorming like a modern Satchel Paige around the United States, South America, China, Cuba, Russia, and every province in Canada.At the heart of this story are the rollicking, colorful characters Lee meets during his travels, and the mishaps that befall him whether heâ€™s sober or stoned. Thereâ€™s the eccentric Latin pitching master Lee plays with in Cuba, who once struck out Ernest Hemingway. And a hilarious story that takes place in the backwoods of a British Columbia timber town, where Lee and Hall-of-Famer Ferguson Jenkins go fishing and end up being chased back to their pickup truck by a 450-pound black bear.Have Glove, Will Travel is so much more than the average baseball book. Leeâ€™s humor, keen eye for detail, and extraordinary pitching intellect are always on display, but in the end this book is a love story about a middle-aged maverick who refused to stop pursuing his passion for a boyâ€™s game long after the grown-ups told him he couldnâ€™t play on their team anymore. Readers who loved Leeâ€™s bestselling The Wrong Stuff, also written with Richard Lally, will find the long wait for this rich and wonderful sequel well worth it. Those who havenâ€™t yet encountered the literary Bill Lee have a great treat in store.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16693'),
(19846, 'Have Space Suit - Will Travel', 'Robert A. Heinlein', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generationsFirst prize in the Skyway Soap slogan contest was an all-expenses-paid trip to the Moon. The consolation prize was an authentic space suit, and when scientifically minded high school senior Kip Russell won it, he knew for certain he would use it one day to make a sojourn of his own to the stars. But "one day" comes sooner than he thinks when he tries on the suit in his backyard -- and finds himself worlds away, a prisoner aboard a space pirate''s ship, and heading straight for what could be his final destination....\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22730'),
(19847, 'Hawaii', 'James Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] mammoth epic of the islands, [a] vast panorama . . . wonderful.â€â€”_Baltimore Sun_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne novel you must not miss! A tremendous work from every point of viewâ€”thrilling, exciting, lusty, vivid, stupendous.â€ _â€”Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œA memorable novel, a superb biography of a people.â€\n </em>\n â€”Houston Chronicle_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Hawaii\n </em>\n , Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author James Michener weaves the classic saga that brought Hawaiiâ€™s epic history vividly alive to the American public on its initial publication in 1959, and continues to mesmerize even today.\n</p>\n<p>\n The volcanic processes by which the Hawaiian Islands grew from the ocean floor were inconceivably slow, and the land remained untouched by man for countless centuries until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers made the perilous journey across the Pacific and discovered their new home. They lived and flourished in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions and beliefs until, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrived, bringing a new creed and a new way of life to a Stone Age society. The impact of the missionaries had only begun to be absorbed when other national groups, with equally different customs, began to migrate in great numbers to the islands. The story of modern Hawaii, and of this novel, is one of how disparate peoples, struggling to keep their identity yet live with one another in harmony, ultimately joined together to build Americaâ€™s strong and vital fiftieth state.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4801'),
(19848, 'Hawaii', 'James Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] mammoth epic of the islands, [a] vast panorama . . . wonderful.â€â€”_Baltimore Sun_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne novel you must not miss! A tremendous work from every point of viewâ€”thrilling, exciting, lusty, vivid, stupendous.â€ _â€”Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œA memorable novel, a superb biography of a people.â€\n </em>\n â€”Houston Chronicle_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Hawaii\n </em>\n , Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author James Michener weaves the classic saga that brought Hawaiiâ€™s epic history vividly alive to the American public on its initial publication in 1959, and continues to mesmerize even today.\n</p>\n<p>\n The volcanic processes by which the Hawaiian Islands grew from the ocean floor were inconceivably slow, and the land remained untouched by man for countless centuries until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers made the perilous journey across the Pacific and discovered their new home. They lived and flourished in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions and beliefs until, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrived, bringing a new creed and a new way of life to a Stone Age society. The impact of the missionaries had only begun to be absorbed when other national groups, with equally different customs, began to migrate in great numbers to the islands. The story of modern Hawaii, and of this novel, is one of how disparate peoples, struggling to keep their identity yet live with one another in harmony, ultimately joined together to build Americaâ€™s strong and vital fiftieth state.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11475'),
(19849, 'Hawaii', 'James Michener', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œ[A] mammoth epic of the islands, [a] vast panorama . . . wonderful.â€â€”_Baltimore Sun_\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOne novel you must not miss! A tremendous work from every point of viewâ€”thrilling, exciting, lusty, vivid, stupendous.â€ _â€”Chicago Tribune\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  â€œA memorable novel, a superb biography of a people.â€\n </em>\n â€”Houston Chronicle_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In\n <em>\n  Hawaii\n </em>\n , Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author James Michener weaves the classic saga that brought Hawaiiâ€™s epic history vividly alive to the American public on its initial publication in 1959, and continues to mesmerize even today.\n</p>\n<p>\n The volcanic processes by which the Hawaiian Islands grew from the ocean floor were inconceivably slow, and the land remained untouched by man for countless centuries until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers made the perilous journey across the Pacific and discovered their new home. They lived and flourished in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions and beliefs until, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrived, bringing a new creed and a new way of life to a Stone Age society. The impact of the missionaries had only begun to be absorbed when other national groups, with equally different customs, began to migrate in great numbers to the islands. The story of modern Hawaii, and of this novel, is one of how disparate peoples, struggling to keep their identity yet live with one another in harmony, ultimately joined together to build Americaâ€™s strong and vital fiftieth state.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19781'),
(19850, 'Hawkmistress!', 'Marion Zimmer Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Romilly uses her power to communicate with and control animals to aid the battle to depose the usurper of the throne of Darkover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21453'),
(19851, 'He Knew He Was Right', 'Anthony Trollope', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26073'),
(19852, 'He Who Fears the Wolf', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Convincing, subtle and logically plotted, Inspector Sejer is a great addition to the detectives'' league." --"The Dallas Morning News" Inspector Sejer is hard at work again, investigating the brutal murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the woods. The chief suspect is a schizophrenic recently escaped from a mental institution. The only witness is a twelve-year-old boy, overweight, obsessed with archery, and a resident at a home for delinquents. When a demented man robs a nearby bank and accidentally takes the suspect hostage, the three misfits are drawn into an uneasy alliance. Confronting a case where the strangeness of the crime is matched only by the strangeness of the criminals, Inspector Sejer finds that small-town prejudices warp every piece of information he tries to collect. Fossum once again provides extraordinary insight into marginalized lives and richly evokes the atmosphere she captured so brilliantly in "Don''t Look Back. ""With sharp psychological insight and a fine grasp on police procedure, Fossum is easily one of the best new imports the genre has to offer." --Baltimore Sun Karin Fossum is the author of many novels and two collections of short stories. Her crime novels featuring Inspector Sejer have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Oslo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3894'),
(19853, 'He Who Fears the Wolf', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "Convincing, subtle and logically plotted, Inspector Sejer is a great addition to the detectives'' league." --"The Dallas Morning News" Inspector Sejer is hard at work again, investigating the brutal murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the woods. The chief suspect is a schizophrenic recently escaped from a mental institution. The only witness is a twelve-year-old boy, overweight, obsessed with archery, and a resident at a home for delinquents. When a demented man robs a nearby bank and accidentally takes the suspect hostage, the three misfits are drawn into an uneasy alliance. Confronting a case where the strangeness of the crime is matched only by the strangeness of the criminals, Inspector Sejer finds that small-town prejudices warp every piece of information he tries to collect. Fossum once again provides extraordinary insight into marginalized lives and richly evokes the atmosphere she captured so brilliantly in "Don''t Look Back. ""With sharp psychological insight and a fine grasp on police procedure, Fossum is easily one of the best new imports the genre has to offer." --Baltimore Sun Karin Fossum is the author of many novels and two collections of short stories. Her crime novels featuring Inspector Sejer have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Oslo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9827'),
(19854, 'He Who Fears the Wolf', 'Karin Fossum', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "Convincing, subtle and logically plotted, Inspector Sejer is a great addition to the detectives'' league." --"The Dallas Morning News" Inspector Sejer is hard at work again, investigating the brutal murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the woods. The chief suspect is a schizophrenic recently escaped from a mental institution. The only witness is a twelve-year-old boy, overweight, obsessed with archery, and a resident at a home for delinquents. When a demented man robs a nearby bank and accidentally takes the suspect hostage, the three misfits are drawn into an uneasy alliance. Confronting a case where the strangeness of the crime is matched only by the strangeness of the criminals, Inspector Sejer finds that small-town prejudices warp every piece of information he tries to collect. Fossum once again provides extraordinary insight into marginalized lives and richly evokes the atmosphere she captured so brilliantly in "Don''t Look Back. ""With sharp psychological insight and a fine grasp on police procedure, Fossum is easily one of the best new imports the genre has to offer." --Baltimore Sun Karin Fossum is the author of many novels and two collections of short stories. Her crime novels featuring Inspector Sejer have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Oslo.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20644'),
(19855, 'He&#39;s Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys', 'Greg Behrendt; Liz Tuccillo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Itâ€™s a classic single-woman scenario: you really like this guy, but heâ€™s giving mixed messages. You make excuses, decide heâ€™s confused, afraid of commitment. Behrendt, a former executive story editor for Sex and the Cityâ€”and a formerly single (now happily married) guy who knows all the excusesâ€”provides a simple answer: heâ€™s just not that into you. Stop kidding yourself, let go and look for someone else who will be. After all, as Behrendt sensibly puts it, "if a (sane) guy really likes you, there ainâ€™t nothing thatâ€™s going to get in his way." If youâ€™re not convinced yet, by all means read this smart, funny and surprisingly upbeat little book, full of qâ€™s and aâ€™s covering every excuse woman has ever made to avoid admitting to herself that a man just wasnâ€™t that smitten with her.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adult/High Schoolâ€“With a bright, breezy style, the authors highlight a list of actions that men take to demonstrate that they are "just not into you," using "Dear Greg" letters and replies, unscientific polls of men, lists reviewing the key points in each chapter, a comic glossary, and laugh-out-loud workbook assignments. Although this book is meant for the 20-plus career women who have been dating for a while, the empowering message that a woman deserves a man who truly loves her and not one that she must constantly make excuses for can''t be learned too early._â€“Jane S. Drabkin, Chinn Park Regional Library, Woodbridge, VA_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18364'),
(19856, 'He&#39;s Just Not Up for It Anymore: Why Men Stop Having Sex, and What You Can Do About It', 'Bob Berkowitz; Susan Yager-Berkowitz', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "A book that millions of men could benefit from . . . this really could be the Last Taboo. . . the real point here, the Berkowitzes say, isnâ€™t casting blame on anyone. Itâ€™s understanding the issues and jump-starting all these stalled libidos." --\n <em>\n  New York Newsday\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Men not interested in sex? Can this really be true? It is for the estimated 20 million American men and women who are in relationships in which the man has stopped being sexually intimate. This breakthrough book reveals the counterintuitive truth:\n <em>\n  Many men are just not up for it anymore.\n </em>\n To find out why, bestselling author and relationship expert Dr. Bob Berkowitz and his wife, Susan Yager-Berkowitz, began an unprecedented survey of more than 4,000 men and women in this situation, gathering data and following up with hundreds of interviews with selected respondents.\n</p>\n<p>\n Why don''t these men want to have sex? Is the problem physical, emotional, or psychologicalâ€”or are these guys simply bored with their partners? Is it unexpressed anger about other aspects of their relationships? Are they depressed? Now that there is limitless access to pornography, are some men no longer able to be turned on without it? Are they becoming satiated? Do they have a fully functioning libido, just not for their wives? Or is decreased interest in sex just an unacknowledged but natural fact of life for a lot of men? Do they want their libidos back?\n</p>\n<p>\n Further, how do their partners feel about this? Are they dejected or relieved? Do they suspect infidelity, asexuality or homosexuality, or just blame themselves? What are they doing about it? What can they do?\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  He''s Just Not Up for It Anymore\n </em>\n provides a unique window into the sexless man''s mindâ€”so that men and women can understand this important issue and begin to address the problems that have inhibited intimacy, and ultimately solve them.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15552'),
(19857, 'Head in the Clouds', 'Karen Witemeyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Witemeyer follows her delightful first novel, A Tailor-Made Bride, with another tale of romance in America''s West. Teacher Adelaide Proctor follows Henry Belcher to Fort Worth, Tex., but discovers her Prince Charming is a rogue. Instead of the marriage she planned, Adelaide becomes governess to Isabella, daughter of English-born sheep rancher Gideon Westcott. Adelaide comes to love both the mute, troubled Isabella and her father, but forces beyond their control are heading from England to Texas. Viscount Reginald Petchey wants his niece''s fortune and will do anything to get it, even murder and kidnapping. But Petchey doesn''t factor in Adelaide''s determination and Gideon''s love for his daughter. A final standoff is a nail-biter as a child''s life and a family''s future hang in the balance. Witemeyer''s sophomore tale is entertaining and exciting, though fans may wish for the insightful discussions of her first. Readers won''t be disappointed, however, in the strong, lovable Adelaide and her ultimate Prince Charming.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own. But when a husband-hunting debacle leaves her humiliated, she interviews for a staid governess position on a central Texas sheep ranch and vows to leave her romantic yearnings behind. When Gideon Westcott left his privileged life in England to make a name for himself in America''s wool industry, he never expected to become a father overnight. And five-year-old Isabella hasn''t uttered a word since she lost her mother. The unconventionality of the new governess concerns Gideon--and intrigues him at the same time. But he can''t afford distractions. He has a ranch to run, a shearing to oversee, and a suspicious fence-cutting to investigate. When Isabella''s uncle comes to claim the child--and her inheritance--Gideon and Adelaide must work together to protect Isabella from the man''s evil schemes. And soon neither can deny their growing attraction. But after so many heartbreaks, will Adelaide be willing to get her head out of the clouds and put her heart on the line?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3882'),
(19858, 'Head in the Clouds', 'Karen Witemeyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Witemeyer follows her delightful first novel, A Tailor-Made Bride, with another tale of romance in America''s West. Teacher Adelaide Proctor follows Henry Belcher to Fort Worth, Tex., but discovers her Prince Charming is a rogue. Instead of the marriage she planned, Adelaide becomes governess to Isabella, daughter of English-born sheep rancher Gideon Westcott. Adelaide comes to love both the mute, troubled Isabella and her father, but forces beyond their control are heading from England to Texas. Viscount Reginald Petchey wants his niece''s fortune and will do anything to get it, even murder and kidnapping. But Petchey doesn''t factor in Adelaide''s determination and Gideon''s love for his daughter. A final standoff is a nail-biter as a child''s life and a family''s future hang in the balance. Witemeyer''s sophomore tale is entertaining and exciting, though fans may wish for the insightful discussions of her first. Readers won''t be disappointed, however, in the strong, lovable Adelaide and her ultimate Prince Charming.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own. But when a husband-hunting debacle leaves her humiliated, she interviews for a staid governess position on a central Texas sheep ranch and vows to leave her romantic yearnings behind. When Gideon Westcott left his privileged life in England to make a name for himself in America''s wool industry, he never expected to become a father overnight. And five-year-old Isabella hasn''t uttered a word since she lost her mother. The unconventionality of the new governess concerns Gideon--and intrigues him at the same time. But he can''t afford distractions. He has a ranch to run, a shearing to oversee, and a suspicious fence-cutting to investigate. When Isabella''s uncle comes to claim the child--and her inheritance--Gideon and Adelaide must work together to protect Isabella from the man''s evil schemes. And soon neither can deny their growing attraction. But after so many heartbreaks, will Adelaide be willing to get her head out of the clouds and put her heart on the line?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13430'),
(19859, 'Head in the Clouds', 'Karen Witemeyer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Witemeyer follows her delightful first novel, A Tailor-Made Bride, with another tale of romance in America''s West. Teacher Adelaide Proctor follows Henry Belcher to Fort Worth, Tex., but discovers her Prince Charming is a rogue. Instead of the marriage she planned, Adelaide becomes governess to Isabella, daughter of English-born sheep rancher Gideon Westcott. Adelaide comes to love both the mute, troubled Isabella and her father, but forces beyond their control are heading from England to Texas. Viscount Reginald Petchey wants his niece''s fortune and will do anything to get it, even murder and kidnapping. But Petchey doesn''t factor in Adelaide''s determination and Gideon''s love for his daughter. A final standoff is a nail-biter as a child''s life and a family''s future hang in the balance. Witemeyer''s sophomore tale is entertaining and exciting, though fans may wish for the insightful discussions of her first. Readers won''t be disappointed, however, in the strong, lovable Adelaide and her ultimate Prince Charming.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own. But when a husband-hunting debacle leaves her humiliated, she interviews for a staid governess position on a central Texas sheep ranch and vows to leave her romantic yearnings behind. When Gideon Westcott left his privileged life in England to make a name for himself in America''s wool industry, he never expected to become a father overnight. And five-year-old Isabella hasn''t uttered a word since she lost her mother. The unconventionality of the new governess concerns Gideon--and intrigues him at the same time. But he can''t afford distractions. He has a ranch to run, a shearing to oversee, and a suspicious fence-cutting to investigate. When Isabella''s uncle comes to claim the child--and her inheritance--Gideon and Adelaide must work together to protect Isabella from the man''s evil schemes. And soon neither can deny their growing attraction. But after so many heartbreaks, will Adelaide be willing to get her head out of the clouds and put her heart on the line?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20655'),
(19860, 'Heads', 'Greg Bear', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: As Mickey Sandoval''s brother-in-law uses the moon''s facilities to achieve zero degrees Kelvin--Absolute Zero, when all cellular motion ceases--Mickey''s sister buys 410 cryogenically frozen heads, and one of them turns out to be a big surprise. "Heads deserves to sweep all the awards".--Locus. Illustrated.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18362'),
(19861, 'Heads You Lose', 'Lisa Lutz &amp; David Hayward', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  -bestselling author Lisa Lutz conspires with-or should we say\n  <em>\n   against\n  </em>\n  ?-coauthor David Hayward to write an original and hilarious tag-team crime novel.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Meet Paul and Lacey Hansen: orphaned, pot-growing twentysomething siblings eking out a living in rural Northern California. When a headless corpse appears on their property, they can''t exactly dial 911, so they move the body and wait for the police to find it. Instead, the corpse reappears, a few days riper . . . and an amateur sleuth is born. Make that two.\n</p>\n<p>\n When collaborators Lutz and Hayward (former romantic partners) start to disagree about how the story should unfold, the body count rises, victims and suspects alike develop surprising characteristics (meet Brandy Chester, the stripper with the Mensa IQ), and sibling rivalry reaches homicidal intensity. Think\n <em>\n  Adaptation\n </em>\n crossed with\n <em>\n  Weeds\n </em>\n . Will the authors solve the mystery without killing each other first?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11061'),
(19862, 'The Healing of America', 'T.R. Reid', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Bestselling author T. R. Reid guides a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible paths toward U.S. reform.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *The Healing of America, New York Times* bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can''t seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In his global quest to find a possible prescription, Reid visits wealthy, free market, industrialized democracies like our own-including France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and Canada-where he finds inspiration in example. Reid shares evidence from doctors, government officials, health care experts, and patients the world over, finding that foreign health care systems give everybody quality care at an affordable cost. And that dreaded monster "socialized medicine" turns out to be a myth. Many developed countries provide universal coverage with private doctors, private hospitals, and private insurance.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In addition to long-established systems, Reid also studies countries that have carried out major health care reform. The first question facing these countries-and the United States, for that matter-is an ethical issue: Is health care a human right? Most countries have already answered with a resolute yes, leaving the United States in the murky moral backwater with nations we typically think of as far less just than our own.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Healing of America* lays bare the moral question at the heart of our troubled system, dissecting the misleading rhetoric surrounding the health care debate. Reid sees problems elsewhere, too: He finds poorly paid doctors in Japan, endless lines in Canada, mistreated patients in Britain, spartan facilities in France. Still, all the other rich countries operate at a lower cost, produce better health statistics, and cover everybody. In the end, *The Healing of America* is a good news book: It finds models around the world that Americans can borrow to guarantee health care for everybody who needs it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/934'),
(19863, 'The Healing of America', 'T.R. Reid', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **Bestselling author T. R. Reid guides a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible paths toward U.S. reform.**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *The Healing of America, New York Times* bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can''t seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In his global quest to find a possible prescription, Reid visits wealthy, free market, industrialized democracies like our own-including France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and Canada-where he finds inspiration in example. Reid shares evidence from doctors, government officials, health care experts, and patients the world over, finding that foreign health care systems give everybody quality care at an affordable cost. And that dreaded monster "socialized medicine" turns out to be a myth. Many developed countries provide universal coverage with private doctors, private hospitals, and private insurance.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In addition to long-established systems, Reid also studies countries that have carried out major health care reform. The first question facing these countries-and the United States, for that matter-is an ethical issue: Is health care a human right? Most countries have already answered with a resolute yes, leaving the United States in the murky moral backwater with nations we typically think of as far less just than our own.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Healing of America* lays bare the moral question at the heart of our troubled system, dissecting the misleading rhetoric surrounding the health care debate. Reid sees problems elsewhere, too: He finds poorly paid doctors in Japan, endless lines in Canada, mistreated patients in Britain, spartan facilities in France. Still, all the other rich countries operate at a lower cost, produce better health statistics, and cover everybody. In the end, *The Healing of America* is a good news book: It finds models around the world that Americans can borrow to guarantee health care for everybody who needs it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12108'),
(19864, 'The Healing of America', 'T.R. Reid', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Bestselling author T. R. Reid guides a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible paths toward U.S. reform.** In *The Healing of America, New York Times* bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can''t seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost. In his global quest to find a possible prescription, Reid visits wealthy, free market, industrialized democracies like our own-including France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and Canada-where he finds inspiration in example. Reid shares evidence from doctors, government officials, health care experts, and patients the world over, finding that foreign health care systems give everybody quality care at an affordable cost. And that dreaded monster "socialized medicine" turns out to be a myth. Many developed countries provide universal coverage with private doctors, private hospitals, and private insurance. In addition to long-established systems, Reid also studies countries that have carried out major health care reform. The first question facing these countries-and the United States, for that matter-is an ethical issue: Is health care a human right? Most countries have already answered with a resolute yes, leaving the United States in the murky moral backwater with nations we typically think of as far less just than our own. *The Healing of America* lays bare the moral question at the heart of our troubled system, dissecting the misleading rhetoric surrounding the health care debate. Reid sees problems elsewhere, too: He finds poorly paid doctors in Japan, endless lines in Canada, mistreated patients in Britain, spartan facilities in France. Still, all the other rich countries operate at a lower cost, produce better health statistics, and cover everybody. In the end, *The Healing of America* is a good news book: It finds models around the world that Americans can borrow to guarantee health care for everybody who needs it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24107'),
(19865, 'Healthy Shoulder Handbook', 'Karl Knopf &amp; Austin Forbord', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  END PAIN, REGAIN RANGE OF MOTION AND PREVENT RE-INJURY\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Millions of people suffer from debilitating shoulder problems each year. With\n <em>\n  Healthy Shoulder Handbook\n </em>\n , you can take yourself off that list. This friendly manual outlines the causes for common shoulder conditions, including shoulder impingement, rotator cuff, tendinitis, dislocation and repetitive motion injuries.\n</p>\n<p>\n Illustrated with over 300 step-by-step photographs,\n <em>\n  Healthy Shoulder Handbook\n </em>\n offers easy-to-follow exercises to:\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  Build strength\n </li>\n <li>\n  Improve flexibility\n </li>\n <li>\n  Speed up recovery\n </li>\n <li>\n  Prevent injury\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Healthy Shoulder Handbook\n </em>\n also features specially designed programs to reverse or alleviate the strain from high-risk sports and occupations, including construction work, desk jobs, tennis, golf and more. Follow the approach in this book and you''ll be able to quickly get back to the job (or back on the court!) and stay there--pain free!\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Dr Karl Knopf is the coordinator for the fitness therapist program at Foothill College of California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9402');
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(19866, 'Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child', 'Marc Weissbluth &amp; M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the country''s leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving--and preventing--your children''s sleep problems Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child''s natural sleep cycles. This valuable sourcebook contains brand new research that - Pinpoints the way daytime sleep differs from night sleep and why both are important to your child- Helps you cope with and stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bedwetting, and more- Analyzes ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to his internal clock--naturally- Reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their children to sleep--including the inclination to rock and feed- Explores the different sleep cycle needs for different temperaments--from quiet babies to hyperactive toddlers- Emphasizes the significance of a nap schedule- Rest is vital to your child''s health growth and development. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age. Advises parents dealing with teenagers and their unique sleep problems "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3230'),
(19867, 'Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child', 'Marc Weissbluth &amp; M.D.', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n One of the country''s leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving--and preventing--your children''s sleep problems Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child''s natural sleep cycles. This valuable sourcebook contains brand new research that - Pinpoints the way daytime sleep differs from night sleep and why both are important to your child- Helps you cope with and stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bedwetting, and more- Analyzes ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to his internal clock--naturally- Reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their children to sleep--including the inclination to rock and feed- Explores the different sleep cycle needs for different temperaments--from quiet babies to hyperactive toddlers- Emphasizes the significance of a nap schedule- Rest is vital to your child''s health growth and development. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age. Advises parents dealing with teenagers and their unique sleep problems "From the Trade Paperback edition."\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13278'),
(19868, 'Hearing Secret Harmonies', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Anthony Powell''s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In this climactic volume of *A Dance to the Music of Time*, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Includes these novels:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Books Do Furnish a Room *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Temporary Kings *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *Hearing Secret Harmonies *\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."â€”*Chicago Tribune*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell''s world is as large and as complex as Proust''s."â€”Elizabeth Janeway, *New York Times*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."â€”Naomi Bliven, *New Yorker *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7510'),
(19869, 'Hearing secret harmonies', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Anthony Powell''s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. In this climactic volume of *A Dance to the Music of Time*, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age. Includes these novels: *Books Do Furnish a Room * *Temporary Kings * *Hearing Secret Harmonies * "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."â€”*Chicago Tribune* "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell''s world is as large and as complex as Proust''s."â€”Elizabeth Janeway, *New York Times* "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."â€”Naomi Bliven, *New Yorker *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16441'),
(19870, 'Hearing secret harmonies', 'Anthony Powell', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Anthony Powell''s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. In this climactic volume of *A Dance to the Music of Time*, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age. Includes these novels: *Books Do Furnish a Room * *Temporary Kings * *Hearing Secret Harmonies * "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."â€”*Chicago Tribune* "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell''s world is as large and as complex as Proust''s."â€”Elizabeth Janeway, *New York Times* "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."â€”Naomi Bliven, *New Yorker *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26404'),
(19871, 'Heart and Soul', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n    SUMMARY:\n   </span>\n  </h3>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  Dr. Clara Casey thought the position she coveted as senior cardiologist was hers. Instead sheâ€™s offered the thankless job - a consolation prize, as she sees it - of establishing a rehab heart clinic thatâ€™s clearly unfunded. Clara has enough on her hands, already coping with two difficult adult daughters, Adi and Linda, and the unwanted attentions of her handsome ex-husband Alan. But she reluctantly accepts the job, promising to leave after one year.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14819'),
(19872, 'Heart and Soul', 'Maeve Binchy', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <div>\n  <h3>\n   <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">\n    SUMMARY:\n   </span>\n  </h3>\n </div>\n <p class="description">\n  Dr. Clara Casey thought the position she coveted as senior cardiologist was hers. Instead sheâ€™s offered the thankless job - a consolation prize, as she sees it - of establishing a rehab heart clinic thatâ€™s clearly unfunded. Clara has enough on her hands, already coping with two difficult adult daughters, Adi and Linda, and the unwanted attentions of her handsome ex-husband Alan. But she reluctantly accepts the job, promising to leave after one year.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21290'),
(19873, 'The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL', 'Eric Greitens', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  THE HEART AND THE FIST shares one man''s story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior. In a life lived at the raw edges of the human experience, Greitens has seen what can be accomplished when compassion and courage come together in meaningful service.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a Rhodes Scholar and Navy SEAL, Greitens worked alongside volunteers who taught art to street children in Bolivia and led US Marines who hunted terrorists in Iraq. He''s learned from nuns who fed the destitute in one of Mother Teresa''s homes for the dying in India, from aid workers who healed orphaned children in Rwanda, and from Navy SEALs who fought in Afghanistan. He excelled at the hardest military training in the world, and today he works with severely wounded and disabled veterans who are rebuilding their lives as community leaders at home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Greitens offers each of us a new way of thinking about living a meaningful life. We learn that to win any war, even those we wage against ourselves; to create and obtain lasting peace; to save a life; and even, simply to live with purpose requires usâ€”every one of usâ€”to be both good and strong.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5644'),
(19874, 'The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL', 'Eric Greitens', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  THE HEART AND THE FIST shares one man''s story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior. In a life lived at the raw edges of the human experience, Greitens has seen what can be accomplished when compassion and courage come together in meaningful service.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a Rhodes Scholar and Navy SEAL, Greitens worked alongside volunteers who taught art to street children in Bolivia and led US Marines who hunted terrorists in Iraq. He''s learned from nuns who fed the destitute in one of Mother Teresa''s homes for the dying in India, from aid workers who healed orphaned children in Rwanda, and from Navy SEALs who fought in Afghanistan. He excelled at the hardest military training in the world, and today he works with severely wounded and disabled veterans who are rebuilding their lives as community leaders at home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Greitens offers each of us a new way of thinking about living a meaningful life. We learn that to win any war, even those we wage against ourselves; to create and obtain lasting peace; to save a life; and even, simply to live with purpose requires usâ€”every one of usâ€”to be both good and strong.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15056'),
(19875, 'The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL', 'Eric Greitens', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  THE HEART AND THE FIST shares one man''s story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior. In a life lived at the raw edges of the human experience, Greitens has seen what can be accomplished when compassion and courage come together in meaningful service.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a Rhodes Scholar and Navy SEAL, Greitens worked alongside volunteers who taught art to street children in Bolivia and led US Marines who hunted terrorists in Iraq. He''s learned from nuns who fed the destitute in one of Mother Teresa''s homes for the dying in India, from aid workers who healed orphaned children in Rwanda, and from Navy SEALs who fought in Afghanistan. He excelled at the hardest military training in the world, and today he works with severely wounded and disabled veterans who are rebuilding their lives as community leaders at home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Greitens offers each of us a new way of thinking about living a meaningful life. We learn that to win any war, even those we wage against ourselves; to create and obtain lasting peace; to save a life; and even, simply to live with purpose requires usâ€”every one of usâ€”to be both good and strong.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18986'),
(19876, 'The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL', 'Eric Greitens', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  THE HEART AND THE FIST shares one man''s story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior. In a life lived at the raw edges of the human experience, Greitens has seen what can be accomplished when compassion and courage come together in meaningful service.\n </p>\n <p>\n  As a Rhodes Scholar and Navy SEAL, Greitens worked alongside volunteers who taught art to street children in Bolivia and led US Marines who hunted terrorists in Iraq. He''s learned from nuns who fed the destitute in one of Mother Teresa''s homes for the dying in India, from aid workers who healed orphaned children in Rwanda, and from Navy SEALs who fought in Afghanistan. He excelled at the hardest military training in the world, and today he works with severely wounded and disabled veterans who are rebuilding their lives as community leaders at home.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Greitens offers each of us a new way of thinking about living a meaningful life. We learn that to win any war, even those we wage against ourselves; to create and obtain lasting peace; to save a life; and even, simply to live with purpose requires usâ€”every one of usâ€”to be both good and strong.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27796'),
(19877, 'Heart Is a Lonely Hunter', 'Carson McCullers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "When one puts [this book] down, it is with . . . a feeling of having been nourished by the truth." --May Sarton\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTo me the most impressive aspect of THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is the astonishing humanity that enables a white writer, for the first time in Southern fiction, to handle Negro characters with as much ease and justice of those of her own race. This cannot be accounted for stylistically or politically; it seems to stem from an attitude toward life.â€ -- Richard Wright\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carson McCullers was all of twenty-three when she published her first novel,\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  . She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her "the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced." Available now for the first time on audio from Caedmon and HarperAudio,\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Richard Wright was astonished by McCullers''s ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." Hers is a humanity that touches all who come to her work, whether for the first time or, as so many do, time and time again.\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, most enduring best.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Performed by Cherry Jones\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6940'),
(19878, 'Heart Is a Lonely Hunter', 'Carson McCullers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "When one puts [this book] down, it is with . . . a feeling of having been nourished by the truth." --May Sarton\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTo me the most impressive aspect of THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is the astonishing humanity that enables a white writer, for the first time in Southern fiction, to handle Negro characters with as much ease and justice of those of her own race. This cannot be accounted for stylistically or politically; it seems to stem from an attitude toward life.â€ -- Richard Wright\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carson McCullers was all of twenty-three when she published her first novel,\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  . She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her "the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced." Available now for the first time on audio from Caedmon and HarperAudio,\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Richard Wright was astonished by McCullers''s ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." Hers is a humanity that touches all who come to her work, whether for the first time or, as so many do, time and time again.\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, most enduring best.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Performed by Cherry Jones\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11311'),
(19879, 'Heart Is a Lonely Hunter', 'Carson McCullers', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "When one puts [this book] down, it is with . . . a feeling of having been nourished by the truth." --May Sarton\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œTo me the most impressive aspect of THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is the astonishing humanity that enables a white writer, for the first time in Southern fiction, to handle Negro characters with as much ease and justice of those of her own race. This cannot be accounted for stylistically or politically; it seems to stem from an attitude toward life.â€ -- Richard Wright\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Carson McCullers was all of twenty-three when she published her first novel,\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  . She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her "the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced." Available now for the first time on audio from Caedmon and HarperAudio,\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Richard Wright was astonished by McCullers''s ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." Hers is a humanity that touches all who come to her work, whether for the first time or, as so many do, time and time again.\n  <em>\n   The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\n  </em>\n  is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, most enduring best.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Performed by Cherry Jones\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16978'),
(19880, 'The Heart of a Woman', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Oprah Book ClubÂ® Selection, May 1997:\n  </strong>\n  Maya Angelou has had more lives than the proverbial cat, and in\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman\n  </em>\n  she continues the account of her remarkable life begun in\n  <em>\n   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\n  </em>\n  . In the first book of her bestselling autobiographical series, she describes her traumatic childhood in the small, segregated town of Stamps, Arkansas, during the 1930s.\n  <em>\n   Gather Together in My Name\n  </em>\n  picks up the story in the postwar years, when Maya, a single teenager with an infant son becomes, in short order, a cook, a madam, a dancer, and a prostitute. Next comes\n  <em>\n   Singin'' and Swingin'' and Gettin'' Merry Like Christmas,\n  </em>\n  an account of her twenties and her unsuccessful first marriage to a white man.\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman,\n  </em>\n  the fourth in the series, takes us through one of the most exciting and formative periods of Angelou''s amazing life: her beginnings as a writer and an activist in New York.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Angelou has a happy knack of attracting the best and the brightest into her orbit, and\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman\n  </em>\n  offers a veritable cornucopia of black luminaries in its pages. Singer Billie Holiday, writers John Ellins and Paule Marshall, jazz musicians Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, and actors Godfrey Cambridge and James Earl Jones--Maya meets and learns from them all. Political activism soon follows as Ms. Angelou first organizes a theatrical benefit for the Reverend Martin Luther King and then becomes the director of the New York Southern Christian Leadership Conference office. Her involvement in the civil rights movement eventually brings her into contact with African freedom fighters Oliver Tambo and the charming Vusumzi Make, whom she marries and follows to Africa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman\n  </em>\n  is as honest, painful, funny, outraged, and outrageous as Angelou herself. From her debut at the Apollo Theatre to her meeting with Malcolm X, Maya Angelou gives us something to cheer about and plenty to ponder as well.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRemarkable . . . a great lady moving right on through a great memoir.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMaya Angelou has . . . achieved a kind of literary breakthrough which few writers of any time, place, or race achieve. . . . What makes [her] writing unique is . . . a melding of unconcerned honesty, consummate craft, and perfect descriptive pitch, yielding a rare compound of great emotional force and authenticity.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _â€“The Washington Post Book World\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œTo say that Angelou is a living legend is in no way an exaggeration. [She is] one of the great voices of contemporary literature.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“The Voice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAngelou is one of the geniuses of the Afro-American serial autobiography.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“The New York Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA uniquely gifted wordsmith and storyteller.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“The San Diego Union-Tribune\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2914'),
(19881, 'The Heart of a Woman', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Oprah Book ClubÂ® Selection, May 1997:\n  </strong>\n  Maya Angelou has had more lives than the proverbial cat, and in\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman\n  </em>\n  she continues the account of her remarkable life begun in\n  <em>\n   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\n  </em>\n  . In the first book of her bestselling autobiographical series, she describes her traumatic childhood in the small, segregated town of Stamps, Arkansas, during the 1930s.\n  <em>\n   Gather Together in My Name\n  </em>\n  picks up the story in the postwar years, when Maya, a single teenager with an infant son becomes, in short order, a cook, a madam, a dancer, and a prostitute. Next comes\n  <em>\n   Singin'' and Swingin'' and Gettin'' Merry Like Christmas,\n  </em>\n  an account of her twenties and her unsuccessful first marriage to a white man.\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman,\n  </em>\n  the fourth in the series, takes us through one of the most exciting and formative periods of Angelou''s amazing life: her beginnings as a writer and an activist in New York.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Angelou has a happy knack of attracting the best and the brightest into her orbit, and\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman\n  </em>\n  offers a veritable cornucopia of black luminaries in its pages. Singer Billie Holiday, writers John Ellins and Paule Marshall, jazz musicians Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, and actors Godfrey Cambridge and James Earl Jones--Maya meets and learns from them all. Political activism soon follows as Ms. Angelou first organizes a theatrical benefit for the Reverend Martin Luther King and then becomes the director of the New York Southern Christian Leadership Conference office. Her involvement in the civil rights movement eventually brings her into contact with African freedom fighters Oliver Tambo and the charming Vusumzi Make, whom she marries and follows to Africa.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Heart of a Woman\n  </em>\n  is as honest, painful, funny, outraged, and outrageous as Angelou herself. From her debut at the Apollo Theatre to her meeting with Malcolm X, Maya Angelou gives us something to cheer about and plenty to ponder as well.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œRemarkable . . . a great lady moving right on through a great memoir.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“Kirkus Reviews\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œMaya Angelou has . . . achieved a kind of literary breakthrough which few writers of any time, place, or race achieve. . . . What makes [her] writing unique is . . . a melding of unconcerned honesty, consummate craft, and perfect descriptive pitch, yielding a rare compound of great emotional force and authenticity.â€\n  <br />\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  _â€“The Washington Post Book World\n  <br />\n  _\n  <em>\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  â€œTo say that Angelou is a living legend is in no way an exaggeration. [She is] one of the great voices of contemporary literature.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“The Voice\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œAngelou is one of the geniuses of the Afro-American serial autobiography.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“The New York Times\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA uniquely gifted wordsmith and storyteller.â€\n  <br />\n  <strong>\n   <em>\n    â€“The San Diego Union-Tribune\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8199'),
(19882, 'The Heart of a Woman', 'Maya Angelou', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21852'),
(19883, 'Heart of Darkness', 'Joseph Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood''s Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Although Conrad does not specify the name of the river, at this time Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium''s King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.This very symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary, his Congolese adventure. The passage of time, and the darkening sky, during the fictitious narrative-within-the-narrative parallels the atmosphere of the overall story. (wikipedia)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4075'),
(19884, 'Heart of Darkness', 'Joseph Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood''s Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Although Conrad does not specify the name of the river, at this time Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium''s King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.This very symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary, his Congolese adventure. The passage of time, and the darkening sky, during the fictitious narrative-within-the-narrative parallels the atmosphere of the overall story. (wikipedia)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9075'),
(19885, 'Heart Of Darkness', 'Joseph Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15115'),
(19886, 'Heart of darkness', 'Joseph Conrad', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood''s Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Although Conrad does not specify the name of the river, at this time Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium''s King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.This very symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary, his Congolese adventure. The passage of time, and the darkening sky, during the fictitious narrative-within-the-narrative parallels the atmosphere of the overall story. (wikipedia)\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20497'),
(19887, 'The Heart of Devin MacKade', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A New York Times Bestselling Author**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Sheriff Devin MacKade watched - patiently, painfully - as the woman he secretly cherished suffered through a less-than-perfect marriage. Now pretty Cassie Connor was free . . . but vulnerable. Devin knew he''d have to tread slowly, all the while wondering if the heart of Devin MacKade would ever claim the woman he loved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2414'),
(19888, 'The heart of Devin MacKade', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A New York Times Bestselling Author** Sheriff Devin MacKade watched - patiently, painfully - as the woman he secretly cherished suffered through a less-than-perfect marriage. Now pretty Cassie Connor was free . . . but vulnerable. Devin knew he''d have to tread slowly, all the while wondering if the heart of Devin MacKade would ever claim the woman he loved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22340'),
(19889, 'Heart of Gold', 'Tami Hoag', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this unforgettable classic novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag, the promise of a new love is imperiled by the secrets of the past. In the charming seaside town of Anastasia, California, Faith Kincaid is looking to start over after her bruising divorce from powerful, corrupt senator William Gerard. But the past still haunts her. As she prepares to testify against her ex at his high-profile bribery trial, the federal government is watching her every move. Theyâ€™ve even sent a special agent, Shane Callan, to protect her. Faith doesnâ€™t think she needs a bodyguardâ€”especially one as physically formidable as Shane. But he refuses to take no for an answer. Soon the two are sharing secrets and the simmering attraction between them shows signs of sizzling out of control. But as Faith learns, Shaneâ€™s not a forever kind of guyâ€”unless she can convince him to undergo a major change of heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/816'),
(19890, 'Heart of Gold', 'Tami Hoag', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In this unforgettable classic novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag, the promise of a new love is imperiled by the secrets of the past. In the charming seaside town of Anastasia, California, Faith Kincaid is looking to start over after her bruising divorce from powerful, corrupt senator William Gerard. But the past still haunts her. As she prepares to testify against her ex at his high-profile bribery trial, the federal government is watching her every move. Theyâ€™ve even sent a special agent, Shane Callan, to protect her. Faith doesnâ€™t think she needs a bodyguardâ€”especially one as physically formidable as Shane. But he refuses to take no for an answer. Soon the two are sharing secrets and the simmering attraction between them shows signs of sizzling out of control. But as Faith learns, Shaneâ€™s not a forever kind of guyâ€”unless she can convince him to undergo a major change of heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9534'),
(19891, 'Heart of Gold', 'Tami Hoag', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In this unforgettable classic novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag, the promise of a new love is imperiled by the secrets of the past. In the charming seaside town of Anastasia, California, Faith Kincaid is looking to start over after her bruising divorce from powerful, corrupt senator William Gerard. But the past still haunts her. As she prepares to testify against her ex at his high-profile bribery trial, the federal government is watching her every move. Theyâ€™ve even sent a special agent, Shane Callan, to protect her. Faith doesnâ€™t think she needs a bodyguardâ€”especially one as physically formidable as Shane. But he refuses to take no for an answer. Soon the two are sharing secrets and the simmering attraction between them shows signs of sizzling out of control. But as Faith learns, Shaneâ€™s not a forever kind of guyâ€”unless she can convince him to undergo a major change of heart.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24099'),
(19892, 'Heart of Stone', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7044'),
(19893, 'Heart of Stone', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11592'),
(19894, 'Heart of Stone', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16822'),
(19895, 'Heart of Stone', 'C. E. Murphy', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26701'),
(19896, 'Heart of the Comet', 'Gregory Benford; David Brin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: An odyssey of discovery, from a shattered society through the solar system with a handful of men and women who ride a cold, hurtling ball of ice to the shaky promise of a distant, unknowable future.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18324');
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(19897, 'Heart of the Matter', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A powerful, provocative novel about marriage and motherhood, love and forgiveness\n </em>\n .__\n</p>\n<p>\n Tessa Russo is a stay-at-home mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlieâ€”a boy who has never known his father. Although both women live in the same Boston suburb, they are strangers to one another and have little in common, aside from a fierce love for their children. But one night, a tragic accident causes their lives to converge in ways no one could have imagined.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the moving, luminous story of good people caught in untenable circumstances. Each being tested in ways they never thought possible. Each questioning everything they once believed. And each ultimately discovering what truly matters most.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: A Conversation Between Kristin Hannah and Emily Giffin\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling novels, including\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of eighteen novels, including\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin Hannah:\n </strong>\n Well, first, I have to say, Emily, that I am just the tiniest bit irritated with you. When I got the call to do this interview, I was thrilled, to say the least. It came at a really busy time for me--right after the holidays and we all know how crazy that is--and my work in progress was giving me fits. Then I picked up\n <em>\n  Heart of the Matter\n </em>\n , and lost myself. No more writing, no more cooking, no getting my hair done or reading my email. Once I started the story I literally couldn''t put it down. Brava, girlfriend, I say. Your characters are so real and compelling, and they always say exactly the right thing. With so much honest emotion, I just have to ask how much of your work comes from your own life?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Emily Giffin:\n </strong>\n It never fails to thrill me when someone responds to one of my novels--especially when it''s another writer. Writers understand the alchemy involved in making up something from nothing. And I just finished your book,\n <em>\n  Night Road\n </em>\n , and I found it so emotional, so moving, and so terrifyingâ€”especially since I have three young children who will someday be teenagers. In terms of how much does my work come from my own life, I would say that I''m absolutely inspired by people, places, conversations, relationships, and issues that I observe, and that the "what if" part of my novel is very much inspired by these things in my life. But the details of my plots and the specifics of my characters come from my own head. How about you, Kristin? I''ll ask you the million-dollar question that every author gets asked: where do you get your ideas?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n Ah, the idea question. I don''t want to sound coy, but the truth is, I don''t quite know. It''s the most magical part of the process for me. I''m a pretty analytical gal, and I approach writing in the same just-the-facts-ma''am way I approach most things. I need to find an issue that engages me on an intellectual level, and then I need to marry that curiosity with a kind of passion. I need to feel genuinely passionate about each story before I ever write a word, and I have to actually have something to say. It takes me at least a year to research and write a novel, and so I have to really adore each part of itâ€”the characters, setting, story. Most of all, it has to make me feel something genuine. That''s really the most important component. Usually it begins with a single "what if" questionâ€”what if you discovered your mother had a whole secret life about which you knew nothing (_Winter Garden_) or what if your husband were accused of a crime you believed he hadn''t committed (_True Colors_)â€”and then I write and re-write until the characters seem as real to me as old friends.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n I''m amazed by how much we have in common. We''re both moms, both lawyers, both lived in London for a time. You''re like a younger, cooler version of me. How did you make the transition from lawyer to writer, and do you think you''ll ever practice law again?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Emily:\n </strong>\n I would hardly say I''m cooler than you, Kristin! I hear you live in Hawaii part time! What is cooler than that? I made the transition from lawyer to writer because I was so miserable being a lawyer that I needed some escape from the day-to-day of it. And inventing stories was that escape. I can say, without hesitation, that I will never practice law again. Would you? What kind of law did you practice, and for how long? What did you find appealing (or discouraging) about law? Did you find that it gave you fodder for any of your novels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n Honestly, I have met very few lawyers who don''t say that what they really want to do is write. Like you, I can say with certainty that I will never practice law again. Not that anyone would want me to. But I still keep my Bar membership upâ€¦just in case this whole writing thing doesn''t work out. And yes, in the past few years, I have finally begun to put some of that law school education to work for me. I find that I''m really enjoying adding legal issues to my work. Of course, I have to talk to\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n lawyers to make sure I''m getting it right...\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the popular Giffin''s latest, Nick Russo is a pediatric plastic surgeon; his wife, Tessa (sister of Dex, from\n <em>\n  Something Borrowed\n </em>\n ), is a professor turned stay-at-home mom living a cushy life in Boston. Nick is called in to care for a six-year-old burn victim, and Nick''s devotion to his work is soon tangled up in his attraction to the boy''s mother, Valerie, a single attorney. Narrated in turn by Tessa and Valerie, the action centers aroundâ€”will they or won''t they, and, if they do, will Tessa forgive him? While unclear what Nick finds so unsatisfying in his marriage, adultery is always tempting and Tessa and Valerie both have their charms. Longtime fans will enjoy the cameos, but for the best of Giffin, don''t miss her earlier works.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h2>\n Product Details\n</h2>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Hardcover:\n  </strong>\n  384 pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Publisher:\n  </strong>\n  St. Martin''s Press; 1 edition (May 11, 2010)\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Language:\n  </strong>\n  English\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   ISBN-10:\n  </strong>\n  9780312554163\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   ISBN-13:\n  </strong>\n  978-0312554163\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   ASIN:\n  </strong>\n  0312554168\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Product Dimensions:\n  </strong>\n  9.5 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Shipping Weight:\n  </strong>\n  1.2 pounds (\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Average Customer Review:\n  </strong>\n  (\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  289 Reviews\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (114)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (87)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (55)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (29)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (4)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€ºÂ \n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Bestsellers Rank:\n  </strong>\n  #25,924 in Books (\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Â Would you like to\n <strong>\n </strong>\n , *\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   , or *\n  </em>\n </strong>\n ?\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h2>\n Customer Reviews\n</h2>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  289 Reviews\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (114)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (87)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (55)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (29)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (4)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Average Customer Review\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n 4.0 out of 5 stars (\n</p>\n<p>\n Share your thoughts with other customers:\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Most Helpful Customer Reviews\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n 70 of 78 people found the following review helpful:\n</p>\n<p>\n 5.0 out of 5 stars\n <strong>\n  Both sides of the story.\n </strong>\n , May 11, 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n ByÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This review is from: Heart of the Matter (Hardcover)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n I like Emily Giffin''s newest book HEART OF THE MATTER because it explores something fundamental, basic and easy to understand about human nature, that we rarely if ever see ourselves as the villain when we tell the story of our lives. For every mistake we make, we can justify it by telling ourselves the reasons we did it. For every choice that we decide that affects other people, we know what led us to them. And when every small choice we make suddenly puts us square in the middle of some disaster and we''re the "bad guy" in the situation, it''s not like we didn''t have good intentions at the start. And it''s that sort of disaster that leads HEART OF THE MATTER''s two narrators, Tessa and Valerie, to find themselves at odds with one another. And because each of them gets to tell their version of events to us, there''s not really a villain in this story of injured children, gossipy private school moms, broken families and, more than anything, infidelity. Tessa and Val are just two women who''ve made mistakes and bad choices for very good reasons. And, under different circumstances, they''d probably be really close friends.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tessa and Val''s story begins with an accident. Valerie Anderson is a strong, determined, stubborn single mom to Charlie, a very sweet, sensitive little boy who''s a student at a private school in Boston. She reluctantly allows Charlie to go to a friend''s birthday party, even though she finds the parents involved to be rich and snotty. At the party, Charlie is seriously injured in a campfire and rushed to the hospital. Val beats herself up over these choices, not trusting her instincts, massively upset over her hurt little boy. Her twin brother Jason tries to comfort her. But no one is able to reassure her until her son''s excellent, attractive pediatric plastic surgeon, Dr. Nick Russo, arrives and tells her that Charlie is a beautiful child and would continue to be. It''s just what she needs to hear at a very tough time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nick, though, had to rush to the hospital from his seventh wedding anniversary dinner with Tessa, his loving, fun wife who''s struggling to redefine her identity after she''s given up her job as a professor to be a stay-at-home mom to her two little kids, Ruby and Frank. Tessa''s mom advised her not to quit her job because she was afraid that Tessa might lose herself or become resentful of her frequently busy, often absent genius husband. Tessa feels inferior to all of the other private school moms around her, even her friend April, a cold perfectionist, and Romy, a rich woman who''s panicked because the campfire accident that burned Charlie happened at her house.\n</p>\n<p>\n So Tessa and Val are connected by community, by mutual acquaintances and now through Nick, whom they both come to care for and have issues with.\n</p>\n<p>\n Giffin''s writing style and the alternating points-of-view allow us to care about both women, building suspense as we wonder just how far their lives will become entwined and just how far the love triangle that eventually becomes central to the novel will go.\n</p>\n<p>\n HEART OF THE MATTER is arguably Giffin''s best book. Like her other novels, it''s occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. But, in her fifth book, Giffin allows herself to explore the deeper, darker mistakes and the minutae that can harm well-meaning people trying to find themselves while coping with marriage.\n</p>\n<p>\n HEART OF THE MATTER is deep and serious, occasionally incredibly sad and moving. She lets us get to know Tessa and Val and care for them in the way that her readers came to love her SOMETHING BORROWED/SOMETHING BLUE heroines Rachel and Darcy. And she mines new territory by criticizing the privileged, gossipy culture of moms that the two women live in.\n</p>\n<p>\n HEART OF THE MATTER is occasionally as funny, tangled and bitterly insightful as Tom Perrotta''s LITTLE CHILDREN, another great book that I found myself thinking of often as I read this. But the voice of HEART OF THE MATTER is distinctly Giffin''s, and fans - in particular fans of SOMETHING BORROWED - will not be disappointed by HEART OF THE MATTER.\n</p>\n<p>\n There is much to love in this new book.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Help other customers find the most helpful reviews\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Was this review helpful to you?Â \n</p>\n<p>\n |\n</p>\n<p>\n 54 of 62 people found the following review helpful:\n</p>\n<p>\n 3.0 out of 5 stars\n <strong>\n  Unexciting depiction of a somewhat-fresh adultery tale\n </strong>\n , May 15, 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n ByÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Verified Purchase\n </strong>\n (\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This review is from: Heart of the Matter (Hardcover)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Something Borrowed is my favorite modern novel. Period. I love how it shows a balanced, thoughtful, emotional account of infidelity, friendship, and the complexities of turning 30 with unrealized expectations...with flawed characters whose voices and backgrounds are varied and ring true.\n</p>\n<p>\n It seems, though, that in each subsequent release, the narrators of Giffin''s stories become more cookie-cutter, more self-absorbed, more whiny. In fact, the first few chapters of Heart of the Matter were boring...too much exposition, to much ''tell,'' flashback, character descriptions. What happened to letting us know the characters by their behaviors and actions? Honestly, I was thrown back to Sweet Valley High when Jessica and Elizabeth''s physical appearances, down to their aquamarine eyes, were described in detail around page 6 of Every. Single. Book.\n</p>\n<p>\n Also: female novelists: PLEASE stop giving every mommy-protagonist a single BFF who is longing to have what the mommy has. Is it possible that some single women are happy with their lives? Is it possible some married mothers are best friends with... other married mothers? You don''t need that cliche character in order to cultivate a random bar/hi-jinks plot excursion. Cate was unnecessary. Completely. (And don''t get me started on Romy. People DO have layers...even rich, entitled ones).\n</p>\n<p>\n That said, this story did get better as time went along, although I found the character Val, because of what she exposed her child to, to be not nearly as sympathetic as she should have been. I found Tessa to be fairly bland. I found the re-appearance of two of my favorite characters from Giffin''s original storyline (I won''t name and spoil it) to be very exciting at first...but also... a little vanilla.\n</p>\n<p>\n I am worried that Giffin has shown us all her tricks, kind of like Danielle Steel did with her first 2 or 3 of 8 million novels. We have a lawyer...we have a competitiveness among well-to-do women...we have infidelity of some kind...we have a female character who basically has it all but is inexplicably unsatisfied over conditions she could change if she tried... oh, and we have twins. (It''s not a bothersome recurring happenstance, but again, we get it. Giffin has twins...)\n</p>\n<p>\n The relationship between Tessa''s parents and the culmination of their past was my favorite moment in the book. I also appreciate that The Conflict was handled with sensitivity toward all parties involved. For once, though, I would appreciate a mommy story in which the mommies are not too busy trying to one-up each other and make their kids into organic-Stepford-moppets to actually support and advocate for one another. There was a great passage in the book in which Tessa describes all the things the mommies compare in each other... their husbands, their houses, their problems. What I loved most about the passage was that the things listed were all things I discuss with my mommy friends...in a NON-critical or competitive way.\n</p>\n<p>\n Why is it so hard for female novelists to give females credit?\n</p>\n<p>\n I will continue to read Giffin, because she created Dex and Rachel and Darcy and Marcus and Hilary...but when the next novel comes out, I might be on the library''s waiting list instead of on the Amazon pre-order...\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Help other customers find the most helpful reviews\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Was this review helpful to you?Â \n</p>\n<p>\n |\n</p>\n<p>\n 36 of 43 people found the following review helpful:\n</p>\n<p>\n 4.0 out of 5 stars\n <strong>\n  Enjoyable Giffin\n </strong>\n , March 26, 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n ByÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This review is from: Heart of the Matter (Hardcover)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Customer review from the Amazon Vineâ„¢ Program\n </strong>\n (\n</p>\n<p>\n I usually love Giffin''s books, and this one was no exception. She draws you in with three-dimensional characters and engaging situations. This story is told from two points of view: Tessa, a stay-at-home mom married to a pediatric surgeon, Nick; and Valerie, a single mother whose child is badly burned at a slumber party. Valerie''s child, Charlie, is under the care of Nick, and Valerie finds herself drawn to Nick, who is compassionate and skillful. Soon, Nick and Valerie''s friendship turns into more, and Tessa is suspicious.\n</p>\n<p>\n I read this book in less than 24 hours, and was able to relate to both mothers. I thought the story was wonderful. My only objection was the ending; I would have ended it differently. 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(19898, 'Heart of the Matter', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A powerful, provocative novel about marriage and motherhood, love and forgiveness\n </em>\n .__\n</p>\n<p>\n Tessa Russo is a stay-at-home mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlieâ€”a boy who has never known his father. Although both women live in the same Boston suburb, they are strangers to one another and have little in common, aside from a fierce love for their children. But one night, a tragic accident causes their lives to converge in ways no one could have imagined.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the moving, luminous story of good people caught in untenable circumstances. Each being tested in ways they never thought possible. Each questioning everything they once believed. And each ultimately discovering what truly matters most.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: A Conversation Between Kristin Hannah and Emily Giffin\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling novels, including\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of eighteen novels, including\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin Hannah:\n </strong>\n Well, first, I have to say, Emily, that I am just the tiniest bit irritated with you. When I got the call to do this interview, I was thrilled, to say the least. It came at a really busy time for me--right after the holidays and we all know how crazy that is--and my work in progress was giving me fits. Then I picked up\n <em>\n  Heart of the Matter\n </em>\n , and lost myself. No more writing, no more cooking, no getting my hair done or reading my email. Once I started the story I literally couldn''t put it down. Brava, girlfriend, I say. Your characters are so real and compelling, and they always say exactly the right thing. With so much honest emotion, I just have to ask how much of your work comes from your own life?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Emily Giffin:\n </strong>\n It never fails to thrill me when someone responds to one of my novels--especially when it''s another writer. Writers understand the alchemy involved in making up something from nothing. And I just finished your book,\n <em>\n  Night Road\n </em>\n , and I found it so emotional, so moving, and so terrifyingâ€”especially since I have three young children who will someday be teenagers. In terms of how much does my work come from my own life, I would say that I''m absolutely inspired by people, places, conversations, relationships, and issues that I observe, and that the "what if" part of my novel is very much inspired by these things in my life. But the details of my plots and the specifics of my characters come from my own head. How about you, Kristin? I''ll ask you the million-dollar question that every author gets asked: where do you get your ideas?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n Ah, the idea question. I don''t want to sound coy, but the truth is, I don''t quite know. It''s the most magical part of the process for me. I''m a pretty analytical gal, and I approach writing in the same just-the-facts-ma''am way I approach most things. I need to find an issue that engages me on an intellectual level, and then I need to marry that curiosity with a kind of passion. I need to feel genuinely passionate about each story before I ever write a word, and I have to actually have something to say. It takes me at least a year to research and write a novel, and so I have to really adore each part of itâ€”the characters, setting, story. Most of all, it has to make me feel something genuine. That''s really the most important component. Usually it begins with a single "what if" questionâ€”what if you discovered your mother had a whole secret life about which you knew nothing (_Winter Garden_) or what if your husband were accused of a crime you believed he hadn''t committed (_True Colors_)â€”and then I write and re-write until the characters seem as real to me as old friends.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n I''m amazed by how much we have in common. We''re both moms, both lawyers, both lived in London for a time. You''re like a younger, cooler version of me. How did you make the transition from lawyer to writer, and do you think you''ll ever practice law again?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Emily:\n </strong>\n I would hardly say I''m cooler than you, Kristin! I hear you live in Hawaii part time! What is cooler than that? I made the transition from lawyer to writer because I was so miserable being a lawyer that I needed some escape from the day-to-day of it. And inventing stories was that escape. I can say, without hesitation, that I will never practice law again. Would you? What kind of law did you practice, and for how long? What did you find appealing (or discouraging) about law? Did you find that it gave you fodder for any of your novels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n Honestly, I have met very few lawyers who don''t say that what they really want to do is write. Like you, I can say with certainty that I will never practice law again. Not that anyone would want me to. But I still keep my Bar membership upâ€¦just in case this whole writing thing doesn''t work out. And yes, in the past few years, I have finally begun to put some of that law school education to work for me. I find that I''m really enjoying adding legal issues to my work. Of course, I have to talk to\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n lawyers to make sure I''m getting it right...\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the popular Giffin''s latest, Nick Russo is a pediatric plastic surgeon; his wife, Tessa (sister of Dex, from\n <em>\n  Something Borrowed\n </em>\n ), is a professor turned stay-at-home mom living a cushy life in Boston. Nick is called in to care for a six-year-old burn victim, and Nick''s devotion to his work is soon tangled up in his attraction to the boy''s mother, Valerie, a single attorney. Narrated in turn by Tessa and Valerie, the action centers aroundâ€”will they or won''t they, and, if they do, will Tessa forgive him? While unclear what Nick finds so unsatisfying in his marriage, adultery is always tempting and Tessa and Valerie both have their charms. Longtime fans will enjoy the cameos, but for the best of Giffin, don''t miss her earlier works.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h2>\n Product Details\n</h2>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Hardcover:\n  </strong>\n  384 pages\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Publisher:\n  </strong>\n  St. Martin''s Press; 1 edition (May 11, 2010)\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Language:\n  </strong>\n  English\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   ISBN-10:\n  </strong>\n  9780312554163\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   ISBN-13:\n  </strong>\n  978-0312554163\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   ASIN:\n  </strong>\n  0312554168\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Product Dimensions:\n  </strong>\n  9.5 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Shipping Weight:\n  </strong>\n  1.2 pounds (\n </li>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Average Customer Review:\n  </strong>\n  (\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  289 Reviews\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (114)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (87)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (55)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (29)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (4)\n</p>\n<p>\n â€ºÂ \n</p>\n<ul>\n <li>\n  <strong>\n   Amazon Bestsellers Rank:\n  </strong>\n  #25,924 in Books (\n </li>\n</ul>\n<p>\n Â Would you like to\n <strong>\n </strong>\n , *\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   , or *\n  </em>\n </strong>\n ?\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h2>\n Customer Reviews\n</h2>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  289 Reviews\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (114)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (87)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (55)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (29)\n</p>\n<p>\n Â (4)\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Average Customer Review\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n 4.0 out of 5 stars (\n</p>\n<p>\n Share your thoughts with other customers:\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Most Helpful Customer Reviews\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n 70 of 78 people found the following review helpful:\n</p>\n<p>\n 5.0 out of 5 stars\n <strong>\n  Both sides of the story.\n </strong>\n , May 11, 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n ByÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This review is from: Heart of the Matter (Hardcover)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n I like Emily Giffin''s newest book HEART OF THE MATTER because it explores something fundamental, basic and easy to understand about human nature, that we rarely if ever see ourselves as the villain when we tell the story of our lives. For every mistake we make, we can justify it by telling ourselves the reasons we did it. For every choice that we decide that affects other people, we know what led us to them. And when every small choice we make suddenly puts us square in the middle of some disaster and we''re the "bad guy" in the situation, it''s not like we didn''t have good intentions at the start. And it''s that sort of disaster that leads HEART OF THE MATTER''s two narrators, Tessa and Valerie, to find themselves at odds with one another. And because each of them gets to tell their version of events to us, there''s not really a villain in this story of injured children, gossipy private school moms, broken families and, more than anything, infidelity. Tessa and Val are just two women who''ve made mistakes and bad choices for very good reasons. And, under different circumstances, they''d probably be really close friends.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tessa and Val''s story begins with an accident. Valerie Anderson is a strong, determined, stubborn single mom to Charlie, a very sweet, sensitive little boy who''s a student at a private school in Boston. She reluctantly allows Charlie to go to a friend''s birthday party, even though she finds the parents involved to be rich and snotty. At the party, Charlie is seriously injured in a campfire and rushed to the hospital. Val beats herself up over these choices, not trusting her instincts, massively upset over her hurt little boy. Her twin brother Jason tries to comfort her. But no one is able to reassure her until her son''s excellent, attractive pediatric plastic surgeon, Dr. Nick Russo, arrives and tells her that Charlie is a beautiful child and would continue to be. It''s just what she needs to hear at a very tough time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nick, though, had to rush to the hospital from his seventh wedding anniversary dinner with Tessa, his loving, fun wife who''s struggling to redefine her identity after she''s given up her job as a professor to be a stay-at-home mom to her two little kids, Ruby and Frank. Tessa''s mom advised her not to quit her job because she was afraid that Tessa might lose herself or become resentful of her frequently busy, often absent genius husband. Tessa feels inferior to all of the other private school moms around her, even her friend April, a cold perfectionist, and Romy, a rich woman who''s panicked because the campfire accident that burned Charlie happened at her house.\n</p>\n<p>\n So Tessa and Val are connected by community, by mutual acquaintances and now through Nick, whom they both come to care for and have issues with.\n</p>\n<p>\n Giffin''s writing style and the alternating points-of-view allow us to care about both women, building suspense as we wonder just how far their lives will become entwined and just how far the love triangle that eventually becomes central to the novel will go.\n</p>\n<p>\n HEART OF THE MATTER is arguably Giffin''s best book. Like her other novels, it''s occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. But, in her fifth book, Giffin allows herself to explore the deeper, darker mistakes and the minutae that can harm well-meaning people trying to find themselves while coping with marriage.\n</p>\n<p>\n HEART OF THE MATTER is deep and serious, occasionally incredibly sad and moving. She lets us get to know Tessa and Val and care for them in the way that her readers came to love her SOMETHING BORROWED/SOMETHING BLUE heroines Rachel and Darcy. And she mines new territory by criticizing the privileged, gossipy culture of moms that the two women live in.\n</p>\n<p>\n HEART OF THE MATTER is occasionally as funny, tangled and bitterly insightful as Tom Perrotta''s LITTLE CHILDREN, another great book that I found myself thinking of often as I read this. But the voice of HEART OF THE MATTER is distinctly Giffin''s, and fans - in particular fans of SOMETHING BORROWED - will not be disappointed by HEART OF THE MATTER.\n</p>\n<p>\n There is much to love in this new book.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Help other customers find the most helpful reviews\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Was this review helpful to you?Â \n</p>\n<p>\n |\n</p>\n<p>\n 54 of 62 people found the following review helpful:\n</p>\n<p>\n 3.0 out of 5 stars\n <strong>\n  Unexciting depiction of a somewhat-fresh adultery tale\n </strong>\n , May 15, 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n ByÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Verified Purchase\n </strong>\n (\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This review is from: Heart of the Matter (Hardcover)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Something Borrowed is my favorite modern novel. Period. I love how it shows a balanced, thoughtful, emotional account of infidelity, friendship, and the complexities of turning 30 with unrealized expectations...with flawed characters whose voices and backgrounds are varied and ring true.\n</p>\n<p>\n It seems, though, that in each subsequent release, the narrators of Giffin''s stories become more cookie-cutter, more self-absorbed, more whiny. In fact, the first few chapters of Heart of the Matter were boring...too much exposition, to much ''tell,'' flashback, character descriptions. What happened to letting us know the characters by their behaviors and actions? Honestly, I was thrown back to Sweet Valley High when Jessica and Elizabeth''s physical appearances, down to their aquamarine eyes, were described in detail around page 6 of Every. Single. Book.\n</p>\n<p>\n Also: female novelists: PLEASE stop giving every mommy-protagonist a single BFF who is longing to have what the mommy has. Is it possible that some single women are happy with their lives? Is it possible some married mothers are best friends with... other married mothers? You don''t need that cliche character in order to cultivate a random bar/hi-jinks plot excursion. Cate was unnecessary. Completely. (And don''t get me started on Romy. People DO have layers...even rich, entitled ones).\n</p>\n<p>\n That said, this story did get better as time went along, although I found the character Val, because of what she exposed her child to, to be not nearly as sympathetic as she should have been. I found Tessa to be fairly bland. I found the re-appearance of two of my favorite characters from Giffin''s original storyline (I won''t name and spoil it) to be very exciting at first...but also... a little vanilla.\n</p>\n<p>\n I am worried that Giffin has shown us all her tricks, kind of like Danielle Steel did with her first 2 or 3 of 8 million novels. We have a lawyer...we have a competitiveness among well-to-do women...we have infidelity of some kind...we have a female character who basically has it all but is inexplicably unsatisfied over conditions she could change if she tried... oh, and we have twins. (It''s not a bothersome recurring happenstance, but again, we get it. Giffin has twins...)\n</p>\n<p>\n The relationship between Tessa''s parents and the culmination of their past was my favorite moment in the book. I also appreciate that The Conflict was handled with sensitivity toward all parties involved. For once, though, I would appreciate a mommy story in which the mommies are not too busy trying to one-up each other and make their kids into organic-Stepford-moppets to actually support and advocate for one another. There was a great passage in the book in which Tessa describes all the things the mommies compare in each other... their husbands, their houses, their problems. What I loved most about the passage was that the things listed were all things I discuss with my mommy friends...in a NON-critical or competitive way.\n</p>\n<p>\n Why is it so hard for female novelists to give females credit?\n</p>\n<p>\n I will continue to read Giffin, because she created Dex and Rachel and Darcy and Marcus and Hilary...but when the next novel comes out, I might be on the library''s waiting list instead of on the Amazon pre-order...\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Help other customers find the most helpful reviews\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n Was this review helpful to you?Â \n</p>\n<p>\n |\n</p>\n<p>\n 36 of 43 people found the following review helpful:\n</p>\n<p>\n 4.0 out of 5 stars\n <strong>\n  Enjoyable Giffin\n </strong>\n , March 26, 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n ByÂ \n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This review is from: Heart of the Matter (Hardcover)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Customer review from the Amazon Vineâ„¢ Program\n </strong>\n (\n</p>\n<p>\n I usually love Giffin''s books, and this one was no exception. 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(19900, 'Heart of the Matter', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Product Description\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  A powerful, provocative novel about marriage and motherhood, love and forgiveness\n </em>\n .__\n</p>\n<p>\n Tessa Russo is a stay-at-home mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlieâ€”a boy who has never known his father. Although both women live in the same Boston suburb, they are strangers to one another and have little in common, aside from a fierce love for their children. But one night, a tragic accident causes their lives to converge in ways no one could have imagined.\n</p>\n<p>\n This is the moving, luminous story of good people caught in untenable circumstances. Each being tested in ways they never thought possible. Each questioning everything they once believed. And each ultimately discovering what truly matters most.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Exclusive: A Conversation Between Kristin Hannah and Emily Giffin\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling novels, including\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling author of eighteen novels, including\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin Hannah:\n </strong>\n Well, first, I have to say, Emily, that I am just the tiniest bit irritated with you. When I got the call to do this interview, I was thrilled, to say the least. It came at a really busy time for me--right after the holidays and we all know how crazy that is--and my work in progress was giving me fits. Then I picked up\n <em>\n  Heart of the Matter\n </em>\n , and lost myself. No more writing, no more cooking, no getting my hair done or reading my email. Once I started the story I literally couldn''t put it down. Brava, girlfriend, I say. Your characters are so real and compelling, and they always say exactly the right thing. With so much honest emotion, I just have to ask how much of your work comes from your own life?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Emily Giffin:\n </strong>\n It never fails to thrill me when someone responds to one of my novels--especially when it''s another writer. Writers understand the alchemy involved in making up something from nothing. And I just finished your book,\n <em>\n  Night Road\n </em>\n , and I found it so emotional, so moving, and so terrifyingâ€”especially since I have three young children who will someday be teenagers. In terms of how much does my work come from my own life, I would say that I''m absolutely inspired by people, places, conversations, relationships, and issues that I observe, and that the "what if" part of my novel is very much inspired by these things in my life. But the details of my plots and the specifics of my characters come from my own head. How about you, Kristin? I''ll ask you the million-dollar question that every author gets asked: where do you get your ideas?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n Ah, the idea question. I don''t want to sound coy, but the truth is, I don''t quite know. It''s the most magical part of the process for me. I''m a pretty analytical gal, and I approach writing in the same just-the-facts-ma''am way I approach most things. I need to find an issue that engages me on an intellectual level, and then I need to marry that curiosity with a kind of passion. I need to feel genuinely passionate about each story before I ever write a word, and I have to actually have something to say. It takes me at least a year to research and write a novel, and so I have to really adore each part of itâ€”the characters, setting, story. Most of all, it has to make me feel something genuine. That''s really the most important component. Usually it begins with a single "what if" questionâ€”what if you discovered your mother had a whole secret life about which you knew nothing (_Winter Garden_) or what if your husband were accused of a crime you believed he hadn''t committed (_True Colors_)â€”and then I write and re-write until the characters seem as real to me as old friends.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n I''m amazed by how much we have in common. We''re both moms, both lawyers, both lived in London for a time. You''re like a younger, cooler version of me. How did you make the transition from lawyer to writer, and do you think you''ll ever practice law again?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Emily:\n </strong>\n I would hardly say I''m cooler than you, Kristin! I hear you live in Hawaii part time! What is cooler than that? I made the transition from lawyer to writer because I was so miserable being a lawyer that I needed some escape from the day-to-day of it. And inventing stories was that escape. I can say, without hesitation, that I will never practice law again. Would you? What kind of law did you practice, and for how long? What did you find appealing (or discouraging) about law? Did you find that it gave you fodder for any of your novels?\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Kristin:\n </strong>\n Honestly, I have met very few lawyers who don''t say that what they really want to do is write. Like you, I can say with certainty that I will never practice law again. Not that anyone would want me to. But I still keep my Bar membership up...just in case this whole writing thing doesn''t work out. And yes, in the past few years, I have finally begun to put some of that law school education to work for me. I find that I''m really enjoying adding legal issues to my work. Of course, I have to talk to\n <em>\n  real\n </em>\n lawyers to make sure I''m getting it right...\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the popular Giffin''s latest, Nick Russo is a pediatric plastic surgeon; his wife, Tessa (sister of Dex, from\n <em>\n  Something Borrowed\n </em>\n ), is a professor turned stay-at-home mom living a cushy life in Boston. Nick is called in to care for a six-year-old burn victim, and Nick''s devotion to his work is soon tangled up in his attraction to the boy''s mother, Valerie, a single attorney. Narrated in turn by Tessa and Valerie, the action centers aroundâ€”will they or won''t they, and, if they do, will Tessa forgive him? While unclear what Nick finds so unsatisfying in his marriage, adultery is always tempting and Tessa and Valerie both have their charms. Longtime fans will enjoy the cameos, but for the best of Giffin, don''t miss her earlier works.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. 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For every mistake we make, we can justify it by telling ourselves the reasons we did it. For every choice that we decide that affects other people, we know what led us to them. And when every small choice we make suddenly puts us square in the middle of some disaster and we''re the "bad guy" in the situation, it''s not like we didn''t have good intentions at the start. And it''s that sort of disaster that leads HEART OF THE MATTER''s two narrators, Tessa and Valerie, to find themselves at odds with one another. And because each of them gets to tell their version of events to us, there''s not really a villain in this story of injured children, gossipy private school moms, broken families and, more than anything, infidelity. Tessa and Val are just two women who''ve made mistakes and bad choices for very good reasons. And, under different circumstances, they''d probably be really close friends.\n</p>\n<p>\n Tessa and Val''s story begins with an accident. Valerie Anderson is a strong, determined, stubborn single mom to Charlie, a very sweet, sensitive little boy who''s a student at a private school in Boston. She reluctantly allows Charlie to go to a friend''s birthday party, even though she finds the parents involved to be rich and snotty. At the party, Charlie is seriously injured in a campfire and rushed to the hospital. Val beats herself up over these choices, not trusting her instincts, massively upset over her hurt little boy. Her twin brother Jason tries to comfort her. But no one is able to reassure her until her son''s excellent, attractive pediatric plastic surgeon, Dr. Nick Russo, arrives and tells her that Charlie is a beautiful child and would continue to be. It''s just what she needs to hear at a very tough time.\n</p>\n<p>\n Nick, though, had to rush to the hospital from his seventh wedding anniversary dinner with Tessa, his loving, fun wife who''s struggling to redefine her identity after she''s given up her job as a professor to be a stay-at-home mom to her two little kids, Ruby and Frank. Tessa''s mom advised her not to quit her job because she was afraid that Tessa might lose herself or become resentful of her frequently busy, often absent genius husband. Tessa feels inferior to all of the other private school moms around her, even her friend April, a cold perfectionist, and Romy, a rich woman who''s panicked because the campfire accident that burned Charlie happened at her house.\n</p>\n<p>\n So Tessa and Val are connected by community, by mutual acquaintances and now through Nick, whom they both come to care for and have issues with.\n</p>\n<p>\n Giffin''s writing style and the alternating points-of-view allow us to care about both women, building suspense as we wonder just how far their lives will become entwined and just how far the love triangle that eventually becomes central to the novel will go.\n</p>\n<p>\n HEART OF THE MATTER is arguably Giffin''s best book. Like her other novels, it''s occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. But, in her fifth book, Giffin allows herself to explore the deeper, darker mistakes and the minutae that can harm well-meaning people trying to find themselves while coping with marriage.\n</p>\n<p>\n HEART OF THE MATTER is deep and serious, occasionally incredibly sad and moving. She lets us get to know Tessa and Val and care for them in the way that her readers came to love her SOMETHING BORROWED/SOMETHING BLUE heroines Rachel and Darcy. And she mines new territory by criticizing the privileged, gossipy culture of moms that the two women live in.\n</p>\n<p>\n HEART OF THE MATTER is occasionally as funny, tangled and bitterly insightful as Tom Perrotta''s LITTLE CHILDREN, another great book that I found myself thinking of often as I read this. But the voice of HEART OF THE MATTER is distinctly Giffin''s, and fans - in particular fans of SOMETHING BORROWED - will not be disappointed by HEART OF THE MATTER.\n</p>\n<p>\n There is much to love in this new book.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Help other customers find the most helpful reviews\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Was this review helpful to you?\n</p>\n<p>\n |\n</p>\n<p>\n 54 of 62 people found the following review helpful:\n</p>\n<p>\n 3.0 out of 5 stars\n <strong>\n  Unexciting depiction of a somewhat-fresh adultery tale\n </strong>\n , May 15, 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n By\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Amazon Verified Purchase\n </strong>\n (\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This review is from: Heart of the Matter (Hardcover)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Something Borrowed is my favorite modern novel. Period. I love how it shows a balanced, thoughtful, emotional account of infidelity, friendship, and the complexities of turning 30 with unrealized expectations...with flawed characters whose voices and backgrounds are varied and ring true.\n</p>\n<p>\n It seems, though, that in each subsequent release, the narrators of Giffin''s stories become more cookie-cutter, more self-absorbed, more whiny. In fact, the first few chapters of Heart of the Matter were boring...too much exposition, to much ''tell,'' flashback, character descriptions. What happened to letting us know the characters by their behaviors and actions? Honestly, I was thrown back to Sweet Valley High when Jessica and Elizabeth''s physical appearances, down to their aquamarine eyes, were described in detail around page 6 of Every. Single. Book.\n</p>\n<p>\n Also: female novelists: PLEASE stop giving every mommy-protagonist a single BFF who is longing to have what the mommy has. Is it possible that some single women are happy with their lives? Is it possible some married mothers are best friends with... other married mothers? You don''t need that cliche character in order to cultivate a random bar/hi-jinks plot excursion. Cate was unnecessary. Completely. (And don''t get me started on Romy. People DO have layers...even rich, entitled ones).\n</p>\n<p>\n That said, this story did get better as time went along, although I found the character Val, because of what she exposed her child to, to be not nearly as sympathetic as she should have been. I found Tessa to be fairly bland. I found the re-appearance of two of my favorite characters from Giffin''s original storyline (I won''t name and spoil it) to be very exciting at first...but also... a little vanilla.\n</p>\n<p>\n I am worried that Giffin has shown us all her tricks, kind of like Danielle Steel did with her first 2 or 3 of 8 million novels. We have a lawyer...we have a competitiveness among well-to-do women...we have infidelity of some kind...we have a female character who basically has it all but is inexplicably unsatisfied over conditions she could change if she tried... oh, and we have twins. (It''s not a bothersome recurring happenstance, but again, we get it. Giffin has twins...)\n</p>\n<p>\n The relationship between Tessa''s parents and the culmination of their past was my favorite moment in the book. I also appreciate that The Conflict was handled with sensitivity toward all parties involved. For once, though, I would appreciate a mommy story in which the mommies are not too busy trying to one-up each other and make their kids into organic-Stepford-moppets to actually support and advocate for one another. There was a great passage in the book in which Tessa describes all the things the mommies compare in each other... their husbands, their houses, their problems. What I loved most about the passage was that the things listed were all things I discuss with my mommy friends...in a NON-critical or competitive way.\n</p>\n<p>\n Why is it so hard for female novelists to give females credit?\n</p>\n<p>\n I will continue to read Giffin, because she created Dex and Rachel and Darcy and Marcus and Hilary...but when the next novel comes out, I might be on the library''s waiting list instead of on the Amazon pre-order...\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Help other customers find the most helpful reviews\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Was this review helpful to you?\n</p>\n<p>\n |\n</p>\n<p>\n 36 of 43 people found the following review helpful:\n</p>\n<p>\n 4.0 out of 5 stars\n <strong>\n  Enjoyable Giffin\n </strong>\n , March 26, 2010\n</p>\n<p>\n By\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  This review is from: Heart of the Matter (Hardcover)\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Customer review from the Amazon VineTM Program\n </strong>\n (\n</p>\n<p>\n I usually love Giffin''s books, and this one was no exception. 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(19901, 'Heart of the Matter', 'Emily Giffin', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  "Giffin excels at creating complex characters and stories that ask us to explore what we really want from our lives."--*Atlanta Journal-Constitution*\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Tessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon.  Despite her own mother''s warnings, Tessa has recently given up her career to focus on her family and the pursuit of domestic happiness. From the outside, she seems destined to live a charmed life.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlie--a boy who has never known his father.  After too many disappointments, she has given up on romance--and even to some degree, friendships--believing that it is always safer not to expect too much.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Although both women live in the same Boston suburb, the two have relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children.  But one night, a tragic accident causes their lives to converge in ways no one could have imagined.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In alternating, pitch-perfect points of view, Emily Giffin creates a moving, luminous story of good people caught in untenable circumstances. Each being tested in ways they never thought possible. Each questioning everything they once believed. And each ultimately discovering what truly matters most.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27766'),
(19902, 'Heart of the Sea', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the conclusion of the Irish trilogy that began with Jewels of the Sun and Tears of the Moon, Darcy Gallagher has always dreamed of living in a world of glamour and adventure and gets her chance when she meets wealthy businessman Trevor Magee, who has come to Ardmore to build a theater and to uncover the secrets of his family''s past. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2487'),
(19903, 'Heart of the sea', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the conclusion of the Irish trilogy that began with Jewels of the Sun and Tears of the Moon, Darcy Gallagher has always dreamed of living in a world of glamour and adventure and gets her chance when she meets wealthy businessman Trevor Magee, who has come to Ardmore to build a theater and to uncover the secrets of his family''s past. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22281'),
(19904, 'Heart-Shaped Box', 'Joe Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman''s noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can''t help but reach for his wallet.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *I will "sell" my stepfather''s ghost to the highest bidder. . . .*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man''s suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He isn''t afraid. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghostsâ€”of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. What''s one more?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. It''s the real thing.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And suddenly the suit''s previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door . . . seated in Jude''s restored vintage Mustang . . . standing outside his window . . . staring out from his widescreen TV. Waitingâ€”with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4359'),
(19905, 'Heart-Shaped Box', 'Joe Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman''s noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can''t help but reach for his wallet.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *I will "sell" my stepfather''s ghost to the highest bidder. . . .*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man''s suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He isn''t afraid. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghostsâ€”of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. What''s one more?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. It''s the real thing.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And suddenly the suit''s previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door . . . seated in Jude''s restored vintage Mustang . . . standing outside his window . . . staring out from his widescreen TV. Waitingâ€”with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand. . . .\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n A multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10334'),
(19906, 'Heart-shaped box', 'Joe Hill', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman''s noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can''t help but reach for his wallet. *I will "sell" my stepfather''s ghost to the highest bidder. . . .* For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man''s suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He isn''t afraid. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghostsâ€”of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. What''s one more? But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. It''s the real thing. And suddenly the suit''s previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door . . . seated in Jude''s restored vintage Mustang . . . standing outside his window . . . staring out from his widescreen TV. Waitingâ€”with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand. . . . A multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15334'),
(19907, 'Heartbeat', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nine years after his marriage crumbles, TV producer Bill Thigpen enjoys a chance meeting with Adrian Townsend, a successful woman who yearns for a family, in a local supermarket, and together the two of them build a new life together. Reprint.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bill Thigpen, writer producer of the No.1 daytime TV drama was so busy watching his career soar that he never noticed his marriage collapse. Now, nine years later, living alone in Hollywood, even without his wife and kids, his life and success are still reasonably sweet. Top-of-the-chart ratings, good-natured casual affairs, and special vacations with his two young sons. His life is in perfect balance, he thinks.\n</p>\n<p>\n Adrian Townshed thought she had everything: a job she liked as a TV production assistant and a handsome husband who was a rising star in his own field. In as enviable life they''d worked hard for -- the American Dream. Until she got pregnant. Suddenly all she had was chaos. And Steven''s ultimatum. Him or the baby. The question was: did he mean it? He did.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bill Thigpen and Adrian Townshed collided in a supermarket. And the very sight of her suddenly makes him want more in his life.... a woman he really loves, a real family again. But does he need the heartache of another man''s baby, another wife? Neither does. But they couldn''t help it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Danielle Steel touches the\n <em>\n  Heartbeat\n </em>\n of two wonderful people as their friendship deepens into love, as they meet the obstacles that life presents with humor, humanity, and courage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6377'),
(19908, 'Heartbeat', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nine years after his marriage crumbles, TV producer Bill Thigpen enjoys a chance meeting with Adrian Townsend, a successful woman who yearns for a family, in a local supermarket, and together the two of them build a new life together. Reprint.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bill Thigpen, writer producer of the No.1 daytime TV drama was so busy watching his career soar that he never noticed his marriage collapse. Now, nine years later, living alone in Hollywood, even without his wife and kids, his life and success are still reasonably sweet. Top-of-the-chart ratings, good-natured casual affairs, and special vacations with his two young sons. His life is in perfect balance, he thinks.\n</p>\n<p>\n Adrian Townshed thought she had everything: a job she liked as a TV production assistant and a handsome husband who was a rising star in his own field. In as enviable life they''d worked hard for -- the American Dream. Until she got pregnant. Suddenly all she had was chaos. And Steven''s ultimatum. Him or the baby. The question was: did he mean it? He did.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bill Thigpen and Adrian Townshed collided in a supermarket. And the very sight of her suddenly makes him want more in his life.... a woman he really loves, a real family again. But does he need the heartache of another man''s baby, another wife? Neither does. But they couldn''t help it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Danielle Steel touches the\n <em>\n  Heartbeat\n </em>\n of two wonderful people as their friendship deepens into love, as they meet the obstacles that life presents with humor, humanity, and courage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12874'),
(19909, 'Heartbeat', 'Danielle Steel', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Nine years after his marriage crumbles, TV producer Bill Thigpen enjoys a chance meeting with Adrian Townsend, a successful woman who yearns for a family, in a local supermarket, and together the two of them build a new life together. Reprint.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bill Thigpen, writer producer of the No.1 daytime TV drama was so busy watching his career soar that he never noticed his marriage collapse. Now, nine years later, living alone in Hollywood, even without his wife and kids, his life and success are still reasonably sweet. Top-of-the-chart ratings, good-natured casual affairs, and special vacations with his two young sons. His life is in perfect balance, he thinks.\n</p>\n<p>\n Adrian Townshed thought she had everything: a job she liked as a TV production assistant and a handsome husband who was a rising star in his own field. In as enviable life they''d worked hard for -- the American Dream. Until she got pregnant. Suddenly all she had was chaos. And Steven''s ultimatum. Him or the baby. The question was: did he mean it? He did.\n</p>\n<p>\n Bill Thigpen and Adrian Townshed collided in a supermarket. And the very sight of her suddenly makes him want more in his life.... a woman he really loves, a real family again. But does he need the heartache of another man''s baby, another wife? Neither does. But they couldn''t help it.\n</p>\n<p>\n Danielle Steel touches the\n <em>\n  Heartbeat\n </em>\n of two wonderful people as their friendship deepens into love, as they meet the obstacles that life presents with humor, humanity, and courage.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17582'),
(19910, 'Heartfire', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person''s heart. She can follow the paths of each person''s future, and know each person''s most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin Maker''s birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him.Now they are married, and Peggy is a part of Alvin''s heart as well as his life.But Alvin''s destiny has taken them on separate journeys. Alvin has gone north into New England, where knacks are considered witchcraft, and their use is punished with death.Peggy has been drawn south, to the British Crown Colonies and the court of King Arthur Stuart in exile. For she has seen a terrible future bloom in the heartfires of every person in America, a future of war and destruction. One slender path exists that leads through the bloodshed, and it is Peggy''s quest to set the world on the path to peace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2386'),
(19911, 'Heartfire', 'Orson Scott Card', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person''s heart. She can follow the paths of each person''s future, and know each person''s most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin Maker''s birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him.Now they are married, and Peggy is a part of Alvin''s heart as well as his life.But Alvin''s destiny has taken them on separate journeys. Alvin has gone north into New England, where knacks are considered witchcraft, and their use is punished with death.Peggy has been drawn south, to the British Crown Colonies and the court of King Arthur Stuart in exile. For she has seen a terrible future bloom in the heartfires of every person in America, a future of war and destruction. One slender path exists that leads through the bloodshed, and it is Peggy''s quest to set the world on the path to peace.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22336'),
(19912, 'Heartless', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Four gorgeous girls are telling very ugly stories.First Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer claimed they found a dead body in the woods behind Spencer''s house, only to have it vanish without a trace. Then, when the same woods went up in flames, they swore they saw someone who''s supposed to be dead rise from the ashes. And even after all that, the pretty little liars are still playing with fire. Call me heartless, but it''s about time someone shut these liars up for good. After all, nobody likes a girl who cries wolf-least of all me. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1387'),
(19913, 'Heartless', 'Sara Shepard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Four gorgeous girls are telling very ugly stories.First Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer claimed they found a dead body in the woods behind Spencer''s house, only to have it vanish without a trace. Then, when the same woods went up in flames, they swore they saw someone who''s supposed to be dead rise from the ashes. And even after all that, the pretty little liars are still playing with fire. Call me heartless, but it''s about time someone shut these liars up for good. After all, nobody likes a girl who cries wolf-least of all me. . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23498'),
(19914, 'Hearts in Atlantis', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America''s living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King''s newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In "Blind Willie" and "Why We''re in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their own lives.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable book''s denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart''s desire may await him.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King''s new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1105');
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(19915, 'Hearts In Atlantis', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America''s living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King''s newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast. In "Blind Willie" and "Why We''re in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their own lives. And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable book''s denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart''s desire may await him. Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King''s new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14417'),
(19916, 'Hearts In Atlantis', 'Stephen King', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America''s living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King''s newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast. In "Blind Willie" and "Why We''re in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their own lives. And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable book''s denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart''s desire may await him. Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King''s new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23815'),
(19917, 'Hearts of Grey', 'Earl E. Gobel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The year is 1865. The Civil War between the states is raging on. General Sherman, along with over sixty thousand Union troops, has just forced their way into Columbia, South Carolina. By the time the sun rises the following day, Columbia would be in ruins. Three-quarters of the once-striving showcase of the South would be reduced to ashes. The pride of the South, the pride of the Confederacy, would never recover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5800'),
(19918, 'Hearts of Grey', 'Earl E. Gobel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The year is 1865. The Civil War between the states is raging on. General Sherman, along with over sixty thousand Union troops, has just forced their way into Columbia, South Carolina. By the time the sun rises the following day, Columbia would be in ruins. Three-quarters of the once-striving showcase of the South would be reduced to ashes. The pride of the South, the pride of the Confederacy, would never recover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9980'),
(19919, 'Hearts of Grey', 'Earl E. Gobel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The year is 1865. The Civil War between the states is raging on. General Sherman, along with over sixty thousand Union troops, has just forced their way into Columbia, South Carolina. By the time the sun rises the following day, Columbia would be in ruins. Three-quarters of the once-striving showcase of the South would be reduced to ashes. The pride of the South, the pride of the Confederacy, would never recover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18802'),
(19920, 'Hearts of Grey', 'Earl E. Gobel', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: The year is 1865. The Civil War between the states is raging on. General Sherman, along with over sixty thousand Union troops, has just forced their way into Columbia, South Carolina. By the time the sun rises the following day, Columbia would be in ruins. Three-quarters of the once-striving showcase of the South would be reduced to ashes. The pride of the South, the pride of the Confederacy, would never recover.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27624'),
(19921, 'Heat Wave', 'Richard Castle', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14781'),
(19922, 'Heat: An Amateur Cook in a Professional Kitchen', 'Buford, Bill', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15545'),
(19923, 'Heat: An Amateur&#39;s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany', 'Bill Buford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bill Buford''s funny and engaging book\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n offers readers a rare glimpse behind the scenes in Mario Batali''s kitchen. Who better to review the book for Amazon.com, than Anthony Bourdain, the man who first introduced readers to the wide array of lusty and colorful characters in the restaurant business? We asked Anthony Bourdain to read\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n and give us his take. We loved it. So did he. Check out his review below.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anthony Bourdain is host of the Discovery Channel''s\n  <em>\n   No Reservations\n  </em>\n  , executive chef at Les Halles in Manhattan, and author of the bestselling and groundbreaking\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n is a remarkable work on a number of fronts--and for a number of reasons. First, watching the author, an untrained, inexperienced and middle-aged desk jockey slowly transform into not just a useful line cook--but an extraordinarily knowledgable one is pure pleasure. That he chooses to do so primarily in the notoriously difficult, cramped kitchens of New York''s three star\n</p>\n<p>\n Secondly, the book is a long overdue portrait of the real\n</p>\n<p>\n Thirdly,\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n reveals a dead-on understanding--rare among non-chef writers--of the pleasures of "making" food; the real human cost, the real requirements and the real adrenelin-rush-inducing pleasures of cranking out hundreds of high quality meals. One is left with a truly unique appreciation of not only what is truly good about food--but as importantly, who cooks--and why. I can''t think of another book which takes such an unsparing, uncompromising and ultimately thrilling look at the quest for culinary excellence.\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n brims with fascinating observations on cooking, incredible characters, useful discourse and argument-ending arcania. I read my copy and immediately started reading it again. It''s going right in between Orwell''s\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Buford''s voice echoes the rhythms of his own writing style. Writing about his break from working as a\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n editor and learning firsthand about the world of food, Buford guns his reading into hyperspeed when he is jazzed about a particularly tangy anecdote, and plays with his vocal tone and pitch when mimicking others'' voices. At its base, Buford''s voice is tinged with a jovial lilt, as if he is amused by his life as a "kitchen slave" and by the outsize personalities of the people he meets along the way. Less authoritative than blissfully confused, Buford speaks the way he writes, as a well-informed but never entirely knowledgeable outsider to the world of food love. Listening to his imitation of star chef Mario Batali''s kinetic squeal, Buford ably conveys his abiding love for the teachers and companions of his brief, eventful life as a cook.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7289'),
(19924, 'Heat: An Amateur&#39;s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany', 'Bill Buford', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bill Buford''s funny and engaging book\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n offers readers a rare glimpse behind the scenes in Mario Batali''s kitchen. Who better to review the book for Amazon.com, than Anthony Bourdain, the man who first introduced readers to the wide array of lusty and colorful characters in the restaurant business? We asked Anthony Bourdain to read\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n and give us his take. We loved it. So did he. Check out his review below.\n <em>\n  --Daphne Durham\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Anthony Bourdain is host of the Discovery Channel''s\n  <em>\n   No Reservations\n  </em>\n  , executive chef at Les Halles in Manhattan, and author of the bestselling and groundbreaking\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n is a remarkable work on a number of fronts--and for a number of reasons. First, watching the author, an untrained, inexperienced and middle-aged desk jockey slowly transform into not just a useful line cook--but an extraordinarily knowledgable one is pure pleasure. That he chooses to do so primarily in the notoriously difficult, cramped kitchens of New York''s three star\n</p>\n<p>\n Secondly, the book is a long overdue portrait of the real\n</p>\n<p>\n Thirdly,\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n reveals a dead-on understanding--rare among non-chef writers--of the pleasures of "making" food; the real human cost, the real requirements and the real adrenelin-rush-inducing pleasures of cranking out hundreds of high quality meals. One is left with a truly unique appreciation of not only what is truly good about food--but as importantly, who cooks--and why. I can''t think of another book which takes such an unsparing, uncompromising and ultimately thrilling look at the quest for culinary excellence.\n <em>\n  Heat\n </em>\n brims with fascinating observations on cooking, incredible characters, useful discourse and argument-ending arcania. I read my copy and immediately started reading it again. It''s going right in between Orwell''s\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Buford''s voice echoes the rhythms of his own writing style. Writing about his break from working as a\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n editor and learning firsthand about the world of food, Buford guns his reading into hyperspeed when he is jazzed about a particularly tangy anecdote, and plays with his vocal tone and pitch when mimicking others'' voices. At its base, Buford''s voice is tinged with a jovial lilt, as if he is amused by his life as a "kitchen slave" and by the outsize personalities of the people he meets along the way. Less authoritative than blissfully confused, Buford speaks the way he writes, as a well-informed but never entirely knowledgeable outsider to the world of food love. Listening to his imitation of star chef Mario Batali''s kinetic squeal, Buford ably conveys his abiding love for the teachers and companions of his brief, eventful life as a cook.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8710'),
(19925, 'Heated Rush', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You know you''re hard up when you have to buy a date... But Annie Davis''s big family reunion is looming, and she needs a stand-in man fast or she''ll never hear the end of it. Any gorgeous guy will do. Her solution? The drop-dead-sexy man at the charity bachelor auction. His good looks and blue-collar background make him perfect for her! Or is he?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sean Murphy has a bit of a surprise for Annie. Not only is he not blue-collar, he''s actually a sophisticated European entrepreneur, one who''s made pleasuring women an art form. And he wants to permanently pleasure Annie! But Sean knows that if she discovers his secret, their wickedly delicious liaison will be over. Lucky for both of them, he''s learned enough tricks to keep Annie distracted for a long, long time....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3440'),
(19926, 'Heated Rush', 'Leslie Kelly', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  You know you''re hard up when you have to buy a date... But Annie Davis''s big family reunion is looming, and she needs a stand-in man fast or she''ll never hear the end of it. Any gorgeous guy will do. Her solution? The drop-dead-sexy man at the charity bachelor auction. His good looks and blue-collar background make him perfect for her! Or is he?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Sean Murphy has a bit of a surprise for Annie. Not only is he not blue-collar, he''s actually a sophisticated European entrepreneur, one who''s made pleasuring women an art form. And he wants to permanently pleasure Annie! But Sean knows that if she discovers his secret, their wickedly delicious liaison will be over. Lucky for both of them, he''s learned enough tricks to keep Annie distracted for a long, long time....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21027'),
(19927, 'Heaven', 'Randy C. Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n We all have questions about what heaven will be like. Randy Alcorn helps answer some of these questions by sharing his extensive research on the topic--all from a biblical perspective. His writing will surprise readers and stretch their thinking beyond anything they''ve imagined heaven to be like. And *Heaven* will help readers strive for eternity while they''re living on earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1921'),
(19928, 'Heaven', 'Randy C. Alcorn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n We all have questions about what heaven will be like. Randy Alcorn helps answer some of these questions by sharing his extensive research on the topic--all from a biblical perspective. His writing will surprise readers and stretch their thinking beyond anything they''ve imagined heaven to be like. And *Heaven* will help readers strive for eternity while they''re living on earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9363'),
(19929, 'Heaven and Earth', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Mia, the proprietor of the Island''s small book store and the local witch, discovers the key to her own destiny, in the second volume of the Three Sisters Island trilogy, which captures the lives, loves, and fortunes of three young women enmeshed in the legends, romance, and magic of a mysterious island off the Massachusetts coast. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2489'),
(19930, 'Heaven and earth', 'Nora Roberts', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Mia, the proprietor of the Island''s small book store and the local witch, discovers the key to her own destiny, in the second volume of the Three Sisters Island trilogy, which captures the lives, loves, and fortunes of three young women enmeshed in the legends, romance, and magic of a mysterious island off the Massachusetts coast. Original.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22279'),
(19931, 'Heaven and the Heather', 'Elizabeth Holcombe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Sabine de Sainte Montagne-a member of the royal court-meets the chief of an outlaw clan, she begins to believe that anything can happen in the Highlands-even love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5697'),
(19932, 'Heaven and the Heather', 'Elizabeth Holcombe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n When Sabine de Sainte Montagne-a member of the royal court-meets the chief of an outlaw clan, she begins to believe that anything can happen in the Highlands-even love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10362'),
(19933, 'Heaven and the Heather', 'Elizabeth Holcombe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Sabine de Sainte Montagne-a member of the royal court-meets the chief of an outlaw clan, she begins to believe that anything can happen in the Highlands-even love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18857'),
(19934, 'Heaven and the Heather', 'Elizabeth Holcombe', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: When Sabine de Sainte Montagne-a member of the royal court-meets the chief of an outlaw clan, she begins to believe that anything can happen in the Highlands-even love...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27644'),
(19935, 'Heaven Cent', 'Piers Anthony', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In the mind of Xanth''s precious shapeshifting Prince Dolph, the perfect was to see the world is to search for the missing sorcerer, Humfrey. Setting off with his faithfuls companion, Marrow, an enchanted skeleton, Dolph will penetrate an island of illusion, escape a goblin kingdom, outwit a husband-hungry mermaid, save marrow from bone-starved harpies, and find romance with a slinky snake princess--all on his way to discovering a magic coin with all the answers!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2018'),
(19936, 'Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy&#39;s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back', 'Todd Burpo &amp; Sonja Burpo &amp; Lynn Vincent &amp; Colton Burpo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Heaven Is for Real\n </em>\n is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn''t know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.\n</p>\n<p>\n Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.\n</p>\n<p>\n Told by the father, but often in Colton''s own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan, a wrestling coach, a volunteer fireman, and he operates a garage door company with his wife, Sonja, who is also a childrenâ€™s minister, busy pastorâ€™s wife, and mom. Colton, now an active 11-year-old, has an older sister Cassie and a younger brother Colby. The family lives in Imperial, Nebraska.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lynn Vincent is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n best-selling writer of\n <em>\n  Same Kind of Different as Me\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Going Rogue: An American Life\n </em>\n . The author or co-author of nine books, Vincent is a senior writer for\n <em>\n  WORLD\n </em>\n magazine and a lecturer in writing at the Kingâ€™s College in New York City. She lives in San Diego, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/617'),
(19937, 'Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy&#39;s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back', 'Todd Burpo &amp; Sonja Burpo &amp; Lynn Vincent &amp; Colton Burpo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Heaven Is for Real\n </em>\n is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn''t know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.\n</p>\n<p>\n Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.\n</p>\n<p>\n Told by the father, but often in Colton''s own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan, a wrestling coach, a volunteer fireman, and he operates a garage door company with his wife, Sonja, who is also a childrenâ€™s minister, busy pastorâ€™s wife, and mom. Colton, now an active 11-year-old, has an older sister Cassie and a younger brother Colby. The family lives in Imperial, Nebraska.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lynn Vincent is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n best-selling writer of\n <em>\n  Same Kind of Different as Me\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Going Rogue: An American Life\n </em>\n . The author or co-author of nine books, Vincent is a senior writer for\n <em>\n  WORLD\n </em>\n magazine and a lecturer in writing at the Kingâ€™s College in New York City. She lives in San Diego, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8679'),
(19938, 'Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy&#39;s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back', 'Todd Burpo; Sonja Burpo; Lynn Vincent; Colton Burpo', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Heaven Is for Real\n </em>\n is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn''t know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.\n</p>\n<p>\n Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.\n</p>\n<p>\n Told by the father, but often in Colton''s own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan, a wrestling coach, a volunteer fireman, and he operates a garage door company with his wife, Sonja, who is also a childrenâ€™s minister, busy pastorâ€™s wife, and mom. Colton, now an active 11-year-old, has an older sister Cassie and a younger brother Colby. The family lives in Imperial, Nebraska.\n</p>\n<p>\n Lynn Vincent is the\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n best-selling writer of\n <em>\n  Same Kind of Different as Me\n </em>\n and\n <em>\n  Going Rogue: An American Life\n </em>\n . The author or co-author of nine books, Vincent is a senior writer for\n <em>\n  WORLD\n </em>\n magazine and a lecturer in writing at the Kingâ€™s College in New York City. She lives in San Diego, California.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24381'),
(19939, 'Heaven, Texas', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "No one tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips" --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n _ Jayne Ann Krentz_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Susan Elizabeth Phillips triumphs once again" --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n _ Romantic Times_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Bobby Tom Denton is going to his Texas hometown to shoot his first movie.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gracie Snow''s job is to "handle" him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Good luck with that.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n "There''s been a terrible misunderstanding, Mr. Denton. Can''t you see that I don''t look like a stripper?" Gracie snatched up her suit jacket. "Please. Could we go somewhere private to talk?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Bobby Tom sighed and uncoiled from his chair. "I s''pose we''d better. But you''ve got to give me your word you''ll keep your clothes on. It wouldn''t be fair for me to see you naked when my party guests can''t."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I promise, Mr. Denton, that you will never see me naked."\n</p>\n<p>\n He looked doubtful. "I don''t mean to question your good intentions, honey, but judging from my past history, it might not be that easy for you to resist."\n</p>\n<p>\n A head-spinning battle of the sexes with Beauty waging war against Brain, except this male beauty has a fine intelligence, and brainy Gracie isn''t nearly as ordinary as she thinks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/994'),
(19940, 'Heaven, Texas', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "No one tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips" --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n _ Jayne Ann Krentz_\n</p>\n<p>\n "Susan Elizabeth Phillips triumphs once again" --\n <em>\n  --\n </em>\n _ Romantic Times_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  Bobby Tom Denton is going to his Texas hometown to shoot his first movie.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Gracie Snow''s job is to "handle" him.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Good luck with that.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n "There''s been a terrible misunderstanding, Mr. Denton. Can''t you see that I don''t look like a stripper?" Gracie snatched up her suit jacket. "Please. Could we go somewhere private to talk?"\n</p>\n<p>\n Bobby Tom sighed and uncoiled from his chair. "I s''pose we''d better. But you''ve got to give me your word you''ll keep your clothes on. It wouldn''t be fair for me to see you naked when my party guests can''t."\n</p>\n<p>\n "I promise, Mr. Denton, that you will never see me naked."\n</p>\n<p>\n He looked doubtful. "I don''t mean to question your good intentions, honey, but judging from my past history, it might not be that easy for you to resist."\n</p>\n<p>\n A head-spinning battle of the sexes with Beauty waging war against Brain, except this male beauty has a fine intelligence, and brainy Gracie isn''t nearly as ordinary as she thinks.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11942'),
(19941, 'Heaven, Texas', 'Susan Elizabeth Phillips', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24020'),
(19942, 'Heaven&#39;s Net Is Wide', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Lord Shigeru, heir to the Otori clan, faces hostility from the shrewdly ambitious Iida family in the East and base treachery at home from his uncles. His noble education and training as a warrior have prepared him for leadership and combat, but fate and Shigeru''s youthful determination bring the Three Countries to war, and he must endure terrible and tragic defeat at thebattle of Yaegahara... and its brutal consequences.  Heaven''s Net is Wide is the first and last Tale, which both closes the circle and introduces new readers to the strange and beautiful world of the Otori. It is an epic historical fantasy of revenge and betrayal, honour and loyalty, beauty and passion and the overwhelming power of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3368'),
(19943, 'Heaven&#39;s Net is Wide', 'Lian Hearn', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Lord Shigeru, heir to the Otori clan, faces hostility from the shrewdly ambitious Iida family in the East and base treachery at home from his uncles. His noble education and training as a warrior have prepared him for leadership and combat, but fate and Shigeru''s youthful determination bring the Three Countries to war, and he must endure terrible and tragic defeat at thebattle of Yaegahara... and its brutal consequences. Heaven''s Net is Wide is the first and last Tale, which both closes the circle and introduces new readers to the strange and beautiful world of the Otori. It is an epic historical fantasy of revenge and betrayal, honour and loyalty, beauty and passion and the overwhelming power of love.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21150'),
(19944, 'Heaven&#39;s Reach', 'David Brin; Jim Burns', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Heaven''s Reach\n  </em>\n  is the final volume of the Uplift trilogy, which begins in\n  <em>\n   Brightness Reef\n  </em>\n  and continues in\n  <em>\n   Infinity''s Shore\n  </em>\n  . It chronicles the adventures of a handful of primitives from the planet Jijo who have left or been taken from their homes only to be swept into the intrigues of galactic politics. The novel also continues the story of the fugitive Earth starship\n  <em>\n   Streaker\n  </em>\n  , pursued across the galaxy for its precious cargo of ancient artifacts. Just when it looks like things can''t get worse for\n  <em>\n   Streaker\n  </em>\n  , the foretold Time of Changes rocks the galaxy. Devastating "space quakes" shake every planet and star, and some of the particularly unscrupulous alien races attempt to use the disaster to further their bizarre goals. There''s danger and excitement on almost every page (in contrast to much of the first two books in the series) and Brin finally delivers on many of the mysteries of the Five Galaxies. The Progenitors, the Hydrogen Breathers,\n  <em>\n   Streaker\n  </em>\n  ''s cargo--these and more are explained at last. Or are they? Each seemingly ultimate truth tends to dissolve a chapter later, revealing a new and more complex truth. New adventures and mysteries await.\n  <em>\n   --Brooks Peck\n  </em>\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The final book in Brin''s Uplift Storm Trilogy (Infinity''s Shore; Brightness Reef) sets space opera against a canvas that spans the galaxies, colored with interstellar conflict and peopled with smart-mouthed chimpanzees, overwhelmed humans and neo-dolphins who form the stalwart crew of the spaceship Streaker. The narrative, which unfolds at frenzied speed, opens with the Earth under attack by an alliance of evil aliens, the essence of space itself shaking apart and the beleaguered Streaker, captained by Dr. Gillian Baskin, trying to outrun a Jophurian battleship that seeks to destroy it. Rescue comes in the unlikely form of a wormhole that delivers the Streaker to the Old Ones, the godlike beings responsible for nurturing sentient life throughout the Five Galaxies and for inaugurating the UpLift process. While Baskin and her crew fear that the Old Ones are offering them "the embrace of gravitational tides," an interplanetary form of comfortable retirement, they learn that in fact they have been selected for a very special purpose: to journey to remote space, where the missing eight of the original Thirteen Civilized Galaxies wait to be contacted. Tension builds and builds?and then stumbles to a stop. Brin fans will find plenty to gorge themselves on here, including Niss Machines, Galactic Library cubes and Zang ship-entities, and Brin does offer answers to riddles he posed as far back as Startide Rising. But his choice of a conclusion for his massive and immensely popular trilogy proves a letdown, and then some.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17288'),
(19945, 'Heavy Time', 'C J Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Discovered alone and without his memory on his drifting ship, pilot Paul Dekker is accused of the murder of his crew members and he must rely on the help of renegade miner Morris Bird to learn the truth. Reprint.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15463'),
(19946, 'Heavy Water: And Other Stories', 'Martin Amis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n These nine stories span a period from 1975 to 1997 and are a good reflection of the range of Martin Amis''s writing, which is always skillful and consistently seductive--sometimes irritatingly so. Amis lures his reader into an intense interest in his characters, and then, in some unsettling way, encourages us to patronize or disparage them. It''s an odd strategy, but it holds our attention. By making us uncomfortable about our own less admirable attitudes, he focuses us intently on his story line.\n</p>\n<p>\n In "Coincidence of the Arts," the targets are the feckless painter Sir Rodney Peel and his black doorman, aspiring novelist Pharsin Courier, who turns to him for artistic encouragement. When Peel embarks on a curious affair with a black waitress, it is sheer coincidence that she should happen to be Pharsin''s wife. The consequences reflect well on neither man. In "State of England," we smirk knowingly at Big Mal, a bullshitting East Ender trying to sort out his life at his small son''s sports day, but we are nevertheless compelled to find out what will become of him. Familiar stories about obsessive bad sex such as "Let Me Count the Times" have not stood the test of time, and Amis''s tales of literary agents, aspiring novelists, and spoiled bestseller writers may only interest an inner coterie. Still, when he is on form, Amis''s work is as deeply alluring as it is amusing.\n <em>\n  --Lisa Jardine, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Amis is an ingenious short story writer, and this collection of tales, three of which have not been seen here before, offers a good sampling of his range. This includes, of course, tone-perfect mimicry, which is evident in "State of England," about a disco bouncer with a son at a posh English boys'' school, and "What Happened to Me on My Holiday," told in the misspelled, petulant voice of a hurt child. Then there is sharp, edgy comedy based on the notion of role reversal. In "Career Move," much admired when it appeared in the New Yorker six years ago, poets swagger around Hollywood in an atmosphere of big movie deals and heroin-fueled script conferences, while screenplay authors attend eager readings of each other''s work and vie desperately for publication in ephemeral little magazines that never pay. "Straight Fiction" supposes that the world is predominantly gay but that outposts of heterosexuality remain in areas like New York''s Christopher Street and San Francisco''s Castro, exerting a malificent influence on the predominant, comfortable culture. "The Coincidence of the Arts" has an aristocratic and evasive English artist in New York trying to avoid reading an ambitious novel thrust upon him by his black doorman. "The Janitor on Mars" is a satirical science fiction yarn. Amis''s work is wonderfully clever and often extremely funny, but there is no escaping a certain steely-eyed coldness at the heart of it. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3034'),
(19947, 'Heavy Water: And Other Stories', 'Martin Amis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n These nine stories span a period from 1975 to 1997 and are a good reflection of the range of Martin Amis''s writing, which is always skillful and consistently seductive--sometimes irritatingly so. Amis lures his reader into an intense interest in his characters, and then, in some unsettling way, encourages us to patronize or disparage them. It''s an odd strategy, but it holds our attention. By making us uncomfortable about our own less admirable attitudes, he focuses us intently on his story line.\n</p>\n<p>\n In "Coincidence of the Arts," the targets are the feckless painter Sir Rodney Peel and his black doorman, aspiring novelist Pharsin Courier, who turns to him for artistic encouragement. When Peel embarks on a curious affair with a black waitress, it is sheer coincidence that she should happen to be Pharsin''s wife. The consequences reflect well on neither man. In "State of England," we smirk knowingly at Big Mal, a bullshitting East Ender trying to sort out his life at his small son''s sports day, but we are nevertheless compelled to find out what will become of him. Familiar stories about obsessive bad sex such as "Let Me Count the Times" have not stood the test of time, and Amis''s tales of literary agents, aspiring novelists, and spoiled bestseller writers may only interest an inner coterie. Still, when he is on form, Amis''s work is as deeply alluring as it is amusing.\n <em>\n  --Lisa Jardine, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Amis is an ingenious short story writer, and this collection of tales, three of which have not been seen here before, offers a good sampling of his range. This includes, of course, tone-perfect mimicry, which is evident in "State of England," about a disco bouncer with a son at a posh English boys'' school, and "What Happened to Me on My Holiday," told in the misspelled, petulant voice of a hurt child. Then there is sharp, edgy comedy based on the notion of role reversal. In "Career Move," much admired when it appeared in the New Yorker six years ago, poets swagger around Hollywood in an atmosphere of big movie deals and heroin-fueled script conferences, while screenplay authors attend eager readings of each other''s work and vie desperately for publication in ephemeral little magazines that never pay. "Straight Fiction" supposes that the world is predominantly gay but that outposts of heterosexuality remain in areas like New York''s Christopher Street and San Francisco''s Castro, exerting a malificent influence on the predominant, comfortable culture. "The Coincidence of the Arts" has an aristocratic and evasive English artist in New York trying to avoid reading an ambitious novel thrust upon him by his black doorman. "The Janitor on Mars" is a satirical science fiction yarn. Amis''s work is wonderfully clever and often extremely funny, but there is no escaping a certain steely-eyed coldness at the heart of it. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8218'),
(19948, 'Heavy Water: And Other Stories', 'Martin Amis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n These nine stories span a period from 1975 to 1997 and are a good reflection of the range of Martin Amis''s writing, which is always skillful and consistently seductive--sometimes irritatingly so. Amis lures his reader into an intense interest in his characters, and then, in some unsettling way, encourages us to patronize or disparage them. It''s an odd strategy, but it holds our attention. By making us uncomfortable about our own less admirable attitudes, he focuses us intently on his story line.\n</p>\n<p>\n In "Coincidence of the Arts," the targets are the feckless painter Sir Rodney Peel and his black doorman, aspiring novelist Pharsin Courier, who turns to him for artistic encouragement. When Peel embarks on a curious affair with a black waitress, it is sheer coincidence that she should happen to be Pharsin''s wife. The consequences reflect well on neither man. In "State of England," we smirk knowingly at Big Mal, a bullshitting East Ender trying to sort out his life at his small son''s sports day, but we are nevertheless compelled to find out what will become of him. Familiar stories about obsessive bad sex such as "Let Me Count the Times" have not stood the test of time, and Amis''s tales of literary agents, aspiring novelists, and spoiled bestseller writers may only interest an inner coterie. Still, when he is on form, Amis''s work is as deeply alluring as it is amusing.\n <em>\n  --Lisa Jardine, Amazon.co.uk\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Amis is an ingenious short story writer, and this collection of tales, three of which have not been seen here before, offers a good sampling of his range. This includes, of course, tone-perfect mimicry, which is evident in "State of England," about a disco bouncer with a son at a posh English boys'' school, and "What Happened to Me on My Holiday," told in the misspelled, petulant voice of a hurt child. Then there is sharp, edgy comedy based on the notion of role reversal. In "Career Move," much admired when it appeared in the New Yorker six years ago, poets swagger around Hollywood in an atmosphere of big movie deals and heroin-fueled script conferences, while screenplay authors attend eager readings of each other''s work and vie desperately for publication in ephemeral little magazines that never pay. "Straight Fiction" supposes that the world is predominantly gay but that outposts of heterosexuality remain in areas like New York''s Christopher Street and San Francisco''s Castro, exerting a malificent influence on the predominant, comfortable culture. "The Coincidence of the Arts" has an aristocratic and evasive English artist in New York trying to avoid reading an ambitious novel thrust upon him by his black doorman. "The Janitor on Mars" is a satirical science fiction yarn. Amis''s work is wonderfully clever and often extremely funny, but there is no escaping a certain steely-eyed coldness at the heart of it. Author tour.\n <br />\n Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21789'),
(19949, 'Hector Servadac', 'Jules Verne', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25462'),
(19950, 'The Hedge Knight', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5423'),
(19951, 'The Hedge Knight', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Contains an all new exclusive short story by George R. R. Martin! An adaptation of Martin''s hit novel, bringing the world of A Song of Ice and Fire to life in comic book form. Night falls over the life of one noble knight and brings the dawn of his squire''s knighthood. Dubbing himself "Ser Duncan the Tall," "The Hedge Knight" sets forth to the tourney at Ashford Meadow in search of fame and glory and the honor of upholding his oath as a knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Unfortunately for him, the world isn''t ready for a knight who keeps his oaths, and his chivalrous methods could be the very cause of his demise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14406'),
(19952, 'The Hedge Knight', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Night falls over the life of one noble knight and brings the dawn of his squire''s knighthood. Dubbing himself "Ser Duncan the Tall," "The Hedge Knight" sets forth to the tourney at Ashford Meadow in search of fame and glory and the honor of upholding his oath as a knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Unfortunately for him, the world isn''t ready for a knight who keeps his oaths, and his chivalrous methods could be the very cause of his demise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19236'),
(19953, 'The Hedge Knight', 'George R. R. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Night falls over the life of one noble knight and brings the dawn of his squire''s knighthood. Dubbing himself "Ser Duncan the Tall," "The Hedge Knight" sets forth to the tourney at Ashford Meadow in search of fame and glory and the honor of upholding his oath as a knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Unfortunately for him, the world isn''t ready for a knight who keeps his oaths, and his chivalrous methods could be the very cause of his demise.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27991'),
(19954, 'A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine', 'Jay McInerney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those who find most wine writing hopelessly recondite will eagerly quaff novelist Jay McInerney''s\n <em>\n  A Hedonist in the Cellar\n </em>\n , a collection of his essays originally published in\n <em>\n  House &amp; Garden\n </em>\n . Whether talking about a California chardonnay ("like a Ginsu blade concealed in a peach"); the wines of the Cote Rotie ("like Fitzgerald, [its] reputation was almost moribund at mid-century"); or the super Valpolicellas of Italian vintner Giuseppe Quintarelli ("his [wines] should be opened only in the presence of gods and stinky cheeses"), McInerney brings a novelist''s gift and idiosyncratic wit to his personal investigations, which touch on the Rieslings from the Finger Lakes, the "forgotten whites" of Bordeaux, new developments in the wines of Chile and Argentina, spirits like Armagnac and artisinal champagnes, and much more. McInerney is a stimulating appreciator, so readers poring through his essays happily absorb viniculture and modus operandi, among other technical matters. In essays like "Translating German Labels" and "How to Impress Your Sommelier," theyâ€™re also prepped in buying and ordering. A wide-ranging tour of the wine world in sum,\n <em>\n  Hedonist\n </em>\n is for all wine lovers, who will find in it much of what''s been missing from so much other wine and food writing: the wit to do it well.\n <em>\n  --Arthur Boehm\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those who''ve ever thought wine writing was a bit sniffy will find McInerney''s cheeky and informative squibs on wine a generous, almost ham-handed pleasure. In this collection of short essays, reproduced from his monthly column in\n <em>\n  House &amp; Garden\n </em>\n , the increasingly avid reader is enveloped in the various wines he tastes. It''s sexy. But it''s not just wine that''s sexy here, it''s also the people who have "caught the wine bug" and dedicate themselves to making their own labels. McInerney (_Bright Lights, Big City_;\n <em>\n  The Good Life\n </em>\n ) ferrets out the small winemakers, investigates their ethos and tastes their efforts with the same glee and tireless interest he dedicates to the big bottlers. This sense of discovery permeates each essay as he links the wine to its history, where the grapes come from and the culture that goes into its making. Readers will learn more than even the most dedicated oenephile can use, but everyone can be inspired to find the next bottle of something special for any occasion.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4586');
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(19955, 'A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine', 'Jay McInerney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those who find most wine writing hopelessly recondite will eagerly quaff novelist Jay McInerney''s\n <em>\n  A Hedonist in the Cellar\n </em>\n , a collection of his essays originally published in\n <em>\n  House &amp; Garden\n </em>\n . Whether talking about a California chardonnay ("like a Ginsu blade concealed in a peach"); the wines of the Cote Rotie ("like Fitzgerald, [its] reputation was almost moribund at mid-century"); or the super Valpolicellas of Italian vintner Giuseppe Quintarelli ("his [wines] should be opened only in the presence of gods and stinky cheeses"), McInerney brings a novelist''s gift and idiosyncratic wit to his personal investigations, which touch on the Rieslings from the Finger Lakes, the "forgotten whites" of Bordeaux, new developments in the wines of Chile and Argentina, spirits like Armagnac and artisinal champagnes, and much more. McInerney is a stimulating appreciator, so readers poring through his essays happily absorb viniculture and modus operandi, among other technical matters. In essays like "Translating German Labels" and "How to Impress Your Sommelier," theyâ€™re also prepped in buying and ordering. A wide-ranging tour of the wine world in sum,\n <em>\n  Hedonist\n </em>\n is for all wine lovers, who will find in it much of what''s been missing from so much other wine and food writing: the wit to do it well.\n <em>\n  --Arthur Boehm\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those who''ve ever thought wine writing was a bit sniffy will find McInerney''s cheeky and informative squibs on wine a generous, almost ham-handed pleasure. In this collection of short essays, reproduced from his monthly column in\n <em>\n  House &amp; Garden\n </em>\n , the increasingly avid reader is enveloped in the various wines he tastes. It''s sexy. But it''s not just wine that''s sexy here, it''s also the people who have "caught the wine bug" and dedicate themselves to making their own labels. McInerney (_Bright Lights, Big City_;\n <em>\n  The Good Life\n </em>\n ) ferrets out the small winemakers, investigates their ethos and tastes their efforts with the same glee and tireless interest he dedicates to the big bottlers. This sense of discovery permeates each essay as he links the wine to its history, where the grapes come from and the culture that goes into its making. Readers will learn more than even the most dedicated oenephile can use, but everyone can be inspired to find the next bottle of something special for any occasion.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11358'),
(19956, 'A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine', 'Jay McInerney', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those who find most wine writing hopelessly recondite will eagerly quaff novelist Jay McInerney''s\n <em>\n  A Hedonist in the Cellar\n </em>\n , a collection of his essays originally published in\n <em>\n  House &amp; Garden\n </em>\n . Whether talking about a California chardonnay ("like a Ginsu blade concealed in a peach"); the wines of the Cote Rotie ("like Fitzgerald, [its] reputation was almost moribund at mid-century"); or the super Valpolicellas of Italian vintner Giuseppe Quintarelli ("his [wines] should be opened only in the presence of gods and stinky cheeses"), McInerney brings a novelist''s gift and idiosyncratic wit to his personal investigations, which touch on the Rieslings from the Finger Lakes, the "forgotten whites" of Bordeaux, new developments in the wines of Chile and Argentina, spirits like Armagnac and artisinal champagnes, and much more. McInerney is a stimulating appreciator, so readers poring through his essays happily absorb viniculture and modus operandi, among other technical matters. In essays like "Translating German Labels" and "How to Impress Your Sommelier," theyâ€™re also prepped in buying and ordering. A wide-ranging tour of the wine world in sum,\n <em>\n  Hedonist\n </em>\n is for all wine lovers, who will find in it much of what''s been missing from so much other wine and food writing: the wit to do it well.\n <em>\n  --Arthur Boehm\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Those who''ve ever thought wine writing was a bit sniffy will find McInerney''s cheeky and informative squibs on wine a generous, almost ham-handed pleasure. In this collection of short essays, reproduced from his monthly column in\n <em>\n  House &amp; Garden\n </em>\n , the increasingly avid reader is enveloped in the various wines he tastes. It''s sexy. But it''s not just wine that''s sexy here, it''s also the people who have "caught the wine bug" and dedicate themselves to making their own labels. McInerney (_Bright Lights, Big City_;\n <em>\n  The Good Life\n </em>\n ) ferrets out the small winemakers, investigates their ethos and tastes their efforts with the same glee and tireless interest he dedicates to the big bottlers. This sense of discovery permeates each essay as he links the wine to its history, where the grapes come from and the culture that goes into its making. Readers will learn more than even the most dedicated oenephile can use, but everyone can be inspired to find the next bottle of something special for any occasion.\n <em>\n  (Oct.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19995'),
(19957, 'Heechee Rendezvous: A Novel', 'Frederik Pohl', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: "The Heechee are one of the great creations of science fiction."Jack WilliamsonAfter millennia had passed, Mankind discovered the Heechee legacy (an alien culture that fled to the reative safety of a black hole)--in particular an asteroid stocked with autonavigating spacecraft. Robinette Broadhead, who had led the expedition that unlocked the many secrets of Heechee technology, is now forced once more to make a perilous voyage into space--where the Heechee are waiting. And this time the future of Man is at stake.... A SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB SELECTIONTHE HEECHEE SAGABook One:GATEWAYBook Two:BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZONBook Three:HEECHEE RENDEZVOUSBook Four:THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEE\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18451'),
(19958, 'Heidegger&#39;s Glasses: A Novel', 'Thaisa Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In her debut novel, Frank (A Brief History of Camouflage) presents a slightly fantastic tale of WWII, concerning an underground German bunker where multi-lingual intellectuals, spared the concentration camps, spend the war answering letters sent to concentration camp inmates who are, in all likelihood, already dead; called the Compound of Scribes, its mission is part record-keeping, part supernatural insurance plan, meant to keep the spirits of the dead from tipping off psychics to the Nazi''s Final Solution. Despite their absurd (and potentially confusing) orders, the 50-some Scribes live in relative peace under the supervision of Elie and Gerhardt, lovers secretly working for the Resistance. Then a daunting task comes down from Goebbels himself-answer a letter from genius philosopher Martin Heidegger to his friend and optometrist Asher Englehardt, a prisoner in Auschwitz-setting events in motion that will threaten the lives of everyone in the compound. Taking readers to a curiously polyglot netherworld, a population removed from the horrors of the Reich even as it deals in some of its most intimate dispatches, Frank''s vision of the Holocaust is original and startling, with compelling characters and a narrative that''s both explosive and ponderous.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Nazi Briefkation (Operation Mail), which forced concentration camp prisoners to write reassuring letters to loved ones that were sent instead to a central Berlin office, provides the historic framework for Frankâ€™s debut novel. Here the Compound of Scribes, a group of detainees selected for their language skills, answers the prisonersâ€™ letters in their original language, a mission devised by Nazi believers in the occult to assuage the dead. At the heart of this communityâ€”housed in an underground tunnel cunningly fashioned to mimic a townâ€”is Elie Schacten, the lover of Compound commander SS officer Gerhardt Lodenstein, who hides her Polish ancestry as she makes forays to gather supplies and assist escaping fugitives. When prominent philosopher Martin Heidegger writes fellow philosopher and optometrist Asher Engelhardt in Auschwitz, the Scribes are ordered to answer Heideggerâ€™s letter, an operation botched by an SS flunky that leads to endangering the entire Compound. Written in the precise prose that has garnered praise for Frankâ€™s short fiction, this surreal tale is a vivid reminder of what we must not forget. --Michele Leber\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/722'),
(19959, 'Heidegger&#39;s Glasses: A Novel', 'Thaisa Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In her debut novel, Frank (A Brief History of Camouflage) presents a slightly fantastic tale of WWII, concerning an underground German bunker where multi-lingual intellectuals, spared the concentration camps, spend the war answering letters sent to concentration camp inmates who are, in all likelihood, already dead; called the Compound of Scribes, its mission is part record-keeping, part supernatural insurance plan, meant to keep the spirits of the dead from tipping off psychics to the Nazi''s Final Solution. Despite their absurd (and potentially confusing) orders, the 50-some Scribes live in relative peace under the supervision of Elie and Gerhardt, lovers secretly working for the Resistance. Then a daunting task comes down from Goebbels himself-answer a letter from genius philosopher Martin Heidegger to his friend and optometrist Asher Englehardt, a prisoner in Auschwitz-setting events in motion that will threaten the lives of everyone in the compound. Taking readers to a curiously polyglot netherworld, a population removed from the horrors of the Reich even as it deals in some of its most intimate dispatches, Frank''s vision of the Holocaust is original and startling, with compelling characters and a narrative that''s both explosive and ponderous.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Nazi Briefkation (Operation Mail), which forced concentration camp prisoners to write reassuring letters to loved ones that were sent instead to a central Berlin office, provides the historic framework for Frankâ€™s debut novel. Here the Compound of Scribes, a group of detainees selected for their language skills, answers the prisonersâ€™ letters in their original language, a mission devised by Nazi believers in the occult to assuage the dead. At the heart of this communityâ€”housed in an underground tunnel cunningly fashioned to mimic a townâ€”is Elie Schacten, the lover of Compound commander SS officer Gerhardt Lodenstein, who hides her Polish ancestry as she makes forays to gather supplies and assist escaping fugitives. When prominent philosopher Martin Heidegger writes fellow philosopher and optometrist Asher Engelhardt in Auschwitz, the Scribes are ordered to answer Heideggerâ€™s letter, an operation botched by an SS flunky that leads to endangering the entire Compound. Written in the precise prose that has garnered praise for Frankâ€™s short fiction, this surreal tale is a vivid reminder of what we must not forget. --Michele Leber\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9837'),
(19960, 'Heidegger&#39;s Glasses: A Novel', 'Thaisa Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. In her debut novel, Frank (A Brief History of Camouflage) presents a slightly fantastic tale of WWII, concerning an underground German bunker where multi-lingual intellectuals, spared the concentration camps, spend the war answering letters sent to concentration camp inmates who are, in all likelihood, already dead; called the Compound of Scribes, its mission is part record-keeping, part supernatural insurance plan, meant to keep the spirits of the dead from tipping off psychics to the Nazi''s Final Solution. Despite their absurd (and potentially confusing) orders, the 50-some Scribes live in relative peace under the supervision of Elie and Gerhardt, lovers secretly working for the Resistance. Then a daunting task comes down from Goebbels himself-answer a letter from genius philosopher Martin Heidegger to his friend and optometrist Asher Englehardt, a prisoner in Auschwitz-setting events in motion that will threaten the lives of everyone in the compound. Taking readers to a curiously polyglot netherworld, a population removed from the horrors of the Reich even as it deals in some of its most intimate dispatches, Frank''s vision of the Holocaust is original and startling, with compelling characters and a narrative that''s both explosive and ponderous.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The Nazi Briefkation (Operation Mail), which forced concentration camp prisoners to write reassuring letters to loved ones that were sent instead to a central Berlin office, provides the historic framework for Frankâ€™s debut novel. Here the Compound of Scribes, a group of detainees selected for their language skills, answers the prisonersâ€™ letters in their original language, a mission devised by Nazi believers in the occult to assuage the dead. At the heart of this communityâ€”housed in an underground tunnel cunningly fashioned to mimic a townâ€”is Elie Schacten, the lover of Compound commander SS officer Gerhardt Lodenstein, who hides her Polish ancestry as she makes forays to gather supplies and assist escaping fugitives. When prominent philosopher Martin Heidegger writes fellow philosopher and optometrist Asher Engelhardt in Auschwitz, the Scribes are ordered to answer Heideggerâ€™s letter, an operation botched by an SS flunky that leads to endangering the entire Compound. Written in the precise prose that has garnered praise for Frankâ€™s short fiction, this surreal tale is a vivid reminder of what we must not forget. --Michele Leber\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24241'),
(19961, 'Heir of Sea and Fire', 'Patricia A. McKillip', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: By the vow of her father and her own desire, Raederle was pledged to Morgon, Riddle-Master of Hed. But a year had passed since Morgon disappeared on his search for the High One at Erlenstar Mountain, and rumors claimed he was dead.Raederle set out to learn the truth for herself, though her small gift of magic seemed too slight for the perils she must face. The quest led through strange lands and dangerous adventures. Only her growing powers enabled her at last to reach Erlenstar Mountain. And there she discovered what she could not bear to accept.Accompanied by Deth, the High One''s Harper, she fled. And behind them came a pursuer whose name was Morgon, bent on executing a grim destiny upon Raederle and Deth.Her only hope lay in summoning the Hosts of the Dead, led by the King whose skull she bore . . .\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21550'),
(19962, 'Heir to the Empire', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  It''s five years after Return of the Jedi: the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the\n  <br />\n  Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven the remnants of the old Imperial\n  <br />\n  Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and\n  <br />\n  expecting Jedi twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of Jedi\n  <br />\n  Knights.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  But thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperor''s warlords has taken command of\n  <br />\n  the shattered Imperial fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the\n  <br />\n  new Republic. For this dark warrior has made two vital discoveries that could destroy\n  <br />\n  everything the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance fought so hard to build. The\n  <br />\n  explosive confrontation that results is a towering epic of action, invention, mystery, and\n  <br />\n  spectacle on a galactic scaleâ€”in short, a story worthy of the name Star Wars.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/599'),
(19963, 'Heir to the Empire', 'Timothy Zahn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n YA-- This first book in a trilogy takes place five years after Return of the Jedi (Ballantine, 1983) by James Kahn. Han and Leia are now married and expecting twins; Luke is continuing his training as a Jedi, while training Leia. The Republic is at peace, having defeated Darth Vader and the evil Empire. Enter Grand Admiral Thrawn, ex-warlord of the empire, with his rogue Jedi knight. They attack the Republic and attempt to kidnap Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia for their own nefarious purposes. It''s great fun to romp with the\n <code>\n </code>\n Star Wars'''' cast of humans, droids, and aliens again. While it is not on a par with Zahn''s creative, powerful works such as Cascade Point (Baen, 1987), Heir is well written for what it is. Recommended for YA collections needing a Star Wars fix. --John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA2-\n <br />\n Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n It''s five years after\n <em>\n  Return of the Jedi:\n </em>\n the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting Jedi Twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of Jedi Knights. But thousand of light-years away, the last of the emperor''s warlords has taken command of the shattered Imperial Fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the new Republic. For this dark warrior has made two vital discoveries that could destroy everything the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance fought so hard to build. The explosive confrontation that results is a towering epic of action, invention, mystery, and spectacle on a galactic scale--in short, a story worthy of the name\n <em>\n  Star Wars.\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8036'),
(19964, 'The Heiress of Water: A Novel', 'Sandra Rodriguez Barron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At 12, Monica Winters is forced to exchange her privileged life in El Salvador as the daughter of the beautiful and headstrong heiress (and amateur marine biologist) Alma Borrero Winters for a humdrum existence in Connecticut with her cuckolded father after unfaithful Alma and her lover are attacked by soldiers at a gathering place for Communist rebels. His body is recovered, but Alma is lost to the sea. Fifteen years later, disinherited by her mother''s family, Monica, now a successful massage therapist, is hired by Will Lucero to give Yvette, his comatose wife, a massage. A series of improbable events lands the cast at a clinic in El Salvador where researchers claim to be able to revive comatose patients using the venom of the very cone snail, thought to be extinct, that Monica''s mother spent her life searching for. As Will and Monica try to deny their attraction to one another, Monica begins piecing together the truth about her mother''s family (and there are many, many things to discover). Though the scenes in El Salvador are vividly rendered, Barron clumsily handles the convoluted plot''s ungainly twists, but her debut is intriguing in spite of its excesses.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Secrets and lies drive the intricate plot of this first novel, which is both a gripping mystery and an intimate drama of love and betrayal. Growing up in a wealthy established family in El Salvador at the time of the civil war, Monica learns from her beloved mother, Alma, about the exciting science of the ocean, but after Alma drowns, Monica, 12, moves with her American father to Connecticut. Fifteen years later, she is a physical therapist, and one of her patients, in a coma after a car accident, might be helped by an experimental ocean-shell treatment offered in an El Salvador clinic. Why is Monica''s father reluctant for her to return to where her mother died? When they do go back, Monica makes astonishing discoveries, past and present, that make her question, "Who was the fragile one after all?" In a contemporary version of the heroic quest story, Monica''s search for home opens up a world of revolutionary politics, science, and passion.\n <em>\n  Hazel Rochman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1371'),
(19965, 'The Heiress of Water: A Novel', 'Sandra Rodriguez Barron', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n At 12, Monica Winters is forced to exchange her privileged life in El Salvador as the daughter of the beautiful and headstrong heiress (and amateur marine biologist) Alma Borrero Winters for a humdrum existence in Connecticut with her cuckolded father after unfaithful Alma and her lover are attacked by soldiers at a gathering place for Communist rebels. His body is recovered, but Alma is lost to the sea. Fifteen years later, disinherited by her mother''s family, Monica, now a successful massage therapist, is hired by Will Lucero to give Yvette, his comatose wife, a massage. A series of improbable events lands the cast at a clinic in El Salvador where researchers claim to be able to revive comatose patients using the venom of the very cone snail, thought to be extinct, that Monica''s mother spent her life searching for. As Will and Monica try to deny their attraction to one another, Monica begins piecing together the truth about her mother''s family (and there are many, many things to discover). Though the scenes in El Salvador are vividly rendered, Barron clumsily handles the convoluted plot''s ungainly twists, but her debut is intriguing in spite of its excesses.\n <em>\n  (Sept.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Secrets and lies drive the intricate plot of this first novel, which is both a gripping mystery and an intimate drama of love and betrayal. Growing up in a wealthy established family in El Salvador at the time of the civil war, Monica learns from her beloved mother, Alma, about the exciting science of the ocean, but after Alma drowns, Monica, 12, moves with her American father to Connecticut. Fifteen years later, she is a physical therapist, and one of her patients, in a coma after a car accident, might be helped by an experimental ocean-shell treatment offered in an El Salvador clinic. Why is Monica''s father reluctant for her to return to where her mother died? When they do go back, Monica makes astonishing discoveries, past and present, that make her question, "Who was the fragile one after all?" In a contemporary version of the heroic quest story, Monica''s search for home opens up a world of revolutionary politics, science, and passion.\n <em>\n  Hazel Rochman\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8396'),
(19966, 'The Heiress of Water: A Novel', 'Sandra Rodriguez Barron', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  At 12, Monica Winters is forced to exchange her privileged life in El Salvador as the daughter of the beautiful and headstrong heiress (and amateur marine biologist) Alma Borrero Winters for a humdrum existence in Connecticut with her cuckolded father after unfaithful Alma and her lover are attacked by soldiers at a gathering place for Communist rebels. His body is recovered, but Alma is lost to the sea. Fifteen years later, disinherited by her mother''s family, Monica, now a successful massage therapist, is hired by Will Lucero to give Yvette, his comatose wife, a massage. A series of improbable events lands the cast at a clinic in El Salvador where researchers claim to be able to revive comatose patients using the venom of the very cone snail, thought to be extinct, that Monica''s mother spent her life searching for. As Will and Monica try to deny their attraction to one another, Monica begins piecing together the truth about her mother''s family (and there are many, many things to discover). Though the scenes in El Salvador are vividly rendered, Barron clumsily handles the convoluted plot''s ungainly twists, but her debut is intriguing in spite of its excesses.\n  <em>\n   (Sept.)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Secrets and lies drive the intricate plot of this first novel, which is both a gripping mystery and an intimate drama of love and betrayal. Growing up in a wealthy established family in El Salvador at the time of the civil war, Monica learns from her beloved mother, Alma, about the exciting science of the ocean, but after Alma drowns, Monica, 12, moves with her American father to Connecticut. Fifteen years later, she is a physical therapist, and one of her patients, in a coma after a car accident, might be helped by an experimental ocean-shell treatment offered in an El Salvador clinic. Why is Monica''s father reluctant for her to return to where her mother died? When they do go back, Monica makes astonishing discoveries, past and present, that make her question, "Who was the fragile one after all?" In a contemporary version of the heroic quest story, Monica''s search for home opens up a world of revolutionary politics, science, and passion.\n  <em>\n   Hazel Rochman\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23514'),
(19967, 'Helen of Troy', 'Margaret George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Starred Review.\n  </i>\n  George (\n  <i>\n   Mary, Called Magdalene\n  </i>\n  ) depicts with bravado, grace and eloquence the grand spectacle surrounding Helen of Troy. The author''s research into Mycenaean culture, coupled with Trojan War mythology''s larger-than-life heroes, enliven a bold story pulsing with romance and sacrifice, omens and battles. Helen''s noble Spartan parents try to defy the fates when a seer foretells the tragedy Helen and her legendary beauty will cause, but, as the myth of Helen demonstrates, destiny cannot be altered. Helen''s years of seclusion in Sparta lead to a frigid marriage to Menelaus before she connects with Paris, the Trojan prince with whom she forges an inextricable bond. Barely into her 20s, Helen escapes with Paris to Troy, but finds the Trojan royals welcome her with less than open arms. The mythic war, which, in less capable hands, might be over-romanticized, is portrayed with an enthusiasm that rings true to the period without verging on stagyâ€”no small feat when dealing with such a sweeping conflict. George''s extraordinary storytelling abilities shine in her portrayal of Helen as both a conflicted woman who abandoned her homeland and child for true love, and as a legendary figure whose beauty and personal choices had epic consequences.\n  <i>\n   (On sale Aug. 7)\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  When Helen of Sparta is seven years old, the sibyl at Delphi prophesies she will start a war in which many Greeks will die. King Tyndareus and Queen Leda, stricken with panic, keep their younger daughter in seclusion, discouraging rumors that Zeus is her real father. To marry her off quickly, they spread word that Helen is the most beautiful woman in the world. But because Helen fails to invoke Aphrodite when choosing a husband, her marriage to Menelaus of Mycenae is passionless. The fickle goddess finally hears Helen''s pleas, yet Aphrodite''s powers affect only Paris, a visiting Trojan prince, with whom Helen immediately falls in love. When the pair elopes one night to Paris'' affluent homeland, it precipitates a war destined to last 20 years, one that Menelaus'' restless and greedy brother, Agamemnon, has been itching to fight. Only George, reigning queen of the epic fictional biography, could render Helen''s story with all the emotion, grandeur, and tragedy it deserves. Her characters are precisely crafted, and the lovely Helen, clear-eyed and intelligent, is a sympathetic narrator. Despite the novel''s length, the pages practically turn themselves. An absorbing retelling of the classic Trojan War myth, and a sobering look at the utter futility of trying to change one''s fate.\n  <i>\n   Sarah Johnson\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  <i>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </i>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3093'),
(19968, 'Helen of Troy', 'Margaret George', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <div>\n  <i>\n   Starred Review.\n  </i>\n  George (\n  <i>\n   Mary, Called Magdalene\n  </i>\n  ) depicts with bravado, grace and eloquence the grand spectacle surrounding Helen of Troy. The author''s research into Mycenaean culture, coupled with Trojan War mythology''s larger-than-life heroes, enliven a bold story pulsing with romance and sacrifice, omens and battles. Helen''s noble Spartan parents try to defy the fates when a seer foretells the tragedy Helen and her legendary beauty will cause, but, as the myth of Helen demonstrates, destiny cannot be altered. Helen''s years of seclusion in Sparta lead to a frigid marriage to Menelaus before she connects with Paris, the Trojan prince with whom she forges an inextricable bond. Barely into her 20s, Helen escapes with Paris to Troy, but finds the Trojan royals welcome her with less than open arms. The mythic war, which, in less capable hands, might be over-romanticized, is portrayed with an enthusiasm that rings true to the period without verging on stagyâ€”no small feat when dealing with such a sweeping conflict. George''s extraordinary storytelling abilities shine in her portrayal of Helen as both a conflicted woman who abandoned her homeland and child for true love, and as a legendary figure whose beauty and personal choices had epic consequences.\n  <i>\n   (On sale Aug. 7)\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </div>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <div>\n  When Helen of Sparta is seven years old, the sibyl at Delphi prophesies she will start a war in which many Greeks will die. King Tyndareus and Queen Leda, stricken with panic, keep their younger daughter in seclusion, discouraging rumors that Zeus is her real father. To marry her off quickly, they spread word that Helen is the most beautiful woman in the world. But because Helen fails to invoke Aphrodite when choosing a husband, her marriage to Menelaus of Mycenae is passionless. The fickle goddess finally hears Helen''s pleas, yet Aphrodite''s powers affect only Paris, a visiting Trojan prince, with whom Helen immediately falls in love. When the pair elopes one night to Paris'' affluent homeland, it precipitates a war destined to last 20 years, one that Menelaus'' restless and greedy brother, Agamemnon, has been itching to fight. Only George, reigning queen of the epic fictional biography, could render Helen''s story with all the emotion, grandeur, and tragedy it deserves. Her characters are precisely crafted, and the lovely Helen, clear-eyed and intelligent, is a sympathetic narrator. Despite the novel''s length, the pages practically turn themselves. An absorbing retelling of the classic Trojan War myth, and a sobering look at the utter futility of trying to change one''s fate.\n  <i>\n   Sarah Johnson\n  </i>\n  <br />\n  <i>\n   Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n  </i>\n </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9908'),
(19969, 'Hell Bent', 'Arlene Knowell &amp; Judith Noelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mindy is being stalked by someone with a vendetta against one of her older brothers and promises to kidnap her to ''make him pay''. After discovering that he is a military man, she''s convinced that things like this are the reason she is hell bent against marrying military, even if it is five generations strong in her family.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n But the military policeman assigned to her case is smoking hot and hard to ignore. Shane Newhope promises to keep her safe, is it so bad that he sends tingles down her spine in the process?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only if you''ve told your brothers that you want nothing to do with the military, and they''re convinced that a military man is just what you need.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7427'),
(19970, 'Hell Bent', 'Arlene Knowell; Judith Noelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mindy is being stalked by someone with a vendetta against one of her older brothers and promises to kidnap her to ''make him pay''. After discovering that he is a military man, she''s convinced that things like this are the reason she is hell bent against marrying military, even if it is five generations strong in her family. But the military policeman assigned to her case is smoking hot and hard to ignore. Shane Newhope promises to keep her safe, is it so bad that he sends tingles down her spine in the process? Only if you''ve told your brothers that you want nothing to do with the military, and they''re convinced that a military man is just what you need.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16406'),
(19971, 'Hell Bent', 'Arlene Knowell; Judith Noelle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mindy is being stalked by someone with a vendetta against one of her older brothers and promises to kidnap her to ''make him pay''. After discovering that he is a military man, she''s convinced that things like this are the reason she is hell bent against marrying military, even if it is five generations strong in her family. But the military policeman assigned to her case is smoking hot and hard to ignore. Shane Newhope promises to keep her safe, is it so bad that he sends tingles down her spine in the process? Only if you''ve told your brothers that you want nothing to do with the military, and they''re convinced that a military man is just what you need.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26469'),
(19972, 'Hell Hath No Fury', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6862'),
(19973, 'Hell Hath No Fury', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13394'),
(19974, 'Hell Hath No Fury', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17031'),
(19975, 'Hell Hath No Fury', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26879'),
(19976, 'Hell House', 'Richard Matheson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n 02 Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death.Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townfolks refer to it as the Hell House. Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death.Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townfolks refer to it as the Hell House.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1848'),
(19977, 'Hell Island', 'Matthew Reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Captain Shane Schofi eld and his elite team of marines is about to discover . . .\n </em>\n <strong>\n  There is no hell like a man-made one.\n </strong>\n It is an island that doesnâ€™t appear on any maps. A secret location where the government conducts classified experiments. Experiments that have gone terribly wrong. . . . When all contact with the mysterious island is suddenly and inexplicably lost, Captain Shane Schofi eld and four crack Special Forces units parachute in. Nothing prepares them for what they fi ndâ€”the island is a testing ground for a deadly breed of genetically enhanced supersoldiers. You could say theyâ€™ve just entered hell, but this place is much, much worse. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Matthew Reilly\n </strong>\n is the international bestselling author of eight novels:\n <em>\n  The 6 Sacred Stones, 7 Deadly Wonders, Ice Station, Temple, Contest, Area 7, Scarecrow\n </em>\n , and the children''s book\n <em>\n  Hover Car Racer\n </em>\n , and one novella,\n <em>\n  Hell Island\n </em>\n . His books are published in more than eighteen languages in twenty countries, and he has sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3005'),
(19978, 'Hell Island', 'Matthew Reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Captain Shane Schofi eld and his elite team of marines is about to discover . . .\n </em>\n <strong>\n  There is no hell like a man-made one.\n </strong>\n It is an island that doesnâ€™t appear on any maps. A secret location where the government conducts classified experiments. Experiments that have gone terribly wrong. . . . When all contact with the mysterious island is suddenly and inexplicably lost, Captain Shane Schofi eld and four crack Special Forces units parachute in. Nothing prepares them for what they fi ndâ€”the island is a testing ground for a deadly breed of genetically enhanced supersoldiers. You could say theyâ€™ve just entered hell, but this place is much, much worse. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Matthew Reilly\n </strong>\n is the international bestselling author of eight novels:\n <em>\n  The 6 Sacred Stones, 7 Deadly Wonders, Ice Station, Temple, Contest, Area 7, Scarecrow\n </em>\n , and the children''s book\n <em>\n  Hover Car Racer\n </em>\n , and one novella,\n <em>\n  Hell Island\n </em>\n . His books are published in more than eighteen languages in twenty countries, and he has sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12105'),
(19979, 'Hell Island', 'Matthew Reilly', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Captain Shane Schofi eld and his elite team of marines is about to discover . . .\n </em>\n <strong>\n  There is no hell like a man-made one.\n </strong>\n It is an island that doesnâ€™t appear on any maps. A secret location where the government conducts classified experiments. Experiments that have gone terribly wrong. . . . When all contact with the mysterious island is suddenly and inexplicably lost, Captain Shane Schofi eld and four crack Special Forces units parachute in. Nothing prepares them for what they fi ndâ€”the island is a testing ground for a deadly breed of genetically enhanced supersoldiers. You could say theyâ€™ve just entered hell, but this place is much, much worse. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Matthew Reilly\n </strong>\n is the international bestselling author of eight novels:\n <em>\n  The 6 Sacred Stones, 7 Deadly Wonders, Ice Station, Temple, Contest, Area 7, Scarecrow\n </em>\n , and the children''s book\n <em>\n  Hover Car Racer\n </em>\n , and one novella,\n <em>\n  Hell Island\n </em>\n . His books are published in more than eighteen languages in twenty countries, and he has sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21896'),
(19980, 'A Hell of a Woman', 'Jim Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn''t bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned her into something little better than a prostitute--and about the money the old lady has stashed away--Dillon found it surprisingly easy to kill for her.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18127'),
(19981, 'Hell to Pay', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lady Damnation, Old Father Time, a world weary Count Dracula and the hard-drinking storybook character Bruin Bear are only a few of the beings that Green produces for his seventh novel set in the sinister and psychedelic world of Nightside. None, however, are more powerful than "the Griffin," an immortal who built his empire on the carcasses of foes, who has now summoned paranormal PI John Taylor to find his granddaughter. Taylor specializes in locating lost things; his Sightâ€”which allows him to see into other dimensionsâ€”should be ideal for the task. But when an entity in the Griffin''s mansion blocks his abilities, Taylor must investigate the old-fashioned way: questioning the Griffin''s family members one by one. Taylor''s q&amp;a sessions are less than thrilling, and the numerous references to the family''s fearsome reputation grow tiresome. Fortunately, Green throws in a number of left-field surprises, spicing things up with an attack of fanatical nuns (called the Salvation Army Sisterhood), a bloodthirsty gangster and a DNA-stealing Charnel Chimera. Indeed, the most entertaining aspect lies not in Taylor''s investigation but in anticipating what Green''s twisted imagination will conjure next.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the wake of the war that left the Nightside leaderless, Jeremiah Griffin-one of the last of the immortal human families-plans to fill the power vacuum. But his granddaughter has disappeared, and he wants John Taylor to use his special abilities to find her. Except someone-or something-is blocking Taylor''s abilities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1272'),
(19982, 'Hell to Pay', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lady Damnation, Old Father Time, a world weary Count Dracula and the hard-drinking storybook character Bruin Bear are only a few of the beings that Green produces for his seventh novel set in the sinister and psychedelic world of Nightside. None, however, are more powerful than "the Griffin," an immortal who built his empire on the carcasses of foes, who has now summoned paranormal PI John Taylor to find his granddaughter. Taylor specializes in locating lost things; his Sightâ€”which allows him to see into other dimensionsâ€”should be ideal for the task. But when an entity in the Griffin''s mansion blocks his abilities, Taylor must investigate the old-fashioned way: questioning the Griffin''s family members one by one. Taylor''s q&amp;a sessions are less than thrilling, and the numerous references to the family''s fearsome reputation grow tiresome. Fortunately, Green throws in a number of left-field surprises, spicing things up with an attack of fanatical nuns (called the Salvation Army Sisterhood), a bloodthirsty gangster and a DNA-stealing Charnel Chimera. Indeed, the most entertaining aspect lies not in Taylor''s investigation but in anticipating what Green''s twisted imagination will conjure next.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the wake of the war that left the Nightside leaderless, Jeremiah Griffin-one of the last of the immortal human families-plans to fill the power vacuum. But his granddaughter has disappeared, and he wants John Taylor to use his special abilities to find her. Except someone-or something-is blocking Taylor''s abilities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9974'),
(19983, 'Hell to Pay', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lady Damnation, Old Father Time, a world weary Count Dracula and the hard-drinking storybook character Bruin Bear are only a few of the beings that Green produces for his seventh novel set in the sinister and psychedelic world of Nightside. None, however, are more powerful than "the Griffin," an immortal who built his empire on the carcasses of foes, who has now summoned paranormal PI John Taylor to find his granddaughter. Taylor specializes in locating lost things; his Sightâ€”which allows him to see into other dimensionsâ€”should be ideal for the task. But when an entity in the Griffin''s mansion blocks his abilities, Taylor must investigate the old-fashioned way: questioning the Griffin''s family members one by one. Taylor''s q&amp;a sessions are less than thrilling, and the numerous references to the family''s fearsome reputation grow tiresome. Fortunately, Green throws in a number of left-field surprises, spicing things up with an attack of fanatical nuns (called the Salvation Army Sisterhood), a bloodthirsty gangster and a DNA-stealing Charnel Chimera. Indeed, the most entertaining aspect lies not in Taylor''s investigation but in anticipating what Green''s twisted imagination will conjure next.\n <em>\n  (Jan.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n In the wake of the war that left the Nightside leaderless, Jeremiah Griffin-one of the last of the immortal human families-plans to fill the power vacuum. But his granddaughter has disappeared, and he wants John Taylor to use his special abilities to find her. Except someone-or something-is blocking Taylor''s abilities.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23645'),
(19984, 'Hell&#39;s Angel', 'Thompson, Hunter S', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25030');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(19985, 'Hell&#39;s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pendant plus d''un an, Hunter S. Thompson a suivi un gang de motards, montrant au fur et Ã  mesure ses notes Ã  ses compagnons d''Ã©quipÃ©e. Ce livre, publiÃ© en 1966, scandalisa l''AmÃ©rique, puis l''Europe.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hell''s Angels" was Hunter Thompson''s first book, an account of the year that the reporter spent riding with the biker gang, then the very symbol of dangerous counterculture. After writing a piece on the Heirs Angels and other cycle gangs for The Nation, Thompson signed a contract with Ballantine and spent time with "as many vicious thugs as possible." His involvement ended on Labor Day 1966 when a group of Angels "stomped" Thompson, nearly kicking him to death. "Far from being freaks, the Hell''s Angels are a logical product of the culture that now claims to be shocked by their existence. The generation represented by the editors of Time has lived so long in a world full of celluloid outlaws hustling toothpaste and hair oil that it is no longer capable of confronting the real thing. For twenty years they have sat with their children and watched yesterday''s outlaws raise hell with yesterday''s world...and now they are bringing up children who think Jesse James is a television character." "California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again." Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson''s vivid account of his experiences with California''s most no-torious motorcycle gang, the Hell''s Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial An-gels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, "For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson''s book is a thoughtful piece of work." As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell''s Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5143'),
(19986, 'Hell&#39;s Angels: a strange and terrible saga', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pendant plus d''un an, Hunter S. Thompson a suivi un gang de motards, montrant au fur et Ã  mesure ses notes Ã  ses compagnons d''Ã©quipÃ©e. Ce livre, publiÃ© en 1966, scandalisa l''AmÃ©rique, puis l''Europe. SUMMARY: Hell''s Angels" was Hunter Thompson''s first book, an account of the year that the reporter spent riding with the biker gang, then the very symbol of dangerous counterculture. After writing a piece on the Heirs Angels and other cycle gangs for The Nation, Thompson signed a contract with Ballantine and spent time with "as many vicious thugs as possible." His involvement ended on Labor Day 1966 when a group of Angels "stomped" Thompson, nearly kicking him to death. "Far from being freaks, the Hell''s Angels are a logical product of the culture that now claims to be shocked by their existence. The generation represented by the editors of Time has lived so long in a world full of celluloid outlaws hustling toothpaste and hair oil that it is no longer capable of confronting the real thing. For twenty years they have sat with their children and watched yesterday''s outlaws raise hell with yesterday''s world...and now they are bringing up children who think Jesse James is a television character." "California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again." Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson''s vivid account of his experiences with California''s most no-torious motorcycle gang, the Hell''s Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial An-gels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, "For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson''s book is a thoughtful piece of work." As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell''s Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19579'),
(19987, 'Hell&#39;s Angels: a strange and terrible saga', 'Hunter S. Thompson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Pendant plus d''un an, Hunter S. Thompson a suivi un gang de motards, montrant au fur et Ã  mesure ses notes Ã  ses compagnons d''Ã©quipÃ©e. Ce livre, publiÃ© en 1966, scandalisa l''AmÃ©rique, puis l''Europe.\n <br />\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hell''s Angels" was Hunter Thompson''s first book, an account of the year that the reporter spent riding with the biker gang, then the very symbol of dangerous counterculture. After writing a piece on the Heirs Angels and other cycle gangs for The Nation, Thompson signed a contract with Ballantine and spent time with "as many vicious thugs as possible." His involvement ended on Labor Day 1966 when a group of Angels "stomped" Thompson, nearly kicking him to death. "Far from being freaks, the Hell''s Angels are a logical product of the culture that now claims to be shocked by their existence. The generation represented by the editors of Time has lived so long in a world full of celluloid outlaws hustling toothpaste and hair oil that it is no longer capable of confronting the real thing. For twenty years they have sat with their children and watched yesterday''s outlaws raise hell with yesterday''s world...and now they are bringing up children who think Jesse James is a television character." "California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again." Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson''s vivid account of his experiences with California''s most no-torious motorcycle gang, the Hell''s Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial An-gels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, "For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson''s book is a thoughtful piece of work." As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell''s Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28189'),
(19988, 'Hell&#39;s Gate', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Earth becomes the battleground for alien creatures and men from the far future\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6117'),
(19989, 'Hell&#39;s Gate', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Earth becomes the battleground for alien creatures and men from the far future\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17957'),
(19990, 'The Hellbound Heart', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Cotton''s insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand''s box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother''s love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank backâ€”though the price will be bloody and terrible . . . and there will certainly be hell to pay.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6698'),
(19991, 'The Hellbound Heart', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Frank Cotton''s insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand''s box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother''s love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank backâ€”though the price will be bloody and terrible . . . and there will certainly be hell to pay.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17352'),
(19992, 'The Hellbound Heart', 'Clive Barker', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror film, Hellraiser.  In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. For Frank it began with his own insatiable sexual appetite, a mysterious lacquered box- and then an unhinged voyage through a netherworld of imaginable pleasures and unimaginable horror! Now Frank- or what is left of Frank -waits in an empty room. All he wants is to live as he was before. All julia can do is bring him her unfulfilled passions!and a little flesh and blood!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Frank Cotton''s insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand''s box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother''s love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank backâ€”though the price will be bloody and terrible . . . and there will certainly be hell to pay.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27020'),
(19993, 'Hellburner', 'C. J. Cherryh', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A futuristic tale of governmental coverups, betrayal, and murder follows the belter Pollard as he tries to determine if his partner''s space flight training accident was a mishap or attempted murder. 15,000 first printing. Tour.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15464'),
(19994, 'Hellfire', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n [DESCRIPTION TO COME]\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n [DESCRIPTION TO COME]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4178'),
(19995, 'Hellfire', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n [DESCRIPTION TO COME]\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n [DESCRIPTION TO COME]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12569'),
(19996, 'Hellfire', 'John Saul', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n [DESCRIPTION TO COME]\n</p>\n<h3>\n From the Publisher\n</h3>\n<p>\n [DESCRIPTION TO COME]\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20272'),
(19997, 'The Hellfire Club', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Straub''s recent series of books, while excellent, have been dense and rather cerebral as horror books go. This one, while employing many of the same devices about family secrets and mysteries half-buried in the past, has an action storyline with a viscerally satisfying villain and a strong female protagonist. The premise is that the history of a famous fantasy novel not only concerns some eccentric authors, but collides with a wily killer on a rampage. The settings--in seedy motel rooms, New England houses, a bizarre private club and an over-the-hill literary retreat--are especially fun.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Continuing his shift away from occult horror toward terrors inspired by the ragged social fabric of American life, Straub (The Throat) turns in another violent yet richly nuanced thriller. As in much of his work (Mystery; Koko), the past impinges on the present through secrets kept, then revealed. Here, the secrets are both familial and literary. Four women in upscale Westerholm, Conn., have disappeared from blood-spattered bedrooms. Meanwhile, Westerholm resident Nora Chancel, who''s newly menopausal, broods about a stalking wolf while her husband, publisher Davey Chancel, a decade her junior, obsesses about the novel trilogy (begun in 1939) written by Chancel House''s most popular writer, Hugo Driver. When yet another woman disappears, Nora learns that Davey once had an affair with her. Then the woman shows up, only to accuse Nora of kidnapping and torturing her, leading to Nora''s arrest. But also at the police station is Dick Dart, scion of an old local family, who is being questioned about the killings. Dart steals a cop''s gun, grabs Nora as his hostage and, he believes, potential future accomplice?and the woman''s real agony begins. Dart, a serial killer who has always loved "cutting things up. Loved it," rapes Nora and takes her on a grisly spree of terror. In time, Nora manages to escape, but in a surprising yet, with hindsight, seemingly inevitable turn of events, she again finds herself in mortal danger. Dart is a memorable villain, funny, bold and charming (and as difficult to kill as Rasputin). Nora proves his equal, however, gutsy and clever, and as the two clash, the secrets that Straub intimates early on reveal themselves. These secrets manifest neither easily nor predictably, however, for, as is said of characters in a Driver novel, Straub''s own characters are "colorful and involved, full of danger, heroism and betrayal"?as is this supple, exciting book. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2148'),
(19998, 'The Hellfire Club', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Straub''s recent series of books, while excellent, have been dense and rather cerebral as horror books go. This one, while employing many of the same devices about family secrets and mysteries half-buried in the past, has an action storyline with a viscerally satisfying villain and a strong female protagonist. The premise is that the history of a famous fantasy novel not only concerns some eccentric authors, but collides with a wily killer on a rampage. The settings--in seedy motel rooms, New England houses, a bizarre private club and an over-the-hill literary retreat--are especially fun.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Continuing his shift away from occult horror toward terrors inspired by the ragged social fabric of American life, Straub (The Throat) turns in another violent yet richly nuanced thriller. As in much of his work (Mystery; Koko), the past impinges on the present through secrets kept, then revealed. Here, the secrets are both familial and literary. Four women in upscale Westerholm, Conn., have disappeared from blood-spattered bedrooms. Meanwhile, Westerholm resident Nora Chancel, who''s newly menopausal, broods about a stalking wolf while her husband, publisher Davey Chancel, a decade her junior, obsesses about the novel trilogy (begun in 1939) written by Chancel House''s most popular writer, Hugo Driver. When yet another woman disappears, Nora learns that Davey once had an affair with her. Then the woman shows up, only to accuse Nora of kidnapping and torturing her, leading to Nora''s arrest. But also at the police station is Dick Dart, scion of an old local family, who is being questioned about the killings. Dart steals a cop''s gun, grabs Nora as his hostage and, he believes, potential future accomplice?and the woman''s real agony begins. Dart, a serial killer who has always loved "cutting things up. Loved it," rapes Nora and takes her on a grisly spree of terror. In time, Nora manages to escape, but in a surprising yet, with hindsight, seemingly inevitable turn of events, she again finds herself in mortal danger. Dart is a memorable villain, funny, bold and charming (and as difficult to kill as Rasputin). Nora proves his equal, however, gutsy and clever, and as the two clash, the secrets that Straub intimates early on reveal themselves. These secrets manifest neither easily nor predictably, however, for, as is said of characters in a Driver novel, Straub''s own characters are "colorful and involved, full of danger, heroism and betrayal"?as is this supple, exciting book. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12953'),
(19999, 'The Hellfire Club', 'Peter Straub', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Straub''s recent series of books, while excellent, have been dense and rather cerebral as horror books go. This one, while employing many of the same devices about family secrets and mysteries half-buried in the past, has an action storyline with a viscerally satisfying villain and a strong female protagonist. The premise is that the history of a famous fantasy novel not only concerns some eccentric authors, but collides with a wily killer on a rampage. The settings--in seedy motel rooms, New England houses, a bizarre private club and an over-the-hill literary retreat--are especially fun.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Continuing his shift away from occult horror toward terrors inspired by the ragged social fabric of American life, Straub (The Throat) turns in another violent yet richly nuanced thriller. As in much of his work (Mystery; Koko), the past impinges on the present through secrets kept, then revealed. Here, the secrets are both familial and literary. Four women in upscale Westerholm, Conn., have disappeared from blood-spattered bedrooms. Meanwhile, Westerholm resident Nora Chancel, who''s newly menopausal, broods about a stalking wolf while her husband, publisher Davey Chancel, a decade her junior, obsesses about the novel trilogy (begun in 1939) written by Chancel House''s most popular writer, Hugo Driver. When yet another woman disappears, Nora learns that Davey once had an affair with her. Then the woman shows up, only to accuse Nora of kidnapping and torturing her, leading to Nora''s arrest. But also at the police station is Dick Dart, scion of an old local family, who is being questioned about the killings. Dart steals a cop''s gun, grabs Nora as his hostage and, he believes, potential future accomplice?and the woman''s real agony begins. Dart, a serial killer who has always loved "cutting things up. Loved it," rapes Nora and takes her on a grisly spree of terror. In time, Nora manages to escape, but in a surprising yet, with hindsight, seemingly inevitable turn of events, she again finds herself in mortal danger. Dart is a memorable villain, funny, bold and charming (and as difficult to kill as Rasputin). Nora proves his equal, however, gutsy and clever, and as the two clash, the secrets that Straub intimates early on reveal themselves. These secrets manifest neither easily nor predictably, however, for, as is said of characters in a Driver novel, Straub''s own characters are "colorful and involved, full of danger, heroism and betrayal"?as is this supple, exciting book. Major ad/promo.\n <br />\n Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22617'),
(20000, 'Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. And the International Hunt for His Assassin', 'Hampton Sides', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n , Ray''s absence is essential--in his place, Hampton Sides traces the alter egos Ray created after escaping from prison and beginning his haphazard journey toward Memphis. Sides meticulously constructs parallel portraits of two very different men--one, the larger-than-life figurehead of the Civil Rights movement; the other, a nondescript loner with a spurious and violent history, whose identity was as fluid as his motives. The narrative builds to the staggering and heartbreaking moment of King''s assassination, then races on through the immediate fallout: the worldwide manhunt led by J. Edgar Hoover''s FBI; Ray''s nearly successful attempt to flee to Rhodesia; and the riots that erupted throughout the United States as racial tensions reached a breaking point. Sides''s storytelling packs a visceral punch, and in\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n , he crafts an authoritative and riveting account of two intersecting lives that altered the course of American history.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Grann Reviews\n  <em>\n   Hellhound on His Trail\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   Hellhound on His Trail\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Hampton Sides has long been one of the great narrative nonfiction writers of our time, excavating essential pieces of American history--from the daring rescue of POWs during World War II to the settling of the West--and bringing them vividly to life. Now in his new book,\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n , he applies his enormous gifts to one of the most important and heart-wrenching chapters in U.S. history: the stalking and assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., by James Earl Ray.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book chronicles the terrifying collision of these two figures. In 1967, King was struggling to complete his monumental Civil Rights crusade and to maintain, amid the rise of more militant factions, the movementâ€™s nonviolent nobility. While King increasingly intuits his own death, Ray has begun to track him down. Through Sidesâ€™ prodigious research, Ray emerges as one of the eeriest characters, a prison escapee and racist who wears alligator shoes and is constantly transforming himself, changing names and physical appearances. He is determined to become somebody, to insert himself into the national consciousness, through a single unthinkable act of violence.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sides illuminates not only the forces that culminated in Kingâ€™s assassination; he also reveals the largely forgotten story of how his death led to the largest manhunt in American history. Almost unfathomably, it is J. Edgar Hoover, the person who had long hoped for Kingâ€™s destruction and had even spied on him, who ultimately brings Kingâ€™s killer to justice.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n reconstructs this taut, tense narrative with the immediacy of a novel. Yet what makes the book so powerful--indeed what lifts it into the ranks of a masterpiece--is that the story unfolds against the larger backdrop of the Civil Rights movement and the struggle to remake the country. If Ray is able to undergo a final metamorphosis, it is King, through his life and ultimate sacrifice, who enacts the greatest transformation: changing the character of a nation.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Matt Richman)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Questions for Hampton Sides\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How did the idea for\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n come to you? What made you decide to focus on James Earl Ray?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n So many books have concentrated on either advancing or debunking conspiracy theories about the King assassination, but few have looked hard at James Earl Ray himself. Who was this guy? What were his habits, his movements, his motives? I found him to be profoundly screwed up, but screwed up in an absolutely fascinating way. He was a kind of empty vessel of the culture. He was drawn to so many fads and pop-trends of the late nineteen-sixties. He got a nose job, took dancing lessons, graduated from bar-tending school, got into hypnosis and weird self-help books, enrolled in a locksmithing course, even aspired to be a porn director. His personality had all these quirks and contradictions. He was supposedly stupid, but he somehow managed to escape from two maximum security prisons. Some claimed he wasnâ€™t a racist, yet he worked for the Wallace Campaign, called King "Martin Lucifer Coon," tried to emigrate to Rhodesia to become a mercenary soldier, and eventually hired a Nazi lawyer to defend him. He lived in absolute filth and squalor, but kept his clothes fastidiously laundered. And in the end, ironically, thatâ€™s what caught him: A tiny identifying laundry tag stamped into the inseam of a pair of undershorts found near the scene of the King assassination.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n The "Notes" and "Bibliography" sections of\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n total more than 50 pages--how did you begin to tackle the wealth of information that exists about Martin Luther Kingâ€™s assassination? What was your research process like?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The research nearly gave me an aneurysm. But in the end,\n <em>\n  Hellhound\n </em>\n is a work of narrative history, not a journalistic exposÃ©. I don''t think I unearthed any massive bombshells that will change the world forever--like, say, proving once and for all that J. Edgar Hoover actually orchestrated the whole affair. Instead, what I unearthed were thousands and thousands of tiny details that make the story come alive on the page and make it possible, for the first time, to understand the tragedy as a complete, multi-stranded narrative. The book''s packed full of novelistic detail--weather, architecture, what people were wearing, what the landscape looked like, the music that was playing on the radio. To get all this stuff, I had to do the usual sort of archival work--from the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin to the London newspaper archives--and I went pretty much everywhere James Earl Ray went, following in his fugitive footsteps: Puerto Vallarta, Toronto, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Birmingham, Lisbon, London. But my real ace in the hole was a retired Memphis cop named Vince Hughes who has compiled the most fascinating, and most comprehensive, digital archive about the MLK assassination on the planet: Crime scene photos, police reports, unexpurgated FBI files, audio tapes, and many hundreds of thousands of unpublished documents that proved a real godsend. Every non-fiction writer needs to find a guy named Vince. Thank God I found mine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How did you come up with the title? Is there significance to it?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n It comes from the famous Robert Johnson blues song, "Hellhound On My Trail," which is about being pursued by fate, by the law, and ultimately by death. Johnson was the greatest of the Delta bluesmen, and he lived in and around Memphis much of his short tragic life. It was said that heâ€™d gone to The Crossroads and sold his soul to the devil to learn to play the guitar, so he was always looking over his shoulder for his time to come. When King arrived in Memphis in 1968, he was representing black garbage workers who were mostly former plantation hands from Johnson country, from the Delta cotton fields. As a title, "hellhound" seemed evocative on twin levels: For King, who was constantly being hounded by death threats and Hooverâ€™s FBI, as well as for Ray, who became the target of the largest manhunt in American history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n The King assassination, like the JFK assassination, is rife with conspiracy theories. How did you deal with them?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n At the outset of my research, I took very seriously the idea that there might have been a conspiracy. I read all the conspiracy books, examined every angle. The only problem with the conspiracy theories that are out there, I found, is that they invariably fail the most basic test: They raise more questions than they address, they create more problems than they solve. And theyâ€™re so monumentally complicated: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, the Green Berets, President Johnson, the Memphis Police Department, the Memphis Fire Department, the Memphis Mayorâ€™s Office, the Boy Scouts of America--everybody killed Martin Luther King! But as I got into it, it became clear that the evidence against James Earl Ray was overwhelming. He bought the rifle, the scope, the ammo, the binoculars. He checked into that rooming house three hours before the murder. He peeled out from the rooming house one minute after the murder, in the same getaway car described by eyewitnesses. He admitted to every one of these things. His only defense was that some other guy--a mysterious man he called Raoul--pulled the trigger. Well, thereâ€™s not a shred of evidence that Raoul ever existed. So in\n <em>\n  Hellhound\n </em>\n , I take the clear position that Ray did it, but I leave many doors ajar as to the question of whether he had help, whether he was working in the hope of winning bounty money, whether members of his own family abetted him. When in doubt, I generally err on the side of Occamâ€™s razor: The simplest explanation is usually the right one.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Can you compare\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n to your previous books? Are there similarities among them?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I donâ€™t concentrate on any one period of history, I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances. My histories tend to be character-driven, with a lot of plot, a lot of action. I donâ€™t think youâ€™d find me writing about, say, the Constitutional Convention or the Transcendental Movement. A friend once told me Iâ€™m interested in "human disasters"--social storms of one sort or another, and the ways in which people survive them, through courage, ingenuity, grace under pressure, luck. Thatâ€™s true of the Bataan Death March, with the conquest of the West, and now, here, with the end of the Civil Rights era.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What made you decide to pursue writing as a career? Have you always wanted to be a journalist?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The first writer I ever met growing up in Memphis was Shelby Foote, the great Civil War historian, and he gave me certain ideas at an early age about what narrative history can aspire to be. My other deep influence was John Hersey, who wrote\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Gary Oakley)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The counterpoint between two driven menâ€”one by a quest for justice, the other by an atavistic hatredâ€”propels this engrossing study of the King assassination. Sides, author of the bestselling\n <em>\n  Ghost Solders\n </em>\n , shows us a King all but consumed by the flagging civil rights movement in 1968 and burdened by presentiments of death. Pursuing him is escaped convict James Earl Ray, whose feckless life finds a belated, desperate purpose, perhaps stimulated by George Wallace''s presidential campaign, in killing the civil rights leader. A third main character is the FBI, which turns on a dime from its long-standing harassment of Kingto a massive investigation into his murder; in Sides''s telling, the Bureau''s transoceanic hunt for Ray is one of history''s great police procedurals. Sides''s novelistic treatment registers Ray as a man so nondescript his own sister could barely remember him (the author refers to him by his shifting aliases to emphasize the shallowness of his identity). The result is a tragedy more compelling than the grandest conspiracy theory: the most significant of lives cut short by the hollowest of men. Photos.\n <em>\n  (Apr. 27)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5264'),
(20001, 'Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. And the International Hunt for His Assassin', 'Hampton Sides', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n , Ray''s absence is essential--in his place, Hampton Sides traces the alter egos Ray created after escaping from prison and beginning his haphazard journey toward Memphis. Sides meticulously constructs parallel portraits of two very different men--one, the larger-than-life figurehead of the Civil Rights movement; the other, a nondescript loner with a spurious and violent history, whose identity was as fluid as his motives. The narrative builds to the staggering and heartbreaking moment of King''s assassination, then races on through the immediate fallout: the worldwide manhunt led by J. Edgar Hoover''s FBI; Ray''s nearly successful attempt to flee to Rhodesia; and the riots that erupted throughout the United States as racial tensions reached a breaking point. Sides''s storytelling packs a visceral punch, and in\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n , he crafts an authoritative and riveting account of two intersecting lives that altered the course of American history.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Grann Reviews\n  <em>\n   Hellhound on His Trail\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   Hellhound on His Trail\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Hampton Sides has long been one of the great narrative nonfiction writers of our time, excavating essential pieces of American history--from the daring rescue of POWs during World War II to the settling of the West--and bringing them vividly to life. Now in his new book,\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n , he applies his enormous gifts to one of the most important and heart-wrenching chapters in U.S. history: the stalking and assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., by James Earl Ray.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book chronicles the terrifying collision of these two figures. In 1967, King was struggling to complete his monumental Civil Rights crusade and to maintain, amid the rise of more militant factions, the movementâ€™s nonviolent nobility. While King increasingly intuits his own death, Ray has begun to track him down. Through Sidesâ€™ prodigious research, Ray emerges as one of the eeriest characters, a prison escapee and racist who wears alligator shoes and is constantly transforming himself, changing names and physical appearances. He is determined to become somebody, to insert himself into the national consciousness, through a single unthinkable act of violence.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sides illuminates not only the forces that culminated in Kingâ€™s assassination; he also reveals the largely forgotten story of how his death led to the largest manhunt in American history. Almost unfathomably, it is J. Edgar Hoover, the person who had long hoped for Kingâ€™s destruction and had even spied on him, who ultimately brings Kingâ€™s killer to justice.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n reconstructs this taut, tense narrative with the immediacy of a novel. Yet what makes the book so powerful--indeed what lifts it into the ranks of a masterpiece--is that the story unfolds against the larger backdrop of the Civil Rights movement and the struggle to remake the country. If Ray is able to undergo a final metamorphosis, it is King, through his life and ultimate sacrifice, who enacts the greatest transformation: changing the character of a nation.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Matt Richman)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Questions for Hampton Sides\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How did the idea for\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n come to you? What made you decide to focus on James Earl Ray?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n So many books have concentrated on either advancing or debunking conspiracy theories about the King assassination, but few have looked hard at James Earl Ray himself. Who was this guy? What were his habits, his movements, his motives? I found him to be profoundly screwed up, but screwed up in an absolutely fascinating way. He was a kind of empty vessel of the culture. He was drawn to so many fads and pop-trends of the late nineteen-sixties. He got a nose job, took dancing lessons, graduated from bar-tending school, got into hypnosis and weird self-help books, enrolled in a locksmithing course, even aspired to be a porn director. His personality had all these quirks and contradictions. He was supposedly stupid, but he somehow managed to escape from two maximum security prisons. Some claimed he wasnâ€™t a racist, yet he worked for the Wallace Campaign, called King "Martin Lucifer Coon," tried to emigrate to Rhodesia to become a mercenary soldier, and eventually hired a Nazi lawyer to defend him. He lived in absolute filth and squalor, but kept his clothes fastidiously laundered. And in the end, ironically, thatâ€™s what caught him: A tiny identifying laundry tag stamped into the inseam of a pair of undershorts found near the scene of the King assassination.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n The "Notes" and "Bibliography" sections of\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n total more than 50 pages--how did you begin to tackle the wealth of information that exists about Martin Luther Kingâ€™s assassination? What was your research process like?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The research nearly gave me an aneurysm. But in the end,\n <em>\n  Hellhound\n </em>\n is a work of narrative history, not a journalistic exposÃ©. I don''t think I unearthed any massive bombshells that will change the world forever--like, say, proving once and for all that J. Edgar Hoover actually orchestrated the whole affair. Instead, what I unearthed were thousands and thousands of tiny details that make the story come alive on the page and make it possible, for the first time, to understand the tragedy as a complete, multi-stranded narrative. The book''s packed full of novelistic detail--weather, architecture, what people were wearing, what the landscape looked like, the music that was playing on the radio. To get all this stuff, I had to do the usual sort of archival work--from the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin to the London newspaper archives--and I went pretty much everywhere James Earl Ray went, following in his fugitive footsteps: Puerto Vallarta, Toronto, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Birmingham, Lisbon, London. But my real ace in the hole was a retired Memphis cop named Vince Hughes who has compiled the most fascinating, and most comprehensive, digital archive about the MLK assassination on the planet: Crime scene photos, police reports, unexpurgated FBI files, audio tapes, and many hundreds of thousands of unpublished documents that proved a real godsend. Every non-fiction writer needs to find a guy named Vince. Thank God I found mine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How did you come up with the title? Is there significance to it?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n It comes from the famous Robert Johnson blues song, "Hellhound On My Trail," which is about being pursued by fate, by the law, and ultimately by death. Johnson was the greatest of the Delta bluesmen, and he lived in and around Memphis much of his short tragic life. It was said that heâ€™d gone to The Crossroads and sold his soul to the devil to learn to play the guitar, so he was always looking over his shoulder for his time to come. When King arrived in Memphis in 1968, he was representing black garbage workers who were mostly former plantation hands from Johnson country, from the Delta cotton fields. As a title, "hellhound" seemed evocative on twin levels: For King, who was constantly being hounded by death threats and Hooverâ€™s FBI, as well as for Ray, who became the target of the largest manhunt in American history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n The King assassination, like the JFK assassination, is rife with conspiracy theories. How did you deal with them?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n At the outset of my research, I took very seriously the idea that there might have been a conspiracy. I read all the conspiracy books, examined every angle. The only problem with the conspiracy theories that are out there, I found, is that they invariably fail the most basic test: They raise more questions than they address, they create more problems than they solve. And theyâ€™re so monumentally complicated: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, the Green Berets, President Johnson, the Memphis Police Department, the Memphis Fire Department, the Memphis Mayorâ€™s Office, the Boy Scouts of America--everybody killed Martin Luther King! But as I got into it, it became clear that the evidence against James Earl Ray was overwhelming. He bought the rifle, the scope, the ammo, the binoculars. He checked into that rooming house three hours before the murder. He peeled out from the rooming house one minute after the murder, in the same getaway car described by eyewitnesses. He admitted to every one of these things. His only defense was that some other guy--a mysterious man he called Raoul--pulled the trigger. Well, thereâ€™s not a shred of evidence that Raoul ever existed. So in\n <em>\n  Hellhound\n </em>\n , I take the clear position that Ray did it, but I leave many doors ajar as to the question of whether he had help, whether he was working in the hope of winning bounty money, whether members of his own family abetted him. When in doubt, I generally err on the side of Occamâ€™s razor: The simplest explanation is usually the right one.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Can you compare\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n to your previous books? Are there similarities among them?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I donâ€™t concentrate on any one period of history, I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances. My histories tend to be character-driven, with a lot of plot, a lot of action. I donâ€™t think youâ€™d find me writing about, say, the Constitutional Convention or the Transcendental Movement. A friend once told me Iâ€™m interested in "human disasters"--social storms of one sort or another, and the ways in which people survive them, through courage, ingenuity, grace under pressure, luck. Thatâ€™s true of the Bataan Death March, with the conquest of the West, and now, here, with the end of the Civil Rights era.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What made you decide to pursue writing as a career? Have you always wanted to be a journalist?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The first writer I ever met growing up in Memphis was Shelby Foote, the great Civil War historian, and he gave me certain ideas at an early age about what narrative history can aspire to be. My other deep influence was John Hersey, who wrote\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Gary Oakley)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The counterpoint between two driven menâ€”one by a quest for justice, the other by an atavistic hatredâ€”propels this engrossing study of the King assassination. Sides, author of the bestselling\n <em>\n  Ghost Solders\n </em>\n , shows us a King all but consumed by the flagging civil rights movement in 1968 and burdened by presentiments of death. Pursuing him is escaped convict James Earl Ray, whose feckless life finds a belated, desperate purpose, perhaps stimulated by George Wallace''s presidential campaign, in killing the civil rights leader. A third main character is the FBI, which turns on a dime from its long-standing harassment of Kingto a massive investigation into his murder; in Sides''s telling, the Bureau''s transoceanic hunt for Ray is one of history''s great police procedurals. Sides''s novelistic treatment registers Ray as a man so nondescript his own sister could barely remember him (the author refers to him by his shifting aliases to emphasize the shallowness of his identity). The result is a tragedy more compelling than the grandest conspiracy theory: the most significant of lives cut short by the hollowest of men. Photos.\n <em>\n  (Apr. 27)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12686');
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(20002, 'Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin', 'Hampton Sides', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n , Ray''s absence is essential--in his place, Hampton Sides traces the alter egos Ray created after escaping from prison and beginning his haphazard journey toward Memphis. Sides meticulously constructs parallel portraits of two very different men--one, the larger-than-life figurehead of the Civil Rights movement; the other, a nondescript loner with a spurious and violent history, whose identity was as fluid as his motives. The narrative builds to the staggering and heartbreaking moment of King''s assassination, then races on through the immediate fallout: the worldwide manhunt led by J. Edgar Hoover''s FBI; Ray''s nearly successful attempt to flee to Rhodesia; and the riots that erupted throughout the United States as racial tensions reached a breaking point. Sides''s storytelling packs a visceral punch, and in\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n , he crafts an authoritative and riveting account of two intersecting lives that altered the course of American history.\n <em>\n  --Lynette Mong\n </em>\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  David Grann Reviews\n  <em>\n   Hellhound on His Trail\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestseller\n  <em>\n   Hellhound on His Trail\n  </em>\n  :\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Hampton Sides has long been one of the great narrative nonfiction writers of our time, excavating essential pieces of American history--from the daring rescue of POWs during World War II to the settling of the West--and bringing them vividly to life. Now in his new book,\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n , he applies his enormous gifts to one of the most important and heart-wrenching chapters in U.S. history: the stalking and assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., by James Earl Ray.\n</p>\n<p>\n The book chronicles the terrifying collision of these two figures. In 1967, King was struggling to complete his monumental Civil Rights crusade and to maintain, amid the rise of more militant factions, the movementâ€™s nonviolent nobility. While King increasingly intuits his own death, Ray has begun to track him down. Through Sidesâ€™ prodigious research, Ray emerges as one of the eeriest characters, a prison escapee and racist who wears alligator shoes and is constantly transforming himself, changing names and physical appearances. He is determined to become somebody, to insert himself into the national consciousness, through a single unthinkable act of violence.\n</p>\n<p>\n Sides illuminates not only the forces that culminated in Kingâ€™s assassination; he also reveals the largely forgotten story of how his death led to the largest manhunt in American history. Almost unfathomably, it is J. Edgar Hoover, the person who had long hoped for Kingâ€™s destruction and had even spied on him, who ultimately brings Kingâ€™s killer to justice.\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n reconstructs this taut, tense narrative with the immediacy of a novel. Yet what makes the book so powerful--indeed what lifts it into the ranks of a masterpiece--is that the story unfolds against the larger backdrop of the Civil Rights movement and the struggle to remake the country. If Ray is able to undergo a final metamorphosis, it is King, through his life and ultimate sacrifice, who enacts the greatest transformation: changing the character of a nation.\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Matt Richman)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Questions for Hampton Sides\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How did the idea for\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n come to you? What made you decide to focus on James Earl Ray?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n So many books have concentrated on either advancing or debunking conspiracy theories about the King assassination, but few have looked hard at James Earl Ray himself. Who was this guy? What were his habits, his movements, his motives? I found him to be profoundly screwed up, but screwed up in an absolutely fascinating way. He was a kind of empty vessel of the culture. He was drawn to so many fads and pop-trends of the late nineteen-sixties. He got a nose job, took dancing lessons, graduated from bar-tending school, got into hypnosis and weird self-help books, enrolled in a locksmithing course, even aspired to be a porn director. His personality had all these quirks and contradictions. He was supposedly stupid, but he somehow managed to escape from two maximum security prisons. Some claimed he wasnâ€™t a racist, yet he worked for the Wallace Campaign, called King "Martin Lucifer Coon," tried to emigrate to Rhodesia to become a mercenary soldier, and eventually hired a Nazi lawyer to defend him. He lived in absolute filth and squalor, but kept his clothes fastidiously laundered. And in the end, ironically, thatâ€™s what caught him: A tiny identifying laundry tag stamped into the inseam of a pair of undershorts found near the scene of the King assassination.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n The "Notes" and "Bibliography" sections of\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n total more than 50 pages--how did you begin to tackle the wealth of information that exists about Martin Luther Kingâ€™s assassination? What was your research process like?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The research nearly gave me an aneurysm. But in the end,\n <em>\n  Hellhound\n </em>\n is a work of narrative history, not a journalistic exposÃ©. I don''t think I unearthed any massive bombshells that will change the world forever--like, say, proving once and for all that J. Edgar Hoover actually orchestrated the whole affair. Instead, what I unearthed were thousands and thousands of tiny details that make the story come alive on the page and make it possible, for the first time, to understand the tragedy as a complete, multi-stranded narrative. The book''s packed full of novelistic detail--weather, architecture, what people were wearing, what the landscape looked like, the music that was playing on the radio. To get all this stuff, I had to do the usual sort of archival work--from the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin to the London newspaper archives--and I went pretty much everywhere James Earl Ray went, following in his fugitive footsteps: Puerto Vallarta, Toronto, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Birmingham, Lisbon, London. But my real ace in the hole was a retired Memphis cop named Vince Hughes who has compiled the most fascinating, and most comprehensive, digital archive about the MLK assassination on the planet: Crime scene photos, police reports, unexpurgated FBI files, audio tapes, and many hundreds of thousands of unpublished documents that proved a real godsend. Every non-fiction writer needs to find a guy named Vince. Thank God I found mine.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n How did you come up with the title? Is there significance to it?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n It comes from the famous Robert Johnson blues song, "Hellhound On My Trail," which is about being pursued by fate, by the law, and ultimately by death. Johnson was the greatest of the Delta bluesmen, and he lived in and around Memphis much of his short tragic life. It was said that heâ€™d gone to The Crossroads and sold his soul to the devil to learn to play the guitar, so he was always looking over his shoulder for his time to come. When King arrived in Memphis in 1968, he was representing black garbage workers who were mostly former plantation hands from Johnson country, from the Delta cotton fields. As a title, "hellhound" seemed evocative on twin levels: For King, who was constantly being hounded by death threats and Hooverâ€™s FBI, as well as for Ray, who became the target of the largest manhunt in American history.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n The King assassination, like the JFK assassination, is rife with conspiracy theories. How did you deal with them?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n At the outset of my research, I took very seriously the idea that there might have been a conspiracy. I read all the conspiracy books, examined every angle. The only problem with the conspiracy theories that are out there, I found, is that they invariably fail the most basic test: They raise more questions than they address, they create more problems than they solve. And theyâ€™re so monumentally complicated: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, the Green Berets, President Johnson, the Memphis Police Department, the Memphis Fire Department, the Memphis Mayorâ€™s Office, the Boy Scouts of America--everybody killed Martin Luther King! But as I got into it, it became clear that the evidence against James Earl Ray was overwhelming. He bought the rifle, the scope, the ammo, the binoculars. He checked into that rooming house three hours before the murder. He peeled out from the rooming house one minute after the murder, in the same getaway car described by eyewitnesses. He admitted to every one of these things. His only defense was that some other guy--a mysterious man he called Raoul--pulled the trigger. Well, thereâ€™s not a shred of evidence that Raoul ever existed. So in\n <em>\n  Hellhound\n </em>\n , I take the clear position that Ray did it, but I leave many doors ajar as to the question of whether he had help, whether he was working in the hope of winning bounty money, whether members of his own family abetted him. When in doubt, I generally err on the side of Occamâ€™s razor: The simplest explanation is usually the right one.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n Can you compare\n <em>\n  Hellhound on His Trail\n </em>\n to your previous books? Are there similarities among them?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n I donâ€™t concentrate on any one period of history, I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances. My histories tend to be character-driven, with a lot of plot, a lot of action. I donâ€™t think youâ€™d find me writing about, say, the Constitutional Convention or the Transcendental Movement. A friend once told me Iâ€™m interested in "human disasters"--social storms of one sort or another, and the ways in which people survive them, through courage, ingenuity, grace under pressure, luck. Thatâ€™s true of the Bataan Death March, with the conquest of the West, and now, here, with the end of the Civil Rights era.\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Q:\n </strong>\n What made you decide to pursue writing as a career? Have you always wanted to be a journalist?\n <br />\n <strong>\n  A:\n </strong>\n The first writer I ever met growing up in Memphis was Shelby Foote, the great Civil War historian, and he gave me certain ideas at an early age about what narrative history can aspire to be. My other deep influence was John Hersey, who wrote\n</p>\n<p>\n (Photo Â© Gary Oakley)\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. The counterpoint between two driven menâ€”one by a quest for justice, the other by an atavistic hatredâ€”propels this engrossing study of the King assassination. Sides, author of the bestselling\n <em>\n  Ghost Solders\n </em>\n , shows us a King all but consumed by the flagging civil rights movement in 1968 and burdened by presentiments of death. Pursuing him is escaped convict James Earl Ray, whose feckless life finds a belated, desperate purpose, perhaps stimulated by George Wallace''s presidential campaign, in killing the civil rights leader. A third main character is the FBI, which turns on a dime from its long-standing harassment of Kingto a massive investigation into his murder; in Sides''s telling, the Bureau''s transoceanic hunt for Ray is one of history''s great police procedurals. Sides''s novelistic treatment registers Ray as a man so nondescript his own sister could barely remember him (the author refers to him by his shifting aliases to emphasize the shallowness of his identity). The result is a tragedy more compelling than the grandest conspiracy theory: the most significant of lives cut short by the hollowest of men. Photos.\n <em>\n  (Apr. 27)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19405'),
(20003, 'Hello, Mallory', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15728'),
(20004, 'Hellsreach', 'Aaron Dembski-Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the world of Armageddon is attacked by orks, the Black Templars Space Marine Chapter are amongst those sent to liberate it. Chaplain Grimaldus and a band of Black Templars are charged with the defence of Hive Helsreach from the xenos invaders in one of the many battlezones. But as the orks numbers grow and the Space Marines dwindle, Grimaldus faces a desperate last stand in an Imperial temple. Determined to sell their lives dearly, will the Black Templars hold on long enough to be reinforced, or will their sacrifice ultimately be in vain.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Aaron Dembski-Bowden is a British author with his beginnings in the videogame and RPG industries. He was the Senior Writer on the million-selling MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. He''s been a deeply entrenched fan of Warhammer 40,000 ever since he first ruined his copy of Space Crusade by painting the models with all the skill expected of an overexcited nine-year-old. He lives and works in York, UK. His hobbies generally revolve around reading anything within reach, and helping people spell his surname.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/65'),
(20005, 'Hellsreach', 'Aaron Dembski-Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the world of Armageddon is attacked by orks, the Black Templars Space Marine Chapter are amongst those sent to liberate it. Chaplain Grimaldus and a band of Black Templars are charged with the defence of Hive Helsreach from the xenos invaders in one of the many battlezones. But as the orks numbers grow and the Space Marines dwindle, Grimaldus faces a desperate last stand in an Imperial temple. Determined to sell their lives dearly, will the Black Templars hold on long enough to be reinforced, or will their sacrifice ultimately be in vain.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Aaron Dembski-Bowden is a British author with his beginnings in the videogame and RPG industries. He was the Senior Writer on the million-selling MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. He''s been a deeply entrenched fan of Warhammer 40,000 ever since he first ruined his copy of Space Crusade by painting the models with all the skill expected of an overexcited nine-year-old. He lives and works in York, UK. His hobbies generally revolve around reading anything within reach, and helping people spell his surname.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9245'),
(20006, 'Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In **Helmet for My Pillow** we follow his odyssey, from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the warâ€™s fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifices of war, painting an unvarnished portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defense of their country.     From the live-for-today rowdiness of marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Woven throughout are Leckieâ€™s hard-won, eloquent, and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, **Helmet for My Pillow** will leave no reader untouched. This is a book that brings you as close to the mud, the blood, and the experience of war as it is safe to come.Now producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman, the men behind* Band of Brothers*, have adapted material from **Helmet for My Pillow** for HBOâ€™s epic miniseries *The Pacific*, which will thrill and edify a whole new generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14221'),
(20007, 'Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific', 'Robert Leckie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In **Helmet for My Pillow** we follow his odyssey, from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the warâ€™s fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifices of war, painting an unvarnished portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defense of their country.     From the live-for-today rowdiness of marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Woven throughout are Leckieâ€™s hard-won, eloquent, and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, **Helmet for My Pillow** will leave no reader untouched. This is a book that brings you as close to the mud, the blood, and the experience of war as it is safe to come.Now producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman, the men behind* Band of Brothers*, have adapted material from **Helmet for My Pillow** for HBOâ€™s epic miniseries *The Pacific*, which will thrill and edify a whole new generation.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23324'),
(20008, 'The Help', 'Kathryn Stockett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  \\tMinny, Aibileenâ€™s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobodyâ€™s business, but she canâ€™t mind her tongue, so sheâ€™s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  \\tSeemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way womenâ€”mothers, daughters, caregivers, friendsâ€”view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, *The Help* is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we donâ€™t.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3790'),
(20009, 'The Help', 'Kathryn Stockett', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  <br />\n  Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  \\tMinny, Aibileenâ€™s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobodyâ€™s business, but she canâ€™t mind her tongue, so sheâ€™s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  \\tSeemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way womenâ€”mothers, daughters, caregivers, friendsâ€”view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, *The Help* is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we donâ€™t.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12887'),
(20010, 'The Help', 'Kathryn Stockett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileenâ€™s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobodyâ€™s business, but she canâ€™t mind her tongue, so sheâ€™s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way womenâ€”mothers, daughters, caregivers, friendsâ€”view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we donâ€™t.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13921'),
(20011, 'The help', 'Kathryn Stockett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileenâ€™s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobodyâ€™s business, but she canâ€™t mind her tongue, so sheâ€™s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way womenâ€”mothers, daughters, caregivers, friendsâ€”view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, *The Help* is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we donâ€™t.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20627'),
(20012, 'HELP! A Bear Is Eating Me!', 'Mykle Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trapped in a remote Alaskan forest, pinned under his own SUV, gnawed upon by nature''s finest predators, Marv Pushkin -- Corporate Warrior, Positive Thinker, Esquire subscriber -- waits impatiently for an ambulance and explains in detail the many reasons why this unfolding tragedy is everyone''s fault but his own.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Mykle Hansen''s book is the Scarlet Letter, the Age of Innocence, the Wuthering Heights of books narrated by a guy being eaten by a bear -- The Last of the Motherfuckin'' Mohican''s of ursine mastication. Just sayin''." -\n  <strong>\n   CHRISTOPHER MOORE\n  </strong>\n  , author of\n  <em>\n   Fool\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Dirty Job\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Brilliant, poignant, and utterly hilarious." -\n  <strong>\n   CARLTON MELLICK III\n  </strong>\n  , author of\n  <em>\n   Satan Burger\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A satirical swan song for the secret reptile desires in every American heart...face-melting fun from first to last." -\n  <strong>\n   JEREMY ROBERT JOHNSON\n  </strong>\n  , author of\n  <em>\n   Angel Dust Apocalypse\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Extinction Journals\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A unique and memorable work of absurd humor." -\n  <strong>\n   LITERARY STRANGE DIGEST\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2688'),
(20013, 'HELP! A Bear Is Eating Me!', 'Mykle Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trapped in a remote Alaskan forest, pinned under his own SUV, gnawed upon by nature''s finest predators, Marv Pushkin -- Corporate Warrior, Positive Thinker, Esquire subscriber -- waits impatiently for an ambulance and explains in detail the many reasons why this unfolding tragedy is everyone''s fault but his own.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Mykle Hansen''s book is the Scarlet Letter, the Age of Innocence, the Wuthering Heights of books narrated by a guy being eaten by a bear -- The Last of the Motherfuckin'' Mohican''s of ursine mastication. Just sayin''." -\n  <strong>\n   CHRISTOPHER MOORE\n  </strong>\n  , author of\n  <em>\n   Fool\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Dirty Job\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Brilliant, poignant, and utterly hilarious." -\n  <strong>\n   CARLTON MELLICK III\n  </strong>\n  , author of\n  <em>\n   Satan Burger\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A satirical swan song for the secret reptile desires in every American heart...face-melting fun from first to last." -\n  <strong>\n   JEREMY ROBERT JOHNSON\n  </strong>\n  , author of\n  <em>\n   Angel Dust Apocalypse\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Extinction Journals\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A unique and memorable work of absurd humor." -\n  <strong>\n   LITERARY STRANGE DIGEST\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10127'),
(20014, 'HELP! A Bear Is Eating Me!', 'Mykle Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Trapped in a remote Alaskan forest, pinned under his own SUV, gnawed upon by nature''s finest predators, Marv Pushkin -- Corporate Warrior, Positive Thinker, Esquire subscriber -- waits impatiently for an ambulance and explains in detail the many reasons why this unfolding tragedy is everyone''s fault but his own.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Mykle Hansen''s book is the Scarlet Letter, the Age of Innocence, the Wuthering Heights of books narrated by a guy being eaten by a bear -- The Last of the Motherfuckin'' Mohican''s of ursine mastication. Just sayin''." -\n  <strong>\n   CHRISTOPHER MOORE\n  </strong>\n  , author of\n  <em>\n   Fool\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   A Dirty Job\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "Brilliant, poignant, and utterly hilarious." -\n  <strong>\n   CARLTON MELLICK III\n  </strong>\n  , author of\n  <em>\n   Satan Burger\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A satirical swan song for the secret reptile desires in every American heart...face-melting fun from first to last." -\n  <strong>\n   JEREMY ROBERT JOHNSON\n  </strong>\n  , author of\n  <em>\n   Angel Dust Apocalypse\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   Extinction Journals\n  </em>\n </p>\n <p>\n  "A unique and memorable work of absurd humor." -\n  <strong>\n   LITERARY STRANGE DIGEST\n  </strong>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22123'),
(20015, 'Help! a Bear Is Eating Me!', 'Mykle Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *A laugh-out-loud tale of a man being eaten by a bear.*\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n "I believe all God''s creatures have a soul...except bears, bears are Godless killing machines!" -**STEPHEN COLBERT**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Trapped in a remote Alaskan forest, pinned under his own SUV, gnawed upon by nature''s finest predators, Marv Pushkin -- Corporate Warrior, Positive Thinker, Esquire subscriber -- waits impatiently for an ambulance and explains in detail the many reasons why this unfolding tragedy is everyone''s fault but his own.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26148'),
(20016, 'Helsreach', 'Aaron Dembski-Bowden', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When the world of Armageddon is attacked by orks, the Black Templars Space Marine Chapter are amongst those sent to liberate it. Chaplain Grimaldus and a band of Black Templars are charged with the defence of Hive Helsreach from the xenos invaders in one of the many battlezones. But as the orks numbers grow and the Space Marines dwindle, Grimaldus faces a desperate last stand in an Imperial temple. Determined to sell their lives dearly, will the Black Templars hold on long enough to be reinforced, or will their sacrifice ultimately be in vain.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Aaron Dembski-Bowden is a British author with his beginnings in the videogame and RPG industries. He was the Senior Writer on the million-selling MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. He''s been a deeply entrenched fan of Warhammer 40,000 ever since he first ruined his copy of Space Crusade by painting the models with all the skill expected of an overexcited nine-year-old. He lives and works in York, UK. His hobbies generally revolve around reading anything within reach, and helping people spell his surname.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15377'),
(20017, 'Henry Clay: The Essential American', 'David S. Heidler &amp; Jeanne T. Heidler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Why Henry Clay? An Essay by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Many Americans do not know this extraordinary person, which is a pity. Many years ago, a conference gave us the opportunity to visit his grave and his home. A friend accompanied us to the cemetery where we stood before the large vault with its imposing column topped by a statue of Clay, his right arm partially extended, entreating during one of his famous orations. The day was raw, and a dirty cotton sky sent down a misty drizzle that glossed the marble with a wet patina. In the back portion of the vault, a marble slab held one of Clayâ€™s most famous quotes: â€œI had rather be right than be President.â€ Our friend, who inclines to the acerbic, muttered, â€œNothing about a corrupt bargain?â€ We laughed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet later as we walked through the house named Ashland, we paused over the twin legacies of Clayâ€™s fateful decision in 1825 and of his unstinting labor to improve and sustain his country. His behavior in 1825 fastened upon him--presumably forever, if our companionâ€™s remark was any evidence--the infamy of the â€œCorrupt Bargain.â€ His work for the country revealed the great poignancy of his generation, the futility of practical politics clashing with grave moral imperatives. He sought the presidency and was labeled a schemer; he compromised for the Union and was lauded as a statesman. Which one was the real Henry Clay? In this book we try to answer that question.\n</p>\n<p>\n His personal life, for instance, presents intriguing clues. Clay married what many described as an ugly girl, possibly only for the status and influence her family imparted, but there is no evidence that he ever strayed from her bed and considerable proof (they had eleven children) that he found it congenial. He early found slavery morally troubling and ultimately regarded it as incompatible with American ideals of liberty. But he died owning slaves. He gained fame as the master of political compromise, which by definition is the bending of principles to achieve functional agreements. But in 1825, he was reviled as crooked, even though he did not violate a single personal scruple or run counter to his own conscience.\n</p>\n<p>\n All lives are marked by such inconsistencies. We strive to reveal Clay to a new generation of readers by showing how he was both exemplary and unique, how he was both mired in the customs of his time and a prophet for ideas that would not gain acceptance until our own. He believed in ideas with passion, but he leavened everything with humor, a novelty among public figures of his time and obviously one of the facets that Abraham Lincoln found appealing enough to imitate. Most of all, we found that there has never been anyone like Clay in American political history. He transformed the post of Speaker of the House into its modern role, he proposed and doggedly advocated a plan to expand American prosperity, and he was a crucial leader in every matter great and small bearing upon American politics for almost fifty years.\n</p>\n<p>\n When our friend made that crack about the â€œCorrupt Bargain,â€ we all laughed, but we shouldnâ€™t have. In a way, this book is our penance for having done so, because Henry Clay was a patriot, a statesman, and a gentleman. Not without flaws, he was nevertheless about as good as it gets in public life, and we hope that readers will find him as fascinating as we have.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Yet another hulking biography of an early American political giant, this one, unnecessarily clogged with detail, is still a fitting, up-to-date, and highly readable account of Henry Clay''s life (1777â€“1852) and achievements. In vigorous prose, the Heidlers (coauthors,\n <em>\n  The War of 1812\n </em>\n ), experienced scholars of preâ€“Civil War America, relate the emergence of the Kentuckian who served in the House (as Speaker) and Senate, as secretary of state, and as repeatedly failed presidential candidate. A man of enormous giftsâ€”the beloved mirror of his country and its aspirationsâ€”Clay bestrode Washington and the Senate as member of the Great Triumvirate with John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster and did his best as the Great Compromiser to hold the nation together as it splintered over slavery. That he failed, as the authors show, was not his fault: even great congressional leadership couldn''t save the Union. The authors bring verve and clarity to Clay''s struggles, even if they add little to what''s known. They also make one yearn for more statesmen and stateswomen, who, like Clay, could say, I had rather be right than be president. 32 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6171'),
(20018, 'Henry Clay: The Essential American', 'David S. Heidler &amp; Jeanne T. Heidler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Why Henry Clay? An Essay by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Many Americans do not know this extraordinary person, which is a pity. Many years ago, a conference gave us the opportunity to visit his grave and his home. A friend accompanied us to the cemetery where we stood before the large vault with its imposing column topped by a statue of Clay, his right arm partially extended, entreating during one of his famous orations. The day was raw, and a dirty cotton sky sent down a misty drizzle that glossed the marble with a wet patina. In the back portion of the vault, a marble slab held one of Clayâ€™s most famous quotes: â€œI had rather be right than be President.â€ Our friend, who inclines to the acerbic, muttered, â€œNothing about a corrupt bargain?â€ We laughed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet later as we walked through the house named Ashland, we paused over the twin legacies of Clayâ€™s fateful decision in 1825 and of his unstinting labor to improve and sustain his country. His behavior in 1825 fastened upon him--presumably forever, if our companionâ€™s remark was any evidence--the infamy of the â€œCorrupt Bargain.â€ His work for the country revealed the great poignancy of his generation, the futility of practical politics clashing with grave moral imperatives. He sought the presidency and was labeled a schemer; he compromised for the Union and was lauded as a statesman. Which one was the real Henry Clay? In this book we try to answer that question.\n</p>\n<p>\n His personal life, for instance, presents intriguing clues. Clay married what many described as an ugly girl, possibly only for the status and influence her family imparted, but there is no evidence that he ever strayed from her bed and considerable proof (they had eleven children) that he found it congenial. He early found slavery morally troubling and ultimately regarded it as incompatible with American ideals of liberty. But he died owning slaves. He gained fame as the master of political compromise, which by definition is the bending of principles to achieve functional agreements. But in 1825, he was reviled as crooked, even though he did not violate a single personal scruple or run counter to his own conscience.\n</p>\n<p>\n All lives are marked by such inconsistencies. We strive to reveal Clay to a new generation of readers by showing how he was both exemplary and unique, how he was both mired in the customs of his time and a prophet for ideas that would not gain acceptance until our own. He believed in ideas with passion, but he leavened everything with humor, a novelty among public figures of his time and obviously one of the facets that Abraham Lincoln found appealing enough to imitate. Most of all, we found that there has never been anyone like Clay in American political history. He transformed the post of Speaker of the House into its modern role, he proposed and doggedly advocated a plan to expand American prosperity, and he was a crucial leader in every matter great and small bearing upon American politics for almost fifty years.\n</p>\n<p>\n When our friend made that crack about the â€œCorrupt Bargain,â€ we all laughed, but we shouldnâ€™t have. In a way, this book is our penance for having done so, because Henry Clay was a patriot, a statesman, and a gentleman. Not without flaws, he was nevertheless about as good as it gets in public life, and we hope that readers will find him as fascinating as we have.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Yet another hulking biography of an early American political giant, this one, unnecessarily clogged with detail, is still a fitting, up-to-date, and highly readable account of Henry Clay''s life (1777â€“1852) and achievements. In vigorous prose, the Heidlers (coauthors,\n <em>\n  The War of 1812\n </em>\n ), experienced scholars of preâ€“Civil War America, relate the emergence of the Kentuckian who served in the House (as Speaker) and Senate, as secretary of state, and as repeatedly failed presidential candidate. A man of enormous giftsâ€”the beloved mirror of his country and its aspirationsâ€”Clay bestrode Washington and the Senate as member of the Great Triumvirate with John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster and did his best as the Great Compromiser to hold the nation together as it splintered over slavery. That he failed, as the authors show, was not his fault: even great congressional leadership couldn''t save the Union. The authors bring verve and clarity to Clay''s struggles, even if they add little to what''s known. They also make one yearn for more statesmen and stateswomen, who, like Clay, could say, I had rather be right than be president. 32 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10220'),
(20019, 'Henry Clay: The Essential American', 'David S. Heidler; Jeanne T. Heidler', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Why Henry Clay? An Essay by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n Many Americans do not know this extraordinary person, which is a pity. Many years ago, a conference gave us the opportunity to visit his grave and his home. A friend accompanied us to the cemetery where we stood before the large vault with its imposing column topped by a statue of Clay, his right arm partially extended, entreating during one of his famous orations. The day was raw, and a dirty cotton sky sent down a misty drizzle that glossed the marble with a wet patina. In the back portion of the vault, a marble slab held one of Clayâ€™s most famous quotes: â€œI had rather be right than be President.â€ Our friend, who inclines to the acerbic, muttered, â€œNothing about a corrupt bargain?â€ We laughed.\n</p>\n<p>\n Yet later as we walked through the house named Ashland, we paused over the twin legacies of Clayâ€™s fateful decision in 1825 and of his unstinting labor to improve and sustain his country. His behavior in 1825 fastened upon him--presumably forever, if our companionâ€™s remark was any evidence--the infamy of the â€œCorrupt Bargain.â€ His work for the country revealed the great poignancy of his generation, the futility of practical politics clashing with grave moral imperatives. He sought the presidency and was labeled a schemer; he compromised for the Union and was lauded as a statesman. Which one was the real Henry Clay? In this book we try to answer that question.\n</p>\n<p>\n His personal life, for instance, presents intriguing clues. Clay married what many described as an ugly girl, possibly only for the status and influence her family imparted, but there is no evidence that he ever strayed from her bed and considerable proof (they had eleven children) that he found it congenial. He early found slavery morally troubling and ultimately regarded it as incompatible with American ideals of liberty. But he died owning slaves. He gained fame as the master of political compromise, which by definition is the bending of principles to achieve functional agreements. But in 1825, he was reviled as crooked, even though he did not violate a single personal scruple or run counter to his own conscience.\n</p>\n<p>\n All lives are marked by such inconsistencies. We strive to reveal Clay to a new generation of readers by showing how he was both exemplary and unique, how he was both mired in the customs of his time and a prophet for ideas that would not gain acceptance until our own. He believed in ideas with passion, but he leavened everything with humor, a novelty among public figures of his time and obviously one of the facets that Abraham Lincoln found appealing enough to imitate. Most of all, we found that there has never been anyone like Clay in American political history. He transformed the post of Speaker of the House into its modern role, he proposed and doggedly advocated a plan to expand American prosperity, and he was a crucial leader in every matter great and small bearing upon American politics for almost fifty years.\n</p>\n<p>\n When our friend made that crack about the â€œCorrupt Bargain,â€ we all laughed, but we shouldnâ€™t have. In a way, this book is our penance for having done so, because Henry Clay was a patriot, a statesman, and a gentleman. Not without flaws, he was nevertheless about as good as it gets in public life, and we hope that readers will find him as fascinating as we have.\n</p>\n<hr />\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Yet another hulking biography of an early American political giant, this one, unnecessarily clogged with detail, is still a fitting, up-to-date, and highly readable account of Henry Clay''s life (1777â€“1852) and achievements. In vigorous prose, the Heidlers (coauthors,\n <em>\n  The War of 1812\n </em>\n ), experienced scholars of preâ€“Civil War America, relate the emergence of the Kentuckian who served in the House (as Speaker) and Senate, as secretary of state, and as repeatedly failed presidential candidate. A man of enormous giftsâ€”the beloved mirror of his country and its aspirationsâ€”Clay bestrode Washington and the Senate as member of the Great Triumvirate with John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster and did his best as the Great Compromiser to hold the nation together as it splintered over slavery. That he failed, as the authors show, was not his fault: even great congressional leadership couldn''t save the Union. The authors bring verve and clarity to Clay''s struggles, even if they add little to what''s known. They also make one yearn for more statesmen and stateswomen, who, like Clay, could say, I had rather be right than be president. 32 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (May)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17866');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(20020, 'Henry IV (Part 1)', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Henry IV sits on a usurped throne, his conscience and his nobles in revolt, while his son Hal is immersed in a self-indulgent life of revelry with the notorious Sir John Falstaff. Shakespeare explores questions of kingship and honor in this masterly mingling of history, comedy, and tragedy. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today''s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes fromWilliam Shakespeare: Complete Works. Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare''s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare''s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/126'),
(20021, 'Henry IV (Part 1)', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Henry IV sits on a usurped throne, his conscience and his nobles in revolt, while his son Hal is immersed in a self-indulgent life of revelry with the notorious Sir John Falstaff. Shakespeare explores questions of kingship and honor in this masterly mingling of history, comedy, and tragedy. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today''s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes fromWilliam Shakespeare: Complete Works. Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare''s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare''s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12551'),
(20022, 'Henry IV (Part 1)', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Henry IV sits on a usurped throne, his conscience and his nobles in revolt, while his son Hal is immersed in a self-indulgent life of revelry with the notorious Sir John Falstaff. Shakespeare explores questions of kingship and honor in this masterly mingling of history, comedy, and tragedy. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today''s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes fromWilliam Shakespeare: Complete Works. Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare''s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare''s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14058'),
(20023, 'Henry IV (Part 1)', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Henry IV sits on a usurped throne, his conscience and his nobles in revolt, while his son Hal is immersed in a self-indulgent life of revelry with the notorious Sir John Falstaff. Shakespeare explores questions of kingship and honor in this masterly mingling of history, comedy, and tragedy. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today''s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes fromWilliam Shakespeare: Complete Works. Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare''s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare''s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24725'),
(20024, 'Henry IV (Part 2)', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal''s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV''s dream of a lasting dynasty. Shakespeare''s portrait of the prodigal son''s journey from youth to maturity embraces the full panorama of society. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today''s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes fromWilliam Shakespeare: Complete Works.Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare''s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare''s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/129'),
(20025, 'Henry IV (Part 2)', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal''s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV''s dream of a lasting dynasty. Shakespeare''s portrait of the prodigal son''s journey from youth to maturity embraces the full panorama of society. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today''s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes fromWilliam Shakespeare: Complete Works.Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare''s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare''s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12548'),
(20026, 'Henry IV (Part 2)', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal''s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV''s dream of a lasting dynasty. Shakespeare''s portrait of the prodigal son''s journey from youth to maturity embraces the full panorama of society. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today''s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes fromWilliam Shakespeare: Complete Works.Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare''s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare''s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14002'),
(20027, 'Henry IV (Part 2)', 'William Shakespeare', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: After defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal''s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV''s dream of a lasting dynasty. Shakespeare''s portrait of the prodigal son''s journey from youth to maturity embraces the full panorama of society. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today''s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes fromWilliam Shakespeare: Complete Works.Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare''s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare''s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24724'),
(20028, 'Her Innocence, His Conquest', 'Bennett, Jules', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20150'),
(20029, 'Her Mother&#39;s Hope', 'Francine Rivers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first in an epic two-book saga by beloved author Francine Rivers, this sweeping story explores the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters over several generations. Near the turn of the 20th century, fiery Marta leaves Switzerland determined to find life on her own terms. Her journey takes her through Europe and finally lands her with children and husband in tow in the central valley of California. Marta''s experiences convince her that only the strong survive. Hildie, Marta''s oldest daughter, has a heart to serve others, and her calling as a nurse gives her independence, if not the respect of her mother. Amid the drama of WWII, Hildie marries and begins a family of her own. She wants her daughter never to doubt her love-but the challenges of life conspire against her vow. Each woman is forced to confront her faulty but well-meaning desire to help her daughter find her God-given place in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5525'),
(20030, 'Her Mother&#39;s Hope', 'Francine Rivers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The first in an epic two-book saga by beloved author Francine Rivers, this sweeping story explores the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters over several generations. Near the turn of the 20th century, fiery Marta leaves Switzerland determined to find life on her own terms. Her journey takes her through Europe and finally lands her with children and husband in tow in the central valley of California. Marta''s experiences convince her that only the strong survive. Hildie, Marta''s oldest daughter, has a heart to serve others, and her calling as a nurse gives her independence, if not the respect of her mother. Amid the drama of WWII, Hildie marries and begins a family of her own. She wants her daughter never to doubt her love-but the challenges of life conspire against her vow. Each woman is forced to confront her faulty but well-meaning desire to help her daughter find her God-given place in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13530'),
(20031, 'Her Mother&#39;s Hope', 'Francine Rivers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first in an epic two-book saga by beloved author Francine Rivers, this sweeping story explores the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters over several generations. Near the turn of the 20th century, fiery Marta leaves Switzerland determined to find life on her own terms. Her journey takes her through Europe and finally lands her with children and husband in tow in the central valley of California. Marta''s experiences convince her that only the strong survive. Hildie, Marta''s oldest daughter, has a heart to serve others, and her calling as a nurse gives her independence, if not the respect of her mother. Amid the drama of WWII, Hildie marries and begins a family of her own. She wants her daughter never to doubt her love-but the challenges of life conspire against her vow. Each woman is forced to confront her faulty but well-meaning desire to help her daughter find her God-given place in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19070'),
(20032, 'Her Mother&#39;s Hope', 'Francine Rivers', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The first in an epic two-book saga by beloved author Francine Rivers, this sweeping story explores the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters over several generations. Near the turn of the 20th century, fiery Marta leaves Switzerland determined to find life on her own terms. Her journey takes her through Europe and finally lands her with children and husband in tow in the central valley of California. Marta''s experiences convince her that only the strong survive. Hildie, Marta''s oldest daughter, has a heart to serve others, and her calling as a nurse gives her independence, if not the respect of her mother. Amid the drama of WWII, Hildie marries and begins a family of her own. She wants her daughter never to doubt her love-but the challenges of life conspire against her vow. Each woman is forced to confront her faulty but well-meaning desire to help her daughter find her God-given place in the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27855'),
(20033, 'Her Pregnancy Surprise', 'Susan Meier', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22957'),
(20034, 'The Herb Garden Gourmet: Grow Herbs, Eat Well, and Be Green', 'Tim Haas &amp; Jan Beane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Grow and enjoy the ultimate green food - herbs that are fresh, local, seasonal, and delicious.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/696'),
(20035, 'The Herb Garden Gourmet: Grow Herbs, Eat Well, and Be Green', 'Tim Haas &amp; Jan Beane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Grow and enjoy the ultimate green food - herbs that are fresh, local, seasonal, and delicious.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10081'),
(20036, 'The Herb Garden Gourmet: Grow Herbs, Eat Well, and Be Green', 'Tim Haas; Jan Beane', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Grow and enjoy the ultimate green food - herbs that are fresh, local, seasonal, and delicious.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24317'),
(20037, 'Herbal Medicines in Pregnancy and Lactation: An Evidence-Based Approach', 'Edward Mills; Jean-jacques Dugoua; Dan Perri', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Just as with prescription drugs, natural health products can present substantial risks and prompt the same areas of concern. Although some of these effects may be life-threatening, current literature on these important issues is scant. With the use of natural health products on the rise, physicians require quality evidence with which to make evidence-based decisions and provide answers to their patients. Herbal Medicines in Pregnancy and Lactation focuses entirely on the therapeutics, safety and risk information of herbs and supplements used during pregnancy and lactation for obstetricians, maternal-fetal medicine specialists, and primary care physicians.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18594'),
(20038, 'Hercule Poirot&#39;s Casebook', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/87'),
(20039, 'Hercule Poirot&#39;s Casebook', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17149'),
(20040, 'Hercule Poirot&#39;s Christmas', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Agatha Christie''s seasonal mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.  It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.  But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/90'),
(20041, 'Hercule Poirot&#39;s Christmas', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Agatha Christie''s seasonal mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17148'),
(20042, 'Hercule Poirot&#39;s Early Cases', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/91'),
(20043, 'Hercule Poirot&#39;s early cases', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15980'),
(20044, 'Here Abide Monsters', 'Andre Norton', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15863'),
(20045, 'Here Come The Bridesmaids', 'Ann M. Martin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15783'),
(20046, 'Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn Volume II', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume II, edited by James A. Mann and Mary C. Tabasko, celebrates the achievement of a preeminent SF author of the 1950s. With numerous stories published for the first time since their initial appearance in magazines, the complete body of Tenn''s only novel and an analytic essay, this second volume should receive as much praise as the first, Immodest Proposals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/147'),
(20047, 'Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn Volume II', 'William Tenn', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume II, edited by James A. Mann and Mary C. Tabasko, celebrates the achievement of a preeminent SF author of the 1950s. With numerous stories published for the first time since their initial appearance in magazines, the complete body of Tenn''s only novel and an analytic essay, this second volume should receive as much praise as the first, Immodest Proposals.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24710'),
(20048, 'Here Comes Trouble', 'Donna Kauffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A child of Vegas, Brett Hennessey knows about luck - especially the bad kind. But when this poker superstar hops on his Harley to outrun Lady Misfortune and ends up at a pretty B&amp;B run by an even prettier proprietor, he can''t help thinking he''s stumbled onto a winning streak...Sure, Kirby Farrell''s new B&amp;B ski lodge opened to the warmest winter in Vermont memory, but fate brought her a bad boy on a hot bike and settled him into her best room. She''s still broke, but the view across the breakfast table has definitely improved...Only now Brett''s past has finally caught up to him. He has two choices: run again - and lose the best hand fortune''s dealt him yet. Or stay and risk everything for something he never thought would come his way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5961'),
(20049, 'Here Comes Trouble', 'Donna Kauffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A child of Vegas, Brett Hennessey knows about luck - especially the bad kind. But when this poker superstar hops on his Harley to outrun Lady Misfortune and ends up at a pretty B&amp;B run by an even prettier proprietor, he can''t help thinking he''s stumbled onto a winning streak...Sure, Kirby Farrell''s new B&amp;B ski lodge opened to the warmest winter in Vermont memory, but fate brought her a bad boy on a hot bike and settled him into her best room. She''s still broke, but the view across the breakfast table has definitely improved...Only now Brett''s past has finally caught up to him. He has two choices: run again - and lose the best hand fortune''s dealt him yet. Or stay and risk everything for something he never thought would come his way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10644'),
(20050, 'Here Comes Trouble', 'Donna Kauffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A child of Vegas, Brett Hennessey knows about luck - especially the bad kind. But when this poker superstar hops on his Harley to outrun Lady Misfortune and ends up at a pretty B&amp;B run by an even prettier proprietor, he can''t help thinking he''s stumbled onto a winning streak...Sure, Kirby Farrell''s new B&amp;B ski lodge opened to the warmest winter in Vermont memory, but fate brought her a bad boy on a hot bike and settled him into her best room. She''s still broke, but the view across the breakfast table has definitely improved...Only now Brett''s past has finally caught up to him. He has two choices: run again - and lose the best hand fortune''s dealt him yet. Or stay and risk everything for something he never thought would come his way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18672'),
(20051, 'Here Comes Trouble', 'Donna Kauffman', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A child of Vegas, Brett Hennessey knows about luck - especially the bad kind. But when this poker superstar hops on his Harley to outrun Lady Misfortune and ends up at a pretty B&amp;B run by an even prettier proprietor, he can''t help thinking he''s stumbled onto a winning streak...Sure, Kirby Farrell''s new B&amp;B ski lodge opened to the warmest winter in Vermont memory, but fate brought her a bad boy on a hot bike and settled him into her best room. She''s still broke, but the view across the breakfast table has definitely improved...Only now Brett''s past has finally caught up to him. He has two choices: run again - and lose the best hand fortune''s dealt him yet. Or stay and risk everything for something he never thought would come his way.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27491'),
(20052, 'Here There Be Dragons', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢ receive news of a human planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they immediately investigate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Penetrating the cloud, the Starship crew is shocked to discover a world of knights and serfs lifted right out of Earth''s Middle Ages. Ruthlessly exploiting the planet is a ring of intersellar trophy hunters preying on the immense, native dragon-lizards twentey-feet tall and armored like tanks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beaming down, an away team soon becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. Taken prisoner, Picard, Riker, Data and Ro must somehow escape and stop the hunters or face destruction from the hunters'' weapon, based on an advanced technoloy capable of utterly annihilating the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  â„¢.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM receive news of a human planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they immediately investigate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Penetrating the cloud, the Starship crew is shocked to discover a world of knights and serfs lifted right out of Earth''s Middle Ages. Ruthlessly exploiting the planet is a ring of interstellar trophy hunters preying on the immense, native dragonlizards, twenty-feet tall and armored like tanks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beaming down, an away team soon becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. Taken prisoner, Picard, Riker, Data, and Ro must somehow escape and stop the hunters or face destruction from the hunters'' ancient weapon, based on an advanced technology capable of utterly annihilating the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4326'),
(20053, 'Here There Be Dragons', 'John Peel', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM receive news of a human planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they immediately investigate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Penetrating the cloud, the Starship crew is shocked to discover a world of knights and serfs lifted right out of Earth''s Middle Ages. Ruthlessly exploiting the planet is a ring of intersellar trophy hunters preying on the immense, native dragon-lizards twentey-feet tall and armored like tanks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beaming down, an away team soon becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. Taken prisoner, Picard, Riker, Data and Ro must somehow escape and stop the hunters or face destruction from the hunters'' weapon, based on an advanced technoloy capable of utterly annihilating the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Publisher\n </h3>\n <p>\n  When Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the\n  <em>\n   U.S.S. Enterprise\n  </em>\n  TM receive news of a human planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they immediately investigate.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Penetrating the cloud, the Starship crew is shocked to discover a world of knights and serfs lifted right out of Earth''s Middle Ages. Ruthlessly exploiting the planet is a ring of interstellar trophy hunters preying on the immense, native dragonlizards, twenty-feet tall and armored like tanks.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Beaming down, an away team soon becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. Taken prisoner, Picard, Riker, Data, and Ro must somehow escape and stop the hunters or face destruction from the hunters'' ancient weapon, based on an advanced technology capable of utterly annihilating the\n  <em>\n   Starship Enterprise\n  </em>\n  .\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20288'),
(20054, 'Here&#39;s the Deal: Don&#39;t Touch Me', 'Howie Mandel &amp; Josh Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal hostâ€™s ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHDâ€“and how it has shaped his life and career. Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainmentâ€“respected by his peers and beloved by audiences as the host of the enormously popular prime-time game show Deal or No Deal. With a career that spans three decades and many different show-business platformsâ€“heâ€™s a renowned stand-up comedian who continues to perform more than 150 sold-out shows a year, he created the award-winning TV show Bobbyâ€™s World, heâ€™s starred in feature films and the hit TV series St. Elsewhere, and heâ€™s also hosted his own daytime talk showâ€“heâ€™s one of the most versatile performers anywhere. But there are aspects of his personal and professional life heâ€™s never talked about publiclyâ€“until now.Eleven years ago, Mandel first told the world about his â€œgermophobia.â€ Heâ€™s recently started discussing his adult ADHD as well. Now, for the first time, he reveals the details of his struggle with these challenging disorders. He catalogs his numerous fears and neuroses and shares entertaining stories about how he has tried to integrate them into his act. â€œIf Iâ€™m making myself laugh,â€ he writes, â€œthen Iâ€™m distracted from all the other things going on in my head that are, at times, torturous.â€ And he speaks frankly and honestly about the ways his condition has affected his personal lifeâ€“as a son, husband, and father of three.Fans whoâ€™ve been dying to know â€œthe dealâ€ behind Mandelâ€™s remarkable rise through the show-business ranks will be rewarded with many never-before-told anecdotes, each one generously leavened with Mandelâ€™s trademark humor. There are tales from every phase of his colorful careerâ€“from his early days as a teenage carpet salesman and aspiring stand-up comic to his stint opening for Diana Ross, his six years on St. Elsewhere, and beyond. As heartfelt as it is hilarious, Hereâ€™s the Deal: Donâ€™t Touch Me is the story of one manâ€™s effort to draw comic inspiration out of his darkest, most vulnerable places. Itâ€™s sure to please Howie Mandelâ€™s legion of fansâ€“and provide hope to the millions who strive to succeed in spite of OCD and ADHD.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5133'),
(20055, 'Here&#39;s the Deal: Don&#39;t Touch Me', 'Howie Mandel &amp; Josh Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal hostâ€™s ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHDâ€“and how it has shaped his life and career. Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainmentâ€“respected by his peers and beloved by audiences as the host of the enormously popular prime-time game show Deal or No Deal. With a career that spans three decades and many different show-business platformsâ€“heâ€™s a renowned stand-up comedian who continues to perform more than 150 sold-out shows a year, he created the award-winning TV show Bobbyâ€™s World, heâ€™s starred in feature films and the hit TV series St. Elsewhere, and heâ€™s also hosted his own daytime talk showâ€“heâ€™s one of the most versatile performers anywhere. But there are aspects of his personal and professional life heâ€™s never talked about publiclyâ€“until now.Eleven years ago, Mandel first told the world about his â€œgermophobia.â€ Heâ€™s recently started discussing his adult ADHD as well. Now, for the first time, he reveals the details of his struggle with these challenging disorders. He catalogs his numerous fears and neuroses and shares entertaining stories about how he has tried to integrate them into his act. â€œIf Iâ€™m making myself laugh,â€ he writes, â€œthen Iâ€™m distracted from all the other things going on in my head that are, at times, torturous.â€ And he speaks frankly and honestly about the ways his condition has affected his personal lifeâ€“as a son, husband, and father of three.Fans whoâ€™ve been dying to know â€œthe dealâ€ behind Mandelâ€™s remarkable rise through the show-business ranks will be rewarded with many never-before-told anecdotes, each one generously leavened with Mandelâ€™s trademark humor. There are tales from every phase of his colorful careerâ€“from his early days as a teenage carpet salesman and aspiring stand-up comic to his stint opening for Diana Ross, his six years on St. Elsewhere, and beyond. As heartfelt as it is hilarious, Hereâ€™s the Deal: Donâ€™t Touch Me is the story of one manâ€™s effort to draw comic inspiration out of his darkest, most vulnerable places. Itâ€™s sure to please Howie Mandelâ€™s legion of fansâ€“and provide hope to the millions who strive to succeed in spite of OCD and ADHD.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11245'),
(20056, 'Here&#39;s the Deal: Don&#39;t Touch Me', 'Howie Mandel; Josh Young', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal hostâ€™s ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHDâ€“and how it has shaped his life and career. Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainmentâ€“respected by his peers and beloved by audiences as the host of the enormously popular prime-time game show Deal or No Deal. With a career that spans three decades and many different show-business platformsâ€“heâ€™s a renowned stand-up comedian who continues to perform more than 150 sold-out shows a year, he created the award-winning TV show Bobbyâ€™s World, heâ€™s starred in feature films and the hit TV series St. Elsewhere, and heâ€™s also hosted his own daytime talk showâ€“heâ€™s one of the most versatile performers anywhere. But there are aspects of his personal and professional life heâ€™s never talked about publiclyâ€“until now.Eleven years ago, Mandel first told the world about his â€œgermophobia.â€ Heâ€™s recently started discussing his adult ADHD as well. Now, for the first time, he reveals the details of his struggle with these challenging disorders. He catalogs his numerous fears and neuroses and shares entertaining stories about how he has tried to integrate them into his act. â€œIf Iâ€™m making myself laugh,â€ he writes, â€œthen Iâ€™m distracted from all the other things going on in my head that are, at times, torturous.â€ And he speaks frankly and honestly about the ways his condition has affected his personal lifeâ€“as a son, husband, and father of three.Fans whoâ€™ve been dying to know â€œthe dealâ€ behind Mandelâ€™s remarkable rise through the show-business ranks will be rewarded with many never-before-told anecdotes, each one generously leavened with Mandelâ€™s trademark humor. There are tales from every phase of his colorful careerâ€“from his early days as a teenage carpet salesman and aspiring stand-up comic to his stint opening for Diana Ross, his six years on St. Elsewhere, and beyond. As heartfelt as it is hilarious, Hereâ€™s the Deal: Donâ€™t Touch Me is the story of one manâ€™s effort to draw comic inspiration out of his darkest, most vulnerable places. Itâ€™s sure to please Howie Mandelâ€™s legion of fansâ€“and provide hope to the millions who strive to succeed in spite of OCD and ADHD.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19599'),
(20057, 'The Heretic Queen', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her familyGÃ‡Ã–s past and remake history. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth DynastyGÃ‡Ã–s royal family-all with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti. The girlGÃ‡Ã–s deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their names. A relic of a previous reign, Nefertari is pushed aside, an unimportant princess left to run wild in the palace. But this changes when she is taken under the wing of the PharaohGÃ‡Ã–s aunt, then brought to the Temple of Hathor, where she is educated in a manner befitting a future queen. Soon Nefertari catches the eye of the Crown Prince, and despite her familyGÃ‡Ã–s history, they fall in love and wish to marry. Yet all of Egypt opposes this union between the rising star of a new dynasty and the fading star of an old, heretical one. While political adversity sets the country on edge, Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great. Destined to be the most powerful Pharaoh in Egypt, he is also the man who must confront the most famous exodus in history. Sweeping in scope and meticulous in detail, The Heretic Queen is a novel of passion and power, heartbreak and redemption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2704'),
(20058, 'The Heretic Queen', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her familyGÃ‡Ã–s past and remake history. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth DynastyGÃ‡Ã–s royal family-all with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti. The girlGÃ‡Ã–s deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their names. A relic of a previous reign, Nefertari is pushed aside, an unimportant princess left to run wild in the palace. But this changes when she is taken under the wing of the PharaohGÃ‡Ã–s aunt, then brought to the Temple of Hathor, where she is educated in a manner befitting a future queen. Soon Nefertari catches the eye of the Crown Prince, and despite her familyGÃ‡Ã–s history, they fall in love and wish to marry. Yet all of Egypt opposes this union between the rising star of a new dynasty and the fading star of an old, heretical one. While political adversity sets the country on edge, Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great. Destined to be the most powerful Pharaoh in Egypt, he is also the man who must confront the most famous exodus in history. Sweeping in scope and meticulous in detail, The Heretic Queen is a novel of passion and power, heartbreak and redemption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11565'),
(20059, 'The Heretic Queen', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her familyGÃ‡Ã–s past and remake history. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth DynastyGÃ‡Ã–s royal family-all with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti. The girlGÃ‡Ã–s deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their names. A relic of a previous reign, Nefertari is pushed aside, an unimportant princess left to run wild in the palace. But this changes when she is taken under the wing of the PharaohGÃ‡Ã–s aunt, then brought to the Temple of Hathor, where she is educated in a manner befitting a future queen. Soon Nefertari catches the eye of the Crown Prince, and despite her familyGÃ‡Ã–s history, they fall in love and wish to marry. Yet all of Egypt opposes this union between the rising star of a new dynasty and the fading star of an old, heretical one. While political adversity sets the country on edge, Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great. Destined to be the most powerful Pharaoh in Egypt, he is also the man who must confront the most famous exodus in history. Sweeping in scope and meticulous in detail, The Heretic Queen is a novel of passion and power, heartbreak and redemption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21725'),
(20060, 'The Heretic Queen', 'Michelle Moran', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her familyGÃ‡Ã–s past and remake history. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth DynastyGÃ‡Ã–s royal family-all with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti. The girlGÃ‡Ã–s deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their names. A relic of a previous reign, Nefertari is pushed aside, an unimportant princess left to run wild in the palace. But this changes when she is taken under the wing of the PharaohGÃ‡Ã–s aunt, then brought to the Temple of Hathor, where she is educated in a manner befitting a future queen. Soon Nefertari catches the eye of the Crown Prince, and despite her familyGÃ‡Ã–s history, they fall in love and wish to marry. Yet all of Egypt opposes this union between the rising star of a new dynasty and the fading star of an old, heretical one. While political adversity sets the country on edge, Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great. Destined to be the most powerful Pharaoh in Egypt, he is also the man who must confront the most famous exodus in history. Sweeping in scope and meticulous in detail, The Heretic Queen is a novel of passion and power, heartbreak and redemption.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26149'),
(20061, 'The Heretic&#39;s Apprentice', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n In her sixteenth chronicle of the medieval monk-detective Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters throws a variety of puzzles at her hero. In the summer of 1143, Brother Cadfael is torn from his herbarium to investigate the deaths of two visitors.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5696'),
(20062, 'The Heretic&#39;s Daughter: A Novel', 'Kathleen Kent', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts.  Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live.  Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people accused of witchcraft.  This is the story of Martha''s courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived. Kathleen Kent is a tenth generation descendent of Martha Carrier.  She paints a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family''s deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3783'),
(20063, 'The Heretic&#39;s Daughter: A Novel', 'Kathleen Kent', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts.  Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live.  Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people accused of witchcraft.  This is the story of Martha''s courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived. Kathleen Kent is a tenth generation descendent of Martha Carrier.  She paints a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family''s deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10682'),
(20064, 'The Heretic&#39;s Daughter: A Novel', 'Kathleen Kent', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people accused of witchcraft. This is the story of Martha''s courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived. Kathleen Kent is a tenth generation descendent of Martha Carrier. She paints a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family''s deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20633'),
(20065, 'Heretics of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandriders-fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5544'),
(20066, 'Heretics of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandriders-fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10275'),
(20067, 'Heretics of Dune', 'Herbert, Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15136'),
(20068, 'Heretics of Dune', 'Herbert, Frank', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19053'),
(20069, 'Heretics of Dune', 'Frank Herbert', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Now, the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandriders-fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27827'),
(20070, 'The Heritage of Hastur', 'Marion Zimmer Bradley', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Described as Bradley''s best novel, ''The Heritage of Hastur'' is an epic of the pivotal event in the strange love-hate relationship between the Terran worlds and the semi-alien offspring..\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21456');
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(20071, 'Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings', 'Italo Calvino &amp; Martin McLaughlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new volume of autobiographical writings (never before translated into English) by Calvino, whose short stories and novels gave him international acclaim as one of the 20th century''s most important Italian fiction writers, is a welcome addition to his extensive works as well as to The Road to San Giovanni, a posthumous collection of autobiographical essays published more than a decade ago. This volume includes a series of articles and interviews that builds on the understanding of Calvino''s life after World War II when he returned to Italy from the Communist resistance in the Alps, a period when Calvino felt a "moment of uncertainty" and a "perplexity about" his vocation as a writer before producing his first novel, The Cloven Viscount. The articles also feature Calvino''s views on some of his most popular novels: "In the United States... the book of mine that became a hit was the one that you would have said was the furthest from American reading habits: Invisible Cities." But it is Calvino''s lifelong fascination with America that makes this collection remarkable: more than half the book is given to an "American Diary 1959-1960," written during Calvino''s two years traveling in the U.S., as he explores New York''s thriving Greenwich Village and Actors Studio; a "violent, tough" Chicago; San Francisco''s "squalid and filthy" beatnik scene; and Montgomery, Ala., where Calvino (who died in 1985) finds himself "in the middle" of "crucial days of struggle" of the Civil Rights movement. His diary reveals an obsession with what he later says most interests him as a writer: "daily life as the constant nourishment for writing."\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Posthumous writings from Calvino.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5034'),
(20072, 'Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings', 'Italo Calvino &amp; Martin McLaughlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new volume of autobiographical writings (never before translated into English) by Calvino, whose short stories and novels gave him international acclaim as one of the 20th century''s most important Italian fiction writers, is a welcome addition to his extensive works as well as to The Road to San Giovanni, a posthumous collection of autobiographical essays published more than a decade ago. This volume includes a series of articles and interviews that builds on the understanding of Calvino''s life after World War II when he returned to Italy from the Communist resistance in the Alps, a period when Calvino felt a "moment of uncertainty" and a "perplexity about" his vocation as a writer before producing his first novel, The Cloven Viscount. The articles also feature Calvino''s views on some of his most popular novels: "In the United States... the book of mine that became a hit was the one that you would have said was the furthest from American reading habits: Invisible Cities." But it is Calvino''s lifelong fascination with America that makes this collection remarkable: more than half the book is given to an "American Diary 1959-1960," written during Calvino''s two years traveling in the U.S., as he explores New York''s thriving Greenwich Village and Actors Studio; a "violent, tough" Chicago; San Francisco''s "squalid and filthy" beatnik scene; and Montgomery, Ala., where Calvino (who died in 1985) finds himself "in the middle" of "crucial days of struggle" of the Civil Rights movement. His diary reveals an obsession with what he later says most interests him as a writer: "daily life as the constant nourishment for writing."\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Posthumous writings from Calvino.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8177'),
(20073, 'Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings', 'Italo Calvino; Martin McLaughlin', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n This new volume of autobiographical writings (never before translated into English) by Calvino, whose short stories and novels gave him international acclaim as one of the 20th century''s most important Italian fiction writers, is a welcome addition to his extensive works as well as to The Road to San Giovanni, a posthumous collection of autobiographical essays published more than a decade ago. This volume includes a series of articles and interviews that builds on the understanding of Calvino''s life after World War II when he returned to Italy from the Communist resistance in the Alps, a period when Calvino felt a "moment of uncertainty" and a "perplexity about" his vocation as a writer before producing his first novel, The Cloven Viscount. The articles also feature Calvino''s views on some of his most popular novels: "In the United States... the book of mine that became a hit was the one that you would have said was the furthest from American reading habits: Invisible Cities." But it is Calvino''s lifelong fascination with America that makes this collection remarkable: more than half the book is given to an "American Diary 1959-1960," written during Calvino''s two years traveling in the U.S., as he explores New York''s thriving Greenwich Village and Actors Studio; a "violent, tough" Chicago; San Francisco''s "squalid and filthy" beatnik scene; and Montgomery, Ala., where Calvino (who died in 1985) finds himself "in the middle" of "crucial days of struggle" of the Civil Rights movement. His diary reveals an obsession with what he later says most interests him as a writer: "daily life as the constant nourishment for writing."\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Posthumous writings from Calvino.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19737'),
(20074, 'The Hermit of Eyton Forest', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n The year is 1142, and all England is in the iron grip of a civil war. And within the sheltered cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, there begins a chain of events no less momentous than the political upheavals of the outside world. First, there is the sad demise of Richard Ludel, Lord of Eyton, whose ten-year-old son and heir, also named Richard, is a pupil at the Abbey. Supported by Abbot Radulfus, the boy refuses to surrender his new powers to Dionysia, his furious, formidable grandmother. A stranger to the region is the hermit Cuthred, who enjoys the protection of Lady Dionysia, and whose young companion, Hyacinth, befriends Richard. Despite his reputation for holiness, Cuthred''s arrival heralds a series of mishaps for the monks. When Richard disappears and a corpse is found in Eyton forest, Brother Cadfael is once more forced to leave the tranquillity of his herb garden and devote his knowledge of human nature to tracking down a ruthless murderer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5698'),
(20075, 'The Hermit of Eyton Forest', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 1142, and all England is in the iron grip of a civil war. And within the sheltered cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, there begins a chain of events no less momentous than the political upheavals of the outside world. First, there is the sad demise of Richard Ludel, Lord of Eyton, whose ten-year-old son and heir, also named Richard, is a pupil at the Abbey. Supported by Abbot Radulfus, the boy refuses to surrender his new powers to Dionysia, his furious, formidable grandmother. A stranger to the region is the hermit Cuthred, who enjoys the protection of Lady Dionysia, and whose young companion, Hyacinth, befriends Richard. Despite his reputation for holiness, Cuthred''s arrival heralds a series of mishaps for the monks. When Richard disappears and a corpse is found in Eyton forest, Brother Cadfael is once more forced to leave the tranquillity of his herb garden and devote his knowledge of human nature to tracking down a ruthless murderer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18899'),
(20076, 'The Hermit of Eyton Forest', 'Ellis Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: The year is 1142, and all England is in the iron grip of a civil war. And within the sheltered cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, there begins a chain of events no less momentous than the political upheavals of the outside world. First, there is the sad demise of Richard Ludel, Lord of Eyton, whose ten-year-old son and heir, also named Richard, is a pupil at the Abbey. Supported by Abbot Radulfus, the boy refuses to surrender his new powers to Dionysia, his furious, formidable grandmother. A stranger to the region is the hermit Cuthred, who enjoys the protection of Lady Dionysia, and whose young companion, Hyacinth, befriends Richard. Despite his reputation for holiness, Cuthred''s arrival heralds a series of mishaps for the monks. When Richard disappears and a corpse is found in Eyton forest, Brother Cadfael is once more forced to leave the tranquillity of his herb garden and devote his knowledge of human nature to tracking down a ruthless murderer.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27671'),
(20077, 'The Hero of Ages', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Who is the Hero of Ages?\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness---the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists---is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Having escaped death at the climax of *The Well of Ascension* only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its near omniscience and ability to warp reality make stopping it seem impossible. She canâ€™t even discuss it with Elend lest Ruin learn their plans!\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n The conclusion of the Mistborn trilogy fulfills all the promise of the first two books. Revelations abound, connections rooted in early chapters of the series click into place, and surprises, as satisfying as they are stunning, blossom like fireworks to dazzle and delight. It all leads up to a finale unmatched for originality and audacity that will leave readers rubbing their eyes in wonder, as if awaking from an amazing dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7244'),
(20078, 'The Hero of Ages', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness---the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists---is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed. Having escaped death at the climax of *The Well of Ascension* only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its near omniscience and ability to warp reality make stopping it seem impossible. She canâ€™t even discuss it with Elend lest Ruin learn their plans! The conclusion of the Mistborn trilogy fulfills all the promise of the first two books. Revelations abound, connections rooted in early chapters of the series click into place, and surprises, as satisfying as they are stunning, blossom like fireworks to dazzle and delight. It all leads up to a finale unmatched for originality and audacity that will leave readers rubbing their eyes in wonder, as if awaking from an amazing dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14035'),
(20079, 'The Hero of Ages', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness---the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists---is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed. Having escaped death at the climax of *The Well of Ascension* only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its near omniscience and ability to warp reality make stopping it seem impossible. She canâ€™t even discuss it with Elend lest Ruin learn their plans! The conclusion of the Mistborn trilogy fulfills all the promise of the first two books. Revelations abound, connections rooted in early chapters of the series click into place, and surprises, as satisfying as they are stunning, blossom like fireworks to dazzle and delight. It all leads up to a finale unmatched for originality and audacity that will leave readers rubbing their eyes in wonder, as if awaking from an amazing dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16732'),
(20080, 'The Hero of Ages', 'Brandon Sanderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness---the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists---is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed. Having escaped death at the climax of *The Well of Ascension* only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its near omniscience and ability to warp reality make stopping it seem impossible. She canâ€™t even discuss it with Elend lest Ruin learn their plans! The conclusion of the Mistborn trilogy fulfills all the promise of the first two books. Revelations abound, connections rooted in early chapters of the series click into place, and surprises, as satisfying as they are stunning, blossom like fireworks to dazzle and delight. It all leads up to a finale unmatched for originality and audacity that will leave readers rubbing their eyes in wonder, as if awaking from an amazing dream.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26631'),
(20081, 'Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia', 'Michael Korda', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Michael Korda''s Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale, a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile - including his sun-burnished blonde looks and flowing white robes - made him an object of intense fascination, known the world over as "Lawrence of Arabia". However, unlike other biographers, Korda does not seek to burnish or destroy the legend; rather he aims to demystify and reveal the real man - T.E. Lawrence - as he truly was.An Oxford Scholar and archaeologist, one of the five illegitimate sons of a British aristocrat who ran away with his daughters'' governess, Lawrence was sent to Cairo as an intelligence officer in 1916, vanished into the desert in 1917, and re-emerged as the greatest and most colourful figure of WW1. A foreigner, he united and led the Arab tribes to defeat the Turks and eventually capture Damascus. Yet as he illuminates Lawrence''s achievements, Korda digs further to expose the flesh-and-blood man and his contradictory nature: a born leader utterly fearless and seemingly impervious to pain, thirst, fatigue and danger who remained shy, modest, and retiring; a scholar and an aesthete who was also a bold and cold-blooded warrior. As Korda shows, Lawrence was not only a man of his times, but a visionary whose achievements - as a farsighted diplomat, brilliant military strategist, the first media celebrity, and acclaimed writer - transcended them.Korda analyses Lawrence''s vision for the modern Middle East, plans that, if they had been carried through, might have prevented the hatred and bloodshed that have become ubiquitous in the region. Ultimately, as this magisterial work demonstrates, Lawrence remains the paradigm of the hero in modern times, the arch-heroic type whose life was at once a triumph and a sacrifice, and whose capacity to astonish remains undimmed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2845'),
(20082, 'Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia', 'Michael Korda', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Michael Korda''s Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale, a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile - including his sun-burnished blonde looks and flowing white robes - made him an object of intense fascination, known the world over as "Lawrence of Arabia". However, unlike other biographers, Korda does not seek to burnish or destroy the legend; rather he aims to demystify and reveal the real man - T.E. Lawrence - as he truly was.An Oxford Scholar and archaeologist, one of the five illegitimate sons of a British aristocrat who ran away with his daughters'' governess, Lawrence was sent to Cairo as an intelligence officer in 1916, vanished into the desert in 1917, and re-emerged as the greatest and most colourful figure of WW1. A foreigner, he united and led the Arab tribes to defeat the Turks and eventually capture Damascus. Yet as he illuminates Lawrence''s achievements, Korda digs further to expose the flesh-and-blood man and his contradictory nature: a born leader utterly fearless and seemingly impervious to pain, thirst, fatigue and danger who remained shy, modest, and retiring; a scholar and an aesthete who was also a bold and cold-blooded warrior. As Korda shows, Lawrence was not only a man of his times, but a visionary whose achievements - as a farsighted diplomat, brilliant military strategist, the first media celebrity, and acclaimed writer - transcended them.Korda analyses Lawrence''s vision for the modern Middle East, plans that, if they had been carried through, might have prevented the hatred and bloodshed that have become ubiquitous in the region. Ultimately, as this magisterial work demonstrates, Lawrence remains the paradigm of the hero in modern times, the arch-heroic type whose life was at once a triumph and a sacrifice, and whose capacity to astonish remains undimmed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10821'),
(20083, 'Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia', 'Michael Korda', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Michael Korda''s Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale, a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile - including his sun-burnished blonde looks and flowing white robes - made him an object of intense fascination, known the world over as "Lawrence of Arabia". However, unlike other biographers, Korda does not seek to burnish or destroy the legend; rather he aims to demystify and reveal the real man - T.E. Lawrence - as he truly was.An Oxford Scholar and archaeologist, one of the five illegitimate sons of a British aristocrat who ran away with his daughters'' governess, Lawrence was sent to Cairo as an intelligence officer in 1916, vanished into the desert in 1917, and re-emerged as the greatest and most colourful figure of WW1. A foreigner, he united and led the Arab tribes to defeat the Turks and eventually capture Damascus. Yet as he illuminates Lawrence''s achievements, Korda digs further to expose the flesh-and-blood man and his contradictory nature: a born leader utterly fearless and seemingly impervious to pain, thirst, fatigue and danger who remained shy, modest, and retiring; a scholar and an aesthete who was also a bold and cold-blooded warrior. As Korda shows, Lawrence was not only a man of his times, but a visionary whose achievements - as a farsighted diplomat, brilliant military strategist, the first media celebrity, and acclaimed writer - transcended them.Korda analyses Lawrence''s vision for the modern Middle East, plans that, if they had been carried through, might have prevented the hatred and bloodshed that have become ubiquitous in the region. Ultimately, as this magisterial work demonstrates, Lawrence remains the paradigm of the hero in modern times, the arch-heroic type whose life was at once a triumph and a sacrifice, and whose capacity to astonish remains undimmed.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21978'),
(20084, 'The Heroes of Olympus', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After saving Olympus from the evil Titan lord, Kronos, Percy and friends have rebuilt their beloved Camp Half-Blood, where the next generation of demigods must now prepare for a chilling prophecy of their own: Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, To storm or fire the world must fall. An oath to keep with a final breath, And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death. Now, in a brand-new series from blockbuster best-selling author Rick Riordan, fans return to the world of Camp Half-Blood. Here, a new group of heroes will inherit a quest. But to survive the journey, they#x2019;ll need the help of some familiar demigods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1788'),
(20085, 'The Heroes of Olympus', 'Rick Riordan', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n After saving Olympus from the evil Titan lord, Kronos, Percy and friends have rebuilt their beloved Camp Half-Blood, where the next generation of demigods must now prepare for a chilling prophecy of their own: Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, To storm or fire the world must fall. An oath to keep with a final breath, And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death. Now, in a brand-new series from blockbuster best-selling author Rick Riordan, fans return to the world of Camp Half-Blood. Here, a new group of heroes will inherit a quest. But to survive the journey, they#x2019;ll need the help of some familiar demigods.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13540'),
(20086, 'Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet', 'Harriet Rohmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5â€“9â€”The mantra of the environmental movement is "think globally, act locally," and this book offers examples of local heroes who are helping to save the planet. Maps, illustrations, and photographs are used to good effect. Each of the 12 chapters tells the story of a person doing his/her part to preserve our environment. Debby Tewa works to bring solar energy to Indian Country, and Sarah James speaks on behalf of the Gwich''in Indian Peoples of Alaska and Canada who want to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling. Judy Bonds, a community activist in West Virginia, works to bring an end to mountaintop removal mining; and Omar Freilla founded ReBuilders Source, a New York City-based company that recycles building materials. Stories come from all across America and include a diverse group of men and women, making this volume of interest to a broad audience. A final section offers information on how readers can get involved in their own communities.â€”_Patricia Ann Owens, Wabash Valley College, Mt. Carmel, IL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rather than featuring the usual roundup of environmental heroes, this title spotlights 12 contemporary conservationists who are working to fight pollution in cities, oceans, and wetlands, from Alaska to Mexico City. Many of the featured activists are young people. At age 11, Alex Lin started a campaign in Rhode Island for the safe disposal of electronic waste (â€œTodayâ€™s technology should not become tomorrowâ€™s toxic trashâ€). Erica Fernandez, a teenage Mexican immigrant in California, led a successful fight to prevent a pipeline that would transport highly explosive gas through her neighborhood. Julia Bonds, a coal-minerâ€™s daughter in Appalachia, is working to replace coal with wind power. The bookâ€™s format is lackluster, but the black-and-white photos do show the individuals at work in their communities. The powerful mix of personal stories with crucial environmental and social issues will be a call to action for young readers, who will want to move on to the final section: â€œHow You Can Get Involved.â€ Grades 6-10. --Hazel Rochman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5183'),
(20087, 'Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet', 'Harriet Rohmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5â€“9â€”The mantra of the environmental movement is "think globally, act locally," and this book offers examples of local heroes who are helping to save the planet. Maps, illustrations, and photographs are used to good effect. Each of the 12 chapters tells the story of a person doing his/her part to preserve our environment. Debby Tewa works to bring solar energy to Indian Country, and Sarah James speaks on behalf of the Gwich''in Indian Peoples of Alaska and Canada who want to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling. Judy Bonds, a community activist in West Virginia, works to bring an end to mountaintop removal mining; and Omar Freilla founded ReBuilders Source, a New York City-based company that recycles building materials. Stories come from all across America and include a diverse group of men and women, making this volume of interest to a broad audience. A final section offers information on how readers can get involved in their own communities.â€”_Patricia Ann Owens, Wabash Valley College, Mt. Carmel, IL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rather than featuring the usual roundup of environmental heroes, this title spotlights 12 contemporary conservationists who are working to fight pollution in cities, oceans, and wetlands, from Alaska to Mexico City. Many of the featured activists are young people. At age 11, Alex Lin started a campaign in Rhode Island for the safe disposal of electronic waste (â€œTodayâ€™s technology should not become tomorrowâ€™s toxic trashâ€). Erica Fernandez, a teenage Mexican immigrant in California, led a successful fight to prevent a pipeline that would transport highly explosive gas through her neighborhood. Julia Bonds, a coal-minerâ€™s daughter in Appalachia, is working to replace coal with wind power. The bookâ€™s format is lackluster, but the black-and-white photos do show the individuals at work in their communities. The powerful mix of personal stories with crucial environmental and social issues will be a call to action for young readers, who will want to move on to the final section: â€œHow You Can Get Involved.â€ Grades 6-10. --Hazel Rochman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13536'),
(20088, 'Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet', 'Harriet Rohmer', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 5â€“9â€”The mantra of the environmental movement is "think globally, act locally," and this book offers examples of local heroes who are helping to save the planet. Maps, illustrations, and photographs are used to good effect. Each of the 12 chapters tells the story of a person doing his/her part to preserve our environment. Debby Tewa works to bring solar energy to Indian Country, and Sarah James speaks on behalf of the Gwich''in Indian Peoples of Alaska and Canada who want to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling. Judy Bonds, a community activist in West Virginia, works to bring an end to mountaintop removal mining; and Omar Freilla founded ReBuilders Source, a New York City-based company that recycles building materials. Stories come from all across America and include a diverse group of men and women, making this volume of interest to a broad audience. A final section offers information on how readers can get involved in their own communities.â€”_Patricia Ann Owens, Wabash Valley College, Mt. Carmel, IL_\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Rather than featuring the usual roundup of environmental heroes, this title spotlights 12 contemporary conservationists who are working to fight pollution in cities, oceans, and wetlands, from Alaska to Mexico City. Many of the featured activists are young people. At age 11, Alex Lin started a campaign in Rhode Island for the safe disposal of electronic waste (â€œTodayâ€™s technology should not become tomorrowâ€™s toxic trashâ€). Erica Fernandez, a teenage Mexican immigrant in California, led a successful fight to prevent a pipeline that would transport highly explosive gas through her neighborhood. Julia Bonds, a coal-minerâ€™s daughter in Appalachia, is working to replace coal with wind power. The bookâ€™s format is lackluster, but the black-and-white photos do show the individuals at work in their communities. The powerful mix of personal stories with crucial environmental and social issues will be a call to action for young readers, who will want to move on to the final section: â€œHow You Can Get Involved.â€ Grades 6-10. --Hazel Rochman\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19488'),
(20089, 'The Heroes', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This blood-drenched, thought-provoking dissection of a three-day battle is set in the same world as Abercrombie''s First Law Trilogy (The Blade Itself, etc.), but stands very well alone. Union commander Lord Marshal Kroy coordinates the fight with the aid of a motley group of incompetent, self-important officers. The strangely sympathetic Col. Bremer dan Gorst is officially a royal observer who nurses a burning desire to kill or be killed. Leading a much smaller army against the Union is Black Dow, whose grip on the throne of the Northmen is tenuous and based on fear and brutality. Calder, a slippery and cunning egotist, advocates peace while plotting to take Black Dow''s place. Abercrombie never glosses over a moment of the madness, passion, and horror of war, nor the tribulations that turn ordinary people into the titular heroes. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The Heroes is an indictment of war and the duplicity that corrupts men striving for total power: bloody and violent, but never gratuitously so, it''s imbued with cutting humour, acute characterisation and world-weary wisdom about the weaknesses of the human race. Brilliant." -- Eric Brown THE GUARDIAN "An action-packed novel full of brutality, black-humour and razor sharp characterisation." -- Dave Bradley SFX The Heroes is the first major fantasy release of 2011, and it looks like the new year is already off to a cracking start. The Heroes is Joe Abercrombie doing what he does best but better than ever before: gritty, violent, morally ambiguous and darkly funny fantasy with a streak of intelligent cynicism." THE WERTZONE A well-constructed, absorbing war novel that returns to a familiar stamping ground. There''s satisfying character development, exploration of the ironies of war, and of course plenty of blood and treachery, all delivered with Abercrombie''s trademark wry humour." SPECULATIVE HORIZONS "Abercrombie''s take on fantasy has always been dark, almost nihilistic, yet shot through with black humour. The deliberate irony of the title of this book is that he does not write about heroes, he writes about ordinary people thrust in to extraordinary situations who seldom, if ever, acquit themselves heroically. Highly recommended both for fantasy readers and lovers of Cornwell and Iggulden." BOOK GEEKS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4348'),
(20090, 'The Heroes', 'Joe Abercrombie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This blood-drenched, thought-provoking dissection of a three-day battle is set in the same world as Abercrombie''s First Law Trilogy (The Blade Itself, etc.), but stands very well alone. Union commander Lord Marshal Kroy coordinates the fight with the aid of a motley group of incompetent, self-important officers. The strangely sympathetic Col. Bremer dan Gorst is officially a royal observer who nurses a burning desire to kill or be killed. Leading a much smaller army against the Union is Black Dow, whose grip on the throne of the Northmen is tenuous and based on fear and brutality. Calder, a slippery and cunning egotist, advocates peace while plotting to take Black Dow''s place. Abercrombie never glosses over a moment of the madness, passion, and horror of war, nor the tribulations that turn ordinary people into the titular heroes. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The Heroes is an indictment of war and the duplicity that corrupts men striving for total power: bloody and violent, but never gratuitously so, it''s imbued with cutting humour, acute characterisation and world-weary wisdom about the weaknesses of the human race. Brilliant." -- Eric Brown THE GUARDIAN "An action-packed novel full of brutality, black-humour and razor sharp characterisation." -- Dave Bradley SFX The Heroes is the first major fantasy release of 2011, and it looks like the new year is already off to a cracking start. The Heroes is Joe Abercrombie doing what he does best but better than ever before: gritty, violent, morally ambiguous and darkly funny fantasy with a streak of intelligent cynicism." THE WERTZONE A well-constructed, absorbing war novel that returns to a familiar stamping ground. There''s satisfying character development, exploration of the ironies of war, and of course plenty of blood and treachery, all delivered with Abercrombie''s trademark wry humour." SPECULATIVE HORIZONS "Abercrombie''s take on fantasy has always been dark, almost nihilistic, yet shot through with black humour. The deliberate irony of the title of this book is that he does not write about heroes, he writes about ordinary people thrust in to extraordinary situations who seldom, if ever, acquit themselves heroically. Highly recommended both for fantasy readers and lovers of Cornwell and Iggulden." BOOK GEEKS\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9367'),
(20091, 'The Heroes', 'Abercrombie, Joe', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15078'),
(20092, 'The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star', 'Nikki Sixx &amp; Ian Gittins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Motley Crue''s Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself.  When Motley Crue was at the height of its fame, there wasn''t any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn''t do. He spent days - sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers - in a coke and heroin-fueled daze. The highs were high, and Nikki''s journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions.  Here, Nikki shares those diary entries - some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre - and reflects on that time. Joining him are Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Slash, Rick Nielsen, Bob Rock, and a host of ex-managers, ex-lovers, and more.  Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and shockingly moving, The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom - and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2509'),
(20093, 'The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star', 'Nikki Sixx; Ian Gittins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Motley Crue''s Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself. When Motley Crue was at the height of its fame, there wasn''t any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn''t do. He spent days - sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers - in a coke and heroin-fueled daze. The highs were high, and Nikki''s journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions. Here, Nikki shares those diary entries - some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre - and reflects on that time. Joining him are Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Slash, Rick Nielsen, Bob Rock, and a host of ex-managers, ex-lovers, and more. Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and shockingly moving, The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom - and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14107'),
(20094, 'The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star', 'Nikki Sixx; Ian Gittins', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Motley Crue''s Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself. When Motley Crue was at the height of its fame, there wasn''t any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn''t do. He spent days - sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers - in a coke and heroin-fueled daze. The highs were high, and Nikki''s journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions. Here, Nikki shares those diary entries - some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre - and reflects on that time. Joining him are Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Slash, Rick Nielsen, Bob Rock, and a host of ex-managers, ex-lovers, and more. Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and shockingly moving, The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom - and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22250'),
(20095, 'Hex and the City', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lady Luck has hired John Taylor to investigate the origins of the Nightside--the dark heart of London where it''s always 3 A.M. But when he starts to uncover facts about his long-vanished mother, the Nightside--and all of existence-- could be snuffed out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1275'),
(20096, 'Hex and the City', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lady Luck has hired John Taylor to investigate the origins of the Nightside--the dark heart of London where it''s always 3 A.M. But when he starts to uncover facts about his long-vanished mother, the Nightside--and all of existence-- could be snuffed out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9959'),
(20097, 'Hex and the City', 'Simon R. Green', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n Lady Luck has hired John Taylor to investigate the origins of the Nightside--the dark heart of London where it''s always 3 A.M. But when he starts to uncover facts about his long-vanished mother, the Nightside--and all of existence-- could be snuffed out.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23644'),
(20098, 'Hexed: The Iron Druid Chronicles', 'Kevin Hearne', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Atticus Oâ€™Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesnâ€™t care much for witches. Still, heâ€™s about to make nice with the local coven by signing a mutually beneficial nonaggression treatyâ€”when suddenly the witch population in modern-day Tempe, Arizona, quadruples overnight. And the new girls are not just bad, theyâ€™re badasses with a dark history on the German side of World War II.With a fallen angel feasting on local high school students, a horde of Bacchants blowing in from Vegas with their special brand of deadly decadence, and a dangerously sexy Celtic goddess of fire vying for his attention, Atticus is having trouble scheduling the witch hunt. But aided by his magical sword, his neighborâ€™s rocket-propelled grenade launcher, and his vampire attorney, Atticus is ready to sweep the town and show the witchy women they picked the wrong Druid to hex.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9452'),
(20099, 'HHGTTG - The Lost Chapters', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18641'),
(20100, 'Hick', 'Andrea Portes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Portes''s chilling debut tracks a 13-year-old Nebraska girl''s hard-going life on the road. Young Luli knows losersâ€”her "aging Brigitte Bardot" mother, Tammy, and her father, Nick, go at each other every night at the Alibi, the watering hole in hometown Palmyra, Neb. Tammy runs away one morning, and Nick soon follows, leaving Luli alone at home with the Smith and Wesson .45 her Uncle Nipper gave her. Pistol in tow, she hitches rides heading west to Vegas. A crooked man (literally; he "looks like an italic," says smart-alecky Luli) named Eddie picks her up briefly before throwing her out of the car. Next comes cocaine-snorting grifter Glenda, who enlists Luli as an accessory to a robbery that goes awry. Glenda takes Luli under her wing. The two cross paths again with Eddie, who rapes Luli and ties her up in a secluded motel. Glenda comes to her rescue, but the confrontation with Eddie ends badly. Luli''s flippant narration makes for a love-it or hate-it read.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though its first-person narrating voice is fast-paced, powerful and unquestionably authentic, Hick is a debut novel. Beyond this voice, what makes the book so extraordinary is that, although all of the worst things imaginable do befall this 13-year-old girl, she is never defeated by them. Luli always fights back; she always resurfaces. Set as a coming-of-age novel, Hick tracks the real perils that modern teenagers so often face. And it does so with bright wit, energy, and an indomitable spirit. This is a book that will grab the reader from the first page and not let go. And it is written by a woman who is becoming a cultural force in the hippest parts of Los Angeles.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7732'),
(20101, 'Hick', 'Andrea Portes', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Portes''s chilling debut tracks a 13-year-old Nebraska girl''s hard-going life on the road. Young Luli knows losersâ€”her "aging Brigitte Bardot" mother, Tammy, and her father, Nick, go at each other every night at the Alibi, the watering hole in hometown Palmyra, Neb. Tammy runs away one morning, and Nick soon follows, leaving Luli alone at home with the Smith and Wesson .45 her Uncle Nipper gave her. Pistol in tow, she hitches rides heading west to Vegas. A crooked man (literally; he "looks like an italic," says smart-alecky Luli) named Eddie picks her up briefly before throwing her out of the car. Next comes cocaine-snorting grifter Glenda, who enlists Luli as an accessory to a robbery that goes awry. Glenda takes Luli under her wing. The two cross paths again with Eddie, who rapes Luli and ties her up in a secluded motel. Glenda comes to her rescue, but the confrontation with Eddie ends badly. Luli''s flippant narration makes for a love-it or hate-it read.\n  <em>\n   (May)\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Though its first-person narrating voice is fast-paced, powerful and unquestionably authentic, Hick is a debut novel. Beyond this voice, what makes the book so extraordinary is that, although all of the worst things imaginable do befall this 13-year-old girl, she is never defeated by them. Luli always fights back; she always resurfaces. Set as a coming-of-age novel, Hick tracks the real perils that modern teenagers so often face. And it does so with bright wit, energy, and an indomitable spirit. This is a book that will grab the reader from the first page and not let go. And it is written by a woman who is becoming a cultural force in the hippest parts of Los Angeles.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11969'),
(20102, 'Hick', 'Portes, Andrea', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16252'),
(20103, 'Hickory Dickory Death', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n There''s more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel...An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot''s interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items -- including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup -- he congratulated the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a ''unique and beautiful problem''. The list made absolutely no sense at all. But, reasoned Poirot, if this was merely a petty thief at work, why was everyone at the hostel so frightened?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/94'),
(20104, 'Hickory Dickory Death', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: There''s more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel...An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot''s interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items -- including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup -- he congratulated the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a ''unique and beautiful problem''. The list made absolutely no sense at all. But, reasoned Poirot, if this was merely a petty thief at work, why was everyone at the hostel so frightened?\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16045'),
(20105, 'Hickory Dickory Dock', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24952');
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(20106, 'Hickory Dickory Dock: A Hercule Poirot Mystery', 'Agatha Christie', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review.\n </em>\n Fraser, who played Captain Hastings, the sidekick for arch Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the PBS\n <em>\n  Mystery\n </em>\n series, now performs the entire cast in Christie''s 1955 mystery. Fraser''s Poirot is derivative of the stellar performance of the series'' star, David Suchet; nevertheless, Fraser gives Christie''s work his own imprimatur. Poirot is absent much of the time in this tale of kleptomania, malice and murder set at a boarding house for students. Add to the mix a number of students from England, a temperamental Greek landlady and an Italian house staff, and one must conclude that Fraser is some sort of magician to keep all the players sorted out as they converge in the common room. Not to be missed among the clamoring voices is Christie''s narrative, from which Fraser manages to wring every wry drop. The producers at the Mystery Masters division of the Audio Partners were smart to hire Fraser to record this classic, and listeners will find it a delightful romp that passes all too quickly.\n <em>\n  (Dec.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œThe Christie fan of longest standing, who thinks he knows every one of her tricks, will still be surprised by some of the twists here.â€ (_New York Times_ )\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThe characters are as good as ever and there is plenty of entertainment.â€ (_Times Literary Supplement__ (London) ) _\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15948'),
(20107, 'The Hickory Staff', 'Rob Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The natural successors to Terry Goodkind: a stunning first novel that will leave readers gasping for more! Steven Taylor is an assistant bank manager in a quiet little Mid-West town; his roommate Mark Jenkins is a high school history teacher. Stevenâ€™s bored with his job; the thought of going through all the accounts that havenâ€™t had a single transaction in the past 25 years sounds even more boring - until he discovers one old prospector left $17,000 in October 1870; itâ€™s now worth 6.3 million dollars. Thereâ€™s a safe deposit box too, 17C, thatâ€™s never been opened in all those years.\n <br />\n And it would have remained closed if Steven hadnâ€™t been browsing through a Denver antique store: as well as a dresser  for his sister, he found a new girlfriend, Hannah, the ownerâ€™s daughter â€¦ and, in a jar of oddments, the long-missing key to Idaho Springs Safety Deposit Box 17C.\n <br />\n And without that key, heâ€™d never have found the tapestry that sucked him and Mark into the land of Rona in the strange new world of Eldarn, where they are immediately captured by a group of Ronan resistance fighters. Rona has been occupied by Malakasia for nearly a thousand Twinmoons. Now an evil tyrant rules the land, but he wants more: he wants the key that will open the path for an ancient evil to manifest once and for all.\n <br />\n And Steven and Mark need this same key if they are ever to get home to Idaho Springs â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1704'),
(20108, 'The Hickory Staff', 'Rob Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The natural successors to Terry Goodkind: a stunning first novel that will leave readers gasping for more! Steven Taylor is an assistant bank manager in a quiet little Mid-West town; his roommate Mark Jenkins is a high school history teacher. Stevenâ€™s bored with his job; the thought of going through all the accounts that havenâ€™t had a single transaction in the past 25 years sounds even more boring - until he discovers one old prospector left $17,000 in October 1870; itâ€™s now worth 6.3 million dollars. Thereâ€™s a safe deposit box too, 17C, thatâ€™s never been opened in all those years.\n <br />\n And it would have remained closed if Steven hadnâ€™t been browsing through a Denver antique store: as well as a dresser  for his sister, he found a new girlfriend, Hannah, the ownerâ€™s daughter â€¦ and, in a jar of oddments, the long-missing key to Idaho Springs Safety Deposit Box 17C.\n <br />\n And without that key, heâ€™d never have found the tapestry that sucked him and Mark into the land of Rona in the strange new world of Eldarn, where they are immediately captured by a group of Ronan resistance fighters. Rona has been occupied by Malakasia for nearly a thousand Twinmoons. Now an evil tyrant rules the land, but he wants more: he wants the key that will open the path for an ancient evil to manifest once and for all.\n <br />\n And Steven and Mark need this same key if they are ever to get home to Idaho Springs â€¦\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12603'),
(20109, 'The Hickory Staff', 'Rob Scott', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n The natural successors to Terry Goodkind: a stunning first novel that will leave readers gasping for more! Steven Taylor is an assistant bank manager in a quiet little Mid-West town; his roommate Mark Jenkins is a high school history teacher. Stevenâ€™s bored with his job; the thought of going through all the accounts that havenâ€™t had a single transaction in the past 25 years sounds even more boring - until he discovers one old prospector left $17,000 in October 1870; itâ€™s now worth 6.3 million dollars. Thereâ€™s a safe deposit box too, 17C, thatâ€™s never been opened in all those years. And it would have remained closed if Steven hadnâ€™t been browsing through a Denver antique store: as well as a dresser for his sister, he found a new girlfriend, Hannah, the ownerâ€™s daughter ... and, in a jar of oddments, the long-missing key to Idaho Springs Safety Deposit Box 17C. And without that key, heâ€™d never have found the tapestry that sucked him and Mark into the land of Rona in the strange new world of Eldarn, where they are immediately captured by a group of Ronan resistance fighters. Rona has been occupied by Malakasia for nearly a thousand Twinmoons. Now an evil tyrant rules the land, but he wants more: he wants the key that will open the path for an ancient evil to manifest once and for all. And Steven and Mark need this same key if they are ever to get home to Idaho Springs ...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24871'),
(20110, 'Hidden', 'Tomas Mournian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Based on a news article written for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Mournian''s exquisitely written and impossibly sad fiction debut charts America''s latest version of the Underground Railroad. When 15-year-old Ahmed inadvertently outs himself to his parents, they take him to a residential treatment center in the Nevada desert, Serenity Ridge, where he''s tortured, molested, and put through a "straight" rehabilitation program. After 11 months, Ahmed manages to escape to a safe house for runaway gay teens in San Francisco, where he meets a slew of other kids like himself, all with their own stories to tell, most just as traumatizing as his own or worse. But life inside the safe house is never entirely safe, as Ahmed, now known as Ben, learns to his sorrow just as he begins to let his guard down. Regardless of their sexual orientation, readers will wait with baited breath to the end, almost suffocating on the palpable sense of fear and claustrophobia that permeates this heartbreaking story. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Ahmed''s parents send him to a residential treatment center known as Serenity Ridge, it''s with one goal: to "fix" their son, at any cost. But eleven months of abuse and overmedication leave him desperate to escape. And when the opportunity comes, Ahmed runs away to San Francisco.\n</p>\n<p>\n There, he moves into a secret safe house shared by a group of teens. Until they become independent at eighteen, the housemates hide away from authorities, bound by rules that both protect and frustrate. Ahmed, now known as Ben, tries to adjust to a life lived in impossibly close quarters with people he barely knows, all of whom guard secrets of their own. But even if they succeed in keeping the world at bay, there''s no hiding from each other or from themselves. And there''s no avoiding the conflicts, crushes, loneliness, and desire that could shatter their fragile, complicated sanctuary at any moment. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n "This fresh and original novel defies easy labels. It''s knowing yet vulnerable, observant yet naive--a wholly unique and compelling read." --Rachel Cohn,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tomas Mournian\n </strong>\n attended U.C. Berkeley. A freelance journalist, he''s written articles for The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Los Angeles Magazine, OUT, In Style and Marie Claire. His investigation journalism ("Hiding Out," "Anywhere But There," and "Girls Sent to Institutions") has been recognized with awards from the Peninsula Press Club, East Bay Press Club and NCCD Pass awards, with nominations by the GLAAD Media Awards and Pulitzer. Writing under a pseudonym, his plays have been produced internationally. He held the Eli Cantor Chair at The Corporation of Yaddo and lives in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/527'),
(20111, 'Hidden', 'Tomas Mournian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Based on a news article written for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Mournian''s exquisitely written and impossibly sad fiction debut charts America''s latest version of the Underground Railroad. When 15-year-old Ahmed inadvertently outs himself to his parents, they take him to a residential treatment center in the Nevada desert, Serenity Ridge, where he''s tortured, molested, and put through a "straight" rehabilitation program. After 11 months, Ahmed manages to escape to a safe house for runaway gay teens in San Francisco, where he meets a slew of other kids like himself, all with their own stories to tell, most just as traumatizing as his own or worse. But life inside the safe house is never entirely safe, as Ahmed, now known as Ben, learns to his sorrow just as he begins to let his guard down. Regardless of their sexual orientation, readers will wait with baited breath to the end, almost suffocating on the palpable sense of fear and claustrophobia that permeates this heartbreaking story. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Ahmed''s parents send him to a residential treatment center known as Serenity Ridge, it''s with one goal: to "fix" their son, at any cost. But eleven months of abuse and overmedication leave him desperate to escape. And when the opportunity comes, Ahmed runs away to San Francisco.\n</p>\n<p>\n There, he moves into a secret safe house shared by a group of teens. Until they become independent at eighteen, the housemates hide away from authorities, bound by rules that both protect and frustrate. Ahmed, now known as Ben, tries to adjust to a life lived in impossibly close quarters with people he barely knows, all of whom guard secrets of their own. But even if they succeed in keeping the world at bay, there''s no hiding from each other or from themselves. And there''s no avoiding the conflicts, crushes, loneliness, and desire that could shatter their fragile, complicated sanctuary at any moment. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n "This fresh and original novel defies easy labels. It''s knowing yet vulnerable, observant yet naive--a wholly unique and compelling read." --Rachel Cohn,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tomas Mournian\n </strong>\n attended U.C. Berkeley. A freelance journalist, he''s written articles for The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Los Angeles Magazine, OUT, In Style and Marie Claire. His investigation journalism ("Hiding Out," "Anywhere But There," and "Girls Sent to Institutions") has been recognized with awards from the Peninsula Press Club, East Bay Press Club and NCCD Pass awards, with nominations by the GLAAD Media Awards and Pulitzer. Writing under a pseudonym, his plays have been produced internationally. He held the Eli Cantor Chair at The Corporation of Yaddo and lives in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11087'),
(20112, 'Hidden', 'Tomas Mournian', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Based on a news article written for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Mournian''s exquisitely written and impossibly sad fiction debut charts America''s latest version of the Underground Railroad. When 15-year-old Ahmed inadvertently outs himself to his parents, they take him to a residential treatment center in the Nevada desert, Serenity Ridge, where he''s tortured, molested, and put through a "straight" rehabilitation program. After 11 months, Ahmed manages to escape to a safe house for runaway gay teens in San Francisco, where he meets a slew of other kids like himself, all with their own stories to tell, most just as traumatizing as his own or worse. But life inside the safe house is never entirely safe, as Ahmed, now known as Ben, learns to his sorrow just as he begins to let his guard down. Regardless of their sexual orientation, readers will wait with baited breath to the end, almost suffocating on the palpable sense of fear and claustrophobia that permeates this heartbreaking story. (Feb.)\n <br />\n (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n When Ahmed''s parents send him to a residential treatment center known as Serenity Ridge, it''s with one goal: to "fix" their son, at any cost. But eleven months of abuse and overmedication leave him desperate to escape. And when the opportunity comes, Ahmed runs away to San Francisco.\n</p>\n<p>\n There, he moves into a secret safe house shared by a group of teens. Until they become independent at eighteen, the housemates hide away from authorities, bound by rules that both protect and frustrate. Ahmed, now known as Ben, tries to adjust to a life lived in impossibly close quarters with people he barely knows, all of whom guard secrets of their own. But even if they succeed in keeping the world at bay, there''s no hiding from each other or from themselves. And there''s no avoiding the conflicts, crushes, loneliness, and desire that could shatter their fragile, complicated sanctuary at any moment. . .\n</p>\n<p>\n "This fresh and original novel defies easy labels. It''s knowing yet vulnerable, observant yet naive--a wholly unique and compelling read." --Rachel Cohn,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author\n</p>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Tomas Mournian\n </strong>\n attended U.C. Berkeley. A freelance journalist, he''s written articles for The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Los Angeles Magazine, OUT, In Style and Marie Claire. His investigation journalism ("Hiding Out," "Anywhere But There," and "Girls Sent to Institutions") has been recognized with awards from the Peninsula Press Club, East Bay Press Club and NCCD Pass awards, with nominations by the GLAAD Media Awards and Pulitzer. Writing under a pseudonym, his plays have been produced internationally. He held the Eli Cantor Chair at The Corporation of Yaddo and lives in Los Angeles.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24444'),
(20113, 'Hidden Agendas', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In the year 2010, computers are the new superpower.  Those who control them control the world.  To enforce the New Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency with the FBI: the Net Force.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Instructions on how to make a bomb...a list of every U.S. spy in the Euro-Asian theater...Someone with access to classified information is posting it on the Internet-and it''s costing lives.  Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is in the hot seat.  Now, before a hostile Senate committee, he must justify the very existence of the Net Force.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Meanwhile, a virus is unleashed that throws the federal financial systems into chaos.  And the Net Force operatives must hunt the wily hacker through the twists and turns of cyberspace-down a path that leads them dangerously close to home...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/537'),
(20114, 'Hidden Agendas', 'Tom Clancy &amp; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p class="description">\n  SUMMARY:\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  In the year 2010, computers are the new superpower.  Those who control them control the world.  To enforce the New Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency with the FBI: the Net Force.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Instructions on how to make a bomb...a list of every U.S. spy in the Euro-Asian theater...Someone with access to classified information is posting it on the Internet-and it''s costing lives.  Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is in the hot seat.  Now, before a hostile Senate committee, he must justify the very existence of the Net Force.\n </p>\n <p class="description">\n  Meanwhile, a virus is unleashed that throws the federal financial systems into chaos.  And the Net Force operatives must hunt the wily hacker through the twists and turns of cyberspace-down a path that leads them dangerously close to home...\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9004'),
(20115, 'Hidden Agendas', 'Tom Clancy; Steve Pieczenik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: In the year 2010, computers are the new superpower. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the New Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency with the FBI: the Net Force. Instructions on how to make a bomb...a list of every U.S. spy in the Euro-Asian theater...Someone with access to classified information is posting it on the Internet-and it''s costing lives. Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is in the hot seat. Now, before a hostile Senate committee, he must justify the very existence of the Net Force. Meanwhile, a virus is unleashed that throws the federal financial systems into chaos. And the Net Force operatives must hunt the wily hacker through the twists and turns of cyberspace-down a path that leads them dangerously close to home...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24332'),
(20116, 'The Hidden Brain', 'Shankar Vedantam', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Washington Post\n </em>\n science journalist Vedantam theorizes that there''s a hidden world in our heads filled with unconscious biases, often small, hidden errors in thinking that manipulate our attitudes and actions without our knowing it. Autonomy is a myth, he says, because knowledge and rational intention are not responsible for our choices. This thesis is not newsâ€” since Freud, psychologists have taken the unconscious into accountâ€”but Vedanta argues that if we are influenced sometimes, then why not all the time, whether we''re launching a romance or a genocide. This is a frightening leap in logic. In anecdotal, journalistic prose, we learn that, through bias, rape victims can misidentify their attacker; people are more honest even with just a subtle indication that they are being watched; polite behavior has to do with the frontotemporal lobes rather than with how one was raised; and that we can be unconsciously racist and sexist. Though drawing on the latest psychological research, Vedantam''s conclusions are either trite or unconvincing.\n <em>\n  (Jan. 19)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n A Washington Post science writer, Vedantam explores the findings of social psychologists about unconscious bias. Recounting peopleâ€™s stories, he grips attention immediately. Introducing a rape victim whose mistake in identifying her assailant was revealed by DNA evidence that exonerated him, Vedantam establishes his theme of how people get things wrong (in the crime-and-punishment category, he adds death-penalty cases involving possible misidentification) or behave seemingly irrationally. After each individual story, the author repairs to relevant psychological studies. To Vedantam, the studies reveal that subtle biases unconsciously coexist alongside peopleâ€™s conscious convictions that they are free of prejudice. He cites examples such as Senator George Allen, whose racial remark ended his career; the electorateâ€™s perception of candidate Barack Obama; and the sexual discrimination case of Lilly Ledbetter. Branching into other arenas, such as crowd behavior during crisis situations and the minds of suicide bombers, Vedantam highlights a mental battle of which, he wants his readers to learn, they are largely unaware. This work has strong appeal for the psychology audience. --Gilbert Taylor\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12322'),
(20117, 'Hidden Cities', 'Daniel Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The conclusion of Fox''s trilogy set in a magical version of ancient China (Dragon in Chains; Jade Man''s Skin) mixes action with scenes that feel like timeless, almost perfect moments. The emperor is exiled, and his pregnant beloved is being targeted by assassins. Rebels battle for control of the nation. An island-dwelling dragon is linked to the boy Han in ways neither understands, and an old man bargains with the dragon for access to the sea in which she was once imprisoned. While some try remaking the dragon''s chains, others learn that the best way to escape their own bonds is to relax. The result is an oddly pleasing feel of unhurried harmony even while the world seems ready to tear itself apart. The story and conclusion alike retain Fox''s hallmark graceful prose and pace. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMagnificent . . . This series ranges from imperial intrigue to ocean-spanning magic to the smallest lives.â€â€”Jay Lake, author of _Pinion\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "[\n  </em>\n  Hidden Cities_] mixes action with scenes that feel like timeless, almost perfect moments...The result is an oddly pleasing feel of unhurried harmony even while the world seems ready to tear itself apart. The story and conclusion alike retain Fox''s hallmark graceful prose and pace." â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA rising star . . . With talent like Foxâ€™s, the future of fantasy is in good hands.â€â€”Tanith Lee, on _Dragon in Chains\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6458'),
(20118, 'Hidden Cities', 'Daniel Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The conclusion of Fox''s trilogy set in a magical version of ancient China (Dragon in Chains; Jade Man''s Skin) mixes action with scenes that feel like timeless, almost perfect moments. The emperor is exiled, and his pregnant beloved is being targeted by assassins. Rebels battle for control of the nation. An island-dwelling dragon is linked to the boy Han in ways neither understands, and an old man bargains with the dragon for access to the sea in which she was once imprisoned. While some try remaking the dragon''s chains, others learn that the best way to escape their own bonds is to relax. The result is an oddly pleasing feel of unhurried harmony even while the world seems ready to tear itself apart. The story and conclusion alike retain Fox''s hallmark graceful prose and pace. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMagnificent . . . This series ranges from imperial intrigue to ocean-spanning magic to the smallest lives.â€â€”Jay Lake, author of _Pinion\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "[\n  </em>\n  Hidden Cities_] mixes action with scenes that feel like timeless, almost perfect moments...The result is an oddly pleasing feel of unhurried harmony even while the world seems ready to tear itself apart. The story and conclusion alike retain Fox''s hallmark graceful prose and pace." â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA rising star . . . With talent like Foxâ€™s, the future of fantasy is in good hands.â€â€”Tanith Lee, on _Dragon in Chains\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9780'),
(20119, 'Hidden Cities', 'Daniel Fox', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The conclusion of Fox''s trilogy set in a magical version of ancient China (Dragon in Chains; Jade Man''s Skin) mixes action with scenes that feel like timeless, almost perfect moments. The emperor is exiled, and his pregnant beloved is being targeted by assassins. Rebels battle for control of the nation. An island-dwelling dragon is linked to the boy Han in ways neither understands, and an old man bargains with the dragon for access to the sea in which she was once imprisoned. While some try remaking the dragon''s chains, others learn that the best way to escape their own bonds is to relax. The result is an oddly pleasing feel of unhurried harmony even while the world seems ready to tear itself apart. The story and conclusion alike retain Fox''s hallmark graceful prose and pace. (Apr.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  â€œMagnificent . . . This series ranges from imperial intrigue to ocean-spanning magic to the smallest lives.â€â€”Jay Lake, author of _Pinion\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   "[\n  </em>\n  Hidden Cities_] mixes action with scenes that feel like timeless, almost perfect moments...The result is an oddly pleasing feel of unhurried harmony even while the world seems ready to tear itself apart. The story and conclusion alike retain Fox''s hallmark graceful prose and pace." â€”_Publishers Weekly_\n </p>\n <p>\n  â€œA rising star . . . With talent like Foxâ€™s, the future of fantasy is in good hands.â€â€”Tanith Lee, on _Dragon in Chains\n  <br />\n  _\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17502'),
(20120, 'The Hidden City', 'David Eddings', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Sparkhawk, the royal champion, is the only hope of preserving the throne as he copes with the treachery and corruption of the Tamul court, races against time and the fearsome Shining Ones to find the hidden Stone of Power, and must rescue his wife from the foul Cyrgon, in an omnibus edition containing Domes of Fire, The Shining Ones, and The Hidden City.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17275'),
(20121, 'Hidden Empire', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this stellar launch of a new series, bestseller Anderson (Dune spinoffs with Brian Herbert; X-Files and Star Wars books) delivers action, engaging characters and credible fantastic worlds in spades or ekti, the fuel vital for spaceships in the year 2427. The Terran Hanseatic League, in a heady rush of manifest destiny, turns Oncier, a huge gas planet, into a sun so its four moons can be used for colonization. In the process, the Terrans disturb the ancient but dwindling Ildirans, their uneasy allies, whose leader, the Mage-Imperator, suspects that Terrans are far too eager to take over the spiral arm. Still worse, by inadvertently destroying Oncier''s hitherto unknown colonists, the powerful hydrogues, the conversion of Oncier sets off a catastrophic conflict that threatens the existence of all Terrans and Ildirans. The Earth Defense Forces of the Terran Hanseatic League, the Worldtrees and Green Priests of Theroc, the gypsy Roamers who mine ekti all must unite with the Ildirans to fight the alien menace. Book one sizzles with a fast-moving plot woven tightly with vivid characterizations: the space cowboys Jess, Ross and Tasia Tamblyn; the exotic Ildirans; the grotesque Mage-Imperator and his handsome Prime Designate son, Jora''h; Beneto Theron, his clan and the bewitching Nira Khali; the appealing and not-so-appealing humans, Raymond/Peter and Chairman Basil Wenceslas; and many others, all conspiring to make this fascinating future epic one not to be missed.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n An experiment in converting a gas giant into a star with the potential for transforming the former planet''s moons into environments suitable for human colonies awakens a heretofore hidden civilization and plunges the galaxy into a war for the survival of humanity. The latest novel by the author of Star Wars: Darksaber and the coauthor (with Brian Herbert) of Dune: House Atreides launches a dynamic space opera featuring political intrigue and intense personal drama. Anderson''s skill in delivering taut action scenes and creating well-rounded human and alien characters adds depth and variety to a series opener that belongs in most sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3692'),
(20122, 'Hidden Empire', 'Kevin J. Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n In this stellar launch of a new series, bestseller Anderson (Dune spinoffs with Brian Herbert; X-Files and Star Wars books) delivers action, engaging characters and credible fantastic worlds in spades or ekti, the fuel vital for spaceships in the year 2427. The Terran Hanseatic League, in a heady rush of manifest destiny, turns Oncier, a huge gas planet, into a sun so its four moons can be used for colonization. In the process, the Terrans disturb the ancient but dwindling Ildirans, their uneasy allies, whose leader, the Mage-Imperator, suspects that Terrans are far too eager to take over the spiral arm. Still worse, by inadvertently destroying Oncier''s hitherto unknown colonists, the powerful hydrogues, the conversion of Oncier sets off a catastrophic conflict that threatens the existence of all Terrans and Ildirans. The Earth Defense Forces of the Terran Hanseatic League, the Worldtrees and Green Priests of Theroc, the gypsy Roamers who mine ekti all must unite with the Ildirans to fight the alien menace. Book one sizzles with a fast-moving plot woven tightly with vivid characterizations: the space cowboys Jess, Ross and Tasia Tamblyn; the exotic Ildirans; the grotesque Mage-Imperator and his handsome Prime Designate son, Jora''h; Beneto Theron, his clan and the bewitching Nira Khali; the appealing and not-so-appealing humans, Raymond/Peter and Chairman Basil Wenceslas; and many others, all conspiring to make this fascinating future epic one not to be missed.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n An experiment in converting a gas giant into a star with the potential for transforming the former planet''s moons into environments suitable for human colonies awakens a heretofore hidden civilization and plunges the galaxy into a war for the survival of humanity. The latest novel by the author of Star Wars: Darksaber and the coauthor (with Brian Herbert) of Dune: House Atreides launches a dynamic space opera featuring political intrigue and intense personal drama. Anderson''s skill in delivering taut action scenes and creating well-rounded human and alien characters adds depth and variety to a series opener that belongs in most sf collections.\n <br />\n Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20821'),
(20123, 'The Hidden Harbor Mystery', 'Franklin W. Dixon; J. Clemens Gretta', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The fourteenth book in the Hardy Boys series, originally published in 1935. In this book, the Hardy Boys head South to settle a feud.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was written by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four "Franklin W. Dixons" to the total.\n</p>\n<p>\n Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all, there are 58 titles in the original Hardy Boys Mysteries series published between 1927 and 1979 written by 17 different men and women. Many of the books were later revised, adding another four Hardy Boys Mystery Stories to the total.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18466'),
(20124, 'The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of Stance, Status and Exclusion', 'Marjorie Harness Goodwin', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21699'),
(20125, 'The Hidden Man', 'Charles Cumming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mark and Benjamin Keen have not seen their father, Christopher, for 20 years. When he reappears hoping for a reconciliation, he has only begun to shed light on his shadowy past before being killed by an unidentified assailant. His violent death leaves questions unanswered. Was his murder an act of retribution? Had he been silenced for discovering a conspiracy involving Mark? Or had the carefully constructed facade of his past simply collapsed? As the truth unfolds, his sons must face the legacy of their father''s life as a spy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6913'),
(20126, 'The Hidden Man', 'Charles Cumming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mark and Benjamin Keen have not seen their father, Christopher, for 20 years. When he reappears hoping for a reconciliation, he has only begun to shed light on his shadowy past before being killed by an unidentified assailant. His violent death leaves questions unanswered. Was his murder an act of retribution? Had he been silenced for discovering a conspiracy involving Mark? Or had the carefully constructed facade of his past simply collapsed? As the truth unfolds, his sons must face the legacy of their father''s life as a spy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9133'),
(20127, 'The Hidden Man', 'Charles Cumming', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Mark and Benjamin Keen have not seen their father, Christopher, for 20 years. When he reappears hoping for a reconciliation, he has only begun to shed light on his shadowy past before being killed by an unidentified assailant. His violent death leaves questions unanswered. Was his murder an act of retribution? Had he been silenced for discovering a conspiracy involving Mark? Or had the carefully constructed facade of his past simply collapsed? As the truth unfolds, his sons must face the legacy of their father''s life as a spy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16995'),
(20128, 'Hidden Pleasures', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   All she has to do is be his lover for a week...\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  And when the man is gorgeous Galen Steele, what woman could possibly say no?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Brittany Thrasher has her own hidden motives for accepting Galen''s proposal. Only the savvy businesswoman draws the line at actually falling for the sexy playboy. Even if he\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  the incredible lover of her most taboo fantasies....\n </p>\n <p>\n  The moment their paths crossed again at an auction, Galen knew Brittany was special. If she wants the house he just won so badly, how far is she willing to go to get it? That''s when the Phoenix entrepreneur makes her an offer he fully expects her to refuse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But once their passion heats up, the bidding really begins. And Galen\n  <em>\n   will\n  </em>\n  uncover Brittany''s secret. Because this determined man of Steele isn''t about to let the woman of his dreams get away....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7128'),
(20129, 'Hidden Pleasures', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   All she has to do is be his lover for a week...\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  And when the man is gorgeous Galen Steele, what woman could possibly say no?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Brittany Thrasher has her own hidden motives for accepting Galen''s proposal. Only the savvy businesswoman draws the line at actually falling for the sexy playboy. Even if he\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  the incredible lover of her most taboo fantasies....\n </p>\n <p>\n  The moment their paths crossed again at an auction, Galen knew Brittany was special. If she wants the house he just won so badly, how far is she willing to go to get it? That''s when the Phoenix entrepreneur makes her an offer he fully expects her to refuse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But once their passion heats up, the bidding really begins. And Galen\n  <em>\n   will\n  </em>\n  uncover Brittany''s secret. Because this determined man of Steele isn''t about to let the woman of his dreams get away....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10526'),
(20130, 'Hidden Pleasures', 'Brenda Jackson', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   All she has to do is be his lover for a week...\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <p>\n  And when the man is gorgeous Galen Steele, what woman could possibly say no?\n </p>\n <p>\n  Brittany Thrasher has her own hidden motives for accepting Galen''s proposal. Only the savvy businesswoman draws the line at actually falling for the sexy playboy. Even if he\n  <em>\n   is\n  </em>\n  the incredible lover of her most taboo fantasies....\n </p>\n <p>\n  The moment their paths crossed again at an auction, Galen knew Brittany was special. If she wants the house he just won so badly, how far is she willing to go to get it? That''s when the Phoenix entrepreneur makes her an offer he fully expects her to refuse.\n </p>\n <p>\n  But once their passion heats up, the bidding really begins. And Galen\n  <em>\n   will\n  </em>\n  uncover Brittany''s secret. Because this determined man of Steele isn''t about to let the woman of his dreams get away....\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16719'),
(20131, 'The Hidden Power of Advertising', 'Robert Heath', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A great read ...It certainly will open the eyes of many to what branding is about. --\n <em>\n  Simon Broadbent, BrandCon\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n The way advertising works is not so transparent after all. Advertising does have some sort of hidden power which enables it to influence us without our realising it.\n</p>\n<p>\n The Hidden Power of Advertising presents a radical new challenge to traditional thinking about the way consumers interact with and process brand communication. For over 70 years the universal assumption has been that advertising is only effective if it consciously persuades consumers to choose a particular brand. In such circumstances attention is critical, which is why most of the advertising industry''s creative resource is focused on achieving the highest possible levels of interest and awareness. But how is it that advertising can and frequently does work, even when consumers have no conscious awareness of having seen or heard the ads themselves?\n</p>\n<p>\n Recent neuroscientific research has shown that the brainâ€™s capacity to absorb certain types of brand information is far greater than we ever imagined. Building on these findings, Robert Heath is able to explain with exceptional clarity how advertising creates meaningful and enduring brand associations in our minds, even when we pay virtually no attention to it. These associations exert a powerful influence on our intuitive feelings, and can unknowingly drive us to choose and buy particular brands.\n</p>\n<p>\n This mechanism - low involvement processing - turns out to be an especially effective way of getting through to consumers, who in general have little or no interest in learning about brands. Heath shows that low involvement processing has been a major factor behind the success of mega-brands in markets as diverse as insurance, cars, toilet paper, cigarettes, and beer. The Hidden Power of Advertising is a must-read for those involved with creating, planning and researching effective advertising, advertising and marketing academics, indeed anyone interested in the field of advertising and marketing communications.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9453'),
(20132, 'The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos', 'Brian Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Elegant Universe\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fabric of the Cosmos\n  </em>\n  here treats all viable alternate realities to a laudably fair shake. For a book exploring the most far-reaching implications of bleeding-edge mathematics,\n  <em>\n   The Hidden Reality\n  </em>\n  is surprisingly light on math, written as it is "for a broad audience â€¦ its only prerequisite the will to persevere." Such perseverance pays off with a motley cast of potential universes featuring doppelgÃ¤ngers, strings, branes, quantum probabilities, holographs, and simulated worlds. The result is that rare accomplishment in science writing for a popular audience: a volume that explains the science and its consequences while stimulating the imagination of even the uninitiated.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Oliver Sacks on\n   <em>\n    The Hidden Reality\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Brian Greene is not only a profound cosmological thinker--a pioneer of string theory--but a writer of exceptional clarity and charm. His books--_The Hidden Reality_ takes us deeper still, and it has a special personal quality and warmth that is evident from the opening of the book, when Greene recollects how, as a boy, he was fascinated by the multiple reflections in parallel mirrors. He has never lost this childlike wonder at the world of physics, but he brings it now to examining theories of multiple universes, of the continual birth of universes, starting long before our own. . . and destined to continue, perhaps, to the end of time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the 1930s, as a boy myself, I read\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. "There was a time when Ã¿universe'' meant Ã¿all there is,''Â " writes Greene, but soon we may have to redefine that word, along with our own meager understanding of the cosmos. A theoretical physicist and celebrated author, Greene offers intrepid readers another in-depth yet marvelously accessible look inside the perplexing world of modern theoretical physics and cosmology. Greene''s book The Elegant Universe explained late 20th-century efforts to find a unified theory of everything, culminating with string theory. But string theory opened up a new can of worms, hinting at the possible existence of multiple universes and other strange entities. The possibility of other universes existing alongside our own like holes in "a gigantic block of Swiss cheese" seems more likely every day. Beginning with relativity theory, the Big Bang, and our expanding universe, Greene introduces first the mind-blowing multiplicity of forms those parallel universes might take, from patchwork quilts or stretchy "branes" to landscapes and holograms riddled with black holes. With his inspired analogies starring everyone from South Park''s Eric Cartman to Ms. Pac-Man and a can of Pringles, Greene presents a lucid, intriguing, and triumphantly understandable state-of-the-art look at the universe. Illus. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7083'),
(20133, 'The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos', 'Brian Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Elegant Universe\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fabric of the Cosmos\n  </em>\n  here treats all viable alternate realities to a laudably fair shake. For a book exploring the most far-reaching implications of bleeding-edge mathematics,\n  <em>\n   The Hidden Reality\n  </em>\n  is surprisingly light on math, written as it is "for a broad audience â€¦ its only prerequisite the will to persevere." Such perseverance pays off with a motley cast of potential universes featuring doppelgÃ¤ngers, strings, branes, quantum probabilities, holographs, and simulated worlds. The result is that rare accomplishment in science writing for a popular audience: a volume that explains the science and its consequences while stimulating the imagination of even the uninitiated.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Oliver Sacks on\n   <em>\n    The Hidden Reality\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Brian Greene is not only a profound cosmological thinker--a pioneer of string theory--but a writer of exceptional clarity and charm. His books--_The Hidden Reality_ takes us deeper still, and it has a special personal quality and warmth that is evident from the opening of the book, when Greene recollects how, as a boy, he was fascinated by the multiple reflections in parallel mirrors. He has never lost this childlike wonder at the world of physics, but he brings it now to examining theories of multiple universes, of the continual birth of universes, starting long before our own. . . and destined to continue, perhaps, to the end of time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the 1930s, as a boy myself, I read\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. "There was a time when Ã¿universe'' meant Ã¿all there is,''Â " writes Greene, but soon we may have to redefine that word, along with our own meager understanding of the cosmos. A theoretical physicist and celebrated author, Greene offers intrepid readers another in-depth yet marvelously accessible look inside the perplexing world of modern theoretical physics and cosmology. Greene''s book The Elegant Universe explained late 20th-century efforts to find a unified theory of everything, culminating with string theory. But string theory opened up a new can of worms, hinting at the possible existence of multiple universes and other strange entities. The possibility of other universes existing alongside our own like holes in "a gigantic block of Swiss cheese" seems more likely every day. Beginning with relativity theory, the Big Bang, and our expanding universe, Greene introduces first the mind-blowing multiplicity of forms those parallel universes might take, from patchwork quilts or stretchy "branes" to landscapes and holograms riddled with black holes. With his inspired analogies starring everyone from South Park''s Eric Cartman to Ms. Pac-Man and a can of Pringles, Greene presents a lucid, intriguing, and triumphantly understandable state-of-the-art look at the universe. Illus. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10091'),
(20134, 'The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos', 'Greene, Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15103');
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(20135, 'The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos', 'Brian Greene', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Amazon.com Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   The Elegant Universe\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   The Fabric of the Cosmos\n  </em>\n  here treats all viable alternate realities to a laudably fair shake. For a book exploring the most far-reaching implications of bleeding-edge mathematics,\n  <em>\n   The Hidden Reality\n  </em>\n  is surprisingly light on math, written as it is "for a broad audience ... its only prerequisite the will to persevere." Such perseverance pays off with a motley cast of potential universes featuring doppelgÃ¤ngers, strings, branes, quantum probabilities, holographs, and simulated worlds. The result is that rare accomplishment in science writing for a popular audience: a volume that explains the science and its consequences while stimulating the imagination of even the uninitiated.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <strong>\n   Oliver Sacks on\n   <em>\n    The Hidden Reality\n   </em>\n  </strong>\n </p>\n <hr />\n <p>\n  Brian Greene is not only a profound cosmological thinker--a pioneer of string theory--but a writer of exceptional clarity and charm. His books--_The Hidden Reality_ takes us deeper still, and it has a special personal quality and warmth that is evident from the opening of the book, when Greene recollects how, as a boy, he was fascinated by the multiple reflections in parallel mirrors. He has never lost this childlike wonder at the world of physics, but he brings it now to examining theories of multiple universes, of the continual birth of universes, starting long before our own. . . and destined to continue, perhaps, to the end of time.\n </p>\n <p>\n  In the 1930s, as a boy myself, I read\n </p>\n <hr />\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Starred Review. "There was a time when Ã¿universe'' meant Ã¿all there is,'' " writes Greene, but soon we may have to redefine that word, along with our own meager understanding of the cosmos. A theoretical physicist and celebrated author, Greene offers intrepid readers another in-depth yet marvelously accessible look inside the perplexing world of modern theoretical physics and cosmology. Greene''s book The Elegant Universe explained late 20th-century efforts to find a unified theory of everything, culminating with string theory. But string theory opened up a new can of worms, hinting at the possible existence of multiple universes and other strange entities. The possibility of other universes existing alongside our own like holes in "a gigantic block of Swiss cheese" seems more likely every day. Beginning with relativity theory, the Big Bang, and our expanding universe, Greene introduces first the mind-blowing multiplicity of forms those parallel universes might take, from patchwork quilts or stretchy "branes" to landscapes and holograms riddled with black holes. With his inspired analogies starring everyone from South Park''s Eric Cartman to Ms. Pac-Man and a can of Pringles, Greene presents a lucid, intriguing, and triumphantly understandable state-of-the-art look at the universe. Illus. (Feb.)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16745'),
(20136, 'The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos', 'Greene, Brian', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28089'),
(20137, 'The Hidden Staircase', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15453'),
(20138, 'Hide &amp; Seek: A Novel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n It was the trial that electrified the world. Not only because of the defendant, Maggie Bradford, the woman whose songs captivated the world''s heart. Not only because of the victim, Will Shepard, the world''s most glamorous athlete. But also because everyone said Maggie had murdered not just one husband, but two. And because in Maggie''s world - the world she feared and despised but could not escape, the world of the powerful, the rich, and the ruthless - both death and life could never be what they seemed. From James Patterson, bestselling author of KISS THE GIRLS and ALONG CAME A SPIDER, comes his most brilliantly realized thriller, a story that will shatter your expectations...and hold every last one of your nerves in thrall, with each twist of the plot and every turn of the page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4839'),
(20139, 'Hide &amp; seek: a novel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was the trial that electrified the world. Not only because of the defendant, Maggie Bradford, the woman whose songs captivated the world''s heart. Not only because of the victim, Will Shepard, the world''s most glamorous athlete. But also because everyone said Maggie had murdered not just one husband, but two. And because in Maggie''s world - the world she feared and despised but could not escape, the world of the powerful, the rich, and the ruthless - both death and life could never be what they seemed. From James Patterson, bestselling author of KISS THE GIRLS and ALONG CAME A SPIDER, comes his most brilliantly realized thriller, a story that will shatter your expectations...and hold every last one of your nerves in thrall, with each twist of the plot and every turn of the page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13901'),
(20140, 'Hide &amp; seek: a novel', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: It was the trial that electrified the world. Not only because of the defendant, Maggie Bradford, the woman whose songs captivated the world''s heart. Not only because of the victim, Will Shepard, the world''s most glamorous athlete. But also because everyone said Maggie had murdered not just one husband, but two. And because in Maggie''s world - the world she feared and despised but could not escape, the world of the powerful, the rich, and the ruthless - both death and life could never be what they seemed. From James Patterson, bestselling author of KISS THE GIRLS and ALONG CAME A SPIDER, comes his most brilliantly realized thriller, a story that will shatter your expectations...and hold every last one of your nerves in thrall, with each twist of the plot and every turn of the page.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19960'),
(20141, 'Hide and Seek', 'James Patterson', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25553'),
(20142, 'Hideaway', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n He was clinically dead after the accident--but was miraculously revived. Now Hatch Harrison and his wife approach each day with a new appreciation for life.  But something has come back with Hatch from the other side. A terrible presence that links his mind to a psychotic sï¼Œ so that a force of murderous rage courses through him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6118'),
(20143, 'Hideaway', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He was clinically dead after the accident--but was miraculously revived. Now Hatch Harrison and his wife approach each day with a new appreciation for life.     But something has come back with Hatch from the other side. A terrible presence that links his mind to a psychotic''s, so that a force of murderous rage courses through him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17952'),
(20144, 'Hideaway', 'Dean Koontz', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n He was clinically dead after the accident--but was miraculously revived. Now Hatch Harrison and his wife approach each day with a new appreciation for life.     But something has come back with Hatch from the other side. A terrible presence that links his mind to a psychotic''s, so that a force of murderous rage courses through him.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27377'),
(20145, 'Hideous Kinky', 'Esther Freud', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A remarkable debut novel from one of England''s finest young writers, Hideous Kinky follows two little English girls as they struggle to establish some semblance of normal life on a journey with their mum through Europe and North Africa in the mid-1960s.Once in Marrakech, Mum immerses herself in Sufism and her quest for personal fulfillment, while the daughters rebel -- one by attempting to recreate her English life, the other by, turning her hopes for a father on a most unlikely candidate. Seen through the youngest girl''s eyes, events take on increasingly alarming dimensions, making Hideous Kinky as suspenseful as it is endearing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5607'),
(20146, 'Hideous Kinky', 'Esther Freud', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A remarkable debut novel from one of England''s finest young writers, Hideous Kinky follows two little English girls as they struggle to establish some semblance of normal life on a journey with their mum through Europe and North Africa in the mid-1960s.Once in Marrakech, Mum immerses herself in Sufism and her quest for personal fulfillment, while the daughters rebel -- one by attempting to recreate her English life, the other by, turning her hopes for a father on a most unlikely candidate. Seen through the youngest girl''s eyes, events take on increasingly alarming dimensions, making Hideous Kinky as suspenseful as it is endearing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9807'),
(20147, 'Hideous kinky', 'Esther Freud', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A remarkable debut novel from one of England''s finest young writers, Hideous Kinky follows two little English girls as they struggle to establish some semblance of normal life on a journey with their mum through Europe and North Africa in the mid-1960s.Once in Marrakech, Mum immerses herself in Sufism and her quest for personal fulfillment, while the daughters rebel -- one by attempting to recreate her English life, the other by, turning her hopes for a father on a most unlikely candidate. Seen through the youngest girl''s eyes, events take on increasingly alarming dimensions, making Hideous Kinky as suspenseful as it is endearing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19064'),
(20148, 'Hideous kinky', 'Esther Freud', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A remarkable debut novel from one of England''s finest young writers, Hideous Kinky follows two little English girls as they struggle to establish some semblance of normal life on a journey with their mum through Europe and North Africa in the mid-1960s.Once in Marrakech, Mum immerses herself in Sufism and her quest for personal fulfillment, while the daughters rebel -- one by attempting to recreate her English life, the other by, turning her hopes for a father on a most unlikely candidate. Seen through the youngest girl''s eyes, events take on increasingly alarming dimensions, making Hideous Kinky as suspenseful as it is endearing.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27746'),
(20149, 'Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme', 'Tracy Daugherty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This sprawling first biography of the writer Donald Barthelme (1931â€“1989) complements an exemplary account of the man and his milieu with a history of 20th-century architecture, film, philosophy, visual art and political activismâ€”not to mention a stunning exegesis of Barthelme''s work and a surfeit of vignettes from New York literary life in the 1960s and ''70s. Daugherty, a professor of English and creative writing at Oregon State and former student of Barthelme, renders the writer of\n <em>\n  The Dead Father\n </em>\n in all his complexity: the experimental iconoclast, the establishment figure without a university degree who published more than 100 stories in the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n , the citizen-activist, admitted alcoholic, the devoted if distant father and the prankster on the page. While Daugherty firmly takes Barthelme''s side in his four troubled marriages, he assesses the writer''s legacy, his champions and detractors (e.g., Joyce Carol Oates, John Gardner and the hundreds of readers who canceled their\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n subscriptions in 1968 to protest the publication of his catty\n <em>\n  Snow White\n </em>\n ). Like Barthelme''s best stories, this unapologetically literary and ambitious book is cultural and artistic bricolage at its finest. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics unanimously applaud Daugherty for the first comprehensive, analytical biography of his former teacher.\n <em>\n  The Oregonian\n </em>\n calls\n <em>\n  Hiding Man\n </em>\n a "remarkably tender, sympathetic treatment" of Barthelme, and while Daugherty may have given Barthelme a glowing biography, he doesn''t downplay his more negative traits. The book also does an excellent job of connecting the writer to his literary and social context. The Oregonian notes that while Barthelme can be difficult to read, "in Daugherty''s hands the stories seem not nearly as challenging as they are inviting," a point echoed by the\n <em>\n  Washington Post.\n </em>\n Readers interested in Barthelme will find an informative, entertaining biography; readers unacquainted with this postmodern giant may wish to start with one of his short story collections.Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/450'),
(20150, 'Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme', 'Tracy Daugherty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This sprawling first biography of the writer Donald Barthelme (1931â€“1989) complements an exemplary account of the man and his milieu with a history of 20th-century architecture, film, philosophy, visual art and political activismâ€”not to mention a stunning exegesis of Barthelme''s work and a surfeit of vignettes from New York literary life in the 1960s and ''70s. Daugherty, a professor of English and creative writing at Oregon State and former student of Barthelme, renders the writer of\n <em>\n  The Dead Father\n </em>\n in all his complexity: the experimental iconoclast, the establishment figure without a university degree who published more than 100 stories in the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n , the citizen-activist, admitted alcoholic, the devoted if distant father and the prankster on the page. While Daugherty firmly takes Barthelme''s side in his four troubled marriages, he assesses the writer''s legacy, his champions and detractors (e.g., Joyce Carol Oates, John Gardner and the hundreds of readers who canceled their\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n subscriptions in 1968 to protest the publication of his catty\n <em>\n  Snow White\n </em>\n ). Like Barthelme''s best stories, this unapologetically literary and ambitious book is cultural and artistic bricolage at its finest. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics unanimously applaud Daugherty for the first comprehensive, analytical biography of his former teacher.\n <em>\n  The Oregonian\n </em>\n calls\n <em>\n  Hiding Man\n </em>\n a "remarkably tender, sympathetic treatment" of Barthelme, and while Daugherty may have given Barthelme a glowing biography, he doesn''t downplay his more negative traits. The book also does an excellent job of connecting the writer to his literary and social context. The Oregonian notes that while Barthelme can be difficult to read, "in Daugherty''s hands the stories seem not nearly as challenging as they are inviting," a point echoed by the\n <em>\n  Washington Post.\n </em>\n Readers interested in Barthelme will find an informative, entertaining biography; readers unacquainted with this postmodern giant may wish to start with one of his short story collections.Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9146'),
(20151, 'Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme', 'Tracy Daugherty', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. This sprawling first biography of the writer Donald Barthelme (1931â€“1989) complements an exemplary account of the man and his milieu with a history of 20th-century architecture, film, philosophy, visual art and political activismâ€”not to mention a stunning exegesis of Barthelme''s work and a surfeit of vignettes from New York literary life in the 1960s and ''70s. Daugherty, a professor of English and creative writing at Oregon State and former student of Barthelme, renders the writer of\n <em>\n  The Dead Father\n </em>\n in all his complexity: the experimental iconoclast, the establishment figure without a university degree who published more than 100 stories in the\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n , the citizen-activist, admitted alcoholic, the devoted if distant father and the prankster on the page. While Daugherty firmly takes Barthelme''s side in his four troubled marriages, he assesses the writer''s legacy, his champions and detractors (e.g., Joyce Carol Oates, John Gardner and the hundreds of readers who canceled their\n <em>\n  New Yorker\n </em>\n subscriptions in 1968 to protest the publication of his catty\n <em>\n  Snow White\n </em>\n ). Like Barthelme''s best stories, this unapologetically literary and ambitious book is cultural and artistic bricolage at its finest. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos.\n <em>\n  (Feb.)\n </em>\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Critics unanimously applaud Daugherty for the first comprehensive, analytical biography of his former teacher.\n <em>\n  The Oregonian\n </em>\n calls\n <em>\n  Hiding Man\n </em>\n a "remarkably tender, sympathetic treatment" of Barthelme, and while Daugherty may have given Barthelme a glowing biography, he doesn''t downplay his more negative traits. The book also does an excellent job of connecting the writer to his literary and social context. The Oregonian notes that while Barthelme can be difficult to read, "in Daugherty''s hands the stories seem not nearly as challenging as they are inviting," a point echoed by the\n <em>\n  Washington Post.\n </em>\n Readers interested in Barthelme will find an informative, entertaining biography; readers unacquainted with this postmodern giant may wish to start with one of his short story collections.Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24488'),
(20152, 'The Hiding Place', 'Karen Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  After spending nine months in a coma, Tara Kinsale awakes to devastating news. Her best friend, Alexis, has been murdered, leaving Tara as guardian to her daughter, Claire. And Tara''s husband has divorced her for another woman.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Forced to start over, Tara focuses on reopening her P.I. firm and caring for Claire. But soon her world is shattered again when Nick MacMahon, Claire''s uncle, returns from military service in Afghanistan to take guardianship of his niece. The bad dream turns unbearable when Tara learns that something precious was taken from her while she was in a coma.\n</p>\n<p>\n Working with Nick, a man haunted by his own past, Tara begins to investigate the missing months of her life. Together, they will find that secrets don''t stay buried forever...even when they are kept in the darkest of hiding places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3943'),
(20153, 'The Hiding Place', 'Karen Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  After spending nine months in a coma, Tara Kinsale awakes to devastating news. Her best friend, Alexis, has been murdered, leaving Tara as guardian to her daughter, Claire. And Tara''s husband has divorced her for another woman.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Forced to start over, Tara focuses on reopening her P.I. firm and caring for Claire. But soon her world is shattered again when Nick MacMahon, Claire''s uncle, returns from military service in Afghanistan to take guardianship of his niece. The bad dream turns unbearable when Tara learns that something precious was taken from her while she was in a coma.\n</p>\n<p>\n Working with Nick, a man haunted by his own past, Tara begins to investigate the missing months of her life. Together, they will find that secrets don''t stay buried forever...even when they are kept in the darkest of hiding places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10204'),
(20154, 'The Hiding Place', 'Karen Harper', '<div class="comments">\n<blockquote>\n <p>\n  After spending nine months in a coma, Tara Kinsale awakes to devastating news. Her best friend, Alexis, has been murdered, leaving Tara as guardian to her daughter, Claire. And Tara''s husband has divorced her for another woman.\n </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\n Forced to start over, Tara focuses on reopening her P.I. firm and caring for Claire. But soon her world is shattered again when Nick MacMahon, Claire''s uncle, returns from military service in Afghanistan to take guardianship of his niece. The bad dream turns unbearable when Tara learns that something precious was taken from her while she was in a coma.\n</p>\n<p>\n Working with Nick, a man haunted by his own past, Tara begins to investigate the missing months of her life. Together, they will find that secrets don''t stay buried forever...even when they are kept in the darkest of hiding places.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20680'),
(20155, 'The High Crusade', 'Poul Anderson', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix, whose scouting ship it is, are quite expert at taking over planets, and having determined from orbit that this one was suitable, they initiate standard world-conquering procedure. Ah, but this time it''s no mere primitives the Wersgorix seek to enslave-they''ve launched their invasion against Englishmen! In the end, only one alien is left alive-and Sir Roger''s grand vision is born. He intends for the creature to fly the ship first to France to aid his King, then on to the Holy Land to vanquish the infidel!\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21504'),
(20156, 'High Druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruus', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n More than a quarter of a century afterThe Sword of Shannaracarved out its place in the pantheon of great epic fantasy, the magic of Terry Brooksâ€™sNew York Timesbestselling saga burns as brightly as ever. Three complete series have chronicled the ever-unfolding history of Shannara. But more stories are still to be toldâ€”and new adventures have yet to be undertaken. Book One of High Druid of Shannara invites both the faithful longtime reader and the curious newcomer to take the first step on the next extraordinary quest. Twenty years have passed since Grianne Ohmsford denounced her former life as the dreaded Ilse Witchâ€”saved by the love of her brother, the magic of the Sword of Shannara, and the destruction of her evil mentor, the Morgawr. Now, fulfilling the destiny predicted for her, she has established the Third Druid Council, and dedicated herself to its goals of peace, harmony among the races, and defense of the Four Lands. But the political intrigue, secret treachery, and sinister deeds that have haunted Druid history for generations continue to thrive. And despite her devotion to the greater good as Ard Rhysâ€”the High Druid of Paranor, Grianne still has bitter enemies. Among the highest ranks of the Council she leads lurk those who cannot forget her reign of terror as the Ilse Witch, who covet her seat of power, and who will stop at nothing to see her deposed . . . or destroyed. Even Grianneâ€™s few alliesâ€”chief among them her trusted servant Tagwenâ€”know of the plots against her. But they could never anticipate the sudden, ominous disappearance of the Ard Rhys, in the dead of night and without a trace. Now, barely a step ahead of the dark forces bent on stopping him, Tagwen joins Grianneâ€™s brave young nephew, Pen Ohmsford, and the wise, powerful elf Ahren Elessedil on a desperate and dangerous mission of search and rescueâ€”to deliver the High Druid of Shannara from an unspeakable fate. Expect no end of wonders, no shortage of adventure, exhilaration, suspense, and enchantment, as Terry Brooks demonstrates, once again, that there is no end to his magic of invention and mastery of storytelling. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/748'),
(20157, 'High druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruus', 'Terry Brooks', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: More than a quarter of a century afterThe Sword of Shannaracarved out its place in the pantheon of great epic fantasy, the magic of Terry Brooksâ€™sNew York Timesbestselling saga burns as brightly as ever. Three complete series have chronicled the ever-unfolding history of Shannara. But more stories are still to be toldâ€”and new adventures have yet to be undertaken. Book One of High Druid of Shannara invites both the faithful longtime reader and the curious newcomer to take the first step on the next extraordinary quest. Twenty years have passed since Grianne Ohmsford denounced her former life as the dreaded Ilse Witchâ€”saved by the love of her brother, the magic of the Sword of Shannara, and the destruction of her evil mentor, the Morgawr. Now, fulfilling the destiny predicted for her, she has established the Third Druid Council, and dedicated herself to its goals of peace, harmony among the races, and defense of the Four Lands. But the political intrigue, secret treachery, and sinister deeds that have haunted Druid history for generations continue to thrive. And despite her devotion to the greater good as Ard Rhysâ€”the High Druid of Paranor, Grianne still has bitter enemies. Among the highest ranks of the Council she leads lurk those who cannot forget her reign of terror as the Ilse Witch, who covet her seat of power, and who will stop at nothing to see her deposed . . . or destroyed. Even Grianneâ€™s few alliesâ€”chief among them her trusted servant Tagwenâ€”know of the plots against her. But they could never anticipate the sudden, ominous disappearance of the Ard Rhys, in the dead of night and without a trace. Now, barely a step ahead of the dark forces bent on stopping him, Tagwen joins Grianneâ€™s brave young nephew, Pen Ohmsford, and the wise, powerful elf Ahren Elessedil on a desperate and dangerous mission of search and rescueâ€”to deliver the High Druid of Shannara from an unspeakable fate. Expect no end of wonders, no shortage of adventure, exhilaration, suspense, and enchantment, as Terry Brooks demonstrates, once again, that there is no end to his magic of invention and mastery of storytelling. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24139'),
(20158, 'High Fidelity', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Follows the life, love affairs, and belated growth to maturity   of Rob, a "Generation X" pop music fanatic and record store owner.   Reprint. *NYT. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14753'),
(20159, 'High Fidelity', 'Nick Hornby', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Follows the life, love affairs, and belated growth to maturity   of Rob, a "Generation X" pop music fanatic and record store owner.   Reprint. *NYT. *\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22299'),
(20160, 'High Five', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In her fifth high-octane thriller, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum sets out to find her missing uncle-- and along the way smacks slam-bang into: a dead body, a nasty bookie, her stun-gun-toting grandmother, two very sexy men, an angry little man who won''t leave her apartment, and a Mafia wedding...Jersey''s favorite bounty hunter has never been better! With high hair, street smarts and plenty of attitude, Steph''s sure to nail this case-- or risk life and spandex-clad limb trying...A *Publishers Weekly* Best Book of the Year.A *People* Magazine Beach Book of the Week.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4629'),
(20161, 'High Five', 'Janet Evanovich', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: In her fifth high-octane thriller, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum sets out to find her missing uncle-- and along the way smacks slam-bang into: a dead body, a nasty bookie, her stun-gun-toting grandmother, two very sexy men, an angry little man who won''t leave her apartment, and a Mafia wedding...Jersey''s favorite bounty hunter has never been better! With high hair, street smarts and plenty of attitude, Steph''s sure to nail this case-- or risk life and spandex-clad limb trying...A *Publishers Weekly* Best Book of the Year.A *People* Magazine Beach Book of the Week.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15232'),
(20162, 'The High King of Montival: A Novel of the Change', 'S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The *New York Times* bestselling author continues his post- apocalyptic series chronicling a modern world without technology. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With *The Sword of the Lady*, Rudi Mackenzie''s destiny was determined. Now he returns to Montival in the Pacific Northwest, where he will face the legions of the Prophet. To achieve victory, Rudi must assemble a coalition of those who had been his enemies a few months before and forge them into an army that will rescue his homeland.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only then will Rudi be able to come to terms with how the Sword has changed him, as well as the world, and assume his place as Artos, High King of Montival...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1437'),
(20163, 'The High King of Montival: A Novel of the Change', 'S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The *New York Times* bestselling author continues his post- apocalyptic series chronicling a modern world without technology. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n With *The Sword of the Lady*, Rudi Mackenzie''s destiny was determined. Now he returns to Montival in the Pacific Northwest, where he will face the legions of the Prophet. To achieve victory, Rudi must assemble a coalition of those who had been his enemies a few months before and forge them into an army that will rescue his homeland.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Only then will Rudi be able to come to terms with how the Sword has changed him, as well as the world, and assume his place as Artos, High King of Montival...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12888'),
(20164, 'The High King of Montival: A Novel of the Change', 'S. M. Stirling', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The *New York Times* bestselling author continues his post- apocalyptic series chronicling a modern world without technology. ** With *The Sword of the Lady*, Rudi Mackenzie''s destiny was determined. Now he returns to Montival in the Pacific Northwest, where he will face the legions of the Prophet. To achieve victory, Rudi must assemble a coalition of those who had been his enemies a few months before and forge them into an army that will rescue his homeland. Only then will Rudi be able to come to terms with how the Sword has changed him, as well as the world, and assume his place as Artos, High King of Montival...\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23457'),
(20165, 'The High King', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly DoliÂ—all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for Â“the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3350'),
(20166, 'The High King', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!**\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly DoliÂ—all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for Â“the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9352'),
(20167, 'The High King', 'Lloyd Alexander', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!** Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly DoliÂ—all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexanderâ€™s beautifully written tales not only captured childrenâ€™s imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise. *The Black Cauldron* was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, *The High King*, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for Â“the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.â€ Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for todayâ€™s generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, *The Foundling* is also available in paperback at this time. In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21254'),
(20168, 'High on Arrival', 'Mackenzie Phillips &amp; Hilary Liftin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Not long before her fiftieth birthday, Mackenzie Phillips walked into Los Angeles International Airport. She was on her way to a reunion for *One Day at a Time*, the hugely popular 70s sitcom on which she once starred as the lovable rebel Julie Cooper. Within minutes of entering the security checkpoint, Mackenzie was in handcuffs, arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies with her father''s friends at eleven, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippie freedom and heroin cool. It was a kingdom over which her father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas &amp; the Papas, presided, often in absentia, as a spellbinding, visionary phantom.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Mackenzie was a teenager, Hollywood and the world took notice of the charming, talented, precocious child actor after her star-making turn in *American Graffiti*. As a young woman she joinedthe nonstop party in the hedonistic pleasure dome her father created for himself and his fellow revelers, and a rapt TV audience watched as Julie Cooper wasted away before their eyes. By the time Mackenzie discovered how deep and dark her father''s trip was going, it was too late. And as an adult, she has paid dearly for a lifetime of excess, working tirelessly to reconcile a wonderful, terrible past in which she succumbed to the power of addiction and the pull of her magnetic father.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As her astounding, outrageous, and often tender life story unfolds, the actor-musician-mother shares her lifelong battle with personal demons and near-fatal addictions. She overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles again and again and journeys toward redemption and peace. By exposing the shadows and secrets of the past to the light of day, the star who turned up *High on Arrival* has finally come back down to earth -- to stay.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3251'),
(20169, 'High on Arrival', 'Mackenzie Phillips &amp; Hilary Liftin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Not long before her fiftieth birthday, Mackenzie Phillips walked into Los Angeles International Airport. She was on her way to a reunion for *One Day at a Time*, the hugely popular 70s sitcom on which she once starred as the lovable rebel Julie Cooper. Within minutes of entering the security checkpoint, Mackenzie was in handcuffs, arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies with her father''s friends at eleven, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippie freedom and heroin cool. It was a kingdom over which her father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas &amp; the Papas, presided, often in absentia, as a spellbinding, visionary phantom.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n When Mackenzie was a teenager, Hollywood and the world took notice of the charming, talented, precocious child actor after her star-making turn in *American Graffiti*. As a young woman she joinedthe nonstop party in the hedonistic pleasure dome her father created for himself and his fellow revelers, and a rapt TV audience watched as Julie Cooper wasted away before their eyes. By the time Mackenzie discovered how deep and dark her father''s trip was going, it was too late. And as an adult, she has paid dearly for a lifetime of excess, working tirelessly to reconcile a wonderful, terrible past in which she succumbed to the power of addiction and the pull of her magnetic father.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n As her astounding, outrageous, and often tender life story unfolds, the actor-musician-mother shares her lifelong battle with personal demons and near-fatal addictions. She overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles again and again and journeys toward redemption and peace. By exposing the shadows and secrets of the past to the light of day, the star who turned up *High on Arrival* has finally come back down to earth -- to stay.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11960'),
(20170, 'High on Arrival', 'Mackenzie Phillips; Hilary Liftin', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: Not long before her fiftieth birthday, Mackenzie Phillips walked into Los Angeles International Airport. She was on her way to a reunion for *One Day at a Time*, the hugely popular 70s sitcom on which she once starred as the lovable rebel Julie Cooper. Within minutes of entering the security checkpoint, Mackenzie was in handcuffs, arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin. Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies with her father''s friends at eleven, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippie freedom and heroin cool. It was a kingdom over which her father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas &amp; the Papas, presided, often in absentia, as a spellbinding, visionary phantom. When Mackenzie was a teenager, Hollywood and the world took notice of the charming, talented, precocious child actor after her star-making turn in *American Graffiti*. As a young woman she joinedthe nonstop party in the hedonistic pleasure dome her father created for himself and his fellow revelers, and a rapt TV audience watched as Julie Cooper wasted away before their eyes. By the time Mackenzie discovered how deep and dark her father''s trip was going, it was too late. And as an adult, she has paid dearly for a lifetime of excess, working tirelessly to reconcile a wonderful, terrible past in which she succumbed to the power of addiction and the pull of her magnetic father. As her astounding, outrageous, and often tender life story unfolds, the actor-musician-mother shares her lifelong battle with personal demons and near-fatal addictions. She overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles again and again and journeys toward redemption and peace. By exposing the shadows and secrets of the past to the light of day, the star who turned up *High on Arrival* has finally come back down to earth -- to stay.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21307');
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(20171, 'High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey From Africa to America', 'Jessica B. Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Acclaimed cookbook author Harris (The Africa Cookbook, 1998) tells the story of the African diaspora through food, from the foodstuff brought along with African slaves to barely maintain them on the Middle Passage to the undeniable imprint of African American cuisine on southern American and Caribbean food. She traces African foods (yams, okra, black-eyed peas, corn), flavoring, cooking methods, and food rituals from the abduction of Africans and enslavement in the Americas to travel throughout the American and European continents, recounting tribulations and joy. Along the way, she profiles famous and obscure but gifted cooks; cooks in the big houses of slave plantations; â€œPig Footâ€ Mary, who grew wealthy from sales of food she cooked on a stove mounted on a baby carriage; chefs who served meals to presidents; and members of a cooperative of black hoteliers in Philadelphia in the nineteenth century. Along with historical context, Harris offers recollections from her own travels and ends with selected recipes. Photographs enhance this passionate perspective on the culinary history of the African diaspora. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAbsorbingâ€¦Ms. Harris has an eye for detail and an inquisitive manner on the page, qualities that take any writer a long way.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Dwight Garner,\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n  _ Times_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHarris covers a lot of territory economically, offering a tremendous cast of characters whose names deserve wider renown.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”William Grimes,\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOur leading historian of African-American cooking continues her quest to trace the multiplicity of ways that American food has been enrichedâ€”and in many ways createdâ€”by the Africans who were forced to immigrate to North America and their descendents.â€ â€”\n <strong>\n  Vogue.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnyone interested in food history will find plenty to savor in Jessica B. Harrisâ€™s latest book.â€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Saveur Magazine\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA satisfying gumbo of info, insight and research.â€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A]â€¦passionate perspective on the culinary history of the African diasporaâ€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere is more than enough for every taste in [_High on the Hog_]â€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHarris''s flavorful writing moves with an effortless voice that you feel could recite most of these pages from loving memory. As much historical document as ethnography of a vital and rich gastronomy,\n <em>\n  High on the Hog\n </em>\n is a book to make your mouth water.â€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Paste\n  </em>\n  magazine\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRejoice, all you lovers of the personal and inimitable voice of Jessica B. Harris.Â In\n <em>\n  High on the Hog\n </em>\n , she has woven her own story into the epic of the African Diaspora, using food to illuminate the intertwined tapestries of Africa, Europe, and America. From General George Washingtonâ€™s black cook Hercules to New Orleansâ€™ famed Dooky Chase, she shows how important are the African underpinnings of the American table. Harrisâ€™s passionate devotion to languages and history, together with her own compassion and wit, resonate with the humanity she espouses in all her books, but especially this one.â€â€”\n <strong>\n  Betty Fussell, author of\n  <em>\n   Raising Steaks\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   My Kitchen Wars\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_High on the Hog_ is a sweeping yet intimate view of food in African American life and the profound influence of blacks on American food culture. It is unusually well crafted and written with style and grace. Harris is an engaging guide in this journey that begins in Africa and ends in the twenty-first century. Her personal vignettes provide vivid detail of her experiences at sites of historical importance to the subject. She has rescued from obscurity many historical figures who make for fascinating reading and demonstrate the great range and diversity of African American achievement in areas of food culture.â€â€”\n <em>\n </em>\n Charles Reagan Wilson, Kelly Gene Cook Sr. professor of history and southern studies, Center for the Study of Southern Culture\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œIn\n <em>\n  High on the Hog\n </em>\n , the inimitable Jessica B. Harris tells the story of the African American diaspora from the perspective of an accomplished food historian. Food, she tells us, is a metaphor for society. If so, I canâ€™t think of a better one. From slave food to Taste of Ebony, this is a gripping saga laced with descriptions of food that will make your mouth water.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Marion Nestle, NYU professor and author of\n  <em>\n   Food Politics\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   What to Eat\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  __\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4464'),
(20172, 'High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey From Africa to America', 'Jessica B. Harris', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Acclaimed cookbook author Harris (The Africa Cookbook, 1998) tells the story of the African diaspora through food, from the foodstuff brought along with African slaves to barely maintain them on the Middle Passage to the undeniable imprint of African American cuisine on southern American and Caribbean food. She traces African foods (yams, okra, black-eyed peas, corn), flavoring, cooking methods, and food rituals from the abduction of Africans and enslavement in the Americas to travel throughout the American and European continents, recounting tribulations and joy. Along the way, she profiles famous and obscure but gifted cooks; cooks in the big houses of slave plantations; â€œPig Footâ€ Mary, who grew wealthy from sales of food she cooked on a stove mounted on a baby carriage; chefs who served meals to presidents; and members of a cooperative of black hoteliers in Philadelphia in the nineteenth century. Along with historical context, Harris offers recollections from her own travels and ends with selected recipes. Photographs enhance this passionate perspective on the culinary history of the African diaspora. --Vanessa Bush\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n â€œAbsorbingâ€¦Ms. Harris has an eye for detail and an inquisitive manner on the page, qualities that take any writer a long way.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Dwight Garner,\n  <em>\n   New York\n  </em>\n  _ Times_\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHarris covers a lot of territory economically, offering a tremendous cast of characters whose names deserve wider renown.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”William Grimes,\n  <em>\n   New York Times Book Review\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œOur leading historian of African-American cooking continues her quest to trace the multiplicity of ways that American food has been enrichedâ€”and in many ways createdâ€”by the Africans who were forced to immigrate to North America and their descendents.â€ â€”\n <strong>\n  Vogue.com\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œAnyone interested in food history will find plenty to savor in Jessica B. Harrisâ€™s latest book.â€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Saveur Magazine\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œA satisfying gumbo of info, insight and research.â€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   USA Today\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ[A]â€¦passionate perspective on the culinary history of the African diasporaâ€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Booklist\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œThere is more than enough for every taste in [_High on the Hog_]â€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Chicago Tribune\n  </em>\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œHarris''s flavorful writing moves with an effortless voice that you feel could recite most of these pages from loving memory. As much historical document as ethnography of a vital and rich gastronomy,\n <em>\n  High on the Hog\n </em>\n is a book to make your mouth water.â€â€”\n <strong>\n  <em>\n   Paste\n  </em>\n  magazine\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n â€œRejoice, all you lovers of the personal and inimitable voice of Jessica B. Harris.Â In\n <em>\n  High on the Hog\n </em>\n , she has woven her own story into the epic of the African Diaspora, using food to illuminate the intertwined tapestries of Africa, Europe, and America. From General George Washingtonâ€™s black cook Hercules to New Orleansâ€™ famed Dooky Chase, she shows how important are the African underpinnings of the American table. Harrisâ€™s passionate devotion to languages and history, together with her own compassion and wit, resonate with the humanity she espouses in all her books, but especially this one.â€â€”\n <strong>\n  Betty Fussell, author of\n  <em>\n   Raising Steaks\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   My Kitchen Wars\n  </em>\n </strong>\n Â \n</p>\n<p>\n â€œ_High on the Hog_ is a sweeping yet intimate view of food in African American life and the profound influence of blacks on American food culture. It is unusually well crafted and written with style and grace. Harris is an engaging guide in this journey that begins in Africa and ends in the twenty-first century. Her personal vignettes provide vivid detail of her experiences at sites of historical importance to the subject. She has rescued from obscurity many historical figures who make for fascinating reading and demonstrate the great range and diversity of African American achievement in areas of food culture.â€â€”\n <em>\n </em>\n Charles Reagan Wilson, Kelly Gene Cook Sr. professor of history and southern studies, Center for the Study of Southern Culture\n</p>\n<p>\n <em>\n </em>\n â€œIn\n <em>\n  High on the Hog\n </em>\n , the inimitable Jessica B. Harris tells the story of the African American diaspora from the perspective of an accomplished food historian. Food, she tells us, is a metaphor for society. If so, I canâ€™t think of a better one. From slave food to Taste of Ebony, this is a gripping saga laced with descriptions of food that will make your mouth water.â€\n <strong>\n  â€”Marion Nestle, NYU professor and author of\n  <em>\n   Food Politics\n  </em>\n  and\n  <em>\n   What to Eat\n  </em>\n </strong>\n <strong>\n  __\n </strong>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10177'),
(20173, 'High Performance MySQL, 2nd Edition', 'Baron Schwartz &amp; Peter Zaitsev &amp; Vadim Tkachenko &amp; Jeremy D. Zawodny &amp; Arjen Lentz &amp; Derek J. Balling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  High Performance MySQL\n </em>\n is the definitive guide to building fast, reliable systems with MySQL. Written by noted experts with years of real-world experience building very large systems, this book covers every aspect of MySQL performance in detail, and focuses on robustness, security, and data integrity. Learn advanced techniques in depth so you can bring out MySQL''s full power. The second edition is completely revised and greatly expanded, with deeper coverage in all areas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7272'),
(20174, 'High Performance MySQL, 2nd Edition', 'Baron Schwartz &amp; Peter Zaitsev &amp; Vadim Tkachenko &amp; Jeremy D. Zawodny &amp; Arjen Lentz &amp; Derek J. Balling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  High Performance MySQL\n </em>\n is the definitive guide to building fast, reliable systems with MySQL. Written by noted experts with years of real-world experience building very large systems, this book covers every aspect of MySQL performance in detail, and focuses on robustness, security, and data integrity. Learn advanced techniques in depth so you can bring out MySQL''s full power. The second edition is completely revised and greatly expanded, with deeper coverage in all areas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12607'),
(20175, 'High Performance MySQL, 2nd Edition', 'Baron Schwartz;Peter Zaitsev;Vadim Tkachenko;Jeremy D. Zawodny;Arjen Lentz;Derek J. Balling', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n <em>\n  High Performance MySQL\n </em>\n is the definitive guide to building fast, reliable systems with MySQL. Written by noted experts with years of real-world experience building very large systems, this book covers every aspect of MySQL performance in detail, and focuses on robustness, security, and data integrity. Learn advanced techniques in depth so you can bring out MySQL''s full power. The second edition is completely revised and greatly expanded, with deeper coverage in all areas.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16594'),
(20176, 'High Performance Web Sites', 'Steve Souders', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Want to speed up your web site? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 20% to 25% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized were able to benefit from these surprisingly simple performance guidelines.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1003'),
(20177, 'High Performance Web Sites', 'Steve Souders', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Want to speed up your web site? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 20% to 25% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized were able to benefit from these surprisingly simple performance guidelines.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12757'),
(20178, 'High Performance Web Sites', 'Steve Souders', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Want to speed up your web site? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 20% to 25% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized were able to benefit from these surprisingly simple performance guidelines.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23976'),
(20179, 'High Profile (2007)', 'Parker, Robert B - Stone 06', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13683'),
(20180, 'High Profile (2007)', 'Parker, Robert B - Stone 06', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23176'),
(20181, 'The High Road', 'Terry Fallis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A brilliant follow-up to the Stephen Leacock Award-winner\n  <strong>\n   The Best Laid Plans\n  </strong>\n  , this deeply funny satire continues the story of Honest Angus McLintock, an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Just when Daniel Addison thinks he can escape his job as a political aide, Angus McLintock, the no-hope candidate he helped into Parliament, throws icy cold water over his plans. Angus has just brought down the government with a deciding vote. Now the crusty Scot wants Daniel to manage his next campaign.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soon Daniel is helping Angus fight an uphill battle against "Flamethrower" Fox, a Conservative notorious for his dirty tactics. Together they decide to take "The High Road" and -- against all odds -- turn the race into a nail-biter with hilarious ups and downs, cookie-throwing seniors, and even a Watergate-style break-in. But that''s only the beginning. Add a political storm in the capital and a side-splitting visit from the U.S. President and his alcoholic wife, and Terry Fallis''s second novel is a wildly entertaining read full of deft political satire and laugh-out-loud comedy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/757'),
(20182, 'The High Road', 'Terry Fallis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A brilliant follow-up to the Stephen Leacock Award-winner\n  <strong>\n   The Best Laid Plans\n  </strong>\n  , this deeply funny satire continues the story of Honest Angus McLintock, an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Just when Daniel Addison thinks he can escape his job as a political aide, Angus McLintock, the no-hope candidate he helped into Parliament, throws icy cold water over his plans. Angus has just brought down the government with a deciding vote. Now the crusty Scot wants Daniel to manage his next campaign.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soon Daniel is helping Angus fight an uphill battle against "Flamethrower" Fox, a Conservative notorious for his dirty tactics. Together they decide to take "The High Road" and -- against all odds -- turn the race into a nail-biter with hilarious ups and downs, cookie-throwing seniors, and even a Watergate-style break-in. But that''s only the beginning. Add a political storm in the capital and a side-splitting visit from the U.S. President and his alcoholic wife, and Terry Fallis''s second novel is a wildly entertaining read full of deft political satire and laugh-out-loud comedy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9658'),
(20183, 'The High Road', 'Terry Fallis', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <p>\n  A brilliant follow-up to the Stephen Leacock Award-winner\n  <strong>\n   The Best Laid Plans\n  </strong>\n  , this deeply funny satire continues the story of Honest Angus McLintock, an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Just when Daniel Addison thinks he can escape his job as a political aide, Angus McLintock, the no-hope candidate he helped into Parliament, throws icy cold water over his plans. Angus has just brought down the government with a deciding vote. Now the crusty Scot wants Daniel to manage his next campaign.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Soon Daniel is helping Angus fight an uphill battle against "Flamethrower" Fox, a Conservative notorious for his dirty tactics. Together they decide to take "The High Road" and -- against all odds -- turn the race into a nail-biter with hilarious ups and downs, cookie-throwing seniors, and even a Watergate-style break-in. But that''s only the beginning. Add a political storm in the capital and a side-splitting visit from the U.S. President and his alcoholic wife, and Terry Fallis''s second novel is a wildly entertaining read full of deft political satire and laugh-out-loud comedy.\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   From the Trade Paperback edition.\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24231'),
(20184, 'High Stakes', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Few match Francis for dangerous flights of fancy and pure, inventive menace. --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Boston Herald_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a glass of champagne in one hand and binoculars in the other, the world of racing could seem a very cosy and civilized hobby. Especially when your horse has just sprinted past the winning post. But the pleasure of a day at Sandown is spoiled for Steven Scott when he sacks the trainer of his horses, a man he once thought of as a friend. For although on the surface Jody Leeds is a bright young workaholic, Scott suspects he''s a crook. Racing may have its rewards but, as Scott finds out to his own cost, not all of them are innocent...or legal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6027'),
(20185, 'High Stakes', 'Dick Francis', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Few match Francis for dangerous flights of fancy and pure, inventive menace. --\n <em>\n  _\n </em>\n Boston Herald_\n</p>\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n With a glass of champagne in one hand and binoculars in the other, the world of racing could seem a very cosy and civilized hobby. Especially when your horse has just sprinted past the winning post. But the pleasure of a day at Sandown is spoiled for Steven Scott when he sacks the trainer of his horses, a man he once thought of as a friend. For although on the surface Jody Leeds is a bright young workaholic, Scott suspects he''s a crook. Racing may have its rewards but, as Scott finds out to his own cost, not all of them are innocent...or legal.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9844'),
(20186, 'High Stand', 'Hammond Innes', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18333'),
(20187, 'High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World&#39;s Greatest Skyline', 'Jim Rasenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inspired by a New York Times article Rasenberger wrote on ironworkers in early 2001, this historical overview of skyscraper construction in New York City and elsewhere traces the erection of such structures as the Flatiron and Chrysler buildings, the Empire State Building, the George Washington Bridge, the World Trade Center and the lavish new Time Warner Center. This last building is the narrative column around which Rasenberger builds his book, which is largely devoted to "the men who risked the most and labored the hardest"â€”the ironworkers who put the high-rise steel columns in place. Though his admiration at times seems compulsory rather than genuine, Rasenberger emphasizes the often heroic, death-defying feats ironworkers perform. He also takes account of far-flung communities that breed ironworkers, such as the Mohawk Indians of upstate New York. The chronological history is broken up by alternating sections on the Time Warner Center and often feels less like a single narrative than a collection of vignettes. Rasenberger''s principal claim, that ironwork''s days are numbered because of the growing reliance on concrete, is often lost in the telling. Even the Time Warner Center was built more with concrete than iron, which is costlier and more vulnerable to heat in events such as the World Trade Center attacks. This recounting, while less than fully absorbing, serves as a valuable history for building enthusiasts and a thoughtful testament to a dying craft that has helped fuel the American economy for more than a century. 21 b&amp;w photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Journeying through the past century of New York City''s ironworking trade, Rasenberger recounts signal events in its labor history while developing a powerful impression of its unique occupational culture. The latter he absorbed from close ground- and sky-level observation of ironworkers at two mid-Manhattan construction sites, and at the World Trade Center site. Raising steel for bridges and skyscrapers is extraordinarily hazardous. Several of the workers profiled sustained severe and, in one instance, permanently disabling injuries--painfully proving ironwork''s annual 5 percent death-and-injury rate. Why any man would court its dangers is a tantalizing question to which Rasenberger advances a multitude of answers. One is generational continuity, which Rasenberger discerned from his trips to the homes of Mohawk Indians and Newfoundlanders who''ve worked in the trade for decades. Another is the autonomy on the job that ironworkers enjoy, and the pride they derive from being the first colonists of a square of air. With ironworkers'' social prestige elevated in the aftermath of the WTC calamity, Rasenberger''s muscular portrait deserves an outsize audience as well.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4385'),
(20188, 'High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World&#39;s Greatest Skyline', 'Jim Rasenberger', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Inspired by a New York Times article Rasenberger wrote on ironworkers in early 2001, this historical overview of skyscraper construction in New York City and elsewhere traces the erection of such structures as the Flatiron and Chrysler buildings, the Empire State Building, the George Washington Bridge, the World Trade Center and the lavish new Time Warner Center. This last building is the narrative column around which Rasenberger builds his book, which is largely devoted to "the men who risked the most and labored the hardest"â€”the ironworkers who put the high-rise steel columns in place. Though his admiration at times seems compulsory rather than genuine, Rasenberger emphasizes the often heroic, death-defying feats ironworkers perform. He also takes account of far-flung communities that breed ironworkers, such as the Mohawk Indians of upstate New York. The chronological history is broken up by alternating sections on the Time Warner Center and often feels less like a single narrative than a collection of vignettes. Rasenberger''s principal claim, that ironwork''s days are numbered because of the growing reliance on concrete, is often lost in the telling. Even the Time Warner Center was built more with concrete than iron, which is costlier and more vulnerable to heat in events such as the World Trade Center attacks. This recounting, while less than fully absorbing, serves as a valuable history for building enthusiasts and a thoughtful testament to a dying craft that has helped fuel the American economy for more than a century. 21 b&amp;w photos.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Journeying through the past century of New York City''s ironworking trade, Rasenberger recounts signal events in its labor history while developing a powerful impression of its unique occupational culture. The latter he absorbed from close ground- and sky-level observation of ironworkers at two mid-Manhattan construction sites, and at the World Trade Center site. Raising steel for bridges and skyscrapers is extraordinarily hazardous. Several of the workers profiled sustained severe and, in one instance, permanently disabling injuries--painfully proving ironwork''s annual 5 percent death-and-injury rate. Why any man would court its dangers is a tantalizing question to which Rasenberger advances a multitude of answers. One is generational continuity, which Rasenberger discerned from his trips to the homes of Mohawk Indians and Newfoundlanders who''ve worked in the trade for decades. Another is the autonomy on the job that ironworkers enjoy, and the pride they derive from being the first colonists of a square of air. With ironworkers'' social prestige elevated in the aftermath of the WTC calamity, Rasenberger''s muscular portrait deserves an outsize audience as well.\n <em>\n  Gilbert Taylor\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12171'),
(20189, 'The High Window', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he''s one of the 20th century''s top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard''s signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Raymond Chandler is a master." --_The New York Times_\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   ?[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.? --\n  </em>\n  The New Yorker\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ?Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.? --Robert B. Parker,\n  </em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ?Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.? --\n  </em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  ?Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.? ?_The Boston Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  ?Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler?s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.? --_Literary Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  ?[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.? --Joyce Carol Oates, _The New York Review of Books\n </p>\n <p>\n  _?Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.? ?Ross Macdonald\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _?Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.? --Erle Stanley Gardner\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _?Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.? --Paul Auster\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?[Chandler]?s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that?s like ours, but isn?t. ? --Carolyn See\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _ --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/1955'),
(20190, 'The High Window', 'Raymond Chandler', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Library Journal\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he''s one of the 20th century''s top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard''s signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price.\n  <br />\n  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  "Raymond Chandler is a master." --_The New York Times_\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  <em>\n   ?[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.? --\n  </em>\n  The New Yorker\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ?Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.? --Robert B. Parker,\n  </em>\n  The New York Times Book Review\n </p>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   ?Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.? --\n  </em>\n  Los Angeles Times\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  ?Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.? ?_The Boston Book Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  ?Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler?s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.? --_Literary Review\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  ?[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.? --Joyce Carol Oates, _The New York Review of Books\n </p>\n <p>\n  _?Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.? ?Ross Macdonald\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _?Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.? --Erle Stanley Gardner\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _?Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.? --Paul Auster\n </p>\n <p>\n  ?[Chandler]?s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that?s like ours, but isn?t. ? --Carolyn See\n  <br />\n  _\n  <br />\n  _ --\n  <em>\n   Review\n  </em>\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8900'),
(20191, 'The High-Protein Cookbook: More Than 150 Healthy and Irresistibly Good Low-Carb Dishes That Can Be on the Table in Thirty Minutes or Less.', 'Linda West Eckhardt &amp; Katherine West Defoyd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  End food boredom and diet burnout with more than 400 sophisticated, low-carbohydrate dinners that are bursting with flavor--and on the table in under 30 minutes!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hundreds of thousands have embraced the low-carbohydrate lifestyle finding that a diet based on lean protein, fruits, and vegetables and less dependent on simple carbohydrates has helped them look and feel better. But a monotonous menu of steak and salad or expensive, additive-laden prepared foods has been the undoing of many a successful diet regimen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The solution? Linda West Eckhardt and Katherine West DeFoyd have devised more than 100 protein-rich, low-carbohydrate dinners that will satisfy even the most demanding diners. Drawing on their experiences as award-winning cookbook authors, Eckhardt and DeFoyd have developed a tempting range of high-protein meals that are quick enough to make on a weeknight but elegant enough to share with guests -- and so delicious they''ll never know they''ve been shortchanged on carbohyd rates, fat, and calories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each entree in\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  * Provides at least 30 grams of protein, yet is light on fat and calories.\n  <br />\n  * Is styled for two people but can easily be doubled or tripled\n  <br />\n  * Uses short lists of fresh, healthful ingredients\n  <br />\n  * Is based on simple cooking techniques requiring no special equipment\n  <br />\n  * Avoids "artificial" products and flavorings\n  <br />\n  * Contains reasonable amounts of high-quality protein balanced by ample servings of vegetables and fruits\n </p>\n <p>\n  With chapters devoted to side dishes and salads, sauces and condiments, and even sinfully satisfying desserts that won''t break the carbohydrate bank,\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  is the perfect companion to many of today''s most popular dietary regimens and an enticing argument for cutting back on excess carbohydrates.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  End food boredom and diet burnout with more than 400 sophisticated, low-carbohydrate dinners that are bursting with flavor--and on the table in under 30 minutes!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hundreds of thousands have embraced the low-carbohydrate lifestyle finding that a diet based on lean protein, fruits, and vegetables and less dependent on simple carbohydrates has helped them look and feel better. But a monotonous menu of steak and salad or expensive, additive-laden prepared foods has been the undoing of many a successful diet regimen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The solution? Linda West Eckhardt and Katherine West DeFoyd have devised more than 100 protein-rich, low-carbohydrate dinners that will satisfy even the most demanding diners. Drawing on their experiences as award-winning cookbook authors, Eckhardt and DeFoyd have developed a tempting range of high-protein meals that are quick enough to make on a weeknight but elegant enough to share with guests -- and so delicious they''ll never know they''ve been shortchanged on carbohyd rates, fat, and calories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each entree in\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  * Provides at least 30 grams of protein, yet is light on fat and calories.\n  <br />\n  * Is styled for two people but can easily be doubled or tripled\n  <br />\n  * Uses short lists of fresh, healthful ingredients\n  <br />\n  * Is based on simple cooking techniques requiring no special equipment\n  <br />\n  * Avoids "artificial" products and flavorings\n  <br />\n  * Contains reasonable amounts of high-quality protein balanced by ample servings of vegetables and fruits\n </p>\n <p>\n  With chapters devoted to side dishes and salads, sauces and condiments, and even sinfully satisfying desserts that won''t break the carbohydrate bank,\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  is the perfect companion to many of today''s most popular dietary regimens and an enticing argument for cutting back on excess carbohydrates.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3386'),
(20192, 'The High-Protein Cookbook: More Than 150 Healthy and Irresistibly Good Low-Carb Dishes That Can Be on the Table in Thirty Minutes or Less.', 'Linda West Eckhardt &amp; Katherine West Defoyd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  End food boredom and diet burnout with more than 400 sophisticated, low-carbohydrate dinners that are bursting with flavor--and on the table in under 30 minutes!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hundreds of thousands have embraced the low-carbohydrate lifestyle finding that a diet based on lean protein, fruits, and vegetables and less dependent on simple carbohydrates has helped them look and feel better. But a monotonous menu of steak and salad or expensive, additive-laden prepared foods has been the undoing of many a successful diet regimen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The solution? Linda West Eckhardt and Katherine West DeFoyd have devised more than 100 protein-rich, low-carbohydrate dinners that will satisfy even the most demanding diners. Drawing on their experiences as award-winning cookbook authors, Eckhardt and DeFoyd have developed a tempting range of high-protein meals that are quick enough to make on a weeknight but elegant enough to share with guests -- and so delicious they''ll never know they''ve been shortchanged on carbohyd rates, fat, and calories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each entree in\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  * Provides at least 30 grams of protein, yet is light on fat and calories.\n  <br />\n  * Is styled for two people but can easily be doubled or tripled\n  <br />\n  * Uses short lists of fresh, healthful ingredients\n  <br />\n  * Is based on simple cooking techniques requiring no special equipment\n  <br />\n  * Avoids "artificial" products and flavorings\n  <br />\n  * Contains reasonable amounts of high-quality protein balanced by ample servings of vegetables and fruits\n </p>\n <p>\n  With chapters devoted to side dishes and salads, sauces and condiments, and even sinfully satisfying desserts that won''t break the carbohydrate bank,\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  is the perfect companion to many of today''s most popular dietary regimens and an enticing argument for cutting back on excess carbohydrates.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  End food boredom and diet burnout with more than 400 sophisticated, low-carbohydrate dinners that are bursting with flavor--and on the table in under 30 minutes!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hundreds of thousands have embraced the low-carbohydrate lifestyle finding that a diet based on lean protein, fruits, and vegetables and less dependent on simple carbohydrates has helped them look and feel better. But a monotonous menu of steak and salad or expensive, additive-laden prepared foods has been the undoing of many a successful diet regimen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The solution? Linda West Eckhardt and Katherine West DeFoyd have devised more than 100 protein-rich, low-carbohydrate dinners that will satisfy even the most demanding diners. Drawing on their experiences as award-winning cookbook authors, Eckhardt and DeFoyd have developed a tempting range of high-protein meals that are quick enough to make on a weeknight but elegant enough to share with guests -- and so delicious they''ll never know they''ve been shortchanged on carbohyd rates, fat, and calories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each entree in\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  * Provides at least 30 grams of protein, yet is light on fat and calories.\n  <br />\n  * Is styled for two people but can easily be doubled or tripled\n  <br />\n  * Uses short lists of fresh, healthful ingredients\n  <br />\n  * Is based on simple cooking techniques requiring no special equipment\n  <br />\n  * Avoids "artificial" products and flavorings\n  <br />\n  * Contains reasonable amounts of high-quality protein balanced by ample servings of vegetables and fruits\n </p>\n <p>\n  With chapters devoted to side dishes and salads, sauces and condiments, and even sinfully satisfying desserts that won''t break the carbohydrate bank,\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  is the perfect companion to many of today''s most popular dietary regimens and an enticing argument for cutting back on excess carbohydrates.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10858'),
(20193, 'The High-Protein Cookbook: More Than 150 Healthy and Irresistibly Good Low-Carb Dishes That Can Be on the Table in Thirty Minutes or Less.', 'Linda West Eckhardt; Katherine West Defoyd', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  End food boredom and diet burnout with more than 400 sophisticated, low-carbohydrate dinners that are bursting with flavor--and on the table in under 30 minutes!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hundreds of thousands have embraced the low-carbohydrate lifestyle finding that a diet based on lean protein, fruits, and vegetables and less dependent on simple carbohydrates has helped them look and feel better. But a monotonous menu of steak and salad or expensive, additive-laden prepared foods has been the undoing of many a successful diet regimen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The solution? Linda West Eckhardt and Katherine West DeFoyd have devised more than 100 protein-rich, low-carbohydrate dinners that will satisfy even the most demanding diners. Drawing on their experiences as award-winning cookbook authors, Eckhardt and DeFoyd have developed a tempting range of high-protein meals that are quick enough to make on a weeknight but elegant enough to share with guests -- and so delicious they''ll never know they''ve been shortchanged on carbohyd rates, fat, and calories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each entree in\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  * Provides at least 30 grams of protein, yet is light on fat and calories.\n  <br />\n  * Is styled for two people but can easily be doubled or tripled\n  <br />\n  * Uses short lists of fresh, healthful ingredients\n  <br />\n  * Is based on simple cooking techniques requiring no special equipment\n  <br />\n  * Avoids "artificial" products and flavorings\n  <br />\n  * Contains reasonable amounts of high-quality protein balanced by ample servings of vegetables and fruits\n </p>\n <p>\n  With chapters devoted to side dishes and salads, sauces and condiments, and even sinfully satisfying desserts that won''t break the carbohydrate bank,\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  is the perfect companion to many of today''s most popular dietary regimens and an enticing argument for cutting back on excess carbohydrates.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  End food boredom and diet burnout with more than 400 sophisticated, low-carbohydrate dinners that are bursting with flavor--and on the table in under 30 minutes!\n </p>\n <p>\n  Hundreds of thousands have embraced the low-carbohydrate lifestyle finding that a diet based on lean protein, fruits, and vegetables and less dependent on simple carbohydrates has helped them look and feel better. But a monotonous menu of steak and salad or expensive, additive-laden prepared foods has been the undoing of many a successful diet regimen.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The solution? Linda West Eckhardt and Katherine West DeFoyd have devised more than 100 protein-rich, low-carbohydrate dinners that will satisfy even the most demanding diners. Drawing on their experiences as award-winning cookbook authors, Eckhardt and DeFoyd have developed a tempting range of high-protein meals that are quick enough to make on a weeknight but elegant enough to share with guests -- and so delicious they''ll never know they''ve been shortchanged on carbohyd rates, fat, and calories.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each entree in\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  <br />\n  * Provides at least 30 grams of protein, yet is light on fat and calories.\n  <br />\n  * Is styled for two people but can easily be doubled or tripled\n  <br />\n  * Uses short lists of fresh, healthful ingredients\n  <br />\n  * Is based on simple cooking techniques requiring no special equipment\n  <br />\n  * Avoids "artificial" products and flavorings\n  <br />\n  * Contains reasonable amounts of high-quality protein balanced by ample servings of vegetables and fruits\n </p>\n <p>\n  With chapters devoted to side dishes and salads, sauces and condiments, and even sinfully satisfying desserts that won''t break the carbohydrate bank,\n  <em>\n   The High-Protein Cookbook\n  </em>\n  is the perfect companion to many of today''s most popular dietary regimens and an enticing argument for cutting back on excess carbohydrates.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/21131'),
(20194, 'High-rise', 'J. G. Ballard', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title the unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control now reissued in new cover style. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on ''enemy'' floors and the once-luxurious amenities become an arena for technological mayhem... In this classic visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as the inhabitants of the high-rise, driven by primal urges, recreate a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25602'),
(20195, 'Highborn', 'Yvonne Navarro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n EVERYONE DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE. BRYNNA MALAK MIGHT BE THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brynna is a fallen angel trying to earn redemption. Sheâ€™s escaped from Hell in search of a new life on Earth, but Luciferâ€™s deadliest hunters are hot on her trail. Police Detective Eran Redmond is after her for a different reason: he needs Brynna to help him find a serial killer who is terrifying Chicago . . . and the trail leads them right to Hellspawned demons of the most dangerous kind. Sheâ€™s also got a very\n <em>\n  human\n </em>\n problem: dealing with a stubborn, attractive cop who makes her long for everything she knows she canâ€™t have.\n</p>\n<p>\n Staying alive long enough to earn a shot at Heaven will mean breaking some major rules in the mortal world, as she learns just how complicated and wonderful being human can be. With so much stacked against her, even Brynna has to wonder if sheâ€™s crazy. But sheâ€™s not giving in without a fight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Not a chance in Hell. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/127'),
(20196, 'Highborn', 'Yvonne Navarro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n EVERYONE DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE. BRYNNA MALAK MIGHT BE THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brynna is a fallen angel trying to earn redemption. Sheâ€™s escaped from Hell in search of a new life on Earth, but Luciferâ€™s deadliest hunters are hot on her trail. Police Detective Eran Redmond is after her for a different reason: he needs Brynna to help him find a serial killer who is terrifying Chicago . . . and the trail leads them right to Hellspawned demons of the most dangerous kind. Sheâ€™s also got a very\n <em>\n  human\n </em>\n problem: dealing with a stubborn, attractive cop who makes her long for everything she knows she canâ€™t have.\n</p>\n<p>\n Staying alive long enough to earn a shot at Heaven will mean breaking some major rules in the mortal world, as she learns just how complicated and wonderful being human can be. With so much stacked against her, even Brynna has to wonder if sheâ€™s crazy. But sheâ€™s not giving in without a fight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Not a chance in Hell. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11620');
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(20197, 'Highborn', 'Yvonne Navarro', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n EVERYONE DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE. BRYNNA MALAK MIGHT BE THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.\n</p>\n<p>\n Brynna is a fallen angel trying to earn redemption. Sheâ€™s escaped from Hell in search of a new life on Earth, but Luciferâ€™s deadliest hunters are hot on her trail. Police Detective Eran Redmond is after her for a different reason: he needs Brynna to help him find a serial killer who is terrifying Chicago . . . and the trail leads them right to Hellspawned demons of the most dangerous kind. Sheâ€™s also got a very\n <em>\n  human\n </em>\n problem: dealing with a stubborn, attractive cop who makes her long for everything she knows she canâ€™t have.\n</p>\n<p>\n Staying alive long enough to earn a shot at Heaven will mean breaking some major rules in the mortal world, as she learns just how complicated and wonderful being human can be. With so much stacked against her, even Brynna has to wonder if sheâ€™s crazy. But sheâ€™s not giving in without a fight.\n</p>\n<p>\n Not a chance in Hell. . . .\n</p>\n<h3>\n Excerpt. Â© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\n</h3>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24752'),
(20198, 'Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City', 'Neal Bascomb', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n The 1920s "race" to build the world''s tallest building has been extensively chronicled. A former literary agent and former St. Martin''s editor, Bascomb centers his narrative on two architects, William Van Alen and Craig Severance, who schemed to outdo each other in the race to pierce New York City''s skies with, respectively, the Manhattan Company Building at 40 Wall Street and the Chrysler Building on East 42nd Street-only to be beaten by a third team hired to construct the Empire State Building (at Fifth Avenue and 34th). While this story is most often told as a sentimental paean to "progress" rather than a bitter corporate feud, Bascomb gives his tale a fresh sense of capitalist drama in his evocation of the nascent worlds of skyscraper engineering, architecture and construction-and real estate speculation with returns projected at 10%. He imbues the former three with some terrific detail (including a 22-item list of how many trades, including mail chute installers and asbestos insulators, it took to build a skyscraper) that gives context to the players and incidental characters, including the five Starrett brothers (builders raised in Lawrence, Kans., who built 40 Wall Street), General Motors'' financier John Jacob Raskob (the man behind the ESB), Walter Chrysler, New Yorker reviewer "T-Square," former governor Al Smith and many others. The occasionally intrusive cliches (the Starrett brothers "had building in their blood"), hyperbole (the ''20s were "a decade gone mad") and familiar generalizations (the U.S. "finally came into its own" in that same decade) are excusable in a debut book, especially one chronicling an obsession with height and speed.\n <br />\n Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Though the desire to spike the landscape with ever-higher structures dates back millennia, skyscraper one-upmanship accelerated in the twentieth century. And while it continues today, never was the race so neck-and-neck as at the end of the Roaring Twenties in New York. Architect William Van Alen, commissioned by Walter Chrysler, found himself in direct competition with partner-turned-rival Craig Severance, architect for the Manhattan Company Building (now the Trump Building). Though the Chrysler was begun first, the Manhattan moved faster, and both groups soon were secretly revising plans--with construction underway. With its cloud-piercing spire, the Chrysler won the height race (although the Manhattan claimed the highest usable floor). The real winner was a late entrant: the Empire State Building. Bascomb''s book is nicely rounded, exploring the finances and logistics of skyscraper building, from acquiring the land to riveting the steel; the benefits and drawbacks of height; and the personalities of the builders--all as he ratchets up the tension of the race.\n <em>\n  Keir Graff\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8146'),
(20199, 'The Hijack', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From London to the Gaza Strip, from Riga in Latvia to Jerusalem--compelling authentic, at breakneck speed Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar and 20 men are preparing for their most daring mission yet: the hijack of a five-story supertanker laden with oil. Meanwhile, SBS Operative Stratton has been assigned to bodyguard work and is bored by the lack of challenge. When Omar''s plot is revealed, Stratton is quickly whisked away by helicopter to assist in a daring rescue. With a rich cast of characters ranging from Russian secret service operatives to Al Qaeda terrorists and the Israeli military, this is a gripping thrill-ride packed with authentic detail and heart-stopping narrative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5770'),
(20200, 'The Hijack', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n From London to the Gaza Strip, from Riga in Latvia to Jerusalem--compelling authentic, at breakneck speed Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar and 20 men are preparing for their most daring mission yet: the hijack of a five-story supertanker laden with oil. Meanwhile, SBS Operative Stratton has been assigned to bodyguard work and is bored by the lack of challenge. When Omar''s plot is revealed, Stratton is quickly whisked away by helicopter to assist in a daring rescue. With a rich cast of characters ranging from Russian secret service operatives to Al Qaeda terrorists and the Israeli military, this is a gripping thrill-ride packed with authentic detail and heart-stopping narrative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9669'),
(20201, 'The Hijack', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From London to the Gaza Strip, from Riga in Latvia to Jerusalem--compelling authentic, at breakneck speed Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar and 20 men are preparing for their most daring mission yet: the hijack of a five-story supertanker laden with oil. Meanwhile, SBS Operative Stratton has been assigned to bodyguard work and is bored by the lack of challenge. When Omar''s plot is revealed, Stratton is quickly whisked away by helicopter to assist in a daring rescue. With a rich cast of characters ranging from Russian secret service operatives to Al Qaeda terrorists and the Israeli military, this is a gripping thrill-ride packed with authentic detail and heart-stopping narrative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18791'),
(20202, 'The Hijack', 'Duncan Falconer', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: From London to the Gaza Strip, from Riga in Latvia to Jerusalem--compelling authentic, at breakneck speed Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar and 20 men are preparing for their most daring mission yet: the hijack of a five-story supertanker laden with oil. Meanwhile, SBS Operative Stratton has been assigned to bodyguard work and is bored by the lack of challenge. When Omar''s plot is revealed, Stratton is quickly whisked away by helicopter to assist in a daring rescue. With a rich cast of characters ranging from Russian secret service operatives to Al Qaeda terrorists and the Israeli military, this is a gripping thrill-ride packed with authentic detail and heart-stopping narrative.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27551'),
(20203, 'Hill Girl', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6863'),
(20204, 'Hill Girl', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13383'),
(20205, 'Hill girl', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17030'),
(20206, 'Hill girl', 'Charles Williams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26878'),
(20207, 'Hippias Maior', 'Platon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25235'),
(20208, 'Hippias minor', 'Platon', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/26120'),
(20209, 'The Hippopotamus Pool', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Amelia, her husband Emerson, their 13-year-old son Ramses, and their beautiful ward Nefret return to Egypt for an exciting excavation. The dig is at an undisturbed Royal Tomb, a true find--and an irresistible temptation for art thieves, jealous colleagues, looters, the press, and the countless evil-doers. As Ramses and Nefret rub elbows with thieves and thugs, Amelia finds herself faced with a surprising new villain who is every bit as clever and resourceful as the intrepid Amelia herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5738'),
(20210, 'The Hippopotamus Pool', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Amelia, her husband Emerson, their 13-year-old son Ramses, and their beautiful ward Nefret return to Egypt for an exciting excavation. The dig is at an undisturbed Royal Tomb, a true find--and an irresistible temptation for art thieves, jealous colleagues, looters, the press, and the countless evil-doers. As Ramses and Nefret rub elbows with thieves and thugs, Amelia finds herself faced with a surprising new villain who is every bit as clever and resourceful as the intrepid Amelia herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18936'),
(20211, 'The Hippopotamus Pool', 'Elizabeth Peters', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Amelia, her husband Emerson, their 13-year-old son Ramses, and their beautiful ward Nefret return to Egypt for an exciting excavation. The dig is at an undisturbed Royal Tomb, a true find--and an irresistible temptation for art thieves, jealous colleagues, looters, the press, and the countless evil-doers. As Ramses and Nefret rub elbows with thieves and thugs, Amelia finds herself faced with a surprising new villain who is every bit as clever and resourceful as the intrepid Amelia herself.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27714'),
(20212, 'His Last Bow', 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (1859-1930) was a Scottish author. He is most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. His first significant work was A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton''s Christmas Annual for 1887 and featured the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes, who was partially modelled after his former university professor, Joseph Bell. Other works include The Firm of Girdlestone (1890), The Captain of the Polestar (1890), The Doings of Raffles Haw (1892), Beyond the City (1892), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896), The Great Boer War (1900), The Green Flag (1900), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), and The Lost World (1912).\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25110'),
(20213, 'His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n A Collection of Short Stories\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15664'),
(20214, 'His Majesty&#39;s Dragon', 'Naomi Novik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britainâ€™s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain futureâ€“and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as Franceâ€™s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparteâ€™s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/2729'),
(20215, 'His Majesty&#39;s Dragon', 'Naomi Novik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britainâ€™s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain futureâ€“and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as Franceâ€™s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparteâ€™s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11673'),
(20216, 'His Majesty&#39;s Dragon', 'Naomi Novik', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britainâ€™s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain futureâ€“and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as Franceâ€™s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparteâ€™s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/22088'),
(20217, 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra', 'Kitty Kelley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the expose that Sinatra went to court to prevent. It''s all herethe tumultuous marriages, the countless affairs, the Mafia ties, the arrogance, the drunken brawls, the sudden violence, the adulation of powerful figures, whether Mafia or presidential. This is obviously a one-sided portrait, and there are no real surprises, but Kelley has documented her facts with such thorough detail that the total effect is numbing. Barely mentioned are Sinatra''s devotion to his parents and his children, and his unquestioned musical talent. This is unpleasant but compulsive reading, which most public libraries will need in order to fill demand. Marcia L. Perry, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The most eye-opening celebrity biography of ourÂ Â time." -William Safire,\n <em>\n  The New YorkÂ Â Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "AÂ Â compelling page-turner...Kitty Kelley''s book has made allÂ Â future Sinatra biographies virtually redundant."Â Â --_Los Angeles Herald-Examiner_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3723'),
(20218, 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra', 'Kitty Kelley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the expose that Sinatra went to court to prevent. It''s all herethe tumultuous marriages, the countless affairs, the Mafia ties, the arrogance, the drunken brawls, the sudden violence, the adulation of powerful figures, whether Mafia or presidential. This is obviously a one-sided portrait, and there are no real surprises, but Kelley has documented her facts with such thorough detail that the total effect is numbing. Barely mentioned are Sinatra''s devotion to his parents and his children, and his unquestioned musical talent. This is unpleasant but compulsive reading, which most public libraries will need in order to fill demand. Marcia L. Perry, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The most eye-opening celebrity biography of ourÂ Â time." -William Safire,\n <em>\n  The New YorkÂ Â Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "AÂ Â compelling page-turner...Kitty Kelley''s book has made allÂ Â future Sinatra biographies virtually redundant."Â Â --_Los Angeles Herald-Examiner_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10604'),
(20219, 'His way: the unauthorized biography of Frank Sinatra', 'Kitty Kelley', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n This is the expose that Sinatra went to court to prevent. It''s all herethe tumultuous marriages, the countless affairs, the Mafia ties, the arrogance, the drunken brawls, the sudden violence, the adulation of powerful figures, whether Mafia or presidential. This is obviously a one-sided portrait, and there are no real surprises, but Kelley has documented her facts with such thorough detail that the total effect is numbing. Barely mentioned are Sinatra''s devotion to his parents and his children, and his unquestioned musical talent. This is unpleasant but compulsive reading, which most public libraries will need in order to fill demand. Marcia L. Perry, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass.\n <br />\n Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n "The most eye-opening celebrity biography of ourÂ Â time." -William Safire,\n <em>\n  The New YorkÂ Â Times\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n "AÂ Â compelling page-turner...Kitty Kelley''s book has made allÂ Â future Sinatra biographies virtually redundant."Â Â --_Los Angeles Herald-Examiner_ --\n <em>\n  Review\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20796'),
(20220, 'The Historian', 'Elisabeth Kostova', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history..." Late one night, exploring her father''s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father''s past and her mother''s mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history. The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known-and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out. It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula. Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Now one young woman must decide whether to take up this quest herself-to follow her father in a hunt that nearly brought him to ruin years ago, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed-and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? The answers to these questions cross time and borders, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty Ivy League libraries to Istanbul, Budapest, and the depths of Eastern Europe. In city after city, in monasteries and archives, in letters and in secret conversations, the horrible truth emerges about Vlad the Impaler''s dark reign-and about a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive down through the ages. Parsing obscure signs and hidden texts, reading codes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions-and evading the unknown adversaries who will go to any lengths to conceal and protect Vlad''s ancient powers-one woman comes ever closer to the secret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of evil. Elizabeth Kostova''s debut novel is an adventure of monumental proportions, a relentless tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present, with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful-and utterly unforgettable. Amazon.com Review If your pulse flutters at the thought of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of Elizabeth Kostova''s long but beautifully structured thriller The Historian. The story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a cache of yellowed letters in her diplomat father''s library. The pages of the book are empty except for a woodcut of a dragon. The letters are addressed to: "My dear and unfortunate successor." When the girl confronts her father, he reluctantly confesses an unsettling story: his involvement, twenty years earlier, in a search for his graduate school mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding to Paul his certainty that Dracula-Vlad the Impaler, an inventively cruel ruler of Wallachia in the mid-15th century-was still alive. The story turns out to concern our narrator directly because Paul''s collaborator in the search was a fellow student named Helen Rossi (the unacknowledged daughter of his mentor) and our narrator''s long-dead mother, about whom she knows almost nothing. And then her father, leaving just a note, disappears also. As well as numerous settings, both in and out of the East Bloc, Kostova has three basic story lines to keep straight-one from 1930, when Professor Bartolomew Rossi begins his dangerous research into Dracula, one from 1950, when Professor Rossi''s student Paul takes up the scent, and the main narrative from 1972. The criss-crossing story lines mirror the political advances, retreats, triumphs, and losses that shaped Dracula''s beleaguered homeland-sometimes with the Byzantines on top, sometimes the Ottomans, sometimes the rag-tag local tribes, or the Orthodox church, and sometimes a fresh conqueror like the Soviet Union. Although the book is appropriately suspenseful and a delight to read-even the minor characters are distinctive and vividly seen-its most powerful moments are those that describe real horrors. Our narrator recalls that after reading descriptions of Vlad burning young boys or impaling "a large family," she tried to forget the words: "For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history''s terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth." The reader, although given a satisfying ending, gets a strong enough dose of European history to temper the usual comforts of the closing words. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Considering the recent rush of door-stopping historical novels, first-timer Kostova is getting a big launch-fortunately, a lot here lives up to the hype. In 1972, a 16-year-old American living in Amsterdam finds a mysterious book in her diplomat father''s library. The book is ancient, blank except for a sinister woodcut of a dragon and the word "Drakulya," but it''s the letters tucked inside, dated 1930 and addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," that really pique her curiosity. Her widowed father, Paul, reluctantly provides pieces of a chilling story; it seems this ominous little book has a way of forcing itself on its owners, with terrifying results. Paul''s former adviser at Oxford, Professor Rossi, became obsessed with researching Dracula and was convinced that he remained alive. When Rossi disappeared, Paul continued his quest with the help of another scholar, Helen, who had her own reasons for seeking the truth. As Paul relates these stories to his daughter, she secretly begins her own research. Kostova builds suspense by revealing the threads of her story as the narrator discovers them: what she''s told, what she reads in old letters and, of course, what she discovers directly when the legendary threat of Dracula looms. Along with all the fascinating historical information, there''s also a mounting casualty count, and the big showdown amps up the drama by pulling at the heartstrings at the same time it revels in the gruesome. Exotic locales, tantalizing history, a family legacy and a love of the bloodthirsty: it''s hard to imagine that readers won''t be bitten, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14209'),
(20221, 'The Historian', 'Elisabeth Kostova', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history..." Late one night, exploring her father''s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father''s past and her mother''s mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history. The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known-and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out. It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula. Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Now one young woman must decide whether to take up this quest herself-to follow her father in a hunt that nearly brought him to ruin years ago, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed-and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? The answers to these questions cross time and borders, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty Ivy League libraries to Istanbul, Budapest, and the depths of Eastern Europe. In city after city, in monasteries and archives, in letters and in secret conversations, the horrible truth emerges about Vlad the Impaler''s dark reign-and about a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive down through the ages. Parsing obscure signs and hidden texts, reading codes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions-and evading the unknown adversaries who will go to any lengths to conceal and protect Vlad''s ancient powers-one woman comes ever closer to the secret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of evil. Elizabeth Kostova''s debut novel is an adventure of monumental proportions, a relentless tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present, with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful-and utterly unforgettable. Amazon.com Review If your pulse flutters at the thought of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of Elizabeth Kostova''s long but beautifully structured thriller The Historian. The story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a cache of yellowed letters in her diplomat father''s library. The pages of the book are empty except for a woodcut of a dragon. The letters are addressed to: "My dear and unfortunate successor." When the girl confronts her father, he reluctantly confesses an unsettling story: his involvement, twenty years earlier, in a search for his graduate school mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding to Paul his certainty that Dracula-Vlad the Impaler, an inventively cruel ruler of Wallachia in the mid-15th century-was still alive. The story turns out to concern our narrator directly because Paul''s collaborator in the search was a fellow student named Helen Rossi (the unacknowledged daughter of his mentor) and our narrator''s long-dead mother, about whom she knows almost nothing. And then her father, leaving just a note, disappears also. As well as numerous settings, both in and out of the East Bloc, Kostova has three basic story lines to keep straight-one from 1930, when Professor Bartolomew Rossi begins his dangerous research into Dracula, one from 1950, when Professor Rossi''s student Paul takes up the scent, and the main narrative from 1972. The criss-crossing story lines mirror the political advances, retreats, triumphs, and losses that shaped Dracula''s beleaguered homeland-sometimes with the Byzantines on top, sometimes the Ottomans, sometimes the rag-tag local tribes, or the Orthodox church, and sometimes a fresh conqueror like the Soviet Union. Although the book is appropriately suspenseful and a delight to read-even the minor characters are distinctive and vividly seen-its most powerful moments are those that describe real horrors. Our narrator recalls that after reading descriptions of Vlad burning young boys or impaling "a large family," she tried to forget the words: "For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history''s terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth." The reader, although given a satisfying ending, gets a strong enough dose of European history to temper the usual comforts of the closing words. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Considering the recent rush of door-stopping historical novels, first-timer Kostova is getting a big launch-fortunately, a lot here lives up to the hype. In 1972, a 16-year-old American living in Amsterdam finds a mysterious book in her diplomat father''s library. The book is ancient, blank except for a sinister woodcut of a dragon and the word "Drakulya," but it''s the letters tucked inside, dated 1930 and addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," that really pique her curiosity. Her widowed father, Paul, reluctantly provides pieces of a chilling story; it seems this ominous little book has a way of forcing itself on its owners, with terrifying results. Paul''s former adviser at Oxford, Professor Rossi, became obsessed with researching Dracula and was convinced that he remained alive. When Rossi disappeared, Paul continued his quest with the help of another scholar, Helen, who had her own reasons for seeking the truth. As Paul relates these stories to his daughter, she secretly begins her own research. Kostova builds suspense by revealing the threads of her story as the narrator discovers them: what she''s told, what she reads in old letters and, of course, what she discovers directly when the legendary threat of Dracula looms. Along with all the fascinating historical information, there''s also a mounting casualty count, and the big showdown amps up the drama by pulling at the heartstrings at the same time it revels in the gruesome. Exotic locales, tantalizing history, a family legacy and a love of the bloodthirsty: it''s hard to imagine that readers won''t be bitten, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18827'),
(20222, 'The Historian', 'Elisabeth Kostova', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n "To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history..." Late one night, exploring her father''s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father''s past and her mother''s mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history. The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known-and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out. It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula. Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Now one young woman must decide whether to take up this quest herself-to follow her father in a hunt that nearly brought him to ruin years ago, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed-and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? The answers to these questions cross time and borders, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty Ivy League libraries to Istanbul, Budapest, and the depths of Eastern Europe. In city after city, in monasteries and archives, in letters and in secret conversations, the horrible truth emerges about Vlad the Impaler''s dark reign-and about a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive down through the ages. Parsing obscure signs and hidden texts, reading codes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions-and evading the unknown adversaries who will go to any lengths to conceal and protect Vlad''s ancient powers-one woman comes ever closer to the secret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of evil. Elizabeth Kostova''s debut novel is an adventure of monumental proportions, a relentless tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present, with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful-and utterly unforgettable. Amazon.com Review If your pulse flutters at the thought of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of Elizabeth Kostova''s long but beautifully structured thriller The Historian. The story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a cache of yellowed letters in her diplomat father''s library. The pages of the book are empty except for a woodcut of a dragon. The letters are addressed to: "My dear and unfortunate successor." When the girl confronts her father, he reluctantly confesses an unsettling story: his involvement, twenty years earlier, in a search for his graduate school mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding to Paul his certainty that Dracula-Vlad the Impaler, an inventively cruel ruler of Wallachia in the mid-15th century-was still alive. The story turns out to concern our narrator directly because Paul''s collaborator in the search was a fellow student named Helen Rossi (the unacknowledged daughter of his mentor) and our narrator''s long-dead mother, about whom she knows almost nothing. And then her father, leaving just a note, disappears also. As well as numerous settings, both in and out of the East Bloc, Kostova has three basic story lines to keep straight-one from 1930, when Professor Bartolomew Rossi begins his dangerous research into Dracula, one from 1950, when Professor Rossi''s student Paul takes up the scent, and the main narrative from 1972. The criss-crossing story lines mirror the political advances, retreats, triumphs, and losses that shaped Dracula''s beleaguered homeland-sometimes with the Byzantines on top, sometimes the Ottomans, sometimes the rag-tag local tribes, or the Orthodox church, and sometimes a fresh conqueror like the Soviet Union. Although the book is appropriately suspenseful and a delight to read-even the minor characters are distinctive and vividly seen-its most powerful moments are those that describe real horrors. Our narrator recalls that after reading descriptions of Vlad burning young boys or impaling "a large family," she tried to forget the words: "For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history''s terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth." The reader, although given a satisfying ending, gets a strong enough dose of European history to temper the usual comforts of the closing words. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Considering the recent rush of door-stopping historical novels, first-timer Kostova is getting a big launch-fortunately, a lot here lives up to the hype. In 1972, a 16-year-old American living in Amsterdam finds a mysterious book in her diplomat father''s library. The book is ancient, blank except for a sinister woodcut of a dragon and the word "Drakulya," but it''s the letters tucked inside, dated 1930 and addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," that really pique her curiosity. Her widowed father, Paul, reluctantly provides pieces of a chilling story; it seems this ominous little book has a way of forcing itself on its owners, with terrifying results. Paul''s former adviser at Oxford, Professor Rossi, became obsessed with researching Dracula and was convinced that he remained alive. When Rossi disappeared, Paul continued his quest with the help of another scholar, Helen, who had her own reasons for seeking the truth. As Paul relates these stories to his daughter, she secretly begins her own research. Kostova builds suspense by revealing the threads of her story as the narrator discovers them: what she''s told, what she reads in old letters and, of course, what she discovers directly when the legendary threat of Dracula looms. Along with all the fascinating historical information, there''s also a mounting casualty count, and the big showdown amps up the drama by pulling at the heartstrings at the same time it revels in the gruesome. Exotic locales, tantalizing history, a family legacy and a love of the bloodthirsty: it''s hard to imagine that readers won''t be bitten, too.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27704'),
(20223, 'The History of Caliph Vathek', 'William Beckford', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24972'),
(20224, 'A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years', 'Diarmaid MacCulloch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christianity, one of the world''s great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society. Diarmaid MacCulloch ranges from Palestine in the first century to India in the third, from Damascus to China in the seventh century and from San Francisco to Korea in the twentieth. He is one of the most widely travelled of Christian historians and conveys a sense of place as arrestingly as he does the power of ideas. He presents the development of Christian history differently from any of his predecessors. He shows how, after a semblance of unity in its earliest centuries, the Christian church divided during the next 1400 years into three increasingly distanced parts, of which the western Church was by no means always the most important: he observes that at the end of the first eight centuries of Christian history, Baghdad might have seemed a more likely capital for worldwide Christianity than Rome. This is the first truly global history of Christianity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5998'),
(20225, 'A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years', 'Diarmaid MacCulloch', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Christianity, one of the world''s great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society. Diarmaid MacCulloch ranges from Palestine in the first century to India in the third, from Damascus to China in the seventh century and from San Francisco to Korea in the twentieth. He is one of the most widely travelled of Christian historians and conveys a sense of place as arrestingly as he does the power of ideas. He presents the development of Christian history differently from any of his predecessors. He shows how, after a semblance of unity in its earliest centuries, the Christian church divided during the next 1400 years into three increasingly distanced parts, of which the western Church was by no means always the most important: he observes that at the end of the first eight centuries of Christian history, Baghdad might have seemed a more likely capital for worldwide Christianity than Rome. This is the first truly global history of Christianity.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11160'),
(20226, 'A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDIn this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain''s foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present. From classical philsophy and medieval mysticism to the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the modern age of skepticism, Karen Armstrong performs the near miracle of distilling the intellectual history of monotheism into one superbly readable volume, destined to take its place as a classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3922'),
(20227, 'A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n "An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDIn this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain''s foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present. From classical philsophy and medieval mysticism to the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the modern age of skepticism, Karen Armstrong performs the near miracle of distilling the intellectual history of monotheism into one superbly readable volume, destined to take its place as a classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8279'),
(20228, 'A History of God: the 4000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDIn this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain''s foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present. From classical philsophy and medieval mysticism to the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the modern age of skepticism, Karen Armstrong performs the near miracle of distilling the intellectual history of monotheism into one superbly readable volume, destined to take its place as a classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15129'),
(20229, 'A History of God: the 4000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam', 'Karen Armstrong', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: "An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDIn this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain''s foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present. From classical philsophy and medieval mysticism to the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the modern age of skepticism, Karen Armstrong performs the near miracle of distilling the intellectual history of monotheism into one superbly readable volume, destined to take its place as a classic.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20535'),
(20230, 'The History of History', 'Ida Hattemer-Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A promising premise flatlines in Hattermer-Higgins''s overwrought debut. Margaret Taub, a young American woman awakens in a forest outside Berlin in September of 2002 with a several-month-long blank spot in her memory. Two years later, after a letter, addressed to a "Margaret TÃ¤ubner," arrives at her apartment, confirming an upcoming appointment with a doctor Margaret has never heard of, she meets the doctor, a gynecologist, who treats Margaret with uncomfortable familiarity and insists on serving as her "memory surgeon." The next morning, Berlin has "transformed into flesh," and, as Margaret negotiates the menacingly alive city, she is plagued by a mysterious feeling of guilt, all the while becoming increasingly obsessed with Magda Goebbels, the wife of Hitler''s propaganda minister, and the possibly parallel story of Regina Strauss, a Jewish woman who committed suicide along with her husband and children. It doesn''t take long for this novel to come undone, its magical realism and overly precious tone mixing uneasily with its ponderous claims about ethics and memory. Also problematic are the final revelations about Margaret''s past, which are intended to be shocking and enlightening, but are instead burdened with insistence on meaning. (Jan.) (c)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The Holocaust is a dark star, forever pulling new writers into its orbit. First-time novelist Hattemer-Higgins dramatizes with phantasmagoric magnitude the crisis of conscience following the genocide, drawing on her experience working in Berlin as a walking-tour guide, a role she assigns to her protagonist. An American with a German father, Margaret Taub has survived a mysterious trauma that has erased her memory of recent months and left her afflicted with nightmarish visions. As she ushers tourists to Nazi sites, the city turns to flesh before her eyes, and Nazi Madga Goebbels, who murdered her children as military defeat loomed, stalks her in the form of a bird of prey. Margaret is also visited by the ghost of a Jewish woman who committed suicide after killing her children to save them from Nazi torture. Determined to regain her past, Margaret contends with a blind, knife-throwing â€œmemory surgeonâ€ and a spying neighbor. She knows sheâ€™s guilty, but of what? With unbridled imagination and exquisite command, Hattemer-Higgins explodes the concept of remembrance and confronts the â€œspiritual aftershockâ€ of the Holocaust in a gloriously hellish and fiercely surreal dreamscape with echoes of fairy tales, Heinrich von Kleist, and Hermann Hesse, to create a bewitching and unnerving novel stunning in its artistry, audacity, and insight. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4990');
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(20231, 'The History of History', 'Ida Hattemer-Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A promising premise flatlines in Hattermer-Higgins''s overwrought debut. Margaret Taub, a young American woman awakens in a forest outside Berlin in September of 2002 with a several-month-long blank spot in her memory. Two years later, after a letter, addressed to a "Margaret TÃ¤ubner," arrives at her apartment, confirming an upcoming appointment with a doctor Margaret has never heard of, she meets the doctor, a gynecologist, who treats Margaret with uncomfortable familiarity and insists on serving as her "memory surgeon." The next morning, Berlin has "transformed into flesh," and, as Margaret negotiates the menacingly alive city, she is plagued by a mysterious feeling of guilt, all the while becoming increasingly obsessed with Magda Goebbels, the wife of Hitler''s propaganda minister, and the possibly parallel story of Regina Strauss, a Jewish woman who committed suicide along with her husband and children. It doesn''t take long for this novel to come undone, its magical realism and overly precious tone mixing uneasily with its ponderous claims about ethics and memory. Also problematic are the final revelations about Margaret''s past, which are intended to be shocking and enlightening, but are instead burdened with insistence on meaning. (Jan.) (c)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The Holocaust is a dark star, forever pulling new writers into its orbit. First-time novelist Hattemer-Higgins dramatizes with phantasmagoric magnitude the crisis of conscience following the genocide, drawing on her experience working in Berlin as a walking-tour guide, a role she assigns to her protagonist. An American with a German father, Margaret Taub has survived a mysterious trauma that has erased her memory of recent months and left her afflicted with nightmarish visions. As she ushers tourists to Nazi sites, the city turns to flesh before her eyes, and Nazi Madga Goebbels, who murdered her children as military defeat loomed, stalks her in the form of a bird of prey. Margaret is also visited by the ghost of a Jewish woman who committed suicide after killing her children to save them from Nazi torture. Determined to regain her past, Margaret contends with a blind, knife-throwing â€œmemory surgeonâ€ and a spying neighbor. She knows sheâ€™s guilty, but of what? With unbridled imagination and exquisite command, Hattemer-Higgins explodes the concept of remembrance and confronts the â€œspiritual aftershockâ€ of the Holocaust in a gloriously hellish and fiercely surreal dreamscape with echoes of fairy tales, Heinrich von Kleist, and Hermann Hesse, to create a bewitching and unnerving novel stunning in its artistry, audacity, and insight. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10237'),
(20232, 'The History of History', 'Ida Hattemer-Higgins', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  From Publishers Weekly\n </h3>\n <p>\n  A promising premise flatlines in Hattermer-Higgins''s overwrought debut. Margaret Taub, a young American woman awakens in a forest outside Berlin in September of 2002 with a several-month-long blank spot in her memory. Two years later, after a letter, addressed to a "Margaret TÃ¤ubner," arrives at her apartment, confirming an upcoming appointment with a doctor Margaret has never heard of, she meets the doctor, a gynecologist, who treats Margaret with uncomfortable familiarity and insists on serving as her "memory surgeon." The next morning, Berlin has "transformed into flesh," and, as Margaret negotiates the menacingly alive city, she is plagued by a mysterious feeling of guilt, all the while becoming increasingly obsessed with Magda Goebbels, the wife of Hitler''s propaganda minister, and the possibly parallel story of Regina Strauss, a Jewish woman who committed suicide along with her husband and children. It doesn''t take long for this novel to come undone, its magical realism and overly precious tone mixing uneasily with its ponderous claims about ethics and memory. Also problematic are the final revelations about Margaret''s past, which are intended to be shocking and enlightening, but are instead burdened with insistence on meaning. (Jan.) (c)\n  <br />\n  (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From\n </h3>\n <p>\n  <em>\n   Starred Review\n  </em>\n  The Holocaust is a dark star, forever pulling new writers into its orbit. First-time novelist Hattemer-Higgins dramatizes with phantasmagoric magnitude the crisis of conscience following the genocide, drawing on her experience working in Berlin as a walking-tour guide, a role she assigns to her protagonist. An American with a German father, Margaret Taub has survived a mysterious trauma that has erased her memory of recent months and left her afflicted with nightmarish visions. As she ushers tourists to Nazi sites, the city turns to flesh before her eyes, and Nazi Madga Goebbels, who murdered her children as military defeat loomed, stalks her in the form of a bird of prey. Margaret is also visited by the ghost of a Jewish woman who committed suicide after killing her children to save them from Nazi torture. Determined to regain her past, Margaret contends with a blind, knife-throwing â€œmemory surgeonâ€ and a spying neighbor. She knows sheâ€™s guilty, but of what? With unbridled imagination and exquisite command, Hattemer-Higgins explodes the concept of remembrance and confronts the â€œspiritual aftershockâ€ of the Holocaust in a gloriously hellish and fiercely surreal dreamscape with echoes of fairy tales, Heinrich von Kleist, and Hermann Hesse, to create a bewitching and unnerving novel stunning in its artistry, audacity, and insight. --Donna Seaman\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19684'),
(20233, 'A History Of Scotland', 'Neil Oliver', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n Scotland''s history has been badly served over the years. Defined by its relationship to England, Scotland''s popular history is full of near-mythical figures and tragic events, her past littered with defeat, failure and thwarted ambition. The martyrdom of William Wallace, the tragedy of Mary Queen of Scots and the forlorn cause of Bonnie Prince Charlie all give the impression of ''poor'' Scotland; a victim of misfortune, leading to the country''s inevitable submission to the Auld Enemy. After the Union in 1707, Scotland''s increasing reliance on England culminated in a crisis of confidence and identity that tortures the country to this day. But how accurate is this version of events? Using the very latest in historical research and by placing Scotland''s story in the wider context of British, European and global history, some of the myths that pervade the past will be exploded to reveal a Scotland which forged its own destiny, often with success.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10999'),
(20234, 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1', 'Edward Gibbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5766'),
(20235, 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1', 'Edward Gibbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18888'),
(20236, 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1', 'Edward Gibbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27583'),
(20237, 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireVol 2', 'Edward Gibbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Volume: 9 Publisher: New York: Thomas Crowell Publication date: 1900 Subjects: Rome -- History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D Byzantine Empire -- History Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5765'),
(20238, 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireVol 2', 'Edward Gibbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Volume: 9 Publisher: New York: Thomas Crowell Publication date: 1900 Subjects: Rome -- History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D Byzantine Empire -- History Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18892'),
(20239, 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireVol 2', 'Edward Gibbon', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Volume: 9 Publisher: New York: Thomas Crowell Publication date: 1900 Subjects: Rome -- History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D Byzantine Empire -- History Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27582'),
(20240, 'A History of the World in 6 Glasses', 'Tom Standage', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Starred Review. Standage starts with a bold hypothesisâ€”that each epoch, from the Stone Age to the present, has had its signature beverageâ€”and takes readers on an extraordinary trip through world history. The\n <em>\n  Economist\n </em>\n ''s technology editor has the ability to connect the smallest detail to the big picture and a knack for summarizing vast concepts in a few sentences. He explains how, when humans shifted from hunting and gathering to farming, they saved surplus grain, which sometimes fermented into beer. The Greeks took grapes and made wine, later borrowed by the Romans and the Christians. Arabic scientists experimented with distillation and produced spirits, the ideal drink for long voyages of exploration. Coffee also spread quickly from Arabia to Europe, becoming the "intellectual counterpoint to the geographical expansion of the Age of Exploration." European coffee-houses, which functioned as "the Internet of the Age of Reason," facilitated scientific, financial and industrial cross-fertilization. In the British industrial revolution that followed, tea "was the lubricant that kept the factories running smoothly." Finally, the rise of American capitalism is mirrored in the history of Coca-Cola, which started as a more or less handmade medicinal drink but morphed into a mass-produced global commodity over the course of the 20th century. In and around these grand ideas, Standage tucks some wonderful tidbitsâ€”on the antibacterial qualities of tea, Mecca''s coffee trials in 1511, Visigoth penalties for destroying vineyardsâ€”ending with a delightful appendix suggesting ways readers can sample ancient beverages. 24 b&amp;w illus.\n <br />\n Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Booklist\n</h3>\n<p>\n Historian Standage explores the significant role that six beverages have played in the world''s history. Few realize the prominence of beer in ancient Egypt, but it was crucial to both cultural and religious life throughout the Fertile Crescent, appearing even in the Gilgamesh epic. Wine''s history has been recounted in many places, and its use to avoid often--polluted water supplies made it ubiquitous wherever grapes could be easily cultivated. Spirits, first manufactured by Arabs and later rejected by them with the rise of Islam, played a fundamental role in the ascendance of the British navy. As a stimulant, coffee found no hostility within Islam''s tenets, and its use spread as the faith moved out of Arabia into Asia and Europe. Tea enjoyed similar status, and it bound China and India to the West. Cola drinks, a modern American phenomenon, relied on American mass-marketing skills to achieve dominance. An appendix gives some modern sources for some of the primitive beers and wines described in the text.\n <em>\n  Mark Knoblauch\n </em>\n <br />\n <em>\n  Copyright Â© American Library Association. All rights reserved\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12372'),
(20241, 'History of Tom Jones, a Foundling', 'Henry Fielding', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25710'),
(20242, 'A History of Zionism', 'Walter Laqueur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This text offers a definitive account of Zionism. The term "Zionism" was first coined at the end of the 19th century, but the idea long reflected the misery of Jewish existence in central and eastern Europe, and the longing for the ancient homeland. Updated, and with a new preface, Walter Laqueur''s comprehensive history begins with a discussion of the background of Zionism since the French Revolution, covers the many decades of Zionist activities worldwide, and ends with the establishment of the state of Israel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/217'),
(20243, 'A History of Zionism', 'Walter Laqueur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n This text offers a definitive account of Zionism. The term "Zionism" was first coined at the end of the 19th century, but the idea long reflected the misery of Jewish existence in central and eastern Europe, and the longing for the ancient homeland. Updated, and with a new preface, Walter Laqueur''s comprehensive history begins with a discussion of the background of Zionism since the French Revolution, covers the many decades of Zionist activities worldwide, and ends with the establishment of the state of Israel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12208'),
(20244, 'A history of Zionism', 'Walter Laqueur', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: This text offers a definitive account of Zionism. The term "Zionism" was first coined at the end of the 19th century, but the idea long reflected the misery of Jewish existence in central and eastern Europe, and the longing for the ancient homeland. Updated, and with a new preface, Walter Laqueur''s comprehensive history begins with a discussion of the background of Zionism since the French Revolution, covers the many decades of Zionist activities worldwide, and ends with the establishment of the state of Israel.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24619'),
(20245, 'Hit List', 'Laurell K. Hamilton', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Product Description\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  The #1\n  <em>\n   New York Times\n  </em>\n  bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series continues!\n </strong>\n</p>\n<p>\n A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect "monsters" are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, U.S. Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch the killer.\n</p>\n<h3>\n About the Author\n</h3>\n<p>\n <strong>\n  Laurell K. Hamilton\n </strong>\n is a full-time writer. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her family.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9456'),
(20246, 'The Hit List', 'Chris Ryan', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15391'),
(20247, 'Hit,Run Holiday', 'Carolyn Keene', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15449'),
(20248, 'Hitch-22: A Memoir', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Christopher Hitchens stands alone among 20th- and 21st-century pundits for his enthusiastic enmity and political flip-flopping, but while he makes no apologies for his beliefs, he does acknowledge their intrinsic contradictions. Critics praised Hitchens''s frankness in sharing the details of his mother''s suicide and of his breezy bisexuality, but they simultaneously balked at his decision to omit significant people and events (i.e., his wives, his children, and his role in Bill Clinton''s impeachment). They also objected to his relentless name-dropping and some overly dense prose, and a few were appalled that Hitchens would continue to insist that Saddam Hussein did indeed possess WMDs. Despite these complaints,\n <em>\n  Hitch-22\n </em>\n is a sharp, rebellious, and sometimes bawdy account of the making of a modern mastermind.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Hitchens, who, in his earlier books, has expressed contempt for both God and Mother Teresa (although not in that order), is often described as a contrarian. In fact, in his book Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001), he himself noted that he â€œcan appear insufferable and annoying,â€ albeit without intending to. This memoir, bracing, droll, and very revealing, gives him yet another description: storyteller. He writes with a voice you can hear clearly, warmed by smoke and whiskey, and draws readers into his story, which proves as personal as it is political. As with many memoirs, it is not the public moments that are so fascinating, though there are plenty of those. Hitchens takes readers with him to Havana and Prague, Afghanistan and Iraq; tests himself by being waterboarded (he was disappointed in his early capitulation); and hobnobs with politicians and poets. He almost gets himself beaten up by defacing a poster in Iraq with a Hitler mustache. But the most intriguing stories are the personal ones, both from his early days, at home and at boarding school, and from his later life, when he learns that his mother was Jewish, which, if only technically, makes him Jewish as well. This revelation leads Hitchens on a quest to learn the story of his family, many of whom died in the Holocaust. How this new identity squares with his oft-proclaimed atheism sheds a different light on the meaning of religious identity. (He struggles mightily with his political identity as well.) Few authors can rile as easily as Hitchens does, but even his detractors might find it difficult to put down a book so witty, so piercing, so spoiling for a fight. He makes you want to be as good a reader as he is a writer. --Ilene Cooper\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6666'),
(20249, 'Hitch-22: A Memoir', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Christopher Hitchens stands alone among 20th- and 21st-century pundits for his enthusiastic enmity and political flip-flopping, but while he makes no apologies for his beliefs, he does acknowledge their intrinsic contradictions. Critics praised Hitchens''s frankness in sharing the details of his mother''s suicide and of his breezy bisexuality, but they simultaneously balked at his decision to omit significant people and events (i.e., his wives, his children, and his role in Bill Clinton''s impeachment). They also objected to his relentless name-dropping and some overly dense prose, and a few were appalled that Hitchens would continue to insist that Saddam Hussein did indeed possess WMDs. Despite these complaints,\n <em>\n  Hitch-22\n </em>\n is a sharp, rebellious, and sometimes bawdy account of the making of a modern mastermind.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Hitchens, who, in his earlier books, has expressed contempt for both God and Mother Teresa (although not in that order), is often described as a contrarian. In fact, in his book Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001), he himself noted that he â€œcan appear insufferable and annoying,â€ albeit without intending to. This memoir, bracing, droll, and very revealing, gives him yet another description: storyteller. He writes with a voice you can hear clearly, warmed by smoke and whiskey, and draws readers into his story, which proves as personal as it is political. As with many memoirs, it is not the public moments that are so fascinating, though there are plenty of those. Hitchens takes readers with him to Havana and Prague, Afghanistan and Iraq; tests himself by being waterboarded (he was disappointed in his early capitulation); and hobnobs with politicians and poets. He almost gets himself beaten up by defacing a poster in Iraq with a Hitler mustache. But the most intriguing stories are the personal ones, both from his early days, at home and at boarding school, and from his later life, when he learns that his mother was Jewish, which, if only technically, makes him Jewish as well. This revelation leads Hitchens on a quest to learn the story of his family, many of whom died in the Holocaust. How this new identity squares with his oft-proclaimed atheism sheds a different light on the meaning of religious identity. (He struggles mightily with his political identity as well.) Few authors can rile as easily as Hitchens does, but even his detractors might find it difficult to put down a book so witty, so piercing, so spoiling for a fight. He makes you want to be as good a reader as he is a writer. --Ilene Cooper\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10308'),
(20250, 'Hitch-22: A Memoir', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Christopher Hitchens stands alone among 20th- and 21st-century pundits for his enthusiastic enmity and political flip-flopping, but while he makes no apologies for his beliefs, he does acknowledge their intrinsic contradictions. Critics praised Hitchens''s frankness in sharing the details of his mother''s suicide and of his breezy bisexuality, but they simultaneously balked at his decision to omit significant people and events (i.e., his wives, his children, and his role in Bill Clinton''s impeachment). They also objected to his relentless name-dropping and some overly dense prose, and a few were appalled that Hitchens would continue to insist that Saddam Hussein did indeed possess WMDs. Despite these complaints, Hitch-22 is a sharp, rebellious, and sometimes bawdy account of the making of a modern mastermind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15316'),
(20251, 'Hitch-22: A Memoir', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Christopher Hitchens stands alone among 20th- and 21st-century pundits for his enthusiastic enmity and political flip-flopping, but while he makes no apologies for his beliefs, he does acknowledge their intrinsic contradictions. Critics praised Hitchens''s frankness in sharing the details of his mother''s suicide and of his breezy bisexuality, but they simultaneously balked at his decision to omit significant people and events (i.e., his wives, his children, and his role in Bill Clinton''s impeachment). They also objected to his relentless name-dropping and some overly dense prose, and a few were appalled that Hitchens would continue to insist that Saddam Hussein did indeed possess WMDs. Despite these complaints,\n <em>\n  Hitch-22\n </em>\n is a sharp, rebellious, and sometimes bawdy account of the making of a modern mastermind.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Hitchens, who, in his earlier books, has expressed contempt for both God and Mother Teresa (although not in that order), is often described as a contrarian. In fact, in his book Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001), he himself noted that he â€œcan appear insufferable and annoying,â€ albeit without intending to. This memoir, bracing, droll, and very revealing, gives him yet another description: storyteller. He writes with a voice you can hear clearly, warmed by smoke and whiskey, and draws readers into his story, which proves as personal as it is political. As with many memoirs, it is not the public moments that are so fascinating, though there are plenty of those. Hitchens takes readers with him to Havana and Prague, Afghanistan and Iraq; tests himself by being waterboarded (he was disappointed in his early capitulation); and hobnobs with politicians and poets. He almost gets himself beaten up by defacing a poster in Iraq with a Hitler mustache. But the most intriguing stories are the personal ones, both from his early days, at home and at boarding school, and from his later life, when he learns that his mother was Jewish, which, if only technically, makes him Jewish as well. This revelation leads Hitchens on a quest to learn the story of his family, many of whom died in the Holocaust. How this new identity squares with his oft-proclaimed atheism sheds a different light on the meaning of religious identity. (He struggles mightily with his political identity as well.) Few authors can rile as easily as Hitchens does, but even his detractors might find it difficult to put down a book so witty, so piercing, so spoiling for a fight. He makes you want to be as good a reader as he is a writer. --Ilene Cooper\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18090'),
(20252, 'Hitch-22: A Memoir', 'Christopher Hitchens', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n Christopher Hitchens stands alone among 20th- and 21st-century pundits for his enthusiastic enmity and political flip-flopping, but while he makes no apologies for his beliefs, he does acknowledge their intrinsic contradictions. Critics praised Hitchens''s frankness in sharing the details of his mother''s suicide and of his breezy bisexuality, but they simultaneously balked at his decision to omit significant people and events (i.e., his wives, his children, and his role in Bill Clinton''s impeachment). They also objected to his relentless name-dropping and some overly dense prose, and a few were appalled that Hitchens would continue to insist that Saddam Hussein did indeed possess WMDs. Despite these complaints, Hitch-22 is a sharp, rebellious, and sometimes bawdy account of the making of a modern mastermind.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27015'),
(20253, 'The Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to Galaxy and other documents', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25874'),
(20254, 'The Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Don''t panic! You''re not timetripping! It''s the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams''s zany, best-selling novel, and to celebrate Harmony is reissuing a special edition of this cult classic!By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earth-ling, is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect just seconds before it was demolished to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Ford, posing as an out-of-work actor, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy. Together the gruesome twosome begin their now-famous inter-galactic journey through time, space and best-sellerdom.For Hitchhiker fanatics (you know who you are!) who''ve read the books, seen the television program, and listened to the radio show, as well as newcomers to Douglas Adams''s unique universe -- remember -- don''t panic, don''t forget to bring a towel, and don''t forget to celebrate The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy''s tenth anniversary by wearing your bathrobe.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5923'),
(20255, 'The Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Don''t panic! You''re not timetripping! It''s the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams''s zany, best-selling novel, and to celebrate Harmony is reissuing a special edition of this cult classic!By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earth-ling, is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect just seconds before it was demolished to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Ford, posing as an out-of-work actor, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy. Together the gruesome twosome begin their now-famous inter-galactic journey through time, space and best-sellerdom.For Hitchhiker fanatics (you know who you are!) who''ve read the books, seen the television program, and listened to the radio show, as well as newcomers to Douglas Adams''s unique universe -- remember -- don''t panic, don''t forget to bring a towel, and don''t forget to celebrate The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy''s tenth anniversary by wearing your bathrobe.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/9347'),
(20256, 'The Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy', 'Adams, Douglas', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15126'),
(20257, 'The hitchhiker&#39;s guide to the galaxy', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Don''t panic! You''re not timetripping! It''s the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams''s zany, best-selling novel, and to celebrate Harmony is reissuing a special edition of this cult classic!By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earth-ling, is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect just seconds before it was demolished to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Ford, posing as an out-of-work actor, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy. Together the gruesome twosome begin their now-famous inter-galactic journey through time, space and best-sellerdom.For Hitchhiker fanatics (you know who you are!) who''ve read the books, seen the television program, and listened to the radio show, as well as newcomers to Douglas Adams''s unique universe -- remember -- don''t panic, don''t forget to bring a towel, and don''t forget to celebrate The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy''s tenth anniversary by wearing your bathrobe.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/18712'),
(20258, 'The hitchhiker&#39;s guide to the galaxy', 'Douglas Adams', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Don''t panic! You''re not timetripping! It''s the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams''s zany, best-selling novel, and to celebrate Harmony is reissuing a special edition of this cult classic!By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earth-ling, is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect just seconds before it was demolished to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Ford, posing as an out-of-work actor, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy. Together the gruesome twosome begin their now-famous inter-galactic journey through time, space and best-sellerdom.For Hitchhiker fanatics (you know who you are!) who''ve read the books, seen the television program, and listened to the radio show, as well as newcomers to Douglas Adams''s unique universe -- remember -- don''t panic, don''t forget to bring a towel, and don''t forget to celebrate The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy''s tenth anniversary by wearing your bathrobe.From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27591'),
(20259, 'Hitler', 'Ian Kershaw', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''... this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.'' History\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hitler''...this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.'' History Adolf Hitler has left a lasting mark on the twentieth-century, as the dictator of Germany and instigator of a genocidal war, culminating in the ruin of much of Europe and the globe. This innovative best-seller explores the nature and mechanics of Hitler''s power, and how he used it. On the face of it, Adolf Hitler was an unlikely candidate for dictatorial power. Why, of all the fanatics in Germany after the First World War, was it Hitler who found such mass appeal?How did such an unimpressive figure come to take control of the machinery of a complex modern state?Why - contrary to all expectations - was his authority not curtailed by the traditional ruling classes and constitutional constraints?What did his personal role in the shaping of policy amount to?Was he personally taking the key decisions, right to the very end? Professor Kershaw answers these questions to provide a lucid introduction to the character and exercise of Hitler''s dictatorial power. Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield.He has written widely on Hitler and the Third Reich and is author of the now definitive comprehensive biography Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (1998) and a second volume due in 2000. In addition to his publications, he was consultant to the BAFTA-winning BBC-TV series The Nazis: A Warning from History, to the BBC2 programme War of the Century, to ZDF''s Hitler: eine Bilanz and to ZDF''s series in preparation on the Holocaust.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5070'),
(20260, 'Hitler', 'Ian Kershaw', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''... this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.'' History\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hitler''...this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.'' History Adolf Hitler has left a lasting mark on the twentieth-century, as the dictator of Germany and instigator of a genocidal war, culminating in the ruin of much of Europe and the globe. This innovative best-seller explores the nature and mechanics of Hitler''s power, and how he used it. On the face of it, Adolf Hitler was an unlikely candidate for dictatorial power. Why, of all the fanatics in Germany after the First World War, was it Hitler who found such mass appeal?How did such an unimpressive figure come to take control of the machinery of a complex modern state?Why - contrary to all expectations - was his authority not curtailed by the traditional ruling classes and constitutional constraints?What did his personal role in the shaping of policy amount to?Was he personally taking the key decisions, right to the very end? Professor Kershaw answers these questions to provide a lucid introduction to the character and exercise of Hitler''s dictatorial power. Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield.He has written widely on Hitler and the Third Reich and is author of the now definitive comprehensive biography Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (1998) and a second volume due in 2000. In addition to his publications, he was consultant to the BAFTA-winning BBC-TV series The Nazis: A Warning from History, to the BBC2 programme War of the Century, to ZDF''s Hitler: eine Bilanz and to ZDF''s series in preparation on the Holocaust.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10670'),
(20261, 'Hitler', 'Ian Kershaw', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''... this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.'' History\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hitler''...this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.'' History Adolf Hitler has left a lasting mark on the twentieth-century, as the dictator of Germany and instigator of a genocidal war, culminating in the ruin of much of Europe and the globe. This innovative best-seller explores the nature and mechanics of Hitler''s power, and how he used it. On the face of it, Adolf Hitler was an unlikely candidate for dictatorial power. Why, of all the fanatics in Germany after the First World War, was it Hitler who found such mass appeal?How did such an unimpressive figure come to take control of the machinery of a complex modern state?Why - contrary to all expectations - was his authority not curtailed by the traditional ruling classes and constitutional constraints?What did his personal role in the shaping of policy amount to?Was he personally taking the key decisions, right to the very end? Professor Kershaw answers these questions to provide a lucid introduction to the character and exercise of Hitler''s dictatorial power. Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield.He has written widely on Hitler and the Third Reich and is author of the now definitive comprehensive biography Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (1998) and a second volume due in 2000. In addition to his publications, he was consultant to the BAFTA-winning BBC-TV series The Nazis: A Warning from History, to the BBC2 programme War of the Century, to ZDF''s Hitler: eine Bilanz and to ZDF''s series in preparation on the Holocaust.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14394'),
(20262, 'Hitler', 'Ian Kershaw', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''... this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.'' History\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hitler''...this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.'' History Adolf Hitler has left a lasting mark on the twentieth-century, as the dictator of Germany and instigator of a genocidal war, culminating in the ruin of much of Europe and the globe. This innovative best-seller explores the nature and mechanics of Hitler''s power, and how he used it. On the face of it, Adolf Hitler was an unlikely candidate for dictatorial power. Why, of all the fanatics in Germany after the First World War, was it Hitler who found such mass appeal?How did such an unimpressive figure come to take control of the machinery of a complex modern state?Why - contrary to all expectations - was his authority not curtailed by the traditional ruling classes and constitutional constraints?What did his personal role in the shaping of policy amount to?Was he personally taking the key decisions, right to the very end? Professor Kershaw answers these questions to provide a lucid introduction to the character and exercise of Hitler''s dictatorial power. Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield.He has written widely on Hitler and the Third Reich and is author of the now definitive comprehensive biography Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (1998) and a second volume due in 2000. In addition to his publications, he was consultant to the BAFTA-winning BBC-TV series The Nazis: A Warning from History, to the BBC2 programme War of the Century, to ZDF''s Hitler: eine Bilanz and to ZDF''s series in preparation on the Holocaust.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19649'),
(20263, 'Hitler', 'Ian Kershaw', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Review\n </h3>\n <p>\n  ''... this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.'' History\n </p>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  Hitler''...this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.'' History Adolf Hitler has left a lasting mark on the twentieth-century, as the dictator of Germany and instigator of a genocidal war, culminating in the ruin of much of Europe and the globe. This innovative best-seller explores the nature and mechanics of Hitler''s power, and how he used it. On the face of it, Adolf Hitler was an unlikely candidate for dictatorial power. Why, of all the fanatics in Germany after the First World War, was it Hitler who found such mass appeal?How did such an unimpressive figure come to take control of the machinery of a complex modern state?Why - contrary to all expectations - was his authority not curtailed by the traditional ruling classes and constitutional constraints?What did his personal role in the shaping of policy amount to?Was he personally taking the key decisions, right to the very end? Professor Kershaw answers these questions to provide a lucid introduction to the character and exercise of Hitler''s dictatorial power. Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield.He has written widely on Hitler and the Third Reich and is author of the now definitive comprehensive biography Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (1998) and a second volume due in 2000. In addition to his publications, he was consultant to the BAFTA-winning BBC-TV series The Nazis: A Warning from History, to the BBC2 programme War of the Century, to ZDF''s Hitler: eine Bilanz and to ZDF''s series in preparation on the Holocaust.\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28195'),
(20264, 'Hitler&#39;s Niece', 'Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hitler''s Niece tells the story of the intense and disturbing relationship between Adolf Hitler and the daughter of his only half-sister, Angela, a drama that evolves against the backdrop of Hitler''s rise to prominence and power from particularly inauspicious beginnings. The story follows Geli from her birth in Linz, Austria, through the years in Berchtesgaden and Munich, to her tragic death in 1932 in Hitler''s apartment in Munich. Through the eyes of a favorite niece who has been all but lost to history, we see the frightening rise in prestige and political power of a vain, vulgar, sinister man who thrived on cruelty and hate and would stop at nothing to keep the horror of his inner life hidden from the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5274'),
(20265, 'Hitler&#39;s Niece', 'Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Hitler''s Niece tells the story of the intense and disturbing relationship between Adolf Hitler and the daughter of his only half-sister, Angela, a drama that evolves against the backdrop of Hitler''s rise to prominence and power from particularly inauspicious beginnings. The story follows Geli from her birth in Linz, Austria, through the years in Berchtesgaden and Munich, to her tragic death in 1932 in Hitler''s apartment in Munich. Through the eyes of a favorite niece who has been all but lost to history, we see the frightening rise in prestige and political power of a vain, vulgar, sinister man who thrived on cruelty and hate and would stop at nothing to keep the horror of his inner life hidden from the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/10129'),
(20266, 'Hitler&#39;s Niece', 'Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hitler''s Niece tells the story of the intense and disturbing relationship between Adolf Hitler and the daughter of his only half-sister, Angela, a drama that evolves against the backdrop of Hitler''s rise to prominence and power from particularly inauspicious beginnings. The story follows Geli from her birth in Linz, Austria, through the years in Berchtesgaden and Munich, to her tragic death in 1932 in Hitler''s apartment in Munich. Through the eyes of a favorite niece who has been all but lost to history, we see the frightening rise in prestige and political power of a vain, vulgar, sinister man who thrived on cruelty and hate and would stop at nothing to keep the horror of his inner life hidden from the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/23456'),
(20267, 'Hitler&#39;s Niece', 'Hansen', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Hitler''s Niece tells the story of the intense and disturbing relationship between Adolf Hitler and the daughter of his only half-sister, Angela, a drama that evolves against the backdrop of Hitler''s rise to prominence and power from particularly inauspicious beginnings. The story follows Geli from her birth in Linz, Austria, through the years in Berchtesgaden and Munich, to her tragic death in 1932 in Hitler''s apartment in Munich. Through the eyes of a favorite niece who has been all but lost to history, we see the frightening rise in prestige and political power of a vain, vulgar, sinister man who thrived on cruelty and hate and would stop at nothing to keep the horror of his inner life hidden from the world.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28066'),
(20268, 'Hitler&#39;s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks That Revolutionized Warfare', 'Dennis Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A fascinating account of Nazi Germany''s armored forces by the author of *Patton and Rommel*. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Determined to secure a quick, decisive victory on the World War II battlefields, Adolf Hitler adopted an attack plan that combined tools with technique- the formidable Panzer divisions. Self-contained armored units able to operate independently, the Panzers became the German army''s fighting core as well as its moral focus, establishing an entirely new military doctrine.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Hitler''s Panzers*, renowned World War II scholar Dennis Showalter presents a comprehensive and unbiased study of Nazi Germany''s armored forces. By delving deeply into a detailed history of the theory, strategy, myths, and realities of Germany''s technologically innovative approach to warfare, Showalter provides a look at the military lessons of the past, and a speculation on how the Panzer ethos may be implemented in the future of international conflict.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6016');
INSERT INTO `books` (`Id`, `Title`, `Authors`, `Description`, `Thumbnail`) VALUES
(20269, 'Hitler&#39;s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks That Revolutionized Warfare', 'Dennis Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW:\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n **A fascinating account of Nazi Germany''s armored forces by the author of *Patton and Rommel*. **\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n Determined to secure a quick, decisive victory on the World War II battlefields, Adolf Hitler adopted an attack plan that combined tools with technique- the formidable Panzer divisions. Self-contained armored units able to operate independently, the Panzers became the German army''s fighting core as well as its moral focus, establishing an entirely new military doctrine.\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n</p>\n<p class="description">\n In *Hitler''s Panzers*, renowned World War II scholar Dennis Showalter presents a comprehensive and unbiased study of Nazi Germany''s armored forces. By delving deeply into a detailed history of the theory, strategy, myths, and realities of Germany''s technologically innovative approach to warfare, Showalter provides a look at the military lessons of the past, and a speculation on how the Panzer ethos may be implemented in the future of international conflict.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12700'),
(20270, 'Hitler&#39;s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks That Revolutionized Warfare', 'Dennis Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A fascinating account of Nazi Germany''s armored forces by the author of *Patton and Rommel*. ** Determined to secure a quick, decisive victory on the World War II battlefields, Adolf Hitler adopted an attack plan that combined tools with technique- the formidable Panzer divisions. Self-contained armored units able to operate independently, the Panzers became the German army''s fighting core as well as its moral focus, establishing an entirely new military doctrine. In *Hitler''s Panzers*, renowned World War II scholar Dennis Showalter presents a comprehensive and unbiased study of Nazi Germany''s armored forces. By delving deeply into a detailed history of the theory, strategy, myths, and realities of Germany''s technologically innovative approach to warfare, Showalter provides a look at the military lessons of the past, and a speculation on how the Panzer ethos may be implemented in the future of international conflict.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17987'),
(20271, 'Hitler&#39;s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks That Revolutionized Warfare', 'Dennis Showalter', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A fascinating account of Nazi Germany''s armored forces by the author of *Patton and Rommel*. ** Determined to secure a quick, decisive victory on the World War II battlefields, Adolf Hitler adopted an attack plan that combined tools with technique- the formidable Panzer divisions. Self-contained armored units able to operate independently, the Panzers became the German army''s fighting core as well as its moral focus, establishing an entirely new military doctrine. In *Hitler''s Panzers*, renowned World War II scholar Dennis Showalter presents a comprehensive and unbiased study of Nazi Germany''s armored forces. By delving deeply into a detailed history of the theory, strategy, myths, and realities of Germany''s technologically innovative approach to warfare, Showalter provides a look at the military lessons of the past, and a speculation on how the Panzer ethos may be implemented in the future of international conflict.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/27493'),
(20272, 'Hitler&#39;s U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942', 'Clay Blair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A former infantryman, Adolf Hitler had little use for the German navy, which he considered inept and politically suspect. Still, through the skillful maneuverings of a young, up-and-coming naval officer named Karl DÃ¶nitz, Hitler eventually endorsed a costly program of shipbuilding. As a result, DÃ¶nitz was able to field a vast fleet of U-boats when Germany went to war against France and England in 1939. Although his enemies were initially better equipped, DÃ¶nitz was the craftier fighter, launching daring raids on shipping convoys and Allied harbors, and for a time, controlling the chief Atlantic sealanes.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this monumental history, Clay Blair analyzes the German U-boat campaigns from 1939 to 1942 (a companion volume continues his narrative to 1945), which, he writes, fall into three phases: one against England alone, another against the newly arrived American navy, and a furious third against the combined Allied forces. Blair argues, against other historians, that the "U-boat peril" has been overestimated. He holds that the American submarine campaign against Japan in the Pacific was far more effective, and observes that 99 percent of Allied merchant ships on transatlantic convoys reached their destinations. Even so, the U-boats introduced a powerful element of terror into an already horrific war, diverting Allied effort into antisubmarine campaigns and delaying the transport of much-needed materiel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Blair''s outstanding work adds much to the naval history of World War II. Packed with detail, it is sure to become a standard work on the Battle of the Atlantic.\n <em>\n  --Gregory McNamee\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything about this book is big: its page count, its thesis?and its shortcomings. Blair is a respected authority on submarine warfare whose Silent Victory, a history of the U.S. submarine service, remains a widely cited work. He is also a master of operational narrative, a writer who can put readers in a destroyer''s bridge or a U-boat''s conning tower as convincingly as many novelists. Here, in the first of two projected volumes, Blair employs a comprehensive mix of German, British and U.S. sources to argue that the German U-boats have been mythologized, their successes overstated and their threat to the Allied war effort exaggerated. While U-boats delayed and diminished the arrival of supplies to Europe, 99% of all ships in transatlantic convoys reached their destinations. For Blair, that is a sizable margin of acceptable loss. He even stands foursquare behind Admiral Ernest King''s reluctance to organize merchant convoys after Pearl Harbor. German U-boats operating off the Atlantic Coast and in the Caribbean accounted for about a quarter of all tonnage sunk during the war, but even these losses could be replaced. Blair compares by implication German failures in the U-boat war to the U.S. submarine campaign in the Pacific, which succeeded in strangling Japan by mid-1945. But to assert, as he does, that the U-boats never had a chance seems to fly in the face of an overwhelming body of evidence that cannot be dismissed as retrospective mythmaking. Even before the climactic convoy battles of 1943, the Allied navies were morally and materially stretched to near breaking point. Though richly informed and a pleasure to read, this volume ultimately provokes without convincing. Photos and maps not seen by PW. History Book Club selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/6672'),
(20273, 'Hitler&#39;s U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942', 'Clay Blair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A former infantryman, Adolf Hitler had little use for the German navy, which he considered inept and politically suspect. Still, through the skillful maneuverings of a young, up-and-coming naval officer named Karl DÃ¶nitz, Hitler eventually endorsed a costly program of shipbuilding. As a result, DÃ¶nitz was able to field a vast fleet of U-boats when Germany went to war against France and England in 1939. Although his enemies were initially better equipped, DÃ¶nitz was the craftier fighter, launching daring raids on shipping convoys and Allied harbors, and for a time, controlling the chief Atlantic sealanes.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this monumental history, Clay Blair analyzes the German U-boat campaigns from 1939 to 1942 (a companion volume continues his narrative to 1945), which, he writes, fall into three phases: one against England alone, another against the newly arrived American navy, and a furious third against the combined Allied forces. Blair argues, against other historians, that the "U-boat peril" has been overestimated. He holds that the American submarine campaign against Japan in the Pacific was far more effective, and observes that 99 percent of Allied merchant ships on transatlantic convoys reached their destinations. Even so, the U-boats introduced a powerful element of terror into an already horrific war, diverting Allied effort into antisubmarine campaigns and delaying the transport of much-needed materiel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Blair''s outstanding work adds much to the naval history of World War II. Packed with detail, it is sure to become a standard work on the Battle of the Atlantic.\n <em>\n  --Gregory McNamee\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything about this book is big: its page count, its thesis?and its shortcomings. Blair is a respected authority on submarine warfare whose Silent Victory, a history of the U.S. submarine service, remains a widely cited work. He is also a master of operational narrative, a writer who can put readers in a destroyer''s bridge or a U-boat''s conning tower as convincingly as many novelists. Here, in the first of two projected volumes, Blair employs a comprehensive mix of German, British and U.S. sources to argue that the German U-boats have been mythologized, their successes overstated and their threat to the Allied war effort exaggerated. While U-boats delayed and diminished the arrival of supplies to Europe, 99% of all ships in transatlantic convoys reached their destinations. For Blair, that is a sizable margin of acceptable loss. He even stands foursquare behind Admiral Ernest King''s reluctance to organize merchant convoys after Pearl Harbor. German U-boats operating off the Atlantic Coast and in the Caribbean accounted for about a quarter of all tonnage sunk during the war, but even these losses could be replaced. Blair compares by implication German failures in the U-boat war to the U.S. submarine campaign in the Pacific, which succeeded in strangling Japan by mid-1945. But to assert, as he does, that the U-boats never had a chance seems to fly in the face of an overwhelming body of evidence that cannot be dismissed as retrospective mythmaking. Even before the climactic convoy battles of 1943, the Allied navies were morally and materially stretched to near breaking point. Though richly informed and a pleasure to read, this volume ultimately provokes without convincing. Photos and maps not seen by PW. History Book Club selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8530'),
(20274, 'Hitler&#39;s U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942', 'Clay Blair', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n Amazon.com Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n A former infantryman, Adolf Hitler had little use for the German navy, which he considered inept and politically suspect. Still, through the skillful maneuverings of a young, up-and-coming naval officer named Karl DÃ¶nitz, Hitler eventually endorsed a costly program of shipbuilding. As a result, DÃ¶nitz was able to field a vast fleet of U-boats when Germany went to war against France and England in 1939. Although his enemies were initially better equipped, DÃ¶nitz was the craftier fighter, launching daring raids on shipping convoys and Allied harbors, and for a time, controlling the chief Atlantic sealanes.\n</p>\n<p>\n In this monumental history, Clay Blair analyzes the German U-boat campaigns from 1939 to 1942 (a companion volume continues his narrative to 1945), which, he writes, fall into three phases: one against England alone, another against the newly arrived American navy, and a furious third against the combined Allied forces. Blair argues, against other historians, that the "U-boat peril" has been overestimated. He holds that the American submarine campaign against Japan in the Pacific was far more effective, and observes that 99 percent of Allied merchant ships on transatlantic convoys reached their destinations. Even so, the U-boats introduced a powerful element of terror into an already horrific war, diverting Allied effort into antisubmarine campaigns and delaying the transport of much-needed materiel.\n</p>\n<p>\n Blair''s outstanding work adds much to the naval history of World War II. Packed with detail, it is sure to become a standard work on the Battle of the Atlantic.\n <em>\n  --Gregory McNamee\n </em>\n</p>\n<h3>\n From Publishers Weekly\n</h3>\n<p>\n Everything about this book is big: its page count, its thesis?and its shortcomings. Blair is a respected authority on submarine warfare whose Silent Victory, a history of the U.S. submarine service, remains a widely cited work. He is also a master of operational narrative, a writer who can put readers in a destroyer''s bridge or a U-boat''s conning tower as convincingly as many novelists. Here, in the first of two projected volumes, Blair employs a comprehensive mix of German, British and U.S. sources to argue that the German U-boats have been mythologized, their successes overstated and their threat to the Allied war effort exaggerated. While U-boats delayed and diminished the arrival of supplies to Europe, 99% of all ships in transatlantic convoys reached their destinations. For Blair, that is a sizable margin of acceptable loss. He even stands foursquare behind Admiral Ernest King''s reluctance to organize merchant convoys after Pearl Harbor. German U-boats operating off the Atlantic Coast and in the Caribbean accounted for about a quarter of all tonnage sunk during the war, but even these losses could be replaced. Blair compares by implication German failures in the U-boat war to the U.S. submarine campaign in the Pacific, which succeeded in strangling Japan by mid-1945. But to assert, as he does, that the U-boats never had a chance seems to fly in the face of an overwhelming body of evidence that cannot be dismissed as retrospective mythmaking. Even before the climactic convoy battles of 1943, the Allied navies were morally and materially stretched to near breaking point. Though richly informed and a pleasure to read, this volume ultimately provokes without convincing. Photos and maps not seen by PW. History Book Club selection.\n <br />\n Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/17366'),
(20275, 'Hitler&#39;s War', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that country and pushed beyond its borders. World War II had begun, and England, after a fatal act of appeasement, was fighting a war for which it was not prepared. Now, in this thrilling, provocative, and fascinating alternate history by Harry Turtledove, another scenario is played out: What if Chamberlain had not signed the accord? What if Hitler had acted rashly, before his army was ready---would such impatience have helped him or doomed him faster? Here is an action-packed, blow-by-blow chronicle of the war that might have been and the repercussions that might have echoed through history had Hitler reached too far, too soon, and too fast. Turtledove uses dozens of points of view to tell this story: from American marines serving in Japanese-occupied China to members of a Jewish German family with a proud history of war service to their nation, from ragtag volunteers fighting in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in Spain to an American woman desperately trying to escape Nazi-occupied territory and witnessing the war from within the belly of the beast. A novel that reveals the human face of war while simultaneously riding the twists and turns that make up the great acts of history, Hitler''s War is the beginning of an exciting new alternate history saga. Here is a tale of powerful leaders and ordinary people, of spies, soldiers, and traitors, of the shifting alliances that draw some together while tearing others apart. At once authoritative, brilliantly imaginative, and hugely entertaining, Hitler''s War captures the beginning of a very different World War II with a very different fate for our world today. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/5192'),
(20276, 'Hitler&#39;s War', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that country and pushed beyond its borders. World War II had begun, and England, after a fatal act of appeasement, was fighting a war for which it was not prepared. Now, in this thrilling, provocative, and fascinating alternate history by Harry Turtledove, another scenario is played out: What if Chamberlain had not signed the accord? What if Hitler had acted rashly, before his army was ready---would such impatience have helped him or doomed him faster? Here is an action-packed, blow-by-blow chronicle of the war that might have been and the repercussions that might have echoed through history had Hitler reached too far, too soon, and too fast. Turtledove uses dozens of points of view to tell this story: from American marines serving in Japanese-occupied China to members of a Jewish German family with a proud history of war service to their nation, from ragtag volunteers fighting in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in Spain to an American woman desperately trying to escape Nazi-occupied territory and witnessing the war from within the belly of the beast. A novel that reveals the human face of war while simultaneously riding the twists and turns that make up the great acts of history, Hitler''s War is the beginning of an exciting new alternate history saga. Here is a tale of powerful leaders and ordinary people, of spies, soldiers, and traitors, of the shifting alliances that draw some together while tearing others apart. At once authoritative, brilliantly imaginative, and hugely entertaining, Hitler''s War captures the beginning of a very different World War II with a very different fate for our world today. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13124'),
(20277, 'Hitler&#39;s War', 'Harry Turtledove', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that country and pushed beyond its borders. World War II had begun, and England, after a fatal act of appeasement, was fighting a war for which it was not prepared. Now, in this thrilling, provocative, and fascinating alternate history by Harry Turtledove, another scenario is played out: What if Chamberlain had not signed the accord? What if Hitler had acted rashly, before his army was ready---would such impatience have helped him or doomed him faster? Here is an action-packed, blow-by-blow chronicle of the war that might have been and the repercussions that might have echoed through history had Hitler reached too far, too soon, and too fast. Turtledove uses dozens of points of view to tell this story: from American marines serving in Japanese-occupied China to members of a Jewish German family with a proud history of war service to their nation, from ragtag volunteers fighting in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in Spain to an American woman desperately trying to escape Nazi-occupied territory and witnessing the war from within the belly of the beast. A novel that reveals the human face of war while simultaneously riding the twists and turns that make up the great acts of history, Hitler''s War is the beginning of an exciting new alternate history saga. Here is a tale of powerful leaders and ordinary people, of spies, soldiers, and traitors, of the shifting alliances that draw some together while tearing others apart. At once authoritative, brilliantly imaginative, and hugely entertaining, Hitler''s War captures the beginning of a very different World War II with a very different fate for our world today. From the Hardcover edition.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19478'),
(20278, 'The Hittite', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bova is best known as a prolific writer of works of science fiction. Here he tries his hand at supposedly historical fiction, with interesting, enjoyable, but uneven results. Lukka, a Hittite warrior, returns to the Hittite capital city to find it engulfed in civil war, his father murdered, and his wife and two young sons taken away by slavers. Along with a small cadre of soldiers under his command, Lukka launches an epic search for his family, which leads him to the gates of Troy as it is beseiged by the army of Agamemnon. Bova then proceeds to an original retelling of the final stages of the legendary Trojan War. In this account, Lukka serves as a literary mirror, revealing the personalities of some well-known characters, with a few surprising results. Odysseus, predictably, is practical, crafty, and a natural survivor in treacherous waters. Achilles is a born killer, but he is shown as short and ugly, and his death is decidedly unheroic. Helen is, of course, the babe of all babes, but she is also petty and whiny. Bova tends to use flowery, descriptive language to excess, but he knows his Homer. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Excellent. A thrilling and inventive retelling of the legend of Troy. --David Hagberg,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Expediter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Completely convincing and emotionally satisfying; the adventure and warfare are gripping enough to keep me awake to finish the book in a single night. I hope that when I''m [Bova''s] age, I''ll be doing--as he is--the best work of my career. --Orson Scott Card,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A cast of stars, all seen through the eyes of a Hittite warrior. With authentic battle scenes and the reality of siege warfare, THE HITTITE is an adventure you''ll want to undertake. --Barbara D''Amato, Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Foolproof\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/7305'),
(20279, 'The Hittite', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bova is best known as a prolific writer of works of science fiction. Here he tries his hand at supposedly historical fiction, with interesting, enjoyable, but uneven results. Lukka, a Hittite warrior, returns to the Hittite capital city to find it engulfed in civil war, his father murdered, and his wife and two young sons taken away by slavers. Along with a small cadre of soldiers under his command, Lukka launches an epic search for his family, which leads him to the gates of Troy as it is beseiged by the army of Agamemnon. Bova then proceeds to an original retelling of the final stages of the legendary Trojan War. In this account, Lukka serves as a literary mirror, revealing the personalities of some well-known characters, with a few surprising results. Odysseus, predictably, is practical, crafty, and a natural survivor in treacherous waters. Achilles is a born killer, but he is shown as short and ugly, and his death is decidedly unheroic. Helen is, of course, the babe of all babes, but she is also petty and whiny. Bova tends to use flowery, descriptive language to excess, but he knows his Homer. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Excellent. A thrilling and inventive retelling of the legend of Troy. --David Hagberg,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Expediter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Completely convincing and emotionally satisfying; the adventure and warfare are gripping enough to keep me awake to finish the book in a single night. I hope that when I''m [Bova''s] age, I''ll be doing--as he is--the best work of my career. --Orson Scott Card,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A cast of stars, all seen through the eyes of a Hittite warrior. With authentic battle scenes and the reality of siege warfare, THE HITTITE is an adventure you''ll want to undertake. --Barbara D''Amato, Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Foolproof\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/8544'),
(20280, 'The Hittite', 'Ben Bova', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n Bova is best known as a prolific writer of works of science fiction. Here he tries his hand at supposedly historical fiction, with interesting, enjoyable, but uneven results. Lukka, a Hittite warrior, returns to the Hittite capital city to find it engulfed in civil war, his father murdered, and his wife and two young sons taken away by slavers. Along with a small cadre of soldiers under his command, Lukka launches an epic search for his family, which leads him to the gates of Troy as it is beseiged by the army of Agamemnon. Bova then proceeds to an original retelling of the final stages of the legendary Trojan War. In this account, Lukka serves as a literary mirror, revealing the personalities of some well-known characters, with a few surprising results. Odysseus, predictably, is practical, crafty, and a natural survivor in treacherous waters. Achilles is a born killer, but he is shown as short and ugly, and his death is decidedly unheroic. Helen is, of course, the babe of all babes, but she is also petty and whiny. Bova tends to use flowery, descriptive language to excess, but he knows his Homer. --Jay Freeman\n</p>\n<h3>\n Review\n</h3>\n<p>\n Excellent. A thrilling and inventive retelling of the legend of Troy. --David Hagberg,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  The Expediter\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n Completely convincing and emotionally satisfying; the adventure and warfare are gripping enough to keep me awake to finish the book in a single night. I hope that when I''m [Bova''s] age, I''ll be doing--as he is--the best work of my career. --Orson Scott Card,\n <em>\n  New York Times\n </em>\n bestselling author of\n <em>\n  Ender''s Game\n </em>\n</p>\n<p>\n A cast of stars, all seen through the eyes of a Hittite warrior. With authentic battle scenes and the reality of siege warfare, THE HITTITE is an adventure you''ll want to undertake. --Barbara D''Amato, Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of\n <em>\n  Foolproof\n </em>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/16557'),
(20281, 'HMS Ulysses', 'Alistair MacLean', '<div class="comments">\n<div>\n <h3>\n  Product Description\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, "H.M.S. Ulysses" takes its place alongside "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Cruel Sea" as one of the classic novels of the navy, its men and its ships, at war. It is vintage MacLean -- and unforgettable.\n  <br />\n  "High-powered dramatics." San Francisco Chronicle\n </p>\n <h3>\n  From the Inside Flap\n </h3>\n <p>\n  The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, "H.M.S. Ulysses" takes its place alongside "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Cruel Sea" as one of the classic novels of the navy, its men and its ships, at war. It is vintage MacLean -- and unforgettable.\n  <br />\n  "High-powered dramatics." San Francisco Chronicle\n </p>\n</div>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/15915'),
(20282, 'The Hobbit', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n First published in the United States more than sixty years ago, J. R. R. Tolkien''s The Hobbit has become one of the best-loved books of all time. Tolkien''s fantasy was then adapted into a fully painted graphic novel, which became a classic in its own right...The enchanted prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit is the story of Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and contented hobbit whose life is turned upside down when he joins the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves on their quest to reclaim stolen treasure. It is a journey fraught with dangerâ€”and in the end it is bilbo Baggins alone who must face the guardian of this treasure, the most dreaded dragon in all Middle-earth.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25624'),
(20283, 'The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written for J.R.R. Tolkien''s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when first published more than sixty years ago. Now recognized as a timeless classic with sales of more than 40 million copies worldwide, this introduction to Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Wizard, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth tells of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/4970'),
(20284, 'The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written for J.R.R. Tolkien''s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when first published more than sixty years ago. Now recognized as a timeless classic with sales of more than 40 million copies worldwide, this introduction to Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Wizard, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth tells of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/12998'),
(20285, 'The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written for J.R.R. Tolkien''s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when first published more than sixty years ago. Now recognized as a timeless classic with sales of more than 40 million copies worldwide, this introduction to Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Wizard, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth tells of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/14056'),
(20286, 'The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Written for J.R.R. Tolkien''s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when first published more than sixty years ago. Now recognized as a timeless classic with sales of more than 40 million copies worldwide, this introduction to Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Wizard, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth tells of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/19745'),
(20287, 'The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again', 'J. R. R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Written for J.R.R. Tolkien''s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when first published more than sixty years ago. Now recognized as a timeless classic with sales of more than 40 million copies worldwide, this introduction to Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Wizard, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth tells of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/28288'),
(20288, 'Hobbitul', 'J.R.R. Tolkien', '<div class="comments">\n<p>\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/25567'),
(20289, 'Hocus Pocus', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This novel tells the story of a devilish pair of twins whose enormous intellect is hidden behind a facade of idiocy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3597'),
(20290, 'Hocus Pocus', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This novel tells the story of a devilish pair of twins whose enormous intellect is hidden behind a facade of idiocy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13273'),
(20291, 'Hocus Pocus', 'Kurt Vonnegut', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n This novel tells the story of a devilish pair of twins whose enormous intellect is hidden behind a facade of idiocy.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/20873'),
(20292, 'Hogfather', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY:\n <br />\n Who would want to harm Discworld''s most beloved icon? Very few things are held sacred in this twisted, corrupt, heartless -- and oddly familiar -- universe, but the Hogfather is one of them. Yet here it is, Hogswatchnight, that most joyous and acquisitive of times, and the jolly old, red-suited gift-giver has vanished without a trace. And there''s something shady going on involving an uncommonly psychotic member of the Assassins'' Guild and certain representatives of Ankh-Morpork''s rather extensive criminal element. Suddenly Discworld''s entire myth system is unraveling at an alarming rate. Drastic measures must be taken, which is why Death himself is taking up the reins of the fat man''s vacated sleigh . . . which, in turn, has Death''s level-headed granddaughter, Susan, racing to unravel the nasty, humbuggian mess before the holiday season goes straight to hell and takes everyone along with it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/658'),
(20293, 'Hogfather', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Who would want to harm Discworld''s most beloved icon? Very few things are held sacred in this twisted, corrupt, heartless -- and oddly familiar -- universe, but the Hogfather is one of them. Yet here it is, Hogswatchnight, that most joyous and acquisitive of times, and the jolly old, red-suited gift-giver has vanished without a trace. And there''s something shady going on involving an uncommonly psychotic member of the Assassins'' Guild and certain representatives of Ankh-Morpork''s rather extensive criminal element. Suddenly Discworld''s entire myth system is unraveling at an alarming rate. Drastic measures must be taken, which is why Death himself is taking up the reins of the fat man''s vacated sleigh . . . which, in turn, has Death''s level-headed granddaughter, Susan, racing to unravel the nasty, humbuggian mess before the holiday season goes straight to hell and takes everyone along with it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/13944'),
(20294, 'Hogfather', 'Terry Pratchett', '<div class="comments">\n<p class="description">\n SUMMARY: Who would want to harm Discworld''s most beloved icon? Very few things are held sacred in this twisted, corrupt, heartless -- and oddly familiar -- universe, but the Hogfather is one of them. Yet here it is, Hogswatchnight, that most joyous and acquisitive of times, and the jolly old, red-suited gift-giver has vanished without a trace. And there''s something shady going on involving an uncommonly psychotic member of the Assassins'' Guild and certain representatives of Ankh-Morpork''s rather extensive criminal element. Suddenly Discworld''s entire myth system is unraveling at an alarming rate. Drastic measures must be taken, which is why Death himself is taking up the reins of the fat man''s vacated sleigh . . . which, in turn, has Death''s level-headed granddaughter, Susan, racing to unravel the nasty, humbuggian mess before the holiday season goes straight to hell and takes everyone along with it.\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/24195'),
(20295, 'Hold Me Closer, Necromancer', 'Lish McBride', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”This sometimes goofy, sometimes gory debut novel introduces Sam, a fast-food employee in Seattle who has grown up unaware of his ability to raise the dead. After a bizarre encounter with a customer, he gets a beating from a stranger, and his coworker shows up missing her body below the neck (a misfortune that does not affect her positive attitude). It seems that Douglas, an evil local necromancer, has become aware of Sam''s powers and views him as a threat. With the help of his friendsâ€”and a very attractive werewolf girlâ€”Sam must try to tap into his necromancing abilities to beat Douglas at his own game. Some of the jokes, like the punning chapter titles that quote song lyrics from the likes of the Eurythmics,''70s-era Paul Simon, and Timbuk 3, may be lost on many of today''s teens. However, for fans of horror-humor hybrids like the film\n <em>\n  Shaun of the Dead\n </em>\n , this book may hold some appeal.â€”_Hayden Bass, Seattle Public Library, WA_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Sam has dropped out of college and is stalled in a fast-food job in Seattle. Interrupting the boredom of days waiting on Plumpy customers and evenings watching old movies with his friends, a scary guy named Douglas enters Samâ€™s world. After a few pithy verbal threats, Douglas has Sam beaten and mauled by a sidekickâ€”and later delivers teen Brookeâ€™s pretty blond head to Samâ€™s door. The good news is that Brooke seems to be in no pain and is as sassy as ever. The bad news, as Sam finds out in short order, is that Douglas is a necromancer and has identified Sam, who hasnâ€™t a clue what his strengths are, as a rival. Before the week is out, Sam finds himself in a cellar, caged with another pretty girl, who is part werewolf, part fairy. And then thereâ€™s Ashley, the parochial-school-uniformed 10-year-old who can orchestrate salvation for Sam by using her Blackberry and brains. With fine writing, tight plotting, a unique and uniquely odd cast of teens, adults, and children, and a pace that smashes through any curtain of disbelief, this sardonic and outrageous storyâ€™s only problem is that it must, like all good things, come to an end. Grades 9-12. --Francisca Goldsmith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/3309'),
(20296, 'Hold Me Closer, Necromancer', 'Lish McBride', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”This sometimes goofy, sometimes gory debut novel introduces Sam, a fast-food employee in Seattle who has grown up unaware of his ability to raise the dead. After a bizarre encounter with a customer, he gets a beating from a stranger, and his coworker shows up missing her body below the neck (a misfortune that does not affect her positive attitude). It seems that Douglas, an evil local necromancer, has become aware of Sam''s powers and views him as a threat. With the help of his friendsâ€”and a very attractive werewolf girlâ€”Sam must try to tap into his necromancing abilities to beat Douglas at his own game. Some of the jokes, like the punning chapter titles that quote song lyrics from the likes of the Eurythmics,''70s-era Paul Simon, and Timbuk 3, may be lost on many of today''s teens. However, for fans of horror-humor hybrids like the film\n <em>\n  Shaun of the Dead\n </em>\n , this book may hold some appeal.â€”_Hayden Bass, Seattle Public Library, WA_\n <br />\n (c) Copyright 2011. Â Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.\n</p>\n<h3>\n From\n</h3>\n<p>\n <em>\n  Starred Review\n </em>\n Sam has dropped out of college and is stalled in a fast-food job in Seattle. Interrupting the boredom of days waiting on Plumpy customers and evenings watching old movies with his friends, a scary guy named Douglas enters Samâ€™s world. After a few pithy verbal threats, Douglas has Sam beaten and mauled by a sidekickâ€”and later delivers teen Brookeâ€™s pretty blond head to Samâ€™s door. The good news is that Brooke seems to be in no pain and is as sassy as ever. The bad news, as Sam finds out in short order, is that Douglas is a necromancer and has identified Sam, who hasnâ€™t a clue what his strengths are, as a rival. Before the week is out, Sam finds himself in a cellar, caged with another pretty girl, who is part werewolf, part fairy. And then thereâ€™s Ashley, the parochial-school-uniformed 10-year-old who can orchestrate salvation for Sam by using her Blackberry and brains. With fine writing, tight plotting, a unique and uniquely odd cast of teens, adults, and children, and a pace that smashes through any curtain of disbelief, this sardonic and outrageous storyâ€™s only problem is that it must, like all good things, come to an end. Grades 9-12. --Francisca Goldsmith\n</p>\n</div>\n', 'http://krishome.selfip.info/get/thumb_90_120/11350'),
(20297, 'Hold Me Closer, Necromancer', 'Lish McBride', '<div class="comments">\n<h3>\n From School Library Journal\n</h3>\n<p>\n Grade 8 Upâ€”This sometimes goofy, sometimes gory debut novel introduces Sam, a fast-food employee in Seattle who has grown up unaware of his ability to raise the dead. After a bizarre encounter with a customer, he gets a beating from a stranger, and his coworker shows up missing her body below the neck (a misfortune that does not affect her positive attitude). It seems that Douglas, an evil local necromance